No puedo frenarlo
El más grande de tu
Siete mi fin
Se siente de la búh
Y sale de un las 666
Ladra mucho pero en el cof
Perdón mucho de su chingo
Que yo muerto si tengo que morder
Todo el mundo estaba loco, loco demonio
Come and get it, watch and learn it
I don't want to go, I don't want to go, I don't want to go
I'm going to stop, I'm going to stop
Things are going to change, you can't blame me for the same
So take advantage, baby, agora, agora
This is the only change you can let me for the same
So take advantage, baby, agora, agora
Oh, de la voce, de la voce
de la voce
I don't feel like I'm gonna, I don't feel like I'm gonna, I don't feel like I'm gonna, I don't feel like I'm gonna, hold on tight from all that love outside
Oh, come on, ladies
I
What do you believe in the recipe for destiny is resting where your dreams is no question in your dreams
Hey, we dealing in extremes here. If you want to fan stay on the bench
You won't achieve here. I mean on the front is being valid
So I'm coming for impossible this man's an ounce of doubt around in combat is an option
I got time for playing short on someone that I'm guilty but 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, right now
I'm gonna get my
What do you believe in you ain't gonna get a son of honey, I know where your team is we're showing them what the elite
I believe, I believe, gravity can't hold me down, I believe, I believe, I believe,
Sincerely, what happens to your neighbor?
If I only invite a couple of friends,
I'll go to Carolina, La Daniela, and Azucuma.
Susana Catalina, Miacalipha, and Cristina.
Emilio Vidal, Vailanda, and Agua in Catalina.
Dura Galia, Durena, Tateca, and Latina.
Duro Peachina, Morena, La Latina.
Raca Tatoye, and Núñvete Huefa, and Cima.
I'm from the Maricina, and my neighbor is from the Maricina.
Artists from the Marima, and the Maricina.
I'm from the Maricina, and the Maricina.
Venga, pa-pa, si buena música tú quieres escuchar
No busquen más, no busquen más
Los racas ya llegaron con lo que te gusta
En su hilo dental, en el hilo dental
En su hilo dental, se me bien criminal
I'm a boss.
I ain't worth the talking.
I just want to reach the top.
It's starting about the money.
I can look in for the crop.
You see just what I got
I'm not here trying to get in
I'm a greedy will you not?
What you want?
Take off on my life
I'ma go take that right
Party on our damn night
I'ma be don't care right
You ain't even know I'm cold
I'm taking over here
I'm putting that money in the bar
I don't care what you hear
I'm a boss
I'm a boss, yeah, yeah
I'm a boss
I don't really even care what you thought
I don't really even care what you're done with you and her and my boss.
I don't really even care what you're done with my boss.
Handing my business, did it all in the picnic.
Better check out the digits to get the money to spin it.
Y'all be looking and looking, I need to mind your own business.
Cause I be looking and looking, I be on a clinic, and you ain't not controlling it all.
Got it all, got it all, for more
When you see me there, it's like we're best of one for a phone
I'm the one that they talk, I'm the brown out of front
People claiming they're boss, but they know it ain't all
I'm a boss, I'm a boss, I'm a boss, yeah, yeah, I'm a boss
I'm a boss, I'm a boss, I really even care what you got to do
I think I know the name of the game.
Old name is the greatest, now you see before lunch.
And if you talking real strange, I'mma go with you.
No offense to see I'm king tonight.
Fresh pick, I want to be skinned.
No sense on your mind, that's the feeling.
I don't want a party yet, but I want a party tonight.
No offense to my ground, I'm not a city man.
Fresh pick, I want to be skinned.
No sense on your mind, that's the feeling.
I'm gonna play the party here.
Found them.
I wish we'd play that.
Play the game, make a score.
I'll take your plate and your phone.
This is champion mode and I ain't trying to be rude.
Get the cross, step in, method on my right hand.
Shoot her on my left, catch her left.
Got it done, they hands like it's me, the pan.
Tis a rock when I run it back.
Hold it, keep it, step.
I surmise to a better man.
If you need to learn a couple moves,
I help you understand if you need to.
Oh, you gotta do that.
You can read this, and I'm talking.
We're moving, moving, moving, moving, moving, moving, moving in space
Got you losing our perspective through the looking gaze
This is Alice kind of malice, you gon' need a pass
Press the future so wrong, but you got the lyrics
No offense to see I'm kingpin'
First pick up on the rim, stillin'
No sense on the moment, stillin'
Now I wear a party head, but I won't, I'll be chillin'
No offense to my ground, I'll not be chillin'
When it's big, I'm on the rims, man
Ain't no sense on your mind
That's the plan, man
I'm where the party is, but I'll look how we treat it, man
This is something I'm not out of it
And as you walk through the tunnel, we might go up.
We the type to step on the field and force a funnel.
Raise your brass, turn to a flame with every step.
And I'm gonna get this game my last where he breath on.
Yeah, I'm hyped up.
They gon' turn the lights up.
So I'll be greasy on the field like I'm hyped up.
Yeah, I'm hyped up.
They gon' turn the lights up.
I'm just kidding.
Nobody to the top, sir.
Sir, this ain't no competition.
I'm here to defy the odds.
Hit a computer mission, I'm out with a hundred squads
Might shoot it from the half, or run it a hundred yards
This is the game that separates the world from the other side
Running out, time to turn the stun up
Points on the floor, I put a number stuff
Tell a club, they might have seen me coming up
Because you in the gang, that don't make you one of us
Hands up, everybody stand up
Everybody
You know, life's happenin' fast, fast, fast
Now you got the feeling, I'll got no breaks
Don't say you're worth it, I know
Oh, you can take your own
Put your hands in the air and you bust some more wine
When you know you're the one that's ready to run
Telling me, I'm gonna turn it down
This is how we go, this is how we stay
Yeah, I'm high-pitched, I'm turnin' the lights on
I'm crazy on this beat like I'm high-pitched
Yeah, I'm high-pitched, I'm turnin' the lights on
I'm just getting closer to the times of heart
Clap, clap, clap for me
Clap, clap for me
Clap, clap, clap, clap, now clap it up
You see these racks, racks, racks, racks, racks
I stack it up, look different in the back, back, back, back
Now back it up, I'm like a stack, stack, stack, stack
Come eat me up
How do you step on hungry, who in the house got the eggs?
You gon' be this is how the pop out the dummies
You can learn to make it some money, make the stringin' ice
I like it, but they say love is surface
Must do, can't bust it, blabber the ass on your neck
I live in your head no way I don't need no introductions on all new friends all I need is 15 minutes to make you
quit
I ain't working, gotta go back to school quit playing with you back bitches there's no rules
I ain't working, I win, I lose I ain't working, you can't do it like I do
I work so hard that my stock keeps climbing.
I want those rings with the big fat diamonds.
Let's just say I understood the assignment.
All I wanna know is
Sushi with my real watch and heavy power
Smile for the moment, call me to your towers
Doppin' on your man and I'm robin' some spark
Give me about an hour, a blackjack power
Now who the up to?
I'm gonna hit the showers
You up for the powers, ain't no unbelievers
Let it play to Jesus, if you need a green ton
You're still on the beat
I'm not a perp, please turn that speaker up
Who here trying to get out?
Okay
I want it in my song, win it in every year
Check the time when I'm on the road, fill it in the air
Yeah, this time, this is fast, I'ma get it anywhere
Got a flow, get it, get it, go, get it, get it, yeah
I want it in my song, win it in every year
Check the time when I'm on the road, fill it in the air
Yeah, this time, this is fast, I'ma get it anywhere
You can take me trains, city gangs, in the rain
I ain't changed my gaze, I don't need to have complaints
Clothes and some gas in the tank was that
Numbers on the back got a tax in the name
What's the price if I'm breaking curses
My unencouraged research
So electric, I feel the surge
My urge used to be the greatest
But get the status, it's crazy
I almost gave, but I couldn't take it
What's the pay off? Find a way to find a layoff
Don't need to pay off, I'ma work it until it take off
Follow my notes, until I pick up the gold
I'm like here it goes
I ain't giving nothing but chaos
You know that the price of that mission ain't getting 50
Gotta stick to system on long journeys of distance
This is how I'm expected, this is only persistence
Some credit like it and others are super stale
I'm gonna go get it, get it, go get it, get it, yeah
On the runway, then my song went in every year
Set the tone when I'm on the road, fill it in the air
Shed the stags, this is stags, I'ma get it anywhere
Gotta go get it, get it, go get it, get it, yeah
On the road with it, am I strong with it every year?
Set the tone when I'm on the road, fill it in the air.
Set it fast, this is fast.
I get it, I get it.
I'm stuck in the finish.
I get it, I get it.
Mother, she wanna kill me
I just want all of my dividends
I don't need one of my man
I don't need it to prepare
I'm on a mission to get in my vision
It's definitely a question to ask
I get it, I get it
I start when you finish
I handle my business
Yeah, that's my whole living
I throw what I fit in
And I ain't got no limits
Ain't no pretendin'
I just keep on doing it
I
I'm in the game, I ain't been killed, I got the tape on me
I ain't been great, I ain't been great, You can not take it from me
I know it ain't, I know it ain't, I know it ain't no
I got the lyrics, I got the lyrics, I got the lyrics over you
I'm in the game, I ain't been killed, I ain't been killed
I'm kidding, I kidding, I'm stopping the thing is
I'm handling my business, it's all I'm living
I know what I'm doing
And I ain't got no limits
I'm telling you
I just be one of these
I'm focused on what's to run to me
Position only makes the competition run to me
Nearly try to hand, but not too many can run with you
I'm gonna try to not let it go
On a count of three
One, two, three, let's go
Call me the best cause I'm letting my best show
I'm coming with a force, it's up to you
Either I'm fast or you are too slow
I'm not telling you what I think, I'm telling you what I know
And you don't have to like me, but I know you need me for show
As best you believe me, this is hard work, nothing about this is easy
It's tough, it's tough, be good, ain't never cut it up
It's tough, it's tough, give your all while, never give it up
It's tough, it's tough, be good, ain't never cut it up
It's tough, it's tough
If you're all I've ever seen, then that's us
I was born ready to play
I hustle in that water for it every day
They say I'm out of best in every way
Catch me if you can, I'm ahead and you win
I can't let you fall for me, the big slide
I took off and take the land, I'm never lying
If you need a job done, I'm your bad guy
Go and ask them, they'll say I ain't him
I'm gonna tell you what I think, I'm telling you what I know
And you don't have to like me, but I know you need me
The show is best you will eat
This is all work never about this is life
It's tough, it's tough
Speed, power, they ain't never caught enough
It's tough, it's tough
Take your power, let it get to go
It's tough, it's tough
Speed, power, they ain't never caught enough
It's tough, it's tough
Take your power, let it get to go
There's a lion in it
If I am this
There's a lion in my head
It's not a lion
If you get locked down
Yeah, I know that's right
If you get locked down
Yeah, yeah, yeah
We on the way
It's game time and we on the way
We back in the city, we back
I gotta get to it in fact
No matter no time to relax
I'm back in the states, you back your bags
I still wanna feel this arrest
I can't keep up with the lapse
I'm feeling like hitting a clash
You know it's a fact confirming the stakes
Game time, game time, game time
I just step on a landmine
Now I need it like a landmine
Don't let them talk, I won't play no more
Walked in with a mindset
My line has to be there
5'10 I'm a prospect
I'm a problem to a copy
We on the way
If you want for the ride, take the key on the black next step, next step on the rise
Take the key on the black next step, next step
We on the way
It's game time and we on the way
I
Uh, HD.
Now it's Rebels on your scene.
It's the season with the time light.
So try to tell them, get them out of right.
Get you speeded through the traffic with the limelight.
Headed to my future, that's the limelight.
G-O-A-T-T-O, that's pay me.
We woke, they sleep, we cold, they weak.
No need to ask the question, because we showing up.
Cause when it's going down, baby, going up
Sound, to level up the team
Love, now it's reveling everything
I get it, oh yeah, I get it
When King, I win
He's a boss, a dream
Sound, to level up the team
Love, now it's reveling everything
T, T, S, T, G, Y, H, G
Yeah, now it's real
Now it's real
Yeah, drop down to get at him
So what's the rule of right now I'm the captain
Yeah
You want a ball?
Are you going to chase the dreams if nobody going to make the call?
Don't need crowds of people to cheer you on.
When the lights turn off, that's how you know who you are.
So you want it all?
Are you going to chase the dreams if nobody going to make the call?
Don't need crowds of people to cheer you on.
When the lights turn off, that's how you know who you are.
Everybody get off, talking for a minute.
Putting up some shots and ain't nobody making sense.
Get it down, focus it, got time to look around.
Leg has a way in keeping feet on solid ground.
Lie, you got the handling.
Trophies all on the mentally.
Mark it when you tired to make you the perfect candidate.
When the crash frames high, you will keep the candle lit.
Some booty for any while, the shrine is mentally.
Deal, keep it up in it.
It ain't all about winning.
Time in, burn time out.
It's why you spin.
I feel committed.
Right or got to go get it.
Right or out on that side tap.
So you're a bit
Purses and they carry it on the way that she carry you
Heart pure and gold
They try to label the ferries
No validation
That's the type of thing we stamp on
Have you ever been hit that way?
The crowd, that's what we call it for
Let us say you want it all
Hey, do you want a bomb?
Are you going to chase the kids?
It's nobody, don't make the call
The only cries of people that cheer you up
When they let it fly and off
That's how you know when you're off
Yeah, say you want it all
Hey, do you want a bomb?
Are you going to chase the kids?
It's nobody, don't make the call
To the point of no return, everything was lying lights bright
Hitters looked at worms, make their stomach tight
Fight mighty, they will slit your sound
Summoned up a lot, trying to calculate the purse
Got us none of the empty stock
They know that I'm out of, can't believe they got it
Proofs up for that concrete, they think they've used it, I sprouted
Bought one of my word, I've never seen it, I'm wild
I don't matter what I'm doing, I'm still in this stock
Say you want it all, hurt you on the ball
You don't chase the kids, nobody will make the call
Don't be proud to be what you really are
On the light, turn it off
That's how you know who you are
Say you want love
Or hate you on the phone
Take your chance, do it
You know why people make a call
Don't be proud to be what you really are
On the light, turn it off
That's how you know who you are
I
coming here, I'm the champ, from New Orleans,
in the MNLQ area, from the light room,
I wait and I win, I win and I win,
I'm crazy like Trim, I'm burning it down,
I'm burning it down, I'm crazy like Trim,
I can't change it, I can't even get in,
I'm crazy like Trim, I'm burning it down,
I'm burning it down, I'm at the top,
I'm at the top, I'm at the top,
I can't be stopped.
I am not them.
I make it to the top.
I'm at the top.
I can't be stopped.
Stop, stop, stop.
Let me make it clear.
I'm top tier. I'm the man of the year.
Switched in gears, now they all got fear.
I ain't got a lot. I'm the rare one here.
I'm pushing and pushing and going.
Just rather they go.
Open in your orders.
New high-speed take CD.
I'm gonna drop them down on the lead
And the sheets I'm gonna leave on the sheet
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And I won't tell you how, but you need to know how to find me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
You better recognize I'm one and I've been trying
But I keep with doing it, you know I'm a champ
I'm good at one and I've been done, done, done
And I keep doing it
I'm at the top
I can't be stopped
I'm at the top
I hit the pin
Oh my god, my mind!
It's about to pop!
Gang time, gang time, gang time.
They've had to step on a landmine.
Good day to you all and welcome to day 5 of first stand here in beautiful Sao Paulo, Brazil.
For the last day of the group stage, you know it's going to be an elimination day yet
again as we're sending two teams home tonight and we see potentially one of them, G2 signing
Hey, hey, hey, you got that energy out of your head, Walt.
I get a slight low, and we'll see what happens here because they're going to take it.
Oh, that sounds like G2.
B-S-S. How do you feel, guys?
There's going to be hostility today on the desk, guys.
We've got E-N-A playing, fighting for survival,
and while I'm not too confident about North America's chances,
I'm optimistic about what G2 can bring us today.
That's what I'm talking about already. Thank you.
We're the creative team on the table. I'll just let you guys know.
you guys know I feel like very come we're like what the fourth the third see
going to plows seven CG to okay I mean let's let's look at how things of all
we have to start here okay so let's start with the sad one yeah the PLG
series for G2 wasn't wasn't really it's here and there we can put that down a
jet lag law that's right yeah yeah and then this one I mean this was kind of
expected I feel rise wouldn't you concur no honestly we're just trying to get
it the maximum experience on stage brought in our horizons and what we
can do in the draft specifically so I'm very confident with that one and that
is just you today the last hop of the West on both sides G2 lion one of us
will be sad maybe competitive day it's gonna be a competitive day anyway I know
that the games have been really really one-sided and it's something that a
a lot of the community has brought up,
but I wanna check if you guys have been paying attention,
and if you guys have been paying attention as well.
So surprise test, everybody.
Let's check how those are positioned so far.
The first question, I guess, ready?
Yeah, sorry, I didn't let you know about this.
I already hate this.
Hands are the question.
First one we're gonna have is,
what was faster, Gen.G 6-0 or Worlds 2025 finals?
See, I don't like that.
Oh my God!
It has to be the world's playtime to get to the finals.
Wait, really?
I mean, yeah, we're talking about six games versus five games,
but the five games were competitive.
I think that Gen G6-0 must have been faster.
Yeah, I would say so as well.
I'm going to go with KT because I never had faith in KT.
Yeah.
You know it's.
I never had faith in them.
We shouldn't have had that in the end.
And the answer is?
OK.
Yeah, Gen G, it makes sense.
Showcase is how fast it's been, six games.
They've been a little bit longer.
Just a touch.
completely just a tiny bit all right what champion has been played in three
different roles three different roles the first day yeah I was saying it's
popping on that as long as a good point it's poppy I'm just gonna steal your
homework yeah I'm gonna take that one that's like you're like yeah top jungle
American exceptionalism I'm taking that in
Who is Halder?
Oh, that's me!
Of course it's me!
It's Caitlyn, I think.
What do you mean?
I think it's Caitlyn.
I mean, she's a tall individual.
She's very tall.
She's a tall individual.
But the one critique to Caitlyn is she wears high heels.
But she wears high heels!
She doesn't!
She's a cop!
I'm 5'11", but she has simply like 5'10".
She's taller than both of you.
She's taller than me. That's true. She's taller than me.
You're the sixth one!
This guy lies about his height, by the way.
He lies about his height.
He can't taller than both of us. That's okay.
That is disgusting. I've never seen someone who makes their height shorter than what it really is.
This is embarrassing.
Yes, it is embarrassing. I agree. I'm embarrassed for him.
Anyway, last question we have.
Diabol got me third tier 1 pentakill on day 3 of first team.
Where does this rank him among the youngest players to ever get three pentakills in tier one?
I'm just gonna say first number one probably first. Yeah, it has to be
I think I saw something. I mean, what else could it be?
And I know our stats guy, he goes for hyper specific stats
And I feel like that one is a very hyper specific stat. I think it was imp and then now it became diabolical.
You might be right. No, oh no, never mind. Oh wait a minute
I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. Okay
That's a win for North America right there.
I didn't expect to see Danny in there.
I was kind of surprised. You did say that your stats guy does find hyper specific stats.
He does.
Of course you'd find the one that Ked is the North America.
It's not that hard on him to find the North America.
Yeah, we're really close though. Credit to Danny. Shout out to him.
And just to show how much Javel has been shining here.
And it's really rare I feel to see a player live up to his full potential internationally.
We knew what he was capable of in the LCK.
He's been delivering so far, game and game again.
absolutely. I mean, when you get a lot of hype around a player, when they come to
international, they don't always deliver, especially such a young player such as
Diablo. But he is completely delivered. I think he continues to exceed expectations
and I mean, I have high hopes for this young man as his career goes forward
because at 18 years old already playing like this, I mean that's just
phenomenal. Yeah, young player usually when you're on an international stage
you look to someone else on the team that is a little older that can like
part some wisdom towards you. No, I feel like they work off of his
confidence. A lot of it is like sometimes it's like stupid confidence where he just stands and like
takes the fight right the 2v2 or 1v1 but a lot of times you need that and that is their win condition
so it's really rare to see someone who has that uh that tall energy something that I really
appeal personally uh and yeah Diablo has been exceptional. It's a ruler who was speaking
really highly of him in the LCK who is saying that this player I expect that he's going to
going to be a Worlds Finals winner in a couple years.
So yeah, props to Diablo.
Don't pop off too much today.
Please give us a chance.
Good luck.
On that matchup, we caught up with Vickla actually
on Wednesday after they won their game.
So let's check out what he had to say about Caps.
G2 reports, what do you think about the team right now,
their level, what you should be careful about,
and Caps especially in the mid lane?
I think G2 is the strongest team in the West, but I think we need to do well against them.
And when I see Cap's play, I feel like there's something wrong with Nori.
I need to be careful.
of course, seconds to the line, we've got the first match at first and I mean like this man in
the mid lane I mean I think that all eyes are on him especially because I think that he has been a
bit inconsistent so far at this tournament his first series not the strongest definitely showing
up more against team C for Wales but going up against a player like Katz I mean he's the man
that all of our eyes always centre around he is kind of the lifeblood of this team and it
And it often feels like that his success is largely what determines the success of G2,
because when we look at that playoffs run, he looks spectacular, he did win the finals
MVP with his incredible and vivid performance, but against BLG, I feel like it didn't show
up.
Yeah, and that's the disappointing aspect of it, and a lot of it comes to when you're
facing BLG, yes, they're going to have exceptional solo laners, and I feel like
Shen has been great for them, but I love a lot of what Caps provides, because I feel
like in every iteration of G2, he has exceptional synergy with his jungler, and I feel like
that has been the same case with Schumann, and so I really want to be able to see how
he is able to play around Schumann in particular.
I wanted to talk about Schumann a little bit more just because I feel like he has been such
a centerpiece for the team in the LEC, and he's had some great performances here, but
in terms of what has been failing for the team, for me it has not been him.
So I wanted to focus on this play in particular.
This is game three, going against BLG because he had a really smart pathing and strategy
here.
Of course the dragon pit wall to be able to dodge out on that ward that came in from the Raptors
The Raptors ramp and so ended up wanting to go for red
Krugs split the map up a little bit make it difficult for son and the problem was the idea was to path through bot lane
And look for a gank the problem was the fact that they lost the 2v2 heavily
And so now that you're passing towards this you do not have flash yourself your ad carry has to be basically play a
a screen away from them and now you lost LeBron. Every aspect of this was a horror show and it
turned into an eventual dive. But the most important aspect from me was the intelligent idea,
the strategy that started it. Because I think if you can just work on the execution,
that is. If the execution is a little bit better. I can't refuse that, I can't refuse that,
right? You make valid points. That's a great, yes, highlight. Thank you for breaking that
That's the highlighted positive, the silver lining on a poo sandwich.
This game would have been a remake if it was a screens game.
So, I wanted to know what can G2 do better because watching this game, looking at the draft especially, something was off.
What do we want to see? What don't we want to see here?
Yeah, I mean, G2 are synonymous with cooking.
And we know them domestically for coming up with a lot of creative ideas.
And like the San Anolos was an example of that.
But when we look at that first composition, like, they don't have enough damage in that second composition.
It felt like that, okay, they have a little bit more damage, but like the burden of execution really falls on just both their Han-sama and caps.
And again, like, I just, I feel like that what made G2 successful was giving Skuyuan a ton of agency in the early game to be super proactive.
his Pantheon, his Xin Zhao, his Vi, things that pair up nicely with things like
Auri, Taliyah, Ryze, mid lane champions that enable them to roam and impact the rest of the map.
And Bokenblade, he's been getting a lot of counter picks, but Poppy,
Sion, Cassante, like this man was playing Gasolo, he was playing Shen, he plays Kled,
like he's got these specific matchup counter picks that I think he needs to bring out.
I want to see a little bit more flavor from Juzi coming into the draft.
And that's the thing, that's the thing, that's what pissed me off a little bit,
Because when I saw the center, I was like, personally, I was happy about that.
That's like a new strategy that's coming through your saving counter pick for Broken Blade.
It was pretty well.
Yeah.
And you have Vi.
Maybe you're going to play for something extraordinary from Broken Blade.
Poppy.
And Annie!
Yeah.
And Annie!
Me!
Blind!
So let's forget about everything that happened here in New Day.
Look for your new preparation.
We don't want to see that again ever.
More agency and more lane priority in lane is what I'm hearing here.
Maybe shutting down Diablo also, because we've been phrasing that.
Oh, I mean, that's for me the scariest point.
Absolutely because that bot lane like you highlighted execution. Yeah, if a bot lane is gonna punish you
It's gonna be diabol and killing cuz I mean what an incredible player this man has shown up to be we talked about him earlier
I think this bot lane is just incredibly talented when they went up against Viper as well
But he made fun of Viper
They were permanently to be to killing them in the bot lane
So this to me is the scariest side of the map that Gigi's gonna have to find a way to navigate because this young man
of looking for blood. When it comes to psychopathic incredibly talented 80 carries like I remember
a 2018 Uzi it creates easy direction for your team. Very easy direction because then
Kellen is like oh just give me Lulu. Like give me Lulu, give me karma, give me anything
to just support him because that creates direction for your squad and I feel like
it's much needed and for how talented he is it's working. I don't like what I'm hearing here
at all so we're going to skip all that. I want to know what the fans think actually in
in the MasterCard fan prediction.
Fans please do not disappoint me.
Give us all.
We're fighting.
Break it up.
Okay.
I like that.
I like that a lot.
It's not.
The fan predictions are still favored and the fans know best.
When you agree, Raz, the fans know best.
You didn't say to their face, they don't know, they're talking about, right, Raz?
Nah, they're listening to you right now.
You guys are dumb as hell.
What just happened here?
Okay, I want you guys to know before the fan prediction rate was like 33% yesterday,
okay?
Nah.
off day. That's all. Today they're having a more off day. Today they're locked in. They're locked in. Guys, give me hope. Give me hope, please, because we see a really scary man in the bottom line. I know you're never going to introduce him. Come on, give me your prediction, Razz. What's your prediction? Come on. I deliberated this on for a very long time last night. Yeah. And the only
Now that's a serious thing!
Brother!
You guys are just as delusional as the band!
No!
Listen!
They're going to make you entertaining right now!
Listen, listen, listen.
I've got evidence of all my stuff.
Can you stand out the way?
Because I had the team prepared.
I'm sitting here listening.
I had a graphic prepared because it's the thing.
Do you know what the international record is for Caps vs. LCS Midlaners at international events?
Specifically international, so I'm not liking the sound of this.
It's 23 and 7, Raz!
And do you know where Vickla played?
That's right, fans at home.
It was the LCS.
Vick like he's been known as Vick Lamont.
And just like Mark Lamont,
he doesn't show up at international events.
Today is gonna be the day of caps.
He's gonna body that fool.
He's gonna be making fun of B and K, Phyrix.
And today's the day that Europe comes back on top.
Three one, the G2, baby.
It's all E you.
Woo!
I mean, let's go G2!
Big stats, these are live stats.
No, no, no, no.
Caps, come on, baby.
I can see cooked up stats from a mile away.
And there's a reason why you're saying international best.
Horsetop!
Yeah!
You think I would fraudulently use stats?
Absolutely!
A sacredest of all stats, Razz!
Yeah, let's get outta here!
All right, well, goodbye, then.
I would never.
I'm gone.
That's all I thought.
But honestly, I give you one chance to come back, then.
Because you have a North American player within your own league that's dogging on his brother, all right?
Is he here?
Because I don't see him.
I don't see him.
All I see is the goat.
The Western goat.
He's here and he's ready to play.
Okay.
I'm tired of talking to you.
Let's get in the game, Lowe.
Let's get it. I'm done.
I think we're going to leave it here.
Yeah, I think you're going to be very delusional on this one.
G2 is going to surprise you.
What happened last time was just an oopsie, was just a mistake.
We know that they can make it happen again.
I told you the other day it doesn't start with success.
It starts with delusion.
And that's what brought G2 so far.
They're fighting!
They're fighting first then today.
My analyst has just decided that that's alright because I don't miss them.
I need you guys to believe in G2 and to have hope in the West.
It is G2's last chance against BFX to their first dance, and it starts right now!
I honestly, the level of the players and teams at first hand is just so much higher.
There is going to be so much to grow from this.
Every time we play, we don't have the time to fight.
We just have to keep our own state.
If we fight in the next game, we might continue to play in this state.
I believe we can win.
Yeah, the gap between us and HatedG is probably not anywhere near as deep.
I hope that even in this small amount of time that we can meet and get back.
The next season is going to be decided, so the pressure is really really on.
And I think we are a team that when we are under pressure we perform very well.
G2 seems to have no experience as a G2 player, so I think I'll be able to prepare well for the game.
We haven't played against BFX yet in our history of G2.
We're going to show you what the legacy of G2 is that's why.
G2 is no more stronger!
I've only seen this video of Chopin Blade, so it's interesting to watch it myself.
He's done it! He's done it by himself!
Get ready for the shoot.
and welcome to first stand 2026 we are here for day five double eliminations best of five today
That's one kicking off G2 taking on BNK, fear exa medic and joined by Kobe in the cast of Booth to lead you through what it's hopefully a close specify
Yes, hopefully longer than three games is what we're looking at here
Cross our toes, touch wood, press our thumbs
Get some sage out, maybe you know trying to get rid of all the curses in the studio
Because the last couple of days have been pretty one-sided
Yeah, they certainly have so now let's get into some
I think that's a good point.
Closer matchups. Hopefully How
did you feel about that? Yes is
mid lane, uh, little little
trick that he tried to pull
there. I don't see how that's a
trick. He's learned from Jack's
being on the gap together. He
knows how to use stats to his
advantage. All right, so. Yeah
if Vickler is announced, yes,
mid laner, I will say, I will
say, uh, Vickler did look a
I feel like they're a lot better.
So did Caps.
So now we get to see how they look against each other.
Yeah, because obviously it was pretty rough for Caps as well.
And at least in their BLG series.
So let's take a look in this match up, honestly.
I'm hopeful, Medic.
We're going to get more games.
I think it should be a good day of league,
even if it is double 3L.
We're still going to enjoy ourselves as much as we can,
obviously.
When we're looking at these two teams,
So I do want to talk about the elephant in the room for G2 and that has to be Diablo.
Diablo is just absurd at the moment.
His willingness to go in, his aggression in teamfights, I think if G2 are going to stand
a chance in this series, they need to find a way to shut down that ADC.
And I would agree and I would plus one you.
Also add in Kellen.
Yes.
Very true.
I think Kellen is a pretty big advantage over LeBrov in the current meta.
I mean, when you mention Diablo, you have to mention Kellen right with him because he's
the one keeping him safe and flashing to go put his life in danger to save Diablo and do
everything he can with all of the Enchanters.
So one of the Enchanters is off the board already, but of course in the beginning of
Fearless, it's really hard to go after all of them, you know, Serafine and Lulu, the
primary ones.
Okay, you can go after them.
Smart.
So this is smart.
Seraphine so they can't use it later for the rest of the series as well and sets you up with multiple avenues to go for
We've seen people pair their Seraphine with other you know
AD carries besides Ash as well if they decide to oh, you know
To break up the combo and steal that away that is the standard though and hunts are on
Ash has had some really good performances his ability to stay back in team fights and see where he can actually go
Into the battle is pretty solid the effects though immediately gonna say okay
We will take the vine. I'm gonna let myself get away with that one BFX. I know
Okay, I'll let myself get away with one
I mean you can say the tricode sometimes I feel like come on. That's gotta be legal
Okay, so Vi you're always thinking Ari and Taliyah type things
Taliyah's dropped a little bit in priority since previous
But still any sort of kill, you know AP mid lane could pair with it
It's technically flexible on Niko, but most probably down to support.
Yeah, Niko gives you so much presence in team fights with that Pop Wasm, and the ability
to find those surprise ganks, we still see people undercounting minion waves and getting
caught out by that shaved blizzard.
Now it's like, you know, going for a super hard engage, you see a Serafine, so you
get Vi and Niko immediately, and look to go, you know, full engage on these squishies.
Okay, so no surprises so far, straight down the line, the classic Ash Parrying with
the Seraphine so you can get the slows, you can prep for the extra synergy there, and then
Zin just for a good dueling into Vi, you have advantages over Vi in 1v1 early on in the game
so you can force a lot of early dragon fights or early scuttle fights and skirmish angles
for yourself.
Also the Accrescent Guard giving you a lot of control in teamfights, if you do go in
and there's a pop boss on your backline, you can be on that frontline with the
Accrescent Guard not taking too much damage, allowing yourself a little bit more safety.
R.E. is the lock for BNK FirmX. No real surprises there.
Vickle has most played this year alongside a couple of others as well, if I recall correctly.
Taliyah is up there. But the R.E. does just make a lot of sense when you're teaming it up with things
that already have good pick potential and you have to follow up with the charm and then
the spirit rush to run through the back of a fight.
Yep. As we said, all of the most likely pairings here. So in the first game,
getting a lot of them off the board. Interesting, we do get the Annie that
That has become more and more popular because it is quite good into the RA4 lane, or should be.
We saw on the LCS that it actually got turned around.
It did some individual play, but that's why they're still betting against Caps.
Even though Caps obviously in the anti-game that he played was rendered less effective than normal.
But it's still because of the matchup taking it away and what they're showing.
and the anti band away by being a fear X and then there's the kaiser and the Ezreal taken away by chief to
Trying to get rid of things like the apple very comfortable on the edge of his already got a pentakill on it this tournament
And then the kaiser the ability to dive onto that back line following up the season to assist is just so strong
Yeah, it's just the perfect ad carry to go with that comp like this up
pretty pretty good band so far, but
One of the favorite things to watch is the apple on this unara. It's
a little bit less exciting when you don't have the Lulu, but still very, very, very powerful.
And they have so much, like, forward-facing CC, so much engage that, you know, they can set him up that way.
Yeah, the issue for G2 now is how do we get onto Diablo before he really ramps up in a team fight?
Before Transcend oneself has the arc of judgment, huge amounts of damage going across with that cultivation of Spirit.
If they can find picks on him, sure, maybe they can take him out at the start of the fight,
but it is going to be very difficult when you have a Niko and a Vi there to protect him.
G2 looking for a blind pick top laner will just go towards broken blades because Sunday no real surprises there
How about the best of tolerance because I think one and four so far her at first step
Yeah, still a really good blind pick though and when you're running ash seraphine you just want some more frontline up there
So
Pretty pretty safe pick there. Meanwhile the Leblanc into the Ari. All right. Let's see
We're putting it right to the test at the very beginning. We'll see if any of this is right about his caps versus Vickla
Propaganda that he is trying to spread because the long into Ari definitely is
going to be fun with the setup there it's pre six it's going to be more
advantage to G2 because they have the Zin matchup in jungle versus Vi but post
six Vi and Ari can really blast them back so this one's going to be quite
exciting how they how they navigate the early game. I think a lot of people as
well if you've only started watching League Esports in the last few years you
You won't really think of Caps's LeBlanc as this huge power pick, but it's his second
most played all time with a 70% win rate.
He is incredibly comfortable on this pick and if he can manage to find some pressure in the
early game, his ability to get onto that backline, to get onto the Avalon, have that assassination
potential is actually really high.
And one of my favorite things to do when I have a LeBlanc mid lane, you know, pre-6
again is really a lot of advantages for LeBlanc and Zin.
If yours in is, if you can manage to go unwarded in the early stages, like sweeper for your
raptor camp and make sure they don't have vision on it, when you do one quadrant, do three camps
and pass through mid lane, LeBlanc can always, you know, go for the setup there.
It doesn't cost you a lot of time, so if you can kind of pass through and then hopefully
you can get some big advantages super early on for your mid lane.
And then if you do get a successful gank, you're getting the flash or in a big chunk
of HP, even if you don't get the kill, then your LeBlanc can make sure that you don't get
invaded afterwards, even though you showed crossing through mid lane. Hopefully, you've
gotten your early, you know, mid lane advantage, and that can help with the mid jungle. But
yeah, big magnifying glass on mid jungle for this one.
Very much agree with you. Let's get into game one of the day here between BNK, Phyrex
and G2, a dual dice scenario as Caps is spotted out walking around the corner
Diablo unwrapped it on the chase. Caps would jump across straight into Diablo.
Should be able to escape the clutches of the AD carry, but it's gonna take over half his health for doing so.
The passive.
Gets the passive out as well. Huge for B and K.
It's super smart from them too, because they know there's gonna be so much pivoting on mid jungle
that they have the level one to prep for it.
Ah, Kellen might pay the price though.
They grew onto Kellen with the high note.
Hane has to use the heal. Diablo's trying to get across here, but the Valkatan Summer
We'll see if they can keep him obeyed.
Cap's chunked out electrocute on either side here,
training in the mid lane already.
Yeah, so super smart level one defense here from BNK,
having Diablo over there.
But Kallin!
Pass to Flash!
Flash to Roger Kallin!
Flash is just in time!
Huns on the brub, winning out the 2v2 on the bot side
because Diablo was here so late.
He's going to trade back in, and Huns now has no Flash.
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Wow, really, really good punishment
from Hans Salman LeBrov in this.
You know, they see Diablo punishing caps in the level one,
and they just take advantage.
It's still 0 CS.
Okay, he got one.
Diablo got one down there.
They get caught out again.
Oh my goodness.
It's really good trading from the G2 Bot lane.
The Evelyn Camin paying for that early game.
You see them move here into mid level 3 from Schumann
as he goes big, but lands the knock up.
See a bot breaker coming out from Raptors.
Well, he'll be able to get away.
Vickler escapes without burning a summoner,
but Schumann might look to be invade.
Raptor able to secure his Raptors
before Schumann can really get there.
Medic, that's the exact three-camp cross through mid
we're talking about, and Schumann continues it.
When becomes Lightning, Audacious Charge already used.
Raptor forced away.
Bot lane pushed still there for G2,
which means Q1 thinks he's safe enough to push in and take this red.
You can see caps coming across for the red skill as well.
Diablo having to flash away down to 100 HP as G2 currently putting the pressure down onto BNK.
They certainly are doing that.
Summoner spells are all gone from the BNK bottom lane here,
and Diablo with 7 CS is going to have to walk home.
How much do you think you can get from the 10 cent store here?
with his sevens man.
All right he got his brown bag boots.
And you get a bit of leather on your toes as Skumont
did steal away the red LeBron here.
Look at the cannon, didn't quite get the slow
from the volley out of Han's summer
which means the follow up.
Skumont with the beat drop not enough.
Skumont's coming across.
Cannon has no flash, win becomes lightning.
Q3 knock up Han summer down for the chase.
And this time the arrow finds its mark.
G2 gets the blood.
G2 punishment on bottom lane.
This is brutal. The Ash and Seraphine so much post, so much CC from them.
Interesting Raptor. Very dangerous move, buddy.
He's been scouted with the Skryers too, guess what?
Caps can drop his cannon wave and come over here.
You'll get the cannon, drop the rest of the wave. The chase continues as Caps chains don't connect.
I mean, Raptor does escape through the jungle, but didn't manage to steal away too much.
much. Whoo. Yeah. Very, very
dangerous. Yeah. Exciting start
and I love it actually from
both sides where you know G2
trying to attack towards this
bottom lane really punish the
BFX attempts on caps and they
burned caps as passive but look
at the mid lane. He's been
completely fine because of
it. Meanwhile, the bottom
lane they did get the first
blood and it went into Han
Sama's pockets there. So
he's got the fully
Upgraded boots, you know, it's like Diablo is is over here on some old thrift store boots and Han Samma's got some brand new
He's got the extra attack speed which goes a long way for ash here
Because of the the slow that you can't provide with a seraphine on your side to backing it up as this
There's so much threat with that extra movement. He's invested in
Interesting part in his work from skumon didn't actually do his blue on his first rotation because he saw that raptor was moving up
towards the topside wants to match where Raptor is on the map as much as possible.
So, clears out his topside to match Raptor, now will reset, get himself that Tunneler and
then work his way down towards the bottom side of the map.
And it's also a good ward from, you know, Fear X here, they, well, it actually expires
now.
The one that was on the blue though.
Yeah, exactly, expires now, but they're going to be able to assume that he is over
there re-clearing now.
And so, both junglers should have a pretty good idea.
while raptor is you know further along his journey towards this level six this big point
for the viari that we are mentioning and as long as he can smoothly clear and finish up
trying to get to his level six then they can try and look for their punish but at the moment
because of the bot pressure it really means skumond is full confidence starting up this
dragon they've got also full vision of raptor here so.
Caps can stay a little bit safer knowing that raptor is around.
Skumon's sticking on the Drake for now. The chains wrap to have the Bolt Break to get away.
And as you say, a free enough Dragon as Cap jumps forward. Vickler looking for the damage here with the Charm and the Electric U-Caps.
Having to dash back. Doesn't have the Mimic right now. Five seconds before he has that extra Spell Pass, but still G2.
Will be able to take the Drake, and then Skumon can work his way back towards his Blue Buff and his Wolves.
You know, bot lane supremacy, free dragon, and the Seraphine, even getting to roam up through the river as well, the investment in wards here with the multiple control wards as well as trinket wards from G2 on this, the river between bottom and mid lane, the highway here, really, really helping out the possible gank avenues.
So once again though wants to slip in and try and take something away, but there's an annoying ash on the enemy team
So they're gonna see that you've done this at the very least that's the thing right you can't really contest it
Your jungler is on the bottom side of the map your mid laner was pushed on the tower
Your top laner is really struggling into the arm after we haven't really talked about it too much
But clear has built himself up a sizable advantage just in that 1v1 and we're almost still at 22 CS ahead
And about 600 gold as well
Yeah, but and it does mean as long as you have the information then you can just go okay fine
I'm gonna get the bottom scuttle crab and I'm gonna get to my level six here for scumon off that dragon off of bot scuttle crab and
The rest of his camps here able to get to his level six just fine
So man, it is just always so nice to have
The ash seraphine lane with big advantages because you have lane priority you get the hawk shot as well
And now you've got access to the ash arrow the initiation here. So
They're gonna have to be very wary of the next g2 play
Okay, we'll have to be a bit cautious around it
But their solo laners are having a really good way out of the time right now 400 gold lead in mid for Vickler over caps keeps him low
We're trying to just have a will land onto Vickler the way he played out there the chains
Oh, they have to be caps!
Oh, caps!
Ad-hub summer teaming up for a beautiful play in mid.
I'm gonna say 10 out of 10
That was a literal 10 out of 10 play can you please clip that thing that was the
cleanest I've ever seen in the best part the cherry on top that bumps it up to a
perfect 10 is caps walking away from the death at the end look at this full
channel on the ash arrow so it's so far away the stun is there caps change them
and he walks away off-screen the tower to finish
Nice call, Caps. So Caps, so I mean, you gotta give a lot of credit to the Ash.
Caps called for it, but on top of that, he hit it.
The French sniper has to find his mark, right?
Guess the kill as the wave cleared out by Caps in response.
Grubbs taken for G2.
Goldlead still only about 500 next straight, two and a half minutes away, but a strong
early start from G2, generally.
And, Menek, when I said you gotta be aware of the Ash arrow engaged, it's kind
of hard when it's coming through the jungle wall like that.
Jarvan's captured, he dashes away,
Skiing on the Raps are gonna trade down
towards the bottom side of this fight.
Vickler with the Spirit Rush looking for more
as Raps did have to burn his flash to get away.
G2's bot lane was collapsing
because of that Raps didn't wanna stay in the area.
Yeah, and that's an advantage again,
all this vision for G2 through this river,
they're keeping that river lit up
so they can always respond to these plays,
get there in time.
LeBravd doing a very good job of transferring
this bottom lane advantage that they do have
with the roams up there.
So Dragon Advantage and the three Grubbs Advantage for G2.
But the gold is still very close.
Biggest difference, of course, is the Ash Advantage here
with the kill on Fulhan Summer versus the top lane CS Advantage.
Whoa!
Vickler with these charms, they'll continue to land caps.
That's the flash away.
Vickler in the 1v1 is getting on top of caps relatively often.
Yeah.
If it wasn't for the Ash Arrow, then he
would be dominated. Yeah, but the ash arrow on some of their kind of equalized it for him.
Besides that, Vickla had been doing quite well. Yeah, the battle between these junglers
is something that has really started off this game. Well, Schumann and Ratter fighting
for pressure, not only around the camps, but around these neutral objectives, the
grubs, the drake. We have that next drake coming up in a minute. And both of these
junglers are so important to the initial portions of the game for that team. They
They set their team up really well for success.
I think the BFX, the NK, when you look at it,
it's Diablo that you really look at as the Camry later on,
but it's Raptor who gets him to that point.
Yeah, definitely agree.
And for G2, it's been really fun to watch
the evolution of Schumann as Vickle here
with some more dodging versus caps
as the three members of G2 had converged around.
If that does hit, then it definitely counts on Vickle,
but nice little W activation and dodge to the side.
Veclo will be fine. As Vedius has deemed him our LCS representative in this match.
It's doing well for LCS mid lane.
Technically, I would say, hey, Vedius, Han Sama also played in the LCS.
They're like, are you going to give us credit for Han Sama?
Because I think I'm going to take that credit, you know?
Okay, honest, if G2 win, you can have credit for the map.
I'm 100% on full with that.
I'll take it, because Han Sama won mid lane 4 caps with the Ash Arrow,
or at least equalized it for him.
Didn't even actually get him ahead with it.
And they're crushing bottom land so I think LCS is doing great in this game.
Meta?
I agree, I agree.
BNK using a little bit of time to get control around the spot side.
River the entire crystal hour doesn't connect onto Raptors.
He is able to dash away.
Second Drake the target for both these teams.
Yabba a little bit isolated here.
As the chase comes in he does have cleanse and flash but he doesn't connect.
No slows yet, beat drop as well.
That's walking.
We're walked away.
The devil on the shoulder is like go back in, go back in, no.
Diablo able just to walk away safely full break you out from Raptors and gonna find anyone just trying to keep G2 away as
Diablo clears away this walk. Okay, here we go the moment of truth Vi all this ready
Clear just got his Trinity force clears trouble porting in with Trinity force ready
And a big shield a third sack on the mega nab our caps trying to go in be drop on court follow off as they dive onto
Big Bob who does have the flash manages to get away
Broken Blade trying to get onto the backliners. Rats are fulls like all out on him. He's down.
Pumps on the trade, he was playing, he's keeping the Vector G2 away from the fight, but the Snipe comes out of G2.
Went out on the battle, get a kill and get the drake.
Yeah, they're just more coordinated. They destroyed them.
Burst damage is there.
Broken Blade and Katz can be able to push mid lane afterwards as well, and even the knockback here.
But yeah, they just delete them.
They push Vickla out of the fight with the combo there, even though they don't actually get the kill onto Vickla.
but completely push them out of the fight and they're able to run right into the dragon and
delete Raptor. Take a look at this. And the minimap is critical because the minimap shows
that Diablo and Kellen so far away down there on the bottom side that G2's coordination,
everybody here, five people strong, completely blast the team fight. And even though they
had clear teleport in first, it's the bottom lane that is desynced for BNK.
Klai was doing a job. He kept three people from G2 away from the fight, got towards the
mega now, wasn't able to do as much as he'd like, but because of G2's coordination on
the initial kill on Raptor, they could just go in, steal away the drake, and then walk
up towards that one remaining member on the top side. G2 now with a 1.4k gold lead,
13 minutes in.
Kind of a head-scratcher there, honestly, from Fear X, as a top lane advantage didn't
mean anything, even with the earlier teleport, because the rest of the team's just not
there.
We'll see about the next one though, 1,000 gold lead for Han Sama, he's got his extra
move speed with the Stormrazor so very very mobile here with the extra move speed and
the safety of the Seraphine, Seraphine teamfighting could go huge, BNK certainly though they
still have their potential for assassinating targets in big dive.
Broken Blade's something clear as reset here, does still have the Flash, will have to use it to get away from Vickla's Charm
Vickla using a good timing there to move up from mid
and make sure that Broken Blade has to use his Summoner, still clear with a sizeable chunk of change as his advantage in Top-Leg
Meanwhile, let's see what Cap is able to do with his double buffs
Always so fun here on the block
being able to use that to harass even more frequently
Raptor
Definitely, they know and there's nothing you can do here. Like it's Mininar and G2 have the extra power
so they can just brute force this tower down. G2 gonna keep it rolling here. First tower bonus.
He actually got out of that.
point they still going for Hamsama 1.4k ahead which is not something I think any
of us thought would be the case coming into this series. Diablo is so often the
key character for this BFX team. Yeah and to have this completely turned around
remember how this game started with them having Diablo up towards mid lane and
trying to chunk out caps and being so worried about the mid jungle that
bottom lane for g2 was able to punish kelin a lot kind of isolated and then
once diablo joined two since kelin was so low and had burned so many summer spells
then they keep that punishment going g2 really snowballed that so effectively
after like reacting to a level one that now sets them up here with a thousand
gold lead two dragon lead and look at rift arrow
Up towards the topside of the hell pit, Diablo and Raptor are there.
And Chateau-Cris outflashed away by Raptor, Pop Blossom doesn't land on to anyone but Broken Blade.
Meanwhile, Skimond on the backline is going to pump that Crest of Guarate,
Teasing to switch going onto Caps as well as Flash away himself.
On call onto Diablo, he dashes away with the cleanser's way to escape.
They're afraid but Raptor doesn't have that same luxury.
He'll die to Skimond. G2 still looking for the other one,
but they can't get close enough to catch out BNK.
Wooo, Caps lives that is so close to death there.
he squeaks away with the distortion into the back of the pit and everything is
really coming up G2 I mean yeah Raptor did get the rift herald but going down
they're also gonna lose out on the rest of their map pressure here so very nice
extra pickup for G2.
A bit able to run away in time with the Foxfire it doesn't have flash so there was a little risk of
broken blade going in pathmaker all outing him back towards skumont yeah but
vikler smart enough to avoid any of g2's clutches to save them if they're going to
get over to bnk so they might be able to crack through this tower with 30 seconds
left on the drake as well kallen stepping a bit too far forward caught up on the
nicho there's James as well and kallen taking out on this nicho hasn't had the
best of times on this pick across the tournament played it in game one
against the PLG as well, I'm really struggled.
Get that? That's a very dangerous path there to take, my friend.
The good punish once again, the G2 bottom lane just smacking Kellen.
All right, well, this is going to pose problems for the mid game because you've got a Leblanc level 11.
You know, this is where you get your rank 2 ultimate, obviously,
and your power spike really coincides with your first item, your upgraded sword shoes,
and your extra 4 stacks on your Dark Seal, so you get a lot of room to work with on this
poke champion.
This is sole point as well for G2, Ocean Soul, possibility 4, and there's the Rift
House put down by Rattus, try and get the charge in the midlands, try and get Friar,
4 BNK to step in, but this Drake has already gone, Klay looking for a flying position.
G2 can walk away before BNK can really react, the Rift House charge will come in,
but it doesn't even take down the tower, and Janko is out, dodged away by Rattus,
going in with the spear rush but gashing out with it as well. In the end G2 will get the
drake, will kill off the Herald and won't lose too much for it. Yeah, feeling pretty strong
here. I mean, Hans Amazon has two items, got his PD finished as well. And as Mega, the
Abel, that's Kallen actually who has called out. He was calls playing as the Abel there
for a second. The shape's for the blocking the chains. The Abel now, he's trying
to get across. Looks like BNK are playing for that bot lane tier one. Maybe even for
of fights as G2 could look to the Fender.
Raptor is cooking here.
He wants to be able to burst somebody, you know,
Vi ultimate with Diablo close.
But let's see if they can actually find one.
OK, control ward.
That's the target.
Dash is the way.
Raptor could then make a cease-and-sit on to Lebron,
but the encode's going to land as well.
Lebron might just be sacrificed there.
BNK with a great pick.
Finding Lebron in the river.
Well, look what it cost them, you know.
Since they have everybody down here,
That's going to be tough, just getting demolished.
Broken Blade is up there, getting multiple tower flades.
Big Love, of course, is able to finish up the bottom tower
to kind of answer there.
But so much also dropped here on the top side of the map,
that G2's gold lead is still about 1,000,
and the biggest thing, Medic, three and a half minutes.
Very early soul.
As you say before, that Ocean soul comes up.
The lead for Clear as well, still 1.5K.
He's been having a really good time on this now,
Broken Blade, he is just a tank, he's gonna scale up into the game, doesn't need as much gold.
And someone like Clear, who is gonna face check here, pathmaker in, wind becomes lightning as well.
Clear looking for the narwhal, land a stun, but the Q3 is gonna be brought by Stume as they continue to chase in.
All out pulls Clear away from the wall, he's gonna flash.
On Summercourt out as Caps jumps in the way of the jump. On Summer taking down those Rikos to choose the kill.
Caps looking for cannon, can't land the second chains.
Meanwhile on the topside, Clear was able to escape with the help of Raptor.
Wow we got the revenge right there
Kellen and Diablo able to burst them down Vickley here still looking for more as well
They're gonna get a tower and just like that BNK. They retake the gold lead
They wipe that G2 gold lead off of the map and now we're 240 away from the dragon
So you can start doing your early setup here
The huge swing for BNK. I'd love to see how this was set up again
It's a pick in the jungle. They're playing around this red rough LeBron
caught out initially and Kelly just runs a great engage on the frontside.
Yeah, revenge on Kelly. And it's just time so well too as soon as Caps came in.
You know, he's just going for the ash here and they're able to snag both of them.
G2 starting to get a little bit nervous now.
You know, they had so much confidence with how well this early game has gone
and the dragon stacking. So much power of the dragons though is all in the last one.
the final one for the Dragon Soul, so we'll see about that next fight.
And look at that, that's not like a graphic ending early,
that actually just went back to zero.
That's...
50-50 between the two teams now.
You either win or you lose, and Diablo sitting at two items,
Kraken Slayer and Fiend Hunter Volts completed for him.
This guy having an absolute storm over first and two pentakills so far.
Now, basically even on itemization with Hansama,
Hansama does have an extra BF sword, but in terms of completing two items,
That's a big sword!
Meanwhile, Vickla, as Vettius in the Analystest, has decided that he is our LCS rep.
I'll happily take it!
Now, Ari, looking pretty good with some burst damage now, he actually went for the Lich Bane burst damage,
so we'll weave in those autos, and it all comes down to this next Dragonfight medic,
and who's going to be able to get some early positioning because there are really big pick opportunities?
Wait a second mid lane here there is an ash arrow ready to fire so have to be a little bit careful
Yeah, we'll just still have the planes and the flash
We'll just see if he's good fair enough to get those summoners out before the fight begins
But do you want to be using the arrow and then not have it up for the battle?
Scumann's gonna try and take away the Scuttlecrab, but Raptor's here, Scumann's healing up with the Thunder Sky TV is coming in, and BMK wanna take the fight.
Scumann's dying for a taste, they're killing the enemy jungle, used with the Crescent Garden, and the Integration of the damage, and then we'll flash away.
Bigfoot's flashing in, gets the charm onto LeBron, pops Blastom as well, but he's definitely gonna land onto the sport.
LeBron is down, Rumble and Traydon is 3 down, and he was on the side, Bigfoot trying to get up at the wall, it's the back line as well.
And he'll start attacking now, DL will now on the next to him, and now against the wall.
DL will try to get out of vision in the bush, but his ward attacks Jax across, play it goes down.
Yeah, we're trying to escape. G2 don't want to let him, but they might just have to pass him out of the distortion.
G2 will give up the ghost of Diablo, but will turn their eyes towards the soul.
Oh, HanSama was gliding on them at the end there, putting that big sword to work, Medic.
And look at this, the jungle fight. The jungle ego battle right by the crab.
Ski1 says, fine, you want to go on me? I will delete you.
My friends over the wall here, HanSama and LeProg, we're able to help them out.
Bob does get hit with the charm because it was an attempted follow-up at Scumonio Vipoli was trying to go for him
But they only deleted the Serafine and so that opened up the rest of the fight caps and Honsama here that carries still free firing him
They just they taste them down everybody except for Diablo and that is gonna be dragon
Fight number two here. We go started again. Nintaka's are that's come a food on Diablo with no flash hounds has his and his
Barrier, Broken Blade on that frontline. Clear trying to build up the Mega-Narr, Raptor in the back of the pit, Caps just waiting.
Zingy can find Awenian, Raptor, starting up the drake, Clear keeping Broken Blade at bay.
Caps dives onto Raptor who tries to go on Summer, there's the Seekers and the Syscreeper gone.
To stop Pickle from getting the Spirit Rush, and that Caps is gone!
Summer's still alive as well! They'll take that too, Kallen!
Caps took Baby, Broken Blade and put him at dirt.
G2 takes three for naught and will claim the soul.
They keep on summer safe and they claim the soul. They can walk over to Barron side of the battle now too with the ocean soul regeneration here medic.
It's the massacre, priceless moment of the game for G2. Can it buy them a Nexus as you say they'll walk across towards the Baron still 15 seconds on Raptor.
Vickler with no TP is coming up in 10. G2 will try and get all the buffs they can for now and then we'll see if they can break the backs at BNK.
Yeah, I think that might just do it, man. They get the soul. They're gonna get the baron. Let's take a look at this.
As we're...well, it's gonna be a little difficult to do. But you can tell on the Slash Show, they're going for Han Sama by Ultimate, and they tried to do the Auri follow-up, but Auri got knocked aside as you called out, and they were unable to finish Han Sama.
He still had his flash and still had his barrier to be able to survive there and used it very effectively.
So G2, now they're in a very commanding position here in game number one.
But what BNK have shown us is they are willing to set up these bush breaks, these picks,
getting to the enemy jungle, sneak behind enemy lines and find these picks,
and if they can continue to do that, they will delay G2 on this push.
this push. It's only the first time in the game. They have two and a half minutes left with it,
but they still have so many structures to get through if they're going to get towards those
inhibs. They certainly do. Let's see if they can attend to the side lane as well. Currently,
Vickla pushing on top side, trying to get one lane going for BNK. Meanwhile, the rest of G2
can link up here. 401 split push for them. They keep Calf mid to deal with the BNK onslaught,
and with Baron buff, I mean, they're just going to delete this tower, so...
No TPs as well on BNK because they were using those previous dragon fights.
So if Vickler does continue to push, there's the option for G2 to try and just force in towards the Inhib.
It looks like that's what they're going to do.
At the very least, Vickler probably has his empowered recall up right now.
And it should be able to get back quicker. So we see Vi channeling recall early.
Yeah, they're still there on the tier two and top side.
Vipe will be taken by G2 on this Inhib tower.
Vigler will go and get that Enhance to recall. G2 is still nothing on the doors of these inhibitor towers while Cap's push is in mid.
Plank positions from Kellen, but that is just the shapes for the clone. While this is happening, Cap's continues to chip away at that mid tier 1.
That will go as well. G2 extending the gold lead, 1.6k so far off this Red Bull Baron power play.
Okay, BNK actually mitigating the gold loss from those double big objectives quite well. Here we go.
No cease-and-sist onto caps. Vickler there with a chase as well, but caps dodges away and dodges the charm.
Can he escape the clutches of BFX? The answer for now is yes!
Pop, roach, and desert!
Caps there! Caps with the ocean, soul heals up and out!
And while this is happening, G2 are knocking on the inhibitors.
They'll take the bot lane in him, and even with BFX looking for the play in mid, G2 still come out on top.
Cap says, now you see me, now you don't.
by all Ari or Nico Alt as well, and he still lives.
And now G2 will look to push to the mid.
No season to assist, no spirit rush, no pop blossom, as you say.
This tower not long for the wrist you have to feel.
And just as we praised BNK for being able to mitigate some of the barren tower play,
it has ballooned up to 3,000.
Could be more as well, because there's another ahead of the tower
in G2's sights.
Cap's trying to jump in, trade with Bikla.
the tower going down and G2 still have 10 seconds left on the Baron, the inhibitor now their target.
They'll take that two caps, dashes and not could Diablo's health. Almost just one shot by caps there.
The rabbitons looted enough for him. But now with the Baron expiring we see the resets come out.
Charm pathmaker used to avoid it. Kallin's not going to go for anymore. A 5k gold lead for G2.
Yeah, two inhibs down as well, makes it really easy.
They can just go for their reset, push out on this top lane,
use the Super Minion extra pressure down the other two lanes
and close in towards the game one nexus.
The real difficult thing for BNK here,
can they actually pull off a surprise play?
Because I think the attempt mid is the correct type of thing
when you're behind like this.
You've got to do that and you have to full send
and hope that it is just successful next time.
because if you just wait and you kind of huddle up in your base, guess what?
The super minions are going to build up, the rest of G2 are just going to seed you
and you will just lose, so you've got to take risks, you know, go camp on a brush
and try and burst somebody down one lane.
You have a three-item AD carry as well.
He is a full item behind Hansama, but if it's Caps or Stue Monde or LeBruv,
he's going to melt through them pretty quickly.
If he's there at the moment, he is on clean up duty in the mid lane,
trying to make sure those super minions don't get too close to the base.
BNK have done a good job of getting both the side lanes pushed in before the next objective, which is Elder Drake in one minute's time.
Unsummers only died one time against a team that has Vi, Niko, Ari, and NAR all looking for his head.
These LCS players are just climbing.
At the moment, as we see Raps on the people of the flank, Callan going in with a pop-off zone.
And Unsummers is caught and adjusted to praising.
He dies immediately.
Skimo will trade onto Callan, Crescent is doing a lot of work here.
He's gonna heal up as well, with the Ocean Soul.
All the pub is taken out, Skewer's taken with Raptor
Crashing Broken Blade diving into the backline
Raptor still surviving for now, but Skewer's still on the way
Stuckport got a counter trying to survive and he dodged the over-deception
From Vickler, Vickler out
Broken Blade will put him in the ground
And now Raptor is clear, even though
You took 4k gold out of G2's pockets at the start of the fight
You still can't win it out, Raptor
Stashing across the wall, going back in with the Vault Breaker
But look at the Ocean Soul!
You just can't heal them!
They're lapping up your house!
and taking a U out G2 without the fight
and with 20 seconds left on Diablo,
possibly can take the game.
Yep, sorry about that one, Hans.
That's my bad.
Don't even count that death from him.
That's a catch of curse right there on G2.
They're gonna get the Elder Dragon off the back of it.
They still win the fight, even with the investment,
but BNK prompts for the Deerless Engage here.
They actually, such a good little flank.
He saw at the beginning Vi coming from the other side, the wrap around that they have.
Kelen going past this brush by Red Buff up to get the engage.
And they do delete Hansama this time around.
Unfortunately for them they're so far behind that G2 can still win the game with all the...
It's the Ocean Song.
Exactly.
And it was entirely the Ocean Song.
And the action goal didn't really help.
Yeah sure, but you saw how low so many members of G2 went.
And now with the elder, they will turn their attention towards the ban.
The Baron, BNK not really able to contest this, you can't fight into an elder, especially when you are 7000 gold behind, but STILL BNK show the resiliency that took them to the second spot in the LCK, they show the determination to not give up on the game.
And the G2, you're not sweating, there's a little bit of perspiration perhaps coming out after these last couple of fights.
The first elder of first stand secured for G2, the blue Agiliva was taken by Claire, but now, with super minions pushing in bot and mid for the next 30 seconds for bot and one minute for mid G2 will just push through this topside.
Alright, first elder at first stand and hopefully we're going to get more than three games as well because this was a really fun one, Medic.
I think it's about to end, but you know, there's always that little tiny ray of hope for B and K.
Can they pull up a miracle here against Elder Dragon plus Dragon Soul plus Baron Buff?
It would be miraculous if they can do it, but I don't put anything past this B and K lineup.
The inhibitor will be taken out by G2. Raps trying to keep the mid-wave at bay.
G2 pushing in for those Nexus towers. Broken Blade is going to deal with Raptor
First Nexus tower will be raised to the ground.
Kelen looking for his engage. There's the pop blossom.
Get to the unsulleratized ball and on summer solo.
Crescent guard coming out for once again.
You just don't have the damage.
A quadra for Hans.
Drowning up as G2 takes game one.
Yo, I do like that trick at the end though.
Kelen doing the recall thing to make you think he's doing the...
He's doing the clover.
Right at the end though, it's the key part of it.
because at the end, 4 game number 1, G2, with the win, Analyst S, how are you feeling about that opener?
Let's go, red!
I like that tone a lot, Raz.
I like that one on the board, all of us.
That's the key to what I know and love. They showed up today, Raz.
I hope you fell bad.
I hope you're not believing in my team.
You're about to eat that for the entire series, this is what happens when the best team in Europe shows up on the elimination day.
And I've all played hard summer!
The lane I was the most concerned about, I had to sell the world on some cat stats, but it was Hans in the bottom lane.
My God, this level one had such massive impacts, because Diablo, yes, he gets a huge chunk of HP away,
away, but it delays your arrival to the bot lane so much and you take a fair chunk of HP yourself
and the bot lane of G2 punished this massively. Yeah, because Kellan was taking shots. Maybe he
needed to basically play a lot more closer to Retur. I understood what he was trying to do
in bridging him through the tri-bush so he can get to the wave, but G2 played it so well to
stop that from happening. He was sitting at, what, two minions really early on, unable to
base. It was tough for Diablo to play this one out. And we said that's what we
wanted to see, that in more agencies something easier to play and especially
lane player in the early game to put Diablo down. Yeah it felt like that you
know we talked about draft being a big priority and they came in with a much
clear game plan. Diablo is the win condition, let's make sure that we
guarantee a winning bot lane 2 versus 2. And yes, catch did kind of have to
eat it as a result of this. We saw that kind of finding good trades, saving
the day a lot of the time being like this point of strength but then Hans-Sommer
again comes up with a crazy play to help out his mid laner team. Absolutely, thanks to the
reliable Cisco network he comes with a perfectly timed arrow here in the
mid lane. Let's listen to the comms.
Right there.
Okay.
It's a long time, okay?
Perfect.
Let's go, Kats.
Very nice.
Every aspect of that planning was great.
A, Kaps putting in that idea, but also his positioning to kind of lean Bikla towards the direction of the arrow.
Every aspect was beautiful.
So like, A, Hans-Sama had the early game set up.
B, you had that situation and it only continued on.
And guess who the player of the game of that one was?
Hans-Sama.
I was so concerned about this bot lane, especially after their series versus BLG, but he stepped
up, really played well on the bot lane 2 versus 2.
I hope they keep this trend going because the Pythagore formula drashes up a winning
bot side.
We already heard it from Tabe yesterday, bot seems to be the name of the game right
now.
The current meta and when you have the crew surrounding them as well, impressive
to see.
The fans give it to Scumon, honestly the French boys are playing super well, that's what I'm talking about, that's what I want to see here.
And we've talked about more better draft approach and better execution as well with the tools that they had because in the last fight, the one that closed out, the game's sole winning fight here.
You can see that it's not only that they're playing right with the tools that they have, it's just that at this point it's really hard for BFX to come back.
Absolutely. And the idea behind the fight from BFX is lockdown on Summer, take out the gold lead, they run out of damage.
and they get so good. Schumann's ult here perfectly times.
I understand why the fans have their sights set on Schumann
because he definitely had a monster of a game himself.
Yeah, credit to them. I mean, he's been consistent, I feel like,
from the whole tournament thus far.
Even in their losses, I felt like he's had good moments.
And then the fight even before this moment that happened
in the same set of the map, another dragon fight, right?
I thought Ponsama was going incredibly off off his ash.
So I feel like it's a great team effort.
A, we got to see some great ash arrows
and some great overall kiting from him.
And then on top of that, yes, Scumon had great moments.
We need to see more of this.
Yeah, and we've been talking about the effects in the early game
and how they always managed to crawl
that were back in the game, especially in team fights.
Are we seeing the limits of this right now?
Well, I mean, they kept close a couple of times.
They had that one terrifying fight around the river.
But fortunately, the boys was able to set up.
And for me, the fact that G2 held strong
and could close out with the lead,
was it as convincing as we seem domestically from them?
No, in the sense that they took their time,
they were patient, but it's understandable.
They want to make sure they close this one out.
Clearly, they got the first elder of the tournament,
which is a bit of a surprise.
But most importantly, they made fun of Raz.
And today, that's the thing they'll love the most.
That's 3-0 prediction, buddy.
That's 3-0.
I'm going to update it to a 3-1 prediction.
I still believe in you think BFX can bounce back.
I'm going down with the ship.
All right, I have to.
I have to.
But yes, the fact that we're on the last day of group stage
and that's our first elder of the tournament.
That is wild.
GG, setting records.
Love to see it.
That is crazy.
So yes, really inspiring to see this
from the G2 team, especially from some of their games being a little bit shaky.
But I feel like the prep has been there for this one.
The prep is here. They showed up today and they opened up this corner 1 and 0 against BFX.
Let's see what happens to him too.
Red Bull gives you wings.
The greatest players in the world are here.
They can just burn this one down.
They've got to heal all of them by night.
And you are going to see them like you've never seen them before.
The opposite world is the Arcade Sword.
Doing so much work in Gen.G.
They are just going to ace them.
We don't know how easy it is,
but I think it's a kind of romance.
GENJI! The EWC WINNIT!
Unforgettable.
Oppo, find X9 series.
Pass a blood telephoto. Zoom into detail.
You won't achieve here. I mean on the phone
I'm speaking volatile. I'm coming for impossible
There's a house of doubt around and combat isn't optional
I got time for playing short on. See I'm one that I'm guilty
But, wanna know what I'm guilty of
I believe
Can't hold me down
I believe
I believe I am right now.
I'm gonna get my crown.
I believe I believe I believe
I'm obviously a bit of a losing 3-0 against BG, but we're still optimistic about the tournament.
I think the teams that we will face on the way back to the playoffs are going to be good.
Stepping stones for us to find our rhythm back into the league.
I played against BN many times.
I know how good he is.
When I play against him I have to prepare really well and I think today he was
better prepared.
It started really hot.
It was looking very winnable at some point.
I think we were fighting really, really well in the gold lead they had.
For me, it just shows that if we can manage to minimize the gold leads and we still fight
the same way, we can win many many games against every teams.
Welcome back to first-time 2026 where G2 have won a surprise game one against BNK Fear X.
BNK now deciding that they want to be first pick and G2 will be on the blue side for game
two.
But if you're BNK, what do you feel you have to change here, Cody?
Well, I think that they would like for Diablo and Kellen to start lane phase with 100%
HP and all summer stuff. I think that's probably number one because so much you know snowballed
off the early stages and even though I like I said I did see the idea I like the idea of
you know trying to take some bite out of the LeBlancs in jungle mid combo early you know
with the level one ooh we're gonna sneak some extra damage on him then the only problem
is like oh what do we do after this and how do we get back to our lane type stuff
especially against a heavy poke lane that is Ash Serafine.
So G2 did a really good job punishing that,
reacting in the moment to stuff that you see like that.
And then having Scumon come down,
get the first blood was really nice to see from G2.
So they seem locked in and ready to react in.
Also, I did like their draft as well, very solid setup.
So we'll see as we get deeper and deeper into Fearless,
how they are able to keep that going.
So importantly here, G2 are on the blue side,
but they'll be on the right side of your screen.
So their logo was in the right place there with VFX
underneath it, just one of its slight bugs.
Yeah, but what they're doing is keeping them
on the side of the stage, I think.
Yes, that is what they're doing.
Because the tricode was underneath the wrong logo,
I just wanted to call that out.
But we're still in the draft,
and we'll jump into it as soon as we can, of course.
Yeah, I think for VFX having a bot lane
It doesn't start massively behind is good. Victor was having a really good time into caps and in the 1v1
I think there wasn't a huge amount wrong with what that's it in the other game either in and clay was winning out on the top lane
So yeah, you can they gate the
600 700 gold deficit that you fell into because of that. Yeah game becomes a lot easier to play for sure for sure
No need to be a game one Andy this time around either
But you can't be it's the game one of first
Yeah, Keruru!
Okay, so Rumble!
Most common picks of the Rumble are Ornn and Galio.
And they got stuff like Aurora and stuff,
if you wanted to super punish lane,
but that's not really the type of vibe that G2
have been going for with top lane.
It's been more of the tanky answers into stuff,
and so they're going to continue with that type.
And they go with Ornn.
Honestly, I like this start already
because it is massive teamfight engage
and trying to build for teamfights
teamfights and build for dragon stacking is a very winning strategy. It's also one of
the more simple strategies to execute and seems like a good natural kind of progression
here for G2 now. They get the Nami early so you can do the Nami Lucian or you can
just do Nami Korki, Nami Ezreal, plenty of options there. And I think picking Lucian
into Diablo is something. So I'm actually hoping that Hans goes for an Ezreal or Korki
instead the nocturne and the mele are going to be the picks for BNK we saw
Vickler's mele against BLG had a really solid performance on it and of course
nocturne aftermen are just such a good jungler you can easily gank with Havana
but also in teamfights to be able to turn off the lights on your opponents
and you've got solo snare you've got the equalizer coming down you have all
of these things that your opponents have to deal with while you're just
there with full vision of what's going on yeah all right nice we get the
Korky instead, you know, I too, I would have to take position if it was for the best positions
I've ever seen in my life, so.
Korky here, very versatile, has a good escape obviously for himself, and lots of options
of how to play, good burst damage, you know, can her on rockets for a later two, and you
have to get some adc with a dash, that's why we're looking at him when you're playing
against Rumble, everybody wants a dash, so you can get off the hot lava.
Yeah, you need to be able to get out.
Interesting that we have a sort of a mismatch in terms of picks so far.
support an AD for G2 top mid and jungle for BNK which gives them the option to
ban away some mid lenders that might be given to them into the mail ban away some
junglers they don't want Scumark getting his hands on but it also gives G2 the
option to get rid of some of these AD carries that they're worried about.
The Arbos Ezreal absolutely legendary at this point he's so good on this pick
getting rid of that when you already have good help from the rest of the
team makes a lot of sense yeah and they are trying to also take away
their mobile AD carries because Ornult and Namiult are really hard to get away from if
you don't have dashes and so they want to remove Ornult out that they would be able to
hit those.
So there you go, Lucian ban, big respect to Diablo with those two Ezreal and Lucian.
As we went over I think both very good denials for him.
He was quick BNK's comp right now, you don't have the best way to keep him on gumball
Oh, still!
And I'm like, whenever you're first picking Rumble, you gotta really need that kind of thing.
So for Kellen, it's like, alright, we're definitely gonna get Kellen something for CC that the ex-ex-ex is what I'm telling you.
It's gonna pair with a Nocturne and with a Rumble Engage, and you have to have hard CC to keep him lit.
You could also go for something like if a Nocturne goes in, and if a Nocturne follows up with the Quickness, and you put the Equalizer down on that.
But I think, like a Nautilus Kaisa here would be okay for me, for being okay.
I think it struggles a little bit into the lane. It struggles quite a lot into the Corky Nami lane, but later on the teamfights, which is what BNK really have developed, those sort of skirmishy teamfights, I don't mind those two as picks.
G2 will get the Azir for caps. Haven't seen too much of the Emperor of Serima at this tournament, but we see a bit of him when we get towards these next second, third tier midlaners generally.
G2 really gone for the scaling then. They got Ornn upgrades for later, and Azir for later as well.
I will say, if Mel can land the poke onto Azir early though, that seems like it's gonna be painful, so it depends on if you can land it now.
It is a little bit more difficult to get all of the value out of the Mel poke, but they did buff up the damage on it, so it feels quite nice.
And there you go, there's exactly what you were calling for, Medic, and we get the Dive combination from the bottom lane.
Recon, Nocturne, Engage is always crazy fearsome, no really good follow-up by the way with the bust on her snare
so if they are quick about it and they will be that Engage looks terrifying.
Yeah it's very much if we pick someone they are dead unless they are valkyring out or flashing out or a good
Emperor's Divide comes out from G2. Jarvan is the final pick for Skuemon something you can do a lot of work on in the early game.
Yeah I think the one item timing is going to be thankful for G2.
We'll see how they deal with that, 1pnk if they want items and we expect to use a lot of engaged tools.
How much gold are you giving them? They can't have a question here.
We want to play towards those teamfights but if bnk get a solid lead in the early game, they are so good at just suffocating you out of the game.
Taking fights on in their advantage, forcing you back, away from your towers, taking the towers, getting into your jungle.
it will be a struggle for G2 and really good for BNK.
They can get that, you know, a thousand gold lead or something on Diablo
through the early 90s, but yeah.
We'll see. Both G2 solo ends, I feel like, should be, like, they're just looking for scaling.
Low priority.
Yeah, so we'll see.
We will, and we will. Let's go on in to game two of the specified between the LCK,
number two seeds, BNK, fear X, and the LEC, number one seeds G2.
We're able to pick up game one in pretty convincing fashion.
I think a lot of us were surprised to see, but BNK have been in this sort of position before.
They've been playing T1, they've been losing games with Gen G.
They've been able to come back from losing the first game of the series very effectively.
These two cannot let their foot off the gas, especially in a game where they are playing for the latest fights in their position.
I'd definitely rather be BNK's side in this one.
Let's see about the execution in the level one. Will we get any?
Shenanigans here in the level one looks like a couple of early wards down. No shenanigans. They've shenanied once they're not gonna shenanigan
I have practiced doing fake labs with freak how loud you
That's always my goal
Captain look the trading a tiny bit in the mid lane, but perhaps just trying to get the way pushed in where he can
It's Conqueror on Hanson on this Corki,
he managed to get a little bit of pressure
once you kill him with the Adelaide.
I was expecting like Nami Corki,
especially with the ebb and flow level 1.
You have so much healing and damage coming out.
You can see Kallen on the wrong side of that trade.
But the Ward 4 G2 in this push,
therefore, that's like BNK in this push.
We'll see if LeBlanc decides to clear that.
Gleamon Quill used by Kallen to heal up,
and the phosphorus bomb just side stepped well
by the BNK bot lane.
Yeah, and those little trades are pretty meaningful.
Those little bits of health.
Kallen was positioning forward in the brush
brush because he knew none is going to come in for the trades and then he can get his
Q off then you can get the healing and dodging as you say the boss bomb all these little bits
of health add up so much as we know from the first game and so this time around doing
a little bit better than previously.
I'm Ben Kaye in the first ever international tournament here, being close in the past
2019 is lip sandbox almost made it to Worlds and then 2022 as well almost made it through
or 23, so I almost made it through, but I've just been slightly shy, whereas G2 so often
are represented always here. Well, it's the first time that I stand, but always the MSI
and world's consistently the top team in the LEC.
Yeah, so frequently the representative that everybody knows and everyone well aware, and
I like the interviews that we had with the BMK players that are all talking about
Yeah, we've seen a lot of odds of G2 and we know they have so much international experience,
so it's going to be really fun to go up against them on the international stage.
And we see what they can pull off.
Let's see though, both bottom lane and top lane pushing early for G2.
And Skumann does finish up his full clear a little bit ahead of time.
And since his bot lane is pushing and you've got a recall timer for Diablo,
that Scuttle Crab is looking pretty good for Skumann.
But there will be a knock turn waiting in the brush, so can he get his Q trade?
Nice.
Let's bring out the shield as well, the buff's on his way across, Ebb and Flow,
we've got a healing onto Skuman, TP coming out from Vickla,
Kelen trying to work his way around here as well.
G2 do have control of the room right now, on summer here, meaning they'll force wraps away,
pops, the spell shoot contact away from the bubble without his flash,
Kelen dashes in, but then has to down.
Yeah, I guess the comms there were, hey, let's play on Vickla's teleport,
and when Vickla comes back, let's do this.
But I think it's just a better play from G2,
using their pushing bottom lane and having Nami there early.
There was no hesitation from Schumann.
He was like, okay, you're gonna wait for your teleport
and stare at me.
I EQ at you immediately.
We get your spell shield.
We get your flash with the Nami bubble as well,
the fall from LeBrav.
So G2, they're not playing that game.
They're not waiting for the teleport to come back
for Vickla, they jump on you, get your flash early.
And it's a very small, small lead, but it is the first, like, summoner spell lead of the game.
Hans Summer, though.
I'm taking a poor path back to the bot lane, and he's forced away from his cannon and misses it, minus one for him.
He had already at that level four stayed in the bottom lane when Hans Summer came up for the fight around the Skull of Crabble.
Rob and Kellen, finally bodyguarding their mid laners.
Cap's caught out with the Grand Endure, Cycle Prison not going to land on to anyone,
but Cap's just trying to get this wave in as soon as he can.
Checked out a little bit, as will be Callum.
In the end, Callum should just be able to walk away from this one for the effective recaps.
Trying to trade back-ons of Iclet, dodging away from at the solace now, and Callum does have to use the ground entrance.
Alright, back to farming.
Pretty normally, yeah. I mean that cannon was so off-limits because he had full plasma stacks.
Yeah, I'm too. Do you know step-down?
Diabo was like, please go for it, bro. PLEASE let me see you greed.
I walked the last auto for this plasma stack, but...
Hans is not going to greed, he is not going to go down there.
And they're still very, very close here across the board, except an expected lead in gold for Clear here,
who is going to comment for the extra in lane damage and really trying to punish.
Yeah, not going for the first strike, which is kind of a money printer on the Rumble,
instead deciding that he wants to try and keep both of them below on HP.
We're having a really good game one in the 1v1 as well.
getting about 1,500 gold lead solo into Broken Blade after having a pretty
underwhelming performance so far here at first hand. Both these top laners, I'd say
Broken Blade had his Shen game and now Clearless had his Nile game, but neither
of them have really popped off in the way that they would have wanted. But now
they get to play against each other. Exactly. This is how we skew the statistics, Toby.
Don't have to play against Bin here and C.O. has the farming continues, I mean.
Now we're done with our second full clears for junglers, so you get a decent amount of time for action and
Bottom side, I mean this go to crab is spawned in top side
It would be better action if it was spawning on the bottom side, but we're gonna have the same brush camp for nocturne
So nocturne doing the same brush camp go for the Q trade into fear and bot
The buff is so low, has to use the heal here, as Kelen landed the knockout Valkyrie away from Han's armor as well
And because of that skill, one cannot really contest in the river
of getting caught with that knockout of Kelen
Yeah, I guess, heal for heal traded for bot side caps.
And with the emperor's divide onto Vickler here, just trying to trade in as much as possible.
We're but still out, but caps is low on mana. Looks like he was just trying to get Vickler low
because he wants to try and contest around this top side.
Scuttle skumont on his way across both. The junglers already have the upgraded smite.
20 stacks on their pets. But with clear having pushed in the top side, G2 decide,
well, we can't really contest this.
Yeah, if he could get him a little further, unfortunately for him it was like right next to that wall.
He could have pushed him a little bit further than maybe Skumon could have got there.
I think Skumon was a tiny bit ahead on joining Midlan, and so he was hoping...
Wait, Skumon's gonna wrap around.
So Skumon's gonna wrap around here.
Vickla still has Flash, but he's gonna have to head towards the bottom side.
Skumon now spotted by the minions.
Flash flagging Drag, Cataclysm for the follow-up.
Caps needs to close the gap.
The Roboto won't be enough for Golden Eclipse!
Just spells the death of all the Vickla, even with the TP coming in from Kelen.
He couldn't get there in time.
So good from Scumon. He knows I can flash early for my EQ because if you flash this, you're not getting out of cataclysm, buddy.
And so, unless Vickler was really hovering even further to the bottom side of the lane, which I think he should have, but unless he's doing that then there is no way out of this.
So Scumon, who by the way won an amazing year for Scumon, really, really impressive test and he's keeping it up here at the international play.
So the sky is really the limit for this guy.
Definitely a huge star.
And like I said, the previous play too,
I think that Caps was trying to get Vickla
just a little bit closer to Skumann,
so they could do that play earlier.
But Skumann says, don't worry, bro, it's fine.
If he bumped him on the wall,
I'll just wrap around from the other side
when he's up at the tower.
And so Skumann does not give up on the play
and they still get their first blood.
importantly for Caps as well holding onto his flash
whereas Vickla had to burn his,
which means a future emperor's divide.
a lot trickier for Vickler to work around.
Drake started though for BNK,
he moved the Abel up here and excuse me
for having to go back to clear his topside camps
because he left them full of a gank,
won't be here in time.
So BNK will be able to get their first dragon
of the series after G2A is cured all five in game one,
the Soul and the Elder.
And we'll secure themselves that cloud.
It's Ocean up next.
See what Soul we have at the later one.
Yeah, I mean, it's so hard to get any dragons when your bottom lane gets mega destroyed early.
Oh, yes, but I'm not blaming BNK, they didn't get any dragons, it was just a fun little fact, you know?
Yeah, for sure, and so this time around, able to get one, although Hans and LeBrop here doing decent job in little health trades,
but now once you get to your level 6 spikes for Kaisa and Rakan, now you've got your offensive play available through the river,
the river so it's basically this big play where you have Nocturne Ultimate ready to fire and the
bottom lane just has such quick response that it really deserves some respect and I like what G2
are doing they're like okay fine we're gonna fully ward up all around this dragon preemptively here
to see any sort of approach angles and if they can use their their corky and nami poke in lane
to soften them up and get some good timers for themselves then they're in a pretty good
spot, honestly, but Raptor, there's the Paranoia, Cap's trying to get away, has to use that
flash. I thought he was going to get a bit closer to the tower with the shifting sands,
but couldn't get close enough and so that is his summoner down, nice first Paranoia,
Kallen able to dodge away from the fagging back out of Skuemon. Grubb seemed to be on
the mind of Raptors, he's working his way up towards that topside river. LeBrobb
is here, Kallen just hit level 6, but LeBrobb needs one more meaning to hit 6 himself,
Skuemon still has the cataclysm and the emphasis divides available, working by
looking to pinster from the topside. They'll go for Vickra first. No flash for him. There's the
quickness. Equalizer down as well as Cat's falls first. And now Scumov is way too deep.
Call to the forward. We're coming out. We'll help Scumov get the kill.
LeBrov trying to keep Scumov alive, but he just can't do it. Raptor found the double,
and Claire will find himself some sushi. Three for BNK as they collapse on G2 making the play.
Yeah, G2 had a lot of information, and they even had information that this Rumble
that has been pushing Lane and has priority. It's coming down and so really good play response here from from BNK G2 reaching too far.
Thinking that Vickla is more vulnerable than he actually is over there and trying to go for the all in on him.
But the defense here from BNK and clear especially just wrapping it up here on the bottom side.
I mean you can say oh dang like top winner Div but you know that was the case.
was the case. Rumble is already pushing Rumble in, and you also had vision on Rumble coming
down to this plate because you had wards.
I'm looking for Diablo who's going to use the QL6 shield and the barry eggs north down
on Hunts Summer from the unsealed spell, but caps on his way across Diablo. One fall
to the single poke from a soldier, and so we'll be able to walk away. As you say,
just positioning wise, G2 were never going to have the man advantage. Vickler's
still pushing through mid-nit, and I'm trying to escape patches away from the
Echo Prison.
And even though I think it, oh yeah, Vickler's like real vulnerable because he doesn't
have his flash. Caps didn't have his flash either from the previous Nocturne and Paranoia,
so good stuff for B. F. Caps still doesn't have his flash, fear tether, blast cone pop,
skewmon trying to come across, so the damage onto Caps is big, LeBron, not there in time
for the heal, there's a Paranoia follow up, and B. F. X is absolutely popping up in
the early game, 1.6k gold lead as they bought skewmon to flash out of his own
jungle. Nice job, attacking Caps there next to the red wall, not letting him
get over that buff wall he's unable to get through so the sub all continues nice
explosion of gold lead here that's also going to be extra summoners down no
flash for skewmont here on the Jarvan and we talked about this is what this
BFX composition wanted to do in the draft they wanted to get these early
leads and they wanted to really force the tempo onto g2 here again we see
it happening caps trying to get across he knows he's spotted it's like well
Or maybe I can work my way around. Great jump in by Kallin.
Yeah, great jump by Kallin. Then Katz, then get over the wall, then fear procs, then the ultimate is able to get the Flash as well out of Jarvan as Raptor Flashes over the bubble.
Katz again, still doesn't have the Flash. Schumann is here to try and help out his mid laner.
He was not having a great time this game.
And he will be able to force Raptor away, Cap's just trying to farm up towards that second item, first item complete though, onto Raptor, Kallen coming in,
Golden and Klaus nodding up to kill off Cap's, human trading with Raptor, he's going to flag and drag through, but look at the damage from the radiant body, into the solar snare, into the rebuttal on the tidal wave!
Cap's charmed up, LeBron trying to get there, trying to get the shields out, Acrup is not going to make it cool, and Vodra coming out from Brokeblade, but it's too little too late!
Vickle will eventually fall, but G2 now needs to retreat to Moody Lock 2, and with the equalizer, they get three fried fish on the menu for Claire as he picks up his second BFX, absolutely collapsing on G2.
Yeah, Vickle playing his range pretty well there on Mel, and then when he sees the opportunity, he wants to go for the Flash play, root Flash in with Q damage on top to delete caps.
And then top laners both roaming down means that there's one extra kill for each side
But here's another look at it
He lands the route so you can get your big burst image of your Q and then he uses ult
Kind of early as you say but then he stays at a range of the rest and we're back to some action here
DB with the TPM to play. He doesn't have flash. Cataclysm available for skumonder
Doesn't really want to go through it yet. Raptors on his way across. There's the Paranoia lock and both in. Knock and both up.
But still the flame's better enough to get the kill onto skumonder.
Raptor will find it shut down for Broken Blade.
Raptor try to trade back in here with that experiment at X-Play.
Hands the extra attack speed, but BV flashing away.
Searing charge back in into the bellows breath.
Thought he could perhaps click the heels of the knockdown,
but Raptor will be able to walk away.
Okay, one for one on the top side.
Jungler four top laner down.
There's also teleport though on Clear.
So after Clear gets back, he can teleport up there.
Still Broken Blade gonna knock off a couple of turk plates.
The first two are so easy to get
that broken blade gets paid in a big way here.
Yeah, he was a thousand gold behind
and now only 60 to clear.
Maybe trying to scale up on this tank.
Kellen looking for the knockup.
No real follow up here.
This is portal combat.
And yeah, they're both just fighting over
as much vision as they can get.
Kellen hoping that the ward had gone down
and half left off will lose that one from his inventory.
The only place leading at the moment for G2
is Hans Summer in that bot lane.
Koki Nami into Kaiser Recon
does have an advantageous early game.
and to be expected that huge leads across the rest of the board as the bot looks for the tidal wave
into the bubble onto Kallen, the balcony forward from Hansana
and Kallen just thought he could play an hour with it, give him a bustle there on the Emperor's divide,
stopping the knockback, G2 do find the kill onto Kallen,
caps, Jordan in question was not enough to kill him off with the heel out of LeBron.
Most of support battles over Warves are about whose team is going to come first
And when Vickler was hovering, and Vickler was going to be there first, there was respect from LeBlanc.
He was like, okay, fine. You can kill my ward. I'll back off now.
And then, when my team is coming, you look at the bottom lane, you see Hans coming up,
and Mid lane's back to even.
Kellen does not have the same respect that LeBlanc had for the teams converging,
and nice bubble from LeBlanc to set that one up.
He'd be slightly disappointed that he was the one to pick up the kill.
Nah, that's mine.
He can be happy.
Sure.
Paranoia onto the caps.
He waits for the shifting sands.
There's a quickness as well for the follow-up.
Aquifism not there in time.
Perhaps Caps has already shifted.
He didn't even use it to try and get out.
Had the flash, but it was fed for too long.
And because of that now, BFX will be able to secure their second dragon of the game.
Yeah.
Objective achieved immediately right there.
So, despite the support kill, doesn't mean a whole lot.
Just the gold goes over.
Kevin is back in your jungle warding up anyway while they are taking the dragon, so small
response, of course, you can grab some topside camps there in exchange for this, and it is
only dragon number two, you'd say, very hesitantly, but so it's not like dragon soul point, but
you're already very, very worried for G2 as far as the timeline goes, because are
you going to get time for your Ornn upgrades to come through?
He is level 13, so he's got his own upgrade now and can start handing them out fairly soon.
But also need a little bit more time for Azir and the next dragons, they start to come up pretty quickly here, you know? Time flies!
Only 4 minutes before we're there for the next one and we think we're having a 1.4k lead on this map.
A really good series so far.
Capscour, that has to flash, I think this round of darkness was used by Raptor to avoid the CC.
But again, we see caps getting back out onto the map and then immediately being forced onto the back foot.
Yeah, there's no way you fight over a freaking ripped Herald.
When you're trying to like buy every second of time to save gold, good job G2.
Just get your gold cross map and do not send anybody out into open territory where they can get Nocturne ulted.
Oh, it's weird.
There's the equalizer, Paranoia following up their dive onto the drop, who uses the tidal wedge, still fed.
Plane's been about from right underneath the tower, and he'll just take two immediately!
BFX just absolutely wiping LHE2 in mid.
It's beautiful because BFX said, guess what? Not only can we nocturne ult you in open territory,
we can nocturne ult you between your towers while your laners are split pushing,
Because the Nocturne Ultimate fully goes off, so after it is already dark, they can't teleport anybody in,
and it is easy to finish the tower dive here, the speed with which they pull it off between the two towers.
Even though there was that nice little lock up there, yeah, they're immediately delete two people,
and this is what you get with the full dive comp from Champ Select.
Wondering about it, yeah, Han's gets amulet deleted and the solo laners can't join, they're trying their best to farm up a little bit in the sidelines.
And we talked about the early spikes for BFX. That's exactly what they're utilizing so well here.
Two items completed on Vickler. Clear has his Leandri's and is building up towards his second. You've got two items on Raptor.
They are forcing the tempo onto G2 at every possible moment saying, okay, let's fight, let's fight, let's fight, let's fight.
Telling trying to wrap around behind on some of him above seeing if you can keep him at bay
The rift held charge is going to hit onto the bottom tier one and that will be the tower alongside it the effects now
3000 gold ahead at 19 minutes. Yeah, so good at pushing their leads at snow balling
Taking over enemy territory. We're also during during the take of the tower killing again putting down the deep wards
Here in the jungle you can see and well Bob finds one of them
But you know when you're like retaking your red side after both of your towers have been taken and
Mid and bottom are both gone
There's good
There's a lot of stuff you have to clean to be able to safely retake that territory and it's also how does the broad clean that?
But he's a nami man. This guy is fish
If anyone is waiting for him in this court out emperors divide youth by caps onto Calum because of the possible follow-up
There's the paranoia, they'll dive onto LeBrov again.
TP coming out from Broken Blade, but LeBrov is already down.
And Raptors just able to walk away on summer below half HP.
Call to the 4th blood coming out as G2 looked to see if they can find anything out of this,
but BFX are unwilling to give an inch.
G2 falls back again by BFX.
Yeah, they delete LeBrov and the rest of the map is still there.
Even with the Tallport in from Broken Blade, it's too late.
All the action has already occurred.
He wanted to make something out of his ult. He's like, okay, cool, I hit it.
And my teleport shield, all good.
But the speed with which BFX are pulling off these picks is just too quick.
No response here from G2.
And this is why we were worried for Jamf Select.
100%.
And it's also the willingness just to find one or two picks.
Never going like, oh, we've won this fight.
Let's keep going in a 5v3.
Because that is where sometimes you can make a mistake.
You can give a kill across to the enemy, and that's where they start coming back.
BFX are very willing to say, okay, we've got enough Wicked, we have our two drakes, next one up in 50 seconds time.
You're going to have to fight us around either this one or the soul.
Mountain Soul for us as well is really nice, because you're so far behind that that extra shield is going to make it really hard for you to actually take us down.
Okay, so, Ornn upgrades on caps and skew Mond for G2, so Broken Blade trying to get that value out of the Ornn.
And, you know, it's only a 3k gold lead at the moment.
Only 2,000 gold in the mid lane. Big Mo's a whole item ahead of Caps, man.
I think it's a pretty sizable chunk of change that PFX are ahead.
G22 looks to collapse onto Raptor.
Could have put the Catechism down as well. Raptor doesn't have the Flash.
He's locked in the pit, but PFX are keeping Hunts Summer obey.
There's the equalize down as well. Tidal Wave coming out.
Caps jumping onto Claire who flashes away.
The Empress of Eye doesn't find his mark.
Meanwhile, the mid lane tower still looks.
Yattle has to flash away from the searing charge.
And with the bellows best broken, they should be able to walk out.
Golden Eclipse not enough to take him down so too tanky but BFX in the end will still secure the tier 2 in mid
Yeah, a lot of summoner spells blown in exchange for ultimates here
They actually they did get the at-wings
Skiumon getting caught out here so listen there there for the follow-up and Skiumon thought that all of BFX had just gone to the drape
But BFX willing to have that cake you needed to yeah, again trying to retake your red quadrant
It's so dangerous, if you're playing against Recon and Proto Belt, uh, Mel as well for Vickler with the extra mobility from it.
And the Chovy Proto Belt meta fully upon us. I mean really good engaged obviously with the ultimate from Diablo.
I can always follow that up and so there's plenty of damage.
Dragon number three acquired for BNK and probably Baron as well.
They immediately double TP down with Talon and with clear and they'll start up the Baron.
Don't think G2 really have a way to answer this, it's human still dead now only just sporting.
Like can you really step into this darkness? The answer?
Very resounding no, BFX will secure not only the third drake of the game but also their first Baron.
As at 23 minutes they have this 5000 gold lead and for G2 you're looking at it and you're saying,
How much can we scale? Can we get to maybe three items before the next big fight?
The answer is probably not because you only got four minutes before you need to fight around a mountain soul. Yeah
I think that last sequence it just pushes the game way a bit out of reach
They they made some attempts at the the mid-stage to big people
But BMK avoided all of them, you know rafter was able to defensively knocked her and all wait out the
Catechism he escaped the Abilifax the attempt on mid and
Now, with all of the extra power picked up it's going to be hard to deal with this Baron-empowered Siege,
but G2 they're going to have to draw a line in the sands.
Go for your Ornn Ultimate, Nami combo.
See what you can get.
You've got to be aware of Mel's positioning. Obviously this is a big blocker.
Worry about the reflect.
So Ravado can do a lot of work, quickly two levels up, over caps right now.
On summer try and work his way across from mid lane, there's the Paminoa, E-Gro is a follow up,
and caps is dead before he can even pop this ultimate.
The rest of G2, likely to go pop two, Diablo killer instincts out.
On summer there for the chase, they'll take one.
Clearing out behind enemy lines is Raptor, not tanking up the tower anymore.
Clearing trying to get in with the flames, but a hill go down as well.
G2's so far, found two for only one.
There's three cannon falls.
Raptor needs to get the hell out of here.
Flash four has been skewmon, trying to chase down Vickler.
Raptor running for the hills, Rebolla doesn't block anything,
but the solar snare catches two.
Flag and dragon down goes one.
Skewmon looking for more, can Raptor escape his clutches?
A huge fight for G2.
Skewmon and the chase striker slow.
Dust bring his speed up, might be enough for Skewmon.
We'll have the flag and drag back up in a second.
Skewmon flags and drags away from the tower.
Can't get close enough to keep behind onto the standard.
I think that's all as you wrote BFX over step on the bot lane tier 2.
Yeah, that's one tower too deep for BFX that dive.
They take so much tower damage.
You're going to have Vickla has to flash out.
They're completely separated.
Even though they fully delete caps on the initiation,
they're unable to finish up the rest of G2.
Take a look at this.
So caps, he gets locked up.
Really nice job there.
From Rakan, rumble ultimate and nocturne ultimate.
That's everything.
They get a really good double knockup from both of them.
They buy time and now there's completely split on trying to disengage from the tower
So very good answer here from G2
They fight them off off of this tower dive and trying to go down as much gold as they can
I believe during this replay they've probably got the objective bounty as well of the secondary tower on the bot side of
That's what they won't see Ging. No, I think Diablo got there in time to stop them from taking the tower
Okay, let's see. Okay, they didn't get it. Yeah
So no objective bounty claim, but with all the kill gored they did wipe the objective bannies off the map
They're going down two and a half thousand gold swing in that last fight, but still bfx
Well in the lead. We've got a minute before the next drake. We've got flashes on the Abel
No one else really gonna have their flash on bfx
Huns, caps and LeBron all have theirs alongside broken blade. So bfx whenita do their due diligence around this next objective
Ah, G2 have a good chance at this dragon soul.
With the massive, massive front line that they do have here.
Let's see if they can do it without someone getting picked off on the side.
They're just grouping up as five, broken blade in front.
VNK though. They want to delete backline again.
After looking at paranoia, some discs down from traps.
They're only level 13 paranoia onto LeBron.
Knockup coming out. Rack to falling low.
Cannons are going to the backline of the broad.
Already down caps though, able to go backing with broken blade here.
Rats don't think a trap dog is catching them coming out.
I'm standing still untouched pretty much in the fight.
Scumon almost dies to the gold and the clips and caps doesn't have the damage to kill off clear.
G2 will trade the one for one so far, but it's BFX's jungle that is down.
Yeah, and Scumon can actually just heal off the red buff.
He can grab his own red buff and circle back around.
I mean, they're gonna force it, but look at the Avalon kill.
The other half's half-time's foul-cruise out, caps does have the flash and has the Emperor's Divide
Core to the forecourt available to Brokenblade as well, G2 will turn their attentions away
But Clare gets in behind them, caps with Demi's Divide, is dead where he stands
Clare doing so much work on Summer, unable to join the party, does get a foster reform onto the Abel
And now Brokenblade needs to get out, Skewer getting burned to a crisp by Clare
Flags and drags his way away, BFX still on the chase, Cally starts again
The Abel flashing forward, Core to the forge god! Who are they going for? It's Clare!
The apple prism on him, the rumble will fall,
Bigler in the pit for the base that she gives.
Diablo trying to get in there as well,
the devil on his shoulder,
being outspoken by G2's demons.
A triple vile, but Rapt is back up as he's still
just sold for BFX.
I mean, he's gonna start it out,
but there's so many members of G2 alive.
Hans can still arrive,
they've got the teleport coming in from Broken Blade.
I think that's illegal for Raptor.
Bigler's gonna TP back into the fight as well.
Raptor, looking to see if I have to even just find a smite fight steal, paranoia in, onto the broad.
Raptor gets the kill, Vickle falls away by BB, Raptor able to run away for now,
has the Blastcon 2 to escape, ceiling charge and break the blade, doesn't land the knockup,
the Brittle probably not there in time to stop the Blastcon back by BFX.
Okay, so Raptor's gonna go back to base, Sku-Mond is up now, he just revived, so he can actually get here.
Hans is gonna work down the dragon so that by the time Sku-Mond gets there, he can spite it away,
And G2 have done it! They have defended the Dragon Soul!
They're scaling, baby! Those Orn Upgrades!
He has seers on two items, but really, Hanzama!
Hanzama's the one that was able to clutch this!
Here's another look at it.
Diablo flashes over to go for the kill.
They kill enemy Trumzler.
It is worse because the Soul is there.
Clear had done such a good job with his Soulport in.
That's why they got to this moment.
But the second attempt at the engage...
My opponent actually just coaching everything.
That's so impressive, man.
by him. The rest of G2 getting caught by him just standing right at the edge of those knock-ups.
We have another look at the fight around the drake as well. The problem immediately burst by Racer.
Yeah, and they were trying to delete somebody. Enough damage is done here though with Hans with
double buffs chasing off enemy jungler that they do defend it and now we're starting up Baron
actually. The effects call in G2 to another Barney, to another fight. That was red out
from bottom. They call it 4-chart coming out as well. His cap starts to TP in the
And the refuster will knock up caps with that forge god.
Diablo down to half HP, quickness coming out.
And they try and get them to caps.
But look how far away Kalin is from the rest of the team.
Equalizer down.
But it has to follow up with a paranoia.
Flash away from raptor BFX.
Everything a little bit asynced here.
Desynchronous from them as they went in one by one
and had to dash out G2 still standing relatively healthy.
Again, G2 is skilled for this moment
and they have Nami sustain.
So even with Broken Blade doing the ultimate right in front of Mel,
G2, they can kite back.
And they have extra sustain here.
They can start the Baron.
No quickness up, no paranoid, no equalizer.
G2, now the one setting up on the objective.
Hans Summer on that front line,
needs to be healed up a little bit.
Cannonstone looking for the flank position.
Broccoli calling the soldiers now,
but using the bell address to escape it.
Caps goes in, the end for the final to D.A.B.O.
And Caps finds his man, he'll die for it.
That is the Caps, he's gonna follow up his G2.
Look to take a fight out from here.
Hans Summer has to pop the banner.
Raps are going poppin' stuff, flag a dragon,
Raps up, falls to the final order.
Now Vickla needs to get up, the catalyst is lost, Vickla must survive the two-row radio folly, he'll go gas broke and let it clear, fighting off the top-late battle!
The Forge got his eyes set, the press will be here as G2 follows the ace!
Oh my goodness, these fights are so close there, the both from Vickla at the end, but he's thinking it's taken out just barely.
Alright, let's take another look. So, Vickla's trying to position aggressively. He is melt. He's got his reflect ready.
He wants to do as much post-image as he possibly can, but Kaps sees the angle and he catches Diablo right out of the air.
Deletes him. Really, really huge engage, as you say, from the Emperor of Europe.
Kaps is able to get the clutch at the Baron and then...
And then Vickla, that's so good.
Nami gets the bounce off a broken blade, so the prop is able to answer the post damage there.
In the end, it's just another fight. There's no objective taken off it, the Baron still stands tall.
The gold even between these two teams though as G2 worth 5,000 gold behind earlier on.
Cap's still only level 14 on this Azir, but it feels like he's found his purpose in this game.
And that is to find Diablo175 and still basically won the fight for G2 around that last rate.
The mid tier 1 will be taken by G2, their second tower of the game.
For BFX now you're looking at it and you're saying, okay, teamfights are close.
How do we make them end up in our favor?
Well, you gotta take out Hans. I mean, Hans is building an Infinity Edge on top now too.
Looks like so.
I think he's got it.
There you go, Infinity Edge done! Four item, Han Sama!
And you get to him, Broken Blade, level 18 highest in the game, three items on him.
Giving those masterworks out alongside it. Everyone on G2 has that upgraded item.
Schumann also building tank after the Sundered Sky and the Black Cleaver.
Kandic Rookern, looks like he might be going to a Death's Dance next possibly.
G2 just grouping up his fight.
We've seen this show before.
We've called this tale a million times.
We're not looking for the flank.
Hans has his flash and his barrier is a couple seconds away too, so...
It's gonna be really hard to take out that Korki.
Look out, G2 are positioning.
People on all sides of Hans.
They're circling around him.
Korki in the middle now actually moving up.
He's got the red buff.
So, on this map, dodging to the side of it,
there's an equalizer, only on the Hans Summer Paranoid going in as well.
Caps wants to stop us. Sum this down. Cannon trying to get in with that quickness.
Rancor can still dive forward with that Paranoia, but it's expired now.
G2 walk away. Godin' the Quakes will chunk them out. Caps down to half HP. Healed up by LeBrov.
G2 will give up Prio on the mid lane to walk down here to reset.
They use the Tidal Wave and the Ember to survive, but nothing more.
There's only killing Instance available to BFX.
Yeah, I mean they want to position it on Dragon, but BFX are running now away from the Baron area.
Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, almost taken out,
Kondra's being called as well, that's the cataclysm!
And Diablo feels the rips of an earthquake through him,
as Skiu-Mang bannies him under his ultimate.
BFX now realised they cannot fight against G2.
Now take the Baron and G2 will take control of the game.
Soul is up, Soul is up, broken blades running across desk.
You want my need to get across as well.
Clear has started a TP coming in from Bliqo,
G2 gonna trade the Baron through a soul hunt summer in his way. Yeah, they're trying to bring it down mountain dragon is the takiest one
Now I'm coming up and down supply flashes the big guy he flashes the big guy
Hunch summer by his big guy. Kevin going in with a quickness.
Broke my QB Raptor away through Baron 3 and we'll kill up Hunch summer.
But we're capped here. G2 after damage. Knocked up the react from Broke my Raptor falls.
G2 they take the Baron. They load off BFX and they'll stop the soul.
So often, I criticize Han's summer for not having the killer in season games, for not being like, he's consistent, he's consistently really good,
But he doesn't make the play that wins you the game here. He goes in. He kills a big
They're gonna go behind that but it's just very impressive stuff and once on so far this series
Even here coming off the album. Yeah, I thought this was at what your reference is
It was him on the front lines and he has the confidence because his team is so good in the five-fives
But here we go back into flat toward on the big left
after he had just full sense onto Diablo as well and jumped Diablo down so low that he was the lead itself.
In fact, back huge games for Han Sama and he has a confidence because he's got a very tanky team around him
to be able to do it, to have fully scaled here. So nicely done from G2.
Now marching in with Baron, you can see the Baron-powered cannon minions here. Four of them for Broken Blade.
He's commanding them all to destroy this tower.
is on the the longest fight I have ever seen in my life. He's in the enemy
bottling triper right now but it could pay off. He's on his way across,
Scumon trying to get in near with G2 as well but Kallen's still on the
front. I think Katz has now spotted him. Kallen's on his way,
paranoia out, broken plate. Down to a third AP, there's the wing that says a
charm. There's everything and they'll kill up on Summer.
Kallen with a beautiful engage. Now it's all on Katz to do the damage.
Dragstrike a step up, come on, Fondre coming out as well.
He lost both the carries into the pit, and now finds them all!
The axe will grab them, but the effects sleeping with the fishes as G2, even with their AD carry dead,
are still able to win out the fight.
Hope springs eternal in EU.
whether it's delusion or there is G2 as they go one game away from playoffs in third
stand.
G2 have done it again, two games back to back, huge performances here to be able to weather
the storm.
I will say though, from BFX, you are going to be looking at that tower dive over and
over and really regretting that one and not just waiting for dragon soul they
dive the bot lane secondary tower and they lose all momentum in the game
Enemies, have they lost all momentum in the series now?
All I know is that when things get hard, get harder!
And the tragedy happens!
My men should still come back!
They did the best out of an awful situation.
And before we get into this analysis, I just want to call out various because
20 minutes into the game, things were looking pretty bad and I'm like,
I'm sure they can come back late.
And Vettie said, well, if PSX is not playing, then they won!
Did they not stop playing?
Did they not stop playing? I mean, I'm just saying.
I mean, you're completely right.
In this situation, I love being wrong.
You know what?
Because after the early game, it felt like this game was done.
Raptor was on a tear, man.
He was running through the roof.
He was punishing Capsu. He was just running it down in the early game.
Some of the decisions that G2 was making was absolutely criminal.
And Raptor was there to play each every single time.
confidently he was going to be my player of the game after this. I felt like that they were just
riding off beautiful momentum. They put Vickler in such a commanding position with a massive
goal lead over Caps. Everything was going their way and I was so impressed with how well BFX
had bounced back off an early game like this. Yeah, it was, G2 was all out of sorts. That was
the crazy aspect of this game. Like at all points it felt like Caps, like he couldn't find an
angle towards bot lane. Damn, one of the rocks walked right back mid. He's getting bullied,
Hardcore bullied in the mid lane possibly through Raptor and Kellen. So I was like, I just don't see the angle and much like Kobe mentioned that dive
bot lane
Really got g2 back into this one. I didn't think it was possible even after the dive. I was like, I don't know
it was a
Situation where things got chaotic
But this is the play that we wanted to take because it felt like it was like the closest
It was the actual moment in which g2 finally like equalized the gold and got a cross group
And it was so close and the crazy thing about it was Cap's finally made his presence known in the game.
Finding that pick onto Diablo, securing that initial kill.
The cast was right. That bot lane dive was the...
The momentum shifter.
But it was this fight that really put G2 back in the driver's seat.
They took so much of the gold away, they were able to deny the soul, they would get a good fight.
Like, it was such a chaotic game.
where it still felt so incredibly close.
But after that fight, it just felt like
that every fight was going the way of G2.
Look at the goal graph, look at the damage graph.
Honestly, like for me, showcase is perfectly
what happened in this game because, Raz,
we've said it time and time again,
we've been used to this situation where usually
BFX all the teams thriving in late game chaos
and making those fights happen in the later game.
But G2 here, we forgot what EU is about, I guess.
Oh, true. I forgot at the very beginning.
I didn't really have much faith, but you have to.
The scrapping was very much there.
We talked about yes, the mistakes coming in from fear X. This is where things go right for us.
But also Han Sama is having a series of his life. That Drake fight that we didn't show because
there were way too many fights to be able to showcase to the audience here, but like that
fight where he popped off, he was stable in the early game. He was really the only element of
that team in the early portions of the game that was really keeping it on the rails. But
then he was able to get the early portions of that game lead. It's been a scrap between
these 280 carries. I mean, it's interesting because for me, like, Skiwon was such a consistent pillar for
this team. Yeah. Like, he was the guy that I was keeping my eyes on. And I'm really interested as to how
the Pog vote ends up because it felt like that we were so divided. Just because of the way in which
G2 came back, it felt like that if a single piece didn't quite come together for G2, then
they wouldn't have been able to turn that game around. And they needed some of these mistakes
to happen. It seems that ultimately, Han Summer does win out. But I mean, what an incredible
series of sorry game from so many of the G2 members. It is wild to take a step back and
look at this and see G2 2 and 0 in the series actually.
No, it's a bit of a surprise.
Oh, I got to predict that.
Yeah, lucky.
Okay.
I want to see what the fans think here, actually, on caps.
Oh, they give it to caps!
I mean, he made a lot of magic happen in the late game especially. He's the only
player who played a zero this tournament twice.
I also will just say, audience, we're just going to ignore the first 20 minutes.
Slide down under the rog, oh yeah, we're just gonna forget that happened.
We can make this up, speaks for us.
As you said, Raz, 2-0 for G2 in an elimination series.
Given the way things went against BRG, I did not have that kind of belief in them.
Now, what are we looking at? For the third game, any hopes for BFX?
How do you think things are gonna play out for now on?
Because the momentum is clearly on the LEC side now.
It clearly is. And I felt like it was the first game from Fiorax in the tournament
that was like showcasing a little bit of nerves.
a little bit of nerves and I was like, okay, I'm worried about them. But then as they went
on, they scaled very well. They're the youngest team here at first stand. And so I was like,
I thought they got the nerve right out of them. Now you're in a 0-2 situation, one
loss and you're out of the tournament. That's when the nerves go all the way back up.
That's what we're going to see. If they can show up and if they can show up when
it matters, especially as we said, 2-0 match point 4-2 in this elimination series. Let's
can make that a series when we come back for game three.
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Bounce back from setbacks and drool wings
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Running by the bank, everything is on me
We still running to a jam, wanna take us on now
I been getting to the up, I been getting to the up
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We ain't worried about a bang, everything is on me
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I would be standing here for 8 minutes
Thank you
You're the best Yasuo
I'm not the best Yasuo
Very very best
Yeah
Best you also are on our team.
Guys, I'm getting thrilled.
You should have played like a bird best.
Me and Bibi, I think it's like, it's a big two-player.
You did win the one-win.
I did, I did.
I will prove you guys wrong once again.
Let's see.
I will be looking forward.
Now I want to see Jungle Yasuo, if Skimon beat Broke of Blade into one who won.
But also imagine the Bracken rights for the EU if they beat BNK Phyrex with Jungle Yasuo.
My favorite memories of all time of G2 are when they played Pike in every lane.
And even the coach played Pike.
We're talking about playing Pike and stuff, it's all acute stuff.
So, I mean, let's go round two, bring back 2019 G2 with Yasuo instead of Pike.
I wouldn't mind 2019 G2 as long as we stopped before World's Final, because we could swap
that one out.
You know, that was the problem.
It was too much Pike, more Yasuo needed.
I'll also say, usually it's the LEC class that gets flamed for bringing up 2019 G2.
Kobe, you brought it up this time.
If I get any tweets being like, I can't believe you guys talked about 2019 G2, I am directing
them your way.
The reason I did it is because I know that I have to see you guys all the time.
Super fun opener to the series here though, actually, and it is cool to see that it's
not like, oh my god, we need caps to carry us all the time on international stage.
No, you actually need everyone else to do the carrying.
I think Capstan's had a pretty poor series overall so far.
For BNK, Fyrex, they are now looking down the barrel of a 0-2 score line.
Need to start winning, need to get that reverse sweep,
if they are going to make it through to the next round.
They'll ban out the M-Better and the Ziggs.
Ryzen, Orianna taken away by G2,
who are on the right side of your screen,
but are on the loose side in this game.
Bard will be the final ban from BFX.
The boss part is solid. It's one of those parts where he will land an incredible cosmic binding and then miss the tempered fate
You know that sort of he's really good at times
I was not sold when you said solid and you were making some faces already like well, let me finish
You've got some more flavor text to add after but it's
Honestly though, yeah, I'm really looking forward to this one. Let's see
Let's see what game three what they could cook up and I and I still
What I said at the beginning of the day still remains true where I want I want more than three games
So even though now you're the one you're winning. I actually still want one of three games
So be a facts. Let's go. You will get more than three games because there's a whole of the series
Let through you can see Seattle pick that up immediately
No surprises there one of the best 80 carries at the tournament playing one of you best 80 carries just
in League of Legends right now and we'll see how much pressure we can put down.
Do we get the silver response then? Because that is, we always, okay, we instantly,
and so we're also getting the exact same. We get silver and Alistar. Last time around Niko,
like kind of, there was a self-counter pick Niko into the Alistar, into the headbutt,
and all the defense, and that did not go well, so. Can't be good this time,
Yeah
Looks like it's gonna be Malchi and Jace. Malchi poke comp. Okay, so we got Varus and Jace poke with the Malchi behind it
Try and use long range versus a Sivir comp usually usually bodes well
Yeah, Sivir tends to just want to play front to back generally have a couple of meatballs in front of her
And then slowly advance at your enemy if BFX can keep G2 at arm's length
then they can just poke out and Sion tries to avoid you from keeping him at arm's length generally.
Yeah, if you've got Alstar and Sion engaged,
sped up with Sivir to be able to position for people too, some good answers here.
Sion's also, I always, you know, want somebody to be able to clear away the Malachi Ultimate pathway.
So Sion is very, very good at opening your team up, an avenue to play through a Malachi ult.
So, I like these responses from G2. They've got Alistar and Sion, two of the biggest door-openers.
They love eating the roots. They're happy enough just standing there being rooted for a second.
Cows are herbivores, so they're going to herbivore as well.
He's got a soul furnace, so I don't think he's a herbivore.
If he just collects, he can kill people, just not eat them.
No, no, no. He burns them up in his soul furnace.
So the Gwen band of fun G2 makes sense when you're picking something on top
We could see this J still flex top lane for clear
No, they expect to see it in bitless hands of all we're taking away finally a bfx as well
There's the bomb and G2 something that is good into
Compositions one to engage on you, especially when you have low range mellies like the Alistar and the Sion the fact that
One croc multiple
Incussive blows makes it harder for you to place in fun. Yeah, it's good at punishing Alistar
It's also annoying for Sivir, because you can break all the Sivir stuff, and good ban, definitely a good ban there.
Really funny the final banner from BNK.
We'll see where G2 go. Usually you see a jungle pick here, with leaving mid lane pick 4 last,
but it's possible that we see Capture picking something safe,
and getting Scumon a little bit more impetus to have pressure on the map through the early game,
because this G2 comp isn't a comp that really looks alive in the early game right now.
They want to get to a couple of items at least, before they can take those teamfights.
Yeah, and they did well in the last game getting there.
It did take a little bit of help from the Tower Dive from BFX,
but they got there in the end, so they were able to do it.
They were able to scale.
All right, the Pantheon angle here.
Now, when, of course, poke comps,
you're always trying to hard engage on the poke comps,
so you close the distance
before they get value out of their poke.
You can have Simon Alistar started off,
and Pantheon over the top is guaranteed
you are getting into the back line.
So, I do like this, plus your Pantheon is a really good jungle for almost any mid laner that you want to go to in the current meta.
So I also like that where it should help out Caps, so that hopefully they can set up Caps for success in this game and get him a better start to one of these games.
He was heavily focused in game 2, but overall has had a poor 1st stand-in I think we would have expected from him, mostly because we hold him to a very high stand-in in the LEC.
Like, Caps has been so consistently the king of this region that you kind of expect him to be performing 9 to 10 out of 10 performances every time.
Here, he's been struggling a little bit, but might be going back to an old favourite.
The Silas currently the hover.
I like Silas Pantheon. That's going to put some pressure there on the Syndra.
Low mobility, mid lane, champion.
Even a Galio Pantheon. Usually people look and they're like, oh, is that enough damage?
Yeah, it is. When you're playing versus a Syndra,
Zoe puts up a lot of pressure down as well.
If you can land some of those sleepy trouble bubbles,
see, as Zoe getting brought out by Kat's been a while.
I think since we've seen him crack out this one,
I want to have a quick look
while you talk about what it gives to the battle.
Yeah, I mean, it does give you a potential with bubbles,
you know, around separate angles
and gives you some full damage yourself.
But I mean, it can get punished pretty quickly
by a Malki too. So we'll see how effective it is in lane versus the Syndra. There's a
lot of ways to set up here towards this mid lane. I expect mid lane is one of the more
volatile ones here for both sides. So could be some more repeat visits.
2022 was the last time camps played so we, uh, competitively, yeah, in a pro game.
Yeah, in a pro game. Let's investigate his solo queue accounts quick.
I've only got my phone. I think it's too big to press all those buttons, but 18 and 9 across it all the time, so something is pretty comfortable on all those caps.
All of his win rates on champs tend to be above 60% because he just tends to win more than 60% of his games.
So, looking at the compositions as you said, E&K's beer exit has gone down just hopefully with the man-crouching people, Hans Lenk and G2, they're looking for kind of a double pinch to engage with the Simon.
They have a bit of a poke of their own, in the form of this is Zoe from Katz, but you do feel if BAK-Ferex get ahead in this game, it's going to be really hard for G2 to actually gain trial on towards some of these objectives.
And if if they do get ahead they're probably not going to do a bunch of tower dives
This is a siege, you know you get ahead and siege instead of
tower diving for for bfx this time around
Dodge dodge dodge, okay. He's really well, but yeah, it's it's really big to snowball
You know you have a lot of lanes here with poke damage
So you want to win your lanes as bfx and then you want to group up in siege and
You want to keep getting more and more money off of tower plates, so they want to play with a lot of pressure
Syndra, Jace and Varus are all very good
In those sieges and they've got the Malachi and the Poppy to try and be their blockers for them as well
So user range advantages is going to be key for them
Yeah, Kevin can find some good keepers verdicts as well on the two damage dealers
Maybe three if you count the champion in there
It's going to be hard for G2 even if they do finally engage to actually follow up on it and right now
Now the Act 2 Battle Pass bundle is live. You purchase it, you can unlock the Prestige,
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what it looks like. You can get that Act 2 Battle Pass and get yourself scaling up
towards that Chroma. Alright, and you see the reasons the Sivir is always picked
into the Varus so frequently, direct that way. Diablo is trying to hide away from
way too so it doesn't get the bounce damage on him and just back off a little bit plus the
Varus without a Varus kept on getting some nerfs you know keep on getting nerfs so it's
been taken down quite a few notches.
This is the first pick for us down on most of these games like we don't see it too
often because it is so high presence on that ban.
Let's Raptor Franblos smashing his blue buff is going to work his way up towards the
topside looks like he went razor beats like Raptors into botside clear back up
towards top, puts down a Sackling to spot out if Skimond is looking around mid lane as
a ward as well from Vickler, so BFX making sure that their mid laner is safe through this
early game.
Yeah, a lot of times you want to desync your Raptor camps from enemy Raptor camps too if
you want to go to contest second spawn.
Here we go, sleep for camps.
He'd already used the paddle star so it's purely a sleep to make sure I can push
in this wave and then harass with the paddle star as Vickler has to back away.
And they got their ward on bottom side to protect their pushing, so everybody is chilling at the moment.
Should just be traded Scuttle Crabs here and the Sion into the Jace!
A lot of people prefer just having the safety... Wait a second, no safety here.
Clear looking for the Dock, that gopro is gonna flash early to make sure that that hammer doesn't knock him far enough back for Raptor to follow up.
Raptor will be able to get the topside scuttle.
Skimon is on his way out with Cap's recalling and not having teleport instead of running
the ghost on the Zoe.
I don't think Skimon will get here in time.
Cap in the last game did overtake Shao-Hu for the most assists all time internationally.
1200 in barricade.
Are they gonna trap Skimon?
The Raptor bait here.
Really cool from Raptor and they're actually gonna find him.
Skimon trying to steal away these Raptors.
Raptors on his way across.
It looks like Vick is actually just going back to the lane, realizing there's a blast coming here, but they will delay Scumon, which is important.
Scumon coming back in, Smite comes out from Raptor, shield bolt in from Scumon for a little bit of damage, but even with the Aegis Assault, he's not going to be able to fell that tree.
Raptor just walks away.
I thought they were going to go on a little quicker, because Vickler was going to be there earlier, but the wave, the wave, so can't give up too much value from the wave in mid lane, and I like how Scumon played that.
Just disengage until mid lane is kind of equalized there.
Caps gets back, cats can push, and then he blasts cones over to go kind of re-contest.
Still though, Maokai, Raptor, very happy here.
He's got the ideal first back for your faded ashes, and you can just power clear very
easily now.
Again, remember they rebuffed up Maokai's Q with even more monster damage, and so he
immediately jumped back into the meta and it feels very comfortable and it's
just get double scrap double scrap as well as the caps looking for the
sleepy trouble but scuttly crabs the scraps good not back from clear here
but it's still flashless it sounds like some like British slang like that would
be a you would call someone a scrab yeah I can see that maybe if you don't like
them it doesn't sound nice yeah because it's I mean it's scab is the one I
I mean, you think of someone that walks over the picket line as a scab, right?
And it's Kallin.
I think he used the set-fast presence to get in range of caps.
The cap now has that all-to-all jump, level 6 hit, TP coming from Diablo.
He's running that on the varus, as we still often see.
Look off here to make sure the caps can get the push in.
Now fighting around the first drake of the game.
No level 6-5 of the junglers as of yet,
but it looks like G2 just want to get control of the river more than anything else.
Yeah, it's incredibly important.
The river between mid lane and bottom lane,
We go over this so often, but wait, it allows you all these support ganks and it allows you so many more options for your jungler.
It's just like early game highway, basically.
G2 going to use the time that they have after clearing out those wards and pushing in the bottom lane.
What's the difference?
They're using the fact that Cap's got an ignite off spell thief so he's able to just portal jump forward and ignite Vickler for free.
It means that Vickler really can't stay around. Cap's hanging up a couple of tower shots.
Yabal and Kallen are on their way across.
There's no teller point for Vichla, but Raptor is coming.
I mean, Kallen is low.
Let's have the quarter-jumps.
Skiumon looking for the smite.
Kallen with a slam into the wall onto LeBron.
Skiumon going back in will not get the smite.
Raptor secured it.
There was one HP on that drake.
LeBron just getting away as well, but with the Hs are sold now, timing out.
Skiumon has to flash.
Raptor going in.
Kallen still has to flash away onto Kallen.
Taken out by the hammer smash.
Nature's grasp, Raptor, who leveled up to level six
because of the kill on Kallen.
Summer still finds Wuppa Diablo. We'll put him in the dirt with caps.
BFX take the drake and get two kills out of it.
Oh, Raptor is Khaleed with it, man!
He gets back, he snags the dragon and...
Yeah, I saw one HP also, man!
That was crazy! Snags the dragon.
He also levels up to six.
He flashes over the wall to force this play
and then levels up to six, levels up his ultimate.
But here we go. Kelen starts it out on the wall, so...
G2 are putting all their damage into dragon
while the effects are attacking them.
That's why BFX can actually go for a 3v4 play.
And the raptor says, fine, I will jump for it.
He flashes over, he gets the Q backwards
and because Kelen gets the kill on the caps
and raptor got the assist, he leveled up the six
to fire up his ultimate.
He still gets taken down, but BFX,
they chase down all these kills after stealing the dragon.
So it's just such a big play for them.
Raptor with some good timing on several keys there.
I mean we looked at it and we didn't think they were going to contest at all
We're like, okay, Vickler doesn't have TP, Raptors on the top side of the map
No way that you can test this but it took G2 long enough
that the Raptor was able to run all the way down from his crugs and then contest
Get that level six and win out of the fight. That was important now for DFX
The boss just covering counts in the mid lane to make sure that his Zoe can get the push yet
Yeah, it's one of those things why you can find a lot of angles where you don't just straight look at numbers
It's if someone is dumping all their spells into an objective or a camp
They are super vulnerable.
It's not like a full extra person there when you're evaluating numbers games and who's who actually has it been in so
So many spots, you know getting dumped in and plus caps was pushing in the lane and then so he was like only kind of there
Yeah, and so they got a lot of lead time in the fights
Which resulted in extra health bars
But the key is the flash over from Raptor to get the double cue there and separate caps back over
towards Kellen and then Cap's watching in there and you know pick it up it was all
nice to play from BFX which bodes well for me and my hope for more than just a three game series.
And BFX off to a strong early start say leads in top and jungle so Clare and Raps about 300 gold
apiece there Kellen as well because he picked up the kill on Cap as a 400 gold lead over Lebron
on this Alistair. Cap's looking to see if trouble bubble can't land it. Raps just walking through
made down towards his bottom site camp.
Skiumont could look for a fight on top of a long slot coming out.
Flash away from clear.
Grandstuff will be in use on the bot side as they go for Kevin.
But the chain of corruption is going to land on the Skiumont.
Knock up from the bot.
He's tanging the tower with the unstoppable force as well.
Should be tanky enough.
And the drop will be able to walk away with sub 50 HP.
Diablo trying to trade back in, but can't get close enough.
Perhaps unable to help out.
Tinker potions, kids.
LeBravir calculating tanks up exactly enough with the Alistar
ult and the potions ticking, even with Diablo lending his ulti there on a
skumon upon arrival of the Pantheon. Since Leblanc is doing a good job taking
tower aggro, it didn't matter. And clear, lost his flash, Brockelblade gets his tower
plate money and again, the scion here provides so much value frontline for
later on. Let's take another look at them starting it out though. Leblanc goes for it, headbutt
under tower, pots his ulti, stays in tower range, is key there, keeps on taking,
How long has the rest of them to walk on out?
Absolutely good job of keeping Raptor and Vickler pinned towards the mid lane as well,
kind of cut them off, even though they would have been able to kill him off if he stepped
too far forward, meant that they couldn't react quickly enough to the bot side play.
Gold now even, between the two teams, still the objective lead for BFX with those three
grubs and the dragon, and Leeds still for Kallen and Picler, but Caps has the
advantage for the, I'm not the first time this series, but it's been rare
that we've actually seen him come out of the laning phase with an advantage at all. He's
been pretty well handled by Vickler overall.
I'm curious to see how the BFX Siege looks in the next few minutes here are going to tell a lot.
You have Maokai with completed Lingandries, so super nice for the sapling. Spam through the brushes,
but they really got to take advantage of their poke damage.
Again, looking for one item completion first for most of them, but good job hovering around mid lane first for Raptor is going to make sure that Vickla has a lot of safety to work with here, and can try and push in and make use of a lot of that poke while taking away some jungle value too, but the Jace isn't going to be as effective there with the poke.
Yeah, and especially with Broken Blade being relatively tanky already.
Great up there, yeah.
He'd be doing great.
510 stacks for him.
Second Drake is coming out, the Raps are waiting in.
Rambles smash, Spear goes wide from Scumond.
Lots of will, and the scan of the week won't do too much to him.
Through that age as assault, Sleepy Trouble Bubble does land,
but Kallen and Raps are standing in the way.
Does anyone from G2 clear?
Down to half HP again as Broken Blade with that soul furnace in the world, the Slayer.
Chipping away at this Jace who doesn't have teleport but it does so the fight starts around this straight G2 can't have a man
Abortage flash forward onto Kallen step up front knockback as well. There's the trample stun
There's the knockback sleepy trouble bubble interrupts the keepers verdict and Kallen
Taken out by G2
Quick on the trigger finger there from LeBron
Nice engage again the engages are gonna be key here for G2
To jump on BFX before they can get any poke value
Behind Tp behind.
Yeah, there's a lot more.
That does have Flash.
There's the chain of corruption going down as a Hunts summer.
Grand Staffel as well as a chase onto Raptor.
Unstoppable Luntz on to the trees going down.
G2 are yawning Timber.
And they look for more.
Diablo has to flash away.
Skim on tank of the tower.
Broken Blade can do so too.
Diablo's going to feel the pain of the axe and the ricochets out from Hunts summer.
Kellan with a good keepers verdict knocked up.
But Broken Blade still flashes away and estates.
G2 have turned the tables.
Five and two now with a 1k gold lead.
Yep, they had teleport advantage, so they used that teleport advantage.
No, okay.
Yeah, I mean, Gunn was trying to get it.
He did a tower there and, you know, tried to keep sight of it.
Oh.
Alright, fight.
Fight!
It turned into, hey, we've got a good teleport angle here.
So in comes Broken Blade, Sion Ultimate to make sure they can kill Raptor.
Then they can take up again, even a little brawler with a little health, he's Alistar.
So he uses Heal for Skuwons, he uses his own ult to take in himself,
and then even with the heated up tower shots, still not able to take down Broken Blade.
He had his flash and G2 auto-loved him.
Because the poke comp is not getting ahead.
The poke comp is not getting any leverage early.
In fact, they're behind, so how do you group up and use your siege effectively when G2 can now just
spam these Engages on you?
LeBrab is playing great here on the All-Star, as is the rest of the team.
And the important thing is Gokran.
Skimon has about a 500 gold lead.
Clear trying to trade onto Broken Blade here.
How's that Black Cleaver completed for Broken Blade able to walk away?
Went to Sunfire, Kate.
And Skimon's had a great series overall.
We sung his praises early on in the series.
but deserves it once again, the Pantheon with the Sunderskite completed
is going to have a very nice time jumping in to this BFX comp
and kind of ripping them apart.
So BFX, they're like, hey, we got to leverage something here.
So the extra numbers on top side maybe, now they've been spotted though,
so G2 defenses can try and get there.
Hansen LeBron on the area.
That's trying to clear out the way.
Katz splashes away from the knockback.
with a mask and a follow-in load. Sleepy-Jobbo does get the sleep.
The force of one scat of the week not going to connect, and now G2 are collapsing themselves.
What do BMX have left in the tank to fight against this big, let's hands up the tower,
and Han Summer opens up the big guns.
Caps takes the kill. That's one. They'll look for two, and Raptor's pulled out by Caps and the Rob.
Skiwon gets the third Raptor in the end. Delay here, but we'll still die.
Caps on a rampage! He's come alive in Game 3.
Another 3-0, Bannock?
That's just so boring!
Yeah, at this tournament! Oh my goodness!
G2 setting up the 3-0!
It looks like, because, yeah, I mean, they're going after caps, but they had already been alerted.
You know, G2 already had defenses in the area, and the effects, no, we have to make this play quick.
They know they have to make it quick because they saw the Alistar and the Silver
Killing the control ward, walking over, and since Caps does a very good job of evading that, you know, attempt at a tower dive with his way to the top.
Diablo, healed up, but Stuman still puts the spear through his spine.
Callum will follow him in a body bag, as G2 are unrelenting here.
3k gold, now their lead, and BFX seem all out of words.
All out of sorts.
And G2 now, with the advantage, with the composition playing into this poke comp, where you are
getting tankier, it's going to be so hard for the LCK number 2 seed to do much.
Yeah, because it's so easy to engage on them and they don't have a lead to whittle you
down or threaten much.
So G2, again, Pantheon in with a LeBron flank as well.
Didn't actually even need LeBron that much, it's mostly Scumando double kill
here.
The Mantheon is coming in and he's lit and buff
You can start the celebration dances early because you can't do it again is they don't count your chickens before the hatch sort of situation
I've seen the effects lose a game from a greater goal captain this
Already this series big luck trying to chase caps outboards of will
Well, not enough damage, but with the auto in the end, he will take it.
Let's just shut down over to Vickler.
You told me to dance in celebration, and then immediately Vickler gets a kill.
Kirby, what you got to say to yourself?
Haha.
I think you can still dance though.
I mean, the reason that I'm pretty confident is because of the team comps.
But yeah, you know what?
Let's play that game.
Let's keep our minds open here, VFX, see what they can do to get back into this.
You know, killing caps and getting top tower is a nice step for them.
Little bit of gold there. You know top down that lead a little bit.
Definitely helps out.
Climacy, you can step forward here.
The Brog, spot him out with the Skryas Bloom.
Next straight up in 20 seconds, Simon.
It's a chem solo this game.
Not one of the most important or impactful, but still something that G2 will want to keep
ticking over if they can with this lead.
Simon on his way to his infinity edge.
Matched in terms of itemization by the owl.
The Lysdallity item is slightly cheaper, generally, than the sort of crick-based counterparts.
Yep. Alright, VFX. Now they want to try and get their poke value. They get there early, they have their wards down,
they can throw out some long range before the G2 engage comes, saplings in all the brushes.
There's a blast gun full of profit, looking to get into the back of the pit.
VFX begins the back away, they're felled down as well. The Drake resets.
Rob is in that pit, right?
So Force back into his own blue side jungle.
Clear trying to come in from the bottom side.
Diablo and Vickler in mid.
Not really close enough to the team.
There's the Rift Elf charging forward.
And it looks like the VFX just say, OK, you've invested into this.
You use the TP, you use the Rift Elf.
We'll let you take the drake, and instead, we'll just
look for a bit of pressure in that mid lane.
Yeah, I mean, they scatter and give up position.
And I think they're just going to have to give up a lot
as this game progresses.
I mean, top wave.
Look at that. G2 had already prepped top wave, so BFX was there.
Oh, Klay going for the flash, knockback.
Kallen now for the follow-up with an anxious crossbow.
Caps is down, they come back with a keep his vertical,
drop the new target here.
As BFX continues to collapse on the couch,
Broken Blade realizing he can't really help
with the drop right now.
He'll flash, knockback from Kallen doesn't get the stun,
but the piercing arrow finds his mark.
As the roast beef on the menu now for BFX.
Okay, they're doing it now.
BFX starting to come back, getting a bunch of gold.
They can get the tower plates afterwards.
Okay, they get one, one tower plate,
and they're gonna call it at that.
Nice little rebuttal though against that wall.
Go for the engage, grab some kills for themselves, BFX.
They definitely need that money.
And two items here done for Clear,
fully transformed Muramana for the Jace.
I don't need to use Clear's flash to get that.
Caps didn't flash in response, I have another look at it.
Clear's been trying to do this a couple of times.
Broke the blade earlier this game.
It's a nice knockback into Kellen's follow up.
beautiful stuff. Rock'n'Bat against the wall, they get the combo there, and then even with LeBrov ultimate on, they can put so much damage into him while he's walking away.
Even without that hitting, Diablo's able to get this client to finish up the extra kill and get Atura placed to fund their extra damage.
And they certainly need it here.
LeBlanc kinda poke around inside the jungle, see some enemy movements, but a defense from
BFX to be able to clear it back out.
And Gold will be cut to 1.5k.
And there's moments like that that can get BFX back into the game.
G2 will still be comfortable enough with the spot they're in, two items on caps
and on Han's summer with the Infinity Edge Stormraiser Ludens and Rocket Belt complete.
You can see the poke coming out with the piercing arrows and with the accelerated shot blast.
Cleo has two items of his own, Astor's Raptor.
Brotherless Curse, we'll start helping Vickler in these battles.
Alright, here comes the Siege, the BFX Siege.
How much poke can they land? How many snipes can they get?
Sion, keep an eye on Sion there. Whenever Broken Blade has his ulti,
threatening to use it through the river here, but when BFX back off, he says fine.
I'll just go back to your tower. I will get my value there.
Minions are dying to the tower and tower plates are going down in favor of G2.
Clear will show on the bot lane. Diablo chunked out to about 2.3 HP.
You might have the Grand Starfall as well, which might be a technique a little letal cautious.
You overstep immediately. You have a Pantheon flying above your heads and then having a flank position on you.
You can turn on him depending on what you use, but for the moment G2 able to hold off this siege.
Caps was working his way down towards the bottom lane, he's been spotted on that
fast side alteration ward, now cleared out, Vickler with some good damage.
So for the moment G2 still holding strong in the melee, BFXI able to break that,
Clear able to walk away, Grand Sartle coming in as well.
Scumon still diving the tower, Deathmage and Smash will get the knockup and
Clear healthy for a long time here, they drop the aggro, dodges the spear,
Brokenblade still chasing, World Flaps forward, get the kill with the self-firmness,
but Kallin's on his way to try and make this a one-for-one.
He should be able to do so. Diablo coming across from the side.
The tower did fall. Skiyuan couldn't rejoin, but he's only at half-experience.
Chain of corruption news. Meanwhile in the mid lane, we've seen Han-Sala taking down the tower.
Broken Blade will pay for the die with his life.
The G2 will take a one-for-one and two turrets as well.
Yeah, I think it could have been a bit cleaner for G2, but, you know, as you say,
they still also get the turret on top of getting the kill here and the effects getting...
a little bit back for themselves, taking down the side.
Yeah, Khan's picking up the mid lane tower as well, opens up the map a little more for G2,
next drake up at a minute's time.
Let's see if BFX decides to play around.
Have another look at this dive, they know clear doesn't have the flash and they go for it,
but I think it's just a bit tankier than they expect.
Well, I was thinking that Qmon would just stay in until the next Q, his next Q is
available and just finish it, but they were worried about a quick collapse.
Yeah, I think so too.
is like, all right, I'm dropping power aggro,
and then broken blade, you can just go finish it.
You know, if they kill you, then you hunt zombie form anyway.
So, you'll get value of kill, plus probably a minion wave,
and we got the tower.
So, you know, it's still good.
Yeah, still very good.
That is 3000 gold now, the lead 4G2 PFX.
Well, I'm truly on the ropes.
You can see me trying to find these pigs.
They're setting up using Raptor's saplings
to get a little bit more vision,
get a little bit of poke.
They're not really doing too much against that shield from Broken Blade.
Clear trying to take the bot lane tower, we'll be able to get that turret.
Second of the game for BFX.
Decimating the smash out from Broken Blade, not enough.
Vickler hanging off to the side to see perhaps if someone oversteps from G2.
Clear flanking as well as Caps jumps away.
Decimating the smash again from Broken Blade.
Little bits of progar landing from BFX, but it's not enough for now
as BB's still very tanky on that front line.
Caps going in, doesn't land a sleepy trouble bubble.
Dragon is up on the map. Clear still looking for a flank of his own.
Schumann's got to try and catch out.
Oh!
Let me know if he does a broken bait.
Hatch goes in, stunned up, Vickler looks for the last one with the keeper's verdict.
The lock is shoot enough to keep G2 healthy and with a sleepy trouble bubble.
Landing on Zavikler, the only power in the flash enough to keep him alive for now,
but Vickler's so low, broken bait getting choked out by clear.
Raptor at half HP, Diablo, they would have dodged away from the bubble himself.
Raptor in the pit with Schumann on top of him,
broke my healing up, Diablo steps forward,
and Han Solo sends him back to the mountain.
Vickler will join his AD carry and the rest of the effects.
A downwell fanboy!
Jeez, who take four?
And now take the Drake alongside it!
I love it! No hesitation from G2 members.
Flashes just blown for the Engages.
Over the wall. Raptor here with his...
But he's been spotted now.
He's with his fellow countrymen in the Raptors.
But yeah, he's gonna die.
The Baron has been begun by G2.
LeBron gets the knockup.
The Raptor goes down.
The Count gets it.
Yeah. And G2 will get the battle alongside.
Alright, now are you with me?
I'm not. Like, yes.
Ha ha ha ha!
Okay, so anyway, we're gonna take a look at the Engages,
because it's all about the Engages over the top.
Good poke damage, honestly, from the effects, but
look at when LeBrog and HanSama pop the Sivir Ultimate,
and then both just flash at them.
They almost kill Vigla.
He's able to scatter the weak and flash away himself,
but Broken Blade down there on the other side
was taking up everything so easily
that now skewmont with the health advantage gets to jump in they get the early territory and then
leprop again another engage on the diablo this time he's able to get the kill and everybody comes
through to finish it off the full five on five there with me uh yeah i think they've just
broken this uh like the the poke up is just uh it's so hard to pull off when you don't get
early legion could like siege angles ahead of time so now they don't have a lot of territory to work with they're still going to try though
They actually tell Port Jace to split push on top side to get some money there
But G2 with Baron buff they honestly don't care about that. Yeah, just ignore the Jace. All right use Baron buff siege up force plays
It's not like the rest of your team actually has a huge amount of damage right now
You can see it was wrapped up. He did the most damage in that last fight for them
He is at two items, but he's pretty squishy on this tree and Vigla is matching mid lane right now clear
trying to get some gold, trying to get that objective bounty in his pocket. His G2 take down the tier 2 in the bottom side,
but caps us on his way out. Clear has backed away. I see there's only one play remaining on that tower.
It might be shortly to fall. Looks like it survives for now. Clear running away because Skuemon was also on his way across towards that top quadrant.
The Grand Starfall would have spelt Clear's death.
Alright. Objective bunnies are up at the very least for the FX.
It's always such a like, ah, we have something to hope for, but why are those objective bounties
up because the game feels so bad for us?
Yeah, 7000 dollars behind.
That we're that far behind.
Triple Drake's is not a promising position at all for BFX right now.
Three items on Hans Summer as well.
Three have just been completed on Diablo.
He's got the Surreal to his grudge, but he hasn't had the series that I expected
from him.
And G2 has done a really good job of shutting down Diablo and he's had some good moments.
And Hans is at it.
This has had a better series of the 280p which coming in, I would have been entirely shocked.
The Abel has been neutered by G2 as you see the tier 2 and the topside being taken down
as well.
It's put into its foundations and now BFX trying to defend as four clears still in mid.
G2 pushing in, have one and a half minions left on this Baron buff on this push.
The Pogos from BFX just landed a little bit onto Lebron and onto Broken Blade
that really more chip damage than anything else.
Nothing too substantial.
Also Will in the scout of the week.
On to Han's summer, won't be enough to get the stun,
Diablo, origin to the side of the paddle.
Star is the third once again comes across.
Broken Blade very happy just to tank this up
with a chain of corruption.
There's a knockback from the scout of the week.
Broken Blade just tanks the tower down to half HP.
Sure, he doesn't really care too much.
Seven seconds left on this Baron push.
Two inhibitor towers down to about half HP a piece.
In the end, BFX have held on to their inhaling.
is the Baron expires. Then they're trying to defend another minion wave here. As you
say the Baron expiring means that minion wave is a lot easier to deal with and they still
have defensive poke plenty of wave clear with all this range so they do at least weather
that storm for now. Flash forward onto Hunts Summer he pops the on the hunt immediately.
Vickler on the chase. Good vision there from BFX to spot Hunts Summer recalling
little greedily yeah I mean and honestly at that moment you're you're just like
all right we we gotta get some we have to get a crazy play right so just flash
for plays whatever let's let's try even though you only get several ultimate
out you're like oh well maybe he's like slow and reacting or something and
maybe we can get a dream scenario it's been six years Kobe since G2 lost 3-0
the Korean team against Gen.G who are now the Titans of the tournament, the Titans of
the world.
Ah yeah, nice.
And now with Drake up G2 we're looking to put the final nail into the coffin for PFX.
Down step forward, they're trying to put a little bit of close down, both of them
played there with the decimating smash as well, still 3 seconds before that chem
soul dragon does spawn in.
Yeah, it's huge man, he's a beginner.
Tell bar 223 stacks.
And his clear is being marked by LeBron. Nature's gone out onto Brodenblade.
Chain of corruption there for the follow-up with Broken Blight.
This is all of BFX just hitting onto him to keep his body cancelled.
On several onslaughts coming out as well. Destiny is about to land.
Kaden having to flash out.
Will use the lock here but it doesn't save you.
LeBron flashes in.
Looking for Racer who used the tweezers to advance, trying to escape.
Bansalvo coming forward as well.
Well goes for Diablo. He flashes away from his base.
And he's put to sleep. Night, night!
G2 are Diavel's nightmares as clearance falls down towards the bottom side.
Hunts Summer on the hunt not only for the kill, but for the big 3-0.
Bickler trying to escape the unleashed power has nothing behind it.
Caps will kill the enemy mid. Only Raptor will stand alive.
G2 have done it! 3-0 here over BFX at first stand.
Amazing stuff from them, what a series, especially Hansa, my impressive stuff.
G2 marching down mid, all five alive, broken right here with the mouse special to top it off,
the old fine raptor who goes extinct like the Velociraptors of old.
G2, they have lived in the delusion and now they have demolished the BFX.
There is hope for EU, euphoria reign supreme, A3-0, 4G2.
Alright, what do you think of the player of the series, Skiuman or Hans?
I think I'm going to go Hans because he surpassed my expectations by so much.
Skiuman also really good series from him. I mean a lot of the team.
Definitely a rough one from Caps, but good Zoe game from him in the end, and G2 bouncing back, smiles on their faces, this has got to do so much for the confidence.
Huge round for the confidence of G2, but also for the confidence of Europe, I think.
Like it coming into this tournament getting 3-0ed by BLG, beating Team Secret Wales, yes, but if they've been 3-0ed here as well, it doesn't split you out.
For good said for the rest of the year G2 once again
standing tall as the European representatives for BFX
disappointment today. I think they've had some really strong signs of life there
but their run through the LCK plus was exceptional
but today they just didn't really come alive the way you expected them to.
Yeah definitely not, definitely back to the drawing bar. Of course
Diablo is very young this guy is a very bright future
so don't hold this series too harshly against them.
I mean, this guy's 18 years old, right?
So he's picked up two Pensacills here at first down.
And there's a lot of hope for BNK, PIRX, but today was not their day.
And as they weren't able to close things out against G2,
who just had really good reads, really good drafts,
played to their draft conditions really well as well.
Yeah, I liked it. A lot of good job recognizing
things that BFX were doing in game two
and reacting very quickly and then building their own game plans to counter it.
And so, yeah, this makes me really excited here
here for the rest of the day also, uh huh.
I'm sure, yeah, you can be excited.
There's more for the rest of the day.
You've got like 40 minutes of excitement like Kovie.
We'll see what happens.
It's very possible.
I still want more games, though.
Yes, I can agree with that.
I think the 3-0s are a little bit one-sided at times.
You can see Broken Blade getting on stage, getting ready for his interview.
It'd be good to hear from him.
There have been some changes with the team over the years.
I think Broken Blade used to be much more of a leader in the team, and now
that's been pushed more onto Sku-Mond as they're building him up as the guy
that controls what the team wants to do and so Broken Blade's had some more
opportunities to be a bit more selfish and it'll be really interesting to hear
about how he feels that's developing over these months.
Well, I'll ask him about the Yastro.
Is he actually just the third best Yastro?
Yeah, the entire team trolling him.
It looks like they're about ready but we'll see fairly shortly here and check in with BB.
Yeah
Yeah, I think it's about in the horizon post an interview
We said five seconds we did that way to really office
Let's talk a little bit in this post here I'm here with broken blade my first question for him will be about good
I think first we need to be honest no one expected this
So, I'm going to ask him a little bit about that, so first of all, congratulations.
I need to be very honest here, we expected it to be a more disputed series,
and what about you, do you expect this 3-0 in this game?
To be honest, we expected it to be a bit more bloody today.
I was also surprised it was a 3-0, but I think we played extremely well in every game.
So I'm very, very happy, I think we found a lot of good angles,
a lot of good angles, especially in the second game we came back from a very bad position,
so I'm very happy with today.
Well, he said that they expected it to be a more bloodthirsty game, but that they
were also surprised with this 3-0, but he also thinks that they played very well in
all the games.
This was differential, removing the game 2 that was a bit complicated, and my next
question is exactly about this game 2, how they had a composition there that
needed a little more time of patience, so I want to understand from him how
that was the communication in the game, but they managed to secure it until that moment.
So talking about Game 2 now was the most difficult game, I think.
And Fear X dominated the early game and you have a composition draft that needs more time, more patience.
How was the communication between all of you guys in the game for you to stay calm and get going?
I mean, when I play Ornn, I usually know when the game is good.
And when I was even in CS and I had a couple of kills, I knew the game was going to be good.
I was really really thanking this game and I told my team guys I will give you items, don't worry, and at some point which is I'll scale them.
I had a bit of trouble because of the mel, she was really holding her W, so I couldn't engage in the fights, but I just didn't press U so she kind of was just looking at me and I was looking at her.
So that was funny.
Well, he said that in relation to Mel, which was a little more difficult to deal with, because of his WL use, etc.
He knew that he could, but it was difficult, but he had a lot of confidence in his Orn, he told the players that he could buff all of them with the items he was improving.
So everything was going to work out, he trusted a lot in the game, and now to finish, I'm going to ask a little about their next confrontation, which is against Gen.D.
It's pointed out as the best team in the championship, I want to know if he also sees that and how he sees this next series.
So your next game is against Gen.G, the team that has been seen as the strongest in the championship.
Do you agree with that, and how do you see this next match?
I think, obviously, I think Gen.G is strong.
But for us, we really want to go back already and just think about how we can beat them next.
I think they are very different to, things like BLG, I think they are a little bit less explosive and they play more control.
control so for us it's going to be important to how to how to disrupt that
basically so it's gonna be fun serious I'm excited for it
well he said that he thinks it's going to be a fun game he knows that
differently from BLG and some other teams they need to be a little more
careful because it's a team that is more controlling more careful but he's
very anxious that he thinks it's going to be a very fun game
thank you very much for your congratulations
Guys, that's it!
The G2 is coming from PX for 3-0, here in the first place.
start dropping like some of the lessons and we go and say, oh wait, these things are very
important, right? And we were reviewing very hard last yesterday and we were screaming as well and
just putting more emphasis on certain topics that is just very crucial when we play against
strong teams like back today and also against, of course, I mean honestly everyone here at first
time, right? So just a lot of reviewing and making sure that we are more on the same page on
those things. I'm super curious about how you find the format because I mean in the LEC it's
it's like week to week you're playing games and games,
whereas here it just feels mega intense,
specifies back to back,
you immediately have to play Gen.G tomorrow,
whereas they've had a day to prep.
How do you find this environment and how are you slotting in
with the high-paced nature of just so many series?
I mean, it can definitely be a little bit tough
to prep all the games,
but honestly, I think this might be one of my,
my favorite international tournaments.
I think, I mean, obviously worlds will always be worlds,
but I think just so early on coming in
and playing against like all these insane teams
and back to back to back
and you really need to just be on point
and you get so many, much like data points as well
to improve on so I think this is like an awesome tournament for us.
You've been in these situations so frequently in your career,
whether the doubt is at a peak you seem to like perform,
you guys as a team perform, where does that tend to come from?
Like when the spotlight is shining brightest?
Thank you, I mean I think definitely we just want to show
that we're better than we think in Spelty because I think we played very poorly
and I played very poorly as well and I think it was like
against just some things that we know about you know,
But we have this meme in our team that we are goldfish on science because we just keep forgetting the things
And then we're like oh wait these things are very important and we need to just drill it into us
And and yeah, coach staff was also just drilling us yesterday and I mean today it helped us
Did you know it's been six years since G2 lost Rio to Korean team
So
Yeah, you can only reignite to the whole.
Especially if you're out of 2 or 8 years ahead.
You've reignited the faith for us, so thank you for that, Kat.
Yeah, and in that sense, we lose to OPL.
We're against LCK again on BlueSleeves,
so it's going to be a walk in the park against LCK, right?
Definitely, I think people will have some doubts on us.
I think that's fair, right?
Genji has been looking unsolvable, but that's also where we shine,
so let's see if we can outshine them.
One thing that you have to be careful about against Genji.
There's a lot of them against you, but if you had to name one.
Probably, I think the early game around it has been not the most consistent, I have definitely had some bad performances and I know Chou is obviously very consistently playing well and I think if we can get through that, it should be a good series.
Got it, got it, Cap. Thank you so much for joining us today. Again, congrats on taking down BA, Fx and we'll see Cap's and the rest of G2 against RNG as we said.
We're gonna take a short break and we'll be back for the second series of the day JDG against lion state teams
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Thank you very much, I'm here with Inspired, after the GNG series
Tough series, obviously
How are you doing, how are you and the team doing mentally after the series knowing you have another one tomorrow?
I think we are doing fine, I mean at least I'm doing fine
We didn't really talk, we didn't really have like a team talk yet
Doing fine, I'm just a bit sad about how we approach game 2
because it felt during the game that we were really far behind,
but then after I mean Sandmates few plays,
I actually think we were in a really good position,
so we shouldn't have been that rushed.
And yeah, I think we should have just chilled out a bit more in game two,
because I think they played a bit, they made some really cocky plays,
and they gave us a way back into the game.
And yeah, I'm just sad how we used that advantage that we got.
In game one and three, I think they were just better.
We were trying to do stuff, but I think they were just better.
Yeah, game 2 gave us a little bit of hope because you had the goal lead in 20 minutes.
Yeah, I mean they did have a good situation, but then they got a bit cocky and we punished the mistake well.
And I think if we just slow down or we just realize in game that we are actually in a good position,
maybe the game would be more competitive, but I think we still had that mindset that we are losing and we need to do something.
Which is kind of hard to get rid of, especially after how the early game went.
It felt like we are losing topside and then we couldn't really do anything else anywhere.
like the Galio was just hovering with good CS and felt like the game was going to get harder and harder,
but I think we need to work on that, I guess, that even when you play against a stronger team,
we need to realize faster and better that we're in a fine spot so we can actually play the game.
Yeah, I heard you talking about the plan against Gen.G, which is trying at least get to post-50
minutes to teamfights where the game is more volatile, which is always a tough discussion
when you're playing against a team like Gen.G, who's so good at everything because they
Dominating Lane, they're really good in team fights.
And there's always the question of, do you just pick all early game
in hopes that you can get a lead and have a way to play?
Or do you just try and win the team fight later?
I thought game one, personally, you
felt pretty far behind with that one fight around 16, 17 minutes.
If it went a little bit better, that game actually
would have been playable.
So hard to play against Genji, but I'm wondering,
have you updated your thoughts on how you would best
approach Genji, like if you were to be able to play in three more times?
I think we would do something similar. I think Game 1, I mean, I think we started well, we got Orianna flash,
but then our bot lane just decided to, like, disrespect, I guess, they lost double flash and then died while cancelling recall.
So after MF recalled on BF, and we had like, attack speed item on Ash, and our Scylas already tipped it back,
and I think it was like on 70% health, I just thought that our best case is to fight while we are still healthy,
Then wait for Orianna to lane for like two more waves because I think if she just lanes two more waves and Silas gets to the point
Where he's like 40 50%
I think we can't start the fight anymore and then we will start getting bot prior because the item disadvantage was pretty big and
Topside was obviously playing ranked on Cassante. So the game I feel like he's not gonna go too well
So yeah, I think we did fine. I think the gank mid. I think maybe we can play a bit better
Maybe there is a chance we trade one for one and after that we knew that
But in mid-game, where I still managed to hit level 10 to level 10, I remember saying
that we are going to slowly start falling behind, so when I'm even leveled I just try
to fight and maybe we can win.
I think with that teamfight went well, but after that we didn't really get anything
going for us.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
I'm thinking towards the series tomorrow.
You're going to play the winner.
By the time they air this interview, we'll know who wins, JDG loud.
I would imagine JDG pretty heavily favored.
Yeah, it would matter.
How would you approach that series without giving too much away, more from a mentality
standpoint for the team?
Winning that means you get to continue in the tournament?
I mean, I don't think it's like, it's, I think we're going to play similar to how
we wanted to play against Genji, but I think JDG is just weaker than just like they're
not going to be as oppressive in lanes, I would assume.
So I think there's still a really strong team.
So we have to have a good plan and how we want to execute the game, but I
I think it's all gonna come down to the teamfights, so we'll see.
I think I wouldn't say that we're favorite, but I don't think we can win.
I think we can definitely win the series.
Yeah, the one thing I can't have is I can't have G2 win and then you lose.
So it just depends.
We need to...
I don't think G2 is gonna win the series.
But maybe we can win.
So we'll see if it will be a shame if both of us lost.
Yeah, it could happen.
I hope it doesn't inspire.
Make sure to get some rest.
Do some good prep tomorrow and I look forward to the series.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's all for us.
Well, that certainly aged well, Jack.
Fantastic interview there, we've inspired,
and I'm Atlas joined by Jack.
We get another Jatlas cast,
which is really fantastic for us,
because we love working together.
Yeah, a little bit unfortunate,
as far as how that one was going to survive,
but he hasn't played yet.
I can't see the midline lose,
so that means Lyon needs to win here.
All right.
Also, quick shout out to Han Sama.
He was awarded Player of the Series last series.
I heard the boat wasn't close.
Wow.
I thought Schumann played incredible.
I would have probably voted for Schumann as well,
but in the LCK, they took away my vote
probably for good reason.
So even though I do agree with you,
my vote stands for Little Valley.
Jack, I apologize.
Well, this series did get more interesting.
It also, I think puts a little bit more pressure online
just because the inherent NAE rivalry,
even if they didn't directly play against each other,
will be influenced by G2 having such a dominant series just now against BFX, so we'll see.
I loved the Taba interview yesterday. I thought JDG played incredibly well.
And then Lyon did get absolutely obliterated by GNG.
So that always makes you reconsider the way you approach the game when you lose that handily.
And we'll see what Lyon has come up with.
I do think losing to GNG is different to losing to almost any other team in the world.
GNG is just kind of ridiculously powerful at this point in time.
And G2 managed to beat the second seed from the LCK.
Maybe the second seed from the LPL will be an even easier time here for Lyon.
You know what I mean?
Like that could be the theory.
No, no, no.
Don't do this.
You have to believe that your region is at least as good as EU, right?
I am cautiously optimistic that if you're drawing up this tournament for the best global experience,
so far it's played out how you would expect.
Right.
where the number one teams from NA or EU
can beat the number two team from the LPL or the LCK.
Right!
So one of those things has happened.
If we have the other,
we'll have four regions represented in the semi-finals.
It would be ideal.
That would be pretty good.
Otherwise, we'll have BLG versus JDG.
Which is still cool.
Which is definitely still cool.
And I'm actually looking forward to seeing it
because I think the upgrade that we got
from the JDG that we saw only recently
the first time out is vastly different. I think that this team has really looked better and better
throughout the tournament and here we are into the HyperX Champion Select and we have Pantheon and
the Rumble Boats taken away. Is there is a Jarvan being gotten rid of there as well as let's just
do a bit of a name check. Okay, we're okay. We're okay in this one. Yes. As Lion will be
taking away that Jarvan. We'll see what the next ban is going to be. This is actually
the perfectly aligned champ select graphic for what our old spec expectations would be. I know
No, it's beautiful.
Janity's bull side, Lyon is second pick.
I honestly, maybe Lyon are my favorite team
because they chose second pick to guarantee
that everything is normal.
Thank you.
And that is just beautiful.
I did love, you mentioned it already,
the Tabe interview yesterday.
He has gotten so eloquent.
He was using some really big words.
I was extraordinarily impressed,
but it was what he was saying
that I think was the most important
as I really did like the conversation about squares.
Yeah, well, I'm gonna move past drafting for triangles
or drafting for squares.
Why?
I love shapes.
What I heard from the interview was that JDG,
when they were struggling,
was trying to really sync up support jungle.
But when they found their footing
and made it to second seed in the LPL,
they were literally just slamming
whatever bottom lane would be most powerful
so Gala and Vampire could just run the game
and then open things up from there.
However, losing to JNG,
who can just win every lane, made him reconsider.
And I would still say that generally speaking,
this tournament, aside from the GNG games,
has pretty much been dominated by whoever can get
the stronger bot lane.
And without Karma being banned,
I get a little bit concerned.
So what Lion has done is they banned the Ezreal Karma combo,
left Orianna up, they get the first pick Orianna,
and I wouldn't be shocked if Berserker Isles
has something else they would like to play with Karma.
You could, because they banned the Jarvan as well,
You could just slam Sivakama and just have the really go fast bottom lane,
which does work very well in lane as well because you have infinite wave clear.
You basically get a free pass down there, which wouldn't be a bad thing.
And then Berserker can certainly get some carrying down in the later stages.
Varus also teams up with Kama relatively well, but it's a little bit of a different story.
It's inspired going on top of the Nidalee, obviously.
We'll see. Ash Seraphine is beginning a lot of game one play as well,
remember yesterday, into, basically, Ash Seraphine into Ezreal Karma was very winning for Ezreal
Karma, but this, what Lyon has done here is something they did all throughout LCS playoffs
where they'll do a control mage trade, they would often do Orianna or Azir, but they make
sure they control the Nocturne. Because then anytime there's a side lane, Inspired
can swing that match up with either the Azir or the Orianna on his side. But
with the Orianna nerfs, I'm not sure if St. would still prioritize the Azir
on 3 and not surprised if they lock on the Karma.
I'm a little bit surprised that Lyme didn't pick it early.
Yeah, this is the thing, though, because we've seen
Silver picked into Varus all the time,
and now they get access to the Karma instead.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a full bottom lane
lock-in for JDG with the most coveted mid laner
on the patch on top of it, outside of the Ryze,
which is just a little bit ridiculous at the moment.
But as far as what was available, I really do like it.
If that is what they go with instead,
it will be the Zins out as the option into the nocturne.
So dodging the Sivir, but we'll still have to deal with that from Junji.
It's certainly one of his favorite champions.
Yeah, game one of Fearless, so still a lot of AD carries up.
They're not going to be worried about whatever bands lie in control at them
and would rather just secure what may be the strongest jungler here at the tournament,
aside from Pantheon.
It's tricky to say with Pantheon being banned,
but we've seen some exceptional games from Zins so far here.
And it is actually the Galio.
They decide to throw into the Orianna. It's definitely a little bit more all-in and a little bit weaker
Directly in lane, but can still be really potent in team fights.
But the thing that I love about it is we're representing double-globals already, right?
Being able to cheat around the map I think is really important when you're against a team that is really, really good
at playing around tempo markers, Jatt.
JDG, very, very good at it. That one's for Vettius. Shout out to you, Jattie.
All right, already the server is being banned away.
A bit of a no-brainer there.
And the bot also taken away from Isles this time around.
See what else they have in store here is of course,
could be some more support focus here on the side of GDG.
Now I'm thinking about trying
to make Temple Markers a real term again.
No, we can't.
You've really done it.
We're not allowed to do it.
I just had to throw in one.
I've got that in my system.
We were talking about it before the shake your sillies out.
Well, that's what I'm trying to do.
Temple Markers is not a real term.
No, it's not.
It could be, it could be.
It's very, very silly.
Jin is going to be taken away by-
Oh no, hey, buddy.
That's not very nice.
That's rude.
He's like, okay.
I was kidding.
It's okay, you were allowed to take it back.
That's absolutely fine.
One last band he came from JDG.
Was he making eye contact with those-
Yeah, I was going to say like, are we in-house?
For some reason I was like, hang on a second.
No, I don't think we are.
He can't hear us.
No.
All right.
Sivirgin, two logical bands against the Karma, those are two very popular.
I think the Rakan band is really smart because Rakan Galio has been like a really good Gago delivery system.
But this is the Nautilus and I really hope because Nautilus is often picked alongside an on-hit style of Varus.
I much prefer to see that rather than the Pope Varus that we've seen just kind of lose over and over again.
Well, I don't think you're gonna get it, but we'll see and even though Ios's Nautilus looked like one of his better champions so far at first
stand the Niko will give them a stronger laning phase. I think it is still even though they have the globals
Which is something that can punish pushing lanes. I do think it's really important to try and match the push
That JD can get with this karma and now you Nara. I think it's gonna be tough though
I think karma you Nara is gonna be able to get the push and
Trap card bears can go top now. This is what they did in the LCS playoffs in the morning
Okay, they can do a kaisa Niko and throw the various top
That would be a lot of fun. I mean kaiser fits into this composition incredibly well
They're going to pull the trigger. You can see the camera is on berklin now
Exactly what the day-to-day lcs playoffs in there over to look at a carry on against it. They're up against it
The dream isn't dead. It could be a carry not jet. I think that was a pretty good angle for for kaiser niko
But they're gonna go more standard here
Yeah, both of them are not still considered, an answer pick in Renekton, they're just showing off it's a counter pick.
If you have really good Narvaan management as well, it can be another really good way to get Galio into the mix.
And already I do feel like this is a really robust composition out of line.
They can snap their fingers, go for a dive, and Berserker is long enough range to be able to follow up on a whole lot of different things.
I think it's the fact that Gala now has access to Inspire Shields, so much extra movement speed, things like this.
this, I think this Unara could certainly become a gigantic problem, especially behind
something like a Renekth, which can really just make things problematic in the mid game.
Yeah, really interesting game 1 draft, especially letting Karma through and Orianna through,
and then actually JDG getting both of them. So can't say that wouldn't have been intentional
by line, but it's definitely quite risky. Overall, JDG does have a lot of strong
champions but their actual hard engage is relatively low. The kind of dealing with Renekton Stunt or
Shockwave but in Tabe we trust if you're a JDG supporter getting a lot of the power picks on the
patch here in Game 1. Yep in Tabe we trust has been a line for quite a while. I believe IG
has not been trusting Tabe ever since 2015. Since 2015 but everyone else I'm pretty happy to get
behind him because he has found a whole lot of success on a whole lot of different teams.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to get on to the Rift for JDG versus Lyon.
Who is going to be heading it to all of the semifinals and who is going home?
That is going to be the question here as we are on to the Rift for game one.
And it looks like JDG very early on getting a Raptor Ward,
as well as warding their own Raptors.
So Inspire has tried to sneak in for some counter-jungle.
We've actually seen a couple of midlaners die or nearly die going for that Raptor Ward.
St. put a defensive ward and now Jhennja and Inspired are going to run into each other.
This is not good for Inspired.
I would say not as well as Jhennja is just going to go over and just make sure that he is not hitting this.
Interesting.
Still, I mean, if it's Inspired, it sticks around.
You're not going to run, but one is very strong.
And if Galio can move first, depending on how long this goes, Inspired played this really patiently.
We'll see though. It really will depend on the smite.
Vision control, certainly going to be there on both sides, but not in that brush.
Yeah, Jugg is out of board, so he can't see this.
He actually has to give it up.
This is really nicely done here by Inspired
getting an early lead here on Jugger.
Yep.
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And Pzarka, he might need a little bit of help as well,
as Gala has that Q fully stacked up.
And he's down to about 200 health.
Sane also finding a little bit of an angle here,
but he's still looking a little worse
for where the clockwork wind up coming in.
is honky really putting the pressure on it in fact there's pressure on
everywhere when both junglers are seen completely on raptors at the start of
the game you play incredibly aggressive also notice the ward that they place in
their own try Russian spies can try wrap around on mid though states too low to
be able to go in for cc yeah I don't think that this is going to be a
successful one as immediately over towards the raptor camp here is
inspired too slow we'll get the news there is a zinzal in the area but he
You might be able to stop this red buff from going down as Jinder is just going to head
towards his Krugs.
Yeah, and also just a reminder, FlyQuest for CFO had these two junglers playing against
each other as well as Honkyu, and it was CFO who actually kind of ended FlyQuest as we
know it.
And after this game, they all scattered to different corners of the earth.
Yeah, that was a pretty incredible time for CFO as well, if I remember correctly,
a Cinderella story.
So let's see whether some revenge can be claimed by Inspired.
I mean very abnormal early jungle pathing here inspired getting slightly the better of it
Although the Raptor camp all God will be faster to respawn for the side of JDG
And I would say aside from the jungle stuff the Galeo and the Varus Nico are just getting
Kicked in it's a little bit of a fallpony isn't it? Yes, absolutely go to something like that is saying actually
Realizes that he has to stick around the winds of war
We'll deter Honky from staying around for too much longer, but I mean this is a free lane for the Orianna and that can be really dangerous
Come the mid game
Zerklot is going to get closed in on here by Shoushuu
The Renekton, I mean so many times we talk about the gnar being a great pick into the Renekton
But I think it around this time if you can close the distance and your mini-nar
Yeah, the Renekton can really get some work done
The matchup is Renekton favored until the gnar can get Toppies or the Plagid Steelcaps
The plaiting steelpads indeed.
Yeah, so Dohko wants to be able to stick around until he has enough to purchase that item
with the way the junglers have been completely shown.
He knows he's going to be completely on his own.
And here's the raptor respawn, inspired with the level advantage.
Hasn't chalk, neither has in.
I've seen this one before.
This time there is vision for Ginger.
Level three to level four though.
I mean this is dangerous times.
And Inspired goes in, does manage to get the steel once again.
We'll now be going back.
Well, maybe you could grab that Scuttle before it goes home, but instead, just going to immediately reset.
Yeah, I think it's more important that he gets back on the map for the Temple Marker to collect one.
And then, now he has the three items as well.
I feel like I've infected you. It's fantastic.
It can work.
Alright, Slurkel goes out. You don't need to join me on that one.
So that one will never die. I don't even know what it's called otherwise.
Is this Slowing Circle? Is that why you called us?
Yeah, it's a Slows Circle.
Circle that slows.
There are a few other variations depending on what the circle does, but we won't need to go into it.
As Isle's in a little bit of trouble here, let's take some damage from Vampire, but
I'm too worried, and Berserker is sitting at full health, has this full wave to pick up for himself as well.
So, even though the CS numbers don't look so great here for Berserker versus Gala,
we'll be evening out quite well as this wave is slurped up.
Yeah, these lanes are very aggressive for JDG.
It's pretty common as well whether or not there were jungle shenanigans going on.
The pre-level six nocturn is not going to be applying any pressure anyways, but what this has done,
what Inspire has been able to accomplish by keeping this in down, is any of these lanes that are extremely low,
there at least is no threat of die. So Berserk has been able to keep a CS close,
Saints down 10, Docus down, it was 11, now 9, so they at least haven't been dove yet.
Yeah, there's this local value coming on through there as the Flash in from Gala,
unable to take down Isles here, and getting the Inar Flash, actually a huge deal.
Meanwhile, Junja taking a lot of damage as St. Enspire trying to lock down that kill, no level 6 here for the Nocturne though unable to get any follow-up, but still it is inspired with that advantage, the only one on line with one.
Yeah, he had a dagger up on Junja and then also pushes him off that crab which is a delay take. Now he can go clear his entire loose side of the jungle, maybe even hit level 6.
So really strong early game by Enspire which is kind of saving the three lanes that are all soft losing right now for Lyon even though none of them died.
Yeah, I do feel like the Galeo losing lane is not something that you're going to be all that worried about, right?
Galeo is never really going to have a great time into the Orianna.
What you want to play for is utilizing that global presence throughout this mid game
and possibly getting some pressure on these dragons.
Because of course if they start up the dragon, Saint can always be there in the nick of time,
even if he is still hanging out in that mid lane.
And trying to get some control on these streaks I think could be a good idea,
given the fact that JDG's composition looks pretty robust as it scales towards the latest stages.
Yep, and it gets more difficult now for the J2G bottom lane to play as aggressive.
You can see the control ward in the river there for St.
Shockwave just as much.
That was a weird combination there as St. should be able to get himself out,
but is looking a little worse for where to rely on the phase rush there,
as Shao Shu turned against the wall by Dirk Loznar.
See what Dirk Loz?
Oh, he has.
He had to play to steal caps.
Steal caps Ninja Tabi.
So he's more comfortable in the lane now.
Yeah.
We should call it ninja tabi in this game because tabi is the coach and so it makes more sense to use it
Yeah, yeah, I think so as paranoia comes on through here and the gaba delivery is attempted to come on through as
Rise to take him down and say gets the knockup on the bramble back to save his life
Say it all thing in there. That's a true teammate. Yeah
Isles is able to pick it up with the blooming burst
Oh, is it happening?
Berserker hit 6 and just ulted Gala who was already down flash somehow.
I think we missed when he burned the flash aggressively going for kill.
Yeah, when they were going for the kill onto Iles earlier on, Iles gets the revenge a couple of minutes later.
Okay.
Oh, God. Okay, so what am I supposed to do here, Jack?
I want to avoid any potential cast of curse, but I do want to talk about the possibility of both about Western teams making their way out today.
out today. So I was reading a reddit thread earlier about how this is the most one-sided
international tournament in history based on percentage of series that ended in 3-0.
Uh-huh. And that technically didn't even change when G2 won against... Yeah, absolutely.
Because that was no 3-0. So the next 3-0 actually means in terms of percentage of 3-0s
in the international, it will be the most ever. Wow. Well, that's what we're chasing
up. So it could be JDG that gives it to us. It could be Lyon that gives it to us,
and right now lying in a pretty good position as Saint.
Absolutely.
He had the feel at 300 HP.
He was going to reset anyway.
It did help secure the kill, gets him the assist as well.
And then just a max range, RQ, and the double pop of the Niko Q gets him as well.
So Berserker, after collecting enough CS against the Karma early, has taken the current
upper hand in that bottom lane as well.
Yep.
the power of coming issue there as well with his Varus skin. His former teammate you could
say is of course they both came up through T1. There's Ginger going to be taking down
the Grubbs. And JJ I think not too worried about the fact that there is a 1.4k gold
lead but if Lyon are able to utilize this to get some momentum in this game this composition
is really good at just saying we're going to win now with their buttons. They have
the tools to engage whereas JDG does not. JDG's composition works very well if they push lanes
and are first to set up on the objectives because they can just push you back with Karmacuse and
Moog speed to Kaichu. But if they're trying to retake space without hard CC, it's actually quite
difficult for them. Well, Aranoi comes in once more and the Shockwave does come on down,
Honkyu does drag back St. Just now Jhinja trying to get something flash out from the
the Goggle, but I don't know whether he's going, never mind.
Junter realizing he just doesn't have the buttons.
I think he might have been able to get the kill maybe, but didn't want to risk it, because
if he goes in against that Red buff Nocturne, he would have been handing the third kill over
to Inspired.
So punishing with no flash, Orianna, Inspired has been really on point the first 10 minutes
of the game.
Oh yeah, almost a thousand gold in the lead.
You can see that is half the advantage that Lion has right now as we tick over
to 10 minutes.
That is a huge deal.
And the fact that he has a full item completed, I completely understand now why Junger did
not try to do anything more.
As here at 10 minutes it is going to be a relatively late dragon, but inspired.
I don't know whether he's going to get contested on this one.
Yeah, he's not going to be getting contested, but you've got to watch top for Dokler because
Junger's decided dragon's not possible, but he wants to think about going for
this 60% health gnar, but Dokler does a good job clearing the wave.
We'll see if Yashashu decides to go in for a dive here.
They're actually trying to invest even more as he avoids the wind becomes lightning trying to get a little bit of
Now he was trying to support. St might be caught here.
St is in a little bit of trouble, but the Conor is gonna do too much as Megan are almost there as Doughnut has the help of his friends
And we'll be able to make his way out
So successful defense of the top side of the map and they take the dragon down
Lion ticking all the boxes. Yeah, everyone moving up as well
Well, I mean, they don't lose that midway, but we'll set St. a little bit further behind
using his ultimate to get up there, and then also taking a bunch of damage on the way up,
but they do a good job getting the dragon and covering the play to not allow this top lane
to snowball out of control.
Well, Stoke will now teleport him back in a little bit of a dangerous maneuver, but
like you say, there's Tobi's that he picked up earlier on, helping him stay alive here
in this matchup.
He wants to get towards that Black Cleaver as soon as possible by the looks of things.
comes on over to trying to honk you from doing too much more if he does get taunted
otherwise not too much more to happen and the thing that I'm looking at is the
eddy carry and Berserker is ahead by a decent amount of CS and a lot of the
time you'll see that you know a team is winning around the map in these little
skirmishes in these little tussles but just in the regular lane things can be
problematic it's not happening here as Berserker is winning out utilizing
the power of this Varus and now has the ghost blade completed as well and
And also it completes his quest. We'll be able to get that one done a little bit earlier.
Yep. So, temporary, temporary gold lead jump, but that'll be equalized a bit when Gala completes the quest of his own.
Just a lot of contestion of the vision here, but honestly, this is a difficult game for JDG to play from this point,
because of their overall lack of engage, and the fact that, you know, the flashes do end up being kind of cycled down.
Inspired, Mrs. The Cue's got to be a little careful about trying to all in. See if they can get first move from their bot lane, though.
Yep, Sankt doesn't have the ulti available, so the heroic entrance has been really important defensively in a lot of these altercations.
But Gala right, don't think he's going to be able to walk in.
The red buff, still the idea is now inspired, looking for an opportunity, Sankt.
They're trying to stay spread because that shockwave is so dangerous from Honkyu.
It looks like Lion and just not going to risk it and will now walk their way out of the enemy jungle.
Yeah, has to back away after JDG did a good job staying grouped up, inspired likely wouldn't have gotten anything if he goes in other than a bounty for the opponent.
So he's going to regret pressing that button, he loses a lot of pressure now while his ultimate is on cooldown, and it is a failed invade so JDG wins a small battle there.
Yeah, not too bad. Will still be the heroic entrance coming back off cooldown now though, as I've said, there's a couple of seconds left on that one.
And I think the gnar is out of the woods right as far as that top lane matchup
I think the cochlear is going to be feeling better and better as this game goes on and should be a menace in these side lanes
And possibly teleport in when that mega gnar is available
I just really feel like lion's go buttons are really going to be helpful here as you mentioned
Lack of engage has been a little bit of a problem obviously with a karma
You can kind of just turn throwing your body at the enemy
into your gauges, she can make people run really quick.
And so Shoushuu slicing and dicing into a back line
might be a way to do it.
But I feel like that composition did rely
on getting advantages early on into the game
and kind of snowballing through that way,
making it so that you can never approach
when they walk up to an objective.
That is not the game that we're seeing here.
Yeah, I will say, like you pointed out,
the Montreux E from Karma,
as well as the Orianna movespeed,
they have good disengage too.
So it's fairly difficult for Inspire to just rock up
try to ult on someone and hope that the Galio CC comes on top of it
because they're probably moving away with their move speed anyway
but it does just give them comparatively more tools than JDG have to engage.
Both comps are actually fairly low engage which makes the initial setup
all the more important. The control lords like the one Berserker sitting on right now
extremely valuable because that's how you could actually get an engage
is when the other team tries to check spots like that where they don't have vision.
I do like Missile Nocturne engage. That is one of my favorites
and that does put the ball in to Inspired's hands and we know that Lyon does like to play around where their jungler is looking.
So, see whether that is what they're going to look for further into this game as Vampire is towards that top side of the map.
And it looks like Dirkler is not going to be too worried about it. Only 74 gold between our top laners
and that is the only advantage however small that JDG do have on this map right now.
Pretty slow game. I mean the fact that he's 2-0 with dealing only 2,200 damage.
Yeah.
Right?
That means the fights that he's taken, he's generally killed the ones that he's been
able to start.
So another thing that we need to track about lying when they have advantages like this,
they don't usually progress the game that quickly because they like to freeze a lot of
waves.
Keeping the game on their side of the map until they're willing to retake space is
a pretty, it's a favorite strategy of theirs.
So not that Galio can necessarily get pushed on the Renekton bottom lane, but they
don't necessarily feel like they need to apply a lot of sideline pressure.
They're more about stacking these drakes and making sure their gold lead gets as long as possible.
Well, Lion, I'm gonna be able to grab Double Dragon in this game.
The two tech drakes going to be picked up, see what the soul is going to be.
And it's a cloud, finally. I feel like we've been denied Cloud Souls.
His whole tournament.
I'm so happy it's a Cloud Soul. That's the best.
It's just a fast drake. It's fun, right?
Exactly. We've been talking as well about GDG with their mantras and stuff like that.
Imagine if they stacked up four clouds as well.
Yeah, that'd be fun.
inspired as well as the dissonance and all that sort of stuff man maybe running real quick.
This game is still really close by the way. It was an exceptional start by inspired but the
game has definitely stalled out a fair bit. Now all the quests have been completed across the
board so this is where we're sitting it's one and a half thousand gold even in mid even in top
the advantage is mostly on the nocturne who currently doesn't have a meaningful advantage
over Junja if you just look at the items so
Lion had to continue to play smart League of Legends
I do think that if they keep stacking up these drinks right you can play it relatively slow because if you know the shoes on the
Other foot I was talking about how fun it would be to have a whole bunch of movement speed and things like this for JDG
But if lion has it I mean they can stop by anytime speaking of which is we're checking out the coinbase gold grind
You have a flash coming out from vampire to keep himself alive
And this is going to be a big problem, right?
Getting wards deep into the enemy jungle is almost impossible when you're behind and you're playing Enchanter.
For sure. I mean, that was the whole reason people didn't play Enchanters for half a decade.
As they said, well, it's too hard to check for wards in the mid game.
Then they removed lane swap, so now the advantage of dominating lane outweighs the disadvantage of
being a really squishy dude who dies when he tries to get vision control.
So getting his flash, I understand. I think it's a smart play there by Inspired.
Anyone he offered he's probably not gonna kill cuz they'll have flash but the highest chance of a repeat kill is likely on bandai
Yep, and it's interesting that the enchanted that we do see all have an ability to speed themselves up
Yeah, or you know, she just looks into two. Yeah, or be Nico and be annoying and that is a decent way to do it as well
That's all right still 1.3k
This is like where I start to get a little bit worried because extending gold advantages
It's generally something that you want to do as Isles, he's gonna do exactly that, finds
a snare on the vampire as well and if at first you don't succeed, grab the flash and
try again.
That guy's no flash.
Yeah, he's dead.
Carving out flash.
Still no flash, they could do it again.
They have five minutes from the first flash to try it again, which is really nice.
I mean you said this is the point where you get worried, my secret here is that
I'm always worried whenever I'm watching a line game or an LCS game in a national
event.
It's never safe until it's over.
Keep that in mind.
I'll keep it in mind.
There's never do one of those,
oh now it's gonna be an insurmountable leader,
surely with the Cloud Drake they can,
no, it'll be over when the Nexus falls.
And this is also the closest thing to an OPL game
that we've got as well,
which is hockening back to my pass.
Is it because there's one Australian player?
Yes.
And one Australian caster?
Yeah.
And Iles also played on Legacy.
And Dockler's played in Australia as well.
Yeah, and Dockler was in Australia for a little bit,
I'm pretty sure.
that that was after my time.
But we've got a paranoid towards his top side of the map as Inspire just going in.
We'll be able to get the Flash out and Flash is after Honkyu as well and he should be able to grab this kill.
The guy goes so late on this play but it does not matter.
Inspire gonna be able to grab Honkyu here and they should be able to get some extra push towards his top side.
Stages assist Maxing.
We're looking throughout his ultimate there actually.
Was hoping to burn his cleanse, ends up just being no ultimate.
I think that St. will be able to collect the gold from that first turret of the game up top as well.
So, Inspired continuing to progress the game, getting Flash and trading his own Flash for the kill, definitely worth it.
Yep, and that those nerves that I had, kind of dissipating, Jeff, because they are making plays.
They can't be in side lanes, and Bookler is going to continue to get more and more aggressive here, has his Trinity Force now completed.
And man, I'm just feeling like it could be okay.
It's the power of an octurne. When line, this is much more the lion that qualified
for first in in the LCS playoffs because I say their series that they played
earlier against loud that went to five games, as well as the demolition that
they experienced at Gen G.
That looked a lot more like the things that they were struggling with during
the lock in regular season when they were dropping a lot of games, lost
to best of free to disguise. So Saints been really inconsistent.
But when they play with the lead, they generally have been very solid.
Yeah. Generally very solid. Not to say that this means they're going to win this game, Atlas.
No. No, no, no. I'm not saying anything like that. I'm not allowing Caster Curses to reach in and ruin everything.
I'm going to try and just assume that Chronicle was right, and Caster Curses are not real.
Even though, as we know, objectively they absolutely are, and he was just silly.
Let's have a look at here. The win probability looking pretty good for Lyon.
This would be where the costa curse would come from.
What a nice graphic.
Great graphics here.
It's a very good graphic.
GDG's finally retaken the river.
This would be their point of power to play off of.
Lionite, say, has had control of this bush for 85% of the game.
Yeah.
Soulpoint, now available as well.
And Riles being a little bit tricky here.
Remember, if GDG can control this pit,
it doesn't actually matter.
Lion could always get in, you know?
True.
They throw an inspired.
They get sainteed on top as now, Chastry possibly in a little bit of trouble after Flash immediately.
And they can follow as we just explained.
And the Renekton will be taken down now, JDG, no right to be in this area.
As already Lion on this dragon, looking for that sole point.
Be able to get a whole lot of extra movement speed.
You can say JDG really wants to contest this anyway.
They're kind of tired of sitting on zero kills, but very risky here.
Inspired though, no Flash on the flank. We'll have to run away.
Yeah. The clone of Inspired running away as well, so that is making me feel like perhaps it isn't him.
I think I was caught. I think I was the clone of Inspired.
Yeah. No, no, no. I think Nocturne did get LeBlanc's passage at one point. I think I just...
You haven't been reading the patch notes. I know that, because you told me that you weren't reading his...
No, I didn't. I just can't retain the information anymore.
Yeah, so you didn't retain the fact that Nocturne got deceived from LeBlanc.
Understood.
Yeah. Or it might just be that it was Isle the whole time. Not entirely sure.
The nice thing that they did there is they just waited for Doklai.
So he got Meganar to kill the Renekton,
and then they waited until he had Meganar again to take the drake.
So they're patient.
Honestly, this is meticulous.
Like, just destruction of JDG stuff in this game.
They're not giving them an opening.
And it's disciplined League of Legends.
It's kind of beautiful to watch as Isles, see, disciplined Flash,
gets him out of there.
That's all the brand, that's still there.
Yeah, for a second he thought maybe inspired was picked out,
but then he turned into Nico, and we knew it was Nico.
You know it's only one tired away from a perfect game.
This is a no flash renecdent.
Well, it might be no life renecdent as well.
As Dirkler is going to dive on forward at the same time,
there is Dominus running,
but it is still a very scared crocodile,
and Dirkler is going to be able to grab that kill.
Playing through these side lanes,
it looks absolutely beautiful here,
303 for inspired on this not turn things are looking good. They are looking really good. Are we still worried Jeff? Yes
One team fight with all those bounties
You're right
Well, Junja could be in a little bit of trouble himself with same they're gonna try and turn it on top of impop loss
And though he's going to look for gala who flashes out of the way Junja though now by himself
It's don't look wants to find an angle at the same time and vampire should be able to get that snare to work out
But JDG once again are on the run.
Nice repel there by Lyon.
And you do the summoner check.
See that they have burned flashes on jungle, bought support.
Inspired ultimate, three quarters of the way back up.
So this is a very good cool down
standard play around for the next Baron or the next Drake.
Oh my goodness.
Only good things here for Lyon at this point in the game.
4,000 gold is their advantage.
But the thing that's the most important to me
is the fact that they've had a monopoly on these
Objectives outside of the grubs did go over to JDG
It is looking absolutely fantastic here for lion and grubs don't really matter if you never get to approach turrets
Yeah, which is kind of looking like the situation here who needs him. Yeah, not lion. Yeah lion got one game at least
Well, they don't not yet. What are you doing? That is getting ahead of themselves. There's 4,000 gold calm down
I'm just reading what's on the screen. Okay
Not my fault. Okay. 4,000 still to lead. No flash in? No, that would be bad. Yeah, let's not fight against that guy, although he is going to try and fight then. I was looking for that opportunity as Haranoia does come in.
Intelli-able. Yeah, brings the crocodile forward. That's a, I mean, that's just a good map play right there. They use the Nocturnault to disengage. That means Jokler can continue to push down the bottom lane with Trinity Force. He kills that turret very quickly.
Very, very disciplined League of Legends right there, and Sparrow's going to keep clearing his jungle and knows that JDG used their turn right there, so the temple marker means he can keep farming in the jungle.
Absolutely beautifully done.
Alright, Crystal Line over Earth, just hit the turret one time, then it'll go to pop.
No, it's not going to kill the holder.
No, no, no.
The plate though.
Look at the plate.
I know.
It's not worth sneaking the game over that plate.
There is...
You are worried, aren't you?
Well, I want to tell a joke, but I don't think I have time, because JDG might be panicking at this turret.
Well, Honky was certainly looking for a bit of an angle. Dash Cannon in for the Ariana.
Never mind.
There was this chit-talk that the LCS had where Inspired had these teamfight comms where he said,
Keep waiting, keep waiting, keep waiting.
But they just looped it over like a 30 second fight, his comms.
As if he was just saying that for 30 seconds.
I do feel like he's probably said, like, keep waiting.
We could bring up the comms and maybe it would just be that.
Or just wait, do we scale? Like, for 25 minutes.
Because just wait for my ultimate just wait for me over and over do we agree with him?
I did work it pretty well so far. I know it absolutely is
I think that they are still like extending this gold advantage in a beautiful way rating for inspires ultimate
I definitely waiting I think if they wait too long that could be like a seven item it could be trouble
So let's let's keep fighting in good positions. Yeah, well, they're currently pushing this bot wave
I do want them to retake this space.
Iles has no flash for a few more seconds.
That was rather scary.
Burns his heel for the move speed.
They're just trying to get all the waves pushed and force JDG to respond.
But if JDG really wanted to overcommit on this drake, this would be the one to do so.
And that was the perfect time to get a kill as well.
20 seconds until this dragon is up and available.
Thankfully for Iles, he's able to get himself out of there and holds onto the flash.
Most importantly, Flash Pop Blossom is going to be a big thing in this upcoming fight.
And Lyon as well, they have the poke advantage on top of everything.
They have engage advantage and poke advantage.
Yeah, and poke ferris, and no way to engage on the poke ferris unless you walk too deep.
But yeah, they're all in on this because it is difficult for Lyon to actually walk in here.
Well, they don't even have to, right? It is one cloud drake.
You don't need to worry about it, but still, they are going to look for a fight.
As Ingoz inspired already down to 50% though, and he flashes to try and get himself out of the way.
It is going to be the great secured by JDG and they take down the knock to the Baron.
He's already dead as well as Lyon are running away.
Don't look flashing out of the back but it should be Ginger falling down as never mind.
He's as in now.
He's basically immortal and this could be the end of the advantage for Lyon as JDG
just won the towards the Baron.
It's an absolute domination by JDG in that fight.
We've been talking this whole game about how JDG needs to be first on the objective
and they are first on the objective and surprisingly the inpatience of Lyon goes in here inspired,
wants to get the soul, does basically nothing with his original ultimate, almost dies, loses the smite
and at this point the fights are lost because they are inside the team of JDG,
renecing against the perfect flank to shut down Berserker and because of all of the bounties
as well as the objective bounties, the game is just slingshot it back into,
I believe it's going to be a goal lead when we come out of this replay for JDG.
No, it should be. As long as they've locked down his Baron, and if it's not a gold lead yet, it certainly will be soon.
There's a Rebel Baron power play sitting at 1,000 so far, but still with 2.5 minutes left to go.
You understand why I was nervous.
Yes, I do. I was going to say that, but I felt like it wasn't the right moment.
No, it wasn't the moment. And I needed to be excited for the overall energy of the game.
But it's not, I'm dying.
It is still Soulpoint, right?
A lion lost a cloud dragon Baron doesn't give as much as it used to it's not over just yet
However, this is certainly as you can see there with the gold difference. It's not looking phenomenal
How's that wind probability looking the wind probability? I would assume it's also being close. Yeah. Yeah
I don't equalization as redraggs to two those line would still be advantaged based off that
Oh, maybe not anymore. It could be a wave, you know might undulate back the direction of lion
off the woods. We'll just have to see if Paranoia does come down thinking that they might have
shone the crocodile and he is going to get a little bit frightened. Let's get split up
there as well. Poplosum invested to try and take him down. It's my god that's damage.
And going one for one is not what Lyon was looking for as JDG with that Baron pushing
up the bottom lane. Yeah they needed to get that kill to have a numbers advantage
to defend this turret but now they are just hoping to trade for inhibitor turrets
because this inhibitor is done for as Dokla tries to take it on the other side.
Yes Dokla, we'll be able to get that inhibitor turret on the other side of the map.
So there is at least that, but he may not be able to get the inhibitor.
Oh my goodness, that isn't...
Okay, that's the Niko. I thought it might have been the Korn, but it was not.
That was just Ios falling down.
As Nexus turret number one is going to get taken, there's a Mega Knight here for Dokla,
but he's losing his health so quickly, he gets Gala.
Has a few items put together, and he is so scary in this game.
Sanko's golden, no one there. The Hail of Arrows.
Jukka is still alive! They're just going to kill the Nexus!
And JDG just went from losing this game to winning in the blink of an eye!
Stop 30-minute win for JDG.
Where's that fan sign? In Tabe, we trust.
Yeah.
Pick the car, I'm gonna pick the Orianna. Just have some patience.
Do you know who's voice I have ringing through my head?
Scara.
Up until they...
They will win until they lost.
Yeah.
you know zero kills at 25 minutes it was almost a perfect game
what the heck happened
yeah um i'm happy to start but i just want to show you the face of a man who's seen it all
razz i'm sorry for you it hurts more when i give you hope doesn't it razz yeah it hurts more
when i give you hope last last series gave me a lot of hope i know that inspired continued it
I know.
Where the hell did it go wrong?
Well, you tell us.
That's why you have a job.
Let's talk about it first.
Let's throw the footage.
Let's go for it, because it was looking fantastic.
And it really did start with inspired, heavily punishing.
The level one was great.
Being able to take away the Raptors, of course.
You continued it on by taking second Raptors.
So overall, the experience gap was there from inspired.
And then as the rest of the game goes on,
you can see a very clear pattern of trying
to punish the jungle matchup.
And I was a big fan of it.
It felt like JDG
was out of sorts because they didn't get their formula.
When we think about JDG,
how they found success domestically,
how they've been finding success here,
it's have a pushing bot,
have your jungler work with your pushing bot,
control the game, control the objectives.
By eliminating your ability to have a strong bot side,
it gives inspired all of this freedom
to basically do what everyone wants to do.
He's got his mid laner ready to pounce,
ready to follow up on all of his plays and they're being proactive and the game is looking flawless
and it's feeling so promising and we're excited and we're hopeful. The patience was pivotal from
this team which is why when you are playing for soul you are playing for the drake and the
team is there the entire composition is playing around nocturne gallio so i do not want the
the Galio to be still pushing on side, then waiting for the base, while Dragon is being
done, then TPing, and so when the Nocturne finally goes for the engage, there is no Galio,
so let's just run the play.
Yeah, I'm guessing we have a culprit here, and we also have a team who's really good
at capitalizing on the enemy's mistakes here, they were waiting for that res.
Because at this point you can make the critique that if you just don't have the setup
for the fight then you shouldn't just not pull the trigger, but like if you go
even further back in general it was just Galeo was over pushing because he wanted to push for
until it got into tier 3 turret and then he wanted to get a base off so he can get his gold off
and so he wanted to be in the fight but at that point the dragon is already being started so you
need you just need to be there. They have a fragile comp. Lion is very reliant on the poke
from their Varus. The Galeo doesn't do a huge amount of damage and also the Nocturne has to
kill the target that he connects to so patience as Raz is saying is so key and they needed to be
to be prepared to drop that
dragon. Given the position they
were in the flank that that
Renekton had. It was a scary
situation for them, but instead
they got desperate. They saw
the soul. They saw an
opportunity in the casus
highlighted it beautifully as
well. Bounties in the game
right now are so significant
at swinging the game after
that fight. The gold became
completely even and now you
find yourself against a team
fighting comp that's just
starting to outscale you and
becomes very difficult to
All they needed was that one window. This is heartbreaking. All they needed was this
Baron
Starting to build up a wave bot lane the one for one from shall shoot mid
That was it and they just ended the game
That was actually it. I mean the damage is so depressing
It is like the unara is doing less than the zinjiao, but you know I only had to do damage in one fight
That's all it needed and then the game was strong. I mean rest
at least this must give some hope because coming into this series did you think the line would
stand a chance in terms of the laning phase finding the 2v2 kill and bot inspired running
circles around ginger this has to have inspired something yeah you know what it did thank you
it did so I'm not I'm gonna I'm not gonna lose my hope just yet I'm not gonna lose
it just yet because this was looking beautiful so I feel like they got to have another
few games of those in them surely they do surely they right yeah right yeah no no
of adjustments here it's just don't be that hasty guys you get the head games in
your hand there's no way we'll have another three oh don't say that it's just
not a chance what are you doing there's no way it can be on your side brass I
believe the lion can bounce back I hear I'm here come on brother it's I'm here
with you I'm not liking this come on brother it's all good lion they can do
I believe we believe we believe the lion can do it. We believe right guys, right?
He was kindness here just outlayer of the game here, of course
It's been a jungle diff in the early game was a jungle diff as well in the late game
Let's see what next game is gonna be about for us. Stay strong. They got it. Okay, right guys. They got we'll be fine
Fine sure. Okay, I said it's a break. Bye
They're just going to kill the Nexus and GDG just went from losing this game to winning in the blink of an eye!
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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to First Stand 2026.
If you tuned out for a little while, you may expect us to be moving towards a 1 and 0 for
Lion.
That is in fact not what happened.
It was JDG that managed to finally get a kill and then immediately win.
27 minutes and 2 seconds was the first kill, 29 minutes and 58 seconds is when they kill
the Nexus.
Huh.
Yeah, 255.
It's a fun stat there, isn't it?
I bet you that hasn't happened in a long time.
Well, it certainly hasn't happened from my recollection.
And I come and take T1 for a living,
and they are very good at the one team fight, one win.
But they often get a kill or two beforehand, exactly, right?
So now, I was trying to work out how to frame this.
Because it was a little bit of a sad moment.
How about now, we focus on Lion channeling
one of the greatest mental resets
in international League of Legends history?
The storyline for this team, one of the storylines for this team was that they are going to mental boom this year.
Oh, because that doesn't help my little theory.
Well, no, it does because it's even greater that they will become this.
There you go.
Yeah.
Well, let's see whether they can as we dive into the draft here for game number two.
Second pick here for Lyon as JDG will remain on the blue side.
So thankfully, it's everything as we would have expected from 2025.
Once again.
We'd love to see that.
Lion would have had first selection.
They would have selected second pick
because they lost the previous game.
And there's four JDG picks blue side after that one.
And you do have to just completely mental reset.
It is going to be a different game because it's fearless.
I think especially Karma Orianna are two big power picks
that they did give over to JDG.
I think they did have a good plan for it
if you're trying to mentally reset Lion saying,
we did a lot of good things that game.
We need to continue to do these good things.
And for the majority of the game we're in control.
We just didn't sync up for that fourth dragon
in the right way and played a 14 fight.
And then after that, the game fell out of their hands.
So still winnable.
I think that's a-
Faces don't look super confident right now,
but things can change.
I'm hoping that we do get to see
some fun drafting as well though,
because there are some key picks
that didn't really get a look in last time around.
The one thing that hasn't been banned yet is the Rumble.
We'll see whether JDG are gonna take that one away
or aim for a first pick on that one
as the Jarvan will be the decision.
So we could be leaving a Rumble up and available.
The Ambassador is another thing
that has been pretty big this tournament.
See what this final ban is going to be,
whether they do just decide to get rid
of the Pyramaniac Yodel, but instead,
it will be the Vi taking away.
So Jaxu can go towards the Rumble if you'd like.
Absolutely.
I do wonder if we're going to have to drop out of champ select
because the JDG players are in the wrong order currently.
Jaxu is not support.
Kankyu is not playing jungle.
I think they would just play with flexing.
If they really wanted to do this, I'd be all for it.
I think maybe we just run it.
I want to see Honkyu in the jungle.
I agree.
I reckon that sounds like a whole lot of fun.
You were right about the rumble though.
That's first picked.
Yeah.
So we'll see what Dokla decides to answer that with.
Gaelo's gone.
The standard would be something like Ornn.
Dokla's never been an Ornn enthusiast.
Yeah, you don't need to pick it right now either.
There are some things that you can pick into the rumble.
But Cassante.
Yeah, Cassante could be one of the options.
And this has actually found a fair bit of success
in the LCK where I'm from.
Yeah.
The Cassante into the rumble has worked out quite nicely.
We'll see what Inspired is going to be collecting.
Probably not going to be in Italy,
but we'll see whether he's going to be heading towards
like mid lane pick or I actually think picking jungle here
makes a fair bit of sense as well as the Jarvan
and the Pantheon both banned away.
We'll see what it is.
Yeah, Zidnau turned down from game one.
Oh, but Pokinami, I think is a very good game two
bottom lane for nearly guaranteeing cryo,
especially with Seraphine Band
and Karma and Niko being gone from game one.
So likely to see Nami take in as their third pick,
unless JTG decides to try and steal it away
with something like Lucian Nami.
Yeah.
Is Lucian Nami a thing that they could go towards,
as Annie is going to be the choice.
So instead, they're going to forgo that,
continue down the route of fire,
as the Wukong seems to be locked in here as well.
So a lot of team fighting towards the top side
of the map, a lot of setup as well,
so they can sit on that barbecue forever,
as Saint will be locking away that Nami
like you were talking about.
Are you a genius? How could you tell they're locked in Wukong?
Ah, because the Wukong's face was a picture on the floor outside.
Oh, sick!
Yeah, and I've got eyes in the back of my head, so that's how I saw it.
I was looking out the window.
So, apologies for the graphic at the moment.
That is Annie Wukong on one side, and they're bringing it down.
They might be redoing the champ select currently,
or they're just going to continue drafting.
I really wanted to show off with my guesswork.
Yeah, I mean, we can see that what's locked in.
We can just do draft off this to be able to bring it up.
I have a feeling that they're probably going to put the players in the correct order.
That's what I did, Steve.
I'm trying to see the Isles of the screen. They're still, they're still drafted.
You know, they're still drafted.
If we can shift the camera more to Isles of the screen, we can see the bands.
Yeah. Right. Right. So now turn around, Jack. Turn around.
We've got a cast off the wall. That's what we're going for now.
It's still happening. Yeah. If the if they would give us the shot
of a player's screen, we could see the bands.
Yeah, we need to get that put onto the to the screens behind the players.
I feel like that would be very important for us to be able to cast off not the screen that we would normally cast off.
Do you want to guess the bands?
Okay, I assume that we've got two...
Okay, Lion will get a band, Bard and Lula.
They need a band that supports Bard and Alistar.
I mean, Lula would be a pretty good band, although Yunnar is gone.
They don't have a lot of Akali Nautilus band on one side.
Akali Nautilus band on which side?
Well, maybe Total.
That'd be JDG would have banned, Carly knows, or that just both of them.
And a Recon Band, I'm just listing the bands who banded.
I'm getting fed information from Recon Band.
Yeah, we are getting fed information.
I don't know who banned what, I assume the Carly band was from JDG though.
Noblest Band I think is a really good one, if Ryan did go for that one.
Hard Engage is something that JDG are looking for and then...
If JDG didn't have Engage last game, they sure have at this game.
And Recon Band away from JDG as well, I think would also be fantastic,
because Rumble, pretty good alongside the Rakan,
holding them on to the equalizer.
And Aurora banned to deny it from Saint, which makes sense.
So JDG would have banned Aurora because Aurora and Annie
are very similar champions in the way
that they pilot the game.
So it's a very frequent pick into it.
Yeah, Aurora just straight up outranges Annie as well.
You just have a really horrible time.
I believe we've seen that already.
I believe it was Vickla that played the Annie into Aurora
and didn't have the greatest of times.
That's a memory serve.
I see a Victor on the bottom.
You picked up, yeah, there we go.
Okay, Victor to Annie.
So, St. Dick pilot Victor in game five against Loud
had a very strong game.
Now, he's into a Vex slightly different matchup here.
But if Victor gets a little bit ahead
and can itemize a little bit of magic resist,
he becomes very strong against the Annie.
I will say it's difficult into Wukong though.
Wukong's very good at closing the gap on Victor.
So, St. will have to be very careful
with his position in this game.
Yeah, I do think that aiming
for a fair bit of scaling as well,
I feel like Victor just gets a whole lot
work done in the later stages of the game as
Jin, Alistair gonna be locked in.
Man, this is the most uninspiring lane though.
I don't really like, I know that Jin does
decent amounts of work in the early stages of the game,
but Jatt, I am a generational Jin hater.
I really just don't like him very much.
Well listen, I think it can win this game, Max.
Isn't anything to do with the Jin, Jatt.
We'll see.
That's my question.
We'll see.
at the top side of the map is absolutely terrifying and Galar and Vampire could have
locked in whatever the headplay wanted and I think that Alistar is an absolutely
fantastic choice. A mouth fight jungle for inspired is going to be the last pick.
Oh my goodness. He's been very effective on this pick when he's able to control the
tempo of the game. He's really good at playing around these cooldowns. I mean
and he's already in the groove of waiting for ultimates when he plays
Nocturne. They're actually two series in a row in the LCS playoffs where game
1 he Nocturne, game 2 he mouthfited. Alright staying the same mindset. And the
Games play very similarly, so we can actually have our hearts broken twice in a row if things keep on.
Well the thing is, if both Dirkler and Inspire can build a bunch of armor, I mean, you're not...
I guess they're not going to really be able to because there's a Rumble and Annie in the games.
There's a lot of AP, yeah.
Yeah, so they will need to deal with a fair bit of that, but I mean, Jhin is never going to kill any of these tanks.
And so they can kind of freely itemize into a fair bit of magic resist before getting some armor items
and feel pretty immortal in this game.
And Anami does mean that you don't necessarily have
a whole lot of engage options.
Rock go in is a pretty good engage option.
It is a good engage option.
Ios is gonna have to be very careful.
He's gonna be the target in a lot of these fights.
Alistair Jinn can engage from a very long range onto him
if he's ever trying to get warded.
So I think that's gonna be kind of how JDG try to play
is they're gonna be trying to engage on more Saint,
Berserker, and Ios rather than dealing with
the brick front line that the line has been able to put together.
I tell you what, I actually really like not having a champion slip.
I feel way more immersed in what the one-way experience in here goes.
Seeing the team comps on the screen, I really like how big the picks are.
Yeah.
If we just found a spot on the stage for bands, we could be on to something.
Yeah, exactly.
I think maybe we could actually just get someone to stand up there with pictures of champions
and they could like quickly just sketch out a picture of a...
You're gonna sketch it?
Yeah, sketch it.
because otherwise you'd have to go through like a million different cards.
I mean it could also just be another screen.
No, I want someone to sketch it, I just think that would be more funny.
As already we have a heal coming out here towards the bottom side of the map is
Berserker and Isles.
Fighting here against Vampire and Gala, I would assume that the Kalkinami would be
feeling pretty good about scrapping very early.
Gala's already down a barrier here.
And they used heal as well, so it's only flashes that they have up and available.
Vampire doing that thing that Alistar's like to do where they want to put headbutt on cooldown as much as they possibly can
Okay
And having a look I think it should just even on out as this wave is going to get crashed in but still priority over to berserker
Yeah, absolutely early lane prior with the Victor into the Annie as well and
For a team that normally drafts huge bot prior. This is definitely not that no or JDG
Part of that is taking away the Nami, so I like that draft strategy from Lyon.
Honkyu, getting aggressive towards Sane here.
If he just continues walking forward, it could be dangerous, but Sane likes this position.
I don't know whether or not the flash comes in, and that is a pretty simple first blood there for Honkyu.
Yeah, Sane definitely overplaying.
Would be a little bit worried about the carryover from losing that Galio game into this Victor start.
And Coach Chaba here, what I've learned from losing the game to Gen.G, maybe you have to draft like a square.
Everything you have cannot be a triangle or a rectangle, which is interesting.
Yeah, no, it's no triangles or rectangles, however it can be a circle.
We're going to break that down after we watch Saint here.
Saint just misjudges his damage here because he has more minions, so he's hoping Honkyu takes the minion damage, has the Q shield.
But Hongqiu just, yeah, he also had molten shield, has more of the damage
That to me is a big tilt play by saying feeling like you need to eagle on Hongqiu early on in the lane cannot do so
Yeah, that is not really allowed. Yeah, but
There's a gank coming bot lane
potentially
Jojo just gonna move towards the the scuttle that I believe was just taken. Yeah
Well, he's going to be able to push.
Just spawned.
This is interesting because Lyon have bot push, but they do not have mid push, so
Inspired still might be able to bully him off his crab, but now Jendi's just going to run through his push mid lane and get to the top crab.
Yeah, a little bit of happy feeding there, but should be able to make his way over nonetheless.
As Lyon still would, like you say, like a whole lot of priority here towards the bottom side of the map, as you would be afforded by picking this Corkinami.
Yeah, so you really enjoy it. You really you requested the top a circle square trying. Yeah, I just really loved it
You love shapes. I do really like shapes and you love sayings that sound like they have meaning that we can then try
And put meeting on that. Yeah, they don't actually have any like temple markers and yeah, I think the markers and so vibes
Here comes a potential gank and then we'll get into it. Yeah
The sun onto st. Flash forward there as they're wasting no time decent gravity
Well is going to come on through there is st. Tick and then he's gonna survive
Very close gets the flash out of Junja and big trading bubble here as well as Gala down to about a hundred has to flash his way out of there and
Vampire going to be the one that left remaining here in this bottom lane is lion still off to a good start despite that first blood
Yeah, as long as saying can equalize this lane and not get one shot at level six the bot lane top lane and jungle or are all in fine
Spots as Gala sticking around no flash no barrier, but
Prozokar low on mana does not watch to risk going too deep
Local here towards this top side is just gonna be having a pretty pretty horrible time
Isles let's see whether it's gonna be a cancel from berserker
And he is going to cancel that now gala with 300 health to his name
They're gonna look for this kill onto the nominee
Can double bubbles from Isles and that is going to secure the first kill for the bottom lane here online
Online side is inspired really likes the enemy raptors man. He is always here no matter what just brawlin on this rock
Yeah, definitely his favorite thing to try and steal
And as mouth I he's much stronger than him right now pushes him off of that
Yeah, I'll Q had to go back to lane because the wave needed to be caught
So Jundre has to just accept that inspired is likely hitting level six first
And that's a scary prospect is of course the unstoppable force is the entirety of mouth lights kid
But there is not a whole lot more.
I mean the W smack smack is pretty good now, that's why he's jungle-able.
I do feel like the only thing you really need to worry about though, is the rock rocketing
towards you.
Oh look at Isle, being a bro here.
Nice big heal on the Saint.
Beautiful.
Actually that's the type of stuff that tilts midlanings.
Oh yeah, it really does.
The support just comes into heal.
The frustration roam.
Yeah, you're saying Enchanters can't roam?
Watch this.
Mm-hmm.
It was the most annoying thing about Nidalee jungle as well.
when you just run through, hit one spear, and then heal up the mid laner and leave.
Yes, don't even need to try and kill.
See, I would love to get a kill here, but instead he's just gonna go to river
and get a nice reset off while the handy goes back.
So, a recovery from a very questionable first blood.
Yeah.
After some nice 2v2 play by Rezirk and Isle, 20 CS up in this lane now.
And I have been meaning to infer meaning from this square quote.
Alright.
Because I actually, I think it's abstract, but it makes sense in the sense that
He said previously we were trying to play support jungle and then we just decided to play very strong through bottom lane
Which would be like a triangle if that makes sense. Yeah, they're cutting out a portion of the map
It's like the bot lane in the jungle. That's your triangle
Then he said after GMG if we just play a triangle like they drafted everything with global so they play the map
So the square more means oh, we need to draft like a whole
Large area to be equal. You need to understand that all the parts make the hole because when you pick Jin Alster as well
That's not a triangle draft. This is definitely a triangle
Because it's a top top. Yeah, they've chopped they've chopped off the bottom lane. That's true
This is a triangle. This is a triangle draft
Yeah, and so if JDG loses this we're gonna need another interview with Tabe to ask him why he drafted a triangle again
Here in game number two as Saint has been
Ganged here does have to clash into the raptor pit as inspired is just a little bit frustrated that there's someone else there
The wrong trying to his raptors because they would be on the triangle, isn't it?
Their CSS is currently getting double for sure not so because vampire tried to become a square
He's left the one side of the triangle even more alone
So production they personally think that he wants champions that tessellate nicely like squares would do well
I think that's a beautiful addition to what could be an inferring of meaning for the things.
That's right, there's a bear in the middle, and the saint doesn't have flash anymore.
Throws down the arcane storm in response, considers being thrown down, and oh dear,
another flash forward and another kill! Here for Honkyu!
Stop walking back to this, Annie!
Since that again, but they have full control over the bot lane side.
Yes, they do. The ending part that this triangle has left behind.
Honkyu is playing very well.
St. is continuing to buy more health to prevent that from happening again.
And is this the first time we've seen Annie actually win lane?
It appears so.
In this tournament. I feel like Annie has always had value, right?
Because you can always just flash bear.
But it hasn't been a pick that's being in control of a lane.
Flash just came back up in this lane as Malphite was thinking about ganking.
One Berserker just wandering on full, it does take a favor to damage here,
and the bubble is going to connect once again, it's a level 5 Alistar, and he's just dead!
That will is, uh, big time breakable.
Generational game right now from Berserker Isles against Gala Vampire,
still doubling the gins CS,
uh, and inspired able to take a drake in exchange for those little grubs.
So, this is a Berserker angle, for sure.
And Berserker's cocky has always been pretty good.
Even though he didn't necessarily find a whole lot of success when he was in the LCK,
this was one of the picks that he did like to gravitate towards even then,
and has continued to find some success on it.
A thousand gold is going to be the lead here with that first dragon being picked up.
Next one going to be an ocean, which means we're almost guaranteed a pretty powerful soul here in this game.
I'm looking forward to seeing what it is going to be as the vampire.
thinking about whether he wants to support his mid laner, Isle's doing exactly the same thing.
It would be a good strategy currently to play through Annie or Rumble at this stage in the game.
The only positive part of the map is it would be a very one-sided game without Hong Q's performance so far.
Play safe mid, I think is what Lion should be saying in this particular game.
I mean, to be fair, it is a little tricky to do.
Every mid laner is super good about free...
like every laner now is really good about freezing when they have an advantage and
forcing the other player into more dangerous situations to try and clear
don't know if that's exactly why sainton's died twice but it's part of it
I was gonna say something but I just don't feel the need
yeah speaks for itself it does as Bezekra and Isle's just going to move
towards yet another plate we'll see whether they can collect that one is
Isle's man he's just being hit in these bubbles
Aquatic champions, you know an Australian player makes sense, you know, of course we do like the beach
Although you love you guys in California
Raptors, all right more
Be a little careful, but they see ginger has inspired just been clearing Raptors this whole game
Had appears to be the most important objective for him right now. He's just been going Raptors to Raptors
As all right equal as it comes down just to stop Tockel from going back home
Shashu will be out of clear the wave with it at the same time though and I mean
if there's a tempo marker that's got to be one of them. Yeah well I mean the
tempo marker there for him to not recall is they saw Annie again on mid-wave so
he realized you could stay for one minute. See I think that makes enough sense. I
mean it could theoretically be a thing I just feel like it's just tempo
without the markers regardless. So there what so Betty's tried to explain
where tempo came from he said it's from chess like if you're always
responding to the other player. The player who's making a response has the tempo.
So if it's a sign that they have to respond to you, the sign could be the tempo marker.
Yeah, that is the marker.
Yeah.
Alright, there you go.
And honestly, it is just if Wave be pushing towards enemy, you have tempo, and that is
kind of how it works.
That's the marker.
It might make it easier to explain tempo, because it's kind of an abstract concept.
Yeah, I kind of hate that it kind of works.
So I kind of hate that you start making markers.
It's easier to teach.
And I do need to admit to everyone that this was 100% a mistake on my part.
It was made up.
Yeah.
It was just a bit silly as they denied a cannon and Gala also just taking so much damage.
Frost Shroom's bomb comes down and they even get the ebb and flow to make sure the berserker
is absolutely fine.
Decent trade here on the honky, but he does have that stun lined up and throws
down the bear because of it.
Pretty great.
More damage comes out.
The detray would have been enough, but dealing with tibbers and the Annie at
the same time, a little bit of difficulty here.
and Jaja was looking off the side.
They were fighting over Raptors again.
I was going to say, Inspired is obviously on his Raptors.
Yeah, the Raptors are the new Crads, for sure.
Oh, Jesus, bravery shield.
I mean, another good game state for Lion currently.
I will say the Wukong Annie, once they both hit their item
power spikes like this Blignitz and the Trinity Force,
will be very strong in teamfights.
That's what Perzurker is going to have to contend with,
since he's got the Lion's share of the goal, plus 2,000.
See what you did there. That was a very nice pun, Jack.
Why that lion shape?
Yeah, out of the turn of it.
He was eliminated.
See, and now you've used his name as a pun as well for double puns!
First stand goals.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Okay.
Dirkler just gonna have to collect another wave as that one is gonna get melted by the equalizer,
but it looks like Lion will be able to grab this outer turret on the bottom side of the map.
First earth blood going over their way, but Jhinja is in the area.
Yep.
Just be able to back away.
Jatt, by the way, just then visibly tense as they were potentially going to over-estate.
And they didn't.
You understand why I'm always on edge.
Oh, yeah, 100%.
I've learned my lesson.
I'm not going to say things about Caster Curses and make jokes again because I kind
of thought that one was in the bag and then it absolutely wasn't.
And I have egg on my face.
I apologize.
7-0, 26 minutes into the game on Soulpoint.
Yeah.
And not like a fake 7-0.
It was like a 7-0 with a 5,000 gold.
Let's have a look at the Coinbase Gold Grand Chat.
Okay.
Um, Dirkler is behind a bit of gold, but otherwise...
Just a bit.
It isn't too much of a worry here for the Cassante.
Yeah.
He's going to Zener.
Probably the least interesting lane, as far as an advantage to be called out as concerned.
Yep. He's got his Canik. That's the most important item when he's up against Annie and Rumble.
And since he doesn't have to worry about Jundja, since Jundja's always fighting over Raptors,
he's fighting to just stack him hard for the early game.
I do feel like Jundja should just go to...
...inspires everything else in the jungle.
Because the inspired won't be there. He will be at his raptors.
Speaking of which though, the Dokong has decided to forgo inspired's raptors spawn and is ganking Dokong.
Well, let's see if the Dokong can survive as he is now going to look to try and find it at an all-out angle.
Does use it here and flashes away. Success does have to use absolutely everything to make that one happen.
As in the meantime, here towards his bottom side of the map, St. just takes another bear.
They're going to continue to die him off this wave though and collect a lot of plates.
and start is smacking the drake so he can't help but the fact that Alistair is moving up means Joklah has to completely abandon his turret.
First turret has already gone over to the berserker in the bottom line so the bonus gold isn't there but they should still give a pretty big lead to Shaoxu.
This is a pretty scary teleport as well as we did see the vampire was in the area but it looks like Jinja is just going to leave because the rest of Lion are making their way up as well.
Joklah will just get exhausted just for the slow to stop him from moving further forward.
It was world quest completed teleport so even more secure with the massive shield plus the canik shield.
He has to keep that shield for 30 seconds too so he's going to go do some goofy things to interrupt resets.
Yep, continuing just to dash underneath the enemy turret. Death ray comes down, does a fair bit of work there as well.
With that Rother Bages now completed here for Saint and he's doing his best to scale up.
It is a little weird that Saint is here though since Doku is the one that teleported up.
So Saint is the natural person to go match bottom lane.
gonna have to burn his teleport without basing to get down there so that would be
a that'll be a negative temple marker right now for line that they had to use
the TP in that way yeah I mean Saint did have to walk up top lane because they
thought that a doble was potentially teleporting into three people right but
that wasn't actually the case as Gala continues to take a lot of damage this
gen not exactly doing the most at this stage of the game look at the
Number which one that is the really the CS number is a big one. Whoa
To 118
Kind of ridiculous. I haven't seen a lead like that in quite some time
This early on in the game because they're really having a good one. Yeah, but don't go very unhealthy turret
It's gonna have to likely just give this one up and then walk through the Alster
Oh, you also got another bear coming down here towards his bottom side
But the flash does have to be used to get out of the way of the unstoppable boss.
Inspired, will now have to walk towards the bear and does get stunned on his way up if he's going to live.
Yeah, and Ducla is going to get dove here or lose another turret with how much time he's going to spend on.
Yeah, that is a whole lot. As let's say with a berserk, he can actually make his way up.
You can see he's trying to get there, but I just don't think it's going to work.
As he dashes around with the all out for a little bit, but it is not going to happen.
Shelly also going to get a headache as they look to take down this Inatar and that is a massive amount of gold.
Over to JDG as they swing things back in their favor. Yeah, I mean a really good sequence by JDG that all started from the
original dive attempt onto doklah that had Saint walking up top lane doklah stuck around Saint then teleport a bot lane and then
If they would have paid more attention their temple markers
I know they would have not gone for that but I bought because it just gave too long of a turn for JDG to
to repeat the dive on Dokla and kill the inner turret.
Sometimes those temper markers can really be camouflaged, can't they, Jatt?
It's really hard to identify exactly where they are.
Hopefully the next one, they will be able to figure out...
as hitting these grubs to work as well, as here towards the bottom side of the map.
I believe that plate will be going on over, and there it is.
Geez, this is still a very close game by the numbers.
The feeling you have after what happened in game one and then this last sequence
makes it a very scary situation.
It's been halfway through killing the Nexus.
I still won't be, I won't be sure.
I'm not 100% sure because it's going to be actually
pretty difficult for Lyon to play out.
So Berserker has a massive lead.
That gives them full mid-prile, right?
They'll be able to step up on midway
and they'll make Gala consistently catch this
under his turret.
However, with the 1,000 gold in both solo lanes,
it's very difficult for Lyon to do anything
with their mid-prile because with turrets
missing in side lanes as well,
it's very hard for them to get any push.
So it's just makes it difficult for them to actually have like true setup on these objectives
And it should allow JDG to get flank angles on a berserker and fights which makes it a very tense game of League of Legends
Not to mention the fact that like flash tippers into equalizer is always into Cyclone
You'll always kill berserker no matter how much money he has. Yes, that will always just be a way to get it
Eventually, I think Isle should build the macaels currently he has the Imperial mandate, which is very common berserker's maxing damage
And the way to Prich mature that is going to pull jungler away and he's gonna have to flash into his blue pit
That is going to keep him alive though as they do take down the turret is inspired throws down an R button for fun gets a flash
And okay, golly dude flash out of the way of it did miss that one
His headbutt pulverize does come up through his vampire looking for a re-engage the curtains have been called
It's a lot of damage out of this chin as he tags aisles with it as well
Fights he haven't going to keep himself alive
And now the double knock up the triple knock up from JVG as they throw the kitchen sink in line
It's a double for Junja and Sade is having to flash his way out. He does have a disengaged cone
So we'll be able to use that to escape, but it's a big win for Jadidji. The Annie Wukong strike
They just put Berserker in a bounce house. The CC chain from Alistar into Jin gives time
for Junja to just annihilate Berserker. Yep, pulverize, cyclone and the deadly flourish everything
just thrown at a Berserker and this is exactly what we were just talking about
is the fact that they do just have the tools to lock down the target.
You have no control over your side lanes, so when you're pushed up in mid,
they can flank you specifically from the top side. So Shaushu throws the ultimate down,
Berserker already spends a lot of time on the equalizer, has to Valkyrie away,
tries to re-enter the mid lane. There's the gym value there from the root.
You can't say that didn't happen Atlas.
And honestly, like, the Jhin is fantastic utility in this game.
If you're gonna play Topside Triangle Team Comp, Jhin is not that bad to have him play.
Yeah, that's basically what you have to do. As, yeah, Saint not looking too happy about how this one's going.
But it is only 1.8k, it's not a massive lead, one dragon goes over to JDG as well.
Stopping the stacking is a huge deal especially when it is an infernal soul.
But we'll just have to see where the line can bounce back after that one, because we know that if they do manage to get an unstoppable force to land onto a target, right?
There are flashes that are now on cooldown. In fact, everyone has their flash on cooldown on JDG's side.
Very soon we will have Honkyu having his available again, but I mean this is the time to throw the rock at the enemy team.
It really is. Try to get someone flashless, kill them.
But the big thing they need to focus on is just continuing to collect gold on Berserker because he's 2.3k up right now
but
He's not even truly on two items until he transforms that manamune
Yeah, and it's full two items on the entire top triangle for JDG
So at this point Berserker actually not that strong in the relative sense of the game
But he will be strong later with how much gold he got early once he completes points
Althoqla is just dancing around on an equalizer and that is a dangerous thing to do.
Jhinja holding in there with that Cyclone and collapses, grabs the kill onto the Cassante
and now that lead is only extending 2.2k just for Xiaoshu on this rumble.
He is so scary in this game.
Yeah, and it's in part like when you have a fed Wukong with double AP solo laners,
that's the best version for Wukong because all these people that the side laners are playing against have
at least dabbled into the MR.
The Cassante stacks it, Merkur treads in Canik.
Now he's working on Iceborne, so he has a little bit of armor.
But then even Victor, no armor to deal with Junjeb,
who's going to be dealing nearly true damage
with the shred from his Wukong Q as well as Black Cleaver.
Yeah, it's a very scary time here for Lyon.
And I think that if they can find a teamfight,
you know, with their mouth fight,
you know, get the AoE Wombo combo to work out.
Duck's in a row, as it were, and it might work out.
But the problem is the difference between this game and last game is that JDG now have full control
And Lyon had control the entirety of the game until they lost in game number one
And it was still very very difficult to pick their fights in the right way
Now they're gonna have to really try and orchestrate something without this wukong a rumble just absolutely
Destroying them not to mention honky throwing bears around the things like that
This is a very very difficult one to play out despite the fact that gala was put so far behind
It just doesn't seem to matter when they can kill berserker so comfortably.
Yeah, the team play from JDG has been exceptional.
Specifically, the team fighting from JDG has been exceptional in both of these games.
Even if they were getting a little bit picked apart in game one, they found the team fight at the end.
And then here, the big fight they had in the mid lane has really spread their lead.
So now they can start playing the map.
I mean, look at how fed this Rumble is actually getting 229 CS, 2.7k ahead of Doku.
It does have an on guard, now completed as well, and so it can go on untargetable at any point in time.
And so we'll catch this wave, we do have Saint sticking up towards that bottom side as well.
That lead isn't as gigantic as we can see towards the top side, but the game certainly slowing down at this point in time.
We're looking for our next dragon fight probably to decide what's going to happen in this game as far as the next teamfight is concerned.
That would be my reckon.
Sure I wouldn't be too surprised you can see line sending to out the top lane right here
I think they're hoping that
JDG put a lot of attention towards controlling the straight and then they can get some extra turret gold for same
Because we think it's really fed right now sands behind but if they can turn this Victor into a legitimate secondary threat
I think there's a decent chance they'd have
Oh, there's a flash there. It's out. Goes Berserker.
Jjunja looking for an angle here, but it's just in spy that he's engaging on.
Tidal Wave not really doing too much of anything at all as Doko teleported in.
They're looking for Jjunja who does use that warrior trickster to get himself out of the way.
Doko's still going to be there and does find the Q onto the monkey, but now the curtains have been called as JDG's turn
to start this fight as in spy. It is just dead.
Oh my goodness, had the ultimate still up and available as equal as it goes down as well.
Well, it's not exactly the greatest position that I'm going to take the enemy turret, but it doesn't seem to matter!
JDG! Just get in there and take them out!
There's the all-out from Dopeclaw as well, as Honky was taking the turret for such a long time,
but he's distracted by so many JDG members,
and that is going to be them just cutting down Lion where they stand.
They have absolutely blown this game right open.
They call Lion on their bluff, and they annihilate them.
Lion was just trying to buy as much time for Saint to get free gold as possible because Saint wasn't coming
He was just in the top lane the whole time. Maybe it's Saint's time as these are some low health bars
Possible angle here. Don't have any vision in this parry. Yep, and it's honky. We'll be out of push more
So no never mind that would be rather ambitious if you try to I just want to see like flash arcane
Just trying to cross someone you know that he had no idea there was no vision available. Yeah, right here
I'm a little surprised. Joe Clinton's part continues to step forward because to me job is done here
Say it's gonna get top turret. You're gonna get drink anyway, but in spark gets stung locked probably thought he'd be able to
Alt the way for the disengage never ended up pressing his ultimate dies with alt and flash up and then
line definitely
Underestimated just how much engaged JDG has because they can flash forward with any they can flash forward with wukong
They can flash forward with Alistair whenever they want and Jim can CC from so far away
They can't run away once that fight starts and they lose everything.
Well, dragon up and available here is, no clue down to 50% health.
His income is VanPyre, finds himself a pulverized, but he might be a little bit too far forward.
Never mind, Honkyu does make his way around the corner.
There's the Osomal Force inspired going to hit it this time.
And the tide away is also much better this time around.
VanPyre already taken out as Honkyu's just getting hit by a rock and will get taken down.
Still the Nami is dead and Berserker is fighting against Tibus.
Almost loses that one at the same time.
However, now it's just Shashu and Gala alive.
Big fight there, four-line getting three for one
and currently preventing the Drake
so they get a big bunch of bounty gold
making this a 3,000 gold game.
And if they can redeploy in time to take this Drake,
they could get soul points as well.
This could be a huge deal.
It is a little bit of a rebel Baron weakness play
as well as we have a negative 1,600 gold from that one
with the fact that there is so much less gold
from the Baron than not necessarily
the greatest decisions, especially if you lose a teamfight immediately afterwards.
But still, Doku is going to be moving back towards this Drake, and it's not over yet.
Could just be a rinse and repeat look for another fight.
I think they get it. Junkja has to run from base. There's no teleport on the Annie.
If Saiten would help them on the Drake, they'd definitely be able to kill it faster.
He takes the wave, it's going to be completely fine, and soul point now.
As you get to watch this fight one more time, that bar is early.
You look Gala, Junkja, and Rumble all on the other side of the map.
So when Hawkew moves in, inspired, I think Lance is first, now quite ultimate of the game.
But it does lead to two kills.
Very interesting development as Berserker dodges that last curtain call and survives the tippers to stay fed in this game.
Yep, much better teamfight look.
TF4 line as the equalizer goes down, deadly flourish as well, make sure that Ios is just ticking.
Wow.
That one does go down, so he's going to have to go back to base.
They still have some barons left on this map as inspired off to the side.
Think about using that Blascoe to get himself in there.
Malphite Ultimate will work the last time he landed on a player, so I want to try it again.
The angle is actually not there though, so he decides to back up.
Honky level 16 and he's very scary right now.
This is JDG just walking around as a unit waiting to catch out anyone who puts a
foot out of line.
27 minutes into the game, sole point like you were talking about.
huge deal here. As Lion will at least be able to get this wave shoved out. I think now is the time
to talk about like scaling and things like this. I do feel like it's a bit of an evergreen comp from
JDG with the fact that they have so many AWE CC tools. True. That the damage may not quite be
enough because there is that true tank in the Cassante towards the top side of the map. Absolutely.
I think JDG's team comp is incredibly front loaded in damage and it relies a lot on thresholds.
So, if they're able to get that first kill of the fight,
we're going to see a fight like we saw in the mid lane,
where they gained the giant gold lead and took Baron.
But if they don't get that clean one-shot,
then I think the eventual damage of the Corky and the Victor
can be a lot higher.
So, I think with the current state of the game,
the fights are playable,
but Lyne just has to play them extremely well.
Mikael's being on Nami is good,
but the fact that one GIN W into an equalizer
is all of Isle's health also makes things difficult for him.
And it doesn't even matter that the G&W doesn't really do very much damage.
Yeah.
Because it just needs to hold them in place, is now inspired, engaged on.
Doesn't really take any damage just yet though.
That Kaniq Rook done doing some work here alongside his extra thrift shop items.
Three items, but the cheapest way to get there.
He loves them.
I will say junglers that can build proto-plasm harness generally just get inflated in power
because that item is so incredibly efficient and strong.
So, a big fan whenever you're able to complete that item on a jungler and you don't need to build an item to clear the jungle?
Yep.
Alright, Doku, cash in this wave.
Nice of JDG with thinking about going for a bit of a dive, but I don't think Doku is very diveable.
Yeah.
Honestly, it feels like the tempo vibes have shifted. You know, that's what it feels like to me.
So, tempo vibes is way more useful than tempo markers.
Oh, absolutely.
It's completely...
It is actually a four word wasted.
Yeah, it's just like a waste of time entirely.
Tempo Vibes is only like half of a waste of energy.
You can almost make it mean something.
The Tempo Vibes is purely just a feeling that you get.
Correct. That's all it is.
However, I feel like it works in this particular instance.
You would, because you're the one who said it.
I think the colors would feel that.
Alright. Junja, I'm thinking about trying to find a bit of an angle here,
but I don't think he's going to be able to.
And Lion will just slink into their jungle.
So, Saint is recovered in this game, actually.
So he's three full items with Mercury treads will be doing a decent amount of damage level 18 as well
The game's actually gotten pretty late
Yeah
It's kind of a one fight game if it really swings to the side of one team and a wave is in the right place
It could just be them running down the Nexus and berserker almost has infinity edge when corkies get to the four item hex optics infinity edge build
They can annihilate teams. So that's gonna be the win condition four line is getting to the infinity edge
And then keeping berserker alive in teamfights. It's a ludicrous amount of damage in four items
I was I was thinking that maybe it would be the dreaded collector third and it wasn't that
Exoptix just a little bit too strong and then the infinity edge comes in for that massive damage and in a minute's time
There is an infernal soul on the table for line
I have a feeling that that might be where the fight is going to occur, but the Baron has just spawned as well
Might be another angle JDG could also go for a potential trade
But I think that soul is so dangerous especially when it's a victor so good at applying
that infernal soul for sure I don't see an easy way for line to move in here and
as soon as they move in the river they're gonna get flanked. Jugger is
currently not on vision. Yeah it's a scary teleport from Saint's level, welcome
punish for it. I can really see Lyon moving towards Baron for control but Saint
is so scared. He gets the vision down so Saint does get himself out of there,
does have to spend a bit but still able to survive. But you can see all
the flank angles rumble and mid lane okay now teleporting over the
bot lane so he's okay sure they're just gonna actually approach one side this is
a better look for line out they've been able to retake this bush and actually
have their tanks in front they need to be able to mark junja though great word
there by aisles yeah getting that word down is certainly important but they
need another one so they can see what I think they do manage to see him as
honky also walking over this control ward will be discovered so no flank for
the anti either so GDG they might just have to pull the trigger with
information over to Lyon as Inspired does spot him out here.
Keep a little parrow there from Honkyu, but I don't think that that is going to allow him to get his flank off.
As Numb does come down, they're thinking about trying to get on top of Inspired instead.
Yeah, the lower this drake and gets the better it is for Lyon. He gets a lock down from Honkyu. Here's a play.
Yeah, Tiddus does come down a little bit early in this one as well, as the curtains have been called.
Junkja has control of the drake though for the moment as Inspired is off to the side.
Sane is going to get engaged on me to flash out here from Junkers this victory starting to do so much damage still inspired is out of the fight that
Health Bar is way too low and Drake will be secured by JDG
Can they get anything more though that is going to be the question in Shoushuu
Let's have a full health bar, but doesn't exactly have teammates with the same so he is just going to back away
Mission accomplished for JDG prevent the sole point and keep the pressure on the map
It was an interesting start to the fight where inspired was just hoping to get the anti ultimate down to just diminish the amount of engage
That jdg would have if lines sticks around for the drake
But then I think it's fire altered in probably a little bit early
We'll have to watch this one more time
Start of the fight is okay
But berserker having to belt out of the pit means no one can follow up on
Inspired and then they lose vision of the drake for a bit inspired alting in for home cue there
I think it's just a straight up mistake. Yeah
If he stays on the outside of the fight, he'd still have the ultimate for an eventual steal,
and it could re-select a fight right here, but then once he had to watch out back with a pit,
they have to completely bail, because then they're not even looking for the internal soul.
Yo, come to me! Just look at you doing a call to position!
Alright, inspired! Getting a little bit heated here.
He really want- he said Corky Holder position, I believe, so he didn't like
valking out the back of the pit like that, probably would have wanted to valk into the
river to hold that part of the river so they could stay on the drake, but clearly
really some miscommunication there, inspires the one who altered in that looked bad at the
end, but he clearly wanted that fight to play out a different way.
Well, we'll see whether they are going to be able to figure it out in the next one, because
of course, didn't lose too much, and it's a couple of Drake stacked up next time, but
JDG manages to get a third, my goodness.
I mean, then you're staring down the barrel of the four Infernal Infernal Soul, which
is ludicrous amounts of damage, especially when the composition entirely revolves around
Making sure that you have enough damage in your opening salvo
I'm certainly going to be helping out here a four item rumble with a 10 stack dark seal as well
I mean this
Yeah, this is just you guys is pretty strong rumbles out of control at this point
But it is about berserker and saying if berserker can stand and hit many of these team fights
Which is much easier said than done. Yeah against a proto belt and and a new car
He's gone all damage, so if Rizzaker finds the right fight, it's going to be big, but
it's probably more likely that he gets CC chained and dies, with Mikael's being on Nami,
it helps a bit, but they also just have no sideline control, so everywhere they push,
they're trying to throw down as many wards as possible to try and prevent a flank.
It's a very difficult game to play.
So they can convince JDG to get five people on the map and just fight them in an
honest 5v5.
I think that that is where lion might be able to get something done
Especially if some of these arcane storm resets do come through from saint
He is starting to do so much damage in this game
So are you claiming it's dishonest if they flank berserker honest has to be just all fine
Hey gentlemen's five
gentlemen's five this was this was coined by
Okay, bro once once known as okay, bro. Yeah, I'm down for gentlemen's five. Yeah
They weren't a great team
Um, so maybe being a gentleman in League of Legends is not the way to do it, maybe cheating
into a situation that is just advantageous for you could be the way to do it.
However, there are gentlemen still left.
Yeah, flanking seems like smart 5v5s.
Yeah.
Not necessary.
I think it's...
It's sneaky, though.
It's not honest.
You know?
I think it's quite honest.
If you have a gentleman's 5v5, you just draw the battle lines and then you go.
Well, this is a gentleman's... it's not a gentleman's baron, there's no vision.
Yeah.
It's just a baron.
We've got some vision onto Shoushuu here, I don't think he wants to be engaging onto him and Honkyu once again though as Gala is taking a lot of damage from just the Baron.
The Baron damage is actually just not that great as any goes once again Honkyu.
Having to deal with this big old rock Gala does take down Isles, but the Empire will be following suit in the Arcane Storm like Lusé.
He's doing a whole bunch of work still!
Oh my goodness Shoushuu just does so much damage in this game!
They look to get on top of Saint, they will be able to do so.
They will be able to do so.
There's the Ola from Dohkla.
Allows him to travel away from the battle
and takes down the rumble to boot.
Still, Jumjah's going in with these shields are working.
The Lions, still it's a three for two.
Wow, what looked like a disastrous start ends in a three
for two, but I still think JDG should have enough up
to take this Baron.
No problem, St. is TPing back on midway,
but it just seems like, it seems rather bold
to try and stop this Baron,
but that looks like what they're gonna try to do.
I think you probably could.
I mean, the Baron is doing a third of the damage
and it's only a gin, right?
He doesn't do a lot of damage to Baron.
Still, it is down exceptionally low
and the teleport is going to mean
that they are not gonna be able to get that one done.
Even if it was just a Alice to their finds
a double pulverize as well.
And oh dear, same.
He just teleported back in
and now he's going to take the depth chamber route
in order to get it.
I think it would have been better
not to contest the Baron.
You know what?
As far as the hindsight is 2020 is concerned,
I would agree.
The second time.
The first one I'm down for, and it was a very nice engage here by Vampire.
You can see Iles, he wants to be there to support Presurker, but he just dies.
If Rumble puts his ultimate on the CC, they are able to trade for support,
but you can see Presurker just not able to stand to hit many of these fights.
Even though they have a nice Val on him, I believe from Inspired,
he dies right away, and then Shaoxu at level 20 just has so many base stats,
it takes so long for Lyne to finish them off,
And St. Plain with fire to re-engage, Spellbook TP into Hex Flash is the perfect engage to set up the Execute onto St.
They have Gala also, being able to get a little bit of extra money there as well, collecting that kill.
Thankfully they don't lose any more, but still, Mayan kind of circling the drain at this point in the game,
and you saw that picture-in-picture at the same time that the dragon also goes down three dragons apiece here,
as we are really late into this game almost taking towards that 40-minute mark.
The Baron is getting a lot of work done.
Lion needs a bit of a miracle fight here. Berserker with an RFC as well,
so five full items could do one more for, you know, fake 7-item or true 6-item nowadays.
He's got an Elixir of Wrath, that counts, that's not a never mind, doesn't have it
anymore, he drank it. We need a rather, rather miracle fight where Berserker's able to
to hit, but the problem is anyone who he can hit can kill him, so it's very hard to
get auto-attacks off.
This problematic, the three level advantage that Shashu had as well is just kind of ludicrous.
Still has it actually as low as he hasn't yet hit that level 18.
You can't hit level 21, so it won't get worse.
That's true!
It's only up from here, Jack.
You're exactly right.
I do like that optimism.
And as Ginger, off on a bit of an angle here towards mid lane.
You can also only lose 3-0.
You can't get worse.
lose 4-0. Oh man, you are just a puking of hope. Exactly. And it's beautiful to see this.
Ingo's Berserker looks for a ginger. He's almost just dead and whoops, just one extra
auto would have done it. The Engager on the other side feel really dangerous, Berserker
will be able to fight Honkyu. They get the pick and now Berserker is looking for
even more. This Corky does a lot of damage. Like you were saying, just needs to stand
and hit. What about Valkyrie forward and hit?
I mean, in Spards, still has ultimate, he's hunting.
Oh, Gala could be his target as well.
Shao Shu is going to be there.
The wagon wheel comes out, and he finds the double knock-off
Berserker, wants to kill Gala, and let's see what he can do.
So as Shao Shu is on the gravity, well, my god,
he does so much damage.
Uses his audience here to buy a bit of time at Amaphyli.
He's still dead, and JDG, they fall apart.
Lions pounce, and they are looking to try and push
even further.
As they say in Brazil, hope is the last one to die.
They have Galva, Shaoxu, and Hongqiu dead and they're trying to push bot.
Let's see, that's a lot of crystalline overgrowth.
Not a lot of people being down here towards this side of the map on Lion's side,
but they're looking to push even further and Berserkid has so much damage to these structures.
I think they're gonna go for the end. It's difficult.
The Baron is fallwalked so they won't have to do it as many minions.
Hongqiu will be alive though, he's gonna try and clear the way.
Well, Ginger, Vampire, they have so much AOE CC as well,
Well, you cannot stack up against them, but still, the gravity well comes down.
The bubble is not going to quite land there as the headbutt back from Bambai.
He's doing the best that he can, but Junja should be going down.
The cycle comes up through that.
It's the GA that is going to work out.
The pulverize onto three.
Why it needs to take down these Nexus turrets before the rest of the respawns come in.
It's Junja.
He should be going down here.
Say, can he find it?
No, he just has to sit around.
They look for it though, and the second Nexus turret is going to go down the Nexus.
He's getting focused, but it's Xiaoshu that's left alive.
One for Ronald and there it is!
Lion take the game and even out the series!
They're back, baby!
One-one!
I saw that game run!
I was absolutely terrified, Jen!
Hope is the last one to die.
Lion take game two.
This could easily be a two-0 for either team.
Is it Hope is the last one to die?
Or is it you're constantly worried?
Like, it's one of the two, Jen.
You have to choose.
I'll give you some time, though,
because we're going to throw it over to the left.
Absolutely insane here. Oh my god. They give them their test of their own medicine here.
Raz, I want to hear you first. Did you believe in them?
Hell no!
I told you! I told you!
What did you say? I heard nothing from you now.
Remember, I told you that you were lying with this man as a liar. I heard nothing from you now.
I told you there's no way it would be a 3-0. Remember?
You did say that.
I did say that.
Your audacity of Jack to say this could have easily been a 2-0.
Yeah.
What the hell?
What do you mean easily? What are we talking about here, Jack?
That's actually crazy.
It doesn't matter how they made it happen, they made it happen in the middle, but I actually want to see that last team fight.
They did. Absolutely.
That was through what happened because it happened so fast that I'm not sure how they got it.
So this is the second half of the fight because the third half, they basically were able to put a bit of pressure down underneath their tower
and they were like chase, chase, chase, chase, chase and the thing is they didn't allow JDG an opportunity to regroup and reset
and the moment they took out the rumble, who was going to be my player of the game.
just like that they flip the entire game like that they flip the switch that
they did it JDG!
Yes they did!
Wait a minute I was looking to see if there was gonna be a leap in the gold they
they won the game had a gold deficit it doesn't exist what exists though is
that big fat damage here because berserker in the early game he got the
action going he did he really did berserker was a legend early on in the
game and for me there was like an angel the angel was berserker going
off in the ball lane, a little bit of the devil, and that was staying running you down
a little bit in the mid lane. So I was like, please, Berserker, you got to outpace him.
So being able to see Berserker really early on, the 2v2 kills coming through was definitely
needed. Now, going into the draft, I was a little curious about the gym for me. You're
like, okay, you're going into a mouth fighting, I don't know how you're going to be dealing
damage in the later portion of the game, but it's probably for the matchup. You
probably want to be able to get at least something in the early game. Berserker
said hell no, you're not getting that either.
I think Berserk has been super consistent throughout this series.
Game one we saw them getting a 2v2 kill, we're seeing the same thing again for them in the second game.
And when we think about JDG's biggest strength is often through their bot side of the map,
the fact that they are neutering them is such a great strength from the side of Lyon.
Unfortunately, the bottom lane was not really the conversation for the vast majority of this game.
The vast majority of it was just teamfight after teamfight going the way of JDG,
Shoushuu absolutely popping off in the fight and really lying struggling to find that coordination that we've been longing for them to have
It's kind of crazy because in the back of my head. It's the negative Nancy right there
It'd be like
I got it out of my head
But of course player the game unsurprisingly for how well this one was it goes to berserker at least from our side
We call for berserker one
you can make a call of like the pick at the very end being the the inspired like
two men all knock up but of course there were some miscommunications as the game
was happening about like okay like the dragon fights him just jumping in no
one was really ready for it but I felt like a berserker definitely takes it so
it seems like it inspired does think yeah and then it goes berserker I feel like
that is a natural kind of fight between the two players naturally yeah so yeah
I'm always gonna default to inspired here. I'm gonna ask you one question though
There's a bit of gameplay to clean on both sides on both teams here
So what are we looking at here? What have you learned so far?
I mean at least if we look towards JDG side and it's probably gonna be our hyper x3 flex replay
It's vampire. I mean I was worried about it
He had a really good game if he actually ended up winning this game out
It would have been through him this moment here being able to find the pick on towards berserker and then also setting up for
for the Wukong Ultimate because even if you didn't think that was nice, like in the knock-up we were able to find the Ultion Rumble and Jin and all that.
Berserker couldn't play that fight at all. He could have flashed, he had a flash for that fight, but he chose not to use it and Vampire really punished him for him.
I feel like JDG are continuing to demonstrate why they are such good team fighters. I mean it was Emily who told me coming into this tournament that she even believed that JDG is a better team fighting team than BLG is.
And I think that we get to see some of the clear examples here.
The coordination between both VanPyre and Shashu,
I really do think that they were the standouts.
We were having that conversation of who is that player of the game
under the assumption that JDG was going to win this game
because of how well they were playing the teamfights,
making it so impossible for Berserker to really navigate the fights
and for Lion to get these teamfights off.
And the scary thing for me is what I'm learning is, OK,
so Lion's laning phase, not as bad as I thought it was going to be,
except for me, we don't talk about this.
But the team fighting is really where JDG is shining. When they get that clean front-to-back style of Steve,
or not even front-to-back, just when they get to play the fight on their terms, it feels like they're running the Rift.
I want to believe in your team, Raz. I want to believe in your team and I want you to give some hope to the viewers watching.
Is that I am going to win and why? They're going to win. Of course they're going to win.
And the reasoning for it is like, you just need that one big boost, a little bit of momentum underneath you.
Game 1 was looking fantastic and then you're on a dip.
Look at the camera. Okay, I'm looking.
North America.
Yeah.
This is your time.
Hell yeah.
This is your moment.
Right now!
Against the LPL.
Uh-huh.
You're not gonna fall short.
No, it's not gonna happen.
You're not gonna fall down.
Not at all!
You're gonna stand against the might of the LPL.
And what are you gonna do?
We're gonna win!
What are you gonna do?
We're gonna win!
What are you gonna do?
We're gonna win!
Let's go!
Look, they can like this side.
Same here. If he just continues walking forward it could be dangerous, but St. likes this position.
I don't know where to start. The flash comes in and that is a pretty simple first flood that's around here.
Not exactly the greatest position, the underneath the enemy turret, but he doesn't seem to matter.
GDG, just get in there and take the amount.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Ahhhh!
There it is! Oh, that's all holding.
But it's down to the best of one, one for one, and there it is!
Why didn't you take the game and even out the series?
There's better be one, one for one!
If you make a misplay, maybe it's my mouse, maybe it's my armrest, something feels wrong.
If you were at home, you wouldn't do that.
The Infinite Precision Armrest is part of the largest you can let on stage standard initiative.
Aim to bring your home or training room settings to the tournament stage.
It's not just me. Other players will make the setting more simple.
When you're at the most comfortable position, the more powerful play comes out naturally.
How you treat the score?
That's under several gold and metal
Got you writing laws, got it, got it, got it
Got the gold to your fit, ain't no need in that hit
I'm the captain in what's happening
I lean when I'm standing, I'm stacking these wins
Watch the hay reel in, why you waiting in light?
Like at the bar for some bitch
Read the bottom, it's still the redis is man
You will fail, pop was crushed
How you think I know the name of the gang
Old man was the greatest, let the sea before launch
And if you talking real strange
I'ma throw myself like that.
No offense to see I'm getting thinner.
Fresh pick, I want the rim skin and land.
No sense on your mind, that's the feeling.
I don't want a party yet, but I want a retreating land.
No offense to my crown, I'm not a sick and land.
Fresh pick, I want the rim skin and land.
No sense on your mind, that's the feeling.
I want a party yet, but I want a retreating land.
Got you losing, I expect it through your lookin' face
This some Alice Gallimellis, you gon' need a cast
Pressin' through your soul, you gon' win
Got the money, man
No offense to see I'm kiddin'
Fresh pick, I want revenge, man
No sense on your mind, that's the deal
I don't wear a party hat, but I want how we treat it
No offense to my man, I'm not a ceiling
Fresh pick, I want revenge, man
No sense on your mind, that's the deal
I'm in a party, it's problem, how we treat it?
This is my real life, this is my real life, this is my real life, this is my real life, this is my real life.
I picked Luthor in Game 1. The reason I picked Luthor was just because Luthor has good synergy
with Ash. Ash is a mobile carry, she benefits a lot from movement speed, just high attack
speed which also has synergy with Luthor. There's synergy between the champions, champions
even if they're seen less. I guess the unfamiliarity with the draft and the comp kind of led to the
situation that we were in. That's not something, a situation I guess though we were that practiced on.
I think after this tournament, especially mine, has not been up to scratch.
Hopefully that's something that will improve for coming splits and coming internationals,
which we will hopefully do at any of course.
I appreciate the spots thus far, but yeah, there's still a lot of work to do, so perhaps
Let's show you guys what we can do.
Well, talking about other splits and other tournaments,
you're not finished with this one yet, Isles, all right?
Listen, his last game was exceptional.
The Nami Bobbles he landed in lane
were critical to Berserker getting that large lead
and was the strength that they were playing through the entire game.
So he wasn't happy with his performance when they recorded that interview
after being slammed by Gen.G.
But I'd say this series, Isles has played very well.
Yeah, and he's not that used to just disregarding matches against Gen.G.
like a lot of other teams are just starting to figure that one out now so
I'll just make sure that any match against Gen.G wipe it from your memory
absolutely I think you can use to learn both these teams got 3-0ed by Gen.G in
very swift fashion and both these teams could be up to zero line huge
arguments for how they should have won the first game so then Gen.G could be a 4-0 for either team if they win the next two games. Is that what you're saying?
yeah pretty much it would feel like they were in winning positions in all four
I haven't cost many best of sevens in League of Legends.
I believe that used to happen like in one off tournament.
No one's ever done a best of seven.
I think they have in like a weird, I actually posed this question and someone on Twitter
said something that like, yes it did happen like 25 years ago.
Yeah, I think World Final should be the only best of seven that we play and it should
ban all other tournaments from doing it.
I think it's the only time people would be willing to stick around for a seven-game
series.
I think there should be way too best of sevens every time we do double elimination.
That is just me. Let's dive in to a pick and ban here though as JDG have decided to go with first pick once again
And so that means by the looks of things actually never mind
So lion will be on the blue side however
They are on the right hand side of the champions like right now. Yeah, that is where the players are sitting
So that matches up
Jarvan seraphine band once again Louie still banned so the kind of bread and butter bottom lanes have been consistently banned through the first three games
You need to update the series bands as well.
Those are just the fearless bands from game one that we currently see.
So all the champions they played in the last game are not available as well.
Alright, let's see what that changes as far as the priority is concerned.
I have a feeling that like, and Bessa kind of just hasn't been looked at throughout this series so far.
And so that might be something worth looking at here is the Pantheon going to be taken away.
One more band comes through here from Lyon.
in, what is it going to be?
Fiddle sticks, kind of like that from,
look at that beautiful drawing as well.
Really evokes fiddle sticks.
I'd say both those signs are great.
Let's go GDG sign, looks great as well.
Ben, we are certainly taking our time
for this final bend.
I'm a little worried that something is banned
and isn't popping up yet.
Okay, it's Jax, we got it.
Okay, so Jax is gonna be banned away, Shashu.
Okay, so with the jackspan isn't that that's kind of telling us something but perhaps there is an idea
Like a first pick and that's a like a first pick and maybe
Cuz we're on the house second pick so rumble croissant a gone already JDG has the first pick
Bye going to be the choice here. How is inspired?
nefiri
untested
That is such a beautiful way of describing it.
Okay, so probably not going to be going for that particular attempted counter pick,
because like you were saying, the ambassador set up for here and will be locked away,
could of course be inspired spic, because the ambassador has been played throughout the jungle,
but RISE IS UP, WHAT THE HECK?
Nice!
I guess it's an assumed ban in my brain, I just assume that it's always going to be banned away,
and they get its second rotation?
I love this second rotation from Lyon already a lot of side lane power a lot of good ability to skirmish
It does leave open the
Anivia counters that I'm sure honky would be able to play whether he wants to go something like Casio or anivia
So hen also could just be thrown in as a top jungle flex at the moment wouldn't be too shocked if they lock it in
Are we gonna go with like bot lane by?
No, okay, so it's probably gonna go topling
Yeah, and honky. Let's uh, is it gonna be going for the anivia counterpick or something like that?
Or do they hold their cards close to their chest, or do they just go for the mid jungle tried and true?
R.E. Vi, this is not
Inspiring in my in my personal opinion. They have a really high chance of drafting a full square of this game
Because they already have the top lane triangle and I don't see a reason that they have to sack the bottom of the map
I actually think that they need to put a lot of power in the bottom of the map because
There is a rise embezzah being represented on the other side the embezzah still retaining its flexibility as well
So you can't go all in into you know banning things away
All right. Yes, we're gonna be locked in here for berserker
So try to keep things ambiguous. Is the aim of the game more bands to come on through you
Is there like a zehen like counterfeit like what would be the favorite counterfeit in the zehen towards the top seven?
Well, I mean
If you were gonna flex the ambassador, that's my question. Honestly, that's a good question
I'm not entirely sure what doke would have cooking
He could always play just a range top if you really want to see is it crazy
I'm for like vain talk. I don't think it's time
I think I think the ambassador is fine
And I'm just thinking through the junglers that are already locked in knowing that inspired is going up against five
so it's
We've lost all of our fearless bands, so I need to from memory
Remember the four jungles that have been played, but it's Wukong, Malphite, Zin, and Pantheon are gone from the jungle pool.
Well, Pantheon's being banned, so it wasn't played in one of those games, so there's another one. Zin's out.
Did you say that one? Zin, Narchern, Malphite, Wukong. And Pantheon, Viego also banned.
So they're going down in Spards list. He played Viego in game two against Gen.G, and one of their better looking games against Gen.G.
So this could be the time that Inspired has a jungle pick cooking.
Yep, the Kaisa and the Sivir both banned away here. Just some options into the Ezreal that can do decently well.
Yeah, good chance that they're saving support counterpick for a quick pick as well once they see the bot lane of you and do it.
So I expect Inspired's jungle pick to come through on 4 here.
Yeah, I feel like the support pool is kind of wide open outside of the fact that Phyllis has banned away quite a few of the decent ones
There is the Seraphine being taken away as well. So trying to deny that combination
On that bottom side of the map.
With all these jungle bans, this could be the time to move the embassy to jungle because it's still a very serviceable jungler
I also think that like just lock a support and then hold the flexibility
Although looks like Doklaar is heading towards a different idea.
If they lock this in it's not playing rise about a year ago
We talked to docla about top lane aurora and he said it's a fake pic
Like it can go up 10 CS and it just doesn't do anything. Hmm, but a man can change his views. What about what's his opinion on top lane rise?
I don't think it's
Something he'll play. Oh really, but it would be a decent time for it for sure
Yeah, because if you don't like to say we're into Ari that you don't need to play it
Just play rise instead
Having an idea about what he wants to pick here is the Zyra will be locked in.
Is it just Zyra or Contine? Yeah, the Lotus Jewel are going to be locked in for JDG.
Okay, so let's see what Ios has cooked for his.
Kind of pick here, Seraphine already gone, Karma already gone.
Could it be Bradtime? Ezreal Bard is a nice combo.
Yeah, I really like this. I think you'd have push in that lane as well.
Could have been an advantage there as far as the combat capabilities of the Bard
and really does add a massive amount of utility.
We've seen this champion banned so often as never mind,
Isles is skipping around a few different decisions.
I do think the bot would have been a good one.
The honest-
Instead wanting a little bit more engage in front line.
Yeah, the honest can be really good into the recon as well.
Get that point and clip Q when the recon tries to fly in
to maybe help with the one shot.
And this is likely what we're gonna see from Latin
with all the bans to throw down to its five.
It makes sense that he flexed the ambassador to the jungle.
Yep.
And they just need to make sure him and Ezra have good games.
Otherwise the MR stack from the top side of JDG could be very strong.
Yeah, I do think that the Aurora should be able to keep down the Zahen in the earliest
stages of the game.
But I just feel like that champion, if you get to a certain point, you are just kind
of inevitable.
Yeah, especially when there's double AP soul winners.
If you say you have to itemize pretty hard in AP, and if Inspire doesn't get fed,
he will run over to JDG.
Yeah.
Little bit frightened, but match point on the cards for both teams here as we have
a tied up series.
It is the best of three from here on out, and I'm just so glad that we have a
Series it isn't a sweep you said already that this could be like the most one-sided
International tournament that we've ever had well both JDG and
Lion are doing their very best to fight back against that and listen today is just different G2
already
One yeah, I prefer not to think about that series. Maybe a little bit sad
Well, because of the BFX result, it didn't do very well.
If I can run back to the bits that I haven't quite figured out how to forget yet, but let's dive into game number three here.
Between Lyon and JDG, Lyon being able to pick up that victory quite narrowly, I guess, towards the end there with that last auto attack needed to come down towards the Nexus.
And now looking to carry that momentum forward into this second game
And I want to kind of go back to what we were mentioning at the very beginning and almost facetiously
Sure mental reset did happen again and lion managed to get back out under the rift and find themselves a victory here against JDG
No, and now the the mental momentum as you would call it. Oh the mental man in
It's not what I would call it. You really? Yeah
I thought they were on the same page
It's in the side of Lyon for sure because they were one team fight away from
Probably losing the series going down to zero after having two close games like that can be really the moralizing
But now that they've won that second game they can very easily say ah, we should be up to zero
We can play with more confidence that we are in fact the better team
Yep
And that's the type of things that you can truly believe going into this game three after the comeback fight
They're able to have at the end of game two
Well, doing exactly what you're supposed to on this Aurora, just straight up zoning Shoushuu out of this lane.
It's beautifully done.
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It is safe fighting against Honkyu here.
Couple more Rottos would have done it, but didn't have quite the time to get underneath that turret and make that one happen.
And the ginger is over here.
Orbid deception does go a little bit wide.
You know, getting a bit of health back.
Saint has that one ward on the Raptors of Jungja, so he's gonna see exactly where the Vi is,
so he's probably just gonna shove this next wave in and then probably back off a little bit, maybe take the base.
Do you like that he's not playing overly aggressively looking for that kill, but now he gets this crotch to kill.
He just clashes on in, doesn't find the Q, there's the first blood!
What a play!
And Will just wander his way out, Jungja not able to respond!
Well, he saw that Jungja had walked up after killing the Raptors and wasn't in danger of ganking,
And then Honkyu greeds on that wave. The wave was so big that Saints able to flash-fall and get the kill
But then because he went so deep actually being able to drop the turret aggro, you got straight back to the turret
That was
Greatly played by Saints. Just utilizing all the information that he had available to him and like you say this is a monster wave
As the flash comes in Q misses doesn't actually matter
You manage to pick that one up and then immediately walks back on down
So returning favor from game number one last time around it. We looked a little bit more dicey
Listen for the lion mid laner. It's the mental advantage game to the victor play was a head scratcher the momentum
That's exactly right. They're utilizing it very very well
I'm not gonna do that again. That's the last time
We've done enough
Try to coin too many things that aren't real. Yeah triangles and square drafts as well as temple markers
I think we've hit our quota for things that are allowed to make up in a very close LCS versus LPL series when LCS hasn't beaten LPL in the best of five.
We saw a came between over 2,400 days. The last time it happened would have been, we believe, TL versus IG 2019.
That's what it is. We do have a bit of an engage here from Vampire. It goes on in.
Berserker still looking for some angles, but
There's going to be JDG standing their ground for now inspired behind enemy lines right here as we can see
Yeah
And there is the dash out from Berserker as Isles looking to get in onto Gala here
Does have the equips running but still taking a lot of damage as we can see
The flash was actually needed to be utilized there as inspired goes forward looking for a grump this time around
Yeah, we lost his obsession with the rafters instead going to go for this little grump fight burns his smite early
He doesn't get the Gromp, so ends up using his tempo token right there before he goes
back to his rafters.
You just coined another one, Jack!
You told me we're not allowed to do that!
I cheated!
I said it!
Just felt right at the moment.
He burns the tempo token.
I actually kind of love that, though.
I feel like that works better.
He probably does, in a tempo marker.
He burns the tempo token.
I feel like they're in an arcade.
Oh, beautiful.
Alright, well, Saint is at that level 6, does have rumwarp now available, what can affect the rest of these lanes?
Is Shoushuu continuing to really have a rough time up against Doku?
Which is how the early laning phase you would expect it to go. He's gone grasp, second wind, as well as door and shield and biscuits.
He's doing everything he possibly can to survive the early laning phase.
Definitely gets way more powerful once he gets a couple of items.
Very early game, not the strength of the hemtop lane, so Doku trying to get as much advantage in this stage as he can.
Yep, and as we can see it's almost a thousand gold the lead just that first blood for lion
But still came up to do a decent job in almost all of the lanes
Especially the solos is I was he's going to get that zene plate on top of Empire does punish him on that engage
Still it is a fair bit of work being done here by the Zyra Khan
Yeah, almost a classic bot lane we see here
This is the type of stuff we'd see before
Everyone was walked into lane into a roll quest completion back when people would swap and could just run away with CC
So even though we haven't seen much of it this year these both these teams are going to be very comfortable
playing these matchups.
Oh Shashu going through a little bit and all in here is Dirkla possibly in trouble.
Might have to ult.
Yeah Weedon comes out.
Nope.
Doesn't actually need to.
This is a couple of buttons but he's otherwise alright.
10 CS advantage still held on to.
Jhinja takes the crap.
Level 6 on Ariva though.
Sane has to have a lot of respect if he doesn't have an Ambesa in his back pocket.
But actually.
Oh dear.
This could be scary.
And Dokliffe's fresh off the teleport as well, the flash forward from Choushuu doesn't really
find too much.
It looks like Jinja is just going to be going back all the way between worlds.
I don't know about that one.
No, this is really well played by Dokliffe.
Yeah, if the wave gets in, he probably dies to the gank from Vi, but they're not willing
to just go in and take Turret Shots from the very start of the gank, so nice job
by Dokliffe to burn us off there.
Kind of felt the gank didn't have full vision on the Vi, but he's like, there's
no way Choushuu's playing this way.
Yeah, I can't let this wave crash.
Fies probably in my jungle and there is so much vision. Have a look at this all the way up that
River towards the top side
JDG knows what's going on, but they don't know what's going on on that bottom side
So it's a trade of blue buffs. He could still get come here through the wall decides against it
Okay, Doku's burned a lot of time. Yeah from junja
And they don't necessarily know it because of course they know that he was up there
But still yeah, they're 90% sure because in spite also invaded blue buff and Gromp stole both of them away during that time
So they were playing the entire map as if they had full vision of the fight.
Well, honky, now I'm just going to be able to clear out these minions in the mid lane.
And he's catching back up as far as the S numbers are concerned, but still that 500 gold lead is there for Saint on this rise.
And rise is obviously the big ticket pick in this game.
He already has his catalyst done and is going to be a huge problem in this game.
game. Nice job, I was looking there, clearing the wave and interrupting a reset with his level
6 Pan-Ezreal. Would that get him a tempo token? Yeah. Cool. If it was a thing. Just wanted
to check just to make sure. I am up with all the lingo so far. There's a bit of a teleport
in from Vampire as well. He's back out onto the map with his unsealed spellbook and
thinking to be able to clear out a control ward and doing their very best to clear
up this topside that had been littered with vision from JDG. So Void Grubbs up and available.
Let's see what our Inspire just dives on over towards those right now. There is a bit of control
here for Lyon elsewhere on the map. Sure. These early games from Lyon have been consistently good.
Yeah. This gives a lot of hope for the rest of the series as Preserker still doesn't have
Flash but does have E able to not have to burn it right now. Watch out, Douglas.
Yep, there is a ball break of flash, and then the cease and desist comes in, and he's just dead!
Hmm. Hmm. You gotta watch out for saying things, Jett, I think.
Yes. Stop saying things. You got it from here on out, Alex.
Okay, never mind, never mind. You can save me. There's just no things like that, okay?
People might say that it's a cost to curse.
So we don't want to risk that.
He's still doing his job, right? And if Vi gets a gank off with her ultimate and flash,
Obviously, that is difficult to avoid.
Yeah, relieves a bit of pressure on the other lanes at the very least. St. can play more aggressively in the lane.
Inspired, can continue to try and power farm up until his Eclipse, where he will get very strong.
Do have to watch out here. They have a number advantage.
Yeah, just all for cleanse. That's a decent trade.
Not too much of anything else happening from that one though.
And it's about a 300 gold lead. St. was cheating towards the bottom side of the map, but no realm warp angle available.
And Honky, you're still fishing for these jams, not quite finding the buttons here.
Yeah, I mean, one thing I've learned from watching Santa last couple years is he's just an incredibly
arrogant player in the way that he positions, because when it works, it works, but it also
leaves him open to being punished fairly often.
And in this game with the turret dive working out, and then also that another big trade
on Honky, it is working out so far.
Yep, certainly is.
And I think it does make sense for a guy to play it on the same team as Showmaker
for quite some time is yeah he goes in there's a great entrance there as well
quickness comes on down and st doing his very best to try and escape this one I
think he's gonna be able to that is I feel like that's illegal that he got
out there it's super legal but it that's the way he plays I mean he burns his
coast he gets a plate but technically he burned a lot of time junja went
mid lane vampire used ultimate and st was gonna reset after that plate
anyway so ends up being a good play I don't know if many cooks would agree
that that is the play to go for but when it works it works either he has
incredible risk assessment or he's just crazy some say he has better mechanics
than JoJo his jungler has said that inspired well that's crazy he rarely
says anything from anyone is better than JoJo well that's uh I was just
trading his ultimate for everything that gala has one after the other as the
thunderstorm does come on down couple of boy grubs do go back over to
inspired as well. I think he went back and finished off the remaining two, so three of those going in their direction at the same time.
And so J.E.G. without out very much of an objective to their name at this point in the game.
Yeah
Line's gonna have to start thinking about Drake soon if they're gonna be holding this much pressure across the three waves.
Although Saint is probably fairly happy stacking this tier working up towards a lot of ages
against the RE by early game, but finally
inspired and
Rise link up, and it might make a clip on here.
Yeah, Hile's going in, he finds the Xenith plate angle, Eclipse just makes him pretty much immortal as he goes in.
That means that they clear out the way very comfortably, take the tempo marker into the river,
and look to see whether they can use that to grab themselves great, because in the meantime,
Saint just gonna be running real fast, and they're going to turn this into an engage onto Vampire as well.
He's gonna be forced to go for a reset.
Let's feel like Lian have a lot of control here, although Inspire does get charmed up. Stashes around.
How's that first move? Michael, for re-engage!
Yes, there's the public execution as Isles gets on in that season assist to try and mitigate some of that CT.
But Junja should still be going down, despite being able to do a fair bit of damage.
The Flash In from Inspired, that'll do it.
Solo throw for the last hit, not sure about that one.
But still, I mean, it gets the job done.
Yeah, it gets them the kill onto Junja.
I think he was gonna die anyway now.
State is definitely gonna flash, never mind, he's fine.
Well, I wasn't gonna say definitely gonna die, no no no no.
The Mercury Treads to Nassie gives him just enough time to flash away.
He's not allowed to back there.
So many illegal things being done from this man.
He's playing with confidence.
Oh yeah.
And it's working.
So keep it up, Saint.
I, I, maybe, maybe Shermik did like personally teach him.
How to play the game.
The big thing about this play ends up being the roam from Isles at the end of it,
staying out of Fog of War because of the work Isles and Berserk are having to do in Botlane.
So as Inspired lands the R they're able to try and chain the CC and basically
Jaja getting over the wall here I'm pretty sure Inspired was going to just finish me.
Inspired's Ambassador so he's just going to catch a billion bashings if he just
cheats up. Yeah well still a kill. We'll take it. We'll take it indeed
and two to one in favor of Lyon they have over a thousand gold in the lead and dollar
He does have his ultimate back available. He's going to throw it out right now, but Berserker just creates as much space as he would like with his arcane shift.
And Lyon is so good at just playing around these cooldowns. Like, if that gets thrown out, they don't go inside the feathers. They just back away.
They'll look for another fight when he has absolutely nothing to mitigate.
I mean, Berserker Isles have had really strong waiting phases in all three of these games against Goll and Vampire, who have been one of the strong points of JDG to get here to first stand.
This isn't even a game where they necessarily over-prioritize lane, but Leona, Ezreal, at this point, is winning against Desiree-Conn.
Last time we saw JDG actually felt like it was the bottom lane that was performing exceptionally well, especially Gala.
This time around, it is lined with a whole lot of control, and hasn't been JDG picking for priority down there either.
I think that's one of the bigger things, is the draft as well, keeping Seraphine, Permaband.
The Carmaine game won, would have been the moment, but the Polkveres was keeping it down even though Lyon did end up losing this game.
Now they have to watch out for Jendr though.
Yeah, Junji looking for a bit of an angle here.
Does have the bike and pretty much guarantee
that his gang should be successful if they do stay up.
But that is not what they're going to do.
Instead, Junji just going to head over towards this drake.
Look to try and take that one down.
That'd be first dragon of the game at almost 15 minutes.
It's one of the latest first drakes
that we've had so far this tournament.
And his vampire just has to quickness grand exit.
That's a lot invested to try and stop it back.
But at least he does.
It stopped the back.
And now, Genji, overstaying on the map a little bit after Drake,
St. Sniffs it out, still very close competitive game here.
This first Drake-Kentek solo means we're incredibly far away from a...
Actually, between the worlds here is the realm warp to deliver a rise towards this top lane.
Grim deliverance, but the ghost gets St. out of the way,
and Shoushuu is just going to be held at arm's length,
and taken down. A St. that grabs that kill is second to the game,
and Lyon just really not allowing for any openings.
It should be Dirkler grabbing this top out of turret as well.
Yeah, he's been shippin' away at this turret, having a lot of push onto his hand, and same as having just a great game.
He really is.
What a bounce back from game number two as well.
It was a difficult time for him, but this time picks up that first blood by himself underneath the enemy out of turret,
and then able to help out Dirkler in top lane as well.
Live by Saint, die by Saint as well.
Hopefully just live.
Hopefully just live for the rest of the game.
I mean, this champion's busted.
And also, look at this.
Zahem can teleport down bottom, but he just
collects another full wave bottom,
likely collects some crystalline overgrowth on that turret
as well.
Full rod of Aegis almost finished stacking his tier.
Berserker definitely has to watch out here, though.
Yep, OK, shift.
Should be able to get him over there.
But Gengar is just going to throw down the ulti.
There's the muck up.
Sean is connected.
All that layering at CC was perfect.
Out of JDG.
And that is what happens when you have barrier
Yeah, Sane has to watch out now as well.
Dokla could teleport in, but wouldn't want to
because he's got a full wave to collect up there,
but a three-man dive onto Sane,
who is flashless and ghostless.
Yep. And, I mean,
Cleans would have allowed him to cleanse, flash off
to the season to Sane, but I think he still would have been dead, sir.
That's a strong run.
Not too much of a big deal here, as Sane just trying to get them
out of underneath this turret.
Yeah. Not only did the Leona come to defend,
but they also got the Aurora TP,
so that's probably the play worth.
Whoa! Okay!
Ah, it goes for the flash Sane's blade
to try and get onto them,
But it's just a flash out from ginger. You will take that support flash for the jungle flash probably feeling pretty good
Doesn't have hex flash which is a little bit of a shame, but and uh
In sparta's two levels on ginger by the way, that is a
Okay, well same is now potentially in trouble friend deliverance is going to come on in
He's trying to run this one out the grand entrance gonna hold him in position
And there's a shutdown going over to this a hen and I think as far as where to put shutdown money
That is nowhere lion wanted to put shut down money. That's exactly where JDG wanted to put the shut down money
Absolutely. Yeah, so stride raker mercury treads on this ahead now two kills
He will end up being a problem in this game still a very close game as inspired is able to pick up the rip carol
Then likely useless to break mid but shout you getting even more gold now the original play was defended
But then they went for the repeat play and caught saying talker and having a look there at the coinbase gold grind
The actual the fact that gala is ahead in gold as well is not something that I was expecting to see in this lane
with the fact that
They just had a lot of control in the early stages gala is bounced back quite well
As we move towards the end of this mid game things are pretty much tied up
Except for the fact that there is that one Drake on JDG next one going to be an infernal pretty good single Drake to be
Perfectly honest, and I imagine lion wanting to even out that count
Stop that double dragon from happening here
Just feels like we're so much earlier in the game. We're talking about second drake for sure. It's almost 20 minutes
Yeah inspired was definitely prioritizing his level advantage. Oh, yeah over by in this one
potentially even just trying to delay
When soul is needed to be fought over because rise is so good in split-pushing scenarios
I can understand the strategy of just let if we don't hit Drake
They don't hit Drake and then that means a potential soul point force is gonna delay
Long enough for rise to become Thanos, right? So I don't think it's
I think it's a good thing for Lyon that the first drake was so late, even if the last shutdown was a bad thing for Lyon.
A decent little charm there, and of course the upgraded Merktra. It's going to feel pretty nice here for Saint, keeping himself relatively safe.
Just clearing out this wave, but there's a lot of push that JDG has.
A lot of control here towards this bottom side of the map with 40 seconds left on this dragon.
They're doing everything that they can to make sure that they have as much control prepared.
Now you've got Lyon moving in vision being cleared out and inspired with that level advantage
Should be able to try and outmuscle them as far as getting some control around this dragon pit
Yeah, Doku is sitting on protobelt which would make him strong, but he needs to
Clear out this top wave and he doesn't have a teleport yet, but Shaoshu does so I would expect this to be a
slow-played situation by Lyon like if Lyon has the control I
I don't think they should start to drink right away unless Dokla wants to give more turf gold over to his hang, which I don't think would be wise yet.
He's roaming down for this drink control.
See whether we can get there, but I imagine that Shoushuu will just stick around as now Vampire having to ground exit.
We'll be able to do so.
Burn his ghost from Spellbook as well.
Yeah.
Okay, Dokla, pick up that way.
That should mean that JDG are allowed to enter this river, understanding that there isn't a teleport available on the Aurora.
Yeah, they have implied numbers advantage at the moment.
Hello, Baron. Just going to swim away. It's nice to see you.
Just showing us that we are very late for a second trick of the game.
Baron showing up at the same time.
There it is.
Teleport up for Doku now, though, so they delayed it long enough
that they could contest if they want, but they've given up control,
so it's hard for them to enter, especially against R.E.V.I. Rakan,
who couldn't one-shot him if they walked too close.
Oh, the Zephyr is just going to clear out the minions.
Bottom lane is just kind of being forgotten at this point
as the charm just barely goes wide.
How's Mike going on there?
And Omkiu just getting burst down by Berserker,
throws out the true shot, but doesn't exactly find too much joy
as the Rift Herald coming down as well.
I do really like the battle, Rift Herald has inspired.
Wondering where he wants to use it.
Me too.
Thank you very much.
They're going through a bit of an engage towards Scarlet,
that just takes down that turret.
There's the charm onto Inspire,
the quickness doing a fair bit of work there,
and where's the follow-up.
The damage is not quite there, as now Tocla turns up.
If I get the angle, season assist does come in, but the knock-ups are returned
and into the backline goes Xiaoshu!
This guy is so big, the Grim Deliverance will find nothing!
Still, Saint is going to die and Lion will still be losing this teamfight
and possibly the Dragon as well, unless Berserker can make some heroism happen.
Lion really not on the same page at the start of this fight.
Berserker was in base when Inspired went in for that Rift Herald crash.
So he gets the two plates, they do get the jungler,
Which is keeping the Drake alive maybe for one more cycle, but the overall team fight does go over to the side of JDG
We have 600 gold advantage and they didn't manage to take the Drake
So that is the good news here for Lyon. We can just do this again and run it back
But let's have a look at how this all started.
Aurora is keeping on mid wave, Berserker is running out of base and everyone on Lyon just has to run.
A lot of damage actually turned back onto
But then there's still the numbers of damage. So Shoushuu can just run forward with impunity, Honkyu ends up picking up the kill onto Saint.
And we are back for another Tango at the Dragon Pei.
Yep, round two.
And let's see whether it's going to work out in favour of Lyon or whether JDG can finish it off at this time around.
So item spike is big here for Berserker though.
Let's see if he can land the damage that he wants to.
Oh dear, a little bit caught out of position here as Jundra and he has to just get out of there.
I think this could just mean that Lyon will be able to take this dragon because without any health on your jungler makes things real hard to smite.
So Lyon will be able to take this one down and they'll grab themselves a crab to boot.
Now that is, Jhango is wide and Lyon this time without a contest is going to be able to take that trait.
Got about a damage they're able to get down onto Jhango.
He's having a tough game with how much Inspired has been countering his jungle.
So 210 CS to 158 is going to feel a little bit underpowered compared to what Inspired is in these teamfights.
kind of holding that two level advantage as well.
But still a very competitive game overall.
The name we haven't said much
that we might be saying a lot later in this game is Gala.
Because the Zayah scaling is real
and Gala's carried many a game on Zayah and his career.
And also almost moving towards three items as well
when he does have that Lord Dom's.
Unless he decides to go for more to reminder
of something like that, there's not a lot of healing.
So it should just be Lord Dom's here for Gala.
And then infinity, like four items, Zyra, is so incredibly frightening and will have a whole lot more consistent damage
than what Berserker will be representing right now is when Berserker is the most powerful.
And so I do like that Lion we're trying to force around that, but they're gonna have to continue trying to make things happen
because there is a certain inevitability of Gala on this Zyra, as you were talking about.
Even if the range is relatively low, as Isle's back of the baron pit,
It is able to mitigate most of parents damage as he does vacate the area vision available for JDG
Really tense game it is really tense series so far game one
Had the tension the whole time even though it was up seven kills to zero with it being one fight away
It line ends up losing that one felt like it was gonna turn into a sweep in game two
Because line made a couple of stakes after the other game lead, but they clutched it up one that big
I mean there was a rumble with a 5000 Goldly, that should not be a thing that loses the game.
Yeah, that's true.
You know, there was a very large berserker in that game.
The berserker in this game is also looking pretty powerful, although he is behind a bit of Gold at this point,
but right now the items are certainly looking good.
Yeah, thinking about the way these teamfights are going to progress, so much of it as well,
who can make the right engage?
The team that goes in first might actually win this one.
Berserker is going to be able to bounce back to the other side of the ultimate here as solo
player is just going to slow down vampire but he doesn't seem to be worried about it.
Isle's still, they really want the opportunity.
There is no turret up here as Inspired and Saint are both delivered but the teleport does
come on in.
Grand entrance only gets a knock up onto Saint as Honky takes a lot of damage.
In they go.
Berserker is kind of free hitting.
They do take down Jinger but it is Inspired that falls as well.
Isle's going to be taken down and Gala is just hitting whatever the heck he likes
in the backline.
is going to be able to live through it doing so much damage in JDG.
Are they just looking for a Baron?
That'd be a little bit frightening as long as he was going to be able to take the crystalline
overgrill and takes down the turret.
That could be the game that swings in JDG's, sorry, the fight that swings the game in
JDG's favor as they get 3-4-1.
You can see Lyon was really hard forcing that.
I'm surprised.
I'm very surprised they didn't go for the Baron, mainly because they don't have
smite and they're thinking like Aurora Ezreal could steal it, but it was going
4 versus 2. I think Lyon might have dodged a bullet at the end here, but you can see
the teleport comes in on the run warp and then Lyon realizes they kind of just have to run.
Gala gets out so much damage onto Inspired as they're trying to retreat and Lyon can just never get a good line set up.
As JDG just kind of runs through the three of them. Great TP counter to Saints engage with the run warp.
Not to mention, Vampire just having an absolute field day in that fight.
So much value out of the quickness.
And his grand entrance towards the end there, making sure that they pick off Isles really beautifully done.
That's going to surge JDG into a 3000 gold advantage.
Not out of it just yet, but it is looking more and more difficult as this game goes on.
And Shashu possibly caught out of position.
Does have that grim deliverance.
Sanko's golden to avoid that damage, and now Berserker has finally turned up.
But Xiaoshu is so typical to kill, Inspired goes in, but him and Sade are just dead,
and the rest of Lion couldn't really do anything about it.
Honky will be able to find a charm as well, as that is not the teleport that Doku was looking for.
He tries to go between the worlds, but the world he finds is in the death chamber.
Xiaoshu is out of control in this game, absolutely dominating,
same to the start of that fight, and then everyone else on Lion just trickles in to die.
It wasn't Baron before, it's definitely Baron now.
It certainly is, and this is something that we set up earlier on in the game as well, but let's have a look at how it all happened.
Really, just taking the ego fight with Saint in the river and realizing he's stronger, and despite Inspire trying to fly in,
the map was more in the favor of JDG. They can get numbers to the fight first, and then Homq also scouting the TP,
landing the perfect shot onto Gopla, who was laid on the TP, to get the third kill of the fight.
Yep. It was beautifully done, and you can see Tabe not celebrating too much just yet.
much just yet and inspired not looking too happy about how things are going now
let's see whether they can turn it around 6000 gold is the advantage here
for JDG but not a lot of Drake's have been taken so far in this game it's
another cloud song I did want to talk about it earlier on but felt like you
know I do talk about it probably too much the shot shoot down here towards his
bottom side he is so frightening on this and and I don't think he's going
to be able to clear out these cannons for these uh barren up minions in time
rebel barren powerplay looking a whole lot better here 1600 at this point in time
we're still two minutes left to go and jetty g just looking to balloon this
advantage move themselves towards a match point unless lion can do
something heroic at the same time that you could see
tabae not counting his eggs before they hatch into chickens yeah this time
not counting his chickens before they hatch i think is the is the line
Yeah, but if you do, if you do count chickens before they patch, they are indeed eggs, Chad, you are, you're absolutely right.
Yep, absolutely.
Just because of what happened in the last game, look at that!
It just sounds a bit weird when you say a little bit wrong, it's okay, Iles, it's not the eclipse, but the Inatar is just going to fall.
And man, JDG just moving like a steamroller towards Lion, it looks like Lion just cannot get themselves into the positions that they want to.
Isles moves up. I don't know whether that's a good thing, but now J.D.G. goes to the ringage.
Again, Vampire just takes control of the Jarkin X and 12, but they go in between the worlds.
There is the public execution. Okla grabs one kill, but unfortunately, that is probably all they're going to get as it's a double for Gala.
And Mazurka is standing on the control ward, wanting to try and take someone down. Okla gonna get delivered grimly.
And Xiaoshu should be able to flash on forward to help grab this foreguard. There is the ace.
And maybe JDG have had enough of this game.
When JDG starts winning a team fight, they win the team fight.
They know how to chase down.
They continue to win the team fight.
On the edges of these fights, what a beautiful finish
to this game by JDG.
I have to say, the player of the game
is a little bit easier.
This time around as well, Vampire
has been just so incredibly good.
As you can see, Isle's doing his very best
to distract these minions and JDG.
But the Nexus turrets aren't just
going to fall down.
half a turret remaining and they will be able to push this mini-weight forward so JDG will be able to collect match point here
But lion made them work for it
They had an advantage throughout a lot of this game
And I think that we haven't seen the last of them as of course
We've still got one more game to go the possibility of silver scrapes. No job. Absolutely
Lion has been winning the early games JDG has been winning the mid late games
That's why they're headed in the series
Well, we'll just have to see whether they are going to be out of close this one out four to one
a 3-1 or whether it is going to be able to be lion able to bring it back as we
are going to throw it back to the lounge and I'll figure out how to speak English we're
not giving up on the hope just yet guys they were a bit hasty here again and once
you get rolling in sim fights it's just really hard to stop them a lot of easy
buttons to press on the side of GGG but what do you want to frame him again
That's the government, the full government name.
When I asked you who was going to win, what did you say?
We're going to, as in us.
Oh, we? Yes, all of us.
I feel like you lied to me, okay?
Where was the explosive thing going?
Where was Berserker and his aggression?
Where was the calculated genius that inspired?
Where was it, brother?
I don't know.
What do you want me to know?
I was looking for a game map!
You're the expert!
I mean, actually, when you said we're going to win,
meant the LPL because you used to conquer that region.
I know that is a secret agent.
I didn't get the map.
Well, the classic flip-flopper-flip-flopping
is strictly raised.
As the LPL and JDG expert, break down to me
the breaking point of the game here.
A lot of it comes down to the fact
that JDG, the LPL, they're always willing to fight.
So even though Lyon were angling for this fight,
the realm warp was coming through,
the TPO was coming through.
They didn't see Gala.
They didn't see Gala the other side.
So even though Ambassador was coming through,
thinking the right side was completely safe, was not.
And so it was looking like a good angle,
because, yes, Inspire had been finding good fights prior to this.
The early game was nice, just like Jad had also said,
but that one was the straw that broke the camel's back.
And they tried once more.
The problem was the team wasn't there.
JDG was there first.
They had priority through it,
and Lyon didn't have their support or AD care there.
That was there on time.
So I didn't really understand the choice in this fight.
Tabe has a very long history of working with support players that quickly rise from the
top of the table in the LPL and he set his sights on Vampire and has been very public
about how his expectations are so high for this individual and how he expects a lot
of things from him that I'm pretty sure is not the game that just happened.
No, that's the game just before.
I remember that.
Because I was looking for the recon as I was about to celebrate Vampire's impressive
play.
celebrating vampire I actually want to celebrate another rookie that we had in
this line-up Xiaoshu on the top lane. Emedy was the one talking about him just
a couple days ago. First steps on the international stage I feel like he had
an amazing series. Yeah so far he's been doing really well and I the biggest
question was always going to be what Xiaoshu was gonna show himself because
of course during the regular season in general even in the prior teams that he
had he was always seen as more like an average top laner but his Renekton is
always really solid and strong but I feel like he's been really flourishing
in this tournament especially in this series has been finding great fights
And I feel like it has been him imposing his will in the game rather than Doku and I feel like in those teamfights
Yes, you talked about vampire, but in a lot of the fights that we just saw
Especially there was one of a dragon fight that he was really on point
He was buying a lot of time but vampire as you said was buying a lot of space for got out to pop up
Well, I mean, I'm glad that you brought up church through as well
Just because it feels like the both of these players have simply been exceptional. You highlighted the series as well
Well, but of course, the bot lane has definitely shown up here in this game very much so because
when we think about JDG, they're a team that find success through their bot lane initially.
They use them as a driving force and Berserker and Iles has been getting the better of them
so far in the series.
But here in this game three, they definitely stepped up.
I feel like I have to move out of way.
Behind every amazing ADC there's a standout support here and I think Vampire is the
player of the game here. You guys voted for him. I voted for Galam. It's been a
bottling thing. Yeah, it has been. Tabet told us that it's gonna be about bottling
in JDG. It was the case here especially in Game 3. Let's take a look at the
support. He had a super impressive game. He's got a lot of participation
on the charts. When you give this man playmakers, he's able to
unsurprisingly make plays. And of course early on in the series as well as
Alistar performance was just top-notch and you can see Gala picking it up
from the fans perspective but of course the supports don't get a lot
a lot of love in general.
Yeah, just look at the game making damage.
True.
Yeah, that's what I hear.
But both of them.
I mean, that's what we saw tournament-wide.
They have both been incredibly solid.
And I feel like we heard it, as you mentioned,
from the coach of the team in Tabe,
that a lot of confidence is there from Gala.
It's starting to get there for Vampire as well.
So if they continue to put resources
towards the bottom lane, JDG can get it.
Has this rattled you, Raz?
Nah.
Are we getting to game-side?
No, I have confidence.
Are we getting to game-side?
And who, Raz, who do you have confidence in?
I got a roof for the LCS points. Game five, silver scrapes. I am ready. Are you ready?
Yeah. I'm ready to go home. I think that's how it's going to be, man. I think JDG's closing
out right now. No, no, no, no, no, no. Hope is the last thing to die. Hope's gone. Hope
It's the last thing to die lion is taking us again five you'll see you're also right from the right
But even say it's just dead
I don't know, come and hit me
Come and hit me
I can't stop it
It's bigger than you
If you're in my end, you always feel it
And you get out of a 666
You bring it a lot, but it's not fucking good
To give a lot of sushi
I bite if I have to bite
You don't hear, you recognize the video from the stream.
I just want to give you a small tour of what you can see here in the arena at 3% because
a lot of you are watching from home.
The atmosphere is absolutely amazing here and the place looks safe.
It starts with a big hallway with a huge mural.
Look at this.
It is huge.
I want to show you a detail.
You even got a pangoo here going forward.
You can find statues of the two sisters, they look incredible, some snacks, if you want to buy snacks.
Well, fans are going to get to sign a VR activation on the other side.
This place is actually made for all the League of Legends fans, environment fans and everything that you can find in the studio of course.
but there's some amazing super real statues of the champions yes you're here we don't like
him in game but here it looks pretty good a beautiful statue of a ribbon as well check it out
and going this way merch everybody likes merch victors from arcane and cosplayers look at them
Morgana, you look absolutely amazing. We got Luxe as well. Hello! And Sivana! Wait, this is absolutely sick.
Actually, I have some questions that I want to ask you. How long did it take you to craft
this amazing cosplay and get ready for today? Okay, so this one was more like a teamwork. Okay,
it was three people working on this. Me, I got the airbrush on the
understand under the armor and the width and also two more people with the armor
and with all the fabric work and then for today I think was like two or three
hours and for the whole costume mostly two three weeks. Why Sivana?
Just because the rework?
Yeah.
And I know everybody is excited for it.
Yeah.
I hope you guys enjoyed your design.
She looks pretty sick.
You look absolutely amazing.
You all look amazing girls.
Thank you so much!
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Yeah, and also you can't scan a qr code, but if you want tickets to the LCK you can do that as well
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Yeah, we just saw the whole C.V. Law studio, L.A.C. LCS tickets.
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Low Park still exists, guys, so I swear.
I promise.
It's not really relevant for this particular series.
And, backs against the wall for Lyon.
Are we going to see the bounce back?
Is it happening, Jeff?
It happened last time!
Is it just going to repeat?
I mean, I'm just getting relaxed with this music.
This is some very relaxing...
Very zen.
Feel the pressure.
Is this just going to be the new draft music?
It's 2-1.
Don't worry.
We're betterer of the game.
Let's just pick some scaling.
Get ready.
That's how we won the LCS.
We're not against Gen. G anymore.
They can't hurt us.
We don't need to over-prioritize landing phase.
Just pick some scaling and go to game five.
I'm feeling it.
Yeah.
You calm the nerves.
Yeah.
I think my heart rate went actively down.
You need more practice.
They already want a five game series against Brazil. They can win another five game series against JDG
Maximize the amount of stage experience that you get at the event. It's actually calculated. Absolutely. It's perfect
Okay, well, I think it is time to get into the draft here for the fourth game of the series. Absolutely
To see whether we will be gifted a fit. Oh time to lock in. Oh, no, okay
I feel like it's it's now so much more intense as okay trundle gonna be the first man
There is a seraphine taken away yet again. No ash seraphine in this particular series
As okay, it is going to be JDG on the blue side once again fun fact Jack
Yeah, let me ask game was the very first red side win the JDG this tournament. Oh fun. Isn't it fun?
What a fact amazing coli in three three two and look
This is one of my favorite fan signs for the Azucay as well, just keep crossing it out until you get the one that you want
Or you don't at all and then you just leave
Okay
Red Alert Red Alert okay scion they banned the trundle
I think in the mouth card early
They just trying to ban as many junglers as possible to make sure that inspired is among as uncomfortable as possible
possible, potentially.
They don't really feel like, like I feel like
in Spires Champion pull is kind of gigantic.
Like where's the moon band, you know?
Yeah, it's true.
I mean, for what it's worth, this tournament,
he has looked best on champions that are already gone,
like Nocturne, Lukong, Zin, Vi.
When he's been pushed onto the other archetypes,
it hasn't necessarily worked with
the rest of the Lion team.
It's not the, it's not FlyQuest anymore
where Blipo's playing all this weird stuff.
It was a little bit in playoffs
when Doko was pulling out Daveris and the Vayne,
but I think they got a little bit scared off of that.
Great jungle bans, maybe that guy
is gonna get his fiddle sticks.
This is four jungle bans if you combine both teams
and then six bans from Fearless, which, that makes 10.
Good man.
11, the hand is the jungle flex, and see the sign.
Okay, they set it up with the jungle ban.
This would be the time where Lyon would wait
a little bit longer and then try and play Vayne again
if they wanted to counter pick,
But I think they're a little bit scared away from trying to have these counter picks with them having a low hit rate on them
So far at first hand with their success. Yeah, I think if this was the LCK and I was using my LCK brain
It might just be a Gwyn slam this point in time
But I don't know whether that's what Doku wants to do
You could even just lock in a bottom lane that you really like
I feel like the Zercher and Isle's in lane have been really really good
Or just have a flex pick as the atronks into tanks has been a pretty decent option as well as being able to flex into the jungle
If you would like it to inspire looking uninspired this point on the camp
But doesn't eat hover is nearly before we do anything. Yeah, I could still see this turning into a couple of big 5v5 drafts
the
Atrox can definitely flex between jungle and
Pop lane obviously always does this nearly hover
Yep, and they're going for big 5v5 teamfighting. They're saying okay a fellos we lose band
Maybe they try and pick thresh
before they get to the next round of picks and we'll see that JDG just matches with, you know,
Jinx, the classic Jinx-a-Felios mirror match. We have seen this at which one's like more common?
Is it the Zaya Kaisa that we've seen from about 2017 until now?
Or is it the like the Felios Jinx? Or is it the Lucian Nami's Erilulu?
I think there's been more
like more games of Kaisa Zaya, but I feel like these two champions are like highest percentage of games played against the other 80 carry
Yeah, would probably be these two. They're like it just happens all the time even if like Jinx isn't exactly top of the meta and wow
They're even going to pick away fresh. Well generally speaking you want to play this champion either one of these
Archetypes with Thresh or Lulu and Lulu's already banned so Tom Kench piles. Yeah, that's the tricky thing. Where's the toad?
mode.
How does it have a good Nautilus, but it's going to make it a little bit more difficult
for a berserk to stay alive in teamfights without having to save you the thrash launcher,
but at the same time, no Orianna control mage, no Victor, no Annie, no diving top laner.
They might be able to get away with this, and then they just have a stronger teamfighter
in the Nautilus if berserk can stay safe.
Yeah, I think revealing what Ginger and Kompi were going to be playing is going to be
very telling as to whether or not berserk can carry this game.
Yeah, because it could be very, very difficult.
Obviously, Gala with a lot more mobility around the team fights
here, get excited, and then win the fight.
That is kind of the aim of the game here,
as Twisted Fate certainly would be one of those things
that could just lock down Berserk for a moment.
Yeah, good bang right there.
I do wonder, like, the thing that I like right now
for Lion is the fact that they're holding a Flex Pick.
So they can still pull out something crazy in their fifth
So I think they're kind of setting up mid lane bands now so that Saint can blind pick his mid laner on four and
Then then we'll see if they throw doklah up against the sign is a trucks and have inspired on something weird
That's kind of what JDG is inspect is expecting right now with the continued jungle bands for inspired
Yeah, maybe trying to push him on to the a trucks
So that's 11 downs.
Five in the jungle.
Two there's going to be even more.
Maybe Lyon just goes for an agreement.
They're going to start banning junglers as well.
We've got 13 taken away.
And it's finally at Lunu's time to shine.
You know? Maybe we get there.
I mean, at a certain point,
what's jungler going to play?
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
He's got Mundo still.
Oh, that's a really good point.
That's actually a decent option
for either team at this point in time.
It would be very tank heavy on JDG's side with that scion already shown
So we're gonna be looking for a lot of damage out of honk here
he's got lundo still
Jace is
Technically still labeled he played in the jungle, but I don't think it really fits these comps
Kiana's is wanting Kiana is only one and with the scion effort JDG
I feel like it fits their composition plus they're an LPL team and LPL is the only region that can really play Kiana
As far as I know
Would you just play a zeer here even with the nerfs?
With all the control-made bands and you're playing front to back
It does work as keel at the same time could be an inspired to want it
I do kind of like this is wanting with the fact that the trundle has been banned away. Yeah, we're just teamfighting now man. Yeah
And what does it mean for where Saints gonna go in the mid lane because you can then
Play some pretty fun stuff that can synergize with the turn across
So we're going to be like a silence angle or something like that. That could be a little bit of fun
It'll depend on these last two picks by JDG here. So JDG needs to pick
mid jungle with the sigawani being taken away and Mundo gone. I mean
Surely in top it we trust for what they're gonna be picking jungle, but they're banned their their old junglers as well
Yeah, there are a lot of things that have been taken away. I feel like sigawani is not one of those picks
It's very easy to count a bit poppy jungles. It's certainly fit that bill
What does he want to pick up a honky? Like is it just a zea? Like does it does kind of fit I guess because you can sort of peel as well
on the champion a lot of
Consistent damage as well as you move later into the game. I mean lion needs to consistent damage a bit more to cut through the scion since
Lion has a bit more bruiser where he has a bit more tank still the male. Okay, the male blind pick
will make them I mean Mel's good against stationery 80 carries like
a Felios as well can be reflected and that could be a little bit scary like
you get outscaled by a lot of different mid lane picks though let's see what
the same he's gonna be out find one of those mid lane picks it's a good as
your angle well he is gonna look for it caps not withstanding caps did win the
easier versus not he did yeah let's just not talk about what happened
throughout the very early stage of the game.
Yep, exactly.
And that's how you determine whether a pick is good.
These team comps remind me of 2020 or 2021.
So aside from that, it's not everything but the mel.
Reminds me of five years ago.
This is quite old school.
Yeah, the mel wouldn't have existed.
So that would just be a bunch of question marks.
But outside of that, we are certainly going back a fair amount of time.
So, well and truly in our wheelhouse, Jat, you know, we have been, we're old, that's what I meant.
So, Scion vs. Aatrox should be decent for Doku there towards the topside off the map.
I am a little bit worried about Inspired's ability to actually go for 2 vs 2s towards that topside
just because our patrol is so important for the Sejuani.
And so, for us, the presence can really make you have a bad time.
So, I think Gengar going to have some, the ball's in his court.
I feel like for the early stages of the game and outside of that these are two team fighting compositions
But they're just gonna butt heads at every later dragon in this game
We could have another barn burner that just really goes a long time
I think this game could set up to be very close and very long
I was also thinking with the way that lion won the first three
Laning phases that they might actually consider picking a scaling team fighting draft for game 4 because they
shouldn't be necessary, they shouldn't be afraid of getting run over in late phase, like happening against Gen.G
and since they've lost these games as they get later, okay let's just pick some more scaling.
Probably kind of had the same idea though, setting up for the scion first pick and both of these teams
have kind of just awkward into 55 scaling teamfights.
And there is tech, we've got a ZLM walking, you were mentioning it, they do need that consistent damage
but I mean if you get a laundry of things like this, the scion does not feel
as tanky as it otherwise would and also needs to be building armor in this game right like if you don't have a
Bramble vest you're just gonna die to the atrox and so no canik rukka
I'm gonna be coming out earlier anything like that as we've seen to try and mitigate some of the downsides
I think that the azir will be able to do a lot of work into this sign if saint can keep himself safe in this game
I don't love scion or rather the atrox side of the scion matchup
Just because I feel like I need to win the lane by so much in order to have any threat later on in the laning phase
So Doku's gonna have his work cut out for him for sure
Yeah, I'm trying to remember who it was that really had a phenomenal time in that matchup
That I saw recently because it did impact my brain and how I feel about it
But as you say, I mean Sion just has a good kit for very early in the game and can just win a lot of matchups
So we'll just have to see. We aren't going to be restarting the game here, so who's going to take a little bit longer?
Obviously nothing, we're not going to be changing the start to start to concern.
We're just going to take a little bit of time.
Yes, we do. Pan over.
The studio here, I just want to say, the Brazilian fans have been unbelievable at making sure that every team gets cheered for.
like there's been none of the library scenarios that we've had in past
international tournaments it's just being constant cheers for everyone.
Yeah when we got to have the fans in the analyst area for the Lion vs. Loud
series earlier that was an awesome experience. It was so passionate such
good fans it wasn't super personal even if they were super passionate when
you tried to bait them as best you could. I remember and I was it was
beautifully navigated, but I was a little bit afraid that you might step a little bit too far,
but you did a very good job, and the fans forgave me, and that is certainly a good thing.
Already some vertical jungling going on, as Junjo was on award when he walked through
Inter Raptors, so inspired will know that his jungle has been invaded. Won't know when it
gets left though, whether or not he's going to be trying to cross for Raptors or his own
blue or go for for Crug, so there's going to be some guesswork going on in the jungle.
I think we'll see some action from it now. There's vampire just pushing aisles back with that play
Saint I deal with honky here. It's been mainly big look playing at the mel so far this tournament
Honky gonna try his hand at it now. He's already being able to shove in the asia. Yeah, where's Victor now though?
Probably on his way home. Yeah, so it's good sign for a line so far. Yeah, absolutely
Although he's melting due to badly, you know, it actually did really well. Yeah
Yeah, just didn't do well at winning the game. Which was problematic
KDG out to an early leader with the fact that their lanes do have the push
Trim top lane. We were seeing that Dirkla had a decent exchange early
But wasn't quite able to find it as great flight there to mitigate the engage from Iles was inspired looking for a wraparound as
Honky already having to flash and
And that off the truck actually getting a long value that's been inspired inspired doesn't have any camps left to farm
No, that's why he went for that gank can't go for red buff because the jinx Thresh have push
But might be going for a quick gank here. They have a flash forward from Isle's just the whole vampire in position
There's the gravity as well as berserker will be on that moonshot and there's first blood to the aphelios berserker
Yeah, he wants game fight berserker Isles in lane this series has been
exceptional. They had the extra confidence to go for that fight because
Inspired was going to be first to that play but they get the 2v2 kill
before Inspired even enters the fight so really well done. Plus the kill going
under Berserker is the icing on the top of the cake. Yep absolutely perfect
I have to say I do feel like there's some some national pride happening here
in this bottom lane of Australia and Korea. My two homes.
Flash forward. For Miles, man, he just, he just knew that they had to kill Threat and the gun knowledge here, the control from Berserker just perfect.
Plus, any level 3 mid fight during that engage was just excellent timing across the board.
So, we're back to the Raptor battle though.
Yep, Ginger making his way here.
Miles is here, they're on top of things.
Yeah, finds the hook as well as Inspire, going to see whether he can find the permit for us.
There it is. Flash out from Ginger, he's going to be out of keep and safe.
Does have that phase rush as well. Make sure he can run away.
But run away is what he needs to do, so no crab for the jungler of JDG.
Yeah, inspired calling Isles up for that reinvade, managing the unique jungle situation very well in Game 1 and here in Game 4.
Basically controlling both raptors at this point, also getting double crab.
And I'd say almost like a hockey assist for first blood, he was around, he helped give them faith.
And Zonkyu is just clearing things as best he can, trying to get rid of some vision here towards his bottom side.
Hook does come on first, that Isles is able to just use the dredge line to make sure that there is no further pullback.
That was a pretty cute plate.
It does mean that he also gets a low cooldown on the anchor.
The Isles' nod was quite legit. They were always going to lose the first couple of levels of landing phase,
but once Nautilus gets a little bit ahead, he has better all in,
and Vampire hasn't even been able to buy an item.
So, anything that happens will be likely to favor Berserker and Iles in that bot lane.
Yep.
I think you take a favor to damage here from Honky, finds his full combo,
gone through the Aziah.
There is Inspire making his way down.
There is a lot of value out of this rebuttal.
I think last time we saw the meld, there were only a few things,
you know, Tidal Wave I think was a big one.
This time around, Glacial Prison being thrown back towards Lyon could be a huge deal.
That's kind of absurd.
Obviously there is the thing that Freak was talking about where the dredge line, if you were but that's probably not all you want to do.
So that example could come on through.
Did like that one from the champion spotlight.
But Honky probably not going to be throwing it at Isles.
But yeah, being able to throw back any sort of engage that Inspire goes for just makes things feel a little bit uncomfortable.
For sure.
Another situation where it's looking like the JDG solo lanes are going to have the upper hand,
But Preserver Isles are gonna need to play a really solid game. The top lane definitely not going the way
That line would hope Doka already being down
10-12 CS already having to deal with the Bramble Vest Sion. Yeah, Sion has a good early landing phase
Guess that early Bramble Vest buy. It's kind of like lane over unless you get a considerable amount of health
But at the same time with this Ophelios in the game
It is not optimal for anyone to really go top lane. It's much more important that you play mid-bottom.
Right now, Thurkler is just going to do the very best he can. They do get some control here of this mid lane.
Honky will be able to clear this one out in the end, but it gives St. E the ability to move.
And the first dragon of the game could be an early one here at 6.5 minutes.
But Jhinja is going to be moving forward, gets right on top.
He's been spying here only level 5 on this Sijwani as the step-up presence is going to wear off the circle.
finally comes in as the Empress divides his vampire gets pulled back but it's
Gala that they want to take down. Red White comes in with the circle and he wants to use them.
Takes down vampire to his first kill. Office exchange and the anchor just barely goes wide
but this should mean that the dragon will go over the line if they want it.
Into away from two kills, and they burn the Gala flash. That's a big team fight win.
In the river early from Lyon, Jungser is gonna want that engage back where he
eat into the Sarjuana because that really kicked off a fight that was not in favor of JDG.
They didn't want it and also it was an early step up presence there as well as Iles is moving in.
Honkyu just realizing that he has to try and go all in on to Sane. Iles was just walking
this entire time Sane almost just like walks back to get the kill with an auto! That was insanity!
That's a that's a clap moment for Sane. Has the no magic so he's not getting one shot
by the male. Early magic resist very important in burst matches like this and he's watching
There's just such good positioning here for Lyon, both tanks are in aftershock for the first bit of the fight, so no burst able to come out for JDG.
And then Berserker just makes sure Gala can't be involved, knowing that Vampire is already flashless and in the middle of the team so they can clean that up later.
Beautifully done, I feel the fight. I'm feeling it, but I'm not going to count the eggs of the chickens before they're doing the hatching and things like that.
things like that and I'm gonna try not to do any more cast of cursing because I
already got called out for that one and I apologize to everyone at home and I'll
do my very best to not do it. Still, early days.
Casha curses aren't real. They're not real. Which is why I normally try to do them frequently
because I know they're not real. Yeah, me too. But I'm also not gonna play that
game right now because it's I know it's not real so no reason to do it.
I mean I do feel like it is real. No, it's not.
Chronicle said that it wasn't real. Where is he now?
He's dead. He's not dead, Chad! He's alive! He's back in the Netherlands, okay?
I hope he's alright. Chronicle, can you let us know if you are watching?
Just let us know that you're alright. That would be really important.
But like I said, Caster's aren't real. It doesn't matter what I say. He's gonna be fine.
Caster's aren't real and the Caster is no longer real.
So, alright. Just trying to clear out some waves here as Berserker with his long range weaponry.
He's towards his bottom side, just looking to hold on to this wave.
Gullar is going to avoid that hook for now. They do want to be able to get this crash.
Hook going to go wide. I'm not going to quite get it.
Junja in position though. This could be a dangerous time.
I'll be copped up.
I mean, what's it going to do though?
Even if it does...
Yeah, I was thinking like, what is the goal here?
I was hoping maybe Inspire was approaching for a gank at that exact moment.
moment now inspired actually is here
I'm a big deal that it's now on cooldown
it's a short cool down if you don't fire it
I wait it is fire it you fired it
yeah he fired it no I think that's a
spectator bug I think it's gonna be back
it was it was also enough to be on a
longer cooldown if you don't fire it as
well I think we're back yeah see eight
seconds
same is not going to be out of finding
Emperor's Divine as there is some
rebuttal there on the long queue
yeah inspired just crossing hoping to
get something through wait a second it's
not back is it back or is it not back it's back so it's back but it's not back
yeah I think so I think it's because it's like two different cooldowns on the
ultimate I think the spectator thing gets confused okay well if ginger doesn't
just shorten that up again so I can prove my point I'd like to see it is
right Chowchute is gonna get control of this pixel brush gets pulled back by
the infernal chain Stokely just doesn't seem to be doing damage to
this scion does have his Barney Cinder now completed well never will
Yeah, it's like he just has the items that he needs hello as Isle's is just gonna move on over does manage to
Lockdown Hong Q for now finds a depth charge there as well as in goes same
So boxes down those vampires controlling this pretty well
So make a death rocket lands on to Isle's but that is not the target
He's really looking for some overwhelming happening here
But say not gonna be taken out of this vampire to force first
Finally Joom Joom makes his way into this fight and the sidestep on this app is good from Isle's who is now looking at
Try and get on in here, the Moonlight Visual comes down and Berserker is going to make his presence known.
Not going to quite get enough damage there though as the Republic gets the auto attack to go back towards the Eiffelios.
Really well played close fights happening right here. Berserker at 2-0, aisle sidestepping, really crucial CC's down the stretch in St.
Really maximizing his damage and it feels like he's very confident playing against this Gwen with the way he's just spending a lot of time moving basically to make sure he's not getting hit by the skill shots.
Yeah, I feel like Saint has one mode.
That's what I'm learning.
I feel like things haven't changed since he was in the...
That was Saint playing with confidence, like he always does.
Whether or not it's warranted.
Yeah, let's go hook that from Bandai,
but unfortunately, he's not quite had the firepower
to take them down.
Still, like you're saying, Saint is playing on the edge.
Yeah, right here, I was tanking the first bit
of the jeep's rocket,
so there's no chance it goes through to Saint.
They finished the kill,
and then dodging the zap right there from Gala,
even landing the skill shot back in.
I thought I was playing this fight incredibly well,
flashing away at the very end to not die.
Yep, avoids double zaps in the fight as well
to make sure that he is going to survive.
Okay.
And now, just gonna be clearing waves.
We do have a cloud drake coming up in 11 seconds time.
And let's check in on the Coinbase gold grind.
The Zerka versus Gala here once again,
It's a big lead.
Well, this picture...
200 more gold for minions.
579 for McKill.
So the gold would be almost completely from the 2-0 on McKill.
Score?
Yep.
Not quite as good as a lot of people talk about.
That's a five-people top-up.
Okay.
Well, Dokla might be dying here, ladies and gentlemen.
As he does get knocked up, the infernal chain's not going to pull back Shoushuu.
As it looks like Lion is going to trade this for a dragon.
And wait a second.
Is Dokla just going to be okay?
Flash us towards Jhinja.
As he was tanking up the turret,
There's the super mega death rocket and down will go this atrox.
Soon to almost dead for his trouble.
They trade.
And for Jake, Drake is this going to be enough?
There's now Honkyu, once again good rebuttal.
As of course, a little bit telegraphed is the Emperor's Divide.
So Honkyu's going to be able to avoid that season.
Yeah, St. definitely had a temple token after the five-man dope in the top lane.
Yeah, we'd go for that play.
Yes, the ultimate trade.
Just testing Honkyu's ability to react and berserker.
With still no roll quest complete, is swapped early, just a little bit early, he'll still be able to get his roll quest
and call very soon to be completed as well.
Yep, he's got his scope done as well, so making sure that he rushes that item, of course, buffed on his patch
and feels like everyone wants to buy this if they can.
Especially long range teamfighting, 80 carries.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I feel like the best teamfight, so when you've got the Severum and Crescendum, which is quite a lot.
True.
Still the best.
You can certainly make that Caliburum get some things done,
is wonky gonna have to flash out of the way of saying here this time around
didn't have emperors divide but still just didn't want to risk it
and berserker we had a look at the gold grind before he's now going to add a fair bit of tarot
money to that one with these plates that are going down yeah in berserker we trust man yeah if
we're going to be winning this game for lion saying side stepping yet another cue the biggest
problem in this game is chao shu sion i mean the fact that he's already 600 gold ahead
He's already stacked a ton of armor, has the Sunfire Cape, and Saints are not in a position where he can kill him at all yet.
I mean, he had to do merc treads for the early move speed in MR against the Mel, so delays his first item power spike.
Yep, and you need to buy Nashors because you're Azir.
Yep.
And so we'll see what he does build second.
There's a lot of debate on second items for Azir more recently.
I personally hate Rylai's Crystal Scepter.
Okay.
I just feel like it doesn't do enough that everyone does seem to like it as Gala misses a cannon.
The second is in his head man. It's happened. It's a minus one in the chat
But I'd like to see a Leandron's built just because I do agree with you
I think the Sion is public enemy number one. It might work if for the long front line
You could do the Chovy and build a protobelt. That's true. A lot of people don't like that.
I don't like that.
Although I think I feel like if you want a protobelt, like there's players that just really like protobelt
They just build on absolutely everything.
As Dokla is gonna find a Q3 and it looks like it may not have even hit because Shoushuu is just not taking damage.
Yeah, I mean Shoushuu had the wave frozen on Dokla, so Dokla has to try and break the freeze.
It's gonna be bouncing back towards his turret, but Dokla probably gonna have to reset and try and home guard out.
Look at the gold difference in these games. A lot of back and forth games you can see Lyme winning the majority of early games
and narrowly winning this game in the early game as well.
When spy goes in they were looking for the rebuttal. Thank you holds on to it
Takes the lantern to safety is now Shelly has been started up here by JDG four man strong for now
There is a scion moving up the river the train could leave the station and become a real problem here
If lion do decide to go for any sort of commitment, so it looks like they are just going to give this one up
Should be the rip tarot going over to JDG
Do not blame lion for not going for that for sure
Especially with scion being able to enter the fight and having no real way of killing scion
So Lyon does have to kind of buy their time until their carries can scale up a little bit more
I do think that if they do get a full item as your
Affiliate then the tankiness of the siren would matter a little bit less
Yeah, but I think the mid game spike with sirens tank stats and just mel's bursty kit
Is gonna favor a little bit of JDG in the middle
Yeah, and if they can then get those fights in the mid game
It's Gala that's going to be the biggest benefactor and then the jinx becomes a gigantic correct has already cashed in
The cult and is looking for that item number two to come on up and is down about 800 gold
But that's the thing that could really change off the back of Shashu being so big
Tangent but I haven't gotten a chance to do much about the top of interview that we had yesterday
I know he talked about tracking in triangles and squares
He did talk about shapes a lot, but the other thing that I really liked about that interview
it almost brought me back to
Really early League of Legends when I was playing when he's saying like oh, what is the strongest way to play?
Is it through bot lane actually know the global's counter dust like there's certain basics about League of Legends
They're just always true. I feel like Tabe hasn't forgotten those things
Even though he's been a coach for so long as we see Hong Q with no flash
There's the octagons on flash and the hook is going to come through just after the robot aware is all beautiful timing there for miles
And down it will go home to you and doklah getting some much needed money in this game
Yeah
Really important for him to flank the sides of teamfights because the eight rocks can actually be a big threat to the jinx in the
they're able to get through the scion at some point so pretty crucial that they're able to get that kill now if they have the
Azir landing up against the scion with their current landscape. Yep as Isles nice. Wow. Hey, he's just
Stepping everything. He's in flow state at the moment. He certainly is playing an incredible series
I also locked in once that game number five and we'll see whether he can get it
Obviously, it will be berserker that will be the one tossed with making it happen later on into this game
The fastest knowledge I've ever seen.
He's nimble in that big daddy suit.
That was right.
Riftarral's going to go down.
It's going to be JG looking to deny this.
And he haven't really spoken about it, but it's a hextech soul this game.
Lyon would like to be able to take this one, but they don't really need to.
Double Dragon was already secured by them as Riftarral is going to be on their mind
instead as the hook is going to connect on the aisles this time around.
The box does go down there as well as he does have the option to keep himself alive
and it keeps himself alive the entire time.
The Zerker were gonna chase down the rest of JDG
after they wasted so much trying to kill this Nautilus,
and Gala has to use Barrier to survive.
The Zerker goes to push him back.
That I think could have been a one-fight for Lyon.
If Inspired's ultimate was just a little bit closer,
blew up for the slow, but didn't actually land a stun
on anyone, so Drake over to JDG.
I do think Lyon was just gonna take the wave
and not wanna opt into a fight where Sion could arrive
or they could fight the mid game now because that's how they actually lose the game.
Well, Honky here towards his bottom side is continuing to push things in towards Dirkla.
And as far as the gold is concerned, 700, 800 is the lead that Lyon does have as now Dirkla.
Chasing after Honky here, he doesn't have a lot of buttons left available.
He finds the Q there, second Q comes on forward as well as St.
He's going to make his way in but Junja should be out of catch in there as well
and now is it him that's on the wrong position on the map.
course Isles is going to be there. So he's going to be able to back up his mid laner.
It's going to be Tocco going back home though. So they have to play a little bit carefully.
Yep. I think they lose a little bit of tempo from that. Sio never had to leave top. They
could have lost the token. They've lost the token. Well they spent their token. The token
was the teleporter. Got it. So now the token goes over to JDG. Also known as it's
now JDG's turn. And now I'm imagining it like a talking stick. You know like when
you have the group meetings and you have to hand the stick over and it's like
your turn your turn to avoid people interrupting one another it could work I
mean this is how brainstorming works eventually we'll arrive on something that
is simpler maybe calling a tempo but we're not there yet we need to do the
explanation we're definitely not very up there it erases as vampire is going to
be laying them back does land a hook death onto aisles as well as we guess
the road into the enemy team the train just drives past them as local
thankfully the boys getting knocked up by that one somehow aisles is still
alive and wants to continue fighting and berserker with crescentum
Calibram is pretty scary from long range, but now has the Infernaum as well.
Moonlight Visual comes down, Gala taking so much damage from that one man.
That'll hurt so much more later on in this game.
Thankfully right now it doesn't quite have the items that he wants, but still,
it's a bit of a taste test.
Boy, we are in-person T-Fights later on in this game.
Good thing he has Mercantreads there, doesn't let them chain the CC.
Fairly unreliable engage on the side of JDG as we're seeing in these fights.
even side on all thing in and kind of cornering off the
Sujuani doesn't mean they can really do anything.
The MLCC short duration, the Thresh Hooks hard to land,
also short duration.
So it's going to be a little bit difficult for JDG
to stick online in teamfights.
I feel like it's Junja robust, right?
He has to like flash in and get the heroic charge
to really lock them down.
But that is very hard commitment to make that one happen.
Of course, you can just throw out death sentences
over and over and see what sticks.
True.
been sticking with this live Nautilus on the other side.
The lurker is in his comfort zone for sure.
1.1 thousand gold ahead of Gala once again, but incredible scaling on the Cefelios.
And because of the kind of lack of hard engage, not having a Thresher or Lulu
currently not looking like a massive concern, as long as they have a way of,
as long as Lyon has a way of pushing Hong Q kind of outside of the fights,
that's the only big thing that's going to stop Berserker from
being able to hit is having to dodge and worry about those mage skill shots.
Zeke, it's going to have to worry about the Empire possibly getting himself.
Vim does have to stop that back.
It was a little bit of an optimistic one.
First lineover, building up here towards his product side is Honkyu.
With the help of Junja, should be able to take down this out of turret.
This is going to be the second off the game for JDG.
Just making the map as dark as possible and Lyon's gold advantage is kind of dissipating here.
I do feel like this is the stage of the game where the JDG champs are on their biggest
power spikes though.
Really got to respect them on the side right now before you have Lord Dom's on Berserker
before St. has two tree atoms with a void staff.
So it makes sense that JDGs winning these small battles as long as Lyon prevents
them from winning a big 5-0 teamfight because if one team takes a bad teamfight at this
point the Baron's gone and the game is probably decided on that play since these
comps are so similar.
If one gets very ahead of the other, it's very hard to come back.
Yeah, I do have to say, Leandry's now completed here for this Azir.
And so, Josh becomes a little bit more mortal.
I mean, this is the right choice when you're playing a strong frontline
and you're doing front to back.
No proto-villain or rally, Leandry's against tanks.
Marginally better.
I like it a lot.
As now JDG grouped up around the second Hextech Dragon of the game
would be their second Drake.
And Lyon looking for sole point.
I imagine that Lyon are thinking that they do want to fight for this
the death sentence does go a little bit wide but there is so much control and like you were saying
it's a bit of a spider for JDG at this moment. I think Lyon would be fine if they get a turret
off of this and the drake goes it looks like they're trading control for topside. If berserkers
close to the right guns they might just try and burst this down. They have so much baron damage.
No they're they're just playing this back and forth threatening the baron damage.
They do have a lot of it though so if they're giving solo time to drake I think he is. He seems
He used to be wandering around it at the moment.
Dirkler is rotating over as it's taking Shoushuu quite a long time to kill this Drake,
but they're not really checking it. They don't have information.
It's just going to be the midway being pushed on forward.
Gallar is going to move on over and he has the damage.
So this Drake is just going to be taken.
There is the hook connecting onto Inspired onto Isle, sorry.
Well played. Well played by JDG. They haven't given up turrets.
Yeah, just keep it leashed.
Can Lyon actually find an angle here, but on the retreat, I mean it's so difficult to lock them down.
Yeah, so much mid-prior, but then also because JDG was able to retreat, not even a plate goes down, and no Baron goes down.
So JDG wins the game of chicken against Lyon, for sure. Lyon doesn't trade really anything back for that, Drake.
Very respectfully played, nearby Lyon.
But as he was saying, I mean, I think that the better times in the future for a composition like this...
this. And without Gala being able to get these resets in these teamfights is possibly going
to be killable depending on the positioning of Vampire here with his lantern.
Oh, if he does reset though.
I mean, it's, it's pretty doomed.
Yeah, that's Pentakill City and the game like this.
The Zerka has been pretty good so far in this entire series. So we might be some
of the Lion fans can rely on right now. JDG does feel like they have control. I
I don't want to say Temple of Vibes again, but I believe they do have them.
May have Temple of Vibes.
They were inclined to say that.
Lion didn't use their token well though, when JDG grouped in River for the Drake.
I feel like it should token.
Maybe it is going to be a rush Baron angle.
It can be at some point.
I mean, with the Azir Afeleos, they kill it incredibly quickly.
Once berserker has the right guns, that's something JDG is going to have to worry
about this whole time.
If they're going to rush Baron, it would be on the next drake.
I don't even know if that play is worth it in Modern League with how Baron Gold plays half this season.
Yeah.
I've just not seen big-time Baron power plays, and I think the sole point is going to be more valuable in this game.
It'll really just depend on whether or not we have more Dongs on a Felios,
and if they think they can kill the Scion, whether or not Lyon decides to contest the next race.
And I feel like the Zekker has been out on the map quite some time as well.
We'll see whether he does have enough money to complete that third item.
He's got exactly the same items as Gala, but the scoreboard tells us he has a thousand gold.
So he has at least a thousand gold in his inventory.
You know like he should be a thousand gold ahead.
That's right.
Sink clears out this top wave.
And let's see how he uses his token.
Yeah.
Can we go back home?
Well, you spend a token to recall.
Ah, that's what he uses.
That actually makes sense.
Yeah.
There we go.
Gives him his reset.
Now you've got honk, you stand.
Just gonna push that one out.
And it does mean that things have slowed down.
It's still an 800 gold lead for Lyon,
But I'm looking at these Hextech dragons and Quadra Hextech Hextech soul now. Yeah. Yeah, I will say not phone
Data point. Uh-huh. I do like data points. Lion beat a Hextech soul now in LCS finals
It was a male bot lane and it was cloud nine
But it happened. All right, that's enough experience
Okay, it's gonna connect on the files here get thrown back into the box
There's a death charge going to connect onto Honkyu at the same time as Vampire needed to get himself out of there
Once again, I'll just survive through a bottle. It's gonna go down. Oh, the Flash has come through, but the death sentence is for Saint and now Gala gets excited
Into the frontline, goes Shaoshu as well as the Sion turns up with infinity health. What the heck is that Elpa as he wanders towards the visible Flash is in?
I'm not sure about that one as there is a flash one from Dokla, does manage to shut down
Gala right there and now goes inspired back in, goes Isles but the follow up damage just
is not there and in fact on both sides the damage is kind of missing outside of Dokla
who does want to try and put them down the health bars of JDG alone but they still win
the fight.
And the heart rate is high after that one, that was insane both Sates and Berserker
saw their hero moment and it was not in fact their moment but Dokla saves it by
getting the execute on Gala that means the damage kind of ran out for JDG there
once Gala was down don't look and kind of walk wherever you want it but
watching the start of this fight again it was looking so good for Lion as we
were talking about if you win a fight in a big way you get the Baron and
probably win the whole game so St. C's no reflect on Hong Q but everyone
The hook is lining up and they get the reset then
The teleport shield is still on the scion which is why he has infinity health and berserker
He what do you see he sees gala and he thinks you can kill him technically they can
Afterwards not worth a flash of neofelios, but then afterwards you can see there's no damage left and it ends up
It actually ends up just being a two-for-one and yeah on the map on
on second watch I mean I feel like the first time seeing it in the moment I felt
like I was with berserker in the replay I didn't that was a lot of health left on
me yeah if the atrox was there first and as long as we're doing you know lies
yeah it would have well I mean I think that because he did have the option of
not flashing in the out option was there I do think though if they don't
kill Gala they probably lose Baron. I don't think they can contest it with them so you
see it. The fact doesn't work if that didn't happen but they're on a war they don't realize
that the Baron is very fast and they're trying to trade the soul for this. I think they get
it if they commit their setup. I mean it's so point it's not even the soul. They're
scared off by the Sion ult though they're going to be on soul point anyway and they're
not going to trade it. Oh dear it is going to reset. Gala's not there. Yeah so that
is just the buff. That is just soul point going on over to JDG and Lion unfortunately
Once again, misuse, they drop the token. It fell down the drain.
Well, something like that, unfortunately. They will be able to grab this cross-map out of turret.
So, Berserker getting a bit of extra money is certainly good news.
Does feel a little bit like Lion of Plains scared, but this might not be that opportunity.
There is the rebuttal. Beautifully done, but the hook is actually going to be used as engaged.
Okla gets into a great position trying to jump on top of Hong Q, but I think he's just dead.
Yeah, Gala is going to get excited once again.
As Berserker is fighting Shao Shu, this time around though, he does have the Lord Dom's.
And Moonlight Vigil is going to connect the Robotics towards the back!
Man, he has that up every time he needs it, and now the Sion goes in one more time!
Super Mega Deathbrook have not even needed as Berserker is dead, and JDG will find the Baron right there after they win the teamfight.
Just a sequence of positive plays by JDG and head-scratchers by Lyon.
They take in the top turret, they lost the standoff at Seoul, and then they lose this fight in a big way.
So, St. Has Altima here. When he swooped in, I thought he was going to flip the Empire back, decides not to.
And then they all kind of chase into the turret.
Doka ends up dying. I thought they were just going to kill the Flash with Spresh.
Yeah.
When they don't do that, it goes from bad to worse as St falls to the now, and then Berserker with no flash in the river can just get run down.
I think that must have been like perfect timing on the Roboto. The Roboto cooldown is massive.
And I think right as it came back up again, Oncue has the perfect angle to find another one.
You can see, not exactly psyched about it. And the Baron over to JDG here.
a couple of minutes to play with it.
Just looks like line is second guessing themselves after the team fight.
Yeah, Saint and Berserker both failed their flashes.
Saint, no hesitant on the ultimate.
But then the hesitancy ends up being a death sentence against a team who can
team fight as well as JDG.
And now the tooth, the thousand goalie that Bruce Berserker had is a thousand
goalie on the side of Gala and line is going to need some help.
Certainly are.
Let's see whether they can find themselves a team fight.
Like still Berserker is doing a lot of damage.
Yeah, three and a half items is certainly a big deal.
but everything went right in that last team fight.
There is the glacial prison to come on down,
but Choushuu is even going to get McCable's actual D
to get on out of that one,
but I don't think it really did end damage
if I was counting.
Ryan is just gonna do the very best to defend,
holding on to their inhibitor turrets for now.
They still have a lot of team fight in them.
And the ducks aren't necessarily as much in a row.
Like JDG, everything went right.
What if in the next fight, everything goes right to Lyon?
I imagine...
And it's game two again.
Maybe it's game five though, Jack.
That would be the hope, but it is looking pretty good for JDG right here.
Gala close to Infinity Edge.
Once he gets that, he's going to be extremely powerful with the Thresh, with the Mikales,
and with everyone having flashes up.
If they're playing behind their scion, it doesn't seem likely that Lyon would be
able to find a good fight.
Inatar is not worth defending, so that one will go down.
I'm not going to be dying on that hill. Absolutely.
Look at her looking for a flash angle and has actually found his way in.
I'm pretty sure without being seen.
Thankfully for Lyon, the soul didn't actually go over fighting into a Hextech soul with this composition.
Zap is definitely very accurately named.
We do like that, but the Mel is also going to be hugely problematic.
So if you have not wanted to give that one up and do still have a minute and a half to try and get themselves into gear,
as the Baron will expire in 18 seconds time, but a 2,000 Rebel Baron power play is a pretty good one here putting them at a
5,000 gold in the lead.
And JDG not trying to take any risks here knowing that Hextech's soul is up in 1 minute 10 seconds. Push mid, push bot.
Don't care about top lane because they have full control of both waves and good vision in the jungle.
So anywhere that Lion has to walk they kind of have to face check and then if they face checked into a threshold
That's half of someone's health with the current jinx items and lions is gonna have a bad time
So you can't really give hextech soul, but you can't really walk your way in it
You can't give it, but you also can't get there
It's a it's a win if lion has five people in river while hextech soul is getting it
Yeah, absolutely
Well, they tried to get some vision down there, but that doesn't quite work out
Thankfully this little cheeky ward is able to do something they do have a scryers bloom on the map
two spot that there are control wards in their jungle but look at this I mean
there are wards littering the area as we scan around the map JDG making sure that
the lights are off for lion yeah they might just try and make a fast play on
a shower shoe not that you can kill the sign fast but at least it would draw
JDG out of the vision yeah and they can all do this together as well so
looking to try and get there as a five-man unit is certainly what you
want to do in Spide, just tanking things up with his frozen armor.
Yeah, now Joke is kind of in river, so they've kind of done it.
They've made a through to near river while the Drake is still up.
So that's the flash in for Miles.
Looking to try and get that knock up as the hook is going to connect onto this Nautilus.
Gulled down a 50% health and the Drake hasn't been taken just yet.
Indo's inspired, wanting to try and take down this dragon.
Can he deny the soul? That is a question. No we cannot!
What is the soul of the JDG now they're looking for the team fight.
Berserker still alive for now, Shashu will be taken down.
Into the back line goes Dokler as well, he was able to do a bit of work but it's a triple kill.
Fagala and down goes the Aphelios, the ace is completed for JDG and they got the trac off the fact of it.
They had to work hard to get the chance at a smite steal, but they just couldn't convert on the smite steal.
Once they over invested there, they were also likely to lose the fight.
so soul-acquired for JDG.
And maybe even a push towards ending the game as well
as they're looking for this inhibitor on the bottom side of the map.
Yeah, they got time.
Yeah, these respawns, I mean it's going to be seven seconds on Isle,
but I don't think he's going to be able to defend this one.
And Hongqiu is up and available.
Gala is alive as well, getting excited, moving towards these Nexus turrets.
This Jiggs just obliterates structures in front of him.
And Gala is not going to be perturbed by this Nautilus.
Inspires turn down just to throw his body at the problem is able to take down
Georgia and then flash out to keep himself alive, and that may have actually kept the game at least alive for a little bit longer
Four line. Yeah keeps their first stand alive for now. They're also trying to teleport in
This is an atrox if they can get the jinx now
But at least we are gold. Yeah teleport does come through from Shashu's health bar is looking even more than infinity
Which I know is impossible that it does look larger than when I said it was infinity before now
St. Looking to try and find an angle as hex gates will be out of bring inspired in as well
Could this be an opportunity can they kill gala?
That's gonna be the question is St.
Almost dies to a super mega death rocket
There is a glacial prison that comes down as well
And I think lion have decided that maybe this is not the play that they want to go for they couldn't get berserker through and
St.
Took too much damage trying to chase so it was ultimately just a 4v4. They had to back away
Yeah, go for it take the token and run right before they have white
and green guns for those kills are very fast.
Sion will ult in to this Baron pit
and the hex gates make them back on the map.
This is going to chance Salaam's going to get.
Yep, I mean, there's a rock in front of the pit
so it's not exactly an open door.
Let's see where the chargers can get himself in there.
But man, this goes down so incredibly fast.
It is going to be secure there,
but is this going to be the end of the game
on top of that, as inspired?
Extraordinarily low ground damage.
It's just gigantic as Buzaka.
Tarzan's quite fine, the Moonlight Vigil.
And now they just need to get the heck out
as Isle's already to go down.
The third club will be able to make his way out and JDG not going to chase.
Took Baron off the map. That's going to delay JDG's chances of winning yet again.
They're just trying to play on the slim margins right here. JDG's in such a powerful position.
GA up on Tagala with the Hextech Sol for the Mel. They are shredding through Lyon.
I was a down for another 25 seconds, but there's no Baron minions.
It makes it a little bit harder for JDG to try to end.
Yep, X-Tex all man. It is so incredibly difficult to deal with this is Glacial Prison not really doing too much of anything at all
On to Junja
Who's just pretty tanky this point in time?
But you know it's not tanky the minions need the minions to make the turret
The minions are tanky on the lion side though. Those minions are doing well
Which is why lion is keeping this game going well are they oh, no, okay?
So I don't know whether you guys have this as well
So we in the LCK have the same when in doubt.
Okay.
I'm down.
If they can get to the elder, they can sleep it.
Right?
Cause that's going to be the struggle like it was with the sword.
Watching this fight one more time.
Isles kind of sacrifices themselves to not let anybody through.
Berserker and St.
Nearly took down Jumjer,
but he was able to side step the ultimate and then everyone just has to run.
There's also, there's always a chance to come back.
But I just want a chance to say this, since this is possibly the last game we're going to see for Lyon.
I think they played these early games very well.
I agree.
And it's going to be hard for them to have a positive takeaway from the tournament after losing, if they lose 3-1.
But that would be the positive takeaway.
The mistakes that they made were in their hands.
Yeah.
Which is a privilege against top LPL and LCK teams that they're playing against here.
I think that it's going to make it better and worse at the same time.
It's going to make us hurt more because all of these games will win for them.
But the fact that they had the ability to win with slightly better play in the middle late game
could be encouraging for Lyon as they move forward to the rest of the year
if they lose this game.
Yeah, and if they make sure that they use the right takeaway.
You know, sometimes that is something that's going to be necessary.
That's okay. 4,000 gold, basically nothing.
40 minutes into the game, gold is not going to matter.
This Hextech Sol is going to be the problem and Hextech Sol and the fact that they have full control of this elder dragon area
That is six thick lines. So that's six thousand health on the side
And it's and it's only gonna get worse
Damage champions is looking pretty good here for gala, but you can see Berserker is right behind him
Not a massive amount here for saint does now have the rabbit on death cap completed
This is full damages here.
Yeah.
I would have personally liked Azanya's to be fit in there at some point,
but if he finds an angle for an Emperor's Divide,
they could just kind of win the game off the back of it.
I kind of want him to not use that ability.
I think he needs to focus on killing kind of what's in front of him.
If he ever swoops in since he's such a high percentage of the damage,
he's like two shot by anyone who's in range of him.
That is a good point.
So if they win a fight, that's when I feel like he should swoop in,
But they need to get the first killer to first would be my read and I also think deathcap is kind of the only play when you're behind
You don't have the luxury of building the defensive items
Yeah, there's okay does that we've bought those now completed. He does a lot of damage out you might need to be
Teleporting back into the spike does want to do so to get that big old shield anyway. Yeah
As doke wants to deny it
And it's very dark on that portion of the map.
Elderflip, four seconds.
We're going to connect onto Inspired, but Inspired is not too worried about it.
Zerkl is still despising his time once as much information as possible.
Yeah, he's trying to find the scion.
He was unable to, so scion's going to be able to teleport back with the giga shield.
They're getting held, just kidding.
It's insane though at this point in time as he's finally spotted on that flank ward.
Inspired will be able to make this a 50-50.
Let's see who's going to be able to lock down the dragon and Zerklow getting into that backline.
It's going to be taken by Junja. They will kill him for it. It's red-white guns for Buzoka, but I just don't think that is going to be enough.
As the Dragons rock, it's going to come down onto Lyon and will take away their opportunities here at first.
And GDG, they have a date with BLG, and they're looking to lock it in right now as Hongkyu teleports to the enemy base.
but trying to hold it off for as long as possible,
but it is fighting against the impossible,
as JDG have four in the base.
Oh man, I do love the idea though,
they went for the flip, unfortunately,
Jungen is able to lock that one down yet again,
and JDG will pick up the 3-1 victory.
Jungen's smites were so on point.
This game, any flip was going to him.
This was a close 3-1 series,
but JDG do move on to semifinals
for that LPL final rematch.
Exactly right. Really excited to see what JDG can do up against BLG because I feel like their development over this tournament has been absolutely fantastic.
However, man, it's sad to see Lyon go after stepping up to the plate so well here today.
Want to reiterate that I think the takeaway should definitely be positive because this was 100% a competitive series.
Yeah, JDG hopefully can build some confidence here to go up against BLG. Incredibly clutch smites.
Gala vampire though. Yeah, they might need to go back to the drawing board a little bit in terms of how do they play without
Bot prior or how can they draft for more bot prior because going away from that?
I think made these games a little bit difficult Iles berserker played with big leads you can see lion
Crushed I think more at the way that they lost because this did feel
Winnable like they could have been moving on to the semi-finals, but ultimately their first-hand journey does end here
Yeah, you can see looking a little bit dejected here
And hopefully they can find some positives to take from this and it is still very early days
In 2026 plenty of tournaments left to go. Yeah first Dan
We still got spring and summer split. Yeah, so that MSI and world
There's plenty of League of Legends ahead for this line team. You could see berserker with that front to back
52,000 damage
Did his best. Yeah, and honestly he was the main character of this game and did at least go for the plays
I think that is that is the best thing here as we're waiting for an interview with vampire as well
Which is going to be very very fun looking forward to here in today. Are you sure it's vampire? Oh
Yeah, I thought so I know it says that for interview. Yeah, I think like I assume that was a
abbreviation
No, no, it's not never mind. I was just wrong. It's fine. I got excited though
I was it was right there written down in front of me. We've learned a lot
We've learned that we should just call things tempo
Junja is going to be the interview. Yeah, I heard from the producers and he was really good at smiting here today
Oh my god
This might have been fortunate for lion fans without the smites
As long as we're making honestly the fight fights went the other direction
It would have been a lion win. That's always the most depressing thing after tournaments like this because you're like you just start
Hindsighting man. Yeah, you do. That's the only thing you can do after you lose
Well, I mean you can also just look to the future. Yeah, and try and stay positive and look for things that are
Destructed and we do use to be better. Ruzerker Isles looked very good. Same had some great moves
I think lost confidence a little bit after the Azir move didn't work. Yeah inspired lost all the smites their flips
To keep flipping get better flipping and honestly like we we've seen some teams shut down like being KF your xD
Exactly that in the previous series that that is not what happened for Lyon
And so now it is time to throw it over to the post game.
He left, guys.
So we have JDDG with us in the semifinal,
tomorrow, facing Beligeto here with Andy,
who will make the translation for us.
I'm here with Jundia.
Congratulations on winning.
I'm going to ask him this first question here,
because the people know him, right?
After all, he has faced Brazil a few times,
faced PENGAME, faced ALAUD, won,
including us yesterday.
So I'm going to ask him how he felt when he saw that the first stand would be here.
What was his reaction here?
We've faced each other a few times.
It's really cool to talk to you.
Because Brazilian fans always remember you.
You're kind of the guy who knocks Brazil out of internationals every time.
Even yesterday.
So when you heard the first stand would be here,
what went through your mind?
And what's been like to be here?
Congratulations on winning the game.
But you and a lot of Baxi fans have a lot of stories.
Because they are very impressed with you.
You always eliminated the CBLOD team in the international tournament.
Even yesterday, you eliminated the LOD team.
It's a very interesting circle.
So I want to ask you.
When you know that you are going to end the World Championship this time,
what kind of mood did you have when you were playing in Baxi?
What did you feel when you came here?
First of all, I felt that the audience of Baxi was very enthusiastic.
and I think the atmosphere is really good.
And when I came here,
I thought the food was really good too.
And then...
Yeah, that's about it.
So coming here
to meet all the Brazilian fans
I must say you guys are super passionate.
And we can feel the vibe here
in the arena
and also all the foods here are super great.
So everything is good, so thank you.
Thank you.
He said that he can feel
that we are very passionate about the game,
he can feel all this emotion here in the arena with you,
that he loves food, he is enjoying spending this time with us.
My second question is that he will face BLG again,
the fourth time that they will face this year,
they lost the last two, including the final,
so I want to know if this will be a revenge,
we will have this game more this time.
So, you've played BLG four times this year,
You lost the last two, including the finals.
So if facing them tomorrow, is this a payback time?
And what's different this time?
In the semi-final tomorrow, you will face very familiar players.
In the first half, you will face them four times.
The second half is a pity and a victory.
Including the first half, you will face them in the final stage.
So, tomorrow, you will face them again.
Do you think it will be your return time?
Do you think there will be some differences this time?
Because when the BLG was in the game,
I felt that it was very different from the regular game.
After we lost the game,
we went back to the second half.
I hope that we can do better this time, and also influence them.
And hopefully it will be the one to grab the win.
He said that facing BLG in the regular phase was very different from facing them in the playoffs,
which was when they lost this series, that he hopes that the result will be different this time.
That's why he's hoping to face them tomorrow.
Thank you, Wendy.
Congratulations, Monsagelle.
That's it, guys. We'll have this rematch tomorrow.
BLG against JG, here in the first match of 2017.
That was a tough loss of course for Lyon but congratulations to JDG.
I will say though, night and day difference from yesterday, in terms of the expectation.
I feel like hope has been reignited in the West.
It's not at an all-time high, but it's higher than it was.
We were like on the floor, right?
Like down here.
It's deeper than the floor.
We came in today.
I mean, so guys, what if we just had a tournament where there was no China or Korea?
Just us?
You know?
Of course.
No one else can join, maybe Brazil can join, that's about it, right?
But then, you know, Gita with the win, obviously great, but Lyon brought up a really good fight.
Like, it's frustrating, but also optimistic, because you've got to remember Lyon, brand new roster, right?
A lot of new players coming together to form a new iteration, but it also felt so close.
The cast were talking about it, smite differences, could have been the difference maker, a single execution difference, could have been the difference, like...
So it was close, and that kind of almost hurts way more.
Yeah, that's the tough part, because the conversation in the community is always going to be mixed.
And I do think the takeaway that Atlas had of looking towards the future is the very much a correct one.
Because anyone that followed the lion's story, the fact that, yes, during the regular season, it was really, really iffy.
They started in the lower bracket, and then they make that run.
It's going to be interesting to see them go back and take these lessons, and kind of work towards them.
So I'm happy because it was a rollercoaster.
Absolutely.
And I mean, it was a great series to us, right?
And we still have to recognize the amazing performance
from the side of JDG.
We got to talk about Player of the Game,
and it was none other than Honkyu bringing out that one.
I was really impressed.
It felt like that his rebuttal was basically
a counter to everything that Lime was trying to do.
Every time it was off cooldown,
it was hitting something massive.
Yeah.
The second one, the Altee's back at you.
The berserker's affiliate salty right back at you.
I'm like, please.
So that's tough. And yes, Honkyu has really been a stellar player for the team.
I even just like at the beginning of the series, I feel like he has been a bane to sing just a little bit.
He certainly has been.
It's a little bit. It's a tiny bit.
But also it was...
He's a player that just... I mean, Jinja, very wanted.
And also it's understandable why somebody voted for Gala as well.
You can see why it was so difficult picking a player, right?
But it's a, at the end of the day, everyone showed up in that game four, which is ultimately what mattered most for GDG.
And the question then turns to their rematch against BLG.
This will be the third time this year that they've played up against each other.
They had that semi-final, I think they call it the semi-finals, where they went through all five games.
The finals, they didn't quite have the same level of performance, but now they get another opportunity.
And winning at first stand, I mean that could be a great opportunity for them.
And any time, especially around worlds, when it's like kind of a match between LPL versus LPL,
something about being first seed gives you a disadvantage.
It did seem that way, yeah.
Just a little bit.
Just to wrap this one up though, off a player of the series, we said it could go to anyone,
but Gala, Gigachat Gala really came in clutch.
And I feel like that's a player that we've been looking towards during like on many teams,
but especially during the regular season.
The consistency that he has as a player is something you should always walk out for.
There was a little bit of iffyness when it came to LPL playoffs,
but in the series he was very loud. In the last game I was really really rooting for Berserker,
but no Gala has been a reason why they've made it so far. I mean he did struggle in the first two
games right he was falling behind in the leading phase we saw Berserker and I was getting advantages
in the two versus two lane but he was always able to come back and it always felt like he was
having impact in every single game that they were playing yeah and that's just something that
I mean as an LPL fan you'd love to see Gala stepping up when it matters most and always
being able to have that impact in the most important parts.
I remember the Zai game, Jad was like, we're probably going to have to talk about his,
like at some point, the looming threat of Gala and the hyper scaling AD carry.
It's going to take over.
So congratulations JDG for that one.
I was an incredible series of them.
That being said, we're going to be heading straight to Lore, who's had a word with
Dokla in the Verizon post game interview.
Dokla, thank you so much for joining me after this series.
I appreciate it, although I know it's not the way you wanted to end the run here.
Even if it's super fresh, do you know what went wrong today from the preparation to the
things in-game because it was still pretty close?
Yeah, I think game one kind of showed our flaws.
You know, that game showed a free win and then we somehow managed to lose.
And just we weren't connected on really crucial timers.
Like everyone was on the same page ultimately.
They team fought well and we had chances to win and we just didn't come up in the moment.
It comes down to very small things in the end.
That's one of the hard things with first-time is that you have such a long travel.
Every team has, of course, but so little time to prep as well.
What is the most difficult prepping for a tournament like this?
It's just a fast tournament, so I'm not sure.
It's just like the level that you come from is pretty much the level you're probably
going to play at.
And we're not good enough to honestly win the tournament.
but we still can compete and there is stuff to take away.
It's just in the moment feels pretty hard to see that right now, but yeah.
Yeah, I want to talk about those takeaways actually, because thinking about Lion,
you guys peaked late in the season, but I feel like it gave you a bit of momentum,
a lot of hope obviously for the rest of the season in the LCS.
So take a ways from this tournament that's going to help you in the future
for the rest of the season, and also what do you expect the team is going to improve
upon the most going forward?
I think dragon steps in terms of how we want to contest them is like the biggest thing for me individually
On top of that, I think I need to use current pick way better and actually have an impact if I feel like maybe three of these games
I had essentially no impact. So
Yeah, I just need to play better
Ultimately, we're playing as the best players in the world. So it's gonna be hard, but
Yeah, we still need a level up and you always manage to clutch your word international
I'll be looking for the first one and excited for that and also we had the vlogs in China
We had the vlogs in Brazil. So I'm gonna be waiting for the Korean blocks at MSI. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining me today
That's my one I mean it's understandable, but it does seem optimistic
Yeah, it's like you're gonna be frustrated you can hear it in his voice about how he talks about how
Like they felt like they could win
But also that has to create a little bit of hope that there is a lot of potential in this roster
And also that's what you're looking for in North America right that roster that can go the the extra distance that
Because you've come so close so many times now it feels like you just need a little bit more true
You can get that true and it's nice that they tasted it early. All right. Absolutely. I want to taste it early
You're looking towards hey MSI worlds. I'm starting feel a little hyped in maybe
Now this is your opportunity rise because you get to join the EU Hopium train true
Do you want it to take it? I'm gonna tell you right now. You give me a big huff
We were gonna be a big big dose opium
She's doing up against the monoliths of Gen G tomorrow alongside the rematch to be up
You're fine. I have a method to my madness. Yeah on some up wasn't North America for a little bit
Okay, Blake started in North America. That's true. I feel like if you're a North American fan
You've got to get on the train. I like it. I like it. Do we think G2 can get a game?
one game one game one game yeah we get the one then we'll go on to the next one
that's all we need I'll go to sleep tonight if it's a nightmare we stick to
one game we stay away from the zero we look at the one okay we minimum is a
one one more than one okay minimum is a one guys let's go to sleep and then
you'll make your decision based off of whether you're you have a nightmare
Okay.
Alright, well we've had a ton of fun on the desk.
Yes.
Thank you so much for watching.
We need, we need rest.
We do.
We need some rest.
That's going to be it for us.
We'll be back tomorrow at 9am Eastern, 2pm CET for GenG vs G2.
Thank you so much for watching.
Raz, send him off.
Let's go guys!
At least one game!
Go to sleep yourselves!
Come back refresh!
G2, take it away!
Good night!
We don't land on the big one the way
I
I'm taking out by the hammer.
Reverse, reverse.
My games.
On the left, left, left.
On the left, left, left, left.
Left, left, left.
I can't get back, it up.
Go, go, go.
Win, win, win.
Who is zero, baby?
Win.
I can't feel you on top.
Let's go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Stayed all thing in there. That's a true teammate.
Yeah, live!
The Ios is able to pick it up with the bluebie fast!
It could be dangerous if Saint likes this position.
I don't know what to expect.
The flash comes in, and that is a pretty simple first blood death honky.
Hold on a second. Hold on a second.
And then hit it!
Oh, shh!
What a powerful blow is there, man!
Not of it just yet, but it is looking more and more difficult
as this game goes on.
It's possibly caught out of position.
Now for that group deliverance now.
They're going to fold it to avoid that damage.
And now the Zerka has finally turned up.
The Chashu is so difficult to kill.
The Zerka's still alive for now.
The Chashu will be taken down.
And into the back line goes Tokler as well.
He was able to do a bit of work, but it's a triple kill.
JDG will pick up the 3-1 victory.
GAME TIME! GAME TIME! GAME TIME!
It's about to drop!
GAME TIME! GAME TIME! GAME TIME!
I
We just rotten all the smoke, so we might clash
And we gon' bring it every time, so I might add
The name is your name, is your name
The name is confidence, the name is arrogance
The name is about to raise some chains like this emphasis
Steady stepping on this scene like when a bear is waiting
The name is your name
I just wanna never finish and go like some skyscrapers
Steady stepping on this scene like some flybangers
You need to let me as you're kind of like a rock taker
The name is your name
It wasn't one of the timelessness of different stories.
I could take it to the top, but it's for the glory.
I'm the human body, but they are the only one.
It's you, me, me, me.
It's take it, take it, take it, take it.
Let the law stop me.
We just want to know.