I
Push it, push it, push it
Okay, you're the talk of the town
Push it, push it, push it
Living my life inside my mind
Push it, push it, push it
I
I can't get you out of my way
I'm a banana, a banana bean
That's me, I can't help but feel sorry
That's so like it, I'm a cat
And you can't be like me
I'm so much bigger than you
My body is still growing
I can't run like this, I can't run like this
I can't believe I'm standing in front of you
I don't even know if I'm going to cry
I'm going to go
I keep on feeling like I'm on fire
I'm different from you
I'm so embarrassed, you're the only one
I'm going to end here
I'm going to make a special decision
Now, come and take me
Open up on me
My heart, I live alone in the water
I ask without tears, I'm alone in the sea
I'm alone in the water, it's like that
I'm the girl in the water, you can't like me
I'm so far away, I can't see you
I can't even look at you
I'm feeling in my mind
I'm my mind, yeah
You're my melody
You're my power
I can't stop, I'm at the top of the world
Follow me, follow me, follow me
I'm not a fool, I'm not a fool
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I feel like it, I'm the get it
Oh, you keep me like me
It's too late to say it's too late
I'm just standing still
I'm running too fast
I can't do anything
I got it
It's my picture world all night
I got it
Can you just come by
Follow me I like it
I can't stop
I can't control my thoughts
I don't need
I told you I was done with basic browsers
When I was a player, if I was to like make a misplay, maybe it's my mouse, maybe it's
my armrest, something feels wrong. If you were at home, you wouldn't do that.
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Not only that, other players will also set up more evenly.
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With my new phone company, Menace Mobile, our pricing structure will be so confusing.
It could already be described as evil.
That isn't evil.
It's just typical phone company stuff.
Besides, people would just switch to Verizon with their new Simplicity plan.
There's just one plan and one price.
What now?
And it's only $30 for a single line.
$30!
So, you're all choosing Verizon?
Treaters!
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Can you hear me now?
Red Bull gives you wings.
Take the gun, take the gun!
We must get rid of the enemy's soul!
We're doing so much work, we can't breathe!
We're just going to Easter!
ecosystem to keep expanding so players can focus on the game and fans can focus on the moment
the next MSI title, but first,
we have a show match for the
first time ever featuring the
brand new game with league
classic and I'm here with Kobe
the fish show and freak all
the time. Welcome everyone to
the 2026 MSI Grand Finals
later today. BLG and Honolive
will face off for the last MSI
title, but for the next MSI
The fish show and the freak, oh my god.
Hey, good to be back.
You've been on a long time.
Yes.
You've been on tons of damage.
Come on.
Yeah.
Of course, we've got a safe one.
OK.
We've got 15 minutes, so we can go.
You've been on that thing already.
I want it!
Yeah!
You're the best!
What is it like being back at the desk, guys?
It's great.
I flew in a little early, so I've
spent the last couple of days hanging out with you guys.
And every single time I see someone like,
Deficio, it's been so long!
What's up, dude?
And then you'll come back tomorrow.
Deficio, it's been so long!
It's like the test time.
Yeah, it's great.
I had a great time.
I love it.
I'm just nervous.
I love that nobody has changed at all.
No, we look the same.
That's true.
I noticed when I came back, it's all the same names.
Yeah.
Like nobody's new.
No, I think how people act, too.
Oh, yeah.
All the reflections of the same.
We haven't grown up, and Lee keeps you young.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Perfect.
Let's start by taking a look back
at a lot of these old moments.
There's a lot of memories.
I don't know where we want to start, right?
But it's kind of crazy to think about a lot of us
that we're there from the very start and also so much has changed like look at
this first thing that comes to mind he stole my spot they kicked me off COG
for him stole your name is the guy who misses all the smites yeah it used to be
24 and now it's st. Vishen now with Bjergsen baby Bjergsen I like that
Ash don't I rash me I do have a picture with faker it was from 2013 yes from
all stars Paris I remember tonight we have one this is in I don't know what
this is. That's in Korea. Yeah. Look at Rift. Oh my God. Wow. What a great selfie. That's
the one where we were on the broadcast so we were in the stands. So you were making like
a, they brought it. We're not on the show. Here's the stuff. I think we're going to get
both of us. Look at Rift. Oh. Rift before he went great like me. True. That's me. That's
me. And Joe's called me Joe Miller. Tell me how far have we come since the basement?
You know, a little bit, it is actually truly incredible how much things have changed over the last, what, 16, 15 years of Lawley's courts?
I mean, I also still can't be happy to be here, like, whatever that man said, I still do.
You look great. This to me was like the event that made pretty much myself and everyone around me want to go all in on E-Sports.
Yeah.
Like, literally it's what season 1 worlds and like, we're talking about it and we're like, this is serious.
Was it for you?
Was it also for your combination because I fell in love with Lee and then I fell in love with Tyrone.
Oh my God!
Oh!
I'm gonna cry.
You know how much I struggled with that teleprompter?
I had to get in.
You look so relaxed.
She looks so relaxed.
Yeah, this is pretty wooden, I think.
I agree.
Definitely.
But do you remember that the first years, like your playing League, falling in love with League,
and then it coincided with the start of Esports, all those streamers,
those streamers the early co-streamers actually TSM I mean honestly when I
started I never thought it was gonna get this big yeah sure no I was in
college you know play with my friends I was like oh well gradually now okay time
to do something else get a real job by the way didn't you win something true
we won the only gold medal for North America WCG 2010
Yeah, no big deal. I mean we won the grand prize to beating Europe 3-0, we did. SK!
Wow, I told you. I was on stage with D-Man. I was there.
Do you remember? Oh, that's a special one.
We missed him though.
We got here this one.
From our games all the games were really good.
I cannot choose one, so I think the best for me was to just come here and meet all the fans
and obviously see her pretty face every morning.
Maybe think there was gonna be a joke here. What yeah, what we do you're like everyone
I mean this this game literally laughs it like was it like crazy long and there was
And then they just came back into the game, literally just doing this for the first time ever, and everyone coined it the Xpeke Backdoor.
Yes.
So I was just on that team and he was like, yeah, it's crazy.
I think so many early memes got made that are still alive now, but a lot of people might actually not realize what they mean.
What do people know where Kim from? They've just heard the name, right? Xpeke and so on when it's a backdoor.
Oh no!
We've been practicing in a lot of scrims and we just prepared for this.
We already knew that.
You already knew?
Yeah, we just knew.
This is not more intense than the LCS will be.
I love more.
Oh my god!
That's a sad flip as well.
So many memories.
That's a sad one.
Really early, really early memory, I'm not sure.
What are some of your favorite memories from early?
Be it the game, be it on there?
I mean, they actually showed some of the pictures from some of the old, you know,
one of us in the streets in Korea for the World Championships was definitely one of the best.
I think qualifying for the first E-Wales, yes.
You know, like in Warsaw, we didn't know who we were playing for.
We just randomly won something and then they came up to it and said,
said congrats here's a contract you're now pro player see and cologne next week
yeah that was basically it like the support is so easy dude wow that was
also your role just like noona and stuff yeah for me was 2010 playing a
bunch of five tech pre-nates play like buying all the art is playing all the
aura champions we brush dragon at level one it started the game yeah just want
at the start, we tried to do eight minute barons.
It was just like, it was so wild,
but you kind of play whatever.
You kind of like found a bunch of stuff,
you kind of invented it.
It was kind of great.
It was so amazing.
I think that the playing with your four friends,
those games, those early games,
it's some of the best gaming memories I've ever had.
I remember.
You guys had four friends?
Yeah, we did.
I played solo.
I don't know.
No, I remember that someone who I used to play
on real tournament with, they hit me up like 10 years later
and was like, we're playing this thing called League of Legends.
and I was like, um, MOBA?
Uh, and then I played MOBA.
I played shooters, I know.
And yeah, I played a lot of Vayne actually,
and then I looked up to Uzi Vayne,
and it was, oh my god, it was a wonderful time.
By the way, this is a,
do you remember how Silver Scrapes got created?
Tell us the story.
Well, so Silver Scrapes is what plays all the time
before the game five,
and you might wonder, why do we play that song
and not any other song?
Well, at the World Championship in 2012, right?
Correct?
There was a technical issue.
Yep, during semis, I think.
And that technical issue,
Hembert the show for eight hours, maybe nine hours.
And this isn't like now where we're like,
as competent to bring stuff up.
But yeah, on this moment, oh my gosh.
Yeah, and they kept looping silver scrapes
during that time, the eight hours, so.
God, we're talking and now we're missing these moments.
I know, I know.
That's fine, they can see them.
The fish show, you've barely spoken.
What's wrong with you?
No, I'm fine.
Yeah, jobable colors, they can see this,
calling you out.
Straight on there, welcome back.
He has a lot of good memories. His best player got post by TSM after a year, so...
It is true, actually. We did randomly get invited to Worlds, a bunch of us.
Season 3, we didn't qualify, but we got invited.
And suddenly, my mid laner went to Disneyland with another team, and then he came back,
and he was like, I want to go North America. That was it.
And we sold him for, I think, $20,000. That was a good deal.
That's one of the best deals you've ever made.
Oh, yeah.
Bjorksson was our best deal you ever made.
Oh, this moment!
A yellow star!
Here we go!
Yeah!
Why you guys gotta do it like that? He's sitting right over there!
To get him motivated, I guess.
I love how you get famous for all kinds of plays. This is his place.
I mean, they show the captain Jack into the cleanse, and then they show this right next to each other.
I wonder if we have the X-Pekka and Sivir 500 APM fight?
Yeah, much later.
This is the source classic.
Yeah, we will see this today, brother. You think that's now does he live?
Always
Dude, he was in season one world championship finals with yellow star. Is that insane to think about?
Yeah, that was he playing it today for they've been in the scene for so long
TPO
Let's go
What a good play
What a good player, and he's playing again today. He's playing again today
Maybe we can take a look at a couple of rosters in a second because we can keep looking at those
Yeah, he's also playing is this good or bad double it's not the victim play
Let's go this is the one where he takes over it's clean. Yeah, thanks for game
Yeah, look at all these kills for Shen.
Pocket pick by the way, the Lucian at the time.
Yeah, but it was just like the most meta AD carry.
Yeah.
It's true.
I actually asked him like two weeks ago.
He's like, no, it's actually still like my favorite AD carry to play.
Yeah, I'm always just meaming.
I'm like, okay, fine.
Yeah, but it's not in Classic, right?
I don't remember.
Oh, yeah.
It's not supposed to say.
He's not a launch roster.
You may.
Yeah, I was largely not in charge of champion.
Okay, okay, okay.
Let's take a look at the rosters than what we have for our showmatch because we could
Reminisce forever, but we can also reminisce by by looking at some of these players
It's just an all-star lineup. Yeah, and we had a lot of them showing some of the plays we had
You know so as right there double if right there as well. Yola star all playing today
I mean half of them are famous for like a specific play not always the greatest right scour award
Maybe not the greatest player that was that he tries to walk over the dragon
Missing it and he just gives up and walks away
We got way shall which I it's probably name most people don't remember but season 2 is the best AD carry in the world
Yeah, he was basically like China everybody was looking up to him everyone left way down
I know he's playing support today for some reason. Yeah, well, he's with double if the greatest AD carry of all time
Who to be bad play bitch Frank today. Yeah, I know now double who's DMA on
Nocturne and we could get leave on Nocturne. I don't think that one's in
The gameplay supposed to be a secret. Yeah, we got the AP master. He is in there
Yeah, scar can play as master. He has to play Katarina
Yeah, double those DMM. He's like, hey, who's the best champ in the game? I'm like bro play something
That's like different. He's like I want to play like Corky or Vayne. I'm like, no, those are the same champion, bro
What are you doing? I want to win. I'm like let people see something cool
I love how they're all turbo sweats still even
Retired for years and years the competitive drive never goes away. So as a yellow star we're sitting in the practice room yesterday
Just like figuring out what to play
I'm trying different things. So I think it will be fairly serious show match. Yeah, I think so
I don't like when people take it too serious. I mean, this is really worlds for classic
This is as important as Kobe's gold medal
Yes, thank you. Finally someone's back to me.
That's okay, at least he mentioned my gold medal. Thank you.
Oh my goodness, yeah. I mean, it should be really fun.
I mean, sometimes they go into it and they're all serious
and then when one team starts losing, they're like,
okay, just kidding, that's all for fun.
All right, we have two minutes 40 left.
Tell me why you fell in love with League of Legends.
I was playing a bunch of Warcraft 3 mod,
3 mod defense of the ancients the original one for
Rite of Chaos I even played a on a strike back at
Starcraft but no one remembers that one that's okay.
And it was like man I really want to play something
with like matchmaking and some actual developer support.
So I got in a league immediately loved it played it
nonstop throughout the rest of college applied to
GoTro and Rikes I really wanted to get into gaming and
it was like this game is amazing and just kept playing
it 17 years later.
So I thought the game was a scam because back then
free to play games were sort of like you didn't
You had to download it and everything.
I was like, this might arrive.
This could be really terrible, but I downloaded it, started playing, and then shortly after Pantheon got released, I picked it in a game.
I went like 10-0, and my entire team basically said, wow, you're amazing. You're so good.
And I was immediately addicted.
I just needed positive feedback from my team, and literally stomping someone.
Positive feedback in a week?
I know, it happened back then. I did carry the game 2v2.
I fell in love when I saw the first champion spotlight.
like this beautiful man delivering some quality information to us in an echoly conference room
on an electric microphone.
Yeah, the high production quality for sure.
Yeah, nothing beats playing in the early days with your friends.
You know, everyone's like, get on, you know, we're going to play some League right now.
And it also, it took our group away from Dota as well.
So it's kind of a similar thing.
Yeah, some of the best memories in the world.
I still remember like waking up early hearing Monty and Doha cast.
It's like ingrained into my brain, but yeah, we're almost at the show match.
How do you two feel about casting again together?
It's been a good long time. We cast together, I don't know, at least eight years ago or something.
Probably eight years ago, yeah. I might be a little rusty, but we'll see.
He's going to be great. He's going to be great.
And he literally made this game, so he knows everything.
He's going to show you up.
Nobody can call me out for mistakes.
Why not?
It's 13 years ago. How can I remember anything?
He was prepping by watching Old Copa Nigg and Wolvesloch.
I did actually do that. I didn't watch some old games.
I got the Pentacle from Berks and then there, got to watch it. I almost stole it.
Pentacle?
I was literally one second away from stealing it.
We got that on the way now that we know now.
Would have ruined the whole story.
But no, I watched some old games. I did watch some old games.
We're ready, we're ready.
Yeah, you ready?
Yeah, I'm prepping. We'll see what the players play. Hopefully it's exciting.
Because obviously some champions haven't changed in 16 years, so fingers crossed that's different.
My very first champ that I played was Shaco, and I love that the cooldown didn't start when you casted it
And so you could be like permanently invisible with your Q. Yeah, that got nerfed.
With that question it's now time for our league classic show match. Let's go!
What is League of Legends to you?
My first game of League Legends, I remember it fondly because there was just a little bit
of magic in how the game played and I couldn't stop.
The first memory I had in my pro career was when I attended the first World Championship.
I was very impressed of being able to attend such a big tournament.
I really like to practice for 16 hours or 18 hours every day.
Because I think that in that kind of state,
that kind of activity is the real thing.
He's going to go all the way.
He's going to be side, and I've got that ball.
He's going to pick up one, then he's going to get the second.
Oh, no, he's going to double it.
He's going to prepare second.
And now I'm thinking of being something that I don't deserve.
To me, League is my whole life.
I was homeless.
Playing League in the League community.
I got to get off the streets and live on Travis's couch.
Solo kill, Pantheon, Ace.
No one knows when you'll find the moment
when you'll make your heart beat.
League of Legends used to just be about all the fun we had.
I think the early days of League
was defined by certain players.
When I got my name to play for the first time, I used the last game to win.
I think the time was very early.
I can feel that the Chinese players,
they were very enthusiastic and enthusiastic about that game.
And today, when I saw the game, I was very nervous because there was no time.
of legends back where anything was possible when even in a to win world we still care to feel the
magic of these moments again is something we all pray faith back to the classics
Kim baron day Kim dragon
The whole world's League of Legends fans,
we are going to travel with you today,
the time we thought was impossible.
We were able to do anything,
and we were able to do what the fans wanted to do,
and we were able to do what our imagination wanted to do.
Now, it's time to meet the League of Legends Classic for the first time.
Let's welcome the legendary fighter, Shibin!
Please welcome all the families!
Team Parole Top 10!
I'm going to show you my team.
Team Dragon.
I'm going to introduce you to Team Dragon.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the League of Legends Classic show match.
It is my great honor to be here with the fish yo and chat and the cast a fearless best of one
full e-pedition, of course between
Honestly ten legendary players playing a legendary game
Back to a form that they basically all were in their prime steering. I can't wait dude
Just so much nostalgia watching them walk out, but so much nostalgia for me
casting with freak and
Deficio I still remember my name. Thank you. I said a second ago. So we got it back
I'm I know we probably cast together at I don't know 2018 or 2017
But I remember I think it was the 2015
World final that we cast together we did it was actually really that was 11 years ago dude
I know it feels kind of weird
But it's the same also with just league classic right now like I keep rewatching old games and just realizing it was not 10 years ago
Yeah, it's like 13 14
15 years ago that we were watching season one two and three and it's kind of crazy just to go back in time
And I still love how the game looks back then. I will definitely love how it looks today
Sure. Yeah, and so we're gonna see here. You'll hopefully be flashbang by some very fun and interesting icons
We are gonna do basically no bands. There was some talk. They were gonna gentlemen's band Braggis
They're saying it was to yes, how sure it's actually gonna happen
happen. Look at that. So how is the band phase working now? Because this is different than
what I remember. So the way the band phase is going to sort of work, 4th and 5th picks
get banned. There's only 60 champions in the launch roster, so only 2 bands per team. So
they banned Kragas and Master Yi. They did. AP Gragas is gone. Now it's good. You don't
want to watch Master Yi right now. We need Katerina for Stara. So are you. OG Ari Band
before the alt had resets, but still very strong.
Yeah, we have to teach everyone who didn't play back then.
When you go into Tram Select, when you play yourself,
it's about typing as fast as possible.
True, pre-mit, or whatever role you want.
Jungle.
There's no other way of getting it, because if we didn't,
if there was streamer mode back then,
I never would have gotten jungle, because like,
you could use your reputation to get your role back in the game.
Yo, we get old Skarders!
OK, good.
Least thing of the course is Skarders is this is
the very first version of Skarner.
Flowers himself is over the moon.
This is his favorite version of Skarner.
So this is pre-spires.
Pre-spires.
W gives you move speed.
And attack speed.
Q just, it's a spam ability.
What was the E?
The E is I mark people, but I hit them, I get a heal.
Yeah, right, right.
It's like a skill shot.
It's like a traveling skill shot.
You don't max because it's kind of boring.
Alistar top lane, we did actually talk to Source yesterday.
And Source was basically saying, guys,
old Alistar is back, which means you can headbutt auto-attack.
You can get the auto-attack, yeah.
You can get the auto-attack.
Sheen Alistar, and he's going to auto-attack.
Oh, and we get the Carthus.
And Casadin.
Old Casidus.
We get Carthus.
So this is Casadin with the long alt-range.
It's 700 range Riftwalk.
And then it's Carthus.
And the silence on his Q.
It's Carthus who will have TP revive most likely.
Yeah.
So that's what Scar is going to be doing.
TP revive.
How long he was in mid laner.
Pervin Carthus.
Not sure if it's a meme or not.
They look at it.
Corki's gonna try hard. We have to say Corki's trying hard.
They're probably slamming us.
Yeah, but it's not as tight. Corki's super broken on this patch.
Like, particularly this patch.
Yeah. Just highlighting that.
Yeah. Yeah, this is Corki before the key was a missile,
so it just kind of hits the ground, it does reveal.
And, okay, Corki-Jan is really sweat.
Yeah. And this is also O'Janna, her passive.
Global movespeed to your team.
Yeah, that's why.
That is a very strong.
Also, the eag is 50 attack damage for like 10 seconds.
Yeah, which you probably highlight for anyone who's confused like the champions are not all locked from one patch
Like this is a boss like different early seasons. Yeah, so you have different version of the champions
So the way I'll kind of phrase it is like it's like kind of vaguely season 3, but not exactly
It's more if there was a different kit. We tried to take it. So yes, the very first version of
For example, Spawners that's period after it already not a big deal for some like twisted fate
He was already on his modern kit by 2013 so we went farther back we went like 2010 was it fate gate is on his e
Yes, global teleport at level one those the kind of kits we went for so
Hopefully it's gonna be a very fun experience if you have played since beta you'd be like I remember that kid
I played with that stuff
Understanding that it's not like you know, it's not December 2009 everyone
It's it's certainly mixed of years, but trying to go for as much novelty as possible
I just wanted this memory again, right? It's been so long since we've been able to do this together in front of a live crowd with Doublelift and Scar at an international tournament.
Yeah!
I think we're still as a Yellow Star.
Absolutely!
That was a tie.
The way Shao...
Yeah?
Oh my God.
Yeah, almost all of them acted at about the same time. Levi, a slight more newcomer.
Levi's a bit later, yeah.
But, I mean, still, this is going to be an incredible match. It's going to be a whole lot of fun to watch.
And I love the mix of world champions. Yes, Kara and double and yes the game looks like this
Welcome to summoners free on league classic. It is TP revive car this okay got a hundred machete
Is that a man up? Oh, that's what I look at right? Hold on. We got the what's the name of this one?
crystalline flask
Total biscuits of rejuvenation
mana potion with fairy charm and rejuvenate. We have teleport revive on
Carthus as well. Red elixir start leasing. So these are the season three
jungle items. What's the name of it? You can go into madrid's razors. You can go
into spirit stone. Spirit stone. Spirit of the elder lizard, ancient golem, etc.
The three blue. So I think we're gonna see the AD item here. Probably the
tank item here yeah probably go probably but you could go go AP if you
want real season 3 they're both willing oh we got a real extra start yeah yeah
oh my god on the Lee sin yep and ignite top lane not TP of course not why
would you be a coward like that this version of ignite you get five attack
damage in AP when it's on cooldown because yes we have season 3 masteries I
also just have to say looking at this map like it's so beautiful all right it's
Like as beautiful as the day you lost it, right? I'm just so happy to see it back. Yep
I just want simple ways to get into lane so I know how to work
I don't want all this like four different entries like in modern League of Legends based on my memory
Yeah, I feel like the red pot Lee Sin is actually a good counter pick into the BS
Sheen Alistair because he has massive sustained. I always use the go and then trying to talk about like counter picks
Well, I think so because in 2014 worlds Alistair was a hundred percent banned
Because she and auto attack Alistar was so so OP
Yeah, we're like two or three games above Alistar top
Yeah, back in the day the solo queue strat was Trinity Force and Shove, but in pro is only Trinity Force in a tank
It is relevant though like
original Alistar
Was obviously sort of popularized by Shusha
Yeah, original Alistar, yeah
And he just roam from mid lane and murdered everyone and then people start playing it later on the version we have here
people learned you could do the auto attack.
So it's probably Lich Band, but you could also go shift
and do like the clock hit.
He could.
Oh my goodness.
Look how serious they are playing.
Like, again, this is the world championship,
off League of Legends Classic.
They're actually tryharding.
I also feel like the style here is like,
I feel like even the observers are trying to make it 2013,
they're not, okay, now they're zooming out again.
We didn't actually have the ability to zoom out in pro
for like five years.
We didn't even have an observer client for like so many years.
Here's the first game, go!
the first game go there we go I'm up behind him we're gonna do his best he's
getting slowed down second keep me from a slow and that is first blood to the
scarter beautiful love it leave I of course probably the best player in this
match the most recent pro going straight to the bot lane securing a kill I got
push early corki prior double for through the vest of farm but he's farming
okay nice slow channing tornadoes the old missile speed I forgot that's a ten
time VCS champion right there. This is the corgi where you have two damage obviously from your passive,
your Q which you maxed, it's just the instant bomb you can't actually dodge it. Does it still
reveal stealth and wards? I don't think it reveals wards anymore. I honestly forgot I haven't played
a corgi in this yet. And there's no package. No package. Just raw power all the time. This is a
silence of course on passive and Q. Oh the full duration silence, oh my goodness. But if Scar turns
He on you can still just go right through it. Yeah. Yeah, you can still hit him back
I mean level six stars come back. He has
And then he's gonna revive and you can't revive and run back to die again
I will say remember reflock has like a much longer cool in this version of the game or yeah
When you know Riot nerf the reins they also made a cool to much shorter
So like even with max CDR of 45% if you have the mastery like if you still ain't for a little while
It's probably also worth highlighting so like a big difference in laning phase in classic preventive modern
is things tend to cost more mana and you have less mana reach out
Oh, that's cute.
And but into the turret range, Levi's on it, man.
He read Elixirs, gonna heal as much as he can,
but he's gonna get up on the Skarner, Permislow is on,
he's not gonna survive this one, Levi's on for two.
I gotta go play Skarner, dude.
He's like the closest I can get to Udyr and Lee Classic
because he's a fast clearing jungle who just bams buttons,
but Ambish is finally trying to make his gank.
It's on a ward, it's on a ward.
Yep, you can buy wards in this game.
You can spend some of that gold for a regular screen ward.
The sweeper doesn't follow you either, it's just a slot sweep.
Yep.
Yes, you did actually add in sweepers.
As sort of like one of the latest additions.
Yeah, so basically I implemented Trinket.
Basically we realized that players didn't want to buy wards,
so we gave them really, really, really weak Trinkets.
They had something to do with their time.
But Oracles, which is in the game, so Red Trinket,
just not going to be Oracles elixir.
You've got to go buy wards or a Sightstone,
so the yellow Trinket has to be a lot weaker than that one as well.
So it is the weakest Trinkets I've ever been,
But we wanted to give some players a little bit of free vision
Look at those philosopher stones by the supports. Yeah old pretend
Generation because they don't get free support items. So because they have to train that they can do this if we talk in real old school
There's actually the wrong bill. There's supposed to rush. I don't yeah
Just want to highlight that but obviously now that you have to drink it you can
Add that in probably good for supports because some of the games I rewatched from back then at like 45 minutes
You don't have any items as supports
So I like the fact you can get early gold from this. Are they buffed as well?
Which ones?
They're good for 10 items.
They're pretty much the last version you saw of them when they were in the game.
So Phosphor Stone, pretty much a straight rip from the end of season 3.
Because they got deleted in season 4.
Part of gold is a straight rip from the end of season 2 when it got deleted.
So yeah, they're basically the versions you last saw when you played with them.
Nice trade down there, good shield from Wei Xiaow.
Do we have comeback mechanics? How are bound to them?
Oh, good yet point and click starter oldy. Good luck buddy down you go three zero for Levi. He's carrying this game
Again, he's the best player on this art. It's instant. You can just flash pull back. It's incredible
He is the best play on the map. Well, he has he does have a bounty that's visible on the scoreboard though
Yeah, so champion bodies are in the game ambition ambition. Yeah, can we get this done? It's a single cue
There's a silence gonna buy him quite a lot of time
It's over the ult! It jumped over the ult!
Oh, it's a heartbreak, double-lift.
Try to push one back. It's knocked up though. He's not going to live.
It's four in a row for Levi.
Top lane, wait a minute.
He might have the damage. One more.
Thank you, Red Elixir.
The tie gets won for the team. Finally.
We've ignited Lee Sin's top lane.
So as the triple Doran's ring builds.
Yep, that's in the game.
Still couldn't get it done.
It was mostly sac.
Okay, Levi's taking over this game though, for sure.
He's going to build tank.
So hopefully he can't carry late game.
Like, you know, you're not gonna grab Karsus or anything
and like just pull him into a team.
So it might get a bit harder for him.
True, true.
Early game, yes.
Vayne is a hyperscaler as well.
Hyperscaler, if we get there for sure.
I think Vayne always had that issue back then
that her laning phase still kind of sucked.
And you can see that Skara is crushing in farm right now.
One thing to point out
about League of Legends back at this point in time
is mana costs are very real.
What we saw people start with mana votes,
they've got some regen items in their build.
So you can last hit well
and of course, Karsus gets mana back for last hit.
So, like, you can see, like, Pawn's kind of out of mana.
He's getting pushed around a little bit here.
And so Scarra's farming up.
He's going to do plenty.
Yeah, Scarra's going to be strong also.
Got to call it the old boots of mobility.
Love it.
You were so fast when you're out of combat with these things.
Just to get in range for that Skarner pull.
Yep.
Oh, man, so awesome.
But I think also, like, generally, mobility
was obviously sort of harder to get by
if you look at a lot of the older champions.
And you don't have like, dragons giving you
out of combat movement speed.
Like, the dragon will just give you flat gold, basically,
for the entire team so any item you could get that just gave you a little bit of mobility
was huge and you needed your jungler basically to be super proactive because otherwise not
much happened in the leading face outside of the ganks.
It's top of bot lane.
W for the new speed, gets pushed back so we can't ult just yet.
If he has flash it might get more, almost a range of ways now, exhaust gets pulled,
oh actually the flash might get enough space to get away.
Should have done the bot will go right at the end, pull him back a little bit extra, shout
out captain flowers on the ult.
Look at him fly away, though, with his boots and mobility back to coming.
So I feel like he should go hard of gold as well.
Like, I think he should go stone and hard of gold.
He's not good at doing it, yeah.
I think he should go double.
He's not going ancient golem, but who knows, he's going to go on there.
And yes, you want to hand off your blue to your mid laner?
Cast him? Doesn't have a ton of mana right now?
True, true.
The blue hands it off, what a hook.
Oh my god.
And Bishop took blue from Scarra on Karthus.
That's crazy disrespect.
Now Scarra, take me. You should go back and base in AFK.
Yeah, yeah.
Basically.
My recollection is his second blue was actually contentious between Jungle and Midlaner.
Obviously, both of them wanted it, but it was reasonable to go either way with it.
Whoever was ahead could usually, you could make an argument that they take it, and then
it would also just depend on the Midlaner.
Yeah, hands them.
If you're going to spam a bunch of Maladoms on Karthus and you're going to be dying all
the time, you don't need the blue.
Scar would disagree, but as a jungler I would say that it's okay.
Sure.
He's so fast. No ulti. And this Conner has no hard crowd control. It's your second Q is a permanent low.
Just recall mate, why are you standing here alone?
He wants to be an XP range. He's gonna die though.
There's no CC on this Conner, so the ult. And he's just like, he's chilling. I think he's actually chilling.
Yeah! Back when the Conner was a fighter. The Splash Hire was a 3.
What up? I was thinking if that bitch was gonna go in for a 1v3 right there.
This is the single Q of Moomoo, which you miss it and done for. There's no charges, so that's why my strategy was always flash ult, then Q.
Because you don't get those extra chances on Q charges.
Yeah, stakes are generally a lot higher in this version of League of Legends. It's in a lot of ways sort of more strategic because once you commit, that's kind of the fight.
It's more of a brain game, less of a hands game for all people like me.
Exactly. Also less combat mechanics.
In some ways, yeah.
If you make mistakes, it does hurt a lot.
Okay, going for the flash into the pole, and a hole back.
The tie kick damage almost enough, but so as gets the kill.
Love it. Levi just going every once.
Sos really needed this by the way, because he's actually not doing that well top lane by play,
but it will become sort of a gimmick Alistar.
It's still fairly weak before any sheen or ship pull.
I mean he's going to lose play in this game.
Great counter pick by the tie with the high sustain on the loose end.
It's probably W Maxley saying posh lots. He's silenced. He can't easy get away. He's gonna survive for now
Well, he's how I look at the range on that one and with the heal from Jana. It might be enough to survive through requiem
It's gonna be close
Paul is gonna survive it. All right. Here's revived. I'm back in there
He might be saving it for later when it matters. I mean there we go. He's back revive TP
Let's go half the people watching out just basically type GG because Castle didn't got his first kill in the early game
And he's now gonna snowball look at the laser fire. He wants a lot of ages upgrades to change the seraphs
And then he basically can't go home. There's Archangel staff. I don't think it will never transform into seraphs
Or is that version in here?
You're right. I think it stays at full stack archaic. I'm trying to remember actually it might still change name
Thank you for the reminder of nothing any name. Yeah, because it has a shield on the active
Oh, are we calling armor boots and ninja tabi or are they plated steel caps?
I think they're still called ninja tabi nice
They have a... there's no random dodge. This is without random dodge in the game, so Jacks has a modern E for example as well.
If you want that to change, let us know. This is a game that we can patch.
If you want random dodge, that is a possibility for the future.
But you're not shipping with random dodge.
So mid lane now, basically, everyone who's ever played against Castle in fact, then will have these memories.
You're just at risk of dying 24-7. Yes, you have revive. You can just go back and feed faster and tie again.
Tublin source.
It gives him bonus AD, by the way,
so so else could really scrap.
Bear is a Bluetooth Sheen proc.
You saw that W Auto chunked like a third of his health.
Fighting in mid-scarer does not have for a five.
He's not going to have an easy time for this one.
Pawn doing his best, jumps in, gets the kill.
Ambition, finally here.
Big fight in the bottom side, though.
Yellowstone's going to drop double, if thou on the board.
What a great gank.
Double wants to carry in this one.
There's also, I mean, Team Baron has a drake,
but that is just like a for fun counter, right?
There's no it's just gold and XP that's it. You kill the next one and it's more gold and more XP
Exactly another dragon. It's more gold and more. This is before any of the like three dragons and the five dragon stack
And definitely before elemental dragons, but you did add in that you get more gold and later you go into the game, right?
Yeah, so it's all big stuns done the polymorph at a good time as well
I'm up to kill Captain Jack the Valkyrie bought the silver bulk land dude. He actually can't carry this game
Yeah, like he can the only jam you want fed on this team is vain to just take down the front line like this
Alice stars world can't use all against him. Yeah, I'm thinking ambition flash alts
Carthus dies in alts and that'll get everybody low enough for double it to try and carry the fight
That's got to be their strategy
He's gonna be Rylize on Scarra something so he slows everyone again. He can still build the QSS as well eventually
He's got to pay the QS X-Tex at some point. Otherwise, I suppose flash all thing in and if he's not in some clicking it
It's really, really embarrassing against Captain Jeff.
True!
You had better.
Oh yeah, Blue buff has friends, if you forgot.
Blue and Red buff has friends in the camp.
It's a nice stuff there.
Oh, that's true.
And actually that's quite relevant, because now when you counter jungle...
You can leave one.
You leave the small one, and it doesn't actually respawn.
Correct.
So just remember that.
Yeah.
The baseline camp has spawn timers.
Are they Raptors, or are they...
Rates.
Oh, they're Rates.
Okay.
Yes.
from season four we just saw ambition just go fight there. This jungle by the
way has a 75 second respawn timer so if you want to be the CEO full clear. Oh
jeez. There is a lot of full clear available for you. Are there gonna be
any jungle timers on the map or are those taken away? We're doing something
not quite as aggressive as modern. Yeah. Hand find them on the mini map. We're
trying to be too spammy with the visuals but a lot of the modern UI tools are
there. Both junglers coming but lane. Carthus ult is ready. Maybe three. Yeah
Cardwell's gonna be a big deal here. He's just hit level 11, too, for Scarra.
Jump on in. Wimsy, the flash, all the movers there.
He's pushed around. Karthus does hit it. Ambition, waiting, pops it.
But then Guthrie and Pale, it's gonna be enough. Captain Jack kills Doublelift,
and there's no damage left. Two for nothing.
Levi got to get in range for another Q. Just a two for nothing.
Dude, Yellowstar's Janna is so broken right now, like the shield for the AD.
And then just the Janna ultimate basically immune the Karthus ult.
The level 11 Carthassault that came from mid lane didn't matter at all!
Oh? So as far as the mid lane, goodbye!
Pawn takes him down!
Oh, what a beautiful roam.
He used to do this all the time.
So what was the most annoying top lane to play against in Europe for years?
Because he actually understood how to leave his lane and just go gank mid or bot lane.
It was insane back then.
These types of roams were even freezing waves for legendary.
So look at this, the Lulu CC's them, but look at this, like everyone is literally full health
by the time Doublelift dies, the Carthassault does a little bit of damage, Doublelift can't hit anyone through the Skarner Ultimate, and they just run him down.
And, nicely done, this gen also slows in the area, so you can channel it, they really can't get around.
Yeah, and so once they realize he missed the Flash Q, he's like, well I can still headbutt, it's fine.
Well, I'm glad to see Yellowstar back.
Gotta get the auto attack.
As I was told me yesterday the rehearsal he is going to go for Lich Bane on the champion
So it's going to be AP plus W auto Alistar big damage there. Oh, he gets to press his E for the here
Yeah, the easy he also the passive and you have kind of swapped essentially in that
Anything versus any spell you trample for three seconds and deal damage around you
There's bonus to minions and monsters you can lay in you can jungle just to help anyone who's going to play Alistar
Yeah, when the game is live. Yeah, so what did actually explained to us?
You got a max range W. Otherwise you don't have time to get the order off. We had that in the very end here
We actually just were too close and I'll leave anything to order attack. Just so you don't look like a fool when you pick it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, stop feeding your lane because you're actually not that good in lane
So the pick isn't necessarily completely OP even though it's a bit of a fun gimmick
Be by also over here buying arguably, you know the best item in the game ages of the Legion, baby
Yeah, our items are here. They are back. They are amazing and armor MR to your team
Will he go to the runic bulwark as well as his another fight and it'll be by so fast.
Yeah, pretty well. 4,500 gold to the lead right now.
Of course, as you mentioned earlier, there are champion bounties. There are no objective bounties.
So those are not on the map. Just a simple look for killing objectives.
Of course, stakes rise over time. Right champs with more XP. Minions are with more gold.
And more XP as time goes on.
Double push them back for stay alive. We'll do so.
Pawn, you see 700 in drift lock. Scary spell.
Now one of the issues for Vayne, also back then, obviously you can't really kill the waves, so you're super slow and always at risk of dying.
Look at how chatty the dragon help us.
Yeah, it looks so funny.
He's trying for the play against Pawn, big damage for auto attack, he's been pretty well, jumps into the brush, but this is a long corner.
He's got to flash if he wants to live.
No, he's got the shield.
Will it be enough?
Karthus isn't going to try.
Deals again.
Not enough just yet.
He's got to be careful on Neva, he's going to be in range, flash ult, and so is here for more than flash gets away.
He's going to be okay for a second ambition.
ambition in the middle of the team, ult's on the 3, 2 damage, try to cut through onto the Alistar,
Lee Sin 2 not quick in the land but they knock off 1, Captain Jack on the way out,
the tie gonna try for what he can, cannot stay in range, Q's gonna land, does not have anything else
though, doesn't want to go for the kick flash. Could have gone for the insect in the spot of
the map where the original insect happened, wouldn't have actually worked but. Gotta be careful though,
this is gonna be big damage at the rest of the team, nice long range safe guard. He's still fighting,
Double if getting a couple of hits off scar is Sony. Oh
That get casted and go to shoot in. Yeah
And about four things on that first walk exhaust is on but yeah, he doesn't have damage yet
There we go. Let's put it across they get one the kick a little bit too late as already crosses his drop
He just keeps coming official pod. We have blue buff. Let's look at the man. I'm gonna just keep doing it
In range for the slow and it's that silence as well finally gonna time out there
Yellow star wants to be in range for a bit. He wants fun. He's close. I'll be another one here
It's mana per autotech on the W, passively, activist damage every auto,
double fronk for trade on the E, but it doesn't do a whole lot, but it hits turret.
Turrets are pretty frail in this version of League of Legends,
because the siege is pretty effective without that much considered effort.
That's true. I mean, most of the strategies back then actually involved around
just how do we kill turrets as fast as possible.
Like how do we get as many people together with a minion wave,
and just destroy the turret especially if they pick champions like Vayne and so on
who couldn't actually kill the wave, and once you've taken down a couple of turrets,
it was really easy to just get access to it and be jungle, and as a support, because you barely got any gold,
well, you got turret gold, and then you could buy an oracle when the other guy couldn't, and then you just took over the map.
Let's see the fight.
We call it like a siege comp, and you can see double of trying to chase down Pawn. Pawn still had flash though,
and the chase initially is actually pretty good from Team Baron. The sustained damage of the Vayne Levi goes kind of too deep here, right?
No one can follow up on his scarner all but then as everybody arrives and cast them bases to come back is when the fight eventually turn
Sadly for Cittite
Can't land he does land the Q doesn't decide to take it
Okay, not only does a moon we don't have to cut the Q his oldest not a stun
It is a root and disarm you can cast spells
I did not remember yeah, but it's the range of it really is it bigger because at one point
I went from 600 to 550 like it it should be I gotta do every champion so I don't have like every number memorized
Oh, look at the arch angle staff. Look at that amazing icon from yeah, that looks that's the tier upgrade
I was one what is that they're running away? There's so many people having nightmares of playing as castled and right now watching this
That's there's your damage from AP Alice or something AP you scara. Yeah, I've been a danger here
Kill kill just a punch, but next spell down he goes
And the damage reduction does it still got a 70% to rank 6 ultimate?
Yeah, it's what he's going for there. They give him an ambition and shield buys him bit of time.
Their Q's not going to lie from the same ticker of the wall.
They kill Captain...
Gara has revived TP, but can he kill backland? They're going to try and they'll get him with health.
Ambition on one health. Levi cannot stay in range.
Double it with a 700 gold shutdown.
I mean all these fights are fairly close and I keep feeling like we're getting close to our comeback
Because we getting kills on the vein 5 for double if right here scurrow of course a 0 5
But still his job is learning how to just go in and die in the fight
Yeah, he gave them tempo there with the death. He died on one side
But so has burned everything and it created a 4v5 on the other side
We're gonna be a Baron there's Baron there's Baron. They don't see that. They don't see that word
I don't think it's a bit of a division more invisible boards, but is invisible so they don't know what they're known
known unless you buy another vision ward yeah or red sweeper there you go
vision work comes down they can now see the ward or like quirky queue reveals
it still I don't remember this version of poor to reveal stealth didn't you ask
that already far enough back in the day but thank you yeah I pretty sure it
doesn't do it I think by this point in time like in history it hadn't anymore
but I don't remember like every single change on our ship this is coming back
Like the 16 years of patch notes that I read are simultaneously paying off and cursing me to not know what version of league we're in.
I don't know.
And the thing is, it's not even just one version of League exactly, right?
It's like Heart of Gold and like Ruby Sightstone, I think we're never in the game at the same time, like actually.
True. And then Doublelift with the red Phantom Dancer.
Oh, true.
The best Color of Phantom Dancer.
Yep, yep.
What were the stats on that Phantom Dancer?
Didn't it do something funny?
Um, I think it's just I think it's sort of the tax beating crit. Um, if you went far enough back, it was random dodge
But yeah, yeah, yeah, this is post random dodging. Nice coming. Yep. There we go flash
It's gonna land a lot of follow-up here
Lulu helps a little bit that we're gonna try to sell it away, but they're gonna be back in pretty soon
Fat shield with barrier they're gonna try to do everything they can with ambition around here as well trying to kill Levi
Decent damage Lee sin's gonna get in there and they find the first kill. So as old as gone pond shows back up
They'll be careful because that is
Cassadin, and he meets business.
Captain Jack takes down Scarra.
Rida comes in the back line, but Pawn already takes down one.
He's gonna look for more, waits out the exhaust.
The Tide's gonna try to find his way out, jumps over.
Pawn wanna chase, he good, but he's a 15.
I mean, Tide's a dragon.
They're just waiting for Cassadin to jump in
and kill someone in the back line, and then he kite back,
and then he jumps in again, tries to kill someone,
but double lift, once again.
Actually stayed alive, got another kill.
He will have QSS probably on next back,
It's matter with him. I forget to put some build path.
I could actually make a build magic mantle, so this wouldn't be wits.
But yeah, he's got Blade of the King. By the way, with the active attached, it's the active max health flow.
You have to press it.
If you press the button, he did do it when he dual pawn and bottom river, so I know he knows. I've seen him use it.
Also, old Black Thief was a tie built at a Brutalizer.
Yeah, that's incredible. Double of close to the QSS tax. Pawns, Archangels just transforms.
Active Seraph. So you have to press the button to get the shield.
shield. This is also Seekers with the stacking AP and armor per last hit, still
of course Trins and Azonias. How does Levi have five stacks on his Ruby
Seidstone? Yeah, Ruby Seidstone can have five charges. It went to five? Yeah. That's crazy.
It was pretty expensive though, right, to upgrade it. I feel like oftentimes we just
left it on the original one because it actually cost a lot and you wanted Oracle.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Seidstone let you have two Seidstone wards out, Ruby let you have
three Seidstone wards out. And you get more charges and cost more gold as well.
But those were not unique to the words you bought.
You can have a Recyestone and still buy a bunch of wards.
Also got Aegis as mentioned, has left that as basic Aegis for now.
Double Exibit is a carry now.
Weshaw is going to shield him, he's going to ult him, he's going to
pull him off whoever gets close to him.
So as his damage, just to highlight, it's really just like one combo.
And then he doesn't really do anything while he waits for his cooldowns.
So he's not the most scary top laner.
Oracles by the way, so you can walk around and reveal all the rewards, but if he dies he loses the four
This is the version where it's a four minute duration and not okay. Okay. That was earlier
Kick flash, but yep
Jump over the altar pond. He is in fact cast it in level 16 cast it in but
They got the gen ultimate which is decent for an extended team fight
Jumps in nice slow something to land waiting there. We go get the oath. They have enough to kill them off
The Polypropies, they have it, but can they chase down?
Support's already dead, one for one so far.
Shields coming across, Captain Jack running away.
Double-lip flashes in, is it enough?
Can he fight?
Looking for Yellow Star now.
That's gonna be a kill from Wekriam.
As Down goes, the Bloodthirster stacks,
they're gone off a Gorky, and so has Mytrop as well.
Lands a Pulverize, but surely they got enough damage
and enough people to get that kill and go for Baron.
And that's the comeback, right there.
They win another fight.
There's literally not enough damage
on Team Dragon side at the moment it can't kill the back line.
Skara he wants to die anyway, he does not care.
He just goes straight into the team
and deals a ton of damage.
Absolutely right.
Double if can just flash forward in these team fights
as well, gonna use this shred to take down again.
That incredibly small Baron health bar.
Yes, almost.
It has a lot of health, but this health bar
is just not that big.
And 300 gold for every individual,
plus the active Baron buff with three,
correct me if I'm wrong.
Big AD AP, every stat or, Nanary, Gen, Haltry, Gen.
Yeah, we're gonna fight this castle real quick,
look good and get knocked down,
and just as you mentioned,
made up a couple support, but not much else.
Captain Jax is not able to do too much in this,
and obviously Yellowstar is playing Janna,
so like once he's done like one round of shields
and ult, then he's really not offering anything either.
And so as we talked about,
you love the initial combo.
Got one combo, good combo.
When she tied, he, dude, they're all in.
They're actually full.
Cautious, dead, do your job, press R.
I love that.
I love that cutaway, that was great.
This is this version of Bluthorst by the way, stacking AD and lifesteal on kill.
You lose stacks on death.
You often win BT first spot Holy Champions, Corky of course wants dry force.
The Banshee's veil on ambition as well, no aura item on him, but it's going to help a
little bit against Skarner if you can avoid poke.
I mean this is my MSI final, by the way.
Yeah, this is what I care about good. This is what the game looked like exactly
That's quite a compliment. I'll take that one qualified for the LCS back when I got carried you still manage to not work your way on the
Beards team and it's all done without him. So well done
What version of art and sensor is this that we shout is complete very very early. It's not life on hit
It's basically AP or it's it's a tax feed and on hit damage to your target. Nice
Yeah, this is before the overbuff in 2016 where it was like completely shattered
131 on Team Dragon's side, and you're obviously just losing your mid-turn.
You can't really defend against the Baron buff anyway.
Okay, I'm glad this game is actually so close.
Because I remember some of the OG games that we could beat,
giga snowballed and go super fast, but this is a battle.
Yeah, I rewatched quite a lot of games,
and it's either you basically stomped them in 20 minutes,
or it's 45 plus.
Yeah.
Guaranteed where you just keep losing and winning teamfights back and forth,
nobody can really finish the game.
Yeah, this is the version of the game where Waveclear is definitely very real also, as you mentioned, you know, Turret's a bit squishy here,
but you kind of saw how, like, slowly caskets through the wave.
Play's got a lot better in the last 13 years, where it's like everyone has like a part of their Golden CS.
You know, generally how?
Dude, actually it's slightly buffs of the PvE stuff.
Like, they need to get a bit more stat scaling, because everyone just has, like, literally more Golden XB,
because they're better at the game.
So, some things are, like, you know, a little bit different to keep up.
There's the jump in.
That, however, basically no different!
He's back.
Man, this champion!
Pawn!
But he can run TP back!
Okay, he's gonna move ulti, he's applying the backline.
Good ult out of the janna, but Double is here.
Can he do enough damage? He's fighting Captain Katz.
Come around, barrier pop, getting the shields.
He's still surviving!
They're trying to kill Double, but he stays alive!
The revived TP from Scarra gives him the numbers advantage at the end
and Double lift continues to scale.
Imagine playing Kassadin knowing I will kill everyone 1v1, I just did it and then the rest of my team runs into teamfights and just died.
Please just let me solo win the game in the side lane. Oh my god.
Black Beaver and Last Whisperer, yes they stacked, yes you can buy those, have fun with that one.
I do want to be clear, this is a version of League that has unique passives, you cannot.
I mean you technically can but they're not good to buy 6 Sunfire Capes, they are unique.
Neeks want to make sure you're aware of that one before you get any ideas
Well, I'm gonna do some jump around goes to keep a light on wrist lock, but the tie just takes him down
Nicely played by the tie 8 and 2 now on this Lee Sin. Yeah, and he got like first blooded early, right?
Like he got ganked this one out at 4 to the most of with league classic right seeing great players now come back and try
Different versions of how you built these champions pro play Lee sin and like season 3 you just built tank
Yeah, yeah did nothing in late game like you wouldn't just basically walking around trying to kick someone away from your carry
Now we have someone just building full-on damage armor pen everything and he's destroying people
That's the solo queue though slow comes out of yellow so the whole team is here have a full version
There's a lot of damage and ambitions already quite low couple of shields come out doubles already on the fight as well
She's got to his ass. He feels comfortable stars are on the backside as well
Levi's that half double is still on the chase almost gets around the tornado
But that from Yellowstar means it is engages in yeah, that's all burned from double lift as well
But it's not like we're waiting on some dragon soul or some elbow
We got away for a big team fight to happen
There's no permanent game accelerator other than the other than the players just getting stronger and to your point officially
I can't wait to see like modern
split push or
freezing understanding or a seeding understanding
With the old game
It's going to be fascinating to watch some of the top players on stream and nobody can actually predict the matter
Like I saw a lot of comments where all these champions going to be so OP. I don't want to play against this again
And so it's all a little bit different
It's all different right
There's different versions of the champions and again people are going to learn how to play against them in ways that we maybe didn't think about
Back then like oh and 13 years ago. Have you oh? Yeah, by the way, you get full cool down
W into a minion. There's no there's no penalty. It is W. Wherever you want you get the shield you get the normal cool down
Full power and Lisa NW.
We're correct by the way. Levi building full tank.
So he actually can't carry this game. Even though he got all the kills.
This is a really good AD ratio. This version of Starner can build AD.
The shakes were made by Levi.
They're gonna try to go for this height? Should be able to get it?
Yes they do. Claimed under the Baron buff.
AD, AP, Regen. Oh they're gonna pop the Shirelli.
See what they can to kill. Levi pulling them around.
But they can't efficient with the Flash ulti.
The Zonius repond keeps them alive for now. Wei Xia wants to live.
Big knock from the backhand side. Pawn knocks down one.
Can they get the rest yellow star gonna fall double of still around look over captain jack
I think he felt free forward that's not gonna go well for you
So as impond those still alive Q's gonna land the tie-tock takes him down double of yeah
Pawn is gone bro that riff lock is not fair
But those are long death timers and they got three people trying to push mid with the Baron buff
And they're gonna try inhibitors gonna certainly fall the questions will they have enough once that happens
You can see the respawn timers around 20 seconds a piece
It's only one minion wave, so maybe Castle Link could jump in and actually get rid of it?
It is a fairly modern Baron though. It does give, resists to the minions around, makes him harder to kill.
And if it drops, he's gonna try for the siege right now. Just 32 minutes in, onto the Nexus turrets, they go.
Maybe one, just in. Some damage, locked up, kicked.
Active Shurelia's gonna dodge the first Q, but he needs to heal. And there's no home guard regen,
but he's gonna sit there on the fountain. Nexus taking the damage, interrupted by the Janna,
but it's not enough double! It last hits the Nexus and takes the match!
First international title for Doublelift.
Closes it out here for Team Baron.
What a match.
I love the comeback.
Literally, what a team getting super far ahead early,
trying to just pick them up left and right.
Doublelift just telling his team,
guys, just please team fight.
Around me, I will actually carry this game.
He did.
He did?
My teleporter said to say that was fun.
And it was!
That's a really fun match!
I want to take a small part of this one.
I told Double Oak you should probably play Vayne.
It's a very new champion.
Partially, I was like, look, you can play Ezreal.
It's Ezreal with a W that heals teammates.
That's a new champion. You can play Sivir.
It's Toggle W, Sivir with the ult that gives allies attack speed.
You can play some new stuff.
But if you want to play a Double Ops signature,
it is Vayne with active port, and he went for it.
The mechanics are amazing.
Yeah.
Oh my...
These guys are back in. Look at how much fun they had getting to play on stage again
I feel like all these guys are re-hooked and they're just gonna be trying to play more games in class
They're right now discussing starting a new war
Basically, there's like who can be screened?
Yeah, who knows see what people want to do and we'll go rock the grass with probably and we're not starting the LCS
He'll Ezreal now man. Yeah. Oh, yeah
Yeah, APS Real with Hewlett is in the game when it goes live in the state.
Yeah, I mean, if that wasn't enough, we've got more show matches for you to enjoy in the lead up to the release of the classic NALCS.
It has a classic show match Friday the 24th of July and EULCS has a legend show match on Saturday the 25th of June.
So check out the LEC and LCS official on Twitter or LLEs first calm for more information later this week
That's it for us. Thank you both very much for joining me. I hope you have a fun as I did
I'm so happy you'll get to see we've been working on for the last several several months
Let's throw it over to shock for the special guest to tell us even more about the classic
You so much I was such a throwback listening to you three on the cast
Oh my gosh, what a great first look at the classic and we have a special three as well
To tell us a little bit more Paul Baleza the executive producer of league of legends. What did you think?
I don't know so much fun. I mean see I'm like my voice is cracking now
Like you've seen little Baron just seeing like everyone's pics, you know seeing double up do what he does like it was
Insta-logic was really cool. Yeah, very nice to have you at MSI as well
It's awesome
Could you tell us a little bit more about this project because obviously it's super special
So we only got a small taste today, but what can you tell us?
Well, I can tell you, we've been wanting to do something like this for a long time.
The community has been asking for it.
And it really was a group of rioters who did something in our ThunderDome, it's like a
hackathon that we do.
And they decided to like, let's give this a try.
So they made a prototype, kind of based around season three, and we all played it.
And it was such a blast.
We're like, we got to do this.
Okay, I see.
Is there anything that you can tell us a little bit more about what the players can expect
than we'll be expecting from it?
Yeah, yeah.
So it's going to be kind of a mix of experiences,
kind of like a greatest hits of League.
It's going to be starting around season 3
as a starting point, but a little bit before and after.
But you'll be able to expect 60 champions to start,
including the original 40, some will unlock over time,
old items, runes and masteries will be there.
So like a lot of things to remember.
Yeah, it feels like it's something
that people have requested for a very, very long time.
And from watching this show much now,
it isn't quite an exact copy, right?
From League back in the day.
Yeah, so it's more like we've taken some of the,
some of the more fun character designs
and some of the less creative ones.
Okay.
Like what?
More like, ones we knew were not that great.
I see.
We've kind of excluded some.
But for the most part, like,
it should feel like the way it did then.
And, but yeah.
Yeah, so based on what we just saw,
It's not going to be exactly like League back in the day.
But what can you tell us about the development of League Classic
itself?
Where did the team pull the idea from?
How did this?
You talked about this a little, but it just
seems like such an incredibly big ask and such a big project
to dive into.
Yeah, I think the team in that Thunder and Project
proved that we could do it.
And part of it was recreating some of the things
that were lost from time.
And some of that was just pulling some of the old art assets
and polishing it off and just making it
presentable in a way that felt like a fun package.
But it really was a passion project that proved it can be done.
And testing it out with some players, they really responded well.
So we knew we had to commit and bring in.
And the big question, when will players be able to dive into League Classic themselves?
We're just going to be in 26.15, which is on July 29th.
So it's coming really soon.
OK, awesome.
Thank you so much.
And enjoy the finals, HLE and BLG.
Hopefully we get five games.
Thank you so much, Paul, for bringing this back to us with you and the team.
It's really for us as the ancient players, almost.
It's an absolute pleasure.
So thank you for that.
And now we will kick it over to a quick break.
But one week, come back to the MSI 2026 Grand Finals
between HLE and BLG.
We'll be right back.
Bye-bye.
This is your plan. This is your home. This is your fight. Fight it.
I
Hello, I'm Deijon from MSI 2026 Grand Finals.
been a grueling MSI. It started off really one-sided, only 3-0s, and then you got really
interesting trial of the ends. Welcome, guys.
Yeah, oh my god. Bleak Classic straight into this, so let's think about...
Yeah, jumping back into the future. Straight up.
What's good now? There's no side stone or there is side stone?
Korean China are good now. As they always have been.
They still are. They still are. So it's all coming back together, yes. We're bad again. We're bad again.
So MSI, let's look at it. LPL have five MSI titles all time.
LCK has four MSI titles all the time.
That's the majority of the MSI titles.
LEC does have one.
That was a great moment, but they're gone.
So the total game score between LPL and LCK
is also extremely close at 49 to 43.
And here's the history of international titles
for everyone that's pulled up from.
Yeah, I mean, look, for a long, long L while it was the LPL,
it was able to control the majority of this in the MSI.
But eventually it kind of got to the point
where you look at 2023,
T1 with those double AD carry bot lanes
kind of broke the spirit of the LPL.
And since then, it has been a very dominated LCK tournament.
And it's now to see if BLG can try
and keep this streak alive coming out for first.
Yeah, it was six international titles in a row for the LCK.
So the first stand win was great,
but it's a newer tournament early in the year.
It doesn't carry the same significance
as if BLG is able to knock out HLE today.
but for BLG specifically for Knight,
this matchup is always gonna carry significance.
Because remember, they were the team that was so close
on JDG to that Golden Road.
Who took away?
Well, it's T1, and there are a lot of T1s
in the history of Lolli Sports, no doubt.
They've stopped a lot of dreams,
but when you see Guma and Zeyu
slowing in on the other team,
you gotta know that the doubt is kind of
peeking up in the back of your head.
You're walking the Golden Road once again,
and it's like, ah, of course.
Who is here standing in my way?
But with some former T1 members,
with some new muscle back in them up.
But they broke them so hard,
Canabi swaps sides.
Canabi was like, you know what?
I'm out of nowhere.
I need to get over this way, yeah?
One of them will get it in the end,
but also we always talk about the Golden Road,
but there's something else on the line here.
The very first Grand Slam for three of the 10 players
that we have on the Rift, Zeus, Zika, and Viper.
Going to that MSI, it is the only missing title for them.
And you talk about switching sides.
Viper was there with their Kaleed.
This is all from 2025 first hand, right?
We've only had two so far,
so he's the only one in contention here.
really just coming down and Viper looking like a demon.
And I think it's cool that we have something new
for the individual players.
We talk about the regions, we talk about the teams,
the clubs that they play for,
but the fact that these individual players
could walk away with something
that no one else will be able to take away from them.
The first player to get all three international titles,
I think that's super cool.
Yeah, I think it's gonna be incredible to see,
especially because either way,
you do it in front of your home team crowd.
Either you got the OCK players who are doing it,
or Viper gets to do it in the city he grew up in.
Like what an incredible moment for him
and achievement it could be if he's able to do it here with BLG.
We've been allowed for him but extra for Viper here in front of his audience in his hometown.
We'll see if he can make it.
I don't know what we're looking at today because we've seen this matchup a few days ago.
It was a big one-sided. I want to say favoring BLG here.
How much can things change within such a short time? Jack, what are we looking at here?
Yeah, it's good that you called Jack because the rest of us seem pretty convinced that things are not going to change.
So that's a lot of confidence, Mr. Leeds, when you got to explain yourself.
I did say before the tournament that MSI has only been one from the upper back.
Yeah, yeah, that's a good bet.
That supports BLG.
So what happened to you?
It would. I think it's a coincidence.
I think I brought it up because it was fun.
I don't think it matters.
What I think matters is how the teams adapt throughout the tournament.
And for me, Zeyouz has adapted the best.
We've seen these made-bought snowball compositions.
And what Zeus has done with his last four wins is he's been on these raid boss picks,
like his Mundo became unkillable and allowed him to run through the game.
His Scion into a Jhin became unkillable.
His Swain that was into a Mal became unkillable.
And he's just been able to take over the game from top lane.
And I want to see if he can continue to do that because I think it's so core in how HLE could win MSI.
But the thing for me is, I agree those were some incredible performances, but the situation, how he gets those options, how he gets those picks, it's all draft dependent, it's team dependent, it is contingent on having that R5, it's up to very heads up for the enemy team.
Will BLG walk into it? Okay, maybe once, like look, everyone's gonna walk into it, maybe we might see a Mundo, we might see a Swain game, but those are really, really difficult situations to replicate, because you're right, Swain, Mundo, they can look incredible, but in the drafts where they're not good, they're useless.
In the drafts where they're good though, they are that raid possible.
Also, not to rub salt in the wound, I think if you give Jace to Bin and you pick Swain,
I think we're getting a very different looking Swain coming into that game.
I don't know what's going to be raid boss.
Don't play as Bin, we can make the comparison, Rob, I don't know why we're doing this, you know?
Looking at the stage of the competition, you know that gameplay and synergy is not something that you're going to be able to refine,
so we really want to be looking at those drafts and how much you can implement, especially looking at these finals.
And in the rematch against BLG, it's personal for Xeus.
We know it, especially facing up against Bin.
And he explained in the Verizon Game Day interview
what they can make better about the draft.
Xeus, thank you so much for joining me.
Heading into finals, rematch against BLG.
Let's talk about what went wrong last time.
How do you reflect on the series
that makes you think that tomorrow is going to be different?
The more I realized these days is that Drafting
has a huge influence of the series in the current meta.
Blossom and BLG, they managed to prepare a really good draft
by having a really good understanding of our tendency
and our play style.
That made the series really difficult to us.
But now, we also have a great understanding of BLG,
so we're not going to repeat the same defeats.
Do you have any message for being ahead of tomorrow's series
in the revenge matchup against him.
Let's play one on one without the jungler support.
Geek at Shattered once again,
we know how it went last time though,
bringing in the jungler,
but we know that we're gonna be looking
at this top lane matchup.
It has been mostly about this throughout
the entire tournament.
How are we looking at this here?
I mean, both of these guys won't be able to keep it up
because they can't both pretend CSF 14.
They've just, they've been dominating everybody else.
The fact that they've actually played against each other
and then it's still this high,
How much they've been stomping on everybody else?
Sometimes yet, we do cherry pick the stats.
I know you said you did it a little bit.
You said it might be a question.
Here, we didn't put their stats against each other.
Those numbers would be impossible.
All these cherries.
Well, the last of the face-up, they did lose 2% off of 4% each.
So, you know, big swing, big swing when they face up against each other.
That sounds like cowardice to me is what it sounds like.
But I do find it really interesting what he also said about last time they had the edge in picks and bands.
I mean, these teams are smart.
These teams are smart. I don't think they got the edge because they exposed some unfixable flaw in HLE's champion pool.
So I feel like they're actually going to be able to adapt and not get out drafted as hard as they did the last time.
And looking at this, we know that it's a matchup specifically important for Bin.
He's been stating it time and time again how he wants to prove that he is the best top laner in the world, especially coming in here against Zeus.
And I'm just wondering, is it finally the time for him to prove it?
It is his seventh international final, two and five score lines for him.
Can Bin prevail finally with everything he said like that?
I mean, especially when he's up against Seyes, this would be the moment to do it, right?
Like, so often a husband Seyes, who stood in his way when he wants to try and get that world championship,
there he could end up getting his second MSI title here today against them, but at least then
he would be another notch in Bin's belt to make sure, hey, I'm able to put this guy on the ground.
Yeah, and I think having that title for the LPL for Bin personally, especially up against Seyes,
given all the history that they have is a big big deal, but we're really excited about top lane.
A lot of the map fell apart before we got the honorable 1v1. So I kind of know what I'm feeling.
I feel what you're getting on HLE. You're the LPL guy. Like I'm gonna default to you. Like all of my
opinions, not matter because we got the Mr. LPL over here. Like for me, this feels like the perfect
meta for BLG and especially when I look at the way the jungler and support have been playing,
That's the deal breaker for me and it's what we saw that made the difference against Hanwa as well.
Sean and On working together.
On does not go down to Viper at any point in time.
He's immediately moving around the map with Sean.
He's making plays towards the mid lane for Nite to make sure that he has a comfortable lane.
And as soon as they are able to get control against Kanavi, the entire map disintegrates for Hanwa.
And I expect them to go towards a very similar style heal.
Here, go for the Camils, the Shens, the counter picks with the Leona.
Having an answer to Delight seems to be the focal point here for that man on your screen
Yeah, and look Delight, Knavi are good at this as well
But I think that PLG have been spent so much more successful in getting out of lane and a lot of that comes down to Viper
Also
Just, I mean let's be honest, we all know it's the thing that every AD carry hates
But Viper is the king of the mage bot lane. Look, he brought it out 2018 cast lookup 2019 LCK spring
Casio Vladimir he was cooking when no one else was cooking and winning with it
So it's no surprise to see that that is finally paid off for him and we've chatted about this with him actually a couple days ago
We remember the Griffin days. We remember what he was able to do with the hands in the bot lane for him
Super easy to pick up this kind of champions again
So let's check out what Viper had to say in the Verizon game day interview about this major
Just look at it.
Thinking about you and your early days at Griffin,
you were already picking up on the AP Mages bot lane,
and that's the kind of champions that you were playing back
then when you were with Lehan.
So how easy was it for you to pick up this champion,
this Mera, and how much did that help this MSI?
Honestly, it didn't even require me any kind of adaptation,
because I played those picks so many times.
It's almost like a muscle memory,
and the champion pulled back then and right now
about the mage bot lane overlaps a lot.
So I was able to kind of lock in those picks
with a lot of confidence in the current meta.
And with me and Leehands,
we were able to cook up so many different crazy stuff.
And we know the strength and weaknesses of each comp.
So we know how to play out the game based on the champions
and we know how the games will unfold.
So it was like so natural as if I was grieving.
And that's where it makes the difference for him.
It was, he said it himself,
Muscle memory where other players here at MSI had to adapt onto this meta. We can see him innovate
And where people had to pick up some champions
I wouldn't be surprised that Viper has more under his belt coming here today
I mean, I just love when 80 carries rose to prominence
Dictates how good they are at mages. So let's look at the champions they've played so far at the world championship
But specifically because of the Griffin era when Riot was actually trying to make beta's bot lane optimal
He could just play all of them and he continues to have that muscle memory to this day where he can go back
Turn back the clock to seven eight years ago and play all these picks that Guma just won't have the same number of reps on
But it's also the fact that like he's able to take things like the Cassiopeia like nice
It's considered one of the best if not the best player at the moment in the world
And he's considered one of the best Cassiopeia's and he may not even be the best Cassiopeia on the team
Like, they've taken that to give it to Viper in the bot lane.
The flexibility has been incredible.
And the fact that, again, this style enables on to start moving out of lane,
enables to play for those solo laners that can't be so oppressive.
It is the fact that Viper has said, hey, I will take a step back.
And this was something that Dany had mentioned in interviews, saying,
look, not everyone on this team can be a superstar.
Someone is going to have to take this back seat.
And it was Viper who said he'd step back and actually do that instead of forward, yeah.
And this is where it's interesting because you know that you're not gonna be able to contest Viper on this type of ground
So I'm wondering when you look at Guma your shift for me
He embodies the weak side AD carry for what he can do in lane so can he take Viper out of his
Out of this ground here and actually challenge him and bring him back to standard AD carries because he knows
He's not gonna be able to challenge Viper on 80 mages. Look when we came into the tournament
I was actually pretty confident that was gonna be the big edge
It felt like HLE were much more comfortable with Guma on the bottom side when you look at the start of the year
Viper didn't really fit in got a ton a ton of criticism
But in this tournament as much as I thought Viper might be a liability might not be as comfortable in that role
The mages bot lane and just his comfort playing 1v2 in a lot of situations
I think has given him a massive edge that I did not initially expect to be there and to get into some of the specifics
Even if Guma doesn't like playing mages. He's great at six so and in terms of like Zayu's playing raid boss champions
J-Sigs, if it's left unbanned, that's going to be the Game 1 comp and how you match that.
So I think Game 1 is potential. We see two mages in the bot lane and a bunch in the ADs.
As the series progresses, the question is like, how do the scaling AD carry weak side picks that Guma plays
compare to the fringe mages that Viper is going to be able to play?
And I think if Zeyu is then able to be on the tankier picks, that's their answer.
So I think he's going to be able to go even as to how the rest of the comp fits in
around punishing BLG for having too much magic damage.
And Bumak, he has some strong words about these mages and how much he dislikes them, I want to say.
He was on Gage's stream yesterday, so let's check out what he said.
He's back right now.
Mage is bot, does he like them or does he dislike them?
Do you like the one-deal AP bottom?
No, I hate it.
You hate it?
Yeah.
Okay, no more mage.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Too many.
Took Melzix, Velkoz, all that stuff, crazy.
Let's go, I hate it.
And I will say this is absolute 80 carry privilege because no top laner in the history of the game has said I love
Like all right guys time to rework top lane so they don't have to play tanks, but 80 carries like Ryan
We need it. Have you heard top lanes with 80 carries in the top lane?
I've not heard top laners shut up about that. If 80 carries are just a menace anywhere they go
I feel you ban all 80 carries anywhere if you really want to get rid of it
He can pull a 2018 reckless and retire and then right will be forced to act
They will be forced to act. I don't know if that's what happened, but this is I this version of history is pretty hilarious
We've heard it from the two of you. I haven't heard your prediction. So I I'm on the side of BLG
I think for a lot of the reasons that Rob highlighted. I like what Jack brought up about those top lane picks
I'm just not convinced that the edges gonna be there
I think draft edge reliably going to be in more games favoring BLG and it comes to execution
Canavi was really struggling against Shun and so while I believe the teams can
reset I got the tape I have already seen them win once I think they're doing it
again but there is always an option when BLG are just arrogant they can throw it
on away like I know these guys so I'm kind of curious like what the fans are
going to say because I don't know which way this one's gonna go and it's finals
anything can happen and I want to hear it from the fans with the MasterCard
Whoa
Usually western fans are
Heavily leaning towards the LCK. I was not expecting this. All right guys
I'll just say that fan prediction rates the lowest I've seen so I don't trust y'all anymore. I'm gonna go with HLE
I like to look at long-term trends. The LCK has won six of seven international titles
I think that wins seven of eight. All right. What do we think is gonna come down to?
Indians
I think it's all about the bot lane, who gets to leave it the most, I think that's really
the core of it.
Xeus vs Ben in the late game.
Xeus vs Ben in the late game, no junglers involved this time around, that's the only
thing we want to see, things can change within a few days, last time BLG had the edge, but
maybe, maybe H&D with the run they had, they can make it happen because all it takes is
one day to write your name in history, one day to reap the rewards of years of hard
one day to make it count, to get your revenge and cement yourself as the very best, to be your hometown hero.
Or one of the very few who actually won it all.
One day for BLG to get a step closer to that long-awaited Golden Road, or for HLE to finally prove that MSI belongs to the LCK here in Dejon.
Both teams have called their shots, but only one can be victorious and it is time for your MSI 2026 Grand Finals.
So let's meet the team in our player introduction presented by MasterCard.
This performance, I don't know whether anyone wants to face BLEG.
HLE will rise to the occasion, and they are in their place in the final.
The LPL giants will take on the LCK first seed and show Gaeja what their worth.
The two teams, BLG, HANA, and APL and SKL, have been fighting for a long time.
One team has a long-term goal to complete the game.
Another team has a chance to write a new story.
I think everyone is still in the same team as the other team.
Personally, I've been to the MSI once in my life,
but I've been to the other place called the LCK,
so it was a place that I've been to before.
Life.
One.
Three years ago,
two people walked towards the Golden Road.
I've been to the Golden Road for three years.
But I wish you could come to MSI when you show up and have a good time.
At the time we were together with the Knights, we did well.
And I think we did well.
I think it was a good plan.
In 2013, we won the LPL Spring and Summer.
MSI was the last in the world.
Their journey to the Golden Road was blocked by the last moment.
80G, a solemn bow.
Is their golden road is denied?
Now, the two players face each other again.
But this time, they have to overcome each other.
I was in the graphine seven years ago,
and I was a member of the Chinese PL team.
When I first went to the PL team,
the people around me helped me so much.
I was really happy.
When I was in the Stubborn,
they gave me a good sign in the blue light.
I decided to be a foreign member of the Korean War.
I was a member of the Korean War.
I was completely different from the Korean War.
I wanted to be a foreign member of the Korean War.
No.1 and no.2 are in one place.
It is a great honor and a great honor to be a part of the Korean War.
I have always been abroad.
It was a big performance in Korea.
I hope the performance will be successful
when the finals are over.
I'm very proud of you.
I'm very happy.
I'm very proud of you.
Now, only two teams will have the chance to challenge the top team.
Now, I will introduce the two teams to you.
First, this team came all the way to the top team without any chance.
And the only Golden Road Gover in the world.
from LPL!
B-A-L-C-E!
Ta-B-E!
Tzang-Gae-C-E!
And now, I'd like to introduce you to the 2nd half of the team.
This is the home ground of this team.
And this team has a lot to offer to BLG.
Ta-da!
Chaewon Show!
Wow!
Now, let's say a few words for the last two teams.
First, from LPLP!
L...Ch...
Next is the MCK's Han Hwa Sae!
Let's start with the final.
Yo! Red!
Okay! Let the finals begin!
The winner of the Ego-Kiromu Game is...
...Kadun-Meyon!
Red!
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the MSI 2026 grand final.
Firstly, just have to say a huge thank you to Castor Jun.
It does not feel the same if we don't get the shite kage sumida.
I just got to say, man, we see the player's trophy.
Where's Castor Jun's trophy after that performance?
Exactly.
Someone needs to put a metal on his shoulders or something.
I think he's got a few so far.
The man has been around for quite some time and is incredibly good at what he does.
And speaking of people that are pretty good at what they do, we have two teams that have
faced off against one another only a few days prior, looking to see whether there can be
a different result here today.
And it's gonna have to start with support.
I mean the support difference was huge simply because On was immaculate.
He was so good, incredible, and he started the series with that Shen game.
I feel like that is like perfect support play, man.
He was everywhere.
They defended the jungle, invaded.
He got his jungler going, kept up the pace of the game.
He even then made stand United plays later in sidelines
with Knight as well, and completely accelerated
and controlled the game.
So, B.O.G., they just did such a good job
attacking the game plan of HLE
and defending against their win conditions.
Absolutely agree.
And I just felt like Knight as well was unreal in that series.
I came into the tournament thinking he was the best mid laner in the world.
I'm now thinking he's the best player in the world.
This guy is in unreal form and Zeca is going to have to play a great series to keep him
contained because Knight is so flexible.
You can dominate lane, you can dominate the teamfights, you can move around the map, you
can play melee, you can play control mages, you really can do it all.
Yeah.
And I think that for me, the most impressive thing the last time these two teams met was
And how incredibly well he navigated each draft, getting the Shen, for example, finding the Akali counter pick to make sure that Zeku was entirely nullified in one of his most famous picks.
And if you're an LCK fan, a T1 fan, especially, you might be thinking that Danny is maybe not the greatest coach. However, he has been absolutely phenomenal here at the BLG.
I 100% agree. I did think you're gonna say the most impressive thing about him though was his jump kick
Because that was clean too right when they smashed them
All right, we are getting ready for champions like to if a game number one of the MSI grand final and here it is
presented by HyperX
BLG will be on our blue side to start this one off because HLE have elected to go for the first pick
So there has been a lot of discussion about the mages and of course the mages bottom lane
There's such a big difference between viper and a lot of carry players here
Guma, you know on record for sure now saying he hates that
You know please get the out of there, but what a chilly did focus last time in game number one
They picked the ziggs that is his make that he'll play in the bottom lane
The ziggs plus rail combination they can do other combinations with it
But I want to see if they actually choose a different strategy now
Or if they still want to get at least one of the primary mages out in fearless early on
Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting to see you know how they want to approach here because vapor is just so flexible like this is his
Meta yeah all the mages he said yeah, he could play everything and when this guy was coming up
I was I was blown away by like this yasuo. You can I remember watching highlights from solo queue visit ribbon and like
Wait a second you can just play every champion in the game like yeah, you can do that
It's just kind of ridiculous.
Viper has really flourished
when there are different champions
to play towards the bottom side.
He was also in the middle when people were playing
bottom lane Darius and Gangplank
and all sorts of weird things.
It was a strange time to exist there towards the bottom side.
First pick though, is it the Ziggs?
Do we actually need to lock it in first?
Yeah, I don't know if it's gonna have to be locked in first.
I did wanna point out that Syndra banned though.
It is a double ban, you know,
Fleshy talked about Viper playing a lot.
But the Syndra, yeah, the Syndra has been played
into the Ori and the Ryze with a 2-prime man 1, so that's why I definitely drew my eye.
I'm really interested because we actually saw this from Lyon where they, we thought,
okay, they're going to split it up, but then they let both through and they went least
into Kali, and we know Knight has a dangerous Akali that he could bring out, so it might
be a similar draft.
Yeah, they've got a lot of things that can attack an Ori on, and Nocturne is also available.
The idea usually, when you give over this champion, is that you're going to put pressure
and burn her flash a lot and try and get kill pressure.
And it did work, oh, it's actually...
Yeah, Bart definitely does and of course we could still see Akali on two or three if they do want to go towards it
They don't need to lucky Akali here, right? It's not likely that Zayac is gonna play that in the top lane
So this is interesting to me and again the idea of Fearless always gets into it in the first game
Do you think that oh because we have Viper's deep deep mage pool?
Let's take away some of the safe AD carry picks. Well taking Ezreal away from Grumiyushi doesn't really do that
He's not the biggest Ezreal player, but Bard Ezreal does give them that safety.
It's a simple idea, you have safety form and let the Bard roam.
There's the Relfar Delight, certainly one of his favorite champions, does care pretty nicely along with the Sigs if they do decide to go that way.
Very interesting that this time they're not going for the knock turn, but didn't necessarily work the greatest when we saw it yesterday.
So instead it is, whoa, okay, I thought it was actually if you were going to get locked, but they are going to take the Lee Sin away here.
Something that has become very high prio amongst these top junglers in the world people have really been liking it
We've been seeing a lot more variants when leesin comes through as well three can't face for a long sword look for early
Gangs look for early skirmishes and try to push the pace and if you're expecting them to attack your Orianna
Then this can be a good champion to play through mid lane and try to cover as actively after their
The Ambeza-Fazayas as well. This is a powerful top side of the map, but still a whole lot of counterpicking can be done, and here's the first one with the Renekton potential answer, the Akali, another one into the Orianna.
Yeah, it makes them choose, right? Which solo lane do you want to counterpick? I think this is the correct choice, by the way, even though Ben clearly does want the Renekton answer into it.
Personally, I would prefer the Akali, get Knight on that Akali. He was nasty with it and if the Orianna definitely would be good, but of course the other counter-pick is also very good.
Zayas, I feel like has been the best player on HLE if you take all of the games into account.
Yeah, I mean he has been really, really strong and it's interesting, right? Because deciding between the Akali and the Reactor, I was kind of thinking the same as you that I would prefer the Akali, but at the same time, maybe Knight is saying,
is saying hey there's gonna be good angles for Akali in later games and this is a really good angle for Ben on the renekton
Be able to shut down Zayas on this ambassador
This is one of those traditional difficult matchups that usually is banned out when you want to pick the ambassador
And so they are gonna have that advantage in the top lane one-by-one
Lushen gonna be taken away here from Grumichi certainly one of his favorite champions there towards the bottom side of the map
especially for playing around that mid game and I think that HLE are gonna have to ban an Akali and then do they take away
something like the Scana, but you have seen fun success in the things like the Lee Sin.
Yeah, gonna be interesting here because you don't have some some extra way. They're okay,
so they're going to ban the Poppy first. I still like you think they're also going to ban
the Akali as well, but Poppy first because of the dashes of Lee Sin and Ambesa also makes a lot of
sense. Yeah, it does and I mean if you are considering an aggressive page by, you know,
if you're considering playing something like the pike even, then you know, that would be difficult
to play against as well. Ziggs is going to be denied though, so I mean with Lucian you're kind of
banning Lucian Milio, you're obviously stopping those Ziggs lanes very easily. We did see MF come out
from Guma yesterday in their series when Berserker did go to the Ezreal, it was very effective both
in the early lane as well as in the mid lane. Once he got the BT he could really kind of shrug that
off and it can be difficult for Ezreal there, so it is an option that Guma could go back to,
but we're expecting the Akali to get banned out here. I think it would be a big surprise and it's
Well, they do take all of the time out of to do it and it will not be banned away
The job to be denied from shown instead so maybe groomer and delight thinking about something like Sarah being something
It's a little bit more susceptible to that cataclysm
But I do still think that like
I mean so are PLG that's that's what they're thinking about. Yeah, what?
What's the trick here?
I wonder if it's something they're thinking about like an angle with like granada or something that could shut it down
Or like a Lulu that's gonna be good into it
I'm trying to think about like what support picks to shut it down because it's not really about 80 carries shutting it down
So that's kind of the only angle that I have is that they are worried that oh well
What if what's the light goes X that can make it difficult in the 5e5s
But I said so much fake and nice ability to pilot a colleague in these fights and give them a good matchup that
I would be surprised to not see it. It might just be
Caitlyn okay, so they're just debating between two different lanes here
It could be Caitlyn Karma, it could be Caitlyn Lux, we've seen Caitlyn Elise, so it's really just, you know, kind of the dealer's choice on what they want to go.
Yeah, the light might be on that relative considering earlier on that I would like them to play a little bit more lane-focused, and this is exactly that, as the comma will be locked in here for the light.
The only thing for me with this HLE comp is that Ambesa's ult is harder to hit now, and you don't have great setup for it.
You don't have really easy CC to be able to land some of these things.
of these things. This is obviously very good with Mbessa and you can like hide in fog of
war sometimes or get good angle sometimes or even sometimes just use slows maybe to be
able to set it up and guaranteed hit those. But not the easiest.
And it will be the Vick to lock in. So Noah Cowley hit the 9 point for a little bit more
of that scaling damage. We've seen Vick to find a bit of success so far this MSI. But
it's not really the direction that I was expecting this draft to take. However, if it wasn't
and Kali there, maybe it feels a little bit too haphazard.
Maybe the teamfight isn't as powerful as VLG wants it.
Yeah, it could be a little bit more difficult.
My kind of thought process is maybe they think top lane's
just going to be a battleground because they
went for that early Lee Sin because they have the best
that they want to protect, and maybe they're saying,
OK, we can't be in both lanes at once.
Let's focus on playing through top.
I also do think Karma is pretty annoying.
The tether for Kali reveal is pretty annoying,
and then the Macho Shield is always decent as well.
But we'll see how it turns out here.
going with the victory going with the scaling for mid lane and it also is
going to mean the police in not going to be able to find that value into the
the Akali that he would have otherwise as well and it's a little bit later in
the game in the series where you may not have to deal with either the karma or
the least in and I could find out
And here he's got a skimmed champion, and he is pretty good at that one as well.
The only time we'll tell, game number one is upon us last time around.
BLG had this one extraordinarily quick.
I remember there was a Kobe complaining about the series not quite being as competitive as we wanted.
This is the grand final at MSI for 2026 though,
and hopefully we'll get a good one this time around as already here under the Rift.
So you have aggressive decent jugglers, D, want to be.
Kenavi was such a big part of that kind of game series,
when overlying, I thought he was straddling across a lot of different games.
When this guy gets ahead, he has such a problem,
because he pushes the pace in such an incredible way,
constantly invading, forcing fights from that advantageous position,
and putting inspired, at least in that one game,
that scarter game, down three levels at one point.
Yeah, and then BLG showed when they played against Kenavi,
It could also be a problem if Knavi gets behind and the problem for HLE because of the counter
and what they were able to do in game number one.
So they did get the vision of him on the raptor pit and they're going to know that it is going to be topside down clear for him.
So opposite clears here for our junglers and shouldn't be going to be playing up towards that bin matchup.
Again, the renekton into Ambesa is very nice, especially early on.
So we'll see how much bin can actually pressure because he's been very good at getting the maximum
the maximum out of, especially his Renekton matchups.
Yeah, I completely agree, and with this Nafiri coming in also,
post-level six, it's not going to be easy because lane ganks are so easy to set up for.
Nafiri doesn't always have to have a creative angle. She can't find them jumping over walls,
but sometimes just the lane gank and the sun is enough, and Kanavi's looking for a level three top.
Yeah, he's already here. Zayas is going to dive in. Is bin too far up? Will he have to flash?
That is going to be the question here as the ward hop comes on over.
The Tempest, Cripple will come down here from Kanavi.
It's the Flash forward from Xeus, they won this first blood!
It is the rabbit of the Rook of Terror that comes through and that is going to be first blood!
Over to...
Kenavi here, coming out of the jungle, and HLE off to a much better start already.
Yeah, he does end up having a Flash forward, but that is still well worth.
And they do it pretty quickly so he can recall and immediately go to his bot side camps.
Now you know that Shun is going to have a little bit of extra time after he's clear.
He's actually not finishing as clear.
Look at him, he wants to go into the kill because Zaeus not recalling no flash.
Oh, Jean actually not going to show himself here as he does back away.
If that ward down, that is going to be the ambassador going home with that advantage.
Yeah, Zaeus was trying to get that wave in, but realized it would be not safe.
Ward hop, Tempest cripple.
There's just not really any way out for Ben in this spot.
I feel he played it about as well as he could.
Throws the stun down onto Zaeus, tries to kite it out.
Canceled auto it looked like there from Kanabi forces him to use the flash
But then he can safeguard out to safety
It's a nice little early gank here at least in one of those champions that we have been seeing utilize those quite a lot at MSI
And he's got two quick longswords as well
Yeah
I want to see what happens over the the raptor response too because they do have vision on it and shun is definitely one to punish
So I shouldn't got the full clear done meanwhile Kanabi finishing up with this crab and support difference as well in the room for those
We can see the LPL and LCK MSI finals head-to-head there.
So maybe another gank here, TP coming in aggressively.
Yep, Kanavi's trying to get into position here.
Zeca immediately has to flash to get himself out of the way.
And it's Kanavi safeguarding himself to safety.
Good cover there from Kanavi.
Zeca with the aggressive TP does get punished loses his flash,
but because the Leason is there, he will not lose anything more.
And as you were saying, Isaac, this is the LPL tournament.
It is. It has been, you know, in the finals, you know, versus the LCK, especially in the past, I will say.
We have been having Gen G do very well in more recent years here at MSI.
So LCK has been kind of running things internationally, it feels like, for that last couple of years.
It was starting to feel like, hey, we're moving back into this previous LCK era, where it's just a matter of which LCK team wins.
Then we come to first stand and all of a sudden both LCK teams out before the finals BLG win then here
T1 out earlier than expected BLG in the finals after taking down HLE and HLE is now fighting for that LCK pride trying to
Reestablish themselves as the best team in the world exactly it feels like BLG fighting here
And they've got the year that looks like the revenge of LPL. They are
Constructing the Golden Road
At the moment with the first stand win and looking
To repeat what they did in the winners brackets final here versus HLE and if they're to do so
I mean it would be a quite a big global shift here
It really would right and that's obviously so far off in this series
But you know it has been also gay running things it has been them playing so well
Of course, you know, this is where they are in the Golden Road thus far
You know, they did win split one they went to first stand they won there and were quite dominant
Honestly in that run then split to they went as well and now here they are in the MSI finals all the way through the upper bracket
Halfway done. Of course the second half of it is a little bit more difficult
Experience, you know, it's a bit happier to place
Okay, a little bit of damage here on to delight but leason is the closer jungler as well
So I was just gonna slip out. Yeah, man to W as well that from the lights help get
good of that health bar back, one of the handy things here for the karma.
One thing that will be fun about HLE if they are able to get over this hurdle this time around
is that we will have a third organization here from the LCK being able to grab a trophy here at
MSI really maybe giving themselves an opportunity to start another dynasty here because Genji and
T1 really just have had a monopoly over these international tournaments outside of the weird
the DRX split and the Dom1 era.
I mean, they really have.
And it's very cool to see ZAIS and Gumiuchi
establishing themselves now on HLE, obviously.
Tremendous to sex with T1,
but weren't able to actually win that MSI.
And now here on HLE with an opportunity to win a tournament
that they weren't able to on T1.
And really, you know, just showing that it is not just
about that T1 org that they can have that success
independent of that organization
and have built an incredibly strong team here with HLE
that did not immediately get the success they wanted.
You think back to split one, they actually finished 10th,
which is more of a format thing than an honest thing,
to be honest.
But still, Kanavi was not gelling immediately with the team
and watching through split two,
it was a night and day difference with this team
on the same page as Kanavi.
They have looked brilliant.
I certainly have.
Let's see if they can actually challenge
and put the extra pressure here onto HLE,
or onto BLG, because currently the early game is going well.
You know, Kanavi had a successful move, they controlled the neutral objectives.
Does feel a whole lot slower than what we were seeing before though,
and I feel like this does benefit HLE.
I feel like at this point, they were just running around their own jungle,
trying to get as much as they possibly could, because things had already gone wrong.
You can see these are the three times that Zeus and Gooma play down the side together.
They were runner-up and then two third-place finishes.
Both of those third-place finishes had the hands of BLG,
so it's not just revenge for the upper bracket.
They are looking for revenge against BLG here, who has stifled them a couple times at MSI.
Just I remember it like it's yesterday.
That depression really has not gone away.
It's been a difficult cost.
I never feel bad for you.
I know.
I know you do.
It's so hard.
I just won the last four world titles, but there was this one time where I got second
at a tournament.
It was so tough for me.
I paid my dues.
It's not on the OPL.
The OPL, right?
Yeah.
They were a lot of winning it all.
I'm staying in the LCS.
That was the place to be initially though, and I'm glad that we've got league classic
to see incredible plays like Doublelift being able to completely smurf it here on the stage
once again.
Back to our prime, eh?
Yeah, exactly.
Back to the good old days, right, Cody?
Good old days are now, buddy.
That's what five games against HLE.
The present really isn't that bad with the top three for North America recently, but
back to this game.
It is really fun because there are so many titles between the different players on these
teams and we're talking about all these different combinations.
Also you know the coveted beat of getting one each of first stand MSI and Worlds is
up for grabs here because of the earlier HLE where they won the first first stand.
Zayas, Zeka and Viper all on that team so both teams here have the opportunity which
means somebody's going to do it and collect all three even though it's not in the same
year. Infinity Stones will be complete. Indeed. It could be double the amount of Infinity Stones completed if it is
HL8 that managed to take that one over the line. But Viper being able to do it whilst also continuing down the Golden Road
and ticking over that 50% mark towards getting everything for the year.
It's kind of crazy like we've had League of Legends eSports for so long, but a team has never been dominant enough to win the entire year long.
I mean, it speaks to how ridiculously difficult it is.
The game is shifting all the time.
There's multiple metas throughout the year,
just because you're the best in one,
does not guarantee that you will be the best in another.
And even if you're looking that way,
there's just so many tough teams to get past.
And the more recent one where we did have
pretty close Golden Road was that JDG team
that had Kanavi and Knight on it.
And now Kanavi's on the other side,
trying to stop Knight in his endeavors.
And last time around, Zaeus and Guma were there,
and T1 were the ones to put a stop to it at Worlds.
The large brick at the end of the road
was definitely a heavy one.
And it's a tough one to remove.
It's also kind of interesting,
talking about Viper in his road a little bit.
Oh, Kanavi, maybe gonna look here.
Yeah, he's gonna look to get himself out of the way.
Public execution is going to pick up the crocodile.
Dominus is running, but there is a kick back.
The flash out, though, Zaeus follows him up,
and Kanavi gets another.
Canavi is having a good game and you know what that means. HLE are on fire, goes to Zaeus' lane.
They hit the ultimate and that's all you need to guarantee the gap close there.
Zaeus and Canavi are able to combine for another Canavi kill. Getting Lee Sin fed early, we have seen this before.
We absolutely have and I just love this from Canavi. As soon as he completed the Eclipse, just goes straight up towards top with that Eclipse reveal.
Ben needed to flash that but he thought he had the ability to sidestep and just couldn't quite get out.
Yeah, I like the way he plays it. He goes point blank onto you. You know double dashes and slows band
He's like, I am right on your face
Now we're gonna be able to hit this and they set it up and then Konami can close and Konami still has his flash
Well, both top laners exchange theirs
And it's always just difficult when you are playing one of these early game bully matchups
And you're getting preyed on by the enemy jungler because your time of power kind of gets whittled away
I'm very very quickly and now you know we're 11 minutes in he does have that little CS advantage
but the couple assists for Zayas have kept them basically dead even in gold in this matchup where Zayas will outscale and
In theory should be more valuable in the 5v5
Not to mention the fact that shun is getting less and less valuable right like being these more damaged focused junglers can make
Things difficult he is up towards his top side of the map and he's got friends as you say Kobe
Let's see where the Zayas can survive this one doesn't have the public execution
But he doesn't want this to be public that is going to be the first kill for BLG and it goes tonight
The cost is going to be hefty on the bottom side. You know the Caitlyn karma had already been doing a lot of work on
Turflades pushing in using that range using the double poke and so they're gonna get quite close to the first turret bonus gold
But BLG make the call. Hey, yeah, we are also worried about and that's a getting out of control
So try and get that extra kill. Yep gonna be able to get up there and get that gooma getting a lot of gold though here
800 gold ahead of viper who did slow down the push a little bit with that cross map as real all to clear out the way
but Goomba is already on his first completed item, has the hex optics done,
and you can see some of these first items really coming in across the board.
You know, we have double Eclipse on the top side for HLE,
we've got the Cyclosaur in the Eclipse, and first item also done now for Knight.
Hasn't been too much talk about dragons, but it is HLE with the first two,
even though they weren't contested.
Also, big bonus when you make big plays like that up to this side of the map is,
they leave behind extra vision because they just overloaded with four people,
And so then when you're retaking there as on is under attack, then it gives up your next jungle clear
And so they have really good timing estimations now on Kenavi
So BLG do also have the extra information after the play HLE though continue to stack their dragons continue to execute their game
Play nicely yep three and a half minutes, and then we have sole point on the cards here for HLE
1000 gold lead. He's not the end of the world not to mention the fact that
that BLG are getting towards the two items back for Viper right wanting to play around I think probably closer to two items here in this game rather than anything else so the mid game could be very, very scary from this squad.
And HLE gonna have to stay on their toes if they want to make this one work so far so good and definitely much better than before as Kenavi possibly jumped on here is on takes a very short magical journey and gets a flash out of Kenavi.
So the pressure taking the flash off Lee Sin, the fed member here on HLE is going to be
pretty valuable, but on just trying to harass him as much as he can, seeing if there's a
way to actually stop that recall and Zayas just barely gets out on that recall.
Yeah, the Q actually tags him momentarily that he is able to get back home once again.
25 CS is going to be the lead here, a little bit above that here for Bin.
So, actually despite the fact that he died a couple of times in lane hasn't really changed
how this matchup has been going in the 1v1.
Yeah, not too much and I think one of the critical things about it is that he was always
pushing so it's not as though he lost a big wave at his tower on any of these deaths,
right?
He had actually already cleaned the CS, pushed it up and then Wednesday has died, it was
at his tower.
He was 4 man dove so lost some CS there, Ben was able to get some play gold and that
has kept him in a pretty comfortable spot thus far in the 1v1 but still I think all
All things considered, HLE super happy with how this game is going.
Guumann-Kannabi, super accelerated, you use that bot pressure to get the early dragons.
It's an infernal soul that will be available this game and they would love to continue stacking.
Oh, Kannabi has found his old friend here, is Knight Blascoons his way up.
There's the resonating strike to follow from the Lee Sin, kicks him into the wall and he'll just find the kill!
Second grabs and assists with a command protect, but that was all Kannabi.
Everything done so well from Kannabi there, you know, dashed out of the gravity field,
lands a cue, Autos are prompt to get his energy back, takes it over the wall after the last
cone.
And then Miyoshi, he can have to get out of the way, and Shrenhand will see whether that
flash is going to be enough here as they turn it.
He's on a trap, and Shrenhand is able to flip his way out, but Kanabi is going to get there.
And it's actually Zekka that locks up the kill.
Tower goes down in the bottom lane, and HL here up to the racist in mid.
They absolutely are, and they're going to go for the Herald cue as well, with already
so much damage dealt to these towers from this Caitlyn, but they don't want to get this
up.
back in, they do have double TP available, been not coming just yet. Knight is there though.
Yep, Kanavi gonna see whether he can get this smite down, is going to be out of land at there,
as the gravity well has been able to hold him in somewhat position. Saitha gets him over the
wall, tempered fate holds him in place, but he's got the ball, it's actually going to be the death
ray that does it from Knight, so they do manage to get that shut down. Kanavi's still incredibly
far ahead. That's a big one to get though, and I believe that went to the hands of Knight, correct?
So that is exactly where they want their money.
You know, BLG, so many of their games.
It's always when night is fed, when night is fed,
they are able to retake control.
But let's take a look at how it happened.
Yeah, Guma, just 90 caliber nets in aggressively
for the trade, has to flash out when he sees Shun
and then Shun flashes, goes in with the AWP
with the early tether from the light, roots him up.
Kanabi arrives very quickly.
Zeka TP's in, they get that kill.
And then this is afterwards.
You can see Bin had his TP but decides, you know what, the Dragon or rather the Herald is already going to be gone.
I'm just going to walk bot.
Knight TP's up, but him and on are able to actually combine to take down the Lee Sin.
The Karma Shield expired during that bar at all, so they're able to burst him right when he comes out of it.
Looks like the Ezreal got the shut down there.
I believe from the kill call at.
Oh, Kanabi is a little bit upset about that last death, and he is just going to come out of a replay and absolutely destroy Shun.
Now, Shelly's getting to work in this out of turret, and this snowball is starting to roll.
Still only about a thousand gold, given the fact that that tower fell down towards the bottom side.
But that's Kanavi on the dragon immediately afterwards. That's sole point.
And HLE will definitely be able to make use of this infernal soul as Zes goes in with the public execution.
Bin taking a fair bit of damage here, but it doesn't look too perturbed.
Jekka's rotating over as well as the bottom lane, so Bin's gonna have some visitors soon.
Yeah, the orb is now on him. Shockwave picks up the crocodile.
He doesn't really know who he wants to fight.
And the answer is there's no good choice.
He is going to be taken down here once again in the top lane.
HLE have set the pace for this game.
All game long.
Kanabi, three-camp gank onto the top side,
and then consecutive plays here.
Even after he gave up the shutdown,
and Viper's able to cash in on that,
they made the Herald play while taking Dragon
and catch BLG a little bit off guard.
And then after that, the domino effect.
You can transition your pressure from the mid lane up to Bin's lane and get another kill.
And I just love how this is buying time for Guma as well, right?
Caitlyn very strong at the early levels, then kind of needs some time to get some items completed.
Guma has all of the parts for the IE. He is rushing in towards that two item, Power Spike.
And he's going to have a very expensive two items here done pretty soon.
And then once he hits three, four, five, you know, it just kind of goes up into the right.
Caitlyn becomes such a beast in the later stages.
Well, there are two more beasts on the map right now.
Thanks to our Coinbase Goldgrind for highlighting Kanavi and Shen.
And this is the biggest difference from the last time these two teams faced off.
I felt like Shen was everywhere, suffocating HLE in that first game.
Last time, this time, it is show on the other foot.
As Kanavi going to demonstrate it right now gets the magical journey out of on
and Knight is able to walk it off.
Yeah, I mean, two full completed items.
This is definitely a very big difference at the moment with the extra sunner
Sky 2 and the Steelcaps being completed. It's just so much tankiness. You know this early on into the game
Into a nefiri renektan and Ezreal here very very high value out of those
Yeah, they're super strong
And I mean you talked about the difference between last series of this series between these two junglers a lot of it is
You know we saw on and how he was able to get out on the map this time
It was hard because Guma into light were perma pushing a bot side a lot of them the stack dragon put that pressure on
Oh, Zeca finds the shockwave tries to dash cannon out of the temperate, but he is held into position
Cosmic Binding doesn't quite do it, but there's the arcane storm, and the shutdown goes over to Viper yet again!
Pin now trying to get on top of Canavi, who does get himself out of the way.
And H.H. Lee without their midlaner now, facing down a four versus, I'm sorry, a clear.
Three versus three here towards this topside, but there are five people from BLG that can arrive at a moment's notice.
Pin being one of them, but he does back away.
And meanwhile, they've got Caitlyn just pushing on bottom side there.
Gumi Ushi playing PVE out in the mid lane. He's going to get the rest of that turret too.
Hang on.
Okay, well, can BLG actually find something out of this?
It's Shun looking for an angle here.
Doesn't get the Darkened Daggers in as they're trying to soften them up as they go for the dive.
Yarkane's zone goes down.
Yet again, Public Execution comes in.
It's Shun.
It may be a little bit of trouble, but they haven't been able to lock down the kills just yet.
True Shopper Arch comes in!
And Viper locks down two Nightcrabbing killcredits.
Zekka will finally come back from the death chamber and grabs the shutdown onto Bin.
Now he's dashing forward, looking for Shun.
And Gimera is looking to just maybe win the game.
You're talking about PBD, he's forgotten that there are other people on the map
and he is just killing those structures.
I mean this is fantastic for HLE. There was five members from BLG.
Yes, they killed the tower, yes they got a couple kills,
but HLE got one back and they were in a 3v5.
Now the IE is complete. Goumage is farming plates across the map here
and BLG just committed so heavily here.
They knew they had to make something happen.
bin comes back he pops the all they go in but look at Zayas chunking down Viper
taking down on getting those minions low making it difficult they do try to lay
try and make it difficult you can tell from the beginning this replay the
tower was full health in mid lane Viper is continually cashing in though oh yeah
shut down and then this as well much more money to this Ezreal and they're on
the baron they are it's down to 50% health so far on just playing some defense
and Sierra's Delight trying to get some vision down,
but he is spotted.
They know exactly what's going on,
but can they do anything about it?
The answer is absolutely not.
And HLE's gold lead is starting to dwindle now,
and it might be even more at risk
as this baron buff plays out.
Yeah, that's a pretty big play there from BLG.
I will say they're not that strong this season,
but still it is a big deal, big injection of gold.
We'll see if they can actually use some of this baron power
to maybe set up for this next dragon,
because that is where it feels like things will be decided.
The HL League gets the Infernal Soul.
I feel like they have a stranglehold on this game.
It is critical to me, though.
BLG with no flash on that victor for Knight.
Could be critical.
No flash on him or Viper.
So there is going to be a difference in safety
for the back line carries here.
Yeah, it's going to be so much harder again in Goumins.
That guy, as you're saying, they both have their flash.
So a lot of those key playmaking abilities.
Kanabi's going in.
Wow, half of his health bow with a dissonance resonating
strike.
And that's the jungle.
They're going to require him in 6 seconds time when this dragon does spawn.
Control vision does go over, Zayas does find Shurn one more time.
He's got the defense of his bottom lane alongside him.
We're still waiting for Knight to make his way over,
and each of these started off his tricks.
Zayas now slips off into the Vagabour and there is the trap line.
Bin going to have to try and break it open, but he's taking so much damage.
It's going to be 5, but it takes it!
He's taking everything so far.
This game as Bin goes in, looks for the angles, Zayas does the same thing.
public execution and they take down Viper. Their former AD carry now lying on the floor,
Shun going on target hole and they do get rid of Zayas. Now Kanavi gets the kick back on their
Shun and now he is in a long step and HLE wipe them off the rift. It's a triple for Mula.
That is massive. Remember the mid lane is so soft enough so Knight actually has to try to clear
up these waves as fast as he can. Kanavi with a huge kick there on Shun out of his alt in onto
Guma when Guma was low, he kicked him out of the air, protected his AD carry.
Yeah, BLG, they're looking into that as Seoul first thing here, and so they go for
on trying to barred off the large clump of champions up at the top side
so they can get the dragon to combo with Viper and Shun to get that, but then look at the fight as they turn.
Exactly, Guma was very well protected, and Zayas created so much space here
for the team, gets in, the Shockwind connects as well onto Viper, they delete him, then
you can see Shun goes back over the wall, but Bin is getting in on Guma,
This is where the kick comes in, goes for the off-in on to him, Kanabi says you shall not pass buddy.
Guma stays safe, kicks him away from his AD carry and Guma cleans up.
A much better looking fight this time around for HLE here in game number one. 11 to 6 is the kill score and only one Baron remains.
The Rebel Baron power plate not exactly looking fantastic is my goodness, those damage numbers for Gumiichi.
There's a reason why Caitlyn has been feared all these years, and he's now got three items put together
just looking for some armor penetration to finish off the fourth, and he is just gonna be a raid boss.
This has been insane for HLE, and his targeting and their team's targeting on Viper.
Having said, oh Viper had just gotten two shutdowns and a bunch of extra kills on the Ezreal,
and so they just annihilate him at the beginning of the fight. That was extremely well done on the turn from HLE.
and they had the luxury of being able to have more chances at Dragon souls in just under three minutes
Yeah, I mean I completely agree because the beginning of the fight was looking like BLG might have had the better positioning
But say it's just gets in the backline with that shockwave two over the top and
Viper who had been running this game and having a great tournament just gets deleted and it flips the fight on its head
Bit of a flank angle here potentially for Ben is that it net gets Gumiuchi out of the tempered fade
See where this crocodile is lurking though. That's the question is
He gets Zayac into the backline again.
Ben might be too late this time,
but Viper does create some distance
and takes down Zayac.
Gumiishi pushed out of the fight,
though, as Ben is massive looking for the angle.
But Kenobi's another carry,
and he's just wiping him out where they stand.
Ben clutches in.
He'll find the cold amic to take out the Katelyn,
but the rest of his teammates are dead.
Dude, they nerfed their best results
to make it harder to hit on people.
You can nerf the chip, but you can't nerf the player.
Xeus is going crazy!
Finds Viper again!
It is so worth. I mean, even though he's the first one to go down on this side of the map,
you'll see the rest of the team winning the teamfight because of all this pressure.
Look, both carries are running from Xeus here away.
He flashes into so much damage with so much pressure, the rest of the team just believes should.
Exactly. Look how low Guma was.
Imagine if he's not putting that pressure on the backline.
Any damage from Night, any damage from Viper, Guma would have been dead so early.
And look how much health Ben loses there tether into trap into the reset with that that easy to get even more headshots
And they almost got one shot, but at least got one kill back HLE though on so point five K Lee taking away camps
HLE started to run away with this one and Guma very close to the LDR
That's gonna mean a hundred percent crit for this K Lee who's already been so hard to deal with I don't think Ben is gonna
lost that long next time around. I think you're exactly right there, Zale. It's going to be
a tough one for BLG to come back in, but man, if they manage to do so, this series could really
get difficult for HLE. It's mentally rebounding for a series like that. Can be tough.
I like it, Alice. You're covering your bases. You're like, preemptively, you know, already prepping.
Don't cast the curses for me today, Kermit.
All right, Frank.
And I feel like this is such a necessary first game, too,
with how the upper bracket finals went,
and how handily BOG were able to take it,
and how good they looked in their first game versus them.
So really nice resurgence here, and strong look in game number
one for HLE.
And I'll be going for the endless hunger,
trying to snowball a little bit here,
so he's not going to go, gee.
Oh, he's hungry.
Oh my god.
He is looking to just kill everybody.
He already went first item Eclipse,
which is not necessarily the most normal.
This is kind of crazy.
Tempest fate connects onto two
as the gravity well goes down at the same time.
Kenavi not taking too much damage just yet
and now Zess has made his way in
that big shield from the teleport on him now
it's one second until that dragon does come up
and Kenavi is already there
and he's looking to try and take that one down
while everybody else is fighting over the mid lane.
We do have been making his way in
looking for an angle towards that dragon pit
and BLG should be able to get over here
But there is the Q landing, Kenobi obviously is going in.
Asaius holds the dragon aggro.
And as we can see, that dragon's so incredibly low.
He's stolen by Shun!
He just bounces in immediately to try and take it down
and then gets the cooldown.
Back and he's over once more.
Oh, Shun, that is insane, brother.
The steal, it's perfect because the observers
had the vision toggled.
You could tell, he didn't have vision until like,
it was like 1700 health and he was like,
oh, I have to jump in now and just full send.
I think I saw it down to 1390.
He just hops over and instantly takes it.
That's a pretty good smite.
So let's see this.
I think it was 1390.
Yeah, 1390 goes over.
Perfect smite.
Instantly there from Shun.
HLE could have played a little bit slower,
tried to keep it higher health, see if they could beat him
and then push him back out.
Instead, HLE just made the call.
We're just going to burn it down.
We'll finish it before he gets here.
They are not successful in that.
Bybert took the last one.
Shun takes this one.
Back to back.
Sol denials by BLG.
Keep their hopes alive.
Okay, not to be that guy, but if you're looking back and you're like the damage lost by Konami taking the Q
outside the pit onto bin when they're coming over to that guy, but I'm about to be that guy.
Did that damage lost mean the timing that should be to get in there because it was so close at the end regardless though?
It makes the game so much more exciting that they don't have the Dragon Soul yet and BLG
They keep them in this. I mean, Chun keeps them in this with that smite.
Well, the Baron up and available, maybe something that HLE could look for for their next sort
of objective to go for, but it looks like they're not all that interested.
Maybe they're on your side of the fence there as they are saying that it's not exactly all
that important to pick up the Baron and maybe starting it and tempting them to go for a
contest is what HLE have on the mind.
Yeah, they're going to look for the turn.
I mean, just committing to Baron is so dangerous.
The risk versus ward can be quite difficult.
They will be spotted in Guma.
Took a pretty good chunk from that ult.
Yeah, hit three people, actually.
High value on the true shot barrage,
as BLG are in position.
Ace in the hole just going to be thrown over to Viper
as he makes his way in as Guma finding these headshots and on.
He really cannot be tanking those.
HLE have backed away now, though,
and BLG going to do the same thing
as they slink into the fog of war on their side of the map.
And the thing is, Kanabi has so much to stay,
and they can just do that, and then they get the inside route
here.
It's a really good rotation from HLE.
They draw you out of your base, so now your inhibitor
is defenseless.
They just pull off the Baron, and then go take it.
Really nicely done from them because they know that be able to you're gonna have to take the safe route over to approach that Baron from the top
Side and then it is run straight through mid really intelligent call. Yeah, really just nice macro plays right?
They're not gonna commit to the Baron they're not doing anything crazy
There's no opportunity in turn, but they get the edge on mid lane the earlier pushing from Guma paying off there and
Viper going for the serpents fang tech here against the karma. There's obviously safeguard shields. There's Orianna shields
there's shields as well to break out and step from impasse so is going to get some value on this but it's interesting that the Ezreal
Does it instead of shown you know because you do get less from a rain champion on the shield reduction
Yeah, and then you look over at the mobile turret that is Guma with the four item Caitlyn here
Those ahead shots are certainly going to leave a mark. Yeah, he is definitely not
Leaving anything out when it comes to damage. It's just building as much of it as he possibly can
might be stopping by for like a guardian angel for his next one or maybe he just
goes BT or something like that and just tries to keep up the pace. Is it Kanavi
once again looking to try and be frustrating here in the enemy jungle
denying yet another blue buff could become an enemy decides against it? I will
say as good of a position as HLE are in if they cannot get soul it's not a
dominating position. Kanavi does have this big lead but he is not on a
guardian angel if he makes a misstep if he gets caught and he could get burst
down right you know this is not that more standard defensive build that he is
playing and you look over at Viper he's on four items to you look at night
he's relatively strong here three items on the victor yeah I mean we'll see
because Kenobi is also level 17 and so you get a lot of health from base stats
to especially the later levels have more packed so level 17 Lee sin here is the
same level as both solo laners on his team and the extra shield you know with
the hex drinker. I mean he's strong don't get me wrong I'm just saying I'd be a
lot more scared if Zayas had that goal. Lee Sin with that goal very powerful
but Lee Sin is not the same kind of scaling champion that some of these
other ones on the map are so you know if there was a place you'd want that goal
to be in your BLG well it's probably there. Well HLA now just gonna push out
mid lane, they've got Supers moving their way down and at this point you've got Zayas in the top lane trying to get that wave
pushed in at the same time and HLE just trying to get them away from this Baron pit once again.
But with this game slowing down, like you guys are talking about, it's giving time for Knight to get more and more damage
and HLE are thinking they're gonna have to try and find an angle for a battle here. Eight seconds on the dragon,
there's a teleport in from Zayas looking for an angle towards Knight as Kanabi doesn't get the Q.
That's a blast car, though, as public execution is not going to land this time.
Knight takes the ace in the hole, though, and there's a cue from Kenabe!
Knight going to get pushed away, but the stun comes in from the gravity well, and Knight will survive.
DLG now just trying to rush down this dragon, and it is going to be secured.
Both teams now with three dragons, as HLE just didn't quite have a plan for taking the buff.
It's a complete heist, Atlas!
I mean, Knight barely lives, this finally doesn't hit an Ambassador ultimate,
And BLG, they stop another soul.
I mean, Knight played that very well to get out.
And also, Chris on had to run over to the wall
to get in range for that heal.
Otherwise, he is dead against the heal, barely is in range.
Zayas trying to force here.
Yeah, they're going in.
On takes a magical journey to get himself out.
As my goodness, that was an orbital strike landing
onto Shun there in the jungle.
But he does survive for the moment
and is looking to go back.
But this might be HLE's chance to grab themselves a Baron.
What do you do about this?
Caitlyn, it does so much damage.
Guma now on the Baron currently and been looking,
but they can't get in.
Is that the Zoting them here?
The Orianna doing so much.
She didn't even need to use the Shockwave
in order to do all of that damage
with the command attack dissonance combo.
So the Baron will be taken here by HLA.
Finally, actually getting themselves an objective here
on this map.
I feel like it's been about 15 minutes
since we've seen them really take anything
outside of that inhibitor.
And we'll have to see how much they can get done with it.
obviously great sieging power here with the Orianna zoning with the ball with
Caitlin pushing forward but there's also powerful wave clear on the other side
with Knight so you know Ben is going mid trying to push this out before they
bare and buff up those super minions and Viper kind of just threatening with
poke on the side while Knight is just trying to thin that wave as best as he
can. Yeah Ben doing what he can in the mid lane as well dealing with those
super minions that are making their way down. Gumi gets a shield from Delight.
Teleport for the shield? Yeah Ben looking to make his way level 19 on the
Crocodiles here, it's gonna be in so much trouble, the ulti comes down, he flashes, but it shun the locks it up!
And now the tempered fate going to be avoided here for the Ness now on cooldown, Gumiishi in so much trouble,
Bin gets on top of him, Sekiro's taken out as well!
As they do kill on, but they don't really care about it, now Gumiishi, he's gonna have to be the one to make this one work,
gets the flash taken out, and he's taken down!
Delight is now trying to keep them at bay, but he is just a support with only a hope and a prayer, and a least PLG.
Can't get a Baron or a Dragon because they're not on the map anymore.
We've had our Zayas highlights so far this game, and it's time for some bin highlights.
He teleports a short distance, but for the shield and for the boost, and he gets the flank off.
They burst down Zayas, they make the flank, they make the collapse just when then they need it to crush the Siege of HLE.
And it was such a good team play, because it was set up earlier by Viper, getting poke on Zayas who was on that side.
Viper was playing the angle so intelligently.
Not just playing from the base, playing on the side,
landing Q after Q, getting poked down time and time again,
softening up some of these members,
and then it's Viper flashing away from Kanavi as he goes in.
Zeca Shockwave only connected onto the barred as well,
and here is that TP you're talking about, Kobe.
Here he comes. He's boosted up, coming in, Renekton,
finds Zayas, and there's the combo.
You're talking about so much damage.
They instantly delete him. Viper and Shun follow him,
and then finishes behind you.
the giant crocodile flashes on your carries.
He goes for Guma first.
I was like, what are they going to do about this Caitlyn?
He creates so much space, and then Ben,
the follow here as well.
He's got the minions to work with.
Slice, dice, finds another stun onto him.
Just engage after engage after engage from the crocodile,
and he's able to pull it off and set up the team
to take all these kills.
It's just so well played there from Ben,
and now Ben has a GA, and that is a big problem.
This guy is going to be tough to deal with. He's level 20 at this point in the game and
that gold lead for Kanabi feeling like it means less and less.
I mean, Vin has been the lone gold lead on his team for the majority of this game.
Yeah.
And we'll see if BLG can utilize it for the next dragon so far.
If BLG end up getting dragon slow in this game, it's actually going to be crazy.
Denied so many here from HLE and you'd be thinking about all of them.
The smite that came through, the steal, the sneak that BLG were able to have.
If they can complete this comeback to Atlas's earlier attempt at anti-Caster cursing, it would be nice, everybody.
Yeah, maybe it was a prediction. I'm getting a little bit worried now.
It was the reverse anti-Caster curse.
Oh, no!
And it would also be Infernal Soul if you take it, but four Infernal Dragon, Infernal Soul,
which is so much additional damage coming out from a team that is already really difficult to deal with here.
And now the pressure feels like it is on HLE.
This dragon needs soul for either side, but...
Oh, the shockwave doesn't actually connect, but there's a kickflash into the public execution!
Viper should be taken out, it takes a little bit of time!
Kanavi's traded, but he's just holding them in position!
His knife flashes over the wall.
Bin just wasn't there, he finally shows up!
But, uh, the party's over!
Yeah, he wasn't there because Kanavi started the party.
He hosted the party in mid-lane.
He saw Viper, he went before BLG can react.
HLE, they take the fight to them.
But the question is, can they even get the dragon?
Because they have no jungler, Shun is still alive here,
and they're gonna try to fight this.
A little bit early into the pit here, Shun is not alive anymore.
Bin is now gonna get himself in there,
Slyce it and Dyson Demir should try to get these owners down,
and there's the GA proc'd from their Nectin.
Zayas and Zekka still with a lot of damage available,
and Bin, not with a whole lot when he makes his way back,
gets this gun,
He then gets taken down by this Orianna, and Knight just gonna have to get out of there as HLE will finally get a soul!
That trap from Gumo is game-changing. He had traps along the edge of the wall predicting where Shun would go over.
And it looked to me like Shun just hopped straight into one of those traps, lost all his health, could not do anything in that moment, and finally, as you say, they claim the Infernal Soul.
Ho ho ho ho! They're making them work for it though.
HLE, they finally claim it, the last dragon they do pick up.
Here's another look at Konami starting it though.
He sees Viper, he hits the Q and he's like,
we are full sending, they're going with the shock wave here.
Viper is going to be able to get away from it,
but Konami just follows, uses the ward hop into kickflash
in Tuseius, and even with the attempted denial on the Bard ult,
they just kill him as soon as they get out.
But buying that little bit of time was pretty critical
because allowed them to kill the jungle back,
allowed them to get into a spot where you thought maybe they could actually contest this.
They had that jungle advantage, even though they worked down a man,
but HLE played it well, played it smart, killed Offshun, and took that dragon.
That's why these games are so fun to watch.
Both these teams, with that killer instinct, though, just full send it.
They see the opportunity, they strike, and it is game changing.
Dragon's soul now for HLE.
And guess what? Guma's almost full seven items here.
They're seeing to upgrade one more, assuming it's the GA,
Instead of the best dance and look at them pick up the QSS. So really worried about that potential tether about the traps
There's not that much cc, but delight in kuma have been making his life very very difficult
Always delight is in position lands the tether he gets trapped he loses all his health in that combo
So it's decided to go for that QSS and we'll see if it makes a difference in these upcoming fights
Yeah, it feels like a lot just for traps basically just for the traps other things adjust holds
Yeah, exactly. The tether to come through as well from the karma. So bin knows his job. He needs to kill the bottom lane
What tools does the bottom lane have? They've got a trap and a tether and I need to deal with it
He's at least able to do that problem is things are getting more and more difficult
The GA has just come in that is full build. Gumiishi at least the BLG fans. He is not gonna get stronger than this
However, he is exceptionally strong. Yeah, the problem is he probably don't need to be stronger than this
Alright, well Barron back up and available once again.
It's Kanavi and Shun just playing with one another Knight trying to find these get-raises.
Of course Kanavi goes in but out again once more.
Oh my god!
On basically takes his whole health bar and damage.
There's HLE just fishing to angles.
And yeah, they're looking to take another inhibitor.
Remember there is only a naked inhibitor in the mid lane.
They could take all three while HLE also takes the Baron.
BLG are sending three for Zayas, they're gonna lose the Baron, they have to get this kill.
Well, can they actually do it as the public execution gets Zayas in there?
He is likely to fall down, but they take the Baron as a response, and now BLG need to buy as much time as they can.
The inhibitors are exposed and HLE want to come abuse that fact.
BLG with the extra person here, they're trying to bend Bin coming over. As he said, his job last time,
All he had to do was flank, kill multiple people, and burn Goomba's summoner spells, and then flash on him and kill him as well.
I wonder if BLG are going to try to wait for the GA on Bin. Will they decide to send it without it?
HLE are just forcing the issue. They are taking all of these inhibitors. They're not allowing them that luxury of waiting for the GA.
Zeus is going to have his tough war when he revives.
Every auto attack for Grimaishi is hurting so much, has now been on that flank angle once again.
And Gruma playing so far up, as Bing gets in there, Gruma gets a huge shield, the Flash is flashed, by Gruma, and he now shoots in trouble!
And maybe that man advantage doesn't need too much at all!
As Gruma is just finding headshot after headshot, and I am now getting involved, as I get him down to the GA, Kanavi still at full health,
wants to take down this Ezreal, the net to get Gruma out, and he pops like a balloon!
Kanavi trying to bounce around, if I need some other cooldown, as Viper tries to find the Q and doesn't like it there,
Second puts him down and now Knight is running away from the battlefield because Zayas has teleported in!
And he will not connect that public execution, but Knight is not there to defend the base.
The Nexus is exposed and HLE will not let the past repeat itself. They take down BLG in Game 1.
What a start to the MSI finals. That game was incredible, Desk. What do you got?
I got an HLE 3-1 on the books right here.
What has started his final completely controlled early game from HLE and then things go completely off the rails with BLG going back in?
What do we think?
Kanabi! Is that God? What the hell did this mind just do?
That Lee Sin just tore BLG apart!
Not only did he run the early game, he then failed to secure three drinks in a row, but then he absolutely won the game with this pick.
I mean, just such an incredible play to find this in the clutch moment.
Remember that BLG managed to fight their way, scrap their way back into this game.
But Fyper was such a key part of that.
Even after a difficult early game, he was always just throwing down damage,
gives his own life to make this play happen.
And it feels like this play is the final moment
where finally HLE seeded or took full control of this game.
You said, Kenavi, look, this was the dominant early game we wanted to see from this player,
but it goes all the way back into draft.
the trust of him. You saw the Huber on the Nefiri, we're all like, uh-oh, we're not so sure about this one.
The Lee Sin, a huge confidence pick, and he absolutely delivered.
And you saw it in her HyperX Reflex replay, how strong he was on that Lee Sin.
And look at the difference it made when this man isn't under pressure from showing an on what he's able to achieve.
Gank after gank in the top lane, play after play to kill the back line of BLG.
This man has just put nightmares into the LPL fan.
He completely broke the gentleman agreement that was set on the top lane,
one V1 here stepping in, helping Zayas as much as he can.
But I do want to praise the improvements on the side of HLE
because Zayas was talking about the fact that what didn't work out last time
were the drafts, the fact that they couldn't read BLG.
I love the way they stepped in here and adapted onto this one.
And I thought the drafts were such an interesting mind game
because we were trying to predict these picks coming through based off of the previous series
and we're like, this is a Ziggs angle, or this is a Mel angle, and they kept going back
so like the early Ezreal pick was potentially a denial from Guma trying to neutralize Mage
bots, but no Mage bots, scaling mid lanes, meta top lane picks, it was a very two months
ago draft.
This to me felt very arrogant from BLG.
This is not what they won within the last time these two teams faced up against each
other.
They didn't have the matchup that they wanted against the Orianna in the mid lane trying to go for this 1-3-1.
I think they have to go back to that style of that work that you were just talking about with those mages in the bottom lane.
I completely agree. I don't think they gave themselves enough agency. When you look at that mid lane pick for night, Victor Orianna, you're just trading waves back and forth.
And bot lane again, we have to talk about the bot lane of Asia League. We thought that this might be where we see the big difference, but they do exactly what you need to do with Caitlyn Karma.
It was textbook League of Legends.
The Spice was Kanavi coming in, making those plays on the top side,
but they get pushed, they get drinked, they move topside,
they get heralded, they take every little early advantage away from BLT
and stop any of these plays from ever happening.
He aren't just wandering around the map doing nothing for 12 minutes!
Guma Yushi was the egg in the ramen.
He really wants for this one, you know?
We wanted to see adaptation on the side of Hacheli
and it's amazing to see the difference that a couple days can make here
and that crowd cheering and roaring, but then here in Daejeon, HLE is at 1-0 against BLG in our MSI Grand Finals.
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Now slips off into the Pog of War and there's the trap line.
Ben gonna have to try and break it open, but he's taking so much damage, it's going to be Viper that takes it, he's taking everything so far this game as Ben goes in, looks for the angles, Zayas does the same thing, the Republic gets snitching and they take down Viper, their former AD carry now lying on the floor,
Shun going on target hole, and they do get rid of Zayas.
Now Kanavi gets the kickback on to Shun,
and now he is in amongst it.
And HLE wiped them off the roof.
And HLE will not let the pass repeat itself.
They take down BLG and get one.
What a start to the MSI finals.
That game was incredible.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen,
to the MSI 2026 Grand Final,
where we do have a different team up 1 and 0 this time around in this matchup between
MLIP Sports and BLG.
The BLG seeing whether they can pick themselves back up and bring this to Vyper.
So Atlas, are you on the team of it's time for mages for Vyper?
You know, was him getting hit with all the Ambassador ultimates, Zeyas is so good?
Or Vyper, you need to be able to dodge those.
I think if he was on a mage, he would get hit by them more.
because he was on Ezreal, and you shouldn't get hit by them as much.
I feel like Ezreal was really nice too, and I will say as much as if they are down a game,
they were coming back pretty hard multiple times. That looked like it was going to be a stomp, right?
Yeah, I mean, there were at one point three dragons on HLE and zero on the other teams.
We got down to maximum elemental drakes as we get into pick and ban here for game number two.
Last time, the games were much shorter though, much more one-sided and much more decisive,
But I felt like when HLE were able to win, it did take that extra time.
I feel like BLG's ability to ride a snowball is the difference between these two squads.
And if they can get off to a good start once again, then this could be the difference maker.
I do think that's why it's so important that HLE actually did get it across the finish line.
One, that game was able to secure a soul.
Because if you lose a game like that, when you are that far ahead, that is a tilter for sure.
Now we are seeing early Vayne ban, Poppy ban, Jace ban, no Camille ban just yet.
I always think, oh they want to pick Nara or something if they ban the Vayne.
Yeah, because we have the-
Nara tanks both.
Yeah, Jace and Vayne both out.
Yeah, the Jace feels like a pretty understandable ban, just into Zayas, but it's actually, yeah,
HL8 the dude ban against Ginn this time around as HL8 will be on our blue side just out of
this one off as Divide has been a bit of a obligatory ban.
We did see it come through the last time these two teams met.
And even though HLE didn't quite find the victory,
the vibe was a problem.
So Camille is still up and available.
We'll see if they do want to ban it out.
Has been getting banned quite a lot.
It would open up for that possibility of the Camille
bot lane if it does, in fact, not get banned here.
They're taking a lot of time, HLE,
trying to decide what they want to take out.
They have the same read you did, Kobe, of the vain ban
is indicating that they are going to be trying to go for an R.
So instead they leave up Camille,
they do take away that gnar.
Have you guys been fans of the Cassiopeia
and trying to combo it with other AOSP stuff
like Jarvan, where you cataclysm and miasma in there?
Or have you been worried about mid laners
that don't have their own safety of dashes and stuff?
I personally really like it,
but I do think it's also based on
how safe the other team is, right?
If they have low mobility carries
and you throw in a Jarvan and then miasma comes over the top,
then this usually just lights out, right?
So I think I don't love it just as like slamming it down, but I do really think it is quite powerful based on what your opponents have
I love picking it away from Viper so he doesn't pull those shenanigans again
And so maybe Zekker could consider it for that reason but picking it into a Jarvan doesn't feel fantastic
I think the Camille's got to be the forefront of HLE's minds right now
But what I was gonna say is that Viper brought out the Taliyah as the answer
I've been loving the bot lanes that attack the Camille and not the Camille pairing, right?
So if you do go Camille, you can go things like Taliyah and Leona that we have seen before and really just attack that Camille
Anytime she hook shots unraveled earth you get send up by the Leona Leona much more tanky than the Camille
And you can just kind of focus on making delights
Life really really difficult and so that's kind of what I'm expecting again because Michael was fantastic on the Taliyah
When he part of that last time and I just felt like delight never really got to play
My favorite thing to do then you know if you're the Camille support
We leave bottom lane, you know, if they pick the Leah and they put to Lee in bottom lane. All right, I'm out
I'm gonna go play with Kenobi. So that's that's what I will expect
You know depending on what Kenobi's champion is. I'm pretty sure we'll
See it imminently here
But if you get Kenobi good pairing with the Camille that is that is the way to take over games right now
Is jungle support and that's that Casio Pia with Jarvan Cataclysm. I was talking about is a really good combo
And it could be bought or me, right? That's the thing because
This is another champion that is fantastic into the Camille.
Shen support also very good into the Camille.
I love these drafts that are attacking the Camille exactly.
Taunt, and then also, yeah,
my asthma comes down and you have the parry zone
during hail of blades and also the empowered Q
that comes out from Camille.
Shen can answer so much of what you could do.
And like you said, people's answer is then gonna be,
all right, well, I'm just gonna roam.
Well, guess what?
Shen has stand united.
Shen can match that pressure on the map.
So I feel like when the tournament started,
I was thinking Camille is insanely OB, but as the tournament has evolved and people have drafted better and better answers, I'm less on the side of Camille.
There's also so much flexibility from BLG. So we're looking at this, the Castile Fission could just be a bottom lane.
It could also be mid lane, top lane. There could be a jungle for Shun there as well, although the Jarvan support hasn't come out for a while.
I just think that having that level of flexibility in draft really does make things so difficult for your opposition.
making it difficult. And I was talking about parrys of jungle with a support. The Qiyana, I always like it into Jarvan, you have so much mobility and you have so much burst damage to play into it.
Qiyana and Camille, that is a recipe for death. They will delete someone instantly, so we'll see. Yep, be very quick when they stand united to protect that person if they do find them, but adding the Camille onto the realms early with the Qiyana,
I do like the game plan again from HLE and so I have to look at you know
What are they going to be able to get for their mid lane?
They are currently respecting the super flexibility of mages that does exist as well
For Viper and tonight and so also banning the Syndra again this time around last time
It was been in the first three, but they're gonna still gonna answer it here
And the other thing is you know if they are gonna go pass the old bot then BLG needs to get AD somewhere, right?
And Jason's band, Nara's band, Renekton was played, and Bessa was played, Bane is banned.
A lot of the meta AD tops are already out. There are always angles to go like Yone and things along those lines.
You can get AD elsewhere, but it is getting a lot harder as we go further into the draft to find AD pairings elsewhere.
Yeah, that Tristana is an option, I guess.
Yeah, they feel like that Cassiopeia should be going towards the bottom side of the map is one more down here from Danny as the mid lane is getting very thin.
That being said, you know, if you're going to spend all these mid lane bands for HLE, Knight could just play the Cassio mid and that's not really a problem and you could just play an AD carry.
But, of course, you know, that Cassio-Chen combo really built to make the Camille's life very difficult, so it could be a little bit tougher in that one game on the left side, but clearly,
I would say that he could be a third for HLE.
If the Ari gets locked in, you have Ari Camille, you have the Qiyana, you have so much mobility, and you have that follow-up from the Ziggs throwing that mega inferno bomb into the backline.
Guma was devastating on this pick against Lyon yesterday,
was just killing it, got very far ahead,
and his ult were doing 50, 60, 70% of people's health.
Yeah, the HLE plan here, again,
lots of playmaking to Procressor,
unbobobility champions,
so the Cassiopeia may be under attack fairly early on.
Definitely expect the early support roams there,
level three from bottom lane.
Jarvan with Rumble, the classic combination there,
and so they're just gonna pick that up for Big.
Well, that'd be an interesting one, as they are considering some AD carry options for Viper.
Try and get some of that AD damage like you were talking about.
As soon as the Rumble was hovered, it's gone.
Yeah, it's got to be something to do some AD.
There's your Tristana, Atlas.
Yeah, well, there's that one.
That means that things could get weird,
but I don't know whether we're playing Rumble Shen in the bottom lane.
That would be strange.
So there is a Lucian to be locked in, so Lucian Shen down there on the bottom side.
Yeah, I think they were kind of forced into it by the fact
that there were some of these AD top laners that are already banned out.
I don't really have as many good options up there for Bin.
So it is going to be Luci Chen and Eric as the answer.
Fantastic into that rumble allows you to play towards sidelines
where you have great ability to roam as the light, as Zeka
and Kanabi to move around the map
and try to play through those sides
because there's not necessarily a great 1v1 answer
to the York split push if he gets accelerated.
And speaking of accelerated, I think if this game is going
to move in HLE's direction, I'm going
request that team fights are actually slowed down to half speed because I
have a feeling they're gonna be over extraordinarily quickly there is so much
burst damage out of this squad and if they don't manage to kill a reposition
they basically die immediately which could be a little bit of a frightening
prospect here bit of an all-or-nothing draft coming out to HLE and honestly I
really am gonna have such a huge magic magnifying glass on these supports I
feel like this game is gonna be similar to the first game of the series that we
saw in the upper bracket finals, whichever support does have the bigger effect early
on on the map is just going to fully accelerate their team and boost them to success.
It's going to be interesting, you know, and it's also one of these things where HLE, when
you direct her for these types of compositions that are so good with that one punch, just
deleting someone from Niolal, Keanuall, Ziggsall, everything through under the back line, they
really do excel around a couple items, but when you get to later and later stages and
Luxury items are coming through and all of a sudden there's Azonius on Castle, there's Azonius on Rumble, there's, you know, G.A. on Lucian, there's all of these additional tools, it can become really, really difficult to actually find that correct target and still be able to win out on the fights of B.L.G.
There is not an empty seat here in the Gantan Convention Center.
As the Hightings and the Gyos go at it once again, HLE seeing whether they can get to
match point, BLG wanting to settle in and stretch this series to be only a best of three from
here could be their opportunity to do so.
This knight is now moving over.
I could deal him with some of that bone plating.
Those have the foxfire there, so he evens out the trade.
Yeah, nice use of his deathfire touch
and his bone plating there to go in,
get the extra tick damage onto Zeka.
But another foxfire trade, as you say,
and we're gonna have opposite starts for the jungles again.
So, gonna be very interesting
because the Yorick and the Rumble matchup,
if they do have Kenavi applying extra pressure up there
and get Ziggs into a very good spot for his split pushing later on.
Then that could be another avenue to try and pull them across the map.
You want to open up the map here, and then it gives you all these chances
for Camille to just jump out of Faga War and have Ari and Keanu burst damage
and get those picks that you're looking for on HLE.
I completely agree.
It's just such a good match.
If Yorick into Rumble really does favor Yorick into 1v1 pretty heavily,
then you have all these great Naplers, people who can attack,
and you have Ziggs who can hold.
A three-camp gank again, topside, and this time it's Shun going to disrupt the top matchup.
Yep, the enemy's taking a fair bit of damage, but Zayus now gets the bad news that there is a job in up here.
The Flash trying to get him out, but he still gets tagged by the knock-up.
He's gonna need a big old army of ghouls to make this happen.
And he finds it! First point goes to Zayus!
Shun will be able to get the revenge, but that is not what BLG wanted.
That is not what they wanted at all, but imagine if he actually flashed through that flag and drag.
He could have had the 1v2, I think.
I mean, all the minion damage, look how many minions there is.
This is the massive, massive minion wave here.
And so, yes, he does try and go over the EQ here
and gets it with the knockup, but still is able to turn it.
All the minion damage and those ghouls onto Ben.
Yeah, and Ben was not able to flash the Moring Mist.
He flashed after he was hit by that E,
and once that it tags you, all the ghouls are going on you.
He had a bunch some end up.
All of the minion damage he talked about as well, Kobe.
You know, not a good flash from either top laner,
But they are fighting in those minions gets first blood in the 1v2 and the bonus money from a first blood here
Makes it super super not worth more than
This is the hunt for the Grand Slam we were talking about last game these three players are that one
I love the acting there too, it's gonna obviously just passing through here
You know don't might need jungle on the way to the scuttle crab remember when I used to do this
Well, there's a torn flash from on. They do manage to get the knockup on the Konami is the yeah
The favor is returned as the teleport comes in from Knight makes his way back
It's so fun to watch punch right back here another flash invested on is able to sit him down
So during the celebration
Immediately gets a counter kill on the Konami which results in counter juggling on top of it and does mean that shouldn't himself
himself is going to have a big advantage, two kills, plus the extra little steal away
here on Raptors and he should be able to secure his. And you see, walking back out
onto the Rift now, Kanavi, his jungle is very light on camp, so has to get this gull
crab.
Yeah, absolutely. It's just such a good punish from on. You see this brilliant play from
HLE, but double flash were committed and they instantly punish it here. And on now hanging
around knowing there could be a possibility of a die, three members from both teams moving
up.
doesn't quite know, does now find out that Delight is in the area.
Canavi, spotted moving towards that topside there as the flag and drag and the taunt as Delight keeps himself alive for now.
Hookshot comes out, Delight doesn't quite find the angle.
There's now On just looking for his target. The Morning Mist will connect once again with Bin,
has eyes only for Zayas. He's looking to lock him down, he silences himself, the drill goes in,
and they lock off the kill. Canavi's dead at the same time.
But now it's Delight and Zekker trying to get this fight to work,
as Delight has to flash to get himself out of the way as Knight turns up.
Yeah, Bid says, you're not getting out of this one.
I don't care if you have Zeke roaming up first.
He forces the play.
They get the extra kill on BLG, and they push them off the tower.
Exactly.
They get those extra rewards because not only do they get the kills,
they deny the wave.
The wave is going to push away from the Orc.
They get a play.
They push them out of their own jungle here.
And that is fantastic for BLG.
That's a slight advantage on money, but let's have a look at this again.
And again, you're going to see the cancel on recall here on the minimap.
So R is going to be the first one to roam up.
So they make the call here for HLE.
They're like, yeah, we're going to scrap it out,
even though BLG got the early damage on us.
But then Finn has this over here, just goes in on to Zez.
Could not be clearly trying to help him out,
but can obviously getting focused down by, on, and Shun.
And I thought for a second with the scrap shield,
that Zezka might not even be able to finish off Finn.
And when Knight arrives, another flash has to be forced.
They push it in, they deny it, and that man is locked in.
Yeah, he is.
He does that.
You know you're in trouble.
when Bin starts vibrating.
Oh, on, speaking of which,
is just gonna be backing away Hextech's sweep,
just to try and soften him up there as men.
Speaking of armies, there are a lot of things here
in this top lane as Zeca is gonna show up as well.
They're looking for the rumble
and they will be able to grab the kill.
Zayas walks it off at the same time,
the rest of BLG looking to turn up.
Zayas gonna have to employ his maiden
to try and help out his teammates.
He is going home looking a little worse for wear.
Atlas, if you lose round one to the top lane fight,
You just enact round two, they go right back there.
They started themselves again first of the play this time
and HLE do get the kill unanswered.
And it was so costly because
Bin wasn't able to actually fight that wave
thinned it out at all.
He couldn't get six, right?
So the earlier six there from Zeus, he has the push.
Bin had to wait at his tower.
The fact that you could go with a fat wave at your tower,
he's 27 CS at six and a half minutes.
Oh man, yeah, and all of those minions
got wiped out so there's no way
that he can really get himself back.
It's not like, oh, I'll pick up this fat wave that's coming up.
No, well, that's all you're really getting, as we see right here.
As Zeke sidesteps the flag and drag nicely done.
Doesn't quite find the charm there, but getting yourself out of danger
is the most important thing.
And the amount that HLE have done prior to Stand United,
prior to the equalizer in these ways to manipulate sidelines
and create advantages for yourself has been very important
because it's from now on that things get more difficult
when that level six comes in from on
and when Ben is able to just wipe out waves with the equalizer.
And it's just funny to see how much of a battleground Top lane has become.
It is bot lane that is the island this game.
They're peacefully farming, chilling out down there,
because both teams know how critical this Top lane matchup is.
If Zayas gets ahead, it's so problematic for Ben.
Oh, Grimisha just going to push by for back and get some self over the wall.
That is going to be first straight going over to BLG though.
Plus, we've had this discussion too and I really like talking about the
the reason why we have so much support roaming now.
And we saw it again, so.
Howling gets the flash,
Gumiishi struggling a little bit here in this 1v1.
You get it super early on, of course, you know,
cause the mages could be so sufficient on the bottom lane,
but also I feel like the support roll quest
is the fakest of quests.
Literally at three minutes,
it turns off the minus 25% golden experience
from minions and other lanes.
And so at level three, you're like,
great, I've got my ticket, let's go on the map,
you know, let's go top lane, let's make these plays.
And then it's also the role that is best suited
to abuse comeback experience.
You know, look, the light end on our level four right now,
but as soon as the average levels of the minions
of your opponents hit level six,
you start getting big comeback experience
since you're the lowest level and so far behind.
Well, now looking for some angles here.
It's a screen display, talent finds nothing at all on.
He's going to get that follow up.
It's Knight, petrifying A's, but it's not quite doing enough
Rezekah just gets himself out with that spear rush.
Shun getting a nice knock up there.
Rezeus running out of buttons and Bin turns up.
That Flames spinner is hitting everything, but he goes down.
Knight finds the twin bang to answer it,
but it's rumbled for Camille so far.
Shun looking a little worse for wear.
And Grumi Ishii is now here to throw these bouncing bombs forward.
The Grubbs should be taken here as on is the one that actually
finishes off that second one.
It's huge for BOG.
I mean, they've got an unanswered Lucian on bottom side,
still pushing.
Viper got another minion wave there and almost was able to get the second turret plate.
Exactly. Being able to just soak up that golden experience on that bottom side is going to be able to base here.
PLG had so many members of HLE low, but not the damage to finish them off.
It didn't feel like the damage was coming in at the same time, largely because Lucian is bot.
This petrified gaze looked like it was going to be so impactful that a multi-man stun.
But bin is very weak. Viper is not there, and they just didn't really have anything behind it.
Yeah, they don't get their Qiyana, you know, ult to the land there, so
goes down immediately afterwards, but then
fighting right back out here in BLG, shouldn't with the EQ back inside.
And I gotta say, Bin's equalizer basically did nothing.
He used it after the Petch-Flying Gaze ended, and put it in between everyone there.
So if he had the equalizer then flashed in, I think he could get two, three kills potentially.
If he had been a little bit closer to the fight, obviously he had to move down from top lane
and could have had that equalizer during the pinch-firing base.
Also could have been a couple more kills,
but just not there, right place, right time.
Could have even got it in that corridor as they were trying to escape as well.
And I was expecting Bind to just kind of kill everyone in that moment.
Wasn't quite able to do so, it was just a delight that did fall down.
But three deaths for Kenavi. It's not the same game as we saw in the last one.
He's going to have to try and get himself back out onto a good position on this rip.
Maybe this is an opportunity to do so as he blasts cones over looking for Shen,
who's 3-0-3, 100% kill contribution, and has been everywhere here in this game.
This is a really impressive bounce back here for the BLG jungler.
This shows that that first game didn't really tell the whole story.
And while Shun is, you know, 3-0-3, you look over on the other side, 0-3-2 in jungler,
they have basically the same XP and the same gold, so Bid in trouble again.
Yep, put into that goalie wall as the equalizer goes down and Kanabi does not care this,
Tanks up the turret just enough once again that Shun looks to get in there.
The capitalism goes down and does shut down Zas once again.
How many times have we seen you dying for a turret plate, Muddy?
There you go. Shun's able to get in range for the dunk.
Wait a second. Another colon comes out.
Viper trying to keep that pressure on the bottom side.
Yeah, Zaka looking for an angle towards on here.
Or is maybe on looking for an angle towards him as the charm goes wide.
Nicely played by this Shun actually as Yop Shuk does get propped.
Nice stun coming out from Kanabi, defensively as we look here towards this bottom side things still remaining difficult for Gumiishi
Does not quite have his first item completed just yet, Shun getting himself out of the way
And BLG might actually get some free time with this out of turret in mid lane
Look at all that crystalline overgrowth that has already built up
Yeah, I can get a little bit of gold there
But now the item completion looking pretty grim before being up on the top lane
and he rushed the steel caps.
Triforce is now done for York,
and this is such a huge spike for this champion
in the 1v1.
It's already been very, very difficult for Ben.
At the very least, the main is on cooldown for a while
because he did die,
so that's a little relief of pressure.
Yeah, I mean, when you're looking at
what is still going well for HLE, it is the solo lanes.
It is Zayas and it's also Zeca,
because Zeca with the early dark seal
and now completing malignance here on Ari,
that could be the hope for them is the solo lanes,
They've got their gold lead, they have their first dragon, and it feels quite strong for them, but we'll see what Zaeus and Zeca have to say about it this time around.
And Kanabi's going for an interesting build to start this one off as well, not too perturbed for about the 0-3 start that he did have.
No, not at all. I mean, you are going this item, it's kind of the same thing as Viper. It's almost like they're expecting it to be, you know, a really aggressive game.
the goodness greaves coming through for Viper,
but they have just been peacefully farming in the bot lane.
This item is very good if you can get all the stacks,
but in pro games, in my experience,
almost always when the pivotal fight happens,
they have like no stacks,
and I just feel like in those cases,
it's not very valuable,
whereas there's tons of offensive pressure,
you might need something like Steelcaps to survive.
Our second drake now being taken here by BLT
is delight, looking for a bit of an angle.
My asthma now on cooldown here,
as Nite gets back to his teammates,
they look for Kanabi, Supreme Dislike talent,
onto Shenmueger in front of him, finds absolutely nothing and Shen locks down that second dragon.
It's an ocean soul this game, BLG still thinking about trying to find an angle here as HLE, pretty healthy
as they look to try and respond, but Gumiishi moving on over should be able to get some damage on this turret at least.
So it's interesting, they're going to trade mid-friar for bot-friar.
Viper's like, fine, I will just go push bottom lane down here and over the wall.
Oh, Petch Frank is going to connect onto the Camille, the charm lands on on there, he'll be going down first.
That's now Shun's in trouble.
Kenavi trying to find that stun, but doesn't quite get there.
I believe had the water picked up.
It's now Zayus, morning mist.
He seemed to be magnetized to be in so far in this lane.
Absolutely has.
I mean, it's just that one for one at the end of the day.
Knight definitely hoping to get more members
and that ends up being that trade.
The protocol hasn't rushed.
It's like a runaway.
Should be okay.
The protocol hasn't rushed there.
Is now complete for on which obviously is a very effective item.
But against these kind of teams,
I always really think you should be going to lock it.
Oh, Kanavi can have to flash it out of the way of being and Sean
does quite find a stun, but it's not quite going to work as they're stench
united from on as he joins the party flash out of the way of the taunt there from Zayas
and has to use that and loses his jungler a fourth death here for Kanavi.
Yeah, Kanavi down here talking about, well, he can definitely get punished and
very, very squishy does have to burn the flash and still dies
is very devastating for their playmaking ability and they invest a lot of people on topside to do it though BLG
You know saying multiple people up on the topside and there's actually no response though
So it's very nicely done because night can just soak up the minion wave in the bottom lane BLG for that play
They don't lose anything
Night getting gold is just so problematic this champion Casio
Can get so damn tanky when you get a lot of early items you get accelerated the early Roa
can build defensive items very, very easily and...
Shunz, got to be careful.
Yeah, there's the flash in, it's Shunz put inside the Hextech Ultimatum.
Supreme Splatal comes down there as well, but Gamushi, the first one to die,
on might be picked up as well, but even here is able to get so far away from this fight.
Knight gets in there, and now the grounding's on Kanabe.
He tries to escape, bounces over the wall, but it does not matter.
HLE running for the hills as they are trying to turn it towards Viper here.
The dash over the wall, he's into the Gully wall as well as Shelley gets involved.
Piper will survive this one and now Knight making his way over and a teleport out from this Lucian to make sure that he's alright.
Teyus, lasting a long time but I believe he's dead as well as Viper gets in there and helps Bin take the kill.
Yeah Viper, I think he was just going for a little bit of a TP flank there as HLE committed in but Viper had such a good angle still leading.
Ok, just bois him out, Petrifying Ace is gonna connect, gets a stun on to Delight as now the
poison is ticking down and Knight having to avoid that bouncing bomb, grooming his sheet,
finds a third.
The teleport right back to mid lane and then against the wall, you can't dodge that, Guma
blows him up, does that have to flash away though because Knight was waiting in the brush
on the control ward as well and the action just continues here.
Guma quietly now is 1.6k up, this guy is getting so fed, he's done his Shadowflame, his Luz
And just kind of sitting on that tier as Ziggs players love to do is going to be pumping out so much damage
He's been going for these fully offensive builds. I'm assuming he's going to be going straight in towards the death cap once again
And that is so frightening. We can see this fight the initial engage from HLE looks pretty good
But look at Viper on the side. This calling just destroyed Guma. He basically soloed Guma down, knocks him out of the air
Yeah, Guma down, so they get the shut down there.
Traded for the Jarvan, but I mean, the Shen is honestly fairly
taking there with the Protoplasm, and so BLG are able to run them down
with the Cassio DPS just continual uptime, and now we're right back at the scene of the crime.
Yeah, you got the Hextech minefield down here from Gumi Ishii just to try and make sure it's as difficult as possible to get in.
You can see it's pretty difficult, these bouncing bombs hitting two people every single time.
And BLG have had enough, they're getting out of here. Shelly is theirs.
I mean, that's just one by Guma. Guma hits three bombs in a row on On.
On goes down to 20, 30 percent. He's just going to leave.
Yeah, the poke damage, I mean, the extra range of the poke damage here is what's going to be very dangerous.
If they, if they can't get like a good Lucian culling or something from the side of BLG,
then Guma is able to get a couple of those to land.
That is going to be free objectives.
And so push on the top side here from ZS. He wants to get in for their turret plating again.
See where the On actually decides to go for anything.
You can see in our Coinbase gold grind, Gumiishi incredibly far ahead of Viper here, who was actually doing a lot of work in the laning phase.
It's just a couple of these fights that have gone the Ziggs way.
And I just worry with on not going for, you know, this more supportive itemization, not going lock it.
Champions like Viper, like Knight, there's so much AoE coming through, you know, from Kanavi, from Guma.
And I feel like you need every tool possible to keep Viper alive if he's the one getting Dovon.
Yeah. Guma literally told Kajal, I hate Mage's bottom.
But, Ziggs is the mage that he smashes with, and we'll see how much of an effect this damage is going to have,
because Dragon started up and they're pulling him over.
Sketch 22. He hits mages, but he loves winning.
Yeah, and he also, like, the AD carries it, he's best at.
Kind of like mages, as well.
Like Jhin and Varus, right?
Like, he's mainly doing skill shots and all that business.
So, I think it's somewhat strange that he's so good at it,
even if he may not necessarily like it, is okay.
Zeke getting culled momentarily down to almost 50% here as this would be sole point for BLG if they're able to get this dragon.
Minefield does go down it's in an annoying position, but BLG haven't taken damage just yet.
And yeah, Shelly is just getting some work done here in this mid lane, and the poke damage on the shun is starting to add up.
It's going to be the dragon secured by BLG, but they cannot keep shun alive and now the rest of BLG are running for the health.
Xeas just flashes on top of Nite, puts him into the Gully Wall, and the noxious blasts are coming down,
but Xeas looks to be ignoring it completely. The taunt does come down as finally.
Some damage is coming in. Finn gets in there with a flash, and the Q comes out from Xeas, and he's alive.
They take out this Rumble yet again as Kanabi over extends a little, and now on taking a fair bit of damage to Bouncing Bombs,
and now the Ghouls to chase him down.
Not going to be enough to take down the Shen here as the Bouncing Bombs will be avoided.
It's a bloodbath, and in the end, HLE are able to chase them down afterwards.
BLG got to Dragon's Soul point, but at what cost?
Yeah, cost them a lot here, as they do focus us down.
They were going for this mid lane play with the Herald, they got multiple charges.
Should goes in, but didn't have his flag and drag to get back out,
and then Zaeus knows he has the TP shield.
He just full sends it, creates space for his team to be able to move forward constantly throughout these bombs.
Yeah, I mean, it's a good coordination for BLG to get Knight out of the cage very quickly.
That's been actually full sending in here and can't finish off this and been tp'd in the middle of that
I think an accidental press and maybe he was trying to go for the tp shield, but
Hey look rough, but there copy also tries to go in and he's not able to land his cue
So he doesn't get the damage and he goes down too
So players on both teams feeling the bloodlust and trying to chase for those kills and in the end
It's the safe people like guma with the bombs that do the most damage
Exactly, everyone's just fighting like crazy people and Gumi's just sitting there just lobbing over and over again getting all this damage down.
Yeah, he's right here.
Alright, Delight now moving in towards the mid lane and I feel like this game it's just all about Zayus and Gumiishi and what they can do.
Zayus just a brick wall in this frontline flashing on top of people and there just doesn't seem to be enough of an answer when this Yorick gets this far ahead.
And he did this in the LCK.
It's one of these players that makes the Yorick look completely broken
if he gets any sort of lead like this.
Yeah, when he is teleported in, he has created a lot of space for them
and presence here with the Yorick.
But they actually didn't even finish the recall from Zeke.
Oh, shun.
And after flash, the flag and drag was interrupted as Zeke looking for an angle.
He doesn't find it.
I couldn't be able to find too much there.
HLE in control.
They do have this 3K lead, and they have a super fed Zeke
who almost has a death gap, but BLG are on soul point and ocean soul.
Some people love it, some people hate it, but it is still a lot of value here,
especially against the poke that's going to be coming out from Guma.
And we can see Viper now on four stacks of the Gutton's Screeze.
If you get an ocean soul too, maybe you can start to shrug off more of this poke.
And so that is kind of the goal here for BLG is just continue playing for the
dragons, playing for the soul, and it's going to be up to HLE to try to deny it.
Because last time they were trying to do kind of both, right?
they had the double charge at the Herald. ZS was farming plates mid. They weren't really
set up early enough to contest the dragon itself. They were playing for the towers and
the fight after.
Alright now, Delight just getting a little bit of homework done, getting some vision around
that Baron pit that has now spawned. It's been up for a couple of minutes time here,
is on taking a lot of damage. The Shen, you're talking like Pratapalas Mahannas is really
good for like efficient stats, but he's still a support. So he's not as tanky as Shen's
can be and that poke damage coming on through from this area as he looks for a
bit of an angle from the fog of war is pretty scary.
Yeah, all the lethality.
Oh dear, the charming Zekka is going to land on the 98.
He does find Petra, I guess, so that's Kenobi taking out once again and both of you just fall down on.
I mean he might be a bit squishy but he's got an arm on him.
Beautiful, stead, united.
It makes the difference Alice.
They don't have enough damage to get through it to kill Knight.
Knight survives, he flashes, and he returns the favor with damage.
Very fast stand united, and the heal coming through, and Knight is building quite a bit of HP,
has the upgraded Merc treads, he is not easy to knock down.
BLG, we're thinking about it going towards Baron, and then he realizes, all right, well Kuma is still alive,
this is going to be very difficult to do it in his face.
Yeah, I mean, I kind of see their thing though, for HLE, they're like, all right, both of us,
perfect position here to get the jump with a Qiyana and an Ari onto him, but the save comes in for BLG.
HLE starting this up and York can actually do Baron quite quickly because of the additional minions.
They are going to have to pull off though. Guma now completes his death cap and I will say
it does get a little concerning if in a pretty ideal situation like that you still can't kill Knight
because Knight is going to keep building more defensively, in comes the Seekers now,
which is going to make things that much more difficult and on now finally has his locket.
One thing is though also you know kills are one thing and getting the gold if you don't have to
flash on Cassiopeia and it actually is punished now then maybe you stills call worth right.
If you actually can kill knight this time around in the team fight and deny a dragon soul.
Well I'm taking a bit of damage here stand united we are still waiting a little while
for it as he's down to 50 percent. Fish in the barrel.
Goomba's BC he's scripting for sure. Yeah, he is
Restive HLE not starting the fight just yet the poke damage needs to rain in at first before they do commit to anything
There's Viper in the back of the pit
Not exactly where he wants to be as a sprint split talent goes over Zeca finds the charm on the Viper
and we'll be able to take him down and now the soul still on the table nigger
in front of him comes in and it is going to be Kanabi falling down the soul is
picked up as on let's see whether he can find it the taunt connects on the
second but he will go down Gumiushi still at full health here as Knight is
trying to get out of there should as well down very very low finds a knockup
onto the Camille but he does go into the sky finds his way out utilizing the
ultimate bin is gonna die those Gumiushi just needs another short fuse but the
The Flash gets out, the Flaskone's there as well, and Bin is going to survive.
BLG, the Heist is successful.
Yeah, Zeca's hunting for him, but it looks like he is going to get out.
They got the Dragon.
I love how Kanavi played in this moment.
He's so calm in these really panicky situations, and probably was trying to get in there.
But Shun is back, and he's going for this.
Alright, do you, uh, yeah, they definitely need more than two people to teleport.
He's going to bring Grimuse over here at the same time.
Is these Ghouls onto Shun?
Almost taking him down.
Now Knight in that Gully wall, but goes Golden utilizing that arm guard that he did have.
Another mine would have been enough to take down Knight there, but he's able to get himself
out.
And that is just the Ark falling down.
Oh, the healing, the value of his arm guard there too.
Knight able to slither away from it in the end.
And while HLE, they take the fight to Viper, and they jump over the back of the wall, and
they kill Delusion.
That gives the opening there, and BLG do get that Ocean Drake, and now with all of this
healing it is gonna help so much so look at them all jumping over the pack of the
pit to go for Viper but then look at the focus on dragon. Exactly they commit to
that I like that decisiveness but then on and shun turning here onto Kanavi
end of miasma he's grounded he can't get out of there at all so they have full
eyes on the objective HLE started the fight off well they killed it off that
carry but it is so going to BLG and even though HLE are picking up some kills
BLG are able to kite out enough of them survive, they keep that soul, and they're gonna be feeling so good about that fight.
Yeah, incredible work in the priceless moment of the game here for BLG.
They locked themselves down the soul, and now Elder is gonna be sporting so incredibly quickly in this game,
as it was only about at minute 25 that we got our fourth and final elemental drake.
So we could have some very interesting fights.
Goomus did damage him as much as BLG combined on the Ziggs. 8k in one fight.
That is one fight. That is insane, but Knight just completed his Zonius now.
So he used the Seekers, immediately has enough gold to get the Zonius, which is such a big purchase.
And that Flash you talked about earlier, Kobe, it's almost back up as well.
Important item though, Oblivion Orb is done for the Ziggs as well, and he's the one that's been landing everything.
And he's going to need to keep doing so if they want to fight against this Ocean Soul.
If you can 100 to zero someone then the ocean so yeah, it's not gonna have a lot of time to take over
So yeah, I do like that angle you're talking about the thing is with the stand United to maybe that buys enough time for them
So it really is kind of close there. Yeah, I mean now they have this game united
They have a heel on on they have the lock it if Viper went cleaver for a little bit HP
They have zonias done on night you can see the shred has been purchased up for bin with a double AP so lanes
He's gonna be going zonias next and things are gonna get more difficult
So HLE trying to see if there's an angle on this there and the BLG are aware of it nice keeping and they're gonna contest
All right, they get another control ward over
She has to flash the flag and drag comes in from Shum
They're not out of the woods just yet
It's a coolie wall actually is set up to make sure that they're unable to get into the river
Is the trade of flashes there Jarvan did go for that EQ flash but do the flash early
Yeah, no flash on the digs. Maybe that is the maybe that is the hope here for BLG
It's not a massive gold advantage though for HLE and as you guys were talking about,
this is about BLG building up the tools to make the late game incredibly difficult for
Hummellife Esports and maybe in two minutes time, they will have enough of them to make
sure that this elder goes their way.
So much is going to depend on if the pick is successful, you know, if this big burst
damage comp from HLE is going to be able to successfully execute their kill.
Shun here with his Guardian Angel, feels very secure, so secure in fact that they are going to start up this Baron with their vision control
and they've got the spellcraft to pop here too to make sure they have full coverage.
And with Ocean Soul, so they're going to stay high on HP, but they're looking to turn on this TP maybe.
Yeah, Teleport comes in from Xeas as well to join this fight as Shun is over the other side of it.
The Maiden getting involved as well as Bin gets into the fog of war.
Viper, oh, Zackev finds an angle here towards his topside of Shun, waiting in that brush.
And to Light, wanting to get on top of him, Shun down to 50%, looking to try and turn it.
There's group issues and trouble, Sprint's spray talent.
He at least gets the ulti, but he's gonna go down.
Viper finds the angle under his form and support, and Seius trying to deal with four people here in this top lane is on his marking.
The rest of the targets, it's a double for Viper, and BLG have found their moment.
They found the team fight and now they can grab a Baron.
Shun traded flashes with Gooma earlier and then it's on.
The taunt flash onto the Ziggs.
Knight there to follow it up.
They take him out and in these extended fights,
Oceans all so powerful.
They are still incredibly healthy.
Right back to the Baron.
That is gonna be theirs.
And they're gonna have this Baron during the Elder spawn
to try to take full control over this.
Gooma's gotta go into overtime now.
Trying to clear all these minion waves
into a Baron-empowered minion, so here's a look at it.
With the Shen standing at it, as you stay on the bottom side,
boom, they instantly kill off the Ziggs.
So much of the damage of HLE is lost,
and the teamfight is instantly lost.
And I just love the communication there.
You know, Shun, using the Cataclysm to slow the gap, uh-oh.
Oh, dear. He's grounded. He is very, very dead.
Shun gonna be the one to lock down that kill,
and Kanavi, his ninth death of the game.
A little bit of a difference from what we saw in game number one
here is this one has not been his favorite. And that is elder gone now. You have no jungler
unless there's heroics to be played by Guma. Maybe some sort of a try at an alt steel or
something. But this is Ocean Soul. This is now a Goldy for BLG. The Goldy completely gone.
And it is elder. See if Guma can maybe make some magic happen, but doesn't feel like he's
even in range. I mean, this is Ektodia. They've got absolutely everything right now as the
the teleports brings Zeca over there, but he is just going to watch as this elder is going to die.
Go for Cassio!
Yep, looking for a bit of an angle here, as Gumiishi underneath this turret,
Knight is just fine though, is Viper looking for a flank.
No charm comes in, he knows that that's his angle, his opportunity to get on forward.
The Cataclysm goes down, the Dragon's wrath will be wrought all over HLE!
And that is two kills, a double for Viper, and they will just proceed with these minions
towards this bottom lane and destroy the base.
BLG strike back in game number two. They're inside the base and I don't think there's a lot that HLE can do to stop them.
He's empowered minions. There is no gourmet issue to get through them.
And yes, Neus had a decent start to this game, but I don't think he can do anything. There is Elba, there is Baron.
His Maiden is going to be taken down here as well as BLG with this army of siege minions from this bottom lane.
Now playing it pretty slowly here is night.
Looking for some of these noxious glasses equalizer will finally be thrown down
Nezas being eaten by a dragon Kanabi with the world's smallest
Sprint display of talent and Ben is just gonna burn into the ground
Delight taken out and second the last man standing but not standing for long as
Gumiuchi gets back up again just to watch his Nexus be destroyed and the
series is evened out and it's a best of three from here. All tied up back and forth
Just how you'd want it at the MSI finals who's got the edge desk
It's hard to tell honestly after this
Second game here because a completely different look on the side of HLE a completely different look on the side of the jungler
Of HLE as well, but we're gonna come back to that a bit later
BLG fights back the only thing that I want to state here is the fact that both the planners lied
We promised 1v1. It turned it to an open house on the top lane where the only ones not invited are the AD carries.
That's true. They were left alone on their devices. They might have been sad to miss out, but watching that top site, my God.
The absolute disrespect. Does their word mean nothing?
It does mean absolutely nothing. In game one, Knavite at a three-man, or three-camp, and into gank top.
this game we saw a three I can't get into top after three camps and my god
after that they just kept bringing more and more people but it became an arms
race in that top lane it was in the game one okay can Abbie's up there a few
times then it kind of moves on to all right you know I'm gonna bring my support
okay well I'm gonna bring my mid laner okay we're bringing the AD carries
everyone was moving up that top lane and it was actually the fact that Zayas
Who's that to turn around this kill in the 2v1 that really started everyone moving okay?
And I got to throw some shade because game one been enemy jungler comes up been dies get to ally jungler comes up
Dies this man needs to chill out now this play
There's nothing that can be done
But there were a number of bad deaths and my man was feeling himself, but he needs to calm down
He needs to chill out.
It's a rivalry for Lisa, you know?
Four out of five on both sides
felt like calm, cool, collected.
Then you've got Konami and Ben just like,
Ahh!
Konami literally built hubris!
Exactly!
You cannot write this down, you have to show people a clip.
They won't believe you that the greedy feeding jungler
built hubris.
There's a lot of takedowns in the early game.
Maybe it'll stay
bloody, maybe it's the way back in.
And it did, it did, to be fair, stay incredibly plump.
It was a pretty bloody game!
You know what, solo later did let us down though.
It was nice!
This man was absolutely insane,
and he's in every second,
Ken Stankson Riles, reliable sister of Network Replay.
Cause holy moly, he was absolutely insane.
This guy was a beast, his KDA, the goal difference.
This was the matchup that you expect.
Nice, one he started his career was a Cassiopeia one trick.
This guy has had Zek his number,
And in this play, he does so well alongside his team to keep himself alive.
Really crucially, the Keanu ultimate actually moved him out of the REQ return,
and that bought time for the cavalry to arrive.
The Shennault, the Jarvan flying over the wall, and the double kill.
Keep flaming Kanavi, that's Steve.
No, it was a really rough game.
Other than the hubris, I think there are good deaths mixed in.
But this is like, okay, back to the drawing board, let's calm down a little bit.
And the thing is we finally got to see Mages bot lane and we got to see the value of Viper's champion pool, because it's what set Nite up.
He got double mid lane bans because they weren't anticipating the Casio to be flexed back into the mid lane.
That is the value of that additional champion pit, really setting you up for success.
And with Delusion also doing well, it's feeling like BLG are one step ahead in draft as we initially expected.
Well, it's interesting, right? Because they played zero mage bots and that was kind of their calling card going into this.
But I do feel like Danny is just continuing to try and stay unpredictable earlier on in the tournament
It was unpredictable to throw made his bot lane now
He's getting it the unpredictable way of flexing the bot mage back to mid to get the advantage matches
I find really fascinating. It's also taking a lot of those 80 carries answers out of the pool right like Lucian
We've seen as an answer into the mages
So if we are now going to pushing for a game for a game 5 you don't have those picks left for Gumiuchi
So unless he's been able to pick up a few more
I think he's in a little bit of trouble and that's the issue
Are they gonna be able to bring the attention back to 80 carries or can they find solution in game because they add the upper hand in game one?
I'm just wondering if they have it in the tank to bring it back here now that the LG is fighting back
I'm a little bit nervous for them. I think draft is also incredibly important after you lose
You obviously get right up for a selection you can opt optimize your draft a little bit
But it is only getting trickier as we get deeper it that's the one major we expect from Guma right now
Now it's kind of liability-sensual.
Based off what I've seen, it's 1-1.
I'm going to still favor HLA in this series.
I feel like they're looking much better
than they did the first time around.
I don't feel like they're going to draft it the same way
they were in the first series.
And I do feel like Xeus versus Bin
is going in the favor of Xeus in these games.
And I'm just hoping that Kenavi continues
to flip a coin and land head more often.
Yeah, because it was just Grand Slam,
Inglis seeing Ins completely in game two.
The good news is that he cannot play Qiyana anymore,
and Bin cannot play Rumble.
So, they should get better, right?
Shout out to Fjallus, big up Riot Games and all these boys.
I'm really keeping the LPL strong by stopping Bin from playing Rumble again.
We love to see it.
Shout out to the meta that we have had so far as it gives everything open.
BLG fights back, let's see if H.H.E.L.Y. can find an answer in game 3.
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And Delight, wanting to get on top of him, churned down to 50% looking for a turn-in.
His conditions in trouble, Spritz plays down. He at least gets the ulti off, but he's gonna go down.
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who can reach match point after
this game three. I mean, with
the last one, too, we had a lot
of variants. I would say so.
Individual players. I mean,
where we are off the screen and you're like,
well, do you lose your Keanu card when you leave the LPL?
Yes, you definitely do.
It kind of looked like it.
Unfortunately, you get the LCK Keanu card,
which has not ever been all that good.
It's OK.
We're going to give him a pass.
He's had some really good games.
Yep.
You know what?
We're never going to see him play it again this series.
That's beautiful.
That is the case.
So at least there is that.
But I think that that was definitely
a bit of a thorn in their side.
I think he may have had a little too much hubris in that game.
And once again, I always liked Sean on the Shen.
I thought he had a really good performance again,
you know, having a big effect as far as the support comparisons
that we have had in controlling the map
and controlling the other lanes.
And they kept the knight in a very good position
until knight was able to take over again.
And I really like their draft just in general.
I just think, yes, he had some OOBSs,
but at the same time, I feel like compositionally,
it was very, very difficult with Niasmo,
with Shen Ta, with the CC from the Jarvan.
You're playing a very squishy character.
if you get caught at all, you just die.
And so I feel like they thought,
hey, we're probably gonna get outscaled.
So you kind of just keep sending them, right?
You know, you don't like have much recourse.
They were losing all the dragon.
They had to just try to fight their way out.
It did not work.
BLG looked more cohesive for sure.
Vayne remaining on the bands and an early Syndra band
with that gnar are gonna give you the response
as soon as that Vayne was down.
So I feel like I at least personally have a lot,
a pretty high rise priority, especially with the Syndra band.
A lot of people have been playing it into it.
I mean, it's a very good, you know,
flex band versus DOG in general.
That's why they keep on doing it,
but it also does even raise more priority on the rise.
Yeah, I think rise can be really good.
You know, we'll see what else gets banned out,
but if someone does go rise,
I do always like any Wukong or any Pantheon,
kind of like aggressive answers
allow you to really, you know,
start fights attack pretty heavily in that region too.
Yeah, you can go with any route or the Taliyah route.
I feel like the other two good answers
into it still up right now.
Yeah, I feel like the Taliyah has started
becoming a popular option into it. I feel like Annie has found not all that much success so far this MSI.
This last ban, I think, should go over to the Vibe because then you'd be contesting Vi or Rise for that first pick.
But the Pantheon will be taken away instead, and will PLG just leave both of them up and take whatever is not taken here by HLE?
Yeah, exactly. You could go for a trade, and I mean, there is still Nocturne up and available as well.
If you want to use that to kind of counter-place, I'm looking at having that pressure as well.
Yeah, let's see cuz then I guess yeah if you go over the rise and you go like to lia and vi
Combination and you have one click set up to
A lot of discussion though. Yeah, let's air it out
Okay, but I just gonna be banned away that I want to take that risk and obviously was pretty powerful on that champion last time
And so the rise is going to be freely picked up the anivia still up and available, but no Cassiopeia for the counter
Hey, you can go report the anivia you can go any answer that some players do really enjoy
There is also some players are really a fan of Nocturne plus Aurora and those types of kind of like aggressive angles
because Nocturne obviously is still up and available even though Ori is gone.
Varus the champion that has been receiving a lot of bans can still work as poke Varus can work pretty well as on hit
and does have a possibility to be flexed up to the top lane but we haven't really been seeing much of them as I.
Not so much anymore. One more pick to come through from Shun and the Nocturne going to be picked up.
you were talking about the aria on the aurora nocturne and you don't need to worry about aurora being picked in theory unless
They're just gonna play that top lane
And I just also like nocturne in general for later in the game to versus rise because rise is always looking to get some
Spliplish advantage link and realm warp first and stuff that nocturne's always gonna keep them in check of it
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they decide to go for that aurora
Can be a little bit tougher in that 1v1, but they're just expecting dive right you're seeing nocturne
You're expecting there to be dive drafter alongside it if you are gonna see Zyra come on then maybe that just waits them a
Little bit, but the thing is nocturne doesn't really have a backup plan like you know you you all to go in
That's really all there is to it. So
Any another option we discussed about you know any wukong any pantheon those kind of angles
And they might just go any nocturne as well. It's a similar principle to the aurora
I think it is a bit better in the one you want to get to the rise
But you turn off the lights you come from a surprising angle all of a sudden timbers on your head
Exactly. It has effectiveness in these team fights, you know.
You can get into a very good position there for a split second, and sometimes you can just beat out the Zaya,
and, you know, burst her before she has a chance to react.
Yeah, now, it's one thing that I kind of forgot about, Annie. This is also Knight's, Annie.
This guy has been ridiculous on this champion throughout his entire career,
and so maybe he is going to be the difference maker. It didn't work for Zeko when he was facing off against him,
but Knight, he's going to be the one piloting her this time.
That was his most played in the uphill. I don't think he's played yet at MSI, so he's going to be bringing that out.
The other thing you always have to remember with Nocturne vs. Zaya, obviously Zaya great at absorbing the dive,
but when the fear tether is on you and you go up in the air, the fear tether does not break.
You get feared as you come down, which can make things pretty difficult thereafter for the rest of the fight.
Not having to worry about it, yeah.
Because they don't want to get poked out.
Yeah, and also not having to worry about the cataclysm is going to be a good thing here as well for Zaya.
Gumiichi has been pretty phenomenal on this champion.
I think if you're going to be banning Xervenin,
then you also kind of have to ban Niko.
I feel like Niko does kind of fit the theme of what
BLG is going for in your life.
Niko not to end pretty strong?
Yeah, exactly.
And Niko plus Ferris is a strong 2v2.
So that would kind of be my expected ban.
The Trundle does make me think that ban is considering
the top lane tank to go alongside this.
And instead, they're going to ban the Lulu.
So I would expect that we would get a Niko.
It's interesting that they are more worried about those potential
Maybe they're readers that it's going to be on hit there, and that sort of style, but I feel like there's not really anyone tanky on the other side yet, so you could just play that safer.
Pope Ferris with Nico, play for the 2v2 dominance, Nico plus Nocturne plus Annie, very, very good engage, very good burst.
Alright, and maybe Zess is thinking that he wants to play a melee carry too, and they don't want to do a little polymorph either for some of these teamfights.
Okay.
That's just going to be an Alistar locked in here for An, a lot more playmaking available
to him as well.
How's the blind Silas top?
I think for Samus, it could be an angle.
Every time I see the Alistar, I just assume that we're looking for a Silas angle.
But the Olaf is a consideration here.
Yeah, Olaf when you're looking over at what they have, you know, could be potentially
strong but of course a lot more risk associated with it since Alistar often available.
good at absorbing a lot of this engage with the pressing guard, making it difficult to actually
fight through him to reach that backline as they are obviously going to be trying to dive in on to
Is it just a Sion? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I think it's possible. I think that
Bindethly is considering going towards tank with the Trumbleman. Well, finding our time here,
waiting to see what's Ace is going to play and that Olaf comes back once again and will be locked
Alright, what has been have for us as an answer to the Viking?
They like you just pop with a counter strike and you're able to absorb so much of that right you just leave the counter strike running full
Also, I think the jacks is better versus the Zinn too. You know if jungles gonna be up there and ganking you
It is very very good. You know obviously the dodging auto attacks and you're always thinking about the top and jungle duo
because they're probably going to force force up there when you do pick the
Olaf and you want the Olaf carry Jackson not that meta these days but we
think of Ben you pick a Jack I also think of when but that's from small
wounds but might come back sometime in this series as well we have seen
sprinklings of Gwen so far some people think the game playing you know
Some people might have a job, but...
Bin has definitely done some stuff throughout his career so far, but those are your drafts.
A blind Olaf from Zaeus, going to be punished by the Jax here towards this top side of the map.
And Bin so far hasn't necessarily had the most fun in lane.
I think the Renekton did a pretty good job, but outside of that, Zaeus did manage to get the upper hand.
This time, it might be the Bin show.
It is so interesting that the blind Olaf has come in a couple of times now.
and also played it in their series against G2.
Not a pick that you pretty much ever see blinded in pro play,
but it has now come out twice from the LCK teams.
And I do think when you are going up against this Jax,
as the Olaf pressure is on you to make things happen early,
the counter strike obviously is a fantastic tool
to deal with it.
But if you can force that counter strike out,
there are opportunities to potentially look for that all
in.
But if you do not make that happen,
Jax is going to become very difficult to deal with.
And Ben, it's even going at night.
So this is going to be a spicy topping.
And Tennis is not playing flash.
So it's actually been with the WCMX on their advantage.
It is just those two people here from Zayas.
So a much more conservative approach
where Ben is going to be looking to actually just try
to dominate that 1v1.
That is very frightening here for Zayas.
See whether he can actually play defensively
as the rest of BLG, wondering when they can go in
to clear out this vision.
HLE do get information about the three people moving over.
And again, if you're looking to dominate the top lane,
We need to dominate Jungle.
Yeah, Zeca waiting for his moment to make his way in,
as Kanavi still wants to get back through.
There's the flash out of the counter strike.
And already, things not going HLE's way.
Jungle dominated Atlas.
They push him out on the Raptors, not going to so good
at doing that.
And the full support of BLG in their efforts
splits the map for the Flash Ignite Jax here,
really trying to get advantage after advantage
and keep the Olaf on low economy in this game.
And honestly, I'm kind of surprised that HLE
even tried to contest it.
When Amy walks in with a prep stun,
Nocturne is incredible on the Raptors,
and you have a Knight Jax that has Counter Strike
at level one.
That is just a tough 3v3 to actually ever win out it.
And, you know, as good as Zin is,
you know, in kind of like fair duels with people,
when you don't have Flash,
it is easy to pick that champion.
It's hard to make escapes.
You have to have like enemy minions or jungle camps or something around to be able to dash to so you have to be a little bit careful
If your opponent's trying to close some traps on you and on is kind of watching at the moments and maybe one of those traps
Should making his way in the dust bringers going to connect as cannot he doesn't have flash remember from the earlier play
And he'll be taken down the umbral blades
Will take him out and the red buff going to be claimed there as well
So it's camps on top of everything this nocturne is gonna be so big it is beautiful atlas
I love the jungle game of chess and the trap snaps shut on
Canavi they kill them they know with no flash I can easily come defend my bottom quadrant and
On it makes the difference look at this. They've got vision
They have everything you're playing right into their hands and shun took an early baseball boots
So he could get out there even faster. So he's coming out of base with the boots
Arrives through this fight and on like you said just sets it up beautifully
Can obviously still level two against the level three Nocturne with boots with an Alistar no way out
I'm telling you man on is my favorite support in the world. He plays so well for jungle and
Feel it she they're gonna reap the rewards now you talk about shouldn't be in a head
Nocturne a full level ahead and Nocturne stop side. Oh dear Zayasin a lot of trouble gets stunned up by the counter strike
And in goes an Octane getting very scared as his Viking and then taken out
And that is the danger of playing ghost TP. Yes, Ben did have to give up a big wave though for that
He lost a lot of minions at that tower
But they didn't even need the ignite to kill Zayasin Zayas realize this is not going to break the fear tether. Camp him! Camp him!
Well, that's exactly what they're doing has been just gets back to work once again
And this not gonna be able to get out of this one the ignite ticking down the fear tethers once more and the alcove
Will not save you there as he falls a second time in a row
Okay jungle diff. How do we measure the jungle difference in this game atlas?
I don't think we have anything very long in the area 14 hour flight
We'll use kilometers and miles.
Man, that is tough. That is so tough.
Oh, look at this minion wave just going by the wayside as well.
I just love it. I mean, Ghost scales better for Olaf later on into the game.
It is really, really valuable if you're going to go one or the other.
You love having Ghost when you pop the Ragnarok, you're sprinting in.
But if you do not have Flash, it is so hard to get away from these ganks.
He can't break any of the fear tethers, and they just held the ignite for the repeat gank.
Now, Ben already has his steel caps.
He is off to the races in his physical damage.
Auto attackers, both of those top-siders that could attack him.
And Ben is just going to be in a dream scenario.
I really want to compliment BLG for their game plans
that they have shown.
Because we always compliment them for their mechanics.
And they're insane solo laners.
But they have had really good game plans
and executed on them very effectively
to get a lot of their leads.
And this is another very nice case of it.
Mid lane is a scrap.
Yeah, head up, Holmarize does come in, there's a double knockup from Delight though on this Rakan, gets the flash out of on
and will be able to make his way out. And one thing does need to be mentioned, this is Delight signature champion, right?
This Rakan is something he's really made magic on, even when he was on pro.
This guy has been a phenomenal Rakan player. The problem is, he has to dig them out of this massive hole.
Yeah, I mean, he can be an absolute game changer.
Watching him on the Bloodscrank break the hearts of the LCS yesterday in that federal game five.
This guy is crazy good on anything that can engage, anything that can go, he will find the angle, he will be able to turn around a fight, and he's going to have to in a game like this, as this is looking for a proxy angle.
Yeah, he's just going to walk past the turret, doesn't take a turret shot, which is going to be very, very handy.
and on making their way in to try and take Miss Dragon and they just steal it.
The paranoia comes in, it's level 4 to level 6 in the jungle
and Shun is going to chase the Rakan out of there.
The Hail of Arrows will pierce Kenavi
and Viper will just wander back to lane.
Yep, and I'll have to check but I'm pretty sure it's also a smite upgrade difference.
When you've got that much experience played and you've been countered,
it is brutal man, jungle diff all the way.
Oh, James Corruption just barely. Just need a little bit of an extra link in there.
He would have been out of the lockdown, Gumiishi, before he gets that Feather Storm, but not to be this time around.
And Zekar and Knight are fighting. Zekar dealing with a bear as well as the Annie, is that Pyroblast doing a lot of work.
But no kills to happen just yet.
I mean, that is just so devastating there, you know, for HLE.
You're already behind, and then your way down experience, way down camps, you spend so much time trying to kill off this dragon.
He comes in and it is that upgraded Swipe Diff that you're pulling out from 755.
It's still that 600 Swipe over on the other side.
He can't even contest it. It's not a 50-50.
And then you waste all your time doing the Dragon.
Lose your Flash. Don't get the Dragon. Die after.
And you are just so far behind.
This game is literally the poster for why the meta is jungle support, man.
And you can really leverage so many advantages out of playing for jungle.
These incremental breakpoints, smite upgrades, big levels, I mean, obviously a level 6 versus level 4 is just like, oh yeah, he's gonna beat two people over the head, but also, as you said, you invested all your work taking this dragon to low health and then he beats you up and takes your lunch money and they kill you too?
Yeah, it could not get very much worse. It could not get very much worse. You saw there in our whole list of
experience
That was not a very fun one and having a look here the first time canadi has ever gone at 10 deaths in a game
Yeah, that was previous game. So this game was what we'll see whether he can break the record
Currently on the tube, but it is still very early days
still I mean 1.7 K it's very early in the game so that is a large lead but as
this game gets later it's going to mean less and there are late game win
conditions here for HLE this time around I feel like as far as the draft is
concerned it's not the same as game number two however BLG didn't get off to
this kind of lead in game number two either so headbutt gets Kanabi out of
there he's back over once again as a chance of corruption are going to come
down by but they're not going to be able to hit him as Kanabi did manage to hit
level 6.
That guy's moving down so they're threatening to dive here.
Yep.
Delight.
Only level 5 here, but should be able to get the knockup.
Let's find it there onto the cow.
They should be able to get this kill for the first one of the game and Gumiishi is the one
to claim it.
Kanami's definitely dead, but he's used to that so far this game.
And so BLG, a 1 for 1 in that bottom lane, but plates to go over to Gumi could be a big
deal.
Honestly, I like the call from Mon.
He's like, okay, yes, you guys do have the extra power here, but I will sacrifice myself
under tower to make sure it's going to delay Kanabi even more.
Viper?
Yeah, there is the quickness towards that bottom side
of the map as Delight gets himself out of there.
Grimmy Ishii, he needs to finish this one up and he does too so.
A one for one under the turret as a teleport gets Nidin,
but a little bit late.
Yeah, Goomit just never used his ult, so I was kind of surprised.
Maybe he made the read that I'm dead no matter what,
but it wasn't the read that I had from that position.
I felt like he could have used the ult a little bit earlier
and maybe being able to actually pull off an escape there
After at the end of the day it is that one for one and Guma does create a nice little lead for himself
But play forgot two kills in this series of plays as well. So even though he lost a lot of farm
He's not as far down as you think should have
He's got a blast going to work with oh dear. Can I beat this time is going to back away and the Sentinel loses his patience
Let's see whether this rise can make a difference up there is in the meantime. We've got another battle
And that is just going to be the secure by shun
dominating in this jungle match-up still as Zekka makes his way back towards this mid lane, not going to find an angle towards
Bin on the top side of the map. One good bit of information here is that Zayas is really being able to close the gap towards that top side as far as farm.
It is still a thousand gold, but the early lap hasn't been zoned away from everything.
That is one good bit of information, but if you're a BLG fan, there's a lot of bits of good information, you know?
There's an entire bunch of good information. Take your choice. You can look here. Oh, that's nice. Oh, that looks pretty good over there.
Yeah, personally, I'll start with the title page.
That is our nocturne that has a 1.5k gold lead and look at that. The Hextech plate right there.
So those nocturne ultimates are gonna be fired off very very quickly.
Canavi's got a tunnel, huh? Yeah, and now a little hammer as well.
He definitely can.
Putt all into the ground and hide.
The Coinbase gold grind comes in. That is going to be the cleanse to get out of the chains of corruption as Nites moving in.
Bear lands on top of Deli, but he's not dead just yet.
Just barely even getting himself out of the way as a teleport.
Flies on through, Zayas turns up, takes the 50 golds, he kills the bear, and it will just wander up the river.
I thought he was dead to right, so I think he could have finished him with an auto attack maybe even,
but thought he was dead for sure to the tippers.
Does not finish him off, so Delight does escape,
but this means free time for Ben on the top side.
You can see Zeke is moving up there to try to answer,
but Ben is farming plates.
Not going to hold for Dragon maybe?
Do they see them?
Oh, they're not going to contest the Dragon right now.
Oh, he's going to be secured.
All right, so HLE on the board,
as far as the Drake's are concerned,
a second Ocean Soul this series, back to back here.
But it was pretty important in the last game,
So I hope that HLE are able to give it a little bit more priority this time around.
Well, they got one of the early dragons, so they're in a much better spot already for delaying that soul.
But the triple grubs we never really talked about.
Shun was able to trade a play on topside when they were going for all those bot lane shenanigans looking for those dives.
So he got all three grubs.
Ben has a winning sideline.
You have this Jax who is going to be set up for success in the 1v1 later on in the game anyway,
now enabled by those grubs.
And that is just going to make things even more difficult.
But Guma and Delight feel like the hope right now.
Oh, no, only level 5 here for Oniz. He has to flash to get out of the way with the grand entrance, and that is going to be a dead cow.
Mincemeat on the ref, because HLE will try and get another play, but they run out of minions, and behind the turret goes Gumiishi.
At least the bottom side is going well here for Hummellife Esports.
Yeah, Atlas, some support experience difference there. Having the ult there, the charm from Delight, it's easy to pick up the killer and they're on,
on and they also get his flash and a bunch of extra money in the Gumbaz, Zyra.
Okay, so Ulti's traded here towards the topside but Ghost's gonna be used from Zas as well.
Flash ignite still up for Bin as Shun.
They wanna fight this.
Yeah, he's on this red buff.
Not be kind of sick of giving these away but he's nowhere near and Zas gonna have to wander
on over, eat some honey fruit before he gets there as the turret is taken towards his bottom
side.
And it is once again, in Gumi-Yushi, we trust on the HLE side.
I feel like it's a good place to trust.
I thought he had a really good zigz game,
and now he is so far ahead.
Headbutt back under the lamp and battle dance towards ZAIS
will be able to nullify all of that.
I mean, holy, he's got two items at 13 minutes.
Gumi is ridiculously fed, and Viper has been getting starred
because Viper, you know, to no real fault of his own,
has just been getting zoned off the tower constantly
by good play from HLEs.
Zecca threatening Roams cannot be realizing,
all right, the game's not about me.
I'm not going to go to the farm.
I'm going bot, I'm playing for Gooma, and that is the right choice in a game like this.
You can't just sit back and try to farm, because Shun is going to push you off everything.
You have to find a win condition, and HLE have done that now, with Gooma being hugely fed.
Ah, so his bin's really frightening as well, though. He's moved up to a 1.3k gold advantage.
It's pretty close to what Gooma has on the other side, but they also have an extraordinarily fair jungler.
And the BLG gold lead has fallen down to about 700, but I do feel like that game plan that you guys are talking about,
what they've been playing around so so well so far this MSI to be perfectly
honest is still well and truly moving towards later in the game yeah we need
to see if shun can actually like really win these sidelines even more you know if
they're able to get to the next stage of the game which is when outer towers
start dropping they're fairly low right now in the sidelines and the first one
already taken on the bottom side but when you start to open up that map if the
Nocturne does not put the influence of this lead into effect in the midgame.
Then you give a lot of room for HLE and Guma to retake control.
Yeah, I completely agree.
I mean, they really want to get those outer towers down
because you make it a long lane for Xeas or Zekka,
and you're up against the strong Zaks and the threat of that Nocturne,
and all of a sudden it becomes pretty easy to chase you down.
With that tower behind them, these aren't easy characters to actually kill off.
They're relatively tanky.
They have the ability to survive and escape,
They are playing it defensively because they know the game is not about us right now. It is about Guma
That's where the action is going to be for HLE and if you are Zayas or Zeca your job is survive farm clear waves and scale
Yep
Zayas does have a strike breaker as well
Which as we just saw in that last exchange use it when he leaps onto you and then you can walk out of the counter strike a little bit
More effectively you mentioned Isaac that
Making sure you keep up the counter strike is very important into the Olaf
So if he ends it early, that's also a good thing.
And so this try-breaker going to be very, very helpful here
for Zess in this matchup.
The stun's obviously always great from the counter strike.
But in these auto-attack-based matchups,
just letting it run full against champions
like Xin Zhao and Olaf, it just cuts their damage down so heavily.
It makes it very, very difficult.
BLG trying to force around this Herald here.
Kuma though, as we said, has these two items.
And Delight has exhaust ready, has a locket ready.
they have tools to keep Gumo protected that he has been poked a bit by Piper and I think that's going to make them just give it up
Yeah, Zeckler was thinking about moving from that top side of the map. They are just going to give it up
And a bit of a fadeaway arrow there to help shine out as he picks up the eye this nocturne still running the rift right now
with one of the largest individual leads on it and in fact his individual lead is actually the BLG advantage as
as Ben and Grumiusia kind of canceling each other out right now.
Yeah, we got a comparison.
Top side of the map versus bottom side of the map.
And if you can land some poke image ahead of time onto Guma,
then they can really put the pressure to him.
He is running, of course, to cleanse with his flash
and his ultimate, so it has a lot of buttons still too pressed.
But even if one spell lands, it gets kind of dangerous.
Well, the Rift Herald, bit of a battle herald here for BLG.
They'd like to grab this second dragon for themselves as in goes on could be a knock-up into a pulverize
Shelly is avoided quite well
It's only Zayas that gets put up towards the sky
But in that it is going to be the great secure by shown immediately though Viper just dies the quickness
To grab should at the same time as he has to flash to get out of the way the LG
They only sacrificed one though and getting that second Drake a pretty big deal. Yeah, there's a big deal grabbing that second Drake
Oh, oh, Kanavi, trying to get a little bit scared here in this brush, but no,
he's able to break the Tether just in time.
Shunned down a 50% commuter, she may be in a little bit of trouble as the bear drops from the sky.
There's an Australian quite aware of that, as now Kanavi moving on over, the bear falls down,
and BLG do back away for defense finishes.
Ben does get that tower down on the bot side.
I was pretty surprised by where Knight actually TP'd.
He TP'd straight to the mid lane tower when they were already on the dragon.
So he teeped so far away from the team and that is kind of what allowed HLE to go for the flight after the dragon was taken
Is that Knight wasn't really with his team whatsoever until much later
You know he had been up on that top side with Zeka and I thought he was gonna use the TP
There was a deep ward over you know by that side lane
And I thought he was gonna maybe be looking for something like that looking for an angle
But instead he beat very conservatively
Oh, Delight gonna get combo'd here, but he'll be able to make his way out to relative safety, get to a ward down, spots Shun, it's Kanabi.
Finally getting where the wind comes lightning there as well as they didn't quite factor in Bin Bin here.
There's a knockup from the three-tile instructor that saves Delight as he carries the ignite with him.
Blasco is to get back in, eats some honey fruit to get that health bar back again, and that's actually with a successful defense.
defense and that's a necessary defense here on the red buff they got to keep
this economy up for Konami I mean the danger of the jacks in the brush is
very real I thought that was actually going to explode in a fight but they
haven't left the area and BLG still forcing for the top power
there's the paranoia coming down as the crescent god comes in users should as a
taxi to get up towards that topside the grand entrance doesn't do it and down
goes Konami, Gumiuchi now to show off his pin just immediately jumps on top of him
Zayas into that backline. Can he actually get a target though?
Stribreaker helps him out and he takes down the jungler
to light trying to get in there, but the quickness is denied entirely.
And Guma's still alive, but it's not quite working.
Featherstomp comes down, down goes Neolab as well,
as Arn is going to get swept up by the razor sharp feathers,
but it's still a BLG teamfight.
And Ben came up huge in that fight.
Massive chunk on the Guma, pushed him back,
and then they just sacrificed Shun.
They wait out Zayas' ult.
when that expired as they can go back in for the re-engaged look at this full send as on flashes in they land the fear
Chun is just chasing down this jungler and then night arrived flashes and gets the kill
They know shun is dead so the rest of them just kind of back off as the Olaf pops his ult
Sacrifice their jungler kite it out and as that ulti does eventually expire
You can see Viper hitting a chain to corruption over on a delight Zayas has no ult they re-engage
Exactly and then on is going to create the space there. He goes on the backside carries while the rest of DOG take down Olaf
He thought he was going to be able to survive there
But the blade collar enough little bit of extra damage with the tower shot to take him down
And so it actually only ended up being plus one kills for them in the end
Of course, they also bulldozed over the top tower. Yeah, exactly
They get that tower and you can see how much damage it's been got down
It really is just a battle of these two carries. It's going to be Guma versus Ben who can get the most value
Guma working in towards that infinity edge. Ben has his Thunder at Sky. He's on two items. Both these guys are
monstrously strong.
Ben definitely can threaten Guma, but he's gonna have to play well because if you go too far you get charmed up,
you get rooted up, you get blade collared. There's so many tools that they can have to lock him down and while
the
Counter-Strike is a window of safety. It doesn't last forever.
Yeah, and I do think that if Viper just hits chains of corruption on Delight every single teamfight PLG will win every single one
As the light goes in finds an angle towards on trying to use that ultimate effectively here as a chance of corruption
Do come down once again Grimushi getting himself to relative safety as Zekka gets into trying to bend in that backline
Grand exit here for Delight as he makes his way out
No one dead just yet, but the Baron is up PLG's health bars are kind of looking okay
that they aren't just going to back off and it looks like a reset. Yeah, they didn't quite get enough in cooldowns out of HLE.
So HLE do defend the play for now. The vision is still in BLG's control though, so it gets dangerous.
Oh dear, Zeca is just gonna coast away from BLG, but it's not gonna be enough. Just bumped on the head, little land post,
and Ben is going to claim his fifth of the game. That's the first death there for Zeca, but it's a pretty big one.
Didn't have his flash. They're gonna lose that tier 2 tower very likely.
can not be in the area, but could be tough to fight this the constant pressure from BLG in this top quadrant of the map up here
Has really rewarded them. You know the vision coverage
Completely in their control again even after the fight and they're able to find the extra pick
Dragon is available with still 12 seconds left on Zeka
Yeah, sure making his way out of base seven seconds on the paranoia though. He can turn up in a moment's notice
I'm breakable will not quite there for on as it looks like a chilly are gonna back away from this dragon pit
The LG will say well, thank you very much for the leash. I know it's not a very big one
But we're happy to do so that is gonna be soul point over to them if they're able to lock this one down
And I think even though an ocean soul is good for anyone
Denying it from a chilly is going to be the important point when you have the Pope Harris
And they've been able to do that every single time and making been that much tankier if they do get the
Oh, yeah, it's gonna be tough too. He's working towards that third item, Zonius, which bridges the gap between those counter strikes.
That is why it is such a popular item. You jump in, leap strike onto Guma, you pop a counter strike,
and then you're supposed to be in this danger zone,
but you go to the Seekers, it resets the cooldowns, you get that counter strike coming back up,
and that is where Jackson becomes so dangerous later on into the game, when you have all of these maxed rank abilities, such as our cooldowns.
Well, I'm looking for an angle here as the Paranoia comes down once again.
Let's see whether they can keep him as safe as the Blakefollower and Shun can have to flashing it out.
But Kanabi's just dead in the blink of an eye.
Xehanort's looking for an angle towards Bin, but On just throws him up into the air.
Ragnarok still hasn't been propped just yet, so Xehanort's still pretty scary
as Tibbers is going for a little bit of a scouting mission in the HLE jungle.
But without their jungler, the LG might have an opportunity to go towards the Baron now.
No smite to worry about.
And Shin honestly set Kanabi's number on that front anyway throughout this series
Yeah, these two-part engages with on on Alistar comboing the Zaya every time to get Guma an early ultimate
And then Shin going in with the Nocturne is rewarding them
But again, this one's still just gonna be one more kill not the actual objective that is fully going to claim the game for BOG
So HLE they still hold on for now
The next Dragon Soul
is going to be three and a half minutes in the future.
So they have something to look forward to.
Absolutely do. I mean, Guma has the IE now.
So he has the damage.
He just needs the time to actually deal it.
But that is going to be very, very difficult.
Zeca onto items.
He's not going to have actualizer by the time we get to that soul fight.
You know, we might have Knight on his third item.
Viper is working towards his third item.
So BLG definitely going to be very, very strong.
Well, on, I'm getting a little bit of trouble here.
Five seconds on the ulti he's gonna have to use the flash to get out of there instead. So HLE
Choosing their moment quite well. That's pretty big because that means no flash on on for this pivotal fight
This dragon soul fight and that is gonna make it much more difficult for him to access Guma
Obviously has spellbook. He can use something else
But Guma has everything available on HLE want to keep it that way for the next couple minutes
Dustbrain comes out here from shun gives away his position towards these buff gone chickens
There is the paranoia. The Realm Warp!
Gieta underneath the turret as Grover takes it down first!
The feathers have been laid into the backline, goes Zez!
And immediately he is taken down!
And now it's BLG's turn to go on the offensive, Kanavi,
using the Crescent Guard to try and create some space.
But it is once again a pick here for BLG,
and Summoner spells all over the place for Hanwha.
Another rise. Realm Warp delivers their own team death atlas.
It is a solo dive mission there from Zez on the other side.
They were split directions, and he got bursted down by the Varus and the Nocturne, and now the Baron under attack.
Yeah, 25 and a half minutes into the game, the Baron does do a favor to damage here as we can see.
Shunned down a 50%, they are just going to be backing away, not wanting to risk it all on a Baron take.
Exactly, they realize it's not worth sending it here, could still get taken away.
The Dragon Soul available in 145, HLE, maybe feeling a bit of pressure, thought that they had it to go for it.
You know, they do well more pin on the tower.
The tower is very low, though, so went down quickly.
What we saw is this went into that back line.
He's got focused down in a hurry,
burst through his cooldowns,
and just wasn't able to take out Viper.
Yeah, I mean, because BLG have constantly looked
to pressure sideline and pressure top,
it's not like he's a super fed Olaf
that's going to be able to 1v9 on that side.
And so good burst damage there on the side of BLG.
The one question, though, is can they capitalize
on the missing flash from Viper because he did have to use that and you look over at the light, you see flash available, you see Guma and Zeca have flash available,
maybe they can try to catch Viper on this ferris, kill him off quick at the teamfight, that could be a window in,
because HLE are going to have to try to get creative, find an angle to deny this soul, I just think from this far behind you cannot afford to give over an uncontested ocean soul.
It's 50 seconds on the clock and HLA largely here towards the top side of the map teleporting hand here for night
And he can just join any sort of fight in that river any time they would like as Kenabian's airs
Are in position for now, but it looks like this just gonna back off clear out this wave
You can see PLG are giving all their camps to Ben. So I think he's trying to rush towards zonius
He's trying to get the last bit of gold. I have to assume for that zonius
He's taking the Krugs right now
They're taking those jungle camps and if he can get that would be huge
But I don't know that he has time to base,
so it looks like he won't be able to get there.
Well, Kanabi with a cute little steal
becomes lightning finally, something going his way.
A couple of items being completed here for the Zinzao as well.
I think he would love to get that level 16 too.
He's so close to it there for Ben.
If he could get some solo experience,
we could just soak up level 16 for another rank in the ulti.
Looking like it might be a little bit too late
as far as that is concerned, but he is still extraordinarily
strong here in this game.
The second on a flank angle, Knight teleporting in.
Will join the rest of his teammates.
Five strong on BLG's side.
The paranoia comes on through with Grimiyushi.
Not going to be able to help take this one down.
Asshun secures another soul.
And Kanabi, he's trying to fight this one out,
but he is just going to go down.
Bin, in that backline, able to escape very comfortably.
And once again, BLG taking the launch money.
The feather storm has to be used by Grimiyushi,
as they are going to try and take down this cow.
But the bear comes from the sky, takes out the Rakan,
and BLG will just cruise towards the Baron.
BLG just played so beautifully.
Bin on the side was threatening to flank the entire time,
so Kuma could never step up, because he walks in.
Bin will kill him, while the rest of the team
just focused down Kanavi, and then on presses forward,
forces out that ult.
Just look at Bin.
On the top of your screen, they're constantly threatening
the ability to go in.
They win this fight, and then it just eyes on the jungler,
Fearing to change the corruption in the combo that kill them off bins or vines on the side and then they just chase forward
Force out boom is all take out the light and the rewards are huge as you can see in the picture in picture
They also got the bear and they also got some turret plate money
And it is a huge huge swing here that is it gonna be what pushes BLG over the edge
A five thousand gold lead now here for BLG as a result of that
that priceless moment as Delight clears out the control wards.
I just don't think it's going to be enough here from HLE's side.
We've seen magic from Rekhans in the LCK and from Delight in particular that it is getting
more and more difficult.
Yes, there's four items on Grumini, but is that going to really make the difference here?
Yeah, I mean, it's going to be extremely tough, you know, but there is always a chance.
The problem is though, when you are the team behind and you look over and you see all these
luxury items come through it gets so tough you realize fully completed donies
after that fully completed GA after that night's now for on all of these tools to
make the carries that much more difficult to take down and cannot be
could be in a bit of trouble level 14 to level 16 here as shown with the last
level in that paranoia it's feeling very very good on this nocturne it's a long
solid in comparison to a guardian angel between the junglers there's a lot of
extra money this nocturne does have is actually just trying to defend these
barrened up minions on looking for an angle you can see it he was ready for a
head-up over eyes but does not go in and the sidelines very dangerous bins got
his level lead he's got his three item power spike in he's got a nocturne on
his team who is also fed as you're highlighting with another three item
power spike so BLG they play the four one split push and max range that is
It's going to be the cleanse coming on through here, gets Gumiishi out of dodge,
but that is still going to be this turret falling down.
The out of turret is taking a long time to go, 30 minutes into the game,
but still they managed to get through it and now been knocking on the back door here at the same time.
Might get some stuff out of the way Gumiishi in a lot of trouble.
He's just trying to get through these minions as in goes Kanami,
but out he goes immediately with the headbutt and they dive on top of Zeyas and wipe him off the rift.
PLG have found their opening and they're going to take even more after.
Great call. On defense on the left with the headbutt
and Shun attacks on the right with the ulti.
PLG are just playing it so well, so patiently.
Guma keeps getting poked. He went for the gun to screaves,
but only two stacks and the game may be already over.
He's not getting that much lifesteal from it.
And Viper is just staying at range, constantly poking and prodding
and targeting Guma, making his life difficult.
And now it's a full core press, three waves being barren,
buffed up, they already take out that mid and hip,
they're on the towers in top,
and Ben is gonna be threatening through bot lane as well.
HLE have maybe got one more flight left in them,
but they've got to wait for Zayacen,
you're hoping for a miracle.
I'll see whether they can make that one work.
It's now Delight trying to get himself out of the way of on,
Ben with that counter strike running,
will be able to leap strike over the wall.
As there's an exhaust, they really want to commit on this one,
as the chain's corruption gonna be instantly cleansed.
They might be able to get the jacks, but never mind, they will not!
Down goes the Zyra Rakan!
Into the backline they go, Pingo's golden though and now he's looking to escape from Zes.
He does manage to get one of the kills on their Viper to light, tries to get in, and it does not work out.
Bin survives and BLG will knock down these towers and move to match point in the MSI finals.
Bin is dancing on of in and out with these leap strikes, man.
What a game plan from BLG! Well crafted! They had the Nocturne early, Biff gets his Jax carry top,
they split the jungle form, they split the map, and Shun is able to bring it home! Analysts!
Are BLG gonna win again? Is the jungle gap gonna stay this big? Because I feel like that'll answer
the question. Holy crap! Don't do him like this, you know what? We started at the beginning of the
day that BLG had the upper hand and that they were favorites in this matchup. Turns out they were
back to what made them good. Canavi aside, dude you have to step it up like come on you
come to this your teammates. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, canavi aside. I thought canavi
had switched to the LCK but clearly he's still playing for the LPL. So, okay. Everyone
in Griffin is just playing the LPL. We got Fyper, we got Tarzan, we got Canavi. It all
works out. Okay, I don't think I'm gonna go that far. Kind of a fair call out as savage
that was, but I think like that early game was disgusting.
And it's the same thing that happened last time with actually
Cannavi Hello once again invading.
It doesn't go well and it's that early game place that actually set
up soon for the amazing early game that he got.
Yeah, I wanted to go through it here so we can actually take a quick look at it
because I want to pause it just here because basically there's a couple of
things that Joe wants you to take note of.
What we first off have is going to be, as I go one second, there we go.
First off, we've got the sweeper that came through tonight to get rid of all
vision is in this area. It's making it so much more difficult for Kenavi to actually
try and contest this in any way, shape or form. The other thing that I want you to notice
as well is going to be... not that one. But the word for it is just right the way down
here. Just at the back of the red bull. Really small, really tiny, really good though. And
basically now as we can start to play it out, you're going to get this invade that comes
through. As BLG go for this, all they want to do is force Kenavi away. This is what we've
seen traditionally from a lot of the top LPL teams, especially when they get knocked
out. It's playing heavily for this invade star. We can speed this up a little bit now
as soon as it's going to fully clear out these topside camps and then look to a reset.
The crucial thing though that I want to point out is going to be how you end up catching
Canavi on that ward because he's now, as you can see on the minimap, just moving across
and I'm going to pause it now just as we start to go through this reset as well because there's
There's going to be two things to notice.
Obviously, Kanavi caught on the ward.
The second thing is going to be the buy from Sean.
As Sean spots Kanavi in his jungle,
he doesn't go for the traditional longsword.
He goes for boots.
This man wants to get into his jungle as quick,
as humanly possible to make sure that he can bully Kanavi
once again.
And also, you've already got this rotation
that's coming through from on as well.
He's going to start to shift over into this bottom side
and just hide on this bush.
because he ends up hiding in the bush there, the red buff aggro's to him in the bush. It
looks like the red buff is aggroing as per usual, so as we play it out, Canavi doesn't
suspect anything. Canavi thinks he's basically gotten away with this, and he's going to be
able to get the right camp. Answer for some of the pressure that's already there, but
here, Bouton Shun, he gets out fast enough, on is already in position to cover, and from
this point as well, now Shun is thinking, okay, what's the only way that Canavi can
trying to get back into this is trying to make some sort of play or by moving
into his topside. But Shun and Seid just goes right. I'm gonna beeline it straight
to the topside of the map and look to turn this top lane around. Ignore
basically the camps that I could go for in the blue and the gromp and just get
the kill top lane. It sets up Shun massively in the early stages to get
this kill and set bin up and then win out completely in the jungle. There is
zero that Kanagi can do from this position. And then the fact that Seid
He was died, TP'd back, died again.
Kanavi started Drake when his smite was on 600 damage,
Shen was on 1,000, so we stole it.
This is the type of game that 95% of pro teams
ask for a remake, if it's a script.
That's how disastrous that beginning was,
because it just all went in the favor of BLG.
Then it did kinda get close, just the cherry on top.
Another smite win for BLG.
It's been a mental breaker, I feel like, for HLE.
They're back against the wall with BLG on the match points.
Gigabit on Jax, impossible to stop them.
They're really happy about this boys backstage,
but they're making it happen again.
They're making it happen the same way they did last time.
Empowering Jungle, empowering Top Lane.
I'm just wondering what can HLE fight here with
because they only have one game to do it.
Well, the only good news again is
you're not going to have to handle this problem again.
He has shot a game on Jax and then we can look ahead, right?
It was the gigabit performance, but I don't think that that was the biggest issue, right?
The Olaf going south was a lot of jungle intervention.
It was a bit of disrespect to the potential Jax pick, but I want to highlight two things.
One, the jungler. That's the elephant in the room, we'll acknowledge him.
He's over there, his name is Kanabi, he's struggling to play League of Legends,
probably because he doesn't have hands anymore, he has to close to whatever elephant has.
But he's going to get his hands back, I believe that.
The rest, it's the bottom side of the map.
The light and Guma have been good.
They've been trying so hard.
The signature recon felt like it might be enough, but they really need to clean up the rest of the map.
up the rest of the map. I believe Angelii have the tools but it's the jungle stuff.
They have the tools but on the other side they have a player that used to stand alongside
them once Viper with BLG. One game away from the very first career Grand Slam. One game
away from doing it here in Dejon in his hometown in front of his audience. Bin wanted to prove
that he can be better than this. He's doing it but for me here I'm looking at Viper and
that man and what he's about to accomplish here today.
And he's done it with everything he played made us to get here now
He's played 380 carries so far in this tournament in this final for me if I'm looking about an HLE comeback
Oh, just scroll through side selection. I needed to see if I'm HLE
They are they have to give Zeyu's counter pick blind picking the all off there was so sketchy and the lady you get to fearless
With how much these top laners want to throw down and how much the jungle has impacted early game
You have to put that guy in a favorable position
Yeah, I do think though I want to hit back enough my birthday piece because it is so important like the fact that he is
Disappeared he went to the LPL got a world championship at EDG came back to home. Why it was by for life eSports for so much of that
I know he's moved back over to the LPL playing against his former team of BLG
He has to see if he can do it now in this game
It might be an LCK crowd here in Dejon, but it's Viper the hometown boy and BLG
who leave the charge and take us to match points in this grand final one
game away from hosting the trophy. Let's see if they can do it.
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last brick in this part of the road.
The middle of the golden road.
Indeed.
It's not just any road.
It's a shiny golden road.
Exactly.
And if you're paving it once you get past the middle,
you know, it feels like downhill from there, right?
So this is going to be a tough one,
but we'll see whether they can make it happen with a match
point in the bag.
We're seeing some bands come on through as we jump immediately
into champion select.
Benar and the Jace being taken away from Zayas.
And the Pantheon remaining on the ban list as well as that ban in Syndra.
Yeah, very very similar bans thus far, so I have to see where the teams want to go.
It feels like HLE, I want to see them draft for bot lane prios,
their delight can get out there, play with Kanavi.
I feel like On and Shun have been such difference makers for this team.
They have been dominating the last two games, putting Kanavi way far down.
And it is going to be Ash Seraphim pretty much guaranteed,
but you'll have the opportunity to split the duo if they want.
I've actually seen Ash Lulu be pretty powerful.
Lulu hasn't been banned or anything like that.
They could go towards it if they'd like to,
but instead a Mel bottom lane could be the option.
Yeah, just go for killing it.
And Viper has been quite good in so many mages,
so you get on on some support that's going to have
snapping gauges and try and punish.
What you assume is going to be some low mobility bottom laners
on the side of HLE.
And we'll see if they want to go for the super aggressive option of the pike, or if they want to go, you know, something a bit more standard.
You can still go Nautilus along that line as well.
Well, interesting, interesting. Okay.
Nautilus is the guarantee, right? Like, if you feel like you can play pike at the absolute highest level, I think it is incredibly strong.
I think if you're not playing pike, like Karrie is playing pike, then it's just always better to play Nautilus or something like that.
Yeah, or like I was playing pike.
That's true. That's how we move to the game too. Not like game one. No, the most recent. Yeah, of course, of course. Okay, so they're going to keep us in anticipation though. They're going to keep us in wait here. They go for the Cassante blind instead anyway. I don't know about the Cassante blind because we're actually having a conversation off air about can I be needing something to, you know, get his mojo back and his trundle has given him that so far at this MSI. Yeah, that's one of the things that we were mentioning and we were talking about it.
Canavi does get it. It's a good angle for it just because they've already got that tank top.
So they complete the Ash and Serafine and so do we also complete the male pike looking for the kills playing on the edge?
But this just makes games exciting.
I think they're gonna go for it. I mean, it's not enough for so long, but...
OH SHIT! You're getting the Trundle again!
Oh, look at the Trundle again!
Another angle to counter a Trundle! You can dance around him!
Last time he did it, he controlled the game so well.
He invaded poor bot side of the map they split the map for jungle and then he got jungle lead experience advantage over the
Trindle and should just control the game and this series I had to say Atlas by
Jota has controlled the jungle matchup. Kanavi has been limping through it and
This is exactly what happened in game four last time and there was no way that HLE could actually get over the top
So I'm a little bit frightened.
Hopefully they've done their homework and they know what they need to do into this.
But the Trundle's already been locked in.
And so Kanavi gonna have to try and make this matchup work.
Yeah, I mean it brings you an AD carry as well, right?
Because you have that mage box.
Yeah.
You have consistent damage there, you know, with this show in Kindred.
It is one of his most played champions all time.
Fourth most played, 42 games, 69% win rate.
This guy is a demon on the Kindred.
And one of the earliest champions that he was known for and so cool to see these players
You know stick with some iconic champions in big tournaments in big moments
And it's just nice to see should back with bo g and this team is looking so good
Can they complete it though because the pike has been banned in exchange you did not walk in the rest of your bottom lane
They're gonna take away a couple of parts of it
Yeah, and the stylus obviously is so effective when there is Seraphine as well as Ash, right?
So they're gonna have to ban that away, but you can go Nonalice, you can go Brawl,
you can go a lot of different parries with it, maybe not as explosive as something like the Pyke,
but I do think it still works very well.
There's also a chance that they can completely pivot and they can always move the mel towards.
Ooh, the Skana support!
Yeah, we've talked about it a lot this tournament. Let's see it.
There it is. On-Gonna-Lock-That-One-Away.
And so the Mel and Skarner. This is something we have seen here in Korea.
But it hasn't been all that popular.
We'll see what HLE got. And it's probably looking for a couple of small wins here.
Yeah, I mean Skarner's support can be strong. It is a playmaker.
But honestly, I kind of prefer the Nautilus because I feel like,
unless you're going in with an instant flash,
Seraphine and Ashe can disengage a Skarner way easier than they can disengage something like a Nautilus.
like a Nautilus that is much more explosive.
You can't do anything about the depth charge.
Oh, the swing.
Zeyas did say in an interview, he
wanted to hide this for the finals.
But Lyon pushed them, and he felt he had to bring it out.
So he is moving back towards it.
But I don't feel like it's as crazy of an angle at all
compared to the game we had against them.
It's at least good for into Cassante and into Skarner here.
So we'll see if it ends up becoming a problem.
if the Kinter is able to get a bunch of marks early
and get the extra range.
I'm also curious, will they flex the Mal mid
and take another AD carry?
Or are they going to go something here for a night?
LeBlanc to answer the TF would be pretty spicy, but LeBlanc
is a champion that is very bad into champions like Swain.
So maybe looking for a bit more consistent DPS.
I mean, if you go Zoe, you do set yourself up
with a really nice poke comp.
You can set up for some pretty powerful combos.
If you hit a sleep, you can solar snare out of that.
Humbo that burst but looks like it's the block and I think it's picking for we're trying to think what can we pick for
This the kindred right now and have a really good mid and jungle synergy here interesting. They end up going for the Taliyah
Oh, I'm gonna swap them back. Yeah, let's see where they end up
Yeah, Vypo is pretty good on the Taliyah is something that he's practiced since 2019 although Griffin fans would prefer me to not talk about it
Looks like it is going to be the Mel though towards that bottom side
And this has been the very common pairing,
the Mel and the Skarner down there as Knight will be able to augment.
The rest of his lanes by being able to just build walls all the way over there.
Exactly. You can kind of match the roams here from the TF,
so it's less about lane domination, more about getting the push,
matching the roam, and it's also a champion that brings some very solid,
consistent damage to help deal with the Strundle that's going to be amped up
from the stealing of these stats from Bin,
as well as the Swain that's pretty difficult to actually punch through.
So they have gotten themselves enough DPS to actually get through
get through and this is supposed to be the the first ever scarner support
internationally which is very cool to see that come out though we had been
seeing it some around the world coming into this tournament and there had to be
expectations that it would come out here but it had really only been getting
played jungle so far at MSI. Yep LCP and LPL now at MSI all right I mean BOT
they have HLE on the ropes right now can HLE revive this crowd here in Dajon
Or are BLG gonna put another brick in their golden road?
It's match point. BLG win this one. They win it all and we could get some silver scrapes here.
We were talking about it yesterday with Zeca managing to win another game five.
But we'll see whether he even has an opportunity to get there.
As BLG, like you say, definitely have them on the ropes for now.
for now. Zeca, maybe a little bit of trouble is there is on getting the flash out of this
Twisted Fate already. That is really, really nice. They come from both sides on and shouldn't
collapse and now they're trying to set up for a potential invade, but shouldn't see
the trundle there. We'll back it up. Yeah, you can tell how worried HLE are about the
invade again. They don't want to let this kindred, you know, get the invade going. So
everybody was there to defend it and then defend it twice. So Kanabi will at least get
to keep his own side of the map.
That is pretty important.
And Chun, you touched on it last time,
he had already brought this out once in this matchup.
But in that game, he got so many marks, it was absurd.
He was on four marks by, I want to say, seven, eight minutes.
I actually thought that the UI was broken.
I was like, there's no way that's even possible.
Maybe that's a different kind of mark.
But nope, Chun was just that fed.
Yeah, and it was very impressive to see.
And you can see is that is going to be trying his best to get the push here with Kenavi.
Obviously, a lot of the gangs are about the slows.
The ash house slows as well.
This is probably going to go right lies.
So night has gone.
Storm Raider Surge is a little bit of a tech to try to escape from those
trendal pillars and the gangs and slows that are really coming in from pretty much all angles.
Well, Hawkshaw gets them a bit of information here as we're having a look at the international
finals between these two teams.
It's quite a trophy case.
Yeah, no kidding. I mean, seven international finals appearances.
Therefore, Ben has the two trophies to his name.
Guma as well on seven.
So Ben could match his trophy case if he can win this one, though.
Of course, Guma has all the world championships,
which are the most prized by far.
Yeah, Viper as well, looking pretty good with four in his.
As it says, yeah, using those sift lightning hands
pretty effectively here against Ben,
who did take the short end of the stick this time around with the blind pick.
Kassante not going to have a great time in the early stage.
Okay, so it's been calm farming straight from top down to bottom this time around.
Of course, Wenbyoji did it versus T1, kind of clutched it up. As you say, Shun got very ahead,
very early on. He's going to cross back to the top side mark of the Scarlcrab up here.
And that is actually such a big deal. The RNG on the first Scuttle spawn can really dictate sometimes the basic game.
Sometimes it feels like you just keep getting bad RNG. It's always on the side of the map you can't go to.
And if you look, HLE had bot lane push, so if that Scuttle mark spawned down there, they would not be able to do anything.
Kanabi trying to turn this into a gank though.
Yeah, Viper could be in a bit of trouble. It has to flash immediately.
But is that actually going to get him to safety as the Frost Shop comes in?
It's decent work as the beat drops and first blood to Guma.
Immediately answered there as Kanabi goes down.
But getting Kuma fed is being a pretty good thing if HLE so far this MSI.
That was critical that they are able to clutch that and focus down Viper there.
Because all on trapping Kenavi against the wall, he was definitely dead to rights.
And it goes one for one with the first blood bonus to Kuma, to HLE.
Really well played there by BLG, you know, that stun into the wall,
the solar snare in the tower.
And had Viper survive, that would have been a disaster for HLE.
But as you say, Goma, I feel like he's been having a really good series, but it hasn't always resulted in wins, right?
You know, in the Ziggs game. Whoa, flashing from Ben looking for an angle towards Zayas who flashes out of the way
Vision of Empire comes down very short range that time
And so now both of our top laners without a flash and Zayas especially without a lot of mobility
Yeah, that was well played there by Ben
He knew he had the pathmaker to actually immune that little root that was gonna be coming in but Konami is here
Never move just barely dashed away from there by bin. I don't think the troll has
been spotted just yet though. It's interesting because you look at the
support room timer too. Skarner here for on is on the way up. I have a feeling
there is a troll in that brush as he dashes forward. Kanavi pops his head out.
Let's see where the Zayas can get himself alive and the answer is absolutely he
can. Never move comes in. Vision of Empire for the kill and that is the second one
That's some great patience here from Kanavi. Kanavi makes the early game happen on the bot side, then gets a gank on the top side.
That is critical because he has been struggling here against Shun, these last couple of games.
Oh no. Delight roaming down. He's going to spot on here as there's in position. There is Iqshtal and Delight in a lot of trouble.
Vision of Empire is not going to help him and Shun is going to grab another mark here. Kanavi moving up, trying to defend Zas.
Zayas, he might be in trouble as well as the nevermovie is going to catch on to Shun and
Kanabi finds him. There is also the demonic ascension to keep Zayas alive. It's going
to be another one of HLE and Zayas a 2-0-1.
I thought they were going to back off when they saw Zayas get level 6. When he gets level
6 he's two taking man. Aun thought he was going to have some burst damage with his hail
of blades and drive him into Shun but Zayas is happy to take that ride.
You can see this mark though, Shun just playing it so well places the mark and that's obviously
going to tip the hand to Delight, but then he flashes in and watch how he delays the
third hit until the mark has actually fully switched over, last second there, split second
waited for the mark to establish, gets that mark, then they go in here, but let's see
say Kobe, that is a swing that's level six and the never move was so critical because
when you pull the soul you get a large heel coming in, that I think really did make the
difference and it was just that unfortunate timing there for Shun as he goes forward gets hit by the never move on
Is already going in with these shawls impact, but he gets that heel gets the ult off you're not killing him
Yeah, that was a max range never move as well
That one was quite ridiculous out of Zayas certainly showing that he's very practiced on this new tech
Towards that top side that he did have to use against Lyon earlier on in the tournament
Still, things pretty even between
Bin and Zayas as far as farm is
concerned towards that topside, but HLE
should be able to take down this dragon
and Kanavi claims his tribute
as he gets that health bar filled up once again.
It is so problematic though, having
a swing get this accelerated, because
Swain rushing the Swiftie boots, then
going to go into the Rylai's, he goes faster,
you go slower, you can't escape the
demonic ascension, and as long as he is on top
of someone, that thing does not expire.
So Bin's lane is pretty
Konami has had a really good early game.
He's ahead of Shun,
but Shun just did get another mark,
I believe on that tops.
Oh no, so just a second.
So I'm too, but they do.
But they are looking topside still for
an actual play and actual kill,
but Zayas he's going to back off.
They make the call.
Hey, Taliyah is missing.
They're in fog of war right now,
and Kindred has camps on the topside,
so could be in the area as well.
That's just good comms there,
and they go for the swap bot lane here,
recalling and going up top.
Gumiishi galloping up towards that top side of the map.
Now Xeus is going to be lumbering his way down towards that bottom side.
Then should be able to clear out this wave before Gumi does get here and into position.
So Bin should be able to answer towards that bottom side.
Teleport at the ready. Hopefully he doesn't have to use it.
If there is Viper down there actually going to be catching the wave of this swing.
Exactly. I think they're just going to leave Bin top, but that's always that bad situation where you're a tank.
You're playing against magic damage, you rush the negatron, and now you're playing against physical damage here.
And so it is just going to be his job to try to defend this tower as best as he possibly can.
Kuma was accelerated by that first blood, and now they're looking for Zaeus.
Yeah, Wither's wall comes in, no flash available, the demonic ascension does bring him up, and let's see.
Never move connects on tonight, and that wall did not last long enough, on finally makes his way in.
Zaeus is still alive for a very long time, and will finally be taken down as the grubs are there in trade.
They bring four people, and this time they can take him down.
They do give up topside though. That is Grubbs and Kenavi wants more.
Yeah, we'll see if he can actually pull off a dive. It's four top.
Yeah, Destiny Gate brings Zeca into the party as well as
Ben will at least try and pathmaker one of the positions.
He goes all out, but goes all a little bit too far into the death chamber here,
as HLLE looked for plates as well with this four stack top.
Not much of a chance there for Ben in the 1v4,
but shun got a mark off of the swing and now the mark spawns on the scuttle down on bot side here.
That's four stacks already. Oh my goodness. Okay, that is going to be a very scary kindred.
Still HLE in a good position. 1.5k going to be their advantage
as on will let the trundle go home and there is that fourth mark that we were talking about.
Yeah and four we talk about four because it is a significant increase in the range on kindred,
which is why it is so important for the team fighting. And then after you get that first four,
Every three thereafter do give you additional range, but it is less than that first
Burst of range you get so shown going to be having a much better time in the team fight now
Yeah, and we'll see if he can use his cue to dodge the never moves the critical ones and not get locked up because
Chains you see from like gold card and never moves and ash and seraphine
Sometimes if you don't get the hits or ultimate
Before the CC lands, then you never get to hit it, and that can just make Kindred players look like fools.
There is so much CC layering on HLE that he has to play into. It's not easy.
No, it's not easy at all. That's exactly what I was going to touch on is.
Oh, Kanavi puts on in the kennel here as a solosnand. Not quite going to connect onto Grimmie.
Yashizaka's moving down to Lightseer as well. Everyone moves in.
As Kanavi, he might be falling, but instead it's going to be ongoing down.
No turret to be hitting this trundle as he turns his attention towards Viper to light.
Just barely takes this one up, and Gumiishi is taken down.
Knight standing his ground.
Zeke able to sidestep a few of these abilities, but Knight is still very scary.
And the threaded volley is flying in just barely out of range.
Is Zeke on this twisted fate as to light with the surround sound,
is able to get his teammates out of there.
Wow, the slimmest of margins there.
Viper decided to play that so aggressively.
He flashed in to get a rebuttal down to try to turn around that play,
to try to keep on the live on did go down though and Ben now has shown on this
side of the map but shown looking for that recall likely has his first item
completed and at the end of the day it is still a huge advantage for each of the
gold advantages in every single role for now. Yeah well worth the play here they
send everybody bottom twisted fate and Seraphine roaming over and with
auto viper trying to slip into the tower and defend at tower with the
actually damage here. They just kind of cut them off and they section them off.
So once that gets here with the gold card to start it out, they go.
Look at this flash though. Flash rebuttal on the route there.
Fahe can turn around by getting that route and the wild card reflected there
onto Zeca, but ends up going down very quickly. And then Guma does such a good
job with the ghost of avoiding a lot of those threaded ball.
Zeca came back in, but his gold card expired, which made you think,
hey, maybe Knight could turn this round. And Gumi is both summoner spells there
as well. Here we go back to life.
Yeah, Knight, down here towards his bottom side,
his A-Chili, grouped up as four.
The Swain and Cassante are still towards that top side
as the Weaver's wall doesn't do a whole lot.
Shun, still looking for angles here
as we're going to see where the double dragon can be collected.
Here's the flash goal card is going to connect.
The arrow lands on top as well.
Lancer's fight is going to be there
as the impale doesn't do that much.
The Lancer's fight is late as Shun.
I don't know whether it's going to save him here,
And he's just eaten by the trundle revenge for Kenavi.
That's going to be the dragon for HLE as well.
They make the Engage flash gold card,
and they're able to pull it off, even with Aun trying
to peel for him and buy time.
And that's the problem with Kindred.
The alt is nice, but if you're losing the fight,
it doesn't do anything, right?
It doesn't actually just immune you.
It amunes them too.
So when you come out and everyone is there,
he can do nothing.
And that's why I think he tried to hold it for so long
to see if they can turn around, burst someone down.
But it's a CC chain you were talking about earlier, Kobe,
and that is why you see Zeca flashing so aggressively,
because he knows it's not just the gold card.
It's everything coming after it.
Yeah, they're spamming pings, and they're threatening it.
And that's why it shouldn't flash as early here.
And the arrow actually goes through.
If not for on here trying to peel as well,
then he would have had a quick death.
He's still going to have a delayed death, though,
as the old guys go down and they kill him after.
And Ben turns up at the teleport, and he's like, well, no.
It was a little bit of the Donald Glover scenario
as the place was on fire.
And so he is not going to commit to anything.
Still things are somewhat even, at least in farm,
towards that top side.
But Gumiishi looking pretty good on this Ash.
I do want to say a lot of his games on this champion,
he's been playing painful weak side.
I think one of the series that he won,
he won as like 0-7 Ash in the bottom lane.
They still won though because it creates space
for the rest of the team.
Zeca now gonna get caught up by this Scana thrown back by Knight as well as the arrow gets flashed just
gorgeously. Zeca's got a gold guard though. There's nothing on Kandu about this as a Halon
played Scana and he will be taken out. I mean it's so interesting right because Guma is always
looked at as that weak side player but think about the Zaya game. It was non-stop gangsta down there.
This game as well. Kanabi's down there early. They are seeing that Guma has been their best player
I feel like today and they're trying to feed the hot hand. I mean after that Katelyn performance
you would not blame them.
Another play turned around by HLE and now they're the ones with the move.
Kanavi here in with the extra ward and they're going to see Shun and back off.
I feel like Kanavi is going to be such a problem. This Trundle is getting so accelerated and going to be even tankier.
Speak of the devil, the Impale is going to come through. Shun will arrive.
It isn't actually going to be enough as Kanavi just flashes on top of him, takes the King's tribute.
die and the shutdown goes over to Shun. That could be very high value here as
BLG will be relying on this kindred later on. I'm not gonna lie I think that
was horrible for Kanavi. You're spending your flash your ult to kill
support and give a shutdown to Shun and a mark as well. Shun is on six stacks now.
Kanavi kind of lost his mind on that one. Also good reactions from Maun. Under
pressure you know there's trouble is beating on you. He doesn't panic. He buys
the time. Hits him with the ult, into the E, into the wall, around the corner here, so that he can
get Shun, that counter kill angle, and using his flash to kind of force that full commitment.
Yeah, and now they're going to get Herald off the back of this too, so the
it's kind of keep on coming. Kanavi punished theory heavily for that, and I was really
worried for BLG, and that Kanavi felt like he was running away with the game. He's getting
ahead of the pace. You're going to be able to steal stats from Ben, and if he gets too strong,
You just can't kill him, but now you give the shutdown to shun you give another mark to shun
You give the herald to shun this guy's gonna be a problem. It's some tunnel vision
You know sometimes you decide ahead of time alright
I'm killing this scarner like I I can run him down and then the rest of the team collapsing here and picking up extra gold
As he said, you know HLA are still definitely ahead
But it is something to keep in mind if there's the comeback for BLG in this game
It would be HL these last yeah a lot of plates available on the map as well
So this Rift Herald could really do some damage to the gold lead that HLE put together and has stretched out to about
3000 but one thing that BLG have been really impressive at is
taking control of a losing game state and
Slowly eking back those advantages and when you have this kindred
It's going to be a great idea to do so because she will get so much more powerful as this game goes on HLE
Trying to set up for a pick, but they're not gonna go for it just yet
We had eight members here across the map for a fight over a potential Raptors take there both teams ready to go
But BLG had a reddit they play defensively they get the continued farm here for shun and he has been emphasizing the farm
Well, not he had taken some opportunities to skip camps to go for early Gangs and as a result
He's done almost two full levels and he's lost the gold lead and the Herald is still in pocket
So this has been a bad stretch of play for HLE, but their other members are still very strong
Yeah, well, this is going to be a turret that should fall for Ben as never mind.
It takes him a little while longer, finally does come on through the backdoor bonus, not
going to quite be enough to keep that turret alive.
The Rilise though you can see is becoming more and more annoying here in this lane as
Ben is just desperately trying to keep being able to walk.
Yeah, the team fights are going to make it hard for a lot of BLG to walk because with
the Ash, with the Seraphine and the Swain here, so much to inhibit everyone.
We'll see about the grouping as they approach the dragon though.
That's going to be the thing that does cause it.
This one approaching in 10 seconds and HLE already have control wards there.
One of the really nice things for Swain in these melee matchups too is how many soul stacks you get.
He has 24 stacks already. There's a ton of additional health here for that Swain.
Yeah, he is going to be able to take this turret himself.
So that minion wave is not going to go down this time around.
Maybe in an awkward spot, but Kanabi is going to respect him this time.
on thrown rocks around, and otherwise not too much going to come of it as Zekka towards the bottom side of this fight
waiting on teleports, waiting on a reset here for Zayas as well. He might have Leandri's off this back, which would be absolutely massive.
Guess that?
Back interrupted though by Bin towards the top side of the map, and now BLG thinking that this might be an opportunity to go for some sort of fight.
Rocks flying through, but the poke isn't necessarily landing as now the Rift Held is going to pop out a teleport in from the swain.
as the weavers wall comes on through.
Zayas just gets over the top of the wizard of Empire,
they never move!
My God, they're damaged!
And everyone is gonna explode.
Chun is in their lambs for a spider.
Zon gets into the back line, they take down Grumiyushi,
but it's this swaying that's the problem.
Anyone never moving, it's Zayas has you in his sights.
Now BLG trying to escape, and Sekou will just hold on.
In position.
Kanabi gonna hit him with a bat,
and down goes the skarner again.
and I have seen this game before back to back days down a game one two for HLE
the swing comes out from Zayas and it is heroics from the top later against
Lyon and again over here against BLG that never moved change the game gets
them so pointed if you got a cloud soul on swing good luck ever getting away
with this guy yeah BLG they're trying to keep the you know the mail in front of
the Ash Serafine here looking for the Roboto, but the teleport from Zayas, you know that
arrival is going to be devastating. So here's the look at it. And once he does it, it doesn't
matter what else happened. Huge never move ultimate and nobody can get out.
Just beautifully played. They get that pull onto Viper and Knight. Zaka chases down Knight.
Even though Ben and on do a good job taking out the Ash, it just doesn't matter because
you're never going to have enough damage to kill off Zayas. The pull is big for the
CC and it's huge for the healing that comes through as well. They just can't take him out.
Oh, Arrow connects on tonight! The vision of Empire is gonna do a fair bit of damage, but Kanabi turning up.
That's going to be the biggest problem. Zayas with some lightning hands, takes out the Scanner, now the rest of HLE are moving forward.
Kanabi is she gonna use the flip back in order to close distance? That's kind of funny.
It's the light is gonna get taken down. Ulti from Viper, still doing a whole lot of work.
That is knight at about 200 health, it's a double kill for Viper, the flick back comes in, and they've overextended!
Xayah's still trying to chase them down because there's Zeca moving in,
but HLE, I think they just need to, you know, cut their losses at this point as Zeca is gonna try and get on top of Knight.
He finds it as there's a demonic ascension, but he ascends a little too far,
and now Zeca needs to find this angle, Viper is for a bottom, but it's a double, the Wild Cards takes out Shun,
But Viper is going to be there and he's going to take him out.
It's a fight, shouldn't have to y'all, but didn't think he was going to get hit by the Wildcarts there.
But it was the light who started the snowballs.
He flashed forward with on the skills and allowed BLG to turn around.
What was a fight that looked like it was HLEs?
It was actually crazy.
Yeah, because you see the Trunder walking down and you think immediately,
alright, Zayus and Konami are going to be able to turn this.
Guma and Delight have the inside route.
The teleport from Viper though is huge.
Look at Viper around the corner, on the Mel, is going to be pretty big.
Yeah, that flash from Delight, he thought he had him, but he whiffs and then Shun just takes him down for free.
And look at the Seraphine Ultimate cooldown, it was only a couple seconds away.
If he just slow played, it would be such a different fight, such a different game.
But he does not, he goes forward, and they have enough damage to get more and more kills.
HLE lucky that Shun didn't get that ult off, or it would have been even worse,
because he would have been able to survive without Zeka getting that kill.
It looks kind of like Danny forgot which team he was coaching because I thought it went pretty well for BLG
But he's not exactly psyched about it 3000 gold the advantage for HLE right now
So we have a look at the coinbase gold grind
Zekker doing a pretty decent job cheating money out of summoner's rift is on might be in trouble
Zekker does have that gold card locked in
The BLG I mean with Viper if he has rebuttal you cannot hit him with a gold card
So that is not going to be an option here for HLE
I think Black Pismell is going to be very important as this game goes on him and Shun
Going to be pivotal. Yeah, I mean shouldn't he's definitely kicking himself for not dodging the wildcards
There's so many ways you could dodge those walk dodging them cue a different angle dodging them or old evil you're talking about
But maybe that that counter kill is going to be a big difference because dragon soul is coming up in just one minute again
And we got a track summoners no flashes up for anyone right now
And the summoners that do come back in time for this dragon are gonna be really big one just came back up for on
They're gonna go straight on to the Baron. It does get spotted there
BLG will have to pull off for now you think but they're right back on it
All right, then I'll be clearing out vision where he can on his going down exceptionally low to this Baron
He's gonna have to go for a reset as the Hawkshot does spot him out out of turret going to be taken here by HLE as
as PLG, a little bit optimistic on the Baron call.
Awn needs to sit by some minions that even get a catch up experience.
He has so low level in this game,
you need to abuse that catch up experience and just sit by minions that are dying.
I mean, he's level seven.
You're looking over at Zayac at 15.
Oh my goodness.
Zekka, 15.
This guy is-
Sit by some minions.
Yeah.
I agree. He needs to just start soaking some XP.
They're going to go right back forward.
This is warded out, but they just feel they don't have to set up at the dragons.
They're trying to force HLE to come to them.
Let's see where the HLE can actually get here in time.
Azaz just moving into the pit.
Can Abi going to join in the Weaver's Wall just to block them off as Zekka
walking around the side on in a lot of trouble as he's pulled back by the Nevermovers.
So like the grabs that one, the arrow straight into Ben is going to be raining down the arrows
and the AoE is just revolting.
HLE have a round of them and they'll take the free Baron and look to set up Silver Scrapes.
They're going to take the Baron, they're going to take the fight, they're going to take the game.
It feels like it is a game by Mendejon.
The crowd erupts here as they know they're going to get some more entertainment.
Zayze teleported to the bottom side to get more work done on the towers, but it's not over yet.
Yeah, on shows up, thankfully level 7, so was able to get back out onto the map exceptionally quickly.
And soaks up some minions that were joining the bottom lane by Azaz.
But that is going to be Seoul as well for Hummer Live Esports.
And this is a TF-Ash composition, right?
You can never surprise them.
They press Destiny.
You know, you can see everyone on the map.
Hawkshot just sails by.
You can see everyone on the map.
And the priceless moment of the game
will be a free Cloud Drake setting up
all of that movement speed for a Swain.
And this Weaver's Wall, I mean, it's a block shot.
I rather on on the other side, on tries to flash over,
but he gets pillared out of his each balls in back he dies for three the anti synergy there and then look at that
Seraphine all through the whole team exactly they bounce it off Swain's head and it hits everybody on BLG
They crushed BLG
Against the Baron wall there and that is going to be HLE taking the massive massive lead in this game
Not over just yet, but certainly feeling like that was the masterstroke here by HLE
using the Baron now. They'll see whether they can break open the base and one
in the turret is up and available in that mid lane. Kanavi is now moving that
one forward. The BLG, to say that they're on the ropes feels like a bit of an
understatement here. As on, yeah he's just not gonna get over that wall
unfortunately. At level nine now at least as Kanavi throws down the cannel. The
arrow is gonna sail by. The flick back doesn't quite work now. Zayas just going
gold and buying all of that space. But Ben throws him into the wall! The swing is
taken down and Viper is able to grab that kill even on is able to survive that
takes a Baron off the map and really slows down HLE. Very risky move but a
good aggressive one there from BLG it looks like most of BLG were saying okay
kite back let it inspire bin goes in though and helps them take him out
Jun in trouble. Yeah Gumiuchi looking for an angle there but doesn't quite get it
Solis now not going to quiet land either but BLG still has some fight left in them
as the siege minion just kind of being baby baby sat and the Inatar will fall
And Rebel Baron Powerplay does push above that 800 that you get from just killing it,
but it is not the most impactful we've seen so far this tournament.
Critical defense from BLG there.
Being able to take down Zayas means you're able to stop this game ending possibility right in its tracks.
Italy have to call it at just getting the outer towers there.
And BLG by themselves some more time.
The Viper just bought two large rods, so he just got paid and is going to be close to that death cap now is really the only one with a significant lead on his team.
Overall down a massive amount of gold plus the cloud. So this game feels like it's it's 99% in HLE's hands.
But BLG are searching for that 1% chance searching for that miracle and it's going to have to be a miracle.
It's going to have to be a multi-man in pale, into a seismic shove, or a multi-man solar snare.
It has to be something where you catch more than just one.
And they have to avoid being picked off by twisted fate, with Ash Arrows flying down the map too.
There's not a lot of safe territory for BOG to set up in, or create a surprise play from.
Well, Kanabi is now just going to run towards the enemy jungle, as he does like to do.
I do like Gamushi's build here as well. He's got so much damage.
It's like he said, well, I'm basically playing Caitlyn.
I'm going to build a Phantom Dancer instead of a Rapid Fire.
It's not going to be the Kraken Slayers that we have seen.
It's just going to be that big damage that comes through from this Ash.
It's a coin-based gold grind. Once again, Delight, yeah,
is very far ahead of Aon, who is still definitely on struggle streak.
Yaro is not going to quite find the mark here. Neither does the Beat Drop.
So HLE will have to back away, Shun just taking a little bit of poke damage.
Yeah, going to take some poke damage. Can't really get access to his jungle at this point of the game.
of the game. Look at all the
wards from HLE on that topside here.
Shun just trying to get whatever
goals he can. They know they have to
scrounge up as much golden experience
as possible to have any chance
in a game like this, but they want to
make HLE work for it.
Navi's just moving so incredibly quickly.
Clouds all working out, not to mention
the cloud drift there as well. So HLE
overloading everywhere is what it feels
like. IndividuTarget didn't get
taken down relatively low, but BLG doing
a decent job in defending for now.
This inhibitor towards the bottom side has already been taken.
Zeke just wanted to deal with this inhib if he can.
Been still here on the defense as another wave is going to congoline in.
HLE not wanting to take too many risks here as they look for the end of the game.
Baron has worn off and the siege becomes a lot more difficult now with all of these minions basically dying as they turn up.
That's on looking for an angle, but immediately turns that car around does not want anything
to do with it as it as it turns out. Again, it's going to be difficult for them to move.
The pressure from bottom side is relentless. You know, Zeca, they finish off, open up the
inhibitor on bottom. So the super minions will be flooding in as the Baron is spawning.
So good reset timer here from HLE. They can just use the super minion pressure bottom
side, go set up around that Baron. And again, they've got Ash Hawk shot. They have twisted
and many tools to turn off the Baron and make picks.
I'll teleport in.
Shun wanted to take down that Gromp,
but immediately he's followed by everyone on HLE.
The Lambser's fight comes in.
The Nevermove connects.
But Shun is going to live for the moment.
No Lambser's fight though for the next fight,
if it is going to be around this Baron in 17 seconds time.
That is actually so critical that he survived though.
Otherwise that would have been the Baron gone for sure.
It's going to be a difficult fight though as he has lost his flash,
Flash has lost his ult, and they were already in a really tough spot.
Knight also used the Weavers' wall there, trying to help him out.
Should be a little bit of an ult advantage though here for HLE.
Can I begin to work on this Baron alongside Gumiishi?
This will not last very long with BLG in position.
Shun still making his way in, as Zekka could be in a little bit of trouble getting danced on by Shun right now.
As the solos now only landing onto One's ass, happy to tank that one up.
now BLG trying to walk the tightrope of this teamfight.
And Zayas just walking forward into them.
Still it's going to be the pushback.
Gwad Pateks down, Vuma to stop this fight up.
And Zayas goes golden.
They've gotten rid of Shun who didn't have that last respite
from before.
And Jolite looks for the angle towards tonight.
He's trying to dance away from them,
and it's not going to work.
Ben falls.
Kenavi is going to aid him.
And Zayas finds the angle on tonight.
And on just fighting again, Zeca, but he will be going down and HLE, they're just looking to finish off the game now.
It's Kanavi, complete CA's, and sets up Silver Scrapes here at the MSI final.
HLE runs them over in the fight of fight, and take us to that game five.
What an incredible performance, the bounce back from HLE, it is not going to be that 3-1 once again.
as they will take down the Nexus and make us go the distance here in Dijon.
We'll take a short break. When we get back, this one's gonna get broken down.
I
into the pit cannot be going to join in the weavers well just to block them off
the Zekker walking round the side on in a lot of trouble as he's pulled back by
the never-moving slide the grabs up on the arrow straight into the pin as the
raining down the arrows and the ALE is just revolving!
Hey, Chely! Have her out of there, but don't take the free Baron and look to set up Silver Scrapes!
They're gonna take the Baron, they're gonna take the fight, they're gonna take the game!
It feels like it is a game by Medellion!
We're going all the way here in Phaedon one last time at Silver Scrapes,
Silver Scribes, League Classic Silver Scribes, BLG actually, we're eating good!
LCK vs LPL as well, Zeyu's Rade Boss Birdman gets paid, game 4 Swain, 2 days in a row to keep them alive.
3 titles on the line, he's got back up 4% and Zayas W, she in, oh my word! The series keeps delivering!
And how hard the BLG fights are trying to keep it, cause they are so right that Swain, I'm killable!
They tried everything, they were bouncing around, pulling him in, knocking it back out again,
hitting him with Sun, hitting him with Rocks, nothing could kill him.
Did I say my unkillable top lane king?
Yeah.
Well, I said it's hard to find the drafts, but he found the drafts.
They have said it, those drafts is what mattered here against BLG and they made it happen,
they kept on fighting and they're taking us to game five here and Jad, I want to ask you,
you work one of the first ones to believe in them, what are we looking at here on the
side of HLE?
Champion-wise, we know that when it comes to this game 5, this is what it comes down to.
How much you're gonna be able to innovate here against Piers?
I think it's fascinating what's happened so far in this series.
So the reason we have so many top lane champions still available
is Naur and Jace have basically been perma-ban along with the Vayne.
But then at the same time, we thought we were gonna have a lot of mage bots,
which we didn't end up getting, I think for reasons like we just saw.
If there's not enough sustained damage to kill a hyper-scaler in the top lane,
you end up losing the game.
So, with that being said, that means this Game 5 draft can have a lot of familiar favourites.
Jace and N'R I think are permanently gone, but Sion Mundo, you can't leave angles for that.
You need to make sure you have enough damage in your team comp to prevent Zeus from doing that again.
Zaeus.
My biggest worry is that of Nidia for Zaeus.
I think he's been absolutely fantastic on this entire tournament.
And as well, we already had that ban going towards it in that second rotation of the last game.
I think it's a very clear worry for BLG that this bird could be the word here for HLE.
And we set it up at the beginning of the day.
Whatever HL you can do, BLG can do better.
Now, what else do they have, TD?
I mean, I'm looking back at it.
They got to worry about the Kog'Maw Lulu on the opposite side,
but you still have so many of these proactive early supports.
I didn't even know there was an interview support.
I missed that one.
I sincerely hope we do not see that.
But look, I still think they have tons of playmaking tools.
A lot of champions left to allow on to get out of lane.
But that last game really can't afford to get Tilted
after something like that.
Have to stay composed because they fought so well
to come back in it and really again the gigapix from Zayas. I wasn't a believer at the start of the day
but setting Bin up feels like it's been so important partially because it's been a bit of a rough
series for him overall. He's been super aggressive and if he's in another matchup that is so volatile
where if he makes a single mistake I can see game five falling apart. The Night Staples are still
up and available right. You look towards the LeBlanc, the Syndra, the Akali still there as well
and it feels like he's been one of the players that we've been keeping around to make the difference
across the course of this series,
and I think this is where it's gonna come down to.
Like, there's been several breaks on either side,
it's been who has been stepping up,
and now it's gonna come down to
how do you enable them in that trap.
And I wonder what Danny's cooking,
because he really wants first pick in this game five,
which also means he's gonna have
to blind pick Bin's top layer.
So they're putting a lot of eggs
and being able to secure, like, strong early games,
set up a power pick with their bands.
He's been the best drafter average at this tournament,
So I trust but I find that really fascinating that they're going to be setting up for a Zeyu's counter pick.
When you look at Ben, you look at something volatile, potentially, especially when it's you that matchup against Zeyu's.
But if you want to have stability on the side of BLG, you said it, Dagda, I'm looking at Knight and I'm looking at Shun as well.
They're the two players who brought success, especially in those H&E matchups.
Yeah, they have been the standouts for me a lot here today.
on supporting Sean, but Sean has been doing so much work on the Jarvan, flashing away from some of
these engages from the Qiyana, having these incredible performances. Unfortunately, his pocket pick
of the Kindred did not work out from him in that last game, but when BLG have succeeded,
and it's been off the back of him, finding success in the jungle, leading that code in towards Nite,
and now he's been able to perform on these control mages. It has to happen here again
if BLG want to try and pick up that win.
Look, I just want some melee picks for the mid lane.
Give me the Zacca Yone, give me the Akali's, give me the Silas's.
I want to see these two duke it out, because again, all day we've been talking about where we thought we'd see the focus.
Jungle has turned out to be the most pivotal role.
Top lane remains that, but oftentimes you've just been looking time and time again at mid lane,
coming back to it, coming back to Nite of the Taliyah, who was so desperately trying to bail the team out.
And if he had had that champion with all that individual agency, he just might have been able to do it.
And on the other side, you're going to have different strengths when it comes to H&E.
And we've talked about it at the beginning of the day.
The fact that you have Zeus and Gume Yoshi reunited together,
trying to find that success that they had in other teams,
trying to get this other international title together.
They're still yet to get an MSI and the one game away
from doing it together here in Dijon.
It would be such a legendary moment for them
if they come back and win Game 4 and 5
in lower final and final.
And those two, I think, have also been their top performers.
I think Konami has been extremely inconsistent.
It makes me really pay attention to the early game here
because if the team's gonna blow it wide open,
I do feel like it's going to be BLG.
And look, it has to be HLE finding those
individual performers again.
Gumi Yushi has gotten the better of Viper
every single game thus far.
This is his fifth MSI in a row.
If there was ever a moment to do it,
this is his chance to step up.
And Zayus has made Bin look like a fraud.
Bin has not shown up today at all.
He has bodied him!
Bin has not matched Zayas at any point.
And now it could be Zayas who marches forward to take that triple title you've been talking about.
And this is where you see the impact of an ego matchup on the top lane.
It was always Bin with the strong word saying,
Zayas, he might have the titles, I have the strength on the rift, and I'm gonna show it again.
And he did today.
Zayas got the best of his matchup.
I'm just wondering who has more fuel in the tank between these two teams because they kept on fighting
BLG came in as the best team, but H&D showed us that especially in finals they had the strength to fight back
I'm gonna keep it real simple
The pot lane got mages
Mid lane is completely cracked
The golden road is alive
It's Billy Billy in five, baby! It's not going any other way!
It has been a banger rematch between these two teams and even if BLG came in as the favorite here today,
HLE showed that here in Daejeon, with their crowd, with their audience, they had the strength to fight.
They had the strength to put up a fight against the LPL and showcase in front of the LCK fans that
they can be the team bringing back glory and making sure that MSI belongs to the LCK here today.
Is it going to be the golden left hand on the side of BLG or can HLE actually make the best out of this situation?
We have shops standing by in the Coaster Murphy's with K-Drawl, so let's send it over to her.
Yeah, I'm here with Mark and I'm going to get his thoughts as well. Mark, K-Drawl, and I'm going to get his thoughts as well.
Canavi woke up!
Canavi really did woke up. Game 2 and 3 combined, he was 1-16, and now in this game 4.
A couple mistakes, but I think he's back. This draft is going to be really everything.
Animal Life has so many good champions open, PLG has good champions open, there's Yone Flex, Akali Sylas,
he's got Zayus as a Nivea, he's got things like Pantheon which should maybe go through if it does, it's going to be OP.
AD Jungle Pool is finished, Wukong is like a good champ, but I think Kanavi's not super comes from the Wukong.
Bends has to be things like Bai, Jace, Gnar, Syndra, Vayne, and the last thing I've got down that I saw in solo queue,
is Viper has been playing a lot of Seraph, Bot lane.
So maybe we get that, Kuma still has things like a Mefto, but I think this is going to be anyone's game.
Cannabis woke up early game plans top counter break and jungle matchups where my eyes are
What an insane MSI final by the way like Korea first the LPL it always delivers
What does your gut tell you who's taking a trophy? I think the LG's gonna finish it. I already do
I think that fundamental gameplay the series is just a little bit better. Thank you so much. Let's go get five
Thank you very much Kdral and shocks and here we are for game number five
We have gone the distance here in Daejeon and let's see who has the energy left in the tank to lift this trophy
It's uncharted territory gentlemen. You haven't seen a bit between these two squads so far
It was almost history repeating itself in the last one with Shunan the kindred
But this time HLE were able to get over the top and this draft as K-dral said really is going to mean so much
It's perfect. Number one LCK versus number one LPL down to the fifth and final game here at MSI
Everything on the line now
Let's get into the draft. Let's see what is going to be banned away
I imagine things are gonna look relatively similar as HLE
Gonna choose the red side off the BLG chose first pick in the fifth game
fifth game. Sometimes people will change up their bands though, leap multiple
OP's, try to go for a trade so they can could be beneficial to them. When you
think about the jungle pool though, I'm thinking about Wukong, I'm thinking about
Pantheon which has been getting banned a lot. You know there are a lot less of
these champions outside of that that you can really go towards as far as these
kind of standard AD junglers that have just been dominating the meta. You can't get into
the career stuff like 8 drops jungle or Zan jungle and those types of angles but
But I feel like they are outclassed pretty hard by the Pantheon and Wukong type champs.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting because you're going to have to think about the synergies
with your mid lane or two, of course, with your jungle picks and so, like you're saying,
if you go a little bit outside the standard AD ones and you want to dip into some of the
tank ones that are still available, then you also have to adjust some of the rest of your
draft.
I think Vice donates to be bad though.
I don't think they're gonna let Shun get his hands on that as far as the first pick is concerned
And so is it doesn't have to be by Pantheon is like that's what you have to do in order to make sure that this
Jungle matchup works instead the Stinger needs to be down right that's the thing like that's the other option
Is if you think you can trade OB's you can do that
But I think if it is by a Pantheon getting banned then Wukong becomes pretty high-file unless people want to you know
Get a little bit more creative
We haven't seen Toppy play yet, so you can go to where Frank angles like Toppy as well, which are great denial style champions.
Also, Sylas and Akali both up for both these players.
And Yone.
The Nivian are not going to be played by Azaz here.
So the junglers are up, right? So there is at least one of Pantheon or Vi are going to be up, and then even if you ban one of them, you can grab the other with something like a Wukong.
Wukong, if we expect that Vi will be gandai, you can go Pantheon Wukong as potential trades.
And thinking about bot lane, I think we're kind of at the point where we're looking at
supportive AD carries, things like MF and Jin, or you're looking at hyper carries and enchanter pairings.
And it's going to be interesting to see where the two teams want to take us.
But Vi is up, so it feels like they're kind of asking you to take it,
which makes me wonder if Kanami wants to go for something like a poppy answer,
something that is more of a denial style pick to try to punish that,
to try to answer the plays that we know
Shen will be looking for.
And this buy was a no-brainer.
We aren't very much expecting that this will be the lock-in.
And I'm very curious.
HLE, they know that this is coming.
So what is their plan to take this down?
Nefiri is not available.
And there are quite a few things that can do decently
into the buy.
But I feel like it has to be a team composition answer.
Exactly.
You can get counter-engaged from other roles as well.
You can counter with support.
You can count through a rooftop lane and stuff as well.
There's Lulu, there's lots of them.
I mean, I think for the junglers,
it's gonna be Pantheon, Wukong,
or maybe that can see Poppy angle, right?
That's kind of my expectation based on where the pool is.
You just don't really see AP junglers
because the only AD champion mid is really the Yone.
And so it is Lulu.
Lulu, Yunar could be a pretty easy one to go towards.
Like I said, it's really supportive style AD carries,
or it is hyper carry within Shanner, right?
So they're gonna go hyper carry within Shanner,
They could go MF, they could go GIN, they could go hyper carries of their own as well if they want to try to go that route.
Yeah, Abelios had done pretty well in the Unara even when she was at her peak, so they've got a couple more options there.
And this is the Aurora that we've kind of been waiting for. See if they do. It's again, a lot of this dive.
When you show the early Vi, you're going to need more dive on top of it.
If they go Aurora and then another aggressive champion, Poppy goes crazy though.
So I feel like that could be them trying to lay a trap a little bit here for BLG.
If BLG over-invests in aggressive champions, three-dash champions that could be coming through,
the Poppy plus the Lulu, that could shut down so much. And I would really like to see it coming
out here. I think that Poppy could be fine both in top and in jungle, depending upon the match-up.
So to me if you see the Nautilus come through on three it feels it feels like a go-bud
Wow, he's blind would be kind of crazy here
That will be locked in for bin on the top side of the map remembering what Zeus did to lion yesterday
But that was an answer to the shed. Don't make me do that
No, well like in that case it was an answer to the shed right it worked very well in that case this time
It's blind and it's it's their idea of like keeping these fights with the engage get the hlocks in there
They're not going to be able to escape.
All right, let's see.
HLE, I feel like the entire time,
they're going to know you're going to first pick the Vi,
so you're going to go hard, dive on us.
And so they have to be sifting through some of these answers
for the countering gates.
And they end up with the global option here,
with the Pantheon instead.
This is so interesting now, because now you're
seeing different paths as far as the picks have taken.
So you can be seeing bot lane bans here.
for HLE, they could be targeting support where you'd be carrying.
And on the other side, I feel like it's protection bands for the Atrox, right?
So Nautilus is going to get banned out.
That will be dropped.
Something like Leona, if they're worried about Harding Gage, could be another one.
Blitzcrank is always a possibility.
Fawn wants to pull a page out of the lights book.
So there are those style of champs.
And then it's probably about trying to get a more beneficial matchup here for Bin and Knight.
Are you more concerned about the blind Atrox or the blind Aurora?
Because that's what you're trying to throw protection bands for.
We know that Zeca has all the melee champions up and available.
He could go south, he could go farly, he could go Gownay.
So he has all of those tools here, and they are going to start thinning the mid lane pool.
So Gownay is going to be taken away here, so Zeca doesn't get that extra layer of comfort.
One last ban here for HLE.
We'll see whether they keep their eyes towards that bottom side,
or whether it is going to, sorry, towards that support pool,
or whether it's going to be an ADC taking away here.
Yeah, keep bending away the hard engage,
because you're already going to face it, you know, for sure.
Maybe the Blitzcrank is actually going to happen.
The thing is, it's like, can you thin the pool enough?
Because I was going to say, there's Blitz, there's Rell, there's Leona,
and there's, you know, there's a lot of different champions.
So it's just kind of like, which are you most worried about?
By banning the Rell, to me, that says they're expecting MF.
And I feel like they ban the two past MF pairings
that I see left in the pool right now.
Because yeah, you could go Blitz MF,
but it doesn't feel like as strong to me
compared to Rell MF or Nautilus MF,
which have such beautiful setup both for the Aurora as well as a possible bullet time obviously MF Aurora great combo there too
So it is is gonna be interesting
All right, and now a truck's gonna be banned away
I also think though be by getting the eight rocks early
We still have options to go deep into that viper pool that we've been talking about for so long
If it's not now then when is it gonna be because the last game of it's team or time. This is the last game
I mean Alice the doors wide open kitchen was talking about the Sarah bottom and so look you like that
But his pool goes so deep and this is the literal last game of MSI
So it has to be now blind. Oh, sorry. No the Silas into the
Consideration here and that will be the lock-in for Zaka a difficult matchup though
I mean he was the world champion during the Silas Akali meta
Let's see it and not the best ultsless deal yet, right? You know, I don't think that there's anything super inspiring
They're all fine and you can steal away the vial.
You have to engage and steal away the atroxial.
Have some additional sustain.
It's not bad, but it is kind of the MF
that I'm expecting to come through.
And then I'm just wondering, is it Leona?
Is it something spicy like a blitz?
Where do you want to take us?
But it's just both of us are really good for Silas.
So is that what they're giving them pause to think about?
Yeah, it's true.
And I mean, then you can go kind of like more off meta
If you really want to try to go in there and you're worried about going to work those angles
I mean
I was gonna more on the on the Leona strain or the Blitzcrank train
But yeah, it's like you want a good engage old from your support, but no matter which one you get
Silas is also going to get I mean, I guess blitz is probably the worst one to give us Alice
So I definitely understand that it would be a super risky pick anyway
Imagine if Zayas did this. Game 5 picking the Glen into Bin.
The Atrox-Gwen matchup there towards the top side of the map.
This is what I was going to ask about though. How is the Mundo matchup into the Atrox?
Because Zayas has been impossible to deal with on this champion.
I think it is quite bad, but I will say Mundo, unlike a lot of other champions in top lane when they have bad matchups,
He can always find because you can always be with us very hard to deny him
Experiences and I him CS you're not gonna be winning any of these early fights against him by any means
But you can survive you can scale and you can become a menace in the late game
So I don't think it's as easy as the renecd one which is still difficult to navigate in the early levels
But I do like the angle here
I also think you can kind of put a crack in BLG's comp if you mark this Nico and Mudo is great for that
you just try and mark sides with either Mundo or Pantheon in a lot of cases too. If you can find that Niko,
it completely dismantles a lot of the big Harden gauge.
Absolutely agree, and I mean they have the Pantheon on their side, so while Mundo has some difficulties
in their changing like 8 rocks, if the Pantheon gets up there and you kill this guy a couple times,
we saw what happened when the swing got accelerated. Similar things can happen if the Mundo gets accelerated.
The only percent HP damage really in the team is 5, right?
You know, which isn't bad, but MF is not a great tank killer.
She needs to plant and fire, and if Lundo gets too far ahead, he's gonna be coming for your head.
I think it is a good pick for the team later on, you know, to be the point man, to mark these angles,
mark the flanks, and try and stop the Engages.
Yeah, not to mention, if you try to engage with just a pop blossom, the Mundo is just gonna keep on walking,
And then start throwing briefcases at your carries ladies and gentlemen
It is time to get on to the rift for game number five of the MSI grand final
Golden road
On the table here H. Lee trying to bulldoze
They were hoping that they were gonna catch shun on rafters, but they had four members walking through that brush
Yeah, face checking is on tries to get the blooming burst down the heel has to be used
He's taking so much damage by but already having to use his barrier to summon a bit spells traded for two as
Canavi dealing with my and shun together
He doesn't even seem too frightened about it and that is going to be shun claiming his own jungle
Yeah, can I be really wanted that steel sticking around but mid laner coming over means of difference and that is your mid laner
Paying to come do that for you. There is a big payment in those minions lost mid
So they do defend it for shun, but we'll see about night and they're falling really got hurt by that on actually took so much damage
Used he'll end both pots at level one and this is supposed to be an advantageous MF Niko matchup
And this is after on had a really rough game previously. He's coming off a rough scarner game
And so we'll see you'll not in delight with the early level to off of their early health lead control of the minion wave
Exactly what you know our wants easily stack up your Q and threaten
Let's see how it does go right now, actually, with a lot of control around the map.
It hasn't really translated into too much outside of that great trade.
It's Viper having to take his potion as well.
The Light is also being through both of his.
And so, just a lot of fighting back and forth here towards this bottom side.
But the main thing is that Unara has access to the wave,
and that is going to feel a lot better for her as Knight trading really well here with Zeca.
Trying to even things out. It looked like Zeca went in aggressively.
The answer was available.
They have a world trophy to have a first-hand trophy and we have Shun looking for Zekka.
You're going to land the chains there as Knight now trying to push him away.
That was how did Zekka manage to dodge that?
I swear that was actually going to hit as now he's slinking towards this brush towards the bottom side.
It's going to be Shun making his way over and there is the dash to allow Zekka to escape and he will be able to go back.
to go back. It is at a critical point too because look at the minion wave there. And
it's the jungle trying to pay the mid laner back for him protecting the Raptors. They
wrap around. They don't get a summoner spell out of Zeka and he still has his teleport
though. So he teleports right back and honestly he can just clean these back up.
We talked about it before but Knight back in 2023 on JDG. One of the closest temps
we've ever had to the golden road here T1. Stop them in their tracks at Worlds and Knight
Again, trying to attempt the Golden Road here in 2026 with BLG in an era where
LCK had been dominating these last couple of years.
They've won four world championships in a row.
They've won multiple MSIs.
BLG wins first in and people are thinking, especially after the first couple
of games this series, that they might be well on their way to winning this too.
Yeah.
So far this year has been LPL's year, you know, with LCK getting eliminated
out of first stand so quickly.
Five having to flash here towards his bottom side, meaning to interrupt, but it's getting a little dicey down here as the light also going lower, but it's Kanabi moving in, moves over a ward, and BLG to get the heads up and back away.
Yeah, Viper playing very defensively, that was Flash and Bear used early, they have to evacuate because Kanabi could look for them.
Yeah, Naked Rain is going to slow him down, the clone is going to stick under the turret, but that is going to mean that HLE get full control and this whole wave is just dead.
It's insane already, the bottom difference is going to be huge.
This Yunar Lulu is going to be devastating in these team fights.
Kvipers zoned off more experience, more minions, and only now can he slink back in.
Well, that's big though, on-stops the base from Guma, so he is going to have a little
bit more of a difficulty utilizing that advantage, but I just think it's so interesting that
the story for HLE all year long has been, yep, Guma's Mr. Weakside, he's going to play
your ash or gin or your mages, he's going to chill. And in this series,
Kenobi is down, but the zoning viper off the tower or diving him,
it feels like almost every game. Yeah.
And actually have the luxury of choosing which world's MVP they want to carry
their games. That seems nice.
There's a few of them that they have available in Gumiishi today.
This feels like he's got his head screwed on right.
He has been so stable in this series of Zekka.
He's going to try and prove me wrong here as he goes in, but he's going to be on finding the snare.
And maybe it's the other side of the coin.
Zeke is just going to make a bit of a Venn diagram, but there's not a whole lot of shade in that one.
Still very worth on that roam from on. They get the flash also in addition to those old straighted here.
So the pressure applied to one of your world's MPPs.
Yeah, that is very good there for Knight.
Someone that they haven't, somebody's getting involved in these last couple of games by, remember, no flash.
Taking a bit of damage here, but I'm usually not able to follow up on the circle. Just yeah
I'm not gonna be able to go in but by for down a couple waves of course
Then does have a finish on the top side has rushed the early executioner is very important
Of course against Mundo Nali for the alt but also for that W healing and
As expected then has the full push, but like I said, it's very hard to deny Mundo from CS entirely
You have the e to help you last hit under tower
You have the cues to form with cleavers and this is staying within striking distance in this one
We want a topside which is really all you have to do as Mundo
Every minute that passes is a blessing. Yeah, just getting better and better and better later you go
Just needs to build as many belts as he possibly can
The heart steel is now on the way infernal chains are going to miss as they are just happy to grab experience as we can see
Pulling down about a wave right now, that was to be expected.
Vision on this dragon does go over to BLG, and Shun is just going to vault break his way in there.
Control vision going to be cleared out here.
Yeah, Kanabi has spent a lot of time hovering on this bomb side.
They defended the control ward once, but as soon as he recalls, and Shun has his level 6 already,
he slips back into the dragon.
So BLG are going to be able to take that one.
Level 6 on the Vi, and Bot side going to be able to collect the wave as well.
Well, Top lane has just been so interesting throughout this series for me.
I felt like Ben played really well in the connecting game, had an incredible Jax game.
But Teyus has been so critical in these last couple of wins, has been getting himself into these amazing spots now.
And bringing out the Mundo here, these guys, they're head to head.
It has been pretty incredible. We've seen them match up so many times. They're looking bot.
Yeah, Shun, not going to quite find the Flash as there is the Flash escape from Gumiichi.
Shun too far as the ulti does come down, but first blood goes over to Nidogumi and she's gonna be taken as well.
It doesn't matter that it kinda went wrong at the start as BLG claimed to.
Exactly, even though Shun doesn't connect immediately, he gets so low they try and damage him on the way out,
and the follow up from BLG, it's Viper and on, with the double snare into the kill.
I can't believe they all survived. I thought for sure that Halvis started.
when the Q flash misses from Shun over the wall,
I am thinking, this is bad.
Guma gets the dash flash back into the tower.
I thought Guma was gonna be able to take down Shun,
but that double snare as he called out Kobe,
setting up for both the spells,
hitting from Knight on everyone.
And the barrier saves Viper there at the very end.
The timing, just gorgeous,
because Delight, you can see,
is just about to hit that level six,
and that Wild Growth could have been pivotal.
When off turns back to on and they get the bot lane lead.
Okay, HLE, they're not going to take that lying down though.
They swap back to the other side of the map on their revives,
up to Grubbs, Kanabi gets one of them thus far,
and they're chasing them back out.
Delight now with the support ultimate advantage.
Even though on made a big play,
Delight with the experience advantage is them around
and they're just going to bully them off.
Exactly, you know, there is that cost to on making the roam
towards mid lane.
You know, he did attack second, he did force the flash,
but he's down about a full level now, and he's gonna be missing that pop-wassum of Viper getting into a comfort zone now,
and Kanabi looking for a knight.
Yeah, looking for an angle here, his knight is gonna get stunned up, chains are going to land,
but knight just down to 50%, and we'll be able to walk it off.
No flash deployed just yet as the dash in from Gumi Nishi, they just want to kill on, and they are gonna do so.
Viper immediately cancels the ulti as Kanabi falls down on top of him.
He doesn't have support though, because on his being really annoying,
Viper, sorry, Guma is going to finally pick up that kill, and HLE are on the bullet.
Yep, on still level 5, HLE strike, and Guma getting richer, getting turret plate money on top of that.
And again, that ultimate from Kanabi helping out the bot lane so big, because it meant Viper immediately had to cancel his ult,
which may have pushed Guma back, which may have allowed on to survive, but instead, Pantheon arrives, cancels the ult, forces the flash,
Guma gets a kill, Guma gets a plate, he is 600 gold ahead and he is 24 CS up right now.
That cap is going to close a little bit with his wave coming in, but
Leiper is just getting punished here by Kanavi time and time again.
And this is an MF, right? You choose though so that she has that lane presence.
They have the Nico alongside her to match the range of the Lulu.
It hasn't necessarily worked so far.
If you do find the Wombo combos later on in the game though, that ulti will tear people apart.
It absolutely can and that's why the level one was so critical from Guma and delight right HLE clearly came in with the game plan
They did this four man invade they tried to find shown on the rafters didn't work out for Kanabi
But it did work out for Guma and delight who got this big chunk on the viper and on that kind of set the tone for the 2v2
early yeah, and they continue to put a lot of focus down towards him a lot of these resources because
Zayas could just scale on the other side Mundo as you say trying to safely see us just
Just collecting while they spend all these resources towards the scaling, you know, Lulu.
And now Zayas is on the triple belt. That is where you get to kind of choose,
do you go in towards the warmogs?
Because the terminal belt activates the warmogs immediately on that one item completion,
which means now you cannot be pushed around in that 1v1 ever again.
Oh, Zeffa doesn't quite find the chains.
Knight able to just dash away from him.
Last time Zayas did play this though, I thought he was going to do the warmogs rush
because he went for a ball belt,
but he still did end up going cart steel,
which obviously more power in and all in,
but the benefit of that warmogs is
you just trade infinitely with Ben,
and then you back it up, your full health every wave.
And this is well set up for HLE to take that next dragon,
because both top laners not having teleports
is also good for him.
Zayas could just stay up there, continue to farm,
while the rest of HLE try and control bottom side.
But BLG are the ones with the gold lead,
and I want to draw your eyes to the completed
under sky here for should hold between worlds here for zekker though as he is
just going to clear out the wave and exit not able to do enough damage back
really good at standing his ground in this lane even after zekker started to
feel a lot stronger on this first item should because he has the first completed
item he gets access to the setup for vision for the dragon and the vision
could be critical and now shun looking oh he is on vision they do clear out the
control ward here, it's Gumiushi just backs his way out.
Lulu off a reset, delight making his way back down.
The ardent sensor is done, but I don't think it's going to be there
in time for this dragon to be taking doubles for BLG.
As this, just standing under the turret with his ultimate running,
as Kanabi's just walking in, finds his stun onto Han,
he's taking so much damage.
Kanabi down to 50% though, he does have that wild growth.
Bullet time comes down, pop loss him onto two,
but the bullet time doesn't quite do enough,
Gumiushi takes down Han, Kanabi flashes out,
The season assist will be acquiesced here by HLE as it's a double kill for Goomir Yushin and HLE will say thanks so much for the dragon.
They take him again, thanks for the leash and they're not done.
Hit the unknown for Nite.
Of course, Konami's just going to dive underneath the turret. Doesn't quite find the damage with the Q.
And it will just settle for some Krugs.
His former teammate did not want to let him get away with that one.
and he did not want to let them get away with this dragon, even though BLG had the early setup,
Kanabi with no fear jumps in on to on.
Exactly, he gets that huge chunk and he has the Lulu behind him.
I didn't think they were going to be there in time, but he just charges on in,
and even though on comes across with this ult,
Viper runs out of mana, Shun runs out of health, and Knight has nothing to really offer in this fight.
He's got no resources, and it's such slim margins here, all the low health bars,
But with night in with my room, they can't finish anyone off and they had a storm of honey for it
Blind them as well. So I was dipping out of the fight eating honey for it coming back
Meanwhile, Beal dear taking this dragon. They're spending all these spells on the dragon during that time
Was that gonna have to dash can in his way out
He's going to be able to do so here as night and shouldn't unable to find him as kanavi thinking about coming on over
But does back away
Even with that win it is only 700 gold between the two teams. It is a dragon apiece
We are basically dead even at this point, but it's where is that gold concentrated on the eunara
Goomba yushi in game five here with a Lulu at his back
The coin base cold grind showing us that you're me she is in a phenomenal spot this game
1.5k we were talking about it before where do you put your eggs when you're HLE when the chips are down when you're in game number five
It's their most recent Wells MVP.
That's what they're going to put them in.
It's a good place to put them,
but I feel like we're getting a little bit of a repeat
of that Jax game from Ben, right?
Where it's two sides of the map.
It's who's going to be able to utilize that advantage most.
Ben has a large advantage on that top side.
We have seen Atroc's break hearts time and time again internationally,
including Zayas playing it yesterday.
He was the one destroying Lyon, and now Ben, it's going to be up to him.
And they have the tools to help bin a vi ultimate is just what you need if you want to shut down a hyper carry
If you've got a unar jumping around with a big gold lead
Then a well placed a vi ultimate can sit her down. Oh my goodness. I didn't realize until just now
it's a chem tech soul this game and
You might be thinking this is phenomenal from under but both sides of the rift are gonna benefit from this one so much
I was thinking to myself like oh well
Well, I guess Kentech is still available for one of those worst souls, but I actually think it's probably one of the best for both of these compositions.
And as Kanabi just gonna walk towards the river here, Rytel.
They want to fight.
Yep, that is going to be what's on their minds, as the Pop Blossom is going to connect onto Kanabi, season assist into the backline as they look to take down Grimushi.
Knight is going to finish it, but now Viper is in trouble, Zeca dives forward, finds the chains to take out his former teammate.
And there goes Kanabi as well, Sekiro trying to escape, but he have to take out, tank up the turret to get out of here.
The abduct is going to come through the abscond, and the Kingslayer is going to be there, but it's Knight that takes him down.
And they'll take a free Rift Herald as well.
On starts out the play, and shoulds by ultimate since, Guma down!
They put that gold lead in the dirt at the very beginning of the fight.
What a flank from BLG.
That was beautiful by BLG, night with the TP, on with the engage,
Shun getting into the back line, everyone combining there perfectly.
Viper gunning him down with a bullet time over the top, they needed it all,
and they got it. They get the Herald as well, they get plates,
they have nearly a thousand gold leads just like that.
What more can you ask for?
A game five back and forth.
Just a thousand gold leads swinging back and forth, and we call it out,
Looking for the UNR on gets the dash out of him. There's the old and then by ultimate into the ultimate over the top from
misfortune and nice full combo the leading Guma. It's beautiful even though the top awesome does not hit Guma
The roof does from on the vial does the full combo from night does and that is more than enough to take him down through
everything here
And then Zeko is trying to clean up some money there, but he has to go all the way under tower to get the
Kill back on the other side needing to use that lost chain was so important because it meant he was out of the fight
Completely and still our gold is so close in this game. Our dragons are so close in this game
We did actually get the one box last year from say this which I think is so smart when you were behind on
Mundo this means now bin can do nothing all you do is you step forward you tank up the atrox damage and the damage from the wave
You don't allow him to ever get in range of the tower with a minion wave there even if you lose 70% of your health
It does not matter you are full health after every single wave and that is one of the most powerful things about this bill
So I love seeing this tech from Zeus. It's so smart when the powerful part of your team is the other side of the map
You just have to hang on and don't let bin pushes the vintage
But there is gonna be still advantage is pushed as the first heart is gonna be taken down by BLG towards the top side
2,000 gold is approaching here for their advantage and the Mundo hasn't scaled just yet
HLE I think think still feeling very comfortable moving into a late game with a composition like this if bin can be kept under control
Yeah, I love it the tension is high because build you have the gold lead
It is hard to get those dream flanks though. The last one was beautiful. It's perfect now on the dragon HLE
immediately burning it down. I don't think you can contest this one. And honestly, there's not even
a lot in the aftermath that BLG can get, but they can push bottom and Ben can get up to that tower.
And Knight, you know, it's not just Ben now with the lead. It is Knight. He has this big advantage.
And last time these two's met up. I mean, it was Knight who was getting the better of the matchup.
It was Knight who got multiple solo kills, who was pumping out the damage, who was winning the
the lanes. He went 25, 3 and 29 in that last series. He's not having that level of dominance
here. Second HLE half stepped up, but Knight is 303. He is 1.4K ahead and he is going for
a high damage build. It's looking like Shadowflame second. He's got the Sork boots and he is looking
to one shot Guma.
And it's 100% kill contribution for Shun, Knight and Viper in this game. They have made
sure that they're setting up for skirmishes bringing everyone with them to make this one happen.
And Zeca is looking to try and scale, trying to claim some of these ultimate, get pop blossoms,
and make those huge plays. But Knight slowly but surely has just been doing way more damage in
these teamfights. Yeah, I mean, BLG, they have a lot of burst damage, and they have a lot of
opportunities now. But HLE, as you're talking about the scaling, they have a couple of avenues
upscaling on their team. We're taking this and with DPS so BLG again the tension is high
because the play that they just put off was beautiful but they're going to have to make some more of those.
Zayas is just going to wander towards this turret here and claims two plates okay.
Now he's out of 50% and wanders away from bin I would assume. Has his Swifties so he isn't too
Exactly, that's the thing. If he can't 100-0 you, he cannot kill you. You will warm odds back up to full, and it's gonna kick in right now.
And this is why you can play this style with this build. It is so powerful. You just ignore all trades. If he can't 100-0 you, he can do nothing.
It's looking very, very frustrating. I have to admit, as Viper catches this wave in the mid lane, Gumiishi is still looking for item number three.
It does have the first two completed.
Xenarra's pretty scary as been.
Look at him, pressing all of these buttons, having a good time.
It's now Zeca looks for the chains.
Doesn't find them there on to on.
Will be able to at least hijack an ultimate,
as now Kanavi moving over.
Xenarra just takes down the turret right from underneath him,
as the World Ender has to be used.
Kanavi avoids the Infernal chains,
as the rest of HLE are grouped up for a fight.
They're pinging out the mid lane note,
and there's not a whole lot to fight for at this point in time,
with two and a half minutes on the drake.
I mean this just pops the alt walks in and the demolish proc the e damage everything on the turret just explodes that thing
Scales with your health. It's the Mundo theme song continue pushing
All right speaking of pushing though the Herald does go through onto the mid turret here and is gonna get
More map to play with for BLG as they finish off the mid turret and now that can give them some avenues
more areas to flank from. They really do need to put that pressure again on to the Unara.
It does have his heart steel now completed. Went for that as item number two. Probably
one Spirit Visage before he can walk up tonight just comfortably. But just probably one Spirit
Visage anyway because that item is broken on Mundo especially when there's a Kimtex
Soul up and available. I feel like these dragons are going to be so important for HLE. They've
They've got the Kingslayer, they've got Mundos, Existence, Wild Growth, things like this.
It's just such high value here for this team.
When Spirit of the Siege is crazy good, and I think it'll probably be his next complete item,
but I wouldn't be surprised to see a Warden's Mail come in next, because there is a lot of physical damage.
Atrox, MF, and ViR are the ones likely to kill you in the fight.
The passive on Spirit of the Siege is always insanely valuable, even if it is against AD.
But I think you need some armor, because that is one of the weaknesses of this style of build,
is all you have is health. You have no armor whatsoever.
And if MF hits three items and you still have no armor,
yeah, you have a lot of health, but she hurts.
100% agree there.
So we'll continue to monitor as HLE are trying to keep it calm
and not let BLG increase that gold lead.
It does just barely crest 2000 now,
but has been kept fairly stable.
Again, it's also very important to continue to clean the wards.
You cannot afford to get flanked again.
You cannot afford for us fight to start
with Guma instantly deleted.
You need some damage out of that, Yunara.
I think so much of this comes down to on.
His positioning, utilizing his passive
to be frustrating, confusing, annoying.
And the Niko, if he finds his target,
you were mentioning it, if Gumiishi goes down
at the start of these fights,
Mundo can go where he please,
but it's probably gonna end up at the death chamber.
I've gotta say, if I made you a lead,
I feel like you should just give this next dragon.
Mundo is 15, Bin is 16, just keep scaling.
A lot of these extra items come through.
I think the game gets better and better for you.
And I feel like right now, Bin is kind of at his strongest.
He just hit 16, he just completed another item.
And Xehas has so much room to grow as does Guma.
I mean, when he hits IE, for example,
he gets way stronger.
Yeah, it's dangerous for them right now
because there's so many things they have to keep track of.
You mentioned on and the creativity he could have
than engage with protobelt and flash ready on the Niko and Knight has the burst damage.
Knight right now is terrifying on the Aurora so if they do get that engage, he can convert
the kill.
The approach is dangerous but HLE have also done a fairly good job of keeping that vision
covered so if they continue to check all of their flanks here, try and mark the engagers,
they're going for the dragon again.
While the Mundo is walking from the topside of the map, a face check here from Zechars.
He gets himself out of the way. The between worlds comes down. Great Polybop comes in.
Ceasar's assist and Shun! He is gonna have to do that as now Zayus makes his way in!
Three people! I do not think he minds! As Kanavi not gonna be diving on top, but look at Zayus!
He's just gonna buy the time for them to try and take down this dragon.
It's only at 50%, but there is no smite to try and lock this up, so it should be
a soul point going over to HLE.
BLG not on the same page?
Shouldn't want to be engaged.
You wanted the burst image on the side list,
but they're not there to convert,
and he just goes down for free.
Dragon's soul point for HLE.
And Zekka's pretty tanky.
It's just not a target that you can easily one-shot.
The Lulu was there behind him,
didn't even meet the wild growth.
MF is not there.
On is not there.
Bin is not there.
It's a confusing decision from Shun
and one that costs a big time.
Did he think?
Yeah, I mean we're looking at it here.
They're looking at them from the top. They knew that they were there.
And he had died with them, but that is not going to be enough.
Like, they're split and that is a one-way ticket.
Yeah, I mean, sure. If Guma face checks you, you go with two.
Yeah!
If Zekka face checks you with the Lulu behind him,
you have to get through the Merc Shield on the boots.
You have to get through all those HP.
This is not a zero health build.
So, very surprising choice there from Shen
and just gets easily Polymorph burst down.
down they only got second to about half HP without the Wild Growth being used.
And again it's a critical moment because you don't get a lot of time back with this comp for BLG.
It's a difficulty especially when every one of these
chemtech dragons that are stacked up just feels worse and worse when there's a Mundo
that's just got regenning health over and over again. Zekka there as well without Kingslayer.
Is this just walking up? Does it take a bit of damage here though as we can see?
Guess the wild growth is there, the knock-ups are pop-lossing, doesn't quite work out, but
Zayas wants decent as he dives on in the chain-lash, comes down, and Zayas takes out Finn!
These heaven-fives are so reliable, he's taken out, but Zekka will fall as well!
Most importantly, Gov'nish, he stays alive, and they'll take down the Auditaurant!
And Zayas takes it all! He's still on the push, he's back to full ak!
Wait, how do you stop this man? He's just walking towards them!
Maybe there's a meeting behind their fountain that he's laid for. I don't know, but he has places to be and it requires going through BLG.
Yep, that's not gonna kill him. He just keeps walking.
Zayas has a meeting and it's feeling like it might be with the MSI trophy after that fight. He survives in the mid lane.
BLG make the call that we can burst down the Mundo, full send everything on Zayas.
and very narrowly they are not able to do it.
Look how low they get him. They throw down the ult.
But look at the heart sapper. He got it off before the file came through.
It wasn't perfectly layered.
He flashes out. He gets a wild growth. He survives.
And then Guba has free reign.
Exactly. He's hitting the entire time.
Even though they lose the Pantheon, they lose the Silas,
they continue to push.
Zayn is back to full health and keeps the pressure off.
And he can feel it, can't you?
Once again, Zayas, he's used to this.
He just says, Guru must stand behind me and shoot.
And that absolutely happened.
And BLG now really.
Binsley just gone completely now.
Zayas level 17.
Spear of Ice is complete.
Has the Claw Thumber building towards that fourth item.
And I feel like BLG, losing that third dragon fight, was so critical.
That was their moment.
And Bin now spotted on a flank.
Yeah, the World Ender is going to come on through. He gets polymorphed, is now Zeca finds a cease and assist towards Sean.
Zeca is just wonders in tonight though, it's Ben getting chased out.
Gumiishi following him, that's it, he locks it up, on-fights the air with his pop blossom.
Zeca is going to actually back to Kickstarter to take out Sean, they'll lose their Lula,
but Arn is not alone for the world and Knight is running the wrong direction.
BLG have fallen apart.
BLG's battle lines are completely scrambled
and they're fed overrun.
In a series that felt like it might just be BLG's,
it is HLE battling back and back to back games.
It is Zayas on the swing.
It is Zayas on the moondo, a brick wall
that BLG just have no answer to.
And from a team that got knocked out of the LCK Cup
LCK Cup so incredibly quickly to now be this close to hoisting the MSI trophy.
Only two other LCK teams have been able to do that.
Mama Life Esports will join that roster and that is going to be the Baron in their hands.
Let's have a look at this one more time.
BLG, Bin up here, it starts out.
He's on the top side and so HLE are fighting two fights at once.
Zeka down here with Shun versus everybody else taking all the HP away from Bin and
pushing them out. It's almost like three fights.
Zayas just can't be stopped right?
Zayas was kind of like 1v3 holding back their carries
in that moment.
And even though the ball time comes down,
Fyker is just out of range and grew up.
The ball time was not hitting him.
He was rooted up, but he was rooted up
just a pixel or two away from it.
Oh my goodness, the change gonna find nine.
He's knocked up with a pop blossom from on.
It is going to connect with Deli,
who is taken out immediately.
They want their mid-sheen and a bite into the pop blossom
from Zekka is massive.
Still, they get their target and Bin is gigantic in this frontline.
That's the GA popped. Bin is still a problem, but so is Zayas.
As both of these top laners feel unkillable, Zaka's still alive as he's now looking for Sean.
He'll get in on top of him. Kanavi, taken out by the Atrox.
Zayas seems impossible to move. Zaka might be an option here, but the chains go wide and Bin shuts him down.
BLG still have a bit left in the tank.
The sustained wars go the way of BLG at the critical moment! They'll deny the soul!
That is insane! They found the angle, they're Viper fully committed, flashing in to get the kill and then Zeku with the stolen pop-offs.
And I thought that would be enough. Zeus is coming back.
Yeah, he's just gonna walk in to two people. They are going to leave because this Mundo is such a problem.
But they have to ignore him if they are going to win these fights and that's exactly what they did.
And BLG, they know they don't have a lot of time to work with.
They have to fight their way back into this one.
Zeka goes in to start it out on Knight, but look at the retaliation.
And watch Viper, the pop wasm, and Shun going in on the Gooma.
And Viper just instantly flashes in onto him.
And then you think for a second, is Gooma going to survive
with that pop wasm landing?
But he does not.
And Ben, that's so much work done here.
He does.
The Aatrox, the God of War, and actually on BLG's side.
And they take them down.
Konami gets chopped up.
Should surviving versus Zucka up here as well,
with his center and sky.
And they're able to clutch it at the Dragon Soul denial.
All right, still four minutes.
And HLA have an opportunity to do that again.
Azaius pushes this wave towards this turret.
I have a feeling we are seconds away from another scrap.
What a banger.
Just might be.
I mean, Gooma is now a full item ahead here.
Has that 2.5K lead.
almost getting one shot though but Viper also has his IE so there is going to be some real
damage behind this bullet time but HLE pressing with the Baron. Yeah they will be able to take
down this Inatarat, the dregs of this Baron, the Rebel Baron power play, basically neutral
for now as it does finally dissipate and Shun just comes over and casually smites the big
raptor and will be able to claim his for his own. Let's see what the second he's able to get himself
out of here as he will be able to escape. So everything feels like it's been
almost entirely evened out as a result to that answering play from BLG.
It's huge. I mean can BLG continue to find these kills on Togumo Yushi? They
have had so many good engages. The flank towards mid lane, the fight here towards
dragon. If they can take him down at the beginning then they can scrap it out too.
their bruisers with stacking conqueror and keeping it going they absolutely can
but that's the big question can you do that every single time because it only
takes once for Guma to escape for Guma to survive and you are gonna get wiped
off the map yes the goal lead is largely minimized but the scaling is not
Mundo still getting stronger he has a Randwins now Guma as we touched on half
that IE has four items and he has the support behind him business is so
critical. Here we go! Oh, that's Kanavi actually going up into the sky. He's away from the fight,
the bullet-type by Skouma, and the pop lost him. He's not going to do too much here from Zekka.
They try to dive into that backline. They'll take down Viper, but what else can they get?
Zayus is able to get in there and find his angle. Delight should be taken out as the
polymorph should not be quite enough, and it's a double kill for Shun. But now Zayus is just
just a moveable, the stun onto Bin as it's jungler and top laner versus each other.
Bin and Shen they take out Pinavi and Zayas he may just be mortal in the end and Shen will be out of putting him down.
Bin at full health, he's gonna continue the push.
It was both junglers looking for a play at the same time.
Pantheon was ulting towards mid, Shen saw him leave, RZ Blast codes and he doesn't care.
Straight for Gooma, and Gooma down again without any damage!
BLG! They did it again!
How do they keep finding these angles every single time?
They are just straight onto Gooma, finding the perfect engage.
Every single fight.
Epic Game 5 here! It is incredible!
There is no gold lead.
At this point, it is 34 minutes into the game, and finally,
BLG gets one to tick over.
This is absolutely absurd how incredibly close it is and how impressive it is
that BLG can make this teamfight look so good in these fights.
And we started the replay right after the moment I was talking about
and shouldn't Blast phones over to where Kanagi is leading from
and they deleted Guma.
And then it's just all about killing everyone around Zayas.
You gotta kill the ad before you can take down the boss, man.
Then you gotta get everyone out of here or he is just gonna run you down.
They ignore him, they fight around him, and then there's Flash 2-3 from Ben, and he got the percentage HP.
Absolutely massive, as Zayas head in hands here.
It is not over yet, but it's feeling like BLG are winning fight after fight at this stage.
Baron up and available once again, and Zayas is held far.
Once more, looks like a barcode.
Atlas, from Champions Select, we say you have to mic the flanks.
You have to mark the flanks for HLE.
You cannot allow these engages onto Guma again.
I mean, Hexec, you know, Rift did help with the Super Blast Goal,
but this time around, BLG is starting the Baron, trying to draw HLE in.
Alzeaz can definitely facecheck.
He is going to do that, as Knight takes a briefcase to the face.
Can Adi has a megaphone in order to get himself in here as well,
as Gumiishi is hunting.
They know about his frontline position here as well,
as Knight does get himself out of the way.
The briefcase doesn't land onto Viper,
and the pump lesson does come down,
He's just falling, they get on top of him in his fortune, but at what cost?
From Yushi trying to catch away from Ben, he is put down to the G.A.
Shun pops back up, and Muguma flashes out.
Now Ben looks to get on top of him, and he stashes out of the way.
And this is what a team fight looks like when Yushi stays alive.
HLE will look for even more as Kanabe celebrates early alts underneath this inner turret.
And I think they may have done it.
How will I be so it's made interesting at the Golden Road?
Incredibly costly mistake from BLG! HLE will retake the game and the series back!
And it looks like the orange tank is going to fold us! The Golden Road is in a move from Armando!
We'll take down these Mexican turrets, pop lots of his celebration from Seca!
As humble like these ones, they've already done first stand and they'll do MSI as well!
in a back and for gay PLG every fight had their eyes on Gumi Ushi they set up the
perfect fight for HLE by starting the baron by sticking on the baron by allowing
driver to be chased out. Gumi cannot be accessed because Knight is not there
On is not there they ended to the silver platter and HLE are all too happy to punish to take it
And to play the LCRT NSI title
They might be able to get that one as well. Yeah, we'll see about that
My goodness though
It is shocking such a shocking way for it to end after the previous fight where they had their eyes and their goal set on the
flank and set to head on killing Gumiishi, but they'd get themselves inside a Baron and HLE said not on my watch
Zeus is happy to run them out. Kanabi is happy to steal that Baron and HLE
They will take away that trophy
And HLE it looked almost hopeless the first time these two teams met in that upper bracket final
You just felt like BLG had control of that series. They lose one game, but that was it
they then come back so incredibly strong. HLE needed absolutely everything in order to clutch this out.
As Zayas the immovable Mundo will hoist that trophy, the third Korean organization
to be able to do so here as Kanavi, his first time back in Korea and already he's managed to win MSI.
I'm still in shock over that day, but I can't believe it.
I can't believe that I did like that.
Congratulations, though, to HLE.
They had a scale at this tournament.
They lost to BLG in the upper finals,
and they clutch it in game number five.
Back-to-back series, they were down one-two,
and back-to-back series, they stepped up in game four,
in game five, knocking out Lyon,
by a knocking out BLG, who was looking like the best team
at the tournament, but seeing so critical on these picks,
swaying and getting four back-to-back series massive,
the Mundo massive in this one.
HLE clutched up, would it matter most?
And this is the crazy thing, it was around this time last year
that this team fully collapsed.
It was road to MSI, where they were up two games,
they get reverse swept, and then just swept,
And then their MSI dream had died.
This time around, they did not lose hope.
They actually managed to stick in it.
And I think Coach O'Moghly there deserve a whole lot of props
because the bounce back from that last loss against BLG,
where honestly it looked like they were ploundering
in the draft, this last game so much better
out of Pumble like these was.
And they get the extra seed for the LCK at Worlds,
The rewards are huge here.
Oh man, just really, I didn't think
that this was going to be the outcome
because BLG's Golden Road, it looked almost set in stone.
Here in Daydream, there is now two people
that have managed to hoist all of the Riot trophies now.
And it is Zeca and Zaeus.
And it's amazing to see these players establishing a new legacy here on honor life e-sports
Two players from T1 establish themselves initially in their career there come to a new organization steaming up
With Zeka with the light and they have created a new powerhouse in the world
They are the best team in the world today taking down BLG a team that has looked unstoppable
Not only here, but at first stand
And we're heading to the stage for an interview.
We have the winner for the 20-26 MSI and the winner is Hana Life Esports, congratulations.
Now let's hear from Kuma Yushi and the light on the side of Hana Life Esports.
Congratulations on the win. Thank you very much.
First off, Kumayusi.
You've completed a world's three-peat, but this is your first MSI title.
How does it feel? Does it feel new?
I want to thank my god for letting me achieve this huge accomplishment.
And I won World 3 times IMDb but this is my first MSI title.
And it brings me all the past MSI memories back.
It makes me wonder why I couldn't win the past MSIs,
but still, thankfully, with the new members of the Saipan Life Sports,
and especially the Tels, who shared the same heartbreak
by being the runner-up in the past MSI.
I'm so happy that together we were able to pull this off.
This is the first time in MSI history that the team from the host region has won the title.
You have broken the curse.
What do you thought of that?
I think this title means so much in various aspects.
It means so much to me as well.
Fans here in Daejeon, and also all around the world, sent you so much passion and support.
Could you say a few words to them as well?
This is my first international title after finding a new team.
And I left the message when I was leaving my previous team.
I told my fans the KumaYoshi story never ends and I will be looking forward to the same
support from the fans and I will keep the KumaYoshi story going so please keep on supporting
me.
Thank you very much.
Now, Delight, huge congratulations on your first MSI title.
How do you feel?
I'm really happy that I won my first MSI title.
Our final opponent was VLG and I've always lost to On on international stage and tonight
I'm going to get a really good sleep.
Finally, I got to win up against him.
Now, you guys are playing back-to-back five gamers.
What kind of mindset did you have coming into the series today?
Not much pressure at the beginning,
but when you were down to one and two,
I was like, ah, I really don't want to lose here.
So I came back on stage with a mindset that I'm going to win.
Not that you have won the MSI. What's your next goal?
The world is the next international.
In the past, I've always could not make it to the finals.
I got eliminated in the quarters. I was not never able to make it to the finals.
So this time around, I wish I can make it to the finals and win the world title.
Now, that was Kuma Yushi and Delight on the side of Honolive Esports.
Now it is time to reveal the 2026 MSI Grand Final,
Opho Final MVP.
Let's get their votes from all around the world.
And their Opho Final MVP is this.
Congratulations.
Congratulations, Jaws. Thank you very much.
With this MSI title, you and Zeca have become the first players to complete the sweep of every brand international tournament.
And now you've become the final MVP, how does it feel?
First off, this tournament, this MSI, was really difficult.
There were some moments where I really wanted to give up.
However, after I joined HANA Live last year, there were some moments when I didn't have enough faith in myself.
I was doubting myself.
But I just kept on listening to support coming from the fans because the fans always kept
on believing me.
I was able to keep on grinding and after all that hard work, I got this opportunity and
I'm so grateful.
Congratulations to this and the fans are also absolutely happy to see you winning this
OPPO finals MVP.
We were able to see some of the special picks from you.
Dr. Mundo and her, you played Swain for a long long time ago.
I think I was in like a middle school and I won my first PC Bank tournament on top Swain.
And that has become my favorite champion since then.
You are truly the Korea's national top laner.
Now that you have set the record of winning every international tournament, what is your new goal?
Yeah, like you just told me, me and Zeka did want something something, but you know Zeka didn't actually win EWC, so next time with EWC, I'm going to help Zeka to win that title as well.
That title as well.
Thank you very much, Zeus. I wish you all the best of luck in the future.
That was Zeus, the BOPL finals MVP of 2026 Miss Season Invitational, and it is time to close out the 2026 MSI.
And before we do so, we would like to thank the city of K-Zone and all of you for being such incredible hosts over the past few weeks.
And to all the fans who have been put us during this entire journey, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you, Subin. Thank you, G-Sun. And thank you, Honwa Life Esports. On behalf of the
LCK fans, it's a beautiful day for them here today in De Jong. What an amazing recovery.
What an amazing comeback! After failing short against BLG earlier in the competition, they
managed to do it. It took five games back to back here for them to finally do it but they did
and even within that game five there was moments where BLG pushed them to the edge but when you
have the caliber of players that home what does you don't blink you stand tall you fight back
and you raise trophies and how important is it for the LCK to have another team that can be clutched
It doesn't fall flat when things look hard or when a game looks a little bit dire something that we always associate with T1
We've always wondered is it the org is that the players and right now
It's feeling like the players because it was Zeus and Guma who were bringing it home in the final game
Who were the difference maker in the key moments of the series?
One of the craziest things about this series to me is last year when Viper was on HLE
It was Viper Life Esports that played through him over and over again and people thought when Guma joins the team
Oh, he can be this weak side teammate, but what did we see in the games today?
We saw him accumulating massive leads over Viper in 2v2's and again
hoisting an international trophy
And we saw him get the best out of the matchup that didn't work the first time
we saw him get the best against Viper against the guy who can do it all and
In the end it is Honwa Life Esports prevailing and I do appreciate the fact that at the beginning of the year
We were looking at Gen G. We were looking at C1, but Honwa life clutched in the end
It's not gonna be the Golden Road this time around for BLG
But this sense of distance amazing me for the rest of the season
It's the time of promise and I gotta give credit to you Jack. You said rain boss picks
But it was it was rain boss picks it was not majors of the ballet the exact opposite of what I said
And I think that they're objectively op on papers
So the fact that HLE found a way to get this win
without needing to over rely on those picks
just makes it even more impressive.
Bot lane mages, Guma lost with Ziggs,
Viper lost with Mel, they were 0-2.
Zayus was able to withstand whatever pressure
Bin would try to apply to him in the early game
and then carry in the late game.
And then also the meaningful win for HLE
in front of this home crowd in what
has been an elusive tournament.
Only SKT and Gen.G have won MSI for the LC cable for this,
and HLE put their names with them.
And also such a meaningful tournament for that man
in the mid lane for them.
Zeke playing against his old organization,
managing to take the win.
First series win ever against Knight,
a man who was doubted when Fearless came into the meta.
They didn't think he'd be able to evolve
to become the player he has,
But it feels like every single time Zeke is doubted, he demolishes that wall.
He won Worlds off the back of that.
Now he stands tall with every title available to him in the Riot Circus, just resting in his hands.
And what a glove.
We talked about how much he's expanded that champion pool.
Game 1, it was the stability of new champions.
It was the Orianna.
Game 5 in the clutch.
It's back to comfort.
It's the depth of the champion pool that he gets to save those picks for later.
to use them when they're the most optimal
to show up when it matters most.
And again, that's the development you want to see,
especially if you're an HLE fan.
You can see on the faces how much this means.
Seeing this globe, seeing the success of this team,
knowing now that this team can be a contender at Worlds,
a team that could go the distance
at international competition.
And I do want to highlight how impressive it is
for a team that is regarded as one of the best in the world,
a team that all their teams have their eyes on
when it comes to clutch moments like they said
at international tournaments,
the fact that they can manage to make those small improvements
with the little time that they have
after failing against a team that they faced off
against defeating them when it matters the most,
they can stand proud today.
For you guys, what do you think it came down to?
We've talked about the draft,
but surely it's more than this.
I mean, part of it is they came prepared.
Look at these, you don't print these in 25 seconds,
like they were ready with these custom jerseys,
five signatures, all the names on the back.
I do think the drafts are important,
but I think there is just a special quality about Guma.
I feel like anytime the pressure is high,
he stays so steady and really elevates his game
in the most crucial moments.
And it was the same case at Worlds
like that people were doubting him.
He ended up in the finals and he stands tall again here today,
being a clutch factor of his team's victory.
And I think it says a lot because I think it is
the two XT1 members that are the standouts for me.
The members that oftentimes kind of live in the shadow of Faker,
but they don't have Faker to be clutch anymore.
And it's their own merit that they relied on today.
KumaYushi, incredible across the board.
But for me, it was Zeyas.
The rivalry with Bin, the nail is in the coffin,
the coffin's in the ground, the dirt is on top of it.
This man demolished Bin across the board
with drafts, with the way he was playing, with the ability to control that lane.
Ben had some good moments, but Zayas dictated the majority of this series.
And you need a top laner who can do it all, which includes backing off, taking a step back,
recognizing the games where you are not the center of attention.
Game 4, game 5, it was the Zayas show.
But when it wasn't, he was not a liability.
He was a source of stability for the team, and that makes all the difference
if you're going to go the full five.
We've talked about all the players, but I still want to give an unhorrible mention to Kenavi.
He had a rough series, but he managed to stay steady for his team, and in moments like this,
it's the mental aspect also that matters. The fact that even if personally you're not performing that well,
you're still going to be that strength for your team and someone that can rally around them
and that can sublime them, and I feel like regardless of the ups and moments that he had,
that's what he managed to do today.
I do think that for Kanavi he has struggled in the past as well in some of these moments
Like you've seen it at the international events against T1 when he was on JDG
But I do think the it's more the case of he has the teammates to support him in this endeavor now
It's not just him by himself where he hadn't got that support
It feels like in previous teams now
He's able to have the whoopsie and still have the teammates ready around him the guys to support the guys
Who take over a game and I think that is such a big difference maker for him
And also then must be a mental load off his mind as well because it means that there isn't that pressure to always have to perform
I think when you think about these big international losses
You have to remember that this is hugely traumatic when you go into a next series when you fumble a game like that
It is so hard to bounce back one of the big things that I think makes it so much easier for gnaabi is the T1 players beside it
When you look at a player next to you to go you've gone the distance you have been clutching these moments
I believe that whatever happens with me as long as I don't mess it up that you will carry me across the finish line
Having that comfort, that confidence, makes it so much easier in moments where so many players in the past have just completely collapsed.
Kenavi included.
I want to take some time to reflect on MSI as a whole because we started the tournament with very one sided games.
That we did.
That's the best. And then...
There are a few 3Os.
Huge ramp up throughout the tournament. We got the upset, we got the heartbreaks, we got the silver scrits until the end of time.
And in here today with a banger final another LPL versus LCK matchup leading us to five games crowning a new champion
What are we gonna know from this MSI guys? Don't forget
When probably flaming been on social media
NA did 6-0 EU and absolutely embarrassing
Yeah, I would love to forget it, but I don't want all that play to go to pin
So we'll be the lightning rod. Don't forget where we're bad now. It turns out. Let's go region by region weirdly half
I feel like from free tournament expectations, how disappointed do you walk away from this event?
Obviously, LCK is the happiest because they were able to lift the trophy T1 fell NA
I feel like comes away really good
They pushed HLE to a 2-1 deficit much like BLG and were as close to beating them as anybody else
I'd also say G2. Yes, they lost to NA
But they had two series wins against LPL and LCK teams.
I think the further away we get from the Lion loss, the better that will feel.
And, ultimately...
I'm not even mad, Chad.
You're not even mad?
I'm not even mad losing to Lyon, honestly.
The show they put up against the team that ended up winning the whole thing.
I'm proud for Lyon, and honestly, I'm so excited for your region for the rest of the year.
I would just like to say I'm back for you, fans.
I'm still mad.
Just, just, just, just, I'm still mad.
I'm still mad.
We didn't deserve to win. I'm still upset that we lost.
We were the worst team. Absolutely deserved for Lyon. They're a fantastic team.
I'm still sad about it. Just to mix it up.
We're not all in the go-go-ryan-ay. I'm still hoping we can win.
Inspired is the goats. Ducla showed up again.
With Worlds at the end of the year being held in North America, I'm very excited for Lyon.
Oh my god, the pressure's on! The expectations were so low. They were so low.
solo now they're like
But we don't have a fourth seed that is the true tragedy
Yeah, but then we can see see my fifth just to miss another in this it's in the minds eye
Thinking if lion had just done something a little bit different with the 4000 goldly before the red buffing game in the game for
Do they come on the stage against PLG?
Would they be able to lift the MSI trophy? We'd have the fourth all it it was it ah, but we still have zero wins against the LAC
But this is the tournament that has blown all narratives out of the water like yeah
G2 has beaten T1
Lion has pushed the winner of MSI to five games and could have beaten them in that game for the LPL has gone
The distance and is just as competitive against everyone else if I'm looking at worlds
There is no longer. Oh, this is just dead set a win
You have to fight every single time and I'm so excited for that international, but we're not looking at worlds
We're looking at that man. We're looking at that man. We're looking at Hanwha Life Esports for a second.
The victorious Hanwha Life Esports and Kuma Yushi about to join us here at the desk. Hello!
Oh my god, Kuma.
Fans are going wild behind me. So many fans supporting you.
You can put on the headset.
Congratulations, Booma. Congratulations. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for joining us as well here, JISUN.
You're looking at those images right now. You're looking at this trophy lift. What is the first thing that crossed your mind when you finished that Game 5?
When you came to that trophy knowing that you were finally going to taste that sweet, sweet taste of victory and having an MSI title under your belt?
What was your first impression of the MSI Trophy after the last match?
I've been to MSI a lot, but it was my first time winning.
I didn't feel it at first, but I saw my team's happy moments and the MSI Trophy.
I've been to so many MSIs, and finally I was able to win the title, at first it felt so real.
I thought this was not real, and then looking at my teammates' happiness and then looking at trophy,
realizing that it's mine, I almost cried.
More than an MSI, I want to know how much does it mean to you knowing that you managed to do this with a different team?
Taking a risk at the beginning of the year, going a different way, going a different direction, knowing that it's finally paid off,
that you're reunited with Zeres, managed to do it alongside him one time again, but also knowing that you had it in you outside of T1.
You've won the MSI title for the first time in a long time, right?
You've found a new team, and you've finally won the MSI with that team.
As Jaewoo said, you've won the MSI with Jaewoo.
How did you feel when you felt that you were not alone in the T1, but you were alone?
I've had a lot of emotions, but I think the first time I felt like I was going to win this award, I think it's time to start again.
I think I'll be able to win a lot of awards with good players.
But I think the mindset that I had when I decided to find a different team, I was hunting for more accomplishments.
I was trying to get more achievements. So I think I can say this is also just the beginning for me.
And I will keep on making more achievements with my teammates.
That's amazing. I have to say, in high pressure moments, you seem so calm.
Calm, not talking about the gameplay, what do you think you bring to a team that helps you win so much?
I think it's helping the team to focus on the core.
I think it's helping in that aspect.
because Maid Bot lane seemed to be prioritized, and I saw Zeus was playing a lot of raid boss champions,
like Mundo or Swain that become unkillable. Was that something that you guys saw before the series and planned to bring out?
and also we figured out that if the enemy AD carry doesn't really have a high DPS champion,
Swain, Mundo will be a huge problem.
Thank you.
You hate mage bot lanes, but in the end it doesn't matter.
What I think is really funny is the fact that it's the second time that you defeat BLG in a finals, in five games,
after receiving a stack on stage.
Footbuff, OP.
We have found a lot of comments, but it's already the second time we've caught B.L.G. at the final of the international competition.
But we ate snacks before that.
Is it a snack buff?
I think there is a snack buff, so I hope you prepare it for the next important moment.
Last question for you Grimizer, anything that you would like to share for your Western fans?
Maybe MSI, Penbun Dolke, one word for you, please.
My first win, champion in HLV.
I keep going, champion.
So many, so many champions.
So many titles, Grimizer.
Thank you so, so much for joining us today.
Thank you so much for the help and the translation.
Round of applause for Gunma Yershi, of course, here.
And yeah, as we see the celebration, one more time.
He deserves it time and time again.
People keep on doubting him, Jat.
But he keep on proving them wrong.
And you could hear the pride of here.
Him winning in another team, in another environment.
When he says that it's not the last round, I can only believe him.
Absolutely. They just proved it, right?
Like, they took a massive risk.
Zeyu's last year, one first-end, fell apart a little bit towards the end of the year.
And then here, at this MSI, it wasn't easy.
They were really pushed multiple times.
But as he said, like, he's been to so many finals.
He can be calm.
He can be the pillar for the team in those big moments.
And he proved it again.
He's also really good at embarrassing me,
I definitely just waved at him like this, but he was waving at the fans behind me.
So I picked Mog, I think I got Mog, is that what that is?
Not even embarrassed, embarrassed is the word that I would use.
But yeah, I mean, class act, Gumi Ushin, he's like, it always is felt.
The period where he felt like a young player, like a rookie,
felt so short because of how confident he presented himself,
and how quick he was to just lay down a lot of these all-star performances.
And you can really see him coming to his own, taking a more veteran,
more senior position in this lineup now.
But it always kind of felt like he had that in him.
Like, even when it was, hey, look, I can take a step back
and let the rest of my team carry, give resources elsewhere,
or it can be the one that's going to be able to gobble that up
and perform when it matters.
And I think that's what we got to see at the end of this series
as well, which is what he can do when he's
able to have the gold and the lead.
So I do think he is an exceptional player.
And I'm very excited to see.
Like, it's mad to think that this only
feels like almost like a midway point.
If even of his career, there's so many more years ahead of him.
Also, again, the Grand Slam is so cool and it's so hard for any other team to replicate because first-hand happens so early in the year.
Yeah.
If you don't keep the same roster, you only set one C4, it's really tough to actually, like, get in.
And the tournament formats are scrappy, so while there are a lot of teams who've, you know, got maybe got an MSI,
maybe come close to a World's, there's a lot of Korean teams, so you think maybe they could replicate this,
it's gonna take a long time before anyone else actually matches that title specifically.
It's just gonna be two people holding on to it for, I think, a pretty damn long time.
Just because I like Golden Roads.
I want to make up a new term.
Will you let me?
Can we get the time first?
I want to call it a traditional golden road.
Wind, spring, MSI, summer, and worlds.
And I'll give you a traditional golden road,
which they would still be eligible for.
They were the number one seed, they won MSI,
and they'd be going back.
Let's see.
We'll see.
I don't want to catch on.
The yellow road, the open road is not quite as
impressive as the golden road.
I like golden road, like a diamond road or something,
just because we were ready to hand out the golden road.
And then they extended the road.
Yeah, exactly.
We're talking about a Los Angeles level commute here at this point.
It's tough to get to the end of the road.
Well, Golden Road, not this year again.
Better Grand Slam, that's for sure.
We're halfway through the season here and a lot of amazing things to look forward to.
Here, of course, we'll be back with the LCS and the LEC on July 20th.
Until then, on behalf of the entire English Broadcasting,
thank you all so much for watching.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
You're here with me today, and be kind to each other, of course.
Have a good night, and we'll see you next time.
OK, bye-bye.
We have gone the distance here in Dejon,
and let's see who has the energy left in the tank
to lift this trophy here as well as Knight.
Does get himself out of the way.
Briefcase of the land onto Viper.
And the Pop Blossom does fall down.
Season of Six is falling.
They get on top of them as fortune.
But at World Cup, Camille is trying to dash away from Ben.
He's put down, do a she-h, she's put back up again.
But Gumo flashes out, now Ben looks to get on top of him,
and he dashes out of the way.
And this is what a teamfight looks like when Camille
stays alive.
HLE will look for even more as Canavi
celebrates early alts underneath this inner turret.
And I think they may have done it.
How will Ibe Sports manage his end of the Golden Roads?
How will Ibe Sports?
They've already done first and they'll do MSI as well!
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Okay, you're the folk of the town.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Let me bite your tongue.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
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