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Even if I die, I won't stop
I miss you so much that I can't even breathe
I wish for you to come to my heart
We'll meet again, won't we?
I
I
I
Even if I only know your words, I won't stop
Your face, which is not swollen, is so beautiful
I wish for stars, but I can't reach them
I
I
I
Someone runnin'
I
Let's go let's move, side to side let's go
Let's go, let's go, sign the sign, let's go
Let's go, let's go, sign the sign, let's go
I
You see
Welcome to the play
Tell me
Sink into the waste
Stay for the night
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh ooh.
Walk on to the flame.
What brings you to the lost and founded?
Won't you pull up the sink?
And I was in a van for a street
Sinking to the waist and underneath
Stay for the night, I'll tell you a dream
Welcome to the play ground
Welcome to the Flaming World!
Ah, I'm a 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?
Red Bull gives you wings.
Wait, is he still alive?
Wait, is he switching lanes?
I
I
Again, oh yeah, again
Again, oh yeah, again
Wait for the light
Go ahead, just let me be
I'm gonna die
Feel that rush, feel the touch
Can you feel it?
With the pain
Watch it away, then stand again
I won't let it get to you
Feel the rush, feel the taste
Wash away, what used to be
You make your stand
Open your hands again
Cause we both face the fight
And we stray from the light
Turn the page and make it right
That's gonna be one of the best LEC intros I've seen in years.
The battle is over, and even if you're trying to fly in, I'll fly off!
They're wrapped in crazy minds, running up and again!
African blue is a sign of African blue!
Welcome everybody to day 3 of 4 of our LEC Super Week versus Bonanza!
This is where you clap.
Okay, we got you. Thank you, Otto and Finda, it was great. We still got an amazing Demacia stage, also some great fan art behind you as we have been showing all the fan art.
And you said you heard something about Ezreal, Shyvana and feet. Yes, although explain why you were interested in Shyvana's feet.
It wasn't me, it wasn't me, I swear, I swear it wasn't me, but I just remember that it
was back in the days of 2015, 2016 when everyone was interested in League of Legends lore and
everyone was like, oh, who are all the fanfics or who is interested in who, because you have
Gangplank with Illaoi and then I just fell for the reddit meme where someone, I don't
know why he thought of this, but he said that there was like, what was it, would Xivana
be mad if Ezreal kissed her feet. I think that was a different format I'm not sure that was right.
Anyway from feet to um... Defeat! Fnatic last week.
That was so good. Defeat. Yesterday we did a bit for a while it is a series matter, two team
heretics and Fnatic unfortunately they lost our games respectively. I want to give a shout out
to the Fnatic Dragons yesterday they were here in full force unfortunately Fnatic it was the end
of the road, Grabs even said it before he said if it's not now it's next split but as a fan you're
kind of like well why not now. I mean it's just such a strong fandom for Fnatic and I think there's
a lot of disappointed people in how it turned out. I can still see there are strong individual
moments for Fnatic but I think this LSE Winter was not really what they expected. We will see them
again in spring and I really hope we see a better Fnatic. I mean it sucks but I don't really care
you know it is. Yeah okay so the thing is I'm really excited for the fact that you know vitality
And GS actually had good performances yesterday, and ultimately started to have two teams out.
But it gets me more excited for the rest of the playoffs.
That's the word.
Yeah, sort of playoffs. It's day three of four. We're charging along.
But yeah, you're right. Vitality and GX did have awe-inspiring performance.
Well, good performance is for the most part out of GX for both of those games they won yesterday.
And Dara versus Navi and KC will be playing Vitality.
So let's start with that first matchup of Navi versus GX.
Navi has been a team that has been inspiring to a lot of fans, right?
It's a team that you have some new rookies who are playing out of their minds
that you really want to believe in, but can they keep it going?
I mean, I think it's a super compelling matchup,
because when you think about it last winter,
if you scroll back to it a little bit,
GX was kind of this team that came in, had a really strong start,
and then kind of branded themselves as this new upstart team.
And now Na'Vi is kind of what they were trying to be last year,
because Na'Vi's really exciting, super cool prospects in Real Edge and Mainter,
and they actually have a super compelling story, and they play really well as well.
So I think it's super interesting to see how these things will face today.
And the main difference between Na'Vi now and Jx last year was the fact that,
well, Jx Magic kind of died sadly, because they tried enough from playoffs and it didn't work.
But Real Edge, because when you look at, you know, anywhere from top to bot,
It feels like they have the same profile of players, you know, Top lane is just a tank guy, you know, mid lane control mage, bot lane is super exciting, super versatile and super important for their own teams.
But in the jungle is where the biggest music match happens and that's why I'm super excited for Relich.
But at the same time, I'm a little bit maybe deflated from his performance last, uh...
Yeah. I mean, they had magic, right? They had an X factor. Do you feel like it's, it is because of fearless?
Do you feel like it's because everybody kind of knows that the flex exists for the top lane champions that he plays or what's going on there?
I mean what we really care about is
It's not gonna be another BDS or it actually gonna surpass what BDS was because BDS was good at getting high placements and regulars
He's never good at stacking dragons, but I really asked you guys how that Relage is that extra factor that I think can elevate them
But the Navi would solve yesterday or before that was not really a Navi that played through their strengths
Relatch was on champions like the Xinxiao, was not an issue in the Champions, the lanes weren't going very well.
And for me those are the two core fundamentals of the Navi game plan.
And that also goes into the question of have they been figured out, because I don't really think that their plan had any issues,
but just M. Koyer has rose into the occasion and attacked them when we thought that their weaknesses was.
Poby was off of control mage, they were taking a lot of skirmishers outside of the drake situations that we like to praise them about.
Alvaro was just pretty much everywhere on the map and it just makes it super difficult for Navi to play.
Because for them, they cruise through this whole split, just waiting for the dragon to spawn, make that setup,
but they haven't really been challenged outside of that.
I mean, it really felt like they knew how to ride the Bistal so well,
and then when they came into playoffs, they were trying the Unicycle and it just didn't really hit.
I mean, I just want to see them today against GX.
This is a team where I expect Navi to have the upper footing, if that's a term I can use.
Upper hand maybe?
Upper feet again? Maybe you're obsessed with feet.
Very feet-focused, as you've been all this time.
You brought it up for the first spot.
Okay, either way, I think Navi today should be able to dictate the game like the regular season,
so I want to see him go back to what he did so well.
Focus on those dragons, strong lanes, and relish on those crazy champions.
Yeah, because when we think about relish, one of the most exciting things about him was the fact
that he would play, you know, his funny champions.
He made the meta about himself.
Well, I know he kind of became, how to say,
he kind of became a little doggie in the meta,
but he's just following blindly everything.
The team was like, hey, maybe let's empower Poppy,
let's empower someone else.
But no, the whole identity of Navi,
ever since they got into the league, was always Reledge.
Get him something that he can have massive impact
on in the early game, because he's the one setting you up
for success at pretty much every stage of the game.
Yeah, we want to see a return to that Reledge for sure.
when you look at their opponents you say, oh they can't figure them out.
MQoy is just a different breed of team, right?
We have to be honest with that, comparatively to GX.
They did play yesterday.
I think they had one Oopsy game versus Team Heretic.
So what do we think overall?
Yeah, happy accident.
Alain, look, GX, I think you have super compelling parts.
I love Noah and Jun, but you've got to give yourself a bit of trust.
Because it's so hard to trust the team
that convincingly find themselves in winning positions
and then go to the enemy jungle and throw the game, or start a super random Baron that just makes no sense on the paper.
Oh, okay, then.
But, so you say this, it's hard to trust them, but how come you always trust them too?
When G2 does it and throws the game, well, okay, that's G2's one MSI, they've won the split back to back to back.
G2, G2, what is this all about?
I'm just gonna say it because I know it's in chat, it's not 2019 anymore.
Okay, but they have catsfields.
Caps is still there.
How are you still mentioning MSI? That's actually crazy.
And I'm the most chronically like EU fan ever. That's that's just embarrassing. So GX is not G2. Thank you
You just compared to G3 and I made the embarrassing points. It does sound to G but
Basically, they still stand a good chance, right? Because I do feel like they have figure stuff out
You know the game to draft was a little bit oopsie
You know it went away from their standard
But I still feel like they have pieces that need to still kind of level up
I'm looking mainly at
Jackies and at Isma because when everything goes well for GX it is there and when it comes to these drafts
They get empowered by staying to the stock standard, you know control management
Utility jungler that's facilitates pretty much everyone because realistically you need to involve jackies and you need to level him up
So do you think he can help the bot lane?
That's why going into today's matchup
It is extremely interesting because it does feel like it's a clash of stars as we said at the beginning where it's just
Navi right now is what GX was trying to be, but will GX finally arise to be what Navi is right now?
Oh, interesting. That was good. I was able to talk to Guioto earlier, so maybe we'll get a little bit more insight from him.
Guioto and GX have a big task today. They want to qualify for Barcelona, and a Guioto interview is always a banger.
So, let's start with how do you feel about your team's performance yesterday?
I mean, I think it was better than KC. At least I felt that we were not scared of losing the game and we didn't play not to lose.
So hopefully today we can, it was not a lot of time, but hopefully today we can increase our performance as well.
And if I think if we do that, we take the win.
Okay, a few things I want to ask in conjunction with that as well is, I saw a lot of comments praising your drafts,
because obviously I'm just a host, I don't know if that's good or bad, especially in game 1 and 3.
Do you feel like you've got the competition a bit figured out?
You've got a really good idea about drafts knowing that we're in fearless or in best of threes, which is such a big shift
We definitely I think against eretics
We had more practice in best of three because they were screaming a lot of best of ones and we're already screaming three games
I think that helped us a lot
And we just managed to figure out early what their
Difficulties in champion pool were I think that Navi doesn't have the same issue of heretics
so I think today will be a bit more disputed.
Do you usually draft more towards your own strength and plans
or against the enemy in situations where it's as cutthroat as today?
I think usually you should look at yourself first
and then inside of the options that you have for yourself,
the decider should be what the enemy team does best
and try to adapt to that a bit.
What does Navi do best?
I think their flexibility with Rilis playing a lot of top lane champions is good.
Same thing, they have a much easier time winning when Maintar is on tanks.
So I think that either making tanks have a bad situation or taking them out early in the season,
something around that can be good. I think Maintar is really good at creating space
and Relich is really good at taking advantage of it, so we'll try to exploit that.
Okay, nice. Of course, a lot of people are looking at GX as the team that always, almost, I want to say, right?
and that also sometimes you can't fully trust them in the important games or even with a 10k gold lead.
So what have you done to make sure that this time this is the one because this is a super important match?
Honestly, nothing. I think, I mean, we are taking winter and I was very vocal about it
to help us reach the worlds. So there are things that I know we are good at and more consistent
at and there are things that we are inconsistent and we need to practice. We had issues in playoffs
before, there is no better way to practice playoffs than in playoffs. So we'll take, even though it's
a super important series, we will still take it that way, we'll still take it as we will go to
our inconsistencies to have that sample size and to address that issues in order to help us achieve
our goals and I think that we should be able to win through that and if we are not then we will
take valuable lessons for the future splits. Okay, very great, thank you so much Angadda. Thank you.
Good info there. Maybe Nabi was listening. Who knows?
What the hell, two shocks? I know it's crazy. They finally cloned me so I can curse more people.
So let's talk a little bit about the bot lane of GX, particularly about Noa, because this guy is
wild in a little bit on the timeline on Twitter. So we got some of his tweets and basically I have
left some of the words in the tweets blank and I need the audience to play. You guys have a very
important task you can also play if the audience doesn't get it because some of
the words are not good words so you need to whistle if the fan looks like
they're gonna say the words okay okay we're gonna fill in the bank so what's
the play okay well yeah there we go so it's Noah's tweets are you all on
Twitter or X or whatever a little bit okay the thing I'm most proud of this
This year is?
Fanatic.
It's connected actually to this sign.
Proud Fanatic is at home.
Are you Belgian?
Yes.
Yeah, I heard it in the media, that's so funny.
No, it was actually beating LR, and you have these things, so that's funny for you guys.
The next one is, I won G2 while blank.
Does anyone know?
No, that sucks.
Do any of you guys know?
I want you to while...
Well?
He was doing something and they still want.
Integh? Integh?
Integh! Integh!
No, more like that.
Kind of like that.
Going!
No, but like...
Re-choking!
Yes! Choking! Let's go!
Sick!
And then he had one more tweet which he sent yesterday.
And this is the big one.
I will use so hard and send you home at Paris Loll.
Are you guys ready?
No way, you can say that on broadcast.
No, you can. Thank you so much for playing.
Just to say that Noah is wilding, so I'm going to go ask Noah why he is so crazy on the timeline.
I think he's on the left.
Noah, what's going on? What was that tweet to Paris?
I mean, I learned from Franti, Ivan and Marietta, this time, to say, you know, I'm just saying what I thought.
Okay, anything else you want to say there?
I mean, no matter what, Paris will go home today, so it's fine.
That's true. You would go to your home base. That's right. But let's look at the other side.
He also said that he never loses to a Korean ADC in LEC.
What do you think about that?
First time he loses.
First time he loses? Nice. And in Paris, we gotta go to you, man.
Come on.
Yeah, this guy just talks, but no performance.
He will just choke on the stage. He will see him.
Hey, apparently he will just choke on the stage.
He's done it before. Ask for his own tweets.
Let's see who goes to Barcelona between Giant X and Navi.
OK, we got to stop blowing in Jax.
He's cursing people.
I think we need more.
He's throwing Jax.
I'm trying to replace us all with Jax.
The perfect E-sport broadcast, it's safe to say.
Yeah, Jax fired, Jax fired.
Let's see how this one works out.
So Noah Tiers from the Fanatic fans in-house this weekend is.
Look, again, another two or die series.
Nagi versus GX.
And I'm going to be honest with you.
I think both of these teams feel pretty fortunate
to have drawn their opposition to end up here not facing off against KC on the opposite side of the bracket or
Vitality so a chance here to make it into the top four for either of these teams is huge
That's insane
I mean getting your chance to go to Barcelona to see what you can take on some of those big dogs and honestly
I feel like both these teams on their best days can't perform at that top level
But it really is going to be kind of the preparation that they come in
How do they try and control what are in the strengths of both sides?
And it feels like a huge amount of that kind of focuses on that, you know, bot lane either through dragons or just the sheer performance of some of these players.
Yeah, I think it's all about the bot lane. For me, Na'Vi, their number one win fun has been dryance.
While GionX, they haven't often played that much towards their votes with Noa and Jun.
Really, they show that they're popping off with, and I really want to see if GionX can leverage Noa and Jun
to actually get Drakes themselves and put Na'Vi behind because we saw when Na'Vi
falters in their game plan of stacking Drakes, I don't feel like they have that like that extra
little firepower, that creativity that other teams can utilize. Yeah, the Drake stacking I think
just covers up so many of the small holes in their game plan. We've seen a lot of teams attack
them in the setup. Yeah, we know they're going to go for Drakes. It's kind of predictable to see
where they're going to be, where they're going to be trying to go for vision. So maybe they slow it
down today, clean that up. Team fighting the other big thing that we're looking at, I'm really hoping
to see a composition for Na'Vi that sets them up for straightforward, easy teamfighting. I think
that's always when they've looked at their best. For now though, we see a lot of the simpler,
more reliable engage options actually being taken away as Na'Vi try to limit Isma on the opposite
side with the Vi in the J4. The thing is though, we need to see Reledge on some spice. I don't want
to see Reledge since I don't want to see them. I want to see them on the Aatrox. I want to see
them on the Mbessa already taken out by Giant X. I mean, they're targeting him clearly with the
Mbessa and design ban, but I don't want to see him on the traditional jungler. I want him to show
show that uniqueness that he's brought to the league.
I was surprised to see the RumbleBind come through in the last
rotation because for me it feels like they're trying to set up
for an Orianna first big put.
It doesn't mean the virus, but it just slipped through the draft.
Does that mean he could be very happy to get his hands on, huh?
Yeah, really strong power pick.
Probably going to be the gym, I would assume,
as a pro nocturne also be the Esfral,
just have a little bit more mobility.
Two kind of fine answers into the virus,
but neither is like winning.
It's like you're kind of happy, handshaking the match up.
But overall, it's jungle that I'm really keeping my eyes on.
I'm really curious, especially now, both sides have decided to target out the junglers.
What does Isma look to go for?
Looks like it's going to be the Pantheon, which is a really strong early game champion,
has that great overall global coverage with the ultimate.
So a lot of productivity there.
I just want to see what they're just going to pick.
I feel like the only thing that I'm really excited about.
We can tell you.
The only time you did not want to talk about bot lane is in game.
Yeah, but it's Astral virus.
You know, like, wait, I could only act as that for a mile ahead, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
As real far as the Pantheon locked in now, a lot of times last year was all about these
jungle mid lane combos.
We saw G2, who most recently bust out with Taliyah Vi again, return to that.
Pantheon, a great part of any of those kind of kill set up combos.
But the thing is here, do you try and take away the Taliyah from the Pantheon,
which is kind of what we've seen that regularly pair with, or just go for the Azir,
which is kind of the strong verpic in a lot of people's minds,
and it also has that kind of consistent damage.
So I think it's probably going to be the Azir to try and pair with that bush.
Yeah, I'll admit that.
Exactly, yeah.
But it does mean that Jackie should get his hands on the Taliyah here, which honestly sets up for a pretty terrifying 1-3-1 situation here, with a lot of those semi-globes.
Yeah, you have a ton of mobility with the Pantheon Taliyah as you said, Dagda. I do want to highlight though that Sion, Permainter, Matchmade in Heaven, I think Sion and Cassante have really been the two best picks for him.
It does open up the Gwen pick, which we saw BV have a phenomenal performance on, but in this game it's Gwen up against a lot more range in the Azir and the Varus,
And what you really want to now draft as a 4-5 as Navi, you want to draft champions that are not too committal, champions that can kind of fade out to Gwen W, and then play around in stuff like Recon, and not really just like something like a Nautilus that just goes straight in.
I am surprised they went for the Gwen W. I thought they'd take that to the top for your next rotations, because you have like Dwayne, Gwen, you still have the Gnar, you still have like other picks that you can kind of take into that side on the top side.
on the top side, it's a little bit decent time, but it does mean I imagine that people
start to focus away those mid lane bulls and if unless you're still feeling like you can
go for something like an Akali or something along these lines into the Azir, I'm kind
of unsure what Jackie wants to take, I mean probably Yone or else the Akali is probably
what he's thinking.
Yeah I think Yone makes a ton of sense, you already have the AP from the Gwen and it's
a good matchup into the Azir, then you can also, like wherever the sound goes he's going
to be losing whether he's up against the Gwen or the Yone, I think that would be a really
really good option for them. As to your point about taking the Glen, I wouldn't
normally agree with you, Daita, but after seeing Broken Blade on that Glen, I would
be pretty inspired to log that Glen pick myself.
And it looks like Chams like not updating, but the Nautilus is the blank
band currently, so the one we can't see, so that has been taken away, not giving
him the option that Camille champion. And you're right, I'm nervous for both
these top laners though. For Manger, he's on tanks, this is what we kind of come to
expect. If his jungler wants to cook, he needs to, you know, take a backseat, be the
for this particular composition for a lot. He had kind of one pretty good silent game yesterday.
He had a really rough Kasate game into Naur. And I'm wondering if he's up to the task to really push this lead in a big way
and make sure that the Gwenn can deliver outside of just the lane phase.
Yeah, the thing is, like, the Gwenn, Morden likes to be left alone in this topside
and should be able to just win out by itself. I think the curiosity for me more is, like,
how do Gion X try and shut down what has been the game time for Nabi?
because inferior Varus pushing lane in mid lane for his ear probably have a pushing lane with the way the draft is gone
So that makes it very easy for Navi to start stacking these early dragons
And I think for Gion X they kind of need to find something that can match that early pressure
At least the Aurora pan clear waves very quick. The Aurora has a lot of skirmishing power
I will say that the one thing is s-roll depending on what they get for the support can get pushed in those early levels
But once Varus gets that serrated dirt well, it's just sitting on like a theorem of yeah crazy items
That's one virus really starts to pull him and push him in.
You could just take Niko here if he wants to, and then you'd be like,
Yeah, I'm just taking Niko, but that's like a Tiko.
I feel like a pretty big slam dunk.
Instead, Bard's going to be the option here, and I'm, okay, this is an insane Bard angle.
And by that, I mean not like legitimately crazy in the head Bard game.
It's very hard to land an ultimate.
Every single champion on the enemy team, except for the Pantheon, has a reliable death, so...
It feels like more of a takeaway, because often times you kind of see...
Oh, okay.
Okay, well, we want a spice from the...
Go ahead, Jay.
Kiana was banned, I think throughout most of the regular season against Reledge.
He's a huge Kiana player in solo queue, and it's a fantastic game for it,
because there's such a squishy giant XCOM that you can actually one-shot pretty much all five members.
June ending up looking on the Niko there.
That's just another target for Reledge, even though they're going to have a good point lane matchup.
And also, the last time we saw Reledge play the Kiana, it was Popey on the Azir,
on the azir and they use that combo so well with the azir and first the boy into the qiana to set up kills around this mid lane
So I think Jackie's is going to have a lot of attention after that level six in that mid lane
There is an incredible amount of play makes power on the side of this gx lineup. They're very squishy
Yeah, I'm some pseudo tankiness to be certain pantheon as well with the egg is assault right able to block a lot of that damage
But face-checking luckily they have the cheat code in the form of nico the one range support that can
and just guarantee that we always give you a bit more space, give you a bit more control.
And it's pretty high stakes, honestly, for both sides, because if this giant X-Romper
gets ahead at all, it's really easy to see how they can just dismantle this Navi composition.
There's a heavy burden on Loth this game, because if Loth loses lane to Mainter or something
goes wrong about this Gwen, Sion is not dying in this game.
We're going to have a knuckle situation, a second raid boss on our hands here, because
Ezreal and Aurora, they don't kill tanks very fast at all, so what needs to be winning this lane, getting early game pressure so that he always has that tank-killing threat and can threaten in a side lane.
The pressure on him most certainly. On the opposite side for Noah, of course, the bot lane somewhere we're going to be looking a ton, or excuse me, for Sommdi. Everyone on the enemy team is squishy.
The Pantheon and the Gwen can, of course, use major cooldowns to block that piercing arrow, but if he's able to find that connection, he'd be massive.
Metagame now to this first best three of the day.
Winner moving on to top four to Barcelona.
Loser eliminated.
And it looks like it's in another room.
Like, dynamics pause every game.
No, two out of three games.
Two out of three games.
That's right, room props.
But I mean, everything looks pretty normal.
Founders.
Could be secondary rooms.
We are completely speculating.
We're completely speculating.
So, the only information that we have is
Jionx's initiated a fuss.
They reported League officials will keep you up to date.
If you've been here this weekend,
we've done this once or twice.
And you might think pro players,
they can set their own runes and you'd be wrong.
Sometimes in the heat of the moment
where you're talking about what do we do at level two,
level three, how do we win the lane, you forget.
That said, we still haven't confirmed
that it's anything to do with the runes.
I'm studying the runes.
Just audio adjustment.
It was not the runes. Yeah, the runes were pretty normal.
I was only thinking Loth has Conqueror, which is a nice scaling option, but it doesn't have a lot of early game pressure.
Sure. You see sometimes the grasp just have a little bit early game trades, but it doesn't make sense since he's up against the Sion.
Should be a pretty comfortable landing phase regardless, so he doesn't need to opt into really strong early game runes.
There.
Alright, we're about now to get into the game, so apologies for the brief pause to double check the runes.
It was an audio issue. We were just speculating about the runes. Players seemed to have resolved it.
You don't want any one person on your team to be too loud, you know, not as strong.
Because we could just, we could simulate it here.
We could just turn Jack Spectre up to a million.
Yeah, it does feel like you have a lot of perigdance around me.
Hold people's movements as you want.
This is classic.
That's one of my favorite moments ever is we had a caster.
I won't name names.
Hold down someone else's cough button, which stops your audio from going live, and then cough.
I think coughed.
I think I'm going live.
I'm pretty sure I only got that in Worlds, we'll talk about it.
I might have been talking about you, you don't know.
Also we missed it, but I like how the producer pulled up a graphic of Dynax team runes.
In case anybody missed the runes here.
Heavy trading on bot lane, you'd really want to win this level 1 trade as the Niko Estrel.
Estrel has a lot stronger level 1 with the passive stacking up the attack speed,
and Niko level 1 is an absolute menace.
But trades going pretty well in the favor of somebody in Paris, especially as well with somebody having that teleport
You can take some
Recently losing trades in the early game and then always keep you back and be quite alright
Well, no, I'll think go for that cleanse just have that CC removal up against the virus and bark
Interesting pattern as well from relax. She started on his Raptors now going to clear his top side
There was no ward actually placed so they don't really spot this
We will end up on that bottom side
So I'm curious if they want to try and make something happen on the bottom side
Or if it's more by trying to separate yourself from this pantheon and make sure that if he does go for invade
He's looking there because you can see this board
It was just placed by Jackie's on the Raptors
So they should in theory think that he's clearing up towards his top side
So maybe he's just trying to avoid us
Yeah
I think he's worried about an invade because normally you'd only want to do this sort of pathing either to do an early gank
Which is not really gonna happen
Or if you're worried about an invade because it beat sinks your camp timers a little bit and just slows down your overall clear quite a bit
You can see that Isma is already finishing his wolves about to have to gromp while
Reletch is still hasn't started his wrap up. Yeah, I think he might have just been seen on the ward
But there was no pings on him so may not have actually been spotted so reletch now on this bottom side at least
Like no real hope of an invade. I know you're saying just separates, but I wasn't sure if he got spotted
We'll be interesting to see if his presence is unnoticed on the bottom side of GX
Who didn't get that vision and then I kind of had this false security because at that point you will have gained something
from this kind of intangible, otherwise intangible gamble, of kind of messing up your
pathing just to avoid showing up on vision or showing up on vision earlier so they can't
quite tell what you're doing.
There could be a realistic opportunity for a gank here on vault, but it doesn't look
like Relish is too interested in it.
He's just going to go for the top crab.
Only thing is that Giant X, since they thought he was pathing towards top, you see that
they didn't actually ward Trybush whatsoever, they weren't worried about it.
And now Esma puts another ward just to spot that second raptor spawn, and he's quite
a bit ahead in Pamplier, it's real it's just a sight in the crab while they must already
invase.
Difficult position, but of course fighting the Pantheon early is just so tricky.
You don't have too much damage quite yet as the Qiyana, the reliable stun, the ability
to block all of your burst, and if you have an out of chance you might get a total kill
with it.
It seems to be a similar story for Aurora as Poby is slowly but surely getting bullied
out in this lane.
It's because like even I've seen some Qiyanas who are just like clear on bot side from like
Raptors Red into Krugs, actually go for reset, pick up a Longsword Dango top side because
They end up so low in the clear and you are scared of some of them, but you can see now already the things are going down and if he was spotted on that ward
You should be able to pick on him as his man and say, okay. Reletch has full cleared is now
Start has a free set as well. At least you should have that information as well
So I think let you have it or is my sorry should have full information on exactly what relax
Ronaldo just gonna clear out the ground to see a bit of a push coming in here from the Navi bottom lane
This is exactly where they want to be up against the Ezreal
they're rather than trying to hold this pressure, get a plate, they are just going to reset.
No need to risk anything, they don't have information on Yzmodus, they don't have the luxury the GX have
of spotting out the enemy junglers as far.
Pretty happy with this early landing phase from Navi though.
Samedi's going to be able to TP back now, so this wave is...
I'm not sure, I think Jionx didn't choose to reset in the end.
I mean they kind of wanted to hold it a little bit, so Samedi's not going to lose any minutes on this recall.
And being up early CS, up against this Estral Niko early on, feels really good,
because now you can see he already comes back, lands that arrow, and chunks that NOLA,
and this is when the matchup starts to shift into Varus' favor, because very little counterplay for NOLA as you can see.
He just gets hit by an E, he gets hit by a Q from Fog, and suddenly Astral goes to half-dc.
Both junglers sprinting down towards the bottom side though.
Looks like Reletch may be hoping to catch the cross-respondence, as NOLA has already started to gromp,
but Reletch moving into lane first.
They know they had vision control, Peris fought for it just a little bit earlier.
Yeah, I think for a relish it's more about trying to cover this and shadow to push him guarantee that
They're not gonna have the pan to come in because you can see here. He's just on time the wave is cleared
Never gonna back away
The crap is spawning on that top side and I think for a ledge
You're kind of happy to prepare these brooks move top pick with that up
And even if you have to lose the early dragon, I don't think it's the end of the world
Just with the champion that you have a really rich would look to start break here. They know that Noah based
I'm not sure how fast he could solo it. If he's a bit worried about that
Potentially on a different jungler it would be good start break, but it looks like it's just gonna be some D
I'm taking an edge. Only level 5 for some D
But there's a lot of damage he'll coming out. We're not gonna see if it connects
There might be a fight in the mid lane if Rhealich is already here push back to Jackie's manages to get away with between worlds and
Sadly that play is going to fizzle Rhealich has to be careful walking this much so because Isma is there and waiting
Seen powered triple autos just to stack up the passive and neither side can get much else and
Jhin left, Jhin lived in the bottom side, we had to pan away but he did live.
The maintre moving down though to help out, but Rilech actually picked up the crab so maybe you have to hit that level 6
Isma trying to get a range of this noise, but actually nice pick up for Rilech, I didn't think he'd be able to get us.
Yeah, especially since like he got chunked by Isma and kind of forced out of the river and then Isma just forfeited it
I think it was just the main turn move that allowed him to secure the crab.
Now Jun is looking for a sneaky minion play, but I think Obi-Wan was...
That minion started sweeping. He knows for sure now.
Leaving the lane we've seen that one before. You never know minions these days, huh? Yeah, that's fair.
Well, there's a clone that is going to spot out Relich at least clearing onto the Raptors.
Something almost no easy. That's not a minion. Flash over!
Let's make it through. Flash for flash. I'd say pretty good for Jhin, means it's now a target on some of these back, especially as Esme is about to hit that level 6 mark.
Oh yeah, he's going in. Oh, I think Bokke's just gonna dash away. Still has a very healthy health lead.
I'm surprised I'm D. Bokke off though, because you saw the cone there.
Oh, okay. What is happening?
Okay, we need to kill. Guys, we just forced enemy ADC flash. Why are we all taking this?
Coming on a little too strong, a little too keen.
There in the mid lane, that ulti is going to go awry.
Which is not how it's done.
No one, no one, no one, no one.
He's making good on the tweets!
Oh, he didn't get the heal!
No one still wants to go for more.
No one!
Q, oh!
Okay.
That was close.
Oh, he's not done.
No way, okay.
Close.
Because we don't have that tweet ready to go on a graphic,
but that would have been the time to play it.
We also probably couldn't play it because it's a square worth scenario.
We should have played it.
We can't say that.
We don't want to say that.
Why do we put on the princess?
I don't know. I don't know.
But this brings us back to one of the things we were talking about coming into this game.
Well, we have time to talk about stuff that isn't them taking this drake.
Maybe not. This would be very nice for GX, as we've said with Navi so many times.
They're the drake team. They're the poster child of taking drakes winning the game via that option.
But the trade on the bottom side, forcing pairs back.
Navi's behind the play.
Jax is just not prior, Poby is forced to catch the wave, but Navi wants to force them off, but Jax is not willing to stick around, he's already got drunk by the drake a bit, so just like both teams, it's very clear they really value this dragon, because whenever one of them go there, the other wants to match and try to stop them.
I think trying to extra try to play off the push they had in mid, but couldn't do it fast enough.
And now Poby we control his results, Jaki still doesn't have his available, Sam Deez is now up.
So I think just trying to try to find that small timing window, couldn't quite get us.
So now Nabi, acquisition, but Isma...
Round two, this time it's a battle for the crabs. Both junglers have smite.
Yeah, shouldn't be extra damage, follow up first there.
Aegis assaults already burned, bit premature from Isma, now he's locked up.
I might have to try and prevent this one back, he does have Axe's Bottle, it's a perfectly timed ulti from Reletch
Follow up all of Navi, push their R buttons, and it's a quick double
And that's why we get the Reletched Key out, now no Sin Sallow, none of that boltcrap
I want to see this, this the aggression from Reletch, it gets them two kills
And the first strike that Navi will still desperately play for
And it's classic Navi, like good push up mid, Poby moving across, Harris there to help
Playing for these picks around Reletch in mid lane and in these skirmishes
And honestly, I didn't know it shouldn't have been this.
He didn't have control over Boss,
hope he had control of me.
And we just highlighted the ultimate advantage,
but this is great from Relentio.
Perfectly timed, catches Jun as well,
and then with the portal,
SamD is just in a position to follow up so well.
Yeah, Esma tried to contest the crab, as he said, Daita,
but he ain't got no parryos.
The Navi pounce on the opportunity.
Now, the next objective is those grubs,
as both teams want to play for it,
but that is a propane Hydra,
Completed on reletch with his 1000 gold lead.
It's a bit terrifying as soon as he moves into the following.
Noah's in trouble. Arcane shift coming out just in time.
But, gentlemen, Navi's getting exactly what they want.
Flying into a hand that we've known about pretty much all season.
First in First Dragon, overall first in Drake percent,
Herald percent something. There's not a grub percent on there.
So, I imagine occasionally they give that one up.
Or we just ran out of space to say how intelligent this team is
on taking objectives. We ran out of space.
Productions confirmed we ran out.
We could only fit four things there.
So they're just basically number one and everything. It's also like groups just kind of don't matter as much anymore
No, let's be real like the crystals
You know
We should have we should have but now they know how you really feel that there's no going back
It's not gonna get like water with the later and it's gonna be an awful conversation
Yeah, well with any luck someone will kill him soon and we won't have that problem
And on that note we'll move along in the context of this game 1.5k lead for Navi
Obviously going much better than they even originally anticipated and while the gx composition has a lot of tools to kick fights off
And certainly lot is making good on his topside counter pick
They haven't been able to build a greater advantage a lot of the initial ults are going awry
Jun is now running for his life.
Down here comes the Pantheon. Excellent portal coming in from Paris.
It's a bit of a fallout for Reledge. He's going to stun Isma as well.
Reledge getting chunked out by Noelle. The Qiyana is still very pushy.
Jun from the way in is going to get Paris. Paris manages to ult himself.
It looks like Will still die in the end, but the Q threw to finish it.
Oh, what a good ulti from Paris there.
It buys him enough time to set up sound D for the chains.
and that takes Jun down and makes what looked dire for Navi a one-for-one and GX invested so much in that
Jackie's uses ultimate he moved, lost the plate on mid and lost the wave on mid
So that just resulting in a one-for-one feels so bad for Gynax
Especially the Pantheon ultimate as well just minimizes the impact Dismic can have on the map again
because you're using it offensively and again
It's just Navi playing well around this jungle support combo. Jun caught out in river
They collapse well, and this is where it kind of looks a little dicey, but again
Like they're just able to get out you have to try and escape as well because you cannot play for electric
But he's a strong
I'm Paris, but you could go to ultimate to set up for the rest of us a good or kitchen
No to escape because that is for real like 100 to zero combo if he connects on both the alti as well as the follow-up Q
Of course Paris playing well
Backing up a lot of the trash talk, you know, I wasn't kind of felt that a pocket
I didn't know what kind of relationship these players had.
No, it was just fire and shot, but Parrot didn't have to take the fire back
when we were checking in with one of the mini-shocks clones before kicking off here.
And now, guys, this game is looking like it's just going to get harder and harder to play
because the Gwen that's supposed to dominate in the side lane,
she's not playing against the Siren anymore.
She's playing against a pretty fed Barris and a Barr.
That's true, she has silently accumulated 700 gold data,
but that might disappear, as you say, Draco,
as she now has to sit and watch zombie in Paris hit her tower.
This is really not the lane assignment that Giant X wants.
They want to try to put Noa, or they're putting Jun right now.
I mean, you said it, right?
The Gwen is the person that can kill the Sion. They can kill Manger.
Jackie's Noa, they can't stop this man from just pushing waves and walking away.
True.
Especially with so much magic resist on Manger already, he's going to be really chill into either side lane.
That's why I had some doubts when I saw this Aurora looked in and I would have loved to see them go for the Yone,
but it was cleverly banned out by Navi, so they weren't able to go for it.
But the problem you run into is that it's so easy for Navi to just continue to mismatch and for look to then look be able to have this side lane threat that we really need him.
Of course, for Navi though, still have to play with that level of diligence.
You see them caught a lot in positions like Paris is in now where he's going in to place some of this vision.
this vision. Mid lane not pushed all the way in, potentially a spot where he could have
been vulnerable, but is able to just walk away here. Another plate goes over to Poby,
so for now all as well, but you've got to Nico for these creative angles. You've got
the Pantheon as well. Ismazal to be very soon to come off a cool down, and maybe that is
when GX can attack one of these sidelines.
I think the moment is just trying to play for a dragon in 15 seconds, like get some vision
down so you can continue to push for Poby on the top side and try and play for that
next objective. You're very strong with Relection. Some D just haven't finished the ghost blade,
And you're still kind of waiting for like Noah to finish off that try port and there it is.
He has it now, but it is a 2k gold lead for some D, so I think it's going to be really
hard for Giant X to contest this dragon.
I think they should just drop it.
I mean, Esma is on crux as well, really far away.
He could look to the grand start fall in, but I think it's a tough contest here.
But it doesn't look like Navi wants to start it up just yet.
They want to try to fix their lanes first, have Poppy push out both, which buys Giant
makes a lot of actually time here to try to confess this,
but it is still at quite a gold disadvantage.
That's the only person with a gold lead as well.
Paris playing with a lot of confidence
stepping that far forward, but when Isma isn't in the area,
it's pretty easy for him to just dance and dodge
around a lot of those major cooldowns.
Ocean Drake started up and pulled out,
but they decide not to commit too hard here.
They already have some action happening
on the top side of the map.
You can see Jackie's is landing up against Maintra now
who's started to proxy.
Jannax wanted to buy some time for his mid to finish off.
Raptors, we could hit level 10.
That's where, now, they're starting to climb, by the fact,
but again, this very slow around the objective.
As now that Navi pushed out waves, they feel comfortable to go for it.
Reset for Jack, he's had the teleport available, maybe going to finish the second item.
I can't imagine he has enough gold, but will he still be able to buy something?
Adventure just continues to proxy, hoping to delete waves.
Nola getting a little bit of a chunk on Relic, but not too much here.
The drake's already gone!
Yeah, I felt a little bit too slow for me from Navi,
because I feel like they could have done that a minute ago.
They're so much stronger that you can see that Giant X.
They really need a great way of entry
to try to refake control
and was Mainter just pushing in the top as well.
It's an easy drake for Nami.
Yeah, but it was a really weird lane assignments
from Giant X.
Like, Jackie's kind of just hovered mid
and didn't really do anything.
You had a lot that was there as well.
No one went to catch the wave,
so Mainter was just able to get the wave top,
and crash some, and get late.
So, the Giant X kind of flendering
on what they wanted to do in that situation.
And to be fair,
was up there he just pushed the wave and walked past Jackie's with his canik
Rooker and then just started making the next wave and this is the part of the
process talking about right here also building proto-bell in Aurora you have
no chance in hell of killing a tank there is no damage but that's a joe be
built on about the thing is he's really good I'm sure it killing other people on
the map but he's landing against the sign which is not ideal as downwind by
the sign on going in unfortunately guys the magical journeys have just been so
clean. I mean the medical journeys are clean but come on. Yeah. I mean we get
some of these flash but we used the TP, we used the Pantheon ult and now with
somebody TPing back, Nola's trying so he has the base and that it's a free
hero. And I gotta say I was really skeptical about the Bard against so
many mobile champions on the opposite side but Paris with the tempered fates
with the portals has been good and GX have not been firing at the same time
They've not all been on the same page in these plays and it's made it so easy for them to get out of these situations that in other games against other
Players feel like easy kills easy pickups
I do think the barred was a takeaway from John should be like hey look this guy's look decent on the peak
But also we have a barris that is gonna be very vulnerable on mid wave two things like to pump in and that so that's just trying to
Move the tool but either way it's doing exactly the same trick
I was like helping people get into positions that they should but giant extras haven't really been coordinated on where they want to go
So, their ults from this Pantheon have been running to be defensive apart from that one there.
It feels like they just are scrambling to get any sort of control over the map.
Yeah, I think the Pantheon ultimates have not been how you'd want them to, but I think we gotta go back to the draft.
We saw this bar pig and we thought to ourselves, it's a horrendous bar game.
You're up against so many mobile carries.
It's so hard to use that tempered fate and get more value out of it,
but they had a great laning phase where they actually worked ahead in CS despite the Niko S rule,
And, Aris has been proactive on the map to save his teammates, and just, it's phenomenal.
Yeah, Aris, locked in, there you go.
That's no-it-as-well.
0-1 and 3 thus far, but just doing so much to save them in these sticky situations.
Portal feeling a little bit like a lantern in this game, which is something that GX don't have a lot of counterplay for.
It's also, I don't feel like Lod has really got the advantage that he should have on this game.
Like, you got our plays in the top side, sure, a little bit of CS, but...
This pick was invested in, like denying Jackie's been able to early pick things like the Tlea and the Yone,
and hasn't really got the advantages that it should, and now like Jack called it out of the stars,
this Gwen isn't really in the position to take over this game, and that kind of needed to happen,
because now Poby and Xandir are starting to get in a position where they have range,
they're going to be able to do some good work, and Reletch is just getting to run around the map
and be a massive threat playing off of this fog of war.
Yeah, Reletch is terrifying to deal with, and Jack, I know you feel quite the same about
went overall because we've seen the blueprint of what this can be overall put back out to the
HNAC. Again, nice dash there coming out from Jackie's. Just make sure it doesn't get clipped by
Relatch so the play is going to fizzle at the very least. Still, it's not really that full
controller of upside. Some of these intelligently respecting on mid, the Tars put some nice wards
and Relatch is going to be able to take these crutches. So it's still a win for them I'd say
despite them not being able to pick up the kill. It's probably also picked up a plate but I share
I think the thing is Gwen at this stage in teamfights, yeah she can have a huge problem of moment
but there's a lot of champions that can really delay and annoy her with Sion being so tanky
with Paris having that tempered fate, Sion has the arrows and just the chains
there's a lot that she has to worry about to really make that montage happen
and if she then misuses her W and that goes from cooldown, she's completely used
I think she also needs to get value out of this ultimate because with Edge of Nightmare finished with Sion D
You kind of need to get one of those needleworks up that you or otherwise jungle doesn't really have major targets
Zanyas is there for Poby not going to be able to really do work there
So a lot of these kind of tools that join at time are really getting getting value unless not be missed
Very true. Oh Jeffy's actually just getting rid of the agent right there with a hexagon protocol. Maybe that's why it's you know
All yeah all small advantages 40 second cool down traded for I believe a 40 second cool down is I will just shout out to Paris
uh, Swifties, Dead Man, and a Blood Song. It's a solo queue style, Bard. And frankly, I liked it, you know?
But it's also one that you see a lot when it's, you need kind of the engage, because you need those
slow and auto attacks to help out. And, Laris, I forget his name, there's a Bard there, thank you.
He keeps, he does a lot of videos on us, and he kind of talks about how this is actually optimal
when you need to be more engaged, Bard, because you've only really gotten a sign, or like relax,
She's kind of pseudo and subjective.
What do you think?
Yeah, conditional in here.
Conditional.
As we see the Herald.
The mount up is there from Mainter.
He's driving it into Noah.
Now there's a Pampy on coming down to the section.
Quite bad for Mainter.
He abandoned his backline and GX it out.
Looking to pound, but it might not matter.
Lock on space versus Mainter, but he doesn't have the damage
to shred through that tanky health bar.
They've taken out Relich.
They've taken a drink.
Jack is killing him as well as he gets the reset off the kill.
It's not going right back in as Jack is trying to follow.
A temperate fate on the bunny rabbit,
but no one is in position to fire the blast back
find a kill. A lot running for his life. His maiter tries to get one of the change. The
blast cone there just in time. It looks like a heist but GX managed to get it.
But die next tap. Killing his side home. They just don't have the damage despite the fact that
they picked out Relich so early and they said kill the dragon. As soon as maimtor got out of that
herald, I mean they can't kill him. They don't have the damage. It was a weird decision on the
herald though because you spawned a lot on vision. You see the join is in a weird place like
The front line just ran away, the Dianeks were like, okay cool, let's go, they get us a relaunch,
with the one target we said didn't have lasagnas or an edge of knives.
Cause Dianeks get the pick, they managed to get the dragon, and then they do over extend
a little bit here, hoping for a bit more, give a kill back. But honestly, in the grand scheme of
things, we're just happy to stuff the dragon stuff. So it's a win, all things considered for Dianeks.
They're still down, I believe, 4,000 gold, yeah, 4,500 gold, but just being able to deny them
in that sole point is really big, but you can see the difficulties that GionX has going
up against this Sion, because if that Herald didn't exist, I would dare to say that Na'Vi
would just win that fight.
Yeah, 100% also the Gwynn Block, Barasol, like a lot of little things came together.
Jun got a creative flank that in a slower front-to-back where they had that vision control wouldn't
be there, but that just shows us that it is possible for GX that Navi are not a team without
these little faults, without these little missteps in the setup.
Maybe they're getting over eager.
definitely feel ahead and it's showing in their gameplay in the sense that these
little missteps are starting to creep in and it's something that GX can't
exploit. Seven of these kind of highlighted a couple of times where the front
line and back line from now they're not always on the exact same page but I'll
see if they can improve as this game goes on. Or, Rangers have been playing a little bit of
too much of ARAM mayhem and it was like wait I can get two volts, one in the
Herald and then I can ult after and they're not couple people. We've put watches, kind of stick.
We didn't take that into account, maybe that's what he's playing for.
I thought it was top 4 in the LEC, but cool things are also something you can play for.
Also, currently they're going all in on Lott.
Lott and Bonner will get a potential ball.
Lott actually incredibly tanky as now they're going to get a pushback from Relet, so they're not going to find the wall.
Sombie on the way down, good damage to come through, but they need to be careful about Jackie.
All deconnexed on the Sombie, Sombie getting the initial banshee sale proc.
As Esma starts to run, Will just get cut down, Maverick still on the chase.
Parrot on the way, getting the dash out from Lott.
GX getting run down here in the bottom lane.
That was such a good ulti by Reletch to peel him off and be able to get out safely
and which case Navi were able to run down Ismael.
It looked quite dire since Loth was doing so much damage,
but it's going to result in just one kill for Giant X, no, for Navi, I mean,
and Flash from Reletch Burnt and so much else.
Oh, yeah, you're not out damaging the ball with this game.
I mean, the crop take is a bit awkward because it's not even in...
like usually see crop takes in line with dragon for one of the teams and then they can kind of set up so
maybe Noah just kind of realizing hey we're going to lose control hopefully we can take it but still
snuck away even here though like Navier in the center of those classes you have pillars going on
towards poby sam deason of grace boss you're going to be able to continue to push in these waves
and Esmer doesn't have ults now until the dragon comes up which means you're under very little
threat now of over 10 like poby's free to hit these towers because he doesn't have to worry about
I'm not going to push super far off to get this tier 2 tower, but again you highlighted
without the ulti there without the threat of a flank, one could come from a teleporter
but most of the vision was clear, there's no reason they can't just push a little bit
further, mainter there to catch the top wave, Baron potentially on the table soon, but if
there's anything we've learned from, well at least this one game will speak of legends.
Maybe Drake will be the priority.
Also just keep seeing Jackie's moving with the team here, and I can understand, hoping
to make a play, but with no ult, I think you just have to let it go, but it doesn't mean
Maintra gets to push in this top lane for free, Jacky's now only moving to the top side.
He doesn't have teleport, so he's going to waste time here trying to get this play, then
have to reset and make it back to Ember's Dragon, so just kind of awkward timing.
It feels like at times it's the where Giant X are putting members on the map, and who is
the one collecting the wave and put the lack of TP this thing.
Yeah, and I mean, Navi are just able to push in both sides at the same time here, but it's
It's really a rarity that you get to do that.
You can see that Poby pushed in both, Main to first in top, which allows them to have
such easy control of this dragon, and it means that Jackie now needs to drop that top wave
to try to group up Main.
Exactly.
He casts to come across, but you haven't lost any gold as Navi, and the longer you kind
of chill here as Navi, the more it's going to be lost.
Yeah, it's just weird, by easier, a little bit from Giant X, and now Navi's still controlling
this area.
It's going to be tough for Giant X to break through the choke points.
Yeah, a lot of the reason this gold continues to grow is because Navi just had better lane
of time.
You can look in that top lane, those little tiny dots, every time one of those minions
is dying and there's going to be a lot of them that are Navis, they're denying potential
bold income from the size of GX, it only makes this lead feel bigger and bigger.
Awesome.
One person with an advantage, but it needs to be careful.
He's the wrong way, but they weren't ready for that little misplay, so they didn't immediately
follow up.
Yeah, but it is still going to be Navi with full control of this dragon, you can see Giant
X, they tried to facecheck first with Jerm them with Isma, both of them got choked,
they dropped the dragon without any sort of cross map.
I don't think the game is getting much better with time,
so they really need to find some sort of avenue here
to try to utilize this map,
in order to get a numbers advantage
or for Jun to get a crazy engage.
And I think they have to try and get some resources into Lot.
We already talked about who was pressure on him
to be that carry, and I think he should be the one
that's picking up this top lane CS,
but instead, he's kind of just been sitting
on this bottom side, not able to do particularly much.
But as we're saying,
like he could have been getting top terror right now,
gotten some 70 plates for himself actually been in a really good spot but
instead we're kind of just seeing Jackie's taking a lot of this farm on the
the easier side of the map to farm and I don't think it's the correct call for
dryness. Yeah I think at Giant X they're playing as if they could contest every
objective but that's not the nature of the game when you're down 6000 gold you
need to be willing to split map find the cross map on the other side they
haven't been doing that so they're just continuing to fall further behind
Navi now picking up the third grade trying to build towards that 7000 gold
and now it's pulled, not pulled.
And we of course have the advantage of seeing the entire map,
but you can see how little GX see,
because Paris walks into two people.
If they had perfect information, they one shot him,
but they have no vision.
They don't want to take that risk,
they don't want to take that play of a tempered fate
or potential escape from him drawing out a fight
when he has allies nearby.
He's also surprisingly tanky with the deadlines, right?
So it's also the other value that you get from the items.
I think that's why Paris has been a little bit happier
to just try and go for these plays.
And now, again, Navi gets pushed in and as much as we're kind of dogging on Giant X,
I honestly think Navi have played this exception well.
Like, they've been working with Paris and Reledge, moving into positions that just make Giant X incredibly uncomfortable.
And as we're hot, I'm like, they have to back away because if Reledge suddenly in behind you,
but then an ult just completely turns around to play.
Yeah, it's a 7 kill game. Their lead is not from Bloodthread.
Yeah, it's from better macro, it's from more certainly more plates, better lane assignments as well.
Again, the one kind of silver lining lining, the one little bit of hope is a lot with this individual Goldleaf.
He can, if he finds an angle in a fight, do a lot of work, but with how much damage is going to be coming out from this knobby line up,
the rest of his team might be dead by the time he gets the opportunity.
And there's a problem as well, as we saw it now offscreen, that look tried to push in both there and tried to reach that power,
where you go chunk to half and just have to recall.
So he can't actually progress solo on a side lane,
which is really one of the win-cons that you want to have when you play such a split-fusher like the Glenn,
because that allows your team to get pressure from your side,
but that's just not happening.
So that means that Navi can continue holding this topside control
for pretty much as long as they want to up until solo spawns.
We're gonna get a bit extra gold off the first strike just by hitting Jun to the clone here.
Slowly fighting for vision control, John. Good use of the clone to like hold onto as much vision as they can, because GMs are just getting steadily pushed out of their own jungle.
I think what they're hoping for is they can make a TP play. Well, that was perfect timing.
And there's a ward just on mid there, but they're maybe looking for a nail actually.
I'm de-chunked out, Relash on the retreat.
Hands down on the way, man, it's too late.
Not that maybe they were trying to turn up, but Navi are so patient.
They don't want to commit there. They already lost 2% AP.
Now they're going all in onto Paris. Paris gonna flash out.
Paris going to fall. That's a big start.
KB now coming in from CS.
KB's opportunity to interject with his join is one shot by Relash.
He forced to flash away. Doesn't have a reason to W white yet.
So Noah's gonna grab another kill!
Navi getting greedy.
And suddenly Gion X finds the pick that they need.
It's just a little bit of an over extension and that might just be better for Gion X.
Well the Grand Starfall was not the best but it ends up beating them into the situation.
Now there are four versus two here with Poby joining but Zondi does a lot of damage with
his arrows and Gion X they need to back off.
Still, they take a breath, it's still a 6000 gold lead.
Still one minute, the soul for Navi, you get one oopsie, you get one.
As long as you play this soul fight out well, they've had to this will be clear
They've had two oopsies and they're going to be one of them was an oopsie one of them was my boss and the observer is going to
Highlighting Paris will be constant. He's had great movement this game
But at some point you will still just get point and click or Ezreal Q. You are not that pinky
Don't have Celeste opposition and now you have a point right on top of you
That's not looking great
But luckily the Emperor has divided this fight at the very least is lost still on the chase
But he's running out of steam here Poby how long left from the shooting is a big question
That should be the flash for him
But now Poby wants to go back in and suddenly it's a lot who has to run for his life
Oh Poby does he reach for the WQE?
He's not there to cover luckily not blinking hell for me is that the setup on this objective?
You should be has no TP lot doesn't either now
He wants to try to continue cancelling long space that way he won't be in time for the great spawn
So they just want to try to get this both pressure here push them in the looks is facing really far away
But that doesn't mean he's gonna be too late for the dragon
Spawning in 10 seconds, and it's yet to arrive in base
They're putting things on the right the words and behind them go over by the raptor pace
They'll be an angle. Yeah, it's not actually true
Yeah, lots of you'll be up shortly if they can make it to the fight in time
But the objective has already been started
GX have no presence in the pit whatsoever
If I might be starting to all be standing still in the pit waiting for an angle made for body blocking everyone the objective
getting lower and lower, the infernal is going to go to the side of Navi. No one is in a position to respond.
GIFs are far too late. So it was a three-man play to at least sit down to support.
Sombi on the backline relatively untouched. Mane for him to find his way out as is Kobi.
The re-engaging lethal though is blocked. Knocked up and taken down.
Navi find exactly what they need in the fight. The dragon sold a turn around with Reledge.
And that might just be the nail in the coffin for Jaina.
I mean, Navi and Dragons is becoming a tale as all this time.
They hold the control so well with some DM parrots poking out the rest of Gainex.
Gainex didn't stand a chance.
They wanted to confess, but they were too late.
And with you watch the fight back here, you can see that already knows trying to have her mind.
No, we're not.
We're watching them.
Is he gonna steal it?
Is he gonna steal it?
Oh, I'm gonna have to refact.
Okay, one more time, I'm gonna run again.
Is that a watch here?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, so it starts off with some people to know about that
I love the way some the image are holding the space here by time for real effort only to finish the dragon
And then June gets it through an engagement some the part of the tie on so even though a lot wants to continue going forward
Relish gets to ultimate and look unfortunately flashes back into the can a cute. I love that you love it guys. Sorry
Very matter of fact. Well, yeah, if you want to see the great that was their only hope but you saw it on the Nash
It's pretty that difficult to steal an objective blind 1v5.
And I think for GionX now, it's just trying to consider what's going to happen in game number 2,
because I will say from the identity we've seen from GionX, it's felt like a very strange game.
Like, not really giving resources towards no engine on the bottom side,
but you've been the standout players on this roster,
and then trying to play with more of a macro-oriented game, which isn't really their style either.
I'm curious if they want to try and like, shift back over towards a bit more of a team-fight,
Composition which has worked well. I think it was a mistake to give ours
I mean you saw it in this game just how much value it's having and it made it so that Noah and June weren't able to win the lane and
Noah while his stat line is 3-0 is pretty good
Somd has had a way more impact in this game and in the team fight and if Giant X are to win the series
It needs to be through Noah and Jump and I also don't like it
A lot of little things but you highlighted it
I think our analysis is that Noah needs to be the guy set up his set instead
You know, they advanced so much away from Relet,
she's still able to find a creative option.
They got Fancy on a power pick that they couldn't really make work.
But Gwen hasn't been there, so a lot of...
It feels like they're direction.
Well, I'm sure that there's some context from scrims
as a reason they wanted to go for.
Ultimately, it wasn't one that worked out for them in-game.
Maybe they tried to run it back, it's hard to say,
but after a game like this, I imagine we see a massive pivot
because it is LAC, I can't say this game is over.
I can never, literally never say that in LAC.
Sometimes I'd say, I'd really like to say that it's over.
But and it should be by all accounts, but you never know now if you've had two Opsies this game
Perhaps there could be a consecutive fourth third fourth fifth and sixth. Oopsie back to back
It's a virus with nearly full build in front of soul. Let's just see how much time is to queue that you're building up in a
Mega cash right now. Let's just we'll see how much time is this is the point the game
I think we can all agree where GX and thinking about game to how do you adjust?
What are the tickets? What can you do to stop yourself getting in a situation is that's gonna be another initial engage going out?
I guess I'll just watch a little more damage and something goes down. What were you saying Jack?
Anything is possible if Maintainer starts to fall as low as he does, comes to the attack, and the knock-up is there, and Noah is still untouched for a brief moment.
Nabi should still probably end this one.
Oh yes, Andre does. Relent comes in with the ultimate, and he takes down all of Giant X, just as I had predicted the infernal soul.
Wow, so much damage from Nabi.
Jack the bars with the 4k gold lead immediate one shot. It did not matter the lead to bank
GX too little too late. I believe is the same
Particular point in the game Jackie's and no, we're trying to hold alive. I'm doing some that way. It's doing some damage
Hold on major that someone needs to stop the permitting the next is probably
The next is second at the next is like that guy may have much
I will say this is a slightly more connotation.
Just a little bit.
And everybody else is goofing around trying to fight.
Well, Phobie's just auto auto auto auto.
Phobie's been there.
Phobie's been in some base race scenarios.
He's not taking any risks.
Phobie wants to be there.
I mean, this is still like Barcelona on the line for these lads.
And honestly, for an avi, they're kind of looking like they deserve to be there.
This was insane.
They had a lot of fun with that one.
A dominant performance.
Let's send it over to the AD to talk about that game one.
Thank you.
It was so fun to watch and I'm gonna say I'm gonna give Navi tons of props from the get-go because we're gonna start with maybe
The notes that weren't taken. Oh my god, so last week. Let's let's just paint the story
Two days ago even it's very recent. We saw M-Coy dismantle
Navi's entire game plan
We saw them realize that Navi wins the game through winning lanes, relage on his champions, and stacking Drakes.
What does GX do with all this prep time?
Big Pantheon.
Yes, they did in fact pick that champion, but they also gave Varus!
How? It's the most opiate champion in the game. It guarantees you bot push.
It's super easy to hold objectives because you're sitting on the dragon and in the coming you should peel and they just get choked to half HP.
It makes absolutely no sense for this to be your prep and I like I asked you to convince me at the beginning of the day
I wanted to be convinced, but this was so unconvincing to be fair
They technically only had a night to prepare right, but it took zero notes
I mean, you know, Isma was flashing a lot of fake notes, you know, and I was hoping that the notes were taken
but in fact they were not really taken because
man that draft sucks because here's the thing you you have Pantheon right
Pantheon wants the best friend but the problem is that he doesn't have a
best friend when wants to play by herself yeah Pantheon is quite sad about it
when wants to play by herself Aziric came to do anything with Aurora but the
problem is that this bot lane as Fin said the virus is just so neutralizing and
when I look at I mean we said it even before in the pregame it's all about
both in having good matchup and to just give virus like that and completely
neutralize I feel like then you need to move away from a don't pick pantheon
because it just makes it so that you need to be so proactive but instead the
characters have time to scale forever yeah very well you're well yeah
underwhelmed a little bit with GX's draft but very overwhelmed with Navi
because yes they had the right tools coming out of draft and they didn't
make a lot of mistakes a couple of snuff foods later in game but talk to me
about this Reledge early game, about how they ended up getting the first blood and just really,
yeah, coming out of the gates with you.
It's super nice because we talked about it before the game as well, that last week or
we knew, we know that Navi can ride a bicycle, but then they tried to ride a tricycle, which
did not work at all.
But now we see them back on the bike, super nice moves here together with Perperus and
Reledge, who's playing together, support jungle synergy on the fleek, love to see Reledge
bring out his Keanna, it's such an exciting pick to play and it has so many creative angles
you can find and that's what I want Swedish to have access to. Look at those combos, they're
so crisp to the maximum. I just hate Keanu, like this champion is just bullshit. It's
so annoying because he has double invisibility, dashes around, some point comes and one shots
you, has team fights pretty much, has everything, but I'm really happy that they decided to
bring this out game one because this is again, we can go and say, oh, this is maybe a game
three, game four champion, but no, this is exactly what we wanted from Relich and this
This is the confidence that I wanted to see more from him, walking into the rest of the
playoffs.
Abandoned this, now abandoned the Mundo, you don't need all of that stuff.
Make the game about yourself, because that's what he did this game.
The first blood into everything that pretty much happened after was like, hey guys, I
want to walk here and do that.
And everyone was like, yeah, we're going to be your best friend.
But instead, before when he was doing that, he was like, hey guys, can I help you?
Do you guys want some push?
Poby, are you doing well?
Oh, you're getting ganked and I can't do anything?
Ah, sucks, you know?
Give me more of this, give me more of this giga-tab attitude, you know what I'm saying?
Bro, he's like, he put the game on his back and this thing's over, that's all I want to see.
I mean, I absolutely agree, and I feel like right now, GX, you tried something, game one in draft.
You tried something, you had an approach, did not work at all.
So, what do I want to see GX do for next game?
I need you to, because if you look at Navi's comp, Scion top, control mid, really Tronkiana, it's exactly what they want.
want. You've got to take notes and stop this from happening. He said the line and you need
to stop Navi from getting their brother and their bread because you need to shut them
down in the drafts. You need to make sure Noah and June has a bot lane with agency.
They need to be able to show why they are so respected. A lot of bot laners in our league
call Noah and June one of the best bot laners in the league. And will you play against the
virus? You can't really show that. It's impossible.
Well, they're fearless, so they're not going to get a virus again. They're going to get
different matchup. You hated the draft from GX. I was vividly upset. You hated it. So give me
some pointers then. I think if we get right at first the selection, we will have a little bit
more info. We'll get it in the second, but what needs to improve? I mean, look, I like the Gwent
angle into the side. I think that can work. I don't think Gwent was an issue this game at all.
For me, it just really comes down to... Well, Maitre is now five and zero on Scion. Well,
you say yourself is fearless, so you won't get it again. That's true. Cool. But it's just like
It's like top lane doesn't really matter, you know, when I think of top lane it's kind of like you're...
True.
It's right.
It sucks guys, that's just, that's just, that's just blame right for making top lane useless,
you know, but...
Nako didn't hear those notes actually.
He just built difference, you know.
But it's just that top lane should be left under the loss, but I just want more combos,
you know, I just want to again make it more about, you know, both lane and mid lane together.
Yeah, that was like a rough stop.
I was looking for the right of first selection, but it's just, just using first pick it does
Signify that they have some power pick somewhere so they must be cooking because right now when I'm thinking of most things
And when they want to make their adaptations, they want to make it through counterfeits
So it is especially important walking to the next rap that first pick is something that enables everyone else to play League of Legends
Yeah, and I just wanted to target 80 carries and first pick the best one like this is simple game plan
Super easy nice that strong 80 carries pick the best one still executed
Don't make any mistakes, but it's Navi that is one game away from playing in Barcelona in our LEC versus finals weekend
Let's see if GX, the Spanish org, can bring it back.
We'll be right back.
Brother, brother, let me try.
Wait, brother, let us break this instead, brother.
Have a break, have a kick hack.
What is this, brother?
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No
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Oh
Yes sir
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I think I hate you or not
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You can play nico
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Thanks for me
Nice
Good job
I played good early
Watch out bro
Was that why Jun had a poor performance?
Oh, I was gonna say the same thing.
I was gonna say the same thing.
Tell me, no.
Look, I mean, love is not always reciprocal.
Yeah.
That's true.
Unrequited love.
We'll see.
We'll see.
Maybe GX could make the final turn.
I'm gonna be honest, things are not looking good
after that game won, but I think for GX,
they're really hoping to mount a massive comeback
performance, hoping to find their footing.
We're hoping to see a bit more of a stable kind
of stock standard draft, I think, here on the Cached Desk.
I like when teams cook, but in an elimination game,
elimination round, elimination game at this point, let's keep it to the standards.
I like when teams cook but still play to their strengths, right?
And I feel like that's what GionX didn't do.
Kind of got a little bit of cooking, but it wasn't exactly what got GionX into the position
in that brief, and especially as GionX kind of said, like in that interview with Kyoto
with Shox at the start of the day, that they want to focus on worlds,
and they want to focus on that through playing playoffs, like you'd at least hope you could
make it to the best of the fives, and really showcase what you're capable of
I do think Ease of Execution is a big one for me in draft. I want something like just teamfight and play front to back.
I don't think GiantX has currently the expertise to play difficult to execute comps where you need to play side lane well
and you need a lot of things to execute. But also this gameplay wise, I need no one to step up.
They need to be the difference maker in this series because those are the two players that I can actually see going above and beyond
and actually carrying GiantX through the finish line and they did not show that in game one.
and get one that they did not we're still seeing on the side of GX multiple
targeted fans pointed towards relish taking away the flex of the ambessa as
well as is a hand and now an immediate rise lock in for jackies has had a couple
good performances on the fix so far maybe this gives him some more individual
agency but let's see the responses now from Poby if we haven't seen the maybe
or the cassiopeia mostly because Poby's actually got a time to the rise so here's
to see if he wants to go towards either of those pics or what his answer is going
But you imagine it's a gonna be the 80 car focus to be in our still there easy
Yeah, probably I would have modern the unara quirky trade would make a lot of sense here
It's gonna be a new year for phobia. We'll see what skin he goes and if it's ready approved
He didn't know that we're animals we can't be taken by spacer. Oh, it's it's he also said like black cross and it is the best skin
The whole game so it's especially the new Gallio skin. Okay, so to be fair when that skin came out
It was years ago. Yeah, it's all really good. It's very well. I agree. Yeah, but it's not the best
game in the game. I mean, come on. Jarvan's now locked in for Reledge. Wait, Jarvan, come on.
Are you kidding? You're saying this, and I agree. We do like it when Reledge cooks. I wonder what it
opens up for Maitre to play. It's not always a strategy that's worked for them, giving Maitre
more of a carry role, letting Reledge be more of a facilitator, but you already have an
idiot. You already have some nice circle synergy coming through. A lot of ways to stop this rise
who's a pretty immobile champion, albeit a very fast one, from doing a lot. I feel like you would
I'd rather just go something like the atronks yourself and then look to flex that and then go Kassanta on 3 for Mainter, as he's shown a lot of good games on it.
And now it's going to be the since-all answer from Isma here and then Kassanta take away from Lot, trying to take away that tank pick from Mainter and probably, if I work a little guess, the gnar is going to be the pick up for Mainter.
Yeah, but I feel like, I mean, you get a ton of value here from Navi's draft, right?
Because if you go for the narrow, great synergy between them here, you've got a really good matchup,
that's a Nell C.S. shout out, a really good matchup then as well for playing around this mid lane.
And also you've got a ton of people that want to run at you that are around to be short range.
So maybe it just gets a lot of value as well.
I'm not really a fan of the wage, Ionix, and traffic into this enemy.
For me, I'm not a fan of Ionix.
I feel like you just saw Relic hop off on Kiana and Mainter doing what Mainter does best.
have a good game on a tank, and now you decide to try to switch it up in essentially what would be your game to make it to Barcelona.
I tend to like the Jarvan into things that are a bit more mobile in the mid lane though,
because you've got that cataclysm you can get value from, rise, kind of short range compared to the Divya,
so you get that setup and you can just play from trying to just kill the rise in the cataclysm, right?
It's not quite a hot pot, it's like a frozen pot.
I don't know how to, like it's the same thing, right?
Ice pot, cold noodles.
Cold noodles, like an igloo.
Cold fur.
Does he make a little circle to hop on?
No, we can't make that.
I like that.
I thought we were on food, but yeah.
Girls from Pulse doesn't really make sense.
Huh, never mind.
Gonna move on.
I might have been a double-on counter there.
We're gonna avoid that one.
I heard people laughing at that.
Anyway, we just see...
Okay, the Lucian band came out.
We saw this basically exact same composition,
although it was Isma on the Atrox with Noah and Jun playing the Lucian Nami yesterday,
which was good until it was...
It was not the Lucian Nami's fault.
It wasn't the Lucian Nami's fault.
No one did have a lot of pressure on that pick,
and it makes me wonder what somebody's gonna look to go for.
It's gonna say the corki.
The corki is like the same vanilla pick,
but if you're feeling a little bit more spicy,
if you're feeling this is really good
into the first three picks of GYNX,
but the only thing is your blind picking anteces
is a little bit scary.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Immediate time, because I gotta say,
with the Jarvan as well, you do get a lot of value
if you enforce something that doesn't have,
You know, the Valkyrie on the upside foot, Ash Seraphine incredibly strong in the bottom side.
I mean, we just picked Ash Seraphine into Jarvan.
And we're really, really making this Jarvan pick Exodia here for Relash.
So if there was a time for him to prove that he can play normal junglers, it's this game.
Yeah, it certainly is. On the other side for GX though, I do really like having the Ash Seraphine,
because we saw a lot play the Caconte into Nardi today against the comp with an Enibi on it.
He didn't do anything.
I cannot think of a single teamfight where this man could get on top of a key target
But now with the Serafinal coming from behind to be ash arrows the slows to set them up for success
There's a really clear path forward for him to disrupt some of this backline action
Maybe be able to build in the bigger advantage of teamfights
I do also like that
It's given giant X's bot lane the ability to be hyper aggressive in the lane because that is when no one John has shined their best
The only thing I'm concerned about is once you get past level six
There's an idea gets pushed on rise makes it very difficult for giant X to kind of rotate first and towards the bottom side
And I think that's where Navi can put their focus on for us trying to find picks in the bot lane
Trying to play to punish the immobility of Ashen Seraphine. They can look just no ball through
I think there's there's a lot to like here from Giant X
They have a nice kind of Uga Uga comp that can just go forward Seraphine shields you press your buttons
And you should win in teamfights the only worry I have is as you said I got it's a very immobile
Mobile both lane now wants to play very aggressive, and we saw when KC played it up against G2
that all Stuman had to do was put some attention down in bot lane,
and it's really easy for the Jarvan to get a Cataphrasm going, get some flashes going, and get some kills.
We have seen how powerful it can be in isolation if they are able to maybe split the map or do something else,
but here we go, game 2 of the series between Navi and GS.
Find yourself with a cut of 11-ac for the fourth split in a row.
This team could end in the fifth-sixth position with a victory.
Bring us to a game three, one step closer to top four for this giant X-Liner.
It's really all on Noah and June, I feel like.
The rest of the casts are supporting members here,
with Jackie's wanting to try to use this rise to roam down to the bot lane.
Locke just wants to survive up in top and Isma is the proactive aspect of Gainex's comp to try to help out no one joining this bot lane domination
I'm really really curious how this bot lane matchup is going to go. It's double range
So you can go both ways but Ash and Seraphine should have the early advantage and the push
There's a lot of skill expression on both sides. So we'll see how they play it out
I'm nervous for GX
But this is the part of the game where nothing's going to happen, so I'm going to have to just hold those nerfs as I imagine the players might feel similar.
Although who knows, maybe they feel unleashed in this high pressure scenario.
I wouldn't say that so soon. It's a very explosive both lane matchup, Graco.
So you can see the trades coming out already. Heal burned from Jun and matched by Pares.
Soundy decided to use the barrier as well. It's a 2 for 1 summoner advantage of Dynax.
You can see them getting the push already.
already. We're doing a good job level one though of actually getting the majority of Jackie's health bar. So already, like, pretty explosive lanes so far.
Now maybe looking to set up the B drop, the snare, if they get the slow you'll have the double cast, which apparently the stun is...
We're paying over to the jungle and jungle, just continuing to clear. It's a good early ward though from Noah and Jun.
Info's that's right bush on bottom side because Jarvan level three very very strong in the game
And I imagine looking at where is my movie probably going to try and place a ward spot out if the Jarvan is going to move through
River just to try and spot that out so already John X trying to make sure there is no way that you can interact in the bottom side
But also now moving in towards big lane a lot of trading here on mid
We'll see if Jackie's goes for the flash route flash route is going to be the thought W flash coming in from is the immediate egg
and now going to be the follow-up kill solid early gameplay coming in from GX.
They could put use of the Ryze setup for Isma.
It's clean, the execution is there, flashed a route from Jack East.
The traits that Poby had earlier, you highlighted like that.
It was really good by Poby, but it puts you at risk.
And Isma is the one to punish first.
He does just three taps, skips the full clear.
He ganked mid lane here and secure first blood.
Importantly though, both flashes down for jungle and mid.
Now potentially win of opportunity for Navi to fight back.
Reletch on the Jarvan, yes, a very linear champion, but one who has the CC to try and punish Jackie's mid.
If they can't get something out of this, it's purely a loss that Poby went down this early.
Reletch is going to be spotted on that ward as well as he goes towards Crabb, so I imagine Isma is going to try and shift back up towards top,
but he kind of has to clear his own jungle, so Reletch has an opportunity here, and I think he's going to take it to try and go for both Spoodle Crabb,
and try and send himself up early, but actually fishing for Isma instead.
Yeah, I would think that he would just take the reward of the Double Crab to Te Isma's pathing,
but instead he's waiting for Isma, but Isma is not wanting to go for the wolves.
Yeah, it knows that they must be going from bottom side, and his bottom is incredibly low.
Yeah, this could be a dive for Giant X here as Relish is taking out the wolves.
Maybe they don't want to go for it.
I've seen this before, Relish playing for his own advantage, trying to get something back after enemy jungler ended up with an early kill.
There's no field, there's no barrier, Somdi is just going to die.
Somdi should just fall here, is just taking his time when he becomes lighting, but Noah
going to grab the kill.
Knock him onto Chun is good, but the blinking out far is still there.
Isn't now going to try to make it out.
We'll be able to dash away.
We've got the full team collapsing on the bottom side now.
We look, tries to get a kill back.
She's going to get one.
Hope he's ready to go over the wall in an instant, but...
There is a flash.
A little bit late.
He decides a little too late that he wants to get it done, as is when we'll drop.
The tower gets the kill.
We've got a flash out from Noah, who waits for the flag and drag from Reledge.
So Navi could have gotten so much more.
It's Pobi's hesitation.
He's not sure if Isma is recalling in the bush or if he's walking around.
So he already uses the Q, which means that he flashes too late and he can't actually
reach him.
But I love what Isma did, skipping the wolves and going straight for this both dive.
It allows him for Dianek's both lane to just play really aggro, get the group trade so
they get the free dive and Relage is here, but it's too late.
But I think it's also a misread from Relage.
I think he saw the wolves and was like, okay, Yzma's immediately gone top to try and get the craft.
And that's where he's gone to.
But it means that then Yzma actually gets into the bottom side for free.
And again, you already kind of called it Jack.
The Flash needed to happen much sooner from Poby there, just commit so he can get the kill.
But now he's down a Flash, doesn't pick up what he wants to.
And it's Navi already falling behind in this bottom lane.
This is concerning because level 6 comes around, the Ash Seraphim bottom lane.
It's just so easy to set up these plays to force more.
The good news, I guess, Navi's bot lane has their sums back up, so it's not going to be quite that simple to just continue to play around bot, but it's something that has to be respected.
I also think, gentlemen, when I look at bot lane, I see this. I see a barrier on Corki into Ashe's top, Seraphine's top. Seraphine's charm, Rai's point and click root.
This is going to be very, very difficult. I understand. You would prefer to play, right? Heal?
Yeah, exhaust. Maybe TP actually. Actually TP.
If that one he dies he can just keep you back.
It's safe to say there's no obvious choice, Jack, for what he should have picked.
But yeah, maybe Clems.
Maybe Clems would have been a little better.
There is a timing window for Reletcher that will finish Krugs, hit level 6 and potential play on bot.
Because of what Isma actually trying to play for this gank on bot lane, he's super far behind when it comes to experience.
So with the level advantage, I think that he can force a play, but there's a lot of vision on this bottom side.
And I don't know how to pump in Reletcher's feeling here.
That's not certain.
That just pings you down on the break.
He's level 6.
There's no flash mid. There's no flash spot.
Surely this is the time.
Jackie's in that trade.
I mean, Popey already just burned his cool down,
so Jackie's walks away for now.
He's in a position to cover if there's a mid lane dive,
and I think Relic's looking a little bit lost,
a little bit scattered, not quite sure where he wants to try and make a play.
Looks like he can just,
I thought he might just hop over the wall and start dragging, to be honest.
Is he just going to try and waste time in the ball push?
I think it's not a lack of vision, like he doesn't know where enemy wards are so he's worried that both side is warded
So he doesn't go through there, and then he goes through mid and counters a pink ward and kind of waste his
extra tempo and just has to recall open to wolves open to blue buff, I mean
I don't know. I feel like the poker logic Mr. Nair is you literally saw him hock shot your grape
So they probably don't have vision there unless you think Noah's you know five steps ahead of you
I think he could have just went over and started it once he sees if he could have.
Maybe he was scared of a warded tribus. I don't know. I'm trying to justify his beloved care. That's fair. We're not inside his head
That's true. We also have perfect vision, so it's kind of easy for us to say what yes the peanut gallery
How could you not know 100%
Like it's not wasn't based really. I don't know. I could you not know that?
On the top side major building an elite against lots kind of expected and again
We saw the exact opposite in the previous game with the silent against Gwen
But we're not seeing a too great of a lead quite yet lot being able to get back and get the
Tabby's
Excuse me, but it's still cash before we even have you know 400 500 gold lead means that I think major not able to be as
Dominate as some of the times we've seen this match up. I
Think it will just continue with major having decent control and relage
From the position that he's in again. I think could just hard focus on this bottom side
He's got his cams coming back up and we're looking at a potential on baby
Here we push from join X on bottom mid the pinks already going down in the red book. Isma is a level down
But a Samdi is resetting. Yes, I'm being so chunked from these both trades
I think any fight in both side right now should be pretty winning for Isma
As long as he doesn't start it too early here, but both and already rotating relish has to respect neck is here as well
Hope he's starting to move it has to be really careful. Noah has access to the arrow
They see Poby they can just fire the arrow and kick this thing off. They see Poby
He is so called, he just walks slightly to the left and now it's Isla who's in trouble, who's forced to ult.
Tied away going out, they're going to find the fall, knock-up.
There's three members here, that's going to be the on-court coming in from zone.
Ultimate members done, relax, listen to the knock-up.
He doesn't find out the damage, finish the kill himself, he comes to Sombri, starts to walk forward.
Now the extended fight, holding on their junglers, Jax is flashing forward to finish off the enemy.
Sombri also going to fall and the extended exchange, GX are just so much stronger.
Stronger flash in from during the final auto, won't get it done.
GX group up and take out Navi in the fight.
They were in such a strong position and Navi scrambling to try and catch up to the play.
And it's Giant X who win out.
Just barely lacking the damage there from Navi, Rilech gets to ulti on the ISMA after ISMA
flashed away.
As we'll see in the replay here, it starts up with Poby just barely dodging the ash arrow.
It kind of looks like a win-in for the team.
And then Isma gets Shang, he's forced to ulti, really good E away from the German EQ, and then he's forced to flash the Nami Q here,
he gets to relish this ultime, ults the ulti, uppercase to Lissma flashes, and flash ulti,
and Isma buys so much time that Relish actually ends up going down, use Dex, flash forward, and then it's just Nami, Seraphine, yeah.
This is their comfort zone, these long extended fights with the slows, with the healing and shielding, that's what they live for.
XAMD also stayed for a long time on that bottom side before moving up, which forced him to use the bottom flash to play, but he should be fine.
But it does mean that, like, I think there, a little bit of miscommunication between Na'Vi, because if XAMD had actually just walked up immediately,
he wouldn't have had to flash into the fight, and wouldn't have gone down first, or had to stick around to go down, and often be over extension.
So, Na'Vi, I don't need the best response on the play either.
No, and I think Na'Vi may be still playing in that comfort zone of last game where they just had much more damage.
He doesn't have that completed item, uses the initial burst combo, relets giving the cataclysm on two, but the fallup isn't quite there, whereas the sustained damage you highlighted, Noah and John, Jackie's as well, just doing so much more work in those two fights.
It's level 8 versus level 10, and Jackie's is winning this. His main is forced to flash, just running for the hills, but he has plenty of money, he just doesn't have any items.
I was going to say it's two nice side steps for Maincher though, dodges two of the Q's from Jackie's, which kind of stopped him from going down.
And I was the only one who thought that the room prison came in,
and said Jackie's managed to hit one, so saving Men's just life,
did force the flash, but at least we'll survive.
Manther got the plate, and he did have to burn his flat for it,
but still up quite a decent bit of gold on Loth here,
and probably pretty close to Trinity Force.
See now finally takes his base.
But I think we've really just flipped the script
in terms of last game.
We've seen a lot of the same things we saw there.
Good.
70244, they did see the flat burn in the previous play.
I see Cataclysm going to catch Noah as well.
That's the truth though.
Noah flashing for his life.
It's the tidal wave now there to follow.
Isla going to try and cover.
Aldi from Noah should stop the planet tracks,
and it will do so.
B'lecht was on a ward though.
Jon I think was trying to play base,
waiting for his jungler and Isma to come down.
But B'lecht is just able to EQ over the wall
and set up for the play.
They knew he had no flash.
I think he dodged the vision
with how he played on the wall, but I'm not sure.
I think Dianix were caught unaware there
with how B'lecht played it,
But maybe we can see it in the replay because you just started right next to it at the wall
So unless it's like a bump in the wall or something, but he just walks right past us
Little looksies. Yeah to start at the bottom side play
Still no find themselves with pretty significant goal lead relatch holding on to a very small one of his own
It's like he's like walks up into vision of it. So I think he doesn't get flooded. Oh, there is a little
Yeah, he doesn't bother all sense of security. I mean, especially with the hot shot as well
It makes a lot of sense how Giant X dies from this.
This kind of highlights why as casters we get what I say,
oh, this is what it is, how did they die.
And then it's like, oh, it's like, they didn't realize it.
All right, well, bad board plays for him.
All right, let me play.
Let me play.
Let us also challenge the servers.
Good job, Highland Division servers.
Vendors are the professional players of the server.
Yeah, I can't really complain about these servers.
They're doing their killing it.
That said, maintre, goldleague, reelected, small goldleague.
Noah's still ahead to bottom lane.
Crack and Slayer is going to be a problem.
He was already winning extended trades.
It's only going to be more one-sided.
I have no curse, Dragon for Navi, although Relich's angry.
He's knocked up his bear.
Both of them have access to the wall.
Chain CC.
Jax really hasn't been able to do much of anything.
He's been out going in, but Dragon's right there from Relich.
And yeah, plain and simple.
And that's a lot of power of this mid-lane jungle combo.
You have so much CC with both Anivia and Jarvan.
Out the whole lot of damage, as you can see,
it took a while to take down third,
but now Mane's there going in right into two.
Yes, kill Jhin, one-shot Jhin.
His Relich is on the way up.
Oh, go, no, he's going to get the kill, but that was quite off.
And now he's flash forward, the alley-loops continues.
This time, no, it's like he's going to be up and ducking down.
His doll wants to get a kill back on Mainzer,
but it's a double coming in for Relent.
And Relent heard you drink,
and put some respect on his name.
He flashes, then he picks up no as well,
and that's two kills slowing to Navi,
and they're going to get the top power,
and the gold has swung back in their favor.
And this has been a great series for Merlatch.
She looks absolutely fantastic in game one,
now again in game two, making this job of working.
You kind of talked about in draft that how vulnerable some of these lanes are, but he's just putting on a clinic when it comes to us.
Yeah, definitely. And we saw some vulnerability early on, some missteps. It felt like he was falling behind, but he managed to navigate his way through this middle stage of the game after those first few minutes to find kill after kill after kill.
Six out of six in terms of overall kill participation, not dissuaded by falling behind a little bit early on.
That's unpolarized to relish because I was disappointed when I saw the drive-in pick
I wanted something spiced here
But hey if you're gonna play into four or three a mobile carries and then actually punish them when their flash is down like this
And just play a really good game
You sold me. I'm told
So if he plays it good, you're fine with it. Yeah, that's what you're saying
That's what I mean at the end of the day. They're paid professional players and they're here to win
So if they win, how can I play?
What am I gonna sit here and say no, I want this to win that is the foundational content of European League of Legends
Yeah, how do we beat Korea right? Oh, that's our fallback. That's how you know, but you must play piano work against maker
No, we left absolutely poppin the J4 we've seen it too, right?
We saw this from skew mon to the preseason once you get rolling if you can find a lead if you're not playing this Jarvan from behind
It really feels like you can just pick fights anywhere on the map at any time
And I do think it gets a lot of value as you start to get later into the drafts because you do end up with a lot of immobile picks
And especially when you look in the mid lane like once his ears gone
I don't think there's many answers to us in the draft and unless you want to fall back to things like this area that we start to
See a little over the else okay once you start to drift in towards like court keep being gone and some of these other picks taken away
There's just not an awful lot of safety that's still left on these 80 carries either
through does mean if we go to a game period it's gonna be that much more complicated now need to see
what GX can look like in a setup around this Herald have access to the on-court Jun's ultimate
Noah's ulti as well she accepts so many good tools to force the fight the Cataclysm though is a big
concern it's getting chunked there by the Herald and Giant X they have full control but already
allowed with just the Navi walking up they have to drop it Jun getting slightly poked out here
Now Navi can push in this mid-wave.
Maintra's taking both tower as well.
The map is just falling apart for Drynex.
Now this is the center of what we saw on game one.
Navi just going in towards their side lanes,
playing well on the map,
making it uncomfortable thanks to the pushing waves
for Drynex to ready contest.
We're seeing a very similar story here.
We troll everywhere.
Navi take the objective,
and no cross map to speak of for Drynex.
So difficult for Drynex.
Navi are pushing in both side lanes.
And while the Drynex doesn't have the purse right yet,
And there's gonna be, like, if Na'Vi were to play for Seoul this game, it would be a very long game,
due to how late these dragons were taken.
It's still a big gold lead for Na'Vi, and it really swung against Gynx's favor, and it must feel bad for Gynx.
This is your elimination game.
The do or die game, and you have that early lead, you have the potential,
but now it looks like you're going fifth once again.
And it's the same exact elimination game we've seen for four splits consecutively.
consecutive. This is a roster that kept all five of its members that has ambitions of worlds. Well, you ought to talk about, hey,
we're not that serious about winter. We want time. World is a very far way away.
You feel like you'd have a leg up. Like you would have progressed further than any of these teams that are just coming together.
And while they're early game, and this one looks like that might be the case,
as you might see that level, it's once again falling apart.
For Giant X, it's a roster that's, as you say, it's tipped together. So you're hoping that they'd be able to fix some of the mistakes.
But unfortunately, logs, hang on. Going all in on a pony.
In the slow zone, the wall has divided them, now the rest of the team may be looking to start something off, we're not connecting.
Probably just stymies the play there, as Poby is running to the wrong side of the map in the top lane.
Some freak action happening up in the top here, as Poby is just running.
Just getting weird with it, thank you for observing for the Poby camp.
I want a full screen, this is what I care about.
No, the drake, the drake.
Let's remember who's playing, the drake's on board.
1v1 continuing, drake at the same time, never mind, it's Poby camp time.
Lott surely gonna win out on this one as Poby starting to bamboozle him.
Lott decided he no longer wins this one and will run away, but GX has gotten the drake.
Taking it away from Navi as instantly the trigger's gonna get pulled here by Rhealus.
The objective already down, the title has come through to interrupt Isma.
Zondia uses the barrier, both sides walking away.
Navi using a lot there when the drake was already gone.
Mainzer just wasn't really in position, it already hit the meganar, so Relax trying to basically give him a wall and maybe some setup.
But Navi kind of fumbling the plate, push on bot, doesn't really net them anything, they try to use the Herald mid, sure they get some plates, but kind of doing too many things at once and end up burning the brawl.
Yeah, Navi wasn't really sure if they wanted to contest the drake or not, and when they finally went for it the drake was already gone, this dragon, they need to get control of the map to do so.
And Navi have yet to concede a drag in Seoul in 2026.
They leave their 9-0 after last game and securing Seouls across their game if a Seoul is secured.
Obviously there's a game where there's no Seoul secured.
And nominally, when they fall behind, we don't always make it to the time where a Seoul is on the table.
But if Navi are in control, they're getting that Seoul,
and GX could be the first ones to really fully flip the script on them.
But that's the weird thing. Like, Navi have felt kind of in control past, you know, say the 8-minute mark.
So that's where you would assume, hey, they are going to start getting more of these terrorist busts.
I saw you these dragons, there's not the case, I mean the cost.
Alright team claps, he tries to bounce back the other way.
Let's give him a look to stack up the mega here.
Stack up the mega, what did he run with the hyper?
I mean this is a Poby round 2 scenario here it looks like.
But he's gonna be fine and they're getting the tier 2 on board so...
Oh, that's our...
Oh, look at the arrow, look at the arrow!
Stasters, probably dead.
Very good to be it.
Well played.
Very...
Dicks. Very very good.
Dicks. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Okay.
That was a good arrow. That wasn't a really good arrow. I didn't see how far away he was.
No luck. No luck.
One left for Noah just by two, one and five.
Fans have been making stuff happen. Those first two arrows, they went a little awry.
That third one really connecting.
On the mark is he's now level 11. He was cool down that much shorter.
And he's got that second item too.
Still has to play against Jarvan which is frustrating.
but feeling more optimistic as the gold lead shrinks down to 3,000.
You caught it?
I think that the surprising part to me is just going to have much control of Giant X probably,
because you do have a 3K gold lead, but we're actually getting caught now again.
What we caught out here is like going to follow, has another knockover to go,
Junkett will look for a little bit more damage, luckily the flag of drag does manage to get him out,
but it's red buff secured for GX.
Yes, somebody is having so much trouble contesting this Ash Seraphine on mid wave,
But it's opening up then for Giant X to actually like, find these picks and find these plays.
So, when it is Navi who, you know, started off well, it's Giant X with the tempo,
and Giant X is finding ways to diminish that goalie.
I'm so glad that we're getting an actual better look at Giant X,
because this is the highlight of this team, the strength of this team is no one June,
how well they can play together, and how will they enable the rest of Giant X to play.
And that's exactly what they've been doing this game, shutting down Relic where they can,
getting this my leads getting those dragons and this is Noah and June and
giant eggs at their best and it is is my waiting in the darkness has to be
careful not to step too far forward real hard to getting kicked off they're
just trading places however is the alti still going to connect the arrow the
fall under real estate if I'm to kill under the jungle they might just turn
their attention to the Baron GX no financial angle base or mega no about
to fail to get another knockback on the lot who can't do anything but flash away
to safety the last little bit of frostbite there the last key from the
Nidia not able to empty the health bar. Not quite empty to make it happen. Main
turn gonna, I say lost gonna have to go back to base, but it's a minute still
until this next objective. So we're just gonna have to run it back around too.
Yeah it was just flash for flash burn. Virtually it's a relaunch, the jungler of
Navi that used flash so it's gonna be a lot harder for him to try to access the
pit if he wants to go for a steal or if he wants to go for a crazy engage on no
That's no flash on Noah now. Relish is going to have to ult you up for the Drake. Big, big, big mistake from Noah here.
Stepping too far forward. Dombi and those extended skirmishes obviously not able to win out with the immediate burst, especially with the Imperial mandate.
So it makes him a big threat, as Poby might be in trouble. He's essentially out of mana, so there's no way he should be able to win out on the 1v1 here.
one here and once again he's running into enemy territory, he's going to fall here, Jackie's
finding the side lane pick, this should be at the flash away, Jackie's just going to accept it.
He's getting away with some crime, so I feel like getting out of these situations.
And now Poby has to TP, so he can look to TP, Jackie has no TP.
Ooh, pops away from the arrow, that's important, but the extra movement speed now,
coming in, Mainchor in trouble, knock-up is there, he's a tired guy, so he's not even
sacking rage quite yet, third drop on the hyper, but now the ass is here with the frost shot,
down he goes it's everything kind of falling apart from Navi. Reletch pulls
up trying to help out Colby which gave Drianek's position which put Maintor
overextended and now a potential third dragon for Drianek's.
Jacky's on 3-5. Has the realm of pass the flash.
So we can handle just the drake because Jacky's spotted out but she only can
make it through now. So hard for them to keep this poke. Reletch with no flash. If
he imps just a bit he's gonna die and that would be a nash for Drianek.
Jack is immediately on core coming in from two and that's gonna be Pogie taking down early sports to the egg
Now on behalf of the recourse they're starting to run, but with their mid laner gone Baron might be on the table for GX
I think that's exactly it, right? Go join us!
They're gonna round more pain!
We were questioning if they were showing up today, but they're slapping Navi down where they stand!
Giant X came to play, they've got three dragons, they're on the match, Reletch needs to do a miracle here
He asked the smite, the smite K, can't he get in?
2-3 pulling through. Pathfinder going wide, but he's gonna pull us back.
Realist tries to get back in, but the buffer only takes a deeper into the waiting arms of GX,
not into the range of the Baron. Zombie good poke back, but again, it's easy there just in time.
Vayner now has to run for his life. It's GX with the Baron. Noah with the kills to close it out.
And there's so much CC on this Giant X squad. This is the team comp that we were looking for.
Infinity Edge completed on Noah, and he is an absolute menace in these teamfights here.
Yeah, I thought this was gonna be a hit and run from Giant X,
But it's kind of hit hit hit and Navi has to run because every single time it's just Navi out of position
Mainter coming through here, but Navi weren't ready to follow up
You had no ultimus and just completely caught out on the plane
And a lot of that again is coming back to the fact that probably the card inside but now it's Jack
Stacking rules that are going to be cut outside nice side step on the wall of the Narnas and back in so don't
Outplay that one however the rest of the team is pushing in mid like Navi
Limiting the effect of Mr. Baron by finding that sideline pick but they will now likely concede this mid lane
tier 2. It's a big mistake by Jackie's though. It's a good pick by Navi but it does mean that now
it's going to be a pretty underwhelming match for Giant X. They did get the mid tower and they
got a few plates in mid but I don't think they'll really get much more than that. So then it all
comes down to the soul fight in the next three minutes. But they'll have Flash back up for that
fight. They didn't even need it in the previous one. And all it takes is in the minutes leading up
up for that but to find that major pick force a flash with the arrow get a
couple kills a lot of tools to just make this easy for GX they also have the
hot shot for additional vision so even if they fall a bit behind in the setup
they just feel so vapor and the fact is you're kind of seeing how wonderful
pobe is in a side lane it's just giving that opportunity for giant X to find
those picks use that ult from the ash you set up the plays and suddenly you
know there was a sizable goad in a main turn not looking as hot anymore
Now we're not able to find that for a playoff of the 4 key Nami
For giant X as long as they can keep this push up. It feels like the soul should be theirs
That's a really easy come to execute for giant X leaders need to group up syrupy is providing so much value
She's really outscaled not me at this point with how much healing shielding and CC she provides so now know what looks for the arrow
There's the flashing.
But it's basically for nothing like that.
I was going to be back up in 40 seconds.
So from Navi's perspective, you're just down a summoner.
It's that much harder.
And again, this is the ease that we're talking about.
They can constantly fish.
The CC is non-committal.
If no one arrow misses, it's not the end of the day
with this kind of advantage.
It's only a 300 Goldie, but the conference good spot.
Gatsby's caught up by the wall,
likely now to fall on corporate but after healing.
Gatsby's trying to run for his life down.
He goes, half close, coming through.
They'll look hot in the pit.
Now Poby's there to follow up the ice.
They're just cutting him down, freezing him, and DXI thrown it all away. Are you kidding me?
A catastrophe in the bottom lane.
It's a huge mistake from Jackie as he walks up and it's three kills for Na'Vi as they found some of the opportunity
they will push out both and the one saving grace for Giant X is the fact that it's still not soul time.
And you would think that Ash would want to be in the igloo.
She does not want to be in the igloo.
I think if there's one thing that we've learned because it looked like Noah was just gonna live but finally
Poby's able to get the out reactivated but it starts with Jackie's a major bubble
He has no flash and just immediately gets blown off. That was not the position at all
And as you say like Noah and Ismar just getting burnt here
Even the fact you get the knuckle with the
Resurrection just coming through from the relic was perfect
But a massive fumble from giant X
They will still fall in time for the soul, but all these waves are gonna be pushed down
Our Na'Vi will be the ones that can set up on the objective, and now you have to face-check again with crucial, crucial Summoner spells down.
And the morale for Na'Vi, it's been revitalized after that play.
It felt like the game was slipping out of their grasp, but now they know all they need is one more fight.
As Colby puts up the wall, they get a good chuck on the lock here.
The lock is just taking damage, sticking down.
The lock has the TP, but Mainter is continuing to push in top. Really good macro by Na'Vi as they're continuing to pressure top.
Continue to pressure top and low pass to answer.
Still good patient, you're right, it's so crucial because they don't need to over force their hand here.
Isma has to flash, it's easy for him to get into that pit.
But now their wall is blocked, Malfi might be in trouble.
They forced the ulti out early.
Mainter's blocking the top lane tower in the meantime, immediate cleanse.
That's the Mikael's actively used by Paris to keep things closed.
Mainter on the way down, Megan Norsk back.
Now I'll be confirmed to this break and stay so choose, but I think we're going to get the full on 5v5.
No with no ulti, they're trying to catch Reles in the meantime.
Mainter ready to go mega, but that means GX should start to back away.
Noa wants to get a little bit more damage, a little bit more control, fighting over the mid push.
GX needs to wait out this Mega-Nar before they fight.
But Jynax the pain is perfect, they can just keep healing this entire time to not be losing those in the poke war.
And Jynax, they know it. They're starting to circle.
They're starting to descend. Jaki's flash forward to meet your ball with the on-court.
Oh my god!
It does absolutely nothing! Now Noa, untouched, allowed to do whatever he pleases for now.
It's just hitting onto the gnar, finding that bit of extra damage.
Damn it, Jackie's looking to finish up nature and it's devastation as GX takes the fight.
It's a four man encore from June and it's Noah and June in the final fight that put
them nail in the coffin to secure Dinex a chance at Barcelona.
Dinex said we're ready to do it again.
Immediately they get the kill and immediately they turn towards an exit.
We are going towards a game number three it feels like but honestly,
I'm the end here.
15 seconds.
They're going to try.
I mean, Pirates needs to do a miracle.
And we see it intensifies.
The arrow hits.
The support is dead.
The runway is open.
It's going to be close.
I mean, Sombri is going to spawn alongside Relic.
What a second.
Two minutes to die.
Noah just deletes the tower.
There's no way.
Relic is here.
Sombri is here.
Dragging through.
Ismael, you're going to go for this and get Relic's death.
The game is over.
GX bringing us back to a game three.
Sombri cannot do it on his own.
Pobie cannot do it on his own.
They do need to hit the nexus!
GX hits the neck!
Okay, we're going to a game three!
A guy in ice.
They're a crazy beat to walk to go back and forth,
but finally they're able to make it work.
Noa and Jerm, a great wrap, a great matchup.
And a fantastic performance.
And let's hear about that performance.
Shock standing by with Noa, just in time with the microphone.
Noa, the first game, you got beaten by the guy,
you said that you wouldn't get beaten by tell me about the revenge in game 2 yeah
I mean we still had like confidence after one game because I think one game we did
one mistake and I came up with a bit hard you know so yeah I'm so we just had a
computer you know so okay tell me about game 3 I mean we're gonna stop yes I
love it go talk to your team and talk about how you're gonna stomp them and
I'm gonna go to the desk I don't need this I think oops I do no I don't okay
Great. What do you think? Is he gonna stop him? Was it that convincing or not?
I am... I mean...
I'm sure I'm compelled, but I'm a little bit excited because it looks like Jax still hasn't fired in them.
It was a step in the right direction. Honestly, for me, I was just so satisfied with that champion and you get just lost
because me and Finn were just sitting backstage, you know, like, oh my god, it's just so annoying.
You hit chickens!
You never hit a mini champion against a good NAVI, you have not suffered.
I mean so we had the end of the game right and I guess just like you know being annoying and all that stuff
We sing everyone off for 50 seconds and then finally she lose that was just screaming with dope on me
but back to the game I was really happy with this one because
We mean them with the big notes, but the notes have been taken and man if you pop off
Yeah, he did tell me about that early game
I mean it just felt like he had everything under control
He was really crucially skipping these camps to really set up his laners like that first dank on mid
really making sure this hard matchup for the rise of Nivia didn't really have the
impact that she wanted to have also skipping the wolves to go for that bot
dive we saw it as well it was pinging out super early well communicated by that
bot lane of GX and this is exactly what we highlighted Noah and June are your
main characters and set them up for success he did and they definitely
delivered I mean what you have with Nivia I kind of have with Seraphine
sometimes right and we saw it together in a combo from KC the other day but you
just see how destructive it can be when they clump up and it was kind of like
watching Jaws some of these fights because you just know that they were all
gonna get charm. Exactly it felt like a little bit of a repeat of the KC G2 series
where you know you're lacking a lot of firepower you end up falling extremely
behind you're quite useless for a while to be honest but there is this time in
the game where the utility is just unmatched you know the ashes and I'm
top the Seraphine. I really like Seraphine because it's an enchanter that it feels like
it provides so much for the team and towards the end the Seraphine was actually the one
they called Danivia and just set up the whole game to be snowballed.
And I think we're seeing a lot of GX races right here but let's bring it back as well
to Navi a little bit because they were quite sloppid this game. I expected Navi when they
had these winning game states to easily get control on a lot of these dragons but a lot
of the time they were getting caught off right before the dragon spawns and I'm like this
is not Navi this is Rogue I'm watching right now I don't understand why they're getting
caught off like this is it rogue time already because they just kept throwing away these
super good positions and it's not on Navi I would say because it is just GX was actively
looking for displays before every single dragon it wasn't really like oh you know a miracle
happened we just randomly caught someone no it was them actively forcing because we saw
So before we Drake 2, we saw before Drake 3, and even now on the last and final Drake,
they pulled the trigger, and they were proactively looking to split up Meinter or Poby from the
rest of the team.
And this was really all to see from Navi, given that this was exactly what they were
doing for the whole split.
Yeah, maybe if we can get that replay of the final dragon, where the kind of all comes
together again for GX.
And I think it's also, it's kind of like forced errors, right?
A little bit, right?
Because they feel like they have to make a change on positioning.
They were all clumped up and they just don't engage. Yeah, I think this is a little bit frustrating because you have the really good position
You're standing in the river here. The dragon is up. Yeah, what are you looking for?
Like you're just looking at them and GX is like wait, we see that Narbar. We see the Narbar ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking
We're just at the wait 15 seconds and when you're not as many we're just gonna walk up. What are you gonna do?
Is it like Lee's syndrome? Is it like Narbar syndrome and they actually the better play is to go and start the dragon and get the
Nivea wallop, right?
Definitely, but it's also a constantly good experience playing gnar. Usually in these situations
You want to like edge it a little bit better
You want to make sure that you have really high fury, but you actually don't get your megan or timing off
So you can kind of keep that threats up more from the sideline or sideline
True. What about Noah?
Did he deliver?
Boy, he did. Oh boy, he did.
You're slowing people.
Yeah, because we had the biggest criticism or like he was always the one to look at and I am so happy that he finally got
You know a great matchup this game and going into game 3
I really want to see more of this more productivity from Islam more productivity from Noah because every everything felt
Like it finally came into you know, it fell into position
But yeah, look at that 20 30k damage dealt on ash got the mosquito build
What's the mosquito bill mosquito bill your damage challenge? It's when you go static ship
Oh, sorry, not set actually when you go crack and slayer into phantom dancer and then you're completely useless for like, you know
10 minutes, but you're doing a lot of auto attacks at the same time when everything is flying
But then you get item number three, which is IE and then you become completely Thanos, you know, okay?
I see so yeah, I just I always like to see ash and up, but
Yeah, game. But listen, I'm gonna ask I think it's this one because you guys you cheer for poby and for Noah, right?
I know they're ex thank you. They're ex fanatic players. Thank you for that
So who's it gonna be in game three?
Well, I really hope it's giant X because it's two to one
There we go, do you believe him is it gonna be giant X?
This is a hard one if I would have to say one I would say Navi
Okay, I feel like game one Navi was a little bit more convincing because this game giant X
They kind of got by with a little bit of sketchy players here and there I feel like in general
I want to see Navi once again. We keep repeating it really please pick your champions
No boring champions boring champions
He did great, well you guys own a bar
No, no, no, no, he's fine
He's fine, he's fine
Look at him, man
I thought it was just better
Yeah, I just like the 8 trucks as well
Yeah
Man, you guys are so biased
Like it's not real
Because I just want to see because now it became a battle of adaptation, you know
Game 2 we saw that the nice adaptation from GX and now going to game 3 Navi is like,
Hey, you know, enemy jungler exists, you can gank us both, you know, do us some vision.
Now it becomes an actual battle of food as well, because I still feel like Rilege got the better of him.
But Ysma found these isolated incidents where he was just snowballing the right people.
Yeah.
Okay, so Navi's actually chosen first pick now.
So, Odom, you call us biased. If you were, I have to say who's gonna win next game, would you say GX?
No!
The rogue spirit lives on forever. I am team rogue all the way. I love rogue.
The roster of which he got replaced by the Antonio
And she get that why did you have to
So why is it neither target when I replaced him
Okay, I got replaced by although I'm the LST champion although I'm the shalky miracle round maker
You got replaced by Dantonio and she can't don't judge me by my gameplay judge people by who replaced me
So I should judge you by myself. Yes
How does that work?
Because they were so happy to get rid of you, they got someone like whoever they could find.
You're insulting this other player so hard actually.
My apologies, my apologies to Shigenna and the Antonio.
And we're gonna take a quick break because we need to put down.
Yeah, I need that one.
And then we'll be back.
Yeah, I'm...
Wait, is he switching lanes?
There yeah the tier 2 on 4 so...
Oh that's our all on sale!
Look at the arrow!
No no no no no no.
No no no.
I got one.
I got one.
I will look to...
I got one.
Okay I got one.
No no no.
I got one.
I got one.
I got one.
I got one.
I see you guys.
I got one.
We got this.
Oh my god.
There we go.
Oh my god.
We got boosted again.
First half is so...
I think if there's anything that we've learned from that game, it's that we're a one step closer
The Jackie's and June kissing
That's true. I forgot about that
You gotta remember this is the time when we're not it's yeah, that's the problem. I guess we're in hold on
We'll see we'll see JoJo play tomorrow
We'll see if we're on a new timeline after that for now getting ready for game three stakes our sky high now
This is the do or die both these teams probably would be for be playing a best of five, but the best of three
They haven't made it deep enough quite yet. One of these teams will be going home
The other team will be going to this one and it's really gonna be all about the draft. You saw in that last game
I think we can all agree
Really big owl draft by Gion X. They had really good pieces that worked together fantastically
I really want to see how they set up Noah and June for success in this game number three
And I like you talking about following but I want to take a brief beside talk about a lane that no one really cares
much about it's top lane and I really want to say these top laners there's
not a big enough skill discrepancy that they can play tanks in the counterfeits
and I really want both sides to play tanks and that's a rumble never mind
okay yeah but rumble kind of like you have you don't really get a choice it's
like you have to play rumble rumble that's your job as a top of orange yeah
but orange yeah but you kind of rumble I think went out in the match in place I
I think you can like, push away.
No, I agree, but it's the same as about the Nohr, and the Cassante, and the Gwen, and the Scion,
and the lead is never big enough to balance out the difference in team-fighting impact.
Now, Rumble can't have big team-fighting impact.
I'm just saying, I'm immediately skeptical.
Especially with the Unara on the other side as well.
Unara kind of goes?
I don't know what your answer is, because the Corki's already taken away,
she's kind of in go-to, so maybe...
Take a few Leos.
The thing with the few Leos is that you're playing into the Orn,
So it's pretty annoying like the old be later on but as long as you get some sort of peel from your teammates
It's pretty nice matchup into the Unara and they can look to go for that Lulu as well
I mean, it's a nice combo of Helios Lulu a little bit disjointed when you think about a Helios Lulu rumble
Now you really need a lot of setup from mid and jungle here to make this composition work because you pretty much have three champions
a very limited CC and setup for themselves
Here is that peeling
element going to come from
And the Lulu already, maybe more setup is going to be the right path forward.
We've seen Yone ban repeatedly, and haven't seen it picked up quite yet.
GX looking maybe to just double down on having these hard engage options.
The game was already difficult for Samedi in the later stages.
Based on the Ornn alone, the Nautilus would definitely make it that much more difficult, that much harder.
And now, Navi really needs someone that can frontline, tank the hook, and actually peel for Samedi.
Otherwise these fights are going to be miserable for the Othelio
So the second man face is really really important for Navi to not get too pinched in the jungle role
I think right now we talked yesterday about how linsus had to carry a lot of buckets
You have to do a lot of things and then this game really just gonna have to do a lot of heavy lifting for Navi
He needs to be the one to face check. He needs to be the one to make space
He needs to be the one to engage and he needs to be the one to peel
That's a lot of pressure. And GX are taking some of his options away from him.
Because Trundle with the pillar is a champion who can engage and repeal, who can
shred those resistances away from the Ornn, make him less of a problem even
before Aphelios has two, three, four items. But GX is painfully aware of Rilech
being kind of the main character from what we've seen in draft and supporting
this Aphelios. And if Ezreal ends up taking the Wukong on this next rotation, I
just don't think you have a huge amount of answers here. Because like, you're going
to end up with a really strong team fighting team, turn us up like and die
the back line and even though Lulu has like one polymorph for something I still think you get a ton
of value from Gion X and it's a very very strong composition with a bunch of backs. I think for
Navi like I actually don't know what Reletch is going to take in this scenario that kind of well
has all those hats or fills all those buckets you know. He needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat
as they say and I'm curious to see what he'll look to find. Mundo is certainly a decent option.
You don't have the CC and no real engage, but it is a good front line and they can't phase take
It's probably their best option that I could imagine is going to top good into orange
Can you flex the rumble into the jungle?
Doesn't solve any of the problems you mentioned before
Actually way trucks jungle here for Isma
It's been a champion. We've seen reledge find a lot of success off
I think you know do give the option to the blue conch or a lech though, which is I think good in this sort of situation
you want to engage and at least it's something that can you know play around with clones
And I've seen plenty of flights where a wukong can't interrupt an horno to the two so I like the pick here for sure wukong
It does buy a lot the only thing is the slow early clear and
Engage can be quite telegraphed
As I feel like now you still want some more utility here from mid lane
So I really like the re pickup from poby because now you have a clear way of engaging and actually starting a fight
I think going I mean Gallio would be good as well, but you just need something with CC
I don't think you can pick a carry here on mid lane, so we'll see what Jackie's goes for last pick here
They want to go for the Gallio really are putting all the eggs in the know of Asuka
So Leo's an option or
Silas could also be an answer here in the mid lane
You've got like some ultimates that could be decent close
I think that's a little bit just fine like you've already got strong frontline till you can just take pick at whoever's been knocked up by the Zorn
And it's really hard to play around the Unraveled Earth as the Wukong, if enemy team has set up first.
Especially when there's already all these tools that you need to be aware of.
It's going to be so hard to feel for some people also playing around the fact that you can't dash ever in this fight.
I think getting to be on five air is quite criminal.
That Giant X was able to secure it. You have the Taliyah and Althus combo.
You have great CC to set up this Taliyah for success.
And you have a huge DPS threat now, with both Jackie and Noah doing so much damage.
I really prefer Giant X-Trap, but I see Navi having some sunlight, or some light at least, at the end of the tunnel,
with Hobi and Reletch both having a lot of agency in this game, to start fights, and some of the entire is following them and doing enough damage.
Certainly the pressure is on. Giant X, we've seen it before, backs against the wall, opting for scaling, really good front to back picks,
standard kind of option to Aproxx in the jungle, Hulia for the setup, and Noah really going to do the heavy lifting in terms of that carry option.
Now Navi, it's a bit of a mixed bag, but Wukong, Rumble, a combo, we've seen so many times,
maybe they can make it work. This is the Rumble first pick, this is the champion of their prior time,
and it absolutely has to deliver pressure on Maitre to perform, when this is his pick, that they selected so early in draft.
I mean, it's a champion that he's been comfortable on, I mean, every top laner is,
But I think it is going to be a case of, as you say, like, playing through these strong combos.
Harry Wukong, Wukong Rumble, hope for the best.
And the best could be Waluigi into Barcelona.
Don't let these teams, one game away.
Yeah, that's game number three here.
Noah and Jun versus Soundi in Paris.
That's the matchup I'm looking at.
I think top lane, not much is going to happen in mid lane.
It's really dependent on the junglers.
I think Relish has a lot of pune play around Poby and try to set him up for success
If we can land those charms, look for the Flash Charms set up the ganks, but it's really the 2v2 in bot lane at the pivotal.
Samedi in Paris, with the Ophelios Lulu here, they want Uli, Noah and Jun out.
If they can get the push, get a CS lead, and set these Ophelios up for success, the scaling and the damage that this champion can provide is just unbeatable.
Certainly through when you get that advantage as well the utility feels that much easier to pull off as well
not so concerned about nailing the perfect gun combos having access to that grab its own but
We've just seen so many games where the you know really can start to take over and often times when she can it's because it's that pink
That BP frontline on the opposite side now the wukong passive is going to give a ton of armor and that armor is going to be very relevant
Maybe not enough to stop Noah from really taking over in the fights. I
I think it is, as I say, like if this Unara gets rolling, I just don't see a way to stop her.
But it is going to be on Reledge for a huge amount of this to find creative flanks into fights after that.
I kind of need to have a lead. Like if you're at the coming second fiddle to those fights, it's a lot more difficult.
Reledge will be spotted out on the clear, nice ward again.
This is some of the jackies that's done pretty consistently throughout the series, just hitting this ward down, spotting exactly what Reledge is up to.
It's a good early vision here by Gionax. We'll see what Isfah wants to do with it.
Looks like he's going for an invade, but he's gonna be spotted out then.
Taking notes.
But it looks like he's actually trying to go for a bot gank, but Navi no.
So they should not fall for it.
Right? Back and off.
Mark on the cannon with the moonshot. I mean, somebody will at least get that.
Has to give up a couple of CS here. This one just continues to hover in the bottom.
Oh, much flash set up. Double flashes!
Wow, I mean, that's incredible value here.
June flashes forward and goes for the hook, and both Sampdian-Paris kind of panic, and both flash at the same time.
Isma is very slow and is clear now though, because he cleared his bot side, now has to walk all the way to his top,
whereas Ralech has fully cleared now, as you're only starting on towards your fourth camp.
So for Navi, I mean this is a big win in the early stage, even like at least for junglers, flash is being down, less ideal.
I mean it's a big risk for Misma, but I think it's the type of play that you need to go for in the do or die third game.
And the reward, I would say it's worth it, Daiga.
You get two flashes, but you also alleviate so much pressure from Noa and Jun.
You can see them, they're perfectly even on CS, and perfectly healthy as well,
which is exactly the start you'd want, as this Unara Nautilus playing into this playlist, Willow.
And we'll need to keep our eyes on the bot side, Camphrey's gone for Isma's.
He's only free yet another gank, he's trying to be so active.
We'll need to concede himself to try to set up his laners for success.
Main turn on the cusp of overheating as he tries to get the wave in.
Looking for the knock-up, nice side step from Maitre, is on the way forward.
First Q knocking ahead, they get the flash out, QQ does connect,
Flash in to try to finish the job on the Maitre.
One more auto coming in, and that could be first blood on the top side for GS.
And Isma just keeps playing proactive.
He knows that in this do or die game, he needs to make the difference.
He's willing to drop the CS, and that's a big hook by Jun.
Somebody goes to half, but it's not going to be much more.
It's first blood picked up by Giant X off the back of Isma.
Very nice gank, Isma just not actually go for camps whatsoever just says I'll take kills instead.
And now, I mean it's on Navi to try and turn us around, we're kind of saying look this game, you want to be in a winning position as Navi.
So you can hope to try and control when it gets to where he's objectives.
Braleche has a lead and it comes towards the experience but he has to transition that.
Oh my god.
again on the Sambi, the barrier coming out as well.
The root means he will be able to walk away with his life,
but really little else.
And this is devastating.
The bot lane, Isma setting them up for success
to play aggressive on the top side,
saving a matchup that should be so rumble-favored.
It's a monster early game.
And again, he gambled, but he won.
I mean, Isma opened the wound,
and Jun is just putting pressure and pouring salt on it
with these absolute wonderful hooks
that keep landing on the Sambi.
It's gonna force the barrier is gonna give Noah and Jordan a good base here where some D is gonna lose quite a bit of minions
Excellent start for the side of GX
Na'Vi
Getting closer to the level six is maybe that is a window of opportunity for them to strike back relapse. Yes ahead in camps
Head next P at the very least maybe the level six gives him something else
But thus far isma's incredibly aggressive decision-making has paid off for the side of GX
I think Gion X, I mean, but Omelo starts the game and this is kind of the first where we've seen Gion X actually off to at least an early control on the game in this series.
And it has been where they are most comfortable in their games, where they can play through knowing John's pressure, and especially on Jacky's on something like the Taliyah, where he can lean that pressure towards the bottom side.
But now Gion X setting up to contest.
contest. Paris needs to be careful here is the hook land that is was instantly
there to fall up. Colonel Chains already there. Paris is dead. My goodness, Jun with
the hooks. Making it look easy here for Giant X as they take down Paris and
Jun is just looking to heal Reletro. Don't let him enter the drake here. Secure
that for Giant X. What a performance here by the support jungle of Giant X.
Certainly and I feel like the bottom side for Navi, they need to wake up.
They need to be willing to back away.
I think that the decision to start Drake there
without the improper information
with bot lane in a relatively even state
is just cost them even more,
put them even further behind it on the top side again.
Main's are gonna do what he can to get some money
out of this first strike,
but we know who's going to be more relevant
in the late game.
Sometimes it's the rumble,
but kind of 10 times in this league, it's the orn.
But that's the point.
Like when you have the range advantage on the bottom lane,
you should be playing for lane push into then going for dragon.
But starting it up just gives John easy access means that he's able to play frontline to prevent Navi from sinking up
And it's little mistakes like this that will cost Navi their opportunities. Every time June casts hook
I feel my heart beating a little bit faster and that's the worry that you have with this appeal as Lulu
It's a very hard-winning lane early game, but it's incredibly vulnerable
It's high risk high reward once you start to fall behind suddenly every no-lace hook that was before fine
It's gonna get a kill, let's see, it's just keeps it going.
Ah, Maintra's still overheating, the initial knockup is there, right back to the wall.
It's like a thing to see behind with this one, there's nowhere for Maintra to go.
One more auto, should just finish it, gets pulled back by the Infernal Chain.
Yet another kill to Isma, and now Jackie, looking for a 1v1 versus Poby in the mid lane.
Poby's still a salty, so it's gonna be fine, but I love Isma's adaptation this game.
I feel like he's recognizing the stakes of this game, and rather than going for kind of the classic
that you'd expect to see with Atroc's jungle, which does full clear, full clear play for yourself,
gets from that way, he's going for gank after gank after gank, and willing to put himself behind to get his team ahead.
But this is something that we haven't really seen from Isma all split long.
He has been quiet. It has been about Noah and John, but when the stakes are there, it's Isma that's stepping up massively here, showing what he can't do as a jungler.
And I think we're all feeling just a little bit shoved off here by this level of play from Isma,
Because remember the game one with the pantheon it felt really clear what GX wanted to do
The coordination from the team wasn't there, but this made a single hand to these taken matters into his own hands
And really now the entire team finding these advantages
Yes, the gold and mid lane slightly favoring Poby, but it just feels like GX have so much control
1.3k Gold lead a drake in their favor already while something gets a push for now
He's taught us to play so safe against Jun who's about to take over to level six
Yeah, I wasn't sure if he'd even just hit it off of so if you know some experience in midway
But he's in behind. I don't think they want to go overly aggressive though
They don't know where root Kong is or actually is posted maybe he was found the war
But I don't believe they know where reletch or parses don't want to overextend
Now the game is just so much easier for giant makes to play. Oh, I guess it's not because the game is paused
We'll see what the issue is an attic chains the classic
They live on they will never die even when eliminated they we still feel their presence in the league
It was nice how smart they were of Noah yesterday as well
Still if he feels like you know once medic forever for not a kid feels like a realize which is nice
Yeah, I mean correct to know it right like I think that in a in a best of three series like this where you go to three games
It's so much about how you bounce back gx bounce back into they're keeping that momentum
It's not obvious turn to bounce back, but it's a tall task
Of course, I don't have any more info besides what you see on the bottom of your screen now
We did initiate a pause. There's potential audio issues on stage. Yeah
To lead a hard level yesterday was
Rooms today's audio issues. Yeah
There's a there's a meta to these things we've learned we're starting to learn
There's anything we know maybe
No, maybe the Navi members couldn't hear relic and he was always calling isma's kind of yank, but they couldn't hear him
It's like the
You know actually I play a competitive games movie out of her interest always bang like no
I play a competitive game where my top laner was unironically muted for the first five minutes, but it's so bland so we didn't notice
Classic update it was just players adjusting volume levels
So nothing too serious
But obviously it takes some time to lean down to adjust the panel to make sure everything's good
And you can't really afford to look away from your screen in a professional game of League of Legends
So understandable plus gave us a reason to cheer for fanatics. So shout out
Now giant next they're looking
Isma sneaking in behind Poby here for my fourth of course all that's the goal
Fox fire for the extra moves we need Poby will just walk away for now
Just give them control to go for ripter though, which is kind of their main focus
And I do like again the way Isma was playing, just hovering in towards these lanes, causing
a bit of a ruckus, and then forcing Navi to conceive pressure on the map.
Janix are playing this exceptionally, and this is only going to get worse.
Like, Navi, if they don't get control, you're walking into Jh0n, you're walking into a lot,
into Jacky's with a flick pack.
This game becomes so much more difficult to play.
Do you think though, if you could highlight the bottom side wards for me, Daidah?
Look at all those wards that Navi has.
I mean, that's a lot of vision that Navi has for this next dragon fight, and that's really where Navi has their eyes set.
Trying to get Wukong, ideally you'd get the Trinity Force before the dragon, otherwise you're up against the Sundered Sky.
I think it might not be possible, but as long as you have that control, I think that's really what Navi is aiming for.
What they're hoping for, trying to find that angle. In the top lane we check back in, it's Kana Crookern versus...
They did some ashes, got an urn, and they're fated, I don't know who's ashes they are but
they're special and they burn.
Probably not as good as the Cana Hook urn, because Laat is just continuing to build a
bigger gold lead so if he's able to TP into the fight that's gonna be bad and if Mainter
tries to TP he won't want to get interrupted so things are hard gentlemen, but Navi we'll
see if they can find a way out of this one, Reset's coming in, or Reletch maybe the Trinity
Force now completed.
I don't even know if he's going to try and fight this.
I don't think he's in a position to his Navi, so maybe just look for, you know, play elsewhere.
He's still sitting though in base.
Waiting on a bit of gold.
Picking his team. Trinity Force, 21 gold remaining.
25.
I'm just making up numbers. I have no idea how much it is.
Oh!
Okay, outside of the Trinity Force.
It's 5 seconds to the Drake though, and Isma already picking up the crab.
He's got no boots.
He does have Home Guards, shout out 2026, so he's still getting here pretty quick.
Owl, Relish is quite a bit stronger with that first side of Spike.
All these Re-Styling as well in mid, trying to TP in there to the bottom side.
Don't know if he's going a little bit wide, that's the aftershock gone for him.
Jack is waiting over the wall though, is massive, TP coming in from Kobe.
He's pissed off in the laning, he's on Re-Styling.
Farm under Jon could, the dragon is going to fall, but now Nobby might be able to take the fight.
GX immediately retreat, they got what they came for.
They don't need to stick around for anything else, and Jon sacrificed.
Giant X, that's worth, that's worth for Giant X.
They lose Jun, but they don't lose any other members, and they get the second dragon,
setting them up to get that soul point. It's going to be the infernal soul.
Very, very strong soul for them, and I'm very happy as that is Giant X.
Giant X took that very, very quickly, and now we're hoping to try and play off the items, and here we go.
Dex is on the way top, Mainter, the Knothrop is there, the pushback, all too easy to land, GX,
Bind him a kill on the topside and now a couple of points to follow.
Giant X is just taking scouts in this one, finding kills all over the map and
there's nothing the Navier have to do to get one back at Dragon.
But Giant X, firmly in control here.
You were right, Dregos, you were critical of the Rumble first page
and it's not paying dividends, it's struggling.
It's not the start that Mainter would have wanted.
that still doesn't have that first item completed, this Ornn is just getting tankier and tankier
and harder and harder for Na'Vi to deal with, and I can mention it before, once he completes
it, with the roll flash completed as well, he's going to get experience that much faster,
which means everyone on his team is going to have this additional level of stats with
the Mastercourt items.
This is a much more complicated game from GiantX though, and it's exactly what you want
to see from, I mean, you heard in the interviews, a team that wants to go and play in Barcelona,
Spanish organization that might be able to break the curse if they're able to take down Navi here.
Like this would be absolutely insane because this has been a team that a lot of criticism has been levered at
against Navi who I think a lot of people coming in were expected to kind of be the favorites coming into this.
Definitely. And I think also just looking in again at Jackie's
exhaust here. So even if Rielich finds a way into the back line if Mainter manages to get closer, get the good alti,
we've seen how valuable that summoner spell could be. There's not the traditional diver to pair it with.
with the R, probably the most likely target,
but that additional slow when Jackie's has
this kind of advantage, it's just frustrating.
Just makes landing the seismic show
that much easier.
And now Nabi trying to maybe make a little bit of a play
of their own in the mid lane, but it's so easy
for GX to just walk away.
They don't need to force anything.
As you said, that would be so huge for this organization
to make top four.
And I think a lot of people, they have doubts
about Giants keeping the same roster.
I heard people thinking that it felt like
This WorldStrike already reached their peak and had shown what they were capable of.
So being able to start the year already, doing better than you were able to do throughout
all of last year, would be so meaningful for all these players that it would.
The job's not done yet, so I'll be finishing that Stormrazer.
Let's do a decent amount of damage.
Have to be careful about walking up here.
That was a good dramatic.
Always keep you guessing.
It's like in a series when there's multiple storylines and they cut away the other one.
That's how the Na'Vi players feel. They see the hook and they're like, oh.
Well, now they might be down on the bottom side of the major, once again under attack.
No equalizer, you released the clear wave earlier on, realized it's going to get locked up.
It's just forced to flash away. Good defense from Na'Vi.
The main drape decides to flick back, but then he's able to survive on this.
And now you have no ult on the Hrox.
I don't know a lot of damage there.
Or on Jhuln for the potential Rift Herald, so Jhulnix try to make the play quickly before that objective spawns,
but give it a little bit of a window here for Navi.
Yeah, it was a bit presumptuous there by Jhulnix, they kind of skipped some steps,
just wanted to dive without really having the numbers to do so,
or having done their due diligence and made sure that Relet wasn't there.
So it ends up costing them the Atrox ult and the Flash,
and it looks like it might just be the Herald as well, unless Jhulnix want to try to contest.
What is the counter play for GX here? It looks like maybe looking for a place in the bottom lane is Navi.
Alright, a zone away lot, this McCando for the 50-50, but Harold already down.
We're just going to hop to the wall with the clone, so...
Derbys, I love the picture in picture, not sure if he managed to get a plate there, but at least...
He should've got one, yeah.
So a bit of gold straighted back, small bumble on the bottom side, not costing him too much jigs, holding on to 2.5k gold lead.
But also, we'll shift it back a bit.
Jackie's there was so named Mainter, we saw him, it kind of looked like he was being the Gromp.
He was poking out Mainter making sure that Mainter was not able to enter and really all of Giant X seemed to have a concentrated effort
trying to make Mainter's game really really difficult to play and you can see it down 1.3k gold on this Orn.
Again on the Orn.
Yeah unheard of.
Yeah I would say.
Now remember, if you're just joining us, he did get some early support from Isma.
They did find that early kill that set him up to death, but credit the lot because he's just been pushing that advantage as has the rest of the team and now the game feels really unplayable for this rumble.
He needs more time and a lot of the responsibility he was going to have in terms of teamfight damage now I think falls back onto the shoulders of Reletch and Sondee.
Five seconds now until this dragon. You have the rip tariff for Navi that the Khan used to try and put some pressure down, but Giant X already stopped us themselves here.
The TP in, they're more than ready to rumble.
to rumble. Jai next up full control and Navi needs to face check but you're up against the Nautilus.
Let's see what's doing to the fine. We're going to get the lead today. We'll get a charge on the
mid lane tower from the Herald. Not enough to finish it crucially. GX just clear that off. They're
taking their sweet time. They're grouped in the brush. danger just want to risk throwing down
an equalizer without falloff. Doesn't matter too much. Bit of poke on the Poby. It's so slow here
Trying to find any avenues at their walking into this choke is such a nightmare though
You can see Jack is on the other block has access to the call of the four guys doing it. It's three days
I'll be playing a bit book lands all the four guys coming out zombie
I cleared it off on the side of the fight the decent all across four members of GX for the game
Is it very at the junglers away from the pit with a dragon reset crucially another chance of life of real estate
Just get through the team and fertile trick will drop but we left is getting popped in the midst of this one
Na'Vi walking away with nothing, the GFs can take the drake.
And GionX get the prize as you say, because it's the dragon that they were looking for.
They were so close to picking up some kills off the back of it as well, but at the end
of the day it doesn't matter.
You got that soul point and now all you're looking at is in four and a half minutes that's
when you win this game.
Yeah, I mean really well orchestrated here by GionX.
I want to keep your eyes on the way lost, set up here with the pillar, which is just
pressing the entire time anyone from Na'Vi coming in.
So Na'Vi have to sliss,
and then you're just not getting the value here.
Sam D is away for Paris,
isn't really able to deal the damage that he wants.
Law is just providing a ton of front line
on the front of this fight.
And you can see there,
no one just hops away from Relage.
Never really under any threat.
Dragon goes down,
Na'Vi are forced to back away.
Really difficult fight with that of Na'Vi.
GX just continue to keep that momentum going.
The goal lead only up to 3K,
but three drinks, soul point and excellent position
to be with a composition that has this or that has the Taliyah now the Unara scaling
up as well and again, Navi 9-0 on Dragon so it's taken versus taken against them it looks
like the first one that they will see taken will be by their opposition and what is looking
like the elimination game for this season but maybe they can bring it back again they
need time and see if GX makes some fumbles make some missteps to give them a bit more
space to get more items under their belt.
It would be poetic if the one game to eliminate them was the one where they finally gave enemy soul.
But I think there's one word that I want you to take out of this game and its control.
You can see when one side has control how difficult it is for the other team to play.
When Giant X hold all the cards, when they're the ones with all the space,
it's so so difficult for any of these Navi members to try to enter, and it's just so tense.
Everybody knows that one mistake is all okay. Well, no, it's not so that's a no, it's just that
The pressure the tension control for
It's control three
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That's up with what I saw
Zonzie forced the flash away and now it's Paris who's just gonna get popped.
What else is gonna keep him alive, blinking health bar, so nice that they're able to try and turn up in out.
Relax is gonna be a troubled knockup, just barely not gonna connect Charm onto the Orbs.
Just... doesn't matter.
Look, collapse though from your next, kinda using the fact that you have that push and that advantage on the bottom side from loss.
Paris and Zamdi, no flashes now for an upcoming solo fight, but now he keeps living with such low HP bars.
They're really, really escaping quite luckily with their lives.
As you know, if Iris died there, it could have been a lot more, it could have been the mid-tower.
As now, Jackie is looking to take this top tower.
I like the way Giant X are playing this though. They take the fight that's over here, immediately pushed through and up into this top side.
Which means that then you have to back away as the rumble, and you can't actually defend the tower.
So again, you're just constantly keeping this pressure up as Giant X, and now we have to seed control.
Have to seed the CS.
I'm coming now into this next fight like you're gonna be up items and in a fantastic spot
And I think this is one of the struggles
I've obviously already been critical of rumble pit, but one of the other struggles is he's farming on the side lane
He's gonna get two items, but it's it's not that late game scaling threat
It's not 80 carries. You see Tom beef looks back there losing a big chunk of HP
So even though he's gonna get a bit more time
It's still not gonna be enough for him to win out on these ones. He wants to win out on these sidelines
if you mind
for a little bit more. Double TP here now.
Coby and Maitre have arrived.
Charm connecting on the Jaxies.
Realistic melee going to kick things off.
For now, Sombdi is living.
Perfect gun to keep the fight going
as they try to burn through.
Janzay P-Bar.
No way. Incredibly low.
Sombdi finds the ulti.
Coby looking for the charm.
Sends it wide left.
Hoping to connect on the Noah.
It's GX for the first time this series.
Or this game, rather,
are forced back away from this Giddling Tower.
And it's the two proactive champs
from Na'Vi, Rilech and Coby
that find the key targets that they needed
a beautiful char by Poby and a beautiful engage by Reletch.
It's only going to be one kill, but importantly, they got Noah's Flash.
And that's exactly it. This is the play they wanted to make.
Hopefully, Burn some service files before they pick up the fight.
And it's Reletch diving into the back line, putting the pressure down.
Sam D, having Paris beside him that can tear through John's health bar.
And Giant X can't just set up this front to back behind loss.
And there's multiple angles of attack, but 18 seconds now, until that dragon.
Navi, back on the map. Ultimate has to be kept here.
Navi don't have access to those key alties, and now they're going to feel the difference.
The zombies have been knocked up twice consecutively.
Noah able to free fire just to lead them from the fight.
Vayne turned Flick back, flashes away on the wall. GX lost the initial exchange,
but Navi didn't get a greater prize. They broke up a mid lane tower.
It looks like they're about to lose to Sol in exchange for that mid lane play.
And everything has come crumbling down around Na'Vi.
They're going to give their first Sol of the season
an elimination match up against Gion X as they secure the Inferno Sol.
And I like the idea from Na'Vi.
Try and make a play mid.
Hope that you can burn some valuable summer styles, get some kills,
maybe hit other breakpoints before this place.
But unfortunately, they're then a little late to the settle
And Jionek still have those ultimates to make the play, and then now the massively on the back post.
And we talked about it right in the draft.
This is the difficulty of playing the Sepulia's Lulu.
You're so immobile, you need peel, and if you don't have it, you just die.
They used all their CC on Sombri, and he didn't have the flash, and he just ends up going down.
And with that, now Nash is on the table for Jionek's.
But this is the one area, really, where we have seen Giant X struggle to convert their leads.
So if, like, it's still just a 4k gold lead.
I don't want to settle this game as if it's lost for Navi.
While there is an internal soul and it's huge, we've seen Aphelios do crazier things than win a game like this.
No, you're completely correct, but I think it does.
It's a testament to how far behind Navi are, how much control they've lost in this game,
that they're waiting, that they're praying, that some of those missteps from GX,
that the notes that they took yesterday have suddenly fallen by the wayside and they fall back into bad habits.
Because if GX play it clean, if they take their time, they have first push, they should be able to get vision first.
It's going to take a crazy angle from Navi to bring this one back.
But GX aren't going to give it to him.
Sombz find a hold on, find a burst, he goes help barge, he's barely flashing away.
Maybe this is the angle. Relic finding the shutdown.
Poby coming from above looking to lock up Isba. Charm still available. Has not used it yet.
Finding a slug of down. Sombz, he though!
They're two bar forward and that is the shield. It's a higher HP bar. Back up.
And Dx is looking for the re-engaged. Noah is still going to get caught up by Relich. Relich is finding both carries in the fight and that might be all that matters!
Baron of the cards for Na'Vi!
And GiantX thought that they had found Sondi but it was Relich with the re-engaged and was able to pick up four members and secure the match.
Oh my god, what a game!
Giant X tried to collapse on mids, but Navi called it, and it's the Giant X collapse.
They cut lot off.
He's not able to get in the fight.
The Inferno ultimate from Sam D tears open the health bars of Giant X, and it's this
collapse, this turnaround from Navi that maybe has brought that sliver of hope back to the
lineup.
And I really wanted to hype Sam D more up, but then he watched as the Isma died, but
The balls of steel did not immediately flash as he was wanting to against the carries.
He used their Phyrrhus Ultimare. He got so much damage down.
It was so, so... I think the coaching staff is stressed.
Reasonably stressed. But now, Na'Vi, they have the Baron Nashor. It's an equal game.
Outside of the infernal soul.
Yeah, outside of the infernal soul, which does add a bit. But the other team has Nash, so...
And the orn items that give you 3,000
Okay, okay, you know what?
Fine, it's an uphill battle. It's an uphill battle
But they found the angle have the baron national for two minutes
So they really want to try to utilize this to get some pressure on the map and get some powers
We do have the serpent spang now coming up a relich to
Limit Jun shielding the seraph shield
I mean, Sterak's exposed as well.
It is actually a lot of shields.
Yeah, a lot of shields.
We'll help them hit that threshold cruiser.
Also, the penalty item, which means the first and down,
the switch here, members of the backline,
not much easier.
Jackie's though now has the exhaust once again.
Navi, not out of the woods quite yet.
GX still in a good spot,
but they can't afford to throw another fight like that.
The leads they built earlier in the game
allowed them to make a mistake like that
without costing them this game, most certainly.
But now, another mistake like that, and it's going to be Navi in control.
Yeah, I mean with Giant X having this soul, Navi will not be able to actually make any
progression happen with the Spire and Nasher.
So what we're really looking at is in two minutes, the Elder Dragon.
That's the next big fight and the one that will determine the fate of both of these teams.
It is just Giant X skipping steps a little bit though, like the collapse I made didn't
need to happen.
I haven't pushed head to side lanes,
Pauli's and Navi were able to respond.
I think that's where I'm keeping my eyes
is Ginex again pushing up mid,
but there isn't that push on bottom side.
So as long as Ginex are able to kind of keep themselves
and check, doctorize, prostitutes,
get the vision, get the waves pushing,
they should be an easier position.
And you have to imagine
that that is the wake up call, slow down,
because they had pilot lanes,
they could get put or free, if they played it slow,
they could have waited for Navi to miss steps,
like pretty close to perfect information
the vision that they laid down but tried to jump the gun, tried to go through the aggressive
play, tried to go through the throat and just ended as quickly as possible and it does cost
him is, OBS be careful not to walk too far forward. Jackie so does it have the Rialyse,
so it is a little bit harder for him to kind of hit confirm some of these abilities.
Sambio's a very close towards that last whisper which I really do feel like is the changing
point for him where he can be a mega threat in these fights and especially if he has to
sit beside him with the ardent sensor now completed, I think that's where it becomes
Just not as clean as could for GionX.
Still though, all you need from GionX is one crucial CC.
And you can instantly one-shot Sambi regardless of how many items he asks.
But I do agree with you, Daita.
If Sambi could get that LDR before the elder, it would be huge.
But it's really all about control.
Currently, GionX, they're pushing in mid, they're pushing in bot.
They have full vision here of this elder while Navi are playing blind.
They need to try to find a lane that they can all walk through.
And you see they've chosen mid lane.
Mainter's rotating from ball to mid. They're going to push this midway and try to led her control also coming out from line
Interrupt the stopper from calling the forward God
That's gonna be big massive equalizer cross backline hitting everyone
Samedi fully stacked on the shot from the inspa continuing to step forward
Unconcerned move shot from Samedi goes a little bit wide asses the charm both sides back off and reset
Perhaps ready for a round two. GX now on the retreat
It's just the TPs that they're trying to play time for but Navi stepping in jungler is down with elder on the cards
Giant X the four versus five it could be theirs on the way. Now he needs to find the miracle
Pressure from both sides
Elder in the sights of both teams joints trying to get active on the map nature with no ultimate
No ultimate available for either side outside of the weavers wall. No, it's open with the team
I mean the dragon is so tanky GX do so little damage because they've already picked up for the zombie
isolated by the wall. An opportunity for Lock to go in, but he does not take the risk.
8k, getting lower. Maitre, licks back, but doesn't make it back over the wall.
Colonel Chang's not able to pull him in. Sambian walking in.
Hope he's judging for the charm, but he doesn't quite find it.
Equalizer across the entire team, but it's going to be Elder to the side of GX.
Navi couldn't find the angle. Giant X tapped the jungler. They have the smite.
And they've gotten soul. They've gotten the Elder.
What more do they need?
And it looks so close there that equalizer did a ton of work in the fight.
Setting Noah to about half HP, we'll see it here.
But it just wasn't quite enough, they couldn't get the follow-up.
Raleigh goes in to deny the engage.
And this opening for Major was fantastic.
But Noah's really threatening Noah.
Lost is denying everyone access from Jacky's.
And Sam D gets a couple of auto-tacks in, but nothing major.
And now with Elder up, the push can begin.
baron to fall back to in 50 seconds. Giant X, they still have to crack these
outer turrets, but they might have the tools to do so, especially if they find an
engage here on mid.
Yeah, Sambi needs to be real careful. He's their best source of waveclair. He can
stay alive with that Luga. He can hold on to the game and delay Giant X Siege, but
all they need is one good Nautilus hook, one Ornald, to take down Sambi.
The biggest problem is, Navi kind of have to seat control here, but you still have to fight into an Elder Dragon.
Or else then Giant X could take Baron and then fish for the Outer Turrets, Inhibitor Turrets after that.
And for Sam Di to kind of step up against the Baron and up Giant X seems like a dead sentence waiting to happen.
You're going to have to drop this Nash, and hope that there's going to be around 40-30 seconds, one wave for Giant X to play with Elder and Baron Nash.
That's the one wave where Giant Nix, they want to blow the Orn-Orn, they want to flash in, they want to use everything.
And if Na'Vi can hold on, they can lift the fight another day, another Elder setup.
That's what Giant Nix is thanking on.
Flashes up on carries on both sides, Jackie's Noah, Poby, Somme D.
GX a lot of tools, they can just throw out the Orn-Orn, see what they hit.
He talks about it. 30 seconds left on this elder, give or take. This is the one wave they can play on and Navi immediately can win to concede this tier 2, likely to be inhibitor as well.
Poby not in the area, but GX really want to fight as he knows a decent amount of hope, but now he's been locked up.
It's a flash, he's forward! Infernal powered by the Q1, Relic able to escape the clone, keeping him standing for an extra second.
I don't think they're going to be able to get much more and the elder is starting to fade away.
away and now we have held on somebody was even able to hold on to his flash now
it's just a Baron Nashor and it's gonna be just the mid in here that's not he
lipped fight another day I'll be trying to chase them out of the base though
giant X need to get the resets off they haven't all hit that B button at the
same time I'm not even fun we're still starting to press out of their base
damage done by giant X though base cracked and that gives them the push in
mid to fall over towards this side lane get that last remaining out or two
And if you can keep Navi pressed into their base, you kind of just get to rinse and repeat at some of these objective fights.
And Navi have to be really careful. They're trying to get really active on the map in this tiny window before GX are on the map again.
But if a single member gets picked off, there's still two minutes on this barren power play.
Probably three waves, likely that GX are going to get to use a cross-clot and maybe top to try to get more.
just given everything to Sam D. Every camp that spawns, every wave that can happen in
the hopes that they can get this Ophelios to somewhere worthwhile, somewhere where he
can finally carry the game. He's so close to that level 16 as well, which gives so much
damage to a potential Inferno mode.
Naavi, they just want to hold on. Their goal is to not lose another inhibitor. It's really
the bot in him that is crucial here. If Giant X is able to pick it up and they can get full
full control of the next elder at 100% end the game with it.
So now we want to do everything in their power to try to hold off to this
ultimate inhibitor. You can see Poby, besides not to continue
split pushing, he's recalling, but it might be too little too late.
Tundy empowered.
Roots gonna come out here, will be a bit of poke on Tadella,
chunking him out before the fight.
And all five members of John X here, this turret is getting very tanky as the
turrets go down, which is getting... playing this a little bit.
And as though they're eventually going to break it open.
Hope he's still waiting on the side.
The Ornorn has to be respected.
Locked in a blast cone over the wall.
Sombie, blue and purple.
Wants to connect that big AOE off.
White guns faded away.
This is a same fight.
Not going to be what favors him now is GX.
Temperance, they've learned.
They've made a couple mistakes this game.
They cannot afford to make another.
And they're painfully aware of it.
Think Jaya next now.
That's pretty much checked mate.
They can now just play slow with the both of them.
But they want to play it round.
Relent now going in.
That's the double knockup with no immediate fall.
He managed to get Rewatch out of the fight, flash burn from Paris, making him a very vulnerable target.
Giant X hold all the tools. The problem now for Navi, they want to contest this elder spawning in one minute,
but as long as Giant X play it slow, deny them an engage, they will always have that backdoor potential in both lands.
If I'm Giant X, I don't even hope for the Dragon on setup, I just use the two waves that I have,
made him boss will do a ton of work pushing in to shove the waves, force Navi to deal with that in their base
and then you can actually go for the setup and then at that stage Navi has to start face checking the brushes blind
they have to be so slow in the setup. As you say Jack, I think that's the check plate, I think that's where you just set up and end this as Giant X.
So many different ways that Giant X can win the game at this point while Navi only really has one.
They need a miracle fight and they need to get the elder themselves.
themselves. Fourth item, just picked up for Sam Diab to back of us. Maybe that gives them
that silver lining, but Giant X would have smelt it out immediately.
Ball coming in from Jackie, Sam Diab. Not going to fall for it. Nature has been caught, has
been isolated. Three-man knock-up. Relet going back into the Reagage, immediately retreating
when he sees how much damage comes out. Splash and ulti burn from Relet. He has to go back
to the base as well. And that looks like it's just going to be the elder from Giant X.
Navi wants to try to facecheck but it's so damn difficult.
Oh, the TP.
He's gonna get canceled. No, there he goes.
Is he a commentator? Maybe hoping to set them up for Zonzi.
Zonzi's ultimate. Do an increasing amount of damage,
but it's just not enough. The knockup is there.
Jackie's connected with a flip back.
Infinite CC to block through Zonzi.
Who's still looking the best to hold the line?
Zonzi versus the world, but it's just not enough.
GX dissecting Navi in this game three.
Cutting them down as Paris runs for his life.
The Q2, the flash forward, and the dunk down to seal the deal.
Dobby moving into the top four.
This time it'll be Dianeks happy to be going home as they booked their tickets for Barcelona.
There, no more! They go forward.
Dianeks have broken the curse.
And there was Noah and Jordan and Ismael that really set it home and played so damn well.
Pure love to win against Mavi.
Yeah, impressive stuff holding on.
It was looking shaky after that game warm,
but it bounced back in game two and game three.
Of course, you can vote for your key player in the series,
Isma, Noah, or Jun.
So you get ready for the second series of the day.
And again, GX, this is the reason they stuck with the same lineup.
We wanted to see that ceiling, a higher ceiling,
and we're starting to see glimpses of it today.
I'm coming to Isma to spot Lucy in this game.
He had a phenomenal performance in the early stage,
taking over from the Gecko and just not letting anyone on Na'Vi play the game.
But that's where you can vote for him alongside Noah and John in your play of the series at MEC on X.
Definitely. Of course, hearts out on the side of Na'Vi.
Had a good run. Just sort of that top four.
It's really tragic.
Light up. You think about the regular season, how much they showed, how excited we were for them.
And just at the final hurdle, that game too, they had it. They had it.
But that's how it goes, especially with a new roster.
And still a promising first run.
Yeah, think about how many veteran players
were not able to make playoffs.
This rookie, relatively rookie lineup,
making a pretty deep run.
Top six, not too bad in 12-team season.
And we'll just see if the momentum can continue
as we get deeper into this year.
There's a lot to be excited about with this roster.
Going into spring, going into summer.
It's definitely still a dark course in my mind.
A team that can contest with the top themes
as we go into further of the year.
I mean, no doubt they'll go back stronger as well.
I think the best thing about having losses like this is that you can go back and look at them now and try and take away
How you kind of prove but we're gonna have to toss it over to shocks
We're standing by with Jackie's to find out what's it like for giant X to be going forward to Barcelona
Thank you so much Jackie's indeed and Noah is also joining us
But he just needed to step off for a second, but Jackie's I'll start with you
Congratulations going to Barcelona. Tell me how I think there he is actually come on Noah, but
Thank you.
Tell me about making it to Barcelona after that stressful series.
I mean, we are for sure excited, right? Because I feel like we, if I'm not mistaken, finally be the top five curse of the week.
Yes!
So, I'm happy about that.
But for today, I think, honestly, it wasn't the best day for League of Legends.
I think gameplay from both teams was kinda just bad.
So, as much as I'm happy, I'm not happy about the series how it went.
Like gameplay wise so I think we don't improve yet. Barcelona might be hard. Okay. What do you think Noah?
I mean we need to win but I think we need to still improve a lot, you know
So but I'm actually happy that we made Barcelona. Yes, absolutely
Tell me a little bit about the third game then because you were very far ahead
But you were very careful. Tell me about the final moments
No, like we we were had so many camps and we got
But we've entered so many games, you know?
So now, when it's mid game, we are just really careful.
We are scared to lose again, like, dog shit.
Yeah, exactly, Jackie.
Let me relay that question to you as well.
You guys maybe are a little scared in those moments,
even when you are ahead, because so many times you've
thrown the advantage, right?
Is that one of the main things you'll be working on?
Because it feels like a little, yeah, that's detrimental
to winning, obviously.
I mean, me personally, I wouldn't say I'm scared,
because to be fair the last game I sent it on Taliyah and then we almost lost it.
And also on Ryze the game before.
And Ryze the game before, you know, in the Ryze game I was saying,
oh guys, I need you, I can wall you guys, so be careful, and then I could wall-dove.
But, yeah, I mean, for us as a team we are for sure more careful on how we approach mid-game
because we have, like, I think some PTSD about some champions.
I think everyone knows the Aphelios.
If this guy gets four items, the game has a heart, even if you are 10k up.
But yeah, I think this game, I mean, especially the last one was, in my opinion, free from draft.
So we kind of just knew not to throw, tried our best not to throw.
I tried my best to throw, but you know what I mean.
I know what you mean.
Isma is our key player of the series.
Noah, do you want to say something about your jungler?
I think Isma today played good.
I think he's improving a lot compared to last year,
so I'm proud of him.
I hope he can improve more.
I'm proud of him.
Did he gank you enough?
Like Isma? Not sure, but yeah.
Jackie, did he gank you enough?
He actually did love freaking me today, so I'm very happy with mine. It deserves MVP for sure. All right awesome
Finally then from you both
Jackie's you are going to Barcelona and I seem to remember the very first road trip that we took last year when we went to Madrid with
Emcoy was one where you guys had great results. It was kind of a momentum changer
So do you feel like Spain is going to give you that energy knowing that your org is obviously Spanish?
I mean for sure like that's also one of the reasons I'm mega hyped to play in Barcelona
I think it's the fans right and honestly we are gonna play against vitality or KC, right?
So I know the crowd is on our side no matter what
So it's gonna be mega hype and I can't wait to play that. Okay. Noah. What are you gonna show us in Barcelona?
I mean, I'm just not scared in this a pretty like psychopaths or not. So let's see, you know, let's see play like psychopaths
I love it. Thank you so much Jackie's and Noah. Congratulations. I'm giant X making it to Barcelona
Thank you come back. It is vitality versus KC for the very last spot in the Olympic arena
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have a break have a kicker what is this brother perfection
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You'll need the right build, choose wisely, because every upgrade brings you closer to
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Wait, is he switching lanes?
I
It's Vitality vs KC for the very last spot in Barcelona and wouldn't it be crazy if
KC missed out?
They were the champions here in winter. Will they do the same in LEC versus or will vitality stop their end of stop their route right here?
Rather, it's such a great matchup. It's a banger. I mean, I can't wait for this matchup
I told various and weak one that I think vitality is a top four team and he gave me so much
For that and I could not stand seeing a smug face for them to maybe win today. I would get a lot of indication
Yes, it's about you winning and not about vitality.
Yes, and what it's doing well, it's crazy.
Also, two historical French orcs, right?
Vitality is such a longstanding organization
who is currently, I think, winning another final
in Counter-Strike.
Casey from Camero with success all over eSports as well.
It's a French get-up.
Yeah, it is a French get-up because these guys,
regardless of who wins, they really want to go
to Barcelona and rock up that Spanish party
that's happening right now with GX
heading there as well, it's facing itself to be a really high matchup, especially because
I wasn't really expecting the trajectory of both of these teams to arrive today with these
you know, stars in the top lane, especially Nak Nakko, I was thinking, I wasn't thinking
it was going to have this much of a glow-up, but yet, here we are.
Bigger introduction, the top lane matchup is insane, Nak Nakko has declared the franchise
player of Vitality League of Legends by Neo, their CEO, versus Kana, the best top laner
in the league, no more?
I mean, we are eating extremely good today.
I think there's no doubt in anyone's mind that Kanna has been dominating the league for one and a half year almost in the 1v1.
Also, Naknako said that while Kanna maybe is not the best 1v1 laner on the map, he thinks Kanna is the best top laner.
So I think both of these top laners, there's a lot of respect between them.
And I think both of them really want to show that I think the win of today easily gets that number one spot.
And the form of the day will matter also a lot because when I'm looking at Kanna,
I feel like we're still thinking of Kana of the old, you know, Kana of the ranged matches.
But I feel like he has been a little bit stuck this split.
I feel like he has been finding himself in this role where, you know,
he's looking to empower the mid lane, the bot lane of KC.
And he's more stuck in these supportive champions while Nak Nakko, well,
you might say that Kasanti is a supportive champion, but not in that man's hands.
It was absolutely insane.
Let's talk about yesterday a little bit and just how impressive the stats were
and the gameplay was on Naur and on Cassante.
I mean, that was one of the craziest top caps I've seen in a while.
Yeah.
Nakhnaku just had complete domination.
From the moment he stepped in lane,
he was generating gold by the minute and the minute.
Like, he was just dominating.
And I thought, this is not how the match was supposed to go.
Like, I've seen, I think Bedi said in the cast,
I've seen Sion versus Naur a million times.
I've played Sion versus Naur a million times.
I've never seen a Naur win that hard.
Yeah, exactly. And even look at this Cassante.
This Cassante, Fin, has been already nerfed.
10 times. 10 times. And he's still doing all of these things. Oh my God.
It's called Joe Mercury crying. At this point, he's just knock-knock-o-kitting.
Yeah, it is. And the top lands, I think the reason why we have such a magnifying glass on them currently is because of that performance yesterday,
because that was 1v9 behavior out of knock-knock-o-knock. Now, the reality is that's probably not going to be the case today, or is it?
I mean, I don't think so. I think coming up here against Kana, I will say, despite knock-knock-o's extremely big biceps,
as we see there.
Kanna against G2 did not really show what we expect from him.
We saw Kanna on the scion against Gwen,
and he really suffered.
We saw Kanna on the Galio.
And I feel like we saw this last year.
Whenever KC put Kanna on tanks,
it didn't really look like the best version of KC.
So I want to see give them,
give something to Kanna where he can pop off,
because I think Kanna believes in himself against Lacknako,
and I don't want to see a Lacknako-Kana matchup
where it's Rumble-Kasanthai.
Exactly, it's going to be again to the adaptations because even though before we have seen kind of do extremely well because at the end of the day, you know, the fundamentals that make you extremely good on this range, extremely good on these dominant matchups, they still apply in these sort of tag matchups, in these sort of utility matchups, but I just really
want to see them in power more because in the last series it just really felt like realistically
no one was being in power but about to stop the match up Finn, you know what it reminds me of?
That's it. You know what it reminds me of Finn? That's it. The days of old when it was the rank
one top laner in the league versus the ranked top laner in the league and it was you versus me.
No. I don't know what time it was when you were ranked. Me neither. Really? Come on. Just
with us. Okay, okay, okay. I'll join your solution right for this. There was a time when we were both
the best in the league, Finn. I was maybe number one and you were maybe number two.
That's up for the better. It was up for the way. That's up for the way. But it was such a great times.
I'm sorry I don't want to interrupt this heated rivalry or whatever, but it is
mentality versus Casey. I want to hear who here thinks that Kana is going to win.
Who here believes in Knack-Knacko? Listen, if the crowd was to decide,
I'm not blaming them because see this man has been on fire.
He has. For KC though, we need to take kind of like the big, the big perspective in our heads as well.
And that is KC. We're the victors here in winter last year for them not to be at a road trip,
especially one put on by their arch nemesis emcoy.
That would be horrible for them, but their outburst is a vitality who look hot to truck.
And then knock knock who wants to show Kanna who's boss.
And here we are
The final best of three only best of five here on out this one is high state both these teams
Feel like top 14 in the LEC
Only one event can move on to see in Spain next week if they could be the very best
I'm so excited. I'm so excited and you know what I'm gonna say while we're all thinking
I don't think it's going to be close, NAKNAKO put on some of the most 1v9 performances I've
seen in top lane in the last 5, 6 years while KANA is all playing Sion and Galli.
I mean we'll have to see if KAN KANA, NAKNAKO or KAN NAKO, KAN KANA.
But either way, I'm curious to see if Karmin Korp end up in a position where they've been
even first seed the entire way through the split or do they just get knocked out right
at the final hurdle?
Like this was the team that was the best in the league.
I hate to say that Fiddlesticks right, but maybe DL1's don't really matter at the end
of the day.
We saw Navi loose already and now KC might just be next.
I mean it matters how you show up in the postseason, in the playoffs right?
Navi were number two, they got knocked out.
KCB number one didn't make their matchup versus G2 any easier as exciting as that second
game was but it might have been a wake-up call for a KC lineup that was so
dominant and best of one. There was smashing their early matchups but now
here in the lower bracket there's no room for error. You don't get to make
another mistake or have another off-day and we'll see if the take away from that
last series were the same for KC as they were for the analysts but I'm inclined to
agree. I don't think Yike needs to be playing the tricky stuff. Play him on the
J4. Get Kana back on the carries. Yeah I mean it's a I'm really curious about
like what's the side selection like because KC up against G2 they chose sides both times due to
the fact they had the first seed and they chose blue side or first pick rather back to back to
first pick a power pick but that means that you're always going to put Kanna on the back burner
because you're not going to give him the counter pick and KC chose first pick again so ah that
You want to explain why you do you want because I want to see pop play red R5. I want to see R5
Kanna
Moving it out really just this fighting with knock knock oh take it out of the game
To if you want to just make it really type an energetic here
But now what we're probably gonna see is kind of on silent rumble or something
I mean it's not really as well as we take it out of the game
You want a literal fist fight? Hey if that's what the top laners need to do get out
I just wanted to make sure how we don't want to get a psychotic jackass being right now, although I am a little inclined to agree.
Yeah, well I mean the Gwenbond says to me that they are going to try and look for a nerdy scion pick here.
And those dynamics take away means that there's going to be lower priority on the Corky.
And they're still there, there's still a lot of options here.
I'm going to be the skeptic here. I feel like Casey took the wrong lessons out of the G2.
I mean it's going to look like a much better Viper's pick.
It's a...
Why'd you ask?
A pick that we've often memed in accordance with Jyke when he was on the great G2 roster that won everything in Europe.
I think Vi was the one champion that they still struggled to find too much success on.
But it's often been a pick that Jyke claims it's not his fault, but rather his team.
The teammates have claimed that as well in his defense, and he is 1-0 on the pick so far this season, and it's not going to get locked in, so it doesn't matter.
Yeah, it's gonna be the Unara first big answered immediately by the s roll and we're continuing with the second or something
Pally we're doing yesterday. I still don't get the reference back in Lux
Still though, I think to the apply if you're comfortable playing it which we've seen from KC this for it
They are I think it's perfectly fine here
But set up good lockdown for the rise and you're able to match the realms and it sets you for a very strong
You know from to back if you want to
a lot of power in those two picks and
And it looks like it's still going to be the Yike Vi.
It's going to be paired up with the Taliyah.
I mean, it's a classic combination.
Vi with that point and click CC sets up that Taliyah shuffle beautifully
and allows for a lot of playmaking later on in the game.
There's been very little focus on junglers, though.
Q-Tran is still open, so I think here you could probably go for
some sort of support if you want to, to try and secure a strong bottom side of the map
for Fleshy and Karzi.
But you can also just match jungler if you want to, but there is a window here.
we can try and make it a bit more interesting.
I like the Mundo Flex for Vitality here.
They do have that last pick, so they can flex that
until the last second.
And now they can look to target out supports
to blind pick Fleshy, his support pick of choice.
The option is going to be entering second ban phase now.
Of course, the Flex, really the big thing that's going
for Vitality is to enter the second phase.
They're really taking their time to decide
on what they want to limit.
Bot lane seems like the natural focus,
but also a potential to set up top lane here.
Yeah, I think it's the supports that I'd be eyeing up, like things like the Lulu and that for pairing with this Unara, trying to make that a little bit less potent.
And especially because you've already got decent engage, and Lulu can also kind of substitute a pseudo engage for the buy as well, but you get a second knockup.
Well, I have to say that it's going to be the game plan for Vitality right now.
It actually looks like, at least on Vitality's side, they just want to continue to ban away the top side.
Yeah, try to set up this Moon-Dog fight for the best possible matchup, so you can see till the end where they want to put it.
And with that Rumble ban, it feels like they really want to put Kanna on a bank
and then they can just put the Doktor Mundo into it or counter pick with something like the NAR.
And it's really the top matchup that I think is the linchpin of this matchup today
because that was the one lane that really went out of control in Vitality's series yesterday.
If it was. And for Casey, it did also go out of control, just in a worse way up against Brokenblade on Wang.
And Kanna, we know there's a reason he carries so much perspective,
the reason he's regarded so highly. He can be a demon on the top side, but we saw this in winter
playoffs last year from KC. We had interviews with them after one of the series where they fell
down. They said, I don't know why we're putting this guy in a tank. They swapped to carries.
They went to first stand. But again, you said maybe they didn't take the same lessons that we
did from that failure against G2 to knock them down into this bracket. Now with the Nautilus
banned away, though, at least some of the more reliable engage options being taken out of the
the full vitality limiting that, in case he maybe one more support ban we'll have to find out.
Curious if Vitality wanted to look in a ranked support on 4, or if they just want to go
at this kind of bog standard melee support. The thing is you're playing with a natural,
so I would like something like the Niko or the Karma just to bully lane, and especially since
you've battled out the Nautilus, it's kind of the best, easiest to play engage support into
the ranged champions. We saw in the last game, the Noa and Jun, when you have that Nautilus,
you can always reach the ranked supports.
Especially with the Power Beam Band, Jakarta opens up for the Miko, very little answers
into us, and I think he still wants something that can be at least somewhat engaged, but
the Ambassador taking so, at least keeping that flexibility open between Linsus and Mack
Mako as to who's getting more picked.
It is a double flex, but it's also a bit of a double edge sword because now, Casey know
what two top laners are picking into, it is going to open up Fleshy however for that
last pick to give him whatever support he wants.
And I'm really curious to see what kind of goes for here. I think if you go something like the scion
Then vitality can put to be honest either ambessa or the dr. Mundo top
But it looks like he's gonna be the wreck side top
So still a tank top with one with a lot more firepower a lot stronger laning phase, and I'm not sure
I'm not gonna lie to you guys. I'm not gonna tell you. I know how the wreck side Mundo matchup goes
so I
Would assume it's pretty good since wreck side is quite strong in the early game
And that's kind of why they look it as just an insurance policy
Yeah, I think it's kind of the the funny thing is that even though you're keeping the flex open both the champions kind of suffer from the
Same issue, which is they aren't particularly strong early in the 1v1
Rex I very strong it feels like I get both them and even if you get the knockoff from Rex
I can still just trade very effectively now. There's the Nico taking with Lucio
So looks like karma gonna be the answer and I'm gonna be honest that the double flex picks for vitality
Don't feel like they've earned them a massive advantage here because I look at the side of Casey
It's so simple to see what the competition wants to do and vitality. I can see what they want to do, but
They don't see see so I don't know exactly how they plan on doing it
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear to say that you can see it was a bit of a mistake to look in that in Bessa early
You could have just went for the karma or the Nico. It's kind of a handshake honestly
But now you're in a bit more of a vulnerable position
It looks like it's gonna be knock knock on that and Bessa into the wreck side
You are gonna outscale the wreck site eventually
but it's going to be a tough early laning phase and a chance for Kana to prove that he's the best opponent in the league.
It's also for Vitality, like wanting to try and play a 1-3-1 style with the best at rise.
You kind of want something that can enable them in the early stages to start to snowball him.
Mundo for me doesn't really fit that, whereas you look at the ball on the opposite side,
like she can be active in the early stages, trying to get access to mid and top,
and just look to shut down any sort of 1-3-1 pressure later on as the game goes.
Well, often we expect Vi to just kind of power form in the early game, a Q flash.
You have setup CC in every single lane on the side of KC,
and while Mundo passive in the top lane matchup might have meant more of a different for shutting those ganks down,
in the jungle, the Infesa is super vulnerable.
Now playing on the top side, instead of the jungle, the Ryze is vulnerable in the mid lane.
It's just gonna be really tough for Vitality to come out of this early game unscathed.
It is a really strong bot lane matchup though for Vitality.
As for Mark, we've seen it many times before, and Marcy and Fletcher, they've shown inconsistencies, but they've shown that they know how to play aggressive.
Mark, the...
Dance coming out. Check boys on the bottom side of the map.
What's the difference this one? I like that you highlight the ball in 2v2. This is a 2v2 that's been around for...
I want to say ever. Yeah, I think I interviewed reckless in 2016 about the Ezreal karma bot lane
Yeah, like this world is on to my back is actually about
Old bot lane parings and the person on the list is karma Ezreal, but it's as impressive as it ever has been the most impressive part
I was on the Hierarchist.
I think there's a different game back then, you know what I'm saying?
Just didn't use normal language for the Druid Zimbers.
Well, Vitality both lanin' are gonna get the push here.
This is actually quite, quite equal with Pusio landing some Qs,
but Vitality's going to upgrade it, because he's passing to be stacked
before they can just use his braids.
Nice chunk out on the monster Q there from Fleshy.
key, so he'll straight it, but still feels pretty good for vitality.
Fair play around this window where Boussio is already interactive with his Q, so you
can have that little bit of an advantage when it comes towards the ability usage.
They find a nice window there, but still, I mean, you have the barrier on Karzy, ghost
for Kalista, so it means you can play a little more aggressive with vitality if you can play
off of these targets.
I really like Boussio going W level 2 here to block some of these Karma Qs and buy them
them a lot of HP in this lane, so you can see that Kalista is still getting poked out further
by Taliyah Bulkland looking to abuse this early laning phase.
And honestly credit to Karzin Fushin playing so aggressive, right?
First back for Ezreal usually means buying a tier, which sets you behind in terms of
effective combat stats, but before that first back, your passive gives you so much in terms
of effective stats alongside lethal tempo, which is of course matched by Kalista.
It's a really nice window to play for when you know Kalista is going to come back with
more effective combat stats if you base on either code.
Now you go push for it by tallying the bottom side of the map and it looks like Mundo wants
to make his way towards the crab.
Yike slower as you'd expect when the Mundo on the clear.
I'm curious if he wants to try and do it, does he end up just face checking into Yike?
Wandering in, he means business.
This is an insane promo for this skin.
Throw a little suitcase at him and then he's going to pick up the crab.
Yike is going to go for the top crab.
It's just gonna be crap for crap for the journalists here with a bit more tempo game. Let's just as he gets to recall first
Unless I mean yeah, he has no smite he could look through run all the way he decides to get
I'm gonna go for anything else and again quiet game level six where we start to
Expect to see things get a little bit more explosive knock knock out on the top side with access to that all team will then have a bit more
Sustain a bit more incentive to trade aggressively versus Connor obviously in the early stages Rex eyes just didn't wait
He's just so much sustained, it's so hard to stick to him. You start a trade that's winning for you
He just, you know, tunnels on out
It's a hurray, Greco. My bad, my bad, that's true
But yeah, really the sustain is what's hurting Nak Nakko and making it difficult
You can see that Nak Nakko is getting some good trades
But it's hard to make that damage stick, Grekso just goes back into her tunnel and he'll start damage right back up
I can't believe that this used to be more nerf than it is now
Yeah, it's
Remember that this was like with a 20-23 or a 20-24 you mean?
Oh yeah, in 20-24 it was like insanely broken
You remember the exact and wrecked site hope every game?
I do remember that
I have to sustain which is...
No one was killing anyone
Yeah
And we complained about Lancewalks but I'm just saying it did save us from that a little bit
That's true
Talbot, Knock Knock, you know, Rollclas were a really good way of removing Lancewalks
without making it such a weird place.
We got there, yeah.
Just threatening people that they would be broke and useless.
But let's be real, give it like two more years
and then we'll figure out something.
That's true.
That's true.
The Bound.
Have the total planner, have the ADC blessed them,
then the ADC just gets exp.
There's a way to break it.
It'll be found.
Hopefully by the LEC.
So the LEC is pulling on.
And the international match, this human-like flash is forward.
Easy's hit up here, and Winston's
going to hit it with a briefcase.
back to anything to the Mudo. And that's the power of the rise. That's why Vitality valued it so
highly. You have that pointy click CC. Sets up. Linz is great for the gang. Even though Yahoo uses
the flash, he ends up going down and he's going to lose the whole midway with it.
Turning across the flash and dying is crushing. Linz is pulling ahead in terms of overall bold
courtesy of that assist. Karzin Fleshy sustaining pressure in the bottom lane as you expect for
the Ezreal Karma, but not able to build a greater health advantage just able to slowly
ship away at the difference between C.S.'s.
Nice to go. I think that's kind of what you need to do, this vitality here.
This force plays on me so you can get control, especially over this dragon area,
because the push on boss, it makes things significantly easier for Linsons to take that objective.
But they see our low here.
That's just one ring and maybe hoping to help crash this wave.
It's not a dive angle, though certainly. Although Yike close to sticks.
I don't like that kill pressure here, but yike may be willing to play the long game
Yeah, I don't see a world where humanoid dies here without yike being level six
I think this is doing the drake, but maybe I can award spot this
Can we get his vision when we see that replay because he saw nothing did he see him come over the banana
So Mundo walked through the banana bush.
So Mundo hit the Squires Bloom, which Yike realized he wasn't spotted on.
So I think he just assumed having not seen him go back in towards his jungle, that he must have been on the objective.
Oh, they're nicely done.
All in, Conor interrupts through the tunnel out, and Akko trying to stop him from getting to the next tunnel.
Unfortunately, he cannot because Rek'Sai, hilarious champion.
Luckily for him though, Humanoid on the way here goes under, comes right back out with the boy clutch.
And down he goes, by Talody, finding the van from the top side.
Nice movement from the humanoid there, walking back towards the river knowing that Rexla jumps out behind you, so it doesn't let Kanna get close to him to deter Grave and flash away.
And that's just a great roam in general. The humanoid using that early pressure to now help Nak Nak.
If someone asks why is Ryze strong, this is why. This is a master class on how you play around Ryze.
You use a CC to gank him in mid, set up for the kill, and that allows Ryze to roam around and get kills elsewhere, and since Nak Nak goes for success,
and we watched the crazy I play era and we didn't see the initial vision so he
hit the scratch bloom which then basically gave the vision all across
here which is why I think you like basically realize and hang on there's
more than likely than linsus is trying to go for this because he will have just
gone for the full player so really heads up like me like I'm good understand
I think I'll make a try to send right yes he has to make it on this small
smite and yeah I kept the 900 smite while linsus was still on the 600 he did
the math you love to see a plan comes you don't I watched a lot of people burn
all their cooldowns on a nomi support with the seekers yesterday not everybody
pushes tab it is a skill you do have to check on those things I just say it's not
a mof skill okay awareness yeah are you all of reality's mofs okay all right
man look we can get into now it doesn't exist if you really want to go down that
rabbit hole all right yeah he's subjective you know what am I are we
seeing the same thing right now I'm not sure I'm seeing him no trade with yahoo
I mean a trade's pretty generous cuz oh he did it W
Yahu is getting him a lot more, but he doesn't do any damage.
See, that's the reality, huh?
It's the one that you could say Yahu is trading with Yahu, or you could say Yahu is trading
with Humanoid.
But that's actually just your perception of what you see.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Which one is reality?
Both are reality.
Okay, we're going too far down.
Yeah.
Munkah.
Yes.
Do you guys think that if the point is confusing enough, people will assume it's good analysis?
Yes.
Yeah, that's our most conical.
This is currently triangulating into the river here wants to extrapolate some grubs
What does it mean he must know what he's talking about you so many big words incorrectly
What's this in a good spot I'm gonna go for maybe another steal thinks better of it instead perhaps a mid lane play
Nope debating. What if he just steals this really loves that? Yeah, it's self
He's hiding in the bush.
Why is my airplane splintered?
What happened anyway? Here we go.
He's gonna steal it.
Oh, he did get it. He got one.
He got the one point up going.
We're still healing up for a while.
It's just now running away. The Q coming in.
And now if you were to have my F3,
it might be a couple of Boots.
They're gonna grow up and they're gonna kill.
The goal is still favoritism.
Still just nice plays here from you.
You're just utilizing the time that
get a steal and then get more off the back of this.
So honestly, nice little win.
But at least they're up in gold.
Small plays here and there.
I mean, I guess looking like Solid Snake in this one,
just sneaking around, finding the still, the angles,
being able to pick up that last grub.
Hold it, Ananas, that's what you love to see.
Anaka doesn't want to over commit,
while Kana has Alti and could potentially dodge away
from his own alt.
That does make things a bit tricky.
And the thing is, you picked this Rek'Sai to win lane.
You picked it so that regardless of the Mundo or the Ambesa, you would have a good laning phase with NAKNAKO.
They go to the top lane right now. He doesn't let it happen.
All he needed was a little roam from Humanoid, a little roam, and he is taking over right now tonight.
He started with a small...
I can kill her!
Gold and now he's tanked down!
I wish I could be!
Jack, shut up, bro! You're cursing players! We talked about this! You're not allowed to praise anyone!
No, I'm kidding. You're fine.
I mean, even then, with the kill going over, because it didn't go towards Kana, it's still a solid gold lane for NAKNAKO.
So on the wave was already pushed in so we won't really lose out
We don't need to cope that hard. We don't need to cope that hard. That was a that was a little greedy
He was feeling himself given all the praise that we've laid upon him
But he's still a mortal man and he will still die if you go
That's true for now. He'll have to test you know sometimes you have to be sure it is the privilege of video games
That's that I don't think the lamp is gonna get too much easier for Kana as the eclipse now finished for knock knock
go but yike with this under the sky can't do a lot of work in the coming
bikes but now he's starting up the drake here let me see if they can get the
infernal but KC I think they'll want to contest the eye cast the ultimate
follow to make trying to find a way into this one looking for a bit of a steal
guys only now in a group up with the team so they're totally a little uncomfortable
here the drake has reset then yike is in a bit of an awkward position even like
Ghosting around
For the route
Really fast past the minefield
Will stop him is
Jake still hiding in the brush still with perfect information
I still don't know like this doesn't want to be one of you. I don't think he does does
Close it's very good
The equal trade there both John Lurs both decide to back off them. No wait. We're not back
This is an eternal drake setup here, something like this.
Okay, so kind of no TP top, which is why I think Vincenzo's got a little bit more confidence to go for this.
But yeah, I'm pushing mid, happy to take it.
Yeah, Vincenzo's basing, Yacht goes for the top counters.
Has one drake going over for vitality, and it's going to be the mountain soul.
A lot of value for both teams this game.
This has to be the closest early game we've seen all day, at the very least.
But the only real reason it is close is because of the steals.
Realistically, I think, you know, Vitality have been doing a very good job of setting up on the objectives, trying to play off of wave states, and if we didn't have Secret Agent Yike,
I mean, you'd be two dragons, three boy grobes, and we're like, Vitality off to the races.
And it's kind of what we got to see before as well in that G2 game too, where Yike kept KC within touching distance with some insane stealers.
It's also yike with pretty much the only gold team 4kc tiny one on blue seal, but it's like 80 gold
So yike is the one member that's actually ahead of his opposition
I can look to make the difference going into the next fight
He really wants to try to leverage that control and pressure to some of these laners as both mid and top
Are continuing to get pushed in and take losing trade. I'm not clear
stuff forward
Conor though just heals up so much of that damage, but top lane starting to bounce out feeling a little bit more even around one
Item is the redemption from what she comes top lane bless. She said it's unfair. This right-side sustain have a redemption
We'll see it's not gonna cause him because there's no objectives for quite some time. So he's probably fine. Just give that one up
That's like the type of stuff you do in a solo queue game to get the honor, you know, yeah, or an assist. Yeah
He just wants to be barred so bad. You know I flash forward easy setup briefcase connects
Now there's really no opportunity to go she's gonna run for her life. They're trying to see the moon though
They're using everything they have to get Yahoo standing. It looks like it's enough as Yikes finally arrived
Fallbreaker forward with the stare from fleshy. Stop going any further Yikes with the counter gang able to turn that around
It looks so dicey and then that's not the one's kind of making the most of the PP shield just to kick the fight off
Donald's provide too much safety there
It was a good initial play from Juno it it looks like they have the numbers said that bitch
But Yahoo, which the ghost bought so much time and allowed Gluccio to appeal for him and it ends up being just humanoid falling for vitality
Certainly even things out in the mid lane just a moment ago
We were like Jake has the only goalie, but now it's Calist as well as Yehue who are pulling ahead
Calist must have grabbed some plates in the meantime
Yeah, even though Karse has the CS lead
Maybe Karse, or at least also have the call, as you can see Humanoid flapping forward here.
And the briefcase from Linsus lands, but with the Ghost, Yahoo is just too damn fast,
and has a great ult by Boussio, hits on the wall, fleshing Humanoid, and he falls off of the root,
and they get the flat from Fleshy on top, and Yike is really making his presence known in this game.
There he is, Karse though, trying to get aggressive on the quench.
So close, he didn't have to kill Boussio laying down the clone and using his own body just to block the mystic shots here.
And that should be Rift Herald now for Vitality, Karazhe and Fleshy making some plays on me.
Humanoid has no Flash, yeah who?
Pius the ult to come over the wall, so we'll just back away.
Yeah, he gets his pressuring alone here, even though Kalista's 100 HP under tower,
he's still trying to find something and force them away, but as you said Dika,
it's the Rift Herald going over to Vitality, and the next objective is that Mountain Dragon, one minute 40.
Bit of time to get those flashes back, at least for Buccio and Fleshy.
I don't have enough time, I'll have around a minute and 40.
Need to see what it looks like when the top laners get involved for now.
They've been pretty isolated to their 1v1.
I think the early game, even though the gold lead isn't fake,
I really favor knock-knuckle scaling in this game.
I think he can really show his impact in teamfights.
That's what you're aiming for when you pick this on Besson.
I don't even think he needs to scale. He's been doing a great job against Kanna.
Honestly, in this 1v1, he's got the level advantage, he's got the CS.
Well, I had the CS lead for quite a while, and I think that's why if you're vitality,
you're honestly pretty happy with the way this game has been going.
You hold control, your solo laners are in decent spots as you start to move on,
and Karsian, especially, are doing good work into the 2v2 in mid.
As long as you can keep playing through those lanes, I think you're in a great spot.
I'm not going to get any good trades here, and I agree with you, Dika.
I think this is a great start for my Palady and a great start for Nacnaco.
Being ahead in gold here, cashed in that call now.
He is really gonna...
...get you a real morph of Kana tunnels forward.
He has no other tunnels currently set up in the lane.
I think the alarm bells are ringing.
He knows this is not the time to go in.
There was a wave that crashed on bot and they were...
I think KC were like, hang on a second.
Someone should be collecting this wave.
Nobody is picking it up.
There has to be some sort of play happening elsewhere.
So Kana, with the help of KC, kind of backing away to that...
And it does mean Vitality leaves a little for the play, but honestly, I like the idea of trying to make this quick play before Dragon spawns, and KC on the objective first though.
It shows some foresight and understanding of this rise big that Humanoid, a veteran, builds for these types of plays where he's willing to just drop a wave to try to make something happen, while Kanna respects it.
It still means that Vitality can use this to get pressure on the drink. But there's an awkward situation here. Humanoid's reliant on the realm warp and the ghost to get him to the objective fast enough.
Kana has access to the PP. Nak Nakko doesn't.
Might have been part of the reason why we see the lane assignments work out the way that they do.
He's hoping he can make it down. It means losing one or two creeps here.
Yeah, who's making a miss onto Nak Nakko. I'd like on the side as well.
But how do we back away just off the threat though?
The dragon not started, but big ultimate down now for KC.
See how important it ends up being both midlaners with utility ultimates.
They see Schumann on top and they want to pull the trigger, Kama already keeping in.
Keeping in the I-takes time, trying to find a target to ulti too.
Kana off on the side, not so much how to ult him, but a bit more damage comes through.
Forces the flash out early.
This is so low.
Vitality, hold all the cards now.
Yagmur just want to go for the 50, but needs to be careful.
Flash away, no time for the ball breaker.
A little bit of damage coming for KC.
Redempts to heal Vitality right back out.
secured by KC, now they need to get out.
They give what they want.
But the rip trail is in mid.
So still a lot of pressure here from Vitality.
They should be able to pull back and take that mid lane
turret, TP to the top from Makumako.
Can't be matched here by Archie.
Can't be matched with the Rek'Sai anymore.
So maybe actually two turrets off that plate for Vitality.
That would be a lot of gold in Vitality's pockets.
But crucially, KC got the drake through Yite's smites.
It's been so damn good with the smites these days.
even outsmarting the doctor mundo as now caught up
it's not the trouble
on the next or trade that really likes walking into the brush
that like watching the animation cancel someone
drops out of uh... drops out of your vision
on a
playing the wreck side
and annoyance
it's uh... safe to say
back back on like being a little bit of trouble here though what about the way
because you got to list on this top side I thought you like my trying to come up
but no members and I'm showing you just a little bit more comfortable to step up
it's still pressure yeah just funny how even we can get fooled by the nico cologne it does
it isn't knowing that the icon on the map is the champion because it looks like there's two
vies on my map right now right now there's there's two isn't it funny that nobody says
you know people were always like two shens but nobody says that about nico nobody's like two
Unara's yeah, it's kind of like when you know Papa Rito gets involved. They kind of ruin it
You know, it's like when your dad thinks that it's funny. It's still fine. Yeah, like as adults probably go in your teenager
Anyway, that was well fourth list trying to push in trying to break this midland power to brought gold still super close
We'll see if I can find another adjective other than work
As a mega getting it later and later into this game
The late game scanners are favours, knock knock, really haven't gotten to see Callisby too much, now he's at two items as is Corsi, but the two item Power Scythe is pretty legendary.
I think it's just insane how close this game is though, like there's been so much back and forth, like both teams jostling and buying for any sort of pressure that they can guess.
But all of a sudden done, like both teams are within touching distance, and this could easily break either direction.
KC now at least get the push on mid. We'll also get top lane turret off of the reset timer from Vitality.
And that guy goes trying to hide.
Yeah, he might be in trouble here.
Well, he doesn't get spotted, but maybe Yahoo is in trouble if he buys enough time here.
That's the rest of the KC.
See all the unstoppable, the run walk starts to come in. Yahoo's dead.
Skylar State has two members, two PMs, way up in the brush to support him.
I know that's bot lane and it has no TP. If he actually shows in the wave,
do Vitality feel comfortable to just take the orange?
I would love for Vitality to start mash here.
It was such a good sneak play by Narknako, but it doesn't look like they want to go for it.
They just put Narknako balls. They don't want to explode the game just yet.
They want to play it slow, play for the towers, take the small leads.
But I love this sort of cheesiness that Narknako looks for.
He finds the kill, results in a tower as well.
Definitely a good look now. He can move down to the bottom lane to match.
Kana, top lane tower, picked up small, boldly, neither side able to build
any kind of significant advantage because again, a thousand, this late into the game,
It's not a big deal. So instead I think we have to look at item completion, but across the board
It's it's really just two items apiece for both teams
And I think if you're vitality you would look to try and take that fight
You just kind of talk to it the azerial spike
You got that rise bike off the two items, especially since he's about to hit level the 10 stack on his rod of ages
However, for KC
They're kind of just getting to farm off. They have the dragon lead so they can wait for three items in Unara
They'll technically have to take the fight look for trades, but with
Coming in for the 1v1, Humanoid suddenly thinking better, I don't know if he wins out on this one.
Seraph Shield is there, Klis still continuing to walk forward, Yike waiting off to the side.
Wants to lock up Humanoid immediately, goes to the ulti, Klis decides it, takes up the kill, breaks the tower of his own, and we're just going blow for blow, band for band here in this game.
And Klis is playing fearless here as he takes the 1v1, and by quality we're not willing to start the match when they kill the midlaner, but KCR, Yikes the smite king, let's see how they play it.
How does he want to get into this one?
If we can see his vision, show the pressure on him to try to find his way in.
As Buccio finds the flank off to the side, Karzy caught out immediately.
He's going to get flicked back, but now it's Nak Nako arriving in the meantime.
Karzy's still looking for a moment, but it's Pana to seal the deal.
He uses the ulti.
Linsus on the run as is Nak Nako.
Fallbreaker there. Linsus locks up. They're not able to break the passive.
Now starting to run. It's just too fast.
Buccio learning the gorilla tactics from Nak Nako, hiding on the bush, waiting for Karzy to step up the pick too far.
They don't get the Baron, but it'll be another kill now for KC for 15 seconds until Dragon.
They need to get back out, and now they're down three of those ultimates.
Carves is still dead for 15 seconds. It should be a free drake for KC here.
Unless Vitality are able to find some miracle play, and Lynse is just playing the crap.
Oh, Knock Knocko. Level 16 never knocked Knocko. Media flashed the knock up.
Forcing the flat back out of knock knock.
Oh, when it's starting to step up.
Puccio here, but no allty.
Crucially, Cliff does have access to his allty.
But there's no Ezreal.
Karzy on his way.
KC should be able to just burst.
They said humanoid's in that bottom side.
Right, Kenny.
Get it.
Let's just watch Betty.
Do you want to pull his head in?
Is it going to take the risk?
Is it used to be a nuisance?
Lins is now ready to chase.
Kana.
He really has a tunnel soon as he tries to side step.
As the egg goes right back in, looking to lock up Karzy.
But the rest of the team isn't there.
A play they did not need to make?
And Jyke needed to ulti Nagnako, but he went for Karzy instead, ended up knocking Nagnako out of the Taliyah W and went too deep.
Now the question is, if Black Balladdy can look to start the Nash, they're relwarping him.
Nagnako is low, but Jyke is dead.
There's no jungler on the side of KC and there's no smite, but KC can still look for the fight.
He acted so much in this game, but powers of his old play-plays
come back to mind as Casey and has stepped it up yet.
Who goes into separates?
The wall to separate from 4K, the objective's getting lower.
We take a miracle for the Missile.
This one, Mence's unmovable, unmovable, 1800.
Doug's managed to take away the Baron and immediately
by Cality free engage, and now it's in disaster for Casey.
Doc doesn't live far too long.
It's time to try to finish the kill.
Double knock-up comes through again,
but he can't tunnel over the wall.
As far as he dropped it, it's Baron to Vitality.
This game is so back and forth, it's blow for blow every moment, but it's Vitality who managed to get the Baron for the Dragon.
And this Nash fight, Yahu puts up the wall, they try to scatter them, but it's a lack of spite that really hurts them as Vitality can play it slow.
They secure the Nash with the help of Lysus, and Hagnatul goes in, and thought he would die, but he ends up buying so much time dashing out.
Still goes down to Karna, but with that he pulls Karna alongside him to the grave.
Yeah, who, performing the Cardinal Sin, the Legal Edge, who's flashing in a straight line and still gets hit by Nakmako on that one.
Vitality, gonna feel overjoyed now.
Losing Dragon still hurts, but finally a 3k Gold lead for them on this.
I was so much of that being situated on towards Karzai, third item now completed.
This has ruined a position to try and be a major carry in these fights.
Listening for time to get that infinity edge.
Desperately needs maybe some armor pen as well to get through Winston's health bar.
A bit of healing reduction for Buseyos certainly does go a long way in these fights,
but Vitality with the Baron firmly in control.
Back and forth right up until Yikes stepped a little bit too far forward.
Kasey had the angle to just play for Seoul, thought maybe they could convert to a greater fight.
Get a Baron of their own, but now they're so far behind.
3k deficit, now going to see how much more Vitality can get done with a Baron power play.
Vitality really needs to get a lot of things done with this Baron power play because otherwise
you're still entering a solo fight for KC in two minutes and in case they are only down 3k gold
that's still a fight that's really out there even in their favor. So Vitality are a bit of a clock
here, they want to try to make the best use of this match that they can, one minute left,
They're going to get the tier 2 bolt, well more can they get.
They don't have waves set up anywhere else in the map, they're playing on a single lane which makes it so much easier for KC to just defend.
Kana did a good job of pushing out the mid wave, no one's managing top wave, so Vitality, I think blacking the Baron on Nako, maybe not comfortable to play on multiple waves, because their split pusher doesn't have to bot.
I think it's also just that, oh Kana, waves are not going to hit, but I think Vitality are scared of the engagement KC.
Like the gold button from Yike, flashing from Buccio, they can very quickly find these fights.
They drop mid lane turret and shut down the play, suddenly KC gets the tempo lead that they need
to set up for that dragon to mentality not willing to give us.
Naknako, I think his spotted senses are tingling a little bit there.
Yeah, good thing he didn't greet for the control ward still.
It's only going to be a 2.5k gold lead from this Baron power play.
And most of that's the kills they got immediately following the Baron.
It's not like they got a ton of objectives here, so vitality while they've built a decent gold lead
They've completed or at least started on to those fourth item spikes
Closed on three items. He had enough time to form that up, so I think you're right about what you said earlier, Jack
This this soul fight is still going to be very very close. It's gonna be the one that counts
It's still gonna be a vitality that have control
As they're able to push in this midway with car C
They really want to poke them down before a fight starts to utilize this car maestro to its full potential
and then knock knock on this this could swoop in and finish the deal
I'm not looking to split another pressure point
Maybe disrupt Casey event here
See I covering off the top of midway
They were hoping by telling me my group on midway
Maybe you could look for a play but still potentially look for pound cars if you over it spends
You know that's right on the side Conna
Finds you this will knock up wall way down by yay who's humanly not ghosting away redempt coming in to keep him relatively
He's just fast enough to escape for now.
Trying to get back in his role more thanks to Gord,
but Anakum is there in time for Kana.
Humanoid down, shut down for Yehu.
That's a pick for KC, Anakum is still pushing in top.
And we have 15 seconds until potentially Mountain Soul.
Vitality have to take a fight with a number's disadvantage.
And that's the impact that Kana has in these games.
Now it's a 4v5 by Paladir.
Freight to enter through ball.
Anakum has the flank.
Anakum's bottom line with a tremor sense,
even though they don't have the vision though,
knows exactly where he's flying from.
A nice added bonus with Buccio.
Fishes four of flank.
Sends the phone forward first,
considering a vision in the brush.
4K getting lower, 50-50, a smite fight,
so they don't want to take it.
They're going to knock up lenses and take him down a stat
immediately as Alphard just disappeared.
Parsi taking down Buccio, but at the cost of the soul.
They tried to make a play on towards Buccio.
He was putting so much pressure down,
but threatening that potential.
Flank, the cars, he had to go and deal with them.
So KC turn on towards Linsus, finish off the jungler and take the soul.
And this game is just so close.
The biggest plays in the game we've seen have been single individual errors.
Yike going a bit too far, posting them to Baron.
Humanoid going a bit too far, posting by CaliD, the soul.
Everything else has been nearly flawless.
I mean it's just been Yike with the smites that have made the difference in this game.
You see Linsus goes in with the call of split.
This Mundo cannot go where he pleases.
as a Karzy is taking down Buccio, there's no backline for Lysus to play around and he's taking down so fast.
And this is the steals we saw early game. Yike set this up by getting those drinks early and securing each and every single one.
And it's the time bot that is going to do KC wonders. Kalis nearly at his fourth item. You're seeing Pyehu starting to pick up his ones.
his ones. A GA now ball for Yike, means that he can go hyper aggressive on the plays and
settle for KC. As long as KC are there to help him cut on the back.
Also Mountain Soul, the extra armor and magic resist, even though we don't have a true tank
on the lineup, you're looking at Knock Knocko and Karzy, who both would love to be throwing
out so much damage mitigated by the bit of armor we're seeing from Yike already. It's
just going to be hard to find that back on axis and assassinate those priority targets
for Knock Knocko in these big fights.
Also, I just want to highlight the way that, yeah, he's playing this. You can see him,
just sitting here but always like threatening a potential on either side to make plays.
Has Council reset once more but it means that Humanoid like he can't really do anything
because he doesn't know where Yahoo is.
That's the kind of support we talked about when it comes to these foot pushing compositions.
Something we noted that like how do you lack of it with the Muzo, right?
Don't have that semi-global to support someone on side lane without using the power of Humanoid
and currently use the one on side so now they find a lockup on the knock knocker.
Deception's the only coming in. Knock knock, they're living for far too long.
Falling by his arrow, it's knocked out to push back in, looking to pop Yike.
Yike barely living, Yike holding on, sundering in the sky to keep the dreams alive as KC now retreat.
Humanoid stepping forward with a gliss, for he just started leaching damage.
Daphne with a wall, Kana coming from behind.
The Rek'Sai will not find the angle as the bloody little brawl and Karzy wants to make the difference.
GA pop, Fuzio can't go in, but he's gonna try anyway.
Baka, Bear, Q through, flashback from Yike!
Humanoid open the side, China burns through Kana's health bar,
it's a close-bar battle.
Flash forward, Zaka from Kana,
Yehu not there with a follow-up damage.
The Saras crop just in time to keep Humanoid standing by Kala,
he's turning it, Farsi popping off!
Farsi, how far to hold on to hope in this game?
Farsi came to play, ladies and gentlemen.
He sees that Yike wastes the Q and bounces on the opportunity.
He takes his GA and even though Buseo gets the engage,
It's two kills for Vitality, and CardiC might have just saved them the game.
Gacy trying to play it slow until Kanna can get there, because they look free.
And Nacknackle here, but the follow-up isn't quite there, as Yannu uses the wall,
but Nacknackle, he would flash away, immediately dying, onto Yike.
Wait, Yannu just doesn't end up falling, but it's the overextension afterwards,
because the realm warp from Fuminoid gets there faster.
Again, you've got this numbers play.
For this, not in a position to actually get any sort of damage down, because he goes towards mid.
Vitality, back in the Baron, can they make this pick happen?
We're fighting again, it's the Baron Nashor, it's Yikes' playground, he has the smite.
As it might be, no flash.
He taps it in, and Q forward, take the blast, don't get away.
Nobody can up steal it, not today! Let's just secure this one!
Bro, console that, like, I would tweet it.
No, it's just a stone, it's yeah.
OK, a Baron Nasher for vitality and they firmly get that gold lead back in their hands.
And now they need to break inhibitors with this Baron Nasher.
Open up this KC base to make sure that you have control of the elder dragon.
Starting to push on much better footing than they did last time around.
Mid wave already pushing forward.
Bot wave in their favor yet who sent to answer it to stop vitality for being able to play on three lanes.
But Clista alone is not enough to hold here in mid lane.
You're just manned down, Casey and Ois. They have to back away from these outer turrets.
They're just sending air who can push aside and hope that at least they can play off of the two lanes and try and nullify the pressure.
But 10 seconds until Yike, and it's gonna be 10 seconds too late as Vitality will take the inhibitor structure.
So frustrating too when Vitality happens to then flush you able to stand back.
The Montra-E, the defiance just to speed Vitality up and in.
Yahu is pushing both. That's a silver lining. 4KC, but if Vitality can get this top end
it, and it would be absolutely huge for them. So much pressure for this Elder Dragon.
Not going to continue in pressure midway, just making sure there's something that has
to be answered elsewhere. Double cannon's not going to be triple cannon, so the tower
certainly going to fall here. Still a minute and 30 seconds left on this Baron. Casey,
if they miss step while this buff is active, the game will end in the favor of Vitality.
Clip chunk, sent back to the fountain.
And that's going to be his.
That chunk is enough for the inhibitor to fall.
In case he's struggling in game number one against Vitality,
this was intended close for Lipsis.
Doesn't get back.
Kanna manages to interrupt.
Now, that's not caught as well.
That's not going to put back.
He's immediately going to go in.
He's to find a way over the wall.
That's going to be the cease and desist coming through.
Knock out the K-finus gate with an ulti of his own.
He's going to get picked away.
30 seconds before the elder.
Vitality need to hold for B5 and disaster has struck the vitality camp at the last possible moment
The vitality members are desperate. They want to look for a pick before elder Casey made a choice though
They went for knock knock though, and they did not go for linsus
The jungler for vitality is still here and vitality are looking for play
Humanoid on the flank. Yeah, who about to get me?
Believe it or not, the Probusier was there.
Down, Ghost Party. Humanoid's the last major source of damage left.
He's getting me. He's getting me.
How is this rise alive?
Maura Krasda.
And the rest of Vitality standing strong.
Who members head on both sides at 17 seconds to knock Nako on Vitality.
Might just get the elder.
What the hell was that? I thought I knew League of Legends,
and Schumann was dead in the one before,
but he does so much damage and the shielding and healing from Flessy
allows Vitality to get elder in the last moment.
Marek bras the stepping of Karzy taken out.
It looked like Pussy had done the unthinkable
and held his way from Vitality,
but with the TP in, the actualizer damage
was deleting Yehu, putting matters on KC
and showing that Vitality would not be denied on the plate.
I mean, Kalista is my life. You got one shot.
I can't believe it myself.
And as Kalista, you need, like, you're going to be kicking yourself after that one.
Because you could have used the fact that you had the longer range with the Unari.
You could have played it slower, waited for the CC, but it looked like a free kill.
It was a one versus two.
He's stalling an elder.
He's just waiting as long as possible to make sure the waves are in a good spot.
And then Nash, ideally.
But it's still not going to be lined up with the Nashor, but still they can play for the Voltein if they can look for the dive
And we saw Ryze do a lot of damage before the elder. Yeah, I well now he has an elder
It's an actualizer not a maybe wiser
Does it's just kind of a disgusting item I?
Don't know how it ended up in the game, but now not so it's been caught out quick back
He's gonna die again running for his life last a little bit of help coming up
But now Ximeno is going to try to 1v5 as best he can.
Yikes.
Burning, kicking, holding on.
Will not go into the threshold crucially.
They're going to be the both they name for in my pality.
But two big mistakes by Naknaako here.
Both leaving up to his performance from yesterday.
But it might just not matter.
My pality are looking to continue the siege 4v5.
They still have the elder.
They just need the super creeps.
They can look for the poke with Karzy.
They can look to keep Casey in their base.
Casey have the soul, but it has not been enough for them to hold on in this game.
I mean, my talent has been fantastic.
And so diligent.
A couple missteps, most certainly, but overall still
doing so well in these fights.
Finding these good angles, punishing KC when they overstep.
The mountain's sold not enough.
You're right.
Double super creeps.
Three inhibitors down.
Nexus two.
Power's still standing strong.
Karzy's off.
You're going to connect on the corner by Tau-di now,
holding back.
10 seconds on Asakako.
TP is there.
They get the flash out of Lensis at the very least.
One minute left.
KC needs to hold the line and be ready for a fist fight at the Baron, but Vitality don't want to give them that time.
It's TPs from Knock Knock on the bottom lane. One final hold for KC.
Montre defiance coming out. Massive shielding across all of Vitality, not mitigating much damage.
This is going to be the last wave, but it's double super creeps lined up perfectly.
Yeah, who's trying to use the wall to buy time so they can deal with the top wave.
30 seconds. Last waves here. Next one won't be there in time.
Flitz putting back, with the ulti in from Nautz, now go by, make the difference.
Flitz getting back in the tower, just out of range to be executed!
Using the power, generation to burn through!
But Corzie's on the nexus! Crucially, he's on the nexus, he wants to end it here!
Bona on the Jason! Nexus exposed! At the edge of death, KC trying to hold on!
Flitz is now finding the angle! Humanoid going golden!
Barzi going off! As he finds!
Kill after kill! Resurrection there!
Humanoid on the edge of death!
But the game will end in favor of Vigality!
And he has insult, injury!
And my vitality have done it!
And it was not the backup of Knock Knock Goal,
it was the check duo, Karzy and Humanoid,
that did the damage in the teamfights and made it count.
The training arc is too much.
It's biceps, it's deadlifts, it's everything for vitality.
A desk, please break this down, because I am mind-blowing here.
I might have blown as well, but you know what?
When Karzy locks in Ezreal in an important game for years and years and years now,
you always have in the back of your head, is he going to do something crazy?
He saved the game.
Some people on my own skin there was so many times where I played against Karzy in elimination
games and he just always pulls up the craziest things because he's dashing in 1v5, he's about
to get caught so many times but it feels like this is his best champion he's always playing
at the edge of his limit.
I mean you think back to those legendary moments, MSI versus Damwon gave in, those S-Routes
kept finding their marks and look at the pro view of this fight here.
He takes so much space, his top laner just got caught.
They have Mountain Soul, yet he is fearless and adamant that this is the fight he wants
to take and he just makes miracles happen out of thin air.
And this is also where his crazy personality is kicking in because this guy is 20% HP,
has 5 people in front of him and he still finds the energy to just jump in.
He just said we're back, we're back, we're back is what it said.
He said we're back.
But it was necessary, right?
What a crazy game.
I don't even know what to prioritize because I feel like we watched an early game where
Jyke was doing amazing, he was stealing all the objectives, KC was getting their comp online, it was all going great and then BAM!
Let me talk to you about Urban Automatic Brass Snap, because we talked about NACNACO a lot in the pre-game, that was not relevant at all in this game.
But I love how they used this RISE pick, not only in the late game but in the early game.
They looked to gank for the RISE, make sure that RISE can push safely, give him the vision and then use that RISE push into the top side.
Make sure NAKNAKO gets ahead, not that it mattered.
It was Marek Brastad got that kill.
And I feel like they just worked in such good tandem.
And this was a volatile game.
It was a joy ride, but Vitality came out on top.
And that's also the dangerous part about Vitality,
because it feels like every game we bounce between,
yo, Kimonir and Karzy with NAKNAKO.
But at the same time, when NAKNAKO is having,
maybe not an off game, but just like a normal top lane game,
you have these two little nutcases in the mid and jungle,
in the mid and ADC ladder,
who are able to take over the game at every moment.
That shades of Mad Lions, right?
When they are the team we'd love to hate on here in Europe.
Mad Lions, yeah.
But it's true, it's two players that have done this
for a very long time.
You mentioned the Dom 1 game.
I also remember like a Worlds game versus maybe NLG.
Like it was super close, it was super late game.
And I think this is really interesting to contrast, right?
Because you have a vitality that has found their groove
in Versus.
They really have.
They are getting stronger every game we see them play.
versus a KC who are expected to go to finals weekend.
I mean, to me, KC is like a team that goes to fine dining restaurants.
They sit there with a little fancy forks,
and they enjoy a sophisticated game of League of Legends.
Meanwhile Vitality, they drag it down in the mud,
and they dine in hell together with him.
And I feel like KC were not ready for that.
Vitality's threw everything, kitchen sink, tablecloth,
whatever they could find, and I feel like KC was not ready at all.
Nope.
But Finn, is it the curse?
Because, think about KC from last year, they won Winter, they made first stand.
But as of now, pretty much every single team that made first stand last year did not make it.
CFO is out, HLE is out, is it just a curse?
Guys, I think he has the script.
He's onto something, guys.
I want to see KC do it, because they made us proud in the past,
but now they're finally here at the brink of elimination into a resurging vitality.
Yeah, I mean, the eyes were also with Buzio that that was in theory a big upgrade for Targama.
So I think a lot of expectations is behind this KC roster.
For them not even to make Top 4 would be a huge disappointment for this organization.
Yes, they have to turn it around. We saw our reverse sweep already, although for BESA3s I think that's kind of lame.
But it still hurts.
Of course, so let's talk about the two scenarios then.
How did KC bring this back first off?
I mean...
They didn't play badly.
Yeah, exactly.
So, this is the weird thing where, okay, maybe we haven't seen the best League of Legends from both of them,
but when I get one, I feel like these teams are so evenly matched, I would say, because they have stars on each side.
I feel like the Ike had a really, really good game, even though they lost. It just so happens that there's a loser sometimes.
So I'm not really putting it on just case you, it just might be vitality of playing them.
I mean, to me, if I had to find one lane, I would probably say it's in the mid lane.
We remember how highly caps talked about Yahoo in those interviews in the PGL before and I feel like this game with those
early Gangs by lintas to get it with humanoid. He was completely
Shot out of the game. It was constantly humanoid pushing those midways finding angles on the sidelines and that mid lane
He was free V5 holding the line
And I feel like if KC wants to fight back they got on lucky who more together with yike and boost you that mid jungle
Sport is pivotal that makes sense
It kind of feels like as I was watching this game when Casey was still on the winning track
They're playing as a collective, right?
You have Yahoo covering making sure that humanoid can do too much and on the other side you have vitality
Who I just think if I have to bet on an X factor
I'll bet on vitality every day of the week because they will do more with less
It's such a weird thing to say because I feel like it's the first time I will ever say that if I have X factor
I'm betting on vitality because it's crazy
Yeah, but it just goes to show how much
You know, human and Karzy have as a duo, because we have seen them separately.
They haven't done well when they were apart, but now when they're together,
it finally feels like it's the Mad Lions of all, and this took our driving the team forward.
It would be a monumental upset if Casey does not make it to Barcelona
and does not get a chance to defend their winter title,
but we're not going to count them out, because that's what we did last year,
and they came back and they won that winter split.
But this is versus, it's a different game.
So let's see what happens when we come back from a break.
Yeah, this is open buddy. I'm playing the promes. You're legit playing
Can you hear me, baby
There we go.
You know what I'm saying?
I saw him in the camera.
I'm gonna get him.
Yeah, that ain't the same.
Yeah, I'm gonna get him.
I'm gonna call the game.
What's wrong with me today?
I think you should have a break.
Have a break.
Have a KitKat.
I love it, baby, cause I'm the crush of boom
I know you wanna talk, talk, but we're talking
Oops
Red Bull gives you wings.
Ah, 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?
Welcome back to LEC Versus as we enter potentially another thrilling game.
I certainly hope so because that one was an absolute nail fighter.
It felt like it came down to the slimmest of margins and the insanity that we've often
criticized by Tali for, that raw confidence has often led to catastrophic misplays, today
was the reason they closed that game.
But that's what you want from a team that are facing off for a top four position.
Every decision has to matter.
Every decision has to get you one step closer to Barcelona and right now it's Vitality that
are one step ahead of Karmin.
And you guys might criticize Vitality for their chaos, for their ints, for the random
things that happen in their games.
You may also praise them.
But that's what we praise them for.
That's what we love them.
That's what we watch them.
That's why it's so exciting to see because you never know who's going to step up, who's
going to make the difference yesterday. It was the linsus knuckle show today. They were
pretty subdued. They weren't really doing much of a car seat and humanoid that stepped
up and I can't wait for this game number two to see. Maybe it's flashy that you know, you
never know. It's a very good question. Who will find that level of performance this game?
We'll be on the side of KC potentially to bring us to a game three as we enter picks
and bans and vitality chose blue side. Casey had right up her selection as they lost and
they chose first pick once again. So exact same set up as we had in the previous draft.
And again, we're going to see some of the more standard priority picks taken off the
board. Orianna and Ryze. Sorry, Rumble still up in a, sorry. Orianna still up in available
and the Azir as an answer. Still available into it as well, which could always be the
option here with the Sion band away. Yeah, who? A lot of Ipans, both Kassanta and Sion
taken away. Both teams valuing that really highly. And now we'll see what KC decided
first pick here as you said that there's the azir open so that kind of feels like an old brainer
put the oriana on the upside so kind of what side do you feel more comfortable on
i thought they would be the because we kind of talk about like caps is definitely the player
that can expose this match up the most yeah on the oriana but i think humanoid more than capable
of being solid when it comes to positioning the fights and trying to bully the lane as well
for yeah who though it's not surprising to see him prioritize the side of the match but is his
most played champion in LEC versus Vitality expecting to pick Dior now and they're going to grab it.
But one thing I will call out right now is that Humanoid at his best is a demon on the sideline.
Certainly even more so when he's in power with champions who are good on the sideline.
Orianna, not a great sideliner. If Humanoid falls behind, I wonder if we're going to see
a bit of a step back into old habits where he does push for that extra wave,
tries to get more than he can reasonably grab and ends up going down in the process.
For sure. I like this because you're putting a little pressure on Humanoid,
Especially when you lock in this Jarvan as well. This is a hard game to play Orianna because after level 6
You need to be careful every time as you can look to shuffle in and get that wall on you
And then with the Cataclysm from Jarvan as well a lot of threats from humanoid and an easy game for him to start racking up
That's why I imagine we'll see something like the Zinzei was an answer for Linus
Just try to play for that heavy 2v2 where you've got the shields and the tons to enable the Zinzei
Most of the ability does this in there with the Oswits trying to knock away the flag and drag
The blinds with the Rourah, that is
Strange to say the least so confident enough in the remaining matchups with the first two champions taken off the board
As well as the Cassante when and scion everything else I guess he feels confident in but they do have two more fans if they don't
Immediately lock it up
Okay, lock it in knock knock go ladies and gentlemen
He started out in the ERLs and I played against him as a wee little boy and he had played so much Yasuo and Yone in solo queue
It was a two-trick in solo queue on it and he achieved really high rank playing both
And he's probably I'd say alongside Zookill the best Yasuo and Yone in our region
And he picks it here today because he wants to have a good laning matchup into the Aurora
So KC they picked the Aurora because they see that both tanks are down in the Sion and the Cassandra and the Rek'Sai and the Mundo
So they think to themselves, we can luck the Aurora and have a good match for ourselves.
But also just thinking how insane a Shockwave can't be now.
You hit onto some key targets, they don't get the play they're getting, they're just done.
And you've already basically locked in three Squishies for KC with an 80 carry still to come.
And now we need to see what the options are for KC. They've taken away the Nami, the ease of that
tidal wave to set up a multi-man, uh, Gosselalty into Shockwave or vice versa.
Are they going to take away anything else that really makes this composition function?
We've got an Ash and a Brombo taking away they know with the Yasuo diving into that backline
How squishy he is they don't want to deal with the concussive flows
Thing with the Yasuo is it's very high risk high reward
So you need to not not go to have a better game than he had in his last because on this champion
You can easily miss fees or famine to say the least
It's a champ that can either go 10-0 or 0-10. That's why you need more things to enable it
So imagine Fleshy fishing for something like the Alistar. They've already bound away the prom and to try and enable that Braille
also another option, but at least something that can both play peel and de engage. I think it's going to be Grace in this sort of position
Yeah, sort of one more combo champ to give you also that knockup would make a lot of sense here for Vitality
Rengar helps so much
I was really like holding my breath for what this could be
Because it's gonna be so important whether it's support or jungle they need an enabler because yes
Yasuo ulti with Orianna, ulti makes the dream feel even better.
is that enabler we haven't seen any success from the nocturn yet but they
didn't have a yasuo that's true I mean now you have the nocturn oriana but and
they also they can work we've heard of a glass cannon is there a material less
stable than glass that we could describe this cannon is being made out of
because the dream of multi-man shock wave off the nocturn in the yasuo is
is great. If it whiffs, this comp sucks. Yeah, Zyra is so damn good into this combo as well.
That is one less target for Vitality to try to go on. And with Aurora and Azir both going zonius,
I have my doubts. I think Vitality need to execute this comp extremely well.
We'll have to see what they decide to lock in last pick, but presumably it's going to be something
something like the outside or the rail.
Either way, decent spot on here.
I mean, you're all in here is vitality.
There is no other way.
At least it does give humanoid something
that can't try and play on these sidelines a little bit more.
So I think that's kind of where the,
I'm sorry, knacknack was something
that can play on the sidelines a little more.
So at least that seems to be the focus.
There's the rail that we were expecting.
So it feels like try and play
and protect humanoid on these sidelines.
Use the fact that you have that ultimate
and hope the knacknack will become
big enough threat that he can one shot everyone alongside this shockwave combo.
Yeah, I think this top lane matchup is the one to look at and the one I want to
track during this whole game because if Nak Nakko gets ahead and you get to a
point where you don't really care so much about the Nocturne Orianna, it's more
the cherry on the top and Nak Nakko can just start fights on his own with
Fleshy and Karzy, but if he falls behind and you become so reliant on finding this
miracle engage with Nocturne Orianna and we have just seen it time and time again
It just doesn't work.
Teams know how to play against it.
They won't group up and give you that crazy combo.
Dang.
Stakes sky high.
Team Vitality, rather than taking a more conservative option,
knowing they're up a game, decided to bet it all
on a pretty wacky composition.
KC, much more stable, much more standard.
The Aurora blind was their risky gamble.
Vitality's option to punish it.
Something even higher risk.
Both sides really willing to risk it all here.
But for KC, this is elimination point
One more win, secures them a place in the top four.
Secures them a place in Spain next week.
KC, facing elimination if they cannot win this game
against Nafnako's signature Yasuo.
And I think, for this game,
we can pretty much look at Cameroon's top lane,
because that's the one lane that I care so, so much about.
I think there's gonna be so much action.
Both junglers, I wouldn't be surprised
if they decide to path up towards that.
Maybe one of them want to try to play for the Drake,
but I really think that Pupplin is where
all the action licenses game.
Knock knock oh five two in his time on the URLs
in the Oslo.
Now, that sounds great, but let's temper that
with the LEC Oslo, which is one and two.
I remember he had won the Oslo game last year
where he literally ran about like zero 10 or something.
But that just, that-
Oh yeah, just zero nine, zero nine, zero nine, zero nine.
We're actually coming in, zero nine, zero nine, yeah.
So, one death short of the power spike is what we've won.
But I think that really highlights how fee-surfinement this champion is.
I would be very surprised if the game ends and Yasuo did not either significantly contribute
in the loss or the win.
No, Yasuo will be a major factor win or lose and for the sake of vitality we'll hope that
it's a positive way, but see what count I could do in the 1v1 matchup sleeping blades
start for Knock Knocko not surprising against a rage opponent.
to the Yone obviously the boots too early on can be a nice little spike to make the trade that much
more favorable but unlike the Yone also a much longer lane for him to plan which could be good or
bad if you start to take a losing trade things get really tricky really quick. I've seen after
you know towards that top tide as well so maybe you can help out in the early stages if needed
but I think from the gecko focus is going to be more on like he has tools here to try and get
get aggressive in the early stages.
Knock, knock, go.
Get some extra autos in.
Ooh, within the last Q, but has the passive
for a little bit of extra shielding.
Flashy though, finding initial engage on the cliff.
That's gonna be big flash forward for Karzy
to try and stay in range.
Karzy's boost here just continues to auto.
Karzy getting a little bit of extra healing
back from the gleaming quill,
and Barling doesn't want to be ignored, Jack.
They also want attention.
Hey, it's Karzy.
You always know you're gonna get the action.
Karzy wanted to flash in front of the feathers,
But instead just flashed on top of them and end up getting rooted up
So he wasn't able to actually take this down
But it's still three summoners burnt now for both sides here as it's a very explosive early game and yike
He added Premunition and he knew that both name will be explosive and he's here for the dive
Farmsley and fleshy jailed under their tower if they try to back step they're gonna be in trouble barrier for cars
He had to take this into account who's gonna tank first flag and drag through cue platform into cliff cliff
Look like he's such a follow. It's gonna be a one for one of the end
Oh, he can't make a check!
A flawless dive by KC.
And when we were all thinking
that Poplain would be the most important matchup,
it's Poplain.
After all, after all this time.
How far does she want to go?
Because Jarvan's still there.
Alright, he's just gonna back away.
I'm pretty far.
Just delaying the recalls at the very least.
Looks like Karsie lost one wave to the tower.
Less 10 CS advantage now as well as the assist.
There's not a lot Karsie can do to survive here.
The Y-Clase is so fantastic. He EQs and just instantly flashes.
There's not even an animation there for Karzy to try and dodge.
And then Buzio and Kalista juggling the Tower Agro really nicely there.
Kana survived.
Surprise Nocturne flash forward, forcing the flash out from Kana as well.
I mean, good reaction from Kana to at least hold on to his life.
This gives so much to our knack knackle, though, you can see.
Q3, waiting, catches him.
One more Q and an auto, and doesn't quite have the space to get it done.
But level 6 now makes it so much more difficult for Kana, because if Nakako flashes on him with us, Nakako, you suddenly have the ultimate to explain more about the game.
Oh, that's Nakako! That's the guy we were looking for in that game one. Gets the solo kill with a little bit of help earlier from Linsus, and with that he's going to start building this gold lead.
Maybe proxying now trying to get away from you like it's just gonna die. This is a kicker time. This is a literal good death
That's what we like to see credit the knock knock go again
knows the ranges flash immediate EQ with the steel tempest charge and
Anna tries to W away, but this doesn't get him out of range
Again, you can actually set up for more plays topside as well when Lindsay sticks over to six
That knock oh dash through the wave set up on towards kind of the knock up and a point to click to follow
So you know how those lenses
A couple of lanes that you can try and play around,
which I think makes my time at least significantly more dangerous in this early stage.
And at least there's one lane where people aren't killing each other constantly.
Nethu and Humanoid.
Civilized. Tricking their team.
Trading waves back and forth. Minor gold leads. Nothing crazy like this.
It's kind of... W's in the opposite direction to mix this up.
Of course the win was all good against the Q from Aurora. Everything else... not so much.
The bringing back to the mid lane is something Dijkda talked about,
that we've seen caps dominate this Orianna's year matchup.
But it's not going in the favor of Humanoid.
It's Yahoo, who's been getting the better bases, getting the CS lead.
And it's also Yahoo now with the push and mid,
which gives Yike the confidence to start up this dragon.
Yep, Lynse is still working towards level 6,
trying to find a camp so we can get there as quickly as possible.
But not too much confidence, I suppose, as Yike, like, it drags out.
Finally not.
Oh, no, he's debating.
Do we have push? Do we not have push?
Haha, it's a language barrier.
No, we have push. Okay, we have push.
With the bottom lane?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm a French and American, it's their 2nd lane, we're just...
I've got mid lane, but...
Well, now they're all here together, taking the drake.
The counter play for Lenses is likely on the top side,
as he tries to finish up that craft, does take over to level 6,
but he's kind of pretty comfortable just playing under his tower now.
would really like to just get an early play to steal camps and stop trading with this Yasuo entirely
I can't go pulling the wave though so it kind of kind of has to walk up
It's very satisfying to watch I really agree it's just like
Seeing a champion played to its max potential especially one that has so much skill expression like the also
It just kind of seemed the little things that knock knocko does like in the earlier all in on kanna
When he had the tornado instead of EQing, he EED and then auto-cued to get one more auto in and get a little bit more damage.
There's a big difference, it's Boosia now there to Shadow top, it does mean that Karzy knows that he's pretty much free to do whatever he wants with that bottom wave.
I do think that was vitality, you've got a bypassed, a lot of where KC were strongest, right? When you look towards the early stages, it was, hey, can Yike play on mid lane?
to burn his flash on humanoid to then enable a level 6 play.
Hasn't really happened for KC.
Naknako has a lead in that topside.
The only place we're really seeing an opening for KC is in the bottom lane.
But I think his vitality is relatively okay with that, with the way this composition works.
What Fusor just did was so smart by the way.
He clears out the paint for Naknako, and generates a lot of pressure for Kanna.
Then he immediately he piece the bolt to help fix the bolt wave,
And he pinged Kanna, the exact position of Fleshy, and told him where he was, so Kanna warded in the middle bush,
you see it on your screen in the minimap, which allowed then Kanna to be completely safe, and just have a few minutes of breathing room after the pressure of NKG in the early game.
And this is really big, because Fleshy wasn't bot lane when Lyn says who had level 6 was ulti available, while Kallist is still level 5.
means that small win of opportunity where the three of them could have just gone in and killed Calistre before he had access to the ultimate is now gone.
The fall of Nalgo coming in on the bottom lane, plus you find he's going to ride.
Carzy all on his long tough with keeping the spray going.
Barrier down, Calistre is going to get stunned up, but happy to just chunk Carzy out.
Jarvan moving down towards his bottom side as well, though was spotted out by Humanoid, so they are aware that Yike may just be trying to fish for some sort of play.
Carzy going to reset, returns his attention to mid.
Humanoid passing up to the topside.
Lync is zooming in as soon as he can.
Pushback is there.
Paranoia available with the range shot super long
and it doesn't look like it's going to be in time.
Humanoid, lights turned off and...
It's to say goodbye.
I mean it's so clean by the KC mid-jungle Yahoo
dodging the Orianna ult and getting the shove ball
and then Yai's just going for the instant Q flash,
EQ flash once again.
Although it looks like Lync might be able to pick up the grubs
off the back of this due to the fact that KC invested so much
much into this mid-kill, and they have that top lane
parryo in Nakhnako.
So still an objective win for Vitality,
but a gold lead to KC.
Very true.
The one strong punch for Vitality right now
is Nakhnako in that top lane, steadily working
towards that blade of the rune, King.
Lince is grabbing the grub, he's not much more of a threat
to the tower, but right now things in general
just feel like they're going KC's way.
Vuccio outmaneuvering on the map.
More kills in their favor as Yike has been everywhere
on the map, really making the most of Jarvan
in the early stages of the game is,
we keep scrolling top and I'm not sure
if we're about to win this and all in or basically this.
I think the observers are in the same boat.
I think it's just, it could be at any point in time.
Two three.
Two zero.
And wall to stop the cute ball up in the auto.
Back on bottom side, Linz is no wall, but he's in the area.
Flag strike.
Shattering strike to lock up the eye.
We have to be careful with the cataclysm.
Still has the crash down though, so don't walk it off.
Linz is here.
Meanwhile on the mid lane, we got a bit of a fist fight. Humans help our blinkers. Pretty low.
Ah, who does have to flash as this humanoid?
Ultimate here is not the best for Karzy and Fleshy as Phyllis walks up.
Trying to pressure them and try to deny some minions here.
Get the cannon.
Yes, the cannon.
B.
Spoken like a true anti-carry.
There you go. The little things. Adding up.
NAKNAKO holding on to about half a level lead, but that'll start to dwindle if he gets too greedy here.
Yike, waiting.
He's seen Yasuo players for years. They never fail to fall for this trick.
You like NAKNAKO? Spiders don't start tingling.
With how Kanna is walking up, he kind of feels that something is off.
I think they're also trying to time Linz's results, because it is just about to come off the go down.
So maybe a little bit nervous, but NAKNAKO and Linz is trying to make some sort of play towards the top side.
They had to cover in case.
Still nothing gonna happen, and it will just be a game like a very tense early game,
where we had a couple of kills and a couple of plays back and forth,
but nothing really like breaking open the game massively yet.
Not quite yet, but Yehu having access to that first item spike,
this early on is big as is the standard sky.
Of course, matched by the experimental hex play, but in a big skirmish,
that's got just often giving so much more value.
So KC in a good spot if it comes down to a skirmish or a fist fight,
which it looks like it might in the mid lane,
And who going into the push is gonna catch humanoid dumps down immediately
So we've been tech those you flash over humanoid. Oh fleshy just in the nick of time to try to save the day
Cataclysm back in though Jack living for far too long. Well, let's just now start to take over the fighting man
And you know, look at all the way the healing for the dark guys. Are you kidding me? How did he live?
Oh my god
Linsus and fleshy are there to save the day and the next straight hero for my melody is
Brian which saves lintas and grants my quality three kills of the back of that engage that feisty started
He's not done
Bushing the top lane right next to me on the wall. Each rule immediate ulti shattering strike taking the tower to set up on the corner
Flash out!
Please evict the move!
Knock it out, I want to get it back!
Oh!
Oh, it's every god's world nightmare!
This is on the Q! Kana sidestepped barely!
A breath between himself and Dex, but it's a no.
No way. Next flash. Jumping back. Cancels the recall.
And Kana holding the line for KC because that felt like the backbreaker. If that worked too...
Kana is not giving up the title of Best Hope Lightly as the Alclay's not going fleshy in the 2v1.
They see a bot though. They might be looking for a dive.
Karzey, I think he has to forego this. We're gonna go into the replay.
This is so close.
It may start something with Yahoo dashing in. It's a great shuffle.
I thought he was gonna look just bad. I thought he had to flash the Azir ult,
but he's able to flash out.
Rutio wants to follow up, but he gets immediately cc'd by Fleshy.
And then here, Linsus gets one kill. Gets a triumph.
Gets the Azir kill. Gets another triumph.
And that is what keeps him alive to make this play.
Keep going for vitalities now.
Flash in the charm on the card. Everybody manages to bow out just in the nick of time.
of time, Fleshy in trouble now, Karzy's flash gone. Fleshy, no way to get away from this
one, will finally fall, a nice pick from KC.
And a crash down, turn into a crash out as they were named to get away from that one.
KC picking up a kill, and good position as well. This game is insane, like there's again
just all these back and forth small little plays here and there that are leaving us just
back in square one. Feels like both laners want to keep, or every
laner rather wants to keep fighting, keep it going. It's human I'd force to use to
Yes, a chunk out of Yahoo.
And these are insane margins.
That mid-play was in like 2%, 1% kind of player damage.
People, most players will never bet on that.
And that's a testament to how much confidence these two teams are playing in,
that they're going to go for psycho plays like that.
That it's coming down to 50 HP or a triumph.
But it's Casey just saying it well around this bottom side that are giving you these tools, right?
They're playing into bot, immediately rotating back in towards mid, putting pressure on towards Vitality.
playing off these small moments where they can find the picks Kana looking to turn,
but there's multiple members of Vitality topside, so maybe just more of a safety kill than anything.
Kana using the unstoppable ability of the ultimate to make sure that he doesn't get knocked up,
so Knock Knocko cannot connect. Yike was there to cover, but I think they were uncertain
with the Nocturne ulti if that would cost them. Good ward in the brush, let's Knock Knocko
know that Kana is coming. Wow, up, Lynson is here. 2v2. Knock Knocko really isn't that tanky.
I think both, like both sides know that the other side knows.
Two, three.
It's like, we're at base for Knock Knocko too, not even the Blade of the Rune King.
As far as he's going to be the one in trouble, Charmed, Land, the Media Feather,
fullback, as far as he's able to valve the way to safety for a brief moment,
Lucio can't take another tower shot.
Slipper makes me even humanoid in here!
Side steps good!
Run, Lucio!
Run!
The W!
He's dancing on it!
He's not fast enough, guys.
He's going to die.
There he goes.
Okay.
But the first two dodges were pretty clean.
The timing window for Kalista actually escaped because if he dies they collapse on boss and that could have been
But Winston's is waiting over the wall and surprise it's Ralph Romano is nowhere
He's trying to lock this one down. He's here cited. He's fear. He's a scared boy
But they're stuck in a final way to take him out of this grab in the kill and Winston's is being so proactive of this nocturn
He's proving my doubts wrong as he picks up this kill on Yahoo
Now Karzy's gonna be able to hit this mid tower
Wards Kalista rotate to defend it, which means that Humanoid's gonna get the bolt tower
Well, it's not even much to say he was
He shouldn't have been there. Everyone else was resetting. He had no business being there. His mid was pushed in. Now Karzy will chase for Kalzy.
It's getting a little bit weird. Yeah, because Humanoid is still pushing in the bot lane. So KC face the same. Okay, we kill Kana
Let's go and contest on the rev-terrals and then even try and push remove them more on that topside afterwards
It's actually gonna hold up the reset. Callis taking the midway terror. It is gone
Completely bizarre in this game 20 seconds ago by Pallity had a 1000 gold lead now
They've lost to Harold and the tower and we're right back to that even
Now call is that the 1.6 day gold lead for himself as we approach the Drake fight here mountain dragon another mountain soul game
65 seconds on it. It's McNaco trades. Has to correct it Slayer now. The two things we do have to look for though are the solo laners for Vitality. While this game has gone hectic, the kills have gone and the gold has gone into Humanoid and also McNaco has been slowing up in that lead in the top lane.
So from the perspective of Vitality, having two answers in a 1-3-1,
Humanoid is strong enough to play against Yahoo, especially with Linsus supporting him in the back.
And as well, Nak Nakko is going to be able to shove on sidelines.
So for KC, it's going to be a case of trying to disrupt that.
How? By utilizing Callis's lead.
Callis has a massive lead over Karzyn now.
He can contest that mid-wave, and with the mid-lane turret down,
a longer lane on mid buys KC access to sides.
So, keep your eyes on Yike. How does he try and use this Herald?
How does he try and use that timing mid of Plist? It's just built in mid to make plays like this.
Now, it seems...
I might want to force their hand a bit here on the bottom side.
Plist spots out, Linsus and Walkforth throw the poke.
Yike getting picked off, flashbacking away from humanoid.
Double shockwave.
Chunks out Blue CO, but they get the Summoner's Bones, they get the Flash, and that's what's big.
You highlighted it. The easy roam down to the bottom side, knowing they have mid-file.
Now though, they want to extend the plate.
Stacked back from Yehu.
Lists is waiting on the spell shield.
The healer's going to make sure that he gets away.
They pushed a bit too far, however, in the top side of the map.
Knock, knock, oh, keeping the pressure up,
taking a tower of his own, continuing to push.
As KC set their sights on the drake.
The combo team is down on the road to itself.
Vitality don't have two of those key spells.
So KC confident now to step up towards the objective.
They even have Pana here.
So knock, knock, oh, the team used to push.
Yeah.
Vitality ran out of bullets
They used both the Orianna ult and the Nocturne ult and weren't able to find anything with it
And with that, KC secured the second dragon
And you can see the difficulties that teams have run into with this Nocturne Orianna combo
Humanoid wants to try and look for a sneaky play here
Gaijin's covering
Gaijin is there, Humanoid just delivered him to waiting on the Gaijin
I can access him from the Aheu and they managed to get one, but remember, Humanoid has the tanky build
He's got a roa. He's trying to get tricky with it. No way. He's on the way down.
No, that's the move. It would have to be the game. Move the legs! Move the legs!
It would have to be too fast!
Oh, he's styling on them! Pullback command protect. A little bit more shielding.
Bousyo on the way in. The Bargastriker. They could have been out. Vincis is here.
They want to try and finish off. Guys, a nice initial exhaust from Bousyo to try and stop the play.
They're turning exact and stopped the CC from fleshing, but he gets the cooldowns just in time.
DocNog are ready to go, but he needs a knockup. He didn't go in on the earlier one.
He has it! He has it! It's a seed landing on him!
Are you kidding me? You can't get him to play! Vitality winning out!
NacNacO is making a montage in this game as he's flashing on the Yike, doing a little keyblade on his head, takes him down.
As we go into the replay here, it starts off with Humanoid walking up a bit too far.
The Yaku gets the wall on him.
But Yike also used the flag and drag to get into position, which meant he didn't have this to stop the combo to Humanoid.
Humanoid that's the damage that they need their flesh you would have knocked back forces the flash
Oh, we're not perfect the fight. We're just gonna keep up
I'm gonna tell you I probably not a fight actually, but they get the alti will be terror as well
That's very low, but they don't want to overstep
Clarsie over there. Yeah, I don't see no mana. They don't have the vision
It's not really where if I would say the nocturnal for this I old
I don't know what I will say is I look at human like build now is concerned because they're shocked and wasn't looking like it
Was gonna do a lot of damage. It's pretty vegan. It's pretty good
It does make sense because the question is is it normal vegan or is it like Scott token versus the world's vegan superpowers vegan?
Well, the problem is is that you got like, I don't know the liver king of the top lane for not not like he's just bringing all the time
That's right. It's pretty much information
Yes, we can do yes, it's dangerous
He's definitely dangerous the immortal field bow finally getting some crit chance in there. This is the sidelines are terrified
most certainly.
Casey has done a good job of disrupting so far and the goalie is still only a thousand.
The game is so close, it's just the difference in a drake, in a tower.
It's the solo laners of Vitality that hold all of their lead while it's Kalist,
the one-man army for KC.
Only has the SS River and Navori though, building towards that LDR third,
really needs that LDR and the IE to really come online.
That's one of the downsides, one of the weaknesses of this side pick.
He needs a lot more time than a lot of these other ADCs.
That she does.
Very extended though.
Has the support of Vitality coming through the jungle, but KC also trying to collapse.
You see the yike is on the bottom side of the map.
And that's what's keeping Mak Mako from defending this bot lane turret.
Gonna be the tower taken down in the bottom lane, shifting the goal a little bit back towards KC.
Minute fifty-five, tell that dragon.
Of course, both sides take Drake pretty quickly, I would say, although I kind of favor the Azir and the Navori Zaya team in terms of how quickly they can take that objective.
And I think that is just a timed out Rift Herald bot. They just didn't find off Chitty.
Guys, I don't know if it's going to start. I think Xalc Naco is just going to kill it. Come on, Xalc Naco, let it charge. Let it charge.
I
He went pick rock guys, okay, he just didn't play by the same time that's a good idea. Yeah, he didn't he doesn't mess with different rules
Okay, no charge
Well, I probably will get the mid tower a little bit extra gold and cars in even a truck is there
I'm just keeping my eyes on this ward though, that is sitting in behind Macknackle on this bottom side.
I'm curious if we'll end up seeing it utilized, as everything has gone wrong with the illustrator, but there we go.
Yeah, because I think like if you have the Aurora TP in behind, especially when you've created this long lane and top lane,
it kind of pushes in, tension TP's in behind, maybe you make a pick, because it's only 40 seconds until dragon,
but Macknackle already in the recess, looking to just group up with the team and try and use this combo.
Shockwave. Oh, really good buffer.
Pactana there.
Gets out of dodge.
That's the ulti down from him. Not the longest cooldown though, you can already see it ticking down.
I think it's more of an important cooldown for, again, to this shotgun, to this composition of vitality to have that Shockwave.
Although again, Humor has a thoughtful damage yet. Third item deathcap will certainly amp things up.
He's very close to it, but won't quite have it for this dragon fight.
So I think he was hoping maybe he'd get a play there or kill, and that could be enough to get him onto the line.
With that gone, I think it is just, as you can see, trade for Humanoid, let him get that terror topside, let him get some gold, and try and look afterwards, I was going to say, for the white foot.
Vitality, they're looking to maybe contest, or just by time, fake it out. I mean, Vitality did one last game up against the mouth of Sol, so they're not scared of giving them the Sol point here.
Now going to put the mid lane here too, while Humanoid at least grabs a little bit more gold on the topside.
KC to force them out, as vitality they get the top tower and they get some plates on
the mid lane.
Yeah, 1000 gold gain from losing that dragon, it's not the worst, not the best either.
Maybe feel like they need the deathcap before they force the big fight, definitely helps.
It's so tricky though, so Blitz again, feels like the main character in this game for the
side of KC, he's the one with the NAFTA defensive tools built in.
The good news is that there's at least a seeker for Yahoo, which will help a lot against this combo.
It's also the IE that's very close for Nakamako, so you're caught in about two big out-and-break points.
It's a good tool for Nakamako, but it's a good one.
Nakamako is going in, looking for the spin. Locks up.
Cliffs, Cliffs, you're going to try to make the hero play.
Cliffs, Stone Colds, he manages to stay standing.
Nakamako trying to dash away, but just gets locked up and taken down.
Humanoid off in the blank, fishing for that shockwave.
Has the deathcap of Yahoo for freeze-praying.
He goes gold and the lock-up is just not there.
And now Kana has arrived to try to make the difference in the fight.
on the retreat, KC taking their sweet time in this fight,
who's hardly ready to turn it back to Gatlinggun.
He's got no more time left, just Kalista runs him down,
KC survived Knock Knockos and gave,
and turned it right back around.
And Knock Knocko went too deep,
and the hero of Kalista stands tall.
They're not able to take him down.
Kalista had the flash yet, the feathers,
didn't even need to use the ultimate,
and that's gonna be Baron Nasher for KC.
The shotgun stalled, the safety was still on,
because Humanoid was not here.
Knacknackle thought he'd have lint's Buccio
with the charm, denies vitality, the combo they need.
And everyone on KC comes to bear in the mid lane
to deny vitality to play.
This might have just been enough for KC with this.
Oh, actually, hang on. Live.
He won a live play.
Not pushing a bit too far in the mid lane.
He's very fast to the passive active.
If he made it to the flinch back, he's going to set up the ulti
in a shutdown now for Knacknackle.
So happy to have the extra money, likely means he finishes the IE, and the gold is still
basically dead even.
We got a soul in 250.
And the rest of this Baron power play, but with a member down, it's going to be much
harder for KC to press their advantage.
Yeah.
With Kana getting caught out there, I think they're probably not going to be able to really
get any sort of powers with this Baron, not sure.
So a huge pick for my Paladin to stem the bleeding is Yike now.
It's going to be fine with the plan.
McNacho made a big mistake there, he has a chance to redeem himself, especially when
he gets this infinity edge, he's going to do so much damage in these teamfights, but
we need to see this Nocturne-Oriana combo really come to fruition because we haven't
seen it yet.
We've seen Vitality win fights, but it's not enough at the back of the combo, it's
been individual outplays and not the combination that we need to see.
No, 100% you're correct, that shockwave would have been the difference between them one
shot and Kalista not.
He was stone cold, was not afraid, did not feel the pressure to ulti, but a humanoid
it was there, it might have been a different circumstance.
You're also so close enough to come in even more terrified.
IE we already talked about, but GA nearly there for Lintas as well, which means he's
fine to give his life from the play, knowing that there'd be enough follow-up there.
I think that just everything is so close to coming together for Vitality, but with three
dragons, it's one steal that may just set up KC in this game.
And I think the really big thing, they got Seekers in the previous fight.
Githu does not have a lot of individual gold.
needs enough for the needlessly large rod and the combined cost. If he doesn't get it before the
next fight, he is that vulnerable target. Also keep your eyes on Busey. He's popped over to the ghost
off of the Unsealed Spellbook but he may have a smite, having to keep track of this, but may
have a smite for this as well, which could give KC that little bit extra that they need for that
smite potential smite fight. And as you know, Yike, he is being so impressive this weekend and in
general when it comes towards winning out on those smites, and KC just may need him to become
in clutch one more time.
All about Kulist and Yike with Bustio,
Yahoo and Kanna supporting members,
trying to feel vitalities engage.
That's not vitality, hold control of the drake here.
And again, we've talked so much about this combo.
We have to double down here because Karzy's
had two and a half items to three and a half on Kulist.
It cannot be an AD carry that carries
this fight to vitality.
It has to be this combination.
It has to be the multi-member shockwave which makes it so much easier for KC to play as long as they don't group
It's going to be difficult for Vitality to find that angle
As I say that they're grouping next to the brush, but they can't they have no vision
I think it comes out of line games
Does linsons just go in trying for us the open place open up for Nakamako for human like to try and find something afterwards
And just let she set it up
on a waiting over the wall charm from Lucio.
Karts is able to dash back for free moment.
Nax Nax goes missing, that's the paranoia now coming out,
looking for an angle on the backline,
but she was a multi-man ultimate.
Falling off the top, coming in from Nax Nax.
His kite is almost immediately to leave,
the rest are actually coming in from the G.A.
Nax Nax goes man, take down Kallin.
Nax is there again as Nax Nax goes for four, two,
along the rest of the team,
now they're sending in the heroic performance
from the Yasuo.
But yeah, who is looking to make the difference?
A double kill as he turns it back.
But I think the vitality of what this may be,
Kana! Kana! Finding the return kill! It's neck and neck!
And it's a 2 vs 2, but it's the jungler of Gacy that's alive.
I think Yike might be able to try to sneak towards the dragon here,
and maybe even solo it as Kana's team, if Fleshy are so low.
They have no idea. Fleshy gonna have to base their base, and now they know, but Yike has healed the teleport.
Is he gonna die? Has to come across.
He's so low as well. You can't get away from Kana.
Dash back. They just need to delay.
Hope for something but they can't.
KC with Kana snipping Humanoid at the end.
Nets the Dragon Soul for KC.
It's a heroic performance by Fleshy here.
Finally, Khalif with the Koffo.
It's because Khalif can't see him with the Nuphthinal
that he doesn't react with the Ope.
And when he does, he presses it the wrong way.
He doesn't get the root of the lenses.
That last attack has actually reached the list.
Take him down, but then Yahoo here does so much damage
with the Azir soldiers, that he's able to salvage
what would have been a lost team fight.
And take down lenses, and then humanoid...
Steps a bit too far.
But there was one name in every conversation
who was missing from today.
One name that people didn't talk about on Vitality.
And it was the support.
This was supposed to be a gap for KC, where Buccio, the best support in the West,
was supposed to walk over Fleshy, but he has been walking everywhere on this map,
making plays in every lane, making plays in every fight.
And in this fight in particular, Buccio went in with the ultimate.
Buccio whips, but it was Fleshy who made that fight for Vitality.
This man has been incredible all series long.
And normally, facing up against the Mountain Soul, you'd feel pretty intimidated, but vitality like those odds, they just beat them last game with the exact same soul.
They know that if they execute the teamfights well, if they play it, how they know that they can't actually still bring it back from the defensive.
The gold is 300 apart.
This has to be one of the closest games in terms of just gold values that we've seen, and at least this year of LEC,
Buccio though, I think he's ulting.
I don't know if just thought he found Fleshy, doesn't need to be too...
He did ult?
Yeah, he did ulti.
Maybe they thought they had the angle, maybe they wanted to go over the wall and try to pick Fleshy,
but didn't want to overcommit. Fair and going to be important here.
Mountain Souls, you've highlighted, mitigates a lot of the poke, which is really just Karzy or Humanoid.
It doesn't make it that much harder for him to finish off key targets.
Also, Zanya's now completed Priya, who means that they're really running out of good targets
to attack with the Nocturne Orianna Fama.
This has the affinity edge.
He's going to be doing so much damage
in these teamfights.
Needs to be the target that Vitality takes down.
Nocto wasted the wind wall.
Kase is laughing at that.
Nocto looking for the Nocturbe initially.
That's the paranoia down.
Trying to dive into the backline.
Connick goes golden.
Nocto running for his life.
The entire team is now split by Kali.
Don't have to close the follow up though,
because Lenses is held far.
It's been chunced so far down.
Kasey slow and controlled against this Vitality lineup.
Fleshy has to find that moment again here. Has to get that crush down. Has to set up, but it's human and it's engaged on.
Quick flash out. Lucio's all becoming in as well.
That was resetting. KC, they're trying to burst this down. The TP's coming back to their place.
They know that Kona has no access to the Zonius. They're hoping to get him, but he goes on the opposite side of the wall.
Steltz is there to keep Linsen standing for an extra moment.
Flash into the pit! He's not going to be able to grab this.
Kallista's secure is now stuck. I'm going to miss the entire team.
For Winwall, not giving him enough space to survive.
gets an extra second, but KC, five members, strong, will secure the Baron.
And KC pulled the trigger when they needed to.
They're able to pick up the NAS, they take two kills as well.
That's why Pallity didn't want to try to stop these recalls,
but I don't think they'll be able to get anything more.
KC, get the burn. I cannot believe they managed to get out on that HP.
But once again, we're not seeing Vitality working in tandem together.
It's Humanoid, off on this bottom side, looking to fish you for a play.
And Takana, who has that stopwatch available.
Akano's just happy to bounce back and forth here, flash away,
trying members in Linz's hopes to make the play, but can't quite do us.
And Naik is just donning away, everyone on vitality,
as Nak Nakko left alone in the piss, falls at the hands of KC.
The difference of a tenth of a second, 200 HP left on the baron after the smite comes down.
could have made all the difference for Vitality even if they lose the fight could have had that objective but KC
staying composed in this game, soul and baron truly they ended here
have all the tools that they made as long as Humanoid and Linsus doesn't find the combo
It's very hard for the KC carries to be taken down you have the sigh ultimate you have flash on your carries
You have the Zonius on Yahoo, Zonius on Kanna and so much heal and disengage from Buseo
They just need to find some way to get Kalista's ult out, but Kalista's been playing so safe
denying Vitality any real ripple room here, because everyone else has Zonya's, has GA's
is fine, but until then KC will continue to push, use these shields, use the fact they
have that soul to push Vitality back.
AC just want to end the game there were looking to run it down mid here
But she with a Q flash it looks like on the yike
They do get a bit of a chunk on to him
Baron waves there Q3 ready for knock knock they're not gonna find the setup feathers fly right up in here
It's only yike who's taking the damage to turn back Karzy off on the side trying to fire back a bit more damage for himself
Another tornado going awry for knock knock. Oh, is Casey just continue to press forward
Yeah, who finds the push on this humanoid those golden Karzy knows he needs to fight now guy
But in the initial knock-up, they're not gonna reset now.
It's called himself on the side,
moment once he is here,
and he does not like that matchup whatsoever.
KC closing it out clean in the final moment
to take us to game three.
And KC strikes back in the series,
off of the back of the list with a wonderful SIA performance.
He made Vitality's lives miserable,
always holding up to that ultimate,
never giving them nocturnalriana combo.
And KC closed it out.
Let's see what Buzio has to say as Shox is standing by.
I don't know, Buzio, what do you have to say? That game was crazy! Again!
Yeah, that was pretty crazy.
Yeah, I wasted ult a couple of times, but we had some good teamfighting, so yeah.
Is that the only thing you think about? What you did wrong? It's a team effort.
Tell me about this next game. Do you have them figure out?
Because it feels like they're dragging you down in the chaos of it.
Um...
Maybe.
Maybe? Yeah, maybe. I don't know.
I hope it's as chaotic. I'll let you go to your team to see that game three
We're gonna take a quick break. It will be right back to break down that game question mark
Yes!
What's wrong with me today?
What's wrong with me today?
I think you should have a break.
Have a break.
Have a KitKat.
I love it.
Maybe cause I'm the crush at home.
I don't even wanna talk.
Talk.
I don't wanna talk.
I don't wanna talk.
Oops.
One break.
Oh, champion. Welcome to my shop. You'll need the right build. Use wisely, because every
Upgrade brings you closer to the next level.
So tell me, how will you level up?
Wait, is he switching lanes?
I
the
we've got one game to go to see who gets our last ticket to Barcelona and I'm
gonna start by saying that we will sing KC's praises but there was a Yasuo in
the last game and I feel like Yasuo is such an iconic champion we've all
played with one we've all played against one and yeah I feel like everyone
looking Yasuo they imagine themselves on the LEC stage locking in going killing
everyone but in reality probably what will happen is what's happening to
not most of these fights is getting seasoned and dying. So is it a viable champion for pro?
It is a viable champion but the problem is that you're just way too damn fast because even for
myself every single time I try to play Yasuo I'm old at this time but you know when you dash
to that minion you just so quickly feel unstoppable and we saw that you're extremely stoppable.
First of all, he did play it on LEC before versus Rogue. He went 0-9.
This is an improvement!
No offense to that Gakko. We build him up and then sometimes it does go well.
But the only thing I'm still going to show is when he tried to kill Kanna on their tower and then we'll move on.
So let's take a look. This is what being on the LEC is of because we have his comms also after.
So first of all, look at this.
Looks great. It is very close to be honest, but now he just needs to land it then.
Roar, Roar.
Oh shit, man. Oh shit, man.
FF, FF, FF, FF, FF, FF.
That's actually every other player I've ever played with.
That's real. I can hear the crowd roar as well.
So I got to talk to Buccio just now, and I was talking about like, oh, dragged into their chaos,
but they don't see it that way and I feel like we have to commend KC for keeping a clear head in that game and just playing towards their win conditions.
They pretty much made every single correct decision, I would say, because they sacrificed gold when they needed it.
They prioritized the drakes when they needed it because they did know there were times where they were weaker in the game
and decided to, you know, just not match into the shotgun combo from the Real, Yasuo, Orianna, Nocturne, because it was extremely difficult.
But they did reach a point where Atomization was great, we had Zonjas on a lot of people, Zayarakhan was scaled up,
And on the topic of Zyra, I thought this champion was nigh unkillable into this Vitality team comp.
I mean, I was getting a little bit worried for her as the Orianna was getting more and more gold, you know, forging that deathcat.
But I think in these fights from this early game, super well executed by Buzio and by Jyke in great tandem,
Kalista had an absolute banger of a performance.
It was so unkillable. Always used his ult at the correct timing in team fights.
And I feel like he put so much pressure because when you play Zyra against a comp that wants to dive you,
It's like, okay, hit me with your best shots, and then either they one-shot you or you clean them all up
Yeah, but even more impressive part is that in a lot of these fights
Your instinct as a Zayas the moment you see the first big trap that you think you can one-shot you I will ult, right?
I will react it but no, he waits, baits Vitality in and then he plays at the edge of danger to the absolute limits
And then he finally ults when he has just enough HP that when he lands he can clean up the fight
To be fair, baiting a Vitality Inn is not very difficult, it's really not, we saw it many times.
That's true, and I think that does bring us to kind of one of the detriments of Vitality and the way they like to play,
because it's great when it all works out, but they take that percentage play almost every single time,
and I think you see sometimes a tendency in games like this, where it stacks up against them, right?
I definitely feel like Vitality Inn was very oversellers, I mean somehow they found this monster fight,
No matter how hard I try in the end, you might die.
So I feel like this despite their best attempts like Yasuo and Nocturne are so much at the beginning of this fight.
But here you could just go dragon. You could take easy victory on them.
Exactly, you can, but at the same time I commend them for taking these fights.
Because when the Vulgarn of Execution is so high on yourself on a team comp like this, waiting doesn't do you any good.
And that's at the same time want to pivot back into KC.
With this consistency, it's what's carried them on for so long
because even in game one, they had a good game.
Yag had a good game, a lot of guys had a good game
and it just so happened that Vitality had an even better game.
But now, with pressure on the line,
when maybe the ease of execution was less on them,
having the opportunity to shine and still carry through that
might just be what carries them on to get a victory in game three.
It might be when looking at this fixture on paper,
I always thought this was gonna go three games and I'm happy the way it's played out
It's been some of the most fun games to watch for me in the entire LAC versus
But now it's for all the money season over right here or you're going to Barcelona
So paint me a picture by Tali. How do they bring it back on the rails?
Okay, first of all, don't look. Yeah, so thank God for fearless. They can't do that again
But I love that fact. They're so committed. I love that they are committing to the bit
And I want to keep seeing them not put the brakes on but keep pedaling forward
and I think giving Nak Nakko matchups where he has agency,
I think still is the way to go.
I know we had a bad game, but you can't just lose hope.
Top and his will in, Todoramne.
You know that better than anyone.
What do you mean?
You're the one usually in versus me, but like, okay, sure.
Let's bring it back.
It's so fun to see this matchup,
to have three games of this matchup.
Oh, it is, it did flip on his head, you know.
But it is really fun to have this matchup
because on one side, if there is one team
that when they're down, you know, after having a Yasuo game and sprinting it, you know, at
the critical moments, it is vitality because the vibes have always been there.
I'm really, it feels really vitalizing, you know, because you have these in place happening
and they laugh and they even said it, I think yesterday where they're like, we will only
be sad when the series is over until then we will laugh because this might just be exactly
what you need when you play versus the absolute control that KC brings.
He has absolute control and a favorite in this matchup where they want to get to Barcelona
and show what they are worth on the big stage.
So how does KC make it happen?
Knowing that the pressure and the onus is on them, right?
Everybody's looking at them to drop the ball possibly.
How do they kick it in the...
I mean, we said it off the game, Juan.
It's all about the support mid-jungle.
Jaik Pusio tandem making magic happen, taking the proper fights.
I think this game was an excellent showcase in how to use your support and jungle to just
enable the rest of the map. I want to keep seeing them play together. I want to
see them work in synergy. Finns said it best. That's all they need to do.
Awesome. Then I don't know if I can go to the casters yet, but that was a great
setup. So casters, take us into the final game, please.
It would be our honor shocks. Final game of the day. We've gone to all six.
This one though by far has been I think the best series of playoffs we've had so
far. So banger, sacking forth, highly questionable decisions, highly
incredible decisions sometimes but we love them for. Vitality, KC both are so close.
One game away. It's like Mako trying to lock you and channel some of that magic that he had
yesterday. Had to really found his footing. It was a good start to the also but it didn't end up
the way that he wanted. It does feel like though with the selection from Vitality go to red that
there are ones more trying to get that counter pick though for Nak Mako. Let's see how the draft
So come through what the party is because this is again kind of where we get to see the massive deviations
From what we've seen across the regular split like what's happening with our Seraphine?
What's happening with the junglers? Hey, where are your parties now going that you have to dig deep the top lane pool as well
Be quite deep especially if they choose to target out the tanks like they did in the last champion select
It looks like both teams are going for a different strategy. It's 80 C bands across the board virus of Helios
and Kaisa from KC here. I mean there have been accusations of you at Karzy that once the 14 of you are gone, he's not got anything left in the tank and it seems like KC at least feel like the Kaisa is another option.
For us it makes sense the ability of so is certainly a targeted fan. Now it will be interesting to see if ADC will still be a remain rather high priority after all these fans come through.
It could also be Casey falling back towards him that we saw across the regular split like something like a
Caitlyn and Elise trying to attack for Kanna. Just say look we don't really care
We're just gonna hyper focus on this bottom side of the map
Especially if there's this much focus on the AD carry pool. It could be an option
It could be I like the Caitlyn especially when Varus and Ezreal are out
We'll see what they have to prepare for
at the park, wow, Lucio target there, and I'm trying to think like what ADC would you
want when you ban these champions?
There's no real champ that speaks up, I mean, Paisa is one, but I think Ashe is very good
at Tephilios, so it's usually a low-range ADC that you want to play when you ban out
Tephilios, but since KC already ban the KC from Bumble, I mean Kalista, to be honest
Kalista and vitality has already played it. It was up against team red expert ice got two pentakills on the aphelios
So put that one back in the bag. We don't know
Maybe that's they figured it out that batting aphelios with what they needed pull out the Kalista once again
It's gonna be the rumble first pick for KC answered by I mean we're getting game through fearless and it's just soft
They're rumble. Are you kidding me?
We have spicy matches the first two not everything could be spicy
Maybe it's time for our top laners to take a back seat in this matchup so many targeted fans at 80 carries
You already highlighted perhaps our focus has to shift to the bottom lanes
Clisque Lucio versus Karzin and Fleshy but for now
Choice of vitality, what do they want to pick with the second option here?
I assume jungle would be a good place to start if they want to go crazy
They could go Kalista here and then look for Renatole 3
Or they just go
Seraphine
Three and luckily lining up Seraphine ash and shutting down a potential Calista. I guess wow
Yeah, because it also like ashes kind of been the old school counter to Caitlyn as well
So trying to take an answer where hey, we can go for the ash have ash Seraphine
If you take the ash none of the best of spaces, so I think you've kind of like recruits
Hey see a little this and by removing a potential Caitlyn lock in here unless you are just kind of psycho and like doesn't matter
We're just gonna go for it. Okay immediate Wukong
Wukong, Ari? Wukong, Ari. Okay, so a lot of pick potential, really good teamfighting with the Rumble plus the Wukong.
Of course, Seraphine is to get later in the game, can stop a lot of those engages in their tracks and definitely helps the champion like Cassante
with that additional CC, the encore through, which helps him get into the back line. But KC, really kind of obvious tools.
The bot lane can really be anything they want at this point.
Yeah, well once you see the Seraphine, you just know that you have to awl it.
Like if you end up taking these slow trades and you look for folk Seraphine just gets so much value in them not taking the ash though
Is interesting because I assumed they were just gonna lock that in immediately to get the combo
I mean I I'm just I'm thinking like
So ash Caitlyn I don't know what their third pick with the Seraphine would be so it's definitely something if I was KC
I would think about banning those two ADCs
The Vitality decides that getting a stronger jungler for Syrpheep to buff up is more important than securing the ADC
As now we'll see what Vitality choose to target. They pick out the Sivir, so many ADC Bands in this game
We'll see what KC decides to offer here
But I feel like ADC Bands aren't no brainer for KC as Ash would presumably be the first Band locked in for them
Makes sense to take it away
With Ash off the board maybe then Vizality have to respond with the Katelyn ban.
Even they seem a little unsure here as well, trying to buy as much time as Ash is going to be.
Being down to seed there's a lot of discussion here on both sides as to exactly what they want to go for.
But then the time will run out the entire way.
I mean this is the result of both sides pinching a pool in this case 80 carries and then leaving it to second phase.
There's just so many bands available to be thrown at the bottom side of the map.
It's also really... the bands depend a lot on what you yourself want to look for.
So we'll see what Vitality decided to ban last year. It's going to be the Lucian ban.
Oh yeah, yeah, we are going deep into the ADC pool here.
And Lucian Nami perhaps was what Vitality were worried about there.
So now the last buff from KC. I would assume it's probably going to be the Caitlyn.
I'm gonna say something and I don't feel good about saying it, but I just want to put it out there
Can you play Seraphine and the support together?
Karzyz technically played it once. I mean we've seen play Seraphine ABC. We've seen Senna Seraphine before which could also be the option here for Vitality
You've got a very strong foot line that you can try and keep alive
Nozo opens up some choices for Geminoys. They've got Nautilus. They think this Seraphine might be flexed
Yeah
And I don't know how Seraphine ADC is on this patch
I remember it used to be quite good, but I think they tried to tune it more towards support
But it's kind of a champion that always seems to slip back into the ADC role and the best when she's farming
And we will see Karzy goes. Yeah, I said against Ori to achieve it. Okay. Oh, well, we go one wasted bait
We are going deep boss in the champ pools here. They wanted some setup
No, I'm really starting to think the Seraphic might be a DC here
We'll see what she does
But do you have enough damage if she does?
Like...
The thing is you don't have that much damage
But you have enough CC to really run people down
And you have enough sustain to kind of...
And KC doesn't have really any tanks
It's not like they have a solo frontline
They're, uh, yeah, I mean the Rumble and Wukong are gonna sustain damage
But I can do a lot of work, but this could be tricky
Oh my god, Xerri
In the Twisted Fate
That could be rough
I mean Xerri feels nice into the TF, that's saying
Because you never really have to worry about his global pressure
You still always have as long as you're close to a wall
You can always dash away and I would assume that place is gonna go cleanse because he's up against the Seraphine up against the TF
We've assumed that multiple times today Jack where we weren't he's gonna go close. I trust the place
So it's gonna be looking like the seri Alistar. Okay, let's see. Where does this Seraphine go?
That's the question on everybody's mind
if it is Seraphine ADC.
I mean, KCM is drafted such a stable comp.
It's on vitality now to show us something here.
It's just, I think you need something that has high DPS.
I don't think you can play these fights without it.
I think you just run out of steam too quickly.
Yeah, but what?
You can't, everything is immobile.
You're just going to get popped.
Oh my God, they're going to do it.
I mean, Brom is really good here.
KCM drafted a full comp that goes in.
It's a great matchup.
Brahms in south, rocks the passage so incredibly fast.
It's a really good mid-journal support duo as well.
It's NACNAC and Kassante.
This is clearly a protect Kassante.
We forgot the real carry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This all makes sense now, but I don't know why it missed us.
I mean, I think it is true though,
when you have something like the Kassante,
yes, it's a tank, but it's also a bruiser.
So I don't think that Vitality
will actually find the situation
where they run out of damage.
It's more the question of, how does the early landing phase go, and can they build a lead around Humanoid?
Humanoid, playing this TF, really wants to play kind of similar to how he played in the Ryze game.
He wants to move around, get a lead first in mid lane, and then utilize that to get leverage for his teammates,
and get them ahead so that they can carry the game together.
It just feels weird to me with the Seraphine being ADC, because what I'd like to see is Seraphine moving mid-ZinZen, right?
So you've got like TF, Xin Zhao, and Seraphine, all of this combo working as a trio to try and find these crops.
Yeah, you still can, around dragons and stuff like that, but I think you are very heavily, as you say, playing around stone card into some sort of setup for the Xin Zhao.
And hopefully then he can play as this major carry with all these heals and shields coming through later on, where he just becomes such a large strength he can take over.
One spot left in Barcelona, Vitality cooking, showing us something we haven't seen in quite a while.
Will it be enough to get them over the finish line and into the top four here at LEC versus? Will they fall flat?
It's a surging KC coming off of a very strong game to performance with a much more conventional brand.
I love that Vitality in the do or die game. They decide, hey, we'll still experiment, we'll still try this out.
I'd be very surprised if they have too much scrims on this exact team comp.
Maybe they have tried Kar-Z on the Seraphine Flex,
but it's a tough comp to execute,
so I'm really excited to see how they can make it work.
I'm agreeing with the viewers.
Not the Kasanib Seraphine, but more the tension of this particular game.
Also Twisted Fate coming back is wild,
but there's so much setup for both midlaners.
They're clearly the supporting characters of the rest of this game.
Kalistao has the tools to really take over.
If he can find a lead in lane, it's gonna be big.
Difficult against this combo just because of how obnoxious Seraphine is to play against.
It's gonna be Casey Wolfman getting pushed here.
Put some good trades by Vitality.
Of course, the last Seraphine bought 20-25 spring. It was flacket. It was a loss.
Well, say it like that, Matt.
That's sad.
But, I mean, remember that that came from an era where, I believe it was Flakid and Targumus
on G2 who were winning a lot with the bot lane pairing of the Senna Seraphine?
Oh, this is 2025.
That was what I thought I was saying, but remember the reason that he would have picked it back
to the side is because it came from a different year.
It was so good.
The Flakid started off on G2.
Yeah, don't read in comprehension.
Can you give me the benefit of the doubt here?
That's fair.
be fair I've said some stupid stuff today most like it's hard to read
oh the one we're trying 22 another one that one that's what it would be all right
here we go I feel like though if you kind of take trades like this it wins out
for fatality because they can't just heal up off the back of this you got the
TP as well for Karzy I'm very effective at pushing and wave so not the end of
the world so though I think I'm kind of just waiting to see exactly what Linz is
the Ike wants to do. The Ike obviously traditionally wants to wait till level 6, but you do have a decent way of trying to set up her plays with a flash charm in the mid lane, and then you're going to have the Ike try and follow through with the DPS, but also, also, she has a mid lane.
Yeah, but I just flashed.
Knocked back. You know the flash burn in the mid lane, we didn't see why as far as she took the body block, but when her spike going a little bit wide is awkward.
Plus, does have the cleanse as you ask for, Jack.
But, humanoid losing the flash is gonna make a gank from me like that much easier.
Do just expect him to power farm with the flash missing, maybe he can get active in
the mid lane.
Yeah, I'm sure he's gonna get a replay, but yeah, he was just playing hyper agressive,
really nice though.
Well, sports to flash 1v1, he also has the TP advantage on humanoid while still being
equal.
Oh, here we go.
And then he's being gold card on the ad, but now he's getting marked up.
He has to flash away from Lintus.
who's finally going to fall, one-for-one trade thus far.
Lens just wants to keep the fight going.
Sustained versus the armor of Wukong,
but this early in this game, you would think he's favored
until Kana arrives.
Flash for Kana, Ignite taking his wealth.
Liss is trying to side step.
Yank going in for a bit more.
Vanish to grab the kills.
KC making it happen on the midway.
Humanoid overextending actually sets up for KC
to get two on the back.
A beautiful move by Kana there.
Secures the kills for KC.
after it looked like lintz would win that 1v1 so he kept going forward as we'll see in the replay here
he starts off with a really good charm by yahu but it's a stun start match by humanoid
so lintz is able to get onto yahu, yahu decides to not even flash
but lintz is not aware that kama is moving here so he thinks he can continue the 1v1
and then when he sees lintz he backs off but at that point it's too little too late
yeah he also didn't burn the flash so i think we're looking at a repeat play on the mid lane
But in the picture in the picture you saw, Flash burned by Karzy as Buccio hit in the bush to try and make the play.
So opening up a lot of avenues here for KC to find plays in mid and bot lane.
That they are, and what we see is slight gold in the favor of Vitality.
If you look at the bottom of your screen, there are no significant advantages.
And it's KC who chipped away at the Seminar spells, leaving so much room for Yike to get active on the map.
Level 5 now, but level 6 just around the corner.
Rc Flash is also down.
I think we missed that in the replay.
So a lot of subs burnt here, just, uh, wait, did we watch it?
Props, Props said it.
Props.
Oh, sorry, I've sold out.
No, you're fine.
Again, it's been a long day.
It's been a long day.
It's not a fine day.
What year is it again? 2023? 2025?
Reality, does it exist?
Does it exist in MSI?
Okay, well, now you sound like me, so let's not go too far there.
There's a TP to bottom lane.
I guess one of the advantages of Seraphine, you can't pack that particular summoner,
if you have summoners that will keep the pressure up.
One of the things though that kind of is a consequence of this is that
this game becomes much more difficult than ever for lances.
Two kills on you like accelerates in towards the triforce, which straigth is very strong,
but also makes it very difficult for you to now fight that opposition 1v1 as lances.
Which is kind of the thing you kind of wanted to do is by Talibe with the way that this game was opening.
So shutting down pressure from Puminoid stops him from roaming
and overall just eases KC into that later portion of the game.
Yeah, Jungle Role. Really, really important in this game, because Lynx is the one that's going to be playing with Fleshy,
going to be bluffed up by Karzy, and Humanoid provides him to CC.
He's really the most important member in this game for Vitality, and he needs to be at least equal with Jyke.
With Jyke off to a great start here, 2-0, picks up the first dragon for KC, and that's the office that started Vitality 1, and as you said, like that.
Keep your eyes on top lane though, trying to get across from here for Lynx, as Lucian goes in, should be able to back away.
But I think he's just, Lin says he wants to try and get an overextended Kanna here.
Kanna's no flash.
Kanna's no flashing in.
He's thinking he pulls it back on the ult as Lysis goes in.
Kanna really nowhere to go with no flash available and Nak Nakko gonna grab the kill.
That's clean.
Nak Nakko changed the CC perfectly.
Gives Kanna no counterplay there.
Despite the fact that Kanna tried his hardest.
And now Nak Nakko's gonna crush the wave.
I mean Yike is here but I don't think he has the damage to actually go onto Nak Nakko.
And really important that they punished, because remember that was the flash that was burned in the mid lane that resulted in Linsus's first death.
So being able to capitalize on that small difference is one of the few ways that I thought he had to recoup some of that gold.
Yeah, who moved across mid to help Yike steal away these camps?
You see, because Ante was considering moving in, but this is what we're talking about, with Yike picking up those early kills,
giving that little bit of advantage towards the Wukong who can now hit him level 6, force Vitality out of their own topside jungle.
also human life is really bad way to get
like he's getting pushed in by Yahoo and like we talked to Eddie's about it so
many times it's not like Ari is the best in the world but part of the reason that
TF drops you know in priority is that he just needs a little bit more time a few
more levels and item under his felt before you can really match any kind of
way for and that's often why you see like aggressive like since out there
because it's if I can't clear the wave I'll just clear the enemy out of the
lane. And by getting that gold card by setting up with the plays that KC had,
thanks to Kanarome, that mid lane has now gone awry. They can't try and find
those plays in mid and now they're in a position that they can actually lean in
towards these invades as KC. And I love this from Bucio. Spot linsus, make sure
they try to keep up pressure across all these lanes and look at the gold leads
are starting to see open up Kalista Bucio winning. In the mid lane as well that CS
leads are in the open. It's working out for KC. It is. CS lead in and assist
but TF is laundering money and avoiding his taxes, so keeping it at least even in terms of gold.
Lucky dice there is... I think the careteller's gonna be 2.4.
Charm still doesn't a lot of work, but it does why? He's much more blue carden.
Keep clearing the minions slowly but surely.
I mean, it's top lane though, that is the Shining Light for Vitality.
Nautnokul is built up, a big CS lead for himself up against the Rumble,
and it only gets better and better for this Kasamte as he gets closer and closer to that Kaniq Rukern.
You can see that Linsus starts up the Grubbs here, knows that Kana had to base no TP on him.
That's going to be three free Grubbs for Vitality.
Osmo potential here for KC though, as Yike is on that bottom side.
I like the read from Fleshman, leaving top to move down towards this bottom side.
Make sure that you're safe here as Karzy.
The return Karzy has both the tier and that lost raptor, which makes it very easy to clear out waves.
Makes it difficult for you to really establish a wave as you can point in KC to actually look for a dive.
for a dive, but that's always what you've got to be careful of when you go for these plays.
Is it the potential to cross map for Casey?
Definitely, but you can see Blucio moving up to the top side of the map, maybe ready
to make a play of his own, and I think part of the reason you can do this is because there's
not that much kill pressure on the list.
When he has cleanse, he has access to the E like you mentioned before, Jack, when you're
talking about the TF threat, it's just really hard for this bot lane to threat, even if
they can't infinitely hold the wave.
I think Humanoid really has one lane to gank it, and it's top lane.
Lucio's recognized the same threat, and it's looking for a play here, but three people top-tied.
Into Knock Knock though, the punt-back is there, Q3 goes wide.
Surely there's no way out of this one, can't even dash to begin, does just barely manage to do so.
Goes up over to pull through, wants to just clear the wave, but dies.
KC recognized where Vitality are strong and pounced.
The top lane becoming a bit of an old McDonald up there with a monkey and a cow as well.
Every animal going top, and it ends up working out well for them to get the kill.
Now they're going to get some plates for Kanna and kind of shut down the one part of the map that Vitality had.
Really well played by Buccio there. You saw he didn't go for the combo. He knew he needed to punt him back in first team.
It's not Buccio. Ready to flash over the wall. Doesn't even need to. Wait for the punt back.
Get the knock-up. Waits for the combo. Knows that he has to flash. The patience from Buccio. Stone cold.
Lucio is an absolute menace on the map right now for KC. He wins top lane for Kanna and now wins mid lane for Yahoo as well.
And in return Vitality have nothing on the bot side. That's the weakness of this mage bot lane.
You don't have any dive threat. You don't have any kill threat. So you don't get anything in return.
And this comp is so at risk when it falls behind Vitality just again like they are low on damage.
So if you start to fall behind and it's KC who can be firing back on all cylinders,
I just don't see how much of a match when it comes to these objectives.
And Karming Korp, I don't know if I already have these objectives started,
Stacking, 5 seconds now until this next dragon and the play zone makes.
Even though I'm in trouble, Dash in from the right can use the Suocline to look him up,
but he doesn't even need it.
Charm already connecting gold cards.
He tries desperately to escape.
Flash in, but it's not enough to stop them.
Flash is the ulti now.
Thon is the guy trying to dash away to take you.
Fusee again with the interrupt to stop any potential follow-up.
Q3 coming in from Linsus, manages to find the knock-up on the free-talent, right?
Charm is there as well, they're desperate to get something back on the side of Vitality.
Yeah, who waiting on that Charm cooldown just a few seconds away and Vitality forced to back off.
Lucille is the hero of KC, he peels Yike and allows for no retribution kills from Vitality,
which means that KC get another kill on the board and Linsus is looking to start off the drake,
but I don't think he can do this. Yahu and Yike are both moving.
Double TP's coming in though from Fleshy and Karzy trying to cover trying to make sure that they can get this it might come down to a 50 50
No flash for Yike, but he does have this might Karzy here as well, but Clisk waiting behind this could be a disaster
Provitality
You know does the Oats can also come in when he's caught everyone in KC for the waiting time
There's the feature of them now who gets the dragon man
Jack Fannity secured is now all of KC looking for a fight the front guard comes up, but it might defeat too late
Yeah, who now stepping forward getting the resets on the kill looking to find one more with Fleshy a reset coming in
Party in trouble now one more dash remaining. Yeah, who looking for an angle and dashes the wrong way initially Fox fire for spectra move is needed
But the triple nine to two KC in game three are coming alive
They will not be denied Barcelona and yike the smite King himself
He keeps securing the objectives. It starts off the title that start the dragon
and they think they're stronger, but Casey pounced on the opportunity.
Yahoo doesn't land a charm, but it doesn't matter.
Rufio is here, he gets a two-man hookup, a long-side dive,
hooks them up as well, and then Yahoo goes into the midst of it.
He does so much damage on this RA.
And like you've been saying, like, where's the damage?
Vitality have none of it.
They need to land the stun card,
but Humanoid joined the fight while the tunnel's already over.
Yeah, who?
Looks frustrated, but happy.
But project, but I mean looking like he's feeling pretty elated after that one
You can understand why because if you're having a game where you can aria ult into melee range of a zin and kill three people
That's a great aria game and that's because I think at this stage fatality
They kind of need to fish for pigs the thought would human on having notes
They could find the numbers of bats who's you'll so quick and then knack knackle is under fire again
Once again caught out was here taking his time on the CC. They're waiting for the path naker fleshy there to cover
We're going to cover
Crank from here as well by Tauti ready to cover topside but Cliffs going to keep pushing this way forward and Knock Knocko's individual lead just continues to dwindle.
And we talked about Boussio gapping question that game 2 and we're seeing it in game 3.
Boussio is everywhere on the map as they want to keep it going. They're continuing to dive them.
Boussio on the chase as well. Jaik on a rampage. He's the same level as Knock Knocko.
But they played this so well as KC. They rotate everyone up to topside apart from Yahoo. They go for the dive
I can't I just send them to a bot lane so covers the push from Karzy and it's KC just running around this map out
Macroing vitality. This is such a good look for KC because honestly
Yike and Buccio got outclassed in jungle support when they matched up against G2. Something I did not expect to be saying
But in this game 3 they have really come alive so many good angles so many great punishes on a very
limited competition for vitality they recognize the weaknesses early on and
they've been pouncing ever since we haven't seen supports impact the early
lane so much
who's still it yet
old car there I have to just be able to walk away actually he's not changing
no he's not well he walked away he just also died yeah he really really tried to
get steps in but he was an infant age in it
I'm speechless. His performance this game, the way he impacted both mid-12 jungle, everywhere.
And now it's gross because there's a world where maybe he's behind on gold, the game's a bit more even, but he's ahead now.
500 gold, now this doesn't sound like it matters, but it means he has the Mikael's already.
Which means a lot of these pick angles that could have been so good to get Vitality back in the mid-game are just non-existent.
And Vitality took the risk when picking this composition, right?
This was their game to try and get themselves towards that top four,
to try and get themselves towards Vatalona.
But unfortunately, here today, it looks like KC, they've come alive again.
They had such a good regular season.
They looked like the best team in the league, but G2 humbled them.
But Vitality need to find a way to silence them once again,
and they're looking for the cross-match to do it.
You need to see Humanoid more involved if Vitality are to make plays.
We've yet to see this TF ulti really do much of anything.
And that's kind of the one way that they have to guarantee a numbers advantage,
which is the easiest way to try to make a comeback play happen.
But the price of them fishing for plays on the bottom side of trying to play around Knock Knock-Oh,
knowing how strong he could be, is they lost yet another objective, only putting themselves further down.
It's 7k advantage for KC.
It's going to take missteps from Casey.
Miracles for Vitality to bring them back in this one.
Difficult lane and a difficult game.
Vitality needs to utilize Humanoid.
They are to come back,
but Casey needs to make their fair share of mistakes too.
Well, when do you get time as my television?
Like, you see them every reset, it's,
Rookong is pushed top,
because yeah, who is ganking boss to get Nak Nakko?
Like, this is just a rolling door as people dying on Vitality.
It's gonna happen again.
Three more members moving into the bot lane,
passmaker for Narknarko, waiting as long as they can.
Charm is there.
Maybe the layering in CC is perfect.
He can't do it.
Oh, my God.
Are you kidding me?
Kazanté always gets to walk away.
But that was so well played by Pusio.
He leads with a headbutt and holds off on the pulverise,
knowing that he can wait to see
if that W is pressed for the Kazanté.
He uses the extended CC against the wall
To get the pulverise, to set up the charm, to get the auto attack done, really well played by the KC support.
You know, at least this warming up, and that's the one the effort that we see in this game, and it's a defensive one,
as the gold that is now 8000 for KC, and the game feels dire, third break being started by KC, Vitality have no hope,
and I agree, I think Buccio this game solo carried for me.
He went top, got an advantage, went mid, got an advantage, and they've just kept coming.
It's, uh...
His Alistar has just been so clean this game.
Like, genuinely, like, the last time he played us, I actually just went home and started playing Alistar and ranked,
because it was, like, so inspired, and then watching this again, it feels the exact same.
You do, yeah. And I think it's insane to have, like, I love when you see certain players that just have champions
that they're able to take over games on, especially from the support role.
And Boussue has a couple, but I think his Alistair has been the most impressive for me this game.
Yeah. And again, the way he's just dismantled this comp.
Yeah, Cardi's gonna thought she can hold the line, but that just freed him up for him around the map
and really making good on it, especially against Nak-Nako, who again, on this Kasate, was a raid boss yesterday.
Was unbreakable, felt like solo winning every fight.
Linsen from the ATRoc contributed as well, but in this game, even with technically more tools to empower him,
the lanes fall apart so quickly that none of those factors matter.
And he still was off to a great start.
He had the kill of the Kanna with the help of Linsus,
and he had the 700 gold lead, but all it took was Buccio's involvement,
and everything started to fall apart for vitality.
Another combo.
Just retting, turning him off, Karzy loses a third of the HP.
And it's, where you look at this game, you're kind of like,
oh, you know, it's slowing down, but it's because it's 19 minutes.
There's no baron, KC are waiting on Seoul and they're just fishing for plays.
Big chunk of damage, side step on the...
I'm not saying side step on the side, it's an exhaust goes down to the flush, he does have some in her spellbook.
The game's looking a mite on play, oh lads.
But it's tough, right? This is the worst way to go out, because this is an elimination game.
Clis is hitting you with a sand bead.
And the KC surrender emote.
Oh my...
As they style on it.
They're dancing on your grave, and it's a frustrating way to go.
Vitality though, have to hold the mental because we've seen so many teams
fumble these kind of leads on cocky plays, so they have to stay in it.
They have to stay mentally focused in case that window of opportunity presents itself
for them to bring away back into this game.
They've got three minutes to do it.
Seoul is going to be up at that stage, Bayern is going to be next on the cards,
and I think once you get that, it becomes way too difficult for Vitality to fight
That's what's on V5 again. They don't have that raw damage that up from first
That could potentially deal with an ocean soul
So it feels like this clock ticks down to where Vitality see their last night. Yeah
I mean Vitality you want to get some out and soul in game one
Couldn't do it in game two, but I agree with you Dagda
KC get this ocean soul
If there's no way that Vitality have enough damage to actually break through and mount the comeback
Carzy opting for some healing and shielding power with the Diadem, which again, good if you have the damage, but you really don't.
It's getting hard. The mental gymnastics is getting more difficult as we try to MacGyver away from the vitality back into this one.
The thing is, they picked TF and I thought they had more of like a game plan of utilizing it. We have generally seen one TF hold and it was for Humanoid to escape.
escape. He did ult into dragon and die as well. That's true. That's playing the mid lane.
Even though he's used it for information. And now KC have again escaped, especially
east along the way, but it doesn't matter. How many up? He had to play in the mid lane
just trying to get out, so. That's not going to go walking up. Another
chance of connecting. This time on stock. We'll be able to walk away. It's kind of
burning us as we go into the wall. It's a scary rumble. Has the shadow flank too and
Buccio still lingering around mid lane. Looking for a long lane.
Hey, you can see the pings going down. They're kind of aware the fatality don't pretty have the vision there nobody responding
And that's the flash. She couldn't look for Karse here Karse lost this flash and nothing gauge
Lucio really taking time instead of this flank
The vitality retreat into the lane they could find themselves in trouble
The pings are going down. I think they realized we haven't seen Lucio linsus. Oh linsus wants to go to the rafters
Do you see the rafters moving down? Oh, no! Vitality's running out first hand! You cannot melt those!
Knock knock go running class of the Q3 pullback but that's the support carry down
likely just apparent for KC Vitality need a miracle steal but they're not gonna
get anywhere near the pit. I've never seen a can start getting a tall draft so
deadly in my life. As Vitality on the brink as barring starts to fall Vitality
can't even get into the river. It's dire for Vitality. KC it's clinical it's
It's surgical, it's clean, they get three dragons,
they're on the precipice of soul,
they get Baron Mashern with that,
they will cross 10,000 boldly,
and it feels like their win is all but assured.
And I think it is disappointing for Vitality.
Like this was a team that really did step up
the longer the split went on.
We're able to make some people believe
that the fight for just enough to get you by.
But unfortunately for Vitality, Polk Karminkor, and it started off two incredibly close games.
The wheels have just come off in this game three.
AC unleashed, another combo coming in for Fusio, equalizer across the top, Bucsy living for a little bit of time here,
as Kargi tries to find a decent angle to keep the fight going, Bucsy running, but Jaik is just too powerful.
Finally, the Xerathian Ultimate comes out, now Fusi's getting a ball, 1v1 first knock, knock, knock,
Now go and stop over he doesn't connect to the passmaker and again
It's Boosio just to stop any last sliver of hope that he might be able to win that 1v1
And my Taliyah just don't have the damage
KC have wrapped them down
That's eating seven power shots for fun
They're pushing me if they're pushing tough. They're gonna get the oceans though. They're not gonna end the game just yet
What about snare? Oh, he's taking power. Oh, it's the flesh
Yeah, always a little bit too confident. Oh
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's what's coming in as well.
Gold cards, all right.
Immediately for Kale!
Oh, no.
Who's Kale?
Who's Kale?
It's the hero, man.
He's the savior.
And Vitality can't get nothing all because of him.
Even though he tried to be a guy or something, a fan of Kale's, Kasey, they just won't give
them a chance.
Soul taken, lives taken, tickets punched for Carmencourt is all that's left here.
14,000 gold in this fight. The fights are just multiple.
We can commentate that unless she dies, and the guy just kills the HP, and fights the guys.
That's some play like. Thank you. I mean there's not much else to say. W misses for Nakhonko, then Buccio's there. They're just, they're broke boys.
You just can't.
We're watching like the best of the best military unit in the world fight.
High schoolers untrained. It's like the father of some horrible isekai or new version of split game.
There's just.
It's all fair. Yeah, there's a there's a diphthian in the everywhere.
And again, it's it's the first two games for close. This game is a slaughter.
This is a summary execution of the vives of the hopes and dreams of vitality.
Casey will not stand for it. They refuse to fall below the top four.
They refuse to miss out on moving to Spain.
The statement game from Buccio.
It is showing up as the best support in the league right now.
Now he performs by him. He goes in again.
And we're gonna have to walk up. They're gonna slaughter them all.
Also knock knock no animation doesn't even complete before he's dead in the ground
Or he tries to find something but gets interrupted as he tries to throw the cast on assaulting
So it doesn't even go out the crescent guard not enough to keep Winston standing in the fountain not enough to stop
Guy going for a little bit more
That's gonna do it game one close game two close
But game three was a slaughter KC secure their place in the top four
AC looking clean in game number three
The confidence that they need was what would Barcelona be if KC wasn't there.
The top four now has been closed off to Vitality.
A brilliant series by KC, a brilliant game three, really dominant end to the run here.
And an end to Vitality's run as well.
The players must feel very disappointed that it all ends here.
They might, but today belongs to KC to the victors made in your top four. Now you can go for your key of play of the series
At LEC on X, Jyke, Polis, or Buccio. Honestly, all great offers.
And at least for KC, kind of the changes that they made from summer coming into LEC versus
Proving that they belong once again in that top three. The thing that they failed to make coming into the summer playoffs
But still much more to go and it is commiserations to by tannity as they take the stage the last time and any see versus
It should be held high though
Lot of fans gain this split for this faster. Absolutely and while that last game maybe it haunts them
That's not the game that I think defined never run. I just like to see the games
That brought them this far so many excellent individual performances, even if they fell short
short probably when they wanted it most. I mean I can't wait to see them in spring
again. For me it was one of the most fun teams to watch this season and I'm sad
that they're out but I'm glad that it happened that they showed so much and
now PGL with Jaikin Calist.
Yeah they want you to give them a wave. Yes! Yes PGL with Jaikin Calist and the
Fnatic Dragons, yes, I've been here all weekend.
Congratulations, you two.
Callist, maybe I'll start with you.
How is it to lane versus the Seraphine ADC,
and tell me about the draft and how you guys perceived it?
Well, I was kind of chilling.
There's not much happening, we're just laying waste.
I mean, we didn't really expect them to play Seraphine ADC
till for like the four, five months,
they were kind of a stress,
like they were not really betting for like,
support Seraphine, so from like the 4-5 runs we knew they wanted to play Seraphine ADC,
most likely, they could still maybe play it on support, but then even though they would
play it on supports, I was like, I can just pick an upper carry and be fine with like
the bands and the setups, so I was like, I'm just gonna farm, I'm just gonna chill and
then play for my teamfights, but early game exploded, so I didn't really need it to.
No, you didn't need to.
In the second game they did really need you, how do you feel about your series overall?
because obviously it started off with kind of not the best game.
Yeah, I mean I think the first game was kind of hard for me to play.
They had a lot of range and ways to engage on me.
I also got one shot hit by Ryze at some points.
I thought we'll just win the game on the spot on the end of the timing,
but Ryze is a balanced champion and he just one shot hit me while being 4k HP.
So yeah, and I think second game we had a bit of better matchup
and we could play aggressive as we wanted
and I'm really happy with how we played the lane and surf and how we kind of
pressured their bot lane.
So here on the desk we are very surprised in game 2 especially here in this one
because you're playing against the Yasuo and I felt like also they have so much
wombo combo but yet I felt like every single fight you are holding on for
your ultimate to the exact you know perfect timing because most of the
time the moment you see danger flying at you you know you can just ult because
you're gonna kill the guy if he engages and it's fine but is it there's this
come from like a lot of confidence in your teammates to peel for you?
Yeah I mean it comes from a lot of confidence from me and my teammates obviously.
Why are you laughing? I'm asking the question and you're just looking and you're laughing at him.
So you're making fun of the enemies?
Good job, yeah good job.
I just liked the game, it was entertaining.
No I mean overall yeah I'm just trying to keep my ultimate a lot because like for example
The clip of Ezreal goes on mid lane. If I use my ult on Ezreal, then they can just nocturne and combo on me and I will die.
So I'm also kind of slipping the fight back. Nocturne is not close enough and they can't combo on me on the Ezreal ult.
But yeah, I'm just trying to give a lot of space to my teammates because I'm kind of the one that can walk up with my Xayah ult.
They can't nocturne or combo me and I'm also confident with my team peeling me and trying to give me space when they try to engage on me.
Man, he's so good. Like he does all of these things and all you have to do is just smite.
Yeah, I mean the thing is, I don't think I peeled that food today.
That's why I was clapping as well.
I probably could have peeled better. I was looking for more, yeah, for the smites and I lost it this time.
I'm not sure if I'm trying to steal Nash, but...
Yeah.
Viak, you already know what I'm going to say, right?
Yeah.
Do you? What's your first game?
You're playing Vi.
Yes. I did good though.
Viak, you actually did really good.
Yes, he's doing it.
It's improving.
Yeah, you're 2-0 now.
Last year you had negative wear, right?
Yeah, it's fine. I did I think one big mistake when they got mashed. I just flashed up to them
But is this something you work on with your psychologist?
Like another trauma you need to get over it. I don't need that. I know I'm goodbye. Okay. Yeah, you're also our key player of the series
It's really good. Yeah, because like also linds says was really a player we were looking at
He played really really well yesterday. How overall did you feel playing versus him? How was the pressure?
Yeah, I have a lot of respect for him. I think it's very good
I think I got a lot of like kind of sneaky plays like especially game one like it's still like the
Drake and then I think Rob's as well like killing ice went behind him all the time. So yeah
But overall yeah, I think it's good. So it was good match up in younging for me. Okay
Callis, you're heading to Barcelona. You're heading to the big stage
It will be super nice to see you guys there. How do you feel the addition of busio is is going for your partnership in the
Mid lane? Where are you at? What can we expect now that it's kind of the most important best of fives you're gonna play?
Well, I'm feeling really good. I think we're improving a lot and also we're really improving a lot from the matchdays
because mostly the matchdays are
There's like more chances of mistakes and stuff while in scrims is kind of more like chill and
Pretty chill, not much big stakes or you just know it and stuff but we really improve a lot with matchdays and stuff so I'm really happy we can win and also improve with this.
And I think we are really strong bot lane. I think against G2 we didn't really show up, we did some mistakes and we will make sure that now in the next best of 5s and best of 3s we play good and we actually put the pressure we want to put.
I'm pretty excited to see us also on more range matchups.
I think we're really good on the range matchups.
All those matchups that we didn't see yet also.
So yeah, I'm pretty excited to play morgims.
So on the desk we always had this debate because it feels like you guys click very well as personalities and as players.
But we're a bit torn on which direction to go because everyone at the beginning was like,
Like, oh man, yeah, Buzio is here, he's gonna make Khalid's laning so much better,
and then some other guys were like, you know, Khalid's being a good laner,
he's gonna make Buzio enable to roam so much.
Was it kind of, did you have like an expectation set when you started playing with him,
that, oh, this is the direction we're gonna go in,
or is it still something that's working progress and you guys are still figuring it out?
I mean, obviously, like, from the first goal ever, we got like in the off-season,
the goal was to be the best bot lane in the Occident,
So, no matter what gameplay, matchups or anything, we need to make sure we are working a lot
and we are really connected together to be the best bot lane and be able to play any
matchup in good situations and also be able to adapt in-game because, yeah, as we said,
we can pressure a lot of bot lanes but we can also give a lot on the map for the team.
Like Alan is a really strong laner but also really smart on the map.
So like for example, this game he roamed a lot and stuff like there's nothing to the
but he just went top mid and killed people and we won the game so yeah I mean for sure
we our goal is to be the best bot lane in the occident but it's not given like that
so we are working a lot and talking to each other a lot for this yeah yeah I guess similar
question for you right because of the support jungle synergy how do you feel the addition
of boost you but also of course the mid laner has been leveling you up yeah it's been for
me very great like playing with boost is very I feel like it's very easy he I feel like he
He always knows what he wants to do, where he wants to be, and I can always ask him for what I need as well,
and he will always be so fast at doing it, and he will have many angles so much,
and I feel like it makes the game very easy for me to play.
Do you feel like the chains are finally coming off?
Because when I was looking at you last year, I felt like your job was mainly to be kind of like,
Hello, who needs some help? I'm coming to help you.
And now, when I feel like every lane is self-sufficient and dominant,
they're like, you know, maybe perhaps more open-minded or a little bit more flexible with the playstyle.
I feel like you get to finally be just a little bit more selfish.
Yeah, I mean, I totally agree. I think I guess it's a bit different with the meta as well.
I feel like it's more farming meta now, but I feel like I adapted very well to it now.
And yeah, for example, last year, I feel like I was just adapting more to the players and trying to help more.
Just being helpful, but that's not the way you should play young right now.
So I think I adapted well and yeah, I'm doing much better now, I would say.
We're seeing it. It's looking great. You're playing GX and it's only best of fives now actually and I guess it depends on if you go to
first stand or not. Talking about that actually, Callist, how much is that thought of first stand and that international
competition and the fact that you guys were our representatives that did so well last year?
How much is that kind of motivating you to be the best you can be?
Obviously, it's in my head, right? But it's not really the main goal. The main goal is to
like play the next best of five there's no reason to think about first and issue
eliminated before right so obviously it's in my head I think last year we
had really good memories I was really happy to be able to play like on an
international stage felt really good we went to finals and stuff so yeah it was
really incredible experience I would like to do it again but yeah the main
focus is just next best of five how to be the best on the upcoming moment and
just making sure we're winning best of five and at least going to the finals
Yeah, I like that a lot. It's a contrast, right, Odoamne?
Because there's a lot of people we talk to and teams that say we're only thinking about
International, like how can we beat the best teams? We want to win worlds. That's where it's at.
And the thing is I can definitely respect that because I know that everybody wants to win worlds
But I also think it's refreshing that you go, well, no, we're gonna start by trying to win this best of five versus GX
And get that success here in Europe.
Yeah, you have an interesting contrast because you have the MQoy guys, which you know
They have so much passion there when they say that they're gonna win worlds and I love it
You know cuz I'm I was a disbeliever, but when they say so much passion I become a believer
Yeah, you know cuz I'm more on the side of
How Khalis is thinking for my whole career I would always be like yeah
I don't really care what I'm gonna do at internationals because first off I'm not there
You know if I don't show up tomorrow and play a good best of five or do the best I can in scrims
I'm just not gonna get to internationals, you know and realistically for me and maybe for you
so I don't put words in your mouth, but at least it felt like,
yo, if I'm gonna do my job well, and I'm gonna scrim well,
I'm gonna play well in that best of five, whatever happens at the end of the year
is a result of what you've been doing from day to day.
Yeah, it makes sense. Any comments on that, or are you guys good?
No, I mean, I think we all have the same mindset in this team,
so that's very nice to see, you know? We all just take the games,
or like the whole playoffs step by step, we focus on the next game,
focus on GX now, focus on the next opponent out there,
and then if we go to first hand, we go to first hand.
Yeah, exactly. It's going to be really fun to see you on stage. It's always nice when KC as a fan base is there and you can still get your tickets, lc.gg slash emcoy. If you are a KC fan that wants to go into the den of the lions, right?
G2 versus, what am I saying, emcoy exactly is tomorrow. That's a best of five on Monday. It's been a lot. Oh my gosh. And of course, are you guys going to be here?
Thank you so much for PGL and congratulations to the both of you. We'll be seeing you in Barcelona.
If you want to watch more League of Legends, we've also got LCS. Sentinels versus Cloud9 is live and there's only one thing I want to do and that is you've guys been so nice the whole weekend and you've been supporting our production staff also.
They're always begging him to do this.
Nice. Okay. Good night everybody. See you tomorrow.
Hey Jun, do you know that I love you?
No, you don't. Yes, I do.
Jun, you cannot stop my feelings. No, I can't.
Okay Jun, if you win LECI, I will kiss you, okay?
You're half.
Yeah?
Yeah, he's the easiest.
No problem, buddy.
I'm playing against the promised king.
You're legit playing against him.
Yeah, he was.
I'm, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
What do I play today?
I'm setting you up, dude.
Nico, Nico, Nico.
Yes?
I'm dead.
Yes, captain.
Nico, you know Flash?
Yeah.
Play here.
I can't.
I can't hit him, no.
You can't hit him?
Nico, can I hit him?
I'm looking good.
Or I don't.
He's still not setting you up.
There's no Flash.
It's next to probably.
Nice, good job.
Not bad.
Good early cross.
Yeah, but here's one.
Yeah.
So...
Oh, that's our...
Oh!
Up now!
Look at the arrow!
Look at the arrow!
What the...
We got this.
Yep.
Oh my God.
Here we go.
Both of us are so fucking dodgy by the...
This is what you can do.
I'm used to having them in the bottom.
Oh my God.
Set up double flashes.
Hey!
We are going to buy some load.
Get your...
Buy some load!
That's also...
That's a good idea.
What's the cost?
This is the...
Damn it.
God damn it.
Unmovable, 1800, judgment, stick with the Baron.
He didn't see by the tower, he pre-engaged it.
Now it's in the tower for KC.
Knocked out a living Bar-T-Long,
his chronicrize will finish the kill.
Double knock-up comes through again,
so he can't sell it over the walls.
I don't need my aggressive.
That's a...
That's almost my...
I don't need it.
Yeah, that ain't the shit.
Oh, yeah.
But I thought I did.
He shouldn't be half the ocean with that fish ball.
That's a huge fish ball!
Oh, that's not fair!
That's the guy we were looking for at that game one.
Looking to top lane, thanks for not having gotten over the wall.
E through, immediate up, he's gathering strike.
Hanging the tower to set up a corner block.
Oh, he's invisible!
Ah, God, I was gonna back!
Oh, that pretty hot towards the end, man!
He's out, man.
Lavo!
Azizia!
Azizia!
Azizia!
Well played, well played.
Azizia!
Azizia!
That's the kill of 2025!
A new weapon is coming to the LEC!
That's gonna be one of the best LEC intros I've seen in years!
I'm just kidding!
Oh, Jackass!
For Jesus!
That's a pretty bad chance, I am!
Oh, wow!
They're rapping crazy mine!
What a young man again!
HECKPRESSED BLUE is a story now!
HECKPRESSED BLUE!
Hey, what's up?
Hey, look at what the sky is just a starting line
Welcome through the storm, feel the vibe out of line
Grading in, rebels in the silent fray
In the pulse of dawn, we embrace the day
We need to learn how to run in every town
Finding out what we need
I'm the place where lights are the focus
Hey, there's a good place for a word
We become the light
I guess the world of lies
Will stand up like the inner star and rain
As a light in the pulse of dawn
We'll find our beat when the chance is to take you to
Open your eyes
Hey, look down at the tires, don't worry, sing
Time to wrap the wave, wanna get stuck to the side
Crash away, get on the bus, I'll just turn these on tight
Give me life, life
We find company, hit them down
Finding our own way
I was so afraid to let you fall again
I'd take this world away
We'd become alive
We'd become the light of your soul
We'd all stare at the flame
In this never ending break
I was alone in the pulse of time
We'd fight our evil
The chances take for new
Oh, the boys
Look up at the sky, it's just a 31
Hey, look up at the sky, it's just a 31
Radiant rebels in the silent train
And the pros and cons, we embrace the tide
We'll stand up, let me understand, we're ready to break
Eyes over, when the concert's only fun
I'll be with a chance to stay cool