And I saw the roof finish up
You got to come with me
Then there's something here with this shit together
I know it's all going to play down
But I'm showing out of your own time
I'll take the roof off the building
Came behind in my hands
He is up, I'm back, back when I gave him
And I ain't seen no one with me
I'm coming from the oven
That's the only way to run it
Make it smooth as snow
Yeah, I got to keep it coming
You see, baby, that's the mission
Of a real bond
Just put on some more points
Got to make it feel so good
Get it, get it, go
Get it, get it, yeah
I'm in wrong with it, and I'm strong within every air
Check the time when I'm on the road for living, yeah
That this time, this is facts, I'ma get it anywhere
Got a cold, get it, get it, go, get it, get it, yeah
I'm in wrong with it, and I'm strong within every air
Check the time when I'm on the road for living, yeah
That this time, this is facts, I'ma get it anywhere
These two saving trains, silly games in the rain
You gotta change nowadays, I don't need the hyperplanes
Clothes and some gas in the tank, will they?
Numbers on the back, got a tax in the name
What's the purpose of breaking curses?
Right in the case, the circuit
So electric, I put a circuit
My heart used to be the greatest
But get the state, this is crazy
I almost gave it, I couldn't take it
What's the pay off?
I ain't worried if I didn't lay off
Don't need to pay off
I'ma work it until it take off
Follow my laws
Until I dig up the gold
I hear it close, I ain't giving nothing but chaos
You know that the price of that mission ain't me and gifted
Got a fake assistant on the own journeys of distance
This is not my specialty, this is only persistence
Some correlation and others are superstitious
I don't get it, get it, go get it, get it, yeah
On the wrong way, you're my soul, it ain't every year
Set the tone when I'm on the wrong, fill it in, yeah
Shed the stags, this is facts, I'ma get it anywhere
Got to go, get it, get it, go, get it, get it, yeah
On the run with it, with my song, with it, yeah, yeah
Check the tone when I'm on the run, fill it in the air
Check the stars, this is stars, I'ma get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
Get it
I don't know what you're doing.
I ain't the greatest.
I ain't the greatest.
I got the right over you.
Yeah, we know what they're doing.
They just be feeling my feeling it.
You know that she won't like it, killing it.
I just went on to my diffidence.
I don't want none of my money.
I don't mean it to the crowd.
I'm on a mission to give you my vision.
It's been been a fresh thing to do.
I get it, I get it.
I start and they finish.
I hang on my business.
Yeah, that's how I'm living it.
I go up to him
And I ain't got no limits
Ain't no pretendin'
I just do what it
I just do what it
I just do what it
I just do what it
Yeah, I just do what it
I ain't the best
I feel it, I feel it
It's life in the finish
I'm into my business
Yeah, I know I'm leaving
I know what I'm feeling
And I ain't got no limits
And you're pretending
I just feel relaxed
I'm focused on what's economy
Positionally makes the competition fun to me
Many try to hang but not too many can run
I would not want to try it, but I'll let it go
On the count of three
One, two, three, let's go
Call me the best cause I'm like my best show
I'm coming for the boss, and I'll check 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 gonna die
It's tough, it's tough
I was born ready to play a hustle and a grind for every day.
They say I'm battle-gasted in every way.
Catch me if you can and I'm ahead of you in.
I came too far for me to backslide.
I took off and didn't land.
I'm not fly.
If you didn't jump, turn, I ain't bad guy.
I'm gonna tell you what I think, I'm tell you what I know
Ain't no actin' 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, being all that ain't never cut it off
It's tough, it's tough, if you're all about, never give it up
It's tough, it's tough, being all that ain't never cut it off
It's tough, it's tough, it's tough
If you're all I know, it's giving up
There's a lion's way
And how do you handle it?
There's a lion's way
And how do you handle it?
If you get knocked down, get up
Yeah, I know that's right
If you get knocked down, get up
Get up, get up
feel this a rat can't keep up with the last I'll put the record in the past you
know it's a fact confirming the space
Gang time, gang time, gang time, they got to stick on a landmine
now they like a landline, boy let them talk, I don't think I'm on
both feet with a mindset, money line has a big bet
top 10 I'm a prospect, I'll prop them to a property
top 10 I'm a prospect, I'm prop them to a real away
I'm back on the base
Got to get to it, no pain and save
Running again and running away
They're running in your mouth, you know they all fake
Because I, because I, okay
You want to feel right, okay
You're king on the black next to the guest
I'm rising
You're king on the black next to the guest
I'm rising
We're on the way
We're on our way, we're on our way
It's game time and we're on our way
Click, click, bang, bang, I'm alright
I'm a woman, I talk about it on the streets
I'm a big bag for you, don't approach me
I feel cute and I'm crazy, wanna see you
I wanna see you kiss you with my kiss you were busy before a week
Don't stop, don't stop, touch, shake a tight back
I'm a second hand, what you like?
You provided me a picture, never beneath
Super son is like a picture done on a piece
In the middle of a co-workage, you were hooked at the door
I put you under with my eyes, it's hurting from the deep way
She's like a baby, I'm so happy with you
Chris, Chris, baby, baby, I'm alright
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
Crazy cougar, you look pretty ready to make any act.
Do you think you're all this better?
All that love is made to love.
There are no yours and they both never lose.
So watch your back, I'll open your window for me.
Get it, don't leave me, I get it, we're clean
Yeah, I think the biggest of all's the dream
Cause you know I had to level up the team
Now it's rap with everything
The D, the E, the S, the T, the G, the R, the H, the G
Now it's rap with all your things
It's the season with the timeline
Somebody tell them get they round right
Can't speed it through the traffic with the limelight
Headed to my future, that's the limelight
You know, ATZO, just pay me
We woke, they sleep, we go, it's a week
No need to ask the question, cause we showing up
Cause when it's going down, baby, we going up
So now, it's a level of disdain
Now it's rippling everything
Now it's rebels on the street.
Yeah.
Drop down to get at them.
Pop down like it's practice.
Pop down to get at them.
So it's a hula.
Right now I'm the captain.
They love cause we the shooters.
We team up with no taggums.
Yeah.
Turn around to level up the team.
Lotto.
Now it's rebels everything.
Get it.
Get it.
Get it.
Get it.
Get it.
I'm close to three
I had to level up the team
Love is the lowest level of the game
I'm close to three
I'm close to everything
I'm close to everything
I heard you on the ball
Are you gonna chase the James?
Is nobody gonna 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
Say you want it all
I heard you on the ball
The league will chase the jails if nobody gonna make the call
Y'all need crowds if people wanna cheer you up
When the light is turned off that's how they know who you are
Never risk it all, talking for the night
We're putting up some shots and ain't nobody making sense
Hand-dried buffers ain't got time to look around
Leg hands away and keepin' feet on solid ground
Now how you like to handle the trophies all over the land to live
Working when you tired to make it a perfect candidate
When the crowd screams, how you gonna keep the candidate?
Some money for you, I always try to dismantle it
Deal, keep it authentic, it ain't all about winning
Time and verse time out is my all you spend
I'll be a committed, ride a guy to go get him
Ride around on that side of town, tell yourself you done bit
Horse is in the chariot, only way you should carry it
Her pure gold, don't try to label her nefarious
No validation, that's the type of thing we stand for
That way to turn this will be
You're a big man, baby.
All ready like Olympics.
I'm getting 10-plus.
Pull up with the windows dead.
Are you a family?
I'm a piece of who I want to be.
Not the one of these.
Loaded grade.
That's the summary.
Busy as a bubble.
Be the winner of the world.
A couple under me.
Got to beat you any day you want to be, huh?
Just sick of money.
No return on everything which I'm like.
Light's bright.
Hitters with the nerves.
Make us tummy tight.
Fight night.
Little streets are so summoning out my life.
Trying to calculate the purse.
That is none of your concern.
Get in my pocket.
You're the one that I'm looking for.
I'm not a man.
I'm not a man.
I'm trying to calculate the purse, that is none of your concern
They don't know about it, tell me what they got
Brought us up for that country, they can't believe that I sprouted
But I'm learning my way, we all have been treated unbiased
I don't matter what, I'm the hitter, so they leave me to stop
Say you want it all, cause you want to borrow
Are you gonna take the kids, nobody gonna make the call
Throwing me for crap, took me for each and you all
When the life's turning on, that's how you know who you are
Say you want it all, over if you want to fall
You don't change the change, nobody will make the call
No need for magic, you will change the world
And the life turned off, because I know you won't
I'm standing tall like I'm a mountain
I double up and I keep counting
I switch it up then I keep bouncing
They're one of the hardest they value
I'm the champion now, I'm the leader
I'm the leader of the streets, I'm the leader of the team
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And I thought, but I tell you, I got what you need
You heard about me, yeah, yeah, yeah
You better recognize, I'm on it
I've been trying, but I keep it coming
I'm the champ, I've been one running
I've been the, the, the, the, the, the one and the
I feel something like rain
I'm at the night with a man sitting up with
Cracking a trim
I'm battling it in, I'm battling it down
Cracking like trim
I'm getting chubby and I'm killing it again
Cracking like trim
I'm battling it in, I'm battling it down
I'm at the top
Cracking a knife
I'm at the top
I can't be stopped
I'm on my fill
I'm making some pop
I'm at the top
I can try but I keep winning
Yeah, I'm a champ, I do what I need to
I'm not gonna keep doing it
I'm in the top
I can't be stopped
I'm in the top
I'm in the top
I ain't got no
I'm in the top
I'm in the top
I'm in my throne
I win and I win
I'm riding it, yeah, I'm riding it, yeah, I'm
Ripping like Trump, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it
Ripping like Trump, I'm riding it, I'm riding it, yeah
I'm at the top, I get it, I'm at the top
I can't be stopped, I am a king
I'm making some money, I'm at the top
I'm not gonna stop
Yeah, I can't do my thing
Yeah, I can't do my thing
Yeah, I can't do my thing
Yeah, I can't do my thing
I'm gonna do my thing, I'm gonna do it to the hurt like that, gotta go and do my thing.
Suck on y'all like a candy candy, good days I demanded candy, finish, I get soapy baby.
They just get understated, I do this for the feeling, suck it to the ceiling.
It'll make the civilians, they just get understated.
Y'all gonna do my thing, y'all gonna do my thing, too close in a way.
Bring it number five.
Name all the legs.
Gotta do it right till the guy's fine.
Wrong.
That crowd knows they fazed me.
I'm not scared to go back to all that hard work that made me.
Ah.
Bro.
Illuminate the whole city.
The young men dance till it's finished.
And I saw the room finish up.
You ain't got to tell me anything but it's something even in shit.
Yeah.
I'm not gonna tell you damn, but I'm showing out of your own child.
I'm telling you fuck the world.
You ain't got to tell me anything but it's all about that one.
I didn't.
They roll with it in my soul, but it ain't every year
Take a toll when I'm on the road, forbidden in the air
Take a step, this is past, I'ma give it anywhere
You can take a train, you see the games in the rain
Like a train, it's nine days, I don't need to have the days
Clothes and some gas in the tank was dead
Numbers on the back got attacked, say the name
What's the credit, this I'm breaking curses
Behind the curtain is the circuit
So electric, I feel the surge
This is my artist, used to be the greatest
Forget the state, this is crazy
I almost gave it, I couldn't take it
What's the pay off? I ain't worried about a lay off
Don't need me day off, I'ma work it until it take off
Follow my notes, don't say I drink up the gold
I'm like here it goes, I ain't given nothing but chaos
You know that the price to that mission ain't being gifted
Gotta stay consistent on long journeys of distance
This is not perspective, this is only persistence
Some call it legging and others are super sick
I don't get it, get it, go get it, get it, yeah
On the wrong with it, am I strong with it, Mary, yeah
Set the tone when I'm on the wrong, fill it in the air
Shed the stash, this is stash, I'ma get it anywhere
I don't get it, get it, go get it, get it, yeah
On the wrong with it, am I strong with it, Mary, yeah
Set the tone when I'm on the wrong, fill it in the air
Shed the stash, this is stash, I'ma get it anywhere
Ain't that right, right, no?
First I don't want to hit you
Stepping out on the street
Yeah, that's all you need
Think of them there
Think of them there
Tell me, fuck, I'm sad, and it's you, no
I keep this happiness
But you don't have me broken
I'm put you in a family
Don't need the people standing
And get you better respect me
I know that you can't stand it
And don't you wanna never check me
Y'all now, y'all now
I've been up on the low
I'm out here trying to get it down
I'm getting there now
I know, I know
I'm gonna keep me down
If this is the beginning
I'm gonna get it now, they know
Get it, can you get it?
This ain't no bad thing
Take it, take it
Oh, I get that no no
I get that no no
I get that oh oh
I get the oh oh
I get that no no
I get that no no
We just want to know, we just take control, we just want to know
You know, we don't ever fall
Take it up, take it up, baby
It's funny when you listen, never lose to show man
20-20 vision, see the dreams like full glass
Student of the year, molest is skipping no class
You learn to cheat, you learn to cheat
You wonder when you got a grind and that's the whole story
When you never finna lose, listen, don't want me
Hitting six and nine from all the ones that came before me
You can't shoot me, you can't shoot me, no
Hitting the virtue, listen, you see the loaded barrel
Run around the world, we move it, we gon' let it turn
And hunt for this new cocky, and that's what I design
We'll change, we'll change, we'll change
Take it, take it, drop it, we're gonna stop right now
We just want to know
We just take it, throw
We will never go
Take it up, take it up, take it up, take it up
We just want to know
We just take it, throw
We will never go
me
Oh
You can go
Now
Go
Now
Now
Yeah
Yeah
Oh
You can go
Now
Now
Now
Now
I said that you want me
Get off me, get off me
I think I'm pretty easy
You're telling me that you want me
Get off me, get off me
I think I'm pretty easy
Come and get it
Watch and love it
Come and get it
Watch and love it
Come and get it
Watch and love it
I want it now, I want it now, I want it now
Heart for my heart
Things are always changing, can't blame me for the same
So take advantage baby, now, now
Things are always changing, can't blame me for the same
So take advantage baby, now, now
Oh, they are broken, up till I'm about to say
Oh, they are broken, up till I'm about to say
Up till I'm about to say
Yeah, tell me that you want me
Get ready to keep climbing
Can't conquer the suit easy
Tell me that, tell me that
It's really that you want me
If you're ready to keep with me
Can't come to the surprise
No, no, no, no
I don't feel a aura
I don't feel a aura
I don't feel a aura
Coraçao, tu mamma Coraçao
I don't feel a aura
I don't feel a aura
I don't feel a aura
Coraçao, tu mamma Coraçao
I'm coming at it.
What do you believe in?
The recipe for destiny is resting where your dreams is.
No questioning your dreams here.
We dealing in extremes here.
If you want to fence, stay on the bench.
You want to achieve here.
Find me on the floor, my feeling volatile.
I'm coming for impossible.
The man's announced a doubt around him.
Combat isn't optional.
I got time for playing short on
Said I'm running out of money, but
Want to know what I'm guilty of
I believe
I believe
Revenue can't hold me down
I believe
I believe
I believe right here and right now
I'm gonna get my phone
I believe, I believe, I believe
I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe
I believe, I believe, I believe
What do you believe in?
You ain't gonna get a son of honey
Found out where your team is
We shown them what the elite is
Stage is, I mean the all in agreement
There's no matter what side you are
We know my grass is the greenest
I got it back
You bring the heat, I'm spugging back
I'm not a match, fries go bananas
Holla back
A war is on, rock that time for playing short on
Say I'm winning, I'm cold to death
Wanna know what I'm guilty of?
I believe
I believe
Gravity
Can't hold me down
I believe
I believe
We're still in Brazil. We're still in South Paulo at the Riot Games Arena to celebrate the last three best of five.
We have at first stand here, things are getting serious for our teams. Two best of five today and we see the first teams entering the arena.
Genji signing the mirror once again. I actually want to check what they look like. Pretty basic.
Like their gameplay is going to be today, right? Because they're facing up against G2. The last hope for the West, the last hope for Europe.
They took down LCK's second TDST.
Welcome, everyone!
Can they make it up and again today?
We'll see about this.
It's about to be a pretty difficult matchup.
Yeah.
How are you guys feeling?
Oh, I'm feeling sad about being KFU Rex,
but pretty good about getting these things.
Ask us.
How are you feeling?
I'm vibing, man.
Why should I be worried?
OK.
Oh, oh, oh.
I got my hope.
I got my hope.
We got the fans again.
I'm really happy to have people with us today.
I want to play a quick game again,
because we've been doing that every day and I want to test your knowledge and the fans' knowledge as well.
You might have seen it on Instagram, L.O.L.E Sports Eat A Game with pro players and I want to play it with you guys.
It's going to be guess the item, which item is this.
A picture about to be proven in the fraud.
And you're going to guess which item from the new season it is.
Oh, I know this one.
I think it's Serifs.
I'll go with Serifs.
She had it before you.
What, you had it?
Wait before you
Close enough
Second one is oh my god, I don't know this one. I didn't think people would guess that's fast green item. Do you have it?
Thank item. Oh, is it for that barrier?
Thank you for that. Yeah, I didn't bury it. Yeah, I think it's for Dan. I said that fish you copied. No, I knew that
That was me. That was me.
Okay, we'll take it. Making things up. He's a fraud.
You're both frauds.
They were all better than you guys.
I swear. Who said it before me?
No one? That's me.
I said a fierce fraud.
I'm going to start with the friends today anyway.
If you want to see more of this, there's actually a version of this with the pros playing on Loli Sports Instagram.
Check it out. It's really fun. Shout out to the social media team for this game.
Now, let's get into the field stuff.
Let's get into the series we have today.
I want to check the bracket to see where we leave things
as we're entering the knockout stage today
with Gen.G versus G2 on the first series.
And BLG, JDG, every match of LPL matchup
in the second series.
What are your thoughts?
I mean, it's pretty early in the morning,
but I feel like we still haven't woken up
the fact that G2 is here today.
I haven't had the chance to process it.
Feel like Lyon had the better shot.
No, no, no.
The fact that G2 is, they've really impressed everyone.
and me and a lot of people up.
I think coming to the tournament,
expectation was we just have
LCK LPL teams at this point of the bracket.
So, but then we come through with a big upset,
big achievement, and then guaranteed as well
an LPL team in the finals with that domestic sort of massive team.
Often like this, yeah.
True.
Any second JDG making it yesterday?
I was with Raz on the desk today,
so I want to hear what you think, Ox, actually,
on the way they made it here.
Not their best performance I've seen.
There was a certain, a couple of game states,
which I think Lyon had control of and then just tossed it away.
What about your boy Shao Shu?
That's the one question mark people had for JDG coming in was like,
yes, consistency around me and bot, all that.
But Shao Shu was the one question mark player.
Like, oh, give him his renekton.
Great. But then we're in fearless.
What's going to happen there?
But no, he really rolled yesterday.
All right, all right.
We know we're going to have an LPL, LPL matchup later.
OK, there it is.
The real juice is the first series we have today.
As you said it, the last hope for the West.
G2, 3-0 against your team.
Oh, excuse me.
Are they on the plate already?
We don't see them anymore.
Where are they all? They're not here!
You know what? We call it an amazing performance from Hans-Sama, especially yesterday.
I mean, the balling in general. That's why she'd gone up against Javelin Kellin, who was so feared, so fearsome,
and the main sort of winning force for being KFX.
Hans-Sama and Labroth just had a massive step up in this series.
I miss fit. The fact that we haven't really, at least I haven't seen this performance from Hans-Sama in quite some time and for him to come in.
And he had multiple games, not
in just that series, even his
center performance.
I know that game people will
look and criticize the draft.
But if you look at his
performance, you're like, no,
I kind of want him picking that
and take a look at his carry
performances throughout.
Like the stats are very loud.
And I think for people who
were critiquing G2, a lot of
the times they looked at their
side lanes, specifically their
bot lane, and they have not
been talking.
And I think another shoutout
goes towards LeBron too.
So that bot lane, I feel like
they're going to be a real
question mark going in today
because they might make the
difference.
doing wonders here and as you said it's been a long time since we haven't seen this level
from Hansema, the aggression especially when the team needed it, that's what we're going
to be looking at today among other things, they're facing off against the favorite team
in the tournament, but another French player guys that I really want to highlight here
because both of them have been smashing it so far, it is Q-mon.
Last year was his rookie, yeah, yeah, thank you, I appreciate it, after his rookie
year in the LEC he took a new form completely this year as the captain of
G2 as he set it himself in the LEC versus finals one of him so far at first
then he's been instrumental to these victories he's been incredible and I
want to hear from some of the fans on this one just their thoughts on
Schumann throughout this event just because you're the one excited about
it right
He has been playing so well, he grew a lot compared to last year and he has played very
well and I think he can play very well against Canyon, I think he can step up a lot so I'm
really hoping that he will step up and be the captain for this game and win in the
jungle.
Hell yeah!
Hell yeah!
actually in the matchup against Q-Mom. What are the hopes for Canyon actually?
I think the continuation of the form we've had, I think last year we saw Canyon not be as proactive,
but this year he's been on a pair. A lot of players have such a strong opinion of Canyon.
You hear so many junglers talk about how he's their favorite jungler,
and I think we're really seeing that form so far this year.
And I think the faith that we hear from the fans and even just like online about
the game. You know, I mean,
I'm not sure if you're going to
get the line about Scumon.
There's a reason for it like
the stats are one thing. It
doesn't rate. That's why it's
guys. I'm talking about the eye
test louder than the actual
stats themselves, especially in
that game three like I'm like,
he's trying to lie splashing
over the wall level one. He's
trying and then, of course,
spotlight loses. Then he
gets dove is like, Okay, I
looked bad from the stats. But
in terms of like what's
happening on the map, he's
keeping it together. You know,
Gen G stats always look amazing
is domestically like that KT series they lost.
I think if you win a lot, you're going to have great stats,
that's just how it is.
You know what's another interesting stat?
The fact that G2-3-0 against BFX was the first
best of five win against an SCK team in six years.
And guess who was the last team they beat?
It was Gen G!
Not the same Gen G, though.
Yeah, very different team.
A much different beast this time around.
They did still have Ruler then.
Uh-huh.
And Katz.
So those two are still there from all that time ago.
Yeah.
Everything else has changed.
I feel like it was that era of G2 that gave a lot of faith in like international success
and performances like being in the finals.
So like they could recreate that.
I remember that team of like Wonder and Yankos and all that.
And like that was a good time for you guys.
And all it takes is like another shock and all we got that the day before could happen
today.
So it's all up in the air.
I'm just throwing that out there.
But the one person who's been a thorn on a lot of team side has been Keen.
team has been a demon throughout this tournament so far.
He's just been playing so well.
This matchup up against Okla on the embassy
was an absolute monster.
And for me, I think Keen is just such a complete top laner.
He can play carry so well.
He can play range tops, melee tops.
He can play tanks, anything you really need him to do.
And you know, Keen's always been a fantastic player
throughout his career, but I think
Phyllis has really unlocked him
because he can just fill any role the team wants.
And when you have a line of perspective,
having so much flexibility in your top laner is so powerful.
That's what he was telling us in the interview last time,
the fact that he's been working on tons and tons of matchups
to be ready for Fjallis drafts,
and the fact that now, whether he counterpicks
or he has to blind, he's ready, no matter what happens.
He has just been the best performing top laner
in the world right now.
And for the matchup to be him versus Broken Blade,
someone who's kind of at the beginning
and good portion of the tournament,
I feel like he's been struggling a little bit in lane.
That is the test.
That's why we must track how he does throughout this entire laning phase.
Because even here from Caps just yesterday, talking about,
and even any team that goes up against Gen.G,
they're like early laning phase, pretty important,
because they might just roll us from that.
That's the top matchup that I want to see
and how we get to see from Broken Blade versus Key.
Yeah, and Gen.G about to do something amazing,
potentially as so far they are undefeated at first hand.
We never had a team making an undefeated run
at all in an international tournament.
usually they lose games in finals.
What are the most dominant run we had in league history here?
I remember that one, 2015 Worlds,
it was right in the finals where they ended up dropping that game.
That one was so close to having it,
but we've had a lot that get very close,
but never quite gotten over the edge.
I think it's just difficult,
because obviously as the tournament goes on,
competition gets stronger and stronger.
And even if you're winning all those series,
keeping the consistent form over the entire series is so hard.
Yeah, and you can make the case, of course, of worlds and MSI,
like the amount of games that you end up playing.
But I think Gen G has given the respect throughout the entire year
of how dominant they have just simply been, even in the LCK.
And this tournament, you're going up against the best teams globally.
Like, you're going up against number one, number two.
So that's going to always be a question mark
if they can keep that even in their more creative draft.
But that's the thing.
It hasn't really been a challenge for them so far at first sense.
So let me ask you guys, as much hope as I have here,
What are the win conditions? Where's the hope for Jitu? What do we want to see from them?
Oh, you take this one.
Okay, I'll try. I'll make my gambit here. I think for me, there's a few things you can land on.
Just to throw this one out there.
Draft for strong bot priority. Look at this, look at this.
Just yesterday, we got to see the Ash Seraphine constantly pushing through bot side, heavily punishing it.
We can just regard what happened level one and then it made it super easy for them to like go for early drakes.
And I think that was my main topic of concern and they were able to do that.
I noticed something here.
Yeah, talking to Inspire, talking to the G2 players as a whole,
something that they always tell me when it comes to what is hard against Gen.G.
More than the early game, it is the cross-map place.
Because if you try to face Kenyan, the team is going to on-show on the other side of the map.
If you try to face any lane, the team is going to take your money
and everything you have on the other side of the map.
So don't go for useless aggression.
Go for something that is going to be a useful trade.
Otherwise, this is how Gen.G gives Viven.
This is what you want to be careful about.
And just to, like, cherry on top, I put down
play easy front-to-back team compositions.
Obviously, like, you never, you're never going to really
be able to guarantee that within the draft.
But I think what we saw is a really on point Han Sama
so far this event.
And so I think you can try and put the ball
in his court and play around that,
especially since I have a lot of faith in Skiuman.
So, like, all of that is there. Have a clear strategy.
Your early game caps made it very clear do not make mistakes in your early game
So all this needs to be done for G2 to have a good chance. I like it pretty good
Yeah, I've actually prepped some wing conditions for Gen G now. Oh, so first up wait what waking up
Also all members of the team do need to do this that is key at travel to the arena again
So every member of the team this is check they woke up. I've seen them at the arena
Okay, all that's already and this one. So this is important because you don't want to be picking agents characters. It's it's League of Legends
pick champions
So, okay. Okay. Yeah, I get it. I think all three are vital. They've already ticked off two
Well, we'll see how walking up there are right might be a little sleepy
We'll see but if they can get the pick champions one. I think they're doing with a great shot. All right
So analysis here. Thank you
What happens when Gengi gets a little too confident, huh?
That's all I'm gonna put out there.
What happens when that happens?
Let's try to be a parent.
Let's see what the fans think of you.
We must have got 10.
48% for G2?
You know what? We take it.
We take it.
Wow.
OK, you know what?
I don't want to hear none of that nonsense.
I want to hear from the fans right now.
I'm going to go towards some people.
I want to hear predictions from you guys, OK?
Oh, you rubbing your hands.
You have a thought already going in your mind.
What do you think so far in this series?
What's the numbers?
I'm here to say that Laura, I'm with you.
Thank you!
3-2 G2.
I appreciate you.
3-2 G2!
There you go!
Shirley, what about you?
I think it's going to be 3-2 G2 as well.
3-2 G2?
Wow!
Okay, you're giving a reason.
Friends?
I think I'm not going to make a show today.
Okay, Shirley, someone else!
I see some Gen-G signs.
Gen-G 3-0.
Okay, okay, let's do that.
Notice the difference in confidence with Gen-G
is always a 3-0.
Who's more confident here?
Why are you on this side?
Okay, what do you think?
Even though I'm a really big Trove fanboy, I'm a West, I live in the West, so I'm gonna go for T2.
Okay, guys.
That's better, alright.
T...
Wait, this is why people have wrong team.
I did not pick the wrong team.
I did not pick the wrong team.
You two...
I find you lack of faith, absolutely disturbing.
Guys, if G2 has a million fans, I'm one of them.
If G2 has 10 fans, I'm one of them.
If G2 doesn't have any fans, it means death.
Why would you not believe in them when they make things happen time and time and time again?
Why would you have hope when you have cope?
Why would you have analysis when you have delusion it is GG series to lose
They're the favorites anyway, so G2 bringing everything you've got and let's get into this summer finals
The first time I entered the world championship, I was very excited.
And then if we're going to face BRG, what do you think about our own team?
I think we have to practice a lot because of this.
I think if we look at it from the game, I think we should be scared of the enemy.
It's a ton of teammates there, because you can't fight against them alive.
But it's first blood on!
Oh, it's first blood on!
It's first blood on!
Now they're all back in the...
It's G2 Blood Splatter all over the bottom lane.
It's B5.
And then,
I think we've played a lot in the finals.
Maybe our mentality will be more mature.
If you guys think of me,
I think it's a relatively comprehensive top laner.
You're trying to take him down as my god!
If I can't fight against them right now,
I think they'd be very scared of me.
We'll definitely win the game.
I was really like not really handling the pressure well with us like from the
results I like from the fans but the most important thing will be to learn from
this mistakes
And I'm so happy to be able to quickly settle down in this situation
Gen.G will look around this one out as the quickest team is here at the stand
We just don't know how to win and how to perform
Thank you very much.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean I still remember fondly that 3-0 that G2 got against Genki.
I was so depressed about that.
Not that long ago. Not that long ago as well.
You don't remember any of the series after that?
What I do remember is that in every best of 5 that these two teams have played against each other,
G2 have gone at least one win. Minimum.
I like how you edited that from the beginning of the day, because you realized it in the best of 3.
No, I didn't edit that.
G2 got zero kills.
I'm five games on average.
There is a one win secured by G2.
And against this Gengi roster,
I feel like that's an accomplishment for AT.
Honestly, yeah, that's not doing too bad.
So far here in this tournament,
they haven't dropped a single game.
Prior to that, two map losses,
but no series losses so far in 2026.
Gengi, just pretty good,
I think is what we can feel safe to say.
Excellent.
I would, I would.
We're gonna upgrade.
Yeah, excellent.
But I would agree, they're pretty excellent.
We did hear though that G2 were pretty confident after their victory yesterday,
and B&K kinda just rolled over and died, and they managed to take a game off Gen.G.
Transitive property says they agree with you, Vettius.
Well, I'm relying on Transitive properties right now,
and I'm kind of relying on a bunch of intangibles.
Like, I heard that Gen.G don't like the food,
I'm hoping that affects that gameplay.
So you've been up to sabotage, haven't you?
I was going to say, he's like brought some British food as well, I know he's well, but
you had to bring the tribe.
They did say that they thought some of the food was bland, so I'm like, that does sound
like a British specialty.
Honestly, that makes sense, there's a lot of flavor in Korean food, so it's hard
to compare.
Still, I don't know whether that is really going to be getting under their skin, as
oftentimes you just bring a few cups of ramen and you're fine.
I will say there's actual real positive takeaways for G2 though, from their series with
Yeah, lots of lots of things that people did not didn't necessarily expect
specifically on summer the bottom lane really really did perform and it's
especially against the apple yeah you know he was very aggressive and some
some key fights you know Hans was valking forward he was positioning
aggressively he was gaining a lot of advantages for G2 so let's see you
know this is the beginning of a series where all hope is still alive they
absolutely is. And here we are in the champion select power by Omen and HyperXen already all of the
bends have come on through. The rumble, the rise, and the Orianna all make some sense. The Varus ban
quite interesting. I've personally been a bit of a Varus anti-disk tournament and the Karma has been
cropping up all the time here just to make sure that you get a whole bunch of that lane
priority. Is Seraphine thirsty, gentlemen? I mean we know that bot lane has just become
so better dominant.
And making sure that you have that winning
both sides of the ref is the strategy
that G2 implemented yesterday by taking the Seraphine away.
They now put the pressure on G2 bot lane,
coming into this matchup to say,
well, what have you got as an answer?
They've showcased the seven Autolos before.
They might feel confident that the problem
with the last time they did it
was that composition just lacked damage.
It did not have enough to bring them
into the mid game and they fell rapidly
far behind in the explosion.
I think the Nautilus angle though
is the correct angle when Karma is banned.
Like you could go like karma Ezreal poke style into it if the karma is not banned
But if that's not if that is the case then you kind of have to go for some sort of kill pressure onto the seraphine
And so maybe they they do you know either not a less early on with the with the misfortune
Some of the common parents, you know see what they decide to do back in the LCK
We would say that they be heading towards a Zaryumi that has been the considered
I'm not just saying that, you mean at the moment, sometimes it didn't work all the time, Kobe it worked that one time and then everyone thought that it was going to be okay and then it was definitely not.
I kind of like this idea, instead of going for the misfortune in there at the Pantheon, certainly a big jungler on this patch.
I really like the adaptation. I believe this is the first time we've seen Hunts on misfortune this year.
If you want a real throwback, you had a really stellar performance on the champion.
I want to say back in 2021 Worlds, when he played for Rogue, and he was styling on Fools, so very experienced on the champion.
Lane Dominance has kind of been his go-to back in the day, but they seem to be confident in their ability to bring something out against the Ash Serfee.
With his inlocked in, I mean, this is just, this is exactly what we saw from G2 yesterday, it's such an effective staple, easy way to start off fights, easy follow-up as well.
The Serfee is in combo, like the ultimate can combo beautifully off of Zin providing that extra range in the teamfights.
We're expecting the Nautilus to come through here, maybe even a Leona if G2 won't be a little bit more ranged and gauged.
It depends how aggressive they're feeling in the bot side.
Yeah, so they are gonna go for it.
Try and kill the Seraphine in the bot side because if you don't, if you're not able to, the teamfight just gets crazy for Gen.G later on.
But I really do like this, you know, Miss Fortune, very good at the one item power spike, moving to mid lane.
And then it kind of opens up for Aerios for Pantheon to make some plays with too.
And now Aurora and Ari rise in priority. These are the two midlaners that we've seen heavily contested.
When Ryze and Orianna are the main midlaners that get banned away.
I think we've seen some answers into the Ari.
Now another one that has also been becoming just more and more popular.
Because I think teams are struggling to find an effective counter-pick into her.
into her outside of some of these assassins which in game one aren't always the best to bring out.
And if you're banning away them now and you already have Pantheon, like Pantheon and Ollie
it's such a good mid jumble, very very strong early game, wants to kill pressure so G2 they
definitely could go and it's even looking better if they wanted to be able to grab that RE.
You know it could be more disengaged as well from GMG if they'd like to, we know that
Tribby really does like things like the play that we saw come out a couple of days ago
And so I think that Ash Seraphine opens the doors to a lot of different midlaners that you can throw in
So we'll see what they do decide to go with how likely
Do you feel about it?
Not bad to me also suggest something like a a
Casante or renec or renec exactly
Something relatively safe
It's likely to be who's gonna have to blind pick based on the bands
you're very much right Kogi that it feels like G2's looking at an R.E. pick and then Genji will have to pick something blind on the top side
but they'll get counter picked for Churlion there.
I like Renekton with the Seraphine. I feel like you can add a bit of longevity to the champion by keeping them alive a bit longer and being a little bit more frustrated.
Did they now just pick something like Cassante themselves?
I don't know if they feel like they need the front line. I mean we talked about the R.E. and the Aurora.
I didn't love Caps is Aurora that we saw when you played against BLG.
I mean, I'm hoping that Caps shows up today because he definitely had a couple off games yesterday and against that BLG series as well.
But we'll see now what Chovy brings as a response. Annie is sometimes used.
But I don't know if I love Annie in this composition.
Yeah, kind of.
It feels like Annie's going the wrong direction for a composition like this.
There's that renectin that we were talking about.
and then think too worried about things like Kennen as well.
In the LCK, we'd often see the NAR and the Kennen
both band away to protect the renecdent pick,
but not something they seem to be too worried about
at this point in time.
As Duro wanted to pick up something for Chovy.
See what it is going to be,
whether it is going to be a little bit more range.
Maybe it's just a victor or a nizir or something like that,
just to try and chill in that mid lane,
make things up.
This would be a different school of thought,
but still the same idea of
I'm happy to sit back and skate.
Yeah, that's the chilling.
Yep.
That is the chilling max.
Oh, OK.
There we go.
Much more aggressive, much, much more big team fight here
from Gen G. And on an earlier, much earlier
timeline than the Aurelian Soul.
Now, this Aurora, I mean, it is a good matchup
into the Renekton 2, so you could still put it up there
if you want to switch it up here for caps.
But honestly, I kind of do expect the Cassante,
just give Broken Blade to Kasate or some sort of tank up there.
That's the direction G2 have been drafting.
It does.
It's just keep Broken Blade on a bunch of, you know,
these frontline big beefy tanks, and they're going to keep it up.
I'm a bit worried there for the lack of damage here on G2's side.
I feel like if G2 are able to get onto their chosen targets,
wipe them out, then there's not going to be as much follow-up potential.
And especially a lot of damage is your Misfortune Ultimate.
And Misfortune Ultimate is so hard to channel versus a Serafine.
because Serpent, wherever you start telling it from, if you do it early, Serpent's just going to bounce an ultimate straight towards you
and there is a lot of stuff to make it difficult for that misfortune to get good value out of the ult
Of course, you know, Pantheon and Aurora in the mix there as well
That's true, Pantheon does do a lot of damage
I do think G2's comp is very similar to like we use the shotgun analogy
where it's kind of like you need to find that target, burst them out
and then ideally with the numbers advantage you can then play the extended fight
Because in contrast, Gen.G want to dive as well
when you've got Renekton C and Gallo,
three champions that love to be in melee range of their opponent.
So it's kind of that front to back style
with a lot of backline threats,
especially if he can find flanks
as he's so often proficient at doing it.
Like, that backline is going to be very scary
to navigate to G2.
So I really like what Gen.G's brought.
I think the Game 1 is already going to be a tough one,
and I really think the catch seems to show up in this series
because, oh well, not an easy champion to pilot,
but if he could find Ash, find those picks,
Blackpea the difference maker in G2 potentially playing.
And if you don't get some early money and keep up as far as the pace of the game with the Aurora,
then how do you do damage later when they have Galio, ult shield, and like Seraphine healing and shielding?
Yeah, like that champ could become useless if they don't get some value out of it in the early and mid stages.
Yep, so all we want to see is early actions. We dive onto the Rift for game number one. G2 versus Gen G.
This is one that G2 has won in the past as Vettie already set up.
They often win a game in a best of five, right?
And so it shouldn't be another sweep.
We've had a few too many of those so far this tournament.
Hopefully this one is going to stay more competitive as Gen.G.
This is a very Gen.G draft as well.
I mean, I've always been a huge fan of Ruler's Ash.
I think he just glides on this champion.
Choby's Galeo needs no introduction.
Kane is on his Renekton and he's a top laner.
And so obviously that's a comfort pick.
Canyon's in depth was pretty amazing, you know renec and is even comfort for a lot of people that auto fill a top lane
Yeah, from experience. I think chubby even played it when he was filling in top lane when he was playing on
Griffin back in the day. Yeah, okay skum on here since they had the early ward and they
you know saw
That the Raptors and blue both are not started by Canyon
Then they kind of assume that he's just up there doing a red buff start and they can go ahead and split the map
Splitting the map against Ash Seraphine is part of this plan that we talked about in Shem Swick.
We want to kill it.
You get Piconautilus, and you want to kill this lane.
This is a very common solo queue jungle path where you go your own raptors into their blue gromp to get your level 3 and then gank bottom.
And now the gank bottom is coming.
Skuemon, as soon as he finishes his gromp, he'll get level 3 and he'll be there.
Yep, there's the hook as well.
They did get the information that Skuemon wasn't in his own jungle, so they have an idea that this Pantheon's making his way over.
his way up, but the Flash in as he does get the sum on the roll of Flash out already, used from the
bottom lane of Gen G. Looking a little worse for West. Yeah, so the thing is the like the timer for
the wave and the timer for finishing the gromp were a little bit different there, so LeBron just
saw the angle to go in, so he starts it then just because the angle is there and because the
wave is going to push in further, but you know, Schumann obviously had not quite finished the
the Gromp to get to his level 3, so he wasn't quite at the perfect timing to actually complete the kill,
and they just get the flash.
It is a pretty interesting jungle interaction now, because Canyon with great awareness,
seeing the gank from Skuyman on the bot side, sees that there's a window to steal away his red buff,
thanks to the Ashe, that Ashe completely changed Canyon's plan,
and he's kind of adapting on the fly now through the situation that he's in.
There was an opportunity there to potentially gank bottom lane,
which is why Skuyman had to path bot.
He had to try and play with bot side caps to be ready to cover for a potential fight down there
because if Canyon was able to find a gank, then this whole early game investment would have put you two very far behind.
So his clearing in his path is a bit awkward, but now he's fighting over that botclap.
Yeah, and they can chase him off because the bot lane is pushing yet again.
When you do this path in solo queue, you're raptors into their blue and gromp.
I find that I always have to, like, from the very beginning, type out to the bottom lane the plan
Keep the timing very well aware so that they don't do anything early, otherwise it's really hard to keep up with the camp respawns
when enemy jungler gets the early information, so good response from Canyon.
In the meantime though, Roller is still taking a whole bunch of damage here towards the bottom side of maps.
Terran sound will be helping to keep him alive.
The G2, certainly standing their ground here in this lane.
A lot of scrapping was happening, you can see running at the side of your screen, the history that's happened between the two organizations.
Initially, right at the start when they did meet G2,
it was kind of a day-day as an organization,
but since then, JG has come back with its engines.
Largely here at MSI International,
but also in the world's group stages,
Gen G have really gotten G2's number,
and things aren't expected to be different
today as they come in as their heavy favorites.
I don't know the result of that, the 3-0 as well,
even echoed throughout the LCK for Gen G immediately afterwards.
Often they talk about that best of five series,
and saying what they can do to try and mitigate it, they had a lot of respect for G2 as well.
So I have a feeling that Gen.G is certainly not going to be taking this match up lightly,
even if it has been a few best of five since then.
Yeah, I like the past tense, the had.
I mean, I think that it is still like those types of like 3-0
on expensive theories, they stick with you, absolutely.
And I mean, G2G, like in the West, they are kind of just the most winning as team
when it comes to playing against teams from the East.
So I just imagine that a lot of teams,
especially from the SCK, have that respect.
Because they know the history is there,
and Caps is always a player that can always show up on the day.
Right now, though, you look at that mid lane matchup, Chovy.
I mean, his galio is just always so impressive to watch,
because I see him losing half his HP constantly in the lane.
But you look down at the bottom of your screen,
oh, yeah, even in farm.
No difference in gold.
He does such a good job at staying even in often
these very difficult matchups to play in the early lane phase.
Yeah, very even game here in the opener, also the laners using their teleports right back to lanes.
And junglers here, finishing up and coming right back to the bottom lane.
I don't think there's going to be any further action, but remember that the flash from Ruler is still on cooldown, as is his barrier.
So in their attempts to push in this lane as well, there's a little bit of a dangerous timer.
That's why Canyon is hovering here on the control ward.
Yep, making sure that he's there for a counter-gank base squad.
Skumann down, he's hanging, looking to move in, but Ruler is already in so much trouble!
That's what the Han Sama!
And yesterday, he was certainly the Linchpin office squad.
That's going to continue here as he gets the most money.
Great hook from LeBrav, and Ruler's got a position more towards, you know, Duro there a little bit.
I'm not sure, because that hook lands, you're just so dead.
You are so dead, they know that it's possible that Skumann comes from that tri-brush.
That's why Canyon is camping there on the control ward.
But if you get hit by the hook, Vettius,
it doesn't matter if you know that he's there.
LeBrov had a great performance yesterday in the series versus BFX,
and he's going to continue that performance today.
Landing that hook, I was kind of surprised that it connected to be honest.
I thought that Ruler would be safe, but he finds the angle he gets to connect,
and they just one-shot it.
Punishing that flash, this Ruler,
really happy to see that G2 are looking to try and take advantage of these Summoners
and are continuing to find advantages through Volside.
Skirmish over crab, yeah. Level 6 is big.
This is big very nice pick up there from skimon just walks over and grabs the smite nicely done as a hook
This time is going to miss thanks to the justice punch out of chovy
Who's not just going to be rotating down towards his head straight?
Get some control of the area one of the best things about the bot lane play for g2 as well as that skimon didn't have to flash follow
To be able to follow up on that hook because the timing was so good
And so you still have your flash stun on panty on to set up the next play and now
Now, uh, Durab's just looking to kill Caps, not going to, uh, be able to flash because he does not have it.
Maybe going to invest anything else, but still that was a little bit dicey.
Yeah, I would say the next possible repeat kill could be on bottom.
What? Speaking of which, uh, yeah, Durab just caught in rotation. Really nice pass.
How does the rest of the script go? Does it look positive?
It was happening yesterday too and it's actually, I mean, it's easy to follow the like no flash
on squishy targets and then still having kill buttons on Pantheon, right?
And I was thinking about Pantheon's flash, but Pantheon's ultimate also and so just
right into the river there, LeBron sets up another one and they're just chaining
these, the summoners on bottom lane here, G2 just destroying the Gen G bottom lane
throughout the map and earning themselves this big gold lead.
I mean I'll be completely honest like this seems like such a basic concept
But it's one that's often lost in the LEC where you burn a flash and then you just keep attacking that same line
And they're doing such a good job of skew on just
Investing his focus on the box side of the lift and then netting advantage and I'd say I would also blame multiple supports
For for basically this sin of you burned your flash on bottom lane
And then you just like right back to your duties as usual and you're like, oh, I'm just gonna go get some vision now
No, you don't have flash
You know, we saw Alistar do it, I don't remember which one it actually was, but right after burning clashes in bottom lane, then getting yourself in dangerous territory, Ashe arrow.
Now we're going to connect there. Let's see what the Chovy does have enough damage here. The Justice Punch comes through and there's the Colossal's match.
And Genji on the board. Duro is going to be punished for it though as Han Sama takes him down with some bullet time and gets back to farming.
Okay, so Rula with great accuracy, sets up a play in the mid lane so Chovy gets himself a kill.
But the same thing happens in the bot side as LeBrov catches Dura out and he finds himself at 0-0 on the Seraphine here 9 minutes into the game.
This is why a lot of teams, they kind of wait until maybe a little bit later in Fearless or something,
or maybe drop Banz on Nautilus when they go for Ash Seraphine.
Because Nautilus is so good at looking for picks and kills onto these squishy targets like earlier in.
Absolutely.
And that's why you expect this pick, but LeBrov also props to him for playing it super well.
The champion has so much versatility, I think hook champions in general against squishy targets
feel so deadly for the squishy range support just because once that CC does connect
you are so prone to dying. The ash arrow, I mean caps did this exact play with Hansa
yesterday and now he is getting a taste of his own medicine as Chovy gets an easy kill.
Flash over the wall for the provinces, a bit of a contest over the vision.
Ruler is not in the area and it results in a kill on the bot side so one for one of all.
Yeah, they are just blasting this bottom lane here.
We'll see too, because it's an earlier bloodthirster,
is the results of these early kills here for Han's Summer.
And that's a huge power spike for the champion.
You just get infinite sustain basically off the waves now.
And I will say, like, so far at first down,
or at least the first few games,
Broken Blade, I think, was underwhelming
compared to what we expected of him.
And since their approach to...
We're just putting in our tanks, bro.
You're playing on, you're playing side,
to play Cassante, like yesterday he was extremely solid, I would say his own performance was
carry levels of performance as well. And now against Keen, he was behind, about a wave and
now he's pretty much kept it dead even against a Renekton matchup which can get quite ahead early.
Keen has continued to try to proxy but he's been that steadfast tank from the top side
being a pillar while G2 invests more resources on the bot side of the Rift.
Yeah, it's been such a cool story for G2 where even though Caps hasn't been having his
best games you know pretty far from it honestly the rest of the team has been
doing so well around on the bottom lane as you're talking about broken blade as
well for top lane and they've had him on a lot of these tanks and kind of
playing the role g2 really feels like they've identified the way that they
they want to play the game here at first stand and and then are succeeding
with it skewmont especially with the pantheon ultimate available now the
Aro coming down here as caps.
We'll be able to avoid it this time around.
Joby, looking for a little bit of an angle
towards grabbing some plates,
but not gonna be getting kills this time.
And, you know, we've been talking a fair amount
about how, like, G2 have been rising up,
but it's because they are such underdogs in this series.
The reality is that Gen G is just exception.
And you only have to look at some of their stats.
We're undefeated so far this tournament.
They're first in almost every single stat.
Their average gold leader, 14, is 3,000 gold.
So they are unbelievably dominant.
And the fact that G2 actually have a gold lead
in the two of the game is one of the biggest surprise facts
that's going into this Genji faction.
Like this is not a nothing lead.
1.3K is certainly snowball-able, you could say,
as Keen and Broken Blade going to be
finding each other one more time.
One, I guess, hesitation I would have
is that Genji's composition does 5v5 very effectively.
And their bottom lane is a large amount of utility
for this squad, not necessarily what they're
going to be needing to play around in the game.
We've got to emphasize the utility here with the early deaths
because the damage might not be there.
Well, Chovy, it does not quite find its own there.
And another hook from LeBron, it's fantastic.
They could be able to take the Galgros down in fact,
they absolutely will as Cap's managers
to get that last hit before the heroic entrance comes out.
A characteristic catch of the Chovy.
Generally someone who's very stable, hard to catch out.
But caught in the river, no support
from the rest of the team.
And it's made possible because Hans can 1v2 bottom lane with his early bloodthirster here.
The Ash Seraphine are no position to punish him at all.
You can't poke and chip down misfortune when he's got full bloodthirster this early.
He heals back up, destroys the wave, and even 1v2 he pushed them out
because Skuuman's ultimate on Pantheon always threatening if Ash Seraphine are too far up in the lane.
And that just means G2, they get priority everywhere.
They're going to grab another objective, double dragon.
And the Gallio death meant that the box side of the Rift is always very scared.
They had to back away that support with their jungle on the top side of the map as well.
They have to go back to base early.
Dead plant safe underneath the tower. King get very low.
Yeah, has to dominate, actually. Just to avoid death from Broken Blade.
Really good positioning there to catch him out of position.
That slice had come on into the wave.
And BB is going to stop him from trying to get home there as well.
King going to be delayed a little bit on his return.
They keep him eyes on skumont. I thought there were a couple times where they would actually threaten to die once a topside just because of how low the king was
But they're sticking to their game plan playing around mid playing around bot after that kill caps
They definitely close that gap against chovy second dragon in their favor
Cautiously optimistic about how well due to playing this early game, but as you highlighted atlas, it's those fights
It's the fights with which atlas did warn us about and it is the team fighting of Genji that has been the
Undoing of many teams that have found advantages against the team before with how big
Is that the amount is already completed?
You could certainly just be a front line to play around here for G2 just play it front to back keep it honest
I like I like that that there's no risk for me hyping up G2, you know
If it works, I'm like, oh my god
And then if the backfires
I'm just ginging that.
That's too bad, Betty, sorry!
Yeah, I'm...
It's free for me!
Right now I'm cautiously optimistic.
Harold's going to be spawning in 30 seconds
and you can see that's what the swap has been for.
So, Broken Baby and Sent to bot lane has the TP available.
Cap's now with control over top and the brov is just hovering
here to make sure that his mid laner is safe.
MF moving over there.
They're looking for it. The hook is going to miss because of the flash out from Kane.
It avoids a whole bunch of the extra damage as well.
Arrow does go wide, Cliz just up the wave, and Kane will survive, but no flash to the Renekton could be a big deal.
Yeah, honestly, well played from both parts, you know, G2, they don't make the mistake of taking tower Iroh after the flashes were traded there, and, you know, they're happy to trade LeBron's flash for the Renekton flash.
Despite not getting the kill, Ripperil is spawning, that's why you go for that play on this timing anyway.
Alright, Gen.G, is this the moment though?
Chovy, look at Chovy from bottom lane. If he roams a little closer, then he can threaten Galio ult, but Sanz is just gonna teleport now.
Yep, they're teleporting in. Let's see where the Canyon can get on towards this ripterral, because I don't think it's going to happen,
because it is going to be secured there by Eskimon. Now, Broken Blade gets into that frontline, but he's taking a lot of damage.
Knock up from the Q, only connects on the Canyon. He's not too worried about it with that Crescent Guard running his key.
Gets into that backline, but doesn't have the dominance, and there is the bullet time, but it's eaten by Chovy's heroic exit.
Just escapes the situation as Canyon looking to try and escape on the other side
It is still a win for G2 and we'll see whether they can take down Canyon as well
He's chasing, but I think Canyon should be able to walk his way out of this one
He's got his tier two boots as well
They're gonna trap him teleport here all right caps should be out of make his way forward just needs an auto
And in fact doesn't need anything at all gonna be having a lockdown that kill on the jungle was show me
Moves on over, but knows there's a man on the ground in G2 and it's just everything.
Keeps coming up G2 in this game.
Yeah, even with a Seraphionile hitting like three people there, you know, Hans is able to cleanse it,
then backs off, fires off the misfortune ult and still has enough power to chase off Canyon from the other side.
So G2, they get the Richteril, plus they get a bunch of kills after.
Keep your eyes on the side on him, because both of them goes in super deep,
but then he uses the Richteril and tries to get out of the situation,
because the threat of the Galeo is real, but the Siren is getting low, goes into the Ryfjall, knocks up Keen, allows him to get the pick, and now it's Gen.G that's split apart.
Siren is just creating chaos on the back line. The bot lane of Genji Doki...
Look on me, look on me, look on me, look on me, look on me!
And Han Siren was one of them to look on here.
And he did, because he was cautious of Canyon and Chovy threatening him on the backline, but, I mean, impressive stuff. G2 win a fight, they get the Herald.
But that gold gap between the 80 carries, there was a 1k gold lead for Han Solo.
The ruler has successfully been able to shrink.
Yeah, I love it. The broken blade driving, spinning donuts there.
In the middle of the river.
And as the team is killing Keen, Han's like, okay, yeah, finish killing Keen, and then look at me! Okay!
I got three people over here.
So now, 40 seconds, that'll be the next big point of contention.
Items looking good for G2, Skiamond really.
The biggest threat on G2 side is the Ulti's chuck top lane.
Yeah, Grand Saffol is going to come on through here as Churbi does have to flash,
but I don't think it's going to save him as he just comes out
and Kaps is going to lock down a killing spree for himself off the back of Skumon's great place.
Great stuff. Yeah, Skumon's here, still zero deaths.
He's only missed out on participating in a single kill, and that was the bottom lane one,
where they flashed on the therapy and got that one for free.
So another really good game from Skumon himself as well.
With Pantheon it's very easy to keep up the pace when they start to get these outer towers down for G2
They're the ones that can now continue to pressure side lanes and then look to collapse
That's speed, it's a skew on me. Definitely hurting. Yes, she has two items and there is only a Ruby crystal on Canyon.
Cap size? Not called TP. This is a numbers advantage. Galio has the ulti to arrive
Brokenblade has ulti too. Brokenblade can sign ult down this river
Let's see what they can actually utilize it as Verganblade.
As you can see, just off to the side, but they're not going to go for it.
Arrow is going to go wide.
This ruler does not quite find his mark.
And Gen.G will successfully take away the drake, stopping that solve point.
Yeah, Caps was coming from base, so Caps was just a little too far.
Yeah, I think it was a good punish from Gen.G and good respect from G2
because they realized Caps stayed top, they tracked his DP, they knew he couldn't arrive.
Choby matching him, even though he was dead, had the ultimate to arrive in time.
And also, G2 saying, do we need to force a 4v5?
Or if we could just save our stuff from play like this?
Well, that is going to be Keyne taking down once again.
Caps is just picking up kill after kill here.
As he goes towards the bottom lane to do the same thing.
Han Solo just holding onto the wave here in this mid lane.
The bloodthirster meaning that all of that poke
just does nothing at all.
And Brookwood has teleport, so he can actually recall
and then go teleport to top lane
to try and catch the top wave that Chovy is putting in.
And G2 showing some good restraint during a timer
where they're close to a play, but just not quite
because caps is a little bit too far
and then they get to follow play instead, yeah, you know.
I'm really proud of my region right now.
I'm so sorry for you.
Cause it was one of those things where like, yeah,
on instinct you'd want to fight that dragon.
Normally I would expect G2 to fight it,
but yeah, they recognize this is a bad position
and we can just concede it.
It's okay, it's all good.
I bet they'll get a kill, they'll get a tower.
Hunts did lose his flash in mid lane
which couldn't really hurt him
as you get later into the game, but we won.
Ruler is very, very hurt.
He's very hurt.
Oh, actually able to barrier the last little bit of damage.
As now the on-call comes forward, the double charge is fantastic.
Underneath that turret there as well as the grog.
Trying to get his way out.
Canyon really wants to punish that positioning
because when becomes lightning is not enough to do anything at all
and G2 managed to walk it off.
Yeah, Hansen now had vision on Ruler as he walked way through the brush
and didn't remember that the barrier was still there.
So he knew, okay, it's just a couple of ways in my ult
to be able to kill him, but because of the barrier, he does survive, and Haas canceled
us all early just so he could go back to mid lane and continue the pressure.
Okay, Cap's having a much better aura performance.
Or aura performance.
Yeah, better aura too!
Yeah, you guys are right.
His aura!
I mean, I'm honestly just shocked by how proactive G2 are being and the fact that
they just keep punishing Gen G. This team that genuinely felt so infallible based
on what we've seen all split long.
Did you do the playing with this level of confidence like it really does feel like they've turned the name plates off and then just treating them like any other team, which is exactly what you need to do.
And it's not even necessarily confidence, it's discipline that they're using. We've seen already with that dragon fight here as well, they notice the ruler is overextended, and yeah, that was a little unfortunate not being able to get the board time to fully complete.
But still even being able to walk away from that great encore out from Duro,
they just seem to have all of the answers and it feels like it's preparation
for each of these plays that's really benefiting G2 in this game.
Yeah, Hansa was feeling benevolent and he was like, you know what, fine.
World champion, I'll let you walk away this time, buddy.
You can have one.
Remember that's, I mean, a kind of him.
Ultimately, he got what he wanted though,
which is the long-term play of no sums on the bot lane.
And that Pantheon, we know that Scumon, he's got a homing missile with that ultimate, and he's gonna be locked and loaded, hanging for Lula's aim.
And now, he will for sure be timing that barrier.
Oh, I remember.
But it's the luxury that G2 are in in this game, that they still have the massive priority.
They have three towers to zero, gentlemen.
Yeah. I mean, this is a bit of a shutout right now.
I'm not excited yet. They could still throw this. I still fully believe in their ability to throw this game.
game. I don't. They're looking, as we said, really
disciplined. Say the castacost thing again. Do it, Max.
Stop this man. Stop him right now. Nope. Not this time. I've been told that I
should not do that anymore. I'm a changed man. And Genji are looking
really sluggish, honestly. Well, I mean, it's true. And I feel like
this has been a thing for Genji, but not in 2026. It was a 2025 thing
where it felt like they'd just pick a very slow composition
and then just try and play to stay even throughout the game
and then win in teamfights later.
But they're not very proactive when they're playing this style.
And that is looking like it's what they're continuing to do here today,
which is not a great sign if you are a Gen G fan.
I thought that Brockenberg was doing a bit of a bait there,
starting that one off, trying to bait the Ash-E out to draw that attention,
get that vision time.
Stead depth focus is very much on the bot side of the Rift.
They did lose that third dragon of the game,
This time around, their position, their timing is good.
Cap's quite a little fortunate for him.
He's just short of a death cap.
You can see he's very close, but if you can get that gold,
he does have the teleport available
and could regroup with the fight.
If he can secure that, his kill third onto Ruler
significantly increases.
And remember, those flashes still unavailable
for Ruler and Dura if they want to contest.
Ruler also taking a big chunk there from Cap's.
Genji, very far away from this dragon.
It's spawning in one second's time.
There it is.
Second mountain to come on through is now key.
He deals with this outer turret on the top side, and that finally, Genji here on the board as far as that is concerned.
It looks like Soulpoint should be going over to Jitsu without a contest.
Yeah, you don't want to fight this at Genji. You're so far behind right now that just try and get some gold in trade for a dragon.
Singular dragons are not that big of a power boost, but actual gold from turret plates, if, uh...
So King got the top side turret, and he got one turret, the little baby turret off the second turret plate off the secondary turret here.
Just try and get as much gold as you possibly can
to fight your next fight after you get a couple more completed items here.
I'm still keeping an eye on the itemization from Camps.
He has to be so close to that death cap now.
A couple more ways should probably do the trick
is they clear our vision, start sending it around this Baron.
25 minutes in and G2, they've held up to a gold lead this entire game.
We've seen little to no mistakes from G2's Afar games strategy
and they're gonna, with a gold deficit like this,
it's your highlighting that gonna need a big team fight to swing the game in that favor.
And I just want to take a moment to talk about jungle again.
OK, because I this is why I'm always such a big fan of deviating from full clears
when your comp really indicates like a lane will super benefit from it.
And there isn't that much risk to doing it.
Skoumon's remember back to the opener.
Yeah, we're going to have a little bit of a fight here.
Skoumon does have ulti, Pantheon could join.
Yeah, race to the bottom.
My end is Chevy avoids the CC and will be able to get out with the
So that does mean that that ulti is on cooldown but still manages to escape.
But remember back to the opener and it's like okay so you see this clear decent amount
where you go your raptors into separating bottom lane.
When you've got an ash seraphine that's going to be a very vulnerable but heavy pushing lane early
go for the three camp attempted gank, you know get the flash, wait a second.
Aragorn to connect there as there's the Encore.
Genji do not want to waste anything here, making sure that they take down the Aurora.
So Caps, lying on the floor, there is a bit of extra money going over to Keen as well.
Yeah, very good pick from the side of Genji.
Punishing Caps is trying to clear out Vision.
They even got the Flash out from him as well.
Looks like he's still short of that Deathcap Gold.
But I don't think Genji's going to get much off the back of it.
They'll buy a little bit of time.
They won't even call back much Vision though.
We look at the many map and we can see that they don't even have any Vision
This entire other half of the map is completely dark and they're very reliant on Ruler as he's forced to use the Hawkshot to get info as to whether the Baron has been sided on all of them.
Yeah, Genji is just constantly standing on wards here and there, and jungle finally some sweepers going to be utilized as Dura might be able to find this one ward as well.
If there's control ward in the back of the pit, and immediately Broken Blade says no, you're not allowed to see.
allowed to see. Yeah they have to rely basically on the timer of Hawkshot and the
two blue trinkets and try and rotate those. So Hawkshot used now for next
summer they can use a blue trinket control where to actually back in the
back of the kick. Now G2 I would say only thing is don't flip versus Canyon.
Well, Canyon will steal those. It's a bit of a scary situation here looks like
they are going to pull away though as Kane makes his way in with the
teleport I imagine that's what G2 were looking for right make sure that
The Crocodile does not have that in the side lane and they get it and they back away.
And that's that discipline again, Vettius.
You start the objective with your goal, get your side lane teleport there.
Of course, caps, no teleport on Aurora as well, but yeah, they got Keynes out and the...
They should have been tracking the fact that Choby already TPed earlier.
So they have TPed Vantage with Broken Blade, so they can do this exact same play again.
Put Broken Blade bot, draw pressure towards that area of the map, then TP guaranteed
numbers advantage, but they're kind of forced to have, you're seeing it now,
Chovy has to match because he's the only person that can get within range to
ulti to then join the fight. So Chichi just have a lot of leverage right now and
finally the death cap is completed for Cap. He's taken a little bit longer than he had planned, but a big item spike from the midlaner of Chichi.
Meanwhile the Lord Dom's done for ruler so he can actually do damage to the
scion now and if they if they are able to get a good like initiation
maybe a little bit of someone sectioned off from the rest of the team,
then you do have to be wary of the Gen GCC,
because the game is not completely exploded at the moment.
It's still teetering there. There's chances.
And last, Rula just gets one shot. The answer is not.
Yes, he's open to the U.N.
Not enough, there's some caps.
But I think fear of death, certainly there for Rula.
Mid lane has always been a little bit of a rough place.
For Rady Kors, Rula position for a reason.
It's just a round beneath the Raptor pit right there.
You guys might remember.
I believe you guys even have an aim for it.
It's just called the ruler spot.
Well, the Dragon's spawning in 30 seconds,
and I don't think Caps is going to have his ulti.
I can't quite see the cooldown on it,
but it's going to be just short.
Maybe if they can buy a little bit more time.
It's actually invests a lot of time around Baron.
They've cleared up a lot of vision,
and I think they're starting this objective off.
Yeah, they do just move over there.
Teleport is going to bring Broken Blade into the fight,
and his Baron is going down extraordinarily quickly.
Ruler just pumping these arrows into it,
LeBruv making his way over,
and Skumond up towards the back of the pit,
but it looks like they might just be rushing this one down.
Can the steal actually come on through?
Skumond is waiting to get on in there, flashes forward.
Who's going to get this fight?
It is going to go to G2,
as Cadi with that Jessica just desperately trying
to stay alive, but it's broken blade,
gets into the back line.
Justice Punch is decent.
They're from Joby as well,
trying to hold him in position.
And he goes golden at the same time.
Genji's still kind of alive in the fight,
and Cap says no.
They are not alive in this fight, hapless down they will go.
If he walks out the bottom line, the grandstaff holds there as well.
And Jitsu may have just stamped this game in game number one.
They don't lose a single champion in their efforts to take the Baron and take down Jed.
Jitsu.
Excellent discipline, excellent execution.
Jitsu are living up to the potential that this organization believed in.
here in game one, a over 7k gold lead,
they're gonna secure the soul
and they are dominating Gen G.
The discipline from G2 here, you know,
it's Gen G that felt like they were boxed into a corner
and so they try and get a miracle Baron play for themselves.
But G2, nice response and SQmon hits the Q plus smite.
I believe I'm not gonna look at the replay
for the combo of damage,
But he is able to secure it for G2.
And that should secure the game for them.
Yep, Montecat-Praszl's moment as well
as we have a look at this Baron being taken.
Big desperation for the strategy.
I think Pokerblade eliminating the rule from the back
doesn't really do way to start.
Skiumoman has to stack up his Q.
He can have the full stack,
but Q plus Smite able to secure it.
Outsmite and canning, gotta be a great feeling
for the young man in the jungle for G2.
Choby doesn't even care to try and keep Keen alive.
But Keen ends up falling short.
And Broke of Light just does so much work on the front line.
Kind of the unsung hero of this fight,
just eliminating Dura and Ruler from getting involved.
And then Cap's ultimate comes back off cooldown,
cleans up on the back end of the fight.
And G2, again, I'm so impressed by their discipline.
This level of play is the complete opposite
of what we saw against BLG.
This team is completely leveled up
in such a short amount of time.
I even think that it's different
from what we saw yesterday as well.
I feel like they were playing more fast and loose in that series.
This is certainly some by the book, League of Legends,
as LeBrogh able to just get his way out and...
They are just playing smoke and mirrors.
They're not giving Gen.G any opportunity
to get into any of these fights.
And it's something that we've seen Gen.G do all year long.
It's why they're frustrating for a lot of teams to deal with.
But instead, Gen.G is delivering a bit of their own medicine
as Genji losing all of their inhibitors at the same time.
Top just gonna go down, the bottom lane,
the last one to fall as the hook is gonna connect
there on the key, not exactly the optimal target there
as Canyon might also be taken down,
but there are all three inhibitors lying on the floor.
It's only a matter of time before G2
to be able to take down these Nexus turrets
as Canyon realizes that he goes in.
But Skumund is so tanky there.
Absolutely working his way towards the Nexus
tiles, both of us.
Or G2 doing this tutorial style,
not giving Genji anything left in their base
minions. I mean, the band was worn off, but they don't need any more to hook next.
Yeah, another hook is fantastic. They're out of Lavrov as Canyon just realizes that he has to go in.
Ruler trying to dance around the battlefield, but it does not work.
Ida Skimoch survives. How did that even happen?
As Caps is just dashing, flashing onto the fountain to try and get the last kill.
And finally, G2 are going to take down the Nexus.
What a statement here from the European first seed as they go up 1-0 and get specified.
G2 just demolished the tournament favorites.
Gen G in game number one in the opener.
And that was a critical start to finish.
There was no part of that game where it was,
oh, that was a whoopsie play.
No, it was a stranglehold.
I vote for SQ Mon for Player of the Game
because Judges up the repeat gates on bottom side.
LeBroven Homs played it really well too,
but with the gates, amazing stuff.
And let's do you feel the same.
Deadline with 14k
They were patient, they can't repair today against Genji and it's just one game for God.
The game needs the world, especially when it's against the tournament favorites.
I mean, this is the huge win already for the team.
Shoot him, Mark!
You hit him in the comments.
No, no, no, no, none of that, too.
I'm a game-worn MT and I don't care.
Let's just read the checklist.
Let's just read the checklist because he came into this one and really wanted to talk
about it.
And G2 came in prepared, like immediately, as you can see, like the point that you
made Laura be cautious of early-game cross-maps, they were very cautious of their timers.
They hit that one.
Play front to back, like a straight-up front to back teamfight, that was as front to back as you can play, maybe Aurora can play it at an angle.
Now the draft for strong bot lane was tough, because Gen.G banned the Karma, first picked the Seraphine.
The thing is, it's hard to get 2v2 prior there, but they went the MF, the Nautilus, the Pantheon, and they were like, we'll just kill them.
I mean, we're in so well.
And you know what? You know, like, why don't we get a friend involved with it? It's still like, we got the Pantheon going bot lane.
The early passing from Skuman was very smart, we should just run the reel.
And that's what Gavs were saying yesterday.
You want to be cautious about Gen.G in the early game
and they took that by the letter.
Putting that pressure on the bot lane,
help us, Q-mon.
This is what gave them the early lead, Ox.
Yeah, and I mean, Labyrinth was just so on point
with these hooks coming in.
They'd been in that flush earlier from Rulous.
They got a gank there.
Duros flushed down here, get another pick here.
And it just felt like the momentum built up so effectively.
Here, Duros, try to contest her ward,
ends up getting caught out as well.
And it just felt like the support for G2
was so decisive on these plays.
For how much praise we get to Skuman and towards Hansama as well, LeBrov's this was his game.
I felt LeBrov was completely on point and I think a lot of people in the community rightfully
so for this tournament have been giving credit to LeBrov but this one was just everything
that we really had wanted.
And what surprised me the most about this iteration of the G2 is that usually they
thrive in Chaos.
This was meticulous.
This was organized.
They were patient time and time again especially during this fight.
Herald play was crazy. The value he gets with all the knockups and the fact that he survives in such low HP
Just such a great read from broken blade and the columns to get the Herald set down there
And this is a point in the game where Genji have seen many times before you know, they've had sometimes early deficits
But those team fights are usually so crisp. G2 just manhandled them. What happened to my team? They're so clean
I don't know where! I don't know where! If you hear from caps, caps is like, well, goldfishes, right?
They're talking about how in fact they forgot all of the things, the notes that they had mentioned, coming into this event and they just remembered it just like that and suddenly they're cleaning house.
They left the Goldfish at the hotel here today on this mech. I'm so prepared against Gen.G. I know that it's only one game and I'm celebrating. We'll see what happens next.
But it's still Gen.G. No team could do so far what they did today. They're the third team ox to take them down this year in 2026.
It's been such a clean year in general for GenG and again they only dropped a couple of games
Yeah, there's time at this tournament. We saw the stats as well
3000 gold lead at 15 minutes on average for GenG
So when they got by a lead immediately it was a game we didn't expect
But the fact they carried out cleaning was so impressive and I just want to see who the player of this game was I
Give it to Ski-mon
You can look at I mean you want to look at who made the action happen but Lane could be anyone could be LeBragh
I chose Q-mon here and yeah, I guess that's what we're doing. I mean, that's fair
I think everyone probably ends up deserving from the side of G2
And I'm interested in what the fans have to say on this one too because it's Q-mon. Yes, the braves second will take it
We'll take it. I think I'm on board with that. I think also one of the criticisms in the past of this G2 roster
Is being the jungle support not linking up too well
They were interlinked constantly so that game working so well together. What are we drinking yet?
It's just one game still, you know what, drink, I went on the edge of my chair all game
I was like, they have it, it's still Gen.G, they can still come back, you know that it's
never done and dusted, especially against this team.
This one right here as you saw it quickly, you already have mentioned it, the third
loss that Gen.G has had so far this year and the first in the tournament, so already
that entire idea of them hitting a history, some records here is not there.
So for me it's about Gen.G just resetting, right, just chilling, just relaxing ox.
They need to wake up!
They're under my conditions!
I haven't seen them wake up yet, so I hope for that in game 2.
What's what happens in game 2, but so far G2 makes things interesting in that similar finals.
Opening up the score, again the tournament's favorite.
Let's see what happens next.
We're going to connect there.
Let's end the tournament.
We're going to sound it up.
Get into the jumps.
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Do you want me to go south to fly?
Do you think it's going to save you?
If he just comes down,
the house is going to walk down.
It's going to freeze.
Oh, no, no.
Look at this.
That is good.
Next one, David.
We're going to play.
We're going to play.
We're going to play.
We're going to play.
We're going to play.
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They got to step on a land of my own
You know it
Time to spread my wings
Who gives you wings?
The greatest players in the world are here.
They just burned this one down.
You are going to see them like you've never seen them before.
Project World is now being sold.
Doing so much work and Gen.G.
They are just going to ace them.
We don't want to be in this situation.
We are going to think a lot.
Gen G, the EWC, win it!
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Yeah, it definitely feels really good, especially winning like on the 3-0 against like LCK.
Like Europe has done this in like many years.
I'm definitely proud of what we've done, but now that this is over, I will focus
on our next game and I think that we can do another stop.
If G2 will win this tournament, I think it will be because of our resilience going into the tournament.
We've had like a lot of changes whether like it's being sickness or just like bad performances
But also yeah like our determination and our like way of like actually adapting to the tournament
And I think it makes us like a really dangerous time going to tournament
I think this would be the reason why G2 would win
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Here is Champion Select once again, as we see Gen.G with first pick here in game number two.
Makes a little bit of sense there, is there already just banning a way to drop?
I think they believed Daniel Orcs Harrison in his player of the game vote there.
vote there. This man has shocked me. LeBrov has come out of nowhere. He has been like the
biggest point of criticism from fans. Pretty much ever since he joined the roster. And it
wasn't until summer of last year that we finally saw him have that synergy with Scumon
that they've been working so closely. But then even this split, everyone was saying
Bousio is the best support. Bousio clears everyone. Bousio by far way better. And now
LeBrov is just making a name for himself here on the international stage. And he
is showing up today. Yeah, honestly, I do think that vote had legitimacy to it.
to it all the hooks that LeBron was able to hit yeah really big for G2 so Atlas the question
is with the new draft are Gen G also awake now we don't know not until we get onto the
rift and see them do stuff could be that's going to be out of do the wake test it is
very easy to pick champions while you're asleep the coach kind of helps you out talk
to go to gloom about that because we've had some teams in the LCS that have failed
to pick the correct champions hopefully that does not happen here starting out
with the Vi, though, for Gen.G. Whenever you first picked this champ, now you're signaling,
alright, we are definitely gonna go dive, so G2 can already think about things that are
good against it. Gen.G, though, thinking about that ahead of time, they pre-banned the Bard,
which is a really good answer into a lot of Vi comps, because you can defensively ult
with Bard, so they've got that there.
Yep, and fun fact, this is the first time the LCK has lost four consecutive games
to the LEC ever.
Ever.
Ever.
It is true.
It's kind of crazy, as it could be fun.
After this game as well as the barracks gonna be locked in here behind some are certainly a favorite for him
I said, I don't really like barracks at the moment, but that I think is just a personal thing
Not necessarily a power level thing is skumann. Let's see what he's gonna be walking. It's also just it
Yeah, I kind of share it when you're looking out of vibe, you know, you're like lock me that low mobility
I was I was thinking to myself like what do you pick into by with panther and zin gone
These are kind of the two junglers that you kind of use as a response to vibe of kind of match your
and the backline threat. But Zaheng was something that, I mean originally I saw a first from Blamber
over in the LCS and then a lot of other teams started showing up in the LEC. And it became,
at least in the LEC, it became like first pick worthy. Zaheng jungle became super high priority
and then here at first that has just kind of fallen to the wayside. So to see it now returned
we'll see if I'm expecting this to go in the jungle, we'll see how well Skimoch compiled.
Yeah, I love Zaheng when you get to play two low range comps and you get to just thrive
in the middle of these long brawls where you can have the time to stack up your passive.
So then, very good if you've got time, if they have a burst comp, then he's not so good.
I'm a little bit scared of Asilis.
Every time I see Alistair, I'm like, it's Asilis angle.
And Caps isn't doing it now.
One of these bands over here, maybe, if Caps doesn't do it now.
I found it in his opportunity.
They're either taking Niko or Fallen here, I think, G2.
See what they do decide to go with.
Punishing a Silver Alice Delane is certainly something that you can do as the Brahms is going to come in.
This might open the door to an on-hit bar as well.
The only thing that I like to engage...
You don't like engage Brahms?
I don't. I've seen enough Mickey Brahms to know that engage Brahms is like a 50-50 chance of being dead.
50-50? That's a good answer!
Yeah, what the heck?
It either hits or it doesn't, gentlemen.
If you get the Super Blast cone rib, then chances get higher.
That makes everyone an engaged champion though, so don't worry about it.
Okay, these are good bans though. You got a ban, and Bessa from Keen.
You don't want to see Keen just wake up and take over a game here,
so take away some of those huge carry champions from Top lane, especially since G2
have clearly been like Broken Blade.
You are going to be our frontline for a lot of these games,
and you're just going to pick a lot of tanks on the top side,
so they don't want to deal with Mbessa.
Is Ari worth the bet?
That's my question.
I think Ari is a better player.
There are still things like Sensing,
Stalker, Soul Knights,
Kali, I think Syndra can be good into Ari.
Vi, Annie was kind of brought back in 2023 combo
that we've seen a couple times,
which I think is also good.
They're still burning away junglers.
Yeah, they're just playing the jugs.
I think the bottom is so good into Sivir
that that would be worth forcing the bet.
That's a good point, Jork.
Yeah, you gotta respect the flex here, so...
I like that third does eat up a band.
So G2 are going to benefit from that one.
They're not going to be taken away as well.
Renekton already off the table.
They're not going to be able to get to a
a bunch of different baseballs on the top side.
They're just going to be fine.
Judging by the mobility is nice.
But the spell shield, they don't worry about it.
They could also consider a pitch nut
if they want just kind of a long range.
Are you talking about G2's perspective on Gen G's?
Okay, yeah.
Because I'm with Max that already would be great for Gen G's.
I think they want to pick the R.E.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, because right now with this G2 pick, that's why I'm debating.
Is it worth just slamming the R.E. now to act as a denial and also just getting that extra mobility?
But I'm also thinking you don't have the best champion to pet alongside the R.E. basically drags it so far.
So maybe just something like an Azir or a Vick there having a little bit more long range and poke could perhaps facilitate the call more.
It's hard.
Yeah.
hard because like the the Silas if Genji ended up going Ari, Silas would be great
for G2 because then you get a Silas with an Outstar ult to steal and you get a
good matchup in lane. But now I want to see Gwen Ari walk in. I want Genji to have
lots of damage. If they do that, force them to wake up. I think yeah I think if they if
they do that then G2 for sure just slam the Silas because Silas said Ari
very good Silas with an Outstar ult to steal. Very good so that's what they're
kind of waiting for here if they do it okay I think it's got to be a g2 stylist
then it's weird though how do you guys feel about the Ari Silas matchup we
would we say Ari picked into Silas all the time it's very Ari yeah early but I
like that scaling for Silas scaling for Silas later this is one of my favorite
could be close of all time to show us he's got it I know it's 10 years ago
they did it on purpose
that I'm running it I think it's gonna pick us up tight instead of being
it's going to come through that is not what I was expecting up the loop going
to get that yesterday from Dope Club but instead it is keen locking it away
this wildly goes away from any sort of team fight position though it I love
Because you're like okay fine, you know broken blade you're gonna keep on picking all these tanks
Then we're for sure. Just gonna get a vain lane up here and look for a keen
What about the salary go any any steal as a way to final out?
I think you just pick a phone call. Yeah
Yeah, that's why I prefer big to here is just gives like so vanishing range
Silverish or range Ari has picked potential with the five
Victor
Reliant on your barrage and evicting, you basically just chip away at them.
The problem is Gigi's engage is very long.
It's actually very difficult for them to close that gap if they want to be the initiated.
They're very reliant on barrage's ultimate or probably finding a flank.
But Gen.G, they are a relatively short-range composition, and I don't think Gigi's going to be happy if they close the gap up to you.
Yeah, I'm a little bit worried about this.
I don't think it's necessarily a composition that screams weak in teamfight, really comfortably.
It's not one of those easy to execute compositions that I would expect a team to pick up after losing a game one, right?
Because oftentimes you want to go back to comfort, ease of execution and just focus on the basics and get a win on the board.
That is not what it's looking like. It's looking like slam the top lane, try and get Keen a massive advantage so that he is in answerable in a side-by-side.
But I mean, the craziest thing about Gen.G is it feels like all year long the conversation has been they can pick anything at all just quick.
Yeah, that has been a bit of a thing.
And after a loss, you'd sit down and say, you might be sad, think that, okay, well surely they're going to pick something that you'd expect to struggle with, but no, they didn't.
No, we needed more difficulty than that!
Let's challenge ourselves more with a harder to execute composition, but hey, would we not agree that Keen is considered the best player in the world?
I would agree.
So, I mean, now that title is going to be put to the test. Is he piloting, then, in the top line?
And honestly, I think it's actually pretty hard for G2 to catch these carries.
A hundred percent.
They're talking about the legendary gauge.
Yes, Sivir's speed, and Vayne mobility, and Ari mobility.
As much as it's like, oh, it's hard to pilot them, these are the best players in the world.
And so I think that they will be able to pilot them fairly successfully because there's
no point in click on G2's side.
And Keen has gone exhaust as well.
So even if the Zahen gets in the middle of them, how does the Zahen stick on Vayne and
Sivir and Ori carries here?
It might be hard for G2 to actually hit their damage.
Even though they do have a very good, like, we can kite back definitely pretty well.
We have good poke and range, like you're saying as well, Atlas, so it might put more
pressure onto Gen.G, but especially if Gen.G can play side lanes early then.
I think it does sort of show what Gen.G wants to do in that summoner spell, because
So I think that if they were going to play for teamfights and things like this,
Clems would have a lot of value from King.
And instead, I think in the 1v1 and inside lanes, the exhaust is extremely powerful.
They want to try and pick this G2 squad apart with an open map.
So far in this early game, it's Gen.G that have pressure in top, kind of as we all expected with Vayne into Cassante.
Meanwhile, in mid and bots, it's G2 that have that early pressure.
Victor, a very good early trader, can really outrange and just out poke the iron.
The bot side of the map brawl is just making it very difficult for the Alistar to play,
which should give a lot of freedom for SQM to contest that bot crab.
It's likely that we'll have to see Canyon forced up towards the top side, but I am expecting
that if there are going to be early ganks, they will be centered more towards that
Cassante to help accelerate King of the Bane.
Yeah, I think that Broken Blade is just going to continually have a pretty rough
time.
Silver Bot's now picked up at level 2, 14.
That is why the Bane is so good into these tanks with max arm damage.
And if the pain continues, it becomes really hard to even call your jungler.
Junglers don't really want to go to lanes that are losing super heavily, like, especially
if it's a Vayne with exhaust, because I will waste a lot of my time trying to help you even
close the distance to a Vayne, and if we don't, if we fail that early on, then you
are just in trouble the entire game, and it becomes harder and harder and harder,
Unless Zahen can prep a Q1 on something else, and then come to your lane and do a flash dash and try and get it there.
But again, if Kassate and Zahen fail to close the distance to the vein the first time around with flash and ghost,
it can get really painful and she can outplay you and kite both of you.
Yeah, I think the risk is certainly very, very high.
Now, doubling down on a losing lane, Crab is going to be skewed eventually.
by a skew. How does it go? It reads it momentarily. Ruler taking a fair bit of damage though. The pulverized
Enduro is going to help protect him. As he gets hit by those concussive blows,
kind of what we're expecting every time the Alistar goes in the brawl can then be applied
that passive in teamfights, especially that's where it can get very scary for the Alistar.
We'll have him breakable of course, ultimate, providing a lot of assistance,
but Ruler sets aside some to harm. Yeah, he's going in. Doesn't find the pulverized though,
unfortunately, as Ruler has to deal with the door out of LeBragh. Enduro is just dead.
First blood, going over to Han's Sama once again, two games in a row in a row.
He also has to flash two autos, would have meant the death of him.
And just a little bit of a whoopsy here for Gen.G, once more here in Game 2.
Dude, this is Han's tournament, I'm standing there, man.
This is Han's Sama tournament.
That flash, he is so ready for it.
Duro, it's fully telegraphed, man.
He starts his trampoline, starts running straight at him.
So Han's just like, are you really gonna hands check me and think I cannot flash this combo?
Hans immediately flashes it and he pops his ghost and he's turning 100% of the time.
He flashes the combo from Doro, he walks up, LeBrov puts the unbreakable so they know you win this return damage, 100% of the time, and Hans Summer lays it down again!
They get the first blood, Fettius! You were trying to put Vikla as a North American player because he played in the LCS?
I'm going to claim Hans.
That's all I think.
Because you did that, it's exactly what you did.
And I'm going to claim Hans because he played in the other team.
That's my boy right there.
I've always said it, boss.
That's my boy.
Do you want to claim Broken Blade as well?
Yes.
You got to feed it for an option.
Honestly, we're going to claim Joe Calco too.
We got three.
We're going to fill up a gun off topic a little bit.
We've twisted the argument a little bit.
I mean, my biggest question is what was Durant doing?
What he did.
I think Hans would flash it.
I mean, that's crazy.
He's running straight out of the ring.
That was mega disrespectful.
I mean, he actually got punished for it.
And yeah, I was not expecting...
I mean, really, against either Korean team,
I was not even prepared to say Hansa and LeBron
would be winning those two versus two.
They absolutely are winning these two versus two,
so credit to them, massive glow up from the bot lane of G2,
especially when the conversation around G2 has been,
if Caps is playing bad, G2 cannot win.
And so for so many G2 fans they have to feel vindicated right now because G2 is not, Cap's not having an amazing tournament, but this bot lane certainly is and Scumon makes his arrival.
Yeah, making his way in there to the Flash out from Duro immediately. In the meantime though, Canyon, trying to get some work done in the mid lane, get the Flash out of Cap's.
Still a success, but Flash is burnt on both sides of the map as Scumon will head over to this crowd.
He's funneling the crowd towards the bottom side of the map, which is his strong side of the Rift right now.
Yeah, look at the positioning of Braum as they threaten a potential dive.
They're for sure cuz they force their own back to base here. It's slow though. The wave isn't dying super quickly
They need to get here quick. It comes by as well. Yeah, let's see whether we can actually survive this one
I don't think I'm gonna be able to get some shield wait wait and the last take is enough to do it LeBron
Walks down the second one for G2
Don't worry about the exclamations there they calculated that was just that was just for the most
Yeah, beautifully done.
The response from Canyon though, I think he's doing exactly the right thing.
He sees that the bot lane dive is happening but he knows that G2 have to recall.
So there's a perfect opportunity for him to grab the dragon.
He's gonna steal that one away and there's no way for G2 to contest.
So even though Rula does end up falling at the very least, Genji will get something back.
Yeah. Always looking for the response.
Plays, dragon number one, but a thousand gold this early in.
Skuman's on the attack again. He does have ultimate but so does Chovy.
That is three people cruising on over towards this Ari does find the charm on a skewman
Just to offer something back, but still does have to burn that spirit rush
So I'm just keeping a track of capsis
Stacks, I believe he should have hit a hundred by now
Because he's only sitting at nine in the bottom left
Which means he shows to upgrade his Q rather than his E
Early on which I mean I guess he's prioritizing getting that extra movement speed
Especially after losing his flash early and also just helping giving him that extra trading potential against Joby by
to prioritize a few over the e-pipe.
Yeah, and Caps is gonna scale so nicely
with big teamfight damage.
So they've taken away the biggest danger to him,
which is Chovy's ultimate early on.
And you blow the Ori ultimates
before Ori is able to get malignance.
And then it's an actual cooldown right now.
So they've taken away so much of the threat.
And since he didn't have flash,
I think that was necessary
because it's a timer where Canyon is now level six on five.
So wait, is this a kill?
And it is the charm to come on out there.
That does keep Chovy alive still.
He does.
Possibly have to burn his teleport after that one.
Beautiful placement of the W.
Like, he got Chovy right in the middle of it.
And with no use, because he used the W at the same time,
he lost his movement speed.
So there's no way to get out of that.
And then the charm connects,
which ultimately I think mitigates
a lot of the potential damage that Caps did have.
But he'll get the flash, he'll get the TP.
Caps playing the lane really well,
which I mean, considering his performance,
he is the player that I had needed to see step up
the most, and he's had a great series so far.
And he's going to tanky build so he can survive some burst because you know you're by Ari, right?
I need to survive.
It's been kind of the number one thing on his mind, but they take away the Ari ult, they take away the Ari flash just with individual play on the second time around.
So G2 are feeling so comfortable.
Yeah, I mean if you're a G2 fan, you just don't look toplane. That's all you need to do.
Because, I mean, Keen is doing exactly what we would expect in the matchup.
Warden's male clock farmer picked up the broken blade, doing everything that he absolutely needs to
to survive this vein as much as possible. But like it is, it is a horrible lane,
and Riot have made it so that with the roll quests, you cannot escape it. You are trapped in here
with the vein, no lane swap shenanigans, at least for a while, and so he's just going to have to tank it for now.
And Canyon continues to pick up the objectives on the map. Oh, James's eruption here is going to get the Unbreakable Well out of Dura.
So that is a big cooldown. Still Canyon on these grubs like you were saying, Kobe.
Not going to be able to stop him from doing that problem is if he finishes the third grub
They're gonna know by his top for sure. They might have actually had vision
And seen him going there to play they can sense it
Yeah, so they know for sure by just finished grubs, but nobody is really showing there
So it's gonna fault lane leads the problems in the broth off to that 2v2 kill off to the drive
That's such a commanding position. That's gigantic. It's now broken blade looking to close the gap onto King
Let's see that condemn will come out
The answer is not quite yet. This is the problem you can initially close the gap
It's just trying to walk away that can be quite difficult
Still though, I think overall Jesus in a fantastic spot the fact that the bot lane is so far ahead
They are down and objectives Canyon's we're doing a good job in that department
I know he's looking to cover top lane because he realizes keen is it a bit of danger here
Also, make sure you can push out this way and get home safe guarantee the crash
The problem with Caster is telling me where not to look is that later on in the game you're
going to have to look eventually at the side lane.
When you're told not to look somewhere, you always go there.
I was subtly suggesting, agent G-Fans, keep your eyes on Keen, he's doing pretty well
right now.
I will say the way that you pick apart this G2 comp is going to be sidelines later
as we kind of went over, and neither the Cassante who's extremely starved at the moment or of course a Victor is going to want to be in a long lane later on.
So the biggest problem for G2 is going to be mid and late game. What has happened with our side lanes?
You're completely right, actually, like something that when in a very dragon-dominated meta, often it's easy to forget how difficult it can be as Rulak.
This has an miserable time down here on the bot side of the map.
Skeumont continues to make this presence known.
Not a lot of vision available there, so I was a little nervous, but still.
Hanzama gonna be able to get the push in. Has gone the on hit of Aris as well.
I actually really like this. We've seen some pretty consistent nerfs towards the lethality version.
This will do a fair bit of damage still, not a lot of mobility, and you do have to try
and auto attack so we'll see how he does do if team fights do break out.
Still, certainly massive damage potential also gives them a lot of ability to do neutrals, right?
Baron is going to die very quick as our install goes down and trade for the Spirit Rush
and it looks like that is just going to be that.
And all you do have to do are stop those plays.
Continue to stop them as Gen.G are looking for a pick onto caps
All skimon has to do, jump out, show, scare him in, dragon will be ours.
Now Genji, I don't think you want to force anything on the other side of the map either, just let Gene stay up there by himself.
He's going to get Turret Played money no matter what and like push in this Kusante no matter what.
Don't over invest and kind of panic with all the stuff that G2 are getting on the bomb side.
Well, I mean, I'm kind of panicking.
It's moving to a 2,000 gold lead. It's kind of gigantic.
The advantage is all out here from Broken Blade trying to take down Keyne.
The final hour does come down as there's the exhaust they were talking about before.
Does have to invest a lot just to escape the Cassante.
And meanwhile, the Coin Face gold grind, it is the bottom lane.
So we have a look at the top lane, see how that one's going.
Broken Blade pulls that back a little bit and we can see Han-Sama massively far ahead here.
I mean, his farm very much on pace.
for 10 CS per minute, 135 at 12, 47,
we're definitely having a rough time
given all that pressure that's been thrown his way.
The broken blade's saying,
hey, I have enough armor now.
If you can't just punch up me.
And I'm Cassante, by the way.
I can hear the riots being spammed in chat right now
as Cassante is saying.
Hey!
That's all I imagine broken blade is saying.
I assume it's exactly that way.
We'll have to get both comms,
but I'm just gonna agree with you.
You should be the voice actor for Broken Blade.
I'd say X-Blade as well, from this vein as Ruler is going to get interrupted, and he
says, hey, one more time.
I don't know why it makes me sound like Broken Blade is in a horror movie.
Every time Cassante uses all of it, then you've got to chime in with that.
That'll be good.
Botside maybe?
Genji are like, hey, is there anything around in red buff?
There is.
There is a season assist in Chovy and Canyon.
Demonstrate the Viari problem.
Yeah, I mean, a nice pink ban from Genji.
They really plan to skew him on just trying to clear his jungle.
Good vision control, good window of opportunity,
and they'll get a much-needed kill over to Chovy
to get him a little bit accelerated as Hans and LeBron.
If they stay the way that they are,
they're going to do exactly the same thing
and have the group caps on them.
Leave the tower.
Yeah, takes a couple of shots after that charm did connect from Chovy.
from Jervie. Doesn't have spirit rush there because did use it when they were killing
Skumond earlier, so that means the cap should be fine.
Yeah, and so for again, for Gen. G, they want to try and spread the map, and then with
Scyth lane pressure, that opens up for more plays for a ViR, attachment work with, and
you'll get into the jungle for burst damage like that. So it can be very effective,
as we said, versus this ahead. Could also be effective, even with Victor going the
tanky build with the Rod of Ages. Still could be effective versus him, but G2,
They have a lot of vision in the top quadrant here, and they're gonna use it, Skimon walks in,
joints the raptor at the very least as they have mid lane pushing and top lane pushing.
There's so much information here for G2, it's kind of ridiculous as Labrav not scared of Canyon moving over.
Skimon is going to show himself, that's exactly why there was no fear.
Now the door does come up, so he's gonna read it, Labrav doesn't really take too much time.
Yeah, look, Skimon is just like, you took my red, I am going to punish you more.
Great charm is going to connect here from Chovy though in the mid lane as caps the down to fire just a little bit
It's not enough Canyon wasn't quite there. So we're not gonna be able to take down a bit
This is why you go on a baby. So it's like her first time in the late game can be scary, but the reality is it's not like
She's good at when working with someone else. She's not like Annie with the whole purpose
Is I drop my whole combo one shot you but then I'm kind of out
She has a little like low cooldowns a lot of mobility. She connects the charm extended fight. She can do a lot
But yeah, against one of ages in the other game, she just doesn't really have the damage to 100 to 0, you know.
So, Taps, you know, he's pretty safe, not forced to use the flash.
And Canyon was able to, like, get close, but he still didn't have his ult from the earlier jungle play anyway, so...
Hmm, and Broken Blade just finding one another momentarily.
Canyon at 50% health, a little bit worried about continuing any battle.
And I will say also, you know broken boy has been a good job to weather the storm here and the CS deficit appeared very early
Of course because they're taking advantage early, but he's kept it about the same here and
As soon as he gets his iceborn it like it's still pretty good
I mean you don't need that much money to be useful on a Kassate, right?
Yeah, and he got Warden's mail and played at seal cap super early on to to reduce a lot of
of flat damage, and then you get your iceborn
so you can have utility with, you know,
bigger area of slows applied later.
He's still gonna perform his duties.
So, Hans is going, I mean, I should have guessed this
from the previous info, but he's going
for the on-hit forest build rather than the fallaby.
I did mention that.
Yeah, sorry, my brain was...
That's a wrap.
I have this really bad habit of tuning medic out,
and sometimes that just...
I'm really sorry about that, man.
I wanna say, really, this one, Alice,
because, wait a second.
We're gonna be like, could be in a little bit
trouble here is Pan eats some of the seats, even not all of it.
Nalusen does have a fair bit.
Canyon comes down as well.
Season is this man.
They are really throwing the kitchen stick at him.
That flash was so good.
Canyon will be able to get over that wall to take him down,
but it costs him a flash.
And probably this mid lane out of turret as well.
G2 on the cross map looking real good.
Yeah.
Cross map is beautiful.
They may even get a second pass.
Top lane as well.
Caps continues to push in.
That bot tower going to be chipped away out
from the side of Gen.G.
The Herald is going to be set up towards the top lane.
I think Skidwald's more interested in the cap, so I'm going to go way in a mountain rift as well, being able to get through that wall.
Obviously, he does just move in towards the enemy Kruyken, and Jitsu, perhaps we'll be able to take down this avatar.
There it is, Shelly gets involved, and the Mountain Dragon should go over to Gen.G. the first part of the game.
Second row, though. Jitsu, hold on to another game, Golden.
It's actually really good use of the rift rail, because it can reset and get a new charge when they kill the other one.
And so, he still gets a charge on the secondary turret and gets more turret plate value.
So, honestly, that was really, really perfect from G2.
You got your Krugs, you got the extra turret plates off the secondary charge there.
He took Raptors as well.
Skimon took the whole top side.
He just tied all those camps away from Canyon.
He's now trying to steal some camps of his own.
It's broken, but he's going to spot this one out.
Yeah, he's just going to get on out of there.
But maybe Canyon was going to think about trying to attack this Cassande.
David decides not to, Skimon gonna be able to take this crab, move back towards his jungle.
Canyon did return the favor by clearing out the entire bottom side.
You can see as far as the jungle CS is concerned, things very, very...
I cheated the kitten, he didn't get the raptors.
And I don't think he's got the crab, it's either.
I will say, I'm feeling alive, didn't finish it up.
A lot better for Gen.G with the two dragons they've been able to get in this game.
Because it's gonna be hard for G2 to force Gen.G to take fights that they don't want.
You know this whole time we've been warning about the side lanes and warning about the pick potential that Genji have
Since G2 have been unable to stack dragons of their own you don't get to put that pressure to say hey come walk into our brawl
and stuff right so
G2 they're like they can still try and use some of the range
But it does give the feeling to me even with the
2,000 gold lead that Genji are actually still well positioned to pull G2 across the map.
They're gonna dive on top of LeBron here as well who's rotating down to try and protect this mid lane.
He should be going down all those stands beside.
Ski Mon here gets into that frontline. Now the teleport in from Broken Blade will be interrupted there by Canyon,
but not for long as Kain is gonna get taken out first.
LeBron's still amongst it as they take down the cow.
G2 cannot be stopped in this series as they win another teamfight.
Yeah, never mind. They go right into the teamfight anyway and G2 love it. They can handle that teamfight. Everybody assembles
broken play teleports in. They get that chase there.
Genji unable to focus down a brawl. I mean it is a brawl, but they're nothing unbreakable here.
So Genji kind of running into enemy jungle here and G2, they're very happy. This is just what they want.
I just want to talk about how great Skuman played the game,
the knockup onto the vein, getting the joy onto the Alistar,
and then getting what's going right here.
Again, onto the dashed Ari.
I've never seen a Zahem provide this much utility,
but the placement and the timing were simply perfect
from Skuman in that fight to really set up G2 for success.
You can see Prey was also a bit like,
oh, wow, yeah, we'll give that one to them.
The dreaded return is pretty hard to hit.
It's not actually point and click.
Skuman just makes it look real good.
I mean, and he did so much damage in that fight as well.
G2 with a 3K gold lead against Gen.G for the second game in a row.
I don't know what world we're living in.
Like, I'm genuinely so, so shocked that this is the level of performance that we're getting.
Gen.G not demonstrating their typical level of dominance.
And G2 building just early leads largely through their bot side of the map.
Enter the mid game in such a dominant form.
It's just how Han Summer and LeBruv have been playing out these lanes.
I think that bottom lane has been so incredibly important this year, especially and being able to play around that and every single time
G2 have been able to set them up to make sure that they can win. Yeah, and LeBrav great global taunt he had there
Engaging on the brawl is something that so many teams have a problem
Doing it's just it's exactly what the brawl wants when brawl has taunt like that is mega OP
What the heck?
And Deremon, I just noticed four armor boots.
Cassante, Zahane, the Bars.
Well, they do have a lot of AD carries, right?
Yeah, I don't know.
It's just like armor boots are the way that he wants to flash.
Yeah, Final Hour does come down there as well,
as he is on the gravity well.
The Arcade Storm comes down, and I don't think
he's going to be able to survive this one.
The AoE damage just a little bit too much.
Perkham Blade might be punished for it,
as Nevermind just limps out of the way.
And he's even thinking about coming back for mores.
Right now, possibly in trouble as Cap's a lot of damage available to himself as well, as Canyon, just nowhere that he can go.
As the flash through from Schumann should be the end of him, it's on, it's on, it finishes it off, and in the meantime, the cow is also dead.
G2 is just destroying them!
They're stopping!
Whoa!
They just found three picks!
They take out the Vayne, they take out the Alice, and they take out Canyon's fire as well.
Now they set aside some real life, but a little ambitious.
The Baron is now an option!
They're 22 minutes into the game, they're just gonna dive straight towards his Baron.
Ruler and Chovy, I don't think they can do anything about this.
But they may just have to try as Chovy gets into the back of the pit.
They don't know about that one. It is 22 minutes. The Baron is pretty scary.
And as Ruler realizes that he has to make something happen,
he comes down as well as Chovy.
Taking Matt into his own hands, finds the charm on the broken blade.
There's Kane trying to dash around his pipe,
but there is the Baron going down.
And Gen G just had to watch.
G2 are just looking so exquisite.
It's crazy how they're stomping and even with the Baron reset, they're going to teleport back out.
Can they stop them on the mountain dragon? It's a very tanky dragon and G2 are coming to punish.
Let's see what the skumon can get here in time. It looks like he should be able to...
Brim Deliverance is available as well. He can definitely get to the back of this pit. Let's see
if they can use the headbutt from Duro to make sure that this drake does go over to Gen.G.
And I think Canyon is just going to sacrifice himself to try and get themselves the dragon
and get out but I don't think this is a winning the game play this is a trying
to stall it as best they can style decision they have a win condition
which is soul if Genji can stall out as much as possible maybe they can turn this
game around but the way in which G2 are playing right now it feels like that
Genji this is a foregone conclusion they're gonna get the pop tower they're
setting their sights on mid as well G2 is looking to get a huge injection of
gold off the back of his barrel. 6,500 gold already as well at 24 minutes
He's absolutely nothing to swap out and their composition scales gorgeously into later on into the game regardless of anything else
So G2 certainly having Genji on the ropes at this point in time and last game
I was very happy to talk about oh, but Genji can always teamfight later on
It's just not looking like this is the Genji that we're dealing with here today
They are looking scared. They are looking ruffled into G2 here
And here's a cleanse to come out here, Genji's still trying to look for a little bit of a punish.
Juror in that front line, will be out of stun up Broken Blade.
Silver Bolt's coming on down as Chrodi diving on in there, finds the charm.
Onto the Kassate, a decent pulverize onto too, but Broken Blade just flashes his way out.
A lot of damage here from Kast as well, but he's very low on mana.
There's the ol' out to make sure that Keen is just destroyed in this battle.
And Genji just did not have enough to take down G2.
It's a double bar, Summer as he's untouched on the bar.
G2 just stopped them down again. I mean, I for one am ready to welcome our new European
overwhelm. They just taken a bit of a hiatus for a few years. They are back baby. G2 are
looking like they want to finish game two. Best inhibitor going to be going down there
towards the bottom side of the map as Canyon wants to stop this mid lane turret from falling
but it doesn't look like he has too many options. G2 not going to be winning the game right now.
However, it is looking like they have prepared it. You know, much like in a cooking show,
they prepared it from earlier.
Like, this sequence was so long because I don't think G2 had even backed off to the Dragon Fight.
So they have just, like, they haven't spent a lot of their gold.
Genji is trying to punish that back. They have the numbers advantage,
but they can't get through Broken Blade.
He buys it uptime. Hans Summer is just free-hitting on the back line.
And then the chaos storm expanding after every single kill Genji time and time again fall short in the fight and G2 like
It is I don't know how to properly express how unprecedented
Because coming into this tournament like Genji are were unequivocally considered nothing short of the best team in the world
They only dropped two games that if they lose this they've dropped as many games as they did throughout the entirety of the
the LCK to start off this year.
They were considered so dominant, so strong.
So for G2 of all teams to be doing this,
it's truly unbelievable.
It truly is.
The weight of this series
and the meaning of your series goes very, very hard.
G2, I mean, if you beat the best team in the world
in a Best of Five video,
that makes you the best team in the world!
Yeah, I mean, let's talk about the potential LPL
in the finals.
We can get to that later.
G2 right now looked at Hans.
Yeah, let's see whether they can find him. He just goes golden.
Did have that armguard, breaks it now, but that buys enough time
to make sure that the 80 carry from G2 is healthy and alive.
As Duro possibly getting closed in on here as the base is just in shambles
on Gen G's side and they're desperately trying to get into a position where they can defend.
That was their one little opportunity with Chovy trying to find that angle
and it just did not work. The armguard, a beautiful purchase.
They're going to turn that into this inhibitor falling down.
They'll take two inhibitors off the map, and Genji just not a lot of options here in this game.
As Canyon wanted to find a decent assist, but he's going to take the kitchen sink for it.
He'll be taken down. Caps is now on a rampage.
As a charm will connect, but so many of these charms have been under LeBron, who just shows him the door.
Yep, Canyon will cease to exist on Summoner's Rift after that one, and G2 can continue to push the front line again.
Broken Blade and LeBron.
Kassade and Braum just doing so much work for G2 and Vettius you're at the
precipice of going two games up versus Gen G here as they finish up with the base.
Yeah, we were saying before that it was the first time the LAC has beaten the
LCK like four times in a row immediately they break the record looking for
five in a row and it's gonna require a reverse sweep from Gen G to make it
to the final here at first stand.
I think the only potential win condition for Genji right now is the soul spawns in five seconds
and G2's interrupts. Their recalls have been interrupted.
LeBrov is being hunted down. Keen is trying to chase this one through.
You can see Chovy coming into the jungle as well.
Good slow, good slow. They caught their heal, they hit the Q.
I know the spot!
This is the real spot and the teleport is coming down.
On the hunt, has been popped here and does have a lot of movement speed
so it looks like G2 not going to be able to take down the Sivir this time.
this time, but Ski-Mon is on that dragon, wants to be out and deny this soul. It'll only be the second drink here for G2, so it's not like they're threatening any souls or anything like that, but that takes away that opportunity for Gen.G to find that extra bit of power that they may have required.
Thing is, their base is basically just destroyed anyway, and so it's just going to be a difficult scenario regardless. You just can't leave. There are just too many super minions.
11k gold leads. I mean, Gen.G will be there. This amountability I think is low.
And so if we're considering this game basically in G2's hands, if they if they
actually are able to complete this upset over Gen.G, which first two games
they completely dominated, that might be safe to assume. We would have to
measure the magnitude of this upset versus the magnitude of the greatest
upsets of all time I would have to think. I completely agree with you, like
The context of this is truly ridiculous just because of the weight like every single expert said that Gen.G, like if they don't win this it would be a surprise.
The whole tournament.
The whole tournament, yeah, yeah, yeah, like they were considered favorites against absolutely everyone. But yeah, G2 is looking to bring us to match point.
And when people talked about the 3-0s today, I can tell you right now, no one had G2 3-0 on their pingo card.
Yes they did.
Look, actually, she's very much dead.
All right, well there's a pulverizer on a tree.
Let's see whether they can actually find an angle as G2.
These wallets are so heavy as caps.
Does get exhausted for a few moments.
They're taking down Osama.
There's a shutdown going over to Keynes' caps.
Goes Golden for a moment, but I don't think
he's escaping this one.
Wants to take Chovy with him, but it's not
going to quite be enough.
As Genji have found a teamfight out of nowhere,
still don't need a few more of these
if they want to win the game.
It's a decent start for a comeback.
That is a huge team fight win for Gen.G.
They're going to be able to fight a lot of time
on what was an 11K gold leader shrunk to six.
And three inhibitor lead.
It's Duro.
Over the back for the engage right on to Varus.
We said at the beginning,
the Varus is going to have a hard time moving
if they can get a flank.
Duro finds the flank and they delete him.
And the exhaust of the caps from Key was absolutely massive
as well.
If you consider these two to be the main damage dealers
When you do to them then it just becomes a damage race with which with Genji's call they're gonna be able to win out
Yeah, they assassinate these G2 carries take them down still though with three inhibitors
You don't get to do a lot except clean your base and sit in the thing is a lot of minions
Yeah, where the base is quite good if you get paid
Minions also destroy all of the money that your opponents could be picking up as well. So yeah, look at the gold lead now
It's only 4k
massive swing.
10th cap picked up for Chovy.
He now has an individual 2.2K gold lead over caps.
Like, we were talking a lot about the momentum,
but again, Gen.G demonstrate why they are considered
such a good team.
They haven't given up just yet.
Let's see whether Ruler can beat the all-time CS record
as well, has currently got a lot of minions.
I think he needs to reach 1,050 from that 94-minute game,
or 92-minute game.
Killes keeps telling me that I keep getting it wrong.
Alright, Joe, if you're looking for a bit of an angle of Scumon, my goodness, taking so much damage here,
it does need to invest everything to try and escape.
And the Grim Deliverance is fantastic. Scumon's just being a menace. He will respawn as well.
And unfortunately, Canyon does not have the same luxury.
Losing their jungler here is Gen.G. Now 4 vs 5 trying to defend their base.
Or what's left of their base?
They still have a little bit left of the Baron, and they're going to use this to try and end the game.
There's a nice pulverized here from Durro, but I don't think the Unbreakable Will is quite going to be enough there
and for Brock going down so incredibly low
that he's going to survive in the end.
Chovy looking for an angle for Keen.
He's going to go down.
The headbutt doesn't even do anything.
It's the first Nexus turret.
It will fall.
Ruler has to try and flash away.
He's going to be able to do so,
but he's going to rush the Nexus.
And G2 has match point.
And I'm looking to clean sweep Gen G.
That, this is actually insane.
This is really, I don't know how it works.
As a gentleman, every today was hard enough.
Everybody who's watching right now,
take a moment and remember this time because this may very well go down into history.
All right now it is time to throw it over to the Analsdust. Take it away.
Against the favorites of the tournament. I'm not gonna freeze myself up yet but damn,
they are so clean with it. So hold on. If you can give me the camera here,
Ox, my dear Ox.
How does it feel?
How are you feeling right now?
It's a little tight.
Actually, I don't care.
I don't talk about the Heraldx loss,
and now they're losing.
What did it come down to this time, guys,
because something that I set up at the beginning of the day
was that you two have to be careful,
especially in the early game.
That is something that Caps told us as well.
And thanks to the rivals, it's going to work.
They're so clean with their cross map plays,
because Broken Blade getting caught on the bot lane
does not matter if they take the rest of the map.
That right there is a bossy moment
where he makes, it's a good death.
It's a great death.
If you're bringing four people to the bot side of the map
to take down the Cassante, and he almost makes it out.
It's so close actually.
They have to commit the flash from Canyon
just to finish him off.
So much was committed, and then we look up towards mid.
And it's like, okay, Rift Herald going down.
This is the civil zone the way we see
a tower taken there.
We also see top lane.
This is not a winning play, but Gen.G at all.
It's one of the worst plays you can possibly make
when the enemy team has Rift Herald
to send four people bot side.
That's one of the cardinal's sin.
And it feels like Gen.G right now,
palms are sweaty, you are now zero two
in the series based off this.
So yeah, every second counted there.
That's a lot of seconds.
That's a lot of tempo markers there.
And even, I mean, similarly to the previous game,
it's like, it's never done with Gen.G.
You have to be cautious every step
you cannot take any fights for granted.
I was sweating when they came to the base
for the first time and get completely reset.
I was wondering, can Gen.G come back?
Did you think they had the tools to come back here?
Draft-wise.
I felt like they did.
I mean, a lot of it is like the one point of pressure
is like you have Brom, you have Cassante,
not a lot of ways to force fights
so Vayne can always pop off.
Like, that was a concern that I had.
But like, that first big fight
when Gen.G were really looking for something
and they were like pushing on towards LeBron.
They thought that he was caught off guard and then the TP comes through and I think that was such a great timing from G2
And they just put so much focus into the brawl here
And I think the composition for Gen G is quite a mental focus right you have the RE of the buy
We see that want to start off with a kill get the resets
You're not gonna be able to do about through the brawl and also there's a hen as well with the revive being available
Just immediately puts a block and they have to kind of wait
And it just get gone. What do you think they're saying backstage? I think they're relaxing. They're chilling
They seem like they're late.
I think they're safe.
Guys, we haven't finished a series yet.
Stay locked in.
Stay locked in.
The vibe's going to be great, but you know.
I don't know.
I see a fridge on the side.
I see the champagne in that fridge already.
So like, and then just even continuing to roll it.
The most impressive part to me, especially
after watching Lyon lose their massive lead in game one,
is the extension of their lead.
Everything looked great from them
because they were able to get the Baron off one pick.
Then there was a bot fight that came through.
And I felt like they'd just been playing out
a lot of these fights expertly. Sure. For me, I was clenching a little bit when Gen G like Duro had that amazing like come back towards the base defense.
So there was a lot there that was like, oh, maybe this might turn, but immediately the composure from G2 to be able to bring it back.
I think what's been so impressive is that Gen G, there are often times, even in the big win streaks where they have formed behind early.
None of this tournament, of course, but they often just team fight their way out of it.
They just get to the 5v5s and they just perform better.
They haven't been able to do that today. G2 have been so controlled and I mean there's just no orange at all in that gold graph
You know what you know what I gotta ask
I'm gonna ask somebody in terms of who do you guys think is player of the game like off of that game
You can even see who your favorite player from G2 side is I think that
Caps is going so well. Okay
So far that's one for caps. What about you brother? I
know
LeBrov, huh?
I'm going for LeBrov, that brawl.
Okay, Caps, LeBrov, okay, we got it for some people.
This is where it gets interesting, because LeBrov votes.
That is something you would never have thought of months ago.
Ski Mon pops off as well.
Hunts Summer pops off as well.
Vity was saying it during the cast.
It's no longer Caps and Friends.
It's the whole team showing together.
Hunts Summer is the player of the game for this one.
And for me, it goes to show how better this team got.
And how...
He's like, I can take that.
Sorry?
He's like, I can take that.
Yeah, we can take that.
It's not only Captain Friends, and if seeing Honsama pop up, especially in a clutch series like this, I'm all in.
I mean, it's been fun. Okay, even the Seal of Robb than the fans.
Yeah, yeah, a lot of... I don't think he had a great game, more than Nautilus, the Braum as well, so can so much pressure.
But Laura, I do agree. And I think being able to see Honsama this entire tournament play the way that he has been playing,
that bot lane early like flash away from the All-Star, him and LeBlanc walking them down,
they have just been winning 2v2s consistently on picks that they weren't even like...
They're being forced in draft to pick these comps, and it's been working out incredibly well.
Guys, it is the first time Gen.G is down 0-2 since Waltz 2023.
Damn!
And it is G2 doing it!
In fact, let's check in back from the fans.
Uh, Ox, you want to change your prediction?
You want to change your prediction? Okay.
I'll say 3-2 to G2, so I'm going to change to 3-1 to G2.
Okay.
I'm going to give a map for Gen.G because we want more games so I can change it.
Okay, Zumble, here we go.
Respectful.
Respectful.
Very respectful.
It's been only surprises here so far.
Pinch me if it's real.
G2 is 2-0 against the favourites of the tournament.
The job is not done yet.
It is Gen.G.
After all, we're talking about Let's See if they can come back here in game 3
and give us a series.
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They can just burn this one down.
I've got a little hold of my eyes.
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Doing so much work is Genki.
They are just going to ace them.
I'm thinking about the level of the EWC.
GG! The EWC won it!
I know two things. Discipline and hard work is routine.
Bounce back from setbacks and grew wings.
Tend to it like gardeners, I play the seed and watch your harvest.
Look at us now, we come so far from where we started.
Long days and long nights, knew I could take it far.
So I pushed even harder, realizing my calling to the corner.
You know I've been getting to it all day and all week.
When you work by the dang, everything is on me.
You still run into a jam when the temp is on you.
I've been getting to it, yeah, I've been getting to it, yeah
I've been getting to it all day long
In here, way by the dag, everybody's on me
So run into it, yeah, I'm gonna take this on me now
I've been getting to it, yeah, I've been getting to it
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
first stand 2026 and I think a lot of people expected this to be a swift series. The direction in
which it has gone though has been quite different to especially someone like me would have expected
as G2 up 2-0 over the absolute unequivocal favorites of this tournament in Gen G.
Yeah everyone expecting this 3-0 where the colossal underdogs wait Gen G are struggling
to find a single win.
Uh, Vettius, let's get into the draft though,
right into this final game, because
the most important step that you can take
is not the first step, it is always
the next step. Uh, and G2,
they need to take one more step in this series.
That was very, very profound.
I really liked that.
The fans are gonna be the same as what we saw in the previous game.
Let's see if this final game changes things up.
G2 close things up with a run ball,
and then G1 goes the next game.
So they're gonna keep consistent with that metric.
For Genji, is Korki Nami is something that G2 will immediately be thinking about, they like this bot lane prior, they got something.
That's also one of the favourites of Genji.
Yeah, so will the Nami be picked up? Because even if the Korki is taken away, Ruler's Lucian is still a thing.
So the ultimate question is what will this first pick be? Are they concerned about the Nami? Will they first pick it away?
Because I'm fairly confident that G2, if it comes to them with no Nami or Korki locked in, they're taking it.
Yeah, I 100% agree. I mean, Hatsama and LeBrov have been botgapping Ruler and Duro over and over,
and I think that most certainly is one of the large problems that they have faced.
This is a bit scary because like you were saying, the Nami is available, and they can actually think
away the Lula. I have felt like this Lula was just fine into the Yanara. See what they do decide
to do though is the Yanara will be locked in as G2. Feel like the cards are in their hands
Once again in this champion select. Yeah, I mean, I think that you know our pad alongside Lulu is naturally a very scaly scary
Botlane and it's a little bit of a close-up high-scale yet
So due to taking that time I was kind of expecting the insta-lock
But this is definitely out of a couple of gears to the the cog
Yes
I'm thinking about already playing.
Yeah, the cogs and the gears are getting ready and also having a little bit of a malfunction.
I mean, the series is malfunctioning me a little bit. I'm not gonna lie.
I'm right there with you. I have full sympathy, don't you worry?
Is the Shaco going to be at least Hobbit for a moment?
The thing is, Hans is not an Aphelios player.
Of all the AD carrys I've been playing, I don't think that...
So the job is going to be locked in.
Okay, so they're actually saving their AD carry pick for later.
By denying the Lulu the question then becomes,
do you just pick the Nami and paddle alongside D&R?
I guess you could theoretically do that.
Dura might be looking for another option as well.
He is a known Blitzcrank guy.
Yes, I was recommending Blitzcrank.
I think Blitzcrank is so good into Lulu.
I do think that it's a massive confidence pick, though.
And if you're down 0-2 in a series,
I mean, you're going to have to have things
to make that happen.
They did.
And you saw what happened.
What?
That game did.
Substantially.
And all right, Niko is going to be
locking in a little bit more of a, I guess, stable pick
instead of something like that.
Blitzcrank, now what is Chovy going to be locking away
is the Ambassador Flex, actually really like this
as the option for Canyon of King.
I think this is a big, big carry pick for Keen.
As you say, it could be flex in the jungle,
so they're also keeping the counter pick
a little bit on edge, but the Ophelios Lulu
is kind of the expected,
when you're taking away the Lulu from the Unara
to break up the synergy.
Aphelios, starting with Griga.
Ah, Lulu is Ken, though. That's a great call.
Oh, one of my favorites.
This is one of his answers into the ambassador.
Early on, it struggles, but later on, it becomes better.
I think that they are very much expecting this ambassador
to go top lane, but Gen.G can be flexible.
Also, it gives a lot of extra confidence
to Hansama Hyper Carry here.
You've got Lulu protecting and Shen's
then United available for bottom lane.
So you can play to bottom lane really heavily for G2.
And I would say Hans deserves that focus from this team.
Maybe he deserves even more.
Maybe we put the Lulu in the mid lane
and put a Yuumi in the bottom lane.
Let's really go all in.
He's got a Sillian in there as well, Zakaio.
And as the LCK representative, I'd
absolutely love to see that.
That's OK.
The Nocturne going to be taken away from Canyon here.
Not going to be switching off the lights this time.
And as well, Globals are so incredibly powerful.
Still, the Aphelios does need to be banned.
But I personally am happy about this.
I don't love Hansa on a first he has had a fantastic tournament don't get me wrong
But a fellow says just not be like jinx is more of the type of champion that I prefer
Hansa on a jinx gets banned and then he plays Cogmore
Now Cogmore they used to play I mean when Nicky used to play Cogmore Brawl
They used to go to Totlence, of course the Brawl Gauntlet would be available, maybe
I do really like Gauntlet
So Betty, when G2 hovered the Othelios were they fading by saying, oh look I don't like myself
I like to think so.
That'd be an incredible next level.
They're like, oh, we're going to stop you.
Dylan in draft is like, probably a failure game.
Yeah, they're actually going with a share.
Oh, they banned it?
Oh, no.
Shoot.
I guess we'll go for the other option.
Sharks, dang.
Beautiful.
Well, the Wukong are going to be taken away from Canyon as they continue down the jungle
bans route.
And there is the Syndra to be taken away from Caps.
I don't know what that means as far as what Trogi wants to be picking up here.
G2 going to walk in their AD carry. Lulu Ezreal makes me feel not so happy as Hansama being a bit of a Draven guy.
That would make me happy. I feel like every time he locks it in internationally it doesn't go that well.
The Draven would be cool though. It would be such a throwback to how Hansama originally made his name on the scene.
And there's the cockball!
Beautiful, and I kind of would have liked Jinx more, but still the cockball is going to be picked up, does have a lot of long range.
And of course, the Hexagon Dicks have been buffed, and like you say, you get a jug of
more to come on through here for G2.
What is the response from Gen G, though?
Yeah, with the extra Shen shield on top of Lulu's shields, you can just stand there
and spit on them.
Just keep auto-attacking.
Absolutely.
Don't waste time walking around.
Ooh, here's the pivot that we talked about, though.
And this is the pick that I was expecting King to go towards a bit earlier on in this
series as well.
His Gland is very, very good.
Although, Genji just in general today have not been all that great, so see whether that is something that BrokenBlade can capitalize on as now to round out this draft, looking at the ChoDi's pick in the mid lane does have to be blind.
See what it is going to be.
I feel like Gigi's probably thinking Azir, so I was just thinking to myself, do you consider picking it away?
The problem is, does this open up on a Karli?
I think it might.
I don't know if it makes sense in the context of the Comfort G2 though.
Yeah, we're trying to play around and they lose one health right because you got two ninjas in the team
Oh shoot. Yeah, you can't do that. That's actually illegal. Obviously they did take away that interaction, but it did used to exist
I'm trying to think of like what other things you can pick into a zea like with Ry's gun
Oh, no, he slams it. He actually slams it. I didn't think that it would make sense in the context of the com
But the thing is right the thing that when you have to think about a Kali is how much CC does the other team have and
And there's really only Niko, which shouldn't really be used as an appeal tool to protect.
Ideally, it's an attack, right?
Going after Kog'Maw with that.
Yeah, exactly.
So, but also, Shen synergizes well with Akali as a backline threat.
Lulu can provide appeal for both the Kog'Maw and the Jarvan.
And even with all this backline dive, I feel like there's a lot of appeal.
So, like, I do like what Genji had drafted, even though Genji...
Sorry, G2 had drafted, even though Genji do have decent answers.
Also, Akali does something very important here for the Kog'Maw roll for mid-game too.
A colleague can play into Glen really easily and into Azir, so you can play that into both solo lanes.
So I think it's a really actual good, super good 5-pick not just for the trying to kill the Azir in lane, but...
And the 131 is absolutely terrifying as well. Considering the fact that there is a Shen on the map,
you can always collapse if they decide that they want to try and take down the Cogmore.
I think that what G2 have put together is kind of beautiful after that 5th pick was locked in.
My only concern is like damage. On the other side of Genji, they basically have four damage dealers.
So if one falls, they still have backup. If Cogmore dies, a lot of your damage disappears.
Shen doesn't have that same kind of threat. Jarmine is in the same position.
So a lot of your eggs are in the Cogmore basket because if Akali falls behind in the early game
or doesn't have kill threat in the mid game, then like you're very reliant on Hansama to be your main DPS.
I will also say though that Gen.G are not tanky, so base damages of the other G2 champions
do go a long way.
Oh man, this is so exciting jumping into game number three because for this whole series
it has looked like Gen.G, the colossal favorites for the entire tournament, can't do anything
versus G2.
G2 has just been methodical.
They have been disciplined and they have destroyed Gen.G for the first two games.
It's going to have to be a big turnaround and I don't think the drop is necessarily
given us a massive amount of confidence. In Gen.G either, I feel like they were just trying to answer
what G2 were doing, not with a clear game plan of their own. And like you were saying,
Vettius, there's not a whole lot of CC here to start fights. The engage options are kind of
throw duro in there and hope that he can hit as many people as possible with a Pop Blossom.
I don't know whether that is necessarily going to be all that consistent.
As otherwise, playing through side lanes certainly something that you could make happen,
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And let's just see whether the bounce back can come on forward.
Because I'm personally pretty okay with some more League of Legends today, outside of just three games.
Unfortunately, I have so far...
Especially in this position!
I have only cast 3-0 so far at this point, Minatlas.
Well, there's always time for change.
Yeah, I'm open for it.
But let's see, jungler is passing towards the bot side of the map, kind of in the story of the entire series.
Mid lane, Choby naturally has that pro just because he has a range advantage.
Camps being forced to play safe with the door and shield, has that decent amount of sustain.
So kind of weather the pressure that Choby is going to be averting.
And on the bot lane 2 vs 2,
that's what did connect there is Camps doing a lot of damage to that 5-point strike.
Choby not even able to hit that auto as Camps will find the second one.
And those Qs really starting to stack up.
Choby probably going to have to go for a reset here.
It looked like he was in a lot of control of that lane, but perhaps finding the back lip-sirking is just so much damage in these trades.
Meanwhile, we get the tail end of the trade here where Keenlin aggressive while his cannon was low, so he's able to push both of it away.
They're not going to be used here as the heal comes out, just defensively here from Duro.
They tried to use that level of passage, just as they took over the three. They tried to rush in and get a good chunk.
Duro, click on the finger with the heel, gets himself to safety, the bot crowd now could be the focus is
Schumann likes to grab that one for himself.
Rengblade having a good time here on this top side of the map as well
into King's Gwyn.
Do you know if the spirits refuge stops Gwyn from building stacks, or does she have to-
It blocks the auto completely.
Yeah, does it stop the stack generation?
I would think so.
Assuming so.
Yeah, I'm not familiar enough with the matchup to know because it seems like it's the other game.
It depends if it's on hit or on attack because if it's on attack then you're still getting your attack off
But if it's on hit it does block the hit because it basically just slows going down and all of the other trades right because a bigger strength
Is she's not relying on the also?
She does rely on her Q and how quickly it stacks up
And sometimes it's a little weird which things are on attack or on hit are coded
Okay, so you can see for the big minion wave to pick up as this one does crash forward
but looking a little worse for where as far as our health bar is concerned.
Skiumon on vision, but the backflip does connect onto Jovi.
We won't take it though, the minion wave's too big.
And Jovi information of Skiumon there as well.
Exactly.
Alright, back into second full clears for both junglers then.
Meanwhile, Caps is still fine by the way, he still has his potion.
So he's just trying to mid max here with his regeneration.
Now he finally cocks it.
It's really calling on Akali as well. You feel like that against N'Zia early, he doesn't really have a huge amount of kill threat
There's always ways to play around it just because of the shroud. His Sansaul just become redundant
They can't hit you if they don't have a target. So Cap's feels pretty safe in this lane
He's got a CP as well. He picks up that wave and he's gonna go back to base now
Normally you go for an early aptum, maybe you get boots early as well
Just so it's easier to go for those trade patterns against the range that N'Zia has
The refillable is also super important just because you need that extra bit of sustain or you defy
I like that option.
Big damage, look for the burst, you're going to get to level 6 and broken blade taking a little bit of damage himself.
But on the topic of boots, I think boots investment for Kogma is always really, really wise.
Because you just want to play around your W cooldown for activation.
You pop your W and go super aggressive and push them off the wave.
And Hansam and LeBravit done a very good job early on as we're seeing a patient skumont over around.
Scum on, over around, yep, there's the backflip once again as Chovy could be in trouble, shifts to Sands and does get out of the way of the flag and drag, but that is going to mean Chovy going to have to go back one more time and that CS lead that he has is dwindling.
Some mind games there from Scum on, he did the EQ, it was clear that it wasn't going to hit, but he wanted to threaten the flash, and so Chovy would kind of have to put into a position, are you going to play this game with chicken, are you going to flash preemptively, worried that the Jalan's going to knock you up, or are you going to stand to ground with Chovy?
He's a steadfast, and he doesn't respond, so no flash is ended up being traded.
Yeah, I like that because, you know, even if a Jarvan does flash his EQ at you, it doesn't come with the damage.
You know, it just gives you the knock-up, and you don't actually get the E and the Q damage there,
so Toby's like, alright, fine, do it if you want.
Yeah.
I'm asking him right now, those fights and vision here is empress divide preemptively onto caps, but actually quite get the damage on over, but now Canyon could be in trouble, and Chovy doesn't have that ulti to help out in this skirmish.
Capitals are hesitant to commit his ulti, but you realize how much mobility Canyon has and how close he is to the tower, so he doesn't want to run that risk, but the bot lane is now getting involved, cap's very low.
Just fighting for the scuttle crab level six acquired. They've got the scuttle crab
They've got the ult on their jungler, so you better get out of town Gen G. This is g2 territory around that dragon
We've we've won and lost many games in the LCS around the dragon scuttle crab for level six for junglers
Oh, yeah, the world as well. It's an epidemic in the LCK as well. Don't you worry Kobe?
Yeah, this is
All around the world is, yeah.
Barrier gonna need to be used there from Ruler.
Okay, now Canyon in a bit of trouble here.
Level five to level six.
The Cataclysm does come out, gets the Flash,
and Canyon just has to get out of there.
That is so classic, Canyon.
Off the Flash!
What a first blow to Katz!
So, I mean, Katz, he saw it.
He was pushing it.
He was like, there's no way this map is getting away.
We're completely scot-free for doing this.
He's got the R2.
I don't think he's gonna get much off the bank of it,
but in Akali, getting first blood, great start for G2.
That is so classic.
And G2 are like, no way, buddy.
None of your little antics are going to occur in this game.
And they slap him down.
Skoumon immediately turns on him,
doesn't let the dragon get any lower,
and they put a stop to that.
Wow.
And it's the same story as the last two games already out
to over a 500 gold lead here quite early into the game
for G2.
This time around, not necessarily based on the bottom lane.
That one is still very, very even.
But the advantage is that G2 have been building,
have just been so consistent throughout this series.
And the craziest thing about this series
is the way that it looks, right?
It's not even all those results,
but it looks like Genji are panicking at every moment.
And they feel so much pressure to do something.
They're like, oh, well, guess I gotta go try
and strike steal this dragon versus a level six
starman, or I gotta, you know,
they feel so pressed and pressured
because G2 have been playing so well.
Oh my God, I just looked at the,
so I'm a big, cost-effective, if you haven't guessed,
but I'm looking at his items.
He comes back to lane with perfect fights, just absolutely perfect.
Perfect!
Now it's good, it's so good as a Necario, come back with boots, you have the refillable,
you've got the Fiendish Codex, getting that extra bit of haste as well, and now you should
feel...
Oh my god, perfect!
Perfect!
And in contact, gentlemen, as well, this is the exact matchup that Chervie was solo-killed
by Viklin.
Oh that has happened earlier on the LCS midlaner Vickler the video sir
I didn't you said the words that we won't get into this we'll discuss this later
He did play me LCS. Thank you guys. That was my point.
That was the broken point.
Interesting. So our stats person by the way, yes.
Yeah. The stats for us?
The LCS staff person. Yeah, I know.
When he heard the talk about Hans history and wanting to like jump in and get on this G2 win for us
He was like, uh, Kobe, did you know on someone's win rate before going to the LCS was 51.7 in the LCS?
It went up to 64.6% and then post LCS after returning to LEC 65 points of like he's he's basically
implying that we made him better.
He wouldn't be here without the LCS.
Wow.
That's and you know what?
I'm not making that argument, but our stats person is.
And so I do think that we should give it some considerations.
Okay, yeah, we'll just a free pass as it comes.
We'll take it under a glass.
What are you doing?
I'm considering it.
You know what I've always said?
Hans is our goal.
Just considering it.
I've been going on about it for an entire game.
What's an A?
Always an A.
Well, listen.
This is a win for the West if they can close it out.
But let's see if they can close it out because, of course, Genji, they still earned
that pedigree for a reason, and they're definitely not out of this game by any
means.
400 gold difference between the two teams to get back 10 minute mark grubs are available
The first one has been secured by scheme on they're giving the priority on grabs. He said yeah once enough
And he'll just keep that objective for the time being meanwhile the rest of the map just continue to farm away
Public execution. They're diving onto cats. They want to try and take down this Akali, but he just gets away
And uh, yeah, it's always difficult to lock down this channel. I got all that excited but wanted to throw the ulti down
I mean if
Maybe if it had been a little closer, a little bit faster, maybe there's a wall, but they could have gotten a little bit more out from caps.
Especially if they had no flash available, that Rocky Belt is going to be secured.
Personally, I'd be fan of the gunblade, but I understand having that extra mobility in these fighters is new.
Do you see ulti?
Yeah, King.
Let's get into his mist, but everyone else is able to pile in there as well.
The needlework trying to keep him alive.
Can he find a sniff?
His caps comes over, and he's going to help lock down this Gwen.
Took three, but King still goes down.
I swear, it just looks so one-sided.
this whole series I mean you got your Glenn walking up there you know uses the
skipping slash really early on just trying to get a ward right you just want
a bit of deep vision so do you safe to do so and Tobi goes back to base so it's
easy for the run to caps caps probably wasn't really necessary there and it
looked close because you got to remember that a Shen doesn't really have an
alt in a skirmish like that but he did end up committing it keeps his
jarvin alive skim on that ends up being it's not a safe you know timer
though to kind of go for it and would you say that they didn't identify the
template markers? So I wouldn't but I know that you and Jack both would for sure.
He was encouraging me. Some of it did feel like great. Mainly for you.
I was sexually fated. Let's have a look at the Coinbase Gold Grando caps versus
Chovy looking quite good for the Akali when you're supposed to have a
have a little bit of a rough time for E6. He didn't. And he's able to put himself together
about a 500 gold lead. Drake is going to spawn here. Second of the game will be an infernal.
Genji, do you want to try and contest this? One important thing out of that skirmish on
top side. Shennault was used, so at least G2 don't have that. They do have caps moving
over first. Joby's going to have to come in a little bit late. Does have the Empress
to buy it and his flash up and available. Cap's does have the ulti as well. There's
They find the public execution, LeBron goes down before anything can happen, but they
immediately trade it for Juro Ippus, but Capz does close the distance once again with another
perfect execution.
Still, the Drake will go over, it's a one for one, but getting the objective was the
main thing.
Yeah, nice reactions there from G2, they know Juro wants in, and he does get in, but
it's only to kill LeBron one for one with the supports, both Capz and Hans investing
their flashes here.
You know LeBron just takes the death and says okay fine. It'll be one for one. We still get the dragon
Yeah, the biggest thing for me was the fact that Hans and caps invested their flash to make that play
Yeah, caps is in a bit of an all-put spot. He wanted to create a plank when he was marked
Caps are going in. Yeah, Chovy. Tag once again, it's backwards. The flash does come forward to try and deliver in a turret shot
Chovy wants to try and get some autos through but he's still looking worse for where and every move caps makes
I swear I'm terrified for Genji. I mean yeah, he's close that level 11 as well
It's a really nice spike for a carly getting that second point in your alts the cooldown reduced quite a lot along with the damage
But again keep your eyes on the positioning of caps here
He knows that he has a flash over the wall
Do not only connect something this hot as Kobe was saying it ends up just being a trader supports
Caps wants to fish for more he recognizes it and Chobee has to commit that ultimate to protect him
Uses the R2 to get over the wall
But then he doesn't have anything less to keep the chase going you can see though in these skirmishes like
That felt very one-sided even though it was a one for one
Alright now, G2 with just over a thousand gold in the lead.
Ruler going to be moving towards his top side of the map, trying to get as much money
as he can.
We're going to put together his cult, only a stack or two to go.
So there is the cash in, that is going to even out the gold just a little bit there.
And this time around, Ruler is not extraordinarily far behind, which has been the case in the
last couple of games.
It might be something that Gen.G can play around, I'm still a little bit worried
about the fact that there is an Akali in this game
and she is pretty good at assassinating any chosen target,
especially when the CC is lacking on the side of Gen G.
I think defensive play is going to be so, so hard
for Gen G in the remainder of the game.
The other one thing I feel like we didn't talk
as huge a man about, but I think it's massive,
is the Polymorph from the block.
When, I've seen it so many times now
where like a gnar goes in,
gets ready for the big ult,
into the Polymorph, they one shot him.
And I'm thinking about this,
when the possibility can in the same thing.
Maybe even Duro.
I mean, of course, if he gets polymorphed
and he's already ulting, then it doesn't really change
as you see now, he's not gonna get the ult off.
You can be flamin' the braum then.
Yeah, I'm gonna be.
I think your point about the melee carries
is really good, use it on them.
So, we'll see if he can have that type of impact
as we get closer and closer to these big fights.
Harold's gonna be spawning relatively soon,
along with the dragon, which is two minutes away
right now, both teams prioritizing,
just getting that farm down, contesting for vision.
Nice ward coverage overall from Gen.G.
Skumon feeling very confident to walk into Gen.G's half of the map.
Dura is going to have to give away that it is himself in the floor that was brought out.
Throw down the stand, but that does stop the Jarvan from doing too much.
We'll find him once again as Dura taking a lot of damage.
Cataclysm comes down, holds him down with the Pop Blossom,
but Abba's feeling he's still dead.
There it is. Last auto attack. He's going to do it.
And now we've got Rob.
So much shield for Skumon here as now.
Now Chovy in trouble as Broken Blade just kills him.
What was that?
And how did that happen?
He just won two fights at the same time.
He just said, no, that's a perfect end.
And then he just kills Chovy.
I was watching the minimap because I
could see like Bro's top lane at what?
Chovy and Broken Blade knew what was happening.
Broken Blade was ready to ult him, but Chovy saw it.
And so he went underneath the tower to interrupt him.
But by going underneath the tower,
I have to assume Broken Blade taunted him,
giving him a health advantage and winning out the fight.
That would be my assumption.
But G2 with a massive swing and all,
getting the Herald as well. I mean, they've just taken firm control of the game three.
Yeah, another game where it looks like Gen G, the colossal underdogs here, versus
versus G2, the new tournament favorites. We'll have to deal with the PLG touch-up here.
Caps!
I don't think I find a backflip here as Canyon wanted to take away the Raptor.
He isn't even going to be able to do that as Slutko slows down Han Solo momentarily
and Han Solo just scans his ground.
Drow is almost just dead! Living artillery comes on through! Thankfully Drow is able to hit the snap!
And Hans is still looking for an option, the dash has to be used from Ruler!
Oh my goodness! Drow is just winning everywhere!
So Broken Blade is looking at his enemy with the beam.
Yeah, Alts underneath, gets hit by the tower shot, he flashes, taunts, he just straight up kills the best of them! That's crazy!
The Q auto is just too so much with Titanic Hydra, it is ridiculous!
And Chobee, didn't have anything left!
I don't even think he needed to interrupt the ulti either.
He probably should have just let him go and taken the turret.
I agree.
Covi said, they already get the kills in the jungle anyway, it would have been left and
it would have opened up the tower.
Instead, two kills go the way of G2, the hell's the kill as well.
And Titanic Hydra on Shen is huge damage with the auto-attack reset.
And then once Broken Blade gets his dusk and dawn, broken blade is laughing at him.
Alright, well there's a flag and drag on the ruler. It takes half of his health bar as Scumon dives on top of him.
They're actually making fun of him.
It's crazy. This is crazy to watch, Betty!
This is what Gen.G does to teams. This is not what G2 takes to them. I mean, this is unbelievable.
They're Gen.G'ing there right now!
It is certainly being adjusted.
Yeah. I mean, last year it was exciting when Casey managed to make it to the finals of third stand.
a lot of EU got incredibly excited that like there was another team that could compete internationally
but then when they went up against HLE reality hit right so the fact that we met Gen.G now in
the semi-finals everyone's expectation naturally shifts to well there's not much that we're going
to be able to do we had a good run at least we made the top four so for them to be having a
performance like this I mean I can feel the hope returning for Europe it really feels revitalized
Even if Genji make this reverse sweep, the hope is there.
Yeah, I don't think it matters what happens from this point out.
My god, G2 have been absolutely phenomenal as King.
We'll be out of escape, but does have to use the needlework on his way out.
Holds under the flash, which is important, but will not hold onto this out of turret.
The caps is able to take down.
You were talking already about the fact that this Akali does just fit so well into any side lane option.
Yeah.
And so the caps is just going to be such a problem later on in the game.
Not to mention the fact that they lack the CC to deal with him.
Like Akali was just a master stroke.
And not to mention, when I was talking about the side lanes, and it called me in great and going into either one,
I didn't even give the respect to Broken Blade!
Who gets this?
Broken Blade! It just duff on them too! Like, it's crazy!
When he gets Dusk and Dawn, complete a Vettius, the burst image is so crazy with the double activation.
You queue early to get the stacks, and then the cooldown starts ticking,
and then you can go for your big flash play.
You're Dusk and Dawn, and you're reset with your Titanic Hydra.
And they did Battle Pies around on the build.
Yeah, heck yeah.
Because that's where the dancing on them.
Absolutely.
Yeah, he's playing, he's putting his bad cosplay on.
But, holy, it is really crazy how the giant narrative shift
that will occur because of this, because of this series.
And yeah, BLG did do some nasty things to you,
but you can figure that out later.
I'll be out in finals,
this is the conversation we need to have later.
Right now, let's just live in the highlights.
Yeah, crossing bridges when we come to them.
That's what we wanna be doing here today.
That's the third out of Tower of Secured.
And I cannot believe that in this series,
like Gen.G is so slow to secure a first tower.
Like game two, I think was their quickest one,
but in games one and game three,
three towers have fallen,
zero for the side of Gen.G.
Man, they have so point as well.
So it's Cloud Soul coming up in three minutes time.
Gen.G just haven't been able to do anything
on this map at all.
Caps now on this side lane,
looking for some shurikens, things like that,
as Kane doing his very best to try and stay relevant.
The problem is there are gold leads absolutely everywhere
now as caps does go back to base.
So if you're doing the same thing, I wonder when the next fight is going to occur.
The Baron has just spawned.
The only thing through the Baron on spawn is really what we're looking for outside of the
fact that there is a Cogmo who does shred through the Baron extraordinarily quickly.
And yeah, that Lane of Con economy snap shot is not looking great for Gen G.
I expected that I was going to have to be up here like hugging Vettius halfway through
this series.
But I actually have to comfort you.
I'm gonna need a hug in the heck.
Do I even deserve it though?
The LCK has been relatively strong over the years.
This is just completely uncharted territory.
Honestly, it honestly feels like the fans don't know what to do either.
They're like, I don't know what to do.
They're like, whoa!
What's happening?
What are we watching right now?
We're watching a stop.
21 minutes in, Caps has the E, get back to the shroud, it's a big chunk of gold on his bot tower.
And they're just keeping the pressure up a minute, 45 until the next dragon.
And that'll be sold!
And Genji are gonna have to try and find themselves a teamfight, that they're gonna have to miraculously win.
And the problem is, with the fact that nothing has really happened, for the last feels like 10 minutes, everyone has flushed.
Like, there are so many options.
As far as escape from pop blossoms here are concerned as Kane fighting against caps does have to skip out of the way there
Caps is still just as deadly as ever roll on underneath this turret
We'll be out of clear out the wave at least
It's hit by the black and dragon will just be executed here caps finds it with the shuriken backflip and we'll just finish off this turret as well
Just destroy that I mean skumann's perfect position in the fog of war over this little ledge
deleting the side lane like need we say more?
What else is there to say?
I don't know.
I am Plaza Gatsut.
I'm genuinely so shocked at how clean G2 is looking right now.
They are riding this wave of confidence.
I mean, we've seen Gen G collapse at the World Championship, but it felt like that MSI, other
internationals, the expectation was that they were stalwart, they were resilient,
they couldn't be broken, they couldn't find faults.
But here at this tournament, again, they maintained that.
There was 6 and 0 coming out of this semi-final and then G2 has shown up and now it feels like that we're seeing that version of Gen.G.
We're like, they have no options. They're not making any plays on the map.
They're not really contesting anything. G2 is just taking everything for free and more.
We're just trying to not lose and they're failing at that.
How come I didn't hear this narrative, you know, going into it with...
Oh, Rula.
European...
Wait, okay. The rule of position has now happened.
Living artillery almost just straight up kills him but he does keep himself alive.
Another one coming on through there is level 13 on Hansama. The range on that ulti is pretty high, but this is just Cloudsoul. That's assault.
And Tenki just realized they have to go and try and make some more money elsewhere on the map.
I just don't know whether they're ever going to be ready to go for a teamfight into this G2 composition, which even in 5v5 is going to look absolutely amazing.
So there is a priceless moment of the game.
and good luck running away from anyone. Thankfully there is some mist so the
Gwen is still immune. Maybe not immune to a 3-0 by G2.
So I'm using these feelings and these stops where it's kind of like,
ah, like all hope is lost in game 3. But normally it's me.
I'm normally high on the one, and so I'm going, my head starts to crack.
I had some practice. I had it yesterday as well, so I was ready for this.
that is just like okay don't sound too sad wait we're we're winning
I'm gonna break his repair they're like it's okay it's game 2
we had a good fight in game 1 and game 2 it's all good how about we glazed broken blade a little more
you know what guys I would say broken blade he has played this role for g2 so insanely well
absolutely throughout the run um and scuba is actually gonna maybe go for a fight
Finds a knock-up onto Canyon who immediately has to start Flash away.
The Cataclysm's gigantic!
Pops lots of his decent this time around on Ruler.
His free-hitting still!
They lose their Niko!
They do get under the Cogmaw though and manage to take him down.
But it's a double for Capsi.
He is just obliterating Gen.G right now.
As King will finally turn up and look to try and take down Broken Blade.
But they're out of there as they want to be.
As maybe they're going to look to turn it.
There is the taunt onto King.
The Flash wants to take down Caps.
But it just doesn't work.
Into the midst he goes.
Snip, snip!
Goes to Gwen, but still they're trying to hold him in arms like another taunt, another sniffer, and a polymorph from Le Prove.
King will be able to survive as Skulman making his way back once again, and King, I don't think he can do this by himself.
The shuriken backflip comes through, and yes, he is just gonna have to try and escape, and I don't think this Jarvan is going to let him.
Skulman will shut down the Gwen, but I don't know whether Genji gonna lose too much more.
Four members fall. They take our Han Summer, but what does it cost them?
G2 in such a commanding position. The Baron is alive. Canyon is up in seven seconds.
The question is, can he get here in time?
Oh, wait, never mind. All of G2 is just moving over towards this Baron.
25 minutes into the game, Chovy is alive.
I do not think...
I just want to back down.
Yeah, exactly. If he tries to defend this, I imagine probably just going to be falling down.
And so, with Canyon not here, that is very easy smite, and down we'll go to Baron one more time. G2 just cannot be stopped today.
As we're about to talk about Broken Blade, you know, Scumine's like, great, Broken Blade, ult on me.
He goes for the EQ first, then he gets into disbate, then cataclysm in to get all these Summoners spelled out.
It makes it easy for them to kill backline. Choby's dead, then they chase Ruler, they force Ruler to flash, dive him under turret as well.
well, and even though Keen is still left alive on this Gwen, they can dance around him and
wait until the other two. Look at that minimap chase, where Scumond is going to try and chase
down Canyon, and the rest of G2 on your screen here is dancing around the Gwen, they're
like, okay, actually the scissors are sharp, let's call Scumond back, he's killed off
the, the, the, and Vessa, get him over here, and then he'll be able to finish
the job.
really maximizing the card more passive too, you know, you are not doing it right exactly so
yeah we are in unprecedented times western upsets against the east 11 to 2 this is a shellacking
yeah i mean it was worlds 2020 where g2 got the 30 versus genji a very different g2 and a very
different Gen.G. Back then G2 was considered like one of the top four in the world, a tournament contender
and Gen.G was not. The roles are very much reversed coming into this tournament, but it is G2 that is
defying expectations and he's absolutely slaughtering Gen.G in his first down-semi-fire.
Let's see whether Skimond is going to be able to lock him down once again. Down to 50% health,
It just walks his way out and Genji just trying their very best to stop this boat from leaking
It is certainly going the way the Titanic right now as the inator will be taken
Jitsu with this Baron running and with the fact that Hans-Sama can just press W and very safely obliterate these turrets
He did all of a sudden has three items completed
It's Kog'Maw even though last time he did get executed. It didn't matter. They have enough backup damage
And Canyon, dancing around with Skiumon here momentarily that they do need to do what they can to try and stop these turrets from just exploding on them.
And there it is. On the bottom side of the map, I mean the 4-1 is just not something that Gen.G can contend with. So keen there.
I was talking about this guy's Gwen as being the most terrifying thing that he could have gone with. When I saw it locked in I was afraid.
afraid the G2 is candy misses the ulti broken blade does the walk strategy and
gets him out of the way and as that happens G2 take down the top inhibitor
as well I mean this is just so much pressure and Gen G looks like they have
absolutely no idea how to deal with it yeah they've been completely dismantled
by G2 this entire series from beginning to end and the end is pretty
close I'm I'm seeing I'm seeing it arriving we saw this in the last game
there was one last ditch effort from Gen.G that even then it was not enough to
even nearly approach a comeback but Gen.G I mean the thing that surprised me the
most is that they're not gonna go out with a roar they're gonna go out with
a win putt like I feel like that we've seen nothing from them in this game
three yeah two kills to their name G2 has been nothing but proactive on the
map they've punished every play that G2 Gen.G has made. What about an elder flick?
I mean right now that's kind of the best bet right because the elder is warning in 10 seconds
Let's see if they can steal this one away. Well Genji now moving on down
Might actually be able to get into the river here, but they need to get everyone over there to be a little bit late on that one
All graph is going out of the picture
With how large it is as Canyon has started this one up. That was actually the graph of you
Actually
It's pretty justified
as well. That's all right. Let's see whether Gen.G can find themselves a miracle. His caps,
great flank angle for the teleport and Broken Blade just waiting off to the side. Once he
gets that Sanji Knight in a new good position, there's the class forward from Jura. The Empress
of Eye comes down as well as caps dancing in his shroud and Tobi so close to that and will be
wiped out. Gen.G will all follow soon and G2 do not need an elder dragon to take down the
the LCK first seed, they are going to march up the bottom lane and complete back to back
three zero victories over the LCK to get a date in the final.
It has been 2,323 days since G2 has made it to an international final, but finally they
will return to that stage as they slaughter Gen.G.
Where did Gen.G go this tournament?
Oh, wow, yeah, I guess that's a good point to attack where they're going.
Maybe they just went home a little bit earlier than they needed to.
The thing for me is like I was expecting it to be hard for, I was expecting it to be a great,
if they were gonna make it happen it was gonna be a bloodbath, but it wasn't a convincing 3-0.
Alright, I'm gonna have to stop you there, Vettius, because we need to throw it over to the profit law.
Can I talk my shit again, guys? What is this? 3-0!
3-0 against Gen.G, 3-0 against the favorites of the tournament, 3-0 against the team that
no one had the answer against so far. What the hell happened, guys?
This feels like a dream. It really does. And I haven't woken up this year at Laks.
I don't think Gen.G woke up yet.
Yeah, now we're missing one thing on the checklist here. How do you say they didn't
show up?
They didn't wake up.
But G2, I mean the level of play the consistency to get a 3-0 we've seen big upsets, but a 3-0 is so
Decisive such a statement. Come on keep it coming. Keep it coming
And like it I'll just keep I'll just keep spitting because like for this to happen for this level of a dominance in this series to happen
It's a team-wide effort caps his best series so far the tournament and you look towards bot lane Han Sama and LeBrov LeBrov
Especially a king like broken blade look great. He had to endure the vain top as a Cassante
And he made it happen.
This team, get out of the way, brother.
Let's see that difference.
The goals look amazing for this team.
G2 looked like a different brand.
Looked like 2019 again.
Absolute cinema.
This is what peak euphoria is about.
And it comes from G2 once again.
I want to ask you guys, the oxyspecial,
what the hell happened to Gen G today?
What was this?
What was this?
Okay, you're speechless.
Let me see.
I don't have an answer.
We'll take it.
Don't have an answer.
the answer to why the fact that your prediction sucks guys prediction can be
pulled my prediction again let's turn away because no one believed in me and I
had it right anything yeah don't even look at it guys I would even leave the
stage if I were you got the score right actually you know what producers it's
on them it's their fault I put I said G2 the logo was just put it in
correctly
I'm not gonna allow it.
But honestly, this is just...
It's one of those moments where you just have to sit down
and just celebrate the moment.
It's a ridiculous moment.
And the tournament goes by so quickly,
so, like, this was just like...
We didn't even have a chance to celebrate the Fear X success.
Like, they beat Fear X.
And then the next day...
They smashed them.
Yeah, destroyed them.
And the next day, the elbow dropped.
The next appointment.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Congratulations!
Thank you!
To let you know about the whole story, the last time G2 won an MD5 was in 2020 by Genji.
2020!
And the only guy who was in this language here was Caps.
So, I want to know how he feels after almost 6 years of winning the races again.
So, the last time your guys beat Genji in a girl 5 was back in 2020.
And you're the only guy from that roster that is still here.
So what does it feel like to knock them again?
I mean, it feels great.
I think both last two days I've just been racing.
We finally showing up on stage.
I think we had some tough moments before,
but it means that like all the lessons we got from last world,
all the times of videos at MSI,
like we're actually learning from it and we're improving.
And we're finally showing it as well.
He said that in the last two days, it was wonderful.
in the last two days, it was wonderful,
he learned a lot from these other times
that they faced each other
and that now they finally took it.
But you guys had a rough time in the LEC
and you came here, you won from Gen.D
and also from Fear X.
So what did you guys change?
I mean, how did you prepare to show up like this here?
I mean, I think it's definitely all the small moments, you know,
The small moments, I think the team fights, how we played before in between Drakes,
just all our team play, because I think our team play was lagging compared to the LPL NLCK.
And I think against BLG, it was a big shame because we didn't show all the things that we've been working on in the LEC.
But I'm just so happy that we got to actually show it these last two days.
And especially with the KC making finals last year in the first stand, we also want to make the finals.
I asked him about...
They didn't have a good time in the regular phase, right?
So, how is it here? How did they prepare for it?
He said that, especially in the fights, they are together in the team,
it made all the difference for them to be able to beat the guys,
not only Fir X, but also Gengi.
And remembering that last year was something he mentioned,
that Carmine was in this final too, right?
Now I want to know who he thinks he will face in this final, so who do you think you're facing tomorrow?
BLG or JDG?
I mean, I think we will face BLG, they won the Elbele final and I think they were very strong when they played us last time.
And they will be awesome to get some revenge against them.
He said he thinks he will give BLG a very strong teamfight, he thinks he will face BLG.
Thank you so much once again, congratulations!
That's it, guys! We're seeing the history of the G2 in the first half of the year, in the first half of 2020.
Congratulations! Congratulations!
Tell me about the last moments when you approached the last Nexus knowing that you just took down Gen.G, the favourites of the tournament 3. What crossed your mind?
Obviously, just a lot of happiness. Bibi was telling us to calm down. I was saying please shut up. We just won against Gen.G. Let's enjoy the moments.
And yeah, obviously a lot of happiness. And yeah, really happy to have qualified for finals as well.
something that I think I'm always gonna remember is the the first time you
faced off against Canyon at MSI last world it didn't go well at all you got
absolutely obliterated today you had his non-Burman like there was no jungle for
him how does it feel for you to not only take down Genji but obliterate Canyon
like this I mean it feels amazing right but I just want to say that it's
obviously like a team game and like without my teammates I don't think
would have been able to like actually bounce back from like all the
of challenges we had in the past.
So big shout out to all of my teammates, my stuff,
and yeah, we just did a great job, but I'm happy.
And that's what we did.
G2 is a five-man team right now.
We all showed up today.
It's absolutely amazing.
And just like the short turnaround,
you guys just took down FioraX in a very quick fashion.
To be able to come into today and do it the same,
how do you, A, keep focus,
what are you guys talking about,
like coming into today to like keep the momentum going?
I mean, like, kind of chilling,
Obviously looking at our opponents, their tendencies both in draft and in the game,
and just looking to get into their heads as much as we can, looking at their opening, level 1 and stuff,
so we can get an advantage from it. For example, we took a great advantage in the game 1 with the Invade,
so this is kind of coming from scouting. And yeah, just obviously don't over-respect your opponents,
it's not because it's a Gen.G that you cannot beat them, and we prove it today, so that's nice.
Yeah, I kind of want to ask you about that, because a lot of people talk about going into
these matches against big opponents, LCK teams, like playing with nameplates off, do you think
that's a right approach? Are you more just like, okay, they're a strong team, but we know how we
have practice for them? I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously, like we are aware of who they are,
but as I mentioned before, it's just like five champions against five champions, so we just need
to think more about how we want to play our draft, and how do we approach early game, team
fights, et cetera, and just don't over-respect because we are playing as X-players on this
And you're talking a lot about the analysis of it, you've had such an insane road, it's
not a surprise that player of the game is going to you.
So like...
The moment you walk into this room, the crowd was chanting MVP.
So just like, how does that feel for you personally to know that your impact is really being
felt?
I mean, it just feels amazing, right?
And I just want to keep recreating these performances, whether it is on international or in Europe.
And it starts with tomorrow in the final, and I hope that I will keep bringing this type of performance.
What do you feel like you improved upon the most?
From the rookie you were last year when you took your first games in the LEC into the monster performance that you had today
and for the past month here with G2, what is the biggest improvement for you?
I think just like being decisive and like honest with myself and the others like in the comes if something
If there's like an objective that we cannot fight because it looks like very suspicious
We just need to like don't go for a try to just like stay true to ourselves and just like really being decisive on like
What I'm looking to do when I'm ganking when I want to farm and yeah, just bringing a lot of like
Transparency to my teammates. Yes, you go for action
So I was actually wondering, because we were having a discussion about this,
is this the greatest upset of all time?
What is your opinion a little bit?
We have some examples of some other upsets.
Another one from G2 as well, actually, so we can get those up.
And then we have this matchup, which was G2 against RNG Worlds 2018.
And obviously yours that you just got down there.
So how do you think the matchups sort of rank up against each other?
Yeah, I mean I'm not sure for like the in like Europe history for G2.
I don't think I remember like the RNG best of life but I think they came out from like winning MSI so it was like a really important match
So like props to them. I do believe winning 3-0 is like kinda, it shows on aura you know?
But yeah I mean I don't really know right, I hope that in the future people will remember these series as like one of the best ones in Europe
And also how does it feel because there was that old G2 roster you know which caps was obviously on but everyone looked at them getting those big upsets and the MSI win
feels like the new generation now also starting to make that legacy for themselves how does that feel
yeah I mean it feels amazing I think people like start will start to finally put some respect in
like you know like roster and actually believe that we can do some stuff in international
and yeah I just hope that we'll keep like proving the haters wrong I guess and it starts with like
tomorrow he starts with tomorrow it starts with I'm not gonna say it not with success
We've said it. You're the player of the game, you're the OPPO player of the series here as well, so...
Thank you.
I mean, yeah, I think I'll say it one more time.
What is your resolution for tomorrow, for the last series you're going to have?
Obviously you have the momentum beating BFX, beating Gen.G30 now,
but how do you keep this performance going against LPL
and potentially a team that you faced off against already?
already. I think yeah just like not really thinking about the stakes of our game because like yeah
when I think about it right now I'm going to play an international final which is like
absolutely crazy so just like yeah stay like keep our face on the ground and just like look to
yeah again as we did before just look at our opponent what they do and think of ways to be
Who do you think it's gonna be your opponent?
BRG probably
BRG?
We'll see that after the break
Of course, Kimon, merci beaucoup
Thank you so much
Congratulations again
I'm talking back, changing three and out
That's all for this season of
We'll be right back to the second to ninth time
JDG versus BRG, thank you
Oh my god
3-0 bro, 3-0 bro
Good job guys, guys, guys, chill out, chill out, chill out
No, but you made chill out, I don't give a shit, bro
I don't give a shit, man. Shut up when we won. I don't care, man.
Can I help you, sir?
Here's the bill from the dealership where I got my car, and I'd like you to beat it
with a better deal on one of these five cars.
Not how it works.
I guess you're not as cool as Verizon.
Bring in your 18-tier T-Mobile bill for a better deal today.
We're from raggedy shoestrings to hoop dreams Yeah, I might know nothing but I know two things
Discipline and hard work is routine Bounce back from setbacks and grew wings
Tend to it like garters I plant the seed and watch your harvest
Look at us now, we come so far from where we started
Long days and long nights, knew I could take it from you
So I pushed even harder, realized that my corner to a corner
You know I've been getting to it all day, no need
We went about it, bang, everything is on me
We used to run into a jam when they take us on me
Now I've been getting to it up, I've been getting to it up
I've been getting to it all day, no need
We went about it, bang, everything is on me
You should run into the jam run into the song and now I'll be getting to you, I'll be getting to you
I've been here through it all my day, ignoring the word about a thing, everything is on me.
You run it to the jam, when you take the zone in
Now I be getting to the up, I be getting to the up
I be getting to it all day and all week
We work by the bank, every bank is on it
You run it to the jam, when you take the zone in
Now I be getting to the up, I be getting to the up
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the penultimate day of League of Legends competition here at
first stand 2026. We just saw what is one of the biggest upsets I would say in
League of Legends history for international competition. We determined
our first finalist that will play tomorrow and now it's time to find the
second JDG versus BLG. It is a rematch of the LPL finals to see who earns the
right to face G2 tomorrow. I'm Captain Flowers joined by Azale and I'm
I'm hoping this one is action packed.
Yeah, it's going to be really exciting.
And coming into today, people would say BLG
are the pretty big favorites in this series.
But G2 and 3-0 Gen G, then JDG could win a series against BLG.
Come on.
Favorites don't matter at this point.
We just learned that in our previous series.
But like you say, this one definitely
would skew towards BLG favorites.
They've already played JDG twice so far this year,
And they won both of those matches.
Yeah, both of the best of five, they beat him in the upper bracket.
That one went five, and then they beat him in the end in the finals.
That one went four.
So they are the favorites for sure.
But I don't think that you can just look past JDG, as BLG.
You have to really still lock in for this series.
JDG to me has been a team that has had really good setups around dragons.
They are a smart team.
They don't really skip steps on those setups.
And they're able to come back from just having to take positions just
like against Lyon, right?
even when they're in bad spots, they have the proper setups.
And if you skip steps, which sometimes BLG does,
then they can punish you.
But on the BLG side, you look at the individual skill,
the laning prowess of these players.
So far in this tournament, for me in particular,
I've been looking at Knight, and I've been looking at Ben.
Ben particularly is a player that sometimes he's really
hot, and sometimes he's really not.
But I feel like both the solo lanes for BLG
have been in such a flow state during this tournament.
They have just been dancing all around their lane
opponents and I think that's going to be one of the biggest challenges for JDG for honkyu and jows you and they're going to have
To be able to step up and go toe-to-toe with these guys to be able to make those positions
Make those macro calls that you're talking about from a point where you're already not 3,000 gold bar. Yeah, exactly
And that is really the big difficulty. I mean last year bin had a pretty big off year for his level of play
This year ever since there was kind of that drama where you know he looked like he was going to be leaving the team
the team that he came back ever since he returned to the team he has really been on fire and you
know in the LPL in the finals to me more so than anything else it was about the top lane right and
it wasn't just an isolated 1v1 between Ben and Xiaoshu it was about Shun getting up there constantly
you know being able to put that pressure on Xiaoshu they really took advantage of this guy
up in the top lane and we'll see if they're going to be able to do that here today.
All right well starting off here it's BLG selecting first pick JDG selecting blue side
JDG is going to focus some of those powerful meta junglers at the very beginning, looking at Shun specifically, getting rid of Pantheon, getting rid of Xin Zhao, and on the other side we're looking at some bottom laners and then the top side too, Rumble Band away alongside Karma and Seraphine, of course with Seraphine, almost counting as a double band because often Ash is only way with her, even though we have seen a couple exceptions to her.
We've seen a couple exceptions, but definitely Enchanders are the name of the game.
They are ridiculously powerful in this new season with the world quest increase gold generation.
Just allows you to get to those two, three item points where you super outscale melee
supports.
There's going to be a poppy ban as the last ban here.
I'm going to be interested to see where BLG wants to go.
These LPL teams really do love their vies, so I wouldn't be shocked if we just
saw an early Vi, early AD jungler here to kind of set the tone.
Especially with Pantheon and Xin Zhao already banned away, right?
You look at.
You're a big proponent of this conversation,
how all of the junglers, all of the meta junglers these days
are those AD bruiser types.
So with two of the premier ones already removed,
the priority on the remaining ones just goes up.
So Orianna is gonna be grabbed,
Varus is another super high priority champion
that is up and available,
so now it feels like it is gonna be a trade of the two.
And the question is,
do you wanna try to deny the knock turn trade, right?
And so instead, it is gonna be Jarvan,
plus that Varus, they're gonna do that one for one trade.
You are kind of expecting that knock wave combo
to be drafted for. We haven't really gotten to see it, I think, at all this tournament
practically because it's always been Orianna getting permit ban, right? And this time she
is up and available.
And even if she does get through, oftentimes it's what you were saying, the enemy team will
then pick the Nocturne themselves to deny that combo. So let's see if that's BLG's
read, and certainly enough it is. So knock wave, that will definitely be a problem
for an immobile AD carry like Varus.
Yeah, absolutely true. But also the same can be said for Orianna. You have
Jarvan if you don't have flash you can't really deal with the cataclysm very easily
But someone who can deal with that cataclysm would be the Ezreal of course
You know the premier pairing is the karma which was banned out by BLG
So they wouldn't be able to get that but it would be a safe stable AD carry here for Viper
The question is you know can you get a strong pairing alongside it if you want to go for it at all?
And instead it's looking like it's going to be a blind nar to me
This is a nod to the fact that Shoushers best champion is Renekton and you know
They're saying basically like I'm gonna blind our it's all right
And I'm gonna make sure that you're not going towards that Renekton where you would be really comfortable
Yeah, and when we're looking at not just the NAR but the pilot Ben's last NAR game
remember he played this in one of the games against G2 and he was a
Problem in that series all the way but in the NAR game also had some big plays had some huge moments
He's really not afraid of being the guy who says no this fight can go longer. I can clutch this out
Let's make this play and they've done a lot of cool things with fearless where you know
Sometimes he is just blind picking gnar and then they'll ban rumble and they'll blind connected in this next game
Which are two of them kind of easiest answers to the renektan
You know good leg going later on into a fearless draft
Of course, we know it's gonna be ambessa here for Shoushuu as the answer
You know there is potential to find those all-ins on bin when he's in mini form
But of course bin is a very very good gnar like you're talking about and it is double physical damage on the top side
So you are expecting him to go in towards those early plated steel caps and that with the threat of the nocturne
Is going to make the hot side lane a lot harder to play for Shoushio
All right into the second half of the band and the gallio is going to be banned out by BLG
That's one of those combos. You know we talk about Jarvan and rumble being the hot pot
Well gallio is like a big old ladle that goes into the bucket
So you don't want the gallio coming down on top of the cataclysm can make it that much more difficult for
Whoever gets trapped inside the band that went away. Meanwhile JDG they're focusing 80 carries
They're getting rid of that Ezreal that you already mentioned just can get in a cataclysm so very easily and then you know
Which has been just a another top-level pick alongside that Varus the teams put a lot of priority on as BLG
Double bands mid lane getting rid of the rise and it is another one that can get out of the cataclysm
Ari lets you dash out obviously exactly so you can be able to get out of that no problem
So they are really just attacking some of these safe ad carries for Viper so I have to see where Viper wants to go
There are a lot of different options
You know sometimes people will say you know screw it
We're just gonna like play to have alongside our team and they'll go for a kaisa style option to kind of avoid the dive by becoming the dives
Yeah, sometimes people will say I'm gonna assist the dive by playing gin and I'll be two screens away
Placing you know curtain call and that's gonna be my way to actually deal with it
It is Alice are so the 2v2 is a lot less scary now
And you are gonna have you know full info on what they have played if you want to go for a range support
You can go that way. They don't have a great point-and-click engage
So I'd expect on to look for some sort of hard engage champion to try to really pull the comp together
Otherwise you really are just relying on that nocturne alting in with the shockwave
But sometimes that can work better as a follow-up strong 2v2 would be corky Nami if they want to play more for that 2v2 though
But I do think composition needs a little weaker
Yeah, the title wave of course can make sense to me with an engage
Okay, the Bard locked in alongside the corky Bard obviously a very good laner as well
So definitely going to be a problem for a week later like an Alistar and the other thing that that makes me really like this
Because it's not as powerful of a 2v2 as if you have the Nami, but it is a strong lane
It's gonna give you a winning 2v2 and it gives you not as much gay engage as like a Nautilus or whatever
But it does give you some engage right you're throwing that all down onto this various all of a sudden the various has to flash
See Bart alt or they're just gonna get caught and if they don't flash it
Well, guess what the ball is waiting on your head as you come out you get chalk wave right so it does give you some
Engage though it is lower commitment a little less reliable
And it does give you a winning 2v2 and with Victor being picked in as well
You know Victor great into the Oriana, but now both of your carries do not have a dash
Which makes it a lot easier for this Bard to be able to set up a place
Yeah, it's a pretty big issue when Bard can hit both of these immobile carries when the knockwave can hit both of these immobile
Carries we know about how the combo between the Orianna and the knock turn if they have the timing down
Even if you flash away from it, it's still going to pull you back in with the shockwave
So pressure on the carries here for JDG seeing if they'll be able to survive that and again
I'm gonna be so focused on the solo lanes here
Can JDG solo laners keep up with night in bed? Yeah, that is the really big question
I mean night has just been running the LPL for a long time
And this is the LPL on a road trip in Brazil, right?
You know, it's still those players going up against each other
But a lot of players with a ton of regional success on both sides
Zunja going into the LPL finals had won seven straight regional titles in the LCP slash PCS
You know he had been dominating there went over to the LPL with on cue a lot of people didn't expect them to be a team
That was actually gonna be here was supposed to be a L
But they're you know able to get past qualify in for this tournament and put up a really good fight against BLG a couple of different times
But definitely the amount of individual skill and talent for BLG is really that's the bar
You have to be able to surpass if you want to ride right you have to be able to not get blasted by Finn and night and
Viper which is very hard to do and you bring up Viper and I do want to talk about Viper because historically
He's an incredibly talented ad carry player right? He's very good on his mechanics
He shows up a lot, but I feel like at this tournament specifically he has been underperforming
I've seen him probably be the weakest point of the BLG roster in the games that we've seen thus far
And I think if he can individually step up and get to the level
we know he can play at alongside night and been who are currently playing like in that zone that I'm talking about
BLG becomes an even more insurmountable wall decline. Absolutely and I mean there's so much of the
LPL offseason was really dictated by Viper because he had said he wanted to go
He's willing to go to the LPL if you could play with with a certain player, which everyone was kind of assuming was night
And that kind of put the whole LPL offseason
and basically on hold because everyone was like wait a second we're all waiting if we
could get this guy we could get that guy and then we could get Viper dominoes and then
we could win worlds.
Yeah.
So you know it was definitely one of these big ticket pickups here.
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Honky was having a great time nice and early.
You already mentioned it back in the draft.
The victor feels good into the Orianna individual matchup.
And over here on the left, a little bit
of a look at the international experience
of all our players here in this game.
Exactly. Obviously Gala has a ton of experience.
But for the most part, there's a lot more experience
on the JDG side.
Shun as well as Jinja have a similar amount of experience.
But it's really, you're thinking about Ben and Knight
And these guys who have so much experience internationally.
Ooh, Shun with the invade here at the red goes after Jinja.
Should be able to win this trade.
Nocturne is significantly more well equipped as a duelist
compared to Jarvan.
So that just means that Jinja has to head on home.
Yeah, especially with Bard moving.
They knew that Bard was roaming from bot.
So they had to play that very, very safe.
Xiaoshu in some trouble.
Yeah, Ben is just running him down here.
Gets the proc on the fleet footwork.
So the extra little bit of speed hops forward.
And that means it's an early flash forced in just the 1v1.
Nice play there from Ben.
And you hate to see that if you are a JDG fan,
simply because the recourse you have in this matchup
is threatening me all in, right?
And if you don't have flash,
it is very difficult to actually do that.
If you overcommit and that gets flashed away from,
Ben is gonna be rushing play at Steelcaps,
has the fleet forward.
He's gonna have a lot of movespeed
with the hyperbrox as well.
So you have to be really careful
about those extended trades.
So it's night, just playing for the wave.
I don't think Honkyu has damage truly.
Do anything besides send it back to base and look on bot side.
Right, exactly.
I didn't know there's not a lot of mana left there on the Victor.
And as Anno will go on a magical journey, Shen is waiting,
but he knows there's not really a play to be found in here just yet.
And what you bring up with the flash in the top lane,
I feel like that's just the nature of so many ranged versus melee matchups,
is the melee champion really hates when he loses flash, essentially for nothing, right?
It's not like the jungler had to spend time to go up there and force that summoner spell.
So Shaoxu just going to have to get very familiar
with the environment under the turret.
Sights and sounds of this tier one tower.
It smells too.
It probably don't smell too good underneath that turret
because you're just sweating there for the next five minutes
as you wait for your flash timer to come back up.
Junja trying to steal away some chickens,
but Jun flashes the emote out and lets him know he's aware
and those chickens will, if nothing else, be a battle.
Yep, it looks like he is just gonna have to back off
for now though, and it doesn't wanna play too dangerously,
as Knight definitely getting beat up a little bit
here from Hongyu, and despite the fact that,
You know, obviously Knight is the much more iconic player,
he's a player that was kind of expected to be pretty dominant in these 1v1s.
Honkyu actually did quite well in some 1v1s against Knight,
solo killing him at times in the LPL, getting the best of him in those 1v1s.
It was more outside of the lane where I think Honkyu had struggled in comparison tonight.
When Knight gets an advantage, he often doesn't exactly have a slam at home,
whereas Honkyu still sometimes shows his inexperience,
sometimes taking fights he shouldn't even be looking for,
even though he feels like, I can just outplay this.
I mean, that makes a lot of sense when you consider the players themselves who will flash coming out there from on wanted to threaten
Hong Q forces the flash out of the enemy mid laner in response. But when you look at Hong Q, he's very new to the scene, right?
He kind of exploded onto the international scene last year. Everybody was impressed with his individual mechanic representing the PCS.
Knight's been playing for a very long time. So you of course expect him to be more disciplined, to have more overall knowledge as Hong Q though still has so much opportunity to continue to grow as a player.
He absolutely does. And on here, it's been pretty annoying for Hongkiu, honestly.
You know, came for that little drive by earlier, dropped a couple of those hot
Kokos, gave him a bit more health there tonight, then trade flashes, forces that.
You know, Hongkiu is winning this 1-D1, but it hasn't been about it.
Oh, even with a sidestep of the public execution, misses the follow-up boulder toss.
Xiaoshu still trying to get away here. Wallop also misses.
Nice footwork there from Xiaoshu, making sure he doesn't get hit by those spells.
If he does, it could have been a situation that potentially threatens lethal as Bin still does have the flash, but Shao Shu gets away now down the ultimate though.
And that's the only other way you could try to get on top of the gnar with that flash not available.
So this lane is going to continue to be an issue.
Shun walking his way up, there's a large wave here at the turret.
Shao Shu trying to clear it out, but now here's your dust bringer immediately into the tether.
Shun taking the aggro for now. It's first blood over the bin and BLG makes it happen.
Yeah, and if you watch the finals, you've seen this one before,
Shun up to the topside with Ben,
Ben creating advantages and putting Shao Shu down in this matchup.
And Shao Shu, as soon as he's losing out on a trade,
as soon as he's getting pushed back, it's very tough
because then you're under your tower,
you know a dive could be coming,
you want to clear up that wave,
but timing was so good from Shun
because Shao Shu spends all of his spells on this wave,
and as soon as you see that there's no spells,
there's no flash, there's no outplay.
Okay, Vampire goes in,
tries to find a nice combo here,
on to on they even commit the change of corruption there from gala they get a
good chunk of damage on to the enemy support it costs his heal but he's
still just fine yeah it's gonna be fine for now the question is can junja get in
behind him and look for the follow-up because there's no flash on on because of
that trade in mid that's what they're trying to punish okay on level five now
junja coming down with the cataclysm available vampire starts off the dive
and on his opening down kill goes over to gala as well as viper tries to
escaped, pops the clan, still has Flash because of a turn kill.
They're on the vampire, wants to make his way back underneath the turret, but it's not going
to happen.
Double kill for Gala, and JDG gets exactly what they look for here in the bottom lane
as more than one wave's worth of creeps finds their way into the turret.
Nicely done there by JDG, and it's an interesting choice from Viper because clearly he's making
the evaluation that I can't actually get out, so instead I'm going to turn, I'm
going to fight, and I'm going to try to get that kill.
But both of the kills went to Gala, which is problematic.
Vampire has to beat up towards this topside and isn't looking for, oh he is looking for an angle, now he's using his jump.
Yeah.
Bim already using the Meganard there, onto Shao Shu. Hits him another boulder.
Tom, the public execution finds the mark this time and Bim has reverted to mini form.
Shao Shu should have the damage. Vampire's rotation ends up paying some big dividends.
As Shao Shu gets the kill on the Bim, the back of the mid lane, it's Hong Q under pressure.
Yet again, not only on, but Shun with the first pair of Noya sets it up so that Knight can knock it down.
His first kill of the game is that we are all tied up at 3-3.
Yeah, 3-3 pretty much dead, even just a couple hundred goals between these two teams.
Both teams being very, very active.
I love that play from Vampire.
You don't want to just stay stagnant in the 2v2.
You're playing Spellbook here.
Get down on the map.
Early TP up towards that top side wasn't spotted by Bin.
And then it's able to just find a wraparound.
Shoushuu's playing a little bit aggressive.
Bin goes for the bait, goes in on that trade.
And all of a sudden there's an Alistar there.
And now you are losing that wave.
You are losing that kill.
you are losing that play, but we can watch this one more time.
Easy setup in towards mid lane.
Notice that Bard is tracking Jarvan.
That is why they can go for this no problem.
He's chasing him around in the jungle,
so they know Jhinja can't be here
because Bard is autoing him in the jungle.
He's pushed back, and they find a pretty easy kill
there through mid lane, so a nice little fight back
from BLG after Bin went down on the top side.
And that's something that I feel like
GDG struggled to do when they played in the playoffs
is when Shoushuu started falling behind,
he often wasn't really getting a lot of help
and he was kind of just getting knocked out of it.
So it's nice to see Vampire gets back up there,
gets a kill for Shoushuu and keeps him relevant.
And once again, our supports will just be
battling over vision as we are nine minutes
into the game.
Remember the first dragon did go over to JDG
as the answer after they saw the dive in top lane
where Shun helped Bin get that first kill there
onto Shoushuu.
And so now the Grubs are gonna be the target
for Junja as he does smite down the first one
and then decides to leave.
Again, Ben has control and priority over the top lane.
He gets to rotate first down into the river.
He's already in mega-nar form,
which makes it very easy for Shun
to just force the enemy jungler away.
He'll secure the other two grubs.
Also noting, Knight going a pretty defensive build here.
He already has the catalyst.
So, you know, it's not that kind of one-shot style build
that you sometimes you see.
Just the loot and the shadowflame all up front damage.
This is more scaling.
It's a lot more health.
And I think it's just a nod to the fact that,
well, there's Ambesa, there is Jarvan,
there's all of this dive.
Okay, change of direction here on the bottom side, lots of damage from Gala and Vampire.
Awe tries to get away, pops the heal!
The piercing arrow just barely doesn't have the distance.
Gala gets caught by the temperate, now Viper's looking for a little bit more.
Nice timing there on the Foss Bomb plus the rocket.
Meanwhile over in the mid lane, looks like we might have a little bit of a problem.
The junglers are showing up. Paranoia was already spent.
However, Jungen was ready to respond, and that means that Hong Q won't drop.
Yeah, Hong Q flashes away. The knockwave was not perfectly timed,
So the the shockwave actually missed as the paranoia went in. He was able to flash away from it
So good timing there on the flash from honkyu keeps himself safe
And of course as you call that with ginger behind him they cannot extend the play
Viper and on just trading heavily down the bot side with the empire and gala and the timing on the cce from them has been
So nice. They're not overlapping anything
They're getting the combo into the chains of corruption and then perfectly having the trample sun right out of that
They're weaving in autos to try to get multiple sets of blight procs there on this Alistair or other and and Varus combo
So do a good job and putting that pressure on and we're still at this pretty much dead even state
And even though the game is dead even when I look at the scoreboard and the individual states of the lane
It's pretty much what I expected
It's the solo laners from BLG having the leads while on the JDG side the bottom lane
They're the ones pulling ahead jungle relatively even it's a very very slightly for Genja, but it's like what one camp
So I'm not really going to count that one for being worth a whole lot second Drake of the game
However is about to spawn ocean and Kendrake are the first two drinks
Which means they can't be the soul which honestly if you're JDG
I think you're pretty happy about it means you're going to get a higher value soul
And you're the ones who are looking to start with a two-zero stack as they have total control over the bot side river
However, we can see BLG's jungler all the way up at his own crux, so it's shown nowhere nearby.
It's not like there's going to be a contest, JDG are up 2-0 in direct.
I completely agree.
I mean, it's pretty much a campus solo.
It's your other going to get Cloud, Mountain, Infernal, or Hextech.
Mountain it is.
Those are all wins.
So, it is going to be Mountain, and of course, Mountain, very, very good.
If you can survive that initial engage from the knock wave, it is going to be
so helpful for your 5v5s.
And this is also playing into what you were talking about JDG during the draft.
How this is a team that doesn't skip their steps.
This is a team that makes sure they prepare correctly when it comes to objective fights.
They were able to secure the first two dragons without a contest.
So now as we move further towards that soul, we know that if the game state is even
and they can get there first, they're going to do it right.
Yep, they really are. They're very, very good at basically just getting to dragons early
And they get an early line of vision, often a couple of minutes before that dragon spawns.
Instead of just getting there and trying to get the vision right before it spawns,
we'll often have early wards.
And what this means is that even if your opponents come in and sweep that out in our place of your own vision,
they often know exactly where the enemy wards are.
They know where they're going to be looking to approach from.
They know how to circumvent vision to actually set up their flanks.
And I think as a result, they often have really, really good objective fights.
I do think JDG has a real shot to our team by BLG in this one.
Okay, Gensha gets away as on goes on a pretty long magical journey
That's one thing that I always look for when I see a game with Bard is do you know all the angles to get the long magical journeys through the
Skinny parts of terrain because it really does allow your surprise factor to be that much more has been this commits the Megadon once again
So many of our players just love using this as a trading mechanism to guarantee that you're getting the edge over your opponent
Guarantee that you maintain lane control, especially if we have a potential fight coming up here soon
It doesn't look like we are, though, still about 90 seconds until the rip tarot spawns.
So just a crab battle once more for now.
Shun uses the dust bringer for a little bit of extra speed.
Towards this topside, level 11 on both top lanes.
Shao Shu does have the public execution.
Remember that Megan Nar was already committed just a moment ago.
Knight also rotating over towards this fight, but his vampire going in for the headbutt pole.
Temperate fake to try to disengage, and paranoia turns off the light.
Knight down to half HP, goes on about to take a journey back through the wall.
back through the wall, but now the re-engage comes out from Shun and Bin looking for Shaoxu who has to flash away.
Flash out from Shun, dodging the combo from Junja.
And now Bin gets stunned up, but he's not too worried about it.
Junja's gonna be your target here next.
As BLG, they use the Shockwave.
That's gonna force the flash of the Jarvan here as well.
We got some pretty big flashes spent here.
Azale with less than 60 seconds on the clock into the Rift Herald spot.
It's a fight where no one dies, but it's a fight where both supports are really the playmakers here.
Vampire finds an angle instant flashed in on tonight,
but how fast was that tempered fate from on?
Immediately came down to cover his Oriana there,
just beautifully done with the defensive tempered fate,
keeps Knight safe and critically means
Knight doesn't even have to flash.
He lives, holds onto the summoner
and is feeling really good about it.
All right, so BLG still just not even a 1000 gold lead.
Rift tarot spawning in 15 seconds.
You're calling base gold grind showing the state of the top side there with about a plus 500 for bin
It's him being the second biggest lead on the side of BLG knife up almost 1,000 in the mid lane
We know though that there's been so much attention from on specifically towards that lane and it's like to be over 20 CS
Absolutely has been a big impact and knight is a player that is worth getting ahead this guy will pay dividends later on
That's an early game investment
Vandals and Nola let it is to get second in the LPL.
He has mostly just been running things and been just going to try force.
Eclipse was that earlier item spike, but now we're coming in looking for a fight off that spike.
Okay, on throws the temperate on himself expecting the public at confusion to maybe hit him.
Now there's your knock wave on the 2. JDG's going to be careful.
However, Shun might just die. No, Knight gets to kill the Gala.
Shun's still alive in the middle of everybody. Shoush is going to be your target here next.
Shun's still staying alive, but Judging gets him on the way out.
On for the flash away and Judges going to die here next.
three for one for BLG and they get their team fight. They're going to earn the
ripped hair off the backup. What an engage from BLG there on through down that
early temperate fate. As you said, he thought the public edge season was going
to hit him and you can't wait till it hits you where you're already stunned.
He got a precast that looks a little bit funny but then the knock wave
re-engaged, gets his gola despite the flash being used and on finds multiple
bindings here that really were game changing. There's the temperate fate
to try to deny the public gift.
Houston, they see this, look at this flash, can't disconnect it,
hits the two man shock wave, now watch on, goes in,
double binding on the two carries, Shoushuu is stunned up,
they kill off Gala, Bin lands another big stun event, this binding as well.
Another double binding, lets them flash in, grab a second kill there.
Beautiful plays from on and from the rest of BLG.
They made that one look easy.
Yep, the knockwave combo plus the bar double bindings back and forth.
Really, really good stuff, but of course, and Shen was the one who died.
I spoke too soon.
The ripped hero didn't actually get claimed by BLG because their jungler wasn't available on the map.
So that objective is still ready to be contested, but I don't know if JDG will even have the ability to contest it again.
They have already lost their top lane tier 1 turret.
That's the first turn of the game being claimed by BLG.
Now they're going after the Herald.
They're going to pick up the crab on the way, and Shen and Ben,
She has total control over this. You can see the JDG roster is not anywhere nearby.
The third drake of the game has spawned. Their attention will likely be towards that area of the Rift instead.
And you can see Jjunja trying to clear out some of the vision here, but on and night are waiting!
Shockwave beautifully pulls Jjunja back out of the combo, and now the Jarvis is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
They will kill him in the river. He cannot get away. The timing from Knight's ultimate was perfect.
And so now, not just the Ripterio goes over to BLG uncontested,
but in the meantime, the enemy jungler was killed,
and Shun can just walk down and go back to back on the characters.
It's a new combo there for Jarvan.
He provided the flag, but it was Knight providing the drag
as he pulls him back with the perfect shockwave there.
Gets the kill, gets in the dragon,
slows down that march towards Sol, which is so important.
And now top lane, mid lane becoming that problem
that you were dreading as JDG.
I mean, Ben, you know, got that early lead.
There was some jungle interference.
Then VanPyre had a great roam.
You think maybe Xiaoxu's back in it.
But right off of this try-for-spike for Ben,
they get a huge bite.
They're taking towers.
They're taking plates.
And there's just no one that's going
to be able to really answer these BLG members in the side
lane.
So now you're at this point where
you're trying to look for plays.
You need Junji to get involved.
You need VanPyre to have more of those good roams
to try to turn something around.
Because the isolated 1-D ones are going
to be so heavily winning for BLG.
Right.
This is a 2,000 gold lead pretty much for both solo laners on the BLG side.
This is very difficult to play now for JDG.
Going back to our conversation about JDG objective setup.
Yeah, they wanted to try to set up.
It was Jundra trying to clear away some of the vision,
but he wasn't ready for the Bard and Orianna to have enough damage to just burst him down.
At your Jarvan, you think, yeah, I can use my flag.
I can get away. It's not that big of a deal.
But you're up against Knight, man.
This is not somebody you can try for win.
Nope, not at all. And now he's got his Shadowflame in, completed here.
And this is the head-to-head so far at first stand on how these two players have performed.
There's definitely a very strong laning phase in general for Ben.
He has been looking really good in the LPL.
Oh, we're going to see a dive, maybe?
Okay, the lights are off.
No, he's walking away. They're just going to pick off.
So, you know, Shaoxu is really known mostly for his laning phase.
Particularly for his Renekton, you know, really is an incredible Renekton player.
player, but there's been one of the best,
if not the best, renecing players out there right now.
And we are going to see the shot blade there.
Hong Q losing three quarters of HP,
dropped the arcane storm to try to force Knight back,
and they will manage to hold the turret for now.
Yep, just kind of trading those cooldowns back and forth.
But, yeah, Bin has always been better on the map
than Xiaoxu.
And Xiaoxu, it's really that strength in the laning phase
that I think has made him such a fun player to watch.
But when he gets put this far down,
it is very difficult because Bin plays him out so well.
Taking a little bit of fire here as Vampire, Jungen and Hong Q again just trying to defend the entrance to their jungle trying to defend
This tier one turret that is barely holding on down here in bottom lane
But BLT wants to stop with Knights and Gage coming out from Vampire by the temperate lane again
It's on board into the double blinding right after a Knight flash of the way
He keeps his mid laner alive on is doing great in game number one
Jungen flies over the wall and Knight finally dies Hong Q takes the kill and that one's a shutdown
on after trying to escape now as Shun and Viper realized there's nothing they can do to save their teammates.
JDG, thine the engage they needed, they managed to pick up the two kills, but it comes with the cost of the tier 2 turret top.
Even with a great play there from on, it didn't matter. Now Shun's gonna get walked down.
Yeah, this is just a blunder from Shun hanging around too long to look at the tier 1 turret dying.
Now he's gonna have to do it from the grave.
And BLG, you know, while they do have these really dominant early games, they have to be careful.
They got to stay buttoned up because this is something that we saw in the upper bracket finals
Not the grand finals with the upper bracket finals
They created some really big advantages and still lost some of those games
They went all five in the upper bracket finals partially because of plays like this
BLG they have some of those exceptional mechanics of any team in the world
There's some of the best soul leaders and just individual players of anywhere in the world and sometimes that can lead to a little bit of overconfidence
right and they are a little bit hubris and on is able to
distinguish the initial part of his place so well. I mean the
flash comes in again temperate timing really really good look at
the flash from on to redirect the binding gets the double
stun night is able to flash out but then they say hey what if
we just kind of walk back in they see the TP is coming in
they know that Junji is still there but night does not back
up after flashing out he's just too confident. Meanwhile back
to live it's BLG going in for an invade yet again the
The Paranoia is not even needed, but the temperate finds a second target.
They already killed the jungler, now they want the top laner as well, and BLG find two.
That's exactly what you want to see.
Yes, they have a mistake in the bottom lane.
They brush it off, they get right back up through their old ways.
The Rift Earl is summed up in top lane to be a distraction.
Isaac, they're 22 minutes on the clock.
There's Baron in the top side of the river, and there's BLG looking to take it.
There's no one to be jungler to contest.
There's no one to be top laner to be that frontline.
I don't really see a way for JDG to stop this.
So bear and goes up to BLG yep, and generally the recourse to this would be oh, well
Well, maybe we'll push in mid get a tier one there
But on tp mid to clear out the wave as well off of this pick here
Junja walks in he has no flag and he just walks in very confidently into on gets bound into that blue buff the shockwave
Is there to follow we're back to live and on yeah on he wanted to get some vision
He was thinking the rift might have been safe enough, but unfortunately for him
It is not down Victor. If you're JDG you're honestly pretty happy with that because at least that's going to slow down this
Bear and more machine because they only have a 4v5
It's normally picking off the support randomly can not mean a whole lot
But here I feel like it can at least slow them down a bit. Maybe I'm wrong
Maybe he's gonna make me a liar as he pushes into the enemy phase
The flash away the turn of escape from Xiaoshu as Shun takes a lot of damage from the next to us
But not enough to make it an even trade. This is what you were talking about from the finals
It's Ben and Shun taking Showshoes' lunch money the entire game along the Ambesa 1 and 4.
Yes, JDG will achieve sole point here as they grab their third Drake,
but it's quickly not the Mountain Soul because BLG got that one earlier
and now it's the JDG base that's cracked open.
I mean they're just bullying this poor guy.
Ben ate his lunch, shouldn't put him in the locker.
They just won't leave him alone.
Even under the Nexus towers?
Oh man, now Jun just trying to get away, but again, this Jarvan is constantly the victim of the shockwaves.
Gala with a defense to change the corruption, but that doesn't matter.
It's a double kill for Piper's Corky.
On goes on a magical journey.
Hong Q and Vampire go home because nowhere is safe outside of the base.
BLG are on the war path and their opponents only have three champions to try to stand against them.
The top lane tier three turret is already down.
BLG with a four man push.
Shun is going towards the bottom lane, wants to take out what's still standing of that tier
2 turret.
There's not full health on it, still about half or so, as the rest of BLG will now be able
to rotate over, guaranteed that they can continue to apply that pressure.
Meanwhile, Knight is going to make sure they still have two points of pressure.
Oh, wait, the map lied to me.
I thought that said three plates, not five.
Anyway, it was full HP, but it's not going to be for very long, as Knight continues
making sure that there's more than one thing JDG has to worry about, and BLG claims
the last remaining tier 2.
This is a this is a 9000 goldman.
Yeah, it's tough. I mean you're on soul point.
That's maybe the the hope and the prayer,
but at this point doesn't matter if your objective set up so good,
because you're not getting near that thing.
And we saw Gala getting caught out.
Ginger is kind of trying to create some space for Gala,
knowing that Gala is going to be in a lot of trouble there.
But he dies in a hurry.
They pile in an easy double for Viper,
who hasn't really been a part of too much this game,
but is quietly over 2000 gold ahead at this point.
It's really been about the map movements from on.
It's been about the Solanes coordination with Sean.
It's about BLG winning out in these important flights,
playing the map better, and they have taken down
every tower outside of the base,
and one in top lane inside it as well.
Yeah, I don't really see a way back in here for JDG.
I mean, even if you manage to get,
okay, there's one way.
The one way is BLG makes a turbo int,
you manage to get like a really one-sided fight,
five for two, five for one or something,
and then you claim Mountain Soul after.
That's pretty much the only way.
So as long as BLG doesn't put themselves
in a spot where they're just going way too far,
diving between nexus turrets or something,
a 9,000 gold lead, 25 minutes into the game,
just feels like far too difficult for JDG to deal with.
It's so hard.
And your best target is going to be Knight,
but he has a full zone, he has 10 stack,
Oroa, we've seen how good on has been
with these defensive tempered fates.
He's going to be there with the locket,
and that is going to make things incredibly hard here.
Bin is just unstoppable in the side lane right now.
He's on three full items and there are more expensive items than what Xiaoshu has as well.
When you look at the gold, he's more than one fully completed item ahead of his opponent.
So it's not just these items.
The gold that he has in his pocket is probably still four digits or something.
Like this is not even remotely close and Bessa can't be on the same screen as the Nar.
Yeah, it's just not much he can do about it.
And Hong Q, yeah, you can wave clear against the Nar, but if you overstep it all,
he's gonna kill you in that 1v1, no problem.
So BLG just controlling this bot side, making sure that JDG has no way in at this next dragon.
They know that would be their only real hope, so it is their job to not give them any shot at the 50-50.
Plus, when you have a side laner who's this powerful, it only becomes that much more painful
when you look at the fact that there's both a knock turn and a barred on the enemy team,
which is the perfect way to support a side laner, either offensively or intensively.
Absolutely agree.
BLG just taking away everything that they can.
There's multiple wards up on the top side.
Three wards in the enemy jungle on top side.
Four or so down on that bot side that you can see across the way.
So they have full vision of everything.
Just going to be waiting for these next couple objectives here to spawn.
Vex Barambuff could be curtains for JDG.
If BLG can grab the dragon, grab that.
Feels like they would have enough to probably push in and close out this game.
Yeah, they're obviously waiting on the timers for the neutral objectives.
Those timers are almost exactly synced up.
So if you're BLG, obviously you want the Baron
to make that game-ending push,
but I think you've also got to make sure
that you don't just randomly give them Mountain Soul
in the process of doing it, because that will make things,
I think, significantly more annoying.
So I'm curious if BLG are going to just priority
the dragon first, since it does spawn
a couple of seconds ahead.
JDG, I don't really see a world
where they can try to contest anything
in open ground against BLG.
As now, it looks like, ah, Mayhem.caught.
Honestly, this is huge for JDG! 30 seconds to go until that dragon spawns and the enemy support is down.
Now Finn gets caught on the very edge of the public execution, have to flash away as he reverts to mini form.
And JDG might have found the chance to grab this mountain soul.
Can they make sure they maintain this control? However, Jungle goes in!
The follow-up is right there! Knight has to flash up! I'm all trying to stay alive!
Shun comes in! Wanted to support, his carries create a little bit of space!
The pressure is on! And now they've already found the kill of N'Gala!
They try to reposition their jungle, but Zerja falls as well.
Shun still staying alive.
Knight, Pinn and Viper all firing back,
and this is Viper's moment.
The Corki with a double kill.
As Pinn and Knight should have enough damage
to take down Shao Shu easily.
Hong Q goes after Viper, but the Corki is running and gunning
and standing and fighting, and now Hong Q's about to die too.
He goes golden, but the gold is nothing but a trophy
for BLG4V5.
They're staying alive.
It was a good shot there from JDG, about as good
as they're going to get in this game.
And they almost made it happen, but even with on, not there, they still lose out on the play here.
It's a good trap that they laid.
They catch on on, they are able to burst them down.
We can see in live they are taking the Baron.
That's not going to be good.
And then they say, you know what?
We got a full send-in.
It's not going to get better than this.
Xiaoxu was able to tag pin.
They're able to chase in.
And the start of the fight looks pretty good, but it's the gold lead in action.
Even with them getting in on tonight, they land the initial combo.
They can't find enough follow-up damage.
Bifur on the side are creating so much space, Gala doesn't have anyone to protect him, Bifur just walks up behind him, knocks him down, and then you look at the health prize you realize, yeah, Ben is still 5k up, and Ben is basically full HP at this point, can't be stopped by JDG.
And even HongQ can't really win out in this duel against Bifur, because the reinforcements come through, Bifur spends the flash, the cleanse, and they get the seekers off HongQ and do end up winning the fight.
Yeah, I love how Shun and Viper played that. Shun diving in on top of the enemy AD carry.
And Viper's positioning was just perfect for that whole engage, right?
Because he had the trees to make it so the enemy melee champions couldn't put pressure on to him,
but he still had the damage on the Gala. I don't blame JDG at all for going for it,
because in a game state like this, when you have a 5v4, you've got to just send it to try to get the soul,
maybe try to get the Baron afterwards. BLG's got hands, man, and those hands are heavy,
And so are their pocketbooks.
Now 12,000 gold ahead.
No potential for a Mountain Soul for the next four minutes.
Barron still has two minutes on that Rebel Baron power play timer.
And I feel like this is probably going to be the end of it.
It's on. Defensive temperate, keeping himself safe.
Here's your TP ready to reinforce.
On stays alive and now JDG has to scramble to try to get away.
Ben nearly has the full Narbar charge.
As he chases after Vampire, gets knocked away by the headbutt.
JDG doesn't lose anybody here, but neither does BLG.
The pressure, the push, is going to continue.
Still a good look there from JDG.
This is all you can really do.
You're down 12K.
You've got to look for brush camps.
They almost burst down on, but this time with the heel,
with defensive tempered fate, and the teepee coming in,
JDG has to run before they can actually finish off the bar.
And now you have to face down this barren up push.
We can see Aunders going up through mid.
He's going to be getting that moving in the right direction.
And Shun has no pair in the last,
so he can't reinforce either side that easily.
So they need to get these weights synced up and try to get those going in to get the pressure on to JDG
Otherwise this game is gonna stall out and that's not exactly what you want as BLG
You don't want to give them more opportunities
Yeah
We're getting towards the point where that much more gold for BLG won't do a lot more
You still have one more item that you can get on both of your solo laners
You still have another couple items that you can get on Viper
But the further it goes the worse it gets because this is just such a massive lead
You'll want to end it fast. So let's see if they can accomplish that
JJ have held the line for a minute and 20 of that two minutes of the Baron as now
BLG continued their push but there's a paranoia into the dive with an awkward combo and now the Gala's already dead
BLG have surely found their moment. Shun is going to die though as Vampire is creating space with unbreakable will.
He finally falls, Shoush is your next target. Bin hops in because he's got the Guardian Angel.
He'll resurrect. Shun dies but he's the only one. HongQ tries to get away, but Viper does so much damage on the Gorky.
And that will do it five for one BLG find the fight
They're going to eliminate the remainder of the JDG structures with a 16,000 gold lead almost by the time game one ends and BLG you're up 1-0
Exciting game one here from BLG really showcasing the individual levels here in those solo lanes
Crushing it through top and mid on I think though for me I think on is my player of the game
He was helping out at night so much in the mid lane.
He was perfectly temperate fates, finding great bindings
in a lot of these 5v5s as well.
I feel like he was everywhere.
Yeah, it's really easy to look at night and to look at Ben
and be like, both of these guys just smurfed it.
But I think I've got to agree with you on being everywhere
all of the time, whether he's using the opportunity
to show up in a place where you wouldn't expect him,
whether he's just getting hot cocos.
He was smurfing, BLG was dominating.
Lounge, what do we think?
I think Ben is gigabin again a little bit in the world. Yeah, I mean this is this is what he watched the LPL for
Honestly, just like BLG are this team where you have to get past how good their solo laners are and
teams have had trouble with it even when they've been less coordinated than what they are right now
But right now they're looking very well coordinated with each other
Yeah, I also think it's like a line between running it down in genius and on was just
treading that line beautifully in that game.
He was.
I mean, we can see it when they broke the game open.
It looked a little weird if you weren't paying close attention now.
He kind of just altered himself before a big team fight, but then he does this.
But that's if the embessa all landed, he would have been able to buffer it.
But watch on throughout the rest of this fight what he can do with his cues.
Yeah, he's in double stun.
He wins so many clutch bindings on this.
I love the one that's going to be coming up in that narrow choke point right there.
That one was insane.
He helped out so much in these fights, and then this was the 4v5 off.
Yeah, this one he's not even alive, but the focus from JG comes on a knight who has flash,
has zonus, buys a lot of time, and Viper is just constantly off to the side putting
damage in.
You see his bin starts to move in to try and defend his jungler who still goes down,
but Viper was just picking off targets.
You don't expect to see an AD carry playing that flank roll.
But Viper just knew how he could play.
He had a cleanse available.
He had the Valkyrie to be safe.
And then eventually they just jump in and take down Honkyu
to finish up the fight.
Just insane trust in their own mechanics.
Because it was 4v5, they lose that fight.
They lose the soul and maybe it becomes a more interesting game.
There's also a sequence earlier on in the game
where Nocturne did a pre-6 gank on Bin to give him one kill
and end up costing their bottom lane a lot.
Gala ended up getting two kills
because of the loss of tempo.
on the pressure they applied both side,
but it's a paid off in the end.
Yeah.
400, 500, 400, 500, to 5,000.
It could have been a little dicey.
That's why that fight right around Rift Herald
was so important, right?
Because you're going in, you have an item spike from,
I believe, I'm not,
did Binhead try for us at that point, right?
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
Yeah, at the very least, I know Corky did too.
And so because of on right there,
they were able to take over that part.
Player of the game.
No surprise.
on and been we were actually gonna all vote for on and then been just kept
bidding throughout the rest of this game 5 1 and 11 I'm actually 339 DPM I'm
curious to see what the fans thought only because I think yeah a lot of the
time it was really close between been and on a lot of the time of the castors
start hyping one person up the fans will just follow so I'm trying to track
that yeah well how much you can influence people's perspective based
on like what you're watching in game right there's so much stuff that just
happens in game yeah we're influencing everyone to say Gen G is really good it
turns out we should have been G choose been really good this whole time I
think that's that's that's the learner from Redox yes here's the AWS post game
breakdown been not the most damage on the team but completely taking Showshoot
out of it 12,000 damage on the embass and not what you want when you lock in
that pick not to mention there's in Gala being kept to 14,000 damage this
game is insane yeah especially after they did get into a really good position
with that double kill and that collapse on bot side.
So yeah, it was really good of BLG
to be able to target them in teamfights afterwards.
But we didn't get a chance to do this before the series
because we were caught up in the G2 hysteria.
These two teams have a big history already
from the LPL playoffs as well as all-time, Emily.
Yeah, so basically these two teams already met each other,
these two exact teams met each other twice
in the LPL bracket to qualify.
I talk about how spiritually the Grand Finals was kind of like a 3-0, you even with the game
that JDG did take, it was through invading, protecting their bot side, a lot of what we've
seen at this tournament actually.
But that upper bracket one was super, super close.
That game five I'd recommend anyone want to watch if you want to see a Kalista and
Nivia bot lane.
Fun time.
You see some fun drafts.
Maybe if they go to five, we'll see some more fun drafts on these two teams.
They also just know each other really well overall historically.
Yeah, they're all time head-to-head, which started a little bit more JDG favorite.
That was when JDG had the giga roster in 2023, but more recently it has been in the favor of BLG.
So big history of this year as well as international history, Emily.
Yeah, and I mean, I think the big important thing to know is these are just two orgs that know each other really well.
And they've kind of swapped places a little bit.
Initially, during that 2023 season,
you had this JDG super team.
Everyone was looking at them.
They're going to do the Golden Road, right?
Where BLG, initially, I know we think of that team now
as like an insane team, made it to Worlds Finals
the next year, right?
But like that was not supposed to be a super team.
Yeah, they were so messy at that time.
I remember them even making Finals in the MSI
was quite an upset.
Yeah.
some lck teams um but you know obviously now it's really flipped a script in terms of how these
teams are placed in the lpl i will say first best of five this year three two second best of five
three one we have seen a lot of stand-out jump is another three oh what do you guys think another
three oh three zero three zero okay three two all right i like the three two i want some five
Let's play the games game to up after the break
Some guys can use the only one, won't you try to get away with a fight for that so much damage on the Korky?
And that will do it. 5 for 1 BLT, find a fight.
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Welcome back to First Stand 2026.
It's our last best of five before the finals.
It's LPL Civil War, a rematch of the finals
between BLG and JDG, and it's BLG up 1-0
after game number one.
It was pretty close in the early game
with JDG getting leads in the bottom side,
BLG solo laners pulling ahead as expected,
but BLG did what BLG does
and they took the whole game
after they got one big lead.
They never let it go.
Exactly, it just feels like kind of a continuation
what they were able to do in the finals shouldn't have been working so well together to put
Shaoxu into an untenable spot like nothing you could really do and get that far down.
And despite the fact that honky was actually winning the 1v1 against night, it wasn't the
1v1.
Now on was constantly there, trades flashers with them, you're dropping hot cocoa's
giving them extra health.
They were always working well together to really enable their solo lanes.
And I think it was very, very impressive.
get some good plays from JDG.
It always felt like BLG was just getting that much more.
Yeah, BLG definitely the ones to look out for.
The solo lanes, like I said,
we're both having a great time in that one.
And I mentioned at the beginning of the game
that I think that Viper hasn't had
the greatest performance so far at the tournament.
And if he could step up,
they would be that much scarier.
He really wasn't super relevant for the first 20 minutes,
but that can happen when you're playing AD carry.
Your job is to make sure that you farm,
and then when the time for you to step up is there,
you step up, and I believe that he did.
We remember kind of like the final actual fight
where BLG got the pick on on, they had the 5v4,
they go in to try to full send it and maybe make a comeback,
and Viper's positioning is right where it needs to be,
kill the enemy AD carry, put the damage down,
and I honestly think that his performance, real solid.
Yeah, it was definitely solid.
I mean, that's why he killed hundreds of minions
to get to that moment.
A thousand minions had to die
so I could attack one person.
That's important.
All right, let's hop back into it here as JDG have elected for first pick and BLG will play off the blue side.
Do not be fooled by the fact that the teams are on different sides of the bottom. It's BLG blue.
So now I want to see, you know, is it going to be a Renekton early pick here because Nara's already gone, Rumble has already banned.
Those are two of the best answers into it, though we have to be fair.
Seeing Sion do really, really well into that matchup a number of times, but Shoushune is just such a Renekton enjoyer.
I know that it's LPL versus LPL, but at least in LCS where we come from I consider this the nightmare
matchup because teams will always pick Renekton and then he just ends up being a sock puppet by
the end of the game. I consider every matchup in design to be the winner. You're like okay,
I'm 12 CS ahead. Well, great buddy. His soul furnace gave him 2000 HP. It's like all right,
better do your empowered cold and me for 400 damage, but all right, we've got the Seraphine
Lulupanthi on Bandai by JDG, PLG getting rid of the rumble, the karma and the rise as it's JDG
first picking Vi for Jinja. Let's see how BLG wants to respond to the dive that you know is going
to go along with a Vi pick. Yeah, Ash wouldn't surprise me a little bit. I think Zinz makes
sense as an answer. You know, Zin is so strong in general. When people are trying to dive past
the Zin, he kind of says no, right? You pop the Crescent Guard, you're really good at just
hitting what is in front of you, you know, putting pressure on those divers. You know,
Nara makes way more sense than Ash, not only because the Seraphine is banned, but because
you have more mobility, more safety.
Niko is going to give you a stronger 2v2, and Pop Boston is fantastic counter-engaged as
we know.
So I really like these first two picks here, seeing the Vi.
Because Vi is not a pick that you can really pivot out of and say, you know what, we're
going to play front-to-back.
I'll just ult the scion.
Like, it doesn't really work that way.
No, it's pretty junk.
You're kind of locked in.
That's not going to work the best.
So yeah, you, Nara, Niko, loving this in the bottom lane for BLG, but JDG, again,
I want to see more dive with it.
This is what you were already talking about.
Renekton is up.
So that's what they're going to lock in for Shaoxu.
And I feel like, especially when you're playing something
like Renekton, especially when you're playing this champion
that needs to not fall behind, otherwise you kind of just
feel useless, I want to see the rest of the team also
supporting this pick.
Because I feel like at this point you know,
Shun and even on are going to be looking to make sure
Ben gets ahead.
Absolutely.
They really are.
And I mean, Sion seems like the expected answer now.
because as I said, you know, Nara's gone, Rumble has gone.
Zen, though, would mean you would be dropping that
and that would get banned.
So they're kind of choosing between the two.
Do you care more about the Sion or more about the Zen?
Because the other is very likely to be banned by GEDG
in the next phase.
So in this case, they are going to prioritize the Sion,
which I actually think is correct.
Because, again, I think Shoushun might be the best
renectin in the world.
This guy's renectin is cracked.
He is very, very good at it.
Has an incredibly impressive laning phase.
This is a champion that I most associate him with.
Okay, so you don't want to put Ben in a really bad spot when he has been such a point of power for the team
So with the scion you just kind of have to withstand the early early phase of the game and when we see that it's arie
You just don't care about arie's damages sign. You're just gonna be stacking armor
You know, maybe your jack show is gonna give you some MR later on or whatever
but
You need stacks of early armor if that's gonna deal with the vi with the redacted with the ad carry that
we know Gala's going to be playing, and Hongqiu has to fight past this Ion.
R.E. cannot really win fights going from line similar to Vi, right?
So it's all about can they execute on the dive.
And so now I feel like, as JDG, you want to ban the Xen for sure.
And then you're thinking about, alright, what are good counter-engage or defensive mid laners
that we could have to deal with here from night?
Is it worth banning out a mid laner, or do we just want to target another AD jungler
and put that even more down?
Because we know exactly how JDG are going to play the comp out, regardless of what
What their bot lane is, it actually changes nothing.
Right, so they do ban the Zen over on the BLG side.
Recon being banned the way.
It's a great partner for Vi and Ari,
diving into the back line like you're already talking about.
Ari does one spirit rush forward.
You battle dance to her, then you grant entrance forward
with the quickness already activated.
You have a ton of gap close.
So they're going to make sure that can't go with them.
Second ban of this second half is Calista for BLG.
This is another one of those champions.
And again, if you have an engaged support,
you bring him in, you toss him forward
to the extra distance.
You're engaged that much more powerful.
Yep, and closer to Renata would be something that would be fitting the aggressive bill.
Of course, Gala could just go Kaisa. I mean, that is definitely an absolute Gala classic.
But the problem is, a lot of Kaisa lanes are pretty weak, right?
And it is going to be difficult when you already see a really strong lane support over on the other side in the Niko.
Of course, there's always a slight possibility Niko's going to flexes that board.
Just going to kind of ignore that because I don't really expect that to be true.
It's going to happen a lot these days.
Yeah, exactly.
You kind of have to have a Niko specialist in mid lane to really pull that out.
Let's be very desperate.
Desperation for specialization.
I feel like being down 1-0, you're not desperate yet.
And I specialize in two champions,
and now I'm out of them.
I'm gonna play Niko mid.
Okay, here we go.
Slam the Niko.
Annie is the second ban from JDG though,
so they don't wanna deal with the potential
of just the instant burst onto the R-E,
or even the vibe she tries to dive in, right?
So, I feel like Poppy against Vyron next.
There's so much value against all three
of these champions.
Okay, I love this pick from BLG.
This is one of these games where I feel like Poppy
is just generically good in the meta.
I know it's not the fastest clearing jungler, right?
I know it does have some weaknesses,
but I feel like it is just generically strong.
And then you see a draft like this
and you're like, oh, you just won the game.
Yeah, Steathfast Presence is one of those abilities
that I feel like is just absolutely nuts
during against certain champions.
Okay, JDG is going with the latter combo
that bullies lane.
Caitlyn Lux, this is a tried and true 2v2
that is made to put you under your turret
and constantly provide pressure.
That's gonna be their choice into the Unara and Niko.
Meanwhile, the final pick of the draft for BLG
is Mel in mid lane.
And Mel is a classic in the LPL.
They love this pick.
It is so much more popular in the LPL
than elsewhere in the world
and it is a great matchup into the Ari.
Obviously you're just holding the revue for the charm,
right?
You're trying to stop that charm
because not only are you stopping the damage,
you're stopping the damage.
You are then potentially charming the Ari
which can completely screw her over.
I do think the difficulty here for me with the JDG comp, like it is pretty cohesive.
The Lux Alt even later on can be used as part of the dive.
My issue is that where do you go as a jungler?
You're playing Caitlyn Lux, that needs help.
You need to push, you need to farm plates, you need to play on their face which it
poses you to the enemy jungler, so that means you've got to protect them.
But then on the other side of the map, you're also playing Renekton into the scion.
That guy needs to get ahead too.
So I do feel like Genghis is in one of these kind of impossible situations where not one,
not two, but three lanes really want his help.
And that is so difficult to deal with, whereas Sion is completely happy just to chill and
farm.
Mel is going to be completely happy just to deal with that 1v1 herself.
It's really only bot lane that I think needs Shun's help.
So I feel like his job is so much easier than Genghis this game.
And I mean, when you think of jungle in League of Legends in general, every single
decision you make, whether it's to farm, to gank, to ward, to recall, they all come
at an opportunity cost.
Yeah.
And when all three lanes need help like you're talking about, those opportunity costs, well,
let's just say that the economy value here is skyrocketing, so your decision making becomes
that much more important even than it normally is, so I'm curious how well Junja will be
able to navigate that, how well he can make sure he's relieving the pressure
where it's needed most.
And it's so tough, right?
You know multiple of these lanes have got to play aggressive or they're just not gonna be that useful in isolation
Ari is gonna really have trouble I think against against this Mel obviously in isolation
Galvan vampire are gonna be great in the 2v2
Yeah, but the whole point of this is to be at their tower farming plates, right?
That is what this kind of thing has to do
Caitlin is a really interesting AD carry because you know even when it's really popular in solo queue a lot of
Times I'll talk to pro players and and ask them you know
Why aren't we seeing a lot of Caitlin and often the response I hear is that Caitlin is the most OP
champion in the game until you make one mistake and then is the least opi champion in the game right it's so tempo based exactly
It's so tempo based you need to be ahead of the curve you need to be following plates
You need to be really accelerating yourself and one death sometimes completely screws up
Alright, so both of our junglers in this one are starting on the top side pathing towards bottom
I like that for both of them again
We're talking about if you're shun
You're really looking at relieving the pressure on the bottom lane from that Caitlyn Lux that you're talking about and if you're
You're probably expecting Shun to be focusing on that bottom lane most, so you want to be there in case he shows up.
Exactly. So it's a lot of going to be tracking here as well, making sure you know where the enemy jungler is.
You're playing well around your timings.
Back to Piper and on are playing well on a killer bar game in game one.
Hunky, you're not really having any fun as he is just getting walked down right now by Knight.
Knight does use the rattle there though, so very, very long cooldown at level one.
This is one of the longest cool down basic abilities in League of Legends, so whenever you can get that out of them
You know that you have some opportunities to go more aggressive for a little bit
It's gonna be really really important the timing of this ability is so huge right because it is not just a shield
It is not just you know some basic little defensive thing
It's a pure fairy exactly well even more so it's pure fairy if you reflected it back like you know
You're able to turn around in the entire fight sometimes with that and so it's the offensive power
power that is so powerful as well.
Now this is been versus the LPL
internationally. You think about
been as this means that international play,
you think about him often, you know,
if he gets taken down it's by the LCK,
but he does actually have a losing record
versus the LPL internationally.
It has not always been able to dominate
that regional competition,
but this time definitely coming in as a favorite.
I mean, even just think back to last year's worlds.
BLG was one of the teams that people
were talking about like, yeah,
this should be this should be a potential.
finalist team. Yeah, BLG wants to forget last worlds. That was a big
disappointment for that roster compared to expectations. So being able to
clutch up in the big moments, being able to make sure that you live up to the
expectations that not only everybody else has for you, but you should have for
yourself. Very important as Shun makes the tackle on the honkyu here nice and
early. It's only level four, so there's no way to use a spirit rush to
try to get away. They forced the flash out of the Ari. Nicely done.
Yeah, it's a good game there, you know, really well timed. He's full
clearing, just goes over, does get that.
Shao Xiu is going to be able to grab his first plate here already, so does have the push,
and of course taking some damage to do that.
I also say, he was really nice from Hong Q.
Ooh, was that, what was that flash?
100% sure.
I looked at something else for a second and then I just saw him flash out of the bush
and I didn't see any skill shots come out, so I'm not quite sure what happened there.
I was looking at something else on the minimap, but...
Maybe we'll get a replay.
Maybe we'll get a replay.
I'm not sure if that was accident, or if it was like a flash finding that went into minions.
I genuinely did not catch it, but on Q flash very, very early there, which I think is important.
You can see it just TP back.
So if you don't flash early and you tank a bunch of damage, you have to take a really bad base there.
Sure, it sucks that you lost your flash, but it's better to lose the flash early if you're going to do it.
Ooh, look at the damage first, Blondawa!
In the 2v2, the Piltover Peacemaker into the follow-up auto,
Gala gets his first kill on drops.
No jungler help required.
Caitlyn locks, doing what they were drafted for.
Yeah, and playing against Katelyn Lux sometimes could be a bit of a bullet hell.
You're constantly dodging, you feel like you're doing well, you're doing well, you're doing well.
Hit that one binding into the trap, into the full Katelyn combo.
Q, auto, E, double headshot, 100 to 0, just dead.
I mean, most bullet hell games are, you can dodge 99 things, but if the 100 hits you, you lose.
And sure enough, got 99 problems and unfortunately the finding is one,
as he does get taken down there.
Vampire sets it up well and Vampire has been playing, I think, quite well.
He had a really good run towards the topside to help out Shashu last game
with that early TP on the Alistar.
And Vampire is just a very interesting player.
He's a guy who's had kind of a mixed history.
He came in and for a while was considered potentially the worst player,
you know, the worst support, maybe even the worst player in the LPL.
You know, had really been struggling,
but has had such an incredible turnaround on WE,
on this roster that was not expected to be good at all.
He completely surpassed people's expectations,
really impressed so many players
and has completely turned around his trajectory.
And now I feel like he is one of the best supports
in the LPL, who's really, really impressive
and is gonna be an important part
of any win they could get.
Ooh, nice solar snare there on the Hong Q.
Knight forcing out the spirit rush from the enemy.
Jungler has the Drake does go over to JDG now shown in the middle of the pit has a flash trying to get away from Junja
But now Junja turns it right back around
He wants to go after Knight who escapes back towards the rest of the team waiting over the wall
So both teams trying to get a little bit fresh here in the fight after the dragon's already down
But nobody falls JDG still up one and a half thousand gold eight minutes into the game
They're feeling great about this early game. Yeah, that's Mike was a clincher as Xiaoshu interrupts the smash
Okay, the defensive scion ulti again this is the scion classic you fight with them a little bit once it looks like you're gonna lose
You just run away
Yeah, he's got to try to make it home does still have his flash available
But no shall she's not going to pursue any further. Yeah, he didn't know where she is
So he's a little bit nervous about that so Ben buys enough time that he won't chase after him
That was yeah, that was a risky smite. Junja actually smoked the dragon down to about 20 HP
was an auto attack from Gala that did end up claiming it. So Gala secured that and could have
been pretty bad had they lost that dragon, but you have full bot side trial. You have a very
good early game lead. Gala is up almost a thousand gold already. Viper very far behind as far as
the CS is concerned and first play wins at Gala and they got a plate and they got a dragon.
It's a lot of hands. It's a lot of hands and it's a great start for JDG.
And it is as Ben eats the venectin combo here yet again the scion down about 10 CS
But again, this is what you expect early on versus the venectin
He should have a lead because of how well scion is going to scale jungle is relatively even
Night in honkyu again relatively even in mid lane, but the story really is that bottom lane if Caitlyn
Lux gets picked this is what it's got to be for but like you mentioned earlier your conversations with other pro players
It's about making sure you never ever
ever, ever slip.
Kaitlyn walks, must continue to play from the lead.
I specifically want to see them to continue to play around these dragons.
Make sure you're there first.
The trap lines are a lot of Kaitlyn's power.
Being able to set up for objectives, make it so things like the banana brush aren't safe.
The entry ramps aren't safe.
They aren't an available way to get to the fight.
And that's what I'm really going to have my eyes on for JDG as this game goes forward.
I think it does kind of lend itself to one of their strengths.
I talked about how good their objective setups generally are.
So now that they have an advantage now that they have a Caitlyn who can really control space
It is going to be powerful and you know not only is the Caitlyn trap line just annoying to walk through
But it also pairs very very well with skill shot champions because even if there is a slight gap
You have to walk around the traps into a potential binding or charm that makes things really really difficult
Of course BLG will try to claim space and utilizing their scion
Shun has ginger behind him doesn't know it just yet though they drop the ward
seeing if maybe they can find anybody passing through this red buff area of
the jungle but not going to happen. Goldlead still hovering around the same
area it's been for quite a while now here for JDG at about one and a half
thousand clubs are available on the map JDG sending their jungler towards
that area but you can see Bin with the fact that he has the wave currently
pushed out has the chance to go and ward that top side of the river so
So they will see Genja doing this, they won't be able to stop at least the first grab,
but you can see Hongqi already in a defensive position to cover for Genja.
He now backs away from the ring to Grubb, is ready to help the fight.
It's our choice to go in, but instead the reversal is beautiful!
Gala gets out of the range, they fire back with a light binding
because they know that Miko has to stop in the same spot to drop the ulti.
And the Wombo combo is just way too powerful.
The Piltover peacemaker takes the kill, not only do they get their second 2v2 kill in the game
in the bottom lane, but JDG claim all three grubs.
They're up over 2,000 gold.
Game two is all JDG all the way.
And now the bot lane is going to be even more tough
because don't have those grubs.
Okay, then just going to walk this one off,
walks to get away from Shao Shu.
Misses the decimating smash charge.
Hit a little bit long there.
Then goes back in for the ulti,
and Shun shows up.
Point-blank keepers verdict.
Finds the double mock-up.
Decimating smash to the double mock-up.
Only it's on as night appears.
Junja drops, and there's the second one as well.
Shoushuu falls tonight. Big play from BLG to keep themselves in this game.
Yeah, Knight appears and JVG vanished, calling the magic trick. BLG right back into this game now.
Creating those solo lane leads that they so desperately need after this engage goes bad from on.
He did force double flashes, so that is one positive for them.
You know, he flashed in with the pop awesome, got the double flash, but like you say,
when you press pop awesome, you can see yourself, right? You are going to be going straight up, straight down.
That's where the binding is going, that's where the trap is going, and that's where you are going to get one shot.
And Viper now, it was already not a fun lane, it was that much less fun now as Yuntal's already completed here.
And it is triple grubs here, so they are going to be able to deal even more damage to the tower.
This one's pretty much a lock to be first turret of the game, I don't know the deal if you can really do anything about it.
And Yuntal's one of those items, it's like Rod of Ages, right?
Considering you have to stack it the earlier you get it, that's the earlier it's going to be at max strength,
which will just continue making sure you're ahead of the pace of the game.
You're playing from that lead like you want to.
Second Drake of the game up right now, as you can see, a bunch of blue panes in that bottom side river.
BLG, thinking about contesting it, has been up here in the top side, does have Thornmail fully completed now.
Gonna make those trades from Showshoot that much less scary.
Jundja does walk down into the river.
Now Willowook to go for this second Drake potentially, but instead just decides to control Wardet.
There's your big laser from Vampire trying to create a little space.
I remember when that thing was called Finale Spunkelm or something.
I think it's an anime reference, like a German anime reference or something.
I don't remember what it was, but I'm so glad that they changed it to whatever it is now,
but I can't remember off the top of my head for some reason.
But JDG is a final spark.
Final spark, that's what it is.
I'm pretty sure that's actually what the translation of Finale Spunkelm is.
Okay.
But, yeah, the same was definitely harder to remember earlier, even though I remembered it, but forgot the real one.
And as Shun, chain on the keeper's verdict, nice knock, gets rid of the enemy jungler there, wants to try to finish the damage here onto the dragon.
And there it is, Mountain Dredg's cured for BLG. They're gonna feel good about that one.
As the Vi ulti, he flashes over the wall and he drags Jungea with him.
I love when players do that against the Vi. Her ulti is a full commit, no matter what, once it's cast.
So considering he drags
Junja over the wall, he spends his flash,
but he demands a flash in response from Junja.
Yep, going to be able to trade that out,
and that is going to feel really nice.
JDG, even with this big
gold advantage, they're not running
everything to their liking.
It is BLG that are able to grab that dragon.
It is BLG with slight advantages
on the topside. This is going to be a
game we already kind of knew, but it's really
all about Gala. He has
all of that gold lead, and
Bin has been able to stabilize thus far on the topside.
Shao Shu's doing his best, but it's tough.
Yeah, the Thornmail doing plenty of work here for the Scion
as he goes in for the point blank.
Alti decimating Smash right after.
Bin's got the timing to catch him on the very edge
and as the sole furnace explodes,
Shao Shu's consumed in the flames.
Bin 2-0 with one of the Scion.
And I just don't want to see his matchup anymore, man.
It's like, if Shao Shu can't do a wellness matchup,
then what can you do?
He was doing great in the 1v1, but all he takes is exactly one gank, one play goes bad.
It's kind of like the inverse of the Kailah matchup, where it's that same situation where
it looks good until it doesn't because one thing goes Bin's way. Now he's up 600 gold.
Look how much armor he has. We talked about this in draft. He doesn't care about the
Ari. He doesn't care about anything the Ari does and he never will. And now he has just
so much armor that even with the Black Cleaver, it's going to be very difficult for Xiaoshu.
You can see in the Coinbase gold grind it is a monstrous gold leap for Gala, but he is going to have to deal with Bin eventually and Bin is just going to be playing in his face you feel like in every team fight.
Gala is the gold leap. 1.7k for the Caitlyn, 1.7k for the team as a whole. You can see the scoreboard at the top. So a lot of pressure on Gala here to make sure that he can really bring this home.
It's his job to carry in this one that Caitlyn must be on point if JDG wants to take this early lead
Converted into a win turn it into a tied-up series. I mean vampire has a big gold lead himself
But it's not as though this is the solo queue style. He's not going looting shadowflame. He's not you know
He's going support items, right? So yeah, you know lots of the gold lead is fine
But this is not a lux that's gonna one-shot you sometimes like you see that in solo queue
They really get a lot of gold and he is just playing that supportive style
They're gonna try to set up a dive on the shot shoot though. They are bullying this guy
Yeah, the tackle straight into the turret for the stun, but where's the rest of the damage?
Viper has to over commit to get it, and that means he's gonna die in a one-for-one trade.
Yeah, it is a one-for-one, but honestly, I think you take those because that is gold in Viper's pockets here.
You do kill off Xiaoshu. Yes, you give a kill back to Junja, but if you can just trade gold for your AD carry in their jungler,
I think you're gonna be pretty happy about that. The wave was pushed in.
Not the ideal play, but not bad at all.
And the Katelyn Lux have moved mid, but Knight has very good rave players, so I kind of feel
like maybe we need to try to see them get elsewhere on the map, you know, find a lane to really
pressure.
Knight is going down towards bot side now, so it is going to be a back in their favor
in the mid lane.
Yeah, I should.
Jumper jumps towards on there, finds a little bit of damage, but the Niko is just fine.
All he's doing is making enough space to guarantee that Shun can grab that crab
without there being any sort of a contest for it.
The Rift Herald is up, BLG wants control over the topside river, then teleports in to make sure that he's here for the fight as well.
Does have his Mercury treads completed, making sure that he can get out of the CC when he does get hit by it inevitably as the front line for BLG.
But a TP coming in now for JDG with the Rift Herald down to 4000HCA.
JDG wants to fight for this, vipers away from the rest of the team, tries to throw out the arc of judgement.
A disguised Niko has a minion in the jungle.
We could see on go for something, but no JDG hasn't seen him yet.
They don't want to go for anything here.
Let's see if they can make their way forward now.
The scion ulti leads the charge.
Showshoes over the slice and dies through the scion to get away.
JDG decides they don't want to take any more fights.
And honestly for BLG, when you're almost 2,000 gold behind
and you can take the rift here in the face of your opponents
with no fight, that feels pretty good.
It feels really, really good.
But again, you know, Katelyn is one of these difficult champions.
If you take that fight and you lose that fight, your power is kind of gone.
And he's working towards what I'm assuming is going to be an IE second here
And that's where Gala will start to spike a lot
But I really think at this point for JDG you're looking towards three items because this is a guy with all your gold
And this is the guy who has to deal with them.
Nice engage there from Junja and Hongqiu going after Nite
The rebuttal buys a little bit of time for him. Solar snare underneath the turret
But there's no way the turret can do enough damage to make that trade even so you got the mid jungle combo
that by Ari from Hong Q and Junja find their target.
Yeah, they're gonna be able to find their target there.
Knight died while channeling the ultimate.
Otherwise maybe he has enough damage to threaten Junja.
Probably still would have lived,
but this means with that play up on top side,
Gala, Vampire, push up through mid lane,
create even more of a gold lead down on that bottom side,
which is really, really nice.
Really try to rush towards those three items on Caitlyn.
Once you have IE, LDR, you are feeling very, very good.
Caitlyn can utilize that damage so effectively with her range as long as they can keep her safe.
She has a real chance, but the reset timing is so late that it means they're just giving her a free Dragon.
Yeah, HongQ takes the tier one turret in the topside, but remember that they did have to commit those Spirit Rush and the Viallity onto that topside play.
So BLG knows, alright, they won't be able to play from a position of setup. They won't have strength around this Dragon.
We've got to take every Dragon we can to stop the stacking, so they will at least get that second one.
But it's a three and a half thousand gold for JDG.
And JDG wouldn't want it to fight even if you had his ult because Gala had him base and now he has the IE, so you definitely wouldn't want to force with your AD carry having the entire gold lead in his pockets, right?
You've got to spend that up. He has done so now, so now he is out to that infinity edge, has the Untull, has the tier 2 boots, going to be really, really strong.
But again, it's about the LDR because DIN is just going to be stacking armor this game. You need to be able to get through him.
going to go in towards the dead man's next. So there's going to be so much armor, so much
frontline power that Gala will have to be able to knock through and it's all up to him to
be able to do it. You get a little bit of help obviously from that Black Cleaver maybe,
but there's no guarantee that Shoush is ever even hitting been in a team fight, so you
really do need to armor them.
And I like this total gold chart here on the side of the screen, because we know
that Gala has the biggest lead individually in this game, but seeing that Viper is
also the second richest person in the game period and he's still 2000 gold
behind it really just shows how far ahead the Caitlyn is. I mean it's so
funny sometimes when you look at a pro game you're like oh damn your AD carries
down 40 CS he must have farmed really badly. Viper attends the end of the
minute. Yeah more actually it's just crazy as now BLG are looking for their
opportunity to make a play. Taco into the wall on the homecube keepers
guarding, ready to juggle Golden Eclipse finds the kill they try to get
Junja away, but now Viper is on the hunt chasing him down. He has transcended
Another ballbreaker might try to get Junja out of the way, but no!
Sten fast presence! Stop that in his tracks! Viper gets a couple of kills here and the Unara is trying to catch back up
Yeah, you do not want that to happen as you're pointing out
You know despite the fact that isn't massive goal lead. Viper still has a lot of total gold
He is still a strong character in this game. Maybe not compared to Gala right now, but damn
He's gonna have a lot of gold here on base. There's the second item already completed gonna be working in towards that third so
So we're talking about you make that one misstep if Kaylan has one bad team fight, you know
They show up to this next dragon and they lose. I think they are gonna lose the game
So they have got a button up here in BLG. We're looking for this engage
It looks like a failed engage initially, but everyone comes in from BLG the solar snare and landed on two there from night
They burst out honkyu and then they're just fully committing to this so many flashes spent
They're going in on it. They know Gala's not involved.
Shoushuu's not involved.
We are going to win this fight,
and they're able to donate some of that gold straight into Viper's pockets.
And you mentioned Viper completing the second item,
and it's one of those items, the Fiend Hunter Bolts.
Certain items you can play every champion of a class
when you think about Infinity Edge, right?
Something like that.
But something like Fiend Hunter Bolts only fits on a few champs, right?
You think about Zarya, you think about Twitch, you think about Unara.
But the chance that it works on is so strong with, right?
So Viper really going to feel a lot better now that he's got that two item power spike looking at other two item power spikes coming around
You've got both the Ludens and the proto belt for night. You've got the onion in despair on bin
It's more of what you were talking about earlier armor armor armor armor armor armor armor armor
Murk Shreds feels good enough for the magic resist right on the other side though
You do have the proto belt also completed for Hong Q's are we've already talked about the infinity edge on gala and JDG are
Pressuring the tier 2 turret here in the mid lane now Viper just gonna clear that one out as well as he can
And there's plenty of weight there there on the you know how to do so as JDG decided to head away
The rip truck is seven up in mid lane. This is kind of a it was timing out
So we just have to use it Harold so unfortunately for the machine
Yeah, it's it's not great. Shelly's not even going to get a charge onto one turret
So that objective the BLG claimed it does go to waste and you can see here the total gold over the course of the game
Back at ten minutes with JDG's biggest lead so far and now we're back to a game
That's not even 1000 apart. Yeah, I should think they're losing at this point despite the 1000 gold lead
I mean you're down a dragon you look compositionally at how difficult it's going to be to get through bin
I feel like bin's job is basically right click on gala and close your eyes
You know you just you just walk at this guy you pretend nothing else exists as long as gala is hitting bin
I think it's gonna take them so long to get past that frontline that the rest the rest of the 4v4 is really really good
Right as long as gala can actually access those priority targets
I think it is very difficult. So then it's up to JDG to try to preempt that
You know you have to be the ones finding the engage you got a controlled vision control space with the traps
Really set yourself up well so that you're the ones starting the fight and then can't just walk in and make Gala back up
Right the question isn't just which AD carry has more money more items
It's does Caitlyn from one and a half thousand gold lead kill scion and poppy
Faster than a you Nara that you already said was still very relevant in the game kill Renekton and buy
Yeah, a 0-3 renecdent, right? You know, who's gonna die faster?
Well, often the gold on the sign is a lot harder to deal with.
Well, the thing for JDG though is they're doing exactly what we want to see them do around this bottom side dragon.
They are there first as the fourth dragon of the game is about to spawn.
They're trying to set up the Caitlyn traps, trying to draw these battle lines nice and early,
but as you would expect BLG will send Ben in for it.
If he accidentally eats a cupcake, it's not a problem.
Go step right straight through the banana brush, but the Dragon has already been claimed by JDG and now Bin's leading a ton of damage.
Final spark at the top, Bin already almost dead. Keepers vert, it's no one.
Shun tries to use the setback presence to defend himself. Deep into pop loss and put it out for mom, but he's already dead.
It's a one-for-one trade here so far. Xiaoshu tries to get away. You can see Hongqi barely getting HP left on the Ori.
So both pop laner and mid laner from JDG barely hanging on. It's a one-for-one.
However JDG got the objective BLG wants to try to get something back
They're gonna go after at least some plates here in the mid lane tier one turret. They've grabbed the first two
TP ready to reinforce nice solar snare timing into the radiant volley right after so honkyu doesn't get any value out of that one
But JDG will be happy taking the dragon. Yeah the amount of CC
You can get the tackle into the wall honkyu not quite in the position that shun was hoping so he tackles
And just to the side of those two pine trees sticking out at the front no extra stun
Still nice, Shun pushes him back and that covers Knight to push out of the top wave, right?
So that is kind of that two-clon fight.
And then there's this not going to be able to kill off Shun.
You know, Bin walked in, he ate so much CC, is still able to treat back, but it looked like
GenieG was even going to run over this fight until On had a really good turn on the Pop
Awesome.
Catches multiple members, that buys the space for Viper and Knight to get their
work done.
But I will say I'm super concerned that Gullet did not go LDR third, he went
rapid fire.
And there's just too much armor on Bin.
You are not going to hurt this guy.
And now we can see BLG and the enemy jungle yet again.
They were looking at Junja.
They chunked him down to about 40% HP, but they're not going to threaten anything lethal.
Let's take another look at how BLG approaches it.
So Bidouac forward.
Yes, you are very tanky, but look at all the CC.
There's Charm, there's Binding, there's Trap, there's everything hitting him.
So with all that game is probably in, they do go, but look at the pop-wassam
to turn around here, catching both of the soul laners, and that meant they could
not follow up on the buy, right?
The buy is going in deep.
solo laners try to come in on denies the follow-up so Viper just focuses down the Vi and then he can turn his eyes on this Renekton on this
Ari as well and this is the second time this game that we have seen Shun flash towards his team once he sees the Vi ultimate on him
And I feel like this is his inner jungler senses knowing how obnoxious it is with your Vi ulting someone and they drag
You further forward he's saying no this is how we kill you you press the doom button, and I'm not the one who's doomed
Yep. Man, I am just so concerned that Gali did not buy Last Whisperer.
Even look at the Poppy. Like, we've been talking so much about the Sion.
Look at the Poppy's build now.
Obviously has Steelcapped, Deadman's, as well as a lot more armor on top.
They're probably both gonna go rando in this game.
Okay, on, going forward with the Pop Blossom.
They want the game attuned to Junji for the tackle.
Doesn't hit the wall. On, staying alive for now.
Junji died, but is traded back as Hong Q killed on.
Now over to the mid lane. It's Gali.
Hit with a decimated smash.
Viber needs one more auto attack and the fact that Katelyn is dead!
That won't be with a topside ripper!
It's another kill!
Knight to the Katelyn, free-hung, you false!
Shoushi wants to get one back, but there's surenity needs it!
They don't want to let BLG take it away with pink and a baron!
25 minutes into the game, but they don't have anything to say about it!
That's four dead on JDG!
The throw is complete and BLG's going after a parent!
JDG, let's check the time, time of death.
25-50 in this game.
BLG, rip the game from their hands.
The lead for Golem means nothing.
The soul laners again, stealing the show,
and JDG can do nothing but watch as their hopes
in this game just slipped away from them.
Man, let's take another look at how it started here
in two different places.
Yeah, so on this looking for aggressive play,
they have caught out Junja.
Junja's kind of on the run.
Vampire comes in, Honky comes in.
They do kill off the support,
But you spend a lot to just kill a support and this is the bigger problem.
You unstoppable onslaught from Ben, catches Gala in transition, even with the flash, he can't go anywhere.
And you just can't die like that.
Like I said, you got one mistake and that was his one for the game, unfortunately.
And you make that one mistake and you were punished so heavily.
Now Viper is in a really strong spot.
Oh my god, 3000 gold lead now.
And it makes the decision to go rapid fire even worse.
because now you're not actually pushing.
Now you're not getting as much gold.
You're slowed down so much.
When is this LDR gonna finish next game?
Probably because you were right
in what you said earlier, my friend.
It's Randuin's Omen now on bin.
So I guess I don't really care
that you have 75% crit chance on K-1 right now.
Because that means you have a 75% chance
to get your damage reduced by Randuin's Omen.
Now BLG continuing to push forward here on the tier two.
Double up Baron cannon minions,
just providing plenty of extra firepower.
But JDG can't even try to defend this.
They don't even need the extra range of the cannon minions
because everybody on BLG can step forward,
get the job done themselves.
4,500 gold lead, bear in front of them in 90 seconds,
pressure on the two-to-two tournament in mid lane now,
as BLG is just easily walking from lane to lane,
taking whatever structure they want.
And JDG is struggling to find any sort of a response.
I mean, even on is going to have a frozen heart.
Knight has his own news.
There's so much armor on this team.
It is going to be incredibly difficult.
And really, you only have life for us a target now,
Right, but that is it because you can't go on the zone is now you can't go on anyone on the top side
And you really can't win a fight by spending all of your damage on on either
So JDG now it's got to be basically Viper or bust and if you all from a really long range and on Viper
He's gonna are con me step. He's gonna pull you back in the middle of the team
And they're gonna do what they've done to gender a number of times this game
All right BLG time to crack open the base and it's not going to be met with much resistance at all
Tier 3 turret falls in the mid lane and JDG still thinking about do we even fight for this?
Is Ennis number one worth it? The answer seems to be no right now as Vampire gets back from the fountain,
joins back up with the rest of the team. Only Nico cloned in the enemy base there.
They throw the light binding at it just in case.
Jungen and Shao Shu trying to defend the Tier 3 turret here in bottom.
Being again though just that front line you can't do anything about.
The Scion is so hard to kill as the third plate drops off of the Tier 3 turret.
BLG know that they've only got the fairing for about another 10 seconds.
As you can see, Bin going for a recall does have teleport to rejoin the rest of the team,
if he needs to, Shunna might be caught a little bit of a fast bop, but on to the nice pop, awesome!
And there's the kill, onto the blind judge, into the picture, and Viper goes in.
He's transcended, and he's ready to put the pressure onto JDG.
The Renekton is useless, decimating Smash to the Gala.
Bin creating all of the space in the world of JDG.
Have to head back to the fountain, tail between their legs, and BLG got a 5v3.
They push towards Nexus turrets, first puts about to drop, then continuing to keep everybody else on JDG.
Trapped to the fountain, steps as the arm moves forward, trying to reposition.
He will fall, 4v3 for BLG, show him the tackle, forward, step back, presence against so much value.
Here at the poppy, W, home cue dives, Gala dives, vampire can't do anything.
BLG, win game to the match point.
It was a great start from JDG, but a much better finish
from BLG.
Ben was just laughing on him on the found steps there.
Takes about 50 autos from Gala, until Gala says,
you know what?
I'm going to stop autoing.
He tries to walk fast and just dies.
Yeah, thorn rail means Caitlyn's taking more damage
from Caitlyn's autos.
I got to give my player the game in this one to Shun.
I think the Poppy just did so well.
So many good angles on those tackles.
so much value out of the steadfast presence
and the patience from the team as a whole
to come back from a game that at one point
there were three and a half thousand gold behind.
BLG's looking fierce.
JDG's looking down the barrel of a potential clean sweep.
Analyst, what do we think?
One game away from a BLG G2 finals rematch.
Actually.
It just looked that way at the start though
with how far ahead Gala got in the bot lane.
No, yeah, I thought like this 2v2, Kate Lux,
it's super powerful.
We knew that they were going to have,
BLG was gonna have a tough time dealing with it.
They got this early 2v2 kill
that really set them up in a great position.
Lux binding lands, piled over peacemaker through.
And they did such a good job
with this early Caitlyn pressure using the Kate Lux.
They ended up taking down that turret around like 12 and a half minutes rotated to mid took that down as well
So it was looking good. Yeah
I mean we saw on trying to like overforce a couple of times to find advantages there
And this is exactly like if you're drafting Caitlyn looks this is how you want the early lane to go
Like you tick the box for what you're hoping for
But they weren't really able to translate that into the rest of the game because you saw topside go very differently
I mean, it's interesting because you saw game one they played around topside for nar
You think okay, that's gonna hard care of the game here ball is not going well and bog plays around top side for
Scion but ends up working out really well
But mainly because they can keep the renecdon down and then the cash were talking about this the difference between
One front line versus the other teams damage and a unar with not as much gold versus a weak renecdon ended up being a difference
But they kept finding positive plays through bin and shun in the top
Yeah, and here night coming in to assist didn't really have the damage until he arrived
but just felt like Shoushie, who is so good at connecting,
was constantly trying to find angles,
and every time the Poppy is turning up,
it feels so bad for him just to always be there.
Yeah, I actually really liked this decision-making
from Shun, right?
Like, instead of trying to bail out the Unar lane,
kind of being like, okay, it's fine.
You're still doing all right.
It's just that Gala is significantly far ahead of you,
and you're still be able to contribute in teamfights.
Focus on topside, and this scion becomes unkillable.
Maybe also due to some build decisions from Bella that we won't get too far into you.
But just know me and ox might disagree with a little bit.
I love the shots we get to the coach's room there.
It looked like Tabe.
We're just doing screenshots of his lecture.
He's just constantly talking to everyone because the first two games haven't really gone well.
But we do need to look at today's HyperX reflex replay.
And we will talk about the Katelyn build as well.
It goes young tall, IE RFC and then doesn't have damage at the end.
This fight is very chaotic in the top lane.
But I see the critical thing is actually the scion finding the angle onto gala in the middle
It was such a good angle and gala was trying to push the 1v1 advantage over viper
You know you have you build rapid fire
You're not doing much damage to tanks you want to try and target a squishy but bin just found this great angle in and
So much gold is lost when that Caitlyn is dead and taken out of flight
Yeah, and I mean then BLG you're able to clean up the fight get the Baron that was the real backbreaker as we can see
I mean, look at the behind here. Yeah for how much gold he had. This is disgusting. We love. Yeah. Also look at like
I know a sign is your front line
We're doing a lot of damage. Yeah, I think maybe misusing some of the funds
I'mization was an ideal
We already talked about that but I just think like the front line the poppy and the sound together was just a complete
Rick wall to cut through and especially when you have like a viari
I think that's a good idea.
I think that's a good idea.
I think that's a good idea.
I mean, you know, I, Ari, this
combo is still momentum based like
you get that initial kill. You
can move forward to find those
just such a big stopper to that
on the enemy team. The
depressing thing for me if this
is going to end up being a
sweep as I thought the J D G
draft was really sound. They
have a way of playing through
a lot of prior. They can take
over the game really they had
that 4000 Gold lead. I think
a large part of this game
is decided on the Caitlin
The RFC when he's already outranging even the young tall early is questionable with how much he can push his early advantage
Yeah, I think the young tall I feel like a theory was probably some attack speed to cut through the tanks
But the RFC just makes no sense
I will say we got in the draft though the poppy mel that came in to round out the composition
You know the poppy into all these dashes that really shuts down the front line from a push in and then the mel as well
We've seems to be so good into the R even also a lot of value into the lux as well
I think just stop thought of the pick and engage potential that we saw from JDG
Yeah, we talked a lot about bin but shun is gonna be our player of the game
Really clutch with this poppy engages also critical in getting the gold into bins hands to begin with they played around him the entire time
Declis 87% participation just a great game all around Emily. Yeah, really really good
I loved again his focus to top side. I thought the four five as you already mentioned ox from
Um, um, BLG was really good in the draft.
Bin getting it.
I mean, his scion, his scion was great.
So you're gonna zero?
Wow.
That's crazy.
People really disagree with us.
I did vote for Bin.
Yeah, Jad voted for Bin.
It's a weird appeal to authority when I'm like, the fans agree with me, but I'm down
for it.
Shun, Shun.
Any Bin's over here?
Any Bin believers?
You can say Bin.
You can disagree with us.
Okay, apparently me and Chatter are the only Bin believers.
Jad and the Chatter Bin.
Yeah, we'll see if they can end the sweep.
We know they played two times already in LPL playoffs.
First one was 3-2.
Next one was 3-1.
Will we see the 3-0 and a G2 BLG final tomorrow?
We'll find out.
Game three coming up after short break.
Woo!
It was a great experience for a player.
I'm not sure if I'm the best at this kind of things.
It's just a little bit of a relief.
I'm glad to have a player like this.
I'm happy to have a player like this.
I'm happy to have a player like this.
I'm happier with a player like this.
The players are coming back to the team.
I also think that when we have a player,
I think we'll be able to make our team stronger.
The most comfortable thing is that the most powerful play comes naturally.
Life in the woods is not a clemency
I can't see where I'm coming from
I don't even think the next time you get out of here
I swear to myself, I'm not going here anymore
I'm dying because I have no money
I'm going to make you bad
Love and loyalty are matters that I don't see in school
Where the blood of the Jogabola
Was the fish that had a new name
Our school is full of our glue
It's us, we're saying it's us
If it was all around, don't run
I'm not going to go to the hospital
I'm not going to go to the hospital
To the therapist and recover
I'm not going to go to the hospital
Fuck!
I think it's hard to say what we're doing before we start the game.
We just need to make sure that we're in a good condition.
When we play the whole game, we will be more focused.
If we are focused, we need to play with the whole team and some players to play.
Yes, to see how we play.
And the whole team is also good.
In fact, I think we have been keeping our team in the field all the time.
And the coach, and everyone thinks that there is no chance for us to win.
And we just need to play well and play well.
Headbutt backwards on the cat! The Aurora is already dead! Has been to the middle of everybody!
Night same alive against Broken Blade, and been is just buying time!
Now both of that front line, excuse me both those solo laners are dead on the G2 side.
It's a double kill for Shun's Pantheon!
Thank you for your support.
In the next game, we will also take the best performance.
Game number two was a very powerful JDG early and early mid game and honestly at one point
Isaac JDG was up over 3,000 gold about three and a half thousand and then it all came crashing
down as they lost one big fight.
The gold swung about 5,000 in the other direction and BLG still managed to win in under 30 minutes.
Yeah, I mean BLG just stacked infinite armor.
It did feel like even though we had this Katelyn so far ahead, once the Renekton
got put down, it started feeling tough. You just look at the itemization from Ben. He was
very intelligent about his items of this game, stacked infant and armor. The only MR he had
was the Merch Reds and you need Tenacity because they have so much CC. So I felt like he built
really, really intelligently, shown as well. They just had the answer to the Caitlyn
and they played better in the fights.
And you heard when we had the little clip from Shen there before we came back to
us getting ready to go into game number three, he was talking about, yeah, we just
We need to have good communication.
We've got to make sure that we're calm and executing
on our team fights and we know we can win.
And that's exactly what they did in the last game.
They didn't allow themselves to get rattled
when the Caitlyn Lux lane got very far ahead.
They didn't allow themselves to play sloppy
and feel desperate and feel like they had to force something.
They waited until they were strong enough.
And then when JDG had a moment of weakness
when they went a little bit too far,
when they were able to be picked off,
BLG executed and they deserved the win.
And you got to say BLG are kind of just on fire
at first stand. Their start was a little bit shaky. They went down one, two to
fear X. They've won seven games in a row since then. They 3-0, super stomped G2,
and now they're up 2-0 in this series. And if they get the finals, they're
playing against G2 again. And G2 has obviously played a lot better these last
two days. You can't say it's a one-to-one in the series. But still, if I'm BLG
and I just 3-0ed this team, I'm probably feeling pretty confident about my
chances in finals as well. So if they can get the job done, we'll see if
if they are going to be the big favorites coming into the finals.
Yeah, BLG's met them plenty of times before.
BLG very often comes out on top.
As they remember, yeah.
So let's see if BLG can get there with a clean sweep
as we are in the champ select for game number three.
JDG have elected for first pick,
and BLG have chosen blue side.
Checking out our fans.
JDG has got rid of the Gwen, the Pantheon, and the Lulu.
Meanwhile, BLG continuing to remove the Rumble, the Karma,
and the Ryze, Seraphine locked in.
And like you just said, you would expect Ash to be her lane partner.
Now the question is, does Viper want to take it away?
Do you just want to go Ash Nautilus or something like that?
Because Seraphine is generally seen as kind of like the weaker half of the pairing.
It's harder to fit with others.
The other duo that people will do though is Seraphine and MAP, which is also quite good.
I don't think it's as good, but because the make it rain, the MFE has the slow.
You can kind of have the same similar synergy as you do with the Ash passive in the ball.
So they can be dropped, automatically have them here.
Exactly.
Automatically have the root, or if it's empowered,
have a stun, right?
So you do get that power up there.
And that's the question here.
This is kind of the inflection point in the draft.
Are you going to steal it away?
And they're at least considering it,
but not necessarily having to go for it.
I always think this is really interesting.
Any time a specific 2v2 lane becomes so popular,
people have such wildly different opinions on which
half is better, which half should you draft first,
should you take it away if they draft the wrong half
first?
It's like Zyra-Con back in the day.
It's like Karma Ezreal earlier in the year.
There's a lot of different examples.
And remember that in game number one,
Xen was banned out in the first rotation,
so he couldn't be played.
Game number two, BLG had to make the choice,
do you want Xen or Sion?
They wanted the Sion.
It was the right choice.
Xen gets banned out in the second half.
Now in game number three, Xen gets picked by BLG.
And what you're talking about, MF,
I love Xen and the MF because the bullet time,
you're just not going to get
value against him in the ulti.
And I actually think this is really cool.
So what I was gonna say is,
not only are you stealing away the best combo
with the Ash, but Zen is generally considered the best combo with the jungler for Seraphane
because you're buffing him up. Guess who else works very well with Enchanters? Olaf. Olaf
is a great diver here and Ken really effectively targets someone like Ash. Ash is reliant on
Crystal Arrow to stun you, you know, the passive to slow you to be able to cut away
you. Exactly. But what happens is Olaf gets buffed up and then you have Encore
going through the Olaf in towards you while Olaf is magic immune and we're doing a Senna lane.
Oh, this is hype. I wonder if this is going to be farming Seraphine. I think it actually might be
farming Seraphine and support Senna and you have really good wave clear and really good poke as
farming Seraphine. It might be AD carry Ash and it might just be standard stuff, but I would
actually really like that if it is farming Seraphine, AP Seraphine and Enchanter Senna.
I think could actually go super hard here
to be able to buff up this Olaf
and go for a real dive comp
to super punish the Ash, but
this would actually be a bit of a master stroke I feel like
from BLG. Going York, because
generally if you go for these enchanter comps, right?
It's all death balls. Group it up
5v5. York is going to walk down
decidedly whether you like it or not.
And the thing is about the York too, you look at Olaf
and you already mentioned, he's magic immune. That's the entire point of Ragnarok.
The cage doesn't technically
hit Olaf. It just puts him
him in jail. So he can't actually run at you and accomplish what he's trying to do.
So even if he shows up in that side lane, even if he got fed in the fights and he goes to try to stop you,
sorry, bro, you're in jail. I'm leaving.
Yep, just drop the cage on the Ash's head. She can walk through it.
And Olaf cannot. But I always feel like Splitbush is the best counter to these hardcore just death ball comps.
I always think it's so powerful. But you are still early blind picking York and York can be quite vulnerable.
So they have to ban out some of the difficulty champions.
Yeah, Renekton, very, very difficult.
That's already gone.
And Bessa, difficult.
That's already gone.
Nars, one of the answers that's not a great answer,
but some of the people will go for it.
So they're going to ban out Jax, and they're
going to ban out Assistence for the sideline.
So you can't just go like Camille,
and then have a TF camp for you,
and put the York in the dirt.
So I think BLG is actually playing this really,
really intelligently.
I kind of love their draft, but I also
kind of love the response from JDG.
These are two really cool drafts.
Yeah, I'm having a lot of fun with this.
Blanc is going to be banned out by JDG,
So they want to get rid of the opportunity for her to try to blow up these enchanters before they're able to be the team fight
Battery they need to be a colleague. So double mid lane assassin bands. Yeah, JDG
I wonder if they would consider going even more into this kind of like Olaf dive with something like a gallio
We also have to remember that Shao Shu could play the Olaf top, right? It could be jungle or top, you know
It can go either way
I definitely don't think you want to play in the 1v1 because of the interaction you talked about with York
But damn and maybe also really really strong. You can't walk through the wall and and they're in creation
It's building walls. It's how you know love's gonna pay for it
Yeah, create these terrain pieces that they're saying okay
I don't care if you're a CC immune the rules in League of Legends are you can't walk through a wall?
Yeah, so here's some walls. Yeah, exactly
Man, that's gonna be annoying for JDG because I feel like what they did was really clever here with the Olaf and the double-inch
Shader bot lane. I mean maybe it's 80 carry center. We don't know but you know
I think the theory of it is really really clever like ha ha ash has no answers to this appeal
G just like ha ha will build a house around it
Yeah, we're playing fortnight and ashes at the top of the tower
You thought you had a lovely one and we're getting true
Trinvier is a solo queue answer to you're it because guess what Trinvier wants to do you want to walk down this island
But you actually win the one we won against you're it so it is really good
You can spin out of the cage. You can often win that all in and a lot of times if you just dodge the morning mist
You can just focus down the maiden and actually just kill off the maiden and then York can't really do anything on the 1v1
So this game is getting wacky at this point. This is fun. I love this
Yeah, and if you're gonna go split bush you need to pair it with wave clear
So both teams have done that right if you're gonna go York's will push
Well, and Nivia is gonna be your wave clear and on the other side the way is supposed to be the wave clear here for the
Trinamere split bush
So a lot of really cool stuff happening in draft. These are some crazy cooks. I'm not gonna lie
Yeah, this is this is a lot of fun
So it's gonna be support and India here which on has played once in the LPL and to my recollection they won that game
Okay, so you know he has brought out before people often if they're gonna go for this type of thing
They do it as a pairing with poppy and whatnot, right? You know
Yeah, you can work in that way the cheese ball slam them into the wall that you make behind exactly and I do think
Anivia and if you support like it can work
I think it's more of a compositional answer, right?
You know you do have the walls you have later on but part of the problem is with support and maybe you don't get a
lot of levels and
Levels is something that's actually really really important for Anivia because
Not only do you need rankups in your damaging abilities, Anivia actually does really need rankups in the wall.
It gets far wider. Exactly. The wall is not very powerful at low ranks. So as support you either have to say, alright
I'm gonna max wall I guess and have a decent wall, but then deal no damage whatsoever
Or you have to accept that the wall is just gonna be tiny and easy to subvert.
So I'm really interested to see like is he still gonna try to get gold for a row?
just to have an additional level and additional skill point is he gonna go for like a look sort of skill as far as his
His actual room choices to get an extra skill point there
Like what are the actual answers gonna be here? Is he just gonna is he still gonna build a tier?
You know, I think it's actually really cool because you're going up against the lane as well
That has Seraphine in it which can be totally obnoxious to deal with so if you're just if you're one point flash frost one point frost bite and then
All points wall your trading power is gonna be useless almost I feel like so the last time we saw it trade internationally
2022 Worlds. Evie played it and it is going to be Grasp Ignite
Trendomere. So this is pretty powerful. It is going to be just
80 Senna and they're looking for a little wrap around here.
Okay, they do find Gala and Vampire. Flash out of the Seraphine nice and early.
And this is honestly one of my favorite things about season 2026 is the fact that the Minion spawned so early at these level one plays.
You can't just back and heal it all off. They always amount to something much greater than that.
So we'll see how much value they can get.
Flash drop from the stun there at the very end.
He'll now also have to be used.
So Vampire no summoner spells one minute into the game.
And so what Honkyu did as a response
was actually pretty clever.
He pulled the wave.
He staffed it and pulled the wave
so that more of his melee minions would get denied.
So Knight just didn't miss a couple minions.
He also missed a couple of millions of experience.
And the other thing here on this box side
is that there's a ton of sustain from Gala and Vampire.
So Knight is sacrificing Kisling a little bit
to get down there and try to put them in an advantageous position because if you get on
the back foot, Seraphine is going to constantly poke you and you're going to constantly have
Senna just shooting Qs through the Seraphine towards you for the double value of the poke
plus the sustain.
And I do also want to mention JDG is playing Sultan, Trendmere, and that is one of the
first skins I remember hearing high-level players like Challenger players, bros,
talk about how this is a skin that actually makes the character feel better because
He doesn't have that hop into the air auto attack animation on crypts. It's easier to auto cancel. It's just a bigger slam
And so I always like to see those little tiny min maxes on things as
BLG and JDG have brought their creativity here for this game number three draft
I'm so excited when we get stuff like this. I like that skin too, but I just like it because it makes funny sounds
Okay, fair enough sounds are also a good part here as on tries to stop the blue buff farm from Junja
But is not able to do so
Junja going to be able to grab this up and yeah, on just trying to be about as annoying as he possibly can as a night despite giving up that level one is doing well.
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It'll be great as JDG is trying to get some money for themselves.
Long range center route there on to on the Anivia just barely escapes becoming scrambled eggs.
used the flash and they did use kind of their own version of this combo where
Senna Q does give a slow so the Senna Q can set up for the beat drop of course in
that similar way. Not as easy to apply as an auto attack from Ash or an MFE but
if you do hit that that is still going to be there with some value. You can see
this is going to be the LPL finals rematch. It was 3-1 for BLG in the
LPL finals. The upper bracket though finals was closer was 3-2 and now
Now we are set up for potential 3-0 so it could be that kind of continuation of improvement
from BLG getting more and more dominant unless JDG can turn this around and make it a little
bit closer.
Alright, I'm so interested in this top lane because of the fact that they're both just
champions who want to split push.
Sometimes you have champs who can split push but also feel like they can contribute
to a team fight.
You know, like Jax immediately comes to mind as a popular meta champion, but you're
like a Trinamere or both like, I don't want to be in a 5v5.
They know what they are.
They're 100% confident in their own identities as champions.
They want to be in the sideline.
Xiaoxu going in here as he flashes over the cage,
forces the flash response from Ben.
And this is the thing with the ignite as well.
Ben has to be so respectful of the combat summoner spell.
You have to be very, very respectful.
He'd already used that spin in.
So Ben was able to force the flash with the cage,
but then the commitment of the ignite
means he does have to base.
You do always have to be careful in these matchups,
though, as he is now trying to get this wave crashed in.
and Shun is behind him.
Yeah, Shun is coming up in very low on health,
completely out of mana.
Shun gonna try to go after the trend in here,
goes into the free talent strike.
Audacious charge!
Wind becomes lightning.
Xiaoshu's trying to get a reset here on his spin
to get away, but it ain't gonna work.
Shun!
First blood, with the LG.
Nicely done, and now if you have no TP,
you do have home guards, of course,
but this wave should be able to crash no problem,
and that is gonna be great for Bin
because it means not only denying the minions,
it's gonna push away from you.
Ginger though, doing what he can. He's going to take away camps on that bot side.
You know that shouldn't win up towards top sides. He's going to lose both of these small camps,
or at least the first one, and now it looks like Viper and Armageddon are going to try to defend his necks.
Meanwhile, Knight going in, using the ulti here early on against Hong Q, responds with a nice point blank fear.
Knight, however, missed the initial two-fold hex after he jumped between worlds there,
so you're not going to really threaten lethal onto Hong Q. Neither flash, spent by the mid laners.
The 1-0 game for BLG, they're not even the bold advantage of the first blood ahead,
so JDG building some slight leads for themselves in terms of the farm.
Mm-hmm, gonna be feeling pretty good about that.
And one thing I will say for Shaoxu is this is pretty dicey.
Yeah, who-who-who-who, on Q4's to flash away there,
because if you get the two-fold hex, that damage plus the additional damage from the electric,
you could potentially, in a lethal situation,
as on and Viper continuing to just get abused down here in the bottom lane.
Yeah, I mean the Nivea's a ranged support but not exactly a lane dominant one
So it's not gonna be too fun, but oh Piper is doing good job farming
Yeah, of course the egg but will be over res not really under too much threat
But I was just gonna say I mean it is good for a shower shoe that been did not get the kill, right?
So yes, it sucks that you died
Yes, he sucks you lost for minions, but at the very least been did not forget the kill
So it's not gonna swing this matchup out of control, but Ben still got a really good early buy here with the plated steel gas
Beautiful job from shun over the wall. I love it when junglers utilize the Raptor pit
bank in the mid lane when the enemy mid laner is under turret. He hits the win
becomes lightning they know there's no flash on the way and they accomplish the
dive there it is BLG plus 700 gold the JDG snacks the first drake for
themselves it is ocean drake number one at six and a half minutes in so that's
gonna feel good for your laning phase. I mean it kind of just feels like shun is just
running this series man he has been so effective and well
Georgia hasn't really done anything wrong you know he's just power farming and
he's doing his thing. Shun has affected both the soulings right he's been able to
really make a big difference and that is tough. Juan is getting low but we have no
edge. Yeah he doesn't have to flash for us there close range. Vampire trying to get away but a nice wall.
Flash away from the high no two on with the out play he spreads his wings wide and the gusts
Explode, Vampires straight back to the fountain.
Yeah, Bipert getting a kill now.
Not what you wanna see.
That's JDG, and he's now 1.3 gig in their advantage.
You are pushing in on that top side,
and you can see the Maiden even harassing down Xiaoshu.
He does have that early Vamp Scepter,
so we'll see exactly how he wants to build.
Yeah, the Vamp Scepter is at least gonna give him
some sustained dealing with that constant harass
from the Maiden.
Oh no!
Hog you get hit by a max range
and chanted Crystal Arrow into the perfect Flash Frost follow.
And between worlds sends him to the underworld,
Knight picking up his second kill of the game on a roar.
I mean, BLZ are just too good, man.
What can you say?
They're doing everything right.
You know, the level one from Knight
to put the bot lane ahead.
Then, the gang from shouldn't have put top lane ahead.
A gang from shouldn't have put mid lane ahead.
Then Viper gets a 2v2 kill, uses that prio,
gets the ulti down mid lane,
where guess what Ana has shown up
to put Knight even more ahead.
It is just the synergistic play of every time they have built themselves some time to get active on the map.
They build a little tempo and they just use it to the best possible effect.
And it is looking tough. I mean, you never want to call a game this early, but BLG are firmly in the driver's seat.
I will say, you know, you say you don't want to call a game too early,
especially in a game like this one that has these two side lane champions,
Leads can mean less than they normally would because so much of the game is going to be about which one of those side laners is dominant.
And yes, it is control over the wave right now for Ben, but you can see it's only a 200 gold lead.
So if JDG can turn things around, enable, shell, shoot, the encore misses there on hugging the wall,
making sure he stays to the side of that one does not get caught out.
And not only did they not find the play they want, now you can kind of just like breathe a little easier.
You know there's not that big engage in the bottom lane as
Shun still has control over the top side here.
He'll pick up the crab.
JDG might have got the first drake.
So that means there's no reason for them to really be worried
about what's going on in the bottom side river right now
as Junder is going to take his recall, go back,
purchase his phage, and Shun will take the grumps.
I mean, Nibia is so comically slow,
and he's on no boots, but on is just playing it really,
really well.
He looks so comfortable here.
And it was a pretty hard force from the JDG bot lane.
I feel like maybe tips his hand a little bit because he's not even picking up souls
He's walking past the souls to just run straight at the anivia and they look for this on core
Which engine behind him, but can't find it
So the flashless eggless anivia it gets to live another day
It's just like this champion might as well be a target dummy. It can barely move no summoner spells no passive
Thumbs up, thanks buddy.
The Viper's looking like Steph Curry
down in that bot lane, brother.
He's hitting the long range shots after shots.
And it's HongQ who is unfortunately getting dunked on
as a result.
And it is night now, three early kills on the Aurora.
And this is not just any Aurora, this is Night's Aurora.
That is terrifying.
You know you have to reverse sweep
and now you're gonna have to try to do it.
With some very squishy characters on your team
against a very, very, very fed aurora.
He walks back, plays with vision,
shoots it from an area that he knows
is going to be out of vision just now at scene
and there's no flash, no real way for him
to respond, honks you behind him
and Shilas coming in on the side
there's just another honk you can do.
That guy's up to it.
He's loving these arrows.
Probably almost as much as BLG is loving these arrows.
Man, great shot from Viper
really just enabling his mid laner.
And you're talking about,
This is Knights of Aurora.
I feel like Aurora is one of those champions
that you really see a lot of disparity
between good performances and poor performances on it
just because you have to have mastery of the movement
that the Altie does.
Is this guy on it?
He's canceling his base twice under his tier two tower.
This is psychopath behavior from on
in the best kind of way.
He's like, all right, you're not going back.
You don't have tempo.
You don't get to control anything here in this game.
Shun forces the flash out of Vampire.
Honestly, that close to the turret,
when they're that scared of you,
if they feel like they have to flash,
You know the BLG's in total control.
I mean, this is a supported Nidia with no boots going behind the Tier 1 tower
while the mid laner is there to cancel the Olaf space twice in a row under his Tier 2.
If that doesn't tell you how the game is going, I don't know what will.
Yeah, this is a little bit wild as night.
Oh, there's the twofold hex.
He does not have enough distance to finish the potential kill on the Hong Q here just yet.
And as BLG with a 2,000 gold lead right now, top lane still mostly even.
The majority of the leads so far in this game is Knight and Shun, the beneficiaries of those arrows from Viper into the mid lane.
And I feel like at this point for JDG, this is a game where you're probably getting at one fight.
And if that fight goes well, you can claw your way back in. If it goes bad, you are done.
Look at the gold grind here, Coinbase gold grind. Massive gold lead here for Knight.
JDG at least got the first dragon, so if you can continue stacking this and you get a good roll on soul,
Maybe that could help you out. Cloudsoul, something like that would be super effective, but BLG want to contest.
Okay, JDG decide they're going to commit four men to this one. Remember that Trindy Bear has no teleport to try to join these things.
That's one thing you've got to be concerned about, but there's no TP on bin with the Ornic either.
Arrow flies out, but it goes straight between the uprights.
Sheen wants to try to steal it away, but no Knights! The one who gets it!
Shot in the middle of everybody, stay alive for now, but he doesn't eventually fall.
Hongyu's got to be careful when he's trapped inside the Glacial Storm.
Vampire dies to the volley, and Knight's going further forward.
going further forward. He wants to see if he can pick up Gala here too, not gritting up
damage for that one, but we do get a one for one in kills and the objective stolen away
by BLG is tragedy for JDG.
That really hurts. I mean, Knight gets it and now they're not even forced to come to
these objectives anymore, right? And you are the team that has really low engage. JDG
needs to force them to come to him so that they can actually find these fights,
effectiveness with the Olaf. And BLG are kind of just cornering them from multiple sides.
They're waiting for Knight. Knight did not have the between worlds, so I definitely like
that they forced here. I do think it was a good angle. The Asher are missing, you're
thinking, alright, maybe they can make it happen, but Knight combos his twofold hex with
the smite from Shun, finishes it off, gets that last hit. Then so many low health
bars there, able to pick up a kill, push him back, and Knight back to live, pushing
Honky will have to play so afraid now because the wall from on forced his flash in the last fight or it would have certainly died out now and he just
This is the most obnoxious in India of all time and seeing the skill order thank you so much observers for this because it does kind of show what I was expecting
Which is three points into the frostbite for the laning power for the trading capability and now he's putting points into the wall because he knows
to the wall because he knows, okay, once you get into the bigger fights, I need the long
extra distance on the wall to make sure this is rolling.
And especially, I mean, you're going Solstice Slay, you're getting an early Oblivion orb,
you're not doing damage, right?
Right, it's utility inhib.
Exactly, you're utility inhib, you're trying to be really, really annoying, and now he
picks up a Swiftie boot, so his job is just going to be running around, harassing
them, and Shaoxu does have his Hydra, so has that completed, so you're going to
have a lot of sustain, you're going to have a lot of wave clear, but the problem
is when even if you have a winning matchup and a 1v1 when your opponent has
Winning everything else. They don't have to interact with you. You know if I've been I'm saying no
I'm never gonna trade with you. I'm just gonna hit the wave like I'm not gonna give you a chance to get a solo kill
Because those are the only real ways that I think JDG get tacked in top
Okay, they might have a pick on the bird though to punish on the Anivia
Not quite enough even with the airy on drinks his potion and just walks away with 30 HP
This is the most hair pulling experience if you're JDG this stupid
anivia in your jungle all game and then you get him down to literally 1% HP and
he just flap flaps away yeah you'll remember the day you almost killed on
but for him it was just nice Saturday just another day on the rift Junja showing
up mid lane here want to go after Viper this is what you draft the Ola for
But immediately, Viper firing back there with the enchanted crystal arrow.
Shun shows up, and the bodyguard guarantees the VIP.
It's the first three letters of his name.
Gets away.
Ooh, I like what you did there.
I didn't even mean to do that.
That was an accident.
Yeah.
It felt cool.
Viper and On both have 86, above 86% forward percentage of this game,
which is pretty insane, as On has just been living in the enemy jungle,
which turns out means it's past the halfway point.
Four percentage again for people who aren't super familiar with the more less known stats is being past the halfway point in the lane
So they're they're shoved up
They're constantly making sure that they're putting the pressure on their opponents shun's going to secure the ripped herald now too
So overall BLG has got most of the objectives here in this game. They secured all three grubs
They secured the herald they stole away that second drake from JDG
So three out of four ain't bad as night now goes in after Hong Q yet again between worlds setting it up
Proto belt to try to knock it down, but Hongqiu, oh no the weirding flash beautifully placed from Knight to guarantee that he gets the kill on the enemy midlaner takes the double bumps along with it.
Gala getting stomped by the wall here for a second, remember that On still has his egg if they want to try to continue chasing.
And that's where they got to be cautious of.
The Olaf almost has his ulti ready to go again.
And that is Shunja just going way too far.
Overplays his hand, gets over Zellis.
Onto the blast cone to get away.
Flash Frost does stun Shunja as he tries to chase after Viper.
Flash for Flash.
Undertow misses.
Shunja goes for the gas.
And he guesses wrong as Viper runs left.
The axe flies right.
And it's a single kill there.
Finally, JDG get a punish for all the aggressive movements from BLG.
can't blame shun though because he did have the most powerful member in the game.
The support of Nivia behind him.
Support of Nivia with swifty boots and an orb.
Exactly. He was confident that he had the follow-up he needed after seeing that mayhem that on has been putting in on this game.
Has been looking good but as shun goes a bit too far does give one over as
Shoushuu will be pushed back to base or back to tower. Excuse me there but we'll just be able to constantly sustain up.
Piper's over the winner here knocks down the first power of the game 17 minutes in so pretty late first hour
But it is you know massive lead for night who got another kill on that bot side
It is nearly a thousand goals for right first one. I want to try to find on here, but both spells miss
I he just again. He just walks away from everything on is just he's feeling it man
He's loving the support of Nivia at this game one thing that I can at least say for JDG though is the goal lead for
BLG although it's slightly larger than it was you know six minutes ago or so it's
still not going a ton so it's not like they're just completely hemorrhaging the
game but the problem is the turrets are low HP they already lost the one in
mid lane they're about to leave the one in bottom lane BLGS control over the
bot side river their jungler is nowhere nearby so this is gonna be another drake
going to BLG direction and now bin has fully purchased his trinity force up
until this point he was dealing with the full item trend in here where he
He was still having components himself because he stopped off with steel caps, excuse me,
and executioners.
That means a really delayed first item power spike.
Now he's caught up though, so the Yorks going to feel that much better.
Yep, he's going to be feeling a lot stronger as a result here.
So they're just going to send Honkyu up towards that top side for now.
Looks like Knight should be able to finish off his tower on bot side though, so that
is going to be even more problematic.
And I've got to say, this is the new support game that is going to spawn thousands
of intervans around the world.
It's also a weekend right now, so that means everybody's not at school, everybody's not
at work, everybody that's watching first stand is about to queue up some support.
I should play some support in Nivia and solo and bait over and over, that would go well
in my game.
This is what at least one of your teammates is thinking when you press Q up right now.
So if you're at the edge of a 99 LP type of situation, you might want to let that
That one's live this time as Ben will be able to just take out this tier one turret here in the top lane now.
The gold is starting to run away a little bit more. We're almost three and a half thousand ahead on the BLG side.
It's just about 20 minutes into the game, so Baron is going to be spawning here soon.
I don't think that BLG is going to try to rush Baron or anything crazy like that,
but we do have two item power spike here for Viper, Kraken Slayer and Phantom Dancer, both fully completed now.
see he cashed in on the call for the extra gold infusion over on the other side.
Gala does have static plus the hexoptics.
Oh, okay.
That was going to be the third one if he didn't flash.
So all three arrows aimed at Hong Q, kill, kill summoner spell force.
These arrows are locked on target.
Yeah.
Hong Q is that target and is just the bullseye after bullseye there for Viper.
Shaoxu does have a couple items completed.
You know, he does have a quick place.
Don, he's working in towards his berserker greaves.
This build, you know, when you do get the quick blades, you're cool
cool down they're so low because you're getting the cool down refund on your spin just from crits and then you're also getting the cool down refund from the quick plays passive so you're getting a lot of mobility a lot of spins he'll try to chase people down but he's just not even getting a chance to really interact you know they're doing a couple little short traits here and there between him and bin but the Trindermere has not really been a part of much of anything you know it did have that one kind of pseudo all in where he created flashes and died to one gank and then besides that it's just been a farm festival the rest of the map loses.
Alright, Rift Herald summoned up. And this is one thing I did want to pay attention to this game because last game BLG's Herald was kind of just a sadness Herald.
They just had to summon it up because it was running out. They got no value. This time around, very different story.
Chunja caught on the wrong side of the wall, taking a bunch of damage as Shun goes in. And they killed the Olaf. He can't be immune to the wall.
Now Hong Q's in danger because remember, he doesn't have a flash. This Shun is enough to keep him alive for now and over the double kill over to Shun.
Now they're going to look to maybe make it a triple.
Shun taking a lot of damage.
Locala over the wall finds the kill.
So at least they get one back, but BLG always gets more.
Yeah, they're just getting more and more here.
Jinja was trying to hold on to that Ragnarok for so long,
but he just gets walled off.
He's getting whittled down, and then the tower gets killed beside him.
So Shun has nothing just waiting him from going forward there.
He goes straight in on him, finishes him off.
Honkyu got a massive combo across multiple members.
You hit the spot and it's there. Snap them in.
And Shaoxu do anything. I mean, just gonna have to retreat.
Now Shaoxu's spinning away.
Trice, no, but again the cage.
The placement on these has been great from Ben.
He's always catching Shaoxu just to the very edge.
But now Shaoxu wants to turn around.
He drops the ignite. He's going in after the oryx.
But once again, it's the MVP from BLG.
Support Anivia there with the wall
to make sure there's no kill for Shaoxu.
there with the wall there with the stun is that could have been an angle for
Shao Shu because even though Ben has flashed at the long lane and again it
touched on such a low cooldowns from that spot but yeah great combo from on Q
they're going to tonight. And with the flash over the wall gets away he'll be safe for now
4-0 and 3 on the Aurora no deaths and 7 out of 9 kill participation so really
great game for him again a lot of that set up thanks to Viper's arrows
Really, I don't think I have a complaint how anybody on BLG has been playing this game.
Shun had that one play around the enemy blue buff where he jumped in way too deep.
That was about the only single mistake. TP coming in now from BLG.
They know that the Trindamere does not have his ulti. This is your chance to punish him.
Maybe find that kill. Spin away over the wall though.
Plenty of mobility on this champion. It's one of the things that makes him so obnoxious.
But hey, Viper does no wrong with his ulti. The Ashe echoes our point and click this game.
It's just another day at the range bullseye after bullseye after bullseye for Viper
He has been on fire in this game and I gotta agree with you. He'll keep playing almost perfect night is behind them
They don't know nice behind them. Okay, Viper's getting run down though. Nice kill coming out
There for Junja as Sean puts the pressure into the back line and Vampire dies Junja going after on but now the Olaf is isolated
He has no Ragnarok the cage is there and Ben sends him straight to jail. Nice pickup there from BLG
They do finally lose their 80s carry for the first time, but just like last time BLG gets more
Exactly, I mean Knightless in such a good position. It was good that they did go in but now
23 minutes in they are on the Baron York rushes through Baron so quickly
They can do a lot here with that maiden damage and BLG
It's not like they feel contested and he judges dead for a long time and no one else here is even moving over into the area
So this one is just gonna be gone
They're already up 5k and the dragon probably not even gonna be taken so we can see them one more time
DLT was laying a trap you can see night was moving over behind them
And they were trying to set up for this pincer from night, but JDG find a good angle here
Dragon Ross gives pop the wall was placed incorrectly there from on couldn't find the right angle to actually wall off
This Olaf from him night gets into the back line though pushes back to the center and then Jhinja is just sectioned off from his team
Ben commits the flash. Don't know that he really needed to but they wanted to get that kill quick so they could go to Baron.
And Baron they got my friend. 5,500 gold lead. Now the control over this bottom side river means that there's no contest for this Drake.
That's 3-1 on the Drake count. So point from BLG.
Rebel Baron power play still for the majority of that time or 2 minutes and 15 seconds where BLG are going to have all this extra pushing power.
the enemy jungle, they steal on the way of the blue buff, it's so hard for JDG to even
breed at this point.
You know what I'm saying?
In draft, the way he's going to go for an archangel, is he going to go for a roa.
It's protobeltinivia, of course.
Of course!
What are you even talking about?
Isaac, why not go?
Because it helps him do extra troll stuff.
Oh!
Another nice arrow onto Hong Q.
Not enough to kill him here just yet as the dawning shadow goes blue and it's
a ton of burst down onto the Aurora.
That's a huge shutdown on the night.
But what about on his biker back to his judges?
here just yet as the dawning shadow goes through and it's a ton of burst down onto the aurora.
That's a huge shutdown on the night, but what about all his might for backswitch?
Junja, they get one in return again.
Defensive ulti from Shun to stay alive, but he's rooted up underneath the tower.
That last shot will not have enough damage to kill him.
Meanwhile the Yorick split pushing over in mid lane trying to make sure that BLG
maintains multiple points of pressure.
The shutdown on night was huge and that's his first death, the entire game.
But Ben just continues threshering mid.
Hong Q tries to move forward.
The centering bolt doesn't hit on.
And it looks like BLG's push will be stopped for now.
But even after they recall, they still
will have a little bit more time to use the bearing.
And Ben just going armor stacking in here,
frozen heart second.
Knows his job is just to never die to this.
Trendomir, Shabshie working towards that last whisper,
but just doesn't feel like he's ever
going to get to a point where he's really
relevant in this game because Ben is just never
going to give him the opportunities to find those all
So, you can see this fight one more time.
Hong Q gets caught by the arrow, they do a nice CC chain, but look at the root.
It's all about the center root landing on tonight as he goes forward to get the next down on the Hong Q.
That lands, so all the follow-up is there.
The Encore from Vampire, the Full Combo from Hong Q, they do press them down,
and look how long these roots last as they have the Seraphine roots into the Way root.
They had all kinds of roots coming through and holding Shun under that tower for a long time.
Almost were able to get him, but couldn't quite finish him off.
So now it is soul point, 6k gold lead, and JDG are going to have to try to find an opportunity
to make their move, and it's going to have to be an incredible one to give them the chance
of coming back.
2000 gold lead for Knight, 2000 gold lead for Viper, 1000 gold lead for Shun, and this
is just a problem, man.
Shaoxu, I was talking about how gold leads mean less in a game that has a very high
emphasis on split pushing because the split pusher can just disrupt so much of the
normal momentum.
But Shao Shu is not in a spot where he's able to really do a whole lot.
He's completed on Bin.
Yeah, Jungen's just smushed into the terrain.
It's kind of a moment where it's so close that he doesn't actually have viable
pathing either left or right.
So his character just kind of glitches out and stays.
He has become one with the tower.
Yeah, now I am tower.
And the tower is me.
It's not exactly where you want to be.
6,000 gold lead for BLG as a team.
still no deaths for either Bin on the Yorick or On's powerful Anivia.
And Anivia is definitely the true goal, you know.
Elder Baron, those are okay objectives, that's support Anivia, that's the real prize.
Support Anivia creates objectives around himself.
Anywhere Anivia is, that's the objective.
Split pushers are down in the side lane now as Bin and Shao Shu are both level 17
there champions obviously the highest level in the game because of the state of
the top lane with the quest honkyu over an entire level behind nice it has been
so rough for him in this way game when you pick a control mage and the enemy
team just targets you constantly especially with things that the
enchanted crystal arrow which are always a threat that you constantly have
to be mindful of it can become such a problem if they land the shots like
viper has been you just get put so far behind and me viper made a pit stop for
the Serpent's Fang because there's tons of shielding, obviously. You know, the
Goring Shadow, the Seraphine shielding, Quaken shield, Olaf as a shield, but now
still has the IE, so even with that he still gets the IE faster there than Gala,
and he's going to be very, very strong right now. Knight is working in towards
that fourth item. This team is ready to go. You can see Shun has an Elixir in
his pocket, knowing that, hey, if we get Sol, it's probably game. We've
probably won the series, and Aon just gonna cycle through that barrier
because his flash is back up with spellbook.
Okay, so we've got the cleanse for on.
We've got so much damage on the carries of the BLG squad.
And you can see the inventory of Bin here.
He does have the Caulfield plus the pickaxe.
So he is getting close to having
his third fully completed item.
Shellshoot just continued clearing waves.
The split push state is kind of just locked forever
in purgatory as the both just, like you said earlier,
you kill the wave, you don't engage with the other guy.
But when the other guy has more other guys that come to help them, all of a sudden it's harder to not interact.
All night nearly it's the kills Gala. Shum's coming in to try to finish the jump. All teams for the defense and on and Nite continue to back up their jungler.
But it's a lot of damage on this shot and he's shut down. Nice kill for Jhunja. Gala's still barely staying alive now as well.
4v5 on the revs. Shoushi tries to flash over the flash. Frost he goes after Viper but again it's on with a beautiful wall that the Trindermere cannot get through.
And Arrow's the heart, takes his life, has now a flash out from Vampire, keeps the Rift of 4v4.
Baren's gonna spawn in 5 seconds, the Mountain Drake is already up, but Shun is off the map.
Finally a route onto the Amidia, but they can't follow up because the wall blocks the entryway.
Bin is down to 1 third HP, but remember, he doesn't have his teleport either,
so he's just gonna go back into the bottom lane to resplit push.
BLG knows that yes this would be soul, but even if JDG takes it,
They're going to have the pressure from Ben at the same time to break into the base.
Aun and Viper still hanging around, still seeing it maybe they can harass this enough as they fire.
Oh no! They're on the honk you!
And Nite arrives with a teleporter right behind him!
He shouldn't have the favor to take this kill.
It ends up sealing the fate of the BLG mid-laner instead.
But the entire time, Ben is in the enemy base.
The damage from the minions should be enough to finish off the Tier 3 turret.
So the fight actually favors JDG.
They're not baron.
The arrow play ends up being a blunder as Knight gets punished trying to kill Hongqiu
and we'll see if JDG can take this objective. This would be huge.
I love it. You gotta flip it. You are behind. You gotta take risks.
And Knight is dead with no CD for a long time. This might be their best shot.
Hongqiu coming around on the flank. Viper in van approaching here as well.
Hongqiu has to flash. The wall with a shield is fade otherwise.
As Shun goes into the middle of everybody and Gala's coming down.
Battle the Olof, tries to flash and the backline goes after Viper when finds him.
Vampires trap to the pit, it's a double kill as Shun kills the Olof
and now the Trindamere is trapped in the middle of everybody.
He's unkillable for now, but he's got to get something
and all he gets is buried in the river.
BLG, they're just too far ahead.
They stop the Baron attempt, they complete the Baron take themselves
and only Honkyu is left standing on JDG,
but not if Hon has anything to say about it.
He finally runs out of mana.
Yeah, not going to be able to get him.
JDG was a valiant effort.
They got a kill. They got a dragon.
They felt that that was going to be their moment
to try to make something happen.
But it took so long for Shoushuu to get there,
and Gala without summoners could not stay alive
for long enough for that trainer bear to arrive,
for that trainer to really make a difference.
By the time he finally got there, he just gets CC'd, he gets knocked down, and now JDG back against the wall here.
Down 8k, they did stop the soul, but they gave over the Farron. We can watch it one more time.
This is that initial play. Honki gets pushed down on the side. They just can't buy time. Look at Gala.
Gala gets sectioned off, burst down immediately from Shun. Honki was forced to flash thanks to the Nidia, so he's not even involved.
So the Olof is completely sectioned off. By the time Shaoshu arrives, he gets caged in, they pull back.
He gets knocked up by the Baron, then stunned by the Anivia.
He just doesn't have enough time to do anything.
And even when Hong-Q tried to get back into the fight,
On just walls him off again.
Hong-Q's contribution to the fight was he made it to get
spiraling despair on no off that he can't kill any magma
fissured the Baron.
That's it.
He wasn't really able to do anything else.
And so now BLG with an 8,000 gold lead,
with everybody back alive again,
are once more looking to breach the base.
Remember, the bottom lane inhibitor
is exposed because of Ben's split push earlier.
As we'll see pressure on the mid and top lanes for the time being,
as everybody in BLG is grouping up at night,
it's caught a big blunder from the mid laner gets punished,
and that's going to slam the break to the mid lane push.
I tried to go across the veil.
He tried to angle it so we could hop over the edge,
but instead he face-planted into the wall.
So he didn't actually get over the wall there,
and he had his flash,
but at that point he had already been rooted up,
so it's too late.
He tries to go between worlds,
tries to bounce back, gets picked.
So, what was a pretty flawless game for him, he's gotten picked a few times, now JDG know,
okay, we have a slight advantage on the map, we gotta push, we gotta try to make something happen.
But the Anivia is so annoying, it's just stalling out any and all of these plays.
I'm really loving, I know we've been joking about it a lot, but I'm actually loving the support
Anivia picked in this game. It has a crazy impact, unironically.
Yeah, it's so good against Jhinomir and Olaf, we've seen how good it is against Hongki as well.
This is what is falling out, he tries to hop over the edge, but he angles it not quite right.
So he bounces off the wall, and because he had already been hit by a spell, you can see where they are in Viz.
You see that little flicker when you hit them with a spell in Viz, so he gets rooted up, and they do get that kill.
And the knight had been deathless, but has been caught a couple times, BLG's still fully in control,
Sol's gonna be on the table at the end of minute 20, so that's what you're looking forward to.
Something we haven't touched on though, Gaul is at 120 Sols, and he is closing in on his IE, so if he can get to infinity edge,
I mean, his range is getting ridiculous.
Yeah.
And a certain point in the game, I mean, we're not there yet,
but a certain point in the game, he doesn't really care about you
walling him off because he's just going to shoot over the wall.
Yeah, that's the big problem.
His stacking is on point here so far.
At 25 minutes, the average amount of stacks in tier one play
is about 76.
Obviously, we're very far past 25 minutes at this point.
So I don't think a lot of times we might not even
get to 35 minutes in these days.
He has a big number, regardless of if it's on pro pace
or behind pro base or at a pro base.
That's a big number.
120 is very, very scary.
Normally when you look over and you see the sentence
got 100 stats, you start sweating a little bit
because it is just infinite stacking.
It's not only additional AD, it is range,
which is one of the most powerful stats
in the entire game.
Ranging moves, I know that you and I
have that conversation a lot, but it's just like, yeah.
That gives you the opportunity to deal damage
when they can't deal damage to you.
So, ELG with control over the bottom side
with us for now.
Again, on just being as obnoxious as possible.
10 seconds until the Drake spawns,
it is Mountain Soul again for BLG.
No cleanse now from Gala.
So he just forced that.
That is actually a really big deal.
If he gets hit by any CC, it could be a game-ender.
Okay, still just shot being fired back and forth,
nothing big committed here just yet.
Bin has also joined up for the fight.
You can see Shao Shu on the side here as well.
The tournament almost level 20 to yours is level 20.
As the dragon has started by Viper,
the Ash has a lot of DPS for this.
Remember that On is just going to use walls to keep everybody from JDG away.
Buy a little bit more time for BLG to secure the Mountain Star.
And the other guy, shout as you walk to the land.
He's going after Viper.
He tries to spin forward with a flash over the wall for the AD.
Gary keeps him alive.
Flash over the wall from On to try to respond.
Killings free for Shun as they take out the top laner.
Jungidai's trying to go forward.
Now it's a 5v3 for BLG.
Call him barely missing, getting strung out there by the flash.
Rock, Arrow shoots out, Arrow collides.
Vampire tries to get the sacrificial lamb for his team.
He flashes, 40 won'ts to take the block on to try to get away, but no!
Vampire falls with a sunshine's bright for VLG!
Hong Q's golden, and it'll just be a trophy for the LPL number one seed!
Double kill for Viper, and it's a 5v1 push!
Gala's Senna, there's not enough souls on Summoner's Rift to get you out of this one!
Pin will chase him back to the fountain, there's no Summoner spells available!
The next this turn will be the next target.
The first time they fought it was 3-2 BLG.
The finals was 3-1 BLG.
And now at first hand, it's 3-0 BLG.
They'll make their way to the finals tomorrow to face G2
and try to become first-hand champions.
They just keep getting better.
And what a series from on.
This guy was incredible.
You think about the Barton game one,
you think about the Anivia here in game three.
He was doing so much controlling space. It was a beautiful draft pick here incredible stuff from BLG lounge
What do you got?
Unurged to play front of Elton Evia. I think no
From the LPL upper bracket where he went Rola that time, but you know this time
We decided I don't need to do damage the thing is the last time they played it
He had the Callister back in the mob, he had like the ability to lane.
This time he was just controlling the game completely, denying with the walls non-stop.
It just felt like the terrain was such a big blocker constantly.
Yeah, both teams really cooked in the last game of this draft.
I was constantly terrified that the Sena Seraphine was going to find a way to outscale
with the Olaf Trinamir, but on played the most cracked Anivia support game I've
ever seen.
I haven't seen many Anivia support games.
He didn't die as well.
Yeah.
on who is this player who in his career sometimes being I mean he was playing this game so aggressively
You don't you don't play any of your support without being willing to run it down sometimes
Yeah, like in order to practice this he was on the thin line
Never went down once so I mean secret performance. I'm actually shocked so player of the game is on yeah
I mean, I'm just glad I had prefaced this was like hey
He did play this in the upper bracket
He is willing to lock in things like this and test them out
I think this game from him was phenomenal. Like especially we saw that Baron where
97 okay, I'm surprised night didn't get any votes though
Yeah, I thought it was a word was great
But that he walls off punk you from and it must just be so
Frustrating because if he gets in there that fight probably looks completely different
I mean it's like the wall and then the glacial storm also is slow
And then they also had the the guli wool from the the Yarek
There was that one fight dragon when they were just walking around taking a scenic route when they're approaching the objective
Yeah, this game also as we're waiting to set up the interview Viper landed a ton of arrows
Right, they had the gold lead in the first place so that the walls could be so incredibly effective
But the overall impact on the map that what we're calling the bot lane the ash and give you a bottom lane
and I'm so excited to be
able to play this game. What
are we? Brass sisters or
sisters? Yeah, I mean, just
just the setup being there
consistently and just
providing this way into get
night extremely fed in this
game. This time on is that a
follow up as well, but just
really finally these angles
consistently and for honkyu it
must be so frustrating. You
focused on your one be one
and Lane. Arrow flies in on
that again. Yeah And I mean
as well to kind of scape off because there were times where it looked like okay you know this seraphine
combo with trendamere with the olof still can be really really terrifying and yeah being able to
have that fed aurora even though it got a little dicey towards the end uh was actually huge for
their mid game. Yeah disappointing end for JDG for sure. After being close and competitive of
BOG in the LPL playoffs, having a chance to go into the finals as well, not going to be there.
But honestly, this is going to set up the final of G2 BOG, which is going to be prediction-wise,
one of the biggest toss-ups at the entire tournament after what we witnessed today.
Based on what we've seen from the tournament, I think whoever wins game one will be a good
instead, so many 3-0s that we've had so far, even today.
I mean, I think some people were expecting that fair series
to be a 3-0, maybe not in the direction it went.
But then a 3-0 again here, when there
has been more competitive domestically.
And we got to welcome Viper to the Verizon Pustin
interview.
Viper, congratulations on the win.
What were the expectations going into this series
against JDG?
Congratulations on your victory. What expectations did you have for the match against JDG?
First of all, thank you.
The match against JDG has been very intense, so I thought about what to do and what to do.
I was really worried about the bottom lane pick, and I think it went well today.
so many times, so we kind of know their play style. We thought about really carefully
about how to make our bands and picks for this team.
You're the only reigning fair stand champion to make it back to the tournament. How does
it feel now that you've secured finals and have a chance to defend that title?
You've won the game once again. How do you feel about winning the game?
First of all, I'm very happy and honored to be able to challenge the second post-season victory.
If I can show you a good result tomorrow, I think I can open up to any regrets.
I think we'll have good results.
You hit a lot of early Ash arrows that were really crucial in getting Knight ahead.
Who is calling for those or is it kind of a team coordination thing?
In the beginning of the game, Asher was already playing a lot of LoL, and you had a very good result.
Did anyone tell you about that kind of game play?
In that case, I usually talk about it.
If the opponent is a male champion, I have to ask if there is a W.
And I see where the opponent is moving habitually while playing the game,
and sometimes I ask for a mid or top lane ult.
So we really need to verify their play styles
and if our opponent goes to some places with certain frequency,
if he goes often to the place he aims to shoot to that place,
Or other players also ask him to do those ultimates so he can assist them on those kills.
On brought out his envious support this game to great effect. How is it preparing these sort of off meta picks and practicing so you can have good synergy with them?
And how is the pitch for it? How does On convince you that these picks are going to work?
confidence the whole team has together is really important for us to keep playing as a team and have
those better results. I remember early on in your career you were known for picking so a lot of
off meta picks in bot lane. Were there any picks you'd want to convince on that you want to play?
And that's how I convinced myself.
Great. Last question.
You faced G2 tomorrow in the finals.
You've already beaten them this tournament.
What were the keys to beating them the first time?
And do you have a prediction for the series tomorrow?
The most important thing is that we need to recognize that our current G2 is a completely different team.
If we prepare with that mindset, we can see things we haven't seen before.
The thing I'm most concerned about is that G2 has no resistance,
and I think the reason for the competition is also very good.
And I think that's why we're winning the competition.
I think it's the opportunity to win.
And also we need to remember that they are very good at adapting themselves to those new situations.
So I think that way we can even wait for a win, expect a win.
OK, Viper, congratulations again.
Good luck to you all.
Thank you guys.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
As we wrap up the day, we're going to award our APO player of the series as well.
Viper played great.
was great but across the series we ended up voting for Schoen just incredible
jump to the whole time. Yeah I mean I thought the biggest thing I saw from
Schoen today was that he just seemed to have such good communication with his
team in terms of where to be in response to his lanes and his decision-making
around okay knowing that JDG are gonna focus a certain point of the map so he
can affect a different part of the map. His team fighting was really really
good. As we see this montage, I thought him kind of interfering with this topside lane.
Shao Shu did not have a very good time here. Yeah, I think Shao Shu really got shut out
of series partially because of Ben, but also Shun just being so present, completely just
taking over the game, I feel. And I think it really sets up for the finals because
Schumann having a fantastic series earlier today, both junglers in great form right
now. This is why you have to play the games, man. Let's look at the bracket
because before this tournament before this last two days we were thinking oh man just give Genji the trophy
we were already pulling up graphics when they were six and zero will this be the best
individual tournament in history will they go on the first six games ox we did this
now they're out g2 and blg are in the finals first end is completely warped after what happened
today. And if you think how long it's been since a non-LCK region has won, 2023 MSI was the last
time where it wasn't LCK and we are going to have a non-LCK region winning whether it is EU or China.
Absolutely incredible. Yeah. I can't wait for tomorrow. It's going to be so fun. Yeah. I also
think like the way the two teams that are in the final, the way they adapted, the bot lane
I think the similarities between the two can be found there and how they adapted so I'm super excited to see this shouldn't skew on match up in particular because I think skew month's been playing phenomenal.
I want to see Bin versus Broken Blade because Bin's been stomping on everyone and Broken Blade did a really great job neutralizing and then the bot lane Pryo with Hansam on the brav and how much they've been able to play.
Are we going to see like a top versus bot type game?
I feel like the bravin on both just kind of really popping off in that series.
It's gonna be fun. That's it from us though. Thanks to the fans for hanging out with us
once again. We'll be back tomorrow 9am Eastern 2pm Central European Time for G2 vs BLG. See you then.
Don't tap it up, damage is a just as much, go!
He's gonna come on three here as Trudy comes to five,
so I don't think he's gonna save him.
He just comes down.
Captain's gonna lock down a killing spree.
That's, that's just, that's what they make.
Roll out, let's see whether he can actually survive this one.
I don't think he's gonna be able to get the shield.
Wait, wait, wait.
And the lock tick is enough to do it, LeBron!
Locks down the second one to G2.
I see guys, I see guys, I see guys, I see guys, I see guys.
You can see a jungler trying to clear out some division here.
The all-nighter waiting.
Shockwave beautifully blow-jungle back out of the combo.
And now the Jarvis is stuck between a rock and a hard play.
The jungler backs away from the ring.
Two gloves ready to help the fighters.
All choice to go in, but a step in the parcel is beautiful.
Gollum gets under the range, 20-0 was taken away in 25 minutes into the game.
That's four, that's JDG!
The row is completed!
Arrow shoots out, arrow collides.
Vampire tries to get the sacrificial lamb for his team.
New Flash's body won't survive coming to 20-0, but no!
Vampire falls with a 5-shot strike from BLG!
The first time they fought was 3-2 BLG!
The finals was 3-1 BLG!
And now at first hand, it's 3-0 BLG!
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