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Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Going on your every time sweet
Nani oshitete mo date, I mean, yeah
Kimi no kotoba kurikashite mo
Somethimo yamanai
Sakenai kimi no
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Today my show, what is it sweet?
What are you doing on stage?
Yeah, I only know your words
But I won't stop
Your smile is so sweet
I wish I could meet you again
I wish I could meet you again
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Let's go, let's go, sign the sign, let's go
Oh, oh, oh, tell me under the table
What do you see?
Welcome to the pay
Come on, follow me
Tell me what night it is
And fantasy
I'm sinking to the waist
And I need
Nightmares and fantasies
Sinking to the waist and underneath
Stay for the night, I'll still you agree
Welcome to the flame
No, Ronda 5! What an ulti!
What an incredible play that's been done.
Oh, that was incredible! You loved to see it!
Right, yeah, that's pretty good.
What a move! He's just so good!
I mean, the persistence, the patience to find the angles.
You just don't see that for rookie.
I just got it all.
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
Ooh, that was good. Do you want to maybe share a little bit?
Yeah.
What a move!
Red Bull gives you wings.
Hey there, every season starts the same way.
Everyone wants to win.
But not everyone prepares the same way.
I can't wait to show you what I have in store.
And trust me, this year, everyone's leveling up.
Wait, is he switching lanes?
Recognize the snow all over
And I think no one said die
For where you came
Were your eyes above the days ago
Will you be enough
Or will you walk away this time
If you're left or you're right
It's the time to dance
Cause we all face the fires
And we stray from the light
Don't let the time be late
And I'm gonna run, run, run again
I'm gonna run, run, run again
Will you turn it around from what's to come?
Will you face it all?
Or will you fall away again?
What's crawling now to be found?
Move it through when it's unmeasurized
Unmeasurized
Fills me whole face
Thighs
And it's straight from the light
Go ahead and just keep behind
What's your way? What you still think?
You make your stand
And run in your hands again
Cause we all face the fight
And we're straying from the right
Turn the page of my hero
Feel the rush, feel the time
Can you feel it?
Breathe the pain
Watch it away
And stand again
Away
That's going to be one of the best NEC intros I've ever seen.
I've seen it in years.
This is the beginning of truth.
Oh, Jeff James!
Woo!
This is the beginning of truth.
I'm already going to trash my head!
Oh, my God!
This is the beginning of truth.
They're wrapped in crazy minds.
Run me on track again!
Esprit's in bloom!
Esprit's in bloom!
Hello everybody and welcome back to the LEC. It is the last day of regular season
and there's still four slots remaining of the LEC. Playoffs 16th are fighting for
their lives. I'm Laure, joined by Finn and Jacques Petra to get you through today
through the action. I love being on stage because I can actually can realize how loud Vitality is now.
We get to experience it. A lot of fun. I love it. I mean more kudos to the top
I mean he's chilling, he's leaning back for now, those retards on stage are already all as well, they're going to be the first game we have today but before we get into the action, I wanted to play a game with you guys to go through all the madness that we've seen across the past four weeks, we're going to do some overreaction statements and play the lulu, let me know if they're the lulu or if they're lulu, if they're actually accurate, are you guys ready?
You can paint chat as well. The first one we have, the teams that stayed together from last year to this year are not going to get better.
Is that delusional? Or is that accurate?
I'm calling Pure Camp. That's the Lulu to the max. I mean, look.
Sure, it doesn't look that good for G2 and M4 right now, but look at GX. GX guys, I mean, on a more real note.
He's falling for it! He's falling for GX, man.
On the worry note, I think when you have a team that has played G2 for so long and you encounter the same problems again, you do know how to combat them the second time.
So for example, if G2 would struggle to play in the support jungle, if they now see that problem happening again, now they can kind of fight that a little bit better.
I'm calling it gap. If you had issues, I don't see how you fix them the year after that.
I mean, I agree with you, Lord. I just think, Finn, you're wrong here. The fact speak against you in theory, I agree with you, but we're seeing with G2.
They still have problems with support jungle even after a full year. Some things never change.
Alright, different opinions here. The next one, Baos was right. Top laners in the LEC are boosted.
Is that the Lulu? That is Lulu. That's the Lulu.
What? Have you seen our top laners? It took two weeks for the Baos to become the best top
laner or contesting for the top laner in the league. And they still got there. I mean,
two weeks to stop getting solo killed in every match up and now he's dominating. What are
talking about propaganda he's just saying it because he's no longer in the
league we see knock knock oh we see main turkana broken we have a lot of great
top players right now what's in the league oh wait he was as well we keep
forgetting he was actually right on that one talking about knack knack next
statement we have knack knack is the best top laner we have in the league
lulu or the lulu I mean I'm gonna call a little bit of lulu on that I feel
like knack knack is the kind of guy you give him an inch he takes a
Now, I don't know the imperial system, but I think that's a good connection.
I feel like he's the kind of guy that no matter how much fire is in the house,
he's always cool and cool and collected.
When you listen to Vitality Combs, there's definitely some great ate some food that's happening in there.
He's good, but like...
Are you listening right now?
Are you the best uplaner in the league?
No? Okay, well, you're the best!
Case end point here.
point here the last one we have maybe some people agree here I'm starting to
get worried about G2 G2 will not make playoffs
I'm buying this. I'm buying this. G2 have you watched LEC? Do you not know the script?
I checked the script this morning it's the same old script we've seen year and
year again G2 bad doing legers is it all boohoo of course they're gonna make
playoffs what are we talking about are we kidding you G2 might not make
playoffs I think they will make playoffs and I have a good reason for
it if we can go to the wall here and we can break it down and look at
different matchups that are going to happen today. The big thing is, is G2 vs Fnatic is a classic
and I would love to say that this match is a do or die situation, but it might not be. It depends
on a lot of the results beforehand. First of all, the big one is Team Heretics vs KC. If KC
wins, then all G2 needs is either shifters or emkoi to win one game and they're 100% in.
That's G2's insurance policy. But let's say we live in a more fun world where Team Heretics
beats KC, then it all comes down to this G2 vs Fanatic and at this point I might be
favorite Fanatic in which case G2 is out of playoffs.
What I love about your presentation, Jack, is that Linzaks and MagnaCo were paying attention
here. They like those ads. Thank you guys. This guy believes G2 is going to lose the Fanatic.
Talking about the rest of the scenarios we have, how does it look like for the rest of
the teams? Because the stakes are high. They're cooked today for the last day of the
regular season we have for all the teams, all the teams except shifters they qualify if they
win for shifters though they're gonna need a little bit more help from other teams today.
Yeah. Simple, simple. Super simple, I mean as you say four teams left six no four spots left
six teams left. So it's very tight some really exciting teams is gonna lose all in the spots
it all comes down to today. All right and what about Los Ratones then? Well LR there is still
a little bit of a chance. Look, they all speak in LR's favor. It's a 90% chance they're gonna make it,
but this is the rat poison walk of death. If they lose to Vitality, and then GX ends up beating
KC Blue, shifters beating SK Gaming, and Koi against Navi, and Heretics versus KC, and then GD
versus Fnatic. That means that Fnatic, LR, and the last team there will now all be tied
on 5-5 or 5-6 and that means that they will lose a tiebreaker. Fair enough.
We're gonna update you guys throughout the day of course on all the stakes that we
have you can follow on the folding sheets. A lot of things are gonna change
actually throughout the day so we will update you of course. One thing that I
want to talk about the first matchup we're gonna have we see the teams
behind us Los Fratones versus Vitality and the matchup that I have my eyes
on sorry I was confused but I'm also thinking about what Baos said yesterday
He is coming for knack-knack-o the best top laner that we have in the league and actually we're gonna check the video because I
Think bouse called him out yesterday. Right. I was watching knack-knack-o stream
He said I was a bad laner
Viewer asked him what do you think about the bouse?
He's a bad laner
Good macro, okay, tomorrow. I will show him what a good laner looks like. Let's go
bad laner he's gonna show it I mean big words from boss in my opinion boss's
biggest weakness is his laning phase so we'll see if he's able to punish knock
knocko today I don't know what you think as a fellow top laner fan I mean boss
did fit a lot of our top laners are boosted I think that is the exception I
think he's had an amazing amazing LSE versus so far and I feel like he
always always makes so much of every champion I think in laning phase boss
is gonna struggle I really want to see boss kind of do what he did yesterday
against Wunder, which is getting through laning phase and coming to that teamfights,
because I think that's where Baos can actually shine.
You were saying that Nanknako might be the best top laner we have in the league.
What makes him so good?
I mean, Nanknako's, first of all, laning phase.
So many solo kills.
Always, if you check it at gold, actually, he's always almost ahead in gold in the game in XP.
He's just always putting themselves in a good spot.
We know Vitality is a scrappy team.
They like to make things a little bit chaotic, but I feel like Nanknako,
he thrives in that chaos.
He always makes himself get ahead.
I completely agree with you, Fin. If Balci is going to win, it's going to be through scaling, it's going to be through superior team-fighting,
and that's the way that you can actually pick down Nautnaco, because in Laney face, I don't think it's going to help him.
A little bit more on Nautnaco, and you've been in this situation, Fin. Being good in lane doesn't automatically win your game.
So what made him stand out and maybe picking up for the rest of his team later on in the game?
I just feel like he's not really scared to make plays. I think of this moment where he was standing, like they had just lost a fight,
But then he's camping at enemy red buff just to pick up the enemy jungler on Rumble.
And I feel like he sees these angles that a lot of other top laners would not even dare to go to.
It's about his fearlessness, and I think this is why Vitality looks so happy.
I think they're very joyous. They can remind me of the old Mad Lions team where they used laugh of mistakes,
and then look for the next play.
Something that I'm wondering is what's going to happen in top lane, because I believe
Nak Nakko on stream said that it's going to be too easy for him.
So maybe as a merciful god he might leave Sion open?
Dracos, can we ask him?
That is an excellent question.
Can we get a confirmation?
Did you say that you're a merciful God
and you're going to leave Sion open for the boss?
I said it.
I also told my coaches that we should leave Sion open.
They were kind of confused.
And they kind of want to ban it.
But they also don't want to ban it.
But we'll see what happens.
So if we see a Sion man today,
it is the fault of the Vitality coaching staff.
You personally would leave it open.
I would for sure leave it open.
I just want him to play Sion
because everyone is banning it.
Do you stand by what you said?
Do you think you're gonna absolutely dominate him in lane today?
No, even if there's a scion?
I did not say that, though. He will stomp me.
Fine, okay. He's gonna stomp you.
Whatever, dang it.
We're trying to build it up, bro.
Where's the confidence now?
Back to you guys.
Absolute cinema.
Absolute cinema here in the top lane.
But absolute cinema is also what Los Ratons gave up
since the beginning of the split,
because from going 0-4 into the position they're in right now,
They're an ERL team to begin with on the cusp of making it to playoffs ahead of three teams in the LEC.
We see the standings behind us, generational run from them so far, and they made it happen game after game after game.
They're making history happen right now. This feels like a Ragtag team of friends that came together and they went up from the ERLs,
and nobody believed in them. Even me, I watched a lot of their games last year.
I didn't think they would make it this far.
they're heading in potentially into playoffs and that's their comfort zone
B05s. I mean I feel like the step-up position has been so significant that we
came in and they were just losing lanes they felt like they couldn't really get a
grasp in the game but week after week game after game they're becoming more
and more stable yesterday against SK they just held on super well such a
long game and when LR gets to that late game they are actually one of our
best decision-making teams in our league right now so that really is
their game plan. They have such a strong fundamental understanding of how the game should be played
in the later half of the game, so I really want to see them hone into that.
And you can only imagine what it means for Kajal, especially with this project that he
builds from scratch. It was supposed to be a fun project initially assembling this
team with Crowley, who was really looking for this new shot to finally play in a big
league. Reckless, legendary AD carry for years, coming back from T1 Academy after
being them with them really well and taking this new bet being on the role of
support. Baus streamer challenger with the most unique playstyle that we would
never think would work in pro play and I could go on for ages for the rest of
this lineup. He convinced Nemesis to go back to pro play.
I mean it's absolutely incredible this roster like it's just such names that
you never thought you would see back in the LEC and the fact that they're
here and they're doing it they're doing the comeback as well like if it's
There's like a shalke miracle run, that's revived as well.
There's just so much to be happy about, so much to be excited about.
It feels like you can just take any player and look at their story these last few years
and that's why people care so much, that's why people resonate with this LR roster because
they have seen it, they have seen the Inta scripts, they have seen the Disaster classes
but they've also seen the growth and that's why they're so invested.
When you're so close to success that you've reached the deepest lows at the beginning
of the league into finally being one game away from making it, one thing that
They have to be careful about today to not be distracted from their goal. What would it be especially facing up against vitality?
Mutual shots. Mutual shots!
I think it's just weathered the storm at the early game. If there's one thing I trust Los Ratones
It's the scale. It's to get the drakes going and that's bouncy comfort zone as well up against Knuck Knacko. That's what they need
It is about witchcraft. It's not only about League of Legends for this matchup
But it is the game that everybody is looking for it to sing today and Dracos is standing by with the Rat King cajol. Take it away
I'm joined once again at the sideline right before an intense match between those
20s. Still weird. Still weird. Still doing it, still making it happen. Doesn't matter.
Last game, chances are looking pretty good for playoffs but it's not a
sure thing. Definitely need to want or want to win here but I got to know you
were on stage yesterday. You can sold your boys, you kept that motivation going.
I thought that would come from Mr. Kanone but I got to know right now do you
have a final motivational speech for the rats. Bro, you can't put them in the spot like that.
Bro, I don't know what's happening anymore, like, this will be a motivational speech,
but the first couple weeks were 0-4, we're five and one in our last six games, and when we're
talking to the boys, we're like, I think three or four is playoffs, just three or four, we just
say three or four, we've got eight, we've got seven games left, little that I know it'll be
six, so we have to go like maybe six and one in our last seven games and we're zero four,
so the fact we've made it here is mental. All I know is today we can end up ninth or fourth,
So either top four in playoffs or out and it's on one game. So let's just let fuck Jesus take the wheel and see what happens
That's enough for Mars, let's set it back over to the game
And we're the gang here for
What could be the final loss returns game could be it could be I think a lot of people hope it's not
That's true. I think vitality on the other hand
I mean, I mean, there's a lot of
pros that are very much just
like that's true. They would be
really cool if they'll obviously
a bot. If we were the ones to
knock you out yet, I feel pretty
good to so we'll see what they
bring to us today. I really do
hope that not go does
convinces coaches to leave the
side open because could we
really go a whole split without
seeing the bow split?
without seeing the bowser sign once.
I mean the biggest, the biggest play is they leave it open and the Lost Returns just say
now Gragas.
He's playing really well on Gragas guys, I don't know why I would think anything else.
Oh my goodness.
I mean, yeah, I mean that's the other thing is LR even prepared to have a sign open.
They said the whole split, not playing, I mean those, the mind games, the bouts,
he himself was saying, I saw a clip of him saying, ah guys, I'm so bad.
I don't think it's that good anymore, yeah.
I don't even play, I don't even bother practicing games, so I'm not even that good at Scion.
So there's the RISE, okay, one down, two to go.
So the important thing is usually it's first fan, Scion.
So RISE, Caitlyn, and Mundo, if you're banning stuff, that makes sense.
Here we go.
Rumble taken away by Lost Returns, obviously that was not wanting to play the Scion into
Rumble matchup, or anything into Rumble really very strong right now.
I have to be discussing like they've got to consider that now man. Yeah, unless knock knock go say now
I'm gonna cheese and are into this side
So yeah, okay, okay one band left vitality. Will it be the sign or are you taking away the Mundo? Come on Pat?
Who's in charge of what's it gonna be? Let's see
Oh
Okay, he managed to convince
His coaches to leave the side open the gauntlet's been thrown also leaving Mundo open importantly
That's very true, yes. So where do we see Loser turns final round? It's going to be the Vi vitality with first pick already locked in plows at 6 and 4
Can improve their ceiling. There's the Sion hover we all knew it was coming there's the Mundo hover
the Mundo over. See where Vitality's side got. I wouldn't be surprised if they do pick the
Mundo. Absolutely. Yeah, they made no deals about the Mundo. They were very much like,
we'll leave the Scion open. He goes to which team he chooses. He's chosen to go to Vitality.
Honestly, I think that's a smart choice. I think the Mundo suit the shot. But where
is the Scion locking Vitality staying true to their word? The bounce we're going
to get to see his legendary pick on the LEC stage. He has never lost professionally
on this pick. He has played it 11 times and has a 100% win rate. Okay, okay,
Bavis, you've got to show us what you can do. His playstyle is slightly nerfed
because on 26.3 they changed some of the gold that you give when you die many
times in a row. You can nerf this man to the ground, find a way.
It's still very strong, yeah, still very powerful. Corky is the lock here for
Crowny. Won his first game on it yesterday over the split and we'll see
where Vitality decides to go. Vitality being making some waves in the
last few weeks, they went against KC was very clean yesterday.
Their victory not quite as clean, but still very solid.
I think they've been they're not really a dark horse.
You can never really call it a team with humanoid and cars on a dark horse,
but playing above expectations be more consistent than inconsistent.
Recently, I'd say what I mean, they're qualified for playoffs with what I'll say.
So many of our teams are very difficult to judge right now,
partially because of the format, partially because of the time in the year
where teams figure out their style and how they want to play together.
But here's what we do know vitality consists of very talented individuals regardless of what you think of humanoid
He is still a very strong midlaner here in the LEC
I think Kazi and Nakmako are some of the strongest in their roles and this is
Linsus and fleshy are fitting in with this composition very nice in so far. They've got
What a cock. Yeah, that's a great call. Far as Azir paired alongside the Mundo is a very strong foundation
Nemesis is going to be bringing out the Yone. At least we expect it to be in the mid lane.
Given the rest of the picks, I'd be shocked to see it go anywhere else.
But this is going to be Nemesis' answer into the EZ. It is a very strong matchup.
It scales incredibly well. The early laning phase is a little bit rough.
But once you get past that, like after first base you get the vamp scepter.
Once you've got like level 7, that matchup becomes a lot easier.
Another pick that, and Lost for Turns player has 100% win rate on professionally.
2-0 played it twice last year, hasn't played it otherwise, I'm not even sure Yone was out when he was playing in the LEC all those years ago.
Oh, you weren't counting ERLs?
No, this is only ERLs. It was 2-0 in ERLs.
Okay, okay.
But didn't play it when he was in the ERLs.
Honestly, bro, it's a champ.
Yeah, at some point in the past it happened.
also on the side has the T1 with it twice in Red Bull League of its own tournament so vitality obviously you know
not not going down the door but they talked a lot about it in the analysis segment at the start like now not going
I think is widely seen as the best top laner in our league.
We can't help that conversation.
So it's definitely a bit of a contentious conversation for sure but those two top laners are kind of
mechanically strongest and seem to have massive impact in the game. I'm excited to see what
This wonder, we don't know where it's going yet.
Linsus Ornac-Mackle could be the champion.
Yeah, that's the assumption, but we don't know.
He may just say, you know what, I'll play tank at the tank
and we'll see how it goes.
But Lilia actually going to be the band directed towards Valiant.
They've realized that AP is the jungle choice.
Things like Echo and Diana could be a possibility.
Of course, we are live on 26.3.
So some of the nerfs that we've seen come through
will be affecting players on this patch.
the game. And then we're going
to have a match. The Nico
going to be banned. And when
as a possible jungle option as
well. So vitality preparing for
some of those scaling jungle
choices as a lot now moves into
their first pick. Not a huge
amount of AP junglers actually
in various champion pool
across the years, right? He
has played a few of these. The
Gwen. He's brought out the
times on in the ERL. So vitality, likely looking towards their top lane and their support here.
Fleshy made a huge name for himself on the pike when he was coming up through the regional
leagues.
It was pretty good into the bar as well.
Varus pike, that's a scary bot lane to go up against.
Yeah, maybe a bit too aggressive.
You need a bit of engage and they're going to pick the cow instead.
So, Narknarka, you've laid down the gauntlet.
What shape is it?
Is it an R? I feel like an R man. Possibly, possibly the half left at open.
Jace is also something that he could consider. It depends how hard he wants to go.
Hey, Atrox also seems to sometimes counter into the scion.
But actually, it looks like it might be the Mundo top.
I think you're talking about it. Pantheon picked usually in the jungle.
Really don't expect it to be picked into a scion.
And Linsus has played that Pantheon twice already this year.
So, we'll for now assume that this Mundo is going into the top lane.
Naka was chosen for a tank matchup. It means that both sides have very solid front lines.
Vitality has a lot of reliance. Ooh, Silas Jungle into the Alistar as well. I think it's very good.
Nice adaptation. Silas Jungle, I think he recently got some tips. I don't think it was this patch.
I want to say it was last one, but he was kind of on the rise in popularity in that jungle
role and I know the right hit it a little bit, but I think that Silas Jungle is still very,
very viable and something that I think, depending on what it's going up against, very much determines
its strength. And again, looking at this composition, a zero ultimate, Varus ultimate,
Alistar ultimate, all great alties to steal from Valley.
Panth ult as well, just to follow any side pressure, right? And Mundo ult for the maximum
dose just gives yourself a bunch of healing. It was the end of last year, by the way,
Betty.
It was the end of last year.
Yeah, his monster damage was reduced by 15%, but still 115% on that side. This can
still clear relatively well.
So, do or die for Lost Returns today.
A loss here does not eliminate them from playoffs, but makes their road reliant on the graces
of other teams.
If they win though, they are locked into our top 8 in LEC vs something that, at the start
of the year, I don't think many people would have predicted.
In the middle of the split, I don't think many people would have predicted, and it
would be an incredible run for them.
However, Cajal has experience with incredible runs making plans.
Oh, that he does.
The Chalco Miracle Run is what to deny him
his first ever first, and now the Lost Returns Miracle Run
might be what allows him the luxury of being in that top eight.
For Vitality, bragging rights on the line,
as we see Bows saying, good luck,
and thank you in the chat at the start of the game.
I mean, it's actually super wholesome
from the Vitality guys, Karzy, Nak Nak and Fleshy all said good luck, good luck and Fleshy giving him the good luck Messi, the Messi and Riga legends.
So some wholesome all chat from both these teams, they give and bounce the opportunity to, I mean, I find it very honorable to give a player his best champion to say hey, if you're going to qualify for playoffs, like have your best foot forward, do your best,
but we're also not going to show you any mercy.
I mean, Azir, Varus, denying the Mundo.
I don't think Vitality's holding any punches
with this round either.
They've got excellent range at their disposal.
Bear in mind, Silas plus Yone, relative to short range,
Sion needs to find an engage against a lot of mobility
and a decent amount of disengage.
LR execution on these teamfights
is going to be super important,
but let's take stock of the early game
because in the bot lane,
they will have that early push
thanks to Rekkles having the Bard,
being able to just bully out flashy on the Alastair.
You can already see these are a little bit low on HP.
Nice proctor, the electrocute means
that they're going to get some good trades out
from the LR Bot lane two versus two.
In the mid lane as well,
I think Nemesis is actually doing pretty well.
Holding is on again, as we expected.
The early HP is going to go the way of humanoid.
He does have that range advantage.
And top lane seems very neutral
between both the Mundo and the Sion.
So really that bot side of the map
is where LR will have that early push.
And where junglers are likely going to be
focusing their early attention.
One of the benefits for Mundo in this matchup is his infected Cleaver or infected Bonesaw.
The Q does do his cent target's current health, so into health stackers it can do quite a lot of work.
You can see Bowswit's harassed down a little bit on that topside early on.
Humanoid's still getting the push in mid, and will get himself a plate.
But across the rest of the map on us, relatively even.
You can see Crowny does have a 10 CS lead, but with the wave crashing in,
Karzy should be able to make up at least a few of those minions.
It's actually going to be almost a full wave behind after the first few waves.
Those early levels are really brutal for most Alistar lanes.
I'm sure you've experienced that playing at times yourself, Medic.
I don't play Alistar because of it.
That's fair enough.
Yeah, the Bard can be super aggressive in the early laning phase.
Now, for those individuals at home that aren't as familiar with Bous,
he's going to be sitting at this HP a lot.
Yes.
This is kind of his comfort zone.
He's playing in the top lane, Matt.
Don't be too concerned about it.
The good depths originate from his mastery over this champion, as you highlighted.
An impressive domestic record in the ERL with 11 wins.
11-0 losses.
11 wins, 0 losses.
Oh, Flesh is going in here.
Look at the Trample Suns.
He's going to have to flash away.
Flash forward from Karth, from Crowny, in fact.
Needs another order.
Well, find it!
Once he retones with Flesh,
but Mewon on the topside,
and Naka's trying to trade on to Bounce,
who uses the self-climax.
Can he get him in the zombie form?
Naka flashes the wall.
Bounce is on the chase,
but the bone saw was slow him down enough that not not go gets the solo ball
right ends up being a trade of kills is
Alar again, they used to playing with the science they get an early first blood
Down towards the bot side of the ref not not go adds to his solo kill stats as he picks one up onto bouse
He was confident in his laning face against bouse, but bouse not going to be too
Determined by his early death. He's gone cull longsword ready. That's gone cull longsword
picking up all the stacks. We'll have another look at this because Fleshy thinks that they have the damage to get onto Crowny, but with the Valkyrie all the way, now Fleshy's just in no man's land.
And the fact that Fleshy couldn't quite proc the stun either, he didn't get that last hit for the auto.
Oh, Fleshy moving towards the mid lane though, Nemesis does have his flash will go in, looking for the ignite on Humanoid.
It's a bouse now getting chased out by Linsus and Nug Nuggo. Nug Nuggo's passive means that he's not knocked up by the decimating smash and bouse will fall.
He really wants to get as many autos down as possible in this passive because then you are coming back to like quicker afterwards
So he is already back up and spawning
So the question should be was that a good death and in this situation?
It was an ideal if the minion wave had come a little bit earlier
You could have used his passive to secure that wave and he wouldn't have lost that on any tempo
But we look back at the top lane and you'll notice that even though he did die
He's gonna return back to top lane just in time to be able to catch this wave
And I assume that knuck knuckle yet not going to do a fast push in fact just gonna last hit so that bounce does in fact
Lose as many minions as possible so bounce lost about half a wave off the back of that which will result in a bit of an experience difference
Developing nothing too significant for the time being still holding on to his flash as well
So he has that escape tool if he is reganked when it's not
Time for a good death knuckle trading in here once again on to bounce cross to the end dying
We'll give us a little bit of health back that knuck knuckle continues to trade in hits level six as well
Well, Baus holding onto that flash, may have been a good thing, flashes away from the Cleaver,
and Nack Nacko with the maximum dosage will heal himself back up.
I mean, that Cleaver you were talking about, just so effective in tanks, especially once
you get more points in it in the year of the game, good stuff from Nack Nacko, really
recognising how he can take advantage of the Mundo in this match up, and it looks
self are pretty decently, but again, like, the thing is, Baus, yes, he's 0-2, he's
He's ahead in CS. He does have this tendency to find a way.
His HP again dangerously though as we mentioned before.
But let's look at the rest of the map.
Humanoid with a small CS lead, kind of as we expected in this matchup.
Once Nemesis gets this wave, I imagine the difference isn't going to be too dramatic.
And you could see early vamp scepter coming through from him as well.
Going for the fleet for that extra bit of sustain.
The bot side of the map is really where LR is sitting with their advantage right now.
Thanks to that early kill secured by Crownate, he's sitting at about a 600-700 gold lead for himself.
Should be a fight around the spotside, Scottlecrap, whichever jungler gets this will hit the level 6 and you can see immediately the TP coming in from Fleshy trying to join this party.
But with Cranny and Metmus already here, the smite coming down, it's Linsus that gets it, so he'll be level 6, means that they can now look towards that dragon if they want with the level advantage.
Yeah, and unfortunately for Velia, his camps are respawning on the top side of the map, and he doesn't want to path up towards there, given all the action that's happening around the bot side.
A little bit stuck hovering around his red buff, no camps for him to secure, Nemesis in a lot of danger, especially with Humanoid having an health advantage, a stacked wave, Nemesis can't afford to lose this, and that's why the presence of flesh is so important, because they can threaten the dive and deny Nemesis as much as they can.
There's also an option for Linces to look for a topside invade. You can see he has gone to his own topside, but knowing that Velia was only level 5, getting the push through mid as well, you can then look to try and keep denying the Silas as much as possible.
He decides against it. He's going to go across towards his red buff, get those camps respawning as soon as possible.
But for the moment, as you've said, Betty, the leads for Lost Returns are in that bot side.
Crowny with a wave advantage and that kill, hitting about 700 lead overall.
Meanwhile, on the top side, Linsus and Nucknaco have their leads.
Belia is here.
Transaple coming in from this as they look for Bows.
And so, Wandsaw will not get enough of a knockup.
This is though going to get chased out here by Velia.
But I've got those guys, Bouse, using the zombie very well.
They just start out from this.
And Velia has hit that level six, stole away the maximum dosage.
Flashy here on vision.
Might actually have his tempo stop.
Chain of corruption coming out from Kazi's.
He looks to try and chunk out Crowny and Reckless,
meaning the dive wouldn't really be able for them.
He does enough work stopping Reckless and Crowny
going for that dive.
So it's a one-for-one on the top side of the rift.
Bouse able to get a kill back is very valuable for him.
he keeps that gold close between the two top lenders. I was a little surprised that Velia didn't keep going for that fight
because it felt like in the extended trade, he actually had kill pressure, especially with the Mundo Ultimate sitting on top of him.
When we look back at his Velia, he's wary that something's gonna happen.
He then arrives, he arrives a little bit too late. That stun just flashed away from him, but it doesn't matter.
But he ultimately, now, goes still, drops. And this position, I'm like, okay, Velia...
Yeah, Pedro getting quite excited naturally as you should be in this situation, but Belia
yet he wisely realizes that Fleshy is roaming somewhere on the map, he doesn't know exactly
where he is so he does not take the risk, but you know, many LR fans would sit down
and tell you if you enter the 15 minute mark even with Lost Retones you're in a very
dangerous position and so far Vitality have not found a significant advantage.
Lost Retones, I believe this split has never been at 15 minutes with a gold
leap.
They've definitely never won a game at 15 minutes with a lead.
It's a very interesting game.
And they've won five games.
They've won all five of those games.
They've been behind.
Yes.
OK, cool.
Yeah, they are the comeback kings of the LEC, to say the least.
Right now, they're considering a dragon
as they set up around the objective.
Nemesis.
Hempers divide coming out from Humanoid.
As Nemesis used the face shield.
Linsus on the chase here.
Bouse was looking for that moment.
Fleshy's here first.
Narko coming across as well.
Bouse doesn't really have anywhere to go.
doesn't have that ultimate either. Knock up from Fleshy and bounce will fall in the enemy jungle as his team takes the dragon.
So a considerate idea for a Faust to come mid trying to help his team, but unfortunately when you have three members of LR in that bot side river
that means the vitality has to be somewhere else, so the moment he tries to make that mid roam happen the rest of vitality are there to punish.
Another death will be added to the board, but so far again the gold remains even for the time.
And he can TP up to the topside to catch this wave that's crashing in.
Rekkles here just trying to shadow to make sure that Humanoid can't keep Nemesis from getting the wave crashed.
Crowny holding onto the Valkyrie. Great chain of corruption. Flash, knockup and fleshy as well.
Velia coming in with a chain of corruption of his own.
And he's going to look after Dada. Good counter-gank.
Velia at just the right time there to assist his AD carry.
The bot lane is the key in this early game for LR.
And Valiar does a good job of making sure it stays strong.
He gets two kills for himself that's going to accelerate the Silas.
And again, you're seeing the value of some of these ultimates that he can steal away.
In this situation, he chooses to steal away the Varus ultimates.
Crowny's isolated in the bot lane.
That change is so good.
Nice prediction comes through from Ghazi.
Valiar, he doesn't quite connect the chain, but that's fine,
because he still has that ultimate to lock down the AD carry
and convert it into a double.
And because Fleshy's been roaming around the map so much as well,
You do know that if you can bring one person across there, perhaps you can catch Kazi out a little bit.
Fleshy once again up towards the topside, the on-souple, on-souple locks there.
Flash away from Baus though, as Fleshy continues to try and chase him down.
There's the trample, sold furnace for a bit of a shield, but Nuck-Nucko and Fleshy should be able to take him out.
The wave is crashing, Baus will be happy enough to have got that one in.
Vedya going in with a rocket belt.
Trying to chase Nuck-Nucko down, he will be able to escape with the use of his own flash.
Fortunately for Belia, he's just a little too late to the party.
a few seconds earlier and that could have been a very different fight.
You and I, though, looking for Nemesis.
It's just gonna be damage, really, Grand Sartreville coming out.
Fate Seal, from Nemesis, does get him to Deft.
He did.
I think he flashed in front of Nemesis.
To try and get in front of the Fate Seal.
I think he was predicting the ulti,
but then it doesn't come out.
Nemesis kinda stays dead fast.
So, flash advantage gained for Nemesis.
Sure.
A little bit of an odd one.
It's a...
Yeah.
Nemesis will be happy enough to only use his ultimate in exchange for humanoid's flash.
And now, I mean, Velia should come here. There's no flash.
There's the Emperor's Divide. Humanoid needs to get out of here.
Shifting stands will get him a bit of distance, but there's no one on this side of the map to help him out.
Velia can keep chasing in. Does have the flash.
Abscond, Duc goes in with the abscond. King Slayer closes the gap.
And Duc goes wide. Emperor's Divide now catches Humanoid out.
But Lindsens flash is going so many against the kill. His turn of the game.
Offing off on this silence.
LR, find themselves with a gold lead, proven it's into the game.
Valia is continuing to get stronger. Vitality putting a lot of resources into Nemesis.
Humanoid doesn't have a flash, doesn't have an ignite, but can dash away with a mortal strike.
And now Valia comes back in, tramples and fleshy for the stun. Valia still chasing forward here.
In the end, Will just retreat as Rektus comes to back him up.
My goodness, a scrappy game. Vitality.
They're a team that likes to skirmish, and we're seeing it so much from Fleshy.
He's roaming around the map and having as much impact as he can.
You're expecting this from a Pantheon, but this Alistar wants to get involved in the action.
And LR, while they are a little bit slow to react in the moment,
they are there to respond a few seconds later,
resulting in some return kills of their own.
Velya's doing a great job in this early game of punishing that aggression,
and he finds himself with a 3-0 on-score.
But the big lead, really, for LR, is the fact that Fleshy hasn't been caught.
And because of that, Kali's on the two-way ahead, Belia.
Once again, up towards the topside, Maxim Dose is coming out from that knuckle
as he tries to escape with no flash at his disposal.
The chase down might just come out, he knows where he pleases,
fixed it up again, trying to get that DC resistance,
but can't get it, Belia feels the way to Maxim Dose.
When he and himself back up and links us to Noni,
he caps away, fate sealed, and the midlands nemeson puts the chase recklessness here,
flashing too far away, and Humanoid can't shift his down,
apart from the ones that fall on his face six feet under now.
Humanoid down, a 1.8k, 1.9k lead for the Lusko zone!
Lusko tones have decided that it's their turn to take control over the Rift.
A gank in the top lane, a gank in the mid lane, pressure continuing, but bless you though he wants to answer back.
Crowney holding the flash, but still it's going to get headbutted up.
No boundary on him, there's the trampoline, tries to turn it around.
And Crowsie, Crowsie!
Crowney forces Kazia away, the Trinity Force core field so much from Crowney there.
Lost returns with a 2.6k gold lead.
Crowney is just dominating in the bot side of the ring.
Nemesis now with a gold lead of his own, the blade of the rink in completed
makes him a much greater threat in the side lane.
And now with these quests done, I expect them to start opening up on the map.
Look at the minimap, you can already see Nemesis making his way towards the bot lane.
Crowny going to take up Mantle in the mid. Dragon is ready and available and you have to imagine that that's going to be the next objective.
Baus doing what he does best, proxying. Steals a wave away and he's going for more. He does not care.
He's hunting for that extra wave and this is how you build that massive tempo advantage.
The Azir is going to be coming up and if they kill Baus that's fine but they're losing the Dragon in exchange.
Yes, you know it comes in fleshy there with a follow-up knockup. Baus will die here.
It doesn't have the Unstoppable Onslaught, but he is distracted vitality for as long as they need it.
The Drake now will be going over two Lost Ratones.
You're gonna just try to get some gold into his pockets as now Lost Ratones two Drake's up.
We crest the 15-minute mark.
This is Untrodden Ground.
If you are a Lost Ratones fan, this is brand new, really.
I've never won from this position in LAC Versus,
But what a lead they've developed and of the back of value this guy is 4-0-1 on this Silas not known
They say he picks at all brings it out in a perfect position to play it
And now is doing so much work through this early game ready
I think a lot of people doubted him. I think I myself definitely doubted him
I thought off the Mundo his Jarvan performances weren't exceptional
But now he's showing up for lost returns when they need him most the win here gets them into playoffs
And they are controlling the map. So take the retail as well
I wanted to look at that like because that would be considered a classic
Bounce good death, right? And so I want to look at how much gold did Nemesis actually get off?
Sorry, humanoid get off the back of that light. He got 313 gold in the bot lane though
Nemesis got two plates getting himself 240 gold
And they also got themselves the second great overall on top of all the minion waves that he's still got after his death
Hmm, that is the definition of a good day
And stuff will coming down towards the bot lane
I agree not not who's gonna be chased out by reckless on the top side here cosmet button does land
That was just trying to clear out the way flesh is going in with enough like under the tower not not go
Off the maximum dosage with a cosmic binding on him and the ignited maximum dosage stealing my bell is gonna have to
Chase him down. You are about is killed on the bottom side better. We'll get one for the top lane is full
It's a trade of top laners that I think LRO is quite happy with.
They have the Rift, they're going to get this tower and they should be able to run it into the next tower as well.
Fleshy is going to be a ring on the top side. There's nothing you can do about this though.
Velia just going to run that straight towards the tower.
Gold continues to be paid.
TG behind, Velia. Humanoid looking for this. They think perhaps they can catch Nemesis and Velia unawares.
Fate Seal available for Nemesis, does have the Flash, while Fleshy goes in looking for the knock-up.
Stundish down, Emperor's Divide collides!
But if Fate Seal fights humanity, tries to step the stand and get the shield, but it's not enough!
And the Stundish won't save Fleshy under the tower, just bouse his ear!
The stolen bowed out of Nemesis, gets him to safety and lost for a tones of 5KR!
Lost for a tones are dominating in these skirmishes.
Vitality keeps trying to bring the fight to them,
But it is LR that is coming out ahead.
Beautiful execution in the two versus two.
The double is there, Ultimate will be traded,
but Nemesis' Ultimate ignores it all.
It results in a winning skirmish, as you highlighted.
This is a 5K gold lead that LR is sitting in the early game.
Now, Vytax is outside Jungle.
A sluer vision there, four loss resumes.
I haven't had the look at this because with Humanoid T being in,
you're worried for Nemesis.
You naturally are.
But with Varus on the way you're thinking, okay, the two versus three, this could be dangerous.
VZ, Ulti, come, sorry, the tower comes up with a beautiful Ulti from Nemesis, locks down Humanoid.
And I mean, where is Humanoid going to go? He has no options available to him.
It's an easy double. Baus going to pick that one up.
Baus keeping him as well, Mentor.
Not perfect description, Pedro, yes.
Baus keeping him in Mentor. Cardi couldn't react.
Like, he couldn't walk forward because Baus is there.
At that point and Kazi still only sitting at one and a half items where crowny already has his mana moon a stacking up
Towards the Muah mana
Nemesis now with a mortal shield bow two items on all the key carries for lost returns
I just the reason why no one wants to do fast the chap use two seven one
Here's a 350 gold advantage
That is the bouse classic that right there the problem is yeah the automatic detection system
Yeah, still sometimes if you have seven deaths in 18 minutes ready
Sometimes it works. Yeah, no reports after the game. Okay. No reports. If there's a new
Top laner for playoffs. Sorry guys. We did all week. Okay
It's not our fault. It's an automated system. I mean it I'm very honorable from vitality to give the mouse his best champion
And again like do I think it's the key difference maker in this game?
No, not necessarily, but you know what he is doing gang after gang after gang after gang
So much has been thrown towards him which just alleviates pressure for the rest of the map and crowning in the bot lane has been
Decimating Kazi he's been using the full strength of this Corki to find advantages. He secured that bot tower
Gang after gang we've also seen in the mid lane
Fleshiest of doing is absolutely best to make magic happen by Talzi on the Rift
It has not resulted in anything as Nemesis throws the ult towards humanoid
He's gonna sidestep that and that's why having such a strong pushing early game bot lane for lost returns when you have bounce on the
The sign is so important because the mouse draws so much pressure that you garner these leads because you know the jungler isn't likely coming bot.
Look at what's happening. They're ganking vows, dragon is available. Three uncontested dragons and again like you might sit there and say like oh why are they being so fast?
This is just the vows. We are explaining to you.
It's one letter difference guys. One letter difference. This is what he does.
Put the... Oh hang on a minute, I'm looking at that Pantheon and I think he's ulting mid.
Crowny has the flash, has the barrier, has the bouts, we will use the first of those tools with the Cheneybrush kicking down the shutdowner.
Going over to Karzy.
His botch needed pick because now they can threaten the Baron.
Two are dead, Bounce doesn't have TP, he's dead for 15 seconds.
Crowny overstayed his welcome in the middle lane, Nemesis knows this isn't worth contesting, he's gonna stay in the bot side.
Banya might look for a sneaky steal, but he's just clearing out mid.
First down of the game doesn't usually get you too much other than towers, there's only one tier one, two tier ones in fact with Vitality to raise after this.
But while this is happening, something that Lost of Tones has done really well this split is understanding when you just play the other side of the map.
Get something for yourselves, they get the tier two down towards the bottom side, but Vitality now can get that scaling up.
They've got triple TP, so their map route for playing alone should be better.
as the first teleport does come out.
Humanoid sliding in to wreck as he flashes away.
Velia not caught by the Emperor's Divide.
And we'll just decide to step in and great for him.
He's got a 700 gold bounty on his head.
If he is picking that up, that is not good news.
I mean Vitality not giving up the doubt of fight.
They find a beautiful pick on mid lane.
They give a lot of that gold over to Kha'Zi.
They significantly close that gold gap between the 280 carries.
Securing this Baron also takes this objective away from LR
and will delay the game a lot.
This next dragon is going to be extremely important for both teams.
Vitality is going to use this bound to stall the game out,
get as much gold, get as many items as possible,
and then they're going to look to fight over this dragon.
Remember, Vitality do have a lot of scaling of their own.
The Azzir is going to continue to get strong as the game progresses.
Karzy has a ton of range, and ultimately this is going to be the biggest challenge for Alar.
Can they get past this range that vitality will look to use the poke that they'll have available around this dragon three minutes
We've got some time
So we'll calm down and we'll take this moment as both teams kind of get ready for that fight. That's inevitably gonna happen
Yeah, you have to feel it's gonna be around that mountain Drake
You do not want to give a scion mountain salt at all Titanic Hydra
for bounce for that weight clearing for that extra damage, but knock knock out has managed to down a very slight gold lead
in that top lane. Now, 200 gold is basically nothing. It's a refillable, but still, for a while, that had turned blue and now goes back towards the red.
The lead that Crownee had developed cut in half, pretty much, by that kill, because he was able to get himself in with the Baron buff.
You see this tower in the mid lane falling by tower. Is he getting more of that standing gold off the map?
off the map. That's all the tier 1's down.
And the gold leads down to 2KM for his divide out from Humanoid as Nemesis gets shipped away.
Reckless is here to try and help him out.
Has those band or pipes that do a lot of work in terms of speeding up that Yone's attacks,
but can't really get close enough to do too much with it.
Haven't really seen Reckless have to use that tempered fate as of yet.
It can be a very effective tool when you're playing against low mobility carries.
There it is, onto Humanoid. Flashy gets a knockback onto Velia.
as humanoid able to just walk away from now. Velia steals away the Emperor Zvide, exhausts
out from Flashy, but he has the answer to Stelvut to have another summoner in just a
moment's time. Long-range damage from Karzy with the chain going wide. In the end, a good
trade-over wall for lost returns. They only used the tempered fate. Velia does pop out
the Emperor Zvide to get his hijack back on cooldown so he can steal away an ultimate
he finds more apt to the situation. Well, I just have to imagine that he may have
been running out but also drags in a minute. I mean he only just saw so yeah okay yeah so I think he
wants like the Alistar ult or a trade of production or something like that. Basically he's preparing for
the upcoming dragon fight and he just wants to have it available. That makes sense. Now we're going to
contest some of the gold that Valir is after. He's still a ways away from level 16 which is
really West Silas. I mean he's already quite powerful at this point in the game but level
16 that very low cooldown ult can be exceptionally strong in these team fights. I mean by
Vitality, look at how the momentum has shifted though.
Vitality, it felt like they were constantly being pushed back on their side of the map.
But now, pretty much full control.
Observers highlighting for us the vision, there is some deep wards on the top side of the mini-map
that LR do have as potential flank TP wards, but with Dragon being the main focus,
Vitality have full coverage around this bot side.
That single Baron has really swung momentum in their favour.
Now they're looking for a pick.
They're only a stepping forward, chain of corruption.
Not quite so timed with the rest of the CC.
That is really about a half HP though, has no time to get back to base and then get back up onto the map.
30 seconds before the next drake does spawn.
There's also an option for lost return just to give this one up.
Say, okay, let's wait for three items apiece.
Let's wait until Nemesis has finished whatever he wants to go to with this BF sword.
Yeah, Infinity Edge is what I expect as well.
Crowny needs the mortal reminder as well to work his way through Nuk-Nuk.
They do have an ignite on Nemesis, but no other tools to apply that grievous wound.
TP coming out.
Well they're in position to contest this dragon. The armguard finished for Humanoid. Could be a very big deal.
It comes to the team from Nako now as well. And here we go. Down.
On the flank. Looking to see if you can get behind by Tammacy. Nako will keep him at bay. Nemesis chipped away at Nako still just standing on the bounce.
Going to block the on-stop, Alonso, Fedya. Steals away the Alistair on him. Fleshy goes in with a knock-up.
There's the temper, Fedya as well. Fleshy down to half HP. It's out on the back lane.
The dragon and the octopus are here for Lost for Zones
As they see the fight, they protect them into playoffs
To dive in from Nemesis, Nemesis force the way
Vowslow, Embers divide in, and Zubinro takes that crowny
Ragnarok now on the back line, trying to kill off Nemesis
But Venni is in his way
Vows is forcing people away up towards the topside as he goes down as well
Nemesis coming in, Venni healing up
Lysus trying to flash the wall, but he face plants
Nemesis can rejoin the fight with the mortal steel
The stopwatch from Vennia
Nemesis trying to get in here
Vennia gets a magical journey
Away from the fight
And Nemesis able to keep Nutnaco and Linsus from chasing any further.
Oh my goodness, the fight is so close. Valiant, he needs to heal for the W.
He's going to steal the ultimate away, he's gone in!
Maxi, don't bitch for him. Reset coming out from Linsus, he does have the Grand Staffel
with Nutnaco, needs his teammates on inside, Valiant chases him down, the Mundo can't
go anywhere, and Valiant brings down the train!
That is going to be the teamfight for Los Ricanos. The dragon is up for grabs,
Linkz is not going to be able to get it ranged.
He's got bounced off.
Linkz has got bounced right now, but he'll have it in just a second match.
He's going to hit it.
As well as Linkz has dived in, especially with the double.
No, Linkz just steals it!
Linkz just steals it and they get the kill on Nemesis.
Velia and Rekkles now need to run for the hills and he needs to get out.
10 per fake path.
Rekkles finds the two, crowning the damage on the flesh sheet.
Who will go back in with a headbutt poke by no end of the divide.
At the moment of humanoid, it takes 4v3 and lost the times fader.
Velia steals away the Empress.
But he can't get the damage in as humanoid uses the stopwatch.
Linsus with Nages Assault, knocked up with a decimated smash.
On-spot, coming in from bounds as he continues to chase forward.
Humanoid turns it back around, crowning on the back foot.
Relish no manner, and Vitality will disengage.
The Baron is available.
If either jungler died there, it would have been an immediate call to go for the objective.
But my goodness, what a close fight.
And I'll win the initial fight, but the re-engage from Linsus,
The Snipe was just too early, 76 HP on the dragon.
It is secure by Linsus, he gets the shutdown on Tenebisus.
The soul is denied and we have to get back to live
because the ban is available.
Both of these teams are eyeing up that objective
and you can see how close, how close it was.
If either jungler fell, that would have been a baron.
That could have been the game, but the game will continue.
the gold lead insignificant at this point three items across the board for both sides you know
I think we're a bit of a scrap with bouts as the Leandris and the Nashers alongside that's on years
Bellio and lindsay's still yet to die in this game
They're doing so much work in these fights as I tell you will deny vision around the Baron pit
Lost returns and vitality buying the pressure in the mid lane nemesis looking for that black position
No flash on him in fact only bounce has a flash at the moment on lost returns
None of that summoner either on Vitality, so the engage has to be a flank position.
Linsus clears out the control ward, Tempest fake going out as Bouse looks for the backline,
but can't get in.
Nemesis gonna chafe, Linsus out, stunned up with the shield bash.
There's the entrance divide onto Bouse, he has to flash, try and get out, but the
chain of corruption is gonna chase him down and Bouse has fallen.
Perhaps they're not a good death there.
Velos returns the gold lead down to a K.
Vitality turn their attention towards the top river once again.
I mean, it's really hard for LR to follow up on that.
Once Baus is in the thick of it, there's no easy angle for LR to play for.
That means the Pan will be secured by Vitality.
And this dragon becomes the main win condition.
My goodness, what a scrap this game has been.
An 8-0-3 scoreline to Vali, he's getting closer to that level 16 mark.
An important ulti steal, quickly the difference maker.
Narko is becoming tankier and tankier.
You look back at this pick, a decisive play made by Humanoid after seeing the tempest fate comes through.
They now know that that disengage tool of that ulti becomes unavailable.
Faust is isolated, Humanoid with his quick thinking, forces the flash out from Faust.
It's not enough to escape. Fleshy picks up the kill, and Vitality can put it into a bar.
The gold basically even, and the game basically even.
Again, lost returns, a win here, gets them into the playoffs.
Vitality already have that spot, the higher you up, the lower seed you play though, so a win here would get them to 7 overall.
And you can see this game means a lot to both teams.
Vitality will deny vision down towards the bottom side, 2 minutes left on their Baron buff, the Drake up in a minute 40.
Perfectly timed for them, means they can have these waves pushing in and makes it hard for lost returns to gain purchase over this bot side jungle.
Humorate. Still only on those three items. Infinity Edge is complete for Nemesis, but you see if someone gets CC'd, the chains, the chain of corruption, the shield bash coming in from Linsus, the ability for them just to keep you locked in spot.
So damn difficult. With NACNACO pushing in the midway, mid lane, there's a wave of red down towards the bottom of our screen for the first time in a long time.
I mean, XP is the biggest thing that Alar's been losing. Two pounds off the bat. I mean, look, there is a two-level difference between the 80-powder. It's hard to level 16 at the base.
Humanoid doesn't splash it, like she goes in, look at the knock-up here, humanoid's holding on to that flash,
Genescroft's just going to go down, but only onto Valkyrie's challenge, that decimating splash.
Still locked up, another decimating splash coming out, it's Valkyrie falls in, he gets a chill, she's in time!
Vettia going low as well, though he needs to get out all with piercing arrow!
Almost flipped his heels, but he's able to escape, keep that perfect score line up, but now,
Lost Retones need to go back, need to heal, need to bandage those wounds,
and because of it, they're losing inhibitor tower.
30 seconds on the drake, resets coming out by tapping up Narko.
Narko does have his flash coming off cooldown in a couple of seconds time
But with the TP coming in he needs to run for now.
Bows looking for the flank as well, Karzy will be able to reset in that bot lane bush
And Bows's TP not for naught
But doesn't find the kill that lost your tone so desperately wants it.
What I mean there's...
Hang on a minute, what are they fishing for? Bows has stuck his way in!
Look at the lincers, look at the lincers!
Nemesis going in with the base, the other 12 lincers with the H of star
Had to flash got to all TP coming in from that Narko
Nemesis looking for more damage but lincers able to survive for now
Vanir going in, stolen away the Alistair, but Vanir will get the shot down!
Here was the enemy jungle now with the Unbreakable Will.
He can do a lot of work here, can survive a long time.
Chapel coming out, a double-on-something,
Bounce distracting the enemy team once again, allowing Vanir to escape.
Slapping up on the front line, tend to fake out in reckless.
Meanwhile, the Drake! The Drake!
The Drake is crowning and never seems to be trying to take it.
Now secure it!
A mountain storm for Lost Ritone's height of the century,
as Bounce just distracted all the vitality.
It's a one-for-one, but the soul is secured by Lost Returns.
My goodness, what a fight it has been.
And what a trap they had set.
Baust snuck his way into that river brush.
Fleshy, and Linsus had no idea.
Observers highlighting how they just had no clue.
Linsus gets CC'd, the follow-up from Nemesis.
Linsus almost gets away if it weren't for Velia.
Shaces him down, and this is where Galskana has to give his life.
He's saying, in order to keep my jungler alive, I've got to make this trade happen.
He dives into the backline, commits his ulti, Velia says, I've got to get out of here.
It's too risky for me. Rexxas does what he can, but it's not enough.
But the sacrifice was worthwhile, as the team secures the mountain salt.
Baron, two minutes away. The gold really doesn't matter at this point.
Items are pretty much equal across the board.
He is still behind for LR with moving up a mid lane, there we go.
He still has the Zonya, especially now, he ran, Tini's called out, Tini comes in coming out of Karthus before he gets caught in the temperate.
The Emperor's divide back, Faust's on the front, my knuckle called up, and he's going to have to flash as well, Vitality.
One team and down as Lost Returns begin to advance, still 90 seconds before the Baron comes up.
The Lost Returns will be looking towards those inhibitors.
If they can get through mid, it makes the Baron play a lot easier.
only a single pick the rest of us have to back off humanoid so close but look at the damage he throws back up to Valiar
nemesis eight seals doesn't quite connect humanoid dashes in with the shifting side
just been smashed coming out as well but he pauses on your system times to avoid the knock-off
humanoid trying to get away from bouts who does have the flash decimated slash humanoid has to
flash away from it meanwhile the wave is here to continue lost returns about six seconds
before the support is back up full vitality before they can make a 5v5 a grand start all in
As Nemesis falls back to bounce him away again, they look for Brownie, he flashes, can he escape?
But I'm sacrificing himself and Brownie on a sliver, holding on to life by the tips of his fingers!
He'll survive, but now that he's spotted out and Kazi's on the chase, TP's behind him.
Brownie's used that Valkyrie, the Mountain Soul, shoot his back up, piercing out a shot again.
The Corki not quite caught yet, but Linsis still looking for him and spots him with the oracles.
Growny, they know you're there, Lincis!
Sincis's fear drew his heart into haps
to the hearts of Lost Ritones, only Velia and Reckless left alive.
They have to stall, they have the temperate to use onto the tower.
If they want to buy a little bit of time, they're going to use it early.
They need to stall for as long as they can.
LR, overstate, they're welcome in the middle lane.
Vitality have set their sights on the Nexus as Karzi crosses 1,500 kills.
1,500 kills, but looking for one more scalp.
Lost Ritones, they're targeted right now.
Valiant caught in the chain, Fleshy knocks him back, the Nexus Zowers will both fall.
Valiant never sits there with a face deal to catch his dream and it's just not in the vitality.
We'll call the rats, we'll take them down and we'll take their destiny out of their hands.
My goodness, what a back and forth scrap.
LR, after finding that pick on the Fleshy, they think that they can go all the way,
they think they can get more, but they overstayed their welcome.
My goodness.
LR came so close.
They came so close, but Vitality, they did not budge.
You can vote for your player of the game.
Nak Nak or Lintas Fleshy, wow.
What a crazy back and forth.
But as you said, with Vitality's victory,
LR's fate is now out of their control.
It really is. LR now needs Navi or Fnatic to win to secure playoffs.
We're going to go to a short break. We'll be back with Finn and Nak Nak go after the game.
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Man, wow!
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The spice of triumphs lit the dusk and crimson flame and song.
Until I see you again
To the end
With the end
To the end of time
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All the time
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I don't think this counts.
Come on. Let's go.
Wait.
Is he switching lanes?
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Hello and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, as I am joined by the victorious man of his word, Nak Nakko,
who promised and delivered to leave Sign Open.
Welcome, congratulations on the victory, Nak, and how do you feel after that game?
How many of Baus's deaths were good deaths?
Thank you, Fin. I think most of them were bad, but he was creating pressure on the map, so he was just playing good.
I mean, you did say that he would stomp you before the game, and you did need a lot of help to deal with him.
Was that because of the intense pressure in the 1v1?
Yeah, I'm not sure if I was losing because I saw that I killed them in the 0-5, but that was kind of questionable.
I mean, I think the lane is just chilled, nothing should happen, but he was just fighting me, so it was just a fistfight.
Take the fight to him then.
I actually want to break down one of the teamfights that you played that game.
I think this teamfight was one of the longest teamfights I've seen in my life.
You were playing Mundo, I think it was the third or fourth dragon, where you were just running around.
We're going to get the clip there for you as you can see.
Can you break me down, what are you thinking about in this fight?
Because it's really difficult sometimes in this chaotic fight to really see things clearly and know your role.
Okay, at first I was just trying to block the side analogy.
And after that, that was just shuffle, I think, from Marek.
I don't really remember the fight.
Yeah, it's gonna be a really scrappy fight there.
You're gonna be the last man standing here in this river.
And there's just people dying right, left and center.
But you're really diving here on the back line.
Did you not want to feel your precarious?
No, I don't care about my precarious, I will fight them.
Who cares about your precarious?
I'm the real carry in this team.
Sylas gets my ultimate and kills me after, but if he didn't, I would just carry the fight, unlike he really was him.
You say you are the real carry, and actually, news are just that you got the key player of the game for that series.
Do you think that was deserved or do you think someone else deserved it?
I think I didn't deserve it, but I don't know who deserved it in our team, because we just played disgusting.
You played disgusting and you won anyway, okay.
Well, just one last question here, as the clip is still rolling.
Looking ahead in playoffs, Los Ratones might still make it.
How do you think the chances would be in playoffs when you come into a best of free scenario?
I mean, I'm just happy that Fearless is done, so I don't have to play Rumble, Santa Sion.
And I just want to play some other champs.
Hopefully we win the playoffs, but let's see what happens.
All right. Well, up next we have GX versus KCB.
Thank you so much, Naktaka, for your time, and we'll be right back.
Now, casters, take it away.
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Hello. Hello. Do you want to say something because I haven't got my thing up yet?
Yeah, that's fine. What's up everyone? We're getting ready for GX versus KCB. This will be
the last time we see KCB here in the early seat versus their road so far has not been an easy one
even though we've seen multiple valiant attempts from them throughout the regular season. GX
right now if they win they will secure a spot in the top four. Yes. We don't know yet what
position within that four they will be. It largely depends on the results of the rest of
the day but top four is very much what they're looking to secure. You can say everything counts.
You certainly can. The thing for KCB is they're ultimately just looking to prove what they've got.
I think that multiple players have demonstrated high-calibre performances and again when you kind
of look at how they came into the regular season expectations were relatively low for this roster.
A lot of second division players and the bell players like very fresh players to the stage
that I mean people weren't expecting to have super high performances and I think at various
points throughout the split they've demonstrated a lot of great qualities in particular their
laning I think the mechanical skill they've demonstrated has been very high unfortunately
it's just when they enter that mid to late game space where they do make those mistakes they're
not always paying attention to where they are on the map sometimes they get caught and it
results in the enemy team being able to snowball so even if they do get early leads they can't
always convert it into success and I do largely think that that's just an experience thing
where they don't have that same pedigree of experience.
Yeah, exactly. I think they just don't have as much stage time
as most of the players that we have on in the LAC Verses.
And for Giant X, I think they've had a pretty solid split so far.
Yeah.
LAC Verses, they've put out some really good performances.
Yes, against KC, they've really struggled.
But overall, Noah and Jun have really been stepping up to the plate.
And I think Giant X will be one of the teams to watch,
especially if they do manage to get into that top four.
The way that our playoffs format works is
and two will be put into the opposite sides of the bracket.
Then three and four will be seated in,
and I believe three gets to pick out of five and six,
which team they want to play.
I think one also gets to pick out of it.
Yeah, so one picks of seven and eight,
two gets the other one,
and then three gets to pick out of five and six,
and four gets the other one.
So it does give you a little bit of an option,
but as Vettia said,
like there's so many permutations still,
and because there's no lower bracket, upper bracket,
there's no fighting for double elimination,
all of playoffs is double elimination,
Exactly where teams place isn't at the forefront of like teams minds. Yeah, and as far as I understand in terms of stakes for a lot of the other teams
Looking to qualify for playoffs this game doesn't have a significant
Yeah, so the reason it doesn't have any is because giant X are already qualified
so there's not like they can knock someone else out by going higher or by going lower and then
Charming co blue have not
Ultimately, what it does determine is their position, and that's what we're going to do.
For Gioneks, they can be fighting for the top four, maybe one or two, if they do really well.
We will see exactly how things permeate as we go through the day.
But we are getting into drafts, so let's have a look.
Gioneks on the blue side, they're going to get rid of Pantheon, Vi and Akali,
whereas KCB on the red side will get rid of Yoni, Orianna and Varus.
That first pick is granted to GX,
and they will start off the draft with Anazia.
So, in a game like this,
sometimes we may see teams experiment,
it looks like GX looking to lock in.
They want to make sure that they are primed and ready
because we're starting to plow next week.
The schedule is changing.
Next week, we're not on Saturdays,
and there we are on Monday and Tuesdays.
Yes, just for that one week.
Just for that one week.
And then we have a crazy week of League of Legends after that.
We go straight into Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Yeah, four days of League.
Yeah.
Almost bound if you're going to Bologna,
like some cool kids.
Yeah. And so there is a lot of action eSports happening some paper sports.
I mean, it's close enough.
Close enough to see if KCB pick off a lightning.
He looks from the top or something for this game.
Instead, you know, a rumble. No real surprises there.
Although towers only play the rumble once already this split.
It's often banned against KCB about 40 percent of their games
when they are on this on this red site.
You can know I think it's been the standout performer for KCB, so we'll see what they decide to give him in the jungle.
It's a Sion and a Jarvan. Okay, okay, Jionx. We see what you're doing.
Front to back with a little bit of engage. Good times.
I do actually, I need to check this. Wasn't Sion kind of undefeated in the LEC until that last game?
Really?
No. Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna have to have a quick look to make sure.
That's fine.
I think Bowson may have been the...
Yeah, he's the first LEC Sion loss this year.
Wow. And the Mundo win rate just...
Oh, no, no, Wunder lost on it. Wunder lost on it.
This hasn't updated it, so he's the second.
Bowson Wunder.
Two G2 teammates from the MSI winning squad.
That's true. Losing on Sion.
Let's see if Lott can keep the positive win rate going for Sion,
or what will happen here is...
Taliyat gonna be the last pick up for KCB,
Camilla will be pincing a bunch of that from him so far.
This split looks like 80 carries are going to be the target for KCB, which makes a ton of sense as the draft disappears now
Fortunately, I can still see it. So what I do know is that that's
Nothing else has happened
But we'll see where we go from that so we got a Klan ban and then Bessa ban
And Bessa has been banned on the side of GX at the moment the comps are always back up on the screen
there you go. Azir, Jarvan, Simon with an ambassador band and Yunama, Rumble, Taliyah with an HAT.
That's very awesome, perhaps. Yeah, it makes sense.
Oh, guys, they're going to take that away from now. You've always got to be mindful of this
Kaiser. I was going to say, I'm personally not a fan of Azir plus Jarvan. I feel like
they want to do two different things. But you can put someone in the cage and then
throw them out of the cage, and that's how you win the Royal Rumble. But, typically...
Or Hell in a second. How often do you see Jarvan use his ult as a peel tool?
Sometimes really yeah if you're on the retreat you all and then you eat you out sure it's just like you guys say there
In my experience
Jarvan usually uses that alt as I can engage tool and then people flash out of it
And then the emperors of I then I often find that asia and Jarvan are just too far away from each other
So really working can't you're saying teams about
Because they could just get close sure I mean sure
the Kaisa and as soon as you lock the Kaisa you do want the Nautilus alongside it. I think
Kaisa loses the early push into Ynara because of Ynara's Q, cultivation of Spirits, which
just allows her to quite easily push out the wave, especially after she's got the Karlic
keeps her sustained up as well, and there is the rel alongside it for KCB. Now Nautilus
can interrupt the rel when she goes for those engages, you can hook her out of her
crash down, but good rels are able to navigate their way around that, and it looks like
Both teams kind of just going for relatively traditional comps at the moment less tankiness on kcb
I mean you say there's an atrox jungle. Yeah, but like it's 2026
Okay, let's use the word traditional. Okay traditional implies we see it fairly often and it's standard
stats tell me how many
We've seen I feel like it's going to be four
Okay
There's one from
uh it's seven ready okay i was close uh yeah i mean it's it's it's it's it's as
happened as commonly as like an ambassador jungle or almost as a mundo jungle
really yeah that common yeah mundo jungle has nine ambassador jungle has five
well there you go uh a lot of like skew ones played it tau i mean this is top lane that's top
lane yeah no but i did look at jungle they just showed me all of them that's fine that's fine
Anyway, that's enough of the tangent.
The highest seed has a right of first election for playoffs as well, which is quite nice all
around so if GYNEX can get into one of those 1-2 spots if they can manage to wrangle their
way there somewhere, or 3-4 is still solid for them overall, so we get on to some of
this rip to the second game of the day.
KCB, playing for pride.
KCB fans have had a lot of pride in this roster, right?
Like, they've done a really good job across the course of the split,
even if they haven't quite been able to make the same waves as someone like Elos returns,
but I don't think anyone expected them to.
The day view of KC, they were last place, right?
And now look at them, right?
Good!
You know, and so...
KCB do not have the same time in which...
All I'm saying is that like having your debut be last place, I don't think you should think of as the end of the world.
Like this is an opportunity for a lot of these players that I think you just have to make the most of and I really like that.
Interview we did with Hazel, I think last week, where he basically just said, yeah, like it's not been easy, but we've got a lot of experience.
It's about lanes, just going to trade that barrier as we often see in the early laning phase.
But ultimately I have high hopes for them in the future.
I think this has been a promising start and I hope that they get given more opportunities in the future
I feel like you can it is a player that many teams are keeping their eyes on and
In the ERLs
I expect this team to be quite the powerhouse with the experience that they've been able to garner off the back of competing here in the
LEC you have to imagine they got some pretty good at
practice in the meantime in this early-daining phase it looks like that
GX is bottom line gets the early level 2 coming in from June as well as they try and trade on to prime both the barriers
were exchanged earlier on. Heal did come out from Prime as well during that initial exchange,
so another summoner downer to see that Jun had gone fond of life on the Nautilus, which
does give you a little bit more sustain for your AD carry and for anyone else when you
are landing those hooks. But often you go shield-ash if you think you can get the
extended trades out because your Tyson's Wrath shield does just allow you to really
smack the enemy carries. As good as the staggering blows down to Prime, Hazel will
trade back on to Noah but overall Jun and Noah having control of the lane for now.
Nice push, nice control.
And that's what the Nordus gives you a bit more of in this lane, right?
Absolutely, absolutely.
I mean this has been, this is a traditional pair, Kai'SaMautla, so we've been seeing for
a very long time, especially given the synergy applies with her passive as well, right?
So, nice to see Camille though, getting nice pressure in the mid lane.
I've seen this match up many times before and I think that onto Leo it's really
important that you play hyper aggressive into the Azir.
You don't give him the luxury of having a comfortable lane.
You can see about a 4 CS lead, nothing too major, but a lead nonetheless.
So, Camilo going to be committing to his first base.
Jack is going to look to do the same thing.
Small pot advantage for Camilo.
He actually sells that to pick up the refillable.
So both midlaners largely going to come back into lane with similar itemization.
Botcrab going to go the way of Yuuki now it looks like.
Yeah, you can see Isma actually already recalled, went back, got himself a long sword in a ruby crystal.
I know I'm going top. I know I don't really want to try and fight the atrox this early on so you can
I will be able to get that crab and now he's looking for a flank down towards this bottom side
The wave is crashing in though. He can dash across the wall
Don't really think you want a dive to materialize and it looks like that's not going to happen at all
And that's all. Maybe Noah and Jun step up a little bit further
Camille is still trading onto Jackie's as much as he can
Meanwhile Isma is here for that gank Camille
Holding on to the Unraveled Earth so if Isma flag and drags he can use that
that me actively, Scythe makes shove, keeps Izmo at bay, and you can oh did just recall on the bot side.
So a bit of farm lost for Kibbut, but no harm no foul for the most part, this town gets a very nice trade-off a lot.
Yeah, getting the flames for that as you go into the danger zone, allowing you just to walk up and get those autos,
and how do you trade back into me? It's literally fire. It's very difficult.
Yeah, I mean, for a lot of people that also just don't play into rumble much, it's really easy to underestimate how much damage is.
is just auto attacks too, when you're looking easy, right?
So obviously these top laners are quite familiar with it.
That's why you saw Lot running away quite fast.
But ultimately he's not particularly perturbed
by such meager hindrances.
Yeah, I mean, the guy's died and come back to life.
He cares about a few burns, you know?
Skin can't even react to it.
He's a zombie, basically.
Don't have that inflammatory response, right?
Is he a zombie?
It becomes a zombie, doesn't it?
He's undead.
Zombie war chief or something, right?
I mean, I guess by definition, that's just what a zombie is,
right?
I mean, yeah.
It comes back from the dead.
Sure.
There was a while in comic book history,
I can't remember exactly when, where they wouldn't call
things zombies because of the commissioning boards who
didn't like the word zombies.
They're like, oh, no, that's not religious enough for us.
So we can't use the word zombie.
They changed it to like, Zwambi or something.
And they would say, oh, there's some Zwambis here.
They're very weird.
What an interesting fact.
Well, I learned it on a podcast, it could be a lie, all I know, I did not back-check this, I just learned this thing on a podcast and now I assume it to be true.
Well, right now, I know the game, a quiet over game for both sides, as Fall Clear has come through from the jungler scaling on either side,
Dragon hasn't really been looked at by the team, is it?
Yep, they're both going to go back to base, something hot too surprising, it's a bit of a risky start,
you can see some pings coming down from KCB considering a possible start,
things from GX on the top side, expecting Yuki no to be passing towards those top camps.
I mean, the thing is here, everyone's kind of happy just to get six on the first side of the team, right?
It's even first strike Rumble, so he's just like, okay, you know, I'll collect as much gold as I can off lot.
He uses the Unstoppable Onsword, now he's going to get chased away by Tal, but in the end,
both of them just really wanted to clear the wave.
There is a small threat of a dive with his McGuying and taking up this top side Scuttle Crab.
We'll hit level six off that. You can only be able to get there in time,
So he's going to be a level behind for a little while.
His top camps are coming up in the next minute or so.
So you can see Yucano probably having to cover
towards this top side for a second.
Make sure he knows where Izmir is
so that Tal isn't at risk.
Ember is divide coming out.
Camille is flashing after it hits him.
Jack is his low mana, but there's the cataclysm follow-up.
And look at it, Betty.
Azir and Jarvan in perfect unity.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
That was well played, yeah.
I mean, we'll see if that unity continues.
the game continues. Nice stuff comes through from Jirka. The first blood secured by GX.
It's a classic play by Azir. You get the flash out from the enemy mid laner and then jungler shows up.
Usually junglers don't show up that quickly but hey, see what you can get. First blood goes over the
way of GX. Dragon's still though, so it looks like we're not going for a super early dragon
play. You can know not really in a position to cross map. Also because he lost that topside
Scottacraft, he was a level down until he was able to get his topside caps, right?
It's a little bit trickier for him to go for those cross-maps, he needs to clear from top to bot to get back to that.
Now a couple of things coming out on the Dragon, so this is where you can only say,
Okay, we do have the ultimate advantage, we've got a Weaver's Wall, we've got a World Ender,
and we have Hazel and Prime coming in with the push.
Add a small think more about the Shield Bash, not being on Nordilus.
It doesn't work as well when you're playing into a well, because you've just got the Shattering Strike,
so Shield Bash becomes a little bit harder to use effectively,
as KCB will take the dragon or at least start it up perhaps is beginning generally level 5 does have the flash
could look for a flash hook, but with the smite coming down KCB take it and
Drianix will yeah, just go back to their lane so they should get the push in here on bot
But not too much loss for the KCB bot. I don't know what the plan was there for GX because
I mean they didn't have it. Sure
So I yeah, I guess I get a little bit annoyed when teams just kind of spectate an objective going down
Very our whole job is spectating. No, I know. Okay. Yeah, but that's that's our job. It's not there
I mean, oh, yeah, I understand the logic and yeah, I just I'd rather they just you know
They could push thoughts they could push it could have full clear this camp. They could have base
What other things I could have done
I'm sort of using the top. They're not a lot connected actually looks like how flashed away meanwhile in the mid lane
Jun looking to see if perhaps he can find a good hook.
You can know chasing him down as the dredge line away.
Jun still stand up with a shadowing strike,
with a sliding shove coming in.
He has to burn a flash of his own.
You know, it looks like he's eyeing up a play.
Not for the fine much though.
The Q1 wall connects.
He's just made his way down.
He's not in the river.
Oh, Empress of Eye going out.
Camille who caught out doesn't have the flash.
He'll fall first.
And thought he had more protection with Prime,
and you can know being around,
Unable to be protected with good emperors divide out of Jackies
I thought that the ulti had been used there by Hazel
Defensively against Noah who is looking for a fight, but both AD carries. He's training the HP bars
Is Jax do find another successful kill on to Camille the Java now 200 great start for an early game
Generally like J4 to just get him ahead and he's gonna have a lot more power
Especially as the dragon spawned in three minutes time
But perhaps they consider using this advantage to set the sights on the grubs camps are on the top side of the map for isma as well
Jackie's though
With a huge amount of mana obviously he hasn't gone back to base yet does have his TP available
Yeah, I think we're Jun moving across
They're likely look to push this out have Jackie's TP back and then play towards the grubs both the sports now level 6
You can see prime opening up through the mid lane as well
Looks like you can own once another camp. There's a Sundered Sky advantage on Ismo where you can always yet to complete his first item
So it might be that they decide they can't really fight around this first effect
It's good drench line-shattering shot still gonna connect Magnet Storm for the pullback. Jurn has no flash
Does still have the heal has the aftershock as well. Death charge down on Kamillu
Isma there for the chase with the flag drag and the knockup can still chase him down here with the cataclysm
So it's Prime coming in and you can know that Junkana falls. So is Kamillu. Jackie's TP's in. Hazel here to bolster the attack
But no one's gonna join the fray. Hazel dashes away, you can only do the same.
A killer instinct in!
Immediately locked up by Prime with a shadowing strike.
The ward's going down, the Oracle stops.
The vision for Noah, but Jackie flies and flies, and Hazel falls as he flashes into the rays of Adam.
Wolf hits.
Isma, they had to chase Prime out, and Giant X winning out on the fight.
I mean, Jhin has to lose his life, but that was a worthwhile trade for GX as they get themselves two kills.
A nice skirmish goes their way.
SKCB, I think they tunnel just a little too hard on to getting that kill onto Jun.
They spent a lot of time securing that extra kill and I think it just cost them too much.
We look back at this play and it's an initiation on to Jun at the start.
They don't really have the time though. Camilo just used everything to clear out that mid wave.
He's waiting on those cooldowns to come back. He doesn't have them just yet.
Nice sidestep from Jun. Finally, he throws the ultimate out.
Then Camilo gets targeted. Rather than kill for Camilo,
They turn their attention on the gym now to one for one, but they say they can fight longer
I think if they just disengaged at this point, it probably would have been fine
But they look for more and it costs
He's not going to start up the drops as TP comes towards the topside
This is not looks for his next target three and oh
So once we're out from lot as he chases onto town flash forward looking for the slow here as well with an equalizer down
You can I might be able to turn it around with a lot
Thanks couple of time of shots the infernal chain is gonna pull him back in there
Q3 with the dark and blade you can oh gets his second of the game
Okay, so one for one trade
The very least this Atrox is beginning to get stronger, the only downside is that Jarvan is a full level ahead of him
and has been involved in every single kill that has happened on the map, Isma being as proactive as he can
to build a healthy lead for GX.
You can help him steal away his blue buff though, the very least a small trade back in his favor
but really the whole map is going the way of GX. The fact that Hazel ended up falling, Jacky's picking up that kill.
He's now got a 1.3k individual lead over Camillu.
It's already ramping up so fast with that mid lane quest completed as well.
Yeah, doing a good job of getting Camille's flash off cooldown as often as possible and then having the follow-up of Ismur and Jhin hovering around that mid lane means that Camille has always had to play pretty far back.
Nash's tooth already completes Jackie's. Hazel is waiting here in the wings. Ismur around the corner as well. Looks like Jhin might just go up into this jungle.
Hazel back underneath his tower, Prime spots them.
Hex flash forward from Jhin.
He's the tower, though.
Shadowing strike and the interrupts.
Hazel transcends and down goes Jhin,
but immediately the dive in.
The barrier from Hazel, enough.
Isma not tanking enough tower drops to fall himself
that the dive caught off very sharpest from Giant A.
Yeah, an ambitious play from Jhin
as he hex flashes over the wall.
Now, you can have that.
Lock has no flash.
You used to try to kill Tower before,
and it's an easy enough repeat gank for Yukino,
who will catch the kill.
I think with the chains proc there, maybe with the red buff, as now he turns his ascension
over to the grub.
So they picked up one of these to make it two and three.
They're sacrificing the drake for this RKCB.
Yeah, you could see that Camillou was fishing, maybe thought, oh, if I can get a kill onto
Ismur, maybe.
That's going to be a play.
But he's going to catch that midway.
The bot lane is basing.
They can't afford to overstay, especially with their jungle on the top side of the
map.
So instead it will be a one-for-one in terms of dragons.
Let's see KCB getting a few kills for themselves though, punishing some of the over-aggression
that we've been seeing from GX.
I expect Tau to drop his ulti here to just catch this extra wave, go back to base real
quick, spend what goals he's been able to build up for himself.
KCB still behind in gold.
A lot of it is in the mid lane just because of, well, Camilo has been targeted largely.
Look how far Noah had his as well, almost 1.5k himself.
Oh yeah.
Because of how far Hazel's had to stand back in that lane.
No, it's just, you know, a bit of a fight, you know, to pick up a couple of extra waves of CS as well.
And Hazel having to be very defensive overall.
It's unfortunate to him that Prime got the kill of Jun underneath the tower.
Oh, absolutely.
Hazel would have been very happy to take that one himself.
Hazel has had to move over to the mid lane as well, but I haven't completed his quest.
I imagine it has to be relatively close, given that we are at about 14 minutes into the game.
But an ideal spot to be in is now GX is mounting up the pressure, another place secured in the top side of the map.
Harold's spawning in about 45 seconds, you have to imagine that GX will want to grab that objective for themselves.
Right now they've got good vision coverage around that side of the map.
Mid lane continues to be pushed in by Jackie, so he's just so strong on this Azir already.
He's looking good for GX.
Yeah, overall a really good spot for them.
The question is how much impact Tau can have as the game goes on, a good equaliser onto a kaisa, onto an azir camp.
At least make them use their tools to escape as the decimating smash comes out from the lock, it doesn't land the knock up.
They'd have to use that unstoppable onslaught alongside it, so Tau very much winning out on these top lane in the bot lane trades, Betty.
Absolutely.
Five more seconds.
Good position from Jax, reset came through from Jun, he's going to replenish those wards, wards, wards, now.
No force to run away here in front of chains, aren't going to connect, doesn't burn the flash, uses the killer instinct afterwards and that's a big ultimate out before a retail fight.
How resetting as well does have the TP, so's the locks, so first of all we'll come back to the fight to the about full HP.
How holding onto that equalizer, Leandrie's double amp term, TP's into the back of the pit.
to the pit.
Right.
Ismo and Jun are looking to land the dredge line
onto Prime and Prime is down before the fight
even really materializes.
Cataclysm in depth charge going down onto Yukino as well.
And the MKCB should leave this one.
Hazel can't get across here easily.
Another hook going down.
Nezvi equalizes on the back.
Nice, nice, nice.
It's not going to connect.
Camille already very low,
but Islis burns to a crisp
with TP coming in from locked.
Now KCB disengaged a good dredge line again
from Jun.
Emperor's divide will catch out Yukino
Giant X collapsed on the fight.
Yeah, Prime just steps a little too far forward,
and he doesn't respect how quickly GX can engage.
He also highlighted, Medic, how difficult it was for Hazel
to really approach that fight,
because all of the GX members were on the top side of the river
while he was stuck in mid.
These are some of the coordination issues
that we've seen from KCB this split.
Some of that lack of experience
that we've been seeing effective.
GX was just in a much better position.
They punished effectively the setup of KCB,
and then they converted it into a very dominant teamfight win.
They got three kills overall with the Herald to boot as well.
That's what we're talking about positioning-wise.
Prime gets the passive front on the Celestial position,
and then the re-engage comes through an early ult from Isma.
And in this one, you're thinking, oh, it's three versus three.
In case if he thinks maybe we can still fight this.
A nice hook once again from Jim.
Locks down Camilo.
He's getting very low.
He's forced to back away.
Anything, okay, they get this kill.
Maybe they can turn into something more
But the arrival of lots means
This a little bit dangerous now
Jackie's with a really nice punish as you can know tries to help his top laner out
But ultimately it ends in despair 8 to 5 the kills now a healthy gold lead for GX as they look to secure themselves a spot in the top
4 and as much as we praise you can know throughout this but he's had a relatively good game going back in there to try and help his top laner
Definitely a mistake like a tower is dead shouldn't really be stepping back into that sort of position and Jackie's
Well, and truly punished him for it knowing that with a 2,000 Gold lead on this kaiser cracking ginsu's already complete for him
He is in such a strong spot has not lost on the kaiser this year in
LEC versus and across the course of his career
It's his fourth most played with a 60% win rate ready
So no real surprises that giant X are very willing to put a lot of eggs in the Noah basket
No, okay, so man
True pit, Jint out, pushing up positioning, they're all good for him.
Crashdown's gonna come out, Death Charge used as well, he's gonna have the aftershock but he still gets burned by Tau.
Another kill going, first kill going over to the Rumble, Drake up in 16 seconds, not great timing there from Jint.
It's the second time this game we've seen a support caught out with an objective on the cards for Ivor Team.
I mean that's not to get Jint also hex flashed underneath the tower potlaying.
Obviously that was a coordinated play, but coordination wasn't quite there from GX earlier on.
Smartly off as the equalizer comes out from the tower. Just clearing this wave and so on so we'll get lots to safety
That's kind of all he wants to do. Make sure he's got the push in, get the ultimate out of tower and then
Makes it a lot harder for the tower to influence the other parts of the fight. Drake will be taken by KCB
Nitex not going to contest it without their support
Who is being one of their primary engaged tools in most of these fights
His red lines have been on point as you say has been caught out a couple of times though
Overall a solid game
Good! Flash him from Jackie's
Now Camilo has not had a fun time at all on the Taliyah in this game Jackie's constantly finding him when he doesn't have that flash up
We're just continuing to see why Azir is such a stapler in the pro play
He does everything sideline wave clear scaling engage disengage
He's the the whole parcel soon. He'll be a general. I'm sure I'm just very glad he never went through the victor grass with you and dying
Oh, did he do was ever?
Yes, he has. He's played every keystone as well. There is
No guardian though. You need that to impact us. You can all get hooked with the dredge line
It's gonna land a dark in play. Rifto's gonna charge in here and take out the tower
But you can is able to escape from the counter-clism
Silver turret going over to giant X and it's not
Is he really using it? He's using it to get his caps faster. Is that even faster?
Probably. I think if he actually avoided the wall
It would have been a lot faster. Maybe
So, yeah. In the end, Riftar wasn't really gonna get a second charge in anyway, so he's willing just to get to his red buff as quickly as possible.
And a 3000 lead for Giant, a 3000 gold lead for Giant X, Tau is almost 2k ahead on this rumble.
He's kind of the small breath of life for KCB, with the bloodletters and the Andrews complete.
If that sticks, if that sits on Jacky's on Noah, I mean on anyone for Giant X, he's gonna burn them pretty rapidly.
really with the tankiness to survive through it.
I'm looking for ways in which KCB can come back into this game.
Ultimately it's that unfortunate position where you're relying on your opponent to make a mistake.
It feels like this is here, it's just far too strong.
No one has too much of a lead on the kaiser.
If you ever try to force a fight, unless you can one-shot one of these carries,
it's going to be a difficult play and they've already set their sides on to come in there once again.
He walked throughout that wave quickly enough though that he's going to be able to get away to safety.
Camilla can smell, but there is a jungler in the area.
He's already experienced it enough in this game.
And what's going to be dropped by Prime, but that'll be quickly cleared out as GX continues to control the top side.
You can know using the time to try and get himself some more gold.
Steals away the bottom side.
Scuttlecrab was looking for the Razor Beaks as well, but now looks towards mid.
If they can get Noah, it's a good kill for them.
TP coming behind as well as it's Tao who's going to join the fight.
Jun trying to get away, Fenerchai's going to land on him, Cataclysm flash out from Isma.
And now they go in with the Magnus Storm. Isma will fall.
And KCB might turn their attention towards the Baron. They'll start it up immediately.
Question is, do Giant X want a bit of this? Do you want a piece of the fight?
Do you want a little bit of spiced snow up?
It's slow.
It is very slow.
No flanks that are being used by Tao holding onto the spells in case a fight begins.
Stretch line wide and stuff also coming in lot holds it up short equalizer on the back line
Put some to know and on to Jackie's you can all getting chunks out as well
5,000 on the down right now
No job on a couple of the difference about coming out as well, but Jackie's gonna pull fast
Noah's still on the back line trying to get onto Camille with a barrier
and now a killer instinct in Camille and flashes the wall
Lot in his zombie form unable to do anything a triple for you
You can know and KCB buy back
Hang on just a minute now
Now, KCB have just found a beautiful teamfight around the Baron, and what was a 3k gold lead
has been reduced to 500.
Isma gets caught with a nice TP and collapse coming through from Camillou as well.
Isma burns an early flash, Prime catches him out, and all five members are goofed up around
the Baron.
Now, all Jets need to do is use their range, but it's hard!
Look at the positioning of Jacky's, the knockback that's going to come through from
Camilla was the key difference maker.
Here it is. Connects to the crash down.
We're back at the line.
Chunkwrap again.
Locked up in the Magnus, so no escape for him.
What's going on?
Drake's up in a minstern.
KCB have evened out the gold.
They have two Drake's to one.
And like, what?
Yukinu is seven to one on this H1s ready.
I mean, this is why JX is a really frustrating team for me.
Like, I want to say that good,
but they do this stuff all the time.
But it's so weird.
They're just getting caught out so randomly it feels like it doesn't feel like that
They're setting up for a play in mind and then a team punishes them in that setup
KCB
Correctly just punishes them like your way you're not supposed to be dude. This doesn't make any sense
I'll take the kills. I'll take the Baron the call difference is now gone and also the thing about these
Catch-up situations right look at the XP full level advantage for town
You've now got an atrox with who was the level behind now the same as Isma
You've got Camilla who is still about half a level behind, but Hazel a full level up on Noah as well.
I think all credit to KCB. We talked about it in the draft.
Their mid-game decision-making has been where they faulted a lot of the time and here they've made it a couple of really good mid-game decisions.
Oh, here we go.
Now they're starting up the drake, Isma in the back of the pit, Weaver's wall out will separate Noah and Jackie's.
Isma needs to get out as well as Noah dives in with a kill of Intake.
Hazel has got to cut the wall. The damage once a lot is huge.
as he dies in, but Hazel still takes him.
One for one, the Exchangers.
We've already seen Jun go down as well.
Noah on the wrong side of dodge.
He's just gonna die to this tower.
Try to super charge his way away.
Meanwhile, let's have a look at the Drake,
because Noah's just gonna die to the tower.
Anyway, Drake was taken and is by KCP.
Noah able to escape, over the vital to Camilla,
the flag and drag in.
You can only do a lot of work here
because there's two damage needed to one.
Prime runs for the hills,
as you can know, escapes as well.
In the end, KCP gets the Drake
and most of them get out alive.
I mean, it's a 3 for 2, but again, you put yourself on sole point now, you can continue to get stronger.
This Adroxx is becoming a real problem, but the coordination from GX, I mean...
I mean, I'd have to have another look at the fight, because that was just a plumb message.
It certainly was. I mean, I can tell you right now, Jarvan Ultimate, on top of a Rumble Ultimate, that Rumble ain't yours.
Jackie says the Rai Lai is here, isn't on his way across as well, and Tao now needs to get out because there's a TP behind him.
Timer's coming in to try and help out his top laner, but wisely decides to back away.
One death is still prime, and it's all that KCB will give up in this bot side.
So a bit of a blunder there from Tau, his team can't really cross map anywhere.
He overstayed his welcome on the bot side, and he's going to lose his life as a result.
We look back at this fight, a great ulti from Camillou.
No one's forced to ult early, he almost takes our heal, but this Rumble ultimate is fantastic.
Forcing the job, and our early... Jackie's bear in mind really isn't involved in this fight at all.
I actually think the kill instinct from Noah puts him on entirely the wrong side of the fight.
He's separated from his entire team, Jackies can't get him with the Emperor's Divide,
and so he's just left away from the fight the entire time, nothing he can do.
I have to imagine his logic is, I think that we can one-shot Hazel.
But Hazel beautifully dashes over the wall, Jun then force-flashed over the wall to try
and follow it up. They do end up getting the kill because Noah gets a nice snipe,
But, yeah, I mean, that was an overforce from GX and I mean, it does feel like a degree of disrespect coming through to when they approach some of these fights.
The fact that they would so confidently dive in on a play where Jackie's really can't get involved is, I mean, you need this as ear in these fights.
Maybe just a little bit of miscommunication as well.
Jackie's does still have a 4K lead over Kamedi and Noah still has the 2000 gold lead as well.
He's almost the whole item up.
It's going to be Dusk and Dorne next for Noah, and he's gone cracking Ginsu and Nash's tooth, Hazel staling into the game,
albeit slowly with three items himself, but Tau and Yukina, the game on their backs for KCB.
As Isma begins to step in here, next Baron up in about 80 seconds time, Tau will get another Tau and a level lead over Lott.
In fact, an entire level for him as Isma here with Guardian Angel just dashes away.
Finally, you can look at something here. You can go going in very deep, dance the catacombs as well, with the Weaver's wall, TP coming in from Tao, you can have has to flash out, even using that world ender.
Jackie's caught up in the match, it's on the equalizer on top of it as well. The end was a valuable bit of time, but he's going to burn not quite enough.
But Tao's taken out. In the end, Giant X2 managed to extricate themselves from the situation, and they'll have a TP advantage with Tao having used his to get into the fight.
The only problem I see for KCB is that was a big commitment of resources, so Primes flashed now gone.
With Dragon in 2 minutes and Baron in 40 seconds, that's such a valuable summoner spell.
They did get Jackie's Flash for it.
Yeah, I mean that's the trade, right? And ultimately they need to make it worth it.
But if we think about the hardest part of this comp, it's getting on top of that Azir.
Agreed.
So we'll see how much it impacts. I think Tau's going to have to be very deliberate with his ultimate.
I'd like to see him just focus on Jackie's to make it as hard as possible for this is here to play the fight because as you highlighted earlier
3.5k is the gold leader death cap finish on him. He's working towards the void staff
This is the man you need to deal with and I mean cows in a position to do
Yes, yes, you can only his flash alongside his moon in that last play as well means that this won't be up for the baron that has now spawned
The KCB what a way to leave at least he versus if they managed to pick up this win
As you say, Jionx have been consistently inconsistent, but still a team sitting at six and four,
still a team that been battling at the top of the table for the entire split.
Jionx, they clipped the Baron, but don't really want to go all in on it.
They'll clear out the ward in the back of the pitch.
Jackies will take that one down.
Do you want to come back to this draft conversation a little bit though?
Because again, like, I think we're seeing more and more how the comp wants to just do two different things.
We've got a Sion on his ear that want to play a front to back,
We've got a Kaisa and a Jarvan that want to dive on the back line
And he's got an Aulis that kind of has to decide between which of the two doesn't actually play towards
And I think this is how KCB can take advantage of GX in the fights because every time they dive into an atrox
I feel like you can know is very happy when you close the distance against this champ
It makes it much easier for him to execute but right now we're facing off in the mid lane
Chips out there, the cataclysm is here, Hazel now needs to get out, depth charge onto him as well
We'll knock up Yukino who's used that world-enders shield on him
We'll pop him up and keep him alive for now, but Drake up in three seconds and Gion X will force KCB away.
Yeah, I mean, that's just a quick engage from GX. They ult immediately onto both Hazel and Yukino.
Let me see, it chucks them down, and that's the Azir utilizing the range to his advantage.
Good damage initially, makes it very difficult for KCB to approach the objective, and ultimately it denies the soul.
soul, although that Baron becomes the main point of contention. Both teams are going to
continue to scale up as that fourth item now going to be completed for Noah, a very scary
Kaiser indeed. Still a level behind Hazel who's very much a threat of his own. He wants
to get a little bit more gold to complete that Infinity Edge. Once he gets it, I
feel like he's going to start melting that Jarvan.
If you're a Na'Vi or a Vitality fan sitting at home, you're actually cheering for KCB in this game.
We talked a little bit about how we don't quite know exactly where teams will be placed in the playoffs.
If KCB win, Na'Vi will end up second and Vitality will end up third.
We wouldn't be sure of where Gynx will finish until later results.
If Gynx win, it's all still a little bit up in the air depending on where teams place around them.
So now, Ginex are using the tools in their arsenal, 3-4 items on no with that Dusk and
Dawn complete.
Almost 4 as well for Jackings, it must be so close to finishing that Void Staff, it's
been sitting on that component, lightning jewel for a while.
And there we are, I expect Void Staff on this recall, Noah's going to start up the
fan and the Dusk and Dawn and the Plasmus procs going, oh they're halting us.
Goes down so quickly, vision needed for you to have control with, is it in the
Back to pick and try and under trespass across this wall can go in with the dash
How getting locked up we've got wall on the back side as well. You just looking for the
BAM in there, D-class as well, a great sidekick jump, Kynix started it, the KCB are damn well finishing it.
The only one left standing is Noah and you can know does not want that to happen.
You can know on the chase, it's an ace, KCB take a bow.
That was a flawless execution from KCB.
A perfect ult from Pride into a perfect team fight
and a baron steal to be the icing on the cake.
Just like that, KCB is gonna end the game.
What a moment for KCB taking down Giant X
in their final game of LEC versus...
What a fight, what a way to close it out.
I'll go back to the NFL, but for now they are victors in the LEC.
K-CD continue to build the Blue Wall.
I mean, what a way to end the versus.
Naturally disappointed with where they placed, but my goodness.
Some names on this roster have had some serious impact.
I think Prime has made great plays,
but what a way to end the split like that.
Yuki no a 7-1-8 scoreline,
but also steal the baron via key carry throughout that game.
There are players on this roster that I expect we will see again
in the future in the LEC.
There is a lot of potential here.
GX, they play with a little bit too much confidence,
and KCB managed to pass.
And they take their final bow for now on the stage.
You can vote one of them in your player of the game,
vote at LEC on X.
You can vote Camilla when prime are your options for that game.
It's hard to look past 7-1 and 8 on Atrox.
He did get all the early kills, but you could have had a storm of prime as well without Magnus storm
had a couple of mishaps early in the game, but
After that like he was part of the team that caught out the Jarvan for the first Baron and he's getting Magnus storm at the end
Great stuff all around from the man in a blue. I mean, it's just nice
They offered the players as well for the to end this on a win again two wins across the split is
It's gonna be frustrating but still as we said expectations the situation
They found themselves in coming into the split was not an easy one and they should hold their heads high
So I think a lot of these players did showcase really high-level performances throughout the split prime is definitely a player
I'm keep my eyes on he's been competing for an incredibly long time dancing from team to team in the URLs
And I'm excited to see what a future looks like. Yeah, well, we're gonna send it down to law
Who's standing by with you can own for KCB's farewell
Thank you so much guys Berlin one more time for KCB, please
Please.
You can all thank you so much for joining me.
I interviewed you in the LFL, I interviewed you in the LEC this time around.
It has been a pleasure having you guys in the league, but talk me through your experience
during those four weeks playing on this stage.
How was it for you?
Even if the results were maybe not the ones you expected?
Well, it was definitely a humbling experience for me.
I mean, I definitely thought when I was going to LEC I would actually win against
some teams.
Yeah.
But it was like definitely hurt.
I mean, I'm happy that the last game, like, we won, you know?
Like, I feel like I played a pretty good game.
Yesterday, I played, I feel like the worst game.
I feel like I played the worst game.
So kind of like today I was, even though like we're out of playoff,
like I still want to show people that I,
that I deserve to be here, right?
So I definitely think that's what I did today.
You got the peak LEC experience,
winning against the top two team,
losing yesterday for what happened.
What do you feel like you've learned the most
as a jungler here, playing against the best in Europe?
I mean, definitely a lot of the aggressive players that I do,
I can't really do as much because the second I mess up once,
I feel like I'm really behind on enemy jungler.
So I feel like I'm spending a lot more time just fighting my own jungler,
like just firing the raptors, firing the kerks.
So, I mean, I feel like that's why I learned the most,
like how to be more efficient
because I definitely think that I'm not really efficient.
Like when it comes to fighting, I'm really strong,
But before then, I had a lot of ideas to work on, especially my early to mid game, so definitely that.
I feel like it's going to be pretty easy for your guys going back in LFL now.
You agree?
I definitely agree.
We showed really strong early games versus a lot of the LEC teams.
In LFL, I expect that we'll just win those games.
Like in LEC, people are more experienced, so even if we're ahead early,
We're kind of a new team, so we just get stomped in mid-game, but I think it'll be way easier when we go back here.
And I know it's just the beginning of the journey for you, Yukino. We will see you back on this stage. I have no doubts about this.
I want to give you the final thoughts. You see this camera, it's on any words that you want to give either to the fans or maybe to the LFL teams
because the better watch out when you're coming back.
I mean, thank you for all the fans for supporting us, especially the KC fans, like, I mean, we didn't really do the best, in my opinion, like, I had definitely had more expectations on myself that I could be the difference maker in getting us some wins for Lisi, but nonetheless, thank you guys for the support.
And thank you for being with us for this past four weeks, Yukino.
Until next time, and best of luck for the rest in the LFL, that's all for us here for now, we'll be right back after the break, it's gonna be shifter vs SK, stay tuned.
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Welcome back to the LEC ahead of Shifters vs SK. Now heading into this match SK are playing
for pride as they've already been eliminated for playoffs contention. All of the stakes
sit with shifters. For shifters a loss spells elimination and even if they win they're not guaranteed in.
For a chance to qualify they both need to win and between the combination of Navi, KC and G2
they need two of those teams to win as well. Now before we get into the game,
Lore caught up with Trimby. Let's see what he had to say about this pivotal matchup.
Trimby thank you so much for joining me ahead of this last day of regular season. A weird
You'd want for you because unlike other teams your fate is not in your own hands, so what is the mindset?
What is the focus for you guys?
Yeah, I mean this I was a bit worried this week when it came to like the fact that right we didn't do so well
and then we didn't really as I said have much options outside of just winning
but then we just came into this week more like at the end of the day we still need to win two of those two games
and if the fate decides that you know it's our chance to be in play, so be it and I hope it will be for us.
Focusing on you guys, looking at it from the outside, the games look better, but I still don't see the stability that I want to see in shifters.
Do you agree on this and what have been your struggles so far to get there?
Yeah, I think the main issues that we had was just maintaining the advantages that we sometimes gain.
And also just being able to close out the games, right?
Because I think we had a lot of games where it did look like it was on our favor and then we just pretty much threw it away.
And looking at it, it feels like there's a lot of strong races within shifters, so too many cooks, maybe sometimes in clutch moments?
I think so, and I mean, for sure in that regard, I think also the fact that even though we have so many cooks, I feel like if one decides to cook something up, doesn't feel like everyone follows it 100%.
And I think that's been for sure something that has been bothering us, and I hope that, you know, with this game coming up against SK, we'll be able to showcase that we can play clean game,
especially for them, like for sure it's not gonna be a messy one I believe so I hope we can come out on top
That's the thing SK they're eliminated they have nothing to lose knowing these guys they're gonna have egos and they're gonna want to fight
so what should you guys be careful about specifically when it comes to SK maybe a specific player
I mean I played with Wunder right quite a bit I think he's been the most consistent out of all of them
And I think him and Miki are the cooks, I would say, of their team.
So I'll definitely be looking out for this, especially in scrims.
A lot of times we would banter around the champions and the way they play.
So yeah, I hope that they show a little bit, because I'm definitely prepared for those.
I think all chats is the way here, against them.
I mean, I would do so. When it comes to competitive games, I don't all chat that much,
because I feel like Karma strikes back so fast to you when you all chat.
So I tried to avoid it, but if I see something funny and I would definitely try to wonder to give some content for all of you guys
Dream V, thank you so much. Best of luck today
As back to us as we were getting ready for shifters versus SK as has been said SK out
They are eliminated if shifters win
They need two of Navi KC and GC to also win for them to make it into the fight
It's not an easy route for shifters, but
in order to even open that path they need a victory today.
Yep.
And SK they must be feeling frustrated after how yesterday transpired which means that they likely be giving it their all to get a win over shifters today.
Or...or...or...
Mickey, Gragas mid.
Pikes.
I've thought that's tonics there.
I mean, Pikes support seems realistic for Mickey.
You know?
I wouldn't mind some some spice from SK. Bring out some of the old dogs, you know, see if we can teach them any new tricks.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a leader just say, alright, give me the Akali, give me the Katarina, give me the Silo's.
That's what I like, you know, a little bit of a little bit of a...
The Bandarella.
...quival. The Bandarella, the Bambaris and Rumble for Shifters.
He's gonna pass the old Jarvan and Vi bands from SK and it's their first pickers here for leader.
Alright, fine.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Okay, okay, they want to take that away.
They do have 100% win rate on it for Split, buddy.
Don't they have one game on it?
Yes.
Haha.
Oh, fair enough.
Yeah.
Yeah, how can I refute that argument?
Yeah, I mean, it's just maths, you know?
It's just maths.
Will we see the Unara response into, well, there's no rumble, which means it's probably what?
Zin, maybe?
Pantheon.
Yeah, I can't go for the Jarvan either.
Ricardo's Vi is banned out.
I mean, you could go for the Skarner.
Oh, I think that's gonna struggle a little bit into his ear.
Well, it can, for sure. It's better that you pair it with support probably, but if you have like more less it's probably fine.
Could also just look for a mid-pick. Do you want to go Taliyah here?
Yeah, Taliyah's also okay.
Oh, Wukong. I feel like we haven't seen Wukong for a while.
It's very possible. Picarda has played it a couple of times this split.
No, that I agree with, but I feel like just Wukong has kind of dipped out of the meta a lot more recently than what I recall.
I can have a quick look. It was played Na'Vi vs Giant X, whenever that was. Week 3, so last week.
Okay, well then, you know, I hope what? 80 games is a lot of games, okay?
Only once last week, and then before that it was two weeks.
Okay, so it generally is less there. We can take that. I'll take that.
Ah, I'm really annoyed at SK. Why?
Because they could have picked Rakan first and then Zyra, and then the portraits would match.
Yeah, and they went Zyra Khan like they had all the opportunity to have it be one skin energy across the two channels
I get that and there's the Taliyah
So kind of what we expect in the mid lane the Wukong does have quite a lot of CC as the game goes on with that
Cyclone at least can get on the back line. I think Wukong Wukong is a great partnership
So I'm not surprised the SK decided to get rid of that. I think the Zyra Khan themselves
So Mickey's we can't they have a hundred percent limit on it this foot
Okay, is it one day it is one game?
Was he playing?
Also, that's a hundred percent we made on Zion. I'm starting to think this might be the draft that they won on. I'll have a look
It is so far
The important thing is yeah, they played pantheon and rumble that game of course there's a bad
Okay, so we're gonna have to do a different jungle not to brag
But I was about to say perhaps pantheon man. Yeah, and there's an all that we were talking about
So, so far, it's almost like, at least the amount of graphs are quite predictable, right?
I mean, it's best of one, right?
You say that. I feel like when we move to Fearless, the med is not going to shift that much.
No, the first game will be the same. And then after that, there'll be a few pictures like, oh, they could do this or this.
But as right now, it's kind of like, ah, I'll probably do this.
I like your optimism.
I'm best of five if they go to five games.
That'll be, yeah, that'll be, that'll be fine.
We could just get three O's off the border that it was sent.
Yeah, okay, we'll worry about that when we get to it.
For now, let's think about what else they could ban.
Another support, perhaps?
Nope, Renekton.
It kind of implies an ambassador.
Like, Renekton's very good into the pick,
although wonder on ambassador's not something we too commonly see.
Could be ambassador jungle as well.
Yeah, but then I wouldn't really lead to a Renekton.
They could also be thinking about a Cassante,
and they just think the barista will go for Renekton's office
or response to it.
It's possible
He goes the hover right now to give Trump beat and
Had a little bit more of a stronger to be tuned the bot side of the map
But Alistar can also work if they want to go for that instead. I looks like they're gonna go for that instead. All right, I
mean
Isn't Nico better into desire?
No, cuz you pop blossoms results
Yeah, so
We'll see where SK decides to go. It looks like they're going jungle as their first of these two picks will be a blind top laner for Wunder.
Oh, baby. It's a Mundo. Okay, a tank.
I think the champ is just over here right now.
Oh, is it the ambassador? Okay, so it is the ambassador.
You're right. Good prediction, yeah. So it was almost certainly a Mundo jungle. This is very straightforward in front to back.
I also think that normally I would say I don't love dive when you're playing with an Aziah, but I think that in the context of Ambesa
It's fine, especially when you have a Rakan beside you, because at least they can work together a little bit.
Ambesa is very much going to play in isolation, looking for picks, whereas the rest of the team comp is going to play more of that front-back style.
Shifters do have decent skirmishing once they hit level 6, their scaling also isn't that bad.
We're going to see a return of the wreck side towards top lane for Rusta, very much just a neutralizing tank matchup towards that side.
Yeah, you have so much to say as rex. I find Ray shows it off incredibly well
Now all of his games will be one of the best rex I tops in the world. I do feel like a skates comp is just very
Cookie cutter it wants the team fight. It wants to scale. It wants to take its time
Shift is they do
one well
I was gonna say they want to play through silence a little bit more but I think that scaling is something like ultimately both
Both comps want to do very similar things, they'll just do it in different ways.
Mundo is going to be the biggest problem for them, which means that Unara, if they keep
her down, then...
How'd you get through the Mundo?
How'd you get through the Mundo, right?
So the Taliyah wall is going to be really important.
Where Wukong chooses to focus is going to be really important.
There are a lot of threats onto this Azir.
Wukong plus Rek'Sai have very easy access onto the Azir, and while all that chaos
is going on, Taliyah is going to try and shift you with a rock, so you've
It's got to be cautious of a lot of things that it'd be.
You have to be able to smell what she's cooking.
Absolutely.
Otherwise, you will get shifted.
Absolutely.
So, shifters need a win.
Shifters need this win.
Ruzesque, I mean, that mainly just playing spoiler.
After that defeat yesterday to LR, they're out of playoffs.
They're going to be looking forward towards spring.
And to hopefully end the split on a high note.
Yeah, which KCB just showed us he can do.
So, there's the giant axe for Ruzesque.
I mean you could say depending on who you ask today could be the day of upsets
KCV winning yeah vitality winning
Again, I said depending on who you ask. I did say that specific wording
Well, it lost returns. I think still went into that game. Absolutely. I think that's what they try as well
That's why I said depending on who you ask
People that don't watch the game
Honestly, I think you would have said they were the other
Okay, you can go ask him now if you want.
No.
He's probably listening at Ashi Kedral.
Can you type in your chat and we can bring it up on the screen?
We could actually, yeah.
And we know whether you thought you were the underdogs or not.
It would be a little bit like, if he now comes out and says, no, we should have crashed
the rooflight obviously.
I'm not going to say that.
Anyway, we see Micky using the Gleaming Quill here early to make sure that Yoppa
and he are topped up.
Something you can do really easily into Alistar because you're not really at any
threat at level one and there is the headbutt back. I thought there's something comical. Oh yeah just about.
Now this imagery of just you know a bird landing on like a cow in a field and the cow just
That sound effect. No Zyke, get over there. Early push is going to be gained by
Luke in the mid lane kind of as we expect from this match up and it's the same old,
same old level six as Zia. you know as some threat. seeing uh I was talking to Jack about this yesterday
he was like you know we tolerated this for years yeah it was one of those things where like
now the people have tasted fearless they're all just like wait we watched the same matchup
and like from the same players for a full best of five and it was like oh in this one would
they not do the salty run back yeah i mean to be fair the salty run back was the best thing
Oh, yeah, when you'd see a team run it back. There was that super famous one where they ran it back
I say super famous. I don't remember who was playing but like they tried it like three games in a row
Yeah, no, but the third game they changed like one or two things like they bought maybe the same or something. They still lost
Good times what it wasn't actually
There were good times absolutely it's just we didn't know how good it could be
That's true, but now we do.
As Skeens goes through his first jungle clear very rapidly, something Mundo really excels at doing.
Already towards where that Scuttle Crab will spawn.
It's going to come up in a couple of seconds, you can see Piccardo realising, yeah, can't really challenge Mundo at level 4 for that first Scuttle Crab.
Both of them lack one baby Crog alive to tell the tale of the murder of the rest of the Crog camp,
which is something I see a lot of junglers do in the LAC.
And I'm just like, man, there's a lot of XP in gold.
It's efficiency, man, it's efficiency.
isn't really that much more efficient he was there like 15 seconds before the
scottokrabby was born so we're just appealing to authority are we now?
absolutely yeah okay we'll fight a crush in the will of the jugglers
you're an analyst for this you're allowed to do that I was hoping you would
bring that back up but well piccardo maybe looking to steal away these
crocs just was awarding them instead he's got a ward towards the base as
well so we'll be able to track schemes through his next jungle clip
pretty easily. Leader is TPing to the mid lane and Bucardo is here. Flashing away from
Leader, yep. The bird flew in and immediately realized, eh, not really where I want to be.
That was a wise flash, I would say. Uh, mainly because...
A bad TP though.
Yes, absolutely. Because some may say, well, I don't know if they would have had the
damage, which means that, okay, he's going to flash anyway.
Yeah.
So if you're going to flash anyway, you may as well keep your HP while you're
doing it, right?
Otherwise, you just use your teleport and your flash and then you have to come back to the lane anyway
It's like, okay, well, I'll take another 30 seconds to get back here, I guess
Oh underneath the tower just get seismically shoved
That was a nice trade by nuke there
Just really good spacing as well just that he knew there's this very brief moment
Whenever you last hit a minion, but you have to stand still especially if using a soldier to do it
And Sophie just took advantage of that now supports have made their way mid lane Trimmy here first
Flying away on the track board if you though
He doesn't care. He's gonna face check
I think this is the most animal League of Legends game
We've had in a little while but three birds on one side and then a cow and a monkey on the other, you know
Would rex I fall under the animal categories. I should avoid creature. She is scorpion like
Like, mole-like, perhaps?
Uh-huh, like one of those blind ones?
We'll see if Ruth does...
Exactly!
I mean, that's why she has the Tremor Samus.
That does make it a lot of sense.
A lot of the League of Legends champions are actually based off of real-life things.
That does logic-wise.
Ruth's getting pushed in the topside.
And he will just be able to dodge.
And the other game that is to be...
Slipped between these two teams.
We'll remind you all that the stakes for Shifters are still not in their own hands.
They need to win here and then they need two of the following teams to win Nabi, KC and G2
The next three games, Fresco they're already locked out of playoffs
As we've talked about a couple of times today
Still pride on the line
Getting the four wins is uh you know you'd be even with shifters rather than be
I mean so my POV on SK is it's a long year right?
Sure because they're quite old and they're like every year they take the blaster
Who knows when the Nell of Death will come for us?
It's the joints that can't even stand up.
Okay, no. What I meant was, failing here doesn't mean that your year is over, right?
And so you should take every opportunity to get the maximum amount of practice that you can
in anticipation of the future, because they've got to be thinking about spring now
and there's a lot of opportunity.
And I mean, we know that Mickey really does believe in the potential of this roster.
And I think we've seen some of that potential, right?
They've come very close to a number of games, so they should have won that GX game was was frustrated on yesterday
It felt like the news got to them yesterday, you know, like they had a very solid lead and then they just kind of
Let LR do whatever they want to do
And it cost them a lot so
coordinated in the fights. Yeah, so I feel like that you've got to treat every opportunity as an opportunity to grow and
Figure out how you want to play together as a team and again
Like I'm not all doing the glue on SK just yet. I'm excited to see where the project can't go.
But yeah, they're trying to end on a high in hate.
Like as we mentioned earlier in the day for some pros, denying their opposition can be just as fulfilling as granting your own success.
And we do look at like Wonder and Mickey who have had such storied careers in the LEC and think of this as, you know, an older team and more experienced team.
But Leda has only been in for four splits.
Yoppa just coming into the LEC, you know,
Skeens hasn't been around for too long as well, so,
as you say.
He's got the pie yet he has,
but off LEC opportunities, yeah, you're right.
Yeah, exactly, right?
So, every time you get a chance to continue to improve
and get those stage reps in,
very important,
as Miki and Skeens will team up here
to Prime Force Bucada out of his jungle,
but on is even basically in every lane.
Nuke and Rooster have slight leads as to be expected,
and that's a small lead for Yoppa
down towards the bottom side.
of them so I make you here can battle down so wait you hit with a cleaver and
dismounts his weaver's walk okay I was thinking of Michelin web snooker okay
I am familiar with their names, no wonder who they are.
Oh, I can't remember who they are, yes.
Yeah, and they do the snooker commentary.
Oh, that's a bad mist.
And leader here.
Missed 17 minions yesterday in the first six minutes of the game.
Oh.
Goes in, don't get the flash out of the nuke.
That's a bad mist.
There's a flash out though, it's also a forced error there.
How many cigarettes have you smoked?
Right, he's in his place.
Oh, I see, I see, right.
So, Nuka Commentator's sitting there in their dark rooms.
Right, absolutely.
A few millennials from the UK with a very niche place.
You've got this, Joe.
Yoppa going in here with the ghost, looking for Paduck.
Down the fetus, he'll flash away.
Still gets him with the blades.
Yoppa with a solo killing boss side.
OK, Yoppa, Siren on Paduck.
We didn't talk about in draft how Paduck is a key player
being able to eliminate this Mundo problem that they're going to have to deal with later on into the
game and Yoppa already off to a good start solo kill 1v1 down on the bot side going to pick up the
Stormraiser this side is going to be feeling pretty good here in this early game. Yeah really good
to get one of your scaling carries out to a lead like this lead obviously struggling a little bit
in the mid lane. Yoppa almost a thousand gold ahead now first rake as well to SK it allows
them to play through that bot lane even more and no featherstone no flash but the duck
doesn't have his ultimate either nor does he have that flash. Trimby looking towards the mid lane,
Skeen's gonna try and chase him down. Mickey taking a little bit of a scenic group dash into
Leda first but Trimby force low means that it should be an easy enough drake for S.T.A.P.
Trimby though does have time to reset and regenerate that HP bar before the drake does spawn.
Just gives Mickey a little bit of time to deny some vision. Doesn't want to hit level six
so isn't actually going to clear the ward instead we'll go towards the bot lane,
get the level six and then path back out towards the dragon you have to expect.
What I think we heard from you talking about earlier was perhaps too many cooks in the kitchen
and someone has an idea. The team doesn't always want to follow it through and I think that's
probably been one of the most frustrating things to see about this team is on paper this roster
has a lot of skill to it. I mean we were having conversations at the beginning of the split
should Ross Rooster be in the conversation for one of the best top lenders in our league.
His lane is looking very strong as one third Rooster, going for a bit of a back and forth
trying to lock him underneath the tower.
Yeah, because one to dodge the Prey Seeker with his public execution as Mickey's forklift
can dance away, it meant that Rooster wasn't tanking the tower.
And so because of that, Rooster would just throw his way to safety.
Drake up.
So that quickness available for Mickey is going to use the gleaming quill to heal
up.
an auto from it, but still a net gain of HP. Nuke here, no flash, Mickey can look for the
quickness, there's the Empress divide, stunned up by the Unraveled Earth, but still the
charm going down onto Nuke needs to get to the safety of his teammates, Picard is on
his way across, Nuke surviving with the heal, and there's the Cyclone Hunter, Mickey
who flashes the wall, but Picard chases him, lands the crushing blow, Trimby with an
unbreakable will will survive through the damage of Skeens and Leader, and in the
end, it's Shifters who get the kill.
So, I mean, I want to see the replay, but I think the leader really misplayed how they went for that.
I think he used his Q on the Azir super early, which means that basically, once you're shuffled over the wall,
you drop another soldier, but then Taliyah walks away, and you now have no tool to actually follow that through.
So I think using the Q super early in that exchange, oh, leader, now has to flash as well as Bukata finds a play.
If we get a replay of that, we can look back at exactly how he executed upon it.
But, yeah, right now, Shifter's trying to make some magic happen on the Rift, they do lose the dragon, we look back.
So, see, a very early Q to set up for the play. Now, of course, you did need to make that play happen in order to get the shuffle,
but now you don't have the Q available. When it does come up, the fight's kind of already over, and there's nothing really left,
so he didn't have the damage. And again, you can understand the idea that you've got to commit that Q in order to get in range,
but I question, like, perhaps using the Flash earlier would have been the right play.
I think there's an argument for Mickey to pop the quickness in the bush, then E flash onto
Nuke.
Cause Nuke didn't have flash, so he stunned himself going in with it, but you could put
the Unraveled Earth down because you knew that you were going to get chased out.
You knew they were going for a fight onto you.
Mickey diving away here as the Void rush in from Rooster almost killing off.
Mickey for the second time in the game still unable to quite get that final bit
of damage down.
Rooster might look for the Prey Seeker here just to stop the backslash.
I'm just going to try and block it out.
It doesn't go for anything. Hasn't got the unsealed spellbook, so it didn't have something like an ignite at his disposal.
Skiing's gonna try and save Wanda's life there. Pop the execution, he's back up, cooldown, they jump in, they CC him, and the investor does not have a chance to use anything before she falls.
Skiing's now needs to be a little bit careful because this tower is pretty damn low. He's gonna start to walk away.
Now get rid of that CC from the ghost where he pleases and still get the knock back onto him.
back onto him. There's a trample stun for the follower. Good knock-up coming out from
Mickey Charm as well with the quickness. We'll stop the advance of shifters but
it's kind of bleeding all over the map. You can feel that the momentum is really
going towards shifters. I was deliberately avoiding saying that but
the fact that they turn around a gank at midlane, they then force the flash
out from leader, they then set their sights on top lane, secured the tower,
Get a kill get the flash out from schemes just a sequence of plays that all just went the way of shifters
It means that now they've really opened up the map
They're in a much better position to contest the next straight because Harold will be the next objective
We look back at this they have four members on the top side
There's nothing really anywhere else on the map for SK to cross map schemes is here to try and help
But when Nikki back in base, he's not in a position to help defenders dive and with the tower falling
It doesn't result in an additional kill, but hey, they got what they want
The scheme's time to use the ultimate to get out here, alongside the quickness from Mickey investing a lot of resources just to make sure that Skeens survives the fight.
And after we saw Yoppa get that early kill in the 1v1, I thought perhaps we'd see more play from SK towards Yoppa.
Like, get him really fed on this Zyre, still sitting on the Stormraiser, still has about a 700 gold lead, but he's the only one with one on his team right now.
Although leader slowly catching up to Nuke of one goal difference down to zero
Put up able to force the offer out with Trimby waiting just around the corner in that bush
It would be a little bit dangerous for him to go in on the fight
Drake up in two minutes though. Ask a happy never to stack the first two can try and play around that the shifters though
Getting a little bit of a gold lead back in your favor with Rooster being able to sideline threat onto wonder in the 1v1
It comes a little bit harder for SK to really match that Rek'Sai on a side lane.
I keep track of like what the next game plan is, because you've got a lot of members of SK on the bot side of the map, but how does the next objective look?
Carter's up there, Rooster has to push top, because he finds very nice trades against the ambassador.
using that fury really well with the Titanic Hydra as well, just to cleave through Wanda and the minions.
Because of that you've got a Rift Held available to Bucada, still a minute 10 before we have the Drake,
so there's time for shifters to take this and then move their resources down towards the bottom side
to contest that dragon if they so desire.
Skeens and Mickey realising this are going to go and try and make a play onto Nuke and Trippie on Ravada.
Once again on Mickey, the Trample Sun coming out afterwards, but there's a cooldown used by Nuke
And the quickness still available to Mickey
Drake up in 50 seconds. Mickey may be looking for the resets and actually have any wards on his celestial opposition right now
So we'd want to get back and be able to replenish any wars that cleared out by shifters
You can see that SK have made it very deliberate attempts to put pressure on the spot side of the map
But they don't have the vision to control it slowly they're getting sweeps out
There are two deep wards on the bot side for SK that do offer TP flanks for both leader and wonder
The wonder's getting constantly pushed underneath this tower
to go back to base. I want to
see what he actually grabs for
himself. He's going to
complete another. I know you're
just going to go straight for
the tier two boots. So get that
extra armor secured to help deal
with Yoppa and Wanda. Dragging
now 10 seconds away. Brewster
making a beeline towards that
mid lane as quick way for
himself. They're going to leave
that foot to bad up for now.
They're also going to drop the
Herald in mid to provide that
extra pressure. Wanda's going
to get a quick base off as the
dragging gets started off.
started off.
Niki, not got those wards that he really wanted to stay around. SK are going to start up the
drake.
That's the Hexgate climb by Jimmy as he looks for the engage and through his divide down
on him and break all will use as well as alongside the locket, pregnant Charm, it's a comic
execution.
They're diving onto Nuke.
He's going to be able to flash the wall.
Get your team, he's coming out with the best on the quo.
Ruse has already killed up one, but Yoppa will ask for one of his own.
Cyclone on the back line.
Yoppa's going to have to flash and now Wunder's lagged.
It's going to be wolves for Piccata.
I'm able to take him out in time.
Side gets shoved back on skeins but has to pass it back up means that he's
I'm not able to take him out in time, so I can shove back on skeens, but has to pass it back up means that he's not knocked back.
Shifters low as R.S.K.
Crashing his con-ski-ins and leader with the maximum dose of healer.
They have the HP, I feel.
And the Hex soul is actually, the Hex Drake is slowing down, Shifters. They need to be worried about the advancing autos.
They're coming back.
Already supports back out onto the Rift. Hex gate's going to be used.
Tripple's on his way. Bucca just doesn't have the HP. I think Shifters can't afford to fight this.
fight this.
Weaver's wall coming out.
He's trying to separate the fight outsizing show.
Missing, even with the Soura, but trade into Joplin.
He wants a dragon going down.
He skews the gap stick.
We'll see Leader falling for duck.
Exhausted by Mickey trying to play a 1v4 here.
It doesn't have the damage to kill off the FB80.
Gary, the Drake is secured for SK, but they lose two lives for it.
I feel like that was a really unnecessary play for Mickey.
But hey, they do get the Drake.
They put themselves on Dragon Soul.
Shift is, no, they have the numbers advantage.
get some more plates in this bot side thanks to Rusa. Reset's gonna come through from across the board
ultimately. I'd say a win for SK. Yeah. But it is close. I think in the end,
getting one away from Seoul opens up the map a lot few later on. Yeah. So we'll have another look
at this. So this is a super early ultimate reader, which I mean he's cautious of the
So I understand why he does it.
And then the fight becomes very scattered.
Basically you've just got to hit whoever you can.
I think decent damage comes out from both sides
and ultimately it's just a trade of supports
as everyone is flashing for their lives right now.
Then the reset happens on the second half of the fight, which...
With the HP advantage, a good ulti comes through from Nuke.
That ends up isolating the AD carry.
Leader then just feels like he's forced very deep into the pit
which puts him in a very difficult position.
position kind of waste the flash in that situation but once you're already there I don't really know
where else you can go and then Mickey hoping to get a kill trade back ends up really not getting
much off the back of it. Yeah, I know we're greeted from Mickey, I think we can say. It's
him and Hylisang shaking hands, creating space to what he did in that fight. Yoppa,
Phil only at that one item with the stormwaves can play almost has the infinity edge but
the tower will fall in his face as Rooster has a 1.6k gold lead. It's pretty hard to take
down. He's that armor from the
slay to seal camps. He often now
fought out, doesn't have the
flash, but the storm will be
used. Quickness out from
Micky, but he can't dash forth
because he didn't ram at Earth
and now tries to dash away, but
he's locked up again with
another Cyclone. Shifters find
two in the mid lane, and
really SK overstepping after
their tower went down.
Yeah, some nice picks from
Shifters as basically SK think
that they can push out that
mid wave after losing that
tower, but then Shifters are
quick to punish it.
Excellent play from Shifters
overall.
I saw something duck, and I was like we're not doing here for duck again. Are we he's not in this game
He's not even in the region then I realize paddock now. It's the year of the duck that it is okay. Let's not know bring it back
We don't have to bring it back. So have another look at this
Yeah, ultimately a skid just trying to push out the wave. They don't
Expect this collapse to come through the collapse is fast and a nice show back once the office
Ultimate wears off from Nuke to help secure that kill. Paddock gets the other one. He gets
another added to
his score and now he's ahead of Yoppa. He is ahead. Remember there was solo kill.
Yeah, there was like a 900 gold lead for Yoppa early on, but after getting all these towers, after
finding two kills, he's now in a fantastic position. Rooster really with all that gold leads.
We talked about how as a player coming into this split
behind the scenes we did have really high expectations of him even last year I
think we saw a lot of his potential but you're given some of these winning
matchups and you can use some serious damage with them this game knock-up
happening if he's more grand entrance try and get away from Bucada product on
the flank position here with the arc of judgment get hit with a cleaver in
response but vision control four shifters who are playing very solid
games so far three and a half thousand gold ahead looking towards that
the balance side of the map need to be cautious for the next 90 seconds because that's when
the drake was born and you want to give a hex solo over to Xayah and Azir and even if
they are behind you're going to struggle to be able to really match the extra damage and
slows that can come out from quite long range with the double daggers and with the soldiers
I'm in at 10 now, until the next dragon.
That's all.
So, let's check items real quick, in a really good position.
I think I would love that Leandro is to be finished.
Oh, I'm gonna quickly check how far off he is.
Uh, if my thing will work.
Yeah, too far.
Yeah, he's too far.
I think he's going to go back to base now and he'll pick up the faded ashes
But yeah, you won't quite have that the Andrews time 40 seconds
I mean it does have TP if you can just get another wave you might even be asking Yoppa
Hey, do you need this next wave? I think I'm getting Andrews off the back of it
Which would be huge as well because if they do
Decide not to fight around the Drake. They could look for a sneaky Baron play
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean look at what they're doing on the minimap right now better
You can see Yoppa actually pathing towards top.
They're basically conceiving pressure around the subjective.
Shifter hasn't really got any vision around the dragon for now.
Trimby, he does have four wards available to him.
He's not committed to anything just yet.
I think they've realized, I mean,
they've got information as to where Yoppa is.
They know that he's on that tower.
He's gonna be chipping away at that on the top lane.
Trimby is not really giving SK any space for the time being.
Reaver's wall coming out, the op is going to burn the ghost to make sure he escapes from any possible collapse.
Tense moment, botane find themselves in, but this is exactly why putting yourself on that sole point gives you such an advantage, because should you start that objective off, then the possibility for baron is real, but...
This is smart for moose to...
Yeah, moose could just start soloing it, and trippies invested those wall, well one wall for now, around this baron area.
he does not want SK to be doing this while the dragon goes down it looks like SK have said
okay we don't want to take the fight the Andries will finally come through for leader
but unfortunately for him a little too late before being ready for the fight
to not be able to pick up a bit more gold himself as well he's ahead of product in terms of
gold but not quite in terms of items yet the infantry edge obviously costing quite a lot
absolutely so the fiendish vaults fiend hunter vaults that's the one relatively cheap
Actually, I need to carry item.
Does give you a lot of power on the Inara.
Shifters, don't blame them for being a little bit tentative. A win here keeps them in playoff contention.
A loss knocks them out. SK already eliminated.
Shifters fates still not in their own hands. Even if they do win, they will be into two of the following three teams to win.
Navi, KC or G2.
So...
The thing about that is, those results seem very doable.
right? Navi could definitely win, KC playing up against Haratix could definitely win, G2 against Fanatic
maybe a little bit more of a 50-50 with how both teams are playing right now, but you could see it happening
and you only need two or three, so you've got to do all that you can to make sure you get into one of those playoff spots
Shift is now setting their sights on this tower, should be, well, they're easy to test,
they get two plates of assault, good damage comes down, another plate will be secured
as well.
Let's get more armor and magic assists, we've got more people around it, we're staying
around to protect.
We are playing on the new patch where I got nerfed.
It did get nerfed, so it's not as powerful as it once was, the extra resistances.
Which?
Great change.
Yeah, it was way too powerful.
Basically the idea is that before it was 20 to 80.
I think 100, maybe 80.
Yeah, because I seem to remember being nerfed from 30 to 50.
Yeah, and it's definitely gone down to 50.
So now basically if you're solo, obviously the armour has gone up.
But if you're a team pushing to end, it's gone down.
It was the whole point. And that logically makes sense.
Because basically if you win a team fight, you shouldn't be punished for trying to end the game.
So it used to be 20 to 100 now, 30 to 20.
Oh, it was 100.
pretty significant nerf for a group. Also means your support can kind of
stand-ish a little bit which is quite nice because it's often when you have
something like an Alistair, you just want it here. Wunder caught out by Rusta using that fury well.
Rusta's coming out as well, goes in with a boy rush, probably gets the Jujim, will get the knock-up and then the dash,
Rusta flashes, ball it for the Eclipse! I'm wondering if I'm up to keep him alive.
Yeah, she does keep us flash which is great for Wunder but you can see how
Rooster on this side lane is definitely stronger. I didn't quite realize how effective
Rek'Sai was as a counter pick to Ambassador, but it helps when you have a like 1.5 to 2,000 gold lead in the mid game.
Yeah, but I feel like he was just doing this all lane phase, like he just he basically out sustains the ambassador and he just wins on short trades too.
And then every time she tries to go in knock up bravely. So yeah pretty interesting counter. I like seeing this stuff come through.
Rooster constantly generating threat on a side lane. You just look at the minimap.
You can see constant constant pushing like pretty much across the rift
It's like deep pushing here good control of the mid these years been able to catch bot which roost is now gonna catch
But the CP available leader will be ready to join his team
Rooster has to be a bit more cautious because he has burned the flash and all through doesn't have those tools
See the Lord Dominic's regards coming out from the dark does have the giant slayer on it was added back this year
So you do more damage to healthier members of the opposition
some enemy players with greater HP than you.
Sometimes you see a more reminder into a Mundo, but if you are trying to get through HP stacking,
Giant Slayer can do a lot of work as well.
You don't have a ignite, why do you do this with it?
I also just have the opinion like, I had to heal on someone else.
Yeah, I 100% agree with you.
You see the oblivion Orb on Trimby, like he's kind of the one being assigned to it.
Yep.
I think Giant Slayer is very powerful, but I know a lot of people don't know that
that Giant Slayer has been added back onto the Audomix of Guards, because it wasn't there last year,
So, sometimes they count as not a good item into a Mundo and you can argue that Grievous Wounds, if you can apply it readily, does make sense.
There's that third item finished for Yoppa as well.
And Pings are now being sent towards the Dragon.
So of course that Soul Threat, still very real for shifters, they want to make sure SK don't get it because it's such a big spike, especially the Hexhex Soul.
across the board one that's gonna take on over to level 17 is the basis interrupt
and nicely done.
Because we don't have gold for a Seekers here?
It's gonna be really good.
He just bought, he's got a nearsly large board, I was wondering if it was a
Ravadon's or a Seekers but it's gonna be a blinding jewel.
It doesn't build into anything together but perhaps just thinks he needs some
penetration right now.
It might have also just, you know I've had 1100 rather than 1200.
Yeah, that would make sense.
Actually no, it's 1250.
I just wanted to be power for now with the next straight coming up in five seconds time.
You can see once again SK like, okay, you want to control the bot side of the map.
We are just going to walk our way up towards this Baron and actually going to start it
off.
It's Lidia and Skeens doing it.
Fast side automation does come in.
We'll spot them out.
You can see how quickly this Baron does go down.
It should be knocked up.
Jakarta looking for the flank plate.
Weaver's wall out.
Skeens sticking on this side of the wall.
We'll keep the Baron anchor.
got help to work with. No soldiers in there right now. Roosa has come across to join the
team with that TP. Six thousand now on the baron as Shifters looks to try and find a
way into the fight. Roosa gets the knock up. Scottlecraft secured as well for that
little bit of extra vision for Shifters. Trimby flashing forward. Policy on regular
will as Roosa does well with the Emerald Earth. No one to follow up. No one to
chase in with a dash to try and catch out the cow. In the end that's all that
will result of that. I mean Trimby really wanted to try and force something he messes up his
combo. Flash into the pulverized does not connect onto anyone almost loses his life so
he has to burn that ulti quickly. This means that SK ultimately have well, ulti advantage
I would say. Leader did use his flash. Yeah, that's the big one. The fact that they got
the azir flash could be huge for Bucada who'll be looking for a target in the fight.
You may have found one. Scythe is just going to get rid of that CC reduction and
Now Bucada on the chase uses a cyclone as well, but skins with a maximum dosage will heal himself back up
It's an early ult from the Mundo not having it available
Remember he is just a lot of HP. No cyclone 2 though no unbreakable will for shifters. Rusa looked at that flank
We'll use that void vision to spot out the fact that Wanda's there
He dashes in trying to distract this wrecked side leader a mile away from the fight right now
That begins to step up. Rusa gonna take the hex gate behind 3,000 on the break
on that front line, the spike comes out, but it's Nukes secured, and Niki's going to get it with the jungle, double knock-up, but the dust is so far untouched.
Wonder will kill off Nukes, Paduck now can step back forward, but it's a 3v4 in SK's favor, and Yoha will go hunting, takes out Paduck, gets a double.
The Drake secured the shifters, but the Baron you have to feel will go to SK.
shift has done a good job of denying these souls away from SK but a one team
fight will be good enough as SK can set their sights on the Baron once more
Pings are coming down, Yothul will be making his way over there and there
should be an uncontested objective. Bukata might try to get in range,
Nicky he has to be on defense duty, look at his position he's gonna try and
track where Bukata is. He goes across with the Hexgate, now Rusa and Bukata
beginning to collapse. Leader still has the Emperor's Divide and puts it down to
keep Piccardo at pay. And look for the knock-up. Piccardo uses the decoy well.
Dash is the way with an inverse strike and will survive. The Baron though does go
over to SK. Now Rooster looking for a re-engage with Trimby here in TPs.
Perhaps shifters can find SK on the disengaged Rooster deep. Accounts the
Teleport coming in as Leader dashes across the wall and Rooster needs to
get out of there. He'll flash, he'll dash, he'll escape with a burrow.
It has to go underground to get away from SK who all survived with the
Okay, so and a big advantage ultimate the game for SK as we look back at this dragon flight
So rooster down an awkward spot
He takes a head to create the plank the ulti for new kind of splits the fight to as you finish it off the dragon
But one that finds a nice angle on to the back line to eliminate the midlaner from shifters
Meanwhile, SK can just focus on playing this front to back inside the pit. They take out under the member
They've been converted into a client
kind of same to be honest it was chaotic because of that to lea wall it split
the fight in two and I think it made it easier for SK just because they could
plump up as four and just hit whoever was in front of them and it was like a
horizontal axis rather than the vertical axis we usually see that like
splits the entire river wow we have two sides of it
shifters have the cryo in the midline here skis got to try and come across
as well rooster for duck and nuke have got on towards this inhibitor
SK are the ones with the baron remember and it's leader who's pushing in the
bottom side does still have that teleport to join up with a fight almost got
the rabbit on should be able to take the tower himself down in that bottom lane
and a small gold lead begins to materialize for SK. The shit does. The same
things slip out of their grasp a little bit. This happened a few times for them
across the course of LEC versus against Giant X in weeks one against Lost
returns as well and now they do have a bit of a lead. Things are starting to
collapse a little bit again. 1.5k gold leads in mid and AD carry for SK.
Moosa looking to be engaged with Carter doesn't have the flash but does have a
decoy and a cyclone. Academy in here for SK pushing through mid. Meanwhile in the
bot lane leader continues to hound Nuke with the Sun disk down and buff up
these minions for a moment before backing away does have the TP. It
Looks like it's gonna be a three-way push through SK's. They try and take all the remaining out to towers
Good job by SK. They're really making use of this ground to the fullest
It's like they're not gonna be able to win off the back of this
I mean, they might. The quickness coming out.
Rooster's gonna fall and Runder on the right side of the wall of Robert Schien, joined by Miky.
If they get knocked back with a Slideshot shove, Pogna gets Kuzhio also back by Nuke.
Wunder is the target and Schifters collapsed on him and now a 4v3 in Schifters, baby.
Mickey knocked up Chimby with a good tackle with Yoppa's bite out from Lila.
But Paduck untouched with Harder there as well.
A quadruple for the duck, he's going quackers!
He'll find himself a pentakill!
Paduck finds a pentakill for Shifters,
and SK is knocking on their doors.
Beautiful team fight from him.
The positioning was fantastic.
Staying out of range of Lila and Yoppa that set their sights onto them,
SK went far too deep underneath that tower, they got that kill onto Rooster, they thought that they could get so much,
but they end up losing everything.
We look back at this fight, the focus should be on the tower, but the wall comes through, and look at Skins, he's walking forward.
He's now underneath the tower, a nice knockback from Duke, connects onto two, wonders them diving, again with the tower still up,
And the coordination from SK isn't there.
Trimby uses the W to get in range to flash knock up
and Paddock is untouched throughout the entirety of the fight.
Yeah, the duck ready.
BENTAL!
BENTAL KILL! YUMMY! YUMMY!
Oh! YUMMY!
I pushed YUMMY and BEEVE.
He's gobbling up the SK players.
Absolutely.
And now with 2K lead for Paddock,
dragging up in 7 seconds time.
That's a G.A. on the Unara as well.
That it is, almost. Philbilt has a noon quiver.
Going towards his final item.
Res-K, if they can get this, it is still solved.
The goal is still pretty much even between these two teams.
The 1.6k will lead at this moment.
Doesn't matter too much.
Kong's walking in and just dying!
Galee to where he stands,
who's on the back line looking for Wunder.
The Drake secured by shifters.
As Ruse to continue to chase in,
Miki over to dash away.
Public institution, Rooster blocks it.
Fed up, trying to chase down Wunder, but a good flash across the wall will get him to safety.
And with the waves, it looks like Bot wave might be the target for shifters.
They have a man advantage for the next 40 seconds.
Vicky? He's just got, okay, flash, gets the knockup.
The opposite's going to kill off Nuke. There's the quickness flash we were talking about earlier on,
but he has roosted TP's in. Hound to teleport coming out, is Wunder's going to join the fray.
Exhaust on to roost a sight blowing from the car to just try and buy some distance,
manages to do exactly that. Trimby should be able to use the movement speed from the
shrine to get himself the safety down on the bottom side. But SHIFT does now do
not have that man advantage and so can't push in the spot site. So SHIFT is
find a dragon, they find a pick. They're threatening to go towards the base of SK.
SK in turn find a pick of their own. What does that mean? Baron becomes the
player once again. 45 seconds until that objective spawns. Both players that
die we'll be back alive but we got some pros seem to have this impression that
when you alter window it gives you a chunk of HP it is regeneration so if you
lose 75% of your HP and then pop the alt like people can still just kill you
they could just do the rest of your HP and I think that yeah skins could not
go where he placed in that situation the thing about it is it does give you
increased base health but it doesn't give you health right that makes
sense yeah so your maximum health does become bigger but yeah it's pretty pretty
tough but he didn't even pop the old yeah he just died man he walked in he was
thinking oh if I can just steal the soul maybe that's enough is SK set up around
the Baron once more. They just get the star. I mean they do it very quickly. Five items
I am making a dash across here the Baron already gone.
Geams will land a spot on this one. Moosa now the target is 1. The dash is in. Moosa
They would have escaped for now, but SK might look to the offensive.
Baduk still has that GA.
Trimby dashes forward, making knockback and shifts the final off.
Baduk is going in with the cycle as well, good effort by the leader.
Baduk is dashing in and looking for these kills.
Keen's hit target, probably an institution around here, but he's still got the GA.
Joppa with the better saw, will we ever take out one?
Trimby's hit target.
Rooster though kills up Joppa, Wanda's gonna fall as well.
And SK may have got the Baron, but at what cost?
An ace is secured for shifters as they tear apart SK and it's all from an overstep from Mickey.
He gets too close to Trimby. Trimby sees that opportunity to punish him and shuts him down just like that.
The death timers are long with 38 minutes into this game and shifters are looking to keep their player hopes alive.
It should just be done. Only Mickey up. Does have the quickness. He's up in 5-20 on leader though.
Shifters have done what they can today to keep themselves in the playoff race.
They need Nabi KC in G2 to win at least two of those for them to make it to our top 8.
Shifters find a much needed win. With that Baron falling it was a scary situation
but they find a much needed fight. Huge credit to Paduck, really coming alive in those final team fights
and putting on the carry performance that shift is needed to bring it across the finish line again
Their spot in playoffs is not secured, but they're much closer than they are
Compared to a bit. Oh, yes, they'd lost it be out
So you can vote for one of them in your playoff game, but it's Bucada or trimby are your options one of them
Got a penta
That's just putting that out there. You could argue it's because of trimby and Bucada that he managed to do it
But oh my lord the duck had a good game overall. They'll take a bow on the stage
could be the final time for
at least the versus for them.
Unfortunately, a loss in their
final game means that they have
to what resigned backstage.
There will be back in spring,
of course, but for now they will
be taking a break because for
shifters as they move forward
as you can see on your screen in
order to qualify for playoffs,
two of those three teams as they escape, it is that last power of the LEC versus.
Mickey project will continue in spring, we'll see how well they can do then but for now they have a
couple of months to re-evaluate and see what they want to change going into next.
Draco is standing by with Trimby, let's hear from those of them.
Thank you very much gentlemen, it was a hard fought battle in that game.
Trimby, it was crazy bro, it was all over the place.
What was going through your head in some of those really wild back and forth fights?
It was like a second time, a flash turn, and I couldn't get a combo, so I was like, fuck me, I'll just kind of end thing.
But I think it was really nice to realize that even though it looked hard, right, the game, because of course they have like the champs they have,
and then like how the team comes into interaction with each other, I'm happy we realized that at the end of the day we still could play it in a certain way,
and we pulled it off, so I'm happy of that.
Proud of you guys for getting the win, obviously a super tense game, but your fate really isn't in your hands, right?
We broke it down earlier on the broadcast.
You need some combination of Navi, KC or G2.
You need two of those three teams to win and you're in.
Job done.
Unfortunately, you haven't guaranteed with a win.
What are your thoughts for the rest of the day?
Are you just a big fan of these three teams now?
How does it feel?
I mean, it's a rough question,
but how does it feel to have your fate
no longer be in your hands?
I mean, if I get a little discount on the shirt,
the T-shirts, I can get all of them.
You know, it's like, if that makes me get it
to play off, why not?
Like, nah, but seriously,
Those are strong teams, I would say, so I'm happy with the fact that those are the ones who have to win.
And yeah, I hope that I can see myself being in playoffs in a couple of weeks.
I will say, based on the teams, it does seem like the odds are in your favor, but we'll just have to wait and find out.
Thank you so much again, Trimby. That's going to do it for us here.
Up next, M.Coy versus Navi with qualification stakes for both Los Carpas and the Rats.
Don't go anywhere. It just keeps getting more tense.
Don't flash away! Don't get under my supply!
I'm hit.
Rotor XS, you know what I mean? I mean the right side.
Look at all this thing, what's happening?
Right side of the pit.
Look at the rail, it's on the left.
You want this side? I'll flash.
Get low.
That's what I'm talking about.
Get low.
I don't know what's happening.
I don't know what's happening.
Wait, I'll see you.
Oh, my God!
Yummy! Yummy!
Down!
Down!
Wait, is he switching lanes?
Welcome back to the LEC after shifters beating SK here and the key uplayer of the game was
Parak, another Penta kill in the LEC while AD carries are happy with it.
Always the AD carries, man. I mean, it's how it should be. I don't know how ADC is getting Penta kill.
It's been a pretty good season. I think everybody agrees.
Yeah, once you guys can campaign. But anyway, focusing on the next match we have,
there's a lot of stakes here. Mkoi on this side, Na'Vi on the other.
Na'Vi have qualified. These guys are still looking for their qualification.
So for the stakes, it's quite simple here. Mkoi winning locks them in.
If they don't, and Navi wins, then the rats and shifters are going to be pretty happy about this one.
Yeah, a lot of eyes on this game.
And if you told me that M-Koi was this close to missing playoffs, because if they lose today,
it's a really realistic chance that they will miss playoffs.
And I saw their faces walking on the stage, they looked really serious.
And you can feel the tension right now in the arena.
A lot of eyes will be on this game, and they really need to show why they are seen in such a high regard.
I see her just one of them, but there's a silver lining here.
And that's the fact that today, it feels like six finals.
Every single game matters so much.
The tension, that just means it's more fun to watch.
I'm so excited to watch this game,
because it means so much for both of these teams.
Not too much excitement though, if you're on the side of MQG,
because they need to get their shifts together, let's say.
It's been going really wrong for them lately,
but how do you make sure that this last game
is going to be the one that makes it count,
especially playing against a team that has been popping off
and that already qualifies?
Yeah, I think it starts in the jungle,
because I think Elioya is still the captain of this ship.
We saw Reledge say in an interview actually that he believes that Elioya is the strongest jungler in Luxford playing against him.
So I think to me that is the matchup I will be watching today.
Reledge versus Elioya.
That is peak here in the fourth game that we have today.
And actually El Capitan is standing back with Draco's backstage.
Or was.
Thank you very much.
I'm joined by Elioya in an interesting situation.
You're not 100% qualified for playoffs yet.
And I want to be honest, brother, it's been a rough couple of games.
How have things been going from your perspective?
It's been, I think, being honest, we have struggled to perform on stage.
I am always really straight with my interviews.
I think when we are lacking some individual level, I'm honest to say,
I think it's not the case.
I honestly think we are not showing up in performance-wise on stage.
So yeah, that's been a bit hard to deal with,
but I trust that we are going to make it.
I've heard a lot of excuses thrown around earlier in the split.
It was Mondays, Mondays for the DOOM days.
I heard Melzett wasn't there one day. I've heard a lot of reasons.
What is the reason from your perspective that you guys just aren't able to show up?
Do you have a firm grasp on what is actually stopping you from delivering at your highest level?
I didn't hear those excuses.
I heard them on the online. These are like made-up fan excuses.
It's nice to hear, you know?
I like how our fans have our back, but no, honestly, I cannot think of one case.
I think every one of us has struggled in different moments.
I would say yesterday game, for example, was me some past games has been just some other games have been super me
We have a struggle to I honestly think we
I don't know the main reason I think we've also been trying new things at the same time because we gave a bit place
Let's say too much for granted. Maybe so yeah, but still
So what's the focus today then how do you rally?
How do you make sure that you guys are able to deliver at that highest level?
Is it just to simplify the game plan? Is it stick to comfort?
Like what is the secret to making sure that you guys can just get this last win so you have a bit more time?
Honestly, it's
Play our game like at the end. I think
We need to deal with this pressure. It's even a good opportunity right now to go because
Not many times you have this much pressure in a
Normal regular season game
So we are going to take this as the biggest lesson that we can we are going to play what we are good at
Yeah, we would I like it like the confidence. Oh, yeah. Thank you so much for taking time. Good luck in the match today
We'll send it back over to you guys
Because this match requires every bit of attention that you've got sitting at home the last three regular season games of LEC
Versus with diagram myself hysterics
We are gonna run you through MQI versus now V a matchup that has so many implications for the rest of the league
It is in Mkoi's hands to seal the deal for them to lock in playoffs.
It is in Narvi's hands to keep the viewership of the rats going.
Because they've already locked themselves into second seed.
Narvi are a top two team and now they have to put up and show that they're better than Mkoi.
Mkoi with the win will secure playoffs and I mean we just heard from Al Jolla.
They think that they can't do it. They can turn it on when it has to happen.
But it has to happen now.
And as we get into the draft, you can see Unara Orianna already taken away.
So still looking to see things like the Rumble, the Azir.
These kind of picks still up and available as we walk our way through this.
If you look for Navi, we can kind of dissect how their drafts have been going.
Main to most of the time, the Sion, the Cassante tank top with a flare of carry.
But usually, he's been a role player.
To reledge these top lanes in the jungle, he's had a bit of a flare of the Ambessors
as well as the Atrox's, the Keanu to start the split off.
There's been certain dynamics with this team, Dagger, very straightforward.
I feel like already taking it away is MQoy.
They get rid of Reletious Jungle Pick.
They get rid of Poby's pick as well, and the Inara, which is strong, have done their homework.
Imagine if it'd be the Rumble Connets, yeah, there it is, okay, so, Azir, the one that
you think of, JoJo's also kind of defaulted towards this in a lot of situations, means
you can't respond still with things like the Taliyah if you'd like to, and we've
like to the Pantheon to the boy is combos second answer into the azir
We'll have to see if that is going to be the game call here or if they want to try and put their focus elsewhere
Yeah, with no virus off that first pick you're right
And then could just be an azir and then response from now be unless they're they feel confident on the Jace
Like Jace at least has been decent but it's gonna be the boy first pick
I don't think we've seen a five-first pick in the LEC.
So this basically is kind of a call-out to me saying,
okay, Poby, you take the easier. We can take the Taliyah.
An end point can fall back on what worked for them in summer,
which was trying to play through these strong side lanes
with Jojo as your main point of focus.
And if Miren then can end up getting some sort of good pick
for himself in that topside as well,
you can have this solid side lane pressure
that could try and come through.
But there's a Pantheon that Miren can take.
pressure that could try and come through but there's the pantheon that we were talking about
and now it is a question of Navi just take the Taliyah kind of call the bluff from Enkoi
and say no no no you can have the azir we're actually happy enough to just try and take the
Taliyah instead. It's interesting to me because again Dagger I'm just kind of looking I'm seeing
was it was it Navi that played the the jays flies against him was that Enkoi's comp it was
Enkoi because Nielsen was on the poppy so Jays would have been a viable option but they're
It's bearing away from it. I do like your prediction though saying hey, okay
There's that as you mentioned the pantheon pairing is obviously taken away because the visor is already on the side
But now you mentioned the Taliyah. That's an option
The other option is the rise but I think oh yeah, there will be the Taliyah. Yeah
I think it's just it's such a strong combo in both of them
And also then you just got the opportunity to try and play for sides
The only change might have been going for a rise because he is fairly tanky
So it can survive a lot of that pantheon pressure, but Zion definitely something that can survive a lot of that pantheon pressure
They need to go for something like the nah here go for the range matchup and put him in the ground
Again, I was just talking about this guy. He's been a role-playing top laner. He could just go for the Cassante here dexter
Like how many games of now as he played so far. That's the one bus
I mean could easily end up moving towards that. I don't think it's the end of the world bus
It's gonna be the tank killer in the a trucks that he gets the flight of every he's talking about this early
this but he's like yo, let's just keep taking my champion mate to finally get to play the
eight rocks top because we know that pantom's going in the jungle.
I'm curious if you had a bit of Lulu bans here from Navi though because you've already
got good engage and both the sign and the buy and something like an aphelios Lulu could
be very strong to come through for Mkoi with the way the draft is set up at the
moment and so I wouldn't be fully surprised to see them maybe even try and ban away
the aphelios himself or try and take away the Lulu but actually it's Mkoi the
Van away the fellows to stay with the Ezreal fish as well. They're kind of
Setting up for it. I like you to bring up hyper carries as well
When we do have a song and close side and a lot of setup already
What else we got I mean, you know, it's taking my Ezreal virus at failure
We just witness as well. But what else we have in the pool?
The other thing that compare well with why is the Caitlyn because you put the trap underneath and then you just go
for it so maybe that's the game plan here for M coin on this bottom side and
We haven't seen it, I'm sorry, actually no good.
Now you're on it.
Yeah, Super hasn't played this.
Okay.
The high is going down.
Because, yeah, there's always an option here, media locking of the Niko.
Yeah, I mean you could go Caitlyn Karma if you really want to, go for the hyper pushing
lane.
Niko doesn't tend to like things like the Karma into her because she can match a
lot of the push and also the AoE speed up when team fights can get you out of
that pop blossom or reduce a lot of that damage as well.
I'm wondering if that's a thought here for M-Corky.
Looking at the Corky now for mobility.
If the Corky gets locked in here, I just wonder the Na'Vi AD carry to pair.
Things like Sivir are available for Sam-D.
Enchanter and the Na'Vi.
Now I truly wonder for Na'Vi, how do they run this out there?
Sam-D, options are Sivir, Jin for range.
The Iphelios, the Devarus, the Yanara, the Corky that is all played to split her off the table.
The MA just beat the gym to be like, okay, I'll open up a curtain call and not actually try and play it towards fights and not get a target for the Y.
Well, Caitlyn works pretty well as well and matching that early damage and early push from the Corky.
Great lane presence as well, right? Because Corky's become this bully in lane thanks to his changes a while back now.
Caitlyn and Niko, very strong 2v2 when we knew Niko was so good because of her lane bullying prowess.
with the Caitlyn, Sandin and Paris, obviously the attention's on them while the rest are going to be playing out in their isolated lanes.
Yeah, and the reason I was talking about the Karma is that Karma has the opportunity to push the lane into Niko,
because she can hit Niko while also hitting the wave. Nami doesn't have that same level because all of her spells are interact with the enemy team.
Yeah.
So it means that for Niko, Caitlyn, you actually have a decent time of getting pushed now in this bottom side of the map.
map and means that for Davia I think that gives you windows to have pressure on this bottom side
even like try and trade boy groups for potential dives with this pantheon on the bottom lane
and really try and hurt super novel. Quicker snap as well for things like the Tanglebabs
as well as the Blooming Burst but we'll see the matchup in action. This to be too important
but MQoy throwing a spanner in the works its first pick by we're going to find out if
it's worth it here for L.Yoya is MQoy fight for their spot at playoffs. It is such a
crazy LEC split with the fact that MCoy, Fnatic and G2 are still not locked in.
But here instead, we have KC, Navi and Vitality along with Giant X now locked in.
What a new realm we're in.
LEC ain't the same as before with 12 teams battling out rather 10 left to go.
Six spots available. Here's one of them up the grabs.
Maybe more.
If your team like Navi potentially pushing M.Coy into that knockout territory,
could be the perfect way for you to start off playoffs.
M.Coy is a team that from the start of the split we were saying is a potential vapor to win it now.
They've had a couple of whoopsies which has put them in this position,
but if you could actually take M.Coy out of playoffs here,
Navi could not only do themselves a huge ballfoot,
everyone else has joined them in that playoffs slot.
There it is on the side of screen for you as Rilac goes for a deep ward.
In fact, this is not just going to be a ward, maybe starting at Raptor's. He is indeed.
No, Red Buff for now.
Remember, Emcoy with lock playoffs.
Naby gets the rats to scurry into it as well.
I love this from Ralech.
You've got two pushing bot lanes and two enchanter bot lanes
that want to really fight for that control of the wave.
Now you're causing a split map position,
which is just opening up for Sam Di and Paris
to really try and play through this bottom side of the map.
And I don't think it's been spotted.
There is a blue ward on the Raptor camp,
On that top side of the map
But unless Mpoi can slip this out, Aljolia will have to go to the opposite side of the map
He'll probably start pinging it now in a couple of seconds realizing that Redech hasn't shown on this Wardius
At least it'll take another 20-30 as well, Dagger. I love the point is Pobi's just gonna face-check into Jojo
That hurts here. Navi's mid laner walks into the most aggressive mid laner into the league. Jojo hits two first and
Pobi down a little bit has to pop the pots has one left remaining. Jojo has now got none
There we go. Tango barbs combo. The power of this 2v2 lane now shown.
There's a very high chance that we end up with a dive off of this crash.
But no Alvaro is. Heal is there. It's cleansed for super.
But I think if you target Alvaro, there's enough damage.
Nello Yulia is going to know, hang on, this is a dangerous boss.
But for lech, he's just going back over to his far side.
And you can see the response immediately from all your eyes moving to this top half of the map.
Yeah. Let's see as well if defensive ward gets placed down.
down. Poppy has one in inventory, one on raptors would do nicely to the pressure of the wave pushing
into this turret. Probably just understands that okay, Reletch you're gonna lose the top side of your
jungle here, this is gonna be the trade-off. Maybe still okay with that, with the map stay, right?
So that's exactly it, right? You wanted to isolate Samdi and Parris and that's exactly what
you've done. Parris and Samdi have done a good job of hitting most of their spells on this
bottom side to put pressure onto Enkoi's bot lane. And you already see Maintra scratch the wave
So he's fine. Obi taking a lot of damage though.
Huge chunk of misses.
We don't always see the matchup exactly like this, but JoJo now running out of mana as Poby
spaces nicely from the threaded volley upgrade.
He's going to get out of there, but I mean JoJo is one of the most aggressive laners
we have and that's a very good start for Envoy.
It was also a dicey start for Poby because you are low and you know the fly is in
that topside jungle.
So whilst hovering down towards the bottom side, we should give him a bit of time
to react.
But always have to be a little bit careful in that sort of situation.
Already you can see Corky gone for the reset though the tier picked up
Which is a nice win for some D already in this bottom lane having forced that reset and got that place
Cindy gets a push in based on being great
We're let's gonna match that as well and it's about that second clear
That could be really focusing on junglers here about how earlier and really interact now with the respawn of that vertical jungle
Well, you can already see the pings are going down from relic onto the Raptor camp
He wants to try and look for a reinvade the biggest issue for him
is that you just had your bot lane reset, which means bot is pushing out and you can then have
Mkoi's bot lane play over towards that. So that's why Paris hasn't gone to the bottom lane,
he's actually sitting around this mid lane to try and help Reletch and taking away this camp again.
But into Jojo's waiting's arms as Aqua Prison avoided narrowly but Paris, but Enkoi, what a read and what a response.
This wasn't the play from Navi. You couldn't really go for it. You'd push on bot, you'd push in mid.
Hobie was always going to be second. And Ralech, as you said, even flashing into the waiting hands of Jojo.
It's not the start that Navi would like for this game.
Jojo freaked out. He's like, what is his tactic of doing flashing into me?
You want to make sure that upgraded model still wasn't thrown in his direction
Regardless first blood over to JoJo really nice, especially when he was already winning the lane already up in CS now
550 gold up as well JoJo off to the races for this game
It also slows down reletion hitting that level six because you can see how much time you just got a waste in the mouth
Now only just started his next rotation the comes whereas you're kind of moving through that fairy standard he already has all you
So, for the next good of crab, it's much more important for Elioa to be able to grab that one.
So, put on this topside as well, but Elioa ain't going for the full clear.
So, won't have access to that.
Upgrade Smae, says he tries to go for this.
And I guess only saving Grace is when we talk about bot lane and their interaction with jungles,
is the fact that for Sandeep, Paris, they had that ward, and that entering brush towards raptors.
Of course, Elioa can always take the long way around, but for now, they felt safe enough
getting a bit of push in that lane, still holding pressure.
Because I believe L.Y.O.A is on the top side of map where he currently is, as he makes his pre-set.
Yeah, keep my eyes on this, because Crab is on that top lane, but may just think, well, we know that Reletch is clearing towards our bottom side.
So instead, maybe gonna try and make a play in bottom lane before Reletch can actually get access to the wave.
Yeah, looks like he just wants to cover boss, not playing for that level 6 instead.
It's gonna say the XP but I'm gonna lend itself to it is it but El Yoya as he shadows around there
Let's just see he's gonna get six off the leech of the wave. He's walking up a little bit here
Now you will need to finish the crab if you want some spot on reward though, which now it means the relish has info
Yeah, that are your he's going for this crab on the top side
But I mean as we said like he's a very far away away from level six
So it's your year because he got that company the assistant to kill actually using that advantage now
You can see immediately Poby just wants to kind of dip out of mid lane, doesn't want to be on the business end of the file
He's already struggling enough as it is as his flash available, but
El yoyo just has to press one single button and set up the snapping gauge the first pick by I think the reason we
Shown once we see me jungle corporation is dragon gonna be started by relatch El yoyo is here level five first level six
The power of El yoyo right now is dangerous as Paris comes to help
Yes, we engage him.
Again, the shield is up, Acro Prison as well, Ralech, disrespect.
Hell, you're just one hit away though, and we'll give a kill over to Sandeep.
A 1 for 1 as Navi Midlanders are fighting up top while Alvaro, running out of mana, has to run through bot.
A bit of a pause here as we find out what's going on, but that 1 for 1 keeps Dragons still.
Yeah, Ralech is heavily relying on the fact that he has this bot lane push to try and go for Dragons.
And they do end up moving across first, but it's JoJo who's reacting constantly from mid-faster
because he's had so much pressure and it makes it nigh on impossible for Navi to really take these early fights.
And we already said like Emcoy knew they had the level six advantage, so wanted to take that fight.
Trying to find out where the issue lies. Currently it is just a pause. We're going to find out anything's going on.
I'm not sure if it's Emcoy's side or not, just watching him talking to refs, but
we'll wait and see. That's a mighty time to pause.
So I think from Emcoy, they've done a good job in this game so far, right?
Sure you trade one for one there, but you are denying the stacking from Navi
when they've got a crazy strong bottom lane. And you're using the fact that you
hit the level six. Sure you had that level six advantage for Sam D in the
bottom lane, but Caitlyn ult versus something like a buy ult, buy ult is
significantly better in that sort of situation. So I think it's now a
Now a fact of, okay, how can, how can Emkwai try and keep up this pressure?
Because now you're going to be in a situation where, let's just come back out.
You've got more of the level six is available for Navi.
So in a repeat play towards this dragon, I think it should be Navi or an advantageous
boss.
That's Dragon as well.
And LAC has been talked about for the past four weeks, but like this bottom side
objective control has really won games, is a dictate of games, and it did last
year and previous years.
like dragon, but you know adicon and all these kind of things that's actually changed up. Yeah,
that was working because you could see games made or like broken or made us that kind of objective so
I think yeah the dragon second has just gone back to the key win condition for so many teams
Ladies and gentlemen, we're still trying to find out what the potential bug is as you can see in
the bottom of your screen because this is a very important game so players not giving or leaving
anything to chance? I'm sure people are already rewinding and finding out what the hell happened.
But seemingly there's movement on stage, which means that, okay, I see mouse movement. I see
Poby going nuts with the keyboard and mouse. Look at those hands man. Holy, oh my god.
We're looking at Mirren. I know we are on the screen, but everyone in the audience,
you just look at Poby. Everyone else is still, Poby just went for it. That guy's staying
warmed up. He's staying red hot. He's got a wrist injury. Slow down, Poby. All the fans
looking at him, by the way. I mean, there was a lot of chatter coming into after the loss
of turns loss. Being like, okay, Poby save us. That's what the fans are asking for. It
is huge that your fate is not in your hands. And I think that scares a lot of teams.
It would scare Koi if they lost this like it, you know scare shifters regardless, right?
There's a lot of reliance on other teams and the LEC is so unpredictable
The need for a psychologist after today for these players and these teams
there's got to be some bills going out because I
Imagine how I would fill in the position let alone how they feel right now
Well, I mean you heard from Trimby earlier on in his interview saying look sometimes
You just don't want to know because you don't want that pressure going into the game
You want to just take it one game at a time and yeah, I imagine that's a similar spot that a lot of these players on the stage of the momentary
You know for Navi already successfully through sitting. It's having a free boss
Yeah, we'll have to figure out because we're gonna toss it over to the AD as you figure out exactly what's going on
Well, let's hear from the folks toss down there. Yeah
That's us. We're down there. We're AD. I want to talk about the drafts guys
We have it in front of us on stage here looking at I mean two really different approaches
I don't I feel like Navi's draft may be harder to play given that bot has to go well
But what do you guys think? I mean I gotta say something emkoi lost to lots of tones and now I'm seeing a mommy
Corky and a sion
Honestly when I look at the novel draft, it's very high execution because look at your front
You have an a trucks that's most like not gonna be with a team most of the time
You have a pantheon who is rather squishy but can be in vulnerable for two and a half seconds with his e
And you have a Nico support and there's a Caitlyn in a seer that needs people to walk up
So they can hit the enemy team, but who is walking up when I look at another comp?
Is it gonna be the Nico is it gonna be the pantheon?
It's really difficult to execute this fight in these river
Congregations that we see where you just have a front-to-back team fight
Yeah, I mean they have a really hard to execute comp, but what they do have is through winning lanes, right?
You have the Caitlyn, Niko, that's gonna win bot lane, Azir is gonna get pushed into the Taliyah,
and then also Aatrox into the Sion as well.
I think if they can execute this early game and keep snowballing, allow Reledge to just move around the map,
that's the type of wincon that you're looking with this sort of roster.
I mean we saw Reledge just now, he is locked in, eyes closed, faker mode,
meditating on stage. For me, that's the attitude of a player who knows exactly what he's gonna do,
and we know exactly how to execute this draft.
We have the replays of the first blood
and how the action broke out.
And again, if we can check that,
because it seemed like Mkoe
are the ones who initiated what happened.
No, actually, it comes from an engagement relish.
So, what does this do?
Relish wants to go for these raptors, right?
But Mkoe do not want to concede these.
And it looks like they're making a pretty good pick
on Relish, and here he gets really stuck here,
trying to block a lot of damage with his E,
which he kind of does, but in the end,
There's just not enough damage on the Mkoi. The Asir was a little bit too far away from this Invade.
If you want to go for this Invade, you probably need the Asir to be a little closer so you can actually fight when they come to contest it.
You can see they have the right idea, right, that I talked about earlier. The winning lanes, they want to try to utilize that to give a lead to Reledge.
But it's just execution and so falling a little bit apart.
And as Fin said, I think this is a team comp where if you start to fall behind like this, especially then, if OEA is able to utilize this to get his laneers ahead,
suddenly Mkoi have a really big draft advantage.
Yeah, I mean let's just say like in a perfect world, what does Navi's comp want to do?
You have a Pantheon that has a lot of global threats with his ultimates,
which should in theory allow your Asir and your Atrox who is winning their lanes to push
outside deep knowing that if they get collapsed on there's a Pantheon ult to back them up
and then you can transition that to your strong cape and lane instead of objectives.
Problem is this Pantheon makes one bad ult. That all changes because suddenly you lack
this threat, you lack this backup from this pantheon, so this is really why Rilesh must
be precise in this game. That first ult is crucial. How detrimental to the early game
is that invade going to be? Do you think? I think pretty big, especially because when you're playing
up against the Vi, what you really want to do is abuse her before level 6 or at least try to
get some sort of lead because after level 6 Vi just has so much more pressure on all of Navi's
lanes and just much better fighting power. So now the fact that they weren't able to get
get that invade off, Relich falls behind a little bit as well.
And it's also just been such a key pillar for this team.
It's been the one player that's always been performing
that we've always been looking out for.
So if Relich ends up falling behind
and not being able to be this carry for the team,
I think it's going to be a completely different Na'Vi
than we're used to.
You can see here that players are conducting ready checks,
but I just want to update on the pause
that Emkai initiated at 6.58.
They reported a bug to referees
where Taliyah potentially was knocked off her ultimate.
And after review, we first determined that this interaction was intended.
So I'm guessing the game is going to resume as planned.
Fair enough.
And the guest is all ready?
OK.
Well, back to you guys.
And back to the game soon.
OK.
Yeah, because we went back and looked at it,
and it was Talia wall through the wall.
And then as soon as Joe touched that wall, he fell off.
But then we don't know what happened, right?
It's been picked off.
It would have been any discussion here.
Yeah.
There is no point to speculate.
Basically, the game will play from the current position,
which means that Aliyoia is dead, Rilech is dead, and we're back into just seeing what's going to happen around this dragon.
And as you said as well, from this point, Na'Vi in a good position maybe to pick up the drake, obviously both junglers are dead,
but as soon as Rilech, maybe gets that ultimate, he's stuck at 7 seconds. Now that's not the case.
Junglers will be alive pretty soon, and back now, but it's all the fight over the dragon.
Navi's kill went over to Sam D and Sam D with a kill is exactly where they want the gold right now
in response
Let's say Alvaro picked up the kill as Jojo got the first blood earlier on so
There we go. Okay dragon still the thought process, but for now junglers are just clearing up topside
They're gonna go for the respawn and we'll see that fight again shortly
Yeah, as you say everything on the top side's respawning so jungler's gonna try and clear down towards that
We're just going to get a replay of the fight. You can see Junko starting to go through, but it's Aoi who has already gone forward, so it's a trade of junglers.
Thanks to Sam, he's been able to get some nice damage in towards the back, and then Fash, of course, from Alvaro.
So it does mean with the level 6 now, Hiss, there is a potential to try and make some plays down.
Where's that bottom side of the relatch? You can see the bot is already moving down there, as you get a little bit of support attention towards the mid lane.
Yeah Parrish is getting the push out as well so maybe Poby can move over to this
start. Maybe it'll be Grubbs traded back for Nabi but we'll just see for the time
being. Now Red Buff is being taken for the moment rather as Ralech now has
all six so he's a bit more global, a bit more movement here as bot lane in a
very good way to stay right now for the same day.
He's trying to keep his eyes on both these junglers because ideally you do have dragon taken
before Void Grubbs, they're all pushed.
Now you've got to open up, there is a potential for you
to try and trade both of those objectives,
but you should have push continue on this bottom side.
And it looks like with the early movement
part towards the mid lane,
Poby was able to get pushed there.
So Naby, you're ready to get this objective.
And if you're seeing a quick reset from Laoya,
it means he's more likely going to start
moving up towards these Void Grubbs
to try and trade for it.
But Amp here, it opens up some sort of play
on the bottom side for Naby.
Maybe the dragon's on regardless.
Willette's just gonna hover, he'll get scuttled.
Grugton question is that we already comes back out on the map,
but an early objective for Navi that looks pretty good here
is the way he's just gonna push into Navi's bot lane.
And then we'll save it as Super,
and he's just gonna back up, probably reset, and build more towards his try-course.
So it's just gonna be that trade.
It does mean that Mainter has to be a little bit careful on the top side,
but in the isolated one, B1, he's doing a decent job.
Has a good amount of CS there and this is kind of what you're hoping for when you have the atrox and
Because ideally I think what they're hoping for a major was you'd end up with an engaged support as well
And then you can try and play with the atrox into these, you know two three melee champions
But I think we're both mirroring on a yoyo there
You should still have decent healing and a decent opportunity is major to have impact of these points
So I'm finding the individual 1v1 300 gold lead at the very least is
near wins about 10 CS behind, but it's lending itself to the matchup right now
is Georgia looking for Poby, L.U.A. is nearby once again after taking away those
Raptors or rather Void Grubs. Everything's gonna chill out for a little bit as well.
Like after that last fight that pause just slowed everyone down. That's the
thing about pauses in League like and especially in pro play when there was
so much momentum on the map and there was a lot of fast play having
reached level six. It's not just the fact that you know Georgia's ulti was
down for a little bit. It's also the fact that these teams are kind of resetting after
waiting 10 minutes to get back in to what the start of this game was.
Still, I think like the, you kind of heard Finn on the desktop about this as well. For
Navi it's about trying to play through strong lanes. And when you've already kind of isolated
these lanes to a certain extent, and you have winning in both top and AD carry,
it makes things significantly easier for you as this game goes on, because you want
miniature except trying to play with this pantheon, trying to make plays on side lanes.
So from this position, I think Navi should be relatively fine. The only kind of problem
they're having is this mid lane where JoJo's doing a really good job point of case of getting
some damage onto Poby.
And Reletion's looking for an angle to his mid lane as well, but how he hovers in is
going to be difficult as Ward's spotting him out. One control over there that he
can't even risk going near. Poby stepped up to this. Dreaded bolly's hitting inside,
makes up flashed away from JoJo's lane continues to be impressive both as a
player and in the matchup and he's also set look for a notch he's just gonna
clear the status let's say a bit of a freeze which makes him very safe I would
force Poby to over extend which could make some sort of play open up here for
and for a yoyo if he wants to it opens up the jungle for you at the very
least further to that the gromp spawn is there maybe an angle on bot lane
El yoyo. Genius you're right but with the Pantheon or rather Pantheon
I'm standing there on a ward against Elioia just not bringing case something happens on it
Say maybe ultimate term but Elioia is clear of visions of control or holding the tri-brush for now
Scuttle crab are going to be taken as well
Neish little movements there from MQoy, but nice ones
Yeah, still I think this is more about trying to protect this push from MQoy so super can actually get the reset in
And now you can see Elioia basically moving to Shadow mid and trying to Jojo can now push this in because he didn't
Resets and JoJo will want to get a reset as well and it should set them up relatively nicely for you know
A minute and a half time when that dragon comes up
Supercell a little ways off I'd imagine from the the triforce
But might just be able to get us if he picks up place here on the bottom side, which I think he's thinking around
Right quick back here from Albert on the meantime
Not gonna walk up. Maybe a little bit too risky again
and that Pantheon changes the whole aspect of the game.
Let's just hop on onto the details of Sunded Sky.
We're damaging him from Mainchir as we look back to what's top.
He's got Sunded Sky as well.
So this first item is coming on board,
clearly for Narvi as well as on the other side,
that Triforce is talking about finish
for the bot lane of MQoy.
Sunded Sky there for Jungle.
And we just think the roll quest
go along with it as well.
MQoy are the first to do all five.
Narvi ain't too far behind.
I think Poby has been bullied a little bit in lane
and spent some time out of it.
So, 10, 20, 30 seconds more and probably should be finished as well, which we all done.
You can see though the bot lane pushes up, uh, evening up now with super picking up that dry force.
So it makes things a little bit more difficult for Navi to actually get pressure on this bottom side.
So for Mkoi, I think that's where you're happy, because you've got no flash on this Azir.
They give you an open opportunity to try and take a pop shot at him before this dragon spawns, or even if the fight comes down to him.
20 seconds to break. I'm in a 20-tool Harold. He's going to get a quick reset in. And there
was actually a quick one from Relich as well right before the objective. He thought about
a pickaxe but went with the Tarbi instead. So I'm worried about the 80 damage that's
going to come through. I'm not about to chain CC and can follow but I'm going to
get merc trade against an army. It's like, where you get flicked back is like, oh well.
I'm probably dead at that point anyway. The layering of CC from M-Coil on one target
kind of disgusting like if you get locked down the pick is so easy for this thing
yeah and I think that's where it is gonna be very dangerous because at least on
Encore you've got that true tank on the top side yeah so you can kind of face
check post don't really have that luxury for now at least Reledge does have
that and Aegis assault to it just weight a lot of that damage so though
this is where we're talking about pushing mid and good control of Bob Paris
close heal comes out Tango Bob through connect that probably saves his life
But let's just let it stand there and watch
It's summoner down is still summoner down and that's a nice move from Encoy
But I think that might have actually just gotten an Encoy the dragon because
Fendi, boss is going flashed away from the big one was there too. That was a kill and
Another big step up another bad step up from Navi and Encoy get a punnick
And nicely done by Encoy using the fact you got that slow and auto on the Nami the Triforce procs
This is a very nice items fight or at least a combo spike for this Encoy bottom lane
and they're using it really effectively.
Terral mandate with a corking of tri-force
and it's filled so much stronger.
Easy to proc, easy to take those summoners,
and easy to take the dragon at the end as well.
Chemtech rolls into a hex-sec,
and now we think about the Herald.
Now they're gonna reset, look towards top lane.
Poby, using the home guards through the lane
to get that quick reinforcement,
maybe is to accept the wave
and then move down for the potential.
But Enkoi here to chase,
we're gonna have to fight around Herald.
Enter does have TP.
He should be able to catch this wave
and potentially teleport in.
So I think it's going to be a little bit of a slow move for Nabi over towards his objective,
whereas Mirren, he's just immediately moving down towards his bottom side using the hex gate.
So then point all in on the place at this rip challenge.
We're going to start it off, first of all, I suppose good damage, and already we're off to the races,
but a little bit slow here from Nabi.
Poby's just holding back a turret.
The option may be not to contest, where that's going to peek his head in,
but again, slow is the word I'd used, actually, because this helps pretty much God.
Yeah, I mean, they were looking at that bottom side, but JoJo moves there to cover the wave as it hits that bottom lane tower, and they already moved MIR in its position.
So, honestly, nice moves here from MQI on the map stays. Like, yeah, you lose a blade, but you get the Herald, you get the wave fast, and you get it onto a carry rather than MIR win.
So, all said and done, MQI really happy off the back of the map.
Smank is going to steal the Krugs in the meanwhile and out.
Hitch cam or rather in our map.
The Navi is still trying to find a pick off the back end of the plate.
He said it, SamD got a plate.
I'm not sure if Mainti got one down in the bot lane.
But regardless, the Fed Atrox is just going to stain his lane, stay there isolated.
He did take the Krugs in the end. I saw him on the camp for quite a bit.
So it's a nice gold injection.
And he is the lead right now.
Yeah, sure, SamD has the lead, but it's because of the kill.
But Mainti has a pure CS lead over Mewen.
The thing is though, for Navi, what you want to be using is this Pantheon to go for a cross maps.
If they're all invested on Rift Tower, well then you should be able to do boss and trying to kill Jojo and move in Parisin as well.
But because it committed resources to the top side of Parisin for a very late recess, they're not actually in a position to go for anything on the map.
So for M.Coy, the fact that you're not getting value from this Pantheon is a win in and of itself.
And sure, you've still got like Caitlyn and Azir who will scale well, but it's giving you these moments where the game hasn't blown out of proportion, and you're about to hit these two items' spikes on a bunch of your carries.
And you go into a mid game versus Taliyah Vi, you can start doing things like this. They can play Sidelan, Maitre goes into the fire instead, but we're not hovering down to clone, we're going to spot him out.
Jojo almost found a pick off. Maitre still takes a lot of damage, but regardless, MQoi don't get their wish of finding that dead atrox.
That's super now, still clearing well against Sam DiSso. Not even winning out on the mid push anymore.
Now Mkoi all moving down towards his bottom side trying to just guarantee themselves a tower.
And they're even a bestie wargoed into JoJo. Like he is the strongest portion of Mkoi.
And they're kind of realizing hang on, it's not that JoJo can win out on a side lane.
Then you have to put these resources as Navi into trying to push him back.
And Navi right now just don't really have those resources. Like sure, you have the Pantheon, but it hasn't really worked out.
Okay, we now king the theory it drops JoJo that one ate a bug
That's for real is really knocks down the kill and that's what you want to disease
Now be immediately getting that ultimate off and good job on nature as well
Just a little bit JoJo before he can escape anymore
Poe being a bit of trouble in the top lane. He's got flash of a little duck and pop
But he knows he's dead death may smash into the hand
Oh, you're a slut to the silly and that's a good cross mark from a lawyer
But now I'll be trying to collapse or break her over the wall relax
Which is their waiting stun out as well, Paris gets the flash out of Elioya.
The enemy jungler running away from Nami, the title waits.
Good defensive minute, his ball breaking back in with an acroprison, but hang on a minute.
Hang on a minute!
Pop awesome from Hal!
Paris sets it up, Elioya has to stand his ground, but where's the damage?
Super just got to kill Paris, major now in with Alton, ulti, and the start up
on the man went yeah, it's great, but the damage wasn't there, and Brute comes
in after the TP, and now the top laner just has to stand and look at the damage.
that M. Koi so uncoordinated from NAVI of what looked like an overstate from M. Koi.
The M. Koi just realizing hang on your damage theaters aren't here. It's a Pantheon and an
E. Koi and we've got Super on mid wave. We can immediately collapse on this and they
get the kill and again M. Koi. This is what we want to see from this. This is the team
that people were afraid of. Great map play. Great understanding of how they can push
their advantages and this is just a good show of it. Understand the need to cross mass because
the passenger showed up fast. Immediately get the kill on Topobi and then here as well.
The Caitlyn is stuck on midway because you've just pushed in with Super Albaro.
So Super Albaro get to move across first. Caitlyn has to take the long way around
and this is just 2v3. Like Sam D can't really do anything in these fights.
They're really not pop bossing but Albaro is doing so much work here. So we just get to
step up and we just saw Mainter in the bot lane they got the kill but he used
his wings of death for it. Nehwin greets over Charles in fact as well, made that
splash over the wall and rather get out over the wall. Alvaro gets ganked by the
Aatrox again but he can't do much. Alvaro shouldn't have gotten away with
that to be honest. His face checked into the Aatrox and Mainter doesn't hit Q1,
doesn't set up them for the rest of us and Alvaro is able to walk away
very lucky on that play. Nehwin now taking that top side,
still has that TP Advantage over Mainter. If MQoy want to try and push in,
but your MQoy they are coming alive in this game. They are and they're playing
on the edge. I mean talk about like a style of MQoy. I feel like when they're
at their best they play on an edge like this, right? That look like a risky play
that looks like something they should have gone away with, but they do
because at their peak MQoy, a fire player that play on the edge of risk.
MQoy also going to get themselves a dragon here. The stacking has begun. The
Goldlead has started to grow. Jojo in the lead from start of this game to now where he is.
21 minutes in mid turret falls and Emkoi is starting to break apart the pieces of Navi's dream.
Oh, you're waiting on his Q to come back off Kuda and Samdi trying to play very far away
from what is unknown territory in his own jungle. But it just, again, super getting
the clear out of the way. There was a big Goldlead for Samdi in that bottom side that
is completely disintegrated. And Main turn, barely holding onto what was a 1.2k gold lead,
now down to a measly 500. MQA've evened up the lanes. They're not allowing Navi to play
through this 1.3.1. You don't have enough Firepower and SamD to control Midwayb anymore.
So Relentch, looking towards Mirren on the top side, but I don't think you have enough Bamature.
Even with the Pantheon coming in, how do we kill Mirren?
This does almost go too odd, and they always push him off to get the Power,
especially since Sandy was on the way up as well so gold evened out a little bit there but
Breaking over the map. The next big question is again, can they get this pantheon rolling in the mid game?
Can they start moving to these sidestacks?
Because the time for playing through these strong lanes has ended
I think you have to start looking us a pick before this next dragon
Yeah, like if you can make some sort of plans to Encore the Ogre extend somewhere
That's where Navi can try and bring this pack but from this position
It is very tough super is playing safe in and around this mid lane
They have a ton of vision to make sure it is fine like you can see it at the moment
Just how much of vision is invested around this mid lane like they just anywhere that you want to move is going to be fine for super
And it's it means that it's just difficult then for a lach to kind of get an angle
It's been all game two item Pantheon
We'll see how he approaches for, well Baron's already up, but we'll sit on that thought for a little bit, it's dragon in three minutes.
MQayer just still getting these pushes out and just absorbing gold. The play time very nicely here is.
Navi move into the brush, they've seen the fog of war play today, but Soobbuck was also watching.
Expecting Navi to be in the bush and there they stand.
And Paris, Imrelec, really looking for a pick. Pick brother, and that's that again.
Yeah, whole team on the Super, but Akra Pritzen, oh my God Alpora, what a read!
The big one maxes range as well and this Nami is clean.
This fish has been swimming for years as Poby gets out of there but not for long.
Here's the pick of composition and Poby gets smacked down.
El Yo-Yo and Jojo firing as well.
Amcler just doing what Nami wants to do but better.
They're finding the picks.
Poby wandering through river should not have been in that position.
maybe expecting much more resistance in the middle lane.
But now, Mkoi is down to take down Turret.
They're going to have items on reset as well.
It's just a great position for Mkoi.
And it felt like it was a starting secret recipe that was working well yesterday,
even though G2 didn't get the win.
Operation kill, Poby is continuing to be a success,
and at least leads to a gold lead.
And it may lead to Mkoi being a playoff.
where MQoy needed to step off, but this is significantly clearer than XT.
Oh, a right side mid-shot back, he's got the shield up, but the whole team is here.
Steps forward, knows he can't go anywhere, and OEO, OEO will survive.
Out of turret goes down, rather, in...
MQoy just moved up to 4.5 and more.
This game is quickly, quickly, quickly walking away from nothing.
But this is the stuff that we saw MQoy improving on last summer at their sideline plays.
Player Jojo and things like the Taliyah.
This is kind of where we knew MQoy were at their most dangerous and MQoy, we talked about in draft.
They were feeding into this, we want to play back on this Azir pick, actually taking the buy first, gifting over the Azir,
so they could half-buy Taliyah as an answer into us.
And JoJo stomped Poby to be perfectly honest and lane, like it wasn't even close.
And now Naby feeding the front of us as they're just bleeding gold across the map.
Mid-jungled if this game for sure, right?
Top in isolation has gone the match-up's way.
Bot was not too bad, but Ralech even vertical jungle, that's why Sandeep and Paras got the extra push they did, or more the comfortability.
Mid jungle has been gapping Navi this game.
This is showing you why you can never count out, Mpoi.
This is showing you why there are going to be some pretty sweaty rodents right now in the shadows.
Ralech half HP already, stunned up, Hacker-Prism tidal wave as well.
And Asai on off! From downtown Mewen!
Flew in and shut the door!
Now Navi backs up against the wall as Poby has nowhere to shift to.
M-Coy, when they see blood, they take.
That was so well orchestrated by M-Coy.
Miran coming in, the truck slams into Navi.
And it's just putting a break at all this Navi hype.
M-Coy, like, this is a stomp.
This is a stomp now for sure. Barron is going to be taken.
Relach has his ulti in 15 seconds in the dirt.
And for Mkoi, they're putting the finishing touches on this game.
I mean, this has gone from close to early game a couple of moments.
It's absolute wash.
And Alvroy right now is setting the case for MBC.
Yeah, Alvroy is having a fantastic game.
But it's also just playing so well around.
Knowing that Nabi has no vision,
Mkoi have been very clinical where they've placed their vision,
how they've moved the board, how they've cleared out that vision from Navi's side,
which is just allowing them to make picks, you know, with, um, oh yeah, yeah, now with Alvaro as well,
even Mir when there to help. And there was no, again, no cross-knock from Navi,
Farm was going down, but they left the dragon up, so now we kind of get that opportunity to
take it here as M-Coy for Paris, hoping that he could find some flank here.
This is going to have to be Hobie levels of flank, ironically enough,
from Paris in that bottom side brush.
The patience from Paris must go beyond into this dragon play.
But for Navi, they've got Miron and STP.
The dragon's already gone.
There's no contest.
And Paris is going to play the ultra long con,
looking for that long bot push, where he can run up the lane.
Well, Miron's on topside.
So Paul B had to go and answer,
but it's already going to be a few plates taken off
and a bit of damage done there.
As the rest of end point, they just pushed in mid.
They had the grouping on this bot wave and now there is so many points of pressure on the Mark Granadi, they just went crossed.
Observers, can we go to the Sven Cam please in bot brush? Enkoi four members with Baron. There he is.
Okay, is this the moment? Can he do what the legendary support never could? The angle is here, he finds the mid-brush.
Oh, Enkoi are fishing, they know something's up.
They're like, where is Paris? Jumping back in, the Weaver's wall is out, they're a little bit fishy,
you're right, Paris now caught out and he's like, what do I do? Scythe makes you avoid him and down he goes.
The Navi support, it doesn't even have Navi nearby.
But can't they make a play on Demir and instead you got the ult from Relatch, but
Navi seems scared.
They gotta do something because they are just passively losing 10k in the dirt.
Tharrin's now going to open up Bot Tarris.
Navi had to make a play, and I fear it's way too late.
It's flushed away from Ralech.
It just opened up in here, but I guess what, it is now open as well.
Naito's like, okay, it's my turn, but he's isolated.
One by one, they decide to go in, and now stepping up to the plate is Super End of San D.
The flushing game, so Flick back, homie can't move.
Navi are playing spectator league elections.
There's the pop loss, and we were promised, but Tarris, his team, is dead.
Nami will hike up your right, Dacia, and the rest are hoping they could get it done today.
But Mkoi are fearless.
Absolute domination over Nami to be studied.
They're looking once again like an insane team as they lock in playoff in easy fashion.
It didn't feel like they had any hope.
Mkoi from start to finish, they played well around the split map, JoJo looked fantastic in mid and this constant push and puller in the map looking for picks was just too much for Navi to handle.
You can vote for your player in the game, L.U.S. Super Bowl Alvaro.
Alvaro. The Navi already locked into top two, but that was not a top two performance because
realistically Mkoi smacked him down from that position and gave him a reality check.
This is the Mkoi we saw last year in spring towards the end of the year as well, Dagger.
This is a good Mkoi. Shout out to Jojo. He's not on the player of the game, but
Jojo's lane was insane. He really showed us why this Taliyah matchup is so good
into these here and I don't think we always get that response out of the one
you want. No but I think as you said like it was drafted for they knew taking
by in Slea we're happy to make that trade into his ear and just make the
life uncomfortable there but honestly like I think I'll you're what a
fantastic game like he controlled relax dictated how that early game went
even with this bitmaps that happened so yeah honestly and as you said like
Alvaro super the fact that they could do well in the 2v2 was
We're gonna send it over to Mr. Canada with Mr. America. I don't know where Dracos is actually from, but he can tell us as they lock in playoffs.
He's in America, something. I don't know.
Thank you very much, Jake. Yeah, it's America. Mr. America, Mr. Canada up here. Jojo, congrats.
I'm not gonna lie, man. It was looking pretty scary for you guys. I was talking to Yo-Yo, he had a lot of faith, but we were talking about it before they tossed us.
If you had lost here, you needed team heretics to beat KC, you needed Fnatic to beat G2 to have a hope of going to playoffs
Bro, in a split where your org is hosting the final games
We might not have gotten to see you in spade, but you did make it. Thank God. Shout out Papa Rita there
We all came together and the end of planning came together
How do you feel in this moment? Did you feel that pressure playing on stage? Were you feeling like this was a do or die match?
I mean honestly not really, it's kind of weird, but I was kind of excited because I feel like
this type of the year it's not too fun I'd say of course because there's no
playoffs in anything so there's really something on the line so I had a lot of
fun playing today I'd say it was the most fun game I've played the whole
season so I just took it as an enjoyment and I think we played really good so I'm
happy do you feel like it helped everyone wake up on the team playing under
that kind of pressure because you guys have been on a bit of a slump I think
it's safe to say was it good for you guys to be kind of under the gun
today to make sure that you could show up the way you needed to yeah
for sure I mean if we lost I would be really sad because I think we're
progressing very very well this week actually so I think we're playing really really good league so
if we didn't show what we're capable of in playoffs because we ran it down in the earlier weeks it
would have been well specifically me I would say but it would have been really sad so I mean I'm
glad we made it to playoffs and we're just going to keep looking forward to it. Yeah man I'm excited
to see that journey talking to Elio earlier he talked about it felt like people just weren't
quite able to show up on stage the way that they were on off those inscramps people weren't
delivering at the highest level what's your perspective on that issue what do you think
was kind of holding the team back over these last few games and what was the difference today?
I mean I think we all took this winter split with the same plan it's the same goal we're just going
to try to experiment a bit and see what works for us what doesn't. I also think we used that
experimentation excuse too much to just play bad so I think it was kind of a wake-up call like
okay we're actually not good at some things we can't keep using this excuse that we're
experimenting of course we got a lot of good things from it but now's the time to show up
yesterday was a time to show up too and we didn't show up so I mean I'm glad we showed up
up today right so I think we just tried a lot of new things which is why it's
been a slower start that's it yeah well glad you got in the end brother now you
have a little bit more time before we get to playoffs thanks again for taking the
time to talk to me and congrats on making playoffs that's gonna do it for us
here let's send it over analyst s to talk a little bit more but everything we
saw here what we saw as JoJo Pien beautifully mentioned it is that it
matters when you show up on time and they did it's like they don't do
anything for two weeks but when it matters they actually prove that we
I think they're a very clutch team. I was really happy to see them just lock in today, secure playoffs for themselves and kind of show that top tier dominance, especially going up against Na'Vi, who we thought would be really tough competition for them.
I was never worried, I never doubted a moment that MCoy would make playoffs. I was sure all the time I was not sweating bullets backstage.
a lot of reversible jackets here on this desk but MCoy joins the rest of the team that are not qualified for playoffs
But I want to take a bit of a moment to talk about the stakes for the next game. We're gonna have
Team heretics versus Casey. Sorry. It's gonna get a bit confusing. So what's gonna happen here?
If you're a Los Ratones fans, you want a Casey win and a Flatic win in the next game
That's simple. I mean, it's
cinema right now every thing every game kind of matters right now and coming
into this game heretic versus Casey a lot of people with different team like
affiliations want different results and I feel like if your heretics coming into
this game you're kind of David versus Goliath you can come here and look
G2 Fnatic LR possibly out of playoffs that's insane
imagine the upsets that would be you know it was so wild because before we
went live, I was overhearing just above us, there's the G2 Tribune on this side, the Fnatic
Tribune on the other side, and I was overhearing G2 fans and Fnatic fans just arguing about
stakes and how their teams can make it. I didn't see any Team Heretics fan, but they
have to win next game. They have to win next game to stay in the race. If Team Heretics
wins the next one, they both lock themselves and Fnatic in play-offs. If Casey wins,
locked G2 and Los Ratons. That's wild!
That's a great mistake, someone gave that absolutely phenomenal season ending. I couldn't
be happier. I mean, having such a game as well, like later G2 versus Fnatic, I mean to have
such stakes, it just makes sense that it's a medium rare kind of sequence.
I mean, quickly, what do we think from both teams? Because KC are in this position
where they locked first yesterday against GX, going up against Team Heretics who were
on the rise but is that gonna be enough against the most consistent team we had so far in the winter?
I mean all common sense dictates that KC should win tonight. They're the first place teams.
They've looked really dominant but this is Europe baby! This is Europe! Anything can happen!
Heritage can walk on stage right now and upset the world. Come on, Jacks! Do you believe?
I mean team heretics, they might be TH or they might be T1 today. Who knows really? It's
That's LEC after all.
I believe anything can happen, we will see that right after the break.
KC team heretics for one of the highest stakes games we have still left in regular season.
Stay tuned.
No ult, Pantheon.
I'm moving.
I'm moving.
I'm moving.
I'm flashing the wall.
HVAC's no ult, I'm going to TP in 3.
It's a good fight, I like it.
The Pantheon?
We're slowing him.
I can kill him.
I will ult him out.
We don't reach him, okay?
I'm ulting.
I'm ulting too.
I like that they're slowly... look look look look...
We're going we're going we're going
I tank tank tank
I'm flashing
I'm flashing
Let's go Nash let's go Nash let's go Nash
Damn, Hey Draco, are you ready for the- Oh, that doesn't look good.
Wait, I have a solution, but you have a break.
Hi! We'll be right back. Just wait.
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
See? I told you we'd figure it out.
I don't think this counts.
Come on. Let's go.
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All right, now the playoff state we're coming out this one's huge for your second last game
of the regular season.
Ellie's here with us.
Derek's down there and we're going to run you through Team Heretics and KC.
Now listen, if Team Heretics win this, not only do they lock themselves in, they're
They're looking fanatic and shifters will be very bye-bye, but KC win, they're looking G2
and LR, and then Team Heretics are out.
So Team Heretics literally locked themselves in or die, they do or die, this matchup is
all about them.
It is incredibly important here, how this one pans out, and coming into this week I would
have been like, you know what, Heretics, it's not really going to look good for you,
but they have had some great performances.
I mean, they're able to take down MCoy last week.
They beat Fnatic this week.
Like, they've kind of gone through some of the top contenders.
Now, you can kind of say, look, it was MCoy on an off day.
Maybe it wasn't Fnatic's best day, but still, heretics.
This would be such an insane statement
if they can take down KC, the team that
is at the top of the standings right now.
The team that lost the shifters at the start of the split,
the team that lost to LR at the start of the split
as well. I mean, there were so many moments where like heretics should have closed out
the game, but they did not. They could not. The redemption arc begins to be moving the
pick and ban. And it does mean we're going to get a red side first pick here for KC.
Dagda, I have seen so many picks for Boussa workout. Well, I would be surprised if heretics
leave up some of those priorities towards KC. I'm just saying.
Well, my eyes were actually going towards Varus, which is now left open, which
may have to be found by heretics. But I love the read here from KC. They saw
all the Jarvan ban and know that Heretics are trying to set up for an Azir Orianna trade
where the Azir goes across the KC and they can respond with the Orianna but now you can
see okay well actually with the Orianna ban we're going to leave Barris open, KC now have
to decide what they want to try and take here. Is it the Barris, is it the Azir or
the Rumble Hover that was there? But now Heretics have set themselves up for two
prime picks that could be, it looks like the Azir and the Rumble.
Because I mean, are those prime picks worth it, I guess, is the only question.
Because, virus to me is the strongest out of any of the picks,
just purely because of what we've seen in the LEC.
But more so because it's a list on virus as well.
He's had some clean games last year.
He's already had a clean game this year.
Let's see what he can do on the pickers.
You said Rumble, didn't a match to the range?
Yeah. It's the next question from Heritage.
I thought they'd take the Azir,
because then you're kind of forced to KC anyway,
to match top and mid.
because now you're going to see it.
And now they can take a zeer, right?
And they can then take their jungler.
Yeah, so kind of surprised.
I forgot about this.
Yike on this was a nightmare.
And if you're playing a ranged draft,
if you're playing a poke comp, how good is that?
So this must have been what Heretics were thinking.
It was like, look, if we go a zeer,
we've let ourselves actually kind of up a creek
without a paddle.
So instead, we're going to take the jinn,
does well in two range.
And now if they go for this poke style composition,
We can respond with something different for Saren, something like a Zoe that we've seen from Humanoid, something along these lines.
I wonder if that's going to be worth it though, because then you also leave up.
Lucio has Leona in the pick for a long range engage.
Supplementary for KC, Bard, you're right.
This would be a surprise to me, but okay, Nico's going to be the engage tool.
They're going to go in a different position, but also a very good zonekeeper.
I think Nico is the champion right now as Nautilus to close the gap on heretic side as the choice.
But I truly wonder how this is going to round out Dagger because Shairo is still without a jungler.
He needs an answer into Yikes Jace.
The Malfight is kind of the answer and also does work well with just finding an engagement, right?
And Malfight rumble, pretty strong combo, if you ask me, you know?
So I'm wondering if that will be one of the bands that go away here.
It's kind of surprising to me that we've seen it less and less,
but honestly I think Shairo has looked best on you.
We've seen the Mundo respectfully banned away.
But on these tanks though junglers, so if you end up taking them I'll fight I think you're in a decent spot
Call now fight just in the back of my head just simply because we haven't had the best games on the LEC
But such a great response yack needs to be dealt with yack needs to be shut down
share has been a bit of a Mundo jungler so far but a wukong in there as well
Played the Jace himself
So you gotta think that the guy knows how to respond to this jungler is by seems to be one of them to close the gap
That's not taken off the board.
Makes the most of my sense and again, it's the same kind of logic as the mild fights of the way you can see.
I am curious whilst paratix are cooking up here though with the galeo on the opposite side.
Because there's not a 100% circle of the plan is for the mid lane.
They were maybe thinking that that was going to be a galeo top.
Oh sorry, galeo top.
No, no, no, but you're right. We don't really see it much so I wouldn't be too surprised.
but maybe Kana's gonna cook a little bit more.
Especially since Rumble running into Asan, okay,
it's just a mitigating matchup.
Kasanti might be the answer for Kana this game.
What do you think?
If you really wanna get spliced,
I think Aurora could work pretty well.
You do.
But into the Rumble,
we see it a little bit over in the LCK and LPL.
And honestly, you're playing from range here anyway.
So maybe that's the trick.
But also nullifies the value of the mouth fight
if you do wanna go for both the knock turn
and the vibe ban by adding a lot of AP damaging as well.
us. What is the call here? We said to Zoe. Please, please team heretics. You go out with
the thing. You play like what I would call a KT style draft from what we've seen many
times from them. Okay, so that's where I think kind of could have taken that. So I think
heretics kind of with a heads up to say, Oh, this is something that could be pretty
good. Can you just go now? I mean, Connor's now is legendary. Can you go now in this
matchup. What do you think? What's on the board for you?
The other option is Gwen. It's kind of a good matchup into the Brumbull
boss, not exactly with the rest of the composition. So, like, you don't really
have a lot of members on heretics that are kind of playing into you right now.
But running into the Aurora, the biggest question is like, what are we going to
see from Yehu this game? Because Kasante might just be, okay, I'm just
going to take that matchup. I'm Kasante, it doesn't matter. But Mid
matters so much here. What is Yehu going to pilot? The best team in the
league what are they gonna run into this Aurora what has to do with range probably
something like a rise or something on these lines to be honest because things
have a right ban yeah the block for Yahoo I mean we saw the vein of it was
cheeky it was false I mean you could go for this over if you really want to do
post lock it gonna be yeah okay oh yes first lot long on the last day lec do
we get to know we don't chill everyone chill we need a jungle we need a
jungle. Is it rumble jungle? No. Not rumble in the jungle surely not. I mean it's not. I think it's
still playable if I remember correctly. It is playable. It's just about what you think of the comp. I'm
going to get you a question answered on that bag because Investor gets locked in. There is single
target lockdown here. You're going to have to run me through because I see a lot of Pocom team
heretics side. I see a lot of range. There's good team fight setup but do you think they're
like a shotgun combo or what are we talking about? I mean KC is all about the poke, right?
It's a try and land a lot of us from the Varus, from the Jace, even a Blanc like Distortionine,
Q, Olt and E and you're just going to one shot someone especially if they're already taking
over the rest of poke. And the good thing about the Blanc as well is that she can try and play
in fights to match a roar on Flanks because a lot of what we're looking on heretic side is,
as you called the pointy click CC with the Nautilus to set up for the Rumble,
set up for the investor. It is a rumble jungle it looks like as well. Yeah I mean well it looks like
it from the setup here so yeah so it's a rumble jungle. So I think it's good because you get the
investor counter pick against the matchup in the top side and for for heretics all you really want
to do is have that combo of picking someone off finding engages with this investor and with
the Nautilus and hoping Aurora can find some flanks to slow people down so you can play
They catch up in the rest of the engagements.
Just looking in a bit of solo queue, looking at the build as well,
looks practically the same with Leandre as well.
He's no speaker picking band or pipes up,
but everything else looks pretty practical.
So Rumble in the jungle for Team Heretics.
And I think what I said came true, Dagda.
They want to go out with a bang.
This cop is a massive bang, a flash in the plan,
because Heretics either lived or died
with the success of this draft.
Welcome to this best of one, where so many teams
watch closely.
The lives of G2 Lost in Tones relying on the best team in the LEC right now in KC
while Team Heretics can change their fate and lock themselves into playoffs.
So we're actually seeing some cool J's tech in the jungle specifically from Yike.
If you start without a pot, you can full clear into one accelerated shot glass combo
with your first strike which gives you just about enough gold on your first reset
to hit 1,100 gold so then you can pick up the early serrated dirt.
That makes you very powerful then when you start to move through in the rest of this.
So, when you keep your eyes on it, you like to see what is reset.
Looks like it's something that a lot of Jace has started to do.
And also he's going against Kog that doesn't have a true tank.
Like it's really important to note that there is a lot of shredding.
Casey, it was like this last time.
It was like this when Jace pulled out the Jace last time.
And there was just no true tank that guy.
And guess what? Casey got to run away with the game.
and from there he was 10-1 and 11 last time by the way as well. 1K DPM is what he pulled out of the triple.
I think he set the record for the largest goal difference in the jungle in ADC on this pick
and a lot of that was because of how Yike and Buccio interacted together.
Now you've got a good pushing lane on this bottom side, that opportunity for Yike and Buccio to link them together
is at an all-time high once more.
Well that jungle support the best in our league and again they're not just getting that name because they're the top team.
The top team is really helping cement themselves in this top position.
For KC, it's going to have to start with that bottom lane.
We talked a little bit about the virus being left open, importantly enough.
Ignore top for now as the ambassador gets a good matchup,
and you expect them to get better and better with time, like a fine line.
But, dagged at that bottom lane, that virus, we're going to find out
if it was an mistake to give Kalis his virus again.
I mean, for Heretics, it's risky.
Well, I think you have to risk it all in this sort of situation.
You're trying to take down KC with the hopes of keeping your LEC versus campaign alive
Keep my eyes here because oh that didn't end up connecting because again like
Yike won somewhere right now as he finishes off his blue to go towards hitting accelerated shock blast and have enough gold for this
serrated dirt van recess plus
If there's nobody in the bottom lane it makes it a little bit more difficult
He's trying to pull the wave, but he comes close, but this will crash in the end, so nice
from Casey, just to get the wave back to an end neutral as well.
Notice here who actually in a bit of a lead is teleport back to the lane with an amplifying
turn, but obviously some good trades there against Saren on the Aurora, and that's
what you want to see as a LeBlanc as well, getting your game off to a snowball itself.
Shale, going to move in, just get a ward down, marching yikes, but this is the
most awkward here.
He's got a shot glass combo, hits, gets the first strike gold, and then he's got a look for this raid at Jerk on Reset, so just if you're playing solo queue at home with Jace, this is something that you can't.
Nice little take on the Raptor camp on the B4 here as well, so if you like, it'll be the right place at the right time.
Same thing he said here, a share, is they're crossing the map for now.
now. Tracin getting really good trades up in this top lane and I mean again it was
always talked about how Ambesa is just a nice matchup into Cassante. This
Laughman of Blex when we've had a lot of Ambesa's just go to the jungle. It's very
sneaky from Heretics. Another question is to if this works out Tracin's really
gonna have to make the top lane his own. Against Karna, who's a great weak
side player by the way, that is a tall order because I think Karna has
still been one of our top laneers. It's just about how he interacts with
the rest of KC, which is team fighting and the lane being his own.
That's why I think heretics did some kind of messing about and draft to make sure that
they could end up with this.
Because you don't exactly end up with the best jungle matchup for Shale in this sort
of situation, right?
You like to play from range, make it a little bit more difficult for you, and you're not
really going to be able to connect on towards the Jays.
But it does open up Trace and have a good matchup at the moment.
I mean, he's a wave ahead in the CS department, so he's doing a pretty good job in keeping
pressure on towards Kanna.
And that is making it way more valuable at the moment than anything else.
I'm utilizing the fact that Yaku is spotted moving across mid, going up towards the top
camps and now obviously clearing towards bot as well.
It's also because Shado is hovering the lane, so giving you a bit of comfortability to
trace in here is nearly a game nothing much has happened until now, Buzio, with an angle
onto ice clefts away from.
But this is what we saw on his Alistar the other day, this is what we've seen
many times from Buzio.
He finds his creative, innovative path through the jungle and he's where you least
expected we just pop out of your own tri brush at a timing we're standing up
to reach that just kind of moves up towards me it's post end up there make
sure they sit around and then yeah so I have to move back and I think this is
where we were kind of saying boost it was so dangerous as a support is because
you know who's very well out of play with these small timing windows you
can see yike again moving in to get vision down will spot out the share
was going to make his way towards the bottom side but if ice is it
underneath his terror like it sets it up very easy for yike to move over
just take a couple of pop shots with Kalista.
You take a quarter of ice, that's not it.
If the failed Dreadline onto a minion,
Kalista is looking for the Q here now.
It's dangerous damage onto the Nautilus.
And if Dragon wasn't free before,
now for KC it's guaranteed.
You got pushing mid as well.
So I think you'll have, yes, then,
pass the recess, can't stick around for fear
that people are going to come across.
A little low.
Calculated.
As a help to the team, so we'll all be fine.
But this is kind of control in the early stages in case he's playing off these strong lanes
and something that seemed very consistently from this team is their ability to just play
from pushing lane and boss into controlling space in the Botsite River, stacking dragons,
looking for early skirmishes.
And there's no different story here.
Speaking of stories, just quick side note.
Shout out to our production.
Apparently the last LEC Jungle Rumble was in 2024 summer and it was from Shado and he lost.
That's not good.
That's not good.
No.
Let's see if we can right the wrongs.
And so far he's losing out a little bit of gold, but it's not much to Yaik.
I mean, Yaik is on the same cance, but he also got the dragon.
So things are pretty even between junglers.
The biggest league right now on someone's rip is Yehu.
Yehu's up 20-something CS.
I think he's bullying the hell out of Serent.
He got counterpicked for mid, and it's working out well,
as Team Herodix are now going to try to do something well down the bottom.
Flash over those steps! Beautiful!
Poozio gets out of the way with the rubbles. Into a corner!
corner, his first part, match with second, overheating, Khalees dies to the fourth.
Ice lined them down and the pins are shot into the ground.
Massive timing exploit there from Heretics.
The wave is pushing in, level six for Ice, not available for Khalees to boost you.
And Shale has that ult to make the play on the bottom side.
Massive swing for Heretics in the bottom lane.
Great jungle timing here from Shaiob and KC are rats caught in the corner.
Because Klist, if you could clear this wave, we'll be fine, but he just used his Q.
So, he can't actually clear it, the wave's at level 6, stands thefted up, flashing in to make that fight happen.
And it's a double kill for the Jin.
And what we've seen is when Ice gets ahead for heretics, good things happen for the team.
Yeah, tend to kill Master. That guy 40 is double killed when we talk about their matching range,
range, what the Jin was in the composition, Ice on Jin, as that Chata knows what's up.
I feel like for Team Heretics, this early lead has mitigated what we're seeing happen
in the bottom lane, right? Like Soraya Dirk, Pickaxe already picked up. Yes, it's poked
from Kalis, but now Ice is going to get to that first item sooner, next dragon,
maybe a reality, and Team Heretics in the 2v2, maybe an even better scenario where
they come out unscathed.
Yeah, you do have the cleanse coming up shortly before Ice, which helps out
Massive it the only downside is that there's no flash on stand
Yeah, and if you end up looking for you know
Boosio to hit some sort of tango barbs and then the follow-up with the damage from both callist and yike
I think that's where you might struggle here to keep the bottom except
It's chains after the sigil comes in and the trade. This is what seren is dealing with
You know what I'm really worried back to seren's in the thing yike is moving down towards this bottom side though
Expecting Shale, I think to go towards these Voidbrooks, but he's actually moving it into this bottom side to help protect them.
Coming back to KC, as you said that Clones is now up and available for Ice, Cain, Ness there, and a Whiff from Khalez.
As Dan gets the hook in, but with the Tango Bar's follow-up as well, depth charge has to be used.
Kurt Gorgon to come out, Lucio has to block every shot here. Teleport in the play, Herodix have an angle on Khalez,
but the TP is so damn slow, Saracen flicks between worlds
and he gets both another double in the bot lane of trouble.
Bot lane die is the name of the player here from Heretics
and they have been pulling it off beautifully.
KC are 0-2 apiece in this bottom side.
But it's danger right now for KC,
because we've looked at a couple of weeks.
And it looks like it wasn't the player here from stance,
but each of the ultskite,
who had actually gone into melee form
So put a bottle up with the accelerator shot blast on to stand his TP comes through shot raining down from ice
And seren the flash over the tangle bar was
Perfect just set up for those and that was double flash right stend in the first time over the tangle bar then seren
Both these carries are reading the movements coming out of Buccio here
And it is giving him so much relief in a lane that he's losing so hard
Grubb's gonna be taken as we come back to life, but for KC, they're down a thousand gold. Sure.
Mid is going well, but the rest of the map currently is either on fire or in a very happy place.
Hey, you're not getting the body that you're hoping for as KC in this sort of position.
And as long as Heretics are keeping up this pressure, you're not gonna get value that
you're hoping for from this poke comp. If it's Heretics that are starting to take vision
into control river. You're in a good spot. There's still a lot of wards on this bottom
side of the map though for KC. And I believe it may as well as Shale's tries to move in
here.
A good play, Shale with the climb towards there, narrowly avoiding on Brava, missing
here on the dredge line. But KC under so much pressure on this Varus pick and it
is nice. We asked our team here, it's going to have an answer to the Varus, like
why did they let this open? Well, I think we're getting one now as we look to the
top lane 1v1, Kana on to Tracin, they all aren't going to be used. It's buffered,
Tracin does get out of dodge, just can't take the turret shot, but there's no
just 1v1 happening here today, at least not yet.
Both top laners now, 4 of them likely going to need to reset, they're kind of a little bit healthier, so there is a
teleport play if you want, as KC to go down, but Kana, little mana and no
ultimus makes them a little bit less threatening. You see here though, KC just
trying to set up for that poke, but this should be heretics.
Look at the way flashed Reds line. No setup here from KC, instead of pick up the poor Buccio down.
Yet he was looking for an angle himself and there is still lots of dragons, so KC get double for the life of Buccio.
But only time will tell if that's really worth it. Team Heretics keep stacking up the goal.
That's what it was. Clutch brought Yike as a kill and Dragon going over would have been a complete disaster.
But at least giving yourself a little bit of time here with two dragons now for KC,
Heretics really would have liked to start stacking those objectives up now.
And Yike, by the way, is just picking up gold piece by piece once again, here on the chase.
No ulti's in top laner, so for Tracin, he should have the edge for now, but Kanna looking for the flip.
Even out of ulti form, it connects, and once again Tracin in trouble with Busey.
On his respawns now, come top, the range.
Tracin lucky to be alive, he's running for his life.
The setup needs to come through, but there's no roaming LeBlanc, not yet, team Herodix.
Looking to cover, Yike still looking for the dive.
Tracin, one more shock blast in the hammer form.
He flushes, he still gets hit!
He flies it down, flush away from Jyke.
Team Heretic's on the chase, but I don't know about this one.
Carbon's gonna get the acceleration again, a bit of movement speed,
flush away from the straight line, between World.
He gets it, it's hardly, but he needs a bit more damage
if he's fallen down.
And Saren will complete.
Heretic's get one back, he's on the Saren again.
Who's now four and zero?
It's a one for one, but looking at me, it looked long.
Starting to take those turrets,
maybe not as he takes the mid lane turrets,
as Heretic's extend further.
Jyke needed his mana back, so he got the cat,
He wants the blood, and with the dribble, how easy is that?
Share with the kill-up as well in this game.
He's getting out of hand, there's 1v1 between Eddie Garrett.
He's firing up to the list, he'll be alive.
He's running at him, doesn't even need a counter.
For the blood is running, and Heretics are making it flow faster.
Heretics know this game matters,
and they are putting everything on the rip.
KC, they're falling apart here.
Yeah, he's gonna run out. He's okay for now.
Now Tracer make the roam down, nothing down on the bottom side of the map.
There's just swapping lanes here so Tracer can get some taro plating.
But Shaeo is speeding the game up, I have to say as well, Seren's Growns
at first have sacrificed so much in the CS department,
but it has paid off twice now, that gold's just about in between them.
Matt, Stend is playing out of his mind.
And he is, dude.
We've been looking up Boosio as the best support in the league,
like with Alvro and him battling it out.
But Stend has come in and he's flashed Tango Bar,
He's Flash engaged onto Boosio to set up kills, and he's the one that's setting up these plays on the top side.
Stand is playing fantastically here, and it does start off with this kill.
Unfortunate for Tracer with the Flash, the guy follows through.
But it's here as Shale manages to hit with the slow that gets Khan into position.
Stand forces the Flash, and then as they get the kill onto Khan it's the follow-up here from Stand once more.
These hooks have been crucial in setting up for the picks, as Casey trying to take Khan.
But again, it slows through Shale, sets up for standing behind, and Shale's just burning them alive.
I think Yike thought he could get the camp and get out, you know, got the manor, would have his combo up, maybe look for a turn,
but a bit of greed from Yike, constant instead of going through the lane.
That guy's wholly mulling out of his mind, and team heretics are indeed everywhere.
And Chat is popping off today.
But 1.7k is a concern for KT right now, on ice, who's collectering almost gonna be IE-ing.
I mean there is a very big gin in this game and while there is a tank it is early enough where I feel like ice is going to be able to shred the carry
It has to be on Yahoo to try and take ice out of these flights
Yeah, look the curtain call which is always going to make him a little bit more dangerous
But I think you just need as yeah
Who to firmly set your eyes on ice because in theory the rest of heretics is going forward which does open you up for a window
But at the moment, Heretic's there just not letting go.
Saren pushing in on topside making things uncomfortable for Karna who's a
strong for the Iceborne Gauntlet, so good lane matchups and assignments by
Heretic's to force this, but again, yeah, who would Yike on the bottom side
trading for the Rift chat.
That's how it goes down, Harold is the straight, bit of gold back in KC is important but it is shared.
And these are the two strongest members right now, KC.
As you said, yeah, who needs a bit of gold?
I mean, yeah, who needs to be that thread onto ice?
Completely agree.
I am just worried, though, that when
we were talking about the angles these midlaners play,
that Seren is going to have an equal, if not greater,
part at this point.
He might not have his first item,
but there's a dark steal with eight stacks,
and there's an Aurora who has a virus to deal with.
Like, how dangerous it is to be an AD carry in this game.
It's just because, yeah, who has gotten all the planes.
almost all the players that should say in the mid-lane turret.
It's got a ton of them on the bot and the CS lead.
Yeah, who even with four kills onto Saren.
Yeah, who's still so good, right?
So this is where you have opportunities as a supply.
You've gotten an item dirty up to...
You are quite strong.
And if you can pose a threat, you have a chance.
And KC already established on this mid-wave,
Heretics want to try and use this rip tail play
play to draw KC back out of river so they can actually establish themselves.
Hope's not bad. Harold's horn gives the distraction. It was from Calist on to Ike.
Nice to have you step up. Remember, he has all the Jair who gets hit by Saren.
That's a big chunk. Teleport not available here from Jair who either.
Dragon and Sybil, is that from one spell from the mid laner?
Yeah, that's Saren takes fighting back. Huge hope from Saren.
Notifies everything. You're still having Kanna pushing this top side,
it should be him to get the tower. But Casey, we're hoping they'd be able to play that a
little bit slower. Zaryn just shut that down.
They thought wrong. They're going to go down to Kana in the meantime. That's something here.
But Team Heretics fighting off their ass. I mean, this is a brilliant game so far. Like,
if I saw the Heretics all season, what a joy it would have been. What a different story
they would have painted. It's like when the fear sets in. You know, Heretics play
out of their mind, I guess. I mean a lot of teams do, right?
Quick side note as well. I'm going to keep reminding you all what today's all about
because we still have a couple of teams unconfirmed. We set it at the start.
We'll say it again. Aerithix literally will die, obviously, but also
if they win, the Nathik will also lock playoff and then G2 will have to fight for their lives
at the end as well. And the shift is also watching in the back like this.
So many teams affected by this single Fest of One and it will change the whole season
and the next two months for these organizations as well.
But so many of these stories have been written by teams like Heritage,
stepping up and beating teams that we consider the best in the region.
How being fantastic performances and now here against KC, Heritage are doing that once more
and yeah who is going to be in trouble.
Five angles, doesn't get the change though.
It was really sneaky with the Viseran and the stretch line almost connects as well.
Seng gets bound, depth charge down to all the block depth charge.
Hades is now connecting against a wall waiting for the dredge line change also out of...
TP though!
The change is going to be coming here from Karna.
He needs to stack up the Q, he's looking for the Minotopos on the way, but Team Heretic's
already too far away. They've got Scuttle Crab as well in that cut.
They're going to run it out. TP was committed and now down.
So they don't get anything for the TP.
Heretic sure they burn two ultimate, but they'll be back up relatively shortly
and it's a minus onto the Baron, which is not going to be rushed by KC.
That's three minutes until the next dragon. So for air ticks, you'll take that trade any day of the week
The other has to go match bot anyway
So see if it really matters to trace and get back up towards the top way
I get poked out a little bit and even though Calista's behind 2000 gold
I mean, it's still the fall of the virus. It's still a very big post 80 carry
We die as well as chance crunching connection. The turret now gone
Stand for now. He's had a great game so far
But now with his pads down, what can he do?
Curtain calls Lining down and Clis behind his whole team. He gets saved,
the turret falls down, to the goal again back for KC.
KC finds a pick and Steng's not respecting that change of corruption, ends up getting cost.
Heretic's are playing this fantastically but they cannot give those moments across.
Especially as he starts to look towards these next dragons coming up.
Sure they got one boss. KC with that sneak away, set up for the third dragon potential for a soul.
Karatek still needs to be very very careful. This comp can be so dangerous for picks with KC.
Isn't that white, right? So Dagger is ice gets chunked. Like this comp is so single-swim.
If they get caught out, if they get poked out, oh my god the fight looks useless.
But if they launch and Saren's able to find the pick we saw, Dragons are freebie.
Maybe Baron's a freebie as well. All it takes is one shotgun to the face.
And the face is gone. It's genuinely hard work.
Still though, KCL group took on this midway and it's just opening up for Saren to push in on the bottom side.
And, oh no, flashes away, gets out with a blast, but I don't think he's out.
Yikes still look for the follow-up, Karnas there slams it against the wall, back to the ocean with him and stands twice now.
That's been the picking grace. And now KC looking for Trace in.
Right, needed binding to connect here. For the chains, it does max range.
Yeah, who gets the stun down the poke?
The rain comes in handy and Yike launches!
Have a time for Yike again.
Yeah, who was being so clean with these chains and setting up the plays.
And now you get that top lane tier 2 shale in behind Kanna,
though wants to try and find some sort of answer.
We need a little bit more of the deadly Tharish pocket for the time being,
but Shad's damage is good. Now that he's out of the over here,
he has to keep on going.
With an electro half-boon, the slow from Kanna's good,
but Kana is still Kasante too wide and strong.
It takes more members and more than that to cut through.
Casey is starting to fight back 40 seconds until Dragon resets,
quickly coming through.
Yeah, who I think will have Robidon's deathcap, there it is,
on his return, which makes him significantly more threatening in these fights.
Heretics didn't burn that TP from Saren the play, though.
They're going to send him top.
They still have him to try and move through.
And a lot of vision is already established here.
The Heretics, I think they're set up a little earlier this casey can look to poke from this position
Yeah, who's gonna send out a change because behind him once you like again
Dp was turned down to the bottom side Stranum regroup on this objective
Okay, see a push heretics back and moving through these show points is so dangerous as heretics
Stent point to click CC with the setup, but it's kind of he finds red line comes in
Karnas out, yeah, who jumps in. A little bit of poke on the Tracen.
KC to turn the fight, gets the Dragon. It's all about this play.
Team stand and watch and wait and hope.
Serenity start off the Dragon. If only softly that, uh...
Going down very, very cautiously.
Boussier looks for an angle on the Tracen.
KC line the River. Seren here goes in.
This Tracen makes a play. But KC unstepping up.
Equalizer in the River with the ultimate set up as well.
Tracen! It's a beautiful one!
Tracen's kept them in the bay.
Heretics have already found two, and the dragon kind of came in to help finish off the fight,
but the fight is under Heretics' overwall U.
Bit of post, but there's not enough damage.
They pounced, they threw, they jumped in, and Team Heretics knew exactly what to do.
Tracing with a great ultimate to set up that play,
catches onto Kalista, sets up for Heretics,
and they immediately turn over towards the Baron as well.
Oh, it's gone. I mean, it's a chin. It's an aurora will go to a replay and come back to that one
But this is beautiful setup. Muccio spent some time marking Tracen off on the side here
But as soon as Muccio steps away Tracen able to get with that Rumble ultimate
I think, oh no, she didn't get onto the cliff, end of the Yike. The Yike gets a point down immediately
But just doesn't have a chance. Too many damn circles in League of Legends. Aurora all top blossom
We need a different shape looking at that fight again
I mean booster didn't get to put his circle down because the Aurora was there and the burst was there as well
Seren also just picked up the book of death that thing is there and I can't get rid of that off the screen
Dac is gonna have to help me is
Yeah, Seren is feeling it and heretics another one moment a mountain dragon denied from a Cassante again and
Baron picked up in the replay
Now this is their time to stop taking up gold and make this lead an opportunity.
But it also denies KC access to the map, which is crucial against the pole composition.
If you are trying to take space as this comp on KC, it's not a fun time.
Yes, you have kind of there.
But if he's not with you, it just becomes so much more difficult.
And for Heretic, you've got a ton of damage.
You just thought of that last fight.
If Tracin or Shay or anyone ends up locking you down,
It just becomes a very difficult game to play.
Such a great one from Heretic's. I mean, I cannot explain that this is their best game of the season right when they need it.
And obviously you at home are sick of the stakes, so let's focus on the League of Legends. Let's get to the war of it and how this game operates from here.
Because it's two dragons apiece. Baron has been used to get these waves out, but it hasn't really done a solid dent.
The heretics taking it off the map feels like justice feels like a bit of extra gold, but that's a we're starting to approach
Three four items here on some of the carries and I want you to tell me how the next couple of minutes of this game
It's gonna go what you're looking out for because things are tense
And they're quite even with a lot of potes being flown out hoping to get a pick. Yeah, a lot of this is
Heretics staying safe until this next object
If yeah, who's able to push on sidelines and then collapse on me even find a pick on towards ice or something like that
That's where this game can start to fall apart for heretics
But at the moment if heretics just play safe in lane and don't give that opportunity for a pick
It's significantly harder, but Sten does kind of play him a fire here a little bit
You know, yeah, who's missing. He's been found out as well. Yeah who over the wall changes the connect now
As you said Sten plays with Vi because if he gets caught by one chain of CC the rest follows
He's dead and that's all it takes sure he's able to block a bit of damage there with help of Bastion Breaker
Jagd just pops in, but so does the target. The target pops down as well and Baron now gets a bit of gold under the wing.
It is only about a 1200 gold bar of power play for now, though 30 seconds and we've kind of pushing the wave.
There's not enough pressure across the map for Team Heretic to actually break another one of these in.
But Heretic's kind of got what they wanted, like all this vision has been established on this bottom side,
which makes it much more difficult if you're Heretic KC to try and move through because then it's Tracin who can set up for a play.
Stent, who can look for the point to click CC, and again, if Kana isn't with you, you don't have
somebody who's very good at taking this space back, so as long as Heretics can play off this vision
that they've established, and where these waves are settled in the lanes, it becomes much easier
for Heretics to play for the dragon. I mean that dragon as well that stops the poke comp
and it strikes like how much buffering you get, not only with the mount shield, it's
obviously the end goal with the soul, but the individual stats are there. Stent,
W having available rather that was celestial blessing, but he mitigates some of the poke and you start to see that yike
Although he was quite big and has three items
He's not doing really that much to anyone outside of ice and serenity. Yeah, I mean you've lost the
Seekers arm guard already come through you've got the
Painted steel cups there for ice like armor is starting to be stacked up on
on Airtix which just makes a significantly less threatening.
It's Yahoo again that I was saying that we can't have to focus on
because if he can pop someone maybe that's the difference.
But I don't quite know if he has the capabilities.
There isn't much match-up in this which does help.
Trace and ran into that. Yahoo jumps forward with a distortion.
Sten got poked out again and I'm going to retract my previous statement.
There's still quite a lot of Calistas hanging all the way back.
This is a fight brewing in the river that Casey really want to take.
Take it before the dragon has even thought about.
Sten not getting hit this time around, the Boosio.
Deadly Flyers caught out as he goes.
Golden Sten is rearing for a hook.
Drake's light too early.
Kurt Cobb blocked by the clone.
A missed play from the support of Heretic.
Okay, Dragon's still being taken note,
but it's about the arm to play.
Tracen, hit up, flash forward from here.
Who doesn't get the start up?
Tracen down, change direction.
Here's the ulti from Zerat.
He finds one.
Yeah, who is yet?
No!
Team Heretic's hit the Dragon as well.
Treple on the board.
And KC are starting to get outplayed.
This game is quickly falling out of their hands.
Three mountain dragons against this poke cop.
You already called it, Jake.
It's just gonna do nothing.
Like, there is so little damage
Casey are capable of doing right now.
And even there, you can see Yahoo hoping to focus racing,
take out one of those arms
that are the engaged tools for heretics.
What a costume is like.
Holy, holy, that's a new one for me.
I think Saren is playing out of it.
I want to see a replay again, but I'm not even sure if we have time.
It feels like Baron o'clock in 50 seconds is once again going to be the focus.
And yeah, we're getting a replay now.
Like, am I watching Saren here, looking out in the slide deck though?
I mean, it's Garen who's going in initially, but it is the damage from Shale.
The fact that you end up getting that equalizer set up, Sarah pops, and then passes
back.
Really well played by the Aurora.
Insane play.
No one could catch it.
probably thought Seren would jump into four people, but there he stands.
Magi's 14 stacks will keep counting as there's no big gold lead from Heretics,
but the stats again that Dagger and I both told you is massive.
The baron's up in 15 seconds. Water plate through here is then gets poked from afar,
but Team Heretics are still in the driver's seat in this game,
as River the fight for vision continues.
There's still got to be completely fine.
It's Heritage who's playing on wage states, not letting Casey get multiple angles of attack.
If Stend is the one that's tanking up, he's going to be grand.
Like he's got those shields to come through, has that belt as well, which is going to heal
him when he drops low.
So, it's a game like Heritage doing a good job of marking the angles of attack with
Casey.
Yeah, who over the wall showed us get the binding down and there's Aaron again!
The game winning play maybe because Barron's up and Team Heritage has got a pick on
the mid lane. Heretics immediately move over. Shale is going to start it off. They're trying
to deny KC access here and Tracen. The 25 and 4. Kanna gets wounded down. Zen gets poked
out. Yikes putting for a target. Shale is soloing Baron for now. He needs a bit of help
as Ice moves over to but Team Heretics are separated but it won't matter because
KC are pulling off. Wait. Zen flash engage onto Saren. The poke there and down and
And there's the go-shot, Kali's running as well, and they thought now we can keep him from range.
But Sharon again lined up with Tracen, and the Heretics are preaching their message.
Kana reset and doesn't even bother with the TP. He knows that one's gone.
And what a performance from Heretics in this game.
They're playoff opportunity here if they can win.
And they have absolutely taken us against KC, which for the last couple of weeks have seen like the best team in the league.
They have easily. I wasn't even going to question that.
They have been the best by far. This support jungle has been insane, but they have been counted as standing, stepping up to the plate.
Shaiyuk is having some great equalizers, but Serent on this Aurora is unreal.
And so is this gold lead that's now in their pocket, 5,000 just about.
Setting up for mid-plating as well.
Transcruption through to Landon, he's an opportunity with the chain bastard as well on top, but the stand is not taking any damage.
Mountain driving staffs must be the difference maker there, but still a bit more poeple company.
Yikes won't be able to land it, while Team Heretics use top as their stomping ground.
Yeah, Tracin is happy to just reset and match the push for Khan in the bottom side.
But there's already pressure on towards the top half of the map.
The terror goes thanks to Baron and now a Minus left until potential Mountain Soul.
Four Mountain Traffins, four heretics. This game has just become an impossible for Kasey.
And I can't believe heretics are doing it with this draft.
Well, they pulled out this crazy like, you know, sure, like Rumble got first pick,
they're giving away Boris though. They give away Cassante, they give away Jace.
Because a lot of the time, Rumble gets ulted in top, they're like, no problem, we still got Ambessus going to run at top.
Yeah, we're going to last pick this Aurora, and it was a counter from Yahoo.
But the map movements from Seren, that double kill bot, and then the kills up in top, completely changed the game.
It's the way Heretics played around bot lane that's been the most impressive.
Like, getting these early kills, punishing to get that TP from Seren.
It has been at the forefront of the success for Heretics.
The KC still looking for the poke.
Yeah, he gets some down as well, but Tracin's going to brush that off Dragon up in 15 seconds.
Dagger, this is the soul.
KC needs to stop this for any chance of keeping him in the game.
Tracin's going to back in with enhanced recall and come back quick with his teleport.
Mid-lanet tower falls in the bottom of your screen.
KC looking to find that poke, but Heretic's entering through this bottom half.
You've got Saren on a flank as well, which makes this even more predictable.
Boussio has to try and match, but I don't know.
Yeah, you can see the pink Saren just kind of moving around this vision in the case he ever established.
But yeah, he's done a lot on the side.
Curtain call's gonna start off the fight, but a 5k, the dragon is already in threat range.
Saren now spotted out, Fyre calling the Curtain call doesn't do too much either.
And yeah, who gets ice down to half HP?
4 and a half k's being heredictified, he's skirted out, he's equalized down the back,
placing looks for an angle.
When stolen, Josh's going to die for a WJH who is found out on the wall.
That triple flash to say find him.
Casey now on the run.
They've done the dirty work with Bob Lawson.
His captain in place.
Best supporter of Lee.
He's taken down a notch.
And the Heretics are continuing to preach.
It's Dragon for Beast though.
The Minions are here.
And it's only Kana that has left standing.
Heretics have just done it.
They've just locked themselves way off.
They're the best team in the league, that's what we thought of our KC.
But what is the best to the heretics who now hold hands with the fanatics alike?
We are moving to a different kind of church today.
The believers of team heretics, step on in.
We welcome you.
It is a Sunday after all that heretics will not let us begin.
What a game from Heretics.
The draft was taught through so well, giving over the bars from the chase, knowing that
they wanted to take that offensive top, and the hyper focus on the bottom lane, the timing
on the level six, everything came together so well for this team.
That is my kind of League of Legends.
Heretics you play like that and I will believe because not only the heretics take down KC
It's it's a statement in the sand to show
That they are capable of the top and they lock playoffs, but they also secure playoffs for fanatic
But it does mean sadly that we do have to say goodbye to shifters, but I think for heretics
Backing up before the from the mind right now. Yeah, what a game shift has gone
But a lot of teams now waiting to see what happens in the final game your player of the game in this very strange day is
Shayo
Seren or ice
Seren pop the hell off on that a rock that those angles were ingenious
Ice had another great game where he scaled into the split the show
He's an 80 carry enough to be trifled with and Shayo is getting some of that jazz back man
We thought she was a top three jungler end of last year and now look at these smiles, man
Herodic's locking playoffs and I'll say it again they play like that and they will go far
Which just leaves us another terrible last kick this way
Yeah, law ask them to tell us what the hell he just got the boost out of this
This day keeps on getting better and better stand. Thank you so much for joining me congrats on taking down KC today
I was seeing a lot of glazing for you on social media
Yeah, he's serious was not right now was saying that you just took down booze you're the best support in the league
People were comparing you to carry out and he sang in game for some stuff as well
You're sweating and you're all red right now. So tell me about your performance and what happened here. I mean, yeah
I'm really happy we won against KC
Especially booze you're playing really well. This this spits
We had a lot of angles to kill them on boats. We don't them. We TP behind them. We killed them a lot
So yeah, really happy about that. Tell me how you made it happen because I was looking at your draft
It looks wonky. It made sense, but not really. The Rumble jungle especially paired with an AP mid.
Like, what was that?
I mean, we cooked a bit today.
Yeah.
I think DERDARTS was a lot about poke, and they didn't have a champ to tank my hook.
So, the combo was just send it and fight. So, that's what we did.
What gives you the confidence to send it like this and to take so much risks,
Especially when you know that it's an elimination game because unlike other teams your fate was in your hands. You lose your outs
I mean, yeah, that was a bit more pressure today
but
Since two weeks we have this mindset of do or die because we are like we're like 11 at some point in the
In the settings. Yeah in the same in the settings. So today we just had no no regrets, you know when we play
So just just send it and see what happens. No pressure. Just send it
You qualified yourself and fanatic in playoffs
there's one more game left we see G2 gearing up and getting ready on stage
they're gonna face off against Fnatic but only them or LR is gonna make it to
playoffs oh who wins next game Fnatic or G2 G2 will win
let's hear about this after the black congrats on making playoffs the end again
one more game to prove it all and for the last part in the LEC
stay tuned
is so damn close, Zaren!
Watch the great world, and he gets burned!
You can fight her if you see something.
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Nice, nice, good job.
I'm in help.
I'm pretty sure it's over there.
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One on each way.
Okay, one on each way.
I'm fine, I'm fine.
Flap, okay, two.
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Hey, Jeff!
Hey!
What an incredible play that thing did.
Oh, that was incredible, you loved to see it.
Right, yeah, let's bring it up.
What a move!
He's just so good.
I mean, the persistence, the patience to find the angle.
You just don't see that from up here.
Got it all. He's got the power.
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
That looks good. Do you want to maybe share a little bit?
Yeah.
What a move.
Hey there. Every season starts the same way.
Everyone wants to win.
But not everyone prepares the same way.
I can't wait to show you what I have in store.
And trust me, this year, everyone's level enough.
Wait, is he switching lanes?
Fnatic vs G2, it all comes down to this.
decade-old rivalry fanatic the original champions world season one 2018 world
finals reckless and caps back-to-back on the precipice of greatness 2019 the
era of G2 and MSI that rewrote expectations for European League of
Legends and made a region believe once more but the league changed new blood
arrive and in 2026, two of Europe's most iconic teams are not struggling to make it into playoffs.
Today we watched this match not to see who is the best, but to see who will survive.
One seat remains in the playoffs. Fnatic are locked in while G2 fight for their lives
and loads of those are watching waiting for their misstep because if G2 fall that seat is
It's the final match of LEC versus regular season.
A match where we will watch two of the LEC's most storied rivalries play out.
Fnatic versus G2.
K-dral versus playoffs.
Okay, I don't know, I don't know if that guy is laughing right now.
I can't seem to his boots, but...
Is the curse just real?
I don't know. I don't know.
Because honestly today, like there were so many chances for the Lost Returns to get into playoffs with the rest of the team supporting them in, right?
The Vitality win was almost there. The matchup we had before, what was it before Team Herodix and KC? It's been such a busy day.
We've had another situation where it should have happened and it didn't and then we had Team Herodix versus KC.
That was going to look for me.
I was MQoy versus Navi.
Navi were a top two team.
Then MQoy just came out of the woodwork.
And then Team Herodix versus KC.
And then Team Herodix suddenly had the best performance
of their lives to lock themselves and Fnatic in playoffs.
Now, in this 9.6% probability world
where lost returners would not make playoffs,
we're staring down that barrel and saying,
can Fnatic go against the now heightened odds?
In our last matchup of the regular season,
Fnatic are already locked in.
They're fine. G2 have the pressure on them and domestically I will say when they have pressure on them and everyone's like G2 is going to fail.
That's when they prove us wrong. It is G2 in playoffs or it is lost returners in playoffs.
One of these things will happen after this last game in the regular season.
And it's been a long L while since Fnatic have been able to take down G2 in a series that would define whether G2 stayed in a playoff run.
Like you can look back at summer where G2 did fall to fanatic in the first round of playoffs
But when it actually came to later on it was still going to be fanatic
I say G2 were able to take them fanatic
Yep
There is a history here that only makes it so much more difficult
As you say, I mean, K-Drums still have yet to play playoffs
And if the curse is just that real
Can G2 keep that alive, or can Panatic finally do the unthinkable and take G2 out of playoffs?
So let's end the regular season in style. Welcome to pick ban.
Panatic on red, but they get first pick.
Rumble's gone, Yunara's gone as well.
But Javin and the Mundo ban against G2, that guy who came up in face paint,
unfortunately for him, will he'll be on the Mundo on the Rift or at least in the studio for today.
Also the yike that Jace rather did.
It's just so yikes pull up. That didn't get a win.
He's now also taken off the board, first pick for the Fanatic Decker.
The Vi was there in our last game.
Razor loves this Vi, and he's going to put it all on the line.
I mean, just saw in that Enquai game how you can try and look for this trade with the Vi.
You take these here for caps, okay cool, but we're going to take the Vi and the Taliyah.
We're going to set that up.
But also, if you think back to one of the most successful comps that Fanatic ran last year,
It was the buy-in-the-kaiser combo that was at the forefront of that fanatic discussion
So is that the angle that fanatic want to try and go back towards here just more than a gauge?
But the call with the Orianna and the Zin Zem so bypassing these here all together
But today I mean locking to Lee here right for play I mean play he's got a good to Lee up
I'm just gonna look at his stats. I mean he's played at three games outside of that
Yeah, he's win rate. It's not the greatest but fanatic aren't the cleanest team right now
Outside of the last game, they were also buying for a point in place.
They were going to be one of the last teams in, but, dacked up.
We got buy, we need pairing.
It's going to happen again.
A bit of range added in the mix for upset here, and it feels like we're just getting
a similar range rough.
We may be a question mark into how mid-lake this is going to be.
It looks like it may not be the case that we're going to go for any of our top of
the meta picks.
Yeah.
instead looking like they can't I mean it works for dive actually no last second
gonna swap over to you seriously yeah it is bus I think when you've already got
the ball you want something that's kind of diving in there with you yeah and at
the moment that doesn't exist for panic so unless you're looking at something
like an investor for a hero this is where you are kind of out playing
I without a lot of those tools that she wants to function and you also have
options for the tankbuster here or rather tank picker should say it's
Look at that investor, Sion's up, Cassanto's up.
Running into a gym with only an Azean.
Let's see if it is top laner of an AD carry
gets locked in here instead.
Scaling AD for Hans Sion, who's had a bit of a rickety split.
It's gonna be all in the line here
to make these C-fights work.
Just open up though, if BD wants to go for something
a little bit more carry oriented in that top side.
He's got the silver to help with that engage too.
Open up the brav as well.
So, I have to see exactly what the game plan is, but as we move forward,
I imagine those bands are going to be towards supports on that bottom side.
Like, just trying to deny things like the Brawm, because you definitely want the Brawm to take that engage champion.
It's what he's been most comfortable on.
Yeah.
How's that most played from both supports? Just looking at this split.
I can't name Philip Brawm as well, like the Rells also brought up.
things like Leona and Nordlas the classic. There's been a fresh game from Lost for anything
possible here. Well, Nico gets taken off the board but Renekton ban makes me think what we're
getting in to get an ambassador from Fnatic here mate. Yeah, I mean that's what we were talking
about, right? But now you're caught as G2. Do you ban the ambassador knowing that Fnatic
are going to probably take that? Or do you ban the Alistar which is such a good pick
into the sipper here as well? So, I mean it's a difficult call.
Well, the things in this game are going to be difficult, Final Band, Alistar or Top Lane.
You get rid of Rakan.
Now G2 can be the ones who pick up the Alistar instead for themselves.
Remembering again, Alistar on a Sivir is something you just can't give over.
But also, that Top Lane is still in question here.
Alistar gone.
Okay, makes sense.
Okay, so it's fanatic about my way. I actually thought they kind of leave us thinking, hey, you take the Alistar, we can match with Lost Ball and Braum.
We've already got some engaged tools from Perils, we're opening up for a potential investor pick on the top side.
They kind of was already starting to all function well together, but with the Alistar gone, it makes things significantly less uncomfortable for the Sibir.
and it's gonna be the barge to try to deny any sort of face on the bottom side.
Not unless I don't think there's a play here, because again,
like, you've got tools to the server to try and play around this.
Alright.
No one just gets locked in here, it's another piece of engagement to pull off on that fly.
But then we have to show cards to the top again, because aren't they starting both still open?
Easy to see how either would operate here.
Ampros has played a lot of Cassante.
I think right now they're opting into comfort.
Jax would be more so for the Zins out and I don't think Ampros is going to play
fight top like I don't think it's gonna be a flex you know when I'm talking
about Vals. Well you kind of just need frontline here you don't really have
champions so broken blade kind of has to either go for you know the Cassante or
a Sion which opens up good opportunities more than a Vesa. Poppy is
one he's going to go for.
Oh.
It's a clever response, yeah.
It was there into I, into our Fessa.
Forget just about the lane, because it's whatever.
But into the comp, pop me a monster pick here for Broken
Blade.
Those G2 look to keep themselves alive.
That could be the scaling here as well, but now the front line,
and they've got reasonable engagement set up for the ball.
Yeah, I think with the last two picks on either side
and the fans, I think G2 have rounded out nicely.
I think Fanatic had windows to try and snooker them,
But the Astro Band isn't really doing it for me.
Could have been that Poppy Band, could have set up better for the invest in the top side.
But now, you already called us there.
Poppy braids into so many of these picks on Fanatic's side.
Super relatively untouched by that Nautilus.
Unless you're going to invest too ultimately in her with the buy and that Nautilus.
And shockwaves for, you know, two dive members as well.
Who are particularly, aren't exactly big tanks themselves.
So there's a lot of answers here on G2's side.
But what we've seen throughout this bliss
is that it is not about the draft.
It is about how these players enacted on the rift.
And at this moment in time, I don't know where that lands.
In the past, it would have been an easy G2 call.
They've owned that head-to-head for such a long time.
But for Fnatic, this is their moment.
G2 are weak and G2 look like they're under ease, and you have a chance to knock G2 out of playoffs.
For the first time ever, that would be true. G2 have never missed playoffs ever.
In the history of them, in the LAC, G2 have always been there.
This would break history, break the internet, and it would send out a plague once again.
Looks very, very happy rodents, but today has not been a fairy tale.
It's been a nightmare for them so far.
Now relying on Fnatic, and it is so symbolic, it is so poetic.
Kajal's team from 2024.
But when he was post-streaming here in the studio, I remember my first year decked up.
And now he has to rely on that same team.
Great quote.
is one of his insolusions, there's hope for G2, they're backs against the wall and a lot of people don't like when G2's backs are there.
That tends to be when they show up, that tends to be when this man on your screen shows up, perhaps
has kind of been the focal point for G2 for so long
and he's been the one that has to step up there once more, a best of one to the Siders.
And I think the main thing that I want to see in this game is how the Braavanskjuman link up together.
I think that's great where G2 bit at the weakest in this place is not finding the success where LeBron seems to be going one way LeBron
It's got the other
And if that is the case that's where fanatic can try and work with Razork and last but yeah
Very quickly turn around plays like this core on the jungle and support is very very strong on fanatic
I think that's where G2 might struggle if we're not careful
This cap gets good trade on the flatty as well
Cluck-cluck lined up, just gets a couple loads of autos in.
Blade has a big chunk, not good for the lane so far.
He's also tried to set up with the warden spell,
rather that warden's wrath, gets some autos in,
doesn't manage to do so.
Ski-mon thought he was gonna go for a gank in bot lane,
but instead he's going for a bit of an invade.
Zin Zhao, one of the best jewelers in the game,
ready to take on this challenger blue.
Still though, I don't think that wave
has been pushed in enough on thought,
and Lasker could try and respond.
Razor has Lasker coming, but it's level two support
to level three.
Yeah, LeBron, all he needs is a wall
It was a very early reset from Vladimir in the TP in.
Bigs up the Amplifying Tom to try and help out, but they do get away. Still it's heal and flash burn from LeBron
May not be the most worthwhile blue at the end of the day
But at least you want holding on to his means that maybe he can still be a factor when it comes towards those early jewels
Got a full topside to clear as well nice spell shield from Hans Summer
And for tonight they just gonna look for the push in but Hans holds the wave out a little bit as well
So, he's gonna be out of races, it's annoying.
It's an attic gear, they can't back here, they can't back here.
You know, he's gonna be in his race tower, but again, it's gonna be too slow.
They need to push out Razzles coming in as well.
Maybe just apply the pressure dagger and help Upset and Lothar crash so they can get
the back.
Direct line comes in.
Deadly class follow-up as well.
As well with the outstructors.
Good damage here.
Maybe it died.
Do you think they can dive this?
Upset has no mana.
Same with Lothar.
I don't really think you can, but they run a desperate try here.
Humon has made his way to bot side. He didn't actually reset. Razor showing.
Smart parthing here. There's a shrine out for a bit of HP. G2 have to buy time to lost with flashes in.
Great gank, great dive. The loss for Dive in the process. Earth flight goes over to Razor.
A 1 for 1 is Han's arm. It's the one who picked up the kill even in death.
Humon looks for the kill. Now turns to Upset. Three Talon Strike on Upset.
No, doesn't complete. Deadly flash dodged away from a 1 for 1, but Upset gets to hit the wave.
And Fnatic, it's so worth on that plate.
You get this wave crush, you deny that from Hans-Sama.
This was, I mean, the best case scenario,
not quite best case, but one of the best cases for Fnatic.
I was just wondering if LeBronk-Chun pulled the wave,
but the minions too low, two minions, doesn't matter.
It's a good, be slow pushing towards Fnatic's bottom lane.
So, threat to fresh air.
As Razzle does get the kill here for the Vi,
but the one for one, it means that Hans-Sama
comes back with a BF sword just to be noted there. The bot lane still not really out of
that much trouble. 15 seconds for dragon bot continues to be the focus here, obviously
top in isolation, Dagger, and Bross getting stunned up a bit by Broken Blade's said fast
presence, but it is what it is. Solo lanes for now are just pretty isolated.
I didn't actually twig that the kill went over to Hansama, I just assumed it'd gone
to LeBrawl after he'd gone down, so yeah that extra kill actually making quite a bit
of difference there.
the last order. So, handsome and now in an okay spot now the wave you can see there
a massive wave crashing into upset so the CS and that's all we're leaving up for
our upsets. Oh yeah. But the fact you get to come back with a BF so it is really big
and it's some some one of the best facts you can have is this sim. Cap's gonna
shock right pull Vladdy runs into it he's got lethal tempo often available
well but he needs level six Cap's gonna get dissonance and Vladdy he
made a good outplay but if he takes one more combo he's dead lethal
tempo keeps him in the fray but bladdy needs at level six now and he needs to
make a flashy play with razzork in the vicinity the brock found out razzork
sends himself up with a ball breaker skewmon now and just get the win
become fighting free talent strike gets a knockup as well razzork in trouble
is fighting he's level six free doesn't want to go in he's scared as razzork
flashes away and jungle help from razzork becomes a bit of a disaster
as summoner is now down yeah razzork preemptive been flashing because skewmon
could have flashed for redirect and win become lightning connected with it
And that would have been Ryzer going down.
So Ryzer respecting us flashes away, but still pressure on this mid wave.
This is getting very, very tense. G2 trying to make plays in lots of different areas.
I mean, Scumon has just switched it on, right? Like, yeah, there's a small leaf for Ryzer because of the kill,
but Scumon got the invade before. He's kept 10 power up, he's a bit ahead and see us.
Now with that flash burn, he's able to just take this rag and set up the first of this game.
And with bot being so precarious, a really nice start to G2, and Ski Monk will be level 6 soon as well.
And we'll see if he can get some of these summoners out of these solo lands, because there's still flashes up on a level that will be quite EMPROS upset.
Surprisingly, Ski Monk needs to start taking him away and start snowballing this game.
The junglers have also completely desynced. You can see the cameras are responding on this bottom side now for Ski Monk.
He's going to have to clear it, whereas Razor could push towards the topside, may try and make a quick play towards the top half,
or at least try and clear out some of the vision that's up there, but with Broken Blade resetting, not much window.
Razor just got 6th stag, though.
I think he can make a play on Cap's flash though.
Cap's face checking, wrong time, ball breaker, but doesn't get the summoner.
This one is beautiful again.
Shockwave up in 3 seconds, Razor pull back away.
Matt, if Razor could hit that Q, Cap's was dead.
The ultimate from Bladdy, the ultimate from Razork, there just would have been too much damage, and it would have had nowhere to go.
And Razork, just that little bit short on the play, actually coming in good for Caps.
I can't wait to get away with that. Great timing board with the place to be in as well.
As Bladdy misses, whips the ulti, shockwave in response, Caps at him on the spot, LeBron!
What a roam timer! Blushed away from Bladdy, probably binding doesn't connect, and that probably saves his life,
but Wladi in a game that is so important,
will absolutely miss.
I don't know what forcefield is around caps,
but I need one of them for my solo queue games.
Yeah.
Because Northin is hitting that mark.
Oh no, we're doing it again.
But does Q-mon have the same?
Razor coming in, still has his ulti up the bell,
while Q-mon gets a three talent drive,
him becomes lightning over the wall,
the blue is taken away by Razor this time.
Drexelheim at Nautilus, this match,
G2 have the advantage.
Tildor's gonna come in from Wladi,
but he just uses ulti, Q-mon flashes away
from Razor's season, just this,
but Wladi has nothing!
You just saw him miss air!
That's how I'm gonna get the kill.
Now Razl has to get out, but he didn't corrupt it.
G2 has switched on right when it counts.
G2 have just heard Fanatic off.
This has been a stop.
The push in mid has, I decided to play in mid
into the push into the jungle.
And Numbers Vantage against, this is just Deja Vu
from the first invade from Fumon,
where Bladdy TP's in late.
The number is mounted for G2, but Fanatic still tried to take the fight and it only goes worse this time.
It's likely even if you had the ulti there, G2 already done the damage, engaged out the window.
And for Fanatic in a courageous playoff of this blue buff, Razzloff will get it, but he transfers it over Skimond again anyway.
Sireleaf from Dillifalco on that play and G2, no they are in a comfortable position, Dragon stacking.
LeBron going to be here to force Razork away so we'll see the majority of the boycrubs going across to G2 as well.
But the kills are all going to the areas they need, like HanSama 2-1 and 2 very quickly stacking up towards his items, perhaps in the close spot as well.
I'm a dragon at two minutes time like you should have these first items completed
G2 should be in a reasonably decent spot to contest just because cops have so much for
G2 as you said with those kills in the right spot obviously very very confident here
2k gold lead
They've got a dragon under their wing as well
it really is a
Game right now that you kind of expect to see from a team like G2
when it counts as a top lane get a little bit frisky and frost takes a
hammer shock but not the second charge broken blades being fine in the match
up in fact here's a bit of a CS leading and I think we'll be okay once he gets
that Eclipse once he gets that item to get the shield trade a little bit better
maybe things do get better for the top laner but for now it's g2 story and we
are just simply telling it almost first item behind some of it by the way as
skumon gets his on the other side of the map I can't see any first items there
So Skumon obviously, what a head.
It's just the fact as well that you can't really make plays now as Fnatic.
You wanted to try and play her on this bottom side with Lhaspur having the setup to enable Ryzer because he hit level 6.
You try and play on, make plays on towards Hansam and LeBrov, like take out the squishy bot lane.
But with Skumon repeatedly invading on this bottom side, the advantage is on the push for Hansam or there,
the ability to actually make plays has just gone out the window because you're constantly on the back force.
I wasn't sure if you wanted to try and go for the shuffle there, but we lost the point.
Quick play again, good interruption, with the shot back, a turret shot, and Frost has to be careful.
Buckle comes out with the shield in case it went further, manned a little bit low from Broken Blade, so he stops there.
He's got the keepers verdict available, and a teleport.
There's a bit of action getting pinged around, Bob. This is off to us for a deep ward,
but Razzle just can't punish, doesn't want to pop the ulti.
I'm just going to take that one safe. Still, Bloody going low in this mid lane.
Shockwave again, wait for the Viscenance command attack.
Bloody gets out with the shifting sand, but as he walks back in for the last minion, his teleport's not available.
Caps has a one minion lane in front of him, that gets pushed in.
Bloody has to stick around and now Razzle has to cover again.
But a drop following through, magical journey is there, wind becomes, Lighting doesn't connect.
Caps goes through, pokes out Bloody, this mid laner is constantly under fire, Caps is gapping right now.
And that's causing major issues. The dragon's up and G2 just get to take it for free.
Vlad is resecuted, interrupted. Razor couldn't try and play around mid,
and I wanted to see LeBron with Fumon working together. Well,
they're like a two-man army right now. There's nothing Fnatic can do to get past them.
It's a lane kingdom. I mean, this is what you want to see.
And we've seen in a couple of games this split-con cap,
but seeing it right here at the very last one is impressive stuff.
Two dragons for G2. It is not looking good for the team of the people.
But remember, before the team of the people, there was the team of Europe.
People argue it's fanatic.
Yeah, season one world champions, but G2 have long since been the dominating force.
The fact they're in this position still blows my mind.
We haven't seen many games like this one, though, to be fair,
as lane quest is complete for caps.
And it's one of the first G2.
I've got the top side of the map, in fact, completed.
But this is where G2, we talked about that, the most dangerous, we know they're a team
that can't just turn it on when it matters, and then against Fanatic, it seems like they're
doing just fast.
Two minutes now until the rip trails, imagine resets are kind of, are push out into looking
for resets for items, and starting to ship people around the map is where G2 are going
to be, and I think if I'm Fanatic, I want to start trying to make plays for his camps.
He's still has a flash, but she does make it tough.
When his Orianna enters into a side lane, that's where she's at her most
full-time for BB.
Flash, but the flashback is in better.
Ampros can't escape.
Now he's got a 2v1.
So well played from Broken Blade, and Skiu-Mont is running the top side of the map too.
And Daddy nearly died in mid lane as well with Captain Wombi 1.
Yeah.
Have to shuffle away.
Wrenchline comes in.
I mean the 2v2, what are they going to do there?
Stormsearch, Tivor.
It doesn't really matter, Upset doesn't have a full item in his name and it's
just nullified.
G2's bottom lane are chilling in their own right and as you said, Caps is finding so much pressure in this lane
in bloody size as Flash, but now he needs to burn TP again.
I think it's just not that many chance, I know that Orianna wins the matchup early, but it's not supposed to be quite to this level.
Caps making a statement game here.
And the fact again that he's been doing it with out half into burn as Flash, we don't have to burn these spells
is what's causing more issues for Fnatic. Like, you, again, Razor can't play mid with Bladdy,
where Bleddy ults once, you burn the flash and caps and then you just go for a repeat performance but
Razork's been under so much stress and as well, Bleddy just hasn't been able to win out in the 1v1
so now you're looking at level 9 on Razork, skewing on a full level ahead of him, G2 setting up on
this bottom side for Dragon, that's our provision, if Fnatic try to make some sort of cross-match
play with Rift Herald coming up, there's just no way you can do it. If there was ever a player
Razlok would have to be him. 30 seconds still Herald, the G2. They're taking everything. Yeah, Ampros is now just spotting it out.
Good sidestep there. The wind becomes lightning, but LeBrov still taking the angle of Ampros steps forward.
He's still in trouble, but Capsus' solo taking the tower, playing an Orianna. It's very good at this.
Just winding up the clockwork yet again with two drafts.
This will be another plate eventually, but more minions denied to more members of Fnatic.
That's why this gold is never-endingly growing as Upset gets boomerang down, but Nid's plate also taken as well.
Upset gets deadly flash, but it doesn't matter. And Razlok, you can see, is looking for an angle, but what can he do?
Lossburn shifted bot lane to cover for a potential dive, but he's only paring on the brawl.
It's asked to use, but in a 3v3 G2 win.
And Skiumon's always here. Skiumon's always covering. Dread to line, narrowly avoided.
Or rather, miss. Razlok is going to start up the herald of broken blade is in position.
Reset on Caps and Bot lane, he can TP into this play. G2 want to fight, they know us.
It's Keeper's verdict though, with a teleport coming for a flank, Fnatic need a miracle here.
They find a pick and maybe they're dead. Everything used in the kitchen sink on Schumann and down he goes for a shutdown.
Broken Blade is found out with a TP from Ampros and some relief for the Fnatic, Vans and Faithful as they minimise the gold a little bit.
At least there's something back where Riptow and Caps will continue to push on the bottom side, won't get the tower up the lead, but put a decent dent in this.
But that's what Fanatic needed. Again G2 just a little separated on the play. Caps didn't get the reset, didn't get the TP. A Fanatic could collapse.
He used a lot to do it but it won't matter because there's no response play from G2 as we look at the replay.
Yeah, you can see Caps is resetting the bot side. So I assumed it was reset into teleport.
But then he doesn't actually get the TP, can't do this, yet, because he's already boss, says Qmon Koss, so Fnatic finding that opportunity, and again, the Rift out, we just give them a little bit of gold, a little bit of pressure on the map, as these little cracks that might be starting to form here that Fnatic wanted to try and get a fingernail in something in to try and find any way through the wall of G2 right now.
It went from 3k to 2.3, but LeBrov is going to solo take a mid turret as a support with Grubbs.
So it's back to 3,000 yet again. Not often do you see LeBrov or rather a barge just opening up mid by himself, but it was already quite weakened.
Caps did a lot of that.
Why he's lonesome too, he's even working on the bot side turret which is very close to going down. LeBrov making the roam up while Razork's up in the top side of the map.
Harold's gonna be spawned broken blade in alt-range but Razor doesn't happen.
So, TCA is gonna TP, he's gonna get on out, Harold's gonna charge up, but
Caps has got full access to the bottom lane turret. This is, I mean still a decent
trait for G2, remember they got two turrets in total.
It's also the gold vent to Razor, because Ipiros wasn't in range for the plate gold,
which doesn't really help out of the match-up and sure helps out Razor
for a little bit, but Caps is getting solo gold, and if I want to gold on
anyone it would not be the buy in this comp and then just got third dragon back
now while g2 play bottom side of the map it's a timer around dragon so again it's
like fanatic or grasping at straws but I think g2 are you know the business that's
selling them as it were
I do I do good and as g2 does get to set up back out on the map a little bit
sooner Ryzer case will be made with LOSPA we haven't by seeing this combo
work out for them and now a g2 once more on mass four members here but I
and packing. It'll be a repeat performance. We're getting vision in this bottom-side jungle,
keeping Orianna safe on her bot lane push and making it difficult for Natix to make
these pick plays on Twiside. And we haven't even seen the Caps' Q-mong combo with Zunzal yet.
Like, now that Caps's getting some items and Will have us on pretty soon as well,
with just the AP and the advantage he has in this game. There's a lot of diet, especially
with the Bard, so for G2 their options are only getting greater. Caps is a 1,700 gold lead and a
40 CS lead over Vladdy. I know the matchup is, I mean good in the early levels, but I did not
was this good. I mean this is just a player difference right now that Fnatic have to overcome
either at the sole point of the Dragons coming up in 340 or the Baron fight or some kind of pick
that G2 and Everly is also setting up. Blastler, base check not good, found out, treks line out, Blast
going saves his life. Intros of midway by the three tower strike. Tempest fate also going to catch the support out and now LeBrov has a wall there but Tempest fate is going to be used and not found anything from.
Blue buff is the response however and G2 still has control of the bottom side of this jungle.
And they don't get the kill but they get all of Razor's bottom side which is just as painful if you're a jungler.
And I was going to say like the
Really get them here. I don't know and frost he's got two items with black play as a long spot
But I was gonna say performance like this from capsa why it's always so difficult to carry out a team like g2
Yeah, it at a moment's notice he can just turn it on happy to take the Orianna side of the match
It fits the easier knows that he can bully in the early stages and it's just completely
run around bloody in this game
So now we wait 20 seconds for Baron by the way kids out in the back of your mind
That's always up and available, but two items on Han's summer
But it's just a scaling threat that G2 have in their back pocket too
It's bloody neat some items. It's bloody neat to catch up the caps right now
You're seeing Amprosa two items, which is great, but
Into broken blade. It's just nullified every time into this poppy
You need to see fanatics start using the tools the Viambetic combo in Europe end of last year was this sort after thing
In summer I'm talking about this perfect pairing. We haven't seen it sync up yet
Oh, we've seen his more stories to tell about G2 wave denial minus one cannon
Caps is that every scene of a crime for these turrets every single one. He's there to claim
Vanadik are trying to basically do the same as G2 and follow some resources into body on this bottom side
Broke conveyed is in a better position resets for the bottom play while G2 still keeping pressure open around this part area
Absolutely even willing to play Shek as well, level 13 Orianna.
Yeah, Vlad is the same level as I now check, but I mean, Kaps is almost level 14.
You can see that XP bar is just cresting over the top.
So, it's just showing the difference.
We're getting a Hextech ultimate up.
Sorry, Ryla. Shadowflame getting picked up here by Vlad.
Components picked up, almost second item.
So I'm just still quelled out or waiting for Kaps at the time being. That's worth noting.
At this stage, it's kind of like, doesn't even have to stop off for the Zongas.
Oh, you think he goes Rabadons?
Well, it's gonna say, if you never burn the Seekers' Armguard, you might as well go straight towards the Rabadons, right?
Very true.
He's been farming up an absolute storm, so...
At this stage, unless it gets burnt...
At this next dragon...
There's no real reason for him to pick up the Zongas.
Give an armcaps on the minimap, then, we'll wait for that back.
That's a fantastic point.
You're right, he hasn't had a chance, isn't really needed to use it as well.
Maybe that's why cats are back away because I thought 1300 over Vladdy and Vladdy is like almost towards that shadow plane
Where captain must be scaling it up now he's sitting there he's backing now back up
Yeah, he's sitting on 1400 gold. Okay, so another needlessly so if I was him I'd buy the needlessly or and then
It's only 450 gold to combine regardless for a they can you have enough money with the drawings ring cell to get the 450
So take the extra little bit of AP damage and you still get the value and if this fight goes well
Finish off a rabbit on and you're in a great spot. I mean G2 are in a great spot all around
They're once again playing this bush for the pick against fanatic broken play gets spun off the rest fanatic are on the way
Need to now better all from in here off if they want to make this play deadly charge
That's connected keep his verdict is buffing a one-all thing for another
But they're not equal they need to follow up though broken play step past presence once again gets him out of dodge
But now both type laners are down there are
The resets coming through for both of those top laners, TPs available to try and come through.
Actually it's not broken by resetting, he's just gonna sit up bot lane.
Fanatic is a group.
Teleport.
Oh ho!
He's down four and the different fight follows up as well.
Steal on top, B!
It's another big circle!
The wall presents itself and in one fell swoop, the wrap rebellion seasonally falling short
and instead, G2 just gets a perfect combination!
It was the sleep of beauty that forged wharfs there like I let you pick the names for them because I know what's in my head is
They just wandered in all four of them to a shockwave in a bush. What did you expect I can play?
Congratulations, but yet fanatic bit dumbfounded with the place
one fell swoop and
the dream run
That fanatic now had to carry across the finish line.
Not only has he been out of the woodwork for a while in this game, he now feels so far gone.
Ampros with the dream play.
Teleport in the top side of our map.
Ampros has no ulti.
He's got a mega blast going in his flight. He tries to take the wave and now sets up the zanthar of a G2.
Want to make the play against the wall.
Hit the nice setback, but again, caps keeps him in place.
Down, boy, down.
Ulti comes through but caps suffers again.
And the best mid laner is going to drop down eventually
and therefore it's going to shut down on some of the next up as well
rather than fighting Gretzler and Golfy
but Scumond is better.
Hansana presses his buttons
and all it takes is Fanatic going in the dirt again
for Europe to start crying.
This foul shield was perfect, but you know they're there!
You just got hit by the boomerangly.
Why are you walking into the group?
It's a fed Orianna.
I don't understand what Fnatic was thinking, but G2 got to be more than happy to take that one.
And here it's Heroic from Emperor's Buddy, Hunter back to his base here, gets the Emperor to survive.
And Emperor's manages to burn that Steaker's Armguard at cap.
Oh, at cap.
And still gets the kill, but keep your eyes on handsome at this fight.
He ends up just hiding backwards here.
The path Razor having to help him keep on that fell shield up to Lostless Hook was perfect
to just eke out enough damage.
You can see there the base is a little nervous.
Yeah, there's another base that's quickly shied away from, looks a little bit sad, I
don't blame him.
To have your hands in fanatic.
I mean it's so difficult now Razor, need to show up or shut up.
6k, 5k, 4k, a steal of the guard here needed.
Over the wall will he go at 3, 2, 1, 2 late?
Kurt Goulden threw too much temperate under Bladdy, and now much more journey taken in Ambrose.
G2 is stacked up though. It's a short web again, that's the problem!
Friarzel gets the upper down, but it's 2-0 late!
Hanthammer gets clearing up! He's the janitor of this game!
As G2 are on the warpath and Fnatic covering the grey screen.
G2 are marching down mid lane.
There's 30 second death timers they won't be able to end but they can certainly do some damage to the base of fanatic
True that comment too true being a fanatic fan over the years. They're really getting a real look at it here today
the base in Tatters
Almost a 12k gold lead at 25 minutes in the game. It just shows you
You always think RG too they're gonna they're gonna miss playoffs like we've thought in many different splits
But here they thrive yet again, and it's just great play like last bit does a good job here
Where from play goes for the ultimate are keeping themselves in place
But it's actually the ultimate from the brawl onto gladi that really steals the deal here
They then go through the match of the jury the shot play about the two
And what does Upset do in the backline?
Like, he cannot get into this fight, it's over a wall that he just has no way of closing
the gap on.
Hans Summer cleaned up the fight again, I call him the janitor because 3.6k gold, he
just gets to walk up in the fight and feel damage.
Upset is on two items, Hans Summer is on four.
This Sivir's not going to be scaled, 25 minutes, she's hyperscaled.
And now the biggest question is, how slowly will Fnatic lose this game?
How many Loser Tones fans will be crying you their pillows tonight?
Because G2 have once again stepped up to the challenge and they are not going to start
missing playoffs all of a sudden because they're a new viewers.
But how many fans of G2 are going to free the side of relief?
This G2 has not really been seen all split long, but once again when the chips are
down with players around the line, when their hosts of LEC vs are here they keep
French line is an opportunity to could engage with Schumann as a circle of anti-death shockwave.
They can, can, again!
Emperor comes in late, but the Goat of Europe stands in the way.
Before the team of the people, there was the team of Europe and it starts with G2
and will end with them as well.
LEC versus is over, lost returners are done.
They were alive on the wrong damn team and G2 right when they wanted to make plans
They said yes, of course, we'll be there. We always are and we always will be
It's on the shoulders of cuts to this G2 team stuns
And if that is feet the fanatic are bowed
This man took over the game from the mid lane
Absolutely destroying Gladdy in the 1v1.
Multi-man Shockwaves galore.
Fanatic never stood a chance.
Fanatic were already in playoffs, but now G2R as well.
They are our last team locked in
as you vote for your player in the game,
Schumann-Castell-Agrove.
Fanatic never stood a chance.
Once again, G2R have their names.
And the head-to-head continues.
That man on the left side of your screen.
He just devastated Europe in one single best of one.
But what an insane way to end the day.
This weekend, this last few days that we've had of LEC vs. has been absolutely insane.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel for that.
Like, there's been such a long journey.
I casted a Mia Masters last year.
I've watched their progression.
I've watched their first year of play.
I watched them dominate the league and then come up out of the NLC where no one had any clue
about how good the team really could be with the big names.
They got here, they got invited here along with Casey Blue, and they started winning games.
And while we are celebrating here G2, it is commiserations for Lost Ritones that did
more than any team or anyone in the audience or our community thought they could.
But at the end G2 are inevitable and Drapegold stands by with the man
But just kept saying no.
Thank you very much gentlemen. G2 are inevitable. That's what hysteric said.
Did it feel that way coming into the day, Bibi? Did this feel like a certainty?
To be honest, the longer the day went, the more pressure we had obviously because heretics won as well.
But we live for these moments, this is competition and I wouldn't want to have it any other way to be honest.
running it into something smooth every single time.
Talking about this game in particular,
Caps and the Orianna in form, I looked at your draft,
and I'm going to be honest.
I was like, this is a classic G2 Dylan Falco special.
The safest draft imaginable.
Once the pressure is on, was that the vision behind the draft?
You're just like, we're going to play Comfort.
We're going to play things that are pretty good.
I think your poppy was a bit of spice,
but it was a solid counter pick.
I mean, to be honest, we were kind of just reactive.
But I think today we had a really solid drafts.
And I think we played...
This is giving me some glimpse of the old G2.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
You know...
There it is.
One question not about yourselves.
I'm very happy that you can make it to playoffs.
But unfortunately, your absolute dominance of Fnatic
has taken out Los Frotonis entirely.
Any thoughts?
I am very sorry.
They beat us.
I wish for them they would have made it...
To be honest, a bit sad that the, actually, I'm just not going to say, you know, whoever
went to the playoffs, they deserved it.
You guys are the goats.
But when it comes to playoffs and G2 is in it, we're going to do it.
You know what I mean?
All right.
Is this, are you about to feed me?
Like the fans believe in you, but I need to understand.
We're always talking about G2 plot armor.
We're always, is the plot armor there again?
Is this another?
Oh, we're going to pretend nothing happened in regular season and we're right back
to the script.
I had to be honest, this was the first time that I was in G2 and I was sweating for our player spot.
It kind of brought me back to my old days, you know.
And there's a lot of rookies right now in the split.
So I'm very thankful. They make me feel this way, you know, that I have to work my ass off to, you know, be the best still.
And I will do it until the day I retire for sure.
Sure. I like it. I like that attitude.
Final thoughts. That's the last best of one we have to see domestically for the entire year.
Are you ready to be back into Fearless?
of course. Easy, simple, clean. Let's send things over to PGL to get it kicked off. We have quite
the motley crew of guests standing by to talk all about this week. And what a week it's been. And
to celebrate everything, we have a special PGL today with Skimond, MPRO, Stan. Thank you for
for sticking around as well. And Finn! What a week! What a week! What a week! What a day!
I feel like everyone was like two days ago.
Captain, it's a regular season, like it's crazy. It feels like I've progressed so many
years from my life just by watching this day. Every game was so intense.
I'm aging by the hour watching all of you guys play. Honestly, best of one has
been insane. Around table, I want to have all of your opinion. One word to sum
Come up, LEC vs so far, Skumont, you go first.
Surprising.
Surprising, Enfiros.
Upsets.
Upsets, alright, fits with your team as well, Sten.
Close.
Close?
I guess that sums it pretty well.
Let's take a look at the standings, because I have no clue what they look like right now.
The only thing we knew was that KC was first.
Navi grabbed second on their very first split in the LEC here, followed by team Vitality.
Team Heretic clutching fourth place, what the hell man?
Yeah, I didn't expect that.
I think nobody expected this, but props to you guys.
GX, they were second yesterday, they dropped to fifth today.
MCoy finally grabbed their victory, which is great
because we're going to have the finals in their country in Madrid,
so I'm happy that they qualified.
Yeah, I mean, it's an incredible seeing Heretic at fourth place
because I think like two weeks ago, you guys were at 11.
What an absolute run.
How has that been like these last two weeks?
But what really clicked at this stage?
I mean, we had this do or die mindset since like two weeks, because we were 11s.
But we didn't change our practice daily.
We had this mentality of day one, like every day is day one.
So we just kept working hard and we clutched the last two weeks.
It came on. Any first impressions on this seventh place?
It's very unlike G2, but still.
You guys made it.
Yeah, I mean obviously really relieved right now after the win.
But it was definitely very stressful. I really think that we showed a really poor face, this whole split so far.
But I'm really confident that coming to the playoffs will improve a lot.
And I know that in Fearless, we'll be able to have so many picks that the enemy team is completely against, so I'm really looking forward for this.
Caps was key a player of the game for this game. Any comments on his performance, the whole split?
From what I kept on seeing, he's been maybe the most consistent member for the lineup. Is that something you felt as well?
I mean he just like like the showcase we did like I think for my chocolate 5 and chocolate was just the clutch right so
Obviously like really well put by him
But I'm really proud of like everyone because I think it's one of our cleanest games so far in the split so I'm just happy about it and
Yeah, I mean if you keep showing this face, yeah, I'm confident that we
Will be really strong and heroes saidly you were on the other side of that shockwave and of that matchup
You still qualify to play off so congratulations on your very first playoff in the LEC
I mean, thank you. We kind of didn't deserve it to this week, to be honest.
Ah, you know what? Making it matters, but yeah, talk me through this game and what went wrong for you guys.
Yeah, it was a very stressful week, to be honest. Our practice also was not the best this week, but yeah, very lucky that we kind of went to playoffs that way, even without winning, but yeah, I'm sure if we keep practicing well, we can do good things in playoffs.
We said that this Fnatic line-up was pretty much going to be the same,
not the same thing, but the same dynamic as last year's,
that's something we still feel confidence about at the end of these four weeks.
I mean, I think it's early to say with a new team like Fnatic,
there's a lot of new pieces in this line-up,
and I think they haven't really found what's really worse for them consistently yet.
Speaking of Fnatic and G2, because we talked to Georgia earlier today,
Skumont, and he said that he felt like he had fun today finally,
because there was finally a little bit of stakes in the games,
And he said this finally allowed them to play well.
Did you feel the same way about this in G2?
Or did you feel like it was just pure stress?
I mean, for sure, right?
Like after watching the Heretics KC game,
we were like, okay, we have to look in, you know, like,
so I decided I don't want to go on vacation yet.
So, yeah, I mean, I felt like everybody was really, like,
focused during the game and like seeing about, like,
the game plan and like how to just progress.
And honestly, I think it's the first time
where she played as a team properly this week.
So, I mean, that was nice, yeah, for sure.
And same for Houston, actually.
I mean, you've been in these difficult seats actually for quite a while now,
but knowing that today you told me in an interview,
knowing that it was going to be the last game and the last chance to qualify,
you pulled the one-kiest draft ever, you won with it.
Pressure? You thrive in it, you think?
I mean, yeah, pressure changed the team, I have an opinion, especially best of ones.
So we had to adapt, like you have no choice.
And we had this, we went in like no regrets and just play.
So that's what I liked from the game today, a lot of emotions.
Looking at now, we're going into finally no more best of ones.
Maybe finally, and for us no more Rumble-Kissante.
Are you looking forward to the meta changes, or at least being able to play a little bit more different champions?
Because I feel like we haven't seen, especially Top laners dig that deep in the pool.
It's been a lot of Rumble-Kissante, Sion.
I mean, I really hope we don't see those times again.
Like it's so boring playing these maps always.
Yeah, I'm happy that we will play best of three finally. Best of ones are really stressful to be honest and
Yeah, I'm looking forward to picking some other times
Or Jax?
Yeah, I can play Jax for sure. I mean about the pinot sir, like it's kind of hard to pull off
Yeah, looks a bit hard right now. How about you Stens in terms of like meta saying goodbye to best of ones finally
Are you looking forward to Phelous draft again?
Yeah, I really like Phelous and best of trees
So I believe it's gonna change a lot the teams because right now you could be OTP a comp and be fine with the best of one
But now you need to practice a lot of more team comp
It can go like two, three games or even five
So the next week of practice will be really important. And that's G2's comfort zone, usually. Yeah, a new angle?
But yeah, I think we strive when we are we need to be creative
So I'm really looking forward for the players and finding the normal best of one. I'm really happy.
We are, I think.
I mean, there's just one thing that like, whenever you ask a team, if they think they're a good fearless team, they all say yes.
So I want to ask you all for your question.
Which team do you think is the scariest and fearless? And you cannot say you're on team.
I love it.
Let's start with you, Ski-man.
It's the one team you're a little bit worried about and fearless, possibly.
I mean honestly, not really, I mean like the first that will come into my mind is probably Koi, right?
Like they have a lot of specific Sinterplans especially, and yeah, probably Koi, I would say.
But like every team can just go deep into their champion pool, so I think every team has like a lot of power.
But yeah, I mean, I don't really have like any fears for me.
Okay, what about you Emperors?
I mean, I would say Loserado.
Wow!
I'll sadly let that out.
I guess we'll never know.
I mean after a lot I would say G2 probably I think they all have big trouble
Makes sense. What about you stand? Yeah, I was thinking G2 as well
We have a lot of experienced players that can pull a lot of old champions, so I would say G2
What about you Finn? Outside of these three teams can make it a platter for you
Man, I don't know. I just wonder what Navi is gonna do in playoffs because I feel like really she's the only jungler
Just playing these constant skirmish heavy jungle play style
I wonder if he's gonna keep working out as the tools get a little bit thinner because eventually run out of a trucks is in
Nefiris, what do you think about that skim on I mean this game very interesting
I think that
It will for sure like change how they play because these champs are really strong right now
Especially because it's a flex right and it just gives you a lot of power in the draft
But yeah, like once they are out you will have to just either play like standard champions
Like I don't like Zayn, Wukong, this type of champs or like if you are really creative you can look for another champion
So I'm not sure but it would definitely like make them lose a lot of drifts power
Yeah, I mean it doesn't matter if you're drawing there you pick a better team eventually have to lock the mouth guy
Oh, yeah, I see my mouth guy
I mean you got left as well this much so might have to bring it back. Enjoy.
Back on the leash for the jungles
Talking a bit more about the league and the fact that we've been playing best of once for so long
Stand you feel like it's gonna take you only have you all one week to adapt back to CLS back to best of three
How hard do you think it's going to be to flex that muscle again when it comes to training in scrims?
I'm getting ready. I think it's hard to practice because
You cannot replicate stuff in like game 2 game 3. It's hard because every series is different
So one week is really fast. It's like maybe five days of practice. Yeah with like one day off
So I think it's gonna be hard
So the quality of the games will be important to to have a good practice day off tomorrow for all of you
and then back to scrims.
Yes, yes, yeah.
Nice, nice, nice.
I want to take this opportunity to actually celebrate the fact
that for once in LEC, we had two new teams.
By the way, the draw is happening backstage right now.
We'll review the results once they're ready.
But yeah, LEC vs. we had two new teams coming from ERL.
So you're new, of course, and heroes,
but how has it been, this experience,
for you guys having KCB, playing against KCB,
seeing those stratos as well?
What did you think of them?
I think it was very nice that we saw some ERL teams in LSE.
I think it never happened before.
No, or ages ago.
Yeah, it was very fun also for the crowd to watch new teams and new players
coming to the stage and performing well.
So that was nice.
And for you, Skrimon, who's a bit more experienced in the league,
having Rookies and your teams.
Yeah, I mean, we all came from ERLs as well.
So I know that winning your matches is such a nice thing to have.
And going to LSE afterwards is such a nice feeling.
and I think it's so nice for these players to get this experience in the early stage.
And I really think that they played pretty well for both of these teams,
so I think it was really nice to play against them.
I think they were really creative, those players are nice especially.
And in case you didn't see, even though the score is not the greatest,
I truly believe that they played really well against top teams, even against us.
They were winning a lot of early games, so it was a pleasure to play against them.
What do we often talk about when it comes to having new teams on ERL, or just like looking
at prospects, is who is going to join the LEC next?
Who are the next players who are going to join the league from these teams?
So who do you think we're going to see?
We've been talking about your Kino, or not?
I mean, it's really hard to say, because it's still winter, I think your master's
still quite a bit away.
Yeah, it doesn't have to be this year, by the way, but yeah.
I mean, I think for sure you can always, a person a lot of people are looking at.
Man, even if you go to ERL, the talent pool in Europe runs quite deep.
There's a lot of interesting prospects out there just waiting to be discovered, so I'm really excited to see where we end up.
As a French player, do you think Prime is someone we can see?
I'm not sure.
You're not sure, okay.
I mean, I agree with Yukino.
Yeah.
I saw that I was thinking of Nemesis. If he wants to play, I'm not sure he could hold a spot.
That's on him, man. Like, for years I feel like he's been declining offers, but yeah, definitely.
It felt good to see Nemesis again.
Actually, what did you think? Because we've been talking a lot about how he helped Los Ratones.
It's a different thing performing in ERL, but coming back to a stage you haven't been playing in for ages
and playing to that level. To me, Nemesis may be the player who impressed me the most.
Yeah, I think especially because he played professionally in 2019-2020, late this time, right?
And I think the game pace has really evolved since then, because back then the games were quite slow
if you look back at it, so I thought he would struggle a bit more due to how fast the game is being played now.
is being played now. When you overload side lanes, people started doing that like 2020.
That was a new concept back then. So I'm really impressed by how fast it humiliated. And I
think you showed great individual mechanics and just deep knowledge about the game.
Yeah, I'm really excited to see all these players, honestly, coming back. And maybe
you're in the experiment of inviting teams in the LEC. Was it weird for you guys
actually going from like 10 teams to all of a sudden having 12 teams and new opponents?
I mean, yes and all right, the format was the same as last year, so less of one again, sadly.
Yeah, we don't like them, less than two that again.
But I mean, there are just two new teams to play against.
I mean, it's for sure better for scrims, I guess, like you just get to see more different playstyle and draft identity.
But yeah, not really a lot of changes.
Looking at the bracket that we're going to have soon, hopefully,
I want to talk about potential opponents if we can have the standings once again.
I'm unclear on who they can face though, so I'm going to need production to help me on this, but any opponents?
I know that usually you guys tell me that you need to face off against every team, so it really doesn't matter.
But if you could choose the first opponent, who would it be?
You can go first, okay?
I go first?
Yeah, alright.
I don't want to be offensive, but I would choose Fnatic.
Okay.
I think they have not been fully consistent, so I will kill them.
What about you, Emperos?
I would say them here, I think so now.
Much made in heaven, let's make it happen.
So we get revenge, let us stand.
Fair enough.
I would like to play against Chloe to take revenge again.
I think our first game was really like a big disaster
and I actually believe that we can just beat them
speed them so it would be fun to play against them again it's also like a rematch of the finals so
that would be fun yeah we know how this one went obviously different year different times uh
any of any matchup specifically that we could be excited about i mean i know that i want to see
relatch against all the junglers in the league yeah for me that's the most exciting i mean also
the team where i'm not really talking about is kasey because they did finish this that's true
actually and they have looked really really dominant so i kind of want to pick your
brains a little bit like why why do you think kasey did so well in this regular season what is
That is what makes them so winning.
You can start with you, Skimham.
Yeah, very consistent.
I think that they are playing a really stable game, stacking drakes,
and usually pushing strong lanes.
And they are just really stable scaling,
and I think that obviously they have really good laners, right?
And they are just able to pressure you on repeats,
and they are licking up pretty well.
And I think they are just individually pretty good.
Looking at your improvements actually that you could make happen between right now being two teams that are struggling
Okay, let's make it three three teams that like had a hard time making it there
What are the main improvements that you want to see for your team with the little time that you have a few months first?
I mean, I really want us to see I mean, I hope that will be like more like
Consistence and like really disciplined in our games right like I feel like we are kind of dropping the ball like many times and
And just being on the same page, no matter what play we are looking for, I think yesterday was a true example of not being on the same page.
Someone is engaging, the other one doesn't want to fight, and it just becomes like a really bad fight in general.
But I think just being on the same page, and just try our thing, I guess.
And heroes. Fnatic, the better version in playoffs, what does it look like?
For us, we kind of have to fix the early game.
I think it's our worst part of the game,
where we are falling behind every game.
We don't contest drakes or scuttle crops, we are just FK.
So yeah, we have to fix that part.
And we are also inconsistent in lanes.
We have to fix our laning phase.
OK, we can talk about these things, right?
But let's talk about the real issue here.
LP inflation.
Are you guys abusing dual queue?
Because I've seen the ladder right now.
I'm not playing solo queue right now,
I've seen the ladders as crazy numbers, stand
We're playing duke right now, are you abusing it?
Yeah, I'm doing a lot
Is it that bad actually? Is it because you came back?
I love it, I love it
Hey, because Skimon, you were telling me that you were loving it
Are you just loving it because of LP inflation
And because you and BB can just skyrocket, you know heaven
Actually right now, BB is ranked one of the ladders
It's like crazy to me
He was like top 10 for like ages
I started doing it with him
And he's just like 2.1k LP right now
It's a bigger number, better person, right?
I'm not carrying him, let's be honest, but it's fine, but yeah, I think it's nice for building synergy, but I think for solo queue players, no pro players, it's like an inferno, you just play against LEC, bot lane, mid jungle, it's really hard.
What about you in Paris? Are you being bad at all the pre-made bot laners you see just carrying the game 2v2 while you're playing top lane and you cannot do a thing? Or is that just me?
Yeah, I just play so. That's why I'm not top lane.
Swap lane live.
I'm not going to play, but I'm playing solo, like my teammates are not playing with me.
Sladi's playing with Kanna all the time.
And Razor is not playing that much.
Okay, Razor, hello!
I remember this well when I was screaming back like 29 team at a zoo,
like scrims are finished and then my bot lane goes to queue up,
my mid jungle goes to queue up and I'm just sitting in that corner.
Swap lane early live.
It's tough out there.
What about you?
Yeah, I'm doing a lot with ice and I did some do is knack-knack wasn't oh nice
I think top ship do is actually really good cuz you can affect the body you go there you go you can snudge
But lost my explain with a disease
Yeah, what's the illo rank between you three actually and you fin I mean, I don't know if you're still
Okay, you know rank
I think I'm like 2K LP, something like this.
Okay, you're always super high.
Yeah, but like, seeing like, I think the season started like, one month ago, and seeing like 10 players being 2K LP already is kinda crazy.
That's insane.
Like last year when I was 2K LP, like only 2 players were there as well, but right now it's like, everybody's just here, you know?
Okay, and heroes?
I'm 1.5, I think.
1.5, okay.
I'm 1.6.
That's nice.
But it's actually like top 50, like there is like 50 people that are like between 1.6 and top 50.
1.6 is top 50 now?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was ranked 1, 1.6K LP, like a few years ago. That's insane.
This season has the biggest inflation ever in European.
Ah, Rito fixed the game. Anyway, nice conversation about solo queue.
I think the drill has been completed, it's finally.
And we are waiting on Casey and Navi to confirm their opponents.
So, yeah, actually we can keep on chatting.
Exciting.
Exciting.
Who do you think Navi is gonna choose?
Actually, Casey is choosing first, right?
first and then yeah, Na'Vi will be choosing, oh who do we think A.C. is going to be choosing actually?
Well we don't want them to break up, it's really beautiful.
Hello!
We're here!
Yeah, so I hope they will pick maybe, who's the remaining one they could choose?
What would be a good opponent for Na'Vi, that's what I'm wondering.
I just want to see if they're going to be as exciting in best of...
I would like GX Na'Vi, because I feel like both those teams kind of have a lot
to prove still on the stage.
GX has looked good in regular season for a long time.
Haven't really delivered in playoffs and now we know really really explosive regular season
I would like to see what both those teams can do in a playoffs actually
I'm interested in seeing what you're gonna do in playoffs because these guys have experienced in playoff
It's gonna be your first one. So so far. What do you think you've learned from the top laners in LEC?
There's been a lot of new top laners by the way this year. It's actually really exciting
I feel like I will be better in playoffs than best of ones
I think I have a good sub-amp pool to play carry jumps so I can pull out better
counterpicks I would say so I'm very happy that we reached the playoffs so I can
solve up as well.
If you like top laners have had more fun this season or no you guys complain less.
I mean on paper yeah but then when you look at the regular season it's been
Rumble, Cassante, Syne, everything yeah in pro play but like in general we've
been talking about the offseason changes and everything that has brought
through the game do you feel like top lane is finally happy now or in the
I mean, for sure, also in solo queue it's way better, like you can go ignite or exhaust to make your matchup better, you can snowball, you get more levels.
If you reach level 20, you are kind of a fan of the game, so that's very nice.
Yeah, so top is kind of OP.
Which role got the most boosted as in like... well, it's the most boosted actually right now.
It's the most boosted? Always the port clears though. Or you mean like better than before?
Better than before. Busted. Busted.
Sorry Stan. Sorry. Sorry.
Well, we'll come back to that later.
Let's not get ourselves. I think Top lane for sure got the biggest boost in terms of power level.
I mean, 80 carries, you can make the argument, but I think Top lane...
That's what I'm thinking. Like six items for 80 carries, that seems a bit...
Yeah, but it's like quite rare for a game to go on that far, especially in solo queue.
So I think just Top lane is being able to take, as you say, summer spells for their matchup
and still get TP for free. I think it's such a big boon.
You guys are great.
Yeah, I would also say Top lane by far.
Top lane as well?
Yeah, I'd say Top lane as well.
Yeah, junglers are yeah, I mean the role is strong. So like fair enough like our quest is like pretty bad
Like nothing changes kind of but I think you're top and support support you get black for them like pinks
And you get like more gold is crazy, you know and yeah, I mean I think this will probably like just nice
Do you feel like the game is balanced right now because that's always a big question. We love how I can being gone
That's great. Thank you riots. No one needed that no one liked that, but we feel like the game is healthy right now. I
Think the eggs
Okay, yeah, I think the team that control direct is most likely gonna win the game
What I want to know is that I actually saw some teams now start picking red side because it seems easier to take
Drakes on red side. Is this something that you've noticed as well or is this pure chance?
I mean, I don't know about this, but I just want to say we played like all of our games
We're like on blue side, so I didn't get to taste that red side the dragon ticket to test the red side
Yeah, I can't play a single time on red side, which is like a bit crazy
But this could be an argument. Yeah, I guess make sense on that sense
And it's now not only choosing red side and blue side, but like right off first selection,
you pick the first pick on either side.
We've mostly seen people not pick a side, but like pick the last pick, so basically
picking second.
Do you feel like it's something that's going to change now that we get into best of
three, best of fives?
I think in Fearless it might take a role, but in Best of One it didn't change something.
So, we are not sure how it works so far, so we'll see.
It's going to be a nice test.
I think from that Drake control, and especially Bot control early, maybe you would want to
pick Red side.
I think Navi did this when we talked to the Rock.
I think Navi did it, and I think LR did it, as well, where they picked Red side.
I'm not 100% sure, so someone's going to fact-check me on that, but I think in
general seems to be the case that you have a little bit of an easier entryway to River
for bot side, and it's a little bit easier to board defensively on bot side as well,
I'm not sure, but it definitely seems to be the meta, not the meta, but like the easier way to get
dragons to short thread side. Last topic that I wanted to talk about with you guys, something
that we don't see in Europe, we've mentioned briefly with Giloto. In LCK, this split,
they had the option to let the coach come into the game and talk to the player 45 seconds,
three times per game, yes or no? Is that something that you would enjoy? Have you seen
Did you see that in LCK also?
I saw it, yeah.
I mean, sounds interesting, but not how it works.
The game is kind of like Valorant when they pose and they talk.
Yeah.
So, yeah, not so maybe it will be helpful.
Do you feel like it's some things, Kimon?
I can not really tell honestly.
It seems like...
It just seems hard.
I think like the best info is probably like just when you enter the game,
the coach talking about the game plan again,
like what we should be looking for can be something good but like he says this I'm
not really sure like maybe a coach can remind when enemy has no summits maybe
but like most of the time like the players see it as well in the game so I
don't really know. Honestly I can't imagine a bigger nightmare like I don't
think I've had any coach that would like to just come in and ruin the entire
game stage just because he wants to say something usually would be something
wrong anyway so I think the risk is really high for like messing up the
I think if Grabs could talk, he would flame us probably.
What the hell are you doing guys?
Air drop again.
Do you see Hidon dropping in game and just giving you guys advice?
Hidon is promising, if we could do it, we would be the best team in LEC.
Really?
But I'm not a big fan of it.
It's interesting, but as a player, I'm locked in.
I'm locked in, there's so many micro-info that someone from the outside is trying to make a plan,
it can make you go out of flow states, because the game is so fast, you need to make micro-decisions every second.
So I think it's hard for top teams to apply this.
I like general things, it's hard to go into details in my opinion.
I know T1 didn't like it, but yeah, anyway, that's not something we have in the LEC for now.
Maybe later, maybe in the future.
The only thing we have right now is the brackets.
Let me talk you through how it happened.
Seat 1, KC and Seat 2, Navi.
Seat on the opposite side of the bracket.
Referees, Denjou, Seats 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
On the opposite side of the bracket,
KC and Navi then have selection of who they will face
within their first half of the bracket.
And the final bracket for LEC versus is,
We have KCGX, Team Heretics G2, Navi Fanatic, Vitality vs Mkoi.
Alright, so I'm going to come straight to the G2 Heretics here. Who wants to go first?
And fight!
I'm definitely going to be interesting. I think that Heretics really ramped up a lot in this week and the last one.
So I'm near it, like they just bit KC today with a really strong freshman, so I'm excited to play against them.
And hopefully if we're able to keep up the pace with them, I think we'll definitely have a great game.
Yeah, G2 is like tough opponents. I hope they will stay in this bad state.
And it will go good for us.
I hope the team sucks, nice, love it.
And for you, MPros, Navi, as the first opponent for your very first time in playoffs?
It's a good opponent, to be honest. They went good in best of ones.
I'm looking forward to play versus them. Also, Meinter is my 1v1 partner.
Most of the players, that's going to be fun playing versus human playoffs.
What did you think about him in the LEC, actually?
Coming on as a rookie as well in the league?
He was very consistent in his gameplay, and also he played kind of a scion, Cassandra.
But yeah, I mean, I like him. I think he's good.
Love it. Finn, any comments on the matchups we have over?
I mean, I'm looking at the MQA Vitality, I think that would be a carnage.
I am surprised we ended up with this matchup this early,
but I guess MQA is ending so far down, allowed this to happen.
I think it's a super hype matchup, there's a lot of really key matchups.
I'm thinking the bot lane is gonna be chaotic,
totally matchups are really interesting.
I think Narknall covers the Mirwin and the Fearless, plus the free.
I think there's gonna be some sparks flying there.
Ah, let me look at the rest.
GXKC actually, they're all interesting, they're all really interesting.
Have you ever been to SKC to choose giants?
Yes.
That's interesting actually.
How do you think made them confidence?
Today?
Today is a good example.
It's difficult to know what they want.
I don't know exactly what choices they had to choose between.
Maybe they could only choose between M.Coi.
The lower four teams I imagine.
So maybe there was a little bit of substitution going on there.
Our league right now is very stacked.
stacked, like the teams are spread out a lot so it's difficult to make that come.
And now you chose you guys, time to prove them wrong.
Yeah of course.
One week or so.
Before we sign off, quick note, we had a really interesting schedule heading in to playoffs
in the next few weeks.
Week two of playoffs is gonna be played as a super week going from Friday to Monday,
February 20th until the 23rd and finally the versus playoffs hosted by Emkoy in
Barcelona is going to take place from Friday to Monday, February 27th to March 1st, and
you can get your tickets now at lc.gg slash Barcelona.
In the meantime, if you want to watch more League of Legends, LCS is on, Shopify Rebellion
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Thank you so much for watching, everybody.
Thank you guys for sticking around with us and talking about this player.
It's been a pleasure.
Thanks for smurfing it, as always.
We'll see you guys next week.
Take care.
Be nice to each other and see you next time.
I don't know what to say.
We are going in here with the ghost looking for the dust.
Down the path, don't flash away.
Okay, oh yeah.
Maybe come with no flash, don't flash.
Wait, TLC.
TLC!
Ohhhh!
Yummy!
Yummy!
Look at him.
We are just looting him.
I can kill.
I will looting him.
We don't reach there, okay?
I'm looting him.
I'm looting too.
I like a zero slowly.
Look at him.
I'm looting.
Thanks, thanks.
Off the road.
Has flash in us.
No flash.
Let's go Nash, let's go Nash.
Turned ball gonna come out, Lucio has the block.
Every shot here.
California in the plate.
Terrorists have an angle on Kalez, but the TV
is so damn slow, Sarin.
Flats between worlds, and he gets blown!
Get it.
I'm sure.
I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay.
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
I'm looking too.
Sir, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!
I'm gonna kick you in the head.
No, no, no, no!
I'm gonna kick you in the head.
Have you stuck your tongue?
Take my portal.
I'll take your portal.
I can cover you.
Ah, my caiss.
Yeah, I'm gonna back up as well, okay?
Maybe, no?
Hey, look, look, look, look, look.
Nice, nice, nice.
Let's go, guys, okay?
We're not out yet, are we?
Nice.
The Last Penta Kill of 2024!
Like a rubber band!
A new wave is coming to the LAC!
That's gonna be one of the best LAC intros I've seen in years!
Oh, Japanese!
Oh, damn it!
I don't bring even a trash on it!
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It's now!
Their rap is crazy high!
Run the Octane again!
Everything's blue!
It's a sorry not!
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Let's go!
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