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Flipping through in the morning
When I was down in the night
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It is HLE vs BLG for a spot in the grand finals of MSI 2026.
is what is on the line today as we see them both with their signature moments to make sure that we
know what's coming on the Rift. Welcome, my name is Shox, and I'm joined by the analyst with the
most spreadsheet in the world, Emily, a literal world champion in a Zale and a professional
rage baiter in Joshua. That's what it's become. Do you like it? I used to be the stats guy,
now she's the spreadsheet girl. I watched a podcast, what can I say? She's staying with the current
I was a Gilgore's World Champion. Nobody talks about that.
Okay, next time. I got you.
No, it's fine. It's fine.
It's fine.
It works. 1-0 for Shot.
Hey, let's take a look at what happened yesterday because it was a wonderful day to be an NA-NAU fanazale.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, a lot of people are saying, oh, it's this expected result for Lyon, but TSW,
I was not looking at that as a guaranteed win after they did take down Top,
top and we know how good CFO has been so I was a little bit nervous but I was proud of our boys
they got the job done and they did it very convincing and I'm proud of my boys let me tell
you that I haven't had as good as the day that I had yesterday in seven years shot. Is it this
something that is so MSI like NA does something good and it's just immediately forgotten. Oh my
god. Last time we did something good the next day it was forgotten within four hours this one
was forgotten. We're top four guarantee. Don't worry tomorrow you can make sure to prove to everyone
that you are the better team. But I think the really cool thing here is for the first time in a
long time the top four is a different top number one team from each region right. So we have NAEU,
LCK, LPL all represented which is amazing. Absolutely and since the format changed since
there have been two LPL and LCK seats at MSI the number two seats of those regions have always been
in top four. So the fact that they weren't this year, I'm not going to say that the gap
is closing because we know how that goes. Oh my gosh. I am not going to say it because
it's not, but I'm still very excited about the prospects of G2M line. It's awesome.
I wonder how many people remember the original meme watching now. Not many, but I'm going
to skip across that because I'm super hyped for this matchup HLE versus BLG because these
are the two tournament favorites that everyone kind of identified going into this series.
They play a bit similarly, which is kind of why everyone pegged them as favorites, and
I'm so excited to see them face off today.
And we've got to talk about the greater context here, which is the biggest, the biggest running
story in global loli sports, LPL versus LCK.
Absolutely.
And if you look at the overall trend, it's going to be LCK favorite, but let's cherry
pick.
Let's look at just MSI.
Total MSI titles, the LPL has more, more than the LCK.
They won the first MSI.
They have not won the most recent MSI, but they still have more titles, 5 to 4.
But if you zoom out as well, look at every single game they played against each other,
the LPL has that edge as well.
I believe they have 46 game wins to the LCK's 42 game wins.
And this is kind of representative of how I feel the strength of the regions are.
And it's just Worlds T1 that ends up messing this up.
But in terms of MSI, it's a very even playing field.
It is.
I will say though, don't despair because T1 is out.
You know HLE still has a really good shot and historically even you know if you discount T1
The LCK does have a winning record in best of lives against the LPL even at MSI
So people who are just saying oh, there's no T1. There's no chance. That is absolutely not the case
This is a very cool graphic
So top is first stand middle as MSI bottom is worlds
You can see the LPL had that amazing three-year streak at MSI and also had a world's title
But the despair was pretty large going into 2026 for the LPL because of all those consecutive LCK victories
Four worlds to MSI's and the inaugural first in but BLG has broken the streak and are looking to make some special happen
Where's the color code for LCS?
Where's the cover code your face
My foundation match is excellent
What's going on?
That's what we're talking about!
It's about BLG and HLE!
Let's go!
Ah!
But it's also, well, it is about the greater context, right, Emily?
Because now, um, BLG, of course, is sole LPL representative here
in HLE after T1 being out, now carrying all of that burden.
Yeah, and I mean, I think HLE and BLG, again, as I identified,
since they play really similarly, since I think they had such a good read
on the meta, even going into this tournament,
I I think it's no surprise that they're facing each other in the upper bracket and with their first stand wind
I thought that was really crucial to helping define the global meta that we've been seeing it absolutely was
I mean we heard it from teams in LCS
We've heard it all around the world when BLG dominated at first and it became the discussion
We need to play faster
We need to actually reshape how we are playing league how we define the best league as being played because it had traditionally been about
control from Korea about playing methodically and the LPL brought some chaos at BLG specifically brought that chaos
playing aggressively forcing skirmishes non-stop fights and skill-checking you at every stage throughout the game and
Teams have adapted to that. We've seen that here at MSI
We definitely haven't to bring HLE into that conversation jet, right?
They didn't start the year off phenomenally
but with bringing in Kanavi and making sure that that playstyle was adapted into being more proactive from HLE,
we're seeing a direct connection to that BLG influence.
We really are, and I think the other small thing about this is,
I remember our discussions about the meta going into first stand.
We were thinking that it was going to be all about lane-locked 2v2s,
and so many readings were playing around bot priority and range supports,
and then BLG really de-prioritized that,
And look at the teams that are playing here.
We've got a couple of mage bot lane players
that almost never see their support.
So a big part of how these teams get on the map
is they just unleash their supports from their AD carries
and it helps in that fast play style, which is really cool.
Yeah, that's why I think I know I keep hammering home
every desk I'm on, but jungle support duo
is just super, super important.
And both of these teams have very formidable jungle support duos
and you can kind of see other teams really trying
to adapt to that. If we look at the combined kills per minute just from yesterday's series,
I actually thought Schumann and LeBrov were working super well together, especially in
a lot of their team fight setups. And the combined kills per minute in that series,
I think it's 1.13. It'll show up in a minute. It wasn't insane.
Look at just the last game. We have like a Kled and a Katelyn, both with 15 kills.
Absolutely insane. I think there were kill records for both of their champions respectively.
Yeah. So, Broken Blade. Ridiculous.
Rookimbley set an MSI record for all top laners and tied the international game record for top laner kills with season 2 Mac Noon
Yep
And then Paze, not only did he have kills from Kaelin, he had the second most damage per minute in a game
In international history. He did almost a hundred thousand damage in that game. Yeah
Yeah, so Sneaky did the most on Kaelin, also lost. Paze did the second most, also lost
Something about Kaelin. Hello, Hell.
It's crazy, he really is.
We do have a little bit more time here, I just heard.
So I did want to talk a little bit about that because just a couple of days ago
We were talking so much about the mages in the bot lane absolutely dominating thinking if you cannot play that card yourself
You will be in trouble then yesterday in the G2t1 series
We saw that oh no we can also go to different route and have the classic ADC matchups and lane prowess right?
How is that? What is the meta gonna look like today?
I mean, I think we're gonna see a mix right?
I still think it is extremely advantageous to be able to play those picks
Otherwise, you can be stuck in a situation where you're having to spend a lot of bands throughout the series on champions like Sigs like
Mel and Camille and Pike are much better pairings with mages than they are with traditional ADCs as well
So I do think it is still extremely advantageous
But I've always been such a supporter of playing your style playing what you are best at and I think that is why you know
I've always been such a big fan of broken blade and his ability to play the game because
He brings out such unique picks and even if that is not the strongest pick in the meta
It is the strongest pick for him and gives him the best chance of winning. Yeah
One of the draft things that G2 did yesterday
So you had the same three bands in all four games
So they banned Jace, Vi, and Orianna
And I think specifically Jace and the Vi were really core in the way that not only they could enable the major bot lanes
But they could also do snap engages if the games weren't going well
However, I would say with the way BLG and HLE have been approaching this series
Like we're gonna see Jace picked most likely in the first game
no matter what, and there'll be some type of skill matchup, and it's not going to be a big difficulty to like get AD top jungle
because like both teams want to play like that, so they're going to exhaust their fearless cards and then go to the next one.
Yeah, it's not necessarily that something has been trending that the teams who have been strong will go for that, and in this case obviously is Ale.
The top laners will be top of mind, Bin versus Zayus, water matchup.
I mean it is, it is just such a treat to watch players that are arguably the two best in the entire world going head to head.
There are great team fighters here there people to bring out cool picks
But we want to see the two man with the best hands and these are down going at it in the top lane
Both of them are just so aggressive in lane
They squeeze you for every little advantage every CS you're getting punished on and that is what makes it so exciting to watch
Because you know either one with a misstep the other can completely take over the game
Completely take over the series. Yeah, I love seeing both of their forward percentage, especially been up past 40 percent
I will be cooking for him.
You know he's going to be pushing that lane and sometimes can get collapsed on and punished because of it, right?
I will actually say, I hope I don't speak out of turn, but you've actually not been
incidentally impressed with Bin so far.
I think he's Bin shaker than I expected at this tournament. If I have to compare the way these two top laners are playing,
I just think Zayas has been a lot more solid and steady, right?
where Ben has been a little bit more volatile which is kind of of his nature as well in the way he likes to play the game
So I'm super excited to see them go up against each other
And I also just love the four percentage combined with this quote
Where Ben is talking some trash as he loves to do and he's yeah, I'm the person who's always at the enemy tower
And he's saying just don't call your jungler. Let's make it a lucky one. Come on, bro
I mean, I'm just gonna have last pick make sure you don't call your jungler. It's chill
I'm gonna be in a counter matchup, and I think that's the other small thing I'm looking for like these guys are so good and can get
All the small advantages that have any matchup. I really need to see like
How many games they're gonna save top lane for last bit? Yeah, depending on fearless like okay if they can blind pick Jason
I can do it, but after that I feel like we're gonna be seeing
Second pick be a very important thing in this series. Absolutely, especially knowing that like the bot lanes
the game. They're going to be
playing the game. They're going
to be playing the games, you
know, kind of on their own,
especially to AD carry, so
maybe it will all be about
top. But of course, we cannot
speak about this matchup
without specifically for BLG
also talking about night in
the mid lane. Yeah, absolutely.
Night has just been stellar to
me. He is the de facto best
player in the world right now.
I think most people are looking
at him and Kariah Kariah did
not play to the same level. I
think that night has shown us
so far in this event. Night has
win and against Lyon. He was the one breaking our hearts. It felt like every single time in the team fighting.
This guy is so around it. He can go late game. He can play melee. He can play control mages.
He can run over you in lane. He can dominate you in a 5v5. He's as close as you can get to the perfect league player today.
Yeah, and that's why I really want to point to his kill participation because especially in these T1 and Lyon series,
there were games where he would just have 100% kill participation, right?
And a lot of the champion picks they did save for him.
Swain in particular, I know the Swain highlight
is in this highlight reel.
Somewhere here it is.
Here it is.
Was just absolutely insane.
Whenever it seems like BLG is in trouble
and something is going wrong, I heard that.
And left.
If Knight Ken is one of those players who just is so good,
he can bail you out in these team fights.
And he did it so often throughout the LPL season.
You and I were looking at some stats a couple weeks back and like he was
60 kills above the next closest player in the LPL his kills per game
I couldn't check everything because I'm not actually that great at like pulling databases sheets. I know I know I'm just
His kills per game was higher than I could find that's all the way going back to like season 3 League of Legends
The split that he had was so statistically exceptional like double-digit kills
He seemed to have more often than not and you almost never see double-digit kills in professional League of Legends games
That's why it's so funny when people talk about night like how'd you let us Ari through it's 100% wait
Well, how do you like my syndrome? You can't learn how that what do you do? You're gonna get my rise
You're gonna give him Orianna. Yeah, you can't give him anything. Oh, you're gonna get him swaying. You fool
Everything let's talk about his lane opponent then and for me
the story of Zeka is one of the most interesting stories for a mid laner if in all of League
Esports history. I think unfortunately he shares the mid lane with Faker, with Jovey,
with Knight so that we don't talk about it that often. But let's take a closer look
at Zeka and his career, right? Because in terms of like, peaks and drops, it's insane.
Yeah, and I mean when we first saw him in the LPL, he was not doing as well. 2022 was
kind of his oh okay he's doing a lot better but only on his pics and after
that world to kind of unlock something in him where he just became so
proficient on stuff including the melee carries he was known for but vastly
outside of it as well. Well that's what I really love about Zekka is there are
players who peek in the right meta at the right time and then they kind of
just fall off the bat. Yeah. You know people said that about Crown people say
oh you're just right place right time and people are making those arguments
about Zekka when he won Worlds. He's just the melee guy in the melee meta, but he's
been able to completely redefine himself as a player and become so much more of a complete
player to be able to succeed in so many different metas now. And I think that is such a hard
thing to do at the highest level.
Absolutely so. And we'll enter the next graphic because this is one that you requested. But
for Zekka, it's also about, you know, he had fearless thrown his way too, right? And if
you can imagine if someone's already struggling with a champion pool, so what did he do to
with that. So you see this and you think, oh wait, he played way more champions in 2022,
right? But I do want to talk about some of the win rates on those champions because in 2022,
if you look at stuff like the Akali or the Silas, okay, he's 72% win rate, 76% win rate,
those are the kind of things these melee carries you don't want to let him have.
But then on, especially on standard mages, Orianna, 0 and 2, 0% win rate, RISE,
0-3, 0% win rate. LeBlanc, 2-5, 28% win rate. There was a reason why Oxnard were like,
even with how much he's improved, they were like, I don't know about LeBlanc.
In 2026, Ori, 75% win rate. Ryze, 66.7% win rate. And LeBlanc, actually 100% win rate,
because that was the only time he's played it this year.
That's not bad.
No. It looks smaller, but it's actually better.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it's about not just the amount of champions, it's proficiency with them.
Right, and it's the breadth of champions that he can bring out now, the breadth of styles.
And he does still have all of those pocket picks.
We haven't seen Akali get banned out much more than we've actually been getting it see played.
But if you get deep and fearless, do you want to maintain a ban like that the entire series long?
It'll be really interesting to see what these teams decide to let through,
where they're going to try to lay traps, because it is not easy when there are so many threats on the map.
You can't give anyone their picks, it feels like.
It's true. Let's hear from the man himself, because the Lord did have a chance to speak to Zeca
and our Verizon Game Day interview.
Zac, thank you so much for joining me ahead of the next round.
First things first, congrats for making it thus far.
Next opponent on the line is going to be BLG.
What do you think of this team after watching them play against T1?
BLG, you know, they're the best team from LPL.
They just won, you know, their most recent internationals,
and they just beat T1, so their form is really good.
So I think field is for sure the toughest opponent possible.
So I think we have to really lock in and prepare as early as possible.
What do you think makes them that strong as a team?
Both of the players spend time together for a long time, so great teamwork
and also the all of the individual players.
I think they're like the strongest from the LPL.
So by having the strong individual players, they're naturally really strong.
Looking at individual players, someone that we highlighted during the Siwon series last night, of course, that you're going to be facing off against, what is something that you have to be careful about specifically when you play against nights?
night his landing phase is really strong but also his skirt mischief and team
fighting is really on point as well so I gotta trust myself and you know put out
the best performance I've got as well I think the key point on the matchup will
be the mid jungle fight so I think we should be really flexible and also
ahead of them standing on the side of BLG is someone who used to wear your
colors last year as Viper will be playing alongside him do you have a
message for him yeah I really wanted to have a matchup with him Viper this year
at some point, and he barely made it to this round by beating T1, I'm going to send him back down.
Alright, time for revenge then.
Thank you so much, NG-san. Thank you so much for the help.
They're good. I'm going to look out for everything.
I want to pose a question to my panel that Nymira actually sent out into the world, a BLG stand.
And his pieces is basically that there is no team in the world that can answer the bin and knight question at the same time.
Basically, that it's just too powerful.
So I actually don't agree because I think that right now Zaeus to me is one of the guys who actually I would favor over bin into 1v1.
And I think there's only a couple players in the entire world that you can even say that about.
For me, it would maybe be Keen and Zaeus, that is opinion based.
But I think if you can answer one of them in the 1v1, then you can answer the other one with support roams,
with jungle attention, with coordinated play,
and that is so much of what the game is about today.
It is super interesting with Knight.
I feel like I'm not going to favor Zeka against Knight,
but I'm not going to say that Zeka can't beat Knight, right?
And the jungler ganks, he was like, the only thing
we got to watch him with jungle.
But no, because we know how high Zeka's peeps can be.
But I also think it's credit to Knight how good he is,
because I remember we were saying the same thing
about JDG back in 2023.
Like, oh, no one can answer the Knight and ruler problem,
because they both just be in their lane,
get an advantage, and then when team fights,
we're saying the same thing about BOT now,
kind of, was been a nightmare.
I love that callback.
That's really, really cool.
Moving on with Zeca and Viper, though, as well.
He had a message there.
He had more messages.
We're going to throw it up on screen, as well, of course.
They used to be teammates, but it does lead us
into a little bit about a bot lane discussion as well.
But yeah, he's a T1 BOT.
Zeca didn't believe in you, guys.
No, he didn't.
Chucks.
That's how it went.
But that speaks to expectations, right?
You know, this was a couple days ago.
It's not like he forgot who won or anything like that.
It didn't happen after the series.
But the expectation, of course, is
the back to back to back world champions
are going to make it past the Western teams in the lower
bracket, you would think.
That is not how it actually ended up, though.
And it is going to be interesting to see
how this bot lane will match up, because they
are very similar in the kind of expectations
that teams put upon them and in the playstyle, right?
There are two of these bot laners
that you're generally not playing towards them.
We talked so much about how it was about Paze and Karrie at Dominant in 2v2
playing towards that side of the map.
These other top teams are playing it a completely different way.
Yeah, and I mean that is where I'm super curious to see the jungle support
because that's where I personally answer the night bin question, right?
It's like, okay, obviously, I don't think bin is playing up to his best level at this tournament thus far.
Um, but I do think the difference makers are going to be how
Canavi and Delight are working together to affect that top side
and how shown and on are working together to affect the top side.
Because like Isaac said, these are two teams that are going to play
way more towards their top side of the map and leave their botlaners
Viper and Gumiushi kind of on their own.
Poor botlaners Gumi and Viper, right?
They can never show what they really want to.
And Lord did also catch up with Viper in another Horizon game they interviewed.
Thank you so much for joining me, next opponent is going to be Homo Life Sports.
You know them pretty well, but first things first, I do want to know, do you think it's
going to be easier or harder than beating T1?
I think Panna Life Match will be a little bit more trickier, but we went all the way
to getting 5 up against T1 and I'm expecting something similar this time around.
I do want to know, what do you think about the evolution of the team, since Gunma Yushi
arrived instead of you in the bot lane, how are they playing around the bot lane now?
The biggest change is that they are now playing a lot more aggressively, according to the
meta, and also they have a jungler as well, and now they are, I think, playing a lot more
topside games.
Yeah, a lot of people say that the addition of Kanavi, who played so long in the LPL,
actually makes Hanwha Life the most LPL LCK team ever.
Do you agree on this and how much impact he had with the style he has in the jungle?
I kind of disagree.
At first, during the LCK Cup, we were able to kind of see those LPL moments,
but right now, it's really adapted to the LCK style.
I don't think there's any LCK team that is actually having an LPL style.
I've talked to Zeca yesterday about you being his former teammate
and he said that you barely made it out against T1 though
so he's gonna make sure that you send your guys back to the lower bracket.
Is there anything that you would like to tell him?
First of all, I think his manners got really bad because, you know,
well, I'm still older but I'm just home and he should have just said,
like, okay, game, fight, you know, you worked so hard
but, you know, he didn't say anything like that so his manners are really bad
And then, well, I guess he saw the 2-1 series us up against T1,
and he will realize that we are really strong into LCK teams as well.
Ooh, yeah, teaching some manners.
Thank you so much for the interview.
Thank you.
Oh, I dare you.
Yeah, that's so funny.
It's like, oh, I think you're a really bad manager now.
I was happy to hear him mention Kenavi, though, right?
because I think for this HLE team, one of the things that makes them so like snap, like the snap
engages that we see from them, is from Kanavi. And even though I think the, oh, they finished in 10th
place, so it's a little specious. However, this team has improved significantly with, specifically
with their synergy with how aggressive Kanavi is willing to be now with the entire team backing
up. I just found it really interesting that he said that both HLE is playing more aggressive
to the meta, but also that they're not playing as an LPL style.
So I'm really curious on what his distinction is,
because most people, at least in our world,
think about LPL style, meaning skirmish heavy,
meaning aggressive, and that's kind of the thing
that they're doing, but I guess he's seeing
some sort of other distinction.
I feel like he feels like it's more supported
by other things in HLE, because we, I think,
we are guilty of being very reductive,
sometimes towards painting the LPL
as aggressive and nothing else.
And maybe perhaps he's like,
Like well we have all these other things that we can also build on that's possible. I also kind of think he's trolling
I think he's saying yeah, they're not LPL style. They're not in the LPL like that's the
stupid analyst
That's the thing I mean I'm I'm looking forward to this because of the rivalry between him and his former teams
but also because of the
fact that HLE's pressure has actually increased quite a lot the fact that he won God eliminated the fact this is an MSI on
Home soil and they kind of have to win now
I mean Gen G's one back-to-back MSIs. They're not here.
HLE has something to do with that for sure, even though T1's the one that actually knocked them out of the best of fives.
So, you know, pressure is on and they're also trying to forge their own legacy, especially when I look at the former T1 players.
Yeah, absolutely so. There is a lower bracket, of course, but it still feels like there's more riding on this best of fives than usual because of everything we laid out before.
We can never get enough of Bin talking about everything, and I believe we have a special video from Bin with his predictions about this matchup.
After the next game, we won the final. I think everything is in my hands now.
I think HLE is a strong team. But I think they are not as strong as we are.
So we will fight them. I think this is a big advantage.
I think the best way to defeat a stronger opponent is to prove yourself.
I think I can just play as much as I want.
Danger does taunt Upshun as now the route down onto Inspired, he's in a little bit of danger here by firing back Inspired looks for a little bit more, but he's going to be knocked out of the Guardian Angel, now the dive right back onto the same Isles, and same in some danger, been gripping the kill on the Isles.
BLG! They're so damn good! Lion are eviscerated!
I think it's a pretty normal thing to win a game.
Because our strength is the most important thing.
This is hard to say, I think.
I think the standard of this year is very strong.
If we can win the MSI championship and the World Championship,
then we are going to be very competitive in the LPL game.
I think it's a very practical thing.
want to touch on that we haven't before we head into prediction.
I just think we should talk a little bit about play style of the bot lane
specifically, you know, they both are two similar styles, right?
They have very low support procs and very low jungle procs.
These guys are your prototypical weak side AD carry.
If you want to put it like that, they're going to play mages.
They're going to play things that are self sufficient so that their
supports can get out of the map and make things happen.
I think it's an incredible indication of what's been driving the meta.
So many teams we felt like were playing outside of their comfort zone and it's likely because they were getting slammed in scrims by these guys because they're so effective at this style.
I love that. Okay, let's take a look at the MasterCard fan predictions of the day to see which side they are taking before we dive into our own predictions.
We'll see who was up to vote and who was on the platform. 70% HLE.
I did not expect that.
I suspect that.
Yeah.
CK fans may be more voting on the platform than the LPL fans, who knows.
But still.
Representative?
70-30?
No, I don't think so.
I think it's, personally, I see this a lot closer.
Well, let's head into our predictions then, maybe right after this, as we do think that
this is a little bit egregious.
I can kick us off if you want to, I think HLE is going to take this, and I think they're
going to take it quite convincingly with the 3-1.
I think the classic strong points of BLG are going to be strong, but HLE just has the
best points against them.
Hey, I see 75, 35, or 75, 25 in these predictions actually, so the fan prediction was somewhat on point.
For the BLG argument, Nymeria's point about Knight and Bin is a bit of the difference.
I think they have a slight edge on HLE in this, and if you just look at who's looked better,
HLE's looked better, but I think it's because their opponents have been marginally worse.
So I'm gonna go with the first-stand champions, current Golden Road possibility, BLG team.
They played lie and empty one.
Um, and you have lost the G3.
Are you on your own?
Gotcha.
I mean, um, I was just going to say the way I see it is my prediction is base.
Not on what these teams are capable of, but how they performed at this tournament.
Right.
So I think if you're talking about both of these teams, their skill ceilings are like
way up there.
Like these each of these teams could be the best team in the world.
However, right now, there's skill floors that I think they've shown at this tournament.
HLE is about here and BLG is here, so BLG is going to have to play a lot better,
in my opinion, when they play against Lyon to be able to take on HLE.
I mean, I can easily see a world in which BLG's soul laners went out,
but I think that HLE is the more complete team as a whole.
And I think as a result, they will make the difference in the soul lanes.
It's not going to be a 1v1 that decides the game.
It's going to be the 5v5s. It's going to be the skirmishes.
And I think we are in for such a treat.
We are about to watch the number one team from the LCK versus the number one team from the LPL.
The pinnacle of League of Legends as it is today.
Absolutely. We should be in for the best best of five we've seen so far at MSI.
And that's saying something with the quality of the games and with the incredible back and forth
about for the ages HLE versus BLG for regional pride at a spot at the grand final of MSI 2026.
The second round of the match, with a total of 2 people fighting, is over.
The first match is over.
The second match is over.
The top laner of the best team is definitely the top laner of the best team, but the winner is only one.
The Super Team, which has been created to conquer each region of the world, is about to conquer the global stage.
One of the best top laners in the history of LCK, Zeus, and one of the best top laners in the LPL, Bin.
It is PLG finding the fight.
The end for nothing!
Yes, an A. Spray shall be...
I'm going to put my life in a tight spot and then go to the final.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to MSI 2026.
We have four regions, four first seed, and two of them are doing battle here today.
First seed from the LCK versus first seed from the LPL, the Golden Road on the table
here for BLG.
They can lose a cheeky one like they did to WE here, they like to, and then they can
have another one.
This is all just to get the feelers out to see which team is better today.
Yeah, we have do-overs.
We do!
The beauty of the upper bracket.
What a lovely entire time to be alive.
But, I'm Atlas, I'm joined by Kobe and Dagger here to bring you into this one as HLE make
their way to their computers.
I think this is set to be an absolute banger.
So much history between the teams, the players, the regions, everything coming to a culmination
now.
you get another fighting chance, but I think both these teams want to stop their mark today.
They definitely do. Every single matchup is an absolute banger here across the rift,
and we'll have to see what the draft priorities are because as you say, Atlas,
this is the upper bracket finals. So even if you lose, and of course, then you're going to have
to challenge either Europe or North America, but you could earn yourself a rematch.
And the problem is, I think showing things in this tournament is so much more meaningful.
We saw already the information advantage that a lot of teams have taken advantage of
in order to get victories and the information disadvantage when those things are out in the open.
For example, Jitsu and the Seraphim, things like this that have come through the forefront.
So I'm very much looking forward to seeing who's going to be able to pick up a victory here today
and can then keep things close to the chest,
moving towards the final.
Yeah, I mean, especially for HLE,
they have not had to show much at all at this tournament.
I mean, they're on the 6-0,
dealt with their series very quickly.
Minimum game!
They dealt with their series so quickly, Rob.
And even time-wise, a lot of the games are very quick for them, too,
so really not showing too much.
Whereas in the opposite side for BLG,
we've seen some creativity and some craftiness
coming out from them,
like the bell cars in the bottom lane, the swain mid for night.
Like it feels like these drafts still have a lot to show on either side.
And I'm just curious how deep does that pool go?
Yeah, especially for those mages that you mentioned.
Yeah. I mean, spying at the solo queue.
I'm seeing some Cintra bottom, some Xerath bottom.
There's definitely some people to go to.
I mean, this is like, but he played Teemo on purpose.
Like, this is the thing that he has done in the past.
But here we are into champion select,
by HyperX and the Vi is already taken away. Certainly a big one for both Shun and
Kanavi, man. This matchup is so weird. I feel like we're in the LPL. The Bard
gonna be taken away there alongside the Poppy as well. The Poppy's kind of
curious. One of the picks that Shun hasn't found a victory on just yet, but
can really shut down a lot of strategies and HLAA are a team that like to go
forward quite quickly. And Poppy can certainly disrupt that.
Definitely. And along those lines with the Bard too, as far as affecting the
side lanes, Nocturne is another high-priority jungle champion that has had a huge influence
on some of these team comps, especially when we have solo laners that are this powerful.
Yeah, and especially if you want to try and get the support to work with something like
a Nocturne, the bar being gone is kind of the answer we've seen to the Camille in a lot
of situations as well. So, maybe HLE trying to fish for that Camille pick themselves alongside
something like the Ziggs, he'll be able to actually ban it themselves.
Damn, so on getting a whole lot of focus here in Piri, the Poppy could be going into that
support position as well. Wanting to limit On's ability to get around the map. And Dagger,
you were talking to me about this earlier on today, the difference between Delight and
On's play styles. I think HLAA have been reading into that one as well.
Yeah, because I think a lot of people were expecting with HLAA coming into this that
Delight would be unlocked. It's gone towards that engage better again. He's going to be
really strong, but he's very good when it comes to a team fight where it's On, who is
very active on the map, loves picks like the Shen and the Camille. And with that now limited,
He's going to be answered because the theory first pick was not on my bingo card. Yeah
And the theory is something that both these junglers have been able to use really effectively for invades
You know both of them had a decent amount of success, and it makes you think
Hmm, are we then gonna get those supports that are still gonna roam around and follow with that jungler because the theory
Loves having a support that's gonna bring CC with them on those roads
And the theory is the only champion that should has played both series as well
So getting rid of I guess
Theoretically his most gone-through option there as well could be an interesting one
But the Casio for Knight is a huge pick up especially since this was his bread and butter when he started a career
Was a Casio be a one trick now bring it it out at MSI as well as the meta shift to that direction
Plus you set up an option for the nocturne
I think that's probably what the nefiri was we see nefiri is an answer to the nocturne in a lot of situations
So maybe try to limit that pull so should instead we'll go over towards the jar
with rumble still on the table as well they they could do double AP solo laners
and try and build off that cataclysm. But the other side here I mean Ziggs and
Ezreal are the two most picked bottom laners of this tournament because safety
for your bottom laners and being able to leave them alone is such a high
priority. Not to mention Gumiishi is never gonna pick Ezreal so obviously the
Ziggs is going to be the choice here as a blind gnaw with two bands to protect it here from bin
But man this top side of the map is absolutely
Terrifying H. You're legally gonna have to find some counterpicks after those two pants two bands have come in
I do like the strategy for BLG when the enemy team picks no solo laners
You just slam both of them you get your protection bands and you know
They're not gonna be able to counter both of them. They have to kind of choose here
So we did end up getting that rel by the way, which is a good roaming partner for the
You know nefiri here as well. So it's gonna be interesting as far as the push on the bottom
I also shut down some of the things you've seen from our on like the shed right the shadow striker
And to lose them the shield is gonna be excellent against the picks
So I do think the HLE have come in with a very clear game plan of trying to shut down down in this trap and setting
Themselves up to enable delight on his playstyle
And I still think that there is definitely some options for some majors for Viper here as well.
Cassiopeia, even though she does magic damage, very consistent damage out of this champion against shorter range picks.
Not necessarily the Ziggs, but you can still make things work, especially with Ana on your squad as well.
It's also, we have seen the Cassiopeia swap to bot lane into Ziggs.
I haven't liked this, but we have seen it as well.
That's true. In theory, Ana could be the AD carry.
If we're playing that game, I'm looking forward to the Jarvan support coming out again.
It's been a while, I remember when Spirit played that back in the day.
He was playing support, I know Spirit was a jungle a bit, things got weird.
Mesa going to be taken away from Zayac here, definitely one of his favorite picks alongside that lane,
protecting the Nara as best they can as the Lucian going to be taken away from Viper as well,
pushing him even closer towards some of these mage pickups.
So, yeah, are we just gonna have another mage into the zigz?
Because zigz does everything that you want from this style, you know, from the bottom lane,
but Viper has been practicing so many different angles.
Yeah, I'm not really sure, because could end up going towards like some of the, like a virus
if you want to just try and push out the lanes with a poke style, or if you do want to try
and match these mages in the bottom lane, it doesn't mean a lot of your damage is quite
AP focused though, which isn't ideal for BLG, but there we go, he talks with the Shen.
Honestly, I think the rail decent into it. Thanks to a sherry strike
But on still valuing that pick for that level six mobility around the map
Yeah, I've been able to help out on place
I think it's more just about on's playstyle right utilizing the chance something that he will be able to exhibit incredibly
Effectively, that's an echo. Oh, but crazy happening here in this series
Just pays live on because there was a lot of talk of the effort
Existing but may not be the case here
Imagine if they picked Enivia, Yone, and then you had no idea where they're going.
The Rumble though is going to be a little bit more clear cut, but there is the Yone we were talking about!
Into the hands of Zaka here, jumping straight on to comfort.
I mean, yeah, he has played so many of his iconic champions at this tournament already, slamming them all.
Speaking of which...
He ain't gonna be playing that one though, it's 9-kick!
Wait, wait, wait, wait!
The Cassiopeia!
It's the Cassiopeia!
Cassiopeia, but that's what I thought it was good,
but maybe it will be today as Knight is gonna be fighting
Fyre with Fyre as the Akali was locked in.
I got excited before I realized what was happening.
But it sets up nicely, right?
Like in here, you've seen the Cassiopeia
does get pushed in, but the influx of gold
to this champion makes her devastated
in those later team fights.
And especially when you've got some of the support there
with the Shen to try and give you that shield
on the ultimate, super nice for the Cassiopeia.
Also, now, because of the roll quest,
Cassiope, even though she has to buy boots now,
she gets her extra items back!
Yeah, exactly!
There you go!
She gets to hide the boots, which is,
I think, more thematically correct, to be perfectly honest.
I do think that that bottom lane's gonna be very weird, though,
because I don't know how Cassiope is ever supposed
to hit six with a button ever,
because she spits things from a little bit too close to range.
So that might be a little bit of a difficulty,
but I assume, Koumura and Viper are just gonna be
catching waves.
Like that's just how these two teams play.
And you have to be worried about the long chase down
in that lane, because Casio triggers machine gun fire,
chase you down.
If she gets the poison on, especially
if it's in the right spot, that satchel will not work.
Especially if it's double melee support snow going at it.
And you know on is going to throw hands, right?
But on picks Shen support, he throws hands.
And so maybe they look for the chase down kill,
whereas it's the fit more cooldown reliant.
It's also on who looks to get them up level two on the Shen.
So we'll have to see if he can have an impact to the mid-lanning of two of these melee champions,
but we're already on to Summoner's Rift for this best of play.
Alright, we get the Jio's versus the, uh, the Hanadru sets, which I think is very, very cool.
And we have a packed house today, ladies and gentlemen, to this up-bracket final.
Already, the fighting has begun. Delight gonna have to crash his way out of there.
Sviper still sinking the fangs in. There's the conqueror. Heal has to be popped here by Delight.
Yeah, that's that chase down. He popped the ghost immediately there to get the health trade.
So Viper getting a decent amount of damage, but he used a lot of mana in doing that at level one as well.
Gumiishi will have, I guess, some of the spell advantage, but not really because it's teleport. As now on looking for a bit of an angle once again.
Playing very aggressively here. Misses the torp, misses the crash down on the other side. Good footwork here by these AP carries.
Gumiishi doesn't get the bouncing bomb just goes straight over the head of the Shen and in the end pretty even trade
Yeah, I mean the fact that you manage to dodge away from that Shen top though and still take the worst for where trade isn't
Exactly what you want and Sean already invading onto this bottom side means he has an opportunity to try and look for a play in the bottom lane
But that Ward and try brush will probably spot him as just as he tries to move in yeah the double Ward here
And they're gonna push into the tower as well
I also just love over analyzing the early movements on skillshot dodges, you know
You're always trying to get in the head of your opponent and Guma on his first dodge moves forward in the aggressive dodge
but
Not gonna reveal himself at the moment over these wards that they did place and so it's just gonna go for the recall here
So that means that nefiri is gonna walk over the extra vision and they're going to go try and counter
Yeah, some pings out so they know exactly where he is. You can see pings all over the place here by BLG
This must talk about these level two roams that on consistently does on the shen
Just trying to cover the jungle though
It looks like because they weren't sure where the Jarvis gonna be a word died on the blue buff on top side
But no mid lane yeah
In goes Kenavi looks for the angle and they thought that he'd already gone into the jungle instead
He just pokes his head in looks to try and get some damage on tonight is able to do so but Zeca already had a health disadvantage
It's not gonna be the end of the world for the mid laner of BLG
That's why it's so important these words that you leave behind in the jungle and going for those this might be though
But the snapback does have to come through here for Zekker what goes out must come back and can I be on the blue buff here
Shouldn't have even got the on vision right now
That's the war down there is the blue taken by Kenavi and now he looks to try and turn this fight
In comes on looking for the angle but Zayas is going to get hit first like you were saying nice moving over
Blast cone is there he gets himself into the battle but Zayas has the flame spit around the flash
I'm moving the jump back from Kanabi the flash towards to come in on first blood over tonight
Shun gets out of there
Zayas is overheating on is still trying to fight as bin makes his way in the hop-com
Servant Delight is looking to try and keep them away from his teammate still he's going to go down to nothing for BLG
BLG strike first in the series with the invade covered with
with all of Maas, four members from every team showing up.
Even with Rumble heading first,
Knight also collapses from mid lane
and he gets in there first.
They get the first blood.
Let's take a look at it
because they're trying to trap them to Fury.
And even though Shen does not have his smite,
he immediately goes for the attack here.
EQ's in, gets his passive auto,
so nice little bit of damage to start it out.
And then here come the roams.
On and Knight are gonna get there first.
Zave's flash is trying to get there,
but Shen immediately evades into the wolf pit.
And it's a blast coming the positions on to actually keep Zekka at bay, the flash with the time to come in, the heal to keep people topped up as well.
Shun flagging dragging over the wall using that mobility.
And with the three-man boomerang off the back of this from Bin, it's through Light who has to give his life so the rest can escape.
Really good, a basic maneuvers by Shun. The flash, the avoidance over the wall with the EQ as well.
And the early collapse.
This meta, so many teams have said is jungle led, and we're back into the jungle scraps.
Yep, Delight makes his way back from the death chamber immediately into another battle here, but not too much is going to come of it, unless On has anything to say about it.
Not certain what happened to the bot lane, but both flashes burnt on Viper and Goomayushi, so there was some action that happened in that bottom side as well, which is why BLG, now sitting in the tri-brush, considering going for Goomayushi, but this is his comfort zone.
Yeah.
He just lives under his turret.
Exactly, any teleported back so obviously lost a bit of a health trade there after the flash as well
Gets back to lane, but now the Ghost is up for Viper so I don't think this 1v1 is going to necessarily work
Yeah, you can see though on the side of your screens, this is BLG trying to see if they can move themselves to finals
And start that Golden Road out strong because it was kind of the last time we saw this potential for Golden Road was 2023 JDG
Where it was nice and Kanavi working together to make that happen, but it was the same as...
Beautiful Tony is going to come through that shirking backflip comes down second so close to dead
But he's gonna be able to make it out and holds the flash and so critical to be able to keep this pathway
From mid to bottom clear a vision because you know on wants to make many more visits
Over towards that lane of course the light trying to keep up as well
But BLG with the early moves the early priority here in addition to that thousand gold leaf
They're going to be able to stack up the dragon and can Cannabi even do anything in the meantime
You so you see I'm kind of hovering around mid
But they are so low from Zeka right there that he doesn't have options in the theory
It's just losing time losing efficiency here
He wants to try and go in towards mid lane but Knight not really given that opportunity even with delight there
So they back away. He's not just going back in towards his top side. It's dragon taken you've got been under tower
Bogey are controlling this early game so well at the highest level jungle is just the role that you can just snowball so
Effectively early on in the game these incremental advantages single camps can really mean the difference and when you have an explosive
Invade like that that involved eight people
They're gonna be huge ramifications and shouldn't will be set up for success the light here though
Trying to get something back on the top side as shouldn't is in his re-clear at the moment on gromp
and the light kind of spying but pops out of the brush can I be trying to move
over though just finished his croaks trying to recruit second even moving
across maybe it's just a okay just a vision play I wasn't sure if they wanted
to try and make a plate towards the wolves there but unfortunately for HLE
it amounts to nothing for them with all the moves as is going so well for BLG
remaining incredibly efficient with their moves right into the next clear and
look at on already gonna move in to get bot side vision for his team thank you
for the toggle observers.
Shun's level six now, so he can go back up on as well.
They can go for the aggressive play.
They've got Knight, post-level six,
with his Darkseal ready.
Oh, yeah.
And Delight just, it feels like on is always there,
ready to come out of that banana brush
as they're looking for this.
Blue buff as well, can obviously go into fight for it
as they dive over Shatter.
Strength is gonna connect on to on,
but Shun is gonna secure.
That blue buff, there's a taunt flash!
Oh, Fypher fights a Pitchify,
and Gaze immediately cuts down!
And BLG moves to 4-0! It's insane! The synergy here! They instantly engage!
Awn doesn't miss a beat. Shun takes the blue buff, then Awn goes for the top flash right here
to be able to follow up with a miasma. Viper already ghosting over to beat in position.
That BLG are hitting the ground running here.
But it did a different style from what we saw from them domestically.
It was Shun playing for lanes when they won the LPL.
Now at MSI, it's BLG running around this jargon, playing for these invades.
And BLG are looking slick off the back of this.
Yeah, and winning the jungle is a team event.
And that's exactly what BLG are making happen here.
Honda seems to always be there, ready to poke his nose in, make things frustrating.
And as BLG looking to come over and grab these grubs,
Kanavi in the area to light up here towards this topside as well.
Looks like HLE.
Do you want to go for a fight?
They're down 2,000 gold though.
The first grub is going to fall.
Gumiushi gets the minefield down,
but I don't think they're going to be able to do anything about this.
The first couple of grubs go,
and there is the third BLG going to be able to pick this up without a fight.
They're not excited to move up mid,
so BLG were ready to fight all five,
but instead, it's this fight that really earned us,
because you can see here on is incredibly patient with the taunt.
Kind of playing this gimme game with Kanaki,
but instead turns on towards Gumiushi,
and it's a miasma, it's a petrifying gaze, it's the cataclysm,
It's an all-out nuke for BLG.
Yeah, Kuma literally 100 to 0 right there.
You know, he got taunted into my asthma, as you say,
into the ultimate as well from Viper.
He didn't get to move, and he got slam dunked.
Yeah, he was lucky to actually be able to press R
in amongst all of that.
Did manage to get the ult off, but it didn't do nearly enough
to make any difference in that fight.
And now, 1-0-1 on the Cassiopeia.
HLE are looking to try and get an in-road here
towards this top side of the map.
But even Bin has completely evened out this matchup.
It was something that Zayas was getting a little bit further ahead in,
that's not to be the case anymore.
I gotta say, if you poll a jungler who your favorite support is,
I feel like 10 out of 10 gonna say on.
This brother is a jungler's support,
and now he's gonna look for bottom lane for Guma again.
Well, he's actually gonna be supporting Viper here
for what feels like the first time this game.
There's another petrifying game, and man, is it scary!
Is Orchid the goat, okay?
I mean, this Shen support is insane.
River Shen, it's a tower diving Shen.
Can HLE answer?
Shun here.
Looking for a bit of an angle, Shun.
Here for the defense.
They do get the knockup on his hand.
Everyone in the cataclysm, the equalizer goes down,
though the Flames 2 to come through, they do.
Knock down the Jarvan.
Bin trying to find a target to crash down there
to stop any sort of re-engage.
But Bin gets the flash knock, finds the rail,
as Kanabi needs to jump over this wall.
He will do so.
The house is not going to quite connect.
and they go one for one.
One for one?
I mean, you still might get a lot of those minions
under the tower as well, but Knight and On here,
On's to level five.
I don't think you can go for this, can you?
Double with a five-point strike.
He only needed two points.
His nine will be able to take him down.
It's now eight and one,
and he's moved to three nothing in the mid lane.
All right, that was nasty.
Honestly.
That was absolutely nasty.
The instant double kill,
and On just happened to take up the tower there.
All right, that's my job.
Yeah, I mean, doesn't get this... Oh, hang on.
Yeah, he's teleported back in with a gunblade at the ready, throws it out just there, and the flash has to be used from Zeca.
He's like, what the heck happened to that guy?
He didn't even have the ultimate! That was just nice, kind of putting his foot down on our first item.
You might be another kill on the board, but this was insane underneath the tower.
Okay, so, BLG. They're trying to set up here to counter this dive.
Shun is here and ready, and they started out going on today into the big cataclysm.
And it's the light who's just barely had to get out a range of the turret there.
But as Kanavi tries to set this one up, the jump away means he takes so much damage off the tower.
Luckily having the invulnerability to dodge away from that flash, good reactions from the HLE jungler.
But unfortunately for them, Knight was already on the move, and this play is sick.
Yeah, it goes in with the flash to make sure there's no reaction.
Flash ulted to Q for the double.
Doesn't even, doesn't even subred, drop is not done, stop is not done.
You know what the job is too, because Knight gave an interview just the other day with LPL English talking to Alk and he said,
I'm here to prove that the LPL is going to be able to take down LCK and he did that tower dive at least.
Well, still early days like you were saying, but it's a 3.8k gold lead and both of these compositions are very explosive.
Viper going to give us a little bit of a taste of that as he says hello to his former support.
Yeah, I do just think BLG has been playing so well off their lane stage.
Like, shifting Viper made consistently to match when Knightroam's top,
having Shun in position to cover some of these top plays.
Like, they've been playing the map in these early stages so well,
and obviously on helping out massively with that with just the presence he's had
in keeping HLE in their own jungle.
Shun wants a piece. He wants another blue buff here.
Oh, Kenavi may not be out of play for this one, but he still gets knocked up!
There's the taunted knight on a rampage, absolutely perfect execution.
And BLG will be able to steal away the rest of the jungle.
That was just a little bit of a bridge too far.
It looks like an instruction video of how to play the game.
Like, BLG are just so clean on every single one of them and look fed up.
But now Zeke might be the next one.
Yes, the soul may be unbound in more ways than one.
However, he does go back.
That turret is theirs for the taking though.
Zas and then facing off underneath Zas's turret here towards his top side and HLE desperately need to be able to slow this game down
I just don't know whether it's ever going to be possible with just the speed that BLG are playing with
I mean this is BLG's comfort zone right the ability to very quickly get out of the map and start to play and now
Even if you start to look for a side lane players HLE that becomes more difficult on his ticked over to level 6
So he can make a play top still protect Viper on the bottom side and keep control of these side lanes so well for BLG
Yeah, and it's night's comfort zone as you said B.O.G. They operate best when night is very bad that happens a lot
Yeah, and it is true this game in addition to all of these kills and being the richest one in the map on the map
Yeah, claim base gold grind letting us know
2000 gold in advantage for the Sakali as on obviously is just always ready for a battle anywhere on the rift is gonna
Take that mega cone into the baron pit
And two drinks already on the board here for BLG looking for a chem tech soul here this game
And one of the big discussions coming into this international tournament
You know I love the different leagues comparing themselves against each other and all LPL talking about night is the greatest in the world right now and
People said well
Okay, but a lot of a lot of really good midlaners are playing the LCK
So let's see how he does up against the LCK big laners and he hasn't missed the beat.
It's not even like you can kind of say oh well you know Zeke is on a weird like this is Zeke down to the T right?
Like his comfort zone and it's not been able to play outplay him on this Akali pick up some of these early kills.
Like there's a reason this man was averaging seven kills on average coming in to this tournament and he wants to ask maybe another one.
Yeah, this could be number five as the equalizer goes down from Zanzi. He doesn't have his teammates coming
But they're not gonna be there soon enough the Magnus storm is going to come down
But not get some self out of there can I be almost dies before he even gets in
Is they do get the shut down but at what cost ladies and gentlemen been says everything?
It is a massacre
BLG delete a jelly from the map
It does start around night and it ends down here as well dACDA and eats the immediate oath from on as well
They know that there's going to be a huge amount of pressure down in this bottom lane.
Zayac gets the kill on TP Zayac.
Shun is here to support, but Naito buys for so long.
Because even though you get the immediate crash down,
Kanabi tries to get the ulti.
Naito never steps away from the sweet spot of the ult from Fumayushi.
And this is when the cavalry arrives.
The name of the game is Team Play.
BLG have been so cohesive.
From the very first play of the game, going for the invade,
Shun steals away their bottom side of the map.
Then on the response, BLG defend better, on and night with that early collapse, and since then, every player has been BLG.
Yep, the Mazma just stopping Delight from being able to press any button at all.
Really? He does have Ghost, but that's not gonna help him here, as he is likely to go down, gets the heal.
Nice statue, but it's not gonna be enough. Down he will go, and Shun, he's the one to now pick up his fifth kill of the game.
Yeah, Kanami's just trying to hold on to it, and he's not going for the 1v1 behind it.
I don't envy the observers here. How are you supposed to keep up with this?
Well, I mean, they're doing a pretty good job as Kanabi's going to go down as well.
They knew he was about to bounce over that wall. He is going to stay alive, at least
for the next couple of moments, as we toggle the vision on his obviously hunting, and it
looks like the Dugger is going to slink away for now.
So it turns out BLG can also snowball very effectively against the number one LCK team.
Oh, and it's also, you were talking about Alk doing an interview for LPL England. She
She did one with Kanavi as well.
And Kanavi was talking about how he needed to be aware of how quickly LPL junglers can't play the game.
Like, he hasn't had that same level since coming over to the LCK.
And you're kind of seeing, you know, maybe he's slightly rusty coming into this one.
Yeah, might have slowed down just a little bit.
It's not really being what we've assumed in the LCK.
We felt like the rest of HLE kind of caught up to Kanavi, but we're starting to see that perhaps that was not true.
And I just love that it is all about the team play and everyone of one mind here on BOG.
They're not hesitating at all. Every single play, you know, so well coordinated.
The follow-up in CC between on and literally everyone else, especially Viper with these key roams.
We were going to be a little bit skeptical of this Cassio bot, but he has been so good, Dagda,
with his early ghost popping so he can be in position for a lot of these plays.
They're going for a little bit of a check, you know, that's kind of a see if they flinched when you
Throw my flask, but maybe I can get something but that's why I think this meta suits on down to a T
Right like this guy has always been so good up faking our sorry cheating tempo faking the map movements that he's gonna play
And should be able to step away from this plus it's also as you say like just there trying to see if you maybe blow
So or some other spell just kind of be a bit cheeky
I know this growing style meta where he's able to be out on the map is perfect for him
I think that's why BLG could thrive just off the back of him alone. He's also immune to castor curses
Well, I was gonna say like even that is maybe an extra layer
Yeah, it was kind of beautiful. That's all right. Zeck are gonna be out of grab himself a plate takes him back crystalline overgrowth off
But the BLG I mean they just kind of look at the river and take full control
HLA down 7.5 K gold pre 20 minutes. I mean this is an absolute
Massacre at this stage. Yeah, I mean BLG are just such an insane team at snowballing so good at snowballing
And they've done it yet again here. So I think this one is just
Incredibly hard to stop obviously because I'm not only gold balls for the dragon
So I mean HLE they might already be thinking about like draft for the next game
Because right now they can even get their red buff
Yeah
He's also got the smite dialed in the heartless.
This is the problem though as well.
If you're looking at the next game,
if you're looking like the feelest value,
I guess you could say Kanavi took away the nefiri.
HLE fans probably not too excited about that,
but in goes Knight,
and he could have used Zekka's skim,
if he would like to on this champion.
And that is another denial from HLE.
I think BLG get a lot out of this,
even as far as feelest is concerned,
moving into game number two.
This is just insane.
Like BLG are trying so hard,
just continues to keep this pressure up.
And even now, like with that push away,
you still have Shun covering for Knight.
He's starting to get more turrets placed.
Kanabi.
Yeah, I don't know what Kanabi's supposed to be
able to do here as he does.
The bounce is way out, but he's still just dead.
That's a solo kill here for Shun.
Absolutely absurd.
Let's show this just living in his jungle.
And it's so incredibly difficult for Kanabi.
Like, what?
You're a Baltic Cycle Sword and a dream here?
Hoping that you can hold onto things?
I think it's a Cycle Sword and a Knight, man.
Dexter, that's what it's feeling like for me as the Rift Herald will be thrown down here in this mid lane.
That is going to get a very comfortable kill on this out of turret that's lasted a much longer time than I was expecting.
Shun driving forward, a beautiful tour, they catch Grimm, huge hit! Just the edge of the petrifying gaze!
And I think that Gumi was scared at the beginning of that play, definitely was at the end after Viper got in there.
And the read from on right there, and the thaw, but he's like, you know what, I'm going to play out the Rift Herald as well.
I'm not faking this time. We're gonna full send the combo again and get another kill. I mean, there are the memes the only thing you know for as me
Oh, yeah, I see night to lead another
Is gonna try and exhaust him but even tie it night is very capable of just murdering canadi so there are the memes of
BLG bad late game, but I
Think the chance what late game
Yeah, I think the chances of that showing up are literally zero this game.
I think it's actually, we never get there.
I think it's also when you don't really have to play macro.
You just send Nite into a position, potentially it might be.
I think it becomes a lot easier to try and do that, you know?
Yeah, I think being able to attack move is all you really need at this point in time.
It's also like, I do think BLG have this insane ability to just lock the hell in.
Whatever they are up against, some of these really top teams.
And especially when you're playing against some of the guys that, you know, for Nite,
for night, I've denied you that golden roadblock in the day,
like it gets personal for these laps.
Oh, it does.
I mean, the idea of like play to the level of your opponents
or ideally just above the level of your opponents.
And here they certainly are.
So game number one, of course, you know,
this is an absolute blowout from BLG,
but we have seen teams, you know,
bounce back with In-Dest of Five series.
We had a very rare, even reverse sweep
already at this tournament.
And so even when an individual team is a blowout like this,
it does not mean the rest of the series
necessarily is gonna go in the same favor.
You could definitely see a world where HLE
are also able to do a very massive snowball game
within this series a little bit later on.
Not this one.
And also shellackings are much easier to bounce back from
than very close long games.
Because that is very strenuous, incredibly stressful.
And then the whole time you felt like you could do it
and then you're one game further away.
So, right, this game they're like, ah.
This game, I think-
And the point that I feel like-
Based on what I've seen Kanavi doing,
he's already thinking about what to play in games with.
Yeah, I mean, the mascot prices moment there
coming up with the, uh, soul,
but I didn't want to just highlight,
like the hunt for the golden road for BLG
is massive for them.
Like, this was the night,
but from night in Kanavi on JDG back in 2023,
by Gumiuchi and Zeyas,
but now they want to get a little bit more.
Yeah, cataclysm onto only Kanavi,
he's not exactly the target they're looking for,
Delight is just kind of dead as an afterthought.
Cannabi gonna have to run the head out of there
as the Twin Fangs are being sunk in.
And BLG now just knocking on the door of HLE.
And HLE, I just don't think they're gonna be able to.
Don't answer.
They're hiding in the attic at this point in time.
They're like, you can take all the stuff.
Take all the stuff.
Well, we'll just hang out here.
Please.
Don't answer that door.
You're not gonna like what's on the other side.
It's also when they just don't reset.
They just go and they go and they go and they go.
Like, it's the same, B.O.G. really just kicking up the pace here.
And we haven't even had time to really talk about items or anything like that,
but Knight does have a very cool book that he's put together already.
You know what I like?
A few pages in there as well.
And Shun getting closer and closer to his Guardian Angel,
not to mention Bin with a couple of items.
I mean, man, this is just...
It's just over, isn't it?
It is Knight. The most...
Okay, we got another on. Oh, no, they're gonna kill someone.
Kanabi is dead, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, he's got Flash first,
But then he is indeed going to go down.
It is night.
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because he buys Metas.
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It's nearly every game, guarantee.
Every single game he picks it up.
It's like no one in China has night's murder book.
He's got, like, it is, that is his thing.
It's a shtick, you know?
He does have the death note.
Well, Zekker is going to look for a bit of an angle.
He does manage to buffer the ulti,
but still gets knocked up.
Nothing he could do.
Shun, able to walk down.
Now KillisNight gets into the back line, that is an electrocution onto Gume Yushi and an execution onto HLE here in game number one.
My god, it was not close as BLG just paving this road right over the top of Homolife Esports.
BLG just not giving Homolight a chance. Kanavi sent Paken as nice, looking for one more.
Yep, he may as well see whether he dives the fountain.
Off going to be the case just yet.
This Kanabi is trying to tempt them into it,
but the next is going to be the focus here.
BLG, all business, as they will be able to take game number one
onto demolition.
I want to know what BLG did to warm up for this series,
because it looked really good, Analyst!
Did I don't know HLB?
I thought that meant compressing the bus again.
Did you?
Hey, I just got a statue to be by a producer saying this is the 22nd time in
2026 that night has had 10 kills or more in a game
Yeah, he's been doing my walk this year. Not too bad. Yeah. No average night game
Yeah, what is this? You did not predict BLG to win. What do you have to say for yourself? What do you have to say?
I was wrong. I'm so sorry night
I like I like I write on him, but don't but I also say he's the best player in the world true. I got some things right
It's true and thanks to the reliable Cisco network. We saw that crisp double kill top lane as one of the many highlights
That BLG show up. They make this collapse. It started with his initial dive. I was most happened on bin
He gets one kill
Everyone is moving instantly on the map from BLG on takes the tower night goes in picks up an
easy double and this is the last man you want to see get ahead of the pace of the game because
he just runs the game over. Oh yeah he completely takes over this game and as we're going to see
a lot more Akali highlights from this I do want to call out again the boys shun and on setting up
this early game this was so classically BLG in terms of how they played right that early invade
down on the bot side this where I believe he just hits out though that was another play
But the play on bot side where he hits level six immediately Jarvan ults
I love the way that these two played in tandem and then night just yeah absolutely popped off
I mean the solo kill on Zekka the solo kill on Kenavi through exhaust
He's just walking anywhere killing anyone early beige eyes getting all the stacks in the book wiping them off the map
That is a melee champion
20,000 damage, decadent 5k!
He did four times!
In Paris, he's crazy.
On did more damage than second.
I mean, this is crazy.
You know, I came into this, yes, I did predict HLE.
I thought it was going to be more about HLE
being that more complete team, but how they actually
functioned as a unit.
This felt like it was more about individuals,
more about individual outplays.
That early skirmish that we did watch
decided a lot of the game, and there's individual outplays.
There's little moments where it could have gone the way of HLE,
But BLG it felt like got the better of them in every little fight and then it's got further and further and further away from them
To the point where each other could do nothing
Yeah, and this is BLG at their best because I also like you predicted HLE and the reason why I did is I was like, okay
I feel like we haven't seen that level of play from BLG yet at this tournament. Well, here it is guys
I hope you enjoyed because it's very very entertaining. I love watching BLG when they are on
Yeah, it brings me back to that Viper quote about LPL style and this and that.
It's like, yeah, we're gonna show you. We're gonna show you what LPL style is.
LPL style is a 24 minute win with 100 kills.
25 to 2 kills.
Crazy. We're about to go out to game 2 after the break.
So the pointers for HLE, Austria all said they were gonna win.
I mean, I think you just have to wipe that one out of your memory.
This one was decided in early skirmishes.
I think if a couple little things went the other way,
could have been HLE snowballing
the game. Yeah, and I mean, I
do think HLE absolutely have the
players to be able to contend.
So it's about tracking, especially
shown it on in the early game,
not allowing them to set up for
the BLG carries. Yeah, we'll see.
There's a lot to review and not a
lot of time. We're going to kick
it over to break and we'll come
right back to see if HLE can
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Well, Sector is going to look for a bit of an angle, he does manage to buff in the ulti,
still gets knocked up. Nothing he could do. He's done it.
He's able to lock down that kill as he gets into the back line.
That is an electrocution on Takumi Yushi and an execution onto HLE here in game number one.
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Man, that first game was pretty quick, but I am woken up by the speed at which BLG played it.
Atlas has been warmed up, BLG they've warmed up a long time ago, they came in hot and ready.
HLE needs to do the same thing at least.
We need to check on them real quick after that, but a lot has been said about how much
HLE improved when everybody got on board.
Play around Konami's game plan, down sync for jungle timers, play for all this aggressive
style, but BLG just beat them to the punch and then snowballed so effectively after defending
that first invade.
This is why I think a lot of people kind of were surprised when, or at least coming into
the tournament, were surprised when people were saying BLG could win the tournament,
right?
Because I think a lot of people are like, hey, how's Jalee?
Have the advantage?
There are better all arounds, but BLG have these moments where they can just wake up,
they turn it on, and they go, no, we are just going to outperform you in every way, shape,
and form, and we kind of got to see it in game one.
But game one does not define a series.
You still have to get yourself across the finish line, and as we get into our champ select
presented by HyperX, we're going to have to see exactly what that game plan is going to be.
Yeah, and I think Rises are now sort of on the mind. With the Casio,
if you're already taken away and used in the bottom lane in game number one,
maybe the blue man is going to be a thought. But HL League has been in the same champions here,
they are on the blue side this time around, that was their decision, and it was second pick chosen
here by Danny and BLG. Yeah, I 100% agree as far as Rise priority right now, skyrocketing.
It's another like side effect or bot lane mages being so prevalent. It's the only game to it fearless. Yeah, still my pig stay
But also yeah, we'll just leave blocking out the gasio down there and Orianna gonna remain banned cuz she's been so high
You're not turned still open available though. Oh, yeah, that is gonna be the focus the singra
way as well by HLE because
You were seen a bit of funny business with the syndrome being swapped around as well
So I'm curious what this first pick is gonna be in that mid lane
I think the the rise gets even a bump from that as well with the ginger band and respect to yes
It is night syndrome of my purse also
But yeah, I think that one also puts even more but of course you can still play to lia and stuff it into the rise
If you do give it up, it's not the end of the world
There are still plenty of other possible answers BLG could go for well also another option if you want to go for
But they're gonna take the other side of the coin and go for this Camille
So trying to take that one away for deluxe. You know what? I also agree game one had a pretty big support difference
It did on was insane
So they prioritized that roaming supports and they are gonna have to give up the rise in order to do it though
And also taking away the Camille from on for the rest of the series sounds like a really good idea
When he had a game like he just did but it gives away the rise like we were saying incredibly high priority
The Anivia as far as an answer to the rise is concerned is going to be there
You're mentioning the Taliyah already so there are some options
But it doesn't feel like a lot of them are all that good at the moment
Yeah, we are gonna see you can also take the nocturne here for a show and have a great time like the not to be able to
Support this rise in the silent is an option for going for the Lee sin wanting that early aggression
So do Hali now Mel is that the option here to try to try this?
Yeah, maybe and the jungle there for can Abbey
And Abbey has played it already in this tournament. As has shown in fact, but we'll see what they do decide to go with.
The Wukong going to be the option instead, or at least considered for now.
Yeah, some AoE to go with your Camille here. I mean, it can build an Annie Wukong combination.
It's this energy like...
We love it. Keep it simple, Ryze Group. It's a Kiz and Joe. We're loving it.
All we need is a Recon from Delight, his signature pick, and this is perfect. Back to basics.
The most common pairing here and it's like okay. We'll get some extra aoe with our aoe
problem is that rise has pretty good options for splitting and
Leason is very mobile as well if you add on another
Ambessa here, you know another solo lane that can gain priority towards sides
You could put a lot of pressure to spread and Camille can only she can force a fight
You know you're gonna have to still group and force only one area
So you still can get picked apart across the map.
I'm curious what Fyper and I want to opt into to this Camille though,
because you couldn't have found him in the middle here,
just trying to limit that pool for BLG.
But we've seen things like, you know,
the Caitlyn and Elise attempt to be an answer in towards this
Mel bot lane, if you want to,
on very capable of picking up that champion,
but then you're kind of in this situation where it is a bit more difficult
with trying to land the cocoons,
and it hasn't quite worked out, I think,
because a lot of teams have plans.
So options for BLG, sure,
but I think if I'm HLE, I'm trying to limit that
with things like that, Caitlin Barnard, a lot of late.
I do like the protection though,
this Renekton ban coming on through making sure
that Bin's life is as good as possible
towards that top side of the map on the end.
That's a, speaking of on,
that is going to be the Alistar taken away,
not necessarily speaking of, I just said the word on.
So it's not necessarily that.
I say just keep going with it.
No one's gonna question you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I hope not because we're gonna make that mistake a lot
throughout this series.
Okay, so something has been pretty fun this tournament,
But it hasn't popped up quite yet.
Everyone loves talking about the solo queue picks
and the jack support into the meal.
Hey, the dog zone of the Shen was already used.
So you can't use that.
But you could use another dog zone
if you want to get spicy and make
it keep our insane battlefield of supports going.
Move the run out there.
The likelihood is still probably not that high,
because you don't have to play that.
Auto list is being banned, though.
The bot's already banned it.
Then in the pool, there are at least.
That certainly is.
I don't know whether it's actually
going to be the choice there are still other champions.
up and available. I will also say on an exceptionally good record. So maybe that's the option for
like a Zyra kind of bottom lane to try and take the obesity. But it's like you can't
play the record because we're just going to play Leona instead. I mean could be the case.
This is it's all yesterday at least from LeBrov could be a decent play here to just try and
have solid CC the ability to start roaming around and try and match some of that Camille
in the early stages. Yeah Leona very sturdy that you know they do need some you know help
for face checking here so I was weirdly assuming Camille is going to play but never mind I
mean yeah I mean the flexibility options Alice yeah I got blinded by the Wukong Annie
Rickon. The flexibility options are limitless. Wait a second they're picking both of them.
You could literally get away with saying anything is flexed here we go baby. Alright so we are
They're still assuming the normal of the Camille Bottom Lane support, but uh, you know, we'll
see here.
Back to the Leona though, I really do think this is such a good pairing with Lee Sin,
because you can have priority on the Wukong, like this duo, Shen and On, already, their
synergy and their roam jammers are really good, helping Shen defend jungle and go for
invades.
When you have a Leona at your back as Lee Sin, you feel like you can literally do everything.
your engage range is insanely long and you can really hold it all Viper okay the
Taliyah bottom lane I remember this and I'm sad that I do yeah the Taliyah Pantheon
back before feel as they played it three times in a row the series went three
games and they did not pick up a trophy but this is with a Leona a different
story those are against the Camille that hook shot not gonna look so fancy if
you're just jumping over a pile of stones that are walking you in the
He's sort of like tripping over the stairs.
When you turn up, I'm here, guys.
I think it works out pretty well.
And you've already got so much set up there as well.
The Leona working with the Taliyah, the Ambassador,
leaving the Lee Sin in like, I think BLG have the opportunity
to start playing off with a lot of these synergies in the kits.
Yeah, I mean, Camille tries to go for the engage,
and Leona just stands there and stat checks you,
hits it you with the stun into the Taliyah combo.
Just try and fight him front to back and delete that Camille.
And somewhere CV max is sitting down going I had this idea first
2019
That's that's getting into tomorrow territory. I will I will not burden you guys are thinking about that one
I do not want infighting
It's gonna be more of like a 2023 vibe
Oh, my God.
This is what I didn't want to happen.
All right, here we are, ladies and gentlemen,
under the riff for game number two.
BLG already leading the score line there
with one and nothing. HLE probably
still a bit dazed for that first one.
Well, let's see if they get stunned
early on in this one, because I am rocked up,
and that combo...
for anything here. Hovering and trying to use on us a little bit a little bit big.
Nobody's going to walk in and face check though.
Zekka will hold his anti stun on Will just hold his skills too.
Yeah, it looks like they were waiting to see if HLE took some space in the enemy jungle
and were like, oh, we're going to place a ward, maybe catch them out.
But it does mean there is a ward already down at the Raptors for Shun.
So can I have you having a bit of information as to what this Lee sins up to?
Alright, having a look first here towards his bottom side.
What is your guys experience with the Taliyah-Leona bottom lane?
My experience is it's going to be Leona stun into EW combo from the Taliyah and that's about it.
Well, I mean that sounds pretty good.
Yeah, and I mean you've got decent wave clear on the Taliyah, right?
Like the only thing is the Taliyah I kind of want in like a side lane so that you can kind of play off of the fact she's the Weaver's wall.
But honestly, Weaver's wall out two side lanes to support the Investor is going to be pretty good.
There's a hook shot in, Viper taking a lot of damage already.
Force shot picked up there by Guma.
He's out of walkie's way back.
Threads the needle right there.
They'll be able to get back onto Viper and get a round on here for the engage.
And naturally did a good job getting their bush presence first here.
So they get to control the push on in.
Yeah, extra bit of vision here.
Remove.
I mean the burst damage and the value out of Halo Blades.
level one. Shun is avoiding the ward though, cleared out towards the top side now, moving
in towards mid lane. Zeca? Yeah, used his ward hop. Zeca is feeling safe. Shun is out
of the brush for the moment. Nice pin. He's going to be out of moving down. Yeah, the
blue pin there as well. Shun is wasting a lot of time here though, so yeah, but I'm not
going to be spotted just walking across. So for Kenavi, you know you're very far ahead
of the clear. Is that on? Yeah. Takes a little bit of a lot of time from the light. A nice
use of the true damage there as well but does get thrown back by that seismic
shelf and so Delight gonna have that trade completely equalized by the Taliyah.
Okay so this time around you know gonna be a bit delayed for Shun. We'll see if
that ends up mattering you know Knavi on Wukong obviously is gonna look for the
power clear really wants to get to the level six so just get back into the
re-clears but finishing up towards the top side. Yeah here's what Knavi doesn't
like the respawn of the timers here for BLG right because an opportunity to go
back, spend your gold, then try and look for the raptor camp that's respawning or even avoid
the Greek college is immediately trying to make you know, shouldn't be spending a lot of time
there's bottom side missing, not the quickest of clears in that regard. Having a look here,
the matchup between Zekker and Knight, things pretty Knight favored, historically, and the history
is recently as last game is certainly going the same way. See whether Zekker can figure it out
here is right now with the way he pushed up is actually in a very good spot on the ante, but
It's still very early days.
Yeah, it is also going to be a little blessed,
like, you had second in the LPL number best teams,
but there we go.
This is the invade we were talking about.
Apshan going to make his way over.
It's going to be a smart fight.
Secured here by Shen.
Few popcorn chickens going to be picked up here by Kanabi,
though, as they make their way out.
Shen's still on the aggression, though,
as on moving over a ward.
Naturally, he's able to back away safely.
Yeah, I mean, Shen, at least he does it as East right here.
So he scares the big rafter, but still
taking some of the babies there for
Kenavian. Delight was there, you know, very
early with the cameo, so
they can force that play onto the
second respawn of Raptors. Yeah, he's
going to go back over towards his wolves, which he didn't pick up
on his first clear, so then going to move up
towards his croaks, so it's kind of
in an awkward spot now for him, where he still hasn't got
this reset, which is giving Kenavi a lot
of time in the map, where he's not there. Yeah,
and it makes your next reset
really awkward as well, because it's
ping-ponging all across both sides.
So it definitely incentivizes you to look for ganks or look for invades on your opponent as well
When your respawns are kind of so out of sync like that, but controlling again the vision and the loams around mid has been so critical
And BLG had done a pretty good job of that the light of course trying to get some early moves on the Camille and
Even up that difference as it's actually spidey sender's senses tingling here towards the top side is
is not going to be walking up towards BIM.
And you're not going to be able to find any gank angle there either.
I was actually thinking about saying it, you know,
when in doubt, just try and kill someone.
But that wasn't even really an option there
on that top side of the map, Dragon.
Now coming up as we will start with the cloud.
As the bear comes down from the sky,
and there is a nice zenith plate here from on,
gets the cleanse already out of Grumman's issue.
He just had the Unraveled Earth used by Viper though,
so there's no real follow-up.
To me, this speaks more about, I think, Viper and I
trying to get some sort of push on the bottom side so they could look for dragon, especially
off the back of this Krugtec, I'm sorry, Gromptec coming through from Sean, but we'll
have to see if that is the case because you can see there's just no real camps up, apart
from the Raptors that are just a bit to respawn.
All right, having a battle with Tibbers right now, Zeca feeling all right at the moment
in the lane, but on and Sean are going to move up just to make sure that Knight is okay.
Zeca will lose his bare 50 gold over to the Lee Sin.
And this is some of that kind of downtime on his own camps for Sean, so, you know, he's
looking to scrap instead looking to create some action. Good job pushing this
go-to-crap top. Yeah I don't know about Zeke's positioning here as he's in amongst
three people. Tempest goes down and so does the Annie. First blood over to
Shun. Shun found that scrap, Colby. Managed to take that kill in the mid lane.
Kamavi does guess that crab on the top side pushing him to level six. So a
little bit of tension in this mid lane. He'll even send him by barring just to
cover in case something went to wrong. It's always the fallback. Alright I don't
have camps to farm. Let's do something. And I think it might have been some
calms about the crab, because Kenobi was pushing crab up to the top. And so Knight
was kind of leaning into the river. But if you're getting that close as any and
check like that, didn't I see them all on the control ward? I'm pretty sure. Yeah,
that's what I thought as well. So Zekker thought that maybe he could sneak his
way in there, but I think was seen. But a bit of an error there from the mid lane.
It's also going to miss a cannon. Oh, it's a cablecade. There is here on the
map at this point in time. But Delight going to be going back. It is nowhere near any sort
of insurmountable lead at this point in time. Very different to what we saw with those couple
of kills picked up in game number one, but still a decent start here to bail Shun out
from a difficult early path in this game.
Just a little imporatious for Delight that he didn't actually have any words that he
could have placed a little bit deeper into the jungle there. He spotted exactly where
Shun was. So at least for the moment, Shun going to stay hidden as he was back towards
topside and Zez doesn't actually have any words at the moment and you've got
night with the Realm Warp moving so you can see Zez immediately starting to
back off that top looks and while we have seen a lot more roaming out of
the light early on and it seems like oh where you know where it's on he hasn't
been doing as much this time you know he has been getting an extra level in the
bottom side so he does have that full-level lead over the light with the
Leona even though not as quick as the Camille is gonna be very scary when you
You get your ultimates first because that is a very long range and if they can blow some flashes, it is going to spell death.
You can see though the pressure that you have with the Camille and the Jhin on the bottom side
has not at least a nice gold lead for Gumi-Yushi on the Jhin as we had to push in.
Now opening up on the mid lane as well as there is some trading from BOG going on.
I don't think they've spotted that Gumi-Yushi could be here, yes.
Just going to tear it away.
Some grubs going over to HLE in the meantime.
Canavi able to at least grab those still with a bit of a camp lead as he takes the first one
It looks like there's going to be no contest
but but I piss here towards this bottom side grabbing some crockery out of this turret and
That should be unanswered at the moment this shun clearing out this control ward the dragon has been begun as well
So even though the grubs will go over to this wukong
It's not without a cast as Zekker does find another bear towards night might seems not too perturbed
They're still taking some damage. I mean honestly a pretty hefty cast
going really nice for BLG here.
Her plate money, getting the dragon as well,
and straight for those grubs.
Yeah, that's why I'm keeping my eyes on the bot lane,
because I'm still seeing some of those cheeky HLE wards
in behind, bi-praise-y goes for those pushes.
Like, they've been so good at TP'ing's ace
into some of these traps,
almost having that TP available for Zekka as well.
So it may be a case of HLE trying to blow open
something through this bottom side.
I really, really, really want to see
if On can coordinate something
to play off his earlier level six as well.
I mean, he gets it now and they did see him get it.
So maybe nothing too sneaky.
But again, that experience difference for supports
is so huge in this mid stage of the game
when Leona's roam now can be devastating.
Yeah, I think lucky for HLE that it's four minutes
until anything is going to be up and available
as far as those neutral objectives are concerned.
But maybe something that they could fight around as BLG
had been very good at just creating things to fight around
like a blue buff, or a red, or maybe even a ward.
There have been certainly ways to accelerate the game
for the team demonstrating exactly the crubs.
Crubs have been started here by Sean.
Navian Delight moved their way up,
Ben is just going to move back towards his turret
and the defense is just too good here by BLG.
They're doing a nice job of just shifting across them up,
covering the plays and honestly,
this was the thing that I expected to see more from HLE.
Like I thought they did this fantastically
in the series against G2.
Always catching where Skumon was,
making sure you're in position to cover for some of these plays.
But at least in game one, they couldn't keep pace.
This, to game, it feels G, who are actually
managing to keep up some of the pressure here,
has been a good trade against Zayas.
With the public execution, though,
a little more difficult to hit on towards the Jax,
who can just leap-strike away.
Yeah, soul play going to Connector.
That is an extremely dead delight.
And was level five?
I don't think the ult would have helped.
Yeah.
in the dirt instantly.
I was a really good pick there right over the wall.
It was with a solar flare.
They found it.
I mean, it's just so it's so hard to deal with, right?
It's a lot more simple.
Oh, now the everybody's worried tricks to decently.
That still has to flash away, holds onto the cyclone
and elects to use the flash instead,
maybe feeling like you'd have to use it anyway.
I mean, it's like you got a lot more roams earlier
for the communal, but he didn't get, you know,
kills or assists on them.
And so on just kind of played the more stable game and then once you've got the bigger firepower
It's gonna be a big difference
It's also just the how deep the ward coverage has end up being for BLG versus HLE right like we've seen those rooms
But actually the war is just died on top side
But quite shallow in the BLG jungle
Whereas you've got now very deep wards that are littering the bottom side of the HLE jungle and it gives so much more information over
So as you say like the roams are there, but I think the the capitalization what you can do with those rooms hasn't quite happened for tonight
Here towards the topside's airs continuing to take a little bit of a battering.
That is the Eclipse spike here from Bin in full effect.
The ambassador is just way stronger at this point in time as we do see some pings towards
the bottom side of the map.
And four people going top at Bin.
Yep, there is the deadly flourish as well.
The curtains are being called.
He's looking for sand.
He flashes out of the way.
The public execution.
Delight gets in.
They have second ultimatum to take the kill.
An HL leader on the board.
The flash forward to make sure that he covered the distance on towards Bin.
Who's doing his best to get out of there.
That was a kill for HLE.
As BLG looked to grab some plates here in this mid lane.
Zeca, moving over just to try and clear these last few minions.
We'll be able to do so before too many plates fall.
I will say one of the very common fallback patterns against BLG.
When teams start losing versus BLG.
I mean, we did this, Lyon did this when we were losing a lot early on.
To get back in the game, they were just like,
alright, let's look for bin in a side lane.
Try and pick up bin a couple times and add to those isolated deaths.
This one is like, okay, you cannot do much to get away from this.
Camille with ultimately a flash on you, the Jinn is walking up lane, hitting the W on you.
They're sending four people straight to your lane and it's still...
Towers are still there.
Being asked them really nicely to let them know.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
It's pretty poor form, isn't it?
He made a formal request.
That's one view on don't call the jungler.
Can he call you ready to carry and support though?
I think he specified the one thing.
Did he also do a little trash talking beforehand or?
Before he was very nice and kind of got it, it's subjective you know?
It's open to interpretation.
Alright, well Knight here towards his bottom side of the map, Zekka is staying away from
this.
Ryze will be out of catch that way before it gets towards his outer turret.
Still it's a 1.3k gold advantage for BLG.
They have been able to snowball that small lead that they picked up with the first blood.
I don't think like for HLE though, like you're too stressed about this.
You still got the Camille who's now roaming towards bin again who doesn't have flash.
And you still have an insane wombo.
And you managed to pick up Void Grubbs which is great for Zayas if you're going to get
this Jax Fenn, right?
So it does seem to be that HLE have just adapted the game plan to, as you said, call me Killbin.
Well they're now looking to try and kill him underneath this turret here.
Or maybe catch on on rotation.
There it is.
A whole lot of value though as he does flash his way up, the teleport to come through as well as Zekar is joining this play.
They are truly overloading this top side of the map as now looking for a turn on Tezeus perhaps, the rest of HLE trying to now get themselves into position.
It's taking them some time as the dragon's already gone down on the other side of the map and there is the kick flash out of Sean.
Gooma taken down and on the other side of the map he's left hanging.
It's so good for BLG. They defend while they're taking dragon. They defend the weak side. They are on slips in
He's happy to tank the engage. Wait a second
At least they got the crab you can say for HLE, but BLG do so good taking the objective bot and then defending the other side
Oh July making his way in does hextech ultimatum on to Vipers. Canavi wanting to make his way in
He will be able to get there although never mind let's not to go for it
Now Ankhavien a little bit of trouble does have that eclipse to make him so durable as Kanabi gets the next cyclone to take down the support
But the monkey will be traded for it and bin picks up the kill
But it's BLG you've just been using these globals so well you get the realm warp to pick off
Goomayushi then as you get that TP from this to the bottom lane you end up with knight
Teleporting down to match that play and this then jungle for support as shown able to cover on the mid lane as well as this
constant rotation to keep pace with HLE.
I mean, BLG, yes, they are setting the pace.
They are on fire here.
They're the ones calling these plays,
and it's two dragons.
Not as early as last game,
and last game was an insanely early dragon soul,
but still fairly a quick pace for them.
Well, this is the ridiculous thing,
is the fact that I haven't seen HLE get this out tempered at all,
apart from maybe the LCK Cup,
but they were barely even in that tournament.
To be fair, they have two of the midlaners
that are the most mobile when it comes to map, which is definitely helping out a
smidge because even as HLE went for that top play Viper was made and just started
walking top lane which meant they had to cut it off. Now you get Kuma Yushi
who's realm warped on and shown excellent flash kick to set up the kill there.
Beautiful stuff there, this synergy on display they get the realm warp pick and
then they're defending Viper here soon as on award so you know he's sitting in
sitting there, depending on how it's going to go.
Yep, Zayac's going to try and leap his way away.
Can Abi for the defense, DeLite going to be showing up as well.
On obviously is right here as well,
as the Rift Herald will be given on over,
or at least forced to reset.
HLE, they need to say goodbye to Zayac,
but there's a deadly flourish!
That's the pickoff!
On to Omni by so much time!
The curtains have been called!
Now is the bullets fly!
DeLite should be answered, though,
and Sean, so incredibly low, but is going to survive.
Public execution is a little private this time,
as HLE will back away, but BLG once again, it's them on the objective!
It's the TP from Bane that gets the members from BLG into position to cover for the play,
support for support, but objective control for BLG.
Yeah, they pick up the extra one. BLG had the option, they're like,
okay, we could just keep Bane split pushing, or we can start this playoff on as well,
and they just see it, they get the extra objective on top of it,
and the Rift Herald will allow them to crack the rest of this outer turrets.
I mean, it's two turret plates on top and mid and only one on bottom.
So they can one shot that mid turret.
Bin's going to take care of the top turret here.
The outer ring of defenses for HLE will fall very soon.
HLE want to try and make a play though.
Shun trying to cover, but there's so many members.
Zace has to back away.
Canavi's going hard.
Canavi does not want to.
Oh, he got spotted.
Yeah, spotted on the Skryas bloom.
Now, looking to try and get himself out.
Warrior Tricks to come through.
Delight is going to try and defend.
They want to save the monkey, and it looks like maybe
they'll be successful.
Flash out of the way. The solo player is there
with the Counter Strike and the Leap Strike
trying to get himself out.
But now, Hechtek ultimating to cut off Nite
and harness the one that they turn onto.
He incinerate, helps grab that one,
and Kanabi's even able to get out of there.
Sean kicked to try and save Nite,
but end up saving Delight in the long run.
It's a kill back.
A Viper and I were low mana, needs to be careful, but Bin doing some damage in the top lane.
Yeah, it was a 4v5 play on the other side of the map.
You're right, I mean, the instincts are there, here we go.
Oh dear, more fighting is now going to be down very, very low, still able to walk it off.
Didn't have his flash up just yet, but when the realm warp comes through,
BLG always making those plays.
The instincts are there, and you don't really blame Shrynk, because you're like,
okay, you're always thinking, I'm going to kick this Camille out of her ultimate to,
as the counter play, and then they didn't really count, they had that much damage,
They could have just almost finished and burst instead, but they thought defensively first
But now is dragging in 30 seconds and flash down flash down flash down flash down
It is going to be a difficult fight for HLE if they try and take us and it's BLG who are already out on the map first to try and look for us
Yep, and Vypher's flash will be available for the infernal that is coming up
That is going to be infernal soul point for BLG if they're able to lock that one down now
Zayas could be in a little bit of trouble here and by a little bit
I mean, a lot.
SolarBlet comes through.
The layering of CC is perfect.
And Knight is going to grab his second.
Just going to keep up this pressure on the topside.
Delight trying to move in towards mid.
Viper to cover.
He's spotted, though, crucially.
And again, BLG make a topside play,
but they're coming over.
They're transitioning to defend the opposite side.
Every time they're going to make a play
and then still defend the cross-map,
they're not letting HLE make any of these trades.
Yeah, and Knight is even able to catch the wave in the bottom lane as well.
Kanavi, I mean, the best you can hope for is a steal,
but don't think he's coming back from it.
And that is going to be that soul point picked up for BLG,
a clean sweep for Dragons and HLE are just behind the play
and they have been all day.
Yeah, no trades allowed.
They're going to keep them on the back foot and make them watch.
Whole top side of the map for BLG accelerated and ahead.
And that's just where you want it.
want those solo lanes on their two item power spikes
and they're going to be hitting Dagger.
And it's so hard to try and match now on the side lanes
because you have a Taliyah mid.
Like the ability for this Taliyah to now influence
on these side lanes is basically like she never
left the leading phase.
So for a BLG, they just want to keep up this pressure
and delight has to run for the hills as a result.
So there's strengths we were talking about from champion select
with those side lanes being able to play the map.
But it's also the gold lead in the jungle Atlas.
Yep, Coinbase gold grind coming on through for Shun.
After that first blood, he's been able to make playoff to play on a killing spree right now on this Lee Sin.
And it feels like such a lovely game to play Lee Sin, doesn't it?
You've got rune prison, soul of flesh, shield of daybreak, even the seismic shove to move them into the right position.
Oh man.
And you've got your mid-laner realm warping you on their AD carry over and over.
It's like a delivery service right to Goomayushi's face.
The amount of convenience that BLG have had in this game has just been glorious.
It's very nice to just bring their own barrels to put the fish in.
You know, just constantly over and over.
For Shun. And I think this is where, again, now you have this pressure of,
hey, we're going to push mid, Shun's there, now we start to roam over towards the side lanes,
and there's one turret plate on the tier two.
You have this Rift Herald to take the tier one in the mid lane,
and now HLE trying to congregate on mass to mid,
and it should sound the potential for the 2v1, they were looking for a bot lane.
Exactly, and a bit of a herald right here that it's going to be a very short one.
As Gumiuchi is able to help Kanabi take that one down.
Now, Zeca moving towards his topside throws the bear down, but Knight is so tanky.
Those first two items have been put together.
He is still going to respect the Annie as he does realm walk away in possibility interrupt
without that passage stacked up.
Zeca will hit level 13 at least, but he is still pretty far behind.
Yeah, the 1-3-1 is great from BLG.
They keep up enough pressure towards mid and topside to get both towers.
using the riff held here, making the escape, and I mean, I'm just thinking back to what you're talking about is
you know, Guma's like, well, I might as well die. It's like that SpongeBob meme where he jumps in the grave.
Realm Warp is at least hit onto my face. All right, great. Well, time to jump into the grave,
but at least he was able to walk to his minion wave the second time around.
We'll see if he is able to survive the next one as the play topside from BLG is looking pretty good.
Yeah, we was all available here as well. There's the kickback on to Kanavi
Solar play going to connect on to second but only for the slow. Kanavi's still gonna die though as Shun
locks that one down a second, flashes over the top, sidesteps and very nicely, but he's still dead ladies and gentlemen
Bin locks it down, BLG are just so mobile and now they're able to move over to the Baron if they'd like it
BLG are just everywhere in this game and the big purple worm is only going to make things worse for HLE and keeping these terrorists safe.
I mean we were saying during game number one, alright getting smashed in the first game doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to continue in the series and you're going to get smashed again.
Well you might not get smashed in the same way, but BLG still are just looking so much better.
And the guy who's pretty similar to be honest
The guy you tried to shoot down has nearly a 2000 gold lead
Now what's the pick up delight to really make it that much worse like in a flash away
But this may not be as lucky as been moving towards the minion waves is fighting against on feeling better about that one
Is that cooking it towards this bottom side throws down the bad
It shouldn't get on in there to like finds a hex deck ultimatum
Everything to take down been and they're still not able to get it finally
He goes down, but at what cost ladies and gentlemen as Knights able to kill Zares as a response
Another realm warp gets in there. Kumiishi playing defense
He might be out of keep him alive for a little bit longer as the threaded Bully from Viper not able to do too much
And they're flicked back onto his former mid laner. Oh
Dear HLE I think it's all about whether they can also get themselves a reverse sweep
It is not over just yet, it's going to have to flash and use everything to get out of the way that we've as well.
Viper wanted to add one to himself there, but not quite able to do so.
As BLG, I mean this is so impressive. This is the BLG that we got to see domestically.
That people were questioning and playoffs, but it has finally made it to Deja.
Alright, let's take a look at this one. They attack the side lanes first.
Lane's first on and been are here early and then the teleport at the arrival of
Chun goes for the kickback play on this day's been survived for a long time is
important out that the even inside the Hexic ultimatum that they overreach for
him and they can't get back after extending this deep and there's a
realm war to help just jump on to Zach his head this rise is so tanky Viper on
the side and even though it may be in Korea by presentation he's got the
I'm quite advantage still there for him.
Oh, yeah, there is the Dragon Soul as well.
Infernal Soul picked up for BLG 8,000.
I mean, it's the same game as Game 1.
I mean, the coaching staff celebrating early,
but I would say actually it's not even early.
It's not right on time.
Yeah, I think they need to do the celebrating now
because they might just plan on how to do this
in the next game very soon as well.
As Viper getting out of the way, Xana is the best he can.
Kanavi trying to cycle in his way to safety.
But everyone is getting attacked from every angle possible.
And Zez is just like, well, get me the heck out of here.
Viper knows exactly where he is, throws him towards Nite.
But Giff, that keeps on giving is BLG.
Did a Harlem Globetrotter's today.
It's absolutely insane.
There is no keeping up with this team right now for a Hall of War
life.
And honestly, like, this is Viper is everywhere.
Like, wasn't he just top lane?
What was he doing down here?
You've got creeps catching in between the turrets in the mid lane.
Zephyr gonna get thrown back to Livid to bin.
Oh my goodness, that looks like a strategy people using Killed for SAI.
I mean, this is crazy, Atlas.
The BLG are making the number one LCK team actually look like bots.
Yeah, like they just cannot respond in time.
This is unbelievable from BLG.
They're now looking for this inhibitor in the mid lane.
They're rail-wapping to the top lane, they are attacking every single front,
and HLE just don't even really know where they're getting hit anymore.
The Solar Flare going to connect onto Gumi-Yushi, he's backing away.
And at least they know that when the Nexus Terrets are under fire,
that is all the BLG are going to be hitting, and so they can be in the area for it.
But you've got Zonyus, Seekers Armguard, GA for BLG.
You don't have to do it once, you got to do it twice to find the magic for HLE of being in this vision.
Well, Zayas looking to see whether he can at least stay alive against this, but on his moving over there's the counter strike, Viper in a little bit of trouble.
Zayas trying to keep himself alive, Canadi is going to be able to get out of there. The question is can anyone else's delight is basically dead to stop this one off.
He does manage to get Viper in the back line, but that is all he's going to be able to claim.
The last shot from Gruma doesn't do anything at all, and he's desperately trying to defend two inhibitors down at 27 minutes, and BLG, they'll just go back and spend their hordes of gold.
And HLE, they're probably already, wait a second.
Yeah, Knight in a little bit of trouble, perhaps, as Kanabi gets over there, doesn't waste any time, uses the Cyclone immediately, there's the double knockup to come on through, but Knight just kills him.
Yeah, nice never alone. It seems like this game. He is forever having someone there to help him
I think even if he was alone, I mean, he said he was a 606. Yeah, 17 big big shield big damage
Yeah, ready to actualize fellas. It's start talking about the conspiracy theories
Because HLE this whole tournament, you know, they've been focused on three O's
Going as little as possible in their stage time. Yes
double elimination, you know, tournament. So got it. Got it.
They're looking to get out of this series as quickly as possible.
Question mark, like what in the heck do they know that they will have to then
do this again. Yeah. Yeah.
They do manage to get round through the also.
Sure. BLG have shown a loss, but like
so much shown. I don't even think about it.
I think it's makes it worse.
They've just waited for everything.
This is actually insane that it is stopping this heavily, two games in a row.
I mean we can say don't be a Game 1 Andy as much as we want.
Don't be a Game 2 Billy.
What happens with Game 3?
Game 3 Stuart.
Okay well BLG are looking for an angle and B and B will find one gets into the back line, eliminates.
Gumiushi there, Zeku died at some point in that play, but I didn't quite see it, and there is going to be the Cyclone on tonight.
He's going for it. If at first you don't succeed, you're not going to succeed in this series.
His BLG will wipe them from the rip, and it feels like mercy here in game number two, as Viper just teleports in, looks to get rid of this last Nexus turret.
And gentlemen, I think this is the quickest we've made it to a match point so far here at MSI, and it's in the winners final
I mean the question is what's the quickest EO we've had at this event because BLG are looking like they're one of breakers
My goodness. I am I've got some whiplash. I'm gonna solve that as we throw it over the analysts
2. The most unlikely candidates for the biggest shillacking at MSI so far had to be this one,
Jatt. But it is BLG that is calling it into existence. I do not know what's happening
here. I mean, they're slowing down. Game 1, they
got 25 kills in 25 minutes. Now it's 24 kills in 29. Can they keep it? What is happening
right now? 7 more games. It's just behemoth. This isn't even close.
Well, you called it!
I called the 3-2 that was close.
That's just as wrong as everybody else with how this is going.
Okay, where are the big differences here?
You know what? I'm just going to start immediately by something that Emily has been talking about.
Non-stop in our HyperX Reflex Replay.
Shun and On.
Yeah, I mean these two are going to be the two that set the early tempo.
As soon as Zeca face checks this brush, Shun and On are just already there.
I didn't actually notice that.
The crazy thing though, was he literally just saw them mid lane kill his timbers and then face check them.
I think the big thing is, even with like, okay, that was a play with Knight, right?
We saw the Taliyah flick back.
But Shun and On are always, at least one of them, if not both of them, are always at the scene of the crime.
And this is why when we talked about Night Mirror's question of like, okay, how do you deal with Knight?
How do you deal with Ben, these two strong solo laners?
My question is always, how do you deal with Shun and On setting these two up?
Because when they are roaming the map together, BLG is at its best.
And how do you deal with Viper?
I want to take a look at the draft because I thought that they had some really clever drafting here.
Honestly, it didn't really become that relevant because the game was such a stump,
but Camille has been kind of the support of the tournament.
And I thought what they did in draft was actually so clever.
So obviously they're hiding, you know, what is going to be their bot lane.
We're kind of expecting. Hey, it's maybe just mages versus mages bot. The Camille gets early picked
I was thinking that they might have been gonna be banning Mel or something along those lines
Didn't matter comes out with a gin
But instead of picking to actually kill you to carry they're picking to kill the support you go
Leona one of the tankiest early game supports in the entire game and you're combining it with the Taliyah has not only
The size makes up out of the stun
But if you ever hook shot in aggressively unwrappled earth comes out you're gonna be stunned
You're gonna be killed and it's so easy to focus down this Camille who's so reliant on having gold and levels
to be survivable. Something he can't get in a lane where you can't be active. And we
can run through a couple of these kills. I mean, again, it's not exactly illustrating
the point because the game got super out of hand, but it is really something that was
just a denial play. He can never actually get aggressive. He could never find windows
to actually look and start fights as he wanted to. Because as soon as the Camille goes in,
Seismic, Shove, stunned up, burst down, they are focusing the Camille in so many of these
skirmishes and we saw Delight was only ever even looking for something with
Flash because the only way in his Flash ultimatum he could not really go for
any hook shots to start plays. And the big thing to me is that Viper is one of
the few AD carry players or bot lane players we should say that you can do
this with right that's why I made the meme sign the return of the awesome dude
meta because he is willing to play anything in this bot lane. And it's so
interesting because you look at what he's played so far at MSI and it's that's
That's his fourth or fifth different mage.
We have Cassiopeia, Ziggs, Vel'Koz, Taliyah.
But the game's really not about him.
It's about the top side and how everyone else can support
the top side.
And then when they have these 15-minute skirmishes,
he's just stronger than whatever the other AD carry is,
because his items are cheaper than the other AD carry.
And they're so good at accelerating these games.
We're never seeing what the potential downsides would be.
So I'm incredibly impressed with how they've come out today.
I'm pretty disappointed in what we've seen from HLE and Zeca specifically so far today,
but the games have kind of felt like they've been over within the first eight minutes
without good BLG's from Snowball.
I agree, HLE in this tournament so far.
They steamrolled everyone they were up against,
and I think this is something we'll have to carry into game three as well.
Coaching staff, right?
BLG just feel like a bit of a more of a complete team than we've seen of them in the past.
Shout out to Denny, for instance, because of these draft adaptations.
If this is thrown into the mix as well, the Spiders will be a sweep.
HLE has to reverse sweep, which they have never done,
and BLG has never been reversed swept before.
So two things that we have never seen happen will have to happen
if this is not going to be a BLG win.
We had a couple of crazy moments here at MSI so far.
Let's see if this is another one, or if BLG closed the door in game three.
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And that's just make up. Yeah.
Yeah.
You kind of just scraped HLE off their boot twice in a row.
And now we're here at match point.
And I don't know, man, it feels like this Golden Road will not
stop here from what we have seen thus far.
Obviously, it is not the final of MSI just yet, but it might be
a sneak preview of what we could be seeing there as BLG
me just looking so dominant. Yeah, the problem is though, like if I'm actually slightly worried
that a BLG dujos, Harith Freel, this that's going to get way too much confidence like
they did against the way we domestically complacent. Yeah. Yeah, I was a little nervous with this
team. Our conspiracy theories. It's all part of this. I feel like Tommy sports may have
hurt you Rob, it's okay, it's okay, they cannot hurt you anymore.
No they will.
I know, this is my image, you cut me off, you know, I couldn't finish the sentence.
HLE though very capable of hurting me further.
And there is one more game to do so, this has just been, I mean I was kind of expecting
that if HLE were going to win this series, it would look similar to this.
Unfortunately on the other side for them, and it is just not being the way they need
to wake up.
Yeah, I mean, at least for them, always a second chance, right?
This is not the elimination series, this is the upper bracket final, so
they will end up dropping down facing the winner of G2R Line, whoever comes out of that tomorrow.
But for them, I think they would like to do a lot of the legwork today if they could manage it,
but there's still a lot to do as you're down 2-0 in this series.
Yeah, I think HLE would like to play a little bit more League of Legends than
And the short games that they've had already available to them, let's see if BLG let them.
Because it does feel like it is up to BLG whether HLE are going to be able to enter
this series or not.
And it's once again a blue side pick here for HLE, even in the very final game potentially
of this series.
They need to make it work.
Coach Owen, let's see whether he's actually got a plan here.
Of course, spent an incredibly long time in the LPL.
There in the LPL as well. I mean, there is a lot of experience understanding how this league works on this HLE roster
and a lot of experience with a lot of the players that are on BLG as well. They just have not been able to keep up the pace.
I think there's some sort of whiplash here between these two squads where HLE are like,
oh wait, this is what it's like in the LPL actually where a lot of these players do have a lot of that experience.
Yeah, it could not be spent like six years in the LPL and he has a very you know good winning record versus shun individually
from his time there, but
Not on his time here in Dajon
Yeah, and I'd like shun had to try and fill cannavi shoes by cannavi left JDG
Then ended up coming over towards BLG after all the shenanigans that last year with their jungler
Well, it's shun selling it nicely being able to support the solo lanes
But that has not been the story of today. It has been more about BLG specifically on working with Sean on the invades
Shooting down can avi and making sure can avi cannot play his game
Yeah, I mean the best thing that I've loved so much about the how BLG have looked this series
Is how in sync they are yeah the layering of CC everybody being there on really good timers for the scrimmars is
Everyone on the same plan as far as defending the plays
Crossback plays, not letting your opponent get anything while you have to lead, but they have to lead, they know they have to lead, and they will not let you get a trade.
So, back to the draft though, and our love of flex picks.
The starter of flex pick is alive and well too, that's what that is.
It's really alive and well, this is another flex pick, this could be the bottom lane.
They very well could.
Okay, well the Lucian is going to be locked in. This is when Gumi is she's like no guys. I want to win the game
I don't know whether he's going to be allowed to delight is now on the Milio Judy as well
Not necessarily his wheelhouse although he has had some good games on the champion
And I have liked the games where we've seen Lucian Milio to try and punish the male lanes
You know what regardless of what male does get put with so if you're going to do that though
So you have to play to that lane, play to the bottom lane so that Lucian can do those
trades on the mel, can continually dash in and keep that passive uptime and I want to
see if they can actually get jungle under control, control the jungle towards bottom
side and play to the Lucian Milio.
I don't think it's going to be used into the Lucian Milio but just put it out there on
those base corner.
So it could also be the flex and scarner down into that bottom side as well.
So options here still for BLG and I do think you kind of want something though that can
and still get out onto the map, because that's mostly where BLG have been able to find the success here.
And Scott are definitely one of those champions who can come in from multiple different angles
and make things very uncomfortable for the likes of a victory in that mid lane.
Yeah, and I'm kind of assuming that maybe the renecing can be played by Viper as well.
Like at this point, everything is on the table.
The Caitlyn is going to be taken away though.
They do not believe that this Mel is definitely going into the bottom lane.
Knight could obviously be playing that.
But we do expect that the Mel is likely to be used there towards that bottom side, but
to pivot away from the matchup could be a good idea, so eliminating some of those better
options.
Yeah, I mean with the prevalence of flexing everything around, you don't want to get hit
all of a sudden with a Caitlyn, you know, Elise combination or something from Viper
on.
And that would just be brutal.
Let's take a look though, what else they're worried about to cover on their side?
I mean, the Mel is pretty good for mid lane too, uh, in the victor, so that's why they're
really covering bottom lane, they don't want to deal with a, you know, hyper scale combination
either.
Uh, you know, the Zerry Lulu has been on display already, but it pays quite heavily at this
tournament, and so take out the Lulu half of it where she pairs with just so many, uh,
other better AD carries here.
We've seen like called Lulu sometimes as an answer into the Lucian and Milio and he had a great performance on that action domestically in the playoffs as well
so
Looks like on gonna get his hands in her console
Literally called the handsome support because of how good he looks on this pic
So definitely a massive pick for on I love to see if he's gonna be able to find that same kind of roam timers
I'll be talked about for can be a difficult thing to make work into something like a victim with so much a we damage going around
We'll have to see how this one is going to be evened out as the atrox is an interesting one
I had that Kenobi game in my head
Seeing whether they could find a way to springboard themselves back into this series with a good performance
The scannado is going to be the lock in here for Kenobi. I mean we saw T1 do exactly
Did I say scannado?
Because I mean Shun is a kindra player and we already just said hey we've already got that scannado potential flex
This is what happened with T1 where they got cut out before. So where are they flexing it though? That's the question.
So the the desire is coming in. I was thinking maybe Viper's gonna play Skarner this time.
Yeah, so I was right there with you. I was right there with you.
But no, not gonna be the case. We are gonna have the Lovers' Jewel there towards the bottom side of the map.
And that with the Mundo lock in, I mean, there's solo kill pun with this matchup.
with the Mundo into the Renekton with the surprise reset on him.
And Bud was pretty good this turn of his.
So we'll see.
Bindo, a different monster.
And I have to say, I think that Ben, with pushing priority on that lane,
with Mel gonna have priority early on in that lane as well,
I think this is another pretty good setup for BLG.
I think if Hallmark can't slow the game down, though,
There is so much scaling on their side, like with the Mundo, with the Victor in the mid lane,
that Toronto going to be able to steal away a ton of stats from the Skarner, so I think for Hanwha,
it is once more going to be a case of can you shut down the early game?
Yeah, we'll see whether they can actually make that happen. I think if HLE can find a way to keep up
with BLG, that might allow them to stay alive in this series. And honestly, with the amount of picks
that have been feellessly taken away that are so high on the tier list.
I am very interested in what these drafts are going to look like moving further forward.
That being said, getting way ahead of myself because they actually need to wake up and actually
start dictating the pace in some of these games when we get onto the ref for potentially the final
time this series.
A crowd doing their best to wake them up, Alice.
Yeah, and they've been yelling even throughout the entire break.
We saw HLG there as well, trying to wow them up.
Fadaios coming through as well.
HLG...
Let's see whether they've finally had enough time to get into gear here.
And the Toronto Pekingabi is something that he's found a lot of success on in the LCK as well.
So something that he might be able to find some advantages on,
especially with Shun, on something that is a little bit more on the back foot, at least very early on.
Yeah, and we have exhaust on the dye here for Viper too.
Try and deal with this move, Millie.
That's immediate exhaust here in this bottom lane.
I don't know whether it was the right move,
but it's more valuable to put things on cooldown
as quickly as possible so that you can potentially
use them more per game.
Yeah.
I see what you're selling.
I was just going to let that one sit.
The trade didn't really look that great anyway,
but I like the salesman.
here as uh facing his team getting to fall. I flash out of fountain by the way.
Yeah, I love that. Hey, any plastic is coming back. You can get your extra 5 AD with your ignite early.
Oh, exactly. I'm lighting the Wraith on fire my way through.
Precisely what's going to be happening.
Hell yeah. Wraith is still going to be a man. Do you remember that camp? The Grump of Pogrom.
Okay, ah well we do have a invade we got an invade buddy Trundle gonna go try and use the early dueling power
He does start up the blue early here, and they see the ward go down so here comes the chase
Yeah, level three for both of these junglers. There is the kennel thrown down and Kenavi gets the chomp onto the scana
And be a battle for these wolves, and it's won by Kenavi this time
Can I be didn't even have this mice shouldn't just miss time in that so can I be able to get the majority of the
Camp which is very nice for the jungle the defense as well from HLE
This is it feels like the first time that they were ahead of the play and what what were we asking for in champs?
So that's Alice it is to get jungle play for bottom side. They do that
They get winning jungle they play for bottom side. It's a much better different story for HLE for can I be and
on the opposite side of course, you know shouldn't goes into
countermeasures there and he at least is going to be able to take away the enemy
blue quadrant. I'm taking a lot of damage on the bot side though. The feather
pull from Viper not actually connected on to Gumi Ushi so now on when he just
taking over to level three I have to play a little bit more defensive on this
model I'm especially with Kanavi there. I'm a little nervous but looks like Kanavi
just gonna walk his way through mid lane and see if he can match this garner on
this topside crab. Yeah 22 minutes and five seconds the time to beat here for
to enter the top five fastest best of fives of all time.
Okay, that would be insanely fast.
Yeah, 16-19, oh wow, that number,
that really does not make me happy.
It's never mind, you're usually gonna be out of dash
out of the way of the grand entrance, nicely played here.
It looks like his Lucian is still pretty dominant.
See whether it's going to continue
as it's still very early days.
And I wanna highlight how good of a defense there it was
from Kanabi.
He crossed back to the other side,
Chases a way shun who is still only on 20 CS but now yeah, can I be my being a little bit of trouble?
Never mind night could be in a bit of trouble because he's forced to flash out of the way of that kennel
Zeca putting down a great gravity field to force it. Yeah, I still hate you
He put a lot of pressure down. I don't know what's happening here in bot lane. You're usually taking a lot of damage that girl
That's what's happening as my first also gonna follow suit
Intelligent trying to get this minion wave shoved in and they will do so and go for reset
Yeah, I mean BLG struggling now when it gets back towards the 80 carries like we've seen build BLG really cooking
You've got to see that on the side of your screens with like the swing the Velcro the Taliyah in the last game
But now with this Lucian Milio
Viber and I'm not looking so hot when it comes towards the 2v2 as soon as it's a normal lane
Yeah, they don't know what they're doing. Well, I do think that I do think that like the
Speciality of all has been getting out of the lane and interacting in the map, right?
And we've seen in years past when it comes to 2v2, I'm still very good, but like when it came towards matching like Gumiushin Carrier, now matching up with Gumiushin Delight, like it is not as simple as a time from, especially given the map up match up.
So I do think for HLE, this is where they can find that success by putting that pressure on.
Yeah, and I think a lot of people would have been confused by the Victor first because why we didn't really go into it.
But Zeka has been really, really good on this champion.
It's something that I think Showmaker really started to make look kind of broken in the
LCK earlier on this year.
And Zeka did manage to find some great angles with it as well.
So you might be looking at it going, that's not a Sylas or a N'Kali, but he has been doing
well on this pick.
Yeah.
I like how he's like fully assimilated to the control mate to have the options.
And it's so nice.
You've got pushing mid and pushing bottom this time for Kanavi.
I am very jungle paled, yes I know, but this is so good for Trundle.
And it's quick at the bottom lane as well, forcing that vertical jungle lane is gorgeous.
Exactly, it's so so good, and it should lead, wait a second, the collapse coming from BLG, they want to scrap this one out.
Yep, the flash over from Kanavi is not trying to get out of there, does find the solo snare, as Gumiishi, he wants to turn his attention to the mid laner of BLG first blood as the chop comes down.
And BLG just have to get out of there.
This is the pace we were hoping to see from HLE.
And I guess it's better late than never.
And this is the kanami you wanted to see.
It gets even better for him.
They are expecting it.
He flashes immediately over.
They take him down, and it might not even be done yet.
They got Scuttlecrab as well.
Full Dragon control is theirs.
The Ward seeing everything.
HLE retaking control.
Well, actually, just taking control for the first time
the series. Yeah, I've been out in a little bit of trouble here as well towards this bottom side
taking 50% of his health bar on as well. I'll utilize the gleaming quilt for some extra healing,
but Kanabi just comes on over, takes some Kings tribute as well there towards the bottom side and
is now looking to start the drape. He's burning some of those files in the bottom side punishing
the fact that Knight didn't have that flash and now starting up the dragon. It looks like
shouldn't going to try and trade this for presents on that top half of the map instead because
he is hurting for some gold right now. Yeah, 55 to 36 in the jungle is kind of ridiculous.
is going to get a push on away so that will be what feels like the first
drape for HLE this series isn't I think they did just sweet souls in both of the
first two games so there's their first one HLE have realized that there are
mutual objectives on the bottom side of the map. Definitely worth being said
though of course been performing really well on the renekt in here or has the
lone lead for BLG has the push consistently into that top matchup as
should be and
Provides a little bit of space that calling going to be thrown out towards viper there on with the battle dance
Going to join in takes a little bit like a not looking too worried about the situation
You can see though again
Can I be taking this jungle can't parade on the bottom side and move over towards pros and then potentially cover this bot lane as well?
Which you've already got second moving to I think HLE one more
Well, there's the exhaust under grooming issue at the beginning of this one
They spot second moving down great ward in the pixel brush has got them a lot of
Information so far this game, but the fact that second can finally leave the lane
This is a very different game from the first two
It certainly is I mean we're I
We're gonna go way out there and say this game could be the longest one of the series so far
Well, you are so out there for Kobe stop it with the
the blazing predictions.
BLG, you know, they still have plenty of options to themselves,
but as you were highlighting earlier, this is much more of a focused area for HLE to be able to play off.
Zayas here is just scaling on Mundo, trying not to give up too much on the top side of the map.
Kanabi actually does have delight trailing, so he can start these up, and since he's so far ahead of Shun,
he can just force objective after objective.
Yeah, we'll be able to take that first little rub.
Zeca moving over here as well as Delight in position.
He's on the melee and not necessarily going to be starting off any fights.
They do get control of the banana brush though,
but now Bin is moving in Grand Entrance.
He's going to come down, his on is in a lot of trouble,
but the Mundo is able to get on top of Shearn.
The Kennel goes down, Shearn just having to get himself out of his ass.
Dealing with the rest of the quickness, come circuit on.
Make something happen here, the answers no with Zeca.
Locks down the Scorpion, the Crocodile running for the hills.
And another briefcase will come on down, Kanabi distracted by a camp in the meantime.
Viper is fighting Goomer and he sweeps him up with the feather recall.
And it's a solo for Viper in the bottom lane.
HLE are able to make the play happen on the top side,
but Viper, punishing the fact that Goomer couldn't get his reset
on the bottom side of the map, managed to answer one back.
The playcaller flash reposition to finish it off.
I just say that they did receive some defeats on the top side shouldn't here use the ultimon scarner with that one
Not able to get anybody and drops immediately. So take a look at they're respecting bins move down from the top side
So they pull back off and then there's just moved right up into the team
To their sitting duck even though he tries to flash out just gets walked down by the trundle
I was having a yield from delight to speed up on trying to move towards me to get that ultimate
so that he can help out but still HLE very strong but Viper here. So Guma Yushi, when we had Zeka move down towards that bottom side, Guma Yushi wanted to look for the reset.
He couldn't actually get it off because he was trying to help out with Zeka, which means that Viper punished incredibly well, flashing to connect with the feathers, getting some plates, and suddenly what was a CES and a gold lead for Guma Yushi, Viper now has access to it.
really nice geometry performance there as well to make sure that Heather did manage to pick him up.
It's now Zayas, hits towards the topside, just going to be eating his potions.
And we'll be able to push bin away.
And I feel like this is one of these matchups, it just gets more and more annoying for the Renekton.
At the beginning, you're like, yeah, I'm winning, it's great, it's great, it's great.
And then I'm winning less, I'm winning less, I'm winning less.
Why is he taking damage? This is annoying.
And then the Mundo just does anything he wants.
He pushes.
He does.
He pushes, and he continues.
He throws paperwork at you and you're like,
I don't want to do more paperwork, boss!
Alright, well, Delight and on to some support of combat here, but not exactly the end of the world.
And as far as damage potential, it's not quite Camille versus Pike or anything like that.
So, Gumiushi parking himself up here, and Kanabi.
He's got a little bit of damage himself.
Another exhaust comes down, feather storm for the damage, Gumiushi tries to get himself alive,
and fails at the task, and Viper will kill him a second time!
Even with Delight's heal and Ultimus, Viper punishing with that one item spike beautifully there.
Exactly. He already had the Essence Reaver.
Guma gets to buy his while he's dead back in base now, but that is too late.
Aun and Viper have already done the deed, another kill for Viper Zyah.
And he's now 800 gold ahead.
Kanabi was leading by 1.1k. Still is, right?
He is a huge advantage here for HLE.
The desires carry potential later on in the game
is kind of absurd.
It will be a different look for BLG though.
They've been traditionally about night and been.
And even Danny said in some of those chats
behind the scenes, look, you can't all be superstars
on this team.
Someone has to take a step back.
And for most of the split, it was Viper who did us.
Now it's the Viper who steps up.
Well, I think you can.
Having watched Viper previously.
Yeah, he's pretty good.
I think he's capable of making that happen,
and has been on some teams with a lot of chefs.
Guma flanking from bottom side.
Lucian down here is disconnected from the rest of HLE.
He's gonna take a while to walk over.
Death Ray comes down,
Knight able to avoid that.
This mountain drape taken down to 50%, pretty durable.
As far as the dragon is concerned,
this ward down to 50%, but spots Guma on his way over.
And now might be HLE's turn to make something happen.
Nevermind, might come search,
turn able to lock that one down,
let me even out the drakes.
Chemtech again, but God, there's a Mundo on this team and a trundle.
OK, it's a Chemtech day for the HLE roster.
Yeah, and I mean, they're going to stand him down as.
Little bit early on the impact there for Sean.
It's a little kind of stand him down, but it's so hard to steal against
Garner, especially when it has the inside route on you like that,
because you just throw out the ultimate.
And so they're respecting on and at night's presence there, not walking up.
Nobody actually going to fall in the play and just see the extra dragon
All right says chasing up them or has been chasing up to say I think it says chasing up the better than when it can Abbie's moving up
Dominus is there, but I don't know whether Ben's gonna be out of spite this one slices in Dice's creates some space and in comes the
Flashers on top of the crocodile can Abbie held in position and taken out as night looking to try and answer the play as well on
gets over here. Xes doesn't look too worried about it just yet. Zeca's moved up and Delight is now
over the wall able to support his Mundo. He just wanders his way down on hard the quickness but
didn't want to pop us until he knew but Viper stepping some back ropes off of Gumiushi but
yeah the quickness they didn't want to use it until they had members from BLG in position.
Still Xes able to step away from that top side after the kill. Very good for that Mundo.
Those AD carry combat summoners are fairly closely synced. Gumi's barrier is going to come off
cool down a little bit earlier as they go for a second.
A really nice sidestep there is now on having to battle dance his way away and Zekker is not afraid.
The sidesteps on this man are looking fantastic. Arcane Storm, he's ignoring the Rakan completely,
throws circles down. He's doing some Venn diagrams, but there is no Rakan included in that as Delight
moves up and HLA gonna look to grab some plates. And this has got to be the biggest difference
in this game. Zekka here, he had been getting gapped by Knight in the previous games,
But this game has been all Zekka.
And the victor is going to be able to get the push.
They're going to be able to get this second tower, actually,
for themselves because they already took mid lane one down
and add another one to their collection.
And now it's almost like two and a half K gold.
The advantage for HLE, they are doing their very best
to perform the same kind of snowball
that BLG been doing to them all day long.
And this is what we talked about for HLE as well.
Like, they have a composition that scales incredibly
into the later portion of the game.
Say, with a very early heart steal,
they even try and stack it on Viper here.
Yeah, he doesn't have Penta Storm available.
He does have the exhaust, but Mundo is not tired.
Zayas is just walking him down.
And you're going to see him in the backhand
on the back briefcase, if you will, as he takes him out.
He just slowly walked up and down smashed Viper.
It looked so gentle in the way as well when he did it.
Just along it through the air.
It's OK.
There's the grand entrance.
The quickness comes down as well in pale as this has he noticed yet?
That's my question on now looking to fight to light because he knows
He's got his special brew running does now wear off at least but PLG have pushed away from the turret
Well, maybe we're gonna have to like take a poll or something. What is actually the biggest difference this game?
Is it the Navi having the better jungle early on?
Is it Zeka actually not getting gas by night or is it say you saw this boom though?
Well, there's a teleport in. The Mundo is up here one more time as Kenavi.
He is not going down to this one. The Slice, the Dice.
Is the Kennel going to be available? The Flash comes through.
There's no turret here though, Bin. Where are you going?
Kenavi eats him. And BLG are going to have to run away from the bottom turret as well.
HLE are turning their tempo all the way around.
HLE, their G3 reports are going to be all profits.
It looks like it is one. I'm getting a flashbang.
I have I have the plan I understand their biggest problem around this time of year was
Getting reverse swept and they're not being able to play the game. They realize wait
We have to lose the first couple of games
We're gonna be sorted out if we managed to figure it out after that and they are making it work at least here in game
Number three very informed them that you only need to lose one in order to not get reverse swept next time
And also they could have just won the series in a normal way.
Yeah, you're exactly right.
But, I mean, yeah, the precedence has been set at this tournament for reverse sweep.
So we will wait and see.
It's also just shows how terrified it is giving either of these teams a lead.
Yeah, like, hey, Chely, I'm not taking their foot off the gas pedal.
Since they got that early control with Kenavi and then gave it a lot more gold over towards Zekka.
And now you're looking at Turds being taken across the board.
the bot lane one, it's just about to fall. And Zayus, like when he finishes this war
mod, I think basically completes everything he needs at this stage. So for HLE, they're
now baiting Shun, he doesn't get to enjoy his jungle anymore.
No, Kanabi gets to enjoy his jungle instead, comes on over and bites the grump and will
be able to take that one down. 150 to 117, but 1.6k the advantage, because HLE looking
for double dragon. And as these Chemtech drakes get stacked up, the closer to immortality,
and Konavi get if they're not there already it's gonna get kind of ridiculous
yeah honestly I kind of feel bad for Viper this game because you know he's
got some you know 1v1s and 2v2 kills
It's your turn to carry Viper! Let's see how you do it!
If you do this we'll let you do it again!
Yeah I mean giving you it a mobile wall and a mobile wall to get through
Oh dear well at least he does have the option of going over it you know doesn't
have to necessarily go through everything, because he does have that feather storm available,
does have two items complete.
If you can see who's right there with him, as we have a look at the Kleinbase gold grind,
Knavi is very far ahead.
That is basically what it's saying.
He's been clearing out so many more camps, being able to really punish Shun on the Skarner
that was picked blind this time.
And I think that's the big story for me, is that HLE actually had answers to what were
being presented by BLG in this game.
Yeah, even with the flexible possibility they really called it as soon as they saw them especially with their cover bands and
Pushing pushing pushing will continue for Zayas. I actually just
Alright, well the invades will also continue. Yeah, can I be just going to fight down onto on?
The light is moving up here as well. Let's go that fire kick is now can I be with Shelley over the wall?
They're gonna look to knock down this in a turret. They are keeping up the pace in this game
And then let's see whether he can keep this turret alive and charge is going to come through
He definitely cannot now will the Dominus actually keep him alive?
The second question is, Canabi's just beating him with a club
Swice and Dice will get him out of there as Canabi is going to take the shellfish exit
Viper is able to flash his way out, that is the smite to come through from Shun
gets the impale over the base game and Canabi will finally be shut down
Canabi was having a little bit too much fun
They believe for him his team still got two extra turrets while this is all happening
But yeah, he was having a lot of fun there. He was looking at using this for if down for the escape
He was like wow, actually, I'm very close to killing Ben
Yeah, I'm very close to killing anyone that's near me in the end
They smite him out of the Herald to kill him and it's nice for Viper to pick up another kill
But honestly, I don't think this really changes the game for HLE
Like you just have those two out of them for days. You're able to just continue with this control on the top side
And it's not like there was any objectives here for BLG to pick up off the back of us
Hey, Charlie in fact are the ones that are sitting around looking for pics
Well on is now potentially in some trouble but does grand exit the situation here second without the mobility of the Rakan is not
Going to be out of chase after him
However, he does and just walks around the red pit in order to get on top of him make a cone available
So he feels very very safe and look at how far forward HLE a position. It is kind of absurd making sure
BLG has no access to their own jungle. I
Mean should we do like time trial comparisons because BLG one really quick
But what was it 22 minutes and five seconds? That's that's what we're looking to beat
That's probably not happening. HLE also let them have a dragon. Yeah
But now that they've got a taste for dragons, they're doing much better.
Is that why we ask all the players our favorite music?
Because you need the music for the time trials.
You know, if you know about the racing game, it just doesn't quite go as hard.
So that is a good point.
All right, death rays blowing on over.
As the fire kick going to be able to delay shun here, they are on the Baron,
as we can see, you're usually taking a lot of damage from it as well.
Relentlessly, relentlessly, pursuing away.
It's not necessarily how pursuing works, but it is going to have to go back as he has this. It's just in the bottom lane
PLG are trying to ignore it and hoping that the problem goes away. I think we've all had that
Sort of take was he Zayas did ignore the problem who was nice and he did go away
So I think yeah, it is kind of working the other way around that's for everyone's doing the same thing
Yeah, yeah, I mean this is at the big powers fight down you when you get that warm-ups on top of your heart still
It's it gets really difficult to do anything on the map now for BLG because the the Mundo is going to be
Relentless pressure and so HLE can return to this Baron because Mundo just goes straight on back
Pushing pushing and meanwhile the rest of the team will control all this vision around the Baron and if you step in
then they will punish you.
But it's also because Zaze just gets the step up,
tank all the damage from Nite and the tower,
step away for a couple seconds and heal it all back up
as the wave comes and then do it again.
And then gets to buy Warden's mail
so that he can be more durable in the teamfights
because it's by-fit that has the task
of trying to kill Demundo.
Zeca, we'll take some damage from Nite here.
This mail, two items have been completed.
Nite is still somewhat strong,
but I mean the same two items have been done for Zeca.
He's got a cute pink rod as well.
And he is doing a bit of extra damage.
Has been able to keep up in level somewhat.
Here hasn't been as much of the experience advantages
that we've seen in the previous games
outside of Kanavi here over Shun perhaps.
But let's see, this game has slowed down.
And I feel like that definitely benefits BLG.
Even if HLE have a composition that scales beautifully,
I think BLG needs some time to breathe in this one.
says does about a trillion damage to the inhibitor and now let's wait for the
warm-ups to kick in as well and he doesn't care anymore yeah I don't think
he can't to begin all right he's gonna be channeling the back I he's not doing
that to heal I think he's doing that to purchase as you know we're gonna try and
get some damage on the shun on comes over here and the kennel is gonna make
it's gonna kind of do anything about the red buff.
Yeah, I mean, I guess BLG are just gonna full send it
for the dragon soul fight,
but HLE don't even have to full commit to that.
They can just take the Baron if you commit your resources
to go in and try and contest that.
It's just, the options are really off the table now
for BLG.
The spirit visage is gonna coincide with
Chemtech's soul as well.
I don't wanna, I don't wanna even come around
with this Hundo's gonna be crazy.
Oh, it's over under on this never die in this game
It's it's it's gonna die one time. I don't think so under one time
I was about to say well if he dives the fountain and then I'm like hang on would that even be enough?
No, cuz I don't think like Viper has three items. I still don't think he kills him
He does have one of the good items that is yes now. Let's see. He's level
Five Mundo's of BLG go kill that Mundo, sacrifice the Baron, don't care about it.
Nexus from Mundo trade!
Get him.
That's gonna ruin our overruns though.
Alright, HLE now clearing out vision once again.
I think Kenavi will be able to grab this ward towards the back of this pit.
Shen getting control vision down,
but HLE just kinda making the map so incredibly dark,
and Kenavi sprinting around on, not able to get on top of him whatsoever.
And all right, HLE, still playing it relatively slow, trying to hold this game in a position
that they like, and obviously based on their composition, they can do this pretty comfortably.
Three minutes on that ChemTek Soul.
Here's what you do.
You hold them in this game for as long as they held you in the first two games.
So that you, out of, after this game, then you've been winning for as much time.
How about that?
Oh, you're a genius.
Did that even get to the longest game here at MSI?
The first two are so quick!
It's a very doable, is what we're saying.
Alright, let's find out. The Impale is going to go wide.
And yeah, just walks to the back and eats a wood.
Yeah, I mean, they can just hold them here.
As we've gone over, the scaling is so good for HLE.
Oh dear, well, the snare is going to connect.
The Chun is just taking so much damage.
the pillar finally coming down on the arcade storm, chasing, chasing, chasing,
but Shun still needs to go back and HLE should be able to just take this baron.
It's even a teleport from Zass there committing to this one.
Yeah, the silver line name was that Guma Yushi wasn't there.
The big massive storm cloud.
Oh god.
Everyone in HLE is on baron.
Look at Zass's health bar.
That's too many health bars.
Count those bars.
That looks like a meat-along ruler.
You know, it's like that's too many of the little parts.
That's actually the barcode for apple juice in the shop.
Oh, that's a thing.
Oh, OK.
Well, maybe someone try scanning it and seeing what comes up.
You never know.
All right.
Canavi is going to get back on over as they get themselves a baron.
They can then use the baron to make sure that they claim the soul.
Yeah, or possibly even just win the game.
Honestly, they OK.
Should have been back again.
Yeah, putting the kennel one more time.
That is not where scorpions like to go as delight.
Yeah, I will be out of help holding it in place.
There is the Firekicks.
Zeyas grabs it with a briefcase.
And the scone on you, there was nowhere to go.
LPL junglers are dying for crab.
What a beautiful thing to say is BLG give everything
to get that little spot of vision in the river.
But it does mean that HLE just immediately moved to bot side.
The wave is coming.
Mundo exists in the mid lane, so BLG are petrified.
And, uh, Cannabi exists on this bottom lane as well.
I mean, he took the first two games personally, and I do not blame him.
It was a monstrous performance from BLG, and this must feel very cathartic
to be able to finally get some revenge.
As he is just taking a lot of damage here.
Can take some tribute to try and get that health bar back again.
And speaking of health bars, here comes Zayas.
And this is going to be the base broken.
Gumiuchi able to freely hit this turn.
The arcane storm is chasing down BLG.
Gumiuchi's so incredibly far up here.
He's got a lot of front-liners to stand behind.
He's decided not to, as two inhibitor turrets are gonna fall.
Two inhibitors probably to fall at the same time.
BLG haven't been able to take a turret so far this game.
As HLE moved to an 8,000 gold lead,
13 seconds on the dragon,
and HLE can just move back and grab it
before spending their mountains of gold.
Yeah, BLG's only hope to have to make this play now
before the dragon gets here, before that soul comes in.
Otherwise, HLE will just complete.
Oh, sure.
Oh, no, the Kennel is so perfectly placed.
He does manage to drive through it, is on with the quickness, not able to do anything,
as Delight just blocks it.
Bin looking for a flank angle, but HLE, they pick that one up as well,
and Guru Yushi's just been a typewriter over BLG.
Bin has to flash to get over the canal, and now Zayus, where did he come from?
Well, it is going to be Bin locking down the kill on the Kanavi.
That is the smite now dead, but the top laner is also down.
HLE, I don't think they're actually able to lead though,
because that will mean sacrificing the dragon.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure HLE can just move over and pick it up anyway.
Shun, it feels very difficult to enter with half HP.
Things are quite dark, are they not?
Yeah, and Zeke has kind of hit me in the face.
Oh, Zeke did not go to the dragon.
Ha ha ha.
All right, well, that is another arcane storm,
as Zeke is still just chasing down three people.
Zeke will move in, night over here as well as the briefcase is going to land.
And Gumiishi, he is the one that's now jungling,
as Kanabi is dead for another 11 seconds as well.
He's got a randuance when he does come back,
and HLE just feeling phenomenal.
The Spirit Visage was completed.
Zekker just bounces on top of Shun with that blast cone,
and that is going to be the soul picked up,
and Zekker removing the soul of Shun here in his jungle.
Yeah, Shun wanted to eat a little bit.
Just a little jungle camp, please.
And Knight slaps his hand away.
The million was dead. The light is just going to be caught backing in a place where he's not really allowed to
Yeah, I forget some more gold. That's he's probably not really gonna
appreciate that much
You're always happy to get it. It does like he won't get to use it for very odd if you can keep making pics
Something happen I
I like that I could see your brain trying to figure it out and as I went down every road there was an yeah
Yeah, it was just actually turning in real time. Yeah, and I saw them book
My watch is broken. Well H. Lee
Back to it once again after they've spent that money is going to usually on three and a half items right now the quickness friend
whole canadian position and he's wondering why, as okay looking for Zas as
Ingo's been trying to find a flank angle, gets a mega going to get himself a heck
out of there. The question is, is he out? The subjugator is now running on at the
Renekton, his own speaking of which is going to take a full culling to the face
and the arcane storm is just terrifying, completely blocks them off and Zas just
walks in to four people and selects Viper as his target. He'll kill everyone!
Gumi-Yushi thought that he might have been able to take down the Scarner there.
Say it's Delphi. Does not move.
He teleports underneath the turret and will be able to take these Nexus turrets as well.
Look at that, Delphi. If you can, we need better resolution to see how much Healths Airs has.
And HLLE come alive finally here in Dage Art.
Hey, HLLE are not done. Yes, unlist desk. Break it down.
What is there to break down this? Mundo was huge!
Absolutely insane. Talk about taking over the game from start to finish.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the Zayas pick of the Mundo, I thought was really, really smart.
Mundo and Trundle on the 4-5, I thought were brilliant.
I thought that BLG did have a good response by moving the mel towards midlanes.
You have enough consistent damage with this guy to, in theory, kill them, but they got so far ahead.
They were just destroying them even early on with the comp that I thought outscaled heavily.
Yeah, and they set it up super well, right?
They were like, look, we've been getting crushed in by this jungle support duo.
So they did set up for an early invade on the bot side, off of their pushing pressure,
and then spread that across the map.
I really just think that they wanted to slow the game down here,
and once Kanabi was able to get some early counter-jungling off,
They really just controlled the game.
Yes, they outscaled, but the total kills and pace of game
was so much slower here in game three
than it was in the first two-in.
Yeah, absolutely.
Zeyu's in the end.
The Mundo pick was giga, even with BLG flexing the Mel
to the top lane.
I think the draft was kind of already cooked.
Yeah, flexing the Mel from the bot lane.
Maybe it would have been better.
So I think they would have been extra screwed
if they had double AP Skarner into that Mundo.
Skarner went back into that Mundo.
You want something to say about the three Giants belt?
I was just excited because I thought, oh my god, he's actually going to do the Warmogs rush and play Sidelane because if you go triple Giants belt, when you complete your Warmogs thereafter, you immediately activate the Warmogs and you're basically unstoppable in a 1v1, you just take infinite trades, you lose 70% of your health, they lose half, you win that trade because you're full health on the next wave and you just force it, and if you go unstoppable on Sidelane, he goes triple Giants a lot, I'm like, oh my god, this is happening, I don't even have a hard skill.
Which he could have just bought before doing the triple Giants.
What's going on? He's baiting you on purpose.
It was interesting also in this matchup because we did have a quote from Bin at the beginning of the day.
I don't want no jungle intervention. I want to I want to face you head on. You think he's gonna change his words?
Definitely not.
Bin lives and dies by whatever he says. He doesn't take these things back.
Also, I think like the greater game state was a bigger problem, which enabled Zayus to be honest,
but like it wasn't just about that at that one if you want to answer it.
Yeah, I mean, I thought the Mundo was a great pick. I agree with that.
I also thought they spread their map pressure really well the biggest difference to me again with just it shun and on
We're not able to really take over the game early partially due draft partially due to prep
I want to point out the early objectives in this game to their prior games because in this game
It's only took their first dragon of the series
And you can see in games one
Yeah
So, you know, it's a very
Yeah, it's a it's a very stark difference from this game, right?
And that was the big difference maker to me because you shut down this kind of engine of shenan on
Night was pinned to his turret that also makes a huge difference if he doesn't have mid Pryo
And then you just have this unkillable Mundo in the top lane
I mean, it was great
You have Kanabi on trunble which starters can never win one you want and you have two pushing lanes, right?
You know Mundo is gonna lose early
You're gonna be getting pushed in but they had the melee illusion pushing in and bought their pushing in mid
And that allowed them to constantly invade that allowed them to always be on the front foot
And I felt like it was a super smart draft. It was really well played. I want some close games
Where the I was expecting because we have had three games now. It is not a 30 it went the other way
But it is three stumps. I totally agree with you
I don't want to walk away from here and having seen five games and none of them were close in the game, right?
That's like monkeys paw is curling.
I do want to call out HLE's mental, Emily.
This is something that we talked about a little bit
that we were worried about, right?
You brought up the example of Road to MSI last year.
So it's just, and obviously a few pieces have changed, right?
But I think the big thing for me is last year,
Road to MSI, we did see this team get reversed up by Genji
and then immediately lose to T103.
And it's been something that has been talked about
in the community about this HLE team, so if they were able to pull off the reverse sweep here,
we already talked about how it would be historic because they haven't been able to do it,
and BLG haven't been reverse swept, but it would be a massive step forward for this team's mental
compared to prior best of fives where they have been in danger of getting swept.
And seeing the player cams behind the scenes there for HLE, they look pretty calm. I don't
feel like they were that flustered, which after, it's obviously easier to look that way after
win, but after the way the first two games went to then have this very slow steady methodical win
is quite encouraging. The players on this team, Zeyu and Guma, have multiple world championships
each, so they should be able to kind of pull anybody else through any type of nerves. I mean,
even Zeca with the world championship, they have the experience to be able to do it. They just have
to do it here in front of their home crowd. So much was started by just the early pressure,
right? We saw Shen and on running the early game, the very, very early game in those first
two games, Kanavi really showing more of his signature style. I'm seeing all the building blocks,
but give me the exact recipe for an HLE win in game four. I mean, good drafts and continue to,
like, when you look at, I think WE did have a really good comparison, the poor beating BLG,
right? Where you do kind of funnel gold into your jungle, you do destabilize the mid lane,
You make it so that Shenanon can't take over the map and you make it so that Knight doesn't constantly have mid pressure
I think you can do that during draft. This was a really excellent draft for HLE, especially on the 4-5
This draft was luxury because you got pushing lanes, you got winning jungle, and you got outscaling
I don't think you can always get that. That is a huge draft gap
But I do think you can draft for winning jungle matchup and pushing lanes in bot to play around to allow
Kanavi to be the one on the front foot
So that is what I would be focusing on if I was the HLE coach
I love it BLG selects first pick HLE pick blue side any surprises. Nope
I feel like those are the two best choices it generally speaking in the top lane counterfeit hasn't mattered that much
It's more about trying to secure bought power which you can do oftentimes with early power
When no matter no little I mean ludo did matter, but I don't necessarily feel like that was a fifth pick
Yeah, we're gonna concrush you with the final counterfeit strategy. It's true. They crushed him nonetheless
We're back in it. No clean sweep for BLG a reverse sweep perhaps on the horizon. We'll see what happens in game four
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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen MSI 2026 is finally there is a series slowly starting
to appear on our hands.
However, what we want is a back and forth, a little bit of a slug fest and maybe not
just stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp
stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp
back-and-forth series we need to lower it to back-and-forth game, it's the Melbourne
Glacier that we don't have right. Got it okay okay someone forward that to the
teams it's not just yeah just cloverings on both sides because that's what it's
been so far I think you know BLG having a little bit of some whoopsies in the
draft like blind pick Renekton often punishable especially by a player like
Zayas I don't think they were expecting HLE to be able to wake up that quickly
though. I'm gonna be kind of mad if it just is another start like if BLG then
stop this game and then we're just done here. Yeah. Oh no. That would feel so empty. Yeah.
Oh please. Don't throw that into existence. Now that you've said it, maybe it's not going to happen.
You know, sometimes when you think about something, you're like, this is exactly what's
going to happen. Hopefully that's how it's going to work because I'm also hoping for either
some silver scrapes like HLE. They're allowed one more stomp as long as that gives us the close
game game five. I'd rather have just two bangers back to that. I mean, yeah, obviously that would
would be the best. But I mean, the step below that is at least HLE wins and brings us to
the five games. But if BLG just smashed this one, like Toby said, that is that is definitely
not what we're looking for. But that is what BLG want to get themselves a position in the
final and then just get to watch a couple more best of fives and see who is going to
become in their way.
And that was really nicely done from HLE, you know, investing early, grabbing the
victor, and being able to utilize their scaling very effectively. Plus, it never
really was answered. So let's get into the draft for the next one.
Yeah, I also think they caught BLG with the pan stand a little bit. I think they
wanted to flex that scarner, potentially, to this board roll. But you can't really
play it into the Lucian Milio, and then you just stuck with it now in the jungle,
and they go, go! Jungle looks right here. Mundo looks right here. We're in a great
spot. So now coming into this, do HLE kind of find BLG in that half point four or is it going to be BLG who are able to wiggle themselves out of that?
Well, we'll just have to find out as the bands have started to come through. Very similar ones on the side of HLE.
Assuming this is going to be finished up with a buy band, the Nocturne going to be taken away and the Poppy is gone once again.
Still focus from HLE on towards on though and I think that's where my focus is going to be moving through this draft phase.
BLG have looked best when he can leave lane and play elsewhere.
Get his recon is now gone, the bar is consistently taken away,
you've gotten rid of Rel, Camille, Chen,
so many of these picks that he's been phenomenal on,
and moving around the map, do not exist anymore.
So for BLG, how do they try to lean into that playstyle,
and do we get more of those mages to support that playstyle?
What I want to see are some mages that look for kills,
like Ari, Aurora, Silas mid, maybe come out.
You know, the blocky, but I want them to really get in there
and get their hands dirty.
So let's see what we actually get to.
I feel like now is about the time in Fearless
where we start to get in there.
It's also about the time where we're going to have
a little bit of an issue with the draft.
That's why we jumped out of it.
I like how you were talking about on,
while the game was talking about off.
We do have, yeah, a little bit of an issue,
But a couple of minutes is probably how long it's gonna take, and we'll just get back straight into the draft and see what these final bands are going to be.
I don't think we see by this whole series, ah, the Yashun and Kanavia both too good at it, so that one was a guarantee for one of the final bands.
And so that does give us a bit of a look as to what the first pick might be, but because we're so deep in Fearless and so many of the top tier picks have gone, especially a lot of the blind picks, are we at, like, what territory are we at for first picks?
Well, the one that interests me is the top lane picks.
Because honestly, we haven't seen a huge amount of this battle
back and forth between Ben and Zeiss.
Like, the Mundo kind of got the better of it thanks to the craft.
And we've seen like some focus from HLH in the soft side.
But the game has already been decided
before these two Titans of the top lane have managed to tussle it out.
And I want to see them finally have that 1v1 that we've been promised.
Yeah, keep everybody out of it.
Honestly, though, with the ways that these games have been going,
I think we're gonna get a lot of extra visitors.
We've had a lot of jungle and support
has determined so much.
I mean, this previous game,
getting the early invade there for Kenobi
and then the flash at the dragon fight
and they never let control back.
Having pushing lanes to do that with,
you know, pushing mid lane and pushing bottom lane
utilize so effectively.
So let's, I mean, we're gonna have to wait
until it gets right back up
because like you're saying Atlas,
getting down into these roles, this kind of middle ground
for Fearless, is into the like, ooh,
we're gonna have a lot more skirmish heavy stuff,
I feel like, you know, Zin, pretty high priority
at this stage, and then you can get like, Pantheon,
and then if you're in this Zin territory,
do they wanna pull out Kozaks as answers?
Cause both of these players have had some of these
assassin opportunities, so I feel like there's a lot
of fun in each of the roles at the moment
where you can still kind of flex into individual flavor.
Yeah, that's where we're going to be getting to some of the more cool, interesting tight picks,
even though we've had quite a few of them already, the Mundo coming out from Zayas is definitely a great example of that.
I'm hoping that maybe we'll get something brand, brand new, like not just a Vel'Koz again, even though the skin is fantastic.
Yes, I do just won 5-pit of play T-Mail again.
That is basically where I'm at.
for the jungle though. I think things like the zin, the qiana, the poppy, all super high priority, like especially for shun. You're looking at the mid lane, we already kind of touched on things like the arii that I think can set up quite well. And I do think like coming back into that mid jungle duo can lend a lot of credence to HLE.
Like this was their stock standard play like how well second can I be we're working in tandem together
It has been a little bit disrupted by BLG
But if HLE want to push us that game number five, I feel like that
Duo lane that combo is going to be so crucial to winning here and it sort of has been all tournament long as well
It's been very interesting seeing how things have developed and I feel like it's developed into let's not play any carries anymore
That is not all that interesting and it's so cool that we then get to go back to what was Viper's bread and butter
Like that was what Griffin really put themselves on the map as being able to do it was play everything in sort of every role
Chovy was great at playing top lane champions in the mid lane in the meantime
You've got mid jungles being picked as Juelanes in the bottom side and BLG
Able to leverage that power that Viper has in order to unleash bin and knight
I just really does remind me of that sort of era of League of Legends and Viper really has had goombas number
So far in this series, so we'll see if it does continue even in Alaska where they're losing
He was the lone member on PLG, you know making some positive plays for them getting that money
Getting solo kill plus then the duo kills that they were able to pick up
Don't worry about the fact that it's you down and then you had a 10 billion health moondo to get through later, but
the next one. Well, speaking
of to the next one, let's throw
it over to the analysts to see
what they've made of a few bands
that have come through so far.
Thank you very much. We are back
to chat a bit about the series
while things get figured out on
stage. And we're hoping for a
competitive game for here. We
have had three stops. We're
hoping that we're going to get
one of those back and forth
kind of team fight exhibitions
that I think everyone was
expecting coming into the series.
Well, and that we want, right?
Right? Like, these are the best players in the world.
Like, these are two teams that really,
we were talking about how strong their top sides are
when they work together.
And I want to see it,
because every other game has been a song.
So tournament officials were informed by BLG
that Caitlyn was an accidental ban.
Tournament officials are determining
whether the team raised the objection before
or after HLE ban Bard.
If they objected before the Bard ban,
they can remake the pick and ban and ban the correct champion.
If the barred ban came first,
then the erroneous ban is locked in.
Obviously, you cannot give an advantage to a team of
that extra knowledge and then run back a ban.
So they're determining when exactly this complaint was filed,
and if it was before or after the subsequent ban.
Yeah. This is always how this rules work, by the way.
This isn't specific to this MSI or anything.
If you mess up in draft and you immediately say,
hey, that wasn't meant to be,
Generally speaking, they're not going to punish you for the misclick. It's only if the other team then revealed information
Do you get locked in? So that's why they're taking some time to go through this one to get this right?
So tournament officials have determined that BLG did object in time
So they will remake pick some bands up until BLG's second band which they can choose the right band and with that
We'll be heading back to the casters have fun guys
I guess I guess
Yeah.
So there we go.
I'm confused.
That's fine.
We're back in to champ select, and we're
having a look at what is going to be banned next.
Yeah, did he not just say that that was the ban?
Yeah.
So maybe that wasn't the erroneous ban.
That was actually the ban that they
were supposed to do when they banned something.
It was Nocturne that they banned last time.
So it's supposed to be Caitlyn.
And so it was just a brain rewiring.
That's OK.
I did the cogs problem again.
I don't know. Okay, one more band come through here on HLE side before we get into the picks.
We'll see what Bin is going to be locking down to their first one.
The Orianna band thus far, is that going to be the last one for HLE?
There's actually the knockdown to Orianna, open available for NICE.
These blue teams out of the water in the LPL, we saw what you could do at MSI as well.
I would not be surprised if that's the immediate lock here.
I mean, Zeke needs an answer to this.
They have to have understood that this is exactly what they're walking into.
But this is such a risk with match point on the table.
And the Cali gone, what has been with the answers to it already.
Leone taking away like, Zeke, I'm not sure what he has in the tank.
And I think that's why BLG trying to think this one through, run down the clock,
to try and figure out what are the potential answers.
Yeah, you're kind of like, okay.
Yeah, what is this a beta?
Because I'm going to do it.
Let's see what the answer ends up because you're also banned away the
Even if bending away the nocturne and the fearlessly used up nefiri, you don't have like the most
Aggressive ball delivery systems Jarvan also off the table from Fearless
But there's so many other ways and we've also seen people will just flash in with it
So are gonna have to at least deny the Vi and then maybe we do get our like Vi Ari or spy something
with some kill pressure to try and get say a jungle mid kill pressure on that
Orianna and punish the low mobility.
I wonder if Shun is going to end up in the middle of the battlefield there.
Like try and have when the Orianna is on a side lane the ability to try and protect her
because that's the main focus oftentimes when you take something like the fire is
attack this Orianna as she set up in the side lane also having the virus there
to clear out some of these waves open up to light to try and play for those side
lanes as well.
A huge roar from the crowd as one of Grumiushi's most famous champions is locked in.
Obviously flexible, could be going to Zestor as that top side of the map.
But you imagine everyone here in Dejon is hoping that that goes over to Guma.
As now, Shun and Knight round out what we're going to see from BLG before we get into some more bands.
And there is that Pantheon that you were talking about.
Will it then just be a bin pick for the top side of the map?
Or what is it going to be? That is sort of my question here, is the Ezreal for Viper will be the answer.
The extra safety in the poke.
Yeah, that's the main one that they're trying to focus on.
And some of the Viper has been very strong on as well, being able to keep themselves in check and really power through these teamfights when he gets an advantage.
And I think that's where, again, you're going to be looking now at a carry answer for some of these picks.
Because BLG want to keep that counter pick for Bin, so he can be a threat on sides and kind of open up for Pantheon if he has an option.
And Angelic just double down. An important click dive here. Nautilus and Vi to really put pressure onto this Orianna.
I mean yeah Viper locks in a little bit of safety there with the Israel, but Arcane shift away, but they're going to put as much pressure as they possibly can on tonight.
This is going to be a very mobile Balancing Castle, but it's going to be chasing Viper wherever he wants to hook a shift.
So, Ben going to be coming in finally here for HLE.
See where they're going to be focusing. I imagine Topside of the map is probably what they're going to be looking at,
but still a fair bit of flexibility, and instead it's going to be the Alistar taken away.
So still the focus on towards on trying to limit his champion pool, but it doesn't mean that Ben,
if he really wants to, could still opt in towards something like the Sion.
is one of his most played champions coming in from the LPL.
My biggest worry for them is that while he has a good win
rate on the champion, sometimes he kind of overextends
in teamfights and doesn't play the first to back
as much as you'd want from a science.
But I think with this sort of composition,
it would then deviate the virus into this on-hit build,
which then opens up kind of him playing
in range of this Orianna.
So maybe it's an option that BLG want to go for.
And since Agile are showing so much commitment to the dive,
I mean, you're thinking about the other
like possible counter dive things
that we have available still to be selected.
What do you think about pivots to like brawl
and stuff like that and just look to be able
to have team fight presence when you know
they're gonna be able to come in for the commitment?
Like regardless whether the Varus is bottom or top side,
they're gonna be looking to follow up on a Vi or Nautilus
and use that chain of corruptions to spread through your team.
So try to get some kind of counter or blocker.
Okay, so the Vayne is going to be the ban away here.
Probably know what HLE we're gonna lock in right now
because they're gonna be looking
for Zeca's answer to the Orianna at this stage.
With the Ari banned away, it's a little bit more
up in the air, the Aurora is an option,
the Gallio definitely an option,
although damage will be problematic.
That's a dragon.
Oh my goodness, this was one of his favorites.
I would have loved it, but instead, it's going to be the Aurora.
The Fizz was an answer to the TF, that used to be the hard counter
all those years ago, that he did play a little bit earlier on
in a different tournament, but that is the Aurora one thing.
And the Aurora is one of the ones that we were mentioning early on
with the combos, with the buy to look for some burst damage
and try and get that pressure.
But regardless, BLG, looks like they are going to still have a very stable fight for themselves,
lock in the Niko with the Ezreal.
Yep, more roaming potential here from on as the Cassante blind is looking to be the option.
That's an Olaf.
We did see that yesterday, and I prefer not to think about it, so thankfully the Cassante is coming back.
But there is what we were talking about, right?
Potential to go for the tank and then just go for the front to back.
I love that flash man, I love that, putting a bit of fear into Zaeus.
Well he's also like, I dare you.
He's like, do it, do it!
Honestly, WAP doesn't look too bad when you've got a potential lethality varus from the bottom lane.
Also, like, I don't hate if he wants to go towards him like the Olaf,
especially when you've got so much setup there as well.
And the ability to chase him in the Ezreal might be a bit of a problem,
But Orianna, I'm gonna be too happy if there's an Olaf chasing her down.
I mean, very clearly, Bealgero, like, please, all right, which kind of picks are gonna be, you know, we're expecting a carry from you.
Is it the Olaf? Is it the Gwen?
Hmm, I'm seeing Delight not doing very much right now.
We'll see what is actually finally going to be locked in, hopefully very soon as we are.
Yeah, let's see him going to put us.
I was sitting there and I'm like, I don't see it.
Time are ticking down and the light's supposed to be doing stuff
and he's not really doing stuff.
So we are going to pop out once again from the draft.
We'll get you an update on exactly what did happen there.
And I'm assuming that the Cassante pick was real.
Yeah.
Whatever popped out, Alice, pop it back in.
Yeah, exactly.
Let's get this guy to show off the road.
Have you tried to?
No, no, no.
This is the only way we can extend the series.
The game's going to be too fast, Kobe, okay?
I'm gonna make sure that we just have as much time here as possible.
Dejohn's beautiful.
If this is the price to pay for a close game, I'm down to pay it.
Let's all sit and wait.
Heck yeah.
Let's get a close scrappy game.
Actually, let's all meditate.
I'm right there with ya.
Yeah, Faker's really started something.
Just going for the reboot for our mid laners here, because I could be doing the same thing.
And so I think we're just gonna be quickly running through this draft to get back to
where we were.
feel like a scrappy draft though. When I see the champions that are there, I'm kind of like,
you know what, we've got this strong mid-jungle that we wanted for HLE, trying to play against
Nidus on his Orianna, one of his strongest picks, and you get this like front to back
teamfight that looks like, if that Cassante was real, like this to me feels like we're
going to have an absolute brawl in this game.
I hope so. The Orianna does really terrify me. I don't know whether the Aurora is going
to be enough of an answer. I think if she doesn't really start to accelerate, can really
not do very much on the Rift. But the tools that HLE has this time around to lock down
especially a single target is absolutely ridiculous. So mid game power for this composition is
going to be through the roof, not to mention it's Kanavi on Vi. Like he just makes magic
happen on this champion. So does Shun, right? Like this is why this champion has been banned
all series long.
The most frustrating part of playing with Kanavi on Vi is that he would just sit in a bush.
And you're like, oh no, he's definitely gone now, and then he just murders you in the top lane.
Like this guy is so patient, and is so good at finding those moments that dictate the pace of the game on the Vi.
So I think this is where Kanavi can look to just try and take over in the early game.
Yeah, and one thing is certain for me at least, is that HLE have to get active with this team comp.
You cannot sit back and let BLG to scale and win.
You have to get active.
You have Aurora, you have Vi, you have Nautilus.
Get in there, make it happen if you want to extend this series.
And I'm really interested because we haven't seen
Zeyas' top pick just yet,
and whether he is going to be going into that one as well.
But ladies and gentlemen,
some players have disconnected from the champion select,
and so tournament officials are gonna be investigating
and making sure that we know exactly what has gone wrong.
And then we can get in, everything can be stable,
and then it's all gonna be okay
as we get onto the Rift for this pivotal game four.
And actually, like, interrupting some momentum here
could be an important thing as well.
It's one of the two.
Yeah, well, I mean, for anyone,
giving these players time to breathe.
I'm getting dizzy up here now.
I heard my, we'll pop it in and out of here.
Maybe you should stop spinning around.
That's my fault, what the heck?
But I mean you know for both these teams like there's so much for the players that they want to try to achieve right like people are talking
About BLG potentially trying to compete to go grow which hasn't been a thing that you look on the opposite side as well
It's like trying to see if Zayas and
Guru you she can stop it kind of be changing sides
But we're gonna change it over to a different desk as analysts welcome back
These casters ego they just want more and more and more time to
You can just press the button at any time, Max.
Yeah. Press the button.
Yeah, you can. I know.
I know. You guys can't hear him, but Max just looks so over it.
He's screaming. What?
He is yelling at us, and he is pressing buttons.
I can't hear you.
I cannot hear you.
I will say, I'm really interested in what this final pick is going to be.
You know, what kind of angle this is going to go for,
if it's going to be something more, it's actually round out the draft.
Or it's a fun game.
Yeah, I mean, because you have a lot of options here.
The other thing I will say that I don't know if the casters were talking about this because we had our headsets off
But there's the possibility of Ferris always going top, right? And you can get different AD carry you try to play around that
There's options that you know we saw on was hovering like the Gwen you can go for scaling matchups
There's options like the Olaf which is up and available and can actually come out as a potential counter pick
So there are a lot of angles, but I do agree
regardless kind of what you go on on 5 here as Kobe was saying I do think they
have to get really active because I do think it can be difficult later on this
was the draft before everybody disconnected right and oh they're leaving
so let's chat now I want here to pay in so to get to game 5 with the caveats or
you haven't yet get active or what not what do each of you want to see as that
last pic oh geez that's a good one there's so there's actually so I got
So I'm trying to I was just trying to think if there's any mage pick that can survive against the Ezreal Niko because at the moment
I kind of feel like they need the Varus bot lane just because Ezreal Niko is so strong
And if they try to go to something like Kaiser they just get pushed in too quickly
And I feel like I first and if like they're in a tough spot with the way they gave Orianna over
With all the things that were already gone in Fearless so far with Cassio being gone with Akali being gone with Nocturne being banned
I feel like it's going to be hard to like wrestle control away from Knights Orianna
I would like to see Gwen honestly. I think Gwen works pretty well here
I think you have more than enough physical damage with the Vi and the Varus
Yeah, I think it's a really good 1v1 matchup into the Cassante
But it's one that doesn't have to commit to split pushing the whole game
You can actually team fight which is one of the things I've always really liked about Gwen is you can create side lane advantages
Bring that to a 5v5 have success and it's also a champion that I think especially if you are not
I don't want to see ignite plus TP. I think you need you know more defensive summoner given that there is a
Pantheon in the game and you are going to be getting attacked
It is someone that I think you know with flash or ghost and the end of shroud can absorb a lot of those ganks
So I think something like that could be pretty cool
Yeah, I mean
No, no, I don't I was just thinking okay, I wonder if they just swap again because I wonder if they just swap the varus top
But like Jatt already pointed out, I'm not sure that's a great idea just because of how hard this Ezreal and Niko lane can push in.
One thing that casters were saying that I also agree with, kind of regardless of top lane pick, my opinion could change depending on what they pick,
they pick, but I do want to see HLE get really active early on the map, because otherwise
this is an insane scaling. Especially with the Orianna, just so much playmaking on the
side of BLG in mid to late game teamfights.
I mean, I think two options. I was trying to think, what would I want them to play if
they actually want to move the various top? I was thinking about MF or potentially even
Senna, and those would be two bad things that actually work pretty well. MF has a lot of
the laning power center is more, you know, withstand the lane.
And then you're playing more towards the other side.
If you're assuming that you are going to be using the Vi,
and you're playing towards your Ferris,
you're kind of attacking in that way.
I think MF definitely can work.
To me, there's more than enough setup
with the Vi and the Nautilus.
I think it is more likely that Ferris is going bot, though.
Yeah, it's him.
And that we are going to see something else,
which I personally would love seeing when.
I think it actually rounds out the company well.
Have we exhausted this topic?
I think so.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Good.
Let's see where we go then.
said already getting active let's talk a little bit about as a you know former pro players right
what this does to the psyche and what this does to the mental they have been allowed a bathroom
break by the way that is why some of the players left the stage that you don't think that they're
doing it in a clanson way. I think you definitely get up and walk around when they sit back down
they're just going to be playing another game of League of Legends especially players experience
to this. Tech pauses do happen in esports so I feel like with how veteran all these teams are
They're going to be completely okay. I mean, I'm just you have a
World Champion. Well, my my angle is whenever I lost and there was a delay. I was tilted
like crazy because all you're thinking about is what you wanted to do different for this game.
You talked about it. You went backstage. You discussed that you said this is what we're going
to change. This is what we're going to change. Like great. We're on the same page. Let's get out
there. Let's do it. Oh, wrong band. All right. Start over again. Disconnect. Okay. Start over.
And I feel like coming off the wind, you're in such a better mindset.
So, you know, for HLE, I think the pause isn't as disruptive.
I know some people will always argue momentum, and maybe that gets in the way.
But for my own personal experience, I know if I had just lost
and then I'm forced to do on that for a long time in a delay,
that is just blowing up my mental.
That's fuming. Yeah.
So it was BLG who was HLE who disconnected with the last pick
and which team had the missed ban?
I'm trying to remember this BLG who actually had accidentally locked in nocturne as yeah
And then said it was Katelyn and now it's H. Lee's have the DC
So I'd be more tilted if like both of them was the other team and it felt like they were delaying it
But I was like one in one. Yeah, yeah, it's even more fair
Apparently we're getting closer to them being back and I see that my casters are back there
Back on they've had their snacks back to you
It's a very nice book.
Yeah, so it is right here, it's lit up.
I think it's ready to go, but I'm getting a bit nervous.
Like I don't know where like, let me do it.
You want to do it?
Kobe, you can do it.
You were the birthday boy a few days ago.
There it is.
Wait, wait.
Why isn't it working when I do it?
But Kobe, it shuts off.
It shuts off my voice though.
It's not actually working.
Oh, this is the wrong one.
Hang on.
No, no, no, it's this knob here.
Wait, this is bad actually.
No one can see that I'm trying to talk so it's really hard.
Let me just talk and then nothing...
No, it just doesn't really work.
Also the start game button doesn't work.
So sorry, Sharks.
Just don't...
I failed, I guess.
Couldn't find the button.
Sorry, not sorry.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I am.
I am actually...
Here we go!
I found it!
Just kidding.
I thought you were.
They could do the draft we've already had to go.
It's fine.
Alright, so, who wants to be the prophet?
Who wants to do the memory test?
Oh, this one was picked.
Yeah, I thought you were like...
A royal that's real good here, guys.
Okay, okay, okay.
Zaka.
Wait, did they have to...
Pick a different champion though?
I think they should ban Bane here, so there that is.
Then the Aurora gets locked in.
Yeah, so Aurora Vi.
Yeah, yeah, very, very good.
I think Nico is just brilliant in this position.
I don't think there's any other choice.
And then Cassante would annoy Showmaker and Wayne.
He's country right now, so I think that's a good idea.
OK, now do the last one.
Where's the Zayas pick, huh?
It's Kaiser for Gumiishi, no.
We heard the test talking about flexing the bar of stuff.
I hope that that doesn't happen.
And if I've made that thing, then I apologize.
But it could be the Glenn.
Well, we've done.
There's not going to lie, lad.
You've had enough time to make this.
But that would be cool.
Yeah, there's a hen.
OK.
They've got to repossess.
And he doesn't get punished in this lane.
I actually really like this pick.
Yeah, I think it sets up nicely.
It works well with the dive, right?
The grim deliverance.
There's a huge amount of work, especially when you think
of like Nico, Pantheon, Cassante, all kind of playing in that same line.
So I think you get a lot of value out of just good side playing pressure.
Seems like a decent spot here for HLE.
Here's some team fighting as well.
But we'll just have to see how it works as we get on to the Rift.
Just to remind everyone, we are heading towards game number four.
BLG dominated the first two games.
We didn't even know where HLE were here.
Then HLE came back.
absolutely smashed them in the third one we have a series appearing on our hands
it disappeared for a little while we had chats with the analyst desk now we're back here ready
to get into game number four everything sorted out the picks are lined up and we'll just have to
see whether HLE can line up some silver scrapes and don't go check the tapes on those first
couple games they were super exciting back and forth just a league of legends gameplay and
And this one is going to be the same.
Yeah, just look at the timestamp.
You know, it's been quite some time.
Yeah, and so obviously they were long games.
Don't jump too far ahead in the bar
because you might skip over one of the games.
That's a really sad one.
Maybe just press the arrow key a few times.
Not out there.
Stage manager, Seb, they're good.
Oh, what a hero.
Oh, speaking of getting active,
Seb definitely doing a lot of fat today.
Ah!
Let's hear from the fans.
Beautiful noise.
I just love it when it's the lightings on the end of time.
The dueling time.
Now, for the dueling number one seats,
LCK versus LPL, and BLG still have the advantage.
Had them on the ropes in the first couple games, as you said.
And HLE bouncing back, but the momentum has quickly stopped,
and we're going to split the map here very early on.
early on I do like this for the Ezreal Niko lane. Try and take advantage of your range advantage.
You get that poke to land with Ezreal Niko and it could be very very painful for that
Nautilus lane and you take away the threat of enemy jungle coming to gank you early on
and play off the Nautilus CC. But it's now over vision as the defensive
ward there on red buff will alert them. Also the teleport on Duma, usually means he can
be fairly vulnerable especially when the heal now burns if you can land that poke in the
bottom lane for a potential dive, but Zeca trading well against Knight in this mid lane.
Yeah, Zeca really has woken up this series, finding some angles in the previous game on
the Victor, and now the Aurora looking good. This is a champion that he has found a lot
of success on in the past. As each of these, just farming with piercing arrows here, understanding
that this is not their strong side of the map. Canavi finishing off his blue side clear
right now, but Shen right over there. Zeca continuing to lay down the hurt onto this
Sorry on it in this early stage. Oh, so the reason actually coming through from shown
So maybe trying to move up to protect his top side or at least look for the flies
Here's to see now as he will pick up the longsword
Take it to her here
Interesting. Yeah, they do it
Back to hit the button again. No, I didn't even I did that my voice would stop. It's not just like a normal button
It's actually like a switch
Well, we have absolutely no idea why this happened, so hopefully it's just someone needed to blow their nose and then we can get back to the game.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Did you go out by pressing the button?
It is.
It would be a good idea.
I didn't have to do it on my shirt.
That was crazy.
Man, I mean, if you don't have a tissue, I don't know.
I mean, what am I supposed to do?
I couldn't say anything because we were casting.
Now you can.
I'm in a white shirt.
It doesn't show up on yours.
Yeah, Atlas has my back. He saw this and he was like
I pressed the button again my ruling from the officials a red card
That's a red card for sure buddy you're out for the next game as well
See look at that. Yeah provided tissue. Perfect. I got a new shirt
You sure?
Yeah, so each team got a pause and now the cast has got a pause on the English side. I think we need the Korean pause to come through.
Yeah, that'll probably be the next one.
We'll call Chips and Noisi whether they need a pause on the French side. We'll see. All right. So far though.
We're just getting back into lane. It's still a complete mystery as to why that happened.
Can Avi's in a bit of an awkward spot, right? Because he got the Raptor, sure, but his entire bot side was stolen.
So now he's trying to go in and get the blue on the opposite end and it's Sean who's just trying to keep himself
Keeping pace with Kenavi as well
So Kenavi now going to be a little bit slower on his clear and you're also going to be looking to try to get this topside crab
Maybe look to help that bit as well as that's a lot of damage. Yeah, I mean she takes the full blooming burst almost
Interesting because he is out of potions, but as he said, you know, they're both running the teleports. They do have vision
for a quick second there as the Niko walked up through the river so now we're
gonna have an opportunity for Vi to come from tri-brush can they get a good
angle on this Ezreal he's gonna go right into his hands yeah the flash does come
forwards Kanabi just decides not to charge the vault breaker and look for the
Viper angle might have had it on cooldown didn't quite see the Vi prior to
that play I shouldn't gonna steal away some raptors that is gonna be that
jungle still under control on VLG. Yeah, so Kanavi will be able to get the bot side scuttle,
got the raptor e-spot, we have to pick up his wolves as well at some stage. So Kanavi definitely
a little bit behind when it comes towards the pressure that's been put on to the early game.
I know Sean knows that Delight has no flash, but e-spot it. Yeah, it's a nice little ward there.
We made jelly. We'll be able to get this wave shoved on in, not pressing the dissonance button,
but it looks like Zeke just wants to go back home. About a wave in the lead,
that that should be somewhat evened out after this wave is taken down max range anchor to come through the nice buffer on the
Arcane shift from Viper gets him out of the way
Still the poke is now starting to rain true
Yeah, Viper doing a pretty good job staying safe with all the early
Zacharin a lot of trouble
Minion getting a little bit faster as well. Oh man, though, so I think it's kind of a
you know, hotel trying their best, but it's kind of just hitting each other, but
cool noodles, you know. Yeah, yeah. And of course, let's look at the top lane.
Yeah, well, I was also gonna say, you know, we also got the early look at Matt
using his teleport to get back to lane super early on, because Zeka was poking
him so hard, but Zeka still has his, so Zeka's gonna be able to use his to
reset real quickly, and they do have a roam timer here, so Nautilus pushes mid
with him while Kanavi's staring down these Raptors. Oh, Kanavi doesn't know that
is there, does manage to catch him.
Shun able to lock this one down nice anchor to connect.
There is this cheap sweater there for Shun.
Ah, sorry, four on.
And we'll be able to at least distract the momentarily.
Zeke now moving towards the top side,
as Bin is fighting against Zeyas here in this top lane.
And there's a Grim Deliverance.
Bin gonna have to dash his way out of this one.
The passive is stacked up.
The Flash in, gets the meltup, and there is first blood.
Over to Zeke, and anchor's gonna connect here as well.
It's on taking the damage, but we'll be out of find the roots.
I'm gonna have to walk out, but HLE with first blood
and Zayas off to the races.
HLE able to cover the rest of the members from BLG
who are trying to get to that top lane.
Beautiful play from HLE.
The solo lanes working in tandem.
It's not the counter pick that BLG were expecting in draft
when they were flashing the Gwen,
when they were flashing the other options.
But it is the counter pick that Zayas will make work.
And he gets in there, says, I am the top, playing God,
as we have another invade over Raptors, who gets this one.
And it's Knight, who gets this one.
Yeah, Canavi decided Smite is not something
that he needs when there's no jungler here,
but he also doesn't have enough damage
to kill it before Knight does.
In this game, though, as opposed to the other game one,
where BLG ribs get control as well.
Like, the solo lanes are still working out
super well, frankly.
You've got a nice lead for yourself
with the assist and a place for his ace.
Zeca having that early kill is off to the races.
So that's why we're seeing BLG now starting to move down to the bot lane
in the hopes that they might be able to make something work.
You do have the Pantheon in the jungle,
but I don't think they're really going to be able to do too much.
Viper is going to be pushing this on towards Gumiishi and Pillai.
They're not looking for too much of an angle.
There are a couple of Arianas on the map.
I have a feeling the one in the bottom lane is no one.
I got a little baited because in LEC, we have the name of Niko still there.
Whereas in this, we don't, so...
I got a little bit frightened.
I did look at the mini-map and like,
oh, so on his laning in the mid lane again, Sekka.
I've got a solution guys. I have a solution. Let's pause.
Chase, push the body. Push the body. I'm just kidding. I'll never speak of it again.
No, but it does the edge. He doesn't have the little green glow as well.
Okay, Skuttle Crab is up though. So, Nico and Pantheon here for the Skuttle Crab fight
as Knight will also teleport back out now. They do have the early route for Konami to get the Crab,
But going for a deeper play here,
Shun does drop the ward which doesn't get swept.
Alright, that is on that's going to deliver another Shun towards the jungle here.
Zayas will be pushing Bin back as best he can.
Zecker is actually losing out on some of these trades here in the mid lane.
Knight with a lot of power now that the range has come on through level 7.
Feeling a bit better here for the Orianna catalyst, it's going to be helping him a lot.
BLG just moving on and shun up to make sure that he couldn't try and interact with Ben
as he wanted to crash the wave so they're with the wave pushing back out in a much better
spot.
Void groups are up though and I think from this position with the early gold on Zeke
I wouldn't be too surprised if HL are happy to take a fight here.
Well Knight's moving over, Kanabi is going to pull off of these grubs as there is Zayas
looking for some angles towards Ben but Ben went all out.
Maybe he's going out of this top lane once again.
Zayac's oversight step is going to mean that it's going to be alright.
He didn't have the passive, so he's not going down just yet.
And in fact, is able to walk it off for the moment.
Yeah, now Delight looking to move his way in and the passive is gone.
And so Zayac is just dead.
Maybe he wanted to go for a little bit more of a fight there instead,
but will be going down.
That is a good answer and kill here from BLG.
Yeah, he gets kited out in the roam over from the rest of BLG.
They get the kill.
They're also going to be able to get the grubs here at Delight.
And Kanavi's still looking at them.
He wants to seal away one.
He's got a smite charge.
Yeah, Anker going to connect somehow on tonight.
That was a great thread of a needle.
On the level 5 Delight, there was now on taking a lot of damage.
There's the season assist.
Trisha Paraj over the top of HLE's Kanavi.
Trying to stay alive, but Vibe becomes on over
to lock him down.
The teleport in from Zayas.
Now we know why they wanted to start this one is on.
Having to get out of there.
Guru Yushi moving up now as well.
Has been in amongst the fight, but the chase of corruption
Will hold him down, he tries to get away with the Grim Deliverance!
He's going to come through for him's ass to block that one up, another anchor from Delight.
He is threading the needle with a very large needle this game.
As Knight will be interrupted momentarily, but HLE not going to go for too much more.
Thought it might have been a bit more with that hook from Delight at the end,
but everyone backs away, TP from Viper, back down to the bot lane,
end up losing a wave to try and get to that top lane play,
so he is going to be down a little bit on the CS,
but still HLE, keeping that goal lead.
Meanwhile, Gumi just walked mid
and was able to push that wave in mid
so it gets all the way to the tower, hits it as well.
And he's gonna save his teleport.
So let's take another look at the beginning.
So it puts up his, you know,
I've already from that side,
but Flake went all the way through anyway
and then should Flash is over to try and get the wrap round,
but is still right next to Kanabi, ends up going down.
And so it's a one-for-one as Viper has walked over
and can help collect.
Yeah, but it's again, the Flash burn by Delight,
who nearly connects on towards the Hulk, but Binz in no man's land at this stage just trying to escape.
Had the flash, but the amount of CC that comes through is just too much for him to try and get away from.
In the meantime, we've got another battle as now Konami taking a lot of damage,
Shun is walking on over, Bin going to come through, but Zes gets to the safety of his turret.
Perhaps a little bit of an overextension on Konami's side is now looking for an answer here in the
bottom lane. Gumiishi should be able to at least get a plate or two, but that is going to be it
as the piercing arrow does come down as well.
The never-ending grub fights.
We've had more kills up there than the grubs have been taken.
That's 1H, yeah.
Still only 1H.
Guma, meanwhile, again, he still
was able to hold onto his teleport.
So it's two teleport advantages to HLE
with all this scramble going on.
Both Second and Guma have theirs.
But with the extra map pressure, this
is going the way of BLG as Vin is up to the tower again,
getting more turret plate money.
But it's also look at Knight.
he got those three kills, he's finished in front of Aegis, he had Darkseal, so we got six stacks of the Darkseal.
Nice, very much accelerated in this game, whereas for HLE, it's kind of odds and ends across the board.
Yeah, all of a sudden, Knight is an absolute monster. We did know that that is something to be feared as far as his pick is concerned.
We didn't need to give him a killing spree at the beginning of this game on HLE's side.
Still, Gumiishi getting kills. Always a great thing.
Zaka also being able to get 100% kill contribution as well as kill himself.
He's going to feel nice.
He's on trying to get Delight out of his jungle, but that is not going to quite work.
As they actually take the first straight, next one going to be a cloud.
As Delight looking for a hook angle.
See whether he can actually get in there.
Does find it on to on.
And there's the seasoned assist.
They should be able to get the Nico here.
Gap's charge is on to the Ezreal though.
So on will be able to escape.
bolt breaker gets Kanavi out. That felt like a free kill. Support honor? Yeah. It's like,
you know, I mean, I was calling a panic if you want to go on. I didn't think that you could
get a refund if you got something for free, but that's what they did.
All right. Well, second now back in this mid lane against night and everything is just
calmed down once again. Until we go back to boycubs. There's the local available. So
and also I love the fact we're getting this heavy trading in the top side as well as they
really wanted to push the advantage in the matchup.
That would have been a good side step though.
Yeah, great shockwave here from Knight to Holtecker in position.
The dissonance comes down as they're the next part from Delight.
Looks for the angle. Does not quite get it there on tonight.
And I'm really glad that Delight is looking for these angles,
looking for these plays on this Nautilus here in this game.
Where's that pesky grove?
Again, they really do have to be proactive with this comp here,
trying to create some plays and getting the vision is the first step.
first step. So uses his reset walkout mid and then look for another setup here. Again,
Shun's Pantheon Ultimate though is going to be up very, very shortly so they can look
to make one of these side plays with it and put a stop to the proactive HLE.
So I got some great vision on that top side though. So if you want to try and notify that
Pantheon ult, having an idea of where the camps are going to be spawning is the first
stop of understanding where this Pantheon has access to. So with us, it is going to
taking those Grubbs, you can expect that BLG's jungler is going to be on the bottom side.
So the Aurora just going to back away for Zeke, not wanting to contest this Orianna.
Yeah, the manager's clear out the wave as well, so no harm, no foul.
And the Raptors are going to be the trade here for Shun.
You can see in the jungle things very, very even.
Same did he say, but the top side of the map.
And you've got a 700 Gold lead for Knight with those three kills.
still very even on farm but that rot of ages starting to stack up and you were talking about the
dark seal very scary with all of those extra stats that you do get from those early stacks that
he's picked up. Xehas here has the hard task of dealing with this Orianna who is now just eating
plates. I will say though this is where knight is at his most vulnerable like if Delike can get in
here which he's trying to or you get that point and click with the cease and assist in the buy
Knight will go down to Azir, so you definitely want BLG to be able to protect him.
And at the moment, you do have on here, but that's not a huge amount to try and help out with three members of HLE here.
But think for HLE, as Konabi goes for it anyway.
Yeah, on, taking a bit of damage. Konabi sidesteps on those Tanglebob, scants the ball, break a max range.
Season assists, they hold him in position. The Shockwave's decent, but the hook is better.
Shun's still gonna make his way down though.
The grand start forward's going for the group deliverance.
Looking to turn the play around.
Got some knock-up on the map, but still, he dies.
Couldn't stack it up.
And now, Gumi-Yoshi turns up.
Looks to get the snipe on Naito's nearly enough damage,
and Shun picks up a double,
and it's Blast Cones for the escape here for HLE.
BLG protects the play.
HLE knew to try and jump on Nait,
but the backup is there, and BLG responds.
Yeah, Shun had just reset.
a good flash from him as well.
Can I just not have ult so there's no real pressure here
on Knight as he's going to be able to push in again.
And Knight is so dangerous on this Orianna.
Being protected, getting more money,
1,000 now is the individual goal lead for him
and up to eight stacks after the skirmish.
And second must be feeling pretty annoyed
that his lane opponent just keeps getting more and more money
here in this game.
Obviously not going to be matching up against him as much
as this game continues, it's one of those interesting stories though as he's being the
benefactor of just being in these fights at the right times and not accelerating himself
to a brilliant position very early on in this game and it's exactly how an Orianna wants
to be positioned.
So, Konami here is going to force on, I was wondering if they were going to be more cautious
in respect to Pantheon ult, Pantheon had just reset into the fountain but didn't have vision
but they do get the kill, they actually click on on this time so they do finish them off
but should arrives with Viper, look at how quickly they can actually kill Zayas here.
Viper with his lethal tempo stacked up, and it should flash this here,
the ultimate critical so that they can then follow.
And also there's the fact that HLE went for this play as Goomayushi had reset in mid lane,
so Viper was able to move down to the play without his counterpart on HLE being able to respond.
Tonight now once more in this side lane, but much more attention to the top lane.
Now, Kanavi, let's get onto his grump. He's got a few friends in the area, as Shun and
An on both, moving up, looking for a bit of an angle. They're taking some damage here
as well as, yeah, not having a great time in tonight right now. At least he has an old
magic mantle. It just doesn't look like it's doing all that much, as the alternator has
now been purchased by Knight. And Rift Herald, we're going to be started up. Piper moving
over. And I think that they should be able to get this. Can I be not looking too interested
maybe going for a trade, grabbing a double dragon if they could. They aren't be aligning
in that direction. They have a lot of vision towards this bottom side.
Hexac protobel is just completed for night though. Two items like kind of nice here for
the Orianna if BLG want to contest. But honestly, I think with the position they're in, they're
just going to be happy to take the plate for a bit in the top side, put a bit more pressure.
But as I say that, they're moving in. I think this dragon is gone.
Yeah, that's just going to be taken here by Kanabi.
Yeah, I mean, good lead-up vision all around through the jungle of BLG.
So we're able to slip in and take it, keep their dragon stacking going.
They do still have to be fairly cautious.
I mean, Knight still has that loss in spring on this champion.
His KDA is 34.7.
That's a big one.
Currently on this one.
Of course, you get to throw lots of Knights that's around.
But from how dominant he has been.
But it's always fun to throw him around anyway.
Go on, does find a little bit of an angle here, doesn't have a lot of follow-up,
but Gumiushi still takes some damage.
Perdabelt is done for the Niko as well.
Question will be, will they actually be able to get that kill on him?
With their Vi, with their Nautilus, they have so much possibility of getting a good flank,
but everybody's going bottom, so kind of hard to go attack knight and even get his flash
when all of BLG consistently are leaning to that side of the map and playing around him when he's pushing up to a tower.
So with Flash, with Proto Belt, you actually have quite a lot of mobility on this champion.
And we'll see if HLE are able to get one of their flanks off with this team comp.
This can be devastating, you know. What is the heading from one side, and then Aurora from the other, but top side, they're actually making a play now.
going to jump on top of Zayas here is, for him, deliverance is an interesting choice.
Zayas is just going to get the dash out of the Asante, so the Conbe's goal grind between
Zeca and Knight, Knight still in a lot of control. 1500, the lead for him. And Zayas,
now, I mean, now that he's landing against Bin, I think he's feeling a lot better.
Yeah, I mean, you can see how passive Knight is playing once he doesn't have his jungler
in spawn on that side of the map. He's like, look, I'm going to back away, even with starting
of Warden Tribrush, which kind of just says he does not want to give this gold over.
And as long as BLG, I have to keep him safe, play for these dragons.
I think you're in an okay spot.
But for HLE, it is kind of trying to find those moments where you get a play towards
Viper or towards being, or if Knight is overextended to get this gold back in your favor.
And this is a close game, guys.
Yeah.
700 gold.
This is crap.
That's 20 minutes.
We did it.
Finally.
I really, really want to see if at the next, wait a second, there it is, Grastofl to come
on through.
Seuss, trying to get to the next brush, should move it over, and just wanders it off.
Yeah, shouldn't kind of check a couple different angles here, but this is straight walked out.
Yeah.
Through the brush there, and now they get a pick of their own.
Gank is going to miss with the change of corruption through land, and there is ongoing
down.
I'll take any pick that they can get as Knight was picking up that way towards the topside
only a couple of plates left up there and HLE are able to now get some invading done.
Beautiful, catch on in the rotation over, point and click, see him and kill him immediately. Nice
follow up there with the lockdown but still we're looking at this next dragon. This next dragon,
while it's not dragon soul, it is kind of a pivot point in the game and if HLE can get their vision
set up leading up to the dragon, then it gives them way better area to create the dream team
fight that they have with these champions that are trying to get the pincer, trying to get that dive.
Oh, Stormstar is just completed on Zac as well off that reset. He's in a very good spot to follow
up on the buying gage, find that burst. Even if you do have some of the mobility on picks like
this Ezreal, you still have the opportunity to burst him out with just how much raw damage
He's available for HLE right now.
Poof.
Knight with an armguard also though.
Man, there's just more safety layers here.
Proto belt with the armguard, with the flash as well.
He is very scary.
I think on BLG's side, they just need to trust in Knight.
And that has been a pretty good strategy so far this year.
Many years in the past as well.
But Zecker is still strong.
You mentioned the storm surge does have that one,
so that the between worlds can certainly hurt.
And each of these still have the composition
that can select a target to die.
As, all right, there's a little bit of a route
onto Zekker is on taking a lot of damage here.
We'll be able to back away.
This night just deals with this top out of turret.
Yeah, I feel to you basically get a note of free lane saying,
hey, you go hit level 16, buddy.
Next wave should give it to the Orianna.
And that would be a devastating shockwave
if it connects in a flight.
Pharrell and Lord would be proud.
It's okay.
second now. That's a very old reference, I apologize. I think that one's going to
reach for three thousand yellow shots. I got you buddy. Yeah, thankfully, I knew you
were there, Kobi.
There's a group of Cliz out this way, and the Cassante towards the bottom side is going
to be getting that one pushed forward as well. HLE, still with a composition that can certainly
tango later on into the game as well. The Rift Herald is going to come on down, and
BLG, I'm just seeing like Viper on Ezreal. This guy's been a magician late game on
this champion, and Orianna needs no introduction as far as value later on is concerned.
The Rift Herald is not going to do very much of anything at all, as On goes maybe a little
bit too deep.
They do manage to take down a turret here as the dragon is going to be secured by Shun.
But to try and turn it here onto the light, we need a depth charge to come through to
get the knockup.
On to Shun is now by for trying to play off to the side, and Zayus, can he stack up the
passive this on the answers?
Yes, Grim Deliverance is going to come in, but it's going to be a taxi out for Bin.
They kill him though before he can escape, and on his turn through the wall as between worlds came on down.
Viper playing his way out, go just leave the, yeah they ship the double kill!
And there's the resurrection, but where is he being resurrected to?
Asaius comes up and kind of wishes he had a stay down.
BLG protect the president! Nice will not go down! On!
What a massive pop blossom wins the fight for BLG!
They do not hesitate.
They force the light out of the fight,
so much image in him.
He does the ultimate flash away,
and then look at the re-engage.
They do get the passive stack up for Zeyas,
and he gets his ultimate over,
but everybody collapses back into the scoreboard.
The shockwaves hit that on strikes.
Huge shockwave, the pop plus of the follow.
The snipe onto Guma Yushi with this fear.
BLG may have just ripped the heart out of HLE with that play.
And if you didn't think BLG champions did enough damage,
did you see the coach replay?
Oh!
As well!
Oh, man, Danny, absolutely popping off in the coaches' booth.
And they pick up the Baron off the back of this as well.
He can understand the celebration.
700 gold on the Rebel Baron power play.
But that will be extended, even if it is
and early Baron, 3.4 thousand is the largest league we've had so far this game because it's been a flatline throughout it so far.
And now after this, I mean 10 out of 10 for Knight. That's his kill participation as well as his performance so far in this game.
Unbelievable stuff.
And there's your Ezreal stats atlas for Viper, his most played champion and Knight's most played champion in the same game.
And this is something that Viper got some notoriety on
For quite some years, both in the LCK and the LPL, continuing to play fantastically.
Let's see whether HLE have got a miracle in them.
Obviously it's not the same kind of snowball that we saw in the first three games, but it's getting close.
They're trying to leave Zayas in towards his mid lane.
Taking the Raptors, thinking about a flank for BLG congregating on this bottom side as they get the wave pushed in.
It is difficult to kill this bar and up creep without the virus.
So you should take a pop shot to the tower and BLG happy to support it.
And yeah, they just can't walk towards the orb.
The orb is just too frightening.
That's his onus fully completed here.
10 stacks on the dark seal and Knight absolutely off to the races.
And that stick on Zekka that we were talking about in the previous game,
where it was like, that's the advantage that he has.
It is now not looking very similar at all.
as completed items are just coming through thick and fast here for night.
Is that Kanavi looking for an angle though?
He could go between the worlds as night taking some damage, piercing arrow, going to connect there as well.
At least I think he did, as Kanavi going to eat some honey fruit.
Doesn't want to take that risk as yeah, looking for Zayas here towards his topside.
Brandstoffel does bring Shun up there as now Viper possibly caught out of position.
Kanavi going to be dancing away from him though, and now we'll see whether Zayas can keep himself alive for long enough to get that passage back up again.
The Grim Deliverance comes down, Poplos and Gainer connect, and they destroy Zayas!
HLE did get one back on to Omnop.
Yeah, Omnop was stuck inside the Baron pit, and they actually do pull one back for HLE.
So a little bit of room to work with as they wrote to everyone mid, and we'll get the tower
off at.
So honestly, HLE, coming at the better for Weraff without sure you do lose Zayas, but
you get a kill, you get the tower, you get so much needed gold, even having Zeck in this
bottom side for the majority of that picking up some of the creep waves. I mean, those are the kind
of mistakes that you want to see BLG make. And Gumiishi does have three items completed. We know
that his Varus can be absolutely devastating. This is about the stage of the game where he is
going to have maximum value because Bin is starting to get very, very large and Lothality Varus not
as good at getting through these tanks. VaughnMail he's done, maybe it's uh it might be... I think it's
just on this yeah but it'll be hard he could just steal two dragons how about
that and a Baron it is gonna that's yeah that's that's move
do you think it steals some objectives for HLE because BLG have the gold
advantage and it's concentrated gold advantage you know a lot on tonight on
to this Orianna champion with the Meta so it's incredibly efficient here for
their team, and they do have a lot of ways to deliver this shockwave. With
shouldn't having a guardian angel, the Pantheon could just flash stun right
into their point click and try to be the delivery. So dragon will be avoided for
now for HLE. Guma not in sight, so your smite is safe. Yep, and HLE probably pretty
happy that it's an ocean soul this game as well. A couple of ocean dragons not
gonna be end of the world for them to give up, but that will start to get more
more dangerous as we look down the barrel of things like three and four of them, which can start to become a little bit of a problem.
But buying themselves about five minutes of respite,
Mr. Chopperage sailing down this mid lane one more time.
This Goldlee hasn't extended past that 4,000 gold mark.
As a clone gets broken like a vault with their own award though, they don't realize.
Well, can I actually keep them interested though? That's the question.
I do think though for BLG you are pretty reliant on having the Baron to try and get it through these other turrets, right?
And I think this is kind of the thing we've seen a lot, is that especially when you're up against like the Pope Varys, the Quaid Clear from Zeke as well, that without us, I think it's a lot more difficult to push this game forward.
you're up against like the Pope Varys, the Quaid clear from Zeke as well. That went out thus,
I think it's a lot more difficult to push this game forward. Also, HLE just abandoned dragons and
said, yeah, we're going to just play for sides. So that goalie is going to stagnate for a little
bit, at least for 50 seconds. Yeah, it's just too dangerous. If you funnel in and you're trying to
siege, then there's a lot of angles for HLE to get these engages off with their Nihilus Vi
combinations and so stick to the safer game plan out in the neutral territory
here and just look to the bar in 30 seconds and then you can try and draw
HLE over to area that you already have controlled with vision and they're
gonna find. Yep that's gonna be the grandstaff hole.
Shun a little bit further away from Shun from Zayas that he wants to be and
Delight is gonna be there for the defense. The anchor is going to land. Flash out
though from Delight didn't really like that angle very much as he spots on
coming out of the tri-brouch. Good control here for BLG. They look to just really isolate
his baron, make sure there is no vision as Kanavi goes in. Not sure about that one.
Zayas off to the other side is making that one work, but Zayas second goes between the
world's viper. Off to the side is tagged by Delight. Shun now getting taken down to the
GA and Kanavi just going to die because he doesn't have that item. Zayas should be able
to use his passive to stay alive, but once again there are a few too many people in the
vicinity. He does get the ulti, crashes down on top of Shonan. He's going to be executed as well,
as Bin is looking for the angle. Sekiro and Gumiushi still alive to life, limping from the battle,
and there is Bin taking him down. Gumi will be ushered towards his inhibitor, but is he even
safe there? There's an orb on top of Bin making him nearly immortal, and Gumiushi will be obliterated
by this Cassante second now with a couple of invaders in his house. We're gonna try and see
whether he can get rid of them at BLG. They just want to head over towards maybe a baron,
but they don't have a jungler. Yeah, BLG, they will chase Guma to the ends of the earth there
inside your own base and they finish the kill. They'll finish the tower and they will turn
to finish the job. They increase their gold lead and they still have the vision set up from the
previous time so they can go reset and then return to Baron again. Yeah I think
that might have been the best opportunity for HLE because there was a
couple of whoopsies when it came towards the ultimates from BLG. But BLG
still able to make it work. I was on 7th, 4th, what's up Kanavi but I don't think it
would be much else. Just being in use since I was honest one to do, I will say.
But yeah we'll see it in this fight right because you get this as Kanavi goes in
the shockwave doesn't connect onto Kanavi and I think that's why HLE both
to miss thinking maybe they've got a chance here but as they start to follow through so like it's
first step by Viper they can't really get on towards nice they're just doing a good job of
keeping Zeus out of the equation and even as they try to go in to help out Zeus on completely
riffs on the pop blossom as well in just a moment as he tries to go forward into Zeka but still
PLG just too much damage from Viper at night right now. Yeah I mean even with the flash into the pit
and the whiff there. As you say, with the extra chase down here, they can follow them
inside the base, get the extra kill, and then as we're looking at it, again, return to the Baron
setup. You still have the vision work that you did last time around to play off of. They can just
repeat the process. Well, they do get some information as to what's happening on this Baron,
but the Nanna brush control is going to be there for BLG there, ready for the turn.
Prop make it there from bin. The Baron down very, very low. Kanabi just not there in time. The pull
Allback does come through to the fin may not be the target. They're looking for chains of corruption
They do lay of his CC onto the Cassante, but he is an absolute brick wall and he just chopped it up
Hey, Jalee still want to try and contest here though. They want to try and stop the LG for recently
He gets in the bush, but now it's a 4v5. Hey, Jalee
All right, I teleport though. Yep. This is down very very low
Those mystic shots really starting to hurt here from by Petrushov Rage does come on through his pin makes his way back with a gigantic shield
Gearsing arrows not piercing that one anytime soon as HLE will slink away
That is going to be sole point available for both teams PLG in a much healthier position to go for it
Yeah, HLE I think there's no way you want to throw the game at this dragon
Even though you're down in gold even though they just got baron you still have to hope at a better setup
Don't risk it over dragon number three
I think Gumiuchi though with all these ocean dragons have had to become pretty useless
Yeah poke far as that poke is not gonna stick around for very long and it feels more and more like BLG
You're starting to punch their ticket to finals not to mention
I mean even night feels too tanky for him to get through he's got health on the rod of ages health on the dash cannon and in his
Onus, I mean, I don't think this is going to be a toss that the lethality Varus can really do by himself
Even if he does you know land an arrow towards an Ezreal Ezreal other goalie those
those ulti's raining on down,
chains of corruption having to be used defensively here.
Sean doesn't quite have the GA back available,
but that will be up relatively soon
as Bin was looking for an angle as well.
Kanabi now finally with his GA,
as there is one on Zayas as well,
who does clear up this bottom out of turret
to try and bring them back into touching distance
with this gold,
but it's the compositions that are starting
to become a problem for HLE.
Yeah, they're gonna have to find some crazy angle
and they're going for it now,
teleport with the flank from Delight.
That is definitely an angle, depth charge comes in, and Zeca will find it!
Takes down Viper!
Okay, that is a big pick here for HLE.
Still four minutes on a parent, there's four minutes on a drake.
Not a whole lot to go for, but maybe they can take a turret or two.
They buy their time, they give away the dragon, they split push, and they wait for an opportunity now, another.
Yeah.
Chocolate gonna connect on to Zess, gets the knockup on the night, pulls him back,
Grim deliverance as Shun is now doing battle.
Gumiishi does not want to want to be on the pantheon!
And now he knows why!
As Kanabi-doni get pulled away by Vin, put down to the GA, Shun gonna follow Suzeus' delwif!
And Vin is now just going to destroy this guy with the help of Han,
who actually takes the kill for himself.
BLG, find the angle!
And that is one step too far into BLG territory.
They put it to HLE and they're gonna run it straight down mid.
Azanya's burned, 3 GA's burned, but it's HLE who are actually burned in the end.
Zekka and Elise have to hold on.
Decent damage onto NICE, but can he do more?
Oh, there's 25 stacks on that Magi's, man.
If that orb comes in anywhere near any of these HLE members,
it could just be lights out and that shockwave is just about back up again.
Again, first inhibitor going to go down, but BLG, a lot of respect here as they will back away, look to spend some money and set up for the next objective.
As he says, tries to go in, the damage comes out very, very quickly. The Shockwave doing good work, but they jump on towards NICE because he knows that he has that GA, but the Poploss and Vermont, absolutely huge to buy that space alongside his onions, can't be taken out by bin.
And it's Pantheon happy to go into the GA just again to separate HLE and deny them any sort of follow-up on tonight
Yeah, I mean Zez had his guardian angel
So he really wanted to chase this play and make their comeback now
But they still had Zeka so far away
You can see on the mini map that Aurora walking the entire time and so they didn't have the necessary pieces to actually
Finish that play and now POG on the offense
Well, she's not gonna get knocked up, no GA this time around as he's caught by Saus!
He gets into the backline, but he's just obliterated!
My god, the damage out of my Petrucia Parage to sail on through!
But Zekka did manage to get himself a kill, now looking to try and take down this Ezreal once again!
As he's looking to do some funny business, does have to teleport, and not going to be able to use it!
He'll be taken out, it's on the picks up back kill, and it's now only Guma left
to try and pick up the pieces and I don't think it's going to be enough.
It's a 1 for 4, Gumiishi has to clear the wave, but stepping up is so dangerous against BLG right now.
Okay, will there be enough wave clear? That is the question. I do not think so.
It's Ben also going to make sure that Gumiishi is not allowed to press any buttons.
He can tank up two Nexus turrets and it looks to me like BLG has a date in the finals.
HLE are going to have to go through another target if they want the rematch, and honestly with this performance,
I don't know whether anyone wants to face off against BLG.
And will they be able to even touch Knight if they do get a rematch?
Here's Depless in this Orianna game, improves that KDA, analyst desk, what's your take away?
We hated this build. We love this play.
Gold spatter in Pro League of Legends. That's our take.
Listen, he's the best. The best player in the world right now.
He carried this game with the first pick Orianna.
I'd say Viper had an amazing performance on the Ezreal.
We're from the hub from Viper. Viper was insane this game.
Orianna was 3-0.
Their team is incredible, but throughout this series,
Knight I think was the best performer on this POG team
who are now in the grand finals of MSI.
Our upper player of the series is Knight.
I think we had it penciled down as they all ready after game one,
and then it became ink early into this game.
I mean, this guy is just a beast.
He is just so crazy across so many different champions.
He can play so many different styles,
and he has been so on point 25, 3, and 29.
Fantastic in the lanes, fantastic in the fights,
Fantastic at basically everything night is the complete player. Yeah, it's amazing to see him have this kind of performance on
The international stage because he has been pulling this kind of stuff all year
Especially this past split in the LPL. What's insane is his kills per game in this series is actually slightly lower than a split average
Yeah, so this is kind of just like an everyday night stat line. It feels like underperforming really
I mean, it's just crazy to see him doing it against this level of competition, right?
It's the LCK number one.
And in a lot of these games, they made it look pretty easy.
They sure did.
And there was something you wanted to show us.
Yes.
There was a team fight that to me felt like the series clincher BLG went crazy in this.
So we're just going to jump on into it.
It was right around the third dragon fight.
So we can bring this up and I can walk you through because this is pretty incredible.
So, HLE do have mid-prior here, you can see that Viper is answering, and on the mini-map
you're going to see, Zayas is in this flank position, BLG are going to be able to take
this dragon and we're going to move on into the clip.
So, as we see them moving forward, it looks like HLE has the superior position.
Viper is stuck over here, split away from the team, Zayas again on that flank, and Delight
is going to be threatening this engage, but what BLG is really going to do here is so smart,
immediately, Shun turns on to Delight to get this chunk at the start of the fight.
how much damage they get down onto him. They force out the flash as well as the ult. And
Viper, most AD carries would have moved into this position. He stays on the side and decides
to continue playing the fight from this angle. So BLG kiting back. Shun gets into a little
trouble. Zayus is moving forward and is really strong at this part of the game. Zayus gets
his fully stacked passive. He's going to go aggressive. Shun has to flash out. But right
as Shun flashes out, you can see Bin moves in to control this space. Again, Viper still
still threatening on the side here, making it difficult for them.
Then, Zaeus ults in, the immediate turn from Ben onto him, ulting back, and then the turn
right here from on goes in, and on the side, Viper gets a 3-man ult across, everyone wipes
them from the map, wins the fight, wins the game.
And speaking of, let's go to the stage to hear from the victorious...
Ah, not yet!
What?
My bad.
Oh no!
for the Verizon post-game interview with Viper.
You're trolling me.
We have more time.
We have more time to go deeper.
I mean, I just think it was unreal teamfighting, because Viper,
like, he played that in such a different way.
And the way that they actually keep their battle lines
shown moving forward as soon as his E is down, he's flashing back.
Then we see Bin moving forward and taking that damage, soaking as much as he can,
to be able to find this
opportunity and on had so much
patience with the flash pop blossom.
It's just unreal seeing this level
of team fighting and the confidence
in which in which they just
said that you're not a real team. Don't worry.
I'm also just so happy to see this
version of BLD show up because
like I said at the beginning of the day
the reason why I predicted HLE is
because I felt like we hadn't seen
peak BLG that we saw
in the LPL show up
up on the international stage.
And not only did Knight have an insane performance, right?
But then, again, the jungles support you.
I'm going to say it until I die.
Supporting the rest of the team, setting up.
I don't plan on it.
I love you.
Setting up the map.
Shut it on.
Shut it on, guys.
My last words.
Shut it on.
But yeah, I mean, this series from BLG
was so much more of what we were used to seeing from them
in the LPL, just not in just the team fights
and how quickly they can engage,
but in how they set up the map from their carries
from minute one, especially in games one and two.
Yeah, and luckily this was the closest game of the series.
Games one and two, we can't forget,
were so incredibly stompy.
So it's a three-one series, very,
like we were looking if it was gonna be the fastest series
ever, but now we're gonna see the final.
But we're gonna head over to the stage
to hear from the victorious Vipers.
For real?
And the guys that posted it for you.
The first team to advance to the finals.
We are joined by B.O.D's Viper.
Congratulations on the win.
Thank you very much.
Truly showing why you were ranked number one in the power ranking.
You took a dominant win over one of the LCK's strongest teams, HANA Life Esports, and become
the first team to lock in a spot in the finals.
How do you feel?
Before the start of the series, I came here to win, but once I got on the rift, playing
up against my former teammates, it felt really different.
So I hope they can step it up, take their themselves up together and have a rematch up against me.
Were you expecting a 3-1 victory today?
No, I came here to play five games, but everything went smoother than I expected.
Just like you mentioned, today's match was you vs your former team, kind of like this sports.
What is your focus on preparing up against a team that you know so well?
In fact, I thought I was fully prepped for the mage-bot matchups on the bottom lane.
So, I focused on kind of shutting down the in its jungler and how they kind of impact around the map.
Back in 2019 LCK final, you had some hard time in Taliyah, but you finally got your redemption.
How does that feel?
I didn't play a lot of different champions and Taliyah was one of them.
Although I lost the finals on Taliyah back then, but Taliyah was still one of my strong picks
and I was pretty confident and it feels amazing that I come to get a win today.
As expected your mage bot picks are incredible. Today you played Cassiopeia and Taliyah.
How do you feel about the current bot lane meta? It seems like it would be a good fit for you.
I was not expecting a meta like this, but I'm kind of happy with this.
And I was surprised to find out that the enemies were down to go for this mage matchup on the bottom lane.
From the outside, the team's synergy with Denny looks very strong.
Yeah, in fact, Denny is the head coach that can kind of give us a lot of tips for gameplays,
place and also about what kind of mindset we have to bring and that kind of helped us out a lot
when it comes to developing ourselves. Now that you have gone straight to the finals,
it is time to pour out everything you have prepared. What is your mindset for the upcoming
finals for the first MSI title for BLG. They will be watching and waiting to find out to
who our opponent for the final is. And we played them at least once this tournament and I wish
it's gonna be Hanna's life that will be playing us in the finals. And that was Fyfer from BLG.
And please give it up one more time. Thank you very much.
I think it's just so nice to see Viper having such a strong series because throughout this year
He has been the piece of BLG that was receiving a lot of criticism
You know before first day and people were were really hard on his play
I think he didn't play as well before that you know in that first split this split
I felt like it was kind of over exaggerated. I know we have talked a bit about that. I feel like people were being
Kind of like overly hard on him because I felt like he was playing okay
But today I thought we got to actually see Viper at a Viper level even in the game
They lost he had a significant advantage over Guma and the Zaya game this Ezreal game is some of the best teamfighting
You will ever see on Ezreal
He dominated on the mages and at this tournament thus far
He is looking like the most complete ad carry
Yeah, the fact that so many of these mages bot are coming back into fashion
He was one of the huge
Adopt like early adopters of this had no problem playing
I mean people knew him initially as the Timo guy right that one guy who played bot lane Timo on Griffin
So I think this is such the way that things have evolved throughout this tournament as well
It's such a great meta shift for Viper specifically. Yeah, it almost seems like the roads are converging
Yeah, we're happy to have the best performance in the final. It's true, but he's not gonna get his wish
No, yeah, he said he wants to play HLE again in the final and lion's taking it. It's not gonna happen. We can check out the
Versus NA coming up tomorrow
That is who's going to be playing against HLE in the lower final
You're scared of why no, I'm scared of the G2 special beat line beat HLE give the LPL another international
Golden road is just a series of beating
Though it would be really cool because that is the
first-hand rematch right? First-hand finals rematch? Like that is a really neat narrative.
And I mean if G2 got there it means that they beat HLE who completely obliterated them.
That was the most one-sided series we've had between top teams by far.
It's true. I mean I'm still lying G2 right now.
There you go. Yeah.
Because Lyon of course is going to keep going.
I'm going to get started on this early.
I'm going to break that far!
No, she's not going to pick. Oh she is, isn't she?
I'm gonna hide from all of you.
Oh my god.
You'll see tomorrow.
That's first of them.
Oh my god.
Um, yeah, that is tomorrow.
We actually can see we're already super, super excited to finally get that clash.
I think actually in terms of like high importance clashes of Eversatnay,
this rifle's like the NRG G2 one, which Doklo was on.
So.
Where they Dokbus from G2, by the way.
Yes, I'm thinking about it.
No, no, I think it's more.
I mean, the last two.
I'm thinking about it too.
The last two world Swiss stages weren't even elimination series. They were advancement series
Fly question then lost later the CFO and you two lost later the BOG the last time we've had a series like this was actually
2019 MSI finals last time there was an elimination best of five between
Time ever that's happened. I would also say you know cloud nine fanatic
You remind me of that series as well in the world semi-finals, right?
And those ones went very bad for us, you know
It is you does have a habit of coming in when we have this big moment and then kind of one-offing us
Like the bigger moment this time with G2 winning people are giving credit to the
The team secret one so we can you serve them?
Hey, I'm not on the best tomorrow, but do you remember what happened when we were on the best together for the
I was there
I don't know what you're talking about.
I was a journalist, don't ask me. I wasn't even on the broadcast.
I love this so much, I cannot wait for tomorrow.
I remember your sassy look in the picture, you were like posed with your 3-0 presentation.
Yeah, you know you do remember.
You do remember.
Of course, Sharks! You bully, I remember, okay?
We lost 3-0! We got slammed!
In fact, the record still stands for the fastest, best of five.
But you know where I remember fondly? It's the last couple of years of MSI.
I remember KC getting 3-0ed. I remember G2 getting 3-0ed by FlyQuest last year. I remember Fnatic losing 3-1 to TL.
I remember those two. Those are good memories. And much more recent.
And I'm not going to lie. I have been staying awake last night thinking of the possibility of beating TES, beating T1, just to lose to Lyon.
I have but hey, we can talk about this forever as you can see we're very very
Excited by the possibility of tomorrow
But we will be back tomorrow if you're able to sleep at 10 a.m. CES T great time for Europeans 1 a.m.
PST for G2 versus line. So if you're in America, you got to take a nap now. You got an all-nighter ahead of you
Thank you so much for watching sleep. See you tomorrow
So much history between the teams the players the regions
everything coming to a culmination now.
Okay, well, BLG are looking for an angle,
and B and B will find what gets into the backlight,
eliminates Kuma Yushi there.
Zekka died at some point in that play, but I didn't quite see it.
And there is going to be the Cyclone on tonight.
He's going for it. If at first you don't succeed,
you're not going to succeed in this series.
As BLG will wipe them from the rift, and it feels like mercy.
Honestly, with this performance,
I don't know whether anyone wants to face off against BLG