Oh my God, what a night
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No one can hurt
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How do you believe in love?
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Pray for whatever it takes
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The old west side.
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Don't let your eyes open
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Hit the bass drum, make it boom, yeah
One, two, three, four, it's gonna sound legal
Get off, go off, it's the world's limit
In the big boat, you won't be able to stand
I know, take that rescue
I feel like living in the mad trap
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I'm the one who's going to jump
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I can't help it, I'm going to dance
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make it out of the play in stage. Welcome back to day two of the MIPS season
Invitational alongside Ryze, Kobe, Ray Wendell, and Ray Wendell!
Losers! Yeah! We're winners! We're winners! But we're also kind of winners. We're winning today!
Now before we get started, we need to thank everyone's best friend on the
couch, say it at home, feels birthday man.
Happy birthday, Kobe.
Woo!
3, 2, 1, happy birthday, Kobe.
Back!
Oh!
Back!
Yeah!
Thank you, Ryze.
I got your back.
Careful!
You don't want to pick me up next time, Kobe.
Kobe, you're not a loser.
Ryze, Jerry's still out.
Yeah.
Again, uh league e-sports wouldn't be so different with that to Kobe. Thank you for
Being here. Happy birthday, man
As we thank birthday or say happy birthday to Kobe
Let's take a look at the play in bracket and how it shook on up
Yesterday it was pretty solid 3-0s for t1 and kc over their opponents
That will be our first match up of the day t1 versus karmicorp and then team liquid alienware versus relove deep cross gaming
We'll be the elimination match where one team goes home and after one day guys
This is it. T.L.'s Baxter against the wall. Oh, wait. Why are you doing lower bracket is more fun, Raz?
I heard that somewhere. Yeah. Yeah, you guys seem like you're having a lot of fun yet
Actually, what's every fun in game two? I legit was having fun in game two. I got some hope there
You know team Liquid they also you even though they ended up losing 3-0
You could definitely tell they put a lot of prep work and thought into this really did
You know come up with some good plans and some good drafts for themselves. Yeah, I thought there's a lot of fight
I really truly believe game two is gonna be great
Especially the strategy even going back to game one like you exactly like you said everything was working well for me
That's why I have firm faith in the neck in today that being said k-corp
completely demolish real of DCG and I we need to see a better version of pop 9 today in
in particular, but for K-Corp, the fans especially have to be happy.
It's a big confidence boost for them coming in and just dominating their first game so much,
especially as they have a much harder matchup today.
I think they can kind of ride that and feel good about themselves.
Always the first day of the match, I think a lot of teams feel a little bit unsure of themselves,
so I think it's good to get that convincing win.
Yeah, well, one thing is for sure, teams came in with strategies and plans.
One that's going to stick around is the Camille support.
Now Camille has been taking over the meta across the world.
We saw it in several finals in the Eastern Leagues,
and now we're seeing it here at MSI.
So I think it works so well with mages.
We've seen Ziggs and Mal in the bot lane pad with this,
and it's so effective at holding them still, especially Ziggs.
You result, and Ziggs cannot miss his ult after that.
You also are just able to roam around the map, take over the game,
and as well, some of these matchups into range supports,
we expect it to get bullied out.
Because of the ignite and the level one power,
You can actually really challenge that and find advantages.
It actually makes me so jealous as a jungler, because I miss Camille jungles so much.
And the support roll, they get, oh, free Sheen item with Bloodsaw.
Oh, you're getting plenty of roam time every time you want, because yeah, they're pairing it with these mages.
They just have wave clear and stuff at the bottom lane too.
It's all these supports. You're just gonna have the whole game as they're always there.
And you know what's great about Camille's support is if you're playing Camille Top lane,
level 20, you're pretty farmed up, and you dive in 1v5 and die, that's not a good thing.
But on Camille's support, you can do that, and if you're one for one, job done, you're sitting
there on the gray screen like you guys go. I'll say you won't. I feel like this is very personal
to you. Most of these, most of these bots were literally zigs. We saw the mel yesterday and
you're talking about inting on Camille, which I imagine is what you're talking about. Our resident
zigs enjoy everything. That's right. Both of those digs, yeah. Now, it is time to dive into
the city that we are in in Dejone because it is the city of science and so I thought it would be fun
to compare our playing MSI teams to scientific instruments in the little segment we're going to
call Science 101 and so each one of our big brain analysts were given a team. Aux, you were given
T1. What scientific instrument were that? Well, professor, I went for the Bunsen Bandit.
For two reasons.
They roasted us yesterday to...
Oh no!
And that is also a bone torch right there.
Yeah.
Oh good.
Not even accurate.
So that's obviously a very obvious reason.
The second reason, so when I was a teenager...
Oh, we got to be in there.
When I was a teenager, we used to have our labs,
and we used to have the Bunsenbirne day,
you know, when you cook up chemicals or whatever.
That was always the most chaotic day.
And honestly, when you have like a classroom with 30 teenagers and the teacher has to be responsible for all that, it's chaos.
It's absolutely chaos. I feel like that's how a T1 series goes.
You're scared, you're concerned. They're having fun. They're having a great time.
You're like, oh god, please do not burn everything down. Do not burn your lab mate down as well.
That's a...
Oxford School was like a Breaking Bad episode.
Cooking up careful folks.
The Ziggs player is cocking all of those bombs he's gonna throw.
He goes with Plunson, Bernacobie, you're next.
You had 10 record.
Yeah.
Let's get this other one.
We don't know what to do this time.
OK, but that's OK.
But honestly, so T.O. is actually the telescope.
Because, D.Con, you could see the wind through the telescope.
You could see it over there.
It was just really far away.
And we couldn't actually get to the next one.
I see something closer than that.
What is?
Oh.
I mean, fight the team.
They had good planning.
And you could see it, you know?
Yeah.
That's it.
Coilery's not even looking.
He doesn't want to move!
He's not gonna let us out though!
Rattas, what are you called? What are you called into you?
The moon, the moon, you know, the moon moves out of the way, so he's off for a second, and then the big defeat.
Oh, hey, hey! We'll get him next time, alright?
That wasn't an elimination series!
True, true, that's true, we'll get him next time!
The moon is there, there's a lot of other celestial bodies in the way, between the victory.
It seems like you're not quite there yet.
Alright, Rass, what you got?
I'm gonna talk about a key of scientific exploration.
For Relove Deep Cross Gaming.
Yes, for Relove Deep Cross Gaming,
that team is going up to the sky.
Oh, no!
What's happening to the ship?
It's basically a failing space shuttle.
Look, we have to try.
You're making an attempt.
You want to go to Mars at some point.
So you're going to have, while you're exploring,
the above, aka an international event.
You know what they need?
The first exploration's not going to be the best.
They need, they need Kevin Bacon.
Yeah?
Like Apollo 13.
Apollo 13.
Yeah, they need the boys together.
It's all looking good.
That's what we love, Deep Cross Gaming.
I had Carmine Corp and of course, I had, you know what, the centrifuge.
What are you separating?
So they're separating, what's going in there are normal LEC fans and as it spins fast and
the viscosity of the true fandom comes on out and it is the blue wall fandom and that's
why they're there in the background.
So it's kind of crazy, it's kind of chaotic, that is what the blue wall brings.
At the end of it all, only the true blue wall fans will remain.
I feel like that's concentrated KC.
That's dangerous.
We're rather shaken.
They're right there.
I'm glad the gloves are on.
Let's just peak motion sickness.
I'm glad the gloves are on.
That is needed.
You have to let those come.
Absolutely.
All right.
And a brown paper bag.
You have to transport it.
KC and T1 have some of the largest fan bases
in all of LoL eSports, and this is going to be one of those unique tests where it's
the home team, one of the most popular teams in the world, against one of the most passionate
fan bases in the world that shows up at every single tournament that they play at.
Being that this isn't cram, there is going to be a massive T1 crowd, but I feel like
the KC fans are like the Spawns in 300, yes, more in number, but Pip Pearson, so loud and
able to fill an arena with volume, with passion.
Because D-Gon's constant style with his second huge.
Yeah, I mean, look at that, though.
They got some good-
You're not the T1 fan.
The T1 fans are going to be louder.
The blue dam is going to be blown open by the Red Sea.
It's not possible.
I think there's going to be a battle.
And then we're going to see today, you know,
there's some thin columns between the chairs
and who's that strategically.
We all looked at the same time.
Let's see how those columns hold on.
Well, again, T1 and KC, one man that's playing in that game,
has been part of both organizations.
And it is Kana who played for T1 back in 2020 and 2021
and played out worlds with this squad as well, Ox.
Yeah, so Kana was the top laner before Zayas.
We obviously know so much about the Zio, FGK, roster,
that won two worlds in a row,
and that everyone thinks off with a modern T1,
but Kana was there with the other four prior to that.
World's 2021 finished third to fourth,
and then he moved away, Zayas stepped in
and they had that massive generational run
and kind of going up against his old team now,
hopefully trying to get the upset.
And it's nice that we're putting a focus on him
because of course he's had such an amazing journey.
But also like as an accelerator,
like an amazing carry top laner,
to be able to translate that move over to K Corp.
And I feel like he is also stabilized.
They can put him on silent or anything like that.
But you would see the best out of Kana on something
like maybe give him the Camille.
Maybe.
Honestly, he was really good yesterday
And Doran was losing to Morgan, so maybe that is an angle.
Well, I didn't know he would do that sometimes.
And it is the Lord.
You know, the Lord Morgan has pulled off some wins.
North American player.
Protagon.
Yeah, that's true.
That is true.
But kind of, again, Prime to have himself a big, big match
here against his former organization.
Someone else that's going to have a big match showed it
yesterday.
Owner had himself a great series taking every single smite
away from Hasebiohno.
We're going to get one smite, right?
Yeah, he's really sick sodom in these quote-unquote 5050 scenarios and honestly, it's just props to owner
So it's so clutch on stage here. I mean, I mean if we got one of these we could we could have denied that
You know cloud soul
This one, yeah, Kobe you're a jungler. How does it feel when you just getting out?
I personally have a lot of experience. Oh the one that's getting out
You know what? I'm right there with you, Jose. All good.
It's his birthday.
Oh, jeez.
All right.
Well, this is our featured match up here.
It is owner versus yike.
Owner yet again against one of the best in the West.
Yike having had success in G2 and now over at KC,
going to be a big, big match here.
And he was clinical yesterday.
And it's always going to be a highlight on Yike
and how he performs internationally.
And yesterday was actually amazing
and how he was able to deal with Pop 9.
And so hopefully that then moves over to today.
And he's now able to maybe put a nine on owner's name.
That's crazy.
But no, I do have a lot of confidence
with how Yike has been playing so far.
So definitely want to see.
I think he is the key to how we get to see KC play today.
Yeah, Yike, a very resilient player, very good on the buy.
We'll continue to look for that as a priority
pick in this matchup.
Now let's see what the fans at home
think with our MasterCard fan predictions.
and y'all T1's playing so they never ever ever lose a fan prediction, right?
What is this? What is this?
What's going on?
Where's our T1 FanDocs?
I thought you said you concentrated at the KC Fan.
I multiplied!
I think it's because you got a boost from the Buccio fans.
NA fans have voted for KC Fan.
But you're welcome!
I see, I see.
This is actually crazy. I mean it is on X on Twitter, but still it's it's out
I don't think I've ever seen T1 lose a fan book never because it's just worldwide. Yeah
I don't think of a time big it biggest nice single time. I don't think so either and again
We'll remember this moment now. Yeah, this is this is a good start for Casey. They won the fan vote
Let's see how they could do in game number one
Let's see what our big brand analyst predicted for this series the world champs versus the pride of France in KC
and what yeah last night I had to do some I had to do so I have to think about
it a bit okay not only did I feel a little bit of were you cooking some
chemicals with oxen I felt conversation with Betty is Betty is told me
remember on Twitter gone that is talk to him if you're T1 back he's the one
that convinced me he was the one that put the noise out there and I believed
them friends he made a very compelling point which one did he say Casey is a
better G
compelling point
super duper, super compelling point
he's gonna be so mad
I missed every fuming
wait I'm lying, oh man
well, come on you could come up with something better than that
I was impressed with Casey yesterday we got a very clean series but it was against a
week of team. I give him a game. I have a chance. I give him a game too. I think T1.
I'll just very much in that favor. Yeah, I mean, I also gave him a game. T1, there's
some moments, even versus TL, when they started to get behind and then T1 circus came out
a little bit and they just keep on fighting. You know, even at numbers disadvantage. And
it was enough to make me believe that we were going to take that game. So maybe that actually
comes through the same. Final thoughts for real. Okay.
That was real. That was real. That was real.
That was real. That was real.
100% real. 100% real.
But on a real point, I think T1 showcased a lot of, like,
fragility yesterday. I think a lot of the teamfights, like,
if Team Liquid showcased anything in terms of the teamfighting,
then they would have been able to get over at least one or two games.
But I think KC is a better teamfighting team.
Alright, well, we'll see.
We'll see what happens here, Raz.
And everyone at home, it is T1,
the reigning world champs versus CarmenCorp,
making their debut at MSI,
their debut at MSI looking to make the upset.
Let's see what happens.
We'll see you after game number one.
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we bring you day number two and this one is going to get spicy Azale, that fan prediction
blew my mind entirely, I haven't seen T1 get beaten my whole life.
I know it is actually pretty shocking, but the blue wall is pretty huge on Twitter and very very loud as you see them here showing up
to cheer on their team and enemy territory here.
Yeah, I was going to say.
I will say T1 has a couple fans in the crowd today. I think I've counted about 5,000 bigger jerseys on my walkover.
I know, I noticed that. We were trying to prep together, but you were counting it. I think you heard about 3,700.
100.
That's a long time, because I don't have that many toes
of fingers.
You just kept recycling your time.
See, that's how you got past 20.
Really nicely done.
500 sets of toes of fingers for bigger joints.
Absolutely ridiculous.
And honestly, this place has filled up incredibly much.
And I'm also very, very interested in how this one's
going to go, because T1 did not look flawless yesterday
as a North American representative.
I imagine you were a little bit more frustrated at TL
rather than thinking that T1 were unbeatable.
Yeah, no, I actually came away from that series thinking
that T1 does look beatable.
You know, at least in some of those games,
I think in game two and in game three,
Tio had a real opportunity to win.
Game two in particular, I felt like competitionally,
they had a better scaling cost,
they had some really good answers
for what T1 had drafted.
And at one point they were up, what,
6,000, 7,000 gold in the game?
So, you know, game two, game three,
both were very winnable for Tio.
And coming into play, I had KC powering to both Tio.
So I feel like, hey, you know, TL didn't get the job done,
but if KC can get themselves in similar situations,
I feel like they are a better team
if I didn't bend current TL.
And I feel like they should be able to at least,
you know, get themselves a game, if not do a lot more.
Yeah, and a lot of people have sort of explained,
KC is a team that's a lot more slow,
moving a lot more team fight focused.
We have one of those teams in the LCK.
Gen.G have generally done a very similar situation.
Yes, T1 were able to get over that line, they don't.
You'll have to wait until a tournament that's happening after this one.
However, that was a really close series between T1 and them.
This could be a similar situation, at least we could hope.
And they're a big grins, especially from the face of Rupert there,
who was very, very excited to get this one going.
Martyr is all business, though, as you can see.
And I'm looking forward to seeing what this draft is going to look like,
and we're lucky because we're right in there.
The Rumble, Divai, and the Jarvan all taken away here
is Yike getting a lot of focus here.
His vibe being banned away, very, very cool stuff.
The Lee Sin and the Bard feeling obligatory.
And the Varus still going to get banned away as they pick away the Orianna.
I love this.
Yeah, I mean, Keria is just not allowed to play Bard.
Nope.
This champion for that player is just way too ridiculous.
My lord.
It is the number one ban against C1 by a lot.
Yes.
75% of their games in his ban.
Next most common is only 40% for the Orianna.
Jace as well as the Nocturne.
This is going to be playing through side lanes here.
But when you do showcase this early, I always like the option for KC to kind of like pre-counter what they're doing.
You know, if you want to go in towards a Zyra Con, if you want to look for those types of answers,
if you want to have globals of your own to answer, that can work as well.
But instead they're going to the Ash, which obviously does help a lot, you know, as far as the laning phase.
You ask Seraphine, very powerful, and you do have the ability to track the enemy jungle,
which is big when Yike is playing as well as he is.
But that being said, I do always worry when you have now drafted two low mobility carries
against Nocturne and what we can assume is going to be additional dive.
Yeah, I do like having so much augmentation for a potential carry from the top lane or the jungle though.
We've seen Ash Seraphine Orianna be extremely strong when something like a Zin Zhao is put in the jungle,
like really being able to utilize those more bruiser type junglers as the melee is going to be locked in.
This is something that Paze is very good at.
I believe it was only a few weeks ago where he ended the mid game at 8-0 and the rest of his teammates didn't get any kills, so it was just all paced.
And then they won the game.
I will say some of the really strong pairings are going to be banable, right?
Because when I think of Mel, I think of the Camel combo, that is obviously really, really strong.
You can ban Alchimille, take that away.
Mel Pike, another big one.
Exactly, Pike, another big one.
Those are the two that are really kind of across the stage.
Terry is known for not having much of a champion pool, so I'm sure after that he's got nothing.
Two bands? He's out.
We'll have to see what he is going to pull out.
He did try to play the Jax.
Was hovering that one, didn't decide to go there, so we'll see.
The Shen another option alongside the Mel that he could make work.
But the Wukong gonna be taken away from you.
I think that's a good one, I think since our still needs a look.
But KC now with a couple of options, is the Camille gonna be taken away?
Maybe it is just Camille Pike, and you forced them to go with something at least a little bit more interesting.
Yeah, yeah, I do think it makes a lot of sense to me.
You know, those are just very, very dangerous pairings.
You know, pairings that can set up so easily for the Mel.
Because if you have some ability to kind of get that hit confirmed for the Mel
to set up these fights aggressively,
Mel can easily burst you down, right?
And Camille, as well as the Pike,
also really assists in getting you low enough to get the execute
either with the Pike ult or getting you low enough for that Mel ult
to come through and get that execute.
So I do expect the Pike to get banned out
Unless they just think, hey, like Pyke, Nautilus, whatever, it's all the same, but I do tend to feel like Pyke is pretty dangerous in this duo.
Yeah, I do feel like Nautilus is more of a Ziggs one, and I feel like Pyke is the middle option.
But we'll see where they do decide to go, as the Nautilus is going to be the decision, so they take that one out of the way.
And now, Paze, I mean, he can lock the Pyke right now if they would like to, say, Faker's pick until last, unless he wants to play Jace mid, which I highly doubt.
It's looking somewhat flimsy on the T1 side of things.
It is going to be the pike speaking of flimsy, man.
Like, you can try to build health.
You're still going to not have any health.
Yeah, I mean, it is really interesting
because there's kind of always two ways.
I feel like looking at these full damage comps is you're like,
wow, there's a lot of squishy members.
They can all die.
But the other side of it is that everyone on T1
is going to do so much damage that even if you go tanky,
you kind of just die too, right?
Because there's so many threats.
It is very, very dangerous.
Games like this become so much about the initial engage,
about positioning, about how the opening moments
of a fight are gonna go, because people will just flop.
And Sion is gonna be there to try to survive
the onslaught here, to try to soak up that damage,
create that space.
Casey, very clearly, are drafting for a front to back
team fight.
You know, it's going to be all about this.
Try to protect your Orianna, as well as your Ash.
Utilize the counter engage of the Seraphine, of the Sion,
to try to create that space and keep them alive.
And that is what you are kind of hoping for.
Don't believe their lives.
Yeah.
Vici always does it to me.
Then Peri is going to come through, though.
This is something that can certainly
work alongside the Ariana and the Ash.
As Kari is not going to be locking that one in.
He's not allowed.
Locking.
Get it.
The Akali for Faker, though, this is something
that he's found a lot of success on, especially this season.
This is one of the picks that he's still just incredible
at making work, even though his landing phase this season
hasn't necessarily been, um, the best one that he's had throughout his career,
which is a pretty high bar. Let's be honest, but I'm really liking how incredibly
diverse both of these comps are. Right. You can see exactly what they want to do.
Casey, slow moving juggernaut style of composition, very front to back.
T1, absolute chaos. Let's pull you apart.
Let's get better positioning, go for the flank angles and make it happen from there.
But honestly, if KC get even a little bit ahead,
it's going to be hard for T1 to make their way back into the game.
It really is, but they do have a lot of ability
to make individual plays, to split up fights,
to kind of win on different sides.
Yeah, there's a bit of poke there as well with the Jace.
Absolutely.
Jace plus Mel, right?
So they can play for the poke, someone gets low,
all of a sudden you are at risk of getting burst down by Pyke,
by Mel, by all of these champions that can fly in.
And it's always so much harder of a job to actually mark
the flanks when you have Nocturne on the team.
because Nocturne turns out the lights,
then all of a sudden, N'Kali is coming from one angle,
Pyke is coming from another angle.
It's very difficult to actually track where everyone is
and stay safe.
So I'm a little bit worried for the KC carries.
Of course, as you get later on into the game,
Orianna gets a comp like this.
You can go pretty defensive if you want.
We do sometimes see people off into a row,
get a later Zonia's.
Then that's pretty tough.
But Ash and Seraphine, if you are mispositioned,
there's no items that you can build
that are going to save you.
You are just going to be for the C1 carries.
And it's going to be a bit of a difficulty.
Let's have a look here, though, as Carrier.
Oh, man, the matchy-matchiness of these skins, as well,
absolutely loving it, as KC set up already.
Some vision already laid down towards that bottom side.
Zyak and Yehu getting themselves into position.
Fun fact, Yehu has yet to beat Faker.
Did play for DRX, obviously, in the LCK,
so did have an opportunity to do so.
But currently, 0-6 as far as games.
And Faker is feeling pretty confident in this matchup.
Absolutely should be.
I mean, this is the matchup that we actually saw Quid pick into Faker,
so he's playing both sides of it now.
This is a matchup that a lot of the Caulie players really do like,
and the question is kind of like, can you find the angles to make the big plays
because otherwise Orianna generally just slowly builds a lead,
auto-attacking you down in lane, slowly kind of whittling you out,
and can create a pretty big CS advantage.
So you have to be willing and able to go for those aggressive plays.
Well, he's already taken a favor of damage here, as we can see, down to about 250.
Let's get a little bit back in response, but it's not necessarily working out.
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And one of the casters have been saving their pennies.
I was gonna say, my pennies have also been attempted to be saved when I'm not buying baby things.
I'm not going to lie, and let's take it down to about a hundred here is yeah
Who is doing what it says on the tin?
I am range champion prior to level six against Akali
Bigger though just popping his plot now, but he is getting very low
Yeah, he was doing a great job here and it's kind of a battle for Akali against the manna of Orianna great
Oh, yeah, let's go again to come on through there is carry it does get himself out of the way
It looks like Boussion Kalis feeling pretty good about this matchup for now though is yike bounces on top of owner
It's a great spell shield to deny a lot of that the yike now gets control and with KC controlling the bottom side
This is dangerous for carriers making his way over the dust bringer doing a little bit of work
There is there is the bone skewer to connect from carrier this red buff getting involved and owner just smites it away
So um thanks for all of your time KC. Yeah, because meanwhile bot lane pays never even moved and now carry a looking
Yeah, looking for another angle as boost you're gonna have to flash pays now gonna be moving as he looks to try and get some damage
Damage down, Bustio going in, lived through the ignite zone, now Carrier needs to get himself out of the way, some defense here from Ono, but he gets into the fog of war.
He has to help back the flash bone, Stuart, as Callist now has to flash away, and Ono's made his way in. That's first blood for the knock turn, and PACE!
He even manages to get the execute before going down. Yike will fall as well, it's a 2-4-1 for T1.
That final auto there from Pace, takes out the dog, Yike falls, Callist goes down, Callist was unable or maybe didn't think he needed to flash
initial hook there from Kariah and that goes so bad for KC off of this invade. They put a lot
of time into this. Look at the CS between Oner and Yike right now, 23-11. You used that following
par out to try to play for this invade. They never were able to actually push back the KC members,
but it didn't matter because Oner steals it away. He smites it out. Buccio is forced to flash here
early and then when the hook comes back up a little bit later, it all came down to this flash hook
hook here from Kariah.
Kallis needed to actually flash this.
I do believe he had time to react, but he flashes late.
And then at that point, owner is just going to flash follow.
You're never going to get out of there alive.
And then the last auto attack from Paze does kill off.
Yike doesn't survive as long as then a fairy
believe is going to take him down.
Yep.
So really nicely played here from T1.
At least able to get one back though is KC.
1,000 gold going to be the advantage.
The problem is, this is exactly the type of game
that T1 want to be playing, right?
Chaotic fast and loose winning the trades getting the advantages and that is precisely what's happening here in this are battle of
former and current T1 top laners
It is the J. Sturring a good job boost your great sidestep there, but he's still very very dead
That's gonna be the order to come through from Payne's execution and odia bad just met worse
Yeah, that is really really tough great side step from boost you up with no sums in a long lane
Where are you gonna go buddy? There's there's no way out from that position and that is the danger
You know of picking these type of champions in is the playmakers available there
We saw Kariah going crazy on the Camille at times and now you know off to a great start here in that bot lane pays
He's just getting so strong and and we have seen it so many times when melz get really really fed all of a sudden all it
takes QER and you are basically just gone.
Well, Kerri, I looked at the angle there.
Another bone skewer is going to connect.
Anklist is extraordinarily dead.
Nothing the Ash could do.
Tried to take Kerri away with him,
but didn't have the damage.
And T1 go to 4-1 now.
This game is very swiftly falling apart.
Oh, yeah.
It is a 2K lead at five minutes.
So you can say that again.
That is a crazy.
This game is swiftly falling apart.
Thank you, Max.
You're welcome.
That is a crazy advantage there for T1 over KC.
at this point. And I talked about it in draft. When you are going a low mobility style of
champion against a comp like this, if you get behind, you are going to get one shot.
It is so hard to actually play the game. And Ash and Seraphine are looking like they're
going to be paper. This is the kind of game that Casey really needs to sort of slow down
the pace. They have a lot of scaling. Oh, another bone skewer connects there. Even the route
to connect onto Calistus. Boussio is just dead. Pais gets the execution one more time.
Dagas aren't going to quiet land as the second one does at least the dragon might be considered, but I imagine T1 probably just want to keep killing them
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a pretty good objective as well
I know that racking up the gold here is now it's nearly a
3000 gold lead here at six minutes. They're gonna be taking the dragon as well even faker in the isolated 1v1 in mid in this melee versus range
He's up a couple CS. Yeah, so he's actually like boldly
Oh another burn skill to come through here is at least yike is able to secure his grump
Congratulations. That does, yeah, that's, that is, that is something. Um, I've got the, uh, the silver lining, right?
It's a very dark cloud.
Looking more of an iron lining in this one.
Yeah, but, uh, Carrier had probably the best pike game I have ever seen this season. They did not win.
So maybe there's, there's something there. Ulti to come through as Kalista is going to survive for the moment. Ignite ticking down, but will not kill.
So the ash is going to live whether that means very much the stuff getting better for Casey
Jury is still out at least it didn't get worse. So there is definitely that
Well, he's not in lane. It got a bit worse. We didn't get as worse as it could
At least it could have been worse. Yeah, there we go
So it wasn't the worst possible thing to happen, but now Buzio unfortunately
He is probably gonna get dove here. Well, there's a fight going on elsewhere as well as yank looking for fake
He goes into the shroud though and just ults away.
That is going to be Hayes underkilling spree.
Karius surviving as well as the successful 2v1 dive in the bottom lane.
No sums needed there.
None available for T1, but they were so confident they could actually make that dive happen.
Beautifully set up again by Karius.
As soon as he hits the underdose, as soon as you hit any sort of CC,
the Solar Stairs guarantee that damage is going to come through and they are bursting you down.
Even in the isolated 1v1 on the top side, obviously you are expecting to be down a bit as the Sion,
But you were not expecting to be down this much 20 CS
He's already taken two plates as well during doing great in the laning phase and did honestly have a pretty tough outing
Yesterday in the laning phase is Morgan where he had been solo killed a number of times
But looking to be in really good form
Thus far in game one versus Conor and it's it's actually kind of cute right goes from playing against Morgan to
Playing against Connor it is kind of just like a reunion in the top lane as far as the T1 matchups
concerned as owner going to take one of the grubs. Paranoia comes through pretty defensively here
as the fear is not quite going to work out too much but now Doran just dives in goes actually
to the skies into the middle of three people and then wanders away. The arrow is going to sail by
and T1 now realizing that they can go back looking for the two-for-one grub straight and Yaak has
to get out of their pace looking for Clist as well who's just not allowed to lane if it's a 1v1
And so there we go. T1 locked down all three of the grubs in the end to move to a 3.5k gold advantage
Yeah, that is really nice for T1 when you already have all these winning lanes when you already have the push across the map here
Be able to get those grubs just gonna help to accelerate the game that much more look at boost you on the topside
It's kind of desperation ours. He's sitting behind to see if Doran would over extend and they could look for a surprise play
With this Seraphine, but Seraphine's not even level six. So it's not really that dangerous whatsoever
and Kalista is down here on that bot side, but it's always pretty scary walking in and T1 are just going to continue to invade here with owner and Karya in such good positions.
They are not going to be losing any 2v2s.
Nope, that's going to be the steal as well as the eye-cast to flash away, they can just backflip over the wall,
but when I don't think this Dogo is going to be able to do anything, does manage to bounce over the wall and escape, the flash is now down and T1 claim control of the enemy jungle.
jungle yeah I mean they're just keeping the pressure on because like look at this
right look at the CS is that is a giant circle that's a really big circle but I
think I'm a lot of circle helps yeah almost 40 CS in the jungle yike has been
a guy who in the LEC has really been impressing me and has been able to
actually create some some pretty massive advantages 4kc a number of times but in
this game his owner getting very far ahead and these are their individual
that in this head-to-head which I think is going to be a very important one throughout the series.
Well, I hope that it gets more important as well. Good flash away from Khalees who does manage to land the arrow.
I believe Rebobble was on cooldown, but the paranoia and Oda comes in and just puts him down!
Another bonus kill to come on through and obviously that one's going to hit.
And Karyas does go down as the response and Yike will be able to survive, but they did at least get their target.
Yeah, I mean, Keria dies, but you're giving the Mel another kill, and Seraphine's the one taking the kill from you, so who cares, right?
Yeah.
Paze is just getting so ridiculously fed, Faker getting active on the map here, moving around, knowing you just want to keep evading, you want to keep the pressure up, do not allow Yike any space to be able to recover.
Well, all he comes through here is Yike doesn't avoid a bit of the damage, but he was never winning that one-to-one! Paze is able to put him down!
Oh dear, that looked like a little bit of a sign of desperation as Durango on 1v3 here towards his top side
He wants in on the fun, but I have a feeling he may just be going down turns his attention to the wave and
Will be falling so there's a little bit more back here for KC as they do what they can to limit this gold advantage
Yeah, it is something and I mean for KC. You've got to stay active on the map. Try to find some sort of plays
You know overload one side look for something because I don't think this is a game
You can play slow anymore, you know T1 are gonna be snowballing towards a quicksoul
They have a massive advantage if you then somehow stabilize the game at this deficit and farm and farm and farm
Then you are gonna have a chance in a fight
That didn't look very fair
Kind of is going to come through and try and defend is Kariah
Still wanting to find an angle as he gets hit by the kitchen sink and taken down
Okay, Kariah having a little too much fun buddy. Yeah, let's take a look at the mini map
No one from his team is anywhere near him. I think he's been listening to all of those people saying he's the best player in the world
And it's got to his head
Is now pays looking for yeah who one more time here towards this bottom side as we finally have a mage matchup
But men
Yeah, maybe he was actually reading what Buccio is saying is there's a paranoia towards the bottom side of the map
Oh, no is just going to put down yeah, and I do want to say something about this
We did have onus stats come up before like 42 and 8 was the win rate
But one of those losses was against harmon like e-sports
There's a reason why T1 are our second seed and it's because Hanawa were able to win that best of five and owner's nocturn
Was just not that good
But historically it has been a lot more like this where he just wins during going to take down the Ikea as T1
Just celebrate by roaming down the river and claiming even more kills
Baker even had another charge of that perfect execution to take him down
Do you call it a charge? I don't think it's really a charge
He has a second activation and I'm going to grab the double dragon. I'll give it to you. Thanks, man. No problem
Appreciate it. You got two charges of it. Yeah, you do you got one charge does one thing another charge does completely different thing
Yeah, theoretically different ability, but that's alright completely different. It's like Silas
He's got like his abductive scum two charges two charges. Yeah, one does dash one does chain two charges. There you go
Yeah, it's another cloud soul T1 obsessed with cloud souls kind of like me
and they are very good at getting them the RNG it just just works out but now
They can move towards having infinite movement speed and for a composition like this Cloudsoul is probably one of the most scary ones
Yeah, it is definitely pretty terrifying when you have a comp that wants to play a lot through side lanes
Once the one through one you have owner and carry a move around enough all the time given that additional movespeed pretty scary
I think there could be worse ones a 4kc, but they are just trying to hold on here
And you can see all of these KC members are on topside.
All five of them. There's no one right now answering Faker in the bot lane.
So they're going to try to overload and potentially make a play here.
Oh, Paze might be taking down the rebuttal now and cool down.
The arrow is going to hit and Yike going to get over that wall.
Paze will be shut down finally as Karya trying to get rid of Kanna.
And this is a great play from KC.
They just get that shut down and they get themselves out.
And they get the flash, which is really, really big.
So getting the flash there off of Paze, you know, he had the flash.
He had the rocket ball.
They was trying to get out wasn't able to do it ever play here from Casey they realized and we can't just play
131 so they said all five top and they're looking to try to answer a play to try to make something happen
They are able to get a kill
But of course in the meantime Faker has been pushing down on Bonsai and they still do have an enormous
Advantage for pace for owner for Doran this top lane tower very close to going down here as well for Doran as Kerry
Is just gonna
Continually stay active on the map here clearing out vision and just playing in the face of KC
Yep, Serpent's Fang first here for Doran as well often times with this Grasp J spilled
We do see the black cleaver that wanted to go to
Ripping out that shield as quickly as possible as only with the dust bringer
Seeing what he can do, Boussio getting an encore and it actually manages to clip fake
It goes into the shroud though to keep himself safe and now just going to dash in realizes that he was gonna go down
tried to get whatever he could and that in fact is nothing and the Casey
composition I think is starting to work starting to come together and T1
also have opened the the tent doors if you can call them that and the circus
is really in town. It does feel like Casey are just they're just gonna squat
up they're gonna walk around as four as five and T1 have been looking to you
know play the map make individual plays but it's very dangerous if Casey are
They're just always going to be grouped to look for those.
And this time, Faker does get caught out.
They just caught Pace.
They get a couple of kills back.
But it's not the end of the world,
because T1 has been pushing everywhere,
taking every objective.
They got that second dragon uncontested.
They're going to take the Herald uncontested.
They got the three grubs.
And so everything's still looking pretty under control here.
But T1 definitely want to clean it up a little bit
and make sure they're cognizant of the fact
that KC are overloading one side of the map over and over.
Yep, at this point, like with a 6,000 gold lead at 5, sorry, 16 minutes into the game.
Yeah, you're still probably going to be pretty happy.
I don't think that Tom and Mata are going to be all that mean about this mid-game,
because this lead was just absurd from the beginning.
Still four minutes until Baron, which is just kind of crazy.
So the point is less than that, though, at one and a half.
Yep, it is not too far away, but these two teams obviously,
You know, they have some familiarity, you know, with some of these players, but T1 has a ridiculous amount of international experience.
This is the previous international appearances, you know, compared to that 4KC.
Buzio as well as Yachter, obviously having the most experience with Black West and G2.
This is the experience gap in games, which is just ridiculous.
You look at Faker versus...
It's not fair to ever have Faker in these graphics at all.
Almost ten times as many games as Yachter who has played.
who has played. Yeah, but almost 10 times as many games as any other player on the planet.
Isaac. Yeah, Casey combined have less games than fake. So that is kind of crazy. And that's
always the scary thing is that team one managed to become so composed in all these games.
And a lot of that really does come down to the amount of times that they've been here,
the amount of times they've been these massive games in these big situations. And we had
close on the desk yesterday. And he was saying that he was feeling like yesterday they were
a little bit nervous, you know, they were kind of getting out of the way a bit, but
that's a day they would be more calm. But it's like, I just don't feel like you see
T1 looking nervous almost ever.
You will never be able to outcome T1.
No.
They are just, they are very comfortable. They're also in Dajun, right? Like, this is
not very far from home.
And Kangnam is actually on, like, the Dajun side of Seoul as well. So it's even quicker
for them to get here than people in other parts of Seoul as well.
So, yeah, it's not exactly the roughest of travel times,
as Doran feeling a little bit more like domestic Doran here today
in this game as he does teleport away, not wanting to get dove.
Yep.
Keria makes his way up and just going to cross map,
and they might be able to take an inner turret off the back of that
in trade for probably some bouncy gold as the Rift Herald is thrown down.
Is this an inhibitor turret?
I think it is.
That's what I was going to say.
is that Clis, you know, is up here on the topside working in the tower.
But Casey sent four members there to try to make that play.
Bigger was already at the tower and they dropped the Herald.
So they're going to get the Tier 2 easily.
They got three plates off that as well.
And Kerry is still just soaking experience on this topside being annoying.
They pushed in mid lane.
Now they're taking away jungle camps.
They see, no, they can't win any even fight.
So they kind of have to do this.
But T1 is responding appropriately.
You just full-court press, push everywhere.
Casey has to commit four or five to one side to get a kill.
Even if you get that kill, it's going to be a gold negative play basically every single time.
You just let them and make sure that you have the cross map plan to take 2 for 1 in every scenario.
And that is what's happening. The unstoppable onslaught comes through the flash over from Canada.
They really want to kill Doran, try and get something off the back of this play.
Shockwave, fantastic from Yahoo!
Using the sty on in order to get that extra range on the hula hoop.
Beautifully done. Pays not quite able to get there in time to save his top laner.
But here is that sort of trade back that you have to be aware of.
Faker's in that top lane, getting that wave shoved in and T1,
getting to work here in mid as well.
Boneskiw is going to go wide.
That is a great beat drop there on the carrier,
but not too much more going to come of it.
Exactly.
And you just look into the topside jungle.
Owner is taking your red buff.
Faker is working on your tier two tower.
And then engage.
They're also going to take Buseo as well by the looks of things.
And there is the Boneskiw to connect.
Death from below is named very correctly.
Carrier is going to help lock down that kill.
Yank taking some damage from Paze as well.
But also, the daggers doing some work here.
Yank looking a little bit aggressive for T1.
They're still looking for Morris.
Carrier wanting to take down Boosier, gets the stun,
and that's going to set up for the reset to come on through.
Owner also will just kill Yank.
And it's all just starting to fall apart for KC.
If it hadn't fell apart already.
Yeah, I mean, the last wheel has fallen off the car.
We'll say that much.
Wait, but now it's just a sled.
Yep.
That might be okay
All right, canner it's up to you you're the big lumberjack that can run pretty fast
We're gonna need this sign to make some stuff happen, but I yeah, I don't know I think
It's a 9.5 K gold advantage
There's a stun on the door and the unstoppable onslaught is going to come through as well
You're gonna get charges Calist trying to do damage to Doran and it's just not gonna work door
I'm gonna show him how it's done as before he goes down
And it's a one-for-one trade in the end
Anyone for one probably better for KC though to be honest
Although not Doran really just does not feel like he's really getting any damage there
You know with even kind of locking up Doran just didn't have the damage actually knocked down Doran quickly at all
Then he turns he gets a kill in that situation where it looked like he was completely dead to rights
Odor is farming every camp of yikes
He did the best off then went down to the blue buff killed yike on it took it's almost a
It's a flame horizon. It's a flame horizon in 10 CS in the jungle. Crazy at 21 minutes
I mean look at look at the list farm as well, right? Yeah, there is 60 CS up on the end of the AD carry
All right
Well, uh, yike is going to get paranoid and I do not blame him
We'll be taken out here as Canada not gonna be able to help that situation at all
And maybe the maybe the flame horizon just happens now
He needs 12 like three camps. It's gonna take three camps. All right
There's a beautiful rebuttal as busio just going to get executed by pays dash cannon to try and get himself a little bit
Further away good sidestep from Calista's a flash comes through from pays and he is just going to walk his way out of that
That kind of felt like a 1v3 play, but he is just kind of that fed
Yeah, he is that fed me is that good makes the play happen those his damage thresholds there is able to kill off
Busey with that final cue well meanwhile faker doing a faker is doing pushing the side lane all game long
Faker has not really had to be involved in anything and he doesn't really been involved in anything
But it's just keeping active on the map forcing them to actually respond to these waves
And the rest of T1 are just roaming around sealing every jungle camp winning every skirmish and taking every objective
And KC have kind of got to decide when they want to actually leave the base in flight
I feel like at this point you probably don't even bother for soul
Maybe you just try to turtle up for elder, but maybe they'll come out if they start baron or something
It just feels like if you leave your base now
I can't imagine a world in which you are not just dying on the way to the soul
Yeah, it's I mean it's every play you make is probably like a 1% play right?
So you kind of have to I think you just have to send it. You just have to send it as it's only gonna get worse
We explain this already right any time they go for like a trade or a cross map or an overload
You're going to lose more than you gain
And so maybe just trying to catch them off guard and go for the hail Mary might be the best way to get it done
But honestly, there aren't a lot of good choices in this situation when you're 10,000 gold behind and Baron has only just spawned
Speaking of spawn, this is kind of shellacking territory as well. He's the one that coined how a shellacking is supposed to work a
Very quick victory under 25 minutes. This might be heading in that direction
But we'll see there is the paranoia to come down very defensively though is he actually uses it to reposition
position, Oda gets in there, it'll be a big shutdown and that is going to go over to
Yeahhu, Karrie getting amongst it though as we can see 1 vs 3 now as the ulti from Paze
comes on down and that is going to lock up a kill but Paze getting a little bit lower.
Faker finally making his presence known as he tries to get over the wall and does use
the ulti to do so but Kanna blasts Kones himself and will try to get this teleport out.
Faker knows that he is going to be able to escape and Doran just going to grab the soul
But that fight a lot closer than I think T1 were expecting.
Yeah, it absolutely was.
And they are able to get a couple kills.
They take out owner, KC, not allowing T1 to actually set up.
They just pull the trigger immediately as soon as they see anyone they could go on.
They pull send it on owner.
He of course was able to turn around, get that kill onto Kalis with the rest of his team.
But a couple of kills go the way of KC.
The problem is, even if you take down owner and carry,
if Perry's, Baker, Doran, all very strong at this point of the game,
and they're going to grab soul for themselves here as well,
as they just continue pushing in these waves
and owner has secured the Flame Horizon 222.
My lord.
116, not something you see every day,
three full levels of 15 to 12.
All right, this might be the fastest Flame Horizon
I have ever seen in my life.
And also, it's probably the first one in the jungle
that I have seen outside of the funnel meadow,
which was just a, that's not included.
Good dark times.
was definitely Dark Times. The arrow is going to connect onto Faker, there is the Unstoppable
Onslaught and the Shockwave. That's a lot of R buttons, but I think it's required in
order to make sure they lock down this Akali and get the kill as quickly as possible. Now
they've got 40 seconds before this Baron is going to be taken down. But due to the mascot
prices moment of the game, that soul does get picked up from T1 and they should be able
to use that to book it towards his Baron. Hang on. They're surely not able to just take
this for free with Faker dead. Look at the vision. There's no vision at all. And Buseo
is going to try to move forward and get some vision back, but it's so scary to actually
walk in here. And, uh, Alist, I think they may be aware of it now, but it just feels
like it's way too late. It doesn't matter. Yag will never get here in time. And so that
is going to be Baron secured. Faker, five seconds to go, but they're still just going
ascended into that backline, the on-core is decent, the back damage on the
Callister is massive, owner will be taken out though, his carrier will also be
secured. Yike doing a whole bunch of work here as, oh my never mind, Faker's
going to show up, Kanna looking to be taken down here as Boussio trying to
help out with a bit of drop in the beat, but it's not going to quite work. Yeah, who?
Here as well, doesn't have his ultimate for the next little while, but a couple of
seconds and that'll be back up again in T1. That was a little bit of a bridge
too far. Yeah, they decided to go for that fight, having a bit of fun, I think, in this one, in a few different moments.
Oh, there's the rebuttal, and Kolas's not gonna get killed by the ulti, but he's still has to go home.
Yeah, that was pretty terrifying. The amount of damage coming out from Paze here has the mage eyes on 12 stacks.
Faker nearly has his death cap as well, and he is gonna be a pretty huge threat here too.
You can definitely see if KC were even remotely close in gold that the 5-5s are very winnable, right?
There are so many squishy members, they have some good AOE CC on the KC side, but they just fell so far behind that it has been incredibly difficult.
And I mean, just look at the initial damage that comes down onto Kalis as they go in.
This is not like a shockwave, that is just him.
That's Umbrell blades.
It's just owner.
And on the other side, nicely played by Yike is able to finish off owner and then you get that reset, takedown carrier who was quite low.
From here, you know T1 not able to kill off the side is very, very tanky, but not able to stop that Baron either.
And a fun fact, once again talking about this Nocturne, this is the second largest CS deficit at 25 minutes in international history.
As owner is going to get a secure rampage for Pays 10-2 and 7 now on the metal, also having a very good performance.
KC just doing their very best to try and defend and honestly their very best
It's just not gonna be enough not at this stage
So we have a look at the coinbase gold grind owner is just yeah
Making good money leave some gold for the other people
Or maybe just kill the Nexus and then you don't need to really worry about it
I'm gonna just prove that that you are the carry and he absolutely is a man what redemption for his nocturn as well
After that series against homo life eSports just showing me yes
This is a devastating pick for me. Do not disrespect it.
I don't think anyone will for the next little while.
Definitely do not think you can disrespect him on really anything.
He has a good point.
Especially after a game like this.
Casey yesterday had the second largest gold lead period at an international ever.
And then this is against them.
The second largest CSDA 25 in jungle specifically in international history.
So two gold records set in different directions with Casey over these last two days.
days and definitely liking the direction yesterday a lot more. Yeah we're absolutely dominating
but we'll have to see you know how they can kind of bounce back from a game like this because
you know I do think you know yike has been incredible throughout this season but having
a game like this against T1 it's hard right it's frustrating when they're in your face and we'll
have to see if he's going to be able to bounce back because that's is something that in the past
he had received criticism for his ability to stay calm in these moments internationally,
to be able to bounce back after a tough game, and there's no one harder to do that against than T1.
Yeah, I think one thing that does help is that you basically lost the game at six minutes,
so they've had a lot of time to be like, no, it doesn't, like, what happens from here doesn't
really matter. Let's just try and throw the kitchen sink at them and see what happens.
And I think stylistically, this composition from T1 should either do this or lose, right?
like it's a very one or the other style of composition. So maybe there's a little bit of that. That's the the coping that I would go with.
That's that's how you have to look at it. You can't read into the game too much. You just have to say, you know what, we're confident in our preparation.
This game went bad and it went bad early. Move forward, believe in your practice, believe in your ability to take them down.
They felt pretty confident coming in. So, you know, just go next and see what happens.
And guess what? They won't be able to play these champions again. You will not need to worry about
owner turning the lights off because he won't have the ability to do so in the
next game. They will remain on. They will remain on. There's nothing that they can
really do about it. They could even maybe make more lights with a twisted
fade pickup, something like that. It's absolutely fine. But, Casey right now on
the ropes and we do have an Elder Dragon spawning in 20 seconds time. Let's see
whether they can get over to that one as it won't be Exodia quite as I don't
know whether they'll have time to get a Baron before they just push and win the
game with three inhibitors down so owner can get the double-flame horizon.
Ah that's the strategy they heard that it's only the second largest CS deficit.
As all right yike in a lot of trouble here pays looks for the ulti that was an ambitious one is
there's a paranoia never mind not ambitious at all now they're gonna look to just try and kill
them all bone skill connects that is three on the floor shockwave is incredible as carrier goes down
but he's the only one to fall as the immediate revenge for t1 does come down the form of t1
One player is left till last here as Kanna will try and charge some Q's underneath these
Nexus Tarots, but there's battle against Faker.
I don't think he's won, that he is going to win.
Nexus Tarots fall, no Elders required here for T1 as they will obliterate KC in the first
game.
An incredible first game here to kick things off against KC T1, showing their strength
with these kind of bot lanes here, bringing out the Mal, bringing out the Pyke.
It was terrifying. Desk, what a case you have to do to come back.
Well, guys, as we say in the LCK, that was a shell at game now T1 showing
there's levels to three O's in the first round.
And now I'm saying he got a lot of people.
I saw laughing at deep liquid.
Okay. Not so funny now.
All right, that's team order blasted you.
This one was crazy again.
Main specific points are going to be jungle as well as bottom lane.
And this one also started out with an attempted invade
against owner.
And owner hits another smite.
He keeps it going.
Yeah, it backfired so hard considering you had mid and bot lane.
Both had prior for the side of KC.
So they moved it aggressively for owner.
His smites have been so good.
And then the ensuing play, Casey trying back out and T1,
they're still interested, and they managed to find a couple of kills.
Just being able to find windows like these,
because, yes, owner ends up getting the smite on the red,
but then recognizing that they were splitting with Yaito on topside
to leave the jungle, and then of course,
Kalista not flashing the initial hook flash from Pike,
and then they get like four kills off of those two flash timers.
It was ridiculous of how much it was a dominating bot lane.
I mean, it's one of these things that sometimes in pro play, you see it flashed down, like,
okay, how do they follow up on this, maybe they'll get a kill later, they'll find an angle,
but just have pressure. This was not bad.
Yeah.
This was, we're gonna kill you again and again, and again, we have a five minute timer to just
murderize you as much as possible. And the big beneficiary of this was Paze, who got
ten kills in this game, had a fantastic mel game again yesterday, and he's just been on fire on this pick.
Exactly they're running these these kill lanes for him bottom lane with mel plus x champion either Camille or pike
And so when you are down to flash that early on you are a very vulnerable target and the enemy jungle so far ahead because not only
Did owner smite his own camp but yike drops a camp when you're walking to the enemy side to go for an inmate in the first place
So he's already behind there and then owner got that first blood money, too
So super accelerated doctrine with Zen gets to keep on ulting you keep on keep his pressure up around the kill lane
And the thing is they banned the Nautilus and the Camille and the pike still available and onus Nocturne
He has been legendary on this pick so many times 43 to 8
Recorder over his career. It is such an interesting 18s. Let's get a hall of fame
Please we need to know it is
Ridiculous because when they got that pressure they kept going behind
behind like a tier 3 turret to try and find a pick on towards either Busey or Kallis threatening Gromp
So like that second highest CSD at 25 that Nautry really able to get but because you just never felt
Like secure and being able to take your camps. Yeah again history being made that second highest
Gold difference or CSD difference at 25. I mean we are in Korea
It is known in the top lane as a flame horizon flame one of the greats in the top lane through low history here in Korea
and in FlyQuest and yet again a shout out there by owner doing that to yike and it wasn't just
that happening here I mean it was just a comprehensive victory you look at that gold
graph it was never in doubt well look there's a little bit of the stock where the gold graph
is Casey's zoom in get the telescope out and you get to on the gold graph but there were a
couple of moments where you know they're like all right whatever we'll full send you know owners
straight into the back one and they're able to kill him.
But still, I mean, this was an absolute stomp.
And to me, a lot of the things remain true of continuing off
what they showed yesterday.
Being able to start off defending that invade
so incredibly well, I already felt like I was like, oh my god,
they're going to pick up exactly where they left off.
So everybody in play-ins already was terrified of T1,
but it seems like they are going to just take care of business
very quickly.
And if you're a reaper, you just have
to erase what happened in the early game.
because this team is much more stable than they would they should.
If you're Seraphine and Ash are losing Flash that early on versus a Pike,
it's going to be ugly.
And so, from what we saw from Buccio Enchilis yesterday
was a much better stable lane.
You have to believe it's going to be better than that.
Yeah, but before we forget this match,
it's time to toss who are Hyper Rex reflex replay
with Keria with the sole read on the Pike
to keep owners tethered together.
Oh man, he was just styling on them this game to flash read here.
Oh!
I got you, owner.
He took the fear down there.
What?
But he's not done.
He's not done after making this phenomenal play with his own skin, mind you.
Yeah, that's right.
He actually continued on after that.
He solo killed the Seraphine as well.
He was just dunking on them all game long.
And again, second rotation of bans.
They banned all of us.
They banned Camille.
He's like, I'm fine.
I'm good.
He escaped from the Seraphine kill with the proto down to it. He's like I'm out. He still lives. It's like pretty tough
He's just styling it's rough. It's rough because it literally that play happened right after Casey got a peg bot lane
You're like, okay, maybe they can leave this back. No, no, they can't they can't call it back in
It's gonna be a tough task here for any team
But Casey what the bounce back after that tough one will be back with game number two after this you're watching and aside 2026
in the first game.
An incredible first game here that kicks off against KC.
The final, we had expected with the 12,000 rounds in the world.
We won the world, you'll be smooth, do some work and kick through.
The action is going to ease the...
When I was a player, if I was to like make a misplay,
maybe it's my mouse, maybe it's my armrest,
something feels wrong. If you were at home, you wouldn't do that.
The Infinite Position Armrest is part of the largest you can have on stage standard initiative
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The most comfortable, stronger play comes naturally.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, MSI 2026.
Yes, we already through game one. It was a swift one. This one was kind of done pretty quickly
We're hoping that Casey can bounce back afterwards. Just shake your sillies out, right? That was game one against T1
Let's get into the real stuff now. It's not match point just yet
There's still plenty to play for plenty of time. Just relax and don't lose by as much as you want in Korea
At an international. How bad could it be?
Hey, look MSI like that here a few times ago where the like Busan became a library
Yeah, every time no, you're in the finals, right?
Let's just not tell them
That it's planes
Do you want historically known for getting knocked out of tournaments early?
Much like their world's record where they didn't even win the first MSI
You know crazy years ago
Yeah, full enough completely. Let's have a look at the drop tier as we dive into it. T1 are gonna ban away the viand the rumble again
Should just be the Javan if they want to keep things the same
Pocky ban and the cheeky Pocky ban to come on through
Casey I'm assuming is his first pick then because otherwise you would probably ban a Bard. Yeah, and also T1 still has a ban
So of course, yeah, so Buzio also is really well known for his Bard
And the question is are you willing just like first pick it because if you're not then I think Terry's gonna take it
right so that it is always quite a risk. Boussio to me was definitely the best western bar player.
I think he was absolutely, yeah last year, one of the best bar players in the world period,
but I think we have the two best bar players in the game today, the best, because unfortunately,
Karrie exists. Yeah, and Boussio might even use Karrie's skin. They walk the Casio in step. This
is what I was going to say is that in the west, not a lot of people are willing to blind bar,
right? So I am very curious to see what Bousso's answer is because if you're not willing to blind it,
I expect Karrie to take it 100% and then to me that is KC laying a trap. Whether or not the trap
will work at all remains to be seen. We've seen a few teams attempt this. Yeah. Do you want me to
tell you how it goes? They lose. Yeah, Karrie has a highlight reel and then they lose the game.
It might, you know, there might be an option, there might be an angle and obviously the Cassiopeia
is very strong but it is a risk to say the least as owner is considering a
wukong here would be a lot of power coming out of the jungle definitely a
little bit of a different vibe although still wanting to race to level six in
that early stage of the game I mean carrying competitive play this whole
year has not yet lost on the bark I played only five times yeah but he's not
allowed to and exactly that's what I was gonna say is the reason he's only played
five times is always bad. The number one pick fan against C1 by far is 75% over 75% now of their
games. And so Camille's support could be the answer. You know, I'm kind of curious because
Boussue is a very flexible player. He is famed for all kinds of crazy stuff. So we will see,
you know, how spicy they want to get in the bot lane. Would it just be Zig's Camille to come out?
They got rid of it and that's why I think that this is somewhat curious right because are they gonna play?
That that is true
You could theoretically play it towards the topside but this is the lane we saw yesterday and it was into the Caitlyn
But if I remember correctly, so the Ezreal Camille going to come out once again
I'm not feeling all that enthusiastic about it as now Paze can just move to something else if you would like to
He doesn't need to opt in to the Caitlyn matchup. I even though the Caitlyn did win
yesterday. I believe it was KC versus DCG that that did occur in. And honestly I
feel like if you were playing the Caitlyn Bard it's totally fine as long as
you just don't opt into some of these crazy level ones right where it's like
Camille gets in on you and gets insane value with the hail of blades. If they
chunk you out like that then yeah they can obviously win the lane but if
Caitlyn Bard just kind of play it slow and steady get a few levels before you
actually fighting this guy becomes very very risky for Camille to hook shot in.
If you hook shot in and you get barred stunned against the wall, you get Katelyn's wrapped, you get kited out, it is very tough.
So we will see how they're going to be able to pull it off, but Boosier definitely not someone to shy away from these kind of things.
He is the guy famously that played as your support. He has played all kinds of stuff.
He is that kind of a player who, if he believes it is the right matchup, he's not going to worry about it going wrong.
He's just going to think about it going right.
I always respect that because that is the kind of player that Kerry is to and that is you know part of why
Kerry has become the best support ever right as he has that that unwavering confidence in himself and his ability to pull off any
Champion any matchup in any position. Yep, and you can also hex tech ultimate in the bar
So he can't magically journey away, which is kind of fun
We did see that yesterday and it did work for getting a couple of the picks
I just don't know whether it's quite going to be enough as the Gallio is going to be taken away from faker
I think Gallio Wukong, a fantastic combo, great one to deny as well as Faker has been pretty good on the Gallio throughout the years.
And one more band to come through here. Will it be more focused towards Yike? That is the question.
I think so. It makes a lot of sense, right? You know, you just keep limiting.
Oh, it's like Panna's gonna have that now taken away.
Yeah, his signature pick, I would say for sure, is NAR. You know, very, very good on it.
Noorin is a really strong laner, excellent on the NAR, so we'll see what they're actually looking to play here for Doran.
Obviously last game was very very focused around playing through size lanes, they have the knocker, they have the streets, they look for some big leads.
So I do think that PC are going to want Doran playing something that is a carry that can have kind of more individual agency.
Oh the Vayne, I think maybe, kind of might be looking for a Crocodile.
Yeah, that would make a lot of sense.
See what Doran has as far as an answer, or he could just take the Renekton himself.
Yep, definitely Ken.
It's not like he can't just play.
Doran can play a tank if he wants.
He is very comfortable in all kinds of matchups.
He can play weak side.
He can play carry versus carry.
But he is really more known for his teamfighting.
When I think about Doran, I think about his greatest moments.
It's things like his Gragas, being able to actually take over in a teamfight, being
able to make those big moments for the team.
And it's going to be sitting around from Faker.
really cool because I know a lot of people do not feel comfortable in a lot of matchups
against Gatsio, so going to be able to take a little bit of a longer range approach.
And it's also pretty nice for setting up, you know, alongside the Caitlyn, you have
low committal engage now with the scatter of the week.
So you can set up a trap line as people are walking in, you can be fishing with scatters,
fishing with poke, fishing with Bartalds, you know, if you hit any of that, now all of
a sudden you have a tremendous amount of damage and follow up coming through.
Kiana has been getting some pretty good buffs on this patch, so...
I like how Boussir can't hover Vayne anymore, so we hover Space Vayne instead.
I love that. The Renekton seemed like something that we were going to see.
That will be locked in for Kanna. Feels pretty good now that...
Oh, the trundle! So I was really interested in whether or not the trundle was going to come out if a tank was locked in for KC.
But instead, T1 are looking at it as a potential, I guess, theoretically top lane option.
I don't love it into the Renekton. In my experience, it can be pretty difficult to actually get effective trades.
This, I like a lot more. I mentioned the Gragas because I feel like it is a pretty good neutralizing pick into the Renekton.
And probably Doran's best champion.
And you can ult Camille out of the ultimatum. So you can kind of break the ultimatum with that, which is really, really nice.
great disengage against potential Qiyana, hard engages.
Qiyana, you know I mentioned the buff on the patch,
did get a 20% damage increase to monsters on the Q.
So that is pretty significant, helped to clear a fair bit
as you're obviously using that quite a lot.
But it is T1 here, with a lot of CC,
they are playing more that front to back style.
It's not that they can't do any sort of,
you know, aggressive plays through side lanes and guard,
but this is not a 1-3-1, this is push outsides,
look for teamfights, and I do feel like for KC, they want to be hyper aggressive, they
need to find creative angles, and they're going to have to find a way for the Kiana,
for the Camille to get past the Scatter of the Week, to get past the Trap Line, to get
past this Gragas and this Wukong if they want to have success, because you really do need
to get on top of that Syndra and that Gatelin to have success in a 5v5.
Yeah, and I really like how they've sort of mixed this single target focus, like the unleashed
power from the Syndra. We know it as the gameplay button, right? Like you're going to basically
kill someone. Ace in the Hulk and then come through for the finish. And then someone's
trying to block, but you get a cast to the face and that separates them. There's a lot
of cool combos here. Not to mention the tempered fate also being a bit of a thorn in the side.
The T1, a lot more combo based for this composition. So we get onto the rift for game number two.
T1 looking for match point. KC looking to try and come back after a difficult game one.
Yeah, they are going to have to try their best to just shrug it off, bounce back, let's see what they can get done.
And you've got to be confident if you're going to play with Camille, you've got to be a madman.
Well, Kariah already down to 50% has to use the heel, and dodges away from a couple of mystic shots to avoid full depth,
but that is a good start here for KC.
Yeah, that is really good. That's the kind of thing you need to do, right?
Like, that is why you have to play with incredible amounts of confidence if you're going to play Camille when I think about
guys like Kariah and all and having amazing games on this.
Yeah, it is them throwing themselves into danger on repeat trying to start flights trying to get value as owner here is
Going to be starting on the enemy blue buff and I don't think they really know about this
Russian in already pays
Does have to use the barrier doesn't get a lot of value for it as we can see just eats a bit of ignite
But our boost here just making sure that he cycles those cooldowns as quickly as possible
And I talked about the level one this is the kind of lane you need to play you cannot allow Caitlin and bar to just sit there and
and stay full health, and be comfortable because you will not win out in this situation.
But my fear is,
owner is going to get level 3 and then come from behind them and there's no flash on Buseo.
And I think we are seeing the first blood already shape up right now,
and it's probably going to be on to Buseo unless Doran is in trouble here.
Yeah, Kanna is not going to kill him just yet.
I think we're going to watch Buseo die.
Well, we're not right yet. We're watching the Gromp die first.
Close your eyes, Casey fans.
Oh dear.
Um, Isaac has warned you, okay, so do not be surprised.
It's okay now. Yeah, Boussio just gonna get ushered out of the lane.
Ono makes his way over. Boussio down to 200.
Make that 150. The Blackboard piece has been made! His first blood is picked up!
Here comes Yike, though.
Alright, let's see whether they can clean this one up. Pays down to 100.
Callis now in trouble, though. Headshot comes through, and Yike just puts him down.
Ono is able to trade. That makes it a 2 for 2 in the end.
It did become a 2 for 2, but Callis just went way too fast.
By time for Yike to come down, it felt like he got over-aggressive there,
shifted in, had the barrier flash, maybe felt like he could outplay it,
make them over-commit to him, and then go back.
But I feel like if he had just stayed a little bit more patient,
Yike would have been able to arrive, then he could go in,
and maybe they could have got multiple kills without him dying.
Because at the end of the day, it is Yike benefiting from this play,
but Kalis still ends up behind,
and now this bot lane 2v2 is going to be that much more difficult.
Because look at the buy for Kalis, it is just a tier.
Pays went back and got double longsword, so much more combat power purchased up here for the T1 bot lane.
Yeah, that is sum versus zero, if my mind is right.
Yike, he was the big benefactor, and I actually think that a Keanu that gets accelerated is sort of the only one that has value.
And so Yike is in a great position in this game.
Oh, he's looking for Boppa. I think owner has a read on this.
Yeah, he's gonna get stunned, but now Buccio is in trouble. Still doesn't have the flash, remember?
piece once again, and that is another kill onto this Camille.
Magical Journey is going to bring them over towards Yaikou tries to get into
stealth to try and get out. Nice double stun, but guess what it means?
Absolutely nothing. His peacemaker comes through yet again. Yaikou is still trying
to skip around this jungle, just terror shaping and things like that, but
Keria has the meep slap and down goes the Kiana. That's 1-0-3, 100% kill
contribution for the Bard out of Keria. It's a moment like that where I want to
your comp so I want to hear who from T1 was calling for owner to pull off there
you know was it him that had to read the yike was coming you know who actually
set up this play because you know here is that the previous player we're talking
about so I want to watch your back and actually watch the list because to me you
see these low health bars he is doing fine here wait for yike to go in first
the arcane shift in early to me was the big mistake I don't think he needed to
do that you could have just waited a couple more seconds and at the very
least I think you kill two and you live and then he has his summoners for this
where Buzio goes in, they're expecting them to be able to witness
because Yike is coming behind, but then they spot Oner and they realize,
oh, God, we can actually keep going forward.
So Oner pulling off the Krugs there to move down to bot
to either cover or to look for actually a fight himself
was so critical. So whoever called that, whether it was Oner himself
or Pays or Carrier, recognized that, hey, this is the moment that they'll be going,
really made a big difference in that game, because that got them not one,
but two kills, and Pays even more accelerated.
Well, Kerry, just able to magically journey his way out of that situation.
We'll be alright for now.
Boussir is still level 3, as Kerry does tick over to that level 4 now.
Baker was having a little bit of trouble in lane.
I think that Yehu is doing a great job on the Casio, but as we can see here,
it hasn't really equated too much of anything at all.
They'll get the crash, and we have Yehu making his way back into lane now.
Yeah, we talked a lot about carry on bar.
This is why we're talking about carry on bar.
12.6 KDA with over 40 competitive games played, and then the over 80% kill participation means you're probably not bad at the champion if I have to make an estimate.
And Kerri has been playing for quite some time now as well, with 41 games on the barred as well, and wasn't always on the always winning team.
But don't worry, because surely his teammate down the bot lane can't be as good at his champion.
12-1? Yeah, and Paze hasn't been on T1 the whole time. He was just on Gen G before.
That's alright. Kanna is now having to blow the ultimate.
It's going to be able to keep him alive though, as there is the kill on the carrier in the bottom lane.
Paze able to get the net to safety as he finds the headshot on the Clist as well, but it is a good dive onto the bar.
In the meantime, there is still more happening here in this top lane, as Erna does make his way out of now.
Kanna gonna take that as an invitation just to kill Doran if he can.
Good body slam does come on to his pace is taken down and KC
Finding some opportunities here on the map that is massive for KC
Be able to take out both of the T1 bot laners and just like that Kalista's back to parody because even though Pays had those two kills
He's been missing a lot of farm, you know that wave was crashed a tower there
They're obviously fighting a lot
So he's not always around to get all that CS and then on top side T1's play did not work out on the cona
and Caria looking here. Yeah, Faker is still with the ultimate, doesn't have that available, but
looking much behind it. Yeah, that's just some Swifties in a rock. Exactly, he bought Swifties,
he bought some mana, so not going to be able to do much there. Is Doran trying to keep him off
of this tower, but Kanna knows he has no explosive cast, so there's not really that risk of the
wave just getting one shot. You picking up Turret aggro? Yeah, Boussier making his way in,
the hookshot is going to get the stun, it's Doran gets a bit of his health bar back, but Boussier
Get the other with stand that one shot the flash on in its own a finds the cure for the kill flash away from busier
No worry a trickster available for owner to get over that wall
And so it is just the one for one this is great though
You know busio got three kills now
He's accelerated a bit when you can get to that first item on the Camille
It is really really relevant because you are just fighting non stop here looking to you know force the issue and
Conna this time is in a way better position
Yike is in a way better position, which I think is so important after a game like last game where you're getting flame horizon rear in this
You know unplayable position that he was in now
He has agency return to him in a game like this and he's been so critical
For Casey and their success throughout this split
So it's gonna be exciting to see what Casey can do now with a gold lead here a
Big series of plays with them really gets them back into a great spot
Well, they're on the dragon now
Now it is spotted on a ward, but KC will be able to clear that one out as owner moving on over towards his raptor camp.
And I don't think they're looking to contest this one.
First rake should be going over to KC after that play. Boussio looking for an angle towards Faker.
As he is getting into a very aggressive position, Scatter the Week comes down just to make sure that that spear does connect.
And he just moves himself out of the way. So that is the first rake going on over.
Canna now just blowing the ultimate, but the magical journey comes through Kosk
He's going to pull the crocodile away from the turret and that should be the kill only picks up that one as well moving to three and one
And T1 finding the cross map and I try there from Kanna almost took owner down one more tower shot
Probably would have done it but didn't quite have the ability to do it faker and maybe a little trouble as they have TV
Didn't you like so big or as well? Yeah, that is a lot of true trucker damage to take try and take down the
the Wukong and Spaker able to get away from the supreme display of talent but
that will not save his turret or at least maybe it will. Second plate not
gonna be claimed and Faker will just be going back now. Yep and T1 make a play on
topside, KC make a play of their own, three men go in towards Faker, they
force out his flash but meanwhile T1 was taking this, they get all three grubs
back-to-back game so we're gonna be feeling pretty good about that especially
when you are playing with the Caitlyn, you want to be seizing these towers, you
I want to be putting that pressure on.
But of course, it really hasn't been that kind of standard game
where a Pays and Carry are nonstop pushing,
because it's been more about the scrapping,
more about the fighting, not so much that standard,
push them in, wheel down the tower,
play style that you see from here.
Yeah, and I think that KC,
I mean, they have a 1.5K Goldly.
This is a great game for them so far.
And T1, now we get to kind of talk about
what T1 has looked like this year, right?
Because this is actually kind of part of the course.
They've done a lot of, we're gonna fall behind,
But then we're just way more coordinated and way better at you when it
when the late game arrives, right?
Like they can always just find a team fight and then the game is all of a sudden over.
And you think that you're in a comfortable position.
You think that you've got the game in the bag, but T1 disagree.
And it's it's been really frustrating if you're not a T1 fan
and you're watching your team just cruising, having a good time.
And then it doesn't quite work as Faker has found Jaikov.
has Yankees found Faker, Sturgeon Barrage going to come on through,
Boussio going to take that kill with the Hextech sweep,
and that is the first death here for Faker in this game.
I mean, you look no further than yesterday.
They were down 59-26 gold in game two,
versus TL obviously able to come back,
even with a compositional disadvantage and still win that game.
They were down 1200 gold as well in game three,
able to, it's not much smaller lead, but still,
From deficits, they are never out of it. Their team fighting is so good and they have such strong playmakers on
This team that are very difficult to deal with us. Kariah. I think you might just be there
Yeah, I'm spring display talent does come on down here
It's the flash from Kariah looking for the cosmic binding onto counter and yike
But it does not work sad barb noises as he is gonna get taken out
Teleport will bring Doran towards that top lane as he's looking for Calist alongside owner
But they're not quite able to find it in time
time. At the very least, no, picking up a shift does not actually quite get there.
He did get the flash off Kanna, so he looked for that flash. It looks a little bit strange,
but he's looking for a flash to redirect his Q to bind Kanna and Yike together. So Kanna
then flashed the binding to make sure they didn't get stunned. So yes, he does go down,
but it is a trade of flashes at the very least. And the renegotent flash is actually quite
valuable. So, you know, being able to play in that team by a lot harder to access backline
without that. But KC rolling right now, 2.2k is their lead.
Alas, quite a few plays have gone their way after an early start that made you think it might be heading in a similar direction to game one.
Well, can I remember freshly without that flash, like you were just talking about,
Oner going to come on over and look to see whether he can capitalize,
but with the wave being thinned out, should mean that Oner can get himself out of there and everything should be alright.
Yike just securing this blue buff.
I don't think Oner is going to opt in for any sort of smite battle there.
And this time, Yike is returning the favor with quite a few camps in advantage
thanks to his 2-0 start on the Kiana.
Actually, just looking really, really good on this champion.
And as an LCK representative, we're very used to Kiana just not doing a whole lot
and losing the game.
That's what she does in my region.
and we are learning that that is not necessarily how it's supposed to go.
Man, Yehuu has been side-sipping everything.
We just saw him dodge like six or seven skill shots in a row.
There from Faker, really well played.
His owner is able to steal away the rafters, and may find Yike here,
but Kanna is moving, so has to be a bit careful.
Kanna gonna come in and support.
You can see Faker was cheating up towards that side of the map.
T1 wanting to overload the top side of the map,
but meanwhile Buseo was hunting around mid lane,
and Kalista is pushing down bot lane.
We'll see who gets first tower.
It is going to be pretty close, and the first power is going to go to KC.
Yeah, that's solo gold for us.
And just like that, Klist is 1.1K up.
Exactly. So it gets all of the gold from those plates,
and gets to hang around for that first brick as well.
So that is a very powerful Ezreal moving towards two items very quickly.
This is something that we illustrated yesterday.
Part of what gives you the advantage as the Ezreal in this matchup
is that when the Caitlyn's weak, you are really, really strong.
And we can see that that is precisely what's going to happen here
difficult as getting very close to that Muramana needs a few extra stacks on the tier, but they should be coming in very, very quickly.
And when you get your Manamune before the transformation of the tier comes in, that's when you know you're ahead of the clock.
You're feeling really good about it, as oftentimes you do just get that instant transformation if you're just playing out the game in a normal sense.
So really nice pacing so far for KC as they are going to be able to take double dragon as well, and it's a mountain soloist game.
Mountain is actually really strong, honestly, for both sides, because there is a lot of burst in this, a lot of upfront damage,
but we want to know who do you think has the better fandom, because these are two of the teams with some of the largest fandoms in the entire world.
All pays, trying to get put into the Hextech ultimatum, nowhere to go, and will be taken out, Buzio able to take that last turret shot as well.
And when you can guarantee that type of kill, then that's when you know that the Camille support is working out.
But speaking of support, yes, we want to make sure that we get the Blue Wall versus T1 Phantom.
And honestly, T1 fans, I'm pretty disappointed from your prediction, like earlier on today.
They lost the prediction.
They lost the prediction battle. We don't see that from T1.
So spam T1 or KC in-chat. Let us know who you think has a better fandom.
But Buzio is super strong. Just goes straight in here.
Keria tries to come through and prevent as much damage as he possibly can.
He throws the Bartle, not onto Buccio but onto Klis because he wanted the tower to stay onto Buccio there.
But there to look for Jaik.
Yeah, Jaik does throw down the ulti though defensively.
Ono should have another side point in order to take him down and actually gets over the wall.
But Kanna and Yehu turn up as well and that is going to be the answering kill onto the jungler.
Now Baker dealing with Buccio here and does have to get himself out of the way.
Keria taking a little while to die but he will indeed do that.
You've got Paze going for a cross-map towards the bottom side but he wanted just falling further and further behind.
Yeah, I mean, this is a crazy game for Buccio.
Yeah, it was five kills.
He almost was solo killing Faker there on the side.
He is ridiculously strong.
Has had this thundered sky for some time.
Right.
Has had a complete score.
OK.
Equilibrium has been restored.
That is a really nice arcane shift from Calistus
to make until the OK one power right there, for sure.
Yeah.
I think they may have taken the initial vote, personally.
There you go.
All right.
Cannon now is just clearing out the wave.
And that is Paze not able to quite find the value that he's looking for.
This is the problem though, right?
Casey cannot rest on any laurels.
Laurels are illegal in a matchup against T1.
They win from the laurels.
And we've seen so much of these type games, right?
Where Paze is on the, the, the Caitlyn falls into the trough
and T1 are looking like they're falling apart.
And then he gets his third item and the game's over.
And this is why you cannot rest on your laurels,
because T1, I mean, everyone has a bad record against T1.
Let's be honest, it's T1, but this is T1 all-time versus the LEC.
Now, they are 22 and 12 versus G2, so G2 has been the most competitive there,
but still obviously very heavily favored for T1.
Everyone else is that 24 and 7 record versus the rest of the LEC here.
And KC looking to put another one in the win column for their region,
but it is very difficult to get across the finish line here against the team like T1.
But it is KC with the gold lead, with the objective lead,
have the ability here in two minutes to try to grab that third dragon, move towards
that mountain soul that would be so nice for them.
And the archer will take a tower.
Yeah, nice charge to come on through here as the tower will be going down.
Shelly should be ushered towards the Inetard as well.
We'll see whether she does get another charge as we have Ona being discovered by Buccio in the
jungle, takes a magical journey to get himself out of the way.
But here is the charge and there is the denial as the temperate
Fate does come on through to make sure that this turret stays spick and span.
Yeah, nicely done there by Kariah.
Right place, right time with the bar.
Oh, Flash might as well come down from Yehu, who's looking to chase Faker down.
He is going to Flash, and Yehu is just going to have to let him go off.
That one had used Flash previously, but Flash on Syndra means that, yeah, he's just sitting
down.
TrueTrap barrage will be avoided by Faker going the same direction that he was going
already.
They're trying to set a trap.
Owner is actually here.
They're going to look for Yehu.
You get out and there is the Unleashed Power.
Outplay that, he says.
Yeah, that is really well done there by T1.
Yeah, he goes really aggressive.
Obviously would have won the 1v1, but Faker gets away.
And then he realizes, owner is here behind me.
We have a pink war that's already in the brush.
We know there's no vision.
So they lay a trap.
They set it up, beautifully done by T1, punishing Yeh, who
just goes a little bit too far.
Assumed that Faker would have gone back to base.
He knew he had Buccio behind him.
So he felt confident because of it
and does get punished big time.
So we'll see if T1 can take something more from this,
because now both of those midlaners
are pretty vulnerable for the next couple of minutes here.
But as you mentioned, Syndra without Flash
really is that much more scared, especially
against the composition that KC had.
Yeah, Barrier going to be used just
to block the ace in the hole, but there's
a nice amount of damage to come on through here,
as I believe Faker over the wall finding a few angles
towards the Ezreal.
And that's actually really big, because look at the time
until Dragon spawns.
Kalista is going to be able to grab the red buff. He also used his barrier there.
They're TPing in deep. Kana is looking for a fast start to this fight.
In goes Buseyok. He's going to lock down Bacon. He's going to die for it.
But look at that stun from Yike. Absolutely massive and Kana gets into that backline.
Paze. He's going to have to try and net himself out of there, but netting a Crocodile,
that is a difficult option as he flashes to catch the Blastcone.
And now Paze. I don't know how you're supposed to get out of this one with a full health croc,
but he's gonna try his very best to do as much damage
before he goes down.
Canna taking that turret shot and he will fall,
but it is two kills going over to Yehud as Cassiopeia
is massive.
I just love how quickly they forced that.
They never allowed T1 to actually set up.
Conn just TP'd in immediately and they full sent it
before the dragon even spawned here.
They get straight in there.
There's no way owners are gonna be able to steal this,
not with Buseo hunting for you.
I don't think you can get there in time.
So that is sole point for KC. You could see the blue wall popping off here.
Oh yeah.
Really, really excited about how the second game is going after the first game was absolutely
one all the time. You could see the all in pinks immediately on that ward as they were
teeping in and Kana just gets him behind them and look at this confident engage from Buzio.
Buzio knows he's going to die there, but it doesn't matter. He's setting up for the
rest of the team. Buzio with the engage and then the follow up here from Yike. Kana is
He's in the middle of your whole team.
Buzio was just on one this game.
This man is on a mission here, on the Camille.
Him and Yike, both yesterday and today.
And after that performance in game number one,
I think we were thinking like,
is Yike gonna wake up the series?
Well, he's definitely woken up.
Looking absolutely fantastic.
Supreme Display of Talent, one of those abilities
that can sound a little bit silly when you read it out.
Definitely didn't sound silly in that last fight.
Looking absolutely beautiful on this Kiana.
That's some damage right there.
Yeah.
Doing the numbers.
Pretty crazy that Kana just gets
in the middle of the entire team.
That was just beautiful from KC,
and T1 not giving a chance there.
And now T1 have their backs against the wall in this game.
You do not want to be giving over that Mountain Soul.
It is going to make it so much more difficult, especially
when they're already down on gold.
You look at the items here from Picker.
It is not that scary.
You look at the items from Kaze.
Not that scary at this point.
Well, Yike is going to have to flash.
get out of the way of the temperate, and that is going to be at least something
here for T1. I don't think T1 are gonna be too phased or flustered about how
this game state is looking. They're still trying to get to that three items on to
Paze. That's when they know they're gonna have a much better experience as
Faker. Maybe a little bit overextended, but does have the dash cannon to get
himself out of the way. Or the proto belt, if you want to say it correctly.
And can I get the barrier off, please? Yeah, gets a button. That's gonna feel good.
So they've got a flash and a barrier and they've got three minutes until this mountain soul is available
I just I really do think that mountain soul is gonna be so difficult for T1 to play into
It's kind of the perfect soul that Casey were looking for in this game as now
Yeah, who speaking of looking things he's gonna find faker scatter the week
It's not gonna work because he's not very weak and there is the last twin fang to take him down
The Unleashed power is pitiful at best and this snake lady is very very strong
Yeah, that is a solo kill there for yahoo the Roa takes over he now as it goes up to level 15
And this has been a problem for faker in the LCK
He is beginning a lot of solo kills, but he is second in the entire league in solo in isolated depths
Yeah, and you can see here on the coin base gold grind of very significant damage
rather gold gap being opened up here by Yehu who is now up 1k. Everyone on KC is
ahead but it is Yehu and Buseo with the biggest gold leads. And I think we're
going to be looking at Doran in teamfights and Paze to get another
item together in order to save this one for T1 if they are going to make it
work. But KC have just been so good at pulling the trigger. That's temperate.
Looking to lock down Buseo here as Doran making his way in. He is unseen as he
looks for the angle, but it's like it doesn't work there as the cost.
Supreme just playing talent under only the tank,
and they take out Kalis before anything had even happened!
And it's just free-hitting for Paze!
Kanna with a massive ultimate, but it doesn't do anything!
And there it is, ladies and gentlemen!
T1 just win a teamfight, take a Baron, and they're back in control!
How annoying is it, Isael?
How do they keep doing it every damn time?
T1, find a way to make the magic happen.
Losing all game long.
We're talking about the soul,
but they find the fight beside the Baron.
23 minute Baron here.
It's all started up by Keria.
Lansy also on the Buseo, Dorian TP's in,
and owner flashes in.
The cask is there, knocking back Kalise,
whose flash came out a split second too late
to avoid that cask.
And then Faker and Paz are untouched.
Yeah, who arrives with the TP, but his whole team is already dead and the Baron is theirs for the taking.
Oh my goodness. It's so reminiscent of the series against TL yesterday.
You know, T1, just grab these Barons, it feels like out of nowhere.
And now it is only an 800 Gold lead here.
It is sole point available.
You talked about the third item.
Paze has the rapid fire.
Owner is on three, and it says reclaim that Gold lead.
And now KC are really gonna have to be on point if they want to win these next fights because they've lost the gold lead
It is so hard to play a 5v5 with Camille and Keanna. You got to be perfect
Well, they're gonna look for it here as Bruce Gere gets over the wall with a hook shot the dash canons trying to get him out of there
But that head step on the man not really working his can against him the back line looking for fake at the only spot
Oh, and he's taking so much damage base
and Touch finds the Honor Attack as he gets over the wall and it's a double here.
Honor with an Invis-Trike looking for Calista, and that ace and hole doesn't work because his target has already been taken down.
And I just feel like T1 have made it out of the trough and now they're just skipping to the finish line.
As fake eating some honey fruit pays, looking a little bit worse for wear.
But yeah, who cannot step up?
Jaik, similar story as T1, look to deny the soul
and get themselves back into this driving seat.
3,000 gold on the Rebel Baron power plate.
And Jaik, ace in the hole, finally comes up again.
And Busiu, he's going to get on forward.
And he's going to be a gromp to go over to Jaik,
but I just don't think they're going
to be able to do enough here.
There's the dragon secured.
And T1 going to spend all of that hard earned gold.
Yeah, T1 win another fight.
Busiu, again, he knows it's going to be hard to take the fight.
So he just full sends it in silly and kind of did get in on top of both faker and pays
And I thought there was an angle for them to win the fight here
So watch it one more time
It looks like hey did busio go too early, but then you see everyone coming over he is flashed in
Cona's moving down. Yeah, who's moving down throws down the x-tec all the way
And look at cona who goes in over the wall this multi man stun from that beautiful all the came out of yike
Cona's on top of the carries just doesn't quite have the damage to finish off pays and then you know what it was
It was the locket from carrier gets on in there. That's the big old shield to come on over
Here's TP and now another flank angle spring display of town. They're looking for faker
They should be out of lock him down takes a little bit longer to get him is now owners in no man's land
Oh my god takes down the Ike
It was suicide, but he manages to take his opposite number with him and now Doran
He just wants to teleport out and he will be able to do so a little bit of a catastrophe here
But KC finding themselves an advantage in the fight once again. Yeah, honestly good job by KC, you know from that position
It's T1 with the bear and it's T1 who have been winning the fights
But they are just continuing to force the issue here this time they pick off faker who you know was missing that flash
They're able to find him they're able to take him down T1 wanted to set up a split map type situation where they're pushing in multiple lanes
With the bear and buff they're trying to get that into their favor
But KC just forced the issue find a fight find these split up members and are able to take down both the mid and jungle of t1 and
Really stifle the Baron you know the Baron went kind of nowhere. Yeah, whatsoever there doesn't really work
And we saw the win probability
It was feeling a bit sure and then
Starts to become completely confused about how this one is going to go and I'm kind of there with them
There is still Soulpoint for KC.
That is a lot of power on the table.
They can force T1 into that position,
go for trades between the dragon and Baron.
They're separated by only 40 seconds.
And so things can get a little bit murky
as far as those setups around these objectives
in the next couple of minutes.
Yehu is so strong right now though for KC.
He's on three items.
He is very tanky.
All these items he's building have HP.
Has the flash available.
and you're looking for that big fight from Yehu because in most of the actual big team fights
he hasn't really been able to get super involved.
Buseo being 10!
I believe Paze is dead.
He's gonna go golden for a few moments thanks to Keria, but then will be shut down.
That is money over to Kalista as well. They get to just set that one up.
Now, everything all evened out as far as the kill score is concerned.
And the gold as well. It is 56k versus 56k.
Buseau finding another pick there, just constantly looking for these engages, setting up his team, Kalista.
Gets the shutdown, which is critical because he was starting to fall behind a little bit.
He's had the Anglesonger, he's now working in towards his armor penetration, and you see Paze just picked up a GA.
So, decides to go defensive with the fourth item here, makes a lot of sense when you're playing against Kiana as well as Camille.
Yeah, not a lot of true tanks on this team as well, so the Lord Dom's can come a little bit later.
The unfortunate thing, though, is there's nothing for Casey to take after it.
Yeah.
So not really getting too much as far as a trade is concerned.
Pays with a lot of money in this game, despite just being taken down,
but he does have the last whisper.
So just went for as much flat AD as possible before the last fight, I guess,
as Boussio now in a little bit of trouble.
Scout of the Week is not going to connect, but the Cyclone a little bit more difficult to avoid
as he does try to use the Hextech ultimatum to deny the gameplay button,
but it does not actually do enough.
It's now T1 with a kill 15 seconds before the Baron
and is looking like a potential avenue here.
And if they take the Baron before the Dragon is available,
then that trade that we were talking about
is not even going to be possible.
Yeah.
Lucius is going to be dead for 10 seconds after the spawn.
So if T1 are going to start it, they have to rate on spawn.
They are going to do that.
Paze undid his GA purchase.
So he does not have that Guardian Angel.
He has less until he pointed out instead.
And Kalista getting chunked out.
Conn is already chunked out.
This is going to be really hard.
It's kind of up to Yike and Yehu here
On the side, can they find the angle?
Onus might find it has been pretty good so far this tournament.
And he also has Doran available.
Spring display of talent, not quite doing enough.
Doran's so tanky.
Yi can get in here, but it's not going to be enough.
And they take the Baron and trade for their top laner.
But the problem is, now you have to fight Soul,
and you just lost Doran for that whole thing.
He goes in, and he finds such a beautiful angle.
Cicin and Dyson does go down, but he's done so much damage
as Yi casts a flash away.
If T1 can actually get a reset in before this dragon,
then it's possible.
It's five seconds and they have to make their way back out onto the riff.
Yeah, KC could just rush it. It should be theirs, I think.
You can see Pays is just going towards topside here.
They're actually TP for this.
I'm not sure why Pays is not coming if they're going to commit to the play
because Faker is in the area. He's trying to see, can I get there
and make a magical steal?
Cannot make it happen.
It is impossible. So that is the mountain soul
to come through for KC and now six minutes on the clock.
And now Faker's up.
Yeah, I think Faker is probably just dead.
Yeah, Hexhec ultimatum comes down, doesn't find the scout of the week on to Yehu either,
as Buseo is still trying to chase him down, figure buying as much time as possible, but
those twin fangs are unavoidable, and T1, they are just trying to deny the backs so that Paze
can take an inhibitor turret. And perhaps that is going to work, because Yehu is teleported over,
looking for an angle towards these two here that are just trying to buy space, trying to buy time,
they've got a blast going to get themselves out, and Sprint is their talent, will get the kill
on the carrier and can it did make it back to deny the Caitlyn there's a casque to get some space for owner as well
But I think the rebel Baron powerplay is not going to be doing too much in this one. I know I mean T1
Really getting her pretty heavily here because you know they committed so much to go for the Baron
But the mountain soul was spawning and that is what the game has been about this whole time
So sure you do get the Baron but with Doran going over the wall there
Obviously, his objective is to stop the 50-50, right?
But when he goes over the wall into both Dyke and Yehu, it is a one-way trip.
You can't get out through the miasma, so they burst him down, they kill off Doran,
and then that really meant that T1 had no shot at actually stopping the soul.
So this ends up being a horrible trade for T1.
Probably would have been a lot more of a safer play to try to just play for the soul,
but they felt like, hey, we killed Buseo, we can go for this now, then get the dragon after.
But at the end of the day, they're not able to do that because they lost Doran,
And now T1, back into a tough spot, the gold lead is nothing, but it is that mountain soul.
Well, Oner gonna have to use a very early cyclone here as Yehu just does so much damage.
Shushu Parage comes on through, it was actually a Leandrie's purchase here from this Cassiopeia.
So if they actually get to an elder, the elder is just gonna die, like so incredibly quickly.
So four minutes, T1 need to make sure that their setup around the Drake pit is gonna be way better than what we saw previously.
Otherwise that one could just disappear. You can see Doran's gone for the bandal pipes. I mean, he knows the game really is
I think I know which song he's playing as well
Bit of the Yackity sack. So this guy so far as T1 have been playing fast and loose in this game
Well, Pace has his GA this time. So and he's left the base. So it's for reals this time and now
But let's on the other side still very very strong
And when you get to this later point of the game where you have your armor pen where you have the endless hunger
you have just no cooldown whatsoever on your Q.
You get so much ability haste that if you hit a Q, your Q is back up.
You know, it really starts being a real threat in the late game.
People talk about Ezreal not being able to kill tanks,
but when you get to this point in the game, you can actually hit kill tanks.
When you have all your abilities hitting, it is very, very threatening.
But Mountain Soul or not, it is going to come down to the Engages,
because if you bungle the Engage as the Qiyana, as the Camille,
you can absolutely still get one shot, even with the edge of knife,
Even with the Mountain Soul, T1 are going to have the damage to push through here.
Well, Faker, he is the one that has been struggling a little bit in comparison to his counterpart, 6-1 and 6.
But yeah, on this Cassiopeia, I think the snake will be imperative for KC if they do want to close this game out.
And right now, they're in a great position to do so.
There's a slight gold advantage for T1, you can see it popped up on your screen just now.
Who's going to get buried deep? He's in the jungle behind Dorian.
We're gonna see if they're gonna look for Paze.
I think he's gonna try to come in behind Paze and try to look for a pick,
but Doran I think is maybe hunting.
Now he's looking for the bottom lane, so he sees the red dots
and does not see the Camille as Paze going to get engaged on there.
Let's see where the carrier can find.
The ulti does manage to get Paze golden,
but it's gonna take some time.
Does find the angle there as well.
Supreme display of talent is fantastic with double GAs.
Are gonna be popped here for T1.
Magical journey comes over, trying to find a space.
This is Kanna is taken out, Kallis gets scattered here by Bakers, it's a double for Doran, who doesn't seem able to lose health.
Oh Kallis taking that into his own hands, not able to quite land that mystic shot though and now it's Onamaki his way and yet he has to flash away and pays, flashes in to secure the win for T1.
Oh, this team just makes too much magic.
Buccio is great, but Keria is the greatest of all time.
It shows you why.
The defense of Bartle, the portal to get Pays out after the GA,
the locket to buy the time.
Everything was perfectly played from Keria to get Pays out of there
and get T1, their second win.
And match point in this series as well.
The Unleashed power to come through. I think Buzio deserves that as he has been absolutely amazing in this game.
Unfortunately, it was not enough. As Yike, he's going to get scattered.
He's going to get taken out, and it's going to be the Nexus turrets falling.
But this game, nothing like what we saw in Game 1 as KC, they really made him work for it.
But T1 still moved to match point.
Man, I cannot get over. I want to watch that carry of light back again.
He's gonna show it to us because that was absolutely insane
Analyst as what do you think about that?
Absolutely cinema they can't keep getting away with this
Deja vu in day two another game two against a Western team
Where they pull it out of the hat. It's the T1 magic Kobe. Oh, man
Are they just giving us hope you got for their entertainers?
Oh, stop the stop the game number one and then real action I have no no clue
But what we do know is that throughout the history of lowly sports there have been certain metas where certain players are associated with certain champions
Frog and Zanivia comes to mind Canyon, Middly comes to mind
Lucy Lucian comes to mind and as we saw in that final fight
It's Keria on Bard yet again getting it done. So this year
There's only be been three games where teams have allowed the bar to go through draft. Do you know how many of those he lost?
Zero
So in fairness, I will say to KC they had a pretty good plan in this game
They did and we saw a lot of success in the mid game, but Keria's Bard still so
Fearsome so hard to deal with for the rowing potential. Also those team fights. He's just putting on a master class
We will get to that team fight because that team fight was insane
But it was the journey because in the early portions of the game that Camille was getting a little beat up the early game
Don't want to think about it
But at the six-minute mark when a like we saw owner go up top side
And I thought Conor really ate that gank and it was working out well
Meanwhile, they looked for a dive bot lane and I thought that's when Casey
Started to really find their groove and it was there where Buccio ended up getting the dive they base
He goes directly top lane. He gets the dive towards the top side. Buccio was really on a groove there.
And look ignore the A deaths. That's just how you gonna play. You gotta play aggressive.
You gotta find the practice plays and even leaving the team fights he was diving in but doing his job.
Especially a lot of these ones here, you know faker in the river as well.
He's trying to take advantage of Yaikos on the ward, but Buccio sneaks over the back of the pit.
They find the one there. He's making a lot of these mid game plays for 4kc that got them into such a good position in the game.
Yeah, I love that. I mean, this is for you. Shooters gonna shoot.
Lucio just kept shooting. He missed the first two and then went on a hot streak
and then started to cool off a little bit. But let's take a look at some of those fights where
Casey were performing better. Yeah, so this one was a super decisive engage. And we actually saw
it was T1 who was set up trying to make a trap here. They were in the river in this brush.
We'll see in a second. And basically then had a control ward in the wrong position.
So they thought they were all vision or actually on vision and I just love that Casey was so decisive in this fight
in just looking to punish this because it was clear T1 were looking for some of themselves and just ended up overextended.
Yeah, I'll take a look at it.
T1 stacked up here. The control ward they have is too shallow. It doesn't see the ward that they're at.
And then Casey go, hey, let's just flank behind him with a TP. T1 realized now with a sweeper, it's too late.
It's too late, Renekton is behind him, Buseo's going in, he dies immediately, but his job is done.
And oh my goodness, Yike with the big engage here, with the follow-up from the ulti, all three of them just get locked up, huge combo.
Yeah, Yike was insane, but also just like a tear in the backline. Kana had an incredible laning phase, it was accentuated by the dive that Buseo came up with,
And in all of these team fights, you could see the KC fans on fire.
They truly believe I believe.
Yeah, that was an exciting one.
Man, what happened?
Whenever I talk about it, you can not.
You can never let up for a second versus versus T1.
I mean, until you actually get up there to the Nexus, man.
Is that?
Yeah, they're never going down.
This was the critical comeback play, though.
This was critical because up until this point, KC,
they had so much work to make you believe.
But look, you get to combo here as well, but really, Calist never got to move.
He got one mystic shot off there.
It was a bounce house from Doran's teleport flanked from the Gragas from one side
into owner's Wukong.
Wukong ulti, that alley-up into Wukong ulti, really deleting him.
Doran's landing hasn't been that strong in this tournament,
but we always know him for his teamfight impact
and just sliding in there, catching the animated carry.
That's what we know him for best.
Yeah, again, just one of those things that doesn't show up on the scoreboard
during the unsung hero of this squad given all of them are superstars then
speaking of superstar moments this final fight here yet again it is the
stamp and reason why people come to the T1 circus despite getting caught out in
a fantastic flank by Buccio they outplay it. The timing on the ult just as we see
Yike commit onto the Caitlyn, stalls them out the G.A. then come in and it buys
some time to get away with this portal and then when the G.A. comes in from
It's into a Caitlyn so he gets trapped.
This peel from Karrion was flawless and pays an owner able to
renavigate the fight.
It was so good.
Yeah, the Syndra combo from Faker immediately after it.
So close to be able to get the kill there.
But man, the fact that that Baron fight much earlier on felt like it was
going to solidify at 4-T1, but then you saw KC clawing back the game pick after pick.
But that one just put the hammer down.
T1 is now at match point.
So critical and so many times like the GA revival like the duration of it often times people like oh, well
Is it really that great for 80 carries because they'll just die when they get back up?
No, they won't if they have carry in there to get to an exit path
They got the traps down just a time before as well
And then they have to say since then they have the exit
It was crazy and and the old from the Qiana during the duration of those as well
Oh my goodness
And I feel like this is one of those fights where you look at everyone doing that part and if anyone messes up
plays a little bit weird. Yeah. The fight does not wig. The T1 all came together in that clutch
moment and for KC, it's heartbreaking. Yeah, it is, but they're not done yet. They got to pull
themselves up off the floor. It is 2-0. T1 over KC will be back with game number three.
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T1 leading with match point now, but games one and two,
I felt things drift more towards the KC direction.
Now, KC need to try and transition that into destroying it.
Now they are feeling the pain that CL felt yesterday,
where you're like, hey, we're winning.
We're heading gold.
We got soul. We're going to do it.
And now it can't be more heartbreaking, right?
Like, that's what you need to avoid.
That's what I'm saying. It certainly can, but they need to avoid that feeling as we get into champ select.
Thanks to HyperX, and we're looking to see what changes are going to be made.
Immediately, the Vayne ban is standing out to me here as KC.
Just want to make sure the Buseo isn't able to hover that pick.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting going into this next game.
So much credit to Zerv, I think, by Yike for his bounce back in the second game compared to the first.
They had a brutal game in the first game,
and it was put so far behind, they never really got to play.
Game two, you know, it was really doing well,
but I feel like 4KC, Fusio was absolutely a star for me.
No question, was finding so many plays.
Even after the early game, the very early game went bad,
you know, where Kalis gets first blooded,
and it was kind of, you know, we could see it happening here.
I called it a couple of games in advance.
Usually, a lot of times, when that kind of thing happens,
and you give Pays first blood, you are just cooked, right?
But they found engages, they found fights, they battled back,
in fact, they got sold, they did so many good things in that game, but T1 always manages
to grab a victory from the Jaws of the Feed and they did it once more.
Varus coming through, which a lot of people felt like, hey, Varus might be out of the
meta with some of the changes and with some of the nerfs.
We did see Yan play, he went shiv into Rageblade.
We could still potentially see a top lane, so there is always that chance of him getting
flexed around, but I do think lethality Varus seems a lot worse in this case.
They do forego the Ryze first pick, which was what I was kind of thinking that we're
going to go with seeing the Anivia ban, the fact that feel-as-ly the Cassiopeia has been
removed.
This is a champion that Baker has had a little bit of experience on.
You can cast your mind back a little bit there.
And so that's a lot to sacrifice in order to get the Varus.
As owner is thinking about Jarvan, the next one on the tier list, you have to say, and
that will be logged in.
Yeah, it's always such an effective pick against Ferris because Ferris has no dash. It can be difficult.
I wonder who would go towards this this year. I know that is kind of like his ultimate comfort pick
That is the champion that he's kind of most associated with but instead it will be the Annie. So
Ferris, Annie, Zen, some really strong picks here
considering we are in game three especially, you know, for
for fearless. Yeah, giving them some engage, giving them some good front lines and some follow-up
I'm kind of curious to see if we're going to have matched roles here from T1 if they're going to grab a pick for Paze or if we're going to have some differences.
Yeah, they could grab something for Doran here and just round out their top side of the map, assuming the Baptist is also rounding out the top side of the map for KC.
And that is what they're going to do. The Yaruk will be picked up. And Yaruk has been an answer into these ranged top lanes.
It's quick, Ed.
Often used into the cannon, I know that you stated it so beautifully last time we cast
together in first hand and that was, if you hit E, you win lane.
Yep, that is literally every URIC expert.
I've been using it all year, I'm like, oh, this is the best, I know exactly how it works.
I'm a URIC expert, I know every URIC matchup.
I mean, I was a URIC expert and it was the same, but you could hit E because it was targeted
when he first came out.
There you go, yeah.
How does a Varus restore a Varus go?
Well, if you hit E, you usually win.
How about the Jace one? This one's a little bit different. You have to hit E or you're going to lose.
So there are some differences, but definitely is a fun pick. People like it a lot in pro play, obviously against the Jace, but then it's already been played. They like it a lot against the Rumble.
It is really strong versus some of these matchups. I think it's also going to be quite good against the Verus if they are going to use the potential of this big Verus top.
The thing I would be nervous about if I'm going to our client is a lot of these champions, you know, with Dash just can be quite difficult.
Basically anything that can completely ignore your cage and can threaten all ends can be really, really tough.
There's a lot of, kind of, like, more old-school counters. People used to like Cho'Gath because Cho'Gath at rank one of the Maiden can basically one-shot the Maiden and get a Fistack off of it, which is not that fun.
Renekton is another pro-play answer that people love to it, but that is already gone, so maybe that's kind of making Doran feel a little bit more bold with the early pick.
I'm I have this weird sink like a sneaking suspicion that Pays and carry are gonna play Zarya uni again
I don't know why I'm just feeling that that's what they're heading towards the Rakan ban
I really like I think Annie Rakan is really powerful
Especially when paired with the Varus there as well change the corruption to really layer that extra CC
But the gym is gonna be taken away from base to avoid that long-range option
And he is instead going to go a different route as the Lucian will be locked away
Melio probably on the cards and let's boost you decides he wants to pick that one away
Yeah, we definitely think that it's gonna be Lucian Melio as the answer here
Clearly Casey we're trying to take away some of the safe laning options. The Jhin, the Ziggs both strong laners
But they can also play from very far away
It's a lot more difficult to get onto them before champions like the Annie who are really looking for that engage
Lucian, you need space to be created for you if you're gonna be dashing in there
within any having timbers available, right? You know, that is always very very scary.
Ferris Niko, really common 2v2 that we've seen for quite a long time, which does
make me wonder, you know, if it is just gonna be that lethality style even though
that has received some nerfs. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. As soon as I see Niko
of Arras on like, it's lethality. But especially if there's not really a tank
on the other side, it doesn't really matter that much, you know. They have
pretty good damage, especially if you are going to go towards the NAR.
Connob is obviously so comfortable on it. I do think it is a pretty good matchup for the Yorick.
That's what I was thinking. I'm like, this is a bit of a scary one.
Picking it into the Yorick, it's already there, but we did see kind of like
pick a NAR into a theoretical losing matchup yesterday, and he obliterated it.
It's just comfort, right? Like, I just love this champion, and I will say
once NAR gets to early tier 2 boots, this champion gets so much movespeed
much movespeed from Hyper, from obviously having the upgraded boots, and if you're even
thinking you need more, you can go Fleet, and all of these movespeed increases to be able
to actually dodge the morning.
Yes, dodge E.
To dodge E, and that is really, really big because every time you even post 6, if you
dodge E, then you're actually putting damage into the Maiden itself, and then it becomes
this weird minigame where York is actually having to pull back away from the wave to
try to save the Maiden, and if the Maiden gets too low, you have to keep facing, which
Which is really annoying, but if you ignore the Naurin, you don't throw your E, then he's just going to chip you down.
So, it is one of those matchups that I do think you can outplay from the Naur side, but Doran's going to be pretty happy that this is a matchup he's seen.
Yep, we'll see whether Doran can stand his ground, can be difficult in the earlier stages.
Of course, but the Yarrick as we get later and later into the game, and the fact that T1 have been so good at locking down Grubb priority,
I mean getting the split push later on with three grubs and a Yark is going to feel absolutely fantastic
And with T1's control of the map from mid to late game
I think that you'll be in a really difficult position if you are KC, but they've been really good especially in the last game at just
Staying the course and getting themselves into good spots. So here we are into game number three T1 with that match point
KC, this could be the beginning of the reverse sweep.
Yeah, we'll see if we're going to be able to get that done.
Yehuu, he is a former LCK player.
You know, he has had some experience against Faker.
Yes.
You know, coming into today...
Do you want to know his experience against Faker?
He is 0-6 coming into today, so he is now 0-8.
He has never won a game against Faker.
And if they lose this game, he will then be 0-4 in series as well.
So, you know, that is tough, but I will say,
he has been playing quite well.
I feel like he's been oh my goodness. This is just a lot of biffo. There is the barrier out of callus
Pace still has his that no heals remaining on either side
Oh, it's getting explosive here in this bottom lane. That is a lot of ardent blaze value there from Pace
Wanting to race towards this level two. Yeah, absolutely
It's actually going Doran's helm which has been nerfed on this patch and he's down a summoner and use both his potions first
So and he's gone lethal tempo. So he is going on him. Yeah, which which is interesting
I mean you need someone to kill the front line off eventually I guess but it could it could be hard against these kind of comps
Sometimes actually stand and fire, you know for long enough, but if you do this made the initial
You know kind of go from owner and Doran then you may just be fine as both these balling trying to race for two
But Pays is gonna get it first then
And finds the double tap on to call us the flash has to be used and the odd and blaze just to make sure the boosier
He's out of there as well. This is Pays and carrier in vintage domination mode
Yeah, that is his beautiful form from them and I one of these little things that I love when you see some art plays like this
So from that spot as soon as I saw that you know Casey overstayed
You know if you want is going to get to and you know Khalees is gonna have to flash
But it will be one of the T1 members that has to flash to force it
So Pays holds his flash all right all up there from Canada as Doren finds a bit of health with the Q
But mini now comes in the boomerang comes down. He can't quite get the order
Tarrot would have definitely killed him there, but still manages to get the flash out of the arc
Maybe some more aggression later from kind of will be out of luck this one down and he does get the shove under the Tarrot
That was really really close. I thought that was going to dissipate earlier
But actually the earlier point basically carry or pace one of them needs to flash to force the flash from Callist
So carry it does it early to force that flash and keep the flash available for pace
So it's just these little optimizations that are just so smart if they both flash this is gonna flash there anyway
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It's a bit of a horror, it has been a tough day in the 2v2 for them in general, and owner
is now down here with no flash on Ferris.
Yeah, Jyke is here as well though, going for a little bit of a defensive play, there's
a flash flag in drag, but the Zintow is there to meet them, Kalisto just getting taken down,
it's going to be first blood over to owner, Jyke trying to make sure they can at least
get one back, but he is dead as well, Boussio running for the hills and it's a 2 for 1 for
T1.
really well done by T1. I think some junglers would have made the mistake there of actually
EQ flashing and then they would lose out on the flag and drag damage. It was actually
critical to flash first in that situation. They needed the additional damage there from
owner and he knew it. If the jungler is there and I EQ flash in, I will just die. So instead,
he flash flag and drag gets the full damage onto the Varus, pays his free hitting the
whole time even though they focus down on owner. It's not a fight the KC can win from
that spot and just these little optimizations that you always love to
watch when you're watching the best players in the world right they just
have so much thought oh dear Luccio is just dead in the meantime pays in a
little bit of trouble but obviously Baker is here and he's looking to try and
lock down the kill on the Calis he'll get that hundred health on pays that is
just enough to keep him pushing this lane and T1 close to a 2000 gold lead of
four minutes yeah that is really rough stuff here especially you know when you
You are going there, Saniko, and you're thinking you're going to have a pretty strong 2v2,
but things went so bad so early.
So here's that earlier play.
Like I said, you know Scalist has no flash, he's not going to go for an EQ flash.
Instead, Flag drags him, gets that full damage down onto the list, focusing him down.
Even with Yaijin in position reading the play, it just didn't matter because the owner got
his full damage out, kites well, and creates space for Paze.
Yeah, the fire kick as well from Keria was amazing to make sure that the Xin Zhao value
is just not going to quite be there.
We have a look at this play as well as Boussio just taken too much.
Yeah, Boussio is scrapping too hard there, absolutely.
And as soon as the Tanglebar misses, as soon as that Rube misses,
well, now you have nothing, right?
And Payne's just dashes right past that E and gets right in on him.
You can see, definitely not looking too happy is Callist,
as they are just getting blasted right now.
And Geike is going to come down and try to help him out.
But he is spotted.
Owner is still in the area.
Yeah.
And this bot lane cannot breathe.
Yeah, clear to the ward, but now you've got the Charbin moving down, they know exactly where Yike is.
He knows that he's seen as Doran taking a lot of damage here as well.
There's the Gully wall down and Kanna should be able to get this solo kill, but the Q comes in, finds the Boulder,
and will be able to get rid of the arc.
In the meantime, Faker very close to death as well, but that solo kill from Kanna might be a bit of hope back for KC.
Yeah, no kidding.
What is happening here? Okay, that's a bit of extra money, as Tibbers did a fair bit of work there to Faker.
I kind of want to see the top lane again because look how many minions are there that was like a triple stacked wave
Yeah, but he just died on that is and there's no cannon to soak this either
So he's gonna lose so many of these he legit lost almost a full full like two waves at least I think on that play
So it's not just the solo kill
The first death is is often not as big of a deal in top lane
But when you die with no TP and the waves at your tower that can be game ruining because look at the experience difference
There's a full level off of that. That is not a fake one-level lead.
That is a full level that Kona has.
Kona's gonna have more minions coming back towards him.
And so now, Doran, you can get into that tough spot where it's like,
as York, if you don't win sides,
you very quickly get to, what do I do in this game?
Like, what is my point?
And Nara is very good in side lanes, but also a fantastic teamfighter as well.
We know that Doran can make things work in teamfights on a lot of champions.
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Let's have a look at this little fight
towards the topside though,
as the Narbak is beautiful onto Doran.
He does have some goolies here,
but he is just going to be dropped down,
and that is a beautiful play from KC.
I think playing towards your winning lane
is a great way out of this initial slump
that they have had,
and that is certainly going to be working out for them.
This carrier trying to be annoying here in this bottom lane,
but they do manage to protect the back from the Varus.
Yep, that is well done.
As Timur is going to be dropped again,
Yehuu just kind of doing this on repeat,
you know, trying to use it just to chunk him out.
I will say, you know, small win for Dorian
is that at least he didn't have the Maiden out,
so you don't lose a Maiden.
It actually sucks so much when you die early on in the game
and you lose that Maiden.
So now he did summon it up.
He's going to try to reset that wave
because he needs to get it into crash.
And he will be able to do that
because he has that power of the Maiden.
We can see him backing up now
to try to preserve its health.
as the owner is up here on that topside, but Yehu doing a good job with the bear, scouting him out.
Yeah, all with the Annie, because obviously it's reverse Annie, so that is Annie that the Tivus is going to be dropping as Paze
in a really uncomfortable position, but relentless pursuit is going to be used against its namesake and gets him out of there.
When it comes to Lightning, Keria taking a little bit of damage there, but KC on the front foot once again,
and I really like this, I feel like KC have just not been perturbed by the difficult early game towards the bottom side,
and have just got back on that front foot,
playing around their spikes as best they can.
And now, Paze could be in a little bit of trouble.
He could, we'll see.
Kerry is around and is level six.
So it would be tough to knock him down
with all the summoners available and the breath of life.
You have to be really on point with your engage.
So it's a risky play to go for KC, and they do know it.
So they will play back for now.
Doran, obviously, in a really tough spot.
If you're a Doran, your job is get farm, protect the tower,
don't die.
That is it. You're no longer playing for trades. You're no longer playing for anything in the 1v1
Just get in the backpack. Let the teammates who have that lead get the job done
I feel like Doran throughout his career has been very good at that
Very good at the kid in the back. Oh, he does. He fits real nicely as Boussio taking a lot of damage
When becomes lightning going to miss as there's the calling from Paze
He's spacing beautifully as Boussio taking a lot of damage himself as that's a relentless suit in
in from Paze at the result of that play
and Keria throws down the ulti.
He was holding onto that one,
but he still takes so much from the piercing hour.
It's here.
In the meantime, exactly right.
If you start that fight,
you're gonna have to make sure you finish it quickly.
Otherwise T1 will rotate over,
but Oner is gonna be taking a lot of damage here.
There's a cataclysm.
He finds a flak and drag towards Gilles,
but he has a brilliant barrier to keep him alive.
But T1 also absolutely fine.
Yeah, who in this mid lane,
doing a lot of damage to Faker
and holding him in the lane.
And that is the main thing, as a teleport behind is looking to try and finish this one off.
Yeah, gets himself out of there.
Yank just gets destroyed by base, gets over the wall, picks up the double and counter.
Can he protect this?
One versus three, his health bar is massive.
We're looking at Faker going down potentially here in this mid lane, but T1, they get away.
That fire kick was looking pretty ultra-vega to me.
He knocks him back and...
Also tonight is the back, but the next one is Yehu finds a solo on the Faker and doesn't
Take the church on it, he thought he was dead, but just barely gets out of tower range and stops that last shot from happening.
This is such a huge win for T1 though. Look at Doran, he gets the push in the wave, he's gonna get a plate.
Kana TP's away, and that one ultramega fire kick there from Kari, it just completely denies the play,
pays, flashing on top of Yike, getting inside of the ultimate there, bursting it down.
just knowing his limits so precisely is what is always so impressive about seeing his fighting.
Not to mention the fact that this is the Lucian, right? You have to be playing like this right
on the edge in order to eke out the amount of damage to get value out of this champion.
Paze has been devastating on this pick before and he is demonstrating that right here at MSI
feels like one of his best tournaments that he has had. Everyone remembers that 28 kill Callista
game. This guy is pretty comfortable here as Boussio looking for an angle towards Doran.
He does get locked down with those tangle bobs. He's kind of looking for an angle, but Doran
is going to be absolutely fine. Yeah, it's unfortunate because Kanna had a very optimistic
gnar that he threw the ult over onto the owner, but the owner was already out of there. And
if he had his ult there, I think he'd do kill Doran. So unfortunately, he won't be able
to get it now, owner and carry it up here to protect him and look at Paze. No one is
down there answering pay so he is gonna be able to grab that first tower they're
already up 2k here and congratulations to owner who has now moved to a third
all-time on that wins list here and I'm assuming that is international as he
passes Shao Hu one of the all-time greats from the LPL and Faker, Karya and
owner so it is three players on T1 that have the most wins at international
events and then confer in caps.
It turns out with you as well.
Four world championships
than like everyone else combined.
Yeah. You do play some games
and win some, too.
And Faker is like basically 100
ahead, 98 ahead of Karrion.
The problem for Karrion is that
every time he gets a win,
Faker does too.
That cap is never closing.
It's like wanting to get older
than your older brother.
Just doesn't ever really work.
And it's all right.
Winner is going to be out of
take down the straight.
That is going to be the second one
locked in and it's a Hex Tech
He's sold this game as well, a scary one for KC to be staring down the barrel off, but they are not going to react to it, they are just going to kill Doran again, that's going to be their plan, as Doran does find a bit of health back with that Q and actually it's taking a while to kill him, kind of will be out of do it, but it does take a little bit of time, 3 and 0 here, like all of the eggs are in the NA basket.
Absolutely are and it is a good basket to have it is the ultimate comfort champ here for conna
We'll see if you can get something done in this game
Buccio just playing towards that lane gets up towards the top side does get the mckill
But even with the 1.4k gold that he has they are so far behind
Clis is just gonna be useless this game, you know down over
2000 gold here at 13 minutes is really really tough
But you know you gotta say yahoo has been doing pretty darn well
Yeah, look back to to last game and the advantages he was able to build
You know this was his performance last game 7 2 and 7 putting out a ton of damage
You know was glinting in that lane very slightly as well
And then this time coming back on the any gets a solo kill on the faker and does have that ever so tiny
Gold advantage, but in a position to maybe be that person to try to punish base
That's a weird situation here is kind of does take that very deep
Hextech gate in order to get into the enemy jungle.
That is going to buy space to try and kill Doran again, is what I'm seeing.
Yeah, who moving on down here?
Yeah, there are a lot of plates up and available.
Doran takes more than half of his health bar from a bear drop.
And now T1 looking for a fight on the opposite side.
The Culling just thrown in to Boussio and Kalista.
Boussio looks to be the target here.
Because Doran is dead once again, but is the cross map play available for T1?
And Onus says absolutely it is.
Fire keep going to connect and Kalis just needs another double tap as a light slinger who will be out of take down the Varus
So one for one across the map here as Doran moves to zero and four
But that's a three zero four pays. Yeah pays is the one getting all the gold is so strong
We're gonna look for Ona though. Yeah, and that will find him
And it doesn't have a lot of friends in the area and he knows that he's dead
So weird position for the Jarvan to be it is but usually expecting them all stay around and and the reason they are staying around is guess
No one is entering top, no one is entering mid.
So not that bad.
Because KC committed everyone to overstay on bot side to try to get that.
But that does mean Faker kills the tower up in top lane.
Paze gets plates and denies the minions in mid lane.
So even though they get the kill, it doesn't actually change the gold lead really at all.
And now Yahoo might just be dead as Paze forces the flash.
My goodness, the damage out of this two-item Lucian is absurd.
Quick blade's done.
And yeah, it's only going to get worse from here as he's going to be building towards his infinity edge.
the edge. And Doran, unironically, I mean, this is working, going at Doran over and
over and over, but he's not really worth any gold anymore. And you can see in the coin
base, gold grind pays very, very far ahead now, nearly 3000 gold ahead of Callis to his
down 40 CS, down a bunch of kills, down a bunch of blades, down in everything. And you
know, it's going to be the strong members on KC's job to try to deal with pays. But
That is always so hard when there's an enchanter behind a gigafed 80 carry, right?
Because Karrion is going to be there to protect him with the breath of life.
He has the barrier, he has the cleanse, and he has Dorn and the owner and Faker who are there to basically just...
You can say.
Yeah, and Yike taking so much damage, he flashes in to get the knockup on the pace,
but he gets himself out, he's got the ulti from Karrion to keep him alive.
As Yike goes in, but Dorn just being that frontline, the knockup's back to his counter,
turns up, Faker on the flanking angle, is able to take down the jungler.
as the Pop Blossom only picks up owner and owner doesn't really care about that.
The dash forward from Paze and they will be at a lockdown that kill on the opposite side though.
I mean, it is a two for two trade between the two squads.
Kasey gonna be okay with it, I think.
Yeah, honestly, I would say they should be really happy with that.
The fact that he got Flash as well off of Paze.
Yeah, Buzio dies, but being able to get Flash off of Paze is worth his life.
That is worth its weight in goal.
The Zag goes in here, Paze and Karrie kind of flexing on him, but yeah,
It's there very early. So he's able to push them back carry has to flash out
Dora and gets rooted up by that chains of corruption and incomes honest
They're able to burst him down finish him off and look at Buccio on the side
I don't think Pays really recognized that he was coming until very late had to flash
After that protobelt play from Buccio
They barely kill faker before he realm warps out on the side
But even though it's an even trade of kills even though Pays is still way ahead
You now have a window in to potentially actually kill pays because he has no barrier no flash
You have flash on Kana and that is kind of who you are looking at now
Yeah, you put all of this effort into getting Kana ahead. He has six kills
He is massive point six K if you can find a flash all cool good flash Ramona
And that is the alt that you were talking about
Could have been enough to take down owner and that would have been really good to locking down this dragon
but still KC with the inside track and Doran, he's got teleport but he is just moving towards that top side getting to make him to
work on the inner turret potentially and it looks like T1 will sacrifice this Drake and the power of the double dragon for T1 is
very very strong because now they can use it to get control of this mid lane
They've also got the Yorick moving towards the top side so a Drake sacrifice
for so much more on T1 side.
We're basically two full towers is what they're going to get here
They're actually looking for a charge on the third one as well
Paz is going to drive this in which always makes me a little bit nervous
But he's very young aren't around all they're not able to actually get the charge and Paz is in a very uncomfortable position
But he's able to dash his way out close to a 4,000 gold lead for just illusion
That is ridiculous as we're gonna be throwing getting stopped and maybe during dying or at least having a flash
Yeah, he's gonna be out of flash out of the way goalie wall is is gonna go down
And so he's going to be able to get himself back so still I mean getting a flash out of the arc going to be fantastic
But T1 3.5 K the gold advantage and you're looking at the top of your screen
You're like nine to nine this game is very close
But at 18 and a half minutes 3.5 K is no small leap especially if you can concentrate at all on
Who I would say is the world's best teamfighting 80 carry. Yeah
I'm not a bad place to put all your gold and that's exactly where all of it and more is as far as the lead is concerned
3.6 is a big one and I do want to also talk about how these compositions are gonna meet up later on and how it works out for
T1 in their favor because the biggest problem for late game teamfights in my opinion is Calist because he's going to outrange kind of
everyone. The problem is he is the one that's 0-3. He is the one that's massively in the hole and all of the money is on
who is just decidedly short-range into a rise and elution.
They're going to be doing so much damage later on from about the range that Nara wants to be playing in.
And that's why, I mean, with Clis completely out of the game, it is all about your engaged tools, right?
It is about flash timbers, it is about flash mega-nar, it is about flash pop blossom,
and is it about really coordinating on that where everyone goes in and you're hoping to one-shot pay in the very beginning of the fight.
If you can do that, you can easily win a fight, but that is a very hard thing to do.
T1 have the run of the map. They are going to be marking you, you know, at all these angles.
They're going to be warding everything out, and they're going to be playing around, keeping Paze safe here.
So Paze needs to play well, but we're expecting to do it.
Well, Boosio finds the pop, well, almost finds the pop, lost him.
And now the realm warp, just to try and get themselves into the fight.
That is a brilliant start for KC, though, as Onur is just dead immediately.
immediately, Faker follows suit and T1 bit off more than they could do the flash gnaw!
And Dino goes, pays massive shutdown!
And of course that money goes to the now legendary Kanna!
Yeah, that's 1k going to go to there, and they're gonna go straight to the Baron,
and they're gonna get the Baron here for free!
This is crazy!
The Realm Warp there was suicidal from Faker.
It was.
They take the Realm Warp in, but...
Yeah, who has all his abilities? You're well-warping into the anti-stun.
You still have to pay some respect to the damage that they can do.
Yeah, you had killed them all, but it was just Bustio.
Everyone else had everything available there.
And it was Yikes. And Yikes was just going to die.
Yeah, and Yikes with the Crescent Guard as well.
They, like, well-warped him, and then immediately,
they just thrown around like ragdolls,
and they get even further away,
even more disconnected from Carrier and Paze.
Let's have a look at it one more time.
Has it started off so nicely for T1?
Yeah, I mean, it was a good play here.
Booster just locked in to the Cataclysm, tries to flash out late to try to get on Pace, can't do it, and they're like,
Oh, we win!
But, Kana arrives, and they are realm-warping into every ability, chains of ruptures up, Crescent Guard is up, Kana is there, Tiberus is available,
Everything is there, you're not that tanky at this point.
It's not as though you're going in and you're trying to like instantly zone you as a bait to play,
they just didn't have the tools to do it, and then Kana comes over, spends that flash, kills off Pace,
T1 obviously still in a decent spot, but this game is even now and it was a lead.
And not to mention the fact that this Rebel Baron Powerplay can be used to get themselves a second Hextech Dragon as well.
And having a look here, this is Casey on that comeback.
T1 though, when the tempo vibes move against them, that is generally the happiest they become.
As Faker, what is he doing there?
Well, he's just clip pushing and they're gonna try to just trade here on the other side.
Kana versus Paze looks to be a bit of a 1v1 battle, but Kana is there to support.
As now, yeah, who's going to find Faker as well?
Kana is just going to be taken down though, and Paze returns the favor!
And picks up the shut down money himself.
Faker is going to be able to get himself out of there, brings some minions with him.
And he might even be able to eat some honey fruit.
Faker getting out safe there.
But Kana is so strong, that was very scary for Paze.
They actually had to spend the barrier and the ult from Kana.
carry a flash, you realize, hey, this could actually go bad.
One or two morados come through another hyperbroke,
and maybe Paze does just get killed there by Kana,
but T1 do pull it off as they often do in these tight scenarios.
And now it means they're going to get the dragon off the back
of this, they're going to move to sole point.
And it is Hextech's sole, which is just bad news
if you are a KC fan.
Doesn't feel very good.
The good news is that it's not actually
sole because they were able to deny the last one with some good
team fighting themselves.
Only 1,000 gold to lead as Boussio gonna try and get in amongst it here catching anyone trying to defend this top lane push
That Callist is on no one here in
At this particular moment that pays once again very used to being the man with the most money on the rift and they certainly do
Take with that global taunt still there as it has been for so many years
As long as just presses cataclysm gets himself out of it
That is going to buy as much space as they can get to try and keep this in a turret alive.
That was actually pretty critical that Yike had the Krugs there,
because he was able to dash out of the Cataclysm to the Krugs.
Had they not been there?
I think the vision that owner had is he Cataclysm's in by the tower,
bigger one shots the minions,
he takes aggro, has to flash out, has to do something.
Yeah.
But instead, able to get out of there, no problem.
I've seen this play before as Pace just goes into melee range with a minion,
and he's happy to do so, chases him down relentlessly,
And it's kinda dead yet again!
And look at bot lane as well.
Meanwhile, during all of this, Dorian was just pushing.
Yeah, the 0-5 Yorick having the best time of his life.
When you're 0-5 and you're down 3k on Yorick, you might not win a 1v1 against NAR,
but you know who you can win 1v1 against? The tower.
Yeah, with minions.
Yes, it's not really 1v1, but he needs his friends,
and he is going to be able to bring them fakers also doing the same thing towards the top side.
And we were talking about this.
131 is definitely a possibility here for T1 and they are showing us that it absolutely is as they moved to
2000 gold in the lead three and a half minutes until the Hextech soul is available for them
And this time Pays made it look easy killing off Kanna because his calling was much better than the previous fight
Yeah, he was point blank
He got so much calling value and calling just does
Ridiculous DPS, you know at this stage in the game when you have the IE and now he's working in towards that LDR
Kana will be paper. There's no one that can tank the calling whatsoever except
Dyke with Crescent Guard. Like that is that is it. Anyone else is getting hit by
that thing. You need the Crescent Guard. You need you know timbers be blocked. You
need Boussier's clone. Something must be blocking this calling or you are going to
just straight up die. And all you can interrupt it right? Interrupting it
sounds like a pretty good idea as well but there are no options there. Paul
Kana in mini NAR form in order to make that one work. So pays level 14 now on
on their solution, Infinity Edge in hand,
and now just looking for even more damage
as Armand Penn gonna come in next.
Yeah, and I mean, Kalista at least does have three items,
so that's something working for him.
You know, he is relevant, he's still way behind the page,
but when you look at everyone else,
Thrandom is a real threat, right?
Yeah. If he gets a hit,
he will not be weak as Doran does have to run for the hills,
but Faker also, his row has just popped,
so he's almost 16, and he almost has the actualizer,
and we already know that is scary times there.
The rise concerted the league teams, you know, when you hit that items spike.
And then all of a sudden you're in a position where as KC, you must kill Paze
at the start of the fight, you can have a chance.
But if you full sent every ultimate, every flash, every ability into Paze to do it,
well, Faker might just wipe you.
Yeah. And Faker, I mean, thankfully for KC, as far as his teamfights, Faker has
decided that he wants to play a rat this game.
He is just toppling.
That's what he's doing.
All random bolt tower.
Yeah.
All random bolt towers, all toppling is what I was kind of
thinking. It's not really the version that I'm used to, but I do kind of like it.
Faker has been playing for a long time, so he knows all of the versions.
Pays now sitting in the mid lane, and we'll be able to clear out that wave.
The Baron gonna be up in 17 seconds time, I believe T1 have that one on the mind,
as they are T1. They always think about Baron. That is the thing.
And Yike actually is gonna get dashed on by Pays! The Crescent Guard comes in,
as they look to try and use Ono to peel, and down he will go to the GA!
Yeah, who is just dead in an instant, you were mentioning the DPS on their calling, and my god, T1 are just gonna mow them down, the 9-4 from the grave.
That one was a little bit too late for Kana.
That's it.
And speaking of too late, it's too late for KC in this series, I think this one's over.
It's absolutely over a 5-0, Cleen aches 27 minutes in, T1 make no mistake about it.
10, 1, and 7 on Paze. This Lucian absolutely dominating in this game number 3 and T1 will
move forward here in the Plains and remain undefeated.
This T1 bot lane man, they are looking different in Plains.
And who gets the player of the match, man? Is it Carrier or Paze? That's the hard question.
Yeah, let's just give it to both of them. Bottom lane.
Give it to the bottom lane. Desk, what do you think about it?
Right, they can definitely share it.
I think that's part of the experience, Goliath is sharing.
Yeah, yeah.
It's probably one of the best parts here.
Which mine is yours. Holy bolly, though.
Paisus is gliding on them in their last game.
That was insane.
Why don't my lutions do that?
That's because I'm your lution.
There it is. Again, another dominant performance by T1.
Difficult to figure out who is going to take it, but your oppo player of the series
Not Doran is Kariya Kariya is the oppo player of the series
He did fantastic there in that last one
But also going back to the bar game being given his best champions
He delivered on every single moment and he was a terror in the pike game
It felt like every game was him initiating the action and I do think it was definitely difficult
It's one of those players of the games where you're like, can we share it?
Can we have a really cursed Photoshop of both bot laners combined together?
But no, because I do think a lot of what the early action was, especially in the pike game for me,
it was him constantly fighting it.
This flash prediction was just so sick.
It's going to show up in the eventual highlight reel of his career, I feel like.
Yeah, I mean he was just styling on them just some phenomenal play on the pike,
phenomenal play on the bard, Milio playing that supportive role for Paze,
But I think it is a dimension both these players not much time playing together
And yet they just seem so rock solid as a duo and so much trust in each other
A's he will dive forwards knowing he has the backing office support there
Challenging kind of who is hyper fair to this point. He knows Kerry has his back. Hello
I think he was saying happy birthday Kobe
No carry, space in that way, look at that you.
He's just multitasking as this was the bloodiest 3-0 in international history.
Foggerwatch, we are at the 11th MSI, 16th year of League, Lolli Sports,
and we continue to make records, so many kills.
And again, if you're a KC fan, the opportunity was there, there were opportunities.
I think there's two aspects for there being the bloodiest series.
One, KC put up a good fight despite the series score.
And two, the circus is in town.
The circus has arrived in Dejan.
It was on display, and it was very fun to watch.
I just want to say, I did vote for Paze.
I'm happy with Kariah also getting it too.
But look at that Lucian bar at the bottom.
Holly Bully, he was doing so well.
That last team fight.
Straight up shock and awe.
Like the ulti straight down on Yehu, like the Lucian ulti,
immediately flashes away from the Niko ultimate.
He played those moments so perfectly.
We beat it up the yanking game.
Yeah.
You know, all of it.
That was incredible to see.
And we're all in danger.
Wait a second, we're still in there.
Everyone's still alive.
And again, the fact that T1 do it in a 3-0 fashion,
saving strats not only for potentially later
on in the tournament, but that qualifying playing game,
they are one best of five series away
from making it into that main stage.
And they just look like the best team here.
I mean, they did go for the play-ins for Worlds last year,
and they won Worlds.
That was a short play-ins, but I just
think right now, with the only being one spot,
it looks so tough.
These are the teams.
The fact they still haven't dropped the game,
it's messy, but the decisiveness and the team
fights, it's just so hard to match.
You know, we've seen even HLE in their series
and wrote to MSI, had early leads,
And there was like game where T1 just fought their way back from basically nothing.
They are a team you cannot disrespect, cannot give a single window to.
I will say we're not focusing a lot on it because T1 keep winning,
but top lane maybe we'll focus on that later.
At some point.
Right, final thoughts.
Oh my god, I thought they needed to warm up a little bit in playing.
I think they're scorching red hot.
I think they're warming up.
That's what warming up looks like.
Yeah, that Bunsen burner started immediately.
Yeah.
So that's tough.
Yeah, going to be pretty difficult for anyone to stop
then one series away from making it in to the main stage.
We are seconds away from being joined on stage
by that oppo player of the series
in the Verizon Post Game interview.
We're joining Karyah.
Let's send it on over now.
MSI 206 playing stage, 2nd round.
And it's like 206 playing stage round 2.
Winners match.
Team 1 take it.
Perfect 3-0 victory over Kamen 4.
and vans to the next round.
Joining us now is T1's support, Keria.
Congratulations on the win.
Thank you very much.
Since we are in Beijing, I have to ask you this, too.
Keria, do you like bread?
I love bread.
Especially the recent trend that the trend is
right now is the 3-0, bread, and you were able to bake that up.
And with yesterday's victory combined, how did the team know that you baked?
Hey, it was really good. I liked it.
With this win, you guys moved one more step closer to the practice stage.
How do you feel after taking down KC?
KC is one of the strong teams and they have a lot of experience.
So we were looking forward to the matchup, and I think we were able to have a great game together.
And then in game two, can't you let your barred through?
How did it go from your side?
Honestly, my recent barred plays looked not up to the expectations, so I wish other teams also let it through so that I could part this bar a little more.
And T1, the game was going back and forth, but the team fight was the key to success.
How are T1 always able to turn the game around in the team fights?
We have such a great comp and in the mid to the late game, we all know what to do and
how to play out the game in order to get the win, so I think it's a combination of all
that.
and carry it. This is your fifth MSI. Compared to when you first stepped onto the MSI stage
in 2022, what do you think has changed the most? Back then, I really wanted to be the
golden support, but right now, I can say I am the golden support itself. Just one more
win, you will be heading to the bracket stage. What kind of mindset and ambition will you bring to the next match?
So far, it was a double elimination format, so I was not too scared, but next one, we have to lock it, you know, one loss and we're out, so we're gonna lock it.
Thank you very much, Keria, and please give it a one more time for the go to the court itself, Keria. Thank you very much.
And Ike actually is going to get dashed on by Paze. The Crescent Guard comes in and they look to try and use Ona to appeal and down he will go to the GA.
Yeah, he was just dead in an instant. You were mentioning the DPS on their calling and my god T1 are just going to move them down.
The dog to fall from the grave!
That one was a little bit too late for Kanna, and speaking of too late,
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They did not have a great start to their MSI debut here.
Yes, they did too.
And game two was super rough.
And I think today, even though a lot of people favoring Team Liquid, getting a game,
it's so rough to go to a tournament and immediately lose your series and go out.
Not to win a game though, that feels so.
So, just a strong start is what I'm hoping for.
A lot of questions gotta be coming in from the LCP community
because it's like, they're just not playing themselves.
Yes, game 2 looks heinous, but just in general, playing incredibly slow, game 1!
So I feel like the international inexperience is like a big part of this.
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Just be confident in each other.
Get ready and drive.
Be confident in each other.
Play with enjoyment, please.
So I do want to defend spawn a bit because I saw some criticism for this, but this was
released after game number two.
He's very clearly trying to keep the mentality for the team, focus on these games, keep them
from spiraling.
You're playing against the world champions, you've made some clear mistakes in the previous
game, so he's trying to focus them up for game number three.
And the key thing, I think, is he kept mentioning trust in your teammates, that is something
you cannot lose at an international tournament, especially a double elimination.
So I thought it was actually good work trying to like steady and focus the team, still focused
on getting the wins.
I think it's always tough when you're away from home.
You've got the big crowd against you here.
And then you just don't get to execute at the level
that you want to.
Even though you're going up against the World Champs
in T1, we're in favor, still, to have a performance like that
is tough.
And I think if Coach Spahn is having a conversation like that,
it can be dangerous for the squad
if they don't bounce back.
However, there were conversations
had earlier at the hotel.
The team is all on the same page,
and they're going to be ready to go here
against their big opponents and really love deep cross gaming.
It's Team Liquid Alienware versus Reloved Deep Cross Gaming.
Let's get into game number one.
Welcome back to the candidates.
We get ready for this series, Team Liquid Alienware
versus Reloved Deep Cross Gaming.
Team Liquid Alienware, the first to take to the stage.
It was a rough day yesterday, but optimism,
I think, in the Team Liquid camp,
about what we're going to see today,
hoping for a big uptick in performance.
And I think of the upside as well for Relove DCG
and kind of in the same boat, like this
was a team that came in with a lot of hopes, obviously
only just getting promoted to the LCP this year.
And they haven't quite been able to show
what they were capable of domestically
in the international stage yesterday.
So I'm hoping that some of those nerves got out yesterday,
because that's what some of that felt like.
And we can see them kind of have that performance
that they're known for domestically.
And I'm hoping we see a lot of the same explosive kind of math play.
We see some of the dominant Lee Sin performances.
Pop-Dyne, very quickly earning my respect in that first game.
The second and third game, obviously, is significantly harder.
But there's a lot to be optimistic about, I think, for both sides.
Despite the fact that neither of them were able to find a win,
both had really good moments across those series.
It needs to see who can kind of show more of that form today.
Yeah, and I think, like, we kind of got to see glimpses of what
are capable of in that game one where, you know, playing through one, three, one, catching
people in that mid lane, really playing for these overloads. I think is how we'll probably
see them trying to just here coming into today. Whereas for a team liquid, I mean, the bot
lane was a little unfortunate for them, but I expect like with the performance Jose Dioto
had and like Morgan, who is actually clapping during the top lane, like I'm looking forward
to seeing what he's capable of today.
Yeah. Before I just want to see that level up. I want a little bit more of a tight top
But it's also just hard to say what kind of the meta is going to look like what performance
is going to look like after day one, especially for a team like DCG, when you think about
any team kind of first big international debut, I think that first series is never going to
be your best series.
So want to see how much of this is just nerves, how much of this is going to kind of settle
out today.
Because I think the expectation for at least TL fans, if not for TL themselves is that
this should be a really clear opportunity for a clean sweep to show a higher level performance
reminder, the winner here goes up against KC tomorrow to see who will get the rematch
for that single slot into the MSI main stage. Loser is eliminated. So high stakes across
the board. Both teams really want to show what they're made of as we enter. It's fans.
Nala is going to be taken off the board. Nafiri poppy, a lot of jungle focus coming in from
the side of DCG trying to limit Jose Diodo. I think it's a well earned respect. You played
absolutely fantastically yesterday and as well as being kind of their powerhouse jungle
in their domestic split too, and able to focus on him, I think is going to be a good call
for DCG.
You know, the pop line still wants to go for as well.
The bio is going to say, but at least in Rek'Sai, these kind of picks.
So if you can try and remove things like the poppy, it definitely makes those picks stand
out that good.
Yeah.
And I think DCG often at their best when they have these very straightforward and gauge
tools, these champions that kind of rally everyone together, right?
When five pushes all, everyone can follow up.
It's such a clear indicator.
You're not playing this space and game with something like a karma support.
You really want those reliable go buttons.
And that is currently what TL are trying to take away.
Triple jungle ban, though.
Leeson, five jungle bans in the first phase.
We're getting deeper to the pools.
And look, we saw Keanu early.
We've seen multiple different champions buffed on this patch
in terms of what they can do in the jungle.
Jarvan going to be the immediate pickup.
This was a bit of a tragic one for Pop9 in that game, too.
I think he is looking for a bit of redemption.
There were some really rough moments around that dragon,
especially where Buccio just walked up and stole it.
I have a feeling today we're going to see a lot more from it.
I'm curious now how, team, if we want to try and respond,
looks like they're just going to try and focus on bot lane,
especially with the Nautilus gone,
but going back towards the Bard who can roam so effectively
and impact the map, I think is a good call,
because we know the reel of DCG would like to get active
in the early stages of the game,
so if you could try and match some of those plays with the Bard,
it could work out well.
And the Zinzeo, kind of the other clear-cut jungler
with so many of those bans going the way that you're doing.
Yeah, I mean, no surprise,
Zozin Gio has most played domestically,
one of the premieres in the locker,
really has been for the entire split.
Always a debate here for DCG,
but between the barge, you know,
immediately kind of makes the option
of immobile champions like a Rumble
a little bit less appealing,
the threat of getting tempered as we saw
when Teria played it in our last series,
really can make those immobile champions a little bit weaker,
but we talked about the hotpot, Rob.
You as an LPL caster, you know this combo better than anybody.
The Rumble and Jarvan together is a terrifying duo.
It's very strong, especially giving track trying to play towards that top lane and lends some focus towards flooring
But I was gonna say I feel like with the Bard as well coming back to your point the
Champions that you want to take here are gonna be a little difficult for DCG to go with the Cassiopeia
I imagine we're gonna get a Caitlyn here for team liquid and then the traditional answer to it is something like the ash
Seraphine that we've seen like in fact Caitlyn Bard a lot of the times
But now you've got two right kind of a mobile champions that can easily be set up for picks on there with the Bard
So I'll see if that's going to be the call is actually the colleague going to be locked in here early into the castle
Opium and for quit. This is absolute comfort, right?
We know how incredibly good she can be on this pick of course against the Casio
It can be really tricky the crowd gets you a lot of space
But Casio just such an oppressive laner if she ever catches you out crocs that boys in the twin banks are coming in
It's difficult, but I think TL very quickly recognizing they don't want to give away any more easy engage options
So Camille taking away Shao say they've had his best game on that Camille and generally Camille
just looking like a meta powerhouse in the bot lane.
Yeah, well, I'm actually surprised by the Ezreal ban on the opposite side
because I expected that rail of DCG would go towards, you know, a Caitlyn ban,
try and get rid of some of these, like, hyper-aggressive bot laners
if they want to just push the lane, and then you walked in towards the Ezreal yourself
and they can have some sort of control over that bottom side
and still keep that mobility, but instead, maybe fishing for something like a Zyra, a Kahn instead.
But I imagine the Caitlyn will be the ban.
And I think when you look at the way that TL is banning,
it is so centered on comfort for DCG.
I think they feel like, hey, we're the better team.
And when push comes to shove, if we are playing meta,
or we are playing conventional picks,
and you're not on your signature picks,
the picks that we saw yesterday,
it just doesn't seem to feel like they think that DCG can keep.
Still going to have to see that level of execution
that TL is here.
Absolutely.
I don't.
No, no, no, no.
I mean, he saw it from Morgan yesterday into the narrow play.
That was more of a counterpick.
So, but we more can go back towards more what he played in the regular season and playoffs, right?
It was about putting him onto that tank duty yesterday.
We got to see him kind of pop off in the carries, which we haven't seen from him in a while.
Plus just going back towards more standard here in this.
It's true against Doran, the carries against floor and the tanks, you know,
someone you can bully and like easily like Doran.
You got to watch that.
Can't even finish it with a straight face.
You see the KC series?
I can't be talking any smack about anybody on that T1 lineup.
The debate here though from the side of DCG, Vong.
This is what it's going to be.
So, Rakan, another pro-activated gage champion.
This is what we know Shaoxi for right across all of the years of Shaoxi,
whether it's on this roster or any other.
He has been the big engaged player in Rakan.
Maybe not as explosive early as something like Camille or Pike
doesn't have that solo kill pressure,
but certainly still has a lot of play-making potential.
Yeah, and I imagine it will be desire because that was kind of what we were saying.
Like, if you're going to go this style,
you want to have some sort of ability to deny the barred,
push. Maybe not going to be the case. I don't know if I love this, though. I think they're
biggest worries because they've hoping for the bell from Team Liquid earlier on and that's
just not going to be a good time if you're this high into that bell. So maybe just try
to play a little bit more scapegoat around that.
Yeah. And I think when you see the jargon to rumble in the gym together, this is a trio.
You know, often we see pair with Leone, not a Casio, that we know could just be this really
long range dive threat. Jin always able to help set up and support with additional CC.
But at the same time, you know, not the, not maybe a Kaisa that's going to dive in with
these champions or follow this for Khan.
It's a little bit dissonant in terms of what some of these picks are doing.
It's also just very hard to set up as the chin in this because you're into an order,
you're into the barred, both long range and ultimates that can kind of slide you down
if you ever open up early with the curtain call.
So it does become a little more difficult for Fong to have last in the team fights.
And I mean, for team Liquid, you can see they kind of just set up for a very strong
front to back with this Akali playing for Flank and when you look at across the
lead of DCG a lot of that is dive with the follow-up from the Cassiopeia and the
James so if that could be disrupted by some of those big ultimates like the
Bard and the Ornn I think Team Liquid have a good shot here.
And really surprised to see Varus go to sleep but it is just a new patch and a new meta
champion that's not getting quite as much attention as the dip in any of the
domestic playoffs but really PL set up with a pretty dominant 2v2 bottom lane.
want to see that uptick in performance from Jan especially today. See if you can kind of level up not to what we saw domestically domestic was also a struggle right but when we think about Jan for the last three years as opposed to just this year was this really standout player on an otherwise struggling teal line up rebuild the roster around him this year but it's the
off that has been shining. Well, he hasn't had that same shimmer, that same spark. And
I think this match of today is a good good chance for him to really to bounce back to
show how dominant he can be. Because it was his lane partner that I was incredibly impressed
with yesterday. I think Core JJ and the Nautilus looks fantastic working really well at Jose
Dioto. And even though they did end up losing 3-0 to T1, I think there was real moments where
that jungle support shine. So I really want to keep my eyes on these two today, especially
with the barred being able to roam and support Jose Dioto,
how do they try and influence the game?
Because against T1, they had this invade game one
where they tried to split the map and play through a strong side.
But I don't know if that'll be the call here.
I think the thing that we have to accept,
anytime we load into a game of League of Legends,
if we love deep cross gaming,
is that fighting could happen at any moment.
Yeah. And frankly, I'm here for it and I love it.
But I wonder if some of this aggression
will be tempered today.
Actually surprised to see on is often in towards a lethality
farce because this was good on the patch like they took a
ton of damage out of a lot of his abilities. So I'm kind of
surprised to see that they're still opting towards this as
Chelsea.
See, nice initial gauge cord, big chunk coming out there. Yeah,
forest, the biggest change not in the base damage, but in the
bonus ad scaling, I think 30% taken off a full charge Q at all
ranks, right? So early on, it's not going to be as important,
But as you start to stack those without the items, you're gonna be missing big chunks of damage
Boris though, I think with without you build very similar role
He fills in the team like the gym the pope you kind of get some of this setup
I'm keep my eyes on over the auto here though because he's gone for a free camp towards bot lane clear
So we're learning if he wants to try and make some sort of play on towards the bottom lane
Otherwise, it'd be just reset and look for an early longsword, but could definitely try and make something happen here
We're now though, a relatively calm early game.
Top lane, don't expect a whole lot here, but Morgan is able to find or continue to build.
What is a very slight CES edge, getting some early MR can make a big difference, especially
when the enemy is trying to farm you for money with that first strike.
Lauren determined to be making bank here, what should eventually be a pretty rumble-favored matchup.
some people start to swap over to the death fire touch even in these matchups against tanks but personally I just think you end up with so much gold off of the first strike. It kind of just becomes insane later on like you hit all your two items like so early. So not surprised.
So not surprised, flowing up and in towards that.
As you say, I think a lot of their teamfight is going to rely on things like this hotpot
combo but also the miasma from Hongsuo to try and keep people locked in that and make
sure that they just can't flash away.
Yon, you said to just come through for the core, pop down on the way and quick flashback
from Yon, nice reactions there.
But that is flash for flash, Trayda Chausi giving up his for Yon so it's still a very
good deal for the side of DCG.
I'm curious how Jose de Oda responds to this, because if you hit tab and you see the pop
nine is only, well, or even just see that he didn't take his blue buff, you know, he's
probably gone for crab and blue buff, which gives you a little bit of time here to try
and play with.
So he's going to go for crab, but maybe try and look for a camp on Respawn as they come
through, or maybe try and make a play towards this top side.
Orc and testing a bit of the vision here, cause refining will connect, knock up there,
Funken fire back, a little bit of chip damage, but DCG really got what they came for.
Thought we'd even say as they start to move up to make sure that that crab
isn't going to be taken away by Hose-Dioto, but a very aggressive TP in.
However, all of DCG are in the area, so...
So, is going to take a decent chunk of damage after TPing in? Definitely not ideal,
but now Hose-Dioto has to decide, can he actually contest these Raptors
with all of DCG just so committed to lighting up the bottom half of the map.
Yeah, it is kind of a bit of a trade though.
Like, DCG are playing heavily for Pop9 here, but it does mean Fung very late on this.
He's probably finding Fung, but going over the wall is Shurikenflip, he's going to connect.
Both of you are relatively low, quick flashback out.
Showshin wants to get a little bit more flash forward, wonk so already finds the mark.
The extra movement speed is there, but who's with you?
Just not the edge, just barely able to walk away blinking, ticking out by the poison!
Gets it done!
It's first blood for DCG.
DCG make it happen. Everyone had moved in to try and make that play in there, Florent.
Morgan forcing that flash there. And also now they're pinging on towards Yon.
He's a little overextending to that bot lane. He still has no flash.
No, looks like he's going to be able to walk away, Pop9. There's no wave here to force the tower
dive. It would take a lot of time. And remember that DCG spent an immense amount of time setting
up that play. They did get first blood, but it meant that Yon had a lot of time on his own in
in the bottom land so it wasn't without cost and in fact it was a really big gamble but
this is the thing I love about watching DCG is they're like oh I'm sorry what we're first
hand of poker hand of the night we're going all in and a lot of teams just aren't ready
for that you're supposed to play slow you're supposed to work into the game they're like
we will better entire bot lane on contesting this we will give up all wave control just
to be here for this moment yeah and I think that's why I was lucky to kill went towards
foam because he did lose a lot underneath the tower but now it's still keeping relatively
in touch with it. And I think they expected Fung to have reset. I think that was the timer
that TO were playing for here. But Fung cancels the reset, which means that then you have
the numbers advantage here and everyone's able to jump in. Quick can't really operate
too much at this stage on the Akali. So, they chase down from DCG. Perfect as they kick
up that kill.
Yeah, just barely, right? Just pixels. But the fact that the nonchalous blast is able
to connect, give that extra bit of movement speed really does make all the difference.
The flash follow is also, you know, grabbing core just makes it such an excellent, excellent
starting to continue the joy on these teams faces, right?
First international debuts made their way up to tier one, now making their way to international
yesterday, starting to feel like a little bit of a false start, but I won't, you know,
count the chickens before they've hatched.
We've seen good early games from DCG.
It's that transition into the later stages that we're still waiting for.
Yeah, I do think though this is a much stronger showing though, because yesterday you could
kind of seeing game one, even though Shouse was on the Camille, it was a slow start. Wasn't
really a huge amount of happen, weren't really roaming. This time though, they're already
getting incredibly active in this early stage, and maybe looking for more.
I'm going into instantaneous cataclysms and backstab from Yondas, not work out for him
because now Fungus has been able to grab the kill. DCG continuing to show that level of
aggression on the bottom side of the map, and look what, just have no counter play.
Yeah, I mean, Yondas already burnt that flash earlier, so DCG punished well, should we have
instead of dragon now off the back of this and they're off to a flying start in this one certainly stacking those dragons as well
I'm gonna make it that much easier
They can get to soul point force TL to fight on their terms. It'll be massive for this
Jarvan the setup he has in the fights is
Continuing to chip continuing to poke on level six to function level four though
So it is
There's a level six bars to a level four gym so as much as that kill hurts
Yeah, maybe the pride maybe the ego
Well, it has to be really careful about walking forward here
You're on at the very least did burn ultimate so you can feel somewhat comfortable, but
Pretty big experience discrepancy. I had a surprise course agent didn't try and play heavier on this midway though
I'm sorry in this bot lane because you have no flash on fun
And I believe they just saw show she reset so might have been an opportunity there
But yeah, fun will be up to care at the wave. It's chassis
white confident in
in. That was just not a good
economy.
Callie takes damage.
She walks to my husband.
You could see her outline.
There's just no way she was
there.
But he was feeling it.
He in the moment he was like,
hell, yeah, we're going to get
her.
That was the one place she
actively could not have been.
You would have.
No, look, that's always the
beauty of shows here.
Right.
That man is going to send
it.
No, it's not easy.
After yesterday, some people
were critical.
I was like, I love this man.
He is unbashed.
He's just willing to go ham.
And some players need more of that and sometimes Shosty needs a little bit less that might have been one of those times
But good still to see the room into the mid lane
So from this position, I think if you're a DCG it is going to be a case of though trying to keep Shosty out of the
Lop, like if you can search a room towards like boy groves here and that kind of stuff would be really nice
And you can already see though Jose Diodo has started this up has the
Level six more or well that'll eight Morgan that could try and help the meadow. So it needs me
He's interesting though, Florent also there has access to the equalizer, but no flash.
Pop9 currently just spectating, we make it a 2v2.
Core slightly ahead of ShaoSi on the roam, but neither side is level 6.
Smite from Pop9 does not work out, a media Q3 means that they're going to give it more
CC, lock up onto Qwid, but he's still fine, Cosmic Binding Connects, excellent ult, follow
up is there, but now the Ornn Horde has been blown and they're trying to salvage something
out of the play.
Running for his life. No one could follow up the equalizer is there but Jose D'Irno still had access to the crossing guard
Surprised himself in extra second, but will drop in the end a little bit of a blunt bath on the top side of the map
Yeah, Morgan went for a heavy trade in that top line as everything was kicking off
So managed to force for him back, which meant he could get to the fight faster
Both junglers go down in the ensuing fights, but could have been a lot worse
certainly could have been
messy exchange ultimately
Two grubs to one and
You're able to at least to grab the plate quick force to come back to land to try and contest here, but
Can't comfortably stay anymore. Yon continuing to hold on to almost a 30 CS advantage in the bottom lane
Feels like a small gold lead just because of the difference and kills and assists, but very quickly working towards that first item spike
Yeah, I mean especially having that teleport as well. Yon can play very aggressive in this bottom side
I continue to push and then have that TP in a moment's notice to get back into lane
Which is kind of where he saw can start to build that CS lead off from a couple of those early plays as court JJ spots pop nine
And he takes the raptor
Of course pop nine still gets the rest of the camp and Jose probably still sad to lose the Raptors
But now they're looking to play defense on their own Raptors battle for camps. Let me saw a lot yesterday
Now see wandering in the middle of the bow to take over to six. He's trying to siphon experience
It's a cheeky look, level 6 is there, don't think he was spotted.
The miasma comes down, Chausi has a nice angle to make a play here, but we'll just walk back
to the bottom lane, try to sport fun instead.
Yeah I think it was just, hey look, is there something here, because we may be burned flash
before this dragon comes up in a minute 20, that could be something that we can try and
play through, but unable to do so, so at the moment they're kind of just happy to continue
to play it out.
Oh my gosh.
That is a lot of damage.
Something cast, you know, that's what a little lead looks like.
It's Morgan is now in trouble with the floor knocked up.
Wind becomes lightning, follow-up is there.
Crescent guard to knock back. Pop-9 is big.
Now they're caught in the Thunder Dome.
Jose Oduido versus Pop-9.
Neither one has finished that first item,
but it's double-bushed to Jose, but a massive health discrepancy.
A little bit more healing coming in off the pass.
A dragon strike hits.
Jose able to walk it off.
One for one on the top side.
Looks to go on the way in.
Quid trying to walk away. Pop-9 flashed in!
Otto! That's completely psycho!
He's got to go for the 1 for 1, you got to respect it!
But now in the bottom lane, as Fungus in trouble, the barrier not enough.
Core coming in with the magical journey, finding the CC, and picking up the kill.
Grey binding from CoreJJ onto the minions, actually set up free on there.
So they do manage to get something back in the bottom side,
and CoreJJ continue to keep Shousey off the spot turret so they can get a few more plates.
TPM on the bottom lane, the play is absolutely not done.
Core, how much longer on the cooldown, it is available and time for force to walk away.
What is happening? This game is nuts. But the thing is though, like while DCG are playing
a hell of a lot around this top side of the map, that ball in is opening up a steady lead.
So you see here, Pop9 thinks he's got a moment to play, but Jose Dioto does a good job reading this,
covers to get one back on the end of this, and then it is the kill going across. Jose Dioto
then kind of has to back away because he ends up so low, but Hongsu has a good roam here.
But that's why I don't think Pop9 needed to go this aggressive. I think he was hoping for
for an auto with that possum would then be enough to kill.
It's NOS and he ends up falling down into the terror.
But then in the bottom lane.
But yeah, this is the play, right?
Nice little cosmic binding through the minion.
Really easy kill setup.
But the action is not over, folks.
We cannot run replays in this game.
There's two players.
Cortez is in the pit for some reason.
All of you coming down.
Jose Dioto, this is his chance.
The 50-pitch special, who's going to get in the end?
It is Jose Dioto.
Pop 9 a little bit off on the timing.
Ornorn has been blown.
Two members, no.
Nobody going to be knocked up on the back side.
All of DCG retreats.
One member down, one dragon down in favor of Team Liquid Alienware.
And the game continues with the gold still in touching distance.
Yeah, but again, the huge amount of that is Yonah on the bottom side,
Nailhose Diodo having turned that jungle matchup.
Maybe they want a bit more as far and tries to escape.
Doesn't have an equalizer.
Nice protobelt to get away from the Cosmic Binding.
Chousy sprinting down.
Electro Harpoon doesn't connect onto Hose Diodo.
He's able to walk that one off.
It needs to be a little bit careful, but Shurikin Flip takes him out.
Yeah, I think he knows he's fine.
Chelsea used Flash out of their ultimate in the last fight,
so Mal can be able to really close that distance.
And I think that was the big difference maker in this last fight,
was the value that TCG were able to get out of their ultimate.
Chelsea didn't really get much Florence's wift on the ultimate as well,
and it just meant there wasn't a huge amount of the tank then to try and fight afterwards.
TCG though, still trying to set up on this bottom side, get some deep vision.
Like, this game is bedroom right now.
And I think we just have to...
Let's take a breath.
It's one Drake to one Drake.
Most of the quests getting completed,
still a few here or there that have not come through.
Level 11 around the corner for both Quid and Yon.
First item completion, still not there for Quid.
Still rushing to get that gunblade as you can see on Q.
Pulling ahead in terms of overall itemization.
So still super close game,
but each side kind of has their respective strong points.
Florent, I think getting a lot of additional gold
out of that first strike helps.
and you saw the Protobolt getting that first item of completion actually saved his life in the bot lane play.
Oh, just playing mid lane. Yon is giving me a trouble. Immediately rooted.
Core buys a couple of seconds.
Jharm now fading away. Yon wants to get the magical journey, but there's just too much damage
on the side of DCG. No one else from TL in the area to cover that play.
Yeah, it just seems to be a heat seeking miss off for DCG. The second Yon doesn't have that flash available,
I had you to pick up the play, couldn't keep him safe,
and that now starts to spill over into side lanes, because you can see
as DCG starts to play up towards the topside,
creates the back away, he can't really get much control over the map,
and this can now become kind of the game plan for DCG.
Overload mid, and then spill into the sidelines afterwards.
And I think this is the struggle of Jan being that sole strong point
in terms of overall gold.
You can see Jose D'Irre, the only other member of the team who has it recently,
that's even now starting to even out,
is you're very vulnerable, as is some mobile carry,
to that Jarvan, to any of the potential Jarvan or Rakan plays.
It's definitely not going to get easier as we get later into the game, but I think he's just hoping that he'll be able to operate a little bit further back, you know, kind of an arms reach away to make sure that it's not so easy for them to find those picks.
Yeah, he does just kind of have to play towards this topside of the map, because you can see the defensive line of vision that's been set up on this topside where he can actually keep himself safe.
But the bottomside kind of belongs to DCG. Rift Herald open available though. You can see the contemplation by Florent to see if he wants to move up towards this Rift Herald, but it looks like DCG is just going to give this.
Or are they?
I don't know, is it to beat their mind?
Keep you from behind. Pop 9 going in. They will give it.
But they might be looking for a fight afterwards. Nice equalizer across the top. Morgan in the mid to the pick.
Quit immediately diving into the backline to try to play flung out of the equation.
All to come in from Morgan is going to find the solo knock up on the Pop 9 who will get deleted before the fight really even kicks off.
Yon looking to spot the flanker. Florent all on his lonesome. The flank came rumble. Not something I'm used to seeing as a flash out.
Might make him safe, but he's going to have to walk a perfect line here between towers. Can't quite do it.
quite do it. Gets locked up.
Hosea, you know, quick the follow.
Flash forward with the W as well to seal the deal.
The DCG just way over index into that.
And Team Liquid played it perfectly.
Morgan in particular, managing to get double
knock ups on towards the jungler of DCG,
sets up the team fight, and Team Liquid are going
to get so much off the back of this.
Good patience, good punish really.
DCG.
I don't think they needed to be there,
but clearly felt like they had an angle to force the play.
But I think for Team Liquid, like, break all, right, they knew the position, they were like,
DCG can't really contest us on this, and Morgan teleports the reckoning to the middle of them,
which just sets them up brilliantly. Now you can see Midlane tower down, Morgan is pushing bot,
he's going to be able to take that turret as well, actually, does he? Yeah, should be able to take it just off the back,
and then you're in a perfect spot here.
Yeah, and I think this is a really nice game for Morgan, right? Obviously playing at Trouble can't always be tricky,
but just stacking MR takes out two of the major damage threats
and Jin notoriously really bad at killing tanks until three, four items.
So he can just TP into your face and be pretty comfortable
to impact teamfights without risking too much.
Yeah, but I want to highlight Morgan again in this
because he immediately goes on towards Pop9.
Shousey doesn't get the knock-off,
but then gets the charge onto the wall for Pop9,
which immediately gets the follow-up knock-off,
but then they're in to finish off Pop9,
which just turns the fight immediately
Because that's the main engage tool down for DCG.
And then Florent trying to escape,
but Jose Dioto has not let him get away with that one.
Calm, gum chewing, and clapping there from Mr. Spon,
Tiberi.
Jose Dioto continuing to fish.
And now it feels like Team Liquid for the first time
in this game has a bit more of a secure control
on the state of the map.
Things coming in on the bottom side,
setting up for another arena, another battle around this Drake.
Third Drake of the game, one-to-one thus far.
Good vision for DCG, basically,
don't know where Team Liquid are.
But they really need to be careful
on these choke points, especially against Morgan.
Same as true for TL, though, about walking into the river
here, but Morgan's going to be the light kicker,
off Bornhorn's alone.
Now, what's going to be hit by the knock-up?
Once we get a flashback, we're going to completely whiff.
Lockup is there from core.
Four-time is locked up.
PQ coming over the wall from the on,
but it doesn't connect on to anybody, it might not matter.
Wait, immediately into the backside of the fight,
forced to be zoned off.
Morgan just keeps walking up.
There's no damage to be spoken of, and everybody walks away with their life, but it's TL in control of the Drake.
Yeah, Team Liquid kind of had this shotgun composition where so much of their damage is front-loaded with this poke virus, with the Akali, with them not getting the kill.
There's not a huge amount to follow up afterwards, but they do enough, and that's all they needed to force DCG back, and they will be able to get the dragon.
Drake picked up.
Journal Soul will be big for either side. TL may be laying a trap here, trying to force a fast play, but get spotted by the Squires blue.
Top 9, that's the DCG right back on the map, ready to fight for these cams, but really don't
have that much vision information, it would be a gamble to step that much further forward,
but Cassie here in the top lane, slowly working away at the tower, fortunately Morgan is kind
of one of the people that you can't really contend with, in an extended lane sure, but
in terms of immediately taking a tower.
Even Danny has Kana brookern and the merc threads, like on up against either solo lane,
he's completely fine.
believe you'll kill him I just believe it'll take more time than than you have
yeah he just has to stand there and dance for a little while and you know
spin around yeah
maybe some magic plan to come through a little bit later in the game I do think
those showers he's been doing a decent job of getting vision for a lot of these
plays for DCG like you can see again they kind of have this trifecta of war
it's one of them just deleted there in tri-brush but either way like it's
giving a lot of info to DCG about where Team Liquid are they just haven't been
to capitalize on them and a lot of that is because Team Liquid are playing very well around
Morgan's engages and playing the front to back and kind of picking their flights at the right time.
In particular, Quidd, I think that you call it like this is difficult to try and play around,
but in the last fight you can see you end up dodging away from Hong-Sou's ultimus
and timing that perfect execution so well. Very aggressive, they here on the top side from Team
Liquid in the smite going in the favor of Jose Diodo. Doesn't mean they're going to secure the red buff,
so it has to be a bit careful here, uses the striers below just to give them information
of anybody coming, has the ward there as well to spot out Jose.
But there are nobody here.
Jose De Hito just going in for the 1v1 and is dominating.
Backstep is good.
Now looking for a little bit more fall.
Knockback on the Shousey to get a little bit more
locked down from Core JJ.
There was a lot of time he saw.
Jermaine just walking and solo kill a mid laner.
Well, he's seeing it now.
Core in the end.
Going to take away the kill credit,
but he looked quite happy to find that pick.
And BCG had full control a few seconds ago,
but Cassio sticking around a little bit too long.
Yeah, nice pick.
as Team Liquid gonna be able to take the top lanter, the TP, the Empty, Kali as well.
Maybe thinking they could get a little bit more, but...
Happy enough with the top Territake and this pushing on the mid.
We are, and of course the strongest member of the team.
Two items completed right ahead in terms of XP against Hongxiu.
Has the full additional item completion, so...
New he was stronger in that duel.
Shaoxi not able to get it in time.
Does make things a little bit trickier.
Foranthir these will be able to, uh...
Grab that play.
He's got the Kali behind him though.
One-horn once again blown, tries to get a little bit more space, has the blast cone, TP is there, dash forward and they get the knockup!
What an escape! A few pixels closer to the wall, slightly different angle, maybe they could have got it.
But a high price to pay for a single tower plate, losing that teleport.
Yeah, still I mean the fact that you end up not giving over that kill is massive
You still get pushed out in this top side as well
Which will buy you a little bit of breathing room especially for like two minutes now when that next dragons up
You kind of get a chance to back and continue to get control over the side lane
So just buy a little bit of time for TCG, but team liquid would have loved that one. We get the replay here
Oh
Who moved that wall yeah someone someone is a couple centimeters they added to that
There was supposed to be a wall there.
I mean even if you got the battle's breath off or the clap, something, but no.
Just not there.
Yeah, not quite enough.
But they still get the TP, which I think they could be relatively happy about.
It is, you know, ultimately not the full play that they wanted,
but quit uncontested for now, and the top lane able to grab a play to the zone.
They're not sure when Keel will feel like it's a good time to start this.
Do not have an on-hit 80 carry, right?
So it is going to take a decent amount of time.
amount of time. Don't have the luxury of a Casio either. So it's a quite slow Baron if everyone
starts. I do like how safe Yon is playing in this mid lane though, because you can kind of see
that Pop9 is constantly threatening on this mid wave. Yon, like you can see the second wave
is done, just immediately pulls back. And even on the initial press, as they were getting controlled
on the top side, he's just playing super safe. I think he's kind of learned his lesson from that
early mistake where he got caught. And it is making it tough now for DCG to try and play through what
What was their weakness?
Up 9.
Can use the standard.
Just to spot out Hosea Dioto, who 1.6k ahead individually.
Strongest member on this team relative to their opposition.
Although Yon had 3 items.
He's worth his special mention too.
Having the additional shred on those shields.
I love Serpent's Fang, man.
Anyone who builds Serpent's Fang, good by me.
Play too many a-rams where people don't understand the value of shielding and healing reduction.
As we look at the coin-based gold grind,
We can see, you know, there's some kill gold, definitely mixed in there, but the kill gold is close.
It's a monster gap in terms of the gold between these two players, almost one game more in the favor of Jose Diodo.
And now a potential fight of Bruin in the mid lane. All five flashes up on one side, but on two offs, not to flash here.
Altee there not really going to connect to stun. Altee coming in from Morgan, looks for the bull command knock.
A media turn coming back from a shower, so he could Altee from you onto the back line, means that this fight is going all in the favor of TL.
Fallen running for his life, trying to burn down Hoseji,
can't quite get the job done, Yon moving in for one more auto.
Little bit more movement speed, but it's a magical journey for Gordje and Dane,
and it is not so magical for Florin.
Aero through the heart from Yon, finishes the job,
is pop-knock up for a re-engage on the Morgan,
and it's TL in pull control here.
Nope, Quidd!
Wors the flashback.
I spoke too soon.
Pull control for a half a second before ECG decided it was time to fight once more.
Groot on the Morgan, knockup gonna be interrupted by the bellow's breath.
Unstoppable for a second as Morgan slowly starts to fall. Yon doing good damage.
Unlocked down here. How much more do GCG feel like they have in the tank?
Because Jose Diablo's not even there. He's just focusing down the drake,
but Chausley continues to walk forward. I think he's just trying to buy space,
so then Funko maybe get this mid lane turret, but Team Liquid able to get their place on this mid wave
and make sure they're not taking more. But yeah, this fight, and again, I love the way Team Liquid
to play in these like they split up DCG so well. Pop9 playing very far back for JJ realises
sets up a home soil but dodges away from the petrifying gaze and then Morgan as well like
splitting again DCG. Fong has to step away. Florentine can step up which opens up for
quick to then get into the back line and by that time with the shroud to set up for the kills
to team Liquid again like very quickly decimating some of the key members of DCG.
Yeah, and obviously in the extended play DCG happy to commit to get some of those exit kills
But the only reason it really works out for them is because Jose Diodo isn't there and
Some some raised eyebrows in that moment
I mean also like there wasn't much in the way of armor on Morgan for that fight
So fun able to get a lot more value and that has changed
May not be able to do as much work but definitely helping DCG get one back there in the end
That's what they'll come after fun as well. So we'll see if he's able to get through that beefy health bar
They come to the next fight. Mid lane, the next target here. Root is there. The follow-up though,
really not coming together as you want. Is able to land the ultimate on a pop-down to
follow-up. Aldi, the connection coming through on the following now. He's forced to flash back in,
and it is Quidd standing behind them with an order to support as Akali's 3-2 instantaneous kills.
Follow-up on the E2 coming down on the floor in the meantime. Mid lane immediate retreat for
the remaining members of DCG because Quidd killing everyone. It's a triple for the Akali.
Team Liquid just destroyed DCG in one move.
You end up going for that dive in the mid lane.
They don't commit, and that moment of hesitation
is enough for Jan to get the chain of corruption down.
And immediately, Team Liquid pounced.
Quid saw his moment, picks up Pop9,
holds the perfect execution,
because he knows that if he can connect to a Florin,
it's lights out for the rumble as well.
Quid played that beautifully.
I live for the coach.
Yeah, that's that's that's that was the pretty good.
I'll take it clap clap clap clap clap clap.
That's my guess.
Maybe we can interview later.
We can ask.
Yeah, I think you're going to be pleased about that.
6.6k gold lead.
Honestly, that previous fight felt
like it was where it's really solidly established
TL and control and this most recent one is the G again.
Overcommitting just a bit.
Yeah.
But it's also it is also Team Liquid not giving the moments
again.
Right?
It's very true.
It's as John is playing incredibly safe under terror, Team Liquid are supporting him.
You could see that DCG thought maybe they had a moment, but they're constantly aware of what DCG are up to.
And I think it speaks volumes to why, even though DCG started to get some leads,
it has completely fallen in the favor of Team Liquid.
And I think Team Liquid is acting playstyle pretty quickly after what was a very,
it's a messy early game, a very chaotic, kind of brawly early game to slow this down,
play more at a comfortable pace for themselves.
And DCG, a team that's so eager to make plays
that it often backfires that the enemy team is prepared.
And Team Liquid have been prepared as now.
They start sieging, Ft. Lane, tier two.
DCG have, you can see the combo angle, right?
The hot-paw, we talked about it, the Jarvan and Rumble
all these together.
But the poke from the on, pretty merciless.
It's just difficult for DCG to walk up right now.
Still minute 40 on this bar and push.
So I think Team Liquid are going to start to very quickly
They open up his rental bar and power plays.
Morgan just fearless stepping forward.
It's going to get rooted, but there's absolutely no fault.
Me one.
I mean, mid lane.
What's this going to solo kill Florent?
Nope.
Misses the Q, misses the R2.
We'll get the flash out of Florent.
Definitely had the damage.
Just a few of those cooldowns, not quite connecting.
DCG, trying what they can to fend off the empowered can
and minions.
We're still hovering around.
One tower, one inhibitor down.
Knocked on Jose Diodo is good, but he does have the GA as well as the Altea coming in from 4 to buy him an X per second.
His own Altea will now start to fade onto hovering off to the side.
Shousey looking for the two-man engage. Immediate fall-up!
It's a purple goal to Ben Popped out of the back leg and a knockout!
Yan! Quit now coming in, but remember that Akali doesn't have an Altea hovering.
He doesn't need it because Jose Diodo is here looking to make the difference.
Four members of DCG repeating it as a one for one.
Yan for Hong-Sul, but it's TL in the base empowered by the Baron.
However, they don't want to push for any more. They don't want to risk it. Happy to get double inhibitors and walk away
Just gonna step back little risky with a good engage from Chelsea
But again team Liquid end up completely routing them turn it back
We'll get the inhibitors that they want and DCG it all kind of comes to nothing
Does nice to give themselves a bit more space but ultimately TL kind of got what they came for right both inhibitors down
12 seconds until the dragon something DCG are clearly ready to fight for but at
this point in the game with lack of inhibitors yeah I would agree I don't
know if that'll stop DCG have her. I think at this age like Seekers Armguard
compete for Queen you still haven't burnt that G.A. and even if you get the
Drake you might just lose the game look at bot lane it's in such a disastrous
state if you lose more members than team Liquid in any kind of fight it would
fall apart DCG recognizing it. It's definitely not what they want but they
just really have no other choice. The risk is to mine, try and contest. Now it's
Infernal Soul which for Yon is a dream come true. This fan getting a lot of
free damage already with the poke for us and that number only gonna go up. I think
if you're DCG you're really hoping the team liquid kind of flow above the
initial engage because again like a lot of that damage with like perfect
execution and you're very front-loaded and then maybe you can find a moment
but I think you need several to try and bring this game back from the brink and
you're not getting this. Nope. Shaoxi caught out, goes for a bit of a charm but
is instantaneously knocked down. Game one looking like it's not gonna end with a
bang or a big explosive fight but the quick pick on the Shaoxi, GCC can
bounce a greater defense but it's just gonna be so difficult with as the arm
guard as you highlighted, Jose de Oro, fearlessly running
face first into this tower, which might get a little bit
punished.
But again, still has the GA from the previous fight,
quit hovering off onto the side, good initial CC, locked out.
My husband taking away desperate to get over the wall,
flipping back, but the ulti coming in from core
denies the curtain call.
Ulti from Yon connects, pop down able to escape for a moment.
So still in trouble.
It's a little bit messy TL trying to shepherd DCG in,
but DCG holding the line for now.
Still, I mean, even with this team, Liquid kind of just get to reset
and then go for the Baron in a minute 20.
So the waves are still pushed in, those super creeps still doing work.
So even though it's a little messy, I think it's still just kind of like a stop gap
until we get towards that Baron.
Certainly is.
And yeah, quid. Absolutely terrifying, right?
Quiet start up against the Cassio kind of as you expect in lane at 6-0-1 now.
Almost a 3K gold lead empowered further by Morgan upgrading the
the death cap into whatever the greater adjectives of the game.
Yeah, do they even get names though? Um, I used to know them because medic
Was really weird and competitive about yeah
I think they got rid of them when they like
Like you just got a thousand go stops. Yeah, I think it was death crown. Yeah, but that doesn't feel like an upgrade of a hat
There has to be a better hat word crown feels like its own article of hats. Yeah
But I mean even the fancy hats are just kind of like top pots. We didn't really work on the hot
No, no no no no no no. No, you know
Rabadon's top hat. It doesn't even
Rabadon's murder top hat
It doesn't really as well as the top hat
I see. I see. Maybe we do need writers. Maybe that is an important thing to have for me
Maybe there's something to be said for that
Now uh
Whatever he has in his inventory, whatever has been empowered, it's given him a hell
of a lot of HP.
In the previous fight he looks very smiffy.
Why a ninja needs a hat beyond me, but looks damn good and it is.
We're just hoving around lurking.
And the Baron now going to fall, DCG again just pushed so far back in, the inhibitor
is half now respawned, so it just makes for an easy setup for TL, no contests for DCG.
They do poke their heads in just to see if there might be an angle.
Now here in this red bull Baron power play, likely at the final of the game,
nearly a 9,000 lead for Team Liquid.
The first 10 minutes of the game, incredibly scrappy,
non-caught-out, some really good angles of attack in that first play on the bottom side of TL's jungle.
But after that, it has really been the TL show from start to finish.
And while we're just about at the finish, is for now in trouble,
Shousey going to full commit, Hoga Diro immediately goes over the wall,
looks to turn the play on the headcourt, buys himself an extra second,
Very likely to still burn in the equalizer, however.
Does get knocked down.
Pop9 going to drop to Yon off to the side
of the meantime bump.
The only one left standing as far back as he possibly can.
But I don't even know if the fountain can save him.
Team Liquid, the victory march down the middle lane.
Yon flash forward.
The all-D quids jumps in to steal the kill.
12k advantage.
Team Liquid fired up in day two.
It was 50 cuffs in the early stages,
But DCG just kind of ran out of steam as Team Liquid looking confident in that midgame to take down DCG in Game 1.
That they were.
DCG sent back to the drawing board, had some of that productivity.
See if they can amp it up another level as we get ready for game 2 and we send it over to our analysts.
Thank you very much guys.
Yeah, there you go.
That is what you needed here.
Our NA boys on the desk feeling a lot of bullying on the board, baby.
It was a lot of victory's that built up to the big one here for team liquid alien where they are up
Zero
I feel way worse
Yeah
I mean honestly though I was a little bit tiny worried at the very beginning when Jin overstayed in the river and we still tried to take that little skirmish fight and then you know they chased us down and got a couple extra kills but not super nervous.
That was a slow start, a slow start for sure.
Yeah, let's start with a couple of these fights.
This one right here actually.
Oh god we have to see it?
That's exactly what we were talking about.
So there's a cost for this. Yes, we see the kills on screen and everything, but Jhin overstayed to do that and Jan was pushing bottom lane.
So Jan does end up with this big CS lead for the Varus.
And that's going to be the consolation for that invade.
Of course then, Pop9 still returns because he got level 6 really quick into this game because of those early kills.
And so he returned bottom and still got the actual one.
I think it was cool to see though. This was more of the DCG we expected with that level of aggression and always looking for these kills
That pek fine gaze there as well massive turn that play around
That's why I was genuinely concerned for team looker because a lot of the skirmishers
I felt like DCG was on the same page for even this fight in particular
I thought rumble coming in pretty clutch like flashing
Get another kill on Jose Di Odo. In terms of the same page. It's just a pamphlet. There's only one page
That's how you stay in the same page.
Straight consistent. That's what you like to see from DCG.
I will say from Team Liquid's side, the fight that kind of blew the game open was that Herald fight.
And I wanted to talk about it a little bit here because it kind of gave you a reason why they prioritized Team Liquid.
Prioritizes Akali so much. Because as you can see, like, yeah, a slight, a slight goal lead that is there for DCG.
And a TP that's coming through from Florin. And the goal is basically to be able to threaten the flank.
Yon is going to be there, Cordray J essentially, and like Pop9 does poke his head and we can start to play immediately.
He comes in with an opportunity to look for a smite fight, but then immediately the TP is going to be the biggest threat for Pop9.
Because he does want to commit to this fight, and Florin with the shield does want to look for the fight.
But then immediately Quid goes straight into the backline, and I really like this play from him, because as we start to see it, 1, 2, 3, go!
Suddenly, yes, ShaoSi initially tried to find and engage on Jose Diodo, but then has to peel back for Feng.
So like, Fung, Hongsuo, now your goal is to try and keep them alive.
So while they're trying to do this entirely, now Rumble backs away, he's kind of cooked.
And then all of Team Liquid then look towards the Jarvan.
So let's just play this through to see what ends up happening here.
Nice to be able to see them, buy as much time and humanly possible to try to protect Fung, yes.
And so it just turns into a play that DCG was initiating, but gets completely deconstructed.
And I feel like the timing and decision making from Quid was so good.
They're going in just as my ass comes out Susan get pinned down and alting down alting away
Sorry after the shroud runs out. It was just sort of perfectly playing his role in a fight
It was almost kind of comical you could play you could hear the music because there's two people with sweepers trying to
And it just runs the circle around
Everything to and is able to to have a pretty big fight for the rest of the game
but like Huntsville was trying to find an effective ulti about Jose Diodo and Quid
were really good at being able to play a patient game around it so I thought
that was a good part. That being said that early game was still too close for
my liking. Yeah but it's good to know that hey Jose Diodo MVP candidate able
to pick up smites and the 2024 LCS spring MVP going back to that form with
Quid popping off here on the Akali. They just didn't have a good answer for him
when he comes in with the TP here.
It was an over commit, but the cleanup is so decisive.
Yeah.
And I feel like even though you have things like the Cast
to appear there with the Maias, but we stopped and see
a call he picked into it because the mobility,
and if you're coming in on the flank,
so hard to prepare for a pick with this many tools.
Good news for DCG is that that is Quidd's best champion.
True.
And so he can't play it again.
It is also very, very, very powerful on the Yone.
Yeah, don't get into the Yone.
And I have pretty good confidence here in TL
after seeing the first game as well for even if there is a volatile early game and DCG start to get some kills.
I still am going to have confidence in Team Liquid pulling it back through the mid game, you know, setting up for Dragon Fights, setting up on sidelines.
That's one thing that happened though in the draft. There were five jungle bands plus the Nautilus, and then the jungle take away.
It feels like that was the focus here for DCG.
I think a lot of the plays for DCG have kind of been led by the jungle, so getting Pop9 into a good position.
I think definitely had a better game today than maybe the series yesterday,
but still need to see a bit more.
I like that we're getting the proactivity from them,
but I still feel like in the mid-game they're kind of losing their heads a little bit on what they wanted to do.
All right, well, we'll see what happens here.
Team Liquid, they're able to weather the storm of the early aggression from Relove DCG.
Let's see what happens in game number two after the break.
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We just came out of a game one
that was for the first 10
minutes incredibly close after
that, not really at all. DCG
were pretty heavily dismantled
by Team Liquid. And as we go into
Tempered a little bit more this time around. Yeah, I think it was
Cuz we got this like full shit from them to kind of get first go to crap
And I was like that's a bit crazy and that kind of set up like yarn and actually looking a little bit of a lead and
Then from that position there was moments where we saw DCG still being able to find success at the top side
But they kept trying to run through over and over trying to use that lead. Yeah, and I
Like cheddar to Morgan. I think he played the orange incredibly well in a lot of these team fights
It's just making it very difficult for them to use up.
Yeah, it's impressive, right?
Went up against the Rumble with First Strike,
who was consistently ahead in gold.
Doing part to that First Strike,
but just always felt like he had that bigger impact
in those crucial, crucial team fights.
And he was kind of the standout performer yesterday,
as well, against T1, against Doran,
winning out in those laning phases,
really generating individual advantages.
So see if you can keep that train going.
But as we get ready for picks and bans,
I want to see if there's going to be any cooking today.
because we've the mage bot lane infestation that mr. razzle laplacian promise us has been one single mage
Yeah, and I don't think that's an attestation pretty good
Yeah, I think that was awesome. I don't think that is a bot lane infestation
I think that's mellow is a good chance. So where are my where are my mage is that?
Yeah, I mean, I think people are gonna start looking at this and go
Oh, we should probably get on top of this and then that's when we're gonna have the arms race between all the major spot lane
But it looks like at least the some of these teams haven't quite picked it up just yet
We'll have to see though as this
Rows on through in the draft exactly what the game plan is going to be
Yeah, once again take the buy off the board see if the leasing is going to follow
Nope, you see you actually ban in the way
So they're kind of a shared comfort pool here in a lot of ways for pop 9 Jose Diodo which
If you want them off you got to be willing to take it away from your own jungler
I mean, we just gonna continue to have this like five jungle bad
Fun from there. Yeah, I want to see the Bali image infestation
I'm gonna need all those fans to ship for quality anything
We're gonna see some weird jungler infestation
Yeah, I mean things like the trundle and stuff if you do start to dig deep ready to become
Exceptional so I wonder if that then becomes a part of his nocturne band away like I think we're just gonna continue with this one now
Hoppy was the last one as well. I respect where it's a Jose de Odo from yesterday
So maybe that's the plan here again, but again, you could opt in for the trundle into the poppy if that then becomes a party
So let's see the plan is
Angle
Is here beside DCG
Okay, Orianna
Of course, we know him for those you know melee more assassin focused champions
But the Ori did look pretty good for him in playoffs as well and certainly the Orianna and October, but
But Ryze is going to be the first pick lock-in.
Ryze has just been relevant for so long and I really thought when they got rid of Phase
Rush that it would finally be an arrow where we wouldn't see Ryze and I was wrong.
No, he was just like, I'm going to take Ghost instead of TP and still be fast.
Still be very, very fast and it turns out the champion who builds, you know, Rola and
still does a million damage is a good champion.
It's also when they kind of just made actualizer specifically for him, it feels like he kind
of is still pretty strong.
Yeah. Yeah. The actualizer is an interesting item. It might as well just be Ryze exclusive
in the same way, but like high breeze, you know, fairway. And I'm hearing about it now.
He was there for a while. Yeah. But on the opposite side, Chelsea getting a pick that
he's all too familiar with the Nautilus and the Senate going to be locked in for Fungi
Chase in the bottom side. So I think that he really likes to play aggressive on and
something that he can set up for pop nine. A lot of these things in the bottom side.
But I've seen TCG can try and get control there as a team different public than any
kind of a shadow kind of a flex if you really want to pop it into there because the wall you can't like interrupt the
Nautilus hook
Infestation
One point to rest. Okay. This is the other made this like this to be fair
I would not consider part of the infestation. This is the other mage besides now
It is very commonly been played bot lane, but I like this option in the center, right?
It's kind of a classic choice
It gives you range gives you wave care gives you so much damage also very good with the Camille if they wanted to go for it
But maybe not going to be this year for 4 JJ as he's over in the round at the moment
But Japanese in the campaign high for aggressive alongside that in the lockdown with that Camille ultimate provides a lot for the Zeke's
And that's what we got Steve like a lot in the LPL and that but gonna go for the rail
Which does offer still a lock basically something that can group everyone together for that mega inferno
That it does but now I'm gonna need to see a decent amount of physical damage come out on the side of team liquid
However, there's no tank on DCG. It's, you know, not as important to be opting for blinding.
Nor it looks like, with Rooms to support it with double ban in the next phase.
This is an amazing sign. Whoever made the fist cut out, sorry.
But still, like, I think if you take the narrow, you still have a loss,
which you have to try to, I suppose actually, well, Varus is gone,
Vayne would be kind of the other option. Jace has already taken the lead.
and maybe you're worried about the Orc, but I suppose Morgan actually doesn't really have a huge amount to hear.
And then those are the questions, if you do go for kind of that AD topside,
what to try and take as Jose Dioto in the jungle, because you don't really have a lot of those
tank junglers that can still do pretty well, and I think you opt in towards someone like the Trundle,
I think you can help somewhat with the rail for the setup, but I don't think it's as ideal as you would like it to be.
Yeah, pantheon in the jungle, that's interesting. Can be rough into the center sometimes.
If she goes into shroud the range on your stun does make it a little difficult to just flick her
Zyndra also going to be taken away, so don't want to just be outranged in that mid lane matchup
That's taking the time in the second day in phase
With the physical damage on the side of Team Liquid in some form or another and just keeping track of how DCG
Protects his gnar on the top side. Vayne and Yasuo both pretty strong outpins
They're coming up for it. Morgan did well in the Yasuo matchup against Doran yesterday
So decided to take that one away
I still think you can go for things like the Jax though here, so Morgan still has a lot of options in Torzanar on that top side
And then it just again kind of becomes a focus on what does your posei diodo wants in that jungle?
Because he does like kind of the things like the Zinza the Lee Sin these kind of playmaking picks
And but if you want some the ones to synergize to be engaged things like the Jarvan being taken away don't help
All right now also
Again another champion who post level 6 has a lot of these really proactive playmaking tools
whether it's charm flash or your ult and finding those charms. These are things that DCG have shown
to just be incredibly comfortable on making these snap engages so don't want to give that away.
I was actually going to say from top 9, I probably take away the quick cone here. I think it synergizes
incredibly well with an S2Cone and then you kind of remove that other engage option for Jose Di Odo,
but keeping the jungler hidden here looks like they're just going to opt in towards Atelier,
which I mean we saw yesterday where it's perfectly fine into the rise and you're
And also matching the ghost and your good. Yeah. We saw basically this exact same competition or composition
But it was TL playing it against team one yesterday
And they were able to find really huge success snowballing the Taliyah early on of course the enemy team was a little bit different as now
It was a rally and ribbon really would be
Jax will be yawn you're playing with our heart you can hear
All the fans in the arena want something spicy. It's pantheon. Okay. Make sense
Solid jungle option again the point and click pretty comfortable still could be a spice pick also something
You really don't want to give to the enemy team right you already see to be a you don't want them to have a pantheon
Alongside I think it's also like when I see a zigz and arise. I'm like oh you probably strong option for 1 3 1
So something that you try and play towards that is the twisted fate
So team liquid base the option in towards out a major needs with this pig bro quad long range
Ultimates is crazy. Yeah
You have the Ziggs Mega Inferno Bomb, the Rise Grub Warp, the Pantheon coming down from the sky.
It's not just for Josh. Grand Starfall alongside the Destiny Gate.
And Olaf is going to be the answer in the jungle.
Now remember, Olaf did get his Q damage buffed on this patch in terms of damage to monsters.
So his clear speed will be relatively faster than it was in previous metas.
But we've really mostly seen this in the top side played by people like Doran as this late game kind of inevitable scaling threat.
Yeah, I just I have seen junglers coming into the tournament practicing narrow jungle. So that's why I was kind of hoping for a second
Yeah, there's been a couple of boys that have seen practicing it, but
Looks like it's not gonna be the case
But yeah, that's why I wasn't sure if they're gonna swap the narrow into the jungle put the old off top
But looks like it's not gonna be the case and said they aren't gonna keep the narrow there
But I mean the old off for essentially a composition that wants to try and keep you up. Hey should have a nice time here
Should but my number one concern Rob as we get into this game
is not there will not be enough blood that one there will for sure be enough
action don has one game in tier one on zigz he played it versus CFO last year
at first stand another representative of the same region he lost that game and
so now I believe that there has been the necessary practice to improve that
level of performance and I don't think that zigz is the most immensely
complicated champion but I do think it takes a decent amount of mastery and so
I'm a little bit nervous for what this is going to look like when game one certainly good yesterday
Not so good. How is he going to fare on something that is most certainly not a comfort pick?
Yeah, I think his
Role here is actually very similar to what we saw in the last game, which is like stay safe
Use your TP to kind of move around the map to where you need to be and just clear waves on mid and kind of left team liquid
Interactive sidelines, so I think this is where we're going to continue to see like quit and Morgan be the focus for out of this game
And I wonder if you do get Courage AJ really starting to exit bot lane early and start to roam around to try and facilitate that because you've so much
Set up with boat quit and Morgan up to get towards those ghosts to try and play around like a room prison or a gold card
You know either these solo lanes
We'll see how quickly pop down is able to clear the jungle here
Keep an eye on the early jungle pathing team liquid have set up in every single one of their lanes for this pantheon
So really need to make sure that Jose Dio is not able to run away with this early game
Yeah, I don't forget pop 9 or the Olaf did guess that both in the jungle as well towards that monster clear. So
We're going in nice trading here yon landing missur abilities
Yeah, I mean, I don't think you're gonna be locked a lot of kill pressure level one here
But the arcane commas and that bomb gonna be doing a lot of work as well in the early stages here for yon
If you just continue to get that poke it's kind of when you opt in towards like level four level five if you've
Successfully landed some of that early damage like we're seeing at the moment
You can really look for that kill pressure with the satchel
I'll block down is there level two going first in the favor of DCG
However, yawn able to consistently land these bouncing bombs he'll now coming out. That's the satchel start
Shausi knocked back core trying to block any potential hook escape
Shausi is going to be forced to flash over the wall does manage to make it out
So he'll trade it for the heel and the flash very positive exchange
Pantene in that bottom side though. I think he's looking for the play on Chelsea here.
Oh, Chelsea not stepping up far enough, so just going to look for the reset.
Oh, cancels it though. I don't know if diving the tower is it though?
Is it the other? Not sure how much time is left on the aftershock. Aftershock has already fallen away.
Chelsea's now going to be in trouble immediately. Pimp for both of you.
Corp flawlessly tanking the tower. A nice first blood dive coming in from Team Liquid.
Yeah, great job by Corp JJ. How's the shattering strike to remove the shield from Chelsea?
and gets away from underneath the tower before any of that real CC can land.
As he does, we'll just get to pushing this wave, reset, pick up an early tier if you'd like to,
and this is exactly what you want to see him liquid in this early stage.
That it is.
So the mid lane is able to get a little bit more pride on the second he knows that Jose isn't in the area.
Confidence to step up and pop 9, starting to run away in terms of jungle clear speed, right?
Got the full clear, because he did spend a lot of time in the bottom lane,
But the kill really more than makes up for the difference.
Eyes on Pop9 though as he moves down.
Gonna be looking just for the Scuttle Crab,
but wasn't sure if he's just gonna reset after a little bit more.
Because he already has his reset come through.
So an opportunity to kind of support DCG on this bottom side.
But looks like he's just gonna back away,
is trying to make sure one can push in this wave.
No.
Going back in the way.
Saw that briefly on the side.
Of course, quotes coming out.
TL social media feeling good about the smites from those do the auto in the
previous game probably feeling pretty good about the first blood as well the
pop nine is gonna get this invade on the Raptors and Olaf will be a problem at
some point he's gonna be a fast boy does not have the luxury of having the
ghosts though it does have a lot of support tools though like when you look
towards the center like the shield the heels are all absolutely exceptional and
you've got a lot of lockdown that can come through so especially pop nine can
pick up some early kills I think that would be where DCG would be very happy
with the way things are going but for the moment Team Liquid keeping their
control over this top side I think they would like to look for an invade on
towards the Raptors to answer for the steal the Pop9 already has but you just
don't really have to push and control over me to do so. No and good timing
they shall push out as the Raptors respawn in favor of DCG and as the
waves reset Pop9 already in position to grab that Raptor camp so again a game
Some small advantages thus far, really the only big thing to happen is that kill in the
bottom lane as well as steadily growing CS lead in the jungle.
But what we've seen traditionally is that Team Liquid are more than happy to go for
these slower pace games, right?
They know that given to- Oh, hi, man!
Flash in, looking for a little bit more lockup.
Fong is able to make his way out.
Expulsive minefield does some good return damage, but a lot of some straight-out getting
double sums out of Fong is massive for any potential follow-up dives.
Yeah, this Team Liquid bot lane lookalike well-practiced on this pick, like really understanding the
value that you can get with this Satchel charge. Setting up nerdy for CoreJJ there.
I know, do we just get a rinse and repeat? A dive once again?
Step in there, no one is in the area. Hong's gonna be in trouble.
In bow from Jose Diodo, continuing to stack the passive here. MortalSphere ready to go.
A little bit more damage. Flash forward, continuing to push in.
Now, Vicky wants to go any further than this, but just zoning them off the tower.
And now looking for the catch-out. Quid finding the lock-up. The trap has been set,
And Hongzu falls right into him, maybe he can get something back.
Jose Diodo walking away as Pop9 is determined to get a kill back in exchange.
One for one thus far, but Shaoxi is running his quick ghosts into the fight.
Bunking the kill onto Jose Diodo.
Pop9 very close to level 60. He can get towards the wave though, but Fung has been isolated.
He has, no sums left. Make this an easy dive to pull off.
Core gonna grab the kill, maybe not ideal, but TL still happy to deny even more resources away.
Lockup on the quit is good, but it just turns his back.
Chelsea! He did the math but he did it wrong!
Yeah, it's kind of twice we see Chelsea go for some nonless hooks that are a bit questionable
as he ends up going down on that one. I think he'll I believe as well which makes it even
more unfortunate but Team Liquid punishing through this bottom side. Jose Aydoto going
a little bit too far here with the flash forward like didn't even have like an empowered Q
was maybe hoping he could get a few auto attacks to get there especially with CoreJJ trying
to support him, but it does mean that with Pop9 arriving and he gets isolated thanks to Weaver's Wall, he ends up falling for Han Solo.
And at this stage, I think for DCG, you're kind of almost happy with the way things have gone because you at least get the trade back.
But it's then with Pop9 not supporting Fong to go towards the tower and pick up the wave, it goes back for Quidd.
Backing up. Did it see him burn Flash in the previous fight, so maybe open to get a little bit more.
Yon connecting on the bouncing bomb, one more empowered.
Oh, doesn't quite get it! The Q through for healing.
Has it played by Fong?
They're on racing towards level 6, but it's going to take a little bit too much time. Recall will come through.
Still should be able to get some decent damage on this tower, and Ziggs,
very good when he gets him alone time with these turrets.
Chelsea, going to come down and try and clear out the wave a little bit, but
this is still an incredible bot side play from Gene Likman, constantly getting this pressure against DCG.
Alright, we look back.
I cannot see what the number was.
But I can't see the reaction there it is
One HP looks like what yon said a little bit frustrated
Still full control of the bottom side of the map and being around the top lane Morgan keeping the CS close
But definitely not the gold close fun fact. I was talking about yawn only having played one zigzag game
This is Morgan's first ever TFP
What was his first time on y'all so yesterday's this man is just casually first-timing champion
What happened like at MSI? I looked at Morgan over the course spares like I'm gonna he's going on tank duty
He's got my weak side. They're gonna play elsewhere on the map
We heard rumors from our colleagues in the LCS of Lord Morgan the man who was allowed to dominate Lane
And we said there's no way we'll see that man. We'll say tank duty Morgan
Yeah, the Lord has returned on the top side again right right now. It's just a small goal deed
Due to the crime of counterfeiting money, but later I believe it will likely continue to grow his core
Finds a quick engage, that's the ulti coming in, the destiny.
Chowsy now in trouble.
But Morgan of course, still just on the top side of the map,
he's going to get back to lane.
You're meant to lose your wallet.
Chowsy's only level 4.
Yeah.
They're getting proxied.
Pop9 is getting so much, but his gold, he does only 25.
It's a 20 jungle CS-ly, but it's just so fake
because his bot lane is paying entire waves.
And you're also getting nothing on the map elsewhere, right?
My floor is just recessed, and even though you've got the topside objective, you end up going for the reset as well, like, yeah, it's a disaster class for DCG.
This is a nightmare. Also, 15 souls long wall past the threshold, even on the new patch where the drop rate is notably lower, and Yon just continues to chip, chip, chip away.
And while Pop9 has finally arrived, he ain't got no boots.
Yeah, he can't. I don't think he can run yawn down.
I don't think yet you're ever getting close to either.
Like, this is kind of the joys of Ziggs is that you're two screens away
and you throw down some bomb and walk off.
This is a...
This is a Tuffy.
Yeah, thank you, Tuffy. I was looking for the right word. We'll go with Tuffy.
And it's also like again, I just because there was so much hyper and DCG going in and obviously it is tough for this team
Right you're coming in especially when you've had CFO that represents the region in the past and you're kind of taking those slots in the LCP and
And you've got just had this
Incredible performance of going straight from the PCS into the LCP promotion into now going to
Internationals you kind of want to show what you're capable of on that main stage
But unfortunately like this young team hasn't quite been able to find the same success
They have domestic and I think it's one of the hardest things about being a new face
When you go to international competition, right? It's often times if you aren't dominant domestically
You know whether it's through mechanics or macro play
It's really hard to transition those things to a bigger stage against you know a larger pool of opponents against stronger overall
Competition and we can see that has been a struggle for DCG
They play with that same fire, with that same confidence, and half the time it works out just as well as it did domestically.
And the other half of the time, the enemy team is much more ready to punish than a lot of their domestic competition were.
And I think that's the main point for me, is like, consistently refining Team Liquid are kind of edging them out on the play first.
It's, hey, we're already playing ganking bot lane because we saw Pop9 go towards top lane.
We have vision control that lets us know exactly where Pop9 is.
They don't and they may not spot Hong-Soul though. So maybe this is their moments
But you can see the second the pop 9s on vision
They back away flash and chassis goes to the lockup pop 9 now chasing in as a theater already for any exes also
We can't pocket any default damage. It looks like he is just going to fall down with the flash
Just barely take him out. No the center holds across the top bong reading the play of the escape route
Locks him down and gets a kill for himself
Hong-Soul hiding in the back line manages to get there with the weavers wall and turn that play even the vision as well
Well, Jose Diodo not realizing that he was stuck on a ward will be a little bit of a
wave loss in mid lane, but a massive swing in control of that bottom lane.
And it was just barely able to grab the kill, but even despite the CS deficit means the
fun has that slight slight gold lead, a few more souls just now taking over to 20.
Of course, Yon already has the Ludens done, so still not easy to trade, but the scaling
With enough time and enough souls, anything is possible.
Still, Team Liquid having the panthenotum available means that DCG can't actually commit for much after this.
For now, trying to see if we can keep Morgan off, but here comes Blitz.
Moving his way into the top lane, everybody's invited to this particular party.
That's going to be three semi-globals committed just to make sure that little yordle goes right back to the base.
Yeah, I mean, that was a little unfortunate for Brorn.
And I'm managing to get two of them out of the equation, but the late arrival of Morgan that was feeling the feel like an unnecessary
escalation of violence like they were talking smack back and forth somebody just stabbed it like all right, bro
We escalated a little quickly there, but now the towers also falling on the bottom side
So whenever the proverb is about having cake and eating it to team liquid are most certainly doing that
I honestly I think they found a second cake
Yeah
There, Portal could never, you know, they had gotten all out here.
This cake is absolutely certifiably true.
This is some true cake.
There are no lies here.
If I'm going to do what he can, right, but it's already in a pretty dire situation.
We are seeing the Olaf.
You can see some of the potential of what it could do when running this composition down,
all that CC, all that damage, if it's not enough to burst through his health bar.
I just don't know if DCG are gonna have time to get to that point and without a ghost on the Olaf flash makes it easier to
See objectives for sure, but it's just gonna be really hard to keep up with a lot of these targets
Yeah, I think it's if they are
Homily new as well like because they've got this lead it makes it significantly more difficult for the Olaf to survive it
Right because on the flip side even though it is a lot of squishies
The squishies deal an awful lot of damage and if you can't close that cap effectively because your teams behind it kind of
It just becomes a big lackluster and as well like Olaf definitely kind of wants to three items before it becomes that real
I'm just gonna run through everyone and not care. And as you say like I just don't feel like DCG or good
Yeah, it's a little bit tricky
Obviously always something that they have in their back pocket
But it feels like it's a similar story to the center scaling where you can see the angle
You can understand how it could be powerful
But getting to that point in the game getting the position where maybe you can get an Olaf on the flank
It's just a really tough thing to do. Yonk playing more to the topside. Nice satchel back. Flash away from the flick.
They'll well play Fahamzu to force out that summoner spell.
Fortunately, a lot of resources committed. DCG must immediately scuttle back to their respective lanes here because you've already got a wave being
crashed on the topside by Quid.
Yeah, and I think this is where
DCG are kind of playing for the next dragon fight.
You know, you got 245 until that comes up and available and burning somebody's summer spells can't help those,
Especially because it would be third dragon for DCG if they can get us if they can get cloud soul
Everything I have said yeah, and we have said about Olaf being this being hard gets a hell of a lot of these are
He gets ghost for free now for at least a couple of seconds if you able to get that far
And I do think this is where there is a question of like
I'm gonna take
Reload DCG out of the equation here, but there is a world where you could play away from dragons
And you could try and like get more gold as your size lanes and like let team make would have that you know dragon
Remember, but when it's
Reload deep boss gaming you turn off pain. Yes
Yes, if you turn off the name plates and ignore what you know about this team and the way they like to play the game
There might be an alternative path
But they don't go over they don't go under and they certainly don't go around they go through that is the only option
And it does get them into trouble sometimes, but it might not this time for a very nice flank here
The rage bar starting to fade away and a jump in on the hosade here to immediate flash follow flip back on the hose
A means no smite in the area nice pick into instantaneous rip tailed as a good look
But again Morgan already pushing in the bot lane tier 2, so it's not free
It's not the easy pickup is very likely the team look we're gonna break at least one more plate
Yeah
I mean still a nice pick right the fact that you mentioned get the W from fun to connect there and set up for the play
is nice. If you can try and turn it into a little bit more, it would be even better,
because you can see at least they may get the tarot up, but not quite.
Nice flick back. Flash out as well. We're going to back away and just pick up the way of the guaranteed
goal. It cost them effectively, you know, two, three hundred to just go for that play. So,
off to back away instead. But getting the flash out of the Taliyah as well as the ghost.
Nice to chip away at those cool-downs. The Team Liquid really haven't extended their
gold lead right it feels like they've been around 2k for the last seven eight minutes.
And I think the fact that you have to fight in this next dragon is kind of a big focal point
because quids kind of just a lot of ages not a huge amount there. Jonson will have a second item
and you have that riff to try and play with here for pop 9 too so I think there is a world where
DCG can try and fight this even though they are a little bit further behind in gold.
I mean major item completions are the thing that we're generally looking at before these big fights
Tl have access to that lock it is pop 9 now running in that's the ultimate pop Morgan needs to get the hell out of dodge
Pop time needs to get in the melee range, but unfortunately can't get that auto to extend his ult timing so Morgan's just able to flash back
Get out DCG lose the Olaf ulti
But again just chipping away at sums for themselves as well every team really focused on that next drake one second till cloud spawns
Florent needs to be careful about walking up, three now four members of TL waiting.
Florent that's gonna be the wall, a nice stun, wall coming in from behind him looking to lock
up core JJ, lock down his there, quick now three to start opening up, Florent going in for core,
finds the wall upon it, just about nobody, knocked back to the double under the NAR though,
there's also Harold in the midst of the entire fight, Pop9 might have a ulti but he's still getting
a little bit of damage down, it's a messy fight but it's top lane for support trade,
team Liquid happy with that one as now the ultis can start reigning in,
Destiny across the team, Hosidiyo moving in as well, Morgan on the back line looking to lock up Ponto, but he gets flicked back and taken down!
The comments to be across the top, the only reason he'll fall!
Egasus all fades away, Hosidiyo to no longer immune to that damage, Popton getting into melee range, hoping to burn him down.
Flashback is not enough, but Fung will grab the kill, and it's an absolute bloodbath, neither side able to start the Drake.
It's just trade, sitting in these fights, one for one, constantly going back and forth, and at the end of it, as you say, Drake goes,
nobody's able to actually go towards the track in.
I had to find new words. There's a foot bath doesn't mean the same thing anymore
It's a fist fight. It is a brawl
TL
using that because I'm a little as well, but
Kind of the turn and burn here we see from some of these cool-downs is so crucial
But it's core JJ not getting over the wall here that really starts
But then after is foreign tries to follow over this is where it then gets a little topsy-turvy because foreign tries to look for the W
Doesn't quite get it actually gets stunned by core JJ just before he dies
And that's then where he tries to get the follow-up, but the ultimate from Fung a little bit late
So the now ends up falling at this stage
I expect about teams kind of back away and lick their bruises
But instead we end up with this pantheon ult that actually splits team liquid and tardy
Yon and Quage can't come in because of Chelsea and Fung and it means that then you can easily turn on to Morgan
Pop9 thinks he can survive through the damage being all that and also having to send up a side of him
But not quite able to get away from the rest of damage. So it's just this constant back and forth on the trades
A little bit aside there, there was a TF who did not lock gold card when it moved fast and instead locked blue, maybe just hoping for that bit of extra damage.
But um, no. Dragons taken though. Four caught a bit out. TL do get the dragon, that is going to be the big one.
And it creds to TL really. They did such a good job of respecting Florent on the Meganar.
Everyone backing up, being sure that it kind of looks awkward because the only person he hits is Core, but it's just the only person he can hit, right?
giving him that space, respecting that ulti and its potential to just wreak havoc.
But I do think that at some stages, you kind of as ECG have to take what you've gotten, right?
If you just kill Korge AJ and then fall back over towards the dragon and forward versus 5,
with the composition the team would have can be a little tough,
but by over-committing then for the rest of the play,
that's where we start to get this trade over and over. Korge AJ spotted.
Up 9-9 debating if he wants to commit here, does have an ulti that's becoming behind.
coming behind is able to make it out though clutch there.
Honk so perfect timing.
The knockback on the Weaver's wall mean that Morgan can actually
shoot that gold card at him.
So manages to escape away with the Weaver's wall being down
and Morgan's ultimate being down as well means that this kind
of sideline threat on both sides a little lessened but team
liquid looking for this top lane tower team liquid got more
sideline held stop they got so many they never run out.
Who's idea might not even need it though.
So walking a bit too far forward immediate gold card
They'll grab one kill and have a fall for Pop-Dyn, he's there, that go-kart's not going to do anything Morgan!
It's not going to stun anybody! Pop-Dyn! Pop it off!
Finally out of melee range, they're able to CC him and that is their time to turn.
Cole we're going to grab the kill. Shousey now in no man's land as Long tries to usher him out to safety, tries to escort him away.
TL are going to respect it.
DCG hoping for the pop 1v9, but not able to make it happen there with no real support
It was just the Olaf being taken out by team Liquid still though
Team Liquid invests a huge amount onto that topside and Florin will be able to answer for the turret taking response
Well grubby coming out to you, but again the goal lead
The dragon didn't go to TL, but the goal lead stays at the same point
For ten minutes or more. I'm just I keep saying random minutes because I can't keep track of time Rob
I have no idea how long it's the same, but it's been a while this fast paced. I don't blame you
Time is is it all over the place? We're having fun like this game
But I think for DCG like you are getting moments to hey fun is getting towards two items pop 9 also having two items completed
Did have a hex drinker for a moment there
But actually so that's a going immediately towards the GA it looks like instead or maybe that that stands could also be an option
But any uptime that you can get in these fights is gonna work wonders for that it is
Kale, doing with the cannon mid lane.
Oh, okay. Thank you, production.
We're like, wow, this is such a breakneck pace of game.
This is a slow DCG game.
This is a very slow DCG game.
This is the slowest DCG game.
That one was almost 1.2 combined kills per minute.
This is 0.7.
So we need to chill, I think, is what production is saying.
You need to be ready for more.
Yeah, by about 18 kills in 22 minutes.
Yeah, pick up the pace.
Pick up the pace, guys.
What is this, NASCAR?
We need to be on F1.
Yeah.
And what the safety?
You can't just go right 30 times and call that fast, you know?
You need a little bit more.
I don't know why NASCAR is sketching strays.
I know nothing about NASCAR.
But, you know, it's fun to fire strays if you want to.
Yeah, I played four recently and that's about as much knowledge as I have of cars in general.
Yeah.
If I, or I just say like Hamilton a couple of times and someone will be mad at me.
I just know the musical, not the driver or something like that.
And we are, however, in a relatively soothed, calm state of the game, I have a distinct feeling that that will not remain this way for long.
Or perhaps the second that we said this was a crazy pace of game, we have invoked a cast or curse, and we will now play a very diplomatic, side-trading game of League of Legends.
Head nods and back in a way although as you say that I see four members of TL running to bottom lane and Florin
Does not realize that that is gonna be the case. I see whatever we say becomes wrong. Yes
I like that. It's gonna be a slow game
very very
Glacial
No, of course dragon is the next big objective 35 seconds away
We check in on item completions two two and a half really across the board
No one sneaking into that third major item completion, but there's a hose idioto sneaking into that bush
But now pop nine is to start to tear through mitigating so much of the damage
So it's was idioto stopping that additional healing from coming in pop nine now running destiny Brock perfect information for team liquid to decide
How they want to pursue this fight?
Healing coming in for fun as well, but these help are just getting chipped away the superior range of yawn on the six
Doing a ton of work. Yeah, the alien damage is doing wonders
but great play from Team Liquid just hiding off with Fog of War making sure that there was no way for DCG to spot them out and
Pop9 takes so much damage. He's just ahead of the equation has to go for the recess and it gives TL a second dragon.
Oh, he all got the dragon.
Now they want to Taliyah core moving in should be an easy kill pick up quid really starting to hurt Floren going for the goomba bounce
immediate flashback here
Teal going to walk up quick going for the slow shouts in there to body block
But won't connect on the quid but you can see a team like we're getting a little bit eager
They want to push this advantage further. I think they see the blue in the water
over extension DCG in the bottom side and their team liquid looking
We're gonna connect on the hose idiot of core going in but the alt he's not gonna connect pop nine three seconds away from getting
An alt he's no just needs another second and now he's running through the entire team the damage from you on has to be there
Trying to sprint back, but he's just not tanking up. Pop 9 getting one, Florent about to go Maga, DCG
Finally gonna back away as their bot lane tier 2 falls. But they lost 2 in that equation. Pop 9 and Chousy falling to Team Liquid
Still coming out ahead of the play. I know you can see the pings going on towards Baron
I think they're just gonna reset and run over towards that objective
And our
Actualizer also there for quid. We've seen how incredibly oppressive this item could be. What a third item power spike
Fung, at least 54 souls now, 3-1-5, has recovered exceptionally well from what was a really disastrous
early landing phase, but if this Baron falls, it's certainly not the final nail in the coffin,
but it's going to start to feel insurmountable, playing against a Ziggs team with Baron, tall
task and unfortunately DCG is just going to be too late to this play to look at picking
this one up for free.
Yeah, it's also the combo of having that Twisted Fate as well.
Kind of like take your pick and finish them off because go card with the rapid-fire con and into this eggs that I'm like
How do you really get to play the game?
Well, you try to play it now before they reset up before they get back to their lanes flip back onto
You're not connect rocket belt taking him out his core just barely able to escape
While blocking Chausse's fuck it looks like
DCG now on their retreat team liquid now active on the map five seconds away from Morgan's ultimate
You need to be careful not to over-commit here, losing a fight when the enemy team empowered by Baron very likely just ends the game.
Still a DCG, kind of have to back away after missing that on that play.
So Team Liquid, just going to start taking pop shots, you've got Morgan pushing into the bottom side,
and this is where those Bensim Bums are talking about Drake, those radies start to hurst.
Speaking of pop shots, we're going to be looking at Pop 9 off on the side.
Ready to ulti in, shall see they're losing more and more life, Pop 9 finally shows his presence,
But there's really just not an angle of attack as foreign jumps forward into Morgan the coin base cool
They're not coming in on the side right is about to have a fight
Morgan about to get dropped and now the follow ball to come in as well yon's ulti across the top the grand starfall for Jose Diodo
DCG overstep just that slightest bit for a split second for kidding
How many semi-globals were there on the side of team liquid?
Alti now coming in from Pop9, Hoseiro might be a little bit in trouble, Florengorn from the stun, CC Immune now Pop9, grabbing one, Destiny proc, but Morgan
He's using it for a bit of information, a bit of threat, so he loses with Diodo, but also, and Chausi's still down,
Long now backing away, blue card waiting for the red, and he's already out of range!
So Funga will live a bit longer.
They got what they wanted, Terror, Inhibitor, Flash from Fung, even if they don't get the kill, they're still decimating the base of DCG.
They're trying to regroup and get this defense, Team Liquid time to get out.
We're gonna open the side, gets the gold card. Engage coming back in from Corgan and deny any potential follow-up.
Chassis here on the hook, Fung untouched on the side, but he does not have the damage to kill all the remaining members of Team Liquid.
That's another one to fall. Double AP threats left. Fung really feeling confident as long as no CC hits him, he should be fine.
Extra movements, B, but Cor is just marching forward. The crash down is there, trying to dodge the shatter and strike.
And he does so. Sized up on the bouncing bomb as well, and it's starting to fall apart a bit. That's a shutdown.
Fung continues to chase CoreJJ. Cannot face checkup brush against Quid, but a nice little hold coming in from DCG.
Great play from Fung in that one. Side stepping so much in that last engage with a buying time for Hongsul.
Because I think if he went down, that could have been absolutely it.
What you can see here, Team Liquid. CoreJJ with a great engage. Sets up for the play.
They're getting so much damage on the Pop9 and without that ultimus, the CC layering is so good from Team Liquid.
But it's here, Fung. Plays this so well.
Managing to get the slows, dodging away from the follow-up from CoreJJ, knows that Yan doesn't really have the mana to try and funnel up.
Even baiting the shattering strike there and buying that time for Hongshou to join in.
And good luck for Fung. You can see he is getting stronger and stronger.
But, uh, can you look at his laugh? He's still smiling. Unconcerned.
A 6k gold lead I think makes it pretty easy to understand why but it is 20 seconds away from the next
objective
Now the kill pace a little bit closer to the regional average. We're up to a little bit above 130 at 29 minutes
We'll see if we can get that pace
You know not not DCG's tempo. Let's be clear here
Yeah, still though team liquid in a position to just immediately move top
They may just forego dragon say cool
You can have the third dragon will take that third inhibitor turn instead and DCG
kind of scrubbing it to get back but again only have to commit pop down but
corn goes down here it could be incredibly costly we're getting all
thing in but not able to get the gold card down in time quit we'll grab a
toplane tier two but I think this is a trade
all tea does disgusting damage another grand skyfall coming across the
Shousey caught out Morgan on the chase with the gold card will connect there's
no immediate follow-up three members left alive on the side of DCG
They're top lane all the remains between team liquid and match point in this series
Top side of the map has to stand strong
Florence fishing seem to be confined something with the mega narrow
But I think at this stage team liquid they know that this could be it as they start to step towards the next turrets
Morgan locking that gold card five seconds. He can threaten
DCG running out of time on the mega bar 15 seconds before you'll be able to stack that rage again
And Yon just going to shred through these towers, lock up onto the mini and our immediate
kill is going to come through, but Popnot trying to turn it back into their favorite
floor and still living for an extra second.
The old upstart is taking over, knock up onto Morgan instead, ulti across the top, coming
in from the center.
Morgan now set to fall, Quinn running for his life, but the hook is there, the CC denied
the shutdown!
DCG aren't done yet!
DCG refused to go down without a fight and is Yon alone, who looks for show C gets the
kill.
I can't believe they managed to hold on to that one.
Reload, deep cross, gaming, digging deep to find that fight that's still in them.
And, Hakeem, you go for the engage here on towards Florent, but Pop9 gets so much value
from these AoE auto attacks on towards the frontline, the damage from the static ship
kind of helping out there as well as Team Liquid just chased out of the base and even
the hook at the end to deny quade that realm war freight from Chelsea and TL
really had the setup on to the gnar on the floor but they just could not finish
the kill
not always had a HP also in that fight wow so whatever yawn I didn't see what
yawn went back and purchased but it is now enough to have finished off that
not always that is just any good would have done the job bearing about a spawn
in five seconds, but the base is in shambles from the side of DCG.
This is a tough one to contest.
Luckily they have a lot of the waves pushed out, but you can see four or five super minions
pushing in bot wave.
If DCG stick around here for too long, they're going to lose everything, but they just want
to force a fight.
I don't know how Pop-Dot is already at 50% HP, but DCG saved.
It's time to go.
Olaf starting to tear through the entire team.
Team is going to go golden.
Still CCM here.
Quinn locked up.
Pop-Dot trying to turn it back in their favor.
He will get one in exchange.
Cored out making a miracle engage with the ball of damage is just not there.
Florin will finally fall. Morgan, Jose Dioto taking over in the fight
weathering the storm as Yon teepees into the base and looks to close out game two.
The dawning shadow Cooldown was just a little lace on a game team liquid.
All they needed to close out game number two.
Match point for Team Liquid.
DCG held on as best they could, but Team Liquid chasing for the full sweep.
It was hard fought towards the end, but again, it's Team Liquid's just that one step ahead
of DCG Desk.
Take it away.
Thank you very much, Dacna.
We do take this 2-0 victory, a lead now for Team Liquid Alienware after that game number
two.
It was in control, felt pretty good.
Yeah, and see, that was a lot of excitement.
I don't know.
There was some party game in there.
So there was another house of fun.
That was a good time.
Honestly, it was pretty fun.
You know, TL went with the Avengers
comp with all the global ultimates and stuff popping off.
Quinto on the rise, I think for me,
was definitely the centerpiece.
It was just like the typical team liquid fiesta.
Like the fight here, there.
That's right, the Fiesta was in full force there, 14 liquid in control, that was a good one, that was a good one, yeah that was nice.
It was a little scary at points because you're into the all-up and the center and that combination, especially when you have such a CC-based composition without a reliable AD carry, you saw some moments towards the end.
Yeah, a little spooky.
A little spooky, a little spooky.
At least they outranged them and then I felt like they played well through side. It was tough because at first I was like
Okay, we're giving Harold. That's nice. Just let the Twisted Fate split. That was an idiot. It gets too close
They're like, oh now you died. Let's not let's just have a clean moment within the game
And it always felt like that was not there
We were getting something slight as a lead and then it was being ripped apart
So a little touch and go. Let's take a look at how team liquid started it out because they executed quite well
You know towards the bottom side especially towards the ziggs and let's take a look at some of these dives
I mean so often when you have a zig, it's about playing to other points on the map
But here using the pressure they had early because the bot lane to over team liquid played a really strong 2v2
And it got a little scrappy later on you the flash in here
Because they may be not the the best to follow up on the kills, but as more members started moving over
Hello, I guess this great angle onto it's a layer and court J. J is that a follow up with all the like messy gameplay
that we've been seeing generally, I think Qwid has just been really on point throughout the series so far.
Deathless in game one, nearly deathless in game two up until the very end.
He's been kind of the eye of the storm.
Why, everything's chaotic around the rest of the map.
He's just doing his job in the mid lane, very consistent.
That is what mid lane normally is.
However, there was another fight there 24 minutes for DCG where, again,
you want to see a little bit more dominance here from this team liquid squad
who is thriving to be the best in North America.
But you get moments like this where it's like, OK, cool.
Here we go.
We're just going to run on in.
We saw them get punished because Jose did it before.
This time it works out well.
Yeah, this one, I think, is the vision control for TL.
And so they're the ones just jumping on DCG
or not respecting the position.
And Dragon was just taken.
And they continue to force these plays.
Core JJ jumping in there, getting the extra initiation.
And having the gobbles there to follow up. That's the thing. I think the beauty of this one
I didn't really catch it when we were going through the draft itself
But the semi-globals gave him an opportunity to basically always deny
Lauren on sides if there was ever an opportunity for him to split he could never feel comfortable past the river
Otherwise, he was just going to have if they ever were pushing out of fog through mid then a rise could just jump you like that
I also love the fact that we saw all that damage from the Ziggs Ziggs is full skill shots and every single other member
your team not only has CC but easy land CC like a gold car the Panthin's done the
rise route so it just meant it was so easy land those big bombs make that impact.
And we got to see all of it thanks to our reliable Cisco network. The Avengers fly
on into the top lane just in time to take down Florin as all the different angles
Florin's like I can push this wave everything's safe and it's like okay I'm
dealing with one global maybe a second global then a third global comes on in.
I feel like he must have said something in all chat because this fell personal
They caught him slipping it was not pretty as he goes in a mini-naw as well
Yeah, he's playing a normal game. He's trying to zone Morgan from the way. He's like surely this is like how are you gonna come?
Oh, yeah, you know what? He may this is the average top lane experience. Yeah, and that's when they say top there
It's a 1v1 lane, right?
And they'll choose this time because they know you're going for dragon until then they attack the other side of the map.
My favorite one was Morgan, who probably very easily could have walked.
But you know there's those distances where like, I can walk or I can catch the cap there and he like uses Destiny Gate just to go like, just a couple of times.
Maybe in the commons that were like, we're ulting.
And he's like, yeah, we're ulting!
We're all like that!
Morgan Twisted Fate had a couple of ults that were going, you know, super people later on, he was tested a few limits.
He was feeling some stuff out. Oh my God. Enemy blue side jungly. He's like, I've got them. Go Cardiola. He's coming at the paint.
I do want to bring it in before we go to a break for Relove Deep Cross Gaming. It felt like that. A couple of hats to hang on.
It just weren't quite able to turn the corner because of the deficit that they were in there, Ox.
Who's the guy that you want to see step up here given the fact that they're still looking for their first victory at MSI?
But they're down to their last loss. I think the Olaf pick was cool conceptually
I think pop 9 had some good moments has looked better today than yesterday
And he is often being the driving force for this team
I really hope they can get at least a game because it would feel pretty bad to go home
Having not what a single game and they have to get a reverse sweep now for this series
But I think even a game would make a big difference and at least today
We're seeing more of those aggressive tendencies expected from them yesterday was a lot more subdued
And I hope if this is the final game they go out with a bang. Yeah, I mean personally. I hope for TL to just fit
Look to tomorrow because that might be an interesting matchup there. Yeah, all right
Well, we'll see what happens. It is real of deep cross gaming down to their last
Lost possible and looking for the first victory for the LCP in
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Welcome back to MSI 2026 where TL are up to zero over DC.
If they win, they will face KC tomorrow for one last shot at a rematch versus T1.
If they lose, we go further into the series one step closer to Silver Scrapes.
I can hear it in the back of my head.
For DCG, it's a tough story because while the stakes for a 2-0 TL are optimistic and exciting about how far they can go,
DCG may be eliminated here, knocked out of the tournament without finding a single win.
And it's a bit of a heartbreaker, but just haven't been able to find that edge over either of their opponents.
Yeah, especially because like you can see there are certain moments in both series they played where you think, oh, maybe they can actually kind of play their style and show what they've shown domestically in the LCP.
But unfortunately, just haven't quite been able to get a solid footing in the early stages of the game. One thing kind of goes awry.
And of course, you just can't quite continue through. So it looks like MSI 2026 kind of looking like 2026.0 so far over the course of the last two days.
But yeah, and let's see how this one goes because for real of DCG even just for the fans back home
You'd love to be able to pick up some wins
Yes, kind of put them on the board bus
It is definitely an uphill battle that it is especially when TL have been so comfortable banning out your comfort picks
And I don't think that that is going to change I expect to see a lease in here in this first round of bands once again
There are four jinglers removed courtesy of fearless and they're probably going to be at least another four
courtesy of this first round of fans the fury poppy you buy take away and
We're not super deep into fearless yet, but with how heavily the jungle pool has been hit
I imagine we will see something a little bit different here
Yeah, I mean we still have pop 9s for XI which maybe he wants to bring it now and let's see if that's gonna be the call
but
Definitely getting deeper and deeper
Into the champion picks for those junglers specifically. Where is like ever knows
kind of not a field day.
They're happy enough to continue playing.
I wonder if we do get like the Camille focus here though for Chelsea,
because I do think like having us kind of roaming support in the early game
is the best look for real of DCG.
This is the latest we've gone into a series thus far,
and I believe without seeing it, you know, it's almost always been game one.
It was game two in our first series of the day just because it was ban in game one
in the second phase, but that's going to be five jungle bans.
So, there you go.
go. Yeah, so say 10 jungle bands this
series immediate Orianna pickup was
nerfed on this patch but just a bit of
base health and a bit of flat damage on
the Alti. Alti scaling actually went up
so the later we go the more potential
is for this you know big shockwave kind
of combo. I think maybe just going
towards as you say that kind of one
more combo style maybe the best bet
here very love DCG because they just
have like having those moments where
you can maybe bring back again from the
the brink, have that big turn around play, could be the call,
because Team Liquid have just been able to outpace them
in a lot of the maps.
Maybe team fighting is where you could try and land,
but the quick going back towards the victor,
decent into the Orianna, thanks to that range,
and with the nerfs towards Orianna's lane,
and specifically, can do relatively well there.
Yeah, of course, 50% win rate on the victor,
but I believe his most recent performances
were pretty solid once.
Now, I will say that because we're teaming with Victor,
I think it's gonna be a bit of a slower, more respected
game of League of Legends from TL,
by the fact that they're 2-0 up, clearly still don't want to underestimate their opponents here,
and that right there is Aleutian. And I'm going to be clear right now, if you've only been watching
TL at this tournament or only this year, you might be skeptical about your own Aleutian.
But in 2024, we witnessed this man do what no Western AD carry has ever done in the history
of the game, and it was play a good Aleutian Nami game alongside CoreJJ. Now Imperial mandate
has been effectively removed from Nami's potential pool of items, but I got a lot of faith
And yawn when it comes to this champion even despite a pretty abysmal year thus far
And I'm really hoping that this is a pop-off from him to send a message to a KC who are waiting tomorrow for their opposition
However, the cost of picking this solution is given up a Wukong and a very heavily, you know
Chipped away at pool of jungle champions as well as a Camille which has been incredibly strong
especially if you can try to focus down like the video in your east ages or
even just play hyper aggressive I think it makes a little bit more difficult for
yon and for JJ to really get that control that the Lucian wants over the
lane so I like what we're seeing from DCG including the Wukong because often
times you kind of get like the Victor Wukong combo for that zone control and
the funnel with that gravity well but not gonna be the case here I think DCG
setting up for a very strong one both of your talking production just uploaded
the stat and I didn't understand why but after reading it I do.
Fun fact, Hongtao is 6-7 on Orianna.
Hand potions.
Thank you production.
Hull as always.
Of course, Renekton now locked in.
Pretty stable topside.
We haven't seen any Camille top.
I wouldn't really expect to see her up there,
but I do like Morgan has just been super good on the topside of map.
So just blind picking if something's stable.
Does seem like an excellent angle.
We'll see what Cole wants to pick up to go alongside the Lucian.
I imagine based on the first series today, we will see the Milio man away.
Yeah, but that's the thing, right? Like if you end up taking away a lot of these pigs,
I am curious what you want to try and hope for. I think the...
Obviously, Lucho got changed a while ago, where he's the less limited to just going with the enchanters alongside him,
but definitely he is to give me stronger with those enchanters beside him.
And as you say, the Milio, kind of the crème de la crème, now me disappearing a little bit, thanks to the changes to appear on mandate.
But I'm not entirely certain what they do want to try and go for because I do think you will get the Minio Band runs with the Bron.
And Bron, I think just generally, obviously one of the kind of really old-school lutions, but really easy to proc because it blows nice alongside the Recton.
Really good against compositions that want to dive you. Fantastic disengaged support, fantastic blocking follow-up damage with that unbreakable shield.
But the Ezreal trying to limit the mobile options for bot lane as well as the potential toppling counter to the Recton.
So split bands here from Team Liquid in terms of what they're trying to focus.
Yeah, I still think you have options like with the Alistar maybe for CoreJJ
if you really want to, to try and just play keep away from the Camille,
like just accept that you are going to, before you lose any of that bottom side of the map,
but that's not exactly what you want with the Lucian either when you lock this in
and Alistar can make it a little bit more difficult for you to try and play to the strengths in the mid-game,
but at least you can try and match some of the early Roman.
Shavada was over yesterday. Is something Jose Dioto has in his champion pool bus picking through a few options here
That was the option gonna be
Okay
They picked the victor and the renektin so that the rest of the map could cook because my god
It's a good one. Yeah, I know why is that nice?
But I really thought we were getting a Zach.
I mean, I think Zach would be insane.
Like, yes, you do get to play with the Lucian on that mid wave with the Zach really well,
because of the effectively range,
but that is definitely some cooking against this composition on the upside.
And it is. Of course, Shyvana was hit on 26-10.
We played on 26-9? I can't remember where we played for that one.
We played 26-10. Yeah, so we don't play this.
We're 26-11. Yeah, exactly. Thank you.
2610 yes, so we're 2611. Yes, exactly. Thank you trying to keep up a lot of times
We're synced in terms of those regional patches
But so she might it has not been hit since we last saw her last touchdown a little see how good she can be
The context these drafts as we have the jacks now locked in to go toe-to-toe with that redneck thing and
the potential
Draven
This will be a statement, but I like the Callister as well. They're both. Yeah, just hyper aggressive bot lanes. I think a great call
for DCG. Especially when you've already got hyper time, the ability for Shousey to really
force out another safety with Kalista can help quite a lot here.
Has played with Kalista once before, domestically, did not win the game, but hoping to turn
that around here today and wants to play fire with fire.
For debating on what the option is, is for fans out in the audience.
have a all-time decent win right on the Clis, a 62.5% so still somebody is very
comfortable even if we don't see it from the region at this year but oh
interesting okay obviously Clis we're not on the pairing that we know kind of
yeah both paths of the duo have really good ways to keep each other safe keep
each other alive and fighting but the hostile takeover against this
composition is incredibly incredibly potent and Clis are and we're not on one
of the few range support options that I think has good tools to disrupt the
can you or right the handshake can't be really, really strong. Yeah, it's it's still going
to be a difficult matchup in the early stages, though, because you just have so much all in
potential in the bottom side of the map, especially pop nine shows up. But as you start to move
on there, I think you give you on a lot of ways to try and play aggressive on that midway
with this for nada. And also, as you say, like the it does end up a little awkward just
because you kind of then hyper rely on the all in potential from DCG to start a
fight or that hostile takeover to kind of catch people out. But I do think when
you're looking at a very heavy dive composition the other side you will get
value at some stage from this one. That you will and I think this is one thing
that I really like about the picks that Team Liquid have assembled right in
the Renata in the Victor and in the Shyvana really good at punishing these
big dive options. One of the biggest issues that Shyvana has whether it's
pre-war, post-re-war. It's sticking to enemy champions, especially with that ultimate, but when they're coming to you,
the amount of damage this champion can unleash is so damn high, and it's something that's going to be tricky for them to navigate,
because of all these things so many caneels get away with these quick picks, these quick engages,
it's a lot harder against the composition that TL have put together, at least when they're stacked up.
Yeah, I do think though, for DCG, this draft is their best way to try and get ahead in the early stages, right?
like you have. Florent you can try and play through. CoreJJ can match the Romes, but he
is very susceptible to just becoming the targets of some of these plays if you try and match
Shaoxi on some of them. So I think this is where if I'm DCG, hyper-aggression in the
early stage, really try and blow up in this game early is exactly what you're looking
for. Even if the exhaust on Fung is really strong against the Lucian, especially if he
ever dashes in, you're immediately exhaust and you can hard win that trade against the
Lucian.
And of course when we talk about DCG, we talk about combined kills per minute.
I'll hold that so we can take a look at all these skin.
So the question really is, with these two compositions, these two drafts, are we going
to see that same breakneck pace of game?
And for DCG, yes, we most certainly are.
That's an immediate exhaust of the bottom lane.
Yandere, Spears are already stacking.
This Lucian is in trouble and he is dead.
He is in a potty bag.
TL already said packing in the early stages.
That's a devastating level one.
Yeah, point in case right there.
Hyper-aggressive NDS.
I'm going to spell choices here from DCG and I make it work.
Immediate kill, great control,
and you're going to be able to go back and pick up
a nice early longsword for yourself as well.
Four fung in this bottom lane.
It's Jose Dioto.
Consider an evade, but we'll be spotted.
Yeah, not quite sure.
That looks like he did manage to evade that early ward
and we'll be back to the red buff.
No, excuse me, that is the question mark.
Thanks to who was spotted.
Well highlighted observers,
just to showcase how important that early vision has been.
Chelsea now roaming potentially into the jungle or just into the mid lane. DCG, this is their pace of the game.
This is their tempo. I don't know if TL are ready for it.
We're forced to flash in the mid lane. Good reaction.
But losing that summoner is just gonna make it that much harder on the next go-around.
No, this is well orchestrated by DCG.
Bot lane summoner spells gone. Mid lane summoner spells gone.
Gives you a lot to work with here as Pop9 gonna start to clear down towards this bottom side.
expected won't be in the next couple of minutes that we really see much here
because Pop9 will need to start clearing out kind of his own top side and
because we had that little bit of a split map but still I think DCG will be
able to punish really effectively over the next coming top moments take a
look at back at this all and remember Clista has exhaust so that is going to
be a really big difference in this fight yeah I think a little bit of a mistake
there from Courage AJ trying to take the space you're happy to just kind of
clear out the wave and then force DCG to play back but with Halo Blades and this
Callista level one plus the exhaust and ignite you just really don't have the damage to match especially as a Lucian in those early stages
Yeah, the offensive summoner spells the exhausting night. Halo blades. I'll leave everything everything is just so favored
For the side of DCG but now with a few more levels another belt a bit more back up on the rest of the map
Tl playing with confidence here in the bottom lane from though gonna be in trouble
That's Jose Dioto grabbing the kill nice response after a pretty tragic first blood here from Tl
Yeah, the fact that you're able to push the double summoner spell has gone on DCG is massive
And I really thought it would actually be pop 9 it was able to get 10 to the bottom side first minute core JJ
Beating a bit of an audience auto
That's ruthless oh
One more
That oh
It might be his life for this decision magic damage shield that means y'all just gets the free hit
They did not keep track of delusion. Wait, but that's a lot of minions.
That is a lot of minions. Worrying this down.
Then you dig in the brush, but the vision is already there.
Two more on us. He's fine.
60 HP, 50 HP, 40 HP.
Yeah, I thought Fung might have actually committed that with the full wave hitting,
but instead just decides to back away, still cautious with the barrier that Yon had available.
So, end up kind of calling that one, I feel like, correctly, but definitely a tight one.
Popped on spot so who's a deal over this top side? I know they will not steal it away. How's it do clean on the smites once again?
And I got to say despite I was really worried that that level one would spell doom for TL and all of this early game
But they were covered excellently with these plays in the bottom side shout
He's though looking to make a play of his own here in mid lane
And quit lost his flash in the previous fight
The previous gank but course here to cover
Well, that core reads it perfectly.
Nice reset handshake.
Not going to amount to too much,
but importantly quit.
So walk away.
It's his life.
Yeah, it has been a little bit of a weird one for pop nine,
though, because he's only now clearing out his top side because he ended up taking like
the topside jungle initially and then moving back in over to protect his bottom side, but
then had to go into the bot lane to try and cover for it.
And is now only kind of just going back into this top half.
So he ends up very far behind when he comes towards the CS because it's just been an easy
and easier clear cycle for Jose Dioto,
even though I should just steal away one of those counts
in the get-go as well.
So even though it's kind of looked decent for DCG
in the early stages,
Pop9 is very much lagging when it comes towards
the jungle matchup.
That he is.
And it really was just that first level one play
to win in their favor as well as that mid lane game.
But not being able to follow up,
not being able to punish the lack of flash and mid lane
for Quid does mean that advantage is kind of shrunk away.
You look at the top side, top lane and jungle
both wildly far ahead of their respective opposition
and Jan, despite that big hiccup in the all-in.
The rest of his team supported him
in punishing those missing summoners.
And Camille can really beat his powerhouse
if she gets going, but if she falls too far behind,
really quickly runs out of value.
But even if you just confine her to lane, that's a win.
And that's exactly what Team Liquid are doing now.
Using that push they have, they're
going to start to look for this Krug, or this Gromp, even.
Might fight round two as we get a once-again win.
This time, because Pop9 doesn't have somebody,
Now with Troublehose Diodo.
What's up with the fireball?
Not maybe a little bit frustrated, but Flash out.
Flash for Flash traded, of course, Yong losing his in exchange for Pop-Nights.
But right now, Team Liquid just running the map.
And this is exactly what you want to do, as I was saying.
If you can confine Shou's C2 lane, the ability for this Camille to really impact the game is limited.
And then when you get to that later portion, it just doesn't quite have that same level of ump.
home, as Fallen now taking good damage from this Lucian.
And with the pressure on bottom side,
you're getting kills, you're getting dragons,
you're just really shutting down
what was the strong point to the map for DCG.
And now a full level advantage for Yan over Hong.
And a full level advantage for Jose Diodo.
Almost a full level advantage top side
on top of the goal that they've been building out.
But ShaoSi now making that play mid lane,
excellent shockwave, quick burning down just a little bit.
DCG finally getting something back for themselves.
Quick trying to hold her down towards the bottom side of the lane because I believe this but a pop nine on the top side
But again exhaust is on yawn coaling now coming out willing to give his life there doesn't die
Importantly before the kill comes through so the reset from core doesn't keep him standing
Chassis has flash as well for JJ does not so looks like it should be a kill for the Camille here as well level three level four core
Fairly enough man and not coming up for an ability shall see we'll pick up one more
more. Jon's still holding a massive goldy, but he's a little bit sloppy.
Still, as you say, you lose that wave to the tower, that gold lead is still going to be
going in favor of Jon. You're barely level 5 to 6.5 for Jon, a 1.2K gold lead.
And Morgan, threatening Florin here.
Morgan really is poking and prodding, solely chipping away at the turret, continuing to
extend a CS and tower plate advantage.
One really needs a few more items under his belt.
He's starting, and the more he's able to take down these neutral camps, etc.
He's going to get stacked up on the scale mail, the Shyvana Passive.
He's going to tank here and tank here.
The Core JJ now matching a lot of Chelsea's movements towards this mid-lane as well.
Realizing that he kind of needs to make sure the Chelsea isn't operating around this mid-lane again.
It is hard when Homestead doesn't have the ultimate available.
We're good JJ just needs to keep track. So the trouble that's the dragons to send out coming in fireball to follow up
Well, Brett doing a lot of work. It's Jose de Odo now the one on the killing spree
Just consistently walking away with those last hits to further extend his lead
Yeah, just pulling off of us comp in the topside making sure that he's able to play on the mid and again team liquid
Just feel like they're one step ahead
It's DCG trying desperately to make something happen to try and play their style of game
But unfortunately, you can't get their footing at this international stage
team Liquid scrapping better and better against this DCG lineup, some hiccups here and there,
but not so comfortable at this point in the game, Chelsea on the way down that spotted
up by this control ward, of course still waiting off to the side.
And I think for Team Liquid like having a performance like this really does going to help you out
because again, when we're going against KC tomorrow, just getting that confidence back
after the T1, 3-0 them, I think is going to be massive for them because they played fantastic
and had some good showings against T1 as well.
We're just having the confidence and the control that they had all series long speaks to what
this team is capable of achieving.
And it's not also not just that it will be an elimination match, but it's the first hopefully
not only NA EU matchup, right, which means the stakes are so much higher for all the
the players involved and for the fans at home.
Or see, I haven't closed this one out yet,
but they're just in such a favorable position.
I need to see how TO look to extend this lead
or what they go for next.
Jose Diodo has been fantastic this game,
just participating in getting three of the five kills.
Shana, who starts the snowball,
just gets so ungodly tanky for free.
Yeah, and I think like himself and CoreJJ
have been doing such a good job so far in this tournament,
like they were excellent yesterday,
even though they couldn't pick up the win,
like Jorge J's Nautilus, I thought,
was superb in that game too.
And then Jose Diodos, Poppy, really,
like finding key moments to set themselves up for,
what was it, very hard fall game two against T1?
And I think this has kind of become the core focus
for them now is, can they just continue to play
through this strong jungle support?
Yeah, you mentioned the Poppy,
but also the Wukong in game one, right?
83.3 kill participation.
There really wasn't anything that happened on the map
without this man being involved.
You see in the mid lane.
All team laid down there.
Team Liquid setting up on the bottom side.
You can see DCG getting a little antsy.
The second that Team Liquid disappeared
because Jose Dioto on the way.
So shall see, still relatively comfortable
as long as he's got a hook shot.
Keep him safe.
Top of the match, beating a little bit harder now.
Thornaz, Gimara, and Zoderspelt.
That's the Dragons descend immediately
to the molten breath.
The shockwave gets a little bit of space.
They're just simply too much aimed in this direction.
They can't outmaneuver that. Another kill.
TL's favour.
The fear and the twin bite doing so much work in that fight.
Making sure they're able to pick that one up
and Jose Diodo doing a good job of tanking turret to enable quids.
Pick after pick. This is kind of starting to slip away from DCG.
Still a 2.5k gold lead for Team Liquid.
Can this Wukong do something to change those?
Spotted on the vision. Good diligence from TL.
If they're winning out on the 2v2 to respect the potential of someone else getting involved or have they respect a core excellent handshake
To deny the engage pop 9 now going to go in flash forward to get the cycle on going
That's the ulti across the entire team. Hoss will take it over doing a lot of work
If Yon tries to close away through the front line needs to kill needs to reset but cannot quite get it
Team Liquid overconfident they saw pop 9 there, but they thought they could outplay
Yeah, they thought the handshake would be enough for Chelsea getting the
Well hang on Morgan going all in that's the dominance used traded for Jax's ultimate is foreign just tries to hold on Morgan
Does he want to tank the tower? The answer is yes, before trying to get tricky.
That's the counter strike. It doesn't matter when he's getting sliced and diced.
The Jax turns into mincemeat in the topside. Morgan getting the solo kill.
And speaking of more plays, actually helping him, Quinn.
He's going mid.
Shockwave available. He's clearly able to walk away.
He wants to get something back.
Renashausi, Jose Diodo running in, but without the dragon's descent.
Doesn't have that reliable gap close.
It's still a big lead for Team Liquid, but credit to TCG.
They are always finding these angles to get kills.
Yeah, so I wanted to give a shout out to Morgan there because I think he's also someone who's really stepped up like we talked
About domestically him being much more of the tank player already finding those success on the carries
But again storing yesterday
He was bringing out the spice with things like the asshole way more of these carries now
We're seeing it again today against foreign who like I think people won't realize just how impactful he has been as a top laner
Sure, it was domestically like it has been so much conversation
But potentially be one of the best players if not the best player in the region
But unfortunately he's not been able to show his team liquids move into this bottom side and want to punish the bottom lane
They do I said over the dragons said immediately gonna jump on a shot to stop any potential playmaking
Tax sweep not enough to show see he's gonna run it off a little bit more. How?
How is he not dead team liquid?
So many times this series filing their opponents on the brink of death
Sub 100 HP before he popped the pot
But again, it's more loss for Fonga. He's going to try and re-enter into this bottom lane. Has this part of the jungle to TL?
I think, rightfully, going to give up that space, but still getting more and more of this structure's plates is going to be very nice for the team to go bot lane.
Yeah, just extending the goal lead. Fonga doesn't have access to the flash. Is Morgan and Fonga just continue to trade blows?
But Chausi now, he's level 6, 8 seconds away from the ultimate being back available, Sundered Sky finally here, alongside the Blood Song.
This is one powerful Camille core, 7 seconds on the hostile takeover, incredibly small window of timing.
If they go right now, it is incredibly favorable for DCG.
CG getting pushed back, Team Liquid respecting a heal pop.
Cycle pop as well, and Morgan starting to lose out in the 1v1.
Rage stacking, not able to grab that healing,
but Jose DiGiotto is here.
That's the route to Spudder to find the stun.
It's a split fight, but Team Liquid just backing away
in the bottom lane, Florin hoping to find the kill.
The ward not quite there in time, Florin taking down.
Jose DiGiotto taking a bite.
And a DCG's top laner is now.
Yon looking for her a little bit more.
That's the hostile takeover.
Berserk, Yon getting a little bit more space for you
to dash back into Shousey.
Nice sidestep, but it's Core who's been caught out
in the meantime, Pop9 over commingo, they've got the tower standing behind them, Quinn is here as well.
Fang running, flashed over the wall, it doesn't matter, piercingly lit.
Bayon is Pop9 desperately now trying to retreat, DCG overstaying their welcome in this bottom lane,
Quinn dropping the ulti, tries to go for the clone trick, but TL not falling for it.
TL, they TP in, they outplay on the bottom side, they get the kill top as well.
They just blew this game open. What was kind of a 2k gold lead suddenly ballooned to a 6,000 gold lead for Team Liquid?
That is the problem with the enemy team. That's that slight lead and you take these big aggressive fights.
They start to farm up. They get these objectives on top of it.
Shaoxi, without Boots, you'll steal something. So, yeah, that's possible.
Unlikely, but definitely possible.
Shaoxi running for his life. Yan getting a stronger and stronger. One and a half items.
Items not too far ahead of fun in terms of full item completion, but in terms of raw gold value the items he's picked up wildly far ahead
Jose Diodo
Pretty big Diffie in the Jiffy here. Mr. Dagda
Yeah, I'm not making some place happen, but that Bob play going where I just feels like it might spell the end
Yeah, I mean, it's great to see Jose Diodo back at the main stage when we get to
to see this play as I thought maybe it was actually Chelsea. Oh, he did get clipped by
the thought he'd gone past the hostile takeover. But there's just no fault. You don't have
the root con there with that ultimate. So Team Liquid that knowing that Fred isn't there,
happy to just play forward. The double tap on the phone just enough as well. And pop
nine, try to get something back on the court JJ, but there's just nothing. Again, I think
trying to go for that play without the root con ultimate just makes it a little bit lack
cluster. That it does as he's about to find Pop9 in his jungle. Pop9 does not win this
one V1, but he may be able to escape with his life, although the odds of that are getting
lower and lower as he's being chased back into Team Liquid's base. Yon looking for the
blast cone to follow him over the wall. Yeah, promise this isn't A-Ram, there is no cannon
to get you out of this one. But if there was, this would have been an escape most certainly.
Instead, he'll be donating a kill to Yon, who's happy to have the additional gold.
Yeah, and he's already a face, so I guess he spends it immediately.
Efficiency!
There you go.
Let's keep for Yon.
Yon will remember this is the day where he most certainly caught Captain Jack Sparrow.
We can take a look here at the Coinbase Gold Grimes.
There's a lot of kill money in favor of Mr. Jose Diodo, and also a pretty decent lead
in terms of jungle camps picked up.
OK, Core JJ. I think he's about to die, I would say that he is all on his lonesome here in the bottom lane does get a three man shockwave, but the fear is there just to stop any further follow up and team liquid will grab another.
And I think like this is kind of what we're seeing again, like DCG just never in position to like look for a cross map, look for something in response. It's always as they're on reset that these players continue to come come across and it is rather difficult to do that.
They're unfortunate because again team Nick would then get to reset. They're gonna push out these waves
You got dragon. That's a bit of spawns if they're gonna pick that one up a third dragon and potential for an infernal soul
Unfortunately for DCG and looks like their tournament might be coming to a close fairly soon
Difficult to find the avenue for come back chow see the only individual member with a gold lead and my gosh the win probability
Powered by AWS showing us a pretty clear picture, kind of repeating what you already said yourself, but Morgan might be in trouble
Might win the game, but he might lose his life in the process. DCG sending four members to the top lane and they will get their man
They will lose a drake, they will lose a tower, maybe another tower, but they got their kill and they're going to grab that objective bounty
So at least it's something for DCG, but as you say the gold lead still fairly
sizable for our team liquid, especially as they take that tier two in the bottom lane.
And they're kind of looking at, okay a minute until the baron, you have decent baron take as well
for our team liquid. So one mistake from DCG where someone gets cost can immediately be that purple worm.
Absolutely can. Still that minute left. So we'll see how soon that mistake comes out. Chausi.
I'm going to face first to CoreJJ, does get the ward down, Core is going to be easy to
clear it.
Nice little chunk of damage from the attack plus dissonance.
I'm playing it a little bit fast and loose here, does a lot of damage, two and a half
items.
Yeah, turn up on him's barrier and flash, I think he can very well play up on this.
What was the other one on the side?
Maybe looking for the dragon's descent angle.
DCG grouped up, but it's split pressure.
You can see Morgan debating if he wants to come to the mid lane and the top lane to
a quick, already pushing in.
Starting to look to start chunking away at that.
I mean, it's already chunked.
OK, well, chunked away.
It was chip.
Chunk chip.
You kind of just looked at it sideways,
and it would die.
Kind of, you know, a deep little breath onto it
is now Chausy thrown forward.
Immediate ulti floor, looking to follow up,
and the hostile takeovers there.
Chausy's just getting beaten out by his own top laner.
Core hoping to hold on, but he's not
able to get the reset in time.
Yon exhausted, but still finding a double.
Double kill in the play.
Jumping on to Core JJ.
Sure, he's squishier, but that just means he's on us all the time.
He needs to dish out the damage and there we go, immediate bar in turn with the picks.
We're walking in looking to solo Pop 9.
Road about forward, ulti from the clone, gonna delay, quit there.
So there's now a TP coming in the mid lane as well.
That's gonna be Floren.
But he's not gonna be able to do anything here.
So we'll just be Team Liquid picking up the big purple worm, further extending that lead.
is quid now looks to go in contest pop 9 who really has no business being on that
kid was it you're going over the whole ready look for bit more pop 9 they're
looking to save their jungler they will get their jungle out just about pop 9
that was a close one yeah but it's all clouds and we're really grasping for the
silver lining that this point is chow see goes into the same time the stock
wave comes out so easy flash for quid foreign going in for a bit more Morgan
struggling a little bit in this one be more matches he got further into the
but Florin absolutely cannot match Quinn right now.
He just does a ton of damage,
counters right there, flash away.
The fur.
Next tech, Rey.
And Team Liquid.
Gonna break open the base.
We'll see if they want to push for an end.
As Yon is getting exceptionally low.
Bang.
Fun.
Once it's done, it does get better work done.
And CoreJJ now kind of needs help as well.
No.
Side step with the pro about to get away from the handshake.
CoreJJ.
Getting lower will fall. There's going to be no kill reset here.
So a nice pit to at least slow the Baron advance from the side of DCG.
Yeah, a bit of a whoopsy there from Team Liquid.
Like Fung managing to get Yon off a mid lane tower
and then being able to collapse onto the top side.
So Team Liquid overstaying their welcome to base.
Still though, I mean you get to keep this
Rebel Baron powerplay going until that potential soul,
which makes it really difficult for DCG to try and answer.
We're going to walk in here anyway.
Alright, I'm concerned, he does have a pretty decent item advantage, or just, we're going
to stop, we're going to stop running graphs.
Yeah, we're going to head his schedule on this one.
Team Liquid is winning.
Stop.
Stop bringing up the stats.
The people understand.
We get it.
It's all blue.
Unless you find out who's going to be 6-7 after this game,
what a champion.
That's true.
Morgan in trouble now.
It's just going to get picked off here.
Really no way out of this one.
I take it back.
There's always a way out of this one.
Morgan has lived.
There is a giant dragon running in three members
as a DCG and Morgan looking for a better revenge against Florent,
from getting completely and totally cold.
Not even Chousy's going to be able to get away.
Gravity Field is there, Yon dominating.
The victory marks coming in for Team Liquid.
Team Liquid just styling on them now.
Yon with the flash, managing to sidestep Shousey and DCG.
They got two members out of the map,
but their towers are being absolutely torn through
in this mid lane, or top lane.
The top side recalling, hoping to mount one last desk
The final moments of their MSI run, Shockwave onto 2,
Florin immediately responding, the countershike only connecting on the 1 and core,
living for an F for a second. The reset is there, but he is gonna die.
Not able to find a kill to keep Core standing, so Team Liquid gonna settle for the inhibitor
and just back off.
But that's one dead now with us, so little bit of talking about it, so maybe DCG,
you can already see the pings kind of immediately rush that one down.
So might have just bought himself a little bit of time.
that they have
At least on life again
It is or probably would be one of the most insane
Comebacks of all time if DCG could win this and for their sake I want it, but it just feels impossible
This Drake is not enough to put them anywhere near close in this game in terms of overall control
But they will grab it. They will slow down the soul. They have stalled at the Baron
So yes, there's an inhibitor down, but they've at least bought themselves a bit of time
just a little kind of like oh wait is going in I know about that one that was
not it with quick back step they're going all in on quit now who's just dropped
his all he'll coming in from their damn shit he don't come through the wall and
they're all dying they're going out of their terms wrong no one will ever say
DCG did not go out fighting sometimes you just kind of got a doll back the
fighting but that just isn't in the DNA of this team. It is real of deep cross
gaming unfortunately not able to pick up a win as Team Liquid swarmed towards the
base. Team Liquid eyes on the prize looking to close out eager for a match
at verse KC tomorrow. Core delaying the recalls also chasing for the kill here.
likely to finish off core, but the game still poised and shall see finally back up
TL a clean sweep over DCG a nice shift in momentum after their series yesterday as they gear up to face KC tomorrow
A strong performance from team liquid as you say should be a very interesting series tomorrow I
Well learned, like it was a confident performance from side to finish from this team.
I had it most certainly was. This bumps across the board. Excited to see TL tomorrow.
And of course, a nice bounce back. Yeah, good to see some love for TL in the house here.
Obviously a very T1 dominated house in terms of fandom, but I've seen the T1 fans out there.
on the opposite side, Mark's out to their opposition.
But for more on that series, let's set it over to our analyst
desk.
I know you're saying a lot of T1 fans out there.
There's a lot of Bro Taliq fans out there.
Lord Morgan getting the victory here in front of the audience,
alongside Team Liquid over Rila of Deep Cross Gaming,
who will take this experience on the international stage
and use it to build upon the next split over in the LCP
in hope for an international win next time.
But they did not have their best
while Team Liquid Alienware looked back to their best,
especially in that game number three.
Yeah, a message to Real of Deep Cross Gaming,
of course, love to them who a lot has happened
in such a short amount of time.
They were in the PCS, then they qualified to the LCP.
They went through two honestly incredible splits
to be in the finals of both.
And so for them to be on a stage like this,
first time being on an international stage
for almost all of them other than Chelsea,
I remember correctly like it is a ton of experience for them to look back on and it won't be the last time
We'll see them. I'm sure yeah, it's obviously tough not getting a single game win
But I think today was a much better representation of the team they are
Yeah, yesterday was they showed more and imagine if they had more time in the tournament
Maybe we get more more glimpses
It's just getting more experience job going against a lot of players with a lot of international experience in the planes
And they've had a very quick ascent to get up to this level. Yeah, take a little bit of time. Yeah
Yeah, 3-0's, 3-0's, gentlemen.
It has just been some fast, fast series,
and I think with Real of Deep Cross gaming,
fighting was the only way on through.
They tried to play slow in one of the games,
and just didn't quite work out.
And this one, they were doubling down,
and doubling down, and doubling down, just like you said.
Oh, they did it that first series.
This one got a little bit out of control here.
Yeah, I mean, they got the first blood on Yon,
but then they actually took over 4TL from that side.
Yeah, and I will say, if it wasn't a 3-0 for this one, I would have been a little bit concerned.
Only because everyone else is getting a 3-0.
I didn't get a 3-0.
I don't want to be a lame guy.
We're now parry.
I compare all my life.
And now in a position where T1, top of the group, 3-0 to F1 they faced, DCG, bottom of the group, bottom of the plans, 0-3 to F1 else.
Only know is that T1 and KC are in the middle.
They are right now, they've been worse than T1, and they've been better than DCG.
That's all the information they have to go on. It's the same scores as well, so...
Are you very excited for TL versus KC? Because they're the one that's surrounded by the enemy,
by the way. You're surrounded by North Americans.
Yeah, I will say though, we're going to have an interview in just a little bit here with
I think the biggest beneficiary from this series, and especially that last game, was Jan.
He was under a microscope for some of his performances earlier.
And then getting his hands on the Lucian and being able to play on the edge like we've seen him do for so many years once again,
must feel really good to watch.
Yeah, especially, you know, at the end there, you can see my flashing though, Renata coming at him.
Yeah.
That's the ultimate.
And you can tell, you know, he's definitely, he's definitely warming up here on the stage.
Hopefully that does bode well for tomorrow's matchup.
You know, him vs. Callist in the bottom lane.
Absolutely. I mean, this, I feel like the series kind of gave confidence to a lot of team-looker friends
that were looking for this, right? You build a roster around this bottom lane,
Cordier, Jay, and Yon, and for him to not have the performance that you really wanted for the entire year,
up until this point, now we're starting to see kind of like the sparks start to fly,
so I want to see what they look like versus Callist and Buzio.
Aux, who impressed you the most from this team look way into Alienware roster?
I think it's been on great form. I think that's some great moment yesterday as well
But today the Akali the rise the victory in that last game
It just fell as I said for this game
He's like the eye in the storm when everything else going a bit chaotic
He's just putting in that solid performance building up a lead carrying and just taking over the game
And honestly the the whole topside to been pretty happy with them. Yeah, Morgan when they were losing to T1
He was the I felt like lone member that was still having you know good performances playing against Doran
Of course, we did see Doran also, you know losing out to Kana. So
maybe is a Doran issue, but you know
You both both him as well as for Jose Jose having a lot of good moments, too
Aside from getting like 7-0 smited
Smites a bit of today guys, we're standing by right now for the Verizon post game interview with core JJ
The 2026 players stay in Round 2, Loser's match.
Team Liquid Alienware takes a 3-0 victory
and moves on to the next round.
Joining us now is the captain of Team Liquid Alienware,
KoreJJ.
Congratulations on the victory.
Thank you very much.
This is an international tournament
being held in your home country, Korea.
How does it feel to compete here in Korea
I think I was able to visit Korea often, like worlds first time, but most of the time,
I was not able to pick up a win, it feels amazing to finally get a win here in Korea.
This was an elimination match, but you pulled off a 3-0 win today and made it to the next
round.
I think the team gained from today's series.
When we were playing into T1 yesterday, we learned two things.
T1 is a very strong team, it's a first thing.
And the second thing was, we are also a very strong team.
And with this performance, I think we were able to prove that we also have a huge potential.
So you guys heavily targeting JG's chances in defense today, and we even got to see Jose's Xivana JG, what kind of strategy did you prepare against DCG?
Our coaching staff did a fantastic job on analyzing the opponent, and they came up with the best draft, so we prepared around that.
Honestly, yesterday, even today, Jose Dioro, he has such a wide and deep champion pool,
so it doesn't matter how many champions you ban in the jungle, because he's always ready
to pull out something else.
KorJJ, you are truly a veteran among the veterans, and did you know you are the oldest player
at MSI 2026?
I mean, it's been like that for a few years now, so I was aware already.
I don't think that really matters to me anymore.
What's the secret to maintaining your form so consistently?
Because I love this experience.
You know, standing in front of the fans,
performing in front of them is the biggest motivation for me.
Today, the top side of the map also has some fantastic performance.
How has it been playing with Morgan, Posediodo, and Quint?
There could be some fans who were not catching up with the LCS, but, you know, even just by watching today's series, they can tell they have a lot of talent, they are amazing players, so they are the joy of watching the team like good alien wear.
And tomorrow you'll be facing Carmen Corp for the spot in round four on the line.
It's a match between the LCS and the LEC.
Anything you want to say to Carmen Corp?
What should I say?
Nothing really comes to mind at the moment, but I can say this one for sure.
Last time when we met, we won.
And also it was in Korea
And it's gonna be the same
And that was the captain of Team Liquid Alienware, Kory JJ. Let's give it up one more time for him. Thank you very much
much. Thank you very much.
I'm Jason for that translation.
Yeah. Yeah. Now joining us on the desk is the mid laner
former MVP of the LCS.
Thank God.
Yes.
He's the one.
Yeah. What are you doing?
I was trying to get him to play.
He just finished a game.
He's trying to represent the region in your freaking amount.
He didn't even play.
Great. Congratulations.
How was that last game for you?
Last game?
Yeah, yeah.
Last series.
I think it was okay level of the game, but I think we still need to put effort on our
macro or I think we need to play more aggressive that are for building better team.
I think our today's opponent wasn't the win, but I think we just managed to win because
We were just better, but I think if you're looking for building KC or T1, I think we should have done something better than this.
I was asking you before the camera came to us, what was your favorite game to play?
And you were talking about your Akali game, and your bot lane was flaming you for not telling them when the Taliyah was going to roam?
I don't think I have a favorite game today, but I think game 3 was a little bit off.
Definitely not.
I mean, you had a Camille attacking you non-stop.
Didn't they tell you that it was coming?
Yeah, I mean, after game 2, you're almost asking me, like,
can you core Taliyah most of the time or so I can be ready to...
...driver?
And I said, I think, if you can stop crying, if I think you can driver,
even though I don't communicate, then I think I can get more than just...
...just backing off.
Yeah.
I think pulling Taliyah is gonna make me getting a lot.
Yeah.
Maybe that's why I called it a core, single coming move timer in game 3.
Zero old roam timers there into the mid lane, but you still handled it like a champ.
Obviously, we saw how the team was feeling after the T1 series in your day number one.
What was the mentality going into today's match?
What did you want to accomplish? Other than winning, what else did you want to accomplish?
I think after we lost T1, our atmosphere was still fine. I was just disappointed.
I think I could have showed much better performance in game 2 and game 3.
Even game 1, I was so nervous game 1. I don't even know why. I couldn't even breathe.
Wow, great.
I was playing Comfort Champion, but I don't know,
I couldn't even focus on the game in game one,
but I think if I was better player,
or if I played better, I think we should be able to win,
yeah, and the game, game two.
That's right.
That's right, that's right, and that means.
Yeah.
I was so disappointed after we lose, and game three,
whatever.
We got them. Team Liquid tweeted out that they want to spawn talking to you guys after the game number two and trying to calm everybody down.
Has that been any help to help you guys focus or relieve any of the nerves?
Of course, your first series going for the world champions is going to be the most stressful, but how have you guys progressed since then?
I think after game one I wasn't really nervous to play the game, but I think they were just better and I think I just need to improve a little bit.
So yeah, that was sad series, but I think we got something to learn from them.
How are you feeling about going against Yehub in the mid lane?
I think we should be fine to beat them.
I know you tend to like beat yourself up a lot, but I feel like, especially during the LCS lower bracket,
and including coming into this tournament, you have performed incredibly well in a lot of like
community of like support of that. A, have you felt that and B, what do you attribute to that to?
Like do you feel like it's a change in mindset?
Oh, I think it's quite important to me that I don't think it's an important matchup or
important match or I need to fucking uh...
No, they're good.
I need to perform well on stage.
I think if I have the mindset, I feel more nervous
and I feel more pressure from them.
Yeah.
So I think I just need to have the mindset.
I just I'm just going to enjoy playing the game.
And we're just just going to follow.
Yeah, it's a great mindset to have.
You've made a lot of your career in North America
is yet again another NA versus EU matchup.
Is that special for you that you're playing against Europe?
potentially knocking them out or they could knock you out?
Oh, when I first joined HHS, I was looking for playing against EU, but I think this is
the actually first time I play against EU in international match.
Yeah!
So, I'm pretty excited.
I love that.
What's the message to the KC guys?
What's your message?
Be careful.
You're not the best.
Again, everyone, one more time.
Quid successful today, looking to be successful tomorrow.
Thanks for watching.
Also, it's Kobe's birthday.
Can we wish him happy birthday?
Yeah, wish him a happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
Alright everyone, it has been a heck of a day too, but the eliminations will continue
on tomorrow.
It is that elimination match.
Team Liquid Alienware vs. Karmin Corp.
NA vs. EU will have that for you tomorrow.
On behalf of everyone here at MSI, thank you so much for watching.
We'll see you for more action.
Bye-bye.
And Yank actually is going to get dashed on by Paze, the Crescent God comes in as they
look to try and use Ana to peel and down he will go to the GA.
Yeah, who is just dead in an instant, you were mentioning the DPS on their calling and
my god T1 are just going to mow them down, the gnar to fall from the grave.
That one was a little bit too late for Kanna, speaking of too late, it's too late for KC
in this series, I think this one's over.
It's absolutely over a five for zero clean eggs, 27 minutes in.
T1 make no mistake about it.
Keep fighting, keep fighting, keep fighting.
Send it, send it, send it, it's after two more minutes.
Anywhere is fine.
Go up the fast grid, go up the bottom, bottom, bottom.
High wards in, go up the bottom.
TL, a clean sweep over GCG.
A nice shift of momentum after their series yesterday
as they gear up to face KC tomorrow.