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[Exclusive Drops]Marvel Rivals Ignite Preseason EMEA [FYR vs VSN.] Day 6
04-05-2026 · 6h 49m
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I remember the dusk, the lights dripping tightly,
Chopping all those fighting souls, buddy, and
Across the world I see you standing in my way
And remember the time, the place we used to fight
Late sun and moon and time wonder
If ever there was a time that we were friends
That has fallen into status, moving anyways
That's what has come from mixing you now
The hours that no more elucidate you again
Break the chains, hide your way, come for me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
We've got a long, long time
Your eyes freezing up with a sense of smash
Shilterns are cold
Before the risk that turns in the end
The other will still be the light
And then your mind will hold onto your powers
Now, can't stop us
We'll cry, we'll seal the end of time
We'll flash, we'll light a way
We'll fight, wishing across the ocean
There is a light in your world
But there's an eternity
I hate them
Do you see the dawn, the flames burning brightly
Shining one note from the reasonious
Across all time I see you exerting the signs
And do you see now?
Our time, our time, we can still fight
Like the wind in fire and wonder no more
Then now it's the only time your heart
Hates mine
The light has fallen, darkness broke down
You see, we're born as the needed thing
New days, my life, what a first and future
Raise the chains, leave the light, fight with me
And when you wake up, you'll find your prize
Raising your previous sense, smashing through the silence
Through the rips, blisters and tears
We are revels in the end
Rock that life makes our minds
Warms it, powers down, gets our voice
We are rivals again, until we end the fight
Show me that you're still the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wait, you're not popping your hands all the time
Do you heart look inside you?
Can you feel it, this boxing?
I ain't no population, yeah
I'll make you rise, raise it
Because then smashing through time
will hold the risk when tears get in
We are rivals to the end
But I said I'd forsake your might Hold on to your power still, I can't stop us
We are rivals, we'll take it to stand
The place we used to fight
Laced on a moon and I wonder
Whatever it was, you'd tend to be
World-class
That has solid shadows moving in
And yes, that's what has come from missing you now
We are standing for our last reunion
Break the chains, find your way
Come find me
Do you remember who you really are?
Only as you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
I'm playing an adventure, Christ
Raising up the business, smashing through cycles
All the risks, I've done it
The arrows in the air, blow
And I think I might hold them till the blow is gone
It's our loss, we arrive at the end of time
When we're crushed, get out of where
We'll fight, pushing across times
They want you and my destiny to be there
Do you see the dawn, the flame burning brightly
Shining one nose and a reason, yes
Across the time I see you turn in the signs
I knew you'd see now, our time, our time
We can still fight, like the winds in the wind
But there are more, and now it's the only time
Your heart is mine
The flight has fallen, darkness broke down
Yes, we're fighting for our destiny and fate
Today's running for the price of your shirt
Break the chains, leave the line, fight with me
And when you're ready, get behind your price
Wraithing up with a sense of smash
In the sunroof
Before the race that serves our kids
We all struggle to the end
Why is that?
I'm very calm, mind's warm
I'll take a focus down
And tell a box
We arrive once again
Until the end of time
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry
Show me that you're slowly only one that matters for me
I'll be playing for you
Waiting for big your hands holding on
Do you want me to look inside you?
Can you feel it?
The sparks in you
I need a unleashing
I need a
The nature of life's reason
Distance smashing through tunnels
The wonder in
When dreams get real
The arrival's to the end
Bright and
I'll bend your mind
Hold on to your heart
It's done
There's no words
The arrival's still the end of time
I remember the dust, the lights gripping tightly
Chopping all those hiding souls, buddy
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
The sun and moon and I wonder
The fact that it wasn't time that we were friends
I had a solid shadow, a small man and his
Yes, that's how it has been, see you out
The hours that no more last for you
And break the chains, hand your way
Come with me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
When you can't help but jump from this crazy
I'll be pissed and smashed in those circles
But for the rest of my time, still I can't
Levels in the end, right?
And the nights don't mind
Hold until your power's gone
And so once
We are back to the end of time
We will clash
The water will
We will fight
Rushing across the space
From a new world
Right to the next one
The end
See the dawn, the flames burning brightly
Shining on those memories, and yes, across all time
I see you turning the sides
And do you see now our time, our time we can still fight
Like no one's any fun, but I don't know why
Yet now it's the only time you're calling
He's mine
Like a spawning, darkness woman
Yes, we fight for our destiny, I'd play
New days, my life for the first and future
Break the chains, leave the place with me
And when you wave, get out behind your cross
Wraithing up your face and smashing the sun
We're going to risk the search again
See our rivals in the end
Rise and I'll break your minds
We're all going to keep our fist down
Can't stop us
We are rivals again
Until the end of time
waiting for you
waiting for me
your hands holding on
take a heart look inside you
and you feel it
the smacks in your mouth
and in a unleashed way
I'll make you cry
we've never just been smashing through time
walls
we've pulled the ropes, we've changed yet again
we are rivals to the end
and now I stand
I bend your mind, hold on to your power
If ever there was a time that we were friends
Life has solid shadows, warm in its left hand
Must go from here to see you out
The hearts have no horror left for you
Get in breath, and change minds your way
Come for me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Playing in a range of cries, raising up the sense that she doesn't want to hold
For no reason, I've done it again, the old devil's in the end, right?
I've never been so mindful as if I was done with them so far
But we arrived till the end of time
We were flashed and out of air, we were fights
Facing a cross-down, there is one human right
Descending to be dead
You see the dawn flame burning brightly
Shining on those that were reasonious
Across all time, I see you turning their sides
And do you see now our time?
Our time we can still fight
At the wind and fire
And when I don't know what
Then now it's the only time your heart is mine
Life has fallen, darkness broken
As we went for our destiny and fate
New days finally for the first and future
Break as you stand, leave the way
Fight with me
And when you wake up
Come and jump right
Raising up your distance
Flash in the sun, hold
The whispered text, again
The above was in the end
Why is that?
I'm a good one
To all those who've promised love
That's our voice
We'll cry once again
Until the end of time
They can never make true friends with each other
This is smashing through the tunnels
And for the real, this is just a game
We are rivals to the end, they rise and
I make your noise hold on to your power
Still, there's no buts
We are rivals to the end of time
The lights have been tightly chopping all those fighting souls, buddy
Yeah, across the world I see you standing in my way
And remember the time, the place we used to fight
When the sun and moon and time wonder
If ever there was a time that we were perhaps
And I had a spot in shadows, warm in an inch
That time has come for me to seek you out
We are set now for the sweet union
Breakfast is time to wake up, my baby
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
We can have a range of fries, please
With the sense that the ginger's done raw
For the rest of the second
The end level's still the end price
And a range of mugs hold onto your powers
The battle against all of us
We arrived to the end of time
We were blessed, we were aware
We were fights, making our crossguns
Thank God, you were mine
We'll be late to the end
The heart is mine
The light has fallen
The darkness for a night
Yes, it's like a world just a near day
New days smiling for the future
Wraithing your skin, sleep your mind
Fight with me
And when you wake up
You'll find your pride
Raising up your distance
Flashing through sorrow
And for the risks that search again
We are rivals in the end
Why is that?
Why make your mind
To walk on to your pockets now?
That's how it works
We are rivals of it
Until we end the time
Show me that you're mostly the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wait up, I'll be your hands holding on
Do you have a look inside you?
Can you feel it, the smudging?
I need a unleash
Hey, can I have one?
Your eyes within a distance
Smashing through a tunnel
The further in my tears, yeah
We are rivals to the end
And rise and present your might
Hold on to your power still
And stop us
We are rivals to the end of time
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
And the sun and moon and dark wonder
But there was a time that we were friends
And I had a solid shadow swimming in the necks
That's what has come from missing you now
The arms and our warlords we gave in
But the chains find your way, come fight me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
Blinking in the night, I'll make your promise
Where these ain't nothing since last year
When we started off
And from the whispers I've done yet
The end levels till the end
I've been out for that your might
Hold on to your powers now
And tell us, we arrive
Till the end of time
Leave a flash and run away
We will fight, wishing across time space for the two of us
Doesn't matter to the end
You see the dawn, the flame burning brightly
Shining one nose and the rain designing us
Across all time I see you turning left sides
And do you see now our time? Our time we can still fight like the wind and fire.
When there's no more, then now is the only time you're born in mind.
Life has fallen, darkness has grown, and yes, we're born just beneath.
I
You
Clear the way!
Feel the pull!
Disappear!
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It all comes down to this one final day of action for the group stages of the free
season for the 2026 Ignite EMEA showcase that we have all brought you from last weekend into
this one all of the action and to join me to break it all down we have lemon kiwi and leg day to
close out the show this weekend how are you feeling about all the competition we've had so far
pretty excited i mean all our we don't talk about our predictions but this is what the
preseason is all about to give us an appetizer to what to expect for stage one yeah we
we didn't want to know where my predictions are at the moment.
You know what? They're becoming closer as Fire Strays have decided to start talking to each other
and really playing at the level that we expected, but I don't think they're going to be ending in
the second Vi initially predicted. There's a lot of stakes on the line for every single series today.
So as we go through the matches, we'll try and confirm placements throughout the day.
And at the end of it, we will have a bracket to show you
for those playoffs that'll be taking place in about two weeks-ish time.
So definitely make sure you are tuned in and locked in and loaded for all of the matches today
But we also have you know some amazing costumes to talk about in a bit and also so many good matches
I mean we have to go through every single team
The only teams that we won't be seeing today because we saw the last ones of them
Unfortunately was Navi and Pulsar they will be taking their sweet rest Pulsar waiting till stage one Navi
We'll see them and
Continuing in it to the playoffs there
I mean, lucky a little bit about that lemon while we wait for some more information
How are you feeling that Navi really changed their performances from the heretics loss on Friday into yesterday?
Oh, it just made me excited to see how mad they were
I don't know if that's a weird thing to say, but like to be chasing teams towards their spawn and to be like trying
Your hearts out it was um not only I think to convince everyone watching
But also that themselves that they are a top team and that they are no slouches
So I'm excited to see the Na'Vi heritage rivalry continue in playoffs.
Yeah, I can't wait to see how they do it there.
But we do have to talk about these lovely costumes that are in-game.
Classes and session and reality is about to be rewritten at ESU Brilliant's takes center stage.
Rion Lando dominates every debate with precision and unmatched intellect.
A Dr. Danum Kett turns every lecture into a masterclass in bending it the impossible.
Together they prove that knowledge isn't just power, it's control.
Step to the spotlight with the invisible woman.
Rion Lando, the the Bader and Mr. Fantastic's denim cat
Professor costumes where intellect becomes the ultimate weapon available now
and you can get them until May 1st as you see it 2 p.m. UTC which is
7 p.m. PT on April 30th and multiverse of chaos the sharpest mind decides what is
real and i definitely recommend picking up these costumes you can match pretty
well but we also got to talk about Lord Manhattan
yeah not just new look fear characters but new looks for your battle fields
as well so let's hit them down to a big apple lower manhattan baby the city that never sleeps
however something has just stopped sleeping as well beneath the city because wilson fisk has
woken it up welcome to lower manhattan for iconic streets meet hidden depths fight through open
avenues historic buildings and quiet courtyards in the shade of the alchemax building then
descending into secret labs pulsing with unstable energy right beneath the surface
From street level clashes to tight interiors and vertical engagements, every corner shifts the balance of power, but this isn't just New York, this is what lies underneath it.
It's available now in-game and it's got its own quick match cue, so you can play just this map to get to know it ahead of your competition.
Guys, you wouldn't believe this guy's a voice actor too.
I've already sold on lower bed head. I don't know where it is, but it sounds pretty great.
And that scan that they do to detect the ultimates and everybody, that's going to be a big game changer in competitive play.
but you guys could get free costumes. If the esports bundles, if the new invisible woman,
Mr. Fantastic, you don't got enough credits for that, you could get a free gambit costume just by
hanging out with us or your favorite co-streamers. If you're on Twitch, just hover over the Marvel
Rivals icon and you could see all of the co-streamers, including J3 and many others. That
can break things down, but here we're bringing the hype. So one, two, three, six hours will
get you anything from a nameplate, a spray emotes, and of course the will of Galacta gambit costume.
It's giving cyberpunk, it's giving, he's still banding all my games, but if I do play him,
Abba look good doing it.
That's what we like to see too, to get a shout to everyone who's been participating,
watching the streams, commenting, sharing your thoughts online about how the matches have
been going, it's been pretty great, but even then we do have to talk about our own predictions
a little bit here. I mean, I feel like you may maybe have stabilized a little bit here
like day in comparison to some of the other regions, especially if anyone's been paying
attention to what's been going on in America's.
Oh, you might be speaking a little bit too soon there, Vod. We still have our top two
from Virtus.Pro's group going together. We've got RAD versus Virtus.Pro. Things
might be a little bit, there might be a little bit more shaking to do, because
5th straights, they almost took domination off of Virtus Pro yesterday in quite an impressive series
but yeah, over in North America things are all over the place. We don't talk about what's happening
in Asia right now. Rejects are going to have a lot of introspection to do later on
but I think that maybe we're starting to stratify our tears here in EME8 even if they aren't
quite as expected. Shadow heretics who are punching very high right now. No, 100%.
And just the fact that we have our two number ones of Grrbita refacing off, so everyone thinking
that Verz Pro will be the number one.
I don't know after this one, but I think BP and Navi were pretty solid pigs.
I was just surprised that Heretics wasn't higher than they were, and I'm with the
Crownfall folks.
I had Crownfall way higher than where they are right now.
We're not going to talk about it, but it's not Crownwearing, it's Crownfall.
This is about how they're going to look at stage one.
This is the prep work you need to do.
Exactly, yeah.
So I love that everyone can participate in predictions
again once we do get past to this group stage.
We will have predictions in game again for the playoffs.
So definitely make sure you participate with those.
Pick up the new Esports dev in a game
to see all the stats as well.
You can check out the themes, the rosters,
see how well they're doing on your favorite heroes
as well.
Copy their mouse or controller settings if they use those
So it's really awesome that the netizens integrated this into the game in such a spectacular fashion
And you can get the cool emotes and sprays to support your favorite teams that are competing out there
I'm really curious if we'll see like more additions to that down the line as teams compete make it to the lands in the future
From the different stages so much to look forward to even at the future of Marvel Rivals e-sports
But we do have to talk a little bit about the matches that'll be going on today
I mean, we were talking about, you know, the ones that decide the tops of the group will focus on those for now and lemon VP versus Rad
Is she kick on me versus air ticks? I feel like one of these lanes closer than the other might
We quite literally save the best matches for last
I feel like because I think she could got me could definitely punch up to the heritage
VP and a rod is the match of the day and we have it sandwiched right in the middle of all our matches
We have five matches to go and after what fire did yesterday
They're giving us hope that even that's gonna be a good series so every single one of these are gonna be bangers coming up
Yeah, I mean
Technically we have a chance for like crownfall in some like weird tiebreaker scenario to make it in potentially
But this is the schedule for how things have been going. We had the group stage and we also have the playoffs coming up on
April 16th, so you do have a little bit of time
But these are the other regions going on in the meantime China starts next week
so you can tune into that as well.
And at the last week of group stages for Asia.
And then right after the preseason of playoffs,
we will also have OCE starting up too.
So the action never stops.
Marvel arrivals never sleep.
There's always something for you to pay attention to.
But the thing that the teams
are kind of paying attention to here like they
is this beautiful prize pool.
Already we see some of the teams, you know,
they get some winnings,
even if they don't make it to those playoffs.
Yeah, we might have two Canadians on the cast
right now, but this is cold hard US dollars, but you need 50
bad stacks on the line. This is just for the preseason. The
price pools are only going to get higher and higher to make it
deeper into our 2026 Ignite program, but who is going to be
competing in the playoff bracket is determined by our team
rankings in the groups. Have peps and alter eSports
playing against each other. Winner gets into that fourth
seeding spot. Shikigami could potentially shake up the
standings too if they get a win over Heretic. There's
and high jinks there as well.
It's pretty top heavy in this group A side,
and only team heretics are flawless so far.
But if you look at group B, both Virtus.pro and Rad
are 4-0.
VP hasn't even dropped a map, guys.
They got close yesterday.
So you'll want to go and grab your popcorn,
reheat that one, go watch them versus fire.
Not going to spoil it.
But Rad also only dropped one map.
So they're right on VP's tail,
and they're going to face off today
to decide the number one seed, which is going to matter
in terms of the seeding for playoffs
and what strength of a pony you're gonna get first.
Yeah, if Rad does get the win over VP,
I feel like every team in Group B
is just going to be so terrified
of what can potentially happen.
But as you can see, these are the matchups
that we have for today.
Fire versus vision to kick things off.
Peps versus alter eSports afterwards.
VP and Rad, Gigami and Hereticz
and reason and groundfall to close things out as well.
So lots on the line.
Every single series, for the most part, matters.
Fire versus vision pretty much determines
how intense that last series of the day
is going to be as well like that.
Yeah, Firec, probably need to win this 2-0, to be honest,
to have a good chance of making it into playoffs.
There is some wild math at work.
Shout out to our resident Doctor Strange
who's looked into 14 million, 605 futures,
just try to find all of the ways that anyone can make it into a playoffs including I think
there's a very very specific scenario where crown folk can do it. It requires a lot of things
that are out of their hands happening in other games. I believe Pepsus is alter as directly for
fourth seed qualification into the playoffs as well which means that's super important. They're
fighting for survival in the pre-season but don't forget if your favorite team gets knocked out
here in preseason they are still going to be around for stage one they're still
going to be qualified for that so you don't have to worry about them
disappearing into the aether forever there's going to be a comeback up and
all the standings even if you don't make it super far into the playoffs or make
it into the playoffs at all matter a ton because it does determine where you're
going to be placed in the groups during the regular season for stage one
so doing better makes it so you have better odds for a good group
now we'll see how that goes once it all shapes up for that as well but
Talking about these teams specifically will focus on fire at strays for now as we talked about this yesterday 11
They made VP lose their first point on domination the entire preseason on celestial husk and they look pretty good
But we got to talk a little bit about binary specifically on that. Oh my god his Hulk went crazy
I had to clip that and send it for our top five plays of the day
This is, I mean he's been my venom to watch but we're seeing a lot of venom
players also kind of throw in some Hulk as a more selfless kind of team fight
hero to throw in. Blacksnow has been ever so incredible in the Doctor Strange or
the Groot and Demon and Sloppo. They have found their way to kick into the
fight especially Sloppo and his style of Star Lord the way he's able to go
for flanks there's really good communication on this team and to
To make a team like VP's sweat, there is real and serious potential here.
I really like what we can see from them, and then like Danny, specific people in your mind that kind of stand out for fire strays as well.
I think the fire unsung hero here might be Snost, who had a, let's be real, not a great beginning to the pre-season,
but really has slipped into the mantis role very well, is incredibly accurate on the character
timings on their solo surgences as well as getting the proper timings on like loading up slotho with
those their healing and damage boosts spores and also make sure the slotho can take those well-timed
flanks and feel supported during even while being out of line of sight of their strategists.
Great to see exactly how these teams have performed up to this point in Fire Strays.
They have a lot to look forward to in the future as well especially based on the performance
we saw from them, but I'm really curious on exactly what vision it can show here today, because
yesterday they unfortunately got swept by RAD Esports, but they did keep it kind of close,
even though it was the first time, thanks to our resident Dr. Strange's invention from Ryan
giving us the stat that we never saw a gambit band or protected in all of Ignite,
but they were able to, even with letting the Loki go through and the Mantis and the Groot
against RAD, keep it as competitive as possible. And having this be the same kind of team that we
saw from the first week going into this one, Jen, I mean, what do they really need to lock in on
so that they showcase the performance we saw before? I'm looking, I'm trying to get my stocks
early for a guy like Satham, okay? There is some really nasty Psylocke and Daredevil players,
and I think he's right on the cusp of being in that conversation for it to be at the big
kids table when it comes to being a top kind of brawler in that dualist department. And
It's so important to be able to follow up with a Hulk, with a Venom, with somebody who's going to be death-balling with you.
And Saddam, I think, is really starting to cement himself on his team as an impact player.
I'm excited to see how these players perform, to say the least.
I mean, both these teams matters so much how well they do in this match, depending on where they're going to fall on the standings.
I believe from what we've been told at least for Fire Strays, if they get a 2-0, it doesn't necessarily confirm because it depends on how that last
series guys but for vision they should be in it just depends on the standings themselves afterwards
if they're going to be third or fourth so pretty much locked in if they get a map they'll feel even
more confident but Celestial has both these teams faced losses but also adversity here like day because
they took at the distance to a third map yesterday yeah like vision have been up and down like I
think that vision definitely excel when they have access to gainers rogue which kind of like
this over on FlyQuest has been very important and Gain has actually played
very well on this map in particular. Sustiel Hask is going to be a randomly selected first
nomination map. I can't wait for this one specifically like talking about this map and
the potentials for these squads as well. I mean we talked about some of the roster potentials
that we could have seen from Fire Strays. We were saying you know maybe we should have
have had people targeting Damon a little bit here, but seeing in the lobby, they're not
actually playing with Damon this time, Levin. They're playing with Sestroids, so they're
changing it up a little bit.
Yeah, and they were talking.
Actually, no, they went back. Excuse me.
Oh, okay. No, good. Yeah, because they were telling us in the interview that Damon
has been their domination demon, and he's got a fruit in here today again.
That they do. Well, we're getting ready for one of our decider matchups of the
day. Fire strays facing off against Vision on Celestial Husk. We'll see if it
three. All right, let's get
stuck in. Let me come to
bands and protect at the
moment. This week has certainly
been all about getting rid of
that else, which is a bit of a
change from last time around,
considering that a lot of
teams have been getting rid of
that gambit first. But for
now, vision, they might have
been listening in to my, uh,
my snossed propaganda. It's
going to be the mantis, which
has been taken off the field
first. And usually it's an
else that are gambit, but
are they like we can kind of
It's just the same thing every match, but it will be a one-sided Elsa in favor of fire strays
So excited to see that and yesterday
I you know Gainer was right on the cusp of my top five in my top five plays because Gainer's rogue went crazy with Rex's gambit
Wondering if that's gonna squeak through and it does stop wondering if a rogue ban is in consideration here for fire strays
Okay, like he has to be bound to it to make sure you don't think the devil royal flush
I imagine that Vanguard Pool is going to be a priority ban here for Vision Esport
because we've got that Gambit and Vanguard Pool as fantastic assassin for trying to get rid of the Gambit midway through there.
Maybe, uh, you know, there's a laundry list of things to worry about in the pick ban and
maybe Vayner on the Rogue is not too much of a threat, but I think you're gonna find out the hard way,
but it does get protected, you know, just in case.
to see the game on the road.
I have to wonder where the
sun is going to go here from
fire strays.
Interesting to see Sassam's
day level taken away.
I think they should point it
out during our team highlight.
That was one of the big
threats from vision coming in
previously.
The in-lays protect.
I guess we don't want to have
too many of their strategy
options taken away.
I think the fire strays,
like this might not be the
most valuable, but I think
it's still a good thing to
have guaranteed.
Yeah, it's now you gotta think about another melee duelist that would go well with Troke
is Daredevil.
You know, it's Peanut Butter and Jelly.
It works so well.
I turned the strategies into jelly because that's what Gainor did.
He's looking like he's playing a fighting game out there.
He's really putting on a master class if you want to learn how to play Rogue.
Look at Gainor.
So yeah, duelists, that would be more of a melee style.
You could have the Wolverine Phoenix combo with the hat to try and have as much
of that poke, that hybrid style, someone that can go in.
that the Wolverine Enix team up, which is really underrated, but the White Fox has been
something that's floated a lot as a as the new patch with the buffs have it.
And that's the style of the game.
The White Fox definitely having the way led by players like Fates here in EMEA and Valentina.
Everyone's swamp gaming in North America.
She's been doing a fantastic job showing off not only the Black Fox, but also to
the White Fox as well.
with the gambit. Just go so, you
know, peanut butter and jelly.
Well, look at, of course,
Stargourd. Who is going to go
Mach 10 over 9000? That's it
off in a combo. You're going to
see two better, but this is
map one. It's still a best of
three. We're going to be
starting on Celestial Husks
specifically on hand, and this
is going to be that central
platform that a lot of teams
could be fighting over. And
it's important to coordinate
when you're going to be
dropping off because the line
of sight can be broken off but speaking of lines of sight we're gonna see where Blackzo is gonna
take us on this adventure it's a one-sided Doctor Strange they want to take a fight and even break
up the vanguard's maybe from the strats. Yeah put in the door, try and bite the team straight away,
Gaina pulled in, not the ideal customer but they won't give it an overwhelm with damage
thus far. So a spirit sanctuary teleport coming in from the white fox elsewhere that means
it bothers left all the owners of the rest of the team disengaged. Vision eSport have five
players raise try and brought out on the point, but it's binary getting final hit off the final here.
And that means he's absolutely going to be swimming in XP off the back of those selfies,
getting him by the ability to try and play at the top here. But unless someone's going to TP in
and keep this one going, this is over. Just look how many strategists are banned against
firestrays, by the way, looking like my ranked games. Like you're really forcing some
flexibility out here. Where usually says short is that third strategist that would come in
and bring the Ultron. I think that's why they weren't sure who's who was going to be
flying for that, but Binary has already earned himself the Deadpool Ben Hammer, and this is
so wonderfully used maybe to disable a strategist while Sam is already putting some pressure down
to see if he can get some high. No moral ults for vision to use, but when you have the triple
strategist, you can stall out the point for so long. Oh, that was a huge job right there.
Rex goes in, gets two Aero-Wing, Numpak, and Frans. What a maneuver for Rex, who I'll
So highlighting this guy's rocket routine, but it seems like when the when the gambit's available is more than happy to use the entire kids
I said, okay triple striers should be able to
Install it out right and then vision just wrong the molder wrong anyway next now
It's batter's turn on the ban hammer and again as soon as someone approaches
They could be that first victim fire straight already trying to disengage and of course have the piercing heels
It's not as batter unleashes
All right, then, how am I giving it? I believe that's going to be everyone's invisible woman,
telemoving ball with a charged spray sword here, can't ever see on the gamut team.
I'm just getting up close and personal, barrel stuffing onto Slopper, if any of it was a barrel to be seen,
and demon can't hide away.
Perfect aggression here from Vision.
Like that initiative from Vision, and now you're going to have a tantrum here very soon.
Simon's not going to have the royal flush to pair it through, and against the invisible boundary.
Maybe if he could get that invisible woman as a target first, it would be ideal.
Oh, a little bit of a parade here. The white box unleashes the kumiho.
And that's gonna actually force out a trade of the, uh, invisible boundary.
Slows down everyone, it makes it incredibly easy for binaries to build up towards their
ban hammer once again, where's it gonna end up?
I think it might be onto the magneto.
A big body, what demons there with the finisher as the fasher as we move on forward
to try and take control of the point.
For now, it's been a little bit quiet for Slappo here on the Elsa Bloodstone,
to find the awakening and finding Vada.
Yeah, just the Kumiho form makes you want to go aggressive,
but you still have to tame the beast and fire strays.
Put Vision on a leash and we didn't even get to see Saddam
find an opportunity for the Galactic Legend.
Now, we'll be able to do so,
but attacking with that Galactic Legend is a little tricky.
That's why Vision are trying to find an alternate path.
Find an angle behind fire strays to access some of these strats.
And here it goes.
Oh, exactly right, Lemon.
Opening up this path to be everything.
nice right click dodge on the incoming stun from Blacksore.
As everyone avoids having their soul separated from their body
and keep fighting on forward, Blacksore was overextending for that one.
The rest of it seemed like to hold on back
because of the opening set and made with the Galactic legend.
Gainer heading up towards the backline,
closed already down.
Demon, unlike as it was a Winder 1 versus 1 here
against the Star Lord, especially with a pair of stellar shifts
already used, Blacksore opens up the portal.
Wrapping around the back game has been taken down.
So that was down to the apex, but Predator,
But Glartroc's taking away the errant Mutant, and still it's not the ideal here for Blacksword to try and grab,
but a perfectly timed metallic club on themselves avoids the grab from the Rouverine.
And side of him, interestingly, is the Starler player here, typically the duelist master,
so he's still able to win his 1v1 against the Ultron, and...
...really, that's the baseline you need to hit, but 99% Gainer's gonna make sure that Vision can find a path in and on the Elsa, that's big!
Oh, again, it's just built different over time.
With this team up there, everyone's just going to try and flee away,
but they've been taken down to the ground by the Rogue's stun.
Seems like there's going to be enough power to get them out.
You to that, Jeff Bubble.
Now this is going to go down to a 99-99 fight for our first round.
It doesn't get any better than this.
The Royal Flush, Fire Strays, got to make sure that they not only keep the objective,
they find a way to block against it.
Blackstone is going to have another chance after this Eye of Agamotto.
It got cancelled last time and there's a lot of quick ways to get rid of that ultimate.
Mainly that charm from the White Fox.
QB was big with it before.
Here comes the Royal Flush.
Blackstone would love to move in behind them here with the Eye of Agamotto.
But for now, the damage from Gaina is going to be a lot to try and do with the rage of Ultron.
Just destroyed my Gaina.
Didn't even know what hit him right there.
But when you let Gaina have his mess here, right, things are going to get very bad very quickly.
Versace ready to go, pulling in multiple players, quick knock-up though, I think broke the line of sight.
Played out from five or try and peel for themselves, and Sassan has given very few targets as they're all inside the invisible boundary.
Can you lay it down on Soppo? Yes, you can tell, it gets a critical frag to try and turn this one around.
Still a passive available for Demon. Downs were only extended HP, Rex is chased down by Black Sir in the middle of all of this,
and Tell is still crawling out on the other side.
Out close in person with Rogue is not where you want to be if you're the good doctor.
You can need more than half of the day to keep the Gamer away, and while Smoss will find themselves alone, there's no help for them. Vision Esport, take the first sub-map.
It took everybody having to invest all their ultimates at the end to secure this one. That was a nail-butter.
And then, you had Saddam used the Galactic Legend, a beautiful invisible boundary-frame closer pretty much nullified that.
Cubie on the other hand pops a kumio form and is a unformed pretty much immediately
It's been a rock-paper-scissors match and even a new tool from vision coming out teller
stopping in or
Zerx who's usually been their starboard players
So this is a change but a very
Appreciated one from vision considering they took that first round
It's a different look and with gainer having such a commanding frontline presence
He has so much pressure on these strategies and you could tell by the numbers
he's second most amount of damage right behind Saddam and Gainer has been
D. Vanguard to watch. I understand now the in this protect from fire strays. I
remembered yesterday that they actually took black souls most dangerous Dr.
Strange off the table tonight that team up with the invisible woman. So if you're
looking to have a barrel of four strategist bands, you might as well keep
that team up available. It's gonna be an early strike. Yeah, this is split
team. This was fire. Street's is a special last time. Black souls on the
captain America here on the vault you can play the ring around the rosie so this
first fight is so important because again you could stall this out forever and
Rex with a pick.
easily, Binary's got nowhere to go, Bada goes down with a goal there's an Eagles, but
Damon's got his own access to the back line now, Fyne's Tele falling low, there's a little
bit of shield remaining and healing there as well, so Vision even with the remainder
of their team are able to carry.
Vision having this triple vanguard, there's these large health pools to get through and
only get Gambit and a White Fox to do so, so there's only so much that Vision can
handle, but they were able to survive a huge wave of ultimates, and you've got
Apex Predator from Slopo who had to come back into the fight late.
You had the revive from Rocket Raccoon used early and speaking of early ults.
Let's look.
Right of flash coming through.
Closing into primary target.
Bayou bashed through the mornin'.
My goodness.
Rex is just dumping every card into this one.
It's now or never for Vision Esport.
It would seem that it's a very quick fight in their favor.
That's why that one scenario is that Gambit is going to make a huge difference.
Vision making sure and the pig bands that they are not.
Fireshrays don't have a lot of good choices in terms of utility, because in Oz that's stuck on this Jeth, who usually plays so much in Viz,
I mean hasn't been able to throw people off the map with its Jeth, and you know, the puddle is all you could really think about, which is not going to be a game changer.
And Teller is on the strange, instead of the mag, looking for that big win condition of an Ayavaga Moto, as he gets in position, especially when you have a high ground advantage,
you try and easily collapse onto Fireshrays who need to fight for this upper hand.
Closer playing in the cave here trying to limit vertical access to himself
However, everyone's going to have to get back into the cave now to try and break the line of sight here from satam
It will put them all in one space though
Which could be a big opportunity for teller with that ultimate on the other side though demons gonna try and make their own
Opportunities their own openings wraps around the back once Rex incredibly badly
But look at all the healing that's coming to the kumi ho at least and quick split up though
QB went the wrong way or Rex just didn't stick with them
Demons gonna have to wrap around the back trying to find an angle onto this white vault has to worry about the clawed form
That was spirit sanctuary to escape the attentions of demon for now
And it seems like fire straights finally have their target focus on lock miss gonna need a touch of feeling as that time tries to
Flee away the fire straights will eventually flip not the full getting all the way up to 95% though
Yeah, that's everything around the Rosie. We talked about it is it's very hard to take a clean at team fight
I like demon's redirection towards the banhamer that came out and that's what's important
But you also lacked enough focus into cubie's white fox of Camino form because remember you can't feel the white box in that
Form so she did output like you pointed out a lot of heels getting them up to
96% with all that sustain the looking at tell her to find an angle around the
Parastrays have been dancing around and counter positioning away from this doctor strange and closer all eyes are on them on how they can push
the strange way.
The Apex Predator into his own invisible boundary, slow like that was annihilation.
firestrays what else you got in the arsenal it's the galactic legend coming up with no invisible
boundary but a very visible shield and a lot of ways on this map to find cover and shelter from
the storm and we're going to need to see a storm a fire storm from firestrays if they want to
first that force that third round now it's a storm coming indeed that raging royal legend
is going to be on the cards very soon black snooker trying to defend them here with the
the freedom charger heading back onto their own team trying to give us much
over help as possible here comes the puddle left behind by the jet but will
it turn into a lake of tears is the question doesn't need anyone over here
quick self-stonecube is getting on top of them with the white frog just fleeing
away for now it seems like fire straights with the fencing plate has been
rewarded demon wraps around the back this could be the final fight out
comes the band hammer it will punish you when you miss but demon just takes
the damage raw from the golden desert eagles are two versus one on the
point the rest of vision needs to try and make their way towards the
objective now the mission area gonna fall away over time in session tellers gone
down can start doing the teleportation but they come back but it's still gonna be
a couple of seconds before that one's available. Gamer's actually swapped over now.
Onto a Doctor Strange instead a little bit of a dose you go on that. This is
gonna be two vanguards returning to the point of play. Exit from the Kubi Ho
Unleashed. Great play from Kubi. Over onto a Jeff. The APM from Vision
right now is crazy but it's gonna be Slappoy with the Apex Predator who
could decide all of this. When is Slappoy gonna be forced to use it is
The question for now vision is won't just have so much presence on the point
They want wrecks really badly in the back set up falling low as well demon must they counter part inside of all of this is going to be
The apex predator three grabs three frags unbelievable from slobbo. It's anything from but sloppy. It's beautiful play
Vision they never gave up
They never surrendered but they kneeled at the end of course when they only had a star lord and a white fox left
You had Kumiho form and you had the Galactic Legend a portal that came in time for vision to extend the fight
Which gave them the hope that they could win it in two so vision invested everything
But it's fire strays that surrounded their prey and tore them apart
Of course that storm came for fire strays vision need an umbrella and with this new
Substitute in and even some changes from the fire stray sides Noss and closer our exchanging roles both of course
The other closer usually plays the Jeph's. Noss does the invisible woman, but Slavo I think had more of an impact towards the later of the round with big apex predators to claim fights in a common economical way.
But it's the final round for the first map and you don't see any Dr. Strange portals.
The change falls this time. I think for me the big change here is demon heading over onto a second dualist
Like moving away from a triple shrub just when you're going up against so much meat in the form of three dualists
Really seems to have given fire strays the effort damage they need for finishing powers make something happen
Not a carb is reversing. It's just that fool
I looked behind me and everything but Black's I was to look in front and wow already a commanding position for fire strays
but they are controlling the perimeter.
Vision are stuck on an island.
They want to cap the point first.
Yeah, vision definitely going to try and set in place.
What a vibranium energy sword is definitely
carling through vision right now.
Two strategists fall.
Most of it, healing is gone.
The rest of vision, all they can do is really just sit in place
and wait to fall in their own right.
For Fire Strains, this is going to be a first cap.
And that is the risk of playing on the point
for the cap first.
Fire Strains, I love that positioning better.
Flaxo was able to identify where those strategists were sitting and run them over because Captain America is so untouchable when he gets the ball rolling.
Firestrays identified those squishy targets and were able to win the war at the end, but now you're going to have more of those piercing kills with QB swapping to the jet,
maybe helping out with some speed if you want to try and escape away from a Captain America on your backline.
Into Dimension of Slowbox is going to be available, but look at this trace, old bank man.
They have five and they can, they almost go up six as they head in here, Vision E-Squall.
They don't want to take a drive right here, just play for the economy.
And just play for Stalb, play on the point as much as you can.
Surprise Vision aren't trying to pressure that back.
Fire Shrieks can always have Black So be able to anchor.
Do you see the combination though, the real flesh galactic legend?
It's usually been staggered.
Alright, Binary with the band hammers begin with here, lightly onto the back.
Gaynor gonna be buffed up here, waging Royal Legends taking to the skies with damage is almost unbearable
But you know what can sustain that just for cave in the middle. The physical cover's good
Binary can't be saved, the invisible boundary is a great counter strike now, and you don't know where Damon's coming from
There's violence, there's vision, and what there is is pain to be having
On the point, it's Gaynor rolling forward, moving in
Oh, the Khalid is great. Close is down already trying to avoid the Jeph's.
Closer can't really get anything. Neither can Znost.
Self-stun after that, even with the healing puzzle on the floor.
A great turnaround here from Vision Eastmore, but it's taken everything that they had.
Literally, Vision used every single ultimate, and they only took it back at 82%.
So now I'm convinced, if they can use the Galactic Legend and the Royal Flush at the same time,
they will, but they will not wait an extra second for the other person. Even that level
of firepower wasn't enough to overwhelm fire strays. They found cover. There was beautiful
shields too from Tyler to stop any counteraction from fire strays. Getting through this cave entry
can be a little tricky, but the damage is good from fire strays to pressure back.
Seth, I'm worried about the angle from Damon here. I'm also trying to mark it, but
you do have binary in the back trying to get this real annoying song point right now.
Now, Trag's four players back, and this has really messed with vision, these forces spread to here.
Firemite finally been a secluded location, but all 12 ultimates were used in the previous fight.
So for now, we should talk all about that neutral play.
Blackstone wants to move in on towards the back.
It would be ideal to try and get Rex to be there for Tiger Focus to try and make it work.
Blackstone's waiting for the next Vibranium Energy Sword.
Takes to the skies around the back, about how it's already been given out,
but his binary is really trying to make this distance happen.
Gainer gets in the way.
A good stun onto the Deadpool to try and stop things in there.
tracks and Wrecked is just given over the raging royal flush.
The ultimate replay here for Vision Esports,
get back into the game.
And QB, the ultimate time waster,
but in the best of ways,
this swap to Jeff has really ruined Black,
so he hasn't been able to get easy and quick picks
on the strat line.
QB is so elusive and is untouchable.
So Vision can really rely on that
and maybe this upcoming up puddle,
it's Jeff to claim Fire Streets
while they're grouped up,
or namely to keep vision anchored in their position.
Tatan dips in for just a second.
A few percent away from that ultim.
You can see where Black Cell has already closed out.
A couple of cards here from Rex on the other side.
And now Steven wants to chase.
Did you find them in the cave?
It's the question.
Telling these to get them into a ramp.
They're still gonna be available just in time.
Great shield player right there.
Black Cell with the dodges.
Well, that's gonna mean a start on the Jeff.
Cubing next on evasive this time.
And the Freedom Charge will drag forth
the remainder of Fire Strays onto a point.
Vision Esport could have won it here and there.
Now it's going to come down to one last battle.
And Black, so I love his approach.
OK, if I can't harm the backline,
I'm going to harm everyone else.
Played it front to back.
Here's a portal play from Vision.
Need to see Saddam get involved in this equation.
Quickly, he's the galactic legend user here.
And with the heartbreaker close,
it's brought up the invisible boundary.
What's going to deal with Sassam's ultimate
in the second stage of the fight is the question.
It comes through already.
The world's had their own next form of one.
If they can really be done, three players have fallen already.
She'll be doing their best to free away. Run, Sharky! Run, as Gayna makes their way in towards the back line, but all alone with no heals. It is not tenable.
Vision Esport are not on the point, and Fire Strays turn it around with a reverse sweep.
Oh, a big punch up for Fire Strays after having what? Half the strategist pool, banned against them.
They leaned on Black So the Captain America, the captain of this team, to run down and to have the chase begin.
binary your MVP on that one playing more of the Deadpool today than the Hulk that we
previously seen on the Celestial Husk against uh I forgot who they faced yesterday but he was a
difference maker and um paired with Blackstone the captain America they were able to follow through
in 27k like almost doing Elsa amounts of damage on the Deadpool of the vanguard variety is insane
Yeah going up against triple vanguards who are hitting a lot of shots and that means getting XP
Incredibly early and when you get into those second rounds and you have a fully upgraded deadpool things start to get a little bit more
A little bit more difficult to deal with especially when you have demons swapping from the Ultron onto a starlight as well
Which really cranks up that damage output collect firestrays
They had trouble adapting to the triple vanguard in the first point and once vision like kind of found their flow moving together
It was very difficult to take them down so much AoE healer.
And Vision already kind of lost the final round when they gave up 82 something percent to fire
strays.
And that's the drawback of running a triple banger, you're not gonna, well, unless your
name is Binary, do as much damage as a duelist.
And Battered tried to keep up, but this is kind of got outgunned and outmatched.
vision were, even with the Galactic Legend and the Royal Flush, it's a one-sided gambit
for vision that still wasn't enough to overwhelm Firestrace.
And yes, you can applaud this Nostin Closer's shrap plays, even just being two strats.
The handle all of that damage is really impressive, but Firestrace just really had a good understanding
of that map, to know where to hide, where to escape, and when to re-enter and retake
into the fight.
And macro-wise, I was very impressed with how Firestray's approach to Lesbians has been, especially that final game.
Yeah, I think Firestray's also had like very small fans get rid of Daredevil in particular on this map,
because with Satsang in, do you imagine if you have three vanguards underneath you, and there's a Daredevil in there as well?
Like, the death ball play would be very difficult to try and counteract.
If I pull these Satsang onto a more like total flank heavy duelist, like the Stalagman to try and take those off angles,
you are able to partition those fights a lot more effectively.
You can try and isolate some of the vanguards.
Predator Binary as well.
I think about Final Fight, we did see a magical unicorn shield go down to block off some of the healing.
I think from the Magneto that was Tellar, in order to try and flip that point,
when you're backing off into Bertha Jeff and again at that close range, there's a lot of healing.
It's going to be going away, but the block off from Binary was so perfect.
Great partitioning of the enemy team.
And for Teller to substitute in and do as well as he did because he's usually a vanguard player.
So just based on the players you knew vision, we're going to be running this triple vanguard.
Teller drops 20,000 damage, the second most amount on his team,
whether it's running the strange going for a teleport, a portal plays off the rip
or being on the Magneto and clearly defending his team while they were running away from the rush.
And, uh, but you know, you missed out on Xerx, who's usually the Star Lord,
at least the secondary duelist and vision missing out on that damage is what really matters.
Yeah, we're gonna be rushing into a map number two right after vision pick where we're going so we'll see where we are
I
Welcome back everyone, that was a heater of a matchup and I even woke my cat up at this
point as well.
But one thing we do have to talk about was how every single point went down to the wire
over time or nothing or a bust between these themes.
I mean, that couldn't have been any closer, Lemon.
Absolutely.
Every round, 99, like, leg days hyperventilating, trying to keep up, I'm parsing all the
dimensions of all these different fights going on.
And it was just rock, paper, scissors, so much.
But Vision bringing out the Triple Vanguard, that's such a unique look.
It's just it came down also to who won the first fight and Fire Stray's in that final
round getting that initial 80% is a pretty big buffer to win the rest of it.
Oh man, I just like one thing I want to talk about here as well leg day in terms of like
why it might have been so close is because Vision were smart, they did their homework,
they made sure to target fan every single time.
We saw them focus on the Mantis person, no one really did that.
They gave them the Elsa.
We kind of heard some insight from the America set of things like, hey, sometimes we give
them a hero that's always banned because they're not practiced on it.
We kind of saw Sloth will take some time to get ready on the Elsa, because usually it's
been banned most recently.
Yeah, I mean like Elsa banned has definitely been the matter in the second week where
Fire Shrazer has been looking better, and when Fire Shrazer got Elsa before it was
during their, we don't talk about this phase, you know?
Which was not a good look for them.
So I think the vision, like they were on the right track there, especially with triple vanguard
as well, knowing that Elster would do a lot of damage to those vanguards with a percentage
health damage, but not necessarily be able to find the KO super easily, they knew that
that would feed their gambit ults very effectively, which is why they only had to run two strategists
and they could still play for that raging royal legend combo.
I think Firestraight, they made some great changes midway through going into map number
including putting a demon on the Rosetta and Marka.
Essentially, keep High Star Lord on there, Star Lord.
That's the thing to notice here as well.
I mean, you talked about it, Lemon, towards the end of it,
is that we saw a bit of a different roster from Team Vision.
They focused more on the Triple Vanguard,
maybe to make it a little bit easier for the Gambit
to build up that all-charge.
We even saw in previous series from other teams
that that was a struggle based on the 20% all-charge nerf.
So maybe that's how they tried to counteract it here.
But going into this next one specifically you think we'll see kind of a similar style
It looks like they're sticking with the same roster for the most part and hopefully we do not see it Shin Shibuya again for their sakes
At least pick the defense. I'm on my hands and knees begging
Okay, cuz that is gonna be the stronger side and that'll be the lesson
But also are we gonna keep allowing Rex and Gainer to have the gambit rogue
That is still very strong and a whole reason vision we're able to force this to go the distance and saddam is doing his best
Zerx impression
I think slotting in those shoes pretty well and hope Zerx is well, too
I don't know why like what the roster situation is. I don't have the gossip
But I love what blacks was able to do on that captain America
She's forcing QB to all these different swaps and it's just like this cat and mouse game
But the cat's got a big old shield
Well, it looks like for now I'm not getting baited this time, so Sastroid isn't playing.
It's Daemon still in the roster this go around leg day.
According to the lobby, they're saying they're ready, so they're going in with Daemon again.
I mean, this is the first time we've actually seen Daemon outside of Domination, but can
we expect from them, do you think?
I mean, I think it makes sense given that you're seeing the Tele stays in on the
other side, right?
Like, you're going to want to try and bring in Daemon if you're expecting to
go up against possibly a triple Vanguard, because Daemon's second most played here,
or I'd say it's probably Mulvury,
which deals with bankouts very well.
This, just to quickly point out,
Idrisal's path was chosen by a fire strays against Rezin
and it was so rough.
They got full held on their attack.
Rezin locked it a three and a half minute time bank
on their attack.
So of course that was what the least difference or so
or there's a lot of time that fire strays have gone
and they put in a lot of work, change up their approach.
So this is gonna be an interesting path.
I kind of like this, actually. It changes the flow of things. It goes from, you know, a convergence that wasn't working so well for vision, and they'll have to still win on the convergence afterwards, so maybe they aren't feeling as confident on that mode.
Back to a convoy map instead, and as you mentioned, Lemon, like, we didn't really see a good performance, unfortunately, from the side of Fire Stray's last time they flin on this against Reason.
So this could be the win condition for vision because they know hey
We're likely to make it through either way, but if we can disrupt the momentum of a fire strays
They've done that their homework, but we'll see if they can ace the test here on Iggdrasil path. It's fire strays
Looking for a sweep. This is here at the playoff hopes their vision looking to stay alive as that third seed
We'll go into it with leg day and lemon take it away
If this goes to another three lemon
There's a very real chance that firestrays choose to take vision e-sport to shinjibuya
Which I think would be rather amusing once again vision e-sport looking down the barrel of that mantis pan again
Definitely seeing that you know if we can constrain's Nost it might be ideal and
What would be their first protect I think it was around the gambit for last time and yeah
Oh one-sided mantis
I mean makes sense like if you don't have zirks in who's your elsa player
then you don't want to like faint towards the protector and Elsa because
firestrays know exactly who you have in right now so they're not so worried
about first banning that Elsa it's gonna go away just so that it's not an option I
imagine but like firestrays can tell from the time they're taking they're
wondering like do we need to ban Elsa like do they have the Elsa player?
Yeah like it kind of feels like automatic the same way I'll go into my
ranked games and I go to the bathroom because I trust my whole team will
also ban Elsa. We're all on the same page about this, but it's a one-sided Elsa or Fire
Stray Slapo. There are so many people to highlight, but he dropped 30,000 damage and it felt like
kind of flying under the radar. And I think Ignis' path is going to be even stronger for Elsa,
because it's not going to be an absolute maze to get this apex predator around. He only
goes straight. There's a lot of straight paths on Ignis' path. Okay, so Visionary
Spot might go for Invisban here. This one makes a lot of sense. You're trying to
and they can strain Blacksore away from that Doctor Strange by getting rid of the team up.
Because not only does the team up have a pulling effect to it, but it also stops Doctor Strange from getting anti-healed
when he reaches 100 energy, which can be a very critical part in a fight.
White Fox potentially protected here from Farshries, which would be interesting.
I would love to see some attention to the Vanguard Deadpool for both these teams,
given that both Bada and Binary had excellent performances on the previous map.
You got to save one strategist because if vision had more bands, they would get rid of all of them and you would have no healing at all.
But I got to say, a white fox protect that's got to be like a first or maybe a second in EMEA.
Like that is a very rare sight to see, but they need to have some reliance on some kind of strategist to keep their Vanguard line up.
And look, more strategists are off the table and the Vanguard Deadpool kept possibly for a batter here for vision.
Yeah, it's likely a great target onto Sloppo as well, just to try and constrain that elsewhere
touch with the Banhammer.
Probably going to make it even, Stevens, for the invisible woman man, to be honest.
You don't want to have to deal with too many of those paws if you don't have any of your
own.
She's just a very well-kitted character, lots of agency.
So that's going to be taken away from both teams, Rex is not going to be able to
stay on that one for long.
Znost does have access to the Loki though, which could be interesting.
We might see the Cloakie.
It's a bit rare.
It was the first in the pre-season, but Cloak and Dagger is not in the worst position right
now to be honest, for change to allow them to have like two Terra Cape charges or two
like healing wall charges, depending on what you want to play.
Those moves are very versatile.
It's been a while since I've seen the Zanoss on the low key.
Kind of what we brought up earlier,
so that we face the same band over and over.
How much real script time do you have?
Well, actually only script time,
and who knows how those go.
But firestreets are gonna be out once again.
Black Sew on that signature group.
This first fight on the choke point,
it's gonna be very strong form,
because those walls, those thorn lash walls
are gonna be on the sides
where you're not really paying attention.
So it's a lot of free damage for the defense.
while binary will try to soak up as much damage as possible in the front lines.
Demon and Sloppo can get on that first platform to get some sight lines onto the strategist,
while Vision seemed locked in on this composition and saddens on the daredevil.
Yeah, that one made it through to the band phase this time,
and it is going to be damage boosted by Talos,
so this is where Sasaam gets the chance to go fully devil mode.
I want to see that devil out, and Vision...
Not only have walls, but they have floors courtesy of Blacksword, but Blacksword is also going to be a good ult giver, because he is an ult battery if you keep shooting at him.
Triple strat though for vision, because they want to set Batar up in a position to have Saturn follow through, but she also don't want to get isolated by these group walls here to engage.
In towards the back might have to deal with the regeneration domain perfectly used there to try and save them from the incoming damage
But look fireshrays are all constrained in this back area
It's not just gonna have to try and pocket them through as they move forward once again
I need a little bit of attention and healing as well in towards the back
Baddest got three players grab over corrosive tendrils slowing them down can stop to get away perfectly time on the bubble
But when you come close together, that's when satamp is not to cleave through all of you
and the righteous cross will take Elsa Bloodstone to prison for a little bit longer.
A good initiative on the engage, but it's the maintenance that is very difficult to do with a Venom comp,
and that's why a lot of teams prefer the Hulk to be able to have more staying power,
but fire strays are staying on this defense.
It's an obon here used by Closer, that was thought up incredibly quickly.
Unbelievable vulnerability, the Terricade afflicts four people at once,
and when you're seeking 28% more damage, the healing just cannot keep up.
not keep up and that's why they call them the closer baby and to get aggressive in
your face hot even on the flank for the cloak and dagger but that
terracate that vulnerability is something vision has to keep in the eye on
especially when you run the triple strats everyone has to pay attention and I'm
paying attention to saddam damage boosted their devil was actually a crime
I don't care it's like that's so many players inside can they get through the
And the Cloak and Dagger is so much scarier when you have the two Terracapes now, but the
the doubles out for Saddam, he wants to end it once and for all.
Devils out on the strategy, so as it goes, there's nothing to save David and Sloppo.
We just have to take to the skies, try and avoid this one.
So I'm just being as evasive as they can do, but there's no other real targets for them to try and bring down.
Blackstone finds themselves with very little help, so tell us easily able to run them down with the Mantis.
And that control of the car is very much in favor of vision.
Yeah, Blackstone, you're a very submissive and birdable tree, okay?
I cannot see you frontline like half in America.
vision though they're trampling and here's a portal from firestrays.
for all of the crimes he's committed against Asgard,
thus far, Blackso's nowhere to be seen
and Daemon stands with no friends.
Pretty impressive defense though for fire strays,
you force what, three or four
in pretty extended fights out of that
and even Slopo would have to change to a Doctor Strange
resetting that old charge
and now they're back to their standard.
Blackso is gonna keep on the Thor, use the ultimate,
we'll see if the swap comes through.
This is a bit of a different look from him
and you're the Thor player,
You know his weaknesses and strengths and the brawl is where he can shine but you lean on binary to give those bubbles
I'm being chased down is definitely a weakness
When you run out of that thought force you really are a sitting duck that's on now just easily able to just
Wail on binary to be honest free old charge devils ready to be released damage boosts we're giving over as well
Lot of changes out of fire is trace
Now the back corner is going to be held, vision, soul resurgence, they're going to put pedal to the metal and Gainer's leading!
This could be a huge piece of this
Corrosion is better stuff says nowhere to go and while it might be a little bit of health shaved off the top from a venom from
Demon the damage has been done thus far to the old Bank of Fire Strays. They have basically nothing
Yeah, fantastic combo and tech from batter
Float the right click the old
Seconds later gets that execution on Tiznos as you pointed out and vision needed to maintain
momentum at that point. This is such a dreadful corner for the attackers to push, especially when
the cart moves forward. It's tough to squeeze through the sides as well, and Gainer is going to take initiative.
Alright, Devil ready to be unleashed. Can't move too far forward. Binary is just sitting here
imperiously with the Miceo Wren. Gets a lot of damage there onto battle, and Slopo is there
with the finish as well. It seems like it's been great zoning. Satsang got nothing off the
back of that ultimate, and now we're going to try and close in on the dare, Devil. Make sure
sure that he cannot stay alive in the back line for too long.
We've worked with this Apex Predator.
If you guys like bowling, you're going to love playing else on this map and vision.
Just need to make sure they keep your strategies around the corner, but Rax wants to get involved.
Oh, instantly stunned and instantly bird. No way for the Kumihoa leash to go,
but gaining with all those needles is doing plenty of damage here as well.
How goes the Bandhala?
Sloppoe, they're just going to lose the Apex Predator straight away, falling in their own right.
Cube are making sure that there's no fair 1v1s on Asgard today, and Byron is going to be staggered out in their own right.
Firestray's lose control of second.
And Slaphole's been hit or missed with these Apex Predators. It should be a win-fight button, but despite Vision being in his path,
I didn't see the Apex Predator really claim any good meals, but the Firestray's defense takes off so much time,
but now I start to worry if Vision can actually complete the map, because Saddam's been isolated.
Black Soak finally found the 1v1 he wanted when he sought service of his Thor
and now once again just going to be a little bit of a pain on the cart.
A pain in my missionary, you know.
And he went out of sorts over here easily taken down by the Terracay from Closer
and Black Soak finally started finding the engagement that he wanted.
You don't want to be in these like 3v1's of Thor.
You just want to find the 1v1 in a dark alley.
And Black Soak gives his revenge but I like if he could try to get on a subtle flank against Vision.
he could actually push vision into fire Shraze's own team.
So that could be a nice neutral win condition,
but there's a ton of bolts as fire Shraze are ready to unleash.
This engagement here from Black Soap,
getting the bubble from a cloak and dagger as well as the Magneto.
It's a lot of resources to try and keep your front line alive,
heading in towards the back.
Already is going to be the eternal bond used here by Closer.
If you can't go too far forward here, if you're fire Shraze,
you don't really have the AoE.
So Vision Eastport back off.
They're going to re-engage now with Cubis Ultimate,
who might just play for survivability in the back after buying all that space.
Not an easy ult to get off for the It's Jeff when there's still a magneto up ready to defend,
but Vision, they have them where they want them.
Dollar Thunder drives them back to Nostra, flames the space once again,
and via the eternal bomb could be pulled out of it for now.
Oh no, Nostra overplays their hand, goes into a 1v6 scenario.
What great target focus from Vision, Esport, and now Fire Shraze.
They're in a position where they don't quite have as much healing as they thought they did.
That's going to be a cumio unleashed from Damon. Oh my goodness, the apex predator! Slopo's off the charts, bro!
Ah, out of a hibernation and on to the feed, Firestrays were a huge ultimate at the end from Slopo to end it once and for all,
despite how well that fight kicked off for vision.
You had the Feast of the Abyss from the Vetham that produced an anti-heal onto almost the entirety of Fire Strays
while they were trying to use their Stratos, but Vision couldn't capitalize.
Getting around that corner at the initial part of Point C is so Defender-sided.
In Fire Strays, just like Celestial Husk, they know when to back away to disengage and to counteract.
Sloppo, despite the Apex Predators being hit or miss, they hit Vision right in the face.
But, Isshin also got pretty far on that push.
Let me cook here.
The double beastie combo goes a little bit crazy.
The Kumihou Unleashed with the Apex Predator.
So I think that with the 900 HP health bar that the Kumihou Unleashed gets,
and how big it is,
there's a world where maybe we saw a demon actually body blocking
for the Glatroc on its wings.
It's only got a small health pool.
And then when it comes back as well,
you're all getting trampled by the angry Kumihou parade,
And each of those stomps gives even more HP over to Rikumi-Helm-A-Lesh
because that's the only way that you get to self-sustained during that.
I think that that might be part of the reason why Slopo's ult was so successful.
Four, three, two...
Now, Fire Shraze have to match the piece if they want to take this series into vision.
This was their choice of map, and man, did they look so much better
because they got full health last time and they went to distance.
With this triple strat, you just have to make sure they support Sadam who's taking a more
distanced approach with the Phoenix instead of the Daredevil this time.
Getting a lot of free progress as this is going to come down to one fight for the captive.
Despite it may be a portal that could come out, but got the Bandhammer out.
to go by the way, walled up behind them. Both of their strategies have been zoned out on the other side.
Fire strays are moving through this one remarkably quickly. And the stagger is mean that fire
strays when it rains it pours and they could cause a hemorrhage on the vision side if they
do not escape, which I think they were able to binary got slept by teller. So that's how
you're able to calm them down. But having just a deadpool and a magneto as your two
vanguards are so worried about getting walled off from black souls group that they just
They kept giving up space and space and space and had no real way of finding back into this.
Firestrays controlled the entire chaos and they have a pretty big time bank advantage
going in with a strangling prison on the menu.
The strangling prison, what do you have to follow up with?
It's likely going to be your Phoenix.
The N-Song Inferno could be a great combination for this one.
However, there's a worldwide game that can body block this one while being CC immune.
If the Ironwood Wall is a whole lot of needs, great play here from Bander.
It's going to be able to make sure there's no follow-up on that N-Song Inferno as well,
while Sarton's going to be trade that on the other side, but Svart's going to trade for Vision Esport,
losing Gainer, might well turn this one around though, but could be how I'm leashed for Terra Cave,
25, 28% more damage, 900 HP doesn't last for too long, but I think it needs to make it work here,
and coming up with the Iron Volley, it's all about the mechanics, Bader is just that guy for this fight.
Eating up the Strangling Prison was the first ingredient that was needed,
And I was just adding the genus Equa, a little bit of a nice wide gravy on the back of it.
Sasan just got to chase up that venom, not allowing too much of the way of survival.
But look at that! A quick force! And they don't even know where the venom is!
Oh, Sasan, not like this.
A floor had it coming, okay? But I also want to point out,
Binary had almost what a five-man toss-up on his dive,
so he just set up the fight beautifully for firestories to hit a homerun.
Vision also had a strangling prison, but Gainer swapped to Portal, didn't need it,
So you kind of sacrifice the strangling prison, but he's already earned another one, but fire is streets
They're the ones who look confident right now. Oh look at Blacks those old generation as well by the way 20% bro did not get the memo
It's already got three and they've got nowhere to go but into the jaws of the glass shots and bro do be chewing his sticks today
That's that's I'm already writing that down top five plays of the day from Sloppo
How I mean pick an apex predator. He's been feasting a bit of a backhand to tell her tell her I say hi
But vision now we're coming out of spawn fire. Strays could catch him
I mean, it's a hot way. Hold up counselor ultimate here for a generation of names. They've got great coverage
They're perfectly played by snoss. There's a reason that this guy was lauded as a low key player
And you cannot allow it to make it through the bands or snoss is just gonna dominate all the use of cosmic
I mean, I guess there's not really any space to try and work with.
There's no regeneration debate for now, so Zos just has to fight away from Alita and
but I can't really get any value off of it.
The rest of Vision is willing to move up towards Ka.
And Zos has a firing squad, and he has an ultimate visioner trying to fight back, but
they're not on the same page!
With four minutes to spare, fire Shrey's lock in Idrisil's path and take the series.
Unbelievable stuff there from Fire Shrey's.
I mean, like, Black Soul was so confident in his strategy
to stand tough, and we've got so much healing.
We're poking back, bro, and a Loki.
Bro, he's just both watching down main, you know?
He's just, Groot will get it down,
and there's no one who can really stop him.
The damage simply wasn't there.
And it feels like Fire Shrazer was just
rolling through that with everything they could want.
They had the Groot, they had the Loki,
they had the Elser as well.
And once again, Sloppo dropping a fat 31K damage
with 13 final hits.
This guy, it may have been a little bit of a slow start,
but warmed up, he's crazy.
And from a fast start to a slower one for vision,
you were just always running away
and then picking the wrong times to go,
ah, we should react, guys.
And then it'd be one guy trying to react
and trying the front line.
They gave up so much space on their defense,
just so worried about the threat of Black So at all times.
An absolute group canyon, I gotta say,
with Black So's initiative on these string-linked prisons,
constantly walling off the Vanguard's binary with the dives that would hit at least four or five every single time
Fire Strays were so cohesive on all fronts to make the Vanguard's confusion nervous and to take that last map so convincingly
All right, let's drop into our replays and bring back bottom. We'll see what you thought about this. We finally saw the fall
Yes, we did
I mean I respect the the change-ups that we saw from Fire Strays
So I think the biggest difference is also was banned for a reason
We saw it banned every single time yesterday and yes, maybe they might not have been as comfortable at the start of the last map
But now that you gave it to them two in a row they're gonna lock in because it's like riding a bicycle
It's just you're gonna be riding a lot trucks instead
We saw with the apex rider ultimates time and time again from sloppel
But the entire team really showed out them one thing I want to focus on here lemon as we wait for an interview here as well
is that we saw daemon in instead of destroyed and I feel like them focusing so much on the hitscan with the Phoenix also made a huge difference here
Yeah, just realizing with the triple strategies you can have all the healing in the world, but sometimes there's some
With enough focus and I love enough combos
Especially even with the venom the old and the tech that you can do it doesn't matter how many
Strategies you have out there. You could just fall that easily
So I like we're seeing more of the 2 2 2 out of Irish rays because demon the mechanics
It gets to really shine on the Phoenix instead of the Ultron or anything else that we would see out of them and to swap up from
Having like their doubles and then once you know you're on defense or you know
You're gonna be playing more of a distant game
You bring out the Phoenix and it forced vision to not be able to hold on to any space because of all this
distant damage coming out
So much to think about now because this throws the entire group into disarray in terms of like qualification
So we'll have the experts in the background give us more confirmation as we go along with the day
But I think this means that last series even matters so much more so so fire strays like they did everything
They needed to just set themselves up for qualifying for playoffs and talk to me a little bit about like the main differences
We've seen from week one fire strays to week two now. I think that talking to each other was a great stop
but also like Snost became the Alpha Mantis in Firestray's previous fights.
Snost became the Alpha Mantis to the point where Mantis is getting first banned,
and like if you're in a position where you have someone who's so good at a hero that it demands
an instant ban, it is a very valuable asset for a team to have. VP used to have this with
Spark as Sylocke, back when Sylocke was in her prime, they got to have access to Luna.
low-key back when that was meta because just spark and need is to be banned over time.
And if fire strays are in this position where like you need to ban mantis against them and
like if you don't ban it first she's gonna get first protected then I think that just
Sennos being able to stand on business just T-pose on them has been a huge change for
fire strays.
Oh man.
I mean yeah Sennos looked really great.
I did like the flexibility of this roster too from fire strays.
Speaking of Zanoss, we do have the interview ready with them to congratulate them on their victory,
but also question some of the band decisions from the other teams.
Zanoss, they took you off of your main, they target-band you every time with the Mantis.
How did you feel just playing off of that comfort zone that you established yesterday
and still able to pull off the 2-0 victory?
Hello, welcome. First of all, I feel honored, I have to say, obviously,
because that is a very great feeling to be target banned and I think our roster is very flexible so it's fine to have that and then I just have to have Slopper on Elsa and he can just take over the whole lobby, very fine of us.
What's the overall game plan when you guys end up playing Cloak and Dagger and Loki, which is one of the rare backgrounds we've had so far? Is that just a product of everything being banned or is this a very pre-planned?
It was mostly a product of everything being banned and at the same time the way the drafts went enabled the loot a lot and we wanted to help do the best you can as Black Citizen Amazing Root and basically playing Claw Strings.
Yeah, and I mean that one was very strong, but it went the distance that was a doozy to watch
How were you guys able to approach the triple vanguard which is more of a rare line these days in the other side?
We kind of expected them to play triple vanguard when we saw what
Players were playing as the one missing zergs, I believe
But we did no expect them, I just banned two affairs, so the first point was a bit rough for us, we had to take some time to get used to it, and I think then we found the groove, and next time we banned out Gambit to make the triple tank where we got.
Love to hear it.
My final question for you here specifically, I know it's kind of on everyone's minds.
We feel like we saw kind of two different teams from week one into week two.
What were the adjustments that you and the roster made to make sure you could walk in towards the latter half of the group stages?
So, in the first week we didn't really have an identity to do, like a game plan of what we wanted to do.
We weren't too sure about how to play this patch yet and it was a rough awakening for us to lose those two maps on the first week.
You know, we did our best, took a lot of practice, and this week we found what we like, and I think we have a good chance now.
And also, since it's the last session, I'd like to say one more thing.
I want to thank the guys of Shikigami and Santa Mutant Love to the players who helped us in the last minute warm up game.
Thank you very much, they're amazing guys.
Definitely a shout out to the Shikigami crew.
Well, thank you Zanast for joining us on the broadcast.
Congratulations on your win and we'll inform you towards the end of the day what your fate will be for playoffs. Thank you
Thank you very much. Have a good day
It's not this lovely shutting out the air they see warm up and you know good good job to a shikigami guy start stand-up fellas coming in for an emergency warm-up
I know that sometimes we want the cancels about some blacklist bro
I was gonna say if this was North America
She could go he would be like signing up for the scrim and then ditching it last second
like EMEA is so wholesome and it's great to see and if you guys want the opposite of that
EMEA was absolute comedy yesterday but yeah, shout out to the Shikigami boys and they're
going to be playing later today as well.
Yeah a lot of interesting matchups on the line, great to see the camaraderie across
the scene for EMEA but it's going to get a little bit spicier once we get to the playoffs
and it goes down to the wire for that $50,000 prize pool but we do have more matches
on the docket here. Again looking ahead we have Peps versus Alter E-Sports, VP versus
Rad, Jiki versus Heretics, Rizzi versus Crownfall and that one even matters so much more so because
that will determine the fate of both teams you just watched. So we'll get more details
on that as the day goes along and present you with the bracket at the end of it. But
we're going to be headed to a quick break. We'll be back with a decider matchup for
the last spotting groups in Group A after this.
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Fantastic!
Welcome back everyone. We had a very intense series between a fire strays and a vision still
awaiting results on exactly how they make it in it to the playoffs, but we'll keep you
updated as we get those updates. Still we have one decider series. It's pretty quick
and dry. It's Team Peps vs. Alter E-Sports. Win and you're in, lose and you're out
at 5th place in Group A. And just kind of mentioning this specific matchup here,
We unfortunately didn't see the best performance from Peps yesterday.
They got their first win on Friday and then immediately, I guess, went back to the drawing board and
Chicky Gommies showed how good of a team they really were.
Yeah, they're very much embodying Drake.
We started from the bottom, now we're here.
And at least it's with a win, okay?
You gotta start from somewhere and Peps showed us that they can win.
And especially someone like Bink, who has stepped up in the biggest of ways.
I always look at six as this mechanical God as long as you make space and time for six
He will deliver on these big team fight wins whether it's the Phoenix or whatever
But pink has been that setup guy as the daredevil but also the Wolverine like quite literally is like here you go six
That shot this guy and I love that team play out of pence. I
Really hope we get to see that synergy from them as well because leg day talking a bit about the mishaps that we saw
It's kind of like the elephant in the room right from yesterday
They didn't get a single elimination at the start and it felt like Frankie boxing
Maybe wasn't feeling as comfortable on the vanguard pool compared to the angel that we typically see them in
Yeah, Frankie definitely is is an incredible Angela
But maybe the pool of stars and become a little bit more you know stretched and stressed thus far
I think that perhaps might be a team that needs a touch more times to
get it together with each other but admittedly that might just be done to
kind of go with owning right like sugargummy I think is stronger than a
lot of people gave me credit for on the other side here for all three sports we
got plenty to take a look at I mean I'm just gonna throw us right back at you
like that do we see the floor or is the Hulk coming out I'd love to I would
love to see both actually like easy leg day glaze every day if you're
playing Hulk or Thor I think that Thor actually is a great tool for
constraining a Hulk player but team captain just got so much done yesterday
I think firing like kind of above the power level on the Hulk multiple times
And if we do go back to a similar domination map we go back to boot into Charlotte again
I would love to see can't pick up the Hulk. Oh man
That'd be amazing if we see that happen
But also talking about the strat lane here Jen
We saw a lot out of like kind of a triple strategist lineup for alter eSports
Exo, Enviz, Monarch, Mantis, Hatchero, White Fox mainly on the White Fox yesterday
Do we see kind of a similar story from them, or do you think we kind of mix it up here?
Yeah, the triple strat, it just depends what is able to go through and even when Alter have had four strats banned against them
They will find a will and a way to run three still. I'm still surprised there's those left
I got a shout out someone like Exo who there was whispers that Luna wasn't very
Strong anymore and of course white foxes the team up there is helping a lot of things
But these freezes on Luna makes makes Exo such a good anti dive strategist and monarch who's been able to play all three
roles usually the Mantis, but can also play the Vanguard and be that secondary duelist on the team and
Then Hatcher has been playing whatever the team needs need me to hop on Mantis need me to be on Jeff the old Tron
Like this is a very flexible strat line
I'm really curious on like what the focus is going to be in terms of that bands again here leg day
Especially because you know they have the three strategist players some flex as well from monarchs specifically
But we saw in the last series quite didn't work out well to just focus on banning the strats
You still have to follow the standard protocol of banning either Elsa and Gambit
And I wonder if either these teams were looking at that and realize oh, maybe we got a change of plans a little bit
going into this one. Yeah we have seen like this internal shift in the MEA
towards like the Ultron Mantis and many people are forgetting why why Ultron
Mantis became popular with the BAM priority being so heavily towards
Gambit and Elsa. Like in some cases these things just happen because it's
it's necessities the mother of invention right? Being the charlotte
doesn't seem to be our first man which means that I am praying on my
knees for Team Captain to go back on the hook. That'd be amazing if we do
see that happen especially how good they looked on it specifically chasing the other team down.
But one thing I do want to mention here is that the issues we did see from Altary Sports against
teams such as Airtix. Target acquisition, yes, but also the point priority here, Lemon. That was
the elephant in the room for them specifically. They left the point. They got distracted. I
mean, we even heard from Tanuki saying, you know, some teams who might not be as experienced
just get scatterbrained and don't know exactly where to focus. Do we think we see an adaptation
already from yesterday into today where they focus a little bit more on the objective play?
I think the composition that they ended up on, and look by the way,
like day is a fuller trader. Okay, I want to see two captain pack on that, but I understand that.
We care about winning and Thor is not always part of that. But I think it's been purely
a coordination thing as we'll see how it looks out on Fominish. That's true. Math number one,
both these teams wet the distance but didn't take a win this time they're
changing their fate they got to get the victory to make it to group stage or for
the playoffs we'll see how it goes
victory condition lemon win the series and you're into playoffs keep it simple
for us okay we are very good at math well it doesn't take a high IQ to ban
two Elsa's so what else is next all right zooming in on to the Mantis
seems like alter e-sports aren't as bothered about the gambit but team peps
they're more than happy to try and take the gambit I imagine really taking it
away first and you know what in evermite mantis for mantis this is going to be
all about juicing up our avatar our one duelist everyone is just gonna focus in
maybe it's gonna be whoops versus pink kind of match up here I wouldn't mind
seeing pink back on that daredevil yeah a brand to Chala is very very open
so as a group player probably not gonna have too much of a fun time and
I'm looking at you. I am okay. You're gonna have to find something else
But also you need a strong poke face because when you have a very open map you want to keep your distance
so this is where six I think can really come alive 14 peps and
He's been great on the Phoenix, but what else is gonna be on the menu kind of a very very similar bands to be honest
Yeah, a lot of focus in on the gambit low key getting ready Elsa the first protect here
We'll be telling there from team perhaps if I want to maybe keep the vanguard dead pause
I want to keep it in this.
We didn't see white folks
present here today.
I wouldn't mind seeing
a Daredevil live.
Okay.
Hang out there, Paul.
So we're going to focus in
for this one.
Just making sure that's
available for INLK.
Is that pivot off the
grout?
No, Jeff, to
accompany that venom.
But whoops, and this
alter eSports team
rarely have Elsa
banned against them.
People are
don't see whoops as a
thread, and he's been
able to kind of
disrespect other teams
as he's been able to
flex to other dual lists.
But the final
other dual lists, but the final lock in here for Alter is they hope to have that vanguard
deadpool part of their equation.
I'm surprised we haven't seen Ultron come up yet.
It seems like there was the micro meta for about two days here in EMEA where Ultron and
Mantis together for that double damage boost was where a lot of teams were finding success.
Invis woman going to be taken off the board, but this does mean there's the capacity
for Alter Esports to play a double team up, Jeff if they would like, but with
team captain currently help running the camps in America, that doesn't seem to be on the
counts.
And the invisible woman all the invisible boundary is so good at really excluding the
ranged duelist like Phoenix from being part of the fight and then you're forced to play
more forward and even the vulnerable strategies have to step forward to at least try to ideally
have vision on the people that they're feeling.
So I'm wondering how much that lack of an invisible woman is going to keep the queen
and open and mainly that you can see everybody trying to shoot in here.
Ultron may not have appeared in the band phase, but certainly is appearing in the game itself.
Trans are going to place them through the avatars.
You know, pink versus blue, so they're going to set these guys up to go up against each other.
The maximum support behind them.
Six is going to be on the Ultron, all the eggs in the...
I think that's what they're going to say.
And then Team Peps will be on Accelerate's space board.
And this is a very open map where it is a lot less of cover.
So it's going to be important to dance around a shield.
But I'm thinking Frankie Boxing wants to Frankie Portal
somewhere between Ultra Esports.
Yeah, this will give them an advantage in tempo
for the first fight, which is very important.
So we're going to be low on it when going up against
that cat in America, rolling out first.
So that speed is good right now.
Exit just doesn't stop on turn just continue skating on by and now alter e-sports
They are gonna be playing a flipped map with team preps wrapping around behind them
This is a major resource that's gonna be gone team captain's already starting to work that I'll find them develop some space for a flight
Now waiting for these walls to come up around the point because that's gonna be the main time you actually want to play out in the open
Like this you're gonna have some protection some anchoring from pets and alter e-sports
Okay, they are gonna contest the last second. Thank goodness for zQ but team captain
probably gonna find some crafting behind the Strabacus.
They've just been outdamaged by two paps.
And Team Captain's doing good pressure for Altar, but he's the only one doing it.
He can't do it all himself. I know he's the captain and he's Captain America,
but he needs an American team, that question mark around him.
And maybe a daredevil substitution would be nice,
but Woods needs to try and match the range, DPS.
That pink has been able to put out.
You already noticed it in the ult charge.
30% ahead is pink with the end song Inferno.
Ah, Cameron.
Going into a backline doesn't mean it doesn't have quite as much support in the front line,
and so much of this damage can be inflicted into him.
It feels like right now, Alter Ease will shine down to having trouble really taking the Spaceman.
Frankie Boxing just brings up that shield behind him and cuts up over healing.
This is why cohesion is so important on domination.
You can't start your flanking pathing when the enemy has nobody else to look at.
So Team Captain needs to sandwich this and find pathing while his team are actually
pushing up.
a lot of good ultimate tier soul resurgent, just to get them out of this door would be ideal for all three sports and ho ho ho! What a clap!
Okay, and also if a change is learned, that is going to reduce the healing of the Isar.
Well, here comes the Eye of Agamotto. Easily shielded out there by team captain because souls aren't separated from bodies.
There's no final hit to be found off the back of Pink's end song Inferno.
Pink now falling low in the run, right mark, getting all the dizzy with Esra's soul resurgent.
This is drawn out from the side of team caps.
Protoss brings the team forward with that additional movement speed before backing off into a safer position to make sure Pink's in this area
Just keeps sniping on down and that cannon goes right as EQ still has the accuracy
A small pove on to the Magneto to make sure that it's gonna be that frontline that was lacking previously
It's difficult to take out 6 for the up here sniping but Frankie Voxing can't angle the shield in the right direction
Loops is off angle is absolutely brutal to behold and while it will be 92 or maybe even a touch more percent
This is a flip for Ulta
alter you so many ultimates just to finally get back into this teller space
board but I feel that fear these ship has left the station and 93% is no joke
nobody is laughing from the alter east port side and the meteor em it needs a
lot of damage to go in to actually pack a punch so team pet doesn't need a
convincing flight win to have a convincing round one finish in captain
rocking the wolf camp skin big fan of this one just continuously presenting the
threat maybe going to isolate the mantis jumping away nice dodge on the sedation
perfectly played through the captain so far but will there be enough reinforcement
for in here there's already got the bubble the healing kind of come through
a touch greedy there from team captain and a nice man cannon as well great
management from the magnitude of a key in the danger zone then that's in
danger can they get away they won't tell us instead you know what if you're
This has been becoming an arena thanks to that invisible woman ult, which may affect why Team
Captain isn't getting as much range shield as he would like now that that's banned and song infernal to end this once and for all
Oh
can get a lot more dangerous and here comes the rage of Ultron. Nothing to heal up, team captain.
A bunch of that healing is actually absorbed by Frankie Boxing trying to place the other Magneto
into an untenable position to bring up the shield behind them. Try and block off some of the heals.
Look at the angle here from IMLK. Frankie Boxing is doing a great job of protecting the entries
and there are the shields. There's nothing for ZQ. Even the body blocks on the healing as well.
There's nothing to sustain that vanguard.
Speaking of vanguards, it feels like Alter East was just never had the cooldowns to maintain the space, especially in a desperation scenario where you quite literally have to make a 0-100 comeback.
Not having that invisible woman just to follow through on what I was saying, you can't really just throw that distant shield to your captain America who's in desperate need of some TLC.
It's very hard to access team captain. I like that. He eventually went went to the Deadpool
But then you're kind of starting from scratch
You have to level up and then just getting gapped by I am okay
Who was there from the start and looking at the difference of damage? Okay?
Pink and whoops are actually pretty competitive amongst each other
It's maybe the difference of final hits and then you look at the mantis as the manti the mantis eyes
I don't know but plural
Mantises that's the
We'll iterate on that as the secondary point of damage and even Proto and Monarch are very close together
So I'm thinking it's about coordination from team peps and you had alter on the back foot with swaps
We're now on warrior falls. You're gonna have again another ranged poke face at this central point
But who will rotate to the point first team peps already want to take it to the falls
For now Hunter is playing this very
trepidatiously doesn't want to expose themselves too early no they have been a
primary target in the times past I am okay just ready to stand on business on
the point for now we're just gonna develop the same but potentially has a
high ground right now which might be a bit of a difference maker and already
damaged this is a given over by the ultron on to pink over there so if you've
asked to be careful is for sure this brought up behind them to try and cover
some of that healing and in comes the end song inferno pink raider strike
already there's no damage reached on it for now so it's not gonna be
taking down in one shot, but as they back off,
it means that Z-tube can't stand on the stage.
Edgeo's gonna stand on business and tell us though,
out comes the Banhammer, right on top of the Ultron,
but it seems that inside of the invisible boundary,
we don't really have to worry about the damage.
The first cap here for Team Pebs
is gonna be of the engage with the Entombl Inferno.
They want Protoss real bad,
and the extra explosion from the spark
is enough to one-pack the Mantis.
Now, Alter need to just fire on all cylinders.
They can't afford to let Team Pebs
get another 99% star.
They've already given up the cap first
It needs to be a clean sweep and now that Franky's missing Ulter don't have any safe space to be on
Okay, let's check it on the alt seer. It's gonna be ZQ the Max has to the all the meter and the portal's opened
But I think this one's already on. Oh, it's home. Yeah
What never mind?
Wow, I knocked but you're in the shower
Yeah, and the fact that you have a one-sided invisible woman
I can't I can't stress enough that baby back can put up the shield on their own backline to prevent damage
and a lot of pressure on the people like proto and sick so all through having to invest a lot more in Frankie
He's boxed all right
as Z-Tubes just cannot get any sustain as all of the kills are incidental, which is now caught in a bad position,
but overextending to try and kill for them might be a fatal flaw here.
Ulteray sports lose control of the point,
Monarch needs to try and escape the facility for hatch runs to go,
and Frankie Voxen's having himself a time on the mag.
Ah, and it's... Yeah, Ulteray was a late fate of both worlds.
Oh, the Sleet Stagger!
Oh no! Oh no, not like this!
Come on back to the cocoon and back to the spawn room precious seconds team peps now in the lead as a result
And again, I feel like the vanguard from Frankie and I am okay. I stepped up to the occasion
But whoops trying to do his best to get team peps low one on the back foot
But the healing has just been next level from team peps
Altar need a pick in their favor and if you know the old score right you need to salvage
Maybe that is accessible here
Yeah, team peps getting a little too greedy a little too confident
And it's kind of an awkward corner, right?
Because then your strategists still
need to keep some kind of line of sight.
And an invisible woman doesn't have infinite healing range,
so needs to be as close as they can.
Alter eSports identified that weakness, that mistake,
and punished that error.
Now, Alter eSports need to defend like their lives depend on it,
because also depends when that portal is on cooldown.
Alter eSports used it and speaking of,
we got a band hammer.
Oh, Woops has already got one and six no-down as well.
Every single strategist from Peps just disintegrates in the Alpha Strive.
They did end up using the Silver Surge, but still have that indelible boundary for later on.
There's not much to really penetrate through at a bottom's e-cute.
Alter Esports back on their own two feet, taking the early fights
and the initiative that catches team Peps off guard.
This is gonna be the fight to rule them all to see if we're going at round three or not.
Round three on the horizon.
The rage of Ultron is also a little bit prematurely.
Easy to dodge here from Peps, that's going to be an almost entirely wasted Ultron.
Apart from the damage you have, I am okay!
They are able to save them time!
The invisible banterists are touched too gleely there from B, but she could not rescue the Vanguard.
Up to the sky goes the Mince of Eren, because he seems to have done too much as Frankie Boxing has exchanged his own as well.
And now Team Peps with only a single Vanguard are going to have to put all of their healing into Frankie Boxing.
Pink needs to find an angle.
in opening somehow. Huttry falling low might be the answer here and Rooks has an almost
inescapable position. He's so well defended up on the high ground, a big push on Tzeke,
slowly magnetically levitates back down to Terra firma. And IMLK has finally returned.
Can't afford to fall again as Rooks building up towards the end of Lomperdo. There are
so many sparks. Frankie boxing's down. IMLK can't get on in time. We're going to
you're around number three. Frankie on an island had the attention of the whole squad. How did he
not fall earlier at bed that man team peps were so close to making this in two but alter esports.
They got back on the wagon and they kept sailing. So I love to see that we now go
to the final point the Imperial Institute of Science. This is as open as it gets.
Of course, you have that hole right in the middle as a stall tactic.
There is some perimeter play you could do.
Some small platforms for high grounds.
Expect those Phoenix's to be up there.
I'm not going to try.
But the old advantage for alter eSports is what I'm looking at.
That's soul resurgence.
Alter have lost these first fight every point thus far
and having to play from such a deficit.
To play a retake against triple strategists
is proven to be such a challenge.
I need alter eSports to come out strong.
Frankie Boxing, it's time for some more shenanigans.
Got it?
And with this team up as well, it can be very easy to pull people well out of position for a second
and you get a footage of them going through a doorway, this is the ideal split.
Yeah, when you go through a narrow doorway, it's just entirely cut off.
You can see that the Arthur here is going to be the sole resurgence,
but Ato can't even get line of sight.
They get rid of long as well.
You can reach right through the ultimate.
Oh, Altarysmores, they finally have another advantage.
Uh, well, some people can't...
Actually, nobody could get through the portal.
You have to be this high to get through the portal of...
I think that's a cap steel.
Oh, that's a blunder from Freaky.
No one could get through the portal.
It was too tall!
This is a little bit too difficult.
Okay, and now we've got some raceboards coming through as well.
It's gonna get very aggressive.
The other teams captain actually uses a final exam.
A rare thing for a vanguard.
They've got ones of a sustained ability moving in towards the ultra.
They want to blow them up and instead of having to have a momma on the other side,
that means Eggtoe has to go all cylinders firing.
On the dance floor running to Boogie, but our Team Pep's gonna be a tango party here,
it's gonna be Frankie Foxing finishing all of this.
A great big dark power is unleashed from the bowels of Frankie.
Happens to me sometimes, I'll throw you a curry.
I mean, it's just gonna go down as well.
I instantly regret that one and Team Pep's not regretting their investment.
I think Frankie regrets that portal at least.
I tried to give myself dementia from what you just said.
But hey, that was a pretty big Ayamaga Moto right in the middle of Alter Esports as that
bit of both worlds expired.
Now expect Alter Esports to fire in all cylinders, namely after, with that rage of Ultron.
And what a quick retake for Team Pev's, I mean, Alter needed to extend that much, much
longer than they did.
I think it must have been shielded there by David Vap. There's no way he would do enough damage when it was easing up so much rage of ultron healing.
CQB has slowed, shielded off Frankie Boxing. The ebb and flow of this guy is absolutely unmatched right now.
Yeah, Nuclear Bomb vs. Coughing Baby moment from courtesy of Frankie Boxing.
He's been charged up and bursting down Ultra East Scourge.
There's gotta be more punishment to a doctor strange living in your mind's rent free and also within six people
Feeling rent free and now pink has the end song in front of maybe looking for an angle as Frankie boxing is trying to kind of try and deny
This platform maybe give it to pink, but he's not gonna want to test those limits. All right already sick
Just gonna stop firing scale issue is
Definitely not gonna be that much of an issue here as the band habit doesn't get too much in the way of
of value and team peps like they have been getting so much value off of this Dr. Strange.
It seems like it's kind of ascending in the MEA overall with all black.
So over on Fire Stray is able to make use of this team up as well.
He's stopped a strange man.
Yeah, and we're back on camera as a player has called for a pause in case you're wondering.
You're not missing any of the action, but 72% in favor of peps versus the 35 point control for peps.
So that's what we're going to be jumping right back into the middle of action here in a second.
And that big winning condition we talked about,
the end song Inferno from Pink just got picked off
as this pause got called.
So I believe it'll be a 65 for Alter.
He sports once we do resume.
So it's important to retake as soon as possible
because I don't think Alter can pull off another zero
a zero to 100.
It would be unlikely.
Well, the probability is not in their favor.
Frankie Bogtumus has an eye like a motor
was welcoming into the next flight.
And there's no strangest openness to try and counter it.
that would have to be dealt with either via a CC midway through the cast,
or both times shield from Z-Cube or team captain, which is unlikely from team captain,
because obviously the magical unicorn shield is entirely ground-born,
usually going to be coming from the sky with the eye like a moto, or a stun.
And there are a couple of options for that.
We've got the absolute zero from Eggzo, we've got the right click from the Phoenix of Woops,
and of course, the midair sedation from Monarch, it's difficult to hear,
but hey, if anyone can, Monarch has been very impressive so far.
And we're ready to get back into the game as IMLK asks,
what are you aiming at we're about to find out?
Because you just pop the ban hammer, I believe.
So let's see who will take map number one.
All right, six minutes to magmas one so far.
That's right.
On the sea, she is from IMLK.
Over-censure to touch and find out if those strategies
just actually have hands.
Damn, I don't want to fight those strategies just again.
It's space flame here, coming through.
See if the cranky boxing is already set close to levitation.
So they're a little bit lower on options
when it comes to what they're gonna do
with their iamagamoto.
Just gonna wait for that one to come off cooldown
as groups wraps around the back-hand side.
Pokeboxing falling low, a nice shot there as well.
Alter E's force, they are gonna be able to flip this
but she doesn't invest that much.
Alter, I have to flip their chances in this map
because it's looking grim.
It's gonna take perfection out of them
and whoops for an end song to end all songs, I guess.
And as sole resurgence, I wanna see confidence.
I want to see a ulter really pack a punch, as Frankie looks to get into position.
You won't be able to use that platform to maybe hop into the action with an Eye of Agamotto as Ulter.
I'll have to spot Team Pets taking an alternative pass over right side and controlling the choke so well, I should say, from Ulter.
How many points I'm going through these chokes as well? You're catching so much damage from the spot build of the Phoenixes.
That's why you're generally going to see the spread get a little bit wider here.
All the rats in the back, we've just been found on the way through, Tracel.
Just gonna stop firing, just about hammer hits yet again.
In comes the strike-enter prototype, but Pink is being a little bit more judicious with their own.
Still doesn't appeal to try and deal with this one.
No one falls to a care of ends on Infernai.
You can see that all three sports have actually given up a huge amount of space here.
The team is so, so split up.
It needs to be huge from DQ, but it's just into a series.
Frankie Dotson continues to be just that guy, more there is going to be.
A fate of both worlds to try and drive the rest of the team forward, then low on damage, really.
Hatshrow inside of the here, the unicorn shield couldn't receive healing from the Lunar.
At 98%, it has to be a team captain to be back.
If the Forto gets there on time, overtime about to go away.
Ults are due to emerge and with Jep trying to be as elusive as possible.
They have IMLT isolated, Frankie's in trouble too.
Wimps has come out on the daredevil as well.
Just the last chance to loon the Jeffle and Shark is everything.
Ultralisks, they've sent the kitchen sink after this one,
but a triple stack back here is very difficult to try and penetrate into if you are the daredevil.
A quick flip. Oh no, Team Peps, that objective is only once again has failed them.
And while Woops may well find himself over a sense to try and make the most of this one,
it's all gonna come down to Frankie Boxing to keep themselves on this point.
Eggzo on the edge is gonna be able to blast out with his hitscan power.
Team Pets, they are now at the madly scrambled to get onto the point.
This was supposed to be their fight to win, but here comes Ultra Esports after a mad scrambler
who gaffed an interwar to back off their world's approach to the diamond gym.
Another dark blast, Frankie Bates on the other side, Monarch goes down, yes.
Midway through the ultimate, Pink takes to the skies.
Says that this one is over yet, I believe that it might well have been intercepted
possibly by the daredevil, midair.
Means that most of the team aren't taking all of that damage.
A quick backup for Soul Ink is up and Bayback draws up their own ultimate as well.
Oh
The skillet should indeed, it's a fanhandle on the vanguard, Sultry spores a fan from the map, and Team Pep's take burn into Charlotte.
Oh, they tried to alter their fate, man. What a resurgence through the portal that was winnable. They separated the Pep's vanguard line, but they re-established. That could have been anyone's fight at the end.
That's as clutch as ever. Yes, I mean it takes only two pair of eyes or two eyes a pair of eyes to see that Frankie was the obvious
MVP of this match a 30 bomb from a doctor strange putting up Alson numbers
15 final hits to he finishes off what he started so many critical
I have Agamotto's the block on the meteor M from zQ and the way
He's able to stun up some of these strategists from all to East Quartz Frankie. He's not just the Angela guy
He's also a doctor. I mean, yeah, like Frankie Glace session to be honest. It's
Yeah, it's gonna cry. Frankie boxing also feeling like almost feeling like a magneto in the front lines to be honest
Like I don't think Frankie was really punished enough for the aggressive position and he was taking
But that's kind of the risky run when you have this triple strategist right your damage output is going to be a little bit
Loveless of a 700 HP shield of a double strange
It was a little bit more difficult to break through and you can stand there in front of your vanguard to just say, you know
Well, actually team captain doesn't get any healing. I've made the executive decision
So you can stand there and try and break my shield, but I've seen break your vanguards
This the strat line from team pets went absolutely crazy
crazy Franky boxing living as long as he did on domination with all the help in the world.
I gotta say compositionally, it made a difference to have that invisible woman to be able to
push away any ultimates coming their way, to be able to defend themselves, to just have
that shield as another layer to try and scratch through to access Six Proto and Baby Bat at
the back.
So very big fan of Team Pets' Kicken Band, which makes things a lot easier to support
a Franky boxing.
you often had to frontline while I am on cape, circled in and out with them.
Yeah, I'm gonna piggyback on your on your on your on your on piggyback enjoyment here.
I think Ravine this war was a great pick up especially for keeping at six up on the Ultron.
I think that six had a fairly easy time surviving on the Ultron in the middle of big fights compared
to Hattro who did fall less in terms of like the raw numbers. I think that six when they
were getting stuck in and putting themselves in more dangerous positions because that Guardian
she was coming through from Bay Vapour's able to do a little bit more. We'll see if
the alter east sports can strike back here as they will get to choose our map after
this break.
This is the first time I've ever seen a monster like this.
It's not a monster, it's a monster.
It's not a monster, it's a monster.
It's not a monster, it's a monster.
It's a monster.
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Clear the way
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Oh, you might not be showing the Angela play that we were kind of expecting Frankie Boxing,
but you know all of the ultimate realities and possibilities to get the victory and found
the one that you needed all the way down to the wire to the final point on Burned Dejala.
Just like we saw them play on it previously, and now Pep's, even after the disconnect,
still able to connect in and get the win here.
Lemon I mean it felt like
Two different sides between these two teams one where alter eSports was at clawing to finale
Trying to just keep their head above water eventually getting a win here and there and then unfortunately falling back in more
So on the side of peps that there's just stand-up performances less than right from every individual player on that team
Yeah, I think the invisible woman is able to output so much heal for the vanguard line of team peps
And I really started to worry if alter eSports had a shot
And in this whole map, the way that stellar spaceport just went so in favor of the vanguard
light of team Heps in terms of how they're able to control the space.
And it did come out to have some swaps from team captain going from the captain America
to something else, just anything where he could play around the team.
I think he put it so much on himself as a metaphorical, maybe actual team captain to
make all the plays happen when it really needed to be a team effort.
I think that's why all three Esports were almost able to rob this map at the
end but team peps clutched. It's a tough spot to be in like day for this team of
alter eSports because again both teams had very similar play styles and also
standout performances from their dualists I mean whoops we saw really good in
terms of getting the final hits confirming things but maybe they were a
little bit more towards the daredevil at the end but pink really was the
standout having the damage boost from the mantis and the Ultron drones on to
the Phoenix seems just be a difference maker for this peps team. Yeah like
Pink was just able to sit in army or an aim. I think they're actually a very telling moment for our observers caught in the previous in the like penultimate fight
Where we saw like the more pocketed whoops go around the back trying to get an angle on the team as they were making their way in on the side of
Peps and we saw I believe I am okay
Intercept that one using their Deadpool in your area aura and you can take that one be more even against with double pocketed
Phoenix as the dead ball if you're like that close up to begin with and that meant that I've a pink
either loops fell down or had to back off and waste all of the resources that
were put into that flank. So to a degree like Team Peps, they kind of
comdifted that last fight. I'm actually surprised on this map just kind of
shifting gears here for a moment as well. So this is the first time we've
seen this from either team if I'm not mistaken. Yeah I mean convoy for Peps
we typically saw a museum of contemplation, we saw some midtown in
Morocco, all three sports, we saw a museum twice, midtown in spider
islands. We still have not seen Convergence once from Peps, and they probably
happen to keep it with Convoy because that's their game mode it feels like.
Gonna be strong for the group players, so I'm sure I am okay. May enjoy doing that
again, but also this is a good map for again the mechanical duelists, the ones
that range the Phoenix, maybe even the Elsa if she squeezed through the big
band, but just like we saw in the last series, the Elsa's can be the ones
that really carry this path. The big eye, the spotlight is going to be on
alter esports because if they drop the series they drop out of the playoff
contention in it to that fifth place of a group A so all the marbles on the line
for peps they can lock this in to oh sweep and feel that much more confident
going into playoffs especially a great makeup series after the one we saw from
them yesterday like that yeah like I think that team peps that they kind of
need this bounce back you know like man I knew this well we need to see
this one go down to the wire again we had such intense matchups for our first maps
of the day let's get into it all right how are we gonna stop our bands again
yep as expected lemon Elsa's gone yeah it's gonna be a battle of the Phoenix but
also that first point can be close enough where the daredevil dive could be as
strong and I know that's been thinks a strong suit but is also becoming more
of the Phoenix main for this team while six takes a sometimes a back seat to
the old front but it's all honestly a seat in the sky too because the success of being
gonna like a pseudo duelist in that regard but the project on the Mantis that's what
peps now have to think about I guess even mirroring I mean to be fair I don't
think the last game was enough of the blood out for you to necessarily change a
whole strategy I think the alter eSports might just need a little bit more
clarity on their vanguard line because as you pointed out during the game
like the reset on the XP for the vanguard pool like coming into a
a little bit later and the I am okay always had like a like an objective
advantage in terms of how effective so many of their abilities were. And the
Phoenix mirror between the two teams has been so even and like Vodable said it
came down to the final hits and just that critical final headshot it can be
what makes all the difference kind of a late gambit ban just to make sure
that doesn't get protected from team peps is a lot to think about what will
match well with the Mantis.
All right, last protect here.
Fanged up full yet again.
I imagine it's going to be the same for
Ulta Esports like honestly, if I'm these
teams that was that close, maybe we
did run this one back.
Aha.
This is the change though.
Getting rid of baby bats.
Invisible woman knowing that that
was all the one size invisible woman.
OK, we've obviously have us affect
the off angle play for the Guardian
Shield or that's a great counter
strike a panel of Vanguard deadpool. This doesn't least mean that now there's
going to be no alter eSports and we're like oh we got to go catch up on the
Vanguard deadpool. You don't have the option though. Yeah because the Invisible
Woman can be such a good heal strategist to push away any divers to push
away a Doctor Strange trying to eye of Agamotto you but namely to keep a
shield up in your in your strategist line so that you can just all be
healed at the same time. Also Invisible Woman can heal so many
people at once while Luna has to be more individually you know minus the flake. It's a little bit tougher to give a love to everyone after once, but Exo has been one of the specialists that comes to the Nightly and the Gay, so I don't think they might join that either.
Yeah, the difference of who's actually playing is just the woman.
this is a pocket on the flank this might turn the tables on how six and pink take
their respective doors when you got to think about how my guardian shields coming
in the ideal here is that I am okay maybe does a little bit more aggressively
forces the miss woman do so she'll do herself rather than one of one of one of
her more deadly allies and think was the standout with 15 final hits on that
first map of Bernadette Chala. As long as they keep their distance from this
upcoming dive, that is what's gonna be important. Team Captain will be leading
that, not with like a daredevil to assist and not with the Z-Cube Magneto bubbles.
Kind of relieves some of that damage. So by there, from Team Captain, did force out the right click here from Sector. Just an important thing to
consider, but it is only on a very short 8-second cooldown, so it's gonna be
You use basically most of the time when team captain rolls in.
It's a similar to the symbiotic swing, back out yet again.
But every single time captain does this,
you are flying some space for the rest of your team to push up.
Keep an eye for these critical freezes too from baby bat,
especially if you can catch it like after the passive has been
popped or maybe rather the venomous mid grapple.
That could be a key moment to remove that venom
and to get the ball rolling for either team.
Interesting that IML casual isn't using
necessarily the corrosion on their engagement here.
Maybe trying to feign a soft dive.
It's all about the mind games when it comes to these Venoms committing.
Etcher has to get out, but can't quite do it.
Dr. Jumping through invisibility but Protoss is tracking is just too great.
And our team captain has their disengagement.
Complicating its action, Altarist walks back to Storm.
And you don't want to get too greedy as an invisible woman either.
It can be really compelling to try and look for a force physics
to pull people in if they're overextended.
Maybe to go for a pull on the Venoms so that they can't escape.
But you don't want to put yourself in harm's way.
because the mantis, mantis size in Hiemiye are no joke when it comes to mechanics.
Exo does pay the price.
Alright, here comes the Rage of Ocean.
Trying to answer all of that's going to be the labor show of this ultimate.
So, from the side of Team Cat, this is a must win fight right now.
This Hattro is going to come in with a second one.
Monox is really cooling down.
The remainder of Roll-3 is supposed to be going to have plenty of healing
against the Hattro with the Rage of Ocean.
You see it right now, there's that pocket coming through on the Team Captain
trying to get away from any solid surfaces.
Voxing. Oh, unfortunately, it's all there, but it's like I'm washing space free ramps
yet again. Maybe that coming forward with the fate of both worlds, giving me a little
damage, which is so much of sustainability here. But the last note of this song will
be coming from Egzo. He's slapped by the lacer. They said hopefully inside of the invisible
boundary, as Frankie Voxing is chased on down, whoops, he's got their aimhands back.
Invisible Boundary is such a powerful ultimate for this point in particular. There's no
chance of retaking when you can't even see what's going on. But a great fate of
World says he pointed out when the media ram was about to land on them and one last her on point five meters
By the way, actually perfect bubble right there coming from Frankie as well stops the stun
That would have cancelled the portal and now you can try and exit out of here six already fallen down though
And there's only a couple of players to even near the car. So that's gonna be a reasonably quick take it first
I appreciate a team peps trying to peel for their backline like ZQ was starting to walk them down like dogs and
Speaking of getting walked like a dog, Pro-to-toe is going to need some health fear and a straight
amite.
I'm just going to jump off the map to reset, which now is the upper hand for Ultra Esports
to start pressuring that back corner.
Exo, great patience.
The iron will count for last ultimate and that one.
And hopefully Team Cap's can't lair as well as they would have liked using that overlay
earlier between Pro-toes and Six, but hey, you can buy some space back by having
Pink just aim.
Yeah, I'm not sure what Team Cap is doing in a tiny room.
Usually you want to take your eye to the sky and take these strats down to the grave.
A huge retake play from Team Pebs where, like I said,
all three Esports were trying to take an early fight at the back corner,
but unfortunately lost their Venom.
So all the women in the sales of all three Esports were swept away.
And this is an important stabilization time for Team Pebs.
And again, Pink has been not stand out Phoenix being so far away,
allowing team peps to equalize 5v5 and to eventually let IMLK take over the fight with a beautiful piece with the Abyss.
IMLK will be on the high ground too, just trying to see if alter eSports are going to panic and use cooldowns to address that.
in the back, can it find the value?
He's going to try and counter strike here,
gets rid of all of the over health
and good fight to monarchs, Alts.
The pre-set sparks doing their job as pink.
Damage boosted, manages to remove one of the strategies
just ultimate from the calculus
and Alts or Esports are once more skimmy choked.
So many Alts for Alts or Esports
to get through the invisible boundaries, a big one.
Looking how Exo is going to section this.
You ideally want to keep the strategies
just on the outside of it, but oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, my exo!
Pink only sees red. What is with this guy?
And he's a lot more measured on how forward he's gonna be.
He kind of over-extended at the initial part of point A,
but is now finding a good balance of staggering out alter e-sports.
We're now at back-to-back fight losses,
but look how whoops can maybe try to save themselves to just upcoming dive with an ensong inferno
and that's really what they're relying on.
There's more boundary, good to go as well.
Could cover the approach of the ensong inferno if needed, but you're only going to try and combine those.
Sometimes you play aggressively for the additional slow that you can come from.
What is whoops doing so low over there?
And it seems like kinkers had to use the emergency ensong inferno, great bank around.
Ah, this is a lot of Ultimates from Peps from a fight that seem basically one already.
Yeah, 6v4, uh, team Peps.
I think just want to have less hesitation in their camp.
It's always something you can approve them on, and you have Altar Esports on the back foot.
It's three back-to-back fights and less than a minute to go for Altar Esports,
but they're lit up like a Christmas tree right now when it comes to their side of Ultimates,
But the initiative from Peps has really tonight I saw from setting an invisible boundary forward
So it's gonna be a soul resurgence kickoff problem
All right close enough here for Monterey Sports
It's gonna be Monarch who's moving first trying to get bottom on arch low enough
Doesn't seem like Wipster managed to get any real value of tobacco being in front of and now it's time for the counter strike
Protoss on the other side and Weld charged me to end but look at that the other half on six was enough
Trying to wait for a while longer the man cannon's gonna get it done Protoss find themselves corroded by the cellular
corrosion of team captain. A feast of the abyss is going to be a feast for old racemals,
but they've used five ultimates away to make this one happen, and now they're going to be
in overtime with nothing really to their name. Exactly, and the hardest part of this second
point is this upcoming fight, this back corner, so defender sided. The Reese One advantage
will be for team peps, and it's the feast of the abyss, the end song inferno, a lot of
good combos and if anything they have the tech to try and execute a strategist without the
need of any duelist to get involved but Team Pets got to be worried about how
also they overextend but here's the initiative from Team Captain.
and team pets hold on second.
I liked Alter Esports trying to take fate in their hands
and they extended past the cart
as team pets were coming out through the door.
But team pets, they had trust in each other
and they had the better ultimate.
The feats of the abyss from ILMLK
already started to remove some of those strategists
and then you had the end song Inferno
from Pink to deal with the rest.
And like I said, you only would have
to combo those two ultimates.
So really good awareness from team pets
and to guess they got surprised by Alter Esports
taking such a fast and early fight,
but Team PAP still understood their win conditions
and fired back when the Alter Esports strategists
were setting forth to support the fight going on.
So almost getting at the end of seconds,
not too shabby for Alter Esports,
but it's not incredibly inspirational either.
So is this still anyone's game?
It's winnable, but not that winnable.
It's winnable-adjacent.
Yeah, winnable-adjacent.
I like that one, that's a good vibe right there.
I am okay, actually, it's not such a standout game here.
Like I think yesterday, not a great day for I am okay,
but today we have seen multiple looks
which have been very good,
both for Venom and the Vanguard pool.
We've seen I am okay, absolutely cleaning house
in the lobby, six final hits already, highest on the team.
Team Pebs, they were taken to the distance
on that first map, regardless of how it began,
alter eSports they will go out kicking and screaming and it came down to the clutch power of Frankie boxing to seal the deal on map 1
This this series could have been a whole different ball game if it wasn't for that vanguard
So we'll have to rely on him once again as baby bats already been so fun
There's something was starting to harm the strategist line and team peps will have to move forward still
Okay, whoops is here to lane doesn't want to exit the tournament already
And that's what's on the line here for Altar Esports.
A loss in this map.
Things that you have to wait till stage one to play again.
Team Captain just dominated beyond belief, really.
The control is all over them.
There's nothing you can do.
The CC chain is crazy.
And Z-Cube didn't have L.O.S. to maybe give a bubble
to save things.
And now Altar Esports just got to get out of dodge.
They need a softer reset so they can have all six.
And Team Captain will be able to swing back into the action.
But Team Peps have their backs against the wall.
No ults to real worry about, but it's the spacing that I worry about.
Yeah, I think they were choked into a Phoenix is incredibly difficult team captains already been able to grab the bubble here a slight over extension potentially from prank you but it's not going to be overly punished by the remainder of alter eSports was already brought out the end song inferno.
That's the big advantage with six falling down. Maybe they'll be trying to invest with this one. He needs to be punished, but man just to survive. It's a great bit of pocketing coming from two have to get their dualist out of there.
Impressive that Alter Esports were able to retake with so little space that they had huge picks and now Team Pets have lost.
Initially, now with half the time Bank of Left, it just got a setup for maybe a full send with all the ultimates they earned through that skirmish.
Whether it's the damage boost you want to give to Pink, he is delivered every single time.
Six tries to just soften everybody up. I am okay.
Transmit down. She's put, look, it goes too fast to catch up to with the Feast of the Abyss.
Thanks to what was done by the sole resurgence.
And that was Pinkstone to bring himself down onto the back line.
Lola wasn't pretty smart for him, so there's no chain reaction.
Think about, joins the chorus.
A fully charged meter, and even into the wall, it's good enough for Frankie Bobson to try and take down Hartschrow.
And Lola can't be saved with the invisible boundary.
Everyone gonna be aiming over towards XO now to try and penetrate through that barrier and take down the strategist ultimate
but also he's forced to have a number to try and make this one work
who seems all the pocketing but it's gonna be team captain who's taking the damage in the frontline trying to keep this one going
I am okay. He's gonna find themselves grabbed temporarily as Hattrow opens up a portal behind
missing out on one strategist now the healing is going to be thin on the ground
but the damage is gonna come on through from that Doctor Strange. Frankie Voxen potentially gonna be ice-laced. It's a good team up
And the past repeats itself, Frankie Boxing is the whole reason Team Peps were able to
maintain the fight and not have to reset. Critical picks with a meteor and and also just a shot right
through the heart of alter esports who thought they had stabilized behind the exo invisible boundary
whether it's the Doctor Strange, the Angel of the Magneto, Frankie Boxing, and I am okay around the
same page while Team Captain and ZQ are completely different chapters. You need to see these
vanguards work together because Team Captain is not getting the support from his secondary
Vanguard consistent.
He needs to stand on business here. Maybe bring up a shield.
I'm the opposing man. I know what a great headshot there from Woops.
Decaps is finally getting the value in the back.
They were looking forward to trade back on. Subway knew that could change everything.
ZQ finds the value. Continuing to go up to that backline.
And Woops is looking great right now.
Exo's going to be able to pocket from over here.
And IMLK is going to have so much trouble exiting from this one.
Woops has hit their headshots.
And now Alter E-Sports can try and do exactly the same as Pev's did.
Huge for Alter Esports to win that fight as cheap as they did in this economy.
You welcome that because now you have to kill another two and a half minutes and
Alter Esports have all the ults to do it.
You can just let it rain with a rage of Ultron and see what you get and Z-Cube can try and deny any damage that comes out of Team Peps with the Meteor M.
It's gonna be a tale of the end song in Furnal though as I like this pattern from Team Peps to try and get your Phoenix on an off angle.
Well it loads it up, whoops already down, team caps are gonna try and find pieces of the Abyss route,
you've got such a great bubble coming through from the Magneto to deny that one.
An attempt at a turn around here as Kactra falls on down to Babybot, her aim is on point today
and still has themselves a use of the fate of both worlds to keep the rest of the team sustained.
Altar E-Sports cracking off as the invisible boundary goes down and Pinkish is just aiming out of their mind right now.
Six finishes it off, it's gonna come down to one last fight.
Invisible boundary, you just had to use it for V6 to stabilize and the silver lining is you got the fate of both worlds forced out of Team Peps, so very little in the band for Team Peps to go, but only one fight to rule the wall, 90 seconds for the series win and alter eSports.
Whoops, has to just step up to the plate, but you need space to be able to operate too.
Well, Team Captain's gonna try and get it. A frenzied arrival into the back already is used to symbiotic resilience. Need some support here from the strategy, just need to find it.
Pizza ran, take it to the sky. Loops, instantly blows up alongside Monarch. Great counter play here from Ulza Esports, and they're gonna look even more on the back of it. Okay, John, accuracy.
Whoops, there it is. Ulza Esports. Keep your hands above the water, but, you know, the positive side of the Team Peps is that they lost that quickly.
so they'll be able to squeeze out one more fight and no portal shenanigans.
It's a straight front to back war as team Caps hope to find some different angles
and mainly make sure that Ultra Esports won't be looking at their strat line
as Pink starts to get active and harass Team Captain away from his climb.
I am okay, it's a danger now.
It's gonna be six opening up with a rage of ultron.
Combine damage, will it be enough?
A good screen is coming through onto Team Captain
but it has taken a bunch of damage out of a rage of ultron.
team captain demanded a better tension car to stay though the strategist to know
where to be seen the feeling's not there I am okay can stand in the front line
with alter e-sports desperate desperate for a hero to try and save their
tournament hatchers nearly there 10% away from the range of Ultron Z cube
standing at the top as team captain gets ready to teleport on back
hatcher was so close the rage of Ultron needs to be put to almost instantly
well it saves the e-cube the feeling is so low Frankie boxing with a nearly fully
charged meter ember to go to the wire and captain heads into the back
contriing mess with the LOS obviously strength just ultimate as they
Get around the screen and go and move in towards the car.
IMLK has already taken out Exo, but it's
going to be the next before Protoss is
going to get all done with the wall aim of the Mantis.
The damage boost is too much.
Alter Esports are scatting some of the four wings,
and Team Pets are going to take it two to zero.
Wow.
On Alter Esports, there's Matt Pig as well.
Team Pets with the cleaner dives with the Venom,
but also the better punishing power.
against the counter dives from Alter E-Sport.
Team Captain just couldn't get in range
from any kind of heal, from an invisible woman
to a Magneto bubble, and then there was a tail
of two Phoenix, but only one rose from the ashes,
and it's Pink with another MVP.
And it was a big battle between him and Woops,
and man, Pink was able to edge it out in the end.
35,000 damage or 10 final hits,
about a 5k difference against his counterpart of WUPS, but this was still a battle of the
century between the two and all three esports kept it as close as they could.
I mean, IMLK, like, for survivability for IMLK, it's kind of off the charts here.
I'm surprised we didn't see more of the disengages get botched by something like a
force physics.
Maybe Exo wasn't on the ball with that one, or the force was coming out too early,
Either way, IMLK was surviving much longer than they had any right to, taking such audacious dives.
Yeah, if I have like almost 10 deaths on a Vanguard and my secondary Vanguard has like 4, I'm pissed.
Like, we have to die together! We're brothers in battle, okay? I'm like a sister, but...
Yeah, you gotta go in together and even if you fall, you have to do so as a team.
And I still think Team Captain had really valuable dives, just multiple people in his grasp at all times.
But it's Z-Cube that was disengaging, or just not in LOS, and it's hard to know who was really blamed there,
but rather overall the synergy of Alter E-Sports when it comes to these very hectic fights,
where probably everyone is screaming different things at the same time.
all through these groups tried to get a handle on it, but just couldn't bail out some half in a fight.
Yeah, there's plenty of time to fix any comms issues that are happening with the teampech.
They are not going to have quite such a long time to get it together because they have just booked their ticket to playoffs.
Likely is the 4th seed in their group. Vod, how does their shape things out?
Oh man, yeah, this has guaranteed them into playoffs and at the 4th seed as well because
Got to see how the rest of the teams are kind of above the rest of the bracket on that group A.
But yeah, congratulations to Team Pep.
Unfortunately for me, my prediction bracket is broken, but I had faith in the end,
and they really turned things around in this second week here, Lemon.
I mean, they got their first win against Pulsar,
and clutched out when it mattered here against Altair Esports.
I'm glad I said, yeah, started from the bottom now, we're here,
but it's so awkward if they didn't make playoffs.
Well, I guess, started at the bottom now, you're still there,
but it wouldn't have been last place.
So that's my cope.
But hey, now even better,
peps are gonna be in playoffs.
The French fans are going to rejoice
and they're gonna be as loud as ever for them.
Because still coming in as the last seed,
you're probably gonna face a pretty tough opponent
at the stock.
Oh gosh, yeah.
And I mean, Alter Esports,
talking about them a little bit here, Legde,
they came from MRC in to Ignite.
Peps were one of those guest teams
who were invited directly.
And I feel like they gave it
the good old college try, essentially.
Went as far as they could to the distance,
every map a nail biter even though it was a 2-0 doesn't tell the full story of this series.
Yeah, like incredibly first, incredibly strong first map on domination as well, definitely.
I'd want to see more team captain on Hulk, Bro is just an absolute menace on the big grown man.
Well, another menace that we had, not in the skies this time, but more on the ground was Frankie Boxing.
We have them for the interview, the man of the hour from a team at Pep.
So welcome to freaky boxing first thoughts. How does it feel to play us? Oh
My god, I'm so happy people attacks. Oh, I was shaking over that much
Like actually like in the last map. I was they're just taking and missing Michael's the hate. We pulled it through it's okay
I'm not gonna lie. I did catch one of those miss my girls. It was it was a bit of an air ball the heck
Yeah!
I'm really really thrived on getting to Charla, you picked up the Doctor Strange, and I think
that you were instrumental in the success of your team.
How did you play the Doctor Strange in order to like try and partition the enemy team or
get value from the hero?
I honestly, I just had a point when my team called the Turrets of Lore, I just tried
to walk in, walk into them with my milk strum and we got some final hits with that.
My whole plan was just to try to hit the Strangels on the Mantis and I got it like twice I think
and I think that got us a couple of hits.
And you were so well supported on that first map, I can't believe how long you didn't die
for, especially on Warrior Falls, like you were just the one man unit out there.
Yeah, I was screaming for Insomniac.
And you got it.
And you had a different strat line, right?
you had the invisible woman for map one but then a luna as your invisible woman was targeted that
change anything for you or were you more worried about your buddy i am okay now both uh both work
in the con like in this uh i can we have the emissive melton come but yeah i can go strange uh
but otherwise we have flay for the austron and i just try to keep myself alive and uh
bubble my screws is when they're getting back
Very simple as that I didn't have to over complicate things. I just was on point
I do hit some clean bubbles and spammed
That's okay. I do want to talk a little bit about that too. So we saw kind of a different performance to say the least
From you guys yesterday and then going into today. How did you make adjustments and changes so you didn't have a similar?
Unfortunate O2 performance like we saw there and really showed up big this matchup as well.
We really had a clear idea what we want to do, what we want a bandface to look like.
And we just had our actual plan going into the game.
I mean we really just sat down after the game and we talked about it and we hit the two screams.
And I think that gave us that confidence back then.
We didn't break down just from one step back.
Well, final question from me here at Frankie.
I also like that you're rocking the Dusty Jersey shout out there as well,
showing your experience from the night.
Exactly, exactly.
The big thing that I have to ask you guys is,
in terms of preparing for playoffs,
now that you've made it here,
you've gone through the adversity of group stages, what's next?
Well, I'll definitely be looking to expand some characters more.
I still know, and like I've been trying to tank full.
I just need a little bit more time on it, honestly.
Yeah.
And that's my game plan for the team.
We'll have to see.
I'm not really sure.
But I think it's going to go well, like I say.
Like, I always trust that things are going to work out.
Awesome.
Well, thank you, Frankie, for joining us.
Best of luck and go celebrate your win with your teammates.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Awesome.
Well, that was Frankie, the man of the hour,
as we mentioned, really stepped up big.
They had a lot to improve, that we could say, from yesterday.
And that's exactly what they and the entire team
it felt like did, Lemon.
Yeah, they got all of their wins on that second week,
able to do so much work to not only expand their hero pulls,
but they looked so much more cohesive together.
And when you have PMA boxing on your team,
they're really, you can't really go wrong.
This guy is, sounds like such an amazing teammate to have.
And he's never worried.
And that kind of mental composure,
I think it's really needed in big matches like them.
Well, we'll be seeing more of them in the playoffs,
but there's still more seeds to determine
in these next matchups.
It is the marquee matchup that we've all been waiting for.
Virtus.Pro versus Rad Esport winner,
top's group B after this.
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That there was a time that we were proud
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That's a possible need to sink you out
We are standing for our last reunion
Breakfast is time to wake up like me
Do you remember who you really are?
I mean that you are still the only one for me
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Raising up your sense, smashing through circles
Before the rich pay certain debt
The old devil's healthy and right
And the major minds hold the tear power
It's now and then time comes
We arrive until the end of time
We will flash the water wind
Oh, bite, you're stinking across time and space
What you and mine does in activity
You're sealed on the flame burning brightly
Shining one nose and the reason is
Across all time I see you excerning the sides
And do you see now our time?
I'm sorry, we can still fight
Like the winds in the fire
And when I don't know more
Then now is the only time you're all right
He is mine
Like a swollen darkness
Floating
Destiny and pain
New days smiling for the first of future
Break the chains that you feel might
Fight with me
And when you're waiting
I'll find your pride
Hey guys, my name is Ryan.
and I'm here to answer one specific question.
What's the meta?
And I would answer, I don't know, what's the meta with you?
And I will continue to use that joke until I'm about 90,
even though I look about 90 now.
But in all seriousness though,
I do want to talk about some of the data that we've seen
from that first week of action in EMEA
and America's in Ignite.
Bear in mind that the players played on a old patch.
It was the hotfix that came out on March the 19th.
So the white fox buffs that we're about to see,
the Deadpool mobility in Elsa having less HP,
we are going to see that in action this upcoming week.
So stuff is a little bit different.
And also as the pros will say,
they're still working out the method themselves,
lots of stuff is gonna change,
and we're still building up the sample size,
which includes add in China and Pacific
to the action this week too.
But there is a very easy place to start.
Elsa versus Gambit,
which of these characters is the most powerful
in a competitive sense in coordinated play?
And the answer when it comes to presence,
how often we're seeing these characters is actually Elsa.
There's 68 maps played in America's EMEA this last week
and the hero could shock twice in the draft, right?
You can either protect the character
and then the other team protects them
so you can both play them, you can both ban them
or you can have one team protect it and then ban it
to make sure that they can play something like Elsa
and the other team cannot.
So it can shock twice, Elsa showed up every single time
without fail.
And certainly towards the start of a draft
where you're looking for those first bands in first picks.
In comparison, Gambit was missing like once or twice
and teams just didn't want to include him at all,
but the big difference between Elsa and Gambit
is one is being banned out a lot more than the other.
And surprisingly, it is Gambit
that has actually been taken out more.
So for example, a lot of the drafts
will look like they will on screen, right?
Where you're seeing Gambit being banned out first
and then both teams will go and protect the Elsa
so both teams have access to it.
Naturally, it makes sense.
Elsa is really strong.
Why would you not want to ban her out first though?
It's more the case that Gambit, despite him being nerfed individually, being hit by the
strategist Alt Generation nerfs too as a whole, he's still strong in his own right, but he
enables so much as well.
Heroes like Star-Lord, Galactic Legend, with a raging royal flush from Gambit, an incredible
combination and characters like Rogue, who are pretty like middling I suppose when it
comes to the rankings of vanguards on their own, get pretty much s'd here because
they have the Gambit team up to work with.
You remove Remy from a draft, you're removing three to four other strong heroes alongside,
so it's so much value.
So you take off a lot of the options from the enemy team and protecting Elsa means that
you at least have something to work around no matter what your composition or idea is
going to be for a map, whether you're playing Dive, Oak, 2-2-2, triple strategist, triple
vanguard is something that we're seeing as well at this point.
With flies, against flies, Elsa just works with all of it.
It doesn't matter your comp.
You put an Elsa in and she's so versatile, she will go and just absolutely destroy people
in her own right.
Outside of these two fighting for the first place, you do have the likes of Vanguard Deadpool
actually being right behind them, both in protecting and also banning him out.
And similar to Elsa, he just fits into a lot of different compositions and ideas
and he just is very good in his own right.
But also it's how good he is on stuff like domination, because he can still build
up his ultimate very quickly.
comparison to some of the other ult generation nerfs that we've seen, that first fight is really
good for Deadpool because he can get a ban hammer early, put it on the enemy strategist,
lead to an elimination and so your backline strategists are up on ultimate charge before
the enemy. He gets so much value and it makes sense why Deadpool Vanguard is so good,
not only on domination but just in a lot of first early fights. If you enjoyed these kind
of breakdowns, let us know and we'll continue to do more, but until next time, ignite the
the battle, and I'll see you in a few.
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Hup!
Hup!
Clear the way!
Feel the pull!
Disappear!
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VP facing off against RAD Esports, Virtus Pro are looking to hold onto their undefeated streak
while RAD is trying to see if they can be the upset, not necessarily Dark Horse, but
I guess you could consider them that, Levin QA, coming from MRC and doing as well as
they have.
Yeah, I'm looking like stallions out there because RAD have had strengths of their own,
a lot around their strategy, even bringing out some White Fox, which Syphe, I want
to see a white fox in there but rather undefeated for a reason and I'm excited to see if anyone
could beat VP.
Good question.
Can anyone beat VP?
That is the question here, like, we've seen it happen only so many times in the past year.
What does RAD really need to do to beat that team?
Maybe not necessarily to beat VP, but at least make the bleed enough for a map loss.
I was going to say, if I do want to beat VP, I've been making a lot of money
me as a coach right now. I would not be here, but VB, like, made you struggle a little bit
yesterday off the back of some bands towards their duelist pool, trying to force Parker
onto the Punisher where he's still effective, but doesn't have quite as much Thanos aura
as previously.
That's the big question is what are we going to be focusing in terms of the band
and protects against his VP roster.
Yesterday we saw so much target on the duelist lineup,
so Sparkler was kind of out of his comfort zone.
I mean, do you think we see an emulation
of that band draft from Rattie's fort
after they saw how well it worked for Fire's Trace?
I absolutely think so.
I think the weakest we've seen VP is on domination
and when you force to,
these duelists are not on their secondaries,
but maybe they're tertiary.
So you saw like four strats get banned
in our last series,
we'll get ready for the duelists to be out.
So now who is starting to realize you cannot let spark or have the Elsa that is the number one Elsa in the world and
Then not even anything else after that
We saw five even on the Wolverine and we talked to them in the interview about how much they've worked on that and how as soon as
And anyone asks five to learn something 10 hours later
He's the master of it and you can't forget about the Phoenix Wolverine a team up that BP have brought out
And they really are just a band-proof team not just because they're good at everything
but they put in the work to become the masters of this.
So domination, like they seem to be like the one potential weak point that we see here.
How does VP close those gaps and make sure it doesn't happen again,
similar to where we saw them lose a point in last series against Fire Strays?
I think that we're just going to have to see like a little bit more tightening up
when it comes to the placements of the Alts.
I think the only really great thing that stuck in my mind from yesterday
in there that like inspired strays was a spark. Might have misclicked, got into a
punish a turret just outside of an invisible boundary. I got one clip by
Sloppo, which was not an amazing thing to happen. But I'd like to see like a
little bit of timing up on like, if not the timing of the odds, but generally
seem good. Then for location of the odds, if they're forced to play
something like the invisible woman, maybe we need to see a little bit more
protection for the gambits. If you are gonna play a gambit comp because we
didn't see that Gambit off-counted down.
Well, talking about RAD, the second team, you could say.
We'll see if they are the first or second best
after this series.
And they have been making their waves through MRC,
dominating performances, got the win in map five
against that Lunex roster that everyone was expecting
to make it here as well, and then took their crown
handedly at the end of it.
And now they are looking to do the same in Ignite.
And this roster, I mean, they've
had some struggles of course in domination did drop one to reason and
got really close against vision yesterday and we heard from their coach
Ash that they kind of struggle sometimes when they have connection issues and
other disruptions at the start of these domination maps how do they lock in here
lemon to change their fate and make sure they have a crystal clear
performance against the world champions well it starts with this mythical
bird of Vanguard line that is a highlight for this team a lot of
teams depend on their duelists to carry through but I look at Ducky and Lugia
they have just been so solid any map that is friendly to Groot Ducky is
ruining lives Lugia also flies just like a bird on the venom and he's shown us
everything to also the Hulk so that's why you run the triple strategy so so this
vanguard this vanguard line is ever-lasting and then you look at someone
like smash it becomes that solo duelist and even had exo subbed in and rad
still look good, but Smash on the solo duelist will be the one to watch. We go to Krakowa and
speaking of group maps, Ducky looking at him to really stand tall and to break up the structure of VP.
I mean you talked about the mantis that we saw from Edsu. I'm wondering, Legday, if we're going to
see more prioritization, trying to shut down Lugia Goat and also their duelist lineups so
that they can't just be unleashed like they happen against other teams, especially when VP,
They do their homework really well and it seems they're always super prepared in these band and protect phases against the top teams
I mean given that we saw what Byron did on Hulk yesterday to Virtus Pro and Luke Geer is also a fantastic Hulk player
I would be surprised to see some attention towards that. I don't think the Hulk
Deserves a band by itself. No
Generally, I think that's gonna be coming in terms of gameplay like actually the punishes a great answer to the Hulk
because you can pepper them at the long range of the assault rifle and close range with a shotgun,
but maybe it's all about partitioning away heals from the Hulk to make sure that his disengages
aren't quite as easy to manage. Really curious who the standout players are going to be throughout
this matchup. I mean everyone on VP has their chance to shine, but Lugia Goat, definitely the
one I'm looking out for, is they are the MVP of both maps yesterday against the vision. So
we'll see if the Venom play comes out here. There's a lot of potential here, Lemon.
Yeah, it's a triple strat line from Rad that has been pretty common.
But Virtus.Pro love a lot of the 2-2-2, and they talked about in the interview that that first fight,
how important it is, and why they played so close to fire is if they drop that first fight,
even just give up the cap, trying to retake against a triple strat line
is so impossible because of the support.
Well, this is the matchup to decide the number one seed of Group P.
Virtus.Pro, the world champions versus Rad, the up in commerce, we'll see how it goes.
Well, let's just put it this way. Virtus.pro are such a dominant team.
Lemmon, we're kind of celebrating their funeral after they almost lost to Domination now.
They do own it, and we're like, you know what?
They lost one point.
Virtus.pro is over, but...
...Rat are possibly the ones who are going to bring them closest in this group, though
definitely the dark horse contender for perhaps the entirety of the EMEA preseason.
I wonder if you consider a group and the group mains will tell you no, but people who have
the face of root will tell you yes, because that was a huge part of Ducky's success in
the past on any map from Central Park, but to especially Krakowa.
I look at Carousel, for example, there's a lot of the choke points around the point
that you can section off with root walls.
Not every round on Krakowa is great for group, but that's the big win condition
I think for Rad and the neutral is we have to protect on Chev.
Okay, interesting here. This might be an attempt to force Virtus.Pro's bands towards things like the Deadpool and the Venom.
Of course, Vanguard Deadpool can be a little bit of a subpar band. It's a great character to get off,
but if you're trying to get rid of Jeff's team-ups, there are three separate Deadpool's who can all offer that over,
so it isn't quite as effective in constraining the Jeff.
this woman being off the table is actually very important here because it does mean that
you're going to try and avoid the Mantis Jeff Invis which is a common backline to see. However,
we could still see sort of like a Jeff Mantis Ultron. I wouldn't mind seeing Mantis be the final
band here for VP. What about Gambit? Rad have not banned or protected that so Virtus Pro are
they going to allow that through because then you have the since there's no invisible woman
you can open the galactic legend and no star lord for vertus pro at least. Yeah that's again
trying to constrain those dualist pulls however this does still leave sparker access to something
like the Punisher as we saw before or even a little bit of a phoenix. Last protector is going
to be very important for random it want to grab the mantis that definitely seems to be the case
and vertus pro now with the gambit off the table i'd love to see the band and band come
through just to make sure that Jeff does not have access to the symbolic shenanigans team up
maybe we just forgot gambit existed too i don't know because we do protect the uh
you're really dead evil as well
i'm a low key okay yeah that would make sense there's the chance to steal the raging royal
flash which is a big ultimate that needs to be considered i'm not judging so uh no gambit for
Brad, but a gambit for VP along with the Rogue, so Navix leaning towards that instead
of a Hulk or Venom and on Celestial Husk, you can just play that brawl because sometimes
it's tricky to dive on certain points because of just all the hiding spots and all the
caves that you can escape into.
So I like that word is called, they're not just a bad team, they're an anything
team, including the death balls.
I mean, that- oh, it's going to be real.
Let the Sparkasolok be back.
The long-term fans know of the age of Sparkasolok
just dominating lobbies before VP's mid-season
near camps previously, rather than the other side.
Interesting to see.
Crazy Kitty might be the place to be going over
onto the white box.
I'm not willing to believe it until it leaves the spawn.
But Luke, Luke, Luke, and Ducky is like a dive
One sided gambit and everyone has been so worried about the team play of VP and you gave the ultimate team play ultimate of the raging royal flush but no star lord means it's gonna come down to something else and it's sparker on the
Sign lock and and these are just the most flexible players that we have
I like Holt too because he's not as cool down the
Dependent when it comes to these jumps we could have jumped
to claim one
By instantly taken out of a sky by the Jeff
Who's just gonna try their best to move away, but the big spray from a Jeff actually great up finding the Invis when she is
Less than ideally visible. There's still gonna be a couple of holdouts here from Virtus Pro trying to make this happen
but a multiple
indestructible guards from Lugia go there make sure that everyone from Rad is feeling safe and sound and now in control
And VP are not going to commit to a dead fight because you do not want to give old charge to Rad to be able to cycle ultimate and
extend this any more than they have so
Of course the strap will something you don't see every day
This was for the special from Alex from another team
So to be able to earn that ultimate as fast have that healing aura around Rad will make this death ball
will even faster okay this time gonna be using that skill issue straight away I
believe it might well have been on to the gambit in the back inverters probe they
just don't really commit to that given that it was a very early alt from
vertigo it's a bit of a threat to wear off and now we're gonna use their own skill
issue coming through from Fincy in towards the back while a bunch of set
space smash this falls back to the first six to be in cephalo ray and
now fight can just rain over all of this nevix doing his best to survive
gets a bunch of healing in Virtus Pro. They're targeting their healing so well here to make sure
that there's clean side-ability into the back with the dance of the butterflies. Many of the targets
eaten on up here and they're thrown towards the enemy. Mesh makes a free dive as Nevix is chewed up
within Shredro. I don't know if I would have thrown there into the invisible boundary of the team,
but hey, we can't all make our choices. Crazy kitty going around with the Kumihou Unleashed,
loses all of the HP on that one, and our side players decided he's done messing around.
For Raging Royal Flush, it's adding to the ensemble that's quite the quartet
that has been formed here for Virtus Pro as RAD, full to the ground.
Yeah, MASH was stalling because they had the point captured,
so you're extending that as much as possible, turn it into the own invisible boundary to
put them into a slow, but then you put a brawl team at brawl range,
but maybe MASH thought they were out of range from throwing them off the map.
So you don't get to see valuable it's Jeff Ultimates every day.
70% there was a quite a valuable start for Rad with how they got the jump on VP.
But VP have been really good at marking where Smash is, so you gotta be worried
about these flanks. I don't think Smash can keep getting away with those.
I'm so excited to hear from a clan so people get stunned out by Becky's ultimate,
which has actually been slung away here by the heartbreaker over some of the
little fights. She's doing so much damage with the rage of Ultron and
well, Spark is back in his home grounds, baby. The escape of Smash
is not on the cards and RAD wiped off the screen.
The lightning fast retake from Purtis Crow to now try and match the score here any second now.
Lugia will remain on the Hulk and the teleport to get RAD a bit closer.
But a lot of anti-heal cards are thrown from Saipae so RAD don't want to be caught off guard.
They aren't just going to go from one side of the world to the other.
See if they can get access to someone like Dredro or Fai
as the Ultron is not the most mobile ever.
FinCy vs Pro at 91% get ousted.
Lucia is a monster and who expects Holt to be a kind of an anti-aerial hero if you will
but the vanguard stand tall for Rad one of the strongest cards of this roster and you
got Mash next up on the it's Jeff vs Pro if they're gonna be playing so clumped as
a brawl usually does it may just be grabbed up yet again but VP are gonna keep a watchful
fly as 90% plus last fight.
It'd be great to talk about it,
chef inside of the invisible boundary.
Try and get a hold of Grigor,
all some of those members of
Virtus. Pro who take refuge within
Spark are looking towards the back.
Would love to try and find some of these strategies.
Oh my goodness, they just disappear.
Where did that backline go?
Where did the shot go?
Spark with the raise your oil flush.
It's just a DPS machine
constructed lit differently.
That much is for sure.
Virtus. Pro will claim it back quickly,
but vertigo is TPing.
does it get here in time few more seconds I don't see a portal and I don't see
rad on the point so Grove is taken by VP by the skin of their teeth when rad
kicked off our round with a cool portal play and an immediate elimination the
force VP back but they did not give it really any old charge from that
encounters so Rad fought tooth and nail but this has been as close as it gets
and kind of difference in compositions but we go to a different part now where
I would say Grove is the least friendly for a group but I'm not seeing Ducky
want to swap off of it might even be another portal play from Rad but I
don't know if you could pull up the same shenanigans against VP. Yeah they
might have called that one we'll see if Ducky sluts the cooldown available.
Honestly, the death in stats here, it kind of relies on how close that round was.
Spark has 16 and 1.
It may have been 99 to 99, but it feels like Spark was having no problems.
Yeah, he had his ult 40% ahead of Smash, who did get picked off when trying to go on a flank.
So he's been trying to be elusive, but VP keep a keen eye, as they'll have to keep
their eyes open for a ducky portal coming up.
it's usually been to push VP off their high ground, but now more of a scouting tactic as they may throw it into the choke point to
Section VP as they walk in. Okay, Virtus Pro just gonna try and do their best to separate Virtus Pro from the point of
the game. We'll get that first control
But we have a flank being developed here by Sparker and Nevis who goes dual mutants and now it's Fincie Rolls in first
Oh, what a great off angle coming through from fire the rage of ultra on the heartbreaker on top of it
The Virtus.Pro have just done through the bank and all of their investments have been
liquidated as to have Rad's player base and this is going to be a six to one as
there's gonna be Lugia Garrett resetting on the other side. Sparker
farms even more final hits. What was that like a four man anti-heal from
Sipe as soon as the Kumio form came out from Crazy Kitty which just went
right back to the grave as soon as the Ult was popped. Focus fire from VPs
insane remember guys they have years of experience playing together through thick
and thin and rad we'll do everything they can to shake that up okay straight away
bad hammer sent on in I believe it's one of the backliners here fancy just mad
jumping into them using the death wall in your area buff to get even more
damage spark it doesn't get too much achieved off the back of their ultimate
and gets chased down by the marbles of the white fogs Luke you go some as
well to go to the next to pull you need to get on top of side pane out
there you can't allow them to be free in the back farming up towards that
raging royal flush, maybe a big knock through here onto Nemix, gets isolated by Crazy Kitty.
It's not an ideal matchup into that that white fox form. She is a monster melee duelist when she
gets up close and personal. Still, Cypher's alive though. Just kicking out these heels,
building up already 94 percent towards the raging royal flush. And Vertigo on this
strap. Well, it's healing on demand. You call them and they deliver to deny the dance of
of the butterflies from Sparker and it was a one-man tango. Rad got the punish as soon
as Sparker emerged and VP were on the back foot, but they're going to have a front foot
forward off the raging royal flush. Rad got to be ready to disengage and Lugia has sustained
with the ultimate coming up.
Living through as a group, raging royal flush is ready. He comes and meets us, Rad. The
damage will be good to go. We used to get five flows within it. It's going to have
to settle for four as it is going to be a chase down here from Lugia so he might have
some big things in plan here but doesn't seem like that you've really got anything off the
back of that i have agamotto yet another huge janty as three ultimates come through from
rand final exam popped here by verse he goes to try and give him a healing over to the
rest of the team i imagine a jackpot's going to be here rather soon but the ulti starts
to be drained away nexus is in the midst of them using the heartbreaker to take
away all that charge and fincy takes out the imposter deadpool while playing
on the vanguard themselves vertus pro close to yet another flip ever as the
range of ultrons brought in on top and spark it feels like they can save their
over here as Luke you go off this is gonna be a nasty staggo he's gonna go
end it all himself but Brad I mean they're getting hit with an anti-heal
every single time they start the fight and it clumps to everyone 30% less
healing is significant but rad maintain their composure so VP have now a dance
of the butterflies and no other help with it rad have a dance of their own
But VP being able to defend with this means you could see an alternate angle from Sparkler that high ground ledge to the left
Right don't even want to mess with that. They're gonna teleport away from VP, but they're expecting them
But he can stop voting on that S rank now as well the lockout is down trees around the other side in comes the psionics
Blasting and smashness just gets marked every single time the gambit team up from nevix is too much cleave to handle
There's no touch on the point and I can't help but notice that Brad put so much emphasis on protecting me at Mantis
only to not use it and the smash who's where his cue button was like he's in a
position to give himself that invulnerability to pop the ultimate he's
sitting in front of the strats that was the moment to pull it in man just
immediately executed them this is the executioner right here is Parker the
don't evolve duelist the greatest to ever do it he ends 25 in 2 and those
Those damage numbers would be even larger if the map would have gone the distance, but
hey, TP, the fact that Syphe, the card management here.
There's only so many you can use to pull that anti-heal, cost two cards out of the
three, and he's pulling it out every single fight, which is already destabilizing enough
for Rad, and the fight still goes the distance, but TP have the upper hand at the early
parts every time.
Look at the stats like Sypheon Bobrent the heal.
Bro's done 6.5k, he's been out here playing as Ultron but is dropping 13k damage.
Sypheon's just playing almost a pseudo-dualist on the gambit just giving Triarch heals over to Fincey and Nevix when they fall low.
Trusting in the remainder of the team to be able to babysit Sparko with things like the Ultron drone.
Inverters Pro are looking as strong as ever.
I think that Luke Geiger definitely taking some inspiration from Binary and the Hulk is looking pretty good.
into VP, but I thought like if you're gonna go for that big potential on the mountain,
you can change some value out of it.
Yeah, if you don't have to jump to another planet, I think Hulk is just the better vibe.
It's not as cooldown dependent, you can just keep that charged up and ready to go at all times,
along with just having that huge help pool when you pop the ultimate,
especially if you have the point tack first, you stall things out and it'd be so annoying.
And there's Punish when you can exile someone who's over extended,
I don't think VP have really made a mistake at all, but like they were controlling the chaos at all times.
Yeah, VP, they always seem to have contingency plans.
They're a little bit caught out of sorts, because they rolled out two packs on Propeller for the game.
Which is why they got pulled by that VP.
And so they instantly fixed it, because we weren't afraid of laughter.
It was like they rolled out in a very wide fashion, so that no one could really be caught easily going through a doorway.
and it forced Rads to try and go for this like kind of halfway house but it was like
oh we'll just debunk ourselves onto the point and then try and meet them there but when you're on the
point as one as one club that's where Nevex gets maximum value from his team-ups. Yeah and VP
playing trying to match the triple stradder we're rolling out with it because they realize on
domination how important that sustain is instead of v222 that VP are more known for but we're
going to get to know what Rads and map pool is going to be truly like as what this is their
second ever half-loss in all the pre-season and the ball is in their
corner where we want to go next and we'll see you after the break.
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We just have to talk a little bit about how, like, slippery that Saipa is.
because no one was able to target them down in that first sub map.
Like, how are they able to stay alive the entire time?
I guess Gambit's just able to play a card trick
and throw it in their face and just escape out the window.
Yeah, and it's like,
Bro was just chilling the whole time,
just throwing anti-heels every single fight kickoff,
just hiding away while Dredro and Fyre
just are all offense all day.
So it's, we don't get the CVP on Triple Strat too often,
But when they do, it's like they don't even need the extra heals, because then you just get more of the utility after it.
I was really curious which map we were going to be going to, especially because Rad, they've had a couple of different options that they could have gone for.
But this was the exact pick we saw from them against Reason after they did drop their one domination map before this series.
So they went 3-0, they look very confident, and I'm not too surprised to see this be the option that they go for like that.
Yeah, this has been the site of one of our greater upsets as well of Shikigami versus Nabi
This is a great place to play some flyers and if a fly has a human torch in their back pocket
But Smashnares is one of the original enjoyers of human torch
I wouldn't mind seeing that kind of composition come out here if
Maybe writing on a draft for it
But I do hope if rad do draft the mantis that maybe we see it have some action
Maybe there was like some counterplay in the VP draft for something really getting value
Yeah, and the Ducky Groot, this was what Rad used to full-hold reason gaming and to
build the series in their favor.
I keep talking about the Ducky Groot.
I had to understand if he doesn't want to play it, because when you face a really aggressive
team who get run over, it's easy to defend yourself, but not really to attack with
a Groot.
So I don't know if Ducky can really cage the beasts that are VP with a Groot.
He needs to be able to space it well.
If he doesn't play the group, I understand, but off defense, it's quite strong.
I'm really curious if we see, like, maybe some sort of mantis priority in terms of bands coming out from Virtus Pro.
I know they definitely don't want to get the Loki, especially on this map with the first capture point,
having so many options for where you could put those clones.
It's so hard to figure out where the true one is afterwards, but even then, talking a little bit about, you know,
Virtus Pro's strategy for this, they also played on this map before against recent and got a 3-0.
So I feel like it's a little bit more of a neutral ground for these teams lemon
The necessary like one sided it for Ravus. He might have hope
Yeah, I mean, I don't think they're really getting rolled over too bad by VP
Like it's been pretty even but I think smash going for flankers and getting marked as much as he is means that he's gonna
Have to play this more front to back and more with the team
It's unfortunately we didn't get to see his dance of the butterflies because he was right on top of VP strats
This wasn't able to pop the old entire and resulted in a lot
looking ahead of this one the big question leg day and we've kind of had
our own thoughts about some certain European players playing Jeff in other
regions do we see the Jeff save again this is a great Jeff map but it feels
like against teams as good as VP but Jeff does kind of become a little bit of
a liability like the alt is getting negative value most of the time and
like when you're going up against Sypay, like your entire body being a headshot
crit box, does mean you can just evaporate. Like I know that at the top levels for
Jeff is good, but when you get to the top top level it feels like you're kind of
falling off again. He's got a bellcurn of usefulness, you know? Just the ult is not
great because everyone looks at you as soon as you start marking or whatever
Jeff does. This is yummy yummy and then he just gobbles everyone up, but
we'll see if VP can destroy the rest of the competition that they have
in our final potential matchup between them. VP looking to dominate the groups by dropping a single map.
All right, we've made one rule and one rule only here at Fighting Goddess Pro Club. You do not give
Sparka Elsa. The question is, around going to stick to the rules? Yes, they are. So they will
live to fight at least to the end of this map. And there was a one-sided gambit last map too
in favor of VP and we talked about Cypace Impact and all this utility that VP had, expecting VP
to return to the 222, but you kind of have to sometimes match the triple strat with your own
triple strata. If you think it'll go the distance, the central park, the
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I can understand the sidewalk on the attack so that when you're ready to dive with a venom,
What the attack does it takes space and it tries to own it can have a late stagger here
But the poke from the side lock at a distance isn't ideal at least there's better heroes for that
I think sparker wants to find a moment that when ratting gauge that sparker can wrap around
So it's more of a
Reaction dual list or a counteraction dual list than an engaging one but rad the balls in their court
He spreads again
He looking for a righteous cross but guess who's ready to match them here netics become CC and you've got a moment there
During the play and here it comes the heartbreaker stealing away the upcharge of so many members of rand already crazy kiddies down
But they're gonna still out here trying to make it work with the kumi how I'm least cypher from real fangu releases
The raging royal flush and there's so much damage to be done
But enough healing for dreedro and now it's gonna be spark taking down as well
Never gonna try and turn it on back
But mash is used for similar shenanigans potentials broken, but the spacing was good enough
There could be a recontest here from Verda's pro spark is also strange
Yeah, VP are realizing just how vulnerable that White Fox is if she's
teleported earlier ago, got picked, so you have MASH still in the lineup and that
was more than enough for RAD to sustain through. And they already got a first
take from the first engagement, which means VP don't have as much time to
portal in and try to retake when they are further away. So still a very big
accomplishment to just capture the point on Central Park, which is so
defenders sided. Now Lugia, Abid, you're out of the Coliseum and you're out into open skies
and he's already trying to force back VP.
Is that a solo ult here onto Lugia go? Could be. It's actually Smashnares coming in from
the other side. Spark is still waiting on for Vez. The invisible Bantra got great value
here but now it's Spice Dance trying to get a little bit more busy. Mash them as
their Vez to just dodge away but Smashnares has no cover as the rest of the Stradges
have just placed themselves out of harm's way and left them alone.
I think the Sylocke is going to be also good at anti-dive.
You can just dash away, go and vis and not be an easy target to dive.
And the damage comes in so fast from a Sylocke that you're not going to have any time to
heal through it.
So there's pros and cons and I'm looking at the Devil being out.
All I need to devil out for any miss is going to be punished.
Crazy kitty 8 missing though.
This guy's a little bit wild.
Tries to get away with the righteous cross but forgets me.
He gets debuff for every miss so I should slap an air.
The air slaps back at you.
Still rad.
fight. It really is the heavy on the back foot and you need to maintain to be
the kings of this hill because you do not want to fight on the lower parts of
the streets. It's more defender sided. They can maintain vision. Rad also have
Ducky on the front lines looking for a ban hammer on something and someone
important. Any charges here as Ducky rolls on forward. The charms are good
from VSGOS. They try to build up towards the Kumiho at least. There's a
little bit of trolling happening on card right now from Fincy. Paralyzing the
objective it will fall down fall their trouble spark it they need to democratize
all the damages coming through but never mind mass just disappears into the
ether it's Jeff indeed of it blocking off with the healing five tries their
best to move on poor but rad they finally found their tempo yeah and it's
faster and better than VP you got them swapping and it's emergency
Punisher and Ducky is loving what he's seeing what a snowball turning into
with Avalanche for Rad having almost four minutes
for this final point.
And it's helping Smash so much having a secondary duelist.
Crazy Kitty had a crazy 3K and he's not done yet.
You have still going in, Spark is already down
and this who's got so much more freedom
for Vertigo to move forward, not worrying about that poke.
Crazy Kitty punished, put down on the floor by Nevix,
ready to pop themselves a team up
and just cleave through everyone.
Vertigo just saying, please leave me alone.
I'm already gone, let me go.
But Nevix has no such mercy in his heart.
And for Radlet go of the stranglehold that they had on VP, not a lot of teams can make the world champions sweat,
but VP have been able to stabilize, especially where the payload is.
VP can also play a distant battle and have Nevix be the anchor as that road that can be up close to prevent any easy progress from going through.
And Lugia is just gonna ignore and die fast.
It's falling real low already.
There's gonna bunch of HP back there from popping their ultimate and that will give them some survivability.
The architecture begins to change. Rav finding himself a new angle, but it does mean that he's a repeat onto Ducky.
Gets a quick bubble, gives extra healing, coming through.
Income smashness now with a dancer of all flies. Share out the damage as a must-hearer.
Siphon backs off the dead, using the knockback on the card. Siphon now is going to be able to give Sparkers some space.
Moving into the zone. Nuki ago trying to turn this one around.
Rijo getting aggressive. Oh my goodness! The anti-healer is great.
And Smashness is there on the finish. Many players taken down by the Feast of the Abyss.
Lugir and Smashness move in tandem and as one they cut a suede through Virtus.pro's defense.
Yeah, the chaos that RAD just created to split them to have VP scattered, they could not benefit
from the invisible boundary that Dredro created to have any kind of safe haven. But this is the
ultimate fortress, the bunker that RAD have to try and penetrate through and already gonna try
and find a flank angle. Watch out for this Deer of Devil and the Scyloch and how they wrap around.
What other fight? VP were fighting for their lives just trying to leave spawn!
Brad, oh my god, these flankers all smashed needed was some help and his name is CrazyKitty.
Almost guaranteeing a first pick every single time.
VP have been so used to having plans go their way for them to pull the trigger for everyone else to be running away from them,
but it's VP that are learning how to disengage properly.
and now this panic is forcing really uncharacteristic mistakes or at least not full value out of VP's
ultimates. Rad with a momentum swing from the start of the second point to almost near the
end. It got stalled a little bit at the beginning of the third point but reemerged once they
noticed VP were floundering and were making mistakes and mainly punishing Dredro when
he put the invisible boundary down. His teammates were on the perimeter of it and Rad such
good recognition of Smash to get those quick executions before they could get to their strategist.
a white box who's a great duelist against those close-range assassins.
A minute thirty-one.
Oh wait, a pick on MASH?
Bro, just hanging out in the in-
Okay, traded.
Yeah, it's a good trade. I mean, they really get super aggressive here.
Like, they made such a big mistake, we're just gonna pull it all on the line.
And it seems like Crazy Kitty is more of a ready to put it all on the line.
Getting out though is a little bit more difficult.
Ducky gets a quick upgrade, still trolling around in the back and demanding some attention.
but this might give Masha a moment to return and Ferran to have a good re-contest.
Hey, you're gonna have Lugia that's gonna buy some time, he's lurking above, and Smash can at least be a nuisance.
You'll have to give up a first tick, but it won't be the full cap,
not without a fight.
Ducky is gonna portal to find a better angle than having to fight through these choke points,
waiting for it, and here he goes for R.A.B.
Lugia has already used their resilience here though, anti-card goes out,
let's go for now as Maestro, avoid it, maybe it was blocked by the Spectral Sanctuary,
crazy kitty rolling on in and you can see already that's going to be the
debuff going straight onto them. Well you're focused on crazy kitty you
are looking at smash and as sparkler loses out on the door coming up this
needs to be a big bastion of defense here as all three try and just just gather
up for a cuddle and a bit of patty cake. Nevix demands attention crazy kitty
tries to get him away trying to reflect some of the heals a little bit of tech
there coming through from the daredevil but chases too far onto
invisible woman and is punished for the ambition now as Nevix's turn to roll
on forward is going to have to clear through so many of the healings just confiscated away by side pay
and VP get the cap uh I would say about a minute faster than rad but it's about
caring through the momentum because rad this second point push was lightning fast like they
won the initial part and then we're waiting for VP at the castle already there's a huge effort
from crazy kitty and smash at that point, but VP got the jump bottom!
Oh man, I'm just feeling the Gambit team up, it's just so strong man, you just clean through them all,
the heals have been taken away, all you can do now is stall out on the cart, the Virtus Pro have no
plans of stopping. Wow, just getting the surprise factor, now they're getting some push, Taipei
is still respawning though, so the raging royal flush will have to get shuffled up before
being played on the table and that's a moment that RAD can escape.
around on the other side, Ducky just tried to stop them using their own ultimate, but
Fink is in there to exchange as well, and Rad finally have a touch of stability.
Wow, yeah, VP had to use the raging royal flush late, and then you had to dance to the butterflies
from Smash, you give them the invulnerability through the roller coaster of emotions that
was that last fight, Lucky is missing, but he'll be back quite soon, the respawn advantage
is in favor of the defense, while VP, they have to maintain the lead that they have.
So, that's the end of the video.
Thanks for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
I'll see you in the next one.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Clip onto sci-fi the perfect pick that they were looking for and now it's time for crazy kid to lead the way even with nevix's team up
Oh, I know that is one my world because sessions over extends
They felt the blood in the water
They didn't know that it was actually a pack of orcas facing them on in and now they need to try and get rid of this backline pressure
Crazy kid he is still back here by super low
But three jokes just deadly and invisible boundaries in the back pocket if it's going to be needed versus program
Have to deal with the gym
Wait, they stopped the jump! That is big, VP are not done yet. They've had to punish on the flankers
But they still have the cap on their 0.5 meters away, and DREATRAL, these holes, the force physics, all these visible women are so
Underrated to stop rad and to push away the flankers. Mash is always good for one or two
But is it enough for rad to keep contesting? They have barely any duelists.
So Trigger just keeps managing to find these frags when they're most needed.
Mash just has to move away for now. Vertigo gonna try and TP back.
I think it's winnable with only 57cm between themselves and Oblivion.
Vertigo's gonna be able to move themselves out of the line of sight and onto the car.
Yet another dance on the butterflies. Can Vertus throw it away in time?
Fly's not gonna be quite so lucky. Crazy kitty still here somehow.
I dunno, he keeps making it back. Smash does his down.
Raging Royal Flush. This should be what brings Vertus pro to the finish here.
But RAD might be able to turn this one around as Vertigo continues staying up.
Ducky needs to be chased on down.
Slark has got it in their hands.
MASH on the other side and they're still controlling the cart here for RAD,
who has 1 minute 14 seconds left.
I think Vertigo have all of momentum that they need.
Yeah, finally the cap, but not without Bloodshed.
And then RAD, this MASH has like 5 seconds to try and eliminate the strategies
before he gets punished and he delivers to shut down fire when he has the Soul Resurgence.
That was the nail in the coffin play that VP were leaning on at the end of that fight.
And it took everything out of VP and they only have about two minutes.
So this is pretty much guaranteed a time bank disadvantage,
though if they even finish the map.
Yeah, this is not an easy area to take or any of the disengaged coming on through.
Nevix is getting a lot more time to get focused now,
knowing just how dangerous that road can be.
I see her onto sci-fi they want to try and mug this gambit before they can build up yet another ultimate
But look you give doesn't have a frenzied arrival just yet placing up above wants to get the f
So you're the corrosion power over here onto treedra, but it's answered by flying with the solar sergents giving everyone additional movement speed
Oh, it's got three!
Close going up the map for sure now mash your sides
You know what you're coming down with me and this is gonna sink the offense here from vertus pro
Now we've got to try and make that way through some nasty choke points
3 man, it's Jeff Oldt, you don't get the C value on that one, but that is one of the
best parts of Central Park to have a Jeff on that drop off is right next door in VP.
No, someone's knocking at the door.
Yeah, knocking early for now.
Gonna be Dredro going low, but bring up the invisible boundary to give himself even
more space to work with.
Nevix rolls on forward.
Using the heartbreaker.
Oh, Spark is just so clean with it.
He's gonna be a criminal.
I'll arrest this man, officer.
only a one minute left and it's the raging royal flush the ace up
vertus pros leave to end this map and to send us into extra innings and Lugia he
could get some nice executions just by himself at the feast of the abyss and
he's hungry oh bro might well be hungry indeed Lugia goes got so much with the
four Prince of the Rave raids ago never so ready disengaged she was gonna
to be low on that however the ragey royal flush could be everything mash
already down don't keep the same smash there's Carlos for long Luke you got
me so decide if we're gonna do it now or never a big eat look at all that blue
HP to try and keep this one stalled out another frenzy arrival crazy kitty
round the back ready to let the devil out but guess what already debuffed the
second he doesn't hit anything it's gonna be fire hitting on bag one meter in
it's 32 centimeters is all that remains here for Rad to have some
defensive buffer the vanguard down but it's smashed us in the back
people when you go to reach them you can find a side bay, smash nace gets it done, there's no one on the card, smash nace
all the hero plays at the 9th as vs pro finish the map
and just barely a 90 second advantage in a rads faves favor
but it also decides who will be attacking first and what the finish line will be and how far it will be
VP will be attacking first
They had a swifter first point push and then things went awry for the second point.
Rad or as resilient as ever, they want to beat the world champions this bad and claim the number one seed going into playoffs.
And that smash has been incredible as you pointed out.
And when you have a secondary duelist, you just know that with the third strategist, you don't always get to be able to use this utility
even benefit from the heals because VP just in the blink of an eye will bury you and sparker
He just knows the combos you blink and he will just eliminate your backline and smash has been
keeping up 23,000 but it's more about the final hits or smash 16 of those final hits have all
been on the strat line of VP forcing fight I have to go to a mantis to have some kind of fear
Factor like a sedation or something even a headshot. He could be a pseudo duelist to take care of that
But now the attack for VP see what the win condition will be
VP no cheesy roll out here
Just gonna be playing it in as a neutral this time. Hopefully mash doesn't get caught out straight away
It's gonna be playing from below ground and all my goodness every family gear
He's probably symbolic resilience all the target focus is
is disgusting and right of once again gonna have to find themselves in the 5v6 defensive scenario is
Nuki are gonna just try and TP back. Uh, he can maybe swing his way back and VP are swinging for
the fences. They're working on that first pig, Rattle already denying it. Oh, the anti makes that
same time. This is what makes VP a world championship team. All of that U2 being dumped at once on
a 3, 2, 1, but now 5 might be getting dumped on here by the dive halfway towards the cap.
are VP, and Sypheh punishes himself against Vertigo. Those cards up close, you hit all
three and the damage is going to be sublime. Crazy kid, he's falling down as well on Sypheh.
It's happy as Larry to hang out back here and just keep on healing.
Just flawless from VP, from the awareness of where Lugia could be sitting. It's just
the people that you have to mark. Where is Smash, where is Lugia? Those are the
flanking threats that will stop VP. And now, it's overtime. And where you take
this fight is going to matter so this puts vertus pro in a very perilous position but not everyone has
to be on the payload guys so look at nevix and the rest and how they're going to support this vanguard
by to take space oh straight away you can see crazy kitty gets debuff five of the deadpool just
has to stop using their m1 as nevix puts them on the ground it's just a perfect target for
fincy every time knowing that that really is the difference maker and you are inclined to
just hold them one when you're on that there devil.
AP get the jump again they punish Rad who have just not had strong looks in these fights
is the pressure getting to Rad while pressure makes diamonds and Ducky has the band-aid
but crazy kitty almost got shot to his own demise and whoa, Syphe takes a one-fee when
he gets a Sylock.
Dude Syphe is just that guy in comes the deadpool ultimate it's going to be answered
here by trea-drone giving over that additional healing there to go.
Got me found in the back.
MASH still has the itch shetlet to be able to use it now.
It seems that this fight might already be cooked.
Sniper and Sparker begin to develop the off-hanger way.
Five crazy kitty yet again.
MASH is going to try and eat up Sniper.
Oh, the pixel dodge from Sniper is absolutely disgusting.
I think that Fenty might have actually put a shield up
on top of the origin point for that.
So make sure that no one could be grabbed out either.
Sparker ain't to go with the dodge on the butterflies.
They're just sealing the fate of the rad defense here.
Maybe I don't know if Sniper quite needed that royal fly.
But hey if you get fit you get fit. Oh, you made vertus bro mad when they lock in you better
He might as well walk out vertus bro are unstoppable with just what the minute that they had they're looking to full cap
Central Park where other teams struggle to even get the ball rolling
Ravi to have a final stand you need to turn this this hemorrhage into just the bleed they need a band-aid and I look towards smash
smash smash there's once again a hero players demanded mentions to find three
before the mishap on the cart last time we won't talk about that one again the
nevix is ready with a heartbreaker here comes smash moving versus plaincy all
the utility to try and dodge it on out as fancy dressed a debuff crazy kitty
once again I imagine the devil ready to be let out moogie get me to join them
as heavy healing has to be given over from vertigo but still rather to Oscar
is moving a quick charm of the back of a spectral surge crazy kitty has to
roll away as they are being rebuffed to you by five soul resurgence.
Yeah, I'm ready to go out to run away to be able to maintain the Kumi-04,
but you run, you can run, but you can't hide, hide and run.
We'll stand up tall one final time.
Oh, crazy kiddies going in, going crazy.
You found the rocket raccoon that emerged in the midst of all of this.
It's a quick revive onto Finsie, but Spark will have no such luxuries.
Finsie has to stand on the car just about able to avoid
getting taken into a briny grave below but now surrounded by enemies of fire is
too much to handle. Virtus Pro will only a minute capture two points and a half.
Time-bang disadvantage, VP kicked him in the dirt and the Rad at least made sure
it wasn't perfect. It wasn't until the entrance of the castle that Rad tried
to slow things down but she didn't get anything out of the dance of the
butterflies from smash and only affected the two vanguards and nevicks
forced with his heartbreaker forced a lot of the strategies from rad out of the
fight in order to not have their ultimates drained now rad it's time
for them to lock in and go Super Saiyan will have a 90 second advantage so two
and a half total to go to the end but VP had for punishing grad so early
that that's why it became not just an adventure, but a speedrun when it came to Central Park
and rather gonna hope and pray to have that same kind of luck to be able to identify any
weaknesses out of VP. But they're not really running a venom. All you have to worry about
is where Sparker could be flanking from, but he's really just playing with his team
and he dives in the midst of the chaos. So it's really hard to bark Sparker
when there's so many problems that you're going to have on your plate.
Dredra who dropping a 50 bomb as well, 12 final blows from him, 13 from Saiphe.
Virtus Pro they do not have healers, they have strategists.
If you will stand at the choke as Rad of Merge in any slip up will be costly in terms of time
and you cannot afford to take on VP5B6, so Mash is also needing to be careful here
and jumping on it is the Deadpool.
Oh, it's a very aggressive dive into Warsga back, and it's just going to be there to answer it.
Giving healing over to everyone as they manage to make their presence known with the Gambit team up.
But already Rad have played a bunch of space here on the point to try and work with a friendship rival
into Warsga back, and they've gone too far.
The healing's not there. Spark has tried to do this one already,
and Fyze will play over here onto the White Foxes.
A great answer to the deep dives.
Look at this fellow over so fast on the dives, Parker.
He's the judge, jury, and executioner.
VP take the first fight.
And now Rad had 90 seconds, about the same time that VP had.
At least he'll have an ultimate of the Deadpool, the Bannhammer.
And I don't know if that's gonna be enough, but
Luke is gonna make the most of it.
Okay, imagine if you try and get her on back.
buys the space. A quick partition coming through from that unicorn shield, but it seems like
Fincey is happy to just stand here and give over a bunch of that extra healing. What are
you aiming at? Our Deadpool, but it seems like everyone's aiming at them. Crazy kiddie
able to match up towards Fincey here, and that's going to be a lot of presence taken
away from the mission area for Virtus Pro. Waiting for Druidrope to get the invisible
boundary to reach contest here. 98% 99, 100. A second minute comes up. It's going
to be used, but Masha's grabbed everybody. Three enemies within. Off the point, is
Is that going to be the case here going for the full story here to make sure there's no option to TP back?
Kind of worried if he was kind of sabotaging Lugia there, but I think you take a 3k on the...
It's Jeff Ultimate every day. MASH has been so impactful with those right as VP are grouped up around their rogue, but...
It's do or die for Rad. Now having to go the distance, VP sit on their throne, they sit on their high ground,
and Finsie's good and Nevix needs support.
Nevix going forward once again with the Gambit team up and as usual it is disgusting.
Closer overtime, Nash is going to be a primary target.
Plenty of healing for themselves just to try and dodge away from the gavit.
Now you've got to deal with Crazy Kiddy on the other side.
But guess who's here to help?
Right now it's going to be Fahy's already falling on down.
Crazy Kiddy didn't want none of that smoke right now
and Spark is just focusing down.
Luke, you get behind because there's not enough healing for them.
Spark gets back to the loving arms of best strategist
and Nevix is still trying to keep this cart contested.
Five members of RAD belong, but they need to stay on the point. Sharing out the damage now from Smashness is ultimate.
Spark could be overwhelmed, but quickly just dashes away. Not too bothered with the damage coming through from the daredevil.
That's gonna be yet another use of a banhammer coming through here from Ducky. It's a little bit early. Is everyone gonna just disengage?
I was worried that the Shragins from RAD were not paying attention to Lugia because he just fell so fast in VP.
They have the upper hand in the fights, but rather they have clutch and they have belief
But they won't have crazy kitty for this final fight
Physically might have to TP back in the midst of all of this
There are no holes really for rather than this mash come once again save the day spark
It was the back the dance of the butterflies just cutting out down all the strategists
Mash is not going to have any option to use the it's jeff or season to come back from spawn is the composer prepared
Crazy kitty's trying to bring it through but there's no real time to try and make it happen
No one's on the point and rather slain on their map pick of Central Park despite giving Virtus.pro quite the run for their money
and
With that VP will solidify themselves as the number one seed without
dropping a single map
Sparker still remains the best
duelist in the world and will even pull up the staff because he was at 40k damage
heading into extra innings 50 and 9 and afterwards he climbed up to 50 and a half
k. This was the battle of two Psylox and the final hits is also what I really care
about and Smash had such a good effort in the first round of attacks but
But something in VP woke up when it came to round 2 of attacks and you poked the bear and
you got bit.
I mean, Luki it was just getting absolutely farmed by Sparkar as the pro like 72k damage
taken is, it's, it's impatient.
I mean Luki it was just having so much trouble disengaging the same for Crazy Kitty because
of Nevix.
When you hit that stun on the, on the road, sure the players invincible while
they're getting drained.
But when they stand back up, they have a real hard time reorientating themselves and it's really hard to get away.
No surprise that Nevix is sitting here with 21 final blows. A monster on the road.
And Fyre having to stick on the Mantis just to have some more pushback against the double flank, uh, composition from Rad with the Bear Devil with the Psylocke and VP were punishing them every step of the way.
But it's not just hitting your shot, showing how to space out and be as far away from Radd as possible,
to give yourself every crucial second to spot that invisible silo, that small window of opportunity
when you see Smash fade away or when Crazy Kitty gets the batons out.
VP just knew how to really match band for band, and in a sort of mere composition, best and bad at their own game.
Well, I'm being far away from Vodafone, I want my host back to see what he can sell all day, so what's the news, Vod?
Virtus.Pro are still that team. The best team in the world and for good reason. It doesn't matter what you pull out against them.
Even if you go the distance in Central Park, it gives us one of the best over time we have seen so far.
These farthest any team has been able to take some in conversions to team teams
Struggle against them in convoy as well in domination. They did it their best
But firestray still takes the cake on that one until we get to that playoff stage and not dropping a single map is a
Massive statement made here because even in the grand finals that wasn't the case
They did drop a couple of them here and there and we'll see them kind of continue to improve
And I think this meta specifically Jen just works out so well for this team
Absolutely and I mean just when we thought Nevix was so incredible at Venom
he shows us how to get the mits out and to knock Rat out cold and yeah it's just
to follow through with Nevix because Rogue I wouldn't say is a carry by herself
but it's the team play around her that is so crucial and you can't really
spell team play without Virtus Bro or somehow. But we also got to see like
sort of the piece of VP like I haven't seen them have to really sweat and try this hard in a while so
big uh big compliments to Rod on that from well we have the man of the hour this time again the best
the duelist in the world sparker for the interview welcome to the show congrats on the flawless
record throughout the group stage thank you how are you guys feeling going into the playoffs
I mean we're feeling good. I feel like we're solving like what we want to play so far
and yeah I think we found our group.
Obviously you have a world-famous Sylocke and recently got some changes to a cooldown
reduction on hitting vs primary fires. Do you think Sylocke is fitting into a meta
at the moment?
He doesn't have too many places because everyone plays triple support and I think most of the
time there's like else in the lobby or Star Lord is probably better with Gambit and Sylocke
so it's only if people have a Sylocke player and everything is banned.
And we were wondering what else we were going to see from you, but Fai is usually your duelist buddy
and we had to see him pivot to the Mantis. I guess really invest more into you, can talk to us about
what changes you have to make on Central Park to overcome RAD, which really pushed you to the edge.
Well, we were playing Ultron, but it didn't seem to be working that round.
So it's like swapping to Punisher thinking like maybe if I'm Punisher we can like hard fucking me, but
This is the way to kill Punisher with full dive. So we thought yeah, maybe we'll try this into play here and
Then we swapped the ultronite. Yeah, it started working better for us
Looking ahead to the playoffs that you have there's a lot of
of shake ups that have happened in terms of the rankings of Group A, Navi lost to Hereticz,
Hereticz now playing against Chikigami in this next one. What do you think is your biggest
opponent that you're looking ahead for in those playoffs?
Uh, I mean it's Rad, Chikigami, Navi, like all good teams. It just depends who has
It's a good draft on the day and who has like, just like, placed good on that day also mechanically.
That you never know who can be too.
Well, to close things up here, Sparkler, thank you for joining us.
Any final shoutouts that you have, congrats again for making the playoffs.
Thank you, Vodable.
No words, man.
Shoutout to you.
There we go.
Yeah, thank me. I guess I appreciate it, Sparkler.
But no, it's impossible baby.
Yeah, no, it's not.
I can't take all the credit there.
But it's still great to hear the insight, right?
Saying that Psylocke isn't necessarily meta right now,
but if there's no other options
and you have the best Psylocke play in the world,
why not play it here, Jen?
Why not?
And Sparkar, I mean, just as soon as he steps up,
you blink and everyone is eliminated around him.
Like it's so crazy how fast he is at executing
and it takes really good knowledge of the hero
to pull off combos like that and Smash kept up,
but Spark was just a whole different beast.
I have a whole different beast of a series coming up next
and there was one team that was relatively absent
from what VP are looking forward to in the playoffs.
That's Team Heretics,
playing off against Shiki Gami after this.
Do you remember who you really are?
Strongly let you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
We can't have an ancient prize
We're using up your sense-match
In those cycles
For the risk we try to get
We have never seen the end
But I said I think your mind's hold onto your powers
Now all your fans are lost
We are back to the end of time
We are flesh, blood, and wind
We will fight, pushing across the ice
There is no new world like this
This is the end of the era
Can you see the dawn, the flame burning rightly
Shining one rose from the ring's dyneous
Across the time I've seen huge thorns in the sides
And do you see now? Our time, our time, we can still fight
Like the hands in fire and under the war
And now it's the only time your heart is mine
Like a falling darkness, prolonged
As you fight for your destiny and they
New dreams finally come to pass, the future
Machines make it go away, fight with me
And when you wake, you'll find your prize
Raising up your essence, flashing through the sun
But for the rest of the search again
The arrival's in the end
Life and nothing come by
To all the city covers now
Depends on us
We arrive once again
Until the end of time
Rise, raise, and everything's smashing through time
Let's get all the rich monsters out of here
We are rivals to the end and rise and
I think your mind holds onto your powers
No one can travel
We are rivals to the end of time
All those fighting souls, buddy, and
Across the world, I see you standing in my way
And remember the time, the place we used to fight
The sun and moon and time wonder
My values, it's time that we were friends
Tonight has fallen shadows, warming and heat
That's a custom for me to think you have
The arts and the horolites re-combin'
Break sessions, find your way, don't fight me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
Only waiting for you
The game can end, I think your pride's racing up
The sense smashed in, there's time to go
Before the risk breaks, there's a end
The end levels end, the end ends
I can't, I think your mind's whole
Hold on to your powers now
Dance all night
We are right till the end of time
We will blast the water with
We will bite
Wishing the crust on its face
Hold on to your world
Right till the end of time
Oh, I need your smile
Light press falling
Darkness growing
See the way you're on destiny and vain
Today's my life, but I'm gonna secure a share
Break the strings, leave the light
Fight with me
And when you're ready
I'm gonna enjoy the ride
I'm gonna sense my shit from the start
Oh, before the risk, I'd search again
I see a rainbow to the end
Rise and
I'm gonna run
Hold on to your purpose now
That's how much we are rivals again
Until the end of time
I
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Ungroup's top seed has been determined various ways.
Pro continue to reign supreme in EMEA and likely the world in the future but now
we got to determine who's the best among the rest in group age. Shikigami
against Team Heretics and we heard of the death ball composition as Tanuki
liked to call it during our interview yesterday and probably gonna see a lot
more of that today Lemon. Yeah and if you thought Sparkler was a good
cylog wait for Tanuki I could see Tanuki being second best or at least
at in the conversation for one of the better silos in EMEA and then you pair that with Beedle who
was running Captain America in those days and like they're running down on domination it looks
unstoppable while some teams struggle on domination I feel like heretics thrive in that chaos.
Oh yeah I mean that's exactly where we saw them take the first map against Navi and the way that
they were able to perform and really shut them down regardless of what they were trying to
showcase was on another level, but we got to talk a little bit about Shikigami, the former cooking with
Kaya roster, so you can call them that if you want, in cooking with Shikigami at this rate,
especially like day, the way that we've seen them just kind of overwhelm other teams in the draft
phase, they always have to have like everything on lock, every time know exactly what the target
to make the other team struggle once they actually get into the game. Yeah, this team's draft
thing is super strong, it's kind of a symbol of their veterans, because all of these players,
I'm super proud of them because they've all like they've all been pretty mid in 2025
I'm not gonna lie didn't make it too far, but we're around the scene of ignite
But it feels like together they are the right ingredients that you can come here looking so good now when they've had all that
Time to work on their draft and now the gameplay is catching up to it as well
Each of these players is so worthy of a spot here in a night
Love to see them that get involved as they can my questions that I have is really what they can do to
change the narrative against heretics who have not dropped a single series or
map so far here Janamine what is going to be the secret sauce from this team to
take it to this matchup. His name is Frostmountain my Frost go the dare
devils should breed I was clipping up like crazy yesterday for the top five
plays like if you think you could fly away from him he'll be flying after
you like you get just 1v5 if you really wanted to I think the Frostmountain
and win condition is pretty clear on the area, devil.
And just how this team plays around him.
Even Isidore, my humble king was doing so much,
we interviewed him and gassed him up.
But he's like, I don't know, just another day on the job.
So I just love this team.
Oh man, Isidore always clocking into the nine to five
of playing as best as they can for their squad.
And getting a victory is what they're focusing on
at the most here, especially because it'll throw things
into a little bit of chaos,
going in into the seeding up for their group specifically.
But this matchup between these two teams,
if Team Heretic wins, it means Heretic gets first, Navi second,
and Shikigami third, of course.
But if Shikigami wins, it's kind of a tie in match points
and has a map differential being the tiebreaker.
So as sweet as the Shikigami are hoping for here.
But Heretic, we've got to talk about all of them.
But I kind of want to give some shouts to Enzo.
They have really made it difficult for teams
to ban against the squad like they did,
especially because they've proven, oh yeah,
if you're going to ban the vanpool,
We have someone who can play the Stratus Pool and because you're not banning the Banpool,
I'm going to play it every time and dominate on it.
Yeah, having the plurality of Deadpool, the panoply of Deadpool's, which are available as
a team heritage, has made drafting against this team a little bit complicated.
And also, Enzo showing off a fantastic Hulk play as well, because there is a reliable
like second Vanguard to move to if the Deadpool's off the table.
Enzo's always been good at the Magneto as well.
And just over time Enzo's pool just keeps on multiplying.
It comes to that versatility to Nuki's kind of the king.
It's kind of like anything at a high level.
And when you have support from this strat line,
you can't really not look good.
Because first we even interviewed Naga at some point
to talk about how it is to deal with Dive as a strategist,
or at least when he has to play strategist.
And he's like, oh, it's no big deal.
I just had shot him a little bit.
He just makes it look easy when he's on the pances.
And Alex was one of the first to premiere the Strap Pool in EMEA with their death ball to be able to get that healing aura ultimate going, to run it down with Beetle.
Again, Domination looks like their strongest mode.
Well, talking about the strongest mode, this was one of the strongest map performances we have seen from them.
The old faithful that we saw then take the first map against Navi and then the rest of that series was 2-0 in the history books.
Like, what are we expecting to see the most from them as part of the reason why they're
able to take out Navi and emulate that success against Shikigami here?
Well, they played the heal pool, which was a little bit of something nasty.
And also, of course, as I brought up earlier, Enzo's Hulk play, when they play this close-up
deathball, starving them to get the maximum value out of the indestructible guard,
when you give out, like, six 200 HP shields and they all feed ult charge over to you
in a meta where, like, ult charge has been decreased by 20% across the board
basically everyone else you're going to start outpacing strategist ultimates considerably.
We also saw it be used to counter the Doctor Strange that we saw from Taro with Javagamoto
and the Jeff, yes well from Fate so it's going to be tough to get some of those ultimates off
against them but this is going to be the decider for who will be reigning supreme in group A.
Is it Shikigami or Team Heretics? It's time to find out now.
All right let's jump on in this is a big one lemon both of these teams are qualified but
Shikigami, if they can sweep here, have a chance at number one seed in Team Heretics.
They are yet to be really challenged, like even against Navi, they went two and though it was a
close matchup, but they managed to pull it out. Yeah, all I could think about was sparking that
interview. Mentioned Shikigami before Heretics. I don't know if that matters. Maybe is that a
pseudo power ranking, but these are the two juggernauts, as you said, of Group A, along
with Navi of course but as we take a look at Nebanon Protects, I know Elsa and no Gambit
for Shikigami to play with.
Yep, no Elsa and there's still a chance to maybe pivot into a Gambit Protector for
Team Heretics but honestly I don't know if Shikigami can allow that one to happen.
The early priority here of the dead that will make a lot of sense given how much
we've seen Frost Mountain achieve on that one previously, I'm going to see Loki
taken off the table and that's great because a great way to try and mess with the dead that will
die as those regeneration domains are quite difficult for that over to break easily.
And we've talked at length about Frost Mountain and what he's been able to do in
pop-off plays and Leilis is actually really a flexible secondary duelist. He even brought
out the Namor to try that as his flavor of anti-dive to try and peel for himself and
create a stable base. So I'm not worried about Leilis in terms of how the bands are going
effect. Okay, the gambits made it through. Now Shigigami have to probably ban the Rogue?
Oh, I mean, yeah, you can get rid of the Daredevil, but I do worry. I don't know if there's a Rogue
player on Team Heroes, but I'm going to assume that it's Bezel. Because Bezel is a great melee
Vanguard player in general. But Rogue is a very dangerous thing to have to contend with when
when you think about maybe a damage boost on it as well.
And Enzo usually was playing the Vanguard Deadpool and was even fighting Alex on,
do we get the Vanguard Deadpool or the Strap Pool?
And if the Gambit is available, then Alex will just do that.
And Naga has been pretty much on triple strategist duty with the Mantis,
so that's especially for him because he's been one of the most mechanical Mantis that we have in EMEA.
And the White Fox protects us out something you see every day,
but I think as the most recent patch, it's become more of a priority.
Question is, what's Beastle gonna lock in?
Definitely a world where I wouldn't mind seeing the Rogue,
but not the biggest part of Beetle's get-so-fine.
By the way, Beetle's actually been showing off a great Doctor Strange.
Over on the other side of the Shikigami, I'm excited to see Isidore go back to the cap.
That's where a lot of his competitive history has been.
And obviously, we saw a fantastic Rogue yesterday.
But Frost Mountain is really gonna have to make a difference here.
They've invested a lot in having this one-sided stand that will bring both sides to the surface.
And the first fight matters a lot, especially on Hell's Heaven.
There's a lot of difficult church points to get through for an attacking team that has to try and retake.
And I like the idea of this if we're going to the Captain America to match fire with fire,
because Beedle has been the goatee when it comes to Captain America,
and we're lasting everyone. Of course, some strategies to have to pivot to something like a jab,
just trying to swim away from your problems,
but even the system's up to the responsibilities to look out at how that cruise fight is going to break down
and also how many vanguards we're going to see.
Most of the time it's only two, but every now and then you'll get a triple vanguard,
but everyone knows triple strategist is key for the sustain, especially if you cap first.
You can get up to that 80 or 90 percent, but let's look at Kaia,
where they want to send us off to for the portal.
Okay, no going for an early engage, instead just going to try and put the map here.
I'm surprised that they just came from high ground or up and securing my team enemy high ground or whatever
But it doesn't mean the car has a great shield in location. Yes, it really cut off lines of fire from being heretics from the more vulnerable
Backline, but just too much traffic just present
I'm trying to be in that defending position earth this kayak. Let's provide that angle to lay a list where
Herringwood Frost now
He's just like peanut butter and jelly
But now you use someone to step up at these papers are so low heretics are for the calf first if they don't deny it
Yeah, Tanuki getting in close and personal of the Sonic Crossbow to a lot of damage
And now it's gonna be Alex doing their best side-page and rolling pull it up to Linsen by it bashes their range as an extra Sashimi
And not cross-bouncing moving up to take out Tanuki there with Inva deadpool in your area aura
And the aura is too much to handle right now as team heritage went out first fight
A bit of a lapse with the Shikigami strat line
You have to pay so much attention to your Dr. Strange as the ultimate hanker and the one to keep any space for you
The team heretics were able to not only get that first pick but the cap as well and Kaia could not step up to not have the
Helpful to do so Shikigami are gonna wrap around Alex spots it and it's gonna step back
Shikigami the Kaia leading the charge old frost round has been marked as he hopes to form a flank and heretics may just find a split
And Shikigami if they're not careful
Fucking the flames for now and Kaia drop the shield and just the one moment to be hit by that NC card coming out from Alex
The longer this goes, the more evolved Enzo will become, and heretics to be in a defending
position means you have the ability to space out to step further back and to mark the passing
of these flankers. Such good recognition on Frostmound and that pick he also did just
dash in front of all of Heretics who watched it all develop. Now almost at 70% Heretics
are in charge.
Okay Isidore, already getting a little bit bullied here by Beato is coming in 12-to-1.
So it's just messing with the dives, making sure that you try and get a quick burst into any back-run member.
Finally, Salah comes in to come on up.
Lair ask her if she wants to strike with a down-to-the-butterfly since Beato just works in the background.
He's just standing there, menacingly.
Enzo waiting for the strike coming through from a jet balloon.
If she gets no one of the selfs, then it's instantly punished by three members of Team Heretics.
On the other side, Tanuki also went able to get too much fire off the back of the down-to-the-butterfly.
The Enzo's aim is strong and is carrying them to victory to so many silvers to be taken.
It's an XP buffet for the Vanguard Pope.
And Tanuki I think had to pop the dance of the butterflies just to escape the It's Jeff ultimate.
This is such a good point to do just that, but Heretics.
Oh my god, as dominant as ever, 100 to 0, what that was?
Shikigami just didn't feel like they could control the chaos.
We said Heretics were strong.
This is one of their best compositions.
Shikigami are trying to almost mirror it,
but you can tell the Heretics are more experienced
on how they lead these fights.
But Heretics, it's also the Oblivioness, again,
oh wow, they only have two deaths.
Just to point that out,
just spotting where Frost Mountain it is at all times
has made a huge difference.
I mean, end of the season,
I don't know what can you do, man.
Six final hits,
Rose getting damage boosted,
has the upgraded primary fire as well,
and now Beetle can also give a bunch of sustainability steam heretics in the first fight with a freedom charge.
Kai is going to go to the death pool now and just isn't too happy to just be holding up a shield for nobody to do anything with it
and it's not getting enough healing to maintain the positions that he would like.
It's adorable, stay on the cat, 1v1 against Beetle of course.
And even Alex has been so threatening on the gambit to make sure that no flankers could hold a candle to him, so...
Heretics with 100 to 0, let's see if they can close it out. As a high ground position, we'll be taking here from Shikigami to see when they can collapse on this Heretic Strat Line.
Alright, pivot here from Leila. No longer playing on the solid, instead we're throwing the plucking range of the Stardust.
Also, if they are trying to mess with Bangalore coming in, you can lay down a lot of fire on them, frostbouncing towards the back.
He's shut off by a couple of shield series,
and he's trying to give up most of the members of the opposing team.
And I see him on the health pack,
but I'll be sure not to fall off the edge though,
at first, now I'm just gonna back up and tear her firmer,
but Awaysa's no longer bothered by the devil in the back.
And it's time for the capital attack now.
Shikigami gonna try and keep it real with this freedom charge,
but Beetle needs to get back to the rest of their team.
Give her that over health and survivability as if it's cool.
Awaysa's ready to scream at its chair
and try to get up some of these members,
after they're heard into these nasty locations by Beetle.
finally heard of Team Heritage.
I laid down about how much challenge for now,
but there's going to be a real attempt at stopping
Cross Mountain, and you know what?
The second you go for a righteous cross
to get that extra mobility, it takes you down.
This is the triple strat line from Heritage,
versus only the two of Shikigami has made
a considerable difference, along with just how
tanky Captain America is.
Especially when there was so much assembling
being required there on the point,
Heritage with the first fight win.
Shikigami have really had to try to find a way to take down someone like Naga, who has not broken his sweat so far, a lot of swaps, even a Wolverine to see if he can force heretics into the loving arms of Shikigami.
Even a cloak and dagger, those terror caves, get the vulnerability and maybe a quick execution as a waste of swips away from their problems.
What the gift to him?
Surviving a bad...
LIVIT, YEAH!
The right dude is me lifting him up through those
and this should be our big decision, this is a distraction too far, don't wanna deal with a race for too long
until we sit over once again, get ready for the fast, full of special
Play for the Wolverine into the hand, try and meet the incoming parlay of Jim Harris's
Peter's stunned out for a second, meeting it now with the eternal bond of gnarly
After the cap in case the point moves, Lindstrom is still going to do so much damage here with the low key doppelgangers, three sources of fire and diesel can maybe save by the solar surges, guess they're just in time, they allow floats above it all, trying to do the damage, like a legend, pouring into fire.
where Shikigami have just used absolutely everything.
Four ultimates at once, Lynch can still try to do their best,
freeing the deadpins from the clutches of the Jeff's mouth.
The team heretics are not done yet.
They still open up the portal,
as the day she went through it to put End of the Seat for just a moment.
And Shikigami is still fighting for DL to try and keep this one contested.
A quick sleep onto us at all,
but they're back up and they're still angry.
The greenest man wants Naga so bad.
A quick gamma charge and a clap on top of it.
Nice exile going forward onto the Gambit, but still Alex is surviving!
Alex has just been playing their life this entire time, while the new team will go down.
Alex is still able to keep farming up towards that Gambit-O.
Big flank from Isidore. It takes the biggest health pool of the game to try and chase off Naga and Friends,
and Isidore is a huge reason it got to them in the end, but at 90% for Team Heretics, that was the fear.
I'd like also the Loki spot from Lindstrom to try and weaken the dance of the butterflies
to distribute that damage a little more, and even maybe it provides some invulnerability
against some of the deadly actions from the heretics.
Speaking of which, Beetle will be leading the Avengers, it seems, towards the objective
for maybe the final time for Team Heretics.
They only need one fight win, and Shikigami are exhausted of ultimates.
Kai is standing in the front line, almost as if it's just a skill issue, but for now Mito is just giving this point contested, making sure that you have to assault him from behind, on it at all times.
How can we instruct him to guard from the hold? There's going to be a chase in after him, but that chase is punishable by Graflin, just across Mountain, and Leilas is there for the finish.
Now they remove themselves from this bottom area, using the Eternal Bond's emphasis on... what a grab!
A real accuracy there from Frost Mountain.
This guy is absolutely nuts on the Wolverine, but Naga's up to his own right.
Finds exactly the time that Steve can bring out their own.
And here it is, the Eternal Bomb.
Sustainability found here.
Violent from copying over onto the Cloak and Dagger.
Naga's gonna be able to survive this one, and Alex has already used their own ultimate as well,
so it's just down to a way to some beetle.
Yeah, Heritage dropping the triple strat.
They know they need firepower, not just utility,
to take down the lengths of Shikigami and Nago is going to try and match fire with fire, but how about this one?
and ready for a final fight. Here comes Shikigami at the last second to emerge.
This big ultimate there from Isidore needs that big health pool. They do dash the
It's Jep Ultimate from Oasis as these strats out if there's only two for team
heretics. They got to bend for themselves.
Blossom out and the swap's over now. Ultimate Jep had to be done to the
Bunchenor initially went full of a swap here. Naga's accuracy gonna be put
on hold for a moment and I scam a spit from down the lane. Isidore trying to
to get it down against them, then the lynchers fall and down, Nami floats away, so if you're
looking for that target once again, find some of the Sonic Crossbow, find the only one that
is hunting, and you're going to need more of the nexus to deal with this one, and that's
going to be Team Heretics taking Hydra base in quick fashion.
Wow, just one of their strongest game types behind the Captain America, and then you
got Naga angry. He joins the fray as a dualist and that's what they needed to push on through
and to actually finish off a lot of these low HP targets. I do commend Shikigami for some of
these swaps. They were very intelligent around the Loki. If it's available to you, you should be
playing it. You should be playing it, but especially as the counter to Side Lock. But I mean,
it was desperation from Shikigami at that point. He didn't end on the Loki and Namae on the
cloak and dagger was nice to have the tearcapes but also that fade away from
a possible it's Jeff ultimate from a basis so she could only have a good
understanding of their counters but execution was a whole other ball game
I mean double digits of limbs across the board for team narratives yeah
everyone mentioned to get involved in these that's kind of the essence of
that death ball right and Naga walking away with the most limbs and drawn
final votes of ENZO despite starting that map the entire first sub map being romantic which
isn't the most cranky character of all time so a great display from Nagyashou you know what we
may have won the first point but we can still iterate on this but we can still do better
and Shikigami it was a nice resilience after getting 0 to 100 or 100 to 0 in the first
round to step up and change up their vanguard line, something that would be able to fit their style a bit better.
Because Kaia was starting on the Doctor Strange, held with the shield, there wasn't enough health.
So Leilis is now on the Star Lord instead of the Psylocke, but without the Gambit or the Royal Flush,
it doesn't make it for the easiest win condition.
Layla's a little bit off his game in terms of final hits, but still a pretty good tug of war between both sides.
Yeah, Miserdor's Hulk definitely deserves some commendation.
I also think there was a heads-up swap from Narmé and Linkin to go over towards that Cloak and Dagger and Loki for Cloakie,
as it would say, you know, because the extra
Terrakates from the Cloak definitely made it a little bit harder for Beetle to stay in as long as he was previously.
We saw on the first map that Beetle could kind of just like stand with his shield up in that backline.
Like, what are you gonna do?
You can't do anything. I'm just gonna stand it menacingly. What can you do about me?
So when the answer is of course to swap over to my cloak and dagger it apply that vulnerability
Yeah, and team heretics are ahead with a pretty convincing map one
But Chicago me will have our choice of that next so won't want to go anywhere
Ha ha! Ha ha! Ha ha!
Ha ha!
I
I don't know about you guys, but I feel like Jeff was a menace from Oasis yet again on Hells
Heaven.
We saw it the first time against Na'Vi.
We see it again here, I mean 26th Elimination, 28 assists, just having the most damage that
we saw from a Jeff player in some time as well.
We saw it trying to see a bit of a mirror from Shikigami, but it just did not work
out in their favor and so many swaps had to be made a little last-minute gen and
now them just seem to gel enough against this composition. It's not even like a
white fox with a Luna and I think on domination you're just so accessible
because the map and the fights are gonna be a lot more close quarters and as soon
as the fox teleports you can be a little bit vulnerable so I like more of the
Jeff because you could take advantage of all these clumped people. We have some
huge is Jeff Ultimate's first in People Love and it's really just a
cause chaos and leave some pretty valuable puddles behind for the Captain Americans to
dance in.
Oh man, look ahead to what potentially we could see from Shiki Gami in this next map
as well.
There's a couple of different options that they could go for here like they, and I think
they just kind of want to wipe that last match up against their memory and go into
this next one.
Airtix have only been taken to Museum of Conflict and Convoy, always been
a 2-1.
Peps and Pulsar of course different kind of a team caliber here from Shikigami specifically, but then they also in convergence played on Haldijalia versus Navi
That one was really close, and I'm really curious if we see maybe a convergence style approach from Altarist, or not Altarist
Shikigami because they've only played on Central Park against Navi, but maybe we see a Central Park run back, who knows?
I mean, I would hope that maybe they'd pick Central Park. That was one of their great maps.
It's great for Frost Mountain. It can pick up the human torch. Isidore's got a great
Angela in the back pocket. But admittedly, Chigagami might know that, hey, if we pull the outverse as Navey and we beat Navey,
if one of their mum is what we're doing, that one, right? Yeah, that's true.
Okay, okay, we gotta figure this one out because it gets pulled out against us.
It's like you open Pandora's box right and suddenly everyone's going to try and figure out an answer to the flyer comp
So we're not gonna be going there instead. We're going to a convoy man. Okay. Okay a rocket
We've actually seen good results for Shikigami. This is actually their favorite
It it feels like in terms of maps they went to one against Balsar and then 1-0 against Peps
We saw how that one went yet like they but for this one specifically
I think this is more of a comfort pick now Jen after seeing their performances recently
I just want to see shikigami on some comfort pics and it all starts on the pick bands
I don't think it's worth acting the white box. I don't think anyone cares about
Daining that out unless you're like famous type a your fate or something like that
And even then you got more problems ahead of you. So it all starts in the big band
I think the only person that really looked comfortable is isidore from shikigami and like the Hulk and we maybe thought
we were going to see more rogue out of him, but either way, Isidore was the one that created
those opportunities, but there needs to be some follow through.
And Chikugami will swap and they never give up, but man, no one spot is tough to come
back from.
We have seen more of a flyer renaissance recently, and I feel like this map kind of
helps a little bit.
We saw some of it yesterday, specifically with Navi towards the end right, where
They were able to have the Angela just be unleashed and curious if we'll see something maybe similar from Shikigami going to this next one like that.
Yeah, like the Angela unleashed, I want to see the Wolverine unleashed man.
I felt like Shikigami's best look here has been with the Fastball Special early on in the weeks.
Well, let's get into it.
Do we see the Fastball Special?
Do we see Shikigami tie up the series?
This is their moment.
Otherwise, Team Heretics will dominate the group.
All right, let's get stuck in, Iroko on the docket.
This is an area that's very dangerous on the first point for some strange rotation, but
lack of teleport is of course a big old frag drop that is available if you happen to have
good pushes or even kidnaps.
And when I was highlighting Shikigami, it was, I think Frost Mountain delivers those
big pop-off moments.
And he actually had 6,000 less damage than Leilis, who's usually like the strong
secondary.
Cross around being off his game makes me really concerned for Shikigami's chances.
And I think that was just because of the punishing power of heretics, but now that you're going
to have a lot more space to operate, this is where Shikigami can try to get back in
the series.
I'm always very into the Iraq music, man.
Okay, there's a priority here for the Invis.
I feel that we've rarely seen Invis first protected, but one-sided Invis in a map
where pushers can be everything. You can have a little bit of fun with that one and also
it means you might be able to see Beetle here just stand on business on the dock to Strange.
Yeah and it also envisages such a good deterrent for Tive, a deterrent for Star Lord players
and a lot of Shikigami's damage came from Laila's to Star Lord. So I like that you
have envisages as in the back pocket because it's the thing that kind of babysits your
strat line being able to put up a shield and you have layers and layers to get through.
Yeah, like that's such a good like self-beam method as well like between a mantis and an invas being able to
Be able to put up that shield can make you much more difficult to dive especially if you're going up against him at like a
Say a Wolverine or a dead over has a tough time breaking those shields with all damage
Will be the last protect something to go along with the gambit guaranteeing the rogue
And that will be it what's on the menu for Isidore who he was a fantastic rogue for shikigami
in their last match and when we interviewed him about it we gasped him up and said no big deal I just
do my job and he's hoping to still be employed after this match. It is, what it is, it is bro.
Okay, one last ban, 40 maritics, they can likely get rid of a star ball to make sure no raging royal
legend will be seen. However, I think that this bit of pretty good draft for Shikigami, I think
they've got most of what they want, they're gonna try and constrain Oasis who is a very good
Mantis player, but I don't know if they're gonna have a way to some mantis over Naga who is just kind of that aimer and
No jet for a way says which has been their special throughout even all the convoy and convergence maps to be able to be pretty much in
Narnia
Healing and keeping everyone topped up through many ultimates oasis has been one of the better jets in
in the MGA, so it will finally cause their takes to maybe be off of some of these comfort
picks, but someone who's as confident and comfortable as ever is the newbie.
Come to think of it now, is this any of the daredevil, the Psylocke, and what the final
quizzes are going to be?
So the Psylocke could follow through on any dice, which will be on the actual one.
Okay.
There's gotta be two strategies.
Interesting.
would say that the man is in this a year ever again. Naga, wait, decision time. Decision
time for Naga. Okay, the Ultron. Triple strength is here again. Gonna be double damage reached
off. The Tanukyu is gonna be able to try and carry with some double damage which dives
into the back line. If you're Nama, you've gotta watch yourself here.
Yeah, watch yourself before you wreck yourself. Go Shikigami, get out of spawn or get wrecked
while Isidore is gonna hope to brawl, but as long as heretics keep their distance,
sometimes you can just chunk down that rogue before she gets the mits going.
Shikigami just focusing on some initial progress and then we'll hook the collapse on heretics.
Watch carefully as the back line from Shikigami moves forward when...
Oh my god, what a journey! Oh my god, Frostbound!
Big grab and big results and Beal doesn't get too much from the follow-up here on the
Angela so it's just gonna be forced to hide away for now but the second that they're there
they are just holding everyone in a very dangerous position. Tyre in particular has no real means
of being rescued if they get taken down into a less than ideal area. Seems like they may have
been an engagement happening over there from Frost Mountain which required a little bit of attention
but now you've got to worry about that TP behind Shikigami as well. That's a big exposing angle.
When heretics were so good on that domination, is watching for these frosts?
No! That is that he's been turned into a hill!
Oh no passive to try and sustain them there and Beedle just gonna get stuck in now
with the actions of I cause doesn't want to see anyone escape this as Tanuki rolls on forward yet
again needs to get a quick damage boost here off the Kyra is grabbed on in the finishing blows is
you have to be so careful with your pathing for shikigami and have your eyes peeled at all
all corners of the map as soon as you walk in you're gonna have Tanuki collapse on you
beetle is gonna kidnap you and it feels like there's a lot more pro activity from heretics
on that front of who they want to claim as Shikigami needs to set up Frost Mountain for
success and going to main is not going to be the best in terms of facing all this damage
from heretics head on.
Yeah, I'd love to see them try and control the high ground here in particular, however
it's already going to be an engage coming through from the dead pool and Frost Mountain
has been taken away so he won't be able to punish that Vanguard moving on forward
and now he's displaced from the disengaged shield, doesn't want to overextend themselves
and put their life at risk.
too early for the rage of Ultron so that will be Kwamd and Shikigami have one less thing
to worry about but half the time Bank has been gone and so little hope has been created
for Shikigami but at least Isidore is trying to avoid some of this Pokemon, Betel deposits
Kaya.
Yeah, it's not a fun time playing Magnetha going down this lane against an Angela.
I would highly disagree with this choice.
Awaits his down valiant, a nasty head shawl puts his door in the ground.
And this is Shikigami's choice of map,
but they're still trying to figure out how they want to approach it.
And going through Maine is just a no man's land.
The beetle, from Captain America to now, the Angela MVP.
Shikigami can't even get their Wolverine close enough to claw anybody's eyes out.
So Frostmound gets the batons out for Daredevil
and hopes to dive with Kaia on the venom.
Shikigami, unafraid to change up their composition.
What is this going to be the solution?
Narmé, good lane here.
Great value off the back of this joyful splash.
We're going to make sure everyone is well sustained.
That's to worry about their own vulnerability here.
And so it gets isolated by Isidore.
Using this team up here to do a huge amount of damage.
So Nuki needs to be saved, though.
Lealas gets nothing off the back of their ultimates.
I believe it must have been intercepted either in midair
or taken down quickly by a huge amount of damage.
Alex and Veskay kicked on down.
Unable to use anything to save themselves.
And Narmé's just going to play for sustainability in the back.
doesn't want to get too far involved after Vito goes down.
Hey, disruption on the portal, heretics want one last hurrah, but they are missing too.
And Alex will have the invisible boundary to stabilize them, and Enzo kinda needs some TLC.
Alright, the heartbreaker coming on through starts to train the old charge,
but it didn't affect Alex because they were on the other side of the port,
and so the LOS could not connect.
And as you back off here, it's when Vito was going to be very dangerous,
And I think someone might find that that one out a quick drop away from Kyren and she's to get back onto terra fern
But cross-mountain still gonna be a victim snooki invested their guns some of other flies to force Shikigami away
I think this is the right composition for Shikigami, but
Leolas needs to really get some good initial damage going but here it takes happy alts
Reggie world flush really needs to get some value combined with the feast of the abyss
It seems to have gotten nothing a single headshot here from Leolas followed up by a body on tendaga
And this is finally the space that they were looking for Alex gonna fall low and so won't be able to TP back just to come back slowly
Frostmound needs to check everybody at the door be the bodyguard, but on the flank heretics get a stun on
Get the have Beatles stunned and that was the way to get back in and there's no touch on the payload
So heretics for the first time this whole map they flounder
But man did this time bank from Shikigami take a hit, but they got an answer
They got a solution if they have to move forward from here on out now. This is a very difficult point for hit scans
It's an awkward for the lines of sight and it could be good for a dive to maybe access some of these strategies
High ground advantage for the defense. It's a door just happy to keep that
Kazadirka out bay for now going in though unleashing with their books and if he's temporarily blind
It doesn't want to get back inside of that aoe as Leila's looks to follow it up
and some inferno I think just hanging
it appears Lee in the air but there's not
gonna be that much help if the rest of
shikigami it backed off layoffs is gonna
need a rescue here where did the rest of
shikigami go they must have gone to
they were distracted on the cart or
something maybe pizza went back there or
to new key but it's not ideal teamplay
yeah the shikigami just needed a soft
reset get some progress why not but
then they set up to try and punish
beetle drop the half held in a
shikigami that paid the price and
it's expensive
Oh, Beetle taking down two of the ground, yet to be claimed though, is all the long range kick on the Tanuki.
Perfect ranging there from Isidor, and inside of a healing couple of the Jeffers, a little bit more sustainability here.
Shikigami back on off, knowing they can't fight against the Mantis, but just going to try and punish Beetle from being so audacious in their approach,
but Beetle can just split around and get out of dodge.
Naga on the White Fox is an uncommon look, but a feast of the Abyss is a good start for Shikigami.
Frostmountain coming in from the other side can see everybody even inside of the invisible boundary
but you don't want to get in close and personal with that white post because she's a dangerous customer
but TP out means that now there isn't quite so much to deal with this one
instead of has the heartbreaker ready to go if they want to use it
and instead they are just going to wait for the explosion of the raging royal flash
Lindstrom no one comes to share out the damage and so they're going to lose the effects of a royal flash
she can go out and use everything here so many of their trump cards and yet they aren't picking up anything off the back of it
Shikigami are just not getting enough value out of some of these ultimates and from the end song to the heartbreak or whatever else comes out of Shikigami
But maybe they can rely on frost mountain once and for all but they've been stalled out for so long
I think the ultimate goal has to be to at least claim second point, but it's not gonna be easy
And just right as they roll on in feeling gonna be difficult to deliver to Kaia
Thanks to Matt. Children was put up by Enzo and now there's going to be a skill issue to deny as well.
Sending it onto the back line. It's also with Lindstrom, can't play to heal themselves.
Tanuki just over here with a double damage which is feeling as comfortable as ever.
They eat nowhere near Phename and that is going to be an early hold from Team Heretics.
The countertie from Heretics, it just splits Shikigami's attention. On one side,
You have the vanguards from Shikigami that can't get the emergency healing they need
because Shikigami's Shrat line is either getting hunted by Tanuki's Silak or dove by Enzo or Shot.
Whatever it is, Shikigami are just barely hanging on in these fights. It's not been extremely
inspirational. They got to the right composition, but then Heretics adapted at the end.
Like even Nagas on the White Fox and you talk to him and he just needs a couple of hours
to master any strategist you ask him to do from what the three hours on a visible woman
to who knows how much he has on the white fox but it's been fantastic for heretics to
withstand shikigami what are the top teams in this group.
For I want to see another team do that roll out with Alona Snow and the Hawkeye on the other
and get the instant headshot on a frozen target but for now team heretics they are on the
precipice of a perfect stage 10 and 0 in terms of maps. Harkens to them.
Cross mount having a quiet one and it's tough to see because it's it's been a
lot of these melee duelists and you can't blame them. You can't get close. What are
you supposed to do? Claw the wall.exe? Like we don't want to see that.
So she can...
That's a deep reference for any knowers but she could got me. We'll put up a defense
and it has to be a good one, or the series will end and Heritage is favored.
Tanuki's already made a big kidnap happen,
Deron's on the Frost Mountain, Lynch from Small and Low as well,
but it seems like everyone's going to be able to get back to safety due to
Kaia just demanding attention on the car, making sure that that mission area is not
getting any three movement forward, but needs to be careful on their disengagement.
So much kidnap potential, you can see if it's Tanuki just lurking around here waiting
for the proper federal leap timing and Kaia all pulled in by the Force Physics.
This is why you enlist the Invitable Woman
All right stuff around this corner
They kind of get some vision without being super accessible to the heritages dive
This is okay a beetle trying to be denied on these angles, but whoo there's a ledge that beetle
What's the scoop chicagami off of but he's just gonna help push this pro
This cart along a chicagami or try to escape puts on to beetle would love to go down into this with the extra
I cause it would be a huge amount of additional damage, but and Kai's move is actually something else so far
Then very evasive and never to really get the ideal grab there on to the
Simockers they can just easily dash out and Nami already has the it's Jeff and you know what as much as the Angela scary here
So too is the jet puts down the healing puddle goes into more than that
I think two people have been grabbed so far the can now may survive. No, just all in
Disgusting look away children
Yeah, Shikigami cannot take the fight on the main road.
They should have chosen the back corner to not have this Angela.
Take them to a test of gravity and now two and a half minutes team Heretic sailing away
towards the end of the point.
You need to see a big rage of oil flush here from Lensstrom.
That's going to be the wing condition, but all heretics are not going to allow
it.
Ah, it barely feels like four ultimates out of Shikigami, and this was only their third
elimination of that fight. So, erotix banking up and also swapping swapping to the captain America.
But this can also be very susceptible to pokes. You're not going to have that nice wind condition
of tackling people off the edge, but you're going to try and run down the backline as
best as you can. Let's see if Shikagami can stop Beedle before the approach to Nuki on the
Wolverine 2 to join alongside this. It's like a budget Angela, I guess. As Kaya hangs out
is ready to counter dive his hair ticks approach.
Okay big grab here onto Isidore and the last stand just all in to try and
bully out one of those vanguards and make this frontline a touch more squishy.
That's why Kaio now has to continually get these touches on point you can see
the approach of waylases very much noted another big grab onto Kaio Wolverine
doing their job. Big amounts of healing are available coming on through but
Nami just falls down again and I think that Linkstrom may have actually gone
through the portal here it needs all that you need frost mountain faced with
endo here no one's there to touch and god the warframe is just so much to deal
with as a vanguard picture perfect fight but shikigami again losing value on these
olds nothing off the it's Jeff the heartbreaker got interrupted nothing on
the end song a little too quiet on the tune and shikigami it's just our
suffering this is the fight to win all and heretics on match point they have
plenty of time to get this done oh yeah not very far for the avatar of Araka to
go either beta looking in towards the back already the invisible band has been
put on up so the vanguards inside this they are unhealable really as no one
really knows where they are they allow us ready to drop down towards the back
waiting for the word from kaya on to a backliner and now it's gonna be a
racist answering the raging royal flush moving everyone forward of extra
speed and extra HP and it seems like you've got me had so much trouble getting value over
these Raging Royals flashes. It's already over. The heartbreak has been done here by
Acidol. Gets the data they want to run down. Lynström real bad. Nothing's stopping Beesler.
He just don't quarks down the lane and Kai has to stay in place. Keeping this point
contested. Lynström's going to be there too. Alongside of course, Acidol. In comes
from a feast of VFS. They want Enzo. Enzo falls low. Maybe goes a touch too far
but a turn around is good. The healing is even better and now he's just chasing
them down they can share out all of the damage there's just gonna be quite the
angry parade for the white fox a kumi ho unleashed a healing puddle below maybe
we can get some roll of this one but no one's on the cart and shikigami are
absolutely trounced team heretics with a perfect stage
the c-dive but I mean you were just like a meter away from winning if
your heretics. It's so awkward for the vanguards of Shikigami to try and have a fight when you
also have to be at the payload. You can't expect your strategist to be the ones anchoring the
objective and so many swaps and a little bit of hope created, but heretics dominant as
ever. And not just not a peak day for Shikigami and that's okay because they're in the playoffs
nonetheless, but heretics, it's the strat line that had to flex a lot. I mean Oasis is on the
Mantis instead of Naga. Naga is on the White Fox. I'd love to talk to him about how much he's been
working on that. Betel and Enzo are on their their best characters ever and Tanuki's having a field
day with almost 10 final hits and 25k damage. So Tanuki is consistent and that's what makes
This heretics such a fearsome teeth.
I mean, heretics, the perfect stage, absolutely beautiful.
Unfortunately for Shikigami, folded up like origami.
And let's bring Wodable in to have a quick chat about this one,
see if he noticed anything from the back seats.
Oh man, I mean, I think the big thing to notice here
is that team heretics are just such an unbeatable squad.
Like, no matter if you try and target them against them,
what Shikigami was so good at doing,
it felt like into this last map,
and they went to their comfort zone,
But Team Heretics made it their own domain and their layer that you could not escape and neither could anyone escape the Assassin's Charges
I mean I gotta give credit where it's new for the research that Heretics did. They definitely watched how good we saw Naveed perform on this map
Just yesterday the last series where now Beetle just emulating the
Assassin's Charges from the Angela and the damage from Stormsuit as well. Picture perfect
I couldn't have to say here as well and then Naga
I also like the flex onto the white box. It just goes to show like even if they're not playing their best composition
There's still gonna be a team that is
Overwhelming offensively, and it's really difficult to just go toe-to-toe with them in any capacity
So congratulations to them. We're going undefeated and I feel like you know
They had a statement to make here after not being mentioned too much in the interview by sparkler there lemon
And Shikigami chose that map. We don't get to see a Rakka too often, but just where they chose to take the fights was a real headscratcher.
When you're going up against an Angela or anyone who has a displacement, going on to that main stretch of the first point, there were so many environmental eliminations from Beatle, as you pointed out.
And when that wasn't a concern, he just went to the Captain America for an even better brawl, so I think Shikigami just have to play those corners.
the front corner and the back corner. Ignore that no man's land because you're just going
to get tossed off. They tried to have Frost Mountain give a taste of their own medicine
to heretics, but Frost Mountain just couldn't get a consistent high ground pressure to maybe
find an easier path towards them. I commend them for going to a more arranged duelist
so you didn't have to gap close and worry about that so much, but Jacob got me barely
just were holding on. I feel like if they had the Star Lord it might have been a little bit of a
different story for them too to be able to use that combination. You talked about it like as
soon as that band came through then maybe some of the dreams were crushed for Shiki Gami there
as well. So it's a tough swap to find themselves in but that does kind of cement things at least
in group A. Heretics number one, Navey number two, Shiki Gami number three and then number
four of course of being the peps. So we now know at least half of our groups on that
side and we'll figure out on the last series that the rest of them but we're
just getting ready for an interview for one of the winners we've got so many
insights from Tanuki yesterday I'm curious if we'll hear from them or
someone else on the roster today I'm just happy to talk to anyone at this
point to get some insights and peek behind the curtains of what the
strategy was and why they have been so good of a team I mean they had the
makings of it from before and it sounds like Enzo is going to be the
one to spice things up here that's gonna be pretty great I mean like
we've heard some some great stories from Enzo and some previous interviews.
Yeah we've heard great stories from Enzo in previous interviews but also his setting for
previous interviews was much better as well. You saw the food safety poster up in the wall and what
looked like a doctor's office. It looked like proper set design, some peak stuff. Enzo doesn't
have that anymore I think, which makes me deeply sad but I'm at least happy that he's
succeeding and it feels like Vanguard Pool being added to the roster has been a huge
boon for Enzo, where there's been lights out on it on every map we've seen so far. To the point where
it kind of does demand a ban, but against Team Heretics there's just such a plethora of threats
that you can't address them all. Yeah, he's a vanguard Deadpool, but he frags like the
duelist one. He has second most amount of damage. I love Enzo on Deadpool. Oh man,
well speaking of Enzo, we can glaze him as much as we want, but he is here for the
interview. Congratulations on going on an undefeated streak here. How are you feeling after
What was your feeling for that victory, Anza?
I was feeling great, feeling great.
It was slightly harder than we expected.
I think we went into map 2
with Arco, we never played that map before.
So it was a bit like stressful
but we had to figure out
what we wanted to do.
I think one good thing is that
we ended up with a comb
and I don't even think that's the best comb we should have played
and I think we all agree on this.
So it's like we're not showing too much
but we're still winning, so we take those.
What was behind the choice to put Tanuki everyone Wolverine for the second half of
the Rocco, given that you didn't feel the need to play it when you were playing into
that Venom Road previously?
Um, it just feels this map, Baraco, we know how good Wolves is, and we know how good
Paddock is on Wolves, so we just say, yeah, let's just play it.
We have the Indies, they don't, so they should be scared of it.
How much has Naga been working on the wife box is like whatever strategies you tell him to play
He's ready to step up and you guys can kind of have a lot of overlap in your strat line
Which makes it so you can do as much damage as you do so talk to me about the strat line here
Naga is a nightmare is grinding this game
I queue at 3 a.m. In ranked in EU and I see this guy playing triple sweep off every game
I can't even blame him for that, but holy that's annoying
I love to see it there. I want to talk a little bit about how you basically made it so everyone
is scared to ban any version of Deadpool because of the potential of having the Stratus
Pool or you on the Bangor Pool. It just feels like everyone has just given you one of your
best heroes for free at this point. Yeah, I mean we have a really good read
on the meta and all of our comps enable specific characters so they don't really know what to
ban and it's very funny to see other people starting to play our comps like the Jeff
whole thing and they just, they're just so funny, like we see everyone trying to play
it and they all fail so it's just funny because obviously we know more than they
do because we've been playing this thing for a long time, we know what counters
it, we know how it's good and against what it's good and the strength of this
comp, it's just funny to see people trying it out.
So we have two teams that will meet with Perfect Stages, yourselves and Virtus.Pro.
Have you guys been screaming a lot of Virtus.Pro?
How do you feel about your matchup against them given that they're likely to meet you
in the pre-season finals?
I mean, it's the usual thing, you know, we scream against VP, not that much.
They always, most of the time, they win against us, but it doesn't change anything.
Like, when we're gonna go to the match, it's gonna be close anyway.
And they know it.
It doesn't matter how much we're getting stomped in the scrims, it's gonna be close.
And it's so fun to watch you, where do you think your Deadpool ranks amongst all the
Vanguard Deadpool's?
Because I swear every time we look at the stats, you have as much damage as a duelist.
I don't think I'm much better than a Deadpool, I think my team just enabled me more than
others.
That's a character that I feel like everyone is just the same to be fair, I don't
see anyone being much better than the others, just depends on how you play around
it.
just enable me really well. I have Naga on the side, I have Betel, like he's doing so much
this guy, like I couldn't believe on a better thing to play with. I can't lie, this guy is just
amazing. We have Alex also, Alex been doing way more and I think that Ken living is a good thing
for him because he can express his like skill potential way more. I've been watching this
guy play for like six years now. This guy is so amazing. And before we will put him on like
easier character, not that Ken is young, he has to play like the hard job and he's like
doing amazing and I'm so happy that he can finally like show a good side of him
and who knows maybe Ken's come back and we can combine these two these two gods
together one day. Maybe maybe a little bit of a hint for future stages of
competition. Well any final shout-out statements or kind of thoughts that you
have for the audience the floor is yours? I mean I've been grateful for
We have the Spanish people, I really like them, they are really funny. Showed out to them and I can't wait to play next.
We have so many things that we can show, we are so ahead of the meta as well. We can't let them play.
Awesome. Well thank you Edzel for all of your insight. Go celebrate your win and the perfect group stage with your team.
I'm on Cinzo.
Thank you.
to the heretics fans there shout the craggy as well for the watch party that's going on
on the side I'm sure they were celebrating as soon as they saw that final point not to
go through for Shiki Gami and the flawless stage that we have seen from this team heritage
rostering this is everything we were hoping for at the start of the preseason from this
team lemon yeah I mean heretics made their dreams a reality like the poster behind ends
So it says, and the fact that he commenced so much of their strat line, I completely agree.
That's one of the strongest parts of them.
And then you have Naga that could be not only on the Mantis, but anything that they need, and queuing at whatever o'clock to just always be on the grind.
Verityx worked hard, and it paid off as they locked in that number one seed.
Well, we still have to determine one more group coming up here leg day.
This Rathjup that we have ahead of us, Reason versus Crownfall.
I mean both these teams I feel like have so much on the docket for them ahead of them
So it's gonna be a nail biter just trying to figure out exactly what the different
Highbreaker scenarios that she are gonna be for that one
I'm glad the match is headed before this one especially this one made it easy for us on that end
But we'll think talk more about that because we got to take a quick break for our last series of the day
You don't want to miss it
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Remember the dust, the lights gripping tightly
Trapping all those hiding souls
But here, across the world
I see you standing in my way
And remember the time, the place we used to fight
to fight the sun and moon and I wonder
if ever there was a time that we were friends
and I have a solid shadow swimming in my necks
that's what has come from it, CQL
we are set now for our last reunion
break the chains, find your way
come fight me
do you remember who you really are
show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll be waiting for you
When the ink in the blood makes your eyes blazing
If it's then smashed in, there's one more
For the rest of my time's done, and
The rest of us will be enlightened
And then your mind holds onto the power of love
And so thus, we arrive to the end of time
We are crushed, we're water-we're air
We will fight, we'll sing across time
Space wants you, but why does it matter to me?
You see the dawn, the flame burning brightly, shining one north on the face, and yes, across all time I see you turning the sides.
And do you see now our time?
Our time we can still fight
Like you've been defined
One time or more
Yeah now it's the only time you're hard
In my
Like a swollen, dark place
For that, as you wait for our next
The meeting at bay
Two days finally for the past
The future, free of machines
Leave the way, fight with me
And then you'll play again
I've got my job right
Crazy, now you've missed it
She thinks I'm old
But for the rest, I search again
The other person's kid
I've been blinded by the time I was born
To help us keep focus now
I'm dead to us
We are blinded again
Until the end of time
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Hey guys, my name is Ryan Central and I'm here to answer one
specific question. What's the meta? And I would answer, I don't know, what's the meta
with you? And I will continue to use that joke until I'm about 90, even though I look
about 90 now. But in all seriousness, though, I do want to talk about some of the data
that we've seen from that first week of action in EMEA and America's in Ignite. Bear
in mind that the players played on a old patch. It was the hot picks that came
out on March the 19th. So the white fox buffs that were about to see the Deadpool
mobility in Elsa having less HP, we are going to see that in action this upcoming week.
So stuff is a little bit different and also as the pros will say, they're still working
out the meta themselves, lots of stuff is going to change and we're still building
up the sample size, which includes add in China and Pacific to the action this week
too.
But there is a very easy place to start.
Elsa versus Gambit, which of these characters is the most powerful in a competitive sense
in coordinated play.
And the answer when it comes to presence,
how often we're seeing these characters is actually Elsa.
There's 68 maps played in America's EMEA this last week
and a hero could shock twice in the draft, right?
You can either protect a character
and then the other team protects them
so you can both play them, you can both ban them
or you can have one team protect it and then ban it
to make sure that they can play something like Elsa
and the other team cannot.
So it can shock twice,
Elsa showed up every single time without fail.
And certainly towards the start of a draft
where you're looking for those first bands and first picks.
In comparison, Gambit was missing like once or twice.
Some teams just didn't want to include him at all,
but the big difference between Elsa and Gambit
is one is being banned out a lot more than the other.
And surprisingly, it is Gambit
that is actually being taken out more.
So for example, a lot of the drafts
will look like they will on screen, right?
Where you're seeing Gambit being banned out first
and then both teams will go and protect the Elsa,
so both teams have access to it.
Naturally, it makes sense.
Elsa is really strong.
Why would you not want to ban her out first though?
It's more the case that Gambit,
despite him being nerfed individually,
being hit by the strategist,
all generation nerfs too as a whole,
he's still strong in his own right,
but he enables so much as well.
Heroes like Star-Lord, Galactic Legend,
with a raging royal flush from Gambit,
an incredible combination,
and characters like Rogue,
who are pretty like middling,
I suppose when it comes to the rankings
of vanguards on their own,
get pretty much est here
because they have the Gambit team up to work with.
You remove Remy from a draft, you're removing three to four other strong heroes alongside.
So it's so much value.
So you take off a lot of the options from the enemy team and protecting Elsa means that
you at least have something to work around no matter what your composition or idea is
going to be for a map, whether you're playing dive, poke, 2-2-2, triple strategist, triple
vanguard is something that we're seeing as well at this point.
With flies, against flies, Elsa just works with all of it.
It doesn't matter your comp, you put an Elsa in and she's so versatile.
will go and just absolutely destroy people in her own right. Outside of these two fighting
for first place, you do have the likes of Vanguard Deadpool actually being right behind them
both in protecting and also banning him out. And similar to Elsa, he just fits into a lot
of different compositions and ideas and he just is very good in his own right, but also
it's how good he is on stuff like domination. Because he can still build up his ultimate
very quickly, certainly in comparison to somebody of the folk generation nerds that
we've seen. That first fight is really good for Deadpool because it can get a
ban hammer early, put it on the enemy strategist, lead to an elimination and so
your backline strategists are up on ultimate charge before the enemy. It
gets so much value and it makes sense why Deadpool Vanguard is so good, not on
your domination but just in a lot of first early fights. If you enjoyed these
kind of breakdowns let us know and we'll continue to do more but until
next time ignite the battle and I'll see you in a few.
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Clear the way!
Feel the pull!
Disappear!
One final series determines three teams' fates.
It all comes down to this.
Will it be Fire Strays, Team Vision, Reason Gaming, and maybe some groundfall enthusiasts
in there to try and make it to the playoffs?
We have reason gaming versus Crownfall, two teams who have had highs and lows throughout
the preseason group stage, but it all comes down to this, Levin.
If you watched Crownfall during MRC, you were a hype for this team coming in, but that hype
has died off us.
They are still chasing that first win, but this is what the preseason is all about, making
mistakes and learning and growing from them.
And this team is still trying to find that identity.
Mahad and Mejed, what is going to be the duelist of choice?
Because yes, they look flexible, but I
want to see them become the masters
and have really some strong, consistent impacts.
Because they trade off on Elsa, but if there's no Elsa,
then what?
That is a big thing.
We've been seeing so many prioritizations
on Elsa bands going forward.
But let's talk a little bit about this reason roster.
We don't see two members to mention specifically,
because they are loans from Lunex.
That is a DRP.
balance. We heard from Minty earlier on shout out to their manager talking about the whole scenario with that last week and now seeing how they've kind of melded into the fold of this recent gaming roster. What have they really elevated with this team like
today since we've seen them from the beginning till now.
I feel like Paso Woe's soft dives are getting a lot more value now. We've definitely seen the rise of Venom and EMEA over the course of our preseason and being able to force out these resources especially when you're going up against triple
strategies is so important to create openings for the recipe team to go in, especially for
Balas making sure there aren't like seven cooldowns that can be directed Balas's way of a second way
trying to make an entry. I mean speaking of enabling and that's what you know Enzo was talking to us
a little bit about with the vanguard pool and how he gets enabled a lot by his team. Will you
see Kikkat on the Mantis just doing the most it feels like Gen or this team so that
Balas can be unleashed on that phoenix or whatever they do end up playing depending
on how the band phase goes.
Yeah, there's been so many swap-ups for recent gaming
in terms of their roster.
But one thing that has stayed stable
is the strategist line with Kit Kat and Cedro,
where it's been a lot of the 2-2-2,
or sometimes you have a symbol as a strategist,
or even back in the day, Nocta did that.
But it seems like they found a core lineup
to play at least for this pre-season.
But now it's about not only you've ironed out
the stability, but now it's about consistency.
And Ballas, we've talked about being that pop-off,
that star power that reason gaming have had because they took a map off of what was it rad on that first
domination so they're able to punch up but it's closing out a series that is a whole different
conversation. A lot to look forward to for these teams and I think another thing with the Nocturne
we'll talk about in the actual map based itself but we got to mention this crownfall roster. Coach
Cuffy is the bastard mind behind them I saw on social media saying that the team environment
is great. They just haven't really been able to find their footing against these rosters.
And I feel like as this team grows, like they with experience at the tier one level,
they will continue to improve. But who is the biggest standouts for you that we've seen so far?
I feel like we've seen a lot of stuff out of Majed and Fahad so far, but never at the same time.
Which is a sad rally for this team. Like if we can get both Majed and Fahad on form,
On a given day, I think that Crownfall can achieve a lot more.
Rose has been trying to integrate into this roster
as a very late pickup after dropping out of alter e-sports just after MRC.
Sombra, I'm excited to see if Crownfall can have every member
at 100% going into matchday.
If they're all there, I think that they have it in them to pick up a win.
If Crownfall do get this win, it does confirm a team vision.
They're Saudi Arabian counterparts essentially into the playoff stages, so maybe for the
discontent that they have between those two teams, they might be trying to play
spoiler in this series. But reason gaming, they want the highest seed they can get. Their win
condition is a 2-0 sweep and then we'll see everything falls from then on out for more
confirmation on exactly who makes it out of this group stage. But I love that both these
teams have had iterations of improvement throughout. I mean, Crownfall, we saw them take their first
map win against that vision game, and a lot of people, them and going into that series,
actually thought they were the favorites. Yeah, and reason gaming, I think, have looked stronger
on the dive, as, as Leite pointed out with PastaWoe on the Benham, but Crownfall are more of that,
like, deathball type of team, and looking back at even the MRC days to now, I look towards
as one of my favorite players on this crownfall roster, whether from the road to the deadpool to whatever the team needs.
He's been that stable frontline carry, I would say, and Rosa to try and also incorporate a newer vanguard to the lineup is not easy.
We need so much synergy between your two vanguards and even more cohesion to play on a domination map like Hell's Heaven.
Yeah, and Hells Heaven speaking of it, we have not seen Crownfall play it yet during the pre-season, but we did see Fire Stray's play against Reason Gaming on it, I believe, at one point as well.
So Reason Gaming, they have some experience, and that was where they got their first win in a 2-0 fashion, so they're probably happy to be on a map that really turned around their pre-season for them.
for them. Yeah like recent game kind of like Firestrace they've had a separate
kinds of pre-season so you know like sometimes just takes a lot to get into
the groove of a new team and a new calling structure and you matter as well
on top of that and a new year of Ignite competition so I don't doubt that
Crownfall will have their moment in the sun as well but recent gaming is
certainly very happy to see that Hell7 is our randomly determined map. Going
into it maybe this could be the enigma that Crownfall needed going
from, you know, maps that they've had people be able to study up against them
and maybe not been as prepared as they would have liked to against certain
compositions. They have no pressure going into this one, Lemon. I feel like that
will unleash a lot of the nerves that they might have been experiencing up to
this point. Yeah, a map like Hell's Heaven isn't the greatest for Venom and
maybe you see more cap than America. A lot more chaos on that front, but then
you look at Crownfall. Are they going to be able to get Elsta through the
pick fans because that's where Fahad and Majed shine and also fight over the Euro.
Well, I think reason probably aren't going to make that too easy for them.
Our final series of the day determines the fate of all the teams in Group B.
We'll see how it goes.
Alright, let's drop into our bands here.
And I actually said, London,
hey guys, here on where the ELSA makes it clear.
It seems like everyone in the NBA has collectively hand shook this week
that ELSA ain't happening.
Yeah, I think I've only seen what Sloppo today playing like the Elsa and Ballas going
up against him on that mirror would be no joke.
It's usually always a one-sided affair when it comes to Elsa's or Gambit's ever-it-is,
but reason to prioritize the Mantis off the bat.
Yeah, not even grabbing themselves the Gambit, which is interesting.
I guess with Sateam, it doesn't really play that much around the Gambit.
They do have very successful triple strategist comps, so both of these teams looking
towards that Mantis. I imagine we're going to be seeing for hard pick up the Mantis to
boost MGD, but you know, they twist it around sometimes as both teams. Just going to make
sure there's no Elsa to be seen.
I was wondering if the Elsa was going to be protected, but the Mantis, and what's
going to be accompanying the Mantis? So many strong team-ups around it, from the Groot
to the Loki to just, who cares about team-ups? Mantis go burr. She gives amazing damage
loves to whoever, especially if paired with the Ultron. So no loci's are only one side
of Loki, which Crownthorne are going to hope to use.
Okay, Loki's pretty good. It's my demanded Groot band. If you're going down the full
Mantis team up route and it looks like Reason Gaming certainly have identified that. Rosa
is a fantastic Groot player. So yeah, gonna have to nip that one in the bud. These have
been some great Vanguard bands from Reason Gaming, given that Crownthorne, I'd say
their best vanguards, a rosa on the Groot and Abu Hu on the Vanguard Deadpool.
And especially on Hell's Heaven where the first fight went to be able to defend with
Groot is just next level annoying. It is a nightmare to shoot down the walls, you have
to think about heroes that are going to be good at doing that, which may dissuade
people from running certain triple strategies to maybe opting for more of a 2-2-2, but
the Invisible Woman will be the final protect here for reason gaming, maybe deny any
star lord action from the other side and namely to just have a consistent
strong backline which invisible woman is such a huge core part of no double
damage boost is declared here by crown for getting rid of reason gaming's
chance to make sure someone is incredibly pocketed by the Ultron but
we'll see to what degree they are going to really zoom in on to a single
duelist the crown for would have expressed to see Rose walk out on this
Doctor Strange, but I don't imagine that uh, of selling it for that long.
I looked at it and this team up is not one-sided, it's just guaranteeing for the reason of the moment.
And Seijirah's actually been lined up so I thought I might be able to make sure that I can really stand out for racing games.
That line for Seijirah, I'm planning to have feedback on that.
Even uh, Rosa as one of his back-ups has been the emma, so I don't know who's going to be the one on that.
Sometimes he'd like to go for some portal plays on the Dr. Strange and even just play that
on the convoy map, so he's got Haitian, Fristahad, and the Zed, but it just swaps over every
dualistic game.
And some even odd choices from Namor or to Punisher, I say odd in terms of the meta,
but they are still trying to find their identity and also what they're going to
run off out the gates.
Okay, two duelists for this game. They are going to be going very hard on the Manchester.
See where DRP1 wants to take them to, and it's also a good early scouting tool. When do you want to pull the trigger?
And it's also, do you reveal yourself at the front or in the middle of the team?
And it's the try and block crown fall from the point momentarily.
I'm just trying to pull the frag, which is a bit of a rarity at this level, but we have seen it happen.
who's gonna have time to start building up that telekinetic ray now which is gonna start doing a lot of damage
from midway through the fight itself. Can't quite get the sonic crystalline time and so they won't
be able to be crushed for sentience on the Deadpool but crushing Dallas might be just as good a quick
teleport away matches to get themselves into a safe space but it is in the line of sight of
Majed who's constantly getting all of that my goodness not around the back perfect recall on
the sonic shark and there to destroy for half who is able to clean your bible himself
And in tools to back now, there is this aim challenge going there.
Once I'm a dead, the corrosive acid burns through the armor of the Punisher.
And it seems like reason have got everything they want in this first fight.
Apart from Kit Kat's survival, which Darby's nature isn't happening.
And really early Loki, you're gonna copy these soul resurgence
because the point has not been kept yet.
It also is gonna make Doctors Dance of the Butterflies
much weaker to have all these Loki clones to have to chump through.
But Shakun, her the coolest rage, and Okta, found out the hard way.
Yeah, Nocturne I think was attempting a spawn camp there, Marge had just come up to a zipline, but uh, had seen some mo-mo-takes, you know.
And the show got ready to go. DRP, once again, using the softbite that was learned from Passuo, and is going to be a quick back-off here from Rose, despite reason gaming's early advantage.
They have lost quite a bit of their point contest here. Passuo moves forward together with DRP, this could be a huge ultimate, but no DRP falls midway through! Magistrate's getting stuck in you early!
Both duelist ultimates for reason. After the regen domains were used for Yano and they still
couldn't get eliminations. The invisible boundary too from Sejuro just to stall as much as they are,
they did, and Crownfall were observing with the Punisher ultimate and really saved, it was almost
an ultimate to save themselves with as Crownfall will be able to defend first and will have the
Khranik Revival from Fahad. So you got almost the mirror situation happening, but a difference
in those dualists is what's going to make all the difference, while Breeze and Gamer actually
seems like that damage from Valus but that's what they who they're gonna have
to lean on we have to get through that Emma shield and what's gonna protect them
to from the Emma ultimate DRP has to be ready
That's a great to go, debuffs for half, out comes so many of the defensive utilities though
those are the regeneration to make Emma's soul bombs have been used here though which is a lot
off the plate for crown full luckily they have been able to catch even more members
So now that we've pushed for that right a lot a lot of tools for crown fall and they never even gave up the point reason gaming
Or on the outside watching in and there is some forgiveness from crown fall invisible powdery from
Sejuro just to be able to sustain through this Emma old but near the counteraction from
Valis and get the double as soon as those rebikes came in playing blank with the damage boosts to
two players will pull.
My guess is really good, though.
Up comes the meteor landing.
Finn is going to be sent there once in a while,
making sure there's no chance for any more revivals.
But Ayana Koji already got the copy,
already brought back their counterpart.
Disgusting play on the low-keep.
And now back into their regular doppelganger form.
They were able to pump out a bunch of heels
to keep Abihu up and kicking.
Darby knows even more.
Injurins the Soul Researchers doing that.
It's now or never to get rid of reason gaming.
And it's nothing we've gone forward now.
Their vanguards put their lives on the line to make it happen, Passiwo disengages.
But Yannikos is just feeling so comfortable back here.
Regeneration of the Man-Kids everyone healthy, DRP is down,
the ever-stir-be-events are moving in, but Rose is just trying to walk down.
Not her! But not her!
He's the second vanguard to try and deal with this one.
Passiwo's sentient crystal is chased off here by a boom
who continuously chips off the point.
And now it's the third Phoenix who has to try and keep this one contested.
Passiwo can't disengage anymore.
There are no further options and crown for.
What a statement.
So many minigames that reason gaming have to play.
Taking down the Crownfall Loki clones,
you have to get through the Emma Shield.
There's the DRP Mag Bubbles.
Like, there's so much to mitigate.
All the ultimates and ways that reason gaming
are trying to get pigs in Crownfall.
They have domain regen.
Worst case scenario, throw those up.
They cover almost the entire point
because the clones live on so much.
reason gaming hadn't found a way in 100-0 is domination as we will have a pause here
momentarily being called so you'll see more of us here in a second.
But that will give everybody some time to digest we haven't around one.
I mean, big credits to Rosa as well, like I think a big part of that round, turning
around was Rosa getting to be perfectly timed bubble on the jet when popping the final
judgment. We saw DRP floating above it, like please break the bubble, please break the bubble,
please break the bubble, but like your meterum just gets overloaded so fast by the damage
and the damage used to final judgment, you'll eventually throw it out and credit to him,
connect to him super hard, but unfortunately, A.L.A. Koji had already copied the atom and so
there was a second resurrection coming through with Kikuna revival, like I'm back again! And
guess what? We've still got final judgment, so no luck there for recent gaming.
Yeah, talk about the mini games. I just said just when you think you beat the first level there's level two
And it's Adam who brings everybody out back so good mentioned there like
Reason gaming I'd love to see that a second duelist because I don't think ballast can do it all on his own
And it's no shade. It's just there's a lot of damage
You need to output to get through the strat line of crown fall and to reestablish yourself in the fight because
Yeah, the Adam will revive everybody
But if you can just keep momentum and be aggressive and push forward
you're almost you could maybe punish the team for being revived like that so
Reason gaming though not having the Loki is gonna hurt them a lot
And which means you also can't play the silo into a Loki a reason gaming have to swap off of that ASAP
Like the the way that you can counter the down so a butterfly so easily using for a generation domain
And of course you can mitigate some of those strikes as well if you don't have a gender man by putting up your doppelgangers
because they'll absorb two strikes each, which is like,
you can solo tank it.
Like, oh, my team won't stack up
when I get ulted by the flaloc.
Never mind, I'll stack with myself.
I outnumber you.
Our game is almost ready to go.
And Passimo and friends from recent gaming,
I don't think have been punched in the mouth like this
in quite a while.
Like he said,
but they look so good on domination against Radn.
This is just not the best domination map for this team
who I think looks stronger on dive behind Passivo's Venom,
and this is just not the best map
because of all these low ceilings,
but it may consider it going forward
as Passivo was still on it,
so they're gonna go back to what's worked for them,
but I don't like Psylocke.
Yeah, not the best dive now,
but at least better than the previous one.
Yeah.
The two are for lower ceilings.
Slightly higher ones here for Passivo
to try and work around,
as well as these pillows
which give him his wall climb potential.
Already a builder you can see
their damage boost. I don't think it learns to get the carbon crush grab there, so there's
going to be a little bit less threat that Hasuo has to deal with. You can see that Prampol
just altogether missed the laria, tempting a dive.
Yeah, just that diamond form to kind of disrespect the Magneto too. Like, there's a force out
cooldown, so it's just got to be having a bubble or a shield ready at all times because
Abu still has that psionic seduction, and Hasuo has some space to operate on the
Venom, but here comes the final judgment.
rolling forward into the invisible boundary.
Extra speed coming through.
So much perfection needs to be given over to Majed right now.
And it seems to be working out, even with the meter end.
It's finally passed away.
It makes it happen with a frenzied arrival.
But guess who's back for hard this time with the res?
Majed is back in the play.
The kick camera needs to go.
Eternal bomb if it's needed.
And of course, you've got to be already being down.
Maybe reason gave me a calling, but this one's under control.
And we don't need to hyper-invest in this.
Resurrection comes on through.
DRP falling low.
And that means that now you have to go.
Can and Rosa get the cancel here onto the eternal ball.
It sends it into their own team,
trying to play this counter dive kind of motion.
Rosa now going to be backed up.
It's going to be a roll forward here.
Mujet has extra movement speed thanks to the Sol resurgence,
and that makes it all the more deadly to use that shotgun.
There's not just stands alone on the point,
only Passimo now remains.
There's still a good angle here from Ballas,
but I think you're going to need more than accuracy
to burn through five members of Crownfall.
Yes, the Punisher Hero is so good at being an anti-vanguard duelist.
That's the reason why Sparkler has it in his back pocket.
As a vanguard player, the Shotgun is a life ruiner,
but these in gaming use so many ultimates, never kept the point.
There was so much protection around DRP
who actually blocked the meteor M from hitting his cloak and dagger.
So DRP's now on the Angela though,
he's trying to maybe scoop some people up. Oh, psionic seduction though!
I think Emma is the coolest body guard to have. If you're a want to be a shotgun only punisher,
because who's gonna step up to you? Because Emma's just gonna push you on your back. It is
Very scary to go up against Yama, because she'll usually try to kick you into her own team.
Reason gaming now that they're also off the Magneto, don't have an easy shield to bring up to stop the Sirenid's seduction.
So I was going to have free ult, and I guess Crumple got free picks.
Yeah, just a nasty mag cannon there.
Stomp DRP in mid air, Passive low doesn't really have the HP to try and deal with this one.
Roserous is on it when it comes to her mag accuracy right now.
Now, easily comboing these players, mobiles continues to find this kind of
unfreshered high ground. By the time they really get any value off the back of it,
already they've lost worth of their vanguards and Rose with another combo!
It's filthy today!
A MAG is doing way too much work. You try to ban at Rose's best hero
and you're paying the price. This is going to be 200 to 0.
Every reason, don't get it together!
Alright, pressure ready to be put on. Ayama Koji ready to use
The soul research has to be careful, won't necessarily extend the transformer for Loki for that much.
Okay, Margell is going to be incredibly fast moving through here as well.
Looking for that attempt to shut it down with the Feast of the Abyss, but guess what?
The Phoenix ult don't last long when Feast of the Abyss is much damaged.
But I'll be sure to figure out this engaging.
Maybe looking for a late action usage.
Oh, nice CC immunity there for Margell as well.
I mean, I know that I'm blazing all of these.
Keeps dodging all of these Jeff ultimates.
Falsies to move on 40. Starts to build up for sparks,
I think it was a bit of a comp difference.
I'm not gonna lie and an execution difference and not the swaps of the moon night at the
the very end I wish that I'm a cop I wish that came out earlier because the
silo was not it you waste the time on that and if you want to try and punish the
amount of bugs the moon night is there that pseudo counter to that although it's
really fallen out of the meta I think that would have been a better served
earlier on and of course all the ballast picks that happened at the end
all just got revived by fahaj crown fall 200 for zero I did not have that
all my bingo card. Yeah I like that. Just trying to thought here to get to the moon night.
I would need to check the replay but I do think they missed the hand of comms shoe
on for hard threats which is alright. But in theory that is the correct answer to the
rest. Like the amount of pocket that Majette is getting right now is kind of off of a
chance like Darby using every single one of these solar surgences just to give
Majette extra speed as well during that final adjustment because that's the main
like downfall of Punisher's ultimate right that he's so slow and he's easy
the kind of way, but if you give him the speed boost from Darby, suddenly that is no longer
a problem, has even more health as well from the over health that lets him live through
the feast of the abyss and has the firepower to get rid of the Phoenix ultimate in the
sky in like half a second as well.
I just think that Crownfall found an identity and really owned it, like Mached owning on
the Punisher and it was a lot of the shock on Punisher too, playing in tandem
with an Ember and a Mag like if there's one tool that should be commending his
whole team. It's Majed thanking his whole squad. Of course the triple strategist. You can't deny the
poke that Adam does at range. Even Fahad is getting a couple of picks and dropped 10k damage. On the
Adam you have the damage boost from Gabi. So overall I like how Crownfall really supported
Majed and the final judgments to give himself an vulnerability at times to get away from
some hectic moments. Invisible Boundary proves to be a hurdle, a hoop for Machete to get through,
but I like adaptations that Crownfall brought out when they were getting band-a-guns.
He has uncomfuscated his hands and Bro is now fracking out on the mag.
Yeah, that Loki dropped 30,000 heals though for Ayato.
That's how long these doppelgangers were lasting through.
Like I said, recent gaming were playing so many minigames.
The Loki doppelgangers to the Fahad, Rezes to Abu Diamond form, a shotgun from Punisher
and a 200 to 0 port groundfall.
gaming they gotta keep composed it's the last match of the group stage and we'll find out what their map pick will be after this.
I
Technically, reason gaming still could take it out on some weird scenario if they do
witness at the end, but Crownfarer are trying to make sure that does not happen.
One more map is all it takes for their first victory in Ignite 2026.
And we're all here for it.
But like he said at best 11, it seemed to be just a bit of a composition
difference between these two teams and no one could take out Majed.
Yeah, one sided Loki Mantis is not cute.
And why people really prioritize that.
But as an Emma main, there was Emma value today.
and I will continue to lock her in games going forward.
And that's why I gasped up Abu-Hu,
because he knows when to bring out the right stuff.
And they tried to ban against the Vanguard of Crownfall.
They just have a backup plan.
So maybe we got to go back to let's
get rid of the really OP team ups
and then worry about what Vanguard's could come out.
I mean, with that lag day, there's
a lot of potential for different maps.
We can go for this one.
But Museum of Contemplation, this
This will be a first that we see for Crown Falls, so maybe trying to go with something
that isn't their comfort zone, at least in Ignite specifically.
We did see Reason play this, but it was a 1-0 hold, a hold from Rad E-Sports against them
earlier this weekend, so I'm kind of curious on what you think the decision-making might
have been here.
I think this is because Crown 4 were playing a very static comp on Domination.
I think Reason gaming are hedging against going up against another like Bunker-style
complex double shield with the ammo with the mag.
A lot more flexibility, maybe a little bit better for Passive-O on that Venom.
I mean we didn't really get to see that based on the map last time, Jen, and
this could be their time to be unleashed.
I need to see these vanguards step up for reason gaming and I think it was a
map diff, a compositional diff, but especially Passive-O, I want to see
Aggressive-O and this is the best map for a Venom because it is so
large. On every other map you can make a case for Hulk,
but this is going to be the possible playground.
I feel it in my bones, and I'm feeling
DRP is going to be ready to clown.
Of course, he's been a fantastic magneto throughout,
even protecting Sejuro coming out of that eternal bond.
DRP was able to shield him from a meteor M.
So there's flashes of brilliance from reason gaming,
but I need to see better decisions going forward
in terms of the compositions
and understanding those counters really well.
It seemed like a lot of focus was put on just boosting
ballast as best as they could and rallying around them, but you can't have just one individual player
against this full roster of crownfall. They have taken the time throughout their training arc to
level up, and now we see the fruits of their efforts. Can they pull off the upset? Can they get
their first ever win in Ignite 2026 preseason? It's time to find out now. Oh boy, I have a
crownfall to win this one. I'm going to be checking companies to it. Okay guys,
I make the team environment terrible and we started winning more big drops of coffee coming through that city.
It's time to get stuck into our band scene of reason, game and they are going to be desperate to just try and find a way around crown pool like I could walk into the gym.
Yeah, that low key cannot be slipping through and it's got to be a prio around those strategistemas.
It's the big reason why in a lot of our series you're seeing like four strategist band because they are really the glue to the operation.
the gears that keep the machine turning and so much triple strategist going around that
you need to make these options as awkward and comfortable as possible as reason gaming want
that mantis involved crownfall will have their first protect and it's going to be around
the mantis as well. Now Loki's I've got to see those banged out.
Yeah, for sure. The Loki has to go. The one thing that does stick out to me is that
recent gaming. They did this last time and they didn't really make good use of the Mantis.
They're playing that double, double-doubless line-up, didn't get much use out of the Mantis
at all. Finally, we might see the ban on the low key at least here, for some reason, to
try and constrain Ena Koji. Yes, again, there's going to be a mutual ban, of course.
Let's go. No Elsa. No Gambit. Just Ives. Well, we'll see where the vibes fall
to for crown fault but they want to ensure going forward because again this is a team that is a
jack of all trades but really became the masters of that punisher composition but I don't think you're
gonna be able to play shotgun punisher hunting gigantic museum of contemplation. I mean you at
least would have your means of uh like trying to deal with Passover at least and once again it's
It's going to be Rosa, popping the target down here, knowing that, hey, that healing wall
that the Mantis gives is going to be very troublesome.
And the Protector on the Ultron, knowing that it was banned out previously by Crownfall, I
think that's fairly smart, because it means that you can play that double damage boost
if you're so inclined and really put all of your eggs in the ballast basket.
And no Invis, which is a pretty good anti-dive measure, so one-sided Invisible Woman,
I mean, for Adobe, that was their specialty.
So excited to see Crownfall on defense first.
This is Reason Gaming's choice of map and choice of side.
But we'll get to see Ballish shine even more.
He started to really rise to the occasion with these picks at the end.
It just sucked at an Atom Residue and forgave all of that, which we'll hug for this building
on that as well.
So that'll be maybe another problem, Reason, to have to continue today.
I'm sorry to deny you more
Emma crossed my tent, but we do have a boo-boo on our specialty
The Vanguard Deadpool is available, the RPG is going to be the only one with a crew in the lobby as well
Which could be, what the Charleston provost is going to typically be playing for less mobile vanguards
Will more likely to be separated by the big rules
And Machete, interestingly not
Many people are playing the Winter Soldier, Mr. Bucking himself
But Machete isn't going to defeat that dude
Such a strong mutual with those hoods
to make sure people cannot escape away from it.
There's a lot of ways to get around it.
DRP sticks on the group, for example,
that iron wood ball would make you immune to that.
And the crack and impact may lack the impact
if you have the triple strategist
because you need those health pools nice and low
to get those executions.
Reason gaming though, out the gate.
This is the passable playground.
This is the reason why you picked this map.
I'm not going to lie against both.
They are all wild.
DRP already tracked on in.
Press will avoid anymore CC using the big wall.
It's gonna be very difficult for Password to get value against with the double pull that can come through from the Winter Soldier and the Invisible Woman.
Password is gonna be strained in terms of their movement.
Just a poke composition from a reasoned gaming with Ballast.
Now if there would be a time to run the Psylog...
Oh! My god, Doctor! Exploded.
But that's a play from Rosa.
The pulling goes crazy there. Just dragging Ultra in.
There's no real way to get out of that easily if you're an Ultra and if you've really used your burst movement as well.
Ballast still wants to stay in the lane though.
Feels like there's something here.
There's a, there's a hankering in his bones for some violence.
And having the one-sided Groot, you could try to punish the the dead pools that walk up,
just like DRP is doing now, but Crownfall is still holding strong.
Oh, I think someone just fell over in the apartment above me.
Glad that wasn't you.
I was worried.
Disengagement is so difficult to make happen here.
Like we pointed out before, the double pools against the venom are a little bit untenable to try and go again.
Falafel's wants to fly away, 50p's gonna make it happen, and DRP with the downside of a cruise that you are absolutely feeding XP to a boohoo who's leveling up at record clip.
DRP needs to play around his iron wood walls too, because if you don't, he'll be a victim like he was earlier with these Winter Soldier Poles.
Now strangling prison, that's why he's trying to play aggressive on initial wall, but Crownfall's stand tall.
Alright, long damage coming through, and of course the anti-Q as well, but it seems like Ayana Coach is getting so much value off the back of this invisible boundary.
Two ultimates traded for one, but no reason gaming me don't have so much to worry about when it comes to balance is ultimate
The end song inferno if it could be boosted up could be absolutely deadly
Darby already affected with a couple of those are balances anchor receives absolutely nothing to shake a sticker rose against four stones
But no one's there to follow up
Mojang's gonna try and give it a go but it seems like even with everyone affected with the culling aura
It's not so far to make the rest happen Mojang. I don't think you can get any resets here
so no again to be heard in the halls of contemplation.
A boom who moves forward, but Bowser's there
to meet them and Dobby's just a second too late.
Everyone's dragged into one place,
but slamming down from above.
The soul link that came through right there from Fahad
was so clutched to keep everyone kicking.
And even Dobby too with the soul resurgence,
that extra over health made all the difference.
No executions from reason gaming,
as now the backs of Crownfall are against the wall
with no tools to push back, but they just need to anchor.
Maybe build up towards those wind conditions, but the fate is in reason gaming's hands!
Okay, here's the fate of Redwell. So, first, she'll play here to try and cut off the heal
LOS on to anyone who might be overextended. But who just comes back in with everyone
else waiting to re-contest after the ultimate is over, and there it is. The invisible boundary
traps in multiple players, where it's slowed up when they cross the boundary as well,
so there's no way to get out of it. It's perfectly managed by Crownflow. Unbelievable
stuff.
Yeah. Reason gaming. AR pushback right on the brink of success crap.
Rosa had a better showing towards the end there.
You kind of worried me with the 1v6 Alia Vlachavoto, which was fantastic if he had a team with them.
Didn't realize Ayano had fallen, but reason they're not falling yet.
I don't think they did just now.
Oh, but second you have to turn around to try and deal with the distraction from Abu, who you just get for.
Oh no no no no!
Bro!
No!
No!
Not real life.
That's the way we did it to a man!
Oh my god reason gaming our rage beta
is there's no way.
That is the worst one of the day but
let's lock in here cause
I have a shed, just try to pull somebody in
and you got the feast to be abyssed to.
Okay, so a monster I deal with that one single stun there on the password to try and stop any follow-up Rosa
Just opts for one at the moment, but now the other is going to be even more dangerous off of the group onto the Emma
And this means that it's more dangerous for Rosa to walk forward
Majed waiting with the cracking impact with love to try and grab in a squishy player and then rack and then
Bought the mail swear using that trip as this
And now that there's an Emma shield, it's even more difficult to find value
but the crown fall out of stands tall again their poke is strong
Well, it's gonna be a reset there on the pass away
Majed might have trouble going for you another reset here could go over on to the dare devil
And indeed the culling aura is applied can I get the accuracy on the balance?
Which is going even further he dreams of even more DRP gets grand a nice charge
Just try and stop the turnaround
But still it's gonna be the culling aura and the reset recent game
We just have to wait for eight seconds here until this one's done
DRP may have a diamond form but Machetta's diamond hands and he's going to think twice
about entering the spawn room torrents of recent gaming, but I'm sensing a tantrum,
I'm sensing KitKat too with a nice opportunity to steal away Crownfall, especially if they're
on the back foot but these strats are in trouble, Paso is harassing them.
Alright inside of the unicorn, shield armor damage is just so much,
Seijiro can't do anything, look how quick they are going towards that spawn room.
Can't possibly even get inside. One big eat here, well, Rose is actually dead.
Oh, Rose is open! Oh, the focus fire from Crownfall is absolutely sublime.
This is a different team. Where have you been?
Freeze is gaming, aren't going anywhere fast.
Oh, that is...
Check out the Thor, you're gonna need a ticket, son.
Crownfall, they're neutral and strong with the pulls,
and they have a band-aid in the car.
Make a revival as things go awry.
reason gaming. They cannot give up and they cannot surrender. They cut the C9 and now they
need to keep forcing mistakes at a cramp fall.
Oh for hard to actually going so much on this Adam as well.
The damage is real, ballast offing over onto the Neymar, a boohoo just has this sniping position up on top.
He's going to attempt to try and deal with it via Sazure who has to unleash the kumiho here just to give over enough healing to the remainder of the team.
The cramp ball is sitting pretty here with the soul bond as well, they're not too worried about all the damage that's coming on through.
And here comes Rosa, no stuns coming through in this case, I think it might have been contained within a shield elsewhere.
and comes to Phoenix Ultimate. Paso can't quite make it happen off the back of the
dive. He's gonna be grabbed back in. Welcome to the invisible boundary where
your friends just can't see you and there's no healing to be found over
time in session. A boohoo round the side. Noctine ever saw it coming and now
there's all the more that can be done. That was gonna try and cut your
ears for themselves. Every crit will preserve the squids but you need to
keep someone on the point. It's not the Paso to make it happen. The
spirit sanctuary around them and KitKat just throwing out orb after orb. Do
You need the eternal bond right here. You have to try and deal with the resurrection for heartbreak
I had a coji back and so now's the time to roll on forward
It's possible who's too far away from the train though and darling just moves back towards the other side knowing that they can just reset for later
Crump fall they have their mantis clapping reasons back life. What is going on?
There is so dominant in the last second pause is being called as
As we'll see if reason gaming can keep the rally going, but it's been a spawnhold of all spawnholds, so despite being gifted point A, reason gaming I think are going to be stuck half way or short of halfway to the second.
We've seen a good amount of first-point holds on Museum of Contemplation, so
imagine if this goes the way of Crownfall, given that they've got six players up and
currently have a Mantisole active, and Majed's gonna have the crack and impact
in short order. I think they've probably won this fight. Reason gaming needs to start
thinking about their defense. And honestly, it's not unwinnable for them.
They've got a pretty solid defense, especially with one-sided access to
the group via VRP. Majette innovating a little bit, though, bringing back the Winter Soldier,
which just so has not seen a huge amount of success, but does have its uses against Venom.
If reason gaming aren't being able to shut down these offing goes too from Crownfall.
The way that Dobby is just trying to 1v3 the Shralla here of reason gaming, it's
been pretty insane. DRP is also in the Captain America, which is not going to be helping
in terms of anything because Cranfall are playing quite far away and then Captain America has
got to put his good walking shoes on it and actually ideally run towards that because
Raising Gaming don't are barely keeping their heads above water, Nocto and Balus are swapping
to everything and anything, only a Phoenix and a Amor just have some kind of safe haven
into fire upon, but I would like to just see DRP back on the Magneto, it's just something
to be more front facing with his team, but I think he wants to go and dive with Passive
Pulse.
They're trying to.
I mean, to be fair, do we need to crowd for like, for Hardish just sitting pretty, and
Grosius being in the back aiming, you know, putting out the case to like, let me back
on Dauntless Bro, look what I can do with Adam.
Imagine what I'd do if I was on Punisher right now, but honestly, surviving through the eternal
bond from KitKat has been really viable for them.
Let's get back into the action here as Crownfall tried their best for a last second defense
and reason gaming are running out of options to keep this put-card contested.
It has to be Sage Road for a moment, but no one else is there.
Derby's popping up on the Mantis, and that's the hold.
Like in these Deadpool Bubbles too from Crownfall, as soon as anyone tries to go near this school
bus, they are magically thrown out of it because you're able to not deny the healing
that goes into the vanguards that are trying to anchor the objective as much as possible.
Even War to Wait, Crownfall, Freezing Gaming, again it's the exploration of identity.
They swap to a lot of different Duelists.
I like that they have a second Duelist, that was what I was really asking for
after domination but crown falls triple stratus proving to be such a nuisance especially this
adam uh getting through you don't really see adam bands but the soul bonds have been so perfectly
timed from fahad that every time reason gaming look like they have a strong damage going in
it's distributed and then you can't get an easy you can't get any picks because of those soul
bonds so big fan of crown falls teamwork on the strat lines and then dobby's so comfortable
they could just only do damage so it's six picks two from Dobby on that Mantis in the last round.
Ridiculous stuff actually getting more final players than Majed which is very impressive for
a Mantis. Looks like we might see a primal flame team up here from Majed that would be great for
trying to isolate a singular target. DRP not being on the group does mean they have to be
very judicious of how they use their self bubble. I think that this Wolverine was to maybe
try and predict if DRP was going to be on the group, which would be the ultimate counter.
And still not too bad on the Magneto, you just have a bit more grace to deal with that.
But man, DRP has taken a heck load of damage and look, they have to fall back to the back
corner.
Yeah, like Majed, like you can see him just hanging out behind the window, like looking
at you, kind of like in Star Wars.
Just in Star Wars all over there.
I'm coming for you one day, and here we go Falcon Rosa moving on forward.
Golden, of course, he does have that team up from the Invis as well for self-heavals being used from DRP.
Now that means that they're going to be in a very perilous position when the Feral Leap comes off cooldown, and they're just going to troll that corner.
Yeah, Machete is looking for an opportunity, but the spacing has been so good, but this is also free progress for Crowdfall, and they got the picks!
Oh, Leanna Koji does get hit with a Bandhammer, but honestly, the damage has already been done, so he's moisturized, unbothered in their lane with the bus.
And Fahad, from the Atom to the Alpha on the Phoenix, Ann Olt's despair to lock in this
point A, enlightening record speed for them, no C9 needed, execution flawless for CrowdFall
and they're letting it rain, re-scamming haven't even had a chance to breathe.
I think I heard someone was opening a portal, I don't know if it was Rosa or the respawning
reason gaming, either way they didn't manage to get there in time and the booters just
all of the space forces up a soap on this early. Look at the aggressiveness that's coming through this invisible boundary that hard and
Majority just running them down in the streets right now and not to can't do anything as rose. It just walks them on down
Oh my god, he creased his cheese
Well, what was a crawl is a stand-from-reason gaming some point of stability
But the win condition the finish line is ahead of crown fall with almost five minutes
Cedrual has to step up to help the team touch the cart.
Looks towards the back line might want to go after the Phoenix passing quite much to grab any more just now
I'll settle for the Deadpool you know, but he hates them in character of the picture in the game as well
But Jed brings it on forward and crown for welcome to the preseason just in time to leave
Reason gaming hated how that series ended
Going out with a whimper that was just not the version of reason gaming the one that
Faced Raddys wasn't took a map from them, but man did this team find what works whether
it's the Atom from Fahad, Majed on the wolf raid, you'll get to see that too often, and
they even went back to the double duelist and groundfall, hit reason where it hurts,
even 18,000 damage from Fahad, you had half that round on Atom swapping to the Phoenix.
So aggressive and it paid off. Who needs to play better? You just need a good team and Crownfall get their first win in the
Ignite preseason. Just need a good team and we've got the best team here, Vodable, my host. What do you think of that one?
I think the win condition for Crownfall and any team who faces off against this reason roster is to shut down PassaWoe.
This was the least effective. We've been able to see them in the least amount of final hits as well.
I mean they were the hard carry you could say for the previous wins that we saw from them and unfortunately this time
They were relatively
unaffected because of kind of the anti dive composition we were able to witness from crown fall
So a great look from them the team themselves
They didn't even have their coach with them this weekend able to rally together and get their first win the preseason
And I hope the best for them in stage one because this is just the start of
Potential legacy being built by this roster here
Yeah, I'm glad that they're able to find and make the magic work and support their duelists.
Because that's what kind of a shape you have about groundfall.
They've worked these jack-of-all-trades, and maybe you can just make any of these comps work
as long as the strategists can enable these duelists.
So anything from Majed on the Punisher, the Shotguns, the Supremacy on the first map
to Fahad on the Atom was unattachable and kind of acted like a duelist
with how much poke damage he was doing.
I mean, even in Boohoo that we saw on the Vanguard pool,
and so it told us a little bit about it.
It's not like there's just the best Vanguard pools out there.
They all kind of play relatively the same,
but it's the team that works around them.
And Crownfall, this is the best we've seen them as a team so far.
Yeah, I think the Crownfall were finally working together.
I think Darby was getting good use out of the Mantis as well.
I like that they kind of set up their bandface here as well
as well to play that more kind of like supportive style often going for that
triple strategist to make sure that they could have their stars really start
playing up and aggressive and to be honest having that triple strategist changed
Rosa you know like we saw playing incredibly aggressively on the mag getting
in there on the strange as well because you had that trust in your team like
I'm not through strategies behind me I can make a little bit of a goofy play
and maybe get some value out of it.
I mean it's crazy you talk about Rosa when I messaged them they were saying that
They're not feeling super confident going into this matchup earlier this weekend.
And I was saying, you know, there's earlier a potential chance of fire
straights to lose to vision that they could have made it.
Unfortunately, likely not the case.
Now we'll get the final word later on, but we're going to be interviewing
their coach now, Aria goddess is the one who stepped up before the team.
So definitely kept them together.
I see it throughout this as well.
So biggest of shallots to Aria for actually getting them the winning
comp that they needed here too, because it just seemed like it all came together.
things that weren't working in the past start to just align perfectly for this
victory for them. So I'm glad that they were able to get a win here as well, not
go down without a fight. And yes, they might not be making it into the
playoffs, but this is a great start here as well, Jen. Yeah, I think it's to go
out with a bang and go out with a win so that you know what to iterate on.
You actually know what worked and it was the pick bands really going their
way from getting the one-sided Loki on domination to be able to follow through on the atom, on
both maps, so that whatever happened, you're able to revive everyone, get the Solvon to
share all of the pain together.
And that's really what Crownfall went through, the thick, the thin, and we're able to come
out on top.
So I'm super proud of Crownfall.
This was the potential I was hoping to see out of them because they look strong
in MRC, but just the competition is so, so tight in the M.E.A.
Oh, yeah, like huge hopes for this team coming out of MRC
We did I had them going through in fourth in the group
I think in my prayers a lot. Yeah, this team this team is pretty good
They had to their to integrate Rosa which took a little bit of time and it felt like they they weren't working together
Amazingly, which was surprising to be considering that so many of them were from the MRC team
But maybe they just matured into this matter like a little bit more slowly than the rest of the pack
Since of course we've been from season 6 MRC to season 7 we had some major change of like how
ults work as well as the introduction of Mike Fox and we changed the force to Gambino
so maybe crown for a little bit slow on the uptake but I'm sure that now that they're starting
to figure it out they're going to be very strong in season 1. I wonder what the chat thinks in
terms of the accuracy of their predictions that they had coming into all this I just checked
mine I got like four of them correct at the placement so uh came down to the wire at the
end unfortunately for that one but it sounds like we do have the interview ready with Aria,
their coach that came in and really just put everything together that this team needed. So
welcome in Aria, nice to see you involved with this roster and I just want to say congratulations
for getting the first win for this team. So glad to be back and stay I think as well
So actually against reason, obviously next teammate, it's definitely my shit, I'm gonna be quite honest.
Well I mean talking, yeah you got like this.
Hello Gene Draft, nice to see you.
And the long time coming, the long time coming.
Yeah, I mean I was thinking of like taking the title away after the Owen 4 record, but you saved it.
What changed in this match for Crownfall compared to every other match so far?
I'm going to be quite honest, I'm on maybe an hour and a half of sleep.
I set up all night, spend most of the day figuring out every single thing reason to
do, what to do, and then I just went in with Thanos' draft, that's pretty much it.
Yeah, we were a big fan of the drafts and how it went, especially on Domination, and
tell me how, you know, because coaching is not just about being really smart in
the drafts but it's about the mentals of the players because you know starting at
an unfortunate first week how were you able to bring the mentals up for everyone
to kind of really make sure that despite playoffs not being a possibility
you're able to kind of keep everyone's spirits up as much as possible.
I know to be honest that was mostly coffee. Today just unfortunately it was made to attend so I kind of stepped in obviously and just
The whole team, I'm just so proud of everyone to be honest, you know, obviously we went all
for a damn last week and then today just to pull out such a win, 200-0 on month one and
then last month as well was just, it was safe.
Okay, well, you guys may have won this match but you do still have about a month and a
half before you get to play again.
So for you and Cuffy in the back room, to get this roster Ignite ready, what are
your goals for the next month and a half in this squad?
You know, we've found a lot of holes in our issues and just patched them up and going stage one with K-Mind.
A good way to think about it. I think the big thing here as well is it just felt like the entire team
gelled so much more than they did.
Do you have any insight into like the comms, how those are like going into the series and after the victory for this roster?
Uh, not really much to change to be honest.
The comms are exact same as they have been for last week.
I was just, I think I was the pressure a little bit eased,
especially due to, you know, the game everyone this morning.
I think everyone was just going in wanting to not qualify.
I think this made it so no teams can underestimate you guys going in to stage one.
Any final thoughts or shout outs or any words you have to say to the audience
out there, the floor is yours.
It's all thankfully me.
He's the person that's kind of set me up here.
You know, he pushed me to do this and not be the best I can.
and I'm just, I'm almost, can't be more grateful.
Yeah, that's a blingy love to hear.
Well, thank you for joining us, Aria,
and best of luck in the in-between from now into stage one.
Thanks so much.
That was so great hearing from Aria.
And like she said, was from a reason here
in it to the actual helping out with coach,
like kind of last minute with the draft here as well,
working together with Cuffee initially,
coming in to get them locked in for this and the vibes seem to be good throughout
and they just locked in didn't have the pressure was the main thing here as well
lemon yeah and also it must be so exhausting as a coach because it's easy
to be ahead but it's even harder when you are so far behind and you have to
think what are our strengths how do we tap into it and let alone the mentals
that you have to kind of align and make sure that everyone is willing
to put there all no matter what the result is no matter what is on the
So big shout out to what Arya and what she's been able to do on so little sleep because I don't know how she stays sane
Yeah, I couldn't imagine that but that can sleep well especially after getting a win at the end of it too
We're just waiting now to hear the final results of how the standings shake up from those matchups
I mean it was banger after banger throughout this weekend in the final week of competition
We could talk about it now that it's all said and done as we wait for the playoff picture and it for this group stage
Standing switch. I'm most excited to look at I mean
Biggest surprises like day you would say in terms of the entire playing field and EMEA. Who are you thinking of?
I'd say biggest surprise is probably heretics beating out Navi like I talked to both of these roasters to be good
I didn't expect him to be better than Navi
Although I do think that maybe playoffs is gonna be a different piece because now we have time to try and deal with like these
composition to trip them out.
Oh man.
It's like the 16th until then is when the playoffs will start as well.
So a little bit under two weeks here at Jan.
I mean, what's the big thing for these teams who might not have topped their
groups but are looking at for improvement from here on out?
I think the people on the outside looking in, this is where you're going to
watch a lot of these playoff teams, maybe take some of their strategies
and also try to identify some of those weaknesses.
I mean, we saw both heretics and VP today.
I would see VP showed a lot more cracks in the armor.
They're still undefeated.
they're still gods but they are their piece catching up to them right there there was fire
that almost beat them on domination rad really pushed them to distance today we went to extra innings
on a racco convoy which are sorry central park which we almost i don't think we've ever seen
at least i don't remember so it was amazing watching rad and vertus proud just how close
those two are in particular and then imagine how now we're gonna see group A and group B
clash in playoffs so we'll get to compare heretics VP or heretics Rad and Navi and that too so it's
going to be a really good playoff. We'll finally see Peps on convergence we still haven't seen them
on convergence this entire time which might be their secret weapon going into those playoffs too
teams won't know exactly how to play against them depending on how the brackets shape up
I'm most excited for that as well but also as I talked about predictions there'll be a playoff
bracket prediction in game sale. It didn't do as well like I did, unfortunately, in the
in-game predictions for the group stage. Hey, you have more chances for more winnings as
well. Unfortunately, the new map will not be in the playoffs, even though it is in-game.
We're still going to be on the Season 7 patch, to our knowledge, at least, who knows if
things change. But it's just Season 7 throughout all of the pre-season, just so it stays
even for all these teams. They don't have too much to worry about in terms of
like mid-season patches, the new heroes coming out, like Black Cat at some point, and whoever
comes out in season 8 before stage 1.
So that way it's a little bit closer competition-wise here like day, because there is so much for
these teams to adjust headed into the pre-season.
Now this is the time for them to really focus in on these compositions.
Yeah, like there's going to be a lot of time for that drafts to be released.
So we've got a lot of tune and character for stage 1.
Yeah.
We've got Black Cat and whoever the inaugural character of season 8 is.
So I'm hoping it's Cyclops, but I don't know.
It might change up the entire meta game.
We've got two more big balance panches on top of that as well, possibly hot things.
These things are happening all the more commonly at the launches of these seasons as well.
So there's so much rest to be done.
I want these two to focus internally on just their cooling and their drafting rather
than focusing too hard on compositions if they don't get to play until stage one
because the entire meta could change, like we saw the elses changed everything.
When it came to like the drafting as well, like one character just upended the entirety of like the dualist meta
and took respect to wash triple support so we could try and have like one final step here, like the worst character.
Yeah, and stage one is on its way, there's a little bit of time, but for people like Arya
who are going to have even less sleep when the new heroes come out and a new map
and the more maps, the more heroes the more you have to think about the big fan
big fan because Manhattan is going to shake things up with that new mechanic of the scan and
how coaches are going to rack their brains around through the care if they know what we're what
ults we have because also the old tracking in pro play is pretty next level so we'll see if that
mechanic is going to make it so Manhattan is picked or not picked in the future.
It's tough because there's so many things to think about when it comes to the meta like
that as the game evolves and I feel like we even saw it this weekend and the previous one
The teams who adapt the fastest to the new and ever-changing metas are the ones who succeed the most,
especially with heretic, so they felt like they even have more compositions that they haven't shown yet their whole hand.
They have just hidden in the back corner, ready to pull it out of the moments noticed before the playoffs.
I'm ready to see that too, and then Virtus.pro just continuing to be that constant force of,
doesn't matter what's thrown at us, we can learn heroes in 10 hours.
We got this, and it go from bed on out.
And then like we heard from Frankie Boxing from the best saying, yeah, I'm just going to expand my hero pool and then hope that'll be
setting us up for success in the playoffs. Like everyone has to continue to level up from here on out and that's the big thing for these teams.
So we'll see as it progresses what these teams have ahead of them.
But I think this was a great capstone lemon to the playoff journey for a lot of these rosters looking at what they need to improve upon from these two weeks and now ahead of them time to lock in.
Yeah, I feel bad for the Duelists who have so much on their plate to learn as the meta shifts always.
Like there's a good handful of heroes that you need to learn, but also I think the best teams have a really good Duelist that can flex to the strategies.
So having a Mantis or whatever else, the way that like, for example, Naga, and that's why that team is so strong.
You need to have a strong trip of strategies for it, despite the old generation nerf.
The strategies still reign supreme, so I'm wondering, and then the Vanguard just get to kind of learn the Vanguard.
the vanguards, but as the duelist they have to kind of alert everything it feels, even like some teams run triple vanguards.
Oh man, I'm kind of looking at the potentials here and we'll see once we get the actual confirmation
on the actual standings, but we know group A at least, we can talk about heretics in first,
10 map wins is insane, not dropping a single one there, Navi right below them,
4 and 1 with their record with 5 map wins, Shikigami 3 and 2, Peps 2 and 3, Alter Esports 1 and 4, then Pulsar.
Still looking for their first series win in the Ignite ecosystem itself.
I mean, talking about that a bit like they, like, what does Pulsar really need to focus on going from now into that stage 1?
It's I mean the thing with an 0 and 5 team is that you can say anything right which is to work on our aim
My mechanics are all so dramatic
Okay, I'll pull it all out, yep
It's a very exciting time that like no matter what you focus on you're gonna be able to improve as a squad, right?
Like when you're at that pinnacle like it's very difficult to try and find the areas where you might be the most
the most in need of improvement, like, you may be able to find it internally, but often when you're at the top, like, you don't realize a weakness until it's exposed, because, like, most of your peers aren't taking advantage of it.
And when it's exposed, usually it's going to be an official, and things go badly from there. But when you've got, like, 0 and 5, you've got a lot of odds where you're losing, where you're like, okay, yeah, we could just play this a little bit better, maybe we're going to control my off-angles, maybe we need some better comms on how our doors are going to be supported when we take that kind of, when we take some off-angles.
Well, also everybody can level up their play. Also if they pick up the eSports bundles, you know we heard from Team Heretics
There's a 30% win rate boost if you pick up the Heretics Bundle, and I'm sure the same thing
You know maybe you could also go undefeated if you get the Virtus Pro one and Na'Vi
Well, you'll still look good big four to win. At least our partner teams are as good as they are
And of course, it's not even just the skins, it's cool emos
There's the playing for vibe spray that everyone loves, but if you guys want to support the ignite EMEA scene
Go and check out those eSports bundles because they're pretty cool and you can even just get all of them
Yeah, and also for those who are a fan of like social media the rivals eSports official
Twitter is doing a giveaway for an entire bundle for a multiple people. I believe so definitely make sure you follow that
I think it's until like night that they're doing that as well
So yeah, you can go back find the tweet as well and sign up for that, too
They post all the updates all the results and they've been doing a really good job
It's like the graphics and everything so if you want to know when the upcoming matches are not have to boot up the game or any other
Social media stuff for that definitely recommend following them. You can also follow us in the meantime
It's been doing a great job bought all of our coast streamers and I've actually teams have picked up some unique
I think VP have grabbed Boga,
heretics have craggy, both very charming individuals,
and both of them have huge insight into pro players,
all having competed at the top levels of MRC
and even MRI themselves.
Yeah, and you might be wondering why we're yapping so much right now.
They're still calculating the final bracket and standing,
double checking everything because we want to make sure,
as we announce it for Group B,
that it's 100% correct that we know who is making it
in and to those playoffs.
So we'll get that as quickly as we can,
But as you mentioned, shout out to all the co-streamers that we've been seeing throughout all of this
I mean we saw J3 space and
So many people that have been involved in the scene for like such a long time
Just keeping up with the action and America is happening right after this as well
I mean we can even talk about some of that too because there's some chaos going on over there with potential tie breakers
I even have a tiebreaker match if the tiebreakers go that way which is crazy
They have nightmare versus CSM 100 thieves versus cafe roast team liquid Citadel versus YWL
I'm really excited for that one. Sentinel vs NRG and SSG vs Lunex. I mean, those are matches you definitely do not want to miss.
So we're just filling some time while we're waiting for these as well.
But there's a lot to yap about in the esports scene here.
I mean, talking about other teams that we know from Group A, unfortunately didn't make it in it too.
The playoffs and we'll see later on in Stage 1. Alter esports here, Lemon.
I saw a lot of potential in this team.
It just felt like they were a team that was so close but not there just yet to get past that hurdle of team peps and make it into the top
Four yeah, there was some serious potential from this altered e-sports squad
It's just even Polestar crown fall recently Polestar worry also able to punch up and they're the only team without a win
Which was pretty surprising to me
And that's why you can't just look at the standings you guys have to watch all the BODs
not audible, but all the pods of this channel, because also especially on Twitch because you guys can get drops because there is a ton of drops
for that, but just kind of comparing the groups two of the people actually in playoffs,
Team Peps are like a fourth seed, and I'm assuming facing VP a little bit, trying to see what the bracket looks like,
but I would not want to, I would not want to face Team Peps, like they are not like last seed caliber if you will,
like there is, the playoffs is going to be stacked.
I mean talking about that too, Heretic's likely playing either fire or vision depending on like how they mix up based on the tiebreakers with that as well
because they have the same like win record it looks like that's what we're taking time on here specifically.
I feel like those teams are gonna struggle against Heretic, just because Heretic just seems so unbeatable.
I mean yes, our number one team is definitely going to have an advantage over our number four team.
number 40. Heretics are looking very strong and yeah I don't know how uh who comes out on top out
of fire and vision like is it is it map count it like the head to head goes away a fire. We're
leaving it to the experts. The thing is like there's a lot of content on these rosters now
which could allow for some good upsets like you can go into all of the heretics mods you can
watch them POV by POV wherever you are, a coach on an opposing team, a player on an opposing team,
or if someone watching along at home wants to get a little bit better at Marvel Riders,
you can go in and check out the POVs you want to see, see exactly how the pros are playing
your favorite heroes on your favorite maps. With that, like, democratization of information,
when you don't have to pass around codes in the darkness of the night, there's a lot of
ease in how you can, like, create specific anti-strike. Like, we just heard from Dean
Manass when she came on for the interview, but like she just sat up all night watching what reason play and like you know
What I'm just gonna make the fan off draft figure out all of their best comps and how I can just stick something in them
Exactly, I mean it really comes down to the ban and protect phase for some of these matches
Maybe not so much against heretics and maybe not so much against first pro because we saw how good those teams were like
We even saw the trying to target the entire duelist lineup that could be played and then sparkles like wait
I can actually play Syloc. I'm really good at Syloc. I remember it's like riding a bike again
It's that they were like you're doing it professionally for five years or something
They I feel like they've unleashed another beast on Virtus Pro
Where if they did not get that close and take that one round against them in domination
It's another situation where we saw in the mid-season,
Virtus.Pro didn't make it, and then they leveled up again afterwards.
I don't think people are ready to see Virtus.Pro in these playoffs, Levin.
Well, and just to kind of go back to our conversation,
the biggest surprise is I thought the Shikigami Heritage Game
was going to be way closer than it was.
I hope that Shikigami can bounce back in playoffs,
and sometimes this is like a good wake-up call moment,
because first seed versus third seed.
I'm surprised we didn't get any map threes today to be honest.
Honestly, it was the closest map 3 that we could have gotten, despite it being still this week, was VP and RAD.
Because RAD had a, what, a time bank advantage on the second map, they should have won that, and then VP just like the lights came on and nobody else got to play the game, so that was a...
I definitely am going to be going back in that replay right after we're done here to see like what was going on, more Smash Nests is getting through on the back line.
Oh, here we go. Today's results up on your screens.
Yeah, we talked about it. No map threes all sweeps all the way, but they were long ones as well.
I mean, very competitive from fire and vision, peps and alter, esports as well.
Rad did all that they could, especially that final map on Central Park.
But the longest we have seen on Convergence so far, most of the time it usually ended
before we even got to overtime as you were mentioning Lemon.
And then Heretic's really just showing that they are step above with this meta
And Cronfall proving the the world wrong, I guess you could say a lot of people are thinking oh, they're gonna go out with
Nothing going into you know this last matchup after getting swept by fire strays and they prove themselves worthy of a win
And we'll see the final standings here as well as we talked about with group a
Aretic's number one Navi at number two. She could got me number three peps number of four then altar and pulsar afterwards
But Jen I'm gonna leave this one to you once we see group B to reveal what those are gonna look like in just a moment
Yeah, and just to shout to that I have my eyes on Navi as they are the second seed
But they sometimes can
Give us worries or even question marks in terms of when things don't go so well
How they deal with that pressure?
But here are how the standings of group B shake out. This was by far the most stacked herb
I would say most contested group
Oh, yeah, this one was definitely very highly contested fire getting the higher seat. It doesn't mean they're going to go up against Navi first
Like ranch Kigami, I think that's gonna be a fun game as well
Like these two second seed versus third seed games are gonna be pretty hotly contested
I think but fire like they aren't looking like a third seed these days like they weren't super close with BP
They had a really bad start to their preseason
but on set and if that reflects so much on them now and
And like a bunch of our teams have leveled up in the second week, just getting that extra week of Frank is over new patch.
And I think the most upset potential could be that Navi Fire Stray team.
The way that Fire Stray started to show us where they're stealing or where they're pretty could be against VP.
If they can make VP look that strange, then maybe they could punch up to Navi, but these are the matches.
Peps versus VP is also going to be really interesting. I love the way Peps play today.
These are all going to be great series. I'm really curious to see what vision take from this past weekend because they had a bit of a struggle, unfortunately.
They looked great at the start and then didn't get a single map for their last pre-series, so definitely something to look forward to.
But here is the full up pre-season playoffs bracket that you all have been waiting for.
It's going to come down to one final weekend of pre-season action, April 16th to the 18th.
If you don't want to miss it, it'll be happening here as well.
Who knows, we'll have VP versus Na'Vi potentially for that quarter finals, which would be pretty crazy.
Rad and Chiki, one of those, could go up against Team Heretics.
And even in the lower bracket, every single match is going to be intense, and they all matter, by the way.
Regardless of how well you do in these playoffs, it does matter for your placement into the groups for Stage 1.
You want to get the best performance that you can and have the best odds in the group stages or at stage one
So definitely something to look out here for as well
Lemon what are your final thoughts for the preseason before we close the show?
It's been it's been cool to see these last few matches like substitutes that have been more utilized and even like you brought a vision
They brought out teller today who I think impressed me on the mag like being something kind of out of nowhere
Well, I'm sure they're screaming with them
And so being able to really fully utilize your whole roster and maybe we'll see some,
but it also makes it obvious if you want to run Triple Vanguard and stuff.
So, you know, you've got to make it not too obvious in the Pig Band,
but I love to see subs kind of bring in and shake things up.
Well, we do have to talk one more time about what you can take advantage of in the shop in the game.
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Oh man. Yeah, there's still more action happening later on today.
Of course, with Americas, as we mentioned,
Pacific still has more of the pre-season group stage happening next weekend as well.
and China is starting on that side too.
But thank you all for tuning in to the broadcast here
for the EMEA pre-season.
We'll see you about a little less than two weeks time
for the playoffs and enjoy your America's broadcast
after this.
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