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Exclusive Drops - Marvel Rivals Ignite Stage 1 EMEA [Virtus.pro vs RAD] Playoffs Day 4
07-05-2026 · 4h 25m
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I'm coming down to go
Tell me what you're doing
Just hold me tight
I'm coming down
Now and then
I'm gonna make a promise
I'm gonna run to you
Take it home
I'm sorry for all the moments without you
I'm sorry
If you like me
I'm gonna run to you
I'm gonna run to you
The pain of the world, the world is in our hands
I'm a little nervous, but I'm not afraid
I'm dancing, I'm dancing, I'm dancing, I'm dancing
A beautiful dream is bright, I'm dancing
I'm flying to us, I'm flying to you
I remember the dust, the lights beeping tightly
Chopping off those fighting souls, buddy
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
And the sun and moon and I wonder
Whether it was a tendancy or a crime
I have solid shadows, warm and heavy
That's a husband for me to think you're out
We are standing for our last reunion
Break this shit, find your way, come to me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one for me
I'll wait and wait for you
Blending in the range of fries
We take out the distance, smash in the sky
I'm cold, for no reason, turn to the death
We are levels in the end
We're a wave and a wave
Our minds hold onto your powers
Now it's time to bounce
We arrive to steal the end of time
We will crush the light away
We will fight
Pushing across time and space
Now it's you and I
Day Day Day Day Day
You see the dawn, the flames ruling brightly
Shining, one rose, then the reason is
Of course, all time I see you turning that side
And I just see now, our time, our time
We can still fight, our humans in front
But there's no more, and now it's the only time
You are born, it is mine
Life has fallen, darkness has broken
Yes, you fight for our destiny and fame
You get excited for the past and future
Traits, this game's like it's the way you fight with me
And when you play, yeah
Go back to your past race
See what you've been sent to last
Change your style
We're born to risk but turn to death
We are proud to be in the rise
And I feel your mind
Hold on to your power, smell
Come to us
We are rivals of the good
Until the end of time
We're playing for you
We didn't want to make your hands hold the moon
To have work look inside you
And you feel it, the sparks in you
And you know, finally she's saying
I'm gonna shoot from the streets
In the distance, smashing through the tunnel
You put the ring through the dead end
We are rebels to the end
And I turn past and your night
Hold on to your promise girl
Now it can't stop us
We are rivals to the end of the world
Oh, yeah
I'll fly away from you
I'll go straight to the night sky
Oh, yeah
I'll find you when it rains
If you want me to be alone
I'll be your magic
I'll shout out to you
If you find me here and there
I'll light up the street
I'll start, let's go
I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous
I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous
I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous
I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous
I'm waiting for you
Don't be there
Don't fall down, you have to get up
Wherever you are, I'll be there
I hope I'm in your arms
Ha
I'm singing high-pitched songs
Take a look, I'm going down to go
I'm fine with it
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I'm waiting
I'll be there
When I can't disappear
I have to get up
Wherever I am
I'm always there for you
I sing high-pitched songs
I'm not afraid
I'm going to go
I'm going to do my best
I remember the time, the place that you used to fight
And sun and moon and time wonder
Seven words that tend to be worth grand
I have a spot in each shadow, swimming in it
That's what has come from me to take you out
The arms that no one likes to give
And break the chains, find your way
Come for me
Do you remember who you really are?
Show me that you are still the only one born
You're near and for me, I'll be waiting for you
Play me again, my back dreams rise
Weakness and smash, in those hollows
You're from the real spectrum, yeah
We are rivals in the end, rise up
And then come my toll, the deep waters down
And so once, we arrive to the end of time
We will blast, we'll run away
Who fights missing across time's space?
What you have like designated to the end?
You see who dawned the flame burning rightly
Shining on those memories and yes
Across the time I see you turning the sides
And there you see now, our time, our time, we can still fight
Like the wind and fire, and when we're gone, the war
Then now is the only time you're caught, it is mine
Light has fallen, darkness broke down
You can't see where the war just ended, hey
New day is coming, but the dark is the future
Wraith is the same thing, go away, fight with me
And when you play, yeah, a bunch of fries
Rising up in the sense now,
Shining from the sky,
Before the waves return to the end.
The arrival's gonna be the end
I said, my courage unminds,
For all my cheap powers
Now dance of us.
We arise again,
Until the end of time.
PUNCHING
Show me that you're still the only one that matters for me
I'll be waiting for ya
Wait up, open your hands, hold on
Deep heart, look inside you
Can you feel it?
The smirks in you
I need a final shake
But I can't help my shoulders freezing
With this and smashing through time and heart
With a rip, when tears get in
We are rivals to the end
And rise and present your might
Hold on to your power, still
It's the job of us
We are rivals, still
We are the stars
I still have to get up
I can't go anywhere
I only have hope for you
I sing high-pitched songs
I'm a little nervous
I'm not good at dancing
I'm sorry, I know
I have to see a beautiful dream
I'm waiting for us
I'm waiting for you
Stop, don't talk, hold on, hold on, yeah
I hear the sound of the rain
If you find me here, here, here, if you find me here
The rain that's pouring down on me
It's starting to rain, let it go
I don't know what I'm gonna do
I'm thankful to you for being with me
I don't know how to hide my tears
I don't know what I'm gonna do
Wait a little longer
I'll be there
Don't fall, don't fall, stand up
The moment I hold you in my arms
When I get better
I'm so thankful for you and me
I'm so thankful for you and me
Love me more
Love me more
The world is in our hands
Don't worry about anything else
I'll take care of you
I'll take care of you
I'll take care of you
I'll take care of you
I'll take care of you
Take it, oh my God
I don't need that, not that, not that
Take it, oh my God
I remember the dusk, the lights flipping tightly
Chopping all those fighting souls, but yeah
Across the world I see you standing in my way
I remember the time, the place we used to fight
The sun and moon and I wondered
If there was a time that we were friends
I have a spot on the inside of the swimming pool
That's a must of a mystery to have
The eyes stand out for a last reunion
Broke 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
Are you waiting for you?
Click it again
Open your eyes, release it
Open the sense machine, don't start a fool
Before the rain splinters again
The earth revolves around the end of the land
And there's no more torment
There's no escape
Dance out of us
The earth might just heal the end of time
We will push, we'll light a way
We will bite, fishing across times
There is one human
This is the end of the earth
You see the dawn, the flame, burning brightly, shining one nose, then the reason is, across all time I see you turning the sides.
Under you see now, I'm tired, I'm sorry, no we can't still fight
As the wind is burnt, we'll find out no more
And now it's the only time you're apart, it is not
Light has fallen, darkness broke none
Every battle or destiny, I've made
New days finally for the first of the future
I hope those games like you don't play, you play with me
And when you play, you can't find your prize
The price rings and I hear the sense that skin burns far more
Because when the whispers are dead, the awareness is being brought
It's the end of my big unmindful, come to your power step
Steps out of my life, we invite one's own death until the end begins
I need a final shot
I ain't got a full night to drive
I'm crazy, I'm just a smashy
Drums and walls
With a ring, splinters and fins
We are rivals in the end
And I'm my son
I'm standing for my tools
Until your power's down
What depends on us?
We are rivals in the end
And I'm the best
Wow, don't talk to me, oh yeah
I hear the sound of the waves
If you look for me from here and there
The sun shines on me
It's the beginning, let's go
I'm so excited, I'm so happy
I'm so thankful for you
I'm going to melt like this
Wait a little more
Oh baby
Don't fall, don't fall, wake up
Where are you?
I'm here for you
Sing a song with high notes
I'm coming to you
I'm coming to you
I'm coming to you
I'm coming to you
I'm coming to you
I'm coming to you
It's over, Connors! I'm selecting his grap time shots! Not just to get me hurt!
Used early, actually from the picture, I had the opportunity to try to go into the target. Not really that much time to play with it.
Championship Sunday has arrived for the EMEA region and we're here to crown our champions.
The true ones this go around, not just the pre-season playoffs, what we saw from Na'Vi,
but it might be a repeat performance based on what we witnessed yesterday against Virtus
and the Lame at the midseason finals, but I'm vulnerable. We got leg day and lemon QE here to close out to the action for this weekend. A lot has gone down. Meta has evolved throughout of it. How we feeling like that?
Oh, I mean, I'm very excited to see like the band wrap continually evolving yesterday
We saw some very unique tapes from Brad to get one over on a team heretics
But also we need to see like if VP could try and bounce back for not used to being
humiliated
Oh, we went there already
Well, my predictions were humiliated because I had heretics also much deeper into the bracket
I think it is very pleasant surprise though because rather look incredible like to the level that I think we could
Finally see somebody punch up to not be in that final because so far not be haven't dropped the map and that's scary
Well looking at what is ahead of us specifically
We've had you know some very interesting bands and protects go across
You know the multiverse of each region so far and here's the specific stats from the grip stages
Into the playoffs as well. I mean any big surprises to you here lemon
that. Um yeah, just the
patch to patch, you know,
dino. We're chill with it.
I think I only saw like ever
DRP to bring that out and a
Mantis. It's a no fly zone.
You know, if it unfortunately
for Harry Tiggs that never
got to play Bantus is the
best Bantus team that is rough
to say, but the road buffs
have been really significant,
but also it's become more team
dependent now as the
identities have really
developed. So it's almost
that have happened depending on who you're most worried about.
I think it also kind of shows the prioritization of Rocket
because of the gambit getting let through the Star Lord team
up's very strong, but the Causagran amplifier
and the battle ready beacon.
I mean, Lady, we were kind of talking about how effective
one set of Rocket has been so far for a lot of these teams.
Yeah, one set of Rocket has allowed for teams
to play like a lot more courageously knowing
that one of their mistakes can instantly be fixed
by that a really cool beacon.
Especially if they've scanned up and are going up against
like an angler or like a captain America is going to easily be able to hunt down that battle recoil beacon. And because the young apple fire has been very well utilized in all these fires to have
sort of instant mugging potential, they take damage boost off the back of combining with another ultimate.
Well, looking at the playoff bracket, this is how things have gone down so far to lead us into our top three, the lower bracket finals and grand finals to unfold today.
that we've seen reminiscing
on the history of the playoff
bracket. What have been the
most interesting ones to you,
Jen? I mean, the Virtus. Pro
team heretics semifinal was the
most exciting close series that
we have ever seen where literally
either of those teams could have
won. It came down to the last
fight and they double a limb from
fight on Dr. Strange at 30 HP to
claim that and that's what
that's what started the demise of heretics as they fell to Rad just yesterday. And we also
have our three land spots claimed and we only have two matches left to determine our big champion.
That's right. We got Virtus. Pro facing off against Rad. The team who eliminated them from the
playoff, the preseason playoffs and made them have their lowest placement as a roster and an
organization in the history of Marvel Rivals Ignite. But hey, they've made up for it. They
they qualified for the midseason when they weren't able to last go around.
So that's big for them and they need a little bit revenge talking about Virtus
Pro in terms of Navi who made them look very silly in that upper bracket.
But what's not silly is these Twitch drops and for everyone who's been
patiently waiting for the new costume and the new victory or emotes,
more chrono tokens today's the day.
Just tune in for six hours across, you know, both the streams that we have for
and also America's, but some of the
co streams that are out there as well,
and you can get the new costume.
The new victory or Evo, which is great.
I noticed that people have seen some
of the previews for that as well,
and it's going to be a good time for
tuning in and getting some rewards from that.
But like day I feel like a reward in
itself is some of these costumes that
people could rock to represent some
of their favorite partner teams.
Indeed, there is plenty of rewards
we had in looking good on the battlefield,
and who's more stylish when Wade Wilson
We've got excellent designers all across our partner team bundles here that are available in-game under the eSports or tournament tab, actually, of the store.
They include not only the jerseyed Deadpool's, but also some lovely goodies, like some nice emotes, some nice name cards as well.
FlyQuest's one has, I believe, Basil did the, uh, did the spray.
That's true.
Well known artist, so easy to pick that one up.
Oh, and of course, you're playing for Vibes?
That's my favorite.
Yeah.
team. The plan for by spray
absolutely peak. Make your
team them today. It's pretty
great, but yeah, unfortunately,
we won't be seeing those vibes
from that team. Just go around.
But we will be seeing an
interview actually coming in,
surprise guests for you all as
well. We do have boge on the
broadcast to give us their
insight to everything that's
been going down so far. Sun
down guns. I love to see a
boker. How you feel on about
the way the competition has
been going so far. Any
to be here? Obviously I expected Team Heretics to be up here and you know top free. I think
Rad has been absolutely dominating. Yes these matches have been so good from them and I'm
excited how they play against VP. Everything else I kind of expect. I expect VP to be at
the very least top free and Navi was already dominating and they are still dominating and
They haven't dropped a single map yet, right?
Yep
Man's pretty in the know
A lot of our interview is the knowers. They've been spreading some blade propaganda
Where do you stand on the blade propaganda at the moment? I think it might be okay against for 3-3
Have you been feeling any of that in ranked recently?
I think this blade is a really good alternative to Wolverine
I think also he's quite a bit better probably in pro plate than in ranked
But he's good at breaking, you know, spawn holds and stuff like if they have three tanks
I don't think they can actually do much against the blade. He's just spinning around and
Reducing healing. So I do believe he is not that bad nowadays
Definitely probably better than Phoenix. I'm quite surprised about Phoenix not being that good
I was surprised about that and I was surprised to also see some hello, which I was watching
you play ranked earlier.
We got to see you play some hello.
What are your thoughts on hello in ranked versus in pro play?
Hello as a character right now compared to Phoenix is like she just has longer range.
I don't think her old is necessarily better, but like she has more effective range and
She can definitely deliver some, you know, some chaos and like, definitely do some damage.
And I do think she's decent.
She just kind of throws it and it's died most of the time.
But if you need some solid damage and good range, hell is good, you know,
better than Phoenix, that's for sure.
We're going to see VP today and they secured their qualification for land off the back of some prime
Bogeye like a motor from five out of the people remaining who do you think is most likely to have prime Bogeye and like a motor today?
I'll be honest you don't see strange too often unless they're gonna use it for a key B
So I'm gonna believe in five. I believe he's in here another big a gemoto another big prime bogey
And you know, yes display was just insane. I was watching that I was holding my breath
If I was genuinely so shocked, I think he was like 30 HP and 60% low charge and he managed to get him.
He killed it. That was so exciting. That was so high.
It's a hype final day too. Three teams left in EMEA, Americas, etc.
And we're obviously very EMEA bias over here.
How do you think EMEA is going to stack up against the Americas when it comes to the mid-season finale?
The two regions are looking pretty stacked.
Truthfully, I think the EU teams are probably better than most NA teams, except TLC.
I think TLC is... At least my prediction is gonna be that TLC is gonna make it to the finals
and it's gonna be TLC versus Navi.
Who's gonna take it? Probably Navi, because, you know, EU bias here.
But I think, first and foremost, I've watched.
Yeah, I think overall, I believe the EU teams are like a little bit better than NA.
But we'll see maybe maybe I'm wrong
You've been doing some great job in the community recently right you've been putting on the bogey bashes that we've seen other
Events that you've taken part in as a creator that we saw for you know the creator world championship as well if you had to form the
Super team in terms of content creators for a future event. Who would you have on your roster out of your fellas? Oh
Oh, okay. Hear me out here. Kingsman, Jay Free, me, Flats, Aramori, Kaiji.
That's a really disaster. We need to see that. I need to get that net.
Oh man. Well, also for those who don't know, you're putting on the Boker Brain Rock Bash
on your socials. Can you tell us a little bit more about those who might not know that?
Yeah, so that's a little event, a little competition, I guess you can call it, but it's basically
people can make their own memes and they can apply in the Google Brain or Bash.
There's a price pool of $6,400 and then I think around 30 something thousand units,
the exact amount I have forgotten right now.
But basically all you have to do is use the system to enter $31,000.
Thank you.
you need to use the summer skins and make a fun little meme. You can use the old skins,
you can use the new skins, make something funny, make something silly, you don't have to over
complicate it. And then we're gonna, I'm gonna review them on stream. And we're gonna choose
some winners, the community's gonna choose some winners. I'm also gonna choose some winners. And
I'm first place is gonna get $1,000, second 500, third place is gonna get 100, and there's gonna
going to be four different categories.
So please do apply.
It's for the community.
It's for you guys.
It's a big prize pool.
And you know, you don't want to miss out on the chefs.
Awesome.
Well, thank you, Boger, for joining us.
Go enjoy the watch party.
And we'll talk to you another time.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Bye.
Love to hear it.
But we also got to talk about these teams specifically.
Virtus.pro, we mentioned it a little bit earlier
the elephant in the room or I guess the polar bear this time is that they just didn't really put
up a good performance against not be how they bounce back here like they well uh like it was it
was so thorough that verbous bro have uh they probably could have looked about a lot I found a
lot of different things to work on the question is how many even could have been fixed in the
limited amount of time since that series it was our opening yesterday so we got most of the day
to work through it as well but I think if you could look towards anything here it's definitely
maybe finding some great duelists, play out of both Fi and Spark.
Again, they are currently splitting the cycle substitutes,
depending on what secondary duelists they want to add in it through their mix.
And it feels like this team has two different modes,
which is Finsi on cap and Finsi not on cap.
So maybe we need to see some play in the bandface to try and protect Finsi's strongest character.
Yeah, and VP were, I feel like, one of the first ones I brought out,
the Wolverine and the preseason, and they really have gone completely away from that.
the Daredevil gets banned a lot against them.
So Fias picked up a lot more of the hitscan.
You overlap that Cyclops and, you know,
my cope is that I know that Birdspro have a higher ceiling
than what they've shown us.
We've seen them play better than that,
but will they be good enough to face Rad?
You might notice something here,
a bigger elephant in the room.
Etsu is subbing in for Lugia.
We're hearing that Lugia is not feeling well right now.
So that's a big factor.
So if we were to pretend that Etsy wasn't here right now,
this team looked really in sync yesterday.
Every time they engaged against Team Heretics,
they just flowed.
I felt like really rad dominated Heretics
on at least two of the maps,
full holding down on Iggercel's path,
actually speed running spider islands,
but the series isn't just about execution,
it's about preparation.
And rad have shown that in their van lines
and that's where they're strong,
they kind of set up their strongest matchups
And that's where we saw MASH talk about vertigo's impact
in coming up with those ideas.
So for example, even leaving something like Rogue open
to Heritage on paper, that seems insane,
but that's how Rad were able to manipulate
a favorable position for them.
And MASH not only talked us in the interview,
but we will be watching him on the low key
because he was a standout.
MASH looked really strong.
I mean, forcing Gambit bands every time
against the teams yesterday and swapping on over to the Loki.
Sometimes even the Luna like we saw for domination,
the win rate 75% whenever they get a hand on Loki.
That's why some teams were using their second ban
when available to them before the saves came out
to take it down and make it that much more difficult
for this team to adapt.
But I feel like Masters is so versatile,
regardless of which hero that they're playing.
And Saipa, they were known as the number one strategist
out there, but there's been questions recently, right?
because they haven't been able to carry as much as in the past and I think a lot of that
has to do with just the strategies playing field like they leveling up across the board
and mash one of those players.
Yes, I pay was so far ahead of the pack for so long, but we're seeing like the democratization
of knowledge amongst strategists in Marvel rivals, right?
Like as you said, the curve is beginning to flatten a little bit.
Mash is coming up as this up and coming fantastically pluripotent strategist who, whether it's on
and Luna or Loki or Gambit is able to bring huge numbers to the table.
Looking ahead for our first map here as well,
we're going to be going to Cracow.
We've seen some unique strategies from both of these teams.
What can we expect for this one, Lemon?
I mean, Rad, both of these teams played this in their most recent matchup,
or at least very recently, Rad taking that against Heretics.
Virtus.pro actually chose this against Heretics as well,
and they both have found success.
It was a slow start for Rad, and I got 100 to 0,
but they got back on their high horse and took it after that.
We'll see if the Wolverine will be the one that comes through
the bandrafter's first band, like we've seen other teams do,
similar to the Daredevil from 100 Thieves Against Jitward.
It's not really a one trick, I would say, for Crazy Kitty,
but you definitely don't want to have to worry about that
when facing off against this Rad roster.
So very curious to see what the bandrafter's going to be.
Take it away.
Perhaps not a one-trick, Lemon, but maybe a prime threat.
For VP in particular, who I've hopped on a couple of times,
are not the greatest team at dealing with a Wolverine.
And admittedly, Wolverine has got progressively harder to deal with
as they keep adding more things to his kit.
So if we could leave Wolverine alone for a while,
l-l-l-let the old man rest.
You know, as a Vanguard player, I think we can all agree
Wolverine's a little sleepy, like he needs his warm milk and a nap,
And maybe we can all have some peace without water in grabbing us and they protect on the mantis
So this is really key and especially for today for rad because etsu's playing in for Lugia
Etsu was a duelist player that ended up on the strategist
He only played one map for rad and it was on the mantis
So if you can have him be on his comfort role and that would be incredible and
VP are going to first protect the daredevil, which I don't think we've really ever seen and that's maybe five
feeling good into that matchup. Okay, so maybe Rand and Responsivist could get rid of the cat to make sure that Burvis Pro don't have a
two-person dive core, but can get into their backline. I wouldn't mind seeing VP take away like the Rocket or Voluna here and really try to
squeeze the pull, but oh, they get rid of Phaedon. This is essentially going to nudge the Chrissie Kitty Wolverine into making an appearance, but if you
seem like Finzi having to try and dive here on something like a venom that
probably be Nevix actually that could be very easily shut down by Wolverine.
I used to have concerns about VP and if they have their cap band what sort of
impact Finzi can have but he has leveled up his Emma to a whole new level and if
you end up in an Emma versus Groot matchup for example Emma can be that
threat to put up a shield to mitigate a Groot ult, to be diamond formed, to be
CCC immune from a lot of things that could ruin your life, and I think Finsie has a good secondary there
All right Luna snow gonna be available for both sides
Which is will round actually use this mantis because we have seen rat protect the mantis before but uh
Haven't been overly keen on using the mantis and we've no protect on the Wolverine
That is pro. I just gonna go for a squeeze on the crazy kitty pool which admittedly is not the best thing
When rat have mantis because one of all
One of the times when Maxis is going to be at their best is when it's combined with Ultron,
which is a big part of the Crazy Kitty pull, in my opinion.
Like Crazy Kitty, very good player on the Ultron.
They could definitely allow for Smashners to be a hypercarry here with double damage boost,
potentially on something like a Cyclops, if not Cyloc or even Elsa.
Yeah, Sparkler could be on the Cyloc.
We could have the Star Lord, at least on Radside.
Those are really good flake targets.
just so rare to see a venom band because a lot of teams have just opted to play the Elsa to blow up the venom with the
helpful
Or the health percentage damage
But nevix has been one of the best and one of the most relentless venom players that we've had on a very open map like
Krakowa you can take advantage of that verticality
But nevix has even shown us some Angela most on the hell's heaven and more Angela-pilled maps
So we can see Krakowa, is he most friendly, Angela Mab?
Because you like to have the edge of the environmentals,
but Ducky's on the Groot, so I'm excited for that, at least.
Yeah, Ducky on the Groot, very good.
And so you might actually open up with an early portal here.
You can see that Vertigo's set up on the Cloak and Dagger
to go for that early Terra Cape and try and essentially just
mug summoning the strings.
Well, yesterday, Heretics did so much of that.
So we're at her taking a page out of that book.
but it's gonna just be at the very front
to just address the whole team
and with a shotgun to the face,
smashed it even find a target,
X2 got frozen and VP just skated away from their problems.
Yeah, Fincy just bounces away from it for now
and now he's gonna be able to just try and anchor out
on the point, X2 and Ducky gonna sew it to random
from the other side so that Verligo's gonna need
to peel in the back,
Smashing it, it's falling low in his own right
and guess what, Fincy's managed to find that one.
We'll be able to go over and grab himself
as a snapshot surprise,
with an extra xp build up those abilities and this is how fincy gets the ball.
Yeah vertigo ends up being the one on mantis etsu made an appearance but clearly the most
comfortable person on vanguard is going to be etsu who's now on the mag to maybe deal with the
hit scans on the other side and to give more protection such a strong team up though with the
group and the mantis to have that healing wall as well you have three strategies it's good you're
going to need burst damage from VP to carve through this. And Sparkler is on one of his
most deadly heroes of the Cyclops, as Fai won't have a cap to usually brawl with. And this
is why Nevix will be looming for his opportunity to set up for Fai for success.
Alright, this is going to have access to that shotgun, but Crazy Kitty gets isolated by
Nevix, managing to find those openings around the back. And Sparkler, while they are going
to be taking some damage here from Edsu, is mostly going to see their backline start
to panic as Fai and Nevix continue to orbit in these positions. Oh, Nevix gets caught in
Vasanik Vortex. Great play there for a mash. So many heroes in their pool. Now, Fenty has to go
in towards the backline, brings out the banhama. Nevix gets resurrected here by the butler,
Rekord Beacon. But Fai, having to dive alone without Nevix's cover, was easily taken down by
Ezzu, who's putting on his best Ducky Carls play here, and picking up some of those slower vanguard
heroes. Out comes the Ruby Rations, like mostly has been avoided by Rats, who have flipped over the
map. It really sucks to have your
angel be the first one to fall
because that's the one that'll maybe extend
your capture if the rest of the
dominoes fall and for nevix to find
himself in the middle of six people, including
an invis, including the invis shield
which also hinders the angel
immobility everything. An invisible woman's
kit will make nevix not have as
much fun. But how about a shock
into the face too. I mean VP have
to synchronize Fi and nevix
together. Really just try to brawl
because Smash at close range is going to be so lethal.
He just pressed a couple cues and been a little bit lost.
You know, maybe having some fun with it, with it to win, Heaven's Retribution is going to be answered here by the invisible boundary
brought up by Mashedime, where multiple players tethered but they easily break down the central pike for which they are anchored.
And now it's Firestone to go in.
Nevix follows it afterwards, where it goes away, taking down the Mashes soon to join them.
It's only a three player dive right now, but it appears to be working out as Rijo works around the margins with the cannon of the Rocket Raccoon.
crazy kitty gives a five-person race that begin to descend from above via the TP and VP are now in
control about how to get again from things around the outside and cyber is going to chase on in with
the fate of both worlds extra sustainability around the outside five lets with devil out and
xus round out the hard way but five means business well there's going to be a last second contest
here from ducky they're not in control so a stag is on the cart yeah rajus lacked impact on those
I mean, Ducky's trying to 1v1 a tree on Kerkowa and not VP, unfortunately.
Mash brings out the invisible boundary, which in the middle, on top of Nevix, that should
have been a free limb, but Nevix finds cover and rad, Karmic Revival gives them another
chance, but VP got the cap and they got to stall and win the next fight.
93% though, C.F.
VP could take the first round.
Well, come through the portal, see who's waiting for you, go back to the portal.
You know what, never mind, wrong house actually.
We tried to reach you, but you were not in.
Sparka holds the Ruby Rage, he had another round of VP, looking strong to start off with.
Nevix just runs off to get water, okay, he'll be back soon, hopefully.
They're down one Vanguard player at the moment, it's early for them.
Yeah, small micro adjustments, I think Nevix hanging back, I know he's used to kind of pouncing and being involved so quickly with the Venom,
but the Angela someone who wants to be staggered on those approaches for someone to be the initiator and usually not the Angela
He had a good grab on the crazy kitty on the atom to force out that resurrect and then nevix was able to force out the invisible boundary
Just with the heavens retribution alone and living that's maximum value from the Angela
I'm liking how VP are supporting each other and that disengages when you had like three volts blown from red
VP were nowhere to be found
I love that gif of the guy just fading away, you have to put a gun behind the side.
You can't judge your issues there.
Alright, I'm out, I'll see you later, boss.
Just one more Simpson back into the bush, but that's too...
It's going to try to emerge with the portal, and this didn't work out for Rad last time.
VP, you may be aware of this.
Oh, counter portal! Oh, no, reverse.
Alright, I've seen enough. Get in the tunnel of portals.
I'm gonna wrap around a bit for the first contestant.
Likely they'd be able to use the same portal
after seeing Rad V-bar come to the point.
No, they just go to approach slowly from the back.
They are.
Interesting.
Well, you got the Ruby Rage from Sparker
as Rad are still trying to capture.
That's been denied, but Nefix as well,
stalked by the Vanguard.
Blocked, bad.
Ruby Rage gets everyone low from Rad.
Yeah, I guess I'm low.
There's a full-on going to be there.
Nefix resurrected and the bouncing beam
starts to move between multiple members of the RAD.
It's you falling low.
MASH is gonna be the primary victim though.
The band hammer on the other side punished any miss
as well as giving up that plan of damage in the neutral.
Crazy Kidding next to go down.
Can resurrect themselves as well.
Moving forward though, Vertigo trants everyone
with that extra health, extra speed
off the back of a solo surges.
They want Vertigo so mad that a live stream
from the atom is perfectly timed to sustain.
They're healing compatriots.
And Smash there just makes sure that Nevix
doesn't feel welcome on this point.
smash if you give him time and room to operate he will deliver those critical
limbs and so many rezzes whether it's the rocky for Andridra Rad have this
available with the opt for the atom for the full team rezz as mash is forced to
play in this into the nevix angela which speaking of which heavens
retribution available in five on the back line
Prez can even resurrect inside on this invisible boundary that doesn't quite have the time to build it up
5-0 stays too long, and now Crazy Kitty has to figure out how to try and make this one work.
Heaven's Retribution from Nenix, do they want to actually drop on down?
At the moment, the danger might be too high, but after getting the snowflake, they see the opening.
Goes in towards Mash, Ruby Rage around the outside.
Crazy Kitty's got perfect timing here, though, to bring back Vertigo.
Mash, however, has not fallen, so cannot be resurrected by Crazy Kitty just yet.
Smash there, so the team throw an opening.
Ruby Rage ready to go, still in control of the point.
Oh, I ran 75% already, game, the now-standard side better move on forward, it's a little bit too deep.
And so I'll choose for the Fate of Both Worlds to rescue themselves and move over onto Crazy Kitty and on to MASH.
Finally VP has time to get some purchase on the point, but he's just keeping it consistent.
Ducky's just made himself a little prison. He's made a panopticon with him, which he can defend himself.
Shout out to Scythe Bay, Fate of Both Worlds, a risk when you were maybe down one or two people.
You don't have the Dr. Strange portal cooldown available, so you cement yourselves, you give yourself enough time to regroup as six as Rad.
I mean mash you know shout out to tenacity as well said keeping mash as safe from the angela and able to fade into the shadows as
VP have to close the gap magnitude for simple have to play perfect from here on out to try to take this map into
Finzi bandhammer already pulled out
Yeah, it's not a one of a strategist. I think you might actually be on to a mantis here
So move on through with all of these Katana blasts attempting to pull finzi there into the ruby rage and verse
Nice movement speed here. VP have once again done a great job of just disengaging and five pops into trying to get this deployed
But I don't know if the rest of the team were really down with that plan
Rad now in a numbers advantage in a position where they can cap the point as well with 90% to their name cause we
Are an apple for the re-engaged Barker can get involved now with the Ruby rage on the outside
It's who doesn't deliver any stuns a sci-fi now gonna be the primary target dragged in by the team up dark male
of sonic vortex is going to pull them forth and now spark is looking for an opening smash
and is taken down but crazy kitty finds them in the streets and guns them down with the
lifestreams fire has returned the soul one's going to democratize with damage and when you
get too close to the walls of ducky the walls have eyes and they grab right at you still rad
and then we'll just flip thus far the pica trine tp back spark you can see is moving
over onto the doctor strange yeah rad i mean at this point vertigo has more stunts than
than two strangling prisons in an ayavagam mode of surrounding to find impact if they
want to force the round three.
Alright, Nevix almost has her heavens or attribution. Trying to go the excess of icalls to find
it, as you might be a primary target here, could be taken off the side of the point,
but at the moment VP still have to think about that continuous contesting of the points.
Type who could be right on down, fade to both walls, has to be Pops, it's going to keep
everybody attached safer, but crazy kitty makes sure that this morsel coil is an up-in
scenario, with the resurrections coming thick and fast.
of the back of the car make a revival, Cypress ult is over, VP now on borrow time, Ducky's looking for an opening,
they never have time to disengage for this one as Fyre's wrapped around the back of the Wolverine.
Yeah, the sustain is massive for Rad, I mean these karmic revivals have just
kept Rad to keep kicking, but is the damage boost from Dredro enough?
Extra damage, onto F2, Ducky's still looking for an opening, Ruby raised to open on up,
it's not gonna force out too much thus far, Sparket falling low and Fyre taking far too much damage,
And it seems like for now, Rad is just holding back on so many of their ultimates, they get it done in the neutral with just the Ruby Rage to their name and we're evened up on Krakowa.
And for the adjustments for Rad, a last minute emergency sub, we're kind of off-rolling. I mean, Crazy Kitty on Adam is a little unheard of even there, you can tell that Rad's confidence and this is not a situation they're used to being in.
You've had some with ultimates, but namely the triple strategist has gotten them so much sustained, so much time to build up ultimates for Smash and the rest of Rad to eventually dwindle and outfight Virtus Pro in the end.
So Finzi now on the Emma to try and wrestle and scale through these long extended fights when you're facing the triple strategist.
but VP need to find a moment that when this karmic revival comes online can they maintain the
stranglehold and their position in these fights because brad seemed to be able to overtake VP
once that adam ult comes online. etsu currently sitting on the most final blows for his team by
the way which is very interesting because etsu like the prime of etsu's career was playing for
og as winter soldier where they came second in the marvel rivals invitational uh losing to vp so
So this is personally important.
Is that you're gonna do a little drop here?
Oh, that's what I'm gonna do.
I thought he was gonna jump out into the portal,
which would have been the most hilarious thing to happen,
but Brad could also do the most hilarious thing
and get another zero.
Oh, no, wait, it did start two.
And I guess it's good enough.
Yeah, that'll work out.
Documents just to find two quick reservation here
from Crazy Kitty.
And this should allow for a first contest,
even with the attempts of nevix
to try and mess with this formation.
Ah, okay, that did.
I was looking at the UI and I didn't see the stones and then you actually go to POV and
Ducky creates the perfect cage around VP where even Nevix is hesitating on.
This is usually a map he plays a lot of Venom on.
He has been targeted.
A lot of the vankards have been targeted on the VP side and we'll see how they will maintain
this as red.
Now they could be in a position to throw an Ayabakamoto.
That's why VP's strats are playing so far back.
They do not want to get stunned.
All right, let's see.
Threatening as he looks towards the back to try and counter this dive with the i-Vagamoso instead gets extra speed.
You can see what damage was coming through as well. Very scary time.
So Fizzy is spooky in the back! Nice double onto Spark!
Rengredro moves around the Aegis shield but can't quite deliver the final blow with the Dark Maelstrom.
And is over extension, thoroughly punished.
A Rubinette rage now ready to go here for Spark and sees where he's been used already.
already of the Adam Warlock
Soulbond. The second minutes gone, you could try and
follow up onto this one. Even with
extra defensive utility used here by Rad,
they're going to be in a position to keep holding this
point. Unfortunately for VP,
I mean, I guess my cope is that at least
the sleep comes in after the opus
pops, so Etsy goes to 0%
instead of 50, but
VP were still not able to
refight through that. Now you have
the Ruby Rage, Soul Resurgence,
such a huge boon for
the VP side but Crazy Kitty can make that all go away with one revival.
Okay, beer, I'm gripping the hearts of Rav right there, it means that they do give away the point.
Essentially for free thus far, Sparks are trying to find some value here,
an extra damage boost onto a Ruby Rage could be everything. Yet another Soul Bomb though,
is still not enough to try and save Smashnares from this one. Crazy Kitty waiting in the
wings with his cocoon to revival, has to come at revival as well, if he was also trying to
do it for the full stack but no, without control of a point, Rav's save it, just gonna leave it.
Crazy kid he has to be target number one as he usually is but now in a different situation because that karmic revival is still
Available and you have to take that out of the picture as ducky strangling prison against the sci-fi fate of both worlds as
Neveks and Finzi still looking to have an impact of their own on
Vanguard's that not super known for while he's in a kid in this situation the matchup's not good for VP
Consumers still want to back up, I believe fire was set by Icedation as well, I mean, if Slogans roll temporarily, the spark is gonna open slow about him right now.
Heaven's Retribution grabs him a few, but Nemmix doesn't want to stick around compared to Vertigo's own Ultimate.
Still VP might be in a tough position here, you heard the expendation of so many Ultimates already.
A quick comment revived from CrazyKitty, but now that it's over and MASH isn't there to try and save him.
Syphe gives the extra healing over, fate of both worlds now expending, Syphe's in a bad position, couldn't escape for Slogans nor the pools.
the pools and when they grab inside pay they chew him up and speak to him out.
Rad flipped the point back over in their favor as that VP get only 6-7 percent.
This is insane I mean can Rad pull off a win on map one with a last-minute
substitute now they've expended all the ultimates as Ducky got his
strangling prison cancelled down to 50 back to 100 it could be the end all be
all but VP are not done yet.
Spark are up close and personal starts the bounce of the beam between so many
members of rad and now VP are back in control spy can try and move around the
back here has the devil to let out and now this will come down to the final
fight I have a lot of moto and you have two ways to stop it the sleep from
Dredro side pay with the freeze VP only have two straps against three and here
comes that super key for a drop down to I have a lot of moto doesn't get it the
sky portal and how you know this guy don't usually play without the strength
Fire around the outside, Novics comes in too. A strangling prison from Taki grabs in Fiver's. No chance to unleash for Demon.
And now it's just down to Bridger here with the soul resurgence to keep VP sustained.
Radni gets to try and work some magic, but he's also gonna try and stay on the point up above them.
Just the beams rain down from Sparker.
And VP have a couple of ultimates in reserve in case they should need them.
A Kallus Ruby rage from Sparker as we zoom in on Ensuz.
What the HOSK, shall we say, and VP will take away map number one.
Even zooming in on site, they're celebrating after he canceled the strangling prison from Ducky,
and I can't believe Virtus.Pro came out on top.
This swaps to the mantis.
The extra damage that Fire and Spark are needed to get these executions gives Krakowa to Virtus.Pro.
Rad will have our choice of map after this break.
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though, for Rad like to the
point where I was almost
convinced they were going to
win the whole thing. But our
41,000 damage. RAD only got to maybe 20k and Saipae also out damaged everyone on RAD as
a Luna. Like VP looked insane in that match to say the least.
Yeah, 50.9% accuracy too much better than anyone in my ranked games, unfortunately. Doing
a great job just locking things down for their team. And we had this conversation earlier
on is like do you use a ban on the Cyclops when you're facing off against a team like
Virtus Pro and I don't know about you like David that might warrant it.
I mean when Spark is playing like this perhaps it does indeed warrant it like as we look at
the stats here side pay what role we on mate what role we on?
Just checking for all the people at home 15k healing okay okay interest 19k damage side
you know, he's playing fast and loose with the term strategist.
Also, dualist, I feel like Fai has sacrificed himself for Sparkler at 10 casualties.
Like, Fai died so Sparkler could live and walk and apparently live all of red.
I mean, that is a clear difference maker when it comes to the damage numbers.
18 and 16 finals is pretty insane to see it right there as well.
And basically doubling the numbers too as we witnessed on that end.
witness on that. And Sipay, of course, having more damage than anyone on RAD side as well.
So, did pretty good in comparison, but there's always the asterisks, right? Because of the
emergency sub that had to come in due to a player being sick. You know,
Ezu doing the best that they could, but also maybe going a little bit too confident against
the Reading World Champions and Virtus.Pro with that high buck above that we saw with
no one backing them up the whole time. I respect it, you know, to keep them away from the objective,
But I feel like you would have been better served stick a little bit closer to your team a way to use that ultimate set to force out
Something else for the other team either way though
So if they seem to be locked in on the freezes we saw the ducky freeze happen on that map towards the end as well to cancel the
Strangling prison before it could happen
So there's a lot of good looks from that team to try to counteract this roster specifically talking about the band draft there as
I mean, locking in on the five DD, which was banned every single map that we saw yesterday from Virtus. Pro.
A lot of people have been worried about fire on that because they were the ones who innovated it from the grand finals here like that.
Yeah, like five, a lot of respect has been put towards fires DD and all of the band faces heading into this particular matchup.
But it feels like there's a lot more squeeze now towards the vanguards.
I try to nerf what, uh, what things he can bring to the table and like, I mean, I think a lot of the bandraft here was built towards like slowing the game down, getting rid of the venom, getting rid of the cap.
Obviously, there's a tertiary option of the Angela at the moment, which isn't the worst.
And I think that that might have been towards like trying to make sure that Etsu's most comfortable vanguard pick of the Shrine was not going to be outclassed by the pace of the game.
game. And to be fair to Etsu, I think Kinsurega mostly has played like Duelist, and Ashley has
come into play Mantis previously, for rad. He did a respectable job on the Vanguard.
Yeah. I respect it, you know, not being like, we keep referencing ranked for a good reason, though,
just have nightmares sometimes about it, but not doing the solo Vanguard style and playing
Triple Duelist. Some teams need to learn something about that when they're playing the game. Either
way, though, we're going to mid-town a favorite for a lot of these rosters, and we'll see if maybe
some triple triple comes through and even blade that's had a bit of a resurgence recently in pro play
to yesterday and uh previous competitions. Now we uh we heard from bogey earlier on it can be
like a an interesting sub Wolverine kind of pick which which might need to come out give him a
verse pro now first banning the wall which i think makes a lot of sense learn it on the other side
brand uh prioritizing that Loki meaning that the group is going to be in a very strong position
if he can get all the healing from his lucky double gankers.
Yeah, MASH, I mean, creates such a strong 3-3 opportunity for RAD.
We've seen that in the past, especially on Museum of Contemplation,
where they actually full-held team heretics, all thanks to MASH,
which denies the opportunity to play something like a Bucky,
or things that would go for Executes or any dive-heavy meta.
But VP also are so good at this map, they have 100% win rate on Midtown.
Midtown is also a very unique map,
where there are a lot of shenanigans that can happen,
whether it's the 3-3 or even something like the Moon Knight
can make an appearance to break out of spawn.
But if anyone's gonna run the 3-3,
I'm leaning more towards Rav.
Yeah, they have the roster for, I think,
Crazy Kitty showing off like the unsolicited Adam.
I don't know what you'd call it, the un-fronted Adam?
Like, I didn't think that that was a huge part
of Crazy Kitty's pull-off of everyone, like, Smashnazes,
kind of area of expertise.
that Smash Nose plays a lot more of a hit scan, but here's a kitty showing off that there is a lot
of depth to that hero pool. Once again, Venom's going to be banned away round. They aren't going
to be able to get rid of a cat though, so Virtus.Pro aren't going to at least have a regular dive
core here with both the Captain America and the Daredevil. And that Venom ban comes in so late,
because I know like the Angela would be good on Dom, on Midtown. Sure, you're not having those
environmentals, but there's many half things you can take to kind of go unnoticed, especially
silently and come up from behind, especially against a triple strategist, but MASH created
so many problems on The Invisible Woman and because the Venom Band comes in so late, surely
you have a heads up now if you're VP. They went for a Wolverine Band last time, but they're
opting to target Ducky here instead.
That's actually a really good band. Like in the free show like three hours ago, like
one week, we were here for a rehearsal. Like you're positive to us like, Ducky's so good
a group. This is a Ducky group, Copper Band. I actually argued against it, but it seems
that you have a higher IQ than me. So congratulations, I bow to your knowledge.
Yes, but I'm sad to see no Ducky group though, because the front to back is so strong on
Midtown at first objective, and Ducky I think was a huge part of forcing VP's vanguards
to adjust to him, really demanding some kind of shield vanguard to deny, at least, create
a looming threat to deny these strangling prisons, which honestly didn't even come down to VP's
vanguards, it came down to Dredro hitting sedations, or Scythe freezes on the Luna, so honestly
VP's backline ended up being Mayan VP at least for growth there at the end.
Okay, so this is actually quite exciting.
This is Etsu's most professionally prolific character.
Etsu's Prime was with OG during the Winter Soldier meta, was their Winter Soldier player.
This is a guy who knows his way around a Kraken impact.
He might be expected to see VP come out with a couple of closer opponents who could be
pulled on in and find a VarniCook.
Double damage boost into Sparkar, y'all.
How are your VP stocks feeling?
because there's a lot of investment into that MVP that dropped 41,000 damage with only one damage boost.
How about two damage boosts?
And look how Vanguard's on Brad's side are in submission.
So CrazyKitty has to weigh that decision carefully of when he pops the dome
because that's really the only thing that's protecting him, and he has to cycle with Ducky who's on and off angle.
Yeah, Spark is gonna be buried afloat from these high grounds as well
if he ends up up there with his little concussive liftoff
given that the mobility options for these vanguards are going to be somewhat limited.
Alright, so hit by the refraction beam, sparking out, feeling even less threat coming his way
without the threat of that constant hook. So far VP are keeping rad at bay and this is not even a
comp that you could run a moon night into because it's VP are taking so many off angles around.
Fenty on the cap will be disrupting this. Unfortunately the cosmic yarn amplifier not
gonna last more than three seconds for RAD so no damage boost for their side at all.
Oh no, earlier return though for Nevix, you did have the ultimate available so that's gonna be
one last thing that's gonna be on the card sparker just which of a crazy kitty cannot stay up here
for long. This constant assault of damage boost from Dreda is gonna be everything, nice sedation,
went through onto crazy kitty, match moves him with a yet another cosmetian unpack. Look at the
aggressive positioning of it, it's gonna give RAD so much space to try and work with but VTR in
a position where they can relatively safely disengage.
I've got the position of Crosshair from Dredra, he's gonna roll the farming headshots and smash
farms the backline strangling Frizzin out from Nebbi, it's denied by Rad and
most of the time I went low, but VP are struggling.
Yeah, Regeneration main still works out here to make sure that combo cannot get everything that it
wants, Taipei, with the invisible boundary. We're gonna see Etsu go fishing, can they find anyone?
No, I think mostly blocked out by Shields, like you're a portal, I think. Yes,
Spy has returned a couple of players, but there goes your carry. Spark it down.
And now Etsu can just wait out all of this over health from the Mantis.
Wait for the Kraken impact. Looks towards the back. Can't quite...
No! Here's the portal! Oh, no, the magician's trickery too much.
You actually have been flummoxed by a wizard. It's okay.
Happens to all of us who play D&D these days.
Grabbed in by a psionic. All takes about five.
Really feeling the pressure mountain them right here.
Okay, so no touch?
So no touch?
Well, at least Saipa has the cloak of invisibility and we're able to disengage, but yeah.
That was up to Fai who's happy to go back to the Ultron, back to the double damage boost for VP.
As Rad will have some forgiveness, having the CRB online, as Rad can build a lot of momentum off of this devil,
this devil dino of the devil beast rampage is crazy kitty not a roll we see him on he's had
to flex a lot the man rats still look good yeah it's time to address the elephant or
dinosaur in the ring crazy kitty gonna be rescued by the way cosmic yarn amplifier on the devil beast
rampage feeding three droids for remainder of the team gets a 1v6 for a little while but now
with two strategists down vp at once again forced to retreat and i love this move ever
on to the double dimes. Try and constrain Fincy. If you can't ban out that Captain America,
you can certainly make him uncomfortable with the constant blinding. Dino is a tough matchup
to go into, even with an Emma. Because the Diamond form was popped from Nebix, that damage
mitigation is gone. Crazy Kitty can deny your heals with the barrier that is thrown on top,
so Nebix got caught. Nice momentum from Rad. Now it's the final fight for second.
Well, say goodbye to the Cosmic God Amplifier.
First away by the Ruby Rage, and Sypae has used everything here.
Round the outside, it's 2, it's 2, it's 3, oh, Primus, who's back, baby.
It's like, oh, she never left.
Season 1.5, welcome back.
Imagine all the work that VP did to, like, do homework and study the band lines.
What are the weaknesses from Rada, the S who shows up and 4Ks,
you know, 3 or 4Ks your team.
Like it's now you have to adapt on the fly and five will be on the star lord now finzi back to the Emma
Netflix on the group probably is tertiary vanguard
I would say but strong in this case as the verticality not as often used but at suits hoax may just be denied
It's something you could telegraph quite easily as a vanguard from BP, but finzi shield is only gonna last for so long
Yeah, the roster's turn burns through these shields rather quickly round the outside nice
initiative here from Ducky, but you've got to break down the ironwood wall to make sure
that your vanguards are not isolated and Susan's a lucky hook in the car quite find
anything debit carbon crush of a tainted voltage reloads the roster's turn, but you can see
the sharing out of these beans is a little bit troublesome here for rather than the feeling
that they currently have available. Crazy kitty next to poor but rather still getting extra
distance on this car until finally it's going to be exchange of coffee on average five to
The back seems to manage to escape.
Nice flip away from the grab from Exu and VP.
Now all the space they need to grab some control of the car.
A brilliant wall from Nevix.
As that dino from Crazy Kitty was trying to escape,
I was wondering if VP were gonna have enough burst damage.
If we could see the return of Sparkle
and the Punisher to deal with the dino.
But the grid wall is enough to force Crazy Kitty
now to swap to the Magneto to have a counter
against the Galactic Legends potentially.
Okay, Force there, Arthur a generation of mains, but that's a fairly good trade here for MASH.
Oh, here comes the copy of Yann Apple Fire, but it's going to be Nevix who strikes first.
Extra resurrection on the field, by the way, as the battle recoil beacon has been set up by both MASH
and Vertigo, but Smashners won't be returning any time soon.
Fly is found the extra beacon, Exil on the other side is taken on down,
and RAD despite their investment, get nothing.
And VP, the way they split RAD's focus and the awareness that Nevix saw RAD
look away from them through the, I mean,
the Hail Mary strangling prison works out.
Finzy, Psionics, seduction prevents Rad
from fully utilizing the cosmic yarn amplifiers.
So the counters from VP have been solid
and Rad just keep getting reset back to back.
Now with the NAPEX Predator,
you're gonna notice the spacing has changed from VP.
Dude, they do not but wanna be lined up
for that Elsa ultimate.
Yeah, Apex Predator can be a great countermeasure
against invisible boundaries while drawing people
out of its healing confines.
Hetsu currently searching for the Ironwood Wall of Nevis, notice that he's no longer immune to CC, fine with a great angle on to because of the Yarn Amplifier,
but can't really do much about these regeneration domains, actually just has to keep you away.
And so rad, he's gonna mostly be able to survive this one, even more taking to the sky, crazy kitty, where's Madunko in buddy,
wants Spark, a fine Spark, but can't quite get the final hit, so instead we'll turn upon Finty and now Spark on the off angle,
That's because we are on Amplify and the Ruby Rage, but instead he's just gonna float above it all, spread out the damage, democratization is lovely.
Smashness in the sky, still unwilling to get too much done as far as taking out on the other side.
And right of two ways to deal with the Galactic Legend, you have the Sionic Seduction from the Emma, you have the Meteor M, and that was not enough to stop VP.
It all came down to one invisible boundary.
A sparker stands tall as he has done up before.
Now the Ruby rage, I mean, Radar could be stuck at a choke point.
Now, emergency swaps are happening.
The Hawkeye almost traumatized me,
but a smash on the Punisher means anyone from VP getting close
will be hindered along with these Nebuch's walls.
They're not going to last very long
thanks to the Punisher consistent damage.
All early usage here of the regeneration domain,
and that means that Sparking can get all the more
with the 3B range inside of the strangling.
Prism is still enough healing.
What a great play from Maschia.
Copied the ultimate off of first ago
and so the eternal bond is gonna allow for Ranta.
Move on forward, get more distance on this car
as we head in towards the final battle
of seven seconds remaining.
And you got the invisible boundary.
Saipi has been crucial with these
and when the moment strikes,
and oh, let's just get really aggressive
once to build that ultimate.
Saipi will try to hold them back.
Final stretch won't work, emerging this fight.
In fact, it might have to be given up
trying to get a teleport back.
Here comes the Apex Predator, two player scrubs,
but it's broken down and Tridro's there
with the peel, cosmic yarn amplifiers,
gonna get it done.
Smash there's might emerge off the back of a zipline
with the ultimate, but I'm afraid it's too late
for any portal shenanigans.
Shutout on third, rads do not have the momentum.
The damage boosts on VP's side have been pretty critical,
whether it's the three, two or three
that they had in the beginning with the Mantis,
the Ultron and whatnot to just having the Cosmic Yarn Amplifier. Rad, I like that they
tried to fight through, create momentum off the Eternal Bond, but it just doesn't hit
the same as a rocket in this meta. Though the Bubble Placed by the Cloak and Dagger
did allow Rad to have enough healing to survive the initial Ruby Rage from Sparker, and then
the quick call of the Eternal Bond gave Rad a fighting chance. And almost getting to third
on Midtown is very commendable, especially when Rad looked like they were getting, not
spawn camped but they were stuck for a few minutes at the start of that third
point but so much momentum I think was created from Rad going Devil Dino which
VP had to adjust. It's a matchup you just haven't seen since the last match and
really came down to Nevix's groove to force Rad off their game. I mean honestly
if I'm Rad I'm pretty happy with this bush like Midtown is one of our more
defensively favored maps one of the better positions four a three three and
and 3-3 is certainly going to be on the card smash.
It's going to be on this preferred hero of the low key,
which is going to give so much healing over to Crazy Kitty,
but you still have to fear the kidnap here.
Usually we're going to see Ezsu going to be the prime victim of that kidnap,
given that Crazy Kitty is going to be undisplacable, just like the thing.
With the one-sided group, Ducky, that matchup is going to be important.
The longer that lasts, the more Ducky is going to do damage,
but you need someone to take down these walls,
and with a 3-3 setup of Wonder of Rad they're going to have enough poke damage.
It's going to come down to really smash, and smash and mash, honestly, to mash down these walls from Nevix
because that's been so good at isolating Crazy Kitty, what Esu needs to be in a position.
I like this high ground too. He's going to always have LOS on anyone who will need a life saving bubble.
Not Crazy Kitty, does get hit by a bonacook, but it doesn't move at all.
Moves over to the high ground, buddy barrier drawn up.
All of these shields with defensive onion is erected around the Devil Dinosaur, as with
defenses try and keep a little guy safe.
Kind of a, not a lot of good targets to try and hook if you're a five, because you can't
do it on the Dino or the Emma most of the time.
There's shields, there's a lot to carve through, a lot of big health force too, but pulling
it out of his massive.
Smashnails has to decide whether or not they want to invest in cocoon revival here.
Give them a crazy kill, he's TPing already on the other side, seems like they're not
going to use it here.
and said everyone will just reset on cart.
Yeah, because even if the atom comes back, that cooldown is gone, there's still a momentum reset from Rad's side
and they're going to be portaling so close. Now using it and angling it for a bit of coverage for their strategist
because you need to have mash online to not use these regen domains too quickly to get a nice dupe going.
Out there with the regen domain, just to try and make this embarkation from the port a little bit safer.
Fancy, nothing's the best of everybody. Here's the eternal bond.
on. VP have plenty of options to play with here. They can actually try and pull the Kogadaga out of
their own ultimate via some of their kit now. There's going to be a big strangling prison spark
is there with the follow-up and there's even tracking impacts on top of it. Buy with the reset
after the reset. Once smashed so bad, give me the reset they claim. However, it's a good turnaround
here. Verse go with the second usage of the eternal bond. The VP have used five ultimates here
without a win to their name and they just love to deal with the resurrections.
I wasn't synced up enough because uh Fai was waiting for the cloak and dagger bubble to expire
and that allowed Ra to be all killed at the night. Yes, you're shot by the force!
April, crazy kitty! Oh my goodness, a vanguard player all along. You were scared of him,
I'm all right, you weren't thinking about my Doctor Strange, bro. That makes you just
flinging right now. Get this man away from me, he's too scary on the wizard!
Oh my god, he's already 50% to another, are we serious?
Like, you're right.
Like, damn, indeed, 90 seconds left.
And VP, the defense stood tall in the end,
but they're really scratching their heads
on how to deal with this.
Now the Wolverine from five, I think we only
sought warrants, it was against the hair,
in the hair tics, matchup, silent seduction, ready or not,
here comes Ducky.
I quit scamper away from Jujja,
get him avoid, getting grabbed on in, crazy kitty,
not quite so lucky, there's no resurrections this time.
That's trained up for nevix, or the back of a light dagger as well from Virgo.
An ideal druid to remember is this time to set up the Coltsman Yarn Amplifier within the space of this battle.
And we're just engaged here, going to be relayed by a big grab coming through from the Wolverine.
Solvon's shares out with Damager of Spark, it could have possibly lain down with that Ruby Rage.
And those decisions have to be made by Rav.
We're going to go in with the resurrection here.
Mash is actually a copy of a Smash nose.
The Karmic Revival could bring back both Vertigo and Etzu, and indeed they will be able to easily triage any of the incoming damage.
Simon brings up the invisible boundary, now he's going to look for something here to try and turn things around.
No, they're going up against both the regeneration domain and the eternal bond here from the copied Cloak and Dagger.
They try to grab the Cloak and Dagger from the ultimate, and indeed Vertigo is pulled from the bounds that were left there before.
And so VP now have a commanding advantage, with both the last stand and the Cosmic Yana for Fire Seal available.
I might not even need them.
Finally, VP here is going to have the last stand.
What it comes to this first point objective and Nevix got his strangling prison denied by Ducky crazy kitty had a good start
I'm actually starting to become more of a fan of this cloak and dagger
It has fallen so much out of the meta but in a 3-3 setup the AoE heals from cloak and dagger got buffed in the most recent
Pash, so I think this is really supportive of the team well
It's denied VP their executions got them away from the Bucky of five and now he's on the Wolverine and it's so strong into crazy kitty
Here we go again, Crazy Kid's got an i like a moto, once you're gonna cook this time around, 90 HP to play with here for 5, a triage has arrived, but a map flip here from round is going on to continuously contest this card, just so worried about 5, you have to just grab inside this corridor, there's so much damage from the ruby rage, because with yard amplifier only made it all the more dangerous, smash this!
gets five resurrections, mash is back and ready for action but now you're playing catcher for
carts moving away, spark is continually knocking you back crazy kitty so the next one to fall and
smash has to karmic revive themselves down. One of our second revival though, who mash comes
through yet again with the copied karmic revival, that's too crazy kitty. What is the mortal coil?
Well it's cool because it's spun on up and you can rotate around it as many times as you would
like but still BP are in control of the objective. Yeah heroes never die but Rattlesnack build a
Card control, VP are just going to the end, and now there's a contest.
Stionic seduction pulls them into the Invisible Boundary.
Fenty put the Vanguard on their back, and Ducky has to disengage,
but you cannot run from Nevix and his ult.
Alright, Invisible Boundary there from Birdigo.
Petriage that was needed.
Send in to the Invisible Boundary.
Maybe not ideal there from Fyre,
preferably put them into your own team,
but now, if you just look to the remainder,
almost hands the team up ready again.
Running down, Ducky, and honestly,
rather in this sad position where they're just running after McCarty,
It's a little bit faster than they are.
Yeah, that's kind of a macro rat issue that they had on, uh, on Lower Manhattan yesterday.
They find themselves behind the attack.
They're able to recuperate, to stabilize, to be the final hold for rat on second point.
They go to Mastratus, just they all have bash.
Okay, fine.
We're on back here by the BRB, Ruby Rage.
Once again, good to go.
Sparkle just didn't just stop and targets up.
End of group four times.
Here comes the end times.
That's gonna be two.
Grabbed off a back of a Corsair, Yarn, Applefire and Ruby Rage.
Hello, there to go.
I'll figure the staggered bird to go.
No!
Good bye, bird to go.
And to execute MASH so early in that fight,
I mean, against region domains and the most escapable
and survivable strategies that you have in the game,
VP will step forth into the final push.
90 seconds though.
May you just come down to what fight
is Sparkers going to hit shots like that?
Disgusting stuff.
Smashners find out the hard way why Spark
It used to be banned off of this Cyclops, and VP have learned so much space here, nice pulling off the back of a force physics.
VP, they can keep getting these picks off of Sparker, they're not even gonna need any ultimates at this point,
and they could mirror, they could pull them in, Finsi goes fishing, and they still are in the safety of Vertigo's invisible boundary.
Nevis, thinking here, how the fuck should I get by you out of this strangling prison, Vertigo's inside of it, but are they gonna be rescued?
It seems that mash has managed to get yet another and it's who finally emerges with the church jury and executioner already to greet
VP in the streets one minute remains
But round have spent so much to survive this
And this next neutral is going to matter that you don't have the threat of the final judgment here of
Etsy because if you don't go magneto a punisher can take over a lobby sometimes
But at least without the old you have a fighting chance
But the turret will go up and now VP have to rely on sparkler to
negate that form for now as Rad will also have the ultimate advantage
But with the damage boost from Dredro coming up with the Ruby rage
Rad could be in some trouble
Yeah, so I'm love
I trust gets nothing but the wall in the way smashers needs to be rescued is even gonna be a little bit extra peel
But yeah, I'm a patrol where's it's a nice and even my boy right now crazy kidding takes to the sky blown up by the Ruby rage
Emergency manoeuvres here for VP, but the emergency seems to be going all their way.
The remainder of Rad broke it on down. It will take too long to respawn Crazy Kitty,
or when he's starting to cook with the portal, but should be easily chased on down here by the
remainder of VP before it can be properly opened.
And Bird of Ale is the last one to touch it. Here comes VP touching Spawn to the die.
The teleport, the portal from Crazy Kitty as VP will take back-to-back maps and go to CeresPoint.
Oh, what? What's up, Anodka? Between these two rosters.
Damn, we got C.F.2 back on the winter, soldier.
There's, bro, a little bit of a struggle.
I'm feeling a slight amount of concern after this one,
but in the end, because we got an amplifier
combined with the Ruby Rage,
managed to win so many fights in a row against tightly packed teams
who cannot escape from the beams.
And you can't escape from this break, guys,
but we could have one more map coming up or many more.
We'll find out what else Rad wanna do after this.
verdas bro said no more funny business and locked in towards the end and were able to
get the victory even if a sub for ratty sport I mean they're doing a monumental job we would
thought you know that it would have been a little bit easier more one sided you
could say for vertus pro to take the victory so far but they've had to fight
tooth and nail for every inch here lemon absolutely and it takes flawless
execution it's so hard to get through a 3-3 defense especially on midtown and
rad did their job at the beginning they dwindled the time bank down for vertus
perfect was so much and after two carbon revivals from rad vertus pro through
like fought through like three wars to stop rad on second and have them through
like had rad behind the car, but at the front of their game has been sparker three damage moves by the way with the Mantis Ultron and
The your rocket raccoon ultimate to get 60,000 damage. This is looking like prime terror out here
Essentially especially with the way that we saw you know terror in that upper final
I think a big thing to note here too speaking of that is like this is more a final hits that we saw from sparker more
KOs as well plus casualties in the entire series between the Virtus Pro and Navi in the upper finals
So definitely looking good here on the side clubs where I was kind of the one who was rocking it for a while
I'd like five being more of that guerrilla warfare as we talk about that
You know going in trading out casualties for final hits and really just getting into the heads of their opponents
But I think like you said a vest during the break when we were talking about this
Rad just kind of throwing out unorthodox comps similar to YWL and Verzvra just didn't really know what to do for some time
But eventually figured out the strategy. Yeah, Rad
They're making use of it to hero pool and knowing like we can't play our prime comps here, right?
We don't have Lugia. Lugia is such a huge part of our like overall identity when it comes to things like the Angela
Like the thing like the Hulk instead
We're gonna go down the year we lost a route because if we play some some real weird stuff like VP
word of script against this. They never played against 3-3 with Vino. I don't think anyone
played against 3-3 with Vino. Some truly weird things coming out. It's a really like a stress
test versus pro's like trauma response almost, which could be like very valuable for VP in
terms of like getting warmed up that ran aren't quite out yet. And if they managed to find
like the perfect way to utilize it, so maybe there's a world where the reverse sweeps on
the cards.
VP had to dig through the history books on how do you deal with Dino and Nevix's
Groot. Like we talked about VP eventually got to the counters where it was Nevix's
Groot. Fai got off the Bucky when he was getting countered by the Loki or the
Cloakie backline. So many heals on up. Executions couldn't keep it going again
and again. The Fai Wolverine that punched the Emma and the Doctor Strange. Even
kidnapped I think an Adam combined with Psypace Pull and the Invisible Woman
created so many good opportunities for VP and you still got to commend Rad for
you know, showing up and fighting with everything they can with an unfortunate situation. That's
happening to them. I'm still replaying the crazy kitty at four men. I have a gumoto in my mind,
like the fact that we had crazy kitty basically be the MVP of the series to qualify for a landing.
Now, how's the flexibility to play vanguard? I mean, maybe just used to it for having to do that
and ranked as well. Right. We've seen that everyone's had to hopefully, you know, pick up the roles
where your team are not wanting to swap off of and get the win out of the way. And it seems to be
be the case here for Rad.
Lower Manhattan we go to, and we've
seen some interesting results from both these teams
on this map.
And I think this is where, you know,
Rad specifically are trying to take a page of the Pair
textbook against VP, where they looked really good on this map.
Yeah, I'd agree.
I think that this one with that sort of penny comes out as well.
VP have played some weird things here.
I think they played Penny and Human Torch on the defense,
which was a surprise to me before.
will have to see if it comes up in bands.
I think this pick is really interesting,
because this was the only map that Rad
dropped yesterday against Team Heretics.
And I think it came down to more of a macro issue
where finding themselves behind Team Heretics who
were pushing the card, then Rad, it
was a snowball that got created on Heretics's attack,
and Rad could not match Blow for Blow.
So kind of an interesting pick for the lower Manhattan side,
because it was Heretics that did that,
well as a VP did not have success on this map against team heretics. And that was a
another heretics map pick. So very unique here. But I think we got to address all the
damage routes that VP have had. Surely Rad are going to try and ban some of these.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind if VP, if VP protect Romanticia, I wouldn't mind seeing Rad get
rid of the Ultron this time around. Given that this is a pretty classic pivot for
Phi, it's a great use of their skillset as they are very solid hit-scan amour as well
as a pretty good flyover as well as we've seen them play the human torch a reasonable
amount over the course of their pro career. On the one side of Loki though,
going to be a priority here and this is going to give Rad a distinct advantage in terms of like
your Vanguard matchups because it's very hard to beat the raw neutral healing that Loki can provide.
I'm gonna be a little bit more
careful with the
banning nevix's grud. I wonder
if it's going to be another
devil. I know angle too.
Because that makes was a huge
part of isolating that Vanguard
even through the bottle. A
buddy buddy buddy barrier. There
we go. Like, Yeah, that was
really crucial to deal with an
daredevil being protected here
for DP. That was a five
special before. I think the
Wolverine can be brought out as
Nevic's Venom'd, so that's interesting.
Okay, this time making sure that a Groot is going to be available.
You know what?
I like this Protect from Rad.
It's a very unconventional Protect, but Groot is quite integral to many defensive holds,
especially on first point here, of Lower Manhattan.
This is a very harsh choke to try and attack with mobility.
Generally, Attrition is one of the better ways forward.
All you try and TP to flip the entire map and avoid attacking into A through the narrow
choke points that are available.
rad prioritizing like that. They're ground and pound like frontline style. Very
hundred thieves ask. I think it's gonna serve them well. The rad throughout the
series have been so focused on vanguard bands and they haven't addressed all the
damage boosts which now one-sided rocket for VP yet again having the Mantis and
the Ultron. So much is targeted towards Navix where we'll see kind of what he
ends up pivoting to. Rad will also have Ducky to hold down the area. A very strong
group map at least for the defense side of things but rad have also brought out
some interesting teleports or the portals from the Doctor Stranges when we
saw on Cracola and even some weird ones on Midtown so hopefully a VP have
something in mind for those portals. Okay, gonna be VP starting off first on the defense
this is a little bit more fleeting of a defense than we used to on a on Lower
Manhattan with Net. We have seen this be played by VP with Penny Venom
if I remember correctly. So a little bit of a different look here. So play the Emma and the
Angela, which is going to provide a little bit more front line pressure from the Emma,
but very easy to get overwhelmed, especially by those walls. I prefer Finsie on the Emma. He's
tried the Penny Parker in the past, but you don't have a really stationary front line if
you're solo holding basically on the Penny Parker, or Nevix is either been Angela or Venom on the
defense. Their defense got folded like a
lawn chair in the past so this is going
to be a much better anchor if you have
the solo vanguard as an Emma while
Nevex flies around so we'll see what
kind of tackles he can take but they
need to take down this Ironwood wall
from Ducky if they want to target the
group. Okay, two full match rolls down
Desmond, there's a moment of offensive
about moving forward and you can see
that Ironwood wall being up as well.
Desmond, that immunities of CC is going
to be at the front of my nice pull in
there onto Etsy to try and avoid some
of the incoming pressure from that
barnacle great heads up life in survey yeah if it's not gonna be the show from
the angel it'll be five which now targeting the same angle making sure
that rad can't use this ramp and if they do they'll pay the price and they're
almost brought to the arena what control and they've managed to wall them off
still Angelo wrapping around the side as you said if it's not one it's the other
barnacle that think it's gonna ride but fights fallen down their simtian seized
and crushed by Emma Frost this crazy kid is gonna be taking a huge amount of
damage pushed into the midst of VP but there is gonna be enough field there to
to get them back in.
Etsy around the other side,
can they get the rescue?
A nice punch out using the troopers fist
and it seems that VP,
their fleeting defense is not serving too well.
He already ran,
have control over the point
and Fincy's cooking a portal back.
Yeah, they're...
How rat are able to follow up on these pulls
because Sycrae's also on Invis
and can do just that
as your daredevil's the first to enter.
Yeah, but they haven't touched the point in time.
It all came in terms of an Ironwood wall.
Unfortunately, my focus ranged
not driving the portal in the record time.
Wow, Rad, just going toe-to-toe against VP
and now you have all the strategists ulted online
so Rad can win this big, old fight.
They should be setting themselves up
to really snowball all the way into the second point
but the damage boost is what's on my mind here,
Dredro having that.
No, Ultron for VP this time
as Scythe again wants to try and pull people in
that Nevic serves him.
Finzi on the cap, that's one of his best heroes, and he wants to disrupt this fight.
Demons just grabbed there, by the Diamond form, Carbon Crush got them down, that extra HP is going to be applied, Sparker just destroys Mertigo.
They cannot be saved by the invisible Boundary because the extra damage, because of the Allen Amplifier, just chews through the health bar.
If you don't have 3 damage, Bruce Sparker should still be able to drop 40 damage in this fight.
I mean, and he has so low casualties too. He's so good at taking low risk opportunities as Finzi is staggering
Vertigo I guess so if it's not sparkler. That's the issue. It's Finzi in your back line
So VP are buying a lot of good time
But rats still have so many win cons now could be a ducky strangling prison
And we are gonna be going for when VP are playing so disperse. They have such mobile vanguards
and you're gonna have to try and get five if he doesn't come back.
Well, he has indeed come back, unfortunately, as he's not gonna have any such opportunities.
We'll have to walk back to the other fashion way.
Masha still thinks it's winnable, cos he can't amplify a use, but, uh, VP, they simply try to leave.
Seems the rigoration doesn't grab too much, but Sparky gets isolated,
and Finsi now moves over to try and contest the car on the other side.
The chaser down onto Masha should be somewhat, uh, at least, tempered by the round defense.
And Lugia would be their cap player if they kinda wanted to mirror this.
Oh, have a retribution on three!
Oh, that's grabbed a huge amount.
You can see the counter-play coming on through.
All the old Snevix is isolated, even inside of the invisible boundary.
All of that focused fire onto our Rooted Angela does so much.
They want Finsie.
Super bad, needs a bunch of healing to make sure he doesn't feed over a reset here.
The Klingor was gone.
Esu was gonna get no second chances, but Nive is fine.
as they're chased down by Chris Gideon the Angela now. What is this guy's hero, Paul?
I don't know. But what an uno-reverse crowd that RAD served them when Nebuchadne
such a huge hell of heaven's retribution. RAD are going to do the same thing to them.
Sparkers on the leash, but he's back. He's trying his best to fall away, but now
Sype can't be resurrected either because Spark is already used in. Chris Gideon is still on the
chase. They're going to go as access to the invisible boundary if they need it. The Finns
He's just gonna be bouncing away if I managed to find the opening critical play
It seems you don't need spark as all the year's these matters just bounce all the punch dimension energy around on rad
VP had a choice to whether disengage after he lost sci-fi or to just perish on the payload and to create a second fighting
Opportunity, but then VP end up winning anyway while beating down the whole strategies
Defensive spawns are gonna be a bit closer than rad so that always helps and sci-fi gets back quicker now swapping to
Luna, she got her skates on and rather taking shelter, but Finsie's on the flank.
And this is a new, not a new combo, but I like that their VP are targeting this combo a lot more with the Cosmic Yarn Amplifier and the Ruby Rage.
This is something that that has hindered them if they don't have that damage boost through the invisible boundary
You may not have enough burst damage to take out the team
So crazy kid he also finally gets to explore the map and felt like he was really trapped in that room and VP
Have been marking his path and he's looking to maybe dive towards where the Cyclops is but crazy kid
He is just having a hard time. This is a tough hero for him to pull out randomly. Yeah, he's planning against quite a few counters as well
Well, fire is going to be able to drag them down. Income 7 is retribution.
Vixen making it very uncomfortable to stay on the cart for now.
It's back in VVC's control. You've got to get someone on this if you are rad.
And Masha's right, she's stealing away the fate of both worlds.
Scythe is going to try and match it here, but there's plenty of healing for everyone.
As both Falluna's dance away and show off their mixtapes.
But now fire is going to be the be-all and end-all,
letting the devil out into the backline of rad.
Masha doesn't have quite enough gun in time,
and there's nothing for Smashnares to try and do.
that he's got rid of side bay on the other side but the healing for ram has been absolutely
guesstimated they're working on borrowed time they're working on borrowed health crazy kid he's
got his moves but sparky don't even need to aim anymore bro gets the e and it's late to the party
for captain america he spent all of last night showing the sky who's boss on july 4th vp's redirection
in these fights is so good like as soon as you lose track of mash vp just ruined the rest of the
the back line of rad and this is just not comfort pigs from rad side. It's tough. You're
going up against the former world champs of VP on a lot of their best heroes and VP disengaged
or even winning fights while Cyphe is down. VP may have lost the first point defense being
quick fashion, so to say, but their next defense was ironclad through back to back to back
fights, Rad never built momentum, they tried to swap but once they were clumped up, crazy
kitty just didn't know how to navigate, how to go after Sparker, what could he create?
Because as soon as he went for Heaven's Retributions, VP had a thousand olds to throw at the Angelo
right back.
So your second point being better for VP, not that surprising considering that composition,
I think that composition was actually very ill-suited to first.
They got absolutely dominated in like the Vanguard stand on point and fight model.
But when it came to having the additional verticality and these options to attack from
different angles, that's where VPs like Pseudo Dive set up really was able to get a little
bit more value.
And it allowed Spark to play from more surprising positions as well.
And Demand of the Crazy Kitty moved over to a less than ideal hero in the Angela trying
to continually chase that down.
And the Shrapool was going to be committed from Dredra.
By the way, he has zero casualties when he was on the Rocket Raccoon previously, more
a conservative safe portal from VP, not looking for a surprise, but rather have a better angle
force Ratt away from the choke point, which they could have tried to utilize Ducky, but
Ducky is kind of distracting, didn't go for an initial wall, yet VP will deal with it
easily as Spy looms for his opportunity.
Alright, Redran, I actually went for a ban on the start a little bit here, interesting
Yeah, the strap pull is uncommon to see and you really have to play around that ore at
all times like a death ball and I think VP got tunneled and we're stuck in a
small room we got really chaotic and VP won't have that portal for a little
while now so from the back approach don't get to see the nevix Hulk every day
but a fastball be thrown right in rad space if I stays alive there we go and
we'll see how rad will try to hold this back.
The Mag is a little bit overwhelming.
Nevix may want to train. Oh, if I just get knocked out of his hand, maybe buy a little bit of CC
Unfortunate, but it happens now VP just gonna scround him hound onto the point and miss from fire
Unfortunately, even when I'm ducky being CC a moon now has access to the strangling prison as well looking towards VP
Might try and put down the wall for a little surprise draw of the ultimate
But most of Sape and Ruga can both answer it with their own ult, big grab moving through there's the ruby rage
It seems Smash doesn't grab too much, but Ducky's there and will follow up anyway.
Fire taken on downspark, it doesn't even see where the fire is coming from, and Crazy Kiddy resurrects himself.
He's got to look out for number one, Lemon.
And I would have liked to see a invisible boundary from Cyphe.
Maybe that fight was salvageable, but the rad pushback was just simply too strong.
Back-to-back fights and VP's offense is really starting to weaken.
If they can't wrap around this left side and get fine position,
as he's now diving after the Cyclops and the clump of Rad in the back.
Rad, have to be careful about it.
They stay in a clump, because the last time he could grab multiple members of their team
and there's no common ground, I was just trying to rescue the other things.
Goal of Rai meets the rems since he could grab nothing so far.
Edzoop, he was scary, but he wasn't that much.
This is already down.
VP didn't have any matter of really bringing them back as soon as the BLP was too far away.
Big grab by Ned from midair, crazy kitty.
No resurrections this time, and a little slam outside of the invisible boundaries.
Shots down at you. Where are the heels, bro? My guy was allowed to just be full pounded
Yeah, everyone witnesses to that in the invisible boundary which was not on top of that victim
So karmic revival crazy kiddies
What's another chance at life as VP have to maintain this they're almost about to cap
Revival and the portal all stops on deck here for Radsfark are looking towards the back room you raise two minute over
Who's gonna grab Ducky, gets eviscerated, evaporated,
atomized, and so too just the rad defense.
The cart starts moving.
Oh, not a second too soon, huh?
Like a pretty serious defense.
That's what rad side have been really good at,
and even from midtown, they draw so much time out of VP,
but at the MVP, have had the counters.
Like bringing out the fastball,
the double team up with the Cyclops,
the extra mobility for Phi, all lies are on him.
And if he could just execute consistently in, Crazy Kitty will be back, but this is Brad having to play slow before he comes back.
Yeah, he's in the rival used to all the last standings are absolutely gargantuan.
Crazy Kitty only just got back for O and Vertigo is feeling very sad feelings as they stare at this invisible boundary.
Yeah, a couple members of Rad are safe inside, there's only three of them remaining, Ducky being down from the sky.
for space lasers have chosen their victims and unfortunately they all bear the rad logos.
VP claimed their vengeance for a pre-season tournament where they went out sick. A humiliated
world champion claims their then back as they ascend towards a throne where they will fight
Narvi for the crown. And rad without their mythical bird in the lineup, it's a different day and maybe
in a different dimension Radha would have put up a better fight if not would have won the whole
thing it depends on really who you're a fan of but VP I mean the journey is not even done yet
because right after this they have to go up against Na'Vi was this a good enough warm-up
sparker looked sharp as ever dropping what an average of 40,000 damage got up to 60 with enough
damage boosts and Votable VP looked good but I wish we got to see Rad at their full potential
That's the thing that's on everyone's minds right now after watching this matchup because of how close it was
Through at least the first and second map maybe not as much in this last one here as well
But I think the big thing that ride can take home is like okay, you know
We have a couple things to work on we can even play some of these
Unorthodox compositions I guess you could say against teams like furthest pro and it might work out a little bit in our favor to throw
Them off our trail in terms of hero pool and I think it also goes to show that they're not too reliant
on the Wolverine, similar to where we saw it on YeweyLost,
that they were very reliant on the Jitward Daredevil yesterday.
So I think this is good news for Rad going into the land,
that they have some things to work on.
But once they had their full roster,
very easily could have kept that a lot more competitive.
And at least taken a map or sent us to five,
like we've been in previous matchups between these teams.
But Virtus.Pro, I think this is a solid warm-up at that.
and we'll see if that's going to be enough against the reigning preseason champions in
the V who did not even let them really get out of the spawn room sometimes and get going
in the three map series in that upper bracket and you know looking at the MVP of course
who else but the three time now spark here for every single map for good reason a little
bit less damage but didn't need as much this go around to secure the victory really supported
by the rest of the team here as well lemon. Yeah, he's their golden goose.
There are three damage boosts.
All the vanguards are protecting him through VP, having so many of their
strong vanguards banned out from nevix double banned out, like the groot,
the venom, the cap, I think, got targeted at some point.
And VP still found answers.
And that's what we wanted to see how they were going to adapt when they were
targeted and even five got his daredevil removed and he still found his way through.
So big shout out to VP and I think also some copes they only have to play three maps so they
got to hide more of their strats against Na'Vi who are probably watching or maybe screaming right now.
That is a very good point to make. They didn't really have to reveal their full hand here but I
I think also it makes it not be cautious about the sparker
Cyclops potential.
So that's got to be on their mind going in
into their grand finals match.
But best of seven, of course, you
have to win the four maps to come out on top there,
which is the big thing as well, right?
And going to look at across the board.
You know, crazy kitty, I got to say,
doing quite a good job on the multiple rules
that they had to play throughout this matchup like that.
I mean, Crazy Kitty definitely making a case for being one of the most valuable players in the game for the versatility that this guy has in that pool.
I actually played all three roles over the course of this matchup.
Yeah.
Why, we saw them on the Adam Boorlog, we saw them on the Devil Dinosaur, we saw them on the Angela, all of which are a little bit of a treat.
But for Virtus.Pro, I think that this has been a good brain teaser for them as well,
going into the grand finals, which might be necessary given that they were a little bit slower to a dance against Navi yesterday.
And I think Virtus.Pro did do a little bit of adaptation today to be faster on it.
Well, we do have an interview coming up here in a moment with Nebix, and they'll give us their insight into, you know, the chaos, the madness that was that series against Rated.
against Rad, but also the one yesterday might be a little bit more interested to pick their
brain about as well. So let's go to that and bring them on to the broadcast and hear their
thoughts about their series win in their grand finals qualification. Nevix, I know the thing
that's on everyone's mind is that series yesterday, but I kind of want to go back a little bit
further to preseason, right? Lowest placement you guys have had now back into qualifying
for the midseason land for the first time and also making it to the grand finals where
you couldn't last year. How does it feel to, you know, come out and showcase the improvements
from the preseason, but also last time that you're in this very same spot?
We can't, can we?
We should hear you on your...
You might be muted on your DevX.
Thank you, DevX, we...
Good afternoon.
Okay.
Alright, so I was saying...
Yes.
Yesterday I felt like we came in with a bit low energy and we kind of blundered our draft
in our strategy and we were not really feeling too confident and the navies like they punished us
they ripped us apart but i'm very happy that we got this far and we performed this against
rio today i'm a bit sad that luia wasn't here for this match like i would have loved them to be
at full strength but we'll take it how's the energy in the comms at the moment you talked
about being fairly low energy yesterday going into navi do you think you guys are feeling a
a bit more this time around?
Yeah, I think yesterday we were kind of relieved
that we qualified.
So we didn't come in super hungry for yesterday's match.
But today I felt like after getting that loss,
we're like, ah, we had to step it up and show them
that we're actually a good team.
And you really are.
And it was nice to see how you guys were able to adapt
through an obvious curveball of Rad playing
all these different roles and different heroes
to try and adjust around their situation.
How was it for you personally or really the Vanguard line with Finzi that there's so many Vanguard's were targeted, especially in your pool?
Yeah, so we did a bit of a different draft today and they were trying to make their triple support stronger by banning out characters like Venom, etc.
And I think like Venom is a great answer against the triple support.
So I think that was mainly why they were doing those puns.
You guys yesterday obviously wasn't the greatest matchup, but you don't have to reveal what
because they're probably watching and you don't want to leak strands.
But did you identify things from like Vod review yesterday that you had to work on and have
you addressed them properly?
Yeah, we had a great talk after the Navi game and there was definitely some pointers that
we looked at that Navi did really well and we didn't do very good.
Yeah, we talked a bit. Hopefully we can get better at it.
Final question for you before we let you get ready for the Grand finals. Best of 7 is going to be a great one.
We now know all the teams that are headed to the mid-season final, you guys included.
EU over NA, there's the other regions. Who do you think are going to be your top competitors there?
I have to say Liquid, looking really strong right now. Swamp is also up there.
I also think all three of them, FlyQuest as well. I think all three teams are very strong.
I don't think that's actually enough, FlyQuest. Sorry.
Okay, my bad. My bad. I'm going to bed early, so...
It's okay, it's okay.
I'm going to bed early, so...
I'm going to bed early, so...
I'm going to bed early, so...
I'm going to bed early, so...
I'm going to bed early, so...
I'm going to bed early, so...
Yeah, they all look strong. Appreciate your insight there, Nevex. Good luck in your upcoming match. We'll be watching it with Bated Breath.
Thank you.
I understand that I was thinking flyquests, you know, had a good shot at it too, but unfortunately
they were not able to make it through themselves. And you know, maybe rooting for the EU players
on that roster as well on his end. But even then, you know, hundreds of these made it through.
There's some tough competition. But I think the big thing is a lot of teams, maybe once
they qualify for land think, oh, that's all we got to worry about. There's a $200,000
here by the way for this stage one plus,
a lot of money on the line, 64,000 USD for first place.
I mean, there's a lot on the line for these teams
and I hope that they lock in a little bit more
than what they said they did yesterday.
Yeah, like while I'm hoping that VP lock in,
I think there is a little bit of pride on the line
here for Navi as well, despite their dominance
across multiple matters and mid-season,
excluding pre-season.
They've never won a regional stage title.
Like stage one was won by Citadel last year,
the first time ever. And how
warm is Navi going to be? Well,
pretty warm. They start off
every series with a back wind
and they haven't dropped a game
yet, even spawn holding BP, but
that makes seems confident that
they've addressed the issues
and sparkers dropping 60,000
damage. So sparker versus Sarah
is going to be an incredible
matchup. Yeah, I can't wait to
see exactly how everything
unfolds here. I think it's
I can't wait to see exactly how everything unfolds here,
especially, you know, looking at the group stage,
only dropping the one map to VP,
which is on Central Park, which is an anomaly
that I think it was Tara said, even himself.
We'll see if a single map does get taken.
This go around otherwise, Navi will be the most dominant
team we've seen in EBA since Virtus.Pro last year.
It all comes down to our grand final.
They also have some information coming up pretty soon
that we'll talk to you about after this break.
Ah, I'm singing a high-pitched song
Did not come coming down to go
Just wanna go hey, go to the top
I'm gonna be down, my, my, my, my, my
I'm gonna blow up, my, my, my
I'm gonna run to you, wake you up
Every day, every moment, every moment
I have to keep it, if you like it
As it does, the lights gripping tightly, chopping all those tiny souls, body and, across the world, I see you standing in my way.
I remember the time, the place we used to fight, the sun and moon, and I wonder, whether there was a tender, peaking word prayer.
See, that is the holiest shadow, swimming in an ice
That's how it has come to me, it's taking a while
The hearts that know for a life, we can't get in
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
Break it down, I'll make you cry
Swaying up with this enchantment of sorrows
Before the risk, my prayers are yet
The unrepresenting end
I've been blind, I've been blind
I've been told that the power is gone
And so am I
We arrive to the end
We clash, I win
We'll fight, we'll sing across the ends
Face towards you
And I
This is the end
I'm sorry, I can't still fight Like the wind in his mind, when there's no more
And now it's the only time you're already mine
Life has fallen, but there's no more
And now it's the only time your heart is mine
Life has fallen, darkness is broken
Yes, you've got the world just to need it, babe
Two days, nothing but the past and the future
Trace your shame, make it away, fight with me
And when you're awake and I'm coming, your voice resounds
A moment, you sense, passion, and sorrow
And when the winds turn to thin
The earth revolves in a season
Now it's time to make your minds
You walk on shit, how can you stand on this hell box?
We ain't got no time to live until the end of time.
Not a rare venom.
I'm going to show you the
next one. Welcome back,
everyone. I told you there might
be some information after the
break. This is an announcement
of an announcement happens all
the time in e Sports July 7th
is the next dead vision, and
that's where you'll find out
more information about the mid
season finals. So make sure you
tune in to figure out that
location when it's going to be
all of the details will be in
that dev vision itself. So
everything else could be great. New bounce batch too for these teams to participate on
for the promo relegation tournament that will be coming up. So it's going to be a great
time. Morpho of that also got released on the rivals, Esports, Twitter. Definitely recommend
it. Following that along with the action. Maybe myself too. I do post a lot. Either way,
it's shameless self-plug. We do have our grand final here between Navi and Vertus Bro, where
they will be facing off the scene. Who's going to be at the top of the dog at the end of the
road. Navi have been 19 and 1 in maps throughout the group stage into the grand final here as
well from the playoffs and they seem unbeatable like that. Yeah by possibly anybody. Navi looks
like the perfect machine right now. We have a couple of questions during pre-season before they
won it all and during groups when maybe a map was dropped onto like how does this team go higher
than heights. How do they sun it higher than the pinnacle? And recruiting shoe as their coach
appears to have done the trick. Now that they have all of their leadership worked out, someone's
there to take the near culprit, the strike goes wrong, and all they have to do is just do what
trust me tells them in the game. Navi seem to be the perfect team. That's the thing. How do you
beat perfection? Tara is not just the best cyclops, is now the best duelist in the world.
He's on average dropping 20 final blows a game and not just against little Timmy, against the Virtus Pro and against Rad.
And they didn't encounter heretics, but this is going to be their competition.
Virtus Pro led a nice warm up against Rad just now.
A nerfed Rad at that.
But I think my eyes are going to be on Sparker.
If he gets all the damage boost, if they are still able to protect all the Ultron or the, well mainly the Mantis,
Having the rocket raccoon part of that spark or will be amazed
I'm more curious to see if the gambit is going to be bad or the mantis, right?
We've seen teams were shifting their prioritization from the Mantis of first band. That's we saw
I think this that was like a hundred times so far going into this playoffs in comparison to where it was a bit of a different story for
You know, we saw devil dinosaur have a lot of prioritization in terms of meta before
But now it's been a completely different ball game after the adjustments of the 8.5 patch.
And I think Virtus.Pro after, you know, fresh nights of sleep, they could sleep it a little bit longer too before their match as well and get prepared for this grand final, a decent warm-up where they can play their strats closer to their chest and get prepared for this one as well.
And this being a rematch of that Atlanta DreamHack grand finals that we saw in 20-25 where Virtus.Pro came out on top.
the biggest difference here is Tara from Na'Vi might be that weapon X for this roster.
Y'all were just stealing crazy kiddies twos now, aren't we?
Yeah, maybe a little bit.
Yeah, Tara might be of a secret weapon. Well, I don't think Tara actually has that much secrecy
to them right now. Everyone knew before he got in that Tara was kind of goaded and since being
surrounded by an even greater caliber of players than he previously was, Tara has shown that he
He has the capacity to be the best player in the world.
And I think it comes down to those Flex Duelists as well,
because I think we're all pretty confident in Sparker or Terra,
how that's going to go.
Cyclops, oh, Terra looks so sad.
Maybe he's just resting.
The best track in the world.
Best player.
He also never smiles when he pops off, by the way.
He's just stoned cold.
But yeah, Flex Duelists, you have five versus Jerky.
I think Jerky has had a huge step up in terms of this playoffs.
He was always good, but it was always the Tara show and now jerky can be on the daredevil the starler the
Scyloch and Fyre's been picking up more of the Wolverine and the daredevil
So we'll see what Duelis will get through or are are we targeting more vanguards these days?
We just got jerky like in the darkness there trying to figure out exactly which role he's gonna be playing for this team
It's gonna be a triple strategy like we talk about are they gonna be more on the Wolverine or something a bit more flexible as well
but Vernon T'Challa coming out for this first map. A lot of flexibility, but we could see some Angela played here, or even bands.
It's been a bit more prioritized in the meta here due to the recent buffs, the Assassin's Charge, cooldown reduction, and also the nerf of the Devil Dinosaur has made it a lot more viable as well.
So we'll see what compositions these teams show up and showcase for our first map of the Grand Finals.
Best of seven, everything on the line. Na'Vi versus Verz Pro, let's get into it.
For their first regional stage title, Navi are chomping at the base and are hungry as they come. VP have already had to expend some energy here London from their reserves for that 3-0 against Raz. We have to check their stamina as we head into our best of seven.
Seven and this is still a random first map
But it's still the advantage for Navi because they knew what this first map was going to be
Well as you know for this program
I think it wouldn't matter at a time so Navi I'm sure I've really been cooking for this burning to Chala
Which they haven't played in playoffs yet while his VP have visited this a couple of times
So like you guys said the Angel has been so key for Navix or the Venom depending on what sub map we go to
The daredevil's protected here for five. So you kind of know what's on the menu as Navi will get rid of the gambit and protect the mantis
Nothing along with the bands
Let's bark as far from a yes man puts up a lot of roadblocks to their opponents and it seems like now they they're focused on
Squeezing this strategist for it's gonna love the piece
Maybe go for a protect on a rocket raccoon here to give himself still a good backline option
indeed that is going to be the case, but Navi are going to be easily able to match that if they so desire.
Only so many damage was for Sparker this time, but I'm really scared about this mantis.
We've seen how much of a difference that's made, and even having such good CC to deal with any upcoming dive,
but will there be adjustments to that backline if you're facing an Angela versus a Venom,
which now Na'Vi are going to ban the Venom VP thinking the same thing so it could be an Angela duo.
Okay, so critically here VP are still going to have their cap boosts in lock targeting towards
Finssey's cap. It's an America to try and slow down their dive especially on domination, but we
saw for prioritization towards that Venom because they don't want to deal with a damage boosted
feast of the Abyss knowing that that could be easily damage boosted with the prevalence of
the Mantis. One thing we do have to be concerned about here for the Virtus Pro though is that Na'Vi
they're gonna have a double damage boost with the Ultron up as well.
That's going to be the worst sub map for our little angel.
So VP versus Na'Vi, map one Na'Vi prepared for this one of VP.
Warmed up or tired?
Question mark. All mysteries will be solved here and now.
Over the course of seven grueling maps, Na'Vi can etch their name
in the history of EMEA Stage Finals.
Or VP can once again prove the doubters wrong and show just what makes
a world champion.
Finsie was such a good disruptor in that last matchup as well,
but going up against Rasharo, an ever so flexible Vanguard,
Fort Navi, this is such a well-rounded roster.
Navi just looking like a team you can't really ban against.
Trust me, he begins his duel against the opposition.
Take him down first.
Buy Syphax, keep your eyes on trust me right now.
Malts, bring up the Fundo ad right now.
Trust me, looking to try and team Bugs.
Fuck!
But guess who ain't missing?
Someone ain't taken extra damage, Sarah taken down here by Spark and VP coming in a little bit warmer this time.
Perhaps we're fencing a Satshuken extended inside the bubble. Hard to receive those heals.
And trust me, moves through to take out the additional Vanguard as well.
Extra XP on the backline as Rajro continues hunting down the strategist and still VP are looking for that first camp.
And I know Saifé's not on Ganda, that's banned, but still finding so much value, the pull onto Level 1 Crook.
That's the first elimination onto Na'Vi, you cut those heals down so much.
A lot trickier too to get headshots as a mantis, you know, when they're not facing a double dinosaur.
So we'll see kind of what resource balance fate can do.
This site has actually been a monster thus far on the invisible woman.
It's like, yo, did you forget that I'm me?
And Na'Vi, they're just gonna have to poke away here for a little bit, try and build up towards more of a shard just else.
To get these first picks, I mean, that's how VP just bought themselves.
Somebody free fights and another huge pull from Syphe.
Syphe.
Yeah, Bro's done being embarrassed.
Everybody gets one.
I gave you the easy one, but now it's real Syphe.
Hey, and this is Data Voo from, I mean,
VP looking good at the beginning of Domination.
And of course, the other team can easily come back.
Navi, you just need to get the roof going.
And maybe some ults as well.
Crook is so far behind due to those picks.
Dredro, Syphe.
It's going to be the damage boost first with the Ruby Rage!
All and because we yarn amplifier 3, 2, 1 and detonate, Spark is back.
But for Navi, that was a zero resource push.
They took the economy here.
Now they're going to be able to be loaded for there for the next one.
Navi are just so allergic to going down this main tunnel
because they just don't want to get poked down from Sparker,
but then they're getting pulled by Sipy to the low ground.
And Navi are having a hard time attacking into this.
This is so defenders sided, allowing VP to be proactive with their ults.
But now the ball is in Navi's core, but this could easily go to 99% for VP.
Okay, now trying to strike first. How comes the big ult from Territate?
It's down Sythe. Actually got rid of the invisible boundary as well.
Has a huge amount of resource that VP's not gonna have available.
Say goodbye to all of the healing and Navi.
You know what? When you pop three Qs at once with perfect timing,
it tends to work out in your favor.
Fate gets a double to finish it all off.
And 98% is all VP managed.
That's so unlucky.
That must have been like mid-alt summoning from Saipi,
because you have a double jump.
I mean, you don't even need a mobility cooldown
to get away from a Ruby rage,
so completely caught by surprise.
And Na'Vi, though, big investment
just to get this started.
They have a soul resurgence,
and you just know how suffocating it can be
to face Na'Vi when they get going.
So VP, though, going through a charm, this is scary.
Brand new band, Hammer.
into the back really wants a big rocket racoon but spark is going to be a better target this time
around it would seem. Down to half xRHP given over by a freedom charge. Vincent making sure that
everyone's nice and healthy here for the side of BP and now BP they can make their own engagement
happen here off the back of an engagement from Fi already without a recall beacon has been expended
to bring side pay back and Fi moves in towards the back wants Terra so bad trust me his corpse just
flies towards with teammate, awarding to anyone else who would dare to try and stand up against the
bears. Level 1 quick nose with its emergencies now. So with four players remaining, Stars will
fade to both worlds, which just gives VP some time to batten down the hatches, make sure everyone's
healed on up. Could be a CP back from Navi, but if Sparky is moving first, an extra band
hammer given on over and five speaking short, but no one can move in towards the point. VP
in control and no one's touching. All right, here we go. Okay, warm up around for Navi.
clearly
The fate of both worlds not reaching
Rajaro just never rose to the surface and
Was abandoned
by the rest of his team so weird matchup for sure and
BP will now enter the next map where you a next sub map where it's gonna be a lot more open than
War your falls and not as defend decided I would say you could see a lot more dive
This is where the Rajaro Angel is being considered, Nevix could go through that as well.
But Finsie, leading on this Doctor Strange, we don't get to see VP go for early portal
trap plays too often, but this could be where they have pulled out special surprises for
Navi.
A little bit of Muggin.
Move over to the White Box, it's interesting here.
Definitely trying to constrain Fai's influence.
And this has been handing off the Mantis Rostridos to Jerky, who of course does have the aim
to make this one work see the options the side pay pull thigh gonna rob them and
here's the interception and oh jerky down bug down bug squished big pool nice
play there from Fincy he was organizing the team up from this woman doesn't
fully charge up the ages tries to interrupt the Angela's roll forward
it's getting aggressive it gets punished for such audacity and while there is
going to be this like poke call around the point I'm afraid they're just gonna
be slowly executed as VP's gonna get first cap again.
Okay, you're absolutely right with the Dr. Strange Invis team up, but even just the presence
of Invis alone is going to deter Rajara.
How can he maybe find isolated people?
Does he want to go after Fai if he's mid dive?
And Finsie's not on the cap, so Fai's broad potential may be closer to playing around
nevix but vp defend for now double ruby rages to cross over though not happy for
Rajoy the most ambitious crossover of it in burn his child up so far and Navi
Villarva can make a smith's fight they can just back off at this moment knowing
that Rajoy will do that rather quickly Navi are reset yet again trust me can
find some path into at least relieve pressure from this choke point and
Tara's also still needing to warm up mechanically you only have two finals in
In that last sub-map, he needs space and time to operate.
Alright, Fincy on the off-match, he'll lay down the ban and the extra damage, but guess
what, they're already disengaging.
Jerky knows that to move out from behind for Wakandan, you're gonna have to need the extra
speed and the health to make it work.
Scypia looks for a pull, but thus far, he's only been facing very, very hardy targets.
Fincy into the midst of Navi in the shutdown, solid Heaven's retribution towards the back.
Rajuho dives on in, and he's found himself a very little snack to chew upon, and now
They're looking like a bit of a snack himself grabbing three on the other side VP a light from the points
I'm thinking Finzi on this doctor strange is getting feasted upon like he he just gives up like the 94%
old charge that he had for the Ibogamotos
What are you gonna do? You're probably gonna get slept a double charmed and then the vengards are gonna be nowhere to be found
So I totally agree that Finzi should have abandoned the doctor strange could be it's such a bad matchup against the Angela
So Navi being able to defend is huge. You have the kumiho form. How will that brawl against VP though?
Navi don't have like a dare double combat the moment
So we'll just try to benefit from the healing at least
Sarah loads it up with spores and inspiration spark has already been taken down great type of presentation from a rajarama spark
I will be resurrected already the damage has been done to VP's front line
Nevic's not going to be around for this one and so Navi disappear into the night
Yeah, if Navi can take advantage of the perimeter, they could surround VP and tackle them before
they even get to the objective, and you have the Daredevil scouting info advantage from
Fyla and Finsie to find the right path.
Maybe Rage, Fairwell, Tenevix, will they get resurrected as the question not before Fyla
has already been taken down because Retreat didn't fall in the last fight.
Still had that on cooldown.
At least VP are getting a lot of fights out of this.
One or two pants and they're back on their feet, I guess, if I had to cope.
But Navi are about to steal away the lead.
Rage to sweep.
Oh, Finsi's found deep in the back here.
But if you pay too much attention to it, you're gonna give a lot of room over the spark.
And Raja Rono's playing for back on off to their back line for now.
Fika trying to open this up.
Woodletting with Deflau and indeed to work on that because he's really sick of so much damage.
The Heals needs to be delivered here and now.
A quick kidnap away.
He's so low, but finally Tridro returns.
Finsi has to pop their own ultimate here and Fates gonna do the same.
The big step of Fox has arrived. She's trying to ruin this backline's day.
Spark and he's defined an opening. The Ruby rage is good to go when fate's gone to a
safer position to make sure they don't fall on down.
Because with yarn amplifier, Bax and Avi are thrown, but they're still in control of a point.
There's an excellent concept, I believe from Trust Me, wrapping round.
It's fancy footwork and terror falls low. The finish is finally there.
Jerky next up on the docket. The tracking's good from Spark.
But they still haven't flicked, trust me, the last bastion held on until 67.
And the backlight from Na'Vi completely split, I mean, the Kumi O4 was just to help fate survive and teleports back in, I guess, but I feel like the damage has been done, VP are so, we're amazing.
That's sectioning Na'Vi away from each other, we're all playing very dispersed vanguard setups, but Terra needs to be protected, and now that you don't have an Enviz, you don't have that shield the same way that Scythe Bay is supporting Sparkle.
Roger, I can't get anything off the assassin's charge, but Terra's moving quickly here, just running themselves so it doesn't have to be extra movement speed as well from a Mantis.
They want to make Sparkar in the neutral. They had no idea that it was coming, nowhere close to sidebeats.
Ultimately, visible boundaries at least, given the moment for Sparkar to be resurrected, but on the other side, Fyre's gone too far, bit off too much.
Sparkar up on high, means that Fincy's got ring to work with. The Heaven's Retribution's going to make sure that there's no escape options for Trejo and Navier once again in control.
control, VP fall apart, atomized by the considerable fires of Navi as they burn too hot and too
bright and take us to the Imperial, oh we're going to have Stellas Facebook for our last
map.
That was so close though, Navi have redirected their attention to the most punishable person
on the team of VP which has been fire as soon as you detect that deflect from the Daredevil
Navi pounce from all sides, whether it's the
Whether it's trust me or Rajar flying in I just find gets identified and shoved away from any support
Sparkle also needs to play close to side pay so we can get those shields and be protected
Which sparkler is I would say winning the mirrors against Tara more often than not but Tara's been able to
Retaliate in most cases and that's why Navi are forcing this final sub map
I mean, it's very different styles, you know, Sparker, I feel like, like you said, is winning the 1v1s,
but Terra also has that, like, rough audacity within him to, like, use all of his cooldowns to roll up on a Sparker
who's, like, hiding in cover, waiting for heals, and, like, Terra's like,
now I take those and just injects across the map to find a perfect pick.
Just the double charm, plus the sedation from Jerky is really gonna put fear into BP, and I guess fight as well.
Alright, Terra. For now just playing down the main. Worried about Fincey approaching on the off angle, but Fincey's taking a lot of damage here.
It's going to be difficult to live with heals to them as well, because trust me he's just knocking back all of BP, sectioning the map across.
And this might allow Navi to get the first cap of the three.
I don't think Vi was in LOS of the BRB, so VP couldn't even get back on their feet, and
hey, how about that picking off feet, and VP will get to step into this arena, Nevix
gets the charge going.
Yeah, well, Dacia's from Nevix, go straight in with the Bandhammer, but it seems like
for now, Navi have been able to diversify their healing options to make sure that those
who do get hit will survive.
VP have a little bit of presence on the point, but down on one of their plays, it's going
It's gonna be difficult to try and maintain this one as...
3-0 with Cosmic Yarn up a wire, there's the Ruby Rage!
Easy fly away though, Ferragiro!
And the Cosmic Yarn up a fire, takes a moment to be broken down enough,
but trust me, he gets taken down in his own right.
The fate of both worlds won't last for too much longer, so fire moves in towards the back,
waiting to let the devil out, going into 4 players,
but gonna make some backup from Fincy!
A terrible 2-some towards the back with a f***ed swarm of fates,
or a buffed there, Assault!
You can see that Kroak just needs to hide away for a moment,
to get the cap and now jerky and fate move forward. Extra movement speed for the fox.
Boy is she moving right now! The Atlas has been open, fate has lost the ultimate, the
TPD Prince of the back. The courage of this fox is unbelievable, but in this case it's
not going to be rewarded. In fact it's going to be dutifully punished because Devil Daddy is home.
And that was three strat ultimates from Navi by the way. Crook keeps them up through the damage
Amplified Ruby rage but the double up from jerky and fate easily countered by just one simple invisible boundary
VP will steal away the lead
But how can they make sure that fai does not get picked off that could be either the profit or the liability to VP's broth?
Definitely demands some attention for ruby range thus far fruitless terror not able to get too much off the back of that
But pincey's just doing so much in the back right now
Now, five falls on down, didn't get enough extra help, and Vincent needs to try and escape
the midst of Navi here after having got his man.
And this is kind of like the last series for VP.
You sacrifice five so that Sparkler can absorb his soul and energy, I guess, and try to put
up 40k damage.
Navi are stuck at the choke, though.
Oh, the Ruby Rage lies in wait.
Sparkler crouching like a predator.
A trapdoor spider, perhaps.
Wazing for Navi to move in on the single angle that can be well punished for horse physics.
Nicely blocked there by, trust me.
amazing reaction speed. That's great on the outside. They can't afford to allow this one to get
foot-tipped with free VP. Actually allow the objective to go away. It must have been taken back
by Rajra with that heavens retribution and the follow-up is solid as the axis of the eye calls
sink into a flesh of the bears. VP could not maintain their the bodyguard at the choke point.
Maybe even it overextended. Navi's columns have been solid to mark Finzi on the flank to see when
Nebix is alone when Finzi disengages to Terra's consistently picking off Fi as well, so VP
have to be careful, or Fi has to play his life a bit better.
Raja Rai, constantly pressuring as Finzi moves towards the back, because we are on Amplify,
is here, will spark and make good use of it is the question.
That's going to be the Ruby Rage, but mostly avoided by Nabi, who used two of their defensive
ultimates to try and survive this one, and now he's knocked back onto Raja Rai, nerfs
the assassin's charge for a moment, and trust me, can't stay in without his co-vanguard.
and absorb some of that fire. But now VP, they're up against the wall. One fight win here,
Fnatic could be all they need. Five contemplating which target to make after Nevix cannot afford
to fall on down as far as to put down the double unicorn shield. Survival of this. Just me now
into the back, the Marauders have made their way in. Scypix should get raised on up by the battle
recall beacon, but for now it's only healing from Dredro. Found again, Viva's more boundary,
can't be released. All of the old stuff from VP. It's now or never. The jerk is going to answer all
of them for sole resurgence is more than enough and Terra's got the aim to make it work. Yeah,
you might have dreamed of VP emerging but Fincy's gonna have to open the portal to make this one
work this time. Neddick falls down, overtime starts to go as well and Fincy can't get there in time.
A shout of victory from Terra as a flash in the pan from VP is subsequently quenched.
And VP dimmed after two back to back rounds. The BRB also was taken out so that Scythe
could never return that invisible boundary the wind condition denied and
Navi knew how to dismantle VP once and for all but VP have our choice of math
so how will they retaliate find out after this
Son of a s**t!
the
Map one on a Krakowa a lot more competitive than we saw in the upper final
But we do have to talk about the
Costumes that are available now the seaside siren coastal kumio and sea side sentinel available
in in the store now definitely recommend seeing if you can get lucky and pop those balloons I got
my decent amount this time but the previous ones with the Emma and Dr. Strange as a vanguard made
myself I had to go all the way to the final ones I don't know how lucky you guys were I was very
unlucky I already spent enough on other skins but I think the real lucky team has to be DP who
I don't know what happened around, but they got lucky in that matchup.
But will their luck kind of ran out when it came to Navi and not being able to close out.
The second round and then the third Navi came back.
Good reverse sweep for sure. And I think Jen, going back to you on this one,
it felt like the back line swaps and kind of the synergy that we saw from them was the difference maker.
Yeah, Navi protecting the Mantis was crucial.
and now you have three different stuns, you play an anti-dive, allowing Terra to sit back
and get damage boost, so much CC to propel away Nevix, Finsie, Fai, so Terra got to sit
back.
You know, a slow start at the beginning when you went to attack in the Warrior Falls, but
once they got steady, Terra got gone.
Terra looking really solid so far.
Terra's just been an absolute demon thus far, but then again, most of the team is playing
for Terra now, and you actually have an interesting content with Terra in the pre-season blood
I've already talked about why you wanted to come to EMEA.
Yeah, wanting to, you know, face off against Sparker a little bit more often,
proved that he's the best in the world, and looking at the stat lines between these two.
32 KO's, a piece.
Two more final hits from Sparker,
but I think it was more of a team coordinated effort.
If you look at the vanguard's in comparison,
a little bit more lethality from them after the swaps came through here, Lemon.
Yeah, when Jerky had his Daredevil caught out of the picture,
then he just played the triple strap.
Maybe that was intended all along as they protected the mantis just for him
And like I said Navi got to sit back and greet VP whether was punishing five pretty consistently
Making sure that nevix wasn't gonna be comfortable on the angel. I think that would be a horrible matchup to play Angela and to
I don't know a freeze two charms asleep like it was good counters for VP
But every time they did engage if I didn't have the same amount of support not having an Angela
maybe Finzi consistently on the cap around, but hey VP got a choice of map and they want to go to Central Park
Okay, I mean
We all know what happened last time
Played this map Central Park Penny Parker had an appearance and it was chaotic to say the least
I think Tara said that yeah, that was just not good to do as messy
And that's all he had to say about it in the interview
But we'll figure out if a Virtus. Pro can play a little bit cleaner here against Navi this time
the last one is the last one
in the last two games. And
closing down full hold and
showcase that Penny Parker
Rain Supreme on its central
park. Let's get into it. Yes
memory says greatly. That was a
zero to one on Central Park.
Right that last time they
matched up. It was like close
enough, you know, I think it
was a full hold versus a
fellow. Holds. Just that. But
what was important, though, in
that matchup and even in the
Luna enables that perfectly, so Navi gonna make sure that it's not part of VP's plan.
Alright, once again, making sure that fires access to that daredevil.
Prioritizing it, I like that VP have started moving around their draft,
and Navi on the other side, once again, are going to threaten the triple and the VP.
What do they want to put behind this? Obviously getting rid of the Loki,
and make sure that Vibrant Vitality can't provide extra damage boost.
You know what, four damage with Hera might be too much, so at least get rid of her
drew evanation rings, and there's Faluna Snow, now missing.
This is going to really constrain the angles, which for Vanguard, all the off angle
is complied because there'll be no flake.
Kind of surprising that VP first protect the Daredevil, and don't want to try and have a one-sided
gambit when you let Na'Vi get the Mantis, you want some kind of strong wind condition
when it comes to straddles, but maybe sustain and making sure your duelists are comfortable
will be the name of the game, so jerky versus fi on the daredevil, where you saw kind of how more
well humane of fi looked, but he didn't have a cap always behind him, didn't have an angela,
didn't have a full engage, while vp denied that kind of same engage from navi's end.
Interesting navi here, both of their protects kind of move towards jerky centric heroes,
be it the manfis or the daredevil, which means that navi are going to have pivots available now,
but if they die it's going to have to be with a flakless cat, the rogue off the table as well.
So if this does move at Nabi, they're going to allow the gambit in the neutral, but not with
Gambit boosted groke. Well, last but not least, it's nice to have Saipé back on the gambit
and he's going to try and lead his team to victory and a very strong win con or just even a win
rates for VP off of that. We were comparing Sipay and his previous matchup against Mash and VP.
I really, I would say a low key team. It's been a lot of this double strad, really a 2-2-2 often
for VP. We'll see if anything changes though as Na'Vi will be on defense first. The double
damage boost, not having the rocket, even though it's available so you don't have that BRB or even
and a third player of damage boost for Terran.
Yep, only two.
Everyone gets two damage boosts,
or at least Terran gets two damage boosts.
That is gonna make it difficult
for Sparky to try and take it one versus one.
So there's gonna be a lot of emphasis here
on trying to force out that right click
from Jerky in a peeling maneuver
when Phi makes an engagement
or when Fincy makes an engagement.
There's a huge dive call here for VP though.
They're gonna be moving very fast.
I wonder if Phi would even think about the human Porsche
It's been a super niche play for him when it comes to defense.
We'll explore that in the future.
Amazing Angela Mathill.
There are so many crevices to hide and to shove someone
through the tunnel to deny LOS.
It would be amazing for Roger Rose.
She on the defense.
You can be proactive, take the initiative.
While VP want to sit there and poke
and hopefully get by in a position.
No flake though.
It's very difficult to get around.
The Roger was actually just like doing the on beyonds
flights behind through to try and scare them.
First it's gonna be just a little soft dive
from trust me.
He forces out the knockback from Sparker.
And honestly, if you could just slow down VP in this
and burn their time back,
that's good enough for Nabi,
but you don't need to leave the safety of the castle.
Yeah, we don't have that Luna.
You're gonna have two raging royal flushes now
with the low key, difficult to dive a low key as well.
And even Angela's just not gonna have
to target that at all.
But even Rosso is redirected his focus towards fire
when it came to domination and VP
to be more careful of that.
Well, this background is taking a pounding here
from damage boosted to Terrac.
Just starts to burn down Dredro's doppelganger.
VP are having a lot of trouble making forward progressive.
That's just this constant intercession
coming through from right row.
And trust me, so Terrac can both basically
just sit untouched in main.
Region domains use, important cool down out of the picture.
And also with all these doppelgangers,
I mean, Terrac could disperse his damage
throughout almost the entirety of VP's backline
of Dridro is in careful with how he places them.
For now though, Navi are looking ironclad
and you have the Ruby Rage almost available.
This is like 20% ahead of Sparker,
but you have an LLS advantage when you're on the defense
and now you don't have side pay.
You see, on Terra also wasn't even shooting the venom
who was in his LLS there.
Like they know that VP are currently playing
to try and absorb some of this damage,
build up an early Gambit ultimate and move with it.
It's now he shot him.
What's this?
Yeah, well, that's the damage.
We built up to build that ultimate.
you can shoot the Venom.
And I mean, the Venom demands really good execution, right,
when you need to, as soon as you pop the extra health,
the cooldown is pretty significant
if you decide to swing in,
swing in instead of hang off the wall,
but Terra's head shot accuracy is pretty high.
Charm actually goes right there, Terra,
not momentarily controlled,
and so they follow up not quite what they wanted to do.
Terra's aim is actually disgusting.
Now here comes the rage-emorial flesh jerky,
trying to answer two members of Na'Vi,
Three instantly yes amazing triple strategist becomes triple cadaver real bloody quick
It's has to be the shove for DP 90 seconds, and they make it clean
Portal coming in for jerky
Sparker who wants to be within his team's graph to support and Rajar will try to anchor but want to die from nevix
Brass, Lush, Nostlv 1 croak, you're taking part in the job, that's easy tracking trust me
needs to bring to everyone a little bit of additional help.
That's what the Freedom Charges for Level 1 Crook is going to have an option to go back through the portal before it closes, I believe.
And so we're able to emerge with a strategy that ultimately is going to be the solar service to open.
We're facing through it. Ignore most of the incoming damage.
Big grab here onto Sparkle off the back of the Heavens Retribution.
He's a huge investment from RV as farewell to the one.
My intensity gets winnable.
We're just going to go back on the Freedom Charge and letting the Devil out.
Level 1 Cook is forced to answer me. There's more boundary going to be exactly what the Doctor ordered as they just bash down by the moan.
But Fatesman found on the other side. Somehow there's been a crack in the armor.
Sype knows it on the other side. Raja is still on the chase. And guess what? VP are in this position.
Well, they're just continuing to cap the point. Raja now has to try and keep this one going, but calm contest as their life is forfeit.
And VP brawl it out to get the cap.
I can't believe that. Like you had Dredro and Saipae constantly staggered from each other. Saipae popped first.
Dredro Kumiho forms, Saipae comes back, tackled off the map and see the panic and decision.
You should not be playing that right side against the Nangela who, like Rajarro, taught us all.
There is a way to get shoved off the cliff. So VP, thankfully off of the last second call from Fai,
make it winnable and Sparkar builds momentum with the Ruby Rage.
Ruby Rage, good to try and soften up everybody, only one strategist will remain, that's Fate
on the White Fox, they cannot stand up against all of the punch dimension going their way
and VP, they found some momentum now.
And Fate goes to the White Fox as well, you don't have a team because the Illuna is banned
but Crook wants to try and propel any dives from going their way and the physical boundary
is always strong and so is Dridger on the Kumi-O-Four.
Oh, look at that knock-out that came through from Nivix as well to stop the escape from the white fogs being too easy
Fireman just to find exactly what they wanted. Just big body box coming from Druivis
Actually a perfect Kumiho Unleashed and it's given over so much space under the cart as well
Navi now have to make his desperate push forward to try and contest this one
Thanks Falling Note, Lo really needs that Kumiho to be unleashed, but can't save Krug
Can't save Jerky, maybe can't even save Navi here as with damage has already been done
Terror's moved off from the cycle to over to the elsa because they know that they're just in this
permanent position and they're permanently pushing the cart as well and
even through the anchoring of an Angela VP maintain their stranglehold but need
to be careful with how far they overextend they learn that the hard way
on burning to Chala VP they know how to make those adjustments on the fly so
Navi will not be able to pick off Finzi in that case and it gives crucial
charge over if you want to cope but Finzi's now in trouble.
I love the devil up. You've got extra health to work with here as well, but Spark is not going to be a part of it.
Vinci stunned them into the pit for freedom charge. Can't sustain through the immortal power of gravity.
One of the fundamental forces on the side of Navi.
At least you stopped the avalanche that was starting to be created for VP, despite how long it took to get the point.
He started just non-stop winning in Dracula's Castle. I don't know how Navi were going to do, but the fortress still has to be entered and VP.
They got forced to fight because Finzi was forward, made the most out of it.
But Fai, the ranged nerfs on Daredevil will affect Fai's viability, but he lets the devil out.
Rajrae wants to try and stick him in.
Into the pit would be everything, but for now Fai is just trying to avoid all of that damage, having their attribution.
Who does it grab in? I think at the moment it's just the Venom who's been grabbed into this one,
but Fai seems to get away. There's going to be a chase down here from Terran.
Going down that stairs, the effects of this is going to be dangerous.
Yeah, the ELSA massive to blow up with Venom, it's just the ultimate counter right now and
I guess Vi is the counter to strategist.
I mean Vi's just been an absolute monster.
No wonder they're first protecting this end of a such a huge part of VP's identity ever
since the grand finals.
Rigid Raid doesn't grab enough, Terra tries to counter the incoming danger via the Infants
brothers, but unfortunately it's all their balls for the glass shops.
Drigger around the other side, the monster appears to do its work, even in the Fox form
self-sustained, not quite there, but Sparkle making sure the sustain is not even an option
for Navi, finding his man again and again, and they're still side-paying in the back,
trust me, leads for charge. Freedom is going to reign, and it pushes back all of VP.
Sparkle could not get staggered here, I mean every second matters, because you still need to
regroup it, trust me, harassing them as much as possible. VP are being isolated at times,
even denying Dredro from teleporting back to his team. This is such a strong lane for Terra to
command where there's the Apex Predator. You could say the same about the Ruby Rage. It really
requires a damage boost at some point, which obviously seemed to have a lot of them.
the other side and now spark is going to be a lot more difficult to control. Now
they give us a little bit of space here to look to a recon test. Final push will
come in overtime and VP needs someone to anchor most likely Finzi or probably this
back line as they shall not be towards their own spawn. Rajar will have to be
the one that touches along with trust me and Terra.
Three drops stepping through trust me ready to use for Stensil's strike trying to block the disengage of Finzi here but Terra's already down.
It seems that the DPS battle of the world has once again come to the fore jerky moves forth with the extra healing, the extra speed, the extra vigor, but it's not enough for Na'Vi.
Tera needs to return with a glass of water in his hand, but Faisal needs to let him down the house, he's at least on to the cast, and Murazatovskov finds quite the population of bears currently climbing upon their back.
Faisal gets momentarily grabbed, but he can't hold back the bears. Na'Vi find themselves full captive on Central Park.
So insane considering VP looked like they were seconds away from being full held, but they stopped the retaliation of Navi when they portaled in and for VP to maintain their aggression to keep spark girl nice angles to watch above seem to be very preemptive on what the
on what the Navi setup is going to be,
then VP rolled all the way into Dracula's Castle.
They did push back when it came to that third point,
but VP, how they support each other
and these kind of on the fly calls have been amazing.
Even through the Navi changes,
which I wasn't expecting to see Tara off the Cyclops
unless it was banned,
but he needed something that could deal
with these problematic vanguards from VP.
Cause if they make enough space,
you saw the impact that someone like five can have.
I mean, let the devil out.
He went from being more quiet on Burning to Charlotte
to being the MVP now, of this map for VP.
Really showing why that first protect
on Daredevil is worthwhile.
And I've been very enthused by the band lines
of both of these teams.
We really have seen the advancement of the band text
over the course of this 8.5 meta from essentially
just like autopiloting bands to the first four
where VP are now like, you know what?
This is our identity.
We're gonna play a thigh on the daredevil.
It won us the world championship.
It can win us EMEA.
Yes, again.
Only capping this map is so difficult to do.
If you have a real chance of tying up this series
in this best of seven,
Terrence is gonna roll out on the ELSA
expecting this Nevix dive.
Nevix cannot be punished in this case.
There's also a sleeper, a pull from Crook.
As soon as you see that swing,
Nevix has to be careful with how he engages.
Terras is going to get salted here, but the Ultron drone might be enough to try and sustain them.
You can't go around that corner if you are a Vanguard from VP, and it will cut you off from the remainder of your team.
We're told to miss here for VP. How are they going to get side-painted enough?
Ult charge, we may have to dive in so they can actually take that damage.
It's not the ideal pairing for a dive core.
Trust me, we're going to open up here with a Bandhan.
Put it off of a Spark, and just try and shut that one down.
And while Spark is getting over babysitting thanks to the ultimate,
it means that if Nedix is going to fall through the cracks,
we might have to swap over now onto the strange for a Port of Wax.
And Darrow went in so deep to try and eliminate Dredro, you thought that was going to be the first victim, the backline of Navi keeps him up and Terra delivers those critical picks and you're seeing the picture of a portal from Navix coming in.
And to stop Navi from fully capping, the portal will be
not available for VP for quite some time, Nevix gonna stick around so he can build that Ayavagamodo,
and I wonder if he wouldn't even stay off of the Venom, because Terra's been kind of cooking him,
but VP have been able to pick off Jerky at times as a vulnerable strat and now you're vulnerable
to the clutches of the Apex Predator! That was an unbelievable control there from Terra,
bro's a gunslinger, maybe I'll see one of them. Blitz are absolutely shnasty. Farewell to Nevix,
Now HP to work with, Fincy is going to be next to the bomb with Elki, but all he can do is trade vitality for time on the board.
And Navi have 4 and a half minutes now for second.
Now I'm kind of surprised Navi's going to have wanted to come back on the Angela, which I think may be a bit more...
...stirty or shield to go up against the Elsa, but I don't think any vanguards are going to have fun against her terror.
So Navi will step forward to see what they can create from this moment when you have the rage of Ultron.
We have a lot available for Na'Vi as they set VP back and they set their sights on the backline.
Van Hammer here could be huge but yeah, watch Riju once, going in directly onto trust me,
the invisible boundary is rather far back here, but it seems like fire and nevix may well have been caught within it.
Level on crouch just with a little bit of counter-dive.
Riju or Clumio form would be the only sustain that VP have.
It's an option while soul resurgence could be a type of aggression that kick-starter the pedal to the metal
for Na'Vi to deny any space from VP.
Finsi wants to buy the space, and he's gonna do it with a freedom charge,
but he's gonna want to out comes the Rage of Ultron.
There's a huge triple sustain ultimate here from Na'Vi.
He'll do anything to try and sustain this one,
but now they've got to try and deal with Sparkle with the Ruby Rage and then running low on options to deal with it.
As all of her extra elf starts to move away,
Nettix is gonna chase into the small area and take down Fate.
Finsi traded it out on the other side.
Terra looking hot to try as usual,
But with an extra charm and a quick turn around, Navi now have to try and move forward, and indeed, they have all of the skill necessary to do it.
Or Sparket may well have enough of a feedout on the other side, and Nex keeps this point contested to try and deny some of it.
Fine, seems to be taking a little bit of a dive versus dive, as we do see the Glashrocks ready to go and Terrasch's able to stay up.
And through all the investments from Navi, I mean, starting with a double strat, ultimate from the Ultron and the Mantis,
VP's vanguard line just stayed on the payload so that Navi could not progress at all and
took almost everything out of Navi to remove them.
Near the Lachera potentially from VP to hold second.
Is the raging royal flash and Spark is taking down on this hero for himself with the Ruby
Rage but fate is caught in a corner and five just keeps on beating down and beating down.
The living bullet claims side pay.
Terra still trying to be the carry here as Rajoy moves deep into the back line, beating
away with a sentinel strike.
It might be America's birthday.
But right now there's room for Na'Vi to keep celebrating as Trigio's fallen down, hands of Terra once again.
You look to the carry, you look to the hero and Terra continues to answer.
And he bucked through the portal and VP had the reinforcements that they need to try and keep this fight going.
But Kruk is closing in here on an ultimate, but they might not even need it as Terra is just finding an infernoitural fight towards the back.
So much damage, which beat with the monster piercer, a devil slain with not a bullet needed.
and Terra's gonna be saving them for everyone else, look to the sky and you will see yourself a firework, but Terra has blown a sunday.
It took too long for VP to address the elephant gun in the room, like Terra got jumped by Nevix,
who just went in again and again and you didn't have five part of that until it was too late.
Terra's playing so aggressive, so forward, and he almost just died to himself.
So, Navi will get back on their feet and they have a pretty big time bank to get to the end.
Thanks for the replay, producers. Much appreciated to see that one again, Rajra.
But now, in the present, with the Freedom Charge, there's going to be brain-jerky for extra damage, extra healing, and Navi.
They are somewhat losing track of the cart right now, despite their large investments.
There's so many lanes for Navi to try and push through, or mainly for Fai to explore,
explore because the nerfs on the range from Daredevil are pretty significant and Terra knows
that exact amount. He knows how to stay back and Fai is being marked on every angle he explores.
And now, can you even leave spawn if your VP, Navi, have everything almost been in the book
to try and answer against VP coming up? Yet another damage boost, Glutrop's ready to go,
the Apex Predator. He's top of the food chain and he wants to rule the MEA and in the jungle,
All the mighty jungle terror rules tonight.
Trust me, get prepared.
Oh, captain, my captain, step it up with a four.
Trust me, trust the process.
Trust in everything.
Because Navi have got this one down.
It's going to be very difficult to keep it contesting.
Nevix is down.
3-0-2, it's a mad scramble for the touch.
The devil going to be let out.
He's buffed up by the gambit.
If I try and find the opener,
it's going to be so difficult.
It gets fate who uses the soul resurgence.
Now this is that relentless offense from Na'Vi that we know and love but VP they do manage to break out a spawn eventually how their vanguards are able to split away
to not protect anyone else,
but to stall as much as they
can taking off an extra minute
and that extra minute can make
all the difference. We almost
never go to extra innings when
it comes to Central Park and
VP. This is a map that they
forced the distance in the past
and Tara on the Elsa is
a different beast and the apex
beast being thrown in the midst
of Navier VP
really forced
really force them macro wise to just be in disarray.
So now the great job of kind of making the most out of the time
they had left.
Also the time banks determine who will be attacking first.
So we'll see with only a minute,
what finish line VP can create.
Right, like can I get a healing received stat for tarot?
Like bro, like the secret service is taking notes right now
on how to protect the VIP because fate and jerky
are doing absolute bits making Terra feel like a bloody monster.
25 final hits, damn bro.
It's just another day at the office for Terra.
He's always dropping 20 final hits in almost every playoff match.
It's not even punching down this whole bracket.
And you thought with that push, VP could be the first team
in playoffs to take a map from Na'Vi.
But the time bank advantage just by a minute
goes to the defense as Nevix sets them up
On a really safe angle behind, Finzi will chase them.
Nevix, does he return to the Venom?
Yes, he does.
Okay, looking for a pinch here.
Finzi's gonna have to start doing some shaping operations
to force Navi into an easily exploitable space.
You've seen that Scythe has already used
one of those anti-heal cards to try and stop enough
for that line, but speaking of stop enough,
Finzi just gets absolutely tenderized.
Terra is, oh, oh, Terra gets assassinated by Sparker.
That's a huge thing to be missing now.
Navi is trying to pull out all the stops here to service one around, guess what?
There's already been a health back stolen away, so Spark needs a little bit of additional healing to come on through.
13 seconds remain, Terra is almost back.
Navi now will be able to re-engage, but there could be a chase down onto Jerky.
What can VP do to try and secure themselves at Tick here?
A quick mess up with the Dashweaves, Spark is gonna be low on the utility,
and Terra is there with the Punish.
No ticks have come through yet for VP, but Sapphire is still stalking in the rafters.
Looking for an opening, looking for something that Pimsy could tenderise over on the other side.
Trust me, rolling in with the extra damage.
Chirk is down, fate is two, Pimsy returns to the grave.
A last chance alone to try and exit this one is level 1.
Quick exits the portal in his own right.
The healing sub to fade away, there's nothing left of EP.
Overtime ticks on down Spark as the last one to stay here.
Lovix gets him just in the nick of time, but a 1 vs 6 is too much to ask for for the old legend.
and Navi holds strong.
Yeah, laps in the VP strat line when they were pressing forward,
a moment that they turned around to deal with a Navi flank on the point
and really to clear out the point so that VP could cap more,
they left Sparker out to dry and that really started to dim the hopes
of a fight that could be enough.
And VP's choices are all about speed, violence, momentum.
You have Sparker on the side lock, Nevix on the Venom.
about engaging as lightning fast as you can alongside Phi so that you create so many threats
to try and break Navi's focus and eventually the Immortal Terra does fall.
I mean there was even a moment that fate actually slept Phi, Phi woke up and beat fate to death.
There were some really good moments for VP but unfortunately not able to maintain their
grip on the situation.
44.5k damage
man
Having two players who are like what three players?
I guess we're just raw amers and fate jerky and crook means you actually get so much value out of your back lines like DPS
Capacity as well crook fate and jerky all putting up huge damage numbers and that's what's causing VP for a player slip through the cracks
And so many of these fights because you just can't keep up with it with two strategy sometimes
There's only so many heals. It's three strats versus two. Absolute perfection, but also
synchronization is demanded of VP. As soon as you get staggered, Terra can shift his
focus and conflict to a different target just as easily. As already, Nefix is brought
down to half. Not having to pop that extra health is big as Nefix is going to go in.
At the beginning of my backline, they decided we'll ignore Terror for now.
We're just gonna try and get rid of our damages.
Dredro, I go too deep.
And that's going to be a delving too deep that's been punished like the Balrog would punish the Dwarves of Moria.
Trust me, moves in with the extra damage from the Ultimate.
Who can even move to contest the portal?
Can't be opened in time.
And Na'Vi, Masterclass are taking a first to go 2-0 up in the series.
VP had a fast comp but they needed to choose those moments carefully and if you don't commit
to Terra the final boss of Central Park you will fall to that final boss.
As Navi will take two maps now in this best of seven grand final, Virtus Pro, where do
we go next?
We'll find out after this.
The only map that Na'Vi has dropped so far in Stage 1 was on Central Park, so it was
a good bet to be hedged against for Virtus Pro to send them there once again, but unfortunately
the strategies of the past did not work this go-around, especially we saw a battle of kind
of old meta and new meta.
We saw the Elsa in Vanguard Deadpool coming out from Na'Vi and then Virtus Pro specifically.
saw more focus around the Cyclops, the DD, the vanguards diving in from them as well,
and the swap that came in towards the L, so the lock in the focus on the vanguards was
massive, and of course the MVP here, like it's going to be Terra.
I mean, the entire team's playing for Terra, so Bro better get the MVP, and he is doing
God's work with those resources.
55.8% accuracy, by the way, is a little bit disgusting.
Rancid, an affront to God, perhaps?
We don't know.
But also, they're playing like a double damage boost with the Ultron, and the Mantis having that consistent drone, having consistent healing,
means that Terra can play really audaciously and be consistently rewarded for it,
and has a good 1v1 capacity off the back of the Deadpool team if they're given over by trust me.
Maybe the co-op is that, hey, you got Terra to swap off Cyclops, you must have done something annoying,
but then Terra blew up your whole team with the Elsa.
I mean VP I think the choices that they went for the silo the venom the cat
This is all to have this speediest dive that you can because I think the only way that you have an advantage in a fight against
Na'vi is if they're not ready for it and you could throw everything you can in Na'vi
But if you're not landing right in that Elsa's lap in which again she can mobilize away from it
Tara took over 30 final hits in that moment and
And despite VP choosing this map yet again, they tried to change their band line, but the results stayed the same.
Yeah, I mean, kind of throwing this one back at you as well, Jen.
The band line seems to be, you know, the biggest debate between these teams when it comes to the beta, right?
We started off the weekend with everyone banning Mantis.
We saw that in Pacific when they kicked things off earlier on last weekend.
And now it's kind of evolved into, okay, this team's really good at Gambit.
Maybe we shouldn't give it to them, but it feels like Mantis deserves some priority here.
absolutely. You would think
because the double damage
Boostera. He looks immortal.
He is insane on the flicks. If
you miss the dive, he will not
miss you. And actually VP did
first band the Mantis in their
last encounter on all three
maps that VP lost. They had
first banned the Mantis. Clearly
that didn't work. Let's try to
whether you have to deal with the unstoppable force of a raging royal flush or the unstoppable force of eight soul resurgence or a double damage boosted
Terra that there's just no stopping the hubby at this point
That seems to be it the name of the game is try to stop this train that has left the station at a hyper speed and
Nobody's getting in the way of that one
You're just gonna be splat on the pavement afterwards and that's how the brackets been going so far 3-0 after 3-0 after
3-0, 21, and 1 in maps now with that victory and continuing the streak going forward.
They took the one loss personally in the group stages and they don't want another since then
until they get to the mid-season final.
And of course, we'll be going to the fan-favorite of Museum of Contemplation, like to hit any
of your thoughts.
I'm thinking that maybe we'll be bound to the Ultron here.
The Ultron's got dual purpose.
Not only does it provide good consistent healing to Terra on a carry pick, but also it's very
hard of an assault for a, uh, for a daredevil, especially with a newly nerfed range in 8.5.
So I would like to see maybe the double damage boost get taken away, even if it's is, uh,
even if it means that something else gets through.
Feels like deja vu at this point compared to the last series.
We're here once again on Museum of Contemplation.
Will it be a full hold?
We'll see as the band draft goes through.
Okay.
Once again.
Oh, BP.
Going out of the mantis route this time.
Yep, this is the eye roll from Roger, oh fine. Back to the old one, I guess I'll have to kick you to the curve a new way.
Hmm, I wonder what VP are gonna play. The Daredevil protect is pretty massive for Phi, and clearly part of the suffocating guy that VP want to create.
I don't think Navi have to make any kind of considerations towards the vanguard at least not getting the venom worst case thinking about the cap
But on a map like Museum of Contemplation you could see things like the venom the group
Maybe even Finzi's cap or Emma but making sure the rogue is not part of the gambit equation is a pretty important component of this band
So I've got pretty similar energy to me last night as I was trying to get some sleep before we do this casting
It's just fire work out the fireworks. Yeah
I was about to go to sleep again anyway, Navi, one-sided Gambit, honestly VP, I don't think
the Gambit's been great for them, like I appreciate it, but the Raging World Flash has been very
powerful, but it feels like they've been having a lot of trouble actually building it, because
they're playing these faster vanguards, you don't stick around for Gambit to really heal
them.
I'm surprised Navi are protecting these Cyclops here, because I think you have two strong secondaries,
Cyclops or the Elsa, but I'm thinking if you have to deal with a Groot or some kind of front to back
I think the Cyclops is better than the Elsa who profits more from a longer range damage as VP
The Daredevil Venom dive will be on the menu making that I would think that the Elsa should make a return
Maybe Venom cap here from Navi
The Elsa I think the Elsa would be an interesting return
and maybe for Sparka, we'll just know.
Okay, yeah, that's gonna constrain the potential range
of a Fincy roaming cap.
Well, I think that Gambit is a little bit more prone
to falling in a dive than maybe not
these classic triple strategists.
Yeah, even that flake for Fi who was,
looked like paper mache at times,
but it really depends on the map,
is how easy it is to path
the daredevil. But Fias loo
having a team around him,
picked and fight on Burni
having a venom with him,
sparker with him. And as
hasn't been enough pressi
even eliminate Tara more
came to Central Park. We
two maps, but will the results stay the same?
This was a map that Na'Vi also spawn camped VP on at some point.
It was alarming to all of us.
Hello there, kinetic claws. Welcome back.
Na'Vi showing off jerky's very wide and very deep hero pool.
And this is going to make Nevix's life a little bit less happy.
two, one.
Taro be able to stay away from this dive,
but also you don't want to isolate yourself against a venom.
Finsie has the solo anchor,
and his Emma is just the most improved out of playoffs.
He can really handle himself well as Fai,
get some information around the map,
see if he can shut down Crook early.
All right, Crook, already.
A little bit brave, actually just wants to go in
for the fight, but Fai's just gonna draw back their attention,
which is important for giving the rest of VP some space,
some of the poach starting to come through now from the side of Svarka.
See that VP are taking more of their time with the bag because that's I think what's kind of lost
them in the map on Central Park is VP having a fast composition but taking fights too fast.
You have to find the right and quality opportunity not just any of them.
The sparker is really putting some damage at the Rajarov so our Navij is just going to sit there
and take it. They are trying to be ironclad around this corner but Navij aren't acting yet.
You got to shape your fights, develop your angles, go look towards the back line though.
Rajarow and trust me getting a little bit frisky here and definitely gonna need some tree arse going through from
Payton level one crook. If we're doing so much healing we almost already have their ultimate and that's very fast pace here.
Payton's likely gonna put out the cross to Yarn apple five a second, but he gets it to relieve some of this pressure.
Now it's ready waiting for Fyre to engage, so they can try and turn this around onto him after he gets there.
That's gonna be the Ruby Rage,
it's on level one crook and now Payton has a resurrection available.
It seems that the battle vehicle beacon will bring fate back, but it weren't really mad at everyone for it's not around because VP have already lost so many members.
And Sparger was playing so far forward because he had the safety of his bodyguard offends you, you can pop the diamond form and punish anyone who dives, which a lot of poke has been going into jerky and you don't have the fastball to easily gap close.
So you can tell that VP are on the watch for that Wolverine,
but VP still have to have perfect execution
when it comes to this dive,
especially if Fai is gonna be on the flank.
Ruby Rage, good to go,
could be some extra damage as well
off the back of the Gambit Ultimate.
You can try and just burst through to Retro here.
You can break through the invisible boundary,
because it is gonna be a space claimed by Fincy.
Going back in with the Ruby Rage,
she fell out of Fincy's side fade,
with yet another Shroja's ultimate to play with,
Guess what? If we'd be lost out on two players, move visible boundary, what can it really achieve?
Jerk, he's still in there, slashing away with the kinetic claws, almost has himself a last
hand to work with. Nervix has gone deep, but no one's here to join them.
Basically crawl around on the walls, catch some damage, and get out of dodge.
Yeah, the god have mischief, but also too delayed to save 50 mid-sionic seduction,
and a very vulnerable position as Navi get proactive.
Freedom charge falls to the back and Tara is getting wild now!
Farewell to the counterpart of Sparky, but Crook's been taken down on the other side.
Guess what? In some resurrection though, that's right.
White Rocket is constantly demanded in these matchups.
Tara should be able to get away fairly easily as trust me.
Make sure that everyone is carrying away to cover the escape of Scott Summers.
Yeah, you can't even play this from front to back if you're VP
because Tara is just going to take down all the shields,
any Groot walls that could, if you thought about that composition, and the more Loki
doppelgangers exist, the more terror can distribute that damage, and VP, barely standing, it'll
be up to Nevix and a feast of the abyss to try to dwindle down these health pools.
I didn't level out, trying to force out Fate's ultimate, now it can be broken down by Spark,
and it seems that mostly it's just going to be Navi going in off, oh they want, they
They want so much violence, and jerky is happy to provide.
Farewell, Tridro, Farewell, Smarka, Farewell, Timebank, 20 seconds remain.
Oh, no, they know.
Fire has to run.
You cannot afford to fall at this moment.
And through the three ultimates, that VP invested not a single olymp came through.
And even then, you got PBRB from fate.
And you got the raging royal flush, the ace of knobby sleeve, as VP make their final push.
Oh, so okay. So close to falling down.
Rijo's gonna be the one who can even copy now
when it comes to be strung.
Just ultimate needs to find access to the back line.
But Terry said, before he can get there,
VP have just been absolutely decimated.
They've been taught limbs from limb,
and Nabi are just struggling.
They're fighting for what remains
of the scraps of the furthest pro roster.
Yeah, Rijo's just rolling up.
But what can he do?
The Batsmobile is stolen away after only 73 meters.
At this point, I don't think there's anyone in the world that could out dual tear at the moment 13 and 1 is where he ended that first half so
Navi now get to push and the finish line is just about around the first corner
So I don't know if VP could even force to fight out of this or if they would rather go for the more solid
Defensively favored one around that first corner, but then you only get one fight
depending on what kind of delays you can create which there really hasn't been any delays from BP side cuz Tara is on
locked and
Finsie was debating on whether the penny Parker should make an appearance, but I don't think it would last very long
Fine sitting on the ace right now to final blows
40% of the team's final blows over all
And honestly, I think that after this one we're gonna see a return to the first ban on the gambit because level one crook has just been
pumping out healing in the back and has found himself a
Pretty solid position where whenever you try to dive them jerky being able to play that Wolverine is
feasting
Tarzan track to drop another 20 final hits by the way, which is like every map
It's it's gonna be that even without a thousand damage boosts
He's he's still doing his thing and he's so elusive to how he's able to use the protocolity
He's so undyable as VP will have an Angela on defense here. It's already getting marked by Navi who send nevix away
All right
If now they can do it VP can do it a fuller hold it needs to be otherwise
It's gonna be match point for now be here and their first European stage title
Vince already taken down, Jerky managed to claim that one, the kinetic walls continue to slash away.
There's a little whirlwind to escape here from Thine.
The Wyatt Pirouette might be pretty, but performance right now is not.
By folding low to German side, they need to get on the healing duty.
As someone has to move over towards the point, and in this case it's going to be Nevis, trading out for Terra.
Well, Terra did not get res by the rocket, though, but Jerky's going for victim number two!
Oh my god, Dobby just pouts on VP like they are prey and they can get this going again.
VP have Finzi back in the picture here.
He wants to do it!
Why not?
It's a huge grab!
Sgt.
Gen.
CC noises.
Outcome to regeneration.
The main jet is just building up that rage.
And where have your vanguard gone?
Saipae brings up the invisible boundary.
To give a last chance here to VP, they've lost so much of their meat and their potatoes.
Nevis opens up the portal.
This will allow some players to come on back.
Joridro brings up the invisible band.
Joridro's sidekick is too far away from it just now.
Jerky nice to use Captain America's shield somehow to take down Scythe.
He's got different texts.
He's building a different game.
He's playing with a different style.
And so through the remainder of Narvi, that style is dominance.
And on an inch of mercy is in their hearts right now.
As they just bulldozed through the museum.
Oh, VP are looking like fossils out there.
that they are now down three maps and it's getting worse and worse and Na'Vi they just
get better and better will this be the perfect playoff streak without dropping a map?
We'll find out after the break.
I don't know what to do with this guy, but I'm gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill him.
A very dominant performance from Navi to say the least, but my question to you like
day is that there's a run from preseason into stage one if Navi does complete the victory
lap here.
More dominant than versus pro undefeated streak last year.
I mean, what not Navia what 22 and one right now when it comes to maps
I mean even when VP were at their strongest in stage two of ignite they had a bunch of three twos
It gets chopped and Citadel. I think their grand final was a 4-2 and they have to come in from the lower bracket after losing to Citadel
So yeah, this is the most dominant we've ever seen a team in EMEA
That's what we like to see
But we also see a very dominant player which is part of the reason it for that the Canadian
Texas at Terra and some people tend to call him here lemon. Yeah this guy's
unstoppable. I probably can still count all of his casualties over the series on
one hand pretty insane mechanically but also he faced the Venom this time and he
did not swap to the Elsa never felt that pressure and if anything he used the
optic ascent to get away from the Venom and to jump into the other team to head
shot strategist like Tara's on another level and Sparker is trying to keep up.
Looking at these stats specifically too, the average casualties I think is the
biggest thing to notice you're mentioning 2.29 across the series so far and
the average damage for 10 minutes. We have seen some good looks from Sparker
of course and the ultimates and everything that we've seen in terms of
that first map right. It felt like Sparker had the edge there but the
eliminations that have been coming out a little bit more one that sided when we
take a look at the stats specifically at four at that last map it was just the
Navi show in the entire way like that I mean the big difference right is the
casualty is taken and a lot of that in these particular compositions the
two to do comes back to jerky playing the warfighting here five final hits not
much damage but you know why it's not much damage jerky isn't really fighting
when it comes to like attacking most of VP jerky's sitting back in the in the
appeal position just waiting for Fincy or Nevix to threaten Terra the second they
get there it's a feral leap bro you go you go in a vanguard jail and it just
means that attacking the backline of Naveen is essentially a no-go no-sell
jerky just gonna put you in prison and that's the thing you can't even touch
these backliners cuz families to dashes on the rocket even crook is undyable
leg fight tried on the daredevil even being able to see through walls you had
all the information and it
it down and finzi trying t
if you can really be as a
while nevix is diving on
one really good diamond fo
and that still didn't even
onto jerky. So all around
casualties because of fay
job supporting their team
of bands have been targeti
kind of want to talk abo
coming out soon for this one.
Jen, I mean, what can they even do,
regardless of what the map is that they pick?
Yeah, they chose, I mean, VP chose the same two maps
as they did in that last series,
thinking, let's go to the same map,
go to different band lines,
and whether it's banding the Mantis first,
the Gambit first, it stayed the same,
but also banding the Gambit first means
you have to go through the road and other things,
but Midtown will be where VP possibly could end this.
Just going to familiar territory for Virtus Pro,
a couple different strategies that they can enact and we saw right actually almost take them the distance two at three points
So everything on the line in the grand finals for the stage one playoffs will vertus pro bounce back
Or is this going to complete the sweep in the most dominant performance for an EMEA team ever?
Midtown lemon I consider it the breaking case of dive gap kind of
This is a much slower map the second point often we see teams held on very low ceilings
difficult to park for a fast dive team and this could be an attempt to try and really mess with the overall
parthing of
of
Navi and
VP are 3 and 0 on this map when it comes to playoffs not something that they think just other teams have usually picked against them
Even going the distance against heretics and that's how VP ended the series in their favor
But you know just barely by the skin of their teeth
the first ban for VP this time
after the Mantis thinking that
the Gambit matchup would favor
them better.
From both sides, maybe VP are
once again allowing for Gambit to
go through despite losing a lot
harder against the Gambit because
they don't want to see something
like a lowkey Mantis group happen
defensively here for Navino.
That's one of the stronger
composition is available to defend
and it's good to see Driger smiling.
It seems to still be high spirits of that as well.
They know that they have the talent necessary
for a reverse sweep.
And to ban the daredevil from jerky
after what we saw from the Wolverine.
Wolverine very strong on Midtown as well.
Sometimes you go for bans too.
Well, force a certain matchup,
but how about two bans against jerky?
Huh, well, to be fair,
like I don't know if this really impacts jerky too much,
at least defensively for Nabi they would likely be playing like a triple where Jerky would be playing
an Ultron or perhaps a perhaps something like a Loki or an Adam Warlock for that additional res.
BP having access to Voluna though I think is pretty huge and that means Nabi are like,
okay we can't allow Fai to be getting that additional healing so we are going to be removing
that daredevil once again. For the first time too, so Fai could be forced to go to a second hit
He's been more picking that up like a Star Lord even taking the Cyclops away from sparkler so that he can play other things
That could that's been more of a fight thing other than the Wolverine
So Navi trying to change things up the same way was VP if they are facing a triple strategist
Having a flake on someone who could take it off angle and even go on a full flank
They can set up their cap their their in-z for success as VP will be attacking first
and Na'Vi don't really care for 3-3 shenanigans,
why would you ever put the goat off of Duelist,
so at least that's something you can mark off.
I'm in jerky on the silo here,
trust me and Rache Robo being able to play Dive Vanguard.
This is a composition that I would consider Na'Vi at full power right now,
so VP are going to have their work cut out for them,
but they are going to utilize the kinetic claws themselves
with the powered up Wolverine,
which might make trust me these dives a little bit more treacherous.
And even if this series seems unwinnable, there is so much to take away by like sometimes fully banning out one player and just seeing how deep their hero pool is and what weaknesses you can force which VP have tried to identify that that is jerky so this could be info for the mid-season finals and extra health.
That's hard to do.
That knockback from level 1 growth midway through a flight is some crazy reaction time by the way to stuff in the mid-air. Unbelievable stuff.
Yeah, and you would think like an Invis or the self-sufficient like that, but it proves
you just cannot dive them.
I think he only had three casualties on Museum of Trust, he's in trouble now this time.
Some of them over disengage, I think the swing went in the wrong direction, but manages
to use a frenzied arrival to get out instead and feed over a bunch of that Shredder just
out of charge.
Vince is finally managed to isolate Terra.
You can be a lot more free to make these things work when you don't have to worry about that.
Oh, what a dodge from Jerky.
Masonic Slash just cuts through Dredro despite finding the opening early opening on Terra gets
Resurrected by the rocket racoon and remainder of VP just fall apart
Yeah, you want to be careful how you try to run away from the sidewalk as if you yellow us your other
Strategists, then you can't patty kick your way through the pain
But hey we get to see just how deep that and how efficient this hero pool is of jerky, which so far
Identifying Dredro not getting frozen so far so good. Nevic's on the Angela
maybe shove some people off this high ground, maybe forcing out some cooldowns.
and also then want to go for the elimination so you know Tara is just like
not trying to ego challenge and make mistakes you want to go for perfection
you want to get this done in four you don't need to stat cut DP also getting
caught in tiny rooms this is not where an Angela or Venom want to be especially
how Navi can pounce on you at any mistakes alright you royal flush
expended for both here and jerky stops three draws roll straight away
utilizing the dance with all five doesn't even get a chance to use the fate of both worlds
and Terra just follows trust me's lead into the a fist hell's heart stabs the versus pro when you
are not going to be able to take it unfortunately you won't be able to pair it like the raging royal
flush with the galactic legend which is may be a strong wind condition but these days people
are staggering those ultimates to try and draw out strat ults from the other side so you have
have more of a layered approach but right now it's VP having trouble developing those layers.
a man might have used the peel for themselves as Rajro can use to bounce away of a sensual
strike. Sparkled down into main of propulsion Blaster blasts themselves back as Trustman
moves into the back yet again with a hoose of the abyss to play with.
Yeah VP had to decide whether they wanted to fight through the cosmic yarn amplifier
dismantling and pounce on Na'Vi and Fi was not on the same page as everyone else as VP
has seen so little progress and almost a chance to punish Na'Vi here.
Where the enemy's at though, the panic is real, the heart rate is rising, the pressure of the finals being up match point is starting to break them down.
Nami deployed both of their vanguard ultimates, side base falling down, even through the healing of Trudja with 10 seconds remaining.
There are no cracks forming in Nami's armor, their pantheon is so powerful, what you may try to approach on fine, Raja is there on the other side.
That might be America's captain, but it's EMEA's power player who brings it to an end.
Level on crickstands strong with the raging royal flush, VP can't even touch, Herbie
stored before the quarter and Navi are looking absolutely titanic.
And this has got to put the fear into the eyes of any team that could face Navi in the
mid-season finale coming up because when you look at this bracket, oh, a team that hasn't
drop the map at least it's trending that direction okay oh you've there's been a thousand band
lines against them and they still look dominant whether you first band mantis first band gambit
you go after their vanguards you go after jerky's whole hero pool there's so many ideas and so
many layers to navi that you simply cannot peel back unless you execute perfectly and at this
point, the wind is out of the sales of VP, and it's not been getting any cleaner, and
they already have a spot at land, so we'll see what their last hurrah will be on defense
as the finish line for this grand final sits halfway to the first objective.
The core of Na'Vi feeling such sweet shard and froida right now.
They were denied a world championship, a sparkling glistening crown by Virtus Pro 4-1 despite
the heroes of crisis to rescue it but now they are the ones with their boots on the
throat of the bear ready for slay versus pro. VP not going to opt for a rocket to bring
somebody back if someone makes a mistake you're going for full counter the damage boost from
Phi and sparkers on the Elsa to deal with the trust me venom that they've let slip by
for the first time this series. Next bag of a composition. They're great to try and
slow things down but you know what they haven't try and match that pace Rajarov just out here ready
to brawl since he's taking damage. It's just gonna start to build up these strategies which
are going to be necessary to hold strong. The full protection, the strangling prison could be big
if you even get to build up to that point so all eyes are on Sparker and how he deals with this
already I get it by trust me. Looking towards the back so I forget a bit of primary target but
where Jerky's happy to just deal with Spark up for now.
Silver's cart rolls on forward,
Nevix caught on the low ground,
Jerky has to disengage his thigh.
It seems that VP have managed to find themselves
to surround, but they can't really charge Terra here.
Terra's to break down these root walls,
maybe he'll be a bit busy, but Finzi could be a victim.
He escapes into the shadows,
relieving now some of this cart pressure
as Nevix finds himself alone.
Nevix brings up the ball, trying to peel a little bit away.
Spark finally gets the monster here,
so they still don't believe it's winnable.
And Harvey say, we don't need our carry for now, we'll do it as five!
And they've found themselves free to open up, Sipe needs to survive this.
And this engagement is going to be difficult, Sparkle once again says, you need a hero!
I will be the one who holds it down!
Jerky the next to fall, Fincy in the back, Sparkle back yet again, Fincy and Rajow traded out on the other side.
And Terrasive merged on the blade of all people!
It's going to be the Gamewalker trying to make it work, the healing's strong behind them.
Sipe needs to release the ultimate hero now, to have a counter-strike as terrible as I'm yet again,
They have a strangling prison towards the back, they've grabbed in fake gear and trust me, Crook!
They fall in unison as VP refused to bow and kneel.
And Navi, they are just meters away from being your champions.
Done playing with their food, we're done with the blade.
As VP have used some pretty important win conditions, the Apex Predator is still trying to find a lane
and they've been able to punish trust me on these dives, and he is still heading towards these strategists.
And even through the damage boost of Dreedro,
because they were all healed up, they didn't find any limbs, Navi are so quick to disengage,
they're like a swarm of wasps when they do want to fight VP at no high ground, they have to be
ironed inside now.
Pinty strikes first, level 1 croc on the second side, pays down, and so it has to be 5 for VP here,
they have the almost to make it work, but do they have the will, no his fingers in the back,
all the heals are gone, and not to Svincheri, and they didn't last in dorm to win,
It's RIT upon marble and it's RIT across the cosmos
They ascend the marble staircase, they climb up Mount Olympus
And Psyper tries to stop them directly in their tracks
Terror's taken down once, resurrected straight away by the battle-reakal beacon
Fly emerging with the rage of ultron, the rage will drive them forward
The dance of the butterflies is a dance macabre
As Navi have nothing but victory tangos in their hearts
VP are doing their best to grip on
But you're so far away from an ultimate side,
he still has the daggers of Denak,
who's coming back with some healing.
The answer's gonna be no one.
It's only Spargel of the Apex Predator,
but at the top of the food chain,
it's always been nothing.
It's never gonna be dethroned.
The championship is theirs,
and so too is their first state victory of the NBA.
They will not be denied.
You try to scatter them.
You try to ban against them.
There are no weaknesses to this team.
And how drop the single game in playoffs?
VP encountered them twice, even on the same maps.
Even as every choice that VP had,
there are no weaknesses in the Navi map pool
or the hero pool.
This Navi team is the one to beat
at the mid-season finale.
Votable, we've had a day.
We have had a day, absolute sit-up.
Yeah, I mean the most dominant performance I think we have seen in a single stage so far even from Virtus Pro
as like they was talking about that as I post the question saying that oh, you know
How dominant is the stage two win that we saw from VP compared in comparison a lot of maps still were dropped
They almost didn't even make it in it to those grand finals one map away
And like just a touch basically because of it and now we see the other coin here, right?
Navi in the grand finals only took a single map against a Virtus Pro
Well, in stage one, Virtus. Pro was on the other foot where they only took a single one in Central Park
and it's more of a mess around too with the full-hold strategy in the group stage.
So, great turnaround for Navi, picked up Terra, knew that that was going to be their key to victory,
and that's exactly where they are sitting. The crown's on their head for now,
but not world champions just yet. That's still reigning for Virtus. Pro in mid-season finals,
looming ahead. They're looking to dominate the rest of the competition.
I think they've been put on
notice with this one lemon.
Absolutely. And the other two
representatives of midseason
finale rad and, uh, um, VB,
uh, Brad and BP. Not be three
on both of them. So it's going
to be a new patch. Right? Maybe
it's gonna. It's gonna be a
different time, but now we have
been ahead of the game and I'm
let's see if America's and the
rest of the regions have done
their homework on this team. I
to get into the stats in the
nitty gritty of the MVPs,
which is obviously tarot for
the most part from that one.
Again, make sure on July 7th
you tune into the dev vision
to figure out all the details
about that minute season final.
We have all our teams decided
we just need the location and
also everything else that can
be announced before that.
Definitely want to make sure
you tune into that.
But even then, I mean talking
about the series itself as the
whole, I feel like we saw a
little bit more life here like
here leg day specifically out of the other side, but Tara was the one to just decimate
their hopes and dreams throughout the series.
Yeah, just sitting with the MVP farm, it happens.
Can we talk to someone with a blade graphic please?
Wrote it in the play towards the end, what in the world is going on so that you could
just like wail on Nevix in main, unreal stuff, and then of course we'll be back to the Cyclops
at the end.
It was a fantastic performance, but honestly, the only way that you have staged this perfect,
22-1, is if every single member of your squad is just the best in the world of what they do,
and that's exactly what Naga is.
That's what we wanted to see from them, right? They had some questionable
pickups that people were wondering, oh, is Jerky gonna be enough to stay on this roster
where we had Naga actually doing a great job for them before?
Well, I think they proved everyone wrong. The flexibility has been there since the preseason
into this stage. I mean, swapping on over to the silo. It doesn't matter if the Wolverine
is banned. Doesn't matter if the daredevil is banned here as well. Everyone on this roster
doing a great job, but I do still have to get the flowers to jerky on that one. Love
it. The flexibility and jerky got double band fully targeted. He brings out the silo, which
You know we've seen enough of it in playoffs, but is VP testing the waters? Is there is there anything?
Can you make this beast bleed and the answer has been no from the Museum of Contemplation full hold the midtown full hold and you
Wonder I think at this point rad would be the best team in EMEA to try and de-throw now if they even encounter each other
Of course just based on where Navi's peak or where rad's peak was yesterday
Unfortunately, we didn't get Lugia today because would that have really changed anything without have put rad into the finals or not?
That is the question, but there's so many unknowns going to midseason finale
But one thing's for sure Navi are unbeatable
Best team supposedly in the world as they would like to believe in us EU casters or EMEA
Casper would love to say as well
But we got a way for that to be fully decided at that midseason final as we mentioned
And this is the best preparation that Navi could have asked for right showcasing a dominant performance
But I kind of want to go in it to the nitty-gray here
It felt like the vanguard lineup looking at these stats really stepped up and Rajarov here like they has been having an MVP
Performance of his own if Tara wasn't on the team
Yeah, eight final hits like Rajarov is like the silent attacker
He's like the IRL venom of this team always able to do so much damage work those margins tax the heels
jerky having a great showoff time as well on the side of the show. I'm not just a triple strategist merchant who's here to boost terror.
I am my own duelist and I have the power in my hands to both finalists. Certainly seems to suggest so as well.
And honestly, like you said, Rajro probably one of the best in the world, if not the best in the world when it comes to filling these gaps and doing a huge amount of damage from that Vanguard roll.
I think one thing at Lemon, if you want to bring up here fate, we got to give credit where it is due one sided rocket
It was such an intramental factor to the lethality that we see from Tara using the Ruby rage comboed with it
But also the rest of their team he was sustained from it also having the battle recall beacon to keep them alive in these fights
Just having one get out of dodge a free card again jail free card specifically
So it's been great to see that
Yeah, it's all a game plan no matter what you've been against Navi
They have something the gambit the rocket trust me back on the venom you tried to double ban jerky
He's on the sidewalk and Navi still full hole so big congratulations to them
Well, we have the whole team here to talk about their victory being the champions of stage one EMEA at 9 to 20 at 26
Congratulations to you all
Hey
Hey, how's it going guys? Can you guys hear us?
Yeah
Okay, yes, we could hear it. Can you hear us? Are we good? Of course
Okay, good good
How are you guys feeling of course from the victory the most dominant performance we've seen in a single stage or from the NBA team?
I mean we feel obviously great. I think every one of us creates know like we won finally against
we finally get our revenge for losing in the grand finals against them so it
feels amazing. Vengeance is great and you guys are obviously incredibly
talented but can you guys tell me how much work goes into being such a perfect
team? There goes a lot of work and we didn't
scrim four blocks but we scrim like three blocks we had what with you everyone
was so focused on being here.
I mean, it's also why we got the fortune
to be flown in at a bootcamp, you know,
have be together, work together every day,
and play together every day for perfect synergy
and optimal conditions.
So it was a really great time so far.
And the top three alongside you has been Rad and VP.
Were you expecting VP to be your opponent today?
And what do you think about the competition
within your region and the rest?
I think VP is really good, but yesterday I think we played better than today, but I think VP has some time to catch up right now, but I think they will bounce back.
I forbid them to lose to any NA team by the way, so I think I guarantee that if we play VP again, we need our revenge on world stage, like final, and they are forbidden to lose against any team.
because they are good players, everyone is very passionate.
Even in EU, you know, in the EU, for example,
a lot of teams don't get funds as we do.
We're fortunate enough to be at a bootcamp to get good salary,
but a lot of teams don't get that, only the top four teams in EU.
And everyone puts in so much effort, so competition-wise,
there's like four really good teams and like 12 mediocre teams.
But it's logical as well, because there's no lot of funds, you know?
So much passion, though.
Write down trust me's commands to not lose to any NA teams.
What about the koala? Is that a team mascot?
Bro, I don't know. Fate is just holding the koala.
It started here, I thought Fate brought it, but apparently it is a mascot of Navi.
So right now it is a mascot of the bootcamp at least.
Oh, John Chandy.
We have any question to the rest of us as a team?
Yeah, actually, if Terra wants to answer anybody on his behalf, because when they get asked
about which team they want to face, who they're looking forward to facing in mid-season, they
just say Terra.
They don't say Navi, it's always Terra.
So what's your response to that?
Oh yeah, Terra.
I'm not here.
They're asking for your response on the Twitch team, and you're going to face them anyway.
No.
I was called out by an individual, his name is Shpedery.
We'll be seeing him at LAN, and that's what's going to happen.
Me and Bob, you're going to face off on the big stage, and it's going to be a cinema match
with people who's there.
So it's obviously TOC.
It's going to be us versus them.
Everyone's gonna say it's like which teams are best in the world and it's always us too in the discussion
So see them on the main stage and grand finals
I got another question for you here Tara before we kind of turn it around to some of the other crew in the background as well
I had an interview with you before you fully got joined into the roster for Navi
Where you said you want to come to the region to try and go one-on-one with sparker and see who's the best the best
Do you feel now after your victory here through stage one and the preseason that you are the best of duelists in the world?
Wouldn't say that I feel like there's no best in the world and it's a team game one person cannot carry the whole team
So team environment if one person plays bad, it's not the whole blame on them
It's the whole blame on the team you go down with the ship you win with the ship
It's how it is supposed to be
But you want to I want to you
Yeah, one of you, one in A, and now I just have to do is lift the trophy. That's basically it.
There you go.
Heck yeah, can you pass me over to Jerky? I've got a question for your flex card.
Yeah, I'm going to make him lean. I'm like that.
I've made it. Hello.
Hey, Jerky, how's it going, boss? Obviously, we highlight a lot of the like terror hero plays,
But what goes into being one of the most flexible players and one of the most flexible teams in the world?
I mean, I think being a Flexed-IPS is probably like the hardest role, I would assume.
I mean, you know, it's just a lot of practice with the team.
I think no player can do it all at once, right?
Like it's just, as trust me said, three blocks a day of odd reviews, spending times one-on-one with my coach
to improve on each individual hero so yeah I mean I think it's just a lot of
hard work. Speaking of hard work you have the mid-season finals ahead of you guys
the whole world is watching to figure out you know what your thoughts are on
the rest of the regions out there but the floor is yours if you have any words
for your fans for the opponents that are in the future let them know. So we have
any words for their opponents in the future or the fans do they want them to know anything
yeah i guess i guess by the navi bundle if you guys want to keep supporting us and that's how
oh okay wait wait we're doing something one moment
by the navi bundle
Oh, like that.
Hahaha.
Hahaha.
There you go.
I don't know how much we're dead.
We got it.
That's a big, bye, Denabi Mundo.
We got it.
Convict.
Awesome.
Thank you guys so much for joining us.
Congratulations on your victory and we'll see you at the mid-season finals.
See you, see you.
Thanks for having us.
Bye-bye.
Bye, Denabi Mundo.
Bye, Denabi Mundo.
So coordinated-ish.
That's quite a bit.
That's not in game, but don't worry about that.
321 dive, perfect. 321 by Vanavi Bundle, two scrim blocks right away. Talk to Coach.
We're trying to coordinate with your teammates and ranked all the time, but here is one last look at the playoff bracket
and how we got here with the undefeated run 13 maps that we see across it to 0 from now the undefeated,
the most dominant performance we've seen in a playoff bracket from any team.
team. Even VP, as we were talking about before, still dropped maps along their way to victory,
but we got to talk about the unsung heroes here, Lemon. Who would you say deserves a special
shout out that we didn't quite see as much as we would have liked to from?
Yeah, shout out to Lugia. I hope he's doing okay, Rad. I know that's got to be a heartbreaking day
for them, because after yesterday, I really wish I'd changed my predictions, because Rad
were looking like a top two team after what they did to Heretics yesterday. I'm looking forward
to see how they bounce back to in midseason finale when everyone is up to par. But I think everyone
on VP gave it their all and you know maybe they're just hibernating for the midseason finale. I think
that's when everyone is going to hit their peak. Leg day looking at this bracket as well. I mean
Heretics I think is the biggest question mark that we have going into stage two. What do you think
they really need to fix up so that they can lock in for the next time? Maybe there's a world
the game. I think that's a
little bit of a world where
heretics don't get
assassinated by the patch.
Playoff. I think that might
help a little bit, but team
heretics. I don't think they
require a rebuild. I think the
talent on that roster is
exceptional. Maybe they just
require a little bit more time
to reintegrate can into these
calls. Maybe they just need to
work on their band drafts a
little bit. I think the team
Eric's one of our less
flexible teams when it came to
being very very like fluid when it came to how they were doing their drafts and
they were being rewarded for not like methods slaving in those 30 HP was the
difference between them making it and not and unfortunately for heretics will
have to sit out but they are going to have plenty of time to prepare for this
grand finals a lot of the delineating between each other on what the focus on
in the band draft maybe next time but again big shout out to all the teams
who participated across MRC across the stages itself but also make sure you
that's where more details
about the midseason finals
will be revealed and you got
to make sure you tune into it.
A lot of amazing announcements
to come for this new season
coming out to season nine.
I mean, it's crazy that we've
been here for such a long time
in Marlboro is Marlboro's
Esports General and he funnel
thoughts from Eugene down the
line before we close off stage
one and get ready for the stage
one playoffs for America's. I
know now that you've got a
America's. I know now we were
excited to face TLC in that
midseason finals and well
America's is right around the
corner. We've already been
absolutely treated with
cinema and entertainment
today and I'm looking forward
to watching America's soon.
Thank you so much to all of our
players for the unholy amounts
of effort that you put in to
on such a good show and thank
you all so much for giving us
You're here on the ground floor during this year of Marvel Rivals eSports and seeing what you're at the best region
So you know that you're gonna be here to see the world champions in the making
Oh man
I do have to also give a nod to the teams that are gonna be fighting through the promotion relegation midseason qualifiers tournament coming up
July 17th to the 19th the chosen ones reason gaming at fire strays the Lions and alter eSports
We'll see them alongside some tough competition from MRC trying to see who will be the six teams to rejoin us in stage two of the
Competition definitely keep an eye out for more details on that as well
But also thank you do everyone for joining us throughout the preseason into stage one
It's been a pleasure to be here along the side the likes of Moxie
Techer and Ryan who had to you know enjoy their time off today as much well deserved arrest
We're going to be taking a bit of a break ourselves before we get into the action for America's
figuring out if Team Liquid Citadel can also keep their undefeated streak coming up next.
We'll see you in a couple of hours.