I'm so sick of you
Hit the bass drum again
Make the mood right
One, two, three, it's gonna be a fight
Tonight I'm gonna take you
You know we got no time for hesitating
Got no time to rest
Feel like living in the mountains
I'm gonna dance
I'm gonna put in a champagne
Let us get fuckin'
I just don't watch it
You can't live without your parents.
Oh
I don't need any effort, so I'm going to be a good DM
I want it, catch me, I'm your DM
Even if I do it together, I can't finish the stars
Look at me, I can't even look at you
My hair is so red, I'm your light, my light, yeah
But you know, focus on me, if I like it
I'm the cat, if you can like me
It's not over yet, you're still looking at me
I can't reach you, I can't reach you
I'm standing in front of you, right now
I know that you don't have a dream, I'm crazy
I'm a big, big, big kid, I'm different from you
I'm a big, big kid, I'm bigger than you, I'm bigger than you
I'm going to be special as I go
Look at the sea now, yeah, but let's all meet
Look at me, I can't even close my eyes
I only look at you with my head, no no no
There's no light, yeah, I'm alone in your breath
I feel like I only care if you can't like me
I don't know if I'm drunk or not, I'm still looking at you
I'm a villain in my mind
You know what I'm doing
You know my power
I can't take it anymore
At the top of the world
You follow me, I'm a lonely person
I'm not a fool, I'm just a fool
I'm a fool, I'm a fool
Oh my God, I don't like that
I'm not getting it
Why you keep on like me
I was so far away
I'm still not feeling well
I can't even run to you
I want it
I want to see you
I want it
Can you come by and follow me?
I'm not gonna let you go
I can't breathe
I'm not gonna let you go
I can't understand why
You don't speak to the mind
Then you'll take you all for a ride
Get high, get low, low
Shut up and drive
Can we just shut up and drive
I was on the bus to fuck it
I was on the duty phone
Looking careful tonight
Can't do something to make me leave it all behind
I
Turn and jump and fuck it
One after another
Baby, we're out right now
Yeah, this is our life
Happy Ann-Louis
You're up, what's up?
Saturday, I'm out
License, K-Quire, L-A-H
To I-C-M back in July
The country smells
I don't go back, no reason
La-La-La, I'm going up
To the middle, to the left
Blur, I'm thinking through time
It doesn't matter where we go
I'm a special play
My father's well-known
What a night, what a night, we're not like that, no one can know
What a night, what a night
I
This time gonna be crazy, yeah
Shit up, I'm a new thing, I'm gonna tell you tomorrow
This time through what's in the cellar
Don't you go, don't you go, don't you go
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Day John for another day of MSI 2026.
Today is the day we make this start it all.
Today is the day we settle the biggest rival win, right?
We're the first in League of Legends history guys.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for EU vs NA.
I feel like it's a great day for NA to swim home today.
Yeah, I think it'll be good. I think you got it in you.
You guys have a lot of practice lately. You're more accustomed to it.
I suppose you've been running it more than you've been swimming it.
That would be exciting.
Okay, buddy, let's just tip it for now, okay?
Tip it for now, but no, I want to refresh our memory on how our teams made it here.
Lion on one side, G2 on the other.
Just to check the reactions we got from the streamers and how people sit and rated that
amazing win.
That was great.
I am shocked that I did not get to know his complaints in the hotel because I was hooking
my pillow, slamming it against the band, just delighted with BV that he managed to pip
it right at the end.
That was an insane series and broken blade in this final game.
I feel like that's one of the best individual performances from a Wester top leader ever
point blank period.
That is a game that people will be remembering for a long, long time.
Yeah, amazing day.
It felt, you know what?
I'm happy that we got to the 51 before this and now that it's getting to ANA versus EAR
because you know that you're going to be here for a banger and it's been a rivalry that we
had for years.
Now, let's make it fun.
Let's start making it funny, actually.
That's what I want to see because we had a lot of funny moments between these two regions
for years.
I feel like it originated in 2013, but we're going to bring you back in the present a
bit more here with 2018 Worlds.
This is history. No!
No one cares about this.
I do. I went to this event.
I sat as a Korean watching this.
Yeah.
With them absolutely performing out of their minds.
Fanatic, mind you, take down C9.
Get all the way to the finals.
It was such a good role by us.
Yes, it was.
15 years ago at this point.
That's when you get to start stealing players from us
and thinking you would get away with it.
And then 2019 hits.
Who's feeling the moon now?
Time to change, or?
I feel like this one was peak though, because Liquid thought they were doing well, and then they realized what peak European legends was about.
Yeah, this is where it really solidifies. Korean killers, cops, clops.
It was nearly the golden road for the squad one series away.
It felt like this was the moment where the hope for Europe really solidified for us.
But what about this? Welcome to the modern era, buddy.
NRG beating G2 this team was running it down in scrims. I had no faith in them whatsoever
And then they just removed G2 easy to oh there and then oh last year just last year
What tournament was that? It was a recent MSI
G2 we had to swap it up a little bit. How many games did they get?
Doesn't matter
I think it was zero games money memories a bit hazy from this one. He doesn't matter. We got you when it mattered
Okay, so my finals and MSI finals and that's what matters here today
We're aiming for top three and if you look at the all-time score line between NA and you actually does in our
Pretty far back to find some relevant wins for you. It's interesting, you know back in the stone ages
They were painting on the walls of caves and fanatic had caps
Yeah, like it's weird because in my mind because I'm old I've been watching League of Legends for so long
I just automatically think it's you favor. Yeah, it's usually because we get further in the tournament
It really hasn't been and this I expected this used to be so so one-sided
But that's interesting
Bigger number better team, you know, so it's still there. I still see you bigger number, you know
Numbers it's more about the quality like nine and one at MSI over the last couple years
Yeah, that's just that is good. I like 66
This time around it's feel like I like a different history though
But I do feel like over the years when you get had a chance to do something in the end
You were like stumbling on the finish. What is that about? Well, I mean it depends on your point of view
It matters because you know beating you that's easy
We don't really consider that to be a big accomplishment. And so some of these other times
Yeah, when we take down the world champs IG when we take down the Titans of Frica
We did immediately get stopped by EU and our accomplishments were wiped off the board
The IG one really really annoys me because that IG team was just coming off a world championship
They were poised to take the tournament. They just stopped the group stage. Yeah, they just flattened T1 in their match again in them and
and then
Yeah, yeah, I don't remember I remember thinking about the later games where we made the finals
They team beat the world champions, and they thought that was the end of the tournament they thought
No today
One thing that I will give you though because we have to give you freebies
that's all you're gonna get today is the fact that over the years I feel like yeah
freebies. I feel like G2 were the ones bringing it to the finish line when you
guys had more diversity when it comes to teams that stepped up in the right
occasion you had the NRG you had C9 you had team Liquid so proud of your region
in that sense. Yeah I forget about PlayQuest but of course. Yeah it's been
fun to see I mean and inspired has been a big part of that right you know changing
through different rosters and he's joining a bunch of rosters and not
always joining teams that are already winning championships. He is making them into championship
contenders. He did it with EG. He did it with FlyQuest. He did it with Lyon. All orgs that
did not have an LCS title, brought an LCS title after Inspired joined. You know, he has been
someone who has really been leveling up his teams and I think as a result leveling up the region too.
Talking about Inspired and Lyon and what we have today, how do we feel like Lyon evolved
throughout the tournament so far? I mean, I'm gonna, I just want to take, it's not about how
they evolved, but it's about how they continue to play their style against Team Secret Welles.
So I want to take a look at some of their Herald and just overall how they seed objectives
on purpose, right? So if you look at where we're at, Lion do have a slight gold lead,
but both early Drake's are to TSW and they are immediately on this Herald at spawn. However,
Lion are just like, we're not going to contest this at all. We're just going to push in mid.
Dokla has already been pushing in bot, and this is something that we see Lyon do so frequently back home in the LCS,
is they know when it's much better to take objectives on the map as opposed to contesting either a Herald or a Drake.
So once we get to the point where TSW are using the Herald, Lyon has actually already increased their plate goal lead,
and this is only going to get one play-it off this mid turn.
So, what ends up happening is TSW get one plate to Lyon's two plates and a top tier two in this entire run of play.
So, Lyon ends up coming ridiculously ahead despite the fact that they didn't even contest the objective at all.
Now here, we're going to have a soft contest where Lyon are going to kind of act like they're going to contest TSW at this Herald.
We get the TP coming in from D.R.A.
And then additionally again look at the map Berserker Berserker has key it Berserker is keeping it in here
Which means he's gonna be able to easily rotate and take this tier one when they're only doing a soft contest
And again my boy Doka is already pushing in the bot lane
So as we play this through again, it is kind of a soft contest here
They get the TP Doka is still pushing on this bot side
and at the end of this run of play again, TSW are not going to get much off of this
because they, even though they stun up Berserker here with the Bardalt, the Rift Herald is going to get two plays here
so a little bit better, but the entire end of this run of play, it's two plays to TSW for two tier ones
and plays off tier two bot for Lyon, they end up with a 4k gold lead after this
And something we see this is like classic lion on the international stage absolutely and and regionally as well
It has been one of their big strengths being able to play the map knowing when they are strong when they are not and
Avoiding taking fights that they're no are going to be losing fights playing the map and playing for that goal
So they can be strong later and it's something that
That docla was telling me as well
Especially after that BOG series the fact that they need to preplan a bit more and be more conscious of where and how they want to
on the map. On the side of G2 though, I feel like what we were looking at came down to preparation,
how they managed to bounce back after this horrendous HLE series and what they showcased
against T1. Yeah, I honor my boy, BB, take notes here folks, all right? What we're seeing is that
coming into the series against T1, game four, down to the wire, 2K gold behind, dragon soul on the
cards, it was the objective setup from G2 that made the difference. So, coming into this, I want
I want to highlight two things.
What we've got is BB who's been spot on the ward just here.
And then just the moment you're going to see that Doran
ends up running up into position to try and get a flank
on towards G2 as well.
But the way G2 played this out is spectacular.
Because what's happening as we start to go through this
is Doran steps up and is essentially trying to use
this trap line to keep him safe,
where he's safe so he can always look for a flank.
G2 decided, okay, if that's going to be the case,
we're going to shift up into this position.
Q-mon is going to hold the fort here to make sure that both owner and Doran are kept out of the fight and there's also the
constant threat here of BB because T1 no the main person in this fight is going to be paged
Yep, if Paze stays alive they can win if Paze goes down
They're in a whole heap of trouble and BB is constantly threatening this flank
But it's the patience that pays off dividends because as they turn on towards faker
What we see is that T1 go right. We need to deal with BB
BB, BB, get the hell out of the touch, you have nothing to do with this, he hides and
seeks so well, whereas it's Doran who ends up getting caught.
The reason is, these two traps, Pays reposition that trap line which got rid of the gateway
and immediately G2 go hang on a second, this Olaf is no longer safe, they turn tail onto
Doran, he's forced to run and it's from this position now where Cap stays here to make
sure that he can continue to mark Doran and it's the rest of this play where BB hides
This bait from Skumon, sidestepping Faker's engage,
enables G2 to turn on towards Faker.
They finish him off and then,
I don't know if this is a reposition
or if it's maybe a misclick from BB,
but either way, BB kind of has to get into position for this fight
and it's here where we get the plate from Skumon.
Pays, connected with wind becomes lightning
and Skumon full sends.
He knows he doesn't have to kill Pays,
he just needs to get that flash
because when Skumon goes down,
We get caps repositioning up into this area because he can then threaten on towards carrying pays and I keep your eyes on broken blade
He dives in on to pay the flash the e the bear trap on the rope
It's man down for t1 and g2 know from this position
They stop the soul they turn the game and it's that fight right there that wins it for g2
I think it was one of the best Western performances
We've had from any top laner ever from Broken Blade.
This guy was an absolute monster.
And G2, you have to give them their flowers.
I think a lot of teams throughout this event
have felt like they're in there with a chance
at the team fight, but they can't execute
against the best teams in the world
when it actually comes to the 5v5.
G2 was able to do it three times against T1
and get it across the finish line.
And what's amazing is when you think of G2
and when you think of their peak
at international tournaments,
it was that element of surprise.
The fact that they were bringing stuff onto the table
that no other team could plan.
They went back to this with the counter picks that they had,
but also the discipline that they had on the Rift for me
is what created the surprise against T1.
And you know what else was surprised here?
Inspired.
Never would he ever have hoped that G2 would make it here.
So it turns out maybe he thinks
he's getting an easier opponent here today.
That's the worst prediction I've seen.
I mean, definitely he was surprised.
So was Zeca.
We had multiple interviews from pro players saying,
yeah, we're expecting it to be T1 coming through
because it had been seven years since G2 took down T1
in a best of five.
So I think it is a reasonable expectation,
but that is the beauty of G2,
is that they have been able to step up historically
in these big moments.
And this year, three best of five wins against CLCK
is incredible.
Yeah.
And here he is on today's match facing G2.
It'll be a really fun game.
Just an ego battle for both teams.
I want to like, I wish I could underline that
with the yellow marker we have,
because I ran up when we had caps on the desk.
I wanted to ask him, okay,
how did those G2 Lions scrims go?
And he's like, oh man, there are a lot of remakes.
They're kind of crazy.
So I feel like it is absolutely an ego battle.
And we could see a world where both of these teams
are just constantly just bashing their heads
against each other.
It's just entertaining to me.
I love that.
That's the thing, preparation is one thing.
For me, when I think about these two teams
How much ego is gonna come in the way and how is that gonna manifest onto the rift it's gonna be fun
Everybody has a plan to get punched in the face
I mean, I'm excited to see that matchup between his heart is given
I think that's gonna be such a focus
But you've got matchups across the board that look up to you say that seems like everyone like top to bottom
What's the trying to ego here? We heard it from inspired
I want to check it with the class thought about the matchup against you to he's giving us daily vlogs here in Korea
So let's check it out. That's my go
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And the toxicity is going to be off the charts after this match.
I can just feel it.
I feel like he hit everything there. First of all, this Korean is improving.
Second of all, the...
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How do you feel now, Rob?
Also, the toxicity will be off the charts. I think it's accurate.
Yeah, we know it. The last two games, actually, at the end of the line.
I got you. That's my boy.
We've heard it from Lyon and Inspired. I want to know what our boys think, actually, as we've heard from Skimon and Caps in the Verizon Game Day interview.
Let's take a look.
Now going up against your next opponent, and that is Lyon. And of course, I know that there's been formidable opponents in the past, but this one has a special flair because of the Evers and a matchup and Inspired waiting there. What are your thoughts?
Yeah, I mean definitely going to be like a super high matchup as you mentioned, I mean last time I've actually faced Inspired, we got 2-0 in the MSI
And I do believe even though like people might see us as like the favorites because we're going against T1
I think this match is going to be like really contested as well, I think they are like a really strong team so we'll have to do our best to just like keep winning obviously
And yeah, I mean for me it's like going to be a good time to take my revenge from the SMS
Okay, can you give some more hope to the EU fans? They're waiting, it would be such a G2 thing to beat T1 and the Lions
I mean I mean for sure like I agree with you so I mean I for sure like we'll do our best to just keep
being I guess having a good format and uh
Yeah, I just hope that we'll go as fast as possible because I do believe you have a good chance at this MSI
I mean you've already shown it, but the goal is to like stay consistent and yeah do our best. Yeah, best of luck. Thank you very much
Do you have any strong feelings about going up against inspired?
He's kind of become I think one of the 400s one of the poster kiles for like na as a whole
Do you have any special feelings on on that matchup and going kind of against him?
I might not sound a direct role, but I'm curious if you give any special thought to going up against him.
I'm for sure, yeah. I mean, I think we obviously went up against FlyQuest a lot with Inspire as well.
And I think now going up against Lion with Inspire, it's definitely very exciting because we're doing it like year after year after year.
I remember in the past we were playing a lot against Team Liquid, but now with Lion coming in, it feels like the Dragon meme,
where there's like C1, BLG, and then there's Lion, you know what I'm saying?
That's the only thing I'll go with.
You know, that Capz is feeling it usually when he ventures like this because that is very unlike him.
You know what reminds me of a little match between G2 and Energy where they were counting their chickens before they hatched?
They were looking past the NA representative.
Now, we don't care about this. The past is the past. It's ancient E3. It was also...
Come on, from the region of 2019.
Yeah, that's probably from a roster that they didn't believe in anymore.
And after that G2 rebuilt, trusted in new players.
It took a while before it came into fruition,
but I felt like this year especially they decided to stick together,
trusting LeBrov, trusting Skimon, had an amazing journey at first hand.
And I felt like for once they're back, the bet is finally paying off.
Other stars aligned for G2.
I think they are. Like you talked about 2019, it's time to feel a little 2019 in here.
We're seeing the Korean Killers back with BNK gone.
We got Gen.G, no T when we've taken off.
Hanwha Life could be next after this one,
and it feels like we're getting that magic back for the squads.
Yeah, and the thing that I want to shout out is just the fact that G2,
after getting stomped by Hanwha Life,
again, with this roster that you already talked about,
Rob, where they stuck with LeBrov, they stuck with Skumon,
they gave them time to grow as a team,
and then they were able to recover from what was, I think,
a very shocking and demoralizing loss for them like credit to the players and G2 coaching staff
for the mental preparation and the actual like in-game preparation they had for T1.
I know you're real what Emily. I absolutely agree but I think this draft you know it's
going to be so big you know the series the draft is going to be so important. BV one of the big
parts of them winning that series was his counter picks and I think sometimes T1 were looking
past that they weren't respecting the counter picks they were blinding Doran constantly
They, it seems maybe even kind of looked past the potential of that cleft coming out.
And that's not something that I do expect Lyon to do.
Their preparation, even in the series lost against BLG, I thought was really, really good.
I think they are definitely respecting G2 as an opponent.
And I don't expect BB to be set up as sick, for success, as much as he was in that last series.
Yeah, and I think I do want to give Doka another small shout out as well,
because it was thanks to his willingness to play these ranged counter picks top,
that kind of changed and transformed Lyon throughout the split one playoffs.
He's been playing more weak sides lately, but he does have a lot of interesting counterpicks
that he is also willing to pull out with himself.
The question I have here though for these counter picks, because it came down to counter picks,
flexes as well between ADC and mid lane. I was talking to Zeus yesterday about this
top lane matchup that we're going to have today and he was saying,
I don't think they have more in the tank. I think when it comes to top lane, when it comes to BB
And he did not even mention the club, but that's a lot of hobby.
But he doesn't think that they can bring more to the ref.
You agree on this?
No, I don't agree at all.
I mean, just look at the list of champions that they have actually played, right?
And I think that these are players that are always going to have more in the bag.
They're players that our veterans have been around for a long time
through many different metas.
So I think if they think it is the right opportunity for it,
they're always going to have something else to reach them.
I mean, even the show got the other day, right?
Broken Blade said in interviews, hey, this wasn't actually something we prepared.
I just saw there was a really good show that I can go on.
and I was willing to take it.
And I think that's what shows more,
is that they have a depth when it comes to these champion picks.
They're willing to bring it out at any point in time,
and we're getting to see it on the main stage.
What do you think is gonna come down to,
because preparation is one thing,
you cannot reinvent the wheel.
When it comes to these stages of the competitions,
where you have three days left,
when you don't have a lot of time to improve,
maybe scrims are getting a bit repetitive,
what are we feeling here?
I mean, for me, I think it's jungle and support, right?
I think inspired versus Q-mon is the big focus.
I think, honestly, I wanted to give it to Inspired a little bit.
I think Inspired has been absolutely spectacular at this tournament,
willing to bring out the Lee Sin, willing to play for those early games.
But when I look at that support matchup, LeBrov has been everywhere.
He has been the key focus, the mainstay for G2, the most consistent player.
And if he can control the early game like he did against T1,
I think that's where we have this.
Yeah, I mean, for me, I'm just looking at execution.
I think it's who shows up on the day.
All right. You know what I want to know?
I want to bring another EU resident.
I want to bring another EU defector!
I'm not allowed to do that!
Wait a second, buddy.
The Rat King, Janey!
You can't do that here!
You can't be looking so handsome on the analyst desk like that!
You're looking good as well.
Everyone's super daffod up.
It's great to be back.
God, it's been forever.
I think the last time I was here was a couple of years ago, maybe.
Yeah.
How are you doing, man?
I'm doing good.
I'm obviously being very biased to G2, so I predicted my 3.0 scoreline.
I don't know if you... 3.0?
Yeah.
Yeah, quick.
What did you do last year?
Between G2 and FlyQuest?
I don't remember, actually.
Like I've looked up like recent memory loss, but I do know that the game is starting Korea at 5 p.m.
I booked a dinner reservation for 8
Yeah, no, maybe I'll see them drive together
They're swimming home, that's all we know. I also want to know what the fans think here in the massacre it's fun prediction
I hope I hope is what I think is going to be in the very EU favorite here. Yeah
20%
Well well well well
Another EU
Timezone diff
It's 4 am on the east coast
I'm up before him getting my ice bath
I'm like reading my dreams
4 am getting my ice bath
Yeah, James is locked in today
Have you talked about James a little bit?
Yeah, he's been going crazy
James, I'm a big fan of the recent games
If I was on the Camille and Pike
I know where the game is going
James is gonna have his number. I hope so. Wait, I hear we have more? Wait, we have more predictions coming?
Okay predictions just yeah, let's get it here. Oh, oh wait, Draco's predicted 5-0. Wait, that's it?
Yeah, what? It's crazy that this many people are gonna be wrong. We have more! We have more!
Wait, we shouldn't do that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Cut the tape down!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, bro, this is gonna age, oh my god!
This is going to age badly.
Wait, no move.
We don't see it.
Okay, hang on.
Okay, okay, okay.
We're safe.
Are we done?
Yeah.
I guess it's just a free win.
G2 doesn't have to go there.
What does it mean?
I see a fail C next time.
We got to hear your guys' reaction first.
Explain yourself.
I mean, it needs no explanation.
It's 3-0.
And I think if it could be 5-0, I would put 5-0 here.
Like, no chance.
Just know that everything rests on this.
Yeah.
Everything.
This is the best team in NA versus the best team in U.
Okay.
live among history for years to come. This is the defining series of who's better.
Oh, unless we lose, then she too chose. If she too lose, they're gonna give me a real
prediction. They had bad drafts and they choked a little bit.
Okay, I'm just gonna go through mine because I feel like Isaac's gonna call me traitor.
However, this is an analytical prediction. I think this has potential to be an absolute
bloodbath because these two teams are demons against each other. And that's why I said
But I do give the edge to G2 in team fights and team fights.
It's despicable. I'm surrounded.
She doesn't even believe in you.
Why are the P2 members?
Well, the thing is, I wanted to bring maths into mind.
I wanted to bring some algorithms into mind.
So I was looking to sport it at the Global Pararankings,
ParabayAWS this morning.
Guess who's number two in the world?
G2!
Overtaking Honwells to get top two.
They're not even top ten.
Wait, is that the second seed from Europe?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was the one that got three out by TL. Yeah, but
There's no line there's no way I don't just speak up in the top ten in the world
So I don't know. I should be trio by a bunch of ridiculous
This you guys are just predicting purely off emotion, right? It's clear to see there's no analysis going on
What we're gonna have to bring some facts into it. Yeah, you have this thing out. This is ridiculous bring it up
I want the first flight, so I'm just gonna give you some facts
I'm just gonna lay it out g2 0 3 versus fly quest last year at MSI who's on that team inspired
He three out them and it was easy to and this guy watched and he probably cried a little bit afterwards
Let's bring up the next point here some more facts for you if that wasn't enough
Completely
4. Lyon, extremely hard.
What are you on that?
Let's expand on that.
Actually, I suppose it won't be hard for you.
Like G2 tied that back.
Zero wins versus number one seeds.
Interesting how they just slipped by in the bracket.
Very, very curious.
Lyon, six wins versus number one seeds.
G2 barely squeaked by top.
They needed five games right?
We three owed the team that three won top.
Nope. Transit problems.
It was really easy.
We didn't even have to try.
G2, they call it G2 because they can only scrape up
two LCS titles from their entire roster.
Are you kidding me, man?
Llan has 18 LCS titles.
Caps has 17 by himself.
How many people are on the side?
Agent B, they can only get two in an A.
G2 knocked out for MSI six times.
Dokela, not once.
He's never been knocked out by MSI.
Not a single time.
Caps, zero wins versus Peloth.
Faker, and Inspired has 10 wins versus Palothin.
You wouldn't have inspired if it wasn't for us, man.
Well, thank you very much.
And now we've got him.
Don't eat it.
Skumon against your goal.
Oh, it's compare.
Nice.
He doesn't have a single win versus Caps.
Well, Inspired has actually beat Caps 10 times.
Skumon plays the same region.
He's hitting it, but you know what?
Are you kidding me?
Which cherries are we picking from these?
Like, which tree are we picking these cherries from?
The most delicious cherries.
I can't tell if I'm being gaslit or lied to, I don't know what's happening anymore.
I believe this is amazing.
Roll the clip.
Wait, he brought footage?
Roll the clip.
Come on.
Oh my god.
Insane.
It's good to have a stroll down every map.
That's all you have, the past.
That's everything you got.
I'm giving you the past, man.
We got nine and one of the last three times we played in MSI.
We have worlds!
What do you mean?
I'm literally impressed by that.
Worlds, worlds.
We're at MSI, buddy.
We're more of a region of peaks in the middle of the year.
Oh yeah, whether teams are worse, and they're progressing to get better through the years.
That's why you can pull off the building.
Exactly, whether teams are worse, buddy.
That's why we 3-0ed you last time.
Oh, here we go.
Yeah, we're helping a European player to take the 3-0s.
Oh, you threw this?
The weather in LA is beautiful this time of year.
What can I say?
Take the three odds, man.
The weather in LA is beautiful this time of year.
What can I say?
Three of us, and you can stick together as a team.
I'll take you around.
We'll go to the beach.
We'll be taking more of your NA players, buddy.
If Toka pops off today, well, welcome to the NEC.
I like that you guys are realizing
where the real talent is.
Your top three teams all led by NA.
Where are they?
We got JoJo Pien, the true star.
Is he in this game?
We got Buzio, the true star.
And we got the mastermind, the one leader.
Dylan Fongo, the king who famously told Caps, we have to go Vayne here.
And then he told us to broken blade, we just didn't play this concept, but he was the one
who called for the Kled pick.
This is going to be everything.
To me, I really feel like my main just viewing point is Caps, like, I feel like you get a
feel for Caps in the first couple minutes of the game.
Yeah.
Against Hammerlife, you could see something was off, but I think what he, when you can
see he's like really on against T1 in the first game.
I think the belief comes in caps. How's it gonna do in the first game in the first ten minutes?
Where does the belief come in for you? The belief comes from the fact that we're gonna 3-0! Bro, it's gone!
I don't need belief. I know we're gonna win 3-0.
I know we got a 3-0. I think the only people who need belief here are gonna be the NA fans.
If they're even up, it's the middle of the night for you guys. I think you're not gonna even gonna be watching this.
You're gonna wake up. It's gonna be over EU. It is your time to shine.
It's the best of five to settle it all here get your means ready get your t-shirts ready
Get whatever social media is gonna be an absolute
Fire here at the end of today because it is one best of five to prove it all one
Best of five for either regions you gain bragging rights until the end of time the biggest ego battle in the West
It's go big or swim home here is that it is time for the lower bracket semi finals with lion gaming versus G2
Let's hit it!
It's been a bumpy road to get to this point.
I wasn't able to find a competitive team where we can compete internationally.
It's very difficult to go through those stretches of time.
You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Now, with a new team, the plan was to make everyone feel uncomfortable.
For the first time in four years, North America makes top four internationally.
When you dedicate so much of your life to just a single aspect of it and you want to do well in it and you want to be his best in the world, this is what you expect.
Come on, you need one more hand. Don't look! Flash is in the get-it!
Doklai has a chance to go further to a higher place. However, it's been a long time since Doklai stopped him from going to the front.
I think that Doklai has caught up with many haters, just the same as I did. I have nothing but respect for him.
I really enjoy every time I come internationally to see Brooklyn. We were teammates at one point, and GSM went back to the new point point.
I'm really proud of how far he's come.
We don't play as an opponent that we'll find the hardest against because that's the only thing we deserve.
Meanwhile, two players from the same team are going down the history of the MSI.
If you had a really good year so far, they're going to be a really tough opponent.
When we're in the game, it feels like family, you know?
We move together, there's no one left behind.
So I have full trust in my teammates when they want to take a fight,
then we're gonna win the fight.
G2 of the 7 years!
Manage to Top of G1!
He's a friend outside of the T-shirt, but he's the enemy inside the T-shirt.
Only the three of them can be in the team.
The game is over.
The two teams, NA, KONG, UR, SHARP.
Welcome everyone to the Caster Desk with this EU vs NA class G2 taking to the stage, Lyon
now far behind them. I'm Draco joined by Kobe and Jack for what will no doubt be the greatest
and most anxiety inducing best of five in the history of the sport. Every North America
versus Europe match that we ever get Draco's at the time is the most important matchup ever.
I don't want to discuss the finals but this is our final. Someone makes it to the finals.
This is our finals.
It's so rare that we get the number one seed from the LCS and the LEC
with the chance to eliminate each other.
Last year, yes, FiveQuest did beat G2.
That was the number two seed.
So we're being a little technical here,
but the last time this step was 2019, time before that was 2013.
This is only the third time in history
the number one seed of each region has played in the elimination series against each other.
It's so rare, but it also reminds us why so often we have to resort to the little technicalities
to talk about this rivalry.
Who beat who in the best of one here or best of one there?
But for the first time in a very long time,
this is the definitive series.
You heard it from K. to hear it from just about everyone.
Do or die.
This is the series.
No excuses what came before seizes to have relevance.
So I see how you're already looking past KC losing to TRT0.
I understand why you want to do that.
Second seed.
Doesn't matter.
He's like, this is the one that matters because we lost
the one earlier in the tournament already.
Yeah, for sure.
Okay, fair. But you haven't played T1, like, do we want, we can start slinging mine.
Now, what's your record against T1? Should we check? Do we want to look into that?
You know, honestly, I'm very nervous about this.
So, I'm hoping that we have a good clean game out there on the Rift.
This is actually anxiety inducing, so what I'm going to do is just talk about how great G2 is.
Because, Treykos, they are exceptional. I mean, Brebe actually said they're like an Eastern team, and I tend to agree.
I feel like if this Lyon team can take down a top Eastern team, a number two team in the world, in fact, they will deserve all the credit.
True. It's a long shot.
Okay, but you're not going to brug pull me and say the Eastern team is top Esports when you're talking about G2, right?
Why are we even talking about the East?
G2 are the greatest Western team of all time in League of Legends.
It's like, no, stop.
They're literally the best.
Guys, this is something that all starts with success.
Who do?
Oh, god.
You need to take it down or not.
Lyon are also a good team.
Let's not count the...
Tell me more.
the chickens before they hatch.
Tell me what line is good.
It's going to be a banger, St. Mary good mechanically,
as is Berserker.
Inspired, look, top-down skewmont.
Well, at MSI last year, Worlds, we kind of glossed over,
given that FlyQuest was falling apart.
But that's a different story for a different time.
As we get into picks and bans, big eyes
are naturally going to be shifting towards the top side
of the map, because Broken Blade and his counterpicks
were the center of the story around G2 upsetting
T1 in that series.
And their draft plan in the T1 series,
I think, was exceptional.
It was also consistent.
They kept the same three bands in all four games of that series.
It was Jace, Vi, and Orianna.
They keep the Jace ban for Jopla, who's good at Jace,
but I will be curious to see how that stays consistent
throughout the match.
Are they going to leave Orianna up with just banning
the Fury and Nocturne off the table?
I mean, they're hesitating quite a while on this last ban.
And Orianna has been devastating at the tournament,
still very early on in the series as well, so.
I'll say that if they leave it up, I think Saint just goes Casio.
It's a matchup that they've been pretty willing to take against other teams.
Now that was, I remember that back from NA finals when they did that against
Quinn, who's not the strongest Orianna.
Caps is one of the best Orianas ever, and it's actually ignored for now.
And that would be an exceptional Orianna combo, and it's a good pick into Orianna.
So they're an interesting first player team.
They're putting the pressure back online now.
Now they're like, OK, if you want to pick the Orianna,
We have one of the champions that is best at punishing low mobility carries or Jarvan perfect Cataclysm options there and if you don't pick it as you said very good synergy with the champion as well so nice little move here from G2 to get a pivot point with the Jarvan kind of avoiding the issue by just saying hey we're going to slam Ezreal and perhaps a jungler as well let the mid pick go later and later prioritizing mobility to get around the Jarvan rather than worrying about securing a very contested mid lane champ.
And we'll see how traditional the bot lane picks day in the series.
I know this has been a very made heavy MSI meta,
but Han Sama, not a great mage player historically.
Berserker has looked good on Ziggs, but otherwise great on AD carries.
And Lyon stays very standard here.
The Ezreal good into Jarvan is in a standard counter matchup,
and the Orianna game of chicken continues.
Yeah, let's see.
It's same thinking, oh, I'm going to play Ari or Yone or something else into it.
With the Kali band, like that's the go-to one
where you put lots of pressure after the Orianna,
but there are other possible options for him in his pool
and inspired with the Zen is going to look for the early scrap.
So the early Anivia pick here, OK, it's still flexible.
It doesn't tell you anything.
That cap is very good at it.
They could put it top.
They could still put it bottom even though we hadn't
done supported Anivia in a while.
And so now we're looking at top for a job.
That tells us a little bit more.
So it could still technically be supported Anivia
if they really want to get spicy,
but it's probably Anivia top and Orianna mid.
That's too spicy. I would just like to say as the G2 representative of this cast, that's too spicy.
No one would give you. Keep the indivisible. No point. No point. No.
Another thing I care about more is how are they going to punish this Orianna that they have left up
and let paired with a Jarvan here.
Yeah.
So, number one, they're going to pick up the Bard here before we're... Oh.
Okay.
I don't know, the Bard would be quite good at trying to get through Orianna Flash and put Kill Pressure on her,
but they want the strong poke lane here with the Karma Ezreal.
And really what Lioner's saying is, hey, we're going to set up our 2v2 so well, we can ban away anything else that can stop us.
And the cost is, you now have this Orianna that's going to be tough to contend with in terms of composition,
and some of the options that D.O.C.L.M. might have into this Inivia, which is expected to go top,
may get whittled away by G2, making his job that much harder.
And they're kind of daring G2 to play a mage bottom lane because it doesn't fit within the current composition.
Like, Inivia, Orianna is already automatic damage, they have to play an AD bot lane.
Back when we were in the kind of 2v2 range support meta, I'd say in split wonder and first-hand Ezreal karma
That was the king combo of that bot lane meta and Iles karma. He was on the train before others
So this is a very very comfortable first three picks for lying here in this game
Oh, and I am definitely not expecting G2 to do any mages bottom land. They already have so much a piece
It is can't do there's a 0% chance that happens plus on some it has also not
You know invested very heavily in those types of champions. So I do like the bar band and trying to take away from possible bar Caitlyn
combination yeah
Limiting the potential to have a champion like bar do can kind of match some of karma's early levels
But also can just get really active on the map a comfortable pick for the broad to do G2 want to match the range support option
Are they willing to concede the bot lane 2v2 just a bit LeBron can maybe play something with a bit more engage?
Not always going to get taken away again. I think the most standard most reliable engage support pretty much
It feels like forever
Maybe dropped out of the meadow once or twice
But that's the priority gt now get one final ban here to maybe limit what go click bring out up against broken blood
They already took the Nara way which was one of his best individual performers in their previous series
Yeah, and a lot of the top laners, you know have been so frustrated with a maybe a top because they're not they're like
Well, what is that?
There's not really something where you're gonna pick and you're going to win
So you pick and you have these other options like the nar and like the casante where you're still gonna be useful to your team
And not lose too much is kind of the goal there. So let's see what line decide to reveal first here
I mean, I'm still on the edge of my seat for this answer into the Orianna from Saint again
He has all these options for looking for pressure. They had the Zen early so they want to see if they can add on one of these
state specialist he is very good Draco this is a very very good champion for
states he has had some all-star plays with it and it got buffed since he had
some really big carry performances in the LCS with it. Agreed but the ego here
is insane like to just to give over Ori and game one say we don't care what you
ban in phase two they end up not throwing any bans because G2 is so comfortable with
the Ori on a matchup and he picks it with like not even incredible ult so far
they'll probably go to Ash Seraphino which will be good ult. Yeah I mean it's
It's gonna depend a lot around how much pressure they can have mid.
I mean that's interesting because I know Percercar and I was very comfortable in the Ezreal
combat matchup into Ash Seraphine specifically.
And they've been able to get the push, land all their poke and try and get that advantage
early on over the Ash Seraphine.
But the G2 comp scales like an absolute freaking monster death ball.
This is a crazy death ball team.
It's going to depend a lot on can lion get their pressure points on these lanes mid and bottom
Specifically, I want to see how inspired
Controls the jungle to be able to affect the mid and the bottom lane
Because if not, I am very very scared of the g2 ball comp
My skepticism is high at the moment because I don't see the Silas or the renecting
Getting pushing either of those soul lanes
So everything will fall on that bottom lane and inspired is gonna have to find some way to get his soul lanes out of jail
in an early scrimmage.
But the story of the tournament, thus far, for Lyon,
the last series felt like a team effort,
but a lot of series before that.
It was inspired and berserker, back to back,
holding the line, making those wins come together.
But as you've highlighted, the good news
is that early Sylas pick, or that late Sylas 4,
did set up to punish some of these alties from G2.
There are some decent options for St.
But the early stages are going to be tough.
If you get ahead with this Lyon comp,
you can no doubt take over the map.
You highlighted it so well, Kobe.
If we go late, if G2 get to scale, if you have to fight into them, God forbid, it feels like impossible task.
And the early jungle passes around mid lane can affect it so heavily, because even if you don't kill the Silas,
if you pass through and you chunk him or you get a summoner spell, Silas has to lane by trading his health at all times,
and so it makes it very difficult then to continue to keep your CS up and continue to be able to lane.
So we'll see if there are early jungle presence near the bottom triangle of the map,
And if there are early jungle focus on the bottom half,
that leaves Nivia alone versus Renekton, chat.
I mean, it's not great, Kobe.
We'll see, we'll see, we'll see.
My anxiety is high, but my hope is also medium.
There goes how are you feeling?
My anxiety is also incredibly high,
and my hope is also medium.
I predicted 5-0 in anticipation of any bugs
or potential remakes, but at the same time, you know,
there was one day, it was HLE versus BLG,
or HLE versus G2, it looked bad.
There's one day that was really good,
but those were both just single days.
There's not an overall consistent trend of dominance,
and I wish there was.
First damage?
Just secure comfort, but I'm gonna take this for now.
First blood, first little bit of trade,
technically not first blood, just first little hit.
First damage.
First damage, first damage and bot traded back,
it's an even game.
And that was a big chunk out of Douglas Hellfire.
I mean, honestly, the full electric trade
from Broken Blade, really nicely done from him
in the brush, so already getting, you know,
health advantage here over Renekton.
And Renekton wants to try and build up some fury
off of that wave too to be able to operate.
But we'll see how they go,
because bottom lane is supposed to be our pushing lane,
and it depends a lot on do you land your skill shots
against the Ash and Serafine.
And currently both junglers are pathing top to bot lane
to see if either side can get a really big amount
of chunk damage.
Dokla is gonna be in pain for a lot of this lane phase.
You almost need to find a window to gank
to make that lane better.
Otherwise, Dokla's gonna have a really tough time.
The thing is, I think you have to tell him,
Dokla, you're going to have a tough time.
I mean, is he already dead?
He's getting walked down now, went in for a bit of extra healing
off the cold of me, slicing dice already used,
but broken blade.
Long cooldowns, but a lot of auto attacks
for free when the Renekton is forced to block back away.
Because at least for me, the vision to win the game for line
is around the mid lane and the bottom lane.
And so sometimes you just have to tell Dokla,
hey, it's going to be a tough time.
But we'll see if they actually invest because it's
a tough time already.
Level 3 does make things a bit better, but obviously, there's a reason we're so excited about this matchup.
It is not only natural regional rivalries over the years, but the constant back-and-forths,
the absolute destruction of hope for one region or another.
We're always fighting to take down the LCK or LPL, and pursuit of that, we're usually knocking each other out of the corner.
Why are we only encoding them?
You win.
These are painful years. The early years were very bad for us.
Hey, we found one!
We found one.
Yeah.
We found one.
The early years were bad, Jeff.
There's not good tape from the early years, my god.
I'm so happy to say.
He has some trending upwards.
Another one!
Look at this!
Oh my god, the memory lane here.
On Independence Day, the graphics are easiest.
That is...
Dude, we even skipped a lot of the number two seed stuff
that was happening, even the world's playing.
But there were so many giant moments back then.
I mean, even the first one, Han Sama on that Misfits team
were considered such underdogs against that 2017 TSM team.
And that's when TSM decided they had to go all in
on Sven and Mithy.
I mean it changed that outlook of all eSports history actually the beginning of these rivalries. So the course of our lives
It goes even further back like my first naEU memory. I mean Colby beat EU at WCG
That was 16 years ago, so I think start good they skip that you did you guys did I mean, you know
I don't remember any of that, but you know good for you guys
Staying strong. Who wants to see the light worlds by the way? I can't remember.
I do want to focus on the game because we're gonna get a first gank and their pings in mid and they're gonna go mid.
Uh-oh. Already used deep scon. Q flash.
Schumann thought he had the angle just to finish him off.
But a nice response comes out from saying a bit of an overestimation of his individual damage.
Yeah, I mean big mind game there, right? Because Schumann could have EQ'd and flash followed,
but he was trying to not commit to the turret completely. St. able to get his life out of there.
I mean, Sam had actually died to an early gank
in multiple games last series,
so I think really fortunate he's able to survive that one.
And that was one of the early steps
that we brought up from Champion Select.
Can you get an early gank passed through mid
to take away some cooldowns from Silas?
And they do trade their flash.
It is worth for jungler to trade their flash
with the Silas mid,
because now Silas is gonna have to call for jungle support
to get vision around his lane.
Playing into the Orianna without vision around you
would be very, very difficult.
And so I do like that. Iles on his first reset there for the karma
went immediately get the control ward and get the vision through river.
An opportunity now for the next few minutes to maybe capitalize on
that missing summoner spell in the mid lane, especially as cats could closer to
level six. Kuman, as well as inspired both really just taking over to level five.
So it's going to be a bit more time before we get those jungler alties online
and available. Similar story for top though, where Doku has done pretty well for
himself. Probably trying to set up a bit of a freeze here, but once you get past
those first three, four levels, you're not winning the lane, but at least you can
step up, get some CS and threaten a little bit. We're getting stuck there in the
electrocute means that level six the dominance is gonna do some work getting
it ahead of schedule ahead of broken blade is very big but not enough to
immediately shift the lane. The second rune in the Doran's shield have done
massive work for Doku up there and I'd say Saint spent a lot of his health and
his flash to stay even in CS with Kat. This feels like a bit of an early
Drake start at the time but it's a great timing because Saint had already
teleported back to have the initial mid push and the bot lane because they
prioritize this Ezra Karma so much. That's exceptional, Kobe, to be able to get this first drake.
Yeah, our bottom triangle is going pretty well. We do have to still be cautious around this
flash timer from Saint. That is an area to punish, and Skumon is making another visit from his side,
where he is a control ward. But honestly, with Skodal Crab spawning on that top side too,
I think he maybe does a little wrap around here. Now they're going to test Dokla. Looks like he
actually cancels it and they're gonna secure the crab first. Get that level six for the Jarvan.
When you have Cataclysm, then you for sure return to that mid lane and see if you can get some more out of Silas.
Root Connecting.
Exchange for Root as Ash already had propped the slow onto Isles, but neither side able to find 100-0 all in.
Of course Berserker packing the cleanse means it's gonna be tough to find kill pressure in the isolated 2v2 here in bottom lane.
This is a pace of game that Lion is very comfortable with.
I'd say when they were at their best in the LCS, they had the types of games where they just make sure their farm stays up, they keep the gold close.
There'd actually be a bunch of games, even against the mid-tier competition, where they would give over early dricks just to keep the gold even,
because by far and away the strength of this line team is their late-game team fighting.
So they're probably quite happy with how these first six minutes of time.
Dominus burned top lane, Ruthless Predator to keep the stun going, Brocablad
F***ing Altie finds the slow, trying to keep Doka in that trade
but a very positive trade to Doka as we see a potential 2v2 breaking out in the bottom lane
So, a lot of posturing, a lot of cooldowns traded for lane priority
but nobody has died yet, it was importantly the fastest first break of MSI 26 so far
So, very important, really good, I like that side
Nice stat, appreciate it
We had Caps on the desk after his T1 series and they'd actually, he talked a bit about the scrims that they played against Line
He said that was extremely bloody, a bunch of remakes, the opposite of what we're seeing here.
Rome from Saint.
Rome D.
Nice angle to connect to LeBron, once I'm gonna need the body block a bit here, but Saint's already on the way.
Good side step on the Nisconde of Dux.
Flash out from LeBron.
Arrow body block by Berserker.
Both sides somehow walking away.
Okay, so it is Clemson heal for Flash and heal off of LeBron, and with the Rome timer there from Saint,
used to get the extra summoner spell.
See about that dragon, because the summoners for LeBron, at least the Flash,
Won't be up for that big big team fight and we have seen seraphine all flashes have been crazy
And turning some of these dragon fights
So maybe line will get to keep their dragon stacking going and we do see
The grubs about to spawn already reset potentially a look towards the top side of the map
Zercher is still going to go bop and Isle's leaves posturing up there and crucially Isle's level six not big for karma
But what is important is that LeBrop is not level six
We'll make it that much harder if they want to try and contest and LeBrop even without his flash
feels confident to go up to the Raptor pit to get that you know ward and they're
pinging they're they're tracking because of the camps that they saw down
already that inspired is on the bottom side of the map so they feel confident
he's re clearing and they can get this setup for themselves on to grub so I
think that is g2's they're gonna secure that one for sure yeah giving it away and
inspired gonna try and take a little bit of pressure on the bottom side here so
using this timer to maybe try and cut the brawl off or at the very least clear
this vision. Han's trying to backstep. Gets away from the wind becomes lightning. What? Does not hit.
Han's side. He did use his barrier there. Han's side on the line. No arrow. They're immediately
just going to follow him. Instantaneous Crescent Guard. The ulti comes in from the front. It's just
a little bit short. Lion clean. Effortless dive. Follow up ulti coming in for berserker. Just a
bit of chip damage, but ultimately first blood to Lion. The calculation from Lion. You go for
Grubbs. We go for cross map play. Now Douglas under attack though. He shouldn't know his weak side.
Wall coming in behind. No way to escape, no slice of dice, but still chasing down Broken Blade.
Broken Blade has to be careful here. Doku hoping he can flash out to save to get him a little bit closer, but Broken Blade takes him down.
Good cross map by Skumon. You could see Doku couldn't quite get the wave all the way in,
and it was really good timing for Skumon to trap Doku before he could get back to his turret.
Yeah, Doku on the weak side up there. When Lion had made all these calculations in these calls, hey, they're doing grubs.
So, let's go dive bottom side, you know, let's punish there and then
successfully pull off the play, but Dokla at the same time wanted to
egg Broken Blade, and so he ends up trading flashes there, does not get the
egg because, you know, Skuman had extra stuff to do it, just taking grubs up there.
There's got to be an element of baiting there for Broken Blade, right?
Dokla's been in this difficult lane this entire time, he finally sees a window to
like get a really good trade and maybe get a bit of an upper hand in the lane
It ends up backfiring and honestly since we are coming out of such good series from both these top laners
Look at how big dokes was in the previous series and how big broken blade was
Especially with the Gled game, but truly the entire series the top lane
The top lane matchup here. They are coming off of such good series for both of them
I mean that Gled game was just legendary. He had 15 kills against actual legacy
It's the most kills a top laner's ever had in the game at MSI it ties the international record for
Kills in a game for top laner
There's one of the best top lane games someone has ever had and he could have had 16 kills
But this is the nexus instead like I would say you take it
He could be so he could be in sole possession of that record, but instead happy to
Make a big trick right here
The first time is captain setting up currently just set to be a 50-50 the liner stepping forward threatening for more
W Flash, I'm inspired a bit awkward finds the initial knockup on this few moments
don't have enough away
They can get the uncontested smite shockwave onto only Isles. It's a bit of an awkward star for G2
St
We're gonna find some impact with this arrow good size up from caps uses the movement speed from the heel
But as much as we wanted the blood bath as much as that's what we heard happened in scrims
There's not a lot of blood or bathing happening on the roof right now top play at least giving us a little bit of action here
as the Dominus is forced out.
Yeah, very necessary all right there from Dirkley
to get the extra health to survive the electrocute proc
from Broken Blade.
On bottom side too, you know, Ile's soaks up
that the shockwave from Caps, he does not flinch,
he does not flash out of it.
He's like, yeah, I'm fine with just the heal.
He soaks it and then Berserker after the shockwave is used,
can go in and they push their way right back out
after taking the dragon.
So Lyon, everything is still going according to plan.
You know, they're trying to play off the bottom triangle,
As we said, keep those dragons stacking, play towards their soul.
But I think the good news for Lion is, oftentimes when you see top side objectives like the Grubs traded for dragons,
usually the top side objectives also come with a gold leaf.
It's a preserved 20 CS up over Haun, single-handedly ensuring that they not only have started to stack the drakes on a Hextech soul nonetheless,
but they've also got this gold leaf, which while small is significant because it's the difference of having this Trinity Force as real,
a very expensive first spike in the next fight and not having it.
I mean, we look at the gold, not only does it line up with who we think the top performers on line are,
it also lines up with what should be happening.
Like, these are tough-solving matchups that Joklund and Saint are playing.
And look at the map right now. So, they've got the extra teleport for Lyon,
so they're keeping the split push on bottom side while G2 are overloading top.
And Lyon have their choice. All right, are we just gonna trade and keep Saint on bottom side?
It looks like that's the call, and G2 will make the push for the first turret bonus.
So, here's the question. We know that Lyon likes generally slower games,
But I also don't feel like this G2 composition loves to play fast.
Like the Orianna, Jarvan, Anivia, and the Death Ball that we talked about in draft,
they should also be comfortable in a solo pace again.
And I think Lyon really prefer, if they, if it inspires, like, you know what?
Our approach to this fight has, uh, you know, like a 5% chance lower success rate than like a normal fight.
Take the next fight.
Let's not do it. Yeah. And so like, you know what?
Let's just keep on focusing bottom of the map.
The dragons, the dragons, the dragons.
And so they do trade, yes, first turret bonus for, you know, for G2, and they do increase that lead.
Broken Blade is the highest gold difference, of course, with his Adivia matchup. Very nice for him,
of course, with the extra, you know, kill to his name. And we did say how Broken Blade is coming
into this match as the literal hero of Europe with their previous series. Usually it's CAPS,
said you like international caps, but broken blade really shining through and in this game on the
Anivia he could be a menace. Yeah, but it's not enough to have that gold advantage, right? We see
this so often in top lane. 600, 700 gold. If you can't turn it into a greater advantage for the team,
it might not matter much. And the Anivia is not the Kled. It can't single-handedly start fights.
It needs that setup. It needs to have the team around often times. So G2, a lot of pressure on
them for the next strike. Two minutes before they're going to have to fight for that. One minute
until the Herald spawns and we'll see if that's the kind of fight that Lyon are looking for.
Yeah, it's going to be quite interesting because G2's comp is very well set up to handle a lot of the melees on Lion
But Lion also have the Ezreal and Karma poke. So, yes, the Ash and Seraphine and Amivia are very very difficult for like
Xen, Silas and Renekton to have a, you know, fun teamfight in, but they also have some some poke there with Berserker and I also try and work off beforehand
And if they can get a flank, it can be devastating. Saint here, if he steals away one of those big CC ults, but...
Slow on a berserker. Stumont.
Waiting in the side brush. Hoping to just fight for the Scuttle Crab. 20 seconds again until the Herald spawns.
Lions sizing up their options. The battle for mid-pile pretty even so far now.
Caps has been sent bottom lane to respond to that wave pressure, but still has TP.
So can join the fight if needed.
Very respectful from both teams. Just trying to stack up these small advantages as Stumont is on the way.
Jokla has Flash and R.
Wall is there. Only gonna get the slice.
He's trying to have the dice. Now has to turn back with the diamonds.
Hoping to find Broke of Light. Immediate TP and TP response coming in from G2, but Dokela
just gonna back away.
We're set up for a 5v5 on the top side of the map. It's only 1-1. 15 minutes in.
Will we finally see a fight? It's G2 are a bit split.
Might have all five members together. Caps flash away from Inspire.
Inspire locked up, but it's Broken Blade isolated.
Forced to flash as well. All D again from the Bravo.
We're gonna hit one. Immediate Mikhail's going in.
The Broad down from the midst of the entire team.
They get a decent combo on the side of G2.
But it's that Scumon now caught in Sait who steals away the Cataclysm.
Takes the double. He's just using G2's alties better.
Sait goes in huge at the end of that fight.
You could see Inspire calculated that he wanted that fight.
He kept it going on this end, and it's a two for one.
And it's about the team getting together, connected in the river first.
Look at the early move from the bottom lane.
The Ezreal Karma moving up first, though.
Dopla creates a space. He flashes an Umbroke Blade
to create the time for the arrival of the TP.
And they are inspired, runs towards this bottom lane.
So they're chased from camps, and the rest of them get pincered.
And the new Berserkernals were stronger, so they're the ones that are actually going this fight.
First, Hans-Saman LaGroff can't really become involved in this fight.
And then when Inspired flies over the wall, he's really forcing this fight to happen,
which keeps G2 engagement since St. had the cataclysm at the end. He can end it.
Yeah, I swear, it's just such a big difference of impact from the bottom lanes,
with the Ash arrow hitting nobody, Draco's going wide,
and the Seraphine ult only connecting on one, and immediately getting cleaned off.
I mean, that was immediate reactions there from Lyon and from the rest of the team, they're going to pick up the dragon after that.
It is a huge, huge fight, the domino effect for the rest of the game.
Soul point now for Lyon with a gold lead, a good start.
And I've got to say, I love the smile I see out of St.
The big story going into this year for Lyon was how were St. inspired going to be as a duo.
It's going better than anyone expected in their wildest dreams, and Saint is performing in this game.
Yeah, perfect territory for the fight for them too, with Silas having that mobility in the scrap over the wall here.
Nice little move from him, and Silas had the quick reaction with the Mikaels, the cleanse off from Dokla,
the single hit on the Seraphine ult, so now we're already looking five minutes again in the future.
Yeah, I feel like this game is the history channel meme of dragons!
It's just a dragon soul, a Hextech soul on Ezreal Karma to take.
They're rolling. Ash Arrow connects.
Skumon takes, initial knock-up there, stuns CC Paul.
Finally LeBron gets a good ult, but it doesn't matter because his jungler is already dead.
Getting massive value from the Silas here, Kobe.
Yeah, he steals another great ult.
He uses it to headshot Skumon.
The EQ in line with the trajectory of the Ash Arrow,
and they find the kill anyway.
This game could definitely change off of one great shockwave or one great wall,
but it is a little bit difficult for T2 to force fights,
in part because of Lion's itemization here.
Look at this. Three pairs of merc treads on the top side of the map,
and then also a Mikael's from the Karma,
so their triple bruisers are very difficult to hold in place,
and then you have a cleanse Ezreal and a Mikael's support,
a very elusive team that Lion's become here.
Very true, and of course the difficulty now is with Lion having three drakes already.
They're very likely to get first set up on the fourth strike and you can see the picture perfect team fight for G2
But you can see the bad version is the version we saw before when they're not grouped up when they can't get all of those
Alties together hitting multiple members whereas lion they can play from multiple angles. They want those little flanks
They want to split G2 up. They already did it once and if they do it one more time it means soul for them
Because the next team fight carries so much
much weight in this game. Yes, yes it does. G2, can they get their dream set up?
The previous fight is anything but that. Their split on the inside route for the
Ezreal Karma means everything and it was the perfect scenario for Lion to come
out ahead. But as you say, if G2 can utilize their vision gaining tools to
hotshot and approach how they want to actually construct their team fight, I
think it could be a completely different story and me and Jack may end up crying.
I mean it could happen you never know how these games are gonna end I'd say the game plan going in though
Lion had to survive the top lane early and not give G2 advantages G2 didn't get the advantages from the mid and top
But lion did get their damage from their bottom lane
So in terms of like rich bets paid off for them lion won the bot lane bet and the Anivia
Other an 11 CS lead and the one gank kill probably not the edge
They wanted and really lion betting on themselves giving up meta power picks like the Orianna to prioritize their two
2v2 winning bot, and it has paid off. Again, the Goldy just shrank a bit. It was 1k earlier
on, but we're coming into this next drake. If anyone wants to go for early Baron, although
I doubt that's going to happen. Next drake, two item powers fight for the Ezreal. You've
heard us talk about this for like a gazillion years of League of Legends, but in this game,
this is the strongest point for Berserker. He already had one good fight. So, as you
highlighted, if G2 can get that perfect Wombo combo setup, they haven't imagined the fight.
They get this vision, if they can fight for it. But if not, it's easy to see how it could
all fall apart.
Absolutely. As G2 has the item power spikes right now, though, two full items for Broken Blade,
perhaps just completing his second item as well.
So they are definitely stronger in terms of taking this vision,
and Lion has to seed control, which is going to make it pretty difficult to get back.
The strengths of these Ash Seraphine comps when they were really in vogue
was, if they're first to a spot, it's really hard to walk in through the Seraphine poke and the Ash follows.
Yep.
Sink and collect the rest of the gold off the top side of the map pushing while G2 get this setup
that you're looking at on your screen right there around the dragon and that is key as we said the setup for this fight
Now that everybody is very very very close in power pretty
Even if Sink he finishes second item after getting the rest of the gold from top
Which I assume he's doing right now then there we go
We're gonna be even Stevens basically going into this team fight and it is a lot about the setup
So, now though with the reset from G2, they just invested all these control wards and
looks very easy for Lyon to move in and just clean them out, just like that.
Yeah, very nice of them, and then we had to go catch top, like pet peeve of mine.
St. always builds this item on Silas, even when he's solo AP.
He doesn't have the team benefit from Shred, but I just, I had to point it out,
I don't think it's optimal, it is the same special.
Good news for him is he gets a lot of other things from his team compositions.
Now we're setting up for a trap in the jungle, LePros.
Ooh, just barely, getting away from the wind becomes lightning.
So we've opted for G2 probably on bot side to enter, but the crocodile and the brush here, I mean so far away
I don't know if that matters. He could at least pressure someone
If G2 decides to engage. He doesn't really do anything with these walking straight up. So Dope has to hold the flank
Oh, man. He's got a good flank though battle herald. Oh, especially with scheme on running away
Where's it going to go?
Saint ready to come over the wall. Dope already to go from behind the seraphine being pinged out already
He's just taking it for a lap baby
Flap 2 perhaps? 3 gauge? Nope, gonna crash into the wall. Wall set up though, Crystalized a lot of ranks there already, but they spot Dokla on the side. They're trying to isolate him, trying to fight instantaneously.
Fighting back to the choke point on the lion side of the river. Flaps from the brawl. Treasure looks like it's going to matter. Inspired, looking for far too long, but Skumont manages to peel off Dokla.
4v4, support down for a top laner. Pokerblade stepping up. The flip going in favor of Skumont, safe burning down. Just barely able to escape through defiance from Isles, keeping him standing.
Standing to circle on the front line but caps the one to walk forward the Orianna that they gave him
Delivering kills for G2 absolutely clutched team fight by G2 and an even clutcher smite by
Sku Maund if they give over the Hextech soldier
They probably lose the fight on the back end, but they definitely went out there Kobe G2
Defendant the critical moment of this game
What could be the turning point of the entire game right there and LeBron with his dying breath even with this huge flank from Renekton
He does get off his flash ulti and it buys a tiny bit of time then they focused on the Renekton
They're able to turn the fight
Berserker really wanted to a caps and he he swore they brought it to a caps that gives over an extra kill Draco's and your death ball
Comp just bought a lot more time to scale
It's looking nice
And I think a big part of that is the gold lead in toppling does actually end up mattering
Don't look doesn't have a second item completed if he has sterics in that fight
It looks very different the additional tenacity that master shield this game really the tightest margin the littlest differences the R flash here
That's on the plank, but let's see how it plays out
I can see stage over on the left
He's a little late to enter this fight, but it's really about whether or not they get the one shot off
He lands it three man charm that buys crucial seconds
Then they're able to focus out Doka and inspired the one criticism has been his sprites. Let's watch this one Kobe
No, but you hear and yeah, and then it's just a fair smite
To be able to try and finish it with all the extra damage thinking for sir guys
We said you wanted to go for the egg you walked very aggressively towards Orianna zone right there and caps punishes nicely
St. Couldn't re-enter the fight inspired had no ultimate everyone had to retreat berserker needed to let that one go
And of course we did see the stolen Orianna ultimate immediately flashed away from it does mean that Han Sama is also going to be down a flash in the next fight
We'll see how quickly these teams want to potentially contest a Baron is it's four members on the top side from lion
Anyway, it talks about nights being a night being undefeated on Orianna
Caps as well with a good record on Orianna right there. They did get his egg played
Hey, go already gone. Yeah, they're looking for a full breakfast here on the top side down goes the bird for fried chicken for lion
Let's see how aggressive they want to get here. They don't have an extremely fast Baron here, and Sink doesn't have a great ultimate yet, but Lion, if they start this, would likely look to turn to create a fight. Watch the Doku on the flank.
Doku on the flank, hoping to bait G2 in. Knowing their man advantage should mean a net win, but again, the AOE alties from G2. Count how many members they hit, and you will know the fate of the fight.
Their Baron is just so slow. This is so obviously a bait from them. Let's see if G2 is waiting for the fight.
Okay, inspired is same movie and a little bit lower same on the flank should have access to the cataclysm if you wanted
But taking his time to pick an option
Does now grab a cap solo zoning go club the Baron is very very slow
Yeah, they can't do this health bar is also just getting chipped away
So G2 buying a lot of time very well not over playing into their hands is now
Don't who's been caught on dominance on the side line looking for better re-engage on this Q month
Hoping to split this fight is the 10 years a gauge from safe
But now, we're probably holding that open.
Hussama already definitely right now.
Matter of fact, because the ball was there.
Just in time, passed to Skumon, but Lyon,
they don't hesitate.
Isles on the chase for Skumon.
Perhaps Lyon can turn back to the Baron.
It's a scrappy exchange.
Caps is still there.
Hackskate keeping Skumon alive.
Means there's no play left for Lyon.
They're forced to back away.
What an escape from Skumon.
He flashes to break the tether,
then goes all the way around to the Hackskate.
Crazy fight.
I need a shout out to Caps, though,
because in the previous fight,
he also zoned off the Silas in the flank.
and this time around he found Oko for the flank, but here goes the big engage.
Again, Seraphine Ultimate over two, but he got the immediate cleanse on the berserker from Isles,
using the chaos.
Skuman deletes him though, going in and assisting with the shockwave.
And punishing the cooldowns from the last fight.
Line doesn't win big, but you can see why there are such respected team fighters.
No Aegon, Broken Blade at the start, no Flash on Han Sama when Sankos in to finish it,
but I also want to shout out Skuman's team fighting.
He's been exceptional this game.
Certainly has and making the nice escape there using his flash to get around back to the hex gate
Have to say giving over the Orianna to caps, you know a lot of people flamed
Giving over the Orianna to night
But caps the little things that he did again counting and marking those flankers the last time you saw
I'm spacing saint and see not being able to get good old and being able to connect at the same time as dope was flanked was
critical and then this time being able to start it out as well through the lane also very nice for where they started it
But 30 seconds until the next Drake three full items for berserker
He is at a massive power spike here, but G2 have the inside track to the river no flash quite yet
One I'm cleansing the fight either so needs to play flawlessly
Then the tails will be up shortly as well giving it a little bit more leeway to get aggressive to get up in the faces of G2
But we've highlighted it so well. If you're to fight into this G2 competition, you see why this is a nightmare.
Inspired, force to pull the trigger. Recognizing he has to go now.
All of the isolating broken blades locked up by the Cataclysm.
It's a flight from St. Flashaway's Miro, though it's Han Sama and Cap.
Retreating, point away. Doke landed their backline though.
He's gone! He's got! The follow-up is there! Cap's isolating the load.
Hoping to find the command attack, but he times it wrong.
He doesn't have the space, so St. Survives!
And in the meantime, Preserker is dishing out damage!
G2 on the rope, three members still standing though.
It's an extended fight.
St. Low has access to the healing,
but he has to go in to get it.
So instead, opting to recall.
No TP available, means G2 desperate
to get the Drake in the meantime.
Flag over the wall.
Don't look there, command protect.
The dissonance to back up the additional movement speed.
Both sides blinking health bars.
St. doesn't have teleport, but it does have hex gates
to try and return to the fight.
If they keep the scramble going, what a scramble there.
They found the engage onto Inspire,
He says full set now and all of line attack to defend. It's pretty even for the setup
And how long was that fight inspired died at the start?
He's back taking the gates out again
Who can remember the summer spells haunts no flash the broad no flash berserker no summers Drake started again
Secret down for st
As well buying our first to the play caps walking in but he's exposing himself vulnerability immediate control where to spot out
Isles trying to get ready for the old coming in from safe, but there's no follow-up
He's going to try to solo make the play happen.
Steve Monk isolated the pit, forced to get out.
They just want the soul.
Instantaneous turn.
They have to get it.
Lion can take the fight.
They most certainly get the soul.
And now they're going to set the barge into the lion.
Tearing them to pieces.
Zay Zyliss is crazy with it.
He goes in, he makes the play out of a profit lion.
They're going to take the soul.
They're going to take the Baron as well.
Stacking advantages throughout the game.
Picking a game one, Kobe.
This is insane this team fighting from lion. Oh my goodness. It was so close to g2
Constant fights back and forth pushing them the previous one was so even we're just a two kills each
But this one critically means everything with the soul with the Baron with the map control
G2 they need to go into damage control now
They have to defend very safely your jungle income and at your towers
I mean, this was crazy how much time Saint bought he gets the charm on the hodge
But crucially pushes everyone on the fight to the left so the dope that is fired can push
Schumann out of the pit and buy them time and then the craziest thing is they still have to re-engage after it
Incredible stuff coming from the side of Lyon again the recognition to back away realizing Saint has bought you the space you need to
Secure that objective uncontested
Instantaneously turning on Schumann to make sure there is no chance for a 50-50
It doesn't matter if Inspire's missed a few if the enemy jungler cannot participate in
trying to take that objective.
A massive fight from Doko as well, well highlighted, Jack, and the damage numbers are only going
up for the side of Lyon now that they have the soul.
Yeah, the fact that Saint escaped back to the dragon afterwards too was crazy after that
commitment in.
Yeah, because that was the ending fight, the beginning fight, like Saint basically won
the two-ing to Kill Han's Sama, getting out of that initial fight with like 10% health,
So he could base and take the hex gates out.
It's all connected.
I mean, look at the game this guy's been having.
Lanes into capses.
Undefeated in 2026, Orianna stays close enough,
finds the skirmishes, is currently sitting 5-0-4 in this game one.
Really good understanding of his own strength.
The power of the upgraded kart track
is well-buying him so much space.
Remember, he didn't have seekers in the previous fight.
He didn't have the money.
Had to use it in the previous play.
But now he does.
Now he has the full hourglass available
to try to threaten G2, to try to split them up
so they can't get that perfect wombo combo that
Now, it used to be a little optional.
Now it is mandatory that these key ults connect
on multiple members each and every single fight.
Yeah, G2 now, again, going to damage control.
Try and farm safely, keep your income up,
try and play off a grouped team fight
up front to back here,
and make some use out of these key ultimates.
If St. is gonna steal your Seraphine ult
and then make the engage and make that much space
before you're able to use your Ash
and your Seraphine and your Jarvan and your frontline,
then it completely defeats the purpose, all together.
For Zerker, just completes Endless Hunger as well,
so four full items on this Ezreal.
313 CS, 10 CS per minute,
one and a half thousand, Goldy over Hansama,
and the Hextech Soul Ezreal poke is just absurd.
Lion, especially with the Karma
and the three pairs of Murk Dredgs,
I don't feel like they're gonna go for a hard engage.
They just need to bait and poke G2
and then take the fight of G2, bring them.
Exactly, it's the dream soul
for this lion composition.
They rolled quite nicely on that one.
And so they're going to do the 3-1-1 split push here,
just a slight variation,
and keep St. on the bomb side with his teleport.
Again, he's a level 16 stylist with his zoneas,
huge playmaking potential, even without his flash.
I mean, 1-3-1 or 3-1-1 is a little bit risky.
A lot of teams, if you're up against a Nash,
you'd want a more 4-1, but they're getting away with it
for now, St. able to get the solo gold
pretty much the entire turret. And now you can see Inspire joining the other four.
I like this.
4,000 gold demands on top of the soul as she too are of course back here
shockwave on the Dope. I hope they can get a pick, but it's them
they're kicking off a fight. Kat's isolated, ulti from LeBrav, good,
but an immediate cleanse comes out from the Zercher.
Dope will still have it walk away. Wins become enlightened,
Skumann's in trouble. Just barely able to walk that one off.
No true shot for Rage there, but now it's LeBrav getting sacrificed to the lands lion
going for the throat, finding that single kill. Still a pressure on the bottom lane.
broken blade trying again to make the difference Tp into the bottom lane as
well but it's gonna cost them the inhibitor just to go for this play
Saint looking to find a way out healing their extra 400 caps forced to flash
back Saint two and a half seconds get space for his team to get out in the
other play walks to go in nice side step from caps means a thousand gold
shutdown that is a huge shutdown for the hope of Europe caps Orianna does get
paid for the loss of their inhibitor and the only one they lost at that
that inhibitor was LeBrov-Serafie.
Yeah.
That's a really good play by G2 to be able to have the one
for one.
I actually credit most of that to Brokenblade
for trading so aggressively on the one for one
as they're losing the fight on the other side,
because that 1,100 gold is going to be
usable at this elder fight.
It's the window back into the game there.
With the Anivia, they can likely push that wave out far enough
to give them an opportunity to 5v5 at the elder.
Skumog and Paps has a duo.
The synergy when delivering shock waves
have been incredible with it, in key moments.
Let's see if they can fight their way out of a Hextech soul
because even with that Hextech soul
at the last inhibitor, he saw them trying to chase them down,
not able to just finish off a few of those kills.
Some fairly important cooldowns burned as well.
No cleanse on Berserker, no flash on Inspired,
although he does still sit on that GA.
If Caps could somehow get to his death cap before that fight,
it would be huge, but I don't know if he'll have the time.
But it goes both ways.
No flash for Caps, no flash for Han,
Sama, Cap's having to respect even a low health St potential for him to re-engage
He'll right back up with that W. So did flash in that previous play G2
potentially gonna be forced into approaching from this choke point now
It's gonna take a long time for lion even as strong as they are to kill an elder dragon with this mini
Stacks in terms of drake's overall is now G2 ready for the 5v5
Yeah, and lion's objective damage is not that fast if they get it low
They're at risk of a steal
So I think it's gonna be this coke war and I think it's very unlikely we get to a quick situation
Who can fight who?
Shift backwards, two shopperage across the team, ball holding to the back of the flanker,
Sate instantly from behind.
Shockwave to pull in two, continuing to dashboard, dismantling the backline of G2.
And it's Big Dokes leading the charge.
G2 wanted to contest the elder, and now they're getting knocked out of the game.
Again, it's the Sate of North America, he finds the Flake and he shockwaves both G2 carries.
State has played incredibly lion is gonna push it in for a game one win capsus
Orianna we thought they might have doubted it but he dismantled it lion
better in the fights better in the early game G2 sent reeling in game one is
lion to strike the first blow in this best of five for the LCS and North
America and all business for Lyon after game one that is a calm cool and
collected team here to try and take care of business
Yo Azeel!
Lyon has your back buddy!
No I can't say it was unexpected it was the result we all knew what was gonna
happen I called it from the start I laid out the facts no one would listen to me
though. Let's go. He was listening. He's pointing at me.
Check us through the record show. I don't know the entire time, but I should not have
because St. Silas is absolutely crack. Look at this Silas. Doctor, I'm going to have nightmares
about this. Yeah, it's like the shot. And that was a saint as well. Like that was an
insane combo. This might play out of his mind this game. And right off the bat, you said
The same Silas is something to be feared here in this game.
He popped up so much.
As soon as he locked it in and draft, I was like, OK, first of all,
it's just a good Silas angle.
Second of all, he's 4-1 on this champion.
He has a second most played all time in his career.
He's so good on this pick.
And I think it speaks volumes to him
that he's winning to lock it in against Caps Orianna as well.
Caps undefeated this year, 7-0 on the Orianna.
There was a risk by Lion to leave it open, but that man in the mid lane played it so well to shut it down.
Yeah, I would honestly say both the Lion and Soul lenders deserve a lot of credit for kind of withstanding these matchups.
These melee versus ranged matchups, not getting that far behind.
I was really questioning this Renekton pick because it was a last pitch.
I think he was putting himself in a difficult matchup.
BV got a really good level one and I was like, oh my god, this is about to get ugly.
But he held him for such a long time, got BV out of mana, kept it in parody until he got ganked and killed.
And I was kind of still wondering like is this even worth it if you're even you know there
We thought maybe they were a gank it but they didn't but then in the team fights
Dokla's positioning was really really good
He was always pressuring the carries inspired and saying we're there to follow up
But I feel like berserker was really showcasing some of his skills
We've had a lot of questions about Isles on pike and Camille and this but I have no questions about this man
If he's gonna be playing in Channiers and he played a very clean game
And honestly, that's what made the difference here the fact that I was always let's spot the renekton
Let's be careful about those lion team fight set up and Emily you are the ones highlighting them when they played against team secret wells the fact that they play methodical that they play super well around those objectives and they do it once again in our hyperX reflex replay.
Yeah, I mean this is they were so patient and constantly stacking drakes right so they weren't seeding objectives this time they were controlling them and this was safe with the stolen seraphine ultimate.
immediately get it then getting on to LeBron and I actually thought things were gonna get a little dicey here
But it's Joklah who really really steps up and gets into the back line
Yeah, I mean doclah really well and I have to say where zerk are popping off and far as far as the damage is concerned and aisles
People always like to be one karma. All you're doing is shielding this guy was positioning so far forward
He was always there with the mcales always there threatening with the tethers and people step too far forward to set up for berserker and
and I was really, really impressed by their play.
LeBron credit to him in that last fight.
The R Flash that stolen Seraphino did catch Hans.
And so he's got down, Mr. President.
He actually blocks the absconded drop to save Hans.
Otherwise, I think that fight is more one-sided.
But Lyon definitely going to be feeling good about this first game.
Dagdag, give me hopes here.
If you're back stage, what are you looking at?
Because looking at these drafts and the setup that they had,
I thought they had easy buttons they could press.
I felt the nerve in this game one.
But what are we looking at here?
Don't give us one minute!
I don't! To be honest, look, I've seen Brooklyn Blade with you maybe before.
I think it's been a bit scrappy. We saw it against Enpoys, where he kind of had a similar game.
I think coming back into it, he seems moving away from the Silas, which is one of his best picks.
I think we can still open up more, and if we can start to shift away from these enchantments in the bot lane,
that's where you get the edge to the broad.
I think there's a little bit of first game nerves. I think we'll be able to bring it back from here.
You're not even saying anything, you're just going fast!
The boys they proved it with the action space
30 it's already wrong we don't talk about it what matters is the destination of the journey whatever the lion doesn't sleep tonight
That's all I know
They take it won't let's see what happens like I'm gonna find
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Back where it's not where?
It's when it's all right here. I mean figure out when when is it you know?
Let me ask you this, Andrei, what is lead to you?
Is it season one?
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Could it be season two when we started having
a jungle pathing?
Could it be when we had Heart of Gold?
It was a shell.
Why was it named Heart of Gold?
It could be anything that we want.
I get it full, but I really don't think...
Two shens in the game?
Is it season...
Is it OG beta when there was 40 champions?
Look at Lux.
Look at the way she used to look.
It could be any of these things, Andrei.
These things, Andre.
I mean, we'd kind of like to play old Graves again.
Pretty good.
What if we went back to that time?
Could be any of those times.
Be a lot of fun.
What would you call this thing if we did it though?
Clash face.
No, we're done with that.
All right, okay.
Old League.
Who's that even for?
Uh, your favorite League.
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Stacking advantages throughout the game!
Picking a game one, Kobe!
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Welcome back to MSI 2026. This game one was well and truly insane, especially the around the mid lane. And now we're going to see if lion can replicate that success as we get ready for a game two and head into champion select powered by HyperX. Gentlemen, the nerves are out with the fear. The fear is alive and well for the European fans because that was an incredible game one from lion.
Game 1 Andy Draco. I've been there as well. You know G2 they've already reversed swept at this very tournament
And they're not even that far into this series anyway, so I expect some alterations from G2 especially for bottom lane
It was a bit surprising to pick the asterifing into the Ezreal
Karma and it certainly did not perform. I think you fans will probably already at this tournament start to have some seraphine
Trauma whether it is Hans piloting it or whether it is LeBrov highlighting it
So I do expect them to take some more proactive approach to this draft
And I'll say I'm just never been more happy to see fearless. They can't pick it
Yeah, we can move on we can pass that portion of this best of five
I think there's a strong desire to see LeBrov on a playmaking champion that last game really was a slow bleed through the bottom lane and
Then Saint and Doka found angles in teamfights
So we'll see what direction they take here as it appears
It's lying with the first ball bars of course a flex nice to have into broken blade and Han Sama
Generically strong 2v2 bottom laner even after the hits
But also has some really strong topside matchup
So that's something that g2 are going to have to get ten with as they debate what their options are in this first rotation
Do they want to prioritize that bot lane 2v2 more or will we see a continued priority on the topside picks?
Yeah, and G2, like they can hold their counter pick really long here. Broken Blade has a lot of specialty stuff like Yasuo and such, so we'll see where the flexibility ends up on that Varus, and what sort of counter pick is going for, but we are going to get the Ziggs, the mage bottom lane now.
Drake has hands on his head already.
Look, there's been a lot of times since I've seen Hans play a mage, you know, I remember the Vladimir in 2018, I'm very nervous about the Ziggs, especially against Beserker, who's had some all-star performances on this pick.
on this pick. That said, Zig's very powerful in the meta.
On paper, if I turn the nameplate off,
this is a fine first pick.
I'm just nervous to see if the execution is going to be there
for Hansama and LeBrov.
And one of the biggest things about Mages to me
is that they give your support,
that playmaking opportunity that people are looking for
for LeBrov.
LeBrov, if you're looking at the entire tournament overall,
has definitely outclassed Isles.
And so him getting more time to roam with Anodilus here,
you know, whatever Schumann decides to pick,
pair with the Nautilus there could be just what G2 needed to get back into the series.
And we need to remember that this is also G2, so they might flex that six to the mid.
It was originally a mid lane champion. It's not guaranteed that this is Han's Sama. I
think Lyon wouldn't be surprised by that either. They're the team that flex picks like crazy.
We know for sure that that Ferris is top or bot. We know it's a flex pick.
I will have to say, saying after every single G2 pick that it might be a flex pick qualifies
you to be an LEC caster. It's like the number one thing that you have to hit every time
Is it the Nautilus jungle?
Nautilus made me shout out, Dwayne B, shout out whatever MSI it was that we all did that for a little while.
But we send the debate here. We've already seen Lyona Vars, which if it is the QB2, is pretty powerful in the early lane.
But the Lee Sin, a big, big playmaker for Inspire.
It's a big power pick this tournament, but it's also a pick that I'd say fans of both of these teams don't love seeing their jungle run.
Inspired, loves to be cool and calculated.
I feel like Lee Sin is a champ that just has to take 50-50 skirmishes and outplay you
in order to get into the band, and that's usually not an inspired game.
Sku-Mun had a similar game on it as well, so we'll see what happens here.
They also take the Casio, which was the mage counter that other people have been taking
into the Ziggs.
So those are technically two flexible champions, but it's very unlikely we see an AD bot outplay.
Yeah, with two protection bans for the Casio as well.
So they can just ban away the Syndra and follow up caps with extra protection here for the
mid lane.
Right now?
Getting those extra mid lane man's out and I will say, the stats team was quick to correct
me.
I might be a doubter of the mages but on Ziggs at least, Hansama is 3-0, played it back
in sometime in the early 2020s.
It's not the 2018 Vladimir that I'm lamenting and looking at a stats page now about so a
little bit more comfort there but with double AP as you've highlighted, we are looking to
see a little bit more physical damage in the top lane setting us up for a potentially
more volatile top lane 1v1.
Alright, you get the Vayne out. That kind of opens it up for some other options of some blind picks as well.
So definitely kind of hinting at the possibility of the bottom lane Verus getting a little stronger.
Yeah, they need to find good AD damage in top jungle. Broken Blade has a lot of quirky picks here because the Vayne would have been more of the obvious ones.
The Jace would have been more of an obvious one. Those are obviously banned away.
And we still know that that bear is as a flex although seeing with what is available
I'm expecting that bear is to go bottom lane into the ziggs. We'll just have to see how it plays out getting some
Stressful hovers here that I think are entirely fake
The poppy band away. I do like to see that does make a lot of sense up against the least in in Leona really shoots down their ability to
Make anything happen. Should be an easy lock this in in this nonalysis of flex. No, no, it's an 80 jungle pick right here
Sure, almost fast to go.
Sure, sure, sure.
It is, uh-oh. Yes, okay.
Pantheon's a great pick. I mean, the Jarvan, the Xen are already gone,
the Vy's band out, Kalisen's there. It's just another one of the Sundersky Jumbres.
And it's not Camille, but it does give you a lot of the same immediate CC setup
if Ziggs is in the proximity in the area, and it gives you another kind of semi-global long-range ability
to maybe punish whatever side laners do come out from the side of Lyon.
Exactly. You already have Ziggs, so you can join fights from pretty far away,
Pantheon Ultimate as well, so lots of potential there for affecting side lanes very quickly and you already have very good wave clear as well
If this Nars locked, I think Broken Blades Yasuo is an inevitability. That's just they're just okay with that matchup
It feels like unless Broken Blade has something else called it
It does point towards that direction and they were more worried about the vein as we were talking about so
Let's see what they're gonna follow it up with some engage. They definitely do want some sort of playmaking here from Saint
He definitely performs very well on champions with mobility, with dashes.
Arya is one of his favorites, but he's also quite good on the control mages.
And Victor vs. Casio, you have the laser range.
You just want to farm it out and scale up to be a big powerhouse in the teamfights.
And we have some flexibility here from the lion team comp overall.
Varus can be powerful like in Victor that power, but still a lot of playmaking.
Now, Yasuo, if it is locked in, a strong lane matchup, and we've seen BB get Dominic Doran,
But if all of the potential counter picks Yasuo is a very sharp champion
He does some things really well and some things really poorly so if anything goes wrong in this top side
You're stuck with the Yasuo on the top lane, which is not a good vibe. It's not a good feeling
He has to dominate high risk
That's never stopped you two in the past Han saw my mages broken blade Yasuo, but they're ready to throw down
I mean the most comfortable picks I see in this comp for G2 is the skumon pantheon and the LeBrov
Nautilus they have very strong mid jungle
They have a lot of playmaking from their support jungle,
and I think that's how they're going to try and play this game.
They do have some good knockups for a broken blade
from the bottom lane, not just the Nautilus,
but also the satchel charge.
Deceptively good opportunities for them
to set up broken blade later into the game too.
And this counter pick is a good counter pick for a reason.
You get to run down the minion line basically
onto the mininar and try and force those plays,
and you have a Pantheon jungle drake goes.
Level six, he can ult in there.
They can make that game guaranteed to happen.
So, Dokla has to play very safe on that NAR.
Luckily for Dokla, he's coming up a series.
We had a huge Mega NAR game,
and we'll see if he can stand up to the counter pick
that they must have been looking at
and knowing is coming,
especially seeing so much of he already on G2,
just playing right into this Yasuo.
And he did in game one crucially.
Now we head into game two,
see if he can weather the storm once again.
course, Renekton wasn't a counter pick,
or was kind of a counter pick,
but he was just supposed to survive.
This time around, it's more of the hard counter,
the Yasuo that comes out against the NAR,
but if Doku can survive once more,
doing something that Doran could not,
it's an impressive feat and gives a ton of confidence
for Lyon in this series.
Yeah, you always honor your top laners
that are going into an annoying range matchup.
He didn't go that far down,
and then he saw a big impact in those team fights
at those dragons, getting into the mix of it.
So, let's see, can G2 bounce back here?
They have been rewarded previously here
with the counter picks from Broken Blade,
and Schumann on his Pantheon, could be huge.
Another quick point I have on Dokla
is he's almost the opposite archetype of player
that usually get prioritized,
like so many players that come in nowadays
are just these incredible laners
who then struggle to side lane and team fight effectively.
But Dokla, to his own admission,
is a very average laner in most situations,
but he knows how to win the game.
He plays side lanes well, he recovers in game well,
and he team fights great.
So I think that's why Lyon is okay saying,
okay, we're gonna blind pick you, the NAR,
we know the Yasuo is coming,
even if you fall behind, you trust me.
Yeah, and so you see there,
Inspired is splitting the map because of the counter pick.
So this is their choice to deal with the Yasuo counter pick.
BB has information though,
you saw that the ward from G2 was placed after the Lyon ward.
So they saw it, plus they know that the ward,
The other ward is there, and Broken Blade off that push, he is kind of hovering back.
He kind of knows this is happening.
He's a nervous man.
And look, we saw the head-to-head between Inspired and Caps, a ton of history, domestically,
a lot of best of ones.
But in the best of fives, Inspired has the edge, courtesy of that 3-0 that we saw at
MSI last year.
And now Ile's getting things kicked off, extending the trade just a little bit.
It's common for Berserker, so we know we will be seeing a bit more poke.
Skimoan on the way, and Aegis is all for movement speed.
Looking to lock up Berserker.
Berserker, no cleanse.
Importantly, Ile's trying to stop anything else from going down.
The Flash isn't even going to save him. First blood for G2 Esport.
Beautiful gank for G2 for Skumon with perfect information.
They knew Inspire was up on the topside. Counter-jundling.
So they had way to second out of it.
3-0 tiles. TP back in. They're hoping to get a bit more.
That's a slow TP. Empowered Spear is going to be there.
That's a very slow TP. But now Inspire is hoping to find the double.
Berserker on the way and they'll at least get one. Flash out from Skumon.
Mind field to slow them down.
If Skumon gets out, it's still a good trade.
But if he doesn't, they're in trouble.
Han's on the body blocking the Q. Going in.
Skumann getting lower, the acres of salt up in the nick of time just barely makes it out.
That's so huge for G2 right there. Hansama still has his TP as well.
Almost a disaster for Lyme there as they attempt to extend the play
because the beginning of that play was pretty poor.
They know they're getting map split on and they take very aggressive 2v2 trades
without combat summoner spells, so a good start for that G2 bot lane and Skumann.
Hansama sent bot lane to catch the wave. Now it's the broad wandering in the mid,
but inspired to your first 3v2 in the Gavir line.
Does have the flash, wants to hook to the wall to escape,
but Lyon are just going to respect it.
Good read from Isles to be exactly where Labrov
was setting up St. Now to push out this wave
and an excellent sidestep on the hook.
Yeah, so nice.
Okay, so Scumont has a lot of options now,
especially with Labrov still mid.
I mean, it's only Isles giving St. the confidence here
to stay in the mid.
Inspired waiting over the wall,
starting to walk towards red,
immediately turns his attention elsewhere,
trying to cover his mid laner,
St. Getting lower and lower.
Catches to be careful.
Nice back step.
I'm not sure if he spotted Inspire, but the man just hold on,
forces the Flash out from Isles to a stake.
G2 getting the better of Lyon in that brief exchange.
And Inspire was finishing up the Raptors there,
so he's in the area to save the play as well.
And they get the Flashes out though.
So both supports with no Flashes.
Now, definitely very vulnerable,
but we have to look at Scumon and how he continues this game.
I do like that call.
Go for the first blood on bottom side.
Really get them snowballing.
And it was just after the Braven Hunts,
I'ma have gotten a great trade.
hook combination into satchel charge combo into explosive bomb there from Hans and that
is definitely what they want to see.
And really accelerating the pace of this game.
I mean at the time of that mid game, Schumann was at 12 CS, but he clearly impacted the map.
He'd helped win the bot lane and didn't quite get St. Splash, but still managed to draw
them a lot of pressure there.
She too, doing what they can of course.
Both supports leaving so much means a lot of solo XP for Berserker and Hansama.
One of the nice things about the lethality varus is he uses level ups and skill points almost as well as mages do
So normally we'd see a big discrepancy level 3 and Q for Han Samas a big damage bike
It's not a big damage bike for a lot of 80 carries
But it is for the varus with help which helps keep this push battle pretty close
Yeah, as we see it directly in the middle of the lane and both
Supports hovering on their brush because they know the jungler was gonna have a he got a shot on
He's in the mega still though, it's fired on the way up.
Skumon though, such a low health bar.
And this means Lyon are taking the fight.
Level six for Broca Blade hoping to get something back.
Stacking the Q3 up, needs to lock up Dokla.
He flies backwards.
Broca Blade is nasty with it.
Are you kidding me?
Dokla though wants to turn it back, has the advantage.
Broca Blade running for his life.
He just can't dance around those autos.
And it's Dokla who strikes back.
The teleport was a bait.
Dokla had just a bit of range left on the way.
So, Tokla had just a bit of rage left on that Meganar that landed the CC to set up Inspired.
That is one hell of a wallop on the arrival of the teleport, just the remnants of the Meganar coming in.
And that surprised him a bit. Plus, the timing of Inspired was right there at the arrival.
So, Tokla goes back as he's about to transform into Mega.
And then look at the bar as it's ticking down, ticking down, coming back from the fountain.
He still barely has the Mega.
Look at the vision as well like now inspires and vision as they're already stunned
So they're completely committed to the play they managed to shut him down early
But credit to broken blade for turning this back into a one-for-one
Yeah, clean from broken blade gets a combination onto inspired he went for the level six focus on the minions gets it gets the
Another keep it at the wall is there though. Don't couldn't use all the previous fight broken. What's again? He has been broken
Big dokes with the gnar, building on the gnar game that he had a couple of games ago.
He was already down, broken blade had the kill from the last fight, now 2-0-1, no TP
on the yaw so he's going to be able to shove that in and he's going to lose a whole another
wave and try and snowball this gnar game.
And for the second game in a row it's the counter pick, it's supposed to be the strong
lane for broken blade and initially it looked alright but it is so quickly falling apart.
Look at that XP chart, pulling further and further ahead, almost a full-level overbroken
blade in that top lane 1v1.
It is a bloodbath, North America versus Europe here, and they are throwing hands.
Both junglers getting very active, and now you have Schumann level 6.
Where is this Pantheon ult going to go?
Everybody still has flashes basically online, safe for their support, of course, and mid
lane is the battlefield.
On that thought, I'm watching the replay, there's two fights happening at the same time,
You can see the 1v1, but LeBron, now with backup from this jungler, wants to make this happen.
Nice flyback coming from the same. Excellent mechanics from his pie against LeBron.
Low, Ile's also on the way in, and now it's G2 on the retreat.
TP coming in, Dokla on the side.
All five of Lyon have arrived to the play, and G2 forced to run back to their own jungle.
Nowhere left to go, it's the forest! Out of nowhere with the Steel Chair!
Yeah, and even Berserker teleports mid and uses the flash with the ulti
to help secure the extra kill lying in snowballing.
Everyone on Lyon assembles in mid lane to make that happen 1.3 K is the advantage now
All broken blade can get back is a single plate as inspired turns his sights on the grubs
Everything going in the favor of Lyon broken blade has to be careful about stepping forward uncertain about how many members are still lurking on the top side of the map
Isles starting and stopping that recall. We look back at this play g2
over committing we're not ready for the response I mean this Victor all into the
inspired kick just chunks them and buys enough time for the rest of wine to
arrive yeah I was looking for a good angle for the caps ulti but inspired to
the early kick and so that's it never really got a good you know angle for his
old early on and then at this point it's just way too late because yeah they've
already chased him down and so with the pantheon ultimate being used that we
we were looking for, it is again going the way of Lyon with the early pressure. Dragon
though for G2, they're going to be able to claim it this time around.
Should be theirs as inspired, had to buy items, go back through his jungle and the lanes reset.
So good job by G2 to still read the tempo of the game and know what they can take.
This Lyon, building that gold advantage, something we've seen them do before, willing
to sacrifice drakes, willing to sacrifice a lot of objectives just to get the gold in
in their favor, often amounts in a lot of these stronger team
bites.
And you can see G2 have the idea of how they
want to play their composition, but can't get all those cool
downs synced.
And if one of them goes around, they
don't really have the damage to burst out that member.
The extended plays is still very heavily favoring Lyon,
especially until Cap gets that first item completed.
The Casio damage just really not there.
Yeah, everyone on Lyon does need
to make sure to stay calm and play on the right timers.
Just because a few fights went their way,
it can just snap back, especially now
that Doka has this 250 gold bounty.
If he gets a little bit crazy, he can get shot down right away
when he's in the middle, and you can even
see that LeBron is right up there looking for a fight.
No club out to go, Maga.
Isles in the area though, inspired is also on the way.
It's a disaster for G2.
Everybody from Lyon is once again right where they need to be.
Team play for Lyon and a Maga NAR.
Drake goes, Maga NAR again.
G2 decide to engage on it.
Now Lyon following the play.
What's done?
Inspired to keep on take the same angle on the blast con scheme on still gonna throw a spear on the way out
But it is a 2.5k gold lead game one felt bloodless until the late game
There was not a lot of action
But lion have upped the pace of this game and are looking even more dominant absolutely
I feel like g2 are the first ones to go for that early gank and then since then lion has just been
Matching the pace that g2 had early inspired now trying to get some of that experience back while pushing
You went up the jungle to steal his red and the lion map play has just been exceptional with the way they've been moving around
G2 I will say I do like zig scaling more than lethality Paris
Yeah, now I have to leave that a virus has been nerfed just so many times
We'll see if on some now getting his blackfire torch, you know on his first item here
Can this zig's damage make one of those long follow-up plays and coin based gold grind?
You can see 700 more gold just from kills for Doku with that 303 score already, 900 gold lead overall.
Sometimes comfort is better than counterpicks again.
G2 hopefully still have their head in this game.
If not, they'll be thinking about that first play that went awry.
The moment that that counterpick fell apart.
They're still trying to get active on the map, but as they fall further and further behind in gold,
the angles, the options get more and more limited.
And their angles are looking towards mid right now.
Everybody from G2 was hovering triple control wards from them.
from them and St. smells it so much he's all the way back to the secondary
tower until Isles gets here to help defend him on the timer there.
Remaining control, I think Inspired's timing has been quite good this this game as
well you know him going to follow up on these plays. Talk about timing as well
like every second counting on that topside play when Megan are from Dohkla
had just barely you know the last second of it expiring just as Inspired also
to get there for that teleport return play.
These small timings have really made big differences.
I mean, there's so much trust involved in that play, right?
That Dokla is very confident he'll go in on Mega
because Inspired is spending all that time,
and we know how much he cares about efficiency.
I thought it was really interesting.
We heard Inspired say that he really trusts his laners
at this international event.
He said last year on FlyQuest there were times,
especially the team was kind of falling apart at Worlds,
that every lane was on fire
and he felt like he had to flip the game.
But here, he feels like he can just make the right play.
And we're seeing that calm play and that trust prove itself so far in this G2 series.
That trust really paying off, because remember it was difficult for these laners
at a lot of the earlier stages of this tournament.
A lot of those early bestifies, but now they're sitting pretty incredibly comfortable in this game.
Two, two level damage. A lot of play is going to contest.
G3 ready to go for broken blade. Not going to get the angle!
He's dizzy! He can do nothing!
Big Dokes dunks him down once again!
That's beautiful. That was perfect.
perfect. Doka and inspired. Who cares about the wind wall? Another one for Dokes.
Nice shoot there from inspired going in and broken blade down on this pick that has been focused so heavily.
Another counter pick foiled.
He's too big guys please. Take it please. Make it smaller.
Dokes is too big. Please have mercy.
It's because Broken Blade gains so much size from the T1 series, that Docla is just able to...
It's an infinitely stacking buff, right?
Yes, they're just going back, like Heartsteel, Mundo, Tank, Mk. Whatever.
They both just keep getting larger.
But unfortunately, Docla, very far ahead, looking like the much bigger Dokes on this particular one,
is G2 still setting up these picks, looking for these angles.
You guys highlighted it well in tracks.
You have the Pantheon, you have LeBrav on the Nautilus.
There is a world where you can find these quick picks,
but it's really a credit to Lyon that they haven't given any of those angles to G2.
Yeah, and I think if we think about the way this game will scale,
Saints is actually a very important player in this game because it's very heavy physical damage for Lyon.
So if we just forecast it out to late game, having strong AP damage would be very important
in how G2 will able to kill him. But also, Lyon with this 3000 gold lead,
I don't love that they're just giving over the second drake.
They clearly have a lot of confidence in their ability to play with the gold lead,
But G2, you should take those two drinks for sure.
Happy to fight for it.
I imagine the third drinks will receive a little bit more
of a contest.
Yep.
And to your point earlier with Mountain Soul
potentially on the board, even if G2 don't have a true tank,
it will still be really valuable against that single AP
threat, just to up those baseline resistances.
Caps playing with a lot of respect to it.
There's no semi-globles on the side of Lyon,
but they've been so diligent in finding these moments,
these opportunities that he's still just
going to back away on the top side.
I think it's just a hover play because they don't have eyes
on the Pantheon, so they don't know if that's going to come in.
So ensure that this Victor that you said is going to be so
critical and 100% agree is going to be able to safely take
the side. But I also really love what they did. They're giving
the gold to Saints Victor like Doku was far enough ahead. He
could have taken the first turn and continue to snowball, but
they know like OK, the Victor is going to use the gold better
than the NAR. So if they have the choice, let's give it to
Saint and they did so.
Really comfortable position for lion again. The third Drake really
the only thing that feels like they have to contest everything
Everything else they can take their time there in such a comfortable spot the plays that they've made on their own have been good the plays
That they have punished for g2 when they've been overeager have also turned in their favor
So with a 4k gold advantage with the Herald falling
Uncontested lion setup to dominate in this midgame. It's on g2 to look for those little angles those tiny moments where they can pick off a key
member on the side of lion
Doka inspired saint all rocking those bounties on their heads potential targets for g2 to try and take down
Yeah, I think they really should try and focus on a way to inhibit the income from
St. Like if especially if they can if they can take him down take away his flash or
something make it harder for him to farm. The victor the victor scaling
definitely is paramount. Yeah, they're also not even pushing that aggressively yet.
Lyon really just trying to play on the right timers. Jogla knows he can kind of
zone broken blade off and even in the LCS Lyon would freeze more waves and kind of
any other team. There'd be a lot of games where they would just intentionally
slow the pace of the game down even if they had a goal to damage. So like you
said earlier, Dracos, I really expect them to fight that third Drake, but they
don't need to continue to make crazy plays because they're confident in their
ability to win two fights. I'm happy to potentially expose G2 to risk by forcing
them to come up and respond to these waves. You see Isle's already on the way
down. If they can chip away at a few of those key cooldowns from G2, leverage
some of the advantage they have to take a bit more space as they're doing now.
Zenith player ready to go. Q flash forward. Inspired, looking for a bit of setup.
Broken blade has to flash over the wall. Go broad, not able to do anything.
It's the R-flash from Inspired! Again, the mechanics are too damn clean!
I guess they can also just do that. So they're confident in that play, Inspired.
I'm sorry, I wasn't familiar with your Lee Sin game.
Where's the apology form, Chad?
Ripped it out, I'll sign it, I'll give it my Social Security number, credit card number.
Take what you want. I'll accept the fine. Inspired, you're popping off.
Completely dominant that topside top jungle not often the story of Lyon we talked so much about berserker and inspired it was saint in the
Previous game Bulkla credit for weathering the storm, but really it is the inspired and doklah show now here in game two
For a big performance to take us to match point and so often we look back at these matches broken blade on the way
And look at the stack to Q3 steam on ready to get kicked off of it was in response TP
They get doklah's flash and I think that's the most they can hope for g2 just gonna back away
Yeah, they really wanted that big bounty. That's 525 gold. So don't go just flashed away made sure that wasn't a disaster now
They're trying to report you can hold this turret either. So g2
tpn
line commit their resources in response and now the tier one falls
Sonic wave not going to turn into a resonating strike mind and body saying no on that one. I
Will say at the very least as we have another game
Meaning you have Altie to get the Flash out of Han's 2.
Everything is going in the favor of Lyon.
I just don't know if G2 are going to be able to contest with all these summoners and Alties just getting chipped away at.
Both teams have the same idea.
With the Dragon, you know, it was about a minute and 20 seconds away at the time.
G2 say, hey, we're going to go for the Flash off of Dokla.
We need to get this Flash away from Meganar so he doesn't destroy us in the fight.
They do that, but then Isle's also finding the Flash here now off of Han's Sama.
and the approach for Lyon to this Drake is already lit up with that vision.
It's so important for G2 to be mentally strong in this situation.
This has to be so frustrating. All the early plays you tried to make did not work out.
Your counter pick is not working out and we've seen so many NA versus EU 3-0s.
G2 do not want to add their name to that list any further.
It happened once with FlyQuest and the momentum in favor of Lyon right now
seems just a little unstoppable.
Kobe, would there be a reason that the Rob is just sitting on an
unupgraded support world atlas?
Because he's had it for a while.
There's not some tech.
Because, so this happened, like sometimes when you're really locked into something
or maybe you're a little tilted, you'll forget to do something like this.
But okay, he finally upgraded it.
He sat on it for about a minute,
which was just a little peculiar, but it's completed now, no worries.
Alright, he is going to have that blood song.
is going to add that little bit of extra burst image.
And maybe that does make the difference,
because Draco, as we keep on, we've
been looking from the very beginning with this comp.
Are they going to get one of these bursty plays?
And they are congregating around the top side of the map.
So they're thinking that Lion is taking dragon,
but Lion actually up here kind of answering it.
Saint does not have teleports, though,
and he is showing bottom lane.
She too.
Ready to potentially commit more members to the play,
but Doku not stepping up, not taking any trades,
even if he's ahead of caps in terms of gold doesn't want to take the risk and
now lion instead turning towards the mid lane.
Yeah lion is trying to make sure that their efficiency stays high don't want
to give an easy crop cross map play to g2 so saint ends up pushing that wave
out basing once again and now they will go to take this.
Fired already starting it Baron has spawned as well lion with a 6k gold lead
taking their sweet time this is the lion comfort zone no pressure on them to do
Anything on the map looking for little advantages chipping away slowly at g2 in this game
Continuing to extend that goal leads now denying sole point from g2 is Hans does what he can to use that ulti and just clear out
Some of these waves stop some of the pressure coming out of this lion lineup
Yeah, even invading the jungle lion now trying to take over the safe pathways of rotation between objectives
dragon taken away and
mid lane
Looks like it's gonna be the next target here. It's already so low that it's a pretty much one shot
And that's the last of your outer defenses now down for G2. Good spike.
The solar flare doesn't bit of work, but now it's Doku's locked up about to turn mini caps on the chase
Do you know this is their window to try to force a greater advantage?
Broke a blade on the side, but there's no one there to alley you but no one there to set up the knockup
So they're forced to back away happy to have that shutdown really smart smite there by skumon
Trapping the least in under the turret does not let inspired even flash away. They'll get that bouncy a straight one for me
That's way more gold in the favor of G2 and they try they were looking to make more out of it
You know rotating broken blade over trying to get the chase down
But they will be happy at the very least to get this shutdown. So here it is going in there are only a
756 health so scum on one shot there out and then they go into the CC chain to take down inspired and get the shut down
Onto that ziggs which does scale well and continues to be able to clear waves
It's always difficult to end the games into a zig so even if we may not be super confident in Hans Thomas mage play
He can definitely make this game last a while bot lane ziggs the other thing about mage's bottom lane
You get more gold and you get an extra item space in that death cap being so close
does spell a comeback avenue and that multiplier on the AP means that extra
item means even more than it might for an AD carry IE the equivalent multiplier
but you get capped at 100% crit right so need to see if Hans-Ama can get there
it's a tall task but hey if you have to stall a game you highlighted it well
yet a control mage is pretty much the best way to do it they'll still have the
pick potential from the Pantheon Yasuo and Nautilus but line is still gonna be
pretty comfortable with their position in the game. We just got to see if they're able to close it.
The early drakes that G2 was able to secure, just make sure that the game can go quite late.
They have the wave clear, and then they're also greatly delaying the potential soul from Lyon.
So Lyon's going to have to play very well because this went out.
Yeah, and I think their biggest tool is going to be these side lanes with Dokuha having this nice advantage over Broken Blade.
Of course, with all the focus that inspired and the rest of Lion have taken towards this Yasuo counterpicking, keeping Broken Blade down,
does make those side lanes for G2 a lot more difficult to play.
Tokla.
Look through.
On the wall up, yeah.
All pop there.
Now he's going to get some plates, Wave immediately going to get deleted, that's the Solar Flare.
Skiumon waiting for a bit more time, hasn't been able to pop the Aegis Assault, can block some of the fall off damage now, the wind wall there as well.
So this is all during the swoop was for caps. Caps is getting gold for G2 on the other side of the map.
They're playing three lanes at this time while Lion only playing the two.
Rob fishing. They'd be hoping to catch someone on a sloppy recall again. Lion very much grouped up.
You highlighted it well. Mid lane the main focus moving up now towards caps or at least maybe just trying to control Baron vision.
With a cast here on the enemy team, a rapid Baron always has to be taken into account.
And I really like the way G2 has been able to stall this game out, and you know, even if the gold has stayed at 4,000, the percentage of the gold difference decreases as every CS is acquired by G2, so they're not that far behind in items when we do see a fight.
I mean, looking at Cap's completed Saras, the upgraded Mercury treads, he's going to be able to pump out a good amount of sustained damage if G2 decides to find a fight.
Again, the Ziggs with the multiplier with the death cap done, you take that any day over
these nerfed Varus, you know, damage here that you do have as a comparison, even with
the spell shield here picked up for berserker.
You can also say if you find really good value out of the CC of the Varus ultimate, sometimes
that can really change teamfights there too.
So it's not a one to one as far as just comparing the damages, but we'll see at the approach
to the next fight if they're able to get some poke damage done as well.
Of course, max rank, you know, face damage, still okay on that Varus Q, but as you get
later it is the bonus AD scaling that was hit.
Full charge used to be 150% of that bonus AD, now it's only 120.
And those numbers start to add up an extended fight.
So often without, Varus is kind of determined if you can hit those abilities or not.
Handguk coming down under Berserker, immediate ghostblade to take him away.
Saint now following, they're looking for a disengagement, Ios is recommitted to the
fight.
My eyes are there to stop him getting out.
Broken blade up on the side, trying to make a difference.
to stop any potential follow-up.
Now he will retreat as well.
An excellent pick for G2.
Down goes Isles.
The broken blade injured.
And that's what the Drake up right now.
So I feel like Lyon is potentially
going to have to concede this.
St. Anne Berserker could teleport back in.
Now the Inspired is here.
And Doku about to hit Mega.
Doku about to hit Mega.
Pooked in.
Wall up there.
He's trying to make his way out.
They're trying to burn him down so he can't get the ulti.
Doku being low.
The Mega going to fade away.
Lyon, it looks like going to back off of this one.
Willing to concede.
Soulpoint, they don't want to risk the fight.
G2, huge fast play for them.
They get the pick, they see them in the river,
they do not hesitate,
and they get themselves a dragon soul point
that Mountain Soul, Dracos, is ever so close.
This is just so well done by G2
using the Pantheon Ultimate to create the numbers advantage.
And after St. Flash, the way that means Ios is trapped in here,
does decide to go back in potentially,
should have flashed away,
because this is the numbers advantage the entire time for G2.
Exactly, it's all because Inspired was up on the top side of the map for the Leafs in there, so he was never there in G2.
They choose their moments. They're teleporting in at the same time as the Pantheon Ultimate.
They go for the lockup and calmly get themselves to their wink on here.
Mountain Soul on the table, getting tense.
That should give G2 a lot of confidence with Soulpoint, and just the way that extended fight went.
They got the Flash out of Dekla, they got the Flash out of Saint, they got the Flash out of Isle.
So now if they land another hook or if Scumon uses his next ult and a timer,
maybe they can get that one shot on an important player.
And as we said before, the item gap is kind of non-existent in this game.
Yeah, and I think their dream is to one shot same.
The victor here with no flash or the flash out of the river in the previous one.
And with a lot of the flash advantages to the side of G2,
they have a lot of playmaking, but there's still a decent amount of time till that dragon.
So there is time to work with to try and make side lane picks and try and use a pantheon ultimate and see if you can fish around for a little bit more before the full commit.
Very playable situation now for G2B sports again, respect still has to be paid to inspired in Doku finishing up that third item that G4 inspired.
The previous play you highlighted it well right the reason it works out is Doku doesn't get to have that dream gnar moment where you're knocking four people into the wall and that's what can happen if G2 get to start a fight on their terms.
But again, with a lot of these side lane threats, with how powerful Dokla is now, it's difficult for G2 to find those angles without use of that Pantheon Ultimate.
Yeah, it's very scary as far as the pick potential. And when you position your zigs in mid lane here for Hansama, he's level 16 now,
and the ultimate is all that you need to add on top of any of the CC from the Nautilus from the Pantheon.
So you can see Lyon are grouping together, trying to move cautiously around that mid lane.
They know the potential with all that vision control set up for G2. It is very dangerous
I mean line has to overload the mid lane just to make something happen to be able to move into the jungle right now
So they've even lost vision on the baron area. This game is feeling more and more
Like an even game just by the way the map is moving and kind of ignoring what we see on the goal
I'm doing what they can to hold on to mid-prior but again just the two minutes and tell this
Soul potential soul for G2 will spawn.
Detention continues to grow as neither team feels like they're in a good spot.
Forced to baron, but now Pantheon heading bot, and Dokla running for his life.
Inspired, just reset.
A tiny window now for G2 as the Mega Inferno bomb is laid down on top.
Dokla running for his life.
Slazbo there, now wants to turn it with the Mega Knar, hits the wall up on the one.
Hoping to find the Knar, but only connects onto two, and down goes Dokla.
The shutdown for Caps.
The side lane pick that they were looking for.
The Pantheon ult comes in, and Dokla, no flash.
There's no way he can get out of this one.
Caps uses his advantage to make sure of it.
He flashes forward to make sure they get my asthma
and they get the kill ahead of time.
Saints has gone to split pusher in that time though.
They tried to get something cross map.
He gets the minion wave at the very least
up to the top tower.
G2 though gonna take control of this Baron area.
Joklis still dead for another 30 seconds
and Cassio if he kills Baron so fast.
G2 hiding in the darkness.
You can see Lyon don't have the best vision set up.
You highlighted it well.
The Cassio tearing through the Baron but inspired.
Can he take the 50-50? Will G2 take the risk?
More importantly, Berserker, ulti connecting under LeBrov.
The follow-up, not quite going to connect to the Hunts on LeBrov.
Getting lower, sonic wave connecting.
Resonates, working the way up. The flash!
His butt is safe! The instantaneous on is the seeker, keeping him standing!
Hunts on was blinking out far, being zoned away now!
Inspired, looking for the follow-up.
Ready to ward off over the stall.
Ready to turn it back! But Hunts on must still live for an extra moment.
Porting down Isles, not quite able to finish it.
Let the saster of a sapsle charge!
Turns into two for Lyon!
Skulmont and Cap, the last ones left standing, but this fight is all Lyon!
The triple for Saints!
Saints and Inspire come up clutch!
The victor gets the early kills, teleports in behind him, but it is inspired with his fearlessness chasing them down.
I think that is just so well communicated from Lyon.
They call for the Varus into the Leona to buy time for Saints to get there.
They CC chain the Nautilus and delay until they can get their over-the-wall the victor ultimate and he was ready with his
Zonjas.
Lion looking to finish it here. Don't want to give any more time to G2 Esports.
G2 might have taken down the back-to-back World Champions, but they're on the cusp of losing back-to-back games against the best in the LC-S.
We've already seen under reverse sweep here from G2. They'll have to do it again
Azale when you're up you're up though, right?
When you're right, you're right. You know last year I called the 3-0 this year. I called the 3-0
What can you say it gets a little sad at a certain point, you know, you should rip me apart for being a no-one believer
Watch you down. Where are you now?
In the ground six feet under
under 12 because it's been doubly bad to be honest it is not look good for g2 now it's been a
Give it again
I just love the fact that it's docla showing up right because we talked so much about broken blades
counterpicks and how important they were against g2 and this gnar we saw him have a really big game
on it already at this tournament, but it's I mean, I just love Douglas so so much. His
story is so interesting where he keeps kind of getting benched or like kicked off. Yeah,
needs to find another home. The rest of the castle was brought in right like and he showed
the f up in this game. Always the bridesmaid never the black. But he is showing up here,
especially in this game too and I'm mad because during the series against T1 he was
Rocketblade leading the show against Doran and here I feel like he doesn't even exist man in his match-up he's so sad.
That's the thing like it's sure inspired was up there a little bit but Doku was a little bit.
But before that Doku was killing BB in the Wombie one like Doku is outperforming on the
NAR and outperforming honestly in both game one and game two like he played well in the
their next impresses and if you really didn't like maybe get a lead there and now coming into this game as well
He just blew broken bit out of water
Counterpicker Noss and this is this is why I talked so much about prep and we even got to see the prep in game in every second
Counts and thanks to the libel Cisco network the top lane just goes and goes and goes
And the beautiful thing about this is he teeped so aggressively because inspired was behind him and because he still had mega
So the fact that he arrives in Mega, throws down the Wallop, Schumann had used the Aegis
Assault offensively, which meant he had no recourse in that fight, and then the 1v1,
the solo Bolo, Dokiwara, giving him the business.
Yeah, the fact that you didn't even have the last breath there really set it up perfectly,
Dokiwara.
Understanding?
Here, what?
I was so confused.
Like, we know that line of left mids, and we're like, we can 2v2 this, like, nothing
can go wrong against the Femnir.
I was just about to hit mega to right like that was the thing that I really loved as they played
So well around
Dokla's mega usage and that's a team thing as well right like that's not only Dokla playing really well individually
But it's the team
Tracking and making sure and this is consistent from his previous nar performance as well where I also thought they used his rage bar
really well. Also Shadow to inspired in so many of these clips. This man was everywhere
supporting Dokla and styling on it. This looked like a leasing montage like we're literally
getting ticked off right now. And we know that. And we had the ass on. We know that
Insider is deadly on Leasing but he's been deadly when it comes to smashing Europeans
hope time and time again as well. We were talking about it last year with FlyQuest.
He's doing it again this time around with a different team with Lion. He's he and Dokla
are running the show right now. This is not the first time that EU is let down by some kind of
Lions, but I feel like it's just gonna get worse and worse G2 turning into a punk in this time
around. I will say though, you know, take my bias hat off. I think G2 is a team that is extremely
mentally strong. We saw them actually reverse sweep against top. We've seen them pull off,
here's some crazy upsets, some crazy, you know, momentum shifts. And I do think if I am G2,
I'm betting it all on caps. Give him the matchup, send everything mid lane and get this man to take
you to the promised land. I actually have some real time footage of how it feels to be a European
fan right now if we can check it out. Jokes aside, G2, you need to reset. This is how they're doing
it backstage with DAGDA. Give us some hopes. Once again, if there's any, G2 reverse swept four
times in their history, two of them were this year. Do we think they can do it again here? I
mean, there has to be the one thing that you hold on to, but it doesn't really feel like we're seeing
the same G2 that we got to see against like the top eSports or the T1s. Like we're not getting
LeBron out on the map. Skimond isn't thinking of putting him as well as he could. Bibi's been
found out in the top lane. It is looking dire. I think we have to try and find some sort of
stability there. Easy matchup for Bibi in the top lane, try and get caps going, but try and get
LeBron out of the bottom lane. Like he has been so good when he's on the barred, when he's on these
roam picks, we just haven't seen it this year. You know, a wise lady once said that it starts
with success. It starts with overcoming your failure and nothing represents more this than
Lion right now. There are two and they only need one more time to make it happen.
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I mean, the second match was really intense. It was 2-0.
What happened, Sean?
I don't know! I'm so sad!
I won the second match.
It wasn't good, but G2 reversed WAPTES.
So, don't make me laugh.
This, this, we're moving.
Yeah! Oh my god.
They're going to do a competition.
So, we have a G2 fan and a Ryan fan.
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Huh?
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Rock, paper, scissors!
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G2 might have taken down the back-to-back world champions,
but they're on the cusp of losing back-to-back games
against the best in the LCS.
Welcome back to MSI 2026,
where the mood is at an all-time high in the G2 camp,
because they've reversed swap before,
and they're certainly going to do it again.
Listen, certainly.
Of teams that reverse sweep, G2 doesn't do it more often.
and they have four reverse reaps in their organization's history.
They have two in the last month.
They did it in the LEC playoffs.
They've done it at this MSI.
So this is not a place of comfort for Lyon to be like,
oh, we're two up, surely we close them out.
They have to continue to play well.
It's extreme nerves, Draco.
Yeah, it's extreme nerves.
There's a mental fortitude that has to happen.
Because remember, we've never had in right international history
a fifth game in an EU versus NA Best of Five.
We've gotten close.
That's crazy.
It was TL versus Fanatic, although the series was
horrendously not close.
That was four games at the very least.
There's a lot of 3-0s.
But four is close to five.
Four is close to five.
So Jason Thumbers, which will take is coming into this game.
G2 choosing blue side, line changing second pick,
wanting that counter pick for the top side.
And every counter pick that G2 have been able to grab
really has not worked out for them thus far.
And G2 has buried their bans a little bit
throughout this series.
They've been Jason every game and not turning every game
and crucially have left it open this time.
They were giving respect to Dope as Jason.
But this is actually the pick that I'd identified,
Dracos between games of I think g2 should let dope the play it because they might be able to neutralize it
I think that's the gambit they're taking and
G2
This counterfeit thing you know Ryan is gonna have to counterfeit this time around so we'll see what don't go does because don't
Let's done such a good job without it in the top lane thus far and now g2 are going to have the first pick
instead
BBJs or CapsJs or SkuMonJs, I don't see a Jace this...
I mean they could, they could, they're all viable.
One of the biggest criticisms.
Levied against G2 in Meta's past has been that Broken Blade does not play Rumble,
and that he does not play Jace.
While he has littered some games in there to kind of contest that narrative,
it is not considered one of his strong picks, his signature picks, or even one of his good picks.
So to bet it on a potential top-land race
is a hugely ballsy move for G2.
But remember, after the disaster versus HLE,
they bet on BB against T1, and it absolutely paid off.
They might be doing the same here.
And my favorite iteration of G2,
the most successful iteration,
was when they were a flexing pike in all five roles,
and even the coaches were playing.
And so we'll see as they keep it very flexible early on.
But still, the payment for that chase is quite big.
RISE here is looking very good with the current champions out of Fearless and they also are
going to get extra side lane pressure with a bar.
So it's kind of a classic combo having the RISE and the bar really early on does make
your mid game.
You have a lot of leeway inside lanes.
I'm just...
Well, it's not a jungle, Chase.
I'm still surprised that...
And it's not a mid lane, Chase.
That's probably a play, Chase, guaranteed.
If this wasn't MSI where teams look at Scion's win rate and see that it's 0-9,
Doku would lock Scion right here because it's double AD top jungle
and he would just play to neutralize it, but they might just drop him to 4-5
to secure the bottom lane, which as, again, we were discussing, Dracos,
the bot lane for Lyon has kind of taken Han's Sama and the Braw out of this series
and the Braw has been such a big playmaker when G2 is at their best
is because Han's and the Braw are like pushing the tempo truly to getting things to happen
and they haven't been in yet this series so again high party by Lyon on their bot 2v2.
I do want to point out Caps is a pentakill already at this tournament on this champion,
Tracos. I appreciate you guys. That's gotta give you something. To give me a lot of the silver
linings, there might even be some gold linings on this particular cloud and Caps on this
Indra is one of them. Now with the Caitlyn locked in, I'm curious if Lyon will even spend a ban on
the mel, right? Not something again that we associate Hans Samuels, but has been a very
conventional and very powerful answer. This card would work really well with Mel Bon.
But, that's a good call out.
They have exactly the topside that you would want to have WAP mid bot.
The problem is, we know these teams have scrims, and if Haunts didn't pick Mel and those scrims,
I think Lion are willing to take the gamble that he's not about to pick it on stage.
I mean, Delusion ban already blocks Delusion Helio, Varus is already gone, he'd have like
Jin left.
I kind of like the Mel ban.
Just to be safe, just because compositionally, like even if G2 is not their strength, it's
It's scary for Lyme.
Their Mal can be vulnerable to the Bard instead of Kiana.
They're not scared at all.
Not scared after the previous mage game they face down.
And they feel it's more adequate to take away playmaking from LeBrav, you know?
That Rakan into the Bard option.
So is it another good denial?
Really don't want to give inspired to Kiana.
A champion who can really pull off along those early ganks.
made a contest at a time where Scumon would still really prefer to farm until 6.
They're baiting out from Lyon, where they want to lock in. Pretty comfortable with their bot lane 2v2.
And the topside wide open for them. They know what they're playing against in that regard.
Trundle against the double immobile champions of the Syntra and the Jayce.
They get a lot of value out of the pillar.
I pillar value. It's an okay pick into the Wukong. Not incredible, but
They're just they're just going okay with hyper scaling bot lane. Okay. Yeah, no majors. No, but they don't want to see majors again
They're not gonna go out of this tournament playing Ziggs now. That's for sure
You know, Lulu the lock in for Hansen LeBrov at match point and pre six
They have to be careful because it post six you know, I have some play against the Thunder pillar
but pre-six it can be really tricky. If Inspire gets active early on, that said,
the Rob looks fantastic on this lube the last time we saw it.
York would be an angle if he wants to.
Dokla has played York in the past, but Olaf hover is...
It's just in! It's Olaf!
Olaf does so well into all the CC. The Lulu polymorph don't care.
The spinning Lukong gonna run right past them.
Dokla, they're putting all their faith in big dokes.
He has had the advantage in the top lane matchup.
This series and they're going to say it will continue
This year for docla one Olaf game in his
480 career games we have on record so it he's definitely poor for this
But he will have definitely played it in solo queue be comfortable with the pick and it fits the comp and what line has done this year with
Docla in
Split one playoffs for LCS walking and a split two
They're very comfortable throwing him on any counter pick and they trust him to execute and inspired is on trundle a
a very strong duelist.
Before Wukong gets to level six,
I wanna see where Inspired goes,
how he wants to put some pressure here,
because jungle can really make the difference
in these match-up, you know,
picking the whole off into the chase.
If your jungle is constantly invading,
marking this Wukong, chasing this Wukong away,
then you can have a lot more pressure
and threaten all ins yourself.
Game one, a slow pace, relatively.
Game two was getting faster and faster,
more in favor of Lyon.
Game three with this trundle early on potentially this Olaf looking towards topside
Like it even faster our G2 ready for that pace of play. We talked about the scaling of the unara is there
Sinja strong early has good setup, but you got a loop on who wants to farm
G2 can have a tough time and navigating this early game as we load into game three lying up to zero
Looking for the clean sweep against the G2 who just took down T1
And if I think about the way that G2 could win this game, it would be Caps getting mid
Pryo over St with the rage advantage, but more importantly, it's Han Sama getting fed.
If they can just corner this bot lane through mid Pryo, jungle, and permanent push and Han
Sama gets strong enough, he could shred through the front.
Have some St trading.
The media goes coming out from St, looking to extend his advantage.
Nice ward placed.
Giving information and we'll just back away.
Happy to potentially chip away at those pots or maybe get even an early TP.
those spots, humance, so much information in favor of Lyon.
That's because there's for the minions though.
He gets back for all three melees.
So even though he gets chased around,
the timing is OK for him.
Meanwhile, bottom line, all in all in.
Hanson, the full stack on the Q, nice.
Now we're up coming in for the cosmic binding on Isles.
Really saves that exchange.
Extremely important stun and lethal tempo on both 80 carries.
So these extended trades can be very powerful.
Exactly.
The level one of Unara is where you really have to worry about.
When everybody's on one ability and she can stack her Q, the chase down is terrifying, so inspired we were looking at what you're going to do with this early trundle.
And the answer is bot.
Level 1. Just now I'm going to take over to level 2. They're going to notice it, but it might be too late.
Q flash goes completely wide. LeBron still has access to the flash. They're trying to finish him out. First blood is there!
It's okay, Isles. They still got that kill. Even with the attempt.
Zoning Q, if he didn't sidestep, he's gonna die anyway. Totally fine. It goes over to Isle's unfortunate though
You'd love to have that kill on a berserker.
And Jack, what was it who said just a minute ago?
Was it that if G2 wanted to win this game they had to get their bot lane ahead?
Unfortunately, that is the exact opposite of what has happened. Inspired a level 2 gank on this trundle,
recognizing that window, recognizing what G2 might want to play for and shutting it down.
And this is one of the reasons that inspired his own to the region, whether he's on EG, FlyQuest, or Lion.
He identifies the wing condition of the game faster than anybody else and he will change his game for that in regular season
He's just the full clear guy not really letting you know his plans, but when it matters
That's when he's gonna pull off the two-camp gank right? That's not even a three-camp gank. That's way faster than anyone expected
He's probably never done that gank all year
But he pulls it out in this moment because he knows that's what the game requires
So the first time the series not playing towards the top side of the map not worried about it saying
We expect you to lose this one, but it's fine because it's been fine in every game prior to this one six one versus five one seven a
massive discrepancy and
Okay, all right, but we're already scared
That is definitely a large bicep on your screen right there
Doku has been massive bot side though. I'm talking about still trying to fight here
Build it more probably low man. Oh, is it a curse humon on the way up? Has it been the caster curse humon?
No in for a little bit more, a bit more poke damage, but Doklam managing to live conceives both sums, but happy to walk away with his life.
No TP though, so he's definitely going to lose a significant portion from that, and now be kind of stuck under his turret for quite a while, so doesn't get the kill, but a nice game cry Skiumon.
Yeah, large value there for Skiumon. The answer, the question is going to be then, what is Inspire going to do after crab? Can he actually get there to contest the raptors? Because the raptor, they have mid lane move.
It's actually going to push in bot again.
That's the portal.
LeBron and Hunts, I'm going to be in trouble again.
LeBron still has Flash from the previous play.
Azta's haunt.
He's going to be forced to burn it now,
and the damage is still coming in.
And it's going to be enough.
Isle's taking the kills.
Inspired.
Flash is forward.
I'll put the hook in.
Yeah, you kind of want to get a little bit like.
Guys, this is a mistake.
Two buttery, my walk.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is going to be fine.
It's fine.
They need this one.
They need to get the kill.
Undertower, Flash from Inspired goes back in.
We'll see about the ramifications of that as well, though,
because Caitlyn bar constant pushing, constant pressure.
Now, into the Yunara Lulu, we'll keep them down for the mid game.
Yeah, the kills would be better on Berserker,
but Han Sama being on 25 CS, no flash,
four and a half minutes into this game
is the point of those ganks by Inspire.
And I'd even rather have them on Inspire too,
because he is sacrificing camps to do these.
You know, he's investing in bot lane,
And he invested his flash there as well to go back under tower to get the job done.
And you know the Trundle, they do want him to have a good economy still in this game.
Yes, a lot of it is, hey, we're going to focus our Caitlyn Bard, get them to have some very
oppressive pushing and open up some roam timers for the Bard.
But you still also as Trundle, you always got to keep your own economy good as well.
Gentlemen, one of the lanes that's looking good in terms of trade is mid lane.
But unfortunately, because bot lane is going so well for Lyon, it means Isles has this extra
free time to roam in here and disrupt this PowerPoint.
We talked about the pen to kill for caps.
No doubt the most clutch player on this G2 lineup
might not matter if he's not able to find that 1v1 in lane.
Dope clip just now taking over to level six.
The traits thus far have been favoring Broken Blade,
but now that he can't use the Thundering Smash
to knock back the Olaf, it's going
to get a lot more difficult.
Yeah, still waiting on that flashing ghost
to come back up to be able to show real threat
towards Broken Blade's base.
Also a much different game that we're
going to be seeing here in terms of overall map plays.
Zero TPs from anybody online last game we had three so they were really flying all over the place now
They're gonna be a lot more isolated in their own ways back to the top lane now fired
Walking up definitely wants that one auto on the plate
So look at wukong as well
So yeah, this is interesting because he's wrapping around and is gonna place the deep control where they go for the ping here
Yes, thank you very much observers to try and get that information on inspires route
out.
Rapper on the mid, St. First on the push.
Rise waker at this point is still quite good.
See if we're going to have a hard time.
The first thing out of the rise, especially as he gets closer and closer
to competing that mid lane quest and the tier three boots,
to make sure she can make a big difference.
Trying to keep info on what skumon has taken,
is he the overload, just to poke at the rapper camp
but it doesn't connect to skumon's time.
Yeah, St. Even though he's down a little bit and CS,
still able to keep the pressure up in this lane.
tries to get a little bit of information for Inspire who's on his blue.
Bot lane, Berserker and Isle continuing to push up and to seal the tension in this game.
The explosion of early action in the favor of Lyon has slowed down a bit as they continue to build up these gold leads for Berserker.
Yeah, and a lot of the point that we were making about Inspire's early jungle power on the trundle over the Wukong.
Great.
Journey coming through. Heal for additional movements. He's walking up on someone.
Alteon through him as well. Stumon on the way in. Wants to start spinning.
Has to body block the shot. Inclusively does so. The play stops.
Stumon continuing to walk up. Realm warp on the way.
It means Saints on the way too. That's going to be a kill back for Stumon,
but he might just trade his life. Wants to take down his fire,
but does not have the damage. Berserker to finish it.
St. Hungry for more.
Yeah, St. Ghost and Roms. Look at the mid lane too.
They had Douglas walk down there. It's over vision. He lands the axe.
He's going to run to Caps. Slowed him down. Caps has the flash,
But I don't think there's really anywhere for him to go flashing finally away
But say it over the wall as well locked up the tower shot will not get them one in return
Saint making plays but lion shift everything down bottom lane to really overload and win those skirmishes
They're all on board with the mat movements
I mean they sent four people bottom to shift and then I was a berserker journey the cosmic binding connects
This is devastating the trap there as well. This man can't move
running back into the Tower of Lyon just to hit a plate,
just to take time to contemplate what went wrong.
He's as good as dead, but he's running for his life.
He wants to go out on his terms.
Broken blade falls.
Trying to time out the execute,
but the red buff definitely helping extend the damage.
What a beautiful sequence there by Lyon,
shifting all over the map.
Yeah, it's just the rotations are so good.
Everybody's on board as they make the play bottom.
Then, eh, okay.
Isles in trouble. Magical journey not enough. Quick kill for Caps.
Some hope back for G2. Caps does get the execution.
Lyon's still snowballing the map here, but that is some money where they want it.
Let's see how the lanes shake out here because roll quests still aren't completed
and they did a great shift but now can they make it back. Remember it's no TPs versus double TP
so G2 should be able to play a little bit of catch-up as they're going to use
that kill onto Isles to be able to secure these grubs.
that they are the broken play losing out on that cannon.
It's like one additional CES on the return to top side.
The Grubbs though going to feel nice for G2.
Neither side has taken a drake yet.
So it's not this big pressure point
that's going to force these fights
as we saw in the first two games.
But still the early game looking rough
and Berserker is going to be the problem.
You mentioned it. Once those roll quests are done,
that Katelyn gets out of that lane.
All your tier one towers are going to start to fall.
And the roaming will continue for Lyon.
You know, with Bard and Ryze especially,
Both Isle and Saint are going to be making a lot of visits between bot lane and mid lane here.
Alties gash to the side. Spawning with an Altie as well from Isle.
Isle is doing stuff. I'm not trusting what he's doing. He's missed a couple of queues he's taken
a few kills but still trying to provide the pressure. I will say getting that Unar ult down,
you know maybe that is super valuable for this dragon. No Unar ultimate.
And a lot of the power budget is in that thing.
Nice time.
I was able to magical journey out.
Got to be careful about this drake though.
Skumann would love to find another ultimate,
especially on a flashless, altless bard.
So, Lyon needs to make sure they don't rush this.
Berserkers in a good state in the game,
and I think they just want to really play around this Caitlyn
and possibly the rise when he moves.
New Isle is still a long time watching that temperate play.
Upside play. Look at the rotation now.
This guy from G2, they've got caps here. He wants a burst.
Nobody is healthy here to defend for Dokla.
Shockwave goes wide. There's not really much of a play there.
Caps relatively low on mana as well. Definitely could have gotten the full combo,
but hoping Dokla would overextend into the one from one and fight with his flash available.
Big Dokes with the weak side play, not over committing, not face checking,
managing to find caps, and then just kind of cheat this next wave as well in the top lane.
Surviving this early laning phase against the Jays
as he's trying to scale up on the Ola.
That he is. Broke-and-Blade doing what he can
to build up this gold lead.
You can see the CS very much in his favor.
The assist helping balance things out for Dopela.
But we saw this in game one, too, with the Anivia.
A little gold lead.
Not enough when you have this really powerful topside matchup.
You want to turn it into more.
You see a potential play in the mid-lane.
Yeah, G2 trying to get something because they know
Lion are going to set up for the dragon.
And now they're going to make their way over.
The objectives should be burned down in time for Lion.
But can G2 close the trap shut here?
Doesn't look like they'll be able to cut off anyone from Lyon.
LeBravinskoumant still hunting.
Maybe Tire will overcommit for a jungle camp
looking for an exit kill.
Berserker under the tower here.
Do they want to go for the dive?
They don't have a way to do it,
but they're still trying to jail Berserker under this tower.
Likely inspired all camps to the recall.
It's cute to do it in the end.
Yeah, Isle's on the way to defend as well,
making sure they keep vision on.
Lockdown on the Sku-Mun connects.
Force to move out with the playful trickster, and there's the ulti right when they need it.
Stumeon gonna have to start spinning if he wants to get away from this one, trying to back up the two!
Iles! Clutch in the moment, living for an extra second before inspired, bites down, takes a chunk out of the G2 jungler.
The ace in the hole, saint on the way, LeBrov moving in a different direction just cause he knows he's a dead man walking.
A beautiful play for Lyon and for Iles.
Isles hits the cosmic binding to keep the play going and Lion strike again in the bottom lane
They're gonna finish the first tower of the game on top of it. I'm just gonna fill out another apology form Isles your bar
I wasn't familiar with your game, but I love just the patience from Lion right there
Inspired staying extra just in case there was a dive then cautiously checking the bush to see if Scumont was still there
So, Berserker goes for the Q off of that stun and they try and try to get the net over the wall here, but doesn't get it, so I was like, okay, maybe two can run away, but Bile of Bile says no way!
He's going to be able to take them down, the immediate flash follow from Inspired and the chase down.
Cap's trying to make a difference in the bottom lane, but that's most of his damage.
Flashback from St. Respecting that there could be more members for G2 there, and indeed they are spots on Sama on the way.
It feels like when a play goes good for Lyon, that's when we pan back to Cap's making a play.
He can't quite get the kill there though, just gets the flash from Saint as Berserker is just moving around the map, trying to farm the plates.
Skara, quick to get the tweets in!
Ah buddy, fair enough, fair enough.
2-0 up, Lyon looking very dominant and you highlighted it.
Caps trying to hold the line, trying to do what he can, but his small gold lead in lane, the small trade advantage is really starting to fade away.
Can the tier 3 boots are there?
There's not even a row up and Saint is still surviving the full combo from Caps.
So I'm looking for an angle here in the river, really trying to find that game or series changing fight.
I remember G2 being down 0-2 to TES, and the game really turned on a scuttle crab chase into the turret.
I hear you, I hear you.
G2 looking for a similar type moment to pull things back.
Inspired. Just walk into jungle. Go for that scuttle crab.
But Rob, don't do that! Come on, Inspired. Tasty, tasty crab right in the river.
Just walk in, don't auto attack, and then for some reason walk into a tier one.
We can steal it. We had caps in the hook in that TES game.
Well, uh, we'll fish it. I don't think you'll do it.
Yeah, I think we got one of those in this tournament as a EU rep.
But maybe we'll get two.
The NA brain cannot resist a crab.
True. It is our weakness. We love our crabs.
Dokla has been very patient in this bush.
I don't think it's...
The bro law versus the broken blade is especially especially powerful to get that cannon.
Okay, a bit of a poke. Yeah, just cheating some experience still in survival mode against this
Jase. I mean broken blades. Jase has been able to accrue a 500 gold advantage for himself and
that's after absorbing that one game. So really trying to just slowly chip away at this game
before he arrives for the poke. Scumon here for the cover, but why am I bringing more members
That they are, a few more opposition against the walls, so the Cosmic Binding won't do much here, but he's just getting poked.
It's a bit of damage back on the Isle's quick magical journey, takes him out.
There's this constant thorn in the side of G2 Esports. Isles has been playing this game very proactively.
I know you guys are like, I don't know, we could have like, some kills to go here, we could have like, some other stuff to go here.
But overall, his impact in this game, incredibly positive.
And with those kills, you want all of the damage so that you get the kill for sure anyway.
Yep, yep.
We're close, yeah, if one of those kills does not get, you know, you actually secure it, then you're way more heartbroken, so
Let's take a look because he's on us on a good power spike, too
You know, it does get his once bloods on out for a bar even with a nurse for the damage apart
Still very powerful there and this mccails at the ready
To try and deal with that CC from G2 when they go for the big play
It's so nice for Lyon to be able to have Mikael's for your trundle and Olaf having his own ultimate to go CC immune
So their frontline can really really be difficult for G2 to solve
Yeah, but Lyon's got to be really careful with how they approach the Lulu Yunnar with the current power spikes
They can go beast mode
They have the art and sensor the Yunnar art the Lulu alt and really try and run over fight
Especially if Schumann finds a good engage and prioritizing the art and sensor means there's that much more pressure on Han
So I'm gonna play incredibly clean if that bard binding lands
There's no Mikaels to save him.
Tower getting chunked out here.
Four members of G2 committing.
St. Pushing in the top lane.
It's Jumon taking a tower shot.
Now it's Dokla, who's gonna run in.
And then immediately run back,
opting out of the fight,
but the tower still stands for an extra second
as the wave will finally crash.
So they are gonna continue their split push.
It's topside for Lyon and mid lane.
Four G2 has broken blade.
Gets his way up to the tower as well.
And I think that it's just gonna be Lyon
sacrificing this dragon for sure.
There's no way for Santa to get down there, so they want that side lane rise to become that priority
They can open this map up get those outer towers down
And I think that was a pretty big power spike for g2 to play off of with the unara and the Lulu
Overloading that bot side so they get the turret they get the drake and it's just lion doing a pretty classic line play
Cross-mapping to try and get sainting a little bit ahead so we can put push later in the game
saying 202 not the biggest gold lead against Caps, but definitely going to be a terror,
especially against so many short range champions on the top side of the map.
See if Caps and the rest of YouTube can keep him at our side.
Yeah, Caps is doing a trailing play at the moment.
They're kind of expecting a move from Lyon.
And so when you keep the center in the fog of war there waiting to see if you can get
a stun from long range, if anybody went to attack broken blade there, they're covering
their bases there.
They're really trying to guess at Inspired's game planning, which has been very difficult
for G2 this series.
The Inspired had the two-camp gank bot, which really set the tone for this game, and has
just been trying to keep Rzurka ahead the entire time afterwards.
The Brav had to flash away from Isle's there.
Brav losing that flash, pretty devastating.
Again, the pillar from Inspired, excellent pick tool, especially because of that extra
bit of movement speed from the Scuttle Crab from the Trundle W, running in to set that
behind. Fallen could be there too. Have not really seen that whole 5v5 fight. Either side
wanting to fully commit, but Lyon getting first setup means G2 very unlikely to contest. Again,
a lot of range with the Syndra, Jace. When you have to move into that fog of war, you are incredibly
vulnerable. Skumon the only one to get face checking. He's going to check with his face.
And now he sees nothing as Lyon immediately back off. And I do think Lyon is not looking for fights
at this particular stage of the game. I think you want two, two and a half items on Dokla if you're
you're really gonna force, but you also want your Caitlyn to have an actual item advantage
over the Unara to show the gold link.
He's just sitting on collector end components, whereas Hansama is essentially as strong within
stronger because of the Ardent Sensor Lulu, so this is a state of the game where G2 can
actually look to make some practice plays because their items give him a lot of power.
Yeah, I'm definitely looking at Scubant here on the Wukong with Flash and ult both available.
Level 11 spike for him, let's see if they can find that pick because mid lane is definitely
on everybody's radar over there as Isles does pass through the G2 vision.
They're going to collapse and not open any opportunities.
But you are looking at the flashless Lulu as a possible hit target.
So have to remain very safe in this vision coverage.
Yep.
Flashes up across the board for Lyon.
On the opposing side, we take a look at the coin base gold grind.
Of course, Hans-Sammem pretty far Berserker.
Keep in mind that's with the coal gold as well.
So Berserker really had his number in the landing base.
Hans-Sammem doing what he can to scrape together some gold to get to that second item.
And that goal turns into meaningful power with the Infinity Edge being completed here forehand.
So, sidelines being dealt with, Saint's able to get the topside as well.
So that's objective number one for line with this comp.
You know, get those sidelines nice and open and then they can return to the rift arrow here.
Again, really good vision set up.
They're doing their due diligence here, getting all of the information prepped
and then securely go take the objective.
They didn't have a reason to risk it earlier on, they back off, they give it the time.
They had to take it though, it was about to de-spot.
Yeah, they had to rush it.
They're there!
Oh, control.
Control.
Rushing the objective down.
They're flying very much in their comfort zone here.
Again, we highlighted how important Han Sama can be when we get to the later points of
the game.
Has the Fiend under multi-second item.
Certainly not as powerful when you look at raw value as an IE, but when he ults, he is
gonna get that immediate burst, that ability to potentially shred through a target.
Doku the other person we have to keep our eye on because while he suffers in the 1v1,
will eventually be a big problem for G2 Esports, especially as he can just build a lot of armor
and if Cap's burns his cooldowns on the Olaf, it feels like a winning formula for Lion.
It is gonna be interesting because G2, they're very fragile, but they have so much damage.
I think the term glass cannon is applicable.
If you just kill the Olaf, then you don't have to CC him.
So if the timings aren't correct on the Engages, then you certainly could have a lot of damage.
And especially if Jace does get some poke damage ahead of time, there definitely are
some opportunities there.
But again, I'm going to be pretty worried about what can Ialscrate with this Bard ahead
of time.
Maybe they burn some flashes or something, and then it's harder to operate.
I do really feel like Lion has to flank for these teamfights.
If it's Doklaid just trying to run through Jayce, Cinder, Yunar, Lulu, he's dead.
I don't think that's the approach to Teamfight.
But Lyon, historically, has been really good at finding flanks on Teamfight.
So it's Saint finding an angle, most likely, and then once they distract them,
that's when I feel like Doklaid was trying to win.
Saint is on the flank now.
Mid lane tower potentially in trouble.
Saint coming around the corner.
G2 realize they have to back away.
The play from Lyon, breaking open mid lane tier one, opens up so much more.
The map is too much is so quick to jump in and stop anyone providing on the Herald
He smites it though
So if lion tries to burst this dragon they might just go for it at the very least
G2 would have to approach through these Caitlyn traps. They're not gonna rush it though
They'd love to try and find a fight of G2 moves in G2 playing for mid prior. They've already lost bot cryo
They're trying to get control of mid before they start to base jet ultimate gonna connect on the rock inspired moving in a nice
Pillow to isolate cat don't play it's the Tana slash over the wall
Ragnarok is in the back line, they can't quite pass the DPS check, and he manages to make it out.
Saitin pursuit as is inspired. G2 being pushed back, four members still standing, support traded for Jungler, but it favors Lyon.
Incredibly close there, just the one for one, with that starting with a rob, literally stepping on a trap.
Eating, or excuse me, getting barred ultimate into a trap combination, and so if you get hit with a barred ultimate, it's guaranteed Kaila trap.
Look, Preserker puts it down now, so there's going to be so much damage.
Pillar to separate, Inspire's going to give him a bite, and they think,
ah, probably going to be able to finish that kill, but he survives,
and then the counter on the other side.
I'm really shocked that LeBron was able to win,
but it's because the counter engaged there by Stumon,
who ends up giving his life, just pulled the attention of the fight to him.
They end up with a one for one, Dracoast, the dragon taken before hand for Lyon.
It's a good spot to be in.
Rumble to the top side, not satisfied with a one for one.
Caps now in trouble, tries to get away.
The magical journey is there.
Wants to get some damage down before he drops G2.
Now I feel like they have to make this play happen.
If you want things better, if it starts to back away.
But it might be too late.
Lyon pushing in this top wave.
Poise to take down the tier 2 tower.
Probably just the kill onto Caps.
Lyon does have 5 people here,
but they've used most of their crucial cooldowns.
I wonder if they think about the bearing here.
They have Ragnarok, they have tempered fate.
Caitlyn is strong.
might feel like too tall of a task but if LeBron gets caught it certainly won't
lock down his air. Dope ready to go to the back line he's got the ragged rock
ready to go and he's starting to run back to the remaining members of G2.
Skumann down, jungler out of the equation but the low health bars likely mean
Lyon cannot start the Baron. Another successful hit there for Lyon. They
pick another kill. The first one on the caps he had to flash because Skumann
in the fight had focused him, had trundle-pillared and got in the flash early.
They get that pick, they turn to one more inside the jungle. Slowly but surely
they're adding little bits of extra gold to their coffers.
Yeah, Lyon throwing lots of jabs here.
You can see knowing that he's flashed as they get LeBron.
But, Steuman finds a good angle.
It's just no one is there to follow up.
Paps was dead, so they didn't have that last bit of damage
to cut through either Isles or Dokla.
Then they have to retreat afterwards.
It's a- I'm still gonna say it's a very tense game,
because if Lyon's getting these, like, single kill fights,
but if the Unar-Lubu get going,
they could run through a teamfight on the back end.
Let's get a bit scary. Iles playing with fire.
More damage on the opposing team.
The more risky that kind of play gets.
But I think what's going to make it so frustrating, Jack,
is that we're probably going to see a rapid fire cannon.
And a single Caitlyn auto, taking out half of Hans on his health
before a fight even starts, just does not set up G2 for success,
does not set them up on the right foot.
And again, the Olaf only getting scarier.
He's on one and a half items.
And every time he flashes in, he demands the attention of G2.
They have to try to burst him down.
And it does feel like Lyon is currently
playing with a sense of calm.
So they're taking the small wins and they're just slowly accumulating them to Drake's right now next Drake in two minutes
They have the three items on Caitlyn as you mentioned and they can kind of play around flash cooldowns from pillars
Did they land a bard ultimate new trap and they're gonna take those small wins all day long?
I want to see how G2 can solve their face checking issue because their comp is so fragile with so much damage
Vision is such a premium resource
We saw last time around you know with LeBrav trying to face check the bush and then getting barred ultied and being a
Combo target. It's even hard for skuman
You know when skuman is left alone there as the the point man getting burst down in a couple of these fights
Yeah, they're gonna need to sync up and like rotate the cooldowns on their scryers from their trinkets
You know use everything at their disposal and center combos with long
Power, Nile's still living. Lock it there, cap's nice rock about to get out from the temperate fate.
Nile, a very positive trade of cooldowns.
Yeah, man, Lockett really eats up that Cinder Altem right there. It felt like he just stopped taking damage
when he pressed it right there. And they're fighting over the Smith Lane and to your point, Kobe, like unless G2 is set up first,
how do they really get through any of those tanks to trundle or roll off? The poke will kind of do nothing to that.
Yeah, Vision is difficult to get, but they have long-range J-Spoke and
Sinja stuns can set up big comebacks. Look at this, you've got the Olaf waiting in
the wings there. Doku constantly looking for these flank angles. He's gonna back off.
Oh good fair. You can see G2 playing towards the top side of the river because that is where they have Vision.
That's where they can guarantee they won't get flanked from. Now trying to push in
towards the bottom side river, but playing very cautiously. Knowing that
someone could be lurking in the darkness, luckily they spot Doku. And now it's
line who have to be a little bit careful on the approach caps once again tries to find this guy of the week
But an excellent 90 caliber net from Berserker stops any potential play scary moment there
G2 had a good position, but they've used their cooldowns and now
Line is retake the river a bit this bottom is big. It's all they know they have to mark the flanker
But can they kill him don't go waiting for broken play now all things looking for the right on broken play running for his life
Is he gonna be fast enough?
Do you want also backing away down a level don't look reading so much space?
Yeah, and the rest of line you can see them leaking from the mid lane
They're like we will support you and don't look keeps his ult up by continually auto attacking there
He fights off scoom on as well got a decent amount of damage done
Olaf ultimate will be down though, which is a big big tool. Let's see about this
Yeah, I'm like you two are gonna seed the dragon. They have to give it
You can see the poke that berserk if you get down
They basically broken blade was completely chunked out and burned his flash
so they have to concede the Drake after Dokla just takes on two such a good position for Lyon to be in only need inspired to
Focus the Drake the rest of them can fight for space around the Baron and now it's LeBron who's
Instantaneously forced to flash but now he's got nothing for the temperate fate
She's you're gonna do with a cannon try to peel him away because her for his soul damn strong
Bard old Indicate land trap in the headshots and that's another pit
That's another kill G2. They constantly have to respect Bard old he's in realm warps and now the Baron Jesus gonna TP and I feel
like you're gonna have to try and stop this.
IE is doing ready, can you hit a potty block?
Temper turning.
Scumon ready to move in.
Cyclone there.
Can he win the 50-50?
Lion aren't gonna give him the angle.
Backing off at 3K.
Lion holding the Baron.
IE is getting lower.
Berserker waiting over the wall, ready to go!
And step forward, chunking out, Caps.
Caps is about to die.
Berserker solo killing Caps.
A little support from IE's.
Lion determined to take the objective.
Joklah ready to fight.
Pazerker, Hot Summer wants to make the differences,
might not be enough.
Locked down on the broken blade.
Pazerker set to take over,
sending G2 to Valhalla.
Lyon get the Baron, and then get the fight.
The patience from Lyon on that Baron,
are you kidding me, Dracos?
They keep it leashed at 3K for what seems like an eternity,
and they're gonna make this series short.
The trust that they have in each other to play that sequence out of it,
and they land another Bartle!
They're fate, Tentford.
But all they can hope for is another two and a half seconds in this one.
LeBron falls, Lyon dominating!
Caps is going to respawn, so I don't think this is going to be the push for the Nexus just yet,
but Lyon have taken a huge lead right here.
Isles, my man!
Pick after pick after pick after pick on this Bard.
LeBron cannot avoid the tempered face from Isle.
She's landing every single one, but the key point in this fight
is Berserker on the side here into caps.
The Caitlyn marks over, gets the headshot, lands the AWP,
and they just hold this Baron at 3,000 the entire time!
Yeah, they just let Berserker get to work while they're staring him down.
They didn't care about the Baron damaging them inside the pit.
And then once they know they have the advantage,
once Caps is down, they go for the play,
And even Doakla survives on the bottom side.
Every member of Lion there to see the triumph.
Man, the passive healing from Trundle there for Inspire
allows him to take so much damage and heal up at every subsequent kill.
Now, four full item, Caitlyn, with the Bloodthirster to immune the poke from Broken Blade.
You hit him, maybe you get the shield. If you do get the shield, he can life steal up 9000 Goldbead.
Lion gonna go in for the kill.
Lion marching down the top lanes,
got of the week going wide.
Flashbacks to last year at MSI.
Flashback to the match for NRG, a best of three.
Lion determined to break G2.
Good rocket belt out from caps.
Kansama, Jiu stacked.
Mikhail's now going to be used.
Okla threatening from the side.
Lion looking to give no room to maneuver
to the side of G2 Esports who are desperate to hold on
to what they can in their base.
G2
Another scatter this one connecting for the fall up simply isn't there using the Cinder range and trying to zone them away
Just hoping to clear these waves 30 seconds left on the Baron Doku running in for broken blade making it look personal
Hold on to his life, but it cost the wild growth. Yeah, no lool. What means it might be time to go
Last chance Q-mon trying to do anything doesn't do any damage
Q-mon still running still holding on flash forward from berserker down
He goes broke a play final back healing up up the fountain, but uns inspired is unkillable
They may have gone too far. Caps look at the ball. The timing has to be perfect, but no, the Mikhaels is there!
Lyon moving into the base of G2, not giving them any chance to force a fight on their terms.
Double towers down, Nexus exposed, and G2 ensambles.
The Shock Blast gives them hope at the chase. Will they try to extend the play?
A broken blade does have Teleport caps and Teleport, but they've got nowhere to use them.
No flank boards, Lyon are going to make their exit.
No need to rush now.
They're up 17 kills to 3, 9,000 gold, and two Nexus turrets.
Saint gets dangerously low, but Berserker continues to be exceptional in this game.
Headshot after headshot.
I think it would have been pretty risky for them to finish the Nexus there with how low
Saint was, so they're not trying to give T2 away back in this game with the Infernal
soul coming up in 15 seconds.
Exceptional bottom lane, you know, as does Iles.
Iles, man.
Iles.
Your boy deserves that 2,000 gold lead that he has.
Iles fell under so much criticism, spending a couple years on dignitas, losing a bunch
of games when this roster got put together.
People said, well, it's nice that they have inspired him, Rezurker, but Iles, and he's
done nothing but improve.
champion, spring split champion and potentially MSI lower bracket finalist.
Yeah throughout the year in LCS improved so much. Stumbled at the beginning of
this tournament but gets right back up there when it matters and now Lyon here
trying to close the game. They have the infernal soul, the extra damage and
We cast our cars down. He goes
Well done gentlemen. Tell me more tell me more inspire incredible year incredible player. He's so good
Okay, it's not gonna work. He runs our region does he triodes Q-bond last MSI. I don't know this is that was not great
That's gonna go away this game for sure and we know G2. You got to remember
They never give up they have two reverse sweeps one in the LEC playoffs one so far here at
At MSI, they would need to pull a rabbit out of a hat, though, here at Great Ghosts.
Beth, they would, and they would also need to keep their midlaner alive, as caps now being halted.
The ace, oh my god, Berserker! Legendary!
I think that more than makes up for a little fumble from Isles.
Midlaner down, so much of the range, threat the range, engage now, removed as Lyon, set up in the bot lane.
They look to be just taking the tower.
Not gonna risk it, though, again. So calm, so controlled.
do not want to risk anything against G2.
Alright, here comes G2, the broken blade on the pulse.
Where am I going in? Hansama chunked out.
Has to stay out of range of Berserker, needs to continue to back step.
Aldi there, but it's Sait!
Into the back line!
Spinning!
Shuts down!
A disaster from Sait!
Lyon now might need to complete the play.
Forced to greater advantage.
Tempur-Fight does not connect.
Hansama retreating.
Lyon, do they want to go for the end here?
I don't think so.
It looked like I could see Inspire saying either calm down, calm down, fall back, fall back,
because that was a very hyphy played by safe there.
He saw the victory.
Ryze ult's in.
Doesn't get to press his zonias.
He had an amazing zonias in the victor game last game.
Doesn't, I think it was just a CC chain.
Couldn't get it off.
We have had many Ryze realm orbs at this tournament
that have been delivering people to their deaths.
If Han's on the steps up here, it gets one shot.
I don't know if he's still lurking.
Observers, dang you.
You are so tricky.
But there is a murder machine waiting in that brush.
It's a risky play.
He's probably recalling here. He's recall observers, please. No, he's in there, buddy
They're both in there walking mid parents. I'm trying to force my kids who are gonna do it
They're just wandered in
objective bounty claims and I think
You we take those look at what we can at this point
You certainly do Draco's the hope the fuel for that possibility of another reverse sweep another comeback at MSI
It's still very far away.
We talked about the TES, Scuttle Crab and Midlane.
It could be the St. Relmorph into the base.
Those are the types of moments that can turn series around.
Lyon still has Zoll.
They still have the Goldy.
They still have a problem in the bot lane with Preserker.
But the hope is there.
Giving them something at the very least time in this game.
Two minutes where they can certainly hold their waves.
Stalf of this inhibitor to respawn won't be up as the Baron fades,
but gets them closer to potentially contesting the elder that's spawning in three minutes the difficulty of course lion still very far ahead
You highlighted it so well the Zercher approaching that six-cytem boots are already there can sell his door and soon
He's only getting scarier
The Zercher is very strong that Hansama has four full items and a Lulu in his back pocket
So Hansama very strong as well. Have to be careful. They're wandering around the traps. They will spot him out
Inspired keep your eyes on that pillar. That'll be the go-side skumont enough armor not to just
They're completely deleted best dance though. You can see stalls it a bit
That's still so much damage from berserker
I'm absolutely has to respect the team fighting here from the UNR if they stay as the unit doklah constant looking for that angle
You see cats constantly back-cycling anticipating the doklah can come from the flank
They know they can't step too far forward either because they don't have a tower there to defend them
Okay, I mean Jason's poke is cool, but have you seen berserker with a rapid-fire proc?
Holy, he walks up and he is doing like four, five hundred damage.
Let's see it when he gets one of those with a headshot and walks up on somebody, it is
devastating and G2 again, very fragile comp.
So you can't take too many of those.
No, you cannot.
Puts pressure on their poke composition.
If you can land one of those on a key target to immediately force the engage, which I think
Lyon are more than comfortable with.
even just onto Skumon there who is most likely to be the person at the front of the fight.
We'll see how we're still alive.
Caps now has his deathcap.
Four items does not stop for any defensive itemization outside of the mobility the rocket
belt provides.
Neverkate once again connecting onto LeBrog.
No follow up there.
Caps poking over the wall, chunking out Isle.
Stops the engage from Lyon critically.
The damage.
Lyon really careful not to overcommit like they did in the base earlier, so I mean the game is telling us objective boundings are still up
So the Lyon is quite a head, but you can see G2 is playing extremely well around this midway to keep the pressure up.
One more explosive fight.
So just ended in Lyon's favor. G2 were gonna need multiple things to go their way. 40 seconds on elder playing towards the top side of that river.
They'll spot out a lot.
Don't lose a blue trinket, Berserker still standing,
blasted from skewbond, aspired, still livin'
in the back line of Stoka, rampaging through
and getting right back out.
G2 falling apart of the fight house.
I haven't done enough of that auto from Berserker!
It's disgusting!
Realm War 4, doing sure Broken Blade has no room
to return to his own base.
Berserker is too damn good inspired,
dancing on the graves of Europe.
Top lane toppled.
G2 have collapsed and Europe has been gaffed by North America.
Lyon taking their time, making it look damn good as they sweep G2 out of this tournament.
Inspired dancing and waving.
Stepping Europe home. A lot of beef I think.
Four inspired against G2 as talk openly about how he'd want to play against
But sends him home from MSI two years in a row with two sweeps.
And it's just a reminder that no matter how good or how bad the previous series
either of these teams played, one team can just show up on the day and make all the difference.
I think every single role, it felt like there was a tangible gap between these two teams,
which after that Team 1 series, people may not have anticipated,
but the NA faithful well and truly rewarded an incredible performance from Lyon.
This team is playing with so much confidence and inspired has full swagger right now
He is trying to turn himself into the biggest possible feeling, but he is just continuing to win
He's hushing the crowd
He's planning the games the well-laid plans here and the well-executed plans from lion on top of it
G2 a
A sad goodbye. We'll hold on to the series against T1, but this was not the exit that they were looking for.
That's enough from us here at the catcher desk. Let's send it over to the analysts to talk about this clean 3-0 from Lyon.
I've got two words! Let's go!
Oh my god, they played so well today. It was really, really fun to watch. I mean, pass up to G2.
They are a great opponent. Obviously today, not their day. I don't want to punch down,
But oh you can I feel like lion just I'd rather celebrate lion. I feel like they play so well
And I'm so impressed with the individual stepping up here at the big moments
Isles had an incredible series, you know, I think that was one of the big shockers is coming into this people had said LeBrov myself included
Played insane against T1
But Isles was having more of an impact and lions preparation. I think was stellar
They were able to set up matchups where Isles could really thrive in the bot lane Ezreal Karma, Caitlyn Bard,
Doklau was such a big playmaker and that man on your screen.
Once again he does it two years in a row against G2, two sweeps.
It is inspired once again not the same teammate standing by his side but he keeps on beating us off.
Yeah, I have no words for how good this guy is and for how good he is at
Helping his team shine because I feel like every lion member today had something to show you've talked about aisles
Honestly props to them because they kept on ramping up throughout the entire tournament short you too didn't show up
But this lion team has been amazing. Yeah, and I think you saw what makes inspired so formidable in every single game
Right like game one he played super patient. They dragged out the pace of the game
He wasn't really on the map early next game adjusts is super super active on the map game three
He's doing an insane wraparound gang super early bot lane
He adjusted every single time based on where the lane state was where their compositions were and we see this all the time
This happened every playoff run that he's in. He always adjusts so well to his opponents
It does feel like every single member just outperform G2 though
Like it did not matter what part of the map I looked at. Jokla was getting advantages in top lane
Because Zercher's Ezreal and Caitlyn was popping off. Ile's was outperforming LeBrov
And the mid jungle was just significantly stronger like even caps versus saint. Saint on that silencing game war
Ripped through G2 and that was the focus here today like there is no excuse for G2
They were outclassed at every single step
Yeah, I mean got it to your hats right you know there's two parts to everything
You know people talked about it in the G2 series
Some people want to take away that series from G2 and say oh T1 just underperform
You have to credit the team that plays well on the day
It does take really good play to punish a team as good as G2 just as it took incredible plays from G2
to punish a team as good as T1.
So I think we have to credit the victors in both series.
G2, yes, they're going to be disappointed here.
Yes, they want it to go further.
But they have beaten three LCK teams this year
in best of fives, which is absolutely incredible.
Thanks for making it better, buddy.
I appreciate it.
And I appreciate it.
I am just so excited.
I mean, it's maybe I am living in the moment,
but I do think they should, including formats.
I think this is one of the best in any performance ever.
100%.
Yeah, people can talk about who they played.
We beat three number one seeds from regions to get here.
They are now guaranteed top three at the tournament.
It is all best of fives.
It is three sweeps over three number one seeds here from Lyon.
It was a competitive series against BLG.
Yeah, we did lose, but wow.
It's a great day for North America here today,
as Lyon advances his top three.
And we have Inspire on stage with Jason.
Please welcome Ryzen, both given to you.
Congratulations to Ryan, the winner of the match.
Congratulations!
Thank you.
Let's give it up for Inspired!
Today's match was really important to G2.
We've won 3-0, and now we're going to move on to the next round.
Let's see which one is better.
Will G2 be able to continue their hope for the future?
Or will they be able to send their hope to G2 in Europe?
Congratulations on the huge win. Now I have to ask this question. Which one feels better, winning and keeping the NA's hope alive or sending the last hope of EU G2 back home?
I think it's pretty obvious answer. I think sending G2 home feels way better.
anything I expected them to kind of do nothing in the games and they were doing nothing so it was pretty easy.
Today, many people are meeting the best jungler, Inspired and Scumund.
What did you think was the most important thing?
predict enemy plays. There wasn't many to predict. So I think they didn't really contest our game plan. It
felt like from the beginning to the end of the game, we were one driving the game. I don't know. Easy
than expected, but I didn't really do anything special outside.
Who do you think is the best jungler in the world?
Now, at this point, who do you think is the best jungler in the West now?
I mean, for me it wasn't a debate for a long time.
I think I'm the best since a few years already,
but there's a lot of people thinking there is a competition.
So yeah, I'm happy that I showed today that the competition is far away.
Hopefully, we're going to meet again at some tournament
where they will be able to try to get the revenge,
because today it seemed easy.
I've been thinking that I'm the best jungler in the world for the past few years.
I'm happy to be able to prove that I'm the best jungler in the world again.
I hope the next game and the next tournament will be another matchup.
I'm looking forward to the next game, because it was too easy for me.
Now, it's the last question for the final match.
Will you compete in the 1st seed of the LCK next game?
Let's hear your determination.
Now, next up is the final gate to the finals,
and you will be facing the number one seed from the LCK, HANA Life Esports.
What is your mindset heading on to that match?
Not sure. I mean, they are really good at fighting.
They are very aggressive, so we definitely need to have good champions in their league
them because if we don't do that then they'll probably run over us and I think
just trying to force maybe some early game fights I think that's what they
made mistakes against BLG I think they took some fights that were not that
great for them but they they just like to fight everything so maybe we need to
look for that because I think they're really good individuals so if we keep the
game slow and let them just play laning phases out I feel like it's gonna be hard
so maybe the game will be fast and we'll get some lead in the early game if they
If I don't buy timers, I think that should be our best approach if we don't win.
We have to play in a similar way, and keep playing in the early game.
If we don't, the game will get better, and the game will get more unstable.
So we will try to win the game in the early game.
Thank you very much, Inspired, and wish you the best of luck.
Thank you, thank you.
This has been Inspired. Thank you.
We can be proud and so does the rest of Lion here and we have big dogs joining us!
Oh my god!
Amazing victory!
Get ready!
Let's go!
Let's go dude!
Congrats man!
Here, Jocelyne, I need you to accept my apology form for betting against you and predictions.
Yeah, thank you, Jocelyne.
My muscles.
I am always jealous too.
We'll take it.
That can happen to any of us.
Yeah, that can happen to any of us.
Any immediate reactions after two days? I just want to say seven teams pass up on me in NA
And I'll leave it that I mean it's true people people have got to stop overlooking you
I think yeah, not only recently but internationally. I felt like
Honesty's at Worlds you had a really good individual performance then you came back
You didn't get the offers then you weren't even you know initially supposed to be online
You get another opportunity here. You are you've taken down G2. Have you ever lost a game to G2?
Think so
Was I in you earlier? He was like, maybe we'll we'll get him over here. Yeah
Talk to me about this series though
Like how do they go on the real expectations versus reality because it felt very controlled for you guys
Um, honestly, I don't even remember what I picked game one, so, uh, I mean, looking back
into their T1 series, I thought they actually, the victory that they had, obviously they won,
but like, I didn't think it was like, super dominant way that they won.
I think it was mainly from drafts, so as long as we had a good draft, I thought we'd be
playing better and, uh, kind of show today.
So that was my expectation going in, and I don't think I was going to get like, counter
pick and lane, like it by Kled, the Yasuo, nice try, you know, actually I had no time, so um yeah, that was pretty
complicated going in. We were talking about how EU versus NA of course is always an ego matchup,
especially when you look at the two Psycho Vassia guys having the jungle on your side and on G2's
side. You played so methodical, controlled the entire series, how hard was it to like fight those
urges maybe to prove a point, playing their face? I mean it was hard for Sane in that,
And that makes me think like, what's that trying to do?
Just roll more hate.
And he wanted me to go into it as well.
I'm like, I'm 1 HP.
Anyway, it was a little hard once we felt the victory right
there in game 3.
But before that, I think we were pretty focused for the most
part.
I mean, that's just how we played.
That's just the inspired CEO style of playing the game.
Yeah, we all were really comfortable
given just playing slow, trading objectives
when we think we can't fight.
So it was like a normal game for us.
Yeah, it felt like the only two times watching you guys
that you looked a little bit nervous was right before the series ended.
And then at the start of game one, it felt like both teams looked a little bit
nervous at the start of game one.
I remember this first dragon flight where, you know,
it's bar misses, W flash.
Fonstrusion, astero, he misses.
St. Steals that he misses.
It was kind of like, okay, everyone's like, settle down.
You can see the heart.
The heart's pounding.
How crazy was it though in those final moments?
Cause you guys got this massively and you have soul and you're up six K and
then okay, I was expecting that we have the run war.
Yeah, what were you guys sweating a little bit? I mean not really because I felt like late game
We just win okay, like we still have soul at that point our feelings just gonna slowly chip them over time
So and we have trim the bullet against like relatively no mobility carries
And we found a good angle on syndrome and after that the pilot just wrapped so it was mainly like yeah
We threw but we were still confident that you know if we just fight how we want to and don't run up realm all
Forward or really stupid then it should be fun for us
We have inspired as the opal player of the series today. His listen was disgustingly good
That was that was a Chinese tick-tock listen on the script the entire series
I felt like he was pretty much in control and set you guys up as well for success
What do you think of the way he performed today? I mean exceptional, you know, pretty much shock all everything
Just gives really good vision on how we're gonna play the game which objectives we're gonna trade and all that
So really just unifies us gets us all on the same page and games look relatively clean once we have control
For what it's worth, I think if Inspire didn't play quite so well, I think you actually would have been playing this series.
I thought you were going kind of crazy.
Yeah, we had the two of you, honestly.
Oh, nice.
It was a close call.
Yeah, it was between the two of you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The whole team really stepped up, I felt like, today.
Yeah.
I also had a really good series, and I know, I don't know if this was your grasp perception,
but I felt like LeBrov has been playing a really, really good tournament,
and some people, like myself included, I guess, were less confident in Isles on some of the meta picks,
like Pyke and Camille and stuff, but I felt like you guys did a good job of actually setting up situations.
Yeah, we implemented a no-rule, no Pyke.
I'm not going to say more, but we have a re-film for you, so yeah, there you go.
Amazing.
Go create what you want.
I actually learned re-found the other day here.
Oh, there you go.
I was kidding.
I was going to say that.
You brought up bot lane though, because I thought it was interesting that it almost,
I mean, Hans Diego, the Ziggs, but it almost seemed like a gentleman's agreement where teams
we're going to just focus on having more of like a 2v2 was that something that you thought about in your prep going up against
G2 specifically or just something that happened?
I just focused on my lane honestly like yeah balling whatever you want to draft just make sure you pick champs
I can match your roam to top or something and
Yeah, they did have a really good roam. They had a couple really good roam tops. Yeah, so um yeah, we did a good job
Good job team. So congrats you smurfed it, but now you have HLE. Yeah, how are you feeling?
Yeah, so we flew their way to top three. We played fraudulent teams the whole time.
Sure, now we play the big boss.
I mean, Honolive is obviously a very dominant team. They made G2 look extremely silly, so...
Yeah, it's gonna be hard, and...
What? We'll take the challenge, you know?
Plus on Zeus, up there in the top lane.
He's pretty good, you know.
He's really good, even.
So it's gonna be hard for sure.
I don't think he's just gonna miss as many queues in lane.
I don't think we're going to change, but I don't think so.
What do you think is the hardest thing when facing up against a team like Honwa?
What do you guys have to be careful about?
I mean, their landing is just so oppressive, you know.
They have really strong lanners and it's really easy for them to snowball
instead of like a winning position in their lane.
So just try to, you know, hold on for their life.
And don't get gapped too much and then maybe we can make something happen.
Well, don't go magic in the team fight.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's see.
Buddy, you're gonna tell us.
Delusion is the first step to believe me.
Yeah, I have my time.
This sounds too much like the vlog from this morning.
I'm excited for tomorrow's vlog.
The right to get expletive deleted by Hanmeh Leif.
Yeah, exactly.
Those are my thoughts going into it.
No!
Give us hope!
It's a good opportunity, I will say,
just to play against the best teams in the world on stage.
And think how cool it would be.
If we win it's only three games buddy. That's it
One way or another yeah, there's three zero three zero one way or another yeah
It's gonna be a banger either way hopefully it goes your way and you guys can get something out of this
But for now, I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna let you think about this one
That's the story for tomorrow, but for now lying qualifying means that we have to say goodbye to G2 and shocks is standing by backstage
We've broken blade in the Verizon post game. I'm raw my dad
Broken Blade, it's the end of the road here for G2 at MSI and I think not many European fans had seen it coming like this. So what went wrong?
Today a lot of things went wrong. Obviously I think we played very unnatural League of Legends today. This was definitely not the G2 way and I think they definitely played the line way.
There's nothing really I can say, I think they just played a lot better than us today
and they earned the victory and for us we will have to go back and think what we can
do better for next time.
Yeah, you said it there, I feel like we didn't see the G2, that we've even seen this tournament,
the amount of the resilience and the calm to come back in these games versus T1, in
the series versus TES, so why do you think you couldn't activate that G2 today?
I think it's something that we are working on, because it also does happen in the regular
season where we drop our momentum a little bit.
I think it's something I think we've gotten better at, our resilience in the team, and
how we handle unpredictable games basically.
I think it's something that we want to just get a lot better at, and I think today just
was a challenge that we couldn't overcome.
I think they played very good, very unpredictable.
They did some weird stuff that we couldn't answer very well,
and they seemed a lot better.
And it was a very hard thing.
Yeah.
What do you take away from the totality of this tournament,
and perhaps also the earlier part of the year,
where you did get some results that you worked really hard for
and that were really big for you guys as a team?
How do you take the correct things from that,
knowing that your schedule is going to be crazy from now on?
For us, we know that our peak is very high, and we need to work on being more consistently
getting those performances out of each other.
We've shown a lot already that we can beat a lot of strong teams,
but we can also lose to teams that are perceived weaker.
So for us, again, we need to be a bit more consistent on the team play side.
Other than that, I would say the tournament was a success in the grand scheme of things.
obviously we wanted to push harder we wanted to obviously win and it was
looking very winnable but from the last series they gave us a lot of hope and
morale and obviously we are very upset and I mean we didn't want to go out this
way at least we wanted to make it very competitive so I'm also sorry for every
European fan who was watching and cheering for us which is definitely a bit
devastating. Yeah we support you no matter what you all know that can I get a
a word from you about line versus HLE tomorrow because as you said paying the
respects to how well they have played today if they show up like this tomorrow
right how competitive do you think that can be? For me I think it will depend on
how HLE will perform on the day because I'm a bit biased here but they did
sometimes very hard so they definitely have to perform very very well and I
think actually we have to underperform because I think HLE is a very very strong
team, especially on an individual level, I think all the laners and the jungler is very
mechanically skilled and they will play to outplay you.
So if they get that, they get leads through that basically and then they snowball that
very well.
As for Lyon, I do think they got leads even against the good teams.
Yeah, I can't be salty because we lost to them.
I mean, I would love for them to beat an Eastern team so they can talk back to us, you know.
I would say, oh, I know they can talk back to us, we lost.
Yeah, you're allowed to flame us, I guess.
Until the next one.
Yeah.
Thank you, Vivi.
Thank you very much.
Very humble, very good matter.
From the top batter here, obviously the road stops
at top four here for G2.
But we'll see them again.
We'll see them again after first and after the performance
they had this time around.
Farewell.
But well.
Well, I'm perfect.
I know your name is Sizz, but that's how it is.
I'm not even gonna be fine man.
Double one, I'm just gonna say that's a double one.
Yeah, you win this one, you guys win this one.
Shout out to Broken Blade for doing that interview, honestly.
It's always really difficult to do those kind of interviews
when you've just been really shell shocked, right?
Because you heard it from him.
He maybe also didn't expect to lose,
I certainly didn't expect to lose in this fashion, right?
Like I was thinking these two teams were a lot more evenly matched than people were saying going into this,
but I did give the edge to G2, so I think regardless of the loss, this is such a stunning defeat.
So for him to come out and actually talk and do an interview, like I always appreciate when players are willing to do that.
He remains one of my favorite players in the world to watch.
I think he's fantastic at interviews.
I loved him when he was in an A.
I was sad when he went back to U.
And I think you know Brooklyn as best is definitely electric to watch so shout out to G2 still still a good performance though
Obviously not the note they wanted any cozy thoughts on you guys tomorrow because today is a day for celebration tomorrow
Is gonna be a day for the next celebration
Obviously, I'm just so happy like I'm really happy like I'm just so happy for this team like yeah
That's I'm surprised, but I'm
I'm pleasantly surprised.
I'm ecstatic, but I will say, like, obviously, I fully agree with BV.
Everyone knows that HLE is a massive challenge to overcome,
but Lyon did get it close in three games against BLG.
Yes, they lost all three games, but they gave themselves real chances
to win in these teamfights, and that is what I want to see from them.
I want to see them play their best game, go out there and be able to win or lose,
leave with no regrets and hopefully pull off some upsets.
You know what? I'll leave it to this note.
A note of hope for NA and celebrations for you guys. Congrats.
I'm taking us down and smashing us up again.
That's all for us here.
From now, we will be back tomorrow at 10am CST and 1am PST for HLE vs Lyon in the lower finals.
That's all for us here for now.
We'll see you next time.
Be kind to each other and see you tomorrow.
Oh, well, due to falls, so I guess this falls on April.
Bye!
You have VK, right?
Yes.
I'm walking up now.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
Nice, Mikael.
Yeah, yeah, I'm walking up now.
I want to go to the center
Press low, press low
You got to eat in our nephos
Blue corn
Yeah, I got it
Blue corn, nice!
Go meat, go meat, go chicken
I got it, I got it, I got it, we got it, we got it
Nice, guys
Fucking noobs
G2 have collapsed
and Europe has been gapped
by North America
Lyon taking their time
They're tied!
Make it and look damn good!
It's a sweet G2 out of its tournament!
Hello?
Yo, what about me guys?
Hello? Why so quiet?
Hey, what's up, Paul?
Think I figured it out, Andre?
That's a big one, huh?
a way to go back. Back where? It's not where. It's when. It's all right here. I mean, figure
out when. When is it, you know? Let me ask you this, Andre. What is League 2? Is it season
one? Is it season four? Could it been season two when we started having with jungle pathing?
Could it be when we had Heart of Gold? It was a shell. Why was it named Heart of Gold?
It could be anything that we want.
I get a pull, but I really don't think.
Two shens in the game?
Is it season?
Is it OG beta when there was 40 champions?
Look at Lux.
Look at the way she used to look.
Could be any of these things, Andre.
I mean, what kind of like, play all Graves again?
Pretty good.
What if we went back to that time?
Could be any of those times.
Be a lot of fun.
What would you call this thing if we did it, though?
Clash fates.
No, we're done with that.
All right, okay, uh, old league.
Who's that different form?
Uh, your favorite league.
Okay, okay, okay.
Um, okay, I think I got it.
League Classic.
You know I've got a thing
What do you think of us?
And you get it, get it beautiful together
So here you are
And you just get it, why?
There's a story that you don't like