We know all the women, I was kinda dissimilar
We gon' speak to the minds, they gon' take you all for a ride
Get high, get wild, get wild
Shut up and drive, get rid of shit
And drive ones running, bust a fuck, designers on the nudie farm
Looking just for the night, can't be something to mainly leave at all
Be high, be high
Just listen to the demon lies
Yeah, it cuts through
They're doing the highway now
Yeah, this is our life
Friday and Louis, big love
West Side, Saturday
To have my license
We're quite L.A.S.
So I see him back in July
They don't care the sounds
I don't go back, no free ride
La la la, boy, I'll put this
With the metal, put the old lies blur
I'll put it through time and it doesn't matter where we go
No matter where we go
I'm excited for your one and one
It's well done
Let's go to the top
Let's go
Let's move our hands together
Let's go to the top
What a guy
What an honest guy
What a guy
We're the same
I'm a guy, what a night
I'm a guy, what a-
I'm a guy, what a night
We'll remember
No one can know
I'm a guy, what a night
Where'd that big five been soundin'
I
I can't imagine what kind of feeling you have
Because you know it, you can't control yourself
You won't lose, you don't need to know
I can do whatever, everything I want, all day
I don't need to try, this is all DNA
You want it, catch me, I'm your melody
Even if I try, I can't do anything
Look at me, I'm not even able to see you
I don't know what you're talking about
I don't know
I'm not being honest
Why did I focus on me?
If I like that
I'm not getting
Oh, you can't be like me
I'm not drunk
I'm not drunk yet
I'm still looking at you
I can't tell you what I'm doing
I guess I'm in front of you
You're always so sweet
Yes I like that
I'm the kind of girl you can not like me
I'm so marching
You're still standing still
I can't even look at you
I'm a villain in my mind
You're the one I want
I know my power
I can't help it, it's the top of the world
Get down, get down, get down
Okay, if you're the talk of the town, I want to talk to you
You look in fear of so we come back to my DNA
No one can take me, my hands are my feet
Even if I try, I won't be able to reach the end
Look at me, I can't reach you
I don't know, I don't know
I'm a, I'm a big, I'm a T.I.
I'm telling you, don't you find me
If I like it, I'm gonna get it
No, you can't be like me
It's still a long way to go
I'm still standing here
Sometimes I run, sometimes I don't
I'm standing in front of you
Now, only you
You know that I'm not dreaming
I'm crazy
I'm in front of you
I'm different from you
I give up, you don't know
I'm here
I'm feeling it in my mind
I'm not gonna let you know
You know my power
I can't stop now
I'm at the top of the world
Follow me, follow me, follow me
I can't do anything
I don't want to let you know
I'm not gonna let you know
If you like it, only get it
Oh, you can't like me
I don't know what you're doing
I'm still standing on the street
Even if you look at me, I can't follow you
I want it, my better world
I want it, I want it
It's okay, don't bother following me
I like it, I can't stop myself from talking
I'm just dreaming, I'm just dreaming
You don't want it, I'm just trying
You don't want it, I ain't
You've been feeling the morning
When I was down in the night
You know I was the one
I was kind of staring around
I'm gonna speak to the mind
Then I'll take you all for a ride
Yeah, I go out, go out
Shut up and drive
And we just shut up and drive
I'm just gonna buff the fuck
You're dying, it's all my moody about
You can jump all the night
Can you stunt and then maybe leave it all behind?
Yeah
I'm special for your wonders
You know
I don't know what you're talking about
I'm gonna tell you
I'm gonna tell you again
One light, one light
Who didn't make my mark?
No one gave up
One light, one light
Can't you see the beam in light?
Yeah, it cuts through
Just be on the highway now
Yeah, this is our night
I can't believe it all
What's that?
Sorry, please, don't do it
Life stands, we're quiet
Everything's extra
I see it in the back in July
The country sounds I don't go back
Don't go back, don't rewind
La la la, warm your pants
Get the metal to the ear, don't lie, it's blur
I feed you through your time, and it doesn't matter where we go
It doesn't matter where we go
I don't sense you, but you want to swallow it down
Don't touch me, that's how I'm gonna die
I'm gonna get it from you, that's how I'm gonna take it off
I'm gonna get it from you, that's how I'm gonna die
I don't wanna let it get to you, city
I'm gonna go cry, I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry
I
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Welcome everyone to day three of the 2026 mid-season invitational playing stage here
in beautiful Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea.
It's a good day to be a North American and European fan.
A bad day because we both lost embarrassingly to T1, but that's kind of par for the course.
A good day because tonight we get to settle a score as old as time as itself.
Europe versus North America.
Who better to do it than a European like Ox and a North American like Azale?
This man is a top eSports fan. He does not claim Europe.
He is a little bit of an imposter, but we need an impartial middle party and you think it would be me because I'm American
I cast in Europe, but no that's why we're part of the top eSports fan. He understands our disappointment our heartbreak. Yes
The one man truly qualified to understand disappointment at this scale ox
Generational top eSports fans, but of course it's been a lot of tournament happening thus far and it hasn't been great for everybody
KC and Team Liquid Alienware fighting in the lower bracket. We did say goodbye to DCG yesterday
The important thing is really to focus on yesterday's matches. The important ones were TL
Dominated and KC were completely devastated by opponents of equal strength
You know, I might be being a little bit greedy here, but when we have this big
Bestified tournament, I'm like at least like a game for game five great, but I'll take a game for it's just be all three
Oh's
So we're saving the best for second last today.
Yes, we are.
I hope so.
We are.
And I have a game for us to play to keep things fun,
keep things jovial.
You two, since I have you cast the LC,
yes, I can't really count on you to know the answer.
So you're going to have to work together.
You're going to have to choose one team.
Every question will be answered by either TL or KC.
OK, simple.
We'll see if you guys can keep up.
All right, let's go.
Question number one.
Bring it up here for these two knuckleheads.
Which team's mid laner?
How's this year as their most played champion all time?
I'm gonna say Yehuu. I'm gonna say it has to be Yehuu Kasey. It seems like one tricky place in forever
It must be him. It has to be him.
Wait, you guys both just said opposite things. You have to decide.
No, sorry Kasey, yeah.
Kasey, Yehuu?
No, you can decide.
Yehuu, Yehuu.
Oh, Kasey, Kasey, Kasey.
Kasey? Wrong!
It's Team Liquid.
I said Team Liquid and you made me check it!
Absolutely incorrect.
I thought you needed to be strong, Nox. If you want me to trust you,
Zero percent
Question number two moving on a chance to redeem yourselves which seems to support famously be you in a best of five at MSI
I'm starting to wonder if the answer is there's an answer either
Wrong it's both of course. It's both but to be fair what this one
This one's pretty easy to do and I you know what I'm gonna take the alpha
That's my bad. Who hasn't done that both core and boost you have been invested by my bad my bad
I messed up on this question. I apologize. Is this moving on moving on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
It's my fault. It's my fault. That was just it's like my mind through a Canadian story. Yeah, we heard it
Okay, next question which jungler has a hundred percent win rate on Lee sin this split
Yeah
Correct.
I don't know.
Yike has a lot of room in his game.
Are we zero pressure?
Are we zero?
That one's on me.
I have to take credit for that one.
Wrong.
OK, in my defense, I wasn't here for the entire season.
Moving on.
Question number four.
This one, very easy, extremely obvious.
Surely you could get it.
Which team has a Korean top laner who's
having a great tournament?
Both.
He's going to trick us.
He's going to say the opposite of whatever we said.
I'm going with both.
It's both.
I have to go one or the other.
It's both.
It's definitely one or the other.
I pick Kana.
Here's everybody's side.
Who do you like more?
Which Korean player do you like more?
Pick a team!
I'm going to go with Lord Morgan.
Wrong!
Of course it's Kana.
Didn't you see his top cap?
Yes, thank you.
Completely wrong.
It was Karmine.
Of course.
These questions are so easy.
How could you not understand such an obvious and clearly categorized question?
I think that there would have gotten something right by this point.
Last chance here, guys.
Surely you can scrape up one.
Which team has the regional star, AD Carry, who's struggling in MS?
I
So neither or question guys come on
It's up. It's both. Okay ox. We have to stand strong. Maybe we look like stupid
That's what we go. Maybe we look like stupid, but we go out stupid together. Okay. It's obviously both. Yes
It's obvious. I throw a question
Obviously both this is pretty good guys well-defined within the rules. Okay, who's worse?
This isn't a great way to praise it as an EU pundit, but I think we have to be honest about the state of ad carries right now
who's worse this is actually a tough one this is like 90% of the question about this match
i think ox you're smarter than me i need you to answer this right i'm gonna
go first i think he's struggled more than i expected wrong of course
team liquid obvious do you want to thought it's it's a 50 50 questions guys surely you would
have got one right we owe for five yeah wow this is disappointing i'm impressed but that is the
This is a level of experience.
I've never felt performance we've come to expect from Europe at this tournament.
If you give me one more and I get it wrong, I could feel like TSM. That'd be sick.
That's a good one.
You got me there, okay?
Okay, well, look, thank you Isaac for that wonderful and maybe slightly rigged game.
Wasn't as fun as I thought it would be.
This game was completely fair above board.
It seems like Isaac had a good time, which I'm starting to suspect Mike had been Isaac's call the entire time.
None of these questions could have applied to both teams.
I don't know what you're talking about.
He had a good time. Me and you didn't.
Two days of the desk, I think majority rules.
That's probably a fair way to do the math.
But let's do a little bit more math on maybe the all time head to head.
Let's talk a little bit about the history between these two teams at MSI.
It's like worlds we could talk about it, but we don't need to.
Let's look at that regional rivalry at MSI, Isaac.
18 to 12.
That's a pretty big difference.
What do you got to say about that?
It's like K-Paintings, you know?
This is ancient history. Who cares?
Ah, yes.
Look, all I'm saying is I can't even count that.
I'm sorry. Do you still not use fire and the wheel? I think gay pinnings might be important sometimes Isaac. See the one world champs. What is this?
What this 2019 this seems rude. That's not even a real year. It's too far ago. I
Can't remember that far back so it's a real COVID Daniel. Isaac, I have a feeling you're embarrassing yourself. Oh, well
Let's let's look at some more recent stats some stats that matter some hard-hitting stats
2024 2025. Okay. Let's talk about the last couple years 2023 zero games lost to Europe
2024 3 1 over fanatic 2025 3 0 over g2. He's gonna go to point
Don't sell me out. Don't sell me out. Yes. Look, I don't just saying to those tournaments that side
Let's look at let's look at final placements. How about that?
We all know it was completely and totally not fraudulent the case. He made the finals the first thing
You know it was a hundred percent real authentic and didn't rely on top eSports choking. I'm sorry ox
But it's how you gets all their wins. What about G2 also beating top eSports also counts
I don't know if these head-to-head records matter very much everything about top eSports
It just happens to be the case that that's how we get all over good place. Can't talk about his own teams
Let's talk about someone who can talk about his own team some of spawn who's never lost to Europe not once
never the coach of Team Liquid.
But he has lost to people like Buseo.
You know, he has lost to all these players before.
He hasn't even really had a chance, I think, to honest.
Okay, those numbers are- Who cares about this?
This is when shout-out production- I didn't even ask for it.
This is when Reaper was in NA.
So for those of you who can't read,
crazy that that's the case, but respectable,
if you look at those numbers on the bottom,
those tell a pretty clear story.
I didn't expect I'd ever be here to slam Dunk Reapered,
saying like, hell yeah, that's my boy.
But hell yeah, that's my boy, Reapered.
Absolutely, the coaches spawn. No, no, they do. You already brought him up. We know who the coaches these things are. We don't go back. Sometimes I forget myself. Do you, Aux? No.
Exactly. We can't go backwards. What do you feel about these numbers? Look at that. Look at that. We're not only a Korean coach and you're like...
You know what? Let's get some real analysis, guys. Let's talk about Jose Diodo, because Jose Diodo has been playing incredible at this tournament. He was already great in N.A.
But here, internationally, he is shining against even the likes of T1, Aux.
Yeah, I mean the poppy game was really good. It was a great draft for them. They're playing into Kalista and it was a fantastic early start
It didn't develop flawlessly though. There was a couple of moments with smites later on
But for the most part the early plan I think from him
So you can't hold those smites against him
Okay, owner got to train his smikey against Gumi-yushi buddy. Yeah, that is tough
Yeah, and I gotta say look personal emotional investment in this it is very important to me aside
Jose Diado has been looking good, and I feel like it is really all about jungle in this matchup and that part of the map
We already talked about once not so positively, but we'll get there eventually instead
I just want to highlight
In general how important both of these junglers have been to their respective teams Jose Diado certainly looking fantastic
But let's look at yikes numbers some of them
Will be a little bit worse, but the important one I want to highlight is K plus a at 14
This man getting things done on the map now ultimately did the game go awry?
Yes, but it also did for TL. No one's getting one over on T1 and yike building those massive individual leads gives me a lot of faith
Yeah, he had a lot of momentum and like I feel like both of these junglers when they're doing well the team follows and feeds up
That success and when they've struggled in this tournament
It has been a bit tougher when owners have been having fantastic games
But the early plans I think have given a lot of headway to them
I feel like both these guys are kind of the engines for the team and when they're ahead they love to invade
They love to snowball the game
and they're pushing it for it.
And I do think Yike deserves so much credit.
Actually, 4KC's success so far this year.
He's a player who has gotten a lot of hate,
I think, internationally.
But I think he is innocent.
There will be times where I, as I can see, eye to eye.
Yeah.
I think the other time we see eye to eye is bottom lane.
We want some more.
The 80K reroll.
We would like to see more.
I think both of us, maybe a little
underwhelmed by our respective representatives,
performance as far as are the fans,
I think it's safe to say.
Because both these guys have been playing well under,
what their team needs if they want to upset a team like T1
or take a confident win against their opposition today.
And I mean, the tough part is not that these are bad players.
The tough part is that we have seen so much better
from both of the players.
And you come to expect much more.
And they are really not having the kind of results
that you would want.
I mean, only one team gets out of play
and T1 is looking like the massive favorite swept
in both.
You need more from either of these 80 carries
if they're staying at chance, if they can get past
their opponent today.
And T1's been so box-centric, and Pays and Carrier
have been so good.
It's really hard, especially in the lane phase
when they're just taking over the game on the back of that.
But I feel like something that has been worrying
is when we get to the later stages of the game,
some pivotal mistakes when it comes to team fights,
positioning errors, getting caught out,
those are more concerned about
because obviously Falling behind against Paze Carrier,
it's kind of expected for a lot of teams,
but when it comes to later stages,
Has been tough.
Wusio though, when we look at him on this Camille in particular,
they let Carrier have Bard,
and yet he was running the pace of the game in the mid-game.
And I think that's the good news
for both perspective bottom lanes
that their supports really have been pulling their weight.
And a big question today is, are we
going to see some isolated AD carries on the bot side?
So these supports are free to roam,
because for both Buccio and Core,
they've been super active on the map
and really starting a lot of these plays almost in isolation.
And I mean, they're both players that are really known for roaming.
They love to have kind of interesting timings,
play well with their junglers.
So I do think jungle support is ridiculously important.
And while they're both good in-channer players,
I do think they both really excel when they are engage champions,
when they are those teams.
And we're still early in the tournament.
We did see the changes that kind of buffed up the melee supports, nerfed down the Enchanters a bit.
We've seen more of them, but I feel like teams are still figuring out the meta.
How much do you want to invest into the bot lane 2v2? How much are you investing into the rest of the map?
So, I think it does give more freedom for these engaged specialists to just take over the map
and not be as centered on playing like us Seraphine every game.
We'll have to see if that's what the teams want to go to.
I certainly hope so. It sounds like Isaac does as well, maybe you too, Ox.
But let's check in on the fans at home. Let's see how they're feeling today about this series with our MasterCard fan predictions.
This time around I want to see what do we got here?
We got handsome players, and we got a very casey-favored boat as you would expect honestly
I think tell do maybe better than I expected casey even beat T1 in the foundation which almost never happens
So you know what shout out to all the NA fans staying up late watching the games voting for the predictions
Well, I think you already know what we're gonna say right it's super true
I think we need something different from you because sometimes on this desk
It's it's a little balanced this time we need to convince Switzerland
We need to convince Switzerland we need you to get active on this one
Check us would you like to open the arguments?
Yeah, and I'm really sad the fans can get their mastercard fan predictions and before I showed this hard-hitting analysis
Let's take a look because when we talk about history we often forget that it's more than just League of Legends
It has an effect on the game. You know what we forget about. Yeah, that's right folks the moon consider it
E.U.
So jump ahead during a full moon.
Yes.
11-8.
Easy.
Your best moon phase, first quarter.
Our best moon phase, last quarter.
But when it comes to the full moon, we are absolutely dominant.
Yahoo!
Is a werewolf, canonically, in the fanfiction I wrote.
Yike!
Born on a full moon.
I think enough said.
There it goes.
You're embarrassing yourself.
This is ridiculous.
Let's bring up a real argument here.
We need some serious analysis on the desk around this out.
So what I have done is I've gone through every tier 1 player and I've ranked their win rate
based on their Zodiac star signs.
Then we assigned the star sign to the corresponding birth date of each of the players.
Now we have clearly ranked the teams based on where they rank based on their Zodiac sign.
So T-Law clearly going to be winning today with a 4.6 average here in the Zodiac sign.
KC has a paltry six and they're only being improved by Buccio.
Oh Isaac, oh Isaac, of course.
You wanted to go to the stars?
I took the moon, we have to go to the cards.
You know what I did last night in beautiful day, John?
I went and got a tarot read.
Ridiculous.
The lady who did it, incredible.
You know what card she drew for me when I got one card?
I need one card to show me what the win will be,
what the result will be.
Boom, the tower, destruction of people.
You know what that means for spawn
and his precious win rate?
I'm not 100% sure she said the answer in Korean, but I'm pretty sure it's a very good sign, Isaac.
This is ridiculous.
Aux, what are you, never wrong?
Aux, who's gonna win?
Aux, I need the answer!
You have to touch the card!
I'm winning!
Aux, please!
You need your European, you get the answer on!
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to MSI 2026, where we have the
The tough task of bringing things back to serious reality after whatever the hell I just witnessed on the analyst desk.
The first thing I want to say is sorry, Ox, we'll get you a security team and things will be okay in the future.
I am Max, this is Rob, that is Sam. We're very excited we are through ladder names.
And we are getting ready to get into this best of five. Probably the best that we've seen.
Is this, like, am I predicting too heavily towards positivity?
Because I do feel like this has got to be the best 5 I've had so far.
I swear to God, if this is another 3-0...
For KC, I'll be happy with that. I'm not sure if KC got it.
Yeah, I'm fine.
I mean, the names back there, kind of...
Yeah.
The Irish Guard.
Oh, yeah, there you go. You've got the letters in there.
I'm sure. No, you don't.
I'm not quite.
All right, should I do math or letters on the stream?
I am very, very excited for this series,
mainly because there are five Korean players.
So there's something for me here too, even if it is EU versus and a
Rippert versus spawn though. This is one that goes back quite some distance as well
There is a lot to be spoken about. I love that spooks is coaching his former opponent in jose dioto
There are so many things so many connections all over the rift here today
And I just can't wait to see who's going to win. Yeah, we've got you comfortable with koreans up there and australians up there
I couldn't be more comfortable.
I feel right at home.
I just might heart rate this up there for the series, to be honest.
Because I think this is going to be an absolute fangirl.
I think this is incredibly close.
And I mean, we even got to catch up with Spawn last night,
and he was very confident about this one.
But I know seeing the KC lads as well,
they feel like they got this in the bag.
And it's when they both feel like they've got it in the bag
that you get the spiciest League of Legends.
And I love that often times at the very beginning of a tournament
when we get the first taste of the versus NA,
It's in like a best of one or a best of three a lot of the time, but the format is so generous as we get a best of five
So there are people that are like, oh well, you know, it was a 2-0. We didn't get into our groove. Whatever
I mean, it's gonna be at least three games
We're gonna have a lot of tape to work out who the best is going to be and
definitively today we will know the best region out of North America and Europe today
forever
Yeah, okay, but this entire 24-hour period
Yeah, that's right there. Yeah, right. All right
Let's get it on later on in the day here in Korea. So you guys would not get too much
I'm right. I was getting into the high-press trap
I was curious about that because all the NA fans went to sleep. It's so late
Let's get into the graph though. Good point
And we do already have some target bands, you know Casey of course Akali is quits best champion
And trying to take out some of those AP solo laners that they have use effectively
And also sets up for potential Orianna here, honestly, if you're a team liquid, right leg.
I think she's incredibly strong in the patch, especially Cassiopeia and Nivia.
Maybe it's a setup for the Ryze here for team liquid, but I think the Orianna very strong in this position as well.
I think Orianna matches up decently well into the Ryze as well.
Historically has been able to outrange and farm pretty comfortably, so we'll see whether that is going to be the decision.
I think picking it away from Yeh was just enough, and that's exactly what they're going to do.
Yeah, another thing too is that they did not target band Jose's
nefiri, which a lot of teams have been doing since lion showcases
Fadji versus team liquid and Jose is very good with nefiri and that
pairs with the Orianna shock wave quite well as does the nocturne.
So definitely both pairings are still available by Casey locking into
that Camille support again for Boussio.
And this was more of an Eastern thing, wasn't it?
And so Boussio has been putting that one through its paces now that he's got here.
Yeah, I mean Kobe, you may not know him, but he's an open coming Polish player and he's been doing a lot of fantastic
in the past when he was on these kind of Rome champions, so
and I was really impressed with him on the Kameleon against T1 as well. I think he had this incredible performance
so I'm excited to see the impact that he can have, but I have to say I want to try and be a pair with Ferklist
as you've got the Orianna, not turning the opposite.
I just think this, it's so strong as a support. If you are a mechanically gifted support, which Buccio is,
Here's one of these players that, you know, changed from Rolls-Royce from mid lane down to support
and has been one of his biggest strengths was his mechanics and outplaying a lot of other supports.
So if you have Camille and you can move around the map then, you know, affect those side lanes
and especially the mid lane as well, where they champion like Orianna, that is low mobility then.
Vuccio definitely will have a big impact and Core has responded with the team fight here with the rail.
And I was wondering whether they were going to just go full nocturne composition
and picked the Niko. But I think Niko into the Camille can be a little bit of a difficult matchup.
Core has been great on the rail and this is just more, we can dive you at any stage. We can put a ball
on basically anyone and have a good time. We've had the Orianna-Nocturne combination banned the
entire season in the LCK. We have never seen it. It just hasn't happened this season. I'm pretty sure.
It's also because the Nocturne is so oppressive in those levels, 1-3, like looking for early
invades as well is so strong and against the Wukong I think that could be
something you could try and look towards but I think we're gonna get a lot of the
Tiger Bans where's the AD Cairo with Team Liquid coming in because Camille kind of
wants something that can have decent wave clear and be left on their loan. If you
can try and remove some of those picks I think you set up nicely then for Team
Liquid to try and respond for and Camille Roam with that potential dive on the
bottom lane. Yeah the Ziggs and the Mel have definitely been premier combos with
it so we'll see. They're actually banding way to Ezreal. They're simply one of those
safe champions that could be left alone.
Not so much indexing into the majors just quite yet,
but definitely looking at the top side here
because both Kana and Morgan were very, very good,
even against T1, against Doran,
and has been the best performing players on their teams
in those losing games that they had anyway.
Definitely worth saying, Morgan's reneced in,
you know, his most played and his best champion, iconic,
so that's a worthy target fan right there.
I'm hoping it was Kana, you know,
he's just sitting by there,
I remember what to do against Morgan. We banned the crocodile and that is definitely a good idea
He was also the one that debuted Yorick in the top lane as well in the LCK
So it might be something that they could look at in theory wouldn't mind a little bit of side lane power or
TL at this point in time, but Jace gonna be taken away from Canada definitely one of these number things
Yeah, I wasn't sure if they were gonna try and go for the rumble on this rotation
Even though you kind of want the counter pick just because it's been such a strong pick for kind of actually band away
Thank you, Gobi, but I still think getting some of this like strong like the NAR in that top lane that can work in these team fights
It's gonna be the big focus here for that top side
It looks like they're gonna go towards the virus which can be a little bit vulnerable
This will be unreal because Calista is not playing any of the mages at all all split long
And it's not something I expect them to pick up but obviously coming into this patch
You need to have this in your wheel and it's a really dangerous time to pick six as well because ox is on the
He will be adjudicated for his level of play.
The period is so good with the Camille.
You have kill pressure in lane, you can also just clear waves, let the Camille have so much extra time roaming around.
If they could get the rise into a very good point on side lanes here, be able to move around then.
Maybe that will be the avenue to victory, the Tristana-Rel combo here from bot side.
So she actually got buffed coming into this patch as well with the mana going down on her Q
So making her a lot easier to just hop in and look for these aggressive trades
So definitely gonna be a little bit of a tough one such a charge might be need a bit more defensive in this match
A little bit of a yordle off and you know what team liquid have done
They've just got an extra yordle and that is going to work out the blind now towards the top side of the map can be a dangerous one
But we'll see what canner is going to bring to the matchup the vein is hovered
but that is obviously Grucio. The problem is, it's also a counterpick to the Nair.
There he go, and that's what I was going to say.
He's got it out in the past, and he is looked spectacular on it.
And he's loved in the LEC, being able to bring this out as a counterpick,
and has really run away with this matchup consistently.
And now they have an AD carry. True. That's got a nice...
I mean, this is so fun, this draft, because topside of Forstkaner with the counterpick
is going to want attention up there from Jungle,
but also bottomside, this Tristana-Rail combination from Team Liquid into the Camille lane.
Well, actually is very good at face-tinking the E from Camille and then can also shattering strike off the shield as well.
So maybe they even just try and turn it instantly and kill him.
Justana, especially if you can get early lead, you can get that early auto push and really try and put the extra pressure.
And she's also extraordinarily safe into Camille because you just press R when she presses R.
Buffer.
And then Fader.
Then when she gets the ultimate, you have your ultimate to knock her off.
Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, yeah. So you just like, she Hextechs ultimate him and you're like, that's not an ultimate him.
You go over there now and then we're done. So I really like that choice. Definitely going to like this reminds me of the old
Tristana Alice Delanes, you know if we're thinking back to league classic that has recently come into our
Forefront like that was an old kill lane and well Tristana kind of works in a similar way
We'll see whether they go for like the weird level 3s or anything like that
Yeah, I'm really curious to see how Khaleed tries to play this because I think you're boosy
Oh, I don't even want to be in the late
I want to like move towards made and look against that Orianna. I want to try and
Capitalize on the advantages that I'm in game for this vein in the top lane
So those that then lead to hey, we're gonna try and dive ziggs repeatedly or is it just a case of hey
Courage AJ is trying to match some of those ropes
I'll see how it goes as we are on to the rift for game number one of this best of five fighting for a chance to take on
T1 for a spot at the main stage is already
We have a little bit of aggression great hook shot to come out from busio here to get Morgan down to 50%
But he will be able to get out whilst retaining his flash
They've also got wards now in both of those bushes in the top lane so nowhere really safe for Morgan
Even if he does teleport back in here. So already a lot invested
Yeah, and busio is gonna keep investing his time. He's even going through the jungle at the moment
He's gonna pass over the ward so they're finally gonna get that vision, but Morgan is 50% HP on the top side
He decided he's not going to go back in and waste his summoner spell cooldown with the teleport
He's just going to chug his potion and try to stay here, but Kana can continue to punish and the trade-off right is that Kalista cannot farm
It is only one way that he's lost so far, but Morgan very very close to death and will now be going home
It's also support roll quest as well because we do live in the world with the quest
And so Buzio did spend a lot of time out of lane for the very beginning
But it has had a huge impact already on this top lane now. It's going to start slow pushing here
Towards him Morgan should be able to collect all right
Yeah, I'm curious what the answer is here for KC though like especially now that you have push in mid
We saw in game one against T1 you like one to try and go for some sort of evade
But but I'm having to support your bottom lane could be a little bit risky
So we'll have to see if they want to try and still capitalize on this push for Yahoo
because he's got full control here.
Having a look now, mid lane is under KC's control for the minute,
and CoreJJ can crash towards Boussio here.
Still level one, just trying to utilize that level advantage
that T-Law do have towards his bottom side.
And Jan just going to be shooting things.
The good thing about the Tristana in this matchup as well
is that you can somewhat match the wave clear of the Ziggs
with the explosive shot.
As you get that one leveled up, you will be able to just blow up
these minions over and over again.
over again. It's gonna feel a little bit better. So yeah, who went for the early reset there to
pick up his tier, which is great because he's opted into the ghost instead of going for that
teleport. So having him be able to reset and buy that timer is going to be super nice. And now
as he starts to look towards like a potential push out of mid, it's going to be that bot lane
scuttle that will be the action. All right, we got to get all the fans in on this. You know,
it's North America versus Europe here. Vote now in chat. Who's going to take it? You know, the timing
It's not that great for North American fans already making excuses already making excuses
I have a feeling you might win this yeah
I heard it's got the blue fence isn't it you know not the blue okay counter is in a lot of trouble here towards the top side
first point for the Lord Morgan as the gnar will take down the vain in the counter matchup
Okay now vote
Maybe you want to switch the votes. Oh Lord Morgan. Let's go. I don't know what happened up there.
Can it die? Yeah, thank you for that. Welcome. We'll get a replay here because he had the exhaust.
Just looks like he didn't respect Morgan being able to jump in on top of him. Oh, tumbled in.
Tumbled in. Huh? Kind of that was not his. And the exhaust was incredibly late as well. So the
boulder hit for full damage. Yeah, good push from Morgan on that one as bot lane. Here we go.
Yeah, crash down just to try and get Yeho out of here.
He does want to try and take on CoreJJ.
We'll get him down very, very low, but they keep themselves alive.
This is a great start.
The TL.
Yeah, really good start as they actually try and look for an invade
on towards his top side as well.
Both crabs were taken by Yike,
so they want to try and get something back from Jose Dioto here.
Well, Yike is now just going to be pushed away,
Quid with the right to roam, given the fact that the rise was moving down.
Nice little distortion for a bit of extra damage towards this monkey.
And it will be a successful steal away and so I do really feel like games that are a bit chaotic within the lanes
Really help knock-turn compositions who just want to get around and get stuff done and
Teal one how did this happen? I think Morgan is
All the people are in work
It really it really does help out so much for NAR to have that recovery from the you know start that Buzio
actually affecting that lane so heavily, I mean, Kana, you know, helped him with the tumble in there.
But such a such a better spot now for Morgan looking at the side lanes later on.
And it just shows that it is a difficult matchup to play out, even if it is considered one that's very very difficult.
I think that you still need to play it incredibly well to make the vein work.
And it has been Kana traditionally playing this matchup very well. Like he wouldn't tumble in.
He's been very good at like positioning around where the narrow can try and find those advantages.
but a massive misstep is making things significantly easier for Morgan as Kobe was saying in this matchup.
And Alivia, it's a lot of pressure now for, hey, how do you try and play her on the map as Buccio,
because you're not actually getting that full control in the top set anymore.
And like we said, Morgan and Kana both had very good starts to the tournament,
but here is that all-time matchup between the two from the LCK.
And let's take a look at the bottom side actually really quickly.
Yeah, Boosio and Jaik making their way in here as Kojaj trying to dodge out of the way here as the crashdown doesn't quite work
Does need to flash to get himself out of the way
But that aftershock putting in work here to make sure he stays alive
Good flash from Kojaj just about able to step away
Still you're getting river control here for KC. I think it's just for Skodokrab. I don't think you really want to start off this dragon quite yes
Level 6 available potentially as Jaik does look for it. So the classic battle for the crab coming on through is Yehu
was considering it back but does cancel it here as Jose does move his way over
Quit moving into the darkness does have his orb in order to see what's going on
But it looks like they will forego that
Yannick is going to be able to pick up the crab and move back to collect that level six now off his next camp
It's kind of going in one more time Morgan still respecting but steel caps are so powerful in this matchup
Yeah, certainly are and you know KC even though they're able to get the level six
They don't want to go for the dragon because they want to protect all their top camps here
They have three top camps, so they don't want to leave it open for a topside play there for team liquid
So both Buccio rums up through mid and yike crosses back over to protect his camps
And make sure he's gonna get his level six with those three times taken though
It looks like KC might try and set up for some sort of plan the topside Buccio already roaming
You do have blue buff spawning for Jose Dio to those who should be on top end and look at this full swap here
They're actually sending Tristana up to the topside to four team liquid
So they're doing the lane swap.
Meanwhile, Zig's left in the bottom lane there.
Does not have teleport.
All right, they're going to replace the Yordles,
moving Morgan down towards that bottom side as we can see.
As now you've got the Cyclone coming on through Core JJ.
Will be able to crash over the wall,
but Bustio gets in there and takes down Varel.
Wrong place, wrong time for the TL support.
Casey make the play happen before Team Liquid
can really mount the defense, catching Core JJ
as he's trying to get the vision.
And it's a quick punch back into the face.
They thought they had so much safety
because everybody was up around.
They were Morgan recalling in the brush and Nocturne ultimate ready, but Core just gets bursted so quickly
They don't want to play into the losing skirmish already
So KC get one back and we're right back to even it is entirely square between the two teams at the moment
Exactly what we wanted for this game number one
U versus NA TL desperately trying to get to that rematch with T1 with solo KC
What I say technically NA has two kills because Buccio is the one who got the kill
In the same way it's all good now
All right Morgan could be in a little bit of trouble does hit mega at exactly the right time though for the defense grabbing that extra health
Is the dragon is going to be begun here by KC?
Teal with their control of the waves have been able to get to a slight gold advantage and Jose is on these grubs
able to take them down as well and Jan's on Tristana, right? Like you can really demolish these
turrets very, very quickly. Same to be said for Ziggs, but I think the siege and capabilities of
both of these comps is pretty scary. Yeah, I mean, Kalisto just going to declare the wave and I do
like the way Jose Diablo is kind of changing up his jungle path here. I think if you're separated
from Yike, it opens up for Bootsy and Yike to go for plays on side lanes that can make him
could read uncomfortable team liquid.
So by leaving his progs available on the bottom side,
he's now going to be able to kind of match this clear
dent towards the bottom half of the map
and kind of keep pace with Wukong,
which makes it a little bit easier to kind of control
what KC can do in these early stages.
Yeah, incredibly dangerous when they have extra time
to roam around.
Look at the deep vision from KC through the red quadrant
of TL's jungle as well,
so they can look to try and set up these plays,
try and set up some more roams in between.
Yeah, of course, the homework done for Dragon was definitely very thorough.
Absolutely.
But Morgan just going to clear out the wave.
We did have waves equalizing towards the top side as well.
But with 81 to 81, as far as CS is concerned between these top laners,
that Killgold retained here for Morgan
does feel like the Nara is in a much better position than I was expecting
in this matchup against the Vayne that does really like to catapult themselves
into a good position in the earlier stages, rather than utilize late game.
That being said, I feel like how this composition works later on in the game
is a little bit different to a traditional Bane in the top lane
with another 80 carry there towards the bottom side.
Yeah, trying to have so much pressure on all three lanes.
You just show one person each lane and then have two junglers basically
with Buccio also always hovering around.
It looks like they decided top lane, where Jan is going to be the target.
Now, Jyke does have his ult back.
Yeah, only level 5 for Buseo as there's a rocket jump in, flashes away immediately,
and the Hextech sweep does come on down. Yon does have Buster Shot, gets rid of the vein,
and there's the barrier, but it's not going to be enough. Yank able to lock down that...
But in the behind the wall!
...little bit late. The paranoia comes in though as Morgan gets in.
The Meganar is a little late as he's looking for more.
Buseo was the guaranteed kill, but he does not actually go for it.
Went for the big one, and that's going to let them all live apart from Buseo,
who will be caught by the very edge of the shockwave.
That could have gone so much worse for KC though as the Avengers assembled
They just about much to scurry away from that. It'll only be Buccio who has to give his life
And in the end they've got a zigzag just pushing bottom lane there, Kalist
There's two turret plates off of that bottom side turret now
Jose is continuing through the top side jungle invade though. Yeah looking for Yaike
We'll be out of pushing away from this inner turret by some more space for Morgan as well to possibly get another plate
But Buccio back out onto the map
Cora is gonna show up here as well still level 5 for both of our supports
Call JJ very very close to getting that Magnet storm available if they can find a fight with
Support ultimate advantage that could be a big deal
There's nothing really coming up and available within that time which is going to be quite a slight window as Cora JJ will be out of hit that
ultimate now
The eggs turn to get into a good spot though just completed the triforce. You can see here is KC
They end up going for the dive
It's a nice job by yon to flash away from the hit from Buzio
But it's kind of just getting range to get that condemn into the wall then sets up for the follow-up play
But with an RTP in behind I thought this was gonna be it
But we're kind of getting the flash over the wall you I've been able to get over as well
There's no one on team liquid that they can really find so Casey
It's only Buzio gets caught on the lip of this ultimate from quick
Yeah, right on the edge and then Morgan was so close to being in like flash now range after he got over that wall
doesn't go for it but does hold onto the flash and we are missing a couple of flashes over the side of KC
So maybe some good news for TL. We'll just have to see how it all does shake out as quick trying to get some vision back
Here putting some wards into this brush, but full information is there as you're gonna pick up a solo kill in the bottom lane
This is the first time we kill it. Oh, hang on. It's quick and after a run away here
Does have his ultimate back up and available once again, but yeah, let's go back to what just happened
Cause that's Kalis first time ever playing Zeke's in a competitive game and he's just so low on Yon
Like where the hell has this been hiding? Yeah, we need a replay of that because you know
Yeah, Yon didn't have a summer suppose from the topside play but Kalis didn't flash or anything
So take a look at it. He's hitting some bombs I assume yeah, because it's not like you don't have a leap away is
Tristana so that was the initial poke to be saw a lot of damage honestly off of that first
No joke. He just doesn't miss. He just hit every bomb. That's the answer. Wow. Huh. Well, that'll do it. Little bit of disrespect there. Adion. And they will be able to pick up that solo kill towards the bottom side.
Morgan with that mega now now up and available busier is going to be supporting kind of here
And that will mean that this now won't be able to get any more plate money towards that topside first tarot blood going over to
KC though as that one was eradicated from the bottom lane
Ziggs doing exactly what it says on the tin
But especially when Callista faced so much kind of backlash over his initial tournament showings
This is a fantastic performance 1.6k gold lead on it when he's never played majors before now looking to rotate around the map and continue
to grow that leads. This is exactly what Europe wanted to see from this young AD carry.
Yep, this is textbook zig-play as well. Just move them to another lane with a turret.
Yeah, and that's perfect for the comp that they have, since they want to play the map
so spread here with all these different pressure points, and they're going to overload, delete
this tower with another satchel charge, and continue the snowball.
Beautifully done. So immediately moving up to two turrets taken, mid lane outer is ready
to fall as well as we can see although not as ready to fall as I may have otherwise expected
and I see I'm getting a little bit more ground there in mid as we have a look at the coinbase
gold grind yeah Kalista doing a phenomenal job up against Yon here and they do need their Tristana
to start getting strong for that late game consistent damage and it's so scary too because
Buccio also had a pretty good start so we're going to see the combo the Camille ult and the
zig ult and all this guaranteed damage if Kalista is fed then that damage is just going to be lethal
You're just gonna get one combo'd. I do think the shining light here for TL though
Is that Casey stayed very late on the map?
So with rift how about to spawn in 20 seconds Casey are now only looking for those resets so TL
Knowing that I starting to step forward get some deep vision make sure they can set up for the objective first
Yeah, and they also have level 11 on quit as well
So ranked two in that shockwave and we haven't really seen the Nocturne Orianna combo
Employed just yet. So in a straight up 5v5 things could be difficult for Casey
They have a lot of smoke and mirrors in their composition, and I think if TL managed to sink that bangs in it could be a tough one to play out
Yeah, I'm definitely looking at Morgan. See if he can get over there
Once the charge up his Narbar a little bit on the way as well
He does have his flash every pretty much everybody except for quid. Yep as the safety of their flash for this fight
Jose is just going to be using that spell she over the cyclone comes down immediately
There's a hexa-cultimatum, but maybe Bousy has gone too far. His core JJ will help lock him down
That is Morgan giving it away as Jose goes in.
It's a big knock from Morgan as well.
Kalis getting taken down so low over the Dustbringer.
It's not enough.
Morgan's dead.
Yeah, it was a full health.
And now it's KC's turn to start moving forward.
That's a great distance to try and slow down this rise.
And they do hold them at bay for now.
Oh, those flashes were critical.
You know, being able to draw Buccio that far under tower
and then core with the combo to keep him there,
started it out good for TL.
But then they also go under KC's tower, Dagger.
And it was also just a little early on that combo from KC, right?
At least if you waited a little bit for that Boosio Woltz actually land would have been able to get that ultimate first.
But with that flash, you can talk about getting away, Jose Dioto lives and...
Oh, it became a spicy play in the mid lane.
And it's what we were talking about, we were waiting to see the Nocturne Orianna combo, then it comes in!
And now we're sitting at 4-4, everything tied up once again.
Yeah, it was a buy one get 3-3 though, because usually when you do the Nocturne Orianna combo, it's you kill the carry.
Mind you to pick off all those members of KC and push them back was so crucial for that play. I think yeah
I think the nocturne or a combo got Morgan a little too hype. Yeah
Little bit overly into I got super hype to we're all like oh my goodness. I was not
I was hyped for the League of Legends, don't worry Dagger. I'll be with you. Hey, see fine
I know you're on it's okay
Yeah, yeah, just trying my very best to be completely unbiased with my favorite player of all time on one of the teams in this game
Okay, we do have the Rift Herald now getting taken down very very low as Jose trying to make Boussier scared
But Boussier not a very scared man as they will be able to take down the Rift Herald immediately thrown down
What's your about that one? I think they thought that he was in danger. So he was gonna give the exit car
Yeah, it's like Boussier got caught or something
Instead it's giving some gold over to Jose and that is about it is now gonna have a look at the replay of the previous fight
Yeah, I mean as we see this kickoff like the immediate jump on the Jose Giotto
But here I expected them to wait for Bruce Yosot to land before they throw this easel
And then as you call it Kobe flashing under the terror bunch by bit of space
But I think it's Morgan with this combo that ends up setting up really well
Yeah, so Jose gets a triple shockwave. We all got hyped and then Morgan does the bounce in and then flashes over
Oh
And so he just dies under tower doesn't get them and you know that everybody having flashes had the big difference
I did yeah, it was the Morgan old that looked a little wonky to me
I thought he'd hit a couple of members, but just couldn't connect
Yeah, no no kind of flash now no Calis flash now no yike flash now after that
Because of it and so the summoner spells being traded have to keep on you know these cooldowns here slightly more
You know effective now for TL you would think with y'all having the double summer spells both their main carries
Yeah, both Ari and the Tristana having summoners available for a drake that's morning in 30 seconds time
I think could be a big deal fighting for double dragon here on both sides
Yeah, I do think an early stop-off will kind of third item here for Clistin. Yeah
Who getting that secrets arm guard is gonna be really crucial
Just nullifying the amount of targets the teammate could have for this nocturn Orianna combo is gonna be fake and it kind of just leaves
Con out in the open, but look he's gonna have to take one for T
Right now, too. They're gonna have to answer the split post look at KC. They've got both sides pushing in here with the vain rise
And so TL gonna send Morgan up here drop the cannon. Yeah one answer is at least that
We're going to be taking down that crystalline overgrowth just yet as Morgan does set himself up to take out at least that way
We do have anyway pretty close to TL's front door as well on that bottom side of the map
It's Kasey going to utilize this pressure in the sidelines to try and take down this dragon has been started up already
Not a lot of vision available for TL Morgan also doesn't have TP. He used it to get to the riff trail plays
So Kasey realizing that was Morgan went topside are going to be the ones to take it
Now it would be Khan in trouble.
Yeah.
Paranoia going to come in immediately.
And now Jose should be able to make this a very scared vain.
And Morgan just going to pick that one up with a cheeky auto attack after Jose did all the work.
Yeah, nice move here from Teal.
They make that call pretty early.
Hey, we're not going to be able to get this dragon.
So just keep on pushing top side.
And we'll look, you know, if Khan is still there, then we'll pop the ultimate.
And they do.
They get side of him so that Jose is able to connect with the Nocturne ultimates and grab that one.
that one even though they did have that top lane summoner spell advantage and
gentlemen there was a there was like a 1.6k gold advantage for Calypso
where is it gone I'm genuinely curious I don't know where it went yeah I think
Ayana did have the calls so partly that's probably it and then you know
picking up some of the turrets as well but yeah it's just been team liquid
managing to play on side lanes well and picking off some of the members that
that have been striking him for KC.
And I think that's kind of where now,
with the Nocturne on board,
it does become a little bit more difficult
for KC to really get plays here.
They can't really push out mid.
They haven't been able to get as much control on side lanes
because of the Nocturne,
which is stopping them getting the mid lane turret
and kind of pushing those advantages forward.
Yeah, it feels like the key players right now
for each team is Jose for Team Liquid.
The Nocturne ultimate is going to determine
so many of their plays, and then Vuccio on KC.
But there it is.
That's a lot of damage towards his paint.
It was going visible underneath the turret, so they actually could kill Kanna here.
They did manage to flash away from that Orianna ult as well, so Kanna stays alive.
That's the immediate go button on the Baron, and Team Liquid trying to see if they can re-enter here.
Yeah, and it's only on Koji-Jane Morgan for now, as Morgan is going to get turned on.
Great nabba position, but I don't know whether it's going to be enough.
He's already taken down very, very low.
He tries to crush away flashes out as that Cyclone tries to hold him into position.
And Yon, now moving forward.
Casey have backed away from the Baron though. They're just gonna now rel walk themselves. Oh what?
Oh what? Mid lane for no- what? Why did we do this?
There's now Quidd is going to be able to help lock them down. That's a kill over to Yon and that felt like a mistake.
That was certainly a mistake Atlas. Right into the waiting arms of Core JJ.
They wanted to get over to the wave to defend mid lane, but Core just lets him have it.
Yeah, who saw T1 doing it?
That's why I was about to say to do it, but that was a huge mistake because I don't think they could turn back towards the baron
Morgan had the TP they didn't get the kill so there was going to be too many members of team liquid at the barn and
In trying to protect mid lane
They end up just giving across kills on top of the mid lane tower
What was their vision like on the mid wave they for sure start your stana?
Did they not see the rail right there because the rise realm warp has been serving people up on silver platters this tournament
Yeah, it seems to be a negative ultimate for the Ryze team.
We'll see whether that is going to be something that can be rectified
as we move further on.
But let's have a look at this one more time.
I really thought that the turn on the Morgan was going to work for KC.
Yeah, they really almost were able to burst him,
but he's able to flash out and escape.
And then so there is a control ward here that course in,
but they see him there.
So they just, yeah, they just don't respect him.
He popped his head out of the bush for a second there.
Yeah, yeah.
And the Shattering Strike Flash just beautifully timed and positioned
But it was capitalizing on a mistake.
Yeah, maybe it wasn't keeping track of their flash cooldowns again.
Well, we'll just have to see whether that is going to continue here as TL moving themselves into a really good position here in this game.
Not quite able to take a Baron or anything like that off the back of that play and only a 2,000 gold lead.
For this next drake, they should be able to even things out and get a little bit of control here with a composition that scales pretty nicely as we get later and later into the game.
Certainly does. The Orianna and Nocturne combo, Atlas.
It's a lot of like keep it simple. We have a phrase that's called kizger, which is keep
it simple. It does roll off the tongue. I'm really glad because we thought that when we
came up with it. And it just means it just build compositions that are easy to execute,
make them work. You can focus on fundamentals. You don't need to worry about how the team
fights are going to work. And this is kizger to a T.
Yeah, and there's so many good targets to use your combo on.
So lots of squishy available targets for them to try and burst the Seekers armguard was bought on reset by the ziggs though
So Kalista's kind of taken away as one of those targets that war doing work here just bought out where team liquid is
Yeah, but Casey not exactly in position. They do spot that word out though, and they are going to back away from the Baron
It's yeah, who has the realm warp though, and he's been playing heavily on this bottom side
So I think team liquid are hoping they could get that cool down out of yeah
Who but with 20 seconds now into a dragon is cool down has been working very well within team fights
that is a liquid so far so maybe they don't want to get that one out let's see
to can they protect Orianna because put has been doing a lot of work here and
now he set up for another possible combo with Jose a little flank around
possibility from yike he's gonna since they had pushed on bottom side really
heavily maybe he was thinking we approach this dragon from bottom side
instead of mid TL are gonna get the mid proud of themselves they're gonna push
it that way and enter from top yeah feel like KC's control of the Drake so far
This game though have been pretty fantastic as Bruce here goes in
I don't know about that what he's just said wasn't able to click any buttons onto anyone and just goes down and now KC
Just have to scatter they'll have to give up this dragon and can't take even more
They have to give up so much control as well means that there's already kind of that wave that's been pushed in me
It's that team liquid can reconnect with I'm also potentially move over towards the barn area
Who's you can't make it back out in time, but they're controlling them up so well right now
Yeah, I mean the casey comp is so fragile, right?
You have to make split-second decision.
Not very kisagin'.
No, it's not.
You have to hit these combos.
If they don't get a stun to play off of,
then nobody else is going to go in.
And so the Baron now is the next threat.
Bousyo, though, back on the table,
support death timers are pretty sure how to rail.
Well, Kaur is going to get in there with the Magnus,
so they look to turn this fight around.
Bousyo going to be the first target.
Nigger in front of him comes in, though.
The Cyclone's fantastic, as they do manage to get a kill.
But Yon is just untouched.
Yeah, who's taking so much damage,
now the reset start to come in. Yon really feeling like he's hit his stride in this game and TL
they didn't want the brown. They just want to kill them all. Kill them all and then take the resets
here. They've got a lot of extra cash to spend. Let's take a look at it though because CoreJJ
as you caught him out he sweeps over the wall they get another big CoreJJ rail engage and then
Justana and Jose can both go over and here comes the shockwave as well. They're going to be able
able to get this one on multiple members.
That's four members in Quinn's Shockwave.
Absolutely, Tez, KC apart.
KC thought they had their moment,
but Team Liquid just baiting them in.
The whole time, Ultimate Dunn had Buster Shot.
Like, even if they had tried to get on top of him,
he still has the cooldown.
Oh my goodness.
Shockwave damage.
You can see how much it's doing Quinn
on the Orianna, putting in work.
This also bodes really well for the series for Team Liquid.
If Quinn is not nervous in game number one,
He talked a lot about it when we had him up on the desk, you know, in their series versus
T1 and in the past series as well throughout his career.
So it's very good to see for NA fans if Quidd is feeling comfortable and confident in the
games and of course if he has a good performance here in number one.
I think if you're ever going to be nervous, ever, it's when you're a mid laner playing
against Faker in an international tournament.
I'm not blaming Quidd for that one at all, ever.
Speaking to you one, we're going to do a little Baron here, our vision.
A little bit of a cheeky one, but they do have a lot of control of this game for now,
and this Baron should just go over to them. Yank is going to poke his head in, but Yank,
we mentioned the Buster Shot, he does have it, uses it, and Yank can have to just try and get
himself out of there. Now the Nocturne ult does come on through, there's the Shockwave,
but it's avoided by Bustio, just beautifully, and they've taken down the Trist already,
quit down a lot of trouble, but he does manage to at least take out Bustio, but CoreJJ going to be
required to stop quid from going down and the Baron was not secured and KC just
gonna say thanks for the leash. KC find the moment to bring it back with the
realm warp that actually works out perfectly. Yeah, Yon took so much damage from the Baron.
Yon got so low for the Baron. Alright, looking for an angle here is once again
Kodjeje finding an angle that is a lot of damages. Yikes in a lot of trouble, gets
the Cyclone down and Kanna is trying to get these orders in. Yeah, who is a monster?
But it's a massive ulti from Morgan into the wall, Yeh who gets Baron involved, and he's gonna go down to the Baron shot as Kanna just gets out of there, Spawn's losing his mind, and the Baron stays alive.
You know who wins NA vs EU? It's the Baron!
Baron up, baby! Baron Nassar wins!
What an insane fight though, because Yeh goes in and turns the focus from Team Liquid, but it's a realmwap that ends up bringing in Yeh who flashes the Orianna ult, gets a ton of damage down with Buseo,
But it's as they try to follow up that's kind of where it starts to fall apart because quick separates
Yeah, who goes a little bit too far trying to step up and as they turn back towards the barron
That's when team liquid fall back on core JJ. I love League of Legends. We're back at the Baron guys
We're doing it again. It's Casey's got a cheeky ward over the wall, but they don't have any players
So this Baron is finally going to be secured by TL
I'm pretty sure Baron actually last hit it a triple kill in that last very impressive play out of the purple worm
We're going to need that highlight reel, I think, in the package towards the end of the day.
As we now have Morgan going in, looking for an angle, that was not the option that Callis was looking for,
but that is quite a decent stopwatch.
Still, it's just not going to do anything.
He's going to go down.
That's going to be an inner turret.
And this is exactly what you don't want, is to have your main form of wave clear dead
when the Baron is knocking at your front door.
I love, I mean, that tower did nothing to Morgan.
Actually was doing negative damage to him.
So yeah, good tower dive for women.
Oh, we've got another angle here as Jose De Odo just going to give them the thumbs up in multiple different ways.
TL now just going to look to end this game. First Nexus turret is now taking damage.
Jose with paranoia available, Yakuza in a lot of trouble.
There it is. He's going to follow into the fountain and the Nexus turrets will be falling.
Decent amount of AWP goes golden. They need him to actually do damage.
But the Nexus is now being focused. TL looking for game one in this EU versus NA battle
to bring them one game up in the series.
They're gonna grab some kills first
and that is going to be that one zero
for Team Liquid Alienware.
Woo, what a banger opener right there.
That man, we just had it at the beginning of the day,
probably the best series.
I think it's already there.
I'm gonna go out on a limb.
All biases aside, I know we like watching our teams win.
Some teams have been doing some winning
apart from deep cross gaming,
but so far this has been so entertaining.
More of this please gentlemen.
Yeah, it's your turn. Your turn next deck. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is going to five games. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, this is just a quick bit stop, you know. Yeah, right. KC just very, very, very generous. Giving us as many games as possible.
But man, that was one heck of a game. Gentlemen, what did you make of it?
Oh, well, we spent a little bit too much time talking about AD carries at the start of the day in junglers.
apparently was all about top lane my god what a gap I did not see that one coming it hurts but
if I keep shouting maybe the pain will go away I mean Morgan has been on one in this tournament
it is crazy because it's so unexpected for me where when he first came into the lcs everyone's
talking to me about this guy is the go laner he's so hard to play against you can't breathe
but by the end of this split when I talked to top laners they're saying yeah Morgan hasn't really
improved that's why they put him on tanks he's no longer much of a force in laning you know
He's kind of just there and he comes this tournament. He's chained solo solo killing Dorian
He's solo killing Kana after getting cheese level one and counterpick against the vain exhaust
Like that is actually crazy. Yeah, and it definitely takes two to tango
I do feel like kind of made some mistakes and allow that to happen
But Morgan punishing it so well
And of course Morgan kind of being this reliable rock for the team when the rest of map was a little bit messy, right?
We saw some hiccups in the bottom lane yon stumbling a little bit Busey of finding these creative angles
But when push came to shove TL managed to hold the line, which in that last sequence of play
We were going back and forth. Oh, that's a throw. Oh, they threw. Oh this guy outplayed. Oh, that guy outplayed
So I think thanks to the Cisco network
We can take one more look at what was probably the wildest sequence we have seen at MSI thus far
Starting off looking so good for team liquid and getting really hairy really fast. So big mistake here is
Who's a
Here's a go to moves off the baron and we see you on just get one shot
The ziggs damages that I still flash if he was tanking the baron big mistake and it looks initially favored towards KC
But then as they start to disengage you see KC move on to the baron start to take more damage and
Morgan is the one who ends up making the big play to decide this exactly Morgan comes back here was obviously split comms between
Yawn and Jose do we peel do we stay on but then core look at this engage from core
He was stellar throughout this whole game, flashes in,
Callisto does not react, gets burst down, had the seekers,
but just got one shot.
And then Morgan kites out the exhaust and gets Mega,
flashes in, catches Yehu against the wall there
with the last of his mana.
Quinn is able to finish him off.
And that was such a big sequence of play
because there were mistakes both from Yan or from Jose
who everyone put it on and then from Callisto.
And it was kind of back and forth,
but it's also brilliant plays from people on either side
that are capitalizing on these little missteps.
And it's just so crucial that you have a player
who can't step in these moments.
And as we've been saying, and we will continue to say,
Morgan really was that guy.
Because again, from the get-go, we
saw KC prioritize Khan on the top side.
They get the counter pick bane.
They set him up with the level one gank.
You take a look, it feels like this should have just been over.
We were ready to pack it up in terms of what we would see
from Morgan on the top side of the map,
but he recovered so fantastically.
And this does feel like where we have
to leverage a little bit of criticism towards Khan.
I mean, this is a really smart play because you already have a favorable matchup for the Vayne, especially with Exhaust.
There's a summoner, Morgan, has to start the hop as well to get away from this already low HP,
and he doesn't reset here, decides he doesn't have enough time and actually moves back in the lane.
So he's at a massive disadvantage, and then...
Exactly, and this honestly, Kana does almost every stage of this wrong.
You roll into the gnar with Wallop, then the Exhaust comes out after the boulder toss has already hit.
Then he uses the condemn, he still has flash, doesn't flash either of the wall ups, gets hit by another bolder toss, goes down without even using the flash.
And yeah, this is really beautiful for Morgan, but Kana played every aspect of that 1v1 wrong.
And when your team is giving you draft resources, level 1 resources, you can't make those kind of mistakes.
Yeah, because we so often see, you know, Camille plus Siggs, Camille plus Mal have a really strong level 1 on the back of the ignite and Camille.
They sacrificed that bot lane to put that attention top,
and then it was just ultimately irresponsible with that lead.
And ultimately, while both teams had individual members that made mistakes,
it's TL that walked away rightfully so with the win.
We didn't even get to talk about mid lane,
but the Nocturne Orianna so hotly contested and so well utilized by TL
really brought back what was a difficult back-and-forth game.
So on the opposite side for KC,
I think we need to see more from Clis, he had a good start,
but wasn't reacting fast over those final fights,
and we definitely need to see more from Kana.
He got so far ahead of the curve, there was that time when he was just hitting bot lane tower, getting plates for free, getting farm for free, got more plates in the top lane.
He was super ahead of the curve as Ziggs had a lot of damage in his build and then a couple of fights where the ult wasn't hitting the right targets and then just dying with Flash, with Sykes arm guard up, really felt rough.
And it is his, you know, first mage game, but when the game started, I was like, hey, he looks really solid on this. This is a carryable game for him.
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Having played a pretty beautiful knockdown game, but I think you know
This is this has been about like the top lane the solo lanes right when I think a lot of us are talking about
Both side of the map earlier on in the day. I actually think though coming into this
They will start KC will start to shift their focus through the bottom lane
I think with the Nautilus bond they're looking towards things like the Ash Seraphine
which has been their kind of comfort pick over the course of this bliss and even got to see it coming out against T1 as well
I imagine with the barbine as well, they will just go back towards this. Well, let's let's see what is gonna happen
I think no more experimentation is what a lot of people will be calling for as far as that bottom lane is concerned
There's now kind of what are we going to be picking up the rise the Orianna both of them unavailable?
But the anivia that was banned in the last game
My guess is theoretically an option that are less intriguing when the rise has been banned
Still taking a while to figure out exactly what to lock in is finally will be that seraphane
So we are looking at the ash seraphane option
What we have seen is the responsive ash Lulu. Yeah to deny it, but I don't know whether that's where TL want to go
Yeah, it's interesting because there have been so many different types of responses
You know the Ezreal karma is kind of the right and true old like super good in land poke them out
Have a lot of pressure as well. So we'll see what direction they decide to go
They've also been happy and like the list used to be a big center player
So can also fall back to like Santa Seraphine if you really want to in that regard, but let's see is it is going to be the least
In so do they try and take away the ash bush?
I mean you're gonna be very happy about a least in for Jose Dioto. He's kind of he's gonna popped off on that coat
You wouldn't shit up about it
Yeah, let's see what they decided to go with into the Ash Seraphine because there are you can go kill lanes
Yeah, okay, it looks like this has been a favorite that we've witnessed is like Mel Pike
Through the Ash Seraphine is a bit of a kill option. Yeah, but I just double-checked he hasn't won on us
Yeah, that was the warm-up one, you know
That was the training episode. Oh, there's the rumble
I really love it like uncle and the equalizer is a lot of powers. There's Ezreal Seraphine
So they do rap so people you do Ezreal Seraphine as like the backup usually when they don't have that
Yeah, when the Ash has been back
I think it's because of Mel. They don't they don't like you need the extra safety, you know, they can't have too many
vulnerable no mobility targets. Also, you really don't want a National Arrow coming back at you
Yeah, you can often happen when you fight against the Mel. I think it will certainly make sense.
an encore coming back at you or a true shopper coming back at you.
So there is still a lot of value for that.
That freaking Mount champion can reflect all these spells.
Exactly.
As Morgan going to be taking the blacksmith towards the top side of the map,
this has been his go to counter matchup for the rumble.
We found a lot more counter matchups.
In fact, one of his old favorites, the arc, does work into the rumble as well.
It goes back to this one and we'll be out of augment the rest of his team.
And even though Morgan just totally bodied Ghana and you're like,
Hey, put Morgan back on the carry.
Morgan actually was doing really well for tanks for Tio.
This was something that they really indexed highly into in playoffs.
And having that on Ultimate to go along with this
is going to be great engage to try and attack the Seraphine.
And it makes me a little nervous because Morgan also
bodied Doran in this matchup only a couple of days ago.
So I do think he's been absolutely spectacular.
And I think it's been super interesting because I know Morgan
didn't do as well domestically as people are hoping.
But this tournament, he's been a force to be reckoned with.
He's been absolutely incredible.
He's come back home, he's got the good kimchi,
and he's feeling fantastic.
That's what I would assume.
Having said, LA is pretty good for him.
Yeah.
You guys aren't doing too bad.
You aren't doing too bad over there.
But then if you're going to be taken away,
I imagine Pike is just going to be banned.
But it doesn't really feel like a Korge JJ champion to me.
But it will be the Yone hitting the deck first.
Yeah, it is going to be interesting to see what they
go with this time around.
Because now you're seeing the Ezreal, right?
So it's a little bit less powerful to do the full-on kill lane
that would want to take advantage of Ash with no mobility.
So I definitely agree with you as far as Pyke also not really
being one of course, go-to champion.
So see what they opt to change to.
And on the opposite side, though, it
does look like they're trying to set up for the Ezir for Yahoo.
This has been something he's been very comfortable on.
Even though the rest of the globe was kind of falling
to the wayside on the Ezir pick, this
still a massive one for KC and with the Yoneban I imagine that's what they're looking at again here
trying to just limit the answers that we can have into that. Well it is just a lot of comfort
for KC so far as we do see the Cinder taken away and then the wreck side to follow. I've heard
so many whispers of this wreck side jungle that's going to be coming out but I'm not going to be
happening today. Dude I swear that Nerf of the Yi was very strong so we'll see if it does end up
Oh, all right. That's another way of playing the bottom lane. That is indeed where it's going
This is much more core JJ. Yeah, the pike kill. That's not so much. He freaking loves the Pantheon though
So gives that point and click and they're still gonna have huge kill pressure huge burst potential plus
I mean honestly, I mean, we'll see if this bug actually gets locked in but yeah, it is the yike specialty
It's his pocket take has brought it a couple of times
Maybe not the area to bring it out. What I have to see is they're just going to lock in the Anivia mid lane instead.
This is a very slow moving composition so far as Boosier without the ability to hover the vein goes for the space vein once again.
But we'll see what he is going to be locking in. We're looking for a jungler unless Rumble wants to go back there.
But it's been quite a few years since the Rumble jungle has been a thing.
The Anivia is an odd one for me because usually we see it into the rise because it's like, oh, I wanted to go at a lot of short range.
And then I can try and play through that first you have like an orange that can break through the wall
You've got long-range engage. You've got mail who's been able to play outside of the range of that wall as well
And so I don't know how much value you're really gonna get from the inhib in this one
But at least with the build another wall. I was gonna say yeah, we can't break all of them
Yeah, I was gonna see you've got the hot pot combo now. That's slightly frozen the long side here
So I don't know what we're calling this one, but at least you do have a lot. Nengmyeon is like
Oh, no!
OK, that's Yasuo.
So I was going to say, yeah, when they've been to Yone,
you're like, oh, let's take away more AD options from Qwitch,
because they're running the male bottom.
They didn't know he had a brother.
Just go with the original brother back to the Yasuo.
Yasuo into Anivia.
And Yasuo into Seraphine sounds incredible, personally.
The wind wall is going to get some good value, for sure.
I just don't know whether it's actually
going to quite work against the Anivia that's
very very good at controlling space right yeah that's my biggest worry for
the Yasuo in lane it's like yes you've got the wind wall to try and block the
stone from the flash frost but if that's the last second so you can swap the wall it plays the Yasuo again
that that doesn't sound good I could you calm down a little bit I watch game one man I don't know what to expect
but I was super boosted how the hell do you get any value out of this airfield like it's either
the wind wall or it's reflected like you just never get value from it at any point of time.
Well you get the cooldown of both wind wall and rebuttal whose cooldowns are exceptionally long
so that's um that's all I'm getting. Yeah that's what I got for you there Dagda and that's it.
All right well ladies and gentlemen those are your drafts once again I mean a bit crazy this
time I feel like TL has decided to go a little bit further off the deep end than KC has it feels
like KC going back to their roots, back to some champions they have a lot of
confidence on is let's get on to the rift for game number two of this best of
five and see whether KC can even up the series.
Alright gentlemen, let's see no weird starts at the beginning of this one so far.
Jose and Yang just gonna be spotting each other out, yeah who just over to
support as well. And not going to be too much funny business as
quid just getting some vision down. Countervision already
there. And some pretty standard starts. Okay, Yasuo into the
Deathfire Touch, Anivia. Let's see it quid. They do have a lot of
knockups to be able to set him up as well with the orn with the
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And TL and KC have a lot of fighting each other here in the bottom lane so far in this game.
It is going to be KC getting the advantage though, and it looks like the Ezreal Seraphine is working out quite nicely.
nicely. Boussio is pretty good at this champ, right Dacta?
Yeah, it's kind of been the go-to domestically, like it has been one of the strongest champions.
It does mean he's more kind of focused on the lane state, which I think Boussio has actually
been spectacular at this MSI, actually moving around the map on things like the Camille
and trying to get an impact in the early stages. But this is, we want to fully invest in winning
in the early stages and oftentimes look for invades with Jyke afterwards, maybe less so
on the Jarvan, but we'll have to keep an eye out.
It's interesting too because Jose did the three-camp recall for Longsword.
Start here, four jungle, four Lee Sin, so since both junglers are heading down to this
bomb site map, if we do have the clash down there at the same time, then he is going to
have the extra Longsword for the fight.
Yeah, Morgan looking a bit aggressive here towards the top side of the map as we can
see, kind of taking some damage as that brutal prop does come on through.
Focusing on mid lane though is, yeah, who does have the egg, of course, so not going
to be dying if he loses that health bar, but still not going to be feeling fantastic.
You can so far quit doing pretty well on this Yasuo in the mid lane 24 to 18 as these minions are going to help even things up for KC.
Yeah, nice early push from him and he goes to make sure that they're going to be able to get this bottom side Skuddle crab for Jose.
Bottom lane also forced to back off as Jaik went for his reset after the full clear and he wants to head towards top crab.
But I mean, quick and just move back up here as well and maybe we'll get a cross from Jose to get both.
Yeah, that's exactly what he's looking for, safeguards his way over, and Quid will be able to help usher him towards that top side of the map as well.
Double buffs here for Jose.
As the ward does go down, flag and drag is good damage onto the Lee Sin so far, but Quid gets the inside track, there's the exhaust.
Onto this Jarvan, the Windwolf, fantastic to block everything. The yeah who wants to do, you're not going to go down, that's first blood over to Quid.
Over to Quinn, his can is looking to move his way in, the tiny wall, he's going to work out, but there's a sonic wave out of Jose!
And now Quinn is trying to get back to Morgan, who gets the knockup, but down goes the midlaner, and now Jose comes over to make this a one fight for Teal.
Huge skirmish here from Team Liquid, they know they have the extra power from the early Yasuo here in lane.
And if that Scuttlecrab had actually been walking down towards the fight, then Quinn, he was trying to flash up so he could try and heal away on this Scuttlecrab.
He ends up going down, but still the two for one there and the first blood.
And it looked like miscommunication from KC as well, kind of hot push on topside,
and it started to move, but then went back to lane.
So, it looked like Jyke was trying to call both solo laners into the equation,
but we're kind of being laced, TL end up taking the fights.
Yeah, Kanna does manage to pick up a kill in the fight,
so that will help him out in his matchup against Morgan.
That is the only part of the good news here,
is Yehu is still in a little bit of trouble.
Teleports back to lane though, gets that health bar filled up once again.
And I'm pretty sure still has the egg after everything was said and done.
It's Kojoj, Spotsmusey on Yak, moving on in.
And will be able to back himself out of the way of the enemy jungle.
Yeah, let's take another look. So, Jose is very well aware that he could be in this bush,
so they're kind of flirting around with it. And then Quick comes over, early exhaust as he pointed out.
And then they can follow nicely. Jose hit his Q, so he could follow Yak very quickly.
As they're mentioning, you know, the distance between the top laners actually get the kill so quickly that the slight earlier arrival here.
Yeah, and that's why I was surprised, because Kanna had already walked down, he warded just to the pixel brush,
and then went back up into lane as Yike went for the flag and drag.
So, looked like Yike may be thinking, oh, Kanna's already moving?
I can start this play, he'll arrive in time.
He indeed! Exhaust from my mid laner!
Yeah, good having a pretty good time, it's okay.
Yike now moving in towards his bottom side as they're moving over as well really good position
Defensively here for Jose just making sure that he is shadowing where Yike wants to be on this map
And he's on down to about 50% but I don't think they're gonna be dying anytime soon some control here for KC so far
Yeah, team liquid their bottom lane though just trying to avoid poke right now while they get the objective
They know Jose and quit have got this
under control and I mean Lee sin is good into a
Jarvan, it's just that I think the Jarvan pick was just for comp all, and so in that little skirmish though
You don't get to use you know your ultimates in here your synergies for your comp or anything
And Jose really really coming out big there
And it also means he's accelerated when coming towards levels right level six stale for himself
He's trying to look really nice flash here
So looking for a potential all in but Kortjej taking a lot of damage Boussio is burning corn nose that he's dead
The flash away is perfect though Boussio keeps himself alive and that is the kill going over to KC
Kail goes over, Busey will have to invest the flash in the end, but still here's the Invade we were talking about.
Nike is just going to back away. That's exactly what's going on here as the blue buff is just going to be held on to here by Jose and Morgan.
Getting a positional advantage as well means that yeah, her moving over is not going to be enough to get KC control back.
So that will be buff stolen.
Jose should just be able to walk his way out of there as well, smite it down, and they will take that one away.
So a good advantage here from TL, but the goal entirely even between the two squads
Antion's coming here to CoreJJ kind of sneaking around into the side brush
All right possible angle here is another head splash from CoreJJ to get that control ward down
KC has just backed away already though, so no worries just yet
Yeah, it's just not a good timer for KC because Jose's got half the level lead, which means he has level six over the Jarvan
So Lee Sin huge huge power differential at the moment in case he have to give up that area
Yeah, Kojie a little bit behind on levels himself. I'm a level four at the minute
As Vuccio has it that level five looking for the on-call. Yikes still needs this camp for the level six though
He's very far behind so should be able to get it
But you can see how much case you're invested in making sure that Yikes can try and farm just his own jungle
Let alone trying to get control anywhere else and as a Jarvan
this is where you want to be at your most impactful. So TL managing to shut down
Yike is good, but Kalista and Bucio winning it on the bottom side like that's
where the other side of the gold lead is coming from. They've been absolutely
destroying Yon and Courage in this match. And now that they do have access to the
level sixes there for the Mal for the Ezreal we'll see if there are some
visits from jungles. A lot more burst damage available but as of right now
Now it's the mid jungle 14 liquid that have dictated a lot of the pace of the game
Yep, and now the void grubs have spawned right now
We see Casey moving up there towards that top side of the map as quick dashing on over
But yeah, who is doing a lot more now that he does have access to the glacial storm to try and hold this lane in order
And yank will be able to get the first grub at least we'll see whether all three will go over to Casey
Yeah, I mean Casey the Callisto walks all the way over there
So Yon is getting a long time on the bottom tower and like this is an Ezreal without teleports and exhaust Ezreal
So he's gonna have to walk all the way back down
They do, you know get the grubs for their investment or at least two of them
Yeah, Jose just going to be able to take this one down resonating strike going to do it as sir
I mean TL getting one grub
I mean, I think Casey is still gonna be absolutely fine with this the beat drops and
Jose still gonna go in there's a flag and drag as Jose thinks that he might have called Buccio out
But he just backs away himself. So really nice secure all of the first couple of grubs
So he'll get at least one back, but he's still not the end of the world case. Yeah, but you're still losing this top side
So on the initial invade that TL had you I couldn't get that grump because he was afraid of TL invading now after going for the
Object from the top side loses that ground camp again
So overall team liquid have just been keeping yike down this entire time
You can see a two-level lead.
Yikes, the last one will manage at least a seven
when he gets towards his bottom side,
but it's still very messy for Yikes.
Yeah. Again, I just go back to,
I think they really wanted the spicy hot pot.
You know, they wanted the Jervinole for the rest
of their comp, the rest of their champions,
but Jose here on the leasing has opened up
such a massive individual lead.
Bottom side though, 2v1.
Yeah, I'm taking a little bit of damage here,
but does just walk his way out.
He will be fine, at least for the minute.
Has his Hextech cookie after ready.
I think they spotted Yike moving in as there's a rebuttal.
And that will be able to at least help him speed up,
move out of the way, alongside the Flash.
I think this is the one part of the map
that Casey can try and play around.
Is the bot lane, like already they've got a nice lead
opening up for themselves.
This will only grow now as well.
And the fact that the Flash is gone and yarn now,
means that they should be able to try and punish that again.
If, especially getting Team Liquid
trying to play through this strong topside four invades.
Yeah, 100% of three right there.
Ezreal here for Kalis, looking quite good.
Definitely one of his favorite, most comfortable champions.
And as you said, with Buzio having so much success too,
definitely will be a very powerful team fight
when they bring those two in.
Yep, it's going to be the lane to play around,
I think, for KC.
And this composition is pretty stable.
I think stable is the right word to talk about this,
as in the meantime, KC,
now just gonna be playing real far back
from this out of turret.
You can see Jaik is hovering as well as Jaik moving down towards the spot on the lane as well.
But it does have to go back as the waves are going to be crashing in mid.
And the dragon going to be started up here. TL have double dragon on the table.
But again, it does throw down Jaik. He wanted to go into this topside to try and clear his top camps in the spawn,
but instead was pulled down to cover for that play.
So Team Liquid going to be able to take dragon and then sweep through their own jungle look towards topside.
So again, it's just value for the jungler, Jose Diodo.
Exactly. And Jose is wielding an eclipse right now.
So yeah, yike being on little pieces. Yeah, you're like you have no business going over there
That's why I'm so focused on
Like the best tooling I didn't pick up first as well for like that one item spike you're feeling and I was told earlier
It was a full moon. So I don't know what an eclipse is doing here at all. Yeah, I didn't understand that part
Yeah, they'll need to they'll need to fill us in on what exactly that meant
I'm gonna need an explainer because that was weird to say the least okay
Yike going to be starting up this quad camp and that is going to the last one
See where he's going to be going next to shop, Raj going to be sent back towards Galist
He doesn't want it and so he's just going to be sailing around Runeterra once again
Yeah, who back in this mid lane and I do feel like KC this composition is just very happy to play this one slow
The slower this game goes the better it is for the EU representative and so
Right now TL
I think the ball is in their court to get this one moving faster and with an infernal soul this game
that is really gonna help if they can keep stacking these strikes yeah I
think Team Liquid would really like to try and open up one of these sideline
towers because their 1-4 is pretty impressive like once quake gets a couple
of items it's gonna be really difficult to keep him in check because Buccio yeah
and they get jumped on here by Jose de Odo there is called JJ from the sky and
where did Buccio go? He thought he was the one hiding here on the wall he thought
he thought he was you know the one laying the trap yeah well he was
He's definitely hiding, but then they found it!
Right on ultimate right over the top there instantly.
Beautifully played by Kojaje, though he has been phenomenal this tournament
and did not hesitate for one second on that mandra.
Okay, cannot look into some harpoons, but does just get himself back over
and Jose is going to follow him. There is the ram coming through for Morgan as well.
They are on the equalizer, but there's the knock-up and down goes for Rumble!
They must have been listening to the broadcast because we said they needed to keep going fast
Yike comes in to try and save the play as the on-cars extended by Yike
And they should be able to get Morgan for it really nicely done to get one back for KC
Thank God we did because I was running away with a very big lead. They've been everywhere, but Boussio's not safe
Hold on. Hold on. Oh, they doesn't have ult though. So it was just being annoying. It's gonna be stops on backs
He can't kill him again.
Not quite yet.
Don't worry.
Yeah, this has been Team Liquid playing so well around this early jungle lead for Jose
Diodo and making sure they're just getting in the face, abusing the mach up and making
sure that KC don't really get to play it, although Yehu.
He is looking a whole lot better here, is right on the edge of that stun as the exhaust has
to come through here to avoid that frostbite from just killing this Yasuo.
Okay, KC now should be able to move down and the two and a half minutes on the drakes
Jose's gonna be here first and he is four seconds away from his ult.
Two is going to miss as he looks for the safe gun.
There's a mini stun gets the knockup so they pull the bird into the sky, take him down
to the egg.
The rest of KC trying to get over here, there's the double knockup from Quinn and Quinn should
be going down but they get the bird first as Quinn is then going to be executed, boosts
you over the wall and I think it's just a one for one.
Yeah, one for one plus you count like maybe the pass of egg.
Oh yeah, one and a half.
Maybe 1.2 or something like that.
But yeah, they do get that, and then investing the extra teleport.
So, they drew out the teleport from Kana here,
KC using the extra summoner spell to get here in time and defend it.
Yeah, and Jose plays as well.
Gets the kick into the wall, that sets up for Quid to be able to join.
And even as this starts to play out, watch the knock-up coming through for Quid,
because Yai tries to go for the flag and drag,
but it gets interrupted there perfectly by Quid.
And even though he does end up falling down,
The replays of him's Phase 2, one get the kill, two get the flash from Buseo, and then able to back away.
Exactly. The extra summoner spells there, as is by KC, during the skirmish.
We'll see about the next dragon. It's only a minute and 20 seconds away, and you know Team Liquid are going to set up again.
Yeah, and I think this is where KC really needs to turn this game around.
On that next dragon fight, if they deny that, it slows down TL so considerably.
adds an extra 10 minutes to a potential Soul Timer
and gives you that extra space in order to get this composition online
as they are on this for Terrald already.
I wonder here for TL because CORE does have his ulti
and Jose is here on two items, okay?
This is Sundered Sky and Eclipse.
Yeah, and you mentioned CORE JJ's ulti.
Well, he is now going to be over a wall, as Yahoo over to the side,
not going to get picked up by that tornado.
It's now CORE realizing that he's in a lot of trouble,
has to try and commit to this one.
It is Rift's Herald secured, and then I'll trade that for their Pantheon as Morgan.
A little bit late to this party, but sometimes it's better late than never.
Although, maybe not this time.
And as TL, just trying to get back towards their mid lane, as Morgan just says,
get out of the way wall, and he is going to be able to at least head for that one down.
Now the Ram's coming in, and maybe, maybe late is actually better than never,
as they're in the Cataclysm, but Yike is no longer there.
He's been taken out first as Jose just trying to safeguard around the bayou,
Getting whatever he can done is kind of with the flame splitter.
Quid kept alive by the save god.
Why are they allowed to get out of this one?
Quid will be taken out as Jose.
I mean, he's so much money if they can get that kill,
but they aren't able to do so.
But still, KC getting some big kills back.
KC just about managed to turn it around the one for two,
but yeah, still here with Core JJ.
We'll just back away.
Big win, even though they do lose the Rift turn.
Yeah, it's all kind of domino effect from Core JJ's ultimate.
and him going down early, putting TL added numbers
disadvantage, KC, they really do make them pay for it.
Getting the extra kills here, the extra money back.
They can push topside.
The only drawback for KC is that Yike did go down
so they couldn't like rush over to dragon.
But also, he is back up now.
Connist took around so long in that topside.
It doesn't mean that Team Liquid
kind of in a position now to contest this
because Morgan already coming out with quids.
I don't know if they do this quite fast,
but maybe they do.
I mean, Jose is gonna be able to put down the Rift, Harold,
to try and help out could be a bit of an abad old Harold situation here as they get the knock up
onto Yeh who is over his own wall and it's actually not working out for him and now the Rift Herald is going to invade
the dragon pit. Yeh has to get out of there. True shot barrage is not going to do anything at all.
That's his team-mates. Now Yeh tries to get out, gets stacked by CoreJJ
and that is going to be Soulpoint over to TL.
Oh the party continues Atlas. This series is weird boys. I don't know what to do.
You're right about the timing on the contest though, exactly.
They put down, Rift Herald gets used so that they can go for this play, combo onto the
Anivia, and then the DPS wasn't there on Dragon, so they're allowed to continue, drive their
Herald in, and team Liquid retake control immediately.
And now Shelly gonna get a double charge, so she invades the Dragon pit, charges the
bottom turret, and then gets another one on the inner.
That is the most overworked Shelly I've seen in my career.
We're a great holiday package deal that she's
mentioned to get on that one.
You see the group now.
A lot of Travis.
You travel, yeah.
Well, she was like, well, CoreJJ died for me,
so I'm really going to make you guys feel worth it.
I'm a resort tourist.
I like to get to one place and have a good time.
This was definitely a lot more moving around
that I was ready for.
But Shelly might like it.
Yeah, but here you can see, Casey just
already have the damage.
Kana's super late because he went to push in topside.
Kase, yeah, who walks away too far.
Jose with a great call there.
They just kick him again, set up for a quiz.
Now, he does a good job escaping,
but you've now got the rest of Team Liquid
that can just get into the pit, push KC away,
and it's just an easy dragon set up
with, yeah, who eventually get in calls.
And it's this kind of chaos
that this TL composition thrives in as well,
and they are able to create it at a moment's notice
based on CoreJJ just falling on people, but in the sky.
But it also feels like a very different form
from KC that we saw domestically.
Like team fights with their bread and butter as...
Yike.
Yeah, quitting a little bit of trouble in the sideline, but now Core is coming from the sky yet again.
He does get charmed up, and now Jose making his way in.
It's kind of the turn's up though. There's the ulti from Quick, gets out of the equalizer, and takes down Yike.
These shields are working out so beautifully, but they take out the Oswoe in the immediate track.
And CoreJJ taxis his way to Yehul and Kitsun's over life!
What the hell?! Core's playing the best series of his life!
So is Jose, baby. I mean, honestly. Nah, it's just a regular leasing game for the boy. Yeah, exactly. Right. He's gonna find
Buccio here and I, you know, KordjJ won Worlds in 2017. That was a pretty good series as well, but I, like, recent memory?
My God, he's playing so well. I don't know. I'm having fun. Not a fun. Not a fun. Not at all. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
We're setting up for the River sweep. It's okay. As this looked really good for KC to start things off.
also is in side lanes. It's a tail as old as time. I mean this TL they have really been thriving in these
skirmishes especially with all the mobility here. Jose and quick keep comboing for these knockups so
they're going to get enough damage done and Jose is so far ahead. He's king on the rift.
Gordje, as you're saying, he's still in like flash and it's done. He was on 20 health like the whole
team fight. Yeah, I mean it's just the fact that team members are in such a good position to rotate
towards these planes they have the TP they had the push in mid and they just can't keep up oh my god that is
horrific that is so cursed i love it jungle uh jungle depth boys i would say so i think i think he's
pretty legendary um and i mean hosey is a player in general but uh yeah he's a 0 and 3 this lee sin
is just a monster but it does again it's kind of sartner before we got the pick was that it
It doesn't feel like the KC really, but yeah, I mean, this is not the style that I'd be looking at.
Yeah, and the Coinbase gold grind, not something that Dagda wants to talk about, but Jose,
very, very far ahead, 3.6k. And yeah, it's basically, if you're going to look at where the money's coming in from,
let's just go with everywhere. Yike now in a lot of trouble, because they've really been able to hold him down this game,
out of turret, now being sieged down, and they haven't done a whole lot of work as far as opening up the map through mid is concerned.
and the WaveClear is still going to be there in spades here for Casey.
As CoreJJ moves to number 11 as far as assists,
and yeah, I think this is the right time to have a giant CoreJJ on the side of the screen.
Honestly too, there's not a really huge possibility for the comeback
because it's super difficult, as you were mentioning, to work into the mel reflect
and the yasuo wall as well, so...
It feels like the old wrong yasuo combo.
Like, how much more torque can you get in the night, you fucking hell?
Well, nope, we don't have the Dragon Soul yet, Dagdan.
Oh, true shopperage is Yon just launches himself towards KC.
And, uh, okay, Sonic Wave from the darkness here as Jose is very, very scary,
but they think that they might have caught him here as the ram comes on through.
They're looking for Callis, Quinn's gonna find him in that backline,
but immediately gets exhausted, taken out!
As Jose gets a kickback on the yike, but it doesn't really do anything at all.
Equalizer now gonna come on through as CoreJJ going down lower and lower.
The double snap from Yon is good, but they are out of teammates.
Triple knockup from Morgan, he flashes over the wall and he is still going to die as TL.
I don't think you're fighting for this ult.
Ah, it's just because the Ornn ultimate did not hit Kalis there.
He didn't get the knockup for Qwid, and I cursed him!
No!
You take that knife down and stab them in the back and I'm okay with that!
Because KC wanted you to find that little bit of fight with...
Kalis even getting that good flash away from quit there in the midst of us setting up for it and now
There's a lot of gold that they can pick up on the map. So this gold lead certain dwindle for a team liquid now
Yeah, and it was only really
2000 anyway, right like that is not a ridiculous snowball or anything like that
Let's have a look at how this one was attempted to be set up here as they are so split to yell
Yeah, so of course it goes for Bruce. Yo, but then yeah
the Ornn ultimate not getting the knock-up here towards Kalis, means Qwidd gets deleted and the Yasuo immediately out of the fight means
they're not really going to be able to salvage this 14 liquid, so then they're just trying to run everybody for themselves at this moment
Yeah, and there you can see just even with the local Morgan trying to play frontline 14 liquid still gets caught out at the end
So it is something back and a little bit of time ball 4kc and you can see like the main focus 4kc is Kalis
He's the one with a 2,000 gold lead in the bottom side, three items now in the Ezreal.
If he is able to play his game, he's in a great spot, and that's why Team Liquid coming into that fight,
we're trying to focus him down, just couldn't make it happen.
So we need Calist once more to kind of step up and try and play just on a knife's edge to keep himself safe,
yet take down Team Liquid.
Yep, needs to not get kicked.
That's going to be the main thing, and that is precisely what he managed to do in that last fight.
We saw how much better that went for him.
As Jose looking for a bit of an angle here,
the list very capable of just clearing out these minion waves over and over,
and that outer turret just seems like a thorn in the side of TL,
unable to really open up the map,
and another three minutes until another chance at that infernal soul for Team Liquid.
And I think it's going to be really important to get themselves on it 24 minutes,
and so the Baron up and available as well,
going to be a difficult objective to go for,
because, I mean, unless Morgan tanks it up,
It's a little bit difficult for both teams to tank that particular objective this early in the game.
Yeah, Morgan's starting to upgrade people's Ornn items as well, hand out the extra value there,
just in time for the big objectives, and Team Liquid taking the other side of the map right now, wrapping around.
Alright, if you have a Pantheon Ultimate ready again, so you have to be careful about overextending inside lanes.
Kanna rightfully pulls back while the rest of the team is getting Baron vision.
How could the MandaVision that is there for Team Liquid?
The Observer's just highlighted it.
They kind of know exactly where everything is.
If they walk through the enemy, either on jungle, on KC side, but...
they forced away here.
Yep.
Gwyd.
In range of Jose.
That is going to be the main thing here.
Any time he gets that DragonRage kick option is now.
We've got Morgan making his way in as well.
Jose getting himself out.
The wall is avoided by TL quite nicely in Yon getting some alone time with the turret.
That is going to be a big deal.
They desperately want to grab that.
Only one plate left remaining here.
possibly caught out does searingly charges way out but has to take the red carpet
as Canada lays that one down no flash available here for this on and he has to
try and turn and make something happen it's just going to be an arcane ship
forward Canada's the one that locks down the kill in the end that is kill score
even doubt tails gold lead down to 600 this game is anyone's right now
yeah but what more can Casey get you can already see immediately kind of moves
down towards the bottom side they want to try and get some of the standing gold
Quaid pushes out top so there isn't an option for two of the turrets, but still as you say like this is getting
Incredibly close now. It's just a small few mistakes from Team Liquid starting to cost them
Yeah, really good pick right there turning on Morgan is he's trying to rotate over to the rest of the team
They see collecting more and more gold making more and more nervous caught up also level 16 here with an arm guard
He is very scary making a lot of money as well with that first strike as we can see moving to about 1.4k ahead
Just himself obviously Morgan can have a lot of value just in general
But this rumble needs money to be effective and Canada definitely has it at this point in time
Galista parking himself in this mid lane once again
And it's still just frustrating for TL to get any sort of damage onto that out of turret back out onto the map
Though is more 50 seconds until dragon though
You can see they're trying to put Yahoo in that topside so then he can hit that level 16
Just barely away from us and if you could get that before this next dragon that could be huge for KC
As already you're starting to see them push in mid. They want to set up for vision control around the area
Well, that is going to be a nice little
Rebottle to avoid a bit of the damage. Partridge and Jose were there. That was a risky arcane shift forward
Did have Yaik waiting in the wings, but there is little vision for KC in the dragon area
Yeah, teleport in from Morgan. He does not want to risk this, wants to make sure that he's there for the setup.
15 seconds to go as yeah, who's going to move in as well. Pretty dark as KC tried to get themselves through as that is going to be the dash cannon for it.
Equalizer fantastic from Kanna with limited vision and now the cataclysm comes in with that on call. Only onto one.
The kickback is there as Yike is going to be taken off first. Core JJ just barely surviving and now he can actually get himself back towards this fight after a reset.
The dragon has now spawned, but I don't think it's going to be at the forefront of anyone's mind just yet with yike going down
Incredibly close attempt there from KC
They went for it because they saw a quid on the bottom wave, but they just barely can't finish the kill
But there they have no jungler so KC kind of have to hard force this or it's sold for team liquid
They're trying to buy time
But how do you engage a use so much to try and get Gorge AJ yep still 15 seconds on the job in here as well
And KC four versus five they know that they need to try and deny this as Morgan's moving in
Doesn't have the on horn at the moment
But they realize they're just not going to be able to win so they have to give up infernal soul
To TL and they moved back into the driver's seat
Infernal soul more burst damage here to team liquid with their combos
I mean honestly that was just a slight bit overreach there into the into the jungle
They really wanted to take advantage while TL were split, but Jose had some good peel for Gordjage as well with the kick over into the blue-buck pick.
That's Team Liquid, the master current priceless moment now, with that Inferno solo picked up, which makes things so much more difficult.
Yon's poke going to be so obnoxious to deal with, and KC kind of have to go back to the drawing board to figure out how they're going to try and play this,
because things also went wrong for Team Liquid in that fight, but Morgan not connecting with the ultimate.
It was a lot that actually went well for KC, but that's not always going to be the case, especially as he started to teeter into these later levels.
Yep, as now Yehue could be in a little bit of trouble, but Morgan doesn't quite find the knock-up.
Seondra going to get attacked by Yehue, equalizer goes down, and that is going to be enough to deal with this Mal.
Yehue goes golden though to keep him alive, but look at these health bars!
This infernal soul is doing work as Jose is going to be able to follow Kanara out of that one.
He's still legendary, but he's not in the fight anymore, as now Quit dashing after Yehue will be able to help Morgan grab that kill.
Tempuzio and Kalis find themselves lost men standing.
There's no focus. That was a scramble.
Everybody for themselves.
Oh, never mind. Yeah, who gets himself out somehow.
Everybody was fighting their own brawls on different sides of this one.
It was absolute bad luck, my talk.
This was gonna go down, but all those adioto
went the opposite direction.
Team Liquid though, still with the bigger health bars,
are gonna get this mid lane turn and win.
Get that little bit more off the back of us.
Okay, so we knew it was 11 and 11 to begin things off.
That was only a one kill advantage here for TL. Things still exceptionally close. Let's check it out again.
Yeah, because you can see as it all starts off, like, you end up getting the pick on towards the on which is all that KC are focused on here.
As they need to go in with Kana's ultimate as well.
The ultimate Morgan ends up connecting onto Yehru and Kana, which sets up then for Qwid to go in.
But watch now as this goes through, because Buseo hits onto Qwid.
Qwid, JJ flashes onto Kalist. As then Jose Diodo turns onto Kana.
So Kalist manages to stay up in the middle of this fight, who then kills Qwid.
Jose Teodos finishes off the low health con on the bottom side
and this is where it starts to get a little bit begginer, like as Kobe was saying
there's so many different scraps, there's no real focus
so there's low health bars all over the place.
Everyone just ran in separate directions.
It was crazy, it was like the beginning of the Hunger Games or something like that.
They were just sprinting out of the house.
But in the end, it works out relatively well for TL.
Honestly, this is still anyone's game.
Even with an Infernal Soul, we've seen a Soul Lose.
I don't believe it was TL.
So far in MSI, so KC, still some options, especially with a composition like this.
So much of KC's upfront damage though is like, hey, we pick one target, burst them down with this hotpot combo.
You now have the Seekers Armguard on you, you have GA on Jose Diodo.
And I don't think you're getting through Morgan quite as easily as you'd expect, so really the targets for this combo are starting to disappear.
So I think this is where it starts to get a little difficult now for KC with the comp.
thing for me though was that Buzio did get a really good ultimate he got the
Yasuo at least you know I thought it was gonna be very hard for him to be able
to get a good ultimate off with wind walls with no reflect going around but
they've still been able to find very good effectiveness there yep good angles
is now TL looking for an option towards the Baron or at least wanting to get some
vision as there is a on slingshotting himself towards the top side of the map
I'm just gonna usher that minion wave over as well.
It's now KC looking for a fight.
There's another Cataclysm on to Yon taking a lot of damage here.
Does manage to go golden, as Ganna does exactly the same thing.
Gellis gets turned on by Jose.
There is a knockup and Quinn is able to take him down.
Yon's still alive somehow.
It's Yike.
He's gonna get taken down to the GA.
And he should be removed as well as Morgan.
Gigantic help bar.
Thanks to that new belt that he just purchased.
And it's a double for Jose.
My God, this guy's Lee Sin was already famous.
It's going to be more famous after this one.
And he deserves it.
OK, they're going to be able to pick up the Baron
while we do this replay.
But it's crazy.
Again, look, Anivia on your minimap
is walking from base right now.
And KC decides to full send.
But Morgan is also running to the spike, too.
Trying to get there immediately.
And there you see the ultimate through two.
Yeah, and then it's just the follow up from Team Nickvid.
The wall doesn't quite get the separation.
the morgan's able to follow across the GA is just jumped on by team liquid and I think this fight just
Everything in the kitchen sink used towards the arm
But we just highlight like the seekers arm guard able to buy so much time
And if you can't finish off that play because that's the overextend to try and help out yike
And it's just not it's yeah
I just loved watching Dagger while you were taking us through the replay
Dagger's just pointing at the minimax of sort of losing his mind off to the side
But the thing is like this isn't the KC we saw domestically like they wouldn't like panic engage or over extend
They play slow and play for like clean fights. This isn't hasn't been what we've seen this series at all
Well, they're going in quick getting a lot of value out of that wind wall here as they look to dive on top of the arse
Oh, yes three with the ulti kills one with it holds up the other two as Yike is traded for the least and gets out of
the way of the encore, but great stopwatch there from Yahoo!
Ah, he's still dead. He's still exceptionally dead. Turned into a fried egg in the mid lane
and Kanna just has to turn tail and run. 30 seconds on the elder and most of KC are dead.
At the end of the day, it's Jose de Odo Lisen, man. 12 and zero Lisen!
He's 18 out of 20 kill participation and over 50% of the kills are his and he's playing
Lee Sin, it's 35 minutes into the game and TL think that that is a good time to finish
this one off. The inhibitor gonna go down first, Jose is going to land on the callus
and take most of his health bar. Oh man, this looks like a solo queue game. Like I'm used
to Lee Sin doing this much damage, not in pro play.
I love that he keeps getting the player cam for Jose, cause he's just laughing and smiling.
Best day ever.
of all 10 players he is the one having the most fun for sure. It's not close.
I mean I saw Spooks and Spawn they were also having a really good time.
Okay so Elder the great equalizer guys. Is this going to be good equalizer? I don't think
it is because Kanna is already dead. Teo looking for the turn. Yon is like well I'm just going
to kill this dragon. If you guys are going to take down the enemy top laner you've got
This one for the forest yon is going to touch. Sorry. Kordj. J. Dives forward. They take down. Yeah, who the Ram is more of a celebration here from Lord Morgan is Casey
Will just be escorted back to their face and now TL they have a big old buff to work with as they look to just march their way
Into this mid lane
Jose Dioto is two kills away from the most kills ever in an MSI game, so he can get Killis
de Buccio.
I see three kills right there!
Four junglers, I'm pretty shocked, because I think that number might be higher if we
include 80 carries in the equation, but now we've got these Nexus turrets under fire,
Qwyd looking for an angle towards Yike, as he is so close to execution threshold.
CoreJJ wanting to try and take them down as Jose is in that phase just trying to get
a few extra kills.
He's got the rebuttal to make sure they can do nothing about this is TL moving to match point over KC here at the MSI plans
Jose Dale don't Lee sin
Honestly, he also saved me. I think I would have they would have taken me to prison if they
Wow these these fights are also just so chaotic such a scramble at these TL players by the way
Like the vibes could not be better as they walk off stage
This is gonna be a tough one for KC to turn around from and now we can talk to the gentleman over there on the desk
About how this one's going. Drake. Is you okay?
No enough of that. Join me. Jose Jose Jose Jose Jose
It's not the first time Europe has embodied this hard by an Argentinian, but it is the first time in the league of watching
That this has happened. This was the most 1v9 performance in an EU vs NA matchup. I have ever seen. It's crazy.
I mean, he was almost 5,000 ahead individually while his team is up like 2.5K, right? Like this was an absolutely outstanding performance.
And he needed every bit of that for his team to win. But I have got to say, KC, where is your preparation in draft?
When we were seeing this let through and draft, I was saying to Drake as a whole time, well, this is Jose's, by far his best champion, it's completely permanent, he has a 100% win rate on it in NA, no one lets it through because it's free win for TL, surely they have some sort of counter pick, some sort of answer, some sort of strategy, and then they're just like, no, I guess we just don't care.
And you know, we saw them take a similar risk against T1 when they left Karrie as Bard,
which domestically has been very consciously banned away.
100% win rate.
They do the same here, but I feel like the strategy to deal with it wasn't there.
They didn't have that ability to shut him down.
They didn't have picks like the Wrexsei, which they banned.
The Poppy was banned, and he just ran rampant in this game.
And guys, I'm so happy that Jose Dioto got to do this, even if I'm really sad.
But I'm also incredibly pissed off with Casey.
because it's not hidden information.
If you look at the numbers, if they've ever watched a single one of your broadcasts,
if they've ever listened to a single one of your podcasts,
spoken to anyone who's met Jose personally,
or just, you know, watched a game of League of Legends,
you would know that this is a big problem if it goes through.
And the worst part, the icing on this very shit cake
is that they started a 2v2 skirmish
in mid-jungle that started the snowball.
That was them who started, that was KZ, that was Yaikou, EQ'd in,
to Elise in, who's so much better!
With Yosuo closer playing as a...
Yes, exactly! And there is a world.
If Yosuo had recalled, if you're up a man in Vantage, where Jose Dioto might have looked foolish,
that is not this world. That is not this timeline.
That was awful.
Honestly, I think even if they just watched the World Cup,
they would have expected this level of kicks from an Argentinian,
and bound it away, but, you know, bit of disrespect.
Has anyone ever seen Messi and Jose in the same room at the same time?
I haven't. So, there we go.
Personally, I have not.
Look, I'm going to be honest, it's hard to be optimistic right now about KC, but I think we do need to talk about it because right now it really feels like TL are running away with this series, no doubt 2-0 up.
But this game was even less close than the first game, even more dominant, and I'm wondering if KC are just going to fall apart because frankly, this has been far too sloppy, far too inconsistent, I think for any fan, pundit or analyst to feel really confident predicting KC in game 3.
game three. I mean it's kind of crazy when you even look at the damage at the end. Yeah,
he wasn't really able to do much in the fights. I did think that Kona had a much better game
than on the vein. I think that Callis played a pretty darn good Ezreal game, but you can't
allow someone on the other team to get this far ahead and expect them to be able to make up for
it. And I feel like Jon had a better performance here on the mel. He was the person I was most
concerned about because tournaments so far has been a bit rough and you're into Jarvan Rumble
as in a mobile pick, but a lot of times when he was the focus, able to get that damage out,
able to buy time for the team and allow them to turn it around, it feels like the preparation.
We saw it against T1 from TL has been better and they're demonstrating that again here.
So, Jakos, they're down 2-0, what do they do?
This is the hard part, right? Because I wish I could tell you there's one player who's been
a shining light throughout the entire series, but it's just not the case. I think every single
member of KC has blundered, has fumbled. So, I will say that I believe that the players on this
team are good enough. I believe all five of them have shown the potential to carry.
None of them have done it yet, so I won't pick a single lane, but I will say that one player on KC has to rise to the challenge, because thus far, none of them have.
I agree. I mean, it's step up right now, or go home, 0-3, the TL, game 3, coming at you right after the break.
I'm gonna fight.
I have a BG.
You can tell the opponent's where I am.
I have a BG.
I have a BG behind.
I'm behind the BG.
I'm coming.
I have a BG.
That's right.
Oh, I have a BG.
I have a BG.
I'm coming, I'm coming!
I'm coming Azura, Azura no flash, Azura no flash, Azura no flash!
At first, coming, coming.
Rumble flash as well.
That was soft.
I'm moving.
Nice shot.
Wait.
Huh?
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select here as we get into game number three. As KC, try to find it. Try to figure it out
to bring themselves back into this series and possibly get themselves a reverse sweep.
but their backs could not be closer to the wall.
Well, luckily for them, Lee Sin,
or they cannot play it again.
And they're still banding the Akali,
that is a good band against Quid.
All right, there we go.
Some homework has been done.
Some, not all of it.
The Bard also gonna be taken away here.
And first pick, now available for TL.
See what Morgan is going to be taking away.
I always just think it should be Renekton.
For that's because all I care about is Morgan
playing his favorite champion. They did ban the Jays. Chances instead, Nautilus is going to be locked in for CoreJJ.
Yeah, because you're kind of hitting on towards like the comforts that have been taken away from Team Liquid,
but a lot of those comforts are gone for KC as well, right? Like the top lane, the Rumble been taken away,
the Vayne was even a big pick for Conor domestically, the Lucio's champion pool has been whittled down as well,
down as well. So I am curious what the plan is going to be here.
As Jin was not the high priority that I was expecting.
I was thinking about Jin, but not positively.
I haven't been a fan of Varus after the nerfs.
Yes, and he's still the team still are.
So they're going to take it away and yarn himself.
Has been a good game on it, right?
They played the only lethality Varus that we've had so far
this season, this tournament and did pick up a victory.
And Ziak is not allowed to play the bird.
And yeah, maybe it's just a Zinz-L here.
And you're trying to look for Push-On-Bottling into Alice?
It was a Zinz-L?
Oh, okay.
What about an immediate Silas pick up?
I mean, honestly, the Silas buffs I thought were really crazy.
I've been waiting for Silas to come out either in mid or in jungle.
I mean, Silas into Alistar is just so good, yeah.
Alistair though was one of Lucio's pick from the first place that he was exceptionally good on and was able to make a lot of plays on the
Rooms so trying to find an answer into the Nautilus I think makes sense as well because you hook him with the Nautilus
You get the pulverize, Jynch roped and there is your pick. There it is. Morgan gets his
Crocodile and I am a very happy man. Senna is gonna be hovered here for quid for the moment
They will lock that one down
So Senna not as powerful as she was the patch prior
It is still able to get work done in the later stages with a whole bunch of extra range
Yeah, and honestly should still be able to stack souls off Alistar pretty nicely with the double melee support matchup for bottom lane
So even though the kill drop percent chance for the souls was there
Still can farm them pretty nicely off melee champs
And scion was tapped on this patch, but didn't really do anything still we have seen renekton's have a better time in this matchup
So far this tournament
Kind of still going to go towards that one trying to nullify the crocodile out of Morgan
I think Doran was the one that tried to do this against Morgan and really failed to do so even though they did win the game
Morgan did solo kill
Look good. Morgan has really really been on fire this tournament and at the end of our playoffs as well
So definitely worse the confidence there now. Let's look towards mid and jungle though
So, as we're trying to get down to it, I always think that Trundle is just so OP versus Asylum,
and not only because they ult, but also the pillar is so good.
Yeah.
Okay, there you go.
Protection ban to Trundle.
That is a very good ban.
I think if they had a block in Trundle's Silas, that would have been like, well, we can go
home.
Pack it up.
But they are going to be out of ban away that Trundle.
And then, since Trundle has banned, you mentioned Zin.
Zin is now a higher priority since Trundle has banned away there, too, so maybe we raise
the priority here for jungle. We also have seen things like skarner in the lec in that
that have been working very well especially just you want this 10 front line for kc and
then you've always got the option to try and leave sas counter pick for you who has this
goes on. Maybe. Damn so many tanks already with the siren and the alistar. How much beef
is too much beef? I mean you got a cow so there's a lot of games. Um yeah they can probably
play whatever they like and the other thing that is like the counter matchup that we've
we've seen it as in Zahal of old is the Kha'zix that we've seen already Hobbiton considered.
That's not a tank, that does the damage.
The Silas is going to be banned away as well, it's KC, they're not allowed to listen to
the broadcast so that is just their choice and they're going to deny me what I wanted.
Okay, one last ban hit to come through here from TL, similar to they focus on Yehut again
or whether it is going to be something else.
There's going to be a lot of
bans gone for the mid lane.
A lot of champions gone for the mid lane.
So I'm curious what the plan is.
I mean, we did get buffed and I've
kind of been a little surprised that we haven't seen
more of them.
I mean, that'll definitely be something for like cream
for top of these sports later on.
But I thought teams might try and look
towards it just going to be this Leia instead.
All right.
The making Morgan's life a little bit more difficult
can certainly get some work done into the Nautilus there as well.
So they need point and click CC to go with her to Leia
to set it up for jungle.
But Pantheon was already played.
So fine, anybody?
We're banned already, so, well, it's kind of difficult there.
It's a quite a little nut for the KC side,
but I like it for the TL side here to go for a Shyvana angle
when you do already have a lot of lane.
This is a very similar carry jungle.
When you have Senna Nautilus, having carry jungle
is really, really powerful.
Nautilus is going to give you the CC setup
instead of obviously going to allow the Olaf to stay in the middle of the fight.
Two damage for the Alistar as well, I think it can help.
Yeah, you can have viewed all the CC of all Thalia, Alistar, and Sion, so...
I was wondering if we might actually get the Rex on the other side of the map, I think it's been let through, but...
Could quick get his hands on a very much-a-comper picked for him, but maybe the Aryan said yeah?
Just going to be in a very physical composition if that's locked in the Yone.
But, I mean, Yone does do mixed damage, so I guess there's that. The Aryan going to be the choice instead.
I mean, Jose just dropped a low. Is that like a 13 bomb 14 kill something on them? So like, you know what?
You're gonna be the whole lot. You're gonna be the main carry here, buddy. Oh
Should have played Lulamin or something weird like that. You know, I just try an old man Janna mid. Let's go
As that is going to be the Keanu locked in for yike damage coming out of the jungle
It's what we were kind of looking for
In this one just in general and Keanu to leader has been a pretty powerful combo as well
So, my only worry for the Kiana is like team Liquid should have pushed in their top side
and if they can start to get Olaf into the enemy jungle, I think that's where Kiana will
really start to struggle in that 1v1 against the Olaf.
So, I think if Team Liquid could try and play Redhose and Yoda was the hat in the past,
I think it was a very big win condition for them, whereas for KC, I think it is trying
to play for as you say, like that big wombo combo through that mid jungle and hoping that
Yike can have some of those combos we saw against T1 but actually get the win this time
rather than a bottom of the flat.
I do love the around the world Keanu Alps when you have a Taliyah wall
connecting the other sides of Summoner's Rift, you just get the longest Keanu alt of all time.
That could be an option. I am very worried for the Keanu in the 1v1 matchup,
because I feel like after 15 minutes you will just get run down by the ult.
At least Keanu can utilize grass really well.
That's right, you can go into tricky.
You definitely don't want to fist fight the Olaf, but you have to use trickery for your advantage.
trickery with the grass and then go for burst damage.
Still, I do feel like these compositions a lot more evenly matched
and not as weird as far as the matchups are concerned in the last couple of games.
And with how Casey like to play, which is a lot of slow and steady,
or at least that's what I heard, slow and steady gameplay
that might be able to help them out here.
And we'll see whether they can get us to a fourth game
for the first time this tournament.
When we have seen Busey on the Salister, it has been much more about getting active in the early stages, very similar to what we saw on things like the Camille.
So maybe less slow and steady for Casey in this one, but we'll have to see how this one pans out.
And speaking of getting active early, Olaf and Nautilus pretty good invade combos.
So they had a little soft invade up there towards the top side, but right back to Raptor's start for both junglers.
And they are going to power clear.
Now, I will say this little bit of information is quite nice.
They got to leave this ward behind on Krugs too,
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I would have expected to get more lucks.
That was what I was thinking.
True.
And let's see whether history is going to repeat itself.
It's a bit of a fight, but I think you guys can talk about this.
Yeah, first stand.
I mean, Spawn talked about it to us last night.
Yeah.
And he was like, why did everybody
think that he was going to beat us?
Like, you know, he, Spawn, beat them at first stand.
It was 2-1, so it's not going to be exactly a repeat, especially if TL have their way this game.
Yep, call JJ with the fire. He's like, we beat them last time and that'll happen again.
Yeah, but in EU memory, we made it to finals. That means we're gooder.
So that was kind of what we were hoping for.
The problem is, we don't really get the second chance if we lose this one.
We're just there to determine which is important.
I don't think you're going to get to finals again.
Yeah, yeah.
But KC, we still hope G2 can beat them.
No, yeah, I meant the we as in the KCG, G2, certainly with an opportunity to do so.
We are going to have a look at all three of the lanes here.
Currently with no big advantages just yet, but you can see Kanna holding his own quite nicely into Morgan in this top lane.
Morgan got the push. Meanwhile, bot side push here for KC with Felicity and Lucio utilizing the Varus effectively here early on.
And so it should just be split scuttle crabs for these two junglers opposite clears of course as we said they both start their Raptors
So you're gonna have the early Raptor respawns for both of them. They're both trying to power farm both trying to get to their level sixes
So it should be fairly common everything going kind of according to plan here
You get a little bit extra time of course after your first clear
So this is like the 90% jungle play you almost always just leave your ward over there Raptors
and he's going to cross here to over towards Jike back to his Raptors and so we'll both have vision of each other doing our second clears
And yeah, quick gonna lose a bit of his health bar, but that is all that really results from that last play
As you're on a car JJ just down here just trying to hold down the fort
I don't think you're expecting to win this matchup as the Senate Nautilus
Just with the power of the Varus early has gone lethal tempo
So we're not going to get the lethality varus and actually really like this
I do feel like they need
Consistent damage moving into that late game and let's just hope that Callist can have good positioning so they can actually get those
Autos down. Yeah, meanwhile look at Olaf. We have a little deviation from Jose. He did he did not go into a
Standard green clear here. He's taking some extra time on this fashion wave
And yikes moving towards the topside as well flash out from Morgan already as he slices away
Doesn't void the damage there from the queue then does back away as we had a look at Jose Dioto in game 2
Yeah, just breaking records and making records here after that incredibly
sin performance and we'll see what he can do on the Olaf.
Yeah, so he had a little bit of extra time there because of the extra time
spent killing the red on the previous clear, goes back now for Krugs and both
of them honestly very close to mirrored vision too.
With the control ward also being left behind here in TL side to see their
second clear and I actually remember one of our first jungle penta kills was
actually on an Olaf. Can't quite remember who it was that picked it up.
It was probably someone like Peanut or Canyon because generally most of our
records are but I can't remember off the top of my head but a possible
opportunity for Jose to do the same thing. Yeah especially as this game goes
later like three items on towards the Olaf plus having the sender to support
He's huge.
He's got pulverized from Boussio, makes his way in.
It's piercing dark and it's actually working out quite nicely from Yon.
As they avoid the piercing arrow as well.
Yeah, it does feel like Boussio trying to get control of this bottom side.
You can see multiple pings going on towards the second squad of spawn.
So that's where KC is starting to rotate to now.
And you can see the pings right now.
Their question mark being the grumps that they have the ward on.
So they're like, okay, he's not doing grumps.
He must be doing dragon right now.
Their bottom lane just pushed in and moved up.
And CL can't do anything about it, even though they can surmise.
position and a good call from KC because as we said they had basically the
Miward set up on the opposite side of the map so they knew Jose was up on top
sign and get their first dragon for KC. Yep, Jose is going to be out of clear out
this control ward but his position was known as well moving up towards the
Raptor camp potentially. He is faking going for the Raptor respawn though and
then moving down to cover his own so Jaik will move across with Buseo but
Jose will be here now spotted but the Olaf is on us. Good vision on both sides
to be honest is it's sort of a bit of an information battle as Yike is able to
steal this one away the wall goes down but Gwyd gets him off it yeah who is
just going to back away so just trying to play defensively here KC making sure
that no Biffo goes down in this early stage and things remain incredibly even
who's they still trying to get this reinvade though no push in mid for us
might he just want he knows you like just use this might but good draw there
from Yike pulls them all the way back into the brush is a little risky though
because he is only level five versus the level six and yeah who it showed in mid. I quit it just reset. So there
Couldn't potentially been a moment for KC
But decided not to pull the trigger to me is to walk back down towards his bottom side
Giving a yank a little bit more time again to just farm up a bit of a leaf from
But Paul Brice does come on through here
It's changed the corruption come down at the same time boost your only level five
So it doesn't have the unbreakable will as yawn trying to do his best called JJ flashing away with the hail of arrows
He's going to connect max range on the anchor to get the escape out from this Nautilus
But did still have to use the flash in the play
The boost you're doing a good job of body blocking the hook to the terrain in front of them
So that then you have to burn the flashes Kory JJ still manages to escape
But it does give Casey a little bit of an advantage now on that bottom side. Yeah, Jose was moving down
That's why you saw young playing so aggressively and Casey they smelt it. So they are going to be able to back away successfully
No big advantage is being picked up even as Centelite actually doing fine as far as farm
I think that is going to be entirely evened out as these minions do get taken
Teleport back in as Kalista is going to face check does get sned piercing darkness comes down to the piercing arrow
Is there as well a lot of piercing from both of these 80 carries?
Who's using that teleport off the Summoner's mobile phone to get back into the lane means they should be able to get a fight for themselves
Although maybe not wanting to overextend too much still ensures to where the Olaf is quite at the minors
But uh, we'll open up a roam for Buseo
And I think that's where they really do want to try and unlock Buseo from this bottom lane right now get him active on the map
Yeah, Alistar pretty good at uh making an impact in other lanes
We'll be out of moving demand, but you can see that he is shadowed by core JJ immediately
Right, also wants to use his ultimate as he starts up the grubs, this may be the area
to do it.
Yeah, Morgan going to move down and the Sion is in the bottom lane KC, man disadvantage
for this particular objective and I think that they are just going to back away and
just let Kanna create some control for themselves by taking this bottom lane out.
Yon is going to lose a bunch of his health bar as Kanna is just basically unaware of
the turret's existence.
It felt like a very late swap from KC though, because...
Oh hang on, is there gonna get caught here?
Well, yeah, I guess moving down, there was a lot of good vision here from TL.
So, CoreJJ making his way in to flash on forward, flash out from Yarn as well,
as he gets a supreme display of talent, but the ulti from Yarn keeps him alive for a little longer,
just not quite long enough, his first blood does go over to the Sion.
Ari roamed from Qid.
Yeah, no flash available here for Kanna, no ulti as well, but he gets into the minion wave.
I don't know whether it's gonna be enough, though, as the charm still goes wide.
Anchor is going to be there to lock him down, and it's TL that even out the kills.
Okay, little shut down there.
4 quid on the compensation flame.
Mid flame does get pushed to the top.
Yeah, there is the dominance here from Morgan.
Flash is forward, and now the Ragnarok is going to get popped from Jose.
Kalis can get taken down first.
Buccio nowhere to run, as there is the true damage.
And it's Morgan that locks up the kill in the end.
Yeah, they split it there.
Morgan's like, all right, I'm going to take the second one, holds off, holds off.
and gets it, one for each of the TL Bash brothers in the top lane.
Man, that is exactly what you want to see is the Olaf though.
You can just ulti and walk forwards towards him.
He'd flash into the lane.
Yeah, knowing that there was no real follow-up,
the case he could have once the Olaf ends up getting that ultimate.
You can keep him off the carry.
Kalis goes down.
Morgan stays alive for so long,
and TL picking up big wins in the top lane.
Yeah, really good plan from TL there.
They're lying in way, ready for the countergank, both flashing onto Kalista, being able to get
this kill.
Now, a lot of summer spells used, okay, because Yon also had to use his earlier on the other
side.
So there's a couple areas for this Qiyana to attack.
You saw how, you know, effective Yikes' ult was in the dive.
Maybe he can get something going on the second one.
With this Umbral Glaive, it is so nice to roam around, keep that vision control, so you
can keep another pathway for Bucio to help roaming with you.
It did feel though that KC kind of fumbled the swap a lot though, right?
They ended up being late towards the rotation to go for the Grubbs and you end up then in
this mixed match where Jose Dioto and Morgan can actually chase you down.
Sure you get the kill on the bottom side, but it's been a big win for TL.
KC though, now with the push on mid lane, going to move over towards the dragon.
You have the TP for Morgan if they really want to, and Jose Dioto is in the pit.
Wait, he just walks over.
It is going to be the secure on the drake though as Jose down to 50%, there's the Ragnarok
to get him out of the CC, and now quick dashes over the wall.
There's the over deception, and the ulti to come through,
the dawning chatter to keep them alive.
Yike down so incredibly low, but TL,
they have to worry about the brick wall
that is this side on the anchor.
It's just gonna go straight into Kanner as Jose.
Side step secure, headbutt pole from Buzio,
as he tries to take Mavis with hands on shield.
Incredible on the Jose, but he is gonna be taken down first,
and the unbreakable will of this Alistar keeps him alive.
Kor also going to be kept alive at the same time as Quid.
Now in the back of the pit does have to flash away
and Yaik is hunting for these escaping members of TL
but they will be able to make their way out.
What the hell are the fights in these series?
They're so close, Yaik.
Wait, be chased down by Yon.
Well, should be able to just dash himself away.
But oh my God, that was close.
I mean, Jose went in there, he has no flash.
Is it Olaf?
Olaf in the pit.
You're like, okay, he's gonna ult away
but then he's just walking back and forth,
strafing in the back of the pit teleport though the play is not done quite yet.
Yeah it's Morgan making his way in as the ruthless predator should be out of sync
his fangs in sets up for the charm and that is a very dead scion no options for
Kanna and Morgan is just going to deal with this zombie as well so that's
tail getting another kill back but look at the goal I mean KC is still in a
fine position here in this game and with double dragon and you see it Jose goes
in Kanna is doing a good job of trying to buy space but he has no damage
behind them just kind of waiting babusio sees the moment for the knock of the open kind of gets some good damage like
Snipes from the brush and again kind of kind of binds based on towards quit and yawn is the case
He can kind of work their way in towards this pit again
But it got so dodgy towards the end of this especially with that locked in onto Kalist
Yeah, it was a it was a weird call from Tia because Piazza is really hard to outsmite because she has really good
Jungle monster modifiers and then you acted a good job using his ultimate as well
get to the dragon and they get the kills afterwards so KC they bring the gold right back to even and
To dragon stacking it is exactly even as well and we have a chemtek soul often times people don't like chemtek soul
I'm seeing an Olaf here Renekton and an Ari like there are so many champions and a Senna
I mean I skipped like the most important one you get so much value
you from this Chemtex all because everyone can kind of be kept alive with shields and heals at lower health.
And so this Chemtex all could be incredibly valuable, especially for TL, but I mean the same can be said on the other side of the Rift as well.
Okay, let's see who is going to be able to keep stacking these up, whether it's going to be KC or whether it's TL finally prioritizing the Drake.
because I don't think Taylor necessarily not had very much control in this game.
They just haven't been focused on the dragons.
Yeah, very much so, because they're looking at how their commas are going to operate later.
You know, they're trying to bank on Yon stacking souls and then getting some money into Jose.
So they get to the point where this Olaf just gets to run at Varus and Taliyah.
And those champions are not going to be able to dash away.
Nope. And they need to get to the kind of the critical point where Jose and Morgan
are going to be able to dive and put that pressure onto the back line.
I think that's why you can see KC trying to be so active with this portion of the game.
Pushing in mid, trying to establish vision from the spot side, trying to shift both Buccio and Jyke
towards either side of the map, maybe trying to find a play, because they know that as this game
starts to go on, this Olaf and this Senna are going to get significantly more terrifying
for their back line, so hoping they can catch Team Liquid and start to blow up in this game
a little bit more on their fate.
Alright, as the dust settles, we're moving back towards the mid lane.
We're gonna call it a K-RAM because we are in Korea at the moment.
We're in the river at this particular point in time.
As now the anchor comes forward, double knockup there from CoreJJ.
As they're looking for Kallisti, flashes out of the way,
but it's not gonna be able to escape.
Jose Dioto right now is a train.
Just drives past the Viking.
Yeah, getting the supreme display of talent,
but it's now Buzio dead in this split fight.
It works out so beautifully for TL, KC.
Kind of just fell apart.
I thought it was going to take a while for the Olaf
to get back to the Varus.
But the Varus is right there in front of CoreJJ.
CoreJJ nails him with the hook, and they full combo Kalis.
It's a beautiful setup.
Jose is like, great.
I'll just be able to take the kill early.
Take a look at this.
So into the brush here.
CoreJJ is going to walk over with Yon.
And then, boom, right there, right in the glissons.
Guess what?
Olaf right behind him.
So that's gonna be a very dead Varus very early on from that point that you're basically trying to scramble and get it
People out evacuate but quit also hitting the charm there and yeah, they're able to finish off who's yo
And I mean, I'm still trying to figure out like this walk towards the bush. They knew that the nonless was it
Hmm that that is one
There's also kind of deciding to drive the train past the very scale it scary Olaf that did just lose Ragnarok
Which could have potentially helped him and yike make something happen
But was a bit of a mistake there from KC and it does put TL in a fantastic position.
The first big gold advantage here in this game is TL looking for that date against T1 coming up tomorrow.
Try and get themselves a spot in the main stage of MSI.
Remember, this is just a low bracket.
There is still one more test to get yourselves towards that main stage coming up after this.
4 JJ doing such a good job here constantly sweeping constantly thrown down control wards and guess what now
You're gonna have to enter into the dragon area here versus to who are ready to dive again
And I think 4 JJ has been such a standard performer for me for team liquid MSI
He has really stepped up the Nautilus in particular has been fantastic and he may find Calist once more here
Yeah, and you're gonna connect on the counter. This is gonna be their first target in this fight
There's not a lot of follow-up. It's in the meantime though
There is an Ari lying on the floor so quid not able to do too much and they're able to protect canna with a great weaver's wall
This might actually be able to get KC this sole point that they've been looking for TL
They do not want to give this one up
But I mean it's so difficult without their mid laner who doesn't have teleport as well
Buzio goes in gets the pulverizer steal from Jose
Never mind it wasn't it was actually the Riftale taking down a turret as now
We've got a teamfight as Morgan knocked up into the sky, but he's gonna get on top of the list once again
Buccio is dead in TL! They are still going to win the ensuing fight as the Blastcon pulls back Kanna!
And he's able to unstoppable onslaught his way out of there. That was such a weird period of play.
They know where Morgan is. He does not want that fight.
I got so enthusiastic because I saw that there was Olaf taking something.
And the smite didn't actually come on through. Casey were at least able to get themselves to the point.
self-stall point. Yeah, Buzio does a good job. He's just keep him a barely out of range, but this is the real surprise.
Yeah, Quid deleted by Yike there. Nicely done by Yike right out of the brush, and Quid also flashed there.
So no wonder they deleted him, but they also got his summoner spell.
Had he just teleported to that part of the map as well on top of everything?
So that's even more that he misses out on the next little while. Still 2.6k going to be the advantage for TL and
And breaking open at the middle of the map going to be very important for this squad at the same time
So I think still in a good position
But giving over the soul is going to be a rough one
Especially when KC do kind of want to speed things up getting to an early elder could be dangerous here for TL before their centers online
I think they still do have an exception strong combo with you
I thought you could see how quickly he could delete quiz
Yeah, if he ends up finding that big play in the middle of a team fight that could be it like the gold is 2.7k at this stage
It's nice but not insurmountable for KC, but especially as Team Liquid now gets set up on sidelines
I think this is where they start to become more threatening like Ari very good in the position
Morgan under an active with the lead very strong and Jose Dioto more than happy to dive these turrets if it works for him
Well, it might work for him right now as they are moving towards Canna the referee got something to say to this player
It's kind of really wants to get rid of this turret is Ari
just gonna dash in front to make sure that he's not able to ult away and he moves away from the turret not exactly
Opportunity it's gonna take a while to kill him to kill him
They will and TL now looking for an opportunity to take down this turn at the same time
They will be out of get it three grubs gonna be helping out there
It's a zombie sign on no help from the rest of his teammates. They'll actually moving for a little bit more aggression in this mid lane
Good good block there from Buzio for list that this slow on him
So I don't want to try to thread the needle there and get this there
but instead this walks up and takes itself.
Nobody's gonna die for Casey there,
and they'll still get their cross map of the tower,
but nice play from TL.
They're just brute force.
They're like, yes, we will be able to kill you.
Jose doesn't even respect the zombie getting back up.
He's like, ah, it's fine.
Do whatever you want.
I'm gonna kill this tower, too.
Yeah, awesome working shifting from top lane.
No, look, that tower's gonna go down.
I can't do anything about it.
Cover is the mid lane,
so this virus can't even get more of that plate gold.
And now you're in a position
where you get to reestablish yourselves on this top side,
but Baron will put it out.
It does seem hard for KC to combo like more than one person.
Like I'll definitely give you, Yike could definitely like one shot quid or one shot Yod.
But if Olaf now on two items is able to run down your, wait a second,
they're going to make a big play on topside. That's everybody for TL.
Yeah, that's a whole gang. They got their whole gang together.
Looking for an angle towards Yahoo, but he is going to be able to pick up this wave.
Looks like they're not looking for anything here.
Jose the spot yike does manage to find him there with the scryers bloom
Now sprinting over TL. I mean, they just want to kill someone
Yeah, if you could even get someone summoner spell right now, it'd be a really big win because a minute on the dragon
Yeah, yike is gonna get pushed away to understand there are a lot of tail members moving on over
They have dropped vision towards that top side
So the counter Baron is not looking like an option here and early control of this dragon area when you're staring down the barrel of soul point
Smart idea. Yeah, the map just feels so shortened for KC because you're constantly getting controlled over mid
Kali's can't really step up to contest that mid push and then you're shifting with core JJ Jose Diodo and on back and forth
Getting all the vision you want to nine KC in the access to river
And if anyone at all steps up they just immediately die like Kanna is the only real tanky one of this team
Yeah, and I think that Tiel should make the call to
you know prioritize
diving Yehu instead of Kalis. Kalis right now isn't even going to do much damage if he's, you know, if he's attacking people
but I think taking out the Taliyah first then would be the
obviously like ideal priority, but you know if Kalis is there too also still a good target to run down and
Okay, now he's got rageblade. So now it's definitely a bit more threatening. Yeah, two items pretty scary here
We do have a couple for Yon also put together there as the manamune has been completed now as well
Well, and he's going to start doing a fair bit of damage himself, 62 on the souls meter
as well.
It's not too shabby.
So is he standing on a ward?
This could be a problem.
Is the teleport in from Morgan?
We'll be able to augment this play.
Down here.
Yeah, just spawned as Morgan spotted on vision, there's spring display talent only on a core
JJ, but they are looking to burst him down.
They find it as Yon also gets a snare into that backline, but there is the interruption
on Morgan dawning.
Shabby, you're doing so much work as they take two down already.
No bottom lane left, his quits dashing towards Yehu, who is just running for their hills. Morgan cares not for your turrets, KC!
Although maybe he should, as he's taking a lot of damage, just flash away, and Canada, looking at flash after him, does not find the angles.
Yehu, not going to be out of defend as they look to move back and take the dragon.
Okay, so KC, they do one-shot somebody, but it's only the Nautilus, and so Team Liquid, they win in the scramble and they're going to deny the dragon soul.
the dragon saw you all played that fight so well the immediate flash away from
the supreme display talents who doesn't get caught and then gets the roost on
towards Calis as well as yeah who wants to fight against quit with the sidesteps
though yeah who's here don't make his way forward can is here as well quid
ladies and gentlemen is dead he's gonna be out of take him and that is the
shutdown so nicely done there first kill going over to Yahoo and I think getting
money on your Taliyah going to feel fantastic looking for that third item
and wanting to be able to augment the damage here for KC.
Yeah, I mean, it's a good follow-up play,
because, you know, that's how they killed Kalis
was Quid, Ulten, flashing forward to follow up
and get the charm on him off that route
that you're talking about,
that Yan was able to land on him.
So they knew no mobility left for that Ori.
Let's punish him up on the side lane.
Grab that shutdown money while we can.
All right, as the dust settles,
we have the soul denied,
so four minutes on another opportunity for KC,
that one Chemtech Dragon is not really going to mean too much for TL.
They have a long road ahead of them if they do want to even out the drakes in this game.
So Casey still with a lot of tempo control, I think in this game.
But whether they can utilize it correctly is going to be the big question as we move forward
as we check out the Coinbase gold grind. Yon doing a whole lot better than Calist in this game
and better than I was expecting because he's playing center.
And oftentimes you feel like you fall behind and it does feel like there's kind of like
choice here from KC, they're not giving as much of that gold in, of course Kalis, and you can see here, sorry, this was the play,
Yon flashing away then gets the roost through onto Kalis, which then sets up perfectly for creature flash 4 and he gets the pick,
and really so much of this play being off the back of Yon playing this exception and then setting up for Jose Dioto,
kind of knocked them down where they'd already been settled.
Exactly, running them down, getting the extra kills here, of course on the top side you have this, now we're back to it.
Yep, more fighting as Yank gonna get taken down a little bit lower, but that's going to be CoreJJ
in a bit of trouble. Deathcrouch comes in, dawning Shatter to try and keep his Nautilus alive as Quid gets into the backline.
Spring just by telling them there's so much work and they managed to take down the Olaf,
but still Yon is fighting Quid's still alive.
Buccio taken out as Morgan brings his Renekton into the backline.
The mega Blascoe and Gordy trying to get counter after relative safety,
but the Charm connects and TL, even without their Viking, are able to win the fight.
They're able to get the extra ones, and they can push the towers after this too.
They've got mid-wave and top-wave all pushing in their favor.
They only dropped the Olof this time with the burst image at the very end there.
Jaik is able to get it off.
Is that a 5v5 over a blue buff?
Yeah, it looks like it.
Hell yeah!
And it looked kind of, as you say, decent here for KC to begin with,
because Jaik doing a good job of separating.
Buzio has actually been able to keep people off of Kalis on this side as well alongside Kana.
And it's the supreme display of talent that then sets people off.
Yeah, so Yike is able to burst down Olaf.
Morgan is able to get back and then force the list to flash away.
And so the topside going well for them,
and they have plenty of time then to finish up the zombie down there.
I mean, Morgan is just kind of wrecking havoc there
through these fights as Renekton able to slip through with the slicing dice
and get the extra pressure from the other side of the fight.
Meanwhile, Yonah's just free-hitting here.
The center stacks are at 80, okay?
You know, he had a lane versus, you know, double melee supports,
Sacking up souls there and then continually stacking through all of these fights and when the games are this action packed enough so many fights
This is crazy by the way LCS really making their way back in as far as the score line versus the LEC as these stats
Actually include the two victories from TL earlier today
And also like if you look back at the last two years unfortunately hasn't been great for LEC
It's been LCS
We've been able to get the best of us for team liquid picking up a 3-1 and then it was flight quest as well
the match to get the 3-0 of leave over G2 too, so I was kind of hoping that this would be
KC who like have looked stronger than they did in the past
kind of stepping up on the international stage like we saw them the first time but really getting
run at MSI just hasn't been the case and this doesn't even feel like the KC we've seen domestically.
Yeah, they haven't really been able to rely on that strength or just still being able to win the
teamfights later. TL have still been able to get the better of them.
Alright, now setting up once again.
I mean, I feel like it does get worse because you're still thinking about the Olaf and Senna combination.
Because the Olaf, when you're buffed up by Senna, like the healing and shielding, Jose just becomes such a crazy threat.
And if you add several Chemtech dragons into that.
Yeah, kind of good. Not to mention a Renekton.
Could be so hard to kill him.
Yeah, because if the Renekton and the Olaf are sort of like going for the same target center is just giving both of them the same stuff
Just feels a little bit unfair dawning shadow can be so powerful as well to keep them
Alive, but 20 seconds until Drake number two is available for TL and still soul available for KC
They can make it happen yike was pretty good on the smite trigger finger earlier on today
This could be an opportunity for them to get a bit of power in this game
Alright, TL once again with vision control nicely set up by them.
It's going to make KC have to approach this dragon from some dangerous angles.
They do have some glass cones to work with to get a little creative, but it's so scary
you can see TL fanning out into this three point.
They're keeping vision all points of entry over towards the dragon and KC don't even
want to take a part of it.
Yep, not going to be a thing.
So that is going to be second Chemtech dragon over to TL.
I do like that KC realized they don't really have to fight for this if they can't get a good position.
And so deciding to forego it for now and get some control towards the baron fit.
Yeah, they didn't, they were in a position to trade though for anything, right?
Because you already have that top play pushed out.
Mid was fully pushed in by Team Liquid as well.
So you kind of just saw Yahoo move top, get a wave, and then that's been kind of the extent of it.
So Team Liquid are doing a decent job as well before they set up for the objective of making sure
there's not an offer for KC to take anywhere else.
Yeah, and those those experience disadvantages are becoming a problem for KC. I mean Morgan has a straight two-level lead
Yeah over conna so like the side lanes are really really hard for them to deal with because a rennet fed Renekton
And an Ari in the side lanes very very dangerous
So that's like KC keep having to catch a little and then they like lose a little bit here a little bit there when they're going
Some of these setups, you know, and even even yon is a full level ahead of Callis
So we're gonna start up the Baron.
Yeah, Yike is actually gonna go back.
They don't have any vision towards his Baron, Pepe Bustio.
He cannot check it. They do manage to get the Scryers' Bloom.
But the Baron already down to 50% Yike realizing
that he has to stick around, try and go for a bit of a trade here as the wall comes down.
Core JJ possibly caught out, flung back towards the team as he flashes away.
Death turn comes through. Yike is dead versus Kanna.
Stunned up! Core JJ's still alive!
As they're dashing into the backline.
Callist is going to keep himself alive on other sides.
Everything takes down Quinn and keeps himself alive.
Jose, next one to fall, Kanna should be wiped off the rift by Morgan, but TL and even trade
is not what they were looking for around that Baron.
Yeah, I think they were separated again.
There certainly isn't the amount of focus now I was expecting in these fights when we're
diving two different areas and they'll scroll back over and they're still on the side.
Because I thought that charm from Quinn was about to just be the end for KCE.
You see here, they jump on towards Core JJ,
but just watch the charm here from Quid.
He matches his steep past Buccio onto Yike.
He doesn't get the ult off,
and then you get this chasing to the backline.
But because the ult hasn't been hitting people,
Jose Diodo ends up with the ult falling off.
He gets double hit by Yehu.
You get the combo from Buccio onto Quid.
Khalis stays alive,
and Khan is buying a ton of time in that backline
where you have to draw Morgan away.
So in the grand scheme of things,
ends up being a two for two.
Excellent pealing there from yeah, and Buzio keeping Calista live man that's Aliyah over the wall
And Calista being able to sidestep as well avoiding the over deception
I mean quit just needed to hit anything and he would have died you saw Calista go down exceptionally low
But man
Really really close stuff
TL did have control of the game though
And so then going for an even trade going to be working out for Casey
But you can see the damage that was done in that last teamfight, Yehuu, outpacing everyone on KC,
and this has kind of been the call from KC.
It's Get Yehuu into a side lane, try and feed him a bunch of gold.
That's why he's the one member with an actual advantage when it comes towards the levels,
working up towards that rabbit on Deathcap.
KC would love to have that before this Chemtech Dragonfight, which I expect is coming in just under two minutes.
Alright, Koyotei clearing out vision.
Jose wasting no time, he's already hitting the Baron,
And there is another Skryas boom that is going to spot that one out.
So KC, utilizing the map in order to get vision,
as there is another anchor forward, not exactly the optimal target as Buseo is the one that's focused,
but on breakable will now being on cooldown.
That's a Renekton showing up.
It does have the big old shield from that teleport from the top lane.
Honestly, that's pretty good for KC.
They got the extra teleport out,
because they're the ones that used scion teleport last time.
So they did get the cooldown.
Buccio's recalling, though, Alistar with no ultimate, is pretty hard to teamfight.
Yeah, and they still have zero vision of this area, Yike not actually moving over.
They do spot it with the scrying orb.
Can KC actually go for it? There's the point blank charm!
Yike is wiped out by the dawning shadow! No smite, no chance of contesting!
The Baron here as well as TL, beautifully played!
TL, set up wonderfully on that. Managing to pick off Yike as he goes to the set up.
As he said, there was no vision, no control at all around the pitch, and TL knew us.
Now with the Baron buff, 4-1 split push, Ari on topside, and as Morgan walks in...
Yeah, he's just face-checking it. Doesn't have the dominance available.
Colomique is going to be there as the rest of TL moving on forward.
There's the unstoppable onslaught to get Kanna out of there, but that is now a big tool
that he will not be able to use. The Inatar is going to be taken down towards the topside,
and TL, this Rebel Baron power play, already at 2200,
And Quid should be able to get away from this.
I say that.
Doesn't have the ult, yes.
Yes, Flash.
Yeah, Foxfire as well.
Trying to keep him be okay.
The Flash now has to be used, though,
as, aww, just barely able to slink past.
It is easier to go into a town, though, with the Chemtech Dragon,
just a bit spawned, so, because he tried to make his way out,
but with the investment case he put into that topside,
I just don't think they can really contest this once again.
Well, that is going to be three Chemtech Dragons
here for TL so that's their sole point to come on in the maximum elemental
dragons is going to be available here in this game see I'm not going to be
contested for this one Casey's base remains intact for now but we are
moving to some pretty dangerous gold levels we certainly are and Morgan now
has a three level full lead over God he's 507 favorite player your favorite
player on his favorite champion oh and he's having such a good game on it as
Well, oh
Morgan is just wondering who is going to hit
He is wondering towards quick yike is going to be there as well
Lucio is going to be in the death chamber as the over deception comes on through doesn't care about the damage reduction from the ulti
So yes to answer your question. Yeah gone. Yeah
Yeah
Well, there's an anchor towards canner as well
who is just gonna get caught out of position flashes out of the way gets turned into a zombie as Morgan just
Wonders his way towards this inhibitor turret and KC
Just kind of falling apart here as their base is doing exactly the same thing
Inhibitor gonna go down towards the bottom side and with the remnants of this parent TL
They should be able to get Nexus turrets for this as well
Yeah, he was still trying to flank he was trying to flank this whole time as everyone was dying and the base is gone
Well, the Nexus turrets aren't going to start falling down as look at that army of siege minions that are set up to take this last one away
Buseyo has respawned though, so maybe that is gonna help them out on the defense
But now it's a naked Nexus and now it's TL so close to another date with T1 as Morgan flashers in they get on top of Yehu
They wipe him out Buseyo back to the death chamber again and Kalista is on the fountain
but his Nexus is going to explore another 3-0 as Team Liquid destroy KC.
Team Liquid well deserved.
I mean, the improvements that they've shown
outstanding. I feel like their drafting has got a lot better.
And you can definitely tell they're more comfortable on the stage.
Yeah, I mean, this one didn't even feel as close.
Jungle support have pacing across a huge amount of this series.
And Morgan getting the better of Carmen that Renekton was terrifying in these fights
He is pretty good at Renekton as it turns out but a bit of an uncharacteristic performance from Casey
I felt like they weren't they weren't a very similar position against T1 the TL was I was expecting this to be a whole lot closer
The TL I mean if you want to have any sort of performance moving towards a matchup against T1
This is the performance you want to see let's throw it back to the boys on the desk
certainly is the performance you want to see at least maybe not the performance I
personally wanted to see but North Americans fans definitely feel bad
I want to feel good about that last let's back in the glory yeah you know what
you're just so convincing yeah started show when you're talking about the
star sign I got it I really connected with the classic Aries performance yeah
I mean he was talking about phases of the moon
What was that guy talking about?
It was the moon, it's not any of that.
We can't see the moon if we're in close space.
And I will say Banter aside, hearts out to KC.
Obviously a pretty crushing way to leave the tournament.
Yep.
Was not there, did not have that level of performance.
So again, condolences.
Don't want to take away though, from the incredible performance
we did see from Team Liquid today.
I think as much as the Banter was going back and forth,
did you expect it to be that one-sided?
Because I felt like it was always going to be in Los Ricos.
It was written in the stars.
All right, fine, fine, fine.
I'll just say, I always thought it was going to be a close series.
That really blew me away how much more dominant team
like would work.
I will say, my real opinion was that coming into the tournament,
I thought KC was going to be better than TL.
But based on the actual tournament performance,
Jose and Morgan have both been playing above where I expected.
Morgan in particular, it's a crazy glow up
from the regular season.
And that is actually what made me believe
that they would have an edge today over KC.
I thought it was going to be a lot more competitive though.
But Jose went crazy.
I think KC's draft prep was horrible.
And I think that was a big contribution to it as well.
TL hard outdrafted them, in my opinion.
And I do think that Glyst had a really bad series
in some of these big moments.
Kanna had a horrible vain game.
KC just didn't show up.
I think as well, when you look at how
TL prepared for the T1 series, felt like they came in there
with some really smart drafts.
That poppy game, they did most of the work to win the game.
and then crumbled the last moment,
but that doesn't eliminate the fact
they were in a winning position against T1.
And you can see their game plans
working really well against KC.
And in game three as well, right?
Like those games were winnable.
And I don't think that KC had that big player
that was kind of stepping up in the way that, you know,
the T1 players were from those deficits.
If you get behind, you need someone to be the star,
someone to kind of, you know, do that big play.
I think Yike was trying to start out in that last game,
but we got to be honest,
There was one jungler that was standing tall in this one.
Jose had just been crazy across all three games.
The Olaf pick, I think, was really, really smart,
made a lot of sense in the draft.
It was very cohesive.
The Lee Sin game was the biggest 1B9 of the tournament,
one of the biggest 1B9s I've ever seen from a Lee Sin.
And I think the easiest AWP player of the series
we've ever had.
No surprise to see Jose Diodo.
This is, it was, the Lee Sin performance alone
would have been enough,
but really every single game he was making an impact.
He could have done basically nothing in Game 3, and yet he didn't.
He found ways to really make an impact on the Olaf, but the Lee Sin game, which is clinical,
and when I saw it, I was thinking back to that peanut game at MSI, just styling on your
opponent, picking up kills all over the map, and look at 22, 4, and 22 in the series.
Insane.
Absolute monster.
I mean, absolute monster performance, and the craziest thing is, if you have not watched
Posei in NA, it just feels like every Lee Sin game he plays looks like that.
just insane like this guy when he gets any lead is so intelligent about how he actually pushes his
advantage he plays in the face of his opponents he constantly evades he makes you fight him or he
makes you can see everything and and it really comes back to like his mindset if you talk to him
he's so fun to talk to you because you know when you go okay like how do you prepare for these
series like are you really feeling the pressure and he's just like League of Legends is a game and I
just try to have fun and and I just go out there and I just remember you know we're just playing
the game and I do my best and it's like he is just such good vibes and I think it kind of allows him to just play without stress
I don't see if he can do that on Lee Sin to NA teams, then of course he could do it to EU team
Oh, a cox! Come on, you can't tell me how that ends, buddy!
And I will say, this is the top tier analysis why we bring him in
Seriously though, the real thing for me is most players who have this dominant domestic pick cannot
transition it to an international stage. The fact that he did against an EU team that again after the first few series
As we might have said, you know, it's a little bit more TL favor, but initially looked like they would be the favorites.
And this one against a player like Yaku does have a certain international pedigree has gone the distance against LPL teams, etc.
Like, this is some really impressive stuff for him. And now I kind of want to see him T1 let it through.
I'm going to be honest, I really want to see what this looks like going up against someone like owner.
But of course we are now just getting ready for our post game interview.
So, final thoughts on this.
I'm excited for tomorrow to see how they do in the rematch.
I think they had good ideas in the finish time round, but couldn't get over the finish line.
I think they could definitely take games series might be a tall toss, but this was a great series great performance
Them today an impressive ramp up in such a short period of time to write
It's easy for a tournament as short as this one right?
We would potentially just play two series and get eliminated not to see that growth
But I think we are seeing it from TL we really are but we are gonna be joining Jose on stage for the Verizon postgame interview. Let's go
Nope never mind. We're not ready again. We're not ready. Okay. Just build us. We're eager the problem. We are eager
We're like so ready to talk to him.
We are.
He was always ready.
He's been our oppa player in the series
before that third game.
Now we're ready.
Let's do it.
Verizon post game interview with Jose Diablo.
Congratulations! First question. First off, how does it feel to win in a match where the LCS and LEC's pride on the line and make it to the next round?
It feels great. I think... I don't know, I've never been in a rivalry with you in NA because I'm from Latin, so it's kind of weird for me, but it's very fun.
I think the nerves are higher, and obviously fans are like flaming each other, so it's very fun. I think, yeah, afterwards it feels nice because we're three of them, so I'm sure that NA fans are happy now.
Actually, he's a Latin person, so he didn't really feel much about LCS and LECL in his rivalry,
but many fans are passionate about him, and they know about the culture of playing against him.
It's great to be able to win the game as a player, and I'm sure the fans will be more happy that they won 3-0.
It was also a rematch of 2025, which happened in Korea last year and the year before today.
It was also a rematch of 2025, which also happened in Korea last year and then again today.
TL handed KC a loss.
What kind of conversation did you guys have as a team about the matchup?
No, funny enough, we saw the series before coming here, I think we were thinking like,
ah damn, what happened in these games, you know, how you guys beat them, what you guys
saw in the series, but it's like different players, so it kind of changes the vibe.
But yeah, I mean, it's nice that we got a rematch.
I think it's different because OmTi was here last time, so now he's me playing, so maybe
that's why we didn't lose one game.
So yeah.
It's a fun story, but we've all played the same game before today's game.
We were watching the game together and we were wondering how we would win.
The lineup and the composition of the players were different, so it wasn't the same game or the same approach, but it was fun to watch.
Last year, Umchi was a jungler, but this year, because I was there, I thought I was sitting in the first set.
We can't stop talking about this set.
So without a set, Lee Sin won this game.
Lee Sin is the real God.
This year, Lee Sin of Jose Diodes also won the LCS season.
How many points do you want to give Lee Sin today?
Now we have to talk about your game to Lee Sin, which was Godlike.
And Lee is still undefeated in the LCS season as well.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate it?
I don't know, I think today I didn't play like normally, maybe an A from what I used to see on my game
because I think if that was a normal game I would just like finish in 20 minutes
but I think the nerves were like who I'm excited because I'm so played and I can 1v9
but then I ran out of it. So yeah, I was thinking maybe an A
but I think overall when I have a good game I can go to like 9 or 10 sometimes
but it depends sort of on the comp because I like to take leasing on certain spots
and I think today was really good so yeah.
They say they have a 10-point advantage, but in Lee Sin's case, he has a counter-match that he prefers.
He said that he feels like Lee Sin is a very good pick for a specific match or a specific match,
but today's match was also a part of that.
And recently, a player that I respect in the survey, Insec.
Let's see what Insec has done to the player's heart.
Well, when I was younger, you know, League was a game that when mechanics were like super
low.
So when somebody did something like INSEC, it was like really like exciting to watch.
So back then when I was like 14, I remember, I think I remember watching him playing Fiddlesticks
in Worlds.
I think it was in semifinals against, I don't remember the team, but I don't know, I realized
he was playing Fiddlesticks, but he also played Lee Sin and I followed him throughout the
tournament.
I really like his game style and how he played the games and since I was younger, you know, every mechanic that I see was like crazy.
So, I don't know, I really love insects when I was younger and he really made me play listen throughout my career, so yeah.
What should we ask that excuse please today?
Maybe. I hope.
And the most memorable thing at that time was the physicality of Insects, not only that, but he also showed the best of himself in the world.
And every time he showed such a splendid appearance, I thought, wow, he's doing so well.
And thanks to Insects' performance, he's been able to improve.
So I asked him if he thought he was as good as Insects.
I think it's going to be the same level.
Then, I would like to ask Insec to ask him if he could shout out with Insec.
I think Insec must be really happy watching this interview.
Would you like to give him a shout out while doing the iconic Insec kick?
Yeah, like a hit. Cool. Thank you, Insec.
Amazing.
Now, it's time for the final round of the bracket stage tomorrow.
Let's see which part of the team is the most important for the team to meet again.
But we know that they're the highest or the hardest team in this plane.
So, yeah, we just have to have a good day and we have to keep going through our tempo and wish we fun.
If you do, you might get good results.
This has been Team Liquid Alienware's Jose Diodo.
Thank you very much and good luck tomorrow.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Jisun and Jose Diodo. I love the shout out to Insect.
But of course, we are now joined by the victorious spawn,
who told us that he was undefeated.
Who told us that he would win the slow clap?
I think it's a fast clap. Why do we need a slow clap?
Good job.
Let's go!
Bro!
Oh my god.
That's my goat!
That was a good Solid High 5-2.
Yeah, sorry, Drake.
I thought we had to do you like that.
I know.
You don't have to hold back.
Don't hold back on my account.
I need you to tell me, tell it like it is.
I mean, I did tell everyone that I have never lost to Europe because I haven't had the honor
of playing G2.
So that's the goal, to get the G2 matchup because that's like, when I first took over
as head coach, I said like, we want to build team Liquid into a dynasty like G2 is in Europe.
Yeah, it's always been the goal.
I think so far I'm not doing that.
So let's not get too ahead of us, but we haven't lost to anyone else from Europe and didn't plan on doing it today.
Yeah, well, I mean, you guys played really well. One thing I really wanted to ask you about is we were just talking about this a bit, but like,
I feel as though Morgan NNA had been playing just like, he's been playing well, but he hasn't been dominating.
He's been playing more weak side, kind of playing tanks and so on.
What has happened from him to NNA from him here? You know, it's like Doran, he's chain solo killing Doran.
He's solo killing Con after he's cheese level one and a counter matchup.
Like this guy is playing the team fights insane.
Like what has happened?
He is just playing with so much confidence.
Yeah, I think we had this issue when we brought the team together
as everyone was like, oh, yonking Harry.
And then yon saying, oh, but quid,
when I played against him on 100 Thieves, he was a huge carry.
And Morgan's like, you know, this is how I'm known to play the game
as more a supporting role.
And I think that even though we were super talented,
we were just doing just enough to do our job
and then expecting it to come together.
But we've had a lot of conversations
about breaking those molds and just if you can take over a game,
just take over a game.
There was even a time in Jose's Leasing game
where Quid was like, Hey, why don't you give me that kill?
And he's like, just get on the train, buddy, shut up and get on the train.
Like I'm taking this one home.
So that has to be everyone's mentality.
Like if you have an opportunity to carry again, you got to pop off.
And I think Morgan's doing that really well.
I feel like in the T1 series, you had really good preparation, good drafts, good game plan,
but just weren't able to get over the finish line, especially in like that game too.
How would you feel about going into the rematch against them?
And how would you feel about how you, what were the failings for the team in the first match up?
Yeah, I mean, arguably, if you look at our international history with this roster, T1 is actually our rival, like MSI were able to take a game, EWC, we arguably should have beaten them, up 6,500 gold in the deciding matchup.
Yesterday, a couple of days ago, it felt like we really let ourselves down, because like we were so prepared for them, and I think that the reality is when you play these teams, we've watched 100 times more VODs of T1 than T1 has watched of TL.
So we should be super prepared and we should know what's happening and you know game to I think we should have won that game
But we let it slip and then game three we could have won that game
So to not convert either of them it just really felt like we let us out down and we're super hungry because of it
So I know you're not the on-stage drafting coach now
But talk to me a bit about drafting because I feel like everyone I've talked to has been very impressed with your preparation
Not only against T1 but also here you guys are going in with a lot of the different looks
You know
I remember we had talked at one point in NA and you had talked about how you know
We just need to get us a 50-50 draft because we have good players and like then we're expected to win from there
Yeah, you're bringing out yasuo mid yasuo top
You're bringing out Olaf in situations where we haven't seen it from you before you're bringing out the mages bot
You guys feel like you've unlocked a new level of flexibility. So kind of talk to me about what's going on there
Yeah, 100% you know credit to Spooks when I bought him on this year
I thought that drafting is one of his strengths and then his job is to really prepare our drafts and what we want to do
And then my job is to tell the team what the enemy is going to draft in response to that
So for example, I knew yeah, who was going to play the interview today. It's something that he's been really famous for
So we have to have a pick in mind for that coming into the draft
So I think it's working really well at this tournament
I think that our spooks and haytham are going above and beyond in their preparation
And I think that this is something that the flexibility and you know
I can't play for it a little bit but that enjoyment of the game
It's like if it's a time to play Yasuo, we should not be like oh no one else plays Yasuo
I was like, I just picked the Yasua.
Morgan played at top.
We've played at mid now.
This is something that we want to be known for.
There's a couple more picks coming,
so hopefully we get to show them off.
Oh, a couple more picks coming.
Yeah, I'm ready to see that kind of diversity,
but I'm curious for you, you've already had this series
against T1 where you showed good looks,
but the transition wasn't quite there.
Super dominant series, kind of as expected against DCG.
And now this KC series, which I think was far and away
more one-sided than most fans would have expected,
what do you credit to the rapid growth and performance
at this tournament?
comfortable on the stage is it more that there were just a couple fumbles here and
there on the first day why are we seeing this it feels like the acceleration
for TL you mentioned the Morgan performance how what is making it all
come together here you think we have a different definition of like what the
expected results are I don't think North America has lost to a non G2 European
team in a couple of years so I think we came into the game against them in MSI
I'm not more concerned about the 3-0 I'm not afraid to lose but the 3-0
we also swiped fanatic when we played them at AWC didn't we also would bait them
like candidly when we played against them. Flakmusses have their number as well. Lyons
look pretty good. So I just think right now outside of G2, NA is better than Europe. And
I think that now we have to prove that we can go with the big boys as well. The thing
that I admire so much about G2 is they have taken that next step. When they play against
the number one and number two seats from LCK and LPL that you think that they could be
the favorites in this series. And that's what we've got to start doing. So, you know, Lyon
got to get on their bike and we got to do it for the LCS. I always say, when we play
these series now we got to take all of this back to the lcs and level our
region up and restore that pride that's all the players are trying to do that's
all what the coaches are trying to do we want people to think that you're speaking
to my heart I mean there's not a lot to add after that there's an inspirational
message I'm glad as a caveat I get a little bit of g2 in there is a little
bit of copium but that's kind of the thing that I want you know for my
entirety my region too I don't want to be the one one team region but glad to
have the one team this is at least leading the way a technical example
You're gonna play a little bit better one man
He probably could not have played better because he just played so fantastic he was other day
We heard an interview but in her hyper X replay those I chose once again why his leason keeps getting banned against
Yeah, I mean the kids afraid on leason like I actually was watching his videos in the off-season
I was like oh my goodness
He's leason is actually next level and he has such an aura of confidence on himself when he plays every single fight
He's like I'm going to do this and I'm going to do this in 60 seconds match my tempo
We will win the game and everyone just aligns with it and makes the game so easy
And I think one of the things I love watching is that he forces the fights right?
He does not wait for them to come to him when he gets an advantage
He's playing in the opponent's face all the time
This is one of the only times I have felt like as an LCS pundit watching a player where I don't need to give a
Qualifier on how good they are like he is one of the best leases in the world period right?
It's not like in the league
It's not in the West in the world period. This guy is just different on this champion
Yeah, and I mean he's confidence level and understanding on how to win the game with it as well
It's just on that next level so every player I feel like gets to probe with that thing and sometimes they lose it
So, you know, quit on rise Jose on Lee sin like young on Varus
I think is one of those big swing varuses in the middle. Um, so I think that you know
Core on the count can't leave that one out. You want a world's championship with it
But there's these champions are these players that have these champions if they are open
and you just listen to them and they can win you the game.
I feel like that's a big thing with Fearless.
Also being in plays,
that you only get like one chance at a series,
just to play it out.
How do you feel like that impacts
and like trusting your players that the confidence
this is the spot, but we want to bring it out?
Yeah, I mean, it's really fun to be honest,
because like, you know,
I've actually made this mistake before
where like teams open the suite against you
and you just pick your best champion ever roll
and then you show up to the second game draft
and you're like, ah, now what?
So you kind of falls off a cliff from there.
And I think credit to teams,
they've gotten much better at like,
If this person plays, you know, Ezia really well.
Okay, well, I'm gonna get my midlaner to the point
where he can actually take it away game one.
You know, give us a fighting chance
and then they lose one of their weapons
for the rest of the series.
So, fearless and super fun as a coach
and something you have to take into account a lot.
Something I'm really looking forward to seeing tomorrow,
I think.
Well, wait, I don't wanna do predictions yet.
The team liquid victory, me too.
Team liquid victory, that's what I'm looking forward to.
At this point, I do actually want that.
And I could, it wipes away the pain and the shame.
Like, maybe you do one, of course,
they were just naturally counting.
They're just the goats.
Oh, team one who you also don't look good like.
All right, Ox, you can pass the house, okay, you have a fun thing.
Well, here we get to take one final look at the bracket.
Kasey now eliminated alongside DCG,
T1, the last two teams remaining.
And we'll just have to see tomorrow how it unfolds.
But I'm definitely feeling a lot more optimistic after the first series,
there was some skepticism.
But coming into the second series,
I'm feeling pretty good about T1.
And look, we know we have a huge journey ahead of us.
Like, we're confident going into the series
because we did play well versus them.
but this is a team that is the greatest organization in League of Legends history,
and they have some of the greatest players in League of Legends history on there as well.
But we have to make sure that we respect them enough that we know that we need to play well,
but then we need to go out there and actually play well and do ourselves proud.
So that's what the goal is tomorrow.
And if you can kill their Nexus once, which we've done in the past,
no reason you can't do it three times in a day,
you just need to make sure that you play really, really well.
So that's where the confidence is coming from, but it's hard.
I feel like an additional thing is obviously when we saw that only be one team coming out of play-ins,
for every other team in T1, that was a lot of pressure.
but also now for them, if it was two teams making out, T1 would have already qualified and they now don't have Double or Limb,
which is, I noticed the team that performs really well under pressure, but there's the chance to take them down here.
Yeah, there is. That is true. There is a chance to take them down here and we've got to play well to do it.
They do get from the upper bracket. I really like what Riot has done at the moment for upper bracket, actually giving you both side and pick select for the time being,
because it actually feels like coming through the upper bracket has like meaningful impact, whereas in the past it hasn't necessarily always been the case.
So game one is going to be an uphill battle for us.
I think Blue side for us because like 58% win rate
or something like that.
So they get that in game number one
and we have to try and take it away from them afterwards.
This is a tall task.
I just can't wait to see how it unfolds
and I can't wait to see what some of those new picks are
if you've been talking about.
We'll see if we actually get to see them on stage
for tomorrow, but that's going to be it for us here today.
Back tomorrow with T1 versus Team Liquid Alienware
game start at 10 AM CEST, 1 AM PST.
That's enough from us here.
We'll see you guys tomorrow.
See you then.
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