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and the second best league in the world, that's right, because that's the first time that is what we are another round of best of three coming our way today and the two last team that we haven't seen last week is one of them on stage right now is a shifters they're back they're going to be facing up against SSL
They're back, they're going to be facing up against SK, but we're going to talk about this later. How are you guys doing?
Fantastic. I'm ready for another amazing week of League of Legends. I mean, after watching some, like, the third-best region in the world,
and the first-best region, like, I can say with confidence that we are number two, I think. We're undoubtedly playing.
I mean, I watched HammerLife today play against T1, and I was like, wow, that's a really low level.
I got to cleanse my eyes with some LEC right now, and what better series to do than this?
I'm going to give you some statements and as you can see here, we're going to start on a line there and go on each side, whether we agree or disagree with the statement.
statements and as you can see here we're going to start on a line there and go on each side
whether we agree or disagree with the statements. First up we have videos socks at reef bound.
Objectively. This is incorrect. Okay I found you for realo. You only did me once last night for
for the first time in months.
It is months.
Because we didn't play for much in any part every day, boy.
And you don't even play Riftbound.
You don't even know what good is.
No, I know.
But I've heard that you've lost the game.
She knows ACK.
I was saying that Riftbound spent eight hours every single day
in the research in Riftbound.
And this is what he has to show for me.
Ragebay.
Nice Ragebay, guys.
Good job.
Nice Ragebay.
Well done.
I see some bias here from various players.
Yeah, he knows.
Second one we have.
Jungle is the most stacked role in the league right now.
I'm not sure.
Who does?
I want to say agree for the overall level, we have... oh, okay.
That's pretty interesting.
I kind of out the pilot a little bit here, I need to think for a moment.
Okay, I'll talk for you, don't worry about it.
I think Jungle isn't a good spot right now, but thinking about LEC teams,
I think looking at teams with strong mid laners is their core.
Caps, Jodra, I think right now have been dominating.
Just look at that.
That's just too...
Relent, Alibaba, Yai.
It's like the start from the top to bottom.
I found my take.
I think I just hate jungler, so that's why I'm on this side because every time I just hate all of them
I mean they don't visit you that often
Yeah, exactly, me and Fin, that's why I'm on this side
Is this on trauma?
The third one that we have, because I said that it's been a discussion on social media
G2's Q-Mount is better than what Jankos was at his prime
So...
Oh, it's too soon to say that
I mean, I don't know, I'm not going to, I'm not going to, Jankos is still the jungle
guy, he's still a bit of a legend, you know what I mean?
You have the baby fans who just like woke up and they're like, oh yeah, first dance,
Q wants my gold, he did this and he did that, okay little pop, Jankos has been doing this
for years before Q won't even start the playing.
In order to appreciate what Jankos did, you got to remember where he came from,
right?
Like the rosters that he was on before, he played with you too.
That's what I mean, you know what I mean?
Next one we have, LEC players are lazy.
And now I took this one because Grabs has been saying it,
Melzer has been saying it, a lot of coaches, you're a coach actually, so...
They are right behind us. They are right behind us.
All of these guys are mega-lazy, they're all like that.
That's crazy.
They are full of hope and they're like, you know,
I'm the best, you know, I'm gonna be like Chovy
And I'm gonna be all right this guy's a little pop you're not even playing spamming solo queue
You're not watching what you're doing stuff. You're just like sitting there and being in tight
Look, I'm in this theater shows that people that have played in the scene professionally knows what is Lacy what is it?
I think a lot of our players are very comfortable just walking up to the office playing a little solo queue
What do you lazy? I would say I was Lacy at times. Yeah
If you don't think you were Lacy at times you are just it's a coach right now standing
I feel like you guys are too cynical, I feel like...
Okay, okay, I was maybe lead, yes.
They know it. Maybe.
Okay, sure, buddy.
Next one, we've been a year and a half into fearless draft,
so can we say that fearless draft made teams better?
I'm gonna go disagree here.
Made teams better or the league better?
Teams individually.
I think the team, the league has clearly been elevated since fearless drafts.
Okay, our argument because you're the only one.
during when Fearless Draft was not a thing, kept getting stomped and farmed by the Koreans
and the Chinese and the internationals. Now we are taking the fight to them. If anything,
it showed us that Europe's strength has always been the depth of their champion pools and
their innovative strength. And I think Fearless Draft's harness is that strength.
But with your same level of cope, that just means that you could also say that all the
teams just go towards the floor of the LEC or like the ceiling of LEC which was
lower doesn't matter anymore. And that's why we're on even playing ground.
I think we're still bad at drafting, and so I think that we haven't really improved that much.
But the teams, I think, have just gotten better, but I don't think the fear this is a cause of RV getting stronger.
There are so many bandages you could do just by first picking out 0 every single team.
We know you're favourite Larsen, although you don't have to run with him.
Last one, and the most important one, KT is better than T1.
Come on! Come on!
Let's just leave her there. Come on!
Are you kidding? No!
You're losing lost in the finals against T1.
And we won this week and I don't care about the past because we're even in the present.
Now let's talk about the league that we actually are going to have today and the games that we have.
We're going to take a look at the schedule. I want to know guys, what games are you the most excited coming in today?
We have shifters SK, we have G2 coming back taking on heretics and Navi Vitality. What do we think?
What do we think I think there's a hot take maybe but I'm the most excited for this first game because we have a
Shifters what because they've been boots can be in Korea
They didn't play week one so we don't really know what to expect and I think the SK story is still very compelling
It's very fun to watch and I have some
Delusional dream in my mind that I think Nick is gonna turn the ship around but I just want to see how it happens
I feel like first game is gonna set the ton nice
I feel like Vitality Navi kind of has to be the one, because I feel like Vitality should be a top team in our league.
And I think Navi is a team that you have to be.
So my expectations are high for Vitality, which is why I'm sitting my sights high on the left.
That's why Various is really smart, and you can see he's been on the job for a really long time, because he has a base-take.
You know, you have order versus chaos with Vitality.
Meanwhile, you're just like in the loose in the real estate.
Brodery first.
Vitality should be a top team in our league.
I've heard this quote from Team T1, the last 10 teams.
I'd argue Koi last split.
Inconsistency wasn't a thing.
They've never done it.
Yeah, when Koi went a split.
OK, what is this arguing?
We're comparing apples and pears.
Koi is obviously one of our top three teams.
You've been saying that Shifter just
went into the hyperbolic time chamber
and they came out being, you know, prime T1.
I've been hurt before.
I've been hurt by Vitality before.
And it's fine.
You want to believe in them.
You really do.
But like, come on.
Wake up.
I don't even mean to say that.
It's my fault.
I shouldn't argue with an idiot because they'll bring me down to that level of experience.
That's terrible.
Let's see what is that.
No, it's fine.
I don't know.
It's fine.
I don't know.
What we're wondering though for the first series is, shifters coming back, are we going
to see the biggest shift in history?
Escape though.
What are we excited about when it comes to escaping?
And I'm not even asking you.
Oh.
I've asked the fans because a lot of expectations coming in this year with the Mickey project
and everything, it's not going so well.
So, why are people watching SK is what I'm wondering, and we've asked the fans this,
my team not missing playoffs, jokes aside.
Jokes aside.
I'm all ears for Yopah Glazing because he's a phenomenal player.
I mean, yeah, when you can count on the veterans, you can count on Yopah.
I mean, he said it himself, the veterans suck, they're all washed.
Yeah.
They're just like...
You would know.
I mean, I got there at some point, you know.
There were rookies.
I mean, I had Jackie, so I was kind of thinking the same about me that was
completely boosted and he was the next and new caps you know smart I didn't
realize Jack is that smart any other hope base takes today I mean I agree with
this fan I think watching job what is last week and even just the personality
is showing I think it's super exciting to see how he will develop maybe it's
not in the best environment to develop right now but I hope to see a long
standing career for me because his mechanics are insane is that gonna be
enough to save the SK ship no that's enough to watch the team nice enough
It's gonna be enough, but it's gonna be exciting regardless to see how he how he develops because the things that I've seen from him are quite nice
You know, I thought that you'd be kind of like you know the the fill player on the SK roster and you have more of a you know
primary role with with wonder and with Mickey I
Like this fan. I like the church of Mickey X
I mean, I think a lot of us are fans of Mickey we have been fans of Mickey for a very long time
Yeah, I want to see him succeed
But at the same time like he came into this project very early on saying I want this to be a team
that I think can create a good environment where we can grow together and we can better together.
The problem is they don't have much time to grow.
Like, given the way that the schedule is, they're playing most of their splits within the first four weeks.
So they've got to lock in now and they've got to get these wins quick.
Especially in the match they have today, that's a really slippery one going against Schifters.
Do we believe in the fact that they can find solutions that fast?
Last week, I don't think it was very...
I mean it wasn't great, the first day was a bit of a disaster you know, but the second
day we saw signs of life, the games were very long, but if there's one thing that I feel
I can be extremely consistent and go from being absolutely bad to having signs of life, it
is this game because again when everyone looks at it you have no idea what to expect.
I mean you can see where the place would be coming from, you can see the vision
of Mickey Romeo to me that I'm making magic happen there, it just hasn't really
materialized just yet but i want to i want to believe in it come on buddy is
i mean i'm down to believe i'm down to believe i want to see sk live
to the the idols the idea that they have in their own head
but it needs to come from an idea to the reality i mean it is a weekend the
church of mitkijks now is celebrated the revival the revival is the revival
is depends what their opponents give them as well and in that sense finna
i believe you cut up with nuke ahead of the game let's take it out
and thank you and hi welcome i'm standing by here with nuke straight from korea we'll hopefully all the
gentlemen of the lag i think uh we saw some rumors about your korean bootcamp we saw some
solo kills on faker do you want to talk to me about that uh yeah i mean we've been for three
weeks in korea uh it was like mainly us does not really the organization because just us
wanted to go to korea to just improve our mechanical just mechanical part and uh yeah it's
It's been pretty well. I played so much games, I don't even remember, but it's good to get back to connecting with the game and just to spam it.
I know, when you get to Korea it's all liberating. So there wasn't a lot of scrims going on. It was mostly just for solo queue.
There were just five players of you?
Yeah, mainly the Russ and Paddock were already in Korea. They have their home and everything.
but there's many us european there was like a strike as well and yeah it was
many solo queue we I think only screamed once and it was like we were like in
remotes it was like you know the feeling is so much different and yeah
many solo queue and yeah well that's nice now with a solo kill on Faker on
your hand you joined the prestigious ranks of people like Keane you know
people like Ben, Baus, Gold for Brand there's a lot of people that are
solo kill faker so maybe it's not all that just yet but your name used to be
I will new current in solo queue is that correct in the past yeah
you shorten it to new right yeah so you're more of a one syllable guy kind of
now I'm kind of one so yeah one silver there are a lot of one syllable players
in the league or like caps yeah yeah right okay so that maybe that's where
the mechanics lie yeah so you're not you're not playing against SK the only
They only play with one syllable, I'm afraid. They only have skins.
But in the mid lane, they do have a leader.
Two syllable.
Two syllable on leader.
Which is not ideal, right?
It's not ideal.
But I actually checked up your win rate against leader in competitive.
Yeah.
And he's beating you 5-2.
5-2?
Yeah.
How do you feel about that?
Was that surprised you?
I mean, last time we won against SK, right?
The last match of the split, which was supposed to help us qualify to bed,
then like heritage SKC happened, right?
But apart from this, yeah, I'm pretty confident today.
Like, I worked a lot on my leading phase, just the mechanical part, the individual, apart from the team, just myself.
And today I'm really confident on my skills and yeah, I'm ready to deliver.
I'm glad to hear that. I mean, the Leni phase is one thing, but I know Lieder likes to bring his gang with him as well.
Are you going to bring your gang as well to me? Are you going to bring your boy Trimby, your boy Bukata there?
Are you going to fight him for you three or are you going to want me for you?
We need to be smart if enemy has Yasuo, Tariq, Karchus, whatever
That's a draft. Yasuo, Tariq, Arthas, do you think we're gonna see the 10? Better to not fight around mid, right?
I'm just
Be smart on the map
But if it happens that we have stronger 3v3 mid then of course I would bring my boys and we would
Fight. You'll do fighting. Okay, cool. I really look forward to it. Thank you so much for your time
Now we're going to send it to casters and hopefully a fantastic game
Your interviews one in a million
I think if we welcome you back to the LEC for another glorious weekend ahead your Easter weekend
and with your inner feather chopper or something more,
at least we get the action out of it,
as Jack and Jake are bringing it back to the snake.
Nothing else to do.
Back to the snake, I mean, I'm excited.
Jake, are you having shifters coming back
after really disappointing, that I've seen versus?
Definitely sad, yeah.
It was sad, but they've been screaming.
They've been screaming.
They've been in Korea.
They're critical about that.
Killed Faker.
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That's a big one.
I don't know if SK, maybe Mickey,
I mean Mickey for sure killed Faker.
Probably not solo killed no no no, but but he for sure killed fake I mean you killed faker that goes on the resume
Yeah, as soon as you do that you put that on linked in your five ten calls a day boom. I saw the killed fake
I did you yeah, that's how you got LEC. No, it was actually it was why I was a green one trick back in
2022 I think that was so proud of it. I was like oh my god
How long you've been on LEC year and a half now two years? Yeah, and I'm just saying it lines up time-wise like two years later
So that's the first question to ask me actually have you really yeah, that's right. I'm really a flight next day
But little do they know as we're about to take you to shifters versus what is it very also disappointing SK now
Let's be real SK so far have been
Called washed that being called. I mean the desk was kind of unleashing there with Odo if you're not holding back
Yeah, but they have had some very interesting games
Not that it's been great quality gameplay, but at least we've been looking at the draft system for sure
I think they've been trying a lot of things in the draft. You can see that it's like they have two modes
They're like, okay either leader is gonna play set. He's gonna play a colleague can play yasso or they're like, okay leader
Please pick the orient. I'll pick the casio and I don't think they've fully figured out which one
They think is the highest chance of winning because they keep going back and forth and neither is really working that well
So I think something like I mean I at least liked SK the most when we saw leader on the Yone when we saw on the
Also when we saw on the Akali
So that's what I'm hoping for because I think going back to like the nocturna Rihanna
No, that's not gonna work
I mean dude even I will say the Zed game was exciting when it looked get locked in but then wasn't exciting
But the game got played like that. I think into the mail was the tragedies SK
Open up your drap there on blue side there on first pick
It's pretty much as what you see on the screen right now as Ash gets banned on the red side by shifters
And we are expecting maybe what another mid lane ban here Ori and Ryze still up and available here in the new patch
26.7 well there have been some adjustments
Are the nerves big enough here as karma is the final take away?
I mean, I'm really surprised the shifters didn't ban any mid lane champions for a leader
It's been a lot of like a Kali are really about again. Okay. Oh, yeah
I think there's like a meme hover. I'm pretty sure knowing wonder. He's memeing it
I wasn't expecting a second game. We're gonna find out if you lock that in because that's dead on our side as well
But you know even that game right even leaders Orianna game at first it was okay
Then the whole hoop started coming in
Then there was I don't know
Yeah, okay, we're just remaking lobby for you that's about the end of it as well. There's no problem leader is smiling
Yeah, I don't think they're going to lock in the Orianna, I mean a lot of teams, especially in LCK versus, they were constantly banning the Akali up against SK, they were banning the Aurelia, it's kind of tapered off a little bit in this spring with mostly Pantheon being banning against SK,
but I still, I would be really surprised if, with all mid laners open, they decide to lock in the Orianna. Well, it would be cool though, we've seen it before, that they lock in the Ryze, that they lock in the Inivia, and then they flex at the top.
You could play Orianna top with face rush. I don't think I've ever really seen it before, but it's kind of like if you can play a Nibbio top.
Why not?
Yeah, well I can play Orianna top.
I mean, very similar jobs.
I would argue that they're both kind of as mobile as each other. Orianna could be a little bit more so.
Well, I think it's a Nibbio has like the wall, so she can like freeze the wave for her.
Yeah.
To make her so safe.
For a bar, that was just my plan.
Very quick shout out to the fans. I saw SK fans in the crowd.
That's crazy.
But again, when you've got Wanderlity, Yoppa, Mickey and Skins on one roster,
I can kind of understand it, you know?
And the thing with SK is like I feel like they were such an exciting team to watch both and like either you're like
Hey watching them because you're like, oh this team shouldn't be in LAC or you're like
I'm just really excited to see what make you can do
But if they just lose like you're losing then you're gonna lose both sides, you know like hey watch is only good when you're like praying on their
Downfall if they've already fallen then it's like
Yeah, you're not gonna kick a horse while it's down. That just feels bad, you know, like this is cool
So now it's like even though I was one of the most people kind of praying on SK's downfall
I would love to see SK do well now because I don't want to see that like because then I can be a hater yet
I can't be a hater if they're bad
That's true
They need to be like middle of the pack and then 10 will come in and he'll be like they're gonna become one
You know and then I can be like 10. That's so stupid there at the bottom. Yeah. Yeah, because when they're in the middle
That's right. You can you can play your bets either side. I'm gonna share some news
Outside of the pick and ban being remade we have got an insight as to what has just been locked in
Well, if he can't get the first win of his career after eight years, he's gonna try for game number two, Ryze and Pantheon on the other side for shifters.
Now, Leader did get a lot of flak for the Orianna, but his stats were pretty good. He was up in CS.
The only thing he did is he didn't ult on this. It was just kind of important.
He got a lot of one man.
Like now he doesn't have Nocturne anymore, so there's less pressure in a way.
But since how? Ball delivery there.
still ball delivery but it's a little bit more like free-flowing like an Uber
on a bicycle not in a car right yeah yeah because with the Nocturna Oriana it's
very much like you got to do it at this exact timing or it's completely messed up
well since I was kind of like since I was gonna be in there for a while so you
have a lot of opportunities to find a good shockwave as the draft is going
pretty fast rise and pantheon taken by shifters you have a lot of global
mobility there and then you're not picked up into the astral as well
Shifts really want to try to play more across the map while SK has more like a standard team-fighting composition
That just wants to fight you head up through what we've known over the past couple of patches as well those champs pretty rise pretty good
I will say you know
We've seen a couple of nerfs come through and chat has touched up a bit Nami's a big one
Yeah, we've come already gone jacket does feel like the bottom lane is looking like
Yoppa and Mickey
I probably play what Ezreal Nami lane and the Ezreal Rakan like the option being taken off the ball with normalists
Yeah, I was gonna say I think Nautilus is really the pick that you want to remove if you're gonna keep to play these enchanters
It's quite good into both the Ezreal and the Unara
So now I'm thinking like what we could see if it's really plain vanilla
It's just like Unara Lulu vs Ezreal Nami
Yeah
I would like to see something a little bit more proactive for the side of shifters at least because you already have this like
Rice and Pantheon that wants to make things happen on the map
Like Ryze wants to roll to bot lane and Panthin would like to ulti everywhere
So I think if Trimby's on more of a facilitating pick or something like the Bard or something like an engage support like the rail or the Rokhan
I would like that more for shifters at least. Let's see if that long-range engage gets taken off the board at least by SK
They're focusing on the top lane for now and with Gwenban maybe shifting that they are gonna be going for a tank top at the very least here for Wanda
So far you've seen Wanda on things like the Sion but outside of that's been grumble and if you talk we talked about Kennen and
And then Bessa could be a setup for an ambassador game, yet again here as we get the bot ban, Jack, you were talking about away from SK's bot lane.
Yeah, I mean, Wunder has been pretty hit or miss, I'd say. Like, I really liked him in LEC vs. and I was like, okay, okay, he's really got it.
And then now he's very inconsistent.
Oh, we're pretty fast.
And I think especially laning up against Rooster, who was one of our strongest laning top-seals, had a really good Nidalee game up against Baos, where he solo killed him like four times and got a huge lead.
They ended up throwing that game, but that was like a really silly throw, so still huge individual top gap.
So I'm curious to see what Rooster can bring out with presumably last pick here as shifters ban two supports to try to set up their own support pick.
I think Recon would make sense when you're taking out the bar, but it could also just be the Lulu, and you're just playing.
You're not a Lulu, I mean, it's pretty classic, right?
And now it's going to be Nami for Mickey, and then it's going to be like classic, and chapter support lane is classic.
Okay, so it's just a classic again.
Now that was something that got a bit of a bust there with Engage thinking about the rail, but let's just find out where SK go in their direction.
Blitzcrank into a little bit, or always a town favorite.
I mean Blitzcrank is decent because you do have a lot of fighting power with the Ezreal.
I think.
It looks like it's just a sign on top before Wonder.
We'll see what rooster has into it. 0-5 actually, win-loss on the Sion. I'm quite surprised.
It's going to be the Nami Ezreal here.
Pretty standard both lengths across the board.
Now, the real spice here that we could be getting is what Rooster has cooked up here.
Coppola in last pick, up against the tank,
is hovering the middle Lee,
might be like a meme cover because they already played it,
but I think something that some cool counter pick here would be really nice,
would really make me hype for shifters.
Yeah.
Let's do what they got.
Come on, something cool.
It's not going to be cool, is it?
Is it?
Ah, man.
Well, the drafts look exciting.
It's not that cool, but it's a good pick.
I always think NAR into a tank. You just have such good scaling, you're such a threat in the side lane.
If your team is good at managing that meganar, you have so much team fight presence, I really like the NAR.
I wouldn't want it something a little bit crazier.
Yeah, I mean, is game one a fearless? We're probably going to get crazier, I think so.
And shifters are off that bootcamping career. They're finally back in the LEC.
If you haven't been watching, you've missed out on our opening week.
Well, I mean, shifters have just come back.
And as I said, I've not played a single game, whereas SK have already ramped up or ramped down, I should say, with some pretty interesting games with double-best of three already on the board.
They've won two individual games of that, and just a quick reminder as well, that you were talking about Sion.
Yeah.
You're one to obviously not starting good with a single loss on it.
But in the LEC, it is 0 and 5.
Yeah.
Cassante 0 and 6 so tanks in the top lane at LEC right now and going too good
Yeah, that's really surprising because I feel like it's not like we've been seeing carry tops really taking over games
I guess rumble rumble and renek I think some of those maybe I'm a little bit inflated by knuck knuckle
So I'm pretty sure like knuckle never picks a tank and then he just always wins
Yeah on either the red or the rumble, but definitely quite surprising. It's also the airy
On what there is a sound that's well
Welcome back to the LEC and SK versus shifters
I think it's a perfect way for you to open your Easter weekend as we also debut on patch 26 point seven
But surprise surprise with such a small patch
Not many changes to really talk about here as we get the same picks and bands that we've really had for the past
Two three four five six weeks. Okay. We gotta talk about this time. Please do this, so
So normally Sion when he wants to poke goes Comet because you can proc the Comet pretty
easily with the E it slows right and with the Q it slows as well.
And Aery is usually really nice because it has a lower cooldown and it procs on auto attacks.
Either he thinks he wouldn't proc the Comet because the Q slow isn't enough and NAR
will just jump out of it.
Yes I think that's it.
You're going through it now thinking about it because I've heard this argument before
You shouldn't go Comet against something like Kennen, because Kennen just presses E and he dodges the Comet always.
And I'm guessing it's the same with Nard, he's just gonna jump every time he gets hit, so he never gets hit by a Comet proc.
But now, as you'll see on your screen, every time Wunder lands IQ, he procs Aery, he procs Scorch,
and it does allow him to be quite a bit stronger in lane, we'll see if it actually pans out into anything.
But Sirel does have really surprisingly high base damage in this early game, so if he can land the spells, what a crazy thing to see.
You don't think FaZe Rush was the intention or just a misclick?
I don't think he's going full authority at FaZe Rush.
Okay.
On the stage and that would be pretty crazy.
Depends on the position of SK, small trades come through as from both supports.
Leader actually getting chunked out massively by Yuke.
Remember this guy's solo kill, Faker, so he's obviously coming off a high
after coming back to Korea here in Week 2.
And that was Faker on the Orianna, right?
So I'm pretty sure, like Nuke was playing the Ori and Faker was on the Orianna.
So going from playing Faker's Orianna to the Leader's Orianna, we'll see if Nuke finds that there's any difference.
Sure, there should be, but yeah, we'll see if this game one at least allows to.
If you're not familiar with how shifters finished off and finished off the end of Versus,
it wasn't a really good news story. It continues to be one at least for Nuke.
But Jack Will talking about it, we're opening up, finishing 10th, and I think the biggest
disappointment was that the shifters, all these new faces and names coming in,
Imports included but they just didn't hit the bar really and the other things about them. Yeah
I mean I've talked a lot about this and how I feel about shifters is like that they're a team where the some of their parts is
Weaker than their individuals. Yeah, like when you look at someone like rooster
He looked really strong in the top lane nuke really strong laner as
Consistently I'd say been like top three top four min in our league. It's been really good
but now
The race for the roster was just not coming through and it's especially sad when you have someone like Trimby coming in
I was really impressed with how he moves around the map, how they've been laning and then
None of it actually makes a difference in the game because they just can't finish any games
They're macro sucks and they threw every game. I mean it was sad, wasn't it?
And I love the explanation because like we're familiar with Nuke. We're familiar with
What this BDS lineup had in the past right when Nuke was this linchpin that really got everything going
For me as well, the biggest thing that was missing was that voice that at least for BDS in the past, their teamfights were so good.
And it was like, oh they can always just rely on the lankan, they can always just rely on their teamfights.
They never got to that point, because as you said, some of the parts weren't as great as the individuals, right?
Yeah.
Very good quote, you can remember that as well.
I mean we'll see this game, like for me the recipe of shifters was kind of, have a pretty good early game, get ahead,
and then commit game I don't know if it's the language barrier or if it's just like
the team cohesion wasn't there but it always felt like macro was their
weakest part of the game and that's why they weren't able to close out games. I
have this really strong vivid image when they played Loser of Tones they had
Nidalee top with Holebreaker and Teleport and I rewatched that game three
times and the last 15 minutes of that game Nidalee was always group. Never side
Even though she had full breaker and teleporter.
And was like 3k gold ahead of her.
She was so far ahead.
I'm sure that won't happen.
Now they have another split push down in rooster.
So surely he will split push and not just group with his team.
Sure, it should be a little bit different.
Now we have been going down memory lane because of course in this game,
it has just been standard training across the board.
No real impact from junglers has spotted out on the ward.
His scheme's moving towards the bottom side of the map.
But the most interesting thing you're going to get from us
the fact that Teleport was taken by Yoppa, now already used, Barrier used by Paddock for
the combat landing stat, but everything even enough with Yoppa inching out the small parts
of the lead pending the wave state and Lida catching back up to the earlier trade stuck
by Nuke.
Yeah I think one nice little thing for shifters here is just the fact that both in bot and
mid they don't have TPs yet they didn't fall behind any sort of CS, that point.
So I've had that leader and Yoppa both used theirs.
We'll see how level 6 now for both sides.
I think Shifters would like to play for this dragon, as they are kind of the stronger early game team in my head with Ryze having that move, and then that Pantheon as well unlocking that ultimate soon.
Level 6 for Nuke already, Bucata, half the way there, and he'll be on Gromp and then probably think about Scuttle before maybe using Bot to start this straight, just depends here on Bucata as where's he at after the Gromp is the biggest question.
It looks like he's posturing for the break, but that's slant, although now Midland is getting pushed in a bit by Leader, so maybe even playing for this crap could be difficult.
Now, I haven't asked production, but surely we will get a graphic at some point with Leader's win rate on Orianna in competitive history, like we did the first time.
It's just 0-1.
It is the 0-1, yeah.
And all criticism aside, I mean it was a very hard game to play.
But that's the thing about SK, it's been these weird and wacky drafts that I didn't think coming into today, we would just see what I think is pretty bomb standard.
And smite away, Bukata gets level 6 skins, can't steal it, so now level advantage, Mickey walks up, he gets a spear in the face and then walks back as well.
Note his mana bar is low, as shift is trying to play on the fact that Mickey's hanging around.
He gets stunned up, he's sat on a control ward, he's healed up and Aquaprison's going to save his life, but Mickey's slowed down.
What a Glitterland! Bukata as well, he's got his max charges out, a Q flash away from, because otherwise Miki was dead, but it still might not be over as Trimby flashes in.
Glitterland, support of combat for Burst Flood, and off the back of Miki's greed, shifters are on the board first.
I mean, shifters knew it. Bukata was sitting in the bush with Trimby waiting for him, they had the movement speed from the heal and the Lulu W to chase him down.
down. Mickey, you know, like you're just Duke Hockey, and we're seeing so many mistakes
from Mickey, which is such a shame.
Flash, and getting into Pantheon ult as well from the sky, Bucard is going to make another
game work out.
Sun, on Under Leader, he drops.
Bucard has got Skeens in his side, he can do the damage out.
After the passive stacks drop down, Skeens chunked out, and a second kill going over
with Bucard.
100% KB.
And the shifter's recipe, that early game lead is being built here.
So now we just have to see the transition this lead continue building up on it
Don't throw the big game. Okay
That's my one expectation. That's like if
Shifters somehow come out of this game, which is like a clean nice mid game after winning early game
Then I can confidently say you get shit. This is back. I love you
You're like the person in the relationship. That's like, you know, you need to get up for a week
And you're like, I want to get married. I want to have kids and I want to see this and I don't want to fight over
This is Trimby. He's alright. Yeah, you're up a mystic shot there as he jumps on in. Trimby just rotates out
Yeah, you really are the full committal person here
Yes, sorry ship is a starter with a 1k gold lead and you're like now, please don't throw in the mid game guys
Yeah, I mean the thing is like
Rome often built a thing. It's great fabric that is true when you get a big early game lead like this
It should transition into objectives and it's also like I feel pretty confident that
they should be able to at least get to the mid game in a good state and that's
when the macro really starts to be the main conversation as Trinity is pretty
chunked here but still looking to get the vision.
Ryze Yoppa didn't arcane shift in there but maybe concerned about where
Bukata is right now. Dragon's gonna start off from skeens and Yoppa having
moved away from the lane, he's got the damage to take this down nice and quick
and it looks like shift is either unaware or just don't care. I mean, a bit of a
mistake by Trinity here, the fact that he gets chunked down to the last
Skate pretty much gets this dragon, which feels bad especially when you've got Mickey's summer
So you'd love to really fight around this objective, but at the end of the day, Super's Dragon is a kentic dragon
It's not the end of the world by any means. Nobody's not, but at least it's starting.
The B is Realm Warp once again trying to find Lita, but going a little bit farther down the turret and Lita
Just walks to the right. I guess we'll play from the midlaner of SK
Yeah
We'll play by Lita. Not great
Paddock on the Yoppa.
Little tempo up and available, ready to take the trade.
Yoppa, or rather Paddock, doesn't actually use his transcendence, so
holds onto his ulti while Yoppa is sent away.
Yeah, good chunk by Paddock there to bring Yoppa back to base.
Yoppa does have the TP though, so he will even cancel the base
and not be in any trouble whatsoever.
I do like that shifters are targeting Leader heavily.
After they blew his flash, I think trying to look for that gank with the round warp was really good.
But now Nuke might be the one in trouble as Schemes wasn't around.
around. Chocolate does come in. Skins need a shit and mess or rather hit run. No flash.
Talon striking. Observers didn't see it or other spectators, but it's still a knockup from
Skins for Q as a first kill for SK. Skins striking back, helping leader out. Really nice
air as Nuke also blew his flash to get leaders. So now with that realm warp gang failing
it allows leaders to get back in the game. It is Skins picking up the kill so the
leader is still a little bit behind in goal, but at least feels like a nice consolation
I'm surprised for him as he's respecting here, Bucardos pressure, and we've just got to force it to be base.
Shadow Delita, I mean this is a very good start to the lane. 500 gold lead after the gank and all things considered, he caught back up.
Yes, he missed a few Ori knock combinations, but today he's hit his shockwave in lane, we've seen at least the first one.
One off-screen, he got to the chunk as well, so that's good for two.
Good for two.
And gold difference at 14, that was last time. As you said, he actually did quite a lot in the lane last time, brought this out as well.
as well. Yeah so on par to do the same this game and I think that's a really huge blow for shifter
since they're looking to punish leader though. Waiting for a prison by Richard. That's probably
for the better. Just thinking he attacked out but remember he's got the HP bar to play with as
hovering inside his bukkata once again. He's already got his sundered sky but so does schemes
and to the credit point jungler's getting a bit of an advantage here is he can be found out
backs away and just crosses over mid looking for the bush out here. So the nice reset can be picked up by Nuke
especially around these grubs and all this movement around mid right now Jack is playing around this jungle
as Bucardo is just clearing out any
deflective blows that SK could pull after his invade. Yeah, I think one of the strengths of SK is how good they are
at trying to play around leader. You see both Skeens and Mickey constantly giving him attention
playing around him to try to get invades going off as well
We're not going to get much more than vision and pressure, unless Nuke oversteps here.
It hits again, went 3 for 3 and Nuke, one just beats your order for two!
Welcome back to the LEC, apparently, Leed is getting capped again.
Yeah, Mickey and Skeens, they got leaders back, they pick up another kill.
Nuke just barely didn't have the flash available to him.
Sabi's announced Skeens can pick up the crab as well, and Leeder got that kill.
Maybe he can even get a Void Grumps and a Gold Leed.
We talked about Procedures earlier, it has completely evaporated.
It's gone to 500 over SKSW and with that early dragon,
they might not mean anything on its own.
It opens up the dragon game that Europe is so good at playing.
Leader as well, 1.1K in his name.
Grubbs being started, and they take it in.
Baccarat, we all saw it.
And now we have to revel in it.
He's looking for a gank on the back end,
and he's going to take the war in the meantime.
Wonder is hard to kill.
He'll get pushed in, but two Grubs at the very minimum.
All three first games for Kata's early game now shifted the way side is there's care fully in control
I mean, yeah, okay, maybe I got a little bit excited a bit too fast for shifting
this is
Not looking the best thus far as now ice case got the both early game objectives
Leader could be caught out here though, but it's gonna be fine
So quite a bit of XP nearly a full level
So a media gap that is going pretty hard
So leaders better than paper
My transit is a transitive property. Is that how it works? Yeah, medic word here. That's the right word
Isn't it? Yeah, I think so. Okay, I mean you're made the time. Yeah, but I think your English is better than part of me
In Australia we're raised on farms, you know, we just have no idea what's going on
I wish we get taught English from a kangaroo back there.
Yeah?
Yeah, no cap.
Were you raised on a farm?
I was raised on a, yeah.
I was raising a suburb called Hornsby.
That's not a farm.
No, it's not.
It's a bird.
Well, I do have a farm in the family.
Okay.
Yeah, mosquitoes, cicadas, snakes.
I was three years old.
I almost ran over a red-bellied black snake.
No kidding.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, that's great.
Is it true that you wake up with spiders and stuff in your mouth?
Oh, yeah, in your mouth, but you ate them because of your clothing.
That's David. People here wouldn't really understand us.
A second dragon's up. Now, I want to see if Lidah is just going to pull off some kind of miracle shockwave.
We're waiting. Bukata's down. Target low. There it is.
Chocke comes in to chopperage as well.
He holds these down, but Trimby and Bukata personally didn't make it paddock as well.
All three are blinking health bar. And now Nukes is going to go 0-3.
No.
He flushes away, gets out, but shifters are also dangerously low.
The SK just wiped the floor with them.
And it's Leader's Shockwave, Jake! Like you said!
He finds two, and that's enough to give SK the win of this fight that gives him the Mountain Dragon.
And the early game is just off the back of Mickey, Leader, and Skins, just giving so much pressure to shift it.
And he's dominant! He's been all of a sudden dominant Mountain Dragon!
And the success story that SK are opening the series with, it is going to be a Hex-X Soul Rift as well, so...
What a trade game as we look at SK when we fight.
And you know, Jake, when they first picked the Orianna,
I wasn't convinced, but then you land shockwaves like these,
they chain it into the Sin-Saw walls,
and you can see that that's what seals the Veil for shifters.
Leader even flaps us forward against the QWs.
They're feeling good.
They're feeling confident.
Yeah.
And that's really impressive,
especially after you have a bad weekend.
Like, they looked really defeated before,
and I've been in their shoes.
I played on the LEC team, we sucked, you know, we sucked.
And it was so difficult to go week after week
and try your best and not get tilted
and not lose confidence.
So seeing this today is just so meaningful.
And shout out to our production,
because this is the first gold leader 14 for SK.
And it's only been two weeks, but you've got to remember,
they played double best of three versus heretic first Nabi.
And they won a game from each series.
They didn't have a single goal that I put in.
That's great.
I trust our product.
The first gold lead at 14 for SK so you weak USK apparently yeah
And especially off of a control match leader carry. That's a new SK. That's not a skate anymore
I don't know. No, I don't know what to say now. They're looking for a diamond
They've got all the tools pans on ease on the way
Picard is gonna ulti in leader may be in trouble
But happy and also a little bit shy part away gets you out and later just waiting shockwave again
Deletion! An Aqua prison to Mickey! Genius!
With the knock-off of some great talent, strike his Picarder in.
He launches to get the thumb of Picarder still, not at a harm's way.
The dive happening while going Aqua prison again.
Meanwhile, Yoppa dies in the back. We'll talk about that in a second.
But Picarder is down.
Skeen saved his ult and puts him in the ground.
A two for one, or two for two across map.
What the hell happened elsewhere?
It's very, very messy and ended up becoming a two for two
as Mickey died to the tower.
Jopa got solo killed. We definitely need a replay to see what happened there. As Mook goes too far forward and ends up falling
Yeah, I just need to see the replay and I can actually break down
What happened here as this was a very strange sequence of events for both teams
I mean Ruzral is on TP's top and he pushes that in but that means I wonder now
He's getting a lot of plates in this bot lane and maybe it's the airy gap
I'm not sure but he's really helped behind that all on this NAR like NAR has gotten two plates
But so as water so it's really chilling on the side on this far wisdom from wonder today is
We're gonna get that replay. I don't know what's gonna happen mid ignore that for now
This is okay. I'm trying to walk to the fire. So you're part. Oh, he sees for dark and he is
Oh, it's the classic any forward miss the queue
It's that queue, but he doesn't have a TP. That's the problem. Oh
Close he does not a barrier
I mean so your presence he has to TP doesn't have a combat summoner for when you have e4 word
It doesn't have that survivability so it ends up being a little bit too cocky there classic mistake
I think most extra players can relate to it. That's true
But you go make them to break them, you know
I used jacket on this comparison way too much in this league, but it is that classic that you always eat for it
Yeah, it's the ego and you know callus, you know one of our great Ezreal
That's the same thing. I feel like any Ezreal I could say super
Ponsama, yeah, I'll do it. I can prison mess that came trouble
There's a realm war for trying to interrupt it. It's nice white skis genius play
You get off the back of it
Pat up got slowed down as well as trimming it with a tidal wave
That was like a one before one point and skis altered and negated at all
I mean skis just goes crazy there as the nooks is getting far and he's zero four down two and a half
1,000 gold doesn't even have his second item while leaders building towards his third now
3,000 gold. I don't know what happened. Maybe Korea's faked. Actually, think about it, you
go to the region that already got beat by G2. Like where are you? They stayed here, right?
There were teams here that stayed here. And it latest now 3,000 gold up over that guy.
50 CS by the way. Now, Skate is just smirking this game but still, watch this play. It has
so much damage, like it's only one Estrel Q that lands. I mean, two Estrel Qs end up landing,
but nearly all the damages are skins, and because he has that Ultima, they're not able to actually
do any damage onto him, so he just takes down Nuke all by himself. I have to point out though,
this guy fixes his build from last week, no Rod of Ages into Storm Surge. We'll see.
Do you like the Protobel? I mean, Protobel is on every mage. I don't know if I'm a fan,
I just know everyone's doing it, so it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like,
I'm not gonna say it's always bad, but I do think it's like when Choby bought Rylai's
on this year, and suddenly Ambrius here was really Rylai's, and Joe Bayer are going deep.
By the way, maybe out of range, Tadak flashes away, Trishrop Raja also would have connected
Tadak was close to dying, but SK, not pulling their fooga, their foog, off the trigger,
I was gonna say.
I think more so.
They're just not slowing down this game.
3rd dragon coming up, SK have Nick Bro, SK trying to walk into Fog of War.
Really nice, aggression by Yopa here, he's facing really far off trying to land these queues.
Trying to poke shifters as they try to enter the drake.
Shifters they don't want to give this, it's 3rd drake for SK,
but they're quite split up with Nuke and Rooster on a flank.
Not a found alpha, I mean Yopa's going in, Aquaprison is beautiful,
setting up with the Essence Flux, Yopa has a free Tiger Pricata come join in,
Arca and Gifolg watch Rimby, tries to facecheck, Pricata's dead in the mid lane.
SK have found themselves a free dragon and a kill on top. If they were playing like this from week one
I'd be saying some very different story points about how this team has ended the split. I mean it's a fantastic setup from SK
I love how your part Mickey hold the spot and make it really difficult for shifters
But I think we've also figured one thing out Jake and that's micro for shifters. I think it still sucks
I think it's not there
You know we didn't take to get in the mid game to find that out
as we have another quick replay about the chase down at Bucada.
The thing is Bucada, like I understand I like the idea of the rooster noob flank,
but you can't have three separate sides of entry.
Like you have Trimby wanting to enter through the blue buff,
you have Padak wanting to enter at the same spot,
but then Bucada entering through mid and then the rest of the team is bot.
It's like if we're that split it becomes so easy for SK to find the lone straggler
that's a rooster now might be in a similar position
Jace down, three talent strikes, slow down when wind becomes lightning
shockwave on his head, he doesn't even have a mega nab us
under help of banners while in both years but to avail
Trimby's gonna get away but FK with a 5k gold lead
this whole bottom side jungle and a baron up when they transition to top
he's still like a done deal where shit there's
you know I'm gonna get time for this rise and you know how to be relevant in this game
Oh, Yoppa dashed forward here, he might have went a bit too far, he's dead though, he's polymorphed, he's slotted down, wait, maybe Nekka's down an angle of damage, so he's important, I know the leader's already chunked him down.
Skiing, found Picard on the side of the screen, he's just chased down, wait, leader saw a carry with half, or less than half a mana bar, he just auto-ed and Q'd.
And that's all you need to see with the 15 stacked magi's, Orianna, still there to thrive.
give leader a paroto belt and he'll play it like an assassin, he's doing so much damage on the backline.
Yopa makes pretty much the same mistake as he did earlier, he eases forward,
it goes a little bit too crazy, and all of Shifters is there to punish,
so that ends up being 1000 gold going into the pocket of Padaak and he does have the Lulu to buff him up.
He's really the one key member for Shifters.
He could try to make a difference, but it's a 5k gold in, 3 drinks for SK,
and they just remain firm in control of this game.
One more time for the replay because ambition from Yoppa, you don't mind it, but at least they get one back, yeah.
A little bit of a crazy Arcane shift here, you see how much damage Leader does, flashes forward,
there's a huge chunk of the Trimby, and Newt Gander up in the middle of the scene, flashes Scare just back onto the Nash.
Yoppa, I love his positionaries holding this spot over the wall, same with Leader,
that way if Shampsters want to try to walk here, they're going to get poked by both Yoppa and Leader.
As you said, Tidal Wave will start it up, Paddock is the found target, Yoppa Arcane shifts,
Trimby blinds himself again here for an angel with Wildbrook and Rusta.
Lita's caught up and he's got the part of him. Couple of orders to take him down, but Rusta slowed down by the business.
Lita will live while SK have already taken down the AD carry-off shifters with it.
Rusta joins and he looked overambitious from Lita, but he still doesn't die.
I mean, SK, they're just too damn strong. Their pockets are too big.
Rooster he nearly is able to take down leader which would have been a huge shot
out of taking away that menjice as well maybe SK would be able to go Nash but
with that SK now they get the baron Nash you're gonna be able to set up for the
soul this should be a pretty easy game for them to handle the whole thing.
All things considered one more time let's say because Mickey also a big shout out for this guy
from Nami. I like Yopaheri he dashes forward that immediately looks like I don't know what they do.
This just looks really strong from leader
But it ends up vaping rooster Anthony
He just barely doesn't die with the fact that he's so far ahead and then rooster ends up falling
I saw this Padaque
Padaque is tilted
That's tilt
That is tilt sir
He's a tough game
It's tough game
I mean what do you do?
Again, there's so much camping around mid
Duke has been like such a non-factor in his first one
And then Bucata's lead kind of shifted out because
because Skings was just,
going to the camping and getting resources and stuff.
And if I was shifters and game one after my Korea bootcamp,
I'm getting destroyed by leader on first people around,
I don't know what he's talking about last week.
Yeah, it's tough.
But I would say it's tough mentally.
Yeah, I agree, I agree.
How do you bounce back to Bucata
with the Flatching Games later quickly?
Bell, Tidewave as well, Bucata.
Won't get a chance.
And now with you being slowed,
SK the follow-up is there, the shot goes,
he's a turn man.
He got his tip from one of them, but it turns out that Lida is in fact better than Faker.
Part of caught under the Nexus turret, and it doesn't matter if you've been in Korea for how long.
It doesn't matter if you've been there for a couple of years at this point,
because apparently SK just woke up on the right side of the bed this morning,
and Lida just stomped you on his second ever competitive game of Orianna
with a 5k gold lead at 25 stacks in the board.
There he is, the guy.
SK just came back with a vengeance
and saw the leader on a control match
with a mid-dice of confidence.
They played around him well.
They stomped him through the ground.
What a blow-up from Wiqua.
What a trait from SK as we got to a short break
and see if shifters can bounce back.
Brother, brother, let me try.
Wait, brother, let us break this instead, brother.
Have a break, have a kick-back.
What is this, brother?
Wait, is he switching lanes?
I've never let you down this floor
I've never let it get the same
Ain't no debate
For rules I'm never gonna break
How you proud of these walls
Didn't do V-com but they were the leader
My guy demonstrated tipping off taxes
I was in the relegated beast
Meanwhile they was patting my deep black
I've been with enough practice
No clout or digital captions
Was in madness
I don't need reasons I can see
I just need money and power and statics
I don't wanna do it like down, like down, like down
That message through on the hand, it's a big man said it ain't landed
Never gonna profit off blackness
Never got a dollar off sadness, why I been sunk
So I don't do sanctions
I believe the hate that crowns you soon
Clean it up, lay it down on my shoulders
It's worse than it to break one
Proudest wounds, money on my head
Cause I'm lawless
Take it, look at me, take it down this room
I'm gonna get it, get it, and I'll be back
Get it, get it, I'll give you the day
Where the time is down, I'll give you the twos
Get it, get it, I'll get it
Came in this game of the series, killing and stinging
But I never did courses, the golden times and the past
I rejected it, now they wanna imitate
I have some forces for you
Stone knife is your life, Gorgon's on you
Tired fire looking his eye, but he finally realized
Ordered the weapons that he brought to the war, ain't for me
I've been giving this rotten body and shoulder
Lighting the organs, knocked to my fingers, blip
Now I see the skeleton keys and door kicks
Trilling with means and caution
Matter how dead he is to feed from morning
They start shelling me dreams from walking
Yeah, I was uncomfortable but I was scared
Looking for solace and it was a dance
Now I'm a problem and they wouldn't dare
Yeah, double the darker this game is a drag
And all the good guys I came in for bats
Feeling it so hot buddy I feel like I'm floating on
Buddy you cold, running never gave you hope
Really left you in the cold
and he's running heavy on his soul
he's running on his starting low
he's the way I had to go
C is for Dark and E is for...
ooh it's the classic, and E for Rammus the Q
Q is that Q?
but he doesn't have the TP, that's a problem
Aww, okay, let me, let me again, oh, they are on the flash.
Help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me.
Still on the right, still on the right.
Rises on the left.
They are dead.
They're in good condition.
One get a chance, and then when you bring Slard, SK the follow-up is in.
It's a turn man!
He got his tip from bottom, I heard, but it turns out that Lina is in fact better than Flake up.
Hello everyone and welcome back to the LEC after SK takes the commanding game one win over shifters
And they didn't really do it through you know any flash you play with just surprisingly very very good macro
So I have a couple of clips to break down for you and see how some very simple macro concepts influence a big win for SK
So if you can bring up the clip
There we go here it is
Coming right up
but what we're essentially gonna see is where
where they get cool vision set up where they get to control the vision pretty much, well
the clip is still not here, it's okay, so yeah they will put vision control over these
areas and it's gonna become essentially especially easy for them because it's not really so
complicated but they will get to a point where they get to build this sort of bridge
between the areas, there we go, as we can roll the clip out now, they're building
this bridge between the lanes because the way it is you put these visions down so as you can see
it becomes especially easy for them to make a decision if you pause right now look over here we
have this sort of bridge between the lanes you get to see absolutely everything and now you get to
choose what sort of play we can do as we roll the clip out now midway is the one that hits in
front you don't need people on the both side of the map and now you get to see everything
Is there a counter-gank coming? No. This play becomes especially easy and this kick starts the SK train because now they get to do it again.
And this shows me that it's not just luck that SK does it time and time again.
Now they get the same vision. Pause right here. You see this bridge again between top and mid lane.
And again it becomes so so easy for SK to make a decision. Do we need to go mid? No. Because we see people mid.
There is no play happening. Now there's a top wave to contest. We have numbers here.
We see Lulu showing on mid lane and now all of a sudden, you know that this top lane is ready to be busted right open
You put the hell though you put the hell down you see Lulu rotating and now all this time
You're making all of these plays with numbers advantage
So from a performance that we saw from leader where he was just missing shockwaves in week one now
He gets to have a stellar level performance just through good macro and good setup
But what else happened over there this because this was just incredible to see from SK
much else happen but sometimes you don't need more to happen here and I think one
of the big questions we had coming in today was is SK gonna find the solution
turns out easy macro concepts to easy League of Legends that they can
execute that works I mean I mean it helps when it feels like skins was
mega locked in today I feel like I've seen some sentences of good skins
performances so far this split but today it felt like that he was coordinating
with Mickey. I feel like at the high level, it's very important that both the jungle and the support
are working well together. And I was super impressed with what he brought to the other game. And
ultimately what we're seeing more and more in the LECs, the jungler is so important at propelling
a successful early game, which is kind of obvious when you think about it at the pro level.
Jungle, Dave. Yeah, often the case. But it also brings into the question of where was
shifters in this game? Because it felt like that while we saw this good macro, clean
execution, great coordination from SK, none of that was there from shifters.
Exactly.
Jack Lux from Korea?
No, maybe not.
Here's the questions I have.
Sometimes, you know, take this time between the splits to, you know,
improve on their macro, improve on what they felt like were their weaknesses, right?
But this was all about macro, you know, you went to Korea, you boot camp,
maybe your individual level, you know, skyrocketed to a new level,
but this game just wasn't about that, it was just through sheer macro.
And that's why it was really cool to see skins being elevated.
because when we think about schemes in versus,
it felt like he was the X factor behind SK,
but there wasn't really much else to that.
And that's why I felt like SK got the edge
over the shifters now.
So I really want to see a little bit more from shifters
where they go back to the basics
and do these simple concepts
because the laners, again, are still incredibly strong
but they just didn't get to showcase at all this game.
And they see more, but it seems like a pretty easy
to execute composition when I see it down here.
So what more do we want to see from them actually?
Well, a lot. But it's also important to remember that if we were in a best of one format, SK would be 3-0 right now.
They've won the first game of all of their best of 3s.
And if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bike, but that's never what we have.
No, you don't get to use that.
My point is that SK have won game 1s before and then not won a series.
Okay.
So SK, don't be a game 1-handed, is the TLDR, because last week I thought the exact same thing.
I thought to myself, wow, this game one is really clean.
The Yasuo game that they had last week,
I was super impressed with how they pulled out that win.
And then game two and three, they did not show up.
That's the thing, this is when they're gonna play the Zed
or the Yasuo now, I can feel it.
I can see that itch from Lidder.
I mean, the Yasuo went well, right?
This is exactly...
So this was the main thing when it came to Lidder.
Everyone, like, yeah, he's gonna do great.
He's gonna have this pop-up performance.
That's why, for example,
that Orianna was just so impressive to me
because he finds these, you know, I wouldn't even say bad days,
but these necessary fixes that when you come into game one and two,
you kind of get to burn through these like, you know, meta mage champions,
but still now going into game two and three,
and you want to see a little bit more accuracy from him when it comes to, you know,
the time he picks, you know, these Yasuo and Zest,
because some of them hit and some of them miss by a mile.
I mean, the argument for Lita has never been that he's a bad player.
Exactly.
The argument has always been he has a preference for certain champions
that are easy to play around and are predictable and just don't fit into the same sort of comps, right?
So him wanting to play more, him wanting to show more diversity is always valuable.
I still have some question marks about some of his Orianna performances, but by and large,
he still has a good game, he still gets a win, and right now that's what SK need,
because as we said earlier in the day, their schedule is rough.
They play a lot of games very early on in the split, and they need wins,
so they've got to take every opportunity they can get.
Yeah, short time to turn it around, but so far it plays in their favour,
So let's see if they can bring it again in game 2 against Schifters.
Castros, where to?
Thank you very much.
Uh, I'm going to go in first of all saying, Vettie, maybe you're wrong here because remember when they won before it wasn't like this.
Jack, you're telling me not only was it so clean, Vettie, but the big stat that you pointed out was that this was their first time being ahead in goal at 14.
I think that's pretty telling, right?
Like this was the first time they had a really good, really good early game, really good mid game.
I mean, there was even a late game, right, in 24 minutes.
Over quick.
Is that quickest game yet by, I think, almost 10 minutes?
Question mark?
Like, nine minutes, nine and a half?
It's a 30 minute one, there is.
OK, sorry.
Let's, like, five minutes at least.
It was quick, but I mean, again, it was the best game yet.
Quality wise and gameplay wise, game time wise, I should say.
Can SK do it again and not just be game one Andes?
I think that is a very valid question,
but today feels different as shippers are the ones
have to show something different because a game won't shift it didn't really get to play past 11 minutes.
Yeah I don't know for me the basis point was just Nuke. I really feel I still remember the Nuke
being like top three mid in the league. The question was always could he break into like
caps the spot you know could he be the best mid in the league because he was always like
consistently good but he wasn't like great but this game he was just a non-factor right
like he just died to every single gank he used his flash early to get a kill on leader and
and that was nice. But then the next five minutes where he had no flash, it felt like
every time SK wanted a freebie, they went mid and they got one because he just would
never respect.
That's right. And so this game, can you put him on something maybe then? More agency,
I mean, RISE is such a good pick and meta. So versatile. He just needs to do a little
slap himself in the face and like, slap yourself in the face. You heard it at first. Let's
get rid of Vy and let's get rid of Azir so SK and not give Nuke one of his most
comfortable champions. When I look at Nuke from last split, I do see these here, but I
think see things like the Casio. The Orianna was a mix with the Ryze. That's
now taken away. Taliyah there. Swain. That's about it from him, so already
taking away his bread and butter is a good move from SK. Yeah, I like the
Casio for Nuke. I like the Taliyah. I think going for something like that
would make a lot of sense. But now it's like, suddenly SK, if they can just
play mages, you suddenly have a team that's like super versatile. Because what
What we talked about before is like a team that is trying two different styles and both
of them are floundering, but if they can just pivot in any sort of draft to having either
a leader on this crazy aggressive pick or just having him on something like this Aliyah
himself, it becomes a lot harder for shifters to be confident in what they're picking
and it also means that you don't need to pick a leader early on because you can
go either style later on so they just go for the Ambesa, kind of flex that up
I would assume maybe for Wunder, but we'll see.
Wunder has already played it a couple of times so far.
But again, I like the flexibility.
And the leader point is so important here, especially when we are in like a very heavy mid-mage better that has flexibility to go outwards.
But some of these more volatile picks have landed them in debt, SK, especially with things like the Zed.
I mean, you like the Yone again.
He asked for a game against Poby's weird data because he just kind of stood there and took it.
I mean, dude, Poby, I don't know if it's Poby.
It is true. He did kind of do that. That's true.
That was a great guess.
But I think the leader Yasuo is very good as well.
Definitely, I think for me, when I think leader in specifics, Yone, Yasuo, Irelia, Akali.
Those are top four. If he can get any of those this game, definitely the camera will need to be locked on mid lane.
And I want to see what's going on.
Well, in a comp like this, already building up a bit of data.
I mean Akali's brings to mind as Corki gets locked in, we now have mobility for shifters
and steadily building up engaged through Bucada.
Again when I think about the Riccardo last split his most played lined up with light was that wukong
So a bit of comfort here for game 2 for shifters as Zyra early direcars left the Riccardo
Yeah, there it is direcarn for SK
They see that they're kind of building a bit of a dive comp in shifters here with the wukong
Shifters could still look to pivot, but it looks like they might go all in if they look at them
I like the bar to look more because that way you have some disengaged tools with the ultimate
When the ambassador goes in and you also have to ultimate for the science to be really annoying against her true
I think Bart is definitely the best pick but
Maybe Trimby wants to play the melee support instead
But I think that the bar just makes a lot more sense the bar makes a lot more sense that makes a lot more sense
We're going to not listen. I mean all this has been banned nearly every single game
Yeah, but a big reason why an all system banned is because a lot of teams have been wanting to play stuff like the Lulu
Like the karma like the mommy and into recon. It's a nice matchup early on
Yeah, but it is kind of like as Rickon starts to scale up and he gets levels and he gets his ultimate
Eventually it comes to a point where Nautilus is not so scary anymore and I'd rather have the record in those later game teamfights
So it's really on the early game on Padawk and Trimby this game to show me that with this Corki strong early game
Chapp Nautilus strong early game champ
They can get a big lead and actually maybe intuitive to get along now
They're the only ones who actually found anything in the first game
So I would say that the most reliable part of ship is from what we've seen from that sample sizes and Nivea disappears
Maybe going for another control major in the mid here for shifters as Aurora to and we are just taking out mid majors left right and center
Nivea makes me think a wonder. Okay, I do play Rihanna. Yeah, I don't think leader will play on Nivea
That would be crazy
That's like the the most control of control majors. Yeah, so I think that's a wonder target button
I would assume. Yeah, and then Aurora as well. It's also a flex could go up towards top lane
I wouldn't be surprised if Rooster would want to play that Aurora top as we'll see what they take out here
It's a cannon bat. Oh
Yeah, I think Renekton makes the most sense for me Renekton or NAR, but since they already played the NAR
That's out due to Fearless. I think Renekton is the pick that I'm thinking out for shifters
Okay, I don't think Renekton is that good into Syracan. I guess
SK seem to think
Definitely as they've been there. I mean it's good into an vessel I guess individually
So maybe assuming that they're going to get the match up top again
You already mentioned Jack that we can get the flexibility out of and this is what could go to schemes in jungle
But for now throw it out the window renecdons off the board. What is going to be picked up in top?
We talked about Cassante being winless here in the LEC
Outside of that on does have a win. I think less egregious is a one or two games individually
Do you need long-range engage? No, we get mid here
Yeah, they're blind picking mid because they want to see where the ambassador goes
before they look to counter pick it but with that it allows leader to now get
counter pick on mid and normally I would try to make champion predictions here but
with leader I feel like that would be like silly there's like ten different
like I mean do you like the Akali here I'll start throwing out Akali styles I
was I don't know if I like it but I would like leader to pick it you know
I mean like I think it's more exciting if it picks up as it's gonna be
Dr. Mundo okay so they're keeping the double flex they can either put the
Mundo jungle or the Mundo top on the Ambassador jungle. So I have a lot of options here. I would assume it's gonna be Mundo jungle
Ambassador top, but we'll see what leader looks in. I would like something exciting, a melee champion, but I do think like
going for...
Is that good enough dude? I like it. I like your line. I think Akali very good with the Ambassador dive
You have the Rakan as well for follow-up. You have the Mundo for the frontline. I don't know how the matchup is
I would assume it's gonna be a little bit tough for the Akali early on
But once you get level 6 you have that all in threat and then Mundo can start to come on over or even Ambesa
It's a massive jungle and start to pressure nuke
And I think this game if nuke dies to the ganks the game explodes for shifter
Okay, like nuke needs to have a good game where he's shutting down leader and he's not
Heating because if he is I think leader will just go crazy this game. I says gonna be the Zahen here
Very nice pick for shifters. It's good into both Ambesa and the dr.
That's why they end up going for it.
The only thing is later on, he can get a little bit kited.
And I do think it's a great Sire or Khan game.
Sire only really has to be a little bit annoyed
by the quirky Victor poke, but it's not really too much.
And she's playing against three nice melee champions
that she can root up here,
and a lot of power to that blade puller as well.
It's going to be interesting because not only is Lidder on comfort,
I will say Yoppa's on his comfort.
If you don't remember in Vitality B,
I mean, Jack, you're in a system when, you know,
Yoppa was on Vitality B, right?
Bro, he loves, this is his now tied most picked with his Ezreal.
Yeah, I think like Sire, Estrel, Myla, those are like the champs when I think of your father,
the champs that he really likes.
I would love to see like, I don't think he played Nyla and Alexi versus.
So that's the one pick that I think would be really exciting if we get to see later
on as we go.
True.
Deeper at the best of 3s and even best of 5s, the best guy can make it that far.
That was a pick that he always was bringing out in my Callist actually, where like
the two Nilo players in the RL side played against and I swear Nilo's OP like
to the champs don't know. I mean bro that not only the experiencing but the scaling like
like gaming has created this. And it feels like it should fall off but then
suddenly it's just one shot in you and it's like what the hell. Oh my god it's crazy.
But I mean at some point Joppa cooks and you might not say this game but Joppa
can get one and if it wasn't too bad he's side issues next company he's got
back-to-back couple picks and so has leader because he's already out on one
of his best champions is now down and he's on to his Akali, which actually truthfully
is his most played.
Yeah, off the Orianna, we'll see what this young up and coming talent can do on the Akali.
Young up and cover.
That's him, man.
I mean, sometimes I believe like if you're a pro player, you should just change your
name and then people will think you're a different person, like you get like Aura
buff.
I mean, I think again, as a electrician who comes down and you cause already just
getting whacked.
I think when he's not playing good, he should play, he could call himself little
when he plays well and call himself a leader again, you know?
Because that's exactly what SK need. Nuke is going to get a trade back here.
We talked about it before, Jack. You weren't, you know, super 100% on the match-up.
But we just know Victor is annoying in the early levels, especially against a mage
or an assassin in this case, who doesn't have the most mobility
and can just get outcited like this.
I mean, he also has the airy and the scorch.
So a lot of early game power for this game.
The leader does have the second win and the B-shields, should be able to sustain up to the worst of that.
He's farming well here, even getting the push actually, getting level 2 first, and be able to get a Q here.
This is good though, this is like one out of your League of Legends, let's play sub 300 HP.
So your trade's better, you're still winning out of course, and now the leader is spaced out a little bit for the wave pushing against him.
Yeah, Nucleos some CS, so if the leader can farm all this up, he's gonna be ahead.
We'll see it's really a lot about the junglers when it comes to playing these sort of matchups
how can scheme try to
Pressure nuke to not allow him to just push and folk down leader consistently
This book on ice really just playing kind of guards, but you know
He's just trying to make sure that the nuke isn't losing
But if he doesn't like if both junglers do nothing then leader should be the one suffering
Okay, well, I'm in there, yo.
He's just walking up for the next couple of minions, and you can step back. His mana bar can supplement a little bit more pressure here as well.
Ah, leader has to base here and TP back.
It's still equal CS though, he's done a really good job farming.
So as long as he doesn't boost too many minions here with the Risa, he's doing really good early game.
He's making his way down bot lane, looking for the invade. The pings are going in, SK are making the move, they've got the push up of the turret.
A defensive walk placed on blue and you got to save for Bacarta.
Timing is nice here.
Commitment to the walls when a TP's been channeling mid
ain't going to be the play, so SK just getting information about where the Wukong is.
Yeah, both midlaners traded TP, dark seal, refillable.
Exactly same inventory.
Only far from the different doors I suppose.
Yeah, yeah.
But very equal early game thus far.
Leader doing a great job farming up as you can see Wunder and I was having a bit of trouble.
The thing is, Saahen wins these all-ins really hard, so Ruzer can stick onto Wunder, and Wunder loses quite hard.
Now Wunder might be forced to base in TP here, or he's just going to be on the receiving end for a little bit longer.
Back to potlight. We're getting anything here.
Oh, we might get it all then.
I'm happy, but...
Trimmy not going to get rooted back, still good trades here from Yoppa and Micky who again opted in for this lane very early in the draft, small CS lead.
So far, but there is a big wave mounting up for shifters to run in.
Yoppa is going to look to pick the base, but already with the tier.
Shifters still, if they're able to hold this wave, Yoppa has to cancel the base, yeah.
Eski there doesn't want to let the shifters have a freeze, Yoppa will lose too many minutes.
That captain got us all out, no?
Yeah, I mean, in my ears, the only inspectator view is just every time he's here at Corky.
That has been the biggest nuisance I think out of spectating any League of Legends.
That one in the bug, so they're just kid-flagged.
Dude, six years, I swear.
At least.
Still a problem.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I feel like it's something with Zones or something.
Oh, that was...
Yeah, that sound is awesome.
We love our game, but there have been some things leader on the nuke gets help from buccata who's coming in from behind now
He's just gonna make sure his presence is known
But scheme's also gonna match that in second nuke has no manner bone cleaver hits by the way
Skeen's thinking about well
Do I flash this and he's not even gonna try and get nukes flash out tribute making the move up as well Mickey
Shadowing but this 3v3 or whereabouts in the mid lane is gonna stop right there
Leader though crucially gets to keep the wave so he's gonna be keeping this wave
crying the frozen it's gonna be slowly transitioning into a slow push but it
does mean that nook is gonna lose some minions is now leader will just take
the hard push the wave and base himself really really good early game here as
you can see that leader has a small CS lead although with new catches that it
will be pretty close to equal but all things considered it's now we've hit
level six Akali without losing any early game farm very well played by
Stop in the back, Paddock in a brush, turns Gatlin gun on, Yopa just gets in his face
by some time, but Paddock has cancer back a second time here, now that Mickey's here
as well I mean for Yopa, he can push us out, what do you reckon Jack, is Paddock in,
is he fried here, is Mickey gonna come back in for an engage or what do you think about?
He's fine, he's just gonna catch the wave.
It's a little bit low mana, Yopa has the BF sword, which feels nice so, Schifters
are just gonna kind of be loosing, push in the bot side, but Mickey is blind,
Wait, okay, the pixel, the absolute pixel difference.
Trimby doesn't get the connect.
Now, Mickey just runs away with the battle dance
and they're off and giving that extra range is nice.
Paddock's stepping in, they're gonna try for something
but for this scuttle, Smite's gonna come down,
Skeen's just got level six.
Pukata doesn't have to engage.
Set up from Mickey, misses and whiffs there
but he does get the gleaming quilt,
runs back to Yoppa and again, the play stops there.
Yeah, Trimby doesn't wanna hook in
mostly due to the big inventory discrepancy
update he carries. If he hooks in, Joppa's going to be doing a lot more damage than Fodak,
so he rightly knows that if he hooks in it's going to be a bad time. That does mean however
that SK gets full control and it's going to be first Drake going to SK once again, so overall
an early game going in the favor of SK again. Are you on the broken Dragon, Dragon? Do you
think it's like that broken? I think it's pretty broken. I think the most broken thing
about Dragon is Trimby. He gets a little bit low, good route there with the feather pull-in
from Yoppa. Yeah it's gonna be forced to base but the most broken thing about
Dragons to me is just that it makes it really easy to play the game. Yeah. Because
you have this clear wincom, you don't have to worry about Baron, not sure which
like unless you're really far ahead like last game when they had that 5k gold
beat it was pretty easy to play. Yeah. But if the gold beat is like 2k or it's
very close then the dragon is really what seals the deal as I think Trimby
needs to stay here yeah. So if Trimby base there SK would just die. So Trimby
forces stay but but I can trippy having a bit of a rough early game I want to throw
back to what we talked about earlier which was when you're looking this
corky hotlass you want to play like you have barrier on corky versus ghost on
loziah you're really getting out to get both counterparts and they're just kind
of losing and not really getting any lead and then you also didn't get the
first rake and I just really wish they would have went for something like
the bar instead which would back in the end he's gonna back up because about the
daughter remember the opposite he's all even better need to burn it first one
to the love is joy I mean we talked about shifters losing both lane and SK
they pounce on the opportunity a stringy basis right in front of their face so
they know they can go for the dive but I thought he had enough HP with the
barrier to at least trade one for one it was a nice little tower juggling but
it's a big mistake but because like Yopa still had the ultimate you know
Oh, he's still full HP. It's a pretty easy dive for SK.
I think put out just the...
To be honest, I can kind of relate. I haven't had those moments before.
You don't want to lose the wave. You see the wave coming and you're like,
I'm not going to lose these minions.
My support should have stayed and then you die and you're like,
well, my bad.
Because you kind of value it up in your head, right?
I assume you're like, oh my god, that's like 3 in the goal.
Yeah, like if I die, I die.
You know, that's the mentality.
Right, well, works out bad.
Later away with the Shuriken, flip trimbies by the side.
The arcane range is good, jumping in, dangerous, but dredge line goes up, and Lita goes down, so avoids it quite thoroughly as
Shift is now going to use that pressure through mid to try and walk up and start the grubs.
Yeah, it can be at least a crab start here for Bucata as Lita is facing. We'll see if he wants to start the grubs as well.
Lita cancels the base, he does have the regen. I do think a fight around the grubs would probably still favor SK.
Yeah.
Unless Rooster can get involved and be really strong.
Oh, that's just one cleaver. I mean, Skeens is doing completely fine.
Every bone cleaver is quite nice. Bucata getting close to half their fee.
It's just the art of Mundo is let it get to push up. Wave's going to be cleared and
neutralized while SK think about themselves maybe stealing away a grub.
On the back, Lita's found that. Bucata goes over the wall, but well done. Lita backs away,
doesn't get caught with his pants down and Skeens taking bare minimum one here.
As Bucata, don't do the same thing as last game.
He's won. The blast cone is on the right part of it this time. He jumps over the wall.
Smite comes in. It was stolen cheekily by Bucata and he gets out at least a 9-0-3.
Yeah, he's able to pick up one Grubb at least this time, but still two Grubbs for SK.
And you can see just how strong Skins is.
And he's able to force Bucata out and take full control here.
There's now two Grubbs, one drag in, Rooster.
You can see Wanda really stepped up on the cat and he wanted it here.
Here Dread of Return is nice from Rooster and this is the only lane finding 6S right now for shifters.
Small CS lead, count 200 gold though, you'd say a little bit bigger than small.
And Rooster consistently had pressure over Wunder in this matchup.
Yeah, good CS lead for Rooster. We'll see if he can maybe get some plates here as well.
Doesn't land the W but he's in good damage.
Skins coming up.
Skins is here to ruin his day, but Bukhara as well.
Really good time.
Really good time.
Should be winning for Shift through Sierra.
Yeah.
SK at low.
Wanda just gets side-slown.
He's dead.
Doesn't even point.
Bobby gets kitchen now.
Skins has decided to bring on the dosage,
but even with the ulti, he's still in harm's way.
She just leave it there, though.
They get their first kill of the game,
and Wanda was on about 150 HP.
Yeah, huge win for Shift through Sierra,
but a really nice roll by Leader now,
which makes it so that Rooster will not
will not be able to hit plates, and you see how Rooster really wanted to hit the plate.
As Bugata gets the longer range from the Q there, they at least get one, but I really
like this run from Lidr, because you can see that he already got the mid-wave, so it only
means that Nuke gets one plate, and now Lidr will be back.
But it makes sense that Rooster, instead of getting the two, three plates that he
normally would have gotten, only was able to pick up one, he's still going to get
the Triforce, so it's going to be a really tough matchup now for Wunder, double
Triforce picked up for Schecter's really big Power Spikes here.
Oh, I think he's a bit avoided, so from the dredge line again,
Trimby hasn't really been able to connect any of those Qs
to set up a pick or start a fight here for shifters.
As SK found a pick, Trimby here going through a tri-bush of water,
he flushes over the wall and gets back to his bottom lane.
Type of Bikata has an angle, but there is no ulti.
Quickest pull down from Miki at the SK.
Now the feathers are there and a root and a Coro.
You have the flushes over, he's matched.
Depth charge gets a kill, shifters with one.
And as SK run for their lives, they see a trade.
They see their support dead a one-for-one, but in the end Yoppa dropping down some gold still over the shifters
I love the turn there from shifters the fact that they found Yoppa and they were willing to instantly collapse on him
There was a lot of flashes burnt and an S of being just a one-for-one
The kill, Crackersfield down, sure can flip, Flans, Lita, he's waiting for an execution, matches the flash gets out!
This is Lita's day!
Holy moly, it's Bucata running back to the safety of his turret.
I mean, Lea is just classing you.
Oh my god, what is happening Jake? Like...
Old man Ryze.
He's just stomping him.
I don't know, like, Leader now gets the solo kill.
He's nearly up a full level once again.
Skeens is looking to get the Drake.
This might be a little bit too much for SK as Bucata is coming back.
But I guess they just have to drop it.
His two Drakes for SK.
Another early game gold lead.
And its leaders show, correct?
And game one he got camped, but game two he's doing it himself as he watched this long play again.
I mean, it starts off with Trimby being forced to flash out and it doesn't look too bad for SK,
but then Yonpa ends up actually getting hooked and getting full CC chain nearly at the falling.
The only bad thing here is that both Bukhara and Poduk flashes over.
Isn't it Trimby that picks up the kill with Ultima?
But then Leader here, wow, just does so much damage.
Nuke tries to flash the R2 Akali damage, that R2 is so fast, it's so hard to flash it, you need to really predict that.
And he wasn't able to actually flash the damage, with that leader was able to pick up the kill.
And now, leader is sitting on a gunblade, two dark steel stacks, 500 gold lead, that's a scary Akali right there.
I mean this is the guy that earlier in the day, only 40 minutes ago, picked up his first competitive Orianna win.
But outside of that, we were also highlighting the CSD stats that was obviously Orianna based,
but the game out of his last game, he's just chumped onto that and I don't know.
I don't know what to say, I'm befuzzled because I did not come into today with notes saying,
oh look at how well Lita's playing. I had this idea in the back of my mind that like,
in terms of bottom three mids, I feel like Lita was firmly on that board.
Yeah. For me I was more nook than I was looking for like okay today is his day
to really show a great performance a great turn to that greatness that we've
seen before from him and to kind of put leader in the dirt but nook game number
one it was a lot about the support jungle how they played around mid but
this game number two you just you didn't see that early game aggression that
you want to see from the victor to partner the Akali and leader got to
scale up to the level six he got that ultimate and that's when the
your colleague can actually come online and get solo kills and then we're just gonna play.
Setting up the Shuriken flip again on the rooster might be a different story. The knockup is nice.
Rooster dread of return brings Lita back in. He's still in the Shrapnel rooster.
About to pop the ulti. Here's Grim Deliverance misses, no flashes back in. Trying to get
the pass of his public execution rather perfect outlet. Shuriken flip out now.
Lita is gone. Skeens though had to back away as he kept Bukata at bay and SK not gonna
say they're gonna run away through the river. Nothing's up in the bottom of the map right
now so fighting here is futile and leader got rooster's flash and didn't have to use any summoners
of his own just have to burn that ultimate wonder if the whole might be in trouble i can storm the
chase down newt close to getting the kill but wonder's gonna run away he's safe for now the bottom
play pings are going down he's just gonna turn into a diver maybe the anti-diver directs line
again a little bit shallow mickey goes in for the play aggressive but he can't shift his
have a long help bot on all three members and now Skeens is here to show up to see what he can find.
Okay, they want the bolt tower and they're gonna get it no matter what leader hovering as well.
Yoppa being able to pick up the first bolt tower here, Padax just forced the base.
There's triple triforce on the side of shifter so you'd hope that there will be some more life
in them but it's really hard for them to really leverage any sort of control or losing push
pretty much everywhere apart from the top lane. I think really wonder is the one weak target
that they need to try to target if they're going to get back in this game.
Because every other part of the map they're just losing.
We can't have succeeded before but the one that now getting some plays back is minimizing the
gold and all the attention of shifters is moving to the other parts of the map that are burning
but you're right you know it needs to be towards that top lane it needs to be
maybe facilitating rooster a bit more the only individual gold lead here
that shifters have in game two as the rest is 2 000 gold behind two dragons behind
and in a minute 30 we'll find out if they can stop that sole point from falling behind as well.
Yeah, that's really what they need to have their eyes set on. They need a great team fight.
They have some good Wombo combo tools, kind of the Wukong Ultimate with the Nautilus Ultimate,
a lot of knockups. So they need to layer all their CC together or find the pick before the
fight starts with something like the Nautilus Hook. It's just so hard with Leader being this
far ahead, he's always going to be getting pushed. And then as well, Wunder at least
being behind. Let's allow them some leverage of control. Rooster is moving first here. There's
four versus five. We'll see Angle on. Buccaro gonna facecheck here. Still Harold being done.
Knock up on Buccaro. He's at half HP. SK abiding the time but at 5K now. Harold going down. My
feet success story for shifters but can they get it and get out. Leader on an angle again
into the pit. The quickness. P.D. Knock up. He gets leader on Angle but he gets slowed down.
He's starting down, but it looks good at first, but you realize that ASK, a ball in the map,
Pada gets on the back side, Lee defies to the way, white, he gets a corner and shut down, comes in.
We need to reassess, because there's a 2 for 2.
I felt that shift has got absolutely one mode.
This was a 4 versus 5 jake, that's why it looked closed.
Okay.
Even though Miky found out crazy engage and it was knock up and did knock up and so much damage,
it was the fact that Rooster could wrap around and actually help his team,
But it just speaks for how dire this game is for shifters.
The fact that even when it's 4 vs 5, it's SK that find the initial engage,
that have all the pressure, that have all the guards.
That's how Yopa might be in trouble.
Well, yes, there's a whole team around them, and SK, they're going to get some points.
Okay, well, despite that, I'm just wondering how shift actually looks balanced here
as we look again after the hero gets taken.
Yeah, I mean, Mickey just pouts a fantastic engage here, like he ults, and the flash is in, gets a 3 map knockup, and a 4 map charm,
and just allows your foot to do so much damage, and even though Rooster is here to kind of clean up the fight,
the fact that Rooster was so late made it so that it just becomes a 2 for 2 in the end, and Wunder's hitting plates on both,
so that gold lead for the top lane is now completely gone.
Yeah, and how about the winged cotton for shifters feels like they're kind of just slipping out of their grasp all by one.
Maybe that Herald's got something to do with bringing them more life in this game.
As we said before, Sol point now a quiet SK, a 4 minutes away from picking up the said Sol.
Baron is up in 1 minute 20, one more slip up.
I don't like that comp is mega solid doing it, but it would give him enough time
and Shift is looking to the chase down.
Threads line again.
Oh wait, Leader doesn't get tagged out by the damage either.
Jumps back in.
Okay, he's like, I'm not getting out.
He's gonna ulti, but that execution ends in his own making.
so leader gets caught, shifters commit three but mid is now open as Rift is trying to drop
paddock from rather Mickey and Yoppa from getting in mid lane is successfully defended
however shifters only get one they minimise the gold a little bit nukes gonna try and
pick up some plating here askeens to the rescue.
Oh, it's the kill on me, pops the ultimare, I think this is a kill for Leroy, the infected
Cleave us here, Drex lining is nice and you can still slide down with the red buff though and maybe Trimby's done enough.
Hard steel dopamine acquired and regardless of now hovering around gravity field there, the well is good.
Quickness on to Trimby, another cleaver that an execution this time from Wanda will help Trimby put him down.
A public execution from downtown as Wanda TP's in allows him to take down Trimby and it's going to be the top power falling now.
Well, it was initially a great play from shifters, they were able to take down leader, get kind of back in the game, it looked pretty nice.
It's now all going back into SK's favor as they're going to take the top tower, take off plates in mid, take off the killback and that.
It's a tough situation for shifters when your good play turns into a bad play.
Yeah, looks right.
And the gold gets balanced elsewhere.
Leader gives over a little bit, but now Wanda somehow is ahead, you know, from the plays before, from the play that we just saw.
Wonder back in the game and this to me feels like his Ambesa game
I think it was those heretics yeah where we saw the same thing where it was like wonder got bodied in lane
But then it didn't matter what Tracy did to him because his team fighting was so good on this Ambesa
He's most played so far in this split giving it over him
We'll see if was a mistake from shifters as deep in the enemy jungle opening up the mixtape SK
I finding everything here is Valkyrie away from Patrick is not trimming over the wall might turn into a plane back from
SK, Dredg's line away, the route back is nice, but a good bar for Halvah, Trimme, he's not the one out of there
It's only Rousseau, the Dredg's line and Vick would have killed him, but Shifters are on the retreat path and losing
They're both by jungle in the process. Yeah, I think he's definitely happy that that was there. You can see how difficult it is for Shifters
They just get forced out of the jungle, SK are stronger in each and every position
Which makes it so hard for Shifters to really hold onto any semblance of control
They really need to overload on one side or fight some sort of peak
You can see they're just taking away the jungle camps because it doesn't even get a small little raptor
And Trimby wants to try to take off the pink ward with even the pink ward is scary. Yes, they run away. He gets the pink but
Holding anything right now. It's just a nightmare for shifters. This movement from SK though very clean
It involves vision involves deep vision at that as well and as Mickey drops it as the shifters have to go into the fog of war
the dangers. As you said, Trimby's scared now about this topside moving in. SK grouped up as three,
found out over the wall, Trimby's got a dredge line and a wall in range, so he's okay, but
SK completely narrowing out the Baron vision right now, so Shifter's always have to be vigilant.
Yeah, it's super hard for Shifter to really play. We saw Bucata hovering up to our topside
and really when you're in a losing position like this, as Shifter's what you want to do
is trying to hold control of this topside, just so two things can happen, one you can farm mid and top,
and two that they can't get full control of topside so they begin to start mash.
Right now, shifters are not really able to do either, you see them dropping the farm on top,
they've decided to just put the Herald mid and try to get really early dragging control,
as this is a solo press game, they want to make sure that they don't give up.
Nuka said, I don't care about top lane, or maybe she's changed his mind,
Okay, if he goes top lane now, it's all a bit whack. I'm not gonna lie
But like now he's forced to go top lane, but then he's immediately gonna be forced to TP back to the dragon
And now leaders keeping first. It's a disaster for shifters. They're all gonna die. Okay, you're right
Well into the card. Let's see if Jack Spectre is right and translating later. Go on. He can't play the game never mind
Jack leader got CC to death now Yopas likes later
But truly so the very new target with the rest of shifters by versus fall if you just burst later down
anything's possible. Okay, I thought Leader would wait for his team, but first out it was the disaster SK.
SK needs to drop the Drake, shifters will get that. We'll see if SK can get any sort of cross map going.
They couldn't go on to nook. It's an execution once again, Nuke is just caught under his own tower.
One is not taking much damage, a depth charge dealt by his mid laner, and with a storm down as well,
he gets stunned up in tower, like a change the round, like SK, I'm making another dive.
One in between two members, it's gotta be a kill. Well, I thought most. Nuke survives.
great flash in the end from the victor while dragon still being thought about by shifters, but hang on
no steal, great deliverance, rooster gets sunned up he has a GA in built now but he's not dead yet
skins over the clever wall, yelp has to run away, the ferns are gonna fly, put Kata from the chase down
cyclone again, flash on Kata, no big one, foster is formed, auto, flash, yelp is out
but shifters have got some groove in their step
what the hell is going on Jack, wait, leader's flash will miss in
He's pissed off, and he gets a kill! Solo on the nuke! Another one roosts, but he's bopped away!
Almost, you get no flash, and that would have been a dead man walking.
Leader still got it, and the game still goes on.
Oh my god, it just keeps going back and forth.
What felt like a pretty sure fire easy win for SK has now turned into an incredibly big fiesta, I would say.
And I'm now not sure which team will win anymore.
We'll see what the next fight holds for us.
It's still SK holding most of the cards, having more control,
they have more towers, they have more gold,
and they have all three grades.
Yeah.
But yeah, SK will be 3-0 in the best of one format.
Maybe that's also all you need to know.
Now, SK are starting to nash.
They want to keep this game going.
Let's see what happens.
All right, let's see if Betty's confidence rains true.
Let's see if we change it up, SK.
This Baron is everything to end the series here,
but Chypter's still only 2,000 gold behind.
something to say. Riccardo's angle fantastic but on award now lost in spotting. Another one
right by the Hexgate but shifters are going to take the mainstream approach. Public excursion
fantastic on the product one that goes in but he burst it immediately. Cal storm, Grimm deliverance
all these early circles of dead charge on the upper who's isolated will be taken down as well.
The shifter's team fighting is back and makes a debut at LEC spring. And your father didn't
and have the ultimate trim beside.
Now, Shifter wants to set the match up.
I'm not sure about this one.
It's a three versus four.
Leader coming in with the perfect execution.
He has to flank.
We're throwing all Hail Mary's out,
Bucata, Cyclone, good schemes.
Finally gonna get knocked up,
second time around,
Churic and Flick,
under the real work on,
quickness as well, Mickey.
As he saves the fight,
he gets in, gets back up,
and Leader can't seem to hit again.
It's just going Hail Mary,
and every single fight now
He's up in the air.
They look so difficult for this Akali to play.
There's so many small little CCs.
Rooster keeps knocking him up.
As we see this fight here from the beginning,
it's SK who started off this Nasher,
and I wonder if he finds the probably execution
but it's so deep, his team can't follow.
So he just had some time before they've even gotten there
and then a really nice flash ulti from Trimby
to take Yopa down due to the fact that he didn't have ult.
And that Shunter is like,
okay, you guys started Nasher, we'll do it too.
Nevermind, we're leaving the replay.
And now we're just back to where we started 1k gold lead all but separates
SK from shifters
Two minutes to that dragon part two the tempo is shifting. I think I'm so shifting a little bit here
No, there's no cast a curse. Okay, and you don't need to read every single comment that balsa
I'm like a goldfish. Yeah, you are and that guy is right leader give it leader take it away
That person is true. He did flank too early for sure
I love the TP, but he had to wait for his team, and I think if he did that they would have gotten soul on the game
They also could have gotten soul anyways. Yes, but
You know what?
Let's see what the next fight holds because in both teams now we'll wait for this fourth ring, Spaniard
And we'll see what they bring
I think starting Nash like both teams kind of tried to start Nash. Yeah, they've like experienced it
They don't go so good, you know, neither team has too much damage
I mean Yopa on the Sire is gonna pick down the Nash pretty fast, but he's paired up with the leader on the Call of Duty
It's like nothing. So I think playing for the Drake is the surefire wincon for SK
I want to see them set up that objective. So let's get leader on a flank once again
Let's have him wait for the team. Same will wonder don't go too deep going too deep
It's like the worst thing you can do. Okay. Yeah, so if they don't do that
I think SK still have the advantage and
but
Look at seven kills out of that up. So you're now back sipping out you could you like hang on that big?
There's got a rabbit on bed. Yeah, I don't know. He was like zero
three
Wow, well, we'll see how good place to fight
There's definitely gonna be a key member to look out the duck is still not too strong looking to get that LDR
Maybe hasn't in base now. I think if he has it that certainly makes it easier for them to play
He does have the LDR. It's a big one
Joppa has it on the other side, so that's a three-item Zyre with a clock of agility to boot.
Yeah, pretty equal items across the board for the ADCs, so it's really up to Nuke to make the
difference, I'd say, in Zyre's department. No rabidon on leader just yet. Maybe he can base
and pick it up now. He's basing. Let's see if he has a rabidon. But how's this fight gonna go?
It's really all about who engages first. I think if SK can get a clean engage off,
they can easily wipe them, while if shifters can find the hook, burst down one target,
Before SK get that nice little one more combo set up, then it's really easy for shifters.
Let's find out who pulls the trigger first. Trimby looking for a dredge line. Maybe to get the
passive out on skeins. As Wanda looks for an angle to level 16 and best up. Need the public execution
and when shift is grouped up maybe he's going to find a trippy tagged out dragon started.
Six, five going down. Shift is still looking for the fight front on.
Protobelt you by leader in the back to run into a wall as 3k. Heal from Mickey. Dredge
This one doesn't connect.
Who pulled the first?
It's Mickey, Honda Trimby, the back line, suppressed, hit,
ignored, dragon taken, Hextech-Soul to SK.
That's a frontline doesn't shock, and Wanda
has done everything he needs to with his ulti.
He'll get chased down by youth, but souls last forever.
Mickey is still looking at what he can find as an angle,
but SK, trading even, is better than even as the proper runs
into Paddock, tries to threaten,
but a Hextech-Soul has been given.
Yeah, the winners of this fight are SK, with the fact that they were able to secure the
soul there, we'll see how it plays out.
You see that SK, Wunder and Glider both bring a lot of pressure on this back line, and that's
what allows the rest of SK to then move forward and take up the space, that's a really close
smite fight that gives just barely ends up winning, and then Bukhara's taking down
as well, so even though it's a one for one, the fact that they were able to get
the soul, I think if shifters had bigger HP bars then they could go to Nash, I
I'm scared of not what's going on here, as Bukata's in base, they have a lot of time here.
He's going to take a Hexgate goal and that's the speed of the ref right now, 10k, Mickey trying to zone out, Trimby.
He's going to find an angle here, but Mingle Paduck's getting solid, kill my leader!
Here's Akali, he's smacking at the 4k, 3 now for the steal, Bukata wins!
SK decided to flip, but maybe Chifters decided to flip the game.
Trimby and Newt running for their life while SK the chase down has a hand to the chef.
It's Joppa for the chase, it's Skeen getting stunned up, but Baron goes over to Schifters, how they survive is anyone towards him.
Joppa dies next to a turret, SK went a bit too deep, Skeen's close to dying himself, and I'll tell you one thing, even with the soul, even with the kills, SK I think are finding a way to throw this game right down the toilet.
But I have no words.
I think SK got really mad that Schiffer stole the Nash,
so they wanted to kill them.
That's the vibe I got.
That was like a rage play, kinda.
But that means Leader at least
is able to pick up this mid tower.
And it is still, oh my God,
I think Basin there is crazy.
I mean, I just don't know.
Well, Jack, good luck with the replay.
Yeah, all yours, buddy, all yours.
Oh my, okay, Sarsaw,
but it gets watched off.
It's a classic, right?
He wants to help his team.
He knows they're on Nash, a really good play by a leader there, just take him down.
Leader decides not to join his team because he thinks himself, I used my ultimate, you guys got it, right? It's fine.
And then Skeens and Yopah are like, guys they still aren't in Nash, they can't get away with this.
So they walk in, Mickey flashes, he gets pulled anyways, Yopah gets completely watched up,
and then Trimby tries to flash hook, then Mimba was passed it off.
So that doesn't quite work out. As we enter now,
Life, back to you, Jake.
Over to live, okay.
Now, Elder is one thing that takes us to a game three, for sure.
Baron is relieving the pressure for shifters at this point in the game.
And as we said before, Nuke had three items,
now has four with the Magi's and the Buildings of Amarillo with the Orbs.
Shifters, they're onslaught.
It's doing so much work with public institution,
one defines the backline, but Queen deliverance,
right in the middle of everyone else, is it enough?
The question is, you almost died for the leader. Leader. Leader has an angle.
Chip has already won five of the leader. It's found new.
In the back side, he's on the putt-up match.
Probably gives you... No! It's perfect!
Mickey saves his mid laner. The putt-up moves again on out, but the fight has been renewed for SK.
I cannot believe I'm saying these words.
But leader is the hero of SK today.
Leader finds the flank and it might have been what saved the game as Mickey
Oh no he's dead!
I can't shoot!
I can't shoot!
Padaq just dead!
Oh no he's dead!
Padaq is not dead yet!
Padaq kills the mickey!
I looked bot for a second!
Watch timing!
Okay!
Leader TP's bot, they're still cancelling the base since can they end?
Can they end?
It's 24 seconds, I don't think... can they end?
I mean the chase down from Skain, he's gonna at least stop the backs.
Padaq has to walk all the way back or at least float whatever Corky does.
I mean if I go through please stare.
Yeah he doesn't care!
He doesn't care!
He's gonna push!
He's gonna push!
And push!
If you get slowed down enough, you're pulled one shot.
Torres is going to be the play here.
Inhibitor and bot lane as well.
Cleetor takes that one.
One of the most entertaining games of the split,
you can say, easily is hitting here and going through.
Yeah, Leetor getting two in this here.
Always going to be second one.
He's going to get second one.
That's really, really big press game.
Makes it super difficult for Sheik to try to confess
the elder that's going to come out.
But we watched the replay here.
The sorts of wonder going in because they're not
able to quite change the damage to take down Nuke.
Which then initially looks like, okay, Shifters has a really good fight here, Nuke is going to base with the match, he's going to TP back.
Leader says, no, he takes out Nuke, just barely does not have the damage, should take down Podek as well.
Podek flashed away, but that buys enough time for the rest of SK to take down Brewster, which they kind of saved.
I'd say saves the game, for SK, because if Nuke got that base off, with then TP back with full HP, Leader's not going to be able to kill anybody in the backline.
And then they could probably just siege it with the national net.
It's crazy. Couple of TPs that felt like it was throwing the game.
And now an out-of-flank angle that puts SK back in charge.
Elders up in 55 seconds.
SK have push, they have pro.
And this game still comes down to what happens over that drake
if shifters are allowed to leave their base.
SK for now not letting them go as we are going to keep pushing.
And SK are focusing on top play while leader is trying to channel in mid.
I mean, I really like this from SK, just keep pressuring.
And then once the elder spawns, then you can look to go over there.
But it's really like a checkmate situation.
It should be when you have two in-empts like this.
Because as long as you don't allow shifters to get a deep out push,
they should never really be able to leave their base
in fear of a potential backdoor.
As now SK are looking to move towards the elder,
we'll see how much they can poke shifters when they try to enter.
It's a vision situation like SK control.
Control ward's here for now. Thank you, Observers, for zooming out.
This pathway is at least dark, but there is a ward towards Dragon that is being dropped by Shifters.
TP is going to be burned. That is Ambessa joining in. That ward should be taken out now,
and the rest outside of that ward in front of the Dragon is dark, and the tri-bush, so
SK need to clean out a little bit here to make Shifters do it in.
When Shifters are on the timer, you can see that Rooster's already inside at the base.
He does have the TP. I think the fact that Wunderer used the TP feels a little bit
bad because you really want to have that as a backdoor tool. That does mean
they're going to look to instantly force Rooster's DPR as they're starting up the
elder. Fields down, leaders on the wall, into an order. As he goes golden, there's a
council on his head though and a Cyclone to his flashes over depth charge.
But Newcastle looking for his target. Meanwhile, Grimdorver is in the fight.
While Miki has already been taken down, Shifters might be winning his out
because there's no elder left. Rooster going to get onto GA but even then
he just won't die. Shifters are winning the fight. SK botched it and
And even though the minions power on the Nexus turrets, everyone from shifters outside of
Padawk will live.
Bro, what the hell is going on?
They had the checkmate!
You had the checkmate, SK!
You just have to let the minions do the work!
As Yopa now is going for the backdoor to an east force of a way, Yopa has the flank
though on this fight.
He's going to base, said he's going to fight it.
I think Yopa can look for the flank here and actually clean this fight up.
There's no nuke in this fight and that's the most crucial member, under 7k, nuke
is deep being.
Okay, Skins lose the passive, he's drawn back in, still doing good damage to Mundo, tanking up quite a bit but they're pulling off Dragon, no steal.
He goes in with the Brona Belt, Yoppa gets out of the field just in time for the route down, he saves his life but not the long Calf storm.
Picking down and Yoppa about to die, he's running the wrong side of the Thumbnails Rift.
L.A. is taken and SK bit of watching here and there and an execute means that Shifters are in the driver's seat.
I think.
I don't know if there's a driver anymore in this vehicle. We have crashed so many times.
We are in Ronald McDonald's happy car. Back in the 90s before they got rid of him.
We're in that car, you get in every mackers and feel like you're part of the crew.
Two minutes of elder dragon now for shifters. The Nash is up as well.
If they can combine both, that would really be the nail in the cup.
I think that's the nail in the cup. I don't know what to do. We'll see what happens.
The leaders flanked, sometimes very good, sometimes very bad.
In this fight it was very bad.
He just had to be forced to use the Sonys and died immediately.
So now the Shifters have the Exodia.
They have the most powerful buffs.
They should look to siege and just win the game.
But nothing goes as it should this game.
So I'm going to say that SK finds a miracle fight.
That's it.
OK, there we go.
Let's wait and see how that happens.
Baron, three minutes.
The elder half the time are left remaining and SK's defense begins as full item purchase here from shifters make sure they get everything they can
For item corking all build onto new kistoo at 12 sacks of magi's
Surely this is how we go to a game three. I mean, okay, maybe right
I mean when I look at nook's inventory like that should be as elder. It should be a it should be a
But at the same time it should have been it when SK got the soul. Yeah
Yeah, but we'll see. They set up here a little 4-1.
The leader is pushing in the top lane.
They could even look for a potential base race situation,
but I think the leader is just going to force the base after this wave.
He wants to continue. He does have the teleport,
but shifters can make a lot of progress here.
Maybe he's saying that mid and hit is down anyway.
Let's just leave it.
Yeah, I think losing mid in it is not bad.
But it's like...
Oh, he just finished you.
They're going to get both in it as well.
Do they fight that rooster first?
But if you lose two in-eps
Only the elder is running out shifters need to find a fight in the next 15 seconds
Okay, Trimby's about to watch he's gonna look for a hook right before the elders
Final stretch line on the scheme is not gonna mean too much
The wave is spinning out as well way clear is Yoppa, but it's not super big range
Bradley Field zoning out SK in front of the next is starting to try to hold on for this elder
We just got about 10 more seconds to go.
If even that, Wanda's chunked out through X-Line again.
Depth charge is good.
Feathers around.
Miki with an angle leader holding up as well.
Elder is down.
The fight for SK is found.
It's Wanda who pulls the trigger on the new.
But as he goes, got him.
Look at Yoppa.
Look at Yoppa on the side with Leader finding an angle.
They've taken down Bukata.
Chistus, he was taking one in Lira himself,
but the rest of SK are holding on.
Bruce's GA has run out.
Wanda found the chase.
A triple over to the 80 carry.
Who's only down Panthers and inside the LEC games
for the rest of SK will clean up
and we get an ace at 39 minutes.
SK find the miracle five, Jake.
That's what I talked about.
That's what I was envisioning.
They found the key members.
But I don't think they can actually end the game.
They can't, no.
They didn't go top because top wasn't a wave.
They do have the mid wave,
but Skins is facing, they can't.
We're going to a second.
So you think Bucardic can defend 20 seconds?
No, I mean they're not trying that.
Because he's big, so like...
Yeah, no, they're just going to push his leg and then go to the job.
I was thinking we'd have them better and we're calm, but maybe not yet.
Push the wave in, and we wait, we chill a little bit more.
Let's look at the base defense on the ground.
So, I mean, Trimby's hooks, both of them, were onto schemes.
He wasn't really able to find the hook that they were looking for.
At this moment, the elders now ran out.
I love Lieder how he's taken this long way around for the flight.
But frankly, a colleague that's taken the game is just kind of like outscaled.
It's just really hard to do enough damage without dying.
You see how fast he dies in these fights,
and it was a really clever tech from Wonder.
Actually, it was a Wonder TP in this fight
to get a huge shield, which allowed him to chase down Nook.
But if he held his TP at the top,
he would have ended the game.
Okay, so, you know, it was a cool tech
and I loved that he did it, but definitely feels bad.
Like he definitely felt like right after the fight,
Oh wait, I think we're good.
But it's hard, it's hard to predict in this game because I don't even think...
I think the players are slowly losing their minds as well.
We have 43 kills, 41 minutes.
A soul picked up about 15 minutes ago, it feels like, from SK.
Yeah, an elder that's run through that's coming up again in a minute 30.
Riot Games specifically said that elder was built to end games.
Yeah.
It didn't end the game.
They're not over again.
Baron number three or four at this point, I can't remember.
Yep.
That's coming up.
We've got GA on both 80 carries, so I'll use some both mid laners. GA on Bucada.
Yeah.
So a lot of things to really consider, like for example for a leader now, I would say this is a nerf for a leader,
because even if you take down Paduck at the start of the fight, he just has a GA to get back up.
So you really need to make sure that you're both taking down the key carries and actually winning the fight so that GA can't really make a difference.
As our shifters are the ones trying to hold control there of the elders, 20 to 40 seconds.
Asgare forced to back us, leader is still top.
Red's line from Trimby means a target, Yoppa heavily protected by Micky and Ski.
As they run through the mid lane, shifters have an angle again onto the Mundo, it's not great depth charge.
Runs in, it's wasted onto Yoppa, it doesn't enable anything.
SK knows shifters are missing an ulti as leader.
He's going to try again with a teleport.
The angle of man's shifters in trouble.
Pat our front line again with a GA in trouble.
And Joppa gets the free reign.
Where is that the old deodorant, like this says?
And again, Wanda gets his target.
Now the leader comes in.
The left side of the fight looks cooked.
The left side of the fight looks cooked.
Shitha's had their chance.
And SK broke it.
Ashura can flip.
And Luke sitting, waiting for his ultimate demise.
He's become the correct myself, but regardless,
Shitha's will die.
SK won a fight for perfection there.
They separated them so nicely and finally showed us the team-fighting prowess that Anakali and Abessa can bring.
It's the fact that you can flank from multiple angles, take the fight in multiple stages at the same time,
and that's what SK needed to finally close out an absolute battle for the men again.
It wasn't as clean as Game 1, but SK 2-0 everywhere turning BDS.
You'll take that for that first LEC Spring Series win.
And Yoppa doing so much work in that last fight as well, doing so much damage, really all of SK just stepped up in that final fight.
You can see I think smiles of relief on the SK players as it would have been heartbreaking to lose this game after such a good early game,
getting the soul, and the fact that you really had the game in a checkmate state, but then you kind of fumbled it at the last minute.
I mean, shout out to BDS, I feel like a lot of that mid game was theirs, you know, and you kind of recovered, bounced back.
That was a rough showing from BDS, all things considered throughout the series.
I want to see how they progress through the rest of the split.
Skeensjopper, Mickey, are your options here?
I'm surprised.
Leader is not on there.
And I'm going to say this, that guy got robbed.
It should be on the series MVP, no?
I think Leader forget number one.
Definitely feels like he should be there, but...
The champions are a bit of an engine. That's healthy.
pretty big mistakes that's pretty big but then he also brought them back in the
game in top so is it his fault if they almost ran out of a game because of him
and then he bought them back it's tough it's not neutralizing yeah so then it's
only good yeah I don't know Jack we're gonna have to go to the data center for
this one skin standing by on stage with whoever we chose out of our lovely
analysts who did we choose it's law yeah that's me and that's kids victory
I think we're playing really good in all the games. I think the game was the final one. I think we do suppose sometimes like some team fight and like some...
That's the last deck I would say. But yeah, I'm still really happy about the win.
See, that's the thing. Why do you throw?
I mean, because we're boosted to be in this like there's nothing to say. I think... I mean, I don't know. I don't know. We have to fight.
Some oopsies.
I mean, because we are boosted to be this like there's nothing to say, I think, I mean, I don't know, to be honest, I don't know.
Some oopsies. Caps talked about being a goldfish sometimes, so we're going to go with this one. Pro players sometimes are goldfish in the game.
I want to talk to you about the base race because you really felt like shifters was going to win this one.
But then you managed to pull this one, defend the base and actually bring the game back in your hands. How did you make this happen?
I knew that the elder deck here was gone soon, so we were just waiting for it, and then I don't know, we just played better fight I think, like the most slow.
So I think today I think we just played better teamfight than Demi.
How was the communication during a moment like this, especially when you know that you might actually lose it, you kept on losing fights?
I think it was fine to be honest, I think we were kind of relaxed because we knew that this fight would be good for us to be honest.
So no, I think the comps were quite good.
All right, Coleman collected a much better face for SK this week compared to last week.
And I know that you had in an interview with Parlon Esports,
you said that you have a hard time finding your marks within the team.
So tell me about the progress from week one to week two,
but also what makes it hard for you, Skins?
I mean, I'm playing with a really huge player, I would say, like big names.
So it's kind of hard for me to make me a spacer, I would say.
But no, I think it's getting better and better.
Like, I'm more confident now, I would say.
Like, I don't know, I'm just playing my game.
Like, yeah, a bit more confident, a bit more relaxed as well in games, so yeah.
It was definitely showing today.
We have Leader waiting for us.
I'm going to join them in a bit, but I want to ask you a question.
As a jungler, do you like Leader on Mages or Leader on Melee more?
I like both of us.
I think it's good on both.
It's hard to play with him because he's a really aggressive player,
but he's really good, he's really good, so yeah.
So, no, I mean, I like him.
All right, respectable answer.
Merci beaucoup. Thank you so much.
It's games for the interview.
I'm going to grab the mic and let you join the team backstage.
And, yeah, actually we're going to follow up on that right now.
Very nice words from your jungler leader.
Thank you. He knew how to answer that question.
Yeah, right?
He was very pure trained. He definitely had a little bit of a rehearsing behind the stage.
But great games today. I think the second game was a little bit nerve-wracking maybe to watch.
I can imagine it's even more nerve-wracking to play.
For sure, yeah. When we were like lost at one fight while we were ahead,
and then I pressed Tab and I see Victor is like ahead of me, then I was like,
It's going to be a rough one and if you lose this one then it's going to be hard to pull back.
I actually want to start with the drought because me and Vettius had some really heated discussions back stage about
what's Akali a good pick or not because I think when you think about supports,
what do you think about playing as Nautilus as Akali? Because I think it's doable compared to other supports
but maybe you have a different opinion.
I think it's not that hard. I just need to make sure to not go first against Nautilus.
I think just let my team like marinate them a little bit, you know,
Make no-lose uses hook on people and then I can go in and then it's like completely fine
Because they don't really have anyone to reveal me in my shroud so shouldn't be hard I think yeah
So why did I should pick a color because we see your comp already like there was almost a last pick a color
What kind of compelled you to pick it in this game? So basically we have a messa and xayah rakan
Basically, we kind of want to go in with a messa first pick my matchup is good as well on the Akali into Victor
I will most likely a push all the time
We should be able to stack dragons as well with the faster clearing jungler, which is Mundu.
So just from mid jungle, I think we should be able to bridge our bot lane and bridge to start stacking dragons
when enemy team wants to play slow with weaker jungler and the weaker mid laner.
So we should be able to slow snowball with my pick.
Solid. Absolutely solid and
progress on Orianna as well as we saw. I know your coach was saying that it's hard playing with you sometimes,
but also learning a lot as a team because you're such an aggressive player that the team actually has to adapt around you.
So do you feel like you've been progressing in what they expect from you so far?
I feel like I've mellowed out a lot on the aggressive part.
I don't think I'm aggressive as I was before.
I tried to make it stable, like let other people like have a chance to carry when they have leads in the game too.
I think for example it showed that even though I felt like I could progress a lot in my lane,
my bot lane, I clicked tab, I saw that they were diving them and everything is fine.
I just need to make sure that I just don't int my lead away and give them windows
and we should slowly be able to win.
You say that, but is this you being passive? You're diving Victor between his own two towers.
I want to see what you look like when you're aggressive because I really think it's interesting
because if you had played best of once, you guys would be free-seer right now.
It would be the best team in Europe right now.
Are you thinking about that?
We are joking about that all the time.
Every day we're kind of joking about it because it was kind of depressing, losing against Naby and Heretics,
especially in the manner that we lost after we showed a good resilient game in Game 1 when we were behind,
and we kind of came back and a clean early game we did against Heretic was just sad the way we lost Game 3, honestly.
So, yeah.
It is what it is.
It is what it is.
It is what it is.
It was a 2-0 today, regardless of the way games you had been.
That's what we're going to note here.
note here, something we've been talking about is the fact that you're one of the few teams
who are going to play most of their games in the first portion of the season. You have
games every week until week four and then another one in week six. How is it something that you're
approaching because you're not going to have that much time to scale? It's now or never,
kind of. So the thing is like if we actually lost the first four games of ours, I think the
split is more or less over, so just that one week break that we would have would be like
very very hopeless and depressing so honestly this win is very big for us. I think we're going to be able to see a lot from the other teams, it's more or less top teams that are going to be playing the most and we can honestly get like relax a little bit I think and maybe have more room to talk about stuff.
So I was talking with Micky in the off-season and he was kind of adamant that one of your main issues in winter or versus was the drafts.
And I remember doing drafts meetings with you in Astralis and I remember them taking it, sometimes, sometimes.
We had some bangers back then. How has that kind of evolved leading into spring? Are you still putting a lot of emphasis on this and how are you guys progressing in this manner?
in this manner?
Well, we for sure put a lot of emphasis on draft, but lately it's like, it's whatever
you know, like we can take a simplified approach as well sometimes, just see what things work
for other people, because in all honesty, as much as it's hard for enemy to draft
against like these champions that are not normal to play against in scrims and on stage,
it's equally as hard for my teammates as well to actually know what to pick and
and how to play around them as well.
So it's for sure a work in progress.
And I think when we perfect both styles,
it's gonna be much harder to play against us.
Final note on Iopa, a key player of the series here today.
He had some strong words last week about the veterans
and how washed they are and how he's carrying the team.
How much do you think he's progressing so far?
I think I saw he had a fat smile on his face
while saying it, so I don't think he believes it himself.
All right.
But a good shout out.
Yeah, good shout out
Good performance from him today. Leader, thank you so much for joining us. Congrats on the two and oh
That's all for us here for now. We'll be back in just a minute with the great return of G2 esports facing up against heretics
For one
I'm sure it can flip plans later. He's fighting for execution
Look the right window.
Big tears on me.
JZP's right.
I'm going to hold the car here.
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
I'm just behind you.
I think they're on me.
I think they're on me.
I can't, I can't, I can't.
Look, they're cocky, cocky, cocky.
Cocky, they're DJ-ing.
If you don't die, we win this.
I'm going to hold the car here after.
Yeah, cocky's dead.
I'm going there.
Get midway, midway, midway.
Yeah, I'm running, I'm running.
Oh
Oh, it goes from beyond the past
To see the soul
A spirit most made guide before I
I can't wait to wonder if I
Or in shape could I
To meet again all these horizons
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
For whittlin' is calling your name,
Our whistle, burn off the soul's boiling all the way through,
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Collect your civil deeds,
If afraid they disappear tonight
Oh, Fendi, you're too good-bye
The light that shows
The part that knows
The day when the person speaks
The restless mind
Takes too far
We'll meet again
Can't you give them time?
Tell you that it's calling your name
I'll whisper all the spells who never leave us
Collect your silver teeth
And pray that we are here tomorrow
Can't you hear the call?
AHA! AHA! AHA! AHA! AHA!
The wind is calling my name
I whisper all the songs you'll never win me
Making it to the first stand finals felt amazing, no one really expected us to reach that final
with all the struggles that we had during our LHC split.
It is G2 in playoffs, or it is lost for Tarnus in playoffs.
So play like that, have a look at that, but the guard of Europe stands in the way!
In the end, it feels very nice, the fact that we managed to overcome all the challenges.
We are next to the best teams in the world and we definitely can't compete with them.
We've always showed limpses of that in the past.
Ruler can't get it done!
Roger Faskemon, BLG in the dirt again!
In this first time, we really saw that we can win it all.
It has been 2,323 days since G2 has made it to an international final.
We definitely played very well at first hand and I would say it's the strongest version of our team that we've had in a long time.
This run definitely made us realise that we can be the best thing in the world.
I don't know how close we are yet.
I wouldn't say very close, but it's definitely within reach.
Cats dancing in a shroud of Tobi, so close to that and will be wiped out.
Genji will all follow soon!
Oh my god!
3-0, bro! 3-0, bro!
If you can keep showing this consistency and this discipline in our games,
I think that we can definitely contest again the best in the world.
All I want that is to just motivate everyone to do even better
and get Europe back to its old glory days.
I think that would be cool if everybody would show and prove that Europe is a region that is amongst the best.
The other, the other, the other, the other, the other, almost taken out,
Kog'Vok dropping Kog'Vok, that's the cataclysm,
there is a long pass to do the damage,
try to step up, Kog'Vok coming out of the 12,
Skewer's dodging off the big one, he's not supposed to carry into the pit,
and now find them all!
G2 have done it!
Seeing us beat LCK and contending with BLG as well,
definitely puts some excitement through the LSD games.
All the Flash forward and first blood to caps!
The first and final was a very great showing of how good we can be as a region and as a team.
Guys, come here!
We got it, we got it, we got it!
And G2 do not need an elder dragon to take down the LCK first seed!
They are going to march up the bottom lane and complete back-to-back three zero victories over the LCK!
Looking back, I think that I'm grateful obviously that we made it all the way,
but also that we can bring back some hope to like Europe in general for like all
the fans that are watching us for like such a long time.
That belief is there the most important I don't know if it naturally automatically
makes the region much longer but I think that having the belief that you
can be the best team in the world is important for our team.
The coolest part of this is it is just the beginning of the year yeah and we
have so much more to show I'm definitely excited to go on stage and perform again.
G2 at internationals, a tale as old as legends.
When the LEC starts falling behind, when international expectations are at an all-time low, when
the fans are demoralized and have all but given up, G2 never gives up.
When it's been years of international disappointments, they were the flickering light that kept passion alive.
When it's been years without a dominant finals qualification, they've been the flame that set everything ablaze.
When it's been years since we felt something, they gave us that fiery feeling that was all but familiar.
Hope.
G2 in the regular season.
A tale as old as legends.
When the times of internationals are over, when hope is at an all-time high, and when
the fans are early together in unwavering support, that's when G2 gives you up.
When a new international highlight hits, they extinguish the freshly ignited light.
When they demolish opposition to reach new highs, they crush the hope that they just
inspired you.
And when it's been years of sandbagging regular season,
they give us a feeling that is all but familiar.
This pair, we live in G2's world everyone.
We are mere passengers in the roller coasters
of our own emotions and they are the drivers.
Will this roller coaster be an all time high hopin' train
or is it taking us down the depths of this pair?
What we're gonna find out
because we're going to ask the driver of this crazy ride himself, Broconblade,
what he's feeling after the first stand round that he just had.
Broconblade, we've seen this from G2 many times in the past.
Why is it different this time? You just had a great 3-0 against GNG, finals was great.
How is the accuracy going to be this time?
I mean, the accuracy is going to be great. We learned so much internationally, 6-0, LCK.
Okay, so I don't trust them. We're going to see another bullshit Lee Sin.
We've seen this many many times from him. He's just gonna be another G2 sandbag. I don't trust in casters
Do you trust what this man just said?
Of course not. Of course I don't.
I did. He's a handsome looking guy.
I trust the wrinkle of that.
The wrinkle of it in the end.
But like, every single time G2 domestically
A sandbag is a great word. A word that I thought we would not use on broadcast
But we have now said it so I'm gonna say it.
Sandbagging everyone on every split.
You're just like, man, what a J2.
Well, does it even matter?
Because Jack, they got the finals of Verus, man.
I mean, OK.
J2 got the finals the first time.
They were LEC versus lay-off winners.
But this is regular season, mate.
So if we compare regular season with apples to apples,
there are no apples to oranges.
Yeah, none of that.
This is Team Redix, I believe, the 50th of the LEC
versus the 7C in G2 Esports.
So I wouldn't say I got my money on Team Redix,
because there's also other things that happen outside of the Brailleux season.
And it's best of threes.
So I definitely do think that Team Redix could take a game,
because that would feel really like classic, just like classic G2.
But I don't think Team Redix is taking the series.
If there is a map to look at though for Team Redix taking the series,
Maybe it's Tracin? I don't know, you've been pretty hyper Tracin.
I mean, I mean, when Tracin, beating down Barkham Blood, like, you know, Tracin...
I mean, BB kind of took like the, like, you know, like the chud role at first time.
You know, he was just playing tank every game, getting beaten in lane every game,
but the rest of the team was essentially winning when he was getting beat down.
So, maybe Tracin can channel... This is the time that the Kofi Maari is...
He could channel the bin energy, Tracin channeled the bin energy.
True.
You know?
Because like what we saw was that G2 were able to be pretty much every team apart from the one team that is strong and a top laner that made them so uncomfortable that they couldn't play the rest of the game.
That's a very good point.
I mean, no one really knew much about that team called GenG or the B and K3RX like, they were kind of whatever.
But when they ran into BLG, you're right, it's the top laner that made a difference.
So let's say Tracen can knock down the weaker team in seeding.
As G2 first pick is going to be Nautilus,
and Akali taking off the board rather than Banz.
As I misspoke, Rumble also taking off the board.
But I have to see that Akali is getting back.
But it's not even SK, they're playing it.
No, that's all right.
But Saren had a really good game on Akali.
And I'm kind of like, I like a lot of what Team Haredix
has cooking, but I haven't quite seen everything
work in the same it's a give me shifter of slides I guess it's also double Korean
but it's like I feel like their individual pieces are good but it's not
really matching the way that you'd want it to yeah and it feels like one player
has a good game but then the opposite side has a bad game and they're kind
always like a little bit inconsistent so CG2 just looks to go for the Azir
pretty classic here was a really good yeah champ for caps as well he's shown
both for team fighting, both for split push, and just like a safe scaling pick, I mean, you know, you can't play it, you can't play it, but only on the side.
Serent, take the Inivia, you can take control mage into it.
I think Inivia is hard. I'm pretty sure. I would imagine that an Inivia matchup is very good because this year has so long range,
and you really want to play Inivia more into like a lower range in mobile champion like the Ryze.
It's gonna be the karma taken away here. So karma's had incredibly high parryo
It's been banned in nearly every single game and G2 actually banned out the Nautilus
Which is the classic like answer into the karma and so we'll see what G2 has cooking
I would assume maybe something just like the Nami you get to sustain and you have an enchanter as well
And it's gonna be the extra karma a really really strong early lane here a lot of poke
And a pretty clear early game plan from Team Ragnaxe. I would just like I sure if we use up an available ball the way
Quick side note that Hans-Summer and Labrador are another option for sure.
You know, I feel like they very much popularized it in the region. Obviously the East was playing it.
Yeah.
You know, a month ago, so before, there you go.
Yeah.
There it is.
That's Seraphine, Hans-Summer and Labrador.
I kind of feel like they're the best in the region at it.
Mademedada for Seraphine here.
Yes.
That champion is very overpowered in my opinion.
I don't know, maybe I'm just stupid, but every time I play against it, like it feels so OP
And obnoxious
But then it doesn't get played that much in pro and then like I always have this feeling of like I'm delusional if a champion
I think it's really OP doesn't get played in pro because then it's like if it was OP probably
It's not that I've called the team or effect right like garbage in pro
But in in solo queue like if you're good enough at the champion you just run them after
Teemo is not good in solo queue. You don't think I'm sorry
I'm sorry I'm not challenging
Holy crap
I was like, I was like hating on Timo, I was like 20, 30, 30.
Bro, like, Roxy plays that in Master, it's gotta be good, man.
Yeah, but people probably like it.
Probably in Timo, like when he picks the Timo general, nobody wants that.
He just sits in the general farming all day.
But he's such a great roxy.
He's a positive guy.
I'm gonna apologize.
I don't know, Roxy, if I got your rank wrong, bro, you put me down.
No, he's a good general.
Okay, well, yeah, I called him Master, that's an insult, isn't it?
That isn't a insult.
That'll be a big insult.
A red-acted ban, okay?
Ambassador incoming, yeah?
Ambassador ban?
Nope.
Jack, I see Ambessa, because Renekton's gone, maybe for G2.
I like Ambessa for both sides here.
The only thing is both sides really need some front line
since you have that enchanter locked in.
But I think with Ambessa being a flex,
it allows you to then lock in the Ambessa
and then lock in the frontline for either top or jungle.
I also would like Dr. Mundo for G2.
We saw it last game and I just think,
I mean, Scum on Mundo is always the side to behold,
but it's actually banned, you're right.
Well, good ban.
And they picked the Ambessa, like we said.
Then goodbye.
I do like your point about that though, on the other side, Volibear is a good angle here.
Volibear? I've been owning him pretty crazy, huh?
Shedding, by the way, even though we had some changes, I mean, this is still like...
Wow, BB, yeah. He just pulls out the Shed.
Pretty interesting. He still wants to play the tank tops, but he doesn't want to play the Sion and the Cassatas.
Even though Sion and Cassata are up, he just says, I don't want those, I want the Ninja.
And then he goes to Sion as well. A lot of early game pressure here for G2.
They have a winning bot lane with a scaling mid and a really strong early skirmisher jungler as well
So they should be probably trying to invade and try to play around this bot lane strong side for sure with BB
Just chilling up in the top lane and we'll see what Tracer logs in. I
Like the Jax I like the Jax a lot of auto attackers on the side of G2
I don't like the Cedroni, but if they go Cedroni, it's Cedroni. I mean maybe I like it. I just don't see Cedroni
It's so long. I feel like Cedroni is like
I mean, maybe it's good. I mean, Cedronian Bessar is a good comp, right?
To be fair, Shio, game three. Who was it last week? It was the first SK where we got the game three Shio.
Shio Cedroani that looked really, really good. I think it was a big part as to how they got caught ahead.
So it's obviously a Shio comfort pick. It's obviously from the BDS days as well.
I feel like he was always a facilitating jungler.
So I see comfort for Team Erics, but I see comfort for G2 on the return of their international.
Ash Seraphim, caps on Azir, Skiu Monta run the early game, one of the best duels in the game when he absolutely
clapped the likes of Korea
Comfort for G2, let's see if they can stand back. Yeah, I mean I like G2 drafts a lot
It feels very similar to what they would play at first stand
They were one of the biggest and canter really abusers, played a lot of mommy, Seraphim, Karma and even Lulu
And I think LeBrov has looked really really good on these range supports. It seems to be quite comfortable for him
The question is really can Shayo try to facilitate this early game and make ganks happen
Well skew one will probably be playing more of this full-fledged style and then look to just play for drinks and play a more
Classic standard game like we seem to come on
G2 revolved around those strikes is quite normal to say that even more so
So parodies can shut that down. Maybe there is some hope here
Remember, Heretic's are technically the highest seed from Versus until we got into playoffs
and then G2 won the whole thing and then got to the finals of first hand.
But before then, Heretic's were the better team technically.
So, right now Jigsaw are kind of behind the post, if you just look at regular season.
Yeah, regular season, pound for pound, as they say.
Yeah.
So, see if Team Heretic can transfer.
It is also a new Team Heretic, so.
They did do a roster change, the only one with the way.
So maybe Stan was their magic.
Maybe Stan was the difference maker.
But it's double Korean both ends,
so we'll see.
I mean, the thing is Jitsu is used to beating
double Korean balance, you know what I'm saying?
Like, this is comfort zone.
You mean like at this tournament here on the left?
Yeah.
This is comfort zone.
Oh my God, hang on.
What is that?
What is that?
Man, second best region in the world.
That's, by the way, hello, Jolly Man.
It's second best region in the world.
Mother and daughter.
What boy?
Mother and daughter, I serve him.
Bro, you gotta stop reading the comments, bro.
I don't know what they're putting there.
I told you.
Mother and daughter, it doesn't even make sense.
No, it doesn't make sense.
Well, I don't know.
No, there's no law.
No, there's no law.
That's like when I talk about the law of Lillia,
you know, like Niko and Heclerin.
I thought we're the parents at some point, but we, you know.
No, I don't think that's the law.
That was fandom.
They will never approve it.
Yeah, but you know there's no back. There's nothing to prove otherwise is it but I'm pretty sure like
Serpents like hextech. Well, that's just fairly hard. Hextech is not a region is it?
Well, no, but she grew up what she's built over. I guess she's built over because her speaker thing is hextech
Oh, is it? Yeah, but that doesn't mean she's from Hextech. She's from built over. She's got a border on Amazon or something
Yeah, pretty sure she's from built over. Okay, I probably heard it as far away. It's like in the north. It's like in the north.
Okay, so Pro Yacht is doorway.
And then what, Hilltop is like what?
Biltlar is like the US.
Okay.
Like the Vyden.
Okay, fair enough.
This is making it easy for me to understand
Laura's chase down Han Summer under ice through the hill.
The Brox getting a stun up very nice.
You just bottom lane.
I'm sure if they hit level two first,
but they are at least winning these two
because you trade small CS lead.
Take what you will from the two CS difference for now
by G2 in their comfort zone here,
as ice away a little bit lower.
Yeah, Shale here just full clearing down to bot, SQ1 doing the same.
We'll see if either side can contest for the crab.
Saren with the push, I think, that should allow Team Moratix to get the bot crab, but maybe due to the bot lane's state.
Although Shale was quite a bit faster actually, I didn't realize he would be this much faster than SQ1,
so maybe he's going to be able to pick up the crab.
And SQ1 seems to have realized that he's just basing.
He's picking top, he's just going to get top crab.
But I think Shale might look for both. Yeah, if he has the fun to do so.
Shadowdash from Blade is good. Good space as well.
I mean, thank you to production. We just got a bit of an update.
This year BD on Shen is 3-0, and now vs Tracen. He's almost going to get another solo kill for boot.
One win in LEC finals, two in first stand, and Tracen sent packing here with a CS lead building up in top.
Yeah, really good early game from BV and this feels really bad for Tracin.
A little shale though, wrapped around.
And this is a route down on the Robber. I think the Robber is just going to die here.
Ice is playing with a bit of magic with low amount of it.
We're shale-ing the way to flash out.
The purple frost closed the prop. He's going to die.
First blood against G2's bottom lane and Shale keeps it good.
Really, really clever wrap around.
So we saw that Shale took the crab, but then he walked all the way around to avoid any of the vision.
but we're coming right back to the fighting air as G2 flashes.
Flash, wind becomes lightning in the tag, but Tracin bit too far away, normal day,
she's charged and getting summoner out of Tracin versus the first flight in
bottom lane, still a slight wind for heretics.
Yeah, BB uses the flash for supply from Tracin as well and he does have a huge CS lead,
which is like especially big when you think about how big that wave is.
Oh, that's a giant wave, yeah.
Skiu-mon wants to try to clear out a camp here due to the fact that Shai-o
ganked, but Shai-o skips the Krogs, he knows that Skiu-mon's looking for it.
Both have smite, that's gonna miss my fight.
This is done at home work on first stand, Raph is going to reset, Shado is still in the way,
but Kimon going for the next drape, Permacloss blows him down.
And now the passives out as well as the Arthur Shock.
Shado too, they really both want this Raph there.
Both of us might wait and oi Shado wins!
Which means he could be better than Canyon, you never know, right?
Literally.
We've had leader better than Faker today and now we're going to go to full mark
and just compare everyone against G2.
Yeah.
Everyone at BG2.
that I like that okay good because that is not that cheats was bad or that it's
just not our region is so good no yeah our region is that good yeah that
heretics with a hidden weapon maybe we send MSI yeah maybe we don't know
crazy things have happened I haven't I don't know no probably not I think that's
a crazy thing but hey heretics already they're off with a bang here is
show he's sitting on a wall pronounce the broken blades trying to buy his
time because the bounce back from that giant wave you mentioned Jack he's
Tracen trying to utilize that with Burk and Blight and stepping up.
Yeah, BB just waiting for Shale to base there and then he's going to get right back into training.
Pretty good gold lead for BB thus far. He does have the level 6 now as well.
So if G2 wants to fight around mid or bot they can try to utilize that for a number so not this.
Drake being the objective that both teams are looking for here pretty slow early game.
Yeah.
But that's kind of what you expect from both of these team comps.
It's slow.
Slow is okay.
Slow is okay.
Slow is steady.
How many weeks since first ended?
Like two and a half right?
I don't know. People talk about weeks.
I don't know if this is like a Norwegian thing.
But my parents always ask me
when is this happening and they work
by weeks, not by days.
Is this happening in week 5
or week 12?
Your parents then say week 12, do they?
Yeah, but they say it in Norwegian.
But yeah, I know, it's not English.
That's not my question.
Yeah. They say week 12.
Yeah. Like, as it's human being, they they they're not talking about.
No, it's not week 12 of the year.
Like, instead of saying it's in 12 of the year in May, they're like, yeah,
it's a week 12. Is that a Norwegian thing?
I think it's a Norwegian thing.
I've never heard that crating.
Because my parents go like Monday week.
Well, they go like Tuesday week, which just means that Tuesday week.
Yeah, it means like, let's say there's a Tuesday on this week.
Yeah. But you got to go next week.
Well, what would you say next week?
Tuesday? No, because they say Tuesday week. I don't know. I'm struggling.
I don't think it's as bad as week 12.
No, I think it's so confusing. I'm like, what date is that? And they're like looking at me funny.
So you've got to count. You've got to go through the calmer and go.
Well, they're also like, but certainly they're counting. They're just always aware of like what week it is.
Right.
Of the year.
I mean, it's like how you're aware of what month it is, you know.
Yeah. But they're people who are not as influenced by technology.
You know, we've become a bit brain dead since technology has come in.
Probably like that was a normal thing at the time. I don't know how long it's been. I think we could still track weeks
It's not that crazy. No, but week 12, if I said no context by the way guys
We we're going off kilter because it's a 600 gold leaf eridix
Nothing's happening till the straight gets thought about or started if we're going off months of the year
Yeah, sorry. There's no way right now. I said to you jack
I'm gonna be on holiday from week 24 of the year. I would have a struggle a bit to figure out thinking end of May
like yeah that's crazy shout out to Jack's parents wherever you are in Norway I
think yeah they're lovely okay right right place very nice place yeah I'm so
was banging yeah that was great that was very good I still haven't seen the
northern lights I think you're Norwegian dude I've seen them before you and
you're Norwegian yeah I need to see them for sure I wasn't even having to be
getting more big on it pretty much just farming that's great it's happening
I think both teams now are looking to maybe think about this dragon, as D2 are trying to get control around mid here, Team Redix doing the same.
Level 6 for Wain, although we'll see for LB just yet, just needs a few more minions.
But one thing that you have to worry about, as kind of the, I think Seraphine and Ashe are the main people this game,
when you want to use that ultimate, if Seren has that reflect, it's just so damn annoying.
So it's really up to LB to wait for that W to be used and then he can throw out the ulti,
So otherwise it's gonna come right back at him and that ability is complete like that is stupid that ability stupor bottle
Yes, I hate it so much like it should be an ultimate
It should yeah, it's just it feels so unfair like I remember back in my day like people used to complain about y'all so with wall
You know like that was the craziest thing ever
Metal W is like ten times better because it takes it and it's sense of mind
And didn't have it doesn't have a few scaling as well. It's converted to magical damage. Yeah
Yeah, by the way max level 23 second cooldown first level 35 seconds. So make it 200
200 the shans gonna stop dragon. You can use it once per yam though. That would be fair actually. You don't need one chance to use it
I mean that's just look those are just new champions Jack. Look at this one on top has about a dash every ability
You know that's true. That's cool. That's like Calista. Why is that cool? Because it's fun
Have you played a message?
It's just so much fun.
Of course I have.
Yeah, it's just so much fun.
It is fun.
Good steal by the way from Scumond in the meanwhile.
Just getting back off, and they still down and go, I'm sure I got the earlier kills,
but...
And then Apple's in to go for Grubbs.
Yeah, I'm sure I got the Drake here, and some training happening on multiple
ice mistletoe.
I don't know, three to three.
Well, I guess.
Scumond picks up the Grubbs here, and good early game for the Emeritus thus far.
Yeah, I mean they got the drake. I think that's a pretty nice win for them. Pretty
equal all across the board. Drake was down in CS before, but now it's pretty much
completely equalized. Shale is looking for top cat here, but I think with this ward,
hopefully nothing is gonna happen. And I think Shale knows he can't walk further up,
because probably they know it's warded. So then it's like, he's just gonna recall.
It's all goody. Okay, nothing on the bottom side of the map. I mean he would just go for
clear again dragon's up in three minutes 40 but first dragon against g2 is a nice way to start
parodix we are chilling people came out to see g2's debut g2 fans are still standing i guys i'll
take a seat you know we've got another three and a half minutes we're gonna take a seat yeah so you
guys should too it's slowest steady what's the race as they say we need to keep g2 up scale this
comp like that's always a basic question because it's always very dependent on on setup but like
This one is a bit tough because I feel like metal scaling is always a bit hard to save
because I feel like if the fight is really fast and metal can't get the ultimate off she's
really useless but if she's able to stack that up, if she gets a good reflect that she
can be really OP.
But I would definitely favour caps a lot more and then I think skew moat should be more
useful than chao as well and then ash surfing I think should be more useful.
The green through the miss, after the assault from Shoe was really nice.
A gold Earl, rather solid, slander came through from Serran.
Just lined down G2 from the chase.
Herodix have moved for now, but there's nothing in River.
Perhaps just farming away, but the cats don't care about what's going on.
I would say G2 outscaled, yeah.
Yeah, you reckon?
Yeah, prop-ing in a bit more.
The one thing I think is Tracin can start winning side, and Tracin can be more useful
in fights than Vivi.
Astral can be more useful in fights than HotSarm, but I just think Seraphine later on, she has so much AOE with the healing and shielding, and then Caps is waiting, should be doing a lot more damage than Seraphine.
Coming right in, Caps gets the smith, he was ready to shove, as he's got a Nash, he's been feeling pretty powerful over the wall share, he's going to meet with a bit of misery from Sculum, the duel begins, Seren can't complete, and the flash over, Caps now has a 2v1, Rydery wants him, it's setting up with the ultimate, Seren does no damage, he had no stacks, it's all in for the wall flash.
for the wall flash away, but Saren just pressed Q
and Catfran into the perfect spot for him.
I've seen enough, Saren is better than Chovy.
You've seen it here, oh my goodness.
Catfran's just got completely outplayed by Saren.
He wants to shuffle Shale, but Shale has to flash
and Saren has to damage.
And it's another kill going over for Team Erratix.
What a day.
Let's watch it again.
And Saren was like 100 HP, maybe less.
Yeah, he flashes out, Catfran has to flash after him.
And then Catfran thinks to himself,
Okay, Saren has used all his spells, I'm completely fine to dash in, but Saren has them back up, but Saren will last his ultima and with that, CapSense are falling.
Saren really is helping out with a slight execute, how small it may be, Saren getting that first kill, 400 gold lead with the Blackfyre Torchies.
Looking pretty in line with CapSense, Team Herodix looking in line with 1500 gold lead over G2, with the dragon coming up, that could probably be theirs.
Set up the dragon stacking in this game and you talk about scaling, but obviously we know that a mid game is real
With two items feels pretty impactful and the way heritage going. I feel like a lot of these skirmishes are gonna be
Pretty good for them if things keep running this way
Yeah, I also think scaling is like it's always hard to quantify because there's so many factors and how it plays out
And usually for me when it comes to scaling I try to think of like how easy is it for one cop to win versus the other
because if like you can't explain both team comes to play perfectly and
And usually the difference is the level of execution from one comp.
Like you can have a one comp.
Like for example this game I think Team Redix, they easily win fights of Tracing gets a crazy public execution.
Or if show gets a crazy ultimate.
That's how Team Redix wants to work out.
A bit earlier than expected.
Mine comes down, Scumon gets scuttled for the reddit right before Dragon.
15 seconds and it spawns.
Ice getting some poke down is nice, but Herodix now losing a little bit of HP as they approach the river.
It's ice mainly here who suffered a bit with no way to heal back up for now
The Saren tries to poke out and every time he gets a radiant Bolly down build pretty nice here
Scoob on in front of the dragon as it starts but will not be starting it just yet
Pretty nice hand-holding here by support journal of G2
They're able to push in both mid and blocked and hold onto quite a bit of the space
The brodo gets cancelled really wanted to base for wards to get that refresh way already having the macaels
Mostly for that hash arrow and for the on-core
But I already have Clemse on ice and Roboto on Sarin, so I'm a bit surprised that he decided to rush Mikael's, but I think it's also just for himself.
Because we've seen these squishy enchanters up against Ash Seraphine, and they just get targeted and die every fight.
So Ashio starts to drake, but G2 they want to contest.
I mean, it's all a snap dodge away from my dacia charge now you guys skew mon caps has an angle here on the left side to get screen
Where the shriemer shuffle often available?
To using that advantage get the dragon one a piece
Cheeto on the board in a nice way and even though it's a gold leaf to heretics this early game
He's still not going that bad as I should just hit out and I'm gonna get some damage down looking for your mid
Maybe chill until we think about ripped arrow here. Yeah, I think we're entering another bit of a lol state here
against the next wave and Drake versus Drake for both teams.
It's going to be the Mountain Soul, pretty high value for both teams.
I don't know why I came into this series thinking that G2
would just going to be like this explosive, you know,
face melting team.
And you kind of have this like expectation of,
by the fact that they did really good at first time,
they're going to stomp the worst teams.
Yeah.
Well, sometimes League doesn't really work like that.
That's true.
Because especially like, depending on what you graph,
like this game, there's not really much volatility
much of the lanes, like you could have maybe done something bot, maybe VB could have gotten a bigger lead,
but it's not like really a whole lot on either side, so I think Caps might have again.
They're waiting for him. Is he gonna step up? Let's see, Caps, this is like instinct test.
Hang on. Oh, he puts this all down. Oh, he gets it, though. Public execution nose and down.
He's gonna get a Shen hold, a shot back on the show. It was good. Caps survives,
but the Shen hold is canceled. Caps trying to just run back as he orders and the
The interim Tracin runs in, but Anatari can't go any further.
Skumon can't have saved the blaze,
or they should charge things back going in once again,
but they can't finish the job.
Brokenblade Shield probably had a big impact here.
He's running away from Saren,
trying not to get snared up, he gets slowed.
Passive attacks aren't enough
to get the ex-cuted Brokenblade runs out.
Really good save, your effort there from G2.
Caps played it well as well.
Put up the wall, bought a lot of time,
and with the channeled, as you said, J,
was able to survive even for Tracin, Flash as well.
You can see how he was very aware of the potential of Cheese with how he placed the soldiers.
In fact, he put it to wall so fast.
So a good play for Team Ragnix, I like the attempt.
I think also always trying to target Caps.
It's usually a good strategy, especially when G2 is running this sort of tank top.
It's really hard to target PV.
But it doesn't mean that a lot of tempo was wasted.
They used two ultimates as well.
So it's going to be the Rift Tyral going over to G2.
Well, maybe it might have opened things up in the middle and a little bit of G2.
two moves caps is he's fine up until cameraman just likes caps we all like caps we all like caps
caps is the region that runs the region need to be fair though first time it was skewmon and
LeBrol that were running a region like that's true let's get that clear like the hype teaser with
caps being the final boss cap is so good oh and when cap sounds like something you basically
can't really be the final boss but somehow we make it work but you saw in the days I mean
Like he got a little bit serious. We're not used to caps getting that serious
We're used to caps smiling and waving. That's true
That's what that's what we know from the go, but you know when he smiles or even when he's like serious
There's nothing written. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the head not there's always a nice head nod
I feel that's what you know
We're gonna get these here, but captain's like I had that in common. They're just so humble and that's true
They are both humble kids. I feel they both just love the game. They do yeah
And sometimes you gotta think there's a seren boy
Boy, that's so much damage.
I was very surprised, like he has a alternator and passers.
You're still able to really chunk down Saren there.
It's not why Z's so good.
Like, I feel like even before three autos.
I mean, okay.
I'm just gonna list some qualities of Azir.
And you can tell me if this champion sounds normal to you.
Has longest range in the game.
Really?
I guess.
Pretty much.
Like some of the longest range.
Okay, maybe not exactly longer.
I mean, is the Rathwood new?
Like Seraph Passamore.
Yeah, okay.
Some of the longest range in the game.
some of the highest mobility in the game
and incredible playmaking, ultimately.
Some of the highest DPS in the game
and incredibly strong laning phase.
And what am I missing?
Like an escape tool?
What's his weakness, sorry.
I don't know, but he talked to play?
I mean, like, he doesn't really have that much of a weakness.
Yeah.
Is that actually it?
You think that's it?
Yeah, well, what else?
What would you say I see as weaknesses?
Too much sand.
too much sand. If I lived without much sand, imagine going home, you're forever getting
it out of your pants, out of your socks, everything like that would be my bane.
Maybe matchups, I think. I think some of the matchups can be difficult. But I feel like
in competitive you usually always breeze through the matchups. Some people I guess
have got destroyed by Rihanna. Also, and then you get the figs and you're like well,
now Orianna doesn't have as much mobility as I do, we can't change you know.
Just just camp as he just camp as you and it works. I mean this game capsules. I'm really camped he was
Oh, he's getting down now. Maybe he's there. I guess the other way around shipping sand
There's the zero wait no, he jumps in I'm said Shen old he flash away
Canada doesn't care for seren still said now Jack you talked about mobility
There's the game changing old our dodged away from but that was towards show. It's too far out. Anyway, there's the range
Schumann matches up, the dive is success, Caps gets the kill, and where is the weakness you ask as G2 get to?
Azir has it all, Caps knew that the gank was coming, BB was on call, they join up, they take them down,
and we were excited for Team Heretics, but this is starting to feel like a G2 classic.
They might even just start the match here, they want this game to end quick regardless of how the early game went.
Yeah, well, actually they've made a slow one, 30 minute baron on peak, true drop, we're out just in damage, but teleport up, skew one maybe happy to take the engage, you get the heal off and you can see skew one's just gonna keep on going.
I want to get that, honey.
That's gone.
This for me, exactly this is what separates like an insane team from like a medling team.
Oh yeah.
They just got two kills, 99% sure they just won the game.
No, you know what, I want to go full betty. They just won the game.
Alright, what's the replays there? G2 apparently just won the game.
I mean, Xeo has a really good idea of the gank here, but I love the fact that Xaps just flashes, doesn't use the ultimate,
but by the fact that he flashes forward, BB teleports to that same person that he flashed to,
and then he has the ultimate for Xeo, which allows him to bring him down as well.
And a lot of teams here, they would just say, okay, we got two kills, but we're kind of shunned.
This is scary now. So they were back both. But G2, they know their limits really well.
Skumar knows that he can heal off of the Nashor and now the true test of this team
It's not just about getting the Nashor. Yeah, we saw last game you could have elder Nash soul
It's not enough if you don't have the skill and the game
You're not gonna be able to end the game now. We'll see I hope a master class from G2
I'm gonna play two lanes with this Baron Nashor. BB is buffing up mid the rest of G2 is both
you have the Herald as well the
Ideas like a complete successful baronusher here is if they can get an inhibitor. If they can get an inhibitor, it's an insane nash.
If they get tier 2's on every lane, it's a really good nash. If they die randomly, then it's a bad nash.
Okay, well we've got the criteria now and Harold is looking for a second charge.
Our miss is here, but Harold still regardless gonna open up bot, no, smite it down.
She's in the Nekotar team heretics.
Their defense also important.
Shared with the ulti Han Summer gets bailed out anyway.
There's the on-core and Shared pulls back in, not tanking up yet.
Holding from Skim on the dive, a success.
Heronix now in deep water as the double wood comes in the range.
There's Skim on goes part two, maybe a little bit deep as the shutdown is given over.
Public execution, Tracin does a good job of getting another.
Caps under his own dart, trying to survive.
There's the stand united.
Caps can't kill Tracin, but broken blade saves Caps.
Why?
That's one thing here as the chase to the top player who went in deep is going to continue Han Sama
Wait is Han Sama gonna die your question to be answered running out
Close close
Okay, Jack. What do we make of G2 now as the Baron is all but kaput and his Seren looks to take down broken blade
He's gonna step up each other. That's it. Oh my god. It's Shen things. Oh gee doke. He's pet too
We would like to talk to you next interview. It's gonna be with the Shen
No! No! No! No!
The way he thinks is Broken Blade!
Don't you know?
He's back from past stand, Jack!
He's back from past stand!
And he's got a part of the depict!
Oh my God!
Broken Blade!
It starts with Tracin doing a montage,
but then Broken Blade finishes it,
landing every part!
Oh my God!
What is happening?
Okay, G2 chose the third option.
They chose to die.
But let's just watch the replay of the Broken Blade,
because that's all we care about.
He misses the first top, but it doesn't matter. He's able to take him down, and then, I mean, it's a little bit, it's a lot of hyperbrokeblade, but also Team Redix, they need to go melee range on the melee carry, you know?
So, they kind of set him up for his success. I'm pretty sure, yeah, Ice uses his E here, misses the Q, then goes melee range as well.
Oh my god.
Like, oh, and then he flashes. Okay, you know what? What the hell was that? Why did both the carries go melee?
I don't know why they went melee.
They both went melee, bro.
So strong, I mean he is strong but you're right, they did go melee into a Shen, Broken
Blade now has band of pipes after the fight so we've got the classic Shen build, they
got ulti and cocky, really died this time I think he does right, guys they got him,
they did use the metal ult as well, but at least Broken Blade died.
Yeah big shutdown for Team Redix, but it's not the result of really any objective
suits and not too big of a deal for G2. So G2 they were able to get all the tier 2s on the
both side of the map so overall the Nash I'd say pretty successful although they kind of
die and got kind of messy. It's not really the picturesque image of a perfection team
but maybe G2 is never going to be that. But maybe Interfection is perfection in the core
you know. That's true. There's no such thing as perfection. Like even when EU was at
as best we were never consistent that's right but who wants consistency I mean I
would kind of like it would be nice I mean yeah but everyone else who wants
consistency like the thing is in life nothing is perfect that's true and it is
in those imperfections that you find perfection Jack I'm a little bit older
than you have become why they've had a child you know that and everyone out
there who's a little bit older and see hunk status like SK they know they
understand that in life you find those things that challenge your views and G2 right now
this is maybe perfectly imperfect.
You might be right Jake, you're exactly what I'm going to score for in the half-jam
bro.
Dude, I don't know what it means, I'm 35 seconds still dragon, I am, team heretics are on
sole point if I get this, do you think they win a fight?
Caps have three items.
I think G2 definitely should win an Minnesota team fight, do's how far and how far
I had Kapsis, I had BBS, but it's definitely closer than it was before.
I think if Tracing can land a good ulti, if Hanzama can get collapsed on, Hanzama is still having no flash.
Instead of Tracing can land a public execution, he does fall down pretty fast.
That's LeBron, but oh, LeBron is faking off, he might get trouble.
Alright, well, he got to work down and click down, and LeBron is getting out of range, and Hanzama now is standing united on his head.
G2 want to play this fight, broken blade looking to go in, but a solo stare keeps him in place.
The flails here by Shale needs to want front linings with not much damage.
Output into the carries of Team Herodix and a bit burned from G2.
Is this dragon now seems a bit too hard?
Yeah, G2, they want to still try to face-check even the LeBron Bernal Assumms and not Shenold.
He made it, starting the drake. G2 want to try to get past.
Well, good true shot for Ryze. They need time to heal up on someone LeBron in critical danger.
Tracem is in for a public execution. His angle must be precise.
G2 walking the river at 5k, they're still getting poked down and Team Heretic's doing a great job of defeating the 5k.
They're almost dead to Tracen as well, wait for the execution that comes from Tracen.
G2 say no, we will not wait, we will leave because we will lose.
Heretic's in this game, moved us to our point.
I mean, Team Heretic simply played the control better.
They were the ones who had full control of the drake, and every single time G2 tried to face-check,
they got completely chunced. Bb losing the one we want to trace in.
Lebron getting chunked in the initial phase check. It made it really hard for G2 to actually regroup and try to get back control
At team Redix credits to them. They're able to pick up the third dragon getting one step closer to that soul
And maybe that's gonna be what's able to win this game
I mean I'm surprised you're down almost 5000 gold and you defuse the fight
Which look quite simple by the way from here. It's like quite precise so
Power to them. Baron's still a question mark though. G2 have river and every time that vision gets snuffed out, team Heretics gets scared.
Baron maybe started up within his ear with an ash who are off vision currently.
Pings are going down there and want to pull off the plate. Heretics are like, we've got to get LeBron, but he's out of dodge, moves in with Han's summer.
And Heretics now once again to the guessing game around Baron.
Yeah, Shale wants to clear out this mid wave control so that Ice can push in this wave.
They can try to reclaim this Nash vision, Tracer can move up as well.
Then they just get some vision back and now Team Rx are going to go back to the catching wave
so they're going to lose this Nash vision probably pretty much immediately,
but it leaves to give them a little bit of room to breathe.
And maybe they were able to put down a few sneaky wards.
They have the one over the wall, as you can see right here,
but it's not going to really spot them starting the Nash.
Like you really would have wanted like a board somewhere like here
not the best growing as the camera is kind of moving
I'm not gonna look
Essentially you want to try to put wards where you think the enemy will not sweep
True
Like there maybe
You see top doosent drawing Jax
Yeah like here
No
Here
Look up in the tri brush
No but you want the spot if they start to mash
But that's nice to know if they're entering or looking for a picnic
But you already have that work in the tri brush
Okay well yeah that's what I'm talking about
Yeah I mean that word is fine but it's like a classic place
It's not really a hidden ward. Every bush is kind of obvious you could have a ward there.
So you're saying don't ward in the bushes?
Yeah, if you want to have sneak evasion on Nash, you put wards where normally people wouldn't.
Like instead of putting it right on the Nash, you put it to the side near a wall.
But don't you think more obvious wards are good sometimes?
Because they think you're not going to do the obvious places, like double...
I think we should sweep the obvious places.
You could do the double but that is like yeah, but that's not obvious place. Yeah, but then it's a wasted lane
Do you think about this is like a broke wire and I remember my support would sometimes like as you get higher and higher in play
For sure LeBrov is saying like check for sneaky words, you know, okay?
It's tracing in trouble. I think he's okay. Shout out shoes and down
Remember that's about a box third. So even though the damage is coming through from broken blade
I guess it's not coming through as much as it possibly could but this is the
builders broken by push to the mouth and G2 is setting up for the dragon that's
coming in two minutes Baron still not thought about vision was controlled but
there's some nice reciprocal vision that's coming through from taking heretics in the
meantime. Also Serpent's fact portrays quite interesting here. I mean it makes a
lot of sense it's up against the Serpian and the Shaman. Yeah. So a lot of
shielding that he can reduce. True. I don't know if you've got the Seekers
Armguard from Cubs as well by the way, so yeah, he's the only to just send it
secrets and guardian angel on few months, so a lot of time buying for both of them
Do you um, do you like eternal hunger on Israel? I do like it. Omni vamp is not something we normally talk about with Karen as we go
But we've been passed the thing with the eternal hunger what it gives you a brandless
If it gives you like
In or not it gives you stacking ability. Hey space. I have an 80 you have so at three items
It gives the same as for your Trojan, but then at four items it gives like five more
And then at five items it gives like another five more
So it feels really good for the scaling aspect and the fact that it just gives more AD than Trojan just makes it do a lot more damage
Okay, and the only vamp is part of it as well, right? Like that's a nice addition
Yeah, but it's like 5% so it's like kind of small
But it's like nice, you know, it's nice
It's like it feels good to hit the minions because then you get a tree back for you
I mean ice is in a good position this game 1,000 gold lead where everyone else is failing and
Failing in the sense that there is a gold lead between me that is quite glorious for caps
Broken blade holding zone against Tracen. Well, I'm not sure why I spilling now though. Here's a paneler
I think you might be going spear soldier, but I don't think going both is good. I think that's too much. Yeah, you reckon yeah
Yeah, I think that's good. I think it should be like GA or BT. I
Would make the most sense, but we'll see what he builds towards it could be
a little bit earlier, the damage from Tracin this game, from very much our production team.
That's um, I feel like he's been running into a shed, so it's obviously going to be inflated.
Ranging to a tank, but also Tracin has had some pretty nice ults so far.
You talked about, let's kind of call it shield reaver.
He took ready Serpent's Fang, but also with the B.S.O., it's easy.
He's leveling up to start giving a bash.
Why not? Over the wall, good Ezreal positioning again, but look at where Han Summer is on the map right now.
He's gotten Dragon so he's gonna be slow to the show unless he lands an hour.
Well the Team Reddix are so split off here.
Oz doing damage, hour of flight through doesn't find a time to throw them late on one angle.
Team Reddix, four man backflash away from Terrigan's nine.
Now from the back for the on-call, rolls in.
Meanwhile Skillen sends out his little circle and Heretics is sent backwards.
Baron is paused but there are three oldies from G2.
Three from the side of Heretics that have been used.
And G2 were the ones to pick off the drake here.
And that's why Team Rage felt forced to start this Nash, but now with all of them basing,
maybe G2.
Oh my god, the vision in the back as well, Jack.
He's a masterclass, his hair works now to burn the teleport, but Baron's gonna be going
show.
Can he still it?
No.
He can't even get into the pit.
And if you sleep against G2, it's gonna be permanent.
Well, Bork from Blades, he runs wide to level 20, Shen might be able to turn the
fight.
Looking for him now.
The damage isn't enough.
Flushes over the wall, a lot has been used, Herodix getting nothing for the Baron.
I feel so bad for Team Herodix, they wanted to start them, I'm not sure, but they weren't able to have the damage
and then immediately G2 just rushes and they get it.
Oh boy, Flush away, excuse me, Tracer down, still connects.
The dive under Shari gets taunted and he gets pulled.
Caps will take down the pig from Team Herodix and G2's Baron has only just begun.
I think G2 are going to look to fully end the game. No front line for Team Reddix staring into finding a good route.
Well that's one of them, at least on a broken plate. The mini-way is getting out a little bit, but the Catamini is doing a good job.
G2 running to the turret, and the Hibbit of the Turret will be exposed and dropping. Good true shot for us, but the problem is LeFrov is alive waiting for his heal.
All inhibitor is only going to be in C for G2 for now. They pack up, use their Baron recalls, and 8000 gold while it hasn't been a clean game.
It's still been G2's game to win.
Yeah, they're not able to quite end the game just yet, but they still got quite a bit of Baron Azure left.
They're going to look to C's mid and bot here, probably putting BB on mid once again and sending the rest of the 4-man bot like they did before.
And then if they can just get both that mid and bot inhibitor broken up, it's pretty much GG.
they don't actually get the Nexus, it's just so difficult to play when you have two super
minutes coming in.
Okay, sees blue buff, sees heretics, but won't find a target.
Just take what he can from the opposing jungle for the meantime, and Peridic's getting out
blue is nice, but Wolf's Gromp will be gone, and that gold lead will continue to grow
here with Baron.
I think about a minute ten left for remaining Khajiit in the Siege, and we'll see
if G2 can break the inhibitors.
I think the team mechanics really needs to find an engage, because otherwise LeBron with all his sustain,
with the Po coming in from caps, they can just continue seeding those towers.
So it's really on Shale and Tracenare to find something good before that siege begins.
They're looking for BB, but I don't think BB will walk up.
He's gonna walk up.
And he's gonna walk back, Shadow Dash, ulti. Do you have enough damage?
Public execution. Do you have enough damage? He's gonna ulti out!
He's disappearing! He's a magician!
Houdini jumps to skew Monden.
Morgan Blythe's gonna back off and that's it.
But they open up Bot. They open up the Bot in the play.
Yeah, they got the Enevera. That's what they came for.
Still one more wave of Baranasha that they can play on.
BV cancels the base. This is the wave that they want to get the mid in, you know, in a...
If it may ball.
I for one.
And if they do, ah, it's looking dire for Team Redix.
They're not here. They don't have the ultimates.
Shea Rengal bought.
He's got no ulti.
He's to try something.
What does he do without ulti?
I think he can do anything.
He's gonna stand there and wipe. Think about it a little bit longer.
Backing away for a cumblate is okay.
He can't be base.
But now with triple in, Ibs down.
G2 can just play for the soul.
Team Rax won't be able to really leave their base for the foreseeable future.
It's interesting how it gets pretty easy when at this point it's also not fine.
Very good flashes.
Beautiful arrow again.
Wading is going to be encodered with extended range.
Han Fung will take down the heretic support.
Now five versus four to see if they can do anything.
Maybe it just will be a dragon and a G2.
Slow and steady.
With all the minions, they can look 10.
It is five versus four.
Not a whole lot of wave flare on team Reddix.
They have the metal in the atro,
but you can see Saren is struggling to take
that top wave, both wave, I mean.
That's not caps.
Might be in trouble though.
Found, dodged, Tracen, now that he's committed with show,
the rest of G2 walks through mid-wave.
And the next is Tarret's under siege.
I mean, this has just been such a slow game.
But outside of a couple of plays,
Heron's there, something really had much to say.
And now G2 with their siege coming in from top mid
and farther than same time.
It is all holds farther.
Heron needs to find a play,
they've got on the counter with the standing United
and the Zodiacs.
He's in safe, out of harm's way.
Nexus exposed, Peridix needed to make their fight, but even though G2 was getting a little, the Nexus is falling.
And in their first game back from first stand, G2 will find their first win of LAC 2026 Spring.
And G2, they showed their superiority and the macro in the mid game.
It was a slow early game, but you could tell that G2 was the better team throughout with just how they built the gold lead, no matter what Team Peridix did.
Broken Blade give us a sign what's going on in his head with VIN
Yeah I'm standing here with the Mediasham Broken Blade after dominating Shen's performance
And is the meta just out to draft as many global champions as you can?
Yeah I mean we played against BLG, Draftsync 4, Global or 3 Global champs
They found the meta we copied it, it's great to be able to help your teammates with the ult
I wish I would have ulted a bit more this game, but it was still a cool game to play
game and as we see now the meta will develop into more global champions so now
Odomno will break down why Carthus will stop with the new meta champion pick. Thank you so much.
That wasn't the Carthus. Carthus is not a ninja.
We need to prepare this, Odor. You're going to talk about Carthus?
I mean, yeah, you know.
Yeah? What do I know?
So, Carthus was played at some point in Season 4 and if there was someone who
knew how to play it that would not be me.
Because I was the worst, so I had to experience one time with Carp to stop, just because we went down that rabbit hole, you know?
There was one time when the lane stops were there, and my team said, hey, you should maybe play some Carps to send stuff like this.
And I played it, and I missed 26 queues in a row, even on minions or champions, and after that I said I will not play this champion anymore.
That's a cool story, bro.
Yeah, let's talk about the present grandpa, shall we?
Yeah, Euronix play of the day, it was actually Broken Blade Shen, Bot lane, that 1v3 guys, holy, that was clean.
It was a Nailbider. We were all watching backstage and it was super exciting.
We thought maybe there's ways in which he can outplay, but we genuinely thought
at this point, once the unblockable portion had disappeared, we thought he wouldn't have the cooldowns.
But then my man, he's able to navigate this way beautifully.
There were about three times when I thought, surely he is dead.
But man, even with the build, because he has no MR, but what's happening with this build
is that he just gets to cycle his cooldowns so well, and that's what we saw in the clip.
because most of the time, you don't get to see this sort of impact from the Shen.
You know, he's a demon, he's very strong in, you know, the first 15 to 25-minute mark,
and DB built this champion very well to accentuate those strengths to the max,
because what happens with it when you have Titanic Hydra?
You get to cycle your auto attacks faster.
What happens when you have Dusk and Dawn?
You get to proc two of those auto attacks at the same time,
and there's not even so much about the damage part of it.
It's more so that you get to cycle them quicker,
so that the cooldown starts ticking down a little bit quicker.
So when you get to proc all three of the spread-based procs with one auto attack,
that's where we saw the tankiness come through,
because he just had so many shields and so many cooldowns,
and even later in the game we saw it fall off a cliff in terms of utility and tankiness,
but it just power-spiked him so incredibly hard in those 15-25 minute mark.
I see.
I'm still wondering, it looks like a really useful champion.
We saw it a bit at first hand.
Bibi is actually the only one thing that's really key.
100% win rate though on the show and now he's four and this one but it's still a niche champion
I don't see a lot of teams or players play this it seems to be his answer into Ambeda
But it was also just the reason why I think we want to showcase that play was because it was kind of the most action
We had in the entire game. I mean I knew that we you know
We joke about becoming the second best region in the world
But I didn't realize that we had become the LCK
We had simply just kind of not interacted with each other. It was a very macro-based game and then G2 just kind of
Punished mistakes and then won
So here's the slow methodical. So here's what happened because we saw you know
That's the roller coaster of gold that we see there
It was strategically made the G2 just waited to take the first out of the game and Nashor
30 seconds apart because that's why we are full LZ style
We think about our macro, and we take it very, very suspiciously, because they took first tower, they took Nash,
and then they built this mountain of gold that we see, and then it stayed steady until, you know, another set of dragons, another set of Nashors.
And it all kicks off here, because when you have Enchanters in the meta and there's such a lack of playmaking,
because both comps are extremely reactive, but the Shen Uzi just gets to counter that reactivity, and we see it here.
The play happens, they give the tower and then later on they even go both sides and they just get 5k gold in this national play.
But in very G2 fashion, they almost threw it here.
Yes, yes they did. They dive a tower that they really didn't need to dive.
Like at this point the play is already won, they can take their time, but Skumon sees an opportunity, the root connects, the stun connects,
and he's saying you know what, I can make this play and then it almost goes awry.
Now admittedly they do still ultimately clean this game very cleanly,
But I mean, it's G2 right. We can't we can't quite take the best team in the world
But you know ultimately it was a very controlled game and I think go to on this summarize the nightly in the sense that
Globals make the game hard to play
Goals make the game very very hard and the more we see I'm hoping we get to see more globals
Yeah, I'm tell you did get nerf
So she's kind of been pushed out of the meadow a little bit
But galeo at first down was such a big pick that many players domestically don't like to prioritize
That's why I want to see more of the Twisted Fate or the Galio because
Globals slow the game down so much.
I think it's one of the first times in a long time when I see top laners still
laning against each other and being level 14.
Usually, you know, you get to stop having fun around level 8 when
a tower goes down and someone swaps into your lane and the presence of Shen and
these sorts of reactive Globals or defensive Globals rather, just slow the
game down. Maybe CTF. Maybe top laners don't have fun because I want to see
I just want them to be very, very sad.
You're so bitter because you couldn't die from that.
It's so funny because I was thinking to myself like,
Here's a pain.
I feel like if we're going to beat Bin,
we need top laners to start playing Fiora, Jax, Camille.
No.
Yeah.
Let's play some shit.
Here's the combo I'd like to see, OK?
We get a Nocturne, we get the Galio, we get Camille.
Think about it.
Bring back Galio, Camille.
Like the old school cool, the 80 carry
doesn't get to have fun combo.
Wasn't that good back in your day?
Who's for 1000?
No, it wasn't because I was never on the Camille side.
I don't just put me in the cage.
You played Camille.
I played Camille. I opened the box.
Yes, exactly. You did. The boss of trauma.
Oh, is that Tost of Rage?
Tost of Rage.
I'll tell you next time.
I'll talk about this one next time.
I was really good at Camille. Trust me.
Shut up. Bye.
Bye-bye.
I think she's dead, okay?
Is he dead?
I can tell you. I can tell you.
I don't know if they're there. Yeah, it's gonna show.
What's wrong with me today?
I think you should have a break.
Have a break have a kick-cat
Wait, is he switching lanes?
I
Let's go!
Confident like you never to see
Big ego, big about you
Yeah!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
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Let's go!
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Like you never to see big ego, but you're brain just really
disease that we only wear designer because we always
complain for that money, money, money, everybody you
see and then the bling like a chandelier hung on my chest
then I get it free because I'm simply the best
deposit that we get when I'm breaking the sweat
mind to line trim my girls great take every request
thank you
I think like the rivalry between like the top two champions KC, G2 and Koi is like pretty
like nice for the league I think all of these teams are like pretty strong also
seeing like these like other teams who can like maybe shake up like the top three like
JX, NAVI, all the other teams for example.
But I think what makes us that strong and different is just our consistency.
And always really peeking at players usually.
I think we have a really good career, if I can say, because this split is going to be very long.
And I'm pretty sure that we can keep up with the pace of how the split will go.
will go and I think that we also like are really creative both outside of the game in the drafts and inside
It's always been the KC M-QoY G2 over the last years and I think for us why we can always come out
on top is our experience that we have and also we have clash players I think in high pressure
moments we always deliver more than the enemy when it really matters so I think that's
What keeps us apart?
Thank you very much. That is an interesting sticker. I cannot... Oh, it's an M-Coy sticker. We're on the wrong day.
Wait, no, we're on the wrong series. I'll see you in a second.
I'm not coming into the stage. I was alive as well.
Welcome back to the LEC, wherever the camera is flying in somewhere through the sky.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the audience. If you haven't welcomed yourself, now I have.
We've crossed off lists. We've crossed off things. I lost my... What's it called?
Fair enough, sir?
Yeah, at the start of this game.
You know why? Because the last game was a little bit slow, but G2, I don't know.
It kind of slowed, but it also ended in the way that you expected.
I liked certain things we saw from Team Reddix. I think they had a good early game plan.
I think the draft was pretty interesting.
I just think the execution in the macro department was where you really saw the difference.
And I think that's not too surprising, right? When it comes to really big skill discrepancies in teams,
It's usually in the mid-game in the macro where that can really start to express itself
Especially when the lanes aren't very volatile like we saw last game
I think if I was Team Redix and I were to go back to the drawing board
I would try to have more like hard-winning lanes because I think unless you put G2 behind
I think the game is equal at 20 minutes. It's really hard to win
We saw G2 how comfortable they feel all they need is one pick convert that into a Nash convert that into a few towers
Something to fight people and you're on the back for anything with the throw on the back and you're on it
It was like that one bar and play that one those two picks and that was the game breaking play
And then that fan have been convinced for some reason I thought mqv won later today
Obviously Jack and I have finishing with G2 and heretics for you before Dagger and Kangus roll on with Navi vitality
Where's he getting inquisitive is out there on Monday? Well, he can just be a make-up fan
He's not here on Monday, so he's gonna spread it out. All right
Well, maybe that guy will rock up again.
Anyway, welcome to first pick for Team Herodix on the red side here.
G2 did actually choose blue side this, so they're going to stay right where they are.
Orianna's off the board with Ryze, that's natural.
Team Herodix, get that Varus away.
Yeah, Varus, I really like it because it's placed into exact same strategy that we talked about earlier,
where it is to have really hard-winning lanes.
You're able to have, most likely, a pretty hard-winning bot lane now,
especially if you look for that support counter pick later on.
It should allow them ice and a way to show more of their presence in this game
because they were pretty quiet last game, they didn't really do much.
It's a good server answer though by Hansama.
It just allows you to clear waves, you have the spell shield for the virus poke
and it's not really going to be winning for the server but it's a very good neutral answer.
So you get Alistar here as well right? Usually that's the go-to
because Alistar running into the server is always the best option or one of the better options.
Considering that we do have the Karma poke down, we have Seraphine off the board.
Niko is like champion that speaks to me, Bard as well as another one and I think if you're a team right here
You could go for either the Alistar because it's really good to Sivir because you can always not worry about the spell shield
But I think you should just go for the Niko because that way you for sure have a winning lane
Okay, and you can just poke down the Sivir even if her spell shield value is still pretty high
But we'll see what they decide to go for there's two different just kind of philosophies there
But I think when you've already looked in the Varus you should just double down on winning lane rather than going for the
more scaling options.
A good trainer for it here is Erediv segment time.
It's going to be a thought process about jungle.
You know what I'm excited for?
I'm excited to see LeBron Bard again.
I mean, that was so good at first stand.
Victor instead, no jungler.
This is a blind mid Victor for Seren.
Bit of a random Victor lock in, I feel like.
We haven't really seen too high of a priority
on this champion.
Yeah.
We did see it last series, but it was like last pick.
Not really exactly a high trial,
but here they just lock it one, two.
Maybe they want to keep the V champs
because they get Paris, Victor, and now...
What's the other thing?
Vice and the like.
Well, they're doing Alistar, so...
I don't like this draft from Team Ragnarok anymore, because now you have...
Well, no V's, and also no W's in the bot lane either.
It's gonna be a tough winning lane now, due to the fact that you're playing Alistar level 1, really, really weak.
I think Sivir and Bard will be able to just push you in.
The thing with Sylvester is that once she gets pushed, she can easily poke you down with the ricochet, it's just really annoying.
You got Sylas here, thoughts. Good Sylas angle too early.
I think you could go Sylas, but I'm not sure how... I think the matchup is quite a bit worse than the Akali matchup.
So, Caps just goes for the Akali. We already saw this matchup play out.
Leader in the post-game interview said he thinks the matchup is really good for Akali.
Akali gets pushed at all stages of the game, which I think is pretty crazy, because it looked pretty tough for Akali.
But I guess every match of Pre-6 is pretty rough for Akali, but then after 6 it looked pretty free
So I definitely get his thought process a little bit and it's also into the Alistar which
Alistar is pretty short range and also pretty slow
So it's easy for Akali to react to his combo and maneuver around it
And I guess as well just to touch on that like what is level six like five minutes into the game
And then yeah, yes, it's not much of the early game especially now with the menu wave supporting earlier. So
Yeah, I feel like we're gonna get another look at that especially on capsis angle
Yeah, which could be quite scary for Seren as we go to our next bands
It's not taken off the board maybe for a tank top lane for broken blade so far with the SIVA and Akali
Something to enable the dive something to stop
The range poke coming out. What do you think?
There's a lot of options
But if we think about last series what we concluded was that leader was better than Faker. Okay?
Yeah, we did run again, that was the truth.
It's about if Saren is better than Chovy, right?
We're waiting for that answer, aren't we?
So there's a lot of, like, a lot of similarities here that we really need to go through.
As we head into draft here, top laner is taken out by G2.
I would assume that G2 will just run it back with another tank top.
Really, Shen would go great there for G2.
Oh, really?
Both of the Akali, but that's taken out, and I was thinking,
I was thinking, best that would be a second good option, but that's also taken out.
So what do you do?
I think you probably just go something like the Xanthar or the Sion, that's what I would assume BB goes for.
You just kind of want some frontline because you have the Bard already, you have the Akali that wants to go in,
and you want something that can create a little bit more space for them and just tank stuff for them,
so that when they go in, it's a little bit easier.
And if you only have the Bard as like your face tick tool, it's really really difficult,
and knowing Skiumond, he doesn't really want to play a tank, I think he'd rather play something
like a Bruiser, like the Wukong, that could definitely be an option for him,
As we'll see I think looking in jungle here would make the most sense
Yeah, and we'll see what Kimo decides to go for Pantheon is out vice out Mundo is out
I think we're going to see an option that makes sense nocturne is another one
I'm a bit of a nocturne hater, but nocturne Akali is a pretty nice combo
But it's just a very like all-in type of team comp if you look in that nocturne
I mean Gwen option, but usually in the tanks, right?
Yeah, I don't think they're going Gwen. I mean broken blade likes to cook
Farkinblade likes to cook but this could be a flex.
This is I think Olaf jungle most likely it could be a flex
But I think Olaf top is pretty niche while Olaf jungle is a little bit more standard
Yeah, it is pretty interesting
I guess it ignores a lot of what Varus and Victor and Alistar all do right because you don't have to worry about that
Varus all the Victor slows and Alistar combo, so you can just run straight in
but it's a champ, you know we haven't seen a whole lot of, there's no way they're baronking garrant.
It's not bad, it's going to be like Cassante isn't it?
Yeah, they're not baronking garrant.
Okay, what a shame, alright.
Well, I do feel like with Cassante top maybe the Olaf has just disappeared like that 1%, 2% chance.
It could go top, but I think, yeah I think that if I was G2 now I would look for something like the Gwen into the Cassante.
the Cassanta. I like that quite a bit or something like the Camille. Just, I mean Camille is maybe a
little bit too hard into the Cassanta. As we'll see what, oh, Lee Sin? Lee Sin, first one of Lee
Sin's play. Okay, okay, a lot of cookin' here and with the Lee Sin, that means BB goes for the poppeh.
A lot of cool picks here. So Lee Sin, he looks it into the Olaf. I believe this is like a really
old like matchup, like kind of counter ideas that Lee Sin, he goes in on the Olaf but he can
can always go out, so Olaf really wants, Olaf very similar to Zaheem right now, and
then he really wants like a long fight where he's just hitting, hitting, auto, auto, auto,
auto.
So the champions that can kite him and go in and out like Lee Sin is really, really good.
But then G2, they see the fight that they have so many dashes with the Kasanta, with
the Lee Sin and the Alistar, they go for the Poppy, has huge value this game, allows
both the carries of G2 to have a really nice time, but the Poppy can also go in
with the Akali and the Olaf to disrupt and it's another nice tank for the rest of the G2 lineup.
So I really like the cooking that both sides tried to come up with here and I'm really excited to
see how this G2 draft plays out. But I know you're also worried about the bottom lane for
Heretics because you talked about the lane priority that comes with the virus that they
weren't going to get with something that could add in. You want to see something like the Niko,
but we've got the Alistar instead. So early levels for bot kind of crucial to see how they
get through G2's lane while on the other side of the map as you already stated,
it's going to be interesting to watch this Olaf versus Lee Sin. It does feel like 2021
worlds. I'm trying to think there's going to be many worlds.
I think it was maybe in 2018 worlds when Broxson made finals. He was probably playing Lee Sin
and I think other people were playing Olaf.
Yeah. I'm trying to think that was eight years ago now.
Yeah.
But regardless, our first Olaf this year in tier one from what production it's telling me.
And it's the first Olaf since 2022.
Huge news today.
So if we go back to this both lane point a little bit.
So the thing is the Varus now is going on hit, which I quite like.
The fact that he's up against the Olaf and the Poppy means he's going to do a lot more DPS.
And you can go a bit more of a defensive build, which makes it harder for Akali.
I think as well, since they looked in the Isle of Star, you're not really going to be stomping lane.
You're more just playing it as like kind of a standard on the cap, but the drop is just fine.
If the DOS is nice, LHQ comes in, Ice could have been a lot more trouble with that cosmic binding connecting.
And a fun game already begins here with Ice going to half HP.
Ghost popped from the Varus, so G2 with a natural lead.
As you weren't kidding about the level 1.
Yeah, it's a very tough level 1 with DOS and G2.
They know it, especially with the fact that it's a ghost on Ice.
No combat summoner on him.
What's most important though is that LeBron didn't get that level one stun if he did if ice failed to dodge it
Probably would have been a flash burn as well. Oh, yeah
But just with the electric using the board auto attacks it's enough to win the trades
It's fair when people say the bot lane is dictated by supports like 99% of the matchup right? Yeah
Like it's an 80 carry you just a passenger or what? No, not always. Yeah, it's like 30%
It's like you're a
Oh, I know actually it's like you're in a driving, you know like driving tutor
Yeah, they have control of like they can choose to break yeah, but that's like how it is like you could break if something goes really wrong
But you're really reliable support. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna crash. You're probably gonna crash. Yeah, it's how hard you crash, isn't it?
Yeah, okay, it makes a lot of sense. Well so far support winning out from the problems you'd expect
Team eridic's airport lane gets to level two and now we'll see with the way pushing in what actually happens
But I still got a lot of minions to connect or collect rather
And Hans-Armin is gonna pick up what he can of this first, plating as the minions should do the rest of the work
Caps is getting the push on mid so I suppose leader was right. Akali does just kind of chill
Saren is also going with the
airy and the scorch I would presume
Like Nuke had last game
It might be a little bit of a slower early game once again
But I will say, even though Lidl was right in the sense that Kali can coast a bit, the trade is still horrible. The trade is still so big to play.
The trades are definitely winning for Victor, but if Kali gets the CS lead, she gets push.
Who cares if she doesn't get her HP?
Cher is down bot now, Scuttlecrab available, but nothing available in the bot lane.
It's always ready for you down.
And Cher taking this.
I mean, Skumam was so fast that he had time to do the full clear base by two longswords and then go to crab.
Well, Shai'O just is now basing, so a huge template for Skuemon here, and he's looking to path around top, he knows the ward is there.
Tracin is at half-way trade.
Oh, if Tracin walks up for these minions.
Oh, he's dead. Oh dear. Well, Flash and maybe a warbroken blade, thinking there we go.
Not dead if you burn the Flash early.
It's Flash for Skuemon. Typically we always see Olaf run the ghost.
It has been a long time since we've seen Olaf, but it usually always was run with the ghost, kind of similar to like a Hecarim.
Sonic Wave not connecting I did that just take the cannon. Yeah, Seren lose his cannon to a jungle gang
Show just taxed him. I think
Trample all the coffee bindings fantastic way gets out with a ball rise or a headbutt rather towards me
He flushes heels and now ice the next in trouble
The lethal 10 behind time a match in a flash and then LeBrov to ice is dead
Way only saved by the range of the binding
But Han Solo on the board and G2 is bottling this strike back. Wei went a little bit too deep
And his ice that pays the price pretty classic support in some ADC dies
Oh, that's right. You know it best as the minion wave crashes in
LeBron gets the plating by himself and Wei just has to pick up the pace. Yeah, let's watch the replay
I mean Wei goes on to LeBron and Ice trades back a little bit
But they just don't really have the damage the minions are hitting them Wei is forced to flash out
and Ice realized his troubles he flushed out as well, but he does not have the barrier and he does not have the spells
Just a little bit like this joint it and I think this especially feels bad because like you change stand
To make your bot lane better. The idea was to bring in another Korean. Yeah, no language barrier as I say
Ice is now dead
Oh, he's indeed and remember both of them as before
Ragnarok gank
And Scumond also on the board, ice 0 and 2, and what were you saying about thin?
Yeah, it's a bit of a disaster for Team Moradix here.
They changed stand with the hopes of ice, I think enabling ice to really be the proper carry of the steam.
So to see them start the game off so heavily from behind in the bot lane is really, really tough.
And I think we've yet to see really the bot lane that was envisioned with Ice and Wei.
It is a tough competition though, like they're growing up against Halsamalabra, no slashes of course.
And it's hard because again, individually you look at the stats on your screen, like Ice didn't have a bad week one.
In fact, it seems like heretics are really...
They're coasting on the fact that like the last years, all of a sudden, like last split rather,
But rather, they rely on Ice's show, just gets in and gets out.
Orson to see if Shiro does anything, but he doesn't have the Dragon's Rage available.
Half the way to level 6 and maybe a little bit more.
Skumon looking to the scuttle to hit that level 6.
Caps also has kill threat now as he starts moving over in G2.
Definitely hold Bottle Ribbon in their favor.
As we find him in Gage, it's nice, but LeBrov's not enough Sonic Wave, not going to be taken there.
It is OK, Shiro sense.
Hell, we just got to do it.
He's going to run in and get the kill, but meanwhile, right now it's on time.
Double kill already!
The Chateau is right, it seems like a Skumont big penta kill game angle.
He's already picked up three 600 gold.
Skumont is running the rear.
Oh my god, G2 at full control.
3-0 for Skumont. They just ran them down.
I mean, Isis 1-3. He's down so much farm, so much gold.
You can see that G2 played this pretty cleverly here.
They're just kind of waiting.
They make sure that Hansama and LeBron are no both getting combat at the same time,
and then they run down way, even though she was able to pick up LeBron,
Ice ends up paying the price, and Ice is level 4 to the level 6 Olaf.
And 3.
Did we just miss a solo kill, or what just happened?
No, we didn't.
We broke a bit and ulted something.
I think you ulted the Tracer away.
Ah, okay, yeah.
Okay.
Turn off.
Yeah, Ice is so far behind.
Is that a full level?
Oh, this is tragic.
This is painful.
This, ah...
It's going to be a tough game for Iceman.
Remember, again, you know he went on hit, so he's going to be involved.
I mean, that's the one downside, right? Like, you're not playing this poke virus that can space.
Space has the ball, I should say. It's a nice one and three in this gassading game versus a BF sword,
and a slingshot on Hanson already, way looking for play, but he's just going to hack Flash towards the rest of the lane.
You know what? Skimmon might make a repeat gank before this Flash is up.
Trying to auto attack this game as virus is going to be an absolute nightmare when you're behind like this, so they're really going to need, I'm not even sure what they're going to need.
I mean, Xeo can try to find an insect. That feels crazy to say. I've been out of Soda for so long.
Oh man, it's been a while. It's been a while.
But you can't really insect on Sama. He has to spell shield.
That's going to bring you down.
And you can't insect LeBron, but it's the power, you know? It doesn't feel great.
Nice.
Really huge targets for the Lee Sin. I mean, Lee Sin is nice into a colleague as you can reveal her with that Q.
Good average playcaps here.
And the question mark is Q-mon gets where he is again.
A wall not present for Ice but he still slowed down.
And the setup with On the Hunters good.
Chainz grokken good as well but look at the Tarot at least saved.
Ragnarov popped again but Ice just got his flash up to burn it straight away.
The Q-monster is just a monster.
It looked like such a good play from Team Redix.
When I saw they got the combo on Huntsnama they got the Chainz and Corruption.
And then suddenly Ice and Wei's HP bar just disappears when the Olaf gets involved.
And that's G2 getting the first dragon, forcing Ice out again, making him lose even more minions.
Shale is here to pick up the scraps, get a pink ward, and not much else.
First dragon to day gold lead, nine minutes into the game, the G2 fans came out to see where
G2 were out after coming back from first stand. Game one became a little bit tricky, but
the second game is starting off way better. Askewman doesn't have the oldies caught out,
Cast on down kick, anasonic wave, Shadow with a shutdown and G2 in a little bit of trouble.
He'll drop down to flash as well, as Catz looks to the angle, down to me,
Tarred Shadow, greedy, but a Tarred shot and I'm going to finish him off.
Catz in without going in, but Wei is in the way.
So Catz will not take that second R and Shadow with a big play around mid.
Really, really nice play by Saren there.
Sits over the wall, finds the root of the Schumann.
Schumann went a little bit too deep.
They weren't really respecting them.
Skumont should have taken the safe path, but he said he walks through mid and Saren's around the wall and Saren immediately flashes as LeBron puts the stun down, which means that Caps' cap followed with the E.
So even though Caps could look to get a kill here, return on to Shale, he knows that he goes in, he's going to end up dying as well, doesn't end up going for it.
That's just two free kills for Team Moretics and finally some life in them for this game.
Gold lead for Shaiyo after the three kills start from Skumon as well
And his grubs are gonna be started up quite easily
Note that Shaiyo should be backing for his first item here as well. Strike break for Skumon is the difference and
I'm just staying shaking carrying this game because we already talked about how hard it was looking
Yeah, it's gonna be tough for sure
Definitely helps that he got quite a bit of gold there does feel bad though that due to the fight
he was so delayed on tempo he has to drop the grub so both early game
objectives going over the team to G2 timing. Caps is now likely going to trouble, wait, he's...
Boy, good damage though with the Hextech gun, wait, wait, oh he finds a Pulverize, spots out Caps.
Caps is doing great damage instead of 4 on the Seren. Team Heretics group up
with 3, LeBron defending vision here is just an award, but Sonic Clown is going to find a
magical journey through, Cher looking for the invade on the Raptors, while
Skumon's coming to defend.
Yeah, Wade is over the wall, but Hansel is moving first.
He's outside the garden.
Shale is not going to risk it here, especially if Skumon gets on view with Stripebreaker, you are not escaping.
Yeah, Shale, I like the proactivity that he's looking for a place, looking to try and make things happen.
But it's hard when your bot lane is this far behind.
You can see G2 bot lane is constantly moving, looking to cover.
Top lane is losing push as well. Mid lane is also getting able to push in.
So I don't think Shale will really be able to go for any sort of invade, it really has to be ganks or counterganks where he can make his impact known.
Sure.
He's looking for flighting, he's got a Shuriken put here, flight's a little bit risky but...
That's the TP, probably just gonna base some TP back I would assume.
Now the biggest question is, can Shale recover the one part of the map that still needs a bit of attention, which is Ice and Way?
The early game has been rough, 1-3 ice is still sitting there, looking for a way to his blood of the Rune King.
Cap's teleport though, shows me that maybe it's going to be an attempt to solo kill Flash.
5 points strike, the Shuriken flip, but Shairo saves him. Both mid laners get their award quest at the same time,
and a world quest rather, but Cap's can't blood anything after the Flash.
Really good cover by Shairo there, I think since he landed the E he had the ultimate.
Seren would have died if Shale was not there, but due to the fact that Shale was there with the kick, Caps knows he can't go anywhere, kicked on the tower and would die.
It's a really nice cover. Means that Caps burned his flash, burned his TP without really getting much of anything.
As you talked about Jake, the bot lane is really dire. You have no item completed on weight, no item completed on ice versus double completed items.
So it's really really difficult to have any sort of fight around bot lane, but it's good one now.
We win the 1v1, not the true 1v1, Sonic Wave dodged this time around.
You can kind of see the play pattern that Lee Sin wants to go for though, he just dashes
in, does some damage, backs off, and that way it's kind of like Olaf just gets annoyed
but he can't really retaliate, and if you can do that enough, that's when Olaf really
starts to suffer, but with the fact that the lanes aren't going in his favor, it's
hard for Lee Sin to really push the advantage much, so he's just going to back off to
his own gravel, get the Krags to face.
Just notice the caps is almost off 30 CS.
Yeah, he's been farming really well this game.
I'm playing really disciplined,
like the fact that he didn't go for the one for one
when Shaeo killed LeBrov,
the fact that he didn't go for that play
when he saw Shaeo as well,
he's really, I feel like coming to this game
with kind of a clear game plan
of how this matchup should go
and just farming up really, really well.
Maybe he loaded a thing or two from Joby.
And maybe you did, you know, it's the other way around, that's what has started it is.
It's also the plating he picked up, but versus a kill, seven picked up a kill and assist earlier
in the game, so again that's why it's so impressive.
Dragon's gonna spawn, it is a later stacking Dragon game, all things considered as with
this one, theoretically to stop it from scaling up for G2 was nice as it just
sent backwards.
Tempid fate, we haven't seen it used yet from LeBrov.
Also something really cool that I have some of those consistently that I really really agree with it's storm racer
I think this item is so p. Yeah, he buys it on ash on
Sivir on sire, whatever champion you can get it on. Why do you think it's so good?
It just gives so much movement speed it gives me some minutes people one and a half seconds
It's so noticeable. It gives good damage as well
The only thing that's really bad about it is the build path, but if you get BF sword
There's just such an op item and it just feels
fantastic and I think if you have a good mechanics good movement it makes it so
much easier to position well in fights and you can be so much more OP and we'll see
you pass someone like when we watch him in fights this game if you see him and
the movement is crazy yeah it's because the storm is a bro like this game so much
more speed that's a tech bit okay I think it's so nice
by the way little sneaky to now look the playoff would show is called out
on token accent we go to right now once again but wait is the new target
Sonic Blade is gonna be taken at least in a second the show has run dry
Chasen comes through, Steve on close, getting caught out, Flash to the way, and
LeProp went in with his jungle, but the members of Team Herodix would just
cry it up. I mean G2, Caps is roaming top here, looking for a top layback.
He's got an ulti, does he have enough damage on the Tracen? Sure can flip his
down. Whoa, Flash ulti! Tracen takes Caps into his left. Caps gets out,
ulti saves his life, but Tracen blade that a bit. I mean I think Tracen
overcooked a bit, but I'm pretty sure Caps didn't have enough damage to
actually kill him. It did look quite cool, but that was a really strange sequence of events
because Caps was roaming. Wait what? Is he diving or what? Ice splashed away from the
wall. Do you think he had solo kill threat? I guess with Sundance Guy maybe. Maybe. Bro,
that's crazy. I guess Coptic could just kill him. Yeah, maybe. Okay, so what's weird
here is that Caps instead of roaming to the blue well, okay we just stop seeing the
But he goes topside instead of joining his team and then Osama is also not there
Because Cap should have joined before Saren. Saren was the one who catch the wave under tower
Yeah, so some weird miscommunication there. It means that both
Lebron and Subdying skew more force to burn the flash
But at least they're able to pick up the Herald
But you see some little bit like inconsistencies a little bit if he's here
I mean you have to remember heretics were fourth seed in versus and G2 was seventh seed
So obviously heretics are showing us the favorites
Their expertise this skill and their coordination job. Yeah, that's a bit of eyes
That way of course I mean right now. They're just lulling a bit. Okay, okay?
Blade of the Room King picked up. Yep. I just got Tarvis now
Seren's up against the wall like I mean there's a lot of things going on
I'm a shot down broken blood gonna take your council brother arcane storm. Why did we change the name?
Was it it was changed it was it's arcane so now you think how well I guess it's
because it's from our game I mean if it appeared in the season to we remade
victory we changed his ability there's enough legal legends abilities that
crossover with each other I think we need to stop mucking about with the
names right I remember a kitchen perfect execution get me every time I
remember the thing is that's funny about public execution and perfect
execution is it's the same word but it's so different meaning yeah true
Saren, deep, broken blade, flash through the keepers verdict, Saren walked into that one, but to be fair G2 were waiting, they snap, shot their jaws over the mid laner of Herodix, and now the ghost button signals, as Herald spawns.
G2 find a big pick, they're gonna be able to put down the Herald, but Team Herodix answer back in mid lane, Tracer.
I think you do all that's all out over the wall Captain
Trump. Oh yeah. Caps fails to flash gets completely outplayed by Tracen. I don't know if you know
Saren is better than Chovy but I think Tracen might be. Yeah I was disgusting what Tracen
just did to him right there. As Caps had such a good game as well really high CS but when it
matters most he falters he does he fails he's like the last airbender you know
he vanished we're gonna wait a hundred years from the show off again that's
this that's the spring split I'll see it show you that because I guess party so
well and then I mean you quoted the line from the last airbender so I just
have to say well yeah well we see the replay we get a little groovy here hits
the Q3 gets him up against the wall gets the auto in that's really oh dear
It's a big war. That's a fat war.
I'd be laughing too. That is a hard war to flash like.
Yeah. I mean the biggest thing was, to be honest that was just impressive because I had to play.
Like when I was watching it I didn't think caps could die, but the fact that he was able to move in that far with the Q3 and then the flash was really nice.
I mean Tracin, I feel like a broken record. You know, I called him out last week versus SK.
First of SK, Tracen felt like, and on the gassade again, the best player of team heretics, and I think once more,
you have to rely on him in some of these upcoming fights. G2 with the gold lead still, but heretics stopped that dragon stacking.
20 seconds we find out dragon number three, and so far, so good they heretics mitigating some of the early play from Skuemon.
He might have a lead in the jungle, but let's not forget that, like, heretics still...
I think the game could be a lot worse Jack. I think it should probably be a lot worse after what happened in bot
For sure. I think team red X have bounced back really well
Seren and tracing both pretty much equal as now both teams looking to contest Drake here apps is not here
He has the TP, but it doesn't look like he wants to use it
G2R 4 versus 5 for the time being a team red X have started the great
There's a T3 finally coming through caps gonna find the angle of 4k heritage in a good position
in the other chair with Sonic Wave needs to get that execute on the Dragon they turn.
LeBronk's been found out by just over the wall.
Haring a satisfy good with Broker Blade, gets the target, gets the walk show,
popped into the air, 10-8 on three, while Dragon goes down.
Skiumont runs into the whole team.
G2 are corrupting this play with a Viking running through the whole of Heretics.
Way lucky to be alive with Unzoned Boomerang.
It's one more shot to kill the cow.
Skiumont will pick it up and miss, but the Dragon going over to G2 makes the play good for them.
I mean, Skiumol is an absolute monster in the backline here, doing so much work for G2.
They get the Dragon, they get the Mid-Tar, oh wait, okay, G2? They're doing it again.
At 20 minutes' nash, they want to make this a quick 2-0.
Team Meredex, they have no idea what's even going on, so that's going to be Nashi going over to these two as we watch the replay here.
It starts off with the TP behind for the caps, Team Meredex, they converge up to the LeBron, they get his flash,
But then maybe you find some fantastic stun on Shale, and I love that catch place is really slowly here.
So he doesn't get chunked out too low, and then Hatsama and Skiwbond can just run down their backline with all the movespeed that they have.
And they are fortunately not able to take that away, but at this point, you got pretty much everything else that matters.
I mean, we said it in draft with the Poppy dick, like, when you have a draft and there's a leash soon, like a Sante,
And now let's start as main points of engaged Jack you get worried. Yeah puppies in the fight
True. I mean, it's a fantastic puppy game
I think baby as well going this more aggressive build it's showcasing the highlights of Bruce or puppy. Oh
Sarah might be in trouble. Yes
overindexing on bot since they already got the tier 2 there, they really want to play for the tier 2s in mid and top first
so now BV is going to take over mid one way, then CAFs is going to rotate up
and it's going to be like, BV is going to eventually end up on top and then CAFs is going to end up on mid
or they can choose to play a little 3, 1, or 1, 3
okay, you got one
3, 1, 1
there's a whole one, but I'll get your point, yeah
yeah, but the lines were, okay
3, 1, 1
They can play like that, all by number.
G2.
They're losing the Minu Wave in top.
At least Tracin's able to defend.
But...
Cap's doing fine on his own.
Shares one defending in bot side.
One broken blade is one pushing through mid.
However, Herodix, again, I'll say it.
Doing a good job of defending.
If they can make sure that the losses are mitigated to only this top guitar,
which for now, I think the siege is pretty hard for G2 to pull off.
Unless they go towards mid and use their numbers, in which case,
Seeds pretty good for GT. I mean they can just play the whole map here
They have very little engaged on the side of femur at x that's really just a leasing finding in some sort of crazy
And say way does not flash a fetish
Trouble there's the poppy old into the air I slow down by the hammer shock and the block coming in top
Planet tank and support Bart almost do it by themselves while absolutely trouble something quite. I'm gonna be taken
No, yes, okay sure can flip great response
There's that interaction is trace and find the target from the front bit too fast get his way out
Yeah, and with that G2 they're just kind of being annoying in every lane that they can
So allow themselves to get as much plates
They're able to get the mid tier 2 and the top tier 2 and some plates on the both in it
With that a seven thousand gold lead and it feels like a rinse and repeat of game one
I mean this game not feels a little bit more
It's gonna say don't have an early game heretics held out until they didn't what you said in game one though
was like there's that one play that opens up Baron and then the game feels kind of lost
and even though the gold doesn't expand that much from there, I mean G2...
They expanded but there's a set of games out there.
I mean they got 4k off the Baron but you know what I mean like game 1 it didn't expand
much from there but it felt like the Nail, it felt like the first Nail on the many
Nails and Coffins.
Many Coffins.
You know what I mean Nails and Coffins.
Nails and Coffins.
Yeah, yeah that's...
You're correct.
Blades and Bowers.
Blades and Towers, Nails and Coffins same deal.
G2 obviously we're going to come back if they're playing on this.
even though it hasn't been super clean, it's still been good enough where...
I think they're very clearly showing that they're the better team.
Yeah, they're rinsing them a little bit.
This is the Darten, soaps off, and here Tracen is caught out versus four,
Strikebreaker blast away, sure it can play this game all out, but he's dead.
Just a little bit squishy for G2 to take down,
and it's 15 seconds, Dragon number three on the board.
Yeah, G2 are full control, they're going to pick up the Dragon,
and probably this game would go to the next Nasher,
the next nashir and then g2 will play for that and then look down the game with that if i work to make a little prediction
so jack while we're waiting for that yeah what do you think about the silver rod
there's another type of fight sarin's going to get out with a part of the
the silver road like not the golden road but the silver they come first in the region second
at internationals i see the international every international this year i would like them to come
first i mean yeah but then something silver ride is it well maybe it would be i think i'd rather have
Like if I were to choose the Silver Road or Worlds, win?
I mean of course with all big worlds win, with big MSIs win.
I think MSIs win. Of course.
But if they can't, if they get the finals...
Okay, if they can't, then the Silver Road sounds pretty good.
That's cool, man.
That would be kind of cool, like if we invented that.
We should.
Like, I feel like we kind of did that.
I mean we didn't do it.
In what, inside the year?
We didn't do it in 2019.
I would say we welcome.
Yeah.
Oh, I thought you meant like like you're on the team technically my dad was born in Germany so technically
German
I don't know how it works
Technically European. I mean, I'm you craning as well. So I am European. I
Don't know you just don't confirm it. He's like, you know, I cut through like don't you have like Australian citizenship?
Yeah, I don't think you can be here. I lost it. But is it about my passport?
Is that how it works?
I mean, everybody will have a different definition, but like...
Yeah, well...
I think it's like you grew up in Australia.
In Australia, yeah, I did.
So you're Australian, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, my daughter was just born in Berlin, what is she?
Uh, I guess she's German.
Yeah, but she might be German, but then at the age 3 or 2 when she starts talking, she's gonna say has a gown.
So what's that? Is she German?
German?
We don't know.
I don't know.
Put in your votes now in the chat, in the poll production.
Send that to Dagger and Kangas afterwards.
We'll get that answered on air for you.
The important question is, why would G2 just slap away with their wallets?
Yeah.
G2 just taking the Nash here.
It's a bit of an awkward Nash start, I just realized.
Like, all of G2 is in base.
That skim on a BB to start hitting it.
I think that kind of goes to show how far ahead they are that they can't just do that.
But Team Heredics, they kind of need like a Hail Mary play here.
Trying to find some sort of crazy insect, find some sort of crazy angle.
Otherwise G2 will just leverage back control, choke them out, or skim off, we'll just run them down.
Under title on two, and against the wall, one target's going to be tempered,
they run away from the Team Heredics to split Tracin, trying to split up the fight even further,
but CC me and Giz right in the rock spot, then Tracin had to go squishy to get over that.
And G2 will take him down to make it an uneven numbers game once again.
We're cresting upon 10,000 gold as Baron should be free
Yeah, it's just another mail isn't it? G2 found the pick that mattered. They're gonna converge on the Nasher
They're gonna use that time to gain and they're gonna show us some clean
Why not why we deserve it as a replay time and heretics just stepped up too far to mid
Yeah, really difficult for team running to really do much of anything. You see they're trying to group up on mid
Shale has a nice fly caught the caps, but a really good Sonya is from caps, means that he won't go down, then Tracin was forced to ulti, but then by the time he already ulti, so squishy and no mass land, and now, up against the Nash, down an inhibitor, they need a miracle.
Anymore of that product now if it inherits win this game
You want to make like bets?
I mean I trust I think I trust you to
Yeah, I'm not shaving my head or anything. I mean this. Oh
No, I really want to shave your head. I don't want to shave my head. No, what a guy get tattoo, baby
It did my daughter will look at me like I'm a criminal
You could get a tattoo I am European
If G2 loses, I'll get a death flight share.
Really?
Okay, that's a small part.
Flush away.
Flush away.
Can't start like in trouble.
No.
I mean, I told you, I promised.
That's one man.
Now, suddenly, if a G2 are they in trouble?
No, because they're starting this onslaught.
And as nervous as I became, share I had to get out of there real quick.
After a bomb showed up and broke the way down for the night.
The game is not the static field down to slow down the play but again G2 have opened up yet another angle in the face of team heretics
On their last legs in this game. Jack. I think it is definitely looking like a G2 with yeah
I think you're becoming European anytime soon
They're taking down the Nexus towers G2 are making it look easy
They're just gonna let the bar minions do the work really good flash from the brawl the one engaged
Human goes in, and the Flats are on the ice now and they're shamed.
It's all like that, it's a pretty clean, but G2 has been a leisure for them in Game No. 2.
And their return to European League of Legends has been pretty swell.
How are they going to get out in first and finals?
Well, G2 just ended it in under an hour.
I mean, G2, you clearly saw from start to finish.
They were the better team.
I think really they're mid-game and they're macro.
What's the difference maker both today and in general in G2's wins? There's still some you know
funds and kinks that the team needs to work through and you can see that caps you know
There was there were some misplays from you to it wasn't perfect
I'm mucking around as you play a serious burden like scum on the bar. I don't think they're mucking around
I just think you could tell that this wasn't prime. Yeah, I'm G2
But doesn't need to be started split versus heretics clearly not
They're quite a match to 0 though.
They've metched their opponents in play as well as they needed to.
I mean, Chico have quoted on record saying before,
like, they're testing things out on the regular season,
they're kind of just warming up,
and that's all they have to do.
They've come in at week two,
and if they look like our best team, I mean, I think,
hands-wise, yes, I think, macro-wise,
use that word a lot in that class, Jack.
Yeah? Because from mid-game onwards, I'd say yes.
Good job, Romano, the game.
Yeah. Okay, well, they're back.
I guess they're all right, aren't they,
Jack is out we're gonna leave you for today enough shenanigans for now it's been with Han
Summer he's gonna ask him how easy was that? That was chill mate.
Welcome to the moon I'm standing by here together with Han Summer after a dominating
severe performance with a 2v2 kill to boot. How easy was that Han Summer?
Oh we did a 2v2 kill right?
With the severe part?
Oh, yeah, true.
Okay, for God's sake.
I actually was more happy about the game one because, like, in 2v2 laning, I think it's, I would say,
the matchup should be at their advantage, but I think game one, even though we died, we had the whole pressure.
So, we are quite happy about the lane phase in our group today.
That's beautiful. I mean, you can tell.
And I want to ask you a little bit about a ritual you did in Rogue when we played together.
Because when I asked you, how are you good in lane when we played together in Rogue, you always said,
always said yes before every game I visualized me destroying the enemy laner brutally do
you still do that?
Yeah I still do that it's you know it's a ritual for me to get stronger in lane I've
done it for a while just like be ready mentally before you go into the bot lane you know
to feel fully like super alpha to be there you know or something like that.
Is this something you're preaching to your teammates as well, or are you telling Labrador,
okay Labrador, you're gonna destroy enemy support now, now close your eyes and visualize it.
I try to give him confidence whenever I can, like to beat them up basically, I like to give that confidence to Labrador
and for sure he, I can see he's like super aggressive sometimes, sometimes he's like, he's making some great plays
and props to him, he's playing very well.
That's what you like right? You like your sports to be aggressive, you don't want them to be behind you.
Yeah definitely. Well I think all the time in the Berlin department you can always like,
there's so much things that you can control, it depends on the effort, how much effort you want to put in to become better and yeah.
I mean we can tell you're putting in a lot of effort, seeing how your results have been so excellent lately.
Now we are going to be tossing to a little bit of a break, but when we move it back
We will have Navi versus Vitality stay tuned
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Welcome back to the L.E.C. for the last series we're gonna have today as you see with a
beautiful flag it's gonna be vitality taking on Navi but before we get into this we have
Scumond with us to talk about a lot of things actually, but how are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. Thank you
Yeah, like a bit of a slow start, but happy with doing slow start. I mean now slow games
I gotta say like something we've been talking about is the fact that you brought back a bit of the LCK with you guys
You agree. I guess I mean yeah, like we're just playing slow playing like on drinks and looking to skill as much as we can
I guess it's true. All right, you were telling us that you had a bit of a break
coming back from first then week off and then you started scrims recently how
has it been getting back to it? I mean it looks like like you is like really strong
I guess I think the terms are like playing pretty good I do believe a
lot can I rush in today as well so I'm looking forward to see like how much we
can like improve throughout this bit and yeah I mean I think that's we're
gonna have like a good challenge back in the US like from like scrims already
I think people are like playing pretty decent I mean that's very exciting to
We talked a little bit about it as well, but I'd love for you to repeat what you explained to me like a week off
It feels like that shouldn't have a big impact, but you're saying that actually has a pretty significant one
Yeah, I mean I think that it's really like comes down to like actually just relearning what we've
like learned I guess during the first time for example, and I think just really making sure you're not like rusty mechanically and
Just like actually like knowing how and visualize how you're gonna play like certain matchups
and since yeah like after a week of and like playing a bit of solo queue it's
really different from like playing streams on stage so that's where like
you kind of need a bit of time to get back into it. Yeah I have to imagine you're
going from a very intense daily schedule into then a long period before your
each series so imagine that impacts it as well. Yeah for sure I think that's
where like I'm not really worried that much obviously like I'm happy with the
win is like it's we for sure can't in the long run but yeah like this
split is gonna be really really long so it's gonna be important for us to
like just keep up the pace and like see it as a marathon right.
Any notes on Broken Blade? He's the key uplier of the series today from the puppy game to the insane Shen plays we saw in game one.
Yeah I mean he played really good again like the Shen I think is like really insane on it and yeah like I think his game was like almost like flawless.
Alright awesome. Something that I wanted to talk to you about quickly is you have a fan in the LCK in the likes of Keria.
How is he having a double world champion? Yeah, say that he wants to have your jersey. I don't even think we've seen that before
Yeah, I mean like I'm really glad it really means a lot to me to have like such like a big player like the best support and like history
I think this to me. I mean, yeah
I'm just like really honored to have someone like him say this and yeah
I mean, I would like to send a message to him. Hopefully we can meet an MSI and exchange our jerseys
Amazing. That's very cool. Yeah, it's super cool
Focusing a bit more on the LEC here, as we said, it's going to be Vitality versus Navi, Navi being the first-place team.
Have you watched their games last week?
Yeah, also like all the LEC games, talking about Navi, I think they look pretty strong.
They did lose both, like one game in their series.
I just think that if they are playing their own game and playing discipline, and playing through jungle a lot,
I think they are pretty strong.
Last split, we felt as though they were a very dragon-focused team.
Statistically, there was evidence to support that when we watched them.
It felt like all of their focus and their drafts were about controlling dragons.
But it felt like when playoffs came around, that style couldn't really get them any further.
Do you feel that this split, that they have brought a different approach,
or do you feel they're still quite similar?
For sure it's going to be still a bit similar.
I think in the span time of a few weeks, I don't think the team will really change.
But I think that they are key successors when they play around jungle in my opinion.
And they can actually get a lead and then the jungle helps their lanes.
So I think that, as I mentioned before, these are like discipline on a tree guard.
And they can stack the drakes. I think they would be good to me.
Something that we've been talking about when it comes to both teams is the rookie potential on his team
and the two young players that they have.
You have Reledge on one side, Nak Nakko on the other.
As someone who was in Reledge's shoes two years ago actually,
What do you think about his evolution and what made him better from the first steps he took in the ADC into the ESL H-Roc performance?
I've actually played against him like in 2024, I think for only one split, and I think like he really changed as a player.
I think he's like way more consistent and like more versatile on the way he plays.
I think before he was like really like kind of like farm focused and like just looking to get a lead on his own.
But I think he has a pretty good view on how to manage to disrupt the lanes and I think
it's pretty promising.
Do you think his H-Rocks is better than yours?
What do you think?
Yeah, a problem.
Okay!
I'm in for sure.
I also lost a net in the finals against BLG.
Do you want to talk about it?
No!
But yeah, I think he just has way more games and I think probably better knowledge
than me.
Go ahead.
Well, I was just going to say, you have experience against a couple players in this room, because
we remember back before you joined the LEC, it was BDSA versus Vitality's Academy team
as well, and that's how you played against NACNACO in the finals.
So how do you weigh up NACNACO now playing in both LEC and similarly in a start to his
career like you did?
That's funny to watch this.
I mean, yeah, I mean, SEMMA's like really rich as well in a way.
I think that they both improved so much.
I think last year he was like, okay player, but I think like in some of the games already last year he was showing some good stuff.
And I think the last bit in LEC vs. LEC he showed that he is a really consistent and a really mechanical player.
And I think that he is really one of the best players in the region for sure.
And doing this in a span time of only one year is a pretty impressive honestly.
So I'm looking forward to see how they will keep improving.
We see NAKNAKO here, of course, I think it's last week on Jax, not to reignite some bad memories on Jax and everything,
but how do you rate the impact of a very, very good top laner? Do you think it can make a difference right now if you're really goated at that role?
Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think, like, for example, talking about that game on the Jax, I was watching here, like, a pretty good lead.
I think it was, like, I'm not sure if we could have, like, done more to impact the map, for example, but, yeah, like, if you want to talk about the best, like, for example, being right, like, I think that the main strength is, like,
actually knowing their timings or they can like actually roam and like have a
timing of the team looking for like TP flanks this kind of stuff and I think
that it's kind of what you need for to play obviously I'm not a toplaner I cannot
really speak for them but from like my point of view when I watch like this
guy's like really impact them up is like they really think about their tempo
knowing when they're like strong on site and taking a lead to go into the team
so I'm curious if let's say you're reletch in this position because you
can speak for junglers does top lane become a focus for you or are you
very draft dependent? I think it depends on the matchups obviously like if we go
on to like those carry soaps like we've seen like some Vayne tops for example
or like maybe I don't know like what he could play like Varus I don't know what
and like whatever I think it's really important to make sure that your
top lane has some good conditions because if he starts going playing from
behind I think it's gonna be a really rough game so obviously if he's gonna
pick us and say I don't think you really need to spend that much time on
top lane but I think that if the stars align and he has a good matchup
So I think you can definitely look at top lane when you're playing jungle, right?
Now in this matchup in today actually we only had one-sided games and one-sided series
so is that gonna be different because I see Vaisal is on one side, Navi on the other.
I'm expecting three games here.
Yeah, I'm expecting a lot of chaos when we think back to Vitality last week and even Navi.
I mean Skimon talks about how inconsistent they are and we've seen highs and lows for both teams
and ultimately depends how much growth they've made in a week and we don't have to wait long to find that.
Absolutely, as the two teams are standing up on stage here today, it's going to be one hell of a battle between these 10 players as Q-mong.
You're going to stay with us, of course, for the draft, and we're going to do all this together at the desk.
What do you think it's going to come down to between these two teams?
Like I think, for sure, like for Navi, I think like Aizondrangle, I think it's really important for them to have like a good condition for Riddich.
I think for Rathadity, it really like depends, I think there are like more variables in my opinion.
I think that they have like a lot of carry potential with Skarzee. Sometimes it tends to like carry a bit too aggressive.
Yeah, and then like Naka as well on the other hand, so I think, I'm not sure, but for sure I think it's going to be a really intense match.
Last split, when we saw Na'Vi vs Koi, the way Koi shut them down was basically by removing carries from Rilech.
Like, game one, they like first picks a hand, they ban away his carry junglers and they try to force them onto things like Xin Zhao and other things that it didn't seem like he had that same carry performance.
Do you think that's still an effective strategy against Na'Vi?
I mean, it can definitely be like an approach here. I think that he can really play like other champs.
But for sure like removing his comfort picks can be a good strategy
But I think that if you focus too much on this on like obviously what that's the best of three
But if you go into the best of five having this approach, it might be hard to like actually have room for buns
Right, I think for best of three it can be a good strategy
Well coming to this matchup best of three right now
We saw Ash therapy and continue to be proud karma. I mean we've seen that since first stand
just be like the support pick and then Orianna still seems to sit at the top.
Are there any other bands that you're thinking maybe just need to come through
here and just game ones?
I mean like usually as you mentioned like those like ancient of suppose are like
looking kind of strong since first time. A lot of like Prio we saw like with the
Lulu, Scama, Seraphine. I think that the Mids are like always like usually that strong.
For example here I don't see like a rice band so let's see if they are
going to trade it. I think this one looks like a bit OP among all
And besides this I think like yeah, they're not used to block the entrance that makes sense and
Yeah, um, what is the sound band suggest here?
Pray like I
Mean could be like for some like immobile carries like some virus. I mean words go by right also. Maybe not yeah
Or like for J stop I would say because they're looking right now at an ash seraphine
Right that just feels like the easy go to but generally if you're leaving ash seraphine
I mean we saw you guys answer with Nautilus MF at first hand, so sometimes teams are prepared to leave that stuff up because they have prepared counterpicks.
Do you think that it's worth just giving it with Ezreal gone, with the Karma gone, with Nautilus gone, with Varus gone?
This seems like a bit of a weird first pick.
Yeah, I mean, as we did the same, like the first game, and we traded those champs.
I mean, like as I mentioned, with the rest of all the mid players, for example, I would expect them to play like trade rice for Azir, that's the only reason I see it.
And yeah, Azir got buff recently, so the champ kinda got more power.
And if you don't really have the tools to block the Azir and teamfights, I think he can out-range the Ashe I think.
So for me, it kinda makes sense to go for the support.
Now that's a surprise, looking in the aura that early, no?
Do you give it, is that a flex?
Yeah, could be.
Okay.
The push-plex is both between top and mid.
Could also possibly be part of the reason why the Sion ban, maybe if they wanted to bring
the Aurora top, Sion could just be a little bit annoying.
Corki, Nami, is it, I mean, I've seen you guys play, many teams have played it.
Do you think it's actually, I mean, do you feel confident to speak about how you
feel about this bot matchup?
Probably not, but I think that's, like, yeah, regarding the meta itself, I think
it all depends on your team, right?
Yeah.
I think a lot of people trade these two matchups.
I think it's very effective like both combos make sense now. It's all comes down to like whole builders
The better this trip come I guess with like some jarons some vice some pensions
Yeah, so like how the view is understand at home because so you're in this draft
Let's say that you're Navi for example, how are you a jungler thinking about this now?
What sort of things you think if I ask him for and what are you thinking about?
Yeah, I mean like looking at it right now
I think like for example like a champ like Jarvan would be like for sure like probably I would expect it to be
banned because I'm playing immobiles
If not you could have like this approach of like maybe you can outwrench with Azir and maybe look for like a peel champ like Zinzo
It makes sense as well to like deny it from like an enemy team with surfing so like we're looking for like either disrupts
In get champs or like front to back?
So you're just giving options to your coaches right now about like so I would like a Jarvan Jarvan seems pretty good
I'm thinking about a Zin maybe so you see a Wukong ban and you'll be like, okay
Well now I'm in theory getting at one of those two. Yeah, and so now you're also
So does the back and forth, do you think about what you need to ban out or is that someone else's job?
Yeah, for sure. I mean like, for example in this case I think they're like picking on 4th route, so the jungle would have to pick.
So like making sure that you have like good condition to like actually blind our champion is probably the best thing you can do.
And I mean yeah like whoever last pick is probably like going to be fine.
Unless something is like pre-dvp, then you would have too much ban.
But yeah, you just have to make sure like your blind is like stable.
So the ViBand suggests that they're very much thinking about that job in this pick, right?
Yeah, probably.
Okay, well, we're gonna see if Vitality chooses to ban away the Jarvan or not.
Mundo!
So I'm guessing right now you're...
Would you ban...
Panthe? You scared about Panthe if you're playing Jarvan first pick or is it the Zin?
I mean, I think that looking at like...
I mean, both are like...
You can make a good argument.
In my opinion, when you have like Koki Azir,
you are like...
You can have like room for like dodging the Panthe route.
Right.
So I think like looking to ban Zin and picking Jarvan would make sense.
Just to make sure that we can block the front and back comp that they're trying to build on the left.
Okay.
They disengaged you.
But I mean this is exactly what you were talking about earlier right, which is it's often a team preference thing.
It could very much just be SamD saying, I don't want to play against Panthe, right?
And I'm sure you've experienced that before, where it's not just you making these decisions,
you've got teammates next to you that sit there and say, I think Zin is fine, I don't want to deal with Panthe, right?
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
So, let's see, maybe they take over the Jarvan, I would assume.
Is it in Burnet?
It's not the Vudas Jarvan game, I must say, against Sazakwaki.
Right, right, right.
Okay, Zinzel, excellent.
So, very much what we expect.
And now we're expecting the Jarvan to come through from now.
But is that a Reletched Champion?
Would you associate him with J4?
Not necessarily, but for sure like seeing that he can play, he's something like
the hardest champ to play in my opinion.
Because Ambassador is also his kind of style.
And if you want backline threat, in my mind that's also a direction that
could go to but I just think it doesn't synergize with the conflict they kind of
built because if you think they want to leverage that range right exactly yeah
that's what's so cool
how like it yeah
no fun at all
oh rumble is open actually oh yeah oh wow yeah I didn't pay attention I mean
that's why we it happens all the time
I'm so surprised so vitality rounding out I mean with the scion already banned
like all I know is a BB kind of preference we've also seen Cassante
played into it Cassante is open yeah I feel like those two are kind of
the safest? For sure. But they could also just put Aurora top into the rubble. That is
completely true. If they want to be offensive they can pick like something like maybe Aria
I guess into the other, but I do believe like if you pick a tank like Azante I think
that draft looks really good. Right, right, right. Okay, no. Okay, so what do you think
of the draft? I think that like left comp is pretty like the easiest to like play.
It's kind of like an Afronto back type of champs. I think on the right they
to make sure Azir has a stable lane and look to disturb bot as much as they can.
I honestly think it will come down to who is ahead on this bot lane matchup
and who will be able to snowball from there.
Fair enough. All on the bot lane.
Yeah. Who do you think takes the M1 then?
I'm not sure. I think it can really go both ways.
I can see both teams winning.
As I mentioned, I think it's going to be really interesting to select the early game
for the two generals and see like what kind of buffing they will go for and see like who will be actually able to disrupt
or maybe just a full-scale game, I guess.
Awesome. Well, let's see what happens in game. Thank you for joining us today, Sku-Mond.
Now let's send it over to Dagda and Kengis for game one.
Thank you very much, Lua. Thank you very much, Sku-Mond, for the fantastic insight into that draft.
A lot of folks on the bot lane, Dagda, as any time you see Ash Seraphine immediately are going to go to,
How much priority are they going to have over that lane?
Yeah, I mean, at this point you should just be able to push in and look for those level 3's.
But when you look back to Navi in their last series, they were well ready for us.
You have to feel relaxed, changing that path, getting that lead,
and making sure that he was able to come out on top in that last series against SK in game 1.
So, have to see if he can have a similar story here or if he's ready for that invade like he was last time.
Either way, it's Vitality versus Navi, an exciting matchup all across the board.
a lot of rising stars on both of these rosters. You look at players like knock knock go on the
side of vitality players like reletch on the side of Navi and it's we're seeing this kind of influx
of new talent and now they get a clash against each other here in week two rather of the spring.
Yeah I'm excited to see who kind of comes down on top because I think for vitality
they've kind of nearly taken the space in my head of where I was looking at Navi to be. I
was kind of looking at Navi as that like dark horse just resting outside of those top three
coming out of the initial few weeks back in LEC versus, but it feels like now Vitality
are very comfortably slotted into that kind of fourth-place spot of how much can they contest
with those top three teams.
And I feel like both of these teams are kind of trying to make that argument early on here
in spring.
Which one is going to step up to the emcoise of the KC's?
Jay!
X...
Commenting your own name as some training happens on the bot side, and of course
is the Ash and the Seraphine coming in here.
Is that his name?
It's Jake, right? It's not Derek's.
It's... well, it's the... I think it's the...
Mokha.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, fair enough.
Um... do you have an Mokha for yourself?
I think I do.
But I... you know what it is?
Sounds like you're not confident enough.
I think it's...
X-DX, the X-DX, the RXD.
I'm not a big emote gun, I'm a lurker.
That's a good one though, still.
It's humanoid also getting chunked out here from Poby in the mid lane, and Reletch.
Kassina from bot side to top side, sorry, on the walls.
And we have an opposite side from Olensis, who's going to be going towards the bottom camps.
Yeah, so we can see that Reletch kind of took a different route here,
just on his jungle path to try and keep himself safe, right?
End of working from the walls, back in towards the blue.
And that was because of Ward was placed down to spot him out on this early clear.
So already you have a lot of information for this is a humanoid
Aggressive right now a humanoid has to flash back to the safety of the turret some in a spell advantage for Poby
And that's a huge play for Poby as well because when we think back to the way things have gone for Poby
It hasn't been the best of times leader solo killing him when he's still at flash
And honestly, I wanted to see a sample from this guy
But already in this game getting human rights flash and what is not exactly an easy matchup
It's fantastic for the Navi mid-lane.
Yeah, Poby did not have a strong start to spring split so far,
but already here getting the better of humanoid.
So maybe showing that Navi can turn things around
because despite the fact that Navi have two series wins,
Poby was not a big part of the early game success for the teams.
He was showing off late game.
But if they can solve Poby's early game
and he can have more performances like this so far,
it's going to be much better for Navi.
I've even heard from Schumann as well.
It's like the big win for Navi is that kind of having to say
Lady face will be put not be like you say boss. Yeah, big route on the song
Diaz to Valkyrie the safety and heal from Paris. No flash used and it's trade of
Heal with a flashy whom by the way, I'm back. Oh, actually linsus is hanging around here
So we'll get back to that. He's spotted right now
Gonna drop a ward down and not go for the dive
But there was a potential for it Paris would have known yeah nice from Sunday to go all the way back to the
Bush to just be like all right
I don't want to interrupt or be interrupted on this plane
So just make sure I can get the reset off does mean already though this bot lane very explosive
I'm probably gonna be happy that you know the burning these early are burning summer smoke and getting this culture
Yeah, I mean some these gonna be very far behind right now
This can wave will go in Paris is gonna try and hold it as long as you can somebody will at least get the cannon
So it's only one minion lost overall, but try to cannot go for a reset a pick up even more
It's just a tier for some D so not even a lot of combat stats and also on production
Let us know that this is fleshy's first seraphine game first player seraphine. It's already going pretty swimming late
This is what happens when you end up in this enchanter meta, right? Yep
Look as a support player, I don't enjoy I want to just go in and take fights and then I'm like, I know I got a healing shield
Very very much
But I fleshy is known more for those kind of like hook champions engage champions
But you got to play to the metal and we're having a lot of firsts. Yeah, we see these first two weeks
Yeah, I mean to be fair his part is looks exceptional
So definitely has been good and not only on some of the enchanter or range supports
But even now picking up the surfing like this has been an excellent start
I think that's been one of the big focuses for us has been how well crazy flesh you have been doing
It's been on things like the Caitlyn and the Bard
But they've been exceptional and a major win point or win condition for vitality
And especially when you've already got Lynxus, who's off to a decent clear, kind of putting pressure on his bottom lane now,
which, clearing back down to his bottom side, I think that's where, for Vitality, they can continue to keep this pressure up at the bottom lane.
Yeah, when Karzy is online, Vitality will look much stronger. It's no longer just going to be the knock-knocker show.
They also have strength elsewhere as well. But speaking of knock-knocker, he's just been kind of silent on the top side,
gets hit by the equalizer, and will just hop away. No ganking coming in from Reletch.
But he is up in CS, he's able to push his waves in with the range advantage.
And I kind of came into this here, he's talking about the knock-knocko versus the relish conversation
because these are kind of those two newer flares that have really been getting a lot of hype behind them here in the LEC.
Yeah, I mean especially for knock-knocko, it has just been okay, is this now just the de facto best top winner in Europe,
which is incredible for a man who only just came in off the back of, I mean laying back in the URL system with his chair.
but now stepping up massively and Reletch moving down towards his bottom side
realizes that Zin's out there so he's gonna back off but also has been
exceptional for Navi in getting early control adapting his path into what's
happening in the game. I think that's where I've been most depressed is just
how well he has adjusted his jungle path throughout the game to make sure he
can come out with an lead. And even this split so far it's not just the
top laners that Reletch is playing in the jungle that he's looking
impressive on. He's also playing the more traditional junglers and having
fantastic performances. Navi are currently in the lead right now with two series wins.
He's playing a good trade. He's continuing. Linsus is nearby between World Pop, Flash from
Bobi to keep himself safe and Linsus is not able to impact a bad.
But that's just trying to steal away the blue ball though because Linsus ended up getting
the scuttle, but he'll be spotted. Linsus level six. So level advantage,
Rilech needs backup if he wants to actually get this, goes for the smite and it is
Linsus that gets his number. Rilech has to get away. Linsus trying to lock him down
with the help of Knock Knocko and that's going to be a flash from Rilech. First blood,
Oh, bottom lane though, the whole thing going all in on the Paris right now and they get a double kill to Garzy, three to Vitality.
This game just blew open for Vitality, the top lane gets the kill on the jungler and now the two kills on bottom lane as well.
It's a disaster for Navi and I can understand what Raleigh's just trying to go for.
He was like, okay, I'm losing out on total crab, but I didn't go for the 530 tech.
Let me try and invade on this blue buff, but you just don't have a fast enough clear in the jargon to try and take that away
But in the bottom side we get the replay great phosphorus one on the two
You just don't have enough cars even flashing over some of the damage there. Yeah, really well played
Carzy gets level six throws out the arrow and I believe the splash damage in the arrow hit both of them right there
So really well played from a fleshy and carzy
They were already ahead and just the push department in the CS department now get another wave in get the double kill
He comes back to lane with a DF sword and change.
One of the big criticisms we have of Na'Vi coming out of LEC versus was just how do they try and function when behind?
It felt like the team wasn't very good at trying to play from a deficit, especially since a lot of the game revolved around these stacking dragons.
So now we'll have to see if Na'Vi can kind of adjust. Like how can Ralech start to make plays?
Because you've now got flashes burnt on a mobile AD carry.
If I'm Ralech, I'm looking at a comicism to the bottom side, but he has to clear topside first.
at first. And I'm not seeing like an immediate obvious like massive scaling advantage, but
I still think that Vitality scales very well into those games if they're able to win the
early game too, like the Serafine is just going to make your frontline unkillable,
the Aurora is going to be able to one-shot people in the back line. And weirdly enough,
it's actually kind of poby holding it down. This is not what we saw last week when it
comes to Navi's gameplay. Especially against Humanoid who was kind of taking a step up
once he joined the Vitality roster when it came to like individual lane performances
than what he could achieve in the teamfights as well.
So I think if Popey can kind of hold his own like this,
great, unfortunately, you didn't have to burn that flash
as Lynse has made that transitional gank mid.
But Pine safe still, not given much more across.
And right now it's dragon time.
It's gonna be a slightly delayed first dragon take here,
but still vitality, they have the push right now
if they at least cards you can push in the area first.
Some of the impairs are gonna walk back
and we see Reledge on the top half of the map
so not gonna be contested.
Well, Nako was contested.
basically sinking in front of the groves going alright what are you gonna do
lads are you gonna try and take it? Will it be a reletch? It will lift that
movement from main turret to start up the groves plus. So you can see by
Tubby very aware of how a reletch can access them up and how he can try and cross them up.
And you ask most analysts they would agree the dragon stacking is the
bigger threat than the early grubs so even if Vitality do eventually give it
they delayed a reletch slightly and they're still taking a pretty good
trade here. It's gonna be the Chemtech dragon coming up next in four minutes
30 seconds so well let's you can clear this one
He doesn't have any camps on the top app
So you imagine he'll either look for a gank or reset or bot side doesn't have that yeah
Yeah, I think he has to reset like Sundar's guy already picked up for lintz's
I so you're down a reset for lech and on his buck comps are there
Maybe he's a little shy on that person to pick up
But it doesn't mean that lintz's house like a temple bunch that he could try to play around this pump side
It's all that's a big miss arrow does not land with the on-court flash by some D now
Tidal Ember to Karthi, they turned it around!
Shutdown picked up by Sam Di, now V on the board.
Massive play from Sam Di.
The miss on the ultimate from Karthi.
I'm glad you did dodge that ultimate from Betchy.
That should have been screened once for Humanoid though.
No flash on Poby from the earlier look of Lincestus
and Humanoid was just going to run him down.
The weirding for the damage, but Poby can get out.
Or rather, doesn't have the items to get that kill yet.
Sam Di just velcret his way out of the...
Any sort of mischief on this bottom side.
Either way, I mean, Navi, I expected them to need Reletch to come down here to try and help out, but instead, just making plays by themselves.
Now that Reletch has gone for that reset, though, we'll have to see if he can make his way down to this bottom side and maybe punish Kariz even further.
Yeah, he's a little behind on the reset from the lintz, but as of right now, they both have the same amount of items.
Let's get another look at the replay of that 2v2 bot lane.
So, Kariz is just a swing and a miss, but really good reactions from Sam Di, flashing away.
After Sam-D doing so much damage on this Corki in the early stages,
Karzin Fleshy trying to push the punch just don't have us.
And Karzin also gets punished for not having his flash from the earlier point.
Like he gets a double kill, that was really high.
But because he doesn't have the flash, he can't dodge that tidal wave.
So now Sam-D right back in it, still a gold leaf for Karzin.
But Sam-D showing that Corki damage is still real.
Even before he picks up that first item,
Wave continues to push in for Karzin Flushing.
A good word for Pirates though onto Raptors,
which is going to spot out where Linsus is.
So giving it a little bit of info towards relic just to exactly walk the opposition's look towards it shoots
Both that he's trying to look for an invades or rech could have protect his own but such a gentle here
And we'll see the lenses throughout the wind becomes lightning is now poby gets it by the audacious charge throw the numbers divide
Defensively knocking lenses back will now be down and ults and probably look for a reset as he channels back
Now surprised poby ended positioning like that because you could see that the zinza would left raptors in towards river
Yeah, that's a brandy old turn now won't mean too much you should have it up for the rest of these objectives
But definitely makes any sort of like counterplay a little bit less intuitive for Navi as they go
Yeah, he has all actually as we have a smite from a reletch stealing away the scuttle crab
And now just hold on the fleshy reletch getting a steal and a kill will trade his life for it as linds
This will answer right on back cars yelts of sniping parents with the arrow
Of course this flash out of Na'Vi, Na'Vi get back to save and deter, but in comes Humanoid!
Goes for the turret dive, weirdening for the kill, and gets out of there alive.
Vitality, find a two for one.
Great collapse from Vitality onto the bottom side, that's just what we're talking about, right?
Poby gets pushed at mid, gives Humanoid that moment to come down towards that bottom side.
And even though it looked like Na'Vi, who started off the play, were in good spots,
and ended up being dark straights for them.
And I'm honestly surprised that Relaan actually even went for that, like Blasco and Steel,
Because that's almost a one-way trip with the positioning here. Yeah, but it's just actually takes a step too far for it
So ranch thinks he has the moment
But then realizes what a flag to drags into tribe rush and then flash
So I've got no T left but also links is end up double stacking his Q to get the third stack on the power
So it was really nice timing as they went first
So he's that moment for human to come through he manages to set up the play and it's a great time for vitality on the bottom side
But really, really well played.
I mean it's a little awkward at first with Fleshy being that far forward,
but they, you know, make a lemonade out of lemons,
and you're able to answer the kill and give another one for themselves.
And now that's more gold until Linz is his pocket,
as well as Humanoid picking his first one up,
because he wasn't able to get much onto Poby in the 1v1.
He was trying, but he hadn't found that yet.
Now he has a lead.
Yeah, I mean, he's going to be happy, right?
And as you say, I think Poby did a decent job in the early stages
of kind of controlling that lane
They're not giving too much, even burning that flash
on the first couple of levels.
But now you're starting to worry about, well,
how much damage is gonna come out towards Sam Di.
What else can we try and achieve here?
Because Dragon isn't just under 30 seconds.
And I think that's where the focus is.
If you're a Navi, at least you're hitting
some of those big item spikes,
like the Triforce and the Imperium Mandate,
which is massive for Sam Di and Paris.
So maybe you could try and use that
as you get to the next fight.
I'm highlighting though,
we have the first Rocket Belt.
I'm on full Rocket Belt watch.
Every mid laner wants to build this item right now.
It is the item of the hour, and that's at least one.
No Poby get one, I don't care.
I heard?
No, the timing is apparently incredible.
You can rock a fell out of Jarvanos.
I have yet to see it done successfully.
That may be wrong.
You can go across the Valsal.
Yes.
You can also go across the Valsal with the red one.
I think he's got options, but that would be cool.
All right, I'll be watching for that as well.
If I miss it, Rob, I'm expecting you to call it out.
OK.
I got this.
I don't know why I called you Rob there.
It's OK.
There's a lot of names that we call in this broadcast.
That's one of the nicer ones.
Did they carry him in?
It's a lovely one for major flashing in on a knock-knock-o.
Flash response, and the NAR gets out of there.
Drag is a setup though here, as both teams are now posturing around here.
Yeah, you've got these here that's pushed in the bottom side
that can now start to move across, which is why Tyler's going to have to give up space.
But look at where Relentious positioned.
He's basically calling out, hey, if this Aurora moves, we can immediately turn on to her.
But he might have to give up the space.
He doesn't have a lot of damage behind him right now, although Income Sandi, Income's Paris, and now Lance has realized that he's kind of all-in-one throughout the crossing guard early.
So no Zimjow ultimate if they want to contest the dragon. That means you'll probably just go back to clear, and I imagine Relentious earns Navi that dragon.
Yeah, great positioning by Relentious there, just hiding out in the bush, waiting to see if anyone face-checked him.
I knew that I've got a zeir in river, and we've got first push thanks to Sandi and Paris.
This is what I was talking about with the 4 items like that Triforce and Pyromanthae.
It's so difficult to contest the Quarkinami on that wave when they've got these 2 items in tandem.
Here we go.
Oh, another ult from Humanoid.
But now Rilech is nearby, goes to the Cataclysm early, that's Flash out of Humanoid, not the Rocket Belt.
It was uncooled down.
So we're going to keep watching for it.
We'll see if it ends up happening.
But, yeah.
Some of them burned though, that's big.
Yeah.
I just gave Lynx's thus time though on the top side to end up taking the Rift Herald.
That was kind of the trade that Navi were hoping for the TP back at the bottom side for Poby as well
He's they should be able to get at least some plates, but they actually had a good position to cover
Yeah, that was fantastic positioning from flesh
I was worried for human right first, but then having a seraphine in your pocket means that probably no dive and while they were hovering there
Yeah, you take away the Krugs, but that is Harold secured by linsus as you will now still be on topside
Yeah, majors got to walk all the way back now
Linsus can just take these Krugs and probably drop the Harold you don't even have to they might just get this turret
Yeah, you've got the Jarvan and the Nami trying to come and support him on that topside doesn't quite get that equalizer.
Okay, it's fine. He's able to walk up because he's got his support. As he supports, he's leaving lane.
I'm going to help out the Zola laners survive.
Yeah, I mean, that's what they do. You know, you got to run around.
Is that what I'm supposed to do? I thought I was supposed to flash in and die.
Yeah, that's usually how they do it.
Yeah, it's what we're supposed to do, not what we do, you know.
Always do it for growth.
What I'm hearing is SomD is right now alone in the mid lane, but has his support behind him now? There we go
Main Turret still has his Turret alive, but NakaNaka is peppering it down, throws down the ultimate, it's gonna full Wabokomo!
And it's a 1-1 trade! Turret putting in a lot of heavy lifting there for Yavi.
I mean it was 2 CS by the end of it as well, but you know what, stall points for NakaNaka on the kill.
Either way that Turret will fall. I imagine on that next play on topside.
It's about sending a message.
Yeah, it might have been a one-for-one, but I took three turret shots, so who really went down there?
Either way, Lipsis though, that would return to mid lane, should get a decent amount of damage.
You can see Mijie relaxed trying to move across the mid lane, and gonna drift it on in, crashing into the turret,
and that is a turret taken first turret, quite late here, 17-30 in, but Vitality get an extra injection of gold.
Yeah, he wouldn't have caught the transition though.
Yeah, finds humanoid right there.
Poe, big damage, finds the shuffle as well between Wolves.
He's trying to get the angle, he does get out of there.
Now the team comes in, tag in, lints the scaticals into safety,
as Nark Narko continues to chase down.
Ralech falls, the charge lands on the two, and vitality!
Squeeze the pincer, double kill onto the jungler,
and find a huge plan to Navi.
And Nark Narko isn't afraid of terror shots.
He takes two, fishing for Paris.
I think Paris might be able to get out of this one.
Ooh, he's able to dodge a wall,
but not gonna go just loses the Meganar.
So has to back off,
but what a counter play from Vitality.
I mean, great play from Vitality.
It looked like he was caught,
but barely gets out of the tanks in that ultimate.
I thought Poby had basically suffered enough damage.
Couldn't quite get the lockdown
into that little area there.
And then able to escape.
The arrow was huge as well for knocking Relench down.
And then also with the walking backwards again there with his In-Dale Ultimates, he gets caught, the charm onto two,
McNaco into the wall, it is beautiful for Vitality.
Incredible use of these Ultimates.
From both sides, honestly, it seemed like Navi might be able to get out of there.
But no, McNaco's DP is able to turn the entire play on its head,
and now it's 9-3 in the kill count, 6.3k gold lead for Vitality.
Yeah, I'm a little concerned for Navi in this one.
I think you kind of miss your windows as to where you are at your strengths.
Like I really like Rumble, Corky, Nami, Nami run away, run away, trying to get out of there.
But I know it's a jargon of these one item spikes, but I feel like as this starts to go on like,
the Zinzell scales so well thanks to the Serafine, same with the Ash, same with honestly the Nara as well.
And you can see just how when you're trying to set up for these front to back fights which Navi want to try and go for,
you're getting so much value from the Serafine in that as well.
So I think it just becomes a little bit difficult for Navi.
Fifty seconds until this next dragon, though,
we'll have to see if by the time he can continue to turn up the heat.
Yeah, they have the item advantages for that dragon.
Navi might be able to get a few resets up,
I see Navi going for a reset right now,
but Ralech should not be able to get that.
I imagine that's like an item where Linsus already has his cards.
He has two items.
We don't have the Muramana completed yet for some deal.
Although, honestly, one team fight probably will stack up
and hit it during the fight,
but still, that's one of the advantages I'm looking for.
Poby goes for a 1-2-1 and there's the rocket belt from Humanoid.
Now between worlds, founds the initial outplay, but then not gonna go for more.
Poby does do a lot of damage right now.
Yeah, I mean, nice job from Humanoid to escape, but now with 13 seconds until the objective,
you don't really have either of those ultimates available.
Poby's significantly healthier though,
trying to see if he can stop that reset from Humanoid, but he's peaced out.
And Dragon's spawning very soon here. It just hit the rift,
But neither team's immediately gonna go for it.
Knock Knock who has a massive shove for Vitality on the bottom half of the map as Maitre will run all the way down there to answer that.
Here, see, Navi kind of continued to stay go for these cross-mups, so instead of Relax sticking up in the top lane,
see if they can just take the tower instead, so it will be a second dragon for Vitality.
Navi just hoping they could put enough resources into Poping.
They didn't have a big enough wave. They do have the grubs from earlier, and now another cannon coming in.
Humanoid will just back off.
So okay, it will be a turret trade for the dragon Navi saying we don't have the wallets to contest this
Let's try and get more gold into the pocket of the azir
Yeah, I think the fact that you constantly have push on me from time to time
Deem Paris that opens up for these plays because it means that there's no real counter response from Vitality to try and you know
Make a play on towards the tier 2 on the bottom side
So at least for Navi now they've kind of held on like the gold is still 5k, but I think for Vitality now
It's about okay. How do we try to transition this into using knock knock those pressure inside lane to enable mid lane pushes to enable vision
I'm just trying to limit my position for Navi now knock knock. Oh is the majority of the lead
It's 5k across the field
But two of that is on just the NAR who finished the whips end as the Merc tread so either solo laner
He's against he's feeling really solid right now
The only downside is the other biggest goal differential is fleshy
As Anako was actually in A1, B2 currently, Poby going for the shuffle, flashed by the Nar, going for the mega.
He's got so much magic resist, he's 1v2-ing the solo laners of Navi, roasted down with a team helping him out.
He survives. Vitality will look for more on the Poby as humanoid misses some of the abilities, but Linsus is there for the backup.
Two kills to Vitality.
Knock, knocko, take a bet, that was sick.
L plane, both of the Na'vi players not one and set enough eyes
by telling him he came down to just get everything,
even TP top, yeah, the champion on top.
This guy is making quite a reputation for himself
in the LEC.
Knock, knocko, remember the name,
his kids go in places.
I think everyone just wants to see that place
be an international tournament.
Like all they want is to see him face off
against the best in the world, it's Sunday.
They need to take a return trip to base that is Aurora with I believe only two items is not not go in a 1v3
Holding the line solo now humanoid link stuff with them. Baron has started for vitality
Not here just trying to find an avenue in but some he's so low major will TP relish maybe finds an avenue
It is the on court of a little why can't close there, but he just get popped like a balloon
Relish is out of there and vitality claim the bear
I appreciate the thought process for legs, you know
Serpino goes wild, he's narrow, hits nothing, and I'm like maybe this is a chance and he immediately regretted it
But here, Nak Nakko, Hogi comes over, flashes the emperors to find, and immediately goes back in
I was like, okay, but gets the wha- whack into the wall, gets out up to follow up, and Vitality
We're already on the way down, so they don't even get to kill off the back end of us
The double stun into the wall, the double stun from the wall, that like
like this guy and even there,
Lynse is getting in front of the shuffle as well.
It's the noise here from escape.
They did all went so well for Vitality.
And again, this is what you want to see from Vitality.
Like it feels like this roster has everything.
They've got like bravado and charisma,
but on the rift as well,
they're willing to play hyper-aggressive
and make the outplay,
which is why so many people are falling in love
with this team.
We can't even share half their cons.
It gets so crazy.
It's...
Or half the cars, he tweets the most.
And Zagdago again is the focus.
He doesn't have the mech anymore.
At the bounce of time out, it in comes Ralech.
The arrow for backup goes a little wide.
He hops over Ralech's head and is still winning the trade.
Now Paris comes in, has a title wave,
sidesteps, shut down to Paris.
They get their guy, but they had to invest a lot of time into that play.
Yeah, and it's still dirty when disaster's seen,
but either way, Vitality gonna get this bottom lane.
They take the mid, may start to take some of the plates of these inhibitor turrets.
That's going to be a turret bot side. They push in a cannon wave with the Baron buff mid.
This is a very big Red Bull Baron power play and a very early Baron power play.
We're only 24 minutes into this game, even 25 years soon.
And it feels like Vitality are putting the final touches on this game.
They don't even have like a dragon soul coming up.
This is the sole point in a minute because now each other kind of were able to get one of those earlier dragons.
dragons but outside of that Vitality have just controlled virtually the entire game.
At least for Lech did see the way those topside camps basically call it a bluff saying hey
I can maybe look for the reset and help protect the base but maybe Vitality don't over extend
expect me to do that.
So you get some camps but either way this is still very heavily Vitality's game and
I think now they just continue to stack dragons.
40 seconds until that next one you get three items on towards Arch, she's in a fantastic
and your lincis is huge and everything is good and even the title is
that for fleshy like this is that like combo that everyone was hyper excited
about the coming into the new season for supports because the he are the damage
from the exit he the approximate item and they kind of just synergized so well
now thank I don't want to I don't know if I want to necessarily yeah I'm gonna
bring it up I already started talking about it remember what happened last
time Navi we're in a position where a caster claimed that the other team
couldn't possibly lose the game.
No, what ever happened to him.
Distinctly remember, I was casting that one.
Navi won that game.
They've made miracles happen before,
but this is looking, dare I say it,
done and dusted as Navi are trying
to defend their inhibitor turrets,
and they do hold the line.
That won't sell alive for now.
Yeah, I think the good news is it's not Betty
instead of him.
And that's where the real trying to cast the curse is.
True, I can't cast the curse.
Yeah.
Betty is notoriously, because he
doesn't believe in them.
Yeah, which day makes the trial.
I don't think that tower is going to survive very long, so I think this is a push mid, and it's kinda just over.
So, like the dragon is up, but all the fatality you're essentially doing is trying to force these waves as far as the enemy side of the map is possible.
So you just kinda already can test, and you're looking there, but Glintz is just clearing it out himself.
Fatality, again, this is a big lead, but it's still relatively early in the game.
They don't need to force a crazy play.
They can play the slower game and just stack up these dragons.
If Navi want to contest them, I'm sure Vitality are happy to play,
but the only way Vitality can lose this is somebody having to get picked out of position
or they over-aggressive play when they have no right.
Yeah, I think it's basically on Navi to hope that Poby can get so massive
that he just kind of takes over the game.
And you kind of need another item and a half before you get there as Poby.
And that's why we're seeing a lot of the times it's trading on the map
to get Poby a sideway player, get Poby that will suck the Tyra Gold as well.
But it's just not going to be enough. I think at this stage like they're just too big
Yeah, I can't I'm just getting flashed
How strong by now
But this team also is one of those ones it both of these teams want to put their name in that conversation
We we know that LEC. It's like G through at the top M. Qua KC contesting
But who's gonna be the next team to step up the Sun these steps up immediately cleanses
Valkyrie is into the Ash Arrow, quick-dash-trap, and Karazhi, so now no summoner stole from Sombi, but he's alive, he's good.
Yeah, he may have reverted that one.
Yeah, I'll be two Summoner spells when you're the one who Valkyrie didn't, is less than ideal.
Oh yeah, the Flash also didn't.
Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna say definitely not one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sombi.
So my T other now, continue to push in mid.
You've got Mako set up inside lane, and they're willing to just play off these two lanes.
lane. Paris trying to get the reset in. The middle of the veil between worlds. Big damage
under Paris. Forced to the flash of the Nami as well. So now both flash on the bot laners
down for Naveed. As they will try and again clear this wave but this one you have to
imagine will take the turret as an auto from Karzy will claim that one. Spose inhibitor
as in goes Raleigh, big engage plus the rumble over the top and Poby with the shuffle!
They got Karzy, but Poby goes down, Linsus with the kill as Nak Nakko goes mega, takes out S.O.B.D.
Vitality have killed the carries as it's only Mainter with no ultimate available, and Reletch with the G.A. to his name Vitality.
They'll trade their bot laner up as a 1 for 2 and just destroy the base of Navi.
It was a heroic effort from Navi, but this just isn't your story.
Vitality continue to put that pressure. They look at another tower, another inhibitor.
And Navi need to build a miracle if they're hoping for anything else.
She still has GA, no catacombs anymore, no flash anymore.
But if you want to just throw his body in, maybe.
Okay, we're gonna get a replay instead as the most hateful title they're backing off.
I mean, it's a great call.
Like the engage from Relectch to Nijidekrashwe sends it for the Rumble open,
and Karzy just almost completely gone.
Hobi helps to finish him off.
But then Hobi's just gone so far, and we're already saying that Hobi kind of needs to be that damage.
And even though Navi separates, it's just not enough.
If this game was like a 1k differential,
more in favor of Navi, and we have like a Seeker's Armguard
on Poby, that's the difference maker right there.
Or if this game's five minutes later and they go for that play,
that's the difference maker.
But unfortunately, Poby goes down.
Big damage comes in from Navi, still regardless.
But Vitality have, again, a big gold lead
and set up at the baron.
How do you try to test this as Navi?
Like, you're face checking into every horror imaginable,
Like, to both the 80-kind, the sport of the long-range engages,
even just face-checking until instance feels like a death sentence.
Every horror imaginable sounds terrible.
Like, every villain of a scary movie wrapped up into one right now.
That's Vitality.
I specifically correlated with the 12.
Oh, really? That's cool.
That's cool and scary.
When our arrow lands here,
under a ledge, and everybody following it up,
he'll use the cataclysm, goes into the GA, knock, knock, go.
Who's about to have his health bar,
But Ralech is well picked as Vitality land that arrow, Karzy finds the angle and sets up the play.
No jungler means no contest at the Baron.
Yeah, there's an ability that Navi can do.
This is just going to be taken.
No contest for a smite steal, but maybe they walk up as four.
I mean we do see Navi in the neighborhood and they have the equalizer for Mainter.
Not because he's not playing, but he does not have Mega.
Navi walking forward versus still in the pick.
Karzy and Damagen as the Baron is secured.
Humanoid has a flank against Pomi, goes in for a big triple on the three,
Trident made him a Humanoid!
Block Zondii's approach and Vitality answer the play.
Hold their ground, double kills and Nak Nakko.
Main turn will try and limp away as a TP comes into the mid lane,
rather into the base of Vitality if I have Navi from the mid lane.
Either way, Vitality find the ace, they get the Baron.
Massive game one statement from Vitality as Humanoid
to take down the Nexus. Reledge has respawned, but the rest of Vitality are here, and that's a GG.
Game 1 to Vitality. Cool comic collective for Vitality in this game one.
They've kind of made it look easy, just never really giving much, making sure that they were
winning out on that bottom side. Excellent stuff, but we're going to toss it over to a quick
break and we'll be back for game number two.
Let me try it.
Wait, brother, let us break this instead, brother.
For break, have a KitKat.
What is this, brother?
Perfection.
Red Bull gives you wings.
coming out to hold me close
pouring out the gasoline
yeah, I've been making friends with all these girls
and we got nothing left to lose
right to the fuses
right to the fuses
I
Second is to have a steady
But I'm back with a magic
I'm a bust
Yeah, nothing to lose
Oh, all the way
Second, I dig in
And I won't pay no
And I never fall down
Step back to the views
Well, it's not me
Keep turning and running
At the bitter truth
Then I took it down
I left a bad taste on my tongue
But I'm attached
I've been blowing out
I can't see you crying in your skin
But no one's coming out to hold you close
I'm calling out to gasoline
So say hello to all my ghosts
I don't wanna let you
Sink your eyes, just stay
But I'm not where I'm at
I'm a boss, kid
Nothing I don't want to know
Shaking my deep in
And I won't let you go
And I have a fight to
Just fight to the feels
Oh, no
I'm moving like a shark
I don't know if you want it in my head
So,
Ready, they slurred over
Yeah, ooh, love the heart, love the heart
Watch your life fade from your eyes
So,
Love the heart, love the heart
Watch your life fade from your eyes
So,
I'm going to go back after a dominating win by Vitality and a fantastic game by
Now, we sat down with Schumann right before the game, and he said a quote that was,
wow, I didn't realize Rumble was open for five, and I think that resonates with a lot of people
because we have learned that Rumble is a very strong champion and a very strong lane bully.
Nacknacko's answer into that Rumble was Dinar, and usually this is a tough matchup for Dinar.
Rumble will kind of dominate your early game until you get one or two items,
and that's when you start winning. So we're going to break down exactly how Nacknacko
knack-knack on navigated the early game and exactly where it went wrong for Mainzert.
So I have a clip behind me where I have the entire laning phase of the Rumble vs. Naur
and I'm going to play it out and I'm going to set a few goals for the Rumble.
Now, Rumble he's strong early game but level one is not his strong point.
So what do you want to do as the Rumble vs. Naur?
You want to preserve your HP, you want to make sure you're healthy
so when it's time to fight you actually have the health to do so.
And you want to of course make sure to last hit the minions.
minions. And Mainter does this quite well, he's holding his spells, he's making sure he's
getting all the waves here, and the time to fight is going to be after his wave crashes
on this bounce. This is usually where it turns quite sour for Nar, as Rumble can just walk
out with his shield, with his Flamespeeder, and make Nar dance while he's trying to dodge
our poons, and is meanwhile eating that Flamespeeder damage. So this is the moment
to strike for Mainter. The wave is coming back into Nar, he's full HP almost. Nar
kind of full HP, so this is really what you want to trade. But Mainter makes this mistake of
E-ing this mini behind him, so now he's walking up, he's walking a little bit too close to the NAR
and he's also only having one harpoon in the back. And this is going to turn into a very odd lane
state. A small mistake like that for Mainter is now going to make sure that Deknako can fully
have a safe laning phase versus the rumble, because we're going to roll the clip out a
little bit more and you're going to realize that the wave gets stuck in front of the tower.
And now when you play Rumble and the wave is here, you don't really have a lot of options.
The only real option is to just try there instead of land your harpoons onto this knock,
kind of poke him down and eat the poke. But as we see here, Maitre never really gets this wave
crash. He's standing in the bush. He doesn't really know what to do. And he's kind of waiting
for an opportunity to strike against Nagnako. But you see now, Nagnako starts building
a really big wave here. And he's actually going to be able to push it all out
and make sure he bases on a sheen, no a phage, and the boots of swiftness, or which is speed is the
correct name actually. And when he has those items he can actually start dancing around the
rumble harpoons a lot easier and then kill him with spacing and that crucial free hit passive.
Now I'm gonna walk you guys to the desk and we're gonna keep breaking down how Knacknako
has such a crazy north performance because I don't know what happened in that bot lane 2v2
In every single teamfight, it felt like those mega-narchs were landing on all the people in Navi.
Well, leading up to that, it felt very difficult, because as you broke it on extremely well, then Navi was very reliant on this Rumble getting ahead.
Because when you looked at the whole topside, you have the Javan and the Rumble together, it really feels like that was the main pressure point.
And we saw already from very early in the game, where everything went bad.
Relich invade came in, they messed it up because the Nile was already stronger than he should have been past that point when in reality it should have been the timer for Navi to strike.
So it just felt like everything just collapsed in the early game for Navi.
Yeah, and we started with as Q-mon earlier, it's such an easy to execute composition on the side of Vitality that you don't have a lot of comeback potential for Navi in those mid-game fights.
Depending on the way Vitality was approaching them, you have so many tools that you can always turn things in your advantage.
It is easy to execute. Sure, you have the Ash Seraphim combo that you're so prevalent right now, but it's also a little bit tricky because...
I mean, the Aurora actually lost that early laning phase, so it's here. This gnar should be pushed in.
If these things happen, it will be Navi with the pressure, but it was that individual strength of the Vitality players who kind of pulled them through to that end goal.
like the two with two kills from bot lane, the family mage by real, it should all kind of
add it up to this just unplayable teamfights and just like Nako looking like faker.
We see it, we see it times and times again. He is the chief of walking up to situations that
look bad and just pressing S and looking at you and he's just sitting there looking at you
miss your skill shots and he's just daring you to fight, he's daring you to go into
that skirmish with him because he's just so confident once he gets those leads he becomes
Unstoppable and and that's also been the main strength when it comes to vitality
It's kind of like this crazy creativity where all the players feel like they can break the rules
They can do whatever the wall whatever they want and that's also the main point that we wanted now me to see
Improvements on yeah, I mean it really feels like playing as vitality is like they're gonna walk up look at you
Do whatever they want they're gonna say what are you gonna do about it?
Huh, what are you gonna do about it? Look at this gold graph. We don't see these green gold
grabs especially not from vitality this was a super clean game three out of four
dragons secured and just domination across the board I don't know what
happened what the 8th is morning what kind of salt was in the rags I don't
know what it was but they were just completely unleashed in this game one I
want to know how Navi can come back there because they had shaky games last
week but still were managing to pull them till the end now I feel like it
only came down to a lot of individual mistakes that are not characteristic
characteristic of these players?
Well, yeah, I mean, are they not really?
Because when I think of Na'Vi, I think that...
They can come back collectively, usually, this time,
and they rely on Jungle, which is something
that they couldn't do this time around.
Exactly, so when I look at what happened this game,
I felt like Na'Vi was going for a slightly different approach,
where they were saying,
let's empower our top lane, let's empower our mid lane,
let's make them a little bit stronger, you know,
you have the Korkinami.
There's pretty much everyone who has agents in the game,
captain in the landing phase.
They made the game not about relics,
which has always been a strong point in the past.
We used to see relics playing,
air drops playing, all the funky stuff in the jungle,
where he gets to invade, he gets people to drag onto him,
so that he gains the least.
But this game, it felt that it was more
about the individual lanes,
and the individual lanes just ended up collapsing
without even jungle intervention.
That's the thing.
That's what they want.
Their coach last week was saying that
They want to get away from being this one-dimensional team, reliant on real edge, so they're trying
new things.
How do they make them work now?
I mean, look, if you are doing something really well and what is winning your games, you should
not move away with it.
You can't have that kind of hubris.
I mean, you should be doing something well, you should be moving away from it.
I mean, you have to finesse it out of me.
You should, because it's one of those things where, okay, we sung the praises for Nabi
time and time again.
said that when it comes to the Drapes and their setups, they're probably the best in
the league and they do everything well. But when you want your team to improve, when you
want your team to find different strengths, you usually go into this route where you
take one step backwards before you take two steps forward. So maybe these are some of
those growing pains. You know, I can go in the stupid narrative of like, you know,
they're trying to improve and all of this stuff. But it's real. It's real because
this was maybe the one of those cases where, hey, you know, it's early in the season,
We want to empower our players a little bit.
Coach, that's what you, heathens, who don't coach,
who don't do anything, that's what you call it.
We just want to be a player, you want to play out there,
you want to do all of that.
So I don't want to hear that from you anymore,
I don't want to hear from you anymore,
because you're going to take his side,
and I want to go to the other side.
Okay, bro.
The casters, the smart people in the room,
have to say about game two.
They're just saying, we're in game lots, nobody.
You know what I have to say is,
He might have the coach card that he can pull out, but Finn he's got the cool jacket
You can tell it, but he's got a dog on the back of it. Just a fit next time
He's an argument with you just turn around and show the jacket. Well, you also have one so now I know you do
I feel like I've been you know outmatched. I was in a game of chess. I didn't know what was it. Yeah
Yeah, it's it's 4d chess. Yeah, oh, it's like chess, but also you get points
I'm like drops. I was like I'm not pretty
Just boxing this is like that, but it's like chess runway. Oh, you have to like show off your jacket
That does make sense.
We're inventing new competitions here right now.
Competition right now is Vitality's favorite here.
They're up 1-0 in this best of three series versus Na'Vi.
And that was a pretty dominating game number one, Dag.
There were not many moments where it felt like Vitality were not in control.
Yeah, and I think a large portion of that was one, Karzy and Fleshy
getting a lot of control over the bottom lane with that Ash Seraphine.
But also then, Alins is doing a great job of just matching their ledge.
That was probably the quietest game I've seen from Reletch, especially on a Jarvan.
And I think a lot of that was because Linsus was able to kind of dictate where he could operate on the map,
even preventing some of those invades for Reletch when it's going to.
Yeah, well, but hey, Navi have another opportunity to turn things around.
They're not out of this yet. They banned out the Nautilus, Bard, and Pantheon.
So, focused on Fleshy's Champool as well as some of Linsus's.
Meanwhile, Vitality banning out Orianna, and they rise, and now the Karma as the final ban here.
here so let's even have you want to prioritize for their first fake yeah I'm
kind of I'm not sure I'm maybe something like the palm theater something like that
cool I'm gonna buy you sorry could be the other option but okay and just to
try and set up for that strong jungle picking again give her like a bit of
already control there but I'm sure like the Vi can set you up for maybe a
Taliyah combo yeah for a lot of things but other Lou instead so to me the
signals like if somebody in aura compared with you know some somebody
that will really benefit from a Lulu's protection and attack speed at Steroid.
Yeah, that means that often times you kind of see like a Nathalios as an answer or something like that there
for Kharazov, we'll have to see if that is going to be the game plan.
Either way, especially if you're looking at the jungle match, I think Voliage is good into it, you know, right?
You just lock her down and have all that follow up to come through.
So I think already you could see those options come through,
but we're going to see the Niko try and match that support play.
A little more lane dominance here and I see Niko I immediately think like you get hit by one dangle barb. You could just die
It can be very tough to position against that as well as the team fighting later on with big pop blossoms
And are we on top could be a lethal pairing this would signal to me just a lot of upfront burst damage
So anybody out of position can immediately get picked as they haven't locked it in yet
And it looks like they're actually gonna pivot so okay who come and said so my thought was it's like
Oh, you take the Ari because either you've got the Vi, or the Wukong that you can kind of pair alongside us
I think Ari very strong in like enabling those sort of junglers
But instead maybe giving that opportunity across probably to take it away and the match with the Vi
But I think Wukong can do relatively well into the Vi because of course you've got your own kind of
Deep engagement you can go for but also kind of play for that disengage as well with the Wukong
Also typically I think of Wukong as something that can answer a lot of
of Ralech's champ pool when he plays the funkier stuff,
like the atroxia and best sell.
Like, Wolfgang's like, cool, you're coming into melee range
of me?
Sweet.
I'm just going to throw up Cyclone and all my team
kill you.
So maybe a potential there for him just saying,
like, Ralech is not going to be able to play a lot of the
stuff that he's made a reputation for himself on.
And they're not even going to lock in for Ralech's ENR,
which we expected, and then scion for Mainter.
OK, so basically say, look, Mainter, you tried the rumble,
didn't work out so hot.
Let's put you back up the tank, dude.
Back to the tank.
Steve, you're going to be okay against McNaco, but it does mean now, do you try and lock in your ADC for cars or do you try and get a good matchup into the top lane for McNaco?
I think that's basically what Navi are trying to trade this for now is saying, hey, we've got options for a lech in, you know, the A trucks are the best of the Z we're talking about,
but let's try and secure a strong top lane matchup for Mainter. We're taking it on, and now, by the way, that top lane pool.
Yeah, and it's as real with the Niko. So Niko, again, loves to get out of lane. The Ezreal is going to be very safe in the 1v2.
Presumably, I mean, I guess you still can sometimes you have position like Karzy is known to you know play aggressive even on the safe picks
But the red clips will also open up fleshy to help out lances in that jungle as you can see a try to ban
Expecting I would guess maybe just impessa as well on top of that. I still like the wukong into those types of picks though
Just cuz you know if they're coming into melee range of view
That's kind of where you want to be anyway. You can save your warrior trickster to get out at that point
Yeah, I'm curious exactly if
I was going to say now, but you end up finding a way to things like invest because there's
even just the scaling for the sign and stuff, but maybe that's the plan is like go for that
investor first rotation here for election.
She's going to say, yeah, look, we will go for that dive.
We'll kind of commit to that, but still be relatively fine.
But I do think with the the Sion Unara, a front to back is probably more where I'd
like to see them go for rather than going for the investor, which is more kind
of dive focus.
Either way, I think saving humanoids counterfeit because you're nine times out of 10,
it's going to be science tops.
They can play in jungle if they want to get really funky with it, but expect that to be
on the main tour.
So that means that Humanoid will also get a counter pick versus whatever Poby wants,
and they're taking away some of Poby's champ with that Syndra ban.
Yeah, it says to me that Vitaliy are trying to set up for an Auri for Humanoid here.
And curious then like what that last rotation is going to be for Poby, because if you
feel super comfortable, I think you could go for the Silas.
I think you've got a lot of good options to take away ultimates.
If that Auri's taken out, it's a decent match up there.
Let's see if all because comfortable on us, but either way first pick here for my time. So I'll say in an equal
Yeah, whoo. All right
Well, my telly again, we're fully expecting this to be a top lane pick for knock-knock-o
Flint says on the blue Kong already, but they could throw a wild card at us
I suppose if they want to take away a power pick in the mid lane
Since they feel like they already banged away enough with that cinder itself
But nope, it's gonna be the Gwen locked in for knock knock. Oh, yeah
And this is kind of what we're talking about right getting something for knack-knack-o that can bully this on scale
Well Gwen fits that bill fantastically and and then also opens up options for a humanoid here as well where he can go for that
AD made if he wants to but I'd be surprised I think we'll go for something a bit more basic is
What's the plan here for poby the first one they have a silo snag at a little excited
I realized they were just rotating through all of them. So we'll hold our excitement
Depending on what is actually locked in it's a victor so more standard team play. Yeah, and I think this makes sense
kind of what we're talking about right go through the front to back here make
sure you're fine then another person I can play through that front to back and
strong in those early skirmishes as well where Wukong wants to kind of wait
for that level six so maybe gives or lets you a little bit more control in the
early game yeah but I'm curious now what the the answer is gonna be for
humanoid because he's could match kind of that long range with something like
the Zoe if he really wants to and then you've got Ezreal and the Zoe
that you can look for some of these poke plays I made something that is in
his wheelhouse we'll have to see if...
How about a Reliant Soul?
Okay, I mean, it's something that he played last year.
I had a little reaction to the audience, yeah, let's go.
Something that he was able to bring out.
Haven't seen us, I believe this year so far.
Maybe I could be wrong with that,
but certainly he is well versed on the pick,
gives you an opportunity to just farm up.
It doesn't mean the fatality is like,
make jungle kind of weak before that level six.
So I think that will give a lot of pressure
towards Navi, especially if you've got this Lulu
to work with us and for control and river in the early stages.
So I think this is where we should see Relach have a lot more opportunities to
showcase what is made up in the second game.
This feels like we're going to get into some late game team fight territory here
at Dagda. I mean, when I look at Victor Sion,
I'm not expecting either of those solo laners either to have a lot of action
in this game until they hit their item power spikes,
until they hit their levels and their stack break points.
And same can be said for something like an Aurelian soul that will just
keep stacking up the Stardust and that means that we could be in for some crazy 5v5 moments
between Vitality and Na'Vi.
Vitality again are up 1-0 in the series.
When here means that they continue on a strong start to their spring split, but Na'Vi are
undefeated so far.
They dropped the game in their series, but they have not lost a series yet being
2-0 currently.
They're gonna have to win back to back games if they want to keep that streak
going.
Game number two ready to vote into the rest
You definitely an interesting composition from vitality
I'm curious to see how it does that because it does very much seem like it relies on hitting that kind of mid game point where
You've got access to ultimate to maybe just blow someone up, but for now
He I mean a very stuck standard played through a let's see if you can play for any skirmishes and hope that that thing
Carries us into some strong team fight later. Also, I just gotta say we just saw the
on the bottom of the screen right there, the KitKat break.
Did you notice how many KitKats are on stage?
Did you also hear about the shipment that was tracked on the way?
Yes.
Connecting dots here.
There's a lot of KitKats in the studio lately.
Do we have anything to do with that?
No, OK.
I'm just visiting, man.
I don't tell you before you go.
No, I didn't realize that this was happening.
OK, cool.
Well, we'll just pretend that didn't happen.
The live on broadcast here as Aesol in 2026,
Even Twitch Shed is reacting to it.
Not a champion that you see that often,
so anytime it comes up,
you immediately want to start talking about it.
It scales like a monster,
as you just keep getting your passive startup stacks up
and get all your abilities bigger, doing more damage,
but can't struggle early as Poby gets level two
and heavily trades on the humanoid, showing just that.
I mean, this is where the strength of the Victor comes in,
right, the Q range, the E range,
it makes it very difficult for the early install
in the early stages,
Asol kind of wants to stand there at the early point and just you you get that triple stack off and then try and step away
But against a victor especially once he gets access to the full case. It's very difficult to go for that
So I think you're like so many stands still exactly so that's why I was kind of
Surprised to see the Iranian salt to be honest like it would be great later
but every time he's like going with his e like the
Blind it can be interrupted by Victor so I'm curious how this ends up laying out in the later portion
Also, it's going in the line.
So if you enable the laser correctly,
you're able to hit both of that.
Let's get APA on the line over in the next hash, you know?
I haven't talked to them about the A-Soul Victor
matchup in a while, so I'm a little rusty on it.
But I'm sure he can give us an insight,
being a notable A-Soul player himself.
Top lane is about the story of last game here.
Knock, knock, oh, had a fantastic performance
in that first game to the point where
he was just crushing in the 1v2 as NAR
into the double AP solo laners.
and already he's got the early shove here on the side
and expecting big things from him in this game as well.
Yeah, it does feel like we kind of just entered into a ritual now
where every game, too, for Vitality,
we have to have a knack-knackle graph
because he's been slaughtering people,
and I think it's been incredibly impressive.
And I have to see again with this counter-match up
how well Maitre can hold on,
because there's no doubt in my mind
that knack-knackle is going to end up getting control of here.
Maybe a potential Scuttlecrab contest,
but no plushies here, so is Karzy.
I love this from bot lanes.
When they get a shove and they're able to walk up
and help their jungler get the Scuttle Crab uncontested
once this will jump over the wall
and actually look for any camps,
but there's none to be taken.
It does mean some D got a reset in there, though,
so can he now contest this wave enough
that it prevents Karzyn from having to reset?
I think they should be able to push in
and get a reset for themselves.
Anyway, but Renech just sends himself to the top side,
picks up his own Scuttle Crab.
There'll be more about this next Crab now.
How important is this?
Yes, the one around six minutes
is always the more explosive one
based on last split, if you look globally,
a lot of action happens around there.
We saw the reset from Hobie as well,
teleport to the lane with the Dark Seal and the Ampto.
Humanite only picking up the Ampto before his first TP.
So, Slight, just purchase advantage for Hobie,
MD1, D1, SMD, and Paris.
Get aggressive right there,
get the heal out of Fleshy.
So, Slight trade advantage for them
as MD's barrier will come back soon.
That looks to use the W here to interrupt the reset,
but with Karzy still showing,
I don't think they're entirely certain
that Fleshy did go for the reset.
So, Karzy just gonna stick around, but it will delay his tier in the last, which is definitely a win for some D in the long run, but now he realizes he's going there.
Yeah, Karzy all alone, and this is the danger of being the Ezreal, is again, your support will often be like, you're fine! You're good! You can jump away and throw a Q, so I'm gonna leave you as Karzy will have to watch the wave stay in the mid position.
And now his flesh actually has a minion coming in. Let's see if Sandeep and Paris actually count the minions.
Yeah, that menu is actually a little strange right now.
Yeah, I might have given up the jig there a little bit.
Still, I think this is where for Vitality,
I think you'd want Linsus to try to show his face up onside to get you some control.
I'd see if you can push this way there to get a reset for yourself,
but Rilech already starting to contest some of these,
just making it difficult for this Wukong
to really get any sort of presence in this bottom lane.
Yeah, I mean, he's technically showing himself on the bottom half of the map.
This is the opposite type of showing though,
and now he's showing his backing, so he's not going to be there in a little bit.
in a little bit. He did not spot that ward go down from her ledge on the way out. So now
information known for Navi that Vitality is jungler is going to reset.
SamD also faking the reset himself. It looks like they're trying to get a push on that
bottom side and have Karzy lose out on Morseys. But actually Fleshy pretending to be Karzy
is now sitting in the bottom side so they didn't push as hard as they put off. So
now Karzy going to be back to pick up a good amount of this wave.
Nice. Yeah.
Yeah. So Vitality getting that reset that they needed.
Just one melee minion, get your support like fleshy, stick around, and he went for the
earlier reset, now he's paying it forward.
Yeah, so what's the, get a support who will pretend to be you and take gold and, what's
the, sorry, what is the level?
Yeah, as a support player, I like to aim gold for many periods.
I'll get for you, yeah.
I mean, I move the minutes, you know, so now we just get to take all the gold.
Yeah, looks is back, baby.
We are so up, support lanes around the world.
Linsus is now looking at the dragon here or rather looking at reletch starting up the dragon who back away
And now the scuttle crab is spawning on the top river
So I think we're much actually saw a window there to be like okay
I'm gonna trade the dragon for the scuttle crab nice for linsus actually spot that as the evil one comes up from
Knock knock go big damage and that will answer with the uncivil on software major reletch did the 530 tech though
So he has the upgraded smite whereas linsus doesn't so in this fight linsus will be down
Which is why you seem not be heavy commit here
And linsus also doesn't have to back up to visit mid laner phoby gets to the mid lane shoved in human
I was not ready for it. Hope he was roaming so not gonna be an explosive
Skeletal contest, but it will be a schedule confirmed for relish who now hits level six
Yeah, I know he realized you can cut a carrot through this popside and back down towards bottom lane
Would like to try and go for some sort of dragon take when he clears at the camps
But Sandy feeling a little worse for where now. Yeah, nice little combo from cards
You got to hit a couple of those to really threaten the Inara, but if you can hit those that means that you can get priority in the lane
And they're right now shoving in a cannon wave here as lincis has hit level six in the top camps
And that dragon is still on the table
So the priority around the bot side does actually matter greatly right now with same to being so low on the health bar in
Boat jungle has been level six now. I think this is signaling the lincis. There's an option. I could look at that dragon soon
I think it looks to how does he say with the ultimate so makes this
very very tempting. Humanoid with the recess might make it a bit hard but...
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I just wanted to send for it, stacking up early dragons is great, but just like game number one, it's going to be a delayed first dragon.
I think it was about nine minutes in game one, I think it was around there.
Yeah, the biggest thing is just like, dragon timer is sent to function area, like when you actually fully clear your camps and you have like, no theme that can be taken.
And because you got that first one interrupted by Relich, you had to cut it back off, one first go to level two, also to keep his own top side camps so he's not like spending too much time on dragon.
Sure.
So it's kind of this like push pull that you constantly have and when there is camps up for lances
I think it is it kind of hard to find that moment to take dragon and keep your camps and then protect the void group
So I imagine now instead what we'll probably see is whoever gets control of this bot side the other jungler
We'll just go towards that void groups and relish now we'll push on bottom lane will go for the dragon
Yeah, he's gonna start this one up humanoid you're thrilled he said has the TP
But it's like gonna take the astral flight out from the fountain
There's not talking about the needlework again on tomato who immediately again uses the ult so top lane
It's a story there's a few press our I press our now
We have to contest here as an early TV channel now from Poby
Not be with the mid laner coming in we'll get there a little faster and like you had said dag
Delince says I'm not gonna go in there. I'm gonna go for the
Grubb you said yeah, I mean even just lucky that the crowd is spotting up there as well
So this is we get a little something for that she kind of keep an election check saying you're not
and any control over this drill nice little climbing right there but also
there's no camps for relish and take anyways linds this will take the top
schedule crab and actually maybe look for an invade on the Raptors instead of the
grubs right away you can see linds this is our sorry let's just come across with
polly but he's half HP so linds this do you just make them to push you can see
where that is aware yeah and he has probably nearby as well so linds this
will have to play this carefully relish it's forward it might just be a
smite fight but we saw that lindsay's used it earlier and he actually i believe he was able to get that
yeah lindsay's got it with the bonk so yeah happy house steals away a cap and i believe thanks to the
red book got the initial raptors as well so nice play from lindsay it's just getting that timer on
the cap that was a game of no pun intended game of chicken and neither jungler outside so it was like
who can get the final hit on the big chicken it worked out well and now he gets even more
off the back of it as well because with that crab he's gonna be fought so we've got crab
He got the Raptors, and he's not going to get the boy groups for that trade as well, so in the grand scheme of things, like, while the Dragon is nice, I think it's personally keeping Minces into good spots.
Yeah, and we saw that Rilesh was looking for a potential contest there, but he was just a couple seconds too late.
He's not able to get there in time, so Linsus will now just go straight back to his own camps. He goes to his Raptors, so he's going to skip the top camps because Rilesh might be in the neighborhood, especially now he spots him out.
Let's go to the sweeper and we'll back off that was I like this passing from lenses in the last couple of minutes here
He's actually playing a very cerebral jungle game currently as these are called now on the Kobe
David shredded back and he's just aren't clear out the wave. No one's gonna go down. Yeah, I agree with you though
I think like this is really what we're seeing this like battle of trying to play around your junglers with
All supports moving up to try and keep each other safe
It does mean that again
Linsus able to keep his own jungle safe was stealing away camp now moving back up towards his top side to clear out
he can reset, spend, pick up his Krugs, and then still be in this bottom side of the map for if Vitality's bot lane need him at any point.
And also with Graves flying there as well.
And we're spending a lot of time talking about the intricacies of the jungle clear,
but I think there's a big story here because of how strong Rilech has looked, and Linsus is stabbing up to the plate in this matchup.
He's not falling behind in these little moments where Rilech is looking for these invades.
He's trying to get in there and take away stuff, but he's only so far down that dragon for the trade on the Grubs.
I'm very impressed with how Linsus has been approaching this.
Yeah, especially because the last time when Fajardi was playing up against Heritage,
I think that was the same with Linsus, where he did a very good job of controlling the early game,
like finding moments even against KC, like Jankos did a great breakdown on his YouTube channel,
people want to watch it, of how he ended up, Linsus kept control in that game against Jaik after one mistake.
So I really think this guy has been fantastic and kind of, I don't want to say a step up,
but it was definitely when lindsay's came into the league
he wasn't exactly like oh my god this guy's amazing
but he's really come alive now with this new Vitality roster
and it does feel a little bit of the power of friendship
that's enabled him to like step up and be that main deal for them
and it's exciting to see a player like this grow
Yeah, I mean especially on a team where again
Knock Knocko is like putting his name in the conversation
for the best current top laner in the LEC
where it's like Karzy and Humanoid just have such strong brands
and have been around for so long
naturally gonna talk about them and think about them when it comes to carry
performances so it's tough to stand out in that crowd. So shout out to Lucisa's
Fleshy also standing out here again catching a wave, get you a support like Fleshy gets
all out of Paris, takes away some of the kill wave, he's gonna carry you home, he wants to save him for Karzy, but I'll still take the flash out of the enemy support. I'm sure Karzy's happy about that for Karzy.
A little fortunate for Fleshy, maybe he could have followed his own flash, but yeah we'll have to see if
Parasites are getting punished.
So with a minute now until that next dragon,
I think this is where if you're Navi,
that might give you a little bit of a time
in the middle to try and play a little bit more aggressive
on these waves knowing that Niko can't match you
and see if you can get position in the river
because like even just looking at the moment
there is so much control in that
both side river with all the vision that they have.
Yeah, and that dragon's coming up in
50 seconds. Time, Navi.
Would like to continue stacking those.
Nobody has like a solid hold of this game.
Goldly poor vitality, but I believe that's mostly just from CS and I'm taking away some turret plates
There's no one's taking that first kill yet
And Navi now are in the neighborhood good side step from Parasite dodging out some of the damage
It's things like the Ezreal things like the Niko. They're really good at finding that initial poke on you ahead of the objective
And then if you're at half health, it's gonna be harder to approach. So think for Navi
You got to keep your health bars safe for right now
Now, Q-Noid actually, he's got to get created ultimate, but in comes Pobby.
Now, he just takes the astral flight over the wall, and he is fine all the way back to the turret, actually.
Yeah, but now, dragon's falling, first time he's completed basically across the board.
It's just the case of how do Navi try and push back, because he doesn't have access to ultimate,
so they try to play on that timing window, where Alex is starting up that dragon.
Pobby gets to shove mid lane again, so he's going to be here a little earlier.
I'll see if Humanoid wants to contest with Lysis.
Navi has Paris wrapping around,
but she's in the middle right now, still has the Flash,
but Pop Lawson's uncooled on from the earlier play,
so they don't have the Niko engage.
Hobie's getting some good poke out of Lysis,
but now In comes Humanoid,
and Relesh is running away because the Teleport
entered from Nakako.
And Zibreledge ults in, but doesn't run out of anybody,
but does get the Drake.
Lysis tries to slide one of them down.
That is the first blood to Humanoid
as Navi, Teleport, mainture in as well.
They're now turning back on the humanoid flash from the Aurelian soul.
Lynse is burned down by Poby.
It's a two for one trade plus the dragon to Navi.
It looks a little wonky to start with, but Navi come out with everything that they could hope for.
Great play.
I ran that dragon area.
It looks so janky to be honest, but it worked.
Yeah, Rilech throws himself in there.
I don't think he hit anybody with the ult, but he just gets close enough to the dragon to smite it.
Exactly.
The angle.
And also Rilechi getting completely caught out there.
like he didn't have that old quite available
but still trying to position there which kind of turned this all off
and then as everyone commits that it's that choke point for Vitality
Samdee is getting a ton of value, same with Poby thanks to his A.O.E spells
Vitality just have to run for the hills after they overcommit
and so often the control ward in that banana brush can dictate the dragon fight
Karzy was not able to confidently throw out any mystic shots
because you don't know where Samdee is
like the you know R could be running right at him
so very well played by Navias
Now it looks like a potential contest at the Rift Herald,
Reletch will just jump over the wall,
tries to get out of there.
Nature considering an ult up into this fight,
though, it's an intense for Longin-O,
and maybe just here, is Navi started up again.
Gimiroid's following, but instead takes the path back
bot side.
So this will be A numbers advantage for Navi.
Vitality decided to back off.
Navi have done a fantastic job in this game, too,
to control the early game, control these objectives.
It's only been the grubs picked up on Vitality now.
We'll get some alone time on the spot that he's been falling up behind slightly in DCS department over phobia
And it's now kind of equalized that here. So at least there's that but Navi still feel happy with that dragon with that Harold
That's it again like this is kind of where Navi feel most comfortable when you've got this dragon stocking
You've got this decent late game scaling through some deep and strong from the back teamfights with main turn of the tank
So the other is now on vitality to break this but we knew coming into this
Vitality were going to struggle to do that, right?
You need a time for Wukong and it's a ready assault where you come online
But now as you start to crest in towards potential third dragon or fourth dragon
You kind of need this this engine to start ticking along through your mid jungle through vitality
Yeah, we saw humanoid was not able to do that much damage in that big dragon fight
But a reliant so will scale like a monster and eventually be able to just one shot the you know
I want shot the big and also in the 1v1 that's kind of been a bit isolated Knack Knack
Hasn't been able to get the big advantage that we were expecting and this isn't a dig at MacMacko
It's just what we have the expectation of this player when you do get a counter matchup like this
But nature has been able to hold his own now
There's picking Poby into this matchup against the Gwen to ensure that you can use that range of stuff kind of being a
Detroit effectively as this Gwen is he's starting to take over to two either Chris
Yeah, some fire towards just helps with the poke. Fleshy is here as a minion and Rilech was not counting it
Locked down under the turret will take the ultimate to safety and the extra turn right back around on a Fleshy Poby turns the play and finds the kill.
Oh that started off like it was going to be wonderful for vitality, but Navi get the plagues after they want you to get a kill.
Mainter going to get to clear this bottom wave as well.
Yeah, so much harder to dive this side and I don't think there's a chance that this guy's descent actually will land a stun on the Mainter but he can still just walk back.
only the falling star not even the upgraded one so yeah really really well
played by Navi there yeah I need to start it off I like to flesh he approached
it because he kind of did this little wiggle right in front of the tower
basically he was trying to get rid of the home guard buff because that minion
wave was coming up he would still be faster than the minions he was waiting
to try and basically hide as much possible but still wasn't enough
by Talonnie the end of losing their top lane terror they don't make the
across my plate, and Abbey, it's only a slight gold lead,
but with dragons on the map starting to go in their favor,
it feels like this next fight is where this gold lead
should open up for Abbey.
Yes, exactly.
It was just a slightly in favor of Vitality.
Abbey's pulled that back to Goldgrapher,
won't look that fancy, but as we get a replay here,
Reletch, I don't, maybe he did notice,
and he's just thinking, I'm ahead, I'm fine,
but Poby's flash was big.
Yeah, great flash from Poby,
and it's just a bit final space.
The stun, huge, immediate burst,
And this is kind of what Victor does at this stage,
like you get to two items and he hurts.
The Flash, Gravity Field and the Rocket Belt, baby.
Rocket Belt, I'm telling you man,
if we see an Aurelian Soul Rocket Belt.
Oh God.
Would I like that?
That's so the Astroflag.
The Astro Rocket Belt.
No, it gets you a little further.
I mean, it's thematic.
Really?
Like a Rocket Belt with the Space Dragon?
I feel like we're kind of looking here.
The rockets go to space.
It took me longer than I'm proud of.
I get that one, but I did get there.
We just went up there, too.
I know, yeah, Apollo 2?
Yes.
Sure they're having a great time up there.
You see the photo of the Earth that they posted?
No, it just went out about earlier today.
Oh, beautiful.
We live on a beautiful planet.
Yeah, we're fairly lucky, because we'd
be kind of screwed on every other one.
Yeah, notably, I don't think we would do well.
I don't think we would have League of Legends
on other planets, based on my understanding of habitability
and the human biome.
But as Navi pushing mid lane here,
Some D gets away to crash almost takes the turret.
Not quite there.
Dragon setup is the name of the game right now,
is Reletch will find fleshy big chunk damage there,
as he flashes over the reliant's old damage,
but not able to get in onto Linsus.
Yeah, I think a little nervous with the club beside him,
that there was gonna be a combo with,
hang on, something's not even stepping up.
Yeah, knock knock.
Typical when a Quen gives a melee range of an ADC,
the ADC goes the other direction.
Some D said, nah, I actually go copy here.
Suminoid now coming in onto Mainter,
Has the Q damage coming in?
Boy, so by doing as much as he can and we'll chunk down the scion.
But Navi, they don't need their scion in the fight.
And if no one's going to contest and drag him, they'll just take the injectum.
Yeah, I thought that basically with the clone there,
Linsus was going to pop the side clone.
You immediately get the skies to send.
You burst out Ralech, and then you've got the fight in your favor.
But unsure that they'd actually have enough damage in the tank,
maybe Vitality didn't want to follow up.
They met the SamD, controlled mid-wave.
They got the push out of Vitality to move them away from the fought side river
and they're to get the dragon so nicely orchestrated by Navi.
Yeah, really well done, especially when you consider the fact that Rilech had just flashed
and kind of an awkward spot there on the bottom side, the fact that they were able to still find the play regardless.
Vitality have not yet found a big way into this game as now the turrets are starting to fall.
That's two now, make it three. All of the other turrets have been claimed by Navi
and this is starting to look like a more significant gold lead,
especially when you factor it's Poby with almost all of it.
Yeah, he is in a very strong position.
Like Darkseal, plus working up towards that Sonya's air glass,
it's gonna make him significantly more threatening.
And just even trying to control him then in these fights
is gonna be a little bit tough.
Because again, for Vitality,
you have to hope that Lynx's can get this dive
onto the backline, set up for Humanoid with that Ultimus,
and then you can win the fight out through that.
Well, I don't feel like Humanoid is quite there, yes.
And if you've got that safety net for Poby as well,
that one-two point should become significantly more difficult.
I will say, Humanoid was able to make it work
on the Aurora last game,
but I think our A-Soul just kind of takes much longer
for him to have a similar type of impact.
But if he does have the back of a Fleshy right now,
it's a big health bar in Mainter
who's been building magic with this
because you're up against Nak Nakko.
Things like A-Soul into the frontline,
if it's double AP threats from the solo laners,
we're starting to see like,
it's gonna take a long time for Humanoid
to actually be able to get through these health bars.
That's why I think you do try and fly past the front line, but you're behind enemy lines here for nobby
You want to see if they can pick off? That's what the Rockabelt's for
Rockabelt passed the front? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's coming together
Hey, he's got components that could theoretically build into it
So we'll see as yeah, it was Poby pushing a box like he's actually TPing top right now. It's humanoid
Did he just astral flight? I don't know if he hasn't done that, but he's just gonna astral flight
When he's chased down, Sion wins the race and lands the stun.
Poby with the kill.
I feel like the lore should not be that Sion running is faster than a dragon in space.
Yeah.
Just personally, what goes faster?
Space Dragon God or Big Angry Guy?
I guess we've done better here.
And now the Baron's going to be started up by Na'vi as it's not even contested.
I mean like if I tell you seriously, but what are they going to do about it?
They'll just instead have not not gonna push in the bot side. They'll get a wave shove mid really fantastic pick from Navi
Yeah, I mean it's great
But it is kind of classic humor and unfortunately getting caught in that side lane
He will want to do so for years and it gives Navi now a full back into this series with baron being taken for them
I'm not gonna get him some good work done in the side lane though with this terror at least almost falling down
Yep, not quite able to get it but close as I mean Daga
I just keep thinking back to what you had said before, is that Na'Vi, when they have a lead, they're a hard team to stop, man.
It's, you know, often times when they don't have that early advantage, they can fall behind and that's where we see the weaknesses,
but when they have this type of advantage, they're able to push in to great effect.
And it really feels like you're about to spike as well, with the Infinity Edge about to be completed for Sam-D,
as long as we're already talked about, and Mainter being able to finish off his two items,
You just feel like you're at a very strong point with those items completed, which is perfect.
Because in a minute, you're going to be fighting for that dragon with all these yet big-ass guys.
Fairly with the race.
You know, I never know.
Also, it's a bit of a return to kind of the identity that Navi have set for themselves.
This humanoid will get that top turret, so gold into the Aurelion Soul, but...
Oh, actually, Linsus.
Have they flash engaged? I can flash by some D.
The Anar is out of there. He even dodges the Aurelion Soul.
Navi got there carried a safety vitality worst full sending it on to Samedi and not able to quite lock him down
I could attempt though
I think that was kind of what vitality needed just throw everything in the kitchen sink and hope for something sticks
But unfortunately nothing does to Samedi gonna clear up mid-wave and then look for this reset
And I believe thanks to the turret plate code I know that wave should be very close to that infinity edge
Yeah, yeah, so I'll see what that back looks like as he goes for a reset here soon
But the point I was making before is that it's not be returning to the kind of identity that they set for themselves
It's a reledge on these you know top laner in the jungle
You know that type of thing although I guess is a Hannah at this point
He's probably had more competitive jungle games and top lane games
But then it's also you know made to run a tank and some D on a hypercarious this you know
Very standard now the look that's getting them into this position in the series and sometimes it's you know
Good to just fall back on the classics. I
I will say knock knock oh has somehow found a 1,000 gold advantage so low
I think it's just all the side lanes
He's got a lot of gold from those turrets so like when vitality is backs against the wall a lot of times
It is knock knock oh that they don't lean on yeah
It's also been the way that Navi have been playing and has been put poby against knock knock
So that then they could just farm up against each other may just have been playing more for cozy look to the other three members in mid lane
But here Navi on point you don't have that infinity edge right now dragon started up
No big power sweat for Dady Carey.
Knock Knocko has a secret arm guard,
but he gets chunks down there by Poby.
The Victor laser damage is so much,
but Knock Knocko says my job is to go in,
and I'm gonna go 1v3.
The dragon taken there by Linsus,
as the Grim Deliverance is not gonna find
too much damage done, as Linsus now will fall
the first to die in the fight.
Humanoid over the wall, cars here over the wall.
This is where the damage dealers want to be.
Knock Knocko bought them space for the dragon steal,
and Vitality will happily take it,
trading their jungler's life.
Yeah, the fact that you managed to steal that was huge from Vitality
because you can even see how well Navi cut it back into their own jungle
so Vitality had to overextend the fight.
If that had been a different matter, it could have been Light's Output.
Again, huge steal from Linsus to keep this play, but it loved help.
Again, you get this kite back into this position because you just cause this line
where it just makes it possible for Vitality to try and play into.
Like, look at where Karzai accumulate a position.
They don't hit onto anyone valuable.
They're not able to really follow up on any of these dive threats.
And now once they deal with that threat, they have to step forward again.
But again, Nack Nacko just bought so much space.
I feel like he put himself zoning as well.
Point to case, yeah.
The victor is doing a lot of work right there.
Nack Nacko again through his body and just to stall.
And it gets him a dragon, but the gold advantage to Navi,
getting that kill onto Linsus means that now they're also just going
and invading the jungle, taking away camps for him and supplicating the Wukong.
So now it's about this push on towards the bottom of sides.
Karzy trying to farm up in the middle lane, with no way for a little miss.
Navi kind of just hanging here for the moment to be perfectly honest.
This terror should fall though once this wave arrives.
You know, you took me rock climbing earlier that good.
This is that moment where it's like you're trying to figure out how you're going to approach.
You're just kind of hanging on the wall.
You're like, okay, what's the next step we go for here?
Most of the time it's I fall down.
That's the next step up.
Well, don't worry about it, Navi.
I'll say it.
Yeah, we both did a lot of that this past week Navi will correct the tier 2 turn in the bot side
That was the next step that they were going for. That's what I yeah, we're setting up for you
I think he's there like trying as you say get the goat in the pockets now set up for the barn in a minute half
That's some DPS
And he's open to do this again because Barnes in a minute 15
So if you can now push in mid it's not the vision on this top side
Now they have already created some pressure now by taking that tier 2 in the bottom lane
I'm kind of fishing for
Yeah, the Niko clones just buys you so much vision in your own jungle when you're in these losing game states and the goal lead isn't like
Insurmountable vitality were much more ahead at this point last game the Navi are currently so vitality have scaling options
They have the Gwen that's going to be hidden this three item. Hopefully soon if you can get that
Zonia's back that's going to help you on the team fight and humanoid has hit three items
Yeah, so the more they run until scales the more damage you're going to be able to do
It's just like can't not be stopped that and accelerate this game, but I think again
I love your puns on material years that needs to be a salt damage onto the key targets like half to this Bobby
Has to be on some D which means you as the wukong need to be diving the backline
That's way more difficult if you don't have tempo
You don't have control of the map because you don't get to dictate then how these fights are starting off
And because of the Goldie that Poby has individually. He's got the zone is as well
So it's like it's gonna be hard and I was that guy you trying to get on the zombie. Well, there's a Lulu
So it's like it's not gonna be easy like we have to walk the belt as well.
I can't even fight us.
Mobility.
I don't even know how he got here.
We're talking about...
That was like a second item, right?
Yeah, it's crazy.
Mourning towards the deathcap, eight stacks on Darkseals.
The Baron, now the name of the game here for Na'Vi is they won't start it up immediately.
The true shopperage spots it, hits Paris and he actually looks chunked.
So if you can kill the Lulu and maybe that's, maybe that's step one.
The carries are hard to kill.
Don't put that on me, yeah?
Exceptio Shureli is, so she's kind of quick, you know?
Look, I'm just trying to find something right now.
My eyes are fully on Linsus.
This kind of flank position is what Linsus wants,
so we can immediately dive in onto the back line
and look for that big wombo combo that we were talking about.
And you do have three items for a humanoid.
He's in a relatively decent spot,
but again, it has to be immediate
so that it just blows this fight up so quickly.
And the wallet is, again, it's not intramountable, but it is noticeable.
The gold advantage for Poby, San Diego, Rilech.
And now Dragon's coming to 45, so expecting it to not be the Baron Dance, it'll instead be the Dragon Dance.
Oftentimes, I hear people say, you know, you're happy to trade Dragon's Soul.
If you're the team that can get Dragon's Soul, yeah, give them Baron. Whatever.
It'll go away eventually. Dragon's Soul is forever.
So not be in a very strong position right now, because they can just kind of force vitality to walk into them for that fight.
Knock Knocko has finished the Zonia, so at least they have that.
Humanoid picked up another component here with the Blasting Wand, but I don't think he'll be had four items by the time they fight this.
How does he stand to call him from 1-2-5-10-2? Is this trying fight desperately for this solo, or do you just try and fight for position on?
Or is that a burn? It looks like at the moment the call is to try and fight. When and made, hoping for a flat opportunity to begin.
Where is the monkey? Where is Linsus?
Linsus is currently approaching from the bottom side, but he's spotted by Poby throwing out the laser and again just zoning them out
He heard him come earlier. It's just Poby
Holding the line cards will jump over, but it's a shield on the victor. They don't even get the damage knocked
Not coming mom go first on Linsus finds the engagement does not land it on to anybody as a grim deliverance to try and get away
Dragon is taken by Vitality Poby is separate from the rest of the team right here as he has the wild growth from Paris
Now Paris is the target, Pauli more to keep him alive, he will fall eventually, Vitality trying to get on!
Cardi Ailes will jump over the wall and she sees the dead, Pauli on a rampage!
Honestly I think for Vitality, if they just gotten out, that would have been amazing.
You got the dragon by forcing back flight, Na'vi, and I thought this was going to be enough,
because like this fight kicks off, obviously Linz is searching for Sandeep, doesn't quite make it happen,
But at this stage they get the dragon, and I thought maybe just get out, like Sacrifices
McNaco and call us, but they turn out towards Poby thinking maybe we can make a play, but
Paris immediately flashes over the wall to keep Poby safe, which of course he causes
his death, but he caught in the fight Karzy, not getting the arcade shift to safety, as
he falls, will be barren now for Navi.
Yeah, they lay the dragon's soul, but a Baron picked off is still a fantastic
prize for Navi.
If they maintain their gold lead and now pick up a
Potential game-handling objective if they can find one more team fight
They can just shove these waves in and close out the game again prop silences for keeping us in this
I mean that could have been over right there. He did find an angle
He gets flash out of sam D doesn't able to land the cyclone onto the in our but still finds that space
And it does feel like not be a little shaky at their dragon subs
I mean that's two in a row now
We're like they're on the objective first and then they run away from the engage and kind of lose the objective
Yeah, I think though
That's kind of the way they have to play the fight because as we say like it links this is abes actually get access to
Paul being somebody to stand and still I think that's where the fight falls apart
And I do think by telling me doing a good job of finding windows to engage with mints is burning this flash to make it happen
The only problem is as you say you give up so much space you can then turn towards the dragon
You have to win the funnel fight is not if you hope to close the game and I'd say you know
That's what the science part, but he was trying to mark knock knock on the flank anyway, so it's like
The victory pokes cool, but it's not gonna stop the room coming from just running action
So yeah, I mean I've been able to stop the approaches at the objectives
But with his bearin bubble, let's see how much damage I can do still gold advantage for them now at 4.7k as a big
Way of following yeah, and I think there is worlds where Paris could be looking for like a polymorph as this
Spook on goes in to try then focus bird and it's because he doesn't have a guardian angel
It doesn't look like he's building towards it either, but maybe that's an angle where he might be don't have to see so much
Correct, you see no way thing. Yeah, it's good just most of that was a
That was a big wave
And that it was being the main word
Yeah, I saw wave clear maybe I didn't put enough style the singularity is stopping the push of
Love Navi, that's two waves now that they have not gotten in.
They have a minute left on Baron.
I don't know if they're going to touch a turret with this.
Yeah, I think that maybe they got a moment.
But I'm also looking at a minion that is not
a minion for Fleshy here.
Doesn't have the flash, but hoping to get in.
He's actually a little funky for how a minion would not
really act.
So I think that Navi realized, but again,
the singularity just lost everything down.
The minions can't move, can't get close.
And Karzy just farmed up against Mainter.
So, Nabi tried a new tactic of changing lanes.
Yeah, he goes mid lane instead, but now,
Humanoid just goes mid as he's descendable,
land big, stun on Assam-D,
and Ralech as well heavily chunks wild growth
on the jungler, he's burning down, he's alive!
Ralech gets out of there,
but message sent, Na'Vi will not end the game here.
I have not seen a farm both held like that
in a very, very long time.
Humanoid putting in work, I'm then defending the base,
Asol is really starting to come online. It's a great lockup into the ultimate
Catches moves with people, 70's a half HP already. The fact where let's go down to
here was a miracle because even Mainter is using that ultimate in reverse just
to fly whatever space they can't. Yeah again when I see a Yanara I'm like that
Wild Girls supposed to be used on them. Yeah but the fact that it had to be
used on a Reledge also meant that there's no chance of a re-engage
Mainter even had to hold away and humanoid is keeping vitality in this
He had a fantastic game number one as well on the Aurora, especially when you compare it to how he's looking in winter.
I mean, he did not have the best performance individually in lane, but like just week one compared.
And now you add in today with the Aurora gameplay.
I'm sure there's early lanes that won't look great for the A-Soul.
Overall, I'm still impressed with how humanoid is looking.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of both of the ex-phototic midlaners here facing off against each other for humanoid.
Oh, true.
Kind of a look of pretty good, Poby level one to three in game one, definitely looking stronger, but since humanoid has been having a grand old time, Poby though admittedly in this one has been probably his best series we've seen from him so far this split.
He has been struggling and we even saw him shoot these points. Actually, oh, I'm sorry.
Dragon's up in five seconds and everyone's set up for it.
Knock knockers are already teleported in
and he's looking for a flank angle here as the Gwen.
Vitality need time for knock knocker
to actually get into position
as he actually skippin' slashes over the wall.
He's in the pit right now, so Navi, see the Gwen.
So you have to try and skippin' slash back over
if you want the true flank.
As Navi, Mainter's holding the line for Fleshy.
The pop loss in the game could be big.
Vitality has delayed so many dragons.
Can they do it again?
Cyclone from left says,
on the relax, she's in her pen.
Ratch is gonna look for the Grimdolim.
in there to try and secure it, but it's stolen again!
Princess again!
We'll get the objective, and the skies descend!
The shutdown for Nagnako!
Flash it in, and he finds another one!
Poby stands, but Karzy's full health,
and he's gonna look for an angle out of Poby.
Navi will try and get their solo laners out of there,
and Sumanoy does throw it up!
Poby stands and puts those shots down for humanoid!
Karzy chasing out the major!
Vitality make it happen!
Cards be flashing under the turret to chase down the scion, and Mainter will be alive, will be fine, but what do you know?
Vitality delay the game, delay the soul, and put themselves right back in it. Third time's the charm from Vitality.
They held, they stole, they fought, and they finally found what they needed.
Because if this kicks off, so much focus is on that knackle, that everyone forgets about Fleshy.
He ends up getting a great ultimate off the Samedese. He steps up here in just a moment, so they all turn down.
But as this ultimate comes forward, Samedese is the flash forward, which puts him a range of Fleshy.
So he gets taken out. And Karzy and Humanoid are just walking down the members of Nabi.
Beautiful fight from Vitality. And somehow they are back in this game.
Look at the size of that Singularity and talk about Acele Scaling.
He has scaled Humanoid on your screen.
Karzy doing work.
Knock, knock.
Everybody on Vitality stepped up.
Now is a high pressure moment.
And that's back to back to back.
But they got to do it again.
Baron up now.
Flash is not available on Lensis or Knack-knackle,
or Karzy, or Fleshy.
This certainly becomes way more difficult for Vitality
to find that fight.
Poby did not Zhonya's, he does still have access to that.
I'm looking at Zhonya's on Knock Knocko.
No GA on Lensis, no GA on Rilech.
So a lot of these luxury items are actually not
on the table here for these players.
It's really just Poby and Knock Knocko
that can try and keep themselves alive on these engages.
If Vitality can find that angle though,
there's a lot of summoner spells down on these Corkari
and Shorin for Navi as well.
So this really comes down to that angle of press.
And right now it's Navi who are kind of controlling
space not stepping too far and making sure they're spotting exactly what fatality you're up to.
The Baron Dance has begun in a very tense game. Navi were in control. They got to that Dragon
Soul point quite quickly but it's back to back to back. The Vitality have delayed that Dragon
Soul tank and now have put themselves at Dragon Soul point. Two and a half minutes until that
Barron still on the table, but the fact of vitality have wrestled themselves back in this game.
Just very very impressive and you got to give credit to everybody for stepping up in these key moments.
People going to deal with sidelines at the moment.
Poe Beach cleared out that topside and now it's Nak Nako who's on the bottom lane.
So immediately Navi starts to take position over towards the barn.
But very quickly you can see Vitali are able to once again meet up with the barn that started
and then this is in a great position.
Yeah, he's spotted right now. That's he just cleared out that one. So now he see the blue con
Fines he actually went for that there's been forward in the brush
But now Navi's just trying to run away to see guys descend lands on the village
As now Navi trying to reposition here cars he keeping the Baron aggro, but now it has reset and
Reletch big chunk right there if cars you can land these mystic shots the humor you can land
There's like one little tick of Q you got the Leonid he's got the
all this burn damage coming in here.
True, Chef Raj, not going to land on the Poby right there.
I'd be looking a little uncertain though.
They have lenses on their top side.
They've got push and mids.
There's a big wave on the bottom lane,
but I think Navi have to give up this base and river.
And look at Nak Naku, he's just tearing down that mid lane.
Yeah, the wave bot side is concerning for Vitality,
but if they can get a champion
plus a wave to hit a turret, that's bigger,
as now human are heading down there
to clear out the bot side.
So Vitality kind of did what they needed to do.
I'd be hoping to pull the trigger there, find a fight that was valuable for them,
but they just kind of wasted time, so now 55 seconds until that next dragon,
that soul for both these teams is going to be available.
I'm starting to get those key summoner spells, 5-cup as well.
This is all coming down to the water.
Yeah, flashback for Reledge, flashback for Samedi.
Flash on Paris, same can be said for Fleshy, for Humanoid, for Nak-Nako.
So yeah, we're going to have like a full power to dragon Soul fight here in 30 seconds.
Looker's are picked up for some D means that he could play a little bit further forward in these fights
But I'm also looking at a play in the room came for Karzy hoping that maybe he can actually do some damage to major
But may have to run away from him in a second. He's isolated. Yeah, Karzy is completely isolated here
That is real hard to lock down though has the shift
So he's able to get away to safety and major is not gonna just trigger pull that ultimate really hard to lock down
It is it's the second in this bush in the bottom side his console is reset a couple of times
I think hoping that maybe you could find that angle and there's no vision for the unborn Navi behind them
This would be an insane
Plank you have to imagine Navi would not see that coming as
Fleshy looked for an engage here on to reletch that's pop awesome down. That's not cool
I sorry, Linzus is still hiding here up in spotted. He's in the perfect spot in the bro
He's in spotters. Okay, they see where the wukong is and now everybody from Navi just turns back
What are you going for the engage instead of trying to get on the Samedi and he disengages
Linsus is down, Samedi gets the kill, Mainter traded, the frontline for Navi's out of there,
Nako's chasing down Raleigh, humanoid as well!
They got the jungler and humanoid on a killing-free vitality trade-off!
Karzi's on the dragon though, Navi are trying to see if they can steal us.
They start to move forward, but the rest of vitality are nailed in position.
Both junglers are down, there's no smite to get the objective.
Samedi still has Flash available, he still has a Lulu in his back pocket
And there's no pop awesome to worry about for the engage humanoid have the bit of a flank right here
He's gonna go for it throws out the singularity and then fleshy into the stasis Poby as well knock knock goes going forward
Knock knock oh gets out of pairs
He's trying to take down Karzy he will but trades his life now not going to the zone
He has probably straddle on him down fleshy lands the roof of homey with the shields
He's still healthy. He's still alive humanoid backs full health bar teleports into the fight
Poby and Parrots have to get out of there and Humanoid spots them.
There's a ward in the brush.
Humanoid on a rampage!
Vitality's mid laner will find the double kill and Vitality will once again win the fight at Dragon.
Humanoid has been so crushed this game and once again he stepped up for Vitality
with the lintess, getting the flank but a flash away from Sandy keeps him in place.
Link just followed, but the damage from this Gweng was massive for Nak Nakko.
He rips through the top side of Navi and in the end...
Wait, yeah it was Vitality end of getting the dragon in the picture in picture,
but Navi want to try and continue this as he starts to reassemble,
knowing that it's a 3D4, Poby getting some poke, Sam D waiting for his moment to step up here.
And as humanoid goes in, great polymorph from Paris means that he's not even really follow-up.
Poby goes golden, which opens up for Sam-D, who dodges left and right here immediately,
on so much of that damage, including that snip from the Gwen, which keeps him up.
And then battle Poby in the middle of this with all the shields coming in.
But as the teleport from humanoid, that really seals the deal.
Yeah, Poby almost turned it around.
that victor is so fed but that we have reached critical mass a reliant soul
maintor can no longer front line knock knock on humanoid it's double AP
threats but he is getting shredded look at that damage graph that's
incredible I mean that is the same I didn't really it does come down to the
wire and every one of these fights but but how extended these fights have been
This ocean soul could be huge for vitality if that poke starts to come through
But again, it all rests on humanoid, but this time linsus has his flash
And it's Sam D.F. Holby who are vulnerable to that engage exactly Sam D has Guardian Angel picked up now
But no flash on the in our your ultimate basically gives you a flash because you get the empowered
E but still it's gonna be tough to avoid the engage coming in from vitality
I'm not seeing a GA yet on either Linsus or Reletch.
So that's going to be a little scary.
Like at this point, you kind of want
your Rukon to be able to throw himself in there with a GA.
I mean, I think that's what he's building towards at the moment.
Plus, I think it's just been a case
of hoping that the death stance gives him
enough survivability to actually get to the backline.
And maybe with this flash it is enough, but we're
barring up.
For once, it feels like Vitality
have an edge in this game.
They have the gold lead back in their favor.
They have the Dragon's Soul. It was four oceans in a row for Vitality.
And now, again, they've scaled as well, like their late-game comp is online.
And this is where for Navi, it feels a bit heartbreaking,
because you had so much control in this game.
You did a good job of playing through redaction, trying to find those win conditions.
But unfortunately, you get the Baron, and you can't get close to a tower.
Yeah! You can't do anything.
And then the TP is his potlances.
Yeah, Linsus was looking for another flank, but this time around,
He spotted, this unround, he does not have the escape!
And in the critical moment, Nabi find their pick, they'll look to the Baron.
It has to be a humanoid, a Nack Nacko, everyone in this pit is vulnerable to humanoid, Kani make that play happen.
No ultimates used, no summoners while used from Nabi, this is going to be a Q4 V5 outplay if Vitality can find it, and they're actually pushing Nabi away.
Nack Nacko makes a relish jump over the wall, Mainter's getting chunks down by Karzy,
As the front line now, Big Old Smith,
Poby triactively goes into the stasis,
but there's a pop loss, they're coming right in!
Poby's taken down!
The Baron is secure for Nabi,
but they just lost two members,
Flash upper major,
Karzin Human will chase them down.
Vitality will win the fight
in the 4v5.
And as they get to pushing mid,
it has to be a base defense,
and all you have is Relich and Sam D.
I think Vitality, they may have lost the Baron,
but they might have just won the game.
Baron maybe can hold the gloog at the size of that E.
That is ridiculous here.
As humanoid is able to shove through these waves yet again.
And Navi have two members up.
We have 25 seconds on Paris.
Vitality don't have enough waves to really push in.
It's only in his mid right now.
They're going to brute force it.
The Void group's doing work here,
giving them that extra little bit of a Void link
to take down these terrors.
It cracks up in the base, but they can't get much more.
This game continues to go on.
It's going to come down to an elder dragon fight.
But this was amazing from Vitality again.
The zoning E there opens up for Nakmako to go forward.
They know their reletion's already in the pit,
and all they're trying to do is force Navi back out
open to this position so they can take space in the pit here.
But as their reletion goes back in,
that's where they go for the all-in.
But Fleshy played this beautifully.
Harsely waiting and trying to find that combo
with the Iranian Sol optimist picks up Holby.
And at that stage, it's not
a possible for Navi to hold the position.
And the size of that sky's descend at this point with the amount of stacks humanoid has is just massive.
And there's your GA on Lensis.
Now he can throw his body in for this pivotal elder dragon fight.
Look at that gold graph.
What a banger of a game.
I'm like vitality of held on by the skin of their teeth.
What a fun team to watch, Dagda.
I knew going into this series that we were in for something special.
Navi and Vitality fun teams throughout split one throughout week one and I didn't know who was favorite
Honestly, I was like this is pretty close to 50-50 in my expectations
But Vitality are showing that they are the real deal and in this conversation of who's gonna step up to the top three
Vitality trying to put their name on that stamp
The offer to myself Paris nerdy has full items and both supports are nerdy level 16
We're gonna have a second a fully upgraded wild growth from here. I don't know what the stats differential is on that
You can get chunked out there bias on Dean the arc of judgment actually can do some big poke damage
This is where the ocean so comes in right you can't do very much the main turd
I look up the staff. Yeah, he walks too far forward and has to use his ultimate defensively
He has TP. He can go for the reset and TP back into this flight and Elder's not going to spot for another five seconds
So he will be there in time
Now he actually walked up on the knock knockers thinking maybe that they had an avenue there fleshy trying to position with a pop blossom engage
There's a sizable wave on this bottom side as well
I don't think it'd be maybe it will be enough I just take the tower with the next wave crock can aim
But knock knock go look a prick like you enter as the big TP shield does not knock
Oh, I teach TP's into the mid lane. He just went for the shield. He's ready for the fight knock knockers gonna go in
but Reledge is gonna spot him in the brush.
Knock, knock, go.
Can he get into the flank in time?
Now, if you just have to wait out the TP shield,
as now Reledge goes in, chunks it down,
and gets the knockup, and the, oh, knock, knock, go.
Actually, Chesapeake wrote huge damage,
and it's not the solo as the Gwen,
and a 1v3 is able to do that.
The team gets the other dragon,
and Vitality are unleashed.
Navi in full retreat, but they got nowhere to go.
Vitality held the line! The comeback is complete!
And Vitality!
Stop the fight!
Zombie will get one, but it's a consolation prize!
An ace for Vitality!
I cannot believe that Vitality managed to hold on!
Steel after steel and one more steel of this game from the hands of Navi!
NACNACO with a 1v3, 4 dragon steals in a row by Talon, he got that magic, Gigi, they will 2-0 Navi.
I'm in shock, I mean we heard Linsus in that clip, he was like, boys what are we doing?
Yeah, like, Poby's just holding us a bay, but they just found fights after fights, they got the dragons,
and now you can vote for one of them as your player of the series at LEC on X, NACNACO, Linsus and Humanoid.
But it was a it was a team accurate
Call I actually don't know who my front runner is I'm leaning lenses, but like
Then he gets a kill like take your battle vitality that was well
I think instances it for me like he had a fantastic series
Controlled so much of it against a relapse and the steels the position and the flanks like hiding in that bottom side
like he really knew the victory path and made sure they got on us. I will say the one pick at the bear and
it was looking dicey. He's the one that goes down and it's a 4v5 fight from the rest of the team to
save the game. What a banger, Dagda. That's gonna be it for us though at the catcher. We got it here
from some of the players. We have Finn standing by with Humanoid. Thank you so much, Khan.
I'm joined here with Humanoid and Humanoid, I want to paint you a little picture.
I want to paint you a picture, I want you to close your eyes.
It's 46 minutes into the game, your jungler has been caught and the enemy team is starting Baron.
What's going through your mind?
I knew it's over at that point because they will be too overconfident to fight
and then I get an insane E and ulti and it's just free.
I mean to be honest, at that point I think I can 1v5 them.
Yeah, okay, they already got too much of a problem for the enemy team.
I didn't notice one thing though. You didn't buy Protobelt.
Why didn't you not buy Protobelt? Everyone is buying Protobelt.
Everyone and their mother is buying Protobelt. Why not Protobelt?
I would buy another champion, but I think a nice Elkhana.
You need a lot of items and you need Leandris and Rhylaes.
There's just no space.
That's insane.
Okay, so you had a long series now against Na'Vi.
What do you think about their performance?
Do you think they actually held up or do you think it was an easy series in general?
I mean, I don't know, I mean the first one was kind of stomp and the second one they were stomping us
but this didn't manage to close it out because of my champion, like my champion is just OP at StoLiNG
but I think, I think we had just better draft.
Yeah, you've had him in checkmate already.
Yeah, that's right.
How are the comms in a game like this? Because I know some of your teammates are a little loud sometimes.
I'm not going to mention their names, but how do you guys stay calm in a long game like this?
because it's very easy to lose faith.
I think honestly, for me personally, I'm just so used to coming back from a deficit with A-SOUL.
It's just so easy.
So I was just repeating that it's never over if you have this champ on the team.
And honestly, it was all calm until we won the last game for everyone on the streaming.
It's not over until human falls.
Now we're going to join your top laner in PGL in just a bit.
Do you have any words for him?
The Gwenmeister.
You look beautiful, man.
Thank you so much, Yvonne. And now we're gonna send it to BGL with Nak Nakko, Odo and Lore.
Wow, getting raised like this by here to be a mid laner on stage. Welcome to BGL.
Everybody, Nak Nakko, thank you for joining us.
Hello.
Any first reactions on this game?
I mean, just I'm happy that Marek is playing ASOL. He can pop the ultimating one.
I think they can be happy you're playing WAN as well.
I mean, yeah, I mean, the Aurelion Soul had 800 stacks at the end of the game.
The only time I see this was in like Arena or in Earth.
I felt like I saw the execute pop up 25% or so.
But it was mostly about you. How can you be so humble when you just completely 1v9 with Gwenda?
Screw the Aurelion Soul, screw the Israel, those guys were passengers.
But I felt like the last three or four teamfights, if you weren't having 1v9 performances
or minimaxing everything you can out of your champion,
I felt like the game was lost even with Aurelion's soul.
I agree, I think they were just way too ahead, so fights were kind of playable.
But I just found some good angles with W, like I was sitting on the X, so they didn't hit me at once.
Because I wanted to show you a production if you can show the one from the day.
We're going to look at them a bit later. They're not ready for now.
It's fine. Before that, no, no, no, but we have other stuff that we can look at.
Oh, there you go. Thank you so much. Perfect timing. Well, there you go.
How tender is this W?
Because, okay, was it lucky or did you actually, you know, smurf it?
I just smurfed it. I mean, it's easy to do it on Gwen, you know, you can just EW and you can just go fast.
No, no, I know, but it felt like you managed to get the Gwen W on the other side of the wall into the brush.
It felt like it was so hard for them to face that brush. That's why I was super impressed with the placement there.
Because I felt like it was a critical fight. It was impossible for them because look at this.
That one is special, yeah.
I mean it's just impossible for them to hit me, you know, if I press like that so...
That sounds like, wow, it was crazy, because I feel like you got three or four fights like this in a row, where if you don't play it so well, the game is just lost.
I mean, I kind of agree with you, because they were too ahead, you know, but sometimes you have to play good.
I mean, most of the time you do play good.
Looking at the game like this, did you believe that Vitality was going to be able to just spring this one back?
because they went from three dregs down, Navi at their base into still one dragon.
Linsas gets a bit hasty and he's like let's fight! Ruin the fight! Then they
heard again, this time it's Karzy ruining the fight, but then managed to pull it
over and over and over again until elder. Yeah because well you guys kind of
took turns you know everyone was kind of ending one of the fights but... It's a happy party!
No, not really. No because it was rough but at the same time I can't blame them
for you know ending or lindsas getting caught a couple of times because it's
kind of on him right the Nico is kind of just a little minion running around
can't really do much and it's only it's always on wukong that he needs to find
you know a game winning fights how are the comms I guess in those setups where
you guys stressed and you're like oh lindsas you really need to find something
or how was it how's it going? I mean between the X we are just fighting for
items I have 500 someone is 600 we are just taking every camp every
season we can and before a fight we are like let's just avoid Victor if he's
we go mid, if he's mid we go through bot and I go through mid, and that was usually the plan.
Man, we got some, yeah, good.
It was hard, it was hard, it was like nice because I didn't expect them to win, I didn't expect you guys to win
because I was like, okay Gwyn is maybe 2k gold up but it's a bit hard with everyone being so strong but
by 30 magic.
Yeah, must be something playing against a team like this.
We're going to talk about this a bit later, but we have some comps from Vitality that I want to listen to, so let's check it out.
They can't win without massive hit
But they can win, don't make your shit, by the way
I can't win without massive hit
30p, I think
I'll get rid of him, kill your hatch
because I'm used to this
I'm getting rid of that, they don't have midway
It's a hard one, they won't have any midway
I'm done
I'm breathing
United's not by the way, listen
Go, Sanzan, look it up. Slowly, slowly, slowly, I give you the blue.
That is Victor.
I'm chasing, I'm chasing.
I applied five seconds.
Okay, don't worry, don't worry. Victor is a bit strong.
Don't push him too hard, okay?
That's what I love the most. It's not just the resilience.
Imagine playing against a team that even losing is laughing at your face like this.
I mean, did you see how ridiculous that Aurelion's soul, E, looked like?
I thought he was OP, but then I see that and I'm like,
Even you must be jealous when you see Aurelion Sol just, you know, just throwing a wave like that.
I mean, I was saying that they were taking three games on bot lane, like, I think we are giving this, then Marek is like, I'm putting G, and they cannot do anything.
Oh my god, but the funny part is that, you know, these guys are laughing while we see their side of the combs, right?
When your 10k, go down or 5k, whatever, and Aurelion Sol gives to be so OP, imagine the other side.
It's quiet down there.
It must be so frustrating when you just walk up and you're like, okay guys, this is the wave we take.
Yeah, we have Baron, it's fine.
Yeah, we will take care of you.
I hope you tilt it.
I will be super tilted.
I hope you just walk up and you're like, okay, bro, like, what is this champion?
Insane, absolutely insane.
And doing it with the two and the whole.
Here today, NACNACO is the key player of the series.
Of course.
Surprised or not?
I'm not so surprised.
No?
Okay.
You think you played well?
My first game was good.
My second game was just comeback and everyone was just doing their best.
Alright, as a former top laner, now coach, anything to say?
No, I mean, I think for sure deserved, you know, it's nice to see Top lane getting some love, you know, because you have, especially against Navi, because Navi has jungler as the superstar, and it's always junglers getting MVP's, but now we have a team that beats the jungler MVP and it's Top lane MVP, that's why I like to see.
I mean, that's the thing, like, we often say that Top lane needs a useless role, you can't carry from Top lane, then we see Bind doing things at first hand,
And then we see you doing things in the LEC as well.
If you have a really, really good top laner, can you actually carry your team?
No.
I think so.
I think if your bot lane is behind, it's unplayable, but if they're kinda even, then
top lane can make impact.
Exactly, because that's the thing with top lane.
Top lane in a 50-50 game is the most up-to-peer role in the game.
For sure.
But all it takes is one guy on your team to run it down, and then it's completely
unplayable.
And then you're completely useless.
Yeah, I mean, how many times do you get in this situation where cars are humanized?
I love it.
Yeah, it's the beauty of the team after all and today it worked and we're gonna see you guys on Monday again against Mkoi
Yes, what do you think of the team right now?
Hopefully we win the result. Yeah, I mean I'm waiting for a 2-1, but hopefully we win.
How convincing have they been so far?
Mkoi right now I think.
Yeah, Mkoi, Mkoi.
Mkoi? I mean there's always questions with Mkoi, you know?
Because I feel like they're rather inter-system and it kind of depends on what you see on the day
but given that top lane matchup, I feel like it's...
My moment is kind of having a little bit of a sleeper split, I guess.
I don't feel like we're getting to see a lot of proactive champs,
or like the lane stompy champs.
I feel like Meta is maybe favoring more towards NAKNAKO right now.
So I would say this is still, like, my priority favored.
I have a final question for you, NAK,
because you're already a standout player, obviously,
getting a lot of praise, doing a lot of heavy nifting for your team.
for your team. Is there anything you want to get better at this split? What are you working
on personally? I'm mostly just teamfighting and side-leaning. I mean, you just have to
get better at everything, but mostly side-leaning and teamfighting. Makes sense, with Vitality
and how they're playing? And how you want to play the game? I mean, it's tricky to
see from the outside, right? Because when it comes to how teams play on the side-lane,
it's mostly, I guess it's kind of like a relationship between mid-lane and top-lane,
because they're kind of the ones who need to coordinate each other the most. So
from the outside it's kind of hard to see because obviously lane phase is going pretty
well but that's one of those things that is kind of hard to see the obvious I guess improvement.
So maybe you have some insights on how you approach it or how you find ways to improve
on that.
I mean for a side lane it just depends on the game you know the champions but I'm
playing against me right now I'm just trying to take some volatile matchups so I get
some lead on the early game by their mistakes, then I just try to make the lead more.
Okay, okay.
All right, more volatile matchup for my fellow Kisubanger again,
that's what I'm talking about, Neko, thank you so much for joining us today, congrats on the 2-0.
And that's all for us here on this side of the stage, and the LEC will be back tomorrow.
Two more best of threes until then. Be nice to each other, take care, and see you tomorrow.
Oh, he sees Kanan, and he is on the list of lights, and he's on the list of Qs.
Yes, that Q, but he doesn't have the TP, that's all.
Won't get a chance, but now when you think slow, SK the follow-up is in.
He's a turn man!
He got his dip from all of the hurt, but it turns out that Leda is in fact better than Faker.
got a lock to choke.
Crack is built down.
Jerk and flip.
Flans.
Leader.
He's waiting for execution.
Much as a bus gets out.
This is Leader's day.
Holy moly.
He's gonna step up.
He shot it up.
He's got seven things.
He's not gonna keep up to it.
We would like to talk to you.
Next interview is gonna be with the Chief.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
No, no!
No, no, no!
Get breaking blame.
Hell, we just gotta do it.
He's gonna run in, get the kill with me while.
Ragnarok time! Double kill already!
As Navito were majoring as well, they're now turning back on the humanoid flash from the Aurelian soul.
Lynx is burned down by Povey. It's a 2 for 1 train plus the dragon's an army.
Maybe you're pushing about the exception to the game top right now, so you know you can eat just an actual fight.
I don't know if you guys know what you don't have, but if you just get an actual fight,
I don't want to be ashamed of you!
Stop winning the race!
I'll pay you for this, um,
Poby with a kill!
No more, no more.
They're trying to go to Spiky Guy!
That was it?
That's all I got to say about that.
Help!
He's getting in the f***ing no way, man!
He got to me.
You can do what you want, even if you want to be a part of that.
Clubs!
Everybody!
You know the story, you know the legend!