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Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go, let's move, sign this sign, let's go.
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Let's go, let's move, sign the sign, let's go!
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Wait, is he switching lanes?
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Red Bull gives you wings
To your left, to your right, it's the pain behind
Cause we all face the fight
And we stray from the light
Don't be afraid of the pain behind
Still that much, still the same
Can you feel it with the same
Watch it away and stand again
Away
I'll run away, I'll run away, I'll run away, I'll run away, I'll run away
They turn around from once to come, are you facing up?
Oh, you're far away, yeah
What's calling out to be found
When the time is right
Time is right
As we all face the fight
And we stay from the lie
Go ahead, don't you need me?
Feel the rush, feel the time
Can you feel it?
Let it go, please
Watch it away
And stand again
Oh, wait, you can't
Feel the rush, feel the tights
Wash away, what you still think
We might just stand
Run in your hands again
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Wash it away
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You're the end
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That's gonna be one of the best NAC intros I've seen in years!
Badalona for the last day of LEC versus eight week of pure beggar and chaos like
Krem de la Krem and sometimes a few key transfer maybe but we made it for the
very last day and the very first LEC versus finals. Super exciting we had
five games yesterday and today shaping up to be such an amazing day. I mean I just want
five games today as well. Like I think yesterday finally we get to see what
fearless has to offer. I want to see how deep these pools go. We have KC
KC vs G2, in final, KC M-Koi, 5 games yesterday, Jack Spectra, what are your highlights from
yesterday's event?
That was crazy, you were in the audience actually watching it all.
I was in the audience, it was crazy, the atmosphere in the crowd, I mean the KC fans, they were
outnumbered but they still held on strong and at times it felt like they were louder
than the M-Koi fans, especially when KC just kind of started demolishing M-Koi
like game 5.
They had so many reasons to just outnumber them Koi fans in intensity because the early
game from KC, every single damn game were just so impressive.
They're sure there were some throws, but both of these things deliver such a great performance
for the fans.
So I don't know what bonbons they're on, but the way they leveled up from the rare
Candies was incredible yesterday.
I don't know what they did in the break.
Yeah, I mean, I appreciate it.
It came down to the very last draft and how creative both teams have been.
Again, thank you and Koi for their journey and everything that was possible for them
for us to be here this weekend.
I caught up yesterday with the KC fans after the victory on that very first floor here in the arena
So let's check out the emotions from them
Tree in their arena so guys how does it feel to turn this place into something completely different?
How does it feel to take down and play in rich finals feel so cold in the arena?
Let's go KC! Let's go KC! Let's go KC! Let's go KC!
I think the atmosphere says it all, guys.
We're supposed to let them out.
Sorry. Let's go KC.
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.
The irreducible red wall here, actually, even the jersey.
But, yeah, they had their fire then.
The wall was painted red.
It was painted red yesterday.
What was painted red?
Absolutely.
They were hyped.
And again, I don't know how if you guys could hear them, but even from here, it was like
20 casey fans down there.
You could hear them when the action was on fire for the team.
I mean, it was incredible.
The arena yesterday, I don't know how it looked to you guys, but for me, it felt
packed.
It felt packed.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And with the drums and everything, honestly, the fans delivered.
Even if it doesn't look like it would be arena here, I'm excited for today and
the games that we're going to have.
You know what my favorite moment was yesterday?
What?
When we're going deep into game 5, and all of a sudden,
you know the KC fans were just loud for all day,
and then the MQay fans were just slowly, slowly, slowly going in intensity.
That's how it goes!
And all of a sudden, the KC fans were just so damn loud.
Yeah, but they gave it all, until the end, honestly.
And I'm excited to see what we're gonna have today,
especially coming from the fans, but guys, 100 games of LEC versus.
It's a bit of a lottery, though.
It's been that many, and for the very first time ever,
once again we had two invited teams I want to celebrate the past eight weeks that we have so
what were your favorite moments from any series if you had to take one it has to be kind of lr and
their whole story yeah like the alarm went off that balls had in the game against shifters this is
really when los ratones whole journey kind of shifted like before this shifted they was really
rough for them they were looking quite bad but after this they went on a miracle run they
Nearly made it to playoffs. I'm just such a joy to watch. You know what?
I'm happy that you talk about about LR and about bells because my favorite moments is also from bows. Let's check it out
You didn't listen to me like you were playing so much if you were listening to you. You were actually not listening the whole time
Five hours lectures we had I didn't listen. I had I had YouTube shorts running on the side. I'm sorry
Baste. You think you think you think he was sorry because I don't think he was sorry at all.
No, I don't think he was sorry.
But one thing I did preach him that base defense was all me baby.
I taught him that. I taught him that my Gragas was out of this world.
I'm the senior Gragas buddy. No, no, no.
He does all me. He cannot take that away and he's not here to defend himself today.
The only thing good about your Gragas is that he's in character the way he's playing.
Okay, moving on.
But you are. Actually.
No, it's me. Definitely, yeah.
My favorite moment was the fact that
every single time everyone's complaining,
Yo, end of the regular season is so boring.
We have only two teams. I don't really care about
who makes playoffs because they're bad and all of this stuff.
But look over there, G2
was in a fine spot
to miss playoffs. And it went down
to all the last games. Sure,
my boy Baos and everyone on Los Atomos
didn't make it, but at the same time we had so many
cool storylines. It went to G2 Fnatic
in the final moment. You know, it didn't end up
being one or the other out of the out of the playoffs based on their you know tradition of
hatred. Yeah but also on that day to go on is M-Koi was super close to missing it as well
and speaking of M-Koi, I love M-Koi let's talk about yesterday because we talked a lot about
the regular season but it's all about the playoffs baby yesterday game three Elioya Kiana
in his home in his own house he finds the mega flank here five man supreme display of talent
And there's never been a more adequately named ability for this moment.
I think this is absolutely beautiful.
Frame it, put it on your bathroom wall and just admire it at times.
And the intensity with which you say that, you say like they won the series.
Like you're that happy.
I thought I'd watch you after this part.
That's why I explained.
He'll find a way to...
You'll get your brother, Elan, with a...
Yeah, Elan, yeah, they had a wonderful way to do it.
Prestige Gettel, ah, that's why he's Prestige Gettel.
You just let go of Elan all the time.
They had a good one, honestly, but yeah, I'm sorry for you.
Sucks buddy.
It's not paying off.
I've been there.
I've done that mistake, but it's fine.
Your support is appreciated from them.
We've talked about in-game and what we've seen are highlights from the season,
but there's also more that we want to celebrate as the last day of LEC vs. Ease upon us here.
We're going to celebrate some awards actually.
I think it's been a long time since we haven't done the LEC award.
Celebrating all the best moments of the season and the first one is the best
Pentakill chosen by the fans and it wasn't going once again. I mean
Come on, it's an 80k right clicking come on. I can do that in my sleep. Come on
Lucy got those skills shot everything one shots you it's not so easy to right-click and as well
He got the six items that's kind of like the hard part. You're not getting the skill in point of the medicine
Let's get it, Gary.
So much for being one, man.
It's happy little accidents.
Do you have an idea of what it could be?
Happy little accidents in a more outside of game?
Surely it has to be cars getting trolled by the empty tissue bags.
If I would be there, I'd be like, hey, Rev, can you give me a tissue?
He just looks at you like this, the smile on your face like...
Kidding!
Yikes!
Any ideas?
Happy to laugh and it's like so open-worded, you know, it's like it could be a play that wasn't that bad or it's a play
That's really bad. I mean, it's like a way in Europe
But our blisters the battery our steak is too juicy. There's too much
Of the vote, you know what happens to the best
We might not have expect expect but we do have a sex back at least in that
That was beautiful.
And I know she was dying in the teleport animation and was still going off on the tower.
Like the tower is still, you know, doing his job.
But I completely forgot about this one.
But I guess it's just the JoJo Pinespecial, you know, master of time.
I mean, it was the first game of the season.
You know, like, not so high, you know.
Yeah.
I was nervous.
Gidders.
Gidders.
You know, Kev's is kind of new to the sleep.
Yeah.
I hope this kid does well in the coming years.
He has a bright future.
The next category we have here is going to be the best play.
Actually, this one is tough.
Best play.
Best play. Could be the Gragas play you've talked about earlier.
Yeah, I was really nice.
I really loved the... I mean, I'm going to LR now, so the bow is Kled old.
Maybe I'm a Kled boy.
Oh, yeah, maybe I'm a Kled old.
Kled old was a legendary into the Unara, mega-snow into this team life.
The shifter is best race, though.
You know what's my best play of the season?
I was buying a potion.
That's the play.
You want a camera?
No, we don't.
It's that way, but that's my play.
Alright, let's reveal the winner, and it is Mkoi once again with the wombo combo.
48.4% of the fan votes here for this one.
I remember this one.
It's about something nasty is about to happen.
Oh, it's about to be a bad idea.
I don't know.
Oh, no.
Oh.
Hey, that's an orn.
That's an orn.
That's one lockup, two lockups.
Okay, he missed the vote, but it doesn't matter.
Hey, hey, don't, don't, just don't take away from that thing.
This is supposed to be hype, Finn.
That's not enough.
That was really cool.
It doesn't matter.
Orn, you don't need, you don't even need to ult.
There was enough bouncy castle around there.
Brother, I'm so compelled.
No good.
Thanks category.
We're gonna have...
here and the last one is the best mic check. Okay there's a few there's a few contestants here
can be a carzy humanoid moment. There's so many highlights you know like they're just the back
and forth I don't know I didn't thought I would like vitality this much but just carzy human items.
You know it's a good restaurant but you come in and like there's a married couple arguing
in the kitchen. I've been like whenever you listen to their comms they're just arguing
permanently and I think it's because they love each other and I think that's why they're such a
Alright, and let's reveal the winner is, as it is, Reckless!
Let's take a listen!
Today we'll make history.
We've been together for over a year, year in like 10 months.
I'm pretty good with being here, together with all of you, at this point of my life.
Yeah?
This is a good place to be, together with all of you.
Agreed.
I wouldn't want to be here with anyone else.
No, sometimes it's about the power of friendship.
I mean it's so wholesome, it's so wholesome.
That's my king in the north.
I miss my voice.
The King in the North. Love it. Love it.
We've been talking about what the fans chose,
but I feel like there's something that's been going under the radar here.
The players have been shining for their play in-game,
but it's the beautiful voice that I'm interested in here.
L.C. Karaoke. Let's review what happened.
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Watch you in my room don't stop
It represents...
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Don't show...
This is all about the party.
Oh!
Yay!
More, more, more!
Hey, hey, hey!
You're way too cute.
You're way too cute.
You're way too cute.
You're way too cute.
You're way too cute.
You're way too cute.
He comes from Turkey, the girls are very nice, he left his girlfriend to play for Black and White.
He scores all of the goals with the cannon on his chest. His name is Kano Kano Kano.
I'm a son of a bitch.
Shout out to the 50 production for this beautiful mashup.
Some of them made it to air. I'm happy that there was more in the back pocket here.
You guys have been playing actually for years.
You have to expect that you're going to end up in mic checks and in videos like this, right?
I mean, for sure.
I don't think, I didn't sing much. Did you guys sing much?
I think I was a bit of a...
I was a bit short.
You know, like I was trying to get into X Factor, didn't really work out so now I'm here at St. Louis.
I like to see the Vladdy on the voice.
Well, Vlad was going hard, but I was one of those grumpy guys, you know, everyone's singing into my team and I just look at him and I'm like,
Still a lot of fun.
Just say, it's not fun a lot, yeah?
Still a lot of fun.
Not fun a lot.
Lock in.
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All right, guys, before we dive into today's series, I want to poke your pro player brain about some champions that maybe we might see on the rift today, or that you want to see on the rift.
on the rift. So, sharpest analysis, give me your best, plead your case, and let me know
which champion you want to see today. Jack, you can go first.
Yeah, I'll start off, so I wanted to really focus on analysis here and bring a pick that
I think we're for sure going to see today, and it's just bringing a lot of energy.
Kogma. So, Kogma, a fantastic pick. It has a really high DPS, and it's a great
hypercarry, and we go to the next side, a beautiful hasama. I mean, it looks great.
Looks really good.
Sorry.
Up against Top Esports, G2 played Kogma and demolished them.
Hans-Hama win-rate their own screen as well.
75% 7KDA, like, boh.
This is a pick that I'm looking at G2 today.
If we go to the next slide here, so why did this pick suddenly erupt?
Well, it's because a crowning posted on Twitter talking about how this new item, Dusk
and Dawn on Kogma, gives you so much damage and it makes the W proc on towers.
It's absolutely incredible.
next slide here yes look at that damage 1,600 damage on the tower with
Kog'Maw W what it makes no sense it's because of the dusk and dawn item that
just adds so much damage and it's also just a great first attack and it's just
allows them to go kind of AP Kog'Maw which is so good against tanks and then
if you play Kog'Maw as well you make my favorite play by playcaster so happy
that's the wrong medic it makes my favorite play by playcaster so happy
because you get a braum, you get a korma braum and then you have a mom, a medical mom.
What?
Mom?
What?
Yeah, okay, where the puss?
Yeah, and you can trust this analysis, here's why.
Okay, well seriously guys, why are you doing this here?
Are you kidding me?
All the swine's in a bum.
Okay.
Do you want to talk about this?
No, I do not want to talk about this.
Okay.
What?
Did you play korma?
I guess.
No, thank you so much.
Yeah, hopefully we stick around.
I'm sorry okay here's my criticism is always you know if you're in solo queue in
mvc teams there's some times where it comes to where you have just you know
some issues feelings getting the best of you and your compass horrible
burden is on you to save the draft or you know ADC like Jack Spengtra is wanting
that he's weak well you know the solution is
brother on brother on he comes in there he is we talk about having fun
no shut up do you want to be an assassin or do you want to be a tank or do
Do you want to engage, maybe, because that's not the only reason you suffer?
Yes, Fin! Yes, you pick on!
But do you want to carry, maybe?
No! No, you will be caught!
We are not friends! ADC still hates you!
Well, don't worry, buddy!
Level 13, the oven is ready!
Items are in the oven!
So, you know, all you can do is this!
Dish that cry, baby, a lesson and...
...support LNA with the support I can instead!
But, you know, sometimes happens, you're losing the lane.
You know, in the base, did you take a back lane?
You're getting dove, and maybe your jungler says,
Good luck, buddy!
Well, you know, you just press a button, you open an item,
build that loop, you get the body putt.
Do you like trains? Everyone likes trains, right? Look at him. He has a cool train skin.
You need to engage. Enemy is right in front of you.
There's a lot of you to be punished.
You have Malfight, Uton, a 12-second cooldown.
Look at that. It's ANA getting blown out of the water.
That's Ichi right there with the G2 MSI 2032.
You need to engage. Enemy's far away from you.
Are you still angry?
Hit them with the train. Blow the horn on him.
Here they come. Here they come.
You blow them off the door. And also...
He's super fast, but that's not me. Go on the next slide, please.
Okay, nice custom, by the way.
What's the number?
There's no analysis here. This is like... This is just a bundle.
And that's exactly why you pick Owen. He does everything and he's the best champion in the game.
Get yourself in the gloves, Ornus, or Robin.
Look, I get to breathe. I love how you went full-school presentations.
Super serious. Pitting your case and then you did that.
Don't worry. I have to sales. It's a salesman.
Don't worry. I'll come with analysis. Don't worry about it, Odom.
You're japping. I'm gonna bring the heavy hitting analysis.
Are you tired of losing games?
Are you tired of seeing your opponent team with a smile on their faces?
Well, look no further. The champion for you is...
So we wait who's that? Okay, what is that? Okay next time?
Okay, let me talk. Is that a dog? Oh, I love that's perfect. What?
Why is it me
I'm talking about so here bring my presentation. Thank you production
infinite summoner spells is your opponent trying to flash wait to get dropped your track yo, oh
Or is your enemy top laner trying to defend the bot lane stack?
I'm gonna quote the greatest linguist of our time, Eminem.
You only get one shot and one opportunity.
Look, look at B2D, even he agrees with that.
It doesn't matter how hard you hit, are you tired of Nami from bubbles at your face,
well bubbles are back and watch the ocean get filled with tears.
There's more tear, there's more salt.
in the opposition when you play saw it in the fatty subreddit, that's all I'm going to say, and that is crazy
Well, I don't want to linger to the march to some of the cardamom is that...
What? No please remove that picture
I hope Zoe wins, I'm a Zoe man and she's just so fun
The people get so trolled by the bubbles and her voice lines are so cute
Like when she thinks about chocolate cake, lol, she's super random but also smarter than she looks
Just like Odoanmi
Oh my god bro, I'm so happy to see that.
You picked the most boring champion, you picked the most tilting champion, you did right.
I did good.
At least I had analysis.
Let us know in chat which presentation you think was the best here.
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Hello everyone, we're here on the floor in the wonderful Olympic arena for the finals
of LEC vs. So let's see who we can find.
I found the Movistar Koi Boys.
The Koi Boys, does that sound good?
Yeah, it sounds good.
It sounds very good.
All right, do you have any predictions for today and also sorry that your team
didn't make it?
I'm going to go with 3, 1, 2, G2.
3-0 to G2.
Carman Corps, 3-0.
Wait, are you allowed to stay that here?
No, I am not glad at all, but I think so.
3-0 G2.
Do you have anything special planned for the stage introductions later?
Not...
Okay, it's secret.
Who are you supporting today?
We were supporting Modestar Co. yesterday, but it's not the case anymore.
more. I think that you too. It was pretty good in the arena yesterday at the end for them at
the first obviously and it was fun for us. Do you think most Spanish fans will support you too or Casey?
There is a lot of rivalry with France so I think that most of Spanish people will be supporting
you too. No way you're supporting the French? No, no, no. What's the score gonna be?
I think 3-0 for G2, I hope.
Photo for prediction, what is your prediction?
G2-3, we come in a chord, 2.
G2 stumps coming chord.
Stumps?
Absolutely 3-0.
I guess 3-1 for G2.
Thank you, have fun.
So my completely scientific poll does say that most of the people here are backing G2,
but I do have a lot of faith in how loud that KC block can get.
It's going to be a super exciting matchup and I think it's going to get very, very loud in here.
Casey Fan is going to be loud, but you can never out count G2 death taxes, G2 in finals,
and even winning titles.
Is there something that we've been seeing for years in the LEC?
What do you think about this, guys?
And yeah, the legacy that G2 has cemented in these past parts.
G2 is just a legendary organization.
The fact that they've been top four since 2019,
It's just absolutely incredible and the consistency that they show year after year regardless of roster
They've made it to nearly every single final and it really all comes down to one person at the end of the day
I mean we all know who it is. It's Caps baby. D. Goat is so furry and as hoofs at this point because he's just so established in our league
Like the way you can take one
split of caps and make as many montages like from a player's full career like
the way he pops off in fights the way he plays the side then I think it's
unparalleled in a region and the really frustrating part because a lot of time
when I was competing I felt like he was just the ultimate boss every single
time there was so many cities where I walk into them I'm like yeah caps is
not him today yeah it's cracks you know he's not gonna show up
Double killer. Why do people keep on doubting caps? Why do I keep on hearing and even saying sometimes every year caps is done
G2 is finished when we know that they always turn it around. What is it about with caps?
I mean, it's popular to hate on the most like the best player, you know
Like that's faker people doubt caps and it's also like a lot people want someone to step up
We wanted Ladi last year to step up. We want Yahoo to step up
We want Jojo to step up because competition is really what we're all about but caps is not allowing it
What does it take to have this kind of success on this long of a career, guys?
You've all been on the rift, you've all played pro.
It's unthinkable.
I mean, it's just unspeakable amounts of talent because there's just so many pro players
who just come into our league and do the LEC or pretty much anyone in general.
I think the average lifespan of maybe an LEC pro is around, I know, 3, 4, 5 years.
But this guy is here for almost 10 years now.
In those 10 years, he just wins all the time.
It's just generational level of talent.
I mean, to me it comes down to one word, obsession.
Like he lives, breathes, drinks, sleeps, League of Legends.
That's the only thing he does.
Like he always, like I talked to him whenever he's off the,
like when you talk with him in like in the green room
or something, he's always talking to you about League of Legends.
Like, what do you think about this?
What do you think about that?
But like just like Jon Snow, I feel like Caps
is standing on top of a blue wall.
And I think it's fair to say that Winter is coming.
Oh, Winter?
That's come?
That's what we're going with?
That's right.
Well, the winter did come, but the winter this time
will be blue because it's Casey.
All right.
They established themselves as the winter favorites
because last year they won winter.
They upset G2.
They went to first hand.
They did a great run over there.
And now I think it's actually the best time
for them with this iteration of the roster
to be contending against G2.
So the blue wall.
I agree.
I think it's all about just the roster swaps
that they made come into this year
with Buccio, with Yahoo, they're just looking so much better and it's going to be an amazing series.
What do we think about the strength of both teams actually? Before we dive into further into this discussion,
KC rebuilt on one side, G2 banking on the same project yet again. Do we feel like they've peaked at the moment they're supposed to?
Now reaching finals.
Look, let's just compare it to last year because they were playing in the finals last year.
And I think what was compelling about KC back then was their teamfighting,
was their structure with Targamas and Vlad is teamfighting on the victory,
the con on our moments, but their identity has changed this year.
Right now, how you see KC win games is through strong laning phase performances.
And I think that change is what's going to might give them an extra day.
I also think just Buccio, like the fact that he's able to impact the whole map so much
is the best support in the league by far, maybe best player in the league.
I'm not sure if I would agree with that, but do you see who's on the other side in the middle lane?
Counter-Zedmuse is a tough discussion, but just the impact that he has in the games,
the way that he's able to not just win bot lane, but win mid, top, help jungle,
he's just doing it all. We've seen a lot of KC, we've seen them for the past three days,
actually, they were playing on this very stage, but G2 on the other side,
they have been getting ready for this weekend. I stopped by the room actually yesterday
to see how the defending finalists get ready to play for finals. Let's check it out.
Hi guys, Lore here reporting from the venue for finals weekend.
You can see behind me LEC practice room.
So I just wanted to take you on a journey with me and show you what it looks like from
the team sitting in finals, waiting for their opponents and who they're training and how
everything is going.
So I'm in the G2 practice room.
You can see everybody here.
Guys, say hi.
Hello.
Hello.
Yay.
Okay.
So I'm going to ask Caps actually, Caps.
Okay, so first, why are you wearing a bathrobe? What is this about?
Well, I actually expect this pants to be quite warm, but it turns out that it's actually a little bit cold.
So I realized I probably need to bring my bathrobe around.
Okay, nice.
I need my bathrobe warm before the finals.
Okay, feel comfortable?
Yeah, it's nice, it's nice.
Okay, so one thing that people are wondering is, when you're the team waiting in finals,
how does scrim go? Because right now KC and Mkoi are playing on stage, GX got eliminated.
So who are the options for you guys?
Yeah, we're definitely just screaming ERL tips.
Today we are playing ERL and we play like Cream D'la Crop, as we say in Denmark, you know.
And yeah, it's been fun helping us out, being very nice with us.
How is everything going for you guys getting ready for finals, waiting for finals once again?
Yeah, I mean, definitely going very well. We have been preparing. Of course it's tough to prepare, we don't know who we're playing against.
but we are watching the series right now
and doing our best to prepare for both
and make ourselves as ready as we can be.
Yeah, how do you do it, actually?
Because you're playing scrims.
Also, the teams are playing,
and this is going to be your opponent tomorrow.
So how are you keeping tracks of what's going on on stage,
but also focusing on your scrims?
I mean, I think we, at least for me, I guess,
I mean, focus probably more on ourselves, to be honest.
Like, make sure we have good conditioning,
make sure we have good scrims,
and then if there's something specific happening,
like in the game, any like habits, any like draft things from what I look out for,
we'll be looking out for that. Sometimes it can also be dangerous to watch like
too many games and get too like attached to all like the hype and stuff, so
we're just keeping in calm, you know, and getting ready for tomorrow.
What's the schedule for you guys in events? Five scrim games and then solo queue,
or do you just go home?
Yeah, I mean today we are doing five scrim games and then we play solo queue,
we're actually streaming scrims I guess, so we will do solo queue the rest of the day,
And then when the venue closes, we'll probably go back to the hotel.
Okay, when is bedtime?
We don't want to go today.
Yeah, probably around maybe 1 a.m. somewhere this.
1 a.m. is it fine, Homer? Do you agree? Okay, Homer approves.
Gaps, thank you so much. See you tomorrow.
Thank you.
Have the bathrobe, plus the music.
It's giving spa.
2 a.m. bedtime, before finals, do we agree?
That's reasonable.
It's 1 a.m., huh?
1 a.m.
1 a.m.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think it's bad enough.
So there's a usual of the most, yeah, the deliberated bed timers.
For sure. I remember Ruby, 6, 7 a.m. I was pretty crazy.
And that's why he made finals. Unlike Caps, who used to be in this situation here,
talking about the path and how you can make it to finals,
we had eight finals won by teams through the upper bracket
and nine finals won by the teams through the lower bracket.
So what do we make of these two ways to reach success and victory here?
So I've been on both sides of the table right when so there's a lot of back stability that can happen
Right because when you're up a bracket final the things that the teams usually do the one that waits in the final is you
Scrim the team from I guess that the match closest to you so in this case would have been M
Koi and then you let them you leave the bottom feeders to fight amongst themselves to find scrims and this way kind of
Do a little bit of sabotaging. You know, you don't let them find what but but here's the thing
There's a trade off because when you go to the lower bracket finals in this case KC
They already played eight games on stage and that's what I think that's that is really really cool
Because you get to value these nine wins that Lord bracket had it's just because you get a
Climatized to the stage you get to do a lot more things you get to soak in that pressure
You get to see the fans and everything and you get to see to deal with those stage yeters because in theory
Upper bracket team should just be the better one and win a lot more
But we saw in that stat how it can go both ways
I mean I love that story as well the fight the people in the finals are just locking screams the
I remember it was 2016, I think it was Yamato Kanon on Splice, he was only screaming Unicorns of Love while G2 had no screams and he was like
G2 was for sympathy but lot more regrets. Actually it dropped like a crazy line like that.
And in the end, I think G2 won that script.
I love the point that you made about Casey doing this lower bracket run because being warmed up in your seats on a day like this is super important.
super important and I feel like G2 is going to come into the imprint of their
employee players while G2 has already been there they know the temperature
they know the vibe they know the crowd and they know the crowd is against them
but they performed anyway. For me what would have happened because I'm a
hundred percent sure to go back on this if we would have an upper bracket final
in that day when I won with Rogue we have gotten a hard sum 3-0 like no
chance you know 50 minutes to G because the morale was just so bad so lower
bracket runs are legit. Alright we'll see about this in about 20 minutes
Before that, I want to talk about G2's success, because yet again, they're sitting comfortably in finals, waiting for their opponents,
and if there's one man who's been helping through this success for the past few weeks, it has been the man in the jungle,
Skewmont shining more than ever this year.
Yeah, I mean, Skewmont has just been phenomenal, and you guys might be a little bit late to jump on my train,
but I was there from the beginning.
Okay buddy, I was waiting for you.
For Skewmont, I always knew Skewmont for me best jungler last year,
best general this year, the way he is so damn efficient on the map and the way he just sets his lanes up for success,
he makes so little mistakes compared to most of our journalists in our league that just always lose their brain cells at some random stage of the game.
Skimoz doesn't do that.
But he's not playing against the Mojang, he's playing against Jajak, so he needs to do a lot more than that.
I mean look, Jajak is the kind of guy I talked to in backstage, he's just like, yeah, it was a good Kasek's game.
Of course it was Kasek's. He will pick whatever will win him the game.
That easy, Jajak.
It's humans not slouch with the champ people either if we could bring up the the the the champion show me the bubbles
We're not gonna bring up anything because before that I actually want to hear from the man himself
Shocks caught up with him ahead of this series. Just check it out. You guys shut up
Skiwam on in the house for the grand finals of LEC versus Skiwam
Would you agree with the statement that you have been the main character of G2 these playoffs?
Yes and no. I think that I got the chance to shine in these players for sure, but I do
think that the reason why I shine that much in players is because of the teamwork we've
been putting in. My teammate just made it easy for me to shine and I'll be really
happy to do the same for them right today. But yeah, I think I've been playing pretty
good, but the most important is today, so I'm looking forward for it.
We know there have been different scenarios when you step into an arena that the other team has already played in.
Is there anything that you've been able to do to help that situation?
Because you can't really fake it, right? Playing in an arena like this.
I mean, I do think that they kind of have an advantage in the sense that they already played for two days in the arena.
And for us, I mean, besides the tech check and stuff like this, we didn't really get to play in like a player on the arena with all the fans cheering for you.
So definitely it's going to be important to stay focused throughout the whole day
and just make sure that we adapt the fastest way possible
so we don't have any external issue and show some good gameplay.
Yeah, it's interesting that you're up versus Jyak because Jyak of course has the history of G2
but also he has gone through a similar thing where he is growing into a very important character
in that team who has at times played the hard carry role in the jungler but is also able to play
the other side of the coin and he impressed us yesterday a lot with the Kha'zix like are you
watching and thinking oh my god what is this guy getting up to yeah I mean definitely I think
the game 4 and game 5 were the one I could actually get to see fully because we were obviously
screaming and yeah I mean I think he had a really good angle for the Kha'zix in the last
game and I mean he actually historically played it as well back in the days with G2 as well
so I think he has the experience he's good on it so that was definitely like some some nice
casics and I've actually see I've actually saw like a lot of like lck players and lpprs playing
the casics as well but I think that his casics is like maybe a bit better than the others.
Maybe a final question KC as a whole what I asked when we were still in the studio
who you guys would would expect a lot of people said KC what do you think is so strong
What's wrong with that KC right now?
I mean, Kanda, as always, at least looking back at last year as well, I think they just
have really strong laners in general.
And I think they play, when they play a disciplined game, and they play on their strength, which
are pushing lanes and just playing slow in general, I think this is where they shine
the most.
And I feel like when they have to pull the trigger and engage, take some risk, maybe
it's not the best game in general.
But I think the front-to-back games usually are worth the shine the most.
Kalist said that Mkoi's mid-game is better than yours.
Yeah, I mean, maybe, right? I guess we'll see today.
We will see today. Thank you. Good luck.
The classic shocks instigating, like, right here.
I think it's the end of the interview.
I mean, oh yeah, we see the trophy arriving on stage.
Absolutely amazing.
We'll see who gets to lift it at the end of the day,
but I want to put up on what's human, what's thing,
especially what made the team strong lately. The fact that Q-Mond has been one of the main tools,
even if he was humble in the way he was approaching. He's been doing a lot of heavy lifting for G2.
Both junglers are actually, if I'm looking at this match today,
I'm looking at the jungle and what's going to happen in the early game,
especially with what both these players can play.
While I'm favoring Q-Mond, Jax is not slouched, obviously, right?
And both of these junglers have been bringing out really exciting carry jungler picks.
It's an incredibly exciting and diverse jungle meta that allows you to play a wide variety of champions.
That means that you can both carry through draft and you can carry in-game by playing these high resource junglers.
Yeah, I'm now... I'll even take it one step further.
I think this is the most diverse jungle meta we have ever had in competitive League of Legends.
And I think this opens up so many cool avenues, especially in a best of five fearless.
The fact that just like yesterday, Jyx, Kha'zix pick won them the game.
if you have those pocket picks in your pockets and can bring them out on demand, you can have
such a high impact on a series just like the active yesterday.
That's the thing, right?
Jike had to show a little bit of what's in that pocket.
We haven't seen Skew-
We haven't seen Skew on Dig Deeds.
I'm really excited to see how Skew on Dig's deep in this meta, because it's all about
the junglers.
What?
Okay.
You're trying to set me up for failure, Fin.
Come on.
Let's look at the early game comparison, because it's really about the early game
for both of these two junglers, and the word that I want to focus on is efficiency.
Both of these junglers are incredibly efficient, there's a skim on a little bit more so,
but it's really about full clearing and then finding ganks and opportunities after you've cleared all your camps.
You say there is about full clearing, but that's just skim on playbook, on yikes side.
This guy does not full clear, this guy skips camps, you talk about efficiency,
this guy skips so many camps, sets his laners up for success, so much more,
And look at those stats. Gold defense is the same. CSD is the same.
So what is your efficiency now, Jack?
Yeah, I know, Jack, so it's like sweet.
That's a 40-minute, not performing it.
But you have a 40-minute, so it feels good.
And then the efficiency stacks up.
He has a full clear advantage, a little bit tempo.
That leads into more farm.
And in 20 minutes, skim up. Boom. So much fun.
You know what's that? Cope at 20 minutes for you, Jack.
That's exactly what you're seeing right now.
We've seen vintage Yike yesterday on the rift.
He was known for this Kazix pick, this very early game,
these very aggressive picks when I met him back in the LFN, I'm glad he brought them back onto
the rift yesterday. Shox caught up with him again ahead of the game, so let's check it out.
Jaik had an absolutely stellar performance yesterday, it's all anyone could talk about,
not in the least about the Kazakhs. Jaik, so tell me a little bit about how comfortable you
feel in terms of showing champion versatility, regardless of which type of champion.
Yeah, I mean right now I feel like there's a very big challenge for a lot of the young players to play right now.
And for me that's kind of my comfort zone. I love playing different kind of champs, different kind of young players.
Assassins if I can, like Kha'Zix, Nathiria played the day before as well. So yeah, I just like playing all these different champs.
Do you think there's an evolution in kind of the trust you are given in the team where you said for instance yesterday
you're gonna go for Kha'Zix even though it can be difficult to play and you can be set behind
But do you feel like there's a whole circle of trust right now in the team?
Not just for you, but for everyone to be able to play what they are comfortable with?
Yeah, I think everyone has so much trust in each other.
I feel like when I asked about the classics, everyone was like, yeah, just go for it.
And I was just gonna figure anyways, even if they said no, so no matter what,
I feel like we just start each other and yeah, even if someone else wants to pick something crazy,
like Ana, Yeho, or Kalista, Anon, then we will let them do it, yeah.
How much are you looking forward to the match versus Sku-Mon?
Because he is the guy that we were talking about, 4G2 on the Zahen,
but also just in general playing out of his mind. How do you think that matchup is going to match up?
Yeah, I think he's very strong right now and I think it's going to be a big just jungle matchup today
between me and him and probably the best jungler is going to win today. So yeah, I'm very excited.
I think it's very good. So you have to be very in the zone.
You're going to play boring champs now, right?
No, no more Serrani. Serrani is bad. Never again.
Ever okay. Jankos used to say that as well.
We'll see. But yeah, you're up versus G2 of course. There was that famous quote of you that you were going to end the G2 era.
I think, of course, you've put them down a few times already.
But I wanted to know if you can tell me about, if you look back at the yike from G2,
and the time that has passed, and the evolution that you have gone through, kind of how you have changed,
because now you really are that person for KC, the people that people look up to to win these games.
Yeah, it's a big difference right in G2. I was kind of like the laid-back guy
I was just like listening to my team following my team. They were doing the things
They were very like big veterans Casey
I'm more of the veteran now and I have to be the boy like leader voice and all of that and I feel like I
Got so good at it. No now and that's very nice to me to feel and yeah going to the finals now
I think it's gonna be just very exciting for me to see how well I can do that
Okay, lovely to hear the veteran. I hope you have an amazing best five. Good luck. Thank you very much
It's been a beautiful journey for Yag, honestly, from coming from IRL into joining G2, the whole
tree era that's behind him now, he's back on those carry champions, he found his strength
and confidence Yag again.
That's a Yag that I would be terrified to play again.
Just to get a smile.
That's the kind of smile I would go to war for.
The fact that he has that smile on his face all the time and then he looks
in the most cold blooded classics and just one behind the game completely.
I think this player is so compelling, and I'm so excited for today.
And he said it himself, he was this laid-back guy in G2,
and for me, the most impressive thing about Thiak is not really his religion,
but it's just his evolution as a player, from being this side character,
blossoming into this main character, because last year, when they won in winter,
he was the facilitator for the team, and right now,
he has finally grown into how he said he's the veteran, he's the rookie,
he wants to lead players like this to have amazing performances,
And the way that changed is that the team will play through him.
He has been a powerhouse. He has been an engine for his team.
And they were in this situation a year ago.
Casey hoisting their very first LEC trophy.
They lost that success completely in the rest of the year.
When a full rebuild here for the team, it has paid off right off the bat.
They were playing for the long season, but they're here sitting again in finals against G2.
Get it to get that revenge. How different of a team are they this time around?
Will you compare the KC roster from last year into what they're showing us right now?
It's a huge difference. I think especially Fin touched upon this earlier.
It's really about this new evolution of KC. It's not the early game, right?
It's about drafting strong laners. Jyke plays around the lanes very well.
I think Jyke for me as a player, if he has losing lanes, if things start to go bad,
that's when he really retreats into some kind of old bad habits and things start to
look wrong for KC but when they're winning, when they're ahead, that's when they look really dominant.
So that's why I've been in love with these KC drafts recently. I mean, just this game five going
Calista, Renata, it's insane. I mean, I love the way they draft to the series because they realize
they're winning the early game every single game. And you come to game five, usually that's when
teams slow down. That's when you drop the scaling, the jinxes, the FLUs, but they were like,
We're stomping these guys and they give us the Calista Renata and we're gonna dumps to them and they did a soul candidly
Exactly this is where we wanted to see this draft that the patients happen because a lot of time as you said when you go to game five
The game slows down, but not for them. They did the thing where there's one captain of the ship one captain of the ship
There's always one guy happening the draft and it's always been solved right in this game
You have you have the Calista Renata. You have the guy you have the Kha'zix everything is harmonious. There's no
I feel like, when you look at KC and what they've been able to showcase lately, you never know where the aggression is going to come from.
Jyke is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the early game. You can trust Kallis to pull those fights. You can trust the man in the mid lane, Yehu, the one who was supposed to bring that team to a next level, who actually showed a lot and did a lot for this KC roster.
We knew that Busey was going to be good.
We expected that. We knew what he was.
Yehuu was quite unproven and I feel like yesterday he showed why KC put their trust into him.
We know that Jojapune was the only mid laner that kind of challenged the caps in lane last year
and Yehuu just destroyed him yesterday game after game.
He was in full control. Either it was the lane push or it was the solo kill
or there was a roams towards the side lanes.
It felt like Georgia Tune held no candle
to the ye who aggression yesterday.
It hurts you to say it, no.
It was a bit painful, but it is the reality.
I mean, we heard it from Cap's and Sapa's side, right?
He prophesied it, because even before we saw what he
who can do yesterday, I wasn't really a believer.
But Cap said it already from like a week or two ago,
where he's like, this guy, he is the guy
that will punish me in Malay.
This guy will push me in the linear case
to the absolute limit.
Yeah, I mean, as you said, although Cap said it,
And I was surprised that he left JoJo Pune out of that conversation of like the...
Because I asked him, what are the top three best mids that you play against?
And he just said, it's Poby and it's Yehu.
I mean, he didn't say a third. I'm like, where's JoJo?
And we saw it in that game. I mean, JoJo has had great laning phases,
but he has inconsistency and that's exactly what Yehu punished yesterday.
And that's the thing, because I remember we were on this couch with Kaps.
And back then he had a lot of hopes for Yehu.
For me, Yehuu, back in regular season, especially and also in early playoffs, he was the earlier guy, especially in best of wands, you want to look for control, you want to go for something stable.
How much has he evolved since then? What have we seen from Yehuu?
It's hard to say if he's evolved, because like, if we're only seeing best of wands, once he actually needs to watch it, I can't say, but it was the one chapter they kept going for, and now, hopefully, I would love to see game 5 like you guys were saying earlier,
because then we get to see how can he do against caps.
And that's a whole different piece entirely,
because I don't think yesterday in game 5,
Yeh, who really was that relevant,
that was more on the bot lane and the Yike pick.
So I really want to see, because we know he's good on the rise,
the Orianna, the Azir.
How deep does the pool go?
Whoa, so you just said that he wasn't relevant yesterday?
No, so in game 5.
In game 5.
Yeah, but you're just discrediting every single thing
that he did in that series.
He had so many pop-up performances.
We're talking about Charlotte, the chatty pulled that fear although I'm there.
You guys can't agree on anything. One thing that I agree on though is the fact that after catching up for the first time
in the LEC, on stage with Diego, he had a lot of things to say in this interview.
Maybe not understanding everything, but he sent a message to Kat. That's for sure. Let's check it out.
Hello guys. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Today, I'm not nervous and then so exciting. I like this. I like it. Yeah, I like being meshed. Yeah
You're gonna play against caps tomorrow. Do you have a message for caps?
Hey, yes, let's go pony game
Oh
So cute it's not about eloquence. It's about cuteness
Five games is what he wants is what we want. Are we getting them?
Caps loves it. I mean like
That was five years as well
So I would love to see five games see these champions pull pushed and see what he got
Cap songs 5 years but I feel like we always talk about caps. I feel like this region has always been about caps for like
Six years
Of Europe here's the guy who made it not anymore twice. He's not anymore not anymore not anymore
Hear me out. I'm hearing I think that is the first time what I'm looking at
Who is the best player in Europe or in the West and I don't know if it's caps anymore because
Basenjo, Buzjo, Buzjo is in this region and this guy, pound for pound, I think he's the
best player in the league because the difference between caps and the next best middle laner
is so much smaller than between Buzjo and everyone else. Did you see this guy? He's
Alistar, he's walking in, he's sidestepping things, thanks, he should just go in but
this guy is just min-maxing every single play. He's just follow damn good.
Hold on, I'm gonna let you guys go in a couple seconds guys, in shots, votes please
because I don't even know what the analysts are on right now.
Who is the best player in Europe right now with what we've seen in playoffs so far?
Caps or Buzio? Go.
I for one cannot believe I'm surrounded by two people who believe
an American is the best player in our league. Caps runs this region.
The magic he makes on silence, there's no one that has Iron Impact on me.
Buzio is playing support.
No, no, no.
Support doesn't have that high impact. If we're talking about highest impact pound for pound
You know you're always gonna bet on caps 10 10 10 10, okay?
Bruce Joe makes a Nami look broken bro. He hits bubbles like there's no tomorrow. You look in Nami
You're not expected that land. Oh, yes, that was bad like three out of four games
Bumble the captain's landed
Triple-bubble if you think now no
No, no, no.
Stronger champions, while having less impact than Buzio.
He plays a stronger role.
Champion strength is relative to the player you're playing against.
Fin, Fin, Fin.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Three shaft is completely by three shafts.
Suffers from main character syndrome when the whole team plays for you.
Of course you're gonna look good, look good.
But you know there's sometimes there's just bad movies
who the supporting character wins an Oscar.
And for me that's Buzio.
Supporting actor best supporting actor in the game that we're gonna have today in the five games that we could see on stage
Who do we think is gonna be the most impactful between these two players and why people keep on focusing caps?
It's like focusing finger. It doesn't work
I don't feel like we've seen any bot lane having the impact to contain who's you so far so G2 KC
Caps, who's going to be more some backflip?
I said Booth Leo is better than Caps, but I think G2 is going to win 3-1.
And here's why, okay?
G2, they've always been the villains, but today of Spain, they're the heroes of this crowd.
And it is all on the back of not just Caps, but Sku-Mont, the two main characters of this team
that has a beautiful supporting cast as well that you can't forget about.
And that's why it's going to be G2 3-1 against KC.
KC. Are we doing this Jack? Right here? Right now? Okay. I agree with Mr. Specter. I believe it's
going to be a five game series G2, 3, 2. Look at this. This is the goat and this is Caps. Do you see
a difference? There's an LAC trophy looking at them and I think we're going to get five games
but we're going to get five bangers and G2 will come out of top. That's a very cursed goat.
I don't need it. I mean cool drawings guys. Good 3D design. Very great. I don't need any of
of that. I just need busing over here. Carmine Corp will take the series. That's a 3 all
right there. His big circular head is going to take the game because, because...
Shut up, Hedda.
Yike has been an absolute demon. He doesn't give a shit about Skumon and any of that.
So he has big busing over here to roam with him, make plays around the map, unlock Yehuu.
That's all I need to say.
I have 3-2 KC. I just want to see five games. It's just that if I don't get KC,
they're going to take my passport when I come back home.
So, you know what action we can, that's okay.
What do we think is going to come down to you guys?
We've been talking about jungle,
being the place we're going to look at in the early game.
We've said Buzio versus Cavs,
who's going to be the most impactful,
who's the best player in the West right now?
What do we have?
What is what we should keep in mind,
getting into this best of five series today?
Look, I think, like in any game of professional League of Legends,
the three roles that are the main characters
that's going to win the Oscar,
support mid jungle. Can KC contain caps? Because if caps gets to sideline position in the mid to late game,
I know he will make KC run around in circles. So I want to see KC attack caps early game,
bring Boosie up there like you did yesterday against Jordi Brunner. Allow Jaik to interact
with Jaik who's strong landing phase and that is the one avenue where I think they can win.
KC had the stage buff so far. Having the arena against them, what is going to prevail? The
the experience they had on stage?
Or G2 being used to finals?
G2 used to finals, that doesn't really matter.
You know, they've been here already,
they got used to the stage, they shut down
the whole stadium one time.
Who's to say they cannot do it again?
Because even though everyone jumped ship,
those are not real fans, those are M-Koi fans,
big ponies jumping on the first ship they can
to find some semblance of victory.
You know what Otto, these are League of Legends fans
and that's what is uniting us all today.
Us here, you guys in chat
And these fans here in the arena today, it all comes down to this day, five games to prove it all,
and snatched the only ticket to Brazil and first hand.
G2, they've been patiently waiting here all weekend.
It's just another Sunday for them, another chance to reclaim what's theirs, and once again, to do so in Spain.
Casey on the other side have been longing for this moment since Winshow last year.
Looking at other teams, taste the success that was once theirs.
Today is their best chance to seize that moment again
and prove that a man's dream will live, never die.
We're seconds away from the ADC versus the Grand Finals,
so let's check out with the teams one last time.
Sharks, over to you.
Libertad, Boussio, he caps.
Boussio, it's been a great tournament for you overall,
but here is a guy who you didn't manage to beat back
at Worlds have you been thinking about that and are you going to exact your revenge today?
Of course we're going to get revenge, yes.
There's also a big part of KC fans. They're holding down the fort for you. Is there anything you want to say to them?
Yeah, shout out to you guys. You give so much energy.
They absolutely do, but then, Caps, I talked to a lot of fans today. They were Movistar Koi fans, but they said,
Today I'm going to support G2. Can you give them some confidence?
Thank you guys, thank you guys so much. I mean Casey's definitely been looking stronger split, but we we're aiming to go great today, so
Final fighting words for Casey?
That's the block. That's the block. It's all so cordial. That's wonderful as well
And con estas palabras de capsa ahora por fin estamos listo para dar un gran bienvenida a nuestros finalistas con Volk y Veado
Representing Europa in the first stand, damas y caballeros.
Vamos con el primer equipo.
Vienen de cargarse a dos pesos pesados jugar en este estadio.
Les hace grandes y hoy se quieren cargar al boss final.
Hace justo un año fueron campeones y hoy lo quieren volver a repetir.
strong applause for Carmine Gull!
It doesn't matter who gets up in front,
whoever it is, I'm sure you're the only one who can win!
No tiene hueco en casa para otra copa más en la jungla.
Yes!
Look to the sky!
There's a full moon!
The new man is here!
The most loyal of the sand!
The millen!
Jesus!
Win, win, win!
Go, go, go!
Get up to receive the King of Europe!
A big round of applause!
For Hedos Dispo!
and my best feeling that's to me.
I pour a pour for what I love and to the devil in me.
Great man, the first night was me.
It's a little bit, but baton,
look at what you have.
Poca, this is Tura, but still, there's no one
who's at his level in the double.
Better than me!
For many!
The best Cumbia of the league, invades you, steals you, and ends your match in the Cumbia!
Eskimo!
And maybe give it to you straight
When you got your guest on board
You step up to the play
You go on, you go on
Don't be happy as you would have played
Don't say hey
And you know we all know that you keep it straight.
And you're right, you guess the ball.
You just come up to the plate, to the ball, to the ball.
No, you ask me what the plate is.
Hey, you're right, you know the plate.
My son, I'm gonna come up to the plate.
Hey, what's that?
He comes with the triangle, he's the expert in leaving his enemy in panic,
as his port, Laos.
I know we heard all we fought but let me give it to you straight.
When you're back to get the ball, you just never feel a play.
We'll call, we'll call.
No se cansa de ganar.
Es la mente pensante el capitán del barco.
El cerebro del equipo como entrenador.
Dilan Falco.
I got my brothers and my friends standing next to me.
I'm gonna walk with what I love until the end of me
Waiting in the first night of touching me
Because we're breaking is what makes me
It's not best to me
I know we hurt it, we'll be broken
Let me give it to you straight
When you're back, you death will fall
You're getting ready, you're getting ready, you're getting ready, you're getting ready, you're getting ready
I want a lot of noise
It's the first BO5 win ever,
The feeling of walking out on a big stage, it's the feeling you don't get anywhere else in your life.
I'm very happy that we won, because if our winter split ended here, that would be very sad.
This is the momentum you need from the lower bracket to win the whole thing.
Knowing how we were before, we were a bit too used to each other in the beginning of split.
G2 secured themselves another spot in the finals and they looked to take about in Barcelona.
KC's never a team to be underestimated.
The playstyle is very cocky, they will challenge you in every aspect of the game.
Jack, you're starting to stare at me, because the list matches in!
They will always try to scale, shake you and you have to be ready.
Let's go!
Hell, we oiled maybe La Cava, but he's won nothing now!
Yike is the kill!
Casey still get everything!
I don't even feel like it's half of what we will be by the end of the year.
I don't even think we're close to our ceiling.
We don't want to repeat the same mistake we made last year.
This time I want to be ready.
ready. Labroven hands might be the only bot lane that can actually match us. Let's see
how we do it. I'm really excited and I will fight to death again.
Kana goes in again. Kasey must stand for Korean carry. And M-boy didn't stand a chance.
Pete Kana who's looked as one of the better at Top laners. That's nice for me as well
to be able to beat him.
The iron is going down, some of it is down, it's behind!
He's the king of smite!
Skinner's looking very good right now,
and I'm impressed with how thin I'm looking very good as well,
so I think the dragonratch is going to be very important, right?
When things are underlined, we just always deliver,
and that is what makes us different.
It's broken plate! It's broken plate!
It's broken plate!
Hey, kids, let's go party game.
Whoo!
Just keep us going.
As long as we play our game, we'll beat everyone.
have one match up with the
J. C. Fadalone of the
fast. With me, I'm going to
start by doctor and very to
lead you through the L. C.
versus finals where G two are
going to take on KC. And if
you didn't already know that
you've only just tuned into
the stream because we kind of
been talking about it for
the last hour or so. I've
been buying it. What the
hell have you been doing
this whole weekend, but
absolutely insane. Why are
you only joining us now,
but I am so excited to get
into this game. It's a
rematch of what we have
G2 felt like our best team coming out of the regular season now going up against the greatest
team Europe has ever produced.
And with the confasting of the drafts, so let's not waste any time as you know our Rumble
and Azir making their way onto the ban list.
G2 do have first pick, they are on the blue side, similar to what we saw against Koi yesterday
for KC, surprisingly though it's G2 the ban away the Rumble, yesterday it felt
like it was a red spot or a second pick I should say, perma-ban, but this time
around, it is going to be Chichuru moving that. So what is that first pick Orianna is available?
We know that Caps is a master of the champion and it looks like that's going to be their priority.
He's been having a well of a time on it over the last few months over his career of course,
but recently I think he's really risen in form on this champion. It gives you so much pressure
in those team fights as well and we've seen such a dragon focus from both these teams through
playoffs. I was going to say that we have seen yeah who happy to play the things like
the Galio Intuit, the Taliyah Intuit and also Yag take the Jarvan Intuit and that's exactly
What they're going to go towards here immediately locking in that combo, which now makes things incredibly uncomfortable for cats in that mid lane
The question becomes will we see the nocturne will we get that combo coming through from skumond?
Of course, he played a bunch of different chants into the German matchup
But it's kind of what we expect here for game one Mundo also another option
We started to see this around creep both in skumond was the one who brought Mundo to that main stage the international stage itself
looks like may not be the
Atrocks going over instead.
Atrocks obviously still a
flex, can we play top, can we
play it in that jungle ball.
Bard taken away from Boussier
LeBron has had some very good
performance on it, some
shaky performances as well
from time to time, but I
really like taking it out of
the draft this early on in
Phyllis.
Crazy dive composition already
orchestrated by KC here.
Everything going to be
sent in onto that backline
and at least there you do
have the Bard trying to
alleviate some of that
pressure all to yourself to
keep your team away from
team away from whatever this dive is going to be, but I am curious now what KC you want
to try and round this out with in the bottom side of the map. We have seen things like
the Kaiser, Jin in these sort of situations, just to try and fare a little bit better
when it comes to course, at least being able to contribute in those dives.
I mean, Kaiser Nautilus is a combo that I'm immediately thinking about, and I wonder
if G2 will look to do the same thing, and it looks like that Nautilus band is going
to come through, so they have a similar reach to what we're talking about right
right now. It seems that supports are usually what you focus rather than
Eddie carries because Eddie carry the pool is just so deep that banding away
the sport usually has a lot more impact. Fresh pike also things you could be
worried about. Remember Ash Servene is something we've seen Casey bring out as
a response to the bar because you get that extra rain, you get that very
impressive bot lane, you get a lot of pick potential and you'll get a lot
of damage as well. And also Boussio's been happy to take the opposite side of
the Nico barred matchup because I thought barred come out as an answer to
foot. Who's you happy to just play the Niko and try and win it through that lane phase which they
did relatively successfully in the past. I'd love to see those the Sion Band. I thought it'd be a
NAR because I mean Broken Blade, last time we saw Broken Blade and Kana face up in that upper
practice it was Broken Blade getting the better of Kana in some of these matches. Now there were
more tank orientated but a NAR here for Broken Blade could be huge. Yeah BB in those matches
brought out the rumble brought out the Gwen was kind of meeting
Kana at that aggressive level. I like the Niko call for KC. Gives you a facilitator for the dive as well
and a little bit of disengage if you do need it. We'll see where KC decides to go. It's like
we had 80 carry here on their fourth pick. Leave that support for last. Yes you know that there's
a bar but having the completeness of the team composition does allow you a little bit more
flexibility on support. At the moment though, I'm looking towards the Nami.
Looking like a Nami Korki, a driving true pot lane. We've seen multiple times this split.
Gives you a lot of power in the two versus two. The Korki also does have very good scaling.
For long time league fans, you may think the Korki is the type of champ that falls off.
Well, that's not really true, especially when you pair it up alongside the Nami.
The cheeky Draven Hover comes through from Hans Summer. I mean, for anyone that's followed
his career, you'll know that this is what he was originally known for. And when he brought
What about on these big stages he had strong performances, but we haven't seen it from him for a while and looks like we're not going to see it today as the Caitlyn giving them a lot of range and the Shen jungle.
Guys, I've been a Reddit thread about Shen jungle. The Shen jungle clear.
I don't know. We don't know. We don't know. It's the flexibility of Shen plus eight rocks. I specifically remember reading. I wish I could credit the Reddit thread creator. I don't know who it was.
It's a tweet of it, and I can't remember if that was a streamer or something.
I don't remember either. Production will hopefully find out for us, but there was, I read a Reddit thread that talked about how Shen jungle is super fast clear, it's very cheap to build, he spikes really hard on two items, and it's very effective in solo queue specifically.
Right now it's hovering in the top lane. We'll see if the swap does come through
I'd love it if we do but broken life is known for these unique picks and unique answers
Into these top lane champions and it seems that the Shen is going to come through as an answer to KC's comp
In my head it feels like an answer into you know the passive damage that the investor has you use that spirits refuge
So much of the messes damages linked to
use an ability then get the auto attack off so Shen will be able to move away from that
but also provide a ton of protection on that backline as well so it looks like it's going to be going topside
and I'm excited for the Shen jungle but all right yeah we are gonna get a Shen coming back I imagine
he's still gonna follow a similar build path though going to that early proto plasm belt basically
just a lot of value stats yes yes yes yes and we also have to talk we didn't mention it Lucian
Lucian in the LEC is currently on a 13 game lose streak.
Uh, it's not great.
It's not great.
If it's the unlucky number in a lose streak, how does that work though?
Does that mean it then flips and becomes good?
We're going to find out today.
Let's see if they can flip it over into a win streak here.
Lucian Nami so often used by teams to get that extra damage.
Lucian's passive works really well with the Tidecall as blessing
and then you have the healing on top of that from the Nami.
And G2 gonna take on KC here in Spain as we make our way onto Summer's Drift.
G2 in their 10th final in a row. KC, the last one was back in Windsor last year,
but they were the team that took down G2 then, a 3-0 sweep.
Can they refine that form today?
And it was the game where Jaik was able to stop what had been
such a long winning streak for G2.
G2, they've won six in a row, but the Aikus have to take him down his former team, push himself to seven.
The longest win streak of any player ever in the LEC.
And now, one year later, he finds himself opposite his old squad once more.
And Taps can match him, sir.
Taps?
Oh, he can't match him today.
He has six!
And that was the most he ever got, but he's not on six in a row right now, so...
He's not twice, man.
He has done it twice.
When they had a little moment, the Bob looking at the damage onto Calistin, Buccio,
They're working as well alongside the Pintober Peacemaker.
So, Nushen Nami, very powerful bot lane, does get heavily outranged.
And Hanselma and Lubrov went into lane and said,
we're not going to start when the minions get here.
We're going to start straight away.
They go for the two versus two trades.
They are pulling this KC bot lane.
And a flash from the police had to get out of that cosmic bindage.
This is rough for the KC bot lane right now.
It's also the fact that this bot lane of Lucian Army
comes online a lot more around that level three mark.
In fact, we've even seen Lucian standing with the W
in some of these early trades, at least over in the LPL,
because it does give you some more of that passive damage.
It's much easier to try and get
some of that early matching of the TPS
from some of these more ranged matchups.
But already forcing that recess,
it's a great start for G2's bottom lane.
And when lane sorts were a thing,
Lucian Army would go top to level three
then come down towards the bottom lane to try and match.
Yeah, he was able to just a bunch away from Katz in the mid lane.
On this Ariana, currently undefeated in 2026.
I mean, Katz is monstrous on this Ariana.
He is super aggressive in the lane.
He's always finding ways to trade with his opponent.
And often when we see it, he gets a lot of jungle and support assistance
to enable him to play this hyper-aggressive style.
And that's why I actually really like this Shen to pair alongside us.
because one of the big faults of Orianna is how vulnerable you are in a side lane,
and especially against Yehue and Yike and even Kanna,
there's a ton of ways to close that gap on to Orianna if she's left vulnerable on a side.
Shen Nuno finds all that, he just pops the ult on caps,
if you ever have that overdive, and maybe G2 even have a window to turn that play around.
I mean, we haven't had much of a chance to look at that top lane matchup.
We had a commenter say that Shen is really good into Ambeda.
I'm just going to blanket trust them because I have no knowledge of this matchup.
It's easy, isn't it, buddy? One person said that we trust them.
Yeah, absolutely. Trust in the chat. But early on, Broken Blade was able to get good push.
I can easily see how a Shen can win out trades against an early skirmisher,
especially one with very long cooldowns. And Broken Blade's got the wave in a really nice
spot right now. Kana has to invest the ward to be cautious of any early jungle intervention,
but both junglers having completed their full clear, gone both crabs, going back to base,
and are spending that early gold.
And I think the fact that you have again,
it's the protection for me, but also for Bot lane,
and Hans and the Brog have already set themselves up nicely.
So I think for G2, that's where I put my focuses on the bottom side.
And especially because yesterday, Kalist was questionable.
He didn't have the best of times, and I think this is where my eyes are going to be watching to see
how the KC bottom laner steps up, because this was such a hyped addition to the LEC,
but on the main stage he just wasn't quite able to perform.
I mean in game five I think he really did step up though.
That is true.
And the bot lane 2 vs 2 they were absolutely performing spectacularly
because we asked that same question right in that game five
we needed to see that bot lane perform
and like I remember their 2v2 dive with the Kalista and the Renata
and like it was so beautifully executed
but that's also why we talked so much about Boussio
and how he's such an important part of this KC roster.
His ability to find Rhoames and his impact on the map
map is something that I think so few supports in the league have been able to
to match. LeBron has had some strong performances and we're seeing it today, it's
oh, take the talent out of here.
Chess down, needs to use the heel, but Khalees can chase him down and Khalees gets first blood.
Caster, nofkirst right there, I mean, immediately KC make it happen and one of the big
points we had over this weekend was Buccio on this mami, constantly hitting
double bubbles and now Hansama must be in trouble.
Checkdown has to dodge away from the bubble, still has the barrier and the flash and won't have to invest either of them.
Callister's barrier himself, meanwhile, Humanda is in the area, but just covering more than anything.
Ansama steadfast in the face of 2, doesn't burn any of his summoner spells, will pop the pot.
But wow, KC's bottom lane, after what was a very rough start, they had already been forced to flash from Callist.
The barrier was burned early, the heal was burned early, but now finding a 2v2 kill just like that.
I mean all of the advantage that you two had built disappears in an instant.
I think it was a good call to back away though, obviously there was the barrier there, but also Shenin just ticked over to level 6 as well.
So now the ability to punish on this bottom side becomes way more difficult and I was kind of...
Why don't I start doing a lot of that work there from Broken Blade.
At Q you can do a huge amount of damage in the early game.
You know what I'm saying, Khalid's getting caught a little bit here on Sunner looking for the damages.
comes in for the gang. Aquaprizin, magical journey forward. Kalyst, don't know. Flash,
he's a dancer. Well, yeah. With a darting blade, he finds the suspect. Scumond on the
map to start things off for G2. This was one of the guys that we had on the jungler,
and Scumond performing already. That magical journey placement was excellent from LeBrov,
because it just so easily closed the gap between Scumond and Kalyst. He still
didn't have his flash up because remember earlier LeBron traded his flash for the Lucian flash and there was no
I left for him to go so did you pay them into a good of a skirmish LeBron?
He's already died in this lane. So why would Calisk feel afraid? Hans-Sama chipping away at his HP gets him very low
The bubble provides some space to then skew on I mean he has more than enough damage and thanks that magical journey
Closes the gap and secures himself a kill
We did a yike push towards the blue buff side of the case of G2 with the time that he had.
I think he stole away the blue and now he's going back to his red, skew him a little bit
later there. Just ticked over to level six. But basically on his even between the two
teams seven minutes into this game as it's a slight lead and mid bot and support, a
slight lead in top four G2.
Rockwell are getting some good trades here, Karna constantly taking these trades where you can use the Q2 Pole or Scalpol, but essentially the passive through Karna which is getting the slows, enabling broken bait to get all three auto attacks on that twilight assault.
So it's all done.
Now, at least they're still in those pressure.
Activism is going to land on the Han's Summit,
and that will stop the play Han's Summit.
Already level 6, Directive and Ace in the hole.
Always a deadly thing for the KC bot lane,
so they back away before they've lost too much health.
They're looking to tension up the dragons thus far,
which I expected to see a little bit more.
Especially because Han's Ana has at least got decent push
onto the bottom lane.
Obviously LeBron, losing his life early, didn't help.
But I expect them to try and put some pressure
pressure over towards this objective now in the coming moments you know given that
I'm 33 I'm not hip and up to date with young trends okay but my Instagram reels
do recommend me a lot of Caitlyn tech and one of the things you can do and the
thing is I'm gonna mess this up but there's young memes yeah this is going
into all the farming, the free messaging, the logging area.
I'm talking about what the youth are seeing,
which is Caitlyn tech.
Oh, I'm in a bit of danger.
But the way I've been told, right,
the way you have to treat traps
is it's a CC in the future.
So you're basically not going to use it immediately.
You've got to be like in anticipation
or trying to trap someone in a certain direction.
Because the way I've always seen Caitlyn traps
is kind of zone control tools.
But when you're fighting someone,
often the better place to actually just constantly be putting traps behind them in the midst of the fight in between
weaving your auto attacks to then make it more awkward for them to fight.
Is the ulti gets dropped?
I've got the execution in here, but I'm going to be flashing away from here as I enter the stream, yeah?
It does still have the taunt, so I just trade back onto Kana, goes in with the taunt, Kana flashes wisely away from it,
and the Wings of War will find their first victim of the game, yeah? Who on the board?
It didn't look like it anywhere to go, so Broken Blade tries to make the play, gets the flash from Kana,
but gives his life G2 trying to respond with a dragon yike in the area though.
Yike goes in with Cataclysm, locks himself in, cats here as well,
good luck with the shot, great title ways to disengage.
Yeah, who has joined the fight? Tepid fate flashed by Yike.
The drake was secured by Skumon.
A valiant attempt from Yike. Skumon though does secure the smite,
learning from the last time that they went up against each other.
But the idea is clean, ulti in, guarantee you get into the fight,
then use the EQ to get out. G2 invested a lot though to try and punish him,
forcing him ultimately to flash away so he ends up losing his flash a trade of flashes in the top side of the map
Casey holding on to a small gold lead for now
And it's right now largely sitting on the air who thinks the kill he's able to find a top lane
I like the idea for Casey though try and punish the Shen picking that top side by focusing Shen
because obviously he can use that ultimate to get anywhere else so keeping that play
Getting kind into position where he could be a bit more comfortable
And especially in shens have to lose out effectively on the side lane
Then he becomes way less threatening because anytime he disappears, but then you just take the tower instead
I also just love seeing yeah who being proactive on the map
I think he has been super impressive in playoffs and I think that yesterday his rise performance was really amazing the way that he was
Impacting the map a lot. We saw the Gallio come out as well
And I would say a lot of Gallio players don't use that alt to try and force tanks early on and already having impact on the map
something that you'd love to see especially against a mid laner like Katzu, historically
has been known for his ability to roam and impact the map.
I would say we didn't title that lower third, that was done all by our behind the scenes team.
I don't lie, I would have done that.
I think it's a great idea.
I even heard some of the crowd do it.
That's true, that's true, the case he found out in force as the Bob and Han Solo
try and push Kalist back in this bottom side of the map.
Kalist has already completed his essence river, whereas Han Solo went for the Zerka
the griefs first in a serrated duck,
looking for a little bit more attack speed
for the extra autos in lane.
So yeah, you could just reset,
bar this under sky,
and it's now kind of moving down
towards this bottom side of the map.
But the way he's parking,
I think they're looking for a play
as this wave starts to crash in,
onto LeBron,
does have a warded try brush to spot him out.
Rather going in with the answer broken by,
who only has a Tia Matt and a giant belt.
BB needs to get out of here,
but no flash on him.
Connor has the public execution from the chase,
doesn't need it.
Karna just orders him to death!
I mean, so far the counter-pick is not going the way that you two want.
Karna with a healthy advantage now on the top side is the relentless fight.
That's a bit of a walk away.
Karna coming out of her list, tied at the tsunami as well from the Nami.
Skumon is coming in behind them, he's at the hole in the house.
Double temper fate!
Skumon in with a world-end, a double flash away from KC.
Flag and drag, ace in the hole, the TP and blow.
A magical, a germy out, Skumon needs to get there.
The trap on Kana stops him from going any further with a rather execution just misses by a sliver G2 able to extract themselves.
Credit to Han Sama. His Kailin mechanics in that whole fight were spectacular, but it was not enough.
Casey had the numbers, had the damage and they were able to force the bot lane of G2 back.
G2 came into this first game with overall an aggressive draft. They wanted to get themselves a strong bot side 2 versus 2.
They wanted a winning mid and they had the counter pick in top lane.
But the early game is going the way of KC, and that has been the story of this team so far this weekend.
And I think the fact that you get to now put so much fresh on the bottom side, take these early turret plates,
it's exactly where you want your Lucian to be.
And you have a strong jungler that can facilitate this Lucian on potential mid-plays.
So for G2, it was kind of cooking, but at the moment, it may be overboiling.
Next straight up in a minute 20, few two did secure the first.
KC will be looking to fight around it, a nice one, a half on Calistia, who already completed his first.
On the other side, we are seeing first items out of most players, but rather a little bit short.
There's an Imperial mandate already for Buccio.
And Han's Summer, because he went for those early boots, he's a little bit shy as well.
Does have himself an Elixir of Skill, so he can get that extra skill point.
Doesn't matter too much right now, I guess, but it's still a nice little bonus.
bonus caps looking for yeah who in yike
Until that dragon, I think that's my case he's down to roam down towards his bottom side
We're hoping they can maybe make a pick on the brav it doesn't have as fast available
But everyone nicely back in the way of g2 aware of that timing
Broken they can trade it on again
Yeah, it's not the best at the moment the more I see these trades more. I'm starting to think like okay
Help me understand how the counterpick works because of course the spirits refuge mitigates those auto attacks right of course that makes a ton of sense
But I'm better a lot of her damage doesn't come through from her auto attacks once she gets the eclipse
I really start to feel that she starts winning out on these trades
We're yet to see broken blades first ulty of the game. He doesn't have a huge amount of armor early on is yeah
Who all right by cancer block the justice punch skew on the chasers world the chains won't get the pullback
And G2 get the kill in the enemy mid, just before the dragon yikes and the dragon dragon can't land it.
The enemy's down to nine and Kat's gonna have a partner in front in the middle of the cataclysm.
Kat's dying forward and he's really tormented. A good tetrafate of Lucio.
Stop Kat's getting anywhere near the action!
And G2 clean up in mid.
I mean G2, when the chicks are down, when you need to make a play,
the place you have to look is in the middle lane.
Caps flashes in front of Yehu to stop him from getting away.
On Orianna, he acts as a body blocker to prevent Yehu from escaping.
What a flash to set up the play for Caps.
And on TikTok, the kids are talking about putting the shockwave in the future
to catch the Galio when he flashes.
Still a play by Caps, but even on the follow-up here,
Buzio denied thanks for the bronze barric.
Yike tries to set up, but this is what we were talking about
With that shen protecting the Orianna when she's most vulnerable,
Kana can do nothing, and KC gives so much gold to G2.
And we didn't talk about it, but Le Prove connecting that ulti on to Boussier as well,
buying time for the bot lane to rotate up and then get that pick on to him as well.
A quick gold swing just like that G2,
find themselves with a small gold lead for now, but most importantly the second drake of the game.
We're going to have a mountain
sole G2 can look to get towards that in about four minutes time. There's a rift held up towards that topside.
A little bit of vision, 4KC towards the blue boss of G2, allowing him to swap Skumon on his path.
Skumon continuing to pop off here in 2026 in Klaus. Specifically, he is having an absolute whale of a time.
Please debate to match this topside play.
Yike tried to hide in the bush, doesn't realize he's on vision.
Skuman has swept.
They're trying to make a play towards caps.
But once more, Skuman's reading this.
And the box on his way is going to have the temperate.
Yike flagging drag out Skuman with the world.
And the public execution in the corner is made by two.
And Anja may have to dash away.
A temperate will lock Carter up.
The minion wades out here to tank for a second.
Kanna tries to blast away at the slows from the block.
The meeps doing their work.
The charm and the charms in the end, Kana will escape with a TP coming out of Yehu.
Capsa's Shockwave found nothing, which actually led Kana to get away.
Busey-O thinks he can make the play happen though.
Tired away, spacey up right in the grog.
Have a match with Jani, he's caught in the middle of it.
Still can take it a second time, no chase coming from the rest of KC.
Busey-O played that really well, but there was just a fall from KC.
Felt like the Yehu wasn't really ready to pounce on that play,
But at the end of the day, they keep Kana alive.
They're able to get a couple of tower plates,
but it is G2 that continue to extend the gold lead.
We've had a thousand ahead right now.
Skimo on 1.3 ahead of himself.
Fusio and Kalis do have a small lead on that potside.
Kalis now finishing up the rapid fire cannon
as a cloth armor as well in his inventory.
Haven't upgraded his boots just sitting on the typical clothy ones.
I can't remember what they call it.
There is cloth boots.
Brown bags.
Brown bags of booting them.
The level ones.
Unupgraded.
So likely going towards the plate it's still counts.
I know that name.
I think it's cloth boots.
Sure?
Yeah.
I know the slightly magical ones.
Slightly magical footwear, you know?
That's the most important thing for us
to do on this one right now.
You actually blanked my mind.
I was sitting there being like, wait,
now I've completely forgotten the name of boots.
I can't remember.
It's called a boots.
It's sitting on the tier one boots.
in my head I'm afraid medic. Harold is alive and it's g2 that have full control over the top side
brook and blade playing on that weak side of the map ready to ult in should a fight take place but
with yike on the bottom side I don't really expect much from KC. I really love the way g2 from playing
with their vision though. We have that like ward in the third brush on top lane which spotted
out yike trying to make the play out to ariana. They have wards now in that bottom side to
spot out again where yike is going to make plays. It feels like g2 are kind of preemptively going
through. What's the rundown? What is KC capable of doing if we're going for this play and making sure
they already have boards in there to make sure it doesn't happen? Oh, yeah, almost. All the way
that rep up with the flag. We'll be able to get it though. Tower going to drop on the bot side.
They're kind of still winning out in the 1v1, but Ferenc Blade has shown the merits of this
pick when it comes to team fights. The ability to heal his carries as and when required.
But that tower going down doesn't mean that KC have equalized the gold pretty much. 400 of the
the difference is a long sword doesn't really matter. What you're looking at now is where
are the differences between individual lanes. Kalista and Buxia have about a 500 lead themselves
where Skuemond is about a thousand ahead and counts about 300.
I think it's also the way that you want to play these. Matchups makes it a little bit
easier for G2. Like whenever I see Aleutian and Nami I'm like okay you want to be trying
to play around attention moments on this mid lane especially with Yike where you look
for the flaggy drag cataclysm culling on the top. Murder with everyone is on mid lane.
That's really difficult against the Caitlyn because her wave clear is good, she plays
in such a long range, and you also have LeBron who's just able to help. But if you put all
that focus on mids, well then Orianna gets to do her thing. But even if you focus on
Orianna and that side lane, you know how broken blade to cover. It feels like you
kind of got this follow through of whatever game plan KC tried to enact. It doesn't
quite work out for them. So I think that's why we've seen KC all in on trying to
he'll broken blade on side lane because he's the only real target they have and at the moment still has a titanic
Hydra not the tankiest they can continue to make plays but we're dragging now how do KC try to fight this
I'm in a plan KC. I'm honestly not too worried about the game state. Scumon is the biggest threat
Checking if they have anti-healing or that's exactly what I wanted to get to
Calist with his two completed items with Buseo at his back is able to do a lot of damage
remember that healing reduction coming through from Buccio. So G2 are just saying you know what,
we'll prioritize pushing through mid wave. I think they're going to abandon the dragon in
order to get control over this tower and then push this onto the next one as well.
They're going to charge it in, yeah, who look for a flank of his own, but the charge will still
land and a couple more plates over to G2. The drake secured to KC, but the gold lead
extends by about a thousand. Magical journey out for the Vox, titleway coming out from Buccio,
to get himself across the wall and G2 disengaged wisely.
KC was still in a corner to try and come across.
So G2 able to walk away despite the ultimate investment coming through from KC.
And even Brokeblade getting to push in on the bottom side.
So I think for G2, given a dragon across, you'll take all that extra gold.
You also have Top-Bright pushing in.
So Caps can go up here.
You have to invest the TP if you want to defend the tower for KC.
Yahoo uses his TP, Caps still holds onto his, looking for that next play.
next one. I think Casey's pretty, well, I think overall they're pretty happy with how
that sequence went. Yes, they did take a lot of damage on that mid-tier two, but they
stopped the dragon standing and now if G2 get that other dragon, if they need to buy more
time and they feel they're not strong enough, they at least have the time that they can
play with. Of course, we're at the point in the game where now a single teamfight
loss could result in a Baron. Early on, Baron is a lot squishier than compared to
what we used to see in the last year and while our first band doesn't normally
win you the game it puts you in that game winning position ready for that next
dragon and this is also where Caitlyn shines her ability to zone control the
fact that she can make it so much harder for the enemy to approach these
neutral objectives especially if you're on that objective first it's
something that G2 is going to look to leverage.
KC at the bottom and top landing, Booyah who's down to the bottom line to try and make a play
main stage is all in our mid so you can see how safe G2 are trying to play
for the next couple of moments into the spot where Yahoo is on the mark.
Yeah, it's just have to be a little bit more defensive.
There's always a threat of the Himura's entrance, the Tipee coming in from Kana.
The ability to delete someone before reinforcements can arrive even through the San United Shield.
So G2 just back away in case he's played, doesn't really materialize into anything.
Katsura extending his lead to about a thousand.
The landing phase, well played by Yahoo, but since then Kats has been left in the side lane effectively by G2
to pick up that extra gold from CS and from the towers.
Now G2 looking to step into the KC jungle.
They're not going to find much there, like just sitting on the walls right now.
West is there as well.
Skumon might be like, look, Kalista's going to face-check again!
Kalista's going to face-check again!
The tempo fake him out, the X-Ten hold will be blocked by the Y-Ten.
Kalista is able to get out.
Kostim is barry over this time, he survives.
He was not expecting to see any drops in that small brush.
She thought of it in jungle right next to him, he would be safe and admittedly, he was,
Jyke able to escort him to safety, but he did burn the barrier.
Siumond didn't lose a decent chunk of his HP as well and
Kallist continues to get stronger as Yehu now isolated in top lane.
Siumond's already up towards the top side, looking for the infernal chance, will land them onto Yehu.
There's the pullback taunt out from Yehu though, should be able to survive this.
More chip damage than anything from G2.
KCR pushing through mid, but Kallist needs to go back to base.
Yeah, who's a very tanky on the side lane, which means it's gonna take a while to get through him.
And he can clear these waves very effectively.
I'll put that GGT deck behind us.
Riverblade looks for the fort, Katz is here.
Command-Protect, Shockwave, and Karna!
Shockwave through his brain, as he didn't expect to be ganked by Katz.
Does have the Flash, but does he have a way to get out of this situation?
A little bit about go gaming, perhaps.
Take the small break, BB and Katz that will collapse.
And Karna, even with the shields, shouldn't be able to get away.
And then the TP advantage we were talking about earlier.
G2 just been playing the map safe incredibly well.
KC do get the tower on topside in response, but again as you highlight a medic, it's just how quickly they've been roaming around, understanding where KC can make plays, and just constantly trading across the map.
Yakuza would steal away the blue as well, he'll be happy with that, broken blade will get a tower in response.
Gold lead stays about that 2 to 2.5 pay mark across the whole team. It's an item
You have to look at mid jungle or G2. That's where the large leads are
Cap's built the blighting jewel alongside his torch and his zonyas
And looks like it's gonna be a crypt bloom for him in terms of that penetration item
45 seconds until the dragon though, and I'm looking at Han's armor
Should be able to reset after this wave, pick up his rapid fire cannon
Match that third item that's already been picked up by Kalist
And for Caps, I mean, he's snowballed all hell.
Three kills are three items, I should say, all ready for him.
All the three kills, yeah.
And I think for KC, again, trying to establish yourselves
like this early in river, fish for a picker,
fish for some sort of all in is what you need to do
as G2 go for those resets.
Let's see how things pan out right now.
KC have pretty good setup.
Kalista is melting through these midwaves
as the recall comes through.
there's that extra item you're talking about. Shen also very deep push in the top lane.
Having to be matched by Yeh who now has his teleport available, he'd love to get that level 16.
Oh, perhaps chumped out massively, the Kaling does connect, the cat is low HP, has to fluctuate and put the execution yank trying to get on towards the back left side away.
Force his cat up towards the top side, yank comes in with a cataclysm, a tempered bait, will stop time for his second hero's entrance as well.
A double taunt isn't enough to take down Skewer, it doesn't seem to be!
Schumann survived through it with the help of Stanginitis from his brother Phoebe!
He's caught out with the act of prison of Puccio!
Eventually, he finds a kill for Casey!
Callis sets up that play for Casey.
This is what you NEED to be doing on a Lucian.
Prior to the fight even starting, find that chunk onto any member, really.
But he finds it onto Orianna, onto Caps.
Look at this! Dash is in as the full support of Puccio.
Takes him down to about 30% HP, and this is the go signal for Casey.
And then the ult from Buzio ends up zoning Kaps away, which means they can hyper focus on skew month.
And the damage doesn't come through initially, thanks to an ult from L'Urbano to Kalith,
but as soon as that's gone, it's G2 trying desperately to hold on to any semblance of patrol.
It's broken blade man deep.
Yeah, broken blade, it seems like he was trying to set up for a play for Kaps.
But Kaps just couldn't quite get in range for a good shockwave.
So that shockwave really doesn't do that much damage.
Casey navigate the fight and they get themselves another dragon.
It is G2 that still hold on to the gold lead, but we're seeing the strength of Lucian.
Perhaps this could be the day that that loose streak finally ends,
but there's still a lot of work that Casey needs to do in order to find this game one way.
Not to be a support apologist, but we're seeing the strength of Buccio.
Tiznami is sublime.
The tidal wave initially took lock-hats out of the bottom side of the fight.
Great ebb and flows. The Aquapism at the end just clipping the heels of Broken Blade to finalize that kill.
This guy is on another level right now. LeBov did a good job as well with the Tempid Fate.
Catching on to Kalista, stopping the initial burst of damage, but this is what can happen.
Tempid Fate goes wide, the Culling lands, and now LeBov is forced to wait on Summon Sennlust.
Can't get it! Will fall for it!
Now who here with the TP in from BB? No standing eye to call him.
The Torc is going to land on two, he's doomed on death.
Double title, Wave of Drossel, a knockup, and Skimo needs to get out.
Wild Ender Pop can't have flashed away from the Infernal Chains.
And in the end of 1v1 it's all she wrote.
Casey needed to try and take that flight because Q-Mons they stand in their dream. They went down
It might have been enough for G2 thought they could have taken a flight at that bar and
But with Casey putting enough hurt onto them they will back away
I think Casey is just a bit too trigger happy
Like Callister already done the work that they needed to do after finding a trade like that
G2's forced to retreat you have numbers advantage
You can use that time to get the vision that you want to get the control or the space or whatever
It is that you want to do but instead because they committed to the fight
Yike that went way too deep and it ends up being a trade one-for-one where KC don't really get much off the back of it
The way in which Kallis is playing right now is exactly what you need to be doing on Lucian
But Yike had already lost so much heat to the back of us while so much of Skimon that he ended up throwing away his life
And it ended up being a one-for-one
I'm still holding on to the flash and the barrier from that play
Kallis still has his flash
But only he and Buccio have them on the side of KC where as you look at G2
They have skeumond alongside but not on the drop so two flashes a piece for these two teams down an objective for them both
But it looks like now the team really wants to pull the trigger on that right now in a vision control for G2 towards the top side
They see have dained that it is broken blade who will be matched by Yahoo
It seems as Kana is up towards that top side doesn't have TP right now
Which makes sense as yeah who's is about to come off CD. He's passed up through mid
because the old scales are for AP.
Yes, so they're more shielding them.
There's the logic behind it.
I do not think us in the middle casting of finals
are the people that should extrapolate all of that logic.
Yeah, we do have two top laners on the analyst.
That's the most probably explained it for us.
One of them could run over here.
But for now, we have a dust condor and shit.
We'll see how impact for laners are being.
Dragon in a minute and 17 seconds.
For now, G2 hold the gold lead.
a lot of that is sitting up to Scumon. He's terrifying. And that's about the undefeated Orianna
versus the unwinnable Lucian. That's a pretty funny comparison. Kalisto, he's level 15, he's
looking very strong. That Infinity Edge, very close to being completed. The question for
me is can he finish it ahead of this dragon fight? He is fishing for as much farm as
he can get his hands on, but there's nothing for him to take. There's not even any
Jungle can sing the grad award more gold is more gold that is true very out
there we are there's the LD on our finish round summer so he's got his
fourth item ahead of this fight you have to be so careful is Casey trying to
take this though because kind of doesn't have the TP he's now walking
down from that toppling broken break enjoying it at any time with a
stanchion at a level 16 thank you know it as well give so much the bundle
pipes now completed on towards broken bait as well very supportive bill here
of Scott at New Year's, he's back piping from sunrise to sunset and there's a titanic
hydro in there somehow as well as we see the temperate connecting, yeah Caps the GA will
flash away, Rokinbae trying to get on towards that backline, taunt into taunt as Rokinbae pulls
GA who away from the rest of the team, Caps trying to keep him away himself as well.
That is a nice headshot that comes through from Ansar, G2 are winning the war of attrition,
and they are chipping away at Casey's HV.
They're healing for Busey. It's good, but
G2 have position on the objective, so now these
Caitlyn trucks are doing some serious work.
Casey, I think they're going to have to abandon this, but they're TPing in.
Yeah, who's TPing towards the bottom side.
Canna looking for that public executing.
Yikes, they're looking to get in with the Cannecks and go
with the public execution on the back line.
There's only a little bit to the cross.
Here's Entrance as well to separate the team.
Caskill's on the rampage as Busey on the call.
It's the court.
Sumeon gashing across the wall here to chase down the Nami.
Caskill's a self-watching opponent
and the rest of G2 try to come through his A,
I can't get there quickly enough. It doesn't matter.
They'll sacrifice Katz for the rest of KC.
Yikes, that Guardian Angel.
It's more like a devil on your shoulder.
And G2 wipes away Karman Corp.
Skumon and Katz find the combo onto the back line.
The flash from Skumon set up for the Shockwave,
and it's reminiscent of what we saw
at the World Championship last year.
Beautiful play from the duo.
Beautiful teamfight from G2, and while they lose the dragon, they'll secure the first Baron of this final.
Three dragons to KC, as you say, the Baron, and this fight starts off where it looks decent,
but Handsome doesn't get hit by the public execution, Kalisco is incredibly low,
Suma crashes forward with the Orianna ult onto the back crying of KC,
and at this stage, KC just don't have enough damage in the tank.
They get one, but they die where they just stole the dragon.
I mean, once you take the Lucian out of the fight, so much of the damage simply disappears.
Of course, Kana is there to help him out, but that Shockwave combo from Caps and Skiumond,
they make the play happen, and now look at the gold difference.
Before it was only 2K, 6.4, the gold lead now.
G2 looking monstrous here in this first game as they look to try and close things out.
There's still three tier 2s remaining for them to crack through.
Wouldn't be surprised if when we end this baron power play.
Unless KC find a miracle fight, we're looking at 9k quite easily as G2 will begin to push through the topside.
Broken blade, catching mid, good push from Kalista and Buccio down towards bot though, KC trying to get something out of this.
That tower is already taking low, so they should be able to trade tower for tower. They use something to try to get back for their nexus.
Caps is gonna respond. Caps is there. Yikes on the bottom side of the map as well.
Tony palping down towards it. Caps trying to clear the wave in time.
The shockwave to pull back a list. The Cullin coming out. Caps made him sacrifice himself for this again.
Has the Zonius, has the Statenite, it has the Shooting!
And the tower remains inhibited towards the topside as G2.
Look at the damn big fake, McCartway landing. Caps now got a TP into the fight,
which is only kind of hit and defend. Yeah, who's there to try and monster them up.
But G2 may have pulled the rope, but no, Caps gets the kill onto Yikes.
It was Phoebe who tp'd, and Casey who battled.
You're left here but only to do a stand and watch.
He's haunted by Phoebe.
The top father is here to make some for Casey.
Game one goes to Casey.
The mob play from G2 was unbeatable for Casey.
Constantly putting pressure.
Constantly keeping the vulnerable members alive.
What a showing in game one
For me it just felt like that when caps needed to deliver as you did just that
That 80 carry was getting so scary
But at the end of the day they were in the shutdown call is the lucian loose freak continues and caps holds on to his undefeated record
Incredible stuff all round by G2
We had a bit of a mess as well with the broken blade build we got handed over the shots to find out what the hell was going on in that
inventory.
It's broken blade, broken blade, how was that first game?
It was fun, it was very fun, it was a banger game today.
What about the Shen, how long has that been in your back pocket?
You know, we call it the Frankenstein Shen Builds.
You know I just buy it like some random stuff and deal a lot of damage.
You know who X-Feed to us, by any chance?
Yes, I, uh, Vika, Vika, yeah.
Love it, so, uh, yeah, great first game, a few more to go.
Do we have an early dinner reservation or not?
What?
Do we have an early dinner reservation or not?
We will just focus for now on the games, you know, but we like it so far.
Yeah? How's the ambience?
Very great. Thank you guys.
Go ahead.
No early dinner reservation, but quite convincing game on the set of G2B.
we haven't seen them for a week and we were talking before the series about the impact of playing on stage
versus waiting quietly in the finals. G2 came prepared today.
Dominant, game one. And I think it came from kind of the players we were expecting. It was Skiu won in caps
that just took over the game completely. I mean, Skiu won on A-Trux. That's always a pleasure to watch.
I mean, I thought it was such a great A-Trux pick by him. The fact that they had such a little look
down, the moment you see that Jarvan Gallio, you know they are going to dive. And if they're diving
in the eight rocks. First of all, he's quite tanky. He's going to live through that permit.
But also then you have an Orianna, a Caitlyn on your side. So I felt like he was really
restricting Kasey's options in this game. And I think he executed a champion very well
mechanically.
That was Kimon, Kier. Amazing impact from him once again in the early game. I do want
to talk about something though, because I've... Oh, it's Caps! Okay, well, let's
talk about Caps then because we had the whole discussion around Caps and Buzio.
You cannot out count the mid lane goat here.
Kierhu made it, Kierhu, sorry, made it really hard for him though.
Exactly, he had to flash forward to just predict and it just sets up this whole chain reaction
that just gets skewmon so far ahead and before this G2 was not in a great state they were
with their back against the wall.
The Lucian was about to start snowballing and all it took was caps on flash.
I mean say what you want about BB's build because let's not talk about that.
The fact that you picked Shen after Shen has been up in meta for a long time just elevates the strength of the champion.
You see Yagther, he did not play that fight like he knew there was a Shen ult on the enemy team.
He saw a low HP cap and he just went in and he was really shocked by the extra shield it came in.
And I feel like this highlights how a champ can gain strength from being out of the meta for quite some time.
For sure, I think the Shen pick got enough guard.
I do want to give props to KC, what props does do though, while caps was gothing it up.
I think Buzio as well, and Kalist, they had a really good early game, especially in a matchup where it's a tough Lucian Nami game.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
It's rough, like, Katelyn is going to be poking you out.
We saw it in the level one, where, like, even though Kalist and Buzio, they're getting decent trades,
they're always going to be on the back foot, getting pushed in, and it's really survival for this Lucian Nami.
That's the name of the game.
So the fact that KC were able to pick up a 2v2 kill,
also the fact that, like, Buzio landing the bubble on Tansama, so Kalist can chase down Lebron,
I thought that was amazing and phenomenal, and I loved how Yyke was always covering them,
playing around their lane, so even when Skumon wrapped around, it still ended up being a
beneficial play for KC, where they sown G2 of power, and it ended up being around like
a 2000 gold lead for KC in this early game, despite Capstan kind of taking over with Skumon
later.
In the end, it doesn't even matter, honestly.
If you have bot lane agency, how did they make it happen?
We've talked about Skumon, we've talked about Cap's really controlling mid lane,
and what happens on side.
Was it what sealed the deal for KC here and the fact that because they couldn't come back in the later fights at all?
Exactly, and that's also when the preparation came in because we saw time and time again yesterday
the whole team of those games was counter-gank, Jyak was constantly finding these counter-gank angles,
he had perfect vision area and he was always setting up G-Stress, but today we saw G2 do exactly the same thing,
BBFootz a great ward here and now they see Jyak walking here and this was probably the last chance for KC
because this is the bread-and-butter play that Casey always goes for.
This is the way they find wins every single time,
and now they finally get it handed to themselves.
And I want to shout out to the guy that said he thinks M. Koi's mid-game is better than G2's,
because when I saw M. Koi make this play yesterday,
they were just running in and just attacking whoever,
it looks like they were overstaying, overextending on side.
I feel like here, yeah, he would try to do the same bait against G2,
but clearly they were more aware,
clearly they had more patience and more awareness
of what Casey was trying to execute on here.
And in the end, when we look at the later fights here, it feels like the less they have agency in the game, the harder it is for KC to take any fight with, so that at the Drake's later, even if Yikes tells it once again, it's never 50-50 against the Swedish junglers, but maybe they're lacking tools to fight and engage those fights.
I just love that Skimo, the moment he sees Yikes go up for the 50-50, he's like, I'm losing this, I'm going to come next.
He just wants to win the teamfight because of the end of the day, that's what's going to win the game.
But to touch on your point, Lore, I do think that this KC draft, it's like kind of full AD, it's very one-dimensional,
you need to really go in and the Lucian Nami, they provide some poke, but it's really scary to poke this game
because if you waste that Lucian dash, you're getting a Bartle to your head, they have the Shen old to go in
so that's Q-mon can play like a maniac.
So I really prefer G2 drafts on this one.
That's the one thing that I would like to see different from KC.
And that's the beauty about G2's draft, because in isolation, if you don't look at enemy picks, you say,
it makes no sense. You have a Shen, a Bard, and an Atrox, what the hell is going on there?
But when you put it into perspective against KC's draft, it just became impossible,
because on the side of KC, you are looking at the Ambesa, and at the Lucian,
as your main tools to start fights, and as the time went on, the Atrox just became unkillable.
After that mid lane play, after he got x-rayed and we saw that,
I think he can just ignore absolutely everyone and just go kill the Lucian.
We talked about this in the beginning of the day.
We talked about Kase's drafts being fixed.
But now, I want to talk about G2's amazing draft strategy,
because Kase showed so early,
and we've seen G2 do this before,
where they notice what the enemy comp wants to do really early,
and then draft a full comp to stop that.
You see the Galio Jarvan, they have one mode and that is forward.
So picking the anti-dive and the atronk,
and the bardo to kind of either deny the follow-up
when they're engaged or just to cover
the people getting engaged on.
I think it was a super clever two-fee rotation by G2.
G2 in final.
Once again, they haven't been playing all weekend,
but they came in ready and prepared here in this finals.
We're gonna take a quick break and we'll come back
in a few minutes, but before that,
Circuit Tormenta is coming back as well.
Some of the Spanish, LEC Spanish favorite players
that we've seen for years have been trained
and powered up in this circuit in the past.
The doors are open for anyone to join
and start their journey as well.
The circuit is coming back on March 4th.
A unique chance for any Spanish team
to show what they're worth in the world of lolly sports.
Let's check it out.
Las leyendas no empiezan siendo leyendas.
Empiezan en casa en un circuito donde nadie te conoce.
Pero todos quieren demostrar quiénes son.
Los que hoy están en lo más alto
hacen nada, estaban ahí sentados.
The top lane has not changed, only that now the doors open again.
It starts again, it returns, stormy circuit.
Brother, brother, let me try.
Wait, brother, let us break this instead, brother.
For break, have a KitKat.
What is this, Brother Earth?
Perfection.
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?
Let me engineer them for you.
Gamers.
Hybrid workers.
Officers.
Back in your every move.
One, two, three, come on, make it dance!
And he's away with a darting blade, finds his first victim.
And the giant spells BBEs to get out of here, but no flash on him.
Kanna has the public institution for the chase, doesn't need it.
Kanna just orders him to death.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
I bolted.
of LEC versus where G2 had a relatively dominant first game up against KC, going 1-0 up in this
specified. I very much agree with what the desk was saying. It felt like that they responded
well to the draft that KC did provide, and I think that there were just a couple moments
where KC's comp, even though it was ultimately harder to execute, had some really shining
moments and they do largely stem from that bot lane. Buccio and Callis continue to
to be a force on this KC side, which is why I want to underestimate them.
They fell to the first game against Koi yesterday,
and then they immediately bounced back in game two.
So G2, they're going to have to stay steadfast.
They're going to have to be ready,
because I'm very much expecting KC to change things up
as we move into our second game.
I'm curious what that is going to look like, though,
because, yeah, who's the most conqueror in things like the Azeer,
but has also now obviously shown that he has the Galileo
that we saw in that game five yesterday, he just played it.
I still think having him go back for some of the old basics worked quite well for them.
I'm trying to play at these standard team fights.
Especially if you can get Kana isolated into a matchup where I like the investor, he can
punish, I think it'd be okay.
G2 chose Blue side after KC chose first pick.
G2 have made a habit of choosing Blue side over the course of playoffs when they are
put into that pick your side rather than pick your pick.
your pick. Peter Piper picked. First pick for KC and the Vans coming in quickly here as the Vi is
removed by KC. G2 gonna answer with a barris ban on their own last time we saw the Unama getting
banned out as Zere was well in this first phase. We did see G2 banning away the Rumble. Now in the
past what we would say is G2 don't play Rumble. They have already playing it at all costs. We've
seen a bunch of Rumble from Broken Blade this split. So if they are banning away the Rumble
Usually it indicates that they just don't want to prioritize first picking it
I expect that rumble band to come through because it is one of Kana's best champions when you think of Kana as a player
The champions that come to mind are Jace, NAR and rumble and generally you are a little bit worried when he gets his hands on the one of those three
Let's see what G2 decided to take away as we are gonna see the Azirban
I like this Azirban from G2
I think Kaps is significantly more comfortable when he's able to kind of keep the matchup in a position where he can trade effectively
and find really good avenues to trade.
Azir just makes that very difficult at the moment,
especially with the Orianna now taken away.
We have seen him play things like the Tilly Intuit,
but I definitely think like, if you can force here
who onto the Tilly or something along these lines
and you can counter pick with an Anivia or a Ryze,
I think that's where Cap shows really what he's made.
We are pushing a little bit further towards that Ryze.
Two AD carries and Midlaner and a Jungle removed so far.
See, we are in fearless as well,
so anything that was played in game one,
Like the meta stalwart, this is Shen
So he's in the rest of the draft
Jack's the final ban at 4kc
I wonder if they're looking towards something like that, not in the top side or even like a renexing possibly
Yeah, it's curious
Generally I expect renexed to be good into the Jacks
So normally when you see a Jacks ban, it's because you're worried about Abessa, but with Abessa already gone
So there must be something Gwyn is the other thing that I am thinking of as well
It's also like an old-school counter to Zinz out so unless they want to like just hard for some early Zinz out here
That's what the Ryan up. Maybe that's what they're thinking
But rise is the first pick no real surprises there 4k seat such a strong mid laner right now
There's so much damage as soon as you get that actualizer and yeah, who I mean played it once has won at once on it in
2026 but so regularly we've seen the anivia as an answer or the casio
perhaps his play exception will on that and maybe an imagine that would be kind of where he goes towards again
But the harsh over to the moment are we just gonna get an immediate time of the afters airfield?
I mean I can see the frail yard comps starting to be developed as you were saying there's a lot of answers into rise right now
Depending on how much caps prioritize it
They may very well just focus on securing that bottom lane
Junglers have taken a bit of a back foot for G2 it seems right now
But we know that bot lane is important in this series Kalista busio when you give them a winning matchup
They seem to run away with the game and they're a scary force to be reckoned with so wanting to guarantee yourself a
A strong bot lane 2 vs 2 does make a lot of sense to me
G2 are using as much of the time as possible, but it's Gimon's Mundo
Something that he definitely made a name for himself throughout last year on we've seen Mundo rise in popularity
In fact, we saw Koi consistently ban this away from Casey yesterday and now we get his hands on it again
actually the third most fan
champion against G2 this year.
42% of games it is banned
against them. We have yet to see
Skiwondo bring it out with how
much it's banned or picked away
from them. So it was something
that we saw with the Oriana
combo a lot last year. And we'll
see how effective Skiwondo can
be on it here. Immediate
answer though of the Nefiri
and there is the Gwen as well
we were talking about from
that Jack's band. I mean I
want to chime in on that
Mundo point like Skiwondo
Scumont's Mundo is what inspired Ono's Mundo.
Like that's how much of an impact he had on the world stage
and then later this year how much of an impact it's had.
And credit to him, seeing him pilot the champion
is going to be exciting.
As like responding with this nefiri,
a lot more early game agency,
your ability to skirmish in the early game is promising.
And Casey definitely drafted a strong topside draft
to have that early skirmishing power.
They also tried to snooker G2
into getting even more top lane bands away.
But picking the Gwen here, you almost have to guarantee that you're going for Seraphine and third is G2.
So taking Gwen, you can now ban away more of those top lane champs.
Guarantee that could match up for Kana by trying to force broken blade into these more tank-oriented picks.
And now you've kind of got two side lanes that you can play through very effectively.
But in the theory that is excellent at ganking for them.
I wonder if Renekton will hit the ban board from the side of KC.
Something that I think eventually the Gwen outscales, but earlier the on can be a very difficult matchup for her to play.
It seems that Nars is going to be the focus for now and naturally supports.
That just makes a ton of sense.
Things like, I mean, Bruce Yoke isn't a Blitzcrank player,
but something you always have to be mindful of, Niko, Thresh,
all those just very common supports that we see in response to Seraphine,
given how squishy she is.
Our Hard Engage champions can be difficult for her to deal with,
especially if they have a hook.
KC, I'm lacking a little bit of that Hard Engage so far.
Something like the Alistar could be okay,
but only having a little bit of CC into the member can be a bit of a struggle in getting, like, through the laning phase.
Yeah, exactly.
To go into an Ash and a Seraphine.
Yeah, I'm trying to go through the Enchanters in my head.
I think it's probably something like a Karma.
Maybe just go Karma, Jin. It's not exactly the best, like, as a combo,
but at least you can try and push out the wave, and, hey, you can still have Jin
then match some of that utility that was provided by the Ash later on.
I mean, Ezreal is the one that kind of speaks to me.
Just actually trying to play the two versus two, pick a support that can just roam around the map.
Asa can work in that sense
But the biggest thing is you need an AD carry that can do with Mundo at a certain point
Yeah, and you do have Gwen and the theory and rise you can argue that that could be a way of dealing with it
But also I guess like I
Find the health regeneration is just very good into mages. Of course. They are DPS mages. Oh
Oh, oh, oh
That is a yasuo watch it. It's a yasuo top lane for baby a bit of knock knock go inspiration perhaps
I mean, BB used to bring this out all the time into the NAR.
It was like his pick.
Yeah, it did not.
It's not.
It's not.
It's not.
When did he do it?
When he didn't?
I don't know.
Okay, but perhaps.
That's okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Is it going to broken better?
Is it going to caps?
We'll find out.
We will.
But there's that Ezreal that we were talking about.
The thing that concerns me about Ezreal is its ability to kill Mundo.
Poke is strong though, into Mundo.
Kind of forcing him to use that early.
be a play and right now Casey have a decent amount of poke but they have like this strong
scurvy sheet topside and a relatively safe bot side. 1-3-1 seems to be the name of the
game for Casey but I'm super interested in how G2 close out this draft.
Because you don't really have the knockup providing for Yasuo and he's going to be
very self-reliant to the moment and I'm not really sure what to do but I mean there
is some knockup and definitely something that can answer to the rise in the mid-lane
So it looks like a little bit of Yasuo into Gwen.
I mean, gentlemen, I need to get Finn on the line right now.
He's too many tall batches.
In my head right, at least you can close the gap onto the Gwen, right?
And with the Herald Mist, if you try and get that long range of the last breath,
it makes it a little bit more difficult.
So you kind of have to close the gap and try and set things up.
So I imagine though, it's like very effective in the trading,
because Gwen likes to go for these extended trades where she can build up her passive,
then use that Q damage and try and extend the trade that way.
But for Brae, for Yasuo, he can get in, use that wave
Q very quickly and just start to chip you down over time as well
I mean, I very much think about it in the context of scaling
And when I think of a Gwen, I think about when she's at three items
Who deals with her in a side lane?
And so when you pick things like Yone, you're saying, well I will outscale you
I'm gonna just get stronger the later this game goes
Cause I think that in the later game, this champ does that
And that's what I think the goal of this Yasuo is
Cause when I compare the side lanes
I think that G2 have more than enough wave play
and more than enough skirmishing power to actually match them in the 1-3-1.
And then when you think about the amount of poke, I do give a slight edge to Ezreal.
And I guess when paired with Akama, I mean, it's a very interesting game,
because I think both comps want to do very similar things.
The biggest difference is in the junglers and how they prefer to play.
And give a small pause as we get on into the game,
we'll get that sorted as soon as possible, obviously.
Yeah, an eclectic draft from both teams.
We got on our day for production.
Yeah, I saw it, and I was like, I didn't need to talk about that right now.
I think you're talking about it.
So we got on a day from production that BB lost the game of Yasuo in solo queue four hours ago.
So whether this is just about proving a point, I'm gonna assume that it is about strategic integrity
and it makes a ton of sense, because it does make sense in the context of scaling.
I'm excited to see how it plays out in the lane.
I can see how Yasuo would win in the 1v1,
But I do not have enough technical understanding of the matchup to say with confidence that it is guaranteed to be Yasuo favorite
Do you want another BB losers on Yasuo?
Last two games he's played it, he lost
So he's on a two game loose streak with Yasuo?
Yeah, at spring last year against BDS and Giantex, G2 lost both of those games
Before that though, World 24, he did beat BLG
So I know it swings around about
His win rate does look positive overall
60%, 66.
6-9 games, 1-6.
So we did find out that there is an issue with ruins loading
to the game.
So the game is being remade.
We'll be back into game in about three minutes' time.
So you're just going to be looking at the crowd,
listening to us, yapping about this game.
But honestly, it's been a really fun weekend so far
here in Battle Awner.
And we've seen a bunch of interesting things.
Yesterday, we got to see some of the great elements
of Fearless going all the way to game five,
the fact that Yag brought out the cartridge.
So the Gwen jungle which obviously didn't have a huge amount of impacts
But this creativity that we're seeing from teams is something that we expect in game 5
The fun thing about G2 is that you get to see it in game 1 and game 2 with some of the stuff that BV is prepared
Yeah, but I love the interview the Chalk stability like earlier on where he's talked about health
The team just trusted him like with like look I need to play casics in this sort of situation
And the team just went yeah go for it like we we understand you as a player
where we know what you need to do
and we fully trust you in this situation.
And he took over the game,
and he said it going into draft,
I'm gonna take over the game.
But it was, you know,
yeah, who supported him immediately
and both in the draft and then when they got to the game.
And I think that's incredible to see
because so awesome teams kind of end up
pushing themselves into this pigeonhole of,
this is who we are as a team
and this is what we can do.
But both of these teams have showcased them.
No, we have that flexibility.
When it comes towards GRG2,
Broke a blade, just played Shen.
There was only Astral, the man on every side of the equation.
And he really has stepped up over the course of playoffs as well.
So I'm just excited to see how this is all going to pan out.
This is also what BB does.
We've seen it for years now where he will come into playoffs,
he'll come into tournaments, he'll come into events
and he'll just have a pick ready.
I want to say it was two years ago where he had the Zac
and then Yike was his jungler and it was Zac Wrexai.
They played it early on in the tournament and then every team bang bang bang bang bang bang right and he's brought it out with the Warwick last year
Warwick wasn't as effective
But it was at the start, remember because they did come up with the Warwick plus Pantheon combo which attacking the side lanes was super effective
He was also one of the early adopters of Wrexai in the top lane
Like Broke of Blade has always been someone that's not afraid to try new things in the top side
And obviously we've criticized him before for things like, well why don't you play Rumble like a tall girl
Well, there's other stuff, but then this has been playing a bunch of the rubble.
So I think he's trying his best to be that super complete player that can provide a bunch of curveballs.
And it's going to be up to KC to try and shut that down.
And on the other side, KC have been really invented with their drafts as well.
Both, well, all three of Callis, Yacht and Kada have played 13 different champions over the course of LEC Versus.
And remember, a lot of that was best of one.
So you could just play the same champion on repeat.
I really like the fact that when you have a KC draft,
Every lane can carry. Yeah, who's been carrying through playoffs? Yike has been absolutely popping off
We see Karna pop-offs. We see the bot lane pop-offs
Sometimes it can cause a bit of strike when the person that needs to carry isn't having the time of their lives
But I love the fact that when you look at a KC game and a KC lineup
Especially one like this you've got Gwen, Nefiri, Ryze, Ez Karma, Ez Karma, perhaps a little bit quieter
But we've seen Callist absolutely pop off on the entry over the last couple of years
But the thing is, is he saying like it does open up a lot in the draft because it's not about the teamfight
It's been a 1-3-1 here right because you're like oh, yeah, who can't pop off
He just stood as a brick wall yesterday
Time to bunch his bells of murder his main opponent on the rise and now you got the kind on this game
But I do think it's gonna be interesting to see you know
How do G2 try to shut down the early game because I think that's where cops has been most exceptional is
Finding these moments to Roman especially to pick like it's a little
Can you find access to these side lanes and particular this way to stop broken blades?
No body I try and shoot kind of down early. Well, the teams have redone the draft. We're loading into game
We're gonna be getting into game two very soon
I'm expecting both midlaners to be running the ghost rather than the teleport
I'm hoping that we get to see a lot of roving from both our midlaners
Yeah, who did have an impressive performance on the rise yesterday
But we know that caps is the man when it comes to roaming around the map and looking to have an impact and as always that top-laner pot lane
It's gonna be volatile. It's gonna be action packs. I'm hoping for an intense game to here between KC and G2
I think we all are. I think KC fans
No, I'm actually hoping for a slow one
It's not gonna be slow and intense
You know?
It's like camping
Very slow, quite intense
Usually
usually. I hate you. This would be clear.
Can still be in the 10th. I'll be off.
Get onto the lift.
Let's do it. G2 versus KC here.
The top dogs from winter last year.
Once again, taking to the stage here in the finals of
Winter Harvest versus 2026.
The box going to get a ward in that middle bush
bot side.
the team. They're usually
pinged out by Casey put in a
water their own. Topside
Nothing really happening.
Caps actually sneaking in and
getting a war towards the
blue buff. No matter who
wins. This has been an
amazing series. In one game.
Really, they're very happy
with our game on land. Yeah.
Each damaged team. It's
true. It's true. There's a
lot of damage kind of
everywhere. I feel full of
You do have the encore, but that can be dodged.
The elite's up into the air and is untargetable.
Range supports trading, and Puccio coming out on top of the support health bar,
but Kalista has been chunked out a little bit, lands a nice mystic shot there on to Hans Summer.
Hans Summer and above have the push, and we'll try and get that level 2 first.
It is difficult to try and trade back effect here, though Puccio doing a decent job here.
He'll just try and keep LeBrav out of reach.
Yeah, again, you just have so much range of the quality is so effective here with the bush from the brawl as well
You choose well, I do have a health advantage. They've also got the barrier advantage, but the level two about to come through
Who's here rooted that hunts I'm gonna step forward doesn't have that barrier as you say very it's a cleanse for
Callis, but with the heal still being available for Bruce here. Callis how popped up has gone through his pots
You can see the book John was pathing in different directions right now. So I wonder if
I guess the plan from Schumann is he's going to try and leverage the push that he's expecting this bot lane to have but
Lucio and Killa's doing a really good job of fighting for that. Looks like Yahoo not going to get the same level 2 advantage that he got yesterday
against JoJo
Himal on the top lane broken by getting that early push. This I very much expected, yes
well, especially when you get that level 2 pushes the wave so quickly if he wants to.
Using that E and Q combo, the very low cooldowns give you so much way for the Gwen not going to respect it.
not going to be able to match it, but Ignite in the top lane, Ghost in the mid lane, gentlemen,
this is it. This is what the changes were for. Why top laners now get given a free TP,
why mid laners have that upgraded boots and the faster recalls and all this core stuff.
No more TP's everywhere, more kill spells.
He has no flash. Ignite TP, the choice here for Kana.
It doesn't mean that if he's caught out, he doesn't really have an easy way to escape.
The halog missed and the skiffing slash can try and get him to safety.
We see the jungler on the opposite side of the map.
Skumond, a little bit quicker on his corner.
Now passing down towards the bottom side, but I think he's just going to recall what's spotted on a ward.
I was going to say it's really easy for Hans. I'm going to drop to setup on some sort of play here.
because if Hans flashes forward on towards Buccio gets an auto attack
He then have to basically get away as Buccio because any sort of slow coming through from LeBrov
It's going to be alright the roof from LeBrov is going to be tough
You have Schumann you can then very effectively follow up at his own slows as well
And then it just becomes this kind of mind game of when do you actually try and burn your summer smells to keep yourself safe?
Things on Schumann as he walks through his blue side jungle hands the sweeper immediately sweeps it
It's a common ward that you like place to there a couple of moments ago and will be swept out
He's going to path up towards top, but really just using the fact that his camps aren't up to get a little bit more
Vision control for G2 now. We'll path back down towards that gromp
Slow and steady early game four minutes in nothing to care what are happening so far
I was expecting a little bit more bloodshed in the laning phase with credit to the KC bot lane
Finding another advantage just in the straight up two versus two on someone missing out on CS here and there
but also getting pushed underneath the tower.
Ooh, Karna finds a very nice straight onto Brokenblade.
Massive health swing going his way,
but I expect Brokenblade to go back to base relatively soon.
The timing of those bases is really important
because of course Karna does have that TP advantage,
and Brokenblade now going to have to figure out the right time to get home,
spend that gold, and get back to lane.
Looks like he's going to commit it now.
Yeah, should be wanting to get back up there.
They had a lot of trading down on this bottom side.
Like Buse, they were kind of taking the brunch boost,
But as you said, I'm kind of impressed with how much relief to this to open up on this bottom side.
It's been able to farm up really well. Had the wave crashing into G2 as well.
Mr. Schutt going between the uprights. There was Yike.
Looks for Caps who've been chunked out. Schumann here as well.
Here 2v2 in mid-side. They're missing the rune prison coming down.
It's Caps going to try and get out of the corner of the pack. It's too damn much.
Yeah, who was first blood and game 2.
Yeah, who again on this rise drawing that first blood in favor of KC great gangster
But the tiny bit of mama that he had left one of the big advantages of the theory is that she's just a
unaffected early game jungler with the right setup and
Yeah, who has the perfect setup. He was trading very nicely against caps
We know that caps loves to play at the very edge of his HP when he's in the laning phase and yike is there to punish
the team is going to be
the best team in the world.
It's going to be a great start
for KC as they open up with the
one kick gold lead in jungle
mid and bottom. It's here low.
Yeah, who's Manapal was just
goes for pops the ghost means
that he's a besides that the
flick back. And like knows that
as long as he gets one cue,
the pack would do the work.
It comes out from scheme on
here as he goes where he
pleases passive so we'll be
game every lane ahead. It's a great position for Casey to be in. I mean we
talked about it in the previous game but this team has a tendency to get early
game leads and I will say that when you find yourself in a situation where
your solo lanes are really important to playing through sides it's nice to be
ahead. So the fact that they're going to get themselves another first
ragged, fantastic start here for Casey.
Broken Blade, not wanting to commit on towards the last threat there.
There's no doubt.
Probably not going to end up winning them a lot more than he ended up competing there.
But either way, I think you're just looking at KC now, moving over towards the dragon.
Tribute completely fine.
Like, this has been such a slow early game.
I expected a bit more kind of movement.
But again, when you've got Scumando Mundo for G2, you kind of know.
But there's not really much that we can do to impact a lot of these lanes.
You've got to remember as well that for G2, a lot of that setup comes through that bot lane.
Ulti on the Ash, Ulti on the Seraphine, that's where a lot of those engages come from.
And they haven't quite hit those 7-6 marks yet.
So once Caps opens up, he could maybe look for those plays towards what side, a 4-man committal towards that side,
maybe even threaten a dive towards the top side with a cross-map arrow.
What a potential plays as a nice stun comes to a Yeru.
That's a Weaver's wall out from Caps, trying to keep Yeru on this side of it.
Cleaver out of Skiumon, Runequiz and Overload, not enough from Yeru.
He flashes forward! Oh!
The pot, the refill potions, saving Caps' life.
Yeah, who decides? Am I going out or am I going in?
And he says, ah, screw it, I'm going in.
He comes so close to getting a trade onto Caps,
but the health pot enough to keep Caps alive.
Stop baiting his observers, it's a mile away.
It's nowhere near. Caps walks away,
one-to-one and kills, the gold gap closing just like that.
Am I going to look back at it?
Yeah, I mean, Taps tries to use the wall to deny Eirhu to be able to escape with a nice flick back after this.
But you see just one of those fluxes going just like, you know, Taps body blocking Eirhu with this.
But that one Q going in the mistray means that Taps is able to survive.
Well, there's only about three Qs, so he has to, so he was, uh...
If any single one of them had hit, obviously he may very well have been able to turn that play around,
or at least turn it into a one-for-one.
But now the goal is even in the mid-lane matchup,
Boots completed with a couple of components.
He already stacked enough for you.
Yike can be focused on the subjective game
as Caps and Scumon is here to answer.
Kana has a push on the top side and has that needle work.
Scumon stepping in trying to steal away a grub.
Yike might have to eviscerate over the wall here.
Slyke comes out, won a piece so far.
Landed jungler has that summoner spell,
and BB and Caps just walking forward was enough
to take two grubs for G2.
Every trade in the mid lane as well, it looks like.
So, yeah, who's just gonna back away, but I'll be on top.
And Phoebe uses the Wind Water Block,
one of the new works.
He'll be chased.
Ignite through exchanges, you say,
yeah, who is being chased out,
but hopefully you can find a pipe
and get himself back towards the middle.
And yeah, who?
You get some.
It's over there.
I'm sorry, I was at all for Mario's Diabolicals.
I apologize for everyone that heard that.
I just had it like you sneezed.
Yeah.
Nice news, much more subtle than that.
Well, yeah.
Well, I'm keeping my eyes on this top lane matchup because I'm very interested in Yasuo and to Gwen.
And you'll notice that Broken Blade is starting to build up a small but sizable CS lead in the top lane.
He's really leveraging the shield passive to start winning out on these trades.
And now he's got a little bit more attack speed under his belt, starting with the refillable pot as well.
I think he's been taking advantage of just the extra HP that he has available to him.
level 2 him. Some couple nice sidesets from Karnaugh to avoid the knockups from the tornadoes
but Broken Blade really signed to come into his own here in the 1v1.
I'm just going to skip and slash forward. There's the way of the 1v1 shield you're talking
about, Verdi.
He's going to be up to 1,000, Karth through the realm of being broken by needs to get
out.
Has Skiumon. Last breath, perhaps, but he has no back to the wind wall! Skiumon
waiting in the wings! Secures a kill at 4G2.
The timing was perfect for Scumon, right place, right time, Broke of Blade sets up the knockup,
the win war to stop any follow up as well, and the kill goes over to Scumon, Gigi now with the gold leads.
He's simply careful there's kind of his guy, finds Caps in the jungle, Caps was leading top for potential ults,
kind of gets the wave though and it's immediately going to reset here.
Scumon now, beginning to develop that lead that he had in game one.
only about 200 ahead right now but we've seen how quickly that can snowball. A
clicks complete though for Yike. The one saving grace for KC right now is that
lead in the bot side, can list about 20 CS up. Probably three waves after this
wave is taken up by the G2 bot side. Trinity Force on its way already has
the tier stacking up 192 on it over half away. And KC bot lane just getting
to push consistently but not really finding too many large inroads.
Keeping Mars on the dragon that's spawning in 35 seconds.
With items getting close to completion you have to imagine the both teams are weighing
up their options.
Is it worth versus just giving up this dragon?
Two O Dragon lead if KC is able to secure it.
I wonder if G2 is fine with that and relying on their scaling.
I think if I'm G2 though I kind of just look at the items and go I think we could
I did like you have nowhere near first on for you who run of ages not really
Good collapse from the icon towards that top side
Hold the wave at least, perhaps. Chase down Karna, remember. No flash on this Gwen, and no way really for Yike to join him.
That's right, it goes wide down.
Talco though, not your friend anymore, Karna.
The Mavildas, the Mavildas, he is light as Guccio's cart with Enchiricus down has to flash.
The Friba does not connect to Stuman, steals away this jungle.
So we've got scraps happening everywhere on the Rift.
Casey commits to a gank in the top lane, they are able to find the outplay on Tobruk and blame to get the kill.
Kana has a full level lead over Broken Blade.
Partially built up thanks to that play that happened,
but he ends up having to trade his life because of a run from caps.
While all of that was happening, G2 was securing the dragon
because they knew that Yike was topside,
and the gold ultimately still in the favor of G2.
And I like to call from KC,
because again, you know Trinity Force, no roa on either of your carries.
So instead, you're trying to make the play top,
and Kana finds some decent damage under Broken Blade
to set up then for the Deferi coming through.
But it ends up being super messy on the after, because it's a good flash there from the Ike to get around,
probably try to dash through with that theory to make the play happen.
But then the Ike kind of said, oh okay, perhaps it's wrong, he tried to make the play,
but he's squaring up to Caps, sets himself up for the flick back, and kind of gets chased down.
And with the play on bottom side as well, I think G2, going to be happy with the way things went.
Oh absolutely, the only downside to Schumann is his top caps are getting stolen,
so he's like, alright fine, I'll just cross and steal yours.
So he takes this one, Caps gets the flash out of Buccio as well.
McOlden very much leading in favour of both Caps and Brokenblade.
Let's go on. Ooh, okay.
I was going to say he's been winning out of these trades,
but then he immediately loses a trade.
Caps can look up here with the Weaver's wall.
Need a skip and slash out of Kanna,
so we can't get to the right side of it.
Kanna though, wise to the fact this could be a plate.
Mimol on the bot side, Casey using the advantage to push three
down towards this bottom side of the jungle.
How far on someone has had to step back?
Almost a full tower the KC bot lane
They have that old for man's eyes. They wanted to engage but weren't quite certain
Especially perhaps had run towards that top side that they wouldn't have yet who coming to join them in a second
So again, as you say just the the push on bottom side netting a huge amount for KC here
They keep that up
I think that is just something they can continue to put the strain on the thing we're seeing in this game
But I think oh hang on a minute. Yeah, it's got a back
The way does he have a history can he get over this wall he can he jumps across was stunned on the way
But I need to be chased too much more the broadcourt out now needs a flash the well walk on the wrong side
But yeah, who are not the overload go twice you won't kill the guy gets it changed deep into the jungle
That's my tipo process become yeah
The wolf is howling, but he just can't secure the killer a true shopper. I see true that smile is why they get
observant, please
I mean, this will be a tower for Kallisk, so our gold advantage gain for the KC bottom lane.
Nice try from Yahoo, but it doesn't quite work out.
I was just trying to roll towards our topside, and Mundo once again was hit in the brush,
but Kanna's quality sense has been jingling fantastically this game to keep him safe.
I love that both midlaners are being super active on the map.
Caps is largely getting the better of Yahoo in terms of the advantage that he's fighting,
but also I love how active the junglers are being.
constant steals and threats onto the opposing side looking constantly for opportunities to take things away from their opponent and
Using the pressure that they have to make things happen in the enemy jungle
Yeah, I can skew one feel very locked in but it is skew on with a 2-0 one scoreline right now and a 700 goal lead
Looks like Casey trying to I thought they're gonna actually send kind of back to send kind of the bot side because ripped
Karen is open I think that for Casey would like to try and use because it's advantageous
He's got summer.
Shipped away at good damage from Kallis,
since he dodges pretty much everything.
Hunt summer down to 300 HP.
Doesn't have Schumann just around the corner,
but can't really do too much,
as Kallis continues to land the poke.
I definitely had some criticisms of Kallis yesterday.
Some of his laning phase is one of the best.
His Ezreal specifically in his game one,
he E'd into ranges that he shot should not have.
But so far in this game, he's been spectacular.
He's been getting so much great damage down.
He's been winning out on the two versus two.
He is where the gold is right now for KC and that's where you wanted if you're a KC fan.
It's also a massive play because Caps has to go mid, Caps had push on bot and would have been able to roam up towards Rift Herald first.
Because Caps had to rotate mid, now, yeah, who's able to get that push on bot,
which means that they can start to rotate members over towards that Rift Herald if they want to.
Like, it picks up a massive amount of map control for KC, just off that one trade.
KC's playing away from the objective. We've seen them do this a couple of times without getting onto BD when the dragon was up.
out looking for a camcorder caps the caps wisely backs away he took me back
to the schedule but leave it was last year when he really popped up against
Hanson a weave those mystic shots in the mid lane between the minions to a
ready status claim on the LEC perhaps is making a play tough this case here
looking at the mid there's gonna be double fights again in a second perhaps
looking for that we've as well kind of still pretty healthy up there underneath
the tower. There might just be a play for Turret Plates.
Kana dives in, Hallow's missed. They would keep him from that unravelled damage.
Sides of the shelf. We'll get the knockback, but it's just the crystalline overgoes in the
plate. Meanwhile, Yahoo's pushing through bot. Gonna get some...
As the skeumond is looking for Yaikou's core now. Yaikou doesn't really have anywhere
to go here. Jumps up with the core of the pack. Flashes eviscerate. Now Bootsio's
on the wrong side of Josh. He has to flash too.
And G2 forced two flashes out from Casey, just being a little greedy with their position.
Well, so what I love about this game is it's a 1-3-1 versus heavy wave clear post-bottling, right?
And when you have games like this, you're engaged into the most reliable, so a lot of fights happen in skirmish.
Just can tell you, oh, hang on, Karna.
QQ was just used by Duncan, right? Yike's on his way across as well.
into that's reacting quicker than Casey's able to.
The idea there from Yike is a good one.
He's ready, he's here.
He's looking to punish Broke of Blade.
Look at the minimap right now.
But the Ash is already hovering in the top side of him.
Look at how quickly Hans is moving.
He's already on the rotation.
Over and out.
He's immediately cleansing away.
The Winston shot missing.
Might mean that the Bob survives.
It does for now.
The Bob able to back away.
It's scrap after scrap.
Skirmish after skirmish.
But every time an advantage is gained,
It's G2 that's gaining it. They get the Herald. They're getting the kills.
Casey will finally get an objective of their own. They're going to lead in Dragon so far in Game 2.
And it's going to have to be their win condition because the rest of the map is quickly starting to fall apart
as these skirmishes continue to go the way of G2.
The skirmishes are going the way of G2, but look at the turrets plates.
Like Kalista is getting worked on in the mid lane. You've only got two plates left on the top side.
That bot lane tier 2 nearly went down.
So while that gold is in favour of G2, I think in case he can find these windows to like make a play on sides and get the towers,
suddenly I think this gold he can just swing straight back to even.
Skiumond does have the Held in his pocket, kindly eyeing up the bottom side.
Yikes gonna face check in to him, a 1.5k gold lead and that is what that amounts to as Skiumond.
It's the damage into the EIC, almost takes him to half HP. Steps back in with some on the broven caps here for backup.
G2 have abandoned the topside, which will allow Kana a little bit more gold in his pocket.
Rift tower down, will get the charge, will take the place, will take the tower alongside it.
BBF clearing mid, is running up towards top. Try and save that top lane tower.
I like the play from G2. Just use your pressure mid, convert it into bot, secure that tower.
push this wave in if you can get another rooftop charge that's fantastic but if
not I saw the end of the world they're not going to be able to get it and now
they rotate back to mid conceding topside but you know what broken blade
he's actually already back in top lane I didn't think he'd be able to get there
in time he doesn't commit a tp he just runs there. So Kanna ended up backing away
from the turret which I was surprised at because you saw I believe most of
the members of G2 on the bottom side for Casey but didn't want to stick
around and like catches it but it doesn't amount to anything, they're just playing fetch.
Well, he did catch. Not going to bring it back though.
That's a hard time to do. Towards the mid lane.
You know, with the Heart Seal and Deadman's play already complete,
but good wave-clicking out from KC means that G2 can't push in any further.
So, the problem for KC is, if you assume that both goms are very similar in how they want to play,
playing through your sides, collapsing, using things like Ryze Ultimate to create a numbers advantage,
having Yikes Shadow in your lanes, the poke that comes through from Kalis,
GG Sightlands are just stronger now. They have more gold. They're in a more advantageous position.
And the Ash Arrow, I think, is a really big difference maker in how it can change the shape of these fights.
Of course, Huns does still need to land it. But the fact that you also have the ability to scry,
to get that information in the enemy jungle, where is Yike? Where is he shadowing?
Makes it harder for KC to really make these plays on the map.
But he wins the League of Legends IP, it's called Vision.
But it's still a term that is used by witches actually to garner information on the location.
I was just making a joke about Liefbauer.
I wasn't trying to avoid it.
And I corrected you by using adequate lore about something.
Yes, it was good.
Well G2 are bounding across the ramp towards mid lane and they try to take this turret to get back into this.
Pretty tanky, but sometimes coming out from the air, sitting on those two items,
one of them just two stacks away from being completed.
Another plate will go down in mid for G2.
The problem is you can't do this for too long because Kanna is still pushing up top.
Someone needs to go and deal with him at Nash's tooth on its way, about half way there for
the Gwent.
I think with the crystals just out of the attack will take it, so that one now falls.
Kanna, he has great skating on this Gwent if you can try and get to that position.
I feel like probably just wins now though.
Maybe I overestimate the damage of Blade.
it's at the next time but I felt like he was already kind of winning the skirmishes but
I mean for now Broken Blade is showing restraint he's not gonna go for an all-in play.
I think it's the risk of the omnivamp from Riftmaker and Conqueror as well right if
you don't kill him quickly enough and Kanna gets the stacks up you're kind of fighting
a losing battle.
I do also like I think at the moment I do think Broken Blade is still winning maybe
with an Astros 2 to start the tier over but I imagine by 3 items Gwen is just so
strong off that's played what my
expectation is the answer is you
haven't should just win like I think
that the answer outscales on a minute
caps once again contesting these
Raptors I mean we'll see how they
can't have grouping up with his team
a minute until the dragon case you
want to guarantee numbers that's the
go signal for broken blade to shove
out top bot lane though yeah who is
continuing to push he's about to
take over the level 15 nice
interrupt on the back caps going to
be delayed in responding in a tower
actually just gonna be picked up by
yeah who isolated in the bottom
lane. Easily able to take that one. I think this is where if you can continue to
push in this bottom side and actually have Yahoo start to make rift plays
towards mid you could try to put that pressure down again like these turns are
next to no health in the mid lane. The lead kill G2 has stagnated. For KC you're
looking at those third items actualizer on its way to Yahoo he has
had a lot of time in the side lane just farming up as much gold as
possible. Policed on the way to three as are Karna and Yike. On the other side of the
ref, we are looking at two apiece in order to shield both, complete now for Bibi.
We'll see if that 2v2 either battle on the topside ever does materialize or
whether they'll continue to just keep us on tender hooks. G2 constantly are
trying to collapse on mid, which is given Karna a bit of time on this topside.
The win to win, the night's going down. Okay, Bibi wins the initial train at least.
The needle works, the weaver's wall as they look to collapse onto Kada and they use the knocker to give Kada his last breath.
G2 collapsed and they're going to look for a little more.
So you must chasing out Kallis and Buccio, the Drake and afterthought, the Baron at the front of G2's minds.
What a collapse from Kass. I was not expecting the ultimate of Taliyah to be the set up.
Well, this is gonna throw his ulti down, it'll connect on the broken blade, but I see no way that they can contest this.
Yeah, who's gonna walk in?
Right, he's gonna do a lot of damage in situations like this.
Hunts Summer walks cool, Yen continues to stand and deliver.
A tower with an uncle over him with the McCannos.
It would get him out of that seat.
He's scaring Summer.
Healing up in the middle of it all as Hunts Summer.
A little bit isolated.
KT still looking for that collapse.
There's a flash, there's a green pigeon, there's an overload, it's not enough.
Yeah, who dodges the cycle shot in the middle of it all, but SKILLMARP, it's just two tankies for KZ!
There's nothing they can do to get through SKILLMARP!
There's SKILLMARP's healing, there's LeBron's healing, and there's no hope in hell!
KZ can kill him!
Everything for G2 just went their way!
It just feels like KZ don't have the resources to get through this G2 composition.
While all that was happening, Broken Blade even got a kill onto Yike.
His former brother-in-arms ends up falling as we look back at this play.
Such a nice combo, the knock-up.
Broken Blade doesn't have to commit the flash because the knock-back comes through from Caps.
And that is the go signal to start off the Baron.
The Baron is secured.
Casey gets desperate to get something back,
but it's just kill in the lane, kill in the jungle,
and G2 find themselves dominating in game two.
Last time in the series when G2 got a baron the game ended two minutes later
Here they're pushing through the bot side KC still have tools to defend you got a three item Ezreal
You've almost got that actualizer for Yahoo
but
The question is can you get there in time G2 will take the 2-2 down towards this bottom lane
Well even at the turn of score
Yahoo is pushing it through top trying to get that third item searching for it
Nice looking for a flank on to cancel. It would be spotted again KC a little bit divided and G2
Dividing their towers and their inhibitors from life. There's a schism in the base and KC do not react
They just give up the in here
KC divide themselves and it's G2 that conquer the base in tatters
It just feels like everything that case you're trying to do G2 or one step ahead like both in this game and the last
With this comp from G2, I felt like that a lot of it was determined on how these early skirmishes were going to play out.
And the fact that they were able to consistently get those small edges in the actual fights is what enabled them to get the gold lead,
have these winning sides and ultimately punish a lot of the plays that Casey tried to do.
The saving grace, the potential bastion of hope for Casey is that they are at sole point.
If they can secure that dragon, if they can hold the line, maybe there's a world where they can bring themselves back into this game.
But even if they do, how do they get through this monster in the jungle of Skuemon as he goes where he pleases and looks to disappear into the tower?
Harder showing on the bot wave here without teleport means that G2 will be able to push in.
It's tier 2 in top, camps isn't going to be tier 2 in mid as well. Gold lead extends to 7k.
They will back away. They'll defend against Kana.
The base will not fall on this Baron push.
G2 has evaporated though. Two members now. G2 on the top side. The rest have gone back to base.
Beat drop from the drop. Dodged by Yikes.
Guma needs to get out of here. He can pop that maximum dosage in a minute,
but will it be enough to help him escape? Doesn't have the flash there.
There's the doshes, we've got wall-TB, G2 are beginning to collapse, and there's the sasic shot!
Who's lost in here with room KC?
G2 find one catalyst, try to do the damage with the mistic shots.
A more misological than actually working.
Nothing is going to get too skew-maw-ed as G2 collapsed, and just as I said, it wasn't over.
G2 said that's enough.
G2 can do no wrong.
They look like they were caught, but it's a fake catch as immediately G2 turners.
It was like Skeumann said, alright guys, I'm on the clock, you go have a break.
And then he clocks in just at the right time.
Look at this, two members in the base, Yasuo in the bot lane, Casey saying,
we have four members, let's collapse on a Skeumann.
But this man, he doesn't care, capsurize in time, the ash hour is on the way.
the way it doesn't connect anywhere the TV from broken blade and in the 4 vs 4 G2 simply
dominate. What are you supposed to do? The collapses are constantly there. G2, every door
you open, they're slamming a shut in your face and now as G2 once again approached
the dragon, that sole attempt for KC just feels like it's slipping through their fingers.
And the small mercy for KC is G2 didn't have the waves to push in and finish with
three members of Casey dead.
The Drake is up in four seconds signed the Baron in a minute,
and Casey are giving this one up.
They're playing down towards that bottom side,
down towards that to blue buff side,
counts backing away, realizing hey,
we don't see any of them.
No need to give my life away for cheap.
I mean, at this point, Casey is just hoping
for a miracle, a surprise pick, a big mistake.
But it feels like with the way the G2 are playing,
Casey needed to be thinking about game three all of the momentum that Casey was riding off the back of getting a 3-0 against GX a
5 game bang it against boy
Naturally people would be looking at this Casey squad as one that had the opportunity to play on this stage
Had that opportunity to ramp up come in prepared and then G2 just knock the wind right out of their sails
And they look to leave this series to zero
But it's also a G2 that's scraped into playoffs it came down to that last game against fanatic
It was lost at home. There was G2 to make it and G2, they got there, but there was some
doubts that averaged at them. But it just feels like when G2 get to playoffs, it never
matters. They just step up, they bring out Yasuo and Shantop and go, alright, but what
have you got in response?
It's just one of those things. Like, so many times over the year, you're like, oh,
is this the time G2 falters? It's happened once or twice. We even intubate Dylan
about it in the regular seasons like hey at some point this gets boring for us.
They ask him how are you struggling?
He's like now we're level up for playoffs, you have to keep doubting.
You can't trust when a team only just scrapes in at the 7th seed that they will elevate
to this level first.
Right now they run the LEC, they run KC.
As you said Betty, it feels like game 3 more on the minds of KC than anything else.
the items that Onyehue, four on caps.
A 2.3k gold lead as the Weaver's wall comes out to lock a yike in the cage.
Sightly shop doesn't connect the yike, doesn't mean he has anywhere to go,
but go out of the eviscerate.
Oncore's gonna land as a Buccio, but only him, he flashes out.
Kana and Yehue trying to collapse, who they have to damage on caps.
The answer's no for now, it's Kana.
It's just run down by G2.
Yehue caught up as well.
He'll dive out of caps again, and cave his pockets.
But G2 will listen for four.
Oh my god, give it to him, brother!
And you won't just whack them over the heads with a briefcase!
It's business time for G2 and Casey Hatton to dust!
Can this just disappear?
He just got one shot by the bus, though!
G2, what the hell was that?
SCUMON ends the fight with a triple skill.
SCUMON says that enough is enough.
It's time to clock out.
And G2 are looking to go 2-0 off, and this bestifies.
Now who can do all he wants to try and defend with a stopwatch will not be enough for him.
He almost takes that one, but even the drop remaining standing.
G2 in dominant fashion will be one game away from any D-Verted champions.
It was a pretty slow game to start, but the skirmishes, the scraps,
the little fights that were happening all over the map just kept going G2's way.
And when push came to shove, a single pick converted into a baron, and from that point on, G2 just didn't let the game go.
This just feels like G2's day, so we're gonna toss it over to the AD to see if they agree.
We said it at the beginning of the day, it's just another Sunday for G2, yet another final, and they're one game away once again,
from hoisting that trophy that we see here on stage, guys.
There is nothing competitive about this series and about this game especially so far.
Where the hell is KC? They went home yesterday.
I'm trying to grasp what Sros for what KC can do, because Skumon and Caps, I don't know, like they just keep playing better and better.
And Skumon especially, like I thought this matchup would be way closer.
Like yeah, I thought Skumon would win, but he's just putting yike in the dirt.
It just feels unfair. You're talking about grasping the straws and I think I found one that broke the camel's back.
because this mid lane dominance we see by caps just highlights why he is the
GOAT of Europe. Okay before we get into all this I want to talk about the draft
and I want to talk about the drafts in general because I was browsing Reddit
and I feel like there's some disagreement between what we've seen
online from you guys at home and from you guys we're thinking at the desk so
I think we can all agree on the fact that LEC is once again cooking maybe
Overcooking I'm pointing at nefiri when and yes, we are here with rice as he does running away
As maybe he's one of the only champion that made sense here in case he's dropped
I saw a lot of negative comments
Criticizing Jitsu's draft you guys thought that Casey
Overcooked in the kitchen. So the floor is yours guys
Rises running away from crimes because that kitchen was definitely a farbie
So, I was just super triggered already when I see Nafir and Gwen.
Because every single thing that we have said about Jagd, that is so good about Jagd,
always came down to him having friends and people to play with, right?
A strong 3v3 somewhere.
But no, KC is just going back to square one where they're just picking Nafir and Gwen.
Other side read it is somehow criticizing a comp that has a Mundo Ashe, Seraphine.
See, Yasuo, they get traumas from Soboku, they get completely...
That makes sense though.
And they think that that's a bad rap.
Look at the one on the right! That's a crime!
Look, we talked about G2's draft game one.
They saw the engage, and the inside drafted full anti-engage.
Now, I want to highlight that G2 blind picked this Mundo really early in the draft.
Now, can you tell me one champion that can actually deal with a Mundo right-clicking them from the comp of KC?
I heard Gwen. Yeah. Sure, but the Gwen is not going to get you.
You said Walt.
Do it, Ben.
If you're going to make an omelet, you need to be willing to break a few eggs.
They broke all the eggs in here.
And I like the eggs on the burma, guys.
Okay.
You know, it's got a Michelin-star dish.
But I do agree that, like, the CC on KC's side is really lacking.
I like the mid-jungle duo of Nefiri Rise,
but you really need a topside or a toplaner, rather, to facilitate that more.
and you need a support that will facilitate the Naphir to actually be able to go in,
which neither of those cases actually have.
Okay, we know how it ended though, didn't work at all for Casey,
so I want to talk about what has been working for G2 in this game,
and so far, Ry's getting away with murder, time and time and times again.
Yeah, I mean, I might have said that this guy is the GOAT,
but I might have been seriously wrong, because Capsule's an absolute demon this game.
There's so many times, even now he's behind right now.
He's using ult offensively. He is standing his ground. This guy is unfazed. He really doesn't care right now.
He's just sitting there now.
He's a psycho, Udo! That's what he is!
Imagine now you're going top lane and you're a j-
The Na'vi just goes over to the wall and kind of is like,
Oh, well, what's going on? This little nutcase is just running at me with that demonic smile on his face,
ready to pinch another title in front of me. This guy really does not care.
And you know who's giggling about doing it?
are afraid of caps. That's right. He's running the show here. He's been doing
soccer ages and so has G2. Honestly throughout the entirety of playoffs
guys they haven't dropped a single game. It's not so much that they woke up in
playoffs. I think they're the most fraudulent seventh seed that I've seen in a
while. We're seeing that seventh seed and none of us are actually like wait
This is the 7th seed, that's the first seed!
You're nuts!
That's how you're watching this scene!
I kinda, yeah!
I have caps, but like, come on!
It's not just that!
I mean, I would explain the 3-0 from Otto Amner.
That's the only way to really rationalize the idea.
I never said, I never said to this, you know,
what's behind this, we might see at the end of the series,
you know, they might do a little slide here,
and it's a 2, you know, it appears out of nowhere.
Your prediction might be cooked,
but the best stuff is maybe not still cooked for Casey.
What do you want to see from them?
one last game to prove it all to turn things around because so far the
preparation their drafts everything that we've seen throughout the weekend has
been missing G2's preparation was crisp against them so what is the solution
for them here if they want to come back I mean so the way I see it is instead
of thinking like how can we win as KC you think why is G2 winning now the
first it's Q1 on caps right this is Q1 on caps show and how do you
boots given in caps well to level with you guys to be completely honest I'm glad
I'm not on stage right now because I would not be able to do it right so how do
you beat players that are playing so well you make them uncomfortable and it
starts with the draft I think it caps needs to be in a matchup where he can't
really bully we saw in this game until he rise it was closer and he could you
know who could be able to find him a little bit more but still at the
but in Game 1 it's Gali over Soriana, it's Caps's comfort zone and I also think Skumond, he's running laps right now around Jyke,
but it's not just Jyke's fault, he doesn't have the tools that he needs to deal with Skumond,
so it's really about making sure that Caps and Skumond are not on their A game through draft and then gameplay,
shutting them down wherever they can.
In order what do you have?
I fully agree with Jack Spectrum, I think it's a super valid point, the fact that Caps gets away with so much is one thing,
another thing that I don't want them to get away with is Buzio on Enchanters.
I want them to pick engage for Buzio.
This man is the best support in Europe right now, and you're putting him on Enchanters.
Please give that man an Alistar, a Rell, an Autolus, Leo, anything, please!
That allows him to actually have some agency in these games, because Jyke is out there on the map completely alone,
while he's holding his ADK's hand, because he can't do anything else.
Alright, Otto, what do we have?
When everything goes bad, there is a chance that people might hate each other.
Corona break? Oh, no, I'm sorry.
No, no, no, not that one. That's the M-Quase mission.
Is this an LR coach?
You need friends, exactly.
You need friendship because from that draft it really looked like there was no one friendly with each other
because those drafts are horrible. As Finn and Jack have said, we need more tools.
It's just extremely disheartening when you go into game and you just have no tools to win the game
because Casey happened during the traditional fine leads early by just they can't capitalize
and you know lock that win in as you go into mid game just because of the lack of tools
So we need more friends for yet find the winning to be to find the winning 3v3
Somewhere because right now in these first two games we have nothing and then maybe after you will see what was under
Who's your said that's a that's a lot of code and hope maybe we'll see that after the break G2
They were right to believe in the fact that staying together was what I was gonna bring them success here in the LEC yet
Again, they're one game away from maintaining their champion title here in the LEC and grab their first tickets
And as we head to the break, we're giving you an exclusive peek into what's coming into League of Legends during first stand and beyond, including the next for Demacia Rising. Let's take a look.
Try to keep up.
Every death is a sacrifice.
What's wrong with me today?
I think you should have a break.
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
Wait, is he switching lanes?
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 have a life?
of everything and yeah they were a little bit quiet after game one but the cool thing
is that they can directly see into the g2 side of things so I'm going to check out what's
up over there.
What's happening? What's happening?
What's happening?
What's happening?
We're going to win!
We're going to win this!
We're going to win this!
This is the G2 corner.
I don't know if they're going to start something for me.
You guys have confidence?
3-0!
3-0! 3-0! 3-0! 3-0!
Yeah, it's not looking great for Casey. Yeah, and that's desk talks a lot about draft
We're gonna talk a lot about draft and it does feel like that G2 is just kind of running rings around Casey as
Casey will once again choose first pick they will remain on the right side
They seem to very much like the red side of the rift as they will ban away the aphelios
Putting them on the red side because you to get to the pink side
Oh, yeah, that's true.
So I would say KT, they seem to like the red side.
Because they always chose it right every time they had it.
Yeah, it's also true, yeah.
Yeah, I do think though it's...
As much as the kind of the draft has obviously helped in occasion for G2,
I do think it's the way G2 has been playing.
Like they've been so good at keeping control on who Erskjumand is
to cover for Yike, to cover for lanes,
and I just vote solo laners constantly helping each other.
Like Broken Blade was on the Shannon game,
number one, covering for Caps.
In game number two, Caps were played and relied on him on the Taliyah and repaid all of that help.
So I just really enjoy watching the way G2 have been playing and for KC, it's kind of left them a bit stumped,
but they haven't found that same success in the early game, but we've been highlighting for them this series.
Now, you need to find a reverse sweep if they're going to be able to make history with their second ever LEC win.
The bands are Baris, Azir and Ynava from G2, Vi, Niko and a Felios from KC, and that leads us straight to a rumble of first pick for KC.
Well, no Galio response from Broken Blade, something that we've seen from him a lot in the past.
Which means they're gonna have to come up with something else.
Or do we sort of bunch from Neowin as an answer?
I think you could also consider something like Rexai if you want to, if you just want a little bit more sustain, something tanky in the top side of the rift.
Especially since the Galio has gone, which has kind of been that answer for broken blade so consistently into this matchup over the past
But it looks like it will be the horn now
I am looking at the player camps and the reason why I'm doing now is because yes
I did see it on jungle by inspired and it would not surprise me if G2 did something cheeky like that
So I'll wait to see but for now will assume the orders in the top lane as an answer into the run
When inspired didn't interview last year about G2. He said skoom on is the jungler most like me
I am curious though as we get over to the other side of Casey end up just immediately taking something like
Wukong Brom because when you look at it like a lot of those enchanters are already starting to slip away and
I mean you can try and maybe blind Lulu here into the Brom but I still think you get a lot of answers into the
Ornn you get a good opportunity to try and force them off of this next rotation in towards more of those engaged supports as well
But I think Wukong and Rumble are just such a strong bearing and there's the Wukong
I like the Wukong. What's someone on top of the equalizer alongside that, yeah, who is going to bring out the R-E.
Sure. Can sometimes struggle for damage, especially if you go down the motorway.
I mean, he had a great game on yesterday though with the...
Some champions really solidify the game as their favourite.
The problem with all the picks, they turn us like, now my brain is like, okay, Vex could be good here.
Ooh, okay.
Silas!
I am a big fan of camps to Silas.
He's got some great ults to steal as well.
Now I was thinking to myself, what is a good champion to Ari, there's a lot of them, but what's going into Ari and can manage Rumble and Wukong?
That becomes the trickier part. Silas is someone that doesn't have a super winning matchup against Ari and can't even be bullied,
but the fact that he has a lot of mobility, there's a relatively short range from the Wukong and the Rumble, and he's got great ults to steal,
meaning that it makes a ton of sense when paired up alongside a Pantheon as well.
It does mean though that you've got three if not four maybe me like champions coming in the problem decides to go that ruse
That could end up being a
At least push to the side. Thanks that side-clone make things a little bit easier for trying to clear at these fights
But obviously if Horn is there to get this ultimate off that can really seal the deal
I still think you have an option here to just take your AD carry and then leave that problem open if you want to for
and
Because they just with everything there like a I mean you're a braum aficionado like a couple of auto attacks on to
Oh, yeah, great. I love going to this G2 comp. I think there's a
Yeah, even silent stealing it all isn't really the end of the world
I'm breaking what is so much work for you
It is tricky and lane if you're playing into a ranged matchup. You can just be
Chunked out quite a lot Lulu. Yeah likely to be banned
If G2 banned Lulu, then it's Lulu Bard, Seraphine, Karma, Nami, gone, and I'm trying to like
Mili0, Mili0 is the one I'd look towards if you're looking for an a chance at that point.
Kaisa taking away Lulu and Zyra banned away by G2.
KT can continue to pinch that AD carry ball if they want, they kind of just want to get
rid of some of the dive follow-up for G2.
Again, G2 have the options to play into these sidelines with the Grand Starfall,
something we see so often from Pantheon is their ability to influence a lot of
the map. Scumon having only brought out this pantheon once so far this split though and did lose,
oh there goes my voice, did lose on it. We've seen G2 just having such a high level of performance
overall but you can't really count them out even on champions that they've lost on already.
As we see the Alistar as the final banner from KCG2, having a think, having a ponder,
Where are we going in terms of...
I mean, Corki would be the easiest one, right?
Yeah, right, buddy.
You're right.
Corki would be the easiest one, you see.
We don't have to overcomplicate it.
And there we are.
So then...
Jin would be the response.
Traditionally, because Ezra is the other one, but Ezra is gone, so how do you
get through the orn?
Yeah, that's the thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I...
They could do...
Jin just...
Oh, Venice is gone.
If they want to do hyper carry
They could do Colist now
Colist is doing the horn also. It's not like the most fun
All right, well they can tell me all right. They decided to go for gin
It's a bunch of mellies not too bad gin rumble always a great combo
You talked a lot about the brawl earlier. I think they could also consider Leona. Yeah, but then you're giving another nice ulti for
Silas to steal. Oh
Nautilus is still open for some reason in my head. This was gone
But I guess it was just banned a bunch to have the series
But actually hasn't been picked yet. So Nautilus makes a ton of sense to me and I mean so for those that don't follow LeBrov or his career
Rail is something like I think it's his most played in his career
But there was a split on VDS where he had something like 17
And then like two of something else like 17 round to Alistair like he's played so much
is one of his most comfortable champions.
I think it synergizes nicely with what G2 have gotten.
And here's the reality.
G2 have gone for a simple front-to-back teamfight comp
with the added element of a strong side lane
because of Silas and Pantheon.
Their ability to collapse,
the fact that they can win out on skirmishes,
I think is needed into Ari Wukong specifically.
But I do think that when the desk
was talking about Casey having tools,
this game I think they do have a lot of tools
to find out plays, to find picks, and to make things happen on the map.
And obviously I think with the Pantheon there, it actually kind of turns Orin into a side lane
threat because he can tank Terrors and he has so much CC, he just enables the Pantheon
to come through so effectively. So I think even if you end up in a 1-3-1, you kind
of have to play defensive as Kanna into the Rumble. And as you say on the upside,
I think for KC, it's try and play through strongly jungle, also this Wukong Rumble
is enough and because if you cannot beat G2 and take down kind of where they are
going to relatively tanky, you just run into steam so quickly as KC.
KC and G2 taking to the ref once again the third time today in what is a mirror
of last year's finals on that occasion it was KC with the 3-0 here they are
trying to stop G2 from performing that same whitewash.
The last time a team went undefeated to an LEC playoffs
without losing a single game was 2019 G2.
I will say production put that on the screen.
They told me to say it.
I didn't bring them up.
I mean, that is super impressive, though.
Like coming into this top four conversation,
We had three out of the four teams had made a single roster change moving from last year into this year.
KC being the only one, KC realized that their progress, they weren't getting better as the year went on, they were getting worse.
And the fact that they failed to qualify for the World Championship meant that changes needed to happen.
And to their credit, those changes have been good.
Like the introduction of Buccio, the addition of Yahoo.
I think that we've seen way more consistency and a higher ceiling from this roster overall.
Hang on a minute.
Using the aftershock here but Kalis holding on for the fourth shot until that aftershock falls off means that LeBron loses about a third of his HP bar.
But ultimately my point is that G2 has this strong mentality of believing in that two-year plan that long-term invested.
And while the regular season didn't give much to be desired, oh my god, Lucio, they're interrupting my point.
LeBron, he has to walk out of this. The staggering blows. Lucio might flash for the order. Kalis flashes.
And it's a summoner for summoner exchange the broad forced to back away on summer has to walk the long way round
Oh, good hook around the wall
But they're less unable to land at the deadly flow is to follow it up
Yeah, the brawl was trying to find trades using these shield that the rail has but she never actually popped it on boost
Yeah, I'm gonna trade it back on the boost. Yo, so this was kind of free auto enhance
Wasn't able to get through the damage on to boost you at all
So these trades were just constantly going in case he's favorite especially when he missed the crash down the second time
If my eyes on the junglers, I thought maybe the guy could consider abandoning his bot side camps and actually just making a rush towards bot then, but now he's going to focus on continuing his play-up.
Nice roof from Caps as he uses that passive, the Petrus like thirst to get the damage in.
Nice job by hiding behind the minion as well. The minion had been tanking the charm, but yeah, he was trying to land onto Caps as he went for that all-in.
I'll tell you all-in, the trade. It's nicely done there as well.
on their final camps should be
hovering around the bot side,
but it's Casey that have the
prio so we'll see if Scumont
just to go back to base to then
move up towards that topside
crab. Right now we doesn't really
have any pushing lanes in mid or
bot. The dangerous place for him
to be is Yahoo doing exactly what
you need to in the Ari
Silas matchup just take advantage
of your range bully bully bully
as much as you can. HP pots
have been traded and as we expected
Scumont gonna go back to base.
The likelihood of a dive seems
seems low, but okay, no.
Never zero, Betty.
Yeah, I'm just thinking about it, and they agreed it as well.
It's not as well.
Not as well as loves to die.
Ruth lands on Han's summer, has the barrier, has the flash,
crashed down onto Buccio, he hooks himself away.
Yikes stunned up with a shadowing strike,
Schumann on his way across,
and now KC on the one side of the tower.
H is assault from Schumann, lands on the three.
Look at the blinking housebars on KC.
One falls, a second follows suit.
The dive goes pear straight, and G2 takes two.
Skumond forever in the nick of time!
The last buff from KC's jungler took the tower shot and secured the play.
Great awareness from Skumond. He passed top, immediately says,
oh I can see the dive coming.
Goes straight towards what lane.
Jyke takes that extra tower shot and Skumond.
I mean it's like a scene out of 300.
He just dives head first into the knowing that he can easily have the damage,
have the HP and he leads game 3 with a 2-0 start on Pantheon.
I was just about to talk about how KC have 3 winning lanes.
They had a lead in the topside, a lead in mid.
Yahoo was forcing caps low.
Kalista and Buccio were on the right side of every trade.
And then one bot died.
Kanzer into G2's favour.
Almost 800 gold ahead now.
Stume on in the jungle.
Still the trades on Bar lane.
KC know they can still find some windows but it just alleviates so much of that
pressure on the bottom side especially after what was that really strong level
one for KC. What the talent Skiu-mon has become what accolades he's been able to
build up I mean obviously so many question marks when he replaced Yike I
mean everyone was like is this really the right move like Yike of course
internationally there've been some questions around his performance but
ultimately he's a very solid general that Skiu-mon has come into his own
his Buccio goes for another trade against LeBron. The back and forth between these bot
lainers is consistent. Caps down very low.
Caps played that so well. He'd go for the minion wave.
to kill the minions to give himself level six so we can steal that ultimate and turn the player out.
Jykes trying to fix the wave for his mid laner but Skumont won't let him.
The wave is in a nice spot for Caps now.
Go back to base, quickly rush out, going to come back into mid lane with the Hextech alternator.
We'll help him a lot in the trades against the Ari.
And the momentum is just shifting so dramatically.
KC, the win from their sales that was riding high from the first two days of this three-day weekend.
Teaser of all that vanished as KC, they haven't given up just yet.
The fight against the main...
I can't cross-body, you have a grand safel, he just hit six.
Skumon with his two early kills in the assist has his ultimate quicker than usual
and with Hans waiting in the out-home, KC apounced on G2 find their prey
and Buccia will not live to see another day.
Scumon just does not miss!
I thought coming into this game, coming into this series that there'd be a conversation about player of the series,
but Scumon is stealing the spotlight just like he did in Madrid.
Absolutely insane performance from the G2 jungler.
It just feels like KC can't blink without seeing this man in front of them.
And it starts off as a decent trade like they get abroad, they think they've interrupt to the reset, but it's all the mind games.
And as Han Samajie comes out, they realise they're too far up in a yike, but because...
Right down with the cyclone, Boussio there, the E1's down the charm as well, they're fine there!
Stimon killed off by Yehu, gets the shot down.
A 600 gold lead for him as well.
A much needed pick for KC.
Slow down that snowball in any way that you can.
Get gold onto Yehu.
And just stymie this aggression that G2 is building up the top crab will be secured for yike level 6 secured for him
There's a massive gold difference between the junglers, but Casey they're not the type of team to just roll over and die
They'll keep fighting back as much as they can
Let's see if they can keep this up
I'm faltering and just looking for the barrier out of Calist will get it
They'll be exchanged, Calist opens up the curtains, misses the first, Hans trying to sidestep, second connects, the third goes wide, a fourth, Hans flashes it!
Buccio with no flash, can't close the gap on the G280 carry.
Gleis getting the flash out of hand, this is a nice little setup that maybe they can punish later.
But one of the things I wanted to highlight was when we saw KC kind of dropping behind in the games against Giant X, it was Buccio
who stepped up to make plays on the bar to roam around the map and try and get KC back into position.
That pick was off the back of a better roam from Buccio.
Maybe that man could step up again once more for KC, see if he could find plays on the map
and just plow something back for KC here.
I mean the good news is the gold difference isn't insurmountable.
Obviously, Scumondi's very strong now that he's got that, uh, the Sunded Sky.
Thank you very much, Matic. Now that he's got the Sundered Sky, you do not want to fight him.
Absolutely not.
But if Casey can slow the game down, as you're saying, if they can find opportunities,
maybe find another pick, punish Skuman's aggression,
then there are definitely ways in which they can come back into the game.
Getting that first dragon is an excellent start. If they can grab that objective,
at least it's a way to stop G2, forcing Casey into these dragon fights.
I think the hardest part for them is that Buccio, because it's Verromi, is so far away from that level 6 though.
So trying to be that kind of key engaged tool with that ultimate is going to be tough.
He needs to be yike.
And if the Grant's guard start follows up with a bait of a like it is now,
I think yike just gets a little bit more nervous about fully trying to commit to any plays
because Skuymont can show up.
A couple of good deep wards placed in Skuymont's blue side jungle from KC means that
he wasn't able just to walk towards the top lane and Grant's starfall in with the call of the fourth god layering.
KC now collapsing around mid as they know Skuymont's in the area.
I don't know his exact location, but no the locale at least in the end
My team really going to be able to start at the Drake's do you want still looking towards top hovering?
And bring the stars down
Forgot what you mean he's in powder. He's gone to the danger zone
This is what daggers talking about in the draft it's such easy setup with the lawn in the pantheon
LeBron is now hovering around Nidz as Catz steals the ult.
Yikes on this way, Yikes on this way, he's running in and easily.
Sphere rush forward, they have to kill Yahoo quickly, but Catz has a dash away.
There's the Cyclone!
KC find one in with Spongebob.
They're silked and back for KC on the mid wave.
And it does mean that at least you're getting some gold into the air,
you're getting some gold into the ice.
Maybe these are moments where you can try and push that pressure to sidelines after.
I mean, yeah, who's becoming the shining light for KC right now, nearly a 1k gold lead over camps could be rushing towards that first completed item.
That's not a lot of ages.
It's not a lot of ages. It's going to be the Blackfire Torch.
So then we've been seeing a bunch on the RE.
I was kind of hoping that they would start that dragon off, but they didn't invest a lot of resources.
Yike goes back to base, picks up the Trinity Force, a nice item spike for him, but he's decided, you know what, the dragon is too far away.
He's going to prioritise coming through his camps.
I expect him to grab the Grubs if he sees an opportunity.
G2 not going to be upset about getting the first dragon of the game.
Jax has been doing a good job of farming
while SQMOT has been ganking.
Yes, SQMOT is 5'1'1' and a thousand gold ahead,
but Jax has the camp lead.
Now pinged towards those Grubs.
There's a control ward on it for G2 so they'll know it's happening.
But KC has evened out that gold lead.
400 now. A longsword at best.
A lot of it sits on Schumann's shoulders.
Jaik will be able to take one of the Grubbs.
Caps coming across.
Kana pushing in the topside.
BV trying to match it.
Caps plays out the vision.
It will be two Grubbs for Nort.
BKC.
Yes, he's too paranoid.
He doesn't quite know when that grand skyfall
is back up again.
Caps was enough of a threat
to deter him from finishing off the Grubbs.
He'll take two.
Be happy with that.
As Schumann makes his way back out onto the map.
And it's that ulti.
I'm keeping my eyes on.
Brokenblade's almost back up as well.
top lane play could always be a possibility for G2. There's a very slim window where Casey
potentially could play on the hand-sandle when he doesn't have that ult, so they are
sort of flash available. Lucy at least absorbed 1 minion to hit level 6, but maybe that timing
window will be gone by the time they get down here. Then we'll let the Cyclone flash on Yike,
but if it's set up with a depth charge or a dredge line, they could look for it.
Nice deep vision has come through from G2 to spot out where Yike is, so making that
potential bot lane play even harder. Thanks to the information that Rob was able to garner.
I imagine he needs to go back to base soon to replenish those wards, but instead he set
his sights on mid laners. So many others have done the same.
Jyke is hovering around, looking to protect Yehuu. Giv'em eyes on Skumar as well,
has the ulti available, looking for a flank.
Yeah, took the last grub. Jyke's gonna spot him. In the end, I think it's
much to do about nothing here. I mean, taking that grub just announces exactly
to track you where Steam on is. So I think KC immediately pulled off the plate.
KC, you know what? With the Cyclo, with the Steam on here,
Death Charge going down as Kaps answers with one of his own,
and now they die back in with a second kill.
Oh, the Cyclo, and Knight takes the kill, the bomb under the tower low.
KC gets another one aboard.
I mean, if you want to go back through G2's history,
an effective way of shutting the Steam down is to keep attacking Kaps.
And KC have said, you know what, it worked once, why won't it work again?
1.2K gold lead now for Yahoo, a second kill secured for Yike, Casey fighting their way back into this game.
I mean Yike spots Q-Mount over the wall. This is a brave man. I wouldn't have considered that they would have had enough to try and get through him,
but a good depth charge from Fusio hits on towards 2, Yahoo hitting that charmer that passes Crucio as well,
as he then turns to be the focus really well played by the mid and support alongside Yike.
Absolutely, that Fusio depth charge you called it out was just so clean, really set up for the rest of the Casey members
to secure those, well, the A kill.
And the very least walk away with some things.
Now, the gold's lead has swung to KC.
They fought back valiantly. They need to keep this going.
Next objective is the Herald spawning in about a minute, eight seconds.
Across the board, those first items have been completed.
KC feeling a lot more confident
now that the gold has started to swing their way.
Yeah, Vivian Orphe, yeah, who was well to try and
mitigate some of that healing that comes out of the Kingslayer
Another charm connecting as Yahoo continues to find his man.
I'm stunned up.
Ah, he's going deep caps.
Rocket belt out, but a chase could continue here.
No spirit rush for Yahoo.
Another charm that counts getting pulled all across the battlefield.
Oh, there's Alice there from Caps.
Costs him a decent amount of HP.
It should be fine though.
Able to reset after clearing this wave.
Had the TP available and still being positioned for RipGerald,
which in the next 30 seconds,
I think it'll be relatively hard for KC to try and find a big fight at that objective
I think it will be a case of trying to push for some sort of play on the bottom side
It was with where Wukong is at the moment
Do you think KC has some solid team fight options?
Of course, Scumon is a scary opponent to play against but that Rumble alternate is the big thing that I'm keeping my eyes on
How can Kana use it to shape the landscape of the fight because I think we can all agree that G2 is kind of front to back
Rare ulti, own ulti, just the...
And the fact that if Sylas steals a Wukong ult, or even the Rumble ult himself,
like maybe it's Katz that can use Khan's ult more effectively than he can.
It's also, you know, it's Wukong ult into charm,
which then just constantly keeps someone on that Rumble ultimate as well.
So I think if you can focus someone down like Katz, maybe then you have a chance.
Right, if Ski-Mas is going to have to give up on the Rift Hold and G2,
he might just give up on the play entirely.
KC brought everyone up from the bottom side of the map and with the TP in KC will be able to secure the Rift out
There's a little bit of corner could have TPed down to bot they have the RE actually catch the top wave
And then they can still protect those plates and bot but by not doing that while they do secure that herald
The problem is Hanson is just getting free gold getting free XP you can see he's about to take over to level 11
That's awful, isn't it? Look for Yike.
He's going to try and get out, calling the Forge, got down the tour, the equalizer needs to break the blade, can't get any closer.
When they call the Forge, God will still find this mad card, and they'll just burn BV alive!
BV gave his life for nothing. They tried to make the pick on George, Yike, but that's grandstaff all down.
I'm broken, Blades, old, with Dragon up and available.
I mean, Rukon could just reset and Yike can immediately move into that bottom side if they want to.
You can hear the KC faithful in the arena really starting to come alive as KC swing the momentum in their favor
Yeah, Schumann was so powerful in this early game, but after that 5-1 scoreline
He's not been able to have much more of an impact that goalie that monstrous goalie that he has has shrunk to only
300 and now it's kind of and yeah who the solar layers of KC
The little ones with the advantage
Now with the Rift out, down in mid, KC get first move on the drake, they'll get the tower as well,
Buccio keeping the broth at arm's length.
G2 I don't really think want to fight the drake at all, it will be one apiece, KC.
Now 2K ahead in mid game three, a game they must win if they are going to continue on in this finals.
You can see though, KC very worried about any sort of cross map,
immediate pings from Khan on the top lane and even Buccio was trying to go for a quick reset to immediately move towards that top side
But G2 just not in a position to try and do for for go for it
So the will all just back away
But you can kind of see KC how nervous they are like what G2 does is get into your head
But KC are finding ways to fight back against us. I really like what I've been seeing from KC in this game
I love the runes from Buccio
Oh, perhaps so.
Everybody have scone to abdug, roll landed, low on Manus,
Tuesday equaliser, Karnas still has his flash.
Casted it with the chase, but no manner for any further follow-up.
A small mental game there from McGraw, committed the cue, threatened the flash.
Karnas though holds onto his flash, doesn't worry too much about it.
See, I mean, a lot of the chat sentiment very much leaning towards G2,
but it is KC that is fighting their way back.
Yeah, who they're getting low does have the spirit rush all of the force got out world exchange
Oldman for Oldman still lands a broken blade
They can't really follow up any behind him though. Kind of wants a piece of the orange
Yeah, I'm just gonna get the plant position here and now
BB might have to use his flash try and get away
We're seeing charge a counter TP the brittle broadcast carter runs
They still have his own flash caps here to equalize the wave hunts summer looking for the plant kind of flashes away
Okay, so a lot of things happening here, mainly Broganblade thinks he needs a play, forces
Yeihu back, Hero takes the top, Cap's TPing down to bot, puts him in a position to catch
that wave, allowing for Broganblade to reset.
And now I think Gigi were getting the lane assignments that they want.
They want Kana out of this on-match, which, while you would expect Ornn to be able
to manage it, because Kana's so far ahead, he's doing a lot of work in the one versus
But Ari doesn't quite have that same impact because she doesn't have that magic resist shred that he has on the harpoons
So instead by putting the Silas into the rumble
You have a little bit more outplay potential and that threat of the pantheon ultimate coming down with the Silas is much scary for Kana to have
Also right now running the TP on Kana. It is just a longer cooldown
It's a seven minutes cooldown versus the five minute cooldown
So it means that you'll have a timer where Kaps has his TP open available before you actually have it back up on Kana
But no kind of trouble
Grand Suffle is the play here. You can see Scumon coming in
Death's charged over the way by Caps, don't dive onto the rumble
And he immediately gets evaporated underneath the tower
Gretzlain's gonna hit on Scumon but he's not tanking it yet
The charm goes in, he tries to shoot while moving
Yeah, who gets another spirit rush charge?
Can they go any further? You can see Callis trying to move
Get in position for the curtain call
And then the charm goes in
The shield from the crash down
The curtains are open
He closed the door on Lavrov, SG2 topside.
Double off to me, one of the topside beauty, getting chased out by Yike on the bottomside.
Capsizing gets one, but dies for it.
Casey winning across the map.
Yehu is having so much impact on this map.
Casey trusted him with the resources in the early game, and now he is delivering.
A good teleport to respond to the action on the botside.
A nice flash charm in that play as well as the catch-caps.
and Yahoo! Definitely getting the better of Caps here in Game 3.
But this game looked done! G2 looked like they controlled everything,
but now it's Jyke who's making plays towards broken playing the top lane,
getting a solo kill onto his former top laner,
using that Cyclone at the perfect moment when Bellow's breath is gone.
And on the bottom side, Callist is picking up kills as well.
It's only 3k gold lead for KC.
We look back at this dive, and this is exactly what we were talking about earlier.
Silas plus Pantheon on a silent into Rumble,
Looks like an easy pick, but Boussio keeps them under tower, the charm connects on the scumon, finding a pick there as well.
They wait for the gym to rotate down into the river, the charm connects, they say, hey, do you want to clean this one up?
No, we'll hand it over to Yahoo, all good, and they find themselves more kills.
And a one for one after it as well. Casey now 4,000 gold ahead after being so far behind.
The only one with the lead is Hans-Summer and that's 114 gold.
Sure, you can buy a couple pots.
Not really too much of an advantage.
40 seconds until the dragon, Casey pushing up mid, trying to keep the pressure on 2G2.
The cops will get the side-drain tower.
There is a collapse coming through.
He gets banned with the super boots.
LeBrov is there as well, but I don't think he's in his exact location.
Cance, the first one to receive a master work upgrade from Broken Blade, this game.
The rocket belt has become a more rockety-belted seems.
Lucille hasn't reset from wards, though.
Completely out, only has the two draw wards in his inventory.
So this becomes a little dangerous as LeBrov has a full plot.
I'm going to try and maybe get access here,
but it looks like G2 not even going to try and contest.
I might look to try and catch someone on the move.
Hacks us half the TV, but as you say,
KC just secure the drape for second of the game for them.
Still a while away from Solberg, wiling their way towards it.
Boussio, hex flash on Han's summer.
Depth charged first, Valkyrie flash across the wall.
Yeah, who can spin him up forward?
The charm eaten by the prophet, who's still connecting.
And with an equalizer on top of it,
G2's bot lane doesn't really have anywhere to go.
The chase continues for KC as they claim
their second of a fight.
Yike uses the increased range on the auto attack from his Q to pop the blast cone before LeBrov
can get to safety and that means with two down KC can get the Baron.
KC have fought their way back beautifully.
Dagda you said it earlier this game felt like it was done and dusted but Yike and Buccio
found repeated picks in the mid lane.
They found kills on the scumon, they found kills on the caps, they may well have
found another one.
Caps in, a couple of hot spoons, Kana flashes,
but we can't keep him fast, get over there.
Because there's a rumble on top of it, they're barren now,
but KC, they are truly in command of this game.
KC, when it looked at its darkest,
they found a slim light and they are clutching it with both hands.
But it is incredible, picks and plays,
coming from Yahoo and Busell here.
You managed to somehow get Kalista to get the root,
behind there on to have summer and then here what you like uses the queue to hit
the blast cone so then the broadcast you can't get into position to get over the
wall and the two picks as the bar I mean the range is the thing that gets me this
is why gin and rumble is seen as such a good combo but jimmy almost anyone on
this side can make for some very easy picks and Casey just continue to find
them with the bar and buff now there's a lot of standing gold that they
want to get those tier two towers are up for grabs you to setting up in the
They're looking for a pick maybe try to see if they can catch Boosio, but
Yeah, it's a face-off. I don't think you want to take here G2
We put on the Western music here is that look another thing?
Yikes spotted you see I'm just still waiting. It's like okay. I think you guys are in there. I'll step forward
And usually back away from it on summer
We'll be spotted out by yike equalizer still women away by camps with no place
Grand Star will come in the curtains, open Kana, look with the damage now once the council has to flash away, the Kana called just short.
Oblique in with the third shot, get charged on Han Saba, he bouts through his help, but Skimoog drops down four in the sun in the sky and I'm not going to heal him up.
The boss being burnt to a crisp underneath the tower, but a good shadowing strike means that Kana will go down.
Han Saba gets the shot down with two, but one exchange in favour of G2.
Why not now?
Now KC over extended a little too much, that type of baron play means that these towers become a lot harder to siege
KC naturally feeling themselves, naturally feeling confident, but this play they just went too deep
I mean the rumble up from Caps was not well placed at all
At least open up a great roost, which then puts that pressure on the Caps to have to flash away
But KC think they see Blur in the water, not realizing it's their own
Gite goes under the tower, with two set up for great play on Skumont
But then gets dragged under, Kana tries to follow up with a flash shattery strike from LeBrav, keeps him tucked under the turrets
and it's Hansama who picks up the kills.
Still 500 gold behind, it's Hansama, but on his way to that third item, three items complete for Kalis with the Infinity Edge, Lord Dom's and Collector.
And now the question is, do G2 decide to take a fight at this next drake?
next drake. They can give it up, Casey will be on sole point. Casey I think would be happy
if G2 decides to take the fight. They are in a really strong position still. Three items
on Kana, three on Yike, three on Yahoo, three on Kalist, only one on Boussio because he's
a support, but they're still really powerful.
There is the ornite, I'm starting to come through though. So already three given across
the board. I mean, you actually look at like the number of items that are picked
up in a lot of these situations. They're still kind of even. So like even though that
gold lead is there, remember each one item is about a thousand golds. So that gold lead
not as as ballooned as you might think. The thing for me is that the Red Bull Bar and
Power Play really didn't give KC that much of an advantage. They took the objective
of, yeah it was barely anything and I feel like that they kind of wasted it. Broken
Blade and Caps threatening a pick. Yeah I just playing around it though. KC just
go mid. Casey just gonna keep pushing mid. Not really much G2 could do to keep that one
standing was already pretty low. 30 seconds. It's just littered with red wards. Casey controls
so much of the map. A couple of nice wards but they're gonna be spotted out, cleared
out quickly by Casey to make this contest much harder for G2. They've got to be feeling
pretty good. The LDR now finished behind Summer. Three items on him and a good
The penalty steal from Caps could be the difference maker.
Casey in the driver's seat, Hook goes wide.
We'll see how unable to find his man.
G2 don't have a way to play through on the mid lane.
It looks like they are just trying to get through that tier one.
Caps is going down toward the top lane,
or up towards the top lane, I guess, to catch that wave.
They'll give up the drake.
His tower's still very healthy for Casey.
They doubled the amount that G2
managed to pick up through this game.
got an angel now complete though on Schumann's.
This game feels a lot more tense than it should.
I mean, it's because if Casey make a mistake,
they just lose the finals.
And Kanah tried.
Kanah called out himself over there
for the follow up flash away from Kanah.
G2 won't look for more TP and a flash.
Burned by Casey.
Yahoo!
Guess the movement speed,
but Kanah get close enough to collapse.
And you can see that there, right?
You were just talking about how tense this was.
KC afraid that that might have just been that one pick so needy a teleport but there was nothing to gain nothing to give
So all falls back with a teleport now down for you
Yeah, with the bounce warning in a minute's time
G2 now have some options in terms of their lane assignments with what they can do
Interesting thing they've got two people in the box side of the Rick broken blade and caps normally you'd want them separated
But with nothing ready to push or play for on the top side. They just have broken blade shadowing
They want to funnel out XP into caps to get him to level 16,
lower the cooldown on that ultimate,
so that he can potentially use it multiple times in a single fight.
They're shadowing one another to threaten a pick,
but Casey is cautious.
They realize how scary the darkness is,
and the picks are coming down, yeah.
Time to take the stormy face you saw Broken Blade,
who is level 17, caps now 16.
Yahoo has bought himself a book of many wonders,
10 sects on the Medjays.
It's had an absolute storm of a game,
but needs to keep it up.
The ability to dodge around the fight so vital for items for him
So now they moved Karna down towards the bottom lane are his regrouped with the team top way vision being pushed out for watch cats
He's gonna go towards that top lane and push that one out himself
The place should be fine
Caps a bit indecisive here does he want to move towards me?
Does he want to push out top?
Just over extend that's what they're waiting for ice control with that spot out that war
They've got another one over the wall that's been spotted out pinged by KC
To you to manage to get that scuttle crab Casey have the push in mid matched by BB
LeBrog looking for that magnet storm does show ward in the bush now
Yike jumps in shadowy strike on the clone the boss forced away smite down on him a little bit tentative a little bit
Scared you feel then KC that
didn't want to go for the all-in-engage,
dredge line short of flipping Skumond.
You can feel how tentative the both teams,
a single play could very much decide the outcome of this game.
No one wants to pull the trigger either,
because if you end up over-extend as KC,
Broken Blade's ultimate could completely separate out the fight,
but it's a similar story where KC can try and scatter Puccio.
I'm checking the wings,
and I can use the decoy to get away.
Two minutes on the next drake.
If KC can delay and delay and delay and get to that point,
Then it's an infernal soul for them.
I completely agree with you, Minnick.
I feel like that's the game time for KC.
Don't really overforce anything right now.
Just stall. Keep buying time.
Wait for the dragon to come up, and then force G2
into this very difficult situation.
Force G2 to have to make a choice.
Getting towards this, fourth items as well,
for Calist, on its way to Kana.
Looks like it's going to be a Ramadan's as his fourth.
Broken blade as part.
KC trying to see if they can set up around this top side look for a pick on the caps
I look for a start on towards car and get some TP out of broken right here
Yeah, I can level ahead of caps
Yeah, who's gonna jump onto Yaikai uses the decoy caps looking for the chase for rush exchanged
With the TP coming in for BB the problem caught up with the dredge line shield ball in from stew mon
The block could look at the Magnus and yeah, he's still holding on to one part of that
We're still going out from Jykes, Caps doesn't land the chains, but still continues with a chase.
Jyke forced down to half inch, but he caps it with a dodge away in time to not get caught up.
With a deadly flash, LeBron, at half himself.
He's forced away, caught in the forge, God.
Lands on Kalef, but with an equalizer, GZ pops it forward.
A flash, Succo notes it's new ones.
The Guardian Angel will bring him back from the charm box, and now Magnus still in.
Kale's going to get in as well.
He was broken-blade, Casey had five,
Keeze, who only had three, and not for much longer.
Steve Mowell fight one, but there's a Quadra,
but a Jin, as Casey, I'm not done with this series yet.
Casey, I'm not gonna waste any time
off the back of that fight.
They have set their sights on the Nexus,
they've set their sights on another game,
and they wanna show that they are not done just yet.
It was hard for Casey.
They battled back from a deficit,
but they will not be denied at least a fourth game in Battleona.
KC trying to build that blue wall brick by brick, the first in place, the foundation set.
Will we see them get the reverse sweep?
They still have one more game to go before we get to silver scrapes.
KC fought back valiantly.
I love the plays that they made around mid.
Lucio and Jaik were instrumental in helping this team come back and they trusted Yehu with the resources
and it was him that delivered what a man had post.
Really, what a great performance all-round by KC for Q2.
Something you've got to wipe off.
But also the mental toll of having a jungler 5-1-1 and not being able to close out the game,
that's got to play into game 4.
I wonder, but also, this is the first game that they've lost in this playoff so far.
Have you heard enough from us? Let's toss it down the shelves.
Hear them booing, I'm sure, but there's also a really loud corner of KC fans that is cheering for you.
So, can you give them some good news? Is there a reverse sweep on their way?
The reverse sweep is on the way, yes.
Let's go. I'll let you go back to your team.
Reverse sweep is on the way?
the first game and it came down to resilience. They didn't make it right off the bat. They
had to fight for it. And guys, I want to follow up on what we were saying before this game.
What Casey needs to actually come back. We've talked about good draft. We've talked about
friends apparently what have we seen here? We saw friends and we saw a lot of mental
resilience because man oh man that that pantheon was five and one at some point and somehow
yike through all of that still puts on a masterclass of performance in tracking him down and also
getting KC back in the game. I mean the fact that we have criticized KC's mid game when they
or not the head back to back and now they actually entered the mid game while behind and they are the
ones finding the comeback it is the crucial picks made by Jaik, Jehu and Buzjo that catches caps back
to back that brings them back in his game. Yeah and you were talking about this. I was talking
about it I mean it's really about caps and skewbond right and this game I thought it was a wrap
right as Otto said it started off so well for G2 but you see how it's Casey that are shutting
down caps in this game. We start off with the draft, it's siloed towards Ari. We notice
a matchup that can go both ways, but it's really Ari pushing in the siloed side all times,
which allows then KC to constantly be the one that's actually proactive in the plays
because it's much easier to play around this pushing lane, where KC then outskirmishes
them and they're actually able to leverage a lead from that.
Man, when I rewatch these fights, all I can imagine in Yag's head is that
personal than that to prevent him. And I see the place so different, him flashing on
the cabs under his own tower, him picking up broken blade on side later, him being the
one to lead the charge in every team fight is incredible. But we also need to talk about
this man in the mid lane. Yeah, yeah, he put on a master class of performance. And
I also feel like all of it just finally came to fruition when everything is just
so obvious on who the big target is in the game. You have Silas versus Adi. You
You know that everything is going to happen around that mid lane, regardless of how the other lanes go,
regardless of if your ball is 0-4 or 4-0, the action is done on mid lane.
And I feel like KC finally, finally they managed to find the draft where it's clear and cut.
You have a win condition.
You play to one man, no matter what happens on the other side of the lane, and it happened.
They had the Tulsa Druid, they had the execution to go there as well.
So, back to the initial point while we were focusing on the beginning of the day.
SQ-mon vs. Jyke. SQ-mon had a fantastic first few games.
It came down to Jyke's resilience here.
And if I scroll back to Jyke last year, even when he was at G2,
in moments like this, this is when he would crumble.
Now Jyke in 2026, difficult moment and difficulties for his team.
He thrives, and he's the one bringing the victory to his team and participating in it.
I mean, he said it in the pre-game interview as well, that last year he felt like stepping into the leader position of that team did not fit him that year.
But he said as well in the interview that this year he feels more confident in leading the charge, pushing his view of the game.
And I think you can see it in his gameplay as well. He looks so confident. It's not that docile Jaiq we get when he falls behind. He is proactive and vicious.
I also think like when you look at this roster
He's the one that needs to step up who needs to be clutch because you have yahoo and busio who coming in new players
You're not gonna expect them to like clutch it up in the most important moments for the team
And we've seen Kalista and Kanna that they faltered when it's the most important moments
You talked about auto like Kalista is not the player that we think of like super clutch
She kind of more usually disappointing in the clutch moments
So it's yike that needs to be that driving force for this team when they're back up against the wall against
Exactly, we saw it even there. He said it himself, he said it many, many times. His sole mission is to end the G2 era.
And now we're at the point in this series where I feel like it's a pivotal moment. It can or it will not turn around.
Because when you're down 0-2 and you find finally one formula that gives you a win, now the question is can you replicate it?
Can you do the same going forward? Because at the same time G2 is no slouch.
Qmunt still had a great early game. It all went bad in the modeling play where they just over-commit and died because of that pressure
that was coming from the series. It is the first time G2 loses in these playoffs. So now, going forward, I do want to see another
one of this map from KC, another one of this set of plays from KC, because put on the pressure on G2 so that we can have a great series.
I mean, G2, they tried to go for a lot of plays and some of them were a little bit over-forced,
I'd say, a little bit over-eager.
They had their early game leading and they ended up throwing it.
But for me, there's just not much that changes.
I predicted G2, 3-1.
And I think we're on, you know, scheduled programming here.
KC, they got one in, but they're not going to take the series.
That's going to be enough, all right.
Look, I mean, this was a fantastic win by KC.
But it was not in the same convincing manner we saw yesterday.
If you're a KC fan, you're still shuddering a little bit.
There was a lot of mishaps by G to this game and it was not clean.
If you're a KC fan, you want to see them come and channel this energy into the next game
and build on what has worked.
I said it before, I'm saying it again.
I like Boussio on Engage.
It gives confidence to Jaik, it gives confidence to Jeho,
because you know he can actually have an actual human champion show up in his lane
if the laning becomes volatile.
If there's a Karma ganking your lane and not an Autolus,
I think it's a different game we're watching.
I mean, I don't know.
Looking at KC, if any one of the biggest, big questions coming into today was,
are they able to turn games around if they don't have an agency in the early game
and if things don't go well for them in the early game?
They proved that they could.
Do they have enough tools?
Do they have enough resources in draft,
especially to make magic happen and take us to game five?
We see that G2 chose first pick here.
So I'm asking you guys, what are the OP's left here?
That's for G2.
That's hard to not see.
Sorry, I'm putting on this book.
I mean, there's still a lot of champions up and available.
I think especially Varus is available.
I do think we'll keep seeing Varus in our band.
If you really commit to these bands in game one,
you'll probably see them sticking in game two and three.
My eyes are right now on the Zahen.
I think both these players have had a lot of success with it.
I think Bibi also likes to play it if I remember correctly.
And I think that champion is something that I want to see in game four.
So we want to see flexes here, maybe in game four.
You think Jitsu is going to rap it?
You think Jitsu is going to rap it?
Where's Busey Bussin here?
Hey, we still have. We can still find out the mystery.
Forget about the code. Why is KC winning this one?
Why is KC winning this one? We saw it yesterday. Game 5.
Now it's in game 4. It's not even the maximum limits of the champion pool.
We still have one game. They found the formula. Busey is unleashed.
Even with the Nami, he played it earlier. It wasn't his fault.
There was a Lucian on his team and you know, he just lose on the path.
But still, this game mark my words is a turning point.
What's the turning point in this game?
We'll see if they can keep on making it happen here.
We have a series, Fnanny.
Two and one on the side of G2.
So far, let's see if the blue wall can strike once again
and take a second time.
You
Brother brother, let me try
Wait, brother, let us break this instead, brother.
Have a break, have a kick hack.
What is this, brother?
Perfection.
Red Bull gives you wings.
Wait, is he switching lanes?
Take the O'Pam's down, G2 by their prey, and Bootsia will not live!
Round off, Flash, round off, Flash, kill round, kill round.
Nice, Flash, Flash, there you go.
One Flash off the North, there you go, you can.
What's that, that's what's that?
What's that, that's what's that?
Let me do it, let me do it, let me do it, let me do it.
Nice, nice, nice.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
I think it's a good thing.
Welcome back to battle alone and
when we are getting ready for
game for something, I think a
lot of people after 10 minutes
in game again. I did not
expect to have Casey with a
massive like mental gap like in
terms of how well they were
able to play after being that
far behind in game three of
a series. I was incredibly
impressed by them in game
for some of the we're talking
about. It's like on both sides
incredible stuff on the area.
Boosio again on these realms in the early stages to really solidify those leads for KC.
And like taking some of the most, in my eyes, risky plays that really came up clutch for KC as well.
It was a stellar performance from the trio on KC.
It really was. Really impressed by them overall.
We'll see what they can do as we get into game four drafts.
G2, Hicks first pick, KC picked Redside.
So, for the first time today, we will see a normal solo queue dropped.
Blue side will have first pick.
This was game one, Middick.
We will see the second time today a normal solo queue dropped.
Aurora and a Fedya spanned away by G2.
Casey gonna get rid of the Azir.
With the trend that is happening in this pick ban,
Annie has to be the next ban here,
because we're going through all the yeas.
Yeah, I was playing today for a job.
So that means that the entire mid lane pool is picking it up right now.
That's true.
instead where we are going to go with that band and we'll see where G2 decides to go with their third
first time they've had first pick through this whole series. The reminder we are in Fearless
means all of those champions above the draft on your screen cannot be played again. They've already
been played once. Lulu the band by G2. So 80 carries.
I feel like you have to feel like you have to is that where Casey are gonna say we'll
give it to you the ban G2 you got to feel you know it's just the preemptive first pick
here is it the devil's fruit is the question does it look too supple perhaps
it is a trap that has been like nope no that's a little bite of the food nothing
went wrong with that Casey oh look oh I mean into it yes I recognize available
it looks like that is the direction the case is considering with yikes fine now
Yike does have a bit of stigma around his vibe, but his vibe was awesome yesterday and so far in playoffs
It's been a pretty strong pick for him. So he's definitely getting away from that stigma
The response now though it was G2 that banned the Lulu away themselves
Which means that what else can they pair alongside Bard is gone?
Nami's gone. There's no Lulu. Is it like?
like, do you forego enchanters and then instead just pick something belly?
Oh, there we go.
You go for a different enchanter.
Interesting.
So, Renata is good into the Rakan, but like, I traditionally, I feel like you want something
for Unara that's like more, mainly her attack speed, and so you at least you do get some
sort of enchanter with her, but I think it is just more a case of rather than the
actual pairing, playing for the dive that is coming through on KC.
That's the thing.
I think, you know, Renata just works so well in the dive, and you've already got
Shintown who also works well into dive because he can use that quest and go to reset the fight
Keeping the Yanarra safe and then having that disengaged desire
No real surprises that Casey have decided to lock that into their third pick, but I'd really like runata
I think as you say it does kind of work okay into the Rakan
It's not the best we can't confine good points and assuming he doesn't come from straight on and the virus coming
From a different sort of pincer movement. It's hard for the runata to immediately just lock someone out of the fight
Yeah, I think it's just more in the lane if we're trying those for the Grand Entrance. I've seen the handchains.
Yeah, you can check it out. 100% okay.
But I am now curious as to what the... What do you pair with the Vi in the middle?
Because like there's so many of those picks that I kind of traditionally see with the Vi that are already taken away.
Like his earband, Celia gone, and a lot of those champions that can follow up effectively with her engage are already gone.
Ah, Carly.
Honestly, he's gone where my head was at.
I think it depends on the match up there, yeah, you can't really find it.
It depends how confident KC feels about flexing it to top lane,
but there's no real needs.
With Sion and Kasante gone.
Sion isn't gone yet.
Renekton?
No, it's gone, okay.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I was looking at the different screen,
the one that we all used to hear.
Not bad.
Kenan banned away.
The Kenan ban is a surprise to me,
because of Ungee 2, I feel like that's good for me.
Like, I've already got a lot of things I want to dive in
top of me kind of kind of works well in that scenario and put it maybe they're
trying to open up for like an hour for broken blade maybe they're connecting
the blanks someone that can match the damage
yeah who during the regular season he played really well on it but he did it
losing yeah he pulled like a 50 CS leads okay they're just gonna go mega safe
right Victor I mean it's fine right now the Rakan is the main follow-off on
the Vi with I'm best of gone that's kind of one of the key combos I
consider one pad alongside the Vi. So yeah right now they don't really have a huge amount of dive,
they're playing very kind of front to back and they've gone for the two of the biggest tanks.
So I'm curious is that how Casey's going to round this one out?
I'm also curious where Brokham is going to go towards this upside because the start of Casey's
comp is looking dive right? So I'm by Renekton is the lock here for BV State.
So now it's like a gnar right? Yeah probably a gnar from Kana.
and then caps into victor I mean you probably just picked something I was
thinking syndrome at Cinder into Rakanvai is really not fun very low
mobility on that mid laner so I mean I'm not gonna let things out with a with a
NAR here I on paper I at least initial impressions I do prefer what Casey
brought to the table I think that they would have a winning topside I
I think they would have easy plays around it. Of course, Syndra could be super repressed into a victor if if you're given that proper jungle support
Yeah, but I think that it's gonna be bruceo that has more roaming power on the rakan which we've seen
It's just like the winning formula for KC get bruceo out on the map get him helping yikes set up plays
That is the formula for success when it comes to KC
I agree with you buddy. I think what KC have drafted is really effective
And it kind of feels like for G2 they went for this attempt at anti dive, like Syndra
can at times play well with trying to get the scan of the weeks as the rest of the dive
tries to follow up on something like Jai, same with Renekton being enabled as T to
jump into them.
But it does mean that they're heavily reliant on trying to catch people with that Syndra
stun combo to try and start fights, which is never really the best when you've already
got a good amount of range with things like that Victor on the opposite side.
You know what I think? Now that I've had a little bit more time to think about it, I think G2 should have considered something like Ivan.
Like Ivan must be, you know, make her the hypercarry when you've got Ivan plus Renata, but at the end of the day, we're in this draft now.
We'll see if we go to a game five, what direction we'll get, but right now I do quite like the tools that Casey had.
And I just want to echo that sentiment that the desk shared earlier in the day, which is that Casey looked the best when they had the tools to make plays.
make plays. And their argument on the desk was that in game one and game two they didn't
really have any tours and a lot of that was because G2 shut them down in their response
to the draft but in game three we saw KC have the ability to make things happen on the map
and in game four I think they've drafted in a way that can do the same. Can they find
those same opportunities against G2 again though because G2, I mean they've never
been reverse swept in the finals and they're not looking to start today.
more into the breach for G2 and KC. For KC the end of a long weekend. Eight games before today,
now cresting over 11 into that 12th in three days. For G2, they played three. Gotta say something for
being a little bit more rested. Came into the series very hot. Able to get those early kills.
Schumann here sneaking in towards the blue. Might just look for the steal. Could go for a
split map trying to isolate the siren with Khan away from the rest of their
team it's spell book we can't with the exhaust to start I'm wondering if it does
get snipped out though by KC because they do the word over by the Raptors and
maybe it's gonna sniff out that oh we haven't actually seen this in there
maybe he's trying to go for some sort of split map I think the other risk is to
camp gank three camp gank like so you know just immediately once was bought
after getting these three camps history of the thing right now
Jaik is thinking to himself. Oh, well, he's doing the full topside. Yeah. So the likelihood of him even threatening and invading is very low
Mimol Scumand is clearing out these bot side camps and as you said that bot side get I mean get on the side
Given the wave state, I think it's gonna be a very difficult gang to pull off. It's the exhaustive Rakan as well
Which makes it even more difficult
Call us to boost your stepping back the current level one not the most powerful especially into a range support like the
the run after the braves faked going across the place actually as the
street for Thursday look like you think going across place award just to maybe
give it a little more of the rules here but you like now going to spot it that
his butt side is gone yes the skumann will path towards you can see
actually the ping now coming out on the razor beaks from KC being like oh
he should be here by now now the question marks coming out from KC
will you like look for an invade skumann's gonna start up his razor
The Razor Beaks have the smite.
Yike could try and cross.
It would be difficult for him.
Skimmon holding the smite here.
Look at BB, though.
He's running down towards mid lane.
They want to try and fight this as a group.
Skimmon able to get a few of the Razor Beaks there.
6-15.
Yeah, who's stepping forward?
Katz looking for the Scannery.
Can't land it yet.
Who's now burn his flash?
And BB's on the way across.
The Victor has nowhere to go.
G2 strike first.
Clayton's coming out.
This time someone is exhausted to someone has burned for none on the side of G2 G2
With some really creative plays in the early stages the invade working out but that Rome
Using that timer by broken blade to get the play on me and set this up
Yeah, who hang on dodges the weakness gather the week after I have to flash the wall here
Yeah, who won the chase and caps a little greedy with his positioning there
Yeah, I mean I'd absolutely misplayed from caps
He doesn't actually connect the stun onto Yahoo, which allows Yahoo to trace him down. He's forced to flash away
Now
Yike getting to soak up some of the XP in mid lane helps him a little bit
But not to the point of which he can really come back the TP will come through from caps Yike has gained information
But he realizes he cannot stick around so he's gonna be extremely far behind his jungle counterpart
If he looked at the if he tried to look at the CS though
He should be able to tell hang on the bottom squad or wasn't taken
So maybe looking to actually gonna say look go for it
But just gonna reset spend his money and then go back in towards his and well
I was just out the top side, but may want to just cover the box out in case of a repeat
Who's here in Calist using the combined recall there to get out that a little bit quicker boost you're making sure the wave does crash in
I'll be a sheen first here for Calist
Essence we've at his most likely build path on the sire. You're not putting man up hungry on the sire
So insult to injury would have been
or Scumon to be ready on the walls respawn.
Yeah.
But by clearing his top side out,
he's decided that it's not worth it.
Both supports are hovering around in the river.
Buccio was a player who wanted to keep our eyes on the looks.
He's going to contest these raptors instead.
Smythe's available for both junglers.
Both the supports are across here.
Katz looking for the knockback.
Buccio will dodge away.
Scumon goes in, steals away one of the Razorbeaks.
Buccio here.
Battle dance around, knock up with a Q3, LeBrog with a good handshake for the stun.
Yeah, who still no flash, remember, but no CC for G2 to lock him up.
Yes, he is chunked out once again.
Right up to Yahoo, the way he spaces his way through the fights is...
Kalista's moving as well.
They don't know he's there.
Oh!
With the warding, Kalista flashes to the roof, can't land any quick!
Scatter the weed, pulls him back, a handshake to follow!
Thank you very much, we'll take your flash.
Kalista hardly had the play, but couldn't get the feathers into the position that he wanted to.
And there was just so much burn by KC, trying to help out Yike, almost been a disastrous early game for him.
Ooh, level 6, level up.
Wallop out, before the stun, Kana has to back away, already hit 6, used the gnar, was fearful of the Domina,
spoken blade has already had a weakle where Kana hasn't actually gone back to base at all yet.
So, level 5 secure for Skiu-Mond, he knows that the dragon is going to be incontested,
Yeah, we're not strong enough. They don't have to push in bot.
There's no way for Casey to really challenge us, and Yark desperately needs camps.
He's behind an XP, he's behind a goal, he's just behind in general,
and he's got to get what he can get while his camps are available.
It's also Callis, who has a...
Hang on a sec.
Great handshake, Sumner. Again, Hans Sumner putting the damage in.
Yeah, it's also Hans Sumner who's able to pick up an Isolate for himself
when it comes to the CS department, because Callis tried to roam off,
and now they've just been able to zone away.
Kalista Muzio will be able to get another turn,
played off his Wavecrash too,
so starting to open up a nice little bit of a gold lead here.
Gold lead to cross the board for G2.
Kana immediately proves me wrong
by getting a couple of CS up towards the topside.
Only minimal in support in top,
but mid and jungle for G2 once again ahead.
Something we saw in the first two games of the day.
On summer here, trying to hold that wave,
so it pushes towards him and Casey Mitter can't do too much about it.
This is going to be forced to go back to base.
The waves in an unfortunate spot.
Top laners just continue to trade.
But overall G2 looking solid in this early game.
Grubs will be something that neither team has really put a huge amount of priority on.
I think Grubs are just a mega weak objective right now.
And teams are quite happy to just trade one for two and just let it be what it be.
But all these Raptors contested once again by Skiumons.
I love that this weekend, junglers in Europe, I feel like have gotten so good at just focusing
on stealing camps away from their opponents.
And I mean earlier in the day, game 2 I think it was, like so much of the game was determined
based on just fights over these camps of the enemy jungler.
And I love seeing that because it kind of changed the dynamic of the game and it
doesn't just make it about grouping up a dragon, forcing a fight.
It becomes a lot more about navigating the way through skirmishes being in the right place at the right time
I think both these teams have shown strengths and weaknesses in this department
Don't want to sound like a broken blade here. Just trying to chip away at Kana
Katz with the scan of the week onto Yahoo, but the arcane storm chunks him out a ton
Katz going through the Lucidity boots here on the Syndra just for those extra spell casts
extra ability haste. The fact that Yahoo's getting this one controlled though is actually a bit of a benefit
Yike, his ping's going down onto that top crab.
And I'm curious if Yike wants to try and make something happen up there.
Will be a little while though.
Yike's all out, exhausted as well on Han Sama.
He's got a bailout on him, in case he was chunked down, but Skumon's on his way across.
Kalis has the feather storm, Bucill has the flash, and Aminji is back away from G2.
Didn't want to go any further for that fight.
The Linus as well, but while Yike has been able to secure a couple more of his camps, the experience gap hasn't really shifted.
The gold is still very much in Skimon's favour, but for now nothing too insurmountable.
It's capped for a lot of the leaders sitting for the time being.
Thanks to that first blood that he was able to get off the back of a nice play from G2 in their entirety.
G2 holding on to about a 1.2k gold lead, but again, based on what we've seen from Casey just in the last game,
we know that this doesn't mean a huge amount to them.
They're very creative at finding ways back into the game and I'm excited to see what Boussio can do on the Rift.
Level 6 is coming through for him very soon.
He can just move over towards mid,
soak up a bit of extra XP,
start grouping up with the Ike,
and start making plays on the map.
Let's see if they can pull any of those off.
We're going to start up these grubs.
The second neutral of the game for G2, if they can find it.
Cap's stunned up in the gravity field,
but really much doing.
LeBrov still needs another minion for 6 boots.
He'll clips over to it now, has that quickness.
LeBrov with a good handshake.
Scatter the weak force at will caps building up that passive
Needs to get to 120 of those splinters of rough
You can see 48 on the bottom corner for the all of your spells upgraded and the extra AP
Who's still wrong down to this bottom side though, which let clear to pull the wave
So they're setting up kind of a nice freeze for case in this bottom side
And the bravester on back down to cover to Buccio sneaking in behind. There's a pressure on mid here with yike
There's only a single grub
4G2, Callist.
Mority programed with a handshake.
They get to pull back.
The cleanse.
He's using Callist.
Still has the further storm.
Looks closer than it was.
His flash only just came back off cooldown
after the fight had concluded.
Now he's forced away.
Han Summer will be looking for this plate.
Callist was able to pick one up earlier.
Han are about to go mega.
But the mid goes in.
Nar back.
Wall up to the CC chain.
Chuck a house there.
They didn't domine us out from Broken Blade,
but really just to dissuade Kana more than anything
else. Jyke is looking for a red buff in Vape, he isn't able to go any further. Buccio stops
the recall upon Summer in the bottom lane.
Just wanted to get a ward down, it looks like, for the Krug camp. So you can spot it exactly
where Scumome is going to be. Caps, they're going to do some damage. But a huge amount
of this is again, just kind of like, battling back and forth for small advantages. Like,
do we have vision to try and play aggressive? Buccio trying to interrupt now, but
might get himself caught is the grub coming over.
I mean, Lucio, it's the long-range battle dance.
The skillist does step in, looks through the blade,
and lands it.
The dragon started there because Hansama's low,
so even though KC don't really get much,
they actually get any damage really done,
it's going to be the dragon for them.
Nice play overall from the KC bottom lane.
Lucio, I'm on my way.
No way away from friends.
Quickness has to be used.
Often you think on the car and you can do these sorts of plays.
You have so much mobility, but when you jump in,
it means you're the net by two members of the enemy team.
Yeah, sometimes you just need to use the quickness
to get the hell out of dodge.
Hey, dragon secured.
Casey, I'm going to be too upset about that.
Skumondo wants to go back to his lovely holiday home,
which is Yikes Jungle will secure the grom,
steal away another camp.
And you can see that camp advantage continues
to get bigger.
G2 holding on to their very solid lead as we find ourselves in a very timid early game.
I wonder what's going to be that turning point.
Role quest now will begin to be completed.
Have a nice handshake, LeBron landing a bunch of good ones so far in this game.
No quickness on Vuce here, but Stumon just here to cover
to make sure that Yike hadn't somehow snuck his way into that tri-bush.
Caps looking for the topside, Kana.
About 2 thirds HP, working weight low as well. Dominus up in 6, Kana.
Only half on his Mega Knight, Yike coming across.
Caps will be met by Yike, who holds the vault, break up,
but also will flash, he's an assist.
Presentation alert, deceiving, just believe Yike he can!
Yike thought he had it, Yahoo's on his way across.
Kana building up the Mega Knight,
Skiwalt trying to get here in time,
the nine to the wall, the Rimbicard's lightning,
and Kana has to flash away,
but Skiwalt chases him for days!
The flash away from Yairu, Rimbicard lightning hits again,
the setter storm out,
Bladecaller not used yet by Kalist.
In the end, ever to dodge away from that hot style takeover.
Such a heavy commitment from Yike to that skirmish.
There was no Mega-Nar for Kana.
It was very difficult for him to follow.
And, oh, on Summer, he ults onto Buccio.
Buccio is fine.
He moves this one out.
He's able to ghost away, thanks to the spellbook.
But, Casey, they hand another two kills over to G2.
G2, oh.
Flash, quickness, immediately engaged here with the barrier though, Han Solo still very safe.
Kalista has flash of his own, he has to use it to get away from the drop, the TP coming in from Kaps.
And G2 might just look to force the KC bot lane away from their tower, they're going to do exactly that.
Kaps doesn't have the unleash power so no real threats of a kill here.
The early laning phase looked a little tough for Kaps, but once he picked up that kill
he's really opened up these leads, the kill now shifted towards Top of Schumann.
Caught out by Yike and by Kana.
He expects him to be here, Crescent Guard down.
Yike holding onto the vault break.
He's going to look for it, but the scatter of the week stops the channel.
Kana jumps the house of Schumann, but can't connect with it.
In the end, G2 will be able to walk away.
The timing on the Crescent Guard was perfect from Schumann.
Denies the grand entrance from Buzio.
And as you caught up to the scatter of the week after,
she picked her perfect G2, stepped away,
and what could have been a dicey play.
I mean, this sequence was really bad for KC.
Not only did their bot lane get forced back and they lose a ton of farm,
Hans-Summer gets another plate, gets his recall off before Kalista's.
So he's back out onto the map before the enemy AD carry who just got zoned away from bot lane.
Because of the heavy investment into the bot side,
Wulkenblade is then left isolated top,
who then grows his lead to about 800 on the top side.
And what was a 2.2k gold lead expands to a 3k, G2 leading kills,
Grubs are honestly whatever. Dragon is spawning in about a minute and a half, but due to slowly but surely a building up in lead, the KC are showing to stall.
Rock caught out here though by Yike. With the gravity field down the front just doesn't get a chance to move.
And as you say, it's this mid-jungle combo game for KC for Broken Blade. Looking for an all-in. I don't think it's really going to match to anything. Just some trade in the spells.
As soon as the wall-up hits and then you have the bolder toss to follow it up, I'm pretty sure Broken Blade knew he wasn't going to be able to close that gap.
Trying to use the backs he's finished to start the strike break the first to get that damage down on Zakana.
Again though we're seeing this kind of fallback plan from KC though when things get dire, just try to play around Yehu.
I mean the victor, he can definitely be a carry.
Well it's now.
And then Cupertapha.
Bibi with the dominance.
Yike tearing out the cranks.
Bibi dodging away with the slice and dies but Yike's still on the chase.
No plan for him.
Bibi trying to get on Zakana.
Can't really get close enough.
Hit by the wallet.
Followed by the vault breaker.
The slice, the dice, BB escapes!
They tried to gift the kill over to Karna!
I'm just like that, BB gets out!
Karna had no Meganar.
Like, he went Meganar, but he had no...
NAR!
He was actually using the fight.
So there was very little he could do to contribute.
So there was this awkward standoff way.
It was basically just Jake versus Broken Blade,
because Karna was way too low.
He's able to buy enough time to bring the E back up
and get away to safety.
Broken Blade gets a tower, gets away, and G2 get the first tower off the game.
A scary position for Casey to be in Dragon in eight seconds.
The Re...
The Re... The Re-call. That's what I was looking for.
The Re-call's coming through. I mean, they're not going to be in a good position.
They've got some wards littered, but Scumond, looks like he's making a beeline towards that objective.
A beauty going in. Once again, a two-level lead over Kana at this very moment.
Kana is about to take over to 12, a TP out, a voicenade, Duchess, as well pittons the eye cut his way!
It looked like he patted him on the shoulder as he sent him out the door.
I cannot believe that didn't hit, but it's perfect for G2!
Herald mid, will get the tower, will get the position on dragon, and they just get to rinse him for peace.
I mean, G2 are really just running circles around KC right now.
They're using the strength of their laners to punish their opponents.
taking advantage of the early jungle lead that Scumon was able to build.
And now they're just kind of dancing around and punishing every play that Casey tried to make.
Casey, they need to slow the game down, they need to get a little bit more of a foothold.
Because if they let things continue the way they are, things are going to be very dangerous as Caps.
He walks away to safety.
That was the quickness. Buccio ulted there.
Yeah.
And Caps just like, cool. Like, I'll get knocked up and I'll walk away. Cool.
That's not usually what you see from Buccio. Perhaps he was the one being called. We didn't quite see the start of the play.
That ultimate on cooldown for about 75% more of his time.
Tower in the mid lane, 4G2.
Schumann's gonna take away this Scuttle tab. Jaike has snuck behind him.
Kana's on the way across as well.
Skiu Mons might come down. He gets the Scuttle.
Kana trying to get across here. Jaike already knocked up and he doesn't win the trade.
He's two levels down, Schumann's blocking the ball break and Jyke has to burn the flash!
Schumann follows with the flash of his own beanie, punching down onto Kana too!
He's forced away, Jyke down! Kana almost follows suit!
Jungle versus jungle, top versus top, Jitu get the better of both roles.
The fact that KC even tried to contest that a questionable play from Jyke,
he's forced to retreat immediately and again it is in these moments that Jitu
you're just getting the better of their opponents.
And with that, Scumans will steal away more on this top side,
will make you even more uncomfortable.
And now, you just put this pressure balling.
Like that's the last remaining out of Turrets.
And with that, it feels like GT
kind of secure themselves position
for Dragon in three minutes.
They'll finish off the second items.
They are in such a strong spot
with this four and a half K Goldly.
In game two, the plays that Casey made were working.
They were getting kills.
They were slowing the game down.
They were removing options away from G2, but this time around they're not.
They've gone top lane twice and it's failed both times.
They haven't been able to kill caps.
They can't really find any plate on the map.
And look at Skirmann and BV.
All the Bash players are looking for a brawl.
They're getting chased out.
Yeah, he's stuck under his tower.
Huntsman walking away from Kalist.
Kandash as well with the cam made steps.
He escapes Kalist's clutches.
And this feels desperate, man.
This feels desperate.
Flash from Calist, Alte from Buccio,
Hans just has the ultimate response and walk away.
Now the threat of a dive in bot lane is very real.
Yeah, who uses the arcane storm to try and clear the way,
but G2 do not need the minions to die.
It feels like G2 looked at 20-25 and said,
you know what, not with an everything,
just isn't good enough.
Coming into LEC versus...
This is a statement.
And then what for?
KC are being corralled. G2 are hunting and his caps at the ball front,
ball breaker from Yike diving towards caps. The hostile takeover doesn't click Buccio.
He's separated from the team but he can battle those away. In the end the TP
just leads to KC scattering. Yeah, the TP looked scarier than it was because caps had no ults.
I thought it was BB and that's what it's scarier. Yeah, absolutely would have been.
But yeah, a bit of an ambitious play there from Caps.
They really had no resources, no ulti on Caps, no ulti on Broken Blade.
There wasn't much of a play there. At the very least, they forced KC back.
They alleviated some pressure in mids, but the goal just continues to grow.
KC's running out of options, and every desperate play they tried to make falls apart.
Next rate, 90 seconds away would be G2's sole point.
Two items left.
four Kallist, four KC. Perhaps they can put the weight of expectation on the shoulders of Lepeti Kornst.
Perhaps they can find a way for Kallist to carry. I think if Kallist still had his flash, maybe, but
being flashless against things like the cinger stone, their neckton, like yes, you've got
clans in your old foot, it still plumps you right back down in the middle of all that danger.
But Lucio still staying top, looking to just make some sort of pick on towards out lanes.
Again, you see that KC's period, they don't want to just give up and lie down.
They will keep fighting every step of the way.
KC at such a disadvantageous position.
They need to find a pick of some kind.
But I look at the levels, I look at the goals.
Things are not looking good.
Jaik is two full levels behind Schumann right now.
We sent this in game three though.
Yes, it was a different portion of the game.
But in game three, we were like, this pantheon is way too far ahead for KT to be able to find a way to fight back, but they found it and they fought.
And here they must do the same. Not quite a miracle, but something, a close approximation to one.
5,000 gold behind. Drake upping 10. Looks like KC might be giving this one up.
You can see Yike passing to the hex gates towards the topside. A couple of pins towards the ballon.
perhaps a sneak is an opportunity perhaps just vision their goal for now I think it's just trying to get as much gold into their hands as possible
I mean yeah who, well he is still nearly 800m behind, he's actually in a lowcase spot with two items completed,
he upgraded again, Merc's range as well, he's going to be relatively good against Cap's as I'll leave
This young, exhaust of Hunts Summer
Summer. Okay, just forces the ultimate out of Han Summer and then battle dances his way
away. When it becomes lightning, does not connect the spear, just missing Buccio's toes.
See a couple plays from Buccio now where he just drops the exhaust down. I thought he was
trying to threaten more of a play with his jungler right behind him, but it seems as
though he's just looking to get ready to use that unsealed spellbook.
Yeah, and I think that's why having access to unsealed spellbook, you need to rotate
through these spells very quickly and maybe there's a window and handsome is
off there and you can do something but you can say quickly that's back up it's
just fish for anything in this sort of situations.
Hi guys, you don't kill Broken Blade.
Big claps onto Broken Blade.
Yipe goes for it from this side of the way across Dominus, Pop, Broken Blade dashes out
and yeah you are correct that he did together do not kill Broken Blade.
I mean four of them might have been enough and I think it was smart of
Broken Blade not to like if there was a world where a cross map could
an option. I think he would have actually taken that fight. I think he would have said,
you know what, I'll take the challenge. If you commit four people to me, my team's going to get
a tower or something, but there was nothing really to play for on the map. So instead,
he just chose to commit the ult, get away the safety. He's close to level 16. Third point
in the ulti will put him in a very good position. But I mean, what else is there to say is,
right now G2, the goal just continues to go up. The gap continues to grow. The jungle
gap especially that is a three-level difference now.
Schumann is completely making fun of Jaikir in this game.
I think it makes a lot of sense that this G2 is doing so well.
Their core has been together for such a long period of time
when you look at Broken Blade, Cops and Hans-Sama.
They have played over a thousand one hundred days together.
That synergy means something but LeBron
flashes away, Boussir looks to engage, Jaikir for the follow up
and that is Hans-Sama down.
Brokeblade joined the fight, Buzio tried to dance away and manages to do so!
The NAR gets two cuts of guard out from G2 and they're the ones flashing away!
They're the ones retreating, Brokeblade dices!
And KC has sliced through the AD carry, is it now? A Baron play, Caps still has ult!
A single moment was all at top, KC found a pick on the hans and now they've set their sights on the Baron!
G2 are TPing back in.
BV had the TP and his ultimate.
Baron down to 7000, KC, one roll to the other.
The dice.
It's a snake, guys. It's a double sixes.
Yike in there, goes in with a ball,
break a break, my child, force him out.
He's gone! Yike no longer in the pit.
Break a blade with a barrel out.
Scuba takes it.
Yike, the power of the Yike.
Puts it in the dial, his cat.
Chases Buccio out, even flashing for the kill on the Rakan.
The Baron to G2 will sit
on Hansama and LeBrog. Caps will fall to Yahoo, who will be able to chase them out,
but two barons to G2 in a fight they just shouldn't have won.
They shouldn't have, but they all die.
Apart from Hansama, LeBrog, but like, okay, so in the fight,
creating games for Pooja and Hansama, the man does not get a chance to react.
And after Akana, getting this double knock into the wall was huge as Buccio is just a bit able to escape.
This was the moment that KC needed and while the baron did go down,
Shutdown's good law went to KC. The gold lead is dwindling.
So Yike has to make a difficult decision. Do I stay in the pit or do I get out?
Skuman takes the hex gate and uses it to get into the pit. We're back to live already!
This will be the last Baron buff for G2 and he doesn't have Flash.
Burn to the floor, the beauty of play. Wimble can't fight it. Buccio looking for the ball!
Casey continued to fight.
How the hell are Casey finding these plays?
Game, what game was enough?
But another game in Game 4 where they are holding on to the brink of this.
It's crazy to think that Calist's feathers was the start of this cascading effect.
A single pick on the Han Summer, ballooned into a barren play which while they did not secure it,
gave them a massive injection of gold and look at that gold difference 1.6k the lead vocalist
Infinity Edge, Essence Reaver and the Navori all completed the man is online the gold difference
reduced by three and a half thousand gold KC are not done just yet. 30 seconds into the dragon
the intro turns to Hansana he can't get back kind of might be able to keep him operating in that
top lane and TP into the fight as well. KC keeping up the pressure still and G2 how do they hold?
Kaps has hit the magical 120 splint as a rough as everything upgraded and that extra AP behind it
three items now on Hans Summer matching Callist in terms of full completed items
but the gold lead has shrunk to a thousand negligible at this point TP to the mid lane by
Oh, yeah, who yike in the pit kind of looking for the flank G2 haven't wanted
The broken blade will act as a bodyguard. Yeah, who puts a laser through them kind of building up that mega now
Almost has it the charm the quickness the hostile takeover only landing on the boot. Yo disengaging the fight and Casey could do that, too
kind of good look for the flash now here
G2 up against the wall the drake for Casey secured no soul yet for G2. They try and gain control of the mid lane wave
Of course back by KC. I mean the ball side camps are going to be enough for Yike. He's like I need gold
I need it to be I'm gonna take anything that I can take he's gonna steal away the red buff the fight doesn't explode
But I don't think he's upset about that
He will other really get his red buff, but a dragon denied away the soul denied from G2 and
KC they bought themselves more time this whole game. They've been looking for a way to slow G2 down
with this beating accelerator, Kana's trapped.
Jumps across, Skiwam goes in, Kana building up towards that mega,
and Arnaz gets the start on Skiwam.
Yacht coming in for a follow-up play.
Kana still pretty healthy.
He's going to flash away from Hunsama.
Glycreston got given Skiwam a second out.
Hunsama flashes forward.
Casey is getting to disengage.
The scouter of the week from Kana,
says not find it smart,
but G2 still find a kill.
Kana stays too long on the bottom side,
and that handshake from the broad
took him away from the safety of that Hextech portal.
portal. Callisto can still get the midway and at least have some gold into KC.
Okay, what felt like a foregone conclusion has now turned into a very
interesting situation. KC's continuing to stale up, scale up, three items finish
for Yehuu. Of course, caps with the gold lead in that mid-lane matchup, five
kills on the center for their items, they're the same. So KC have been
unable to close a really important gap.
GA now finished for Kana.
Once Yacht gets that item completed as well,
these fights will become very close indeed.
A single pick has completely swung the game.
G2 from such a dominant position,
ultimately throwing this lead.
Baron a minute 20.
A single fight is all it takes.
Got it to KC for finding that pick at the start
and then taking the fight afterwards,
and then taking the Baron fight afterwards,
and then finding LeBrov to kill off all the barons,
they've done the steps they needed to do
to get back into this game.
But it feels like KC just managed
to pull off these miracles.
Like, think back over playoffs where Giant X had the leads
and it's Yike pulling off steel after steel after steel
to keep them in the game, to take that 3-0.
Now against G2 of all organizations,
KC are finding whatever thread they can pull and pull and pull
G2 into these fights that they can win
Absolutely the scab of the week doesn't interrupt the recall. Lucio is waiting
In a position to find that quickness has cleansed himself right on the recant not something you can too commonly get your hands on
It's not for the Mikaels to four items now on Calist
Lord Dominic's regards joining the essence in the Navuri and the infinity edge
I mean, also, G2 not really playing much through their sidelines.
I understand why Casey feels the need to group, because for most of this game, they've been on the back foot.
But G2 have double TP available. They keep stacking his five in the mid lane.
These sidelines have just kind of been stagnant, which I think that when Casey was behind,
there's a good situation for them to be in, because it means that when those waves do eventually catch up, they can catch.
They don't have TP's available, so they have to group up in mid.
in mid. Jyke now level 15. The experience gap closed pretty significantly yet. We're doing what he
can to land what poke he can. G2 having to step into darkness is both of those job
with his predator for the stun. Naught out from Kana, but Bebe dodges it. Doesn't get caught
against the wall but still no vision control gained for G2. Stumeon will become planning
plans onto two. It was Rob trying to position for that hostile takeover. Jyke on the flank,
He's spotted on a control ward, you can see how minimal the vision is that G2 and managed to establish here in the river now
They'll step forward
And that's what case he had a great job of playing around that they should like only just be inspired of Lucio's item bottom
Lucio touches away with the ground entrance
Damn it
Trying to push forward here more, a few more down the TV behind my breakmate
Yacht misses the ball, break your hands for Sniper now, broken bait on the TP looking for correct and they'll die
It's him, don't you?
GA available to this guy to do home summer.
Yet trying to get him to cash,
Grogba slicing across the north from Kanna.
Hustle taker of a cast.
Wall back with a bailout with the other coward on nothing.
Meanwhile on the top side, Kanna had to GA to his owner.
Skumann tries to survive through it.
All of the GA young Kanna is propped.
So is the wannabe, the Skumann dies back in
and kills off Lucio with 2D3 now.
Grogba goes in with a strike breaker.
Yabu Sloan, stunned up, locked up, taken out.
KC threw everything that they had, and it's Kana throwing G2 into a wall that is a wall
G2 can't get through!
Unbelievable that Callis just gets melted at the start of this fight.
Skuemon goes monster mode as he basically single handedly removes the AD carry,
but he holds onto his ult using it at the last second.
Get snipe by Hans Summer, the charm comes through, and then here comes the Megadar.
The charm comes through and then here comes the Megadar.
Mimol on the back line, Katz is being soloed by Yike.
The jungle is doing so much for both sides.
Broken Blade in the brawl.
We have to go back to life because the dragon is being secured.
But what a back and forth.
Jungle and Sublane are supporting,
doing everything they can to keep their teams alive.
And crucially, yeah, who stayed up in that place?
Hansama and Broken Blade put all eyes on the KC mid laner,
But they couldn't take down the victor. He could keep the damage going and KC for the first time in this game
have a gold lead in their favour.
I mean we're seeing more and more how hard it is for G2 to come to really play into this.
You've got two melee champions that Xayah really punishes hard and now they're going to have to face check into this Baron.
Can they actually gain the space? This is melting.
in the bot lane, now he's TPing up to join this party.
That's all KC wanted.
Ski Monk doesn't keep the Baron out,
but G2 will gain control around this.
But with Kada and Yehu having their TPs
and BB in camps and knocked,
side lanes become so much trickier for G2.
I mean, you have to imagine that in the G2 camp,
they're now asking questions
because the fights are getting harder.
Target acquisition is getting much more complicated,
whereas for KC, they're riding the high.
The gold swing that they've been able to bring back,
The fights that they continue to win, like the momentum is so much in favour of Casey,
but now the pressure is being put onto Casey as G2 sets their sights on the Baron.
Now it's Yehuu's spot lane.
G2 to start the Baron to try and draw that teleport out.
Yehuu will have to respond to this.
The EIC puts the control ward in the pit.
Skiyamon's going to clear it out.
There's TP in by Yehuu, G2 back awake.
We've seen this dance before.
It's cut-lip! It's chunked to half by Katz.
Yehuu with a laser will put a little bit of damage back into broken.
They've got nothing too consequential.
Kana dashing away with slow death.
Kana has no light steal. He has to go back to base.
G2 aren't letting them.
They're just chasing down the members of KC,
trying to keep them scattered
so they can't really get back to base.
And then G2, who's started up the bar in,
absolutely can't do us.
Absolutely has to stay around.
Has the red buff not enough healing for him?
They've knocked up onto Han Solo.
Is there any in that Baron pit?
Yeah, he's still in the middle.
They're now working across.
Kana doesn't have the mega,
And G2 immediately turns on to hit, Hostile takeover, and Nikolang on to Yehuu.
Levov doesn't find his man with it, Ban resets G2 back away.
What did they get? The Arcane Storm in exchange for the Transcend oneself and the Hostile takeover.
Kana still looking for the flank.
The Red Bulls has healed up to this. Kana in front of them!
Kana! Kana! The quickness!
It's KC all the time! And Buccio dies onto the back line!
It's beautiful for the Carmine Corp as they wipe away G2.
Skumon left standing but not for long.
This arena is blue.
Skumon, though, begins to turn it around about breaking in.
He dies, KC.
Now make a B-line from mid lane and with four still alive,
this should be the next.
At the start of this game, it looks like KC would take Silver.
But by the end, we are going to Silver Scrapes!
One more for Casey.
They've done the unthinkable that won from impossible positions.
One more, now needed for Casey.
What a comeback game for Casey.
In game three, they were behind and fought back.
But in game four, what a monstrous turnaround performance.
KC bring us the game five analysts take it away
I
Oh my god, what is going on in this final here in Barcelona two games ago KC?
We're dead and buried they managed to pull one come back
They managed to put it again here, and they're taking us to get five all the nice
They never make it back
But man, 5k gold down and they managed to put such a miracle comeback.
And it all comes down just like last winter through massive cannon or ultimate.
He suddenly finds the clutch fight just like it in last winter.
And it looks right now like history is about to repeat Jack Spectrum.
And momentum has shifted like this game.
It was a 5k gold, as you said, although it looked like G-Tour going to win,
but it feels like mentally right now G2 are not how they were in the first two games because I know if this was game 3
G2 is 3-0. What happened guys? You know what it is?
Second win. 12 games down. The tank is empty, but games like this are exactly what turns everything around now
All of a sudden there's an adjuset jack. There's a huge momentum shift and all of that from behind you is
rallying you up into this next game. Yeah, the fans never doubted them
They have been playing here on this very stage for the past three days.
They went back here from the loser bracket, they did it against GX,
they did it after five games against MCO yesterday,
and they're taking G2 to five games yet again.
How did they make this comeback happen here?
I mean, it just felt like it was Kana and Yikes' show, really.
Like, Kalista didn't have that crazy DPS that we were looking for,
But it was the bruisers of KC that just fight after fight fought it out really.
It was both top sides that were doing all the heavy lifting.
I mean leaving to Kana and Jaik to defeat G2 in a winter finals.
What an absolute performance.
I think Jaik in these teamfights bought so much space.
If you look at caps in these fights, Jaik is always on his trail.
Just look here how he marks the Syndra time and time again.
It's kind of poetic the way they're doing it because as we said on one side you have Kana on NAR signature champion
You have Yike on Vi in famous champion for him and he said it time and time again
Guys you keep on doubting me on this champion. It is not cursed
I have it and he had it in him here
This was honestly the best game to show this kind of performance because after what happened early game
Skewmond was running him around it was the early invade kept track of him the whole game at one point
He was two levels down and on vibe, something that everyone, fans and even on just criticized
from him.
He manages to keep it back.
Although, Amne, explain to me what it's like to win two games in a final.
Game three, you're winning the early game handedly.
Game four, you are running the early game, but somehow, somewhere the enemy team finds
a way to fight back.
Going into game five, how do you find the strength to bounce back?
That was disgusting Fin, but go on, please answer that!
That's how it feels, right?
That's how it feels from the other side, right?
Because that sucks, right?
So when you're up to 0, especially in game 4,
because I had this situation the same, where you're like 5k gold up,
about to win the game, you get a heartbreak over defeat.
It's hard, because I wasn't able to do it.
It's hard, so the mental pressure and the mental load on G2 now into that locker room
In these 10 minutes of break or however much it is until they go back from that stage, it's unbearable.
Do you think they can do it, guys?
I mean, it's not just on the right, it's LeBron as well, who also got reverse swept against, and I wonder if, like, for me, they get a stinker.
This game, on the run, I was really liking how he played the first few games, but mentally, if there's one player on G2 that's starting to crumble, I feel like it's LeBron.
What is it going to come down to, Finn, in the last game?
Look, we're in Game 5 Fearless right now.
Anything can happen and it's all about
who's got the bigger pockets to dig into.
How wide is your champion ocean?
That, I think, is my saving grace for G2.
If there's one team that I trust
in a Game 5 Fearless, I think it's G2.
It has been about resilience here for KCW.
They bring us the very first ever G2 reverse sweep
and go victorious against all three days of the weekend.
We'll crown the LEC versus champion after the grab.
But for now, let's turn up Southern Scraves.
1,104 games of LEC versus later he we are for the very last one it is
G2 versus KC, a completely different series from what we had at the beginning of the day.
G2 had the upper hand, they had complete control over their day.
It was theirs, and then KC came back.
I mean it's gonna feel so bad for G2.
Like it was in their hands of both Game 3 and Game 4,
and now you're going into Game 5.
I mean, I predict that G2 to win 3-1.
Well, I predict that G2 to win 3-2, Jack Spectra.
But the five's not going to go, Jack Spectra.
I'm still standing.
I'm still standing.
Come on, it's fierce, Jack Spectra.
We've got to have some faith. We predict the G2, a R2 in the beginning of the day.
And I stand by that. I think coming into this game five, it all comes down to the mentality and the draft.
The two pillars of your team. And I think that when it comes to draft, KC have still been shaky.
I would like G2's draft in general. But look at so many champions that have been taken out.
You've got to get extremely creative at this point.
What are you looking at here?
I'm looking at KC finding more creativity because this is the first time where G2 goes to G5.
Even in scrims, when you practice and all the stuff, you can never be ready for G5.
So you never really are like, it's the end of the day.
We're not going to really take it so seriously.
But KC has been here before.
They have been forced to duck him.
And I do bet that they will find a solution for this.
Because the champions like Alistar, we can really see a repeat of the Khazigs.
They're still, you know, they're still the Kasate open.
I thought I hope we were not seeing that.
I want to see bloodbath.
I want to see bloodbath everywhere.
But I'm sure that KC will find a creative solution.
Both lane in the series hasn't been the most meaningful, most impactful.
We're going into game 5, we saw it yesterday.
They want the Kalista, Renata, KC, they want crazy.
And we have two fantastic Kalista players, two fantastic Draven players.
I want to see them really battle it out in the both lane.
And if they're not feeling as spicy, they can be off here.
And that's it. I will end up with Jack Spectre Cook.
I love that absolutely.
I really want to see the Kalista-driven matchup.
I want to see the confidence from these two AD carries.
Looking at mid. We have not seen Yehu being this push in the pool.
Yesterday we saw the Galio, right? We saw the Galio come out.
Wasn't super relevant that game. So I really wonder how he's going to deal with caps.
I have my eyes, as I said at the beginning of the day, on the Zoe.
I think the playmaker, when the games go this far, are so powerful.
But realistically, anything that happens in this game is going to be possible today
because there's just so many OP's open. At any point they can just decide to be like,
Let's leave our 0 open. Let's leave all of the perma-bans open from the first 4 games.
Let's leave them all open and have a jolly old blockbath.
So, regardless, anything we say is completely useless.
You know what, guys? I want to talk a bit more about the players and what does that take here.
But there is one element that we have not really mentioned yet.
The sixth player, FKC, the blue wall.
They're here. They're loud and Shox is standing by with them right now.
And head up the game.
Oh my god!
They're actually gonna do it!
They're actually gonna do it!
They're actually gonna do it!
Hey!
Are you? We will win!
I didn't believe you!
I believe me!
Do you believe in game 5? Do you believe in game 5?
Of course! This is Garmenton!
Molo!
The effort, the effort!
I'm faking G2's been wavering, but with UFN I can still hold strong.
Look, the fans are here, they're outnumbered, they're outgunned, but their boys are not
out yet.
They are screaming, shouting for every play that KC makes, and I want to bring it back
to what we said about Bucio.
Game 3, he picked an auto-disk, game 4, the Rakan, he is pivotal, and if you do
Do not give this man, engage in game five.
I will lose my marbles.
No, I'm surprised.
You two just first pick here.
I would expect that he would choose maybe
last pick in game five and get a younger pick.
Maybe they're hoping to get one of those
permanent lands off of like all the other ones.
Exactly.
Because when you're going to game five
and everything is over,
you have the argument of going red side
and going, you know, last pick,
finding the counter picks,
but you also hold all of the cards.
You get to manage every single three
that can happen into this next round.
You can't secure that power pick.
This is going to hopefully give you the win and deny this reference sweep.
Look, when it comes to this, all the coaches are sitting backstage with multiple Google documents open
and they are scribbling, looking for straws, and they're going through all the simulations where the OPs are banned.
As you see over there, if you leave all the OPs open, we are in for a world of pain.
It all comes down to this one final game between these two teams.
For KC, it's about proving that the rebuild, the addition of these two players is finally paying off, and that they can hoist the trophy once again, as they did last winter.
And for G2, it all ends with success for here, and it has to end with success for them here in winter as well.
Can they do it, or are they going to get reversed for the very first time in the history of the organization?
Castors, over to you.
I mean, I'm happy that we got five simply because last year's winter 30 case you came up through the lower bracket. They just stopped you to came super well prepared and ironically it was kind of gnar with that crazy pleasure.
Last year's winter 3-0 Casey came up through the lower bracket
They just stomp G2 came super well prepared and ironically it was Connor's
No, with that crazy play that he was able to make that was so game-changing
Helping them secure that here and then G2 in the final that they won in Madrid another 3-0
It was just a clean sweep dominant performance
But Casey have fought back
Valiantly and now it all comes down to this yesterday Casey clutched up that game five come they do it again today
And if you're G2 you're gonna be happy to have that information because one of the questions we had coming into yesterday was
What's the depth of KC champion pool?
What's the depth of their play style and they completely mix it up on us with a Kali with the casics
Working through that top side playing for yike
And if you're G2 having that info trying to keep that yike in check is going to be important
40 champions of the menu
Still 130 left for us to pick. They've got a wealth of options.
And we are falling down in terms of meta picks.
Game parts are always the best, because there's something that's going to spice up the draft.
There has to be. With Azir taking off the board of Felios Rexai,
the Varus now looking to join the pool. Lulu still up and available.
The Rexai says neither the G2 or I think it'll put him broken by it on a tank.
This is probably been the answer to it. The Sion, the Cassante, these kind of things
have been still left open. So I have to see exactly what that first call is.
Can I raise you a Doppler vane top lane?
That's what B-Skills been hoping for. This is the game, this is what.
That's what I'm hoping for. LaLulu will now be banned by G2.
What will the final ban be from KC? Will it be something like a tanky top side?
Will it be directed towards that bottom lane? Things like Zerid, Tristana, Misfortune,
There's still plenty of AD carries that these players could look towards.
The Niko is still up and available as well.
Oh, that's a big one, not as a super big one.
I think that's where the focus might be, but it's the case of,
do you give the toss up of the Siren or the Niko with this Ahen?
Okay.
Taking some power away from Schumann.
This Ahen, absolutely devastating.
G2, is it first pick Niko?
Is that where we're looking?
You want to put that much pressure on your support?
And a game like this, the Rock did not have a great game for it, struggled on the Minardo
to have as much impact in fights as he could.
The Hover, they're using the full-time, of course, this is a complicated draft with so
many things taken out of the pool.
On top of the bands, they're going to use the full 30 seconds and they're going to
secure that Niko.
So plenty of ADC's that you can pair alongside this.
If you want something really strong, something like the MF as a possibility to give you
a little bit more lane dominance, we've already heard the analysts there talking about
Calista, Draven as a possibility as well depending on how aggressive you want to
play the bot lane 2 versus 2. What is the response here from KC? It's really
difficult to predict when we're so deep into the pools.
Also who you want to put your weight on? I do think though you can still fall back
on to what has worked for Buccio. The Alistar available, decent into the
Niko because you can have it away which looks from the gauge and imagine
that's what we're trying to look for in the bottom side of the map but
So there we are, the sign was what we were saying with that Wreckside band, more than likely going to be at the play.
We'll have to see exactly what they're going to pair to say, what Aurora was banding that last game.
And yeah, who's going to be happy to snap shot one up.
Ooh, Aurora.
Definitely a bit of a risky pick. I mean, she has really good lane dominance.
She can do a ton of burst damage, but she's relatively short range.
And I have to credit Finn.
If you want something that can like out range this Aurora, Zoe is a possibility.
Solid wave clear, you can stay well out of arms reach of the Aurora, at least during the
laning phase.
The Kaisa are going to be the champion of Forehand Summer.
So a lot of time already being built up and there's the Kled, an old school response
that we've seen from Broken Blade a lot last year into the summer.
Something that can provide that chase down and enable things like the Niko for them
to engage was, I think, yeah, just go for the Anacer.
It has been to me one of Bucio's best champions and honestly, I think he's performed better in the other side than he has on the Barrett, which was his namesake.
So Comfort at least, it feels like for that bottom side. And James had some decent performances on the Aurora as well.
So beyond G2 next, see if they can make this Nico really find that leverage and make it that first pick worthy.
Slight mismatch in terms of what we've got picked from this first rotation, it's top mid support on the side of KC.
I'm going to have the MF taken away from Calist.
Trying to live with that bottom side.
I like the trundle and this jungle attention coming through from KC.
Trundle obviously good into the Sion.
But also a lot of the jungle tents are now slipping over towards things like
Sejuani, the Malkai yikes at the start of the day.
Never played Sejuani again, but maybe required to see what happens as
more people are coming in.
Never played such one again, but maybe required to see what happens as more and more of that pool gets pinched
One of the dive options
They're gonna take that off the board 80 carries
Will they continue to be the focus it would make a lot of sense?
I mean how worried are they about scaling Zerry could be something that concern about Tristana is another possibility
Give good lane phase will also be some kind of disengage as well
The lane phase is going to be a struggle for this Alistair, at least the early portion of it.
Lucio, an incredible Alistair player, probably at top of our league.
I mean, I think some people would argue that Aldro is up there.
So, there he is, the ban. Could call on that, Betty.
So, Callister is now something that I'm thinking about.
Well, I might have thought where Vane is an old-school counter to Kaisa,
because she's just at ranges. And Callister is a driven player.
Ah, I think that's way too ambitious.
There's no way. No, no, no, no, no.
He's just teasing the crowds.
There's no way.
Oh, Maokai! Okay.
Okay.
So now KC needs damage.
They need like a jinx.
They need something kind of hyperscaly.
Because right now they just don't have enough.
Like, you've got a ton of utility.
You've got great engage.
But that front to back is going to be the most important part.
And KC needs something that can dish out the DPS.
Yes. Callist, the eggs are going to be put on him.
I'm looking at the facecams now.
He is looking at the rest of his team saying,
there's an intense conversation that is going on.
How will G2 respond?
That's Ristana.
Could actually be really good here.
We're going to place the knockback on the Miko.
The ability to jump away from something engaged
because you're kind of a one note tune here for G2
with the way that they're playing heavily reliant
on this clan to speed up a lot of their units
into place, especially, I think,
as they just lock in the Skarner there.
Where is Kaps going to go into this Aurora?
We talked a little bit about the possibility of a Zoe.
And Nivia, a little bit more control in terms of zones.
The ability to put down the glacial storm is locked in.
Now we see the AD carry.
I mean, I kind of waited with that in breath.
I mean, is it something like a Jinx?
Is it something a little bit more aggressive?
My expectation is the Jinx.
I feel like they need to dodge.
I see Bruce.
You're nodding.
He's nodding.
They seem to have agreed on something.
Okay, this works.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's a little bit short-ranged into Anivia.
I can't say that I love it
because you are a little bit more prone to, I mean,
well, dying, but ultimately,
Sibir works very well in a front to back composition.
She's got so much peel.
Sion, Maokai, Alistair,
she has all of the frontline that she needs
to act as the late game hyper carry,
whereas G2, they're looking to create
a little bit more chaos in the fight.
Control around these neutrons
gonna be so important with the amount of zone control they provide. Think about
anivia wall for ultimate, the amount of space she can create, also the nico
ultimate, the clad ultimate, the one more common potential is there for g2 and if
they kill, Calist, the damage largely disappears. It is hard though for g2 to
try and find these kind of fights because if you try and engage off a
flank, yank throws out the ultimate, denies any sort of follow-up, you can
deal with that flank fresh. Same account I've been able to buy a lot of space.
the actual ways for G2 to get in I think are going to be kind of difficult
like I really like that Casey kind of got this big zone control themselves
I guess on the opposite side what is the kind of short-range composition in its own sink?
I mean I'm excited we didn't get anything super crazy coming out
everything is a little bit predictable but at the same time it creates a super interesting story
Because for Casey, we've seen monster moments from Kana throughout this weekend.
Jyke has been able to claw the team back in the clutch when he's needed to most.
Yeah, who has been super consistent.
But the person that's been the most up and down I feel has been Kallis.
He's the player that's made those mistakes while also having strong carry performances.
But here, with a draft like this, Casey is fully trusting in him.
Last year he shouted across the stage, remember my name.
And with a composition like this, he's setting himself up to go into first stand as being a superstar.
And G2 is looking to shut back down.
He's a player as well, but Kacia put their faith in for a long time.
Upset was brought into the squad with the knowledge that Calist would be raised in his place.
for G2 on the other side. It is a struggle. 2-0. Winning in game 3, winning in game 4,
unable to bring it home. Now looking down the face of the first reverse sweep that
has ever happened to them in a final. A repeat of last winter, losing to KC,
not going to first and not getting to fight against the best in the world.
I mean for G2 they have their own legend in the making.
Skumont was brought in to this roster knowing full well what he was capable of doing in the
LFL and G2 molded the team to fit him to set him up to be a Kari and he may have seen some
incredible Kari performances from Skumont here today.
Now he has to dig deep to find that moment one more time to work with an already made
legend in that mid lane to see if they can secure one more trophy for the G2
organization. They have a small issue loading in rooms in the game so the game
is being remade. We're just going to be playing in about three minutes so we have to remake the draft.
We're just building the texture, building the drama. We're getting into draft
remade, getting the players ready but my goodness yeah I mean you mentioned
Schumann and I really want to echo that sentiment. He's genuinely had a
spectacular finals. Like if G2 win he is right now my front runner for player of
the series just because I think that he's been super consistent he's been able to
find such good early games and he's been so impactful for this G2 squad
throughout the entirety of this playoffs and it's been a really fun
jungle matchup to watch. The fact that SKYMON has been able to build these
leads, find these opportunities, Jyka has had to fight his way back, find
opportunities of his own, largely working with Fusio to make things happen. And it's a close back
and forth that really is anyone's game to take. And on the upside for Jaik, it does feel like he's
really starting to break off the mold or the shackles that a lot of people had put him in coming
out of G2. He couldn't play Vi. Well, he's just had a fantastic performance on the Vi where
his engages set up that lead working with Fusio, or at least that comeback working with Fusio.
He's now playing things like the Kazakhs that he was famous for in the LFL
The reason he got noticed by G2 in the first place
And he's now got a team that is willing to support him in those endeavors
Know that he's capable of bringing them not only to finals
But maybe to one more trophy lift depending on how this game goes and then they put him on Malachi
But it's my choice this time
We don't. Okay. Well, as the draft gets ready, as a reminder, this is the final game of this final
best of five here at the LEC versus the winner of this will represent the LEC at first stand.
The loser, I mean, it's going to feel frustrated because whether it is G2 taking the trophy and
KC being one game short of the reverse sweep or if it's KC taking home the win and then G2
being 2-0 up, being in winning positions in two games and then failing to close it out.
Someone is leaving this arena incredibly frustrated with the outcome at this fest.
I think either way though, it is no longer a case of saying that G2 just owns LEC, even
with the win here.
They even pushed to the very limit, M-CoY pushed KC to the very limit yesterday.
There is new stars rising up constantly in the LEC and I think for so many French
fans at KC Win would be huge to show that those roster moves at the end of the year have made
the difference that the team is starting to really come together in a cohesive manner.
But for G2 it's to show that this project has actually paid off that the investment over that
last year 2025 can net them something at an international level. I mean I think the
LHC has wanted this for a long time they wanted someone to challenge you to at the top and
Last year we were extremely lucky to have KZ winning, Koi winning into the G2 win.
Showcasing the top of the table really is super competitive.
Even if the finals themselves weren't always as competitive.
But now we get our five game series. We see the changes coming to fruition for KZ.
Can they make the reverse we've happened?
Oh, G2 stamped their authority on the league and walked away with the trophy.
The draft has been fully remade.
We'll be into game in about a minute's time.
The last game, Rbelly C versus a split that has had incredible highs and also a lot of
lows for a lot of the team supporters.
The G2 and KC in all comes down to this.
One final time, you see the loading screen, one final time you take to the left to
try and claim that trophy.
in front of the fans here in
battle loan up in front of the
fans all watching at home with
dated breath one more time and
step back.
And for G2 it's been three one
more times in a row.
This their third finals point
their third championship point
for Casey having fought back
from zero to down from a five
in game three. From a massive
disadvantage in game four. It
feels like the gods themselves
are on the side of KC. And
there's a lot of really
interesting stories specifically
around the champion, so. A fun
fact about caps. He's the one
that really pushed and I guess
introduced. I think it's a
I feel like that his impact on Namibia, I mean we know for a fact that Faker himself said that like I was inspired by seeing caps play the champion
He's been playing it for a very long time
The most famous story you had about it was when he went up against Jojo at MSI all those years ago and Jojo joke
What is this chapter? I've never seen it before. I will say just as a cloud player in recent times caps has been the person that's introduced everyone
I don't want to forget Froggin. Froggin was the guy.
Yes, of course, of course, absolutely, absolutely.
That is unequivocal.
I would never dismerch the likes of myself.
But the interesting thing about it is now here in game five,
bringing out the Inivia,
it's just something that he has a huge amount of comfort on.
And in the same vein, like when we think about Kana,
a lot of people said that like, if he's not on carries,
then they can't win.
And this was actually a story for them last year
when they got knocked to the lower bracket.
It was when he was playing things like Sion into G2
that they lost that upper bracket match.
We heard from the coaches then saying, no, no, no.
We can't have Kana playing these tanks.
We need to have him having impact.
They were a very top focused team,
but now they fully trust in his ability.
They know that they can trust the rest of the team to carry,
and we see the evolution of him as a player
and his impact on KC.
The thing is though, last time KC were facing G2,
Kana was on tanks, was broken blade,
got better off.
This time though, Kana kind of getting the better off.
Well, the thing is though,
Mark said, like, now you're meant up, you're still kind of okay.
Yeah, Jouts forward, we'll get the pullback with the Bear Trap on a road.
Doesn't want to use a Jouts to get to time underneath that tower.
Kind of okay, and definitely okay, a two different beast.
But the thing was, the point I wanted to make,
is that Broken Blade set the record for the most damage
ever dealt by a top laner in the LEC versus Kana when he was playing tanks.
It was on the blend and it absolutely destroyed Kana,
thanks to an early game from Schumann.
Not going to be the case in this game,
but certainly Gropin playing.
Oh, they wanted to find answers on this Clare-de-Scyon,
and now he trusts it in a game five.
All right, well, Cap's going to take full advantage of his passive.
I think proffing it very early on in the lane phase.
I think not a bad idea, but I'm expecting him to play soon.
New one in the bot lane while we've been yapping away.
Look at the CS discrepancy that's been built up.
The Kaiser plus Nico.
Oh, hang on a minute.
BB, BB, BB.
Decimating Smash coming out, Yikes almost there,
BV flashes, there, trouble, look, we'll get the pullback of BV.
Dismounts before we can.
Yike now trying to trade back onto Brokeaway,
but the violent tendencies means he will remount.
Forces Yike away, Kana had to burn the Flash,
it was exchanged on the bottom lane,
LeBrot burnt Flash and Heal for just Fuseo's Heal.
Gets the Rugo on Summer on the chase
with the Void Seeker first!
Blast!
To the near top, to the near top, though!
It shows impact, lands on Jakarta,
no escape for him underneath the tower.
He will fall and can't get to the waves that quickly
to really use the zombie pattern.
We've been watching scraps happen across the rift,
but it is G2 that walk away victorious.
A good gank in the top lane from Skumon,
a 2v2 outplay in the bottom lane.
G2 off to the races here in game five.
G2 is exactly how you want to start this,
But after seeing the last two games, still it's honestly, in my mind, as the heavy carry forward.
Yeah, having a lead doesn't mean much.
Yes, yes, yes.
They've seen the recent evidence, that's absolutely true.
But certainly, control for broken bait on top is crucial.
Controlling this bot side even better, to be honest.
Look at the lead, so much a thousand goals between LeBruyne and Hansammer combined.
Over, Kalis and Goussir, you do expect the Alistair to struggle in the early game.
I thought the electrocute with the passive there from the air, who would be enough, he is absolutely pushing Kaps to the very brink, Kaps will back and TP back.
So in the end, just grabs those items, yep, okay he does.
I think he really wanted to come back with a catalyst, but he doesn't quite have the gold.
We'll come back to mid lane, get level 6 now that he's got the ultimate, the lane phase should be a little bit easier for him.
But yeah, I mean, with so many of the eggs on the Callis basket, him being behind is not
an ideal start for Casey's laning phase.
Again, though, scaling is something I think, Casey, do you have a decent amount of, the
question will largely come down to how these, how G2 execute these fights.
Can they just eliminate Callis before we can dish out any damage?
And I do think Yahoo kind of do a decent job of kind of being that great in the
late game as well.
Like, I was going to say, oh, for one item, kind of two.
who is very strong and especially if he's able to use the lead that he's now gaining to try and lean
in towards his bottom side, provide a bit of support to Kalista Buseil, I think that can be something
human having control on this level six, but take over it, in the case he can fight this.
Well, get this, well, Yike goes in for it, gets the smile on the Scuttle Cup, gets the six,
between worlds, they give a skew and have to flush away, Yike will fall for us,
but now Hans-Summer's caught in the pit, and Casey collapsed on him, and the final order of Boomerang
finds his mark and returns the gold to Calist.
The one for one in the end, the exchange.
Well, with the jungler going down, there is no hope of getting the dragon,
it will just be the push for Pussy, or still fishing mid.
The brav should be able to escape away with this.
But now, like, look, Kalista, Anglebars, Buccio locked up in the Glacier, so on Buccio, down!
How now, round Kal, taken out by Kalista and LeBron.
Disrespect from Buccio as Kaps and LeBron find the punish.
Another kill goes over the G2 and the target selection here from KC seems a little bit divided.
They start by going onto Kax, then turn their attention onto Skumon, then Yeh who goes through the ulti.
But Kalista isn't even there yet.
Skumon, healthy enough to get out of the fight.
Hans-Sama finds himself trapped, kind of wastes the flash,
still losing his life off the back end.
But then Bousyo, of course, having another kill over,
after overstaying in mid.
I think he caught it there. Yeah, who's going through that ultimate
a little bit too early?
That Skumon managed to escape, could have been the 2-for-1.
But again, Bousyo, mistakes on the other side.
We were just praising him for how good he was on this pick.
He sticks around too long in the mid.
The biggest winner of this is Caps. The fact that Anivia has gotten two kills in the early game completes the catalyst already getting some early magic resistance to help with the matchup.
Caps doesn't normally like to go for tier on the Anivia. Usually he goes raw of ages straight into Leandri's so that she can spike a little bit earlier.
So the fact that he's gotten these kills accelerates this scaling mid-nade.
I won't say that Kalista is a winner after, but he's definitely put himself back in even though
because he managed to crash away from boss, got the kill and also a place.
So definitely making things a little bit easier. Boussion, FaZe Rush crucial for him getting away.
Yeah, using the heel for the extra movement speed,
tagged up, gets himself out with that FaZe Rush and the move speed,
but goes in doesn't really achieve as much as he'd like.
Caps now, he's got plenty of mana clearing out the way, very easy.
After being harassed down by Yahoo in the early game,
He can now push and move push and move and that's what caps loves to do. He's to be a bit cautious. Just don't have his flash
You do things like this clear out vision for spite gonna follow Yahoo death a little bit of extra damage
The less you can see camps absolutely, you know absolutely the threats of him just moving to the fog of war
You're completely right medic. See what did you do that Betty?
I pushed the wave and moved. Absolutely.
I mean they're both moving potentially down towards this bottom side.
The wave is there, level six from the broad,
but it looks like they're just going to be happy to take the dragon instead,
as it will be the trade for Yike towards the void grubbs.
Cap's also grabbing those honey fruits to top up this HB,
going to push another wave. My look for a cheeky recall as well.
Maybe he looks to pick up that blasting one,
to give him a little bit more damage in the one versus one.
Oh, Broken Blade's looking at Yike here.
Three grubs already completed.
Yike could look to the chase.
Estimating Smash.
Fuck it.
Pistol gets him just out of range.
Nature's grass though there.
To the follow-up, and Broken Blade can't get back on Skull.
A Bramble Smash puts Broken Blade six feet under.
A nice punish by Yike.
The way they played that was all TP.
Who's here? Who's here?
TP behind.
Hans Sommert doesn't have the flash.
We used the Ghost and the Killer Instincts.
Trying to get out of Tramble Range and manages to do so.
Very slow moving TP.
He crosses along. Investing that early means that Caps, he's going to get more gold in the middle lane.
It's a scary situation because you have to remember that while Caps has largely been quite quiet in this series,
the more gold you give him, the more opportunities he has to make plays.
And now, yeah, he's trapped. He's completely zoned away from the midway.
Yeah, but the bot needs to be a little bit cautious. Not as tanky as Skardos, Sked would suggest.
Still, they do keep Yahoo away from the wave.
above now set forward, Skiyman still just doing his jungle pass,
Stormail first, Vikana,
up into Broken Blade on the scull, on the scull, on the clan.
As Guccio is forced to wait.
Does still have that unbreakable will, the Hannaster Ultimate.
Huge damage reduction if so required.
It's mostly posturing from both sides at the moment though,
seeing if they can find any sort of crack in the armor.
Not really too much to show from KC,
but you already kind of said it caps up.
Oh, no!
Bad, Bad, Buccio flash!
Progrise to the floor, and Stevo's coming in, looking for the impair!
Lads it on two!
And then poor Buccio back, Kalis uses the barrier!
Buccio almost falling on Summer!
Not gonna flash forward, but they fall anyway!
Stevo's passive, getting the kill on the cow!
Kalis goes down two!
The idea was to punish the flank from the broth,
but Kalis actually flashes in to try and get that kill onto the Nico.
Heavily committing onto that play. Boussir sees the flank. Nice engage, good flash follow-up.
But then watch Khalees. He flashes in, the auto doesn't finish off the block, gets double-aulted by Sku-Mond,
and then Hans and Sku clean up the kills.
I don't know what happened to the spell shield in that one though, because I don't know if he used it just before,
or if maybe the timing on the W was right from Sku-Mond, but I'm surprised that the spell shield from Khalees didn't go through.
8 didn't 4kc. Not quite sure Rob, but the G2 dividends after dividends after dividends.
800 gold lead now for your 80 carry. Stumond a little behind in gold himself, a cap back
to seal 202 now on this scana. Has the hard steel completed. Yike with the Leandries
first strike here on the Melkite. Is there a sapling to do a bit of work? Caps. They'll
still have the flash base restored to the slow.
Rambo smash for the knockback between worlds we go.
The nature's guards comes out from yanking,
doesn't find its mark on the Anivia.
Nice attempt.
Try to make something happen in mid,
but unable to converse.
So KC, Setharize, moving towards that top side
and trying to get some vision into Skiamon's jungle
despite what he's up to.
I'm just going to go back to base.
They do get the flash out from the Anivia.
A bunch of flashes are now unavailable
It's Hans-Sama who's first to complete his roll quest one one and three on the kaiser a 1k gold lead for him
In the previous game it was his you know, they got caught by the feathers of Callis
He's really gonna have to have a strong performance today because I mean kaiser in this position
It's a scary champion to play all these tanks all this CC that's on the other side if you all too early
then that could put you in a very dangerous spot.
If you're all too late, then maybe you don't follow up from the engage that LeBord was trying to set up for you.
Ticks over to level 9, as he now makes his way up towards top lane.
They see her trying desperately to get Killist out of this matchup against Han Samma though.
They sent him top, Han Samma shows on top lane and immediately Kanna resets so they can match Klaed against Killist.
G2 can use this to just get some turf plays though and continue to open up this lead for Han Samma.
stop of a longsword, SKU1's gonna get in the way of it, becomes a relatively stop of a longsword, the pop-watch is there for the follow-up, still no flash here for Kano as he pulls back with the empires, a flash a couple of seconds away, but a couple of seconds might as well be an absolute age.
G2 find another, as Han Summer will take some plates as well.
A nice gank setup, as he's trying to return to the lane, they have the numbers on the top side and they secure an easy punish.
G2 find themselves once again with a monstrous gold lead, 13 and a half minutes in, 3k the advantage, 7-2 the kill score.
G2 looking dominant, but the problem is we know for a fact that KC is not out until that Nexus falls.
Two games in a row, they bounce back from deficits, that would be the first on the dragon, and I don't think G2 have the tools to contest.
No impale, no pop blossom, would be a greedy contest at best.
Skimoone is looking poking his head in the box doing the same.
Skimoone though needs to be cautious.
Huntsome on his way across does have the killer instant.
Drake down, secured by KC.
The shakes for the clone will spot out.
Oh, there's a couple of saplings in that bush.
Not much more.
Well, KC having to enter towards that mid lane.
It does mean Cap says he'll have to get some damage on the bot side.
Steering waves.
Yahoo! Trying to get access to the turret.
We'll be able to get underneath it.
Buseo got just a tango barb as well.
Camps will tank the tower shot, but the flash foster means Yahoo couldn't go any further in.
Bb moving from the topside after proxying a wave.
He's looking to see if he'll list it over stat.
I think the crowd here wants a little bit more action than they're getting.
As Yahoo is looking for camps, goes in between worlds.
So have the egg. Buseo there with the lock up.
Headbutt first alongside the pulverise with Wok trying to trade it.
The TP was cancelled in the topside by BB and now Buccio has overstepped a little.
Poploss and Ian Buccio tries to dodge it, uses the unbreakable will,
but that is damn well broken. G2 find another.
Every single play that Casey tried to make just gets shut down.
The good news for Casey is Yike is trying to cross Wok on the other side,
but now Yehu isolated on the bot side of the map.
Skumont cutting off his escape with Wok waiting to be in the push.
She tried to be out you can't do that in front of the Tangle bombs goes across the bell invisible underneath the tower
With the damage back up to skew monsteroid on some on his way as well G2 will just clean up the kill
Yeah, he's trying his hardest to escape away, but all the ends of giving is an assist across the Han summer
Richard will be taking the interrupt on skew month, but can you really get much more?
Lucio maybe thinking he can stop council giving the push in here
But if it was a good greedy maybe just trying to distract if they're gonna try and dive bb in that top a nature's grass
That was also as well for the cc he remounted the skull and now the dive becomes a little bit more precarious
Bb with the pocket pistol still yike able to secure the kill and the tp coming out from campsite after he
Reset just to hold this lane the tower in the bot side will be picked up first for G2
I mean on the one hand yes
It's it's nice for KC that they got a pick but getting picked on the broken like just really doesn't mean anything
thing. You need gold onto Callis, you need gold onto Yahoo. And right now, they just don't
have it. A 1.4K gold lead for Caps, a 1.4K gold lead for Hans-Sama. Two items now completed
for the Kaiser. Caps quickly working on his second G2 in a dominant performance. Once
again, Casey will have to find another miracle to turn this game around.
We were doubting whether the Niko first kick was worth it.
LeBrov is now 2-0 and 4 on this Niko.
He's been involved in 66% of his team's kills.
And we praise the Alaser for Busey open. He is having a man.
This is not the Alaser that we so often see from him.
He's been caught out. He's been trying to make plays,
but sometimes too proactively, too eager to go in.
Not willing enough to take a second.
It's trying to get some vision down in that G2 bottom side.
Maybe a TP play, maybe just as far as G2 are up to.
The less taking damage as the terror may it seems to be what G2 are on up next.
The thing for KC is they do have good wave clip.
A weirding and a twofold hex from Yahoo enough to clear out most waves right now.
The ricochet from Callist will do the same.
The problem for them is G2 can kind of run the map.
It won't only be second dragon of the game, it's infernal up in 90 seconds time for Ivor team, whoever is able to claim it.
Buccio here. Well, that's a bear trap on a low, but it's counter-trap, it seems.
Hangs a knockback onto Broken Blade, he'll charge away towards the topside, but dismounted now, flashes in, is met by an axe from Karna.
And just as I said, Buccio wasn't having the best of times.
He finds Broken Blade, who remounts again!
Skull not so cowardly now. In the end, they'll fight him, they'll chase him down for the CC, and now it goes on a killing spree.
Meanwhile, Buzio again finds the knock-up. Here, this time onto a LeBrog who's stunned up, will shape Splitter his way away.
Casey won't take any more of that fight.
He's talking about Buzio having a bit of a nightmare. That looked like a nightmare for Broken Blade.
Everywhere he ran to was members of Casey. And while they only get the one kill and it took a while, they still get to hold on to everything.
Can you see just where to pick?
I mean, I had that top tower already fallen because it looked to me like Cap's actually secured the top tier one there.
I think it was there. I think it was there, buddy.
So, I mean, that's what I mean because I'm looking at that goal and it just continues to come up for G2.
And the other thing that was really scary about that was to me it seemed like they wanted to give that goal to Kallis desperately.
They wanted to feed it to him, broke a blade, remounts, they then get Sipper in range, and then Leandrie's burn.
It's a full battle tree, man.
Leandrie's bloodletters curse.
This guy's like, we need more damage right now,
and I can give that to us.
He's going to try his best as the dragon is going to go over to G2.
Casey's not in a position to contest.
They've lost all of their outer towers.
G2 in such a commanding position once more.
And again, I set my sights on Callist.
He's going to have to be that late game insurance.
Casey needs to slow the game down once more.
They need to buy time to get to those late game items,
get to a point where they can fight on even footing because the way things are going G2
is just picking KC apart. Flash frost and the frostbite landing there with a good
crystallized wall. Taps, playing the blue wall champ against KC in game five has a
certain ring to it doesn't it? We'll see what he can do with that crystallized
baron now on the map but neither team likely to go through it soon. Two
items on the list. It's an AP hybrid here behind summer. He's got the crack
can slayer the ginsous and the blasting one. There are three nivias on my minimap medic, stressing
me out. Never look at the minimap, maybe it's the play by play mentality. Caps really wants
to get level 14. Oh perfect timing for Caps. Look at that. Get level 14, ticks over to
the rod of ages straight to level 15. Flat two level difference now between the two
mid laners. Absolutely huge. And it just goes tough for KC in this spot once again.
time around they're not having that same level of control over the jungle. You see Clucio again kind of hiding in these different places just hoping he may be G2 over 10 but Procupate isn't giving it the chance.
This is not the real challenge you want to be. I'm sorry Shelly you deserve more. Taking out God even hit a minion. Like unable to find a way in really to place it.
I think the only saving grace for KC is that the siege from G2 isn't really that great.
Like Cap's obviously pushed waves, well, but you're relatively short range and Kalista has great wave play himself.
So at the moment, KC can kind of stall out.
I mean, only two dragons for G2, maybe it buys him enough time to try and get to where's that later portion of the game.
With Klist being 1.7k gold behind, that feels like a far-off dream.
Yeah, I think G2 just needs to be more comfortable with forcing Baron.
I think they need to sit there and say to themselves, we're way stronger, we know we should force and let's put KZ into a situation that they don't want to be in.
Because if they slow this game down too much, you will give KZ the opportunity to get that Infinity Edge completed.
KZ are looking for time and G2, they need to play under the assumption that they cannot give it to them.
Is it just a baron play? Nope, there's a control ward in there, TPS.
It seems like it is.
Kana has teleport, he's down towards the bottom side.
Yaks spotted around his blue buff, and Brokenblade's going to try and keep him at bay.
Yaks trying to get in there, pulled back with the bare trap on the rope.
Kana TPing in now, Buccio there as well.
The chase is spotted, yeah, who?
But the baron already secured G2, sneak it away.
Casey unable to find anything.
and also also out from Connor, the charge from Broken Blade gets him to safety.
Connor just trying to see if he could get the top laner, but G2, great call,
Betty you already mentioned this.
Immediately take the baron, immediate TP to top lane,
they want to get full use out of this baron block.
Yeah, I think you have to because they recognize the same thing you did,
Dagger, which is that their siege isn't very good,
and there's a lot of wave clear thanks to this, isn't it?
So you kind of need Baron to push onto these towers
and you can't just wait around.
With this kind of goal, you've got to push the issue
and they did just that.
Casey holding the defense.
Yike, the nature's got us.
Lucio goes in on the catch.
The impale not going to connect too much with Lucio still
tanking a skumofold first.
Yeah, who gets him?
Up summer, next stop.
That goes to Calist.
And now Caps, you've got an egg.
But you're likely to be scrambled pretty sharpish
because Yike is on the flank.
The samurai siege was broken against the blue wall of KC.
There's an egg cracking in twain, KC 53.
It cannot be happening again.
G2, what is going on?
KC are able to find another fight.
The Baron becomes meaningless, the Goldleys disappear.
Callis, look at that scoreline now, 3-1 and 2.
Casey may very well have done it for a third time in a row.
What a way to come back a single fight against the Baron.
G2 get that mid-tier 2, but that's all they get off the back of this fight.
And a lot of it was just a great angle for the ultimate off of Jai,
moving through the jungle, catching on to several people.
not Buccio immediately diving on for his caps, but it's the fact that Hanzama walks forward
into Kana's decimated smash because of Yai's ultimate.
I mean, it's 3v5, it's 3v5 all the time, what can I get in, BB's in the mid lane, we talked
about Q2's pro activity taking the Baron, KC saw exactly the same type of window and
immediately jumped in.
A lot of credit needs to go to Buccio for that play, not wasting any time flashing
in on to the Enivia and the fact that they leverage the numbers advantage Yikes
ulti doing a huge amount of work while played there by KC we've got an
interesting game five on our hand and it's three items they want to call this
dragon number three potentially here for G2 but KC want to try and stop us
that's his leader shrunk and KC now stepping forward makes his grasp you
want to tank it up so the BB on summer looking to get in towards the
This time round, G2 will not let KC get away with it. LeBron with a monster ultimate, the
The target was firmly on Callis said and Hans-Sama was quick to shut him down.
G2 fight back and they will secure the Dragon.
It looked like KC may have just found the angle again at the start of that fight.
Callis spell shields the Impale from Sku-Mond.
And Jyke positions himself well here to lock up parts of the put-mine like broken by a cat.
Getting locked down here.
separated by a great wall from Katz so he can be focused down by Hans-Sama and
Kalista with no spell shield is immediately locked down. Hans-Sama follows up to kill
him off and G2 with blinking health bars they get away with this.
Bousheel does everything in his power to keep LeBrov out of the fight but LeBrov
just flashes Rocket Belt into the ulti beautifully done by LeBrov. The gold
The gold lead is back in G2's hands, but the game is kind of neutralised, Kalista is still a threat.
I don't think this game is over just yet. These fights are going to continue to be intense.
The battle between the 80 carries has only gotten more fierce.
The benefit of LeBronk not being in the top lane fight was that he had his summoners.
He had his spells, he could use them to get onto that backline.
The gold lead now 4.5k for G2, they are 3.5 minutes away from an infernal soul.
The Casey have shown us that they can't fight back for miss that tree still a very squishy
Only the Leandry's in the bloodletters now bit of it building up some resistances and health
Yike will melt is met to buy on summer who has dusk and dawn ginsu's crack and slayer
For this on the other hand building up towards that Lord Dominic's regards you have to think
He was treading people though.
Having that Tonya is working it's way there for Hans-Thomas.
So crucial, he can play hyper aggressive in these fights
and still have that safety net.
He picks off Callist.
That's a very worthwhile trade for that Seeker's Armguard.
The whistle mask as well for Scumont
means that Cap's damage will be amplified.
As well Hans-Thomas, the one who was acting as a minion,
couldn't find the engage.
Boussio looking for one of his own.
Has to flash, no vision though.
4kc around this Baron which is up from 30 seconds time. Look at the sidelines, I mean
Potway being pushed very deep by Broken Blade, he's got a full level over Kana now,
a healthy gold lead as well, someone has to recall and go and answer that wave, it's going to be
Kana for now. Yeah, who's trying his best to catch up to caps but the gold difference is
pretty significant, Shadowflame being worked on but it still weighs away. This is where your
The Ike comes in handy. You can check all these brushes with the saplings and make sure to try to go through the Ikes.
There's a crystallized patch for us. You can check the bush but you can't check the raise if he picks.
A charge in from Roganblade with G2. I'm trying to close this out of the game right here right now.
The bear trap on the rock will pull back the Arula but she manages to escape.
Carter, TP'd in, was caught up in the Pop Blossom and he just walks out to jungle it down.
KC means G2 should set their eyes on the Baron.
BrokenBlade can TP back in, and he'll be fine.
Just the pick you needed.
Yike doesn't spark caps, and caps punishes.
A big pick from G2.
Caps punishing his former jungler,
and it will result in the Baron once more for G2.
We look back and the vision toggle.
He thinks he's safe.
He thinks he can step up, but no, he cannot.
the wall comes down, his avenue of escape is cut off and then G2 gone the offensive,
they're forcing the altis, they're forcing the retreat, the flash from Buccio,
their HP from Yeh, who he doesn't have any, case he can do nothing to contest the Baron
and G2 now find themselves with the Baron once more and a championship once again in their eyes.
And it's so easy to play from this position, use the Baron both to push in the waves,
sold in just over a minute's time.
KC are hoping for a miracle.
One misstep from G2 where maybe they can slow down
what seems like an inevitable course
towards a G2 trophy lift.
Yeah, who pushing out the top way.
TP coming behind G2 wants a collapse.
They know KC expect them to be on the bottom side.
Yeah, who with the weird engodging back.
It's tells them back going wide,
but there's the flash boss
and that is a very dead Aurora.
G2 find one on the top side.
Casey were only playing around that both side river.
I mean Casey can't be making mistakes like this.
You have to feel that the pressure is getting to them.
The lack of focus there from Yehru.
Such an easy pick for G2 with the Baron buff.
Now they can stop pushing through two lanes.
They don't care about the bot lane.
They're going back to the tower
that almost resulted in their downfall.
Gank has a recess for hoping that G2 will stay thin.
And they can try and look for a play in the midway.
There's the pings.
G2 playing through two lanes. I have another balance of a minion wave here.
The guy's still looking for the nature's grasp.
Haps moving across, Karna going forward.
Q1 locked up, nature's grasp of the hail.
Do anyone a broker blade is diving the backlight.
Kulis has to use the barrier.
Manages to escape for now.
G2 didn't take the top in the tower, but did take the mid.
Infernal sold their next objective.
G2 want to go foraging first though. See if he can find Yike.
He's running for the hail, but G2
are able to move through wall.
Yike has the flash, it's so impaculate
to forward the impale immediately
and Yike has no way to escape.
Timber goes to tree and perhaps with it
Casey's hopes of winning this final.
Casey fought back valiantly in Game 3.
They were able to make the comeback
happen in Game 4.
But G2 is snuffing their light out
in Game 5. A soul secured
and nearly 8k gold lead. Casey's options are desperately running out and they
will need a miracle to turn this game around.
The G2, it is a story they have told many times before. Another finals, another G2 win.
This one more hard fought than most, but they are setting their sights on the nexus, setting their sights on first stand.
KC who took that spot last year and G2 will have their vengeance.
There's the crystallized. Buccio has to use the unbreakable will and still almost dies.
They just grasp coming out. Buccio will survive the grasp.
They line up. TP behind. Unstoppable also.
It's going to happen early on. Just give up between World 3 Go and KC.
One final roll and the dice broken blade though diving through.
But he'll survive.
G2 escaped relatively unscathed.
Caps has TP, he went back to base.
Broken Blade is just such a massive threat,
every time onto Kalist,
that KC can't follow up on these engages.
They have to retreat,
and it's low health bars on G2
that are escaping back to base.
I love the idea from Kana.
He was able to help with the base defense,
and KC by themselves a little bit more time.
They'll look to secure this mid tower,
get themselves a bit of gold,
Maybe get this divot one extra item. Will it be enough to save the game?
It seems doubtful, but Casey will use everything in their power to take every chance that they've got to stay alive in this final game.
And importantly, Casey, they've held onto their in-hips.
There are none of these super minion waves coming in crashing towards their nexus.
We've got a minute and 50 seconds on the next baron.
That's what I was going to say. How long does that last?
It's an exposed inhibitor in the mid lane. G2 can group and start to push that one down.
And unless KC can try and find multiple angles of attack, it feels like once again, they kind of get to
bulldoze their way through with the Goldlead that they have.
So, a 7000 Goldlead for G2.
A larger deficit for KC than we have seen them overcome in this series. An infernal soul.
For KC, a GA now complete on Calyx, but if he comes back from the dead, if his team's dead around him, does it even matter?
If that GA is popped and everyone else dies, it doesn't really matter that you have a few more seconds of life, and G2 will snuff them out.
Kanna finishes the Jack shows. On the other side, BV overlords, Black, Cleaver and the Titanic Hydra.
items on Schumann.
Caps at 4, Hunts Summer at 5 with the void star.
The wall doesn't catch up Kana this time. Buccio looking for that flank position. Broke and play still pushing in bot.
That needs to be answered if you're KC.
Yeah, I mean he's just gonna take this tower if you leave him alone with it.
I mean he's gonna take it.
There he goes, there he goes.
Then I happily pick up that gold.
He's keeping up the pressure, waiting for the Baron to spawn.
I don't know if they even need hands somewhere there. I think caps and skim on maybe without the move off. It's a little bit difficult
GT know the case you have to take risks in this position
That's why they're playing slow just left and broken blade do the work as long as they don't get caught
Separated it's broken blade can always make it over and now it's KC who might be overextended on midway
Yeah, the plane without any vision look at the damage coming up from those voids. He gets it wrong
LeBron, LeBron, LeBron, LeBron, on the flank, on the Niko, Crystalite down, Buccio, Mikhail's awake, LeBron's still waiting.
The patience from LeBron, Patsharki hasn't engaged yet. He's actually gonna back away from that flank.
The damage on the Yike is good.
The user is the stopwatch, but he can't get over the wall, has to use his flash.
Flash in from Karna, we're gonna stop him also, makes you grasp me out as well.
Hubsumma blocked up there by Skumon, the counter-crystallize
Goodmoth back on the pop-up, so McAllister has to flash himself
TV coming in from both sides, Boussier trying to get in middle of three
Hubsumma dived in, the SGA, an angel perhaps
Hubsumma will fall, Kalista's back up
Casey are holding on! Casey are holding on!
Kalista buys! G2 all died, now it's all on caps
Now the ad-lib flashes away from the two-fold, Hexham still finds one
Scumont manages to escape towards the top side of the fight at 3 for 3 somehow in the mid lane.
Unbelievable the fact that the GA brings Colise back and really does put an angel on his shoulders.
The entire KC squad collapse around him to keep him alive. G2 just cannot find a clean fight.
And again like this, seconds feels like years. Yikes stopwatches for 2.5 and manages to flash away.
LeBron can't get into position and Geik is able to buy space for Kalis, they turn up towards Kat.
Kalis gets away from LeBron because of the knockback.
Look at the flashing from LeBron, locks down Kalis, Han Summer sees it at an angle,
but now he's too deep, yeah who finally joins the fight, gets the one shot onto Han Summer and with him gone,
the amount of damage that they have is slowly signed to Whittle away.
The Titanic Hydra doing so much work from Broken Blade there,
across three members which sends them packing and caps matches the play on his counter mid lane
and holds on and now a barren up elder dragon up we go back to the scene of the crime
i didn't hear no bell we'll go another round my voice let's see who lands the haymaker
the cooldowns are there for g2 though a ga significantly longer than his on his error glass
G2 looking to make the same thing happen again.
Lucio 4 slow, CrystalEye, DoubleSum from Buccio,
their formation strats as they look for the on-the-hunting gauge.
They go on skim on the sub-a-longsword,
find the backline, Insanivya, Popsawson,
Hanzo from Buccio, Hanzo kills Karna,
Miwa from backline, Kiritz still standing,
a kill of Mystic from Hanzo!
And an Mystic to kill it seems,
and now Hanzo locked up by the Ikebieru,
and cancel the brav, me to run.
It's another three for three!
I thought that Gigi would run that fight once they got the kill onto Kalis.
It wasn't enough!
The elder is alive, Casey had the HPs, but Cap's has TP.
He's gonna go back to base, TP back into the fight, then I'll give it a son of a free.
Double Zonya is available on Yike now, who Cap needs to make a miracle happen.
He loses his ban cheeses if it's met by a sapling LeBrov on his way out.
Yike fell on the wrong side and crystallized, especially Storm doing a lot of work.
Cats dodging away from the weeding
Yike falls towards the topside
Two-balled Hex left barbed looking for it
Goes onto Yike's users
The quick did advance to dodge the CC
Cats in egg, now it's all on the front
This dragon down to 2000
Yike gets the smite
Cats is revived
We'll take out Yike
Cats trying to trade onto Yaru
Dodges the weeding
Dodges the weeding
Bumps the roof
G2 a double star won
They lose the elder, but they will get the kills.
Look at the start of this fight.
The poke from Hansama was so good.
Busio finds the double knock-up onto the front line.
Kallist pops the ult.
Then the damage really starts to be unleashed from this event.
LeBron finds a good ulti, but then on the back line, Hansama finds the angle.
He gets onto Kallist.
He takes out Busio, but the damage has already been done.
done with Yehuu still alive he's able to take our Hans and we return to live with a
power name secured for G2. And they're in the base, they're at the inhibitors, there is no
inhibitor turrets remaining. G2 get to play with their food as they stand on the
cost of winning the series. Yehuu up in 9. The countdown continues. Buccio looking for the
engage. No flash on Calist. No escape tool for him. No flashes. The most of G2. Broken
blade dodges away. Double in hits down. Yeah, who's going to match this bot side wave and
clear it out? Oh my goodness. With the lead that G2 had, I was not expecting this to be
the outcome of the game five. That's bloody true. Let's look back at this elder. It
It was absolutely insane, the double stopwatch is going through at this stage, KC just make the call,
burn the elder, kill it, we can win the fight after.
But as Caps comes up, he picks up Yike.
And then Yehu doesn't manage to hit the E, doesn't get between worlds,
tries to go golden but Lebron's pop boss is back up.
And it's the perfect timing.
They finish off the mid-jungle of KC.
to think a few other skill shots going differently could have been the difference maker in that fight
is full of build cibbit enough so this now has his flash back up that is a true six items ga is
well back off of cooldown i mean the the 500cs win condition cibbit we're not quite there yet
70 more cs i think full build counts ready i think it counts and kc will be hoping that it does
Bb towards the topside being met by yeah who KC now need to defend three lanes at once
supers crashing it towards their nexus knocking on their door g2 they've been here before they
know how to do it KC trying to defend nature's gas coming out
Roo only lands on the shade splitter skumon dodges around to the side but bb's on the
nexus opens it up hull summer goes in with the killer instinctive now there's no turrets
training for Karna and Corsair,
coming up from Mimi,
with Paul Carter to the side.
Buccio looking for the cap,
but he just can't get in.
The crystalized down,
the Nexus still full HP.
The G2 are poking and plotting,
and trying to find a weakness.
EKC, Yikes,
but taking a choke,
another as he pulls the half-ac,
B, the side wall of Niu,
and Han Solo is killed.
No instinct to kill,
no suddenness, no time.
G2, now,
will you continue to advance to the 4B5,
or do you just bash away?
Baby gets out and G2 have to retreat.
Yeah, who actually saves the game?
He just one shot Hansamma and now G2 is forced to retreat.
Callis is just way flowing, way flowing, way flowing.
How does he end up finding it?
Goes invisible.
Oh my god, gets the Q, gets the L, gets the one shot
and is able to get away the safety.
And we said it, at the start of this game,
Hansamma had to be so crucial and thoughtful
But how he used those killer instincts he didn't get the value in that fight and yeah
Who punishes but still every single tower is down for KC
They can't leave the base right now
Nexus towers will be spawned what a game five
When we went to oh, I'm pretty sure some people left me
But the good news is they're time to go home
Oh, well the goal just doesn't matter anymore.
We are so late into the game,
it all comes down to execution.
And we talk like, for anyone that's been a league fan
for this long, knows that the 500 CS ring condition
was an old school meme because her ability
to just wave play and wave play and wave play
was so difficult to deal with.
And G2 is facing that here today.
They are short range.
They don't have the easiest engage.
And Callis is buying them time while KC's players look for plays.
You've level 16 hit on both supports.
We are so late into this.
But with Elder Dragon in 50 seconds, that has to be the focus.
With little to no vision being allowed outside the base for KC,
these fights become so difficult.
Decking anywhere towards this objective into those Anivia walls can be death for KC.
If you give up the ulti, you give up the Baron. You have to feel also, you leave your base, maybe you just give up your base.
A charge in from Broken Blade, a ward placed.
Oh, this death cap finally done for Yehuu.
Yehuu now full build, matching caps in that mid lane.
Yeah, I mean now we're at the pot stage. You can see everyone with pots.
Handsome are going for the AP pot as well, relying a lot on his poke.
Okay, remember 49 minutes ago when I said take a breath, let's take a really quick one right now.
Okay, Medigee, you shut up, we'll give you time, get ready, because you're going to need all the oxygen in your body as we get close to that final fight.
Casey is approaching the dragon, Yike, going to be the face checker, there's caps, the immediate eyes.
Nick's just coming out, Yike's caught a flash.
Well, baby's in the base, this is what you're talking about.
Oh, he's into the base!
He's between two different areas, and now, he's just going for the inhibitors!
They're retreating. KC are retreating. It's like, can we catch broken? Maybe he immediately backs away.
That's Eldor to G2. 20 seconds on the Baron means they will be 2 for the price of 1.
Alright, Eldor Dragon secured. The countdown starts at the top left of your screen.
2 minutes, 20 seconds. G2, will they wait for the Baron?
Looks like that's the game plan. They want every buff that they can get to try and close out this game
I mean, but what do you do if you're KC? You get this over you the game is done
You have to fight against an elder sure Nexus Terrors have respawned, but they're gonna be at half HP
And you've got so many super freaks in the bot lane
Yeah, if you've been walking showing it looks like KC are gonna put some resources into making sure they can stand against him
G2 will get the Baron
Okay. Well, gentlemen
What do you believe is greater?
I thought that was the last time they were seizing medic.
That is true, they didn't have elder baron and this time they do inhibitors respawning.
They're being so cautious, look at how much time they're waiting.
They need the waves to sink up. Top is pushed in. Paul is pushed in. Boussio.
Boussio looking for him. Skimoz flashes away on the Hunters. Pop there by Kalista.
Now KC need to get up towards this topside.
Nature's grass out from Jike. Kana going in.
Kaps pops a stopwatch between worlds. Jike immediately evaporated.
Pop-bots him from the corner. Blast the two rounds.
Fiddler's in the face here. Dive back in. BTB is on the next with towers.
And the walls come toppling it down.
The blue wall fell from the siege of the samurai G2!
Win LEC vs.
What an incredible game 5!
What a way to close out LEC vs.
Casey fought tooth and nail to the bitter end.
But G2 just barely came out on top.
So many moments it looked like Carmen Corbett gonna make the miracle happen.
But G2 stand tall once again at the top of Europe.
The handshakes, the hugs come through. The smile on Yikes face of course disappointment from KC.
But they know that that was a great series.
Games three and game four, the comebacks that they made happen.
This series could have gone either way.
Casey found some incredible plays.
It just wasn't quite enough.
And due to get the honor of lifting the LEC versus trophy,
of representing Europe at first stand.
And we see.
They take, make their way to center stage.
many victorious champions claiming their parts.
A well-deserved win for G2, it was hard fought.
In our trophy ceremony presented by Kia, G2 will raise the title.
And we're going to have to urge the new face to take it away.
Don't be asking who to blame, gonna say, hey, since I lit the flame, I ain't scared to burn away.
Turn away.
Since I lit the flame, I ain't scared to burn away.
You leave a trail behind, leave a trail behind. Snails getting turned into the cargo that we love.
I know that we love you more
I'm addicted to you
I'm addicted to you
I'm addicted to you
I got bigger signs
Sticking ditches, ditches, fire
Making music on your face
Let you auto synthesize
Work it out and make it mine
As you with it, or you slide
Just because you're in a lyric
Doesn't really mean you mind
I got things to do, but I don't got the time
To do anything, but when I gotta shine
I got my brothers and my fans standing next to me.
I feel the warmth of what I love until the end.
Waiting in the first is not a bunch of needs.
Because what makes me is what makes me is my destiny.
Ain't nobody heard it, nobody's wrong.
But let me give it to you straight.
When you're back against the wall,
you can step up to the plate.
Who to call?
Who to call?
Don't be asking who to play.
Don't say, hey, truth, I live the flame.
I ain't scared of going away.
Like a wild boar
As far as the other can see
That's telling me
Poceton is the healer
Don't expect no less from me
To one hand
I'm going to go with you
I'm going to go with you
I'm going to go with you
I will start with caps. Come over here. I don't even know where the camera is. Caps!
Did you have to break their heart so hard because KC is the team that almost
refers to what you do? After that hot pit game I'm sad about it. I've never played a game like this.
It was kind of like I was on all the series against them but somehow I'd always
decided to play against them. They were chanting here the goat and I
gotta say tell me about some of those moments in that game fight where
you were alone where you had to carry the game quite literally or you were gonna
lose the whole thing. Thank you thank you I mean I was like I was screaming this
last game I think I've never been so mad as well like I think yeah I mean we found
our way to the win in the end so it was nice. Is this what you do it for to be
able to play from all these people to play to the max? I mean for sure I big
thing you guys for everyone who's cheering for us it's been awesome like
even when we were losing everyone was just cheering and like really making sure
that we'll be bringing back. So thank you guys so much and we're going to make you guys proud as the first stand as well.
Amazing, maybe a few more words. Sku-Mont, sorry, LeBrov, you almost couldn't, you almost dropped it. What was that about?
Yeah, looks like maybe I need to be hitting the gym more.
Maybe, but you played fantastically. How do you feel about your performance? You were so important in that last game.
Yeah, I'm very happy to bounce back in Game 5 and win and play well.
And go to Brazil.
And go to Brazil, indeed.
Sku, now I'll go to you, but Brokeblade keeps talking to the people I want to talk to.
Sku, it was an interesting matchup versus Jyke.
It was a tough one, I think, from your part as well.
So tell me about those games and how you finally got the upper hand.
Yeah, I mean, I think playing with Jyke is always insane.
I think it's like really insane jungle and I mean I think we both like showed like some really good stuff today
So I'm really happy about my performance and yeah, I mean I'm just really relieved that we find anyone in the end
Yeah, that's the most important thing for me another title broken blade
Great best of fire by to you as well
I'm gonna let you do the honors of talking to all the Movistar core fans who decided to cheer for g2 today
Barcelona, one more for G2, the champion of LSE Versus!
You may doubt them, you may count them out, but it is G2 once again who stand victorious
and who grabbed the very first ever LEC versus Trophy and guys, what a ride this has been for this team
from two dominant games into losing the next two, almost getting RiverSwept for the very first time
with the history of the organization, but at the end of the day it is G2 once again.
It was an absolute rollercoaster lore and you could see it on the player's expressions
relief, happiness, joy and just the fact that this series went the distance it
makes it so much more meaningful it's not just another G2 title this went back
in for one mistake could have been the difference and Casey could have won it
all. I mean nothing improves like impressively more than them finding the
ability to actually formulate sentences after being down or being up to
zero into losing two games where you had to control the mental tenacity
42 stamina required to bounce back and deliver such a performance in such a
close game to finish the day off is absolutely astounding. It's absolutely
astonishing because everyone is just absolutely so exhausted. Caps had those
last 10 minutes of his life and I felt like he had to fight tooth and nail to
hold G2 back in that game and after all of that when everyone is just
exhausted from his team this guy still finds that cheeky smile. I'm not sure
I believe Capstan gets exhausted by playing League of Legends.
It's as if he said he lives and breathes this game.
I feel like he's the kind of guy that's just sitting,
while every other nine players in the game are stressing out.
Look at him, he's fighting so hard.
He's always just sitting there with a little smirk on his face
like the guys are playing in Nivea.
Like, I think he was having the time of his life that last game.
He heard it, had never had a game like that before,
and I bet you he enjoyed it to the fullest.
I mean, I agree with you, Finn.
He looked more energetic after this series
than when it first started.
It was just an approach... I can't even speak myself.
Phenomenal performance by him and Skumont today.
Like, they really were the superstars for me.
For G2 with Labrov stepping up in the Niko performance.
I came 5. It was crazy because I was looking at Labrov as well in the previous games.
I was like, I'm not seeing the impact I would like to have from him,
but in game 5 he delivered the Niko flanks,
where everybody was putting so much pressure on KC to stop that comeback from happening.
It was an absolutely amazing performance from everyone.
It comes down to resilience, it comes down to trusting each other as teammates and you guys were talking about Cap, this is his 16th title!
That's something!
The 16th title, guys!
You can just see it on his face what it means to him after winning so much when you've been yearning for it, when you've been fighting for it after five long games.
He deserves it so much, honestly. I can't understand the smile on his face, especially after fighting for this one that much.
Even after 16, see a title.
The most impressive thing is just his passion because
you look at it, one might say that maybe okay, maybe after 5, maybe after 10, maybe after 15, it starts mattering.
It's never enough.
And a little bit less, but this guy, every single day clocks in, clocks out from the screens, from solo queue and putting on such a master.
And remember G2, at the beginning of the splits, at the beginning of regular season we were like, okay,
Maybe they've reached their ceiling. Maybe going together for one more year was the year too much.
They stick together. They believed in themselves, the coaching staff believed in them as well.
And look at them, once again lifting the cup.
I mean it's about trust. It's about trust from the coaching staff to say we believe in U5.
It's about trust when Boussio, no not Boussio, Labrov asks for the Niko first pick.
After he had two rough games in a row he says give me the Niko first pick and I will perform.
And he goes on that stage with that trust from his teammates, from his coaching staff, and delivers an absolute great performance.
But I can't stop thinking about Caps. The fact that he's now accumulating LEC trophies faster than he is aging, which is insane.
We're minutes away from crowning the LEC vs. Finals MVP trophy and we've seen it all after five games.
When you look at the impact that all the players had at clutch moments, who do we think is going to take it? It's really hard.
Yeah, it's really tough. I mean it's for me it's between skewmon and caps. Yeah, but it's like skewmon in the first few games
Phenomenal in the last game
It was all caps and then it's really about like what do you value more that clutch factor to really actually seal the deal or the
Consistency that skewmon brought throughout the series. Okay, we can't be game five and he's because
It is but at the same time he's been putting on great performances you have
So caps have a stinker is caps had a stinker with the saddest game in game five
We wouldn't be talking about it, but it's all about the city's neck is there only one for for what the free wonder
I mean he just had such an amazing day today
I felt like he's the one who got caps ahead so often and yes caps was clutch caps did win that game five for them
But when I come to the whole series, I'm putting my I'm putting my best on skew month
I mean, it's a legend in the making, like the tandem of Schumann and Capps, this entire series
have proven themselves unstoppable. The fact that they put on performance after performance,
game after game, where Bibi was struggling, where Labrouw was struggling, where Haas was
struggling, it was always those two that held the fork and made this series so competitive.
They're a key pillar for this team and I'm just super happy that we get to see both of
and performing super well at the same time, you know, because we've seen iterations of G2 where it
feels like either it's just, you know, claps and the rest of the team is, or it's like caps is not
really there, caps, and then the rest of the team kind of falters around them, but the fact that I
feel like I can have faith in both Skumont and caps to be at their A game at the same time,
because mid and jungle, they're both strong roles, but they can only do so much, it's really
in tandem that we see the strength come out and that's able to win you a game five like
Yeah, absolutely. It comes down to this trust. It comes down to this clutch moment.
What makes or breaks a team? And Shox is now standing by with the MVP.
And it is Cabs!
in my way up there, I feel like I don't think I've played a final that was quite like this.
I've had one with Nettig, it was quite close, but this last game just really like, it took the top prize.
I think I don't think I've yelled so much before, and I don't think we made it a little bit harder for ourselves than we maybe had to in this game, but there were some crazy elder fights.
It was a lot of fun.
We often look at your career and there is ups and downs like there are for any people, right?
But how do you make sure that every time in the playoffs and in moments like this it is still there?
Is that just a gut feeling? Is that something you can't teach because it happens every single time?
Well, thank you first. I think we definitely struggled a bit in the regular season this year.
I think when we have a bit more time, we prepare for opponents and we really get to prepare for the single opponent.
Now we just have, we have Casey and Koi as well, maybe even JX, but we mainly prepared for Casey and Koi.
And then KC yesterday, I mean, we really got to dive deep into it.
And we also had to put a lot on the pads.
So we're like, we have a lot of ideas.
We have some crazy things even in the late games.
And yeah, I'm just grateful to get to make it out.
And of course, you get to go to Brazil to first stand.
There's only one seed going from EMEA.
So we're all counting on you.
You've had a lot of international tournaments, right?
But with all the information that you've gathered now
and that you say, we've got so much in the bank.
Can we hope for a big result there?
For sure, yeah. I mean, I think we have been practicing very hard the splits
and we've only been getting better.
So if we keep that up for the first time bootcamp, I'm sure we can go all the way.
So it's going to be fun.
Anything else you want to say to the G2 faithful?
I mean, big shout out to all the fans for cheering for us today.
It was like very crazy.
I think it really means a lot, especially when we started losing, you know, like having the
the people just keep cheering for us and saying like, you got this everyone was like this.
So I really appreciate that.
I hope it will be in Brazil as well, but knowing the Brazilian fans, I'm sure it will be.
So thank you guys so much, and we will look to do crazy games like this.
I'm looking forward to it. Thank you so much, Caps. Congratulations.
My part, thank you very much to all of you guys for moving the event here.
It was incredible. Thank you very much.
Yay, the custom character from G2's team, our goats, here!
It's like it's one of those players. The ones who just randomize everything and it just appears.
Yeah, your custom character from the cutscene. I love this. Shoutout to Homo, always amazing costumes,
but I really want to celebrate Caps here because thinking about the conversation we had at the beginning of the day,
who is the best Western player right now when we speak, and this is why you cannot outcount Caps.
That's why he's the ghost. You can be a Gamefight MD, but this is what matters.
This is what brings you the victory in DM, having clutch moments like this.
I mean anyone that wants to can rewatch this game and look at Caps's Qs in every single team fight
He found crucial targets every single one of those teamfights run a knife's edge
And it was really difficult for like Casey to do anything due to the disruption he provided all the time all the game
Of Caps I mean I was arguing for Boussio also is not the Boussio
I didn't say Boussio was the goat right just right now
The best player right now, obviously Capz is the gold, but today Capz was better, way higher impact, way more clutch.
Which is better on the day guys?
True, actually that's exactly what I was saying.
He's always better on the day that matters.
Yeah, that's the thing.
For 16 titles, I cannot always say this, it's actually insane.
I mean every single time there's this moment where even me stupid me, I'm like, oh I'm gonna put Booth here, that's better than Capz.
And this guy just comes with this damp, goofy face, and he just slaps you across the face.
That smile. That smile.
Guys, I love talking with you, but one of you has to go.
Otto is going to be you. You've been amazing on the desk for the past three days.
Q-Mall is with us. Let's go!
And he didn't come empty-handed here with the trophy. Oh my God.
The closest being a fan already at the trophy, huh?
You almost took the picture.
You're going to go on this side. You take Otto in there.
Come this headset, although we'll get you later.
It's kind of beautiful, isn't it?
No, yeah, don't touch it, it's not for you.
Hello, hello.
It's hello, hello.
Any first impressions?
I don't know, I feel like I lost my voice,
honestly, after this last game.
Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, pretty exhausted,
but obviously happy that we won.
So, I don't know what to say, you know,
like so many emotions came to me,
like throughout this series.
I feel like we're like playing really good,
like even the game with us,
we were like playing like a pretty nice starting game,
but we just couldn't manage to like,
I don't either stay disciplined
or like close out the game properly.
And this last game, same thing again,
they have severe scaling, so it's like very scary.
But we just managed to catch it out,
so yeah, I'm just like really happy.
Did you feel like your inability to like,
because in game three, game four, and game five,
you guys got pretty big early game leads.
Did you feel like it was you guys just making mistakes,
or did you feel like KC just really tenacious
and pushing you guys when you didn't otherwise expect that?
I mean, I do think we cannot play like,
we played a bit fearlessly at some moments.
I think I remember like me dying with a pencil
when I was like 4-0, because I'm just like, I don't know,
just checking, but yeah, I mean, I think we were just like,
lacking a bit of discipline in my opinion.
I do think they had like some good scaling comps,
so obviously like, when you go into later stage of the game,
they probably have the upper hand,
but I do think they played good,
and they found like the good angles to come back,
so props to them, yeah.
No, I did say before that I think
the most impressive part about today
was that you guys could perform sentences
after a series like that,
but I still want to try to get
I want to know what the comms were like in that game 5 after that top team wipe almost, you guys died 3 for no, how did you guys calm down at that point and who was the one being the voice of reason?
I mean like, surely not me.
I don't think it's me.
I think like, Caps, BB, Lavrov, we're like,
I'm not doing this job.
But yeah, like, when we got the first match
and we instantly started the second half,
well, like, guys, we're not doing it again, you know?
Like, it's like a bit sus.
That's severe, guys.
We need to close the game properly.
And then again, and again, like, we die.
And then the worst one was like,
when we were like, at the next two,
we get all of the towers.
And then Hans dies.
And then Hans dies.
We're like, oh, guys, please, not again, you know?
But Caps won like a clutch play.
We got Malken Flash and from now on the secret just played good.
Really reserved, I think we played safe, but I think it makes sense.
How do you manage to not stay calm obviously with what you're telling us here,
but keep your focus, find your focus again to actually take it to the end,
because again, this is what makes all Rage teams here.
Yeah.
You guys managed to do it.
I mean, personally, just not really thinking about what is going on and the stakes of the game.
Obviously everybody knows this is a game 5, we're about to get real swift and this is like a match point for like the trophy
But for me individually I just like make sure that I push out all of these thoughts and like all of the pressure on this game
I just look to play good. Obviously again, we were like throwing a bit. I was like, oh man, like another game, you know
But yeah looking to push out the this thoughts and just stay in the present
Look at the game look at what you can do. And yeah, I mean again
I'm honestly pretty happy with how we played like most of the early games, you know, like all five games
But yeah, if you would have lost it would have been tragic, so I'm happy that we won.
I'm going to thank you and Caps for an absolutely massive performance in the mid-jungle today,
and I've always really impressed on how you guys work together.
Now I have this idea of Caps in my mind, because we don't know what he's like in-game,
but my vision of Caps in the game five like this, when he's playing the maybe,
he's flashing over the Roar Queues to save the game,
I have this vision that he's giggling and having fun about it.
I want to know, is that true, or is it actually super serious and locked in?
I do think in general, yes, that that is true,
that that is true but like in this game like the console like a bit started to be a
bit chaotic here we died and like on that elder like when they're about to get
elder they just he just completely outplayed you know like somehow he was
like mostly serious I have to say he wasn't really laughing because obviously
if you lose this game I think the moral won't be like that high but yeah I
mean in general yeah I do think he was having a smile for trophy yeah that's
true that's true that's true. One question about you Skimon because we've
been talking a lot today Andrew throughout playoffs about your impact for
team your progress within G2 from the moment you entered the LEC last year until the player
you've grown into today and how much you've been helping an instrumental to your team's victory
especially throughout playoffs so how did it feel for you growing into this role taking maybe a
bigger step within G2 do you feel like things changed and do you feel like a different
player now? Definitely yeah I mean I think with like all the stuff we have around us
and all the players that I'm playing with as well,
I'm just getting so much experience outside of and inside of the game,
that just helped me close the player and as a leader in this team.
And yeah, I mean, nothing would have been possible without the help of everybody in this team.
I think everybody is giving their best to actually achieve our goals,
which is to win LEC and actually do something in international, right?
And I think our group is perfect, honestly,
And I just hope that we'll be able to let you show some good performances in the future.
Yeah, on that note, first stand, coming up next.
Yeah, what are your thoughts?
How do you feel, and actually let's start with, how do you feel Europe as a general level?
Should we be excited? Should we be worried?
I mean, Gen G, VFX.
Yeah, I mean, thinking about it, I feel like you restored the pride of LEC at Worlds,
going to quarterfinals, it has been, it's the first time since we stage was introduced,
So, higher expectations for you guys or how do you usually watch everything during the tournament?
I mean, probably like going without exception in the sense that we probably know that if we play good
we can beat like a lot of these teams and we are confident in our like abilities to just like upset some teams.
Last year we like took like two games from Gen.G I think, and like last year we played like some decent games against the top teams.
But the most important thing is that to stay grounded and I think just like look to focus on ourselves, right?
Because obviously, all of these teams are the best in their regions, so all of them are really insane.
So if you just think about how good they are, if tomorrow we're against NG, then we're just not going to win, right?
We just need to play off our strength and I'm confident that we'll be able to show some good stuff here.
I have my eyes on one specific matchup because I was with you at MSI and I remember the first time you played Canyon,
because we had an interview after that game. Spoilers, it did not go well. You knew it, but that's what makes people learn.
So, this matchup against Canyon specifically, what have you learned playing against this player that maybe is going to help you perform better and hopefully you can change it this time?
What are you looking forward to the most?
Yeah, I mean, if you play against him, it's going to be really exciting, probably like the best jungler in the world, or like one-off, like this owner, arguably at least.
But yeah, I mean, from like, my games I played against him on stage and like from the scrims, he just like, I think, he's the type of player that no matter what you're doing in the game,
win the game I feel like he will always find a way to come back you know which is
like really impressive as a jungler and it's like a strength that I really want
to work on myself and yeah I mean I think he's just like very consistent and
he's just really able to like see the win condition like properly and like be
there on the like correct timing so that's just it just makes like the
great player that he is so if you play against him hopefully I'll be
excited let's see what I can do very excited for the jungle meta, going into the first time
My take is that right now is the most versatile jungle meta that ever existed in competitive
league.
Do you agree with this?
I mean, actually, probably, first of all, yeah, probably I think so.
Second of all, I mean, some patches came out and we were still second, like the 16.3
in LEC.
So I'm looking forward to see the changes.
I didn't even read the patch because I really don't want to have some like, what's
it called, like bad practice.
And bad practice, right?
Like, for example, if I play Malkhan's patch, I think he got buffed.
and he's probably going to skew a bit my view on the champs.
But yeah, I think I saw a lot of changes.
A mocha buff is good for us, I think.
So yeah, looking forward for that.
And I do think you're really able to play so many different champs,
tanks, AP champs, most of the time bruisers.
So yeah, I think it's pretty nice.
Exciting. And excited to see you guys at International again.
That is going to be a banger for Schumann.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
Guys, you've been smashing it as well on the desk.
Congratulations!
Congrats on winning that trophy yet again.
The trophy case for G2 keeps on staking.
I don't know how I'm really...
Yeah, that's going to be interesting, actually.
It's pretty good. It's pretty heavy too.
We saw that earlier. But congratulations yet again on this one.
And that's all for us here in Valarona.
We're going to be back, as we said, with G2 Esport
for first-hand tournament in Sao Paulo on March 16th.
And we'll be back with the LEC Spring on March 28th.
Tickets go on sale at lc.g slash ticket on March 6 skumand. We'll see you in South Africa very soon
Thank you all so much for watching be kind to each other and have a good night
Skumand comes in for the gang's aquaprism natural journey forward
Khaled still no flash tries to dash away
For the dark green blade finds his first victim
And a giant spell. BB needs to get out of here but no flash on him
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Kill the guy that's on the go, go!
And he's coming!
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He's just hit six!
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Hat is ultimate!
Quicker than usual!
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KT uphouse done!
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Kill R.A.L.
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You hit that?
Oh, come on!
They won the first two, and why not?
It's our time to lose, we are winning these two, okay?
Yeah, and whoever wins game four, wins game five.
Yup, yup, yup, it's that simple!
It's just this game, guys.
It's a battle, PLEASE!
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Oh!
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