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To keep you tethered in your room
Stomping both of us are leaving here
But for now I'll just bring this to you
When you made me in the daylight
Like we did before
Then I felt you on my shoulder
And you weren't suffering anymore
You said I'm sorry that you were me
I don't apologize
I told you to forget me
But you stayed by my side when I said
Don't try to make yourself a man
Darling, don't repeat me
I'm just a stupid little fool
So let's bring it down to the middle of the world
And the ocean will never come
Oh, everything goes on
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Even if I repeat your words, I won't stop
I can't help but fall in love with your face
I hope I can meet you again on the planet
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Welcome to my shop.
You'll need to be careful.
You'll need to be careful.
You'll need to be careful.
Ah, a new champion. Welcome to my shop. You'll need the right build, choose wisely, because every upgrade brings you closer to the next level.
So tell me, how will you level up?
Ripple gives you wings.
Wait, is he switching lanes?
Will you pick your nose?
Will you walk away this time?
Will you feel your legs?
Do you ready?
If you're burning, then be ready
As we all face the fight
And we strike it from the line
Go and make the time behind me
Feel that much, feel the power
Can you feel it, make the pain
Watch it awake, and stand again
Will you fall awake again?
What's calling out to be found
When the time is right?
The time is right!
As we all face the fight
And we stray from the light
Go leave her to me in the air
Feel the rush, feel the touch
Can you feel it with the pain
Watch it away and stand again
The face of the fight
Let me stray from the light
Turn the page of my hero
Feel that rush, feel the time
Can you feel it?
With the pain?
Why don't you stand away?
And stand again?
Away
You can
The new wave is coming to the NEC!
That's gonna be one of the best NEC intros I've seen in years!
The grass over here, the grass on it, the wind on it.
Now we're at the crazy mine, running off and again.
Everything's blue.
Everything's blue.
Welcome back everybody to Berlin, Germany as we kick off.
Come on as we kick off round one.
Yay!
Yay! That was so fun of the lower bracket in the LEC versus playoffs!
Yay! Wait, let me just...
I'm surprised that the fanatic fans are so happy actually, so let me go ahead.
I love the enthusiasm! Come on, tell me why you're so excited.
Yeah, I'm enjoying this play, I guess.
We live for this team, you know.
It's not always sunshine and rainbows, but we always come here.
We always enjoy the arena. We always enjoy the team and we are gonna give them everything today. I love it. Thank you. Awesome
Yeah, let's go
That's an adequate be playing later Oda one day and and dog dot
So we'll talk about that a little bit later
But first I want to talk about what happened yesterday game to KC G2
Oh boy
I mean it looks so one for G2 because honestly it was really excited by I was really mad because I was already about to
Go home
but man it ended up in in this elder steel into fighting here into base race
afterwards that what the hell happened it was insane capses popping off and rise
Boosio was healing everyone on the Seraphine it came down to the wire and
just tiny tiny decisions ended up breaking it in favor of G2 but KC
nearly making what seemed like a miracle comeback in this game it was
bunker it was crazy social media was also crazy after I gotta say because
There's some stuff going on, but I think it was probably my favorite game of LEC vs. Yacht.
Oh, 100%. It was just, it had everything. It had the ups and downs, it had the swings,
it had the me losing my mind, apparently. It was just incredible.
Oh, it's just the story of how even people would happen. Everyone would say that.
I'm going to say I hate watching Kisti. This is hilarious.
Yacht goes. So good.
I love Yacht goes.
I think it was a team one but the reality is just like watching their game like a mascot.
You know like do you ever leave G2?
You never leave G2 and...
No, no, you can take Yankos out of G2 but you can't take G2 out of Yankos.
And the comps?
It was such a crazy game. The thing that made it so damn exciting was also the fact that they were just winning for so much.
And then the Seraphine actually finally started to take over.
I mean we got to the full items pretty much almost across the board like look at the damage that was dealt like
Also, just to give a shadow to a broken blade broken blade here. He's having a life like that
He had such a good game both one and two that's crazy
I had sort of the most dominant games
I've seen out of a top laner that game one in a very long time though
He set the record for the most damage ever dealt per minutes by an LEC top laner we in that Gwen game
Yeah, I don't know why but that's embarrassing for you
You definitely weren't saying that.
Oh yeah, because I played tanks and all that.
Okay, yeah.
Look at your arm, man. It's right there.
I mean, yeah, there are a lot of tanks that are okay back there, but don't throw shit on me.
But it was very impressive, but I was even more impressed with Game 2.
You know, because he did finally play the Rambo.
It was always the criticism of Iran about VB that he doesn't really play Rambo,
and he pulled it off and he did a great job.
It was hype. That means that G2 and Mkoi, because Mkoi also had a 2-0 over Na'Vi.
They won their series, and that means they're guaranteed a spot in Barcelona next week.
Also, you can still get your tickets lec.gg slash Barcelona that lick changed from yesterday
Producer oh, they both work
So if you had another one, it's also fine slash em koi also work and of course
I want to say a breath of relief because if em koi wouldn't make it to their own roadshow then yeah
That would have sucked and I was just so so mad yesterday because
This this is how it looks like every single time these two teams rock up to playoffs
They have a bad regular season and I was like I lost myself and they're like oh, yeah
They're just gonna you know get the magic going and he's just so annoying because you never really know how it looks like
But this is exactly how it was about G2 and mCorp. Yes, both of them because I
predicted both of them to lose yesterday and this is just the playoffs magic that both of these teams have
Maria to apologize to fame. I think that was the real probably
Riddle me this though best of ones don't matter and then Jatt said but they do matter because every team
That's one game one has gone on to win the series to zero. Yeah, I like I'm actually I'm on Japs out here
I kind of hate the whole like hand waving up at best of ones
It's like you can see how teams play you can see what they're prioritizing
You can see what they want to try and like adapt to and it's more about seeing that growth over the course of the regular season
Like I don't take into account who beats who I take into account
How well are they playing and like I think that's more the discussion that should be there rather than just like that's just whatever
You know, there was the point of it
Yeah, it's like you're gonna have to play best the ones in first fall, right? I think like so technically. That's where we have advantage
Right, I always make it out of groups at work. It's the best of ones
It's the long con and now people are mad at these best of threes instead of best of fires like come on guys
We'll play best of sevens tomorrow. Is that okay?
All right, well, uh, that means if we saw the winners of
Yesterday g2 and emcoy, we did also see navi and kc drop into the lower bracket round to tomorrow
we'll see them play against the winners of today. That's pretty crazy that KC is the shark down in that lower bracket
But Navi has their luck run out. Have they been figured out Odo?
Well, it's just when you play best of ones you do or like regular season rather.
You don't really get a lot of time to prep for every single opponent.
So best ones do suck?
Yes, they do suck.
Whatever. But when you go into playoffs, you just you have a lot more time to prep.
So that question will be answered soon.
Yeah, and like I do think though Navi are still an incredibly strong team
And I like I wanted to take a moment to kind of highlight some of the stuff that we've seen from Navi as well
Particularly from maintenance top lane because there's a lot of stuff that we see on the broadcast that we either can't get into the cast or you know
Doesn't quite fit into the analyst desk as well
So I wanted to bring up some stuff called in the finer details
So we can start to run through the clip of how major ends up playing this because if you look at this clip
He sticks around this top side despite lost your tones end up going for the dragon fight
But by doing that he's really cognizant that he has but he's about to compete his top lane quest
So he hits the level 11, gets the rumble ult, and also gets the shield then on the TP,
which then makes him such a massive factor in this fight.
And these little things that you have to be cognizant of, they're so sick to see.
And it's such a great trade-off because usually when it comes to these objectives,
you really want to be there first. You want to establish position,
you want to hold and make it extremely hard for the enemy to walk in.
But the level 11 or rather quest completion teleport is such a massive power spike
that you can leverage over pretty much anything in the game if you get it over the enemy top laner.
Yeah, and we also got to see wonder leverages really, really well back in week one to now forever at home.
This does not work anymore.
They've changed it as of this patch, but I think it was just to give wonder is a little bit of his roses.
He ends up playing this really well.
So because the way that TP used to work was if you complete the teleport, you get the shield.
But if you're interrupted on the teleport, you will also end up with the shield.
So as we start to go through this clip here for wonder, you'll see that he ends up timing the teleport to the tower at the perfect moment with the Cassante flick back.
So he ends up getting there, the shield off the TP, which helps him stay alive, denies the dive,
and it's like such a cool heads-up play both on knowledge and also just the hands as well.
What is this? Does he pay you or something? Why are you bringing up wonder?
You gotta give him something, all right? You gotta give him something.
That 2019 G2, we need to get it on broadcast somehow.
It's always, you know, the narrative. You guys will always find the way to make
that narrative stay. 2019 is for everybody.
Yeah, that's like you would mention a little something.
Well, technically I am, but I'm not. I can play both sides very easily.
Yeah, mention Los Rautones again and how he used to coach them.
I used to coach them that much.
Technically, that's why they're not here anymore, because I'm not there.
Are you guys happy now?
Yes, we're happy.
Do you have any other clips?
Yeah, the other one that I wanted to look at was kind of like the way KC have been playing around this bottom side as well.
Because I think they are the kings of faking out their opponents.
And the first clip we have here is Bucio, who ends up going against the Sivir,
rocks up the E, but fakes the auto attack to bait out the spell shield.
So Varus end up popping the spell shield, and then they get the stone after.
And I think, like, we've seen a couple of these mind games,
and I think Casey or one of the teams
that are doing it incredibly well.
It's extremely impressive, because this
is kind of like the mind games that come from the simplest
things in League of Legends.
So that's an animation guess.
Because when you get to the highest level of play,
when you have pro player versus pro player,
it all comes down to these simple mind games.
When it comes to, you know, Blitzcrank,
he walks up and presses an emote,
and you think that he's throwing a swoop.
That's the IMAX game.
Or GP, when he flashes, and then, you know,
does the control tree.
So he does the the gun flick into killing you. There's so many of these things and it's really
Nice to see that when it comes down to it these basics still make a huge. Yeah, I'm pro still get caught
Yeah, I don't like we see the macro mind game or the micro mind games
But I want to also look at the macro mind games the case he plays well because I really like the way they fake this reset here
So you can see Calist steps back underneath the Terries out of fog of war
I boost your jokes with any good support will do and walks up is like
Oh, I'm gonna hold the wave
But actually as they go for the trade by anchor list are both there immediately get the play out from underneath the terror
And it's so cool to see because I love teams that take the playbook
Understand it fundamentally and then just rip at every page. You're like no no we know how to break this now
Yeah, it's it's so tail thing if it happens to you though like it's really bad
We'll see if GX and th pull out the same kind of book of tricks. They're gonna need it
They're in the lower bracket. So as of yesterday where even if you you lost you were not out today
We will be sending the teams home from LEC versus great runs in the regular season for both of these teams
And I think sometimes that gets forgotten
Rob when we talk about team heretics because I feel like at the end of the playoff
Qualification for team heretics a lot of people just talked about the fact that Casey lost that game
But heretics had had a really good regular season
Yeah
And it kind of drove me a bit insane because like everyone was kind of like dog pollen on KC
But they beat Casey they beam obviously our Koi and the V fanatic as well like they deserve their spot
They play absolutely fantastically. I'm trying to take that away. I think it's just unfair to the story that what heretics was
I think everyone is just a little bit deflated because team heretics have such huge momentum walking to that series
We thought it's finally the time you know where someone's gonna take down G2 because the end of the regular season was incredibly good
So losing in that manner and now being both knocked down into the lower bracket
I think that's why everyone is so low on the heretics thongs. Mm-hmm, but Rob
I think you didn't like the draft either. Yeah, I think that was really the factor that I think made a bigger difference in their game because
When you look at this game one draft against G2 like they kind of come out the bat already with the Mundo first pick
Which is very unique to them
They want to get show into something that can kind of be a bit more of a carry
But you then haven't really set up the rest of your team to support that because you end up going for the pike in that last
rotation which kind of goes against all the late game scaling that you have but also you don't really have the
Set up then for the Mundo in those fights either so it just felt like a very strange draft for me
It's just it really felt like it's it's comfort pics, right?
Yeah, these are a kind of everyone's feel good pics because when you're down in the gutter
I think they were like one and five at some point or one and six or something and they started winning
It was mostly a moon though, right?
And it just so happened that when Mundo was picked into those games it made sense
But now it felt like hey, we need to brute force this because it's our best fix
So everyone just picking them there, you know their best champions and everything's gonna go right
It's gonna go great, right? Yeah, but they couldn't fight it lost everything
Yeah, so it just felt like they went, they over relied on comfort way too much, and it felt like they're drafting in a way like they would have last split, but in reality they have first split.
So that's why the draft structure went out of the window in game two. It was okay, right? But you're still playing against G2 and it's still going to be a hard series.
Yeah, it was pretty hard for them. And I think for GX we've been waiting for kind of that promise of GX for very, very long.
They've had good games in the regular season as well. We don't hear as much about the scrim gods as we used to do, although,
but they keep doing this thing in playoffs.
Yeah, so I'm not that concerned about GX
because since I think, since they came into the LEC
for the first time, they have always lost
the first playoffs game, you know?
No matter how good, no matter how good.
It's really great.
Set the expectations low.
Yeah.
You can see them, you know?
But that's where the pressure is all
because now they can still make this lower bracket run
and if it comes down to it for both of these teams,
it has to be through their bot lane,
through NOAA and through AIS
because these two men have been the main driving force
behind each of their respective teams.
Yeah, three pentakills, by the way.
Yeah, it's absolute, sir.
Like, Ice just popped off,
and I think a lot of people after the first couple of weeks
were like, oh, this guy seems muted.
But you can see when he's empty,
he gets his hands on picks like the Unara
that he can really have a pop off,
which is kind of why I was disappointed
in their draft against G2,
because I felt he didn't really have the tools
to get to that position.
But you need that here against Noah,
because Noah and John, overall, have been fantastic.
They've been one of the strongest botlings we have.
The Master of!
to his ability to carry for no as well. When we get to the later portion of the game on,
you know, Kaisa, Korki, like take your pick. This man seems to just have everything that
he can play. So you'd need to solidify this bot lane if you want to hope for beaten Johnny.
I hear you mentioning June X factor today. I mean, I hope so because I guess KC didn't
let me go his way, which was heartbreaking because like we came into that series and
we prepped the graphic of like Buccio was the best bird. Now it might be John's
the best part and especially after like a performance in week two I think it was
when he brought out the part I was like this man is an absolute menace and we
picked up a couple of clips of him as well where he was so info like good but
watch how bad this big play is like your mind is standing still everything
you're like what happened because he's so good this man is insane and I'm like
What? Who is that? Like who was on the PC?
That's crazy by the way.
He didn't even show a good clip.
He's right there watching, my dear.
It's a little screen.
It's the trustee bro, right? That's where he's at.
I trust him.
It's time for Giant X vs. Heretics in the lower bracket.
The loser is out.
The winner lives to fight another day.
And here we are, everyone.
Getting into our first elimination series here
And the LEC is the hope of shots and the skill of June enough to bring home a victory.
We're going to have to find out.
And Greco joined by Jack Secker and Vettius.
Can we get ready for it?
Honestly, a very high stakes bet to do again.
Winner gets to continue, gets to live the fight for another day.
Loser is out for the season.
At a very high stakes game, as you said, Greco.
But I also love the contrasts and the similarities between the two teams.
Both Spanish wards, both rely heavily on their both lane,
both Korean both planners which both also under performed last weekend.
A lot of similarities here.
I think they was big under performances from both these teams last week.
It felt like the baseball we saw in the regular season.
There's definitely some fights in these rosters.
They've been able to go toe to toe with those at the top of the table.
But last week we didn't really get to see that at all.
Instead we saw them just kind of flounder four shots.
And today they find themselves in an elimination match
where in order to progress and have a chance here
versus they're going to have to show up today.
Valor what you're saying, especially for me, Noa and June, I really feel like they have the potential to be the best, or at least one of the best Wildness in the league, and they've been such a pillar for this team, but they just really didn't show up like themselves, especially June as well on the bar.
It wasn't June that I was used to seeing it all, and I can't help but feel that maybe it was nerves, mental block, we've seen it from them before, and it should be a different Noa and June in this series today.
Well, one of the champions I'm keeping my eyes on is Noah's Kaisa, a champion that is becoming synonymous with him.
And already we've seen the reintroduction of Vi to the meta. How effective it can be in these dive comps.
And I do wonder if we'll see GX take this approach of heavy dive with the Vi in combination with that Kaisa combo, and where Ambesa falls into all of this as well.
Definitely a combo that suits Giant X very well. I feel like when Giant X needs to play more slow, more calculated, they usually struggle.
They like to have one solid game plan and go all in on it as
Ambesa being banned out as you said ready and Mundo as well
We've been seeing a whole lot that in general these flex picks you might not think it but I'm best and out
The flex in the top jungle same with the Mundo
So just taking those out to deny any flexible stability from the team runs and Cheo has been no stranger to prioritizing that Mundo early on
Five games played on the champion we saw last week he picked early
It did lead them into some tricky spots in terms of the overall draft
So see what the adjustment is with that taken away alongside both the Pantheon and the Vim
So a lot of these early practice junglers, not you Mundo, but these other two taken off the board.
Shutting down Isma to a certain degree, we talked about Jun Farrar not really being great.
Isma had a pretty sloppy Jarvan game, but I think it's kind of true for both sides.
Again, we're hoping for that clean reset, that glow up.
What can change in a week? How much can you improve?
And one other champion that was synonymous with Noah for so long is the Varus.
The Lothalty Varus, when he played on Fanatic, something he brought out so consistently
and had a pretty massive impact on him.
I'm honestly shocked at the game, Varus.
Clearly, Aerotix have a plan because
even though there have been changes to Varus over the last two patches,
I still feel like he is the top dog when it comes to AD carries.
The amount of power that he provides in the Botlane 2 vs 2 is ridiculous.
Jin is one of the few AD carries that can answer him,
but paired alongside the Rumble,
Aerotix I think already have a solid foundation.
Yeah, I really like the Jin Rumble answer.
I also feel like at first when Varus got buffed,
I was thinking, okay, he's estheric, so yeah.
And then we saw some meddling virus performances where Jin actually ended up coming on top,
and I saw Jin, it's a match made in heaven, Jin rumble with the combo, although Taliyah
lies, another classic of well-magic's ability.
Honestly, the simplicity of this draft, how straightforward it is and how powerful it is,
really sets GX, I think, up for success.
Jin rumble is a fantastic combo.
We've seen it a lot, the long range, the support and the equalizer and the curtain
call could bring, but it's definitely a little bit trickier to play.
Now this option is an interesting one because suddenly we're looking right back at the rumble flex.
This is something that we've seen before, these two champions together, the willingness from
Team Heretics to put the rumble in the jungle if it's going to work for them.
You're exactly right.
Because this is the exact picks I believe that Team Heretics had against KC.
They gave KC the virus and then they picked the Jin rumble into it and then they're
flexing the rumble all the way to fifth pick and they also had Aurora in the mid-lane.
So they're trying to recreate that success they found against KC.
We'll see how it goes.
It does feel like Karatex are leaning on the formulas that have found success for them so far this split,
and Mundo I think being one of those key that GX choosing to take away very early on in the graph.
As we move to the second half, supports are becoming very much the priority with both AD carries locked in,
our attention turns towards where will this engage come from.
Alistar taking off the board, Nautilus alongside it, things like Leona and Rel naturally rise in priority, but these gone.
But also we've been seeing a prevalence of range supports in the current meta. Nami in particular has been quite strong.
We saw the Seraphine yesterday not quite able to pull off the comeback, but still could be quite oppressive in both the laning phase and has fantastic save.
No surprise to see the Niko band away. Of course, I feel like the Kremdolo Krem of following Sportfix wins you so many matchups, still has all that agate, all that additional utility.
And we'll see if it's going to be another engage option taken away, limiting some of the potential pool.
It's a tough band for GX. If you over commit to bot lane bans, maybe this rumble from top lane.
The really tough one, generic, it's also the luxury of last pick here.
So the flex is doing a lot of work in this patch, disrupting any potential clans that GX have.
Yeah, I do think for the support pool, we're just gonna probably see like a melee support handshake.
Would be my guess. I'm more curious what Dianeks will choose to blind pick in top lane,
because they know that the rumble is a flex. They won't be caught off guard like Casey was.
So they decide to just go for something like the Sion anyways that's safe and good into the rumble
And then if so, want us race and I'm cooking
Con the choice so some proactive engage definitely pairs nicely with they have so far
But not the most lane dominant champion good against a lot of the engaged sports because you can't just get that free healing
But there's a bit of a debate
It's Jun does want to pull out the bar not so great against the Aurora and Recon
But really good into the Jin especially the rumble is all pretty vulnerable to that tempered fate
And it buys a lot of time, they can always ult their own Tarys if they're getting engaged on, and it's a pretty standard here, they're getting the frontline from Tulf in the Sion with that ranged support.
I'm really curious what they decide to do with this Rumble. You kind of feel like you need more setup, I feel like for Team Peretics, and with Ambessa being banned out, there's not that much firepower in Tulf lane I'd say into the Sion.
So I would assume they're just gonna put the Rumble top and give Shayla a Bruiser, but they really have a lot of options here, we'll see what they go for.
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Knocked her and locked in and really I like it because when you take a look at this GF composition
It can be really good at running fighting front to back with the Taliyah and the forest very
Vulnerable to the sheer combination of our buttons that team heretics the simple
Yeah, I mean there's there's a lot of threat onto the virus that that makes sense
But I feel like it's very committal for a comp that's inherently very squishy
heretics on paper to me their composition is just harder to pull off because you need a great deal of coordination
The ultimates need to be in sync.
And also, like, once you're in, you're not getting out.
So if you fumble that execution,
then I feel like GX with the range interior
that they should have, the poke that they're going to have available,
things like the barn to disengage, potentially re-engage.
GX have a lot of tools to turn fights around.
Yeah, when you're cooking for your life, you just keep it simple.
You know, stay medium rare.
You don't need to go out there and start trying to sous-vide
or do whatever and start implementing all these new techniques.
Respect to Team Heretics.
The flex was, is a flex.
They did. We're willing to put it back to the top lane.
a nocturne in the jungle, but I agree, this is way more complicated, this is way more
typical in an elimination game, that's a lot of pressure to put on yourself.
I mean it's a shotgun comp right, well now you call the very, I mean it's all in if they
kill Noah and probably they need to kill Jackie's as well with all their ultimates, then it'll
work out and if they don't, they're gonna have a real tough time going up the front
line of Giant X and I have to agree with you very, I think that the simplicity of
this Giant X comp, they can both engage but they can also choose to play it slow
if they want to, makes them have a lot more opportunities in the scan.
Well, here we are getting into the first game of the series.
GX and Team Hairtakes both losing 0-2 in the first round.
Now find themselves in the lower bracket.
Loser will be eliminated here, but we talked about waiting for level sixes for the potential
ulti combos. That's a late game thing. What are we looking at early game?
Well, we're looking at level one invade, which has gone horribly wrong.
What's happening there, he's done it.
Shadow Bard Q, what?
I can shot it straight at him with no wall.
He brought the Light Cube, Shadow now goes back into his jungle, a sad individual with 50% of his HP.
So there's probably won't effect Nocturne too much, generally his solo clear is completely fine,
especially with all the jungle changes that came in this year.
I think he'll not struggle too much and I'm not expecting a buy at level 2 to do any sort of crazy invade.
So at the end of the day, not the end of the world,
But like I've been thinking more about this call because I can very interested in that one thing
I think I can say with certainty is that there's no Boris out there that's excited to play against this call
Maybe top lane Boris yeah, you know at best at best, but most of them are like so how let me just get this straight
I've got a nocturne flying at me
Yeah, and then I guaranteed rumble ultimate on my head and if those two things don't kill me
There's a Recon there as well.
But now turn ult into the Aurora ult.
You're literally hand-wrapped.
The rabbit's coming out of the darkness in your head.
Yeah, but all I can imagine is the comms from Noah
as he breathes a deep sigh and he goes
I'm getting Zonya's third, guys.
You got this.
You probably won't, but it would be great.
Honestly, I think you should definitely look for it.
It's not bad.
It's not bad. People like T'Neeb, but like Barnes does use the AP pretty well.
They honestly reworked every single AD champion
to have some AP ratios for Tinsu,
But, yeah, far as, you know, not the worst.
So, we found the niche scenario where we get a Seekers, if the very least, on Tenoa.
But again, it's level 6. There's so much time.
I think there's sometimes matchups against Nocturne where you're like,
oh, well, the enemy jungler has to do something in the early game before Nocturne gets 6.
We think it's 5.
Yeah.
We're just, it's just handshake, farm power hour, you know?
Who can get a little bit of lane pressure? Well, right now, it's team heretics, but not a whole lot else to have to.
Yeah, across the board, in terms of early prior, top going slightly in favor of GX,
but that bounce back it doesn't really matter much we can forget top for a while mids Jack is
But mid is the more interesting one just because I think getting information on what the enemy
jungler is doing is super important and also contesting those early crabs is also something
we need to keep track of because bear in mind most junglers in the lc path from top to bot
shares paths from bot to top isma probably assumes that because he doesn't actually have full
information and so this is why that mid prior is super important in this early game
Didn't push spell field
Still got the crab okay, and I think now by yeah
Just gonna run straight to the boat river
It means that small temple advances to show because he didn't get to go back to base first
And he can already start moving towards his bot side and start clearing those camps, but aside from that
Well, that was all the action we're gonna get for the next couple minutes, so hope you guys enjoyed that
Yeah, that was crazy. We were talking or was it like welcome play had like the most damages
is dealt with any Kaplan or ever.
We might see at least damage dealt from any jungler
in the first 15 minutes of the game.
We got one by Q and that is it so far.
It's really level six that both of these team comps come alive.
But I also wonder if it's a little bit, you know,
the nerves elimination game.
You don't want to mess up the early game
and ruin your game too early.
I do think once Shale hits level six with the overalls,
that's when I'm starting to think that Team Redix
has more firepower than Gion X,
While you do have little Leo to move to side lanes, I think in a 3v3 and a 2v2, I'm really going to favor that Aurora Nocturne Rekon.
I really want to execute that first combo though. The early levels, the ulti from the Nocturne, it's just such a long cooldown.
As you see, Junk cut out a little bit here, just trying to force the wave in.
Ice and Sten there in time to catch. We have a TP down to the bottom lane, Noa.
Pretty decent CS lead from Team Red-Ax. It's equal right now, but you can see that Ice is 4-5 minutes to clear out.
And especially considering the next half virus, who's the stronger early game chomps and Jim and also they go to the
Counterpick in the bar pretty good early landing face flat team erics bullpen so far
That it is J. I still spotted an award so they know that he's much closer to level six as we see it's not trying to catch up
So take over to five here on the Raptors
And again a slow calm waiting game see one of the things we were gonna talk about was balling
But I think we just wait we save it
The game was that piloted it so well bot lane is important right now. They're not the center of attention and says it's around the mid lane is of all breaker out the fear
Gacky's
Treating a bit here team heretics not gonna wait for level six going against explanation. So I was
Keeping miles on the river just because of the cranberry spawn and you'll notice the crux of respawn for both
But top is for show and bot is for isma
To completely for goal is he's just gonna start off the dragon
Shale wants to contest this.
Doesn't want to give it over for pre-vigant and disengaged.
The reason why that was important is because we talk so often about that 530 breakpoint,
getting the upgraded smite, securing your camps, contesting that secondary spawn of the crab.
And the fact that it's on the topside, you can see the pings now coming through from heretics,
saying, I can do my Krugs into that bot crab.
And I like this idea from Isma to basically say,
okay, why no the crab is topside, I need to kill my Krugs.
So I'll just start the dragon off.
If he actually paths towards top, I'll get an uncontested dragon.
Easy peasy.
Or I'm gonna waste his time because now he has to come contested dragon and look
He's already been able to go back to base and as we can now get back out onto the map a little bit ahead
I wonder if he's even in a position to contest that crowd pings are coming down
Just now getting to mid wave you can see Saren holding the mid lane wave, but that could bite him as he can't really
Let's say see meredix doesn't want to confess this
I mean, credit to Jackie's. They managed to get to midway bin. I'm not sure if Saren decided to freeze it, but get Saren is now in a neutral lane state.
Isma starts to crab, so yeah, free crab. Well played.
Yeah, this all comes back from that dragon sequence, where by Isma starting it, forcing them off to come and deal,
it meant that Isma could go to his grogues, clear them, base, get back out on the map quicker,
and ultimately he created a temple advantage, allowing him to find that small scull of crab, and now he's going to get six firsts.
Yeah, I was a bit puzzled that showed him the sidekick and passive, but I think it was the item lead they touched on there already.
And due to the fact that Ismael got that base off while Shayo didn't,
as the game returns to a state of normalcy and will continue just pushing in minutes.
That's not called slow the normal state. Let's not do that. We don't want to set expectations.
It's the calm before a storm. Absolutely.
Yeah, there's a deep fire burning inside both these teams. They're barely able to hold themselves back.
I mean, I think for this dragon, I could definitely see some fighting happening,
especially since then will soon hit level six and then you have that full
wombo combo I have a feeling Jack I don't know if you get these feelings
everybody I know you do it's like spider sense for games where nothing is
going to happen yeah it feels like a 30 minute first one
sitting over here being like I read the milk and test the dragon
you would think that but would you play a little scared on stage may we see it often goes hand-in-hand with yeah really not
Bloody early game but also like the awkward thing for show is that his camps keep bringing in topside
So he starts to clear on what?
Hands up towards top his bot lane gets prior mid has control still and shows not on the vicinity to trade so it the
More likely thing is the dragon for grubs. That's very much what I expect
Especially given that rumble now comfortably getting that push in the top lane should enable
Shio to secure these grubs pretty much uncontested
we'll see if it has anything to say about it I expect to do the dragon then move
back into his own jungle clear that bot side head on over to those grub share
and then it'll be that simple cross map see that tingling yeah you're right
anti-conflict they don't want to do with it I do think for this trade before I
felt like it was more favored towards the grub team but now I don't know what
happened but Drake's just feel like they're the name of the game so I'm
I'm liking this from giant X being able to pick up that first dragon and
start the stacking especially when it's a chemtink drake so you know that it's not
going to be the chemtink soul and you'll most likely have a pretty damn good
side. This is just my take. Yeah. But doesn't it feel like that six scrubs well
five felt actually quite meaningful like it did a decent amount of damage. I
agree. But three it just doesn't it just kind of I don't know they don't feel
the same. It's like if you're already winning it's good but it doesn't
swing the game in the same way. Yeah. Do you guys think it's just a bigger
Oh, fight, fight, fight.
And isolated by, immediately gonna flash.
Okay, I'll be for flash, but now it's thinking about re-engaging.
There's a Weaver's wall coming in. I just burned his 4-shot.
Naka's coming in under the knocker. This is Naka's ascendable wall!
Oh my God! Wow, a CC!
And Giant Eggs are ready to back Isma up as he's able to take down Sharyl with 4 Ultras being burnt there.
And they take Sharyl down. He doesn't have time to flash.
And I believe crap, did it go over to you some other way?
Uh, yeah, it was secured by Cher, actually, he got the smite, and that was the cost of his life.
Yeah, overall that was...
Yeah, absolutely.
Uh, the...
The question I had was, why make this engage in the first place?
Like, Nocturne is not gonna stop a fight here.
Uh, and I put like that it was super ambitious for them to try.
The reality is that it's much easier for GX to collapse quicker.
They only had their bot lane available, the Aurora can't collapse in the same way
That's the the Taliyah can and with the numbers advantage Jx find an easy pick up
This is something that you mentioned when we talked about these compositions Jack you part of that as well once you go in
You can't go out. So while it's nice in your head
Oh, you can trade your ulti for a flash if you just got out scoffery. That's not a bad trade, right?
It doesn't hurt too much
Unfortunately, Jackie's not the same global he can re-engage he can ensure that that trade continues
And at that point all the major resources for team heretics were gone
Saren wasn't able to get involved and losing that first nocturnal. Yeah, it's a really big feels back
I think how Team Redix needs to play this team comp is more around Saren and having Ice be the supporting member
You could see that Ice in that fight is there and present. That's not really how Jin wants to play us then
Waiting for someone to jump to let's have Shadoe there in the area
Presence of mind from Shadoe to make sure he could move down board spots them out and they know he's on gromp
And now difficult for ice to walk too far forward here. He's gonna take a bit of free folk
Also, something we didn't touch on earlier is Jackie's chose to go the unsealed spellbook on to Lee
I'm not sure if I've ever seen this before but uh
curious to stop process just getting more Summoner spells, but
We'll see giant still looking to confess
But it's so annoying just as your face. Oh, oh and the flash. That is really annoying
Yeah, I mean I'm quite surprised that GX is able to get so much off the back of that. I mean, I have many thoughts right now.
I'm trying to pick which one to articulate the things that concern me right now, okay?
We can debate that this is actually for the pro and the con.
The pro, nowhere is fed. The con, it's the boss that's fed through.
Pro, sterilize Altium is getting fight kicked off, you're a war, Altium's there with a flip back,
doesn't it, hit Zanis, still is able to get over the wall,
and time is not getting chunked down, Zan got it in the first go, gets the reset,
the reset between worlds and able to escape the weirding wall so poke them out so there
you go there's the fall upon to Isma after the previous play where they got the flash
evening things up well I mean it's a good pick from heretics it's not going to convert
into much they got the scuttle crab I wish that it like translated into more I mean he's
going to respawn in time for the next dragon spawn 40 seconds then the question is both
besides the Varus ult and the Vi ult versus Nocturne and the Roar ult.
Both of them will be down for the Drake spawn.
That's true, yeah.
So, I would say that probably favors the Vi Varus.
The team that not current.
You're already not sure, are you?
I'm not sure.
I mean both teams are so ult reliant.
It's rare that you see these kind of team comps that are so similar go up against
each other.
I mean, I do think it favors Jax, mainly because of the poke.
They have tools, even without their ults, in that they have Taliyah and they have Varus.
And as Varus is fed, the fact is, he's already completed his Ghostblades.
When setting up a random objective like this, if an off-damp doesn't have ulti, there's not really a lot that you're afraid of.
And so, GX, they're just going to start this one off.
Yeah, looks like Giant X agreed with you, already.
As well, the Shale, having that Disforged of pathing to Isma is firing his top camps while Isma was both side.
It's going to be second dragon to Giant X here, able to start that dragon stacking.
You'll see the soul is a cloud soul really valuable this game by space against both of these full engage comps
You know, I do wonder if we go all the way back to level one if the plan from share was to actually create a split
Yeah, and try and invade on the bot side because if he succeeded
How different this game could have looked how if he'd been able to take all those bot camps away from Isma
Assuming that was even his plan because we've talked extensively in the other game
how him constantly having the path to top due to his spawn rotation has had a pretty significant impact on his ability to both cover and impact
further game objectives on the bot side of the map.
Regardless, one minute now until the Herald, this will be a big point of contention I have to feel for heretics in particular because
while Jax don't have a meaningful gong lead out of now, they are in a position of power.
They've gotten their virus to a comfortable spot, no knock-turn ultimates have been thrown onto this virus as of yet,
He hasn't really been put under any pressure. Same can be said for Jacky's, so both these champions have kind of had a free, comfortable, early-vaining phase,
and I think Heretic's needs to try and get something off the back of this comp around this nuke.
And this is a good position for them to do it in. Shaiyo's not quite level 11, but he does have the hex plate, both him and Saren have access to the flash.
Noah is now using the TP. Move up. Feel a little bit more present around this objective contest, but they really have all of the tools.
the tools. Now what doesn't have a full completed item in advantage, this should be the best
window of opportunity heretics are going to get for at least the next few minutes.
But the tough part about this team heretics comp is they don't have the front line to just
take space. If they're going to take the space, it needs to be an instant fight and you see
how Gion X are using that to just constantly take full space and pull for Isle of River
and you see Jun is not scared. He knows that if you guys go on me, you have to
pull send it in which case I'll just pour it out and that's it for starting the
hero.
Not to install like any other level, he would have loved to get that. He still
ways away from it. You're going to have to commit that level 1 ulti. The health's going down though.
2.7, 1.4. They've already spotted the way. Team Heretic seem like they still
might want to force a fight and that's frustrating. I think they know that was their window of
opportunity that they needed to force a fight but the Herald went down so fast that it just
disappeared in the blink of an eye. That's so hard if they don't get that good opportunity.
There's nothing they go for. They can't go for the first target because if they do,
they're already fully committed and it's going to be bad for them because Jai makes
can be the one to just run them down. So they really need to find either Jacky's or Noah
Codd upside and then they can look to run them down and start the fight that way because otherwise
they just don't have the dam. I mean we're seeing the challenges that come with the heritage
composition on paper it seems like a nice idea right your ability to basically neutralize what is
I guess you could describe as a two damage threat obviously Vibe does her fair share of damage
but when you look at Taliyah Bars that's where the bulk of your VPS is going to be coming
from in the fight and so when you have so many damage threats, reckoning that backline in theory
making it impossible for them to play is a nice idea but GXR taking advantage of all of the weaknesses
of this heretics composition in that. Number one once they commit they have to hard commit
so if we just play the fight slow we can get them better on the re-engage and the fact that
they can easier leverage their pushing lanes because it's so difficult for heretics to as
Jack was saying reclaim the space that has already been taken. Well and I think what
What makes it worse is we talked earlier about summoner stuff
But we've gotten exhaust on Jackie's as well as serifs and now the additional magic shield coming through
He's pretty impossible to kill in that three to four seconds where you want to one shot someone
He just exhausts whatever your biggest damage that is and right now it's not clear right a lot of people on one and a half items
But it gets much easier to make that decision as you move later in the game and
It doesn't get easier for team heretics to find this angle. The good news is
This is, oop ice, he's pushing back the stall, but the tower will fall.
The good news is that heretics do always have that win condition.
If they successfully fire the shotgun, they will find a way to swing this game, but so
far GX has not given them an opportunity to aim and shoot.
And I want to highlight what you said about Jagdpistrakers, I'm thinking about it but
probably he went spellbook mostly just to have access to that exhaust, to be able
exhaust whoever goes first if it's Trace and Shale or Seren and it's Arir as well.
Arir as well. He does have a lot of good options to help his team out and we also
see Proto Belt on Seren which is quite interesting. I mean it's a very cheap
item. I know Chovy's been building it and that's kind of made everybody.
It's exactly that. Basically Chovy's been buying Proto Belt on a bunch of
champs. I mean we saw it on Azir yesterday from Jojo and so it does
seem like it's similar to when we saw chovy building relays last year okay that's a great idea
i like it though because it's universally accepted right if chovy but we don't need to provide any
more analysis now i got chovy built it like oh cool we trust that guy seems to know where i'm
mid lane i feel like we were using it more as a critique like the girls i'm not thinking
I'm not gonna...
No, no, no.
Please, sorry!
What's the better option?
How's Chovy?
Tell us how Chovy's wrong!
Yeah, go on.
You tell us.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Jungin'.
Oh, I got Drax.
Drax Spectre's gonna tell us he's smarter than Chovy, guys.
Hold on.
What's happening?
All right.
Third Drake is here.
Another advantage for GX, obviously, when they set up.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Take their sweet time.
What's the extra?
Is that shotgun?
All five Alti.
On the table for Team Herak, take seven seconds to tell GX to get access to two
of theirs.
Nice off. We got a paranoia coming down. Stent going over the wall.
Immediate charm going to come through. The curtain call as well. Isba deleted right as the fight takes off.
Third Drake's been up. Stent is giving it's life. Noah still living for an extra moment. Jun's side step to the fourth shot.
Exhaust down onto Shale. Temperate fade onto two. Lot waiting for the setup. The flip back. Not quite in time.
But the third Drake still manages to go to GX. Now they're on the retreat overall. Pretty close fight.
But the Drake belongs to the Giants.
Smythe came down a little too early from Shale, allowing for Jenkins to actually steal that one away amidst the chaos.
I like the target selection from Heretic's. Reboot the jungler, remove this fight, but the fight doesn't quite go the way they want.
I mean, the shotgun came out here and they were able to one-shot his Smythe without even being able to use his ultimate.
But then, I think it's some of the missed bullets from Ice Air. He hits one of the Sion, and then Noah flashes the second,
And then the 4 misses as well. I think if one of those hits either Jun or Nod, this fight could have gone differently.
But they just don't have the damage to kill Loth on the scion after they've used all their ultimates.
And Jion X pours some flashes and pours them away.
Did I see Dragan go down to 1 HP?
Yeah.
Was that literally 1?
Yeah.
Oh, God.
That's uh...
Yeah, that's a little bit rough.
Even the drake taking it up. Oh my God, some of these are savage.
That's ruthless.
Alright, well, soul point for GX, exactly where they want to be. They have beautifully survived the shotgun so far.
Isma's died twice, but again, not the key damage dealer. He doesn't have two items, don't get me wrong, but
if Jackie's and Noa are allowed to play out these extended fights, it's not looking super hot, especially as Ice still probably now won't have the IE at the very least, but
he's not killing Lot with that Infinity Edge.
He needs that LDR, but probably he will look to go rapid fire third, just for that added range, it's very common on Jhin to do.
And that means that it delays his armor pan by quite a bit, and Seren as well on this Aurora.
Not doing a whole lot of damage to the front line, so it makes it a really easy game for a lot to buy space and buy time.
And it's really all on no one, Jackie, to make sure that they don't get one shot, that's also why no one decided to go for the edge of knife.
And Jack is waiting for the Seraphs to just have more survivability as Jai makes a look for a top lane.
Tower shot down on timing. They're waiting on the flick as long as possible.
We're getting deleted by the equalizer. The Tracer's getting pushed in even faster.
The ball push won't be there because of the rumble off with the kills. They're going to GX.
I mean it's a clean dive, but they've committed to five people which allows for her to six to cross that.
You can see the Nocturne pushing down the mid lane tower.
Same can be said in the bottom lane where Serin is trying to do what damage he can.
The question is, can GX actually secure that top tower?
Will this bot one be locked in? It looks like the bot one's going to get locked in first.
Yeah, so first tower advantage ends up going over to Heretics.
The gold overall remains even.
Most of the gold advantage with sitting on Tracin after that death,
it will equalize that top gap a little bit more.
Ultimately, the gold is very even,
but it does feel based on how the comps are playing,
that GX are the ones in control of this game,
especially given that Seoul is two minutes away.
Yeah, we've already seen John pick up my chaos luxury item for sure
But it looks like a locket is on the way as well just to shut down even more of that AoE burst so
The Isma probably a person this is the other struggle is in a dragon fight
If GX refers to me objective you probably want to try and kill Isma to take away the smite
But if you do you probably lose the ensuing fight. Yeah, it's ups both to be and that's why those three dragons are doing a lot of
Heavy lifting right now for giant X. That's maybe they can look for a pick here on mid lane
Well if you're going in, immediate charm, perfectly set up CC, shut down on a no-announce.
Yes, maybe look at it if you're going to fall a fight, because Shale is going to trade his life for that pick.
Saren throwing down at all to you of his own, 10-bird fate on the ice. Q coming through mid, the timing not quite right,
but I was going to go down all the same. GX taking two and returned.
And that's the short-dump comp you kill one, but you don't have any more damage after that.
They take down Noah, but you see there's just no fuel left in the tank.
Okay, Shayo and Ice both end up falling and it's starting to feel dire in this game.
I like that GX turned it into a fight.
They didn't just let their AD carry die and then say maybe we can trade something else.
They actually brought the fight to heretics knowing, hey, they're out of resources now.
Yes, our AD carry falls, but let's actually look for the re-engage.
And if you look at the minimap, you can see, pings mid, pings mid, pings mid.
GX desperately trying to get to their mid lane as quickly as possible.
If they turn their attention on D'Sheao, they know he's got no way out, and then the Bart ultimate from Jun to set up for the follow-up, along with the Taliyah to be able to collapse, Jax create that number's advantage and turn the fight in their favor.
This is the Jun bar that I know and love. I mean, he's having a really good game here, and it's so easy for him to play now, especially with I still not having Flash for the sole fight.
I'm looking at Jun and see if he can get another Bart ult just like that.
Setup is there. Control as well as they push their vision line steadily forward.
Lot in the mid lane just ensuring you can push and you can see in the previous fight how much space lock can create.
No one can really walk through him. Saren and Ice were alive in that fight but just don't have the damage.
They've built to kill squishy targets and need to find the right angles to make sure they're hitting the appropriate members as GX have set up.
Hoping for four people to wander into this particular brush although that happens very rarely.
I wish I could say it happens never, but it happens very often.
B-Glider's not in range, that's Sol for GX and now Tracin is in trouble as Noah alongside
Jack is going to pick up the ball up kill.
Excellent control from GX, they make sure that heretics have no means of accessing the river
through the bot lane, they cover for the flank spotting out the Nocturne with a good
control ward and the Varus Ultimate connects and it's just smooth sailing from there.
I mean an absolute masterclass of just showing why having control of an objective is so
no pivotal and we see that Team Red X income, they don't have what it takes if they get
split up like that.
Shale doesn't have a good target to go on.
Giant X they get the soul, they get the mash.
Game is starting to feel very much in Giant X camps.
That it is, the curtain calls here, lot there, the body blocked out, Shale going
around the pit just a little bit too late as once another objective goes over to
Japanese. I think he has smite this time though as I see a splash very rapidly refreshing.
I look back at the play and again that control will just offering so much value. No one's
ultimate connects. The spell shield doesn't come through in time. And while he does ultimate to
try and get to safety it's uh it's a desperate play. I mean I think a lot of people they will
look to criticize Sharon from there. But you have to think of this from his POV. It's
easy as a spectator so you can see what HP the dragon is on. But he's working with no
Intel no info so he knows that they're gonna do the soul at any moment now I
need to walk up but if he does he dies and if he doesn't they get the soul it's
a loose lose situation for him and it's why it's so difficult to play this game
now that we have a bit of an engage in the mid lane no one able to flash out
you thought you're going a little wide the fear is still there but the brew
comes in clutch and chao goes down no one's still living I'm prepared not
quite enough but Julian is a fast boy flashes get the lock I'm gonna trace
the follow CC is there another kill to the side of GS and this might just be
the victory march. I mean you'd think that bringing a shotgun to a fallen arrow fight
would work in your favor but the man's empowered by the dark end and it looks
like that hunted for more. That's more than enough is Sarah and trying to get
tricky with it will move out just barely daught the unraveled earths he goes
back in on the jackies overall though GX. They're so fast! They're just moving around the
console they're just running around and running loops around Team Reddix as they
pick up this mid tower they can look to convert it into top as well and
and just continue the relentless siege.
And gentlemen, we're running out of silver lining.
You don't even, didn't even stop for a lock.
He went for the bangle pike.
Doesn't even need the lock in.
It's a situation where I think
Heretics had a promising baseline
with the run ball plus the gin.
I think that the last Jarvan van from GX
was a very good one.
The way that I see this is
once you've got the virus locked in,
your intention is very much to
have that lockdown to make it very difficult for the virus to play, but by removing it and by choosing to go for the Aurora earlier so they can have a good matchup in mids,
I think that it ultimately didn't work out in their favour. The Aurora wasn't ever able to get prior, and quite frankly, is often now ranged against the Taliyah.
The Nocturne is so committed that I think GX had all the tools in the world to deal with it, and they played around it appropriately,
and Heretics are facing the consequences of their drafts, so I think in game two they really need to adjust and quite frankly simplify their approach,
Right now Jax is just playing the map but I've played the other game much better than there about.
I think the way you can think about their first three picks, this Jin, Rumble and the Aurora, is they're all very non-committal.
Like the nice part about the Jin-Rumble combo is you just both start all things and you can run them down that way.
And same with the Aurora, like yeah she goes in but she has so much mobility that she can kinda do whatever she wants.
But then you end up looking in this Nocturne or Recon and then your comp kinda shifts.
Because now it's not a comp that can't play slow anymore.
It's a comp that can only go forward and only do it all at once, or it's nothing.
So, ulti's going in, going in all at once, as predicted.
Ulti's set up beautifully, but now they've got a Sion there to body block and flick back.
No one now on a rampage. No one still alive as is Jackie's.
I mean, the feel from Jib, you can see how hard they counter that.
It's the triple five for Thieber-Ec.
Gynx are playing how they should, and they're making it so difficult for Thieber-Ec
trying to kill any of these carries.
They're in.
Trying to get the combo through the stealth, but it won't come through.
I thought they're not old through that.
I think if you had old through that, I could have been a miracle play,
but I mean it was not.
But this is literally, this is a wallet dip play.
Look at those health bars.
If they're even in gold, if they're a little bit closer overall,
they have enough extra damage to finish those kills.
Despite the fact that Jun did a good job of body blocking, as did Lot.
So, frustrating for team Heretics,
whether when they finally find an angle that looks good,
it's just too late.
The deficit's just too big.
And it's funny, we talked about Noah named Bisonius, but he doesn't really need to bite if you just ult him every fight.
And then you have soldiers on Jackies as well, and then it's like, who is he ready to go up?
Now, I don't know how valuable this is for Noah, but fun fact, when you press the R on Nocturne, it will pop that knight's edge.
Which means that Noah in the fight won't be blind.
Which, I don't know how helpful that is.
It's really helpful for Noah if he wants to lean over and check the PC that much is for sure.
is dead. Oh no. The follow-up kill might be here as well, but the footback not quite perfectly
done, but it does not matter. Double kill there as Isma is able to get one in return and now
Laugh does not care about the tower damage whatsoever as the Weaver wall is coming down,
ice running through the hills, the flick will land the Rylai ensuring that it does.
Altie coming out from there, but he can't get to the wall in time. No, yes he can!
Just barely. Jun wants to finish the kill and GX wants to finish the game. It's Noah
who is unstoppable on this bar as 6-1 and 6, an entire composition that was supposed to headshot him.
That was supposed to find him, put a bounty on his head and take him down, but he only dropped once in the entire game.
GX, steady and controlled from start to finish.
HONESHING TEAM HERITICS, as they close out.
Oh, maybe not!
I think they're gonna have to get it.
I mean, it was, it was a nervous, it felt like a nervous tense early game,
But after that, Giant X just broke through and it was a domination with the Drake stacking with the T-Fights all going in their favor as they're picking up some kills to finish line unless they make sense of a heroic base defense here.
I mean, Ice would need to get another pepper kill for them to really get out of this one. He is bonny, but...
Thanks for the close.
Thanks for the watch out, too.
He's only got four bullets.
I think he's being loaded up.
Yeah, he does.
Oh, no.
It's a tick click.
There you go!
It took a little bit of a minute there, CS'ed up the closer, but that was good, it's a huge amount of speed, but should the towers...
GX, really dominant start, we talked about the combination, very straightforward, a lot of utility, looking good.
Looks like Shox, standing by with the victorious Jackies, let's see what he is to say.
Yes, series that over yet, I know guys, but I needed to ask about this unsealed spellbook to Leatech.
Well, I feel like it's mega OP into Nocturne and Aurora when they go in, you know?
But then they never went on me, and I think I had flesh cleansed the whole game, and I couldn't swap it.
It was kinda cringe.
You had exhaust, I saw it.
Yeah, it exhausts for like 20 minutes of the game and then in one fight that was completely over
I just used it for fun so I can finally get rid of it
But I think it also made them not ult me at all in the game. So I think it's a yeah, it's op. Yeah
It was nice. Was it hard not to chrono break on Taliyah?
Actually, no, I don't know how Georgia does it. I don't know how he does it. It's actually impressive honestly
So thank you so much. Good luck on game 2 and they never showed up on the dragons apparently or never in time
Oh, what was up with that?
Yeah, it was crazy
I want to see how GX managed to do this crazy setup at Drake number 4 because they pretty much showcased exactly how to deal with this sort of really annoying flanking shotgun kind of thing comb.
So if you can bring up the clip that would be great because patience rewarded them extremely well.
So as you can see Drake is up right now but what GX is doing is they're playing it very slow.
They're pushing this and using Fogo 4 very well if we can roll the clip right now.
all they need to do is just be stacked up together. They should not break this formation
and what they're doing is they're playing with Vi so Andrej. Well right now everyone else on GX side
is just making as much space as possible. Jacky's is on the top side pretty much zoning all the
access points that Team Heretics has and this Team Comp only works well when they're all together
when they get to pull the trigger first but GX never really gave them an opportunity because
they blocked everything and once you manage to split Team Heretics' Team Comp up
Then you just have a mosh pit on the side of GXO. After this it was incredibly hard for Team Heretics to climb back into this game.
But Dekta, how did they get over here?
It was unplayable. It was all a bit of a mess. And I do agree. I think we saw lots of moments where for Heretics they could have gone for cross maps.
They could have tried to look for other avenues but it never really came together for them.
And I do think partly like I like the way giant X played the early game like they kind of sidelined and
Control of that bottom side with the buy made it difficult then for heretics to really connect with their bottom lane
We saw a bunch of like trying to zone away in the bottom side making sure I couldn't get to see us
And I think that is the game plan a lot of teams are looking at for her
I'm sorry. Can you tell the camera like up to those guys are trying to wave at the camera the whole time?
This is serious, Luka Blanket! How dare you!
Okay, I'll know what he's listening. It was funny because he did one of those.
Yeah!
Is that the one?
Yeah, but he was doing that one and then it didn't go on screen here, like...
Oh!
So, I see you. No, it's sick.
Sorry. Go ahead.
Thank you.
But okay, yeah, on the side of Team Heretics, or rather on the side of GX, everyone on my stage is just a boring slow game, they're not doing anything, but that's exactly what they need to do.
They need to not do anything. The onus was on Team Heretics to pull a page out of MCoi's book because what we saw yesterday from MCoi, for example, was they kept attacking people in the mid-game.
They looked for Nocturne ults because that's what your team comp needs, rather.
rather you need to get a gold lead in the early mid game so that when you look up to these objectives you have
Some sort of firepower, but instead I it really feel like they're just looking up to no objective
They're being slow. They're not even there in time and then they're just looking at
GX taking the objective. They're like, oh, okay
Well, you can take their lunch money and yeah, I thought it was about to lose his hair about this collector
in the bottom side for the gym
You have no time
I just hate Jen because I feel like Jen Jen is just like is this trap for like every single pro player
You know they just rock up and they're like
I'm gonna bring a collector
Yeah, because it feels good
But you know when it doesn't feel good after you buy it because it just ass
I was against it like I saw it on who's gonna be like yeah
Let's holiday. There's nothing good look like because I think like it was like 25 minutes into the game
I know you have the warden's mail not even a completed armor, right?
But like, pro-jack show, sure. But like, there was not a huge amount there and Kid was still doing nothing.
I love it, because like sometimes we say, but it doesn't really influence the game.
So does it? Would it have helped if he didn't have collector, and if he showed up at the drake, and he had better items or not?
Well, you know, in that fight he didn't miss pretty much all of the bullets, you know, so that sucks.
And then he had to reload hitting the scion, so that also sucks.
But it's just, regardless of what he would have built, he would have been useless at that point in the game.
It's just, with a different build, he would spike at third item.
maybe in time for that board raid, but then again GX did an amazing job to accelerate this game and make it so that
that trigger, that fight to end the game happens a lot earlier than Team Heretics would want to.
Yeah, we had that like static shave rapid fire cannon build, which was the mosquito build.
This had a little bit more, so maybe it's like horse fly, and then it's like,
would you have to actually get any further along before you're anyway threatening?
Makes sense. I like that you took the side of, hey, well GX did everything right and they played their comp
to perfection. We had some question marks about Jun and then which Jun we were going to see.
He was really good. The bot lane was really good. But again, it's all about timing for heretics.
Back in the saddle, we could have our first not 2-0 of the playoffs. Do you think it's going to happen?
Honestly, I would say no, because I really wanted to believe in team heretics, especially after the adaptations they made to the draft.
Because this, you cannot get more firepower than this, you know?
But seeing them just be late and not really be proactive in other areas of the map where I would have wanted them to be more proactive
It makes me a bit of a doubt because when tension is high, when you're on the brink of elimination, you go back to fundamentals, you go back to what's easy, which is stacking drakes, you know, having stable laning phases, maybe finding some ganks.
Team Heretics found none of them, while GX managed to slow this game down, or like narrowed this game down to such an easy win condition, it kind of takes all the fate out of Team Heretics for me.
It's also just the fact they felt like they were on different pages. Like you see Nocturne on midway trying to hit the mid lane tower, Jin is going top to try and help out a dead top laner.
and then you're not in the position where you're anywhere on the map.
They were tilting you.
Yeah, because there's a lot of displays where with the correct answer,
if you're all doing the same play where you're not so disjointed,
then all of a sudden League becomes a more easier game
because we're not at the point where League is just,
there's only one correct play and everyone needs to do it.
There's two or three, you're at the point where you just need to pick one of those,
but you need to pick one together, and that's where Jiggs just did a better job.
Right. Well, we'll see what happens for Team Herific.
They need to keep their head in the game.
They still got a chance in this best of three, but G ooks gx are they wearing hugs?
I don't know they look hot to trot will be right back with game 2
Nothing happened to him.
That's good. Let's fight another guy, okay?
Let's kill them for sure.
We have a good match.
Let's end the game.
We don't want to lose, okay?
Yeah, yeah.
You
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Welcome back to LEC vs. We're in a lower bracket matchup where we have Garen and Lux?
Wow, that's a lot of domestic support.
Brother and sister on stage.
Who supports which team is the question?
Are they aligned and supporting GX?
There's a lot that we're going to need to unpack here.
Does Lux canonically support one particular team?
Those skin sales would go a while.
I'd say Barlow's gonna be really excited about that support.
That's our on-stage.
I was wondering why you were going out.
I don't know where I was going.
I tried to, but yeah, yeah, welcome to the death
where they dressed us all the same for fun.
We haven't worn vests in six years,
but here we are.
All together.
Three brothers, a family, as we get ready for draft.
Hoping to see Team Heretics on stage
bring it back for our first three-game series.
But after game one, it's hard to know what to expect.
I mean, I want to talk about how this team
Alright, he's bounced back in the series, and I don't want to be that guy to just harp on about draft,
but sometimes you need to be what you don't want, and it was the draft.
It was the draft. You need to what? You need to be what you don't want to be.
Oh, okay. I am. Whoa. Alright. It was like, it was like, yeah, you sound like a horoscope right there.
Thank you. Yeah. That's not a compliment.
Well, you know, you know what it was. Oh, it was. It was.
We can talk about your star sign later.
Okay, back to the drawing board for my relationship with Jack and for Team Heretic's relationship with the draft.
So far, we're seeing a lot of the same things.
We've got a moondo, we've got an embessa, Team Heretics are back on red side.
This is a Caitlyn button, which is quite rare.
We have seen it's a pretty good success.
Do you think? I feel like it's become a lot more common these days.
I mean, because it's pretty common, but there's a ban that's pretty rare, I'd say.
Because we saw it yesterday as well, the AC series, I think, just because of how I think
oppressive the champion can be, particularly once you get into game 2, game 3, the other
we've seen in game 3 yet, but perhaps today could be the day.
In any case, I think that it just removes one of those power ADs from the pool, and
it could also just be something that many pros consider to be good into Corki.
So perhaps this raises the value of the gorky cake. Turn over the rotation from heretics, especially if they just want to simplify the game.
It's pretty good in the gorky, yeah. You can always just kite them out and use your longer range to not allow them to have any hole in.
And it is just like a strong, really lane-in-place champ, as you'd say, and now Team Redix is deciding to take out the Jarvan as well, away from his smite.
So we'll see what Jionix looks like.
So your is open.
Do they care?
I think they should care.
You can always respond with the Ryze to Saren, but...
They're thinking about it. They've been on the first pick here. As you said, mid lane pool feels wide open.
Lee and Aurora are taking away, but not in the hot picks here.
Ryze is going to be the lock-in.
This surprises me, mainly because I feel like Saren is quite comfortable on the Ezreal,
But also it gives you flexibility to go for something like the Casio if you want to and it is also open
We've been seeing that a bunch. I
Wonder if it's just giant X are valuing the early game really high
And that's also why if you're really excited about out the kid
But if they just giant X thinks if we have better early game champs
We have more proactive champs then we can just have a repeat of game one
There's no way you thought that shanker was gonna get locked in look if there was ever a
a time this wouldn't be it but that's there's never ever been a time for
shaco ever who knows you know I don't know what the metrics are for an
appropriate time to pick shake it let's never happen I don't think like it's
definitely happened it's happened at all star two but it all blurs together it's
having a riff rivals maybe I'm just making stuff up anyway
Xen now paired with Anivia. Anivia, you know, went from that one niche pick to now pretty popular in the context of the meta, good against the relative short range of RISE.
Yeah, just a common RISE counter pick at this point. Had a really good laning phase into it, and the scales really well.
Rundo's gone!
Did you guys remember those two weeks where everyone thought Malfight Jungle was mega OP, and then it was pervaband, we saw it once, and I was pretty sure it's Merv, didn't do anything all day.
No, no, no! I feel like we're reriding.
We did a FUN though, and it was OP and then they nerfed it.
Yeah, they're nerfed it like I think we're rewriting history, but I'm just saying I all I did mistake facts
I don't write any history. Okay
But also is my was popping up up until he all
Now we have a trucks probably jungle presumably all flex man. It's a flex. I saw a flex
Man I've heard a lot about a truck support really gonna
Atrox ABC full creed
All right, Tracin, what have you got cooking for us?
He's going to go with NAR.
All right, what is the NAR winner?
That's 4-4.
OK, for some reason I thought the NAR just hadn't won a game.
You know what, though?
I don't mind it.
I'm pretty sure all the wins was up in 4-4, though.
For the NAR.
Not on the wire.
All right.
All right, so we have three short mid-range cruisery
champions on one side, and then we got NAR and Nivius in.
I don't know how to feel about this draft so far.
Both concert, I want to say fairly similar in that they both have some soft engage, they
both have decent range.
Right now the biggest advantage that Anivia has is, I honestly think that Ryze gets prior
early, but you could argue that once you get six, I still don't think Anivia ever
really gets prior back against the Ryze.
What Anivia does though is she just punishes short range champions really well and Ryze
you find in a fight that you're actually relatively short range you have to close that gap so wall is super punishing against rise the Q from
Anivia all it's in those fights where it becomes super difficult up to the narwhal combo bro. Absolutely. Unicorn of the sea that's
I mean for me this feels a bit like game one but reverse this time is team eretics that can really kite out giant X
with their longer range I mean nar so it's gonna be kindly because often and maybe otherwise the only difference is that giant X
Giant X-Type champions that are more independent, I'd say, that can stand on their own and do their own thing.
But it's still a lot of onus here on June to find some engage to set up his character for success.
Okay! Or not! Or not! Which they don't care about, and then it's instilled Lucianami. Wow.
This is going to be the most feast or fame in comp. And I thought, well, the team heardix opposition from game one was the most feast or fame in comp.
We'd see how we can. Wow, if you fall behind on this comp, you have to ask the enemy team permission to approach an objective.
It's also like losing Nami up against Namibia. I mean you do have the ultimate for the longer range, but once that's down
It's so difficult for this low-range ADC to play into these carries here
It's gonna be the rail for Sten so it's a tough laning phase for ice and Sten here as they're not gonna have a range support to try to
match Namib's poke
But I do think later on as the game progresses, I mean Team Reddy's comp is just so much easier to play.
I uh, I mean we just had a whole conversation about how Nibia is really good in the short-range champs
Yeah, they're like, what if I gave you another one?
I'm doubling down.
This is, yeah, I think it's difficult to understate how hard it will be to play in fights in this game if you fall behind.
But that's an if you fall behind, right? If we see a situation where GX is getting more breaks,
if they get the first objective set up, then it does get a lot more difficult.
The potential on side lane for this composition to just dominate,
or if you're able to get these creative flanks from any one of these short-range champions,
a lot of what the inheritors are trying to do can fall apart.
apart but again one of these teams we say the plan is just set up and fight
front to back the other one we got like a five paragraph essay yeah what needs to
happen I mean I think though if you do play through this game in your head you
can see how Noah and June gets Friario, Jackie gets Friario as well, uses the
Ryze ult to roam, Isma's able to start second grade. They do have a lot of like
real real early game win cons in this game on how they can look for
snowball the game look for dive vault and put the solution and Ryze ahead
I think if they're able to do that then they can be the threat that's always willing to run down team red X
But it needs to be clean
Giant X hasn't shown
to be that clean
Maybe today
To be that first day as we get into our second game is my continuing to stay on take notes
Surely we've taken enough notes, but it's not for me to say no we need more notes folks pull your notes out
It's time. Yeah
We'll take us if Chovy will smell me taking out so you'd be all over it
It's the best team, but I've never seen I don't know it's not ours. It's the pros. Oh, well, I'm not building Frodo Bell on my Akali
Okay, I'm not doing it. What are you building on there Akali?
They never should have got rid of the item
Should bring back deathfire grass. No, absolutely
I used to build deathfire grass Victor, okay
Now that might seem weird to you, but back in the day Victor didn't have any of this nonsense
He basically just got flat AP had an item that was locked in his inventory
Yeah, you bought more stuff you could upgrade it and then it just did more damage
And so what you did is you dfg qe alt one shot
That's real skilled buddy. What if I what if I swap Victor saying with literally any AP champion?
Do you think people would say the exact same string of keystrokes?
I think it's not a keystone maybe because all the keystones look pretty normal unless
Maybe no one wanted to have electric queue. I was about to ask is press the attack normal on Lucian
I would say I think it is better, but some people do like electric you to get sudden impact, but
Another keystones look incorrect fleet on Nara isn't that weird. Maybe he wanted conqueror stuff
Oh fleet is way better for the landing face
So I think it's maybe some minor rune. Yeah, it's probably so we'll see
Don't know when we have more info. We will share it, but now that we've got a moment back to death fire
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
So, you know Jack always brings up skins.
Yeah. It's true.
It's lighter.
What, okay, what, why?
So, Bat Nivia.
Yeah.
The worst skin.
No, what are you talking about?
It's the worst skin.
It's the worst skin.
And Nivia has so many phenomenal skins.
No, no, no, no, no.
And you just remove all of her cannon
by turning her into a bat.
Okay.
She should move all of her cannon.
She should lose her egg pass if she's a bat.
Remove all of her cannon.
I'm sorry.
No, she's a Phoenix.
She's a majestic ice Phoenix.
Okay, all right.
And then you're gonna turn her into a bat.
Bro, no. She should lose her passive when she uses that skin.
That model was put into this game before most people were born.
The fact that they found a way to turn that into a bat with a hat on is very clever.
You got to appreciate the craftsmanship.
Black Frost and Nivea. You've got freedom, Nivea.
Okay, I just like you, you got freedom.
You went... Who are you?
Since when have you quoted the war to me as a reason that you shouldn't or should do anything?
Nivea is an iconic champion, turning it into a bat.
What?
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
What?
What?
The coba skin, where they turn them into a dog.
Yeah, that's the first skin, too.
Yeah, we hate that skin, right here.
I would ban that skin in probably if I could.
It is infuriating.
It's funny, but it's infuriating.
Like, Jetski Rexai, which is way better in older, I suppose.
You know what is acceptable?
What?
The skins that get turned into bees.
Bees.
Why is that acceptable?
Because they're cute.
I don't know.
If Anivia turned into a giant bee, I'd be okay with that.
Okay, I also have to say that in the side notes.
Oh, the paper mache! Anivia skin!
Good. Good.
I mean, the blast frost is the best one.
It is the best.
In case you haven't guessed, we're still...
We're still waitpropase, although I have one, but I need the prompt for you to scroll.
So potential bug, player loaded in.
Never mind, that part might not be safe for her yet.
We'll find out.
The most recent update that we have.
There's no way Phoenix but ice can be the poster child for League of Legends. There's just way cooler characters
I just you brought that up early about about no, so what's your issue?
I'm just saying you called her the poster one of the poster childs of like we got the original
Yeah, one of the OGs, but like no no one's first bringing up anivia. Okay, imagine if they turned brand
Also, no, don't okay. Hold on wait my lot
Yes, I've gotten a yes.
Okay, so league officials have determined, as both teams have already engaged with each other,
causing this to become a game of record, we are going to play on with the runes, whatever they were.
So we're going to get into game shortly, maybe frustrating for the side of GX,
I believe initiated the pause, but don't have confirmation yet as to what the rune was
or what the attended rune would have been.
So we are getting ready to resume the game.
Okay, I got confirmation. So we wanted first strike on Lucia, but he's got PTA.
PTA. Yeah. So there we are.
To be fair, I think PTA is really better, so I think he's better.
I mean, first strike is nice, but it's pretty nerve, but you can't prok it a lot against the railcorky.
But PTA does scale a lot better, I'd say. So I think he shouldn't be too sad. Okay.
Okay, but have you ever called someone for $300? No.
So, that could be taken out of context.
Whoops!
Alright, let's move on.
As we see, the battle of Batnivia and Pirate Rise.
Pirate Rise was totally cool and acceptable from Betty's perspective.
It's still Rise.
Batnivia, not okay at all.
Imagine if they turned Rise into a squid, okay?
Like, that's not basically what...
No, it wouldn't be!
They could just put the little Davy Jones tentacles on him now and it would fit
it with the pirate!
Dude, you're terrible at this.
Whatever you say, they should do the opposite.
I think this is just insane for Nivia.
Okay, I thought we were talking about the skin. That's all right.
My favorite champion for Nivia, the Cryo Phoenix.
That's a mod! That's a mod!
Someone paid him to put that comment in there.
There's no way. No one has ever said...
That's an empty accusation.
You know what? There it is.
Fun fact from our production team,
as we see a finish-miss fighting here on the bottom side,
Lucian is currently on an 11 loss streak in the LEC.
The last time Lucian won was spring playoffs last year
Callous to the one to play it so Noah
Again, we talked about how
But the good news is this early game will surely unlike the last early game be I think a bit more explosive a bit down to
More potential what let's kind of recap the
Some of the comments and concerns we have from the draft just because I think it's gonna be important later on this game
So GX is comp, but very little engaged.
And by that I just mean that they don't have an easy way to start a fight.
In contrast, the team Perotix, who have REL, they have MegaNar, they have Xin Zhao,
and they have reliable follow-up regardless of who ends up actually starting that fight for the team.
So, Perotix have all these tools to pick a fight basically whenever they want,
but they also have pokes themselves.
You've got Corki Poke, you've got Anivia using walls and the ulti to zone control.
So playing around these neutral objectives could be challenging for GX,
as GX is already on the road.
Yeah, he's just ghosting and running down the whole thing.
Two per early roam.
Ice, surely no way out of this one.
Maybe hoping to get a kill back for Jun.
Beautifully taking the tower and first blood going to Isma.
And Noah and Jun, they forced them to base,
and Giant X just pounced on the opportunity
with Jackie's roaming with the ghost as well.
And Ice, even though he has to flash,
doesn't decide to use it.
He's not going to lose one wave and another,
as Giant X pushed his wave in.
I mean, this was the exact win condition
that we talked about for Giant X.
This is incredibly devastating.
Now, remember, Jackie doesn't have TP.
He's giving up a wave of his own to make that play happen
But I think the alternative is just letting ice sit there and farm comfortably and kind of squandering that early lane advantage
So an aggressive play from GX but one that's paying off beautifully. I mean, I'm really impressed with that dive
It was incredibly clean. They the power aggro management was also very well done
And yeah, of course a sack in the mid wave for Jackie's but you can see the gold difference really isn't there and
Anivia that like this is an obvious problem in this matchup
Often we use caps as an example of someone here like he's someone that kind of originally introduced the anivia counterfeit
Even though it's a very old-school one a few years ago
And the whole idea again is that anivia punishes short range champions and in the lane
You can do a good job of pulling out on this rise
but
What you can't do is follow rise yeah like anivia doesn't have the mobility and goes for a lot of manner early on
She doesn't go for early boots and so it becomes very difficult to keep up with the rise
It's basically just leaving lane and doing what he can on the map
Yeah, you can see there that even though Saren is winning the trades against Jackie's due to the fact that Inavia has so little wave clear
It's still Jackie's that is able to continue to get prior and get push
And that's why he can continue to roam and utilize the rise pick
See shale setting up here for the potential lane gank
Of course, no flash. No sum is burned here in the previous play. Only Ice's barrier drops.
Sten does have the flash, but since Noa has cleanse, even if he's able to get the flash
Q, Noa can just cleanse some dash away, so Shai'O just makes the base.
Thanks, Rameshma. Going for a long wrap around here.
Well, they don't have any vision here. Ice, no barrier. He does have the flash, though.
He's going to wait for the minion wave to crash so he has more time.
And now Noah can just dash in and he knows that if Team Rage commits on him, he's must be hide.
He's on the way forward, a little bit of slow coming down, Sten no holding on to the client,
Ghost now finally coming out, Sten locked up, but crucially the infernal chains will not pull him back.
Double stumps burned in exchange for one positive trade from the side of GX
because she's continuing to put pressure on this Team Heritage bottom lane.
And my question now is, will Giant X be able to convert this into a drake,
which is really the next objective and a huge one for them.
Sten decides to stay, and they're looking for a pick now of these. I think this is over eager for Misma,
but it seems unconcerned, frontal change, a little bit more healing from the passive.
Dashback from Misma is good. We're gonna make it out as...
No, our first on the rotation. Jackie's hanging around, but he doesn't have any man of the support.
Team Reddix are actually going to be able to pick up the Drake. I think due to Jackie's
conditions, like you said, Drake does, gianics decides to better up it and give it up
Towards them. So a much better start for team Redix in the Drake Department at least in this game
Just able to pick up the infernal dragon now. Oh, but he's also ice
Double there follow nice additional damage
Just gonna jump ice out of lane kind of threaten a potential follow of dive like we does just have to recall here
There's no already to a 300 individual gold lead
But again the pressure continues to be on GX to keep extending this league team heretics having that Drake having that backup option
It's definitely nice in the early stages.
I mean, they did so much damage, didn't even notice the ICs the barrier in that exchange as well, just melted through that summoner spell.
I was kind of expecting Noah to flash after him, but he's saying, you know, I'll be happy with that summoner spell and the advantage for it again.
Yeah, I mean, the big reason Noah doesn't flash forward there, because I have the same problem that he has just...
He knows Shale just did Drake, they have no vision and river.
So it's like the only way to play could go wrong is he flashes forward, and then Shale and Sander are actually there.
there so good I think just instincts from Noah because that it just allows him to
continue building the CS late now 400 gold date and he's building towards the
essence river so once he really completes that and once we get that
imperative map mandates on the Nami that's when this what they do a real
comes online definitely true brief moment of calm here of course on the top
side of the map team here it takes winning in the 1v1 pretty handedly
although now that the first recall has come through maybe things start to
even up observers are keeping this bot lane rightfully so at any moment a fifth
fight could break out
yeah next looking to hold the wave here just so they can look to trade once the
emirates wants to walk up for minions they get the ward the stand places down
so they just want to kind of have it as like a freeze as a slow push try to
deny as many minions from ice as possible and with stand basing as
well it just means that ice is gonna have to sit here and watch the
minions die. Very sad.
Oh, mid lane. The ghost already coming out. I hope it'll find an angle here. Infernal
chain is down as Jephy back steps. I don't know a whole lot else to get. Just a chunk
of health off both mid laners. I'll just see it though.
That was the ghost, Burnt from Jackie's. But the Giant and X2 get the HP advantage
but now you can see as in Saren got that level 6, he can actually match Ryze's wave there and even get the push first.
But GionX, they want to try to look for Saren in the jungle? No.
They don't spot him, or they might have been able to go for more.
Of course, one of the other struggles is Ryze is a lot scarier in that room,
and Nivir really didn't want to be caught unawares moving between lanes.
Although, I think that mid lane play highlights beautifully what you gentlemen were talking about earlier
with the lack of reliable CC. The setup is hard for these ganks.
This is Shaeo. Of course, the Drake already went down earlier. They're able to grab it, so now Shaeo set up to take the gruffs as the top lane push, courtesy of Tracer on the NAR, who's just been able to sustain pressure throughout all of this early game.
GX don't have much of a counter punch on the bottom side. They're not really in a great position to dive, even though they do have some decent vision setup.
I mean, I think the GX bot lane is going very well, though. You hear 500 gold adds, you are winning out on every skirmish, and the vision investment on the left side of the map is consistent from GX.
Is they make sure to provide Noah and Jim with the safety that they need to play as aggressively as they want to?
I do think they're a little bit, this gold lead is a bit pickle. The fact that they haven't been able to pick up a single objective yet
It's a worry that I have for them, especially just due to the nature of their comp
I think they really need to be with the foot on the pedal at all times and continue snowballing
I do think though, once Nami gets that mandate, once Noah gets essence river
That's when they can really, really start to bully allies and try to continue the snowball.
Noah did stick around in the brush there, has did, well, looks like Jun did leave to go back to main lane,
so Noah can see you a little bit carefully here, but has the flash and the cleanse as well,
as Jun and Jackie start to move down to bottom lane. I think Noah probably just short,
but I think he needs probably this wave, and that's why he ended up staying, even though he's low on mana.
Notice that Isma does this pretty much every time he comes to bot lane.
He's also completely skipped his top camps to be bot in anticipation of contesting these bot camps.
He canceled his own infernal chance there, so he wasn't able to
continue chasing Shadow, but it still looks like it's going to be the gromp. And as you said,
already, I mean, Isma is just trying to live inside of enemy jungle this game and continue
pressuring bot. He's going to be able to take the gromp, but not really getting maybe as much
as he would have liked out of this. They haven't really been able to
shut down Shale. The CS lead is very, very equal.
I'll say it was kind of a necessary play too because by abandoning his top camps,
if he hadn't gotten anything on the bot side, he'd just passively be falling behind.
So by taking away the Gromp, he can now move to his bot side camp,
still be in a position to contest the dragon 20 and 18 seconds.
Resets are starting to come through from both the gnar and the Anivia
so they can spend what gold they have ahead of this fight.
What will the Icesen pick up B for Nillie, just a blasting one, okay, so not quite enough for the Rod of Ages
But it's always that awkward moment for all tier
Champions when they have to contest an early dragon. You don't have a lot of damage this early on into the game
No, you do not as Jackie is just doing what he came to even up the midway of Saren
TPing back to mid to make sure he could get pushed so that they could try and contest this Drake
But it's really only Noah and the junglers with completed items for this fight
See if the top laners want to get involved because in the meantime
Tracin is just putting some hurt on those top lane plates, likely to just continue to grow his own individual gold.
Lee GX, Bully Team Heretics out of the river.
When will they start the objective?
Dynix still have control here, but due to the fact Team Heretics pushed in this midway, they immediately need to drop it.
And Noah's gonna look to try to push him, this both ways, kinda ping pong it back into their favor.
Team Red-Ax are...
Holy no, it's powerful, 700 gold lead.
Tidal wave connecting under Saren in the backline,
Realm Warp on the way forward.
They already managed to find Isla though.
Back to the point and click engage as they were looking for.
Lots finally arrived to the fight as well.
J.O. now tries to escape.
Flash out as Lott now on the chase.
Unstop, a comfort pathmaker gets to kill the Noah,
who flashes over the wall.
GX happy to have the kills.
Lott pps in, but Tracin doesn't match it.
So even though Team Red-Ax are able to one-shot Isma,
They're the ones that end up having to run away and flash out, and it is going to be the top tower going in Tracin's favor,
and since Giant X weren't able to pick up the Drake to do this for being dead, I think it's not a bad call from Tracin to not keep either.
I agree, I think it's worthwhile to try it overall. You also get the flash out from both Nela and Watt,
and both Traciners will respawn at about the same time. Tracin dying here would not be ideal,
but now that you know that the enemy bot lane is on the top side of map, you should just make a beeline towards Dragon, I feel.
And you can see Shale doing just that.
Dream for GX would be to shut down Tracin on the top side, take away that one strong point on the map for the team heretics line-up is Tracin.
Finally gonna get to spend that hard earned gold Shale likely just to take the second drake here.
Lot is hovering around but...
Probably just eat a lot of damage for even face-checking.
Both is just like kind of fake pressuring here.
You can see Tace mess up doing his Grom.
I'm both playing this one, looking to move.
to move. So it's going to be second dragon now going for Team Redx and even though the
Gold lead on Noah is 1.3k so it's very large but without any objectives to back it up I'm
really favoring Team Redx chances they're going into game 2. I have to see how GX
can try to build a larger Gold lead. They lost that top lane tower first but now Noah
is left isolated here to try to get something else. And while on the earlier stages Jackie's
was clearing these waves out just as quickly as Inibio was, the longest lane matchup
has gone on. Saren especially with completed row makes things that much harder. Tracin,
Megynor on the way, Noah dashing through. Immediate clench for the extra movement,
but that means the stun is going to work and there's nowhere for him to go!
Noah was just left alone and top lane general already recalled. Noah decided to stay for
one more wave and stand very intelligently open slope there to actually punish him.
That's a big, big loss for Giant Knight.
I mean, you use that language, use left alone, I feel like.
Oh yeah, he chose.
No, I just...
As I've already seen...
His team left! What can we do?
That's quite safe. I believe they always tell them what to do, right?
I slope. Has he been left alone?
He looks pretty left alone.
Side step on the Q3, good. Infernal chains are here.
Flash to make it out.
Patience on the flash, waiting for the last possible second is Lawnizma.
At least able to get that summoner spell.
Okay, do we need to have the talk with ADCaries about junglers being on the map again, Jack?
Do we need to have that talk?
I mean...
I know, Doc, I got wishy-washy there for a while, but they do exist, ADCaries.
I know you were uncertain in the farming jungler meta sometimes, if they were real or just
a story we told you to keep you farming, but they do exist.
That's death on Noah now, flash gone for ice.
Next objective is the Rift Herald.
So far, Hiretics have had the advantage across the board in this early game.
Tracin having a good time in this 1v1 matchup as Jackie's is not having a great time on the top lane.
The top lane is the fate of GX's existence as it looks like they're set to lose another.
The tied away is there, the heal, getting Jackie's out.
Isn't it still going? That's so much healing.
The damage, the pulling is here! Top lane an absolute fistfight.
It seems Haridzik's going to retreat, losing their jungler in the process.
Jun with the hero plays, getting the heel onto Jackie's to get him away to safety, then connecting the bubble onto Shayo.
JX are able to turn the play in their favour and they'll get the Herald as their reward.
Finally, GionX picking up an objective here. It's going to be their first in this game.
And it was really close for Jackie's sense of not falling.
However, on the other side, I mean, Tracin now with a 1.5k gold lead, really leaving his mark on this gnar.
The numbers advantage, favour, heretics, they go for the engage, the damage looks good.
They either have not quite enough damage from 7 to finish up a kill, then their heal comes through.
And our share is like, wait a minute, I don't have the HP for this, I've got nothing left to escape.
Noah arrives at the right time to help secure that kill.
GX walk away the victors of this game.
Classic team heretics shotgun. Even we don't think they're playing the shotgun.
They're playing the shotgun.
Ran out of speed and could not finish the fight, but continuing to get so much money into
Tracin's back pocket at the very least, even Ice able to grab that plate and mid lane.
Get him a little bit closer to Noah, who's working towards that second item, or Noah
decides to go to LVR and second this game, a stem that's on the jump, or a stiflage.
I mean a lot of additional HP on the opposite side between the Rola, you have this under
sky, as well as when R's got a Trinity Force and a Kindle Gem, so I can see the argument.
Definitely, yeah.
It's a big, giant slurry game. I mean, literally everybody on the enemy team has a lot of HP.
Okay, he's trying to trade back.
But this game, much closer than the previous, Team Heretics...
Again, the roles feel reversed. You brought it up once before, but just to say it again, while
GX do have this incredibly powerful Lucian ability to have more successful early game
than Team Heretics had in the previous game where we thought the compositions were similar,
it still feels like the burden of execution is on them, and Team Heretics
have a lot of powerful scaling options, tracing with a healthy lead and two drakes to their name.
Yeah, I think Team Rage now, they can even choose to drop this drake and play for tier two top,
or they can choose to fight it, but they have that freedom at least that I think Gionx really
doesn't. They really need to fight this dragon and get a good fight around it, but I think
Team Rage should be able to continue holding their control. It's really hard for the Lucian
Nami to face-check, as they don't have really any frontline to face-check the bushes,
And you see that is my struggling here to really get that control that he wants to get back
And it means that Gionix needs to play on this mid wave and they need to try to utilize the illusion
I'm gonna get some poke before the objective
So far no poke
Fighting out for control of that mid wave if you can see Jackie's foot pushing and bot lane
But happy to just have the wave be neutral
Who would seem?
Perhaps just waiting to match Saren wherever he does choose to show up
They're just waiting for Trace and to push out top here as they slowly try to re-take the space for STEMFACE checking.
So let's do our position down for STEMFACE.
Okay, we're going to get some in mid-lane.
This is good pressure generated by GX at least. This should give them much easier access into the river.
Damage will be done and there's no walk away to safety.
That extra plank not quite going to be secured, but not the end of the world as keeping my eyes on these top lands as well.
A lot very close to level 14. I'm sure you'd love to have this ahead of the dragon start
Tracen's already rotated over TP gonna come through ahead of that level up
Tracen looking to stack up the Megan R here on this midway
The giant makes are the one in full control here. Not needing to back up a little bit still has the luxury of the shield
Dragon going to reset at least a little bit here. No, we'll catch it in time
Megan are there but team heretics don't want to get too aggressive as they just lose too much HP
Going in. We need to give them respect. Now I'm going all in on to Xayah. Xayah, when it comes Lightning, manages to make it out over the wall.
Jackie's and the rest of GX now on the hunt. They got the Drake.
Shifting their attention to the top side is Terence. Starts to run. GX, think better of it.
It's Tracin, split-pushing top lane in the me-time. Well, at least gets, I think, a plate.
And the process is, Noah breaks down the mid-lane tier one.
It's really good control by Giant X. They're able to hold full control of the Drake.
They poke down the members of Team Rhetics that want to enter and the one Team Rhetics are chunked
They immediately pivot they decide to put Trace in top TP him in him in but then that means that Jackie's can ult me
But due to the fact that Shale and the rest of Team Rhetics are so slippery and they're so little CC on the side of Giant X
They're not able to actually convert it into any kills
It's also so awkward for heretics because there's nothing for them to cross now
They got the top out of tower. They got the bottom out of tower mid is there any real lane they could have gone to and again
as Jack was saying they got chunked out while they even tried to approach that brush so they basically ended up just
spectating allowing to GX to get that objective largely uncontested and
We kind of return back to the farming game
I don't expect the Baron to be rushed down immediately
There's a decent amount of standing gold available for GX to grab given all these out of towers are still alive
Outside of the mid lane one. I do think though like Tracer and I'm pretty sure you got four plates three or four plates
So now it's a nearly two and a half K gold lead on luck
And if you can continue this pressure up and get plates 1v1
That's when this nar really really becomes a menace as you can see he's able to push a lot in deep
But you really want to go one step further and be able to just hit the tower and actually progress and split push on a sideline
Both top players did use their TP's in the previous fight or it could have been an advantage for team heretics to happen
Of course as you highlighted might have meant a little bit less the gold lead for Tracin locks will be up first
So, a small window of opportunity is Sten walking right into that brush.
There is a rise waiting there, my God. That is not where you want to be.
Overconfidence from Sten costing him.
Sten lost track of Jackie. Jackie's did a good run towards mid.
I don't think they'll be able to convert it into a Nashor as it's just to support that,
but that's more gold going into Noah's pocket as he continues to scale up on the solution.
And Gyan X will be able to at least have full control of the Nashor with this pick.
I felt like heretics are such a good start with the dragons that they secured and the groves but now now that the map is
Opened up it does feel like that Jax is
Reclaiming control they're punishing in this position to paratix. They're finding pick after pick there
Make it very difficult for heretics to really do anything
This is one of the struggles of the composition right is that while Tracin is really strong in his sidelines
Aaron really isn't he can't afford to push that extra wave or force Jackie's back a little bit further so that he has that additional
Information and it's the middle in tower
The GX managed to take the previous play as well, just opening the map up that much more in their favor.
Shaiyo though, wants to get a fight kicked off, but when becomes Lightning doesn't hit, and Jackie's you can see the damage significant.
They might be able to force the ulti out from the Zin, Shaiyo running up, the rest of the team's starting to split away.
Samuelson he's been caught again, crashed down there, Jackie's ghosted at full speed, doesn't quite hit him.
I sidestepped on the overload, but Jackie's not done yet. Commits the flash and takes out Sted again.
But Al is not a nash? I mean Sted, the Sted, Shaiyo is super chung.
Will Diannex pull the trigger? Yes they will. They have a lot of damage to the right solution.
Let's see how Team Red accept her.
Tracin just won Mega as well, so he's not going to be able to stack that before he has to get into this fight
if they want to continue on this objective. GX the thinking better of it.
Don't want to take the risk. Tracin wandering forward just a few more seconds to make it off,
but he has to leap out. Will Mike decide to go dead warm because now he's getting cold down!
Noah!
He's going to be making money off the first strike, but he's making it off the kills.
We're going up the kills, regardless.
That's another big pick.
GX are converting pick after pick into a favorable advantage.
They'll threaten the Baron once more.
They have the numbers advantage.
Watt is going to go back to base.
He has the TP available.
And GX are looking to force the issue.
The round two here around the Baron, not sure.
Shale's stacking up at 2-3, looking to find the angle here.
He'd be on the way in.
Nice wall to lock up.
Jack is getting lower and lower.
Seven-hand the objective.
While trying to body block what poke he can,
Good poll coming in from Saren, 2.5k, Shairo getting involved.
It minutes to take it!
Sten to seal the objective that's up on back there when Shairo is down.
Bubble hit perfectly on the Sten, it's going to be at least two kills back for GX,
but a crisis averted for Team Heretics.
It's a miracle steal for Team Heretics.
It's an unsealed spellbook smite combination from Shairo and Sten
that allow them to secure the Nash.
Two people end up falling, but still, they're going to get the Baron Nashor,
they're going to get the mid tower.
Desperately needed for Team Heretics.
Gentlemen, I thought that after last time GX had developed some new techniques, but it seems that they're still prepared to take these flicks.
I don't know if they weren't expecting the smite from Sten, but double jammers going in, the double smite, easy secure.
They get outsmited and while GX do get the two kills in the pit, losing the Baron is going to buy more time for heretics.
Yeah.
Whoo!
Yeah.
I already had donkey so.
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He said it.
I know, good for Stan because he did die three times consecutively in the last two minutes.
But he stole a Baron and let me tell you which one of those events is the most important.
It's the Baron.
It's gonna be a tower as well that's a huge gold injection, I mean Tracen already
has such a massive gold lead of a lot.
We'll see if you can actually translate that into impact.
The rest of the game is gold continues to swing over.
You'll see that Jax still in a healthy position gold wise like Ismary is incredibly fed
Jax is a Noah in a similar position the Infinity Edge finished on this Lucian.
I mean look at the Baron power play right now it's plus 76 gold
They've been hit also basically neutralized the game as far as the Baron goes
Which I mean I guess is better than effectively losing it which would have happened if they did
Yeah, yeah, your choices lose the game for the linings here for sure
It's more of a five-time start type of matchup.
Stabbed in said notes, that's true.
Oh, he spawned Jackie there, both on the plane,
falling off on the side, he's in truck on the ice.
Jackie's waiting behind Sarah, going to be in trouble.
Nightside's up on the time away, but it's Sted.
He's been caught out completely no threat
under no means, he gets to do whatever he damn well pleases.
And right now, that's chasing Sarah in the flash.
The piercing light, the agri-pumpkin, in this case,
taken down, and Team Heretics starting to run GX again.
Debating if they want to push for more,
but really don't have the CC in the extended fight.
Enranged me down. Nola does so much damage as long as he can actually get onto them
He's just one-shotting them. He takes down Saren with the flash that the silver lining for
Temuretics is that at least no use this flash here alongside Isma as well
So that does mean that they have a target on their back, but I
mean step to two
It's a giant X that are in control of this game
And it's mostly due to how well they're holding the control
And I feel like they're punishing Timorinix nerves and their missteps throughout the game
Yeah, cuz I'm just wondering like why heretics in a position to get engaged on so easily like that in theory
I mean
You should just be waiting I guess stalling buying more time instead
You're well beyond your out of towers
You are sitting in a position allowing the GX to kind of run you down and at first
We thought that while heretics composition should allow you to store
Shall I allow you to keep your opponents at arm's length for you to decide when the fight start?
But it's really been GX that have been dictating the pace of this game. They've been the ones finding picks
They've been the ones initiating the fights and I think credit to GX outside of that kind of fumble around parent
They've done a really good job of never giving Tracin an angle to team fight pretty much at all
If you take him out of the equation, that's an even greater gold lead for GX three and a half items
I know it three items of Jackie Saren still lagging behind trying to finish his third ice in a similar position
position without
facing involved these fights just aren't going to be close in terms of damage output at all
Now it's just so far out of lies
There's so much more damage. I think
The way team Reddix needs to win this game is they need to not allow giant X to have any of these flights
You saw it in the last fight when Jackie Sanisma can both flank them from a side lane
You lose all that pressure of this and maybe I think it maybe it's really the linchpin of this team composition from theme
Because she needs to be the one to shut down Jackie's and Noah and make their life really difficult to play in teamfights
So it needs to be kind of a standard easy to play front to back where team Erics has good vision
They have good setup and they can be the ones in control of their own fate
Yeah, it does feel like you're telling them to like oh you need to get somewhere just buy a car
Like they're broke. Oh all those things are hard. How do they get prior when they're losing out on the sideline?
How do they give vision when they can't walk into our jungle because Yzma lives there bro?
I think that the way they do it is Tracin pushes out of both waves and then he rotates to his team
But you can see Gion X are already on the proactive here. They've sent Loth up. They don't care about both wave
So they're just gonna look the force either mid or top here and try to utilize their numbers advantage
But as long as team arrays can hold here then Tracin can actually look to hit both towers
So a bit of an overstay from Loth and I think really abusing Tracin's pressure on the side lane is how you get any sort of
come back into this game and now you can see that it force dynamics the base to
answer to the split push and that shouldn't theory at least alleviate some
of this pressure clean race and allow them to get some sort of out push but
Saren does not push the top lane they're just gonna fight my group in the mid
let's see what happens. You can see one of these champions might be a little bit
more important than the other so our production team is highlighting the
total damage dealt. Full of top laners. I guess they're getting out of a
I'm just fine. No, I mean
Yeah, this is on the things
The man has the man got to put up once
I don't know I feel like probably yes in a team fight at some point, but I cannot remember a single cause on pale
He's up three assists, so
Yeah, that's a great question. I don't have to track his team here. I take they don't have bought Pryo
They don't have pop trial, but they got a lot of goosebumps. They got a lot of heart
They're moving in here without any of those things trying to lay down some vision as Jackie's is fighting for control of midway
It's done
That's the power of this Lucian. Not me. They're able to get in this midway another hole control lock up any infernal chains
He got to go
Our
Trying to walk around there chronic a test through vaults then this on a big flying the Moglio
They've got like three to ten seconds.
It's really pretty far to set up.
They need to go on this timer.
Trace is still hesitating.
Okay, Meganar is gone.
Now GS can do whatever they want.
Ismael in the pit.
Stent waiting over the wall.
Stent knows fight of his own.
This time around does have access to the ignite.
The tidal wave going.
He's on the way.
The entire team only clips on the stairs.
Now it's Stent coming in from behind.
Trying to get the local member.
And he does.
The fall is just not there.
Stent's interrupt coming in from loss.
The splitter for the rest of the team.
Stent taking down.
Two game on the objectives.
Who's going to grab it?
Team Heretic is the one with the blinking health bar, but the GA means Shay is not going to stick around.
Realm Warfare, which is mistaken for some reason, just having no HP and it's...
Well, they've swapped places. Team Heretic's kind of bamboozled them. I'm not going to lie.
But Team Heretics get the dragon. I mean, they're not going to go for the Bot Tower?
And why would they not go for Bot Tower? What are they afraid of?
Could they ramp to Baron?
Maybe, yeah. I mean, if they overstay...
Okay, let's rewatch the fight and regroup here. I love Sten's flank, he's put a pink ward already, so they don't see him at all, but it's good reactions from Giant X that allow Sten to see all the carries and flanks again, and that's why he has to have gone down.
But then, he mercilessly, they get the drake, and E-Smart nearly goes into the GA, which barely doesn't have enough damage to do so, and now we have a dash fight.
Here we go.
Sten makes it over the wall
Okay, maybe a flash fight a little bit
Presumptuous, but...
Giant X again, trying to get full control there
Can test this red buff
Keep red X out, getting angry
Sten comes in from Sten, a lot isolated here
Taking a lot of damage, a lot of damage on both of them
Okay, I guess GX, they wanted to reset back onto the map as quickly as possible
And that's some nice damage, now you should go support back
Yeah, such a health advantage. There's no reason not to, but we've taken some notes, right?
We've taken some notes.
Surely someone has taken a note.
Lots been completely isolated. This seems like a good deal! Let him die!
Hit the Baron at GX!
Try to find the ball, tailgarner the wall, double-tied away, coming in from the foot.
Straight ahead!
That's the shutdown. Exhausted in the light.
The Baron is going to fall, but now Team Heroic seem equipped to take the fight.
Two members picked off the shutdown there. GX now trying to make it out.
A Baron for two kills.
Oh, they took it to the base.
She has to be careful not to overstay here.
Ismaq turns back, Noah stepping in,
Staring, waiting over the wall.
Tracen about to go mega.
Noah shouldn't have tried to save,
and somewhere might cost him his life.
The sidestep of the wall is to flash away.
Nibia trying to zone,
he's even flying forward.
Tracen trying to make the best,
Noah holding on for dear life,
and down he goes.
The Baron's disappearing left and right.
It's just Jackie's the last person
with the Baron buff as Ismaq falls.
GX took the Baron, but the cost was for members of their team.
They commit to zoning away heretics. Lott trapped without the support of his team.
Jun doing everything in his power to help get him out, but then he finds himself trapped.
Tracing comes in from the angle. Lott is forced to retreat, but the Baron is secured from GX.
Now they need to get home, but Isma doesn't let them.
But what the giant is doing? I mean, Jhin could just let Loth get chunked and they get enough for free
and then Noah wants to do the same and help Isma with their outnumbered
so that despite Noah's fancy feet and flashing and dashing the skill shots,
Trace and just flash ulti, and now they both end up dying and it's just...
This guys, there's some time you need to leave people behind.
Yeah, they should have let Loth die for poor people to have Baron
And they definitely should have just let Yzma die and lose the GA to keep no alive!
Alright guys, I'll take some notes. I get the message. It's all good now.
Okay, so we find ourselves in a, well, relatively even gold state.
The Dragon Soul a minute and a half away for Heretics.
GX needs to get this one to deny that objective away from them.
Baron of course, once again, functionally useless.
I mean, it's netted a gold advantage for heretics in its entirety, but some big items finish Actualizer, Zonyas, alongside Jacky's, I mean, four items coming close to Ice and Cerat.
If they could play a little bit more time, then those spikes would be very valuable for them.
And then the gold difference, when you're kind of at four items, really doesn't matter as much.
extend as well with the unsealed spellbook smite once again trying to recreate the
magic of the first the mash steel it should still only be 600 damage though
right it is yeah so it's not a whole lot but if you combine that with your own
jungler smite it's pretty good it's 2k damage a lot of damage but you still
giant x that has full control of this dragon team redix have the luxury of
of being able to drop it if they so desire, as it's only the third drake for Giant X, but if I know anything about this game,
I think Team Reddix are gonna try to contest no matter what.
And I think GX are... yeah.
Alright guys, I'm shook after the last two objective fights. I don't know what to expect.
Well, check your notes!
The notes say wet, lot, die.
Which isn't relevant in this scenario.
Okay, okay, okay. We don't check the notes.
Paratix, forcing their way through pot lane as Tracin catches mid. He's now gonna TP to group with the team on the wall.
Oh, that's really rough for Junk. Forced to flash away. Good wall from Saren, just able...
They want to pull this out now. Pull it towards the bottom side of the river. So they can start damaging it.
The 50-50 is very, very...
But the wall, they can use the wall to zone him away. Just like that!
Pushing away. Once again, they're able to connect on the lot.
Jack is waiting on for side Isma in the pit, hoping to win out of the 50-50.
And that's going to be Sol for the side of Team Heretic.
Yes!
Now desperate to keep the fight going.
It's dental to the re-engaged, but no advantage to Dodd.
The initial CC.
No one's still relishing Leontouch for now.
The big one's taken a decent chunk,
but all Team Heretic's starting to back away.
Tracen isolated versus Jax.
He's dodged Benz to catch them.
The ball is there from Icy.
He goes golden.
He buys a moment.
Just a con to play.
What the hell went wrong?
Because Team Heretic takes the fight.
And it's the double smite from Team Heretic
that secures them to dragon.
they get the soul and trace in with a fantastic gnar performance, picks off Jackie's up the
back foot as well if he wants his team fight.
I mean, so what is underway by the wall is missing within Snipe range, Shayle tries to
keep him out of the pit and I mean, hey, the double Snipe works out, Stent I think at
this point goes in way too deep, it's very difficult for them to follow up because
lot of Nidalee is still standing in their way, so he ends up dropping, but then
GX they overcommit, they're hungry for more, and that means that I mean, Stent
single-handedly keeps them off the back of the follow up.
What? That stuns me.
Great it does.
Yep.
I was surprised as well that it's done the home of one.
It's a one-for-one for the soul-secured.
Heretics have clawed their way back into this game.
GX parents really need to be under heavy scrutiny, I think, by the coaching staff.
A long time ago after this one.
Yeah, but they're praying that they can scrutinize for a week,
instead of having to scrutinize them in 15 minutes,
if this game ends in Team Heretics' favor.
I mean you're definitely punching yourself if you're giant eggs you fire nashers that you messed up
But still they can still win. I mean
The cloud soul makes it really easy to continue kiting out giant eggs
So it just means that they need know what to find that crucial
bit of damage
Just like that and console won't save you against that
Very true is the team now retreating easy for know what if this fight is way in for mid prior to get
The WOMBO!
WOMBO!
GX over, confident they're getting punished for it.
Instead, he finds the pick over the wall.
No vision.
Jackie wants to be the hero,
but it's the Wombo-Kombo from Team Moranix.
They made the comeback happen.
They got the dragons, and they're going to take us to a game three.
The Anivia wall plus nah.
We finally get to see it,
And it is the combo that determines the game.
Heretics, they stayed steadfast, they held strong,
and they're able to take down GX and keep their playoff hopes alive.
GX might be kicking themselves right now, team Heretics,
kicking them harder, taking them to a game three.
And what a fight, a single moment from a game that was so GX favored
into a win for Team Heretics.
And finally, gentlemen, in LEC versus a game three.
The EU Lucian lose record, good maintain.
That's close!
Back!
The back!
The back!
But it was my fault.
It was my fault.
That was the micro of Giant X that bit them.
But I think Tracin on the gnar had such a stellar performance.
We waited the entire duration.
We waited 37 minutes for that gnar all.
But it was worth the wait. It was worth the wait. All right. Well, we're going to game three
heretics bounce back
Beautifully and those those brands will definitely be under review by the Giants coaching staff
Let's go see what the analyst there's got to say about said that
a lot
Maybe a little crash perhaps from Otto or
What's going on? What do you think like buddy? Did we see this game? Did everyone just like see what happened?
Because, okay, can we just roll literally every single replay that we have?
Just go through them, because we went on a trip here.
So like, so first of all, in GX, like, come on, buddy.
Just, you know, you have five people alive.
You're like, thank you, gold up or however you want.
Just get them in, get them out.
You see they have double smite.
Sure. This gets stolen, right?
It just stores the game.
It's not the end of the world.
You're still five or six gate gold up.
It's still fine.
You still have plenty of opportunities to win the game.
But then you do it again.
And then you're just starting to disrespect. You're just going walking up on midways, you're just dying, then you get this Nash,
then you're trying to save everyone. It seems like everything, every single thing that they did well in that first game that's just going out the window is just like, you know, suffering from success.
You're winning the game way too hard and you're like, sure, let's just, you know, do whatever you want, because we can.
But man, it just keeps on going. Like, I'm just losing my mind. Because I'm looking at this, I'm like, surely, you know, you threw one, you threw one time, two time, three time, four time.
But how many more tries can you throw? It's insane, Dagda!
Yeah, I mean, at this age I was like, what the hell are we doing?
You just got barren, get as many people as you can, and instead they stick around...
I called themselves the donkeys!
It's like, we are donkeys! Yes, you are donkeys, because this game was just so freeware.
Yeah.
Technically, one game.
That's a good donkey nose.
Was it?
Yeah.
Okay.
But I know, my brain cells are a bit fried, I'm sorry.
It's okay. I think we all had that watching it. I think I was thinking back to G2KC yesterday.
We also had the Ryzen and the Yamaha matchup and we kind of, I don't know.
You could predict that it would trend maybe to this way if the game went late,
but it was just because of GX making those mistakes also.
Well, it's just, so there's this thing that happens, you know, when you start winning,
you're just sitting there and you finally start relaxing. And you're like, yeah,
it feels like no matter what we do, we're going to win. And especially in these games,
where you know the Anivia's are coming out.
There's always the threat of frail.
This is what happens.
You start getting caught off guard,
because I was personally caught off guard.
I was watching that, and I see any level 18,
and the wall is half the map.
I'm like, all of a sudden, this useless Anivia
is the most OP champion in the game,
because it just catches you like that.
So this security that you feel like you have
by being so far ahead starts creeping up on you,
and that's why we saw it yesterday.
That's why we're starting to see it now in this game,
because I thought that there's just no way
they will lose that game.
Yeah, but that's the same.
Like it kind of was like oh in the early game
They're giving up a ton of dragons
So you're just already getting the dragon stacking for giant eggs now
They're starting to be in a position where they've got this massive Lucian that they're able to play around and he's one shotting trace in the top
Banner times but all the time they're just kind of slowly creeping and extending the game and getting to a point where they are
Actually still relevant and if you can't close the game out quickly these kind of later
Scaling compositions are gonna have a great time there and I am hopeful that after after this win
Even though it was, you know, it was a scrappy when it felt like, you know, GX pulled defeats from the jaws of victory kind of kind of defeat, you know
I do hope that we see a
Burr version of TH going into game three because we saw, you know, glimmers of hope
We saw Trace and I think he had two decent games where, you know, Blading face. He was ahead
He did what he could I still have criticism for his mid game because I feel like he could do more
I yeah, because when you're thinking when you're thinking is getting stung that hard, you know
You can't release it on side that much. You need to kind of like give up a bit of your lead, get your team back in the game, stabilize a little bit, and I saw that from him, you know, both of these games, I felt like he was in a decent position.
And I want TH2 to awaken a little bit going into this third game because I want to see more from them because it felt like they won this game, but did they really?
Yeah, I mean, yes they did.
Well, technically, well, actually, yeah, they won that game.
I also think, first then, like, he was having a rough time,
but he did find the angle on the last fight, so that's good.
Okay, well, yeah, I mean, he did mess up a lot of the engages,
but I cannot blame him, because what happens is that,
you have a, like, the sort of show that it is,
but, like, he finds this amazing engage out of fog,
which is finally, when you finally start winning the game,
that's when you have the fog of war at your disposal,
but what happened before is that a lot of times
when you have this short-range team comp, you're like,
hey guys, who can start the fight?
Stend, it's on you, you wanna start the fight?
Oh, well, kind of enemy team comp,
but they all know that you're the only one who engages
and it becomes so telegraphed and so easy.
So finally, they go to a place where they have more threats.
But I think it was on Saren for a huge amount
of a witty Nivea was,
because so many of these fights as they started off was,
oh, we've suddenly burnt a flash
because good Nivea wall means that now,
oh, Stend has a target in this fight
who doesn't have a flash.
Because you even saw it at that last dragon fight
where three members moved through tri-bush
And immediately there's a wall. Jonas to flash over the wall because he's caught out.
And that was just a continuous cycle.
So I think at this stage it's good play as much as it is from Drianak's messing up.
That Heretics were able to play through those strengths of,
hey, we've got this enemy that's really strong, let's try and play through it.
Let's actually try and facilitate Tracing who had this early gold lead.
So as much as Drianak could have finished this,
I think it's good on Heretics to still have that ability to come back into the game.
Oh yeah, it was crazy good.
Also, Lucian haters eating good.
12 gaining lost streak.
Is that Dracos?
Strakos is the biggest Lucio that I've ever seen.
The second that champion gets picked,
like if he's backstage or whatever it is,
it's just pure rock.
Well, he'll be happy that it's fearless.
He doesn't have to see it again.
Of course, not Lucian's fault.
I mean, it was the whole team's fault,
but that does mean that we get a game three
for the first time in the LEC versus playoffs.
We're all very happy about it.
So who takes it?
We'll see it after the break.
Wait, is he switching lanes?
Oh
I
I
And here we are, getting ready for the third and final game of this matchup between GX
and Team Heretics.
Leonard keeps their dreams alive, moves on to the next step in the bracket, the loser
goes home, we're not going to see them until spring.
So the pressure certainly on for both teams.
GX set back to the drawing board.
They had an angle, they had a lead.
Team Heretics took that all away and now we'll see what the bounce back looks like.
I'll also say that in terms of expectations, remember that GX kept this roster together.
There was the intention and the belief that this roster could grow and develop.
So for it to fall in a similar position, potentially even worse than what it did last year,
would be a huge disappointment for the organization.
Whereas in contrast for heretics with the introduction of new players,
it makes sense that there would be this building development period
where the roster's still figuring that stuff out.
So I have to imagine that for the players, as much as they want to win,
That same pressure, I feel like it has to be greater for the side of GX,
just given the expectations on that shoulder.
I think especially when you're the team that's supposed to win,
and you know you have the tools to win in that game too,
they had the victory, but they clutch the feet instead.
It has to feel really bad,
and we also have to question their mental going into this third game,
like how does it affect them?
Were they able to bounce back, recognize just,
okay, we made some really silly mistakes,
Or the better team? Or will this crumple? Or will they mentally crumple, rather?
It is a really tough loss. It did feel like their own mistakes that undid them.
But hopefully, again, yeah, short window of time, they're able to turn things around,
we get into the draft, and Eko, the Caitlyn, the banned away.
We're still seeing some pretty persistent bans on the side of GX,
so that Orianna has now joined the party.
And Bessa was the previous ban in the first two games.
Maybe we see it again at the third ban, or perhaps it's open this time around.
It would be an Ambesa first pick if it's open, it's shown a lot of, I think it's been climbing a lot in priority as people have started to figure out that it's both really good in jungle and in top.
And just the fact that you can kind of negate Ambesa's biggest weakness in that early landing pace by playing her jungle instead makes it so that you just get access to that really good scaling and really good teamfighting later on.
They hit on this first pick, a lot of AD carries taken away, perhaps setting up for a safe laning phase, perhaps maybe we're up.
Oh yeah.
Still open.
Well, you're going to get an embessa.
Okay.
Maybe Azir is the response.
It can be flexed, you can put in jungle, you can put a top, you can put it mid, I don't mind, just put it somewhere.
Just please pick it.
The GX response though, I feel like when you get this deep into poor for AD carries, do you think they rise in priority?
Is it like do you think you need to like something like Zyra Khan would you want to try and get it early or like Kaisa now
It's really really on the table especially since enemy took
Ambessa so it's like you take the guys away from the ambassador or you just want it for yourself and since it's been such a standout
Champion for no lie would love to see and pick it up early, but with design
I also think the the lack of any sort of Azir prior in this series
It's definitely quite puzzling especially since they've been banning Orianna out first
It's like it would make sense if they want to pick up the Azir here
but it just strikes me that it feels like neither team wants to play up.
Ooh, wow, Aphelios.
I think they're trying to read what Ice wants to go for here.
They could go for the Kaisa, they give an angle though for Ice to grab the Aphelios.
They don't want to give him the scaling, late game insurance, and I'm...
Maybe General the GX are trying to simplify.
Yeah, but the only thing is like, you're not seeing anything for this Aphelios,
and it is going to be the counterfeit prize, so ideally into the Aphelios,
you want something long-range. What's your preference kind of thing? I would say like, I mean,
Caitlyn is bad, Caitlyn is really good, but Jinx is not really a counter, but it's more
just like a scaling answer, but I think Estrel would make a lot more sense. Jinx Thresh, wow.
I mean, Stent does like the Thresh. Doesn't this dissuade the Lulu as well? Yeah, you can
look to like, fully the Lulu out with the Thresh, especially with how good
gank setup you have. Although, no, and Jun could still play the Lulu here, but I think
I think a more traditional melee support, there it is.
You're locked in.
This is incredible scaling for the sector GX.
Of course, the Jynx matching that to a certain degree
on the other side, as well as having the Thresh for that
kind of additional summoner spell in the form of the Lantern
to keep her safe, a luxury that so far no one does not
have for the Aethelios.
I think GX should really consider one.
Yeah.
I mean, they do have last pick,
so they can wait to see you end up being locked in top.
But like, I'm going to be blunt.
I think that if you're not that good, you need easy engage.
And I don't think these teams are very good at playing
when low-engage comes.
I believe we've seen it.
They see it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I think that you just, especially in a game three,
when you know that the tournament is on the line,
you just lock in some easy engage.
I think things like Nautilus is a good option,
the owner is a good option, the on is a good option, just stuff that makes it easy for
you to start fights I think is really valuable.
There's also Blitzcrank which is kind of a classic counterpicking for the Thresh, it's
pretty good at the time as well, it could be something to go for, it is a bit harder
on the execution side but you know when any team looks at something like the Jinx Thresh
it's definitely something that you're looking for as they actually ban it out, Team
Redix taking out the Blitzcrank, we'll see what June decides to go for now.
Thing with Leona, it's like yeah, the ultimate is nice, but the early laning phase is quite difficult
The Braum, I'm not a huge fan of if they go all lost. I'm fine. That's true
But the thing with Braum is like when you're playing a Helios into Jinx, you're outrange
You really want something that helps you reach the game, right?
And Braum doesn't really do that at all Braum wants to carry that's outranging
So he can just peel back and not really need to get too much into the fray
Is it decent lane as you can quickly pro pro the Braum passive?
I think going something non-committal like the LeBlanc is not bad.
You say non-committal, I feel like that the...
I have a lot of concerns coming LeBlanc.
Oh! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, indeed a little bit of fury.
Ori, okay!
Okay, so we have scaling, yes, looking at the bar lane, the rest of the map.
Pist fight, yes, okay, I understand now.
I mean, you've got a lot of single target on the side of heretics.
The Poppy gonna round things out.
out. That is an insane value on the Copyright Bill. But you also gave the braum really good value
by going like very deep pits in the periodic. Oh you're going to pick it down, Jokes on you,
Wilk! Die! I mean I really thought they would go in a different direction when they had this
Jinx Thresh and more look to set her up for success. Yeah. I mean the one upside is that you
have a lot of burst, at least to try to get her a reset, but it's very feast or famine
this team-raised comp and we saw how that worked out in the first game. Yeah. So uh...
But also GX, we've also seen teams without any reliable engage really struggle.
We saw that, yeah GX last game was last game.
And they've gone poppy brawl, which I mean really good at making it hard for you to start fights.
Two of the best abilities in the game League of Legends are Poppy Alt and Braum Shield.
In terms of raw gold value, there can be on paper two of the best abilities in the game.
Now most of the time they're not that high value,
But if you're a breakable flocking a jinx's damage output if you pop the all two people out of a fight
It it just doesn't matter your ideal team compass puppy brawl metal yasso
I mean I have questions, huh?
Okay, well there's been another issue with the bug
I fit out of the roots because I'm seeing now that Isma loaded in with conquer and enemy team is making fun of him asking if Isma wants to conquer the Rift
All right, well, we'll keep you up to date is there's no lower third. Yes
I don't know what I'm allowed to tell you but the game's pause is they are making fun of Isma
I can't confirm that they should miss it. They left the part about that making fun of Isma
League of Rishals now reviewing
But I think what we have learned from this particular fiasco is that the hen is a flex.
Yeah, I thought they would put the sand...
I kind of thought they would put the sand jungle, to be honest, on the poppy top with the ambassador.
It's usually seen as a good mashup.
And I feel like the poppy jungle, for me, has been a bit iffy.
It's so low-resource, it usually doesn't get that hanky.
I'm a bit worried that Shayo will just out-farm the poppy jungle
just develop a big lead for himself and then use that to snowball the game but
Isma is good at being very proactive and making things happen so those are all
very valid. I have a camera on. Okay.
Has GX fixed their barons from game one to from game two to game three? I mean now they have like
No no no you're talking in the context of comps because we need to
off my hands in this decision making right now, Jack, because like, well, that's your
job. That's our job. We got to figure that out, man. We got to figure that out on the
fly. We got to figure out quick because right now it doesn't matter if GX is going to leave.
What we know is if they go near the Baron, Heretics is like, Oh, I come back. Possibility.
Okay. Knowing Giotta, he for sure gave them the belt. Okay. So hopefully your coach
before, right? He's been my coach before. So when you threw Baron, what did he
say to you? He would get a very mad. Oh, so he probably got very mad at them.
And it's like saying things that I can't say on broadcast right right right right to
Point out that this is like unacceptable, right?
You have to give your ass and they had last game
They have to sound there who can always just flash all the enemy jungler. They never did it
But now they have poppy old who can always poppy old the enemy jungler out
So saying in theory they made it easier. They should have made it. Yes, they next to the wall push W charge all the
There's surely no way that the Fury can get into the best show.
The Fury does have invulnerability, a lot of mobility, so you know, if they mess it up.
Are you now shooting your own guy?
Yeah, maybe I am.
You don't finish there.
The guy firsts himself is an arc for the catch, as I didn't expect.
It looks like we are in the process of remaking the lobby, remaking Champsleck
due to the rune issue.
They didn't give it to Noah for the first track one.
They're giving it to Isma.
I mean, to be fair, Ximex falls as soon as they got into games.
Yeah, while they're basketball, they fall as well.
Yeah, so it makes sense.
So speeding through.
Now, the question is, I just assumed just after
Southport, is it going to be Halo Blades?
Is he just going to try to this way?
I look that you think he's going Halo Blades.
So you have to remember that I existed a brief period
of time in 24, where coffee played Halo Blades.
as support and in jungle sometimes they play phase crash.
Maybe they'll play Predator.
No, he can't play that game, it doesn't exist.
Yeah, but it's broken.
But when back when people play Halo of Lades,
Predator will stink. You're saying season 7.
No, what? It's two years ago.
League officials have confirmed they need me to read this.
They've confirmed a bug with a rune selected by a player
as this is not a game of record yet
because no one got out of fountain and they immediately paused.
We're going to remake the lobby.
Players are in the remake draft now
about two minutes to game as the official word.
Okay, so I think he's gonna go...
Ah, not face-trash.
But face-trash got nerfed, but only for range, you know?
Yeah, only for range.
Yeah, so I think he's gonna go face-trash.
It is really satisfying to just...
E auto-q someone or poppy, and then just speed off.
That's true.
I think that's why he goes in, just for the satisfaction.
Yeah. Like Chovy with Kotobel, right?
Yeah, he's gonna go for Kotobel too.
And then he's gonna take nubs.
He will definitely take nubs.
Why is he taking nubs on?
a mask so many notes do you remember that song from that MSI I think that
just lives right through his head that's possible I don't remember anything
about that song except for that because that's the part it's played every kind
of way right before we catch yes it comes back yeah sitting on an analyst
desk waiting for it to come to me yeah which shout out to the branding team
at one stuff remember any other MSI branding including the MSI that are
region one no take notes burned into my brain till the end of time I do remember
I death well I think my children take notes I do remember an Alistair breaking
through a wall and the final like a big Alistair was there like a defy the pie
defy that was one I got there pretty somewhere if they're gonna be very
simple instruction. That's the stamp, the five, the reach. Well as we head into
game here it's do or die. Yeah the draft both of these teams about to wrap up
they've gone through all the picks are exactly the same. Remember the
conversation might not make it seem like it high stakes but it is high stakes.
It's a game three elimination on the line, advancement as well. A bit of a
zero-sum game here in terms of happiness today. I think both teams would be
really disappointed with this play, saying Team Heretics, they opted to go for a
rebuild after last year where they kept building throughout the year and kept
progressing. They still wanted to offer something new and if they then failed to
make a real impact in playoffs it would feel really bad for them. On the other
hand though you could argue Team Heretics, they weren't expected, some
They didn't even expect them to make it to playoffs.
So even making it here is a step up for them
and they still have the whole year to develop.
But it's an argument we heard all of last year
and it feels dated at this point.
While Giant X, the Scrim Gods,
the ones that have always had more potential
than what they've shown after that game too,
they really have to be kicking themselves
and looking to turn it up an option this game
and maybe read some of those notes
they've been taking throughout the games.
200 games in the LAC for Noah, shout out to Noah.
Obviously, bot lane naturally going to be a point of focus.
He's also just become a bit of a mainstay here in the EU as well.
He had a good run on Finatic,
finding a home now in GX.
And confidence from Artemis that the GX draft is better.
Thank you, Artemis.
Gary and AriSouln's excited about that.
There's one guy typing a lot and we're just all the three of that person's promise.
Really?
Yeah.
They're very excited.
And to be fair, it will be, I mean in terms of graphs, we're all pretty excited games.
Again, we're in a situation where GX don't have the best tools to start fights, which
is a bit concerning given that we've seen a lot of the head games where he like
alties in, pushes two abilities and then people can walk away from him and he
at doing it anymore. Yeah, I want to talk about bot lane though. So for me this bot lane matchup
is very fascinating. It was a bot lane matchup that we saw a lot for a while. It was Achilles
Jinx all the time, every game. But now we haven't seen it for quite some while but the interactions
haven't changed so much. It's usually Jinx that gets to push early game just due to our rockets
but Achilles has quite a bit better fighting power due to the fact that he has the healing
from the redgum and he can easily proc PTA with a host of his abilities, while Jinx is
stronger in the all lanes, Epileos is really good in the short trades where you can proc
the PTA and then look to back off and then sustain with that redgum and that's what
this giant expo thing will look to do as Ice will look to push them in and Noah and
June especially once they get that blue and purple that's when this bot lane has some
real kill threads and they can look to fight them. Burning through the aim on pretty quickly
perhaps anticipating an appearance from Isma here on the bottom side.
Let's continuing to take notes.
Shale, matching the clear speed, and actually a little bit ahead overall.
Also both ADCs decided to go for the cleanse this game.
Oh my gosh, Saren is not missing a charm.
Really good Saren.
That's two back to back.
Love to see an R hitting charms.
Maybe this is why we didn't see much of this here for a while.
Maybe.
Nice straightener by Laws.
back. So Henz is a really fun champ. His biggest weakness is his ability to basically stick
on through his targets. So when Abessa is like dashing in and being like kachaa, that
it's like well, you just made my life a lot easier as the Zen and it becomes much easier
to trade back. So lot actually getting a bit of an advantage in this 1v1 in the top
lane. And you've got to remember that tracing on this Abessa, very high cooldowns over
the on. I mean the Zen could be said for the lot as well, but just your kit
in the early levels, if you can't actually get those trades, it can go very, very
You can already see in the HP box and if they're just trading autos
He's got more or less Darius passives in terms of the ADC right there. So you know when the extended fight
Yeah, you always under appreciate how much value that the ADC gives
But you highlighted it this early on 200 gold advantage feels good
Go back to the longsword and the coal means that gold event is only going to grow and
Well, the trades aren't getting any easier for Tracin. So have to hope that for Shale in the jungle who?
really got the luxury of flex here bringing out this nefiri that he's gonna
have some better results yeah look besides it is shoved in the wave and
forced Tracen to TP back has been able to pick up a bit of a CS lead for
himself it's a bit clickbait right now because Tracen is gonna catch a huge
wave here but still I think it's a pretty decent lead that is built up
here around around that CS it's about two waves yeah pretty good but the
reason why I was surprised is because he basically had a slow push going towards
him but I guess he saw an opportunity to get a cheater recall off which is
what he's going to take advantage of now comes back with a Ruby crystal as well.
So now the atomization between the two top laners is even similar in the middle
lane but Anton versus Dagger I can tell you right now, Ari is going to be much
happier about that, continues to put that pressure down. Credit to Saren,
often Ari's can just get bullied out of the Azir matchup because they can just
play leveraging the minions and outrange the Ari, but if you play as
aggressively as Saren is then you can actually get prior on that lane and
he's doing a great job. Both junglers now making their presence known.
I say that looks like he's in need of the game today, so he won't just put a pink on the dragon to make sure that he's my can't sneak it away
It's pretty good vision in general for team Reddix in this river. They have a pink set up for Seren and now on the drake as well
As Gynx or Lucid we crash this wave and get Noah and Jyn that first reset. I am praying. I'm on my knees right now Noah
I better see a BF sword if I see serrated dirt and he goes collector this game
I'm gonna be really really sad because stormers is way way better when you get the BF sword
But we maybe have a game
Sarin push back for you
He has to flash away force to use the blink instead the charm this time going wide a bit of a disaster loses the flash
Immediately thought of an infomercial you've seen not an idiot but now bringing to you to see a poppy
I mean, it wasn't really good combo by Isma and Jackie, but they just don't have the damage early game to actually take it down and
Humorix you're gonna look to carry Isma. Great. Ooh, I sidestep
This is going slow. 50% HP. And Isma has flash
Saren has no ulti. There's a lantern there. Now Jackie's is finally moving exhaust down on Michelle looking to steal it
He will secure the drink but it's gonna cost him his life. First plus is the side of GS next change for the drink
Now we have it all on the top side as well.
It runs out of mana, but
Gets the wave in I guess.
Worf? Question mark? I mean an early drake, it's a mountain dragon as well
Which is pretty nice into this
GX comp, but
It's a 1000 gold lead now
For Giant X and 400 gold with that first blood being beefed up for Noah
Really allowing him to assert himself with a much better item lead as well
Than Ice, who's just sitting on the rectrix and the diagram boots
He decided to go for the pretense layer build instead of the U of Paul.
I think it's going to be awkward in these early fights because the utility that a Philius brings to the table is more valuable even if Jinx's damage output, you know, when you get the resets, is always present whereas Philius needs the right guns, the right circumstances.
But it's tricky when Nose built up a lead like this that much quicker to the first item, a lane that you talked about being not super great for the brawl and where he's outranged.
So then it looks a lot more comfortable.
I mean, up, my words have suddenly disappeared.
Back when we saw this matchup in the past, Jynx versus Aphelios,
often it could be game deciding when you gave one of these to Hypercarries in advance.
It's just because of how impactful they could be in the game.
And when we talk about two compositions who don't have the easiest to engage tools,
Hypercarries have even more impact because their ability to free hit, their ability to do damage,
Jinx's range in particular is something we'll be keeping our eyes on as the game progresses, so getting a Phelios ahead is definitely a nice advantage for GX to plan themselves with.
The Grub's spawning in 10 seconds, and I'm the jungler in that half of the map, so I don't expect that to be a quick objective that they start,
starting with a nice bit of a freeze in mid-light.
He's the healer that's trying to gain an advantage there.
I want to pick up on what you said, buddy. I think both ADCs are really important.
There's two arguments, one in favour, one against.
One is that he's playing against the Auri, Nathiri, and Vessa with so much mobility and so much threat on him
It can be quite hard to assert yourself as an ADC, especially in a mobile one such as Aphelios
The thing that he has going for him though is Nola has Jhun and Isma, who can both heal for him extremely well
So what he really needs is someone like Shayo in the Drake pipe
Someone that gets stuck or can't really threat against him
so that his disengaged can do all the work and then he just gets the free hit
in which case he can just one-shot them but Team Reddix are looking for a both play.
All that ulti in, if you're feeling coming from Noa, if you're trying to ult,
side step manages to knock him on this dead, retreat now coming in from the unbreakable
gank going awry, Isma on the way down though, at least be able to grab one play
but now Team Heretics on the retreat, they get every single summoner and ulti
from the GX following, so the kills aren't there yet, Jackie moving in, locking up three,
Noa still not in range, the auto attack, side step in the hulk just barely,
The charmed connection to Box is there, the wall broken, no one's help bar blinking, flash in from Isma!
Knock up there! He grabs a kill!
T-Acts in the extended fight, taking one.
A very close spank at the fourth with a number of key ultimates not quite connecting the way that I decided I would have liked them to.
But Isma, at the very end, takes matter into his own hands, targeting out Saren and finding that kill.
The initial dives doesn't quite go super well, Jackie's connects onto two, but the follow-up isn't really there.
They just walk out of that situation next to the heal.
The hook not connecting, the charm does, forcing no attack, but then Isma in the clutch, finds that small window, punishes Sarin at the very least, gets Jax another kill.
It felt really awkward the initial engage, but I'm glad that Isma was not deterred, because a lot of the times when the initial engage doesn't really work out,
you might feel like, ah, this fight doesn't feel right, it's not going to be good, but Isma still saw the angle, is able to pick up a kill for himself,
And that means that GiantX are now sitting on a one and a half thousand gold lead as they enter into the second Drake spawning in one minute.
He's going to go up two grubs before he was forced to move to his both sides so that the last grub is going to really have too much importance for either team.
Okay, we're clearing out. On the top side you mentioned the grubs already, so we're not going to be too concerned as...
While continuing to trade aggressive leave of Shale, I'm going to make sure, and again, yeah, in the short trade it's tracing, hitting hard.
Still waiting for a lot to finish stacking that coal, get that Trinity Force before you can maybe match up a little bit better.
And this was the Ambesa, the Giant X banned out in the first three and both of their first two games.
It's a pick that they respect from Team Meretic, so we're seeing Tracer now with the Eclipse.
This is one really the Ambesa laning phase starts to come online.
You got the level nine, so you have the Q maxed up, and you have that Eclipse as well to give you the shielding and sustain in those trades.
This thing is that much easier as we see a Spellbook TP out from Jun dropping a bit of vision trying to practically get some control around the subjective stem there though immediately to clear it.
Now bot lane is going to be pushed in favor of team heretics. Ice is first to the wave. Jack is going to be first to move but no great push advantage is Isma trying to find a creative angle.
Unfortunately that creative angle is thus far as involved tanking the tower and Ice is now going to start trying to walk him down.
down who will charge to a minion, he's just a chunk down to half now for the
drake's one, he does have the red buff to heal himself up slowly but that does
mean that team eredics can take control of the river here and is forced to base
that might just be drake for team eredics here, he's trying to deny some minions at
least at the both sides. That's a fast push coming through from Noah and his
ear is on the way as well, Saren gets to move first though, it's way too
difficult for him to quite approach. They don't have info either on where Saren is
that'd be so respectful of potential ulti charm or flash charm, Noah and Jun still gonna try
and contest.
Root down onto Ice is there, Noah now looking to follow, hook connects with the Jun, brings
him into the trap, but the Drake's already gone.
I think Ysma needed to cancel his recall if they were to actually contest those Drake's,
but since he was chunked off the initial engage, Ysma taking the base and that's
now two dragons going over for the side of Team Reddix and I'm feeling like a
Deja vu gentlemen of game number two here as it's giant X with the gold
with the team ready to pick up the first two dry ins I said that
well looking at the some added damage now what and June want to keep the
pressure up in the bottom line while the resets look to come through from ice
finally get that off and then start cracking slayer pleated so both any
carries now at their first item but now we're just melting these waves
getting more advantage as you can
Oh god, does any help.
Yeah, Jhin trying to meet me in the air, Jhin going to follow us and ulti of the zone.
The first Decker going to go a little bit of a ride.
Jack's able to dash out to safety just barely.
And again, it's a really nice block.
Whoa!
Whoa!
I thought he would recall under the tower, but Jacky's held it a little bit.
It's a really nice play by Seren,
but neither of these mid jungles
have enough damage to actually convert this into kills.
As Jacky is able to not even expend his flash,
He didn't even have it up. He just ulted and dashed out.
Tracing.
Knocked him there from the lot, so the fight...
You can see the trades. I've really shifted him to Tracing's favor not with that eclipse.
I mean, Lax got the money, but he just hasn't spent it yet.
He's trying to recall. Shaiho's on the top side. He hasn't been allowed to recall yet.
Tracing is determined to try and stop there. Maybe Q's determined this lot. Going to ulti.
I think things will get better. I'm assuming this is the turn he falls coming through from the lot.
Yeah.
It should give them a lot more power in the trades, at the very least.
Let me show them out quite a bit.
It's weird because it's a 2.4k just about lead for GX. They're ahead of every single roll.
But I feel like the two drinks are worth more, based on what we've seen so far in this series.
Because these fights don't feel handily in their favor.
We talked about it before. There's not a lot of good, reliable engage tools,
which is further made problematic by the fact that there's a fresh
There's a fresh who can just play into them out on this one time you do get something.
In dreams I can illuminate your thought process, okay?
Because in League of Legends, there are two ways to win in competitive usually.
It's either dry hints or baron ashes.
And we have seen that giant eggs do not win around baron ashes.
Fair.
So they need those drakes, and they need to convert this gold lead into drakes,
or we're gonna have a repeat of game 2.
I mean game one!
They're all just dropping a value by Drake's!
Yeah.
Game one, GX did clean the close out that game.
It's not, but that is true.
But they did get sold.
Oh they did, yeah that's true.
Yeah, that is that.
Yeah, no, I can see that now.
Yeah, he does have me there.
Oh, done.
Nice, McKayles.
But it doesn't have to heal either.
You have to be careful as the dogs are sent out.
I'm giving you 1-2.
What does it even make sense?
What? There's a dog.
Yeah, but they're freely roaming. They weren't let free. They were already...
I mean, they were let free in draft. The charm hit a minion. That was the ideal target.
Most coaches keep those dogs in the cages. They do not allow the jungler to play this champion.
Alright, alright.
Meanwhile on the top lane, we keep panning up here, and what keeps building in Boulder, Vannan?
We're just farming fast.
They only take us to the top lane when he's losing crate.
Is the crate just going all in here?
We just used his E.
Is this a go angle?
That's a go angle.
Not a whole lot of damage, with the latest skill gaps unloaded.
Okay.
Not by resubstant farming.
We're honestly comfort zone for us as casters.
We love it when people are just farmed.
Yeah, we don't talk to ourselves into a corner at all.
Nope.
Never been farmed.
Speaking of...
What's this one we got over here?
What do we got over here?
That's that scheme
And I think for GX to get we talked about the pressure being on them and part of the reason is
They're the fifth place team and they would really love to break that bond a current it used to be worse
And they've been in the often up but it was lasted with this exact same roster fit fit fit
Yeah, and this is what I was talking about in draft where I was saying how
If that normally they win this matchup, this is the round with which they win and then it's the next one
I before short and
Hang on a minute, that's a ghost boss?
He's looking at things off, double knockup coming in, doesn't get in range to auto with that number.
That lack of engage from GiantXComp, I mean, Jrim can find the Q and he can find the ulti, but there's just no follow-up, at least.
He needs to commit too deep.
I feel like for the last hour and a half, we can say no engage.
It's like a broken record.
To be fair, GX has done it two times back to back, so he takes only the game one.
Let's see if they can get creative with their approach to creating conflict.
Wow.
The crowd demands much else unfortunately, this is not the Coliseum.
We cannot introduce a tiger into the area.
If we had an emperor or emperor, it's not going to be a fight.
They ask for blood, they're going to get a jail, and this will knock up the dead.
The fall of the dead isn't quite, lots of beating people over the wall, he's
domed away.
You might not get the blood of the dog, but you might get the blood of the Drake in this case.
If the charm does connect to the Inva, who rockets the flash to the side?
It's getting lower. They're not going to be able to steal that one.
They're baiting it if they want the fight. Drake to the side is here.
And Jynax finally able to take off the Drake.
They're crucial for them.
Shale forced the flash out.
They didn't quite have the damage to take him down.
And Skidna stand still, as neither team have too much initiation.
But shout out to the crowd. They just willed that if they resisted it.
Yes, they did.
good job team good job we're right there with you kills, kills, kills although we probably
are holding the thumb out you know apparently in movies that's a misconception as well
that they didn't do that apparently thumb down did not actually mean execute that's
not what I meant I don't remember what it meant I just know that that doesn't actually
mean that that doesn't help us very much what we know is wrong and what we know is that
we don't know great excellent it's fine I could help team heathix now that they've
lost to drake they're getting gold.
Ooh, I think Jax actually won that race.
Yeah, Jax got the top tower first, and Jynx are getting the payroll.
So, I think, they are getting gold, but Jynx is getting more of it
as they continue to build their gold lead now.
No luck enough. Ooh.
The shocker, I'm definitely hurting.
Jyn is here to menacingly queue with them.
Jax is going to get that big wrapper.
And I have to call myself out.
No foul. I said in chapter like that I was worried that Shale would just outfarm Isfah
That does not happen. Isfah is
Three camps up on Shale and has been matching him at every stage of the game
And now I'm just wondering why my puppy jungles always have no farm
Screenshot it. Keep myself with you. You can link it to them. Yeah. Well, this is gonna be another time I secured by
I
Okay, I'm gonna be honest the call season is supposed to subdue the masses supposed to quell their lust for blood
But they're cheering for towers guys. We're gonna need to fight soon that they're gonna lose. Don't worry the pink wards
Will send it to true madness
Do I saw currently of the day where someone said what's a pink wards and I was like
Oh
Yeah, bro, please that you know why you know what I think what I know when I was playing with force and
To buy pink water. He said was uh, oh
But he also said this is the first time he's ever bought it when we pull those
They're trying to appease the fanatic fans of the death rush. It's a very clever tactic. I sadly
It didn't work instead we're gonna get more objectives and pushing
Classic League of Legends, Herald Charge, Money,
Tower's still alive though.
The stiff breeze to take it down is...
Oh, wow.
Was not confident in his movement.
Alted out preemptively.
That tower is a...
Oh! Oh!
2HP!
What the...
Okay, to be fair, absolute cinema would be if that auto attack got him killed.
The one that did quite kill him.
Yeah, it was in danger.
Off of his air shale, he's always tangible for a brief moment, but yep, they're walking the dog!
There he goes.
There, he gets sent home with his tail between his legs, 0-2-0 score line, not having the impact that he'd love to be having.
His GX just slowly gained control.
Baron Nashor is up, but due to the fight that they killed Shale on both lanes, if I'm not on time, they're actually going to look to full send it.
They're TPing Walthan, they're going to start to Baron Nashor, and hope for no repeat of stage number two.
There's no jungler this time.
And there's no summoner in trouble.
Yeah, we go, gentlemen.
We're taking all the nodes we can take.
We end up once again.
There's no smite.
This should be a detester.
They're not going to try.
They're not going to try.
That's not the best thing.
Alright, credits to GX.
Five to pick on Shale on side lane.
But if your pick just has not been working out so far,
there you go.
Major objective to GX.
That's not two items on Noah.
With that Baron Nashor as well.
carries of Giant X are just so much stronger, they're really gonna look to utilize this Nashor.
Maybe even try to break an inhibitor, if they break it in it, I think
Giant X can rest on their laurels pretty safely, but even just breaking down some tier 2s,
getting some gold on the board and making sure that they're in good position for this
ocean dragon, squatting in 35 seconds. I mean it's major pressure now for heretics with
Elimination on the line.
Oh, Ismael reads the play.
1-4 prey to the trappers.
Vision being set up by GX. Denial, pressure, bot and mid.
Take control of the enemy jungle and just suffocate heretics out of this part of the map.
So much of what we talked about in terms of this composition's weaknesses.
The lack of engage goes out the window.
If you're the team with guaranteed first setup on the objective,
its team heretics will have to fight into you.
We see the foot push angle coming through.
Sean, under tower, is that going to give his life for that?
Dammit!
Well, certainly there from Jackie.
No one wasn't even hitting him.
He was hitting the minions, and the blue AOE just killed Steph.
And now, 4 versus 5.
The inhibitor's going away.
He's going to go.
That's going to go.
Horses to dash away.
GX just marching down the bot lane.
Undeterred.
The counter punch coming in from the side of GX.
There's two members of the mid lane trying desperately to kill Lot unsuccessfully.
And Trace is continuing his foot push.
Exactly, the crossfade from Tracer is doing what he can to get something back for his team, but an inhibitor going down
means that those super minions are going to do some serious work on the bot side of the map.
Huge advantage game for GX, slow, calm, calculated with 4 kills to 0, but this game already feels done and dusted.
It's still relying for Team Redix as it's only second right in for Gionix, no soul on the board, but losing that inhibitor
is going to feel really bad now, it's not making sense.
Leak silver lining.
Leak silver lining, yeah.
Well, this is silver lining nonetheless, so...
If they had like a gold lining or a challenger lining,
they'd say it was a silver lining, so...
Maybe it's a bronze lining.
The bronze lining, yeah.
At least not iron.
What is the lowest value metal?
Well, in Leak, it's iron, but I don't know if that's...
You must have very pointed questions.
You're a very uneducated man.
The problem is, I don't know why I said that.
You look pretty much like...
I mean, definitely silver is worth more than iron, no?
Sure, yeah.
Probably.
It's like tin or something, I don't know.
There's also a lot of metals on the periodic table.
There's a whole section dedicated to metals.
If someone out there knows the answer, we can ask them.
One of those people is medic, but he's not here.
Well, speaking of metals, I always
thought when people say this has a metal in it,
this is iron, that you didn't eat the same thing
that the metal is made of, but it's the same thing.
It's iron, yeah.
That's crazy.
So we're all eating a bit of iron, a bit of copper.
Well, thanks to that really fun fact.
Thanks, yeah, let's get back to the game.
Let's re-bring our attention back as GX have just picked up one more tower in top lane.
They're gonna try and make it a second one in mids.
Here's some pullback, really not doing too hot in these isolated parades.
Mid lane, a stiff freeze on the top lane of the tower.
And Stenny's been hitting a lot of hooks, but sadly recently only onto Jhun.
You know what? Once one more auto. This time it'll kill the tower.
Yeah, I mean this is just some clean lead overall from GX.
They've taken it.
We don't have gold here, be careful, they're open here.
They've got constant pressure coming in through bot. I don't think they need to leave. They can just keep chipping away
They're just gonna stay feeding behind there. They need to leave now
Time to go
GX on the retreat, Tracer coming around the corner. Erotic's on the lead. All be coming in from Isma
He's gonna knock you out of the fight entirely and now shooting his body blocking all of their damage
No already to start free firing ice off to the side, but so far a good retreat from team Erotic's
Saren returning to the fight, Charm connecting on the judge, should be on breakable, but no, up just in time to stop the jinx rocket.
Stepping from K.O.
Looking a little frustrated on that one.
Tracer not able to find access into the back line, it's all falling apart, Isma there to body.
Noa with the door smashed, and Sam is coming in from Noa.
All of Team Heretic's getting sent packing back to their base as they lose too.
Oh my God, Noa with the 200 years, he fights a four-mount Lul.
Flash is saying that there's so much damn damage, it's not actually going to be the end of the game for Team Reddix
and it's not actually going to be any objective at all, but that was that cool.
You can see the desperation from Heretic as they tried so hard to get something back.
This was the best case scenario for them. A low health member's GX slowly getting chipped away at
but then Shea really forces the issues committing onto Noah by himself.
Heretic's now in a bit of an awkward spot as the ulti comes through, but they get that initial pick,
but then grouped up in that choke point, Noah connects his ulti onto 4,
Heretic's is forced to retreat, and GX walk away with two kills.
I think what we can say after that teamfight is that I feel it should be buffed,
because that should have been a quarter kill, in my eyes.
Yeah, two and a half items.
Yeah, that should have been a quarter kill.
So, now going into the pilot teamfight of the game, Baron Nasher spawning in 50 seconds,
7000 gold lead for Giant X. You'd love to see Noah pick up the LDR here, which he does, and if he had the LDR at that fight, that would have been...
Yep, and the Nexus go boom, so he'll be looking to recreate that play. The only silver lining this time, okay, is...
No, I saw flash
He does I
Serenize flash
He can maybe make the play yeah flesh arm doesn't cleanse though and Mikael's and a brawl shield
Okay, all right
we're just
listing things
No, it's crazy agreed
90% copper 10% tin ah
There you go. Yes fun fact
Baron insta spawn, insta start, Noah and Isma should be able to melt through this one.
And Shairo get in range to steal it. The Poppy ultimate of course will be used to try and disengage.
Now it is.
Up on to Shairo. 7K on the objective getting lower and lower.
That was close.
That was fine.
And now it's right on the tip of the Baron just taken down.
Breen and White making this look so good. If you keep the shot from stack, that's going to be painful.
That auto-good is so much worse!
No, it's following up!
Falling back down the entire team on the chase.
Sort of wide from Sean, Saren don't need pop, but now that they're wearing purple, this should just be the final moments.
A beautiful engage from Jackie's connects onto three. They'll convert it into two kills and with the Baron, they'll look to try and end the game now.
28 minutes in, eight kills to one. Heretics really haven't been able to get a foot in this game at all whereas GX have been dominant from start to finish.
Siren does have the flash, but it's a 3 versus 5.
No less, so damn strong.
Giant X, it was tense.
Game 2 was messy.
It looks like they're going to be able to take it home.
They're rolling down this base.
Game 3 from start to finish.
Yes, they gave up Drake.
This was close for a while,
but they built those gold leads in the lane
and they just continued to grow them fight after fight.
Team Heritage is unable to find a way to end this.
And we've got a bit more time on our hands.
I guess they don't want to run the risk of overstaying, they don't want to throw this one away, they want to take the Dragon, this won't be Sol of course, it will put them on Sol point.
Quick reset, I think, into them just getting back out onto the map and looking to close things out.
Should be the game plan, but look back at this Baron, and engage with Jackie.
You can see how fast they take the match with this green-white Aphelios, and then Jackie's here finding this EQ into the flash,
Getting the three-man ultima
Really really nice to get for Jackie. So it is well to make sure a team breaks carries kept taking down
Say it's not fast. Say it's not fast. Oh my god, Jackie. I like it. You're 60
same
I would have said good at League of Legends, but whatever does it for you? Yeah, you know
Very nice playing beads with the Baron block. You could be honest right this by what you say
There are no inhibitors on the side of heretics
They're going to have to find a miracle fight in order to keep any semblance of a chance left in this game.
You're going to have items on ice, ulti whipping for Trace, and a start to what should be the F3 man knockup coming in
from Jackie's follow up is there as well from Jon, then getting burned down, Noah and Jackie's completely untouched
and ulti a couple hundred more years to follow through!
And they go through, and Saren brings it back into his team.
The only remise he's got is with a pushback from Jack into the even better.
GX moving on as Team Parasix are eliminated.
And it was a back to forth series, but Giant X, they showed their superior thing.
Throughout that game three, he really didn't have any fighting chance.
They got some dragons, but that was pretty much it.
And a stellar performance from Noah of the Ophelios.
the willingness, flash forward and make the damage count really nice by him and not by Jhin.
The dragon stacking from Heretics gave me hope that they would be able to bring more of a fight,
but it felt like once Jhin's got a leaves it's not impossible for Heretics to play. You can, of
course, quote your player of the series, Jhin is no-one or Jhin are your options. And yeah,
Jhin's after game two they certainly bounced back. They had a very clean game and it seems
that Gyuto's words around their performance around the baron definitely resonated as they
had two very clean baron performances in that final game.
Yeah, they were able to win without getting sold, always a tough challenge for a lot of
our teams and LEC.
And with that, we say goodbye to Team Meredix, and it was I think for some a success, for
some a disappointment, they made it into the playoffs at least, beating out some
playing Loser Tones, but did not have the performance they would have hoped in the playoff bracket.
One final bow, so we see them in spring.
Hearts out, the hair takes line up, the fans as well.
Hopefully it just means more to come in spring, more development, see what else they can do.
But in the meantime, let's send it by the analysts who are standing by with Noah.
Yes, and come on.
Thank you.
If I'm doing it all game Noah, could you hear it at all?
Could you see it or not?
Could you see it or could you hear it in game at all because they haven't been cheering
on us?
It's really amazing.
I think the big question is, why did you throw game two?
I mean...
Not you personally.
you personally. We had some issues with the game because it was an easy game but we were arguing during the game you know so. That's what I said, that's what I said because I saw when you're suffering too much from success because the game is so easy that you're like ah we can do anything we want and we will still win.
We had a different opinion, like for my you know so. I want to entertain the fans. Tell me then about coming into this third game because some people thought maybe you'd be tilted right after that second one but what was the approach like?
Can you tell me about your momentum going into game three because I thought maybe it would be a little tilted
I mean
Honestly, honestly after game two like I was a bit tilted because it wasn't really easy
But I was trying to fix my mentor when game goes wrong, you know, so I was trying to focus again
So I think it was it worked this time. So I'm okay. Okay any questions from Noah. Yeah, I think it's just
How are you guys feeling coming out of this game?
Because I think you had a really good performance this game.
After a tough game against KC, how do you feel now for the rest of the playoffs?
Do you feel like you can take everything everyone?
Honestly, last two weeks from four week regular season,
personally I had a really big problem on playing games because I was playing bad.
But I was trying to come back when I'm playing good.
Like this day, like 3 days ago, 4 days ago, finally I can comeback so I'm having really confidence now, so yeah.
Now I think we can win anyone.
It's the time of GX now, because it's all about this man.
Yeah, you're playing Navi actually, tomorrow, so it's very, very fast. What do you think about that opponent?
Yeah, I mean, obviously, when it's the important moment, I never lose against Korean ADC in LCS.
I didn't know that's that.
Yeah.
I mean, like, when it's most important, I never lost Korean, you know?
Like, I saw Sandeul's team.
I see.
I will just win tomorrow.
Just win.
However, not as many Penta kills as the other Korean ADCs, though.
Yeah, I'm jealous.
You are a Kia player of the series, Noa.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, all the fanatic fans are here, so the million dollar question is, Fanatic is about
to play Vitality, who is going to win?
Again.
Okay, I can say, I mean, I can be, I just be honest, okay?
I want, I want Fanatic win, but I think my choice will be.
Look how sad they are!
It's okay, I think it was a very political answer, I get it.
Thank you so much, Noah. Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you. We'll see you in a minute.
Don't run away, because when we come back, it is fanatic versus vitality.
I
Let me try.
Wait, brother, let us break this instead, brother.
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
What is this, brother?
Perfection.
Ah, I'm your champion. Welcome to my shop. You'll need the right build. Choose wisely, because every upgrade brings you closer to the next level.
So tell me, how will you level up?
Wait, is he switching lanes?
Big week for Fnatic, and it was a big week as well.
Graves, is there anything you want to comment on everything that transpired off of your
statement about the amount of help you have?
No comment, that's okay.
NPR.
No more sound lights, yeah.
No more sound lights.
That's the gun behind the camera, so no comment.
Well, let's admit, no, just kidding, but listen, the question that I really want to ask pertaining to the situation is you have to operate as a professional within this situation, as do all of the players who are here only for one thing that is showing their best on the stage.
So how do you then, in the capacities that you do have, make sure that they can do that? Because last week was a really, really rough week for a fanatic.
Yeah, just keeping my head straight and still thinking objectively about what we're working on.
And I think, of course, with mistakes in preparation, I think our early game has been atrocious
and I think we went too far as a team to talk about mid-game and late-game.
So we missed many lessons about, for example, the first crap, the second crap.
We just directed Fighters mistakes, which we did this week, hopefully, and I think it can show.
And I think that's just it. We don't get nervous, we don't get influenced by these things at all.
So we're fresh now, so we keep working and that's what it is.
There's a lot of fanatic dragons here. There's a lot of fans here
I think maybe they've come extra to give you guys some supports was there anything you want to say to them
Hello, I think it's half of them
I think it's too much for keeping supporting us and if not today
I hope that the next place we can we can prove people wrong because I still think there's a little potential in the team
I'm very happy how we work and I think at some point it will show
So much more patience will be great and I hope the more athletes starts actually today. It'll be today. Thank you very much
Will it be today the question is for the fanatic dragons he said give me some
time oh your information sorry he said give me some time do you agree with
that do they need time we're gonna start winning today but I hope we win
today like I agree with him I gotta say I agree with him grab set of course in
Some interviews that he kind of ran back a little bit. There's staffing issues
When there's illness amongst the team then there's really nobody to do what I do other teams
And we heard it from Dylan yesterday have incredible support staffs behind them. So it is hard
Yeah, especially when you got to try and deal with not only having limited play like staff to help out
But also just to try and keep pace because if you think about a team that has you know
Strategic coach a head coach analysts and then you've got like positional coaches across the board
I mean, there's so many back-end staff that have missed several as well that you kind of need if you want to compete at the top
But if you just don't have that, it becomes very difficult
And it's not really impossible because, for example, when I was in Rogue in 2021
I felt like it was the peak amount of staff that we could have, you know, and we still didn't win at LEC
But instead we won afterwards when, you know, it was the year where we started downscaling, you know
We lost some of our support staff, some of our management staff, so we were kind of like, you know, maybe at 50-60% capacity
But the issue becomes when you have lower amount of staff, it's not that it's impossible.
It's that you start being spread out too thin.
There's too many holes in the barrel.
You know, there's always like that meme as a kid where there's so many holes in the
barrel that the water is leaking from everywhere.
And it becomes a question of, hey, which one is the most important issue that I can
tackle?
How can I delegate to other people so that with the pieces that I have, I tackle
the most important problems because there's always going to be problems.
You're going to have problems no matter how many people in the staff you are.
then the question isn't like, can I fix all the problems?
It becomes more of a question is,
how do I fix the most important problems?
Yeah, and those are the questions.
What are the most important problems?
Grabs also said we don't get kind of affected
by all that stuff that goes on on social media.
We're focusing on the task, but we understand
that the task is more difficult
when you're not given the tools that you need.
But we need to talk about one man in particular
for this matchup, Dagda, and it is humanoid, of course.
He has been absolutely insane for Vitality,
and I think it's sick as well.
up against their former team here to be able to say I am now playing significantly better than I did on my time in Fnatic
And I think it's been amazing to see him bring out comfort picks, but also some really cool counter picks and things like the Zoe
Show up and him working with Karzy and working with Vitality
The vibes are good and the team seems to be even better as a result and this goes to show that isn't really
When it comes to someone's in-game performance, there's so many factors that come in because if I would look at humanoid last year
I would be like, yo, he's kind of done, you know, maybe he's not taking the game too seriously.
There's like some issues, but I've seen not only with human, but with so many other players,
these iterations where you swap the team, you get into a different environment and boom,
you're just a completely different player. And it was better on Vitality. I think we saw the
quote there about how his mental health was not in the best place, also in his last tenure
in the LEC. Before Vitality, I feel like this is a team that I love watching, right?
They are super fun to watch. They sometimes make egregious mistakes that I think,
what are you doing? But perhaps there is a scenario on which the
chrono break brought us into a new timeline and this is the timeline where the
three-year plan actually pays off. This is it. So we've actually just shifted
entirely now into, I mean maybe because like obviously like good
vibes get you so far but at the end of the day if the vibes aren't there you
have to figure out how to like piece them together and kind of put back
together what has been shattered. I think that maybe this is the
timeline where, okay now you've had to experience a downfall but you've got that
safety net there. Now when the you can't just rely on a lot of things go wrong you
can actually bring it back. Also the other thing there's like they're crawling right?
They're like just take the goal it's all you have to do but can they rely on
themselves that is the question and casters is max three year plan finally
paying off posthumously. If Mac wants to take credit for humanoid
getting benched on fanatic and then suddenly coming to Vitality, sure but
That sounds like collusion.
So probably not.
Probably just a little bit too soon to say.
We're going to need a little bit more time.
But I do agree that Vitality are looking pretty good.
And whatever might have happened with the timelines
in that chrono break, I hope that it's
set Vitality up for success this week,
because it would be really rough to watch them go out.
Although the same could be said for that.
And if I'd have set them up for the lower bracket rough,
I've really, really, I cannot understated enough
and enjoyed watching Vitality playing.
I would be so devastated if they were to go out today
Especially after their 2CM's f2.0 where they felt like they had that game won.
And they probably had that game done and they kind of broke mentally after that.
But I do think it's a team that has so many exciting players who talk about humanoid and carcy, but not now as well.
It's been a stellar performing top laner alongside Tama.
And it's just, it's highlight after highlight for me with this team.
And they play so many different styles, humanoid bringing out the Zoe.
There's just so much to be excited about.
about. I mean we've got a community vote starting next week looking back at all the highlights from
at least everses and the number of time vitality just makes their way into all of these nominations
just the players have had so many comedic moments both on and off the rift they are super
entertaining uh and and for fnatic i mean honestly the vibes have just been down and
negative like the fans want something to be optimistic about uh but they haven't been
delivering the fact that they finished so like they were so close to being eliminated from even
qualifying to playoffs. We need to see something change for this Fanatic roster as right now coming
into this series Vitality definitely considered the favorites in this festival. For sure and it's
also just Fanatic feels like a team that's usually always good in the regular season then
playoffs is where they kind of falter but this iteration of Fanatic have yet to kind of find
Even one sort of game plan that just works.
Like last year it was the bot lane show,
Upset and Mickey at the helm,
and they just played for Upset,
and when it worked in the regular season it worked very well.
And we were really excited about them.
But now the only real stable player that I've looked at
in Panadic's last few games has been Empyros.
He's been a rock in the top lane,
and he's built up leads,
but the rest of Panadic have been struggling.
No doubt we need to see more in the early game across almost all of fanatic as we enter the pick in fan phase by county
Do you have second pick so despite starting on the blue side?
They will have the luxury of that last pick in the context of the draft
Bruno Boris the hand the by the rumble in the pantheon all banned the way a cinematic debate their first pick options
That's going very fast. There's both teams are prepared and I'm I really want to see a
a
Good carry champion for him heroes to keep building on that foundation of having him as your kind of key player
As I'm just gonna pick up the unara here. It's a no-brainer really good
Safe scaling while having a good landing face as well pairs up with any support champ nicely
You can play the front to back and still dive in and then the corky answer by vitality
I mean it's a class at this point. It's a comfort pick for cars. He'd no doubt
Play something. He's looking solid on how he is. Yeah
Emblematic of the mid and 80 players, I think their best individual picks, so a nice way to start the first game.
We'll feel the energy in the crowd getting very electric as the fanatic fans have come out in force today.
Let's see what the response is from Fanatic.
They like Fanatic today, they really want to show a new life in them and the fans really showing up should help them in doing so as it's going to be their nocturne.
just locked in here maybe we'll go the right way yeah maybe team ready to subscribe
let's go I mean why are they jumping six seven six seven stop I read a great
post on the internet it's like how do I get my kid to stop doing this so like do
it alongside them very enthusiastically yeah really ruin it for them now we
have the Nami as well which you know honestly against the Nocturne Orianna
comp I don't feel super great about but definitely has the power to be incredibly
explosive not as of an I not as iconic of an Nami duo with the Korki but
similarly powerful solution I feel like I have to be a critical I love the
Korki Nami combo it's great you broke the Nami incredibly fast but you're
just giving another target so there's Nocturne Orianna and now the
Korki and Nami both need to play so far back and it also doesn't provide
that much appeal for this core team.
About five squishy champions.
Make every single one a viable card.
And then they all play far away
so that you can never combo them all at once.
There. See your cooking now.
Should have brought this up in your NLC games.
This could have won your drafts.
Anyway, then Ekko and the Nautilus band away.
Makes a lot of sense when you're playing the Nautilus Championship
to be very vulnerable, albeit quite powerful.
As we see the Gwen also taken off the board.
Maybe heralding some tanks on the top side of the map
For Impros who's going to need to blind pick
Cassante all of the go-tos the Zac continues to be a hubbid
Why are they all hovering?
Something yeah, but the crowd is extremely enthusiastic about the second day
20th anniversary of Fluffer
They're not changing the lock zap.
They're changing the lock zap.
But they should change the lock zap, maybe then it'll work.
Or the conventional tank top lane option, alright.
But he...
You guys have one more zap.
But he has one drop.
It's your last chance.
Okay, Mr. Sirius, come on.
Do the funny thing.
Where's the green guy?
Do it for the crowd. No. No. Okay. Okay. Party's over folks. Come back for next champ select.
Then we'll have fun again. No.
Back to our regularly scheduled viewing. Is there not going to be the answer into the
sign in the top lane? No, I did win a game earlier today.
You did win a game? I was tracing. We had a really good performance up against Lotz
It's Kasate, that really made us mark.
I mean, when you're playing Naur up against the tank,
you're not really going to stomp the early game.
You're just kind of slowly building up a lead,
slowly getting plays.
And then you start to split push
and really make your mark later on.
I think I'd prefer bananas.
Comp, Jack.
Hmm, I think I'd prefer it as well.
I think there's not much.
He's off.
That confident to agree with me yet.
Remember when I said draft five champions
who Naur turn wants to ult?
They got four.
Yeah.
I'm just saying, so tell me, who face checks on the side of Vitality?
Linz, I suppose?
Yeah, right, so he pretty much basically has to have his ult ready to go every time he walks
into a space that he doesn't control.
Fine, how do we actually start fights, Jack?
Linz, I suppose?
Right, so the guy that's supposed to be your engage and is also supposed to be
the man that face checks, and I guess he's also, to a degree, part of your disengage
do for when the Nocturne comes in.
Yeah.
Are we starting to both agree that maybe
Linsus is carrying quite a few buckets?
Yeah.
Oh, you want to pick Nami?
You're going to have fun.
Don't worry.
I'll hold it down.
Linsus, the man looking to hold the team's dreams
and competition schemes on top of his shoulders
with the Zin down.
Up against an Ori on a Nocturne combo
paired with a hyperscaling bot lane.
But also, it's just Sion is a great champion
for creating space.
You know, one of my favorite lectures that I've ever had from Odo was he was like,
so think of Dragon as a space that you would like to enter.
And I'm like, yes.
And he's like, so then if you're a top laner, you have certain responsibilities
that you have to offer to your team.
And one of them is creating space for your team.
So how do you do that?
And I was like, okay, well, why don't you teach me?
And he says, well, you lock Sion and you walk towards them.
And I was like, oh, right.
And he's like, yeah, just lock Sion, walk towards them.
And then what do they do?
Tell me, buddy, what do they do?
I was like, I guess they could throw a CC.
And yes, if they throw CC into your Sion, that's less CC for everyone else.
Oh, that's a great point, though, don't you?
So, NERF Sion.
Yes, they should indeed need NERF Sion.
But the point is that he's just a very good champion
that basically allows for Upset to play how he likes to play.
And this is the key thing.
Earlier, when we saw that composition with the Nocturne,
a lot of champions were all trying to dive in together.
And once you were kind of committed,
there really wasn't much you could do to get out.
But this composition, Lulu helps that Nocturne stay in the fight.
You've also got Unara that has a frontline that she can play around,
and the Orianna, the shield and the utility that she provides,
just changes the dynamics of how that fight turns out.
Okay, ready? I hear you.
Yeah.
But when I think of Brassdark,
I think that he always has the tendency to go a bit too deep.
Sure.
And now he's playing a champion that can go...
That enables his playstyle.
Yeah.
I mean, I would more say that like,
When you go too deep, you just die.
So my worry is that...
That's for me that you don't trust LOSPA.
So that sounds like to me.
There was more of a Rassort that I didn't trust, but...
How would it be LOSPA that I didn't trust? How does that make it?
Because it's his job to keep for life.
Well, but if Rassort goes too deep, then it's not LOSPA's fault, no?
No, it's always the support fault.
It's always the support fault.
Oh, yeah.
Actually, you're right about that.
You're right about that.
Yeah.
I'm with you, man.
I like this fanatic, they're right.
We'll see how things pan out, of course.
At the end of the day, it'll all come down to how the individuals show up on the day.
And we know that Vitality, they did have a very close series versus...
Emcoy.
Emcoy, they had a huge gold lead in the other game.
They were dominating in that first half.
And honestly, I feel like...
Magnaco is just a player that continues to show up for me.
He was able to generate a lot of leads on the top side of the rift.
He's someone that seems to be dominating the stats board, seven solo kills this split.
And I feel like he is that top laner that if you give him a carry champion, he really knows how to use it.
Yeah, I want to pick up on that, ready? Covan, used to 1-nar into Sion.
This is a very chill matchup for Sion in the early levels, where Sion usually is able to just start W
and sometimes even get the push, but Nautnalko is already up around 10 CS
and forcing Ampiros to look at the base early in the EP.
This is really like, Nakhnako and Kana, the two best top laners in our league.
I feel like in the regular season, that Nakhnako was better.
I would love to see in this game if we can really carry the team,
because I think he has a lot of the pieces to actually do it.
I think in the side line, okay?
What?!
8 solo kills!
Now they split for Nakhnako.
He makes it look easy.
Thumbs up from Linsus.
Oh my goodness Christ. Slowly but surely the pressure on Linus' shoulder gets wider and he no longer has a crazy engage.
Disengage. There has to be everything, but I mean credit to Nakako. There just wasn't a lot.
To cast there, it was so telegraphed, Emperor stuck around too long, he was too low under tower. Nakako stunned, hit him with a rock, jumped on his head and he died.
Matt checks out. I mean that's one of those weird cast of blessings almost. We don't get those very often.
We talked about a thing and it became relevant instead of instantly irrelevant.
Yeah, it's very relevant.
In top lane?
Yes, in top lane.
Quite a lot of things.
Yeah, that's all sorts of crazy things happening there.
Now Razork, level five.
He spotted on the invabence, knows this and is trying to power clear down.
Of course, good presence of mind to drop double wards here so those five ones is in the way.
Razork, now the fear is there.
He's able to pick up the raptors with the smite.
So I win for Razzak there as he returns to his own jungle.
Linsus doesn't lose out on too much though, just to wrap their camp.
He's not going to clear down through the crux himself. Drake spawning in five seconds.
A subjective both junglers are eyeing on as they continue their clearance.
Hagnakles going all in on the top side and throws down. Running, Nar back to bring him away.
No way, he killed him again, right? No way.
Dad next to Walsh, one more house. No way, no way.
He gets his flash, he'll take that.
What is happening in this top lane?
I mean, Nako is putting on a hero's performance right now for Vitality
just absolutely stomping at heroes in the long run.
I mean, yeah.
I feel like I've seen this match up many times.
Normally nothing happens.
Normally it's not this convincing.
Nako really making fun of his opposition
but there's a reason why that man does have 8 solo kills.
Yeah, I like the early Swifties too just to stay on top of them make sure that he can't ever hit you before the Slayer
Get some W trades back because all your damage early game is just gonna be these hyper procs and he's just getting danced around
Impiros hoping to stack this whole furnace hoping to buy time for the rest of map
Perhaps we had a grass to come up before but an axe still yet to take a first straight. Yep, but maybe
This is the game where they get one perhaps
Small steps, baby steps!
Ransok is very close to level 6, he didn't just get his ramp just stolen, but you will get it on the crugs.
Ulti used by Emperor's top lane to get back to lane.
We are 6 minutes in, and NACMACRA has built a 900 gold lead.
I think that's one of the fastest gold leads, I think we've seen built this split.
And the call is only going to make that bigger, time goes on.
I mean, in regards to the drakes, because definitely topside is not where Fnatic wants to be playing.
Oh, actually, maybe if they play away from him and they just let him keep doing what he's doing, because it seems to be working.
Uh...
You and Wladdy kind of poke each other. You have a nice backstep on the command attack and the dissonance.
But the rest of the map is very quiet. We got Thunderdome in the top lane and no one else is hitting each other.
I mean, it's nice to see Vladdy having a bit of a better laning phase because last week it felt like he really got bullied out.
And in matchups that we expected to go his way, they were not going that way.
Shut up, Fettie. Nars fighting again.
And the wall! Wallop! I don't want to hear about mid lane!
Was he tumbling to see each other with no kill pressure whatsoever? Sorry, I thought there was going to be an extra point.
Well, I mean, yeah, Narko...
He is doing some serious work up there.
Bladdy though, just as I comment on how the laning phase is going better, he's starting to get bullied out
Respecting the waveflare coming through from Humanoid, that dragon is still up
Normally we're so used to seeing these dragons be started around that level 6 mark
Both are playing a little bit slower in this game
Yeah, I mean, Bladdy is losing the trades and getting pushed in, but does still have a slight CS lead
He's still feeling quite comfortable, but really wants a bit better vision around mid lane
that's lost but it's now here to try to provide just that because the dynamics of this mid
matchup is really that Orianna can win the short trades but she has to be very careful
of Azir, Stasheed and Shuffle so she really needs vision around her to play aggressive
because otherwise she needs to be eternally fearful of the enemy jungle.
Like it's too slow, Fleshy at least gonna have to flash here, makes it over the
wall, Razor chancing, upset on the way as well, that's going to be Fleshy gone,
He's taking out.
It's one of the risks of picking this Nami.
It gives the Nottan another option.
But he waited.
Guys, Fnatic are doing it.
Okay.
Oh, the first dragon of the split.
The first dragon of the split?
Ritz is looking for the steal.
They've never gotten the first drake this year.
This will be their first.
That needs you to go crazy.
Like Baron steal crazy if they get this drake.
Come on.
Fnatic's first drake in 2026.
Might have taken him like 13 games.
What a milestone for this organization.
Baby steps, folks. Baby steps. You like it.
And it is important. To be fair, it is important.
That's a dragon.
The dragons finally seeing Fanatic take a dragon.
I'm loving the energy from the Fanatic class.
It did feel like coming into this series that Fanatic would dead in the water, but there's a lot of life.
Okay, checking the brush there.
forced to use the ulti. Knock knock, continuing to wander in. Razor needs to be careful because
that gnar is on mega fed. The knockup's about to come. He's on the way. Oh, he's down too far!
He didn't mean to Mario, goomba stop, but I think Razor's dead. Flash in. Ulti into the wall.
Knock knock. Grabbing another kill. 1.5k gold. Well, Trunatic wanted to get a punish onto
Linsus, but knock knock, he ignored the tower, he ignored the scion. I mean, for a minute,
he did also ignore Razor, eventually having to commit his flash in order to get that kill.
It's Vitality now, find themselves with the gold lead as they secure the grubs.
I mean, POP is a lava right now for Fnatic. They need to steer clear of Nugnaco
and hope that upset of Lattie can potentially shut him down later on in the game.
And now with three grubs going to Vitality as well, his snar is going to get so many plates.
Yeah, Raybox's snar is there, Humanoid.
And I shovel back onto Lattie, just continuing to keep the straight going, poking out with the sand soldiers.
Batch, step on the shockwave!
And personally, the personal things aren't quite there, the same way they are for humanoid is...
Alti going in, the boat is done for a second, they look at each other.
Is this our heated rivalry moment? Are they suddenly...
We'll move on.
It's looking pretty one-sided, so far, this rivalry.
Yes, true.
We're gonna let that reference go, because I don't think you understand it, and it doesn't get better.
So, we're gonna continue forward in the cast.
Lensis, getting the objectives so far. Fnatic gets their first drake though, maybe we see the drake stacking, take hold, it's a simple game plan, but it's one that carried a lot of teams through a regular season.
Absolutely. I mean, there's still a ways away until that dragon is back up. I mean, remember that this whole comp from Fnatic centers around the Razork, Vladdy, Orianna, nocturne combo.
So, I wouldn't be too concerned for Fnatic just yet, it ultimately comes down to how well they can execute upon this combination.
And if they can one-shot Karzy, then hey, they're already off to a great start.
Or, alternatively, one-shot Nak Nakko, get a lot of money.
Also, it could be a game plan, sitting on a bounty of, what, 250 G right now?
He will unlikely be able to kill Empiros again.
That's uh
There's track record for solo killing songs this split pretty good pretty good
Okay
That's crazy, I'm saying he was kind of known for dying the boss. I mean it's disrespectful man. That's disrespectful
Sorry, I mean you're right, but like you can't be saying that
Also, Naginako is kind of the go right now.
Naginako, 1.6k up.
He's also doing a lot of damage as well.
I mean, now for Naginako to really...
If you guys want to see another solo kill, here's how you do it.
The recipe. What you really need to do is you need to have sound in a long lane.
So you need to get this top tower, and then you can actually look to pressure and run down the sound.
But in such a short lane now, he doesn't have the damage to actually get him killed anytime soon.
But he's taking plates one at a time. He is continuing to extend the gold lead. So it's very good for him
I'm just saying if you want that specific solo kill
I think he's staying so he has enough gold for training force and once he completes that call
He will comfortably have enough calls for the training force right now. He is sitting on
1800 gold
So why base if you can hit tower? He's continuing to just I mean I think maybe a couple reasons
I mean, she needs like 900 and then combined costs. Yeah, you've got enough money.
Yeah, the banana cans though, trying to offer that support to Amparos.
Which he needs, in respect of the banana cans.
But it's tough, because normally Tabby's is where you just sit in this lane and suddenly you feel unkillable, but...
...the very least he's farming, he's scaling, he's getting the additional health stacking.
Okay, apparently my knuckle only slowly killed Boss 1, so, my bad.
It felt like 90.
Sometimes you spread misinformation, it just happens.
Tab is the best of us, is Emberos still losing the drake?
Has the TP!
Second full plaits.
Okay, gold lead.
A second drake?
This is really going to be a test of how OP drake's acting, yes.
There we go.
Yeah, if drake's stacking beats a 2.2k gold lead NAR, I mean either there's something
wrong with NAR, or there's something wrong with top lane, or there's something wrong
with drakes.
Or there's something wrong.
That's not...
He doesn't have TP right now though.
Knuckle Kong ain't involved in this fight unlike Emperor also can
That's that poking trying to hold the choke even though I don't know why he's silly gets turned into a snowman
The combo comes through down
And it's dying
He tries to turn the fight for his team is all of fanatic or set running for the hill slot with the wall from
Oh, whoa, whoa, David, but he goes right to bail over it
You might not work out for it was up there still alive the barrier there
Emperor was right on top of him might not find reduction in the top lane
But he's finding it next to the pit glad he's still waiting over the wall
They cannot kill this scion!
He went behind the door!
But he's not behind the door!
What the hell is going on?
A fanatic or a convenient to carry around that fleshy?
Yes, no flash.
What is fleshy?
Fanatic just found a one team fight
after humanoid gives his life to make a monstrous play.
It goes the way of fanatic.
Why? Because vitality went too deep.
Garcy, specifically Garcy, he W flash forward.
They just found a weary team fight
like it was 50 euros lying on the ground.
Let's walk through replay.
Okay, great, get back.
Human light goes in way too deep,
he gets polymorphed, he gets engaged on,
there's the Orianna, not to unshovering.
Look at that five man hole.
You think the fanatic is gonna get floored at this point.
Linz just chases after Bladdy.
Now watch Garcy, nothing you flash in!
He doesn't even get the kill, Fleshy yanks it!
And now Linsus and Fleshy are like, what? I guess we're stuck in here.
And look, Bladi and Upset are on the safe side of the wall.
They get two extra kills.
Oh my goodness.
I was feeling heroic play with Luke. It wasn't.
Yeah.
That's a good summary.
At least he's honest.
Yeah.
It's still a big gold lead for Vitaliy.
what were we saying about the top lane lead maybe not mattering drake
yeah
and for us help the zone turns out uh when he's not stuck in a long lane
where is knock knock oh he is mid lane okay he's going back to top lane
you know what guys I'll be there later I've only got a 2.9k gold
just another cow please
oh the back side oh my god
God.
Chocolate whipping is rough.
Also Drake, you said Imperial's health is off.
Nautnaka's got two plates on the tier.
Or he's got three plates on the tier.
No, no, no, in the fight, in the fight.
The fight that Nautnaka's got is there.
Yes, and that's my point is if they just don't fight when the gnar is there, or avoid
the gnar, he's relevant.
The armor matters against other champions.
Yeah, okay, guys.
We can't conveniently ignore the fact that Latch just completely whips his ultimate
Very easily practicable combo. We all make upsies.
Karzy flashed over a wall and got you forward.
Yeah, we got a rolled him out, but not just a big...
Yeah, that was bad, by the way.
That was not it.
Okay, so this game, kind of going as we expected, I would say.
In the sense that it's incredibly chaotic?
Absolutely.
I mean, it's...
Oh, we love that.
...just put that to it.
Oh, don't get it...
Panic is a key piece of the game.
Okay, but my quality doesn't mess with everything.
I'm dramatic, just roll over some times.
They're not this time. 1.2 KG will be on upset. 3-0-1.
300 volts already done.
Uh...
Things are trying to look good.
I mean, if there's a man to get excited about, it is upset.
Who?
He will be going up against the raid boss of Nak Nakko later into this game.
But for now, Nak Nakko is still farming away.
Just to be clear, Nak Nakko is about to crest a four-level lead over upset.
Four levels.
Oh.
I'll say I'm upset.
You should avoid him for a while.
I think so.
Now, Mako's like one of those open-world bosses that you want to come back later.
Yeah, you have to wait for the squad to be there.
Yeah, yeah.
You're like, God, it's funny in 10 minutes.
Is anyone online?
Yes.
Not even there. Your teammates are already there.
You're just like geared up, yeah.
You know, like, you're like...
It's like you're waiting for the randoms to come.
Exactly.
You can just hide in the corner and steal the gear.
Yeah, fair.
Okay, now, Mako has made his way through one tower,
so he's decided he's going to work on the second.
three plates have been secured in that tough fight.
But Nocturne and Orianna are ready to go.
This time they're going to get to the combo and they make it work!
Porky immediately locked up, the double knock-up is decent.
Razor's turn is there from Lances and they're starting to take over the fight.
Nocturne can push back and knock down by Humanoid!
The double for the Azir, Svanatakar said, packing Lafa,
set to the grave as well.
The re-engage from Vitality is clean this time around.
Venatik used the combination to lock down Karzy
and take him out of the fight.
But with him gone, they didn't have nothing left.
When the re-engage comes through from Humanoid,
he gets a beautiful ultimate.
He connects it onto two,
and he swings the fight for Vypalasit.
You see the weakness of this Nocturne pick
and this fight that they go deep here.
They get two miles on the ultimate,
but Nocturne is just dying so fast
he doesn't have that tankiness
that a lot of other drummers provide
and Humanoid shuffles in.
It's all three, I believe, with the Azir wall there.
That's now Nocturne, might be in trouble.
wants to get away. Big bag of money. If anyone can get him, surely they will kill the tiny Yordle.
He's very fast. Flash, Gladi on the way. Knock knock, don't you just die.
Eventually, he goes down, shuts down the Gladi. Well allocated gold. That's big, but by Talon,
in the meantime, half taking the Talon, they have an entire bot wave.
It's being neglected by the Talon. It's two Talons they go, both bot and inmate.
So they really open up the map off the back of that.
A nice shut down gold, of course, for Gladi.
means that brother 402 small and he's going to be keeping up in terms of
atomization with human eyes but that doesn't change the fact that
knack knack goes just this constant point of pressure that fanatic always
have to be concerned about because he's getting to a point where they I mean
they already can't really deal with him and it's just getting worse in the
sideline at least though he did burn the flash so now for that next Drake
fight that won't be available to him to not have any crazy nar place oh
Uh, initial investigation in progress, so we'll figure it out, keep you guys up to date as things happen.
This has been an incredibly weird game of, uh, look at my workspace right now.
Lince is running Fanatic Pulse and all the...
Indeed, indeed it was.
Of course, when we have more information, we will share it with you right now.
What's at the bottom of your screen is the update that we have.
Uh, progressive fanatic again, forgetting that first trick, that was good.
And for, you know, I think how you're so like, unironically rolling with it that fanatic
getting first, right?
Because they're first first, right?
So impressive.
First matter, dude.
It's important, you know?
If we don't stop to commemorate the little moments in our lives, then what are we gonna
do for the big months, you know?
That's, that's super profound.
Appreciate the little things.
Thank you for showing up today.
Yeah.
Thank you for showing up today.
Talking about whatever it is you talk about.
What? Why? Come on. Have a wholesome vibe, Betty.
We're in a pause. Anything could happen.
Anything could happen. I mean, this could be another timeline shift, you know?
Like, imagine if I thought something starts losing now after the pause.
It's like Betty started the game.
Alright, guys. Let me get on that.
I'm out.
Read the desk.
He's going to hack you through the mainframe.
Betty is asking production unironically to start the game.
They have...
It may have to be like...
So just to be clear, I did DM production and I said,
hey production, can we start the game?
They laughed at me and then said, no, so I tried.
Oh, you got R and check the plot.
I did try, but.
If Cajal'd asked me when it started.
But what I can recommend is that if you all DM Cajal,
I've heard that maybe he can start the game.
So, if you have an update, fanatic, brief, medical issue,
OK, we will return shortly.
So obviously, whatever we use, that explains the choking.
Oh, bro, no, that is ball game of play.
Jack that, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo this man, bad Jack.
Bad Jack.
You let the demons in your head win.
But we've been assured that it's brief,
and we will return and resume shortly.
We're causing are doing all right everyone needs to be in top-tier condition to compete a very important game today
Of course risk of elimination for both the fanatic and vitality
We are jumping back into game. So let's get back into the action
We've had a so far or any seven to seven in kills. It's vitality that leading gold
But fanatic with the combination that they do have of this of this team composition
There's always that threat of a single fight turning the game in their favor
So we're keeping our eyes on both Ladi and Razork as the game continues.
Ladi staying pretty even, thanks to that shutdown he got in the top lane with Humanoid.
Two items completed for him and upset still with a gold advantage over Kars.
You can see him grouped now alongside Razork, maybe hoping to catch Humanoid out on a sideline.
Humanoid though not going to over push.
Nothing really to play for here, so it doesn't need to step up.
Razork is leaning around just to make sure that his midlaner can force another wave.
Karzin is flashing, you need to be careful, Emperor is hovering in the darkness.
Mako being able to push in both there and Pyrrhus has to return both sides to try to cover it.
That doesn't mean that Vitality without full control of this both side and probably just get the Drake for free and let's fanatic.
Wanna try to make a play happen on mid with the Nocturne Orianna?
Again, a lot of squishy members but Lintas makes it so difficult for them to guarantee the play.
and guard. Also, Lenses in his own right. 1.6k gold lead. If they mis-deaf and body's too far forward, uses the shockwave on Karzy or Fleshy, still likely can turn that on his own.
That's going to be the Drake for free for Vitality. I'm not going to go picking up the red buff as well, level 15 now.
Building up towards that third item. Maybe a frozen heart? No, not a frozen heart. I mean the Force of Nature.
force of nature. Could be the item that he's looking for.
Right, mitigate. Some of that first thing we're coming through from Vladdy.
Slight secure from Razlok to at the very least get his own gromp. You can just see the sheer pressure that Vitality's putting out onto the riff right now. Top lane pushed in, bot lane pushed in.
Nakhnako is still hovering around. Something you have to be very careful of. As Nakhnako that you don't get collapsed on just because of how quick he is, or
Fnatic to do so by tartan a grouping of a mid playing this for one setup not wasting any time. They want to work on this tower
I'm an I put this really long range here trying to just poke out upset
That's not not goes doing the same pressuring both with the Herald as well
It's a master class right now in microphone vitality just pressuring two lanes
Getting these plates and playing their range playing their team clumps really well here so slow on side
They also, they see Bladdy top lane and they know Razzler really isn't that much of a threat without Bladdy in the area.
So they're free to just group up, force this tower out, while Knock Knock continues to accrue Blades.
Bot lane adds U-Highlight of Jack, so almost a 5,000 gold lead, even though we haven't seen any more kills in quite some time.
I like that Vitality just aren't relying on objectives to push the game forward.
They know that they're stronger, they just walk up towards the towers and they say,
Manic, what are you gonna do about it?
The answer is nothing.
Don't feel confident enough to force them to engage.
Vitality keeping them spread out, keeping their tank on the bot side of the map as well, makes it harder for that Sion to create that space that we were talking about, that frontline to just approach your enemies and garner what you need in order to find a good fight.
For now though, Vitality will reset, working towards their third items. You can see GA being worked towards by Lensis.
Also, that Armguard now picked up his Humanoid makes it that much easier for him to survive
once that knocked in Orianna combo comes through.
On the side of Fanatic, I feel like you're just waiting, praying for ups, as you hit that
third item.
Again, there isn't that big BP frontline, so outside of the Zin ult, so it has the
potential to just really tear through the opposing lineup in a team fight.
The thing is, with Nanko being so far ahead, normally we'd think that Narr is pretty
squishy, but it's level 16.
he's gonna have so high base stats that he's gonna be able to tank up a lot of
damage even though he hasn't built much armor. He's now looking to try to get this
tier 2, looking to chunk down on heroes. Not doing a whole lot of damage to the
side of the stage though, it's not dramatic, it's for lintso's.
This force will pull back. Emberos. Much more comfortable in the one. We want
obviously still losing big chunks of health in these trades but not enough to
force him out of the lane.
Vitality though, this pressure just means that they have,
and will have probably full control over the drake
if they want to keep this going,
but Pan is also one of the people.
They have in his ear, the Corky's powerful as well.
This is something they can rush down really quickly.
They're not risking it.
Karzy going for the rapid fire as well,
really playing into their long range kind of poking style
that they've been doing really well in the last few minutes
with Humana and Karzy at the front.
And as long as they don't group up and give a two-man Nocturne-Oriana combo, it's really hard for Rassler to justify pulling the trigger.
Because if he goes in and he doesn't get both, we've seen it before. They just don't have enough damage, not both carries are hit by the combo.
So tricky to navigate this one is Vitality just continue to at least hold on to that 5k gold lead.
Of course, one to Drake spawns. It's easy to expect him to have that setup to get a third Drake, Mountain Drake as well.
That's much more tanky for the Nocturne Orianna combo, now the Sterex so...
Now it's a hard boy to kill.
Hardly, pretty far out.
Octane Orianna.
Gee, that's the combo. Flashback go!
To mess up the combo, that means Karthus can be able to pull this off.
Razor is now running for his life.
Tied away across the entire team, looks for the disengages.
Linsons tries to find the kill on the upset.
Flashback from upset to dodge the rocket.
He's a full retreat from Fnatic.
All the out from Mbrose, but Nocturne on the chase.
Does it quite at the angle for the middle mount? Yes, he does. Looking for a bit more flash in. Not sliding the wrong way. No!
Oh, he just hit him with the fade away! Brows it back, hits him with the crowd, finds the kill.
A beautiful return from Vitality as Fnatic throw everything to try and get that kill onto Kha'Z. W used flash, used.
He's able to get far away enough to prevent Fnatic from finding that one more combo.
And on the re-engage, Vitality pick apart Fnatic.
Kako is just so damn strong in these teamfights, he can just run them down and whip them.
Vitality are going to pick up the Nash as we watch this fight back and starts off with a good engage from Rassar.
He gets the ult, he ulted the flash, because with the Flash of W, he's able to avoid Orianna ult,
and then the fight's already lost for Fnatic, and wins with Flash, he's on the outside,
Upset's able to get out, and Fnatic, all of them are forced to flash away.
The only one who doesn't have it is Bladdy, as he also tries to flash, but not for much as it hits him with a fade away Q.
And that means natural vitality and Fanatic are scapuring to try to get this dragon before vitality full up
With my tower already here knock knock has got that rage bar stacked the ulti available again Fanatic
Maybe feeling that this is a last stand and they continue to linger around waiting for that fight the choke one
But now there's the seekers two fights in a row they're engaged is thwarted knock knock on the flag and all of Fanatic
Immediately retreating they see that Megan are coming the pushback is there the knock of is there something getting further as
Emperos is running for his life, drifting for his life.
Vitality in the end will grab the Drake.
As Emperos runs for the hills, Brasovic already down.
Even though it is hunting, he wants one more kill.
Emperos, there's no FU to go, buddy.
These towers are still alive.
He's going to try and get some thought
but they're barren if powered.
He'll get one of the CS.
But the dragon will fall in favor of Vitality.
Another fight in favor of Vitality.
And Fnatic's combo just isn't connecting.
Yeah, the Nocturne-Oriana, the combo keeps getting distorted here as Qnoyd had the Zonias.
They weren't able to actually get any damage onto him.
And we're really seeing the weakness of Nocturne-Oriana in real time.
If you don't get a combo, it's really deep by winning that you're left with the Nocturne
that doesn't do anything, and Noriana without ulti, it's just so hard to win fights like that.
And Credit Talonso is coming into this game.
I said that I felt like he would have a lot of buckets that he would need to carry
But he's done a fantastic job
He really has found a lot of great early game ganks and a lot of these fights his ultimate has been really key at
Providing peel and protection so that once that shockwave does come through
It's hard for the rest of fanatic to then follow up a one one six scoreline for him
But involved of seven of the teams ten kills remember that not not go got a solo kill and top lane
Erding his ability to contribute to all of the kills, but overall a very solid game one
mentality
of course to burn a lot there.
And it's going to be the old sea out of the equation
and vitality continue to siege.
It feels like the game over four minutes until Sol
and then people for vitality.
But with another 40 seconds on this bear
and they have one more wave, they're
going to need a little bit more before they can close it out.
But Fanatic, again, the Zonjas
is going to be up and available.
One more combo lands perfectly.
They can claw their way back into the game,
but they are so far away from winning this.
Their only real target is Karci and Fleshy.
That's why Knoco is so damn tanky and humanoid has the zonias.
And Lynsus as well as the GA and the ultimate to buy a lot of time.
So they really need to get a pivotal engage.
Schiffman and Karci make a comeback in this game.
But it's a 9000 gold leaf.
The only person that has a sliver of a lead is Upset on the side of Fanatic.
Even then, he doesn't really have the opportunity to auto-attack too much
into the range of this Vitality Team composition.
It's a uphill battle.
Blue buff taken away as Knock Knock just continues to chase,
building towards a wits end, just for a bit more tenacity alongside the stairs gauge.
Confident itemization to be certain.
But overall you're so right, I think it's just so impossible for Upset to play.
Linz as we've seen in a couple of fights now just dives into the back line in the second.
Then I try to go for this exact play as Humanoid again goes golden,
told them but now the fall of knockup is here. They find Innocent Knocked by a human or they just don't
have the damage to pursue that health bar. The healing man with the carries is already
in the position to hit whatsoever with his finally forced to flash away as Bradford
drops the vitality now pitching for the re-stage. You're not able to find an angle for the shuffle
but it's Knocked Knocked on the bottom line who can just keep the pressure up while they trade blows.
Vitality using their range to chip away the HP bars off Fnatic. Knocked Knocked,
building up that rage bar looking for a flank. Fnatic realizing that they have to retreat.
There's no wave right now for Vitality to play off of.
Maknako going to do what he can, but here comes the wave he needs.
The fanatic knew that Humanoid had the zone,
and some wrestlers can play, and they still want to go for it.
It ends up being too little, too late,
as now Karse is able to push in this midway.
Good, good, that was a close set up.
Seems to have stood up here as well.
As is Flash.
Flash forward, one more auto.
It's a shot down for the upset, a little bit more moving through.
The fleshy on the way out, now it's Naknako flanking,
and lost, but so damn low.
No upset for mana either and for us trying to be the hero get a little bit more space for his bottom lane is upset
Lock the R on their tree two-man knocked up lost with not gonna have access to the left stone well spotted by fleshy
His lost was forced to all himself still rooted down humanoid to pick up that deal by cowdy running fanatic down the cost for killing
Karzy just continues to increase
Not always the rate of all the fanatic got the bro. He walks up and forces the rest of fanatic members back
They're gonna pick up the inhibitor the spite Karzy's death
The gold lead now nearly 11,000 for vitality.
That's Racer goes for another play on the humanoid.
This five minutes on, yes.
Here there the good spell shield upset now following.
Cubanoid down fast and shut down.
Hey, the pick timing is quite good because 56 seconds on humanoid.
41 on the baron.
That objective will be up in time.
TP will available for humanoid, but Fnatic finding what they can.
The low cooldown of that knocked an ultimate later into the game.
to the game proving dividends has fanatic problems also pick now upset as well
getting the kill on the car see actually a 1.4k gold lead so he has four items LDR
infinity edge yes the crucial items that he really needs to carry this fight we
need to see a good nocturnal rihanna combo but there's definitely some life
back in this fanatic game they are but they're so slow getting back onto that
24 seconds of the objective and they're just now grouping on midway top
pushing against them because the inhibitor being down. This is going to be tricky for Fanatic.
The stakes were already high, but this is likely the fight that ends the game either way.
Excuse me, for Vitality, they're able to close it out. Fanatic holding on for dear life.
Can't even get Sol off of this. Vitality can turn to Baron, but I think they're happy to
take a fight here. And Burrow's doing his best to frontline. Knock knocko leading off on the
side. Toppo is here. They're taking their time to activate it, but what you also have
As a Seekers, pressing tab has not helped in this one.
As now, Razlok goes in to suddenly meet,
one more bite of it, one more time.
The pushback is held from humanoid Razlok running.
Emperor is taking down.
Karzy gonna kill after a kill, and Vitality
have done it at game one.
Knock, knock, go even TPs back to mid-lane
just to add insult to injury.
A beautiful team fight from Vitality.
As only Razlok is left standing to defend the base.
Nog-nog-gun, Humanoid are knocking them around.
A beautiful Seeker's stopwatch purchase from Fleshy.
Bates, Fnatic in.
Racer can't let me, they wanna find the combo,
but it's not there, and Vitality off of the back
of a brilliant game of Nog-nog-gun,
are gonna take game one.
Matt, they are aggressive.
Stop, Fnatic trying to make that combo work,
but it just felt like Vitality
was consistently one step ahead.
Never giving an opportunity for that big combo moment.
If we see shots on the side lane with knock knock go, let's hear what they have to say.
How was that game for you?
I mean, last kind of chill, because I solo killed the moment earlier, so he's the most kind of playable after, so last kind of chill is a good game for me.
Look what we made for you.
What do you think?
That looks cool, yeah?
That's really cool. So 8 solo kills already, how many more are you gonna have? How many total?
Eight more.
Eight more?
Pretty fair, yeah.
16. Love it. Thank you so much. Good luck in your second game. 16 solo kills maybe for Naknako.
Ilya Rosanov said he was going to get 50 goals. I know Dracos is getting that reference.
But what a performance from him.
He was absolutely insane in this game.
It's from start to finish, Naknako just took over in that topside.
I don't know, Odo, you were just looking on like, oh my god, this is like a dream position for a top laner.
Okay, listen, so this matchup is supposed to become good a lot later than that, you know?
So him getting that solo kill at level 4, it set him up for massive success because he even had
he even had the highest gold lead at 14 for top lane this whole season with around I think 2.2k
Is this supposed to happen?
No it's not, but it is the one window that he has where he can be oppressive on the mega nr timing
at level 3 but it's just he punished that window extremely well
and sure he put Empiros in a situation where it's do or die you know
Because, you know, at least he was playing San. He died, he got the good debt, he got some minions, it was okay.
But man, did he actually put this whole team on his shoulders.
But it also managed to deal with when he'd gone for like the call.
Like, it wasn't even like he'd gone for this hyper-aggressive start.
It was just going to be him going for the fight and making sure that it was all okay.
And I think that's what makes it the most impressive is, like, this was all done by himself.
Yeah. All about punishing those windows. It can be extremely effective.
And then we said, saw rather that Vitality, they played it a little fast and loose,
knowing that Gnar was in that top lane.
Well, the thing is, the world is your oyster, because he even took 4v5s, even 4v4, pretty much any fight in the game is good, because realistically, NACNACO got that lead, right?
But I haven't really seen him in that whole game because he was off doing some shenanigans on the side.
So that's kind of the pressure that he brings for Team Vitality, because we see Karzy at some point, you know, he doubles in, flashes in, does some funny things.
Oh wait, we'll see you later, don't worry.
I was gonna say, because Karzy had some whoopsies in this game a couple of times.
It's a bit more difficult.
But that's the safety net of a really good top laner because you feel like,
Oops, CEO, I just messed up.
I ran the game down, but Nak Nak was there to carry me, you know.
Maybe those are the comms, actually requested, or you requested to see the comms for that moment.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Let's see what he said.
Okay, we are looking.
Marek is going to...
We are looking to come on Marek.
We can still fight, maybe.
Look, look, look.
Oh, sound is there, sound is here as well.
Yeah, I come, I come, I come.
Go, speed, boost me, boost me, flash it.
Look at this, I'm baron, I'm maybe, I mean you win without me even, look down, look down
I'm here, over here, oh shit, oh my god, I thought we are winning hard, sorry.
I was feeling heroic play, well like, it wasn't.
Also, he's like, let's play it slow, he flashes it.
But it's also, you can kind of see the moment where he realizes it's going wrong and his face just drops all the time.
I love it, someone who's dead is just shot calling, like, go on that guy, it's fine, it's all good.
For me, I love the tunnel vision because this happens in pretty much everyone's game, we're like, oh, we're winning, we're winning hard.
And then you're like, what? We lost and then you look at everyone and you're like, oh my top laner was pushing top.
He wasn't really this far, but I would just play like he's dead.
But the mid laner was dead as well. He was like, who's going to follow up?
Sometimes you're really feeling hairy, you know that's just how it goes. It's true
There was also that catch on humanoid later. I actually thought maybe it's in the water
Listen, I saw a really crazy game yesterday
So I thought maybe Fnatic could have it or have to come back if they did that a few more times
And then you guys said as shocks. It's 10k gold
Yeah, cuz the thing is we look like you wanted to say something
Yeah, but it's okay. You can have this one. Okay. I will have this point, but
When you're hey, what are you seeing there?
Well, when you're thinking thinking gold up, that's why you felt like they had a chance to come back
Yeah, but
But realistically when you have this combo with the nocturnal arena combo
The thing that sets us up is not really the execution of it because sure, you know quirky
You know cars you outplayed it sometimes CW flashed away and they missed the combo
But it's how you get to this position where you can maximize the chances of the combo landing because there will be times
Where it misses and the way you get there is there being a heavy gold having more threats on your team
because Upset did become a threat, but the frontline just wasn't there because the
Emperor's fell behind so hard. So when realistically the only thing you have to
worry about is the Nocturne Orianna, well it becomes a lot a lot easier because
League is a game of you need to fight and isolate those threats because if the
frontline was there Upset would be stronger than all of a sudden you're like
oh shit I need to look at the Unara because she's gonna like bulldoze over us
the Cyanus they're making a lot of space you can't really do anything
but all of a sudden it's like we don't really care about those guys and it's just a combo.
Yeah, I do think though they drafted well into a potential Nocturne Orianna like these here has a dash makes it very easy for him to try and escape
Same you look at the corky and as you're saying like once you get ahead all these like luxury defensive items like sonys like a Nami
Onus in the middle of this game like you're so far
But it's like this is when you know it's all gone wrong
Yeah, and it was also the the dive to him from mid lane and raspberry like gets onto human rights finally and the son uses down
They like fear him for like five six seconds, and I think he lost like
20 HP, 30 HP.
You see the right of first selection there?
It's like the mosquito bird, you know?
Sorry, the right of first selection is also there.
Fnatic chose second in draft and Vitality chose blue side.
You're dropping some bombs today, you know, some knowledge bombs.
You said so, League is about isolating the threats
and then finding out what to do.
Earlier you said it isn't the case anymore
that there's one way or one correct decision.
There's currently probably two or three,
but you've got to at least pick one of them.
Damn, anything else?
Yeah, choosing counter pick versus knack knack is good because then he doesn't get to counter pick you and take over the game
Yeah, I think that's the best one so far. That's a good one, right there
And all seriousness though, this this could be the elimination for fanatic and I think the way we set it up
It's like they're up against it right there up against it internally in their org
But obviously that's not something that you want to take on to the rift
So give me a clear plan. They've got a ton of fans behind them
They've got the support of these people but yeah
They didn't need a better draft didn't need better first early games
Which was something that grabs was talking about a lot in the interview
I think it's it honestly from my perspective. It is just incredibly difficult
I think you got like strong combos that you should have been able to work through in that game that didn't go your way and
Mack Maco is having a field day in the top side in the team fights
Even like it kind of feels like carries he has to end or Fernanda can't get their moment
Right, they just doesn't seem to me like the coordination between like jungle mid support to take over the dirty stage
But if you want that I think you need to get lost fun to something like a Nautilus where you can just go point and click
We're hitting this guy just go like just make it as simple in that coordination as possible
And maybe you can find some of those early skirmishes to snowball out of control
I agree because it does look like when you look at the lanes there's more individual fire power on the side of
Vitality so this draft I'm not really looking at you know finding ways to win for Fnatic
But I'm looking at a way of how to minimize losses because yeah, it's rough
But realistically the one shining light that Fnatic did have was upset, you know
So if I look if I'm looking at this game
The only thing the all I'm putting all my baskets in the opposite bag because that's the one guy
Yeah, eggs and milk set. Oh my god. Oh my god bags. I mean sometimes you need extra space, you know
But everyone got my point
Yeah, it's over looking at upset for Fnatic to bring this back where will it just be that knock knock
I'll show once again. He's knock knock knocking on victory's door
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Eight solo kills!
Now they split the knock-up.
And you need to be able to knock up his d-sip around like it's hernace.
They're from lenses, and they're trying to pick up a fight.
And up to the end, push back, and knocked down by humanoid.
After killing Vitality, he's done it in game one.
Alright, I thought whatever Jack said last game was the rudest thing I'd heard all day,
but that was inscrutable.
Shout out to our video editing team. That was a ruthless edit. Someone singing TikTok over the top of the dead, getting clapped is...
Wow. Also, censoring Pete Diddy is wild.
What? That made it sound so much worse. This is the person's name. He's a despicable person, but he's just a dude.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, I thought this elimination should start.
Right, well, let's get into the draft. Shall we?
I've been told there's a lyric update to the song that includes the F-word, hence the censorship.
Thank you, sorry, Keshia, I was not familiar with your updated discography.
Respect. Anyway, we're about to get into the picks and bands for the second game of this very serious series, gentlemen.
Fanatic, look, they struggled in Game 1, it was a bit of a hot mess with the Orianna nocturne.
Nocturne is bait.
Nocturne is bait. I'm saying that. I want to see Rassort on a champion that when it goes in it doesn't just die.
And then we can start talking.
Well, the good thing is you're not gonna see Nocturne again.
That's true, yeah.
Let's see what the fans are this time around.
With Vi and Rumble already making it onto the board,
the barra's gonna be taken away.
Vitality are on blue side and have to first pick.
So the drag that's on the screen is gonna look normal.
Okay.
All I'm saying is, we've seen the jacks half of the jacks plank.
When do we see the plank half of the jacks plank?
Great question.
I think you're gonna have to talk to Preak about that one.
to get a bump.
I haven't even heard Betty, Betty's over here talking about getting 10 AP to Ari, he's
already on a mid-air through actually.
Banzin is D.F., just trying to make things happen.
Now the final ban comes out, it'll make a big difference, Nautilus taking away.
So they really want to limit simple engage options, the Vi, the Nautilus, Rumble as
well as the pretty company.
Rampiros.
Banz, is that why you ban Nautilus?
Probably right.
Yeah, I think in general range supports is usually what you're looking for.
No, I mean they were gone.
I mean they were gone.
That's why there's Niko, there's Bard.
I think Niko's not that bad into Naltis because you can always block with your W.
So yeah, I could definitely see Bard being priority.
He could also just feel like a target path.
Like I'm pretty sure they banned it in the last game as well.
But if you're going to ban like target ban, uh, Vostra, I feel like it's Alistar,
no?
Isn't that just the champion?
I think he's better on Malthus.
He's kind of Malthus Alistar, he's pretty good at life, but I do think he's
found more success at least in on the iPast when I've been watching him play on
the novelist all right well what's the first pick gonna be up fries rise not
Zach crazy shocking to many I mean now bloody will we see the anivia response
I feel like I've been seeing anivia to rise his pitch game to then anivia is
then picked in response to the rise where's my cassey I feel like how I
We've seen bloody play maybe I feel like I don't think of
Maybe as a blood chap at all bloody chump
I don't think so, but I feel like maybe something like the cast do instead
It's gonna be the s rule looked in for upset here. Okay wanting a little bit of range. I remember upset
As you're used to be his like go-to chap, right?
Yeah day I think I interviewed him back in 2016 when I was like a little baby caster
I wasn't on the broadcast yet about his Ezreal and Calista specifically back in the 2016 Challenger era
Yeah, he's a he's a big proponent of the Astral for sure and that's real good buff
Go to slight scaling buff. So a little bit better now on this patch
Body's always gonna be the Zonar champion so far this year. It's here to Leia
Orianna and the rise. So he's playing to Leia this game then. So I think he's playing to Leia this game based
Or he's picking something new.
Which would be exciting.
When does he bring in Victor back?
That was really good. Like, Victor is really good.
Definitely a tough champion.
I haven't seen it in so long now.
But by Talti, they need a jungler like...
What do they care about getting one now?
Looks like the answer is no.
They want Karma.
What do you think carries can you pair with Caitlyn?
Caitlyn and Karma?
I mean, Varus. Varus is Varmashe.
I mean, there's Caitlyn, Jhin.
Like, Caitlyn, Jhin, Varus, Astral.
Are the ones I usually think about when it's with Karma.
I think Jin here makes a lot of sense.
Also Kha'Zix.
It's pretty good into S-Roll.
You can always just clear waves and get push up against him,
and when you get pushed into S-Roll, you're a happy,
good butterfly.
Send the S-Roll camp line Q's on you,
and you have to Q the wave.
So I like this Jin Karma rotation.
The only thing is that you really need good frontline
and good engage from the top jungle in the 4-5.
We'll see what Panari decides to answer here.
Probably support pink,
because otherwise you enter second phase getting pinged.
Hey yo yo, Mundo's open.
open. Mock Mocko has brought it out twice so far this split. Oh, a Nibia game. Okay.
It's crazy how before I feel like when we would see a Nibia it would be like, what is
this? And now it's like, yeah, a Nibia. You can't see me over here putting on the boxing
gloves when this man next to you starts talking about bat Nibia in a bathroom. Yeah, that's
true. I'll find him to the death. We'll see what skin Vlady goes for in a true
Betty approved Arnold. As we enter the second phase here I want to see what vitality
That's sort of the main things I'm looking for because I do think they should try to invest in banning some of these supports out
Because this sawhand is a flex so it's really hard to target the jungler top
So if you try to target lozpa, would you ever put a blitz or a thrash with an ins?
Yeah, I mean thrash now, but blitz is decent the thing with thrash is like a lot of the reason you're picking thrash
Because the lantern and Ezreal doesn't really care about the lantern so much. Well blitz has pretty good kill pressure
There's also like pike if you want to go really crazy
But I think that should not pick Pike.
I think Pike has.
Why not? Why don't you think they should pick Pike?
It's very hard to execute, and after 15 minutes you're pretty much a cannon minion.
It's a short one.
Wow, I didn't know you're such a Pike, Hater.
Well, I love Pike in solo queue, but Pike in competitive, it's hard to win.
As we talked about earlier, there's two wins to win in competitive, and it's Drake's and Barron's.
And Pike helps you get the first one half Drake, and then not much else.
Okay. Well, Mundo is gonna be banned away, McNaco very much targeted in this draft. This time though,
Emperor should get the counter pick as support is likely gonna be locked in. Rakan and Bard I think are both fine options.
I don't think they're gonna give you much lane priority.
There's not much you can do here to really match the Jhin plus Karma in the bot lane 2 vs 2.
I think of the options listed, Alistar is probably my least favorite.
Alistar is decent because he gives sustain, he I think RL is the weakest, I think you either
want Alistar, Rakan or Bard to give some sustain up against the Conqueror, the lane is not the
greatest but at level 3 I'd pretty rough. I sit there and think to myself that Connors
is so good at keeping Alistar away, you know he has to almost always commit his flash.
It's just clearly comfort, right?
Lost this is third most play champion all time
and it's his first most played this year.
You said earlier, it felt like he was a Nile
without a search or two trick.
This is not dispelling that initial assumption.
So surviving lane phase feels like an incredibly
called task and maybe we see a game
with the Ezreal also locked in where they just
were being bought on an island and go somewhere else.
We're getting so high from up this back cover.
It's crazy.
It's going to be a cassado.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
And this could not be the second game we cast today with H-Rox-Cassante rise topside into a video, please.
Yep, yes it is.
Well, what we learned earlier was that you can get early leads, and then if you flip Baron and then lose it, the game becomes a lot harder to close.
Twice.
Yeah, twice.
I mean, we...
The good news is, Knock Knock on the Cassante isn't playing into a gnar, which is what we saw in our Hurts series, I believe.
What didn't do anything that a patterned Cassante did? It was rough.
Let's see if things are different, he's not not go piloting the Cassante remember?
I don't think that makes it easier to play against Anivia, but maybe it won't come down to that
There's a lot of nice rules there for them at a guy I really prefer to draft this game
as they have Jarvan into three immobile champions and the Karma, Jim and the Ryze
and they also have a tie-in and a five matchup up against the Cassante while having a lot
of range and a lot of disengage with Alistar, Astral and Anivia, really it's quite a severe
out draft I feel like, but that just makes me think something will go horribly wrong and
let that lay one.
You really have that much faith in Fanatic's draft.
I really like it, I feel like one they have so much synergy, just Astral and Anivia they
can both keep range so well, and Jarvan up against the mobile carries, he can play
play as this kind of non-committal engage. You can just ult the end and then EQ out.
There's so little CC on Vitality's lineup that it's really hard to lock anyone down
and most of the CC that there is relies on single target point and click with either
humanoid or fleshy. They do have winning lanes, like Ryze can get push and Karzy and
fleshy will get push as well. So that was going to be my counter item. The Vitality
We have just winning lanes.
And if we skip the lane phase, anything can happen!
Let's go, game two!
I agree with your comment, Alistair Jack.
But I too am concerned about the lane phase.
Because this is the other thing.
Like, Gregor, so you still got that graphic.
Which one?
The early game stats one.
The knock knock one?
Do we want to talk about that one?
No, no, no, no.
The great one.
The fanatic early game stats one.
Oh, this one.
I mean, it's not updated, right?
We have to wait for KitKat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because hopefully you've already had your break,
because now we're getting into the game.
The lead coming into the series fanatic were 12th in every early game
They do now have a first dragon. That's true. They're still 12
But the number is no longer zero so this comes back to my early game
Yeah, which is that sure in terms of that comp later on to the game
I see the vision that you're trying to sell me. Yeah, my concern comes from the early veining phase
Where right now I feel rise should be able to get the push against the Nivea early on
Jin karma feels
horrible for Alistair Ezreal to play into and top lane having top lane to whatever
and that's not not good as it's not not working. I mean the thing is Ezreal can farm with Qs but it
is gonna be rough. I do want to poke your mind though Betty. What do we think about this Anivia
skin in this game? Is it approved? It's one of the best Anivia skins. Oh yeah absolutely. Can we
show Midlanders to the people there? Look it's Eagle Anivia. He's been spending too much time
watching. So wait wait let me just get this straight. So Anivia you were so mad that
that she was a fat correct but she can be an eagle and that's fine yeah because
you're still under the bird family yeah absolutely so it's a fact that it's a
mammal that upsets you what is a bat a mammal excuse me is it's a battery
about it's going on with the wealth education system is that a bat is a
mammal yes I feel like I'm being gassed one of us to be gassed
production we can burn it's a mammal it has to be production we're gonna be
confirmation because bot lane is to be doing already Razork on the way down
a Jarvan classic, the early gank to the bottom side, hoping to force the flash.
And you make it!
Oh, no!
That's our first blood!
Just go back to the tried and true Fnatic, gank, box, lane.
The flash committed from Mosba, the wave is in a good spot.
They get first blood, Fnatic is on the board.
And where's your early gank, Betty?
Oh, you needed us a little gank, and that solves all the problems for Fnatic here.
As Upset picks up and assists he has to wave in a very nice spot that he's gonna build the CS lead for himself
Razzle gets the first blood, so he feels nicely about that investment even though he's really delayed in the jungle clear
Not not cool. I mean the downside for Razzle is that a lot of time was spent making this play happen
It is a full bot side play into a heavy commit bot lost but with a nice flash hold rise into mark back
And then razzle with the follow-up and predicts the flash
Yeah, that was nice impressive from razzle. I feel like we forgot how good he is
What's up, Evelyn? That was sexy
That's almost as crazy as the fact that you didn't know that's for mammals was confirmed by production their mammals
I guess myself they don't lay eggs
Do you guys ever bat eggs?
I dunno
Already got it. Uh-oh. Radler now is definitely in trouble. That's a Q3 going in.
Nice stun going from Bladdy, but leaves his jungler.
Now this is good to kill back.
And all of us are needed was half a second more to be able to flag it drag out.
But that's the cost he paid for that bot gank in using the flash.
Juminot and Linsus both flashing to get that kill.
And Linsus got the red buff as well, so Radler is probably second guessing.
It's that bot lane gank was actually worth it.
I think that for his bot lane, it definitely feels worth it, but Lensis now getting a bit of an edge over his jungle counterpart.
As he's gone back to full clearing through the jungle, Razork will have to go to bot crab and get that.
Fortunately his bot camps are spawning those crugs yet to be taken though, so he is going to be behind on clearing those camps.
This is Knock Knocko Q3 ready to go, and for us...
He was doing much better in the 1v1 than he was in the first game.
Of course, it was complete and total domination from Knock Knocko.
Really, the most important kind of defining lane for that game,
just as his lead was, just in case you missed it,
uh, yeah, he's probably the 14th.
Definitely won't be repeating that this game.
And one might even question the thoughts of my thoughts.
He's a put Knock Knocko on that.
He gets off the peak after that first game.
I mean, let's not forget that on this Cassante pick, he did solo kill Merewind twice.
Fair enough.
Yeah, so it's like, he is just a pretty well-rounded top laner, I feel.
We'll see what impact he can have because Razzle, he was able to get something back.
I believe he did steal away those wrappers on the bot side,
moving now back into his bot side jungle.
Of course, there is still a 300 gold difference that's coming off the back of that kill,
but then he's able to get onto Razzle in the enemy jungle.
Five minutes in, one-to-one in kills, Dragon is now alive,
And it is in this early portion that we start to see these junglers selling their sides on it.
You can see neither one of them having their upgrades might just yet
be getting very close to that point.
You can see though the real reward of Racer's early gank was the spotlight.
The fact that Upset is still equal in CS, even a little bit ahead,
really goes against what we were worried about with this gina.
Harma, at least with damage from Vladimir.
Oh, the key auto, Blatty!
Blatty finds a solo kill, and life is being spurred on into Fnatic.
Linz is though it's here.
Have a full right combo.
Linz is waiting in the brush, anticipated this moment.
Last one gonna fall.
A beautiful bait by Vitality there.
The bait loves playing by walking up.
He thinks it's a good combo, but Linz is sitting behind.
He ends up falling.
A kill over to Karzy.
Still though.
Really good solo kill by Vladdy and as you've said, Vladdy,
finally feels like we have some life in this fanatic lineup.
I mean, it's one of those things where every time Fanatic gets something,
Linsus is getting something back formed by Taliti.
He finds a punishing enemy jungle, he finds a gank in the bottom lane,
1-0 on the scoreline, he gives the kill over to Karzy as well.
By Taliti, going toe-to-toe with Fanatic in this early game at the very least.
Yeah, and a big blow up from Linsus, right?
Game 1 against M4, he felt like a demon.
Game 2 we built a little bit lost on the map, a little bit dizzy.
This game, despite APROX not being the greatest ganker in the world,
has been where he's needed to be.
Two times now, 100% kill participation is not going to have going all out on to Emperos,
but not confident enough to push for the dive is Fanatic trying to grab their second
first break of LEC versus.
It's a good looking, it's a good starting.
I'm going to be honest.
Nothing has given me more hope for Fanatic than a level three Razort gank with mechanical
skill expression, and Ladi solo kill on a control mage, that's the first try.
We've been waiting for Ladi to show up this split and this could be very well the start
of it.
Getting a solo kill onto Humanoid is massive in the matchup, getting accelerated is always
a nice thing to be when you are this manna stacking champion, tier very much on it's
way, pretty much identical with that of Humanoid, now the grub is 30 seconds away, both
junglers on the bottom side of the rift, it could mean that they're looking for
a play but look at all this vision that's littered around here you can see wards pretty
much absolutely everywhere for Fnatic into these entrances while Vitality themselves tried
to control the tribrush. Lost by using this vision control to look for a roam up to mid.
Lash is available on humanoid. As he moves into the fog of war himself keep your eyes
on that top side of the rift. Has the round warp available?
Spots out the red buff or Rassort and now we're going to look to clear down this pink ward in the dry bush.
Rassort can body wants to try to invade this red buff here.
And he can steal Vexus, I think knows it, because he's just immediately running up to the grubs.
He's going to look to steal those away.
Good read on the situation once it's as you highlight it.
Moving up immediately to take grubs. Doesn't stop the red buff from getting paged,
perhaps he can steal one back and return to dive.
On the other hand, something that has to be respected,
Respect to be the Global Champion. Flash already burned from Karzy. Fleshy's Flash burned as well.
Now again, the re-engage is here. They know Karzy is locked up.
I'm happy to pick that kill.
Oriana to Razor. Not a single member of Phenanical Falls.
And I love this girl.
Oh, Senpai, watch the dive.
Wait, how did he die?
He took Agro on the way out.
Oh, oh, wait, but he should...
What?
He should not have died.
Well, he did. That's his body.
Thank you, sirs.
Yeah, I just...
That was a one-for-one.
And that is surprising.
That is surprising, but I want to just still complementatic if I've got a bit stunned look here.
Like, really good productivity by them. They go for the red buff invade and they realize that
LuneSus has realized that they've gone for the red buff invade and that he's going to go for the grubs
so they know that they have a number so that they should actually dive them on bot lane.
They force both flashes and then they kill them. Now we watch the replay here.
I love tonight's execution. They force both flashes.
Clashes most of the nose parts is gonna watch so he doesn't you right after the W
Then he gets to pulverize and then the minion
He thought that the meaning would get in range of the title so that you wouldn't actually get the aggro, but
Maybe I'm so good with that one more as well. I mean
And in a game early game where you've been this proactive you're allowed to have upsies which is good news for fanatic
Absolutely. I mean if that it supports are no strangers to oopsies. That's true
Following the hill assign routes. Yeah, the Mickey route. I mean, and Joe, now this is what I showed about C.C.
Anyway, maybe that's what you need to be good support, to be honest. Oh, absolutely.
I've seen that before, I've seen that one, so.
A few minutes ago, I saw the informant, Ryan, knock knock out. He does have a 20 CS lead, by the way.
Yeah, we looked away. It seems like everyone fist fighting on the rest of the map really gave him some time to do what he wants.
upset nice little read on the queue I need to know what they're feeding like
knock-knock or like how does he keep doing it it's just so consistent he's
doing a thing again he's going all out
Emperor is now unstoppable but unfortunately the animation is so long on that ability that
knock-knock got the re hits him with the powered pathmaker however that wave is
really bad for Emperor as well you've just lost your flash the wave is
pushing against you like the insta recall from knock-knock on knowing that the
wave is in a good spot for him, he has the TP will he commit it?
It's like he's going to.
If that Q3 hits from Nak Nakko.
Oh that was a kill.
That was a soulful kill.
Yeah.
Just this pressure, I mean you saw Nak Nakko when he's up against the tank, he's stomping
them in lane.
Now he's playing the tank and he's stomping you in lane.
Really incredible performance from Nak Nakko in the series.
Definitely true.
Vanatic trying to fight back by continuing to go bot.
Again.
is kind of what we wanted to see. Waving cleared very quickly by vitality. The
Rallads are already here. They know there's no flash available. Lasva
locking them all in now. Lasva might be a couple of years going to ball, but they're
going to get two back in return and that's still very big in favor of Fnatic.
Yeah, a worthwhile dive from Fnatic as they continue to attack the bottom lane.
This is the Fnatic from last year. This is the Fnatic that was able to
get third place twice and spring in four.
They invested into upset.
They gave him the resources.
The only downside is the upset's not getting the kills,
but at least Ladi is.
Yes, and a team that always seems to find his way back
is Vitality trying to make a play of their own
on the topside, looking to lock on them for us
before he gets that pass of down and they will succeed.
I mean, it's a fanatic we know and love,
but Vitality are firing back on the topside
and Linster seems to be matching Ress of pound per pound.
He's going to be able to pick up this drake and it's two dragons now for fanatic which feels great
But they can knock knuckle is that becoming that raider boss
And he was in that game one with now a thousand gold lead built up at 12 minutes
Is he getting the tower as well? Like is that the trade they're making tower for dragon?
I can't imagine that Cassante is killing this top tower particularly quickly
So he doesn't even have the sheen proc to accelerate the process
It's gonna be Hextech's soul.
Gonna tickle it.
Nope, he's not gonna take time to hit it.
Oh, he has Stormnail, so he has Tower right around here.
But he will get this plate, I think.
Yup, four plates.
Money in the bank.
Well, 1.2K gold lead for him.
I mean, he doesn't beat his previous PR last game.
I'm 2K, but still.
Not a slacking, have you asked me?
Only a meager 1.1K gold lead.
Definitely feel like a bit of a privileged position to be evaluating on how big the gold lead is
Well now on the bright side Emperor's beating his personal record against knock-knock-o
There's always a bright side. I know that there is Karzy finishing the storm razor ups
It's still lagging behind a bit as he didn't have to stop off for the tier
Hopefully doesn't have a cold of his own but the 24 is gonna be a big spike
We're all completed for both mid laners and glad he is
Let's see what he can do in the coming fight Tuesday or one good spot to be
They live in this bottom side.
This time though Vitality is ready to match a little bit more firepower of their own.
Realm Warp not available for humanoid as he's spotted on this line quite upset.
I like this contest though from Finansi. Not being afraid of fighting for the red buff.
Branzok though getting around.
Nice interrupts on the flag and drag as Winston's debating if they want to start this fight.
Bucky just continuing to poke humanoid off the side.
They're going to get the ulti at the very least out from Lost Blood.
Exchange for Karzy's ulti.
Osprey's off the last thing long enough to help him walk away to safety
burning that tool to protect Razork as he makes his way out
Oh, I got the red buff at the end of that play
You can see that
Now this is supposed to keep it going and try to get enemy red buff as well
Osprey's coming though with the Hextech Turtles he's very fast
Knock knock and get this top lane tier one in the meantime
Making it that much easier. Level 12 to level 10.
Just pick over the level 11.
He's nearly at the 2K Gold lead.
He's going to be careful.
He's slowly getting back on schedule.
He'll be a slightly delayed as he works towards an Iceborn Gauntlet second.
So a nearly infinite amount of armor,
which for everyone but Bladdy is going to be infuriating a play against.
It's two level lead, nearly 2K Gold,
and just the traits are unwinnable for a hero.
The heroes doesn't even have Triforce yet.
and knuckle is on the precipice of two items maybe only good news for him
bros never mind I don't think you could get a cat maker he's absolutely just well
knuckle can't quite get in range he's having that
not not what I don't know I think you knew that if you went you could potentially
collapse on and trade one for one I don't think he cares he's a lot of
The damage is towering now.
Nako?
Nako, this is like, speechless.
How is he building such a big individual lead?
This is a great single get.
47, yeah, it's a different difficulty, no doubt about that.
It's definitely a bit of a rough one.
It's something that Fanatic are trying to balance out,
but Karthi despite all the dives
that have gone down on the bottom side,
only Vladdy has a gold lead
compared to his laning opposition.
I'm trying to get them in at 40 away.
One point for an I can get it in a tax-tax soul.
Yeah, and the...
Yeah, you're the AD carry main, right?
Yeah.
You probably played a lot of Ezreal.
How many Qs do you reckon it'll take to kill Narknako?
All of them.
Is Narknako allowed to use spells and move?
Yeah.
Oh.
Right.
What if he's not allowed to use spells?
He's not using spells, maybe like 40?
Oh.
But if he's using spells and then he dodges, I mean, then it's a little harder, right?
I see.
That does sound good.
That does sound good.
That does sound so annoying to Harold.
Yeah.
He is.
Oh.
Just another Tuesday for him.
So, Lintas was complaining in this in-game that he had to do too much of knock knock
over.
He's not hearing it in this game.
I can jungle a bit.
It's not fine.
I'll jungle a bit.
You need a face check.
All right.
I got you.
Well, it is fanatic with good control around the dragon as the Harold is secured.
Of course, they gave Harold two knock knock over.
I mean, who else would you give it to, right?
I mean, powers belong to him.
He's the CEO. Yeah, he comes to the room you laugh whatever his joke is you laugh
Bloody clearing out that Broadway of lincis
Oh, he's speedy heading towards razzle
But this is where the value of an if you really starts to shine controlling your spaces later into the game makes it much harder
For this composition to play in ultimately we're at the point that Jack was so enthusiastic about what it came to
Phenastics composition. Yeah, but okay. Well, I wasn't expecting top length to look like this
I thought that Pyrrhus would be winning into the tank, but now it's...
Come on, let's talk about the comp!
The good things, the good things!
They have a lot of range, and they have a lot of disengage, and they can really slow down vitality, and tight them back.
The problem is, they're up against a brick wall in McNuckle that will just ignore all of that, and click forward, and they'll take any damage.
He's showing some respect.
Okay, I'm counting. We hit one Q out of the 40 necessary.
Well, that's an auto.
The HP bar is still full.
Still full.
Knock, knock, go going to the side.
He's drawn the arrow so he can ride into the team.
That's psychotic. Knock, knock, go.
Now onto the Pathmaker.
Managing to connect on two.
May just go out as lost.
Looks for a bit of a disengage.
Knock, knock, go going up.
Though means he's a little bit more vulnerable.
Upset retreating.
Knock, knock, go.
Effectively unkillable as the curtain call now comes out as well.
Well, Blotty, someone needs to body block the egg coming in at the very least.
Blotty now riding into the entire team!
Emberos reviving!
It's absolute chaos, but it's chaos that looks like it's favoring vitality or not!
They're turning back!
They're turning back over, but it's running out of mana!
It's the revives from Fnatic with the Zahem and the Anivia
that buy them so much time to actually play the teamfight.
Nobody died?!
Nobody died.
As Jack was saying, Fnatic, they did burn the egg.
They did turn the region
Knuckles the rate both is back and he's back to full HP
This one
Gladdy off the side isolated Karzy
Karzy's about to get taken out knock knock. I'm gonna try to solve the entire team as he and lances go back to back
Karzy man giving his legs on her ass they can take this one down in the end
They managed to steal away the great lances clutching the spiders at the rest of the hill
Akbar trying to turn, trying to take them out of our kinship, just in time to get upset over the walls.
He wants to poke back, he wants to finish the kills, but humanoid's arrived to the party and Fnatic can't have to walk away.
They don't get to break, but they do kill Khorzi.
The Inivya doing so much work in the river there, finding the kill onto Khorzi,
slowing that Raccoon and Linsus down and stopping them from following up on anything else.
The dragon ends up going the way of vitality, but Fnatic, using their range to devastating effect.
Yeah, Roddy having a really good game, finding Kar-Z, already had a five-flung from an earlier fight,
and getting him down and one-shotting him, but Nautilus just stole with that unkillable,
he's able to take down Rassort, wins the smites the dragon to pick it up,
and you just see Nautnaut goes tanking Estrel Q, Estrel Auto, Estrel Q,
and Nautnaut goes tanking everybody still, fighting in mid lane, and both of them...
And they're all B4 and Stout, Lost Buds, about to run away on the Unbreakable Whale at that phase.
They just do enough damage to finish the kill, now mid lane tower explodes, they'll knock down the tier one as well.
I mean look, but is it that Nakmako is a one-man army in this game?
Absolutely, carrying Vitality through the finish line.
Man, what a performance.
It's Vitality now, looking to get this standing gold on the out of towers.
The bot one is finally going to fall as Humanoid will pick up that gold.
Vlad is doing his best to cross map by pushing on towards that top tier one.
But it looks like he's not gonna be quick enough to secure it.
The raid boss has made his way back to his home in the top lane.
Yeah, I mean, that tower is still pretty damn healthy
by Taliyah holding onto a 4.3k gold lead.
Okay, and I will say, we brought this up when we talked about comps
and based on the game where we saw this exact same topside play against Nivia.
If Naoko doesn't find a flank,
why can't she just like drop a wall or an ult and suddenly...
Literally, because something can actually just can't do anything.
That's true. All sides want to say it's so funny. You guys talked about how it was the same topside
But this time you guys were like it's not not going to something and I think it was you drank us to said
Well, I don't mean anything. It's because something is this coffee get to anything. He can do something. Okay
What do you want?
Really like turn into Thanos, bro. I don't know what you want. How am I supposed to predict this?
Oh, he's time. Oh, he didn't turn into anything. He just is you were also very surprised and impressed by the lead
I am. I am Mind Bluffer.
Andrew Day is my lawyer. How do you feel about this?
He's a flip flopper. He reminds me of Raz. That's what I'm thinking.
I don't know how that'll hold up in court. Thank you, lawyer.
I can already see Raz tweeting at me right now.
Raz, you're a flip flopper.
I am no flip flopper.
Uh-oh. Raz off.
Raz off the way to talk to him. Go find a flag.
If I don't be all he needs, hold back into the team.
No time to flag.
Oh, it's a Baron, isn't it?
It's a Baron by Paladins.
Start it up. No jungler from Panatic.
They're gonna have to try to contest the 4v5.
Imperial's has the TP.
If Laby was gonna clutch up now, the time to do it,
the wall is so powerful in this Baron pit.
They used the ult, might have a different space.
Mpros on the way and Losta goes for an initial combo,
they think they're looking tough.
Losta's ult already burned, and Humanoid is sprinting.
Into the back line.
Karzy zoning, objective getting lower and lower,
you highlighted it. No jungler here. Resistances are shredded. Loss would go again. Helping to find
Karzy. It should be a quick kill onto him. It's a help bar just to put the shred into the Baron.
He's already propped. It's humanoid. Completely untouched allowed now to do whatever he wants.
Emperor is also able to escape the fight. Not too bad for Fnatic, but they've lost the Baron.
They can get some kills. It still was a hit across.
I'm a Falunca. Follow up there, Lensis.
A little snipe on the way out. It's not that though.
So my finally fall, 40 Q came through, a little bit of ice as well to seal the deal.
And it's a shutdown and it's an important one, but Vitality walk away with the Baron.
You can see on the top left of your screen, the Baron power play so far with Vitality in the negatives,
Fnatic taking every single kill that they can get to stall for longer to hopefully bounce back in this game.
And it starts off with Nautnato climbing the take on Taras or he gets to W,
walks around him and gets to ulti, which allows him to start this match,
And Fnatic, they're not able to really connect the damage before the Nash gets chunked like they'd really want to.
Like, my Paladir are able to continue keeping going without Fnatic climbing the post.
And then they do the re-engage, mostly gets on the Karse, but Empyro's ends up getting so chunked in the backline
that he's not able to continue chasing them.
And it's really... Fnatic are on the precipice of getting so many more kills.
They could have gotten Juminoid, they could have gotten more.
That's not a rapid clutch, you know.
Cataclysm to follow, but should just be dead.
Pull back from the puros, is there.
Ruffin Blade connecting, is...
Consists, not gonna have an angle to keep the fight going.
Wait, it's a four pick, but it just kind of...
Slows the Baron, I guess?
I mean, it can still take it.
I mean, when you're this far behind, they're looking for more picks.
They think they found Linsus, but not quite.
And Dragon's spawning, that's the big prize there for Fleshy's kill.
Right, but she's right on the left.
Or with the stun, looking for another solo,
Bolo has him locked down in the head of the shut down for Fladi!
But Knock Knockle and Lincis now ready to go back to back 2v4 in the pit bringing Fragore back over
before dumping him down with the Q3. It's an absolute conol away upset running. Knock Knockle and Lincis refusing to die as the smite goes in their favor.
The darking blade losing out to the darking blade and certainly to the blades of Knock Knockle and Lincis making a montage.
The whole team being pushed back. Another kill there for Nakhnaco. The extended fight just continues to favor them as they run for that account.
Is there anything Nakhnaco cannot do?
He gets Rassort out of the pit and secures another drake for Vitality when it looks so dire for them.
And not just that, him and Linsus are unkillable in this teamfight.
That's hard to do. You have to get somebody too excited again, but it's fine.
They'll take the tower, they'll take the dragon.
Vitality are taking Fnatic apart.
Fnatic last year consistently fought for the top four
and now they're looking to get eliminated in playoffs against Vitality.
It's a 4 vs 2.
Like how are they able to pull this off?
Narknok was able to fake him over the wall
and then at that point Karzy can join with the Ultimate
and even though Vladik PPC is too little too late
And the rest of Fnatic are just left running.
I can't believe this carry for McNaco.
McNaco is giving a new definition to the term right, Boston League.
Asi is just putting Vitality on his back.
Linsus, his partner in crime right then next week.
Linsus, that was out of by the way.
That was out of. I'm going, I'm going.
Look, look, look, I see him.
Absolutely guys, the point is Q.
It's important like a lot of credit, of course, to McNaco.
But Linsus, right by his side.
Level 15, 504 scoreline right next to him.
This is your nightmare.
Upfed, 8 procs in Cassante.
Absolutely.
It's like they shouldn't be on the same day.
Yeah, 1 procs now at 20-26.
Get hooked up for the bottom side of the map.
You can have 2 at double inners now.
One is unkillable in the sense that he takes no damage.
The other is unkillable in the sense that he heals all of the damage that is dealt to him.
It's a full tank Cassante that's done the most damage to champions.
Like
Regardless again silver linings bronze lions iron linings whatever we want to call it for dramatic
We've seen what a good fight can look like it just feels like it's getting further and further away also
no one has built healing reduction and they have no ignite and it's a lot to
ask someone to spend 800 gold on a healing reduction item but it's really
important oh yeah you can see that upset does do some damage I was surprised
there that upset was the one who dashed over the wall and not rass art but like
a bit of a role reversal there but as you say buddy upset does have a lot of
damage it's just it's hard to make that damage stick and actually finish off
the tanky front line of vitality with Narknarko and Linsus, but Vladdy has also had a really stellar game
and it will feel so tragic for Fnatic after such a good early game
to lose this especially like this.
I mean they've had some hero plays. We've seen Vladdy's solo kill, Humanoid twice this game now.
He also caught Karzy out in the river.
He's been playing the Anivia well, but unfortunately it's just not enough when Narknako and Lensis are
staring him down. The GA finished on this Atrox, just adding insult to injury, giving him so much more survivability.
And for Fnatic, I think many fans didn't have high expectations of them coming into this year with the changes that they made,
but for them to be knocked out like this,
I mean, it's going to be a disappointment to many, especially the players on Fnatic.
Especially when we finally see some of the things you're waiting to see for so long, this level of efficiency,
glad you pointed the pod side to such an extreme degree, Razzler, fully ganks.
Ultimately, not enough, or at least has not been thus far.
And especially to all the fans who came out here today,
supported the players.
You really want to see them pick up a win and bounce back and show that this new roster that they made for 2026 can be a success.
Nah, I mean, Shad absolutely didn't have a cramp. They brought nothing but energy today.
Trying to cheer the boys on. Of course, the game not over yet. We've seen games
thrown with bigger leads than this before.
But real cool.
I mean, I'm pretty sure we saw Giant Xthrow exactly six or seven K Gold lead just earlier today.
I don't know. Now, the Baron is up.
Cairn Ranzel maybe find a steal. Maybe a pick is all they need. That could be enough.
Vitality setting up shop in Fanatic's topside jungle.
A little bit of split pressure coming out for Emporos in the bottom lane.
Match sum up by the split from Humanoid.
I just have the attention to drive him.
Power picked up at the very least.
No one mitigating the lead.
There's lots of foam on the lenses.
Knocked Nautra though now in melee range.
Absolute nightmare territory for Fanatic.
Come up to the wall down to keep the stand out of their backline.
They're going to do so he's going to kill everybody.
They went knock knock going to the backline.
I'm trying to run, he's killed up still already!
You can't let this man near your team, he's gonna take you down!
Razor is running!
Oh no, it's a huge mistake by Upset.
He eased forward and pale flashes over the wall.
And with that, it's gonna be the Baron Nashor for Vitality.
And you have to heal for him.
He wanted to play aggressive, he wanted to pressure Vitality
and get some damage on the frontline, they're gonna cost him everything.
He's pushing through the wall, he's getting cold all the way through.
It's Grim Deliverance, but there's a lot of just a car in the way there so the walls might not work out with the wall.
I mean not now though all game has been using his special passive walk ominously as he has just approached the enemy at every opportunity, steadfast, unperturbed.
He's going in on that! He's not done! Why wouldn't he?
He's going to continue to walk ominously towards the die.
He's figured out the counter play though. He just dropped a wall on him.
I'll slow him down, but for how long? Level 17 on the Kassante, the dragon started off
This one we saw, but it'll be 3-4 vitality
And it feels like this game is done and tested. Fnatic will need a miracle to turn this game around
But for vitality they're not gonna make their way through the lower bracket
Project game for Fnatic wasn't their hands. They got the first two drakes
But Magnako and Linsus put on an absolute clinic
And it really, really carried vitality and a great bounce back after that game two versus Koi, which left, you know, that's kind of the sour taste in your mouth.
It felt like Vitality playing short where we had them in terms of expectations.
Now we'll see how far they can go in the lower bracket, but of course the job's not done.
Still need to play it clean here with the lead that they have.
Four minutes till Seoul is on the board and a two minutes left of Baron empowered minion waves as Vitality looks at the play across all three lanes on the map.
He's being pushed in.
Now we're gonna fall.
This Baron should be enough for Vitality to break into the base.
Look at bot lane, look at bot lane.
There he is.
That's the rabot.
He's running out of mana.
But he's got three cannons.
Absolutely demolishing this tower.
That both enemy towers nearly already gone.
Not even doing what he can, lost with the Hex Flash.
Uh, Ruff Ruff.
They saw him.
He pulled back, trying to get tricky with it.
A little bit of poke down on some lenses.
Pushback is there, a rightful wills down.
Razor, can the rest of the team feel like they have to fight this one?
Knock Knock, puts the entire team.
They've been knocked on the ThunderDome.
That's a pretty deliberate card.
You can take it down, but knock knock out.
In the midst of the entire pit!
I've been taken down!
Great boss down!
Wall first!
Someone call Method.
Someone call Echo.
They killed Knock Knock.
They also got Karzy, but humanoid is flip-bushing in the top lane. Tower is still going to fall.
Fnatic, again, they tried to find something.
From what?
Flag and drag.
Ragebox, slow, keeping him going. The smite as well. Razzlet might die, to keep this play moving.
Flag and drag. Razzlet comes from the wrong side of that. That was not what he wanted at all.
Rage 2-T.
Bit of a slow fight.
Why do you...
Kill him.
Upset.
Move in.
Upset.
Q's need to connect.
Blushies here as well to assist this is a high stakes game TP coming in from behind
It's emperos on the way. He doesn't have ulti. He does have flash as we all cross the team linsis burning
Lospus here actually I check it back it's not emperos lost but I thought that he had his ulti at least
It's only just it's still five seconds away emperos spot. That's my guy every time something is happening somewhere on the
riv fanatic haven't quite given up just yet they're still finding these fights
they're still finding ways to challenge vitality where they can the goal is not
decreasing but they're doing everything that they can to stay in this game so this
is the most zoomer game of League of Legends I've seen in my entire life we
might as well be watching subway servers on a second right now we're using the
hex gates not not go the raid bus is back gross gonna all to go away and
over but not get over my gosh he does just pull it back to lead him
We're inside at 4 vs 5 now, an exposed inhibitor and 12th lane, my Paladins have the mid wave, they're going to look to try to make the most out of it.
Knocked out with 2 all out, oh it fades, just in the nick of time.
See that's the nerf guys, he can't cancel that anymore, so when he turns squishy you have 20 seconds where he can kill you but you can also kill him.
I mean I'm constantly trying to find bright slides for fanatic and hey that's four items and a qss now finished for upset
The void staff completed for bloody every kill that they get is a shutdown which is a huge investment of gold
I mean
To be fair to fanatic they haven't lost an inhibitor just yet
They're still in this game break us. I
Gotta give hope to the fans here at the area. I understand
They've been fertilizing the crops and now they're ready to reap what they've sown absolutely. I
Agree this knock knock out guy is indeed quite good now
Hextech drake spawning in 50 seconds
I'll be the nail in the coffin for fanatic if my quality was able to pick up their force and secure that hextech soul
So you see fanatic they know it they want to get full priority here force vitality out get full control of the dragon
I gotta go teamfight
Yeah, here we go. Let's see how much time Jepse can do to knock Nako
Oh, who's taking more damage?
Yeah, again, no healing reduction
Oh, yeah
That's it, gotta be careful
I have her grouped
Oh my God, this is so tense
Emeralds is losing the trade, that's not a good start
Why are you just trying to clear the midway?
Knock Nako is just running it tremendously and as we've warned, that's enough
The crates have been called.
Oh, they've knocked up on the wrong side of the wall.
Now they're all going to die.
No, the pump back from Lockwood is good.
In this one, Lockwood now on stop.
He tries to isolate M4O to delete him,
but it's pretty effortless,
because Lynch is just running straight into upset.
Razor is going to fall here with the GA.
He doesn't even get the cataclysm off.
Even if the gas comes through,
Lockwood now falling upset, isolated.
Is it humanoid on the back line out of nowhere
to finish that kill?
Vlad, he's running for his life.
The wall is not going to be enough,
because the run war bringing the rest of the team in.
They're going to secure vitality, the 2-0 in this series here today.
Incredible stuff from Vitality Fanatic Limmers of hope in this early game of the season.
of anti-heal, finally constant in the end as Linsen and Snuck Knuckles have been absolute
rainbusters in this game. They're going to secure Vitality the 2-0 in this series here
today. Incredible stuff from Vitality Fanatic Limmers have hope in this early game of Vitality
winning out across the board, top in jungle, taken over the map. A dominant performance
from Vitality, chaotic at times, absolutely.
But that topside doing some serious work
in this series today, they'll continue their journey
through the lower bracket, and ours will be on Vitality
to see what damage they can do.
As then, next matchup, it's gonna be against Casey.
That is gonna be a banger, but for this particular banger,
you can vote for your key player of the series,
knock knock, olynsus or humanoid are the options.
That topside looking good in this one.
I mean, Nako versus Karna, that's going to be a matchup to watch.
Definitely the two best top laners facing off in the league in that one.
But a personal revenge for Humanoid as well, given his history with Fnatic.
He's got to be feeling quite good about that one.
This is also where we have to say goodbye to Fnatic.
A very disappointing start to the year for them.
Last year, they got third, fourth, third.
Even through their struggles, they were able to contest the top of the table,
of the table, even if they couldn't quite fight for that championship title, and they went to the world's championship.
With this year's roster shifts, so far we haven't seen their expectations met, and they find themselves knocked out of LAC versus.
It feels weird to not see Panadek in the top seat, and one of the best teams in the league, as they step out very early and play-offs here.
But it's a new league in a new year, with vitality taking the win today.
today. Definitely the case. And of course, fleshy looking fresh. The entire team looking
good. The entire bottom of the bracket just continues to get spicier and spicier, especially
after yesterday's games.
Linsus, I mean, from Game 2 versus M-Coing to these two games, my man, just doing some
absolute work here.
Absolutely. I mean, Linsus was a player, I think he looked at doing the regular
season, had mixed performances, but he came out strong today.
he did. Let's send it over now to the post game lobby where shocks and dada are joined
by knock knock oh humanoid. Yeah, well, I'm sorry, but the peanut gallery. They just
said we lost, but at least we're not wearing crocs. I think crocs are cool. Honestly,
the pink ones are kind of. I think you'll go. It's fine. They lost. Uh, anyway, come
Anyway, congratulations on the victory, you two.
Let me start with you. A bit of a revenge series, of course, right?
So how much blood, sweat and tears went into this best of three?
I mean, just the same as every other two minutes.
I mean, I kind of feel bad for them because I know what they are feeling right now,
because that was the last few years I was there always, so it kind of feels bad.
So yeah, it just sucks for them.
Yeah, you're being very respectful, I do understand it.
Then at Nathmako we spoke after game 1, no 8 solo kills in game 2, but still, how do you feel about the series overall?
I mean, this game I couldn't kill him, but I was just freezing away for 10 minutes.
I will say it's better than a solo kill.
But they couldn't kill you?
Yeah, exactly.
Except for that one time.
That was unlucky.
Yeah, it was unlucky.
You need one of those, right?
But overall, Vitality, Rob?
Yeah, I mean, like, I think this was the craziest top lane carry that I've seen in a long time.
in a long time like you just were everywhere you're yeah fair but like the fact that on
Cassante you're just running after like Betty said the words running at them ominously at least
17 18 times throughout this and I think it was a very good showing and then the fact that again
like humanoid was in your imperfect positions just flanked the whole time and set them up
like the teamfighting was great you just use the advantage as well like this was exactly what
you wanted to see this was some stuff from game one where Karzy was in thinking a little bit
But it's fine. Did you smell their fear knock knock all because it's true in the second game
And were you at any point scared that fanatic might make the comeback?
No, I think this game was over at minute six
Like the top lane was unplayable for him. He couldn't do anything. So it's just
My champion was too broken. I think not just a champion
I think but it's been nerve so much. So is it just the champion or is there something special that you're doing with the
I mean the matchup is not easy for Zaheem and after first base he kind of played Beth, so it was just over.
Damn.
Shots fired.
Shots fired indeed.
Humanoid, how are you feeling overall?
Because we did show the quote that you gave in the interview earlier about your mental health last year,
particularly with everything that happened last year.
So I was wondering what kind of position are you in and how do you feel?
feel because we've always known that when you feel good you play some of the
best League legends that we've seen in Europe right so where are you at I don't
know I mean it's kind of average right now yeah not even with how vitality is
like really on the up and up I mean we are kind of in the losers bracket so we'll
see tomorrow I mean if you win tomorrow it's gonna be fine yeah okay I
gonna play some better teams right so it's gonna be a little bit harder yeah
are you gonna play KC tomorrow? Nacnaco, what do you think about that matchup versus Kanna?
Okay, this time the matchup will be hard, but hopefully we will make it happen again.
Yeah, I think they have an angle, what do you think, Rahm?
I think so, especially if you can play like you played today.
I think you kind of see the way KC want to play the game, which is like,
how it's through this bottom side and trying to select Kanna.
But I mean, Nacnaco looks like he can hold his own, so it makes that matchup
significantly easier.
What about the others?
I mean, it does kind of depend on what Karzy does, to be honest, because there was a few Upsies here today.
I think he even caught himself in that game, one of the Gorky.
So, yeah, I think if you can control bot side, you've got a chance against KC.
Yeah, it seems that you guys have one of the most chillest, like voice comms I've ever heard,
because no matter if it's going really well, or it's going really bad,
there's just Karzy being like, oops, or someone going like, it's fine.
So, yeah, tell me a little bit about the atmosphere, Mark.
I mean, I think for sure it's kind of a big dip from my other teams,
just usually in the past, or I'm used to it actually,
that you lose one teamfight and everyone is just depressed.
Here, you're only depressed after losing the entire series.
After that, it's fine.
Actually, you're not even depressed because after that, it's over anyway,
so everyone forgets about it.
So I think it's just way more fun to play here.
Yeah, okay.
And Mackel, you are the key player of the series.
that is no surprise, I think.
As we're going to take a look at some more highlights so we can just compliment them, I guess.
Really good stuff there.
Yeah, like these fights were disgusting because it was just linsus and nak-nak-a,
nak-a going over the wall to the foreing and then like,
they just made, like there was no counterplay.
There was nothing they could do. It was insane.
Yeah, I've never seen that much aura just from a Kasante before.
Like this one here, I was like there's no way to pull this off and then they just kill Razor, can they get the dragon?
Do you think he can be Kanna?
Huh?
No, I'm asking him if he can be Kanna.
I mean, 100% like on the day, like I think this is the most interesting matchup. Like, I think it is, like, sorry to look at this picture.
But I do think it's um, I think it becomes a very interesting matchup on how you, who gets counterpicking those scenarios to really try and push that advantage.
And I think that's where I think a lot of that draft will be decided honestly.
We'll see tomorrow. What do you think about the other matchup? GX versus Navi?
I think it's gonna be a bit of a...
Well, I think if Giant X can play the way they play today, it's gonna be good.
But what we saw against KC was unfortunately bot lane just couldn't really keep up.
But against Navi, I think it'll be a slightly easier time.
But I think it will be again trying to stop Navi from setting up these dragons.
Because Navi just haven't looked as convincing if they're not able to set up on these dragons early.
I'm gonna play to that as their win condition.
Do you think that Navi is a team that other teams have figured out?
NACNAC or Mark?
I mean, I don't think they're as good as the regular season shows.
So usually, playoffs kind of shows the true strength of the team.
So, you know, G2 was 7th or whatever, but they are not the 7th place team, right?
So maybe Navi are not, I don't know where they ended actually, but they're like top 2.
So I don't think they're top 2 team either.
So I think they're just, I mean, they're not figured out.
They are just not as good.
Yeah, that's best of ones, I guess, right?
As we go final words then for you, what can we expect tomorrow versus Casey?
You guys could do the funniest thing, by the way.
I mean, hopefully we just 2-0 them, but we'll see what happens.
Yeah, we'll see indeed. I hope it's three games.
And thank you so much. Congratulations for letting you go,
because indeed they have to play again immediately tomorrow.
And if you want to watch some more League of Legends,
you are in luck because we're just a few minutes away from the LCS
where we have Lion vs FlyQuest, Twitch.tv, slash LCS.
We'll be back tomorrow for a pre-show at the regular time
as we send two more teams to Barcelona.
See you tomorrow.
I can auto him. I can auto. Go go go.
No first.
I'm gonna play this, I'm gonna play this.
I'm coming, I'm coming.
Nice.
Look behind me.
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
Keep in position.
Keep in position.
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
I will be your dog no one
Yeah you guys had a little puppy so can you back?
Oh whoof! Whoof!
I think I can put that, no let's get that
No no no no, don't do him just right
Look at the game, like to kill them
I guess I can just kill one
Wake up in the morning feeling like
I think in the side line, okay?
What's that?
Eight solo kills, now they split for NAKO
I won't give you any luck if the double knockup is decent, but Razzler's attorney is there.
Lenses and they're starting to take over the fight.
Obsessive getting pushed back and knocked down by Humanoid.
After a kill in vitality, it's done it in game one.
Razzler called the way down.
Unscarred in classic.
The early game to the bottom side.
Opened it for his left. Just like you did.
The new wave is coming to the LEC!
That's gonna be one of the best LEC shows I've seen in years!
Oh, the same nature.
Oh, Jackets!
Oh, the same energy.
Ha ha ha!
I'm so ready for the crash, my ass!
Oh, well, I'm ready to die!
They'll wrap me crazy, my ass!
Run me off and again!
Espresso blue!
Invisalibur!
Espresso blue!
Let's go, let's move side to side, let's go
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go let's go
Let's go, let's move, side to side, let's go.