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[Exclusive Drops] Marvel Rivals Ignite Preseason EMEA [SHIKI vs TH] Day 10
04-19-2026 · 5h 40m
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We were friends
And his falling shadows warm in the news
That's how it has come for me to sink you out
We are standing out for our last reunion
Break the chains, find 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
We can't let our friendship rise, raising up with this sense
Masking through sorrows, on the rims my search to the end
The unravels in the end line
The veins of my own hold until your power is gone
And so does we arrive till the end of time
We will clash, we are to win
We will fight, we'll sing a cross-trial stage
Once you learn my destiny to the end
Life was falling, darkness broke down
Yes, we went for our destiny in vain
New day is coming, but the past and future
Trace the stains, leave the light, light with pain
And then you'll wake up, find your price raising
Your sense smashing through sorrows
Before the risk turns to death
The arrival's in the end
Rise up, let me come on to all my deep powers now
That's our box, we are rivals again
Until the end of time
Show me that you were so the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Wait up, open your hands, hold the water
Do your heart look inside you
Can you feel it, the sparks in your room?
I need a electric shock
Wake up, what might you promise me?
Distance smashing through time
The walls before the rip, my tears get wet
We are rivals to the end, and the high-send
A band of minds hold on to your powers
No one can stop us
We are rivals to the end of time
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When the sun and moon and time wandered
But everything was a tunnel we were friends
And I had a solid shadow swimming in my lips
That time has gone from here to here now
We are set now for a last reunion
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Do you remember who you really are?
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Smash in through circles
For the risks that I've done yet
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Minds hold onto your powers
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We arrive to the end
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Shining, one nose and a raise, and yes
Across the time, I see you turning the sides
And do you see now? Our time? Our time?
We can still fight like no one's in mind
But there are more than always the only time you're born
It is mine
Life has fallen, darkness broke down
Yes, we fight for our destiny and they
Today's running for the rest of your share
Friends, machines leave the way, play with me
And when you wake, you'll find your pride
Price raising, everything's smashing through the sky
Oh, the world's a risk that turns again
We are rivals to the end
Why?
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So warm up to your focus now
That's how it works
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Hey guys, my name is Ryan Central and what's the matter?
Eventually we will get to a point where you guys in the chat are responding what's the
matter with you, but we've got the whole Ignite season to go through.
We've finally seen all four major regions play now in Pacific Asia, China, EMEA and
America's all at least debuted in their pre-season to meta-wise what has changed so we have to start with the glow trucks in the room
Which is Elsa who actually fell down a bit in popularity to the point
The gambit is the first time actually overtaking her be the most powerful most impactful character in the game
And a lot of people ask me like how do you gauge this?
How do I know all of this stuff? Well?
I have a system that I use with all of the drafts that we've seen across all
225 games I use this system called threat level which goes from one to a hundred a hundred being an
an Avengers level threat. Hotly contested, a very influential character when it comes to the draft
and compositions of the meta so far, and out of a score up to 100, Elsa's score was 99 after the
first week. It could not have gone better for her, but since then it has dropped down to 93,
and Gambits for context is 95, which is sort of stabilized in that point. So this doesn't
mean that Elsa was involved in 93% of drafts and 7% of the time she wasn't used. She has
He has been involved in every single game of Ignite so far, other than one, where Rejectx
and RVLE in Asia Pacific just didn't decide to touch her in draft at all.
That's one game out of 225, might I add.
A drop in Scott doesn't mean that she's just not popular or she's not strong.
It just means that she's not as contested as much in the start of drafts, which is
really where those threatening characters tend to stay.
Because Elsa is good in every type of composition, removing her is just a good way to influence
a draft more.
can play around Elsa whether you're playing Dive, Triple Strategist, Convergence, Convoy,
Domination, any type of map Elsa is just good on it, with the amount of stuff that she can do.
You remove that, you can of course force other teams to be a little bit more uncomfortable
on other types of compositions. And if the other team decide to try and protect Gambit instead,
that's fine because we'll remove the likes of Star-Lord because the combination of
Ultimates between Star-Lord and Gambit, which I was going to call Royal Legend,
you guys can decide between that and Galactic Flush, but I know which one I'm picking,
it's you can get rid of the star lord if a gambit is protected or even the likes of rogue
that go up so much when it comes to her strength because of that combination with gambit.
You just remove the characters around gambit if he is protected and a lot of teams tend to start
to struggle. So Elsa is being protected less and banned out a little bit more and whilst she
is being banned out first in a lot of games still she is still very strong my tie add 93 out
of 100 score is still s plus so yeah she's still strong but other teams are still very
very much committed to getting rid of the Gambit, but if Elsa has not been protected
anymore, who is? Who's contestant are there? Well, Gambit for one, but also Mantis has
gone up massively in popularity. Notably it's a protect option because Mantis has
amazing team-ups with the likes of Loki and Groot who are still pretty good with
that combination, but because the likes of Mantis has damaged boosts, she
synergizes with everybody, Thor Resurgence is a really good offensive and
defensive ultimate, and most importantly she is one of the staple characters when it comes to
triple strategist. She can pair with whoever, if the other team decide to ban out low-key,
invisible woman, the Mantis can make other characters around her work pretty well,
and she has a lot of offensive capabilities which means running triple strategists
doesn't feel like you don't have that threatening firepower I guess. But if I had
to show you guys a graphic of what this would look like, it would look like the following.
Granted graphic design isn't really my passion here, and it's not a perfect system to gauge
strength because it's a hero shooter. We're just talking about the draft, which characters
have been banned out and protected. The hero shooter you can switch characters at any given
point.
The two things I want to know. Almost half of the top 20 heroes in this list are deemed
as threatening. It's strategists. 9 out of 20, there's 5 duelists and 6 vanguards,
but 9 strategists. And I don't think there's that many strategists missing from this
list at this point to be honest. Either. Even White Fox has been banned out a bit.
But also, I wanted to note, a big drop off between Elsa Gambit, there's a big
drop-off between them, their Mantis, their Bovangad, and then another big drop-off before
we get to the likes of them, Visible Woman, Loki, Ultron, etc.
I'm very curious to see what some of the regions can do to be creative and see what
other characters that might not be on this list might be starting to climb when people
realise how good they are.
But until then, thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.
Welcome back to group A of the Marvel Rivals Ignite preseason for EMEA. Wait a second, this is a group A, this is the playoffs, but we have three teams remaining and it's our final day of preseason play.
I am your host for today, Techa, taking you through all the action today will be God Moxie and Ryan Central, and yes, starting with Moxie, it's all the top three group A teams left for us today and we're starting off with Shikigami versus Heritakes.
Oh, it's a rematch. It's a rematch. And I mean, like, honestly, this could go the distance,
Teja. We could be in for 12 maps of Marvel rivals coming through, because the last time
Shiki Yami and Team Heretics went head-to-head. Well, the American stream was waiting just
a little bit more for that match to be able to end, because we went five maps unlike
when they faced off in the group stages, and it was a 2 and 0 on the side of Heretic.
so you can see a lot of improvements being made from the side of Shiki Gami.
And Ryan, before I ask you about who's waiting for them in the Grand Finals,
I'd like to ask you about what's waiting for people in game, perhaps.
What could they get their hands on if they were to head on in
and grab themselves to touch the new character?
Well, I mean, not only is this the fact that you could watch this tournament in the game now itself,
but there is also a look in over towards a new meta on the horizon.
There's always seems to be between the two seasons.
So like obviously black cat is the thing that we're referring to blacks and lower Manhattan and stuff all new shiny bells and toys to be playing with
As is the new tenacity system as people find it out
But it's not gonna be available here for preseason at the very least a one day less of action
Before we see what this new jewelist of black cat Felicia Hardy can actually do in the game
It already feels like you've got a mix of what's made their devil strong even elements like black panther
So having more melee options is going to suit
Well, the likes of Tanuki who we're gonna see in play today Frost Mountain of course and then some of the other players in EMEA
But today we're just gonna have to wait and see what that cat is gonna bring
That will come on later, but you can play her already in game
Just like you get your hands on some new skins in game
You can get ready for class with Peter Parker the photographer strike a pose with black cat urban predator
or embrace the cosmic hunt with Blade Starlit Shadow.
All of these are yours in-game.
If you head on in, you can purchase them right now.
They are available.
The battlefield is yours to command.
And no matter what challenge, you can always look your best.
But the goodies don't stop coming.
We've got new Twitch drops coming on through.
This time, Daredevil themed one.
So make sure when you're watching on Twitch,
you're watching with that account linked.
And finally, chat you can stop asking, where's the gambit skin, how do I get the gambit skin,
I don't know how to get the gambit skin, this is how you get the gambit skin.
You tune in to the pre-season finals, aka today or any of the streams until that date will
end, and you'll be able to get your hands on that gambit, will of Galactus celebrating
the Ignite pre-season exclusive gambit costume to go alongside if you were watching last
you're going to be on screen for
the first time this year. Your
star Lord one. We are very much
kind of sitting in a situation
where the audience is acting kind
of like all of the players in
this preseason every time
gambits not on stream. People
should be asking where's gambit,
but we also have another team
that will not be on screen for
this first game. But Ryan,
who's waiting in the grand
finals? It's not furthest
to be waiting in the wings
when we have seen that as pro
the part of Tom that's it's
usually been that X Rad. Now
that has been serrated has
actually been the ones coming
out on top second place at the
grand finals in Atlanta last
year and with the new addition
of terror looking exceptionally
strong and seem to have found
their identity. They really seem
to have stabilized haven't
they moxie after what was a
little bit of a tumultuous
group stage. Yeah, I mean I
Yeah, I mean, I think no one was under any illusion of the potential of this team, right?
Every time that we sort of looked at them play, we were like, this has the potential
to be the best team in the world with the players that you have.
It's literally about just doing the wraps, getting that synergy and being able to trust
each other as a core.
And like Ryan said, it feels out of most of the teams, they're the ones who have
the best current read of what is actually the best thing to be able to play or how
to tailor your band draft into the team that you're specifically facing.
The journey these teams have taken to get here, they've had to fight through the group stage,
where all of these teams came from group A, where that ended with Heretics in first after beating
Darvi, Darvi in second, and Shikigami in third after losing it to both the formerly mentioned
teams. But now through the playoffs, we had the flip around when Darvi were able to take
down heretics in order to get to this point. And Shikigami, they are having to fight their
way through the lower bracket to try and get in for that champion spot. 16,000 USD for first place,
Ryan. Yeah, and it goes into seeding of stage one as well to an extent, but I feel like whilst
these teams are looking to make as much money as they possibly can whilst they're on top in the
region, it really is just a case of making sure that we are well versed. It's a good
rehearsal for what stage one and stage two are going to bring to no international events
at the end of this tournament, but a very key part to see where Navi are going to be placing
this early roster of team heretics, but also Shikigami actually challenging the top echelon
and being in amongst the pigeons when it comes to these top rosters with a lot more experience
in this region.
The maps are the same as of last season with the exception of Shin Shibuya being
added in. We do not have Little Manhattan joining the fray as of yet. We'll see
that changes when we come
around to stage one. But despite
it should be a big available.
We haven't seen a lot of it,
Moxie. Yeah, I think a lot of
teams like they tried. They were
like, Oh, it's been a while since
we got to play shin Shibuya.
Maybe some of these teams are a
little bit less experienced on
being able to deal with that
specific map and the strategies
that is brought along with it,
specifically things like the
strange TP. But that's sort
lock explanation. I mean it feels like we should probably just replace Elsa Bloodstone here
so that instead of plural Torchill though granted Chikigami are going to be in the lobby so potentially
that human Torch well it's not going to get banned out but it's certainly going to be
played especially if we go to someone like Central Park.
Elsa Gambit have been, if you were watching Ryan's video before we started talking here,
they have been so dominant in terms of the threat level right?
Yeah, and I think it's really key when you sort of look at some of the responses, right?
Like, Team Heretics yesterday tried to go a little bit against the brain,
making sure that they had a one-sided Gambit, but then you're giving Terra a one-sided Elsa,
and that seems to come out on top. In fact, like, one thing to note for Team Heretics,
the five maps that they've lost so far in pre-season,
every single time the enemy team had Elsa.
So even though Gambit has a lot more attached to him with how he can enable all likes of Rogue, Stilord,
Even characters like Daredevil to just hold WB in the faces of people, you can't ignore how strong Elsa is just in a vacuum on her own.
She can 1v6 a lobby for sure.
But then you've got to flip it on the other side.
While Rad did not make it in it to this final stage as Shikigami was able to finally put a full stop on that matchup between the two of them
and take them down for a second time, Rad learnt the lesson earlier, where they lost their first two games when their opponents had Gambit
and they did it, and the second they had Gambit on their side.
boxy everything flipped around for them so where does that priority lie between these two characters?
Yeah I mean for heretics it's going to be really interesting especially on like this first map
because it will be a return to form of Hell's Heaven which was literally the map that they
played Shikigami first on domination the first time that they played in the playoffs what is
the band line actually going to look like because the last time they were trying to as Ryan said
go for things like not just the gambit but also the mantis the low key and really trying to
to play a triple strategist line around those two heroes. Do they now go for the instant
ban onto the Elsa? Because Gami were able to secure that one to absolute devastating
impact.
Let's start looking ahead to our teams. We've been talking about heretics, but Ryan, let's
talk a little bit about Shikigami as a fellow Leela's Blazer with myself. You were talking
about the teams having to go through the reps to actually get to this point and
get the practice in. Out of the three teams that are remaining, no one has had more reps
than Shikigami as they've had to go against Carrotix and nearly beat them. They've had
to go against Fire Strays, nearly got taken out, survived this face-rad twice, and were
able to finally take them down a second time. They've gone through it to get him.
Yeah, and from the various interviews that we've had with the likes of Kaya Frostmelt,
and they've sort of said that the problems that they've had is just running out of
ideas and options that these more experienced more tenured rosters have. A few more tricks
and ideas, obviously, whereas this cocking with Kaia roster from MRC is looking to try
and cook up a couple more ideas. It has looked better and better each time they face one
of these stronger teams like Navi and Team Heretics. The problem is they haven't
banked themselves a win in a series just yet off of them. It's got closer, but
still they need to just push themselves a little bit more to actually hit a top
that you're. Where as much
people talk about heretics
here. We'll talk about the
seems a bit more detail once
we have a look at those
rosters, but heretics, they
had their matchup versus
Navi yesterday, and it was a
three. Oh, a big shout out to
our co streamers who are
helping us bring the action
today. And we'll actually dive
into heretics a little bit
more in a moment. What is
jumping out to you in terms
of the roster for Shikigar?
I mean, you guys always
cover the lay a lot. So I'm
going to talk about the
backline like Lindstrom and
being able to lock very quickly on to being able to play things like the White Fox, linshroom
with all of the experience previously being a substitute for Virtus Pro all the way back
in like Season Zero before they properly became Virtus Pro and were known as Team Katz, being
able to play things like the Invisible Woman, which we're seeing more and more of in terms
of value both with the team up for the Strange, but also the fact that a lot of
these teams are trying to run dive compositions. And one of the best strategists at being
able to deal with things like that venom with the dive is the invisible woman getting that
all healing coming on through the primary purse, building up the ultimate as quickly as possible,
and having one of the most underrated abilities in the whole game. Like, you ask any professional
player who what ability is probably the strongest, they'll probably say regeneration domain,
all force physics, the push-less pull coming on through from Susan Storm.
the other side heretics coming on in here. It's a team made up of some separated parts
from a couple of the Rosses that did not survive the roster may be coming into 2026, but they
have looked so strong bringing stuff like strategist deadpool, one of the deadliest
hopes we have seen so far. But what is most exciting to you about this roster?
I think it's sort of echoing on what Moxie was saying, looking at the backline. It's
It's not only the addition of Oasis, who we had an interview with, I think it's a debut
interview on the broadcast, and despite him being a rookie, you can't really say that.
He's sort of fit into this roster very well.
He's been mostly on the Jeff, trying to build triple strategists around mostly Naga
and Alex.
I think Alex on the other side of it is a really good shout.
He was more like a main strategist, the one that was out putting a lot of healing
when he was on Citadel with the likes of Ken.
Ken was the more flexible, would be on Loki, would be on the likes of Gambit,
more flexible in that role.
Alex has had to fill those boots after Ken went away and he's done a good job at growing.
The problem however I think is just more like they're building a lot around triple strategies.
They don't really want to touch too much of the Elsa in particular.
If it's available they'll try and grab it, but they want to make sure that Naga gets
onto the Mantis.
It just means that Tanuki has to be that solo duelist, has to fill up the slots
between Silo, Jean Grey, their devil, even Elsa when it's available.
just felt a little bit like punished yesterday against Na'Vi and they didn't change up their
ideas too much until the last second.
Although Moxie we should bring it up just how insane of a season this has been for Tanuki.
We're just in the pre-season but they have insanely popped off.
Yeah Tanuki's siloed now a new flex that we're getting to see come through from him
as a duelist has been very very strong but like Ryan said the fact that heretics
been trying to secure things like the triple strategy line, letting the Elsa slide through
means that you're trying to pit a Psylocke up against an Elsa. Psylocke's ultimate too.
Well, you can just absorb it. If Loki's in the lobby, you can even just beat it with a cooldown
of the regeneration domain. It does not have that same level of impact as something like the
Apex Predator coming on through from that Elsa. Plus, Elsa with the instinct levels
Sometimes it's higher in the ability than the Cylok too.
To expand on what I was saying a little bit earlier before we got sidetracked with the rosters,
right after we finished our broadcast yesterday, I jumped into one of our co-streamers for the Ignite Games J3
and they were watching the game and just having a mini-mental breakdown
about how heretics were just letting the RV and terror in particular just get Elsa every single time.
That character is so mobile and it's been given to one of the best duelists players in the game.
this is kind of gonna be a test
for a lot of people where they're going to watch this and see
have heretics learned the lesson right.
Yeah, it pretty much is just a case of
do not give LeBron the ball.
It really is that simple with the likes of Terra.
But it's more the case like heretics
they were banning out pretty much four strategists
every single time, making sure that
like the likes of Navi's backline
were struggling with their options.
The problem is Terra never switched off Elsa.
He doesn't have to. No jeweler should be
switching off of Elsa unless it's to go strange in Portland. But even then, you probably think
you could just stay on the Elsa for a little while and say, please. Everybody else on Navi,
super flexible, even Jerky that's gonna be that third strategist. You're playing the likes of
White Fox, Luna, Cloak and Dagger. There's too many strategies now to ban them out completely,
so even if you do try and hit that for Navi, they have the Elsa. Everybody else is fine.
But Team Heretics, yeah, you could build around the Mantis, you could build around the
Gambit, but then you want an invisible woman, you want a Loki. What's the better option
in there. Teruki wants to be on the likes of Daredevil to be a little bit more dive-centric
and use this melee prowess, but he's kind of forced onto the Jean Grey because now it
goes on the Mantis and stuff. It felt very much like they were kind of pinned themselves
into a corner, whereas Navi, certainly their backline are one of the most flexible and
they're going to be watching this series intimately to see how they want to go for
their Grand Final draft.
But Moxie, the talking is it is a foregone conclusion and it's not. The last time
Shikigami and Heretics went up against each other, it was a 2-3 in favour of Heretics
But it was close. I'd ask you what do you as Shikigami need to change to potentially take out heretics
But from that last series very little seems to be the case. Tell me what would you like to see from Shikigami this series?
I mean honestly from Shikigami like you said because it was so close it wasn't sort of like an issue of the band draft
It wasn't really an issue of like the compositions that they're playing
It's just some crucial fight
So if you go back as a team and you bought and say okay if we zigged when we could have zagt
Then we would have been able to win that fight and now we can take that information forward when we next match up like honestly
I feel for Shiki Gami
It's more about how they're going to be able to respond if team heretics have changed things up because we're going to keep talking about it
Until we see that bandwrapped coming on through heretics like Ryan has been saying it's been one of those teams were almost
allergic to playing the Elsa bloodstone
And we're really going to have to see like the true test of does a triple strategist line
And managed to beat one of the strongest dualists in Marvel rivals history
Lime Pro is literally showing up as the coach instead of a photo, as Gambit in their roster page.
They have a preference, but like you said, are they going to be leaning toward introducing Elsa into their play?
Or is it just more creativity, Ryan? What would you hope and what do you think is going to happen?
I think I'd like to see heretics take a leaf out of Navi's book yesterday.
Or just like don't worry too much about the gambit if you get Elsa like let your jewelists jewel
Friendly like let them sort of be able to find out
I think if I'm looking you're like Shikigami
It's like you know that there's probably gonna be priority on team heretics getting the protect on to Mantis
But you can't let happen with this and think they did before is letting the Loki also get protected as well because that team
Up works really well. There's so many options even if they don't have access to gambit themselves
I can just copy it from the other side assuming that's what Shikigami want to prioritize
they're going for like an invisible woman in between so maybe just in that third
band that you have where it's like the mirrored one you do at the same time just
take out the low key yeah them having like mantis visible woman is a great
either because it does hit all of your dive options but you really just don't
want to sit on that team up and just allow them to take your support
strategies ultimate whilst they don't have those characters. The players are in
the lobby we're just waiting for the final go-aheads from heritage which
it looks like they will be given. So while we get set up to get into that draft, Moxi,
any final words, any final predictions before the draft? What do you just want to see that
Elsa first? Is that the one which headed into this draft?
I mean, we'll have to see. Maybe Tanuki just like very quietly has been practicing the Elsa
and heretics have been hiding that strategy to reveal now, but I don't know if like
if you want to show that while Na'Vi are, as Ryan pointed out, still watching, but in
terms of predictions, all cards are off. We've seen how strange the EMEA and all the rest
of the regions for pre-season has been, even the players themselves are basically saying
so many of these teams in terms of skill, they're equal, it's literally about who
who performs the best on the actual day.
We thank you all for your patience.
We are heading into the game.
I'll be leaving you with Gottboxie and Brian Central
for game number one of our lower bracket final.
It's gonna be an exciting one
and draft is a key part of it.
It was Kaya from, well, actually, no.
It was Ducky over on Red,
that was saying that it was the majority
of the game was decided by these next couple of minutes
and it is going to be more of the same.
Heretics want to try and get the one-sided gambit, but you are less in Shikigami at this point more than likely get the Elsa
Yeah, I mean like you said it's going to be a case of the instant bang comes on free from heretics on the gambit to secure the one-sided gambit
Shikigami going to be going for the instant bang of the Elsa into likely the save onto one-sided Elsa
Loki gets removed because heretics went for that Loki as the one-sided Elsa lock
But we do have a slight
creation from the last time right because when the heretics and Shikigami went ahead to have the last time on Hellshaven
The band line was actually heretics saving the mantis first as opposed to the gambit
Yeah, and I mean there's still the option to protect it a little bit later unless it's banded here from Shikigami
You would assume but there is also the problem with invisible woman on the horizon to it feels that you kind of want if you're
Gonna get gambit you cannot let that invisible woman go through maybe looking to try and one side at Shikigami
You have that option but there is also the elements of like Deadpool Vanguard that's been protected a little bit more
Against the likes of heretics tried to one-sided
That's what Navi did yesterday too, but it does look like they want to go for an invisible woman
Which is gonna be great for any dive-centric comps that team heretics want to run. Oh
She could get me we're thinking about going for that Loki
They were like if we get the Loki and we have got a mischief
We can still potentially copy the gambit from heretics's backline
but they go for the invisible woman instead. Heretics do like running a lot of dive with
Beetle on the Captain America. There's a ooh they're thinking about it. Daredevil might be a good
play here too as well because that really like cuts off the value that Kaia can find with a flex
onto the Venom because Heretics were in control of Hell's Heaven previously. It was Sheiky
Gammy actually who changed their composition to that dive with both the Daredevil and the
Venom but forced Heretics to have to field the White Fox in just counterplay to it.
So, taking it off the field means that you don't have that one-sided information lane
coming on from the side of Frost Mountain.
And because there's so much still available, right, like you want to ban out the Mantis
here, you could ban out the Daredevil as like a mirrored option too.
It's going to be the Mantis taking out, meaning that it is one-sided for Tanuki, if heretics
want to run it.
It's not only just the information of how the rest of the team can play off of
the Daredevil for Shikigami, it's just Frost Mountain on that hero, in particular
could be an absolute monster and turned it around after Rad got the first point on Celestial
Husk. Chikigami switched over to more of a 2-2-2 setup and they looked a lot more stronger
as a result. But this is heretics maybe running into the same issues yesterday. Sure, you
can say that Leilis isn't quite maybe the same accolade as the likes of Terra for Navi,
but I don't think it matters. Elsa is incredibly strong, her CC capabilities everywhere
and its heretics proven that it's not a draft problem, it was an execution one yesterday.
Yeah, Shiki and Gami were also going to be seeing that, hey, we got Wolverine for her.
The last time heretics did not enjoy going up against both the Wolverine and the Phoenix
and it ended up getting banned out, so Frostmine's in will be picking that one up almost
instantly, Easter on the Hulk, banned out of the Vanguard Deadpool, which is a good
play I think on the side of heretics here. Domination, that ban hammer, it accumulates
so quickly. It would really like force Namaz to have to burn the regeneration domain, potentially
setting up follow-through from the side of team heretics when that really important cooldown
is off the clock for a good 30 seconds. But that also means that you have the fastball
special coming on out from the Hulk. As Kai is going to be starting on the strange,
don't know if you'll be sticking on the strange, but they do have the invisible
woman on the side of Lindstrom. So through the portal, he hops as opposed to swapping over
to that Vernon and we're going to get this full brawl potential composition with both the strange
Andy Elsa trying to make a little bit of space and the Wolverine looking to counterplay heretics
with backline. Yeah diving in is the rogue actually for Tanuki is it's going to be a triple
Vanguard line for heretics on this attack first. Naga is going to be moving over towards the
Jean Grey to allow a very bold fully fight honestly from heretics pretty much pushing
back Shikigami not many eliminations but a reset required after Shikigami going for the
the port play. He sort of mentioned like there's no deadpool vanguard for Kai to play with but
you also have that team up with Invisible Woman just allowing a little bit more damage to
be thrown out, more targets to hit with these vanguards.
Well speaking about vanguards, Enzo already has banhama, bought up from the first fight
because he's just getting to shred through the strange and the Hulk using them quite
literally as a punching bag. Snooki gets exiled which means that Easter will be able
to make it back to the rest of his team but heretics have already been able to
established such a forward hold. These fights have been very one-sided, so at the most part,
Shikigami are closest to having strategist ultimates up, but Invisible Boundary is not a
good engagement tool because it's so static, so you're relying on Frostmountain instead.
Wonderful Feral Grave on to Beedle, sets up for the Terricate follower, so Captain America
is gone, and Heretics might lose to Nuki here too.
I was able to be stunned out for a second but Cidore is there to finish his work now.
Shikigami looking to try and go in for the lead.
You do have the eternal bond if you want to try and push a little bit more.
But the dive in is actually going to come from Naga on the other side.
Beetle going for the pole play allowing those two eliminations to return very quickly.
Lindstrom almost collecting the point for Shikigami has to use this invisible boundary.
Keep this fight going.
It's a hell of a dedication so if this fight doesn't turn in the favour of the
blue team, it's going to be a bit more precarious going forward now that heretics have built the
way up to 70%.
Naga though, free reign over on this corner, he actually manages to dodge Frost Mountain
going in with the last stand, he gets an elimination on to Enzo with the Deadpool Vanguard, but
it is actually Oasis that's able to grab a couple and spit them off the map, nobody
else is really going for the focus over in that corner, but he wants to try and compete
and contest this now that Shiki Gamma flipped the point.
Yeah, I think actually he wasn't able to find the spit off of the map because the
window pane. Oh, it's in place stopping and from having that environmental. So he just has to hold them
and spit them out a little bit later, allowing heretics to pick apart Shiki Gami when they don't
have those vanguards. Kyra has already used that strange TP too. I don't know if Shiki Gami will
have it back in time. Leiaus does have the apex project, the first of the Elsa Ultimate. So
you can really see what impact heretics are having, being able to control the tempo,
just not allowing this Elsa to be able to set up to have that level of damage.
Lindstrom's going to be close to Invisible Boundary, fastball special comes on through.
Over time there, there's the ultimate but there's very little follow through.
With Enzo about to get another band hammer up, Lindstrom's going to be in danger.
It has to be very careful with the way it takes this fight. It's been and found the target.
Lindstrom holding onto the Invisible Boundary. You can see just how much space
again now gets done this right and side. Nobody's looking at it with all of these
bodies and faces from heretics. The vanguards are just taking so much of the stress that
the mind kind just turns out claps and sends it back to the spawn very quickly and a freedom charge
allowing that basically another strategy school to make for heretics keep this fight going. 99%
overtime is on the cards for Shikigami. They have to flip the point and they have to use so much
more visible boundary trying to collect those plays for Shikigami to group up together but
away since might have just skipped them up again not able to spit anybody off the map just this
case again but the pullback is going to force some of the vangats to be taken down. Beetle
goes through as it is going to be the coffee from Nami to go for his own invisible boundary.
Worldbreak has seen if he can make this gambit squeal a little bit more. Nagar reimbursed
himself back into this fight elimination with the ensong but finally Shikigami only able to actually
get up to 20%. Heretics at least have a good win that's build up to most. Let no one say that
Hulk is bad in this matter because Isidore just actually pulled off a miracle there for Shikigami.
Nave has to use the invisible badge, but it's so deep on Shiki Gami's own side of the map because of the pressure coming on through from that gambit ultimate on the side of Alex.
It's up to Ystall with the wallbreaker to just keep heretics off of the map and not let them flip.
Ayavaganmoto is going to be in play, potential follow-through from the last time coming on through from Frostmountain as well,
but Snooki's so close to having this heartbreaker online, and yet again, this Phoenix is just uncontested on the side lane.
Also I think it's a huge stun, Danham has gone down onto Layla as though, so the damage takes slowly starting to chip some of that else's health bar down.
Apex Predator is on the cards, Alex does not have the gamble up to purify, but so too, the Sheiky Gamma just not have any way of pressuring the Phoenix all the way back on Heretics' backline.
Even when they're trying to scoop up these fights and break the line of sight for Naga, it's still not really enough.
You can see just how much of the stress is going to go on to the front line of Heretics, and it means that Naga does have this free reign.
away from the Mantis, it was banned out, he's going to go back to that dualist,
the copy over from Na'ame to see if they can go aggressive, they have the tools in order to do it,
and invisible boundaries to boot.
Heretics now looking at the clock have figured, okay, we might need to go for a pot of play ourselves
in order to try and touch this, because we've been forced all the way back,
but now they need to be very careful, you see Shikigami wanted to be a bit more offensive,
but now expecting that heretics are just going to go for a root wall approach.
Oasis could be huge here, the problem is that you have to get past the Hulk bubbles.
That's one bubble going to be used for the cooldown. Invisible Boundary should get dropped now.
Phoenix going to be looking for the end song in front of trying to get it but hit onto Linshram
through the ultimate. Doesn't get Linshram but gets both the Loki and the Elstron.
Sheikigami now are damn precious players. Kaya only now falls so he still has to come
up through the world break. He's just trying to hold the space but there's the
chef from Oasis taking him off the side of the map and making it that Sheikigami
We just do not have players to keep over time and play long enough for a strange GP to come
through and heretics will be able to finish off frozen airfield and take us down to Eldritch
Monument.
That's just the first point, Moxie.
That's just the first point of a potential long day.
I think America's viewers has still probably asleep considering it finished at 8am hour
time in the UK.
Long shift, but this is going to be more of the same.
So if you're still looking for those drops, then you've come to the right place
because this series is going to be backing forwards like it was last time. And a big pick there, I think, from Naga in particular, with the end song, going into Leila's just as Apex Predator was used, we saw a couple of misses, not from Leila specifically, but some of those else ultimates not finding a huge impact. This is the case where you don't want to let that slide, especially when you have it one-sided.
Yeah, I think the problem though is that heretics are just controlling the tempo so well like they've got the rogue
They've got the hearts as one team up coming on through from Alex running a triple van god composition to music
You actually have the damage
Well, the health boss to absorb all of that high damage potential especially since cheekygami don't have the mantis to be able to
Buff up the stats Kai is going to be starting off with a strange tp
She can I want to just get on to the point be able to go intercept heretics before they have that high ground position
to put this Phoenix to a good work and pressure out the back line.
Clips his wings all the way down. Shikigami being very good in winning these first fights
And it seems to be the case here for the second point heretics
Yeah, they have some ultimates at least built up
But Shikigami sitting back feeling comfortable on the monument such a good
Eye of Agamotto found his way onto beetle through the freedom charge from like Captain America
So Shikigami just went through the CC chain onto beetle wasn't able to survive long enough to help the rest of his team
and winning that fight too, at the cost of only the strange ult, Nami is that Nami has
this eternal bond for when you really need it. Hence, Tanuki coming over the heartbreaker
like Nami has to make sure he's far enough back that the rogue does not find first contacts
onto the CD and drain your ult before you get the opportunity to use it.
to make sure that he doesn't
have to do that. It's going to
be a little bit of a bit of a
bit of a beating, but he has
his ultimate now looking to try
and go in off of the fight and
might have a raging oil flush
to match up to it very soon.
What's it taking out? It's
going to not really get onto
the side of the eternal one
that never just built up a
frost mountain was sent back
ever so slightly with his
old charge for last and
not going to need it, though.
As the dive came in from
heretics, Shikigami kind of
disclosed of it and now
going to use the last
I believe that Vanga Deadpool was able to get just like killed up by the rest of his team.
Tanuki is actually going to go onto the Daredevil, which is what the heretics will now use to punish
Shiki Gami's lack of Daredevil due to that band draft. Usually the character will be marrying
the Daredevil and having that same level of information. So with the passive,
you know exactly what Shiki Gami will be bonked up running upon them with the raging
world flush. Limb from with the invisible boundary sets up the slow though and Leola gets a huge
Jpegs predator Oasis twice to go for the E to be able to sustain the team and potentially take them out of the jaws of
Glartrox, but it's broken very quickly and cheeky gammy remain in control
Alex oh, they managed to catch him just on the way out
That's a big loss actually now that we're reaching 90% here and the switchovers mean that like heretics have to try and go in
For this fight this engagement
You do have the end song inferno for now if he wants to make this fight happen on the point
but these fastballs might make it a little bit harder to at least get into overtime. It's happened
though for Hereticz, able to go into this fight, but close quarters on this low ground,
you have the Wolverine and the Hulk just laying into you. You have to be a little bit more scared.
Hereticz seeing now that they have to keep a foot on the point how they can push back these
players with Shikigami into a fight they don't want to take the end. So he's going to come
in right down into the corridor. It cleans up another two and Tanuki on the daredevil,
flushing the rest of this team out. Whips over in favour of Hereticz, but it's 99%
to Shikigami. Yeah, but Team Heretics now got one side of Daredevil, it's going to hurt. Plus,
they're staggering out this late elimination onto East Hill, stuck in the puny banner form.
Snooki's going to have let the devil out. Shikigami too, wanting to go for a strange TP. Nami,
already in that cloak form, wanting the follow-up of the terror cape out of the teleport. They
jumped, only running into Beetle to be able to hold this point. He's got the freedom charge
if he gets a little bit too pressured without his strategist there to potentially have the
one of sight due to the cutoff from the strange TP. Shiki Gami going to just bunker up, waiting,
playing the long com, wanting Nami to have eternal bond before they decide to make their move and
heretics are scouting at this hesitation, they're understanding, okay, they don't have the
ultimates just yet, pretty soon they will though, they have to come to us and then we can try and
hit their backline at the same time. And they see all of this from Chiduki's POV too and you
can tell Shiki Gami are constantly looking over their shoulder, the eternal bond is going
to mean that you could just sort of springboard onto this objective and fight from it with
a little bit more sustain and now you have got the Bandhammer used from Enzo on the other side.
I have had a motor coming in to try to connect them to the other Vanguard,
but a freedom charge used to help support heretics through all of this damage.
Tanuki's taking an absolute bludgeoning and with the Let the Devil Up in hand he is going to
want to hold onto it. That was his choice in the end. You have got a Royal Flush from Alex too,
but down in numbers, see if they can actually reset this engagement as Shikigami, their window
it closed. Yeah, this is now really rough for Shiki Gami. They've used Strange TP, they
used that Eternal Bomb too. So for the side of Heretics, they know you only have one strategist
ult in the form of the Invisible Boundary and Heretics have so many things that can
force it. You're going to have to use it for Raging Royal Flush. Oasis has the
its Jeff wants to find that flank, is scouting out where exactly Linshram is, relaying
that information so that Heretics, they can just hit Shiki Gami mid rotation before
they even get to the point with that Raging Royal Flush, forcing Lichdom
to have to use the boundary off of the point and Song Inferno comes on through, the detonation
is on to Layla so no apex predator to try to clutch this fight. Boundary's done but Tanuki's
ultimate's still going and heretics are in full control of the tempo.
Yeah, they've forced this fight into a bad spot for Shikigami and it's just Bruce
Banner left to try and fight this, it was 99% for Shikigami but heretics holding
on, making good use of the three four one sided characters they had available but
And also starting to see heretics shine in the right ways.
Seeing Tanuki on the dead of when it's one-sided, we don't get to see the head-to-head against
Frostmountain.
Might change up how the draft looks.
Both of these teams as well, Moxie.
A bit slow to adjust to drafts.
It took a couple of gusts of Shikigami to adjust to what the light supplies were doing.
The heretics, I think it was a waste, is what's said in the interview himself.
They left it to the last map against Shikigami last time to make the right changes.
They didn't have that look for against Navi yesterday.
I mean, you're looking at beetle as well.
Like the fact that Oasis is on the Jeff
means that you're having to match one gambit ultimate
sustainability to the potential of two, right?
Both the cloak and dagger and that invisible woman
have far more potential sustainability
with the alt cycles in comparison to the HGF,
which is very, very small
and won't really be able to heal you
and keep you alive in the scrutiny
of say something like a last stand
or even that apex predator coming on through.
So heretics using Beetle's freedom charge there to be able to mirror the sustained potential of Nami's eternal bond
Literally just meant that they were fully in the driver seat for the moment that Shikigami had to use eternal bond that teleport fight
They understand like okay, you've used it. We can just wait for it to be done. We still got our caps America
We're still gonna be able to hold on to the point
We'll win the fight once it's done and then we'll win the next one after because invisible boundary it has to be used early
trade insides these two teams will see how Shikigami want to take us whether
it's into a park or not after this break.
Watch out, they're hitting our way!
Don't mess with the amazing Spider-Man!
The end of the video.
A solid start for Shikigami, which immediately got flipped after an incredible comeback from Heretics.
We thought this one was going to be close, and it's exactly what we were looking forward to.
However, what happens when Shikigami lose a map? We go to Central Park, not see.
Yeah, but they can bleed on this map, right? We saw them lose earlier yesterday,
especially to things like that venom coming on through.
So I feel like heretics are going to be looking at that
and thinking, oh, okay, it's vulnerable,
potentially to dive.
And especially in the band draft,
you can really start dismantling some of the key composition
parts to the triple strategist or that torch composition
that Shikigami are so known for
when they're defending this first point.
Right.
This seems to be about like Moxie said,
you can't be, can bleed,
but it's where they do some of their craziest stuff,
especially with Dr. Strange being able to go for those defensively aggressive portals.
They also have brought out the torch here. There's a lot to be scared of.
For sure, it was just that we didn't see all that much shine from it when it came to point
up against Firestress yesterday, but I think so much of that came less down to hero drafts
or which heroes were banned out or protected. It was a lot of just general error, because
it had been a long series for all of those teams up until that point. And it just
reminds me of what Kai was saying in that first week of interviews that the thing that they were
working on wasn't inherently their hero pools, it was just the polish. It was making sure that they
didn't feed as a team and just trying to make sure that everything was a lot more succinct.
Yesterday it didn't quite hit the mark, but you do at least know that you've got the win over
heretics beforehand. It's just the heretics from what we've seen so far. If they do get beat
down, they do come back stronger. And while that's the honest, this is the free season,
if there is a time to like get out these bugbears from your composition now is the time to do so.
But we've seen so much improvements in particular from Shikigami moxie from the group stage into here.
Yeah and especially like if Shikigami have that potential full hold turned against them,
well we know that they can turn to things like the storm coming on out from Frost Mountain too.
I feel like that cat has sort of been out of the bag for a little bit though,
So heretics starting off in that defense might be coming in with something that looks a little bit like a Namor or
Potentially some level of hits going to be able to try and put a little bit more pressure on that storm
So she he can we don't just get to barge the castle gates open with one-sided damage boost in the first fight
And right now that you continue with your thoughts on team heretics from earlier
They kids had such an incredible looking group stage
but they have found themselves now here in the lower bracket and losing maps in the early stages of the playoffs as well
But even losing that first round versus Shikigami in the first map we just came from they're not the infallible team
We were looking at from groups. Oh, no, absolutely
And to be honest, that's kind of any of the EMEA teams
I know people will be shocked and surprised that Virtus. Pro got eliminated
We are as well, but we have seen Virtus. Pro, Burba, Patipin, Rad now
But like these teams lose even in tournaments to go down to losers brackets and then end up winning the whole thing right at the end
Bounceback is a necessity. No team is going to go on this like dominant legacy run where they don't drop maps forever
But this heretics team is so well experienced in these kind of tournaments that frankly
It's what they're built on the other side of why I think Shikigami picked this too is because the berberpats pym citadel's
that team heretics are were exceptional at convoy and that seems to be the case here as well like seven wins out of a
The only lost on Yggdrasil yesterday against Navi
Yeah, you're not gonna want to take them to that pure payload game mode
You want to take them to a map that despite the fact that you lost it yesterday?
It's still something we haven't seen a lot of from heretics
The teams are ready
So we were good to see potentially at least a little bit of it from them here as we will be heading into map number two very very shortly
We were talking about the Elsa being a priority and how it could be game-changing
But we did just see heretics beat a one-sided Elsa
Boxing is it just fine now? Do they just leave it or is it still something that they should address?
I mean the fact that you're going to be starting off on like the defense at least on one of these sides does mean that it can
Be a little bit easier to intercept the Elsa before she hits that power spike
close holding especially with that high verticality position that the defense
can just hit into the backline be it on a strategist or on a dualist mid
rotation can be very very strong at just circumventing an attack push.
Now two of this best of five, can Shikigami bring it back or will heretics
continue that fated journey for the derby rematch?
Pretty much is Gambit Elsa Elsa Gambit Elsa Mantis, Daredevil, Spider-Man
sometimes Gambit Elsa Elsa Gambit that's pretty much how these draft
have been so far. And I already saw that there was a gambit locked in from heretics. Chikigami,
I do still think it's worth leaning on the Elsa in this case. You don't have to rely on the gambit
all that much. It's just the ends of these drafts where heretics have been a little bit more particular.
And I think that spot on taking out the Daredevil was a good fix.
Yeah. I mean, I will say though, I think like with the gambit, with the mag, with the rogue
damage potential and neutral off of the hearts as one team up, you can sort of just like
overrun an attack without just relying solely on having one-sided gambit alcasts. Like, you can do
so much damage when you just send your rogue into brawl, and I wouldn't be surprised, especially if
like, Heretics wants to just have the gambit star lord combo open as well, potentially,
if they do have to face down something like the Ultron Torch composition that Shikigami are
known for when they play defense. This pretty much is the same. Both sides have flipped
Shikigami choosing the map of Central Park, but also to attack first, which kind of works nicely with
if you want to run some Deadpool Vanguard that you could just sort of like get the most out of it.
You don't need to change up comps. You can kind of like run along with it, but that might also
get banned out from heretics if we're going by what the last draft gave us, and it's going to
be the same again. Vanga Deadpool. Team heretics removing it from play. Did they save
the Rogue here? The Star Lord here? The Mantis here? Like they have so many options open.
They go for one side of the vanguard deadpool instead, which did work out really well for
them in terms of that last domination map.
Like you said, if it is going to be Flyers, being able to have Bandhammer build up so
quickly, a lot of the time it's an execution state if you manage to get it onto something
like an Ultron, even through the range of Ultron.
But that does mean that no one gains access to the Mantis, and I think all of your
Julous players are breathing a big sigh of relief that they don't have to play
Double duty and keep up with a duelist on the other side who has that 12% boost. She can get me though
They want to keep their options open like it's Central Park
There's going to be dive in play both on attack and on defense and you want to be able to have things like that
Dead-Evil passive they fought about it for Frostmountain going for the one stated sighted invisible woman probably means that this is a dead-evil
Ban coming on out from the side of team heretics, but they might look at the Wolverine too
Yeah, Wolverine is gonna be good for any like fastball plays are gonna come out because we have seen that a little bit more last
Stand is just very good
I think of fighting this first point as well to either pull everybody together on the attacking side or pull everybody off of the
Objective if you're the defensive side
I think the deadpool vanguard is a really good ban too because not only you starting to hit some of the players like
Kaya who has been a superb
Vanguard deadpool but also the team up with Elsa for one and also just a good option for
any kind of composition, similar to what Elsa provides as a dualist,
Deadpool Vangadis liked that for the front line as well.
He sort of is interchangeable and it also is going to suit Enzo,
who is also a terrific tank pull.
Well, here we go, Sheikah Gamma going to be starting up on the attack.
So it might swap off of this torch composition,
you still on the Angela too,
might just be using that highest speed to be able to get the scout off.
As a team heritage, they're actually going to be starting not on something like in the war,
Okay, so we get A Storm, but we do have Tanuki fielded over to that Phoenix.
The solo jewelers for this team, as yet again, they go with this triple strategist line for going
even the rogue and the mag despite Alex getting the gambit through.
Yeah, we're sort of having a bit of a fly around the POV, as we're seeing, but you're about to
see a bit more of a fly around. There's, there is a torch hovered from Frost Mountain as they
do want to go for this triple flyer composition with the angela heretics have seen this shikigami
actually took a map against navi with it and navi in the grand finals going okay our team
is just going to deal with this because we struggled a little bit more there's a split coming out
shikigami all of the flyers are actually wrapping all the way around the back of this point
beetle looking for an in to try and hit these strategists but the god is there kair is playing
pints into the captain america's approach not letting him through and shikigami they've
already got such a huge presence just like wrapping all the way around this
part of Central Park forcing Team Heretics to just have so many different
positions that they have to be concerned about. Yeah and you can see just for us
now let's lead over towards the left hand side meanwhile I can make you carry on the ground
follow me ladies let's just make our way over to the objective trying to
isolate some of these picks and targets looking towards end so that's forced to
use the dead pull in your area away and actually takes up now a clean cut
out of the sky.
The body block as well from east or south frost mountain going low, steps in with the
Angela shield directly in front of it that the torch stays standing before getting the
spear off onto your Ultron.
That cheeky gamut getting furthest tick and potentially more, unless team heretics go
for a strange TP.
Yep, there's the swap onto the portal but there's nothing to really be able to stabilize
this position.
No lucky regeneration domain, no strategist ultimate.
You just got to jump through but it's not in time and you go directly into the ring of fire
Which just charges force mountains ultimate a little bit faster
Rather doing the Leo de Caprio like whistle like pointing at the TV like it is that
Mistake against Shikigami on this map. So Risa is in order for heretics
You have got like more of these like future two setups now very dive centric
You've got a waste it's over on the lunar snow without that white fox pairing to just make sure that dive has a little bit more
fear from Shikigami that you have some CC in order to work with and also to try to group everybody up together with a fate of both worlds.
Now I may try to spot exactly where these plays from Heretics actually dove in onto as Heretics are looking to try and take a fight early.
Well, I mean the big swap from the set of Heretics is actually Star Lord.
This is what we talked about, right? If you've got the Ultron, if you've got the Torch,
this is your best way of counterplaying it as Alex is getting really close to that Gambit Ultimate to empower that
galactic legend Kaya Manchester catch Tanuki, Rage of Ultron from behind on the
side of Shiki Gamma who yet again just continue eroding the map space from
Heretics not allowing them to stabilize because Heretics like their front
line it's so more mobile than that backline right. Beatles playing to just
try and interfere with the objective put pressure on Shiki Gamma's backline
but that means as far as peel on the side of someone like Oasis in
in comparison to Lindström and Nami. Invisible Boundary is so aggressive from the side of
Lindström, they have zero concerns about potentially letting a gambit-stalled all-combo
go through because they just were able to separate the gambit from the star lord.
This could have been a bit of a backfire from Shikigami, wanted to go offence with Invisible
Boundary but it left the door open for Heretics to actually just backcap the objective
and hold on to it. Now the offence has come out from Heretics. Just as Shikigami
bottlenecked Heretics from these two chokes, you've got the likes of Supernova
these human torch as well that you could just sort of usher heretics away from the objective
and get yourself a very quick second checkpoint but it was an overstep it was punished and now
Shikigami despite the fact that they have a very mobile composition that could just go over this
castle it's a hard place to pick up the objective from. I mean you're looking at Isidore you're
really looking at Isidore being able to body block this galactic legend coming on for when Alex uses
that Ganvel you're gonna actually hold on to it using it only now catching the disengage
First stage gamba ults are for Shiki Gammae back, then galactic legend on the second step to actually
catch them before they can go back into the spawn and hop behind any form of cover. Really good
way of being able to play those ults, you know that Shiki Gammae don't have strategist ults to
be able to survive one all the second and it gets you so much more time to be able to set up
Tanuki on this position and just attack Shiki Gammae's approach. It's hop to dive though,
Kai is on the venom, Cross Mountain to the daredevil, something that heretics fought
about banning out, but chose not to, which means that Beetle is going to have to play
Peel with this freedom charge when the backline gets hit by the dive.
Oh, like Captain America is just so good and he's kind of like neutral engagement, defensive,
defensive. He's going to be able to just be in all of these kind of scraps as they go in.
A dive leaped in from Kyon. It sent straight back. You've got Namida switched over to
once the Jeff of the team up there amongst Bronx, Cross Mountain being able to be back onto
to that daredevil. The dive, however, just in the time it took to set up, instantly sent
back to spawn in Heretics, pretty much having full rule of the courtyard beetle is going
to be the one that gets all of this information to see where everybody's coming from, and
Shikigami boxed in despite a very open point.
Yeah, it might be boxed into Lindstrom's Invisible Boundary too, like your hands are about
to be tied in terms of where you're going to get to use it because Heretics, they're
literally right behind your spawn and Tanuki has the end song in Furno, like you're
trying to get close enough to the objective that you can use the boundary on the actual point itself,
but you're still having to be constantly worried about this Captain America in the backline just
rewriting all of your attention. And so comes some proof of the ban hammer, still no invisible
boundary baited out of it. Now we get it, but this just means that Tanuki will be on the
countdown, wait the eight seconds for it to drop, come through of an ensong inferno,
still at the fight long enough for heretics to hit the true win condition, the Ganba and
the Star Lord. Yeah, the bad news though is that Alex is the last player to fall. So team
heretics like they're still going to try and hold this base because Oasis is having that
range with Jeff. They don't want to give too much up for free against Shiki Gami but they're
just waiting for the gambits to come back through with the true retake play. This gambit ultimate
potentially just on its own because again Shiki Gami no strategist ults. Do you have to worry
about the meteor and from east door absorbing some of the hits coming on through from this
galactic legend as Tanuki is tasked with clearing that venom to make sure that Kaia doesn't
just get in onto the back line and false heretics to split their attention weakening up the front.
timing well suited, doesn't get the buff towards the end, doesn't need it, he's cleaned up House's
one minute left for Shikigami to push this further on their attack.
You're about to hit some huge ults though.
Layla's will have the apex predator, so all eyes on a leases to see if you can get the
it's jab to save your teammates the way you would grab out of a strangling prison.
But, I mean if Layla gets the angle, Glotros can just grab them off the side of the
map which is exactly what they're going to be looking to do.
the wraparound rotation, playing more of that distance, having a little bit more cover too,
enforcing heretics to have to just rotate back to the actual objective itself. Kaya's been scouted,
Tanuki makes a little bit of a misplay, might have been trying to go for a devil's last
grab someone off of the map, but ends up going off himself. Field comes on for the freedom
charge, Apex Predator is there, but Layle has taken off the map by the cap, and now Linshrem
has to use the invisible boundary. Justify turn for Shiki Gami trying to formulate a
response. They get the star lord, Tanuki is about to hit the let the devil out and heretics
once the boundary is gone, they've got the true elimination potential and it's OT, Shiki
Gami cannot manage to kite this out. Now that we have a huge eternal bond is enough
sustainability but now you have to get the duck teleportation to dodge away this
result.
Tanuki let the devil out, he takes so much damage, let the devil back in, let the
back in he retreats back into the castle which is definitely going to be
failing some health and safety note this considerably fell off of the map
shortly before but heretics are still able to scrap out this fight you have
got a way since that might be looking at his lips to get a grab to take
everybody from Chikigami away from the objective. Ultimate wise for Chikigami
on this tag not too much you have the royal legend actually clambering its
way through it's Naga finding all of the picks one at a time that drip by
I dribb, Shikigami are running out of fuel to push this attack further, and Heretic's stopping this, just shy of third.
That's why I was slightly concerned about a lack of Star-Lord ban in the draft.
And when I say slightly, I mean extremely, because, like, no, Shikigami, if they try to go for, like, the torch, the Ultron play, right?
Heretics, all they have to do is get one good gambit Star-Lord combo, and away goes Shikigami's whole win condition.
And they I think they said that like after they're winning against now V
They said as soon as the graph was over they knew that they won
And I believe that draft did end with a stellar ban from them to make it one-sided
That reason you also like have access to the likes of like
Eto M which is also used to like mitigate some of that tires actually gonna be over on a magneto if this is to believe so far on this defense
But it's like there's so many good options certainly for this vanguard frontline for Shikigami one of the more flexible ones
certainly match it up with what Team Heretics are giving, but it's still like way too much
to deal with and Heretics do make the right adjustments very quickly in the middle of a
game. It's just the adjustments to drafts that I think they struggle with. When it's
even like this, yeah, they're just going to deal with whatever Shikigami throw their
way. I mean, speaking about throwing, we're probably getting a Logan, a Wolverine being
thrown Shikigami's way as soon as the doors open and so it'll be on the Hulk,
Tsunuki the Wolf, so you've got the Fastball Special, but Team Heretics actually
decide to stick with this composition because like the moment they scout out
there's going to be a torch ultron. It's likely going to be a move to the gambit,
the star lord, yeah we can already actually even see. Snooki is already on
the star lord, Oasis goes to the Luna having that freeze potential of X-Tiki
Gammy trying to go and put pressure on the backline but also the idle aura to
give extra survivability to the star lord who's really going to have to
work in double time. You've got to cut out both the ultron and the
Torch all worrying about Easterdoll clearing UI too. Like this Angela is literally just going to be counted as solid for measures
So just remember the Frost Matt would said something about team heretics
He caught them triple strategist merchants and heretics now on the 250 what's they're saying are you sure about that son?
It's Tanuki and Aga the ones to take up to the sky
It is a battle above ground
But we're seeing it just from the the players that aren't able to traverse the skies all that much and so
So, stunned out with the banhama, it's still going to go through onto this backline as Alex was taken out in transit, and now you've got Frostmountain actually retreating from the sky.
He wanted to take some cover in the bunker spot, but the Shikigami is so well-versed in playing, finds a pick onto Enzo after the ultimate, and it's going to force a reset whilst heretics try and regroup.
Yeah, there's a very high priority list as well, on the side of Shikigami.
Bonus points if you can get the Star Lord or the Gambit, because that's going to delay the alt conditions here,
coming on for a set of team heretics. Like, Beatles trying to do everything that he can.
He's not going for eliminations. He's like literally just trying to turn the focus. Look
at the Captain America, peel your back line, and allow Shiki Gami not to be in position
with this torch and Ultron to play around that corner cover and put the pressure on
your team walking out from main. Ends up being able to break out onto the point,
starts firing away, building back up to that next ban hammer, but Lindstrom has
the invisible boundary, and now we have the true test, right? Alex is about to
get the gambit ult top, Tanuki the galactic legend. This is where Shiki Gami could potentially
lose the flyers. Invisible Bantry overlaps with the rage of Ultron, which means that
Tanuki can just wait it out to be done and then potentially come back through in this
next fight. So it's going to be up to Kai with the meteor and to sustain you through
that one because torch and Ultron cannot gain healing from a eternal bond unless
the torch dives into it.
Yeah, they have to be pretty much scraping themselves along the ground, but it's a good call.
Aerithic's using the Royal Flush. Tanuki was 88% to have any ult, so that was part of the plan.
They want to try bait out as much as they can from Shikigami, and just let the skies be a little bit more clear.
You have the supernovae from Frost Mountain, and Tanuki is potentially sending him down to the ground.
Meteor M trying to eat up as much of the damage as possible isn't going to lead to an elimination from Kaia,
but it means that the full duration for Tanuki's ult will just get too much.
He does catch Frost Mountain, trying to retreat back to his strategist in the backline,
though we're now trying to spring their way back onto the objective of the Eternal Bond.
Everything's been upgraded and moved out of the objective,
and Heretics looking to try to like, peel this back, it's not sure where they're in or out,
they found some picks, but it's actually Shikigami committed with a portal
to make sure that this sort of in-between isn't going to find much for Heretics.
Yeah, but that Heaven's Retribution will be sustained through with the Freedom Charge,
a Waster still has faded both walls,
pick potential, damage boost potential onto the End Song Inferno too,
Shikigami already down one of these ticks, going to have to put boots on the point soon or they'll lose control of first.
There's the end zone with the damage boost. Linz from falls and he was the closest strategist to ult.
So Shikigami now relying on Rage of Ultron instead.
And it's the portal already used from Shikigami, which means that they can't stall out the point now,
but they also can't go through these aggressive defenses that they're trying to go for.
They want to try and end things here with 30 seconds left.
it's a rage of Ultron perfectly placed from where it is to provide a little bit of space.
Heretics have to give some space though.
They've got the gamma ult, and then he falls off the map.
Alex has the ultimate though.
Heretics can still make a play for this.
Lindstrom does not yet have Invisible Bangerie, Sheiky Gammy are scrambling.
Take poke, convert it to a strategist, I'll have both to be able to survive the
whirlflush coming on through when we go into OT.
Ends has got the Bandhammer too, there's the Invisible Bangerie in reaction to Alex's
ultimate.
and Nami still has the eternal bond for afterwards, even if Tanuki gets the Let the Devil out in time,
it's going to have to take so much coordination to bait one strategist ult up and still have the Entsong Inferno to finish out the fight.
Aya Vagamotto are going to come through, does it connect on to anybody from Heretics?
They're all able to try and dodge it in the end, the portal is going to be used from Beetle as the Let the Devil out is going to come through from Tanuki.
One of the strategists has gone down on the other side though, however, back two of them for Heretics,
They don't have any more healing to come through as it looks like a seed on Kaia the vanguards wanted to smash this point and
Stop it right in its tracks team heretics having flashbacks of how this map went last for them
Is they're really struggling to get things going spider-man is going to fly in from Frost Mountain to really aid and help this
Defenses the cleaves come through from the axes pulls everybody off of the point and Shikigami even us up with a stalwart defense
Oh my goodness Shikigami completing another
full hold coming on out of their defense on the side of Central Park. I mean like we talk about the
torch, we talk about the Ultron, we have to talk about Easter, I mean we have to use the MVP. But
the things that this Angela was like doing both on the attack but also the defense to be able to
interfere. When heretics wanted to make plays both onto the backline or put pressure onto the flyers
they've got to get past the Angela first. And you can like say that okay yeah Angela isn't
normally a character who does all that much damage, we don't see in terms of stats all that high in
impact for her because she's about things like displacement and peel and that's things that you
have to sort of read between the lines to be able to see. So the fact that we're actually getting an
Angela MVP goes to show exactly how impactful Esau truly was. Seven final hits, 15k damage
and 40,000 damage blocked but crucially look at the accuracy. That's a melee character who's
sitting at almost 70%. I mean it's crazy that Acedo was just completely clearing up the skies
for Shikigami. It does mean however the heretics have the free reign of a convoy choice. It's a
good game mode for them. We'll see exactly which one they're looking to take after this break.
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We
We talked yesterday a little bit about how Dracula's castle should possibly even be renamed
to Shikigami's castle at this point, as you said, Foxy, but something I want to really
bring up there is it really time to come down to Kaia's castle there, because they did so
much.
They were holding the frontline, defending the back line, they went ten final hits
for their team.
Why was Kaia so impactful there?
I mean the fact that it was the first elimination of Shikigami's defense being
Kaya getting the pick onto Alex on that gambit meant that we got a delay in the first cast of that raging world flush
And a lot of Shikigami the opportunity to build up resources to counter it
You're running a triple strategist backline
Which means that you're having to split all of that healing
Three ways the chances of you actually getting first strategist ultimate online are very very slim
And that's why again we get to see like the strength of the invisible woman having that amount of pierce
Especially when all of your team are kiting up behind the point of first on Central Park
Means that the invisible boundary builds so quickly
But so too with the stack AoE healing of the Ultron drone does rage of
Ultron and so many times in those fights
It was like literally if they don't get this ultimate up now
They probably lose the full hold and we go into second
I mean, I mean, like I said, the
convoy game mode is pretty good
for them. The seven and one on
it, but the one loss that they
did have yesterday on this map
was against Navi. So it's
whether they match the thick
stuff. Shikigami also winning
out against Radler, but it's
not going to be the same.
It's not going to be the same
thing. It's not going to be
the same thing. It's not going
to be the same thing. It's
of Shikigami also winning out against Radon this map yesterday, means that we've seen very
recent games of both. And it looks like this time after the first two games the teams are ready
very quickly so we are heading in without wasting any time. Let's head into map number three of
Shikigami versus Heretics. Can't waste any time, we've probably still got a best of seven later
and unlike all of the other best of sevens I think that we have Moxie, it's probably going
to be closer than a four-nil Virtus.Pro win because there's no Virtus.Pro. It looks like
it's going to be more bands on the gambit for heretics and Elsa one-sided. Chickagami didn't
really need to rely on the Elsa all that much in the last game. Yeah, I mean looking at that
last band though that heretics used against the Wolverine on Central Park, maybe if you change
that to something like the Ultron, so they can't run a triple strategist line, you might be able
to find a little bit more value, at least at stopping the triple strap, because we know
it's Convoy triple strategist, especially on the Idrisil path, is always going to be in
the discussion for playability. As with the gambit save, yet again we go back into Loki
ban, Elsa Bloodstone save, but for me it really is up to team heretics like how do
you adapt, how do you now try to ban in anticipation of what Sheiky Gammy are going to be running
at you? Is it going to be looking at the triple strategist line? Is it going to be
taking out the Loki so that Sheiky Gammy can't just stall for eternity with the
Adam Warlock low key rats. This is where things start to really diverse in choices here. Deadpool
Vanguard has been the common third ban for heretics to make sure that Enzo is the only
one in the server, but both sides actually taking this out makes sense because the triple
Vanguard line is something that both teams have been very keen on using on their attacking
side for sure. Yeah, I think as well like the fact too that like Deadpool gets the
upgrades in the OT rounds and if both teams are looking at getting that potential full push
through Yggdrasil path, which we have seen in the past. You don't want one-sided Deadpool upgrade
in the lobby before your strategists have ultimates to be able to try and survive through
an early build-up of the Ban Hammer. Ideally, the Shikigami though, they're like prioritizing
keeping this daredevil safe. It does mean that heretics now are invited for the first time
to be able to ban this invisible woman and will joyfully do so, not just that, but also pick
their selves up one-sided invisible woman if they decide to lock this through.
So Shikigami, they might see an opportunity to take one-sided daredevil here.
Might be a good chance for them, but heretics, if they want to sort of play towards a triple
strategist, you have two of the strongest already part of your roster and you can't
need to get rid of the third because Mantis still hasn't been banned out at this point.
That's what they're looking towards. But it does mean because of this,
there is a one-sided Loki on the side for Shikigami.
Yeah, there is a one-sided Loki and Chikigami will be very happy to be able to play that
since they're going to be starting on defense first.
So now my band of the invisible woman will be fielding the cloak and dagger instead as
Leilaz gets the Elsa once more.
Keep on kaya too, like if he actually goes for this venom, we could well see team
heretics try and go for something like that white fox to be able to deal with the
dive coming on for, especially since Frostmountain, he's thinking about it. He's going for that
daredevil, which means that absolutely heretics are going to have to put counter dive measures
in play, or they're constantly going to have their team's attention split two ways. One,
trying to just push the objective itself, and two, having to keep their backline actually
off to sustain the rest of the team.
And one thing that we did see really in glimmers from Shikigami in that last
map on the defensive side, which is where they're starting on Yggdrasil, is defensive
positions. And certainly, when
you look at like Lindstrom is a
lot of experience being a
substitute play for Venice Pro
way back when him and now may
position himself brilliantly and
the rest of the team knows
when to watch them when to
disperse when to try to make
sure that some of these like
group plays, for example, can't
come out. It is going to be on
the defense though. Seedaw is
the one with Groot in hand
and end. So see that there's
going to be a lot of walls
switching over to the Emma.
Yeah, cross maintenance just
like using the close
reading out what exactly they're playing. Tanuki though because Shikigami went
for the ban onto the Mantis late for Heretics does still have access to the
man without fair and now we see the adjustment. Yeah both Daredevil's
rotating to meet the other so that we get the stalemate coming on through. Oh
hello fancy meeting you here but that means that Kaia just gets to go in
they hit the backline disrupts doesn't stay in too long doesn't want to get
stunned out by that Phoenix and potentially punished. Look at the
But look at the outlines of the daredevil. So both just stuck there. Just gave us information that they're literally going for the 1v1.
It's the Spider-Man pointing me, but there's like two walls in the way because they're sensing each other.
But it's the first pick actually going away onto Kaia with all of that information.
Heretics are able to take a good fight and this payload has pushed a long way already.
And that's before Rogue actually pushes in to make sure that she can get me.
Kaia's switched over towards the straight. Do you have no time to go for a portal play here? That's done.
Yeah, no, this is for sure done.
Enzo with the Emma frost as well, like you've got so much good counter-dive potential against the Venom,
but you can also just hold your position on the objective.
So if Shikigami want to just like use the Venom, it's going to be soft dive, they know that Kaia would be out,
but this is Shikigami to a T.
Right, into the portal we go, swapping to the strange, not for a contest, but to just flip that map.
You do have to be careful though, because as we said, Enzo on that Emma
It does just manage to absolutely mince the Doctor Strange with the Carbon Crush and that
Diamond Bomb, but Leolas is absolutely shredding Jean Grey.
All the damage that this also does, we said it would be a win condition for Shiki Gami
and off of the back of Nami with the Terror Cape applying the vulnerability, this also
is absolutely unleashed.
It's calm, this idea has been in use from some of the players from Shiki Gami since
they were on Al-Qa'd Sia and it makes sense as to why lots of time on the bank for
Heretics after such a quick first point take, but it's being bought out now. Strangler
President is going to be used to try to pull some of the players from Heretics together on his attack,
but his beetle is cut all the way through. They're stolen. These characters just hold in W and left-click,
and it's absolutely torn asunder from Beetle and Tanuki as they find the eliminations.
Means that the payload is going to keep moving and Shikigami will try and regroup before these doorways are shut down from Heretics.
Well, that was the one-sided Royal Flash Fight.
That's why it was so short and so heretics one-sided, but that does mean that Shikigami
will have both strategist ultimates as well as the Apex Predator, and we're moving into
one of the hardest aspects of Yggdrasil for these attacking teams to be able to complete
the push.
Ender can try to open it up with the Stonic Seduction.
Ideally you're looking at Beetle, being able to get into the backline and get the
connection of Heartbreaker onto either Nami or Lindstrom so they don't have the
the Stratus Ultimates and the CEC immunity, it would grant them to be able to ignore this
Emer Ultimates. Speaking about ignoring, Oasis might as well be on holiday. He's just playing
all the way from the back. No one from Sheikigami can get on top of him. Lindstrom did get the
copy of Hontename with that Eternal Bond from the God of Mistship, so dodges the
CEC of the Sonic Seduction and Sheikigami will hold that position, but no eliminations
off of the back of it. Heretics more than happy to bait one and now just have
to worry about the other eternal bond standing in the way of eliminations off of Ensong or
let the devil out.
That has to be a little bit of a hot step for Kaia, leaping in to try and pull some of the
attention away, but it's a brutal fight. It's a great Terakie patch, but it does allow
C-DOT to go and get the pick in the end. Now you've got the eternal bond, sorry,
you've got the Ensong being used from Naga that's trying to reset himself. Make sure
is up to full HP before Lealus takes down some more of the front line.
Characters in Frost Mountain actually cleaned up House in this engagement, and she can gimme
hold on.
Oh yeah, Nami has been on absolute fire with these Terror Capes, and heretics don't really
have a good way of being able to block it, right?
You would be looking for a shield, but Enzo with the emmer is the only one who can really
do it as opposed to something like the strange.
It's a little bit more consistent as Frostmountain again, close up hold on the choke, scouting
out a heretics's rotation. They know that they're going to be closing up to that gambit.
Oh, Oasis is also swapping to the Invis to try and have the counterpeel coming on through
from that dive. Lovely Wolverine grab from Tanuki, sets up the elimination on to Frost
Mountain, but everyone was baited into a hallway having to worry about the Elser
Ultimate.
Where did it go? Everybody was lined up. It didn't seem to connect up to anybody
in the end, so a big Ultimate, you some Chickagami without too much value either
for elimination. I'll create a little bit of space. That space has very much been closed
up from two paratix that are actually forced to use the eternal bond on the other side.
Shikigami trying to create some semblance of area to work around and it was lynched from
the right for the copy to try and bring out another one in the end. Now the eternal bond
is going to springboard. A little bit more action is last stand. It's going to be
used from Tanuki. This fight is just backwards and forwards and watching Enzo lean forward.
Oh no, we need the peel run back. Okay, now we can move forward. Eternal bond
still looming on the ground, but with all of that gone, there's the Royals flushed, it's
one-sided about to cut away for a Shikigami's defense if the door is at least open from
the group.
You saw this, slams that shot, like, nope, you can't come here.
You might be able to purify my ultimate, but you can't get past the walls, and that
means that Shikigami only now lose one of their players and can still put together
a regroup.
Then, from Narmak, I was taking a little bit of damage.
Laylas has been able to find the Phoenix, but with the Royals presence up on the
high grinds as well as the sun extension coming on through from Enzo. They're dealing with the
stall one by one and Shikigami just did not have an ultimate to be able to stabilise the hold around.
It's a rough old fight in the end but at least Shikigami bought a good amount of time.
90 seconds added on between so they had just above two minutes to work on this last attacking
point. We've seen some teams finish out here, we've seen some teams actually lose the map
because they weren't able to push up far enough. Heretics don't want to make that
mistake kind of like they did against Na'Vi when they were full held on this map, which was their choice.
At least a little bit better on their attacking side and a lot of
ultimates to maybe finish out here or need yourself.
Yeah, two minutes almost in the bank. Kai is going to be looking really at trying to hit the
backline and slow out the subjective so that Shiki Gamma can get a few more fights that
Heretics are just so ready to deal with this dive. Dan goes cross-mountain, grabs it by Tanuki
into the follow-up from the rest of the team. Beto with the heartbreak,
could see was pushing the rest of Chikigami's players back so they can't try and just go
sole on the point itself. Split apart, they haven't lost anyone else and it's just going
to be a bunker up stack. Wait for you to have a strategy assortment before you try
to make your next move. But, heretics, they're just catching onto the venom instead. Kaya's
been scouted out so far away from the rest of Chikigami's team. There's no opportunity
for him to get out.
Yeah, they're just doing it with their normal, not specialized, this is dead. It's
in the server any more, at least on the side of Heretics.
Naga finds a pick on the Frost Mountain,
and the Striker of the Prison actually interrupts it from his seat on a great catch-up from Tanuki,
leaping into me the Saviour.
Turtlebomb has to be copied and used up from Lidstrom to provide something to play around.
There's the Apex Predator coming through to at least find one pick,
and you saw the visible boundary, tried to be used to help beat him,
but it was just a little bit late.
Might not matter, however, as there's still eliminations coming into favour for Heretics.
Naga's been tremendous back playing on the Duelist role.
A leaping from Enzo is a last-ditch attempt to take out Layla's and it does connect follow-through
matching as well. Wolverine last man catching up the Loki into the sky, he's not able to get away
out of this one and now the Collective Legends, even if it can go up and gets this tenacity
of the Wolverine eventually takes him out but a lot of those bullets in the pistol from
Boss Mountain used and pretty much all of the time back gone from Team Heretics,
they're going to have to go for the overtime fight here.
What a swap from Narmé comes back on the Jep to be able to heal from the spawned door.
As Tanuki swaps off of the Wolverine onto the Strange having to portal the team in,
ends us on the Penny Parker. You're just looking to try to have some of those spider grabs coming
on through to set up a CC, touch back onto that Emma, but we can see just Narmé entirely split
off from the rest of the fight. Heretics have no way of being able to get on top of this
Jep, which means that all of that healing is going to be there that's just not available
for Team Heretics, Shikigami just falls back outside of the portal and Heretics have no
way of being able to break through. It looked like it could be a full push, but with some
very smart swaps on third, Shikigami are able to staunch out of Heretics' position
and manage to complete the hold.
Even the thing right at the end as well, you know that they're going to go for a
portal play, you can see street charging, no mobility, abilities that can really come
through and touch if it was a bit further away. Outside of that, you just hay-maker
the portal and make it really hard. Shikigami, looking back at that a little bit, maybe on
that first point defensive going, we should have done a little bit better there in the
end considering that team heretics were like full held dead before by other teams. But it
was a good hold on second to just buy a bit more time. And then third, a respectable place
for that payload to stop. The problem, however, is being able to finish up the
map. Heretics chose it. You would imagine that they now have to defend it too.
Yeah. I think if you're Shikigami as well, you're looking at Lindstrom and
trying to work out how often am I going to be in a position to see Alex to be able to
get this copy onto the gambit. It's probably not going to be a lot because the heretics
they've got the defensive position so now they can keep their backline fully out of
line of sight from the low key. So for Sheikah Gami it's all about this dive. They're probably
going to lose the gambit all, although heretics they're running both the Emma and the Cap
so they've given up the rogue, they've given up the hearts as one for the stall
potential of beetle. Captain America much more sustainability, much rollier as well to be able
to just continue putting the pressure on the back line and still looking at the objective for as
long as possible. We're about to see Tanuki and Frostmountain like go again for this stare off
in the corner like meet me at this position at 5 p.m. CST yeah you can sort of see them sort of
looking at each other seeing if they want to go for the dive. With a bit more help this time
from beetle I think is about to leap in off the back where the Daredevil is playing from
Watching it from a racist perspective, not quite as far away as the Jeff with the, um, just no drop-off healing,
he's still able to get a good amount of info, make sure that Shikigami can't go through these flanks.
Mostly it's just going to be this route on the point from the Seador to try to bully their way forward.
Oh, there's the dive coming in for Frostmountain's been able to coordinate,
but the carbon crush with that Anna Diamond bomb sets up the elimination to dead level,
But your position static delay allows to be able to shoot for Terakip comes on for from Nami heretics
They were already actually swapping the ammo onto the train to try to TP back into this fight as I'll just look and try and
Stole out as much time as they possibly can breaking around this first corner is very problematic
Unless you're playing something like a venom where you just wall jump in and smack down onto that backline
So much follow-up damage
And Kyle will take the trade especially because it took so much of the focus away from the objective from heretics
Ball play actually going in from the other side Enzo was playing on the defense trying to get the strategies back quick
So bit of a reverse play in the end
But are you going to be able to actually touch the objective at this point only just there's not much place or time to go
So heretics don't really have too much of a space to work with but if this ends up working out
That was a heck of a play for Enzo the fact that the elimination feed is filling up with the blue of Shikigami
However, makes me feel like it was a bit of a last-ditch attempt and it's gonna be another fast first take
Yeah, I mean Lindstrom was just out of heretics's line of sight
They could not be able to put pressure on the low key Lindstrom's got regeneration domain
So if your players drop low when you have to reload, it's okay
You won't lose someone no risk of trades and also full charge of God of mischief to try and match up to Alex
One heretics try to get aggressive with this raging royal flush to retake some of the space that Shiki Gami have been able to recruit.
You're still going to be looking at the struggling prison too, like you don't want to use it first.
If you do, Alex will just cast the ultimate and purify everyone who got grabbed.
That's Anuki switching away from the daredevil over towards the Wolverine, see if he can feral loop somebody's place up in position.
Here's the copy you managed to get to Camber on the other side, you're right.
So it's a royal flush copying in from Lindstrom, it's going to be mirrored on the other side from Alex.
Alex picking, hey that was mine, give it back.
Kayapine's the first pick up to Tanuki however,
and immediately Heretic's using a big ultimate moxie
and had to rescind so much space.
Big play from Isdo too,
like Lin's from getting the copy,
forces Alex to have to reciprocate
and then Isdo comes through the strangling prison
after it's been cast to not have to purify.
Heretic's do have stall potential,
Apex pressure from Leila's right to actually grab them
off of the high ground because again,
Frost Mountain's on the daredevil,
You've literally got wallhacks to be able to see when they're rotating and where, catching them on a lesward that Elsa ultimate.
As Heretics try and take sanctuary inside the invisible boundary, Sheikah Yammi will wait for it to be down, coming back with the eternal bond.
But they've lost the daredevil, which is a lot of information of understanding where Heretics were played from.
Closer respawns, freedom charge, and not enough elimination so far to sweep out this fight.
but a huge pick from Lindstrom on to Beto means that Heretic's losing a lot of sustainability!
Last stand is good from Tanuki though, picks up both Nome and Isidore.
The Frost Mountain tries to equalize, goes through with the Let the Devil out,
and it looks like Heretic's might be on the way out of this hold.
Yeah, Masters of the melee, it's Tanuki that found two great pickups to take the fight
off of the objective, but all it did was create some space for Frost Mountain.
Now it's Enzo that has to come in and be the hero of the saviour.
leaping into victory kind of gets caught on the wall but he does have the strategy there to help him
very key picks in the end from heretics there but it's still two and a half minutes that they have
to hold on to this defense it's going to shuffle back a little bit but those goats are going to
be stoked pretty much just shy of the second checkpoint the shikigami just building up the
ultimates ready to go again putting all the pressure now onto alex as well you've got the
stalwart ultimate shikigami will be ultracking the gambit they get the stalwart they don't
care of the gambit ultimate comes on for now they can just pile all of the pressure in deal all of the
poke damage even if i guess the oh it's not going to be that with the galactic legend for a little
bit of time there's the gambit old cashiki gami trying to disengage out of it i'll catch his
oasis lay alas two gets the hit on to end though as limfram does not get the opportunity to capture
that gambit ultimate but does copy the cd's like you said eternal bond allows shiki gami to hold
that position. Strangling prison forces Vidal's position to be static, so no additional armor
for the rest of Tower 16. The claw trucks on the wall both at level as in neutral is
still getting all of the eliminations. Edge is coming back on the strength, data lights
and starts come through, but Loki's in the lobby and regeneration domain is the best
trick in the God of Bishops arsenal. The claw trucks at the wall can't hurt
you, at least that's what my therapist was saying, but I'm not too sure about
it now. It's the feast of the abyss now from Kaya. They just wants to eat this five meters
forward but Tanuki's built up another last stand and everybody's grouped up together.
He gets to pick up to Frost Mountain and he's got these strategists backed up into a corner
screaming for dear life, Shikigami. Maybe there's enough space to actually get onto
this objective and push it past but they have all of these plays from Heretic's looming
and fighting. A turtle bun's coming out again to just bring this down into the
blue of Shikigami. Terror keeps flying around and there's so much fear in the server
You could almost smell it, lay a lesson, it's like a fish to water trying to find up these picks and these eliminations
but heretics are so good at keeping these fights going, they haven't heard a bell, but they have heard the second checkpoint has been hit, two minutes left for Chikagami.
And welcome to why we call the last fight on second ectrinal path the ult dump fight for the attack team, because that's pretty much the only way that you can actually beat the stall potential from the defense side.
Narmage is using the eternal bond even down to players understanding we have the sustainability
we've got the Terrakates for the vulnerability and we have Leolas on the else so this is still
winnable as Beetle now on the captain America goes for that stall I end up too swapping onto that
venom wanting to try and drain as much time and ultimate on the side of Shiki Gamma who are
going to be starting to get a little bit desperate they had such a healthy time bank
when they rolled into second now they have about a minute left and they know that they have
We have to deal with the full fight win on the side of heretics if they let them regroup
because Alex has that gambit ultimate and it's all up to Lindstrom.
If he can get the coffee up onto Alex to be able to match this, or if he gets the Eternal
Bond replication from Nami, Shiki-Gami can potentially hold that position.
Eternal Bond, I think is what he was able to grab onto, clocked down against the Terrakips
that fly out as well.
So Lindstrom leaping in, Lailess also with the apex predator, not pulling anybody
out of position.
There's that second Terrakip that's going to come through everybody, heretics
covered in purple.
I'm hoping that they're able to try and cleanse their way into holding on to this fight.
There's the Lincoln that's going to pull this group out of position.
He's not going to be too long for this world to do if he's absolutely fried him.
So now heretics have something to stand on with this defense.
45 seconds left for a portal player to imagine for Shikigami if they're going to be given some space.
You even have the dead of a sort of switching around from Frostmountain to be able to touch,
but he's got the venom in behind him and a bit more peel on the other side.
His hands are on Kaya are going to be having their own little hallway battle.
Seeing now this defense heretics holding on a little bit longer for Shikigami,
no ultimates that are really built up with you have to look at now made to be that eternal bond
to actually find a way through.
Oh but you lose Linshram, no regeneration domain to try to stretch the eternal bond
against both the sustain of the Freedom Charge and the fate of both worlds
and like heretics they're just gonna hold right up close to Shikigami's side.
We're getting this strange teleport coming on through from Linshram.
Foodle scouted out. Everyone from Heretics adjust their position in anticipation of that portal.
Frostmountain lives long enough to hit the OT, so the Strange Portal could potentially come on for it,
but oh, it looks like it got cancelled out.
Layla's has to just try to come forward from Main instead,
but Sheiky-Kami just don't get the opportunity to use it,
and Heretics complete the hold.
four meter distance but those small gaps become insane canyons when you're playing up against
top teams like heretics there. Map choice going their way and as we were shouting out kaya on
the venom Enzo goes, remember me, a performance of the ages and Chikagami now having map choice.
Have the whole pool of map to reset as long as we haven't gone there before in the series?
Well it's just the tale of Idrisal path isn't it? You come in with what four minutes
on second and you see it dwindle away into almost nothingness as you have to burn your whole ultimate
economy so you lose the smogal potential headed into third. One fight win is all you need on the
defense to be able to reestablish that hold, that position, and when you have two dive vanguards who
can apply pressure both onto the front line or potentially the back line, cheeky gammy just
gets split so many different ways that they have to try and stop all of that incoming aggression
They've run out of time, they're not able to build up those ultimates and make a good go of any fight of it.
Layalus with the ELSA 32k damage, 42 and 5, but still on the losing side because Hitonuki did a lot with pulling those fights in.
But we'll see where the series is going to go because it's been an absolute busy so far after this break.
Watch out, they're heading our way!
Don't mess with the amazing Spider-Man!
to, as Ryan said, just four meters between these two teams.
It was that close, but Heretics, I'm going to go against their name here for a second.
I'm just going to pile some praise onto them with a spectacular defense,
being able to isolate people exactly when needed with that Wolverine.
And it looks like, Ryan, we've just found our next map.
We're heading to Spider Islands.
That's brave.
We sort of already mentioned that Team Heretics very good on convoy.
And this was a map choice for Shikigami right at the end of that final best of five in the upper bracket of playoffs.
But it did not go that way.
Went the distance, quite literally like when it came to the map, but it was heretics that came out on top.
So it might be the definition of Insulity going for the same picks and hoping for a different outcome.
But that kind of worked for heretics.
They did lose on Yggdrasil and were able to solo win it back.
This is just a case above these teams trading wins on either side.
So maybe, just maybe this goes the way of Shikigami.
The box is is a convoy that we
were talking the break a little
bit about the set of the
success rate of heretics when
it comes to convoy. Yeah, but
you found a lot of success with
your torch, Ultron Angela
composition on your earlier
convergence. And as Ryan said,
we did get to see this
previously go the distance
in terms of spider islands
heretics versus she can get
me and they did start their
first point defense on that
run back of it here using those buildings a little bit of cover to siege down that first point where
you wrap around with spider zero it's a tough one to push on into i'll have to see if they're able
to break that main hold so far it looks like team heretics will be starting on defense and shakigabi
have chosen to play a little bit aggressive to start a self fear we'll drive and break that
hold but so far draft wise going back and forth each time as usual i keep checking in after
every game are we happy with the one team getting gambit and one team getting elsa so far let's start with boxing
I mean we've seen that heretics can beat the elsa we've also seen that cheeky gammy do run into
problems with the one-sided gambit like it forces your ultimate rotation to be very very different
when you understand that like one team will have gambit and not only do you have to worry
about them potentially overwhelming you very quickly with just the speed of the raging
world flush you also have to worry about the one-sided ultimate acceleration gain off of
the back of it too.
I will ask you the same question, are you happy? Would you like to see some adjustments
as we head into the game?
I'm happy. I like that being conflicted identities for both teams, but I am curious on like the
daredevil protection. Shippin' Garmin, like Wolverine is fighting a lot of impact today,
gonna be banned out. Where are these drafts going to differentiate?
We'll start with the obvious parts I suppose of it. Like we're expecting with these
kind of levels of teams like a phase one draft moxie. It tends to be the same. That looks different,
no? That looks very different. It's an Elsa band for Team Heretics, a team that said that,
Rad said it as well, but it's NA propaganda to be banning up this character first.
We might see a Gambit mirror. Yeah, likely. Loki ban, Invisible Woman ban. Oh, no, Loki ban.
I think like Heretics, they're sort of like trying to work out what exactly
Shikigami would play for. The Invisible Woman is really, really strong. With the Torch Ultron,
Loki loses a little bit of value given how hard it is to actually heal flyers with an AoE. Projectile
primary, you can sort of get around it by healing the boldings around you and the splash. But,
oh yeah, this is very interesting. Okay, Aritex go for one-sided Invisible Woman.
Shikigami fought by going for one-sided Ganbert. There's one more tile of ban before
heretics get a save so it could be the gambit man here on the side of cheeky gammy but that does
allow something like the mantis to slip through yeah i think it is heretics locking in a one-sided
invisible woman and then a loki ban here very odd and and there's still not banning up the gambit
the cheeky gammy are just like have it have it like we are more than willing to go up against
you in a gambit off if we need to and it's the fact that our heretics have got the invisible
woman. Something that Fire Strings was doing and Chikigami have intimate experience against because
that was pretty much the main focus for them. The elsewhere has been banned out. They weren't gambit
lovers. They wanted to go for the invisible woman just to give themselves something concrete to build
around with triple strategies. And instead of protecting the gambit, they're going to protect
the Wolverine. This is a very different draft. Well, Tanuki was getting so much work done right
on Yggdrasil, cancelling the strange TP, grabbing the Groot. If Chikigami want to run
like the Gru or even the Venom, you have that Wolverine who can play so aggressive against
your Vanguard but also play a little bit more passive towards your backline. Just wait for the
other side to make that first move and grab them out when they show up. As we've got a Mantis
Band now coming on for a Fnaticide of Sheikah Gamma, so still no Gambit. I feel like for both
teams, they're like, okay, we both have Gambit. As long as no one gets one-sided Loki to have
two casts of it. We're good. We're just taking the coin flip. That's an interest in perspective.
And the deadpool vanguard means that like that's going to be at the very least one sided. So here
it's like, do you ban out the mantis to keep it honest to make sure that there's not going to be
that in play? Or are you going to go for the rogue to make sure that that team up doesn't work?
It's sort of expected like vanguards triple vanguards potentially making it a bit more meatier
wanted to make sure that a gambit doesn't have as much stock now that it is protected.
They can also run it themselves, so that is a one-sided rogue in favour of heretics.
Yeah, so it's not quite like that same 50-50 coinflip that it would have been.
In terms of the ultimate, yes, absolutely. Both teams have Engraging Roar Flush,
you can potentially play for the mirror, or you can sort of just like lose the fight
and then come back into the next one with your own one-sided gamba ultimate to secure that victory.
But since we're going to be seeing one-sided rogue, that's like one-sided hearts that's
one coming on through from your vanguard line, you also have to worry about Heartbreaker.
Shikigami though, they did manage to get the Star Lord through, so you're still going to be able to have Frostmountain
alongside that gambit ultimate and really put a lot of pressure onto Heretics' backline.
We talked about, you know, Triple Vanguard, some of the other reasons why Invisible Woman is so strong
because you're fighting in such bottlenecked positions on Spider Islands,
especially this first one where everyone stacks around that first corner,
trying to get as much Star Love as you possibly can.
But what we actually have from the side of Heretics is not Triple Vanguard, it's Triple Strategist!
Alex, because you got the Vanguard Deadpool band out against you, is going to be swapping onto the Strategist Deadpool instead!
He did this against Navi, it was on Hell's Heaven before and said that, you know, obviously the matchup that you're going to have with the Jeff Oasis has been exclusively over on the Land Shark.
You've got the team up that can work wonders there.
And with the picks, with like, oh, it's just too much mitigation and a very quick pick onto Isidore.
Shikigami also have an access exam and it's gonna be picking up the mantis to try to make this a triple strategist line
Kaya switching away from them one-sided they pull Vanguard over towards the thing layless on Dr.
Stranger than Easter on a hook big changes
That's Shikigami want to go for a little bit more of a whole W
Yeah, they just really want to make this a sloppy fight on the point as both teams are taking chunks out of each other
No, it literally has pain brothers the team up is coming on for from the side of Shikigami
They've also got the Hulk Bubbles to be able to match the Unbreakable God
But what they don't have is the invisible woman to match the side of team heretics because it got banned out
And you're already 80% to the first invisible boundary within the first fight
You can see how much healing this is outputting with the amount of people stacked up and taking damage at the same time
Basketball special yet again comes in through from Tanuki. No grab though
a good guard coming in for her on the side of Isidore.
Yeah, see 3 charts too, making it hard for Heretic's stiff, Kite-Iod,
but they're okay without Kiting-Iod.
They'll just drop invisible boundary and hold that position.
She can get me baiting that one, though,
can come on through with one sided Raging Wall,
flush everyone from Heretic's choice to get away from
utilizing Iovagamoto as a way of stopping Sheikigami
taking momentum, and it's just brawl for brawl
as the waitress makes off with FRIIIII
over the side of the map.
Oh, it's their devil's strange and whole kids a big meal. He's just taken towards the bottom of spider islands off of the abyss
But a brutal fight with stuns from my bag of motor from beetle and then the club read time from kaya
Everybody bundled up in a room, but it's objective is barely moved on this attack inside the shikigami
They chose this map it went poorly against heretics last time and they're struggling to get their way past this first corner
All the possible special you have to be so worried about it
still your backline is taking damage at the moment 70% almost again to this
next invisible boundary as Tanuki gets another grab there's someone to Frost
Mountain the follow-ups left from the rest of the team Shiki Gami lose the
Daredevil and the information and Tanuki just continues hounding Shiki Gami's
players then at this point you're huddling in spawn you're so scared
about where this Wolverine's going to show up from. So leap down from Tanuki
And the same I think we go for the fastball play again soon as it is going to be the shields going to just give them a little bit of
Rest by but only for a second before kai starts to wing in again
We've got some more support and a terror keep actually coming free for sustenance from Nami and it's an up on to actually try and cut through
This bouncer composition from heretics now. They're starting to drop now
They're starting to fall but you have to imagine that the portal plays gonna mean that these big burly members of heretics
Are gonna be very soon back on that objective
Yeah, though, Shikigami, they will have Reginald Flush coming on fur from the side of Lindstrom,
but like you said, Beedle can set up that strange TP. Doesn't look like they're going
for it just yet, though. They're going to walk out of Main instead. Invisible Boundary,
it's Jeff. Oasis could come through with a huge E, since he's still off of the Hulk,
no unbreakable guard to be able to stop the Jeff E. He's still just going to
wrap all the way around the back, use the Band Hammer to put the pressure onto
the backline even just holds the alt trying to take the gap down. The traditional way huge
clobbering time from Kaia leads into the Terricate vulnerability and Heretics fall before they
get the opportunity to use the invisible boundary and stop Shiki Gamma from picking up first
point. A huge turnaround fight that honestly Shiki Gamma needed. They had to get a fast
fight win to make up for the amount of time that they lost just getting for a spawn.
Oh but it's not done yet. Team Heretics might be giving Shiki Gamma a taste of their own
medicine with an early defensive portal play. These bodies back on the point might sense
Shikigami scrambling. You have to let the devil out and your ban hammer available for
Easty Dodger. Just get stunned out for a second. Fastball trying to cut through. Tanuki
doesn't get the connection. He blinks his way back, but he has found the dead pullover
on the corner of the map. He's going to throw out the ban hammer beforehand and
it's Jeff who's now going to be used mostly to just get out of harm's way whilst
he was the main focus. There's the last pull on however. Let the devil out. It's
of these from Frostmouther. He gets fully stunned out though as the last angle is used.
Aya Magamoth is going to follow from Beetle. It doesn't get the connection but they still
lose one of the jewelers on the side of Shikigami from the Gamma Burst afterwards. Heretics
have done well considering that it was a point lost for them. They've immediately
climbed it on the other side of this gate.
Oh, here comes the fastball again. Clobbering time from Kyobo. Heretics by stacking up,
they are all just getting stunned out by this thing and Layla is going for that
Scylox who has a little bit more map monopoly space trying to split apart some of heretics's team
going forward, scouting out where exactly heretics will be just walking out from,
and then relaying the rest of that information to Shiki Gami so that they know when you have to
worry about potentially that basketball special coming up through. But the answer is you don't.
Tanuki swaps instead to the Daredevil to match Frostmountain. We've got the Daredevil
mirror yet again, and so feeling aggressive can just go on to the point because he's got the
world breaker if all else fails and his health bar starts to tank there's the
whole cold summer cheeky gammy going to have to back on up the beetle on the
split approach on the left side already splitting the team and cheeky gammy just
giving up all of this space it took so much just to be able to break through
this first choke with less than a minute left they find themselves right
where they started retreat runaway was the call that came out from
shikigami but now they're pretty much held right by their spawn doors and
So it's not afraid to make his presence known and beatle looking at the fact that there's not many areas that are gonna be in the way
Meads that I have a gem out or even the maelstroms themselves with that team up with invisible woman
I'm gonna find a lot of value especially when everybody's picked up that's her kid though
There's pretty much fish in a barrel approach
But there's not gonna be any follow-up on the side that it comes from
Van Hamer now seen if a seed off can find some space and look at laylice at the rest of the team
Charge their way and dance the butterfly is gonna try to carve through this backline
But you have got the ultimate use on the other side from Alex
This sustain is just enough to keep everybody going and the visual boundaries about to be up from Naga at the same time as well
But there it is the slam down as well the clobbering time off of the Royal flush means it as the ultimate just came online
They were sent right back in a given one extra fight potentially before the second checkpoint
One more fight over time and play invisible boundary
but you have to worry about eternal bond being able to pull ahead in terms of
sustainability and that vulnerability to still find picks through frost mountain
opens up with the ultimate forces and physical boundary pretty much up of the
objective and that's namis q come out with the eternal bond have the latest
sustainability have that terror cave to be tried to come up with the eye of
agamut but not miss able to fade it out with the dark teleportation and she
gimme have the lead in this fight or was just might be able to turn it its
Jeff comes on out. Can you get enough of these players off of the point to be able to complete the hold?
Frost Mountain's down, Alex is Irfan, but he's still firing away shredding out these vanguards.
The heretics just don't have the damage.
It's hit second, so this fight is a little bit more problematic for heretics.
They want to try and reset as fast as possible, and it's equine similar to the last time that these two teams played where it got to this part of the map.
It's been an absolute brawl. Kai's been listed to layerless his villain playlist when it comes to swinging those fists around
He's found so much value has another clobbering time pretty much looming
We have to imagine it is C-dolls gonna be the one that looks for the target
He's got that van hammer who's he gonna want to try and fight the leaping is good
Waiting for these little barriers to drop before the fight comes in his dance the butterflies
He's gonna pick up more targets the vanguards holding on to their ultimates
It was the duelists that did the Lord's work there as Frost Mountain is going to be holding and grabbing on to the devil out very shortly.
Team Heretic's forced to reset again fast, Shikigami looking to finish up the map.
It could do as well. One-sided Gamber ult. If you can overwhelm the backline before Invisible Boundary's built up,
this is absolutely doable for the side of Shikigami.
Nami too, trying to battery up to that next eternal bond to be able to beat out the Boundary,
but Heretics, they've got the primary pairs. They'll have the invisible bandit. They've already lost Beesol!
They've already lost that whole backline! Rating roll, flush, leather devilite, and clobbering time!
Just become an absolute Frankenstein's monster of too much damage for Heretics' triple strat line to heal!
Holding W with the royal flush becomes punching your keyboard when the thing and dead devil can just be sent cat-supporting at Heretics' backline.
this backline. Shikigami finishing out the map, considering that they were stuck on first
flounder in their way out of that first checkpoint, it's going to feel pretty damn good for them
right now. Heretics need to try and match it to go for these overtime pushes, which
is only going to suit Shikigami with an OT Deadpool vanguard. I guess the other side
of it though is that Heretics are going to have access to the Stragist version
with Alex, and that has found a good amount of success.
Yeah, but Shiki Gami, like they've got the torch. We can already see it in the lobby
Not only do they have the torch, but they also have both the Mantis and the Ultron and the Gambit
So not a lot of like burst healing in comparison to something like an invisible woman or a lunar snow or a cloak and dagger
base triple strategist line
But what you do have is a lot of damage potential and very fast generating ultimate cycles
Plus like if your team heretics, who do you really run on to?
I feel like heretics, they're going to play a little bit more reactive as opposed to proactive.
Like, you can try to go for the fastball, but ideally you're looking at Kai, you're just trying to dive in on that venom, create space,
deal with the vanguard, then deal with the flyers, because all of Shikigami, these are multiple moving parts,
that form one large vehicle at the end of the day.
Your vanguards create the space and draw the attention off of your flyers who are much more fragile.
are going to be a tough
couple of years. So it's
going to be a tough time. Well
shifting gears, so she can
really need to do the M or T. I
think only Brits are going to
understand that. But it's
basically making sure that these
wheels are working and not
about to fall off as this
could be their last chance in
three season. If they don't
get everything together.
Heretics looking at the
composition of Chicago. Me
trying to play on this
defense, and it's pretty much
trying to keep it as close to
And now I'm probably looking for those false physics to see if Kaya oversteps his map.
He could be the first elimination against this defense and it could send the whole thing packing,
but as of right now, it is just trading in a neutral building of Ultras.
And Tanuki's fallen off the map for the fourth time today.
Oh, and that's, yeah, that's the green light. No Wolverine, no additional pressure on the
front line when you decide to step up and just brawl through in the close quarters.
East don't even get to hold onto the band hammer too, which will be felt by the
the strategists on the side of Team Heretic since no invisible boundary built up just
yeah. As the Sheikygami, they just continue like giving their space. They're playing
the poke with their flyers but they're not rolling on the front line. So what it's actually
doing is really limiting the amount of heal I put that both the Jeff and the Invisible
Woman can do. There's the Wolverine grab setting up for a pick onto a vanguard but
Sheikygami just heal through it. Oasis trying to get the amount of damage and heals
finally takes Kaia down and heretics they get the ball moving. Everything is
starting to shift forward and this is before any of us have built up it is
just the dead full strategy dispersion it's brought as out as it's kept it's
been built up look at this push though Shikigami have been forced all the way
back the laylis might be able to leap out similar to Central Park with the
range of Ultron to allow a dive and a fight here it's very close though
somebody's touching to make sure that this doesn't e-cover towards the
side. And there he is, Lealus, the absolute hero from the sky. The villain era is over,
and Lealus has actually found a perfect amount of space against Heretics. There's just two minutes to go.
But that was both Gambit and Ultron Ult. So now for Shiki Gami, you have to force invisible
boundary before Heretics can get onto the objective. It's so close to that checkpoint
and getting the additional time. I think they're scouting out, yeah,
Yeah, Beatles is going to go for a strange T.P.
Nami is going to be the target.
Has to use the solo resurgence just to try to run away, but
unfortunately that Mantis is going so lowly to have death by Tanuki's last stand.
Also catches on to Lindstrom.
Leila's trades on to the Invisible Woman though, so heretics
flying without the Invisible Boundary still potentially fragile in this fight.
Nami speaking, what do you mean, what's what he's been screaming for?
He got jumped up with a portal solo airbag motor that is solo less than.
This map has also been spat off of the map as heretics are looking to get to this first
checkpoint in the end.
Shikigami dropping intermittently means that there's no way to group up, but a banhama
has been built up from a seed off, trying to stall this out and keep this fight going.
At least for a short period of time, it might be enough to try and fight this in the end,
but you lose Lindstrom, nowhere near having the royal flush, but you have another portal
in the invisible boundaries now being forced out as the defense from Shikigami somehow
some way have managed to keep this going.
mountain let the devil out potentially there it is it's going to come out and
get the full fury the raft is going to go on to oasis on this Jeff pretty much
unkillable but it's going to get dope on instead onto naga now world breaker from
end so it's going to be forced out and shikigami look to be turning this fight
around all of the strategists going down this frost mountain through the
back of the portal keeping this down so heretics 20 seconds left they've
already used the portal people have to try and dive in for this final fight
I mean Tanuki is going to have that last stand, but yeah
You're staggering out Enzo on this puny banna foam beetle comes back on the venom to be able to swing and touch
You've got the solid for the eye frames and the speed of movement
But Nami has the edge chef Kai is about to get piece of the abyss online too
It all comes down to this Wolverine ultimate if Tanuki can grab multiple
This is winnable for the side of heretics Kai and makes the first move though
hits the back line, gets the idea onto a racist and takes up one major part of Heretic's sustainability.
Alex is trying to use the ultimate just to sustain everyone, but without that invisible woman,
it becomes so much harder to do so.
Now they're with the It's Jeff, Shiki Gami have one-sided sustained, but not the Land Shark,
because Enzo takes them down with the Angela, and we go back and forth.
You've got the Galactic Legend so close, but Layla's with the Dance of the Butterflies.
Heretic's still split players, some of them chasing Shiki Gami,
some of them on the objective itself so they will lose players bleeding out of that silo
cultimates and just out of time Tanuki's not able to get back onto the cart and Shikigami
complete the hold. What looked like a full hold on the side of heretics with that true
brawl composition falls apart beneath the fists of the thing and with that distance
it's enough for Shikigami to close out spider islands.
defensive side of the defense
able to fend off the offensive
side of heretics. The sort of
composition showing it can be
copied over with the flying
elements before us mountain
leaping through with the let
the devil out of the portal
lay. Let's go in for the
aggressive rage of ultra on
off of the back of Lindström
getting to play the gambit
playing around it a lot more.
Heretics have been brought
loses bracket final. It also means that Navi are going to be licking their lips, rubbing
their hands, thinking that these teams are going to be knackered by the time that they
actually play up against us. But there's just one map left to decide it, and it can't be
Convoy for heretics. It has to be Convergence or Domination.
I mean, we have to give Nami flowers too. Like, Jeff the Landshark goes down a total
of three times for all of those rounds. And like, when Sheikah Gami, you were
basically saying, how have Sheikah Gami been able to sustain their position on this
point with this defense. It's not me. Like, Heretic's understand, okay, the Jeff is a problem,
he's playing in small room, he's just healing everyone on the actual objective, so they try
multiple times and split, like Hulk goes after him, Train tries to use the shield to be able
to block off some of the healing coming on through, but the fight continues and they
get caught away from marking that position. And with that interdimensional toy box as
well, coming in at with the Deadpool team up, Nai just has so much sustainability
for the team to benefit from and Shiki Gami complete the hold, taking us to map 5 after this break.
Watch out, they're hitting our way!
Don't mess with the amazing Spider-Man!
If X is both of these teams, we have now seen the powers of X, but we are heading to the House of X as we are going to be heading to Krakowa for our last map of this series.
Unless of course, well we can't tie, it's domination, so that's a relief, we're not going to be heading to a map of 6 in this best of 5.
But Ryan, a domination map to close this out.
I mean, it's the best way to
end it for both of these teams.
Like the long winds have gone
their way, set the fish
again yesterday against like
players. It was a domination
map to end it out. What's the
less feel husband, which we
aren't going to see today, but
it is one that you're going to
have the full like roster of
heroes on play here. Dive is
very good. Triple strategist
even like Adam Wall. I can
still find some play in
areas granted buff teams
have very much moved away
the best way to end this. And
Moxie, we've seen that last
game, we saw the Gabby being
allowed through for both teams
and they're not picked for a
large chunk of the game from
Heretics. They've really got
their own style going on here.
Yeah, I mean, they played
Brawl. Like straight up simple.
That was a Brawl composition
where you're just relying on
the pace abilities of the chef
and the invisible woman to
just constantly have like if
and the rest of the team and were damaging the enemy at the same time which means that your
ultimate economy is like always really really strong going into those fights and it worked for a really
long time until Kaia just swapped on to the thing and had an absolute field day being able to just
swing those haymakers into a whole stack of six players. It only takes one sometimes. You saw
just as you mentioned heretics help that for so long and then suddenly Shikigami were just
to get into that room and despite some fish crimes holding them back for at least a little bit,
they were able to break on through and just do some insane work. But completely different beast
here this time round. Yeah, I mean, maybe it's just like a floundering of communication as well
for heretics that don't want to lose in games like this. It's going to be more chaotic where
Shikigami they've wanted to try and polish up their game. Now it is just going to be an
absolute bloodbath on Prokola.
That is very possible.
This is the kind of matchup where you see teams like this
that are so ahead good at the fall and the dive,
so flexible and versatile in their compositions,
and especially when it comes to those overtime fights,
so effective at portal plays in particular
for teams like Shikigami, and when those run out,
swapping over to those fast characters
to get back to the point and time boxy.
This is the exact kind of matchup,
That's because it's kind of perfect for these two teams to end out here.
Yeah, I mean, well, you wouldn't go to a convergence, right?
If you're heretics because you would potentially go to Shinjabuya, which is full-hub central,
or you would go to Holodishalia where you would run into the same problems that you had on Central Park,
towards Ultron potentially as well.
I think that's going to be something like they have to be concerned about going into this one of Krakowatir,
because as Ryan said, so much is really, really strong.
Tron Mantis is very, very good, especially on maps like Grove, where there's a lot of
good terrain for your Ultron to be able to hide around, but also, if you win that first
fight, you're just pretty much undyable.
I've just got some word in my head from Professor Xavier.
The Kokoa Council has convened, and it's a unanimous vote.
We are going to be heading into that map number five very shortly to decide who
will be going on to play against
a great one. I do wonder, Moxy, we saw a little bit with Virtus.Pro yesterday, they went for
a wild card draft going for specific players as hero pools. I wonder if either team's going
to stick to their guns or we're going to about to get freaky.
Well, we're going back to Gambit one-sided, also one-sided as heretics move away from
allowing the Gambit clone flip to come on through. Sheikah Gami will be trying to
grab themselves one-sided Elsa as there should be a Loki burn into Elsa save. But
I mean like we sort of knew that's right the moment that that instant ban comes through what we're looking at now is how does the rest of the
Bandfare it's domination so Van Gogh Deadpool very high in priority
But as we've already seen the banner Van Gogh Deadpool that doesn't just knock the Jaffa entirely just forces one of the strategists to have to swap on
All right, this part of the draft fairly standard fairly vanilla
I think it was the last night was a little bit odd here
actually getting a ban onto the Daredevil and I think that's like a really high
impact ban coming out from the side of Team Heretics, past mines and being able
to play the Daredevil having that information, it works on pretty much all
of your maps. Carousel can be particularly tricky as well if there's a
lot of like verticality just being able to hold your position on the wall
itself and just waiting for the team to walk out of the vanguards to go
past and hitting the backline when no one is any the wiser. As we're
going to be seeing Van Gogh Deadpool and Shiki Gammae getting that one-sided Elsa.
Heretics going to be getting one-sided Mantis, one-sided Gambit.
So, triple strategist lying on the side of Team Heretics,
yet again sticking to their strengths.
Shiki Gammae though, they still get the dive.
Kaya will just look for soft engagements,
trying to create more space for later-last-enforced minds to work off of.
This is hard though.
Like, it's a good draft of things from Heretics because that last one,
You kind of don't want to do to be able to have this like one side of their level but you can't also let the other team have gambit invisible woman and manches.
That feels like as gripping as it's going to get when it comes to the back line that Shikigami have to at least take one of those options out.
Then pull Vanguard is going to pair up nicely with Elsa and you have to look at Leilas.
You're playing the server admin. It's time to admin.
the mod these people out from heretics potentially otherwise you'll let in that strategy run right from heretics a great way to end of the
Identities above these teams on full display on this domination map
Well heretics did get Tanuki onto that Phoenix and they have the mantis for the 12% damage boost to you
So damage potential
Potentially able to meet what the Elsa can I put especially since we're going to be starting off on Grove
where a lot of these fights take very long distance positions, which is why Shiki Gami,
instantly going to have Kaia start on the strange, teleport the team into position to be on the point,
and force heretics to have to walk into them before Enzo on the mag can get into position to anchor it,
stopping off to the Venom, which that means their heretics with attention will be split.
Venom into the back line, forcing out some of those resources,
while Shiki Gami scout side, heretics is counter-dive, not against the Venom, but onto their own back line.
There comes Beatole charging his way through, finds one of the strategists as
Lindstrom has gone down in the process. Tanuki gonna be fighting and brawling onto
the objective and with the help of Naga able to take out a few more ticks.
Heretics looking to take the point first as the chickengamer want to go for a quick
reset if they can. They might be sold out a little bit longer as Leilas is
the last to go down. But Heretics winning out that first engagement,
wanting to push up and make sure that these chokes are full held.
Yeah, Heretics doing a very good job of just staging the dive perfectly.
soft dive for the Forest with Beetle and Oasis just instigating into lintrum, forcing out
the regeneration domain. Invisible Woman being banned means that you don't have to worry about
Forest Physics pulling you back when you're trying to get out. Reset, stabilize, go back in again
when the backline is much more vulnerable. And winning that Forest Fight puts Tanook into
such a good position. He's already 80% on us to this end song and Furna always has the
damage boost and now gets the opportunity to read out where the dive comes through against
to the point that Frostmountain actually swaps onto the feelings just to try and match him.
He's actually very close to matching up Ultimate Charge too despite the fact that he switched over
away from the Star Lord, but Kai has been taken out in a neutral from distance from Naga who's
making the mechanics work very well with the damage that he's just able to output, not only
amplify with the abilities that Mantis has available to them, which means that she can
be sold out for longer as Ultimates were building up and there was a chance to maybe go and
really stats catapult themselves forwards. They've been reset.
I mean the problem for them as well is that like mag is in play on the side of Enzo as
opposed to double dive vanguards from heretics. Misha and one-shot potential. Lynstrom's already
used regeneration domain, so you're going to be vulnerable. You don't have a shield outside
of the unicorn bubble coming on through from east. Fast Mountain does catch on to Tanuki,
so Ensong and Furna, Misha and combo are not going to be up and available. Heretics
losing the Mantis as well. That's enough to force Shiki Gami's hand. They're
going to walk on to the point, utilize the band hammer, not both strategist
ultimates to be able to walk on to the point and just flip it.
Did Kaio just win a 1 versus 2?
Like, he was fighting his own little battle over on the corner of the map.
I think he had a little bit of help coming through from a C-doll,
but yeah, the vanguards were on a whole different plane of existence here.
You can see the outlines of them fighting up on the high ground.
Leilis is like, okay, which fight are we taking?
Well, we're like fighting three different fights, guys.
Which one is the priority?
And they're looking at the fact that heretics haven't used an ultimate
the game. It's going to be
going on for a long time, but
it's going to be going on for
quite some time, probably
expecting what we're seeing on
screen. All six available. It's
just a case of what is the go
button. What is the call out?
It's Shikigami. They're going
to move first. Actually with
a copy from Lindstrom, who's
going to go for the gambit
swap is actually able to
grab up a big ultimate to
take this fight into their
hands is Alex is going to
come out with it himself.
And so good for note. Is it
going to be matched this
cross mountains to first use
it. Heretics have had all
six of these ultimates, but
they're just waiting for
Nama utilizes the turn of bond, gets through the portal to be able to dodge the path of
Mitsuya and heads apply from the dagger, but Shikigami, like you said, out of sustain ultimates
in comparison to heretics who still hold freedom charge and Song Inferno comes on through from
Tanuki, Oasis untouchable on this left lane too, takes out Lindstrom's Loki and
heretics in the overtime, will be able to flip that fight and see Shikigami out,
No one swapped to the change to be able to TP in time and that closes out Cradle.
Heretics go one up and are now within 1.1 round of stealing out the series and grabbing
that reset rematch against Navi in the Grand Finals.
Got to say, great restraint from Heretics.
With all of those Ultimate Stands to fly out from Shikigami, the Call of Hald was
a pretty loud one.
They're also like Beatle using the Freedom Charge last after everything else was used
because you could just all charge these guys that have just used up their Ultimates a lot
faster and it trades across going onto these extra points.
On that side, you have got Kaia that is going to be on that Deadpool Vanguard that is still
going to progressively get stronger and stronger.
Is that actually a switcher and that's actually Isidore was on it so no Kaia switcher
of us.
Never mind.
White Fox is going to come out to play expecting more of a divey composition on the
other side as it is going to be Layla switching back over to the silo.
I mean not just that but this also means that your strategists can sort of peel each other
because Easter and Leolas, they're going to be tasked with going to put pressure on Oasis.
Like this Jeff is actually getting away with so much. Every time we go to Oasis POV he's
just playing on the off angle, no one's actually getting on top of him and it's allowing
team heretics to stabilize through a lot of these fights and set up for very fast
dives with the speed boosts coming on out from those healing bubbles.
Snooki catches Frostmountain though, Shiki Gammy missing the Owl, so going to be done a lot of burst damage and potentially down Layla's as well.
Ysor trying to put the pressure onto the backline, but just does not want to hold his position,
understanding that the Phoenix can potentially stun him up and leave him to vulnerable.
So there has to be a little bit more passive relying on Kaia instead, Bannhammer comes through, but the Deadpool's already fallen.
Layla sees one go low, but the Mantis doesn't manage to make it into the HF in time.
Oasis might have been able to grab up some players, but crucially, heretics, they grabbed
the point, and Oasis got both the backline!
Nami and Lynch from down!
All taken out, and you've still got the royal flush to sit back on, Oasis is absolutely
getting away with it, and who is one of the major characters that's very good at hunting
down Jeff?
It's Daredevil, and it's banned out from Shikigami, they won't have access to
it, so it is heck of an ask for the likes of Leila's to actually go in on the backline
go for those fights, making sure that Oasis can't go through with it. Freedom charge is going to be
used from his star to allow a fast aggression. It's going to be swapped over on the other side as
Royal Flush comes through. Enzo is taken out as Leilas was retreating in the process but still
finds elimination, hoping that the Dancing Butterfly is able to split these players apart,
as Naga and Alex both go down. They've isolated, they weren't in line of sight of each other,
but it is the Scylla that takes them down. And it's maybe potentially a quick reset here
as heretics are trying to recline the point and the portal's in place so yeah they want to turn this around quick.
I mean you've got the solar resurgence which might force Lindstrom into having to match fate of both worlds to have the sustainability since your players are going low.
Lindstrom gets slapped though doesn't get the opportunity to use it and you've already lost three before it can come on through and heal the team.
And heretics, they've got Tanuki just waiting for this little ultimate to be done.
you've got the star knight easter like you said has to go for the portal because she can get me do
still have control of the point but they lose the backline before the portal can come through
did you still use the portal cast time we'll have to see that's something that heretics can punish
if we go to ot and she can get me don't have a back love that play from heretics though just the
fast retake even though the point is fucked up officially can get me that goes wrong that could
very much be curtains for this part of the objective the heretics having three ultimates
to sit back on tour does a lot more support than nature means that if Shikigami want to go for a fast play here with the apex predator
It might not amount to too much Kai trying to build up a fan hammer to the fastest of his abilities
He's taken so much damage though foster used the shield to just provide some space in the window forward
But lindstrom gets taken out from Tanuki
That's going for the flank and song inferno if he wants to leap in a bit deeper is
Handy, but there's a pic also now heretics just finding an isolate in these hits like Shikigami
going down what at a time it's in complete free fall that's so split and
because of so split that fight doesn't really bother many alts I don't think
they have portal no one swapping to this range which means the heretics just
have to deal with these isolated players with all of the ultimate economy it
Jeff comes on through from Oasis has the sustainability we've got Van Hammer
on the point to and she can get me have lost two of their players already
Soul resurgence, the damage boosted end song, Inferno, Shiki Gami are out of options, out of time, and out of Ignite pre-season.
Team Heretics seal up the series, they get the rematch versus Navi.
And I mean, honestly, I think the MVP probably goes for the Wasteless, that Jeff, every time we saw the Jeff here be,
just absolute vacation in the backline on the off-angle, splitting the team, healing the rest of the team,
I'm making sure that no one gets an opportunity to get on top of them and just as the criticism
started to limp the heretics for letting the Elsa through consistently no matter the team
whether it's Terra for Navi or in this case Layla's for Shikigami they showed that it's
the build around with the camber. The drafts were interesting it was a full-fledged mapper
again but you have to give the flowers to Shikigami for going on a terrific run a
well-placed third finish in preseason above the likes of Verdas Pro and rather
especially Jikigami shining a light on this cooking with Kaia squad that has
come together massively but it's just that this heretics roster, the Citadel
core, we play as like Naga and Oasis and Beetle starting to really come into
their own. It's just a case of whether it's gonna be good enough against
Navi later today. I mean Beetle might have to name change the cockroach
because he just does not go down. That whole round, both he and Oasis, zero casualty,
for the two rounds that they play, just getting to play that dive, like I said,
there was very little attention that could come through against them, partially in a lot of the
impact from the band draft. Well, for the back of the right, Heretics being able to take out,
like you said, both the Daredevil, but also the Invisible Woman, plus that Mantis meant
that there just was not the damage boost, nor the utility to punish how aggressive both
with Beetle and Oasis were playing, and it made the rest of Team Heretic's teams like job a lot easier
because Tanuki gets less pressure on him. He's always getting to fire into a team who's split in half
with the strategists having to peel off the Jeff and the Captain America, which means that in the
early fight setups, Frostmountain and Layla's, they just keep going down to poke coming on
through from the Jean Grey. And that's a really good point, Moxie, because you could see it
in the numbers as well of just how little to Nuki was actually being damaged back there.
11 final hits going 23 and 2 in total. They were just barely being bullied at all. Naga
was having a bit of a rougher time because he didn't have a way to flee as effectively,
but even so only went down 3 times and was still able to get 80 final hits of their
own. Heretics, they held it together despite not banning out the Elsa every single time.
we talked about it in one case,
getting access to a gambit and not even using it.
This team, they're not on any kind of bandwagon, right?
And they're just doing their own thing and it's working.
Yeah, I think one of the things that was noticeable
this time around with Chickagami
that wasn't the case against Navi,
against Navi, it was just musical chairs
with what heroes these guys were playing.
They were just trying to change up their comps.
They ended up setting an interview
that they want to practice the matchups.
They practiced about 12 different matchups
in one map because they were frantically changing to whatever heroes they could do.
Here there was a lot more like cohesion with the plan.
Even with the fact that like Shikigami realizing,
okay, yeah, Heretics is Compenspider Islands.
We can not really touch the gambit here.
We don't need to ban it away from them.
We know that they're not going to use it.
The Heretics are the showing they can go around it,
they don't need the else that can run
his triple strategist and Tanuki who redeemed himself frankly,
comes on a superb performance with like the Jean Grey especially.
like is a lot on his shoulders to be that solo jewelist, but he did so much now get continuing his prowess with Mantis
Spectacular run indeed
We're gonna be having Enzo in for the interview boxie and even at Edzo themselves a spectacular performance over all of these games
I mean heretics as a whole like did the whole team
Firing on all cylinders that domination like it takes a really strong team court
so be able to just keep your mentality above board when you go through such a harsh map as the
Full Hold Spider Islands. Like it does become really problematic, you have to basically just go,
okay we know that there were mistakes made on that map but let's not make sure that it carries
forward and affects us going into this next one because if it does then we're going to lose the
series and then we'll be even more like annoyed and angry. So I think like especially when
when we're talking to Enzo just like seeing basically what happened in the time between
moving from spider islands over here to their map pick is going to be something like really
important to know because they were able to keep that morale up to the point that they
had such a dominant performance on domination like honestly that last round of carousel
not close.
Yeah, that was a really solid potential here and I do want to go back while waiting
for Enzo to join us here. Ryan, we've talked about Oasis doing some absolutely crazy stuff.
We talked about Tanuki being uncontested. We thought about Enzo doing so much.
Beetle was also just having a pretty lovely time in the back line there on that Captain America
this time. Yeah. And I mean, I think we're starting to see Captain America find a lot of
popularity again, just with what like things he was able to do to the point that the like
Navi banned it out just certainly on any payload maps, just being able to stall it,
being able to speed up and expedite some of the old percentage points with the ult,
and just giving your team some space to work with.
It's brutal, I think, when you're running up against Triple Strategist,
and you're trying to run 2-2, but if you have the cap,
you essentially have another Strategist ultimate.
If you are also running Triple Strategist,
you have four ultimates basically supporting your team,
and when these fights are required to just go on for a long time,
it's very helpful, and Beetle is exceptional.
For someone else who was exceptional,
is Enzo, who we now have ready to head into the interview.
Enzo, a difficult matchup, but you, a lot of people,
after your match with Darfi yesterday,
were looking at you and saying,
why did they not bad out the Elsa?
Did this feel a little bit like a redemption run
to come back in and show that it's not the be all end all?
Um, I don't know.
I'll say that there's some games that we played bad
when we had a better matchup,
but there was obviously some games where,
we've tied everything, nothing was working.
There was some draft issues on some maps,
but I still think we played bad and we should have won some of them.
But yeah, of course, the heroes are this character,
so it seems a little bit too busted.
So it was a five map series, which obviously goes the distance
and also means that there's some maps that you win,
there's some maps that you lose.
Is there someone specific on the team who's like the glow that holds everyone together when you're trying to get
from the tough times into the mental reset of okay that happened now we just have to go again go next?
I mean when this type of thing happens you're someone like through the game kind of
don't know say anime anime but like Tanuki was a part of it you know I remind them of that game
I played against like we're at the LAN where I completely run it down on Vena but say guys
After that game, I tried my hardest and we were still close to win.
So you know, like it's always, I get worse than you guys.
So like just keep your head up, go to the next game.
It doesn't matter. Just go next.
I mean, that's a key one.
And your go next is up against Navi.
And I guess before that series later on today,
what went wrong yesterday, right?
Like you guys kind of dumpstered them in your group stage game.
But they played exceptionally.
You've got Terran that's on the outside.
that is a complete threat to deal with, like, across all those three maps,
what was the thing that you wanted to pinpoint and fix for today?
I mean, when you play a team that you already played,
and the first time you played against them, you kind of stormed them,
tell me, team, how's the appearance?
Because obviously, they're going to try something else.
It didn't work, let's try something else.
And you don't really know what they're going to do,
and yourself doesn't, like, you don't really have,
like, a reason to change your comp, because you won.
So you're going to go do the same thing against a team that adapted to you,
And that's where it's getting a little bit weird, because we're both coming to the games with different plans,
like both teams, and we don't know which one is the one winning, so we just play and we see.
In Europe, basically, people don't really scrim each other.
I play against Navi twice in the month, I play against RAD like three times.
We don't really play against these teams.
So, we're scrimming all the teams.
So, I think staff from the other team in Europe.
So, it came to the point where, okay, I think we have a good plan, they think they have a good plan.
Let's see who was the best one and yesterday was them. I think we talked about it for a long time
Was a long nights ended up at 2 a.m. Talking about the draft and what we should have done better
And I think now we seems ready. Yes
This this much was a bit rough because like the wolfs whole thing. I'm traumatized from that
I don't know how I'm just looking in there. Why is it coming home? And they just stand in my face
So I don't think I don't think maybe is as good
to like play this type of thing so I'm not going to be scared of that shit, not going to be scared of that
You've done so well, you've done so well
Always one from an ENZO interview
But yeah, obviously from my POV with the way we adapted to draft from yesterday
it's going to be a way there to play against Navi and Shiki because they play really like a cheesy thing
that kind of wolf merchants
So yeah, it's going to be easier on my field
Well, let's break that down here. You think it's going to be easier, you think you've sat down, you've come up with a plan, but what do you have to say directly to Navi as they potentially get warm up before they close the stream and get ready for that game?
I mean, they had a lot of time to warm up, so I get too over-says. I'm not that guy anymore, you know, like I just wish them the best and good luck, you know, because you're going to need it, but that's it.
A humble but still confident Enzo. Thank you very much for joining us. We'll let you go get prepared for your game
Thank you guys. Yeah
There is always one but also that is a
Very self-aware Enzo moxie. They very much were like they just tried stuff
I just couldn't work out what went wrong and then sat down the night after and seemed to have worked out
How are you feeling about their chances? I mean like Enzo said right when you're going up against
team you've already played. If you lose, you're the ones who feel like we have to adapt, we have
to change. But Navias also are a very experimental team who are always cooking something up on the
back burner. So I feel like despite the fact that they were able to come out on top, they've probably
still got some strategies up their sleeves that they did not want to reveal, understanding if
they did, you give heretics the opportunity within 24 hours to work out, okay, this is
is what they're going to do.
This is how we counter it.
We're going to be heading into a break right now, but when we come back, it's time for
the grand finals of pre-season.
We will see who goes into stage one as your champion.
Don't go anywhere.
It's Team Heretics versus Narvi coming up after this.
I remember the dusk, the lights ripping tightly, trapping all those hiding souls, buddy, yeah.
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 I wonder.
If ever there was a time that we were friends
I had a solid inside of a school in Ennis
That's what has been for me to stick you out
The hours that now were lost for you
And break the chains behind your way
Come with me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
Only waiting for you
We can't imagine from this reason
The distance matched in through silence
All the risks might burst again
The above was in the end
We can't imagine from this moment
The power is now in the dance of us
We are rivals to the end of time
We will watch the battle end
We will fight, wasting our time
And besides you are my destiny to be here!
You see the dawn flame burning brightly
Shining one nose and the rays and yes
Across all time I see you turning red skies
Do you see now? Our time, our time, we can still fight
Like the wind and fire, and when there's no more
Then always be on the tongue, your heart is mine
Like a sprawling, darkness frozen
Yeah, see where the war does the needed pay
New day is finally for the curse, the future
Strange machines leave no light, but it's with me
And when you wake, yeah, I'll find your prize
We're gonna see a new decent splash in the sky
The moon will be splintered again
The earth revolves in the sea and lies in
I think your minds will come to your progress now
And tell us, we are rivals again
Until the end of time
I'm not afraid of you
I'm not afraid of you
I'm not afraid of you
Show me that you're still the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for you
Waitin' up in your hands
Holdin' that dear heart lookin' for you
Can you feel it?
It smacks in your mouth
I need a, I need a, I need a
We can't prove that you're right, reason
Is this smashing through tunnels
Before the rip, winter's yet to end
We are rivals to the end, then rise and rise
And join my foes until the power's gone
And then stop us
We are rivals to the end of time
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 the sun and moon
and i wonder if ever there was a time that
we were proud like has fallen shadows
moving and it's that's it has gone from
missing you have we are set now for our
last reunion breakfast is going to
Watch out, they're hitting our way!
Don't mess with the amazing!
Watch out, they're hitting our way!
Watch out, they're hitting our way!
You're the amazing Spider-Man!
A thousand gods!
Talk when you hear a character who is a better solo duelist than winter soldier.
Storm, Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man, Human Torch, Punisher, Hella, Dualist Deadpool, Psylocke,
being gray moon night that's my boy
to this day whoop anybody's cheeks all day
a solo duelist yeah solo duel he take 1v6 for like it take 1v11 he only does
his 1v3 in his mind he can take 1v11 in reality he's got this all right that's
He's been stressed it but still hold it out Wolverine
Elsa bloodstone okay. Oh Wolverine
Why will I think it's too hard man?
I just I just love the um the way that the feral leaps it can really enable fights
In comparison to what you see out of Bucky right now. I don't know but I mean
In that sense, it's the solo engagements
And I think one of the same Wolverine with the uh what is it last stand can just absolutely rip and tear anybody
I've seen uh many Wolverine just a solo old tons of strategies or
Anyone for that matter sir. Yep. I'm locked in on Wolverine the claws are out
Now, talk when you hear a map that is harder to full push than Central Park, Manhattan,
Vibre Islands. Museum of Contemplation.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
After today, yeah. Yeah.
That hurt teams today.
That was morally crushing for some people.
That was strange, got the better of them.
Which bits are on the point?
Stay on the point. Stay on the point.
Which fits hardest to push?
The final area.
Yeah, I'd say in some ways the first and last part of the map, but more so the last part of the map.
I would say the last sixth, specifically.
Yeah.
Because that first section of the third, it's kind of like, yeah, okay, around the corner.
But when you're at the end, it's like, there's spawns right there.
There's no good line of sight to protect yourself.
It's decimation.
Hey guys, my name is Ryan Central and what's the matter?
Eventually, we will get to a point where you guys in the chat are responding what's the
matter with you, but we've got the whole Ignite season to go through.
We've finally seen all four major regions play now in Pacific Asia, China, EMEA and
Americas, all at least debut in their pre-season.
The meta-wise, what has changed?
So we have to start with the Glockrocks in the room, which is Elsa, who actually
fell down a bit in popularity, to the point that Gambit is the first time actually
overtaken her to be the most impactful character in the game.
And a lot of people ask me like how do you gauge this, how do I know all of this stuff?
Well I have a system that I use with all of the drafts that we've seen across all 225
games, I use this system called threat level which goes from 1 to 100, 100 being an avengers
level threat.
Hotly contested, a very influential character when it comes to the draft and compositions
of the meta so far, and out of the score up to 100, Elsa's score was 99 after the
first week. It could not have gone better for her, but since then it has dropped down to 93,
and Gambits for Context is 95, which is sort of stabilised in that point. So this doesn't mean that
Elsa was involved in 93% of drafts and 7% of the time she wasn't used. She has been involved in
every single game of Ignite so far, other than one, where Rejectx and RVLE in Asia Pacific
just didn't decide to touch her in draft at all. That's one game out of 225, might I add.
A drop in Scott doesn't mean that she's just not popular or she's not strong, it just means that
she's not as contested as much in the start of drafts, which is really where those threatening
characters tend to stay. Because Elsa is good in every type of composition, removing her is just
a good way to influence the draft more. Anybody can play around Elsa whether you're playing
Dive, Triple Strategist, Convergence, Convoy, Domination, any type of map Elsa is just
good on it, with the amount of stuff that she can do. You remove that, you kind of force
other teams to be a little bit more uncomfortable on other types of compositions. And if the other
team decide to try and protect Gambit instead, that's fine because we'll remove the likes of
Star-Lord because the combination of ultimates between Star-Lord and Gambit, which I was going
to call Royal Legend, you guys can decide between that and Galactic Flush, but I know which one
I'm picking. It's, you can get rid of the Star-Lord if a Gambit is protected, or even
the likes of Rogue that go up so much when it comes to her strength because of that combination
with Gambit. He just removed the characters around Gambit if he is protected and a lot of teams tend
to start to struggle. So Elsa is being protected less and banned out a little bit more and whilst
she is being banned out first in a lot of games still she's still very strong my tired 93 out
of 100 score is still s plus so yeah she's still strong but other teams are still very much
committed to getting rid of the Gambit but if Elsa is not being protected anymore who is?
Who's contesting there? Well, Gambit for one, but also Mantis has gone up massively in popularity.
Notably as a protect option because Mantis has amazing team-ups with the likes of Loki and Gru
who are still pretty good with that combination, but because the likes of Mantis has damage boost,
he synergizes with everybody, so Resurgence is a really good offensive and defensive ultimate,
and most importantly, she is one of the staple characters when it comes to triple
strategist. She can pair with whoever, if the other team decide to ban out Loki,
Invisible Woman. The Mantis can make other characters around her work pretty well,
and she has a lot of offensive capabilities, which means running triple strategists
doesn't feel like you don't have that threatening firepower, I guess. But if I had to show you
guys a graphic of what this would look like, it would look like the following. Granted,
graphic design isn't really my passion here, and it's not a perfect system to gage strength
because it's a hero-shoe. We're just talking about the draft, which characters have been
banned out and protected, the hero show you can switch characters at any given point.
The two things I want to know, almost half of the top 20 heroes in this list are deemed
as threatening, it's strategists.
9 out of 20, there's 5 duelists and 6 vanguards, but 9 strategists.
And I don't think there's that many strategists missing from this list at this point to be
honest, either.
Even White Fox has been banned out a bit.
But also I wanted to note the big drop off between Elsa Gambit, there's a big
drop off between them and their mantis, they're called vanguards, and then another
big drop off before we get to the likes of an invisible woman, Loki, Ultron, etc. I am
very curious to see what some of the regions can do to be creative and see what other characters
that might not be on this list might be starting to climb when people realise how good they are.
But until then, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.
We talk a lot about Virtus Pro being world champions and how they are currently out,
that's a big deal. However, there is only one team that has managed to place, are currently
world champions from the mid-season finals, and second place from the world championships.
We have two world champions at the EMEA and one of them is waiting for heretics right
here, right now. Navi versus heretics, round three, Boxing.
Oh boy, I mean it's potentially seven maps of my Marvel rivals is what we have ahead of us
You had five maps just then for the lower bracket finals
Do we get a close grand finals because typically the lower bracket finals is actually closer than the grand finals at least for EME's history?
That is very true and Ryan though. We've had a very close match up here
But Navia looking on point here. We are going to have a look at a guest to talk to about this upcoming game
We have a bogey. I believe joining us to talk about the matches that we've had so far and what's coming up
Let's start with a very simple question here
What has been your favorite series so far? Oh?
Good mythical morning everybody some morning is the afternoon there right now
But it's morning from America if Americans are watching my favorite series so far
I love watching Shikigami play, I love the Torchcom, I think Torchcom has been so fun to see and I also think
My favorite series, I'm not gonna lie
I loved watching Na'Vi vs VP. Na'Vi vs VP has been very good, very fun
Even though VP lost, I think Na'Vi absolutely played their hearts out and they're a they're a any level one crew
insane performance
To be a little bit more specific than not just in terms of series, we're getting to see
a lot of Doctor Strange being played and obviously while we have you here, we have to ask you
about him. What's been your favorite Doctor Strange pull-up so far of pre-season play-offs?
Favorite Doctor Strange pull-up? I'll be honest, I've seen a lot of aggressive
Or those here and there for initiating on domination, right?
But from the top of my head, I genuinely don't remember.
I've seen so much strange board game play.
So I don't really remember.
I think at some point there was like a counter-TP that caught a few people,
but not during the playoffs.
I think that was before the playoffs. I was during the seeding.
But yeah, from the top of my head, I don't know.
We've seen a lot of strange I
Think looking when we get to these points and events
Oh good
This is where all the like crazy takes come out where it's like oh X player is washed because he wasn't server admin this game on this character, right?
Like what what's your like hot take I suppose for this like what's the narrative you want to build around going into a
Navi versus team heretics grand final. Is it the Elsa server admin? Is it a gambit?
is too good to run out, like, where are you leaving?
I think, I mean, people forget,
like people forget that Oribos is a very team oriented game,
no matter how good you are in any team,
like if the team isn't working together,
if you are having problems with team synergy
and team composition, whatever else,
no matter how good you are,
like you are not gonna be able to perform
because there's low moving pieces,
it's like a very well oiled machine, right?
If something is missing in the machine, the machine is just not gonna work, right?
So it's the same applies to rivals. It's a team game and no matter how good the crook is, no matter how good there is,
it all boils down to, hey, is everybody doing their job?
Is everybody doing their job great?
And if not, the enemy team is just gonna abuse that and they are gonna cook you for the lack of a better work.
So I think for the final game, genuinely, it could go any way. We haven't seen Na'Vi play today.
I'm a firm believer that loser bracket always have the have the advantage purely because they've been warming up all day
And they've been playing and Navi is just gonna show up here kind of cold isn't and take them a little bit
Yeah, yeah, all right
We got you back, Fogo.
We asked Fraggy whether we had them on a little bit earlier about like,
have these games been giving you the itch to potentially get back in in the future?
Can you ask that question again? I'm sorry?
Yes. Have these games, watching these games for the three seasons,
been giving you the itch to potentially get back into pro play?
No. Definitely not.
I'm enjoying my cozy time watching games here.
I just take it too personally when I lose in the sense that I get too hard broken when I lose
and then like there's too much time commitment and I don't want to. I like my low courtes of life
right now. I enjoy it. Well the final question we'll ask you here before we let you go and
relax to enjoy the games yourself is very simply who have you got? Oh I'm gonna listen I might be
be a little bit cursed nowadays, I'm not gonna lie. My predictions are absolutely
horrid, but I'm gonna go for Navi and hopefully I don't curse them. I think Navi
should be winning this, I'm sorry Kragi. I believe they have improved quite a bit
and I believe that you know they're very solid, that everybody in their team is
very solid and trust the process. Thank you very much for joining us Bo-Go. We'll
let you get relaxed and ready for that next match. Keep that cortisol level
low and keep that enjoyment high. Thank you thank you thank you take care guys good luck and have
fun casting you guys are casting right now right you're the castors yeah beautiful have fun casting
thanks bogey can you imagine if we're just like no we're the with the janitors you know we just
like showed up on the camera someone left a microphone here you gotta get in
I mean it's always like good to hear from him. It's a shame that like the Shmungas band might not be getting back together
anytime soon but it's as expected. He was the first ever player ever team to be actually be played in Ignite.
They got to win over OG so you know you'll take that to your grave I think at that rate.
We got some legacy in EMEA here and it's always good to hear some lovely words from our players.
But it's time to send some lovely words to our players as we are going to be getting
ready.
The teams have a little bit extra time just to make sure that they are in the lobby
and of course for heretics to make sure that they are recovered after that very difficult
series.
But we do at least know the first map, Monty Reminders, this is the best of seven.
We're going to be starting on Hell's Heaven as we always start with domination.
Yeah, I mean everyone's going to be looking at the band draft too as well, right?
Because I mean, Heretics didn't really say that they were going to do something different,
but by end of being like, okay, we were literally just like voting until 2am.
They were looking at that match, they were talking about the band draft.
We're going to be seeing something a little bit different.
I'm going to be like looking at Navi to see if they do something different too,
because that could be the way that you curveball.
Heretics are going to be expecting you to stick with what you were playing previously.
If you move away from that, and I meant Navi are a very flexible team, they can play so
many different compositions, you might be able to catch heretics of God, because I
think like that from the interview, Boga's right, right?
Navi are going to be coming into this a little bit cold, they'll have done that one hour
warm-up scrim with a team before this, but that's not the same as actually playing
in official capacity, so if you can pull the first map, that's going to be a pretty
big upside in my book.
Brian, it's the argument of information with Na'Vi having been able to watch all of these
Heretics games, get all the information that Shikigami have been able to drag out of them,
versus, as Moxie says, coming in warmed up, coming in fresh. We've seen it multiple times
where teams have done these incredible lower bracket runs.
I mean, the big thing, I think, from Crook's interview yesterday, when there'd be Team
Heretics, was like, they have more deep preparation for the teams that they're playing,
like in groups. They were still making sense of the meta themselves and sort of paying attention
a little bit to what people were doing, but now they've seen a lot of gameplay of how
heretics want to build with their triple strategies to know how to counter it. And like you said,
they got to watch that game prior. The main thing is kind of what Terra was talking
about of like all of the players are bringing in very different ideas of what to do with
the draft. It can either work in semblance or it can split the team right down the
middle in how they want to actually deal with this. Team heretics are a little bit
more like, well put together
from just the action today.
We talk about the
though, though, but moxie,
intro that Darby are also w
the mid season finals and
that roster that came in t
have joined since for the
this stage one and pre se
But in terms of synergy and being together longer, this team has so much legacy.
Yeah, the trust as well.
And trust me, like Boca, that was just saying trust the process.
Because trust me, is their coach, right?
And that comes with benefits.
It comes with a couple of drawbacks.
But it also means that you don't have to rely on going out of the map
before you get to go then talk to your coach.
He's literally there in the match with you, basically being able to say,
like, hey, this is happening, this team is doing this, we're doing this wrong.
We need to sort of like adjust to that.
I think that's why we're seeing a lot of, as a lot of people have said, the personalities from
Na'Vi come through with both terror and trust me, like being very vocal players, sometimes it's a
little bit of a clash, but from the looks of things, especially when terror is past Elsa,
then everyone from Na'Vi plays within harmony. So I could imagine maybe Heretics, the biggest
couple they could possibly do, would be an instant ban onto the Elsa so that Na'Vi have
you have to then start discussing what exactly is it the terror will play.
That's something we were a little bit worried about yesterday when it did not
come through after all of those games. But Navi, such a tough roster.
They took two of the highest DPS players from Worlds and just decided to put
them together in the form of jerky and terror. Whereas Team Heretics coming
out of chops, coming out of citadel, coming out of all of these incredible
teams coming together, Ryan. This is about as literal definition of a super
team as you can possibly get.
It's about as close as you can get to it outside of picking up what Rad put together with their roster, you'd say.
But it was like the fact that it's all growing in tandem, right?
That you have got like each of the roles, Vanguard, different pairings, as Beethel has come across, and Chopt to go with Enzo,
Tanuki and Naga both at the Grand Finals event with different teams, now
combining together, and Alex being split away from Ken, that deadly duo that came in all the way from Berver past him and beyond.
Now actually going to be paired up with Oasis who we literally just saw had a lights out performance in the end
All of which is line pro coaching them for the first time despite being a player prior with insomnia
It really is just like it's all melding together perfectly
It's just that their idea on the meta might be found out frankly at this point by Navi
We know exactly where the loyalties live for heretics where they come to triple strategist
They're not that keen on using else to themselves
So it's a very easy like position for Navi to take from a counselor
Yeah, let's let's double down on that a little bit here boxy team heretics very much marching to the beat of their own drum coming into this
Yeah triple strategist
I think is like where heretics have looked the strongest and as you've said like we've seen multiple times now
They just don't really play the Elsa bloodstone. They're even happy as well to let the other team
Potentially get it one-sided to so they can secure up things like the mantis or the gambits who have a much better triple
strategist approach in terms of being able to play for those ultimates as well as sustainability.
But as we saw in the previous matchup versus Narvi, letting Elsa bloodstone through did
work against them with Terra being able to play to his strengths. So that again could
be a change they make, but we did just see heretics versus Shihigami. They let the Elsa
through, they were still able to win. So maybe they stick to their guns with that
band draft.
the team. It's a difficult
situation to put themselves in.
We see the heretics do not just
immediately jump on to those high
priority pickups here. Whereas
Navi, they have the situation
of they've been able to win the
comeback matches. They lost this
team in groups already, so we
know that it can be very
stressful. Ryan to go against
the team that has been even
if you've already beat them in
the run back. Yeah, but it's
a team that you've sort of
played in grand finals against.
In fact, this goes all the
way back to stage one where
game. It's the best of seven
grand finals. I think we've had
across all regions. Maybe
America's has won. Maybe it's
still ongoing from last year
because of how long these
series of being, but it's more
the fact of like these guys are
experienced in playing in these
like grand finals usually getting
smashed by the best problem.
That is probably not here after
watch from the sight lines
before they get into stage one.
It's pretty much a great way to
sort of look at where Navi were.
Lot of people were doubting
all preseason and then team heretics looking decent up until this leg where they've just
tried to work out their identity a bit more. It's a perfect one because there's no clear
favourites. Both teams have their struggles, but both teams have their shining lights as well.
And we're going to get to see some of those shining lights as we're going to be getting
ready to head into the draft very shortly. It really is going to be that big question mark.
That's what everyone's excited about. Will heretics bad Elsa or will Terra get to be
terrorizing the server once again. It's a high pressure situation between these two teams.
It is a former world champion versus a few members from a former EMEA champion. And the
former world champion is the former Naga on there as well. This is peak Marvel rivals.
And then he's head over to Dark Boxing and grind central for all the action.
That's the other side of it as well. You've got Naga playing up against his old team.
decided to bring in Terra instead.
Quick things to note about Na'Vi when it comes to the draft,
Na'Vi losing majority of the time to teams banning out the Elsa against them,
and that's what heretics have done! Immediately it's different Moxie, we're free!
Well, there we go, we said that would be the big curveball, right?
Because now the wheels are turning on the side of Na'Vi, the ball isn't there,
court, what are you going to do in response?
Probably look for a hypercarry duelist like the Phoenix, if you still want to run the solo duelist,
maybe go for something like the Phoenix Wolverine, so Tera can get to play to his strengths since
hearing from Enzo in the interview, they did not enjoy playing up against that one,
but with Gambit in play, we now turn the focus on to Loki. Heretics will be banning that one out
instantly, but Narvi, currently letting it slip a little bit further down, going for the ban out
on to the Vanguard Deadpool on both sides instead. And it seems that now they might be
pick up the mantis themselves the majority of drafts that navi of one it's been either getting the
elsewhere the gambit whichever one but then also getting a deadpool vanguard for not only trust me
but rajara has been played a good amount of it as well in fact is most played vanguard so far this
tournament surpassing the likes of emma which saw a lot of play and also magneto it's a good
look but the captain america bandar heretics are like yeah you did this against first pro
we're gonna do this to you i mean i like this approach too because like then if navi want to
play the dive. They would have to go for something like the Jeff, but as we've already seen, White
Fox in play is very, very problematic for that venom. Plus, Heretics will be able to
save Daredevil, so Navi can't ban it out. We've got the information. It won't be one-sided
potentially. They'll be taking it. It looks like Tanuki's Siloq, which has been one
of the follow-through jewelists. They're thinking about it, but they might have had
to go for the Doctor Strange instead. It's a domination map, so if you take out the
the game. It's not just about
the game. It's about the
strange. There's no portals
also heretics like if they
want to open up with a very
aggressive portal plus use the
team up from the invisible
woman, which likewise on
scene in the band draft that
is now stopped entirely.
Strange band out. Yeah like
invisible woman was left
open. In fact, less of a
strategist focus in the
this is pretty much what you
would expect or want from a
grand final. It might be
missing a couple of names, but
these two teams at the top of
their game preseason in the
grand finals, a full best of
seven against very tenured
players. It's a great way to
start off the year. Here we
go. Map one, not the versus
team heretics out of a
potential seven and it will
be the gambit mirror, but not
specifically with this character, right? We've got trust me on the road for hearts that's
won. We've got potential as well for that starwalk to be able to come into mix, but terror
at the moment is on the Wolverine instead, since team heretics are taking away the Doctor
Strange and the Vanguard Deadpool. The Vanguard line is going to be forced onto a double
dive, both the Captain America and the Venom, which means that fate on the White
Fox is going to be licking his lips, thinking about the CC opportunities when team heretics
to commit to that dive. I mean fate is not the best when he was one of the early proprietors
to Jeff. It's a different animal in nature with the white fox, but he has been pretty
much on the love train. I suppose for the white box is a strategist option. A good thing
here now these composition is broadly to say the very least the scabbards available either
side. It's going to be team heretics trying to use their low ground and put some pressure
on the objective whilst now they trying to hold the high and what will fall
the way down. Instead it's going to be styled as Terra's going to try and shove his way all
the way through. Heretics finds that first pick onto Vito as both vanguards have taken
a bit of a tumble. Enzo manages to survive to Nuke's try to sneak his way out, but there
goes the second vanguard. The front line has dissipated and Navi take the first point.
Yeah, no casualties on the side of Navi too, except well until now. Jerky does go down,
Rujaro gets away, so someone's actually going to see the instant tops coming through.
heretics understanding, Navi are going to play a very rush, heavy style with both the
Wolverine and the Stare Devil with the Rogue applying pressure onto their front line, so
you swap onto the Emma and Rogue instead. But that first fight, misreading the comp that
Navi came out onto, that might have cost them, right? Navi are able to establish
first point control, they've got 30% of a point lead, fate's going to be closer
to the Kumeho unleashed, then a laces on the invisible boundary and crucially,
He's about to have the first Raging Role Flush of the whole round,
far before Alex has the match.
Yeah, he's much better to get himself ahead, so this fight is going to take it very quickly
as the leaping of the Role Flush goes in, off of the strange holding forward.
Now, just posties the end-solid burner to keep himself alive,
but it's only going to be for a short second.
Everybody's cleared up from the heretics.
A clean sweep in this engagement, and it's just the one ultimate
in the end that now they have to use.
Yeah, and now you're going to be sitting at a good 60% of the point, plus Team Heretics
still not going to be able to engage through with their one-sided gambit ultimate, which
means that trust me, it gets an opportunity here, build the heartbreaker and train it away
before Alex can use, because that's Heretics' whole game plan at the moment.
Terror gets scouted out, does manage to escape the situation unscathed, no one outside
for the force physics to pull him back in, but that storyline does mean that Team
heretics have been able to get themselves a little bit closer to the point, take some
more damage, last hand on to Enzo though, taken behind the strange shielders whilst the heretics
can't heal him back, they have to commit the gather ultimate, but they're already down
to 2 players.
It's a no with dedication, witness so little on all of the heretics, Oasis though is
much full of few more picks and the cameo is going to be used from fate, one of the
elements of this game is certainly worth highlighting on the white boxes, how could
these ultimates typically are with the impact, it might not have led to too much but
its life to some space been created. Heretics can't quite touch, but with four
Ultimates moxie it feels like this point was chopped. We move on to the monument.
Yeah it feels like the stars are lined again for Navi. Like you said, Fave being
able to be a sort of just mad doctor in the labs with Jeff from last year now
getting to apply that same role with the White Fox has proved so problematic for
a lot of these team compositions to deal with especially since Dipe was so
big headed into both the group stages and preseason playoffs and team heretics we talked
about misreading the composition that Navi comes out on might cost them not just 0% but
the fight so one-sided that they lose the second one off of snowball ultimate economy
coming on through from crook added to that again one-sided gambit ultimate a third one-sided
all coming fight coming on through from the sort of heretics no chance of being able
to stabilize themselves no chance of being able to have ultimates to pair alongside
the gambit so that when Alex eventually uses the raging royal flush there's very little
follow up that the rest of the team can actually do and unfortunately for heretics it might
be more of the same since Crick's already halfway to this next one, Rajar is going to
be opening up of the portal too just trying to put the pressure on the heretics early
potentially force out that invisible boundary or just get trust me from close enough
to use the heartbreaker before he reacts. Oasis gets tagged by the royal goldsmith
does escape it so you do have the invisible boundary here, but it looks like he gets grabbed and taken down yet again before he can use the ult.
That's a perfect play from Navi to find the picks. Tanuki uses the last stand, but he's the last alive. Unfortunately, he's trying to find a quick reset.
Ultimate for Jerky is going to send him right back to spawn. That fight was clean. Something that Heretics would know for is going for those Dr. Strange portal plays, and Navi uses it straight against them.
Yeah, with that strange ban out as well, Heretics could not go for one of their own, having that
Invisible Boundary already up before the fight started to push Navi and substantially taking
a fight. No strategist, no gambit ult. Speaking of that gambit ult, Lv1 Crook has. Oasis
has the Invisible Boundary back, but they could just get very quickly overwhelmed as
Navi has closed up the distance and they're eyeing up where exactly Oasis could be.
Visible Bandruff, paired alongside Heartbreaker, the slow with the end song applied as well,
does manage to mince through the sustainability of the gambit, and Navi lose the fight.
Heretics will be able to complete the flip.
Finally able to get something onto the board and now they actually used not quite a lot and still ended up losing the fight in the end.
Heretics know that they have to be a little bit more aggressive now because there's not many ultimates to rely on outside of the royal flush that Alex was almost building up to.
Terrily pinning off a character that people don't remember, he used to be very good on way back when.
How can I get much for the last stand as heretics have retreated all the way back playing with the information that Tanuki gets and he missed the boundary.
boundary tried to set where the engagement is but fake gets caught out in the in-between so the
invisible boundary is going to drop to the ground it was a great spot a great reason to do key
and he's found the counter attack from navi missing and lacking yeah big fight win on the side of
heretics but you still have to worry is navi are going to be swapping terror off of the
wolverine onto the star lord this is enough to be able to win i'd like coin flood between
Galactic Legend, Raging Role Flush, beating out just base Galactic Raging Role Flush on its own,
or potentially that invisible boundary. Heretics have to be able to make a play taking out the
Star Lord so that Teret doesn't have the ultimate to be able to pair alongside Crook.
The waiters too have to hold the Force Physics. You're eyeing up the Eye of Agamotto coming
on through from Rajarro. They know that it's going to be online and you do not want to lose
other deaths to a well placed Maelstrom of Madness. Tanuki has gone into the back
again and found that pick over onto crook and jerky is
Trading out the pics either way to new key both of them are like making this head-to-head work
But just focusing on the back lines and not focusing necessarily on each other now
However, trying to spot where his jewel is the teammate prior to this is gone and it's a retreat back is heretics built the way up to 85%
Yeah, but they haven't bought up a strategist all like now we get an opportunity here crook
We'll be able to have the castle for each and grow a flush before a waste
has the Invisible Boundary. Snooki falls early too, so Navi have a lot of confidence to full send,
take this fight. Belacia's trying to battery up the ultimate as quickly as possible. Navi not
using the Gambit ultimate instantly. Pressure from Mutual Rune forces out the Invisible Boundary,
and Alex is outside of it. Goes down to the maelstrom of Nathnius Church, coming on through
from Rajarro. OTs and play on the side of Team Heretics. And Song Inferno for the Hell
Three set, but Navi have been waiting, biting that time. Out comes the one side of
of Gambit Ultimate Heartbreaker alongside it. You've still got the galactic legend in the
back pocket to be able to snowball into this next fight because Navi still have to win
up more if they want to be able to walk away with this round win.
Yes, it's scary now. It's a horrific save. At least able to bring it to 99%, but we
have seen some teams kind of flounder these like middle of progression fights and then
be left with absolutely nothing. And there's no portal to go for either, which means
If you're dedicating here as team heretics on this retake you very much need to go in with no ifs or buts and everybody
Needs to be aligned so now you've got some ultimates to sort of leave the way when it comes to the heartbreaker
And they'll let the devil out, but it's jerky that's gonna try to prevent this get in there early to make sure the heretics
Can't set up there's the royal flush to try to go in and now with this information now
He's gonna go in for the offensive the killing blow potentially as jerky has found naga on the
Skirts trying to go for a bit of a crossfire gets taken out Beetle alone on the point now that it's 80%
Heretics his whole game plan is falling through. There's two ultimates that they had first
I'm not going to be handy his heartbreaker and let the devil out still available for heretics
They try to go in but Jeric you shut the door on him for everything else out and it's looking very unlikely
The heretics are going to be able to touch here
Whoever's available is going to have to hop on ends of switched over towards the venom
Naga is able to e-sports overtime but he gets eliminated straight away. There's the
heartbreaker finally last but not least for Beetzal as he goes in but it's only for a
short amount of time. Enzo now the resilience is needed to keep this point stalled but it's
not going to matter too much longer. Heretics can't quite get it all together and Navi
win out on domination. Yeah Navi just doing a very good job of having both the Kumeho
unleashed as well as that galactic legend so when team Heretics try to make a play
off of one sided raging bro flush, the two ultimate stand in the way of it, Navi come
out with the fight when it's so close to last fight territory as well, they just flood the
choke, make it absolutely impossible for a regroup on the side of heretics, you don't
have to worry about this range portal being able to bypass all of those player bodies,
you literally just have to be able to scatter heretics to the ends of the map, forcing
them one by one to burn all of those utilities and cooldowns, going for things like the
starlord iframe just to hit onto the point to activate the OT so that when the heartbreaker
does come through on the side of Beesle, there's no rest of the team to be able to follow it up.
You pick up at the rogue, you pick up at the rest of the players and you pick yourself up
that first map. One elimination against fate, the backline of him and crook looking stellar,
and whilst it was not the focus of level one, crook being able to play the gambit when
it was banged out of the ball, he's at least able to make sure that it's glowing,
heretics change the big aspects of their draft but moxie it didn't really amount to all that much in
the end and it means that there's going to be a little bit more required from them when it comes
to this performance. It feels again like just like Navi coming out with the gambit but already
having the rogue in play to be able to secure that first fight in neutral just
allowed them to smuggle so much of those domination setups. See exactly where this
next map is going to go it's a choice of heretics we'll see after this break.
Watch out, they're heading our way!
Don't mess with the amazing Spider-Man!
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For the world champs for a reason, Narvi take a solid first game versus Heretics.
But hallelujah to everyone who was talking about it yesterday, Heretics did bad out Terra's
Elsa.
Moxie, was it worth it?
I mean, it's always going to be really difficult in a gambit mirror when you lose the first
fight so one-sidedly so that you don't get the opportunity of mirroring the gambit
ultimate itself, right? We were talking about it a little bit on the actual cast
of that first fight. Navi coming on through with the rogue already in play
being able to perfectly mark out when Heretics would go for the dive hit with
both the cap and the venom already having the white fox posted up as well to absorb it.
Just meant that they steamrolled through the whole team. There was very little
healing opportunity for Heretics' backline to be able to match. So second fight,
I know you have zero defences against it, and from there it's going to be an ult dump fight that you rely on being able to just like grab that fight and map control back, and then your back is against the wall, the other side is way too much point percentage, and they can just play for a one fight win situation.
It looks like Heretics now with their map choice have decided to live up to their namesake,
take the fight to the gods and are taking us to Ictanasil Path as our next map, taking
us to Convoy.
Yeah, I mean, I guess Heretics are going to be upset that they can't go for any like
Sharknado plays because that was something that they would rely on in some of these
more chaotic grand finals to get past first, which is when Navi held them on the last
time that these two teams played against each other, but yesterday.
So it feels like at least heretics have had the chance to work out some stuff, used the
fact that they played up against Shifu Gami on this map as a bit of a warm-up for this,
but Navi got to sit here and watch it all come into play.
I think the curious thing really is just like, yeah, show with the Elsa, like if you're
banning it out instead, it sort of forces Navi to be able to sort of play in this
position.
Do at least get crock away from the lunar snow when he's going to be playing Gambit,
so you don't have that duo to deal with, but it's still scary.
background is hard to shut down. We also saw when we were talking about that
backline we saw Fate once again getting his hands on the white box boxing which
as usual seems to do them some pretty good work. We head into map 2.
Here we go. Map 2, Electric Boogaloo. Will the band draft change yet again?
Or will Heretics now stick with this instant band onto that Elsa? Looks like
they're going to be sticking with the instant ban onto the elsa. So yet again Ryan, we get the gambit
mirror flip and then someone swerves the path and goes for a save onto the mantis.
Yeah I do wonder sort of looking at the triple vanguard especially is that third ban for both
sides that was mirrored. It's actually going to be earlier. Really does feel like Navi might
want to sort of put some priority in it. They're not really that worried about sort of going
for anything else like it was the mantis that they went for beforehand. They're going to protect
the gambit to make sure that it's not going to be taken out but it is maybe going to put some
early stress on team heretics to ban out the deadpool bandgather earlier or go for something else
instead because Loki and Mantis are still available. Yeah it's the Loki that heretics are going to go
for is yeah like you can't let Loki gambit through. If you've got a gambit mirror but one team has
Loki then you can literally just use your first raging world flashcast to force the other
and then come through with your own still in the actual pocket.
As we'll get the ban now onto the Vanguard deadfall, not a man to save but a one-sided invisible
woman coming on from the side of Navi. We started a little bit earlier on Spider Islands.
A lot of these convoy maps are a little bit more linear in terms of how your core team plays.
So being able to have that pierce ability to both heal and damage at the same time
does mean that invisible boundary builds up very, very quickly.
Plus you're expecting some elements of dive coming on through with things like the Daredevil
and the Venom and having the Force physics up to be able to deal with just a soft dive then
having its hand forced into turning into a hard dive into turning into a visit back to your
respawn point is very very handy as it's going to be a save on the Daredevil on the side of
heretics which means that Navi could if they wanted go for a ban onto the Mantis they were
thinking potentially by going for a ban on to the Groot that will go for the damage boost instead.
So is a one-sided Loki available for team heretics? Navi decided to not ban it out on the other side
and I think that mostly is for the case of like well Alex is their gambit player and also their
Loki player and also their invisible woman player. You can't clone him out like a Wastis probably
can move over to the invisible woman but like does he play Loki that much? It's hard to get a
So Navi actually sort of feeling like them not having access to Loki near the team do, not too much of a stress for them ultimately.
Yeah, Navi going to be starting off on this defense, Terra actually going to be starting off on this Wolverine.
And I mean, that that takes us back, right?
We were talking about the history of some of these teams.
Terra was a previous player called Apozy who played on the side of Team Mutants.
mutants who were actually the team that won MRZ season 0 back in America all the way back in 2025
before that team then got picked up by a hundred thieves and he named change to terror but he was
a huge pusher of this Wolverine as a staple as a duelist as well as that winter soldier and being
able to play that one with both Phoenix so that you have the Primal Warrior team up
Meaning that you have extra survivability with the lifesteal based off the damage that you do
is going to be very problematic for team heretics to have to deal with since on the attack you're
expecting some element of dive coming out from the side of heretics just to force Navi to turn
their attention to deal with it so that the rest of the team have a safer time pushing past this
first corner. Yeah trying to do their best to make their way first both teams are trying
trying to run this like 2-2-2 composition and there goes the Waces for the time being
at the very least. Just be going to make sure that this dive attacking side of Herakings
isn't going to fight too much and maybe got moderately bagged 4, but the cooldowns all
come out to just allow him to leap back to his team for some support. Terra trying
to see if he can go in for the leap. It's available now.
Yeah, making sure that he's got an eye on him might not necessarily have the
sense or the killer instinct, but he's just going to use his sense in order to
to try and make sure that Tanuki can't get much space.
Yeah, not just Tanuki, but Betel as well.
So, Terra's going to have to be a lot more proactive
in patrolling these lanes,
as opposed to Tanuki with the passive.
Guess to see where you'll be,
but the Wolverine grabs the follow-up damage.
And again, Navi just in full control at this point in time.
Terra's been an absolute beast.
Their heretics really have to turn and deal with
that they're just not finding these opportunities as a way.
doesn't play the Lunar, goes for the Jeff instead, so trying to play away from the fight
but because so many of these wolf grabs with the positing heretics players
past the corner, there's no line of sight for the Jeff to actually help out healing.
Ricky leaping in, almost using the heads of Navey as a way to step to his way across,
but there goes Jiriki, have got the ultimate use from this level one
croc, but it's the rest of his team that is actually starting to flounder and fall
It's a bit of a weird fight. It's like watching Tanuki just sort of take these individual 1v1s and
Absolutely find the curling of the back line. There's now the sweater part
Intimidately and it's just a weird way for this one to go
Faye has the invisible boundary
Heretics will have Ganba ult. You also have to worry about the M-Song Inferno and Misha M
If the Guardian Shield from the Inversus too early, M-Song breaks it and then Misha M breaks the Zeus and Storm from behind it
As we're going to see Anson coming on fur, Alex utilizes that Raging World flush, fate
reacts with the invisible boundary as heretics just go into the ultimate, brawling with the
gambit to make sure that Navi don't just get to sustain and push back the moment that
it drops, but Kirk's been able to get one, it's traded for your invisible woman though,
and it looks like that might be enough as the laces come some fur with the it's
Jeff, heretics taking the fight into the streets of second, really depleting Navi's
players who can actually stole the point.
I mean, it's basically a second job that Rogue had there,
trust me, trying to get rid of a waste that went in for the play
and then touching the point is a little bit too much for them to deal with.
Heretics having a good attacking side.
Probably one of the more calmer, like, first point takes
because Navi felt so, like, spaced out, even the portal play.
There's a lot of respect given from Heretics
that it feels like a lot of these battles that happened in Moxie
are on the outskirts.
It's where Tanuki and Beatle are taking these fights.
Which is why jerky has flopped to the daredevil so that you can scout out before heretics are in position to hit
Hardbreaker comes on through from trust me
But beetle has the freedom to heretics would be able to hold the heads above the water at the moment last time the
Tempted does find a connection on to Enzo so you do lose the mag
Regerri season opportunity ayu vagamoto catches Tanuki mid ultimate with jerky using his own let the devil out
Now they're doing everything that they can to just burn heretics out of players out of all
economy as well and potentially just lose this fight but be able to win the next with close to the
respawns. It's just a scrap it's a Saturday night outside the local pub for some of these melee
characters every perspective we switch to it's just throwing hands to the best of their abilities.
Naga though trying to see if he can sort of take this high ground perch at top and stop these
players from Na'Vi trying to go in for the reset they see exactly where these other defenders
are trying to come from as trust me leaps into the fray again onto the road. Everybody's grouped up
onto the objective so whether these cleaves from the team gray are good enough to climb
her through might be great. Beetle however goes down as Naga brings up the end song in
Furno. Oasis at least trading onto the front line as trust me keeps going down in these fights
over and over again. Royal Flush has created a lot of space but it seems to Nuki sneaking
behind to maybe try and back cap this or group up with the rest of his team that have been
setback to spawn.
Ah, but Navi catch up with the disengage, Harisex tries to kite out the first gamba ult, then
recover the fight with their own, but now they're getting the eliminations onto a little bit of
an overextension coming in for it from Navi's and still not a full team wipe though.
Just taking so much time off of this bank, they've got the kumuho on lease, you have
to be concerned about Anzor just using the meteor and take all of that extra health
down.
Jeff comes on through on the side of the way, says Might Yap does get the white box.
You can grant CC and Minji to the rest of your team, but you're not waterproof.
And there goes the edge Jeff taking fate in the ultimate off the map.
It's a sink and a brief drink.
I think the heretics, because they're still not able to actually get much going.
Tarrif run out the last time, then he has isolated himself from the rest of his
team.
with this fight, you can see almost that it's gonna be...
now I get it, it was gonna take a step back,
trying to use his ultimate aggressively as Tanuki,
switched away from the dead, able to go away onto the side lock now,
and so also on the thing, it's gonna get even more brawly, surprise him.
It feels like all of these players have just wanted to take good chunks out of each other,
but Navi stemmed the bleeding again, only for a brief second,
this is a very early portal play, it's not gonna be useful in overtime now for heretics,
this is a big gamble to try and take this fight ahead of Navi's ultimate cycle.
Especially because crook right that's what you're going for beetle has the freedom charge
You have to run at the gambit and find the elimination
But rajara is identified the heretics are making the first move the backline are going to be vulnerable forces the peel of the
Eye of Agamotto and that freeze crook up to get the ultimate online and now be to run into heretics with the
Let the devil out and like you said that was the strange portal
That was the play coming them through from heretics win the fight before the gambit ultimate or see the cart
stop where it is. Enzo's trying to come back onto that Venom. That's what we'll be looking for,
but no one's going to be able to get the touch. I'm guessing Fate might have been able to land the
Spectral Surge Charm onto the Venom mid swing to be able to prevent Enzo getting passed,
and that is the line drawn in the sand. Not held on first this time, but held on second.
What have been a hell of mechanics to work it through. I do like heretics going for like
that early portal just trying to get ahead of the Raging Royal Flush and it would have
worked to an extent if it wasn't for Rosciaro coming in with a pretty major like Eye of Agamotto.
It didn't result in any eliminations but it just bought time. Raging Royal Flush, you
could already see that Jerky, who masterful switch over to the Daredevil, that changed
a lot on Navi's defense. Those two ultimates used together, you just run it down. You've
got Rogue on your team as well, they're going to be happy to just go in with the
aggressive nature of the Royal Force Ultimate. Navi worked wonders with the timing and heretics
were very close to a 200 IQ play. It was just a couple of milliseconds off. Yeah, it's just like
defense team macro, right? Take as many fights as you can. Even if you lose them, you're still
forcing ult, you're still getting trades, and crucially, you're also still forcing time.
So by the time the heretics round that corner, they're just out of resources to be able to
brute force the fight and beat the close re-explosions. Still, for Yggdrasilpaf, they
They did get quite a far distance through and especially now that they get the star lord
at the start of the fight to be able to play alongside that gambit, it's a risk here though
because in terms of hangars, you're giving up the rogue or the mag to be able to pair
with this gambit.
It costs them that first fight on Hellshaven before, trust me having much more damage in
the neutral but ends up having that brawliness to be able to have both the damage reduction
but also get those punch across the strange shield. Not a mean though to the road grab,
so already having to back up and give space. Just hoping to go for the swings and maybe take a leaf
out of Kai's book where he was just going in for the absolute brawl approach from the thing in
Spider Islands. Here, however, not too far. Navi have a bit more distance to push than last
time when they full held heretics on first. This fight has gone so well to begin with,
but heretics are close enough that they're not going to need the portal play, but the
No way to switch it over to the White Flux. Pretty early on now. We haven't seen an awful
lot of that.
Yeah. I mean, if you're Na'Vi though, like, honestly, something that we have to talk about,
pretty hard to be able to, like, see just from the POV, which are, with the Strange,
just going for the Shield Flashes, stopping the Heal line of sight coming on from Heretic
since it's a health bar as opposed to a cooldown until it gets broken. Trust me,
does go down, overextended from the rest of the team. Heretic's with the player
advantage in this fight. It's happened to be very, very cautious that they have one
person always contesting on that cart. They get the invisible boundary, but we got the
covering time off onto both Terra and Rujaro, but it's inside the invisible boundary, so
most of the players are able to recover. They lose jerky, but what they have to worry
about is the fact that heretics have that gambit ultimate ready to go, but down
to players, they're going to have to beat out Navi's whole team who still have theirs.
Iwagamoto is handy for Rejaro, but right now with the royal flush he's just using it as
a chance to go in for the more aggressive approach. Now you've got Kamiho that's going
to be used actually to try and score this out. Iwagamoto is going to be used to make
sure that the fox gets put straight down as Tara cleans up the rest of these defenders
from Heretics. They wanted to go for that last minute stall, built up the Ultimates,
but it didn't matter. Rejaro is the king of this one.
The good thing though for the side of Heretics is that you forced out both the
eye the invisible boundary and that raging road flush. Jerky's going to go for a close
hold, he's very close to let the devil out, a couple of hits from the Billy Club and he'll
be right there but what you're really worried about is heretics utilising the star lord
ult to buy all of this base back. Trust me he's got the heartbreak it's you might be
able to find the connection early on onto the star lord but no there it is and there
Jerky goes.
He's so low, though, but he's able to absolutely make a carbon fruit.
So he's gone down at the same time.
So Heretic's now holding on for four more minutes.
It's not that much distance, but it's just around this horseshoe.
We've seen plenty of defenses, Moxida,
are being held from this point for a fair amount of time.
But now they have so much in the band
that they're willing to allocate some just neutral exchanges
to get somebody's whole list together to go in for the full kitchen sink approach.
Oh, yeah, Crooks just building up, slowly shoring towards that next region of flush.
Bobbing time from ends at Mith's, down to the butterfly's, forces at the invisible boundary,
but Jorakie punishes the fact that Heretics have no strategies to be able to survive.
Navi, last fight territory, now going to be looking at what Heretics have available.
Swap onto the strange, Endes maybe going to try and portal the team into position,
but level 1 quirk is going to be available, might go for the cancel onto the tp as well.
Rujaro's just riding the card, the heretics having to right into it, but that means that they have
to go into that gambit ultimate. Fate with the invisible boundary not going to be up,
but trust me has the heartbreak to make sure the heretics lose their strategists.
Huge iovaca model comes out from the side of Rujaro, and Navi complete the push with time to
Spare, 2-51 left as they're able to equalize and surpass the distance close to my heretics.
A statement attacking side and done with such panache, you have to say, another MVP performance
from level on crook, MVP of the mid-season finals.
The first international event that we saw at the EMEA team, when Avasta is just going
to be our guys in Europe facing up against each other, it's still the same MVP performance
in these grand finals.
final hits surprised him out for level one croak but he was in amongst his team ready to go in for
some more like close quarters combat. Yeah I mean Rujara on this range has looked absolutely
light out so far not just light tight heels out on the side of heretics too like the damage
blocked 37000 we have to have a separate track on how much healing he's been able to block on
the side of both Alex and Oasis as I was like talking about the shield flesh that you can
do with the Seraphim shield, since you can just bring it up so consistently you'll see it there.
The moment that Navi work out somewhere from Heretics is a little bit too far forward
and splittable, the way that you would see a player punished with Grunt walls, they're seeing
the opportunity, they know that the backline won't be able to get that line of sight onto them,
Strange brings the shield up and Navi takes them right out.
It's a great way for Navi to actually put themselves at the top of the EMEA power rankings
and there's still more to go for heretics who have a choice of map again and then some as it is a first to fall
but it does mean that we will be going to a convergence map who was hard to have them before the team heretics chose
they didn't necessarily go their way so we'll have to see if it's going to be a change up to something like Jalea
or to be on service we'll have to see as this best of 7 goes on
Watch out, they're hitting our way!
Do this with the amazing Spider-Man!
I'm not sure if it's the right way to do it.
It's time to try and bring back some trauma as Heretics looking into the bank of what's
left available when it comes to their convergence maps and they pick the one that Navi lost
on first this stage.
They are taking a little bit of a Shikigami strategy and they're going to take them
Central Park right? Yeah, I feel like it's going to be looking up to the torch in the sky and be like
remember who you are just checking out and trying to give some of that energy over. This is wild for
Team Heretics. There's zero and two on Central Park so far in the pre-season and they go, you know
what, this is the map we want to go to. They want to go to Jalier because now be a pretty
prominent on it and it is also their map pick. Plinter, Lord knows how that's going to go
and Shin Shibuya, no, absolutely not.
They're going to be sent to a park despite not winning on it.
Yeah, but maybe like that's the play, right?
If your map loss rate is as poor as that,
it's maybe the move that Navi would least expect
and therefore do the least amount of preparation
in anticipation of you choosing it.
And there is also the argument that Shikigami
were able to take the win off of Navi on this map
and Team Heretics of Thou had to go up against Shikigami
doing that potential strategy multiple times now. They've probably played this map quite a few times
on the exact same strategies repeatedly. They might have been able to pick up something by osmosis
or at least come up with some ideas because right now it's time for new ideas because
Navi are 2-0 up. They are halfway towards a grand finals victory. Yeah, I mean I think
If you're at the side of like heretics, you're looking at what Navi have been playing which
is really like interfering with what you want to do. I know they got like so much flag for not
instant banning the Elsa, but it opens the opportunity for the gambit rogue star lord mag to
be as problematic as it is. And like trust me and Rajara at the moment as much as we talk
about Navi's like backline. They're dualists. We have to acknowledge that their vanguards
are getting some serious work done. There were a lot of the reason why they were able to
to take as much space as they did on Idrisle.
Ryan, what would you like to see different
of anything from Heretics?
Do they just need to lock her in a bit more,
or are there some changes that could be made
in this draft stage?
Yeah.
You know what, if they really are triple strategist merchants,
let's at least see it from Heretics,
you know, because we have been trying to play this like 2-2-2.
It is what they're good at, right?
Like, the Mantis is usually one of the main focuses,
but because it's like the way the draft has been going,
Both the teams want the gambit first.
I would like to see heretics at least try to lean towards that a little bit more,
because going up against Navi and his 2-2 is hard.
It feels very much like Furious Pro of like you're trying to match up to them
power for pound against what they're prominent at.
And if Navi get foster triple strategist, yeah, sure.
You've got Juriki that's been putting in time getting his strategists in order,
including a visible woman and Luna Snow, and then Fate that's just this mastermind
of playing somebody's more niche picks that maybe heretics haven't put as much time into.
it's I just want to see like heretics leaning to what they're strong on and maybe there's a chance here in Central Park
This isn't their last chance like we said, it's only two zero in a best of seven you four to win
So they do have opportunities to try and adjust from here right now
We're just waiting for them to level up. They're doing this last minute strategy talks. They are ready
So be heading in very shortly
But right now
Na'Vi, world champions and looking to go into stage one as your champion tier have all the momentum amongst it.
Yeah, they have a lot of momentum. I think like a lot of people were sort of saying like,
oh, maybe Na'Vi are going to be coming into this a little cold. Maybe it's going to take some time to warm up.
No, absolutely ignited the battle, the moment that they entered that server.
I'm going to go back to the
top of the map. It's making
up igniting the battle looks
like we are igniting the time
stream and lobby will be
materializing surely, meaning
that we are potentially if
heretics cannot bring it back
halfway towards an RV victory.
So heretics need to jump on
in and let's see what they
can do as we head to central
part for game number three of
our best of seven. I leave
Which is like very disrespectful to paratix to be baking the audience wait 20 minutes between every game
But I mean it's these guys have known each other for so long
He's obviously just ribbing them as like
That just said everything's wanted to use this time to actually come up with the strategy
Whether it's gonna be a big change up or not remains to be seen
But we'll see exactly how the straf is gonna start the same as the first two else has gone
I
Think we're both expecting though a triple strategist line coming up for and that's already very very different Van Gogh Deadpool
is going to be the first save. So, now if we now get the opportunity, Mantis, Gambit, Loki,
probably one of the first, maybe Invisible Woman actually, that they're thinking about looks like
it might be a Mantis lock. There's debate going back and forth about where they want to take it.
Invisible Woman's very, very good at getting Invisible Boundary up with the amount of healing
you can do when you're all boxed in those small spaces. But Mantis also means that you
you have to think about Loki and Phoenix and all of the rest of Triple Threat lines with the Alch one as well.
So this is going to be a ban on the Mantis, this is going to be the Loki early on for heretics here,
so it is a bit of a different changer. And I do think that doing some of these curveballs is a good idea because you know that like
trust me and Terra and whoever else are all just going to be like, okay do this instead,
they've got the Deadpool vanguard, let's do the, all right shut up, like let's just work this out bit by bit.
They're going to make you the one sided gambit a little bit later on in the draft as a visible woman
Is it going to be available at the very least for now V this map?
It could be traded out either way you could sort of see them deliberating
But it is a one sided Deadpool vanguard against the one sided gambit so far
Is it mantis safer?
Or is it Groot safe because this is a really good group map and then you could potentially force heretics into having to use this last ban
On the mantis which means that you would then get the low key through
Oh, this this is a rough one like if Loki gets for then you have two cast of gambit all if
Mantis gets for then you have 12% damage boost. Well, they'll get both because heretics take
out the dead devil instead.
They're going to protect the Jeff, which is yet a very different draft from what
we've been seeing. It's kind of like spiraled onto like secondary tertiary ripple effects
it's going forward. It's not
like bad at the end is a good
one. If Navi are going, Hey,
guys, you know, it'd be really
funny from touch. Go but they
maybe want to go for this one
sided group, which is weird. It's
going to be the Wolverine band
to make sure that Tanuki doesn't
get a chance to really make it
work. The thing about it is
that now they don't really have
like a super well no group
player. It's going to be
trust me who has been picking
it, but it's not like his
top three Vanguard's. He's
Yeah but I mean, Na'Vi they've got so many options open, also Central Park it's such
a good group map, with just the wall pressure you can put on these players when they try
to walk from main on to point. Terror on the Wolverine 2 is going to further exacerbate
that. If someone gets grabbed they're going to be deposited behind the team and then
trust me you can use the walls to break the line of sight so that heretics don't
get the opportunity to stabilise them and you'll be able to find those eliminations
Fates going to be rolling out on the white fox, level 1 crook by the way, currently showcasing
the rocket Raccoon.
So we've actually got a triple, oh no there we go, he was just giving the armor back and
the jump cookie to Tara, I guess it was a little bit late, just like, okay, orange,
orange, orange, where's the blue guys, where's the blue, there's the blue.
Now I can swap off the rocket and go to the gambit, but ideally the fact that Fates
already on potentially like looking for these like CC opportunities followed by going for the
white fox decides instead to go over to that Luna to have both the idol aura as well as the ice arts
and put the pressure with the absolute zero if heretics try to take a dive.
There's a big question to be asked though. I'm sorry to Nuki. Is the Nuki going to fall off
the map this time on Central Park? It's so scary for him as he's already done it twice
of dragon chikagami but he's going to go in for the dive onto the daredevil as the Wolverine
was banged out prior. Again is this 2d2 setup with naga and tanuki being on the duelists to try
and go for this fight. Now they match him but it is betel that finds that first blow up against
fate onto the backline. The peel not quite there he's immediately switched over towards
the white fox to make his way back and the redive has gone in for betel but he's caught
out from Terri's pulled him into the mud.
Yeah, that PNX tier just did so much damage, fate actually, goes to the strange.
No one was close enough to be able to facilitate the white fox teleporting into the fray.
They're so close to having rage of ultron, all that gambit ultimate which would force
heretics to take a big step backwards since they've out of alts and so does not have
another ban hammer to set things in motion.
This is giving Navi the opportunity, Crook's about to get the ultimate ultimate, heretics
come put the pressure on for the gambit, it's going to come on for a strangling
prison catch as the back line Alex falls no fate of both worlds to turn the fate
of the lunar snow and Navi will be able to stabilize their hold but crucially
they do give up two ticks of point percentage. Could have been heretics
actually taking the point in pretty good time there if it wasn't for some
well-played and well-placed ultimates just me knows that he needs to put this
focus in on these players trying to reset and regroup with the back line
of heretics has managed to traverse the other side of this castle corridor what's
different about this POV it's a bit more of a clearer sky doesn't have too much
pressure on him and all of his teammates are lined up in a fantastic way oh it's
just gonna bring out the it's jeff see if there's anybody that can be spit off
the map and fake the both worlds and then something for now needs a heretics
of dedicated field at this point yeah the jeff is much to get a few more he's
got the speed boost as well siren hour as Navi you're gonna be sent back
to the second checkpoint as things move on.
Oasis just gets an all-you-can-eat buffet.
As Navi have very little that can actually stop the Jeff, there's no one-shot potential.
Likewise, there's no Mag or Hulk to be able to bubble it.
The thing you're relying on is like the Groot to be able to wall you above the reach of it,
but Oasis comes on for the clutch, terror with the last hand, lands on to Beetle.
It's Navi putting the full focus on taking him down.
Spectral Surge as well to make sure that the cap does not get the opportunity to
to use the ultimate freedom charge and recover.
And that means that Heretics,
they've lost all of that map space
that initially they've been able to secure.
Yeah, Terra showing that it's not just these hit scan
characters, way connects onto them nicely.
It's the Wolverine alongside.
He is the projectile that he's firing right that way.
And Beta gets caught out trying to sort of posture
for a bit of that higher ground,
gets caught out by the Feral Loop.
And then the ultimate,
and he's just cc'd into oblivion,
has the freedom charge,
but Heretics already sort of stuck
their own attackers spawn. It's difficult but there's already these like lifts of the high ground
that heretics are trying to use. Shaggle Prison's going to bring them back down or at least attempt to
as Tanuki is brought out to let the devil out. You've also got the freighter chatters going to
allow a little bit more space to be created. There's this speed boost up charge for everybody
else on heretics. It's going to be pretty handy to keep this payload trucking along
up the high ground. Oh great use of the righteous cross coming on through from Tanuki
on the daredevil that lunge capacity of movement gets them close enough to grab the jet bubbles
for the heal as well as that speed boost and does not go down and so has a band hammer might go down
to the top so that jerky just disappears in a puff of smoke i frame your way out of that one
as fate comes on for the kumeha one least trying to stabilize navi's position once heretics are
out of ultimate they don't really have anything left is the galactic legend maybe in its jet
but that's allowing Na'Vi a no-but chance at stabilizing that team and potentially finding
an opportunity to use the strange ult.
The fight is scary, well Na'Vi gets stung by that, he's immediately stopped so that's
two galactic legends that are just a no-too-short.
Na'Vi hold on with this defense and it was a fantastic interrupt, but it is available
for this next fight so long as Na'Vi can build it up, but it's more time-stalled.
Oh, Terror is an absolute monster on the Wolverine.
truly is one of if not the best in the world at this character and like you
said you'll have galactic legend pretty quickly back up but for Navi they've got
the gambit ultimate in this fight even if heretics go for this map let trying to
avoid the poke get on to the objective itself and just put the pressure to
force Navi to turn their attention away you've still got your gambit all you
can stand up to the damage potential after let the devil hide and basically
say okay time to pack it in. Leo goes down first again it makes sense he's
trying to be the one that's pushing heretics into these fights and he just gets pulled out of position
by all of the CC available. Watching fate also sort of swing these claws around is almost making
Wolverine blush as Croc has led the fight nicely with the Royal Flush. It's not going to be available
for heretics to use on their side. They have good ultimates but none are going to hit as hard
as that one. I mean if Navi hold close as well they could potentially force heretics to use
early, who's been able to scour the eye that Oasis is so far behind, both of the bubbles get burned,
Oasis goes down, might potentially have been wanting to meet the team from the past, Galactic
Legend from the Star Lord, manages to catch onto Jeriki, Alex 2 stabilizing the team,
but Na'Vi, they've been able to keep their players up the last time from Terra, connects
onto Alex, once he's out of the CC immunity, put on mute once fate of both worlds ends,
and Navi are putting Team Heretics on pause at the moment. 40 seconds left, this objective has barely moved in 4 fights!
He's not shuffled at all, he's got a freedom charge, that's going to be about it for this next 30 seconds.
Maybe Tanuki can get a Let the Devil out in order to go for this fight, but you have to look at Jerky that's going to try and run it back with the Galactic Legend.
Rijaro also, Ayabagamotos, they have been hitting pretty nicely if he can go in for the fight at the right point.
The beetle there he goes trying to go in seeing the targets that he wants to focus and he goes on to the back line
You've got the portal that was used to teleport the eye bag and what's going to come in from resharp
Not getting too much as beetle is just absolutely hammering this back line ticks up terraphry's troubles at the same time
payload is moving in so finds two and now
Manabra is very close to being available portal is a very close turnaround, but it might be enough to touch all flight
So this is now a scary part for Navi
They kind of stuck in the open which means the heretics are going to cut through them and reset them no doubt
Yeah, but I mean if heretics try to just take the six versus six now
They do have the gamma ultimate at their disposal looks like they're just going to back up give space
But like you said this is getting really risky now because they've lost all that distance in heretics one minute left
They're going to just like try to push forward like you said someone stalling trust me eventually falls
But that's still eating into the distance that heretics would otherwise be able to establish and heretics
They don't have a strategist thought, like Oasis has to be the clutch factor in this fight.
You've got the edge, Jeff, but you have to contend with the burst potential of both the Gamba and the Star Lord.
There he goes down a well placed dive coming in for him from Tanuki,
utilizing the dead of a positive to just drink maybe out before they can regroup.
Enzel of the Banhama takes down the Star Lord mid-all.
You don't miss, but the amount of damage that that tick does in the advanced state is more than enough to take the Star Lord down.
The Galactic Legends have fallen very little with your buff teams because the counters are so good in the end.
Enzo's superb one that shut that down before it's even started but it's gonna come out on the other side.
Naga is gonna go in for the fight with the Galactic Legends and the Royal Flush is used on the other side.
Morza's deterrent to try and fight this back.
Terra wants to be the answer to it and goes into the front line of Enzo.
Cast through one vanguard, looking to try and cast through the other one.
on his fate of both worlds now alongside the devil out.
It's going to be that this is just AOE, so AOE is he dead?
Like, it's fate just fighting.
There, they were speaking like, what's
happened to the vermin of New York?
There's a giant fox in my face that's clawing at me.
Trust me, now he's also bringing out the heartbreaker.
All of these areas of effects stacked from top of each
of us over time is hitting at the end of Central Park.
Fate is clawed in off the back of this last amphiterra.
Everybody's picking up into the corner,
and it's the white fox that's struck them down.
pushing heretics all the way back down these steps. It's now a case of trying to get this
Captain America off of the objective. They do so, and Navi's defence holds up before the
map is finished.
Okay, at what point do we think it becomes justifiable to ban out the Wolverine? That's
probably what Enzo is asking his team right now, because Terra has been on an absolute
tear. Two stunned out in that overturned fight with the last stand into the follow-up
on through from fate's spectral surge. But for team heretics, like it was looking like
potentially it could be a full hold. Then it was looking like it could be a hold on second.
So the fact that they were able to push it as far as they did for referred means that
this map is still very much winnable. Oh, very much so. I mean, it makes sense
that Tara is playing like a rabid animal when trust me, he's locked him up in his
attic for however long. So at least that kind of performance is starting to show.
But it's a testament how good of a duelist he is that he forgets that he's just
an amazing hit-scan player, but he is also very good on playing these kind of characters.
And it is funny after you have Enzo calling Frostmout and the Chikagami Wolverine merchants,
and now he goes, you know, we're about to do the funniest thing.
I mean, yeah, like, Terra was one of the OG big bad Wolverines that people, like,
were so worried about. In fact, back in 2025, like, I used to dream of getting to see a
Wolverine matchup between Tanuki and Terra. It's not quite the Wolverine versus Wolverine
mirror this round, but that was Tanuki's going to be starting off in the Daredevil, which I think
in the long run is going to be much more important for Heretics to understand where exactly Navi's
players will be coming from, especially since Beatles is going to be holding up close to Daredevil's
boss. It doesn't quite reach all the way to spawn, so they wanted to scout out to see if
there was a strange TP employed first. We were thinking after the ultimate charge,
I can have said this game would be a little bit slower,
but this has been absolute white knuckle rollercoasters
with Cardi Spice.
Oh my God, I mean, look at this.
Just trust me, that it's just taking a fight
in the streets of New York, heads to head,
able to at least trade out a couple of picks,
but Vera back is leaning it.
Taniki is back into the engagement, straight away.
It's just literally got back here
and he's immediately throwing hands with Rogue,
right into square interface.
Trust me, this is a brutal engagement.
He's got his strategist keeping him alive.
Lord knows how.
Now Perra is the one that's going to go in and swing in. Full ferocity.
Now trying to decide on what target is going to hit it. Enzo has found his target though,
as the band hammer is going to come through. Seeing if Navi have to actually give up a lot
of respect and space here as they get the pick up to Jerky. There's a lot of like photo finishes
here from Enzo. As it pretty much is going to be the Daily Bugle finding out what the hell
is going on here on Central Park. I mean if your team harritics though you're looking
at this next fight and looking at how exactly do you try to live it since Cross coming
for with one-sided gambit ult, Alex already has the VRB broken to bring the Starwood back
early, which is the worst possible way to start this next fight.
Oasis with the HGF, if he can get the E onto the gambit, potentially have it for Faith's
ultimate on the second stage, this could be absolutely huge.
There's the HGF coming on through, Faith utilizing the Kume home form, probably just gave
someone CC immunity to be able to dodge out of it, and yet Faith will be able
to continue having that ultimate up the whole duration of it.
Oasis tries to swap to the strange TP.
Because Team Heretics like they've got all the stuff.
But all he gets the portal through,
the body block from Betel means that Terra is not able to get on top of the strange
and take him down.
Cosmic Yarn Amplifier boosts up the damage potential of that galactic legend.
It tries to make her play.
Trust me, looks for the stun out up into the sky,
but enough got through that Team Heretics are able to pull off the stabilise and hold the point.
Wait, what's Turkey doing?
He's in the back line, he's fighting his own demons here, but he's actually taking out a bit of an overstep.
We thought that this was done like not for showing back up into server, there's a figure, wait, what is that that we hear in the background?
He was fighting the back line.
I think like for Navi here, it was a really good like risk to take if you knock out the strategist coming through from Heretics.
Because not a lot of you actually went down and you have Freedom Charge Heartbreaker, you can just play for a very fast fight
in this next engagement when heretics don't have their backline back, which is exactly what they're doing.
Except this time, Rijara has to go much deeper into Team Heretics' fight, with the Freedom Charge, just push the rocket off position.
Huge last hand comes on through from Terra though, and that should be enough to be able to close out this tick.
I mean, it's great work. Like, it was just a weird, I think, like, the respite and timing,
and then here in the Galactic Legends streamed from the second point, but Jeriki was spending
so much time there. He was the one that had you pushed to put a hold on my people need
me and went to go fight the stranger that was going for the pot along the defense. Heretics
are going to be like, okay, get your breath. We need to really pace ourselves in the
festive seven, but it's also a case of like, we've got a good amount of time on that
defense, more so than we will probably earn because now they had such a strong
attacking side. Now, Heretics want to go in for a very fast offense on this defense.
Hera might be pulling ends or out of possession here, but there's enough healing coming in from Oasis and Alex and Zoe's going to try and survive.
Beethel, however, doesn't get the low, he doesn't get the focus.
The effect means that Beethel is going to be in this again soon.
And fate, with the melee sort of focus, able to go in for that flight, but as soon as the duration's done, he's tp'd straight out of there.
That got real close, but level one quick.
Should mean that this next fight is not close at all.
One-sided gamble.
Jirki is taken down thanks to some help coming on through from the ban hammer though
and heretics have actually been able to hold their position level one crook gets dealt with
there was no galactic legend to take advantage of the gambit ultimate and heretics live it and
now gets actually close up to navi's spawn no heartbreaker no galactic legend to try to
deter them tanuki on that dead devil's gonna be able to relay the rotation coming on through
from Na'Vi's team, so they can just split them apart and catch them.
rogue to just be an absolute pest to deal with almost like an Angela with how much he's been in the sky.
Well, fate has the kumeho unleashed, Oasis probably going to be holding dates,
you have to absorb all of that pressure. Cherokee with the galactic legend could well
kick-start heretics into having to utilize some of the sustainability, but they get the first
pick, Rajara has fallen, Mars, Vandals from Terra, all three lined up, Beato tries to come
up for the Freedom Trotters, buying storm opportunities for heretics, Faro, Grapper,
but the Captain America will still be able to survive.
As Heretics have four ultimates coming into this next engagement,
they might see them all grabbed away though.
If they even get the opportunity to touch,
Kirk's got the ult set set off instantly.
Sean comes on fur from fate as well as Heretic.
Usually, in the Cosmic Unamplifier, they get broken early.
Isn't that to be able to boost up the damage coming on fur
from the Let the Devil out?
Rajaar appeals the team.
They come on fur with the cast of the Fox Ultimate.
Oasis is still holding the edge, Jack, which trust me is going to now start to put pressure
onto with the heartbreaker fully in play.
Heretic still having players up, Snooki brought back with the BRB, but what's the next term
for them?
They've lost the gap, Oasis got tapped by the heartbreaker, did not have the ult ready
to bail the team out, and Navi tap enough players onto the payload.
We go into third with two ministers back.
You've also got terrorist building up at such a alarming rate. It's like last stand
The Navi it was a royal flush into the cameo into the heartbreaker
Anymore visual effects. Yes, please as heretics now wanting to try to be a bit more aggressive take this branch on the high ground
There's a way to set up knowing that Navi are gonna be pretty low on the ultimate charge
They have an advantage here potentially
Maybe a chance, but to do catch it's going off the back right on the book
gets him and Jeriki before he's pulled down to the ground from Terra able to
disengage, working for a fight onto Trust me that's now playing in the corridor
he's trying to reset with the rest of his team and heretics hold on build up
some good ultimates in that time that now they have the silch.
Oh, Jeriki's actually going to swap onto that silock here, which means pulling a lot more
attention into all of these different avenues of approach so that the
heretics can't just guard the one main lane, apply the pressure and have
the jeff uncontested alongside that rocket play out of the way of navi's danger great though
far ball coming on out from ends of with that unicorn shield coming up line of sight onto terror
who's been so problematic for heretics to deal with that's probably actually going to close out
this fight navi just want to utilize the tail end of it to build up ultimate economy well
actually going to use the banhama too like they're building up so much old charge that they're
going to have plenty to work with terror last time he's going to be back into the fight
fight fell in soon with Jerky with that switch over to Salam. It's going to have a dance of
Bop Flies belly soon. But this fight is done. It feels like Navi sort of overstayed with
how much they were sort of in limbo on that fight and there's not much time to work with.
20 seconds, you might have to go for a portal play but I don't think you're going to have
that luxury. In fact it's going to be close distance enough to just try and leap in,
but Sunuki's getting all of this information. He knows exactly how he wants to try
and take this final fight.
Well, this fight's going to happen and it will be fast. Here comes the Raging
Roflush coming on through from Crook, Heretics, they try and just kite this out, wait it to
be done since Navi still have a distance to be able to push this, yet no fighting, no
eliminations, just base presence on the objective so they lose a little bit of distance, terror
with a huge grab off onto Enzo, resets the ban hammer charge, now it turns his attention
on to the rest of the soul potential coming on through from Heretics, but Navi, they're
down that engagement trump card. They don't have the Ganba ult to engage off onto. Oasis
comes on through with the AIDS. Jeff's son was caught to get on point to contest this,
though Alex with the Cosmic can amplify galactic legend. Kumeho at least comes on through from
fate, but you've already lost the one for your Ganba, as well as your White Fox ultimate.
Jerky wasn't vulnerable inside the dance of the butterflies, trust me with a late
half raker, but Beetle's still able to react in time. Manchester get the Freedom
charge coming on through and team heretics still have a presence on the
cart it's just dealing with some of these late-minute picks coming on through
Kirk's walked over to the doctor's range trying to cast the portal in time
Navi's players they've lost so many of them but it's just in time
Kirk's able to get through that life's fate to teleport now you're looking at
Jirgi coming on out but no one is on the point and heretics complete the
hold! 3 meters difference but heretics just digging out from a map that
they've not worn on they decide that this is the pick to bring it back and it does exactly that now they at least forced a loss of a map
against team heretics
That means that their choice is coming up the map pull reset again
Domination convoy or convergence. They all have a good go at it and to new key really making the daredevil work nicely
It was just overall a good performance from heretics, but good God moxie. That was a blessing to cast me just how
brutal it was. It was so like roly, there were so many fights just like popping off
at such weird timing too where both of these teams were just not allowing the
other to get comfortable forcing at ultimate so that when you went into the
next one they were in a rougher position like speaking of team heretics in
such a good job like ends up being able to come through with that ban
hammer very very like late when they're still trying to hold the choke
against Navi, puts it on two level one crook so that all of that poke pressure
that Navi are taking when they're trying to kite out without losing players, it
doesn't actually get funneled into holding the raging world flush and Navi
don't have it up and available before heretics are established in a position
to be able to kite out of it, holding on to Cosmic Yon Amplifier Galactic Legend
to overcome the heal potential of the Kumihou Unleashed because that, that
only gives you the healing to players who are actually in the AoE.
Stalin was outside of it!
There's so much more to come in as best as seven!
Stay tuned after this!
Watch out, they're hitting our way!
Don't mess with the amazing Spider-Man!
This is the first time I've ever seen this kind of thing happen.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm not used to it.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm not used to it.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm not used to it.
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It's not over yet, heretics bring us to a map number 4 without being on matchpoint as
they're able to seize Central Park with the help of New York's own Daredevil.
But they are now heading to Spice as they have to deal with the Museum of Contemplation,
Ryan.
Oh, I love just random Tim Curry shout outs, you know.
But yeah, I think also 38K damage, the daredevil difference to Nuki is a heck of a performance.
But this is like a good map to see because heretics sort of forced onto it.
Now, if you've picked this, they've won it four times, lost it once to fire strays,
but they kind of bounce back from that fairly quickly.
But this has also been a good map for heretics, three and zero actually.
So this is one of those areas that like the pace that heretics have been playing
that and how they play at pace on museum means that this is going to be some of the like fastest off the wall.
Marvel rivals are going to say today. No doubt.
And we love to see that when we've got players like terror on that Wolverine like to nuke you sometimes on that day devil.
And those we're playing a lot of that day on that dead full boxy. This is going to be delightfully violent.
Yeah. And I mean, not be probably wanting to take team heretics here because the first time that they matched up,
It was it was like a really good like showing on the side of Navi being able to just walk through a lot of teams on museum of
Contemplation having things like that venom although they haven't really been playing a lot of that venom the dive from the seam
That has mostly been coming on through from trust me on this rope
Who's looking with the amount of mobility that he's playing her with like it is a venom just like go in go out
I've got my team up with my gambit, I've got my team behind me to be able to keep me
stabilised.
I think like honestly, leading a little bit later on into the series, if heretics are going
to continue taking out the Elsa as opposed to the gambit, you're really going to have
to start looking at what exactly that gambit is doing, not just for the ultimate economy,
but also for things like that rogue in neutral, where if trust me he's getting a hold of
people, the rest of Navi have enough damage to be able to follow up and find the pick.
It's the joy of this season, Ryan. It's not just what's good, it's just what enables
what. While that Gambit is one of the best characters, this season has made a rogue
believer out of all of us in no small part due to the fact that we have so many amazing players.
Oh for sure, and it's just if you can enable some vanguards to just do outrageous
amounts of damage, whether it's the strange with the invisible woman combination, whether
it's Rogue with Gambit, you're gonna do it. And I think it's, we're seeing a lot of like
heartbreaker tied in with the cameo, ultimates from White Fox, same with like let the devil
out, just if it's an AoE ultimate, stack them on top of each other and just make it
miserable for anybody that's trying to fight in the middle of it. It's really good,
straightforward ideas for Naby to be working with, the heretics, they certainly have
the gusto to be able to go in and brawl through these despite being down and
number or two. It makes for some, like, exciting stuff to watch, but museum they're gonna be like,
okay, we can deal with this as a map. It's been decent for us. It's just that now we have been
liked out on this in Sapphire Stray Souls. They've been looking pretty solid, and they're going to
be starting on attack boxy. Give us the quick breakdown. We've mentioned it before as to why
teams often take attack over defense. Yeah, I mean, if you're going for the attack,
you can just, like, see the composition that the defense is on. Go back to the drawing
board without losing a fight and pick a composition that perfectly counters it, as opposed to the
defence one. It's like no coincidence that all of these teams on their convoy defences a lot of
the time, the comp that they play on first, they swap off to you when we go into second and third,
because they're coming into this understanding it's great if we get a full hold, if for the
most part this is all about stalling time, draining out your resources and ultimate economy,
so that when we go into the rest of the map it is later on down the line that you're
are impacted and you've run out of time.
We're just waiting for Heretics to get back in.
They have one guy who has taken a well-deserved bathroom break.
I think that's very fair.
We try to have very quick turn around here,
so don't blame them for having to run very quickly
to get that sorted.
But we will be jumping into that as soon as possible.
So, right, we're four, we're three games in now.
We've seen the adaptations of Badagab, the Elsa.
really just committed to removing that away from Terra at some at this point, but team heretics
were onto a convoy map. They're going to be looking for something a little bit more defensively
first as they're going to be forced onto that defense. What would you like to see?
Ooh, I mean probably mobile Wolverine. It's not a bad map for them at all. And it's just going
to be Terra looking to sub isolate these targets. The more impressive thing is not only just the
damage that he's doing or how ferocious he looks on Wolverine, it's that he is synergizing
very well with his new team of Na'Vi right it seems that they're sort of following the calls
the dives are in good positions and really it's more the case of like they adjusted pretty decent
mates to the fact that the team heretics like changed up the draft a significant amount right
we're looking at like characters like which was it like Deadpool, Vanguard, Daredevil band out
towards the end Vanguard, Deadpool would be really good here if you can also get your hands on
it with the damage that he's able to do but it has just been taken out like trust me he's
he's not being able to work with it, but he's happy to work with the road. It's like a good result,
I think, when you have these Vanguard lines are very flexible, it can change at a moment's notice.
And Moxie, I've flipped the question on the other side for you. Start with Heretic, start with
Defense. What would you like to see coming out from them? I think, like, to be honest,
for the side of Heretic, you sort of have to understand that Navi aren't really playing
the way that they have been previously. We've always said that this is a very experimental
team, if you're banning I bet Van Gogh Deadpool, like Ryan says, it does force trust me onto
things like the Rogue, which pairs really, really well with the Gambit. Plus, fate! Very
little Jeff gameplay actually coming through from him in total, even if the Van Gogh Deadpool
was in play. Much more White Fox, which means that when we see the way that heretics
have to apply this defense, they have to be very cautious that they don't overextend
overstaying your welcome with people wanting basically on the Captain America or the
venom to on convoy go into the back line or hit the objective itself while the rest of the team
chorus fighting on that front line very quickly can get caught out by things like the cc from
something like the white fox which it has been looking so good on looks like we have already
up from heretics we'll be heading into the game very shortly but moxibro that brings up a good
point here right the white fox has been looking really good and we honestly have seen it was
very close to a full 1v1 between two of the like originating Jeff players in the form of Tanuki,
who used to be playing like Jeff, back when Damage Jeff was a thing, and the fate being one of the
first players to bring Sim Vertex and Anagans into pro play, we've got two of the Jeff innovators
coming in here, being forced to 1v1 each other in the background. So what Tetscha is saying as
we get into this next map is to New Key Jeff, question mark? I mean I was gonna hope that
we could like switch into game and just take it fully out of context before we can answer
that question. I think it is more of the case of like how good the white fox looks and looks
at when it is involved in these like brawling competitions. The problem however, the weakness
is you have that duration of that melee mode where you can claw your way into somebody's
fight. Once that drops, you are very susceptible. So there's no surprise that we have
seen fate just teleport out. Every time that some presence runs out.
Yeah, well, it will be a continuation of the Elsa bloodstone as it's not going to be Tanuki
teasing us with the job at the moment. It's Rajara, but that that will go away. This is
tournament server. All of our players have champion portraits looking very pretty as a
Vanguard Deadpool continues to be this thing that team heretics have under scrutiny
once again forcing navi to have to go for something like the rogue alongside this gambit pairing as
heretics will be able to secure themselves the one-sided vanguard deadpool for enzo.
Yeah it's a bit of what navi was trying to do a little bit early on in Grissel's path and it made
a pretty big difference in the end so the changeup is going to be like the gambit is going to be
one sided mantis has been banned out are you going to try and make it one sided gambit
here or are you going to potentially hover over the Jeff here which means that like Oasis is oh no
the character that I've been almost exclusively on is banned out. Yeah I mean this is actually a
really good shout coming on through from the side of Navi. Oasis as Jeff has been very detrimental
for a lot of teams plus being able to secure that Vanguard Deadpool means that you get the
team up with the Jeff as well but it does take us now back to that coin flip so Navi the last
time that this happened they banned out the rogue to make it a little bit easier for their gambit to
find more value do they return to that form they're thinking about it they just have to lock it through
they're thinking about the Angela too but they go for the star lord instead okay so we're still
looking at something like that the gambit will be able to put more power behind except instead
of going after something that has the team up we're going to go for something that has a really
good alt combo with it. It's whether or not like if heretics want to run a triple strategist like
this dialogue as a solo drilist would be really nice for them so it sort of takes out that option.
It isn't going to be a one-sided invisible woman it is just more navi protecting it for themselves
to give something to work alongside because the backlines have been hit relatively hard
from navi onto heretics but heretics have gone for everything other than strategists to
ban out with a Deadpool Vanguard Daredevil in the Elsa. The final ban is it going to be a strategist?
No, it's going to be the Captain America ban now, which means that Rajaro's not going to have access
to the cap. Yeah, still life potential also goes down if you want to be able to play something
like that. I was thinking maybe they could think about going for a rogue ban, since trust me was
being pushed off of both Vanguard Daredevil as well as Rogue in that instance, but then you
you have things like the Groot open and also Navi have the Mantis, so you don't really want
to force them down that Vanguard line because it will just sort of empower them a little
bit more. As Navi will be starting off on the attack, Heretic's the defense, they'll
get the one side of Cap on the side of Beto and he's a player who's been very much known
for being able to play the Cap from America back in 2025, but I really want to look
at Tanuki getting to play the Rogue as well. Heretic's going for a triple Vanguard
outlook with potentially a solo Wolverine toolist really wanting to put the pressure on Navi
in terms of frontline Storlite.
Nagar being on the Wolverine instead actually, we start to need to find a little bit of it.
I think it was on Domination earlier against Shikigami in Hell's Heaven.
So we have seen it like today and it makes sense he's like very melee centric in the
dualist characters in plays.
To look you can certainly make that work.
Nagar on the Wolverine is probably an interesting aspect of it but it is like
invisible woman and gambit in the back lines doing the strongest strategies and
Beal immediately just sees Navi almost fairly leaped out of the scorned doors
they switch over to the white fox already expecting more of this scrappy gameplay
yeah I mean that charm is going to be brutal too since it's in a straight line
it catches multiple players that's something that Waces wants to capitalize
on with the inverse but they will be able to capitalize on it too so what we
have is a race between who can get these strategies ultimate online and
Enzo will beat them all too with though. He's already 85% to the ban hammer, we'll probably
actually have it up by the time I finish this sentence and slam it down almost instantly
when Navi decides to try and make inroads around this corner. As heretics provide that
daredevil they have to scout physically out where the solid wraparound could be.
I guess taking a good amount of damage from these sightlines has to dash out in order
to go in. But Enzo there's the leaf in, Ferroleep maybe going to follow with
Naga trying to find the right targets but he's just slashing right into the shield of Dr.
String.
Bynes Terran pulls him out of position over Jaro able to get a big hit on with the maelstrom
and charges for number one in pretty decent time.
Betel, it's a second elimination against him and Team Heretic's defense is starting to
whittle down.
Navi held on pretty well in the end of the visible boundary and both sides means
that Navi are able to hold their ground and Heretic's players down trying to make
something of this.
lose Alex as a heartbreak is going to be used from Tanuki and Oasis looking to try to scuttle out
after the end of the invisible boundary. Everybody else from Heritage is going to drop,
Beatles is going to go and reset seeing that Navi is starting to move up.
Yeah, Heritage can go for first turn here. The problem for them is if they use Alex's
ult as an opener, Rajarro gets to use the Eye of Agamotto. Yeah, they're scouting out,
they're trying to look out where exactly this invisible woman could potentially be. But
but honestly, Kup and I on Rajarro.
Navi have this gambit alt mirror too.
There's the raging world flush.
Rajarro with the eye of Agamotto.
No, she doesn't have to worry about the purify,
which is why they're putting so much pressure
on this range with the Wolverine getting that feral grab.
It's going to be equalizer from level one,
Krog jerking with a late dance of the butterflies
when Team Erotic's players are a little bit too split,
which means that the eliminations will come on through.
Peter with the freedom charge gets stunned
into position by the Wolverine with that last stand.
And this is Navi working that way for Heretic's players.
No strange portal, no contest.
First checkpoint picked up.
Able to move on forward.
Heads up, play from Jerky with the dance
to both plays to find two.
And Heretic's a little bit more scrambly in their approach.
Losing Vile a couple of times
and then just having to go for that final hold
on the first checkpoint.
To build up these ultimates now,
Stannukia switched over towards the Daredevil.
One side of this Navi,
not going to have that available, so they're more than likely staying over on this Wolverine.
Hmm, good swap too, means that you'll be able to have the passive radar sense, working out
where trust me is, relying that to your backline so they're not in a position to get jumped
on, and you can set up a very fast dive hit onto Navi's team to take away all this momentum.
Siloq in the backline does get taken down, but you've already done your job right,
you've already stopped all of the momentum coming on through from Navi, you've given
a wasted opportunity too, to build up to this invisible boundary.
When Navi uses Heartbreaker, it's not a one-sided fight, but Wacis gets the opportunity to use
the ult and heretics hold by ground.
I'm a little bit worried though because you have got the sidebagger motor in hands for
a shower, oh it's been in hands for quite some time so, it's going to be aware of it.
You've got to have a use from Enzo and Wacis has cleaved his way to two picks.
Nicely done, as the Heartbreaker from Trusby is going to find very little, that invisible
boundary didn't even need to be used.
That's huge.
Now you have it, so be able to try and match up with Navi's next turn.
Fate will have the kumeho one least. You have to worry about dance of the butterflies though on the side of Navi
Since if you don't match actually like brawl onto these players taking damage
You can't actually get those heals off to self-sustain the white foxes form and siloq
You don't actually get to damage her in her ultimate
So everyone from Navi trying to work out where exactly this siloq could be are they stacked up enough to be able to let fate survive?
The thing is Terra is not really being the same level of Terra, I think on Central Park
but now that we're getting into these closer quarters he might be able to pull out picks.
It's now going to switch over towards the silo with the dancing butterflies, not able to
match Jerky.
It's switched over to the silo and has a collected legend very close to available.
Rujaro still holding on to an i-vagamotto, he's going to at least use the back of
the raging royal flush to find himself a couple of picks to get this payload
move in up top this little hill trying to keep an eye on where Tanuki is playing from
who's getting this information as the daredevil has to try and find a way to dive in as it's
getting very close to second.
I mean invisible bandage is there for Oasis, but now they have two laces to punish it.
They'll use Galactic Legend to force out the Freedom Charger Oasis, which is all the
ultimate because of the lost hand coming on through from Terra.
Rajara with the iovagamotto finds the connection onto Tanuki.
Oasis still has the alt, the heretics, I don't know if you actually have the
the confidence to go into using it. You're down, you're siloed. There's the ultimate.
Now that you have more of a vanguard anchor presence on the objective itself, that's what
Oasis was waiting for. That gives a potential stabilizer opportunity, but Navi just disengaged
it. They've got to let the devil out that they have to deal with. Everyone from Heretic's
piling past the disengaged not wanting to let Navi freely out of this because
Navi will just come back with one side of Gambit all if they do.
to be able to use it in a
fight and it's not going to be
great for the team. All these
teams holding onto ultimate to
the point that you're thinking
just get them out. Get used them,
but all of them have been time
to perfection really playing
these mind games using it late
rather than never and saving it
for the perfect rainy day and
so going down now as the push
comes through again off of the
back of this while flush seems
that this is going to be the
point of heretics are going to
run out of steam on this
defense to keep stalling this
It's not gonna be great for being able to stall up the objective as it isn't gonna count for that kind of contest
You've got the wrong foot gonna be used on the other side now as the defense is gonna swing out and Naga now coming back
Very soon with the dancing football plays is gonna be paired very nicely with it
The leap in is instantly used there goes Tara jerky fate for Charo all dropping down to the X teammate of Naga
It's only 15 seconds left. It has to be the telepoc play from trust me
You can see some of the plays wanted to push up to try to interrupt it
but they know they're not going to reach it. They're fighting on the objective. The Kameeho is
not going to be available for fate, but he's leaping in as the White Fox. Last time might be enough
to pull these defenders off of the point. Invisible bandages there for Oasis. Ends are
comes on for an early ban. Hannah Oasis dodges the last hand coming for her from Tara,
but that ultimate is about to drop. Not be that they have no sustainability out of
just base healing. Freedom Charge comes on for a lay on the side of Beetle. Crooks
taking down the siloed jerky. I lost ditch effort with the galactic legend, but there's no one else home
and Heretics will be able to hold Navi off at the pass. Brilliant decision-making coming from the team.
Like we said, Oasis had the invisible boundary. You're probably going like,
why did he not use it? It's right there, but if he does, then it's just lost stand or Ayuva Gomoto
taking him down, dropping the boundary early and allowing Navi more ultimates to be able to
push the fight, push that checkpoint before heretics can regroup. Using Beatles Freedom
Charge is absolutely the right call and it allows heretics to stabilize that invisible boundary
from Oasis, stay standing, they get to regroup, they get to push onto Navi before they get the
opportunity to come through with that gambit ultimate to set the wheels in motion and
offer the back of how close their respawns are. Funnel players back into the fights
to be able to complete the hold.
I really like some of the more
like aggressive ultimates that
we saw a jerky over on the
silo. And just like you said,
just how these things are playing
around their royal flush. Alex
brings out in perfect time. And
it's also like with a way system
because for that invisible
boundary way doesn't have those
vanguards in front of them. He
just gets shut down. He gets
eliminated and that invisible
boundary drops. He needed his
little bodyguards of end
zone be able to be back in
that fight, and it provided just
the amount of space. But it's
the amount of space, but it's the fact that we went from this blistering pace, just taking
chunks out of each other's central park, to this where it is a lot more measured when it
comes to their ultimates. They're still taking chunks out of each other, but the ultimates
have much better plays from both sides.
Yeah, it's like brawl tempo. Honestly, the invisible woman just like brings this brawl
that you can do where everyone stacks on up and you have six players in main, just
beefing it out. We've got the captain America though, coming up from the side
of Beetle, trying to split the attention since Navi are already going to be starting
off with that white fox, Terra in charge of making sure that they don't give up too much
space on corner, also catches the cap late, notice that there's still one person behind,
so it has to go clear their might too.
might be able to actually find Beetle overextended a little bit on this attacking side as Enzo
wants to try and go in off of the band hammer. His front line is taking a lot of hits and
Terra is just going to use it to free farm up these ultimates and they have to keep
an eye on where Tanuki is as whilst these battles are going forwards and backwards
it provided a little bit of a pocket of window for Tanuki to go for a fight. Doesn't
get much but Terra pretty almost close to having Galactic Legend.
Yeah, Beetle is getting a lot of space but not a lot of heals for the backline
since the Captain Merkur is out of line of sight and a lot of these engagements, especially
with Rajar just holding the front line with the shield blocking off the line of sight.
So, Jerky will have the invisible boundary, a Wastus at the same time just manages to
get the equalised. We've got the Dance of the Butterflies the moment that it drops
if they actually need it, because they're still getting the eliminations once the
boundary has fallen. Second cast means that you have latest sustainability and
Navi turn their attention of just dropping on the point to stall it out for as
long as possible. We're about to have an absolute alt-dump fight coming on through. The heretics,
they have to be hyper-aware. In the game of Rock Paper Scissors, Royal Flush plus Galactic
Legend beats Royal Flush alone.
The portal play is going to be the approach, the leap in is going to be the rogue is
first out to go through this fight and there it is, the Galactic Legend starting through
the skies. We've got the silo on the ground from Naga going in with the dance. The
The butterfly is a beetle, going in for this fight, finds himself two, both of the strategists go down, and now you've got the eye of Agamon, the heartbreak accommodation, it hits onto free with the stun, ends up narrowly surviving, only a certain amount, it's to freedom charge for beetle, it does so much to keep both the players alive.
However is going to go down into the fray and to built up the band hammer and terror trying to leap around to see if
He could sort of put the spawns a little bit his heretics now
Trying to ocean this across the point you've got Camille
There's gonna be used to try and stall this out, but terror goes down on the re-aggress
It's still somehow fate able to survive but here McGrook and not too long for this world
Watching it from to dookies perspective
He's about to leap in and clear up any last offenders from now be as it is clearly going to be an inevitability
ability, as heretics move their way onto the second.
This is spicy for Navi because snowball potential is fully at heretics disposal. Closer to
the gambit all, closer to invisible boundary. Van Hemmer to be able to start off this fight.
Tanuki on the dead level to scout out if Navi try to go for an early aggressive push
and deplete prime from heretics' space. We've got a little bit of a brawl stack
up coming on for us. I think they all understand we have to get Jirki's invisible
boundary up online as quickly as possible, but Banhammer from Enzo's just making it that
much more difficult and right at the moment, no one from Nagi's actually on the objective.
The whole time that this fight happens, it's off of the point and it's slowly just moving
forward.
Oh, it's just turned into Rawl Sloth off of the objective and watching it from the
Enzo's perspective.
The controller player's hitting all of the shots he needs to.
Now there comes the leap in onto the low ground from Heritage to clear up any pesky
players as level one and crook, and fate above going down a quick succession from each other.
Married in sort of life and going down means that they can reset their ultimates fairly close
to being available too. It has to be a big ultimate from Turkey, I think to keep this fight going.
Trust me, very quickly closing up this distance in this fight. Naga though, he has got the
dance of the butterflies. You also have this royal flush. The visual boundary used aggressively
from Oasis trying to take this fight earlier. Ibagamoto doesn't catch up to anything
from a shadow. He might beat his just desserts in the end is like the devil out and the dance of the
butterfly is going to be used. This stall now be a running out of options to be able to hold this
since the players are dropping down one by one. They do lose naga however. Beato's just holding
on to this freedom charge in case they need it. They need a little bit more sustenance to try
and push this towards the end of the map. Fate though. Camijo is going to stall this out
a little bit more. There's the freedom charge to try and match it. Terra could be big though
coming back with the last stand. That's pretty much all that's going to be available from Navi.
When it comes to these ultimates, they need to find the eliminations, but it's scarce in the top
right hand side of your screen. There's the band hammer, the leaping is going to come through,
it stones onto frame, catches onto beetle. It's the last stand providing something for Navi. It
might be a disengage where you've got Enzo that's in the thick of it. Nobody else from
Heretics is nearby and somehow somewhere Navi have held on Moxi. That's enough. The
last hand coming on fur from terror the sustainability as well from fate and
level one crook and just base neutral crook being so hard the heretics to be
able to get on top of just playing boar flush does not require line of sight so
he can play behind the wall of third and give it all to his whole team
heretics now one minute remaining not a lot of times you have to build up the
ultimate especially with trust me having the heartbreaker early point of
contact comes on fur from Navi they do not want to let heretics take a
a clean fight, they want to burn them out of ultimate economy and time bank, so when
we get into the OT desperation play, they have very little to actually take first turn
and be able to beat the closer respawns.
Late stagger too, onto Tanuki, really bleeding through that one as Navi are going to close
up the distance, we're a character of Team Heretics are going for a strange TP and
try to counter play it.
Doesn't look like it, nobody has switched over just yet, see if Tanuki can actually
going for a flank to get some more information. Enzo is just trying to actually go for this
very aggressive in-your-face approach. Navi holding onto the bus onto this high ground.
It's just shy of the second checkpoint. If Navi when they go onto match points and heretics
see if they can scramble as overtime is about to hit. Watching it from Beatles, POV, trying
to go for the dash to go for a touch. Just smush anyplace from Navi that's trying
to fight. But this invisible boundary is going to help them in order to hold on here.
off the silo ultimate, head up with a dead level, more bend diagrams, extra onto the ground
as Oasis is going to provide some big, but again, no eliminations, Rajao comes in with
a stone, it goes on to enter, but he's eliminated, last time for Terra, it was the thing that
started this defense, held it on very nicely, it's going to provide some more space and
time, he goes for the pick on to Beetle, more and more players from Heretics are
dropping, everybody gets off the point, and Navi hold on with a stalwart defense
and a series tournament point.
So close, but for Heretics, a little bit too far away from that finish line.
Yet again, like Terras Wolverine has been such a difference maker
in terms of those clutch fights. Also clutch Ayavagamoto
coming on through, being able to land on to Enzo so that you stun up the Vanguard
Deadpool. You don't get the opportunity of having that additional
damage coming on through from the Banhammer as well as the sustainability
for the Deadpool to keep drawing at that fight for a little bit more. As it came down to the
wire truly, it did ruin both teams having gathered ultimate, both teams using Ganba
Ultra Force Invisible Boundary and then trying to find the elimination onto the Susan Storm
through. But Navi just able to come out by a whisker, massively thanks to the Wolverine.
It's such small margins that are separating these teams now, even though it was Navi,
kind of taking heretics apart in that uppercracket final 3-0 even with these maps that now via
winning certainly now as we get deeper into the best of 7 it's a lot closer.
Heretics do have another choice of map, it has to be away from convoys, so convergence
or domination whatever option it's going to be we're going to have to wait and
see after this battle.
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Which is scarier? Do we have level 1 crook on the gambit? Remy Lamo? Or do we in fact
have terror on the Wolverine giving us a shout a little rub back all the way to season
zero? Let's start with Boxxy to discuss!
Yeah, I mean that Wolverine is very problematic and I think if your team
heretics like you already justified a Wolverine ban previously against Frost
Mountain, there's there is reason I think for like do we want to just remove the
Wolverine because there's multiple fights now. The Terrorist pick of that
duelist has proved problematic to the point that they're losing fights. Like
it's aggressive, it's really good potential, it's just like putting pressure
on your vanguard, having to worry about the pharaoh grabs as well, but also the peel potential,
like we've talked about this, Wolverine does not have to be played for first turn,
you can just like put them on your backline, understand that eventually if an attacking
team has to walk into your team, they've got to make a play. If they don't, everyone just sort
of sits there being like, well, while this happening, his time is burning down, so the defense
will be happy, and the attack will be out of one really good resource.
it looks like on its map. Well,
we are going to have a little bit
of a longer wait while the teams
get a quick break so that they
are fully recovered for it. But
we know it is the hell fire
gala. We are heading back to the
island of Krakowa. Yeah, I also
like this. This is no like shade
at Navi, but I think it was
them that asked for like just a
quick five minute break. If I'm
heretics, I'm going like we
would play nine maps about
the rivals today. Let's just
keep this train going at this
Navi's like, no, we're too tired, we've played four, it's been a very long day for us.
Just heretics are just in the minds at this point. It's a really good map for Krakowa to
potentially go to as the final map for Navi to shut this one down. But heretics, if they're able
to clumber it back, it could be things starting to break apart. It almost, it pretty much
exclusively forces it to be convergence as that final map, which is a little bit of an
area that heretics might not be as comfortable on in comparison to convoy. It still like
leaves a lot open now and certainly when we're talking about like is it worth banning out the
Wolverine? On Krakowa it's one of those hard ones where it's like it's hard to gauge because
so many options for the dualists are available. There are so many effective characters and also it
depends on point to point moxie there are some points where you've got a massive line of sight
there are some points where there's some huge choke points it very much depends where they
start doesn't it? Yeah I mean maybe moving away from the Wolverine one of the other things
it's been like a really big problem areas. It fades White Fox to be honest. Because if you
go off of the White Fox, you probably go on to something like the Jaff, but that White Fox has
been proving really, really rough. In terms of the Ultimate, it's kind of okay. You can burst
through it fairly easily, especially if you have a Wacis on the Jaff being able to complete the
E. As you've seen multiple times, using the Kumahou unleashed does still leave you susceptible
to the Earthjeriff Ultima and you do just become a larger target to go off of that map, but in the
neutral, right? It's really sort of like circumventing a lot of what heretics want to do. We saw multiple
times that on Museum of Contemplation, each along the Captain America just trying to be present in
that backline, getting massively peeled for, both by terror, but also by fate, just having that
wearable, having that CZ stun to put the pressure, even when the Captain America drops the
the shield. We've seen that play defensively, like you say, to just kind of try and counter
dual him. We've also seen it play a little bit aggressively in some of these fights. We
saw him quite a bit earlier clearing out a cosmic yard amplifier as White Fox after just
following up on his team's dive. He's a scary player to deal with right now. Oh, for sure.
I think it's just the fact that he's like ahead of the curve with these kind of characters.
Like he's been grinding it a lot. He's been just actually pulling jerky into sort
of running as this strategist duo, like you're on Lunas though, I'm on White Fox, let's go,
and he's like, yes, honey, I've been forced into this role. But it has worked out for
Jerky because he has been forced into positions like that, where he's playing the invisible
woman. He's not afraid to sort of pick up whatever characters are necessary, and even
though, like, people are going to look at the flashy duelists and stuff like Tara,
and Jerky is going to be sort of looked at as just like, not lighting up the,
like, damaged and stuff, he is a pivotal role on this squad, right? Like, he's
trying to fill in all of these gaps and allow Naby to be a little bit more clear cut with some of
these compositions that they want to run through, which makes maps like the core
intimidating for Team Heretics. It was the reason why they lost it yesterday in that
upper bracket final. We appreciate all of your patience. The players are ready, so we'll be
heading into map number five. If Naby win, they will be your pre-season champions that
Let me head into Season 1 with a lovely advantage, where as if heretics win, they still got to win two more times.
It's an uphill battle. I'd say they need to pray, but they are heretics.
In fact, they will have to choose their own John the Big and pray to Mr. Puditzer.
Chills. I like that a lot.
I wasn't taking that long to hear that, but that's actually super sick life.
Anyway, back to this.
I hope people got off plans tonight because I do think that this series has a couple more twists and turns as pre-season pretty much has.
The one thing that we are sure that isn't going to like twist and turn too much is this first ban. Elsa has not been available.
It might have been the last time that we've seen this so far in pre-season.
I imagine it's going to be more of the same and it is most.
Yeah, more of that Elsa instant ban. Now do team heretics go for the gambit? Do they go for the invisible woman?
continue going for this Vanguard dead. Well, as we've talked about, like,
Cracoa domination map very, very strong for getting that dead full ultimate online very,
very quickly before the first fight has even convinced a lot of the time. Some for that
Navi just do not want to let slip one-sided. They're going to secure it too, which means
that we're going to have an absolute arms race to be able to get the first ban hammer off.
Are we going to see this utopia where Elsa and Gambit are going to be banned out from either
side. I mean, I would I love
that sort of like what is it
going to be heretics is going
to be banning out the also
banning out the gambit. Why not
both? Yeah, both is good. Both
teams have struck on it. It
seems to be the case that of
where it's going. We are
expecting now be to ban it out
eventually, but they might be
going out for the dare
devil, which has actually been
mirror banned. Now the team
sees each other do this.
They were just on the same
wavelength. I mean, I do
think banning out the
gambit is more impactful on
the side of team heretics
here since Navi have been
the ones mostly leaning on
things like that rogue in the neutral. Navi though they're going to actually save the Jeff coming on
for us so we talked about it, we summoned it, we said it three times. Faze Jeff is going to be running
a mock potentially unless this is all a bait and he's actually going to roll out on the white fox
so that Navi get the better composition to start off the domination round to close up that
first snowball heavy fight. There's heretics now going to be seen now. Jeff thinking about
maybe banning out the Venom but no they ban out the cap instead so symbiotic shenanigans
still going to be online for Narvi if they want to be able to complete these dives.
Yeah at least one of the sort of dive here tanks is going to be in play with the Deadpool Vanguard
so Captain America isn't going to be paid alongside it. Jeff is going to be protected
both sides Oasis is sweating a little bit wants to make sure that he has access to this character
that he didn't have access to last time and then Stalard banned out at the end which
does mean that the gambit is still available for heretics. So you'd have to imagine that
Alex is going to be very keen on picking it up.
Yeah, but they won't have the Star Lord. And again, this is like a really good ban coming
on through from Na'Vi because heretics haven't really been playing the rogue all that much.
They haven't been starting off on the rogue. They've only been mirroring it when Na'Vi's
hand has forced them to be able to equalize the damage potential in that neutral. So
much more problematic would the Star Lord be with that ultimate combination, especially
you're playing for Jeff as one of your strategists because that sustainability would be pretty
much non-existent into a Galactic Legend Rating Roll Flush combination and it looks like we're
going to be potentially ending things here with starting off from Kikawa with Dive, Full Dive.
Trust me, it's on the Venom, fate's going to have the symbiotic shenanigans, Jerky is coming
for onto the Psylog, which I was not going to be sticking on the rocket, even though it
would give Tara an additional
eye time, but it looks like
Navi might be going for this
a strange teleport, trying to get
the jump literally on heretics
at the start.
There we go.
Having a bit of a choice here.
Okay, this is very much going to
be balls to the wall without
these comps are looking so deep
rest of everybody put it on
full screen. It could be the
end of heretics is running
unless they're able to pull back Krakowa.
Navi going for the portal plate to begin with,
as it's going to be Terra that's actually going to try to X-File a target,
and the eyes are on Alex.
Oh, can they catch this Gambit?
Everyone piles on fur.
You've got the symbiotic shenanigans.
You've been able to use that portal and split the team from that Gambit.
That's my forces, heretics to have to turn back and peel.
Unicorn Shield comes on out from both of these depots,
but Shurki's been able to find an isolated vanguard and takes Enzo down.
Heretics losing one of those bodies to absorb the incoming damage who all start feeling it
in terms of the amount of heal sustainability that the Stratus can battery off of.
Still, Phoenix, uncontested on the off-angle, picks up the Psylocke
and now turns your attention onto looking instead at the Venom
as Enzo dropped early, just goes back on the Doctor Strange.
It's been traded out though and the points that hasn't been taken look...
How close it is for Navi to actually touch it across the line and they do alongside the
Van Hammer means that this is going to be a rousing new eliminations going up against
Heritage. More so that they're going to try and reset as quickly as possible and not allow
the rest of Navi to build up any moral charge. Yeah, that's really problematic for Team Heritage
who now are going to be swapping Beetle over to that rogue understanding, okay, Navi are playing
dive. Thought about the rogue actually decided they're going to swap Tanuki onto the rogue.
reedal goes for the cap instead so you're so going to have dive presence you've got the
soul to be able to follow up on the best defense is a strong offense and they'll be looking at
navi's backline for a lot closer to strategist ultimates, it's not having that heal sustainability
to be able to battery from Enzo's presence means that he's massively behind on the first gamba
outcast. Brawley in nature as well, heretics now, Tanuki on the road so yeah it's going to
be a whole lot of left click in and punch in their way through if they can find an opening
but now they are playing so well for into back even with this dive. It's very reserved in how
they're looking for these engagements, but there's heretics trying to use this as a chance to push
all the way through. A leap up to the skies, Terra is going to try and dodge some of this damage,
but it has to be respected because he has the Eye of Agamotto. They don't know exactly
where he's going to drift in from, and now he's got the Royal Fush from Alex allowing a bit
more of a push. Eye of Agamotto connects on two away since he had the ultimate. He's
instantly deleted from the maelstrom and dance to the butterflies from naga has to come out but it's not
leading to any eliminations only against his team as jerky finds that final pick to keep things
sold out 80 percent reach from navi and no part will play for heretics as they used it a little bit
earlier on final fight territory only a jeff ultimate freedom charge and heartbreaker to be
able to set your way on to this point terror swapping back on the wolverine as well means
that heretics, violin gods, are going to have to be very worried about those potential grabs.
Is heretics? Won't use the strange TP, they'll use the map TP instead. Navi heard the same Q though,
they've already been able to rotate their backline away from Tanuki's presence,
no one gets hit by their heartbreaker and the rogue has to go forward into the freeze
government through from another one croak. Overtimes in play, Beatle has to come
out with this freedom charge. Oysa still has the edge, Jeff, but unfortunately you don't
you say in time to save your gambit. Jeff Heels only dance of the butterflies is about to be running
out of partners because heretics are out of players and Navi 100 to zero on cradle within a
stone's throw of locking heretics out of the series. With very little players to fight this
all falling one at a time. It's now down to one opportunity for heretics. Otherwise,
it's going to be Navi winning the pre-season of Ignite 2026, switching around things to get Enzo
over on the Hulk and Naga now actually going on the invisible woman to go more towards some of
the triple strategists I guess looking for Tanuki B Dasolo-Duelist. Alex actually takes over the
strategist Deadpool. So you forego the bandhammer coming on out from the vanguard Deadpool as
as well as that Unicorn Shield to cut line of sight but Navi are taking out these fights
in so many different positions and you just want to have a triple Stratus line to stabilise
and utilise things like that, heal, sustainability of the AOE. Oasis does have ult, Navi don't
really have anything to be able to avoid this, because we're going to get a very early
strange TP on the side of Tara yet again this is what they did previously but Enzo
should just be able to with the Hulk stack up with the rest of the team and provide
those unbreakable guards to bubble everybody as heretics portal onto point. Navi are about to portal
right on top of heretics as Jeff Oasis is about to be jumped on by six people to force the old early.
I'm in danger Oasis says as he's about to get leaped in on and it's also heretics fighting
without the gambit they switched away from it despite having access they want to go because
of the no doubt is one of their compositions they're acing the hole potentially as it's
It's led to a pick up to Terra, but it's traded out on the other side as it's Jeff and Feastly
Best both going to be used to keep this fight stalled out in the end.
Grab up, but you can already see the jerseys making sure that this Jeff can't get away too
far.
Not able to grab all that much, I don't think in the end, but now it's a Van Hammer
from Rejaro, starting off the fight the same way as last time, and five is a
pick up to Oasis.
Heretics might be losing out on this first fight again, on two points in a row
as the rest of Heretics started to drop Worldbreaker even, friend, so he's
going to switch across. The portal flight is actually going to come out early on the side
of Team Heretics and its beetle has to maybe try and go in. It's not going to be enough
time-wise now to be able to put the point.
No, they used it at the side of the right.
Oh, they did. Of course they did.
And it did force though that Lord Breaker forced fate of both waltz late in that fight too.
So now if you're Team Heretics, you do have a light at the end of the tunnel,
right? Tanuki will be able to come in front of you down to the butterflies.
have one-sided Invisible Boundary means that it's crucial that you scout out where exactly
terror is going to be, though, because that last time can pin you right out of position.
As fate will be playing absolute untouchable, Jett, all the way away from where the fight
is actually happening. That's the last time! That's the whole team! Oh my goodness! That
picks up the Invisible Woman. You get no chance of using Invisible Boundary. That's
the GG just go next.
Oh, there might not be many. GG go next. This might be it, but this fight has
gone so badly for her. I think they want to try and reset as much as they can. And
is it going to be sold out much? I imagine Navi is just going to pull his way. The freeze,
let's just see. Jerky is just poking. Yeah, somebody's behind you. Stop hitting yourself.
He goes for the portal, but he's got four players all ready to charge him off. Stores out a bit
longer. That is not a luxury that heretics have, though. Time is not on their side,
as it's going to be 60% on the board for Navi.
I mean, it's desperation placed. Tanuki's onto the Moon Knight, Ryan. The Moon Knight,
Without the Groot, like you are punishing the fact that Navi are playing very stacked up,
you'll be able to have the Hand of Contra, but yeah, goes for the Wolverine instead,
has the fastball special, might get from right into the mix, the Beetle goings down,
forest fire, Grapp coming in for it from Tara, Cherokee with the dance of the butterflies,
forces the invisible boundary off the point, Heretics will live it, but it comes at the
cost of the stratosphere that they were relying on stabilizing that position against Navi's
on the point itself. Level 1 crooks about to come in for a fight of both worlds. If we even get
an opportunity where it's needed, as Fages uses the edge to have to get the heal sustainability,
and Team Heretics have to just play the space away from the Jeffs potentially.
Oh, what an angle, Terra. He just survives on a pixel, able to actually take it away since
half of it. Alex has to go for the strike, it's dead Paul Ultima, and he's been dove on
by trust me, his whole time is looming. That wick is burning very quickly, nobody from Heretics
is touching and that is it! Navi have found themselves a win in the pre-season and heretics
this new super team has to deal with second. Oh boy, I mean Teras is going to go back into
that replay code and clip the sixth person lost stand. That is actually insane. Perfectly
positioned too to get that one player that you absolutely had to grab the invisible woman.
Since she's grabbed up she still sees he does not get the opportunity for the double
jump away, doesn't get to use the invisible boundary to heal the rest of the team who
were grabbed, absolutely huge tough coming on for it from the whole team of Na'Vi.
As we said, very very flexible, also very very strong at dive, which Team Heretics found
out.
Na'Vi who went back to back with 0-100% domination.
What an all-away for Terra to finish off his introduction to EMEA, pulling everybody off
of this objective and your backline of level one crook and fate going down in that final
fight, that final map, zero times a piece.
The Dettable Bean Band-up made a big difference there as it was sort of free-rained for that
backline.
There weren't big dove on half as much, but it's just now the couple of like stepping
that they had to make their way through in pre-season.
For once they reach playoffs outside of a map drop
against Fyre's sprays, it really has been smooth sailing.
Now they're locking the top dog amongst the EMEA crowd.
Well, it was like we basically just went back in time, right?
When Nalvia previously ran with the best team
in the region in that mid-season stage
coming on for the champions yet again,
I'm sure that's not going to be the last title, but they have the chance of getting their hands on this year as yet again, we get to see like that's so good at working out the meta at the perfect time, especially when new heroes come into the mix, fate with the white fox.
Jeff, last year, this team always are the innovators of Marvel Rivals.
to make a new strategist.
Absolutely sing, but it's the
all the new the Navi this like
squad that has been the best in
the region outside of verse
pros like brief stints would
brief consistent stints, but
when VP's out the picture, it
seems to always be this Navi
squad that takes the title in
their stead. And it was
rightly so. They were
tremendous this tournament and
it's good to see this
heretic squad look strong in
some capabilities, but now
just that good. There has
barely been a tournament where
they've not even been in the top
three coming up to here mid
season finals champions. EMEA
stage one second play second
place just behind Barbara
Patipin stage two they make it
to land semi they come second
place at the World Finals.
This team is just that good
and they start off 2026 in
magnificent fashion. Some
small roster changes and it
and it seems to be working out
Let's talk a little bit about Team
Heretics while we have a quick chat about the
before we really dive heavily in on
Navi. Let's start with Ryan. What a
performance by Team Heretics for what
is essentially a mixed roster coming
into this year? Yeah, I mean it's as
good as you could sort of expect really
like heretics they dominantly beat
Navi in groups but it felt that
Navi got a good rate on what
Heretics were doing and this squad
this squad was built relatively recently, right? Like just getting those final bits and pieces in,
some of those players from Citadel moving over towards the states to be able to play there.
It's just a case of heretics needed to learn those matchups, those metas, those compositions,
and just ran a little bit short against the team that has a lot of experience,
almost too much experience playing some of the wacky ideas. They're only going to look
better and stronger and we know that there's enough tenacity between them to really challenge
this top spot, so I think they're going to be happy with the second place finish,
but they're gonna be hungry for first.
They've gotta be, right Moxie? After that, a good of a performance after already beating Na'Vi once, they've gotta be looking ahead now.
Yeah, I think like for Heretics, like Ryan said, it's just sort of like getting some more of those reps against these teams are very, very good at adapting on the fly.
Like for instance, when Heretics get one-sided gambit through, you're thinking like, wow, the further you have gambit means that you have always got one-sided raging for a flush.
there's no Loki on the other side to be able to get the copy off. Now I can see that, okay,
you've got Gambit, so what does that mean we have to do it? Well, we'll open up with a portal,
we'll drop onto your Gambit, we'll find the elimination so that you lose the potential
first fight, can't have Gambit or Tismobu the second, and then put us into an unwinnable
situation for the whole rest of the round in the third fight as well, and they do it not
just once, but twice. But now, we say goodbye to Heretics until stage one begins and we
the team. We're going to be
going to look ahead to the
cut to who will be heading into
stage one as champions again.
Now the they just what can you
even do against the team with
this much versatility this much
flexibility and this much
individual talent on each
individual player, including the
player. We're going to be
interviewing once they jump on
in here, which is going to be
jerky. But Ryan this team
I think that you would hope for, I guess, like with what they went through for grand finals,
their second place finish, but also it was just almost like similar.
I think that's what I asked for Jerky.
I remember talking to Navi at the start of the grand finals and be like, yeah, our swim's
going atrociously, but we still know that we can just pull it out of our backsides
a little bit and just go on these runs because we know how to adapt in these tournaments.
We know how to lose and lose graciously and learn from it and bounce back.
It was the same here for Navi.
it go to the losers bracket like they did in the midseason finals or the grand finals last year.
They just had a perfect royal run in the top spot and yeah they were dominant in those steds
beating the likes of Virtus.Pro on the way goes to show that they are very much the top team because
they beat all of the others. And moxie let's talk about before we get on to jerky the
the Wolverine in the room, Terra joining this roster and just got unleashed in both the series
they played against Heretics.
I mean he's a literal honey badger.
Just like put him in a room with six people, let him just rip through the whole team.
Like you have to be so worried, you saw multiple times when we're watching Heretics as POV.
People looking around, if they did not have the dead, they'll be like, there's a
Wolverine around the corner.
He's hit. Oh, he's behind me. Isn't he? And then you just get grabbed out and just deposited behind enemy lines and absolutely shredded down plus
Wolverine he's got a pulse it so even when you should be able to take him down now
He just pops right back up. Thanks to good old super healing
But speaking of it good old we have good old jerky coming on in here an incredible performance from Navi and
And wow, coming into 2026, it feels like it's just yesterday that I was chatting to you at the World Championships,
but coming into 2026 as champions of pre-season, that's got to feel good heading into Stage 1.
Yeah, it feels very good because I think everyone counted us out, especially Team Heretics and all of the other EU teams.
No one put us even in the top three, I think, which was pretty crazy.
But we proved that we are the best and we proved that we got our second second place in the plantar
By skill right so yeah, we're just gonna keep dominating and showing what's up
What was the work that you guys did because as you said in the group stages you went up against heretics heretics
We're able to complete a pretty quick series
And then we come back into the playoffs and you guys look
incredibly different you're being able to pull out the win against Heretics not
just once but twice. Did you do any work in between those two games as well?
Understanding that Heretics probably will adapt around that first match. I
mean there's a big difference in team skills right like when you have a team
like Navi and you have a team like Team Heretics and they blow out all their
aces all their cards up their sleeves in a game that doesn't really matter
right? We don't really want to do that and we don't mind losing that
game. It's only for seeding, right? So they showed us all their cards and they got the consequences
in return when it really mattered, right? I think my question's more about the future to an extent,
right? Because like pre-seasons over, lower Manhattan's about to come out, that cat is going
to be available too. What can you sort of tell us about like the meta? Knowing that it's going
to change, what like insight can you give us that you wouldn't have given us at the start
of the day? Because you know, it was your strategies, it was your ideas. What can you
Can you tell us a bit behind the scenes meta wise because things are going to change up
again for Season 7.5 and Stage 1?
Yeah, for sure.
So we haven't played on the new patch recently because obviously we're preparing for the pre-season
so we don't really know what's good and bad.
I saw that Luna got a buff so shout out to Krillik, the best Luna aimer, he's going
to be dominating even more now than ever on Luna.
I think Black Hat is really, really good and that's going to shake up the meta
completely because she's kind of a dive hero but also a peel hero with the
mental face so that's gonna be very very good and I want to see how people
implement that right so I think the meta is gonna change quite a bit with the
blackhead hero but I'm not sure yet because we haven't really tested much
it up I'm sorry yeah you're all good we'll find out it just under a month
we'll get to see like what you guys pull out on this but for now you come
out of preseason as the champions you yourself have been adjusting on to
heroes like the invisible woman and stuff like that. Are we expecting even more variety from
Navi coming up? Yeah, of course. I mean, I'm, I think a lot of people have me as a, how do
you say that? Like heavy weight for Navi because I'm like, not a flashy player. I'm
not like the star player, right? That everyone plays for. I just kind of fill and check
what the team needs. And that's kind of my specialty. So yeah, we'll definitely see
more variety coming on forward. But yeah, I mean, we'll see what 7.5 has in store for
us. That's what I'll say.
Alright, and the last question I will ask is, as a reminder for people at home watching,
Na'Vi is one of our partner teams here in Ignite, meaning that you can head into game
right now and get yourself, if you want, a bundle for Na'Vi where you can represent
them in game as Deadpool, which is any role, but I'd like to keep it over to Jerky, what
would you say to anyone who might be looking to pick that up?
I mean, Navibundle is more than just a skin in game, right? You're repping the best team
in the world. You're not only repping the best team in EMEA, you're repping the
best team in the world, and I remember SGFox actually got on here yesterday and
said that everyone is just playing behind them and Team Liquid Citadel, which to
To me, it's a crazy take, because I know Fox is a big fan of mine, he really likes us and
he really likes Navi, but it's kind of crazy to say it because we can think back to Atlanta
and I think the first and second place were EMEA and however you look at the VP losing
now, I think it won't change.
When there's a LAN coming up, the first and second will be VP versus Navi and everyone
and Alice is gonna be in the backseat watching
and rooting for one of us, so yeah.
Fighting words from Jerky.
We'll let you go celebrate with your team.
Thank you for joining us and once again,
congratulations on winning the pre-season.
Thank you very much.
What a player.
I will dispute him a little bit here,
calling himself as he wanted it a heavyweight.
He was one of the highest damage dealers in Atlanta.
He's one of the flashiest players
he gets on almost any hero and has some of the best versatility we have, we can't call
him a heavyweight boxy, surely we've got a time to take that back.
Yeah, I also look at the- No, we absolutely can't.
The final thing as well is to see such a sweet hat and then he's like, um, America's however,
shut up. Like what are you talking about? I'm just like, yes, finally, we haven't
got the international event for pre-season but for stage one it's something to keep
an eye on for the future.
the game. The first thing
that America speaking of which
will be coming up later, but
first a reminder that if you
enjoyed the plays of Nami if
you enjoyed our world
champions from midseason and
your current preseason
champions that the Nami
but bundle the not as
Vincere bundle is available in
game right now. You can go
and pick that up. You will
be getting that shirt for
the Deadpool. The spray
the current top team at EMEA and possibly the world?
Question mark slash exclamation point
because what a performance,
but you can just head into game and get that right now.
And again, it's the Deadpool.
You can play any role.
We've seen him on every role except Juelist
in at least this pre-season,
but who knows what stage one of Briggs box.
In EMEA.
In EMEA, yes.
I think America actually would exchange words
with you there about where we would rate
the next two days. I think
you're going to have to do
list Deadpool. Very fair, but
that's going to be coming up
to the end of pro us for this
incredible preseason. We're
looking ahead to stage one.
Moxie. What are you looking
forward to? New matter. You
know me. I love getting to
see how teams adjust to new
method because we have like
similar strategies from the
way you would play like dive
that's that's going to change
the game for sure. That's going
to change the game. And Brian,
the same question to you. These
are our results for the day. We
had some intense matchups. But
what are you looking forward to
in the future? I'm looking
forward to just how. At crazy.
The roster mania is going to be
for everybody else that isn't
these like top teams that we
see in the last couple of days.
Everybody's looking to make
improvements. I think the top
that they made, but they're
not going to be happy with
their placements. They want
to do a little bit better. And
whilst we don't know much about
where or when midseason finals
is going to be, we know that
these teams are going to be
itching for a spot. Certainly
the partnership teams that are
looking to make sure that they
make the spots known. Absolutely.
And while a lot of people's
predictions may have gone up
a little bit in flames due to
just chaos throughout all the
regions, this has been
because we've had one of the
this has been such a delightful season. I mean, it's been a memorable season, right? I know it's come at the cost of pretty much everyone's predictions. I believe we need what, three people correct in group stages. Probably less than that. Let's be honest, coming on through here for the playoffs. But I'm happy with the tradeoff. We got to see Gambit, we got to see Elsa, we got to see matches where both of those weren't played. And even then in that last map, it's just no Gambit, no also full dive.
We're going to have black caps
coming in the next season as well.
Ryan, tell me about it.
She is ridiculous.
I mean, I could be really smart,
or at least pretend to be really
smart, like she's a little bit
of a dab.
She's a little bit of appeal
with the mental officials.
Literally copying what Jeriki
just said about her, but she
is going to rip up the meta
in no way that we would
expect, no doubt.
Elsa has been weakened in this
patch for 7.5, but I still
think she's going to have her
place, and Gambit is still
Gambit.
So I'm really curious on how
I'm really curious on how these
ignite drafts are going to be
and how Black Cat is really
going to set herself in there.
And you also have some incredible
cosmetics available in-game as well.
We have Danny Mota, the Peter Parker
Photographer skin.
We can strike a pose as Black Cat
Urban Predator and of course embrace
that cosmic hunt with Blade getting
yet another incredible skin with
Starlit shadows.
The battlefield is yours to command.
These are all available in-game
and you know the drill by now everyone in twitch devil's drill to be specific because that is going
to be the name of the emote and the wolf galactic daredevil costume that you can get your hands on
if you're watching with your account linked but not only is the daredevil out of hell's kitchen
the rare the exclusive the preseason grand finals ignite gambit skin has also now been let loose
for the public to get their hands on. Watch these pre-season finals with your account links
and you'll be able to grab all of this extra loot too.
Remy LeBeau has been unleashed so all you have to do is keep watching. If you just joined
us here for EMEA, don't worry. There's the Americas coming up later. We still have
pre-season finals for Asia, China and Oceania coming up as well. There's plenty of time
so do not stress. Do not fear. More esports will come. There's plenty of opportunities
you to get to those in-game cosmetics as well. But for us, we've just had a lovely time. We've
brought you some of the best games we have had, definitely all year, because we just started.
And it's just going to be even more epic, because we still have stage one coming up, Brian.
It's going to be fantastic. I can't wait to see what these teams are going to do. And again,
mid-season finals, I do love being international. Yes, please. And Moxie, what was your foot?
we will say goodbye from us here on this desk. What has been your favorite series?
I mean that last one. The fact that we had I know, I know again a full one EMEA grand finals
finish but it's been the closest one of them all so far. And it was still great and we still
have more to come up for you in just a few weeks when stage one starts. So make sure that
you're following all the socials so you can see when the games happen. But from us,
from myself, Teche, from Got Moxie, Ryan Central, and our colleagues of leg day,
Lemon Kiwi and Vonneville. We say good night and have fun over in the Americas. Good night, the battle.
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