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Don't try to make yourself remember
Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told
So let's pretend I'm in a london
Cause when we're gone, everything goes on
I
Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun?
So may love be overcast, but you won't have to cry
Cause we're to the green
Well I'm by your side, I said
Don't try to make yourself remember
Darling, you don't know if you need it
And I'm just a stone in the flames of arms
So let's pretend to be the one
That I'm actually the guy
That everything goes on
And I'm so scared of getting used to that
All the vines that keep you tethered in your room
I
I told you to forget me
Everything goes on
I
LL
LL
LL
LL
LL
LL
LL
LL
LL
LL
Oh
My nights are empty Missing you every day
I wish that you'd come back to me
It was every weekend
Bringing me nothing but joy
I need to get my life on track
I want the LEC back so I can stand in the chair
I want the LEC back in my life
Black battles, many, many, feeling all right
I want the LSD back tonight
Recharged, all out for spring split
Euphoria, I can stop to feel it
It's time, at least he's gonna give me what
I want
I wanna watch BGF and ready check two
I wanna vote on Twitter and talk about who threw
I wanna flame on Reddit and read how I always knew
I want the LEC back so I can stand in the chair
I want the LEC back in my life
Rack battles many, many, feeling alright
I want the LEC back tonight
Now, here comes the new year, new teams and players too.
Now, here comes the new year, lost some but that's alright.
Now, here comes the new year, we're getting ready for a long fight.
I want the L.E.C. back so I can stand in the chair
I want the L.E.C. back in my life
Rap, dance, baby, feeling alright
I want the L.E.C. back tonight
I want the L.E.C. back
I want the L.E.C. back in my life
I want the L.E.C. back
I won't be able to see you back tonight
I'm meant to break by the proudest words
Honey, all my heart comes from all eyes
Taking all your life, taking down this world
All your life, they the same, they know the better
For rules, I'm meant to break by the proudest words
Get it, get it, get it
Didn't do the recomba, they wanna leave them a guide
Demonstrate and take them off practice
I was in the middle to get the beast
Meanwhile, they was crying my deep glass
Taking all my peace, I've been with enough practice
No clout or digital captions
Worlds in madness
Am I gonna matter if it's Swedish?
Wanna make matches?
I don't need these ones
I can see your money and power
I'm slaggy
I don't wanna do it like down, like down, like down
Like God damn me
Let's put you through on the ending
If big man said it ain't landing
Never gonna profit off blackness
Never got a dollar off sadness
While I've been sunk
So I don't do sanctions
Happy is the hate
Crown ship's smooth
Feel it working down on my shoulders
Who's on the brink?
I'm proud of this world
I
I've been given this heart and body and shoulder light and organs knocked to my fingers
split
Now I still spell it in keys and door kicks
Shedding with means and caution, man I had bellies to feed from morning
They start shelling me dreams from walking
I was uncomfortable, man I was scared
Looking for solace and they was a dad
Now I'm a part of them and they wouldn't dare
Doubling down for this game is a drug
And loving the dice I came to forget
Feeling it so wild, buddy, I feel it I'm falling on
How do you cope when they never gave you hope?
Freeing left you in the cold and just laying heavy in your soul
She be on and starting low, even where you have to go
Get it together, whatever the weaponry, carry that tribulation to the
From baby to head, that's how she's shown me
I feel it right in time, so let's breathe
Who's gonna make it big, I'm proud of this world
I need time, I'm happy, I'm proud of this world
Take a lonely land, walkin' down this road
I don't wanna wait, get a swing, stand on the break
Bring it in, I'm gonna make it break
Fuck the town, next move
Come on, get it
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
For witness calling your name
I whisper of the soul's poo never leaving
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Collect your silver jeeps
Afraid they disappear
To the night of named Venus
The light that shows the part that knows the dead
There's a spirit on the restless mind
That takes to find where we need again
Can't take you here, can't find
No one is calling my name
I'll whisper on the south, we'll never leave us
Collect your silver thieves
And pray that we are here tomorrow
I
I
I
I'm sure my girls can't take every request, thank you.
I'm bored, can't be bored, or so.
I'm so confident, whoa.
They want to copy it.
Slow down, now, yeah.
My profit can't be big, big, big.
I'm on top of it.
Just style your off, you lit it.
I'm so confident.
I promise I am the hottest and current and never modest
A star of frying broccoli, stage hours, rock of the locket and tight
Do it every night, big dividends, big love, big hype
Pretty lights, flat base, nice bike, pretty face
Yeah, keep up with the pace, everybody wanna taste
If I show up to a place, see who knows what's going on
I'll make money moves, baby, don't mess with the phone
Let's go
Boom
Deeper
Or so
I'm so confident
They want to copy it, yeah, my profit get big, big, big.
I'm on top of it, style your opulence.
I'm so confident, I'm so confident.
They want to copy it, yeah, my profit get big, big, big.
Yeah, I'm on the top of it, style your art you lit, I'm so confident
Time for a show, show me your outplay, go and check the replay, dubs like all day boy you better know
know that it might be just a little hyphy,
trying to call about these watches go,
because the games are straight five.
Every team fact coming down to the wild,
the whole world trying just to look like us,
take a look at your league, we should play it like us.
It's not how I should reality, you're facing a tragedy
when the European make us a conflicting man,
I'd like to be those feelings of anxiety,
the future you don't want to see,
the wrath of our whole dynasty spells LEC.
This could be the final chance,
our last dance together.
This could be the final chance
All I've got is ready
Come on, dance with me
Let me know these things
Come on, dance with me
Let yourself be free
Come on, dance with me
Let me know these things
Come on, dance with me
Do that what they do
Talk that good shit
But you better back up
If you want the up yell
Sorry that's just not enough
Cause we got every team fighting lane flash box
When they clash you will never last less than a hundred
Bring your A game if you want to claim fame
That'd be your main aim, then you end the right lane
Show up or shut up, no time for excuses
Can't think of series, you're probably just useless
You want a shot at us, you can come get it
Yeah, get just talking then you can forget it
We're gonna blow up, we're on the rise
E euphoria, this is the vibe
We wear the clown nose and we wear the crown
Kids of the west, you know we hold it down
This could be the final chance, or last dance, together.
This could be the final chance, or last dance.
Are you ready?
Come on dance with me, with the LVC.
Come on dance with me, let yourself be free.
Come on dance with me, with the LVC.
We've come a long way since the beginning, the dark days of double streams, vacation
means, now charged up and charging forward, we are the LEC.
We can't be stopped, slowed or suppressed, this tenacity is EU at its best.
It's time for the LEC lawyers to show their fandom, put your hands together, this is
Don't wanna dance with me
See that's what they do
You start to think you're all alone
Counting failures, you can't let them go
I can tell you need a little something for me
You got spirit, baby, you got heart
Hands up now, but we can fix that bond
Time for you to know what you could be
Push through it, push through it
No limits, you can do this
You want it? Just take it?
You're on the edge of infinity
The pain you can go on night
Breaking limits that the world rely
On the verge of greatness is time to leave
There'll be a name when it's up in light
You'll know you're worth when you win the fight
Tell the world to walk, but we'll quietly walk
Push through it, place through it
No limits, you can do this
You want it, just take it
You're on the edge of infinity
Getting out of the competition
Rise above the pain
Rise up in your own conviction
Go through it!
Climb through it!
Oh, the best you can do!
Let's do it!
You're one!
Just take it!
You're on the edge!
You're in infinity!
You got competition!
There's a boat of fame!
Oh, the best!
I'm solid in your own convention!
We're getting wet!
We're getting wet!
We're getting close through it!
Climb through it!
I
Let's drop it!
A week for days, counting all the ways I've died
Everything I couldn't save, buried down still half a life
This got me crawling in my skin, and I was coming out to hold me close
Boy, I'm not the gasoline, yeah, I've been making friends with all these girls
And I got nothing left to lose, I'm too diffused
I
Well, it's not me to turn and run, let the bitter truth in, I choked it down, let the bad taste on my tongue, advertise, call me now, I can still call me in your skin, but no one's coming out to hold you close, I'm pulling out the gasoline, so say hello to all my ghosts.
I
Oh, oh, oh...
I'm moving like a shadow
You're walking in my bed
So I'm breathing still
Oh, oh, oh...
Love the heart, love the heart
Watch your life fade from your eyes
Oh, oh, oh...
This is not a warning
This is not a test
I'm settled in a new meta
Coming right up high
Stand up and I'll just make it right
Just try to be cool
That goes in my head right away
I don't need you
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down, yeah
I'm up high
and I'm in this world
oh
I'm sinking left in
in the water
and I won't let you go
I'm waiting for this world
just for the two of us
oh
I'm sinking into the ocean
far to the thing, far to the fingers
far to the thing, far to the feelings
oh
oh
I'm sinking left in
I'll be waiting, and I won't let you go
And I'll be fine until, that's fine to refuse
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If you had it all, you'd look the fall in the eyes.
Oh, man, again
Oh, man, again
Will you turn and run from what's to come?
Will you face it all?
Will you fall away again?
What's calling now to be found?
When the time is right
It's so amazing, oh my God
Cause we all face the fight
And we stay from the light
The way that the people
Wanna fight
Feel their rush, feel the time
Can you feel it with the pain?
Why should I wait and stand again?
Oh, I can't
Feel the rush, feel the tights
Wash away what used to be
You make your stand
I won't let your hands again
Cause we all face the fight
And we stray from the light
Turn the page of my hero
Feel that rush, feel the sound of my voice
Can you feel it with the pain away?
Watch it away and stand again
This is you!
You're out of your mind, baby!
You're in your way, and you're still there!
You're not obliged, you're too far off to start, baby!
You're not in your way, and you're still here!
You're my family!
Everybody is on the story!
You're the legend!
Welcome back everybody to the spring split of the LEC 2026 as we are here in our wonderful
studio and we all survived yesterday because what was that nine games, a lot of action,
we had some 54 minute games in there, we had some comebacks in there, Baron Sneak.
Unexpected.
Not real.
Did we count it?
Is that what you're talking about?
No.
Is this someone who's very aware of the topic and right on the topic expect it? No, I don't think it qualifies you can see their name
You're expecting a Jason but like it was super exciting
You know it was exhausting and everything nine games, but we did get to see a lot of bangers Navi and Chloe
We have some great comebacks. We have we had KC versus by 30 which is shaping up to be such a nice
You know French rivalry because it's always entertaining. Maybe the level is not the highest
But man is it bloody GX was great as well
they came into the season playing fanatic and they did very well.
So I purposefully forgot about that and I left it on because I did not want to think about that one at all.
But yeah, GX, the first time ever in the Orcs history where they managed to beat fanatics,
so it was a great start to the season for them as well.
And it wasn't the Noah Carey show, which is what I typically think of when it comes to GX.
So it's the show in a different style, but then this one...
This one!
Na'Vi, talking about first time getting wins, I mean first time taking down MQoy, big moment for them.
Even Ilesh said because he was looking and he was thinking about this game for a whole month in the break, you know.
They're always like, I need to beat MQoy, I'm only thinking about how to beat MQoy and they actually did it because it's a revenge because that's where they lost in playoffs last time.
And they lost pretty handily, right? And then in this case, they win that first game, you think surely it's not gonna last,
Surely M. Koi is just gonna win the next two and they did the next one and then
They came back it has to be said M. Koi didn't close the door when they had the chance in game three and now he just yeah
Parlays it into a wonderful victory, which I think is huge for the org and huge for the start of the team
Yeah, and I got a call up bettias. He's probably watching from home right now. That was the most legend
Yeah, what's after curse such as I have ever been
I looked that man in the eye live on broadcast and he was so certain that they were gonna lose
And the Navi fall off the miracle. That's crazy. Yeah, I really let you also a person to watch for sure already said before
Yeah, when you were not playing. Yeah, I was just watching watching all of you for six months
Watching what they were doing getting better crafting my plans
I mean you kind of brought a bit of the same but we did see Navi level up a little bit with more
You know consistency in the laning phases all around, but it is a surprise to see m-coyote that oh and one
They are one of like the top teams in EU consistently, and I definitely had them favored going into that match
I'm not worried about that.
But you can see that you're new here,
because they always do this with regular season.
No matter how it starts, you know,
we've seen sleeper weak ones from them,
we've seen banger weak ones from them.
But I think it's they take a little bit to ramp up
because they're rather inconsistent,
but come playoffs, you know, I'm not.
From all these 0-1-1 teams, actually,
the only one I'm worried about is Fnatic,
quite literally, because for team vitality,
I think they're great.
I think they're great.
They just need to figure out what to do
in some of these drafts.
MovistarCoy, as you said, always bounce back.
Fanatic though once it starts going down
Don't get me for that. I'm way too biased. No, I'm always gonna believe in them. They're my favorite. I love them
I know I know we all we all are fanatic
Don't we now?
Kangas because I can sense that you're feeling a bit far away from home
We brought a tradition from the LCS here
Let's see that or this oh
Oh, that's how you pass stuff.
Yeah, yeah, legally distinct from this or that.
Exactly.
I like it.
Here's our first one.
Bad or this?
Bad or this?
Kobe or Betty?
OK, man, you put it.
I'm casting with Betty on Monday, but I can't not go Kobe.
He's my LCF brother.
That's an easy choice.
I hope Betty is just lucky.
Betty is just probably watching.
You know what, Betty looks miserable.
On Monday, we'll have the conversation then.
Unbelievable.
I'm committed.
I'm committed.
life hell for the next two weeks. He could, absolutely he could. Yeah. This is a hostage
situation. Second one, that or this? Buseo's Biceps? How about we get an updated one?
I don't know. Let's let the chat at home decide who wins that one. I mean, no shade
on Buseo, but I feel like we all know who the NA Biceps really belong to. Wait, let
me ask you. I heard a K from the audience right there. Which Biceps are the bestest?
No one's here, one person is here alone.
I have no idea.
Bad guys.
There we go.
That's what we're talking about.
Nobody else.
Nobody else.
So, it's a die.
It's a die.
If you check it out, check this out.
Strategically, they cropped the forearm.
The forearm is where...
But it's biceps.
It doesn't say arms.
Okay.
That is fair.
That is fair.
But you have to factor in the forearm.
I mean, you need to admire his commitment to just biceps there, you know, because
You might be right. I'm just gonna say y'all can just be happy. Oh, are we getting the gunshot?
I'm not in this scarring situation!
Yeah!
But I can't show it on TV because I don't have a license actually for this.
Okay, yeah. Okay, buddy.
Have to raise the age filter after that shift.
Oh, I'm kidding.
Okay. More. This or that. That or this. Sorry.
Not trying to get sued.
TL versus G2 speedrun at the final, MSI 2019.
Now, while both of these legendary moments, I think we can all agree that the way funnier
one is Mad vs T1.
So it's way funnier.
I see you as a resident and every year I did this tradition where I just go back and
I watch that game, the 1647 game.
That's the game you watch?
Yes, because you know what's the messed up part?
You watch it and you know it's coming.
You know it's coming and you still can't believe it's happening as you're watching
it.
the game is over in one minute. No way the game is over in 30 seconds. And then you're
like, no way it ends in the next 10 seconds. And then it's just, it's just over. You're
just sitting there.
I get it. The memes, you chose the memes. I love it. It'll never die.
And I've already blocked to the one on the left out of my mind.
Yeah, yeah. Don't worry. We'll remind you before you joined the LCS.
It was. Yeah, I wasn't even part of the show.
You must see the game.
It's so good. What's the next one?
Since I've joined LCS has never lost to LEC in a final.
Oh, inspired or skewed.
I think this might be a controversial take even for an EU audience. We all like inspired, right?
I mean he is an EU player. He's the goat of the Western junglers
I had one good one good tournament
Are we really gonna say skumad is in the conversation with this guy?
Okay, let me just let me just let me just almost beat Gen. G
3-0 Gen. G. Yes, sir. Yeah, okay
Okay, Skumot is building the resume.
That's the first bulletin point.
Inspired the player of all of the LTA last year
when we combined the North and the South together.
He's consistently won.
He's won an E.
Yeah, because it's their region.
You know what?
He's run the region.
Just celebrate, inspire.
That's another reason.
I'm playing with him.
That's why I don't celebrate him.
I say yeah.
I went through the pain and I love him
and he's great, but I'm choosing Skumot
any day of the week.
The thing is, I think inspired is
the Western Goat jungler.
I agree.
right now, but he's on the rise and he left us. So points
deducted. Also, did Caria ask for a Jersey with inspired
name?
Come on, that's not that one. I don't believe he did. Yeah,
well, but do we know he did it? Because we have an interview
as saying knowing he did for a few months. Maybe the next
interview, maybe you know, maybe who knows. Next is
easy Santa. Really? Yep. I mean, as a portal, the
I'm not cosplaying as girl master bomb yet. You've cosplayed as Santa brah. Yes. Is there a photo of this? There's footage. I was
Can we get for the next post game or something? Probably. Okay. We can probably get it. Ask him for a friend. Okay. Okay. Good. Now let's continue with the actual League of Legends.
That was a really fun game of that or this and we're going to talk about the first match of the day. It's SK Gaming versus Team Heretics.
Now, let's start with Team Heretics, a team that swore, up and down,
that they were not going to make a roster change,
that this was a long-term project.
What did they do?
Well, they changed...
They changed the roster.
Yeah, they did change the roster.
Stend went on the bench, I think he got transferred as well.
Way came in, because I was personally surprised with this move,
because you saw at the end of the regular season,
they had this massive upstream, you know, they went from 2-5,
racking up wins, 4 wins in a row against even the top teams,
I think they beat KC, they beat MCoy, so they pretty much beat the top four teams, but it just, when it came to playoffs, something was missing, because when I was thinking of Team Heretics, I was always thinking of Ice, Ice and Penta kills, and it felt like they needed just a little bit more than that.
And now they got back up in the bot lane. Wei has come onto the roster, he's coming in from KT Challengers, and it was also playing in the TCL a little bit for that, or right after that now coming in here to play for us in LEC.
but what he was known for at KT Challengers was a strong laning phase.
We're going to see some of the TCL gameplay, I believe, but also just
the reputation he had of leveling up the firepower and the bot lane means that Ice now
not only can carry in the late game, but he will have a strong support to win the 2v2.
Exactly, and that's what I'm looking at when I'm thinking of Team Heretics.
I think they need just a little bit more firepower because when we think of Team Heretics, we think of Shai'o, right?
Like how mid game he would always find the leads you'd always like you know spearhead offensive so that they get some leads somewhere
But it felt like just overall in the lane phase, you know top mid and bot lane
There wasn't really anyone who'd be able to generate massive leads so now with way coming in and providing just a little bit more
Firepower in the bot lane in terms of that laning phase. I am hopeful that this will level up
Now I like it actually for team heretics
I think heretics was a team that because of everything that happened in versus right and the kind of attention that went to
Los Reptons as an example etc. They flew under the radar as a team that did a lot of damage
at the tail end of that season but was missing something. So although I don't approve like
oh we're not going to change roster and then we're just going to kick someone, I think
this might be a good change.
Yeah, it's a bittersweet story because you kind of want to see what the roster could
look like if it keeps developing but if the team wants wins right now and they're
basically tripling down on Ice, like he's the guy that's going to get his wins. Let's
Let's give him a stronger laning phase now too and help him get out of lane with an even
bigger lead.
Yeah, and 20 seconds I need to go to my interview with Mickey.
What are we saying about SK Gaming?
SK Gaming, premier hate watch project.
Everyone who ever watches SK just wants to see hate watch, they want to see Lidder crumble
and fall.
They love Mickey Ace.
Wander is stellar top notch performance.
I'm expecting him to steal, carry, and Lidder, every now and time, you think
about Lidder and Spring, he always does well.
He got second with the Stralis in regular season and now technically it's Spring because
Winter Split didn't really exist.
it was called the Lisi versus so let's see what Mickey has to say. Okay indeed let's see what Mickey
has to say. I'm right over there. I'm here with Mickey Axe as SK is about to take on Team Heretics
so how was the preparation? How was the pre-season or the inter-season I guess? Yeah I mean we
was kind of just bootcamping in Cologne preparing since like I don't know I guess three weeks
we've been there now just playing some scrims like trying to fix a lot of the problems we
head in winter and yeah I think we're on a decent path to get there. Yeah you're in
Cologne of course. Did I hear that right that you took the bus down today?
Yesterday. Yesterday at least. Is that how does that work because it seems to
kind of just a little annoying that you have to be on a bus for six hours and
then sleep here and then come to the studio how are you dealing with that?
I mean I personally don't mind because it's just like it's six hours where
you can't really play soul queue but it's like the only limitation I guess.
You can sit watch like watch votes or you can do draft talks you can do
whatever, and I just spent time with the team so far, not too bad, but yeah.
Oh yeah, I see, yeah of course you can do the review, you can make it into fun time,
let's say, or about educational time. So when you talked about things that you
wanted to work on, a lot of people had question marks for SK coming into
best ofs. Now it's only best ofs, best of threes and best of fives, so can you tell me a
little bit about what are the things that you tackled in that department?
I mean yeah, we talked a lot about drafts and how we were doing them
in winter and adapt that a bit. But I think the main priority, our objective was for us to get
better at knowing how to play fights. I think a lot of times in winter we were getting some decent
leads, but we managed to always throw it or miss play fights because people didn't really know
what their job should be or how to play it properly. So we kind of just in scrims focus
more on taking fights and then talking about them and I guess get more repetitions through
that and then see other teams how they do it as well and yeah I think we got better than
at least. That's awesome I saw in the teaser that you also talked about your memories with G2 but
that you really want to prove that you can do it with our caps etc it does feel like kind of a
mountain to climb right because of the project being so newly formed so how do you deal with
the balance between this is the guy I know I can be and these are the issues we have to fix
right now. I mean yeah we kind of just have to take it one step at a time and
keep improving and not lose hope I guess because yeah winter didn't go as
anyone of us expected at least so yeah we just have to keep working on it and
eventually I think we can get there because individually I think we're all
quite good players so shouldn't be impossible at least. Is Nepotism still
winning? For now no but it might. Yeah but nostalgia maxing that does work.
That does work.
Yeah.
Thank you very much, Mickey.
Thank you.
And good luck.
It is now time for Mickey to be sent to his team.
SK Gaming is up versus Team Heretics in our first match
of the day.
Great interview.
I need to find out the difference between nostalgia
maxing and nepotism.
But at least that's a question that can remain for later
as SK and Team Heretics.
Debut on someone with red care in the LHG 2026 spring
after what was a disappointing end for both teams.
Heretics making it to play off losing to KX in the low bracket SK not even making it to play off being one of our bottom tier teams in LEC though
But one of the few wins that they did mention pick up was against heretics
Being full KC blue and heretics pick up the two wins of the split
So for SK hoping for a repeat of the best of ones
But I think also for a lot of people that were looking at this SK roster and
Nostalgia Maxine we're hoping for a lot more you know
So I think people kind of hold in-house that maybe the best of ones were just a bit of a flash point
And then instead they can see SK with a bit more practice time really come back in and shine a light on
What is hopefully a good time and hopefully again show us that yeah in best of threes their dynamics can shine a little bit as well
Maybe some of these champion pools can open up and give us more light into SK
Especially when there has been criticism on champions like leader, right?
He's been banned out in the past and things like some of those Malle carries get taken out.
People ask, well, is he really as good at some of the control ranges?
Questions to be answered though. Team Heritage on the other side,
that is the only change in the LEC 2026 spring has been that bottom lane.
Stenders out and Wei has debuted here in the LEC after being on KT, KT
challenges for a bit. And then Misa, of course,
and topping the league and winning the championship for coming over here.
Yeah, and I think like, I do feel bad for Stend, because like I think Stend was 100% not the issue on Heretics.
And I think when I look at Heretics, it was just the fact of lacking really in identity.
It kind of felt like, look, if Shale can get ahead or Ice can kind of win out in the 2v2, maybe you have a chance.
But it didn't fill me with a huge amount of expectations that this is a team that can do incredibly well on top of the table.
And I don't think bringing in Wei is really going to change that.
I'm excited though to see Wei as a player.
But you're right.
Well, he was like a mechanically very strong player.
And like I think he showed a lot of what he was capable of in KT Challengers
and like was one of the high prospects.
So I'm excited to have him in our league.
I just don't know if it really is going to be a case of, you know,
he's going to suddenly fix heretics.
But it's to echo your point.
It really wasn't about that support position.
In fact, I think Stend had some beautiful games.
Yeah.
Towards the end of the split, especially on that Thresh.
As we're getting a pick and bat now enough yapping away will tell you what's going on as that vibe priority
Debutes here for team heretics with the first pick on the blue side SK have got as real Zin Zhao seems pretty straightforward so far
I'm surprised by the lack of ash therapy or karma priority because we saw a lot of that's coming through and
Even like the the vice are still very hyper ready
But I was I thought we'd see much more of a focus towards us in the bottom side
But there's that karma alongside the silver
Which should give a lot of pushing power in this bottom side to ice and wait and I think when you're developing a bottom line
Seeing them on something like super calmer is like, okay
Let's just chill out put ice and something in is comfortable with and an enchanter for the carry of the team
We've got the double pen to last split. No better way to stop team heretics
It does mean you're heavier line though on Sarin or Tracin trying to take more dive opportunities to try and settle for this
Composition because I think if you're in a position where as by you're the soul engage
I don't think that's the best of times here, especially into things like, you know, the Ezreal, now with Nami in the back line as well
There's just a lot of ways to create space on SK, which can be tough for a follow-up inheritance.
This little Nami is interesting. Normally we do see a roaming support, something like the Bard, the Rakhana, can link up with jungle
But Nami is a lot more confined to the lane
So it will be interesting to see how Miki X can kind of unlock and start looking towards those skirmishes as we get in the second phase
Renekton first to be off the board which has been rising in priority and has also taken off as well.
I mean I think this to me says that Wonder wants to try and go for Ambesa.
I think Wonder was the shiny light on SK a lot last year and I'm not surprised to see them kind of put
priority towards him again as he starts moving to this next phase but his Ambesa was good, his Kenham
had a fantastic game last year as well. So giving him more curry opportunities is not what I
expected to be seen coming into spring but the man's earned this. It really has
one of the shining lines of SK and in this game getting rid of the Gwen as well
means that there is a possibility that we will see him on tank duty but I do like
to call out for something like the ambessa when you do already have a bit of
setup through support through jungle as well. Final ban for team Herodix. Galeo
is gone maybe it means they think that team Herodix might be picking
Rumble top there is a chance there or something a bit more control made you
through mid, because the inhibitor process is going through SK.
I think if you are going to go for like the Ambassador, I think that does synergise well
with a Gallio and gives you like a damage threat in the top lane so you can play less damage
orientated in the mid lane.
That's exactly what the game plan is as just waiting on the last hover to come through.
Actually going to be the side it looks like.
So not going for that kind of DPS threat for Winter.
No, but it doesn't make sense with the Gwenn Banner, yes.
Okay, now you're right all along.
The Investor gets locked in.
Now, the biggest thing is, it does trace and play Bolly there, because it is such a good match-up in doing it.
And, you know, it's obviously a bowser made that very, very popular, but it is one of the best match-ups for a champion that early on can't really rotate out of his combo.
I think it might just be the safer option, especially for competitive play.
Fisante still holds a firm majority over tanks in the top lane, as also with a Sivir.
And when you already have engaged, it does seem like this is super easy to lock in.
Yeah, I'm curious what Saren wants to round this out with though because again like this vibe is kind of on her own
But it comes towards diving in and because this seems to me I would heretics a much more kind of front-to-back style
At least the vibe in it to start off the fights and what I am
Curious said they want to try and finish things out here
hmm
Sure
Yeah, I've already got
Because you know the funny thing is as well and I also as an option is to invest it early
in the top lane was also something that the boss has done in the past Aurora gets
locked in okay so this is pretty stock standard for team heretics you can sell
plenty of options in a composition that has decent scaling as well yeah I don't
mean you said that options and to answer into till here gonna do fine just
kind of try and keep a range and when she goes for the hoppers Aurora trying
to see if you can have the stun yeah but overall like solid front to back
some decent team fighting like SK are just looking to find some of the
lots into that. The Cassiopeia, I mean not terrible against what heretics have, it's
relatively short range so you can't kind of use the miasma to great effect, but I'm not
entirely certain how that matchup goes in the middle end to be honest.
You know my better won't matter because regardless I feel like Felida is going to have all of
owners on him. Shut down what Sera can do here with the strong mid-jungle duo.
Debut game for team heretics in SK, rounds out quite nicely. I think a lot of our
focus coming into today was about, you know, highlighting what Wunder did last split, how
well he looked in this squad, the squad that really failed to deliver. And Trox was talking
to Mickey before. And Mickey always seems nonchalant. It's so hard to get like a devastating
or a contrasting answer out of him. But it does seem like, you know, you realize
it's like, yeah, well, it didn't go so great. We individually expected to do better.
I played Magic with him a little bit. He can be a sarcastic prick when he wants
He can. He can. I play with him as well.
And I'm just like, you know, you've got to draw it out of Mickey.
But he does on the surface always seem calm.
And I think it's important because that split was pretty atrocious.
But they have great talents.
SK are dealing with Litter who's been in the LEC before.
Skins as well, who's the name that's been around.
Wanda, Absolute Legend, Yopah, Growing Legend, and Mickey XD.
Like this guy has done certainly great things
just counterpart in the top lane that he is a household man in the LEC. Let's see if they can do
something better here against Team Herodix. Let's see if they can reinvigorate what was versus
and get off to a big kick in his best of three to start your second day of spring.
Yeah and I do think for Mickey as well a lot of people are hoping to see more out of him. As he
came out of versus he was a disappointment. Like I'm not going to just say it as it is. He
didn't look great in the rooms. Wasn't able to find the success that we expected
I wasn't controlling the pace of the game like we'd expected from it off of, and I mean G2, but I would see like XL when he was on there as well.
Yep. Sorry, someone said Miki Onami doesn't feel right.
I mean, they're not wrong.
No, it's definitely not wrong. I mean, even though Miki can be a bit of an enter on Nautilus, like things like that, he's had exceptional games on that.
So, you're loving that as worst, or you hating it as best.
That's the phrase that knows team heretics use that common try to get ahead bit SK just hit every skill shot
On way as he debuts into the LEC and quick reminder here as we're watching this to be to play out
I mean way this guy I said in the Turkish League just won the domestic championship around that versus around that winter period
Coming off the back of KT challengers
Way has just been a one-man all for the majority of his career
Yeah, I mean playing for KT filled in a little bit for Peter as well
when they were playing in LCK and I think it's kind of like this was also the
team that went on then to play in the world finals so it was certainly the
fact that he was getting game time said a lot of it is strong this player was a
big huge amount of that was a focus on how good is this laning like being able
to get these effective control over the bottom lane and you're seeing this at
the moment as well kind of training his HP in the bottom lane to guarantee
that he can hold that second or that last push get those trades get the
push for his team, but I'd like to see if you can take it over against Jaffa.
Because, you know, TCL is a big deal, but coming to the LEC is a new ball game as well, especially in best-of-reason versus
where you only get first teams and set out your 7-1s, pausing because Wanda could be in a bit of trouble,
Tracen with a flip back, it does work out, Gras comes as well, and Tofus strikes close in, jump in, Tracen,
double baits it, looking for that Gras. Again, running out of mana, but Wanda is one hit away,
It's 35 mana. No, it's less, plus. Very low mana on the Qs.
I don't think he's enough to continue stacking that and still go for the play.
Either way, it's Aaron. He's in some great trades against Leader.
Yeah, twice for me, and he's running right between her.
But this is what, like, in my head, I thought the matchup could look like, where you have quite long range with the Aurora.
And for Leader, you kind of want to be able to lock someone down in my asthma and get value from that.
But I think you've still got enough like slows and stuff to create the space as your aura
So I didn't think it could be the best matchup, but I'm not gonna say I've seen this matchup a huge amount
Yeah
I do feel like you've got noxious blasts saving any matchup and then for the Casio less potency less healing less dueling
And that conqueror obviously not gonna get as much uptime as well top-playing renews with the teleport coming out of wonderous schemes
is looking for an angle, maybe just a backing angle as well. The fay lights are in effect so
we believe some things would drop down as he's walking fast. In the meantime, he won't be invading
and I also see that Shale is the top side of the map right now. We can see what he can do.
Nice job, nice away there though. Yoppa was trying to play safe so Miki could get the reset
but it would have been so low on mana but had to stop his reset to help out Yoppa.
Thanks to the way he landed that W, so it means that now Micky's gonna be late on the reset and doesn't open up a bit of a time in the middle of the way to play around the map.
Here's that move on the way towards top lane.
It's Wanda, once again he's getting low, he burned the teleport, Tracing did as well, but double Clawtharm is coming into effect.
A long sort of verse.
And as soon as Tracing gets off the stage, I mean there's gonna be a lot of danger here, it's once again,
The chance is there, it's going to Q back from Wanda.
He gets out of harm's way just in time, but try some of the small Cs lead here, already in the matchup.
I believe Leib was spotted on that ward that's just a raptor, it's a ping going in towards him.
Obviously spotted now in mid.
It's not going to be too much, I think it's just to help push this wave in,
and give Sarin an opportunity to continue pushing.
It's an okie, honestly, a leader, which is not relatively well so far.
We're coming back to the top lane for a reason though.
We're like, okay, yeah, there's Wai, but let's look for Wai towards the top.
Who's closest to Six Dagon? They're both a minion on two off, hey?
Yeah, I mean, Wunder's a lane. His wave is there, so you should be able to hit it first,
but I don't think you'd want to die because I'm dead to the tower.
That is very true.
Unless the wave was a little bit pulled out and you could just drop the ulti,
but Tracing now hits it as well.
Remember again, all he has to do is all out because he gets a new mana bar.
Manabar, there it is, ready, new Manabar, there's a matter of public execution, perfect flash
and flash for one, he spins out, there we go, flash for flash, old tee for old tee, now
both down.
But it's still, I mean you get to freeze this wave here as Tracy, I'm actually going to
push it a little bit, but you have a pretty solid advantage now on the top side, you
burn the flash, Wunder has to try to walk back here, you can crash the wave and
then reset and you can look at that CS lead that's opening up just a smidge there,
It's a good job by Tracen, controlling the matchup so far.
Coming back as well, dribble longsword here for the ambassador, but a couple of minions to 9.
Tracen might have his Tarbies and then a build up towards the Iceborne Gauntlet.
Instead, going into the, uh, build into the Thornmail, Ruby, Crystal, and Top Armor.
Still decent amount of armor as the inheritors want to get involved more in the top side of that.
Lee is going to move up. He's going to have to try and get a show.
Just going to battle a little bit here, but Skins of course going to win the power of Zimzal.
One of the best jewels in the game in the early jungle as the leader just feels up and
sks.
I'm going to handily take this first scuttle on top.
The skee's in a decent spot now.
I think just denying Shale that opportunity to try and play towards that topside is huge
at the moment, especially as that level 6 hits.
Because when the ambassador has no ult and no flash, he's very vulnerable to some
of these ganks.
So at least delaying that a smidge.
And I imagine we're going to see skee turning up towards this topside of the
just to keep what they're saying as this wave starts to push in.
So that deserves to be a pretty nice tone.
Yeah, chillin'.
Yeah, good.
We got our honey hot water.
Oh, I made it.
That was yesterday.
That was cool.
You know, yesterday was crazy.
And I was kind of half expecting this to be bloody as well, tracin' close.
I'm just getting absolutely bruised in this matchup.
I don't think I've seen Ambesa Vosgesante.
Showed this well for an Ambesa yet.
And to be fair, you know, I was talking a lot with the analysts last split and there
So a lot of good work for Tracin, I was like, yeah, team environment's a little bit difficult.
It feels very developmental and implausible to Ice.
He got Seren in and all these moving marks.
But Tracin was underrated, not only because of all the top lanes we had in the league,
but also because I feel like his role wasn't always certain.
You know what I'm trying to say with that yapping out of the league, I guess.
Yeah, I agree.
I think Tracin had some decent moments where he was able to hold his own, but
I think it's when it goes like map, map,
or really start the show.
But that becomes a conversation.
They've been lost with Mickey Card here.
Let's see, though, as the LTE burned out,
Saren doesn't really hit anything with it.
And then Mickey's a unique target season to see.
Flash over the wall, still dead with the ball back from Saren.
Nice first blood, and team Heretic support will trigger.
Yeah, I mean, great claps from Heretic's.
A good set of play, working already pretty well
with Shale to make these picks happen.
And this is where we're talking about for SK,
where it felt like they weren't quite able to get
themselves established in the early game.
Last place, I'm receiving a game here where Mickey pays the price as they try and get fishing river.
You'd ask what are the winning lanes, all of us going to be burned again, wonders in trouble.
He can't lean on the flush this time around, the pathmaker use, the dodge comes out,
the slow nato foe is tracing, solo kills, wonder!
That's exactly how you start a split.
His dragon goes down with the only hunt from eyes.
He's got no mana, but he's got enough to do the talking with his big ol' boomerang.
As over the wall skeens have found out, Shadow goes for a suicide, or at least decides to go one for one.
But as I thrust over the wall later comes in to try and get the kill why he's now flashing under Yoppa to get the Ezreal back in response
He inspires out and team heretics will get to across the map. All right way might be my favorite support already
That he was like no I'm killing Yoppa you guys you're out. I've got to finish this picks up the kill
It's actually going to be able to defend his turn a little bit
But it does set up nicely there for heretics you get that kill top lane you get the dragon and you get some of the
kills on the out as well.
Nicely orchestrated by heritage and the reason that SK got one was
cause schemes waiting in the bush for Shayla to escape is this
dragon candle 5050.
Yeah, but again, heritage pushing lanes able to collapse first.
I need spotted like schemes flashes over but ends up waiting
around for Shayla and hopes that he might come back over and
Yoppa to give him a shoe did some decent damage here sets ice
backwards but way happy to finish this one off realizes
hang on no I'm not going to be able to help out much here.
Joppa oversteps. He needs to be punished and then is able to hop on out himself as well with the kill.
Big early start for Herodix. Also coming back to live and three grubs down the potential on the menu.
Skins up here to try and take one, but it is also just nice to know against things like Ambesa.
It's just nice to know. In general, we kind of discussed that yesterday.
With that said nice thing to have in 1500 gold, early game for Team Herodix is breathtaking.
Let's not forget the pairing of the top solo kill now with 20 SCS lead for Casante as well
He does feel like Wanda is subdued before this game even gets started
Yeah, and I think as he said like a lot of it is off the back of tracing just doing some good work
And making sure they get decent trades using the Casante to full effect
And it does for wonder mean you're super far behind
You're not gonna be hitting a lot of these items spikes until much later in the game
And and when hair ticks are already off to a great start with ice being accelerated
he's got the call and an assist. Saren having a kill as well. You kind of needed Wunder to
be Asudo engaged to, but if he's put behind, it makes that much more difficult to enable.
Something fun for Oswele. It's with this first item. Tracin's already at the thorn
now for pure armor and I'm sure it's going to be a tarbi soon as well.
And so you're just looking at an unmanageable tank right now. It's Tracin does it again.
All that comes through. Wunder has his flash once more path, make it true damage.
Oh, he buffered the flash!
The flash again!
Tracen is walking over Wunder today.
And he's just continuing to put Wunder behind.
Sure, he lives.
But you're losing Wave, you're losing Terrapin.
He's going to try and stick around.
He's got no TP.
I don't know if you can here.
No TP means Wunder's like,
well, I can't miss that much again.
Wave gets pushed in,
but Wunder makes a difficult call.
A delayed base even more so.
The next wave will meet in the middle
and you can see that Wunder's going to walk back to lane,
but Tracen, a level up.
30 CS up now as well, 1200 with the teleport advance now picked up because of the quest being finished.
It is a great day to be a Cassante fan as he also picks up Tabi to add into the armor mix.
At least Wonder was able to catch half that wave on the back end and should be able to
crash it or push out this wave, which at least gives him something. But yeah, I mean,
a thousand go behind and Trace is about to pick up this wave. Like it is dire straight for the
the SK top laner. And you can say Sheo, see rather, Sheo is up in top as Wunder now resets.
He gets the eclipse but as he comes back to lane, there is a world where Sheo does a couple
of these top camps and see if they can set up potentially a dive without that ulti from
Wunder or something in the mix as he pushes out the wave once again. I do get the impression
though that Heretics are just like, look Tracer, you're doing a good job of aiming
it because I think they could have ganked earlier when he initially burned that first
flash on Wunder, especially with where the wave was positioned. So I imagine it's
It's just going to be a case of, right, Shayo continue to play down towards this bottom side,
you've got Dragon, just under a minute's time, so let's just be looking to try and make plays
elsewhere and see if we can turn this into a Dragon for ourselves.
Skins is pathing towards mid for now, Observers nicely showing the outskirts of vision,
he's just hugging the wall, and yeah, this is completely dark, so for now Mid might
seem safe to Saren, but as he walks up, takes one, and he's still a bit scared,
Skins there, and Pro to build out.
He's not really holding the button and waiting for Lita.
Instead, he just shows and Shary can safely back knowing he doesn't have to count again
going to do anything with mid.
Yeah, and Saren is fine here.
Like this wave is going to slowly push back out to him, so he should be able to collect it.
It will give Lita access to River first, but you can see Mickey already establishing
some vision in this bottom side River.
Now going to reset.
And with the TP towards mid from Yoppa, it looks like it's all hands on deck for SK
to use this mid push to get control over Dragon.
So Sarengris bot in the meantime as well between worlds available in fact all ulti's are available for all 10 people on some of the spread
I'm just more curious about this top lane once again as one day is just getting beaten with a couple of blunt blades
Tracen, I mean it has been such a good debut as he said we wanted to highlight him and we've got this beautiful graphic for you guys at home
For wonder I can't even use it because of how badly he's getting bodies as dragon gets started
There's oh actually it's better show you that there's a decent war isn't there boss the pit
Showing exactly how Tracin's beef milk wonder and now as you start to get into it a more interest in this war
That could be a potential TP, but SK get the dragon. They do no contest
I'm very surprised heretics didn't commit harder for that
I guess yeah
But instead like let's see if the topside win is big enough because I do see at 14 minutes
Tracin is about to pull off first turret as wonder has run away again first turret
13.59, Tracin is up 2,000 gold and in the LEC, I'm starting to think we've got some pretty
bloody good top laners. Yeah, but it's okay because that is a tank, so it doesn't really do much
damage, so when you get that much gold, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, right? It won't matter.
It's not like he's going to get... No, it's not like Yop is in any trouble at all. It's not
like Wright would put something on the queue based on Armour and MR, right? Well, that's all
that thought. There's a TP coming in, Tracin now level 12, corner's off because Mickey
won't even get to play. Up against the wall it's more like Mickey XD now as he drops into the dirt again and for SK
They've lost their support twice. They are losing their mind a bit in this early game
It's almost 4,000 gold league and team heretics are pummeling them. Yoppa and Skeens couldn't get through the e-shield on something
This is not a look at so horse. Yoppa now getting a lot of pressure in this mid lane as well
That's a real problem.
Ice is just getting free plays.
Heretics, I'm just thinking, are just moving their way to a calm civil late game.
I am a little bit worried, even though there is some scaling on SK,
we had a brief talk at the start as well.
But I do feel like, do you think SK need to do something?
Like stop this herald and they need to contest and go now or what?
I mean, I don't think you're in a position to contest.
You've no control over mid. You're pushing the target on topside.
They opted into setting Tracer down against Leader to just continue to push in and I
Mean, I don't know if you can take to her plates against the car in Cassiopeia's face
like conqueror and
That means I think it should be kind of difficult for him
The other problems on the other side is that SK can't take plates in the face of Sivir as well
The way Flure is so grand especially with Kami having Enchanter. Ekko's of Helio now builds out as well
So with a bit of that Q poke extra healing gets added into the mix and it's a little tip. What tip is at the top side?
I
Like you bring up the Casio appeared does feel like leader is the only person in this game
Who is within arms reach of gold and maybe within influence as well as the sun the stack up and getting that tier what 360?
So yeah, maybe up to the old man in the mid lane to find an angle through his total gold is not looking too good
You're an SK fan, I'll do what's laudiest for him.
The problem though is that because SK have no opted in towards Wunder and Tracin going
against each other again, I think Tracin just gets to do the same thing again and take that
last turn, plays in bottom lane, in Wunder's face.
Like there is zero that this might compete.
So if that's gonna be the case, it looks like Wunder might try and roam mid and
look for play.
When spotted on a pink board, I think they'll still drag a bit or just hover in
there.
You're right, because PN is going down, right?
I'm surprised you didn't do the mini-map magic down there, so we can see what's
going on down there.
But yeah, like I think like this bot wave is just in a terrible position.
Wonder is just doing nothing like yeah.
Wonder, anyone's come back into lane.
Tracin is almost level 14.
He's a full level and a bit of EXP above Wanda.
That's how severe it is right now.
The way he's pushing Wanda will receive it.
The turret SK are looking for their play in top.
But Wade knows what's going on.
He gets some good poke himself.
He's skiing, sees Miki, walks up.
He said it Agna, Tracing just walked up, took the towering for free.
But he's just going to continue to do that.
Like you're just going to get more pressure on this bottom side.
But he's a tanker, right?
I mean for SK, I think you have to try and like find a play elsewhere,
where even just sacrifice two plates on this bottom side to TP Wunder 2
somewhere and try and force a numbers advantage.
But even trying to do that, I think Shaiyo's doing a good job of
covering wherever SK are on the map.
He's being super passive, but that's all he's had to do.
You know, just hovering around, yeah, safeguarding the rest.
As with that bot turret open, it's back to top for Tracin here as well.
Wanda not matching yet, he does have the TP, but probably wants to save that because in 50 seconds, that dragon spawns once again.
Bottom side of the map important, so Wanda looking to get pro, get that push in, then maybe make a quick reset so they can look for number three.
Yeah, but I do think the Heretics are doing a good job of like putting people onto the map in the correct position.
Because you've got Cassante up here it makes it very hard for SK to try and push mid and make a play towards the top half of the map instead
And you can already look at where that lane is like Tracin has completely pushed that out
Which means you're wasting so much time
You're not going to be able to crash away in the next 20 seconds onto that top lane turret
So now SK basically have to fight for this dragon or they don't have any answer for a cross map
Tracin's even walking down now as well as you say it makes it so difficult when that Cassante with Jack's show
He's unkillable by any less than three people and one of them definitely has to be leader at this point getting the push in
Tim Herodix the dragon setup is nice
Three seconds until Mickey or rather until dragons pause but Mickey also gets tagged out on the way in
He'll pick up some lettuce for this way drops awards
He said that Mickey's gonna have to use some time and resources to heal himself up to contribute to the fight
Team eridix 4000 gold up before the subject spawns SK started off. Yeah, Tracin tp'd into this fight
We're still looking. Seren in the decent spot, Hazelman.
Clocked, yes.
It's the angle though. The weeding comes out.
Skins decides to flush on him. Going for ice, the tidal wave is good,
but Tracing can run in. He isn't making that much damage yet.
Leader is tagging him.
Bit those are finally Tim Herodix getting hit down,
but the problem is that Tracing still has a hard day to play with
in the scheme. Popped out, backflanked, down something.
Between worlds, perfectly line.
Herodix, it's a wipe.
Even though one gets the backline of the fight,
it looks great for now,
but as Herodix run down the rest,
You see already Dragon went down to them.
He's got the Tracin on.
He's getting poked, he's getting hit.
Mystic shot will only get to Zerah in the back line.
So Tracin runs out, but in the end,
it's a number quietly back in here.
Tracin, come on, man.
He's not going to.
He's going to reset instead of rather shamed.
I think he's up and wondering about how this...
I think they might indeed, all the while,
they're getting poked out and, yeah.
Yop is going to arc and shift forward,
but a little bit sketchy on the back end.
But hey, it was a heretics win
with Dragon and a couple more kills.
That's what he did call it in the fight, like this in the very split for heretics, you have this top half of the fight which is being run by Tracing,
and it ends up getting a really nice double flip, but Wunder is able to just turn immediately on towards ice in the backline,
Wunder just puts his foot off his own in the mouth for the beginning, but as Tracing goes in just here, watch Wunder,
because he just turns immediately Wunder on towards the backline, and they're able to lead ice, follow up on Wade,
So it's a two for two to start things off and then it's only afterwards where they're able to catch leader
That sk like they play this well like kai fact knows that there's not really an engaged to another shale has no ultimus
And they're playing away from the position that they know the shale is in that got really dicey like a couple of those cues
Land from yoppa and there's dead members of heretics with that. Yeah, right
So the ice and white going down a bit more golden in yoppa's hands wonder as well benefiting off of it, but
The thing that didn't change is the fact that Tracin was able to clean up and with Shio's
help, locked down a couple of targets, 5,000 gold eat, it's still increased.
The stats from Ocean worth mentioning.
And the biggest question is what can SK do?
That's a nice circle.
Dagda, what's that for?
For the double control where they're putting a touch control in.
Oh no.
Celebrating something.
No, well, Herodix invading bot.
And that's about it.
Honestly, the story of this game has just been...
Well, Topps is very far ahead and Ise is just chilling and Wok and SK do it to stop it.
And the fact that they've got one dragon in this game, I have to say, was very sneaky and probably saving their chances of still being in it.
I think you do see that if heretics misplay fights SK can't win.
And I think with a composition like this is SK, like it should just be a front to back.
But the fact that they kind of got so split up leads me with a little bit of question marks as to how well their fight structure is going to be moving forward.
So if I mess K and wonder can continue to find flank opportunities and you can arcane shift the yoppe into stronger positions
I think they're in a decent spot show such the ball break of right into your top
Now if you didn't burn an ulcer that was only true sharp rush in the end
But team heretics in their due diligence cleaning out around a baron pit
It's came known to have to be vigilant around this area because if they lose these wards that you can see one now in the
Outskirts one in the back of the pit Baron will be dark
Team Heretics debate him with the burst they have. It makes a very easy job of them to get those final kills at the objective and end this game one.
They're given a lot of time to wonder on side lanes though. He was able to push in fully on that bottom side, which then alleviates a lot of trouble on keeping that side of the map safe.
And you can see he's just been able to run across now this entire bot side and protect mid, which means that you can send resources to top.
So, Saren isn't actually able to get pressure on the top half.
So, like, I think for Heretic's getting your lanes in order,
needs to be the main point here.
Because you're just letting SK catch all these waves,
with little regard for any kind of defensive play down there.
And it's allowing them, further to your point,
to put down some of this defensive vision,
this line that we're seeing.
I'm now going to press the mini-map button.
And, like, you can see up here,
for a team that is behind 5,000 gold,
this vision that is starting to approach the barren,
look at the Olympics,
is starting to approach the barren,
like they are able to constantly put out defensive walk.
They should be choked out at this point
and with how strong this comp is,
and regardless, and you know,
the context is that Casante has a lot of a goal,
but still SK has so much more breathing room
than you would expect.
Yeah, because I mean, to keep dry.
Oh, I like that.
What you should have is Casante pushing this wave.
You also then have Sivir pushing this wave.
Cassante drifts to here, covers this push and then you get a numbers advantage that can drift into this area of the map
and you just control all this area of vision and you clear everything else.
But because they're not doing that right now and SK always match the numbers
they've always got this bot wave pushed in which is allowing WunderTank to reset and cover for mid lane plays and
Heretics are just kind of stuck. Now they're investing TP to the bottom side of the map
We're dragging up in 30 seconds because they're kind of like okay
Let's just hold before it's a fight and let's just try and do you know the West classic
Let's over force me try and get a fight before the big fight
Maybe that'll work Tracen happy to take up remember he had that tip that tee-pee shield for another 20 seconds or so
But that will expire is FK in the room first getting skull is a minor win
But still one on the board they pull back they look for whatever they can from your part
and team heretics Tracen is now lost with the shield that's gone as dragon spawns again
Still the last game in a decent spot here. Wunder has a flank leader controlling well in this kind of choke point, so
Shale looking for a steal
Ruff is doing good as well. He's mad about running a little bit like public execution and servers on the right side
You can see Wunder already solidified but here and the main bring of a pitchflying gaze
Maybe even better SK with a chance to Tracen, can't get what he needs for space, wave the next target as leader
It's once the backing is perfectly a flash a bow breaker from Shale as they disengage and we didn't fear
But I think one the starting of fight absolutely disembodied team heretics completely took serenade of the flight had to use that old defensively
And SK are cutting back well basically realizing if Shale was that sort of gauge tool that we talked about
But then we can kind of just play for poke with Yoppa heals on Mickey and just make it difficult for heretics
already find what they want in these fights. So Heretic's losing that second, that rather fourth
dragon of the game, but another one over to SK, they're being given time. I hate to say it,
but Heretic's dropping the ball a little bit as you said it, Seren first to go. But that's why I
love the position in leader. This whole area is controlled and makes it difficult for Heretic to
try to commit. Wonder then is able to jump on Staren and take him out of the fighter,
and as you over commit, you're running straight, straight as a base on that Cassiopeia,
Because it's just a choke point, you can't really find any other angles.
So SK, saying beautifully to play towards their composition strengths,
and Heritage not finding those black guys who they wanted.
Tracen, Nazma's down, he's slowed down and lead his DPS.
He's beautiful as you see, half HP is slowly going to become a kill,
but by the way, being avoided by Tracen sent, packing.
The big Cassante lead is meaning less and less because in these fights or in these picks,
Heretics are just being caught out, surprised with their pants down, and now losing another turret. Gold is going down.
And what was a 3k Gold lead for Tracer is now halved. Like, he has been... Wunder's been able to get a ton of resources, but...
Base checking, yes, GA, but with an afterburner, it's going to be down, I think, as well.
An escape here. Necessaries. A vault breaker out over the wall, as good as K. Little bit deep.
The cease and desist. Back on in, but Mickey flashes away. Redemption heals up as well.
skiing, 40 cents up the percent of the big circle, Robert's one to now keep these in, ready for a fight,
public execution, nails down, tracing and revenge for Wanda in the top lane and FK keep getting
win out of the win. The question is now, is it just this terror? Do you try and go for a little bit
more? You're giving time for the resex for Heretic's way, moving in behind to make sure that he
can get some vision down and make sure they figure out what this plan is, but Heretic's
just happy to take two plates off the back of the tracing pills.
Who would be worth it? I mean tracing going down gold parts out. I just said that golf was already hot
I thought they would have just turned for bar. Yeah, I thought that was going to be the play because share was also very low
Sure, he has GA, but I think you would have been able to deal with this still though like shale walking way too far forward
Especially when you see you either there you have to assume that it has protection
Then the turning on towards them and then it's the off the tp z he gets some insane damage off even
as Shale goes over the wall with his Q here, the ultimate glimpsum, which takes Shale into the fight.
So Traceron ends up completely isolated, because you have to be careful as Ice,
that Wunder can't just turn on towards you. But at this stage, I thought they would just run up towards the Baron.
You've got Ezreal, you've got the Cassiopeia that will be able to rip through that.
But still, I mean, it wasn't the best to start for SK, but this mid game,
they're showing that they have a better understanding of how to play it.
They really do it again, some of these picks are great, and that's what you expected,
expected the experience of the team is true shop garage scouting out the
Baron we look towards me good burst coming to from Seren on to Yoppa but
Nikki the longer they get to stick around here the easier will be for Yoppa to
get back in the fight that's already one title wave or by the Evan flow it'll
get Yoppa up to three quarters now the Baron still in questions dragon a
minute 40 away yeah I think SK you're just trying to get that TPO from
Tracin if they can fake starting this like actually may start it
themselves and hope for a TP to come in from, sorry, from the Cassante, but there is a ward
there that spotted themselves.
It's coming in anyway, despite the ward, they just want Tracen to be in mid.
But you're going to have a leader who's able to match on this bottom side.
So he is TP, he can always match in and I think a leader is TP less valuable than
Tracen's, but again you're kind of seeing heretics unsure of exactly how they want
to try and play out here.
That TP's now down. I mean, yeah, you're right, they're mid game, a little bit sketchy here.
SK have shown they're just happy chilling. Leader also on three items of the Leandries,
that's going to shred through Tracen even more. He's just picked up unending despair,
but his head aren't, needs some work. Needs a really solid item here.
So then he can deal with Leader because Leader, as we already talked about,
going to blast through. Also Joppa, not going to have that much trouble as well as
endless hunger now picked up so one reset in the fight one kill rather and he's got
a bit of sustain on his back as well. It's looking good for SK despite the
early game as we've said as that dragon now gets closer and closer third for
both these teams SK looking to face check team Heretic get out of the brush
control will come through but true shot right tag Seren on the back foot now
that guy either has to disappear quick and give up dragon team Heretic's
probably know that yeah maybe they do as they try and false start the
Baron. If you have no TP on Saren, so whenever Heretic's choose, SK can just kind of kick them out
and if you kick them towards that top side, you can still look over towards that dragon.
Even if you just have, like, Wunder or Leader solo with because they still have the TP to join in.
So I think that's what SK have basically called them now seeing the Heretic's status.
One's going to be there first, back to the third. He's going to have to drop a
ward leader at the start of the dragon, but now he's walking up as well. Slow by the ocean.
Won't matter too much because the Baron is not that quick from seeing Heretic's.
Saren now joins back in with the full health bar.
They don't do this quick at all, Serics.
Nice 3D tag down on Warrie Jack of the day.
He's got a free meal here, but Serin turns it back on to Yoppa, who went into the front line.
Serin's doing great damage against the Warp, bringing them back to the fight.
Wanda's been found out over the wall, public execution though, but he's taking no damage.
Between worlds is good, but again, where is the damage?
Serin running into show, and then running together into Wanda.
But he even has time to hit the turret, and has got time to walk to the dragon.
to the dragon. But where's the engage now for heretics? This is what we've been talking about.
When Shale uses that Ultimus, there's just nothing left to close that distance and that's where
Leader and Yoppa seem comfortably able to kite this one out. And heretics know that that one and
done is over. They need an RS5 item, Sivir in this game, to actually have any input because
the damage there is pitiful. One is able to absorb it all with Death Dance as well as long
and Saren's not the one hitting him. He is chilling here in this game as SK moved to sole point
and again it has been really impressive how the stack made it this game because even though for
team heretics they're being a little bit wishy-washy with where they put this Cassante where they
start these fights or how they actually move to some of these objectives I do feel like it has
been up to SK like they're constant grouping they're never isolated in less than a free stack.
What it's how they get those groups scenarios is because of wonder. Wonder is consistently
pushing side lanes where he knows that there's no real threat elsewhere on the map and is also
getting away with it. Like there's been no pressure from Heritage to try and finish him off the side
lane so for SK now. Can he show? But the facehack's okay. Season of the season is on leader though
in between. Well maybe an opportunity here. As SK, we're going to pull out the Crescent Garden,
that skis with an all-season down but again I must ask where's that civil damage? Ice in the
room, ring play gets leader a little bit lower as well. So an opportunity as SK's a bit later
although having TP is sent back to base.
They did burn the flash on towards his Cassiopeia, and the heretics,
feeling like they just need to pull the trigger here, starting up the Baron,
but SK still poking and prodding over the wall.
Brazen cannot afford to stand there, even versus Joppa.
The Hellfire is burning down ever so slowly.
Leaders come back in, he's teleported into the middle,
and he's going to get the push out.
Maybe now with the reset from heretics after the Baron,
they can get any damage on midway, if that'd be the possibility,
or Britain Baron himself.
I think the only success for heretics here is getting the double TP out, but maybe they need to use it now, but it's SK's turn to Tango.
I feel like that's a better TP here from Tracin to get to mid lane immediately.
Shado on mid wave is hitting it out, but he has to get to Baron's start.
Hit the 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, way too late.
Shado hit the wave, but he should have been hitting the keyboard to get up to this Baron and it's AP as they look for a blank here, but in hand Baron recall.
SK trying to get everyone back at once, but then again they turn onto Tracin.
He's got a great angle, but is he all out? Danger still strikes.
SK's Joppa hitting the back row and sees him, but they turn.
They turn on the shoulder, they take him down.
Remaining blade over the wall.
Team Arityx need to get in ice by stop of the wall and finally.
There's the trigger you're looking for with the skins.
Runs back in, wanted to try to survive.
That's what we call cool.
He finds his mark, dodges, kites, still alive for now.
Until Serent gets Max Lane, two versus two.
Tracin is happy.
It's not against the Casio P, but still long enough, and Joppa will kill the Cassante.
It's in for an arcane ship.
Once again, Mystic Shot hits.
Here we go again with Evan Flo and title blessing.
You know that Joppa is going to have the damage eventually.
Is that remaining for his life?
Mystic Shot just out of range.
SK arcane ship from Joppa.
He's hitting everything.
He splashes forward.
A good auto as well.
Mickey helping him out.
Move into arcane ship.
And SK kill four for the cost of three.
It's four for three.
Heretics couldn't quite find the kills that they needed, but for SK, that's so many barons down.
You see here, Tracin goes in hoping for the best, but when Heretics is taking this fight in this corridor,
it makes it really difficult for Ice to kind of set up properly.
He gets jumped on by Wunder, but if Wunder flashes away, Ice can already throw boomerangs over the wall.
So a lot of that DPS is taking out him to Ice. It's like, I just need to get in here.
Flashes in, that sounds to do good work, but once again Wunder turns on towards him.
And Wunderst gets so many abilities out here that actually sets up for Yoppa and Nikki to get decent damage
onto both Tracin and Saren and then finish off Saren at the end.
Yoppa with the help of Nikki, made that SK spy.
Gold is even for the first time in this game.
It sounded a bit rowdy, a bit clanky there, but I will say it wasn't too bad for SK.
I think the team Heretic so dagged out and what we have seen is that ice is now the moneymaker, right?
And we talked about this the silver as per usual is the one that has to die
This is just like yesterday with the fanatic series with upset on the silver
It had to be him going down to find a win
The same can be said again Heretic live and die by ice once more, but heretics are just going mid
We've got a bit of a base race going on right against that of the bar and yet
which is going to keep these two Panamanias alive.
They don't win that.
They know they don't.
Ice is going to spell shield back in the bush here as well.
One is trying to stop the port,
but Saren already got his way back.
But with Baron,
we're going to close the window in here
until Saren shows his face and they say,
no, it's too risky.
SK again, remember, only had Yopov
and Nikki with the Baron buff.
So it's not likely to constate.
Both teams varies.
Bliss, Shaiyo sticking around in case Wunder over extended.
Maybe we can look for engage and find a pick.
But also, Skeens and Leader not resetting to the bottom side,
and they're kind of hovering around themselves.
They shouldn't have cleared out for heretics.
But I'm wondering how resetting, I think he just hasn't item completed
as he put TP in for the face.
It doesn't need time to reset, he's just going.
Okay.
Wonderjorn's in here running straight up here,
5-0-5 in the river, over this sole.
SK picked this up, and Ocean's sole means
they could be unbeatable in this game one.
Again, best of three, showing their face,
the one we love them so much is on the hunt.
He'll be popped by ice and start off the fight. Leader on the side, low in manifit, enough to get the job done.
On the way, and Sherry's already cracked out a little bit here as Yoppa stands up and delivers over the wall.
No season to sit. He buffers it! Yoppa buffers it! I think that makes the game!
Ski's getting show on the back end as well. By public institution of wonder. Get some good water and dry down self.
And then Yoppa gets to carry the back of the fight with an arcane shift with a kit of the wrist that's tracing left here in the middle of doing Kassan Bay things.
The H2 will fall, jump up, buff it at all, and Team Heretics will end without an escape.
SK, in a game that looked doomed, will pick up the soul, and now, can start to look towards
his bottom lane turret, Saren against Yoppa.
He's still doing some damage, but it's just not enough.
It's really not.
Saren is going to get targeted with a bit of healing and Ocean Soul as well.
SK can run this in, Saren versus 4.
10, 15 seconds I now read on Shado.
Ice not up from Wilde as well.
Nexus turrets under threat.
Wundergood is on on Saren, so he cannot kill the AD carry.
Both of them are gonna drop it to the dirt,
and Wundergood sacrifice his life,
while SK find their first game wet of 2026 spring.
That never looked like he should have been in SK.
Thank you for trying those games.
really good understanding of how to play the mid game, how to play to the strengths of the
composition at those dragonfights, really is what forced that game into SK's favour.
Wanda got bullied, but Wanda did indeed carry from the mid game on with shots.
It's true, it's not always about the laning phase, but I'm still going to ask, what happened in the laning phase?
I took a few too many bat traits, I think, but yeah, I mean, I saw Baal's play last
bit and I was like, it looked very good for him, they got more wins than us, so I was
like, yeah, maybe we'll work out for me too, you know.
And it did, and then, because the laning phase is not everything.
It isn't everything at all.
It's all about the teamfights and the laning teamfights.
So how did you, I don't know, play them so well?
I always think that you have so much experience.
Does it just automatically kick in in these close games?
To be honest, my champ doesn't really do what the rest of my team wants to do.
They're very front to back, so my role in this game was to just find whoever is flanking for them.
In this case it was like Aurora, and if I can jump on him and he can't do his thing,
then in a way I'm helping my team as well.
So that's kind of like my mindset going into the team quest this game.
And I think I caught the mid lane off guard like a cover time is doing that, so yeah, then we're good.
Definitely did your job. So are we gonna get three games or is it only gonna be two?
I think if we can win this game with my ambassador
It was service and run rate last split. I mean we didn't win many games
I wasn't gonna say much but three games service and run rate if we can win with that
We can win next game too. So two more. Nice. Okay. I'll let you go to your team
Thank you so much wonder. Let me face wasn't that good though and Otto's gonna break it down for us
There we go. Well played, buddy. You did great outside of that lane, but to further amplify
why Wander did so incredibly well later on in the game, we have to go back to the laning
phase and see a couple of concepts that have happened here that just make it so incredibly
difficult for Wander to play because it's a bit out of his hands given that Tassante
is such a strong champion. So we're looking at waystates and trading in a position where
Wander has to keep looking at minions and at the champion at the same time. And
And as you can see now, the wave is constantly bouncing back to Kasante and Wander keeps having
to fix this lane.
By the same time Kasante is putting incredible pressure every time he wants to last hit.
And even now, after all of these trades, Wander fixes the wave.
But what does Kasante do?
He doesn't push this wave.
He keeps it here.
He keeps it in tension so that there's more and more opportunities for Kasante to go.
And even now, what happens is that he manages to break this freeze.
And what Casante will end up doing is crash this wave quickly.
He doesn't really look for trade opportunities anymore.
Sure, he finds it at times where Wander wants to last hit, but it's always on the timer
where Wander wants to farm.
Right now, there's a bit of time between the lane.
It's a dead spot, but now we're back into the fight zone, where there's just nothing
that Wander can do, because every time he walks up to Lasset, you saw him.
He gets cued and cued and cued again.
And again, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth last hit in a row, he gets all end.
now beautiful sides there by Tracen and you know this would be great if top lane
laning phase matter because even after this you know the Cassante is around 1.5
gold up at minute 14 but man after this one the really had a pop-up game so
this what the hell happened over there yeah I think Wunder spelled it out for
us as well he misflated a couple of times in the lane and at the end of
the day it's also still a Cassante but I've seen a few times now this
weekend, a couple of times yesterday, big, big gold leads in the top lane, big
experience leads in the top lane, not necessarily translated to a victory by
the team, but how did it not, did it get mistranslated, you think, in this one
Kangas, where did they drop the ball? Well, I mean, we're talking about the top
lane and intricacies of that. I want to highlight Yapa a lot, because I feel
like that was the big reason why they were able to actually come back,
because Yapa's performance on the Ezreal, incredible. We saw the Barrett
fight afterwards, he's able to survive and actually get a kill up the very
end on the Seren and then also the last dragon fight his positioning got so much better throughout the game also leader
Started hitting those catch-up here ultimates in the teamfights which you can see when you hit those
It's a much different teamfight this one
Incredible how he's able to just get over the wall avoid the vi engage and is still free-firing
I'm a very impressed with the oppa and then of course wonder
I mean he does wonder things in the liking you're talking about his experience shocks
It just kicks in at a certain point
And he was already able to kind of come back at this point, but the upper to me was the the thing that kept them in the game
And was able to kind of get them across very much a team effort right you have to get back in that game
You have to stabilize then wonder has to find the right targets keep the middle in or out of the fight where possible
But someone's got to do the damage and that's where there was a lot of pressure on your buff for doing just that
Exactly it wasn't really easy because once you fall they were at some point 5k go down right and their comp doesn't really like function
So there's such a bulldozer, Team Heretics, where they just like walk forward.
And just to go back on the wonder point, it felt like he really picked up the blunt of this, you know,
of the heavy lifting when it comes to this game, because as he said in the interview,
he said that his champion doesn't really do what the rest of the team comp wants to do.
So it falls on him to get into this, into this, how to say, status where he needs to be the creative one
and find creative ways to break this sort of mold, because when you're playing kind of like this
or like this kind of joker type pick.
In this teamfight he's around I think 2K or 3K
go down to the Cassante.
He ended up having such a big impact
because even though his champion
is behind in gold in relativity to the Cassante,
compared to the rest of the team
from like team heretics side, he is okay.
And he manages to showcase the strength
of this champion incredibly well
because once you find this isolation,
once you find this one beyond to the side,
you get to do so much more.
And that's where the experience of someone like Wander
just comes in so clutch.
Yeah, if that earlier play he just marks the Roryal then in this fight as well here onto the Kassante
She was able to get on top of him. Obviously the Nami's setting up a little bit
But as soon as he TVs in just boom sniping these ultimates and finding the shutdown
That's the shutdown that got him back into the game
And then we saw what he was able to do once he got back over there
It's just a pleasure to make so much space, you know
Because now you can bring back the conversation, you know
Even at the point of the laning phase. Imagine if he wasn't so behind in the laning phase
How much you would do but at the same time
man that was good. It's what he said right because I asked him about cheekily about well how's the series
ain't gonna go and he's like well if we can win this game since I'm best in this way then we should
have good chances and I gotta say I was a little surprised you know I didn't know how SK was going
to step into this game and by all means they didn't step into this game very well we can talk
maybe a bit about what did go well for team heretics in the early game but the fact that
they can bounce back and bounce back as a as a group this effectively yeah nostalgia maxing
It's bad for the hate watchers, you know because it's a refreshing to see them play so well because when you think about LEC versus
I felt like they would get these leads in the early leading phase and they would kind of crumble and constantly this dragon situation
So then managing to be you know, so creative when it comes to this to playing from a defensive them
You know finding a creative way or a cheeky way to get out of a bad situation
It was it was really nice to see also more creative of the draft
I mean I did not expect you did not
Yeah, so like the leader conversations also getting interesting because it's fearless best of three
We're not gonna see that again, but we didn't expect to see that in a game one
No, and it's not something we talked about in the pregame, but leader in best of like is he gonna fall?
Just wait for like game two or three word like a zed just randomly pops up
to his right now so
Give it to me. They're gonna give you that Zed. Okay. Well, we'll take a quick break and then we'll see if leader does lock in
That Zed in the game versus team heretics. We'll be right back
He wanted to admit Niki's a new target, season 6.
Clash of Law still dead with the ball back from the Seren.
He can't lean on the flash this time around.
The pathmaker used a dodge, comes out.
The slot on the topo is tracing.
Solo kills Wanda.
Son of a bitch!
Look right this way. She's in bubble.
Where's it? Where's it?
Yeah, I see it.
No, no, no!
Go right, Samu.
Go right, Samu.
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Go what? Go what?
Let's go.
Brothers, brother, let me try.
Wait, brother.
Let us break this instead, brother.
have a break have a KitKat what is this brother perfection
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You'll need the right build, choose wisely, because every upgrade brings you closer to
the next level.
So tell me, how will you level up?
Wait, is he switching lanes?
All of us
Taking all the lead, jerking down this road
I don't like it, give it a second, ain't no debate
For rules I'm never going to break
I'm proud of these walls
Didn't do recomba, they wanna lead them
I guide them straight and tip them off axis
I wasn't ready to get a beast
Meanwhile, they was crying my feet
That's the color of my nipples
I've been with enough practice
No cloud or digital captions
Worlds in madness, how am I gonna manifest
I don't need dreams, don't have to see money and power and statics
I don't wanna do it like down, like down, like fat, that's what you do on that list
It's big man to the England, it's never gonna profit off blackness
Never got a dollar off sadness, but I've been sunk, so I don't use sanctions
Heavy is the head that crowns shit soon
Kated wearing down on my shoulders
Brings rules on me to break, but proud is school
Money come I had, cause I'm lawless
I was shown in mind and organs knocked to my fingers, bled
Now I see skeleton keys and door kicks
Shedding with means and caution, man I had galleys to feed from morning
Yeah, they start shelling me dreams, I'm walking
Yeah, I was uncomfortable but I was scared
Lookin' just for this, the name wasn't there
Now I'm a part of my neighborhood there, yeah, yeah
Double the dark of this game as a pair
They know that the tax I came in for bad
Feeling it so hot, funny, I put up a blunder
Huh, how do you cope?
Where they never get you hope?
When you left you in the cold, and the swing and heavy in your soul, to be on the side of the note, keep away, I had to grow, get it together.
The
prize are in the bag for game number one is to welcome you back to the LEC after what has been a beautiful start to the weekend already for spring
On the stairs is dagger and man, I think the monkey is on board
I was going to say, one of your socks.
Good try.
My pants are a little tight, alright.
Game one, look like everything's in the bag after Dresden.
He just absolutely dominated.
And then, boy oh boy, we got to
really experience what mid-game was like for them, didn't we?
Yeah, I really think there were so many ways that
Harry's going to try to play that out better.
Trying to just put Dresden up against Wonder in a side lane,
continue to have that push.
Like they did us at the get-go.
all of them get that tier one bot lane and it all looked great but it was after
that that it all just started to fall apart where they just weren't getting that
push weren't working with Tracen around the map because either SK have to send
multiple members to deal with Tracen which then just opens you to take
elsewhere in the map or Tracen just beats Wunder or you can even roam to
meet you in a several different places on the map so there's just ways that
heritage could have played us and they just never went first. And then it started again
great lane, not a good game. Wunder came back in and was so, so important to SK from that mid-game onwards.
But enough of that game one, game two is a completely different fag as we look towards the Ash fan this time around.
We didn't see any priority on it when Ash and Seraphine were both open in game number one,
but this time around making sure that in fearless, we don't go down the rabbit hole with the Eddy carries left for Manny.
Still Orianna left open. I wonder if that's going to be the final partner.
The Faratiks are willing to give that a cross to Lidr because she's just still incredibly strong.
Oh, she is. Good play.
This year is the other one that is still left out. So it feels like there's moments in this mid lane
that could be made or broken by this last one. We'll see what that's going to be.
When we've already opened up anyone in Lidr, I feel like that's just going to be comfort.
I guess here's Orianna there.
Yeah, okay. Yeah, I think the Orianna, very simple first pick.
Yeah.
And opens up Skiens then because the best performing game that Skiens had last
Last split was on the Nocturne.
Yep.
And I think he looked really, really...
Not last year, sorry, last split.
Last year when he was just there, before Mickey kind of took over the project,
I was definitely on the Nocturne.
So I think here you could end up working with this Nocturne Orianna combo once again,
especially if they're going to go for the Varys,
who is quite vulnerable in that sort of situation.
You're just looking up, Degda.
You will not believe.
Why would you look up?
No, look you.
I'm looking up Leader.
Leader does not have any career games on Orianna.
is no way. I'm looking at it. I cannot pull it. I productionize you to confirm. Because
I'm going through. He's even got a vein mid, a mel, a jace, a set, a lot of long.
Because like I understand, he is the like, a rally, a silo, you know, echo player, but
really? That's what I was like. It's not his bread and butter, but I didn't realize
it. Knocked her and get locked in as you said. Very good pairing, very easy. Wonder
on sign okay super easy composition composition so far if I could speak but
Team Herodix are building poke here they're building range they've got bars
they've got rumble and barred as an option yeah the that's not poke that's
much more of a hey we're gonna look towards that but what to share them
want to try because honestly with the composition that SK have I think they're
fairly set up the deal bow in Orianna yeah I say with it in the
Kali and yes, it's a good or decent matchup into the Orianna kind of as you get later on in the game
And that you could beat her in the side lane, but in the early stages Orianna is perfectly fine
Just kind of push you around. I've just had production confirmed. This is the first-ever Orianna game from leader
That's not a Orianna around a while. It's in every meta as well
Yeah, so he's purposely in the matters where she was super meta super super meta has not played it
I mean, it's unreal. We can talk about it more and see how late it goes on
I don't think there's any pros that have been around since by the way 2018. No that have not played this shit
That's eight years. Yes. This is the eight year. I
Mean look first time for everything, you know, but maybe that shows that leader is growing like is that not a
Proof of the pudding that this one is trying to be something is the old and the old version of himself
Now, we'll wait and see what the gameplay is like, but still, I think you've set up well with SK's draft to have a very strong team fight, good pick, and for heretics, you kind of, as you say, started off with decent long range damage with both the Rumble and the Varus being able to add to that with Rumble's ultimate playing as that poke roll and that sort of comp.
But when now the Akali, you kind of want knockdown to keep people in that position and enable Akali to kind of finish off these low health members as the fight kicks off.
It can't go away as well.
Something that can follow up on the said dive.
Now let's see what heritage is having in the bag.
So far this comp really tells us how to press the go button.
I'm a little worried of a Mundo pick here for Shayo,
because it's kind of been his bread and butter for a little bit.
And I can see the angle where it's like,
oh, we have Varus.
You can kind of throw out these chains of corruptions
and lock people down for us.
But I don't think it works here.
But yeah, okay.
Okay, I'd much rather something like this add.
But I'm following up.
So you think it's that end because what, it follows up the dive.
Yes, yes.
And it still kind of has follow-up, as you say, with his own W4, the chains of corruption.
And we're still waiting to see what way he's going to pick into that bottom side.
And so, could try and play a little bit more of an engaged tool here.
But either way, I think it's just the ability to have some impact in the lanes early.
I'm much for fair for Shale, and I think Sehan can do that in certain situations.
Well said, as SK are going to run out, they can't play the corky Alistar.
It does feel like again their trigger pulls the shotgun of the jungle, but then corki adds a bit more versatility here
All on team heretics. They do need a button that can be reliable
Bart is long-range engaged with Dagda. Is it enough for you?
Is it enough when you consider that like these one-track engage comps can be really hard to pull off?
But the thing is I like Bart into a mobile car. So with us locking down Orianna, boy, man
The rest of the problem is, well Nocturne doesn't really care about his, Corky's able to valkyrie away from it, yeah.
And the Alistar is just going to be able to kind of keep people away from it.
So, I like the pivotence that the Nautilus still gives you almost guaranteed engage with that point-to-tick CC.
I can try and play a little bit more aggressive into the Alistar on the bot lane as well.
It also synergizes with the Akali, where you just lock someone down, enable the Akali to try and one-shot them alongside the rumbo.
rumble so it feeds into the composition matter for heretics than the barter
well I mean I think I could agree with that absolutely like make it easy for
yourself because that is the main point of engage right outside of bar soul
outside of rumble equalizer that can help set up it does feel like a way had to
be on something quite concrete for this team while especially on SK on the
other side because they've got ways to play front-to-back tag that they got
solid frontline and they have easy to execution but my biggest worry for
heretics is that this virus just gets woodshot before the play kicks off
thanks to this Nocturne Orianna combo and then it's okay how do we carry it the
rest of the fight like the hen and rumble can deal some consistent DPS but I
don't think it's enough to carry a fight against an Alistair against the Scion
like you just don't really have press on to the back line if this virus
disappears well let's see if heretics can redeem themselves then because
early game was really good for them in game number one but they got to the
mid game and they look like headless chickens while SK complete
reverse, got out of landing base and suddenly it all came together.
Nelly's in 20-36 spring in our fearless drafts in our game two between
Heretics and SK.
We have to find out if Heretics can pull this comp together and find
themselves that individual member caught out in rotation.
That, I mean that, that virus if it can survive or not.
Because Ice last game had a couple of good moments on the
but just wasn't enough. SK Windraft. What else we got? Come on, let the guy try.
We are, we're not like, we're not gonna walk down there and be like, no, sorry, leader.
You're not allowed on this. We don't have a choice to say no.
Decent socks. W that person. That's true. I've also got cow. I've also got the meat
itself from the cow. You know, I've got beef. Socks. And I've also got cow socks.
Oh, okay. I've got my dog on my socks boring socks are boring
Fun socks are fun. Super easy. Yeah, it's in the name. I mean guys go and get some interesting socks
You know what? You can always hide them if you're embarrassed and if you want people to see them lift up your pants
The only thing is don't get the socks with the days on them and then wear it to the long day
Yeah, that's that's like doing it with the underwear. Why would you do that?
And by the way, if you need underwear with the days on it, then something's wrong. Don't you think?
like you should know what day it is just look at a fire it's 2026 or get a
calendar if you want to be like that you know yeah I don't know if I consider
that person using their underwear as a calendar that's like we rip it off the
wall you know the way you like but you don't put them back on the wall up
but then on Sunday you do a wash day you do it with disposable underwear I mean
that's a different market but if you go through the wash then on Sundays you put
them all up on the wall again but the problem is you're always gonna have one
on so yeah but you don't have to write the days on each one though manually the
date the actual date looks like that you know when to throw it out or you know
when you know a date of this you like this I you have to do the days and the
day I think we should make underwear together back that day and the day so
we science is once for all but then we'd make we'd make millions because
we'd sell 31 pairs or 30 pairs of underwear every month February we take
bit of a profit loss but every other month we're making bank. That is true. But you know who isn't
making bank more triple in this bottom side because there's a good trade here. Great trade,
I think if he did get this bottom side of the money. I think if I was with him would have cut out
a minute or two ago. And I think the viewers would have prepared that today. I don't know
about that. I think someone at home is going to steal our idea after this. I think someone in
the audience is thinking hang on a minute. They might be on the something. You never know.
I've had some good ideas on broadcasts that I shouldn't have shared that I'm probably losing hundreds of thousands
This is to be seen we'll get some opinion maybe endless desk and break it down after this see what they think but
The focus of the game obviously is just early game lanes doing their thing now. We said it before congratulations to leader
First competitive Orianna game. I don't think or I didn't think I would ever see the day
where someone's first time in Orianna is here and maybe he's gonna regret it as he
has no escape to all that side of the flash and as he gets flashed on instead
Lita gets pulled on back will he even burn it I think he's dead no he flashes
proves this wrong leader gets out and yet first ever Orianna flash and
competitive play for him. I mean good flash but I wasn't certain that Shayle
managed to line that one up because he I don't know like he went in with the
cue already stacked so we're not sure what he hit it on and then flashed to
get the immediate knock-up. We didn't see what he landed on initial auto attack on to get the lock.
Never mind, but I guess Shade, regardless, still had a stack. So flash for flash, that's an Orianna
without flash, which is always a good sign to try and punish. Mickey already started roving here
on the Alistar, and Teleport comes in through mid. That's about the action so far for now,
and Saren just comes on in, sure a conflict, gets a five point strike, runs into Ledi,
gets the electrocute. It's a nice trade and his wave pushes up and against him
losing and trying to use that range advantage. You could really have a check-in with Bob.
We know that Rumble does pretty well in the most matchups but so far Wanda is
doing pretty well on the line. I mean he already got the reset in to pick up
that normal Magic Mantle so Tracing there would be able to come back to lane
and we'll have an advantage just on the health bar and should be able to pick up
a good amount to the wave as well. But at least a moment, like I think Wunder
should still have a CS actually that's pretty sizable wave so yeah I mean it
should even out and with the Swifties already picked up and having that first
strike I think Tracen will start to see that go very quickly shoot up there and
I love the Swifties purchase here the Swifties for roar of the Slayer
because with that scion if you get this mad at you get this mad at you
like oh no but if I get half the channels in a slow or the e-slow as
well the scion chase down is a little bit less egregious so for Tracen
The brains there in the pudding as Mickey makes his run towards me, but there is a stretch line incoming.
I think Mickey this one is gonna backfire. No, I must have missed where way already presses Q button
I think he's gonna get on out, but he had to burn the heel
Still dragon for heretics way getting good control over mid helping out seren in the matchup as well
So honestly, I like that my heritage have been playing towards mid lane this game
But we're gonna kind of talks about like Orianna very good in these early stages of bullying house seren now that he's
When he takes over to level 6 though, not so much.
Waiting, no. Slightly misleaded with the step up, in ways he's going to walk out.
Now when he takes over to 6, Sakali has much more kill pressure.
And can actually look to try and finish off leader, especially if he's taking a bit of damage.
So I like the way that we're already seeing heretics, kind of babysitting Seren in this mid lane.
Notifying a lot of that early aggression that the Orianna can play.
But then Miki wants to respond.
And Skeng is here as well. Paranoid is available. Seren's going to use a little bit of Invis,
biz but shockwave does find him regardless shockwave and now the
paranoia comes in regardless flash away almost with the kill
siren's gonna escape a dagger that was pretty close I mean great play from
siren to flash his past schemes to that old through schemes to get the distance
that he needs so nicely played there by the Akali to escape away I just make
sure there was no follow-up that could have happened from escape and now
Mickey's gonna help push out the wave as well siren doesn't have TP this is
really nice for Mickey make sure that leader gets that back and that bounce back
which means that Seren, it is a cannon wave boss. One minion. Yes, two
knights. It doesn't mean push for ice and way on this bottom side though so they
should be able to reset. Yoppa I think a little bit behind when it comes to the
CS department but should be able to pick up most of these under the tower. Yeah.
And I'm keeping my eye on way again to see exactly what his plan is because
his roams already have been good very close to taking over to that
level 6 especially with void groups in a minute's time may be able to hit six
after wave and try and help towards some sort of void group play but I think
I'm starting to piece together that what we've learned from first stand what we
learned from versus playoffs we've constantly seen mid-roams and a lot of
our teams and I feel like unlocking mid or at least getting mid a lead you know
getting that role quest earlier means oh you get extra stats for the tier 3
boots right and he's also as Mickey pops the ghost and direct line does
is there on his backside. It does really mean you can control the game, especially when dragons
are so important and mid push is so important. It does feel like there's pieces of the puzzle
that are starting to be discovered by teams. It's not the first time we've seen Micky or
play or other supporting league really hover around mid and putting that priority down.
I think it's just it's so crucial to so much of your identity in a team. Like something
like the Eccalean is a chance that you're looking at some sort of 1-3-1 or the ability
trying to dive in towards the back line and you kind of just need to help assuage any problems that
might come up by playing around that mid lane. Like as we're talking about making sure the
heretics cover for Seren so you can hit this level six. Now there's a lot of pressure towards
leader, but there's more presence towards the mid. Shai is making his way in as you said Seren
already pushed leader out. Skeen shows face and Paranoia is up in five seconds as way,
adds an extra man. Mickey is a bit far behind on this play and maybe it leads into the grubs
as this came into the brush.
And this is what we were talking about.
Wei was picking up those waves and that experience as he went.
So he now has level six, whereas Mickey,
not at all, we're close to that level six.
So Heritage has the advantage in the ults
and should be able to just get the Void Grubbs regardless.
Wei is a good angle here for a dredge line,
but he's still holding off in the brush.
Shio is taking Scuttle and the Grubbs at the same time.
This will be a bad minimum, too.
And as we say it again, just a nice little addition here,
as Heritage also picked up the first rag.
It's another good early game from them
Once again, and they are showing that through their lanes the allocation and their ability to really play around the map
Or make shows ability to play around the map is their strength right now
Yeah, I think the
It also is going to be a long time before SK come online like either it's going for this right of ages build
Which immediately takes longer for him to become a main threat
And I can understand just like you've got to try and tank out this Akali damage especially in the side lane
But it means that then you're aligned on Yoppa and there's Triforce by to carry your mid game
I don't really think you're gonna be able to utilize that as effectively though
We Yoppa go in the TP in this matchup. Sure. It's great for the lane
But we're not taking cleanse makes a little bit more difficult to try and play aggressive towards the barris
Especially if way is on rooms now
I think the idea is it's gonna be difficult from to find those timing windows to play aggressive one way you can just
walking to lane and ulti but I think if you're not able to play aggressive with
the trooper spike as the upper this matchup becomes very difficult as it's
just the leaders game those these waves don't last long against us yeah I was
very surprising at that isn't it as well but you can just copy highlight it
as wonder please get that cannon but he got it okay a little bit worried there
for a second as wonders evening out in CS and that's because Tracin's getting
a little bit stronger here with the faded ashes but top lane can use to
to be back and forth, nothing really big burn.
Both flashes still often available
and an ulti for wonder available for the next fight
in 15 seconds might be exactly that.
As the Cloud Dragon is up,
and all things are going down towards bot,
teleport burn from leader to try and get mid-prior
so they can shift down safely.
I think Peridix might be a little late
to the Dragon take though,
because using the reset comes through from Shale.
I imagine that's first item completed for him on reset.
There's Tropor.
The last pulverized headbutt,
but Wai might have a way out.
He flashes, dredge the line.
Shockwave doesn't work out, the damage comes through but it's already buffered.
Shockwave not available for the fight, weight will be slow to get back to the dragon
and maybe it doesn't matter that Leader's ult was used.
Solid effort from Nidalee to try to interrupt, good hang on.
Even without the ball, gets the flash, ice gets over the wall
and that definitely seems like an escape dragon to me.
So though, Nikki's on level 6,
Nikki's still on level 6, she's right, it's pretty dangerous, Hail of Arrows as well.
There's the ulti, first blight over to ice
And Nicky's been on level five for so long, it cost him massively as Tracen takes that
guard, has to flash away from Wander in the top lane, Wander sticks around to see if he'll
come back, but he's got a way to deal with, well Tracen has a teepee to think about.
Tracen just wanted to make sure he got that place, but still, Heretic's what should
have been them losing out on the dragon with the late reset from Shale and that
near pick on Wai, actually turns out to be the Heretic's getting that play.
That scheme though, that's a contest, headflash.
It's going to be a beautiful one at that as well.
Direct time comes over down.
There's no spell shield.
Why?
He's ulti still available, and he threatens that on the SK.
Johnny, well.
So he doesn't end up committing with the ulti.
Heretic's just happy to take that dragon instead.
And again, Heretic's two dragons up.
1.4K gold leads.
They are slowly but surely dictating the pace of this.
And you can see there in the bottom side,
a lot of that is just coming from ice.
But they have to push up inconsistently
on the bottom side.
Ceren's going to get the push in the meantime.
I'm just surprised. I'm kind of shocked because I'm like, oh, SK, this is such an easy dragon.
But Miki's still level 5, just hit 6 now at 12 minutes into the game.
It is a long air while. He's just not been sitting in the bottom side.
It's neat level, it's hard for him to come through and wave. They have to benefit after
that. Like, there's been a couple of fights there where paratroops have just bullied
the way in knowing that they have that ultimus but as long as this kind of
continues I mean the heretics should be I say in a good spot but this is also where
we saw them in very similar spot in game number one like good early game they have
side lanes that they can try and play through but they just couldn't quite get
that orchestrated in the manner they wanted now though she had a top a
wonder overextended one of those it is all available and he has a flash
burns yellow instead gets on out and wonder now won't have that available
available for any kind of conflict in the next minute or so, so good attempt at a
game but the game still continues to be slow, which means it is my turn to talk a
little bit about Mickey. What do you think about Mickey from Versus Vector?
A car and a way to come through, never mind, ignore that. Flash, decimating smash,
there's the kill. No time to talk about Mickey because the schemes flash to the
way SK put themselves on the ball. I mean Mickey was coming up there on the
roam and I mean nice job by SK. Skeens just kind of sitting in behind,
Wonder there after seeing chair reset new the tracing will be a bit complacent, but it's the awkward card
Should be okay. He backed into on
But I was laughing at the fact like it's my turn to talk about Mickey. Yeah, then you asked me my opinion on it. Well, I
Wanted to be balanced, you know, I didn't want to say Mickey had a horrible versus but we did quite frankly open with that
Didn't we yeah, I just didn't have the best of times and I think there's like some arguments for hey look
They were trying to come in a lot more and it meant that he couldn't try and play in the lane
but his positioning he got caught out and I think even himself would say that he didn't have the best times in playoffs
So our sorry in LEC versus didn't even make it to playoffs. Yeah
So I think for a lot of people it's kind of looking to see has Mickey bought back that spark and at the moment
We has had a better performance than like at least in these early stages Mickey sitting on level five for a very long time
Trying to roam didn't find the same success
I know at least has access that ultimates and is hovering on this top side to make sure leaders safe
But waiting to see him really have that big Alistair play to swing this game open for SK.
Because again, it does feel like the gauge seems easy for him.
SK has so many tools to press, and one of them is Mickey in the fight to make sure that none of his poke or rather dive, I should say,
from Heretics makes it to the core carries.
Now for SK, there's no gold leaf to them.
They're down about a thousand gold.
The biggest problem being that Mickey got caught out of that last dragon and gave them Dragon number two to start the stacking.
Minute 52 we have that conversation again, but for now all focus is around this top side as Harold is spawning in five
Shows him moved up here, but with the teleport in Heritage want this plate pushed out so they can start thinking about their angles of attack
Yeah, Nicky is resetting and if they spot us, I think they've got TP though
It doesn't feel as unaward yet. Just get the TP back in but it means the Heritage can shift over if they want to try and set up a
bit more vision there
Unsure though, Ashail is just going to try and clear the jungle and also the reset needed from Saren to finish off his Hextech complete.
Tracing just facing out of the decimating smash, I was noticing Wanda was looking up for an ulti up through a river, but now the 1v1, Tracing of course going to win this with Leandri.
This is a dangerous spot for Wanda, equalizer used, ulti in response, but you have to save for Wanda.
That's a big tool of engage now down.
As SK hop around the Herald of Dreadblum starts to fight, hits way with Mickey fighting himself with just a good angle.
They get a knockup and waves close to dying, but as he flushes away, he survives for now.
With the rest of the fight being carried on by Team Herodix, Saren now runs on in and this is good.
Really good for Herodix. They lock down the cow once again, Mickey flushes away, but two is onslaught.
A two-man chopper finally used, but it does nothing. As Herodix win out yet again.
And another objective to add to the book here in lead-up. Not gonna get hit by the piercing arrow from Ice.
SK walk away hobbled
But erotics also reset enough feeding couple to try and make anything happen
Skins doesn't have the ultimate put a double TP tracers in trouble. He's gonna turn the lights off in three two one
Here's another vision for tracers out skins doesn't have us. He's in the topside plate. He's not ultimate
So it's wonder TP and in and basically just walk away. So he had the lights on yeah, what do you do with that?
Nothing that's right. What tell me what knock turns function is
You know
You know that little robot thing is like what's my function? Oh, the butter. Yeah
Spread butter. Oh
What's nocturne's function? He presses up his arse not up until 10 seconds to go
Chocolate can't be convoed with it. We're finding of a dragon this man. He's mashed way puts himself in harm's way
The dragon 4k already offer gets ready to turn him back in but SK are pretty healthy walking inside
We're heretics are burning a little bit through the HP bars wait half HP
There's a paranoia in the ice in the backline that we talked about this. How did I get to play the game?
Well, he doesn't quick answer for you
If there's K winning the fight hard thoroughly, but seren trying to bring it back on the back line
Meanwhile, Shadow also helps Tracy get a kill. It looks like heretics have to fight in spades
But as soon as there's K just part from one another
Heretics pick off the pieces. Yeah, I need to really watch again how he opposite it
It looked like Saren just got on top of him, but everyone on SK kind of just abandoned it looked like the back line to try and follow up on schemes, which then made it very easy for Saren to follow through.
Because, like, the fact that Skeens gets ice is a fantastic trade.
Leader ends up shockwaving on top of himself with the sombrero, and then Yoppa just kind of gets left to his lonesome.
Saren flashing over the wall interrupts him from being able to take the hex-gaze as the rest of SK all try to play forward.
my life so hard. True. Mickey fouled the boss gun by the way. Just to be harsh on Mickey.
I mean that was a very messy fight. You had a Sibrero from leader, Mickey Failiness and
then everything else but you can see like the damage there. 407 damage on an Orianna
in a fight. Rumble ult was doing work. Yeah it was indeed. I mean Tracin is close
to hitting two autos I'm sure by now. I mean the heretics three dragons up. Again
Another brilliant early game. It does feel like they've got this one in spades. I'm just a little bit sus now, I'm sus on how they transition.
I mean, three dragons definitely makes it easy.
Oh, it definitely does, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Because that was kind of the talking about you had in the last game, was, hey, there was a couple of dragons picked up early by SK.
Yeah.
Which just denied heretics from being able to play towards that fully as a win condition.
But still, we'll have to see if SK can find a better time as Yoppa.
I don't think he would have made it.
Bring it bro, straight up, return a little bit shallow there.
Yoppa steps it back, Gavling gun turns into good work.
now a big one in the hole is tracing happy stuff up the level 14 rumble very very
strong he's got blood letters cursed as well so you can start trading any MR you
have is blue bus and Alisson bought scheme's gonna smite it but it goes down
seren is the angle I'm looking at paranoid it goes in but as he finds
backline ice is already away range is there an SK a walking into a trap gets
seren belated his time shot play one his head but it's only one is one who
does nothing with a dismaying smash and Nikki does nothing again with a
the cow on the back. Meanwhile, Skeens is dying to a towering after Sharon picks up
killed credit. Ice survived and SK are in disarray. Ice didn't have flash but still
manages to get away plus that combo again. Didn't end up working there for Skeens
and Leder. Leder wasn't able to get in range it looks like for that ultimus and
it still ends up using the twice. But this Orianna build is not doing the
job that it needs to on killing off people and Saren is consistently finding access to the backline.
But yeah we see it here like Genseth going in but leaders still have the ball on top of him so
Skeens wasn't shielded as he went in and later than that Genseth being packed up by Skeens I
say by Saren he does a ton of damage and at this stage it's just SK on full retreat Skeens
that have taken two terror shots on the way out here actually three
terror shots the way out here which is that but it's just leader he's dead back
up he's definitely dead I mean leader has flashed but I think he's dead dreaded
return Phil connects his build is one of ages into storm surge now I had to
go to lol VVV and I was like it's a mixture of it because storm surge to
me was always with things like proto belt or like good place. Yeah exactly right or like I mean
you could name anything. Yeah. Rod of Ages scaling build now I've got this champion tattooed on my
left arm and I just I remember all the you know the Orianna builds we did have Rod of Ages
yeah scaling builds like the Andres in the mix with tier builds I just don't remember this one.
I mean that's the thing right I feel like you either go for the Rod of Ages in the
serve some brace and you're like I'm going to be tanky but still kind of like play this
rosary style which I thought was where he was going but then didn't have the tier picked up
as he finished off a lot of ages and if not I would have gone Ludens and the storm surge
because then it's like oh I get that full burst potential and that's what job done for the
fights. They're wondering caught it. They're wondering if he flashes over. Tracen is really
scary is a threat right now. Once again has a massive lead, didn't fight as much through lane
but in these fights it's having more of an impact so it is nice to see the dynamic where Traceman
struggled in the teamfighting in game one. This game has redeemed himself with some of the best
equalizers we've seen. So this is SeaSkeen sitting behind the opma considering going on towards ice,
how's that flash available for 45 seconds would need that until dragon would need that to be
be a kill or to really be effective.
So again, it looks like Heretic's
at least decent control of the map to make this play work.
Especially as he starts to see like
two items completed across the board,
matching a lot of us there for SK.
I don't know how SK tried to play back into this.
We did talk about like,
I mean I use the words easy execution in draft
because of all the engaged they had Dagger
and you know, how I couldn't play the game.
But the problem is now,
Team Heretic has such a big gold lead
is that one-track engage is easy.
They're gonna find a rumble,
but flashes are kept up now.
Dreads line on the reverse way.
Good engage, he flashes away.
His depth charge is up and available.
Fines one target.
Equalize it down again.
Some barriers, use some lockets,
rather a decimating smash in the front line is nice.
And it's looking Oat, K for SK.
The Yoppa is cornered in the dragon pit.
There's a Herald, not a battle one,
but as we go over seven,
that's just down his way over the wall.
Almost kills Yoppa in the back part of it.
Sharon out front to backing his team.
Herodix used the charge.
like I don't like these fights anyway and so a quick hit towards me.
It's a battle Harold now though.
He's coming back okay.
Ice is just like now.
Let's find a target.
No he's just going to join in the fight.
He's already opened up mid.
Dragon continues for the soul for Heretic.
The other reset.
He's only making his way up with the Hextech Gate.
So this is pure bluff from SK and Heretic's might be better to Carlos.
Yeah they are.
Saren's got a great angle.
Mickie in the one man shockwave but Dragon goes down to SK.
A small win for Nen, but the problem is, Wei's walking down every which way as Seren is cleaning out the backside.
One that you think is the tankiest member we're tracing is Steppen over him.
He's going to burn him down, no grizzles, Joppa flushes away, but how did he get out of a pit?
He's the last man standing with a zombie sign to accompany him.
Joppa stepping in, and out, Gatlingham in, and out.
Thos is bonkied in the way. Nice mechanics.
He will find the Nordlas, but he will lose his life in the process.
An ace for Heretics and a game to be proud of in game two.
SK get the dragon, but it costs them everything as we try to set up for the engage in the chair with the shockwave
But again, there's just not enough damage there to finish off
There's a hand
And they're at this day just came they fully committed staring at the water the block the ice is getting to free fire
There is zero they could do and again like you're into this rumble
Tracing is just burning so many people alive. It's just three members standing in these flame cones the entire time
That's okay.
That's good.
You've only got the mechanics in one of these fights, but...
And then you look at other members and you just think,
it's not a coordinated effort.
I'm curious about the next item.
It looks like Shadowflame's coming for Lita.
But, yeah.
I mean, I just have to play so far back.
He's already carrying it.
I mean, look, honestly.
He's just being instrumental.
So far back.
That's the thing, Ice is vulnerable when he has no flash.
And it's almost like this where you could try and make a play,
but he's not stepping up for an up play,
where you can try and make something out of the offer.
Like, there's just SK feel very disjointed when it comes
to where he's playing around, where their wing conditions have been,
and both in builds and where they've been positioned on the map.
SK thinking about how do we go towards mid
and set ourselves up for a balance and desperate wave
with the Drexel on in, Shockley finding land on the Tracen,
Big Target with a big one,
laid him back, SK, big opportunity in this game now.
And the damage coming out from Joppa
is helping them out, but Joppa went into Mellorane,
he gets punched by the Sarin,
darts him, darts out, but the Drexel returns,
even better in show, now just won't die.
He refuses to not exist in this game,
as Lita has to step on back.
Herodix, they find the fight in the end,
but he gets a bit sketchy,
as SK made them work for it.
There was a good pick on towards chasing us, had things off.
But again, you've got leader, I was like,
Saren is doing so much work.
Ice is getting good damage on the back.
And Shale as well is no pushover.
It's not like you can just take one person
and finish them off as immediately tracing those down.
But the follow up isn't immediate.
Like as you start to walk forward here,
Ice is getting the poke down.
The flatulence schemes,
buy Spacelift for Saren to get in onto the back line.
And it's a good W from Shayla as well to pull Yoppa and Mead her back, which really finishes off the end of that fight.
Shayla was such a big impact in the fight as well. Lantro to return, I think he hit three people.
Has Herodix still climbed to the goal? Balanced still up.
Hex, skates are going to be used by Herodix to get into position to try and set this one up in the bait.
You can see SK are willing to challenge, but Micky, if he goes for an engage, he's going to be threatened by an enemy.
calling the block yet again. Truth and put, taken here. Trampol about to run through,
Mickey. I don't know what he's doing because there is no Corky here. SK
fighting without an 80 carry seems silly and now they have no support for
their engage. It is up to one to find the mark, up to the nocturne to press
the go button. SK gonna use some of their poke but one to get sworn back in.
But now there we go again but the shockwave is on to a nautilus. The
first time of a reaminer ain't gonna find a target here. As heretics know
that SK are out of steam. So Heretic's just turned over towards the Baron. SK are trying desperately to make
something come out of this as Heretic stepped forward.
It's just too little too late it feels like. Heretic's have such a stranglehold here.
Serendipity of the ulti otherwise this could be a bit of a pinch but it should push them off while
Dragon will rather Baron is going down and Atari to go through with it is for the trade.
Heretic's gonna pick up this Baron. I cancel almost there from Seren with a shuriken flip.
and five Barons and Summoners ripped here as Heretics looked to try and crest until game three.
But it's 40 seconds until the soul. So for Heretics, he just used this to push out the waves
and then look over towards that dragon. Either you force SK into the base or you kind of have the
soul unlocked here. In what has been, I think, a more difficult game. Felt like a more difficult
game. I have to correct myself. I was talking about SK's lack of engagement. They have quite
quite a few, they have so many go buttons.
But Dagger, I am worried a little bit about scaling of these things.
I'm worried about this mid game and how strong it's been for Heretics.
The fight over Dragon will continue once more.
Heretics still on sole point.
The pressure's on for SK to stop this.
It has to be a major shockwave to set things up.
But I don't know if SK have much left in the tank.
Dragon will be starting to need to be by Heretics as SK try to wrap
through this bottom side and find their last fight.
Coming in through linearly, all in one line.
The poke is good though.
Skeen's gonna take the shield, he's got the ball on,
Shockwave over, Ice Flush is a though,
and now you've got two big ulti's down,
Hexcay used by Skeen,
who's gonna be able to fight as Saren takes him
with the public all round, a perfect execution.
Saren goes to Nocturne, Hextech drake with it as well.
Heronix have the soul,
and now the pieces are falling together.
Ulti over the wall, Sherwin get a mark,
but he still dreads the return.
Over he finds even more SK me,
to bite into and that cow free range no longer to the house he goes as ice picks
him up and makes this a game three leaders TV the only reason that wasn't a
clean ace but heretics gonna start their mark sent through this bottom side
I don't think they'll end just here but they were actually fighting either it
looks like way gets right in front of his face and seren's here to make this
an easy chill leader it's been an okay game but okay is not good enough here
when heretics are firing on all cylinders.
What do you do? Again, like this is what I expected in game number one,
where heretics control easily how these fights are played.
You go on towards ice, it's a good flash away from the old skis and tries to get out.
But Saren, we're kind of predicting already, sitting on the piss.
And I mean, you guys aren't on skis and...
Oh, that's not a good hex guy, Ricky, he's just dead.
He got one shot, very ambitious, I guess he wants to go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was not it.
That's cold.
The jokes keep coming.
Thank you for that.
That was the one.
One and done.
It's just, it's...
Heretics have every single game thus far.
In a commanding position from the early game.
And obviously game one, they just misplayed on how to play them up.
But this is a bit stomping, especially in game two.
I know I am.
Okay, they're gonna go for Tracin, but he goes golden.
Did it note?
There was no shockwave here, yeah, Leader still has it.
He's gonna pop it in, does a bit of damage, it's nice, but equalize it down.
Leader can't walk away, Dreadslime blocked by Nikki.
The poke from Ice, then Dreadslime, or rather the depth charge.
Leader was burning down, he's not gonna be alive until he makes it.
Man, she'll lose their support in the meantime, so it is a small win for SK to stop this onslaught.
And whatever you can take away from that.
I think it's just about to lane.
If you can get the Rabadons for leader, maybe that's enough of a swing, but it still feels like a long shot, but SK will hold on for the moment.
With no Baron, no Dragon, nothing to try and solidify an advantage off of, it's kind of just holding, as we said.
It's tracing to get some gauge on, using stopwatch, thinking, oh, okay, that immediate ult is going to come by, but it doesn't happen.
Managed to just get the flash away so bit of a mix time and mix timing by leader on the the fear and getting the two my chocolate
But afterwards way tries to engage a hero comes in for a leader at the end
It must have been Mickey's passive heal that saved him there
Because I think he would have gone down to the burn from trace or even ice actually just hitting these cute because ice miss that
Yeah, it would have been a sure thing
Yes, it's seeking by the way just so you know seren seekers ice seekers
there's uh
Yeah quite a lot of tools to buy time but we're going to a game three now here's
the problem I have heretics should be an easy way to finish this game but I don't
trust in heretics ever since what was it last year 13 and a half thousand gold
I mean they have a new sport man completely different yeah completely
different there is just some part of me that again the saying this year so far
in many regions it's not over till the Nexus falls and we've known that for a
a while but we need to see this final fight.
Is equalites gonna start us off?
Underneath, there's a lot of danger here,
but Wanderer is isolated when the chopper comes in.
It's only a one, maybe one and a half man,
but going golden trades and buying some time.
Wanderer's still in the firing line.
Threadsline brings him back in line
and now there's trouble.
Shae runs in with the GA at his disposal.
Saren finds Yoppa and this game is sure as over
as it could be.
Wanderer back in the dirt and T-Meridix have all five
to run into this Nexus and show us how it's done.
It's a clean ace on the terror dive for Heretics.
I mean, this game has just gone over for a long,
a while, and it's just Heretics finishing it off now.
They finally get through their early games.
They make it look good throughout,
and they right the wrongs of game number one
as first loss for Lita on Orianna out of one.
That was an interesting thing to say
Jux, Seren on Akali, hot damn.
Yeah, Seren was incredible on Akali and I've got to ask, did you notice that the enemy was playing Orianna for the first time in an official?
I mean, we knew and we thought he would not pick it to Benz, but they did and we had the answers so it was okay.
What when the engages came in and you had the knock-turn and then maybe the Orianna ball was it hard to play around at all?
Not for me, but for my AD carry and top lane, it must be very hard, but yeah, I'll see you.
You are jumping around everywhere. What are we going to see in game 3?
It depends on the site we have, but I think it's going to be very fun game since a lot of champs are out.
So it will be very exciting to watch, I think.
I'm excited to watch as well. I'll let you join your teams there and thank you.
Yeah, he did notice it that it was the first time.
We also noticed it a little bit didn't we I mean I think it was on display
I mean at least you know certain and he said it himself
You know it was quite easy for him because he's not he's the victim of the
Nocturne combo, but
Yeah
Right because it was leaders first time ever which is an insane thing
The champion has been out since 2015 and I'm pretty sure the leader also played League of Legends since like 2015 or 16 or whatever
To play your first game of Orianna after like 10 years must be insane
I actually reminds you of like the for the I have the similar
Time was forgivable like at least I was out for like seven years
And he just first times it after like you know eight years there or so
But it's like we saw many many times where just the Orianna ball just flies in just for emotional support
It's kind of like
And now this one was sad
I mean so here's the thing. I think it's just unlucky, right? I mean
It's cold, you know, because when you think of Orianna, you mostly think of Orianna and auction, that's the combo you practice in scrims and what not, but it just felt like on stage the worst of it came out sad.
It's one of those discussions between, like we've been saying forever that he needs to be on the control mages to be able to kind of sustain throughout these best of threes and these best of fives and fearless, but you can only lead a horse to water, right?
Like you can't make him drink. If it's not what he's meant to do, he won't do it well.
This is my coat. I don't want to be too harsh.
Okay, let's hear it.
He's protesting because he wants to play the Zed.
Exactly!
He's like, this is what my Orianna looks like.
Let me play the Zed, guys. It's going to look bad.
It's one of those deals in the SK office, you know, it's like, okay, leader, buddy, you know, the build was like also maybe, you know...
Yeah, can we talk about this?
You're out of ages first, so we were like, where's the brothers?
Thank you. It doesn't die, right? It doesn't...
Because the thing is, he was super ahead of Dakar.
For most of the time, it's just the combo failed, but here's how the discussion goes in the SK office.
Okay, Leader Buddy, we know you want to take over the draft.
We know that you want to play Zed and Yone and all of that.
But for the first three games, you give us control mages, right?
And then on the third game, finally, you get to pick the champion that you want to pick.
So that's my cope.
Okay, yep.
Game three is the pop-off game from him.
I'm sure of it.
But actually, like you weren't done talking about the build.
I want to talk about it.
So the pros are obviously, and Dagger covered it.
We were talking about it.
You're going to survive the Akali,
but there's just not enough damage to kill the Zahent,
to kill the Rumble.
Like Zahen's gonna get his passive off in the fights if you don't have burst on the Orianna and this is not gonna provide that
Because he did do well in lane. It's true. That's just he was smashing in lane like I want to see him push that lead
I don't want to see him go over the right of ages. I want to see that shadow flame early
I want to see the rabbit on him. Just go for the kill
That would give him more versatility right because this can only one shot to the squishy backline that never really arrived to the squishy backline
You know, so yeah, the other side of the coin though
know, uh, heretics they're back in it, I think we saw positive things out of way in the first
game, despite them ending up losing that. And also in this game, we talked so much about
how we would bring that stability and that the lane prowess would also be better for
heretics, which we've seen, but also the way he moves around the map, pretty impressive.
From the get go, I mean, his Nautilus was aggressive in that lane. He was landing
hook after hook and getting ice in a really like advantageous pushing position. Uh,
Ice was the target of the Nocturne the whole time.
And this is my theory on Team Heretics now,
is that they baited us with all the Pentakills
that he was getting earlier.
So now everyone's like, oh, dive Ice,
go for Ice, he's the threat.
And then Tracin can come in and be like, wait a minute,
my Rumble's gonna come out.
Shayo's pulling out the carries in the jungle.
And they're like, okay, now we have some more room
to work around because Ice was the target,
looked a lot better in lane with Wei.
But still, I feel like it was the top lane
of the jungle that were the big difference makers
for Heretics.
And that's what he wanted to see
because he was always thinking,
Now he's doing a great job of surviving, actually I don't even know if he survives in this, but he's just like sitting on the backline,
Ice just being the main focus, just buys so much time, and finally this is what we wanted to see even in the pre-game.
We wanted to see the solo lane step up, we wanted the solo lanes to have just a little bit more impact because it's always been about Ice, you know,
and where he comes in, you know, brings a little bit more stability to the bot lane, it was great and all,
but I feel like it's also kind of, it's only been two games, I know, but I feel like you can already see on the other side of the map,
and he's just like, even in this horrible game for him,
because he said many times, we only heard it once,
but I'm sure he said it 10 times that he hates his life.
I think he had a great game, Ice,
which against all odds.
Even when he's the target,
he's able to put up these numbers,
which is very impressive.
And also I'm happy to go highlight Seren too,
because it was both solo laners
that were really stepping up,
win the Nocturne,
schemes, he didn't have the Oriota ball,
like any time he dove Ice,
he was like a 1v1 between those two.
And I just actually started winning those 1v1s
in the second half of the game.
I know that feel, by the way, when you're the Orianna just chasing behind that
nocturne, but he's going to stop.
It's impossible.
Saren also having a really big game on the Akali.
And I think, yeah, these are things that we started seeing when they picked up
those wins at the end of the regular season in versus that made us think
that this team could be better than what they were showing us.
And I think often we love to talk about Ice and Shio as the experienced leader
and whatnot, but Tracin and Saren, they are really getting their reps in.
Exactly, because we have to remember that it's a young roster, it's their first bet in the LEC for both of them.
We saw a little bit of it in the versus, but now, oh my god, it's so funny when you're just a colleague,
you see someone fly over like that.
They didn't get to have a lot of games in the LEC, right?
And now finally, with the team gelling together, you know, even though you brought in a new support,
you start to understand, okay, solo lanes, hey, how do we want to work together?
Seren, Mitresen is like, what are the tendencies of each other?
How do we like to play these team fights?
And we finally get to see them have more and more reps.
You get to see a little bit more synergy because both of them are playing
incredibly well.
What I want to know is your boy oppa.
You were so happy with him after game one.
It's game two wasn't his fault.
But how do they set him up for success?
Ah, it's, Mickey's got to stop running it down.
I think that was a double digit death by the end of pretty early 10.
Welcome to the area.
Yeah.
That's Mickey for you.
Yeah, so if we just have a better laning phase and you know also Mickey's not
throwing himself head first into five people when the team's not ready to back
them up then you're just gonna look back okay Mickey we know you can do it just
temper temper we'll be right back with game three between team heretics NSK
gaming
No flash, Ion.
No flash, Ion.
I kill Ion.
Okay, let's flash, okay?
Okay.
No flash, okay.
Another birdie.
Okay.
Nice.
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Well, heretics were able to capitulate and merge together with what we saw today.
Big roots for you.
I know.
I mean, it's like I think I know what I'm saying.
I listen to Medic all the time and I'm like, oh, Medic, that's a good word.
Type, type, type, type.
I've never used them because it's like, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't use them properly.
always uses big words and sometimes impressed sometimes I think hey he's a doctor you know
this comes with the job anyway. It's been a couple of days you know technically and physically
and spiritually. We're only looking at day and a half though. It's been a day and a half
for us. Yeah. But this has been an interesting series because I feel like SK dropped the
ball completely for game number two. However outside of the leader build and Mickey getting
caught out. There were some pretty good elements in Tracin again. I mean Tracin's rumble was
good and I feel like Tracin this series has been pretty good. So it is still kind of exciting
to see, excuse me, some elements come out of the woodwork. I know I was talking about SK but
obviously like it won there in game one in the mid game, really took over on the ambassador and
had a good game. But the highlight for me overall in all-temple play that I think has
been Tracin today, what do you think? Yeah, I agree. I think he's been great. Also,
way honestly I think ways had a really good performance like the game one very
much helps control the early stages of the game like played well in lane got
some good push with the karma and even set up like burning some summer spells
on the up in the early stages and then in the last game was heavily moving
towards that mid lane getting that early success for seren or at least
controlling that mid lane for seren and setting them up for success so honestly
I think it's both tracing and way that I'm keeping my eyes on for this
game as well. Well let's hope again that we see more of that roaming from way and we see Tracen's
lane against Wunder because thanks to our production we'll have some stats for you just showing you
how good he has been in games one and two individually over Wunder. The last game bit
of a stomp 17 18000 gold lead by the end of it as well so we're about to go into pick ban for
game three we're just waiting to iron out whatever the client's doing yeah okay it's
being remade the lobby because my the client we've got client in front of us and it was
blank and we're like well that's not ideal but we are about to jump into now
and I will say for Lee to say Orianna is off the table it wasn't that bad
actually the build was pretty the build was bad but I don't know the combo
timing was not quite there no but the ball was okay I mean he's so rare on
the least he did eat I think he did two other times where he's hidden
ulti and he did he pressed Q and W yeah quite well I'm just saying I think cups
plays a better Orianna oh that's hard that we're gonna have to if we can get a
poll production who is the better Orianna leader or caps and we'll get them to vote
after pick ban all right game three our heretics blue SK on red remember second
pick so it is a normal pick ban here a team heritage on brick sorry team
heretics are on red but they're not on red no wait they're on blue dagger
For first big it first picked with their red, but they're on left side. So that's red
Yeah, because they're in the left side of the century our office. Yeah, yeah, right after election. Yeah, sorry
I don't know why I got it rough
Red side first pick but left side
Ash and seraphine is gonna be the look see here for heretics. It looks like thank you
But I don't know
Like can you steal away this if I try to figure out like what you could put a weight like maybe the
You know, you really think Seraphine you know, it's good. I mean, it's not that not
Like I think the value is the slows, right? Yeah, and like that's why she functions so well
But there are like other things that you can't work even like I think I've seen twitch putter as well because the pool slows
To and then you give oh, okay, you know Emilio
I do like that combo like good shields the range
Increase as well the media offers you know, I mean she trades super effectively
Whenever she has that Q up time. So honestly, I like the bot lane already free up a mickey
It means the chase down becomes a little bit easier
So really good adaptation here as mickey tries to play foosball while a Seraphine is a must pick
But it's a jungle pairing as well. Normally. It's as soon as our that's taken away
We've got other things in the mix as well
But you have to kind of consider like what is Millio good at do anything that runs linearly
I was gonna say something like a blue cock is the end of the world like
Yes, you can't be knocked out of the
on the dashing, but you can't cleanse the knockup and then it sets up really well for
Serafina alongside providing setup for the Ash too, so that could be the combo here,
but if you really want to go for like an Olaf or something you can do as well, we'll have
to see. Oh, that's interesting. Okay. So we've seen Mel bad a lot yesterday in the
second rotation because she goes out range when you get to this stage of the game,
a lot of the enemy champions, but also is very good into things like Serafina
and Ash specifically because you can reflect the arrow you can reflect the ultimate from the seraphine
but SK not going to try and take the midlaner here looks like they want to secure their jungler
instead there's that scarner i mean yesterday we also saw a few scarner bands as well so
it would be interesting to see if maybe we get something like a trundle band now in response
from SK because trundle with the pillar also with the stat steal there's yola we were talking
about so yeah i think trundle the yola basically what you want is early game champions that
of vice and heals and shields are just super effective on them and I think Olaf Trundle fits that build very well, especially for Zin-Zao already out of the equation.
With Anivia going, do you think this is a... is he right now, is he really banned?
Yeah, it's also like I am surprised by the Anivia because traditionally when I think of Anivia, she wants champions that are somewhat short range so she gets valued from the wall.
That's not really what you're up against here with Mel and Ash and even the Seraphine, so I didn't think Anivia would be one of the champions that you banned away.
champions that you ban away. I would have thought more of like, hey, let's try and ban away maybe
like an orange from Wunder like champions that can engage rather effectively. And but again,
I think Melo does obviously interact with the ornultipers, but yeah, so you do have to
be a little bit careful when you're playing this enough.
Yeah, that made me question because I was like, oh, we're banning a new viewer, I guess.
I was just thinking about mid lane champ for Lita, but also now with Silas gone, does
he go into AD or are you worried that you've got a skarner and jungle? And
And then you have to go into an AP top.
Like, I feel like Lita has to play AP, right?
Doesn't that make it full?
I mean, you could still go with the cannon at the top, technically.
Oh my God.
So, doesn't mean you have to.
Oh my God.
Okay.
Okay, now, at first hand, a lot of the responses to Mel was being talked about.
Yeah.
Not actually played, but being talked about as the Zed into the melt as a good answer.
Shurikens can be sent back, but regardless, the all-in assassin, Lita, I mean, look,
He played Orianna last game, now we're on the Zed, but his Zed is 15 and 5 in his career.
So he has played 20, well now 19, no, 20 more games than he has of Orianna in pro-play.
So, though, I guess Heretic setting up for a fairly nice copier, like, you've got a tank
jungler which takes away an opportunity for a leader to try and assassinate them.
The heals and shields and also just the amount of CC that is on Heretic can make things
very difficult so I know if you wanted to I don't hate the Jays just adding more
range in there's not the end of the world against this cop but I guess this is
more engaged I go like more all-in situation but regardless yeah another
body
let's hold let's just hold that little down look I think we'll probably see I
honestly could go for the cannon here on the top side if you wanted to I
I think that's why the NAR sets up well for it, because you're out-ranged with the Kennen,
and then you can try and play for it, still having an AP Threst in that topside.
So I think you kind of play it into the hands of us a little bit with Heretic's taking the NAR,
and I think you could have gone for the Jason, just gone for a bit more of a skill matchup,
if you're almost guaranteeing that that Kennen is going to come through.
So we get Wanda's Kennen, which is fantastic.
Right, it was so good.
We get a Zed from leader, which historically has been really good, you know?
Again, we were a bit mean to him last game, but this is time to shine.
Solar Lanterns with Klaas, while Team Herodix, as you said, pretty standard comp,
pretty straightforward composition we're running in.
And the last time we actually saw Zed was leader, back in spring 2023 when he played.
So he's kind of keeping the tradition alive, but he did lose to Fanatic,
which is not the best of times.
No, but at least he was there, you know, at least it was there.
I mean, hey, I'm going to give him anything right now because going into game three, we have Zed, Millio, Kennan on a team.
We get that asherafine, which about six months ago people were like, oh, that's fun.
It has become the norm, but Mel from Seren.
While Cher is just going to show us what he can do on the Sejuani as well with MLA now.
And I guess a chain of CC that comes from the scene.
comes from the same Dagger only in the LEC only in the second best region in the world by the way
as we're about to jump into game three we have had only game three's in the LEC so far
only game three's is that fourth fourth best of three in our region since arriving back from
first stand and what a treat it has been welcome back where the hell do you want to start Dagger
I mean, you know, thank you, we'll let the comments come in, you know, they're important.
I mean, I agree with that one, like, you have Mel, Ash and Seraphine that all feel very
strong at the moment. Not to mention, I think, Marin are very, well, in the decent spot.
Charlie Mann. Get out of here. I'll tell you what, what we're going to do for next
week. And that's him on YouTube. We're putting him on twice. We may as well just
interview him at this point. You can't double-difflick.
He does. That's not fair.
He puts, he posts on Cajal's channel, he goes to Yankos sometimes I swear, he goes to our YouTube, our Twitch, like dude, Jollyman's every, and he doesn't even have burners, he just uses the same account, he's just got five screens.
I mean, if you're a Jollyman, you do need to let the world know.
You do.
Yeah.
Jollyman69.
Good on him.
Alright, we're gonna have an interview with him next week as the QV2 trade kind of brings out from ice.
We've got to get the most severe, but as some of our chatters were saying they like the milieu and again when you have very
I've used the word linearly quite a lot today, but when you are running in a straight line and easy direction
Millions really get great when she can just read where to send the ultra mega Viking
But that's the thing is who are you sending that up? Yeah, because when I think of milio, it's like oh well
There is somebody trying to jump on to my 80 curry. I'm gonna try and focus that person down with us Q
In this game it's kind of just tracing. Everyone else is pretty non-committal in long range, so you're not really helping yourself out.
The upside, at least for SK's, I think Wonder can have a decent game here, just if you can find the flank angles.
But otherwise, it can be a little bit difficult for him to get in.
Like Seraphine, Hughes and Slow, same with the Ash.
The lockdown for Sagewani, Narbina to kick him out.
It feels like you've to bypass a huge amount to CC for wonder if you really want to make this pick work
It's a decent matchup for him
But it's it's got to be tough for him to have a big impact of fights
It's like well last time though. I will say wonder had a great time on this cannon is all in hang on a minute
Getting the surge out he gets a stun. This was when we saw him in versus fantastic graphic whoever made this but
Do you remember the ticket was it against fanatic?
It was an insane canon game that came from this man.
Wait, no, it wasn't because they won. It was against heretics, wasn't it?
I'm almost certain it was heretics.
I've set that girl for failure just because my brain is that of a 31-year-old.
When you get older, you forget things, you know? I can't remember any...
Oh, it was against fanatics, sorry.
How did I know that?
How did I know that?
Because you're a smart man?
I'm gonna say it again, thank you.
Yeah wonder big ups on the cannon big carry performance and I think it's about time because today when you've been looking at the individual performance of
Tracen as obviously Shaiyo hang on he's about to come in from behind for a potential dive
What are we gonna find here Shaiyo's timing more important
This is Saturday. It's awesome. You've got heal shields on video as well
I'll take a lot of damage.
Now that's all the root flash away from now.
Yoppa has no health, no flash, and no way to get out from Shadow to run in a melee.
After he gets sold with the Wisdoms Flail, how easy is it going to be?
Yoppa is dead, first blood, there's the Assault, Micky down next,
and after the Shock helps out with the flash, the Shadow gets out and opens up Heretic's pot.
Praise play from Heretic's. I thought it was going to be a little bit dicey,
but a huge trade from Ice and Way to start things off just annihilates the health bars
before you even have to worry about a dive.
Skiing's meanwhile, he's just going to have to go for the invade because he knows that
that thought was so successful, he's going to start going and taking down some of these
camps, but look, Shaya backed immediately, wrapped his ear up for the contest, will be
smited one camp only while the rest of the top side is going to go back to its natural
owner.
Yama tried to look for the trade, basically being like, oh, I've got my Q of, I'm
with the coach he come for, I think I can make a play, but not respecting the
fact that he kind of walked a bit too far forward, it's an ice way it needs
You go to the trades they know they thought the health from shale there
With the flash away
Shale doesn't have to fall
Three kills over one the ice one to show ice getting that kill as well
I mean, it's a perfect start of the game when you consider that ice is team heretics carried through and through
Skeens now looking for an angle as well. He's down the way
He's gonna slow him down
Looking each talent into the ball
But hasn't started just yet the way it's getting pushed in SK taking a four-man dive with leader on the wing
He gets slowed down and now Shadows here to make him sing skeins just gets pummeled in Leia jumps back to the living shadow
But he's getting ordered to death he flushes away
But the flush reminds get over the slow and he's got leader in his eyesight
The missile comes in from way and a double beat drop gets a second kill for the 0 for heretics and SK
Are dizzy with a failed die?
It's a disaster for SK wonder trying to see if you can get something back in this top lane
because already there's been four deaths in this bottom lane. Two kills for Ice, a kill for Wei.
I'd even shale Gekko on top of this. And Lita didn't have his death mark so he didn't have an extra
living shadow to go back to. Oh, I wonder no. And Wanda's now gonna make it five I think,
depending on if you can get a trade here sending out the soul of Snare needed for a
bottle but instead it's into the dirt for Wanda the kill number five. Five kills already SK this
is not the strategy you wanted for your split and it starts off with SK thinking oh we've got push
wait let's move down with Shale able to cover away gets a good route under the terror which
immediately stops schemes from being able to operate in this play leader tries to go back to
the clone in the hope that maybe he could escape but Ice with those slows keeps him
afay where he manages to get the kill and even Yoppa can't follow up Ice just
had to step away thanks to the Gendo slows share with an invader as we come
back and he's just stolen away the blue buff level six now so he has a
glacial prison up and ready to go that guy's doing a thousand gold lead
dragon should be a freebie here with the push that we're seeing from heretics
2v2 that has a recurve bow a long sword and yes it's being matched by Yoppa but
when you know how powerful Ash and Seraphine are especially at the level
6 mark you know that Ice and Wei are easily ready to pull the trigger especially
before Mickey has that disengaged tool of his ultimate as well.
Ice resetting up the boots there especially as you say like he has that level 6 if you
ever try to push this wave into the enemy terror it's just all in
potential for Ice and Wei immediately. Plans at least will be up momentarily
for Yoppa and you almost have access to the ultimate for Mickey, but there is that brief
window where at level 6 between the slows that enable the roots and Ice's Ultimus,
I think it's only a matter of time before SK drops again.
Well, the Grand Dragon or the Grub Contest will see that Shadow's gonna make a play
setting up top.
The NAR ulti in, gets Wanda's flash, really slowed down by a giant house, special prison
will get the slope but not the star of the permafrost.
It's coming in any moment before it does a trace and takes down Wanda again and
And here's Miki for a response play. He sees Wei, who doesn't have flash available, who's
cornered up finally. Stutling here for SK as the Seraphim will glide out but not to
any kind of success. First kill over to SK and it goes to Yoppa.
Wei trying to see if he needs to cover towards that mid lane, ends up getting caught out
himself. Skeen's utilizing the fact he comes through that wall very effectively
with Miki spotting out the enemy support. They have a dive potential here for Skeen
to kill.
Look, he's always here. There's Enchantress or Arrow before Skeen can be put out
the impale. He's gonna get over the wall but no flashtinger.
Chero stops him, sends out the Winters' Flail again and it's 1-7.
Heretic's jungler is right where you need him to be
always. And in that case it was just in the hands of skeens.
You're not getting away from this. Carry me to the wall all you want but you're
not carrying yourself to safety. And at this stage Heretic's again like
oh leaders. Hang on, Golden Eclipse exhausts out there as well. There's the
Deathknife but Lita is walking into yet another rebuttal, Saren solo kill and Lita's set is
definitely going to bed.
Yeah, the counter pick not working at all.
No.
Big CS lead, the kill with bot lane didn't work and even now there will be one, Saren
thanks to the exhaust waiting out, Shale is just going to pick up this dragon.
We see it here.
Like Wade was trying to see if he had to move across to cover up but he just
gets caught up by SK.
I think this was a mistake.
He didn't need to be there.
Like safety under your tower was completely fine.
I guess we're back.
But it's the follow up where SK feel like they need
to find more as Wunder.
Tracen again.
Oh no, Heretic Sahal.
They're happy with that top laner.
Tracen absolutely pummeling him for enough of a solo kill.
After the third game in a row,
Tracen has just had Wunder's number.
He has been so good in this top lane
no matter what side of the equation he's on.
And in a matchup that shouldn't be
As one-sided as it is, Tracer making it work and you can see it there.
He has just been absolutely spectacular today against one of them.
I've been told that is not correct, but it doesn't matter. That was only game one.
I'll tell you one thing though, Tracer is putting on a display here today, cresting towards the 1,000 gold lead again.
And that's the smallest margin you're seeing from this team.
Herodix Midlan and Serent is up 30-3, and now we're seeing Jon and Kostrar.
Just the highlight money's on the mark. Yoppa's gonna be delayed in his back and
The wave slowly pushing up towards heritage's bottom lane
Nice from eyes just to keep the tempo going here with a 4k gold lead
So this is just such a short go down
Like it's already just under a quarter of the way through so and a wave and a half it'd be back a bit available
Which is kind of just perfect then for heritage to make it to the bank because at the moment
They're just looking towards this top side
This has just gone from bad to worse for us, game.
This, by the way, is the update. This is where we want it to be.
This is both games together.
And while Tracin, obviously in that Game 1, kind of got out team 4 by Wanda,
today in lane and the majority of both these games are now Game 3 as well,
Tracin really has been stepping up to the plate.
Again, a highlight when we talk to analysts and they're like, well, Tracin's kind of there.
Tracen's, you know, there's talent that he needs a bit of time, but he should be there.
Peridix, reliability, that's what they needed. They needed that reliability and
star power and Tracen's giving us a bit of both here today.
Dagda, Dragon's up in three minutes. They got the first one. You can see that
SK are itching to get a bit of gold so they can contest his next objective, but
outside of bot right now, what do they have? Well, maybe they have a kill on the ice,
but the setup of the Glacier Prison is great and now the on-core as well means there's no
SK gets back forward, double down for the B-drop, a full teamfight, and now is Wunder with the old B.
But Shadow, he's not dying, Shadow refuses to drop,
while Icicle HP gets a player-front-to-back, a double down, even after Wunder gets a slicing nails from.
They still can't take down anyone from Team Heretics.
SK sent everything into Heretics, and the gates and walls still stand.
heretics refuse to fall.
It was a great turnaround. Like the fact that Wonder had to use his ultimate on to just
shale
because they denied any access was perfect. You see it here
Ice goes away, they actually don't get the close there on Teens.
And even though you get the lock, it's only on to Way
and he already has that Ultimus onto any sort of follow-up from SK.
It's the double roost that comes in from way afterwards too.
There's just no team left. It's Jopper. He has to run to the hills.
That's awesome. Does that look very good?
No. I just don't even need volume. We don't need a volume from IZ. He's just, he's just killing.
And I think we can safely say that Heretic's early game today has been good.
Oof is a very good reaction. But we're not stopping the count there.
gold lead at 12 and a half minutes.
SK are getting bodied and wonder now in the fog of war.
It's going to get a big surprise.
There is pork on the menu tonight,
but we ain't cutting it up just yet.
Instead, it's all right.
It's going to have to run as far as you can
with the flash burn.
Wonders out, but he now has to really fear the fact
that Heretics can stick about.
I think SK were open for support
because the people who play Heretics
are given the money scraps.
It is a toffee.
As Heretics now going to start to play on towards
his bottom side.
You're just waiting like dragons in less than a minute
You're gonna try and play for that you recess after what can only be assumed is gonna be a team fight win
Play in towards rift tower which would be all three rift childs taken by heretics this game
And you've already got top lane down. So just put some pressure on towards me
You know that ice and we're gonna be fine take a box slide
Tracing did more damage in one queue than wonder David all that effort. Yeah, so so I
I mean, it's just it's a bit of a sad sort of SK who
Played that game one so well, and then I mean heretics in games two and three
Really solidified and I feel like they knew the identity of their comp and this one obviously a little bit easier
But it's also I will say
Shares come a bit more alive today like in this in the later half of the game
Right. Shares said Joani has been mega clean and this is what I remember BDS Shares really good facilitator
He can take control of games, but he's really good at setting up his team and now once again, look, he interrupts this there.
Ice gets slower though with Joppa has an angle.
He finds him on the outside of ruinous way.
His next target of it on the way out.
He does a one for two.
Meanwhile, Shad ready to continue to fight.
His lead is going to join on him, but with the TP, that's going to make double trouble here for Team Eridix.
Make get a third with the roam down from Saren, the hop from Tracin, the mega now about to begin.
The house thrown down.
The wave on the way in and skiing from the way out.
Yoppa using that item spike well on the Unara, getting a ton of damage down and actually picks off ice.
But unfortunately, it ends up being a lot taken back there by SK on the way, I'd say by Heretics in the way out, the terror will fall.
And I like that Yoppa will continue to play this aggressive. He sees his angle, I was like, look, we have to make this work with schemes.
They go in, immediately trade with ice, already has the practice player picked up, so there's enough of the tech to finish one.
But it's the kind there that finishes the mark from Shale.
And at this stage, it's just a whole hang on.
London's caught out.
Saren, I'm going to find anything here.
There's the oldie from Wave, and he might be taking down
Golden Clips, however, saves the day.
Actually, not even used.
That was just Saren pressing his cue to get himself another kill.
Wave walks it out.
And I want to go back to your Shale point,
because I think it's...
The team that's impressed me this series has actually been
how well Wave and Shale have been working together.
Like, Wave put out a tweet earlier today,
or maybe it was yesterday, that was just I love Shale.
So obviously these guys were working pretty well together, that's fair.
But also, like, you can see it on the rift as well.
Like, way is moving well with Shale,
especially when we saw in that Nautilus game,
like playing around mid lane in the last game.
Now, in this game as well,
it's more Shale playing towards that bottom lane.
And if they have this flexibility in heretics
to both player at bot lane and now player at Seren,
it feels like a much stronger team holistically.
That's what heretics need, they need some dynamics and play through it because last split it just felt like lacking a bit of star power and then that synergy between jungle and support wasn't as strong.
As teams like Moogestark, Koi, as KC, as G2 especially right, like they're on the bottom echelon and that's why in playoffs going out a little bit early to the lower bracket, that's what heretics could do.
They're here today, great start in the split, it's really grand up in the series, Harold's
going to go down as well, quick side note, Saren did steal the scuttle, that's why it's
red away before skis could smite that, so it was a nice little bit of a puddle of, uh,
noisibility, sorry, Brady and Polly, there's a ice, just get poked down a little bit,
nothing's up on the menu, so we wait, push mid, and Heretics, they're going to
summon Harold on the top lane in the meantime as well, they're looking for an inner,
adding pressure here, ice might be caught out, flash away.
Team Eridix mid lane, little bit too far forward
when the play was being made top.
Still, the collapse from SK could be potentially
going topside, but with the ward spot in the middle,
they decided to just back away.
So you're kind of getting a small place from SK
in the hopes they can make something happen,
but you're seeing kind of the downside of Skarner
is that while you can't come in from creative angles,
consistently finding them engage is relatively hard.
I'm sure you did burn the flash and the ghost, but as this game continues to go on,
if Wei is able to put himself in front of Ice, get some of those roots, get the charm off,
suddenly this Garner becomes way less threatening, and especially in front to back, I'm still favouring heritages.
I think for a long, long, long week, under hovering over the wall, Tracen going to go into Mega.
There's a bit of a hopper here from schemes and the meaty team out, if they can do anything about it.
Even that open tower, that wave that we pushed, Traceman just back off into Fog of War, set up for vision now.
The next dragon coming in, Team Herodix on three, if they can find this next dragon.
I will say, I'm waiting for Lee to do something, looking for ice, especially without flash.
Skins can send it in, and Janakram's arrow hovers and inflates the prison on top as well.
Skins at half HP, a great solo snare, as the on-call lines through SK, but it is, after all, an eclipse that burns the eyes of the SK jungler.
Heretics turned the play around well.
SK tried to punish the flashless ice, but it just doesn't matter.
Heretics perfect position, turned the play around.
Did look a little on the damage threshold,
I will say, skiing survived quite a while.
But still maybe it'll make it happen.
Anyone else wanted to follow in?
I mean, the layering of CC from Heretics is scary.
I feel like that's why Leda hasn't pressed all his buttons to go in,
because if he does, as soon as he comes out of that living shadow,
It's just going to be said you're honey old Tracen's old if he's got mega
Saren presses his E and gets a soul snare like there is CC that comes out of every single person of his team
That's why the Zed was ambitious but so far hasn't done too much as Wunder's right against the wall
He'll be slowed down Tracen about to run out of mega he gets a stun mega there now at the end of the channel
Remember the house and the wonder yet again the stun might come through but how easy is that
Tracen with solid kill number three in this series he's got more than Knuckle
There's waves being chased down, skis will get his flash out of the Seraphine, a long way from home,
flashed off to the Impale, and skis will help SK get the kill over the Yoppa.
That's great, but you have to look at what's being lost on the bottom side of the map.
Yeah, well, he kind of feels like the consolation prize in some of these plays for SK.
Yes, they get one, but you're still losing on the bottom side.
You're losing the tower.
Shale shouldn't get caught.
There he goes, up the wall.
But still, like, Trayton's massive.
Oh, yeah.
Mid lane's massive.
The fact that the shining light is that Ice is under a thousand gold lead does not fold well.
It's not, and Leader's going to get ulted up, slowed down now, living shadows there,
but can he even move on to Saren once again?
A golden eclipse for a golden timer, Saren, to continue enjoying the lead.
Saren's looking great here against Leader.
He consistently had the advantages that he needs to, and again I think the question marks there to come through for SK.
A lot of people hoping that this dars to spring could maybe show what they're capable of, but
that's just not happening.
It still feels a bit lifeless here for SK.
Dagda, I was pretty expressive running forward for the Zed Dime.
I've spilt my tee.
I didn't think you were going to say that there.
Of course I'm saying I've spilt the tee.
Okay, we've avoided the electronics.
You never know.
You could find spilt tee.
New podcast between old Jack's
Little team
That the new name
At least the podcast is a name I think but oh no Jack. What do you guys think about spilled tea?
Good name
for lovely conversation
There's exhaust on the Yoppa
Mel's at that point where she presses a
A, bit of Q, let's press R and you're probably one shot.
Now, Yoppa, how does he avoid that? Well...
I mean, having a Milio does help.
Milio helps because there's this magical ball.
Jumps on the anti-carry.
You are really focused on the Super Mega Flanking Kick.
Ultra Mega Flanking Kick.
I am.
Rather than just the cozy catfire, or the shields, or, you know, the ultimate, there's so much value there.
It's all good.
I mean, I will tell you, that's the only interactive ability, as we have a Baron now starting off.
The biggest question is, can SK even approach this?
Because Zaren's zone control is very immense, tracing also into MegaNard.
I feel like SK, therefore going this like a lot of the game so far has been foregone.
This game is going to get our own.
The Arode was stealish.
That was pretty close.
Ice has enabled the dragon to be done, to be taken, and it'll be all she works as we approach.
It's okay for now, but Dagger, I don't know how okay this game is going to be for the Baron.
Honestly, like, it's only adding insult to injury.
There's very little that SK have been able to do and they kind of know us.
And they were hoping that maybe they could find some picks that end up backfiring.
It feels like only a matter of time now until these outer towers start to fall and the pressure only gets deeper for SK.
Multiple lanes between Tracings. Well, he can only be matched by one leader with their absorbing play while the rest of SK.
They're just going to have to lose out of this inner turret. There's the approach. Seren sets up.
One of the kites back. SK looking for a play because what else can they do? The team falls short.
There's the shield coming through from Wayne from everyone, but Tracings is soloing mid lane turret.
It's his push and pull. It's just so easily done.
and Tracin managing the game by himself.
Seri is going to be in drug, let it in, he will die.
It's nice goal over to Joppa,
but they need quite a few more of those
before we start getting serious.
Yeah, I mean, they're nice picks from SK,
but as you say, it's not going to net anything.
There's no objective for them.
It's kind of just giving them a moment to push their waves,
and it is a little sloppy from Heretic's.
I mean, they give an objective bounty
on this top side as well.
So at least that's something,
Still don't Tracin try to collapse here with the rest of this game.
Our narrowly missing for the Glacier Prison does not for wonder.
The danger is now have a look at the fight goes to Shares.
Takes a while to die, but Yoppa managing to get through the thick skin.
Is the impale going to help out as well?
Shares flashes away.
Is he dead to flush for Yoppa in the home team?
A bit over ambitious there from the young AD carry as the chase continues.
Tracin gets hit by a mega fireball kickball and Mickey manages to scurry away.
But the fight is still dangerous.
SK needed to back all the way off, because I felt like Yoppa just wanted to do something.
I think you kind of have to try. Again, like, you're just slowly bleeding out here,
so at least trying to force plays I think is your best best. But unfortunately for Yoppa,
it's just too big of an ask, especially with Tracin coming in, like, you're always going to end
of losing out that.
Tracin, if he gets involved in the fight, is a quick way to end this game, isn't it?
very exciting moment in hello one the found soul of snap oh my god well
sarin does damage and that dude sitting on a seekers and a blighting jewel
just show you looks like wonder looked at Mickey score I was like you know what
I think I can get there I didn't know it and it is a very different game
obviously one that's Ken and last time around I think was the first to
Renekton, who is like a counter matchup from memory.
It was, yeah.
You do well, but just, I don't know why I'm remembering a ball.
I mean, it's pretty impressive.
Old men remember old men, I guess.
Sarin's just going to walk in the base.
SK don't have a top lane for 15 seconds.
Notice the last amount from to help out whatever fight
he can pull together.
And even if now, opens up.
He should be taken down by Heretics as well
to try to find an angle that hasn't really
done anything in this game.
Looking to defend, but again, does nothing.
So SK just let there and him
to fall down and Team Herodix back off for a free Dragonfist.
They just got a recess, spend the golds, come back out.
The Seekers arm grab and Saren hasn't blown so Leader has less targets.
Arrow, Leader flashes away.
Leader is now dead.
Oh, flashes, he's alive.
Not the greatest day from Leader.
I don't want to be, like, I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just being real.
What do I notice here?
on Mickey's head. He's gonna take the blast cone and get facing out of there.
Reg, Meg, and I are like, yo, he's too deep, not a wall to be found, but he runs in to once again,
another potential eclipse. Solar snare does the job. Team Herodix, they don't even go to Baron.
They don't even go to Baron up. It would just seem he's offside.
It's the dragon that could go for him, but I think they just know they can end.
It seems like such an easy game for them.
But again, I like, this is sick from Herodix. This is what the team does.
You know, we kind of looked at a game one going okay, we're still seeing a lot of same issues with them
Not being able to control the mid game game two and game three way more secure. Oh, yeah
He said last time around SK were the ones that took him in the best of one well when it goes to distance
Heretic show us that their adaptation draft is so much better as they're down their last leg to final nexus turret
Now stands the Tracen looks for an angle misses the ulti but there's so much more damages again
That's all is now going a little bit wide SK lucky to be alive
But if they get hit if once get it SK send their chungler in then they're in trouble
Skins impale on the show, but do they have the damage to killing?
Partway to people in on-go running through show still alive
And there's wonder ulti, but he's about to die. Okay once more in a clips
And they merely still have five members alive, Dagda.
The heretics managed to just barely get away from us.
It ended up a little sloppy, but it'll be an accessory taken, a dragon to boost.
And I think we're 45 seconds until that fire, and I know exactly where they're going next.
Well, the prep of life is using that blade just to give them a little bit of oomph.
It really does nothing, doesn't it?
Ladies and gentlemen, it is the slow march now with Kentex all the team here at X to take their first series of the LEC spring.
What was it again?
It was Remus, RGC, Wunder, Leader, both moving into the position for Flanks. I was like, this is going to be a big roll.
He starts it back away, Skeens tries everything to get in on the play, but Shale is just so tanky.
The old coming over the top, at least denying some of the follow-up.
And Saren getting a good flash away from Wunder.
Like a couple of those could have been enough to get kills after hold on.
And I think that leaves for SK. That's the thing I do appreciate about them,
even when they do fall behind in these situations.
They do try to keep the game going and find these small angles.
But they're too small at this stage.
Way too small.
Another bound going to be taken.
This one should just slowly pace through and take the game
You have to ask yourself
What is going to be the state of SK during the split because this game it seems like there's remnants of what we're talking about in first
There's individual members there with some with some skill, but
Like it looks very sloppy as a
Brutal there from Sarah just gives a nice shuriken all the way back to the cannon
I do think though for guys like Yoppa, like I think he is kind of showing that he is actually quite talented
It's difficult for an AD carry when you're on a team like this that you're not really getting your moment to shine
But he is always fishing for using the spikes that he has, especially on a champion like you are, which is kind of what you need to do
Well, many more series to be shown, many more moments for Yoppa to try and step up to the plate
Those now it's his final moment in the side.
Litter gets caught, he is dead.
All it takes is one of those snans.
And he won't even get to play the game, much like he's so far not being able to play at all.
SK, trying to defend the start with their life, but all they can do is stand in front of the next start.
The last one remaining, half of one mistaken before.
And hopefully, they've got something left in the tank.
And now he gets thrown out out of the lead.
He has to play ice.
ice on the skis absorb the meridix is slowly kind of little away schemes is
hiding away as it's actually pretty good down from that state they're able to
deal with the way for now heritage and not over pushing that very slowly trying
to get in and get a pig but they can't really get through the hellfire of
skis without launching everything at it double super meetings are on the way
though both in me that bot lane so once they hit you're gonna see the
pigs going off the bottom lane they know that that's their moment so
The air tics, playing it slow until that arrives.
I mean, there is a good resource for the cannon, but maybe we'll see a breath of light comes in.
SK, they're healing, is there, Kodi, campfire, doing a good job, leader.
He's always breaking the side because no damage is shared, but we might see with some of the other carries.
It's 11k gold lead.
Triple inhibitor will be falling down.
It is a slow burn to get towards the end of this game.
But a soul flare connects and the oncle finally runs through with a double beat drop.
The first member, the first body, is going to be the milia.
Nexus on the wonder, I've got him pale and somehow SK are actually doing work.
Leader gets his first kill and then contribution to the game.
Jarvis to run away but the game will go on unless Skeen's dies which Tracin needs one order to achieve.
Fallon pushing into the base and I cannot believe that SK got so close to getting an A's
but in the end too far behind, too long gone and Team Aerodix will win their first series of spring.
It was a close one with SK nearly able to hold on but heretics will pick up the win and honestly
It was a bit of a 3-0
Heretics demanded the early game every step of the way
Which you can both prepare the series now at LEC on X either Tracen shale or ice and honestly
Every one of them spectacular day. Yeah, we're a very big upping on Tracen, but shale especially that last game so pivotal
Herodix, it's a nice look. Their development in this split is going to be under scrutiny
because they made playoffs but didn't hit the same as their end of season game that they
did in Versus. So we really want to see like can they push it to that limit? Can they show
us some remnants of what a game we sought towards the end of LEC versus? Because that's
the Herodix here, like maybe we could be top four. And some of the games, even that
last game, that's like a potential top 14.
Yeah, and honestly, I do appreciate the fact that way you see him on your screen there for the first time.
I think he had a spectacular series.
Like, again, he was moving well, working with Sheo, giving good control to the bottom side.
But we're going to throw it over to hear from Sheo about what this new heretics is all about.
Yes, we will. We're talking to a lot of heretics, Trace, and as well later on the desk.
But first, the jungler, Sheo.
How happy are you with your first foray back on the rift?
I'm pretty happy. I think we for the good games game 23, so I'm pretty happy
You don't mention all three games. Why is that?
Yeah one we just forget. Yeah, okay. We won't talk about it overall
Though you of course have a new support in the works. We saw some really good things from him
I gotta say but how did it feel overall knowing that support and jungle synergy is so important
I mean he's doing really well I think, he has some issues with English, but I translate for him, so I think he's adapting pretty well and he's not introvert, so he connects with the team pretty easily.
Okay, so Ice is translating for him outside and inside of the game?
Yeah, both.
Okay, so that must be tricky I guess, because don't you get, like if it has to go fast, how does that work?
I mean it's pretty funny because they talk in current for early game, and then he translates, so it's pretty fun to hear current like the world game looking.
They lied to you because they're talking to each other in Korean and they're like,
oh, this lane state is awful, but we still want a gank.
And then Ice is like, we actually said that.
We really need a gank.
Maybe, maybe they like it.
Yeah, maybe.
But I trust them.
Who knows?
Who knows?
Who knows?
Say, when we look at your versus performance, I think maybe not a lot of people had as much
attention for how well Heretics was actually doing specifically at the back end of those
best of ones.
You made it into the playoffs as well, and then unfortunately that is where it ended.
So would it now be in best of threes only?
Where do you see your ceiling?
I think we did really good in best of one
because it was easier to draft.
And we have got issues in the other fields.
But right now, with how the team is going,
I think we can do pretty good.
This is a great start.
Your top laner is over there with the boys.
Is there anything you want to say to him?
Good Gnar.
Good Gnar?
OK.
Thank you, Merci beaucoup.
Thank you.
Good Gnar!
There you go.
He values you so much.
He only said good Nari, only good games and he only cares about the last one, he's so selfish.
Yeah, I mean, he just wants to make me humble still, not like I'm not, just more and more, more and more.
So you could say to him the same good Sejuani, so he plays more thanks for you, yeah?
Yeah, hopefully. I mean, this game, they picked Miliohai and he still went for Seju, so like I was surprised, but I kind of have to pick it.
He did a lot better than that, just like fix the Johnny tool.
He used to play on the TV here.
I really appreciate it.
Would you have a little bit of history, man?
Yeah.
I mean, he also is a success to me, I might say.
Yeah, is this public information?
No, no, no.
Is this public?
I mean, Odo used to help me in the last split.
Suddenly, he kind of betrayed me.
And now he's 0-1.
I mean, the fight will be there.
I don't know when we play each other.
So actually, I don't know.
Maybe they will be the decider.
I mean, that will be the decider.
But it's just part of your development arc, Tracen,
because it's one of those things where you have a teacher,
and he teaches you all of those things,
and he has to let you go for a little bit
to see if you remember the things.
And for now, he did remember.
Well, strangely, he's doing better now
that you're not coaching him, though.
That's true.
Maybe I was the problem.
Tracen, do you remember anything Otto taught you?
What's one thing that you learned from Otto?
I mean, there is a lot.
But don't fight on bounce back.
And control the HDD.
ADHD, sorry.
I will say I was very impressed though with your lane.
You beat Wunder three times in a row in lane,
because Sante, the Rumble, and then the Gnar.
I think that's awesome.
What was the lifeline against Wunder?
Because he's a legend in the LEC.
You know, he's got such a long career.
I mean, I respect him a lot.
I used to watch him a lot back in the day,
2019 and stuff like that.
So yeah, I mean, it's a pleasure to play against such a guy.
I mean, I also think he's like gold times kind of past like now
Not the best. Hey, come on
But but yeah, I mean really really really appreciate to be able to play against him and I think I can also learn a lot from these games
So yeah, I mean very up here. Okay. Well the fans
I feel like have a different perspective of you because I think at least now both you and certain have been having
You know three standout games
I feel like when last but maybe the synergy wasn't really there
or you guys are not having these sort of pop-off performances,
was...
Are you guys finally getting acclimatized to the LEC
or what's been happening this one month?
Because I feel like there's a new face for the both of you.
I truly believe that now I have more space in draft
than last split, since we did some changes in our roster.
And, yeah, I mean, obviously I had a talk with coaches.
So I have more agency in draft
instead of just playing three champions that were Permameta.
So, I think that impacts a lot, and also we just got better at the time we were here with the series we played with Screams of this day.
I mean, we just got better. We have better connection together as a duo. The sign is better than last week, so I think everything goes with the time, goes up, and it will be only better and better, I hope so.
It will be. You're also our key up player of this series, Tracy. Congratulations. You are unleashed.
Let's go! You're unleashed, meaning we're going to see all kinds of crazy things in the top lane, hopefully, but...
Yes.
Yes.
No more three champions. I mean, now that you say that you're only playing three champions, I really hope next series you won't play the same three ones.
Are we facing each other next week?
Let's figure it out! Like, when are you playing each other? Because this is too...
Yes, yes, yes. I will.
Okay, I'll make sure.
Yay.
Just to reverse the master.
Yeah, it's true.
Final words, maybe on your opponents.
You say that you guys are feeling quite comfortable in draft, did you feel the other way around that maybe they weren't as
versed in draft because you yeah, you know what I mean
I mean honestly, I think first game they have a better draft just to be played better early
But got kinda lost in the mid game
second game, I think it was quite even it just played better and that game the fourth big set so
Okay, we'll end the interview there. Thank you so much
Congratulations Tristan, a big win for Team Heretics and we'll be taking a quick break,
but when we come back a very important bout between Movistar Koi and Fanatic who are chasing their first win.
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My first team was... I mean, it's UNEXE Sports. It's a team that has already been
founded, so, yeah, it's quite an unknown.
My first main was Thresh, and then I changed to Jungle, which was Kha'Zix.
My first hobby was swimming. I used to do it a lot.
My first time I knew I wanted to be a pro player was I didn't find anything I could find as exciting as playing the game, so that's my aim.
My first LAN event was in Madrid and I think we got eliminated really soon.
My first LEC game was with Matt Lyons in 2021.
I don't really remember what I was playing so yeah, I can't tell.
Well, it's been a great story for Elioia. If you do look at the past years,
and he's up versus Fnatic right now in his brethren from Spain in Razor,
because he's passing us right here.
But it is a very important matchup for the both of them.
You might say, well, Shox, isn't it the beginning of the season?
Isn't it just the first couple of games?
But, well, yesterday both Fnatic and Movistar Koy lost their opening matches to teams they, frankly, shouldn't have dropped the games to.
And I think that's why this is such a high stakes matchup.
There were a lot of quotes from Melzett, who is the coach for Movistar Koy.
And I just want to throw some of them up.
He was very harsh on the performance of yesterday, saying, you know, if we look at the performances, they don't deserve to be renewed contractually.
We already know that MIRWIN, for example,
and SUPA are on notice, so to say,
that their contracts are in flux,
saying they still need to raise their level.
I don't care.
SUPA had really good spots to carry games,
and he threw the lead.
MIRWIN in the first and the third games,
he played terrible, he needs to wake up.
Alvaro got an extension to 20-28,
he said, doesn't matter.
He could say, I mean, like,
so what are we reading into this?
This is someone who wants results now.
This is pretty aggressive, I would say, for a coach,
I'm not a coach. I want to hear what Otto has to say about that.
Yeah.
I know.
He's got a note that she's doing fine, Jojo.
So as a player, realistically, these conversations have happened many times, right?
Internally, I'm sure that even before such a quote comes out, you know, you bring it up to them,
it's like even before, like, for the finals, they knew that this was still the staff's goal.
And in my opinion, at least from being a competitor and being through this sort of environment,
for this goal to kind of come out, it feels like it's not really like an
ultimatum or like the final notice, I guess, in that sense. It's just if all
of the ways that they have used to bring or to put pressure on them to stop
these inconsistencies to make these beginnings of the split be taken a
little bit more serious so that they lock in and level up a lot more to
reach the levels that G2 has and internationals, for example, they
But the thing is, the question is, is this the way?
Because you can say yes and no, depending on the personality of the players, some might crumble.
But on the other ones where they really cherish this sort of pressure, they are forced by fire,
this is where they find their comfort zone, by being stimulated or being put pressure on the end and they are...
This might be the play, because I saw fans saying, maybe this wasn't the play,
how can you put so much pressure on someone at the beginning of the split,
because it's only game one and all this stuff.
of this stuff, but this might actually just be the way.
But it's public, right?
That's also the way, because I'm sure,
and we've seen this from the internal pieces
that Movistar Koi has put out,
that they don't beat around the bush,
that also goes for El Yoia and the captain, right?
But there's a difference between indoors
and all over the internet.
And it should be for example, yeah.
And those are all choices, right?
That I think he's using strategically.
The only thing that I hope is that, oh, sorry.
No, no, you go, you go.
Okay, sorry.
The thing that I really want to see what happens
is that when you put it publicly to fan base,
they're so passionate and it lifted them so many times
and they always had their back.
I don't know if the fan pressure is gonna make them
go in the direction that they hopefully want to
where they just lock in and be fans,
having more expectations of them and stuff like this.
I just don't want it to backfire
because I do feel like this is such a play.
It's a 50-50, it's a gamble, but it can really work.
Yeah, I love hearing the coach's perspective on that.
All I'm gonna add is that this is a team
that puts a lot of pressure on themselves as well.
If you're trying to challenge G2,
if you're trying to challenge KC,
you can't be dropping series to not be early on in split.
And yes, it's only one-bats at three,
but still that's one that they should have won
the way that they lost.
It was world-disappointing.
Also a team that always talks about the big leagues,
right? That always talks about going
to the world championship point,
showing what they're made of.
And me, even as a spectator,
and somewhat a fan also of Movistar Koi,
the fact that sometimes you can see them play
these games that are incredible they're so on point everybody's pulling the trigger
at the right time it looks beautiful but then there's all these inconsistencies and
I feel like of course if you're in the coaching staff that gets you a little
frustrated yeah yeah those and I've not pulled the emergency button yet I'm
not thinking that if they lose it's fun that it though yeah I mean maybe
in the practice side, you know, the emergence button needs to be pulled because it's been
a couple of times where, you know, things are not going great, but, you know, it's still
been like, first game. There's been some lowlights yesterday on the side of Fnatic because I
like, I feel like just the middle of the game was, you know, still a little bit wonky.
I still, Vladi is still at the point where his performances are rather inconsistent.
You know, there were criticisms I saw, many of them about his item building game three.
The only shining light that I've seen thus far, you know, that I was quite happy
with personally, you know, with my implications and stuff, which is like offset. Offset
had a little bit of a better time when it comes to Laney phase in his performance, but
still she just had their number with just being so much more proactive and it just made
it so hard to play.
I have to say you are in an incredible position because you are on the staff of Fnatic, you're
also on our staff and they're currently on stage warming up and you have to tell them
how it is.
Yeah.
That's unique, I've never seen that.
It's kind of like, you know, what knows it is like sometimes you just need to
say publicly that you know some guys just suck and they need to like step it up
you know that's a good point yeah we got a public statement from M-Quake coach
can we get a public statement from Matic? Okay okay I've only okay buddy I've been
on the job for like two weeks I mean no producers make public statements like that
no emergency buttons from me. So let's bring it back then okay both teams
they they are up against it they really want to get this win also when it
comes to kind of the Spanish rivalry in the jungle and whatnot is that where
we have to start maybe Razork yesterday what did you think he's up
versus Elioia here?
Yeah, that for me is the premiere matchup of today
because I feel like both of these guys are just so pivotal.
And yesterday, Razor kind of stink a pretty much of early game
pretty much all of those three games.
I felt like Isma, which is finding creative ways to invade
and he struggled to adapt to this sort of pressure.
But every time you see this sort of pressure
does not come through, he keeps the early game staples
and he does plays.
But you can't expect that against Elioia
because that's also he is the catalyst for Mkoi
and he's the one who looks to find a lot of early game
please. Also anytime I think M-Koi, I think JoJo, Ladi's gonna have to find a way to control that.
JoJo was great yesterday, that is a good point. So they're up against it both Movistar Koi and
Fnatic want to walk away with their first win of spring. Let's see who gets it.
What a good question and especially since Fnatic yesterday had me excited and then had me
like a Fnatic fan or maybe some of the Fnatic fans in the past. There's some out there
they won't be happy that I said that but I think Movistar Koi, maybe the fans will be a
a little bit more furious with the loss that came against Na'Vi when that last game seemed
so sure. I don't believe in Cursus either, Betty. I'll say that to him at home.
Why are you throwing him under the bus?
I mean, I just like doing it because he can't be here to argue, so it feels better when it's
one-sided. It's one-sided when he's here anyway. But the difference is, the most outcoy
I mean, that game, a couple of fights going wrong, formed games over, series over,
and most out-walk away with the loss.
Yeah, I don't mean it came down to the wire, like, you end up with a base
phrase where I mean that Rakan was trying his dumbest to not finish that game but
getting Bobby down fast but I think it's a it is a little bit heartbreaking for
M-Coy and Fanatic because these are two teams that we have a huge amount of
respect for and we want to see succeed but only one of them will get to succeed
here today as both of them take to the stage. Let's see how best the three's are going the distance
every single damn time and with our last one of today it might be delivering
Once again, it's only eight o'clock.
We've got heat sets on.
We can take this into the later hours of the night.
And we'll see if we can do that.
Going to all three of us all.
Why stop?
I mean, if Spring is going to say anything,
if Ernie comes in threes, because every single series
has gone the distance.
And honestly, if this goes the distance as well,
I think that could be a serious conversation point,
whether it's because Fanatic are overachieving
or an employee who you do expect to be the stronger team coming into this like
this is a squad that has threatened the top of the table for such a long portion
of our split our gears but not looking the great yesterday and it's going to
be on them to see if they can kind of right those wrongs and see if they
will find that success the early game. I'm really curious to see how game one
starts with Alvaro in specifics I mean we were talking about his Nautilus
yesterday or rather I know Kangus and Vettius were in the early portions
of Game 3 but Alvaro on hook champs or engage champs honestly gives a lot of backing and
a lot of structure to Movistar Koi so as we go into this pick ban which will shortly come
up on your screen we're already starting with Rumble ban we're already starting with some
of the strengths that come through for people like Empross because even though Empross
has been up and down I think yesterday his Rumble game wasn't half bad and definitely
one of his best performances that we've seen so far so with that off the board
with Orianna and Karma gone as well.
Remembering that M-Coy had first pick.
It's those Rises that need to go.
It's the Varyses that are in question.
And what else am I missing?
My Jarvan, there goes my.
So Jarvan could make their way through.
And you have an answer in responding with the Azir
if you end up giving that across.
Ash Seraphine, to me, kind of is the stand out.
As I imagine, this will be a Varyspan.
I think you're great.
So I think you take the Seraphine here if you want to.
and then you can kind of roam from there.
And Azir also the option if you want to.
But Azir, is it going to be really,
is that good enough as a first pick
because you just talked about Ash Seraphine?
Ash could be picked here.
And then an option straight away into that mid,
all the primary jungle.
Now, I loved what you were talking about yesterday,
Dexter, when you were like, well, into Azir,
the Jarvan's not really a top tier pick.
You've got a mobile mage,
lots of things like Corky up.
You always have AD carries
that can kind of make that pick irrelevant.
So maybe that's just answering my own question, you know how locked in, Zinzal locked in.
Yeah, and I think it's a nice option here, because essentially you can respond with the Lulu,
answering for any sort of Ash Seraphine, but you also force Enkoi to now try and take the Jungle Picker as they fall too far down.
And you don't have anything that can match that Zinzal in the early stages. The Panth can be taken.
I imagine you will just get the AD Carry lock in here, more than likely the Corki, and then you can play from there.
But actually, I believe they're anectons.
So I think basically, Colin had saying,
we can go for Ash Seraphine.
We can go for Korkinami, or we can go Frazer or not.
So we're happy as M.Coy to play any of them
into the Unara here.
I was just thinking if there's just a slam
of like a cat in here, or maybe a gnar early.
I think it's a take the lead.
But you're right.
Your logic is very sound here.
You need that support to pair up with the Unara.
Otherwise, it's going to become useless.
So maybe we're ranking in here.
Big brain play from M.Coy.
we should be seeing what support 80 carry bands now here locked in by Fnatic. I'm curious actually
if Fnatic basically instead of going for the 80 carry bands go for the support bands instead like
ban away the uh the seraphine, ban away the I was going to say an eco but actually going to be
the non-list instead so looking to avoid those hard engage tools that can synergize with that
Let's go away, at least for the favour for Nekton, so we need that Seraphine, we need
that Niko, once the pulp band remains.
I think though if you're in Peros, like you're not too worried about going for the narrow,
you can always go back towards the Cassattia or something along those lines and play through
that instead.
And you've already got a very strong jungler's force, 80 parry support, so just playing
for these teamfights with a tank makes a lot of sense.
I wouldn't be surprised about a Cassante slam here, wait and then keep that counter pick open for Blady
I wait to see exactly what the
What you want to do or I mean you already are into these here
So there is an option just take the Aurora
And then leave it for the I mean Ampros already knows what he's going into but maybe just more so the comp especially
Now no true tank on the comp outside of the bruiser that you're gonna get from the Renekton
Do we get any gauge support from Alvaro?
I would actually, if the, cause I think Braum has a miserable target to it.
I think it could basically be Fanatic saying, maybe we're considering the Ornn pick.
We want to see, wait and see what M.Coy pick in that support role before we show the Ornn in this sort of situation.
Cause you can lose gracefully as the Ornn.
And then still play a big team fight role, which could work out here.
Ranged against Renekton and Zed, that'd be really nice.
I like the on-call out. Let's wait and see. Nami Corky on the other side. It's a pretty
stand-bottom lane here. Bit of range added into the mix. You talk about a tank maybe just losing
in the top lane gracefully. And it looks like that's our own. It's going to be the option.
And we'll have to see if Nierwin's having a good day and he can just body the match-up
and try and make that Renekton lane work for him. But I see a pretty standard stock draft,
especially after we've just come out of Zed. I'm like, this looks very, very normal to open
of this series. I mean, fanatic, you've got strong early game with the ZinZao and the Luluparing that can try and play for a lot of early skirmishes. Also, the ability to try and protect any sort of invades if you want to. And the issue that I see for M-Koi is that while they have decent scaling in the Azear, I don't think the rest of their comp scales particularly well around how strong fanatic is in a later portion teamfight. So you're heavily reliant on a yoyo, getting the ball rolling more than likely around this bottom side of the map. They try and play off of that one item, Triforce bike, four corks.
and hope that I can carry the game.
If not, I think you're going to be in a difficult spot as Emcoy,
just to try and find success inside lanes,
unless somehow Renekton gets really fed here.
I wouldn't put it past me, especially since, you know,
Ampros, I think, again, hit and miss.
His style on yesterday, some of the fights didn't look too good,
and it was around that mid-lane engage you just saw on the analyst desk
when they were repeating some of the video clips
That Ampros like a little step too far not coordinated with the rest of fanatic getting caught out and
It hurt him a bit. So it's a fanatic
Because and quite is a mighty big opponent
And despite loss against another yesterday it is and quite we're talking about
Been a top three team for quite a while now as Alvaro rides the ship into battle
I do think though there was one shiny light on MQA yesterday and that was Jojo Pion.
I think he was absolutely fantastic in just the way he dictated the early stages of the game,
the way he was able to control so much of it as well.
And I think I'll be keeping my eye on towards Jojo Pion again, see if he can find those massive advantages.
As he's been, hello Jollyman, as he's been absolutely fantastic in just hard winning his lanes
and then making things in use since Freddy Hunt.
I can tell you I can bring this up for you so we're looking it was jolly man
actually for the computer class dude this guy I mean not only a couple of our
broadcasts but then they did just he broke my PC so it just doesn't work anymore
I would have something for you to compare because against against against
bloody in day one as well we're talking about a little bit there was
comparison between these two but it's just in the middle but I do think like JoJo it's not
the easiest to match up since you can see Aurora can play very far up and basically
the idea is to try and play around or force early sand soldiers out from the Azir and
then try and play around a plus at the moment JoJo getting good position in the rows and
making it hurt super.
He power is but he's still in trouble, Opset's gonna get the flush out of him now, Alvaro
in a bit of trouble as well.
If you move it about the end for his bottom line, they just get bodied here standing and getting fired up by the offset.
I mean, facing off against the Lulu and Unara, especially to get that uptick on the Q for the Unara is not an easy battle.
And super unfortunately being on the business end of that, we'll have to burn his flash, reset just for the boots.
But upset and lost, but it should be able to push out this bottom wave and get a much nicer reset.
should have enough for Cole which just makes things significantly easier for
Unara in the way it interacts with her Q and the healing and also just getting an
early golden. What Unara pairing is so easy you know like she works with almost
anything but I'm very self-sacrificed. I do like in my eyes though she's still
way stronger than things like she is. Oh yeah yeah. It just enables her so much.
I want it's handy to have like an Alistair that can set her up and it's
It's just cheap. The late game scaling of having this Enchantress of all-winner is just absolutely insane.
It's kind of like, I know Cobblemore is a very different champion, but it's also like another immobile champion to a sense.
They can just stand there and fire within the champion.
Yeah, I think though the level 6 fight for Unara is just even stronger than that, which just makes it very good in lane.
Especially when you're taking this triple tonic build, which you can see that Upset has gone for.
When you hit level 6, you could immediately pop that red potion, and then with the Lulu, play hyper-aggressive.
and basically one-shot your opponent and I think this is where like players have
been getting very good understanding like Yunara's spike points like the level
six the Kraken Slayer being completed how do you play around like Cole on the
uptime on the Q and I think this is why she's so oppressive at the top level.
Like this one, Ampset stands in gets the Q up and then just...
It's that old man.
Especially when the slow off of the circle is just so good in such long range
You can see there like non-committal just look for a bit of poke if it lands great I can follow up immediately
But it just is obnoxious to play into and we've seen corki Nami is kind of the answers into that
Traditionally as you can try and play off of like similar spikes of the court
You have a machine and try for us in that and even the appear of Monday
We'll put all bloody boys shooting sounds big flighty little tempos up. There's a flash JoJo looking good again today
Yeah, this man is
exceptional for MQI and again I think he was my shining like yesterday even in game one that they lost
He was still open gold game three. He was open gold and the game they won a large portion of was back to him
So I do think he's been absolutely spectacular and really a shining light in the
Just controlling that mid wet mid lane in the early stages
I mean Jojo will talk about his landing phase last year as well
We were so impressed and it was last year Jojo came in right like yeah, yeah
It's so hard to...
Well, I mean, he's based in Europe, man.
I mean, Canada is like...
Yeah, it's the same, but...
They speak French in Canada, they speak Irish.
You know, Newfoundland, they speak Irish.
Like, Canada is more European than American, I think, isn't it?
Yeah!
I mean, yeah.
I mean, if you're from Quebec,
I'm not going to marry you.
I feel like you're...
I want to be French, buddy.
Hey, anyone who's from Canada here, feel free to weigh in.
I mean, we do have a comment section on our broadcast
that we can bring up.
Anyone but Jolly Man is welcome to, uh...
Do we know where Jolly Man is from?
What if he's Canadian?
Jolly Man's Canadian.
Oh, no.
Maybe Jolly Man is the person
who puts them up on our broadcast.
Have you ever thought that?
True.
It's nepotism.
I will find out.
dragon okay fanatic did pick that up first but I will say right now you're
fanatic you're wondering why he's getting body little bit of a slain Jojo's now
level six so Empress divide is up now Yoya climbing to six himself which
means mobility which means ladies flash can get punished at a moment's notice so
the fear is there especially with Jojo holding on to his flash but that Aurora
could be dead soon I think the fact that you have the ult makes it a little
bit more difficult because you can time the oath with the emperors divide pushback so you immediately
get shot to the other side of the circle. But still I agree with you in the fact that it just bodes
well like Aurora I believe is supposed to be a good matchup into the Azir. So the fact that you're
already behind is bloody it's just not looking good and a part of what we wanted to talk about
with the graphic was you know I think bloody played relatively well yesterday the stats don't
necessarily show that he was behind and going behind a bit of CS but it felt like his impact
who's getting back towards what we expected from Vladdy in this time last year.
But unfortunately this game, it's only a couple minutes in,
but it just hasn't been to the same level as you had hoped for as a player.
Vladdy is a big call, right? Like a big deal, because especially when he left KC,
there was a lot of trauma around him. But Vladdy was, I think, one of the best parts
of that roster at the time, right? Like Vladdy had explosive power and,
and I mean that in the sense that mechanically,
he'll be a really good mid laner.
So far on Fnatic, it's been,
I mean, it's only been a day,
but you know what I'm saying, it's-
It's been a split in a day.
I mean, it's been a split in a day, yeah.
It's been a quick split.
I mean, it's still not the end of March yet.
Like, we're still not into April, right?
We've already started spring, so.
There's been much time here with the Valkylus,
but I've got to make this play down by level six now.
So, Crescent Guard is up,
He's spotted an award, and Al Joya, who's a level ahead, is in the vicinity, taking his
crubs, getting ready himself.
He's got himself a grand star ball that can get behind Fnatican.
It'll be so easy here because Upset and Lothfuck are pushed up, but they're waiting.
They know.
Grazl is sticking around because he knows that this Pantheon could be jumping in here.
It's a good call to shadow the bot lane again.
This is your real focal point here to try and win out this game if you're Fnatic.
And I think Upset has been great.
I think Upset had a fantastic game yesterday,
was something that they were able to try
and play through on the silver.
Ian was very close to winning out on some of those fights,
but of course he just wasn't quite able to take it home.
But if you're on this in our,
and you've already picked up this early lead,
just ensuring that doesn't fall out of control
is a very big focal point for Fnatic.
It's just the problem is as much by Jojo's lead now.
Yeah, it's 425, he's got 10 CS lead
and he's dodging away from me these two full hexes
It means a lot of that burst damage that comes through for me, and I'm like, you know,
how good is the super descensor on the end of the deck?
There's not a lot of up-set, which without damage, but hey, never mind.
Bit of Phoceros bomb, a couple of autos, that'll do.
Up-set doesn't go away from not the big one, but the big one is in the hole.
There it is.
Hits, good shield from Lospa to save the health bar of his 80 carriers.
Gladi is in danger.
As you said, the between rolls needs to be used now, but JoJo hits in midair,
Solar kills teleports out and styles on bloody the Jojo solo Bolo looking good for emcoy as he
goes underneath the terror to finish off that one massive win for emcoy in the mid lane and even on
that bottom side as well super now for a body back against upset we talked about that sheen
spike for the Corki you want to play on and that's exactly what they did just go in on
towards upset push him out of lane and get at least a little bit back for yourself in that
Joe Joe wasn't risking anything there either. He teleports out just in case
Razork's in the vicinity. You're going for an invade here and speaking of Razork
he would just see his raptors being pinched away and not in time as Joe Joe has
returned to lane. Quick side note Nash picked up as Alvaro finds the
lost button to rotation. Yeah, both got to stare at each other down. I thought Joe Joe might try and come across
but not too interested at the moment when Razork there to accompany them.
Razok just going to ensure that Flady can pick up this wave without too much stress.
If they're going to face-check, when he comes sliding, he's going to be shifting sand to weigh three times, like it's close to the auto, but try to have views in a trope.
There's the bubble as well, with Nasha's Razok in trouble. Crescent card comes out, but El Yoia, is he going to ult? Yes he is.
How deep is he going to go onto Razok? Little bit shallow, and the ult turns a bit rubbish.
But El Yoia may be thinking the fact step and look for the kill.
There's a late call on it though.
I think if you had used it maybe a couple seconds earlier, should have been able to pick up that kill.
With the bubble and tadawite, yeah.
Exactly, most.
Still, M-Koi get the position that they want for a dragon that's in 10 seconds time.
Razor, if not having Ultimates makes him a little bit less on the Thresh.
Although Alvro did use his own Amidalia, Alvioia also invests in his.
It kind of evens up the trade a little bit with M-Koi making those small mistakes.
You know, now we know Alvio released a lot of pressure on the map for a little bit as well.
Well, remembering that Vlad has his flash up and down,
and everyone starts on the side of Fnatic.
He's been trained again from Super in Alvaro,
just looking for that Phosphor's bomb.
But maybe more to be said.
Dragon, number one, went over to Fnatic.
Next one sitting there, waiting in the mountain.
1k gold lead here in the early game for Enkoi.
And everywhere but the bot lane, finding success.
Still, Fnatic's trying to see if they can find some moments
down here.
Oh, you know, you got a spot riser work.
And now it's kind of shift to the loop.
I mean, maybe it does shift his hands, although he flashed away from, but Jojo took no damage.
Vladius is back away, but he doesn't have teleport, Dagdur, and that's more plating,
another wave coming in.
And just like that, Elioya says, now I can start the drake.
But Jojo is just making a mockery of Vladius, honestly, in this mid lane.
The fact that he doesn't need any jungle help to achieve this is easily setting
up Enkoi on the map.
Razor, I'm trying to see if you can find something at JoJo.
43 talent strike.
Wait for the audacious charge.
Wind comes flying in, tags him, but going in.
Razor, hang on a minute, probably.
Did you know?
He flushes away, and I have to say, Razor, it was very obvious
they were doing Drake and they were there.
Yeah, I'm not sure on that one.
And now Mereman's like, hang on, there's a low jungler in here,
and I'm renec-ting with Black Tiber and ult.
Mereman, all right.
Oh, it's the Ecrash.
Razor just used the audacious charge,
So now he has no way to get on now. He's got no crescent guard either. So it's a free kill
It's solo for me when and fanatic. I just get
Destroyed by simple your decisions. I mean fanatic kind of just look tilted already. Yeah, it's
These are weird decisions
Razzark overextending brainless flash trying to chase JoJo into Botsaw River like there is never a world where you should do
I've got to say I'm just confused. I mean I am too, the Razor decision-making, but obviously
Nielsen really nice well played, but you also know that Nielsen is called MIA and it's also
a really good ward at the red buff, as you can see. I think he's a control ward there,
so Nielsen's got an advantage from that as he now walks up to Molish, he can't get
the third proc as you can hear it with the audio cues, but he gets a blading and
he's got black cleaver, so he's feeling just fine and super. Pretty much going to
do the same thing down in the bot lane. He's going to walk up, he's going to take two bits
of blading, Mewen's waiting for upset, no dominance but he has flash available as he
gets spotted out by a ward but lost but also on the way he needs it, Mewen, let's pull
the trigger, I'm probably a needless one.
So the restart, the swap comes through from Prolatic just as upset that bleeds his
road quest so it doesn't mean they have to stick around that bot side for any longer
and it means at least you can try and get some resources into upset as Mewen should
Harvey's worst time into Yunari here in this top lane. He's very good at just
pairing at the lead as it comes through. Kanane Kwanakwana looks very tithe, they
demonstrate time first.
20 years of timing of Dominus being down, but that's up in eight seconds.
If Mewen delays, which he will be able to with the wave coming in, Mewen will have that health
stacking and ability to survive. Looking for the Wainvang to get the
half-edge feed. The circle comes out there to flash Mewen, close to Dominus
when it's there. Okay, the Minimai being straight about, Razzog almost
tanks too far for the wild growth helps upset get the shutdown well meanwhile the
dive in the bottom side that's the exact same thing killer however goes over to
the jungler as JoJo we go back to his camera on the fighting shifting sand
popped away between worlds but ended JoJo's hand
flashed away from the two-fold hex. JoJo is beautiful today again. Two solo
kills against Vladdy in this mid lane and this was a counter pick that was
up to the end to Razork the tip of the spear just a bit shy
Honestly, this mid lane is blowing open the game for M coiler.
It's tip for top on the side lanes.
But again, Jojo making the difference.
He's 1900 gold up.
He is almost no, he's 50 CS up.
I was gonna say almost, but he is absolutely there now.
As you see.
And bloody is struggling.
And it's so many times we move the camera there.
We see the twofold.
This is the combo from Aurora. Jojo sidestepping or just then flushing out of the way.
He's out playing Vladdy and a brilliant start of the split for an already aggressive midlaner
that we knew was so comfortable in our league as Vladdy getting bullied out by yet another
matchup this time in his Super. As he holds on to the big one to threaten this,
Mewin is going to get dove again, but guess what? Dominus up again.
There's the wave to clear on out as Upset wants a bit more gold, but the wave is
Way too thin.
We just turn back and look towards the end of the step
because there's the turret going down
and the FreeK gold is the first turret blood going over there in Koi.
The orange is back in the way, he's like,
look, we're ridden out of elsewhere, I don't need to be here.
Now we have support though, go back in.
Hold on.
They're gonna go on in.
Remember, go on, this is there,
pop immediately onto Razzle, he's right in the circle
and now Gullio joins in.
This ain't the same play as Teleport's gonna commit
with maybe a little bit too late.
Bloody joins in but he doesn't have that between worlds.
Upset went into two people
And I don't know what Fnatic are doing, but Amcoy love it!
A triple over the man win as the clock cleans up
and Amcoy slam down a 5k gold lead.
Amcoy are punishing Fnatic every step of the way.
This is the early game we expected from a top three team in the LEC.
They are delivering right now.
The top laner with 1,300 gold all of a sudden
And while you think it can't get any worse, JoJo is solo-getting top turret.
It's...
It's not looking pretty pro for that.
If you try to go in, it's a good ult from Alvaro that keeps upset at bay.
You know, Yoya having ult on him means he's ult on him to be able to join in.
And as he flashes over the wall, Super waiting in the pit for Upset to overextend.
Upset flashing for it, hoping he can get the kill.
But the Triforce spike from Super immediately finishes them off.
And it's only two more to follow after.
I think, yeah.
Yeah, they know this game's a little bit cooked, but you know I gotta pull it back
I was wondering why upset jumped in but you're like he was over the wall not on vision
This is super and then he pops over after upset things he can get the kill
I think look at this stage you kind of know this game is out of control. Yeah, and it's upset in that position
It's like this is kind of on me. Maybe I can get a couple of kills and that could snow Bobby into position
I can hold the game and
Unfortunately, it's a risk that doesn't pay off because Super was there, but I think it's a risk that you have to take as a player in that situation.
Yeah.
So, granted, you know, I'm too close to getting him into the kill, getting some gold, and he has to be the one who's being the strongest out of Panache in this game,
but now the game's running away from him. They get the hell. It's a nice little addition,
but those dragons are starting to stack up for employees. The side lanes are starting to fall down as JoJo is getting solo gold on these turrets.
He was the one who started it all for Emcoy, but now the map's burning.
He's turret after turret that Emcoy are getting a free siege on.
Loss for get autoed three times and he's at a half HP.
Because JoJo is level 13 now with a protobelt in his inventory as well.
Emcoy just got to stand up up to his tower.
I'm pretty sure it should fall.
Supercaps.
I mean it's just a case of do they just connect with the top lane and say it's fanatic.
Fnatic, promising so much odiness.
That looks like I've got a face check, guys.
Here comes the Crescent Guard, but Elioia blocking out
at the time being that shield is out.
But now the Crescent Guard's down,
right off the flush, the Wave off JoJo sends a scion
into the team.
Super will pick up that one.
JoJo's now ult-less, but he can't just auto down.
Uptik gets a return kill, which,
when you're this far behind, trading even ain't bad.
But remember, it is Fnatic who wanted to face check
and take that play.
They do end up covering the terror, though,
And it's a one for one.
And honestly, for Fanatic, it's not the end of the world.
I think the pathing from Al-Yoyah
giving Upset that opportunity to turn around.
And again, like, it's two items on twice this Unara
with the Lulu with the item sensor.
This is a pretty strong Unara.
You can see when Upset has time to open up,
have to work.
The problem is, is that he's only barely matching
all the other items, or two items spikes
that are coming through on Emcoy.
It's gonna be that and then some I mean Joe just went back for a needlessly large rod
So
there's that
Me when probably gonna be sterak second maybe a shogun. Let's see half power source is feeling me today, but I
Mean brilliant early and all round. I think and go ahead. This is more performance. We want to see and
It granted yesterday. I think we saw some pretty good early game. I would say that this so far feels like
The level of play we should see consistently from as you said top quarter should be a top three team in their prime
That's that's I look at em play as our top three. Yeah, like I think it's very clear that they belong in that conversation and
Their regular season and versus wasn't the best
But still they show that they belong to that top three spot when we got to my playoffs
And you expect them to continue that and as you say a
A game like this fills you with a lot more confidence for Enkoi.
Because sure there's mistakes from Fnatic, but it has been Enkoi taking those mistakes
and immediately taking towers, constantly keeping up the pressure, finding good reset
timers, playing off the multiple lanes, and now as you look at Razor trying to make play
top, Enkoi starts to put pressure on towards the mid lane turrets, so Razor casts the
back away from Miro.
You know, something that Shock said in our story, meaning that like, you know,
I was remembering we were comparing players and I think in the past we've said like, you know
Callis can be like Jackie love the super can be like Jackie love
I very much see super like Jackie love in crime, okay?
Where the peak is outrageous sometimes you can be a little bit of an inter but that's fine your Jackie love, you know
That's the way super's like that overstepping on a midway. That's Jackie love. Is he caught out?
Yes flashes away. I've got a ruin flows him down. Barry is there the old team. That's Jackie love
But the rest of the team is gonna better put off and start away into 3-0 between Walsh and Flady. Runs him into the rest of Enkwai.
That wasn't good at all. And Minwen maybe liked to shy. He's found an angle.
He found a good one at that and take the pass going to get back over for the rest of Enkwai, clean it on up.
You know what? Super, if you're watching this, I think you'll like Jack, you love. Walsh was gonna run back.
A double kill already given over to Jojo where the rest fall.
And the funniest thing is
the timing could not be more perfect and superdice but the rest of the team will
carry it on. Thank God he has Prime Rookie in his mid lane. Otherwise that would have been an
afternoon disaster. Well they get the kill of the Terror, they get the mid lane tier two
and MCoy come away with a couple of scratches but still stand it over for that
He really does feel like the perfect guy.
Yeah, we're watching Game of Jax.
Sorry, Super.
Super completely cut out as he had no right to be there.
Good pick from Fanatic.
As he said, M-Coys just way too far ahead.
And it's very slight as the fight is in.
It actually is 500 kill that he picks up in the LSE off of this lane.
This one's out. Set things up.
But without him and JoJo, this would have been a very different story.
There he is. So that was the 500th right there.
500th one right there.
Big kill. Congratulations, Mewen.
Really a cornerstone off the top lane.
Stop it.
We're a bit delayed.
I'm talking about Mewen now. JoJo point is crazy.
This has been one of the best additions to LEC watching channel.
Oh yeah.
You know?
I know you are a chat aficionado.
I see you with a touch.
I do like...
Oh, I...
Cause I'm an worker.
I just kinda sit there and then I just spot the stairs costs.
Oh, you know all the emotes, xgg, xgg.
Emotes are the best thing ever.
I'm such a visual degenerate.
You know?
I gotta have my mix of emotes and crap.
Maybe that's the response which is good.
By the way, here we go, it's the Black Curls out from the depths.
Almost dead, he's in crosses.
And out he comes here to recover the play, but 7,000.
And a dragon already taking this whole point to M-Coy.
This game is in the dirt, the fanatic.
I feel like the way they come back down
to some kind of a miracle play where Upset gets to play the game
with this 1,200 gold lead and this third item.
But Upset, uptime, is what you want to see.
And making sure that Cho'Gestet or Mewen
can't get anything with you and Malfoy
the same way. Obsess going to be tasked. And he has to play on a knife's edge if he's going to do so,
which can very quickly end up an egg on your face when you've got JoJo with three items. Super,
they're to rock up towards a third. And so much CC, that's point and click that can come your way.
Obsess has to play on a knife's edge. But with a 7.5k gold lead, it just feels like it's
again similar to the silver game where he has played well and has gotten these leads,
But a team is not second to none.
I thought knocked out, out right there.
Okay. Hey, up there, he's got a shutdown on an army.
Can we take those?
They do take those. There's 2,000 gold.
Fanatic fans, really. There's a couple of fanatic fans there.
They're kind of like, I don't know.
Wait.
A questionable question mark.
I don't know.
It's where the armors go out and you kind of like,
is this an old place?
You hear the soul of the cheer sardine as well. Okay. Well
How do you think? Oh
We will slice the guys matches. Oh, he takes the other one bloody
Interesting yet fair enough over there. I'm close run little buddy run super so in the way as well teleport up
He's out. He's out by the way. Yeah, he's gone. Nice. You know, that's a big win
How this game's going that's a huge win. I don't know if you take those
Well you have to because if bloody dies that's baron stuff. Yeah, but pretty flash and TP for redacted ult and do
Don't forget ult. Yeah, 5-0's as well. No, I meant bloody ult. Yeah, that's gone too. And Dominus, that's a 40-second cooldown
So
We take the ult. We take the ult. We do take this
it's a strange day. You know, best of three, very easy to cook brains. Our brains particularly.
Yeah. I think the nine game day is all that we could be we could be on six game day. This
we were talking about last night. This reminds me of LPL. Yeah. As the talk's going to go down,
guys, we are just waiting for this big play that happened in front of Drake or Barron.
For now, like, Encore has full grown in the map. This reminds me of LPL because you and I,
In 2020, Houston did back-to-back days, it was triple best of five, no triple best of three,
or best of five.
I mean, it was Alchemist.
I mean, Alchemist.
I mean, Alchemist.
And I think the boys are still under.
Oh my God.
Those were long days.
Yeah.
Like, I do like it because I feel like you get a read on, like, the stories of teams
writing themselves, right?
Like, we could already write a novel about JoJo's performance yesterday and today.
Yeah, I would be mostly a love story.
It would be a love story.
Because I'm infatuated with the way this one plays.
Oh wait, are you in the love story?
No, I kinda look through the window,
long and lean, bitchy past,
I can play as Chris Jojo in public.
That's trespassing.
So it's Jojo's in the house with
wedding loves.
You know when it's like you get the person's movie,
and everyone's sitting at the dinner table,
and there's the person who's outside
walking through the rain that like
catches the window and they're just miserable inside.
That's me when I play here,
and I'm watching Jojo's here.
He said you're in the window looking in.
I thought of a horror movie like Screams or something.
You're out there in the mud.
Yeah.
I want you.
And Joe Joe just has to deal with it.
And look, I don't know who's in this love story.
It's not bloody.
Who's?
You're going to have to explain that before we get to the fight.
It's just Joe Joe being very good.
That's the end of it, mate.
Good story.
You know what, Rob?
I don't want to be rude, but I
I don't think you can go with the writing, if you want another job after this, I don't think writing is the direction.
I'm sorry I wasn't ready to concoct the Jojo Punezir love story.
Jojo Pune love story, just saga, five pages, five romps.
What was it from America's Trima?
And they did.
Um, here comes Mierwin.
Let's see if I happen.
Fnatic caught that time.
Flatter gonna set it up.
The weirding now to get poked out.
And look at this already.
So many members of Fnatic are living
in a health box inside of Fireprazor.
Has no choice but to pull the button in.
But Mierwin's written from the side.
Here's Jojo again.
He holds this.
He dies.
Fnatic have found a fight.
It's one for one though.
So now I'm set.
That's a set forward with Super.
He's still a big threat.
The problem I see is that Razork died giving away a smite and while Jojo might be a big
turkey, that dragon is free for Ankoi.
Look it is last but an offside holding hands hoping that they can try and get this one
going.
The Mikael's crucible was so good in that fight and that offside healing off, they
want to keep going.
Looper's playing it at edge but he has Valkyrie available, Teleport available, Mewen
joins in now with the TP shield.
M-Pros happy to tank it up with the dragon at 4k.
need upset the carrot fight once game dominant gets pulled out of the
polymer for the turning on impromptu super flushes away but improv is out
not out of harm's way the fight line from Neal and help me keep upset and
behavior then the sights and dice dominance shoes to get into the fight
upset on the back and he's dead hell yeah found the mark up the infernal
soul goes with it bloody running for the hell as well El Yoya charges them
down but even though it's messy even though finale find something over yet
jumping in, El Yoya on the bloody, he gets polymorphed which probably saves a lot of the mid laner.
As Super gets charred by Razor, he went in solo, Razor just dies though.
The corky late game with Infernal Soul is enough as we are going chaos' way, watching the back of this fight.
I mean, this was so well played by Upset Alonso and the Ultimus, as Miren goes in,
he's at Upset as ever to keep his uptimes and then as immediately you get the fashion from El Yoya.
It's the Mikaels that denies the sweep from JoJo with upset him to flash away that enabled this fight for Fanatic
But actually it's Miran's position at the start of this that makes it so difficult for Fanatic to play because you end up with
The Pyrrhus trying to buy space for the rest of Enkoi and throw it for that to get position in River
But it's actually just denying anyone of Fanatic getting through because of Miran pushing forward into that try brush
Okay, but we're back to a Baron and Fanatic, they had Russell die at the end of the play from Superb.
And so, there won't be another contest. Excuse me, there won't be another smile.
Baron goes down in Fennel Sol and Han. Do you think this is how it ends?
Do you think? You're not answering me, which means you're not sure.
I agree. I'm still trying to work on book titles here. I'm not going to...
Oh, yeah.
I've got nothing.
I thought JoJo big kiss by Robert Price.
That's a lie.
Yeah, I do think this game is going to end very soon though.
Like M-Coy, basically waiting for JoJo to come out of base.
The step up we made, the poke is exceptionally good.
You've got bar and you've got the dragon soul,
so your poke underneath these terrors is exceptionally good.
and Velatiko basically tried to all in on this bot wave to deny the two waves crashing at the same time
and then they're going to shoot back across from there.
Obviously though they found Super, the last one there doesn't get hit, they're about to be out of the way,
Ampros goes engaged, he's in a choke and a coronal, but Alvaro at the front line
cries out thinking about an angle as Teleport's going to be revered and me when he stays on his right wing.
Well Jojo now that he's here, I mean now that he's firing away, Ampros goes to half HP,
but Amcoy, it's going to do their due diligence running in, never mind, Ampros sent over the wall.
JoJo, he went in deep for this, but I think he's fine.
Rassos can't do the damage, he can kill him down as he runs out of the ulti, M-GoE find a double,
and El Yoyea has to do the G8 and run into the half set.
And even though half set will probably burn this G8, eventually, how can he kill the rest?
Ah, quite a ruin. Gets him an half HP between rolls is good.
Super runs away. Never mind. I was long on the half set.
Wurzer's Predator!
Now, and he's gonna do it, and so is JoJo as Fnatic, has to run away.
But it took a clock at all wanting it upset to stop any chance of comeback for Fnatic.
Is M.Coy going to be on the next first in the series?
And Neewen, JoJo, good fights that lead to the success and a good love story for JoJo to open up the series.
I mean, clean from M.Coy, using the fact that JoJo got such a good lead in the mid lane.
But it's kind of heartbreak for Upset, to be honest, because if it just wasn't such a big lead, I think he could have been able to carry this one.
as well if this was a more even game that'd be harder to, harder to hit, but we're going to throw it over to
Kengis and JoJo who we're going to discuss if Canada is part of Europe or America.
All right, I guess we're starting with that question JoJo. Is Canada part of Europe or America?
What are your thoughts? I think you're the only one that can speak on this right now.
I mean I'll say it's half-half, it depends because Canada is pretty big right so
I'd say where I'm from it's like, I'd say half-half.
Half-half? Okay, all right, so you're claiming it now. You've been in Europe for a while and
And you are running the league.
We heard just earlier eight solo kills in the last four games.
That is crazy impressive.
Two of those were from today.
So where's this magic coming from early on in the split?
I mean, I think I'm just really locked in the split.
So my goal is to win the whole thing
and to do well in MSI.
So I think we have to look into the team.
And I see the potential.
All right, well, so first I'm
getting to chat with you since the disappointing loss
yesterday.
Starting off well here, what are you focused on
to make sure that you can get to that level?
down to G2 is the case he is.
I mean, I think we just have to play our own game
and not be scared of anything.
And I think just put in the effort to be honest,
we have to be more disciplined as a team for sure.
I think we're lacking a lot of discipline.
So I think that's the most important thing.
And I think if we have that, we put in our all.
I think it'll be a freelance bonus.
All right, cool.
I'll let you go prep with the rest of the team.
Get ready for game two.
Put it back to Shaxx and Odo.
Thank you, I hope.
It's interesting because he is talking about discipline.
And I think we can definitely, definitely
see that in some of the games in the past that they may have thrown they also
had that famous patience, paciencia meme last year it wasn't a meme it was really
important for them right so as someone who's also kind of a part of the coaching
staff of another team to hear that still is it not getting a little late to
hear that again how is discipline still an issue and I it feels bad
bringing this up because they literally you know I mean it's one of those
things where you go two steps forward one step backwards all the
time the more you focus on one thing the more you forget the other things you know
so it does make sense that a team like you know M.Coy because they evolved so
much through our time and now I feel like they're always like you know changing
into a different identity it makes sense that it's always down to going back
to discipline because that's the thing that holds everything together but at
the same time he is spearheading a crazy offensive for M.Coy because as you
said seven eight solo kills whatever it was in the last four games I was in
Jojo this locked in an extremely long time.
No, it's incredible.
And I also just want to sing the praises of Emcoy as a whole.
You know, we talked about the things
that were surrounding the team in terms of the pressure that
is put on them also publicly through their coaching staff.
You have to wonder, is it working?
Because this game one is a statement.
This was a much more disciplined Emcoy.
They weren't getting that lead
and then throwing it like we've
been seeing them do in the past.
Instead it was, no, we get the lead.
And you know, they were so good for aggressive plays.
It's not like they're playing scared with a lead, but they are playing a little more reserved
and not necessarily giving these comeback angles.
For me, what was the most impressive was that when you think of M-CoY, you would always
think about the fact that they would always try to get to grasp a little bit more than
they needed.
It always felt like when they're getting leads, they get a little bit overzealous.
They could take a little bit more risky fights.
While this M-CoY that we saw at this game was all about JoJo, it felt like,
okay, everyone just relax, lean back a little bit, JoJo's having a good game.
Let's just, you know, let's empower him.
facilitated so that he becomes as strong as possible and just make the game super
simple, play through JoJo and we're gonna have a good game. Let's look a little bit
at his lane and everything he did because he has been doing this four games
straight now right? What makes his laning phase so good? Well listen, this matchup
Azir is not the lane champion, Azir sucks because yesterday for example when
we looked at JoJo he was the one punishing the Azir right? Yeah. It's just
speaks, you know, it's a great statement to how good he actually is
because when you look at champions like Azir that are so weak in the
He faced that means you just have a lot less tools to win the lane with but him despite all of that
He's still probably making this performance happen versus the biggest lane boolean the mid lane in the Aurora
Yeah, that flash is clean right there
It the matchup was impressive and that was what I said going into the matches like if bloody can control Jojo
Fnatic have a shot. Glad he did not control Jojo. That was out of his control very much
No, absolutely not. We saw a couple of other fights as well
I want to take a look just because it also has a coach cam after it from the side of fanatic after we get out of that play
Because there wasn't much for them to do definitely not in this gourmish
Yeah, this one way is hard because it from the point of view is that the the game is falling out of your hands
Yeah, get a little bit desperate
You need to hope that you go for these sorts of outplays but regardless in this situation
They weren't really a lot of tools because you know there's mid prior
There's an ecton global there's a lot of things that are going wrong
And at the same time when you feel this pressure that you know
with the Aurora is falling more and more and more behind the get-out skill.
Yeah, I think that's all the fanatic fans out there when they start that game.
Wait, where's yours? You also should be doing this.
Yeah, I was doing it a lot and I'm doing it internally.
He's keeping a brave face.
The patience from Super there to like kind of fade out, upset, and then Valkyrie over,
and it's a tough position because the fanatic obviously, it's a good play if there's not a Pantheon.
You can't just change the numbers in a way that it's harder to account for when you're going for those fast plays in the enemy jungle.
Can we talk about how frustrating these games have been for Upset?
Because like, I think the guy had...
Yeah, he's not really good in all of these games.
He had like a 5k lead over his lane opponent just yesterday.
But if the team can't help you, then you're really just doing it by yourself.
And even in this game, lost by him, we're trying to make it happen.
Okay, listen. On the flip side...
Yeah.
When the whole team goes for the bow strat, where you feed the enemies for them to have bounties, for them upset to collect those bounties and need 4k gold,
that's a little bit fraudulent, right? That's not good, he's doing 5k late, but he's also abusing the systems a little bit too much.
We need to see a lot more from the early game, because as you said, upset and lost, they have risen up.
The early lane phase are looking a little bit more consistent than clean.
Yeah, and I also did like the difference from yesterday to today.
upset was able to get the gold lead but we still see the 70s were sometimes he's
not walking up and getting as many autos as he could and really pushing the
limits of the 80 carry champions he's playing this game he was pushing the
limits like he was actually really trying his best to DPS as you know we
see you know jumping over the wall and then gets punished by super and then
the last base defense like he he kind of almost brought it back for them
too many problems on the rift for fanatic currently it seems like right
because top can't be stable jungle isn't working the way it's supposed to mid is just getting
astral gapped yeah there's boss who's like we're doing okay guys you're the best there's more than
you know adc in in every team you know even in solo queue it's it's back to the basics you know if
you're jungling in the middle you're not doing well especially the middle I feel like jungle was
kind of like you know whatever the series yeah it wasn't really like an issue like yesterday but
mid mid is always the play when you have someone like jojo the other side you really
you need to ask Fnatic to shut him down because individually he's putting out great numbers.
So you need to kind of just not be, how to say it, not be AFK, you need to kind of break
the mold.
Not be AFK.
Yeah, it could have been.
Yeah.
Bring a fire extinguisher.
You're just saying he's on fire.
Yeah, AFK.
I mean, okay, we have a different word.
Usually we say just don't be an NPC, you know, where you're just like sitting there
and just like doing your patting and stuff.
Like Fnatic the only way I feel that they can find a way to win when JoJo is putting
up such great performances is, you know, you need to skip some camps, you need
to make sacrifices.
to break this whole ebb and flow of mid lane, where JoJo keeps getting massive leads from.
100% agree, because JoJo didn't need All-Yoya to do that.
Exactly, so if that's going to happen, then I think Razzard has to play bodyguard a bit,
just to make sure the mid lane doesn't fall apart.
No, I think that's a great point, and that's hopefully what they'll be focusing on,
going into this next game, or it'll be two straight losses for Fnatic at the start of the string split,
or will it be the very first victory of Emcoy here in spring.
We'll find out when we come back.
Carrier is bloody, he's in danger and he said that the twin roles needs to be used now!
But JoJo hits in midair and solo kills, teleports out and styles on bloody.
44, rotate in...
So I have the...
in 18, in 3?
Ah, I'm gonna start, rotate.
Rotate.
And rotate.
You have this kind of finish, or something?
Thank you.
Thank you, you're welcome.
You clear them, you clear them. I'm gonna do it.
What's wrong with me today?
I think you should have a break.
Have a break.
Have a Kit Kat.
Because I'm the cushion
Mmm, I don't even want to duck, duck
Oh, I'm...
Whoops!
One down.
Woo!
Red Bull gives you wings.
Wait, is he switching lanes?
I
Got time for a show show my your out play go and check the replay dubs like all day boy
You better know know that it might be just a little hyphy
Tronic all about these watches go games are straight fine every team fight coming down to the lot the whole world
Try and just to look like us take a look at Julie
Would you play like us?
And a talent for reality you're facing in tragedy
When the European like us you can pluck them down your path
And be those feelings of anxiety
In the future you do want to see the wrath of our whole dynasty
Spells at least
This could be the final chance
Our last dance
Together
This could be the final chance
Our last dance
Are you ready?
Come on, dance with me
With the LEC
Come on, dance with me
Let yourself be free
Come on, dance with me
With the LEC
Come on, dance with me
To that Pepe D
Talk that good shit
Will you bet a bet, though?
If you want the uphill
Sorry, that's just not enough
Cause we got every team fighting
Playing flashbox when they clash you
And never last less than a hundred
A game if you want to claim fame, that'd be your main aim
Now you're in the right lane
Show up or shut up, no time for excuses
Can't take a serious, you're probably just useless
You want a shot of us, you can come get it
If you're just talking, then you can forget it
We're gonna blow up, we're on the rise
E, euphoria, this is the vibe
We wear the clown nose and we wear the crown
Kids of the West, you know we hold it down
LIFE
This could be the final chance
Our last dance
Together
This could be the final chance, I laugh, dance.
Are you ready?
Come on, dance with me, let me at least sing.
Come on, dance with me, let yourself be free.
Come on, dance with me, let me at least sing.
Come on, dance with me, do that that they do.
We've come a long way since the beginning.
The dark days of double streams, vacation means, now charged up and charging forward.
Chancellor Emcoy to fix what was yesterday against Navi now here against Fnatic after
a very brilliant game number one on the Saracen Stagga and it is pretty easy to say that that
game one was pretty easy to play. I mean you got several solo kills for JoJo, it looked
like it was just clean, easy win space for Enkoi. Oh yeah. And Fnatic just looked lost,
over committing to so many different plays hoping that it would bring them back from
the brink. But in the end it led to their own destruction. So coming into game number
two, I want to see composure from Fnatic. I want to see them find a good matchup
in the mid lane so then Vlad isn't kind of just getting blown out of the water
immediately and then being able to play a much slower game where you can try and
play through upset because upset last game if it wasn't so far gone upset would
have carried that and then that could have been a massive turn around for
fanatic but that man on your screen and got gapped by JoJo it was a really hard
early game and the Aurora matchup you know was chosen into we saw an
earlier zeered that and so all the options in the world to play against
I mean, it should be a good matchup.
It should be, but it feels more like the player was a big case in that game.
Yeah, it definitely felt more like a player different that one.
So, I'll come into game number two, and we'll see what the difference is going to be.
Loose side, but first pick on Fnatic on the red there.
So, the first question we're going to ask.
Two mages down, yes, but then we've got Jarvan, we've got Varus, the stand and stuff off the board.
Jungle's always in contention because especially since Jarvan's banned all the time,
We're gonna be like well, and it's by first it's gonna be the first thing you need that's in my baby
Yeah
The other options are like things like the rumble that you could try and lock in the top plate
That could end up working out right so be okay
Well, yeah, I think you're definitely starting to see a lot of those power picks taken away by probably the pick yeah
by all
I mean, with Seraphine gone, Ash's priority goes down a bit there.
Because the other option is to go for...
If they take Vibe, you go rumble Wukong on the next rotations,
and then you can try and lock in pretty much any order,
kind of lady carry in the bottom side,
or even if you want to take the Taliyah for yourself in the mid lane as well,
which Joe Joe has been pretty good on.
I think you set up there for a very strong topside,
and for the left side, that is going to be the case here.
I would argue that Joe's Taliyah is pretty good, rumble you set as well,
good zone control already.
pairings with it, it's not going to be Rengar. I mean, look, you proved me wrong, but it's not going to be Rengar.
But maybe something strong for all of you that has a bit of engage.
We've already seen things like Sejuani today against Vi. I'm trying to think, Dagda, like, what hits the hardest?
Yeah. Nocturne hits the hardest, apparently. But that's no Orianna.
Yeah. Which is why I was surprised. Like, I think Rookong is undervalued in LEC a little bit
because I think you can be very strong, especially for every rumble.
And also into the Vi, because you can basically dive in and preemptively disengage,
essentially from the Vi or prevent any follow-up from the Vi.
And especially with the rumble, you actually just get a ton of value,
where you can force enemy teams back and then deal with the Vi themselves.
And now with this Vi-Ari combo, that's a very potent mid lane.
And I feel like for JoJo, you're probably going to have to play something a little bit...
with at least some mobility to try to avoid this lockdown
that can come from the fanatic nature because I would start thinking about the
syndrome right but then the problem is that you're like a sitting duck for
Ari's for 5s further to your point the synergy is not there because you don't
have the Orianna the big question here if Jojo gets his mid laner now or if they
just get something like a priority 80 carry but Cassandra gets locked in so
a neutralizing top lane here for Emberos could be a silo cycle though
honestly the only thing is like Nocturne is gonna be completely on as
long as I'm trying to dive through the backline so maybe that could be it
the whole of Sandra did get buffed.
It was all hope for yesterday.
I'm pretty sure for MQA as well.
We've been waiting for this for a day.
Well, I mean, it's only been a day,
but we have been waiting for this for the weekend.
As you said, the patches buffed her.
She's a good option.
And she's locked in, neutralizing
mid lane, good AOE, and production very happy
that we prepared a graphic for this.
I mean, shadow to Fiddler on the production.
He really wanted to put this one through,
as he really thought this was a strong pick.
and looks like JoJo, if you want to agree with him here,
this is a very strong mid-jungle now.
And something that we kind of talked about
has the ability to disengage from some of that follow-up
which is crucial in a matchup like this.
Well, I'm curious about pairings now with it as well
because Alessandra creates a lot of space,
maybe we get some hypercarries or with dive taken out
of the way, maybe thinking about something
that can self-sustain.
Zaya is a really good band by fanatic,
thinking about one thing that could stop
this Viari jumping in.
Yeah I think it's also just the anything that as you say like an Ezreal may
actually be the last ban here as well just disengage from this from the dive
very strong but it does mean that's yeah I'm trying to run through maybe it's
just like a Caitlyn angle then for super and Alvaro see if they can play heavily
through this bottom side. What other mobile AD carry with this Ezreal
bang group or do you need mobility Ryzen AD carry against this
You said Caitlyn, I'm thinking about things like Zyra, Rakan has not been there.
Zyra, sorry, already picked up.
Niko gets picked up for lane presence, but now a mystery is the AD carry.
I'm catching myself on that Zyra because we are just going down the rabbit hole of AD
carries for game 2.
Yeah, I'm really starting to kneel up.
Why not?
Because she's not really good at the moment.
But yeah, I think maybe Jin actually could potentially be something here that you look outside Jin just taken the opposite side first and
Yeah, I mean Caitlyn is the one that in my head
I kind of look towards because you do have range and you try to play back a little bit
The other one could maybe be something like a Zerri if you really wanted to but you tend not to see her until like you're really in a pinch
It doesn't really work with the Niko. But Viaghan Zerri's always been such a good option like a point in clicking Zerri gets stuck. Yeah, true, yeah
I like the option that because you're right. What do we have miss fortune does have to set up here?
So em Koi. Yeah, I mean look that has a bit of range
There's no mobility here, and there's no protection in the form of an enchant of a super
So he has to play perfect otherwise the range plus the dive point and click is gonna take him out
Yeah, I think it's kind of on em Koi to look at Joe you and say right you have the tools to try and keep so many of
remember safe here. Yeah. It's gonna be on you like you could ult the violin she goes in ult the
Ari after she goes in as well trying deny this immediate follow-up onto super. And as long as you
can protect super in the later parts of the game I think you're in a good spot. And but also you
have the ability to fish for picks and make plays which is absolutely great for MQI especially
after game number one where that became such a strong portion of their game. Well stand up for
Fnatic, but for M.Coy, how they position runs it.
It's a good conversation as we go into this next game.
Remembering that M.Coy, they need to swing desperately.
And yes, it's only the start of the split,
but they go to game three here.
And by chance, risk losing another series,
it would be starting zero and two.
Fnatic on the edge of starting zero and two
as well here at the start of LEC spring.
And it's only been two days,
but again, the schedule was built like this
because G2's not here yet.
They just did so much damage at first stand.
They need some time to recover here in the first week.
So you are playing more games than you'd expect.
And this one being an important one
as we get into game number two,
is the chance for thematic to upset
and take us the distance.
We have drawn the game three.
Every other game, rather theory so far.
So why would we stop now?
As we get the debut of Alessandra in 2026 spring,
noting that the last Asandre was Mickey X in 2023 season finals as a support.
So it has been a while.
It's been three years as thank you so much.
Yes, we're going to get to that.
That's ruining it.
But the little Asandre pick is nice, especially versus Assassin's.
Yeah, I think for.
What are you going to say, Dagmin?
I think it's a.
I mean, I'm sorry for you, Dinky.
It's bloody empty to offer it.
You know, there's going to be ultra-counts now as he's started with an Invade, by the way.
Now, Yoya is already going to some other lethal tempo.
Rather conqueror, Razorg has to flash away.
Getting started with an Invade, but El Yoya, what an opening act in front of a raptor.
Especially the fact he got all of them.
He's an absolute mess for Razorg.
So loses flash, loses most health bar.
Should still be able to clear decently through this bottom side.
But it's going to be a full take from Aljulia on this top half of the map and leave Razorok with very little to really be able to do that.
Oh man this is a haul right here. Razorok still without his first cat and his social path sets up into the eyeshots from JoJo.
Already a pretty good trade here is it is Comet on the LaSandra for JoJo, not Electrocute but still regardless, good poke here is this is why we're seeing the LaSandra.
That Q, that cooldown, buffed by a second and doing pretty well in Master's plus and minus.
Yeah, and I think especially into the area that did get nerfed on her pass through, raised on this patch as well,
like you can trade very effectively. I think that's what JoJo's doing, just staying in the phase trying to use that shorter cooldown and super steps up.
Jumping in the melee range, pretty dangerous on Super, but on the last part it's about the long console, the long play.
is with Calibram with a bit of Severum he'll get some healing. The trade seems to be actually
kind of in fanatics favor. Oh but Razor, I thought he might immediately go bot lane.
The reset going to come through. Oh it's not. I say reset for Super on the bottom side
though it means that he's out. It's Alvaro. He's not. Fetely Flourish misses the charm,
rather the hook and Lossberg gets a flush out of him but we're waiting for another
dredge line as Alvaro up Naxx range here but Razor gets over the wall. Alvaro
with the long chases.
Vladdy can't really join in yet.
Deadly flies, doesn't damage.
Tangle barbs out as well.
Wasting time is Alvaro, which means
they ain't gonna be an invade,
but there is gonna be a kill
with first spot over the Razor.
It took a while, but they finally managed
to pick off Alvaro.
And a nice play from Razor.
And I think a bit of a mistake from the bottom lane.
Like, El Yoya had a massive lead
thanks to that early invade.
And as long as he don't give over something
to Razor, who was essentially homeless,
it all works out.
But because Razork had to be on the bottom side of the map, you kind of should have expected him to try and make some sort of play towards the bottom lane.
Because that gets him back in the game. Razork's now in kill after this and El Yoya, he's going for the repeat gank, but there is a smite here for Razork.
A ward there, a steal, no. It goes to El Yoya, but now again with the V, you've got a one to hang on Razork.
How are you going to survive this? Thanks to Bloody, he will, but losing Ratchet again is another big win.
his deadly flash after the setup of the hook. Super's in trouble, Super's about to die, and
Super needs another auto to stay alive. He'll run out with his flash now burned, but Super
again getting low. Upset and Lusper doing well in this lane.
Upset and Lusper trying to make sure that they can get off to an early lead here
against the Amcoy bottom lane. And again, like, it's Razor who is struggling. It felt
like Deja Vu off the invade. Now all you're going to clear out is topside. But if
Woops, and last but not least, he continued to put pressure on for a super.
That consistent DPS is going to be missing from Emcoy.
And again, the range that we're going to worry because super doesn't have any protection here outside of CC.
It's not like you're playing an Enchanter game where you want to sit on your laurel,
sit in the backside of the flight, and just chill.
It's a dangerous game for super to play as.
The place your path gets JoJo out after using the ice shot to clear the wave
and get the push up for a good back time in here.
I will be curious, got to go on the build path of JoJo Pune.
I mean last time we had Losandra, it was like Hextech GLP, no what was it?
When we had it in mid, yeah I feel like, yeah I mean it's, I mean that's a long time ago,
both of them. I mean I've seen Hextech Protobelt in some cases to try and clear it,
and to help close the gap, I've seen Malignance as well as something that you can go for,
which I think is the build here that JoJo's going for, just to try and help that on
having that cooldown in the ultimate as often as possible.
I'm seeing a lot of pro-Belt-Belt-Belt-Belt-Belt here as well, Black Fire, Torch also an option,
but it always ends up in like, Azonius' second or third, with Paisie instead of Latham-Python,
and then maybe just a Q-A-P with Rathorn, so...
But Azonius is so core to her kiss, just with the ability to buy so much time,
so you eat it aggressively, you immediately use the W, the Ring of Frost,
which then locks up people, and then you can ult yourself,
which then gives you a two and a half second immunity,
then you get off another round of spells, and especially with the shorter Q cooldown,
You can very easy to get that off and then you can zonias which then just buys
You know the good some seven or eight seconds that you're in a face and where people cannot move past you and that can be defining
Especially for an eddy curry like an aphelios that can very quickly dispatch some of this frontline on
You're just an annoying killer in the way right and let's not forget that ulti that healing when you're lower health
It gets you right up to an acceptable range as we have a pause
So we're gonna chill out. It's already been a long night work. Can't we just sit for another minute?
It's not that bad. It's only nine o'clock. It's only nine o'clock, but the okay
Here's what happened yesterday, right? You and I rocked up here like what midday and then we were here till seven
I think because yesterday was triple-bass of three
I mean, I think it was close to eight. It's like ten p.m. by the time we got back
I don't know it was something like that
But tonight will probably be about ten o'clock by the time we leave here and
And then you and I can go for a magical car ride together and talk about life.
But are we already saying it backstage? Like it feels kind of like
reminiscent of the old LPL days. It does doesn't it? Yeah.
It kind of feels nostalgic in a way. And you know some people will probably like
guys you're not talking about the game enough but you got to forget.
We're in a pause. Well we are in a pause, yeah.
Now I was going to say you got to remember like if you watched LPL 2019-2020-2021
There were four of us and it was during COVID and we were stuck there like we were just chilling every day was League of Legends for us cuz
LPL ran seven days a week and I remember we were just in this tunnel of League of Legends
But then back then was some of the best League of Legends I ever played because I was just absorbed by it
You know, yeah, if you want to be good at something you just surround yourself with it
but I think that is kind of like
For the players as well like it has to be an obsession
And I think that's what makes you as good as you are for a lot of these players.
I think it's sick to see like, especially for players that have been around for such a long time, that they still have that, it's amazing.
Tangent, what do you think an environment issue is?
I mean, probably someone spilled something.
I'm just looking, there's no tissues on the stage.
We're going to find out, yeah, I've been told, yeah, we're just sorting things out.
Fnatic obviously initiated the pause and we will give you an update when we can
Could have been the light that you hear us with that toy that you threw. I've been told that
It's a potential network issue so we are sorting that out network equals environment. I'm into be fair
The internet is in the air, you know
Wi-Fi in the air you know when Wi-Fi came out
I'm sure there are a lot of people that are like, oh, that's toxic
You gotta get Wi-Fi away from it.
There's gotta be some people who thought Wi-Fi was dangerous.
Yeah.
And yeah.
I remember when I was younger, it was like,
if you had your phone beside you, it would cause health issues.
True.
Yeah.
We don't really know what we're doing half the time at tech.
I didn't think we know what we're doing.
Especially because I'm useless with this.
Like, I have a maze who just builds my PC all the time.
And then I'm just like, cool, the magical fairies
are moving inside us.
It works.
My PC's like that at the moment, where it just
decides to disconnect.
The screens turn off.
I mean, I built it.
That's probably the problem.
I built this PC and the screens turn off half the time.
The game, you know, like DC from a league game.
I probably can't play much League of Legends on it now
because I built it.
Look, at least you're giving it a solid try.
I mean, I saw Kangus' hotel set up earlier on.
It is a laptop and a dream.
Oh, wow.
League of Legends working.
See, some of the best games you can play.
It is fair.
Because if you have a good laptop that
can crack on with league. Laptops these days are pretty good. They're pretty strong.
I think we need to LAN party, man. We need to get on the LAN.
We haven't had a LAN party in ages. That's gone. That was the very early days with
old Warcraft and trying to think again. You say it as if it's old, you
Fade and Otto still play Warcraft. The old Warcraft plays with you as well.
We did for a bit, but those guys haven't invited me to anything for a while.
Odo, hate you.
But I don't know where he is, he's somewhere around the studio.
Odo's too busy.
I don't know what he does.
I don't know what that man does.
It is spare time.
He coachs fanatic.
I mean, that's one thing.
So he is borderline, you know, looking at maybe going down zero two.
Yeah, not a great place to be.
I mean to be fair you're saying that I think fanatic about a good start this game. They have had a good start
I mean they got the kill already and but do you think if fanatic loses do you think it's Otis fault 100% I
Think most of the problems in my life are Otis
Good not agree ball this network issue obviously. We're still waiting for it. It's not his fault
Yeah, I mean I saw him down there he kicked a cable probably I've been told we got one more minute
We're remaining and then after the restart we should be all good
It's nice today. Nice night. No, it's not for League in there.
I really missed, like, obviously we're losing our minds a bit, but I really missed.
I don't say we.
I'm losing my mind a bit.
We said it's reminiscent of LPL because, again, when you get back to back,
like, you get so involved in the game.
But some games, we're coming back to a very different draft.
But sometimes you get games that are like repetitive where it's like,
I feel like I've seen this before earlier in the day.
That was definitely yesterday.
but I am glad that we're getting different drafts to the point of like cracking out the
lasagna running a different nocturne comp, but then you look on the other side and you're like
well fanatica running r evi with the gin and casantes in the game again. I feel like I've
talked about casante today already but it's only once. Yeah, I mean it was the same in
versus you just had that rumble casante trade for every best of one. We kind of just made a
joke of it like oh it's the same thing every time and that's why it's still here you
I have a question for you. Do you think her name's not actually fly? It's actually just six
You think it's just Roman numerals and we've been calling it by the whole time
Oh, we have an entire TV show that tells you that's not
Maybe that's her name and we've actually been calling it by the whole time. It's actually six
It's in our cage. I didn't watch the second season yet. I didn't it tells you in the first
But the first season I got powder I got that out of that was new for me
Yeah, and then you just forgot about the vibe. Yeah, when do we have any more characters in the second season because I will watch it
It's just my wife hasn't committed to watching it with me
She said don't watch it without me and then it's been six months nine months. It's been a year
Yeah, I mean you should probably have a chat about it
But we have to go back to watching a different thing which is gonna be the game because we're back
Welcome back. Thank you for waiting internet is fixed remember it's in the air now
Mkoi, they found success early on and that was through El Yoya and if you need a bit of a catch-up
Jojo is doing pretty well in the lane after finding a small CS lead. I have actually found out that Jojo in his career
He's got four wins out of six
on his Los Andro and he actually played it in the 2023 LCS spring playoffs which ain't too far away from Mickey playing
in 2023 as well
Where are we after here?
He is deep.
Razork needs to get out and find a way home.
Click the heels together, say there's no place like home and you'll find a way as Razork,
just at the edge of the minion wave.
I think Razork is going to kill him.
Oh, Paranoia, oh it's a free kill.
Level 6 hit first, El Yoya just got to kill us.
Razork doesn't even waste any of his time.
500 gold lead, almost 60 CS.
I think jungle gap is happening again.
Yeah, like, El Yoye has very much put this early game on his back and said, I want to try and carry the early in base, getting a ton of success from him.
And obviously, Razor could be much further out of this game if it wasn't for that early kill, thanks to Zip and Alvaro kind of mismanaging that bottom lane.
But still, El Yoye at level 6 here, so it immediately goes on towards Razor.
Oh, flash, oh, hang on, Maywin maybe overstepped, Tarot drop taken by Ampros.
Even burns a flash. Okay. That's something that the H all the held onto
I think me when he uses it on the wife so that he can back off
That's a fresh miss by upset so not enter quite follow up on top rope
It's still I think this is where if you're like trading places on the markets upset a loss
But who set themselves up for a good success in this bottom lane
And it's a yoyo now with that early kill and the CS advantage
And it's hoping to maybe make a plan this bottom side
But again, I don't think he should have should have fully committed with the ultimus
And like I think Alvaro would have been able to maybe at least delay but help you get it to kill
Yeah, and then you would have had this ultimate now for a venture plan the bottom side where upset and lost by our pushing
Everyone comes in deadly flourish connects
We've got a full shot about three away for now that we're gonna be used curtain call upset hit level six first
Look for me. He says Alvaro helped me super running back our takes the last shot
But that bot lane is sent out of there for the only success right now for manic
You've also got Razorka on this bottom side of the map, so I'm wondering if they try and make a play immediately as this bot lane comes back to the bottom side.
The white group's arrow, which you'd imagine is going to be AoE's point of concern, but nah, it's just going to be the resets across the lane.
With Upset getting the push in, I mean, this is a 600 gold lead and then some as well, so this kind of mitigates the individual lead that AoE has found in the jungle.
Jungle. And then upset goes back to Red Dirt Cloth Armour. We got a little bit more on that
as Alvarez disguised as a minion. Vladdy pulls back, I mean, a bit obvious. Yeah, okay, especially
with the relic, very obvious. He's going to walk away, probably open up the Grubbs. He
dropped a water nail, yoyo. He's now up here to match as well.
Yeah, he just got to give it a shot, see if it works, especially with the resets
coming through. Yeah, he-
First time getting them this game. Yeah.
I do think he needs to make some sort of cross-muff play though at this stage is lost for one super
Shallow though rather the wrong direction razzle is reliving it to pot as well
Takes a heavy chunk, but out roast on the room trying to defend this side of the jungle razzle playing between it
See if you can find an angle maybe set up a dive and this is not from fanatic
They're looking for the one angle they can which is the immobile 80 carry put him down before the rest of em
gets after setting up with a frozen draw. I see it tomb in the making, waiting for it with a couple of eyes shards out.
Jojo won't pull the trigger of the ulti, but instead he sends Fladi packing again.
It kind of felt like both midlaners were trying to call the bluff there. Jojo didn't want to ult because if you
spirit rush, you still get the distance and then wouldn't be able to follow
effectively for Elioia, but Fladi kind of calling them and saying, I'm not going to use my spirit rush.
I don't think you're going to pull the trigger here. So kind of staring down each other and nothing ends up coming from us.
But Mewen may be an opportunity for Razor, control ward in the brush.
They know it's free, vault breaker in behind, in there to season as this.
Mewen, no flash of Adolphe's burn before Ambrose gets a slowdown with an Infoto strike.
And the all-out Mewen, bumped around for the kill to go over Ambrose and Jojo.
He's teleported in on Ambrose, the glacial path will get him out of dodge,
but now he's thinking, what can he do? Vault breaker.
Jojo caught up, still no frozen tomb until now.
Heals him up a little bit here and he's trying to get these ice shards in,
And I think you can win out the long play.
The Fanatic won't give him the opportunity.
They'll take the kill and walk away as a depth charge
on the server with a drags line as well.
But you've got two members in front of another.
Alvaro take the fourth shot.
Debtly Fires flashed away from him.
Spirits rush.
Flatties on the way in.
He's got flash, but the enemies are out of sight.
And Fanatic will walk away, still with the win in top.
And a bit more summoners in pod.
Both midlaners try to make plays on side lanes
that end up coming to Northean.
He says there's no real loss for Jojo
as he could have been away pushed into the mid lane, but still had to reset and doesn't
have that TP to play with.
And again we're just going to look at the top lane, it's just a decent gank here, mirroring
what's trying to get this lane clash for the puros, not letting it happen, they set
up with the big back and it's a late TP from JoJo because of how long this TP takes
to happen and he realises as soon as he gets in he just wants to take that natural
path immediately out and does get some decent damage but ends up nerdy hot going
down at the back of this.
He's a frozen turn, healing up quite nicely.
I think he was a santa fight.
He's got an alignments here as a starting item.
So very much about that old and the MR also will help me win.
Especially early on as I've got to say JoJo, the lane still looks great.
I mean, despite the fact that you didn't get anything top,
but the lane still looks really good.
Has Vladdy committed down for the assist.
Two games in a row now that that mid lane has been dipped
by M.Coy's.
But I think shifting Rikker to this dragon, though,
I don't know how heavily they want to come here.
So they've gone the entire way around Blue Bulls,
which maybe gives M.Coy no time to burn this down.
He has the ulti again, wait for the vaulting battery,
and I'm waiting for Razzle to get on him
for the spine steal and I pop off and instead Razzle can't move.
He won't get to play the fight.
The flexor bail your ears, the charlors can ache,
the flea in place, and JoJo drops down the ring of frost
and a thrall to pick up his first kill of this game.
M.Coy managing to burn the dragon down
and find the fight after the pop blossom from Alvaro doing work as now they set their sights on bot lane
Upsetting loss we should be safe
Hoping maybe they can get the damage up to terror
But again another play that for M. Koi kind of brings it back in I mean it's El Yoya's league that really is affecting this game
He has a 50 CS league over Razorkan even though top looks so successful
The harsh reality is that El Yoya is very very powerful doesn't it be all available and
I think if you look down the bottom, I'm not sure if you can spot about that ward that looked like it expired.
But he's going to wait in the brush and get a ball ass, no flash available, no paranoia.
We'll just wait and see if he overstepped.
There's a meanwhile Razzark spotted on the topside, getting topscout of crap.
So, I was turned off as fanatic, but a decent start to this game.
I know we went a bit rough for Razzark, but upset was in full control of the bottom side.
Not being able to turn that into success at the dragon bit of a mishap, but now Empro's mission for Mirvan
There's a good angle, but Mewen is close enough to his tower. It should be fine
Emporst decided to pick up a
Rookern
Steal of a guard that's gonna be able to survive Mewen. No problem there whatsoever
It's just for like Mewen super the side lanes have been
pretty weak off while JoJo's doing exceptionally well once again.
It's a minute for that Herald to see how this Lassandra functions, because Saga, I think the
best thing about Lassandra is early skirmishes and fights.
She is so easy to operate, especially if you're grouped up like Lassandra is a game changer,
if you can coordinate with the rest of your team.
It's also where early damage is pretty high.
She does spot off later on, but we need to point the kids here.
Lots of bar views, here we go.
Maybe you can just ulti in the middle of everyone, he gets charged into JoJo,
waiting it up, pop-boss him instead. But no, he didn't even use the ult, he didn't have one point,
but Fanatic winning the start of the fight. Upset, now getting his autos down, and El Goya's looking
for an escape path, but he's gonna be fooled by Vladi. Alvaro roots up, but Vladi gets himself
down, but still, Alvaro and his escape path will get a charm in right in the back of the
knack, and upset with a kill. Fanatic with a massive wipe in the early game.
Much needed gold into them as well. The fact that they're able to turn their play around
and get one back for themselves over their opponents is massive because this
was kind of certain look like Ben Koi getting the lead getting control of the
game but Fnatic able to fight back enough instead of replay because I'm so
confused by the particles waiting for Joe to do the over maybe he used it on
the last spot. He used it on last but just as he flashed so he gets the E in then
get the Ruse it's the knock up the buy top for last but there's the Oto. The
problem is that the Oto from Alvarez gets denied because of the C4
The decision rise or as a nice flash was super which actually gets more the rise or
At that stage fanatic and upset in the backline have dealt enough damage
And with so much invested on to both the jungler this course upset of bloody concert run a bit of muck
An upset as you said, you know oil again was already good
He's got 15 under gold lead. He had collect up BF sword comes in the mix after the six six steps for five
500 gold lead for M.Coy and it's dwindled from what it was.
Next dragon in a minute 30 and that would be the real test here for Fnatic to use some of the gold
they just picked up to stop this dragon stacking and find their way into a successful mid game.
You need to find some ways to try to keep up that same goal.
Waiting, Albori gets some damage down as well. Super self-sustened Calibur and
McRazzawks on the side. Season desist about 30 seconds from being up and available.
Don't do too much, but watch as El Yohe with Paranoia is chasing around now thinking about starting the hero.
It is played basically guarantees Enquoit this Red Terral though. Upset cannot try and play up because he'll just get ulted immediately by either El Yohe or JoJo.
And that is the game for Fnatic so instead they have to give up the Red Terral.
And at least that should give Morphoad in towards the likes of Super because he is the one obviously that's lacking quite a bit here.
here and you definitely want this a felios to be a major factor in the upcoming fight.
Harold goes over there as you said that'll guarantee mid if they can't get access to it
and we need some plates in either of these sidelines. Still about 50 cs lead from now Yoya.
Razlok has caught up a little bit here but that early game is burdening him so so much.
He's looking at item build to be meantime as well. Leandrus will pick up my new one
He's going to go back probably get himself a water blotting jewel.
He's going next, a stride breaker for El Yoya.
Thanks to item number two in a rather cheap build here for the Nocturne.
I'm noticing that JoJo looks like the Shadow Flame is coming second.
And then for JoJo a bit of extra damage here with some MR shred.
Seems to be a little sign of resurrection.
I got the... in a decent spot here.
You're waiting for JoJo with a flank position, but I just...
I think Fanatic should be able to take this before he gets into position.
She's good for a really good snake.
Dragon's sacking him.
As you said, no position, no dragon taken.
Fanatic on the board.
Harold's going to be used in mid.
The turret's definitely dying, as the charge should be instantaneous.
But Supper is not getting any lead of charge, so no damage taken.
Cruz going to mount her to the next question, as Harold turns around.
Can you get into bot lane?
Looks like he should be able to with the position here.
This is hard to dov, man.
Oh.
Hey, no shut up, yeah?
Oh boy.
Nah, he's died.
They're very quiet.
Well done.
Yeah, and this gives you two terrors up the back of that.
Crucially, the gold of the mint,
you give the super,
alleviate some of that gold leaves
that has been there for upset for a while.
I'm now getting the second terror.
No, it's less than a big relief.
Okay.
It's less than a big relief.
Okay.
We hope you got the cannon from there.
You did some damage with the arrow,
but JoJo got the cannon as...
And we'll just take it down.
Think it blasts go and use the socket trade
from bloody up in the top side.
We wait for it from near when...
I dodged that all the deception outside of the charm so it's a trade positive here for
Emcoy as they crest upon 2000 gold again.
Heroes overextending though, just know that you can't fight him here.
Do you think you can kill him?
I guess not.
I don't know.
He's shredded.
Slowed down, he's flipped back though and the damage is very slow.
Ring of Frost and there we go, there's the turn and I doubted the damage but El
Goya has enough as he stands his place and attacks.
Emcloid just making sure that they didn't give Emperos any action through that wall.
If Jojo tried to step a little bit closer, could have been altered through with put instead.
Just avoid us.
And Emcloid make a nice big con towards the bottom side.
Guess what? Gold over the hell you're here yet again.
This is Nocturne. You think he couldn't get it anymore fed?
He's still delivering on the demands of the Emcloid fans.
40 seconds still to burn, but Dragon's coming up in three.
And my biggest question in this game is now...
How do they stop the rolling, it's gonna say rolling thunder that is El Yoye and Jojo in some of these fights
Especially when we're talking about rumble in the mix as well. Too wide and seems so damn strong for him before he's gone
Through that top side of the map, but I do worry that the fact of the Ari and the Vi aren't big hitters
To add into the mix of fanatic. I mean, they're definitely a slouch, especially if they're going up against Zupa
I think you can kill Zupa and then hope this you can carry the rest of the fight through the last
Because I think if all the oil and super are gone you just have not enough to carry you through the rest of these fights
But that is a tall task because I think all the oil it dives on towards upset and makes his life absolutely miserable
Whereas upset is almost at the other side of the fight and it then is a case of Enquay trying to manage both diving
And protecting super at the same time, which can be a tall ask
But they've been doing it a relatively well over the last couple of years
I feel like super as well
We did talk about that guy being, you know, on top of the iceberg, but also bottom in very many senses.
But Super has such a high threshold for carry team fights. I mean, a lot of 80 carries in the blue, but, you know, Super can be quite dangerous in that regard.
Now, I'm yapping away. There's a lot going on the bottom side of the jungle. Well, you're always thinking about a steal. You know, it's blue bus up and available.
It's going to poke his little head in and see that, okay, Fnatico got two members here,
but I want this buff, I want to steal it away, I want to keep Razor down in the dirt, and
by a level he will.
He'll just walk on in, smite it down, blue buff's gone, he shares it with Alvaro, so
once again Razor doesn't really get much.
If Posh on this bottom side from Erinn as well, it means that they can continue
to get vision in towards this jungle if they want to.
Alvaro going to look for the reset though, so it looks like they're just happy at
the moment to back away from the net and 20 until that next dragon and with decent control
over the enemy jungle it becomes quite a difficult for fanatic to set up the fights in the manner
they want to. There's so many flank positions in this enemy jungle that a Sandra popping
over a wall, a Yoya using that ultimates just makes things very difficult for fanatic
if they can't establish themselves in river.
still there yeah now it's going that thing lasts like 10 seconds well if you
start at the back it's a war it's a 10 second war
you still cost nothing like that I mean Hawkshawch that's also that's the
original silly not costing anything all set it up season this is it's out low
though try to fight it out with a child so good enough pop awesome
Comes down the meantime. There's one, but Fnatic engaging bit too far.
Vosier pop, JoJo. He's frozen in the middle.
The tomb is for Fnatic.
And Coyne now launched with no fear, because his Lasandra is here.
Setting up with a triple, Quadra denied.
But JoJo just said goodnight to Fnatic.
I need to re-watch that again, but I think Alvaro was cost-playing super.
So Razzarok immediately dove onto him and was like I've got the 80...
But not...
It's happened.
He broke it.
Yeah, I didn't get to see it start, but I'm pretty sure Alvaro ended up as a super.
So Razzarok probably had it, but this flash immediately from JoJo setting up the rest
of the play, a triple kill for the LeSandra, and with the Inferno to follow up on that
play, it was just picture perfect for Nemcoi.
And in a fight where it's so close corridor even though the thralls didn't really change everything as the game continues to break
It does feel like
I don't know darling. I don't know. I don't know what that little symbols
Back to double check there it was yeah, so they thought the meatball was a failure
So they immediately don't want to party with over extended. Yeah
I mean as you said they want to make they want to send up a soup up, but
Alvaro dies still gets a pop awesome down
and Fnatic are none the wiser now with a 6k gold lead, third dragon going to employ
if there was a nail in the coffin for this series, that could have been it.
Pretty sure it is at this stage. Super isn't really under much of a threat.
The gold lead that was there for Upset has been completely diminished.
And his three item of fellos is very much online in this game.
You can see how much was invested by Fnatic, hoping that they could kill him in that last engage.
But now with those tools down for a potential soul-fights, it makes it a little bit more difficult.
Although, actually, sorry, they should be back.
But the problem is, by then, Amkoi is just going to be so overwhelming and strong already there now.
Crypto-Evolution picked up and Jojo's got three items.
Two and a half thousand, just about.
Oyohei continues to scurry away all the CS.
Amkoi now sees top and, well, Vladdy is looking for something in Vi.
Emcoye having a step up here, especially with our Lady Deadly Fars on the Jojo.
The flip back is nice, Elbot not going to be burned.
Glacial path away though. Jojo gets on out while the squishy cathartate is exposed.
The ulti popped by Super. Emfros close to dying, he's just out of range though.
The Jojo also quite low.
Deadly Fars almost hit the Glacial path midair.
The Fnatic stopped the Baron Siege, which is more than you'd expect being this far down.
They stopped it for the moment. That next wave is going to come through.
Resets and defender advantage being getting that quicker. They should be okay to clear that was
Yeah, that was a dicey one
At least they managed to hold for the second one as you say 50 seconds left on this bar and both
I don't think this rebel bar and paraplay is getting much bigger
See reset from JoJo the very least as he comes back out
He's walked towards the bottom line. So he's getting a push there looks at the inner
It's gonna be handled by Elio and me when together and Elio is just shadowing seeing if you can find a target for the paranoia
An Emperor is so tanky at this point, and with these two melee carries, hard to approach the turret so Inna should be staying standing here for that last 20 seconds, but which one? Maybe this one drops?
I mean, you got red light on this bottom lane, this bottom lane is not gonna last longer. I think you can honestly start to rotate back over if you want. JoJo, level 16, good luck for a dive, but I think it's a bit dicey here.
gonna fall break the Tangle Barbs just out of reach especially when Razok presses the Q of the wall.
Baron has now expired but the next wave could just push over this turret in the mid lane.
And a bit of a pre-flop fanatic as they buy their time and wait for this last dragon of the game
and now lucky it is a Kemp-Tex sold.
As Upset gets one hit by super almost a half HP
and he will have himself his third item on the next back as well as that inner turret climbing falls down.
Razok really wanted his practice but with equaliser down to paranoia
This is the final blow that Emcloy want to strike on in as Blascones use paranoia not pulled yet
But into the base. Elioia takes it late, but even though she's just there to pop awesome to follow up a bit messier than quite go
In there now, but here are the thralls. Here's JoJo and here is the ice queen
Running in, fearing not and charming out, frozen to hold, not gonna come out until bloody drops once again
and his turn was his own, but M-CoY can do the rest falling
as they reprieved what was yesterday against Navi
here against Fnatic today.
The fadeaway cue for Malioia
when locked down the last member of Fnatic
and may just be the strike that M-CoY needed
to close at this game.
We won't be able to finish now,
or with the base open
and that's sold in a minute and a half.
It should be enough.
This will sign the game, paying off dividends.
So it's Niren Panich's Razzle wanting his own Raptors.
Yeah, I mean this was such an over extension, but great patience for my Yoya here as he waits for the Flash to upset over.
But as he called it like, then you get one Flash away from my Yoya, Alvaro goes in,
and it's only when you get the Flash over from Niren with the potential path from JoJo that this actually starts to go in favour of him.
Use the tomb on the bloody, bloody ends up dying, so might be worth it.
Haven't seen Juggler using it on himself, but I mean, as you said, everything else falls in place.
I can ult myself, but Loki, we killed three, so...
I mean, that's what I was saying!
That's what I was saying, I haven't seen him ult himself, but I think he wanted to press ult.
And he had a shift door.
Shift himself.
No, ulted.
You changed keys?
I swear it's ult.
Maybe I did, or maybe I did actually, yeah.
It's all, uh, it depends on your hotkeys.
I mean, to be fair, it could be different for anyone.
I know someone, Erdogan, plays with bloody mouse only.
He plays Renekton with, he has mouse buttons, he has like 10 mouse buttons in his mouse.
What does he do with the left hand?
He has Q-W-E-R in the mouse, and clicking and attacking on the mouse.
I think he presses A on the keyboard, for attack.
What? What? I thought it, just add that to another keyboard.
I mean you may as well that way she's mouse on him but that is kind of genius and then use your left hand for
No, I think I do think that's a dig at Renekton
Renekton's hard I think
I mean that champion, you know, it's like saying foley bears are I don't think foley bears are hard champion
Just make sure you
on the lost buff, it's that roof down and every ring of frost has just been setting up
great plays so far as M.Coy are hovering around the Baron.
Tomatic up the face check, but if they do, they will surely lose here.
So we're cresting 10,500 gold, Kentex all as well.
Georgia just picked up himself a Storm Surge.
There's a full item, LaSandra, with a Dark Seal.
I know you'll just continue to be the medicine of jungle.
Razorka's not out of fun time this game.
Imperial's not going to be out of fun time here.
No, he's not. He's taking some serious damage.
He's going to play, but he's over an equalizer with his fellow solvers as well,
and brought one shot away, and down he goes.
There we go, Flats with again the frozen tomb.
JoJo having a clinical series,
and Baron is free for the taking,
as Manly's going to walk in and take the plating in top.
But you know this is done.
It's just a slow burn to the victory line for Emkoi.
Yeah, I thought the fight would be over Barron, not the Red Bull,
but unfortunately it's the Red Bull that had no beam to detriment of Fanatic.
As Barron will go over,
it's just there's no team left in the map here for Fanatic.
They know it themselves.
All they can do is just, I don't know, play as long as they can towards an elder.
I don't think they're making it around.
I don't think they're making it here either.
So this could be our first 2-0 stretch line, gets Jojo, gets a bonus charm, plays your partner and get him out.
Now, we hold.
Yeah, a little bit of a hold. A little bit of a hold, man.
But yeah, Amiros just gets here because I'm telling you, but you do not have the tankiness you need right now to survive this.
Again, the flea just great timing on us. I say the fear is great timing on us because the W has just come off.
And then Encorei just nice picks.
I'm not holding much anymore. I think there's a long shot. Encorei is still starting Blaze, even with JoJo dead.
But I guess we're just... what are we gonna work off? The Baron's up. JoJo has TP.
I guess they're just waiting.
Make a boss, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, she's on the way.
I think Brazil is always this way.
I think that's half the problem, bro.
I mean, here is that really the problem, though.
If Brazil goes in, I would say it's better than not doing anything.
I don't know if I'll take pretty good masks.
He's saying doing nothing is better than doing anything.
Yeah, sometimes you just have to have another patient.
is better than doing anything. Yeah sometimes you just gotta have a little patience. Yeah but how
would you have patience here? How do you think patience wins this game? By waiting for your
right moment to find a beat. I mean yeah that's what... I mean they just did it on the lasandra.
That's what I'm saying but I thought you said just don't do anything. No God, no. No, no just
that's work. At the right time. At the right time. Find the right time for them at it.
When do you think it is?
Yeah, now.
Now.
Oh, now, now, now.
Hang on.
Hang on a second.
Ah, Razzlock's dead, old dear.
Death charge, old dear, equalizer.
Uh, uh, no.
He wasn't now.
He wasn't now, he's dead, he wasn't now.
He wasn't now.
Oh, was he?
Now?
Now?
No, we're run out of steam.
I think if Hanada gets out of here, now we're all dead.
Still not dying from the GA, or rather losing it.
Emcoy pressed the button, no problem there.
And our first 2-0 in the LEC sprint comes from Emcoy.
Monk fed a performance here today.
Tsunatic might go down, but in the end,
it is Emcoy's expectations that rise back up
with a 1-1 win.
You know, you had a fantastic game in this number two.
And you needed to be getting the advantage,
making records like visible.
There was no thing that Fanatic could do to really control that early game.
And let's be real, two lanes in a row, JoJo absolutely stomped.
The Z lane was spectacular.
The La Sondra also looked fantastic.
And you can add your say in, player of the series, LECX.
El Yoye, JoJo, Supery options and I've got to say El Yoye, fantastic game.
I mean, both games were good.
JoJo, for me, is a dead ringer for player of the series quite easily.
And that guy, as he said in the interview between games,
like, hey, he doesn't want to m-
All right, I'm the power friend.
He doesn't want to muck around to give you a strategy.
He doesn't want to muck around,
and he just wants to be a rip up.
I think he's been ripping people apart.
Even in the loss yesterday, he was spectacular.
Like, he was kind of their main focal point
and in the games today,
it really does feel like JoJo has taken another step up.
It was very-
Because after hearing the interview from cops in NEC Versus,
it sounded like JoJo maybe took a personal.
He wasn't in that late, but we'll have to toss it over towards Super, who signed a buy to tell us how he's feeling after that win.
Yes, indeed, 2-0. The first 2-0 of Spring, in fact, for Emcois.
Supra, congratulations. How do you feel about your play today?
Thank you. I think it was a really important win. We need to make it to the playoffs.
This split, I would like that we make it without being in the last game of the split.
Yeah, maybe starting better helps, but then I mean I have to ask you didn't start well yesterday
Tell me what happens, and I think yesterday we were probably like playing two emotional the games
I think we were not calm. We were not making decisions me myself as well
So I think we were not clutching the most important moment of the game
So we were taking risks that we don't need to do it to win games
And I think this is something that we need to change
Now, there were a lot of quotes from Mel, that came out recently, we're also going to
interview him in PGL later, somewhere about you and about him just being not happy about
the performance, but that also becomes something so public, right?
And that then everybody talks about that.
I was wondering how as a pro player you deal with that, because I know that it's part
of the job, but it isn't easy.
I mean, I don't really mind because at the end I focus on what I can do the
best, you know?
I'm not happy with the performance yesterday, but as well. I know I can be way better and keep pushing my limits to be
The best player in the world. That is what I am to do
No, does it push you anyway? Is this the right kind of leadership for you because it seems that you're flourishing under
Kind of did the expectations that Mel's that is putting on you?
You've also famously said well, they're gonna regret it if I'm not there if I was not to be there, right?
So does that work well for you? I mean right now. We're in regular season
I will sub his mouth in the players.
Okay, perfect.
Thank you so much, Subba. Congratulations.
And we're going to head over to Melzett himself,
who will be shut up in the playoffs.
Apparently. Apparently, Melzett.
I hope so.
Melzett, how do you feel yesterday compared to today?
Because obviously we talked about the interview that you gave
and kind of your feelings on the day you're leaving yesterday,
but obviously today at 2-0, feeling better?
I think it's still room for improvement anyway, it was way better than yesterday, at least we played more last game as a team.
Well, wasn't that upset you so much about the losses specifically and how they happened?
We had a really big talk at the beginning of this split, I think we set up our objectives really high,
so then I need to hold the bar really high for them.
And I think we didn't perform at all as a team, like we were having winning positions and we throw it so easy.
And also from behind I think we could play way more calm.
I think we were not disciplined enough when we were snowballing.
Like you don't need to hard win the game, just by brute force, you can be a bit more smart,
you have a lot of objectives for the enemies to come into you, the engage were really bad.
And I think that's not the level that we want to have if we want to to compete international
But I think everybody felt great for one part like you to do it really well, but also you get
Jellos or envy or you want to be there, you know, so we need to improve for that
We have the toll everybody agreed to that. So now I go I hope we hold the bar high
Is there different things you feel like you know when you came in
Let's start all the way when when Joe Deppion came into the roster and all the things you were working on right?
Obviously you have improved the whole lot. So
How far are you still from being able to say I would confidently be able to go into MSI?
Into a grand final again because you didn't get the chance to even play one yet this year, right?
I don't think we are far per se
But I think you need to improve on little things that are not easy to change
So that is going to take a lot of work
I think I believe on my team and they can do it. They know that I believe in them so much
But then we need to change
Certaincy that are not easy to change someone to to push forward. Yeah, I'm here in the positive enforcement
We heard some of the negative reinforcement as well
What gives you the confidence as a coach that your team can handle the heat because it's a lot of heat to put a team
Under that type of microscope, but it seems like you're still confident in the team to be able to perform regardless
Yes, like I think they are blow-ups
we had a lot of talks they know that for me they are the best five players in
Europe or they can be at least but if they want to beat those guys they need
to do certain things at the right now I don't think they are doing so I need to
push them in the direction and if I need to be the bad guy I don't find
you know I don't care about that. Light of fire under under the boats a
little bit now I got to say we had another coach on the broadcast Odo
unfortunately he's with Fanatic right now I imagine chatting with them
What were your thoughts on Fnatic?
Because they're having also a kind of a slow start and you've got a steamroll though right there.
I mean, it's really hard to have an opinion on a team that you're not living with them or seeing what they are doing day by day.
I feel like they still didn't figure it out their identity and how they want to play the game as a team.
So I think that would be a good first step.
But maybe they have and they are just not able to perform and they can be like 20 million problems that I cannot know
Yeah, we think they might be in free fall a little bit, but time will tell of course
There's also not that many series right and they've dropped two now. So yep, that's pretty intense
This was the first 2-0 you ended the streak we were cursed
With pleasure we're gonna for every single game but that was nice and the key up player of the series was JoJo Pune
Hey, you got it. I mean that one especially well, I don't know I own it
Game one especially like two solo kills. I did you get a few kills in that last game?
I think he now has eight in the last four games now five because of this game just happening eight in the last five
But still insane like number of soul kills. What are your thoughts on Joe Dupin and his performance so far in the season?
And I think he's slowly getting the better. I believe that he can be I
I think his early game, and if it's now, it's more mature.
He's more aware of the jungler and how he can impact the map.
So it's not just he's just killing the guy in front of him.
He also is controlling the map.
He understands better what he needs to do to win.
And I think he is one of the biggest talents that we have in the West.
So we need to take care of him and hope that he's going to show what he's capable of.
in the Lissandra game, he also played instantly World of Fights.
Yeah, and different styles, because the Xeer versus the Lissandra,
is this something you've been working on with JoJo to kind of expand?
Because I don't think of him as a Lissandra player.
I think of him as more of the flashy, you know, standout midlaners that he likes to play.
We wanted to pick it yesterday, if you want, he picked the Silas.
So now, he also was battling to pick Victor this game.
I told him, is Lissandra a place to pick it?
He can play every single champion almost in the game.
He needs to look after Nadia, what his role is, and I think he's working on that a lot now.
It's interesting to see, right, because I feel like when, you know, now having you here,
JoJo is someone that got kind of a bad rep, I want to say, right? Because there was a lot
that came out after he left, about lateness and whatnot, and I think very often stories like that
follow players for much longer than they should, when they have actually,
yeah, they they have opened the book and then are on a new page, so to say, and that's
That's really how I feel about Jojo because even though I also had my thoughts about him
coming to NA, right, he's been incredible, his work ethic from what we can see and of
course you will be able to speak to that.
I think he deserves that propaganda or how it's called.
He still is a bit the little kid that he wants to get his way out and all of that.
Anyway, he's really hard-working, he really cares about the game, he really cares about
the hardy.
He's just, he's a bit, how we say in Spanish, mamón, that we love him and we know how to
deal with that and he's doing a really good job now.
Character growth, that's what that is.
For sure, that's what we love.
Yeah, there's a time in his life when he made me want to pick Lissandra when his
coach tells him to.
But now he's listening.
He's following along.
He always listens.
He always listens.
Yeah.
He just has a strong opinion, so he likes certain things more, like the Silas game.
Of course.
Yeah, he's a good guy.
Awesome. Yeah, with that let's take a look at the schedule for tomorrow one more day of Vestis 3's.
Only two of them tomorrow as well, which is really good.
We have Navi back on the docket. They'll be playing SK Gaming, SK without a win.
And Navi with a huge scalp, of course, over Mkoi a couple of days ago.
And then we have Team Heretics up versus Vitality.
Team Heretics also impressed me.
Vitality, they always impressed me in the first game at least and that make it interesting. Yeah, what are your thoughts?
So what do you think is like the closest matchup?
I think vitality is really good
I think they just like a bit of discipline in some cases and I think the the champion pools
Runs short when the series goes on like there is a really
two best top 3s that they are not playing the best comp in the game 3 so probably if they improve on that they are going to be a real scary team.
Yeah, I feel like if you are coaching them, I feel like we'd get so many quotes because they are the definition of not being disciplined.
Yeah, that's good. If that's the idea of the team, that's how it should work. That's good.
That's good, but if we won, I don't believe that without this team you can compete with the best.
We agreed on it, so now I'm pushing them.
If they all tell me, like, nah, we are chilling, we want to be happy, we don't care about competing with the best,
and I wouldn't be mad, like, that would be the objective.
Who doesn't want to compete with the best?
Well, that's a fun thing about Vitality, you never know.
They can compete with the best, they can also throw games.
When I was doing my prep coming into LEC, Medic was helping me out,
me out and he was like if Gen Z was personified as a team, it would be vital.
How is making headlines, I think he like if he can have that discipline he's really good
but sometimes he goes way too far. We'll see that in the matchup again tomorrow. A lot
of interesting things, storylines developing here already in the LEC. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Melzeth we always appreciate your candor and how direct you are with us
and yeah that's a win for Emcroy on the books and we'll be back tomorrow for two more
more best of threes to make your Monday a little bit better. See ya then.
The bunch of enemies...
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry.
I can't get this, I can't get this, I can't get this.
There's a bit of a secret...
Oh, there's a bit of a secret...
Oh, oh, oh!
Oh, that hurt!
I mean, not so strong.
Yeah.
That's scary as...
Bloody.
We can't get any better between both teams.
We use now!
The JoJo hits in midair...
And solo kills...
Teleports out...
And styles on play.
I can't have enough.
I can't just finish finish first.
Thank you.
I can get up.
There's one from Fnatic, and my judge used it too far, but so far, charge out!
He's forwarding in the middle!
Return, please, from Fnatic!
Only as though, come go then.
Oh, is she, Joseph?