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25 World Finals Champion.
Welcome back everyone to the Overwatch Champions Series.
I can't wait to kick off our second week of this stage.
I'm Ash and I'm joined here with Jake and Matt.
How are you guys doing heading into week number two?
I'm doing great, Ash.
I mean, we had some amazing matches in EMEA.
I love when, you know, the standings are in chaos
and, you know, teams are punching up.
It's been about as competitive as we've ever seen it here in this region.
So I'm excited for today's games.
And I mean, we have a new patch, right?
New hero, new patch.
I mean, that's always a fun time to jump back in.
I know it is.
Watch the mode WCSC kind of what teams have been cooking up since Tuesday.
No, for sure.
And talking a little bit more about what happened in that first week, guys,
you're talking about those shakeups, kind of crazy stuff, right?
With how Virtus.pro are looking very squarely on top.
They're essentially securing their playoff spot.
I think it's going to be a
really good game. It's today
where they're going to be able
to do that. Actually, um,
crispy and interviews last
week also claimed that
Golden Pants is up there with
Junbin in the top of the ball
conversation. It looked like it
to Matt. I think it's been a
really wild way to kick off our
second stage of O WC. Yeah, I
mean, like, obviously the you
know, ball is, uh, very
difficult to pilot for some
players. Golden Pants make to
I mean, they're able to get a 3 over Twisted Minds, a 3 over GK as well, and they look
like prime position to kind of take, you know, number one in EMEA, which, you know, for what
the last probably year plus has been dominated by Twisted Minds.
Yeah, speaking of this, this TF team, it's crazy to see them having such a rough stage.
Like, I feel like they know they're not playing at their best, and we've been hyping them
so much of the team for good reason because they've had such an incredible run over these
last couple years. It feels like a shock to see them stumble here at the start of the
stage. I mean, there's time to ride the ship, but they need to work fast.
Yeah, they really do. We saw them not really leaning into like the meta during Champions
Clash. It seems like heading into now this current state of Overwatch. Like you're saying,
they're having a bit of a tough time and these other teams are catching up really quickly
and overtaking that kind of facing.
But of course, AMEA isn't the only place there are upsets.
NA also had some upsets going on,
like SSG winning that game up against Dallas Fuel.
I think it was also pretty wild to see overall in that.
I got to get your thoughts on how this stage is starting.
Yeah, I mean, you know, a little bit of a changing in the guard
maybe it feels like, or just kind of the meta shifting so much
that I think, you know, teams coming back maybe after a break
after Champions Flash, not able to kind of pick it up.
And really also if you're one of those teams like hey, let's take a break like we kind of know there's gonna be a new patch
Second week, so let's kind of not throw all our eggs in that first week basket
But you see some of like big upsets right SSG is able to get a win over the fuel
I know we talked about kind of a VP did I know here in EMEA and then uh, no Waybo just kind of you know
Doing some way both stuff they lose their know the JDG where the waybo obviously, you know the favorite in that region like by a
Long margin so a while loss
It's fantastic for China. They need some new blood like
At the international
It's pretty clear to say they need some young players to like be taking on the old guard and you know some
Press change in the scene. I think it's a very healthy sign for China. I think it's awesome
Like it's really cool to see and I think that the upsets is just I feel like that says so much about the direction that the scene is
is going in right now competitively.
But despite the fact that we're just over the halfway point
at the end of today here, heading into playoffs
for these teams to be able to try and make it
to that mid-season championship,
we gotta talk about the changes
that are coming into this week too,
because things are kinda crazy.
Looking at the patch notes,
like how many heroes were adjusted
in this season's patch notes.
And overall, we also have a new hero coming in here
but walking in on the patch notes. Matt, I want to hear a little bit from you about what you feel
like has been maybe a couple of the most impactful changes heading into this meta.
Yeah, I mean, when we talk about like Cap Bastion, the things that can happen there, right? Some
adjustments to both of those to try and, you know, not let that happen. I know as much. So
Bastion, the artillery perk, where, you know, you kind of gain the over health when you kind of use
the ultimate, that's gone. So not, you know, able to kind of add that extra level of survivability.
To the bastion some adjustments to like cat being able to kind of guide him around and also somebody you'll notice who's
Missing here is no changes up or down or adjusted to Sigma. So Sigma probably will still be pretty good
Yeah, I think these patch notes they're pretty interesting, you know a lot of small tweaks here and there
But nothing earth shattering like I still feel like hey, maybe this cat bastion could work in the right circumstance
I still I don't know that you know same like you said Matt like this signal is looking calm could still be good
But it feels like there's just enough wiggle room now where maybe some new blood could could make it in and what a better time
Could you find for a new hero to come into the meta? She on looks fantastic to me?
She really does. I think that this new hero looks sick
I don't know if you guys at home have had the opportunity to play it in my games
She was getting banned out really frequently. So I barely had a chance to to be honest
I'm really hoping to see that to see some play from her today though Jake
I want to hear a little bit more about what you think she how she slots in
Talk about her abilities and overall how this character is looking. I will say I think this character
Looks to me the eye test to be a strong choice for competitive play high mobility high DPS heroes
often are like kind of the cream of the crop when it comes to what competitive
players are looking for in the DPS lineup so she on fits right into that the
question I think on a lot of people's mind is where does she sort of fit in in
the comps does she play it more of a traditional hits game role the range is
a little bit low for that is she a flanker you know how does she actually do
you know on those flanks with lower resources matched up against the
standbys like Tracer like Genji so you know for me it's it's an interesting
hero because it looks good, it looks interesting, but it feels like there almost needs to be
a new style, something different coming into the meta for her to really shine.
And so even like, I think we might see her, I think we'll see her at least a little bit,
you know, pretty quick.
And then it's one of those heroes I think over time, there might be new strategies coming
out to play around.
Well, it's going to be exciting to see how she ends up slotting in here at the top
level of Overwatch, but we got to talk a little bit about what we got in store for today first.
We got three EMEA matches for you guys today.
It's a big question of whether TELUSY will continue to shake things up against GK earlier
at the beginning of their day.
Also if 1, 2, 3, 4 can continue their streak up against the best of the best, but we will
have to wait and see.
We do have two matches of NA as well afterwards, but this is all culminating into some bigger
stuff guys because of course these teams are looking to qualify for the mid-season championship
at EWC in Paris, top three of both EMEA and NA will be making it out and you guys can get
your tickets right now for MSC in Paris once again, scan that QR code on your screens and
you actually have a little code for you guys as well to use OW15 to get 15% off your tickets
for the midseason championship there as well. So make sure to check those out. Now we can
actually get into the nitty gritty of the games. Let's talk a little bit about this
the game, but they still haven't
been able to pick up a win. They
haven't been able to get a map
either. Matt, but this is still
a very strong roster. I mean,
they have two fairly difficult
games, right? I know against
I believe it's Alcatya to kick
things off, and then I know
against Virtus Pro. You take a
look at this roster. There's
not a lot of people that
have been able to pick up a win
in the last couple of weeks,
You take a look at this roster. There's no reason for them to be bad, right?
I know that Kalecs gonna comes in here
I know subbing for Haku, you know here in our second stage and then also I know combined with zeod lab
That like this is like a really strong core that we saw kind of almost last year, right?
I know go on a little bit of a run
So I expect them to be much better like can they get past, you know, policy can they get past 1 2 3 4?
Right, can they kind of like figure out a way to get into that top 4 playoff and I think they'd be dangerous
Yeah, they started to fight them just to be in the playoff contention like they
should take a couple of tough else the elder Virtus Pro is like you can almost
write it off the way VP are playing the stage like probably just about everyone
is gonna be taking a 3-0 into that one but the Las Casillas it hurts and this
is a match they need to not just write this shit but to do it decisively right
to really you know pick up some big map score to win some maps first of all and
show us that they're really here to compete and come to the mid-season
Yeah, it's gonna be a really important match up here for the side of BK and then a bit of a different story for Tela C, right?
You don't have that kind of same pressure on their shoulders coming in through promo relegation
taking a map off of
What were considered the kings of this region last week in their OWCS debut Jake?
I think that we've seen parts of this roster
within OWWC like for team Poland when we're looking over at there's like ICANN and TechSoul.
So we've already gotten a bit of a taste recently what they can do and it's gonna be fun to see what they're able to bring here in today's matchup.
Yeah, Lars impressed me a lot as well with the tank role. It's not easy to play tank in the OWCS.
This is like one of the most pressured roles and for Lars to come in and look really good on the Sigma against players like TVNT on the other side is kind of a crazy feat for him.
So impressed by Lars, I want to see more out of him, whether it's the Sigma or the Zarya,
wherever he chooses to flex. And then as you already mentioned, IKAP, very, very impressive
to me on the hitscan. XSJ as well. You may got a pretty small buff, but something to be said.
And XSJ, very, very comfortable on the may. So this is a team that I think actually could
be pretty well suited to the patch notes with Kat Bashin being toned down just a bit.
Well, we're going to have to see how these teams end up approaching these matches, right,
with these patch notes that are coming in for today's matches, but let's get into those predictions
before we even head into these games to find out what they're going to be cooking. Guys,
I had to go with Geeky on this one. As impressive as Tellacy did look, the fact that they did
manage to take a map off of TM, which is something that teams really were not even able to do.
During the first stage, I think that, again, this Geeky roster just looked so strong. Matt,
you called it already. The fact that they, you know, strength the schedule, right? It's,
They had a lot of hard matches, I think, heading into week one.
So I had to still throw my money on GK for here.
Yeah, I was dangerously close to predicting Telsy.
This is a scene that I'd become kind of a fan of after watching him put up a real fight against Fist of Mind and kind of push him to a limit.
I wouldn't be completely shocked if they get the upset here, but I do think a return to normalcy, the raw strength on this GK roster,
I still just want to give them that one more chance.
You've got to expect this to be the favorite. I go GK.
Yeah, I mean, I'm in GK too, but you can really make a pretty decent argument for Telsy, right?
With, you know, how they kind of look last week and how GK is looked, right?
You know, because 1, 2, 3, 4 takes Katya to a game 5, right?
So it's not like Katya's like kind of, you know, up there in your world beater kind of category.
So, I mean, I think this is going to be really close. I think if Telsy wins this,
they also have a really good chance to kind of get themselves into the top 4, right?
They still have games against, you know, Katia, and then 1, 2, 3, 4, Black, so, uh, still an opportunity for them to make it.
There is a world, there is a world. It would be really cool to see a team come in from formal relegation, be able to make it into playoffs, and maybe even beyond.
We'll have to wait and see if TELUSY are going to continue to grow, and how quick, again, these regular stages are.
What let's get straight into this match up though. I want to see what these teams are going to be cooking with these passionate
That are going to be coming through if we're gonna see a little bit more of the same or some changes in
In the server. Let's get into UK versus policy. All right, Ash. Thank you so much. And I mean that personally
I just want to see she on man. I'm
Excited to see if the hero comes out and yeah, I do feel like with her kind of shorter range
This is an arctic peninsula pick. It's kind of it's kind of teasing me like maybe she does come out here
So there was one thing that like you and I probably didn't really agree on in the sense of like
You kind of think she probably ends up more and like a hit skinny type role as the first band will be the Lucio
The second band will be the sheet. All right. I think that falls out. Yeah, it's a fantastic side
This is a good boy. Yeah. Yeah, she's getting banned then clearly there's some play of her
I think she's gonna fit more in like the tracer reaper type of
I think that the falloff is like it puts her in a really weird spot where she can't really kind of compete for some of those like hit
Scanner rolls
Yeah, yeah, I'm an expectation is that teams will be playing kind of a rush comp with her
So it will be almost like Cassidy she on it. Maybe you're right
Maybe she is a bit of a Reaper or maybe you play she on in Reaper
She on yeah, exactly like you sort of play a comp where you don't worry about the long range
But I mean the theory crafts are always you know insane you got to actually get reps of the server to see what actually works
But I will say when she gets if you don't get banned like this
It's like you know she's a very relevant hero with the meta to take a ban this early in the series
So I'm very excited to see how this develops who has a pulling her out
And I think the fans are gonna be excited to see those motorbikes fly but it won't be on if our two minutes left
Lucio and she on both out of the next
Yeah, so in Arctic Peninsula we didn't see a giant champions clash because it was like just had some of the new changes to it
But I know now the teams have obviously had no an opportunity to potentially play it some I know and get some more reps on it
potentially an
Opportunity to kind of keep you know this map pretty lively in the pool from the rest of the season because typically we see a lot of
Dressilius and I know Li Zhang. Let's see a look at some of the map
Yeah, I know the hero pants coming into this Jake obviously
With the new patch, there's going to be some pretty big shakeups, but if you look across
overall stage 2, right, Bastion is going to reign supreme there.
Yeah, I do think that's probably the biggest shift in the meta is that Kat Bastion, I mean
the nerfs, I would call them pretty moderate on Kat Bastion.
Mostly I guess the Kat nerfs, the carrying people is like a little bit less efficient,
your mobility is going to be a little bit more limited.
I do still think there's going to be a place for it in the meta, but maybe it's going to
to be less of an immediate go-to kind of a choice.
And I think maybe these other looks
that we've already been seeing
end up taking a bit more privacy.
But I like this patch because it's subtle enough.
It doesn't take a hammer to what teams
have been working on and building.
It really is that kind of tweak
that feels perfect at a mid-stage.
Yeah, and I'm curious how this patch impacts that fashion
and then Sigma doesn't get any changes, right?
But, you know, one of the better kind of things to go against is like my Raita if you can just get like the Moga past the shield, right?
And like maybe now you're playing Reaper and Shion, right?
It can be, you know, pretty difficult, like you just overwhelm the SIG at that point, right?
So I think that'll be kind of curious to see if we end up in that type of spot.
And look, I mean, EMEA has a lot of like really good Moga players.
The like teams in EMEA would probably want to play something, I know, along the lines of like Moga.
So maybe not Moga, Reaper, Sheon, maybe like with a Cassidy in the mix, right?
But like, still, the Moga comes, even like maybe some D.Va still kind of like figuring
her way into the game.
I think that's kind of where EMEA would want to be, comp-wise.
Yes, it's, you know, the Sigma matchup against Moga is always pretty interesting because
theoretically Sigma has a very good matchup there, but you're right, when you play the
overall like, I will just, you know, completely run at you with my entire team kind of a strategy,
That kind of concept can be difficult for Sigma to play against.
I think Mizuki can be a part of the solution.
I think it's part of why Sigma has felt a little more stable this stage, is that the
Mizuki mitigates a lot of those weaknesses.
The Sanctuary is a fantastic ultimate when the enemy is all in committing on you.
You can just kind of back up, pop the Sanctuary, and it's very hard for them to kind of keep
going that extra mile to finish you off.
Sigma can get a lot of value with the Flux, but you know, she kind of shifts everything,
Especially if she's going to get banned, if she's going to be a relevant choice for teams to go to.
That feels like a hero to me that wants to bring the pace, as you were mentioning, right?
Wants to kind of beat one of those very fast moving comps.
You think about diving on top of the enemy.
I mean, she on ultimate is pretty sick for that, right?
To like, get the enemy backline and just tear him up.
And, uh, no, Mizuki does get like a slight buff, right?
But it's like more like to the TP, right?
There's no, like, no healing output buff.
Like, it's just kind of like more.
Yeah, it's nothing kind of crazy and taking a look at through some of the other no kind of heroes
In the support category
Really, you know, what I mean, you know with lash with break. I mean a little bit of extra damage like
Movement speed nerf on the honor perk is for the nano that's kind of the brutal for her
So we'll see kind of where things can end up in terms of support and then she on obviously fan here
in our first map in EMEA, but we expect that that's probably a good sign for how teams are viewing her in the region.
Yeah, especially in the Interfek Peninsula, map with a lot of those close ranges. Let's see what's queued up here for both teams.
Obviously, you know, it's the caster's first role here in the OWCS to get baited by teams picking their heroes in the spawn room.
But I tell us, yeah, I'm a believer in what they're playing here. I mean, at least in terms of this being really their comp.
XSJ on the May they got a little bit of a mange buff to that endothermic blaster. So oh, yeah, that actually could be nice
Like it's meaningful. But yeah, you can connect on that start slowing people down stay on top of them run them over
There's something to be had there, but
Yeah freeze also gets a buff, but only against non tanks. So
You know just a little bit faster in terms of freeze a little bit just Sigma comms here
Off the rip as a SXJ gets really low off the start
Lavna TP'd into the back left, he's already lost to TP, he's no way out of the situation, has to fight his way out
and Icav XSJ cut him down but it costs Lars his life.
Now a 4 on 4, Chelsea without their tank kinda still fight through this.
Xion eventually does go down, we're down to a low number staff and Icav may be able to clean this up if he can finish off Alphie.
Spencer charged up, it's not easy to get the burn down, Alphie just cussed into pieces.
Great support work from GK.
That one goes down to the absolute wire, these two teams very evenly matched in the scene.
Yes, you know Alfie just they're not able to kind of connect those shots and the sim business just so ramped up at that
Period in time. This is thinking to go over and play far here
So putting even more pressure down onto lap then no way that really Alfie you can kind of engage with this far off in the sky is
Kind of some poke damage coming down from tell us to hear off the start is Alfie though Jake already close to wall
Yeah, he did so much in that first fight
It's huge to have the wall, especially because this far coming out can give you some trouble.
But with the Sim wall, you could really mitigate that.
Lars trying to move forward, taking some of this high ground control.
Great opportunity here for Icapp to start poking away at the point.
Icapp not finding really any areas of weakness.
He can hold it very strong.
Little big TP to force up the hound, thanks to those with the rush.
But Alpy drops the Sim wall, and you just cannot step up to that, Johnowich.
Dies there before they go through the Sim wall, and the cleanup begins.
Wabda looking sharp today here on the Cassidy, and it's just clean up with GK.
Yeah, it's a really nice play in terms of like using that sim wall when the Katsune rush comes down from Texal
And now it's at the VK perfectly, right sanctuary rush here available to use
I also have the dead eye. I mean just a really dominant round from VK thus far is
I'm just gonna say as well like you know Ziyad, anyway, we kind of painted him as more like the Ram like really going to be tested
You're playing the Sagan this series
I mean, you didn't even have to use either of those support ults for DK, right?
you're able to use the kind of that dead eye,
prevent them from kind of coming on in.
The sanctuary used like more in the choke is,
it'll just be Telsy here, just kind of rushing,
trying to get a touch.
I mean, Lars comes in on the ball,
it's going to go right into the Katsune rush.
And this has been as dominant as could be really
from GK off the rip.
Yeah, I mean, XSJ's is not what he's supposed to do, yeah.
Yeah, everyone's sitting at the sanctuary looking up at you.
And that is a statement man from GK.
I mean, TELUSI fight well in the first fight, right?
It feels like maybe we could have seen a different sort of a round
if they had come away from that, you know, deathmatch grab
that it came down to.
But Alfie getting the point control, doing so much,
and just having such a snowball advantage on the sim.
It's a great sign for Geekay that they can run away
with a lead like that and just not give any routes back
into the round.
So we'll see.
I know if any changes kind of come through here for TELUSI
in round number two. It looks like maybe you're just gonna TP out and go back and play the
far more than May. Dude, I don't know how successful they'll be kind of roaming that one back.
See, I know if they, or they're gonna try and match the sim, so they will. So they're
gonna actually try and match the sim here of GK. So trying to create some extra mobility
there for the rest of the squad and then also kind of, this sim obviously to ramp damage
if you can get it going, but this also feels way more comfortable for a team like DK.
get the flip back, it's returned, and yeah, eventually Ziad finds his nap, and they're
completely shattered here from Talos.
Yeah, really nice start, and I agree with you, the position there from DK off the rip,
just way better, right, kind of playing that, you know, off angle then being able to kind
of move up onto the point, and although kind of like Talos, he kind of controls that pillar
with a little bit of high ground, it's so difficult for them to actually push up onto
the point and try and make a play, so, uh, DK, really, I mean, they have shown no signs
slowing down this far. It's really been all them at least through our first point here on
Anarch Peninsula and then I mean they're already gonna get up to about 50% here on point number two.
They're gonna try and swing this corner. This has been a tough spot for a lot of teams.
Now they swing deep with the TP though. It kind of gets to the past the most difficult spot there.
Ultimates are available for DK, Latin, and open with the dead eye and oh even
Bones will throw out the XSJ. That's not a kill you can allow to happen. Without the
They're so vulnerable, they feel forced to take the fight here. Rush has come out, but a better rush for geeking and the player advantage.
You just have to fight something, but it's so desperate here for ICAP.
Yeah, I mean, how is he supposed to even push up though, right? I mean, everybody's so healthy there.
Exhorgy, cage, kind of bully them off of the side.
Now, I mean, tell us if you'll be able to come back here.
Maybe he'll have one more fight, Jake, but it's not going to be that good of a fight, right?
right I mean you're gonna have sanctuary for both sides you know Alphie with
that sin wall right a huge advantage over SXJ this part oh and a flux in the
spot I love this pick a ton of pressure on Smetra early she does take the damage
but hold on the sport just barely keeps her alive so they're running out of time
gotta move quick to get to this project point DK trying to fight aggressively
might end up causing him touch should come in here but Teckel's already down
It's going to be an all-in from GK, fighting these players who can't fight naked to point.
And down two now, Ziad folding things down, eventually he's going to drop, but maybe the damage is done.
Seymour from XHJ slows things down, but I mean everyone's all the way through the shield floors.
Surrounded, beset from all sides by GK attackers, and GK are going to close out at 30 minutes left.
200 to 0, it doesn't get more dominant than that.
And that was not close whatsoever. So, uh, no, DK looking dominant there in our first
map. Obviously, TELUSY, they'll have an opportunity to kind of pick next map, and maybe they'll
kind of be able to change some things around. But it feels like really there was no resistance
for, you know, how DK wanted to play there. Just kind of ran him over.
Yeah, that is a fantastic sign. Alpha Geek, 1-1-0.
No depths as well. I mean this this is as clean as they talk right like it's
That's a setback for jealousy, right? You might have felt pretty good about your result last week, right?
You know taking a map off TM
The rest of the series was relatively competitive as well for jealousy, but they did take it to task here
I mean, this is a level difference. This is the true welcome to the OWCS sort of game here from UK
Yeah, this was just like
just a beatdown. I mean at every moment it never felt like that DK was at a risk of losing a
I thought they looked worse for TELUSI playing the sim trying to match it like I think they looked
much better playing than the May they were never really even able to get like a sim wall until the
very end there I know in round number two so really rough game from them in map number one
potentially I know they want to play some shiomi they want to try some other stuff and that wasn't
available there, no Lucio available in map number one. So we'll see now as all the picks
and bans will go in their favor, see if they can kind of swing things in their favor in
a big way because they need to make up a huge gap.
Yeah, it's tough because that comp seems to be maybe the definitive one at the moment,
like some version of it. Whether you go with the May or the Far or the Sim, I think those
are somewhat flexible, you know, can kind of change the flavor of the style.
But in the end, you need to work together with the Sigma, be aggressive.
And it felt like some of those moments, you know, Ziad was just like fearless, like running
at them.
And Telsy is just falling back, but they're kind of splitting up and Matt, as a comp or
splitting up, you got to really know what you're doing, you know, it's very easy to
fall apart the moment your formation breaks.
That's not dive comp.
That is a comp where you want to group up and break the enemy Sigma.
And that's exactly what we saw from PK, right?
They were boxing out the enemy at every turn,
not afraid to get aggressive either, right?
Even when they're defending the point,
not afraid to kind of send it in there
and enforce some kind of an opportunity
with the teleport.
So for Alphie, looking good on the sim is a great sign
for them, it seems to be, I think a big difference
to make, but Gene, the teams who really can wild the sim
and maybe those who can't.
If I'm in the jealousy, I would consider banning the sim.
Like I thought, obviously that's kind of how
GK wants to play around it.
They tried to match it, obviously didn't look that great.
I really kind of consider banning the same, depending on where we go in terms of map.
So yeah, though, obviously a lot of balance changes, one we did mention is like Sigma doesn't get adjusted at all in the tank role, right?
And I think almost every other tank gets some type of adjustment, but sick.
So, and he was already pretty strong, right?
So, no kind of continuing to see some Sigma play, at least here, I know in our first round in EMEA, still I think a lot of time, right?
because teams usually don't figure out these patches until a week or two is passed, they see what Korea is doing,
they incorporate some of that into their game, so I think we'll take a bit to see what the meta looks like.
There'll be a new drunk city to pick here for TELUSI.
Alright, if this isn't a Shion map, I don't know what is, so this feels right.
The relatively close range engagements, teams already play a brawling style.
I'm ready. I'm ready man. I feel like when the new hero comes out like yeah
There's all these tweaks that are gonna matter right like Cap Asher especially
Being you know a little bit weaker than before loaded less options face there, but come on now
Lucio is gonna get banned out this time. It's
GK sir to ban out the Lucio
See what the response is in Tellacy
Yes, so they actually interesting enough both teams actually gonna forfeit the man on their map. So
Okay, Sim, I like that. That's kind of what I was thinking about.
Like, can they get rid of this in here, right? Maybe end up playing, you know, some Reaper, potentially.
So, you could play the May, right? That's kind of what they played early on.
I just felt like we're, you know, I think the Sim just gives, you know, a huge advantage over to EK.
Yeah, I will say, I feel like Reapers, Reapers days are numbered with Shion.
I think that is a very rough fashion for Reaper.
Like getting just deleted from the that execute kind of effect,
I think it's going to be a really hard matchup for Reaper in particular,
more than most heroes.
Because even at that close range where Reaper should be strong,
I still feel like Xi'an might have the edge.
So, you know, Reaper Mance might be struggling a little bit,
but you're going to have to live with it.
It's part of the reality here of Overwatch.
I mean, Reaper also loses 25 HP, right?
I guess that's 275, so.
Which maybe he needed in fairness like Reaper was
Highs a minus 50 there maybe even to you
Come on down to the Reaper variants. Let's let's be let's a little bit of love for for you know, I know
the first special move man
He's like he's had enough time in the Sun needs he's done great
He's back to the shadows where he belongs. He's back down in the doldrum. So
So, as Shion is available here, we'll see if each team decides to play the news here against Ban and our first map.
So, at least off the start, it looks like, hey, we're going to get like, you know...
I'm interested to tell us if they decide to play the Manga. I mean, that's one that we were talking a little bit about.
I know pre-game, maybe people decide to pick up.
Could work, right? Maybe with the Mei?
I mean, this might be a full mirror outside of the tank pick, but maybe not. Lars, back to the Sigma.
It's time for serious business. Both teams rocking up pretty much the same look.
Expect to see the Kiris come out here after the Juno speed ring.
But I think Mei is going to be kind of the story of this one, right? Who can find the better Mei wall?
Yeah, that's kind of what we're looking for here, right?
It was, you get both mazes out there, it's, you know, Alphie we know can play at a really high level, so
One thing we didn't get to see a lot of, you know, IK we've casted a little bit of, you know, his gameplay during the Overwatch World Cup was really strong on the cast of these.
Didn't really get to show it there in that first map, just because how dominant DK was, but just keep an eye on him and he kind of, you know, even things up here with Laptop.
Well, he finds the first kill, XJ getting a little bit too tricky, try to swing wide,
lap up, ready for him, and the GPS are down, he can't get a one-grab in town, no roads
back into this one for Telsy, they do grab one kill, Texel finds Telsy, which could slow
down, you know, at least a forward all-perfect game, but it's not much of a right home about
that.
No man, not a great start for Telsy, he's a bigger creature than Telsy, but yeah, I
I mean, you, we vote DPS that fast, especially, like, you know, Alfie just kind of, like,
he walks into one of the side rooms and just looks through the doorway,
just able to take out SS change instantly with a bicycle.
I didn't really even have to, like, work that hard for the kill, right?
You know, exactly allow that to kind of continually happen here,
for tell us if you're going to kind of hang in this series.
That's going to be, uh, the Chrometic Gramps have already appeared for Lars.
I mean, you know, Alfie finds another one, finds Johnowitz here.
Oh, that's a good find back from Lars though, keeps the fighting contentious, XSJ is in way too deep
there does not have a way back out after the ice block and Glabza with a quick little triple
make it maybe a quad beat Lars, even to get staggered out in this one and love this play
Sigma not being in his next fight is going to be really trying to pop him up himself with his own...
He's trying to form like a...
Exactly, it's over the door, it's off the wall
I mean, that's something you can...
You can't even fight this though, right?
Can't do that, you can't do that
Yeah, you can't do that. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm saying you can't even fight this point
It's gonna go over to GK with this stagger and then now what GK is gonna take all five ultimates into the next point
I mean as an opportunity to snowball pretty quickly here
It is like a 10 ulti fight though, right? Like the the check marks on the left side could be misleading
I mean tell us here basically we're gonna have everything as well. Jonovic a couple seconds late
I kind of doubt that'll matter. We'll have to see
either team I mean this is a big moment right if you can get the better fight
here especially from an economy perspective you could set yourself up
to win the entire map. I guess from what I've seen though from
Telegraph this far I would want them to have like a there are two or three old
advantage like going into some of these fights. The iCab that I hear is uh
a lot of damage down on this yacht that's a huge amount of damage. Everybody frozen from both sides but I think
XSK got a little bit better of that, countering both of the supportals which came out from DK with just the Blizzard.
So, you talked about it Matt, and you came into fruition here, a nice winning trade here.
I mean, you do use both the Gessels, but I think you're more than willing to trade up by a high Noon here for a support.
I mean, you need to win the fight as well.
I mean, there was really no...
If you had to just kind of dump everything in there, if you're telling us that you can't get control of the point here at first,
and basically get like, you know, one or two fights away from basically just going up 2-0 in the first, like, four minutes of the game, right?
So, the kill on Ziyan is massive though, right?
I know that Eye from Lycable corner there, catches him off guard. That is a nice sanctuary there.
Gonna be Ziyan trying to actually use the Flux series well. I don't think he's gonna connect with anything.
He gets him, but there's no follow-up, there's no position for them to step up, and with losing Lava in the trade here,
It looks pretty dire for DK. So Telsy getting some great kite back. They might be able to run down all of these players
Yeah, but that kill in the critical and you know rest of the team sets are for God conclusions out
He knows it as well. He's trying to prevent the spagger onto himself, but the supporting is great here
Everyone's just keeping their teammates alive and not I mean out
He's not gonna be here for the final fight and given these comps
I mean, this is nature a flash point of this kind of a style. There's no contest here
I mean, it looks like night and day, right? I mean with you know, how Telsy played that second point
They looked awesome there. See if they can kind of continue it here
Throughout the rest of this flash point this look
I thought it was a really nice sanctuary there from John which right kind of like puts it up allows them to kind of push in when
Labda is trying to use that dead. I and is ya try send up using the flux again response right to stir them from kind of pushing up taking
That space but doesn't catch much of anything and they lose the DPS player early
So for things start to fall apart
So we go into this next fight DK. They have an opportunity here Jake to just kind of poke a little bit and play for this
Consulate Rush, but that's a huge flux there. It's going to be the ice block and also it's yachting and it's serious damage though
Can make a blizzard preventing it to the third. When they come on down the blizzard they're waiting for them that is a huge setup
Now you're gonna stagger out lab to just a little bit, but that'll be this next flash point taken early by Telsie
Yeah, that's a huge blizzard right you know after you drop by the flux that little moment of slow
Right, it's just enough to keep you locked down and three players frozen that fight's gonna be done
It is too powerful team fight ultimates out of the kit for Kelsey and DK able to farm up quite a few of their own
So I'm this retake they should have a better shot
Let's see what I'll be the final skill because they're already rush immediate here straight to the point love that
just to put in the sanctuary now doubling down
into a text all can't really get value off of his ultimate.
And without me finding that pickup on the XSJ,
it's just the dead eye to stand the difference here.
But I have has to drop in the dogs at Sigma Rock.
And Russ and Telsy hopes kind of falling by their ears now.
Lars is going to do what he can to kind of stall this point out
and get whatever extra crime is possible.
But that'll be Telsy back to the drawing board
and an expensive loss for them.
They throw a lot of ultimates and really don't get much
of anything out of it.
I mean, what? It's rushes used from both sides off the start.
And then I probably, you know, tell us, see, they're trying to like back up the...
The sanctuary comes after they already had lost one player.
So, a little bit of a rough spot, you know, for them at that point,
where then the sanctuary is already active for DK, and they're able to kind of play inside of it.
And if he came right, you're able to...
You can do this plus-plus-plus-plus combination.
Let's see if they decide to pull it off.
I mean, just a man in ice block with a wall out.
Those beautiful bars, those floats over the enemy rock,
and actually gets out of danger for the moment.
Seeming in safe access Jay, he needs a lot of health.
Labda with a clean headshot, he's gonna finish that kill.
Lars, freeze one back, don't keep this by interest,
it's with Labda.
Ziad, both starting to drop here.
Telsy, they have just boxed their way through this one.
That is a tough choke to play, but Telsy, get the job done.
Yeah, it's a really nice flux there from Lars,
or even though they lose as XJ, right?
The Blizzard comes in from Alfie.
They're still able to kind of battle on through,
but Flux has a significant amount of damage.
They get, you know, Kelex there with it,
and then they're able to kind of like push on him.
Finn ends YAH dangerously low.
Alfie over to Tracer here trying to get a touch
as these YAH kind of float all over that Maywall there,
trying to get to the point.
So the Alfie who gets the touch, though, to trigger OTs.
As it goes to the dead-eye,
he's a little bit exposed here.
ICAP has it that I am responsible with this Maywall up,
so miss the step up and touch the point.
Maybe they're able to keep this overtime flowing
and Finn has a quick cross, XSJ.
Wait, Drew Blizzard, but I believe
it got Brock stunned out there.
DK doing everything to keep this point alive.
And even though Lars finds one, I think the cleanup is going to be here for GK.
I believe XSJ got rocked out of his blizzard there. That is a back raking play from Xeon.
Yeah man, I mean it's going to take a while here for Lars to actually like kind of like stack her out.
So, SSJ is going to go over to Tracer so you'll be able to get a touch.
Looks like they're going to give it up, yeah.
Without the SIG, it's hopeless.
Yeah, if you were able to get a touch, like I mean you have like a first sanctuary,
You're better off just kind of saving those for the next point right to keep things off. So
Yeah, Laura's a little bit just getting staggered out there kind of brutal
Looks like also DK will have a slight advantage on the rotation going over the next flash point
That is such that is such a momentum steal from DK to bring that one back
I'll be he's gonna stick around on the tracer almost has that pulse bomb on line
This is an open point. There's a lot of room for him to work already put some pressure down on the enemy backlines
Ziad, looks like the Flux didn't catch much of anything there, did get the brush out of Paxol, which is kind of a nice ult to just pull out and keep playing this one slow, but it's not even open yet.
And both teams with Sanctuaries here, Alphie now has worked around the outside to the full spawn, so I'll have to find Dyke out of this, having a little bit of a rough go, is that'll be the Flux from Lars?
Does a decent amount of damage spin dangerously low, same with Ziad, but they just can't find any kills?
Oh, the support is so good from DK's backline, keeping Ziad up through all of this, and Alphie is just profiting from all the chaos here on this flashpoint.
Tell us he's not able to clean that one up. Good support on Trades out of DK, and it feels like this is a point where Alphie's Trades are paying dividends.
Like, there's so much distraction element, and the Mei is not really able to put the same level of pressure on.
Well, and also, I mean, if you're Telsy, right, you lose one player early with the flux from Lars, it's pretty good, I mean, you get Phoenix, Yogg's so low, there has to be a way to finish off at least one of those players, right?
Give yourself a chance to fight, I know, really, uh, consistently in that engagement, so it's gonna be a dead eye here from Lada.
So, the Blizzard comes through from Mr. Shave, but he rolls right out of it.
Ziyad frozen pretty brutally, but the support is good. It cost Telsy's life in past focus there, on keeping the tank up.
Telsy now with the player advantage, seems to be able to clean this one up, still full-fum in the hands of Alphie.
If he could equalize this here, it would be huge, but Kike starting to drop low.
Ziyad, he must be falling back off the play, although hold on, he abdifies Jannawitch, and that could turn everything around.
Telsy tries so hard to clean up the fight, but yeah, now they're in real trouble, and Alphie is staying alive that whole time.
Now it looks like a genius play.
Still, I think that bullfuck, I can eventually drop it, but he's in a rough position on Cassidy, and now we'll just go down.
And I mean, without Lars, there's no way you're gonna be able to kinda come out on top, right?
The point to flip back to GK is an opportunity for them to kinda close this one out here.
If time and coming in, I mean, they get Zyada and Pin the low, they're snidey while finishing him off.
Lars did a fantastic job using that Connecticut Brass to shield, trying to keep himself up as long as possible.
but without the supports in a really brutal spot, it'll be the dead eye from iCab that gets lifted up there by the Flux.
Some damage comes on down.
Yeah, now they're trying to get through the choke rush.
Well, play some Texalt does. Keeps the support to the point where he's trying to iCab,
and the aggression pays off. He can't fully surround the attackers.
Lars can put the support to the point where the rest of the team is already down.
He can.
What an aggressive little push here to close out 5 points.
The Flux is out from Lars, but it doesn't seem likely to produce much of anything.
And a dead-eye from Labda, celebratory in this case, DK.
Go up to 0.
I mean, look, closer, right?
I know, Kelsi obviously gave us a little bit more
of a competitive game there.
But DK just kind of in control at the end,
able to pull out some of these fights to play her down.
And look, Kelsi, they have an advantage in some of these fights,
right?
And they're able to kind of get, you know,
whether if he's thin or gets, because the odd, dangerously low.
I think the support play from DK today
It's been really good though between, you know, Kellex and Finn keeping Ziad alive and that's really kind of the difference maker
I know here on Nujung City
This feels like a different DK than we've seen last week, right?
Like they look a lot more drilled, a lot more...
The board I would use is Pajin in this comp, right?
Like Alpy holds that pulse bomb for a couple minutes and he's just poking and prodding
He's drawing attention to himself in the backline, but never going down
And then that leads these tank advantages in the frontline
And then we see someone like just really strong straight-up deathmatch from the May Cassidy here to open the round
And I think this is maybe the most important thing in this current meta that your Cassidy and May are
Aggressive, they're creating opportunities in these early fights and able to clutch things out as you said though
Signs of life for Telosie like it's competitive at moments, but it does feel like DK are the better team right now
Yeah, especially when like kind of playing these types of comps
I thought that this would have been one where TELUSY may have been able to make it even closer
right without the Sim in the mix, because the Sim was definitely something they were
not able to deal with on Antarctic to Lynxla, but the Sim gone it.
Obviously we get a little bit of a closer game, but the same result.
I would have expected it maybe, or would have liked the Sim to make it a little bit more
competitive game on TELUSY's side.
Yeah, you think like, honestly, I think if Zyad doesn't stun the blizzard there, it had
to have been him.
stun, I think that's the stun in the comp.
If you don't get that and you lose that second flash
point, which I think you would, if Blizzard comes out
and you're in overconsumption at the point,
like it looks terrible for you on that point.
We could see that one go very differently
from that kind of a position.
So that map is, I really think it is kind of down to one moment.
Even though it's a 3-1 victory for GK,
I will say XSJ's may is a threat.
Like the Blizzard's from in could be massive.
But that is also your best chance, I think, for Tellasee
to get a win off that style.
You have another map pick now and another hero ban,
but when you're down to zero, you got to dig very deep.
And this is a less experienced team, right?
Up against some real veterans on the KK side.
Yeah, and it's a key ban, I don't know,
it'd be ban, SIG and try and play something
like completely different.
You know, he can't really ban the Cassidy, right?
I mean, that's just like a weird one
in this type of comp.
IKAB is so comfortable on it, right?
Labda looks amazing on a 2 though, I will say, so I agree with you, I don't think there's an obvious ban, because I think Lara actually looks very good on the Sigma 2, like I give a lot of credit in this matchup, I don't think you want to be banning that out.
Did you ban Kiri?
I will say, yeah, maybe the Kiri ban, I think the fact that Lucio is now unbanable is actually the biggest change, regardless of what they actually ban, it's a King's Row pick, but we need to see, I think there's like, Lucio has been banned twice already in the series.
series. Why is that the case? Lucio hasn't really been metaed in previous weeks. I think
people are kind of ignoring him because Cap Bastion creates so many problems, the Signizuki
feels better. Now we get to see maybe is there like a faster paced rush style, curculating
in the meta game.
Yeah, that could be interesting, right? Now that Lucio is going to be available for the
rest of the series, if that kind of changes anything, Kings Rope is the best selection.
Although hey look, Siggi, I mean it's pretty good on Kings in a lot of different areas,
So not exactly I kind of picking him out. So it'll be another deferment man
Yeah, no deferment. So it'll be it's crazy how much the better I shifted like a lot of teams are deferring our bands now
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty common now. I think it's like also kind of
Giving you know, maybe like you don't want to really be the one who tells right away exactly kind of what they want to do
Or how to play so it'll be a far ban here
with the far ban that protects, you know, like a
I mean, a she on bright, uh, if, you know,
tell us he was going to try and get rid of it, uh,
fear is we've seen DK, uh, remove it.
So I see this far band as very straightforward.
I think you care just saying, Hey, we will threaten to play
Sam, you're not going to be able to bring out the far to deal with her.
That's right.
Uh, I, so for me, I'm like, I just kind of like,
I think there's actually quite the good far map, uh,
you know, of the pool right now, like first and second points.
Pretty fantastic for a far, uh, the cigarettes.
Okay. So tell us he say, I think this is a band,
not because it's like Lars versus Yod,
this is like we need something to change.
We need something to cut the metal to change.
And that way I agree with it.
I don't look at like Lars having a week showing
and he's been good on the Sigma.
I just think this is forcing a big shift in the series,
which is the nature of where Chelsea find themselves.
They should be a little desperate here.
Yeah, and we did see a little bit earlier, right?
Where SXJ on Antarctic Peninsula pulled out the far upper
a little bit to try and play against some of those Simcoms, right?
So, we've seen teams play far up, especially first point here on King's Row in the past.
So, yeah, it's probably one where now maybe it's more of a key kick.
Wants to continue to play some Sim, right?
So now the far are not going to be available here.
We will go to King's Row, although we do love New Junks.
King's Row is looking crazy, man.
Yeah, look, a lot of changes, right?
King's Row at, but New Jump City was our last map and that one we've already seen and we
already know the result. Now we go to King's Row, where TELUSI right now have already or
ever sweep, you know, to be able to kind of keep themselves in it. Yeah, so for me, look,
you get rid of a SIG, like, ZYOD can play D.Va and Ram at like a really high level. Like,
I think, maybe you want to see...
Honestly, he might be better.
Honestly, I think he was probably better on like D.Va and Ram, than SIG, I mean, yeah,
I would say like D.Va Ram are probably, you know, I think the SIG maybe like third best,
you know, just kind of thinking off the top of my head at the moment, but like, yeah,
this is like a matchup where we'll see how Lars fares on the Ramatra, but this is a really
good strong pick historically for Zia.
Yeah, they are just going to basically run it back with the same style, just try to
replace the Sigma with the Rematches, you know that does for them. I can have scouted these out,
they're gonna consider their choice. They're pretty much gonna take the mirror but with the May
versus the Sim. See how that works out for XFJ. Just feels like we've seen this already, right?
Yeah. It's uh, I think you would have looked at like maybe like a little bit of a wilder
change, potentially, for Tellacy to kind of force the issue, but we'll see if uh just getting rid of
the SIG is enough. Nice maywall there.
And Ziad has already used his form, he's using a lot of poker this way, helping all the car wash.
XLase got cheeky with the flank, was not ready, but Alphide came prepared for that angle.
And killing the Vayne now means he's got to go for it, the rest of the team's going to chase down a lot of these kills.
Lars is trying to play the high ground, but the ace needs to stand, it's just going to be too much of it.
Glenn's from downtown for Texalt, they're lazy and inevitable, but this fight certainly feels exactly that inevitable.
Alfie, ready for those ints, right?
So Nexus J, yeah, I got him.
He's finding some of the wrong neighborhood there at Hotel.
Is Yagis knows one direction, it's just forward.
He's kind of marching towards the spawn.
Well, yeah, I mean, look, I had the car wash over there over in the hotel.
It's going to be very difficult for any kind of...
I like through there, an off angle, right?
It's going to just really give that Mei a lot of trouble.
Honestly, that's the Mei wall already, and that bar is so low.
Like, this map on attack, you really want to be able to send somebody through that off angle.
that off angle. That isn't very much the standard way to push, especially as like a
May kind of force and kind of cheeky little engage there, but having that angle
kind of blocked his shoes, here's an early rush out of Texall and the dead-out to
like-out. They're trying to just pile on the pressure and overwell his lab death.
This takes way too much heat to stay up through that one. They counter us out from
him, looking at Lars, and he's losing the back down. Maybe he's gonna have to slow it down now with the
Sanctuary's exchange, still a high energy send, cooking in with this one,
Seattle with the annihilation, starting to eat away at their health bars, and with
That symbol up from Alphie, you would love that coming back from the Tracer, a moment of stability for DK, but it costs them absolutely every ultimate to get something.
Yeah, I mean, they're desperate for a kill, right? As all you see, they wanted to go right on top of Icav and Alphie, TP's on in and gets taken out.
This should open things up for Telosy, to be able to take this first point.
I think DK, right, they knew that they have obviously nothing to work with, they need to kind of push in, try and get an early pick-off.
They try and collapse on Icav, but nice kill there on to Alphie on the sim at that time
And that's gonna allow Tellacy to get the objective
Yeah, good read from Tellacy. I mean they have their rush up
I think maybe 5%, 10% faster than Fan, which happens when you have a losing fight where you take in more damage
They just instantly send it and with that small lead
Like I like to see teams willing to take a gamble and push a 5% to 10% ult advantage
Just to catch the opponent off guard in this case it works. So tells me if I think a better purchase on kick drop
And now I'll let the over the search, you know, how good he is on that all that is a nasty headshot though
From sxj. I mean he's gonna be in a world of trouble. It's a nice may well though from Altea trying to kind of lock them in
Not gonna work out here for DK and just like that. Tell us he wins another fight
That's a big fight win because they do so without expending any of their ultimate bank and it's a quick quick fight
So he can't really don't farm up ultimate
It's like we're gonna come down to a final fight on second point here
And he gave nothing to work with you really need to build up these ultimates for Finn and Altey
They're 30% away Matt and that card is not slowing down
You could just like did I maybe for I can't and kind of walk this in and that's exactly what they're looking like
They're trying to do it'll be the dead eye
Kind of walking on forward here, just marching on, and you players low.
Yeah, that's a big damage. Here comes the rush from Tex-Aul, not to keep any chances.
Ziad taking through everything for now, but even the Rematra form is not enough, and the point flips.
Loudly grabs one back, but not much to fight for anymore, for DK.
They have to just run this one down. They do build up their ultimate bank, but Telsy loved the discipline from them.
Even down 2-0 in the series, in a desperate spot, they win that crucial fight with just high noon and rush.
It's a great alternative, that kind of over time scenario.
I mean, they look awesome here.
On their offense after getting that first checkpoint, it started off a little bit slow, but now really starting to pick up.
As I think DK are going to be looking at like a huge investment here to try to keep this going.
It's going to be the consuming rush here. It's going to be the Blizzard Alphoram SXJ.
It's going to be sanctuary here used by Telsie as well as they want to continue to fight.
But it looks like they may have to back out.
Yeah, great split from DK that one.
Seagr plays in front of the Blizzard, everybody else plays behind it, and they're actually able to keep that fight going despite the good initiations.
So, Kelsie throwing two ults in and losing a fight in which DK only respawned with one, so DK finding a really nice lockdown here on this third point.
Tons of damage on Lars, not Maywealth, but he is going to be able to form and get healed up.
OC out from Labdor though wants to really push these players back, and as the Sace comes out of the nice spot,
She is going to be in trouble, plays that shield well, and Lars actually comes in with the annihilation.
This time, the way he gets in with the chain, though, he isolates him.
Yeah, there's just no way for him to fight there. 1v5 past the Blizzard, and he can't clean house.
This time, it's only ultimate from the bay. Actually, what's up?
Yeah, it's a nice blizzard from Althea, and then that chain, as Lars goes on in, and at that point,
there's no way to keep the annihilation rolling. He's just trying to move forward, but to get stopped directly in his track is...
Maybe an opportunity, well I was gonna say, like you have to continue Rush, right, with like a dead eye, create some space, and then they have the annihilation sanctuary on the other side, it's like a sick combination of deal with it, so he came maybe looking in a position where they could hold on weakness.
This corner on King's Row is fantastic, here comes the sanctuary and the rush, traded out on point.
DK still healthy, but the rush is maybe starting to overwhelm a sanctuary. He's hurts the drops. Yod with the annihilation is
putting down a lot of threat on the other side, but Telzeb still sticking in its one.
Here comes the Blizzard from XSJ, and it looks to be very high impact. The cleanse comes out, but they're still refrozen.
Absolutely everybody, only the Soldier makes it out alive.
Soldier does grab a kill back the other way, but has to just jump off the cart to sacre life.
XSJ what a blizzard to lock that fight up. Yeah, and then I know when both players are frozen using the ice block
Just get that easy double kill
Like Kellex here, and I just use this feed ring for the extra mobility and switch back to the zoo key is
Felicity this would be huge shake it feels like they almost need a map completion here
And all you can not lose Johnowitz with a sanctuary there. I mean that can't happen
Yeah, you're exactly right now once that happens this push is done
on, Telsy still have 90 seconds on the clock, right? So it's an opportunity to reset and
get another fight going, but GK, uh-oh, taking now the spawn control, and I think they're
going to fight early. I don't think they're going to yield much position. This corner
on King's Row is a huge test for Teens. I mean, it is a very awkward spot to attack.
There are no easy ways in.
So I mean, a minute, 13, maybe two fights. If you're fortunate here for Telsy, the odd
Don't get quite low here, then I have to try and back out.
It's gonna be the sanctuary as well.
She's trying to keep Tulsi pretty.
Tulsi is a push on forward.
Yeah, but it feels like he just knew
he was gonna get the sanctuary out with that OC,
and now the rush is out on the point.
Alphie with the blizzard.
This is so hard to fight into.
And Tulsi, they just don't have to gas
and stick around for this one.
It's gonna need to be a reset for them.
They're trying to grab some kind of a cheeky counter-filt.
The shield is good for Ziad.
It's not gonna allow any kind of shenanigans here.
I mean, what, that's Mars annihilation there, too?
I mean, that is rough, so...
I mean, now, for Telsy, right, you come back with your Kitsune rush.
You're gonna have to fight into the Sanctuary, though, and, like you mentioned,
there's a really nice use of the Overclock there that kind of gets the Sanctuary out from Zonowitch, so...
I'm more than happy to trade those over for DK.
It's gonna be ICAP here, fusing that dead eye all on the Sanctuary.
He just kind of moves on right into it and gets two.
And, at this time, DK, go for just, like, an all-out aggression,
trying to maybe catch Telsy unaware of Telsy, actually.
Seemed ready for the play, good defensive responses from them to stabilize and now Geekay find himself in the back foot.
XSJ did go down so player advantage here for the defenders if they can actually get out to this fight in force.
Which is a question because Tex-Vol continues to put the pressure on with the rush.
Zi-Ah dropping low but has that annihilation to re-up the armor and stabilize just a little bit longer.
Supports are out and Geekay getting his foot hold onto this fight.
Teleport for Fri-Kavi needs to win this one but Labda will cut him down and Alphie finds another.
Now that match has sealed the deal, Horton is defense, Telsy, a strong push from most of the map, but it's a great third point from DK to British comeback.
Thanks, Erdyn, Johnowich, but it's just two supports playing in it. Should make much of a difference.
Yeah, it feels like once ICAV falls there to Labda, I mean, Labda has that off angle, and just kind of free fire on whoever's on the point.
And I know they didn't even really need that extra damage. It wasn't even that close there at that final moment.
So, GK, you're a really good job on defense there at the very end,
but, you know, Delicy obviously impressed with their offense, right?
It looked pretty good there.
Yeah, definitely had some strong moments,
and getting it all the way to the end on Kingsrow,
I think is actually still very winnable, right?
You have ample opportunities to win the map.
We've seen full holds, we've seen second point holds.
So, defensively, I feel like Kingsrow is going to be pretty favored,
but also, GK have a win con here.
I mean, this could be very well the final round of the series.
GK would love to close this one out 3-0 and and really take a huge stab at lighting the ship of the series.
Can't see on offense. No, it's not over.
Yeah, hold up. Hold up. I never say never, Matt.
I wouldn't really understand the point of that.
Yeah, I know.
I'm wrong.
No, there's no way. There's no way.
Yeah, no, I mean, tell us, see, this is a
this is kind of what we expected on defense right so I'm gonna be playing
the the ram yet again so just kind of getting rid of that Sigma has just kind
of unlocked the rematcher gameplay which I think look Mars is a pretty good
series like even I know all things considering he's holding his own that's
yeah I thought it definitely is hold the health zone almost certainly gonna be
a mirror though on the offense UK though are gonna go with the soldier and I
actually do like this look especially on first point a little bit more room to
work with. See what the Soja can find. Tell us if they need to get some clock really running
down here, even on close point, they need to find something.
And I love the Soja, and I mean they went through there in their defense, but just being secure
ability is both main, getting dangerous to go here in the side room.
Alfie boxed out of that one, needs some extra support, a little bit of a 1v1 win for XSJ
in that kind of a flank trade. Still no kills yet on the fight. DK though, retaking this high ground.
See what they can do on the offense. I mean, no, I've not found any holes. XRJ though,
super low, might be in trouble. Needs help out of this ice block, and now the attack comes in on
the Lars. DK hitting on multiple fronts, maybe finding a window through. Jod steps up into the
hotel, so risky place to be, and actually, lab death to pay with his life. XRJ already has a blizzard
somehow now isolated Zod through the hotel and they moved.
I mean that is not, I love the position there from Zod as well.
I mean what they get to the high ground, right?
They kind of force the lords out of that position and they get them down towards that hotel.
I mean that's a brutal spot to be in for the defenders, but that is a really fast blizzard.
Yeah, it's a huge, it's a lot of fighting there, especially without dropping a single player.
It sets you up for another hold off the back of it.
Did cost you a blizzard, but Telsy, looking comfortable, looking confident here on this defense.
If you're able to hit now, and a little bit of an attack coming in for Ziad,
who's trying to pressure the capture point, but under the, withering fire to the defenders,
it is not proving easy. He has to form, just to stay alive, just to keep in testing this.
Albedo is gonna back him up on the point, and Ultimate's starting to, to tank up here for DK.
Here comes the rush from Finn, immediately responded with a big dump from Telsy on the deep end.
They have not even given up the first tick yet.
I can't find any connections off the dead-eye, but still a 5-on-5 on the point of Blizzard, so
I think it's a lot of players saying they're a necessary for the defenders.
A little bit of a better one for Kellex, but Texel finds Ziad and tells him,
actually, healthy across the board, Lars needs a save and he'll get it.
The cleanse comes in, but doesn't have enough resource to stick around in the fight.
Now, it's absolutely wrong at the point.
It is anybody's game to give win, rather, but maybe laughter with the OC is just going to be too much for the game,
or rather, but tells you to hold, the ball is back in the mix, and it is a hard-fought first point, but DK eventually hit this gap.
Oh, well, I mean, Jake, I'm surprised, like, you know, when Ziad pushes up there,
uh, Kellex drops the sanctuary directly behind Ziad, and instead of moving back into the sanctuary,
uh, Ziad just kind of pushes on forward towards it, like, phone booth into the doorway.
He ends up falling, and naturally, like, oh my god, it's, like, DK gonna blow this.
But, the area will still kind of come out on top. Nice maywall there from Alphie, and I know if some player is dangerously low in the choke,
oh that's going to be the blizzard because it even get now. It looks like he actually dies while it's being casted.
Hold on, there's still a fight to be played. The annihilation is rolling. Without the May, it's kind of crazy to continue here.
Lars is just tanked up and trying to back out, trying to just get around this corner.
And without the May, I just think, no, they have this kind of advantage. They're going to continuously warming forward.
Teleport out here from TechSol to stay alive and stay alive trying to keep their players up.
DK would love to get a clean team wipe here.
The Mars, they have slipped the net.
So, you know, Chelsea, they're basically not going to get a first fight on second point.
Which actually bodes very well with the K.
Oh, it's going to be a continuing rush.
TechSol opens in some way.
It's going to be hands are in response.
The Mars explodes there.
I mean, that has to be like an icicle with the May wall
wall and then also just gonna have some rails and shots there from lab dies that
is just really like what punch yeah he threw what punch and then just got
knocked out he popped like a nemesis form and then just ragged out to the moon
I mean he was just gone in seconds yeah Blizzard annihilation for the OT I don't
feel good for tells you of the three con maybe Lars to get in the next they do
You have the tracer, but I mean, things are so chaotic here at the point now that you
try to force players into that perfect blizzard now, denies anyone from coming up to the
point.
Tracer holding it for now, but the main group is just fully frozen and he tanked.
Get us all the way to last.
We've got almost four minutes on the clock.
It is a reset to their ultimate economy, but it's not like the defenders have too much
to work with either.
So, I mean, they do kind of dump everything.
I have maybe the no-c here, if you can kind of like come out with a kill or two, right?
Just kind of like push them back.
I can buy you like 45 seconds almost a minute right and then like you're kind of like right back in it with maybe some
Ultimate advantage look at the odd position though. This is awkward
It's like you can't even fight with ran here, and you can't clear him out either in decision for Telsy
And they're giving up our time is going to become final fight now a little bit of a do or die moment for iCaft
Bob goes even missed that first shot now on to labda looking for something anything here to stifle the defender
Everybody's just hiding for the risky peek for Kalex, who's lucky to survive that one.
But he's thinking lines are in the corner and now Lapis turns, strikes back, swings up,
very aggressive, dies on top of the Icon, shuts him down, forces out the annihilations of Lars,
but once again, Lars doesn't see the play that the HP to support coming through now.
But Rush isn't enough to overwhelm.
For now, the defenders hold strong, but somebody else is gonna spare the punch that's in this case,
XSJ, Rush is out for Tex-Sol, but there's very good teammates left to use it.
DK esports and what a series from them. They are gonna close Kings or out in style
Not even close on the final map and tell us you a team we came into the stage with maybe some some excitement for it
With that taking a map up T. Ammon's DK just shut them down. Yeah, I mean it's a huge win for DK as well
Right, they end up losing 3-0 to a Hanzia and then getting reowed by VP a lot of questions kind of about them coming in this series
right? And you know, even some people in the chat, like kind of like riding the TLC in this one, but
man, that is a, a drumming and that just shows you the kind of potential a GK can get to, right?
Three teams from EMEA end up going to the midseason championship, right? So they obviously had a
really good shot to be one of those top three as we take a look at some of the highlights. I
thought looking at losing, I probably thought that Lars played a pretty good series overall,
right? There were some really difficult spots at moments, but I thought kind of battle through it
in a nice way. Yeah, I thought XSJ's May was great, but Icav had his moments. And so for
the individuals on TELUSY, I still think that there is a lot of, going to be a lot of excitement
from the fans for what they can achieve. But for Geek Day, in many ways, I think this is
what we would have expected from them. Like it really does feel like maybe those first
two matches were a bit of an aberration. Ziad looks back in real form here. Labda having
a huge series and Alphie still looking comfortable on the flex. And then the backline, I think
really finding their footing in the Signosuki.
So they look like a really threatening team.
Those first two games now with standing.
They really do now.
I think that looking at the DK Esports roster,
you guys hit the nail on the head.
It's a bit more of what we expect from this squad.
And I think that setting up this series here
for our second week of the regular season,
we talked about how they needed to make their stamp
in this matchup up against Telsy.
And it felt like they absolutely did that.
Telsy though, I think that they definitely
had some really great moments like in Kings Row that xxj blizzard on that third point was
awesome to see but overall it did feel like I think uh the likes of DK just the diversity
the majority of the time and what do you feel like maybe do you feel like they look different
from week one or do you feel like this is more just like a different set of opponent I think it's
probably a, they looked better than week one, but then also a like lesser opponent. Yeah. So like,
I think they kind of like both go into no account here and I think for GK, right after, you know,
how week one went, you know, you kind of have to be perfect from here on out to kind of make that
top four, right? So a lot of pressure on them, Tellacy kind of coming in and only played one game,
right? So I think it's really kind of GK stepping up to another level today.
Yeah, and they still have a couple matches to go, but we do have an interview with Finn in a little bit.
We're just getting that set up still. Overall, though, I think taking a look now at the rest of the teams that GK have to face up against,
they're going to be playing up against 1, 2, 3, 4 tomorrow morning, I believe.
And then in week three, it will be Twisted Minds to be their final feat to try and get these wins here to take me in that top four here for the playoffs.
Jake, when you're looking at those last two teams that they have to play up against,
how do you feel like EK are looking to fair now after we've got to see them now in the week?
I will say, I think, you know, as much as TF week one wasn't their greatest,
in fact, one of their weakest showings in a long time, I don't expect that to last too long.
I think the players are just too good on Twisted Minds.
I think they will find, you know, the way through, especially with a patch,
to shake things up and give them kind of a way back in.
I think you would have rather seen them a little bit earlier in the stage, so that's going to be a tough one.
I think they really need to get a win against 1-2-3-4.
That is also not a free one, though,
because 1-2-3-4 are a unique squad.
I mean, that series tomorrow with 1-2-3-4 Ash
is a must win for both teams, right?
Like, both teams, well, DK will be 1-2 now.
They can get to 2-2, right?
You know, 1-2-3-4, that'll probably
be who comes down to that final spot.
Like, you kind of absolutely need that win.
Yeah, you definitely do.
But let's talk to Finn about the conversation
that we have to have around the remainder of this week, but also the win that you got today.
Ben, congratulations for your guys' first win of this stage.
I would love to hear a little bit about, I guess, what it's been like for you to work
alongside Kellex and how it's been bringing him on to the roster here for you two.
Um, to be honest, when Kalec is coming to our team, it's so many different, because Kalec
has leadership and he has many age, so we have some LBB and G-OUT, young people, so
We need grandfather.
So, Calyxte, we're good, Calyxte, good team.
Yes, I gotta ask you, this stage didn't start well
for you guys, you know, I think a lot of high hopes
will be coming in, it was some tough losses.
But you came back today and this is, I think,
maybe the geeky that fans are hoping to see
that maybe your team has been working to put on.
So, what was the change from last week to this week?
How did you guys improve so much before this match?
Oh, so like, first of all, our like comps
really like confused because we,
we are a screen was good, but like every match we lose.
So, so we have to change comp for like me doing bad,
like keep talking about and like keep,
like two of us we after match, 3-0 and 3-0 we got
and after match we yell each other
And I think this thing is we change a lot.
So we talk with each other more and like change call and yeah.
Yeah, it looked like they definitely paid off this week,
Finn.
I'm going to ask you real quick, new season
dropped the other day, a bunch of different hero adjustments,
balance patch.
Do you think it's really going to kind of change the meta much?
Or we're going to continue to see kind of standard EMEA,
some more sigma type play?
I think Xion is coming.
So I think Xion pretty good.
And then I think it's over balance now, Xion.
But like need time just.
So I think like one week, two weeks after,
everyone using Xion.
Yeah.
And then I think Xion will keep doing it
because Mizz keep up, and then Sigma not North.
No, that makes sense.
It does take some time for these new heroes
to kind of get like worked into
a lot of the comps for these teams.
But, Finn, I just want to say thank you so much
for doing this interview with us,
and congratulations on GK's first win of the stage.
Thank you.
Anyways, now taking a look at the standings, guys,
I think that things have really shaken up,
obviously from our first stage of OWCS this year,
like, Matt, you're laughing, giving your overall.
Well, yeah, I mean, like, even though GK wins this,
now just kind of like taking a step back and looking at it,
the fact that they've lost to Alcat
and one, two, three, four has beaten Alcat,
they're gonna have to have one, two, three,
they're gonna have to be one, two, three, four,
then also have them find like another loss somewhere else,
right?
So they're actually gonna probably need Telsy
to win that final game of the season against them, which I mean, that's like a huge shakeup, right?
Like, you know, EMEA, we've seen Twisted Minds and VP at the top for a while, right?
It's really been Twisted Minds, the one there, but it looks like things are maybe really shaking up here, no in-stage too.
I think if you want to fight for one of those mid-season championship spots,
you're going to have to go through Twisted Minds.
So you need to not just win the 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, you need to beat TM,
And that's going to be a TM at their sort of final form,
you know, getting the most time to reset and prepare for this meta.
That is going to be a scary one.
I will say GK, their form will be drastically better.
It is a weaker opponent, so maybe too early to tell.
But at the same time, I still like what they were showing me.
I still felt like, OK, this is a team that has maybe found their footing in the stage.
So I wouldn't give up hope for GK just yet.
It was a tough first week, but I think they can maybe find a road back.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what the journey is going to end up looking like.
Very quick journey at that again with how fast the stage like flies by its wild
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So coming up next we do have the Kings of our region in EMEA up against the underdogs
who upset Al-Qaeda last week.
Starting off with Twisted Minds.
form isn't quite what we're used to seeing from them and I feel like this is a team where there's
a lot of expectation for them to bounce back quickly here into week two. Yeah I mean look
anything but first for them in the region is like kind of unacceptable right with how they've been
as of late right you know one of if not the best team in the world over the last like year
and look, a rough start here in stage two, I think the meta is obviously, I know,
not playing nice for them at the moment. They had a really good run. I know with
Diva kind of being kind of go to for a very long time, but I think it'd be silly
to kind of think this team is just going to like all park collapse and we're
never going to hear from them again. Right? I think I know teams can have, I know,
a rough week, two week stretch and then I know bounce right back into it. So I would
to be surprised if we continue to see Twisted Minds not play to form?
I think, honestly, they're underperformance in Week 1,
rather shouldn't be a complete shock.
It's like they had such a great success at the Champions Clash
because they gave up on the prepared strategy,
went back to the well in a sim strat.
So to come back in now at the start of the stage,
but OK, let's go back to what we were practicing,
what's working for us, that didn't work for you
with Champions Clash.
And so I think there may be some issue of like,
Do they have the full faith in the comp?
They even, I believe, brought KSA in for a map.
It didn't really look too good.
TNT coming back in.
So clearly some uncertainty or experimentation in the TM camp.
That being said, to your point,
you got like they're an incredibly strong team.
We really, we shouldn't think this is gonna last forever.
But this is an odd team they're matched up against.
This is not gonna be a comfortable one for Krista.
No, it definitely isn't.
One, two, three, four,
that was able to take that win up against Katya last weekend.
I think that this is the squad where we've only seen one change for this roster, right?
They swap out their tank player, they bring golden pants in, and the ball's looking good, Jake.
Look, I'm here, I'm still here. This is wrecking ball season.
Golden pants is him on the ball.
Alright, Capbass and Mabinder.
But I don't think it's Mabinder that much.
Like, I think it's still playable, I think it's still probably good on the right kind of a map,
And especially if you have a very adept wrecking ball player for me,
that's always been the strongest version of this comp.
And so for one, two, three, four, you know, it's like, I, I choose to believe.
I just have become a full on fan of this team.
The bias is so real.
Oh, no, we love a little bit of bias off the desk.
Um, and she gave a bias guys.
We got predictions.
So who are we going to be rooting for here in this matchup for me?
I still had to go with the try and true twisted minds.
I think this is a squad where their experience, their talent, and skill just really isn't
getting deniable.
Honestly, I do think maybe a bit of an identity issue right now for TM, considering the meta
changes and whatnot and how they're looking to adapt, but I think that 1-2-3-4 is still
going to make it close.
But Jake, in the green room, we're talking.
Are you about to sell up on something?
You guys are so boring and so straightforward.
1-2-3-4 got this.
1, 2, 3, 4, got this, that's about to take over the world guys and it starts now, 1, 2, 3, 4 all the way.
You would think they like 3-0'd Alcatrazia with the way we're talking, they barely won like a game 5.
I am going with Twisted Minds, I fully believe they're going to kind of get back on track.
I hope so, I hope so for their sake, let's see if Twisted Minds will be able to make their stamp here in stage 2
or if 1, 2, 3, 4 will continue on this upset dream.
Yeah, thanks so much, Asha.
And we're going to jump into the game pretty quick on this one.
Antarctic Peninsula is going to be the map pick opening ban
from 1, 2, 3, 4, ban the chat.
And she's going to ban the subject, is that right?
I mean, look, I trust our graphic with my entire life.
And it is correct.
OK, 20% of the chat is right in Wii U, Jake.
I know that's those are my rider dies, baby.
That's what's up.
I took every channel point.
I took every channel point I have, but I chucked in the TM.
So we'll see how this one.
So the ball.
Sell us, realistically, on how this one works out,
is we are actually already in the game.
So interesting that they designed to play the Bastion,
even when they get rid of the cat.
Wait, this is spicy.
They buffed the Bastion without cat,
because the perk is now actually unique to Bastion,
the mobility perk.
Oh, yes.
That might matter.
Yeah, the new tier 1 bird, he just advised their own.
They're conquering defensively here, but they're gonna have to push forward.
I mean, this re-aiging and bashing are gonna put a lot of pressure on.
Now the plate force comes in, he's a freak, he's pulling it off the angle.
D.B.A. does as well.
1, 2, 3, 4.
Holding really strong, this is where T.M. built the first flip.
Cassidy takes one peek and gets just up.
I mean, that is like just getting the power of the bash.
I mean, T.V. and T. does take out the tie,
but how do you end up dealing with this ball?
his golden pants able to go play from the health packs.
Point almost flipped here.
TBNT is able to kind of get this one back
over a fourth twist of mine.
So we are up on the high ground now.
Chris, we're not able to be able to fight that alone.
This is not good.
I mean, you can nail here as well.
Everybody's going to fall.
So early starts for 1, 2, 3, 4 look pretty good.
But then, you know, TM eventually
kind of found their footing.
Yeah, but they lost bastard.
It got problematic.
You really need your hits and EPS to stay alive to actually make value from all the distraction that the Reki Ball is doing.
It doesn't mean by the-
I like the Mizuki though.
Somebody putting that down.
Like, uh, no, obviously TVNK is going to make plays consistently for the, the Bastion, right?
So to kind of play that Mizuki just around the Bastion, quite nice.
But the answer is super low.
Ooh, that Hinder hurts though.
Galu now, it'll run to work with him.
He wants to get aggressive.
That's your return has been used.
And ooh, the pull spot is close enough.
Not quite, Chrissy.
He dances away from that one, but it's only buying time.
Kai comes out with the artillery fire, making ports think twice about his position.
The slam is good, but the shells came quite into his follow-up.
And ports at the high news should continue to stabilize this position.
And Aray is out from Astro, so they're really quadrupling down on this.
His good minds, feeling a bit of pressure, too.
Attu to the fight. Got full spot by my mode there, so Rally just to stay alive.
So the banks started to run dry, just to find something, an awkward corner surrounded by the minefield,
but they still have point control, man.
Yeah, I mean you do have this kids you name rush that way as Goldman fans find sports disease and so difficult
But just deal with I mean just look at the
Disrupted from the ball just the back and forth. I mean simple. He is in such a rough spot
But he actually a great job kind of keeping him alive
That is beautiful. I mean both supports have to just defend each other just to stay alive
So they're not killing the rest of the team, they're not forcing them to fight.
Now those misminds are going to step back up to the plate.
Quartz has a better room to work with, and he's looking for kills here, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Pretty much have to be defensive with these support ultimates, but they have a lot of clock to run here on TF, a lot of plus to work with.
Yeah, I mean, if you see any rush at the opening, some of the Golem hands get really low, but, as you see with Turret form here from Kai,
everybody has to back you out here, but mind-belt, that's huge, you get through a funny ashram.
Not a lot of healing resources available.
War-twisted mines, and that's gonna allow golem hands to just go right on in.
Nice little shield block from, simple.
A boy's getting picked up by that slam.
Canale also needs to get out of here. My moan though, closer to the pulse bomb.
There's no carry in this comfort team, so a pulse bomb can very much lead to a kill.
Would be huge, almost, I would say necessary maybe, for my moan in this spot.
See some targets inside, big damage on the astral, pulse bomb goes wide,
quartz dodges everything, stays full HP somehow on this balcony.
But still the attack coming in with the backline.
Valdez out from TM though, they're sort of the box up out of the point, they even get the flip.
And playing towards this point side room, looks comfortable for them.
Towards as well with the dead eye, and now it's 1, 2, 3, 4, they got up like something, not much else to speak of.
Most of this does put up a minefield, drops it right on the TM position, and actually some big connections from that.
Forces towards the run for the hill, see what they can get done on the point with this space.
She's kind of like, separates them for a while as my moan's going to be the one who tries to get a flip here.
Flip here is going to be OT with Sid Binds in control of the point just now, TVNT getting
dangerously low.
You see, S1mple actually kind of go over the high ground there, tries to keep him in the
back and not able to do so.
That's a huge fine.
Dead Eye needs to get something back for Quartz.
Or maybe TVNT can actually get back into the suit.
Already have to do it.
Where T-Dogore needs to close his fight out and quick for the big move from Golden Pants.
Puts TVNT into a bad neighborhood.
My bone does pay his life for that kill.
The flip goes back the other way. This round is really starting to come together for once we're pouring.
They can get just one more stagger kill. Unfortunately, it would be enough, but
Golden Pants is feeling a little too scared to go for that.
TPT coming back on the Maga. It is going to come down to an OT fight.
Maga! Finally, the desperation from TM. They have to go to it.
Okay, I don't think you're going to be able to just kind of pull your way on through this.
I mean, that fashion damage is so strong while inside of that continue rush as well.
Golden Pants with a slam there on the high ground.
Put down a little bit of damages. See they're trying to move around all fiercely.
He has to stay alive here as the point's gonna be contested.
So it just has to be big here. Here it comes from Canale.
Overtime really ticked. Cannots get off point for more than a couple seconds.
And Kai finds one! A second comes in from Krispy.
One, two, three, four. They have just done it here on this first round.
Twisted mines. Just a few players left alive.
Kind of stalling, delaying, TD&T. Runs out of gas on the point.
It's just Astro on the Juno can't come and come in for a stall
Yeah, you're you're just like
You have to just kind of play it like this is I know the world finals after the first kill and just kind of lose your mind
I mean the ball is gonna give them issues right they'll be able to get rid of the ball right you can you can do some other stuff as well, but
Definitely a little bit alarming
if you are twisted mind, so
We'll see if they decided to change anything up or it's just gonna be
Moga with the brig Juno here early on so let's say they're gonna come out with that yet again
Maybe with this map though, like not having some high ground, you can actually kind of make a play for the Bastion a little bit easier there on the previous map.
I think Crispy and Kai are going to be kind of on notice because this Magikomp can absolutely punish your low mobility player.
His attack, look how safe Kai is playing, he's like basically in his own squad.
I think that's actually a great position because they're trying to push into my no-man's lane right though, like they can't really go in.
They don't want to dive that deep, so it's great positioning for a bunch of G4.
They really understand this comp well.
Trying to just play for the point, but the poke fight feels good and Jboos gets dropped
by Krispy at range.
Everybody's just dancing around TD&T, but losing the Tracer really mitigates a lot of
the pressure and here comes Naga forces and he hits everything now, but his gas is running
low and they're going to use just disrespect, stepping up.
In to that Maga, going to burn him down.
My mom looking for some exits as well.
Look at it.
It's like deep in the enemy spawn, but you know what's your help? Simple. It's working out. Yeah
I mean it then that allows Kai. I mean Kai is playing his own game. He's so far away
It feels like up until the final moment where he actually kind of could just safely move up
That's gonna get them over to the D.va yet again. Uh, so
D.va swap
Snips him out
He's just ignoring them. I love it
And dude, a title blast as well on the ball is pretty nasty too, I mean you can use it on the tracer as well, but...
Tracer Bastion...
I mean defensively on Bastion, it could be nice too.
This is my once again, but let's try and force the point.
Look at Crispy, and my moan get done.
Oh, Forts finding Kai is massive.
Now that, as soon as you lose some of that damage from him, the point instantly flips, the threat goes away,
and, I mean, just like one kind of little sloppy moment where somehow Forts is able to find a kill on Kai,
And you see how immediately this comp crumbles. I mean the wrecking ball is not a stable strategy
It needs everything to go right. No, yes
It feels like if they can get rid of Kai it just kind of starts to crumble a little bit
It's like it's the disruption of the ball with the tracer then plus the damage from the Bastion right?
They kind of like puts it over the top
With the Bastion gone, it's definitely obviously less scary is it'll be the rush here over the point
That'd be minefield here. They kind of like push them off to a side room
Astros down, even with his own ray out, he can't stay alive, the damage from Bastion is just too much, and here comes the Tidal Blast to keep him alive.
Mostly defensive though, and now here comes Simple back into the rally trying to run down the Bastion, who's just tanking up through it.
Gold fan's coming back in, getting his revenge, absolutely, decimating the formation from TF.
TNT is not going to get to this one, doesn't want to pop himself for good reason, not much hope for Twisted Minds in this fight.
Fight lunch before the retake is arguably the most difficult moment here for the fall company past that test
That's gonna slow things down a little bit. Oh, so
You see you can knock one up into the sky there
So what they could do also is like, you know slam with the artillery plus pulse bomb
They try to do that on the last round. They weren't able to kind of combo that to any kills
Is that you got ports with the dead eye here kind of
Going around, full spawn.
Little bit of the high angle, yeah.
This is a backfragging full spawn. If you can't connect it, roll this out, high angle is out.
Might be the stickies in enough damage. Yes it is! Good connection from by Moen and their artillery fire
are going to be layered over the top of this. Twisted mines without the cheap threat of this pump.
And their style is really being called into question right now.
Tig, Juno running for the hill. They're lucky to be in a small room.
Goldpins all the way in behind us, but wisely they're going to disengage from this.
Don't want to chase too close to spawn with ports coming back up.
Not many ultimates to speak up here for the retake.
Dude, it's so difficult as well because if Tm goes and falls back on Adiva, they can just play the Mizuki with this, right?
If they play like the Mager or something along those lines, they can sub out the Mizuki for another support.
Just making it so nasty to try and deal with this simple solo.
He's knocked into the mines, he can't get back into the fight.
Sabrina just good for TNT, but there's still a full rush available for 1,2,3,4.
And somehow, against one of the top teams to do it here in EMEA, 1,2,3,4 are gonna find this first map victory to open the series on their terms.
My 20% believers in chat rise with TNT.
I mean, let's go.
Let's see. Let's see what happens. There's, you know, look, we can pick TM. We can get some maps that aren't great for ball in here, right?
There's a lot of series to be played, but Golden Pants kind of dominated in round and one.
I mean, Kai as well. I mean, just a really strong game overall from 1-2-3-4 is, I mean, look, they were able to kind of collapse on a course constantly, right?
And I really feel like, you know, just in my mind, they felt like they're forced to play
the Brig to deal with the wrecking ball, but that's enabling this double flex look from
1, 2, 3, 4 to really reap the benefits.
Like they're outvaluing in the long fights.
You can't just bunker with Brig and expect to win because there's Bastion, there's double
flex support.
Like the damage is overwhelming.
You really can't just tank through and you have to go out and get some kills, but now
then you're playing a Brig.
Then we have seen TF connect to the back line to find an opening kill.
The fights have been amazing for them.
But for the most part, the disruption has been too heavy for that to be the case.
Yeah, and I mean what?
Bastion's like, damage doesn't get nerfed in any way, right?
So obviously still really strong.
And then Ball I believe is one of two tanks with SIG.
Yeah, it doesn't get any adjustments.
And Ball we already saw, I know in the hands of like somebody like Jonbin, like how good
it could be with some of these different types of comps, right?
So I thought it was more interesting that they banned the cat and then continued to play
it, right?
But maybe you feel like you don't really need to play that type of style.
Yeah, maybe they feel like the cat bastion mirror could be harder against the diva or
something like that.
It's hard to say why they had going for that band so early.
But also, fairness, I think for them, what seems to be most important to me is that they
get the double flex support.
In this meta, you actually have a lot of options for it, right?
If the Wu Yang is an opener, not while we see as much, but it fits well with their style,
then they go to the Mizuki to respond to the Dima a couple of times and it works out great.
So some of this pick depth actually feels really good for them.
So the artillery perk gets swapped out, right, for the grenade, like the knockback, right,
where it gives you extra knockback, but then also doesn't do damage for you.
We'll have to take a chance the next time we see you on Kai.
But that also does allow that other perk to come back in, which is, you know, you have
the cooldown reduction of the grenade whenever you change forms right so like
the grenade also is like pretty significant like you know just kind of
like AoE damage just kind of throwing it into a group right or like an easy target
like a Cassidy to be able to hit it'll be circuit room that'll be the TMM pick
so this should open it up for like some Sigma right and I mean I wouldn't say
this is an awesome fall map right by any stretch of the imagination that I just
feel like I mean that's logically you're absolutely correct but I'm just
feel like we're gonna see wrecking ball I don't know how I don't know why but I
feel like we're gonna see it because I that's what's the more they got we haven't
seen anything else from them right I believe they played it more or less
constantly no golden pants but Winston one time with Bobby fan which alright I
don't know which I don't know which one I take here on circuit that you're just
kind of cooking right yeah I mean TM go here I think an attempt to win a map
Without banning wrecking wall right like which I think is a very intelligent happening from them. I mean
Every of my rational brand keeps telling me look TM. They're gonna come back in the series
Yeah, they should be a full control, but this I mean map one
They're down when I want the series and there is actually some okay
Yeah, so there there is depth of this once the 14 they say, you know on circuit rail
Maybe not we're gonna bring in our alternate tank and play a more straight-up battle. Well, I
I mean you don't need to ban the ball now, right?
I mean you can now save the ball ban for another map potentially.
I don't think they would have.
I think the ball may just be unplayable on circuit, so they would have just been happy
to see the opponent on ball.
I mean you need to win this map then if you're TF.
Oh absolutely, absolutely.
I feel like that's always the nature of map 2 though, it's like you lose map 1, you have
your full pick of the map pool, you take us to your most comfortable location, you control
Euro bands, you're not getting any more advantage for the rest of the series. It's only downhill
from there. So for TM, they go it as well. They need to win this here and now, and especially
given their performance so far in this stage, you've got to ask questions about where the
mental is for TM. How are they feeling at this moment?
I think we know where the mental is.
Teejically is one thing.
We know where the mental is.
But it's not good. It cannot be helped.
Yeah, we don't have to get assigned to something to figure out where the mental is. I think we
we have an idea where it is.
And look, I mean, it's a rough one,
but if you're at CM, what?
After this, you have GK and Katya,
like those are two very winnable games.
Like, nothing-
Now, we cannot be telling these,
you're looking at two series for TM.
Nothing too surprising, right?
If you're on the way for TM.
So like, look, this is gonna be an annoying series
potentially at times having to deal with that ball, right?
But you can just kind of power through it.
I think this is the last one in the series.
Yeah, I mean, yes.
I think this is literally a must win for TM.
At 1-1, this is a competitive stage, like, the way VP are playing, you feel like the top slot is locked, more, like, I mean, that's how it seems.
I think if I were Tm, that's how I think. Second slot is maybe the best you could do. If you lose this, you second might be out of the possibility, maybe you're trying to just wall to the mid-season championship.
Well, look, I mean, you still have the playoff, right? I mean, you're still gonna have to lose your wins and games there, right? It's just getting into that top four.
I don't think this team is like too fussed on like four is too crazy, right? That's not I mean that's see
I mean, that's I mean, I don't know what you'd be on if that I mean that would be
This is still this is a team you would like expectation wise this should one two three four should be the fifth best team
right there the top team out of promotion allocation, so maybe they have the most variability to their performance, but
You know these two teams like TM as a team
They should they have us a probably their standard is that they should be 3-0 in this team
You know what I mean like that would be for them the only acceptable result given their historical performance
So the fact that we're already out of that world is for me a little scary for TM
Once it before though, I bet they never practiced this so what are they gonna do?
I'm sick of right now considering they are like a 95% ball team. Yeah, and what the first band they defer it'll be far
And then you'll have
It looks like it was the Mizuki is the band as well.
So a bit of a bit of a change up here.
We'll see.
So twist in mind also, Jake, it's one thing to note that like they don't really play
much Mizuki at all, right?
We have not really seen them try and go for that whatsoever.
They felt very uncomfortable when we do see them go to it.
So I think that's why they ban it here.
I also think once you take Mizuki out of the pool,
things get awkward and wait, speak of awkward.
I'm sorry.
What? The Rines?
Okay, baby. That's what I'm talking about. This is why I predicted 1, 2, 3, 4.
This is why 20 minutes under the chat believes because I mean they're just racking up the fans here.
The defensive Rine.
We'll see how this kind of works out. So we need to see some Rines towards like the end of a, you know, event champions flash, right?
A small Rine buff, but not in the probably way that like anyone
You know, would have thought where I have what it said to damage you and create some
fire strike and like a ghost master, but
I've been trying to get people to pick mine for a hot sec. I believe in this hero right now
I think why have shifted enough. I just think it's well
I mean Mizuki's pants, so that's probably the biggest reason but it's very good against Mizuki in my view
It should be a good matchup into Mizuki and this battle for the high ground so far goes well for my mode has to drop back
of course with the 2v1 simple coming up to assist this high ground but coming back the other way
for now this hold is not breaking 1234 getting a lot of damage and he picks up a fire strike
on the Astro and he's going for more. I mean that is a nasty fire strike connection you will see
if they can actually kind of end up winning the fight simple in a great spot able to just kind
of put some shots down up on the high ground but you know there's some fun stuff from AMDP there
off the grip so he is going to charge on him is uh simple that got scary for a little bit but then
uh you know he ends up falling a little bit that his life was flashing before his eyes yeah he knew
he was good he was like that's fine he'll be right there's only the right kids to be a quarter
second from now you guys got this ryan comes back in on the meat gauge i will say this is where
my mind kind of shines is retaking hard positions right he is one of the better mobility tanks as
kid with what I'm saying that but actually when it comes to crossing difficult distances he is very
adept at it. Ant Matrix on the front line the fire strike is crucial can a one-shots now on
that ant matrix with no connections Kai though does quite port and although simple to the back
line we can have it he's the mind one more he's the beat crispy in this one B1 hasn't quite got
got the connection just yet, but we'll get the jobs on and it's all T ever to feed on the payload
They needed those fire strikes to connect. Remember that fire strike breakpoint. It does one. Yes most of the cast through that aim matrix
But uh, obviously no connections. Do you have to switch the ride at some point? I mean, this is never this has not been uh,
it's just a lot of like
I don't know man. I'm sure you got the shatter off. Yeah, man. I mean
I mean, it just seems very digital, but like how you were talking about like, even crossing those spaces, it seems like almost impossible to do.
So that'll actually do with simple, so that is a huge kill there for the time.
OC, committed from the fourth, is a risky fight to OC and two.
And, ampBB backs up for now, it does buy a bit of freezing room for the side of Tien, but they're still down simply starting to come back into this one.
comes out and he be pinched right to the cart the forces the fight TV and Tito is
sitting on this annihilation which is going to be a little bit scary
you play radio rain yeah
also shot it with quite a strong counter this is the pin though only if you can't let those
go through the Blizzard is out from my bone it has frozen TV T but looks like he's in a good
enough position to stay alive without this kind of big scatter hold on we're still
We're still into this one boys!
One, two, three, four!
Take up a dominegine fight!
And I told you Matt, you cannot smoke the line!
But Shatter's on the guard!
I mean that is a crazy Shatter there from A and B,
P able to just kind of push on in.
The main wall there from my moment,
maybe prevent it from getting another kill.
But you're talking about it right?
I mean a little bit after the annihilation,
I know the Shatter kind of comes on into play
and now they're going to push up trying to take this
forward here.
Spawn hold?
Oh, should be it.
Oh, should be it.
Oh, should be it.
This will be really difficult to be able to break right getting this corner taking a lot of damage from that bastion
Maybe some separation from the may it looks like they do back up
Maybe you want to like kind of surprise them with this amatrix here and then come down with a pretty
Pretty sizable push. Yeah, I think they'd like all because a lot of awkward angles to the attackers here to come up
In turn this corner you really do expose your flanks doing so
This could be dancing to the top of the hill, but an early pop though and that's ever gonna back out
So it's really just going to buy 20 seconds of clock time, a little bit of space for AMDB to charge up a bit of that shatter.
See, Symbol takes that big wide angle though, and not really going to be able to stick around here for long as 1, 2, 3, 4.
And AMDB ends up picking the perk that Light generates, like the health region, with the barrier up, and then also probably will end up taking the one whoo!
Where you end up being able to bash.
So you do it with J.Woo though, it's going to have Symbol.
End up using the captive Sun there over the high ground, just trying to get a shot on the canal, but it hasn't gotten the taking damage.
Finish him off, they had a nice immortality field from Canale, going to keep himself alive.
Even though Quartz finds AMDP, it might be a fight though that 1, 2, 3, 4 are able to win.
Looks like they'll with TBNT still up straight, they're going to start to try and maybe get some more progress on this payload.
It's huge that my mom can make it out of this alive. AMDP is going to be back in this one pretty quick.
And they've got a lot of ultimates, we're down, the clock is getting low, just in mind.
The bank is pretty much dry here.
It's 1, 2, 3, 4's fight to win.
Tia, need to find some kind of a miracle that TDT trying to put the pressure on that 10.
But here comes the Amatrix from Canale looking for an instant kill, but they all slow things down.
Again, buying enough time for Twisted Minds to get a clean retreat off.
But that's just the Amatrix thrown in.
I mean, yep, they have built up some of the Ultras here, but it's still hard fight for them.
Shatter potentially here for MVP is...
All that... Oh, actually, kind of like...
Just a little later, I mean...
Reverse chatter is like trying to go for TV and TV, but he's out of range, which is something rare you see for chatter trying to use at this things
Blizzard use from Jay Lutz gonna actually freeze up AMDP, but they don't have enough damage. I think they finish off the Rhine
Yeah, the Rhine stabilizes bunny Astro though
Try to just all in to get with the ray and the Rhine is just out of resources the shield is too low
I trying to hold this corner on the bashing putting out big damage, but touching the point is just too far gone
And oh that's a back breaking fight bunch of people. I felt like if that shatter connected we could have seen a very different engagement
But I do feel like the Rhine it hasn't been bad now like they have done well so far in this map on the Rhine come
Yeah for a second there look like the amdp was looking at the Queen maybe just to maybe I get a shout then get people out of the
spot and then
But the Queen would be a little up well when they swat Maul guy thought he was gonna maybe try and play Queen into it
But now as TVNT is back to the diva
Over to the D. But was playing some more much earlier gonna like that Ryan matchup
That's my ability, but the conference got kind of weird
This is my never lot of hope a lot of ability here comes simple
It's a big connection see I can pop some of those captain's sons get that
acceleration snowball going they're trying to step up out
Side of the year but can nails three thoughts for sure on the tease
How does he keep everybody alive the support from one two three four? I almost can't believe
Oh, that was wild. I mean, the ant-matrix there plus the regenerative burst and then like, you know, being able to kind of just pump in heals the players,
like, all grouped up. I mean, that is wild, because that was a huge captive son. I mean, that hit like, two or three different players.
Immortality Field came out at that moment as well.
It's really difficult. An interesting setup here from 1-2-3-4. They're gonna try and play close to the door here. I mean, they have Blizzard to use.
Yeah, I mean, I just kind of run into the clock on them.
Fine timing, fine mo, what a snipe, just shut down the enemy hit scams.
Mei can do it too, walls up the choke and now Gluc's to clear out J-Woo.
You know, feeds to haste through the tree, knows he can't stick around without the team support in that position.
And as the clock gets lower, we're coming to a final fight scenario, my mo is actually gonna bait in the flank.
If he can watch out J-Woo, that would be crazy here, J-Woo actually forced a recall, so the Mei really limited the angles,
Tracer can't do anything here.
They're not ready for this one Matt!
They're all frozen!
Iphone slams the door on them and puts them in the flimsy to that one.
Tf!
They're trying to regroup, there's no time left.
Maywall's the backside of that doorway and then also they kind of like throw that immortality
field in there.
No way they could fight there.
Twisted mines.
This one is kind of falling apart for them.
It'll be Jaewoo who goes in, gets a Touch Triggers OT, it'll be an Orbler right here
first from Crispy. He's got a huge stall here, and uh-oh, Crispy's mind started to make some work
done in the front line. That break, not enough for Crispy to stabilize. The O.C. for Quartz
finally gets purchased, and 1, 2, 3, 4. As a beautiful position, I will say before the fight
from Jaegu. The fact that he's in behind, he could touch forever there in the O.T., so he
duels with Crispy's mind, gets played much more comfortably than they otherwise would. The O.T.
deaths are going to be rough, and they'll be coming out of spawn. Does have that amp matrix,
And anything he's gonna be able to hold onto this cover sometime in the push from Jaywoo denies the stall.
Oh, that's painful for 1, 2, 3, 4.
Wait, no, no, the map didn't complete.
Did they see that? Yeah, they got it.
Oh, yeah, we should have done that.
No, wait, no, no, that's not, when you were talking about that, I was like, dude, that says 2.
Uh, we didn't get to replay that.
I believe actually they kind of, so they were playing off the ORE pylon,
and I think they thought that Jaywoo was gonna be able to contest,
but it looked like he backed out to that corner because AMDP came in.
And I don't know if they got another touch. I think the OT just like I insta-white
I mean, there's a long OTC really take it out
I think J-Boo may have pulse bomb the Rine and recalled and actually the OT ends before recall at that like late enough into the game
The OT does yes. Yeah recall. Oh, he goes up for the pulse and then oh, it's funny. Astros off payload. Why?
Like he's
That's a big mistake from Twisted Minds, I mean, dude, that was a map completion.
They had 100% of gotten out there.
They won that fight. With the pulse run on the Rhine, I don't see any way.
Like, D.Va just matrixes the Ant Matrix, and you're fine.
They have that locked stock in Barrel.
But Matt, the Rhine Claw is legit.
If Entopy hits that Shatter on second point, they full hold second.
Like legit, if they hit that Shatter, they full hold second.
Yeah, that was also a bit of a throw though, towards the end.
I mean, that is one that,
Twisted Mind's mental has to be,
this is, has to be the gutter, I mean.
Let's see, they're gonna play, what do you,
I like this Moga, Moga Baster.
I like this comp though, into what Twisted Mind's playing.
I think it's just gonna like the damage
after the Baster, they had a really good full time
dealing with it, and just getting the Mog in
the mix right just kind of keep the pace and tempo high seems like that's what
christen mines are struggling dealing with at the moment yeah they don't really have a good clean
response for the amnitrix on offense you can just back off on defense you have to hold the payload
that amnitrix can be a huge problem just in mind they want to get aggressive get picks and no
shields on the side of 1234 so very little margin for death as well and that's a huge
difference it will take down the legs behind the competition christen though binds one and
and the all-out aggressive for 1-2-3-4 might just catch their opponents on guard
and they keep right up the edge of the map.
Actually, he's back to the help of his Juno.
He can just survive around this corner.
The old charge is going to be massive for Crispy.
Yes, I mean, what?
Crispy's going to get close, like basically almost double
funny Ashrow in terms of getting over towards that Orbital Ray again.
I don't know if there's a better ultimate for Maul
going to fight in rather than the Orbital Ray.
I mean, it's just kind of the best.
Yeah, the Ray could be rough.
There's also Thrush gonna be coming out eventually.
This corridor for me to give him a jaywalking is so easy or can he survive on this position?
Drops the blizzard to cover his retreat,
and Quartz with the dead eye should be able to get enough of Frozen Laga in the backline, not farmed for this world.
Listen to mine, they hold the line, but that's too often it's thrown in for nothing on the side of the attackers.
So actually if once you g4, if you can just get into another fight comfortably, you could be in a great spot to cap first.
Yeah, I mean, well, Captain Sun, right?
got the opportunity though, you're playing the carry this time, now being able to cleanse
that off.
Yeah, you can get in there with the...
Dude, you have Ray and Blizzard, cause some ball got fighting inside there, I mean you're
in a great spot, I mean, potentially the annihilation comes out, but you can freeze
that ram, that's all they're gonna decide to go for right away.
Oh, but it's not quite enough to catch the GNT, it gets out of that.
Captain Sun looks like it doesn't connect immediately on anybody, and simple as that,
The ray is local-bounding, the frontline is not able to stand the test, Astro responds in kind, and it's an immediate back-off of what you see before.
Here comes the rush from Memicz, how clearly are the position though, they need to find kills, but the Twisted Minds paint that one out beautifully.
This is the Twisted Minds we expected, you've got to come to play against it, but the Artillery's power catches sports, and buys them a new lease on life.
Now MPD steps up behind the shield, gets to the back of TD&T, he's gonna struggle to tank up through this, not even popping the annihilation.
Here it is, and maybe that's his own simple fight to take back.
The game fight on the point, TDD has to tolerate through this,
but the freeze from Javen was going to be exactly like TBE's to keep this fight going.
And X on a few, but MVP's still alive, but feels like this attack is starting to run low.
I mean, this is just kind of a bloodbath here.
The AMVP's still alive on the Maga, but I mean, they're just staggering about, yeah, I mean, at this point, right?
No, nice me while they're from Jey was that that is a huge fight when they're from TM
That's like everything for one two three four kind of gone out the window
I do wonder if they go into thinking about maybe going back to the Rhino looks like still hold them all the Moga here
That's really late. Yeah. I this one's desperate
I don't know if you know you almost have to just hope you figure out some it's up 40 seconds
It's not a lot of time film that TM have maybe passed the toughest hurdle
And they need a captain run isn't higher my own likely to be
Particularly effective here with the cleanse against them. So this could just be a zero all fight still a chance for one to three four
They wall they wall in
Doesn't care at all disrespect. Here comes the form Kai
This is what has to produce something crispy so low in the back line form doesn't really get much of anything
Horts is only a bit of an awkward angle
But still even put that damage down simple also working things in just fighting his time with the captain son
Want to see that lens come out before you pop the ulti and of course, major force and great hit!
Drops Canale as well, looking to pop that two of them out of the sky.
And that hit is good enough, Kai is going to go down, simple into the backline, getting himself here.
On this Illari, Blizzard is out from my mode, but the follow up is just not going to be there.
Twistedfines, close this one out in style, the C9 can be easily comfortably forgotten now,
the back of the map win. But I mean, dude, the shot there upon the Canale is massive,
because he's got the rush, right?
That would have been another advantage coming around that corner with the MAGA.
So that shot from Quartz is just so impactful.
Gets rid of the Qiri as soon as that rush would have most certainly came down.
I mean, you see the support, I mean, for 1, 2, 3, 4, I mean, 18 and 17K healing, respectively, right?
Just the amount of damage the Rine and the MAGA just taking all throughout.
Pretty tremendous.
And look, I think TN, we talked about their mental, like able to bounce back after a really weird end to their offense
and get a must win map here in map number two.
Yeah, Quartz fighting some of those signature, like, individual kills that just happened at the perfect moment, right as the enemy wants to attack.
And that, I think, really holds it down for them.
This Ryback, I kind of wish they played it on offense.
I thought the Rhyme, it worked well. Like, genuinely it worked well.
I think the execution wasn't even all that great for 1, 2, 3, 4.
This shatter was though. This shatter turned everything around.
I mean, this was into an orbital ray and you just get absolutely nothing on the offense.
I mean, that is a worst case scenario.
Maybe we can show the highlight of the other shatter that was like, honestly,
and it was tickling the toes of enemy Remodros, like an inch behind him.
Yeah, it's a rough one.
I mean, I thought, yeah, the Rhine, I mean, we take a look here,
and you know, at the end of this map, yeah, it's funny,
Astros is a little bit too high, and I think that's kind of like,
know not they're able to touch but like I thought tremendous defense here from
twisted minds and this shot here yeah that's the one there on the courts now
from courts on the canal finishes them off and yeah I mean no rush there towards
the end that's brutal and that's what allows them to kind of get a first point
hold now one two three four though they have an opportunity right you can get a
map pick here and then you can also protect the ball right and there if you
wanted to play it again, which they generally always do on their map picks.
They almost always do a tank ban to protect Wrecking Ball to ensure that they
can go to it. And they may need to because the ban is still available, of
course, for the opposition for the rest of the series. The nice thing about the
Circuit pick is it does block Dorado, which I think is probably the strongest
pick for Wrecking Ball in the pool. So what's the next best? It looks like it's
going to be Runosopy from 1, 2, 3, 4. I do like LeBal when we saw it from
then here. It's going to be a little bit more difficult though because this is a
where the ranges are a little bit closer and I feel like Quartz's Cassie is a huge problem.
Yeah, I mean, you know, you could say you do Queen's Sheet or Runezoppy, both pretty good for the ball.
I know as we look at some of those push maps, so do you ban,
do they ban like a Ramatra or do they ban like a D.Va maybe?
I would probably lean towards D.Va. That would be my guess. Maybe they go for a Sigma if they
they expect Sigma Mizuki, but Twisted Minds,
I don't think they want to play Sigma Mizuki, I mean,
if they don't play any Mizuki, it really feels like.
Which I think is, that's kind of why I believe
in 1-2-2-4 in this matchup, because for me,
the Mizuki is one of the best counters to Ranking Ball.
Like the chain is, it is death to Ranking Ball
to be locked down by that chain.
It is rough, especially when then there's a flashbang,
then there's an accretion.
Like the overall comp is so well suited
to deal with Ranking Ball.
So the band, it's gonna be Maga.
I mean, I actually love the team ban the cap, though, because I think the cat
Cap Ashen on this is probably maybe the best cat bashing map.
Maybe this or like Rialto and Bonnie.
It's these maps with the rooftops you can fly over the top of and just come
from these crazy angles on Bastion.
Yeah, it's it's one that like they haven't shown it throughout the series, right?
Like playing the cap, but you would be pretty devastated if they pulled it out now.
Right.
It would be a pretty rough spot to be in if they decided to end up playing
that cat at the moment.
And then look, the Moga, we've seen TVNT and Twisted Minds
play the Moga in the past.
And I think 1, 2, 3, 4, I think they're
fine with the D.Va in play, because they'll play the Mizuki.
Just chain the D.Va right on top of the Bastion,
some of the other damage that's coming on down.
And I think they're really, then they
would be an advantageous spot to win.
Yeah, definitely.
I think maybe the biggest pressure for 1, 2, 3, 4
is on what they can get done with these divers, right?
Like, assuming they're gonna play a wrecking ball tracer here,
what actually happens in the matchup?
How does it actually go?
I'm like, did go and ban some back in?
I mean, I just assumed that he did.
That's been the story of this team, okay, yeah.
So, it is more than likely gonna be wrecking ball here.
What's the choice for Kai though?
Because Bastion has been very good this year.
I almost hope he continues it.
Sojourn would maybe be the more conventional look,
but, you know, this is 1-2-3-4.
They know this come out better than I do, that's for sure.
We'll see how they're able to kind of make it work here on runus api a huge map for 1 2 3 4 right giving themselves an opportunity
To a game point against twisted minds. I mean that is something nobody would have predicted
But hey in golden pans on the ball difficult to stop
I mean dude they had an opportunity to take that second map to man
I mean it ends in a first point hold but that one I mean that could have gone
really either way you you kind of talked about the MVP shatter that maybe just
kind of a little bit too far out of reach of TV NT but then if we see on the
replay I think it's like it's like half a meter it is insanely close I thought
it okay so maybe okay maybe because you're gonna have you know the loose
seal in play you're not playing the Mizuki Kyle end up playing the Soach instead
of playing that Bastion yeah let's see how this wrecking ball can disrupt the
formation force definitely gonna be public enemy number one and putty Astro is gone!
Instantly out of the fight, where did he go that just evaporated like a kunai to the
face right as that slam comes down that is faster.
Yeah I mean just like he doesn't even really get out of his door I mean just
golden pants just kind of flies up and just kind of lands right on top of his
head and yeah you had to take like some damage whether it be like a kunai or a
Tracer or maybe even like a little bit of damage from the Lucio on the other side of things. Yeah, I mean
That's the dream opener. J.Boo's in the back line. What can this guy get done?
Lucio's theory doing why things are a lot more dynamic, a lot more chaotic.
Looks like Tussimai's kind of flipped the map, but once you're before gonna be really happy to pull this cart away.
Corner holding on D.Va, it works, but it's awkward and at any moment you get on partner in trouble.
Quartz is down, once again the poke kill comes in, simple.
Doesn't have anything left in the tank.
Oh, how does this take a life?
That's so cheap.
That's crazy.
Unbelievable, with the thought stolen as well.
Cannot believe Tm played their way through that.
They are back in the spice.
I mean, you lose Chiwu.
I mean, this is not, you know,
Tm not exactly gonna kinda,
they don't wanna play this really brawl heavy type of sell.
That's gonna be the sues he used as well.
But look at this man, Goldman pretty healthy.
You're just gonna roll it on through everybody.
This one certainly is going to be check point here right away and TvT tries to get a touch
and knocked off course.
Court dangerously lost.
Okay, I mean now you're going to lose him.
This is the Kitsune rush out least for 1, 2, 3, 4.
So, who's to mind?
He falls back, but they're getting bullied back into their spawn.
I don't love the rush from Kanale.
He was using it because he thought that he would touch.
Didn't have faith in Golden Pants.
Of course Golden Pants gets that move just to secure the cap.
You got to expect that from his level of wrecking ballplay.
Out Tm, it's their turn to retake the position on the map, and I feel like once the people are kind of drawing the man up.
Balls bomb goes wide, Mimo pulling a bit of attention into the back line, but there's a long road back here, and a lot of opportunities for gold fans to come in with a minefield.
Here it comes on the field, big slam, even in its courts, but in that corner he's going to be safe and sound.
The rush is out from simple, and he's going to slow the roll here of this wrecking ball squad, but it's just like a defensive rush, they're just fucking in the corner.
I mean, you can't exactly use that rush and push on the end of it, right, with all of the minefield there, so...
It's also allows Kai to kind of get this OC and just be like,
Oh, the damage!
Oh, you gotta get rid of that.
Ball looks like they're gonna actually make it out of his life. It's gonna be the later beat here.
Kai didn't look at the deep, but maybe it doesn't matter.
I think I can...
Still, the line being held, but just in mind to the bid, an ultimate economy advantage.
Get a step off of your ports.
Gabe, they have opportunities to change the narrative of this map, and they need to do it now.
It really feels like the pressure overwhelming from 1, 2, 3, 4.
Justin' Minds have gone with an aggressive counter. They're not going to play defensive into this one, but Khorch is down!
The spam is too much! He cannot find the way forward!
Steps up on the Cassidy and gets deleted!
Desperation died now from TBMT, his boob is even deeper, and the follow-up is coming in.
They're trying to be able to pop it, pulling it back into the suit of the game, which isn't there for it.
So still a fight that he had.
TBMT's back in the suit, but without Khorch, the standard bearer Khorch was to find Golden Chance's
3 to just deliver his reign of terror slam even in the room.
There is no safety for this crucified squad as the bot.
Dude, he's always, he's always healthy it feels like.
I'll say that one time on the street, right?
There are like three players inside that small roomy.
They're just gonna get a slam.
It's so healthy.
Almost like a thousand HP.
The core's gonna try to hold the dead eye.
Big channel, big channel.
Okay, yeah, go, can't survive that.
And oh, clean little truth top.
This is the core between no and love.
One, two, three, four, that's a tough one.
That's your rush getting batted back by a dead eye.
I mean, a fantastic safe for TF.
They are gonna need more where that came from though, man.
Yeah, by that, dude, it feels like one, two, three, four,
you're gonna be able to get back in these fights so fast, right?
With the way that you're able to play.
I know, with the Lucio and the ball,
see where they decide to take this next fight.
There's now twisted minds.
They'll start to get some progress with the bot.
Where will the engagement come from?
There is GoldenPants kinda swinging up on that high ground
He's gonna have the minefield here at the ready
Feels like this guy's server advent, twisted mines just have to wait for that assault to come into the wrecking ball
Let a bit of a defensive posture go from 1-2-3-4, make the school's wolf pants backed up
And Zimba's gonna take that opportunity to step on the gas, die though with the OC, maybe a killback here would change everything
Potentially, but TD&D just boxes it out, really doesn't even pay too much AT for doing so
And Zimba right back into contention on this map, a mind-boggling wolf pants
tries to keep the pressure on as the tempo shifts back against it.
Mimol's pull-pump is good for a kill on the funny astral,
and maybe he can get more with Golden Panes down piling onto this aggression.
Quartz has another dead-eye somehow.
Thought he- this is just a cool-down for him,
and Mimol does go down on the retreat.
Yeah, I mean, just trying to buy his team some space there with the dead-eye is-
it's just a really fast charge of that ultimate there.
Golden Panes still holding this corner here.
You will have the sound barrier to potentially use.
You want to try and get aggressive. It's going to be TBNT going on in.
Trying to put some pressure down as Krispy dangerously low doesn't do the beat
He's holding the beat well and here's hands of steel now comes in aggressive with a plenty of girls ready to the defensive response
A better beat especially from court. He's able to really
Stick his heels it down into a position both pants boxed out of the fight has to back off for the heels
This lead is windowing for one two three four
It looks so promising for them
But now Tm seem to have found their rhythm on Brutus off. Yeah, I'm rush available here for one two three four coming on
and is Olimpanz on a bit of a flank here just trying to go over the top and then you get a slam on down right into the rush.
Oh, but my moans down, the rush is gonna lose a lot of it's threat.
Oh, Knail, somehow fight the chicken on the asterisk, keep this fight just in the realm of possibility without the tracer.
It's so difficult to get this work done on, wrecking bombs, Olimpanz, who just wants to stall things out.
But that's your rush, I mean, you don't need it more than that, man.
Yeah, I would think so, it's all okay, hold on now, maybe that's enough, but massive boob there from Olimpanz
which kind of sends Jamie with enough damage into a Kai rail gun.
And it's gonna allow Golden Man pretty healthy here, Jake, to move on forward.
Oh, this late slam, so clean!
Zippo wasn't ready for that one, super low on this Jericho,
but somehow this guy just doesn't go down, Zippo and Astro.
Impossible to finish off in the backline of the Kai, with a rail from Rage,
and maybe a second, actually, turns everything around.
This is Kai's moment to heat up and provide enough opportunity,
keeping what you need for, keeping the advantage of this series,
just when it felt like it was turning against him.
And this just does not feel like the type of playstyle
that Twisted Minds wants to play, right?
It's just kind of like deathmatchy all over the place,
like not exactly even that coordinated at times.
It'll be simple and it ends up popping the rush here.
It's like everybody from 1-3-4 are going to try and back on out.
So hard to get the rush value in this comp.
An awkward pulse bump from J.Boo is actually just stuck on the roof there.
I think it was stuck up in the doorway for a fraction of a second.
And now opportunity once again, Kai.
step from the gas and need an opportunity to step up.
TNT, use the boosters, and an awkward spot does have to self-destruct
if they can find a kill. Let's see if they can't! Quartz!
Out of nowhere, just two taps high.
Stifle static ration. TNT out of the suit for the second time.
This time may be for good, but still plus one player advantage,
less so you can't bring something back with this minefield.
Quartz, though, good position with the Deadeye. It's gonna be too hard to fight through here.
Now, I mean, of course there's even a way to look, though.
I mean, this player's to his left is right. I mean, there's no idea where players are coming from.
He's got the dead-eye channel and while he's got the dead-eye channel golden pants able to find two so now the bot will continue to roll
But one two three four this is probably their best opportunity though Jake from you know outside of earlier in the game, right?
You know an advantage would be in rush here an advantage give themselves a little bit of a bigger lead
Feel like they need it. I mean, yeah
They know how crucial this map is for the series golden pants refuses to break the grapple
He's just waiting for his opportunity does get some kind of slam and lost a lot of HP for that
It does make the brush need to come out a little early. This leads gonna continue to expand
But maybe only for a moment with the lines they want to get off the ring age here comes the beat from Astro a better
Be for the nail before we just seal force HP is low
He's falling back on the play and bot is rolling to put some lines gonna swing back through the room
They need an instant free fight. They know how much value this cart push has simple wants to rush
But it's so hard to find value of this ultimate against the mobility of the right hand ball
I mean, I think that's the biggest thing that where you you've gained like probably like you know 20 or 30 extra meters here
For one two three four golden pants gonna be able to make it out
But you can kind of dictate this next fight right around that corner coming up as my mom's still being a nuisance here
Working from behind where we go in here
Here goes help her out and now careful
What?
What?
Are you kidding?
How?
This is like one of the best blights in the world.
I'm going to fancy styling on him.
Maybe more to be found.
Borts is in an awkward spot.
He doesn't have a way out of here.
He's just going to leave us trying to get him what protection she can.
But the courtier is going to pull again and again here, Matt.
And there's not much to come up.
The media might be open.
He does not back down.
Yeah, you would have liked that minefield to be maybe a little bit more spread out.
It's just kind of blocking the doorway.
And everybody had already made it out at that time.
So, what, we're below 30 seconds on the clock, and she's the 9th, I mean you're just struggling to get out of your base.
The rush comes up, it's a ghost challenge, there's nobody here, oh Kai can help, don't blow.
Just remind me, he'd love to fight a pick, they almost need to slide away from Kai, it's good to keep him alive, but Krispy does go down to TBNT.
Maybe one can be clogged back by my mode, but it looks awkward without the Lucio with overtime coming up.
It's a risky moment to commit for 1, 2, 3, 4.
They get this upstucked out of TD&T and that'll be good enough for them. I think wisely choosing to play the OT fight
This is over time. Maybe the best opportunity for rush to get big value. Quartz with his high noon has to get value
Has to get some kind of a-
I mean Akai with an OC as well. Could put it away. Gib, 1, 2, 3, 4 a map advantage here
That's gonna be the OC. Panther on the other side of the map, TD&T so low
Dead eyes out, but it's awkward. No one's peeking.
Big beat up from Astro and the Kadeel steps out a little too wide in that moment.
Guy just can't quite punch much anything.
Gets the recall, Ole Miss does draw one back.
And that actually, that could be good enough for this D-Fight.
They're gonna be coming back down to the spot advantage.
The retouch looks very doable, and Quartz will not be in this fight.
Crispy has a beat, and everything is lined up for 1, 2, 3, 4.
Two-some minds have to pull something crazy out of their hat now.
Yeah, I mean, having that beat is gonna be a massive advantage.
Quartz gonna go over the shield and get back into the fight.
the slam here on to the objective. Ash show dangerously low that's gonna be the
beat from Krispy. Gotta get these kills! My mode!
Big connection! 1, 2, 3, 4! They're gonna do it here!
Anru, Safi gonna be going up 2-1 in the series. Absolute heroics! The Golden Dance
and the boys! The wrecking ball is vindicated! Twisted Minds! Mentals in the
gutter, match point to one, two, three, four, the ultimate underdog for the series.
Golden fans is the goat. I mean, just coming in and playing the ball yet again.
It is very apparent that Twisted Minds is, you know, struggles against the ball. I wouldn't say
they're like, they can't do anything against it, right? Obviously, this game is still very close,
but it is definitely just thrown a wrench in the type of playstyle they want to do as you take a
Look, I mean Golo and Panth, right?
I know only two deaths there.
Nice job, just kind of knocking players all over the place.
Really rough one from Simple, he usually is pretty good, right?
I know only one of them.
Usually we see that like way higher, like putting on some crazy kill games.
I know in the flex support role is,
yeah man, I mean they're in some trouble if they don't get rid of this ball,
or at least take us to a map that probably doesn't suit Golo and Panth great.
I mean it feels like now the Wrecking Ball Band has to come in,
But the reason this map win is so massive for the side of 1, 2, 3, 4, is that at least if we does go map 5, they can protect the Reiki ball once again.
That factor bone is very scary for TM. So TM, yes, they're in control, coming into map 4. They're going to get the map pick and a ban.
You feel obliged to ban the Reiki ball almost no matter where you go, right? I guess what's in the pool? We haven't seen Hybrid.
Oh, and he cut the awkward walk on okay as a gantry player. I'm sorry. I feel your pain brother. I feel your pain
Um, so what in yeah, you have hybrid. I mean you could go new drunk city. That's not really like a ball map, right?
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it is for golden pants. I mean
I think I think they just will yeah, maybe you just see the best is there a walks sir
Vossa as like the sir of awesome protect wrecking ball. You cannot be at five right, but is there a hybrid that you'd be worried about I
Mean, yes. Yes, there has it right. It's what?
Nimbani Hollywood in Kings
Nimbani is pretty good. I think Hollywood is pretty good for wrecking ball. That is
Would you rather pick Kings and then play?
You have to go new judge, I think sir bosses is the worst case scenario
map left in the pool. Yeah. Well, we've seen from like Jun Bin and Crazy Raccoon, like,
fall is the better on Surabasa. If you can't hang, you're going to find yourself in a world of hurt.
So for me, I'll be surprised if they don't go to City and Bandwagon. Yeah, I mean,
new Joancourt Kings feels like the only two real opportunities for them to go to. So,
they'll be Kings. Okay. Okay. So, I'm not feeling good for them on Surabasa in map 5.
because they would get the ball to also protect the ball, right?
Like you could go the whole series out to the exact band, yeah.
Well, I'm assuming, actually, this is an interesting one, right?
Does amp DP come back out here?
TM are going to get to see that roster before they make their decision here on the band.
I would almost teach the ball.
I would keep golden pants in to force them to ban the ball.
And then you have a free ban there for one, two, three, four at the end.
Yeah, so they're going to keep golden pants in.
I like that. Even if he has to play Winston or something silly here, you have to at least make them think about it.
And also, has the D.Va band been used yet? For 1, 2, 3, 4? I don't think it has.
No, it hasn't.
So that means, okay, the Suravasa band D.Va is gonna hit.
And King's Row is like, I feel like you're playing with the house cash on King's Row.
You're like, yeah, let's see if we can get a win here.
And TM Band, oh no, no, right, it's the...
They banned back King's Row.
Yeah, they banned a ball, I was gonna say.
So it's the Bastion Van here.
4, 1, 2, 3, 4.
So look, I mean this puts Golden Pants in a weird spot.
But is he really gonna play Winston?
I mean, their Bastion actually says to me that he's gonna play Winston.
You don't say this often.
It's almost a little bit of a throwaway in the sense that like,
hey look, like, we keep him in, force him to ban the ball.
We go Surabasa on the last game.
We don't even have to worry about them getting rid of the ball.
We can, you know, you can get rid of what?
of why you can get rid of like the diva like you're talking about all right
here me out Matt give me out there kept a comp yeah Winston dive with
she on and Anna Winston dive I mean is that all right yeah yeah I genuinely the
real problem for Winston in the current meta is how good master this that's
that's the reason Winston is like we sort of laugh and it comes out because I
mean come on how do you play against bastard Winston you bubble dies at
once I get here you died in ten seconds I mean tribal dies in three it's it's not
Looking good for Winston in that matchup, but you ban it away like that. You don't have to worry about it
Rtm really gonna go like Reaper here. Hey, that's a good for them. I mean
They're probably just gonna play soldier cast, right? And you can make you get away with playing the Winston
I mean, I don't know. I mean, it's not I
For me a Winston died with like a Shion and again G would hit different on Kingsraw
I wouldn't believe in that.
An Ana, a Shion, a Genji, Nano Shion, that ultimate with Nano has to go completely crazy.
That ultimate has to just one hit everybody with Nano.
Hey bro, this one here is 1, 2, 3, 4. I mean, you're probably gonna play with like, you know, super house money here in map number 4, right?
That's why they bring up the Shion! The answer is...
Yeah, let the chat pick the comp, you know, for this one.
Let the chat pick the comp.
Everybody's playing Junkrat, everybody's playing Raijin.
Yeah, yeah, Jai would go crazy.
I mean, yeah, I mean, but dude, like, obviously, I mean, dude, if you're goldpins, you can
just kind of like match Raijin or whatever, like Sioko, say, I don't know.
Oh, this is Winston.
I'm telling you that.
Oh my god.
Bastard Ban, this is Winston.
This is straight-
Oh my god, it's gonna be Winston.
Alright, a more straightforward DPS setup, which is hard to argue with.
Kai was great at Sojourn, had that one, I mean, I think about that one key fight, that
Claws back with two quick rail kills just after I say funny asterisks simpler on kill
I drops the ball that stabilizes the game so many players my moan huge clutch and OT to ensure the win
These guys look great on their respective heroes in this spot
And the double flex support is scary because it means new the clock as as as
Twisted minds which by the way, we've got our top bars swapped. It is one two three four here on the defense. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be a
1, 2, 3, 4 in defense, so they'll be playing in that
winting base setup. I mean, you could just play Moggy into this if you wanted to.
Right? I mean, or they'll play D.Va, probably.
Moggy as a Winston counter is overrated, yeah, especially the mobility gap is pretty big.
D.Va's a much more straightforward choice here, but there's still a lot of poke coming at you.
You lost this for Twisted Minds to go on-pants on the Winston.
Yeah, he's so tilted.
Oh, no, Locky and Matt, this is, this one is, it is actually a scary one.
The Winston comp is not bad here, like, this is, I like 1-2-3 from comp, I think this is a winning comp.
Yeah, I mean, the, the Wiyoung is a really nice, uh, you know, mix into it, right?
Can put out some serious damage, then also kind of kind of keep the Winston, feel that range.
It's a lot of player flow for the Wiyoungs, yeah.
They're like, bonkered into the room, all the space in the world here for 1-2-3-4.
You have made your way to this high grab, which is going to be the next major push, or Forts.
Try to sneak up wide, by...
That's a big kunai in the Kai's face, who's going to attack coming this Kai.
See it! He does it! Oh, Kanel! He even dropped simple!
The D-Vedrix is good at overruns Kai, but Old Man's is going to clean up here.
They just do not have enough gas to deal with this Winston.
You're in enemy territory, you're a funny Astro, and Gold fans will finish you off.
This is sick, right click.
Gilding Forts a primal, GNT needs to get out with his suit.
He should be able to do so comfortably though.
Yeah, it looks like going to make it out, but...
That's not even a tick on the point, right?
I know a nice job here from GoldenPants and KowanDFants.
Now Teal and Teal move up.
This is where it becomes much harder for the Winston here.
It has to kind of jump out of the bubble.
Mymoans does put down some damage up on the high ground there.
So it'll probably be him who ends up kind of getting a touch here with GoldenPants.
The Rush is pretty scary.
The Poop away from Astro puts GoldenPants in a terrible position.
The Clemson's not going to have to say anything.
The Rush of damage is just backbreaking.
We got way too much heals off in that fight.
Quartz is gonna clean up.
I mean, that's how it goes sometimes with the rush disadvantage.
I mean, there's nothing that you could have done to keep the Winston out there.
I mean, actually, like, almost impossible.
If the Tidal Blast was up, maybe, but even if you get the Tidal Blast out there, it's like,
maybe you just died through the shield.
Like, I think they just, I literally think they just, but they just popped through the damage and just killed him.
We'll see the Tidal Blast here.
Yeah.
Yes, he worked Christmas to decide to send in. I'd expect this to go maybe onto my moan, especially with Primal Rage.
Almost available here for Golden Pants.
They're taking some angles, trying to put that poke down, see what my moan can find.
He's got a pulse bomb in the back line-up. Very difficult pump.
Comp, rather, to find pulse bomb value.
Zyp was so ready for it, by the way.
Free-fires that angle.
Pulse bomb, though, into the back of force. Get up force.
He cleans out.
But without the cleanse, he can't stay alive.
You're gonna put Primal from Golden Pants.
Should be a solid teamfight up the back of just Primal Pulse.
And maybe even they can go into the spawn and get some cleanup tracks. I would like that from here
Now yeah, it's a flying in a jay. Ooh with a right click so
Impelling a really weird kind of symbols actually
Horts who comes out of the spawn on the widow rips Chrissy's head off. So that's huge right?
That's the tile blast off the table here. You will have to brush. I don't even think you can use
I think you probably have to back up if you're one two three four
That's a huge guy like it's just this would have been a real choke bite
They're running the clock on it. They're getting like a few extra seconds of stall, but I think they're wise when I'm trying to get...
Ooh, look at this! Eat some health here! I have to dash out of the fight!
Yeah, it has no way back from that position.
Now backing up far enough.
Yeah, this is an awkward one. 1-2-3-4.
Big mistakes from them. Throwing away some of the advantage they've had.
A lot of it came off the back of this guy on your screen.
No matter how tired the scenario, you just know Quartz is going to deliver the heat.
This guy somehow gets better under pressure.
Where they find themselves though, I think much before they have a chance for a regroup.
Yeah, ultimate's not in their favor though, man.
Well, I mean, look, you have your own rush, and then you also have your title blast, so...
Looks like the two players that would contest are so far away though, Jayden.
I mean, CNC's able to run rampant here, there's no group to mitigate this diva.
And a stealth title blast is not really what you want to see for Cresty.
Or, see, just to stay alive.
You think he was coming in despite a nice wave, actually.
It's a decent amount of value, but with that pulse pump,
you can actually beat it.
Gold pants just under way too much pressure on the point.
And DM, you said to get into the rhythm of this matchup.
Yeah, it definitely seems like they've kind of hit their stride.
Golden pants in MIMO were like kind of going on a flank there.
And I think that twisted mind obviously realized it.
And then just kind of decided to push in forward with TVNT
on the diva, and just kind of pulled them over because there
was no way, I mean, you got a golden pants to come back.
They didn't even actually kind of go on like a complete thing
to go back and kind of touch that payload
What I think if you were one two three four like what you're just trying to get this in OT right
Like even if you got a couple you shine in here. Yeah, sure. You're probably two or three fights even from thinking about that
Tries to make a movement in the back line and just gets bad it back
I mean just a mind's just too good of a team to allow a move like that to pay off
And we are certainly the cracks moments the cop Chris
The Lucio feels like he just needs the boobs to get TDT off his back.
I mean, this has been TDNT's round, if it's been anyone's on this Diva.
Just look at him, up in the spawn, for zero respect, given zero quarter.
Tracer's stalling for a moment, self-discord, in the spawns over TDNT, the peak of the round.
They have to win now.
I mean, both fans does go down before the Primal comes off, and that might be enough,
especially with the high-division connection.
Cleanse, actually a little early, has to roll the Pulse Bomb damage to live it.
But I just admise, okay, the cap was 243, but it was...
At first point was fun, but it lasted that.
Twisted Minds, like, the TD&T is on Real Idiva, and then if you're going to play Winston into it, I mean, that's, you know, we kind of have an idea of how it's going to happen.
Goldenboy has had some fun moments, but dude, I mean, you see the...
Winston just can't survive. Like, just cannot come close to surviving in, like, any of these fights, I mean...
What? Because Tune Raj is like, you... How do you play it?
He's like a yeah or Winston you just kind of like put him into a blender
Like before golden pants, can you like jump in right and get bubble down? He's already like
basically good
So he's just permanently on the back foot and that's the nature of diva right what she offers in this matchup
I think the way you win this matchup is that you basically have supports getting or DPS getting way too much value
And then the Winston is just like drawing attention to himself primal is a very good ultimate
I will say in this matter it basically removes all your issues as a hero and they're winning the final fights
Which they need to but the fact that they just falling over when the final is not available
He just needs his ultimate to deny every failure as a hero
I genuinely think they like have to play on there or something. It's like I don't know that that will work either
I think you'll probably just die on auto
But you've got to do something very greedy for one two three four in the back line
I think a standard
Basically mirror match isn't gonna be good for that because the diva would just be so much
I mean it's so much better, right?
Let's see if I can say, okay, the Ana we're not going to stay with that either, so
It'll be back to the Qiri, but you already see me. He's got no armor. It's just gonna, like,
They want you to just chase around that corner.
I will say Winston does better an attack because you don't actually have to like embed the checkpoint,
which is kind of your weakness on Winston. You can wait and just look for kills and then tap for free later.
Then if an attack you're under Jable and the flank uses a lot of blinks to stay alive,
because it's joined in but that makes space for Golden Pants who immediately jumps over to the phone booth area taking a little bit of map control away
Getting a little awkward though. That's a rough factor for Golden Pants
And this is where Quartz is waiting for him now
TvT puts the pressure on Golden Pants just running for the hills trying to stay alive in a regroup
Fairly does but it was looking so sketchy here Matt. It just feels like they could finish him off whenever they want, right?
I mean
They back up here. They give them some high ground. They do allow Golden Man to get back to pull HP
I thought TV and he could have pushed the issue there
Maybe even be able to kind of take out the Winston is now to be in the play low
But being an opportunity for simple kind of farm up towards that rush here go golden hands. I'm trying to take some space
The moods are good for him
But ah Jay would find time on it all these resources that need to be poured into the Winston just to keep him alive and fighting
Kind of drains the bank for players like tracer that twisted minds that they are such a good team in the deathmatch
I mean, this is just a really goes to show how without the chaos of the ball
They look so refined in these kind of setups just shows also like how
I mean like they're just fighting. It's such a disadvantage with the Winston, right?
Just kind of like constantly on the back foot like it feels like even when they get a brief moment of opportunity
Where they could like make something happen
Both supports are having to basically give all their resources to get the Winston like somewhat in a plightable state
Uh, is that a Golden Pants jump-on in there as you get a continue rush in from the hotel?
Alright, good rush though, maybe. Next bubble is going to be available shortly with that cooldown reduction.
Golden Pants wants to isolate the choke, but the players who are on the other side have to have rotated back through to the bone through the side.
Beautiful movements from tips of minds ensuring the formation is never broken.
Here comes Golden Pants 95, needs to get this final, needs to break things apart, and do some kind of chaos.
So there's so many resources supported in the ports and the dead eye channeling against him
He can't stick around here for long
Passed it back off, good hold, the pulse bomb that we put there out of resources
He keep ports up, and now the primal is really getting back into the mix
He's big now, you funny astro
A serious crewman in here, he goes down, the pulse bomb needed to drop gold plates at this point
It's turning into a real scrap, but maybe still enough bragging power for T.M.
Just with J.Boo, T.G. and T. in simple to keep this one going
They're going to beat just for three
That's the definition of desperation here, man
They're gonna be trying go for his that crispy ends up falling. I guess for the minute left you kind of have to push the issue
Of course back on the shea, so that'll be something quite fun here. I will see this is our moment that this is our moment
Chance to see what he looks like on the new hero
Do the thing do the thing throw the bike. I mean, I feel like this your probably is very good against which to you
So that big close-raider
Hero at this point that's not good against Winston
That's that's a dire call out here
Ocea's flipping a meat cookie better funny astro
Finds the time to step up gold pants ready when the motorbike is good
A little bit of a splash connection to execute right under Lucio's back
It's good enough to set up the damage J.Roo finishes the job
She out on the rush can't brings the heat that big burst into Winston
A motorbike thrown in as well
This hero is too much fun to watch
Yeah, I mean, it is a ton of fun if you haven't played her yet
You know, but just the ability to kind of get in and out on the bike and do different types of stuff with the evade and
Damage output feels really strong. So I go and dance an opportunity here to probably get a touch
I'll make sure TVT doesn't knock them off the course. It'll actually be my mode who triggers O.T.
What a kill the Russians out, but it feels like too little too late
This is good to find. Stop, man.
You know, it was a good try. It was a good try.
It wasn't too forced.
You know, they didn't need to rip this map out.
No.
They keep holding up alive.
And honestly, they kind of...
I don't even think they would have predicted themselves,
so maybe when this one, in the sense that...
you're keeping Golden Pants in,
if you force this in mind,
it's to ban the ball here, just the threat of it,
which allows you to now...
what we would assume would be
one of the faster map selections that we've had, like Surabasa, you know, and then they banned it.
And if you put Surabasa, Bandiva, I might have to the top.
Yeah, there's literally no contest for what you think here.
Surabasa, Bandiva seems to be the easy way to go here.
I mean, what is the response ban from TF? I think that's where it gets interesting.
Have they used a Tracer Bandit?
No, I don't think so.
Hmm, I think Tracer is probably the best band.
Would they ban the Kiri?
Can that comp work without Kiri Mizuki?
Yeah, I think the support is like you have many options on the ball.
Even the Kiri band is probably the most impactful, but arguably banning Kiri can help wrecking
ball because now you don't get to play it either.
That's true.
And like Kiri is one of the most survivable against the ball.
Well they did try, it didn't seem like that if you think back to it.
That's crazy at least in map number one, right? They didn't actually go and play the carry against the ball
They played the break right they play like bridge, you know, right? I don't think that's coming back out nothing
They stay in the
Yeah, I know in the oven for a little bit longer like let them cook on it, but yeah, I mean
Has TM banned Mizuki I
I mean I honestly think Lucio carry is gonna be the comp of choice for one two three four on this map
I think if they have free reign so
Any other sport man, I think tracer is actually the best ban for TM
I don't know if they're gonna find it because jibu is such a demon on tracer
They might want to take the heads up again, but I think the ball comp
Realize a lot more on tracer than other looks do like if you play diva balls you play the reaper
Yeah, I mean
I saw chords on the shot. I do think this is where she on fits a little bit better
I I don't I don't see she honest tracer replacement
It feels especially with wrecking ball
You cannot do what tracer can do like to be in the enemy spawn surviving along we haven't seen reaper
That's not happening. We haven't that's genuinely. I think it's like maybe there's a team they ban tracer and play cash reaper
I actually wouldn't mind that here. I think that's the that for me is the best man for them
I don't know if they can find it
Because it it's like to bear J was tracer is also a little insane like you have to be a little crazy to find this one
Yeah, I mean
We're just gonna wait in the map selection. We think we have a good idea
Of what it'll be looking at
okay, so
No subs sir Abasa was the game five map pick by
in one two three four versus a chattia
where Katzia ends up taking Suravasa, but 1, 2, 3, 4 wins at 3-0.
So like a blow out there on that map.
This is a fantastic breaking on that map.
I would argue this is the best one of the four.
Maybe Dorado is a little better.
They're so good friend it's hard to compare, but they ban?
Wait, what?
1, 2, 3, 4 banning the Katzity.
Oh, wait a minute.
Yeah.
Gee, they don't even need to ban the D.Va.
Although I also have two minds about it.
Actually this blocks the tracer band. It's too genius. They're too smart now
That's actually that's actually kind of nasty because the tracer band is the only I think it's literally the only meaningful band other than Lucio
Kiri, but those bands from TM. They've been the we hang but I don't know
I don't think they're gonna I don't think you would play we hang on this gun
I think you would have played the Lucio Kiri in the mirror just like the same way you did over to sappy
I think you would just basically they want to run back when a sappy which was competitive, but still good for them
Yeah, and I mean, like, obviously Quartz, like, this gives Quartz, like, a little bit more mobility, right, being able to play the Sojourn, but the hinder is so important against, like, Tracer in the ball.
Not having that at his disposal is going to be brutal to play through.
I think Sojourn has a hard matchup in the right handball. It's not that easy because the slide is so finicky.
finicky if you get pooped in like from an unexpected angle right as you're sliding
You could just slide into a wall and just be that like you're no way out
So especially before the devil slide perk comes online is kind of a scary spot
I mean quartz is one of the best to ever do it on the hero
So I wouldn't be expecting him to make a lot of those slip-ups
But the opportunity is definitely gonna be there for golden pants to get in on top of quartz
Which kind of feels like the story of this final map like can who can shut down the other?
Can the hits get a twist in minds continue to carry the day or real this well?
Well, it just be too much to handle.
And like we know that they don't play, at least they have not shownly want to play any like Mizuki, right?
So you're not really worried about like a chain either.
So like what is the deterrent for Golden Pins, right?
Like is there none?
I mean, TM, it's like they could still play Sid Mizuki.
Mizuki I mean without the cast I don't think it's as good, but I think it's fine. It's just that's that's the calm
They don't play that's why frankly TM are so beatable right now. Yeah, that one of the core meta comps
They're really they don't want to play it seems like they really don't want to touch it
Which I think that's that's the advantage that one two three four
They've been you know leveraging away at all series line mr. Antarctic Peninsula
Everyone else yeah, I'm sick. Mizuki there. It's like only TM really that aren't and so they're in an awkward spot here
They they're probably talking about it right now like they're gonna go with
I wouldn't mind it actually the DPS from Bastion is very good against Wrecking Ball
I will say the problem though is that you just get kited as as as Bastion
It's very easy to run away. You're not like a tank who commits to any position on Wrecking Ball
And so getting away from the form is generally quite easy and sojourn is gonna be pretty free if you do go Bastion here
Yeah, I imagine we're gonna see both of these sims switch over to Tracer
Piggy is on the Zuki from 1, 2, 3, 4. Okay.
Wouldn't have expected that, but I kind of like it, especially on this first point
that's generally gonna be a little bit slower and more, uh, you know, pokey.
They've been doing this whenever TVNT rolls out on D.Va.
If he swaps in place like Gram or Moga or whatever,
I-I imagine you'll see Crispy Swap.
That's kind of what we've been seeing at least, uh, I know, throughout the series thus far.
No one can afford to give up an early pick here, but the wrecking ball,
It's just proving to be really annoying. I like that he's not coming here. Here comes the form from Corks.
Bunny Astro fights by Mone. Not a kill you can allow to come through.
Now Golden Pants has to do it alone on the flank.
Bunny Astro takes a big fail. He's low, but he's not out of the fight just yet.
He's still sticking around, still putting those skills down.
At the point not yet capped though, Golden Pants is proved to be pretty difficult to evict from this position.
But eventually, TD and T and Astro are just gonna have too much to work with without my Mone putting pressure on him to flank.
And maybe more than he found, although Krispy dances away with the teleport.
Both hands evades the form for now. My gold!
Oh, if I find anything that's worth, I can punch down the Vekin Ball and now TNT, 3 in the backline.
Unbelief does get chained down, but the damage is done.
Yeah, there'll be point control here for Twisted Minds, is, uh, PB&T, trying to get a new mech back as...
He should get it just fine. 85.
Yeah, yeah, the early pick on the Mimone was massive.
See, if they'll decide to stay on the Muzuki again, so...
Typically what we see is like when they're kind of playing diva they're going for it
But I think you can make a real argument to play that Lucio here
I do like the boob Lucio I mean they're straightforward, but the value is real
I've her control here for Tiamat's land comes in speculative for the most part for the OC of time
Makes it a lot more dangerous the matrix is running low here for TNT
I think if you have a truncated swing point but a beautiful fall from J.Woo
Hold on though, wait two kills back to the way
It's not easy to get back and touch, somehow Canale is able to live on through that hit.
He went down by that lower health pack and then actually just kind of hit, nobody chased
him so.
In another flash point here opening up in a second, Golem pants with a huge slam there.
right into the mix.
Matrix blocks the follow-up though, this Bastion is a real threat.
So far, Force has been pretty stable in it, but as I say that the Caster Curse, Cashed
in by Kai, picks up a quick one, and without the Bastion, damage is going to be lacking.
My moan even burns J.Loos, looking for the one-clip onto Canale, and he has to go for
something like that in that moment, because early pick from the Sojourn is just not winnable
this time.
Yeah, you will have twisted minds though, I mean, the beat just gives you such a level
of survivability that like can't be matched without it right on the other side
I think so like you say that but sanctuary it's like I could be this is
the defensive tour for Tm I don't think they can really go forward with it
because the sanctuary will just kind of stop the aggression it's a scary beat
for Tm I don't think it's easy for Astro to find value on him. You also have the mind-bill right?
Oh a chain now TdnC he's got the sub to spark the beat has to come out
sanctuary don't allow the point to continue to be fought canale drops of
rushing as well.
Boopa's out from Astro that clears the way for a big slam
to come in.
The follow-up damage is good.
A nice change.
The chain now on to simple can't teleport out.
The pause.
But this fight feels done and dusted.
I don't think Tiav have anything to do but a quick reset.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it feels like you're getting some nice slams now
onto quartz, right?
And then just knocking them up in the sky.
And then everybody focusing, whether it be Kai or Canale,
really kind of looking at the Soj and the Kiri there.
So that is the beat gone.
Double support ult used by 1, 2, 3, 4.
But it looked like a fight that they were in a pretty nice shape
to be able to take regardless.
Yeah, I mean, those kind of a kills,
it comes in because TVNT is just out of matrix, right?
Normally, you slam the bashing, matrix him, no problem.
But the amount of poke you have to deal with,
crossing the sidelines, you know, ultimate's coming out.
The matrix just doesn't last forever.
You've got to use those resources sometime.
And it just goes to show the level of pressure
that is on this twisted mind squad.
The wrecking ball comp, when those slam comes in,
you're going to hit from four or five angles.
It is crazy hard to cover that kind of pressure.
And even a team as good as Tm,
and we have seen their skill at times
in surviving those difficult situations,
sometimes it's not enough.
Yeah, and I'm curious for your POV,
if you were to like write all of the flash points,
like the individual like objectives,
like is the first opening one probably the worst for the ball?
It might be, it might be because there's not,
the roles are a little awkward for ball,
like that little high low,
a close quarter one more linear like the right if you're looking at the overhead
become the right side of the map that's pretty brutal as well yeah there's the
one with the pool of water yes I think that one's actually quite good for
wrecking ball though because you can hit from all these different sides of point
rolling in and out you know it's only for advanced wrecking ball players I was
thinking try it at home yes he's like precise understandings of like how to
roll through yeah but I actually don't mind it there honestly I think the next
that all of the outside flash points feel winnable for ball that's why I think
But I think Baal is the best comp on this map.
I think Tm are gonna, they're fighting uphill
to win this series here.
Yeah, and I think at this point,
it was like almost like 60% at the moment,
you know, in favor of one, two, three, four, so.
She was off the map.
Yeah, before we even get back into it,
I saw it with a pause at the end of the pool
and like, usually the fight was over,
he was off the map in a quarter second.
Forts, she on.
That's gonna be the answer.
I love it.
I love it.
I don't know if I actually love it,
but I'm here for it.
I mean, I think you're just trying to like,
just, you know, how to aggression them, right?
Just get right on cast the ball
and just put pressure onto the backline.
GDNT kind of suffering.
Doesn't have to self-destruct at all.
Crippus, he finds J.Woo.
I don't know if he's gonna back you.
A second as well.
The bike thrown in, but yeah,
you're hopeless at this point.
I mean, this is the backline.
He's going into dive with golden pants.
This is the sign, I think, of a team
that is ascended to true ready ball status
when you're pursuing the enemy backline.
Like, Twisted Minds is all corralled into one tiny spot on the map.
They cannot win the fights and the extremities.
Yeah, we've seen some plays today from Mizuki's that, like,
you know, obviously it's a small adjustment, right?
Uh, but getting a full second extra on the TP,
and then a cooldown reduction on it,
allows you to kinda get a little bit more aggressive with the hero.
So, like, kinda takes the kill.
The Catastrophe return.
This buff is way better for a dive comp than it is for the meta.
Yeah.
Right, where you really can use the mobility.
Here comes the OC from Kai.
Off the slam, TM covering really nicely for now and actually Crispy is going to get punished for his hubris.
Finally went a little too far and that should be a fight with TM if they can clean things up here.
Not necessarily easy, the remaining 4 for 1, 2, 3, 4 do have some threat on them and TM are going to respect it just trying to grab this point cap.
Yeah, I think you wait until Crispy can get back into the fight, right? So...
Or it's a lot that she on Ultimate here coming up soon as...
Ooh, gonna be an endgild here early.
Funny, Astra needs a suede to get out, yeah.
Yeah, just to stay alive, Goldencance has a lot of room to play with here.
How's he gonna use it, Sean? Biting his time with this ultimate.
T.V.T. still holding the point comfortably.
It's gonna be up to 1, 2, 3, 4, to force pressure onto the point.
But the rush is already out from the simple,
hmm, can this gonna kill it? Does it, Chris?
Now, Bites straight into the backline.
Ultimate is available. The Booper's gonna make an awkward report,
but he gets a lot of assist here into Rune, the dash to the extra HP,
and Goldencance wisely backs out of that one.
T.V.T. is really comfortable here on this Flashlight.
This has been a night and day from the first two battles.
Can I wonder how much quartz and twist might even practice this in terms of like bringing your own into the mix?
Probably none.
Probably looking at another hero that can like add some hitscan like damage with some mobility and it just happens to be the newest one.
The ultimate chest, give it the backline, get some good damage on Kai, finishes the job as well and maybe even gets more on this one.
back the point to ensure that the Overtime doesn't go against them, the game might connect
them to the Wrecking Ball, but it doesn't necessarily need to. Gold vans just delay me
and Epicle and won't be able to take his heals back to spawn. Still, it's a double support
ultimate fight out of Twisted Minds as well as the channel committed, so it ends up being
an expensive one for them, but this is a serious point for them too. I'm 2-1 now and wonder
if before there's no more mistakes left for them, I do think these two flashpoints are
good for Wrecking Ball, but there is no opportunity for error.
Yeah, they have to be perfect though from here on out as it seems like Twisted Mind is starting to click a little bit here.
He's playing hard and doing zero kind of against this comp.
There's gotta be Sanctuary used like crispy here that everybody trying to get aggressive for Twisted Mind is just kind of running right into that Mizuki ultimate.
I mean Sanctuary is one of the best ultimates in the game right now for dealing with some unhinged aggression.
I like that Tm though are going to stay alive and be back like here, but maybe TNT, okay the cleanse is going to make sure he's okay.
And with the flashpoint opening it's like you gotta go cap, but Mr. Might's still alive, still pressuring, but my moan dropping Astro
really starts to hurt because this is gonna turn into a crazy stagger now.
You're not gonna get the interviewer looking for my moan, able to put some pressure on and the sub-destruction's out,
but still the kill's coming this high.
Trades his life for simple, so he's gonna be happy with that one because of the most low number engagements,
is where Rekkymall really starts to shine. Player advance for T.M. but will it last long?
Yes, I would shout by one of the pretty nice advantage. Nice grab to the health pack there from J.Woo
That golden Paris I give the news one go and yes, I mean Krispy's gonna come back from the Lucio here
I'm gonna try and take turns touching. It's gonna be a consumer rush here from both sides
Turning into a crazy stall the point is taking up like wildfire
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Nice delayed pulse on the TV and he's beautiful from my mom gets the diva kill finish up as well
Astro fights one in the back line Jadu finds a second, but simple
Really just on death score my mom can't run it down and the death matching is just too good from twisted mind
They're gonna eventually get this clip back if they can do cold dance
Which is killing it for me because he's rolling on him. He is just kind of
Difficult to deal with they will end up getting the flip there is a one two three four
I mean, that was a pretty sizable event, like, using that continuum.
I should have been saying that it matched simple there, but in not coming out on top,
you also use the minefield on that fight as well, allowing everybody on Twisted Mines
to get back full strength.
It looks like Lot of Tiger will actually touch the point.
It looks like Mimone will actually get there, get a punch, drag people back.
Yeah, they're pulling some attention, going into space for Kai, but he's got to deliver
this OC, and he's not really getting any targets presented for him.
Twisted Mines fighting their time, building up this sound barrier, and they're going to
They potentially give up this point, they're in a need to Q&T, keeping that one in contest.
They want to win things here and now, and they have the opus to make it do so bad.
The opus are so high for what you keep on, but this beat is going to just absolutely decimate them.
The aggression already overwhelmed from TM. Beautifully executed beat push.
And now 1, 2, 3, 4, with their last chance potentially here in this map, they've got to win to stay alive.
And you're going to love to see that overclock come up with something there.
If you're 1, 2, 3, 4, Golden Pants will be the one who will be able to get a touch.
Twisted Minds with a lot of good ultimates. I mean, you're gonna have the shield on ultimates,
the pulse bomb here as well as Goldcance. He'd be so careful.
Oh, the ultimate is so good! Into the backline, Kai!
So much trouble now, but maybe the damage is done.
Twisted Minds, they worked so hard for this win.
Goldcance is still alive with the Mindfield on point,
but the 4th and 4th Twisted Minds gave him so hard to evict this group of heroes.
Dave who has another kill in and twisted minds are gonna get the job WN even gold chance eventually runs out of gas. Oh
What a heartbreaker for one two three four for twisted minds
Covered in sweat that they could close this series out. Cool. I mean barely, but I mean
You see the newest hero pay off, right?
I mean they used to she on and that was like really kind of a huge difference maker where ports goes over to the newest hero
able to kind of being able to continue the aggression that team is putting together, right?
It didn't really give a nice dive target per se for anybody to go to, right?
You know, for Golden Dan, even to lapse on everybody with hyper mobility there, available for Twisted Minds.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, a lot comes down to first point.
I think first point should be more winnable, but I agree that Shion kind of changed everything.
everything. Quartz was the dive target for so many fights.
And then as Shion, it didn't really feel that way.
It felt like he was the one doing the diving, right?
You see him just getting aggressive.
It felt like exactly as you said,
they turned just the nature of the entire matchup
from ball gets addicted to pace to we dictate the pace.
And I mean, that's what twisted minds me, no one loved.
When they're in control of the pace,
when they're getting their signature aggression,
it looks fantastic.
And the wrecking ball just doesn't
overly offer any defensive utility against Shion.
And that's going to be a liability here on Sir Voss.
Yeah, and I know people probably obviously play in the news here at home trying to get kind of into it.
Looking at maybe like what the perks were that you know, Quartz decides to go with there.
So he goes with the X Machina, which is the, it does the execution damage.
So it does 20% more damage below the health half health.
And then the major perk, I see a lot of people, you know, and I'm playing go towards like the all sub role passives,
but he actually goes for the the refuel one.
So the bike instantly gives 50 HP, and then regents 20 HP
per second while on the bike.
So I think as fun as having more passives is,
the bike is still on hitscan is a big deal.
Well, also because the evade that she has also gives health,
over health.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So you become a real tank in the front line.
You become a threat who can dive in aggressively.
You can use that HP any way you want.
You could use it to attack.
You can also just use it to escape and get out.
So I really feel like, I mean, this is what I expected kind of from Shion,
that in a very fast dynamic comp, yes, you can't replace Hitscan in a long range poke trade,
but you can absolutely replace Hitscan when you're brawling the way this series went, right?
And like these kind of chaotic moments, you could, you know, sometimes you're Cassidy,
other times you feel more like Genji on this hero.
Yeah, it's crazy, right?
I mean, just the versatility as a hero, and then the, uh, Karuz free for the ultimate.
One of the cooler things is like you can actually, you know, obviously, you know, take it towards the high ground, right?
You can actually kind of get like upward mobility on it, which we typically don't see from some ultimates,
you know, like kind of like a change verticality planes like that.
So, it's funny, it's like we were talking about like at the beginning of the day, like maybe we'll see Shion like,
you know, her series, nothing, band out, this series, kind of nothing.
And then at the end, the final map, it ends up being a huge addition for the team.
I mean, the way this map looked, genuinely, it kind of felt like maybe if they played
it all series this would have been a way better series for that.
Yeah, maybe.
Like, rather than hoping to hit, like, in a way I think the wrecking ball players, they're
so good at ball nowadays that, like, the hinder is something they can play around.
Like, they're not, especially when the shield perk comes online, it really doesn't feel
like that big of a deal.
First is just being harder to kill.
There's no counter play to that, right, other than just, I don't know, B-bat or whatever,
right?
longer on hitscan, staying alive deeper into the fight for courts, I think it just matters
more than any kind of aggressive threat that a Cassidy could bring.
It also, like, you know, it puts golden pants, you know, obviously in a weird spot where like,
okay, there's no bastion to dive, there's no Cassidy to dive, right?
And then on the other side, it gives them a diva, diva shunyan and tracer opportunity
to go, you know, into their backline.
But a huge win for Twisted Minds.
Let's bring in Funny Asher.
talk a little bit about this game is Astro. My man, that one goes down to the wire. I gotta ask
how many times do you guys practice that she on kind of going into your comps or none at all?
We've given it a few tries actually. I think the hero looks really, really OP. So
we've been giving it a few tries. It works pretty well. I think you'll see a little more of it in
the next few weeks. Yeah, I gotta ask, I mean, playing against the wrecking ball comps is always
a bit of a nightmare on support, I think it's fair to say at this level of play.
And this series went down to the absolute wire. You guys were really pushed and tested by 1,
2, 3, 4. How do you see 1, 2, 3, 4 as an opponent, obviously coming out of promotion
relegation, but showing really strong performances against good teams here in OWCS? And how did you
prepare for this match being that it's basically the only team playing this style in the NBA?
I think that impossible to prepare for because no one plays the same team comps and the same
style as they do. So we've more just been focusing on the next couple of weeks of matches and then
coming into this when we were like, whatever happens, happens.
That comp is impossible to prepare for.
But what was the first part of your question again?
I'm just asking about, you know, how do you, do you expect them to do well as a team?
Like, do you think 1-2-2-4, like, where do you place them if you had to rake them?
I know it's probably hard to do considering they're so unique.
I'd say they're probably around maybe fourth in the region.
I think they have a decent shot of making it to EWC if they keep up their good form.
Obviously, I don't want to talk too much trash about them because that's basically a team UK right there
You can't beat down the boys too much
We haven't seen it too much today
But like obviously a lot of balance changes comes in with the newest season and the newest hero
Is there anything that you're looking at that's like maybe kind of went under the radar?
We were talking like you know, I said doesn't get any adjustments
Mizuki actually gets a buff like anything you're looking at as a team that kind of you may have to include the next few weeks
Yeah, I think we've got other things that we're working with played a lot of Sigma and
Mizuki and scrims. We're just keeping it to ourselves for now. Save some different stuff
a match day against this team. And then I think you will see a different team starting next
week.
I mean, I think that's something that a lot of people and myself included expected, right?
You guys, you know, it's uncharacteristic for you guys to have a tough couple of weeks.
How do you look at as a team at a moment like that? Because, I mean, honestly, it's one
of the hardest things I think for teams to do when you have had such an incredible run
of international success. I mean, I think it's not crazy to say over the last calendar year,
you've been the best team in the world, like on average across all these performances.
And then to have some tough games in a regional competition, you know, WCS, how do you guys take
that as a team? What's the process like to kind of try to rise out of that moment?
I mean, we're trying lots of stuff. It's obvious, you know, like from last stage,
we only dropped one map the whole time. And then we come into this stage and, you know,
We're dropping maps left, right, and center, and we're losing series, and we're struggling.
I think there's no secret to that. I think everyone on the team just knows that if we keep
playing together and staying as a team instead of trying to blame each other and keep working hard
in scrims, taking rests when we need it and not going too crazy, trying not to lose our minds
over a few losses, and I know that we'll come back for nothing.
Hey, well, you have a rest day tomorrow, just a one match week for you guys this week.
You can kind of take it easy the rest of the week. Thanks so much for joining us, Astro.
congrats on the win. Thanks for having me. Always always a good time to get into chat with funny
ashrow. That is a series that goes down to the wire and like if you're twisted minds or you're a
fan of them, you're really happy that they're able to pull that one out Jake. Yeah that's going to
be a sign of relief especially in the one match week that you could you know, you could, glad you
escaped that series right with the win like you would take that all the way to the bank even a
of 3-2. Up next, of course, it's going to be Virtus.Pro taking on Acacia. Fendi have tried,
but Virtus.Pro are moving different this stage. It's going to be a scary one, man.
I mean, Virtus.Pro, they have been a plus through the opponent's
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I just want to hear the song
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Got me feeling, got me waiting
I'm knocking back you up on my side
You know, when I say it, I'm not dying
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
Every time we touch, every time we touch it feels like
I don't need perfect
I don't need perfect
I don't need perfect
I just need real
So when I get left for it
I am there
I'm chasing go, I'm chasing go
Wherever I'm going
I'm thinking so
This is the life
I say I feel
You never let a thing go again
No, now I'm strange, just fine
And I'm finally on my side
And I don't mean for a straight
I just need rid of someone I can let go
I'm not taking this life
I'm trying to stand up for it
But I'm not trying to join you
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I don't mean for a straight
I've got a feeling I've got a feeling
I've got joyous and I've got a feeling
Don't need more to feel in love
To tell my love in your love
I don't need perfect
I've just been real so when I can let go of my hand
I can feel I'm chasing through
I'm chasing through
Wherever I'm going I'm going to take it slow
This is so high, I say, I believe
Every little thing they thought I'd give
No, I'm not, I'm just crazy
Just fine, baby
Can't I find it all on my side?
I don't need a word, I don't need to
I just need a rhythm, someone like you
Let me go, let me go
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
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Welcome back everybody to OWCS EMEA, beat number two here, Matt Nistreks joined by the wonderful
Jake Lyon.
We have one more game here for EMEA, it's going to be VP vs Alcatya where we just saw
Twisted Minds right in a game five, right now I would say VP are the best team in EMEA
but are the other best team that we've had.
and I hold pace, they get another win, but dude VP, they look like on another level last week, Jake.
This has, I think, been the promise of this roster that Coach Smash has sort of finally been bringing together.
I mean, for a player like Kevster to be playing as good as he's ever played, and on his hand, has been fantastic to watch.
Psycho has been lights out on whether the Cap Bastion comes out or the Flexed Heroes.
flexed heroes, it just doesn't matter.
Psycho is just such a steady hand for the team.
And then in the back line, Landon and Fixup
are just unbreakable.
They're so solid, so stable, so consistent
that a player like IceNom, a young player
with a lot of potential, he's now way more than that.
This is not potential, right?
He is just dominant.
He is taking over on the Sigma.
He has topped the damage on the server virtually every time
he plays that hero.
And that was not a hero that, like, when he got added
to the scene, they picked him up to play, right?
I mean, I know obviously they have the Stola in the past,
but I think when you kind of have, you know,
Psycho and Landon coming into this roster, right?
And being able to kind of bring that leadership,
it's going to make a player like Isom just that much better.
So VP looks to kind of stay perfect, right?
Six and 0 in terms of like, I don't map win-loss at the moment.
So looking to stay that good, but Alcatzi,
I mean, they're a tough opponent on the other side.
They have a rough go against 1, 2, 3, 4.
Last week, I know, towards the end of that series,
but there's a very talented roster.
Yeah, we did see some strong stuff from them in the opener.
And I think, honestly, maybe no more pressure
than anyone than on Vistola.
I mean, going up against, really, your former protege, right?
You know, you were the starter.
Aizan was the backup, and things changed.
They let this Vistola tank go.
This is the opportunity for Vistola
to make the regret that decision for him
to come out and have a huge showing, especially with how good Sigma is right now.
I think that for me is kind of the story of this series.
But it's not really a fair one for Mistola, considering the form that VP are on as a team right now.
Yeah, it's going to be rough, right?
I mean, you know, Al-Katya, they get a 3-0 over GK last week, right?
So that's a pretty huge win on terms of like where they rank in terms of the playoffs and their chance.
This isn't going to get top four.
And then they lose to 1, 2, 3, 4.
So they kind of like blew that little bit of an advantage, right?
they can kind of hold on. A game like this, you're almost looking for Alcatya. Can you just get some maps, right?
Can you get some maps? Nobody's gotten maps off of VP. I think obviously you go in every series wanting to win,
but just realistically looking at it. Very difficult series up ahead and then look Alcatya.
They have a, yeah, I know, I'll see you on the, on the docket and then they also close things out with Twisted Mind.
So I know no no real easy road here in the NBA, but it feels like this series is one you just got to try and keep close
Yeah, just just to you know get some fight back would be massive here VP
We're gonna open things up on the Intertick Peninsula
We have been seeing an absolute ton of this map today Matt feels like the Twilight Zone nobody ever picks this map
What is in the water today? I mean, I will say after the rework this map is so much better
I think teams have started to scrim it more and they're seeing actually okay
We kind of like this map especially when we want to play sigma and play a poke mirror
Which I think probably is the case here for VP
Well, I think the rework happens like halfway through our last stage and then we don't get it even until champions flash
Like it doesn't come in right away. So that's where I think you just see teams like probably didn't even think about
Scrimming it right and walk wide move away from you know in a way, for instance
It'll be a Cassidy ban for Paxia, another deferment, so we're seeing this quite often
now, so they'll defer, the Cassidy ban comes out, it'll be a Zarya ban here in map number
one.
Yeah, I think the Zarya ban just blocks one of the one ways that you can like overwhelm
the Sigma comp, you know, with like a Zarya, I don't really think Zarya is that commonly
picked on this map, I think it's a bit of a throw away for VP, but they're very comfortable
with all the top heroes in the meta.
I don't think they feel a ton of pressure to shake things up with the band the way could see a might also for for Kevster
He that's a you're breathing rarefied air on hitscan when you are copying a first round respect ban on Cassidy
Also, probably gonna get a lot of she on with cast out in this one. Yeah, that is true
No, we did see a little bit of a buff Wars aria, but nothing like to off the charts
I feel like she was already pretty decent
from where she was. Interesting enough Ice does have a ball in the hero pool.
Could potentially see that one come out. I would be such a fan. I don't think it's
happening. They're too stable and steady on the Sigma comp. It is a comfort
over them. Can see the... Okay, well, he's got a buff. Vendetta got a pretty
meaningful buff. I was looking at the notes, I'm like, is there any chance? And
maybe there is, but Kessler bashing Sim. Good luck Vendetta. Yeah, I mean that is
It's going to be difficult for Vendetta to stay alive.
I mean, thinking about Vendetta, she got buffed break
considerably ages ago.
And then she was like permafly.
Then they kind of, I feel like it was like two or three
patch cycles where she got nerfed.
But I'm making a little bit of a comeback in this season.
It's a really, I mean, this is an all in comp, right?
With the shame in the Vendetta.
Yeah, they've got to have a big dive, but they are putting
a lot of point pressure on.
Naid actually grabs Fixa on the rotate, but Missola had to go all in just to set up that play.
The point gap comes in for Kassia, but it doesn't seem like they're gonna be able to hold on it for too long.
That being said, Naid doesn't really have the HP to force the issue.
Has to be Kassia on the bathroom, Psycho-falling Shion, and maybe a second to go.
AID! Lighting it up, three kills in the fight, and it's a fight in game for Kassia.
Oh, wait, Pajon?
Aw, that's not so good.
That is kind of a throw.
the solo NA doing what they can, but already the Tide, so it's a turn against them.
And Kepster back in on a Shia that was all in a little bit of a mirror match here.
Yes, I mean, even the funny Ashro kind of, I think like subtly trying to lose with air
that like, yeah, now this hero is actually good.
Like we probably will see this hero over the next few weeks,
because that will be a consumer air rush here for Landon, getting it over the point.
Kev on the bike takes out Tejong, he execute there onto Zox, finishes off another, so...
I already see now Steph pushing up, see if you can kind of put down some more damage.
Dude, the over health you get from using the evade is quite massive.
I think it's like 100, right? Or is it 50?
I think it's 50, but you also get that little dash, right?
So yeah, that buying that, you know, second of time to grab some healing,
it's really meaningful, it's a very, very powerful fighting skill.
And then the damage you bring on this hero is pretty insane at full strength.
Here comes a chain from Vixxia, forces the cleanse out, all of it with an unanswered rush here.
He needs to fight up the connections to dump it on the point, but that sanctuary is beautiful for things that keeps people fighting strong,
plus completely ruined by Aislam, no connection there.
Those movements meet from the brush, groups meet too much forehand,
and now an opportunity for A to get into the backline and maybe clean up Tevster.
He needs to fight interesting though with that pick.
Oh, a nice under-englade there though.
Tejani takes out Ice Gnome, so even though you haven't been killed ago in favor of Ernest's grow,
Uh, it is still, uh, Katya who's gonna fighting on top here, where, uh, we'll end up taking
out Teja, but, uh, we'll not kinda get out with his life, so Katya, doing a nice job
battling back into this one.
I think this is a little bit harder for the Sim to play into, like it's just a lot of
damage coming her way.
Yeah, he really hasn't seen too much from Psycho, does have the Sim on it, should help
it, Aida's just overwhelming him in the back line, eats the kills from him, he bikes away,
even finds the time to speak back in for a little extra damage there.
Eyes out of trouble, stomped by Gestola and finished off by Tejong.
Katsuya!
This seems like a completely different team. They are so aggressive here.
I mean, it just seems like after we just saw the last series, right?
You know how the Shion really kind of turned the tide in that fifth game.
Now, Kepster playing it already and Aide doing a nice job for Wakatsuya, playing it with the Vendetta.
I think the Vendetta is more surprising to me than actually kind of seeing the Shion in the mix.
that's gonna be a cage fight, it's gonna be tough with it, and they even get a great
blow on it.
Nice TP out of it though.
Beautiful TP out in a simple as well.
They even take it to the point, AID is already exactly killed out of the fight.
I think he's just done enough over time or not.
AID is running rampant, dominating the year in the Sheaun battle, but Kev this Ola eventually
shouldn't go down here, but he's actually still alive in the Laga.
Gonna grab a Mega, and AID is just all over this point.
Kev's there, it's all he could do to get an overtime touch, but a second, too much to
ask for.
Crazy round there from Katya and if you're wondering what happens to Vendetta in this patch
You know the ultimate cost gets reduced by 15% so that's pretty
That's really sizable. Yeah. Yeah margin
And then the onslaughts so the stacks the movement speed
You know the boost per stack goes from two to three and the max duration goes from five
Five and a half seconds to seven and a half seconds
So, honestly, it's like when you're fully, when you have like all the stats online for
Tejong, you are absolutely moving on Vendetta.
I mean, being a melee character, right, like that close range feels really important that
you can control it with your movement speed.
So I'm kind of, I'm kind of liking what you could see, Ars Bidden out.
This feels like a comp that fits really well for what Shion brings to the table in terms
of the pace you want to play at, and they're going to run it back, psycho on the Sim again.
Sim is an awkward one, maybe they feel like they need it against the Maga.
I mean, maybe, but it just feels like a combination with like the Mog of Stomp, I know she undamaged and then also a Vendetta, like it's really difficult to keep that, you know, Sim alive, some nice damage down there from Kepiser, kind of forced them to back on up, so.
See where Katzia decides to take the fight, it's in a weird spot, right, because they've kind of been bullied out of the choke and off the high ground already.
Yeah great positioning here for VP. Over the top, this is the crit though.
Cycle still goes down. Just cut the pieces by that whirlwind slash. Still the
first foot was for VP. They need to find a kill if they want to battle back into
this one and over the top this crit could hit heavy. It will be good enough to
connect on the ice now. It's starting to overwhelm the chain. Good, close to dead
it down but they just don't have the gas to keep fighting. First half is all
VP are gonna find. It's gonna quickly go back the other way and sim it. I mean sim is
So tough play considering the mobility of these enemy DPS like compared to a matchup like Cassidy where sim could really get
On top of you just doesn't feel realistic again. She on no one like what like who are they even trying to get on top of
I mean, I guess the Juno right, but even then think about like we haven't really talked about the again
I the synergy with the Moga like those I know that the she on vendetta
Moga with the cardiac overdrive is like a nasty thing to kind of have to deal with right?
I don't know how you're supposed to heal on through that.
Yeah, tons of resistant life steal. You know, Sim is
being picked for the strategy for VP. It's gonna be a tough one for Psycho to last through.
Kind of she'll return, gets fixed, out of trouble, but maybe right back into the fire, needs a lot of support to stay alive.
You can see it, keeping on the aggression, but what a burn from Kev. Swings the corner, one taps A.
Looking for more in the fight, and that'll be enough to stabilize this map for VP. What a kill from Kev.
I mean just seeing that damage potential right with like the execute just kind of rounding a corner and if it's like headshots
I mean, I think it's a 1-8 kill after that shots. I don't think yeah close that
That execute skill does way too much damage man. Like that's gonna look bad. I mean imagine like rounding a corner, right?
And there's like a carry there like you just like not even an opportunity to Suzy were TP, right?
It's just like insta-death
So feels like just kind of starting games. I would be shocked if next weekend
and we don't see a ton of Shia from all these things.
That's already seen as we have started.
Supportals available for Kassiya. They're considering an angle attack.
They need to be right up-hanging.
Now they can add on the rushes, respond to the enemy, and they buy landing.
Dexter, they'll give you the back of the Shia.
Don't get already buy socks. Justice the Ray comes out.
Can't step up, though, inside this mountain.
Cage and the Saintsbury is just good. That f***ing is still alive.
But once as well, overwhelms the tank of Alcatya.
And that is cage plus double support all battled back Virtus.Pro do pay for ultimates
But hard to see how you initiate a fight without those tools throughout that see it's gonna be rough
I mean the cage was used there and then like I saw him actually has like a flux going on during it kind of
Grips him off
But I mean no way you're gonna be able to live through that like the sim damage is just
Ramping to an unreal level at that moment, right? And I believe they're already down to support even though they had already used the ult so
See, these two damage ultimates in sequence. Could be kind of crazy.
A is gonna hit from the opposite angle, coming in off the motorbike. Here's the ultimate.
And he finds the connection though. Isom is more than happy to tank this one.
It's not the best. A tank shredding gets a little bit of split damage, but no kills off that ultimate.
Both ultimates now out for Kitsiya.
He beat... they do lose Kevster.
Can they continue to fight off the back of the Simba? Seems like the answer is no.
A overwhelms the pressure to keep that tempo up.
Landed finds one kill back the other way, but it's not gonna need much.
Even if they're going to be blunt down here in the spawn,
a big winning retake for Kaseya, that one though, came down to the wire.
The Ultimates didn't get the job done.
Aid had to do it with the regular form.
But now on the flip-flip, VP, they don't really have anything on the retake.
See if they're able to win one of these fights just in the neutral.
Isom will try to push up here, but you see the turrets or any kind of like,
being put into this issue, or if you have to back up,
That is kind of a... you're trying to bait that mage and go in there and kind of slide on through as Vixxah getting dangerously low already
and then Vixxah not able to get any healing.
But hold on, the distraction was good and allowed Kepster to kill off the enemy of Cheon.
So now Kepster has a better route to work with on the flank.
I think he's going to be the key player, especially as Tejon thinks he'll block through the base.
Still this choke point, it's so hard to break.
The full commitment is in from the evil, they swing wide.
Tejon's blocking up everything to stay alive, but he can't get out of the blocks.
Surely this Vintetta is dead to Rites and lands and will drop in before he can even come down.
Kepster's building up force, that's what I kill!
To see the hitscan playing this character on such a high level is a beautiful thing.
And who better than Kepster to straddle this hybrid between the hitscan and Flex DPS?
He is really showing what's possible on Overwatch's newest heroes.
And I think even without the damage, the execute damage, like the perk, I think it's fully charged.
It's like 280 on a crit, like a headshot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, so it's like I will say it is a very a dependent hero
This year was all about hitting headshots and even the bike is not that easy to aim like making your decision about
You know mobility into damage. It's kind of an interesting, you know multi-faceted kind of a skill
But I definitely feel like man like who better than Kevstar to show us what's possible on a hero that I
Would argue is a little bit of a new role in Overwatch
I think for the most part it's being played as his game right now, but your rights
it's not exactly like what the conventional has hated the cast.
Yeah, it's interesting. It's like the effective range is like shorter than a
castity, right? But like the it's a you know, not tracer mobility but like
very interesting how that'll kind of develop the role.
I don't know, it's both running for the hills, but they stay alive and have the
immediately right back into the battle, but a double crit from Tejong brings down
Psycho within this room man. You have no business battling Vendetta
She is right back into the action in the comfort that's here that seems well selected for the man
I mean you do not want to be fighting Vendetta
She on Maga in a small room
You know you have I know what you have like the sim and then obviously the misery keeping you look I like do like
Crazy healing in that type of environment that is not something you're gonna win when everybody here in round three is all perked up
So, we'll see.
I know Ice and Mooncloak, they'll actually make their way to the point here early on,
as Kev picks an off angle here up on the high ground,
but it just feels like Cassia is just trying to plot out the next time to dive on in.
They're going for Psycho.
All in a crash, and they get Kev's, they're almost like accident,
because Tav's arc is just leaving through the backline.
Psycho gets a massive amount of sustain to stay alive,
but the good crit stop from this solo will end that here and now.
It picks their land and just back to the spawn.
This point has proved to be just too close range for Virtus. Road to get things rolling. Yeah
I mean, this is probably the worst point they could draw here on an Arctic Peninsula
So VP even perfect throughout this stage. Those are all the brain could kind of losing their first map
That's yet getting a ball 50% on it. Aiden does have the shield on O
Just kind of dive on him with that bandetta. It's just like
Not able to even kind of deal with that damage
You see, even they're not using the Juno, just the Orcs right away, being able to kind of help out, and it's a little...
They are so now able to live.
I think that gives me the chance to get out of that.
Now he comes into the back line, Psycho is down, maybe more has the ultimate advantage over Kessler.
Does have another ultimate to deploy though, and has to fight this way out of here.
Pulling a lot of attention to this movement, is he eventually going to get run down by Landon.
That does cost Ice-Om's life though, and Kessler is still trying to fight this round, Zox does go down to the floor.
get that break out.
Fallen is going to respond with the cross-cheek to ensure that this fight goes away about
Kassia.
It is a scrappy one, but I think eventually, B3 are going to be evicted from this one and
maybe even a late kill to be found on Fixa, but not quite.
The cleanse is good enough for Landon to get his boy out of there.
One more fight for Curtis Bro's tribe to keep that perfect streak alive.
And then David Cage plus the normal right here, and they are going to just kind of mow
them on down.
I mean, nothing you could do there.
headshot comes in from T-Jong towards the end is that is going to be Kassia here Jake taking map number one, a really nice look from them.
I love the way they came into the series right playing their own style, bringing the aggression, bringing the heat, knowing that like looking mirror matching VP
just keeps them way too in their comfort zone, they're so confident on those styles.
To bring out the Dashion, the Vendetta, the Mauga, put VP on their heels from the start.
I think they felt forced to play the Symmetra into the Maga matchup, to TP out of the cage fight, to put pressure on the Maga as a frontliner,
but it was a struggle for Cycle. The DPS on the other side is not a matchup you want to be in.
And also something on Node, when we've seen it, we've seen everybody kind of go towards the, when you're on the bike, you obviously get healing,
but Aide actually takes where you get all the sub-roll passes. He actually goes, we talked a little bit about that earlier, right?
So, you mean all of those different passives, like at once, which could be quite...
Well, I guess like the one you're going for is, I guess, Crit hits reduced movement ability cooldowns, right?
That's like the Sharpshooter one.
I wonder how, which one that impacts, whether it's the evade or the bike.
I'd imagine it's the evade, but still, I could actually give you like...
I honestly think it might be both, right?
Guys, no way.
You're going to be both mobility skills?
effectively the dash is like it's like tracer blink right like I would call it you know mobility cool down I
Would argue both of them are you know, it's like reefer both of his cool down, so I would argue mobility cool
That's yeah interesting how that's defined especially for she on who now
It's interesting because right most of the sharpshooters. They don't really have like it's like sojourn has slide
I guess so probably gets so you wouldn't that although we don't play very much
You would get basically what you get a eliminating an enemy increases reload speed you get extra HP from health packs
You get the headshots reduce
Movement speed right
Yeah, yeah, that's the the extra health of a health packs
Um, I mean that's kind of crazy that you get all those nice actually yet
Especially I feel like it works really well when you want to play she on in this kind of like an overwhelming aggression style
I think against a wrecking ball. I'd rather just like have any survivability
I could possibly get right like I see why my courts went the other way
But in this kind of a battle where you're brawling 24-7 like the sharp shooter perk if it works as I think it does works up
both skills, it is insane. The specialist perk, not bad, a little quick reload, and then
Recon could be kind of sick, like, assisting you get it on both, supposedly.
Yeah, so, okay, I see why, I mean, that feels like the right way to go.
I do think there's an argument for the bike perk in a matchup where your main goal is
survivability. And for Aide, I think he's correct, like, his goal is to kill. In the
and the Magikarp with Vendetta, they are aggressive 24-7 and I think the perk choice suits that
stock.
And I mean, you think about headshots and then the cooldown reduction there, that gives
you the evades with a little bit of boost of HP that you get there, then plus also the
bike, I mean that is a crazy scenario.
Okay, so respect them from VP, they say, alright, I don't think they were exactly expecting
this Vendetta to come out, they realized you know what, it's a little bit too much of a
I think because they really want to play Sim, they feel like that's going to be their key to success.
And so Vendetta, for greats, real problems with that.
Tetsuya though, they take away the Mizuki, which means, you know, the mobility plays are still going to feel more effective.
Katsuhiro, return being buffed, and Forrest allows Mizuki to be a little bit more cheeky when it comes to fighting those players.
I also think this is going to hurt a little bit of VP's like, SIG game, if they want to continue to play that, right?
So, I do wonder where they go to without the Vendetta though, for Katzio, right?
There's not another hero like Vendetta in the DPS pool that you can kind of like just
slot in, right?
It's kind of, kind of just her, right?
So curious where they decide to go in terms of that second DPS slot.
Yeah, I mean, my heart says Genji, but...
I was thinking about Genji, but there's no way that happens.
I will say the Genji matchup against Sim is like unplayable.
You just get left to death, the deflight just doesn't work.
It's not feeling good to play Genji in this venture other way.
It doesn't meant that.
I'm trying to pop her down a little bit quicker.
So yeah, it's any venture probably the next best,
but we have not seen too many teams go towards venture.
I will say historically,
this was the style where venture was the best,
I think in the Maga style where Maga dives in,
the venture hits from another angle.
Shion I think could fit again really nicely into that niche.
It's also a question for Kassiya's how committed are you to the Magus style?
Is that like the only look? It's obviously not what their players can play,
but do they think it could work without the Vendetta?
This is the same thing as the Vendetta. Nobody really knows. Yeah.
I would try it. Venture, they don't get any adjustments across the board, like nothing up,
nothing down. I'd love to see a little, just a little venture buff, you know,
just a little something. I've had just so much fun to play.
Yeah, one hero that did get a ton of buffs, still probably not going to see her play this
Sierra, she gets a ton of adjustments, but just to remind you guys, we got drops, make
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I need that box, I need to roll in season start, like I'm not trying to buy all the
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That charm is kind of a cutie. I kind of do dig the charm style.
Yeah, and then obviously the cool little waffle icon there.
Pretty sweet collection of drops. Make sure you connect your battle that you do not want to miss out on those.
Then also make sure to go check that shop for some of our involved skins that we got here in Season 2.
That's going to be VP's first map drop of the stage.
We'll see how they bounce back in the second one.
Katya, I think, look, that's a really interesting take on what you could possibly do in this
new season, in this new meta, and I think there's probably some other teams that took
note to that.
Yeah, I think that's just a new style we could see more of.
It's interesting, Rush has been the one archetype that over the last few months has sort of
felt the weakest, right?
We see poke looking good.
We see ties looking good with the wrecking ball with the Kat fashion.
That's how it's so different, it's a little hard to call it.
I think it is, but ultimately a dive style.
own thing. Yeah, it's its own thing. But ultimately, so much comps have felt like the weakness, right? And to see Maga to see Sean Vendetta, like that's kind of a grouping where even if you have to exchange, you know, one of those heroes for another could be interesting. I will say the Cassidy band could change a lot because
Shion's fighting for the slot with Kass, and for like a sick poke cough, I think you'd rather have the Kass to just chill defensively,
you know, mark the enemy Shion, right? All those mobility skills are right until you cop a hand or, you know, and then you're not really able to make much use of it.
Yeah, I'll be curious to see like if Kappa decides to kind of play the Shion or then kind of go back and play the Kass,
where I think if they decide to play the sick, and look, I mean, they do a ton, right?
I would expect them to kind of go back and play some of that Cassie.
It looks like we had one player maybe DC before jumping into this one.
So we'll let that player get back into the lobby, because that's the right thing to do.
Yeah, and we can start these games up with the player.
Bump the past 4v5, I don't think the Hunters, come on guys, this is straight up a watch here.
This is, this is, I mean, VP dropping the first map to a 3-strat.
I was worried this was going to be another 3-0, VP just cleaning up, you know, Kitsia,
can they really compete, but at this point it's not a fluke for Kitsia.
Their success is real. They have earned these wins and they've proven to be a genuine threat here at OWCS EMEA is wild
I really think
There are like five
Maybe all six teams are like genuine competitors here is somehow there's a kill feed before the game starts
I don't know that happens. Yeah, not they're not gonna ask any questions on that one
Yeah, no, I mean everybody in EMEA top to bottom is like
competitive
There is no no real game that's like necessarily like a layup per se
Yeah, where you're just gonna kind of like you know mark it down as an easy dub
So it just also goes to like I know if some of you guys remember not too long ago
That wasn't the case of this region right? I think the players have definitely like leveled up as a whole
You know the teams across the entire region of the last like two years really it's
Been quite impressive to see so this is this is one of the best regions of the world now
I really feel like EMEA versus Korea is like genuinely close
I think it really depends on the meta which historically is not in the case
It's it's just been Korea. It's been obvious everyone's fighting for second place
EMEA is making a genuine push for first and Tejong they're doubling down baby
It is a Reaper look no one is going to deal with this aggression. They are going all in back
I think we've seen this comp in Korea actually what that cat is
So we've seen that if some teams already run this type of style and I know just go all in with the Moga Reaper
Plus she seems like the perfect gear to add into the mix. They're still very deep though. I don't know how he's gonna live
Yeah, just getting kind of mowed down the rest of the team not there
Love watching Deft's POV man. He's just dialed on this one does come to kunai coming through the TV a brev and never tell
But I saw my think still too healthy to put this one in genuine contention
Couple like tells come in but it kept through clearly knows like they only win if they kill me
That's the downside. I will say this could see a style is
You really only have one one way to play a long slow fight
You just can't win and that allows kept sort of position so defend me
They're backing off before the attackers even come in it basically
You kind of know you've lost the fight catsie if everybody uses it
We'll have to go in and like two players aren't dead
It's kind of one chill minimum on your go. Yeah, if they can find it this time. It's almost pretty close
He's out look for some opportunities
Okay, chestograph a couple kills in the meantime, I think they took the TV down there
Yeah, I guess I would have thought he was gonna try to chase off the TV
but sometimes I mean the level of chaos in these comps is so high, it's hard to track and
they did get a kill on someone.
Another point I think was maybe Psycho, but ultimately the rest of VP, the formation was
too strong and we see how quick this could CS draft floods out of gas.
Like you really are on a very short clock.
Yeah, and if you're, I mean you're not able to get some of those kills early on, it is
just curtain.
So, first point, Hanley going over to Virtus Pro, we'll see now maybe with some ultimates
here from Katia that can kind of get them a little bit closer it's also brutal
because like you end up using some of your moving flu down to close the gap
they just TP away right and then you're just kind of stuck just getting just
Okay, I'm back as well, but it's like
They're just turning and burning I thought
He is he was what is deeper than deep, I mean he is just like
They're like, uh, you know, touching the swam door challenge and they are able to keep him alive.
That's really impressive.
Uh, from Gala and Zox and, yeah, I mean, uh, they, you know, aid with the She-On Ultimate was huge there.
Interesting that they go to the D.va here.
Um, so, I'm gonna try and protect that, uh, backline with some, you know, the defense major.
into the fight. So you can see how the ultimate is all camped on enough here.
He's not even stealing us the help from this fight going.
If you can't see the same for the opposition in the late game from Vixx, it actually feels
really well timed. So, for Asians from the E of this fight, he's off big time.
I thought they would just double down into the K-fight. They need to speed up better
ankle in this one. The whole time they've been traded. Yeah, it's not a free win,
if you need to find some more kills into this one. Kevser, gotta find something
consume because I stop doesn't really have to HP to keep this point consistent
yeah as I mean just it feels like my soul is like invincible it feels like a
time cardiac overdrive here used is I know some nice damage here from the
bike some time is can't find yet another kill I mean I want it to go just
running right you have to I mean you have to right yeah yeah like I will say
funny watching this coffee some of the stuff could see it does looks insane but
but it's also, it's the only way to play, right?
And also, like, Westola's doing, like he did that other fight,
he like, shows that it can't work, like, really, it can't work.
Although, Tejang over to the Sim,
that's gonna be sort of an odd one.
I mean, the aggression is gonna be unhinged,
because I think the only word for it,
D.Va stabilizing against Reaper,
makes it pretty awkward to get that lost value.
Yeah, I mean, I guess now you're gonna,
obviously, have some extra mobility here for Katia,
and then also the ability to put some pressure
onto the D.Va, but just like that,
Kev turns the corner and they just get rid of aid, I mean, the largest source of damage.
Kev's getting rushed here, it's actually got a one that Gala decides to invest here after,
I mean, maybe they think they can fight back into that, but that feels like a rush that just burned.
I'm not gonna lie, I don't know if you want the smoke in a sim mirror here.
Kev's here, VP are so adept in this kind of battle, and now you slow down the aggression just that, like, one little bit,
and Kev's here immediately is back into the fray. He's no longer sitting back.
You know, he says, oh, you didn't go double, like, flank or dive, PPS?
I'm gonna aggro you on Cassidy, and this is why he had to get that respect man to nap one.
Kevster has been playing some of the best Overwatch of his life on this hero.
Without a doubt, I mean, it's gonna be Cassia who gets here first.
But, I mean, they are just, uh, you know, VG won Flashpoint away from taking this map, uh, would be
Rather commanding and rather fast, I aid with the sheen ultimate and we'll see if he's able to use that.
Then we'll leave a TP across, gonna close that distance here for burst pro.
Yeah, a lot of space here for Kepster to work with. The stun comes in,
Light coming in to follow IZRO, self-destructs to get back into the suit,
so he's able to do so.
Then awkward spot, the dead IZODI back into this tight corner,
Vassola opens up with the cage fight.
Did it catch anybody? Nothing seemed like it.
And a better symbol now from Psycho.
Still, because he has in control, maybe there's a way for AID to get back into the huge zone and into the back of the shield wall,
mitigates a lot of that damage, beat his out from the Zogs, maybe enough to find some kills.
AID's in the quad, Kepster tried to claw this one back, Psycho-Energize on Kirsten, presenting real problems now as AID,
just feels like too much to ask here of the shield wall.
Yeah, and you know, just all alone here as just VP not able to deal with him in the end, you know, the supports being the only kind of key barrier to everybody alive.
I still just live feel like forever even out of mech though. We can't see it getting above 52%
You'll see I mean what sim wall here, but I feel like it's just a better
Comfort VP to be able to kind of like fight around this right they'll be able to kind of kite and move players around with their own
CP as I mean all Yuri sees like we're getting charged up there on vestola
And I thought you're less than maybe a little too fearless because the refush the sim wall
Devastating his HP needs all the resources of the sport to stay alive.
That means Kepster has been hung out to drive.
Estola picks up that kill.
Tejon with the shield, Bob, put a team in a powerful position.
A rush from Landon.
Oh no! Desperation!
I don't see any value from them in this fight.
It is just clean up time.
It's only stalling, delaying the inevitable.
That's a rare error from Landon.
And Gibbs could see another chance really on neutral city.
Dude, that allows him to get right back into this, right?
I mean, you would think uh, his VP is just gonna give this up, then you hold on to your own Kitsunei rush now to have to go into this next fight.
And you're playing well, obviously the Maga and the Shion get massive benefits of that Kitsunei rush, so
And also look at where the next point is, right? I mean, you have an easy rotation for Katya. They give you right back in this.
Simba is massive though. As good as Rush is, I do think that I plus Simba can be better.
Still, Nostola, Wastletop, getting aggressive, landing down again!
Ooh, tough death, Zarks!
Somehow finding two on the Juno,
assisting the rest of the aggression from the team,
and that is a dream fight win.
It is strangely a little early for Alcatrazia,
but they do build a ton of ultimates.
I do think VP may get back in time to touch the cap.
It's gonna be tight with this joke.
I mean, I think you're a cat, Zia.
You'll take a little bit of an early,
then just kind of waiting for the end.
I think they're gonna get the cap,
So now we'll get another fight
Do you get close to the cage here?
Nice but it gets kind of shut down by the symbol guys
I'm already finding cage on a lot of the DPS because you have to lie on the lawn flights already off the field
Punishes really well
Six up two and finishes her as well. Okay, the Ray with the Shion all is crazy damage any kind of damage
You have on Shion feels wild with its ability to break those thresholds
And that's an expensive one in because you're able to like control the dashes, right?
Like you know able to dodge the self-destruct there then get back in I know
Reaper must just be looking on like bro like what about my
Uh, it's a cage fight here, with the Rey.
So the Rey's gonna come out from Fixa.
Gonna try and keep everybody alive here for Roars Pro, the must win.
The Rey is big, but if it's been traded for the cage fight,
it's capture loses his life, but so does Vistola.
Juno has to dash away from everything with the chaos he's been favoring Kassiya.
Their DPS is alive in this kind of a circumstance.
Tejons even holding onto the Smetre wall,
looks like he's gonna be able to hold until the next fight sucks.
Take the core in this fight, on a Juno, are you kidding me?
This has gotten just absolutely off the rails, chaotic.
That's gonna have ice on back out.
We're gonna have one flash point here to decide it.
An opportunity for Katzia to go up 2-0 here against Virtus Pro.
They can steal this flash point.
I mean, it would be absolutely massive.
Change everything for the series.
VP need to write the ship here, securing the 1-1.
Katzia with a chance to steal that hope away.
Ultimate advantage, really not in either team's favor, this one's gonna come down to execution.
Take a look here from Zox, POV, as you can talk about, again...
Coming up, a hunger kill on the 3-0.
I can't explain that TP board now, aggression coming in.
Really just defensive here with those torpedoes.
Landed with a rush, but the Simwaw's making this so awkward to fight through aid,
tried to desperately farm off the last bit, it was a later rush to cancel, making it hard.
Later rushes out, but it's not really useful how much of anything you can see here.
Keeping the pressure on and burners proc hot scrambling this level of pace is really working out luck at sea up in these chaotic fights
And I think since they've gone away from like having the Reaper right just had their own sim into the mix
It's definitely I know even the odds
It doesn't seem like have a getting the much benefit out of like the hinder or I know anything that cast you kind of providing there in
that case is
Also, I believe ice and furrier running the rematch right then they made the switch over to the diva
comes the dead eye if it just gets a free cast I think Jeff's gonna be pretty
happy about that one and it will do so eight on a cheeky little blanket maybe
wants to come in hit from an off angle has all the way scouted out baby but he's
gonna hit big connection from the floor at the same time the shield also maybe not
even needed what a dive from that and that's gonna give some grease and it's
eight up to a 20 streak he is not dying he's absolutely dying I mean that is like
coming from an off angle right into the stump right the stump doing so much
much damage and then coming in to just kind of clean them up with the she on
ultimate because you can like pop all three like burst like pretty like
quickly right and that just short area. They ended in so difficult for VP to get
anything rolling consistently Zogs now. Yeah they're going in. I mean this is gonna be the cage fight as well. TP out.
Alright it's a little too crazy, that's a little too crazy. They are just getting cleaned up.
I mean, hey, you only have the cage fight to work with, you take a gamble, maybe you catch VP, you need to be too solid though to go down that easy.
But what? You need one more fight here though if you're catching up?
It won't be easy though.
No.
The economy is pretty dire actually. There's a real way back into this for Fur to Scroll.
Yes. You know, trading Raze here doesn't really help.
So, Alcatna and Cassia, in any fashion, right, they're going to kind of need something to go their way here at the start, it'll be, I know, both Orville are opening it up, Denai coming out, and that's a huge deal of getting rid of it, I mean, he has been so crazy.
Yeah, Vistula has to step up, especially after losing his DPS, but isn't able to get into this, and a stall would be devastating Gala, oh, he's going to be in real trouble.
of the self-destruct. Maybe he can TP out. No, can't actually, Kepster. Just takes the finish.
And I don't know that the touch is going to be good. One-fourth cut, Sia here. It's like a hopeful
map for them, but it's so awkward now. Can A's stall for a Philly near. This is sort of the
weakness of Chee on, right? She's not Tracer. This kind of scenario. Aizel will eat her for dinner.
Gala coming so late into this with the rush. Ease it desperately. Take time with a small
running out of gas here on the point.
He fell out of here, but yeah, the rush.
Oh, and the players are alive.
There's some kind of hope.
Zim on and out of the cycle.
Maybe going to take that last half of the hope away.
But it's just good to keep Zim up.
No crit spot.
No joy.
No kill.
Virtus.Pro holds the line, holding their nerve
against overwhelming aggression out of Alcatrazia.
They have to earn that one.
Yeah, I mean, that is like the fastest.
So you've seen Patsy at play probably ever as VP able to hold it off in the end is that we take a look
I know obviously we talked about aid and how good he was on the she on on the other side of things right kept straight
We're kind of constantly farm off. I know those dead eyes
pretty frequently
You know kjong got off to a little bit of a rough start, right?
I know we're trying to like maybe make the reaper work
They weren't able to do that sort of look much better on the same but another close game between these two teams
Absolutely, that's yeah, definitely a lot of fight left with that in the series
I do worry a little bit that playing this one note style. It's been you know, when we just see a rush become meta
right almost always we're gonna see
characters like May and sim as part of the rush setup and
And the reason you see that is because Mayhem didn't give you optionality as a rush team.
They're both pretty good heroes at playing slowly, they don't need to like dive into the back line.
Like think about Meta's like, I guess like the Junker Queen Genji Sojourn Meta was a meta that plays like this,
where you just keep on going. It's all gas all the time, no backing off.
But historically those are very rare for those Metas to succeed because they really only have one way to play.
the opponent couldn't be able to see them coming still even furnace pro is caught off guard in
quite a few of these fights i mean this was a moment where like a genuinely i still had those
chills before the shiom even hit like they just collapsed on the opponent yeah i do think uh i
do think though there's like something to this kind of like shell with like maga shiom and like
honestly i liked the juno with it like zoxa's like uh no the raid speed ring is is really valuable
to you. I think the rush fits really well. And Juno Kiri is a pretty greedy support line.
Typically, when you run that support line, you might be a little worried about like,
who is my backline going to die in some of these fights. But I don't think anybody is able to look
at the backline of this comp. Like, there is a now getting my spot. Like, I don't have the luxury
of considering going after a Juno. I think it's just what is that secondary DPS, right?
right with this young, I think that's what it wants.
The Vendetta did seem really nice, I will say.
The Vendetta seemed like a pretty ideal fit,
especially with all those buffs to her kit right now.
I think it's like you almost need either Vendetta or Genji.
These are the heroes that bring insane pace to the game.
Like, Genji with the dash reset, Vendetta with the ability
to just go all in on the enemy backline.
You're probably one of the best heroes in the game
at doing that without an ultimate.
Yeah, that's true.
And I mean, what, it'll be, they've already banned the Castios, maybe that's not potato to do that.
Yeah, it feels like Vendetta, I mean, a Shion ban could happen.
I think a Shion ban is likely here. They banned the Sim, I think which is dual purpose, both to actually get rid of the Sim and to protect Shion.
But I agree, I think at some point, like, part of why this cop is good is because Shion looks really good.
good and if we take that away what's the follow-up like it's a sojourn it's just it doesn't
it doesn't have that like eight is hitting from the enemy backline at times which I
think it's not that consistent for Shion but if you can get there it does hit like crazy.
It feels like if they don't have the Shion in this comp it's a bit of an issue and no
but they get they are great you know man yeah I think they also identify that like the chaos
from these orbital rays Juno over the top in the skybox getting torpedoes on everybody
You're just not able to punish it when there's that much pressure on you.
I wonder, I mean maybe Lucio is like next best for Katzio, which I don't think is a bad one,
but I do think it will be weaker than Juno.
Yeah, we'll see how that Juno ban kind of impacts things.
The Simban is one that now this unlocks like what?
I mean, Saigo could play Reaper on the other side, right?
I mean, you could play...
I play?
You want to play Tracer?
I actually think Tracer is probably pretty good against this kind of Vendetta plus Shion
comp, although maybe the Shion matchup is actually pretty hard.
I don't know how that matchup plays.
I would think Shion has so much close range damage, it may actually be hard for Tracer,
especially with Shion's ability to grab since he's an extra HP.
You think you're winning and then you just get popped from the execute.
That may make Tracer less desirable.
It is Psycho though, so even if it's a hard matchup, I would still have faith in him to
be able to look good and just stay alive deep into the fights.
Yeah, curious what they decide to play for Virtus Pro.
Now the sim is gone.
Could it be Echo?
Could I sell you an Echo bet?
In what way?
Shion's damage falloff is like a real, like, we really haven't, it hasn't felt like an
issue, like Shion's damage falloff.
We haven't really noticed it because she's always on top of the enemy, but against Echo
I think it's going to be a huge problem.
Ekko just plays a long range, Brutisopi is a pretty open map.
If you don't have a true hitscan to oppress an Ekko,
Cyko could just get devastating value on you.
I mean, that's quite interesting, right?
I know, Ekko, I don't think Aura probably know
like not on the skin like this, maybe.
I think if either one, like a flyer, I think will be Shion.
If you're gonna play Shion in the hitscan roll,
it's kind of the weakness, right?
She doesn't have the damage range to deal with flyers.
Or even like enemy snipers.
I don't know if you're going to play those, but.
I think it would be curious to see what she on in Psycho's hands would look like with a Cassidy and see kind of like how I'll have.
Okay, try it as like a, as a Flaker role, right?
Yeah, yeah, try it as like a true Flaker, right?
Even though we're kind of not really sure how her kind of like role fits in at the moment.
I mean, you see just kind of the hyper aggression from age, right?
It's just kind of like always in the mix, but it could potentially be played as like more of like a, you know,
big range, kind of, you know, mid to shorter range hitscan at time.
So, I'm waiting to see this one get suited up on Runisabi,
but I've been pleasantly surprised this series
because of how good Katya has looked trying to play this style.
And this is the best opportunity because Virtus. Pro is so dominant.
When a patch hits, though, it's hard to keep that rolling.
Things change. New comps come into the meta.
Katya are exploiting that.
But for VP to hold firm on that last map is a great sign for them.
It shows that they're not completely caught,
you know, head over heels with this, you know, comp change, they can respond.
They can make the adaptations.
Still, how the fan phase continues to affect this series is anybody's guess.
So for Katia looking for the upset, it feels way more possible now than we would have guessed.
I think coming into the series.
And we'll see what VP decides to do here.
Obviously with the same guy than Katia probably goes back to something similar
that they ran on map number one.
Maybe they've been dead in the mix.
You know a lot of time for teams to make some swaps here, so
Here like something in my not echo Bastion logo frikatsu. Yeah, just that would be
Just a they've been playing just she on aggressive the entire time and now it's like wait. Hold on
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I think he's still gonna be surprised on this.
I think they certainly consider the possibility coming into this.
I think Kevster with, you know, with the Mizuki behind him has a lot of work to do, but he
has been so lights out.
It's just hard to bet against him when his skill is gonna be what's put to the test,
especially not to see how the nerfs feel actually on Katbash.
Yeah, obviously, I know some nerfs targeted at this top lane in the most recent patch,
But we haven't seen really anybody kind of go to it since then. That's a nice need there that connects
So you get rid of Vixx
They can get a trade but stabilizing is a different story because I saw him head sir stepping up to the plate here
So desperation for Miss Tola trying to grab something back tap-ass and sacking in as well
But I would argue that kill from aid is like is a lucky kill. He's aiming at the bay
He grenades yeah, and the splash kills fix it like yeah, I think
Zarya bubbles with the she on and the vendetta
True true, maybe this a lot this is sort of was the vendetta comp right playing around the Zarya
Maybe this can just overwhelm, but Virtus.Pro have a lot of strategic depth to work with.
Your texture is at very long range. The Mabel makes this a little awkward,
but Squirtz can still play over the edge there.
This all looks pretty low, and then, you know, same with Tej on here. That'll be Kemp with a
dead eye, so already finding one. Now the Cassie is really starting to heat up.
I mean, you know, when Kemp has that much space, it's going to be very difficult for them to win.
Yeah, you got to somehow catch him at close range and they're not giving him an opportunity
I mean May and Sigma are both fantastic in Tizaria
I mean May like the old's not great, but just
Walling is so good at this pop, right? It just isolates players and they cannot afford to be isolated
They cannot afford to be slowed down and it's gonna be way worse than slowed down
I mean this is a team fight before it's gonna happen
Yeah, this uh
Since nothing that close this far right that first fight win with Katia using the
cap-mashing and then I know since they've swapped off I was really interested in this comp but they have not really got anything rolling I
Mean Sigma
Really good against this as much my view at least is it Sigma?
It's like how do you actually bring him down especially with the Cassidy?
Who's like a huge that like a drug you may have to put a lot of respect on chem and the spam is just constantly going against them
So they're forcing to be desperate engages here's the bubble onto the dead up gets a little bit of space on the high ground
What does it really accomplish? Now the rush comes in, the full is still low, the blizzard! Oh, it's desperate!
You dash right into the blizzard, a flush, I mean, kills with the pick up. That is not a good sign for a pistol on the Zarya.
And some late kills onto Zox as well.
I mean, the Aoe healing of like the Mizuki as well with the hinder plus the Mei and the cast, it's really difficult.
I mean, I just don't see Zarya having impact.
If you're just a bubble pop on Zarya, it's not enough. You need to do more.
The dead eye is a huge problem, although he does cancel it out, looking for a cheeky little burst skill.
We'll find that this time.
Grab is available. Surely that's enough to allow trapster finds an instant kill, but aid swings onto Psycho.
Wasn't ready for that one. There's the execute impact we were talking about.
You can see on a 4 on 4, let's see if they want to keep pushing their lock.
They should have to take some sort of a gamble here.
I mean, maybe they can handle it with the go.
Ultimates yeah, but it's hard the high ground of a control. You can't push up with ice up on the off angle like that
Yeah, he is controlling the high ground
But also like even if you did dive and collapse right this sanctuary is gonna be nasty to try and play around
Feels like you're gonna be able to keep
For no all nice accretion there blocks that I just sundering blade that would have came through
Yeah, that's late could have been massive great rock from ice on to cancel that one out
but I mean that's the the Mizuki Ultimate is so good at countering grab
like you're in the grab and then okay the follow up almost can't come in
Sunring Blade would have been a way through but yeah good play from Ison to
Denaiya and now we're entering very dangerous territory with the cartridge
back this point I almost never see it come back after. Dead Eye's possibility here for
Ken yeah you're gonna kind of round that corner as well. I mean they don't need to
push though like if you can just play defensive here let the push come here
comes the B. They're already backing off though. I feel like they saw this play coming maybe
not early enough though because A, he's fighting that kill in the Psycho, mitigates the maywall
but once he's put under the Stola, he's out of bubbles and the cleanse is perfect to keep
him alive. Gallop really well timed on that one. He would have been a very different fight
if that was connected. A is starting to pick up the kills as well. So VP eventually going
to be routed but I mean the damage is done. 131 meters push.
I mean you're down 115 meters, right?
I mean it is going to be so difficult for Katzia to get back into this one VP have looked tremendous playing this
They're gonna make a swaps they're gonna actually gonna go to the ram here good ditch. This is gonna
It's gonna burn the clock so hard now. It's gonna be really rough could see a
They've got a lot of time to work with and okay. We actually VP are not gonna play passive
They're gonna go after trying to take a little off and push here
I was just kind of thinking twice about it landed almost goes down to the border
So this is what's getting really weird that with the current kind of pushing away
VP are just gonna looks like they're gonna take the map flip. This is an
Oh, I mean who's better than that that's it may Ram a breeze not gonna come through this whole fight a little cubby
you wish to hide from it
an ultimate running low for both sides, now comes down to the deathmatch.
Sanctuary deployed, just adding extra heals into the fight,
insurance I can see I just cannot continue to step up to the plate,
landed with tools for the clean up, and VP get the job done.
Can see that they actually do well in the economy in that fight though.
It feels almost impossible to lose fights with Sanctuary.
Like that's how good that ultimate is.
I mean in this matchup it's like you run an all-in hyper dive comp
and then they have like one of the best defensive tools in the game.
You know, it's hard to figure out, right? It feels pretty great.
Stop them, Zed does crit on the Kepster.
The Sundering Blade doesn't seem like it connects, the Tageon doing enough without.
Aida's well-cleaned up Kepster was getting a little bit too deep onto the flank.
Another nice fight for Kipzi, I mean, this is the kind of trade they need,
but Ice Up grabs two back, and that's gonna do for any kind of a snowball offense.
Even Aida can clean up her fight, which at this point feels a little bit questionable.
It's okay, eventually it goes down, but...
CPS late spawning, feels pretty bad here for Kassia, they're gonna need to attack T-Po to get back into this fight.
Yeah, it looks like Zox is gonna go back and get them back into action, so the Maga slot now, so kind of the tanks just kind of playing a game to each other back and forth between these different tanks.
This isn't our window though, right? Beat plus rush with the Maga, right? And you're also going to have the Shea on all, so pretty nice combination, nice AWOL there, kind of blocks that damage that came down.
When B comes out, maybe Ape can find more with the ultimate, nice plunge from Landon.
Mitigates one of the dashes, but can't get the second one done.
And this time, Kassia will find the kind of clean domination they were looking for.
Just felt like a must win fight for them, and they get it done massively here.
Securing a cap, all five players alive. Real chance to snowball here, but there's so much damage done in this map with the push DP pulled out.
There is still a very long way for Alcatraz to go.
Well, I mean they hold on, I mean look, getting to a even with VP is going to be very difficult, right?
They're going to probably need, I know, something to go disastrously wrong on the Virtus Pro side, but
giving yourselves a cage fight plus rush and maybe a Sundering Blade is probably the path to be able to do it, so...
Just see if they can get this out on the board, yeah?
He's gonna weather the storm, the bush is out, the sanctuary defends, the solo trying to just get out of that.
He knows he has no business fighting in that kind of location.
Annihilation to eliminate cage on the bush behind, the solo knows he has no way to back down in this fight, but attacking into the annihilation.
Good luck with that one.
Aistong continuing to keep this pressure on, beautifully piloted from the Virtus.Pro Maastra.
Katzia, they do get that fight out with just one rush for two ultimates, but I mean these like slightly positive trades aren't good enough.
With a minute and 20, and they lose this little at the end here, I mean, with a minute and 20, and then now like a kill like that, just kind of sends it further back, I mean,
It's going to be very difficult, especially like you have a rush for VP, it's not like this is going to be a fight for Katia coming up there, going to be able to kind of like walk all over them, right?
You're going to be able to kind of, you're not really worried about the rematcher inside that cage with the, you know, Nemesis form, so
Alright, you're gonna be able to fight that, especially with the Roth, it's as rush as I can, with the dead eye here, solid vision to go off in the sky, and I'm not there as I can.
Okay, Shion dances away really nicely, the cage fight isolates one, Eisenhower just gets defeated, a big dumb bolt in his ear, onto Lumatra, needed a fork to evict that crucial take, and here comes Tejong into the back, like he did to Dennis, but no finished kills, now they're gonna start to come through, and with one, soon there will be more.
more, land it down, fix it down, the rest of the team, soon to follow, but we're gonna be coming
down into an overtime fight, have Virtus.pro done enough that to secure themselves this map.
So I mean what, VP if they decide to use Blizzard, you have an opportunity here where you can get
defeat, maybe you can kind of keep players alive. I mean you're still gonna be behind 30 or so meters.
I can't even play well. There's gonna be multiple fights, VP want to get every chance they can,
Katsuya with double support ultimate. Soon he'll be fighting God 20% away.
No-Pick for A will be exactly what he wants. Dash is coming in, no real value up to first.
You may be a hurt to get something to stole that is fully frozen.
A does kill Picks, although ensuring that the fallout can't come through.
The rest of Akatsuya actually staying very healthy deep into this fight,
throwing real poise here. Any kind of counter-attack would be amazing for VP.
They're desperately trying to find something.
Ah, Gala dies and is forced to rush, knows that he cannot afford to deal with this fight.
Still a winnable position, Ford can see up on his Icon Plains and Nether.
It may, the weight of the OT may just be too much.
They do find these cleanup frags, but Landon fix us still alive,
and you have to continue this push down to the OT.
It already feels like too little, too late.
They need some kind of a miracle kill right now, Matt.
Yeah, and I mean, and they're also going to be able to build up here towards their sanctuary, right?
So you're going to have to be walking into this huge Mizuki ult.
That Cycle's going to go over to the bar right here, so.
So, they shunk in around the corner, chain there, it's all came as well with a dead eye.
I mean, that's going to be nasty.
Oh, Sundry?
Can he get a connection?
Oh, right around the corner.
Fixed up with a nice sanctuary in the back line.
Vistola is down, and with him, soon-to-rest, Jingle Fall.
Annihilation, seals the deal, and really a textbook victory from Virtus.
Bro, they secure such a massive advantage early on in this map.
Real Heroics from Akatsia to battle back and make it somewhat competitive,
But a team as good as VP, they just do not lose in those scenarios.
No, and they've seemed to, at least over the last two maps,
come up with some answers here for what Katya came in and had planned today.
And I'm pretty impressed even with what Katya has done, right?
They probably beat a lot of teams with the way they're playing today.
It's just Virtus.Pro seemed to be at the top of the region in a pretty big manner at the moment.
So take a look at some of the stats we've landed,
Obviously continuing some tremendous support play
Yeah, I feel like Landon really tightened things up this map last map took a couple unfortunate deaths some awkward rushes
But this map it's it's night and day much more solid performance
I think he's a huge part of why they lock in this map win and put themselves now in a fantastic position in the series
Because now, you know, it's it's looking a little scary for a cut. Yeah, you know, you've shown your look
It's it's one and two. It's winnable
But it just doesn't feel reliable when the VP are playing this well as individuals when they're putting so much pressure on you in these folk drinks
I mean, it's
It's also pretty brutal like in me
I think it also like not only does obviously this show kind of the strength of like maybe this comp and
And you know cats is running. I think it also just shows the strength in which like
Mizuki sig slash Ram and then like a may can have right
just really difficult to be able to kind of like dive that type of group or just
even get aggressive even with like crazy survivability with like three pretty
high damage players playing inside of like a cardiac you know the overdrive
right the Mizuki chain the healing everything like even the Mizuki
damage isn't that bad being able to just kind of like work players down and then
like constantly seeing Psycho like inside of the the main ice block right
to kind of like survive just really difficult to be able to kind of play on through that.
Yeah, I thought the May was pretty fantastic from Psycho in this map.
I think it really changed the game in a way where Sim can do wild stuff with the TP
and kind of change the flow of the fight, but it doesn't feel great reactively, right?
It's like you want to be proactive with the Sim.
You want to be setting the tempo, TPing, taking an angle.
When you're reacting, I feel like the May feels much more suited.
And so, you know, that on top of the Remantra, I feel like really good little tweaks for
pro to still play their style fundamentally, but have a much better response to what the
opponents are bringing and this is Akatsia bringing us now to Circuit Royale and this
is an interesting one because, alright, everyone looks at Circuit and they all say, ah it's
a Sigma poke, there's a Sigma poke.
The problem with Sigma poke on this map is it can at times be too greedy, you can be,
you can have a tendency to get a little bit ahead of yourself and try to sneak an Ilyar
or something like that and then these explosive rushes actually look very good.
So this map is deceptively good for the all-in rush comps, even though most people really don't see it that way.
Yeah, I mean
it is interesting though that you would go here because like this allows VP to kind of continue to play
SIG, right?
Unless I don't think I've seen a sigma ban yet. I mean potentially that's what Alcab's looking here.
We haven't seen it, but
that that I think it would be a smart way to approach this map I still think
Ram is gonna feel fine for Alcatrazia so I'm not that's the thing I'm not sure if
you do want to ban this thing and I hope this is great for VP the opening ban on
Freya because the ban deferment came in from Katya they might be regretting that
because aid was if you remember very very good on this hero on this map and
it's one of those things where it's like if you're not used to playing against
the Freya those double vaults come in and just start finding picks and the
The series starts to feel way scarier than it should.
So I actually like this band from VP.
It's like, look, we don't need any kind of special band.
We're just going to make sure you don't get to throw
this sort of chaotic element at us.
Yeah.
Let's see what Katsya decides to do with their band.
Obviously an opportunity.
Okay, so they ban Ram, interesting.
I actually like this.
This is smart.
So they'd rather it just be Sigma
that they have to deal with like that.
At least Sigma is like,
it feels like you can overwhelm him, you know?
Whereas Rematra, he can weather that storm.
You know, like, yeah, yeah, he just won't, he just won't.
And it means the rest of the team doesn't need to be all that close.
Like supports can just heal the DPS.
The tank doesn't need as much resource.
And, you know, you still run out of gas pretty quick
for the way Akatsi are playing.
So by forcing the Sigma, it's like, okay,
Sigma needs a little help when he gets caught
and, you know, surrounded.
If you can get a crit stop on Sigma,
you feel very good about that fight.
Still, this is second-rail.
I mean, this is a very comfortable spot for Sigma.
You know, I think for Katsia,
They're just forced to pick this map because the alternatives on escort are devastating like you cannot play this rush comp on Dorado
No, yeah, it's just not happening even Rialto. I really don't think so
So strangely circuit is the best of the escorts for your style. Yeah, I mean some of the hybrid maps, right?
I know if we can get a you know get to that final game, right?
It'd be interesting what at least all three hybrids are
More playable like the new Numbani. Yeah, okay on attack ish
You know, King's Rosh should be definitely fine for the Rosh.
How he would be rough with high ground?
Suspect, for sure.
But I think Dorado is worse.
I think Dorado is like, you can't play Dorado.
You just have to play Dive on Dorado, and I think they may expect that like, look, we're
finding success as a team playing Rosh, do we really want to dive near against VP with
how dialed they've looked, how comfortable they've seemed in these matchups.
Even the Sigma-Mazuki poke, I think it's very good on Dorado.
So I think they're wise to take a gamble on Circuit.
I don't feel good about their chances overall in the series, but you got to play to your
outs, and I actually like that Kassia are kind of seeing the vision there.
It's also interesting that like a team, looks like we have a few players in the bathroom,
a team with like best solo, not wanting to play like D.Va or like SIG right like some
of the years, so like you would think he's like amazing at like opting to go for more.
He's been amazing on the mugger though.
Yeah, that's true.
Like anyone who's played mugger is like against that kind of heavy poke, it is not easy.
You have exactly one chance most fights like if you sit if you miss your chance by one second
You just completely lose your health
You're completely out of the fight but this boy has been in there and hitting the temple on which the team follow
Is able to connect so I think they've been playing really really well
I think you've got him a lot of credit that cuts you yeah
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I think Ember Juneau might be the best Juneau skin. Is that is it a hot take? I think this is like a very fire Juneau skin
Yeah, I mean there's some collab skins from Juneau that have been pretty cool. That's true
It's either stiff competition in the Juneau skin battle. Yeah, I mean look
I think if you if you kind of take those out of it, I mean this one this one's this one's up there
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Yeah, I noticed, yes.
Like, yeah, a skin battle.
See who has the deepest bag in terms of, you know, their skins on their account.
Some of our pro players have to be stacked when it comes to skins.
I mean, they've got to have just about everything.
Whales, buying in every bundle.
I mean, we see it, you know, sometimes, right?
Everybody's got their, you know, big weapons.
All the different types of skins.
One more shot here for VP to Alcat to extend this series, right?
Two, one, they take our first map in the series on the Antarctic Peninsula,
and since then, though, it's been back and forth, but VP has started to figure them out a bit.
Seems like they have indeed, and on circuit right out, you know, on its surface level, you'd have to think,
this is a tough spot to be on just map four of the series.
could see a fighting for the tournament life and Vistola is queuing up the SIG for now which
would be a wild move not because of Vistola versus Aizan which I think is going to be very
competitive but the overall team for Virtus.pro I think they're the best of the world as a big
statement I think they're the best in the region pretty comfortably on exactly this look I think
they are very happy to get this mirror match maybe could see though the rest of the team
not going that way maybe this is a bit of a bait and it might just be a full rush here
Mistoloch is making some noise in spot on the SIG, but to throw the enemy off the trace.
Yeah, I mean, are they gonna go back to the Zarya Cones? Maybe? I mean, we'll see, obviously.
I hate it. I think they're gonna maybe scout the defenders and then decide, like, they're putting some wild stuff for now.
Cap Ashen is not insane on this map, but the nerf, it does feel like it hurts.
After watching them runes off, it was like, ooh, maybe the strategy is not so good anymore. They're gonna try it, though.
Yeah, they're gonna go for it at least off the rip here, so
We'll see from a few league and I guess in a turret form there
Just gets rid of that TP straight away, but
Everybody had a dodge for now that Katzia just trying to get some space around this core
And Virtus Pro really want to build up to these ultimates. Ate is already charging toward artillery strike
Not that that's a particularly significant ultimate and it's kind of a match up
But the Cap Bastion certainly adds chaos into the mix.
Maybe what you need to break apart some of this VP confidence.
Bastion over the top.
But Virtus Pro, this is where the card roll really starts to count.
You can see it, they need to find a way to break this setup.
And Bastion needs to maybe get behind to do that.
Yeah, you would think that you'd go on like a really long rat maybe with the Bastion or over the top.
But it's kind of constantly here, yeah, I mean, you know, you'd be right around the home.
Okay, and that's gonna be our big archery.
Big hit with enemy AWP around into that small room.
There may be some life left for the Kat Bastion.
It's demise greatly overstated.
You can see a pilot that really nicely.
It's a bit of an unconventional look.
Like, they aren't exactly flanking with the Bastion.
They're just playing a subtle off angle
and really playing more as a conventional Sigma comp.
So I think VP are like bunkering in the rooms,
prepping as if the flank is gonna be some wild wrap.
But from Zox, I think the positioning is just about perfect then.
Yeah, it's not well, I think uh, this whole is a really weird spot. Actually, it's gonna come up. Oh
A lot of girl he's psycho and gets the cleanse
He was trapped inside of this door up in front of you here where you can I like can go down
What's the low ground in?
Yeah, right quick to play
Save Kevser now the dead idol makes a bit of space cap ashen can't play through that really
Just zones for time, get some players back into the mix, but there's been a great nap so far for Akatsia.
Virtus.pro really needs some kind of a major stoppage here to take some of the momentum out of the attackers.
Well, Rush might need what they need to do so.
Later, Rush will come from Gala, and with both Bastion and Sim, maybe the catnap is done.
It's going to be good enough, but actually, full player's out, but Psycho punishes the cat for that.
But once this may be good for us, slam the game with a double A to two.
And okay, Katia still brawling, just went down to the low numbers, but they stole off so much healthier.
You think he's got the big edge into this one?
His eyes now drops Tejong, putting in that work on Sim and a late kill on Vixia as well, maybe enough to just cap second outright.
I mean, this is getting scary. I mean, you end up losing the Kat Bastion, but they're gonna get back in a fight rather quickly.
I mean, obviously the Bastion doesn't have mobility, but when they're paired with the Kat, all of a sudden does.
Yeah, there is a...
He's right back in swing. It's gonna be the arsonist.
Demo actually does massive work to maybe get this point into the realm of possibility, but oh, this flux is huge.
Everybody in it, Nostola clasped them down to the ground, and that's where it keeps them like y'all...
It keeps them like y'all, but not for long. Nostola, back to the sick, back in business, and he's eating them for breakfast.
Katzia, not losing a step here, and on the poke there, I wasn't even sure they'd take it, and they're looking amazing here.
I mean, I think they have just caught VP potentially off guard a little bit, right?
And the fact that like this is not something that they have kind of gone to the entire series refused to kind of match in terms of a SIG
Not trying to play anything like this. They've been playing the Shion with either like a Vendetta or
I know
Sim at times and this
Lili out of nowhere
Katia looking really good as
VP they're kind of taking purchase underneath Katia at the moment. So
See where Vistola and Poe decides to go in.
That's a huge kill there on the cat.
How does he find that?
Out of nowhere, drops the cat and now we're going to be a retake move on the high ground
with the player advantage.
It's a tough choke to break though, even at the best time, bashing this here on the low
bound flank and has the tank form, swings wide and is going to devastate this off angle.
Beautiful aggression from A and E without the cat.
It proves that he doesn't need that mobility to get some real work done.
Those kills are going to lead to a major cleanup.
I can't see her. Keep this cart rolling in massive time on the clock for them.
And maybe Bastion is still pretty good even without the cat, right?
We saw that a little bit earlier in the day and then now we see it now with the cat, but, you know,
Bastion still seems to be pretty effective in certain spots.
Looks like VP gonna try and take Conkron here, but you have everybody here.
I can't see her.
What the heck is up there?
The rocket's being delivered down from A.
Now they're gonna find big damage on the back line, which he's hoping for.
Aizanth, they're doing a lot of take back.
A thundering into the corner, caught by the catnap.
Sartillar is gonna hit hard, but in Sanctuary,
mitigates the follow-up, he's done two Aizanthes on the side.
You need some sort of counter-kill back into this first row.
The dead Aizanth is not gonna deliver it.
Maybe they can just get it done in the deathmatch.
One trade is good, can they find more?
Kester in desperation now, but the symbol from Psycho provides huge covers
for him to fight into this Aizanth, coming back on the doofus.
Cannot get off the cart even a moment here,
but they won't need to.
Virtus Bro, what a fight back after losing the Sigma so early.
Yeah, and for a second it looked like Bestola was going to try and end up using the flocks to kind of like grip them off and then stand underneath, you know, and just kind of get it home, but Kev rolls in, that was exactly what he's trying to do in that situation.
So, see now, Katia, not much further they need this to go, as Zox is gonna go over no
cat with the Bastion.
They're gonna play the Mizuki here against Ice-No-Mond the Divas, so, and as soon as
you see that Diva, the Mizuki, one of the better options to kinda go after that hero
is they're gonna give up some of this high ground though.
Hey, Katia, that's dangerous, especially with the Bastion.
Yeah, this corner is gonna be a major flashpoint for the aggression.
Here comes the swing at TP4, it's like a fake, big aggression into the frontline trying to just burn players down, aid in that tank form, though he does go to the backline, maybe unexpected, but Sycho has already done the damage under the solo,
Kev's trick is to kill onto aid and this attack is going to be batted back with ease. I mean, the defender's advantage in this kind of a matchup when there's no ultimates on the field is just devastating.
And I like that aid gets off the bastion. I just don't think that the tank form is really going to do enough when you're not able to come from an off angle.
And it's gonna be Sigma the choice here price them so we're gonna get switch off of the diva right away
Zox will stay on
I'm so skeptical she on in this comp though. Hey, this is right the range poke
Maybe on the last point though like this brawl value coming from different angles could be nice
They're gonna try and just force things through but VP full high current control. You do not feel good
Props here right now. We're gonna be so ready for the TP by the way
Yeah, and I mean even with ATV he's got dead eye right? He's gonna kind of rotate around.
Oh nice, nice cootie there buddy. Yeah, Ken's still too good.
And I mean those two kills, both supports, I just, there's gonna maybe stall out some of these kills.
This solo, he's just at 8, it's a hard kill to stall out, you can't certain he has to grab that one just to keep his life up.
And Kassia, I mean I will say they're gonna have like one good chance with ultimate advantage,
But if you know it and they're gonna force us to fight at the spawn choke great decision making here for the defenders
Yeah, play this door. Maybe if you have to even give up or play the
Just a little cheeky folk from them instead. They think better of it
But I wonder if they'll regret it. I kind of like this last point close
Maybe trying to use one ult to get like two or out from the other side then back now
No.
Devil's Support all is going to be a real asset, especially with Sycho nearing on that
sim while the spam is heavy against him.
Mizuki stopped the cut for a moment, now it's going to be Ice Uncertainty, takes through,
it has Devil's Support all to sustain through.
Massive dump on the payload, absolutely every particle, it's the game's deploy that was.
I couldn't tell you how I like that.
Ice Uncertainty kill, that's what I can say.
The solo binds went back the other way, but numbers starting to wind up while Atachi
they need a decisive win, and that's not what they found in this fight.
Tejon finds one back, Dylan energizes Sim, one of the few characters that can win in these low numbers engagements,
but Glandon finds that kill, Nostola dropping so incredibly low, and Aizan back on the D.Va.
The full hold will be secured for Furtis Pro.
Third point was a slog, but it really does bring this map into a winnable spot for VP.
I mean that was a wild one. That was two sim walls with two sanctuaries and two rushes with a flux going on at one time.
That's too much for me, Matt. Even for me, I played Mom Watch just about anybody and I'm like okay.
I don't know what like because there's so many other particles and like damage but I have no idea what damage is even being exchanged if there's two sim walls and two sanctuaries on top of each other.
Like just really nothing you can kind of get through either of those and then also you have two Kasune rushes going on
They're at the same time as well
So I think just the fact that VP have the sort of spawn doors will rely on as like all else fails in that kind of a chaotic moment
You just slip back into the spawn
Come back into the fight where you know for cut see and that kind of chaos
You feel doomed to take the trades right and trades aren't gonna be good enough when it's overtime
and you're trying to desperation finish the map. You need that kind of clean team fight.
So if each of you make the right call there, choosing not to aggro the spawn door,
they knew that they had enough ultimates to get the kind of fight they were hoping for.
Concia though, how is this cat Bastion going to fare on defense? I liked it on attack,
but on defense I'm a little more skeptical because any time you back off to like
reset or get the cat to a better angle is time that the cart rolls forward.
Yeah, I would agree with you. I think this has potential for VP to kind of like
really take control of this. I know and like if this Kat Bastion doesn't start to pay off right away
it doesn't really seem like Kat Zia has anything consistent to fall back to or at least on this map, right?
They tried to play to the Shion with the Mutsuki and that didn't really look that great.
And I actually really like Aiznab on the D.va here.
He's kind of calling the clubs and you guys are not a real pro comp. You can't really pressure me.
I'm gonna be free on the D.va to just do my dirty words.
Cycle already finds Tej on and now it's desperation for Kat Bastion.
Kevser stays wide as long as he can then repeats back into Bastion, burns him down.
Kat going in for a desperation suicide play there and it is a full Team White 4 VP.
Kat Sia, the comp looks so strong in a sort of a true poke mirror,
but as soon as he comes into the mix, yeah, he's going to come back to the Sigma as soon as he forces
them off to Kat Bastion. Just immaculate strategy from Purtis Pro. Very well coached and honestly,
you can't even call this from the coach. This is a player with a very strong read
on a new meta. Yeah, exactly. I mean, as soon as you're able to get them off of that, okay,
let's go back and we'll just kind of match them, you know, with our Sigma look, which we've obviously
been, you know, especially in a SIG head-to-head, you would favor VP with the way they've looked
thus far. Kenster fights first blood in this fight. Maybe enough to rest the team still a bit
battered, hopefully, necessarily a walkover for them. A capture, he swings wide and you just can't
give him a chance, but he's gonna find them. Tejong grabs one back, but I think that's all they can
Even the solo gonna be stalled just a little bit and a late tank death spells disaster for this first point
I don't see a retake really coming in here Matt. No, this is gonna be first point here for VP
And they don't really have to use anything to be able to get it as Istone's gonna push up
Just trying to pick some of this position here from Katya make them earn getting it back here around the corner and
Bad news for Katya Jake is like they're gonna be in a really rough spot in terms of ultimates, right?
and you got the Ray to use here, you got Dead Eye coming around the corner, they're going to TP up to the high ground.
Big angle, big angle, he's going to get some nasty shots, nice timing from the solo though in the Connecticut, eats that right up.
Support needs to be there, Isom takes a big nuke from the Flux, it's like it won't be so lucky to get the save, had to go one way.
Still, all those scammers are thinking, they want to keep fighting, especially with landing, fighting that kill.
Rush is now coming out from fix up, a big plot to better connection from Isom, but the Rock from the solo takes him out of it.
Keeps the fight in contact, they just not being up in the end.
Lot of flash from Vestola in this mirror match, but in the end, the raw stats just too much for VP.
Yeah, I mean, Vestola just does a tremendous job throughout that fight, but there's just no damage for Katia.
They end up losing Zox really early on, they probably would have ended up with a Sanctuary if he ends up living through that.
But then like, you know, didn't really get much from A.E.A. where he got in that fight at all, so it's going to be the fight thrown in there.
It's gonna be sim walls from both sims, and he's gonna go in with the ult.
Through the wall actually gives a ton of damage down on everybody.
Don't think DVR is suspecting that to come all the way through, and even with IZON, I'm grabbing that kill back, AID's damage is done.
And that's gonna be enough to send them up for a beautiful retake in one of the tougher spots to kind of come out on the assault.
I like the decisions from both sims, well played on the sim walls, but AID ends up being the difference maker.
Shion has been relatively quiet in the pokemare, but with the ultimate it can be a different story.
Yeah, it's just you're gonna need aid, I know, with the Shion to come up with some big kills here in the neutral that without people from there, right?
I mean, this is where Ketter's really shined, as already that TP is broken on, see, and the players were split.
Well, the players are kind of stranded, but as they make their way back, the sanctuary is gonna be good enough.
But it is forced out, like, TP, I think, ultimately, that's really their objective in this fight more than anything, is get the sanctuary out.
You fully drive the bank for Kitsiya.
Missoula at 80 though, he could very well have a flux just from poke before this fight really gets going, especially with some early damage.
So, want to see it clean walk out from IceDom especially to not give as much flux as he can.
I mean that would definitely, I think, maybe catch VP off guard, right?
If Missoula can kind of have this flux to the next fight.
IceDom has it.
Yeah, getting the sanctuary out is pretty important.
We're going to continue to see it for both squads as well.
Rushes out first, Valor doesn't quite have his ready to respond just yet.
Vassola, some of them might be killing Vixia, actually.
Finds something with the flux to aid him in the backline.
What can Aizam grab back in this one?
Slammed Vassola down, but the damage volume isn't there.
And Kassiya snatching that fight back out of nowhere.
I think a little hesitation from VP on entering into that fight.
And it's on his crudely.
Kassiya buying the opportunities in the mid-fight.
It feels like if they're not giving up these kills to Kevster in that like mid-ground and he has to kind of
You know move up and play a little bit closer with ice
That's when the she on and like Tejong on the Sim are able to get a little bit more value
So it's gonna be a TP straight under
All the cleanse buys enough time you can't get the third burst off Kevster so good in those chaotic moments
He's got that one down.
Ice on still healthy.
Passes the lead, Tejon is gonna be kind of a real threat on this Smetra.
No one's pushing the cart either, so he's not gonna be able to crawl this one out, and actually...
He's still alive.
The sim is doing work, Tejon.
Still cooking, and he doesn't go down.
Okay, he does go down the end, and actually, hold on, T'Sola, he's trying to get cheeky,
trying to chase down some kills, and he's gonna pay with his life.
Big double up from Landon.
It's a really salvage VP there.
I mean, that fight could have been disastrous for them.
Can you get another touch, though?
You're gonna have the sim TP back in with Bestola.
The piece of the Sim wall, I don't know about it, Matt.
Oh, it's not gonna be pretty if you can.
Okay, they get the touch.
Sim wall's out from Psycho.
I've done it now already! Hold on!
There's a fight to be played, but Psycho is gonna just hook here.
Absolutely uncontested on the Sim.
He's getting baited around, the Spurge is being dazed and worked to just stay alive,
but he's demanding so much response just from his individual impact in this fight.
The Stola, still alive, actually, but even 2v1, it's still difficult.
Oh, they just dealt a split on his flux.
Hold on, the spawner's coming back in, Landon goes to the rush, but there's not many to use it, Landon gets the job done himself in a crazy overtime fight.
And it's actually still going longer, but eventually Landon with three, who's gonna clean this one up.
It was the double support from VP to clutch like a magnet in that one.
Honestly, not the worst thing though from Katia, right? Getting that one down to like 18 seconds left on the clock, now you can come back.
I could probably take us a close fight here, and then you're gonna be like just they'll basically oh team going down
To the wire
It is like still super readable for cut see I still like their position
But yeah, if Landon doesn't find those like back-to-back huge deathmatch fights be clear out of this map already
So they're lucky to even be here to even be contesting is can see are gonna make your way here around the outside
We'll see how Katya decides to try and fight this if you have to sanctuary
We have Flox with the high ground, that is massive.
Oh, everybody's best, Team Wife and a Bottle, baby.
Ice Dom catches them on that Tiki and she has what?
Okay, aid?
How does he get a kill there?
That is massive because now you come into this final fight without landing.
I don't know that you can really hard commit.
But I mean, what do you do, right?
I mean, I guess like 40 seconds on the clock, I'm gonna get a kill you back.
Okay, that is a fast reset, I will say.
He's back into the fight quick.
That is Jericho for you.
you still ultimate advantage for Kassia. DP have a very tough ask of them.
Dead Eye, there's a little bit of space, maybe the TP's got a good channeling up to the high ground behind the wall.
But she on-plane the cover so nicely, the sacred areas exchange on the payload
and there's no real value for Kevlar from the Dead Eye. In trouble needs a bit of support,
but can't quite get it and isolated by the shield while Kevster goes down.
Virtus Pro will like to take a quick reset and try and just get out of this fight, but Kassia...
Can you even do that for him now?
13 seconds on the clock, okay? I don't think you can actually fully back out.
So it's gonna look like you're gonna put down some damage here. Just gonna fire them back
Straighten should be able to stall this one
Straight into the backline cleanses out and psycho is down without the sims surely
It's too much to ask for Virtus. Bro running out of gas in the final fight now. Katia
What a battle from them here on circuit Royale
Staying alive in the series with a nice hold here on third point
I mean, the Stola, herbroics on the Sigma,
Ayd making the Xi'an work,
Tejang getting big fights on the Sim,
and then it's not just one-sided.
I mean, VP are showing incredible fight with Landon
coming up with some miracle kills.
Kevster came in swinging to this path,
but it wasn't enough.
And I mean, this is a VP that the Rio twisted minds,
the Rio DK, just last week.
I think a lot of people expected them
to just kind of come into this series and cruise,
but that has not been the case.
obviously new season, new update, new balance patch, new hero.
And that has definitely made a difference today.
Vestolo though showing you like, you know,
hey, he's still got that Sigma at a high level.
He's been playing a lot of Moga throughout this series,
but they believe in it to the point
that they go to this map and take that mirror.
Yeah, and it pays huge dividends, right?
If they're able to get this win,
it honestly is a scary win for Virtus.Pro
because it shows that your comfort comp is not safe.
Like, you cannot expect easy wins off the back of it.
You are actually going to be tested
even when it comes to the mirror match.
The Shion works better than I even expected, actually,
in the Pogmire.
I was kind of worried, okay, maybe the Cassidy
does a little bit too much,
but those Shion ultimates were the X factor
that was at times needed
when all the chaos of those sim walls came down.
I mean, there's one team out there
who's probably watching this one.
It's Twisted Minds, right?
They end up losing 2 vs. Perot, an opportunity here for Katya to get a win here against VP.
Both of those teams would then go back to 2-1, so it seems like everything's dying to
the sky.
It's falling for twisted minds, and there's one week there, and they're right back in
potential to get that number one spot, obviously with a lot of stuff still in play.
But game five, we'll go over to hybrid.
Is it King's Row here?
Is that the go-to for VP?
It's honestly a tough call.
I think there's an argument to be made for really all three maps.
King Zero is probably the most standard, but for a team as good as VP, I wonder if they
haven't been practicing any of the, you know, like, like, not many teams play Hollywood.
And I think if you have a really nasty Hollywood, it could be a pretty scary pick to go to.
You know, Hollywood also historically, it's first and third actually historically are
quite good for Rush.
Second point is a real problem like there's a big open sight lines, massive high ground,
you wonder whether that kind of style will work in the middle of the map.
If you get through that difficult middle though, you get to third and you're still on the rush
comp, you feel amazing. You're like, okay, we're going to snowball, we're going to crush.
So it's a scary one to go to. And actually it will be what's asked of Katzia's their response
to a Hollywood pick. Yeah. And I mean, look, Shion's effective range probably not ideal in
and that second part of the map as well.
But she hasn't been banned yet, has it?
Right, I mean they probably can't.
Okay, they've been in the mage band.
I like this even better because I don't know
that you can play that kind of tempo
with anything else into a sigma.
Like, I mean, for matcha,
I don't really see that level of aggression.
No.
Options like clean, I wouldn't recommend it.
And pretty much everyone else is really vulnerable to this.
Yeah, like, I feel like sigma
It just does a little too much against D.Va.
The accretion is such a huge problem for D.Va in that matchup.
You know, I think you're just sort of praying that the Aizan misses those rocks,
and he's been pretty solid with him so far in the series.
Well, especially they've been playing the Mizuki too, right?
Yeah, exactly. And, you know, it doesn't feel good getting super aggro into that.
With this ban, I almost wondered, do you have to play a Sigmar once again for Alcatraz?
I mean, they worked for them last time, so maybe that's not so bad.
Yeah, I mean, a SIG with a S.I.M. and just kind of run it back, right?
I think the thing is, though, like we haven't like a to really would like
to play the G.I.M. like we actually can you play it?
I mean, I was doubting it.
And then they really I think what they showed is that, OK, in a very wide open
map, yeah, you're not keeping up with like the core hit scan in terms of like
just ranged kills and damage.
But as soon as those maps like Circle Rail 3rd gets all sorts of weird.
There's all these different angles people can hit from.
And honestly, sometimes in those cloistered positions,
the Cassidy doesn't feel amazing.
Like your dead eye, everyone's hiding around corners.
What are you really doing with that?
Whereas maybe some standard front-facing shield pressure,
Sheon can provide that.
But she can also mix it up when the fights demand
a little bit of extra playmaking, she could bring that.
Yeah.
I think they'll probably try it.
I mean, there's, I don't think you would just take
like a full-on, I'm here, Cap Bastion? Available here?
I, okay, I will say Hollywood Strictly is a very bad map for Cap Bastion.
Yeah. Because there's so many rooms that are close to the payload and close to the
Cap's point at first. Like, that's the real counter to Cap Bastion is a ceiling.
It's a roof over your head in which you're still in a relevant position.
Maybe I'm skeptical about Frank. That's very good.
Yes, we'll see what happens here in game 5. This one's been a banger. VP vs. Katzia. Katzia looking to upset
Virtus.Pro as we will head to our final map. It'll be Hollywood. We just saw a certain Royal. Katzia take us there and we end up winning it.
So, what do they have in store for us here, where VP, they obviously get rid of the Moga,
that's been really great for the rush, and Katzya getting rid of the Pharah probably
leads you to believe they also want to play Sim, right?
And I think that's in a way, not a protect in the band sense, but a protect for Shion
in a sense.
I was going to say they have a band, right?
I think that's the weakness of Shion, right?
Well, I mean, I think VP band first, right, in the Moga, so they're not really, Katzya,
my definition are protecting with their ban, but I think Shion is what I would be worried
about if I was gonna, or rather Far is what I was worried about if I was gonna play Shion
Sim, that ranged flyer poke.
Psycho, they value the Sim so highly, it's hard to see Veruspro swapping off, but I kind
of would like to see him play an Echo here.
Maybe that's too crazy, I don't know.
It's a sketchy one.
The Far would feel a lot better.
The Echo is a little suspect in this matchup, and then A could just go back to the cast and
make you really regret it.
It's going to be a mirror outside of the Shion versus Cassidy, so Kev has been really good
on the Cassidy all series long, it just feels like when the fights get to those close quarter
natures like you're talking about and you kind of get into the mix all around, that's
when the Shion really kind of starts to overwhelm.
Oh, opportunity now both teams putting the pressure on, but it's Sycho who goes down
first, eight on the off angle, traded back, so as soon as off the field, opportunity
4BP if they want to continue to press the issue. Seems like now they'd rather back off and lick their wounds, but it's not for long.
Aizam knows that the team is healthy now, pushes through the choke, and though the Catastro return, disaster is positioning for Zox,
wasn't ready for that kind of a re-aggression. TP right back into the waiting arms of the Sigma.
And now Aiz, challenged on the flank, is going to be cleaned up by Landon, and by the way, has been carrying a party's last few maps.
I mean, Landon always plays well. He's always looking phenomenal. Nice tracking there.
My cycle able to win the sim battle as that's going to be
First point taken rather quickly there by vertus. Oh
Now I think this gets interesting right like can you still play the she on at this kind of level of the range, right?
obviously a
Huge falloff. This is the weakness for me
Yeah, I wonder if we see the shampi. Do you really deal damage from high ground like in a serious way?
I'm pretty skeptical and that's a huge problem because
Typically in this polk comp, you're basically playing for your hitscan to get tail-stripped and like that.
Or else, VP will just bunker in the corners and roll the carton.
Now, that's exactly what's happening. I think it could be a half to drop to the low ground and just take a brawl.
I mean, they have to fight.
Yeah, that's what they decided to do. I mean, there's no way they're going to win that.
Just got to do that fault. Nice damage down there.
Looks like the ult's traded off the point.
Losing a Symmetra is a pretty devastating loss. Ice top.
And a bit of trouble, but actually hold on, getting a bit of support.
Now, the better sakes are very much later into the fight from the big side,
not just Frank's the fact about Katia.
They just do not have anything left in the tank to deal with that ultimate.
There's no way they're gonna be dropping low.
Empty was a lot of damage on him.
Icedom cleans that one up.
It's a difficult fight. They're really chillin' Psycho.
I think maybe he extends forth and they win a fight.
But in the end, Kart still rolls forward.
That's the most important thing.
So maybe now though, Katia, you can get like a TP.
High ground and then like I feel like you got to go quick. I don't think you can kind of sit there
With the she on it just kind of poke from high ground, you know, especially against Cassidy
Then also it just doesn't feel like it does enough like serious like direct damage to warrant the response. So high ground here
See kind of what they will do with it now. Let's take a look from the shield
Love to see that there's actually what kind of damage is coming out
It'll actually be the ultimate just kind of diving on in two for one as a good trade
Oh, but Aizan brings two back. There's actually a fight to be had.
Maybe not with Vistula.
Finding Psycho.
Aizan grabs Sox.
There's a Pasha.
Yeah, he's so big in here.
Yeah.
He's just barely...
But I... I charge and leave Vistula.
Okay, they are gonna put the big get-
Oh, the people want to range Clans from Fala.
Very nicely done on the Kyuriko.
Keeps this one alive and should cycle any hope of Vistula.
Or rather, Aizan's Vistula alive.
Still helping. He's gonna clean that pressure down.
Now that he has that lowly feedback on Sigg is able to do a lot of work.
Kepster though wins the challenge on that Icon.
That's the one back, perhaps the one back though, and the Simwall stabilized Sigg for the moment.
Seems like a British pro are not going to try and step through that.
They just want to back off and reset.
TP out as well for Aislan. Might keep this Sigg, but still in the action.
I gotta try and do this.
I dare able to get a hold here. I actually think Katya can certainly do this.
But the way they look is going to be the grass forced out.
Oh, you're gonna have actually landed off the spawn here use the rush
He's got a kill off that it's worth it already
It's not like he's got something back here, but psycho is pulling towards that
It was all not long for this world especially with the sanctuary here allowing psycho to further step up forward
I thought
He's saying we will pilot a fight on this but he's been alive and fighting for minutes on end
Even as his team sometimes drops around him and that pressure
I think is gonna be a huge part of the success for VP as they kept his second point
I mean, that's tremendous stuff from Virtus.pro, I mean, it felt like Ice Nome fixed up, we're just alive forever, and then obviously, you know, we see Kepp, you know, that he's like lurking in there, spawned somehow, able to get a trade there, high ground, taken right away here.
I I snowman and co is
Feels like they have to be a little bit more aggressive I catch you right to kind of close that gap
It seems like at range unless like the it can kind of work around the fringes and find some hills
Yeah, I kept your
Six of thread on these off angles out. He's gonna do the one just to peek into that backline
Change under the enemy Sigma forces the flux out of the stole of it
Or rather out of ice now, but it's not really a force when you're actually getting chills off it a full beat here
Yeah, four Virtus.Pro and they only dropped Kev, who's gonna be back into the fight post-haste with this close spawn distance.
And Psycho with a simple advantage, I think we're staring down the barrel of a full cap here.
A, it has to fight some kind of miracle to save this.
Yeah, I mean, you do have a dead eye though. Like, four Kev, right? You're gonna be able to kind of like zone this out with a sim wall as well.
There's the sim wall. It's gonna be safe using the ult.
But yeah, what are you going to be able to do, right?
It's going to go side to side.
Yeah, not able to stay alive on the she on there.
Love that TP from Psycho.
Just sets up chemistry for a stylus little finish.
And capping with 2.18 on the clock is massive on Hollywood.
Remember on hybrid, you cap with over a minute.
An overtime finish is not good enough to stay alive looking
for a win.
At that point, the best you could do is a draw.
So for Katzia, that's kind of a worst-case scenario
when the opponent's capped with a minute plus.
It's very hard to find your way back in the map.
They need a heck of an offense, Matt.
Yeah, it's got to be just an unreal push.
Ficks to an ice thumb.
I mean, yeah.
Deathless.
Deathless, Matt.
I mean, we watched it happen, right?
They were just kind of like dancing ice thumb
on the second part of the map.
I mean, both those players were just unreal, right?
They were literally just going to stay alive forever.
And they were never able on the other side for Katzi
to really kind of give any pressure to take them out.
I think you got to be playing a Cassidy here if you're aid. I mean it feels really tough
And it may be a little bit better on offense and defense, but still it feels like though
Maybe maybe it gives you that opening window through but I feel like Cassidy on defense especially on Hollywood
It's so comfortable like when when aid had the the high ground on defense
It didn't feel very good for him. It felt like he wasn't able to do much.
The same can't be said for Cassidy. We know what Kevster can do from that high ground.
We have seen highlight after highlight from him in that position on this map before.
So, for Cassia, it's a huge test.
Mental game is going to be a rough one here. I think they have to go fight by fight and try and get maybe some cheeky picks to bring this one back in.
We'll see if they're able to do so. I'm curious how they decide to play this with the Shea on offense.
I just feel like this is a pretty big advantage for VP on B at the moment, so...
...the cheps are just gonna... putting damage run into the choke, I mean, but solo is so low, and I mean, that's kind of where...
...you see the fire coming the other way, it's just not hitting as hard with that, like, kind of...
...the damage fall off in the effective range.
Yeah, and VP looks so drilled on the defense, so they don't give anything up for free.
For Kassia, they do get away through to the high ground, which gives them a decent position, but...
but they're gonna need more than that.
They're gonna need to find a way to break this backyard setup.
The solo TP to the cafe could be part of it
as he starts to put some cap pressure down on the point.
He still seems like he'd be ready for this.
He comes to counter TP, they retake hydro control.
Psycho almost dies actually,
has to get saved by the support.
So heads up moves from TP,
and this one's going full chaos, Matt.
Yeah, I mean, just players just kind of all over the place.
Zox actually gets caught out down low
as it looks like that solo sits into the cafe,
and he's gonna get hit with an accretion.
The flux misses on him. He actually gets hit with the flux all the way back down.
So that is a huge turn of events there for Vesola is actually able to kind of catch Iso while using his flux in his own and take him out.
And just like that, I mean, like the brawl is where I think that like Katzi can start to come out on top.
But if it's just kind of like pocket range, that's where it feels like VP has a massive advantage.
See if tears that they kept first like that. Yes, they really needed I think a quick win on first to keep this game in contention
And now I think it very much still is
They're gonna hold on to the high ground if only truly deny it from the opposition
We'll have to see how long that lasts if Alcatya can actually win some fights up here really slow-ball music
VP
Actually go down here. They'll play from the low ground over on that
Hey, well, I actually like them kind of taking this, right? It's gonna force Katzia to kind of go down here to the low ground, just trying to actually force a fight.
This, they don't have to be so careful. Oh, nice sanctuary there. Actually, kind of heals. Fix it right back up. Keeps everybody alive.
Simba is out, it's traded by Psycho, beautiful Simba from Psycho, feels impossible to step up through that, and it's going to allow this card to continue rolling down.
Timer, taking against you can see if you've got to do something, you've got to break this kind of a setup to try, but the solo already fell to the rock.
Even inside the Sanctuary, this fight is far from secured, surely aided with the ultimate can do it, but he's cut down before you can get the second and third burst off.
And somehow Kepster stays alive as well, and despite being in the attacker's font, he stands tall as five.
Hey, it's just, yeah, there's just more ways for them to come out on top in these fights, you know, fight around the corner.
I mean, are you gonna have to use your, well, Kepster doesn't have the rush, I mean, you're gonna have high ground people as well.
That fight is execution, Jeff. I can't even see the concept there. That is, they got out executed, like, VP styled on them.
This is the BC comfort zone and now VP find themselves exactly where they wanted to Hollywood second point kevster on high
Beautiful what catches the offside of the GP ensures gollum does go down
Over the plus of his own, but I mean there's just no one left in this fight
It's it's only the tank for not that's yet. Don't feel hope for him. Yeah, and that's like a you know
You were talking about the kind of position that
uh, you know, uh, Katzia was fighting on their defense, right, where, like, VP was just underneath him, like,
just kind of moving the cart there, and then eventually they had to drop down.
That's kind of exactly what we saw there.
It's just VP, on the defensive side of things, right, is able to just kind of ship them down on the low ground,
uh, as they're underneath, kind of, moving the cart, and then once they sense an advantage, they decide to drop as, uh, fixa.
Well, yet again, we're building it towards another sanctuary here, rather quickly.
You see everybody just dropping low, even with the secretion there from Ice-Numb.
Ice-Numb floated over their heads, payment from the object without thinking of footstep, and pops the Q-Reef for free at the start of the fight. There is no fight, but that's how it begins.
Beautifully executed from VP. I mean, we gotta get a replay out of that.
And Gala had the Kitsune Rush to use as well, not saying he would've used it in that fight, but still, just being completely off the table is...
It's not a spawn camp, that's surely not.
Spawn camps out of base, anybody? I mean, VP, they're killing themselves now.
I mean, why not, right? Forcing to just kind of use this stuff to get out of their spawn.
I mean, you're only going to get back to that high ground so fast.
VP are so good at like fighting for these inches. Oh, another rock. This time it goes just barely wide.
But to mention a skill after scrutiny, maybe Heislam has gone a step too far.
The rush response is all on the rest of the team. Maybe not ready to get in for that one.
He's not overconfident actually, kind of throws away this fight.
It does in the end though get a rush out for free and with the relative dirt, the Boltimates
ready for Alcatrazia, that could hurt.
VP gonna do a retake with the entire bank available to them and the clock mat is getting
a little scary for Katzia.
It's not clear to me that they have a fight loss and a reset available to them.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I think yeah, you're basically at, you have to be perfect from here on out, right?
It's gonna be the sanctuary here used.
The dead eye is used.
Oh yeah, the Flux here drags them out of the sanctuary.
So, drags them into Kepster's line.
The second thing's out, Tejong.
Got that huge source of damage.
Kepster has to go for the touch, but still gonna be comfortable.
I mean, even the Flux damage blocked him from the solo.
And it is a quick enough fight for Kepster that they do get the reset.
Problem is, Matt, they blew everything trying to win it.
I mean, A is close to that ultimate, but it's been so hard to use those in the early neutral fight.
neutral fight where VP are just poking so comfortably no cooldowns forced it's so scary something like Kitsune rush feels
infinitely more consistent here
I mean now VP right with 30 seconds left on the clock you can kind of control this whoever you want right you get you do
Some poke from the high ground. Maybe they're kind of coming on me
You just drop down the rush and just decide to start the fight
They're gonna try to overwhelm you right into this right to the face of this wall
What a series between these two teams.
I mean VP came in as the heavy favorite right everybody kind of talking about I know how good they have looked in EMEA thus far and
Katya I think kind of really showed up in a massive way of like and they can definitely contend with some of these top teams
Is that we take a look at some of our stats made had a rough one trying to make the sheen work here on Hollywood
13 deaths and then on the other side of things mean Kev looked great
but really two players we highlighted, you know, Iso and Fixa had a tremendous final map.
Yeah, their offense is, I think, what got this one done, right? Like, it's so hard to come back
from this kind of a scenario, and somehow the fact that Iso and Fixa could stay alive for
the entire offense, I mean, you just can't win in a poke mirror when there's that kind of value
coming through the opposing core.
Unfortunately, wait, that's not possible.
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Yeah, yeah, no, we were up.
I believe I am back.
Sorry, you got it.
Yeah.
But what I was saying was like, yeah, it's crazy that they were deathless in the first
half of Hollywood.
It was so impressive to see the value that they were bringing to the table.
Like, if your chain's not dying, what, like, what is the other team really gonna do, right,
in that kind of scenario?
But regardless of how Hollywood went, I think that this was a very close series.
Katya, they look really good with this Brawley style that they're playing.
This is the most she on that we also really got to witness in the server so far here.
By far, and I think there's definitely something to what Katya have cooked up.
I mean, taking DP to five is way beyond what anyone else has been able to do to this team.
There were moments when it felt like they could have gotten the series win.
Being able to also win on circuit Royale is, is a great sign for this team that even
with how good that rush is.
It's not the only look that they have.
So, for Alkazia, even though they come home with a loss today,
I think this is actually a really good sign for them
in terms of what really matters to teams at this moment,
which is playoffs, qualifying for mid-season championship,
being one of those top three.
And I think Shiana will end up getting more play.
I think it'll be map dependent.
And then I also think it's like,
teams are probably gonna still have to try and figure out
like what role to actually play in her kind of game.
because you can play her like how we saw with the Vendetta here in a tracer alternative, right?
Or we've seen at times where it kind of fits in this hitscan type of role.
I think it really kind of depends on the geometry of the map.
Like some of the close quarter maps, you can probably get away with it instead of a Cassidy like we've seen them kind of use at certain times.
But then some of the longer maps, I think if you want to play her, it might be kind of with some type of hitscan and like replacement of a tracer.
but then obviously Tracer's so good,
you're not really sure if you're gonna be doing that.
So I think it'll take some time for a team to figure out
how exactly to play her.
Yeah, it's really interesting, I think,
because of how she slots into the DPS role
with her range and whatnot,
but it's gonna be fun to see these teams developing their style
alongside Sean, how she's gonna look to fit into the meta.
Got a little bit of a taste of it today,
but what we also got a taste of was this VP win, guys,
and I wanna lock back in on that
because now with VP, being three and over all as well,
it's just wild to know that now they've solidified
basically the playoffs so early on,
like you guys are saying, moving forward,
having their goals set really on that midseason
championship, we do have an interview with Ice
on the line for you guys.
Ice, congratulations on the win today.
I wanna hear a little bit about, I guess,
like how you're feeling now, starting big picture,
you guys have essentially secured playoffs with this
when being three and O, being within that top four.
How are you feeling about that?
And VP's form heading into stage two.
Oh, feeling pretty good about having the playoff spot
secured, I feel like especially in these like
shorter seasons with less teams, like if you have like
a ropey start or like a bad week, you can get like
relegated easily, even if she finished stronger.
So I'm pretty happy about our former now
and that we were qualified to play us now, yeah.
Yeah, I just want to ask, coming into this match,
you guys maybe came in as the heavy favorites,
but Katia showed something that I think was pretty unique,
making the Shion work in a strat that
feels like really natural for her strength
as a super aggressive damage dealer.
What was this match like overall in terms of,
you guys come into this, I doubt you expect
exactly this look. It's something we haven't seen before at all. And so what was that process
like as a team in terms of adjusting your play, trying to figure out the way to deal with this
Ketsuya strategy? Yeah, I think even watching from the outside, you could tell that we're kind of
like getting surprised by these, these like aggressive Maugashiyon comps, you know, like
it was getting there, like especially on that New York City, I feel like you could tell like
really didn't really know what we're doing, you know, a lot of the time.
But, yeah, I mean, we didn't really play much in practice against Shion, and we might have
underestimated her going into it as well, didn't really know that they were going to
play it.
And I mean, Ate made it look pretty good, especially that old, like, spinning through
there, that was really annoying.
Yeah, I mean, just constantly putting damage down on you guys throughout it.
Like Ash said, you guys make playoffs now.
How important do you guys think that like, you know, finishing number one in EMEA and
having that number one seed, you know, as we go into like the midseason championships
and how like groups and bracket play, how important is that for you guys?
I'm not sure how important it is, but of course, winning the stage is the big goal for us
right now.
Like qualifying to EWT is of course the first goal, but like winning the stage would be
be incredible for us so maybe not even just because of the seating but just
because you like win the state you know you become the European champion so I
would say I mean yeah that's the that's a big goal yeah that's what we're
trying to do. No I mean that makes sense you guys want to take that crown for
this stage too and you guys had a really good start to kick things off your eyes.
Congratulations on your qualification and thank you so much for doing this
interview with us. Thanks for having me goodbye. Bye okay well now that our
interview as we're after. Let's take a look at the standings that I was talking about previously
with the three and oh win here for VP. They've qualified into that top four four playoffs
for stage two of OWCS EMEA. But Jake, they still have a couple matches to go. The rest of this
leaderboard is still really wonky to a lot of upset potential still for the last couple of days
here of the around Robin stage. I couldn't agree more Ash. I mean, I think both Akatsia and GKE
Yeah, there may be fourth and fifth seed,
but I think both of those teams have huge upset potential
against just about anybody above them.
So, I mean, maybe Telesey is the one team down
in the doldrums trying to just maybe make it out
of those relegation slots, but for the other five,
it feels like those three spots that EWC
are very much in play.
It really comes down to every single match.
Like this weekend is gonna be huge next as well.
Like it's gonna determine the future
for a lot of these teams.
And it all comes in the back of a fresh new meta,
a new hero.
It seems like it's really finding their footing in that matter.
I mean, Ash, I would obviously say that we're going to have CVP and TM there.
I think that's like, I feel pretty good about that.
That last spot you could sell me on just about anybody.
Like it could be 1, 2, 3, 4, it could be Katia.
You could even like convince me like EK is going to turn up.
Matt, I don't think TM is safe.
I do expect them to qual.
I think they're probably their favorite squad.
But they've always been safe.
I don't think they're safe this time.
They have to hurt it this time.
It is scarier than it has ever been for them
in terms of a qualification question.
There's never been a question.
Now, I think we have to say that there is one.
I think 1, 2, 3, 4 plays a new style.
The way Katzia are playing, it's like,
I want to see that matchup against TM.
Like that, I don't know that it would be as easy
as it may have been in the past.
Hey, that's super valid considering
how results have been for TM.
It's going to be interesting to see
how that ends up panning out for the rest
of this regular stage here for them.
But for us, that is enough of EMEA.
We are done with our three matches of the day.
A big thanks to Jake and Matt for sticking through today with me.
We do have NA OWCS coming in next, though,
so we will see you guys right after this.
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Twisted Minds, looking to close out the series here and take over the trophy.
Of course, that's done it so many times before, and they'll do it again.
Here's OWCF 2025 World Finals Champion.
Welcome back everyone to OWCSNA.
I said we would be back after a short break.
I really meant me and I'm joined now by Jack and Moxie for the NA portion of this show.
Week one really got away from us.
It was upsets across the board,
I think through all regions of OWCS,
but the SSG over DF upset was white.
The event, especially with how stompy it was.
And then you also have Team Liquid's new imports
who have been treating them really nicely.
We're seeing level ups here in NA.
They've only dropped two maps so far
and all of those playoff spots are still up for grabs.
You were there last weekend, Moxie.
What? Yeah! I mean, Molly and I, we were sort of buckling in for a potential five-map series
between the Fuel and Space Station gaming, being like, okay, first match of the day, it's a free
oh! And it went the way of Space Station, and honestly, it was not close. Every single fight,
the Fuel one, they had to really fight for it. Every fight that Space Station won looked just
much more comfortable, both in terms of reading the new meta, but also playing their own game,
as America continues to run their own compositions.
There's been like some Nizuki features, you're getting to see some of the highlights here.
This was a Lunex with the Battle Cattle Orisa gameplay on Dorado, which was actually looking
insanely clean.
For sure we'll be seeing Orisa coming out of Zeb in a bit when we have our first match
of the day, which I think has the potential to be the closest one today.
Yeah, it definitely does Zeb my Orisa goat.
I mean, I'm not sure if that's
a good idea or not. I'm not
sure, but, um, now talking a
little bit about what changes
are coming in, though. We
cover the patch notes at the
beginning of the show, but we
got to talk a little bit more
about the new hero here, Jack,
because she looks so good. We
got a taste of it earlier during
the EME portion with aid
running it. I want to get your
thoughts on how she's going to
look to slot into these calm
and honestly, just also a little
bit of better in general. The
that. This is a very well
picked. The idea is loving
little bit she on. And I think
this hero is kind of insane.
The right click burst is
probably the best part of her
kits. I know people be like,
But you can repo three times
and dash and it's like, that's
pretty cool. But you can get
interrupted and guess who's
doing stuff. But the right
click and the accuracy you can
get with it. If you hold up.
You charge time. You narrow
the spread. It is crazy, man.
This hero is so good and.
the game. And I think that
is what's going on. I think
over health is insane. Um,
yeah, this hero is really
good. I expected to be played
a whole lot more and what EMEA
we're running with the Mauga
and the vendetta and she on
and like, Okay, this actually
might be it. They might be
cooking with someone here
because no one dies. She on
goes in. I was quite a
overdrive. No one died. It's
ridiculous. Yeah, it really
is kind of crazy. I think any
style of Overwatch to it would
weekend but overall let's talk a little bit about today's schedule here as well
right we already talked about the standings how these playoff spots are up
for grabs but again with such a quick regular season all of these matches also
matter so much we have two matches here in NA to take a look at and we have
Lunex versus Disguise for our first one coming up next and then that SSG versus
I think it's gonna be fun guys like quick thoughts here, Jack, as far as like how these teams are gonna be starting. Yeah, I think well to put it bluntly SSG cafe should be a fairly easy game for SSG.
They should be a 30 theoretically and cafe is starting down what minus six already, but lunix Dallas fuel like it's tough and then the power of space station gaming dealt with Dallas fuel.
Yeah, that should be an easy one.
Lunex versus Disguise though.
Like, this is gonna be close.
This, we've got a couple of five maps.
We could be in for another one here.
I think Lunex have the edge slightly,
but Disguise, you know what?
I give him a couple.
Hey, super valid.
But let's talk a little bit about
what these teams are playing for,
because they're not just looking
to get those slots to play off.
It's about getting all the way
to that mid-season championship for EWC in Paris,
where we'll have 16 of the best overwatch teams
in the world there on LAN.
It's gonna be a fun one.
These teams definitely want to be making it
to these majors here as well.
And you guys can be there with them
and maybe even have a chance to meet
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Make sure to scan it on your screens
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You know what I'm saying?
Overall though, let's get straight into this
Lunex versus Disguise matchup because we've talked
and we've seen how good Lunex have gotten over time.
Like stage one, they were so impressive.
Now into stage two, they're looking strong here.
Once again, Moxie in this squad,
Jack was just saying it.
He thinks that they have it to take it up against Disguise.
I mean, they could have beat Liquid.
They almost beat Liquid.
you look at that matchup,
literally all of the free maps
that liquid were able to win
came right down to the wire in
terms of tree being able to
clutch up three times in those
situations. So Linux absolutely
have what it takes to be able
to qualify. Yeah, I think the
roster, though, that they're
going against disguised. I think
this is very competitive, too.
I think Linux it's funny because
it's always been that like, oh,
we could get the playoffs. We
the game. I think the
position where they can maybe
be out. Lunax, but I'm happy
to cast PGE again. I think
that DPS is crazy and the
Brits have invaded as Kiwi's
now on the support lineup as
well. It's a good time seeing
Tread didn't have the best
opening season for his like
premier into OWS, but he has
got better over time. I just
want to see small improvements
from him as well going on
throughout the stage.
Understandable. He also had a
big move over to the States
the next we'll see if we can
take the win or if disguise
will upset. Yes Thank you very
much, Ash. You next and
disguise I've already kind of
thrown my hat in the ring.
They're moxie. I think you
next I can take this. I think
it will be a three to I get
disguised a powerful body
of thoughts here as we load
into Oasis. I agree with you.
I think of the back of this
band as well. This guy is
ban as well. This guy is taking out Zomber's Reaper which was a problem. Even Liquid themselves
said that they were having issues really trying to shut the Reaper down, teleporting in, killing
one of the backline, getting away with absolute murder. I think DSE are in a really solid position,
especially because this was the map where they were able to pull off last time they played up
against Fuel where they were able to just be totally shut down. That father with the cast of
to be PGE. You talked about it during rosters has been a stand up for this team. So for
me, I know that PGE will be able to pull this way. What I want to see improvement is with
the rest of the team.
Obviously, he's going to be rocking the ship surely PGE has 1000 hours already. Surely.
I'm like, like he said, careers already been playing a whole lot of she on the may opened
up for the starting van on she on which was like, Oh, maybe, maybe we see more of her.
wasn't as much as Asia but the thing is like they've always been one week ahead of the rest of the
regions it feels like so far this year. So I think that when we do actually see some Xi'an properly
come in it's potentially next week because there's been a fair few changes and some things though I
still say the same. That bastion cat, well we did have a few nerfs coming out onto the fluidity
of movement and obviously Bastion losing the extra armour of the artillery strike. It's still a
very valuable option to be able to just give something that has high burst damage, normally
very little mobility, the means of taking anyone down very quickly. Yeah, it's a little bit surprised
they didn't kind of tweak the tether timing on the Kat Bastion, but hey, still very valuable here
the game. You can't just go
into the game. For disguised
even without the cat P G E
rocking the bash in already and
tread on the six. So it's just
going to be teleport the
fashion around. Hopefully P G
can come up with the goods
required here because the
Zumba and X N on exactly a DPS
do you want to be facing,
especially if you're the amount
of weight on your shoulders
right now is P G is going to be
the only damage available at
this range. Yeah, you're going
to have Zumba and X N setting up
the standing position but there we go since you've gone to the high ground
into the second floor. Oh!
I can castle.
Easy boot for Zomba. Yeah, now it's red to our position sadly as well. It's so easy
to rotate as well for Lunax to spawn too. It's the Pharah you can't see if you're on top
of like Zeb you can but Zeb has so many CDs to stay alive, X10's got a dash like so hard
to teleport and looks like PG decided, yeah okay, he seems to actually kill the Pharah.
Uh, Kass is in there.
Bastion's gone. It would have been good holding the space if you wanted for a spite, but almost impossible to get back into a good position.
So PGE onto the cast, he tried to shut down Zomber, but Lunex have the grace of positioning now, and Zomber can play on cover.
Oh, good to be on to PGE. Better suits you, though.
It's not from Kyle. Again, being able to rotate with these TPs is so good.
They're just gonna... I wouldn't even call that a teleport to Lunex. You could have walked.
They would have taken you 10mins out of time.
As now Zomber is gonna just take hold of these off angles, and has Barrage in 15%.
So, again, PG's the only real person here to actually check zombie in the sky.
I mean, the good thing is, by taking some of the damage, Gael has a much rush.
Yeah, there's the rush on the point already.
Golden for Zeb, as he ends up backing off PG, now making use of that increased attack speed.
They're gonna give that one away for free, hopefully they don't lose too many people.
But no, PG and Treads will come up with kills.
Now, this guy's looking for the cleanup.
Should be able to get that one. Zeb's not gonna kill anybody.
Oh, late kill as well. On to Zeb, just stopping Lunex from being able to regroup.
A little bit faster means as well that this guy will start folding back some of that point percentage
They're missing. We really need to see how Zombo will be able to make this barrel work
Into this next fight is he at least has the advantage of one side of kids in a rush
But with the same TP for Rocket as well as the symmetrical wall
It's not going to be that wing condition at loss for this guy's
If Zombo can actually get the position that he can off angle because right now is just PG
Look at our karma. There you go. There's the boot and here comes the other clock as well
War's gonna stop that one. Oh, and the borough that is the saddest barrage
I've ever seen straight into the war if that both DPSO is getting negated completely by rocket there once again
There's all the fines and off angle without those dogs could be rather tough like you mentioned before though one side of Cassini
Rossi pops it down
So she searches the team forward and their free flip there the disguise that actually just gonna pop the flux
They come back in like this connection has to be massive. It's gonna be in the small room
And there ends up connecting with Zeb of all people but hits the golden real quick.
Kiwi falls to the sandbar but Nemba is over to race right on top of Zeb.
It's just too much damage and healing to deal with as Lunex wins that fight easily.
Yeah, but these guys will come pendulum some back into this next one though, trolley.
Like you fish for a little bit of time or you use Jedi to be able to zone Lunex back.
Skulls able to blow the one side of Kitsune and rush yet again and these guys can try and flip back.
The problem for them is that if Lunax don't lose someone on the disengaged, they can very easily kite it out and then play for second turn.
Oh, T approaching now. There's no wall available to stop the somber.
High noon for PG. Teleport across. Everybody knows this game though at this point in time. Z takes... wow, that wasn't even one point of damage.
It felt like his somber tries to shove in the sky straight up for PG.
And unfortunately Kiwi, you cannot bootfara. Nice little direct as well.
That was a rush, but unfortunately, Disguise Health bars are looking rather low and Zomber takes yet another kill.
That's three for the Pharah.
Eight out of four? Not quite. Extends stills it as Lunax get the first round.
Yeah, PGE swapped for Tracer to try to get a touch in OT, but that round has done the moment Zomber's able to hit that barrage onto the Cassidy.
Like, Disguise, they've got, like you said, that dead eye with the sim TP, but everyone from Lunax knows it, plus you're running the Arista.
So if you get a good javelin throw or javelin spin, that ultimate is entirely avoided.
It's all about the Pharah though. Like, these guys have to put so much pressure on the point
itself and force in Lunex back so they don't lose someone on entry. No one marks the Pharah with
the ultimate who wins the round for Lunex. Starting now on City Centre, this first fight's going to
be so very important because if Lunex win it, yet again, the crossfire of the Pharah and that
that sojourn will be really problematic for PGE to caught any space with his own to try to keep Zomber contested.
But if disguised, they're in a position to shoot the Faraday before she becomes a problem.
Oh, here we go. Okay.
Zomber on the Shion. What I want to see here.
Extend of course.
Very good on the sojourn. So, people on that, no problem.
So, Zomber taking an off angle here, still very much an option for Shion.
dealing with a tracer to the right clicks, like, it's pretty easy to force the tracer to recall.
So, you're gonna have to be scared.
You're camping health back, you've got a pocket in the bottom of the V.
Back connection on the PGE, get some low enough that you force this to just disengage onto the health back,
which means that when except for full control of the angle, I just turn on the Kiriko.
Yeah, like, what do you do with that situation? What do you do with this situation?
And Zombo is just on the off angle throwing bikes at you and then you try and run towards him,
But like you said, you got the bike, you got a dash which gives you open health, like very self-sustaining. It's a real rough spot.
Yeah.
Steve Tread wants to change here, just thinking on the Sigma, I'd imagine, yep. But you have to do with something you're offering.
Cast gone, Sojourn picked up for PGE instead, so. Farm off of the Orisa's health, potentially use things like the destruction as well.
Stopping Zomber from being as aggressive, trying to control those off angles.
Since if you're looking at the Sojin, you're not looking at the Tracer, like Rocket can find an In to try to hit that Juno, and look for the One Clip, you'll learn they're actually doing such a good job at guarding their backline.
There's the rogue in charge, all beautiful little connection with the right clicker seat.
Making sure they uh heal them up with the susie and yeah, mobile flying in your face,
then a dash, you've got over health, now pts the farm yet another rail, should be very
easy they'll off the eraser but it's taking time which is the problem here with disguise.
There's a combat that they can do as well, like the scree into terror surge or orbital
Oh wow, just like that, the fight is already won.
I think that Rey came down at the pixel perfect time that PG died too, so really rough fight
there for disguise.
I think they've got Pulse Bomb, but Rocket's just not getting any space to be able to get
close enough to attach it, plus you have to worry about like, Suzu being up and around.
Pg you'll have the overclock, Linux not running that Lucio will be vulnerable during it, that's really what this guy is going to be trying to hinge that hope, Sonsent, this next fight will be a rush mirror.
Don't die to X then use a railgun challenge, almost impossible will I say.
Has science gone too far when X then's got railguns, choose ulti.
So the PC can put a match.
At least, so this guy's will be a little bit more sustaining in the case of the Sojournal.
Oh well, they haven't got us before. Oh he checks! Oh Kiwi! You haven't got Sam by any more son.
Sondra with a dirty, dirty fork. Oh he gives us a little drift as well.
A little donut in the car park after that one. Oh my goodness, Looneggs.
Putting disguise in the dumpster. That was disgusting.
Uh, chat me a little clip on that one. Fill on socials real quick.
Thank you very much, are they all helping him for us?
I don't think she un-dead on us.
I think she did.
I mean, like you said, who decided to give this DPS over-help on Dash?
She's pretty good.
Every time Zombo was able just to aggressively take the lane, throw the motorbike,
start taking some chunk damage from the soldier,
instantly dashes back which sets up the angle for the execution
followed up by just the primary,
you. You know, it's like
you're going to be able to
get away with it. And then
because of the over health, you
still have the sustainability
to survive the social check. It's
insane. What's on this able to
get away with. She's pretty
good. There you go. Take that
into your own games. Just do
back. Just 50 times newbie
champion. Think about that.
Yeah, something looks real
clean on it. Obviously got
highlighted in a second, but
that was the pick as well from
It's just insane. Look at the Ajax.
Yeah, that's not just the Ajax.
That's also stopping Skull's Kitsune Rush.
That's why all of the kills come through so quickly on the side of Lunex afterwards.
Skull is setting up to match Kitsune Rush onto the actual point,
and then you're wanting to use the over health of Siren Barrier
so that you can actually survive and win out the fight,
because you know that Juno used Orbital Ray the fight before,
which is lies on the nose that you have the green light to go ahead, throw the ultimate in,
in and catch Lucio before you can hit the ground. Like the damage coming off of that
spree, it's so fast, Jack. It really is something that Lucio players have to worry about.
Dude, Reaper players and Reaper, like he's crying right now. He's like, wait, you guys
can dash in your hole and there's like three bursts of it? Have you got a valve? I have
a shift and a TP and I have to stand still. Or basically still.
How the creep. That's for what it is.
No, she's cool. And she's cool to watch too, which is why I'm pretty excited to cast these ones.
I think Shion in general, I think it's going to get picked a whole bunch, especially in these comps
that can just engage very quickly. You can have two different kind of high stars with her,
you can play it like, Zombo is playing there, well, I hold an off angle, I try and find a pit,
I divert attention, and then our frontline just holds the point. Or we can just go in,
you can just hold W and run at
them and then she on finds someone
with a right click or you know is
able to dash in the fight and just
out sustain your the enemy
frontline kind of thing. Um new
Queen Street is our second map
here. This guy is picking this
one rather disgruntled. I'd
imagine especially up that last
round wasn't close. There was I
think it was one death at each
They always took the first turn, so no one was able to really get past the bounce to check with the Orisa and the Shion on the off angle.
So even though you're on Kureko Juno, which means if a tracer gets through your Juno should be absolute mincemeat,
we never really got to see that come into fruition, as I was about to say, do we think that we actually capture Shion's bounce?
Of course, yes!
Oh, and we're straight because like, if this guy is not ready to deal with this,
going to push a map which allows that Shion to be able to set up on multiple different angles,
have multiple ways actually where you can get to the high ground, there's some really cool bits of tech that you can do with Shion,
where when you ride your bike you can clip into walls which then pushes you up,
and New Queen Street has a lot of places where that tech points its home.
So I think the easy answer is just ban the Shion and force the Tracer 1v1.
Guess what, map 3, 4 and 5, I can't ban Shion, so it's that as well.
Disguise, you've got to pull out something crazy here, PG, I know you've got it in you, I know you've got it in you.
you gotta pull out the shield at some point. Is that the same bike as well from the tracer highlight intro?
And the Kiriko one?
She's got it.
Have you seen it?
No, surely not.
It's a Hashimoto bike.
There's actually a Hashimoto logo on your bike.
No, but like, is it the Hashimoto bike that traces riding in that highlight intro?
I'll have to check.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, it was a highlight intro with it.
Well, there's the, uh,
second band, yeah, Mizuki.
Um, what do you think of this one?
I mean, I'm not surprised to see Mizuki get banned. Mizuki did actually get a buff coming out of this patch.
Why? That's what? Free patches in a row now. Mizuki has had buffs. This one wasn't even a perk buff.
This one's actually like useful. It's really useful actually. So by that you can use the teleport and go much later, right?
It lasts longer and then it also comes back faster. Something about Mizuki as well that a lot of people don't see.
they think like oh 11 second cooldown on teleport that's actually quite long no
that thing starts the moment that you actually use your talisman so it's
actually only about six seconds once you use it that you get it back so you can
actually be very aggressive with nizuki and go for some flank plays and then
teleport back to your team plus some teams just don't want to have to run into
his ultimate if you're relying on something like emre or sojourn to be a
wing condition in the fight taking out sanctuary is one of your best apps yeah
It feels like over the last few patches and obviously she on as well. It's like we're playing flank watch
That's all we've been playing issues. We will make flankers just really really good like Kiriko as well as a perfect
Shining example of that too back when she was released even when she had double teleport and obviously she's still very good at doing that as well now
That kind of playstyle was just been up so much and plus
Suzuki
After his even three net buffs, he's going to be almost perfect, right?
Like, he is ridiculous.
And people have gotten so good with the sanctuaries, which is another thing.
It's kind of another hurdle you have to climb when it comes to like OWCS, like Tier 1 esports competition,
is just the ability to use it as effectively as possible.
And EMEA, we saw some insane sanctuaries today.
So we're probably going to see a little bit more Musuki.
Won't be in this map though, and we'll definitely see some more Shion.
But new Queen Street, we're gonna load in. What do you think the tank look is gonna be here for both teams?
I mean
Likely Zeb on Arisa. I feel like unless you ban out the Arisa Zeb, we'll just always try and pick it up as much as he's possibly
able to. DSG, they've got a few options. Like you could go Sigma, you could go Evo,
especially now that the Mizuki's been taken off the table, right? Because that chain going through both defense matrix and Sigma shift is
is really problematic for those two tanks to have to deal with, especially Diva, who's hyper-reliant on the boosters for that mobility to be able to zip in and out of those fights.
So, we'll have to see. I feel like Tread's more comfortable on things like the Sigma. There's always a shout for Malga as well, Jack.
I hate that we have to say it, but there is always a shout for Malga. But I think for Tread, like, especially because you know that there will be on the Arista, it's likely the SIG over the Diva.
We saw it in EMEA a little bit. Something mag is very good with the Vendetta, with the
Sheon. I think it's very powerful right now. Well, it looks like it's going to be almost
what we're sort of reverting back to this. Start with both Sojans, Zomber on the Tracer,
Rocket distill on the Sim to try and teleport Tread around. Not necessarily a slower backline
for Lunex, but without the thermospeed illusion.
Yeah, but it's obviously only Tracer on the field.
Lunex not going for the sensors.
I'm going to have a lot of freedom of playing away
from the rest of his team, which means this guy's still
on my watch.
Cool.
Randomly dies because it's Q9.
They're so bad.
Oh, he's shorting us out.
OK, well, my goodness, he was so low.
OK, though.
Still waiting to take staircase, of course, but this guy said.
happy to kind of play on the score and not the happiest of all time obviously losing that first fight but they're not going to be
Uncontent
What's this guys moving because their backline keeps going low and low likes in Zumba in particular with z
Just continue to apply pressure behind this guy so they can't really focus on anchoring the point itself
Which means that that's moving fairly fast
PG needs a rogue and connector needs a kill
the way they are just not going to go off this angle. Well they forced Suzu at least, but again PG can't be pushed off this considering Zombo is playing right up in his face and in fact they're just going to go straight towards PG. Good call from Zeb.
It's not calling there from NXX, it's real nice. Suzu comes out, in stickle on PG, you can't escape.
Yeah, the Jabble and Charles are from Zeb, sets up the Sun of Sojourn so you can't get back to your Kiriko or your Lucio.
Lucio and Linux just in sync with the back of that one kill. It's the soldier that's holding him back, right?
The threat of getting one tapped by that fully charged rail. The moment a PGE is gone,
Disguise chances at winning the fight, go with it and Linux will easily be able to pick up that first checkpoint
and don't even really have to overstep their boundaries.
They can just rely on sending Sondra into the backline to turn Disguise's attention and give them space to kite away from Talisman's side of brush.
Yeah, clean and concise team fights as well.
They didn't use any ulcers in Avenue. Now they got some and now if they can kind of win the fight here
They got a checkpoint and then they get their march on to all my tread. Where did my guy go?
Well, that's important
Tread just moves away from the rest of his team. Use the shift.
Does that wait for that to be done?
Pro's the jadolin which again finds connection which is instantly followed up by X-10 trail shot. Like Linux is just so
coordinated off of when Zed sees a target no to their loan no to the killable and
instantly jumps on the kill.
Like the rush, thick, lands on the ground, everybody dodges it but someone's gonna log
summer just checks on the real quick someone please. Well Zed's in the spawn
has got Terrasurge, doesn't use it, doesn't matter. X-Ten picks up the kill onto Pg and
is now just dominating the game. Although the flux should put it to rest. Hang on a second,
she still kills Kiwi. Don't know how but they got a hundred and thirty meters of
It's fine to lose this fight guys. You're gonna have a lot more time left.
Tread eventually puts down X10, but I mean within three minutes getting 130 meters is...
That's average. Like straight up. The map might be enough.
I mean, Tread uses flux as well.
Then why?
Then why is just way too easy.
Then why is hell? Okay.
Yeah, then why is totally out, will be entirely unchecked.
Now it means that you're speeding Zeb into position to hold this corner,
which means that just die and don't even get full push.
They're gonna pull back.
Oxy, head to break, too, they might pull back.
There's a soundbar from Kiwi, actually connects with the ground this time, thankfully.
Reach on you.
Yeah, but Lunex just bark off.
There are search, press really low.
It's on D.Va now of all things as well.
X-10.
Puts down the Dark Lord as Tread loses mech.
But yeah, quick regroup here for Lunex is required,
but they're still up a player.
But I'd say a player and a half.
I mean, Tread doesn't have mech, so he's not gonna be too useful.
Oh, they're gonna chase down the baby D.Va eventually. Spear goes wide, shouldn't matter though, and there come the kills.
Oh, P.T.! He's RIP and O. He got one. Hang on a second. He's got 70 HP. Surely he gets another. He just needs one pick here.
A single extra would have been enough, you'd think.
Respawns are gonna come in for a disguise here. Moxie, but Lunex are just pushing this on to this final point.
I mean if you're disguised, you're treading water until Skar gets rushed.
Lunex will back off, they want to have Zeath's rush to match,
and also like the more they back off, Zomber gets that freedom to flank into
disguised backline, which then turns paranoia, and
disguised don't get to hold the angles as cleanly as they want.
Zeath's just gonna rush around the corner, then they're gonna roll over them,
Skar's gonna have to respond, and then Zomber maybe hits the post one,
they're going over to rain 10% as well.
Good Rock on the Zed though, easily kills the Eris, but stick from Sombra is nasty onto Kiwi, but PTE!
Finally on the board, double railgun kill, the skies have the bottom.
Yeah, but Linux have one sided way into this next fight, the skies at least going to put
Rockett actually onto the May, so you're playing a little bit more of a morally survival style.
On the objective, you can use things like that, May will try and shut down some of the movements.
But the limit is special in how aggressive Zed has been.
There's the right invested and the gliders have to give up all his face.
At least give them a meet-up.
Come on. At least give them one.
Both Zed ends up going down. That's a fantastic start.
I like Rocket's change up here onto the main.
Much easier to brawl out in the front line now.
You're playing much more of a front to back off rather than playing pick on a flank.
I hope as well with Kiwi on the alarm too, so you can sort of hold your own against some of the Z and Nennlite.
And speaking of, Nennlite's already down, so Disguise getting early kills on the Arisen and late kills on to both the Tracer and the Tuno.
Meaning that they're finally for the first time in this round, Joe, is actually able to move the bot forward.
I think this high ground control here from Disguise just needs to be permanently held,
especially with how Boonex now want to play with this Reaper too.
Zomber is just gonna basically be walking forward,
forcing Tread to hit that ship.
Kiwi is on low ground, all outbursts.
Has got the ult though, so might be okay.
Force is actually a nice main wall too.
They actually get to the mega health back, he does, but yeah, no ship.
So good pick up onto Zomber.
They're up a player, 4v5.
Ah, but can Loonex find a Shogun Street again?
He has the ult, but won't speak about the ult.
Xim uses first.
What? Like three different fights happened? Zed when he scored 1v4 in the mega health pack room, ends up going down anyway, XN rips the head off of Skyle,
they're still with three minutes to go in a hundred and ninety minutes to Luna. I mean, disguise these fights first.
I mean, Lunax is just forcing fights though. They're forcing fights, they're forcing ultimates, which is in turn slowing the distance that these guys are able to pick up despite the guys winning them.
They've now seen that there's more to me in flight off of the orisa onto the Zarya so you can just go into a ball of your own, plus double Zonda, which means that Tread will be under so much more pressure.
They're free energy as well for the Zarya, so Zarya's gonna be kinda charged as well.
Rush for Zee, rush for Skarl, as well as this captive Sun for Kiwi.
I reckon we are missing skin just yet, I'm a little bit disappointed, I can't write you.
There's the rushes and the blizzard as well now that's going to be in trouble
Pg trying to hold on here in the doorway, but a nice and double shot there
Zombra in their way end up going down checkpoint is going to get secured in a matter of moments here
There's lunax almost letting it slip through their fingers, but still a mountain this one a very small hill
I suppose if you really want to be a literal about it, they still need to climb
That disguise will have to climb and they don't have a lot of ultimates to be able to crest
QB would cap to the sun as all but Zed with bubbles should be able to shut that one down.
If you're Linux you're just playing for the right time, despite of no good answer to it
I'd sort of just disengaging, but that means that Linux will be able to push the bot back.
Oh well, they're just waiting, buying their time at this point.
Add to Sam from Kiwi, and it's actually connected.
Oh, it's two players sliding on the stairs!
Actually, completely stood up for the rest of the team.
CX-10 already down now.
Lunex, 190 meter lead.
Surely a fumble can't be this huge.
Samba falls down there to the outburst as a team kill connects.
An Oaks coming up here for the slice.
Yeah, that positioning on styles like Lunex,
maybe they were wanting to use the right of Poster's guys to back away
then have two players catch the disengage and cut them off.
that actually catches them totally out of position with the swing and Linux now
going to have to play for a line on the other they have to just go across this
guy's back
well here comes the flux it was great gonna come in as well I said looking for
the one single kill looks like PG is gonna help finish off said that was some
connection thread though so still only a minute to go 18 meters separating the
team right now as a lunax they've got sport advantage too if they can just
for all out and survivors by the they might be good for the wind still please
it's gonna be good for one here from rocket now he's chasing down more see
gets counts on by PG the rail guns are hitting straight and through now for
sojourn this is so good from disguise because what they've done is they've
split lunax they've killed the lake which means that she's responding late
to this fight she won't be able to board a thrust much guns okay grab it on
search here this is the game ended this is the game decided here x10 pops though
pop steamy ult already. It's overclocked. No fighting too much perches though, in fact
yes that just slide all the way back. Now you have to bare our hands. If you don't
bare our hands here it could be disastrous for Zeb. You can attach to the wall of
course but the grass doesn't have quite an instant distance in front of your face there.
Rush is gonna come in, go, ends up going pretty low there, PGE runs all the way down,
X10 went a bubble but still PGE comes out on top. Graviton, third shoes and Zeb
I think it's just most of them
down or beams down. I should
say as lunax not quite the
fumble that disguise were
hoping they played 190 meters
off of the ribbon. They come
out with the daba to lead in
the series. Smart call from
Linux. Like, yes, it's very
early overclock from that end,
but it achieves its purpose. It
gives you that space to build
You know that you still have the distance lead. You just have to win at the fight outside your spawn and you'll have the ultimate as long as you can keep this guys at arm's length for the next 50 or so seconds, which is perfect time for another clock.
You'll be able to achieve that. So, some very smart stuff from Lonex, especially at the start. Man, the fight that they lost multiple times in a row, this guy's were adapting really well to the original.
that was way close. Avalor
theories and intact way closer
than it needed to be, though.
That was nine meters difference
from disguise picking up the map
and going want a piece 119 offer
it with by the way within three
minutes. That is how absurd that
was. Um is such a tremendous
lead that like you highlighted
you're using players, even
getting like straight up team
killed enabling enabling the
point cap. And he's something
you need to look back in the
board. I think if you're, uh,
still next. Like that, too. The
fact that you're so and your
carry both get caught on says
by captive son of all things as
well, and you're not able to
just blip out before the captive
son gets like there were some
the team that should be able
to qualify. But in the past,
they've been picked to the post
so many times because they've
done so so good to a point, but
never quite been able to crest
that final hurdle. We even saw
a little bit of it last week
where they looked really, really
strong on attack. But the moment
that they had to go on the
defensive, the things just fell
apart when they weren't able to
control when the fights actually
kicked off. Which is funny
because there's not really,
there's not really a true
the game. They're just
losing back to back. They're
losing back to back. They're
losing back to back. They're
losing back to back. They're
just like losing back to back
fights and they are on their
side of the map. You just
sitting is going to be big
here for disguised. See if
they can round this one out
technically, there is a point
of defending here depending
the point you've got cap.
Moxie, but yeah, we'll see
how they end up doing. Sean
She cannot be bad. So come
saw the strain that Disguise were put under by the Tracer on New Queen Tree.
Like, even when we moved to Forward Spawn's active for Lunax, Zonda being able to just
worm his way multiple times into that backline with the Thread of Pulse bomb was so, so clutch
for so many of those instances that if Disguise are having real issues being able to keep those
blanks in check, that will be an issue that continues to rarise head on New Junk City and
Bane will be very interesting to see. Well, they can't exactly ban out the trace because
Zumba would just play the She-On. So, it's like, you're sort of damned if you do, damned
if you don't ban a DPS because both the Reaper and the She-On will be active here. So maybe
what you actually do is you take Mattis into your own hands and ban out a tank.
It's the new Beyblade comp when you play She-On and the Reaper at the same time. And
you both spin and then you both win. Looks like they're going to decide to ban the other
set instead. So it's going to be a tank focus and for disguised. So you're a Lunex on a
ban. What do you think? Because for me, I'm like, realistically, what do I ban off of
disguised? Do I ban? Okay, it's going to be Cassidy. Sure. I mean, I don't hate it to
be honest. It does leave Lunex's DPS line a lot more free, free of like flashbangs
in your face every five seconds. So yeah, don't hate it.
Taking out Hinder and also taking out something that has the range to be able to out DPS or
Sheon or a Tracer. That's what you're really worried about, especially because PGE has been
on absolute fire lately. Being able to play the casting and shut down things like Farrow's
Tracer. Sheon forces you to have to put so much more resources into being able to clear
out that one DPS when if you're playing something like a Tracer, you don't want to be taking
resources from the rest of your team. The whole point of Tracer is that she's self-sufficient
so that the more people whose heads turn in the fight that she's engaging with, the more
value the rest of your team, your frontline core, will be able to achieve when they walk with player
advantage. So it totally defeats the purpose. If Cassidy is in and you're having to send
something like a killer code to be able to have the safety to send a sheet on or a Tracer to
the game. You know, you can
get a lot of damage on the
flank. You know, it's someone
that you could really truly
want to be one and it feel
fair at all. I don't forget as
well to connect your button
account to your Twitch account.
Or just YouTube account as well.
I believe you connected there,
but yeah, there's a lot of
drops being thrown in for this
stage. So yeah, June 13th to
July 2nd. Yeah, gonna get a
drops. Don't worry. Couple
little cards there. Couple
couple of battle pass skips which is quite nice and of course the Overwatch Esports loot box. I did open
a chunk of Hunter's Pharah. I pulled the Cheating of Pharah, very classic.
I think my best Esports drop, I got a Pog to Pro player exclusive.
Oh really? Wait, you got this?
Yeah, 2019 and 2021. Player exclusive icon that they only gave to people who participated,
that they only gave to people who participated. It was the
Genji Tracer right? It was the Genji Tracer. Yes. I do
remember those. I do remember those. I'm still happy to
turn to Hunters one drink because they're not technically
in a little shopping either at the moment. Yeah. massive W.
Yeah. So, make sure you connect your account. Yeah, in the
loot box eventually and yeah, you can rock some old Overwatch
League goodies. Um let's jump into this one then. Uh
disguised. No obviously not kind of pivoting right now to the Shion but
Lunex might not do it here either, the Zomber of Hovering.
Hovering the Sim.
Well Zomber was in earlier on the Shion before he swapped on to the Sim so likely SimTP to just get the team out a little bit faster as the
guy's taking the Orisa away means that we're going to be having some more of that
ram-made role. No Juno in play just Lucio, speak with narrative Zomber will be
going further she onto off angle which means that this guy is yet again going
to have to play flying quad sticks at this time without the cast wait this is
the true baby cop we have to get absorbed by our next head there will be
sitting when they hit her off this is perfect just what I wanted to see I
like said picking up this sorry to promise against the ramen of action
He's not like it. He's just not like it.
It doesn't just get popped, quite literally, right?
You Zarya sell bubble, and then your bubble gets popped, and then your health bar gets popped.
And I think it's actually like a really good answer to what Lunex have been wanting to run,
because like, Lunex, they want to set up the flank to the Zomba,
which means that Zeb will be alone,
and this guy's just ignore the Shion, and go for the Zarya,
and without a team tank to anchor Lunex's composition.
They all just crumble.
So I'm just gonna have to find a mean off angle but again no one's off angling for disguised either so
Realistically you're just you're fighting and you're forced to front like fight the front to back
Go to bike in
But why unfortunate for your rotation here coming through from disguise trying to walk people off of that may but looks like this guy's right now
At first the moment at least you found an answer to this calm that lunatic are bringing it comes to fall from PG
My god, that damage from Sombra.
BT didn't know where to help while it, like instantly killed.
For help?
Sombra uses the extra armor from the dash to get the life!
They ended up killing Tread as well, I mean this should be a flip for Lunex.
I mean, Rocket was also kind of carrying there with only a couple of kills on the Mae, but wow.
Yeah, Skull just gets totally pinned down by the 1v1 duel against Sombra, which means that no one's there to heal Tread.
So, Lunax, like Disguise did in the first fight, all the tanks set up shop on the point.
Scarlet Lease though, one side of Kitsune Rush.
Disguise have been using that to leverage these fightwinds so often this series, this one should be no different.
See, he is gonna have this pretty quick though, like one little head, oh there you go, it's instantly, yeah.
One little headshot, little bit of extra damage, little bit of shield and then he should be good to match.
See, it takes tank and come up with something beautiful here, with her ult.
There it is. Oh, top first. Ends up getting shielded as well by Visaria over the top with the crack in the dome.
Doesn't find anybody just yet, but forces the skies to hide.
Yeah, unfortunately now no main healer here for the skies and the Blizzard.
He's just gonna go by the wayside. Zomber 15 HP.
actually nine lives type behavior cat behavior from somber right now is lunax
and a capping that first point stars need to survive and unfortunately the
damage from somber and how sneaky he was to coming up from the low ground yeah
just too good for disguise to deal with I mean everyone gets caught up looking at
X tens overclock right they all have to position away from the sojourn for it
which means that a zombie can close up the distance and go for who you really
want here I go now lunax still have the rush to be able to match the scar but
Good potential, you can take scot early as the fight again.
Now this is the kind of comp that I thought would be really good.
The Vendetta even with the...the Shion.
Vendetta is just so good at just getting in there.
Yeah, exactly.
I think Shion right now, P.G. more confident, more...
All well trained, they said.
No, well versed on the Sojourn, of course.
Graptone Surge is good.
Should be a fairly trivial fight here.
You just don't have the time really to build up grabbed on search of your own if you're a threat there
So Zephyr does it's like not gonna be a crappy grab fight
Zephyr's is grabbed off at Skars Rush Z gets to hold her own for the next fight
This is devastating for disguised because now you're probably going to lose the fight that happens afterwards
Because you have to get rush out
And then when you pull rush out you have to worry about Sam barrier who never like she's already got it
so you're not going to be relying on rockets sundering blade ripping all of the health off.
Can zombie get another cheeky flank playing on the flank currently? It's going to be harder to
deal with rocket of course if rocket doesn't have done for a big engage but that dash with the
over health plus the fight it's it does hit the scales in zombie's favorite games like it's the
overhead dash there from rocket but in our both bubble shoes happy though though i would say force
the rush. First the rush also buys point percent. We're still holding on to Simon Barre for when
PGE gets his overclock online for the size to watch at that. This is by the way terrible.
Oh good, Railgun hit there initially from PGE. It's going to be a four man
Sandbarre here for Lunex as they do trying to push onto the back line. They managed to focus
down Rockier to about half HP, but a little bit too nimble as PGE takes over the fight.
Triple kill for the Sojourn. And that'll be that for Lunex at the back all the way out. That's
Sambara while decent for them why they weren't able to actually collapse on an individual player
I mean disguise for the playing on the wire for all of these next fights 98% for Linux from one fight
They've got that point disguise. This is the true test shut down Zonda shut down X 10
Make sure that style is able to safely get his rush on the field as you can see Zonda the plane flying watch yet again
All those rockets straight in though. There's a couple bubbles on the ground
Don't straight into it! Not where you want to be, Zomba!
Oh, hey, my best, uh, my best advice there, don't jump into the ground when you're rolling.
Uh, I'm forcing us there for Zomba.
Lunax.
Exkip White.
And, yeah, Ex-Head also blowing the ult there too.
As long as it says, you know what? That's enough. We need to crunch back. We need a Reaper.
Yeah, Zomba comes for on the Reaper now, but if you use the Overpop, this guy's gonna just be so happy.
They've got rush, they have soundfire, they have no reason to be forcing to use again.
Yeah, like, Lunex will still try to take this fight, likely just to force ultimates and try and build one of that own.
Maybe Zev can get a Hail Mary if he grabs it on for a little bit, he's strong.
Well, it's already in the back line as well, this fight is completely spun off for Lunex, and I'm not sure they're going to be able to even start here.
That was a nice engagement actually from Rocket.
Received bubbles from Tread, went to the other choke where they know they're trying to off angle,
And then, Tread uses the, like a self-bubble to then push on into the other choke, like on the high ground, so really nicely executed from the skies there as we go on to the next point.
Rocket's holding Sundering as well, which now means that when Nenlai gets her Ssangbara online, she can't use it until the Vendetta ults, or what makes her have to do everything in her power, including maybe solo-grabbing Rocket, to make sure that Sundering does not shred off the Ssangbara because that means that Kiwi just has straight advantage.
Here grab you one, oh yes you will, good sound barrier though, and they're kind of behind this corner too.
Sunder and Vape from Rocket has a whole lot of damage from X10, she ends up throwing the disruptive shot in, right on top of the grass,
but the overheld kind of dealt with all that damage that was incoming.
Now Zeb with a lot of green overheld now putting themselves on point.
Next to it, if you use the sound barrier, they kill PG and that's point cap.
Yeah, Z has rush for next fight too and these guys don't have anything to offset it plus you're likely looking for late kills here
Fighting on mid but that's getting low
So Linux are actually going to back off and give this guy space at this point
You want them to be able to walk in so deep that they can't just force out rush with Azaria bubble engagement
Bend out of the way they did that point and then cut out
That's right. Yeah, the rush is just too strong quick reset though. I lost rocket
Ah, but Zomber loves coming to potentially find a TP angle here. This is what Zomber loves to do on New Junk City, and teams get a little bit too caught up with 0% against them, and don't have time to close out those corners. That's when Zomber's able to really make it difficult.
They're the complete opposite of that.
Oh, there comes X-10. Nice flank here. Actually, it's split up by the Lucio too, so it's then why Annex then trying to find opening picks.
Little dash towards the high ground as Tread just gets focused. Again, splitting up the fight completely, as then why it survives on like minus 2 HP.
Skyle down, Lunex with another point on the board. Only one more before I end this series 3-0.
This is when Lunax look the most comfortable, when they're the ones that decide to take first turn, and they totally split your tempo into absolute chaos.
The Zombo will have Deathwoss, and that will be bubbled by Zed, so this guy's likely not going to be able to fully shut it down as we go up 2 to 1 for Lunax, fighting in mid.
It looks like with both of these teams trying to take on the other, forcing out that sorry bubble clearly, and Zombo just backs out because you've done it wrong.
Nice grab with the choke, point unlocked at a perfect time as well, so just a single grab there for the fight win, and the point cap as well.
How do the next round play into this where you take it? It'll be much harder to get Zumba into a good position now that the skies have won that fight.
They could actually assign players to watch all of those different angles, you can literally like see PGE, looking main, looking behind, looking main, looking behind.
Even having QE, that's to be able to very quickly roof position on the next get ready to push forward with the grab of the run.
Alright, the railgun.
OC for PGE.
No one's even given PGE a chance.
Really nice, and actually they end up holding space there as well.
QE with the B round the corner and NYZ quite far behind in terms of how this fight is being paced out.
They've got to get these ults on real quick, B hop for Zed.
Ooh, they're yeeting at the grab!
That grab was insane!
They're gonna pattern the sound barrier though, so instead of going down,
spinning to win this over in the backline, they went to clearing up two.
Now a three on three, the Kiwi, spots Sombra with the teleport.
You see her with the insta-kill, and that will be a stagger two onto Z.
Oh, nice fight from Disguise.
Expectals!
That's, that's point.
With that late kill onto Z, Linux without Kirika, without Kitsune Rush,
there's no chance that you can regroup.
And that is a two-two tie.
Rocket will have bullets it linux can make a play like they've got good ults
But losing see that way and the point being on disguise side of the map means that disguise will be set up in a position to run away from this rush
When linux try to break close the point
They were clawing at their screens there both now why and see just hoping they get ults for that grab and that the proceeding fight
Rough final fight their rough final fight on our last points, but now they got all right now
How they get to swing the tempo in their favour.
Good snipe from X10, scores a kill on CG.
Hold on, not quite, this is gonna get invested though.
Double slide away before X10.
Sam Barrie doesn't have a pitting forward,
doesn't do enough though, saves Zomba sadly.
And now X10 gonna finish this fight clearly with this overclock.
Big investment here though for Lunex.
Can't be understated at all, at the point.
I mean, large investment from Disgustace as well,
let's try to hold it off.
Grav and Blizzard both invested after PGE was put too far out in the open against X-10's
Overclock, which means that the Sky is, they won't have the crap it's on until we go to
Final Fight territory, which is one of the things that you could do to try and shut down
Zonba when you decide to drop in your whole team with a Death Blossom.
If you're the Sky is, you're wanting to just clutch up some of these fights with an opening
pick from PGE that look at how well limited the player in the cover, not changing the
So until one gets a sorry to push the angle
I really like this as well. Holding PG out there. Wow, Zomber basically just WM1 and killed PG
He slid back defensively twice there. So had no way to escape and Zomber goes, okay, I just walk now
Oh the Blossom too
Just to make sure that Linux win that fight outright that just goes
Someone has to go for a touch PGE off of surgeon on to trace it, but like this
Oh, Zee! What a beast!
Zee loses in lane to Zee.
Oh, what a beast! Zee with her heads up, great brain too big, IQ too high.
Zee with a nice little pick off onto PGE secures them the map.
And the series of bags, Lunex.
A clean 3-0.
Hey, I thought this was gonna be...
I thought we were gonna have a little 5-out series here, Moxiva.
I was proven very wrong.
I mean, I came into this thinking that Linux had to leave,
especially off of the performances that we've seen from them
against Liquid earlier last week.
Like I said, they really could have keyed up one that series
if Tree had not decided to clutch up three maps.
But it really just looks much more put together.
There's still issues, right?
You can still tell that this team struggle
when they're not the ones in the driver's seat,
when they're not the ones really determining that tempo
and they get pushed on the defensive.
But that's why the issue from disguised in that first fight of the last point, then using things like Graviton and the Blizzard, even though they were damn players,
was so problematic for the fight to happen afterwards because suddenly you have no cards in your hand to punish Linux if they decide to just go first before you're ready to walk out of choke.
You can't use Blizzard to zone them back, you can't catch the over-aggression with Graviton and punish it.
No, we don't have to be good at ultracking. They literally use them in front of them in the fight before
Extensing a clean 10k DPS as well or not DPS. Sorry just damage 10k DPS would be crazy
And I'm not like what a walk off number
Yeah, X then she's still got it on the sojourn. I'm excited to see how this team kind of develops
I like zombies look on the she on I think the the she on with the soach do a lot of work as well
you mentioned still a little
bit to work on for the team
who's always been at the
press of piss of kind of pushing
through to a land pushing
through to kind of a playoff
situation as well. Um yeah,
304 Lunax. I'm excited to see
what they can do in the
upcoming weeks. Yeah, I think
one of the issues is going to
be like addressing the airport
banning out the orisa made
that was on the Arissa because he continued to be that aggression. Like he is always going to be a player that literally only has W for his keyboard, no SQ at all for this guy.
But there's some things that you can get away with surviving on Arissa with things like 4-5 and Javelin Spin to absorb that damage that you simply cannot on Zarya when your bubble gets popped into that sheer amount of burst damage that disguises the whole plan hinged on.
There you go. That's that's your highlight moment. I'm sure we'll be going back in the bottom posting that on socials because that was disgusting
Yeah, 4.5 in the letter box there
I'll give that one easy. Um, yeah great stuff from lunax disguise a little bit more to work on I think
And she on kind of proving her worth especially on the first map
I think the hero is very good. She's in a lot of it for me. Me a and permanently in Korea
I think they look fantastic
coming up in just a moment, but
there is your final score for
this series.
That was 3-0.
That last map was very close.
Did it go down to the wide there?
A little 2-2.
And then the third point, obviously,
flipped over for Lunex.
Yeah, I think that's not the last
we'll see from Xion for sure.
I think like execution, it's just
such a good cooldown to be able
to put pressure on things like
you know, it's like Lucie's
wall lighting. You can't
passion. I think we'll have
issue playing into she on up of
how easy it is to sort of
anticipate the bastion of the
cast movement and just fully
catch them out with that full
clip. I got interview coming
up or actually just right now
with none other than Nen why
from team lunax. So welcome to
the show. Once again, it's been
But how are you guys feeling in this new meta and with the new hero, Shion?
It looked incredible from Zomba, but yeah, how are you guys feeling?
We're all feeling pretty good.
We did better this time around than last stage.
We're able to 3-0 this team this time.
And in terms of the meta, we're still figuring stuff out.
It is still all really new to us, but Zomba's been enjoying Shion a lot.
He's doing really good on it.
He dropped like 21 and 1 on the first map, and I just had a feeling it's going to be
a really good series from there on out.
So, can you talk us through a little bit of New Queen Street? Because you guys, like, the first three minutes opening, insane, almost touched the spawn door challenge complete.
And then the fights that happened afterwards, like losing players, early getting caught out with two of your players on stairs by captive son, like, what exactly happened that map where you started losing so many fights in a row and what change that meant that you won the last fight to be able to take the map?
tape them up?
Um, so after we lost a fight and they spawned, I tried to make a play of my Juno when I suspected
that I had no ults and then I ripped it a little too early.
I didn't think they'd kite it, but they did kite it and then they came back and won that
fight.
And that fight was pretty tough to lose because that was pretty much our fight to win.
We had an advantage.
They had nothing supposedly.
So losing that fight gave them just an advantage for the next fight to have a chance to snowball
with other ults.
And then for the rest of the comp, they didn't make swaps,
and we haven't really been able to make swaps
due to our being close to some ults.
So towards the end, we were able to swap
to what we ideally wanted to be on versus their comp.
But in terms of other fights,
mostly just like, it just came down to the ultimates,
they'd have like better ult matchups,
and they're just always picking up the battle going in
with our comp.
Well, final question before I let you go.
Obviously, it was a big confidence bill to win here,
3 0 for the team. But what do you think your biggest strength as a team is?
Our biggest strength, I mean, we're definitely getting a lot more flexible. So
that's like a weakness I've been clearing. And it's spilling up a lot of
confidence in us to take on these like other top teams. And with this
flexibility and the new hero, especially, we feel like we can definitely punch up
and take over one of the top three teams now. But definitely our biggest
strengths would probably be our trust. We are just a good group of friends. We
We've worked through this for a while.
They've worked it longer than me, but we're still,
we have a lot of trust in each other.
We just know each other.
We know how we're going to play
and we can just be very reliable
coming into game day to play our best.
Punch up.
Yeah, I mean, that's top team material there.
Just trust, full trust in each other
and literally anything's possible.
And well, the 3-0 today
and a fairly easy one as well from yourself.
So good luck in your next and upcoming games
over the next couple of weeks.
And yeah, make sure you have fun as well.
Thank you so much.
All right, perfect.
That was, uh, then why they're from a team,
and look that two and one singer plus four as well.
You can't not be happy with that one.
Yeah.
You're really happy in terms of map differential because like this is a team here.
You just heard from them.
Why she feels like going to be able to take on like these top three teams and you want
to have good map differential when it comes to closing up some of those spots later down
the line, especially with the fact that some of these games are taking a little bit of time
to work out the new meta. They've had a week of scrims to try to work out exactly what's
going on, so I think there's still a lot of experimentation that is occurring, and I think
this next match as well will still be featuring some of that, like, space station gaming, probably
going to just be trying to figure out, like, can we actually use this composition, how feasible
is it going to be? Because scrims, we have scrimbugs for a reason. Officials are the
you're not going to be able to
get to the real deal teams and
squirms. They don't always try
the hardest. Sometimes they're
hiding strategies because you
don't want to really give away
what you're going to play and
officials, though, you can hold
nothing back. If you feel like
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Are they going to be able to
at least take a single map of
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DF versus SSG matchup almost like Dallas Fuel versus Dallas Fuel. What really happened there?
Are SSG looking better than ever? Is Dallas Fuel maybe being a little bit seven with their
comps or not performing the way that we know to? Or is it a little bit of a mix of both?
I mean it's a little bit of both, like Hawk there on the alias massively punished Kellan
wanting to play the wrecking ball with the Roadhog and Cat combination early on. Then
we went to Gerardo, we actually got the classic, the Admiral Lifeweaver, which made it really hard
for them to be able to find any form of value for things like pulse bombs, fluxes, plus Admiral
then turning his hat to Nuzuki was able to totally shut down a lot of what Chronic wanted to do
on things like over clocks, since Space Station was pretty similar to High Linux, played that last
much on New Junk Street, just go first. Taking away any option that Diles still have to fly back.
You hit the classic, Ash, I love it. The Diles first is the fuel. I think that was it. I actually
genuinely think that was it. It's so 2020 too. It's crazy. Space station as well. I like how you
set that up too. Bouncing back from the land in Tokyo, it's like, hey, did not do well. And then
it's like, oh, we're online now. Wait a second, let's demolish the fuel who are beasts. It was,
I think it was a strange affair
and I will give guys feel a
little bit of time here, but
space station. They got heaters
on this one. They have
insane deep. Yes like if the
vibes are good, the team is
good. They just got to keep it
that way. That's very true. The
vibes definitely have to be up
and I'm sure they are here for
SSG considering that win. But
let's talk a little bit about
their opponents here because
for cafe, they're still seeking
their first victory. And this
to ask Jack realistically. I don't really see Cafe taking the win, but in a world where they keep this very close, who do you see really stepping up for you?
Oh man, yeah. The toughest questions for the strongest soldiers on the desk, me and Moxie. It is difficult. I think PDK and Ryan, in fact, the whole team, they've had experience in this tier one portion before.
like, it is possible that this team does well. It's just gonna, I think, rely on it being a meta that is so new, like, a week's worth, a week and a half's worth of, like, okay, actually, we can trip people up.
We know how to play the Xiongkong a little bit better than you guys. Like, this is where they need to take top quality teams down, because over the long haul,
Space station all I'm gonna go down without you know carbon you head in cave in your head in sorry a couple of times over
I mean what's interesting as well when we saw that also went up was that a snipe has not done
So the team astra is actually going to be starting so right from the rip
It feels like cafe will be mixing things up a little bit
It'll be fun to see that mix ups and how they end up playing out here for a cafe
but let's talk a little bit about our predictions heading into this game.
I think I already set the bar with mine saying that I don't expect Kappic to be taking a win today,
SSG. This is a team with a very talented roster. They had high expectations in stage one,
and now here into stage two, they're looking honestly better than ever.
Ubi also talked about how they worked on so much like after Japan, and looking to be a little bit
a little bit more proactive,
a little bit better when it comes
down to like, pop, swap and whatnot,
mid matchup and it's looking really
good for them. So I can only really
see them leveling up here.
Yes, that's it. Just saying.
I think space station is going to win.
I think maybe cafe. I want to see a
little summit, a little fraudulent
control win. Perhaps I mean the
most fraudulent game mode being the
person series. Like if you're going
to win on a game type, it's probably
station for you. Yeah I agree.
I think we're all preting space
station here for a free. Oh,
but what I really want to see
from cafe is just experimenting
like it's a new patch. We have
a new hero as Jack stated
space station they already have
played against what was met up
last week and they got more
experience being able to play
against those compositions in
official format back in Japan.
So one way you can catch them by
surprise potentially coming out
with a very different composition
And we're ready to start to see a little bit of that. Like I said, we're not going to be having Sniper starting. We're getting to see Astro's life at this time.
True. Well, we'll see if the likes of Cafe do have any tricks up their sleeve going up against a space station gaming that have been looking really great since we've played.
So I wonder if Cafe will try to run the wrecking ball and they go for the Diva Band to save against it.
I do worry if that's like what they're trying to hinge their plan on,
because as talked about, Space Station really shot down Dallas Hills wrecking ball
with a Cassidy and a Roadhog alongside a cat-basking composition.
And with Space Station going for the Anna Band leaving the cat and Kira Co. are completely backline,
I have a feeling that we'll be taking to the skies for the first time today on the NA side of things, Jack.
Cap Ashton, how good do you think it is still? Like, on a power scale of like, once 10. 10 being the most powerful.
Probably a solid 7.5. I think it's still good. I think it still is very good at suppressing specific, like, angles.
that's what we want to do. We
want to make sure that there's
a lot more that can take it
down. Plus the novelties sort
of worn off where people like
okay, we know how to play
against cap bastion's timings
when bastion has turret form.
That's when we have to be very
careful, and we don't want to
have our players get caught out
in the open to the point that
we're literally seeing teams
be okay with letting it through
and just having something like
a we and pay his position for
the cap bastion to turn to
what the rest of the team does
We see UV, just a quick speed boost back on Sekiroko, okay kind of a same old same old here for SSG, but okay cafe this okay
Let's talk about this a Freya and Ryan playing at the she on as well
This is a lot of burst damage real quick. You land a right click with PDK
Ryan is gonna insta kill you so you just cannot get caught out of your SSG or I should say if you're UV or lethal in this guy
Yeah, I'm not level a lot of pressure and that means that the she on can just jump you be and that level once he's been dropped by the cat
Yeah, I really like this against the cat bashing as well
Like what's really good about the the prayer is just to take aim shots on the very like um
I wouldn't say a mobile but like he's not being able to dip behind cover at all on the bastion
These things are really nice.
You don't have the pillars around the point itself that you can play defensively.
You have to go all the way around close-side and you can still see that Lepo is taking pressure shots from both PDK.
And also, when you get close enough, lying too.
Like, execution onto a Bastion, being flown by a Trap, it does so much damage.
And then, as the Kat Bastion, who are you looking at for kill?
You're not looking at the ball a lot of the time. The ball just leaves.
Yeah, and now all the guys one
here is one of the one
eventually there they end up
just sending on to the
backline. Forcing the
teleports is going to be
really nice here for
space station game from
people like scuffed and
grapes being called out to
my split there for SSG and
the gold just bear. Yeah SSG
identifying that cafe have a
very good position and
composition and taking
angles. What it doesn't have
is sustainability and
staying close to the goal
What it doesn't have is sustainability and staying power on point.
And what Space Station have is Arista, which is very good at anchoring on point.
And now you've been able to secure the space field at Bastion.
You can also play the high ground position here, so that all can keep PDK in check.
What's that?
Okay, after I've just kicked the slam on a little curve there and just got sent off the edge of the high ground,
Bleethill is turning his DP up to like 3,000 to try and look at every new jump put on him right now.
It's a pop in the hole too, obviously.
He's gonna be slightly not this great, which just takes once a throw.
That was a real shot from me, so, actually.
Minds are gonna get deployed.
Oh, sorry, Ashrow, it's not rolling away,
so, because Minds actually don't end up getting too many kills.
Still, those spaceships gaming end up controlling here.
If Caffe just cannot stick to somebody.
I mean, Caffe loses both of their supports.
Great to Lethal's ultimate, scuffed afterwards.
If Adakiriko or Alucio, you're not going to be able to sustain in that fight for long.
You just want to lose it gracefully.
So you get the opportunity to set up your ultimate for the next lumbar, I mean,
UV will have rush to match scuffed, and that's if Kappa even gets close enough to the point to be able to use it since Spacestation are holding so far up.
And they start to touch, mind you, as well.
So many ults at Kappa!
I mean, realistically, using that beat to stay alive on the point will be perfect.
Asher kind of rolling around at this point post-bomb.
Yep, a little wide there. Asher rolls over it, but ends up escaping.
bike for Ryan. They've actually managed to get themselves on the point, but Hawks
gonna be able to lock this one down easily. Imagine, there's the rush,
Soundbarric up, super great, so he hits four though, and here comes
Spindlin for Ryan on the points. Nice and a lot of damage there,
Hawks about to end up going down, but Ryan just cannot do enough.
Admiral picks up two at the very end with the cattle, and that will be
round. Caffe with a very nice start. Caffe at the point first, getting 22%,
but then Space Station locked them in at the
little cage and then just ended up being them senses. It was a tough final fight where you
can't have your shield do everything.
Yeah, I mean, for Cafe, right? It's that novelty. They run out on a composition that
catches us by surprise, likely caught Space Station by surprise. So you win the first
fight because Space Station are trying to work out what exactly they have to do into
it. Comes totally thrown into chaos off of the amount of players just jumping at you
from all possible positions, but then when you lose that for us, you get the opportunity to
sit back, assess and go, okay, this is what that composition is gonna, this is what it's
we got, let's just go to the point and anchor our position. So, cafe not going to be changing
anything up, this being well though, throws a new wrench in the works of space station
tab plan around, environmental knock-offs to the wrecking board.
still going to be nice for Ryan.
I'll be understated. Hello,
bashing by bashing. It's still
comical. Like we got a fly back.
We got a flying bashing in the
game. We got motorbikes in the
game now. Like, you know, we're
you end up in a totally different map right yeah you go back to push right
let's have a look pdk with a couple of kills right at least for the nice
opener much better map like you mentioned but for this comp
specifically early pressure is on space station like sugar free now this time on
the tracer so you can be more proactive and trying to go for the objective or
and also put pressure on the scuff, will be totally alone, since Grape's likely just going to be trying to play in a position she's okay to be able to play with, which means the space station will be the same thing, there's first fight, just one point.
Okay, a little bit of harassment there on the side from the tracer, but nothing really to worry about.
And this is the big thing that I thought the bash would be really good with. Oh, really bad against, sorry, it was Keedy Kasey and Adam.
Oh, Sugarpink is running by bike. Unlucky. That's a...
...predict. It showed that to someone in 2018 and multiplied in the kill feed as it kills a tracer.
They would lose their money.
Ryan's getting summed up a little bit there, but can they still in the control?
Well, he thought unable to lock any of me down, and a lot of places to fight from the Bastion 2
in these corridors, in these buildings, even in the cage on the left-hand side here.
Astro fall, sure, but still, grabbing control of this point is just so difficult as you'd be guys scared.
Yeah, right in this right through a tree right to the outside the point space station still have not been able to fly
Okay, they're just not going down. There we go. All at once
Which means that the flip only comes through now
65% on the board for cafe, which is a good chunk of point percent
It's just can they actually play a retake because that was where the comp struggled totally on ruins
As for already trying to set up a position to roll through and apply pressure for space station to turn and look at the wrecking
which frees up the squishies to walk away from you can't bastion's attention.
That place is a stand!
Okay, yeah, yeah, you're actually transitioning to the points very tough.
UD takes down PDK as well.
I mean, Ryan's got, he's always got spree, right?
But realistically getting that in, even into a position can be really tough.
Oh, who?
I'm Ryan.
In space station, there's actually going to be an opposition for the Shion to use it.
Like, you'll connect onto one place and max it.
Everyone else is just playing so spread.
There's Vashna.
Really, we're really just all in them in this one at this point. Is that what we're doing?
Is that what we're doing lethal?
And slowly so it's like okay the mid maxing there is insane. Yeah, you get what 5% extra point percent off of the back of that.
W. W.
You don't care about the Wackenball at all.
5%, 5%. You wait until they win by 5% Mop2. Then who's laughing?
He'll be weak.
Binds come out from Asher, I can imagine they were on the point.
Spree's still available for Ryan here.
I think it's time for you to now walk from Gorn to Gorn already, up to the high ground,
though, straight onto the back line.
It's lethal, it's just sent so low, still dragged out by the cat, turns to the turret for, but not enough over health to survive.
Ryan finally finds a kill here, but the kidnap comes in, and...
...Port lays the bead aim, killing Ryan.
and space station gaming with the hand of Avril there, end up winning that fight.
Another at 90%. It's one fight territory for Cafe.
I mean, Cafe had to use so much just to get the squishies dead from space station.
They have nothing left, resources wise to take a walk down. This is last fight territory.
Cafe had to just throw bodies on point to keep O.T. in play.
PDK is who you're looking to, with the bowler.
Tried to take someone down, but Hawke can shut that out with Javelins then.
And then they're all forced to stop.
I think that's a good one.
Good bowl of shot, though. Okay,
lethal down the one point
greatest stuff also falls.
He's gonna have to do something
get a little bit more here. It's
that terrorist search from her
for next two kills. Ryan Great
dead PDK offered an off angle
Astro one HP. And that should
be round. That should be map
ssg a two Oh, just start the
series on control. Yes, Scott
your ultimate and then live long enough in the fight to get rush onto points so you actually have the means of flipping out.
Without it, you're just not going to be able to ice the space station's anchor position on that point.
I like the approach, like you can see that there was a lot of thought that went into Capcom's composition to come up with something
which totally tries to divide space station. The problem is that space station just read it perfectly after losing two fights.
two fights. They're just like, okay, you'll go for Escrichies, you'll go for a Cat Bastion.
That means that you have nothing to overpower our Ressa, which means that Hawke just becomes
an absolute war god.
An absolute demon. That Graves kill was so ridiculous. How have you died to that, Lucio?
So sad. So, so sad. It's been Ryan trying to kind of put his team in a winning position,
but the spree ended up hitting a lot of damage on point and then followed up with a right
click but it just wasn't it wasn't enough at all sadly. It's like that they know the wrecking
ball itself does nothing right if it goes for Kiriko Yuvi just swip steps to someone else and
the wrecking ball has no pressure to actually kill one of your squishy it's one that left alone
even if he rolls on to point that's it it's temporary he's not going to be setting up he's
not actually going to be that long enough to secure a flip so you can just let him do what he wants
and then jump on the rest of his team because that's what he's trying to be. He's trying to be a
distraction. He's trying to disrupt you so that his squishies, the ones who are actually in danger
of dying from the Cap Bastion, can safely pass from spawn to point itself. And space station,
they have no care about the ball. They just keep their eye on the true target, which is the Lucio.
Yeah, the Orisa is just kind of chilling, anchoring, like, yeah, I can just survive on the
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Wow, would you look at that.
Second Royale is gonna be the next map in the series.
Cafe because of that.
Well, from one wrecking ball map to a stigma.
Yeah, right.
Probably just stigma mirror coming out from both of them.
So do we think cafe field sniper back in
because that has sort of been like their go-to tank that they've played, especially when it comes to playing that Sigma.
I think the ball was in to just try and mix things up, offer a new perspective, a new composition that they've been trying out, and yeah, there we go.
There's the expected sub. Sniper will be coming back into play, which means that there's likely going to be a Sigma mirror,
and it now becomes a question of, do one of these teams want to take out the Mizuki? Because America has been very slow, I think,
the game. I think it's a
little bit of a challenge. I
think in adopting some of the
compositions that other teams
and other regions have been
picking up very quickly. Space
Station were one of the
faster ones, so I could
definitely see value on
cafes and if they want to
remove something like the
Nizuki. Would make sense. I
like that. You can be picked
as well by Hawk. They want
something a little bit quicker.
We have that band. The first
like, you know, we're playing
off. We're not playing Sigma. I
actually really like that. We're
still Hawker as cooked up for
us here. It's gonna be a may
band for cafe and the May
band is like, okay, we don't
want to play the basic. Yeah, we
don't want to play that. Absolutely
not. And it's like, well,
actually, you don't go placing
either. That is quite the
thorn in the side of cafe to
deal with. We load on him just
Rematra? I mean, if Darsfield were playing, I would say Rhyne. But Rematra, Malga, Zarya, or Arissa.
Honestly, Arissa's been starting to pick up a lot of traction. I think after Lunex's performance last week, showed exactly how much Arissa got away with.
Like, when I say that Strip was aggressive, I really do mean that he was playing in positions and timing where you would mistake him for a tracer player, and he was getting away with it, which was the wildest thing.
see it wait a second Sierra are you being real well Sierra played earlier in
Asia where she was played I believe by stalker there's been a few fairies going
around that Sierra would see a rise in play especially with like the mizuki
because trailblazer just totally shuts down any defensive capabilities within
sanctuary like what I'm seeing and then this is that like a pseudo unkillable
on like attackable backline here with Avril on the life weaver UV not on the
back but on the weang instead we see if they can have the same level of
problems I doubt it we ain't really at the same capability as the bat but quite
nice if we're setting up the get out of jail free card now
Sniper's not actually on the run mat we'll be on the diva so trying to defend
maybe it's a lovely incoming faster from the dump of the DPS, but also the greedy backline
from Spade Station as they've already had the back of all the way to corner.
Chagrify not getting the positions they just looked in for, as Cap'Rei has great sundype by
Ursa and instantly lose one of our sports. It was a really nice wave actually from UV,
I think they're hitting everybody on SSG, so they're just like whoop, okay extra healing for
us and we move forward, and a nice spare. Good shot as well, didn't care about that,
Like a million miles away from Shigelbrick, nice stuff.
Oh no, two of Cappie just told me to box them.
At least you've got mobility.
You've got the bike.
You can take the boosters, line with joyride.
But that's a lot of time taken for Cappie to get her thought away back to corner.
Hit that trail, please.
So I'm trying to see a little bit of Sierra Place.
A bit overshadowed, I almost feel like already by, uh,
Sheehan's been out for a few days.
The problem with Sierra is that the tracking takes away from critical shots at the time
and that's very important in pro play.
Should that bring down to Shion while I'm going for the snipe with execution through Siren
since they can push all the way back yet again.
The tree here from Admiral so they can play on this corner.
And actually shooting that tree is going to be so hard to take down.
They might actually have an angle through the little water map.
Not even an angle through the little field shop.
Easy one there, but they might be able to hold on still. There is going to be someone on the point and the Hawk has got a couple of cooldowns left.
I see even a re-aggle! The point of the Hawk! There's the Terra search too, but okay.
Eventually runs out of cooldowns and ults to support him on the point and that should be the cat for cafe.
trailblazer from lethal and then set up hope to have the extra sustain off of the tidal blast
into terror surge but kappa just had so much overwhelming damage with the sheen and the
sojourner that fight plus scutray so we're actually seeing some soaps come from space station
at the hold goes on to the mizuki to be able to chain smith's mech even from defense matrix and
have to add his layer of damage speaking about layer of damage lethal will be totally missing from
this fight which means the space station have to back up and get more space.
I told you PDK was the one to look out for. There's one player in the server right now at the cafe,
PDK, here and he's opening picks on Sugar Free and Lethal.
They're cute as well. If you have to keep space station away from just rolling on top of Sniper's
Mac, you could sugar free on that seminar and Admiral Mazuki, that's a surefire way to take
Sniper back to Bonifold. Oh, there's so much pressure for Orc already, PDK kind of
have shown the door on this point already. They managed to push it up so there's gonna
be one little fight here for space station gaming and they've got no ult due to the
combat score. And here comes the title blast. Ryan just running forward onto the point.
Horde goes golden but cannot stand up for the damage. Space station gaming with a ca-
uh, with a- sorry, not with a cap. They've lost the cap. Cafe with a cap. There's a
Ryan just goes for some cleaner. Yeah, cafe pushing their way for really quickly honestly
but something that we've seen happen on circuit royale so many times is a four-minute plus time bank jack into
third and a total score like after losing one fight so cafe here
They've got options that have brave. I'll have story coming through Brian sniper can be very aggressive
With how they play their positions to since you do have self-destruct to gain that neck back
But you also have to be ready to kite space station for us
Although, they do fit in, you know, they do cap with 3 minutes, but it'll probably be
your team's turn to finish if they didn't do it.
Most uncapped?
Great!
Wow, that was a participant of the team the whole time.
They had a little mini room.
I thought maybe that the team could kind of follow up there, maybe.
But yeah, great.
Caught up completely.
Just give them enough time to start spacing.
They've got a couple of support ults, which is great to decide.
Do you know what, Missuki?
A pretty good hero.
Swaps onto it.
I feel like you have to go for the Mizuki match now since Hulk swapped on to this fever as well.
But winning that first fight or that last fight off of the one kickoff from Graves on the reposition is huge for space stations of the economy.
Cafe will try and wraparound take the high ground but space station, same TP rotation, D.va boosts back onto high ground.
They're right back there, away from Capis close.
Oh, there's already going to be good bikes going to get thrown in as well.
Launched down, pound, average, there's really low sanctuary on the points.
Ryan has got this free available, but flying into the sanctuary is not going to be well
advised here for the DPSC cafe.
Looks like they're just going to be able to wait it out without taking any casualties
either.
I grabbed control of the orc, he tips down to low grab, but someone's going to need
to touch.
Lethal now on an off angle.
Wall deployed from the simmer, should be free by six.
This final point in half.
trying to go one-for-one here with lethal but can't even go bad for ban unfortunately
There's no rail guns in sight no real gun kills the VK to open this one up again
Chains on to Hawks three. Yes still available. We're still very
Ultimate steps the high ground as that's too soon. It's gonna negate a lot of damage from Ryan
Closes the gap on UV scuffed ends up falling bikes into the skies or dodges out the way
But it's super low cafe have the health advantage on the point Hawkins up looning mech and they lose the point
SSG having to contend with a minute and fifty nine in Cafe Spank.
Yeah, that massive, always-changing fight coming out looks like Space Station were able to get the better of the rush itself since they have the Mizuki Sanctuary active since they went for the swap onto Mizuki much earlier than Cafe.
But, when we have the overclock coming out from cafes and that then forces the Sim War from sugar-free and Space Station lose all of the Ultimates that they had available, while cafes still have spree as well as self-destruct,
and no one actually gets picked off in all of those exchanges, which means that cafes don't lose players to force them to back away from the actual fight and have to play into the better position from the defense of having a high ground
and having the potential to pick one off as they try to walk on the phone, which means they can
continue the fight with that key on ultimate in full swing and space station just get bullied
up with the actual objective itself. And that wall from sugar free to plus obviously the overclock
plus like a lot of things even April popping down at sanctuary it's like well there aren't any
kills cafe just has such a good exit strategy and honestly I really could have mine for the game
there too just not losing anybody you're able to just say okay well you can still stay in the fight
double time with defense matrix making sure that no one died in that exchange like you're going up
against a sanctuary and a symbol and cafe were the ones who were able to keep the whole team intact
cabaschen okay going back to the default here for space station yeah break choke it's just like
like one of the easiest ways of being able to break. So you can take off angles, you
can pressure, cafe, post the tank as well. But Sculpting Grape is actually going to be
starting off with this Juno and Mizuki so he damage heavy, backwind. And Mizuki is not
the greatest at trying to fast heal, especially early on before you have those perks that
are like the extra fences. So all this incoming burst damage from both the power and that
You could be overwhelmed at the front part.
Yeah, oh, swung in there, PDK.
Dodged it to the straight, a little bit too strongly.
He was even stronger there, keeping PDK up.
Sugar Bron down, though, to fly in and hold people.
That's that sniper out of the skies.
Still SSG with the space, but they're
going to respect the damage that Kappa can do.
They're actually going to back up.
That's a hawk.
Not possible, he thinks.
And in fact, PDK is the one that goes down.
Overstepping.
Yeah, a fork's able to get out, can't they lose the soldiers?
The space station at play are advantageous,
they're more than happy to fight this,
especially with lethal being able to catch
can't they just engage with the spike?
Okay, they escaped.
Orc, maybe not quite the lucky note.
The long range suits you from ultra-violet,
keeping the walk alive,
and well, Sugar Free almost goes down again,
but now a terror surge on the point,
as lethal, yeah.
The back team's on the high ground, he's behind us.
Sanctuary's gonna be good though,
for a lot of me to gauge it.
Forks gonna dive straight in,
I can cage back between Cork and Sniper right now, and Hawk wins it out.
Alright, Sniper, now, alone, isolated, help back Stolen, and dead.
Very easy spin to win there by Hawk.
Use that spear spin to just bash Sniper out the way, so you can't be healed by Skaftal grapes.
Nice stuff, SSE, cap point.
Yeah, can't be healed by Skaftal grapes, also can't be on the point, trying to contest it,
so Space Station are able to walk around the first checkpoint, put themselves into a solid position on the second,
especially with all of the suppressing damage points before Kafe can answer back to Sniper
off of the rematch. The two stable, two stationary, are shielded to be able to deal with the Fire
Ambassador's movement, swabs onto the Diva instead, so defense matrix supports Kafe the
opportunity to go forward and get stealthed into position 2's off.
Yeah, Ragell's free as well.
Holding off onto the sidelines, orbital ray, can space station survive?
Well, I'm doing a lot of damage to that corridor if he so chooses to, but that ray is going
the game, and they weren't able to kill the people from space that you're gaming. Who just hiding that small corridor? I mean, Admiral even uses catnap to stun out scuffed. So all of the healing is put on the shoulders of great sense. Why is who trying to make
catnap to stunite scuffed so all of the healing is put on the shoulders of greatsend why is
who trying to make mazuki work solo heal fights yeah it's not enough even when your aura is up too
full chiom could use the spray as free rubber to try and contest but like this is such a gambler
from cafe try and make it work oh sugar free oh sugar free just take it out a little bike up
the high ground sugar free just evaporates in front of the rest of ssg good pick off by Ryan honestly that mobility
I mean the bike looks cool when it hits people but it's even better if you want to get to the high ground like that
I'm not even the high ground it was just in the sky
Wow we have seen that we're playing mystery heroes at this point it's unrun we've seen the Sierra Ana
on run at this point. Two TPS characters that have just not seen the light of day, really,
in any meaningful time.
It's experimental, right? I told you, Jack. When you see experiments all week, what teams
are trying to work out?
I'm messing with it.
Obviously.
I'm not messing around with things, trying to test the diatoms, but you're getting no
messing around with this one, living like an invested space station, make them self-scassed.
He's still ripping the hole.
Slowly, but surely. Okay, one of those got eaten up sadly.
Well, there's the sanctuary. No fun anymore, says Grape.
You have to play the corner now.
Thive bomb straight in.
Admiral tries to go over the kidnap.
I think he dragged...
I think Sniper there for like half a meter.
Not too far.
Not any meaningful distance to the very least.
Grape's caught out completely off guard here
as Admiral goes to the cat scratch.
And he's up scratching Grape's to death.
Because that point is still moving.
There's a Sniper on the defense.
Astafak out.
Neck spared.
And the orbital rain of Vag Pocket
leaped all down and Emre on the point.
Seems PDK should be out to hold on.
Does Kafe make a final stand here on second?
Yeah, all the way, more than makes up the absence of Mizuki
in that fight, a special PDK pulling out the Scythian Blaster
and just shredding everyone from space station
with the lifesteal attached.
Sniper still has the self-destruct,
but it's more a reliance on the defense matrix.
And again, Sliper was drive by.
That Kafe will be relying on keeping the squishies up
and around.
No, I'm PDK. Sniper fires out with the scope.
Okay, Sugarfree's nearing the ult.
The millio is sensed. I'm ready for it.
That's one of the castles these in OWCS, that's for sure.
Maybe Sugarfree to make a big impact.
Sniper's got a remake available, but there's Lixxl for no ults here to cafe.
And he's going to go in straight in the trumpsuit.
That's a lot of damage on PDK and Ryan.
And Sugarfree just fanning them to death, fanning the flames of their demise cafe.
and then falling over to Sugarpreeze gets crippled to win this fight.
Yeah, it's just overwhelming amounts of damage that breaks through the potential uptime of the Juno and the Mizuki.
And then even if Sugarpreeze starts taking a little bit of pressure, he still has his high frames.
So he'll be able to keep himself sustained while keeping Cafe's players off of the point contesting them.
So the lining for Cafe, they will be coming into this next fight with a whole lot of ultimates,
they're going to have to talk with a few of them just before space station also holding up on this high ground
default using that to really strike early as well just forcing cafe to bite that time and wait
getting more point systems picked up the absolute three and more opportunity for space station to
blow up the terror surge as well. It's so annoying you just have to sit and wait for the bash and use
all of his old charges. Well there is the slam nice kill on PBK, Ryan is in there already but he's
so low you're just waiting for sugar free to be disbanded once he ends up falling over there at
the end but it was enough damage in fact that's screaming doing a lot in the close borders
a minute and 13 seconds to go abril does need to reset he's on the yeah he's in enemy territory
right now but he got scuffed he's got an exit trade on to scuffed which means that cafe have to
back up away for Juno to regroup because you're wanting to open this next fight with Reign.
Hello, Shramz to high ground. You've got to clear this as well. Although,
Snipe is now one. We got to heal the D.Va. We can all of the D.Va D.Va. Okay, we're good.
F.A. barely holding us to high ground. All right, P.D.K. whips out the living weapon.
It's Snipe by a hawk of all people, but if you get a headshot, you die in the back,
I'm not entirely sure. Super free though, it's going down. It isn't 4v4,
but the orbital rate increased damage to Cybertron, runs down the front line, mows him down in fact.
20 seconds to go, Space Station needs to touch.
Totally takes away from Ultra Violet Rush, as well as stuffed users that will write for UVs.
So Sniper's able to get all of that defense, all of that extra damage.
Wow, hooks onto the dimple to be able to try and touch, because it's the last 10 seconds.
Space Station here, they've got an ult, they're so close to that ult,
What should they have to take after that?
I touched NICE. That's basically all I could do all the dude fist.
Well there's the intent actually. Coming through if we should agree another O-Connect to the point has to outstate and touch it permanently though.
He's trying his hardest right now as Admiral goes in for the slam as he gets a kick up too. Resulting in a kill onto Grape.
Lethal with the overclock has to deal with Sniper and they're gonna have to get this remake.
There's a little orb around the corner and Sniper into going down but you gotta touch! You gotta touch!
I'm so excited I'm going to
make it to the next level.
There's some guys that's
please, I can't get back in
time.
And that'll be a map for
cafe. Okay not a day of
3, Oh, on the field for
American overwatch cafe
full circuit, Royale after a
fairly experimental phase
first base station was
composition building.
the game. You have to be
objective so that space station
don't have the means of being
able to stay standing. When
contesting a plane, you can even
see like the disruption shot
coming out on top of the self
disrupt trying to catch the baby
Diva around the corner so you
can pretend you trying to
prevent some of that remake from
getting on for. But they're not
able to touch since they had so
little time and they lost their
tanks so early because walk had
that's for sure. What a mixed
bag of DPS. We saw. On Iran.
Sierra. Obviously we're seeing
she on as well. An M right? It's
like it's actually the four
most recent DPS that they've
released. That's that's our
space station of playing. They're
just like they have a dot board
and they're just pulling out
doors being like, Okay, Let's
I mean, honestly, right, it's the Spice alive,
and especially when it comes to DPS, it's real nice to see.
Not sure if Sugarfree's gonna continue playing this,
although this ult was pretty sick.
Yeah.
To get a nice little triple.
It's just like the continuous damage that you do
wears down the healing aura that Mizuki is doing, right?
The fact that Scott is having to turn their attention
and look at so many different people,
because that's where your burst healing is concentrated
that composition. If you have Juno Mizuki you get a very slow steady heal from the Mizuki aura
then you have your hat bounce. Hopefully you get the extra one if you have your major perk unlocks
but that requires you being on him for so long that you actually get that one online and even
then those recharges they come through very slowly so it can be very easy to just like overwhelm and
break through the amount of healing that those two supports can do. Neutral which is exactly what
space station attempt to do they go for things that can do a lot of burst damage very very quickly
and onto multiple players to just try and make sure that the Mizuki and Juno are totally overwhelmed.
To a space station want to go now I honestly at this point too I'm like struggling to come
out what bands they want to throw in there like where do we even pick because obviously it depends
where we go as well because we could have Astro coming back in but unlikely it feels like we go
go to King's Row for space station.
to be able to anchor the team around being able to play things like the Sigma, the Diva, the Rematra.
The Vatra is like coming into the team. It's more just for the wrecking ball.
And I think with the amount, like the variety of different fights that we take on different pocks
on Kingdrow, you want to have a more flexible tank in on your lineup.
Show us some crazy space station. She on land. Okay, I actually don't hate it, to be honest.
Not willing to play it. Clearly, at this point.
Well, they've obviously been experimenting with a lot of different things and I think like removing the she on as well means that you don't have to reveal your hand up if you do want to play it.
Because like all of these teams are going to be looking at everyone. Yeah, exactly. Save it for players. Like you're trying to hide as many strategies as possible by showing as many different heroes as possible so that teams when they're looking and trying to work out what your actual default composition is just have no idea.
because like that's the way that you go about it right when the zoo keys all
of my just absorbs all projectiles the easiest thing that you can do is you
just go for melee heroes like Genji blades do not care about nizuki oh like
they want it doon fist right not doing this not doing this we're not going that
much Doomfist melee when will we have a full melee on Beno watch Ben data is
I'm going to say yes because
he has played. And then what's
the time? Do you wait? We do
face Greg. We don't have
another melee support. This
kind of cat. I don't think the
cat is really Mellie, even though
he doesn't want down. I don't
think it is Mellie just by
having a scratch. So we need
another. Defiant support that
another one. That's not Brig or a Brig look. I don't know. I don't think I mean if you're
going off of the goings on on Mecha base, I'm pretty sure most people are hopeful that
we'll get a new tank since demons mech apparently on the latest update has been taken in for
repairs. Okay. Upgrades your law maxing right now. I'm just going to nod my head. Yes. I
I agree with you, I agree with whatever you're saying, I totally agree.
I'm here for the Alari Mythic.
That is what I saw in the patch notes.
I did not see any of the lore stuff.
We do appreciate some Alari gameplay.
Hulk support who's masquerading as a support, shall we say?
She has a summoner, she has a summoner, and that is what I like.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't know, J3 still won't let it go.
I'm just letting you know. Too many.
Don't ask me for the answer.
Still looking at this attack here.
Hawk on the D.Va!
Okay, so it's going to be a D.Va battle.
Oh, no, maybe not. Actually changing up.
I will say, Avril on the Lifeweaver 2.
Don't hate it whatsoever.
With Ultra Violet, it's a very defensive backline,
but it basically nullifies Ryan almost completely.
Well, apparently we're not leaving
leave a lot of work are totally behind because we put on pump it's like hands
out and we'll be trying to just snipe someone around the defense matrix so you
slide out of hotel no way you've got to get the thing is we need to go you have
to get off these lines you're in a position now where you're gonna get
perma hours thrown at you and having these on height is just he's scary with
the harm though put it on like the insulin we look at lethal up on our
high ground position being able to get a line on someone in choke. Sniper delegates their duties
of diva boosting right on top of the hands though but like cafe are very floaty in terms of that
comp when space station actually get on to point i'm worried jack how do cafe actually force them
off they will say this is the most nothing fight of all time so far the point is in cap 33% so
surely some action is going to come here looks like ultraviolet is going to be the first of all
Sniper and the rest of cafe is pushing through hotel. It's back. I'm very defensive and all not enough resources apparently to save
UV
And there it is. Okay, only 37% but space station they've got four alts for this next one
No alts invested from cafes and though to force the retakes are no rush. No sanctuary
Honestly, because potentially actually absorb the issue of sugar-free
is blizzard lethal with that dragon trait should send it directly down stuff to
rush so you're looking at sniper to be able to make the dragon and they want to
get that D-neck before they use the hand of all male. I see some rogues there
sugar free safes himself with his own walls there's gonna be a flux almost a
permitting combo but straight into the sanctuary and that's all the health here
love instant pdk turns the tempo up just a little bit more now with this
overclock, but I'm able to really find the heads. It hasn't really been like a big impact
kill, just yeah, it's Halt is said dangerously low. There's a three deployed as well. Ryan's
got the shift and they're backing up. One minute and 27 seconds to go. I don't think
I've seen as little kills in a fight in like three minutes as I have here. This is a crazy
amount of time taking apart a team kill. Already it's a couple. There's Halt with two under
It was felt eventually lethal.
Snipes out that mech and space station gaming cap the point.
Such a strange fight going on from both teams.
Like space station not just the one that was literally
five deaths for a cafe there.
Like just five shrimp death team kill came in
and then space station lost three on that previous fight.
Like three minutes of a reason it was strange.
I mean, sniper obviously has to swap up with the Diva as well.
like now you're going to be much more tied into having to directly contest the objective,
which forces you into matching directly up to Sugarfree's maze.
If you don't want to get beamed down out of your mech like that one, you'll go on to the
The Matrix, who's more brawly into both of them, and that Sigma as well.
Because Ion Ryan, though, wants to find Deathwoss on that gets cleared and scouted.
Well, one tap to Sugarfree, nice play to Skidsoozu to send him away, and it's the title blast on the maze!
I can't think of anything more scary, I'm going to be honest.
The knockdown doesn't end up coming in though,
there's some shield dance there from Sviper,
but as he was doing the dose, he's oh, unfortunately,
the damage just flunked straight down
and from the rest of the squad.
I said team kill again from Space Station.
Ryan now only just spawning,
as they eventually give it hop in.
And we'll be in another touch though, at least one.
Yeah, and that means that scuffed will get the opportunity
to build up that rush.
PDK can also zone some of Space Station away
with the overclock to open things out.
Admiral not going to have that sign tree to absorb all of the pressure coming from that soldier in Ultima.
Okay, if I have to try and walk forward, it's like I'm taking so much damage, you just have to try and walk up.
Oh, and even more now, Dragons is gonna help separate the team.
PDK is in! Wow, he really wants to go free-dead.
My goodness, unfortunately though, Ultra Violet too good at the waterbending, end up killing PDK.
It's gonna be a trade, so a DPS for a DPS, but SSG, they're probably happy to fight this.
Hawke has flux, he can just flux Nynum and his voice.
And then, what you can potentially do right is Hawke's going to use Sanctuary and then flux right through it.
So if Kafe tries to hide in the Mizuki Ultimate, they're the ones going into the worst position,
but we're going to use barely forcing our great Sanctuary defensively.
Yeah, and then you pop the annihilation, you're full exp anyway and you can't do much else.
Very nice response and basically the perfect response, right?
It's better than a beak in these scenarios.
Just pop that sniper down, your flux is given.
Yeah, and then you get to use snipers all on top to take both down.
And that's like the flight where you said that cafe wanted.
All right, now you've actually pushed the space station all the way back.
They have to navigate through these chokes and you.
Lethal's going to go onto the bastion, stands the cat, so you have the burst and damage
to try to get some melt through the uptime of sniper on this rematch.
but you have to clear out Ryan. No one's cleared out Ryan, Jack. He's waiting with Death Blossom.
Surely someone's behind them. No, absolutely not. Death Blossom is gonna hit and hit hard.
Nice little cleanup from Scarf and PDK, but we all know it was the reason.
That's what Caffe wanted. Space station's still finding trades, but like Caffe will be able to
win after a fight at the end of the day. That's what he wanted the following day.
You got your referential position to hold a corner, wait for space stations to go past, and then use ultimate as opposed to you having to physically walk him into a choke.
One space station are already scouting out that rotation that you'll be making.
Sugarfree does have Elizabeth.
Capay don't have a great answer to it, I'd sort of just claim a wait from her.
So space station wants to just push the point and use Elizabeth on top of that.
That was a yeet, uh, that's, I know it's those imaginations there, she's hoping to get one, half freezes Sniper, good though for separating the team, that great's incredibly low.
Port for the double, nice little wall off, teleport comes in from Scarf to try and help the team, but yeah, fight is already done.
Blizzard was good enough, not for a freeze kill, but, uh, separates Sniper from the rest of the squad.
Team kill, OT push, and space station. They're gonna get a bit of extra time, one minute and thirty to be precise there to push the third.
We go third, but Kaffe will have the opening rush, unless they lose someone early here.
So we put up on a high ground, just taking away uptime.
That Kaffe can just try and push space stations back.
Scott taking up poke damage, translating it into a dead charge for Rush,
trying to push space stations position off.
Hoken offset though, with lots.
There's not a lot of a Kaffe can do to cancel off.
I've got Sanctuary either now, unfortunately, Abel died at 99% and that gives Graves enough
time to build up to a Sanctuary of his own, so this Flugs might be able to get it tonight.
We'll see.
There it is.
Okay, Sugarfree though killing Ryan, he's a good star, Hawks on the high ground, but
he doesn't really have too much backup.
No bodies left to fight over this point now, and Sugarfree's also gone.
Lethal's shooting at the toes of the ram, he just might use some damage, but in their
nemesis form, you ain't doing much, Stan, I can promise you that.
There's a sanctuary on the point now that of course we chaffing have to play into an annihilation nemesis form pop by sniper
But look at that burst damage
Space station gaming roll over sniper. I mean that was the quickest I've ever seen a ram died in his hole
That's to be certain 15 seconds to go now moxie as they are just pushing this one home
Yeah, that was rock and roll from hawk straight up guitar solo rock on to the rematch remit ultimate to set up space stations follow up
first and that means that cafe have no one to anchor on to that point and try to play for
some foreign stores. Space Station, like you said, even though there was a few hiccups trying to
get first and second just quickly as they would want to, still able to complete the full push
with time to spare, which will be very much required if we see ourselves go to overtime rounds.
Look at that, two dash, three dash, three dash, three dash, two dash. They're real nice right now,
And as you'd expect the Sigma to be doing the majority of the damage 10k for Hawke
Really is a the greatest of all time off-tank players for North America
Kind of scary on the other side things. I mean cyber sitting only at 7k
I struggled on the ramp towards the very end
So we see the defense for space station. No real surprise
Honestly, although Ash for lethal is not something kind of a bingo card today, but you know, don't hate it
Special physical space station is just going through the whole DPS roster
Someone's got a pingo card out there and lethers making sure we check every single one of them
Channel points potentially as a lethal. Yeah, we'll be on the ash
Don't hate it especially if space station are playing for like very stall out
Sort of fight with both the may and the sigma being able to catch cafes fucking choke
There'll be a lot of uptime for TNT plus Bob can be really problematic in terms of forcing cafe
Do you have to hold on to things like sanctuary to be able to absorb all of that pressure as we get double sniper from cafe?
Just to open IPK of the sonic setting up Ryan to have the information of where to send the bullet shots before we stop them
Far off a sniper is already on the high ground with that kick of the hazard
Right. Yeah, I don't hate it
I set a rotation, try and get Horde, just stab him in the back, separate people to the wall as well.
He's actually just creeping and crawling here, should be able to, yeah.
There's the audio cube.
Chains gonna be rather tough to kind of deal with if you're a sniper.
75 HP, here's the lethal way, he's gonna get healed up eventually, but the idea is just to slowly make it to high ground and push people off.
But no cooldowns left, very little spike guard, he's gonna back off.
I mean, every time Sniper twice making rotations, they're just being chat, marked, chained, and I'm taking low enough that their force just totally rotates past the team.
That time you can't rotate back to the team. You call scuffed in to rotate to you, and that means that scuff gets taken down at the same time.
Oh, hello. I thought PDK was gonna get another kill, though. He could kill Sugarfree at least, but...
Yeah, the chains in Mizuki are kinda nasty.
Sniper change. You know what actually the hazard talk right here
We're gonna go deeper and said a little bit more subtle against I think it also job on the actual nice stuff
Kenji from Ryan. That's the l-class
No more follow-up right before the house was having issues because you were going alone
Now you have Ryan's actually close up the distance and follow up with you
Which puts more pressure on space
And now you can go for the effective
Hey
Okay, Ryan. Yeah, Kenji. There's another DPS-0 off the bingo cart, wherever it is.
That should be first point rather easily. I mean, Hawk, it's so close to sold, too. Kind of sad. If this fight lasted a little bit longer, that, like, engagement there from Cafe is, of course, it's pretty easy.
The thing is that you get around sugar-free as well with these mails.
Like, Cafe just have so much mobility. No one is getting isolated by sugar-free, Hawks. You just go right over the top of it.
As the cafe head out into street space, PDK has Dragon Strike, but at the moment the
space station at Voidabite is his position right on that high ground, has to get cleared
out by lethal before just trying to fret the arrows through the space and choke and call.
Dragon Strike, through the wall, what's actually true to the world, which is through choke.
Paul Kiskin, you used that grass to try and get away, they're going to be able to play
the rush. In fact both teams are on this corner. That place is going to make it rather tough though.
Sonic Air actually hacks the Hellfag, so real nice to actually start to hang around in the little bar
area. Bob gets deployed, here comes Nobby's away from Drake, but Hawke and the rest of the team,
they're not really in a position where Kafe can jump on them. Hawke, but this Bob, this Bob,
is devious. Kafe have made their way past this jump point with the Orbs of Wraith thankfully,
but Space Station Gaming found every kind of nook and cranny in these London alleys to get
get away from any meaningful damage. And Kappa, they're going to get staggered here too.
Yeah. It's the classic. It's such a bad stagger too because there's literally nowhere for the
baby diva to throw themselves off the map. Like, if you're a space station, you're literally
just getting the kill onto Sniper so that someone does not die to the potential rematch. As
now Sniper will be, yeah, again, off of the diva onto the rematch. Does this mean Rhyne's
close up to the blade? I think you use the Genji Ultimate and then you swap. Now that
you don't have a tank to actually set up your dive position.
Three minutes on the time and still plenty of time, especially on this phase of Kings
Road.
What's Ryan going down?
Oh, wow, sugar free, okay.
Yeah, I mean, if you're cafe, like you want to keep the Genji place because of the value
that it has into dismantling UVs up on the sign tree, but if you're space station, like
Like yeah, these are all just really late
That is cruel
That's like Geneva convention type beat
He's put up a wall
He's like okay, I don't want to go nevus' form
He's trying to punch through it
Go through it
Instant chain from ultramilot
It's just so nasty
It's horrible
Like cafe, like I said they'll keep the Genji
But space station are just going to be able to read out the rotation
Set up the dynamite from lethal to catch
Cafe as they cross the high ground
lethal does go down for that positioning at least but you're looking for the space to have died
there's a sanctuary too sugarfree dead this is sanctuary with three people by the way
the flux connects with three but a hawk it's so full the dps already dead
now ryan's in a small corridor ends up getting rock uh hawk gets a kill on two great shore and
in fact another one but eventually they're lethal and sugarfree dying first just so early yeah it's
to death sentence for the rest of SSG.
Okay, rush mirror, next fight, UV, swaps off of the Lucio, or the Mizuki rather, onto the
Wu Yang. So you can pretend to try and knock back Ryan, you can greed out some damage early
on. Hulk phase, lethal will be so close to this orb as well. And off of the back of those
Mizuki damages, you'll actually, or Wu Yang damages, you'll be able to scout out where
exactly cap it off. Basically where Ryan could be. You expect that you have to know, great
Overclocked, delayed by the wall there, even as Suzud to help PDK escape.
That was a blizzard to try and catch PDK out.
It's a 1v1 trade in terms of their DPS ultimates, but here comes Bob, he's on the point!
And he gets Suzud, and he's gonna die real quick.
He survived a lot longer than I thought there, so he gives an ulti by it,
and that's fine to air-boost Blow Rhyme to death, hits the wave on him,
as Lithl gets another kill.
It's going from bad to worse, the cafe right now,
end of using their rush and their overclock and their annihilation to try and win that fight.
I mean this has to be a real good B-played engage from Cafe and I fear that they've waited so long.
Hulk has another flux to be able to grab the Genji out or just shred off the other
Hulk from Sion Barrier if Griggs uses it to give Ryan the confidence to move forward.
Oh, the Ryan still swinging. He's trying to find bodies straight up to the sky trying to keep his feet down the Hawks.
The Flux does connect with Sniper, ends his life quick, sharp as Hawks, gives Ryan a left hook.
There's the, oh my goodness, the Tidal Blaster of Ultra Vider on himself to get back to the point and kill PDK.
And now it is Sugar Braun versus two. Grape's has gone down, Sugarfree's got the Ice Plug, it's a meter and ninety-five.
Maximum amount of time stalls here for the May, and Scuffed has got nowhere to run.
Adruvus ends up coming back just in time though, so he ends up teleporting away, but it is Adruvus!
Oh! The Cantal on the May! The Mayjacks!
I mean, Sniper, sorry, Cantal, Sugar Breed, uh, Blizzard, but is it actually enough to stay alive?
Not sure. Scuffed with a rush, ends up popping it.
It's still alive somehow. 3 HP, but lethal on the Tracer.
Too many bodies for SSG on the point, and that will be that.
That will be that. Matt Fersergy and Matchpoint.
really insane that UV was able
to build it up and use it to
touch that point in time.
Get damaged from what? 20,000
damage on King's Row, and we
didn't go to extra round. Yeah,
come on. Like that's that's not
even fair. How do you deal with
that? Is, um, Mr Backline, you're
under such duress to heal up
Yeah, right, right, because it was the combo. It was Hawk being able to, like, rock sniper,
followed up by the Mizuki team from UV. And then so many times as well, they were just able to
totally push Sniper into these really uncomfortable positions for the rematcher to be in alone.
Like, Blizzard splits this here, this moment where it's like, you're trying to back away,
you've lost too many of your team, you're wanting to try to just get out of the fight,
But then you've got a Mabel behind you,
you've got a Mizuki chain.
You're going down later and later,
which bleeds into the time that you have available
to set up for the next fight.
It's a really rough one to try to regain that momentum
from a Rematra when you're going into that much poke damage
from a team set up who can just take you so low
before you actually get to close up the distance
and play where Rematra is at his strongest,
being able to just tumble through front lines.
I cannot believe Sniper Blizzard Jax is sugar-free at the end there too and they don't win that and they don't like that is
That is like, okay. I've got I've gotten out the the biggest salt of this fight like the visit
We cancel it the Ajax it
Just an Ajax, it's also the fact that you've bought up rush
But then there's the rush from space station and lethal on the trace it just gets free people all picked up
It's just a rough time. You've
got to feel for cafe in that
situation like hands down
because they did extraordinarily
well on their defense. They
pushed them down to like 6.4
seconds or something silly. I
think it was 6.4. Um
ridiculous stuff, but I will
say. Yes, you've been saying
it. Ssg feeling like they're
experimenting a little bit
a little bit here with them being the favorites
and how good they looked last week, of course,
in their last series.
But he's still cafe-like fighting here.
They're fighting back.
They're fighting up.
They're like fighting up.
Or like punching up, sorry,
it's the term I'm looking for.
And I think that's a really good sign
for them going into later weeks.
They are obviously zero-two right now
and the chances for playoff are pretty damn slim.
But you've got to be happy with how close you've taken.
One of the best teams that just come off of a LAN
in Tokyo as well.
to a fourth map?
Yeah, especially if you're going up against a team that's experimenting, you don't want to lose easily, right?
There's a big difference between going up against a team that's playing their full comfort compositions and losing
and playing a team that's very much openly experimenting, trying to work out and play strategies
so that they don't give too much away and losing and it not being close as well.
think like for cafe this is a really good outlook from them especially because
like we've been saying this potential for this team so many times we've been
saying like there's potential for this team if they just tighten up a few areas
maybe if they'd like swapped a few compositions a little bit sooner it
would have been easier they wouldn't have been going into the last fight down
so many resources as we get a look at the bands from new junk city cafe will
ban at the Symmetra with a space station removing the Kyro car.
Astro is back in as well. Yes. So we're not going to see Sniper again.
New Junk City will be a Wrecking Ball a little bit, something quicker maybe.
Wrecking Ball on first point. Yeah, it's not.
I would say the strongest Wrecking Ball time. Open parts of the map.
sure wrecking ball can be really good and disruptive but on the first point it's a lot
hard to make that wrecking ball work. So look where they want to lock in Kiriko Band for SSG.
Oh what are they kind of cooking? Kiri out of the mix? No but Juno? Double flex obviously they're
They're very used to doing that.
Do you know Muzuki?
Yes.
Yeah, that's a great comment.
Do you know Muzuki?
At this point, I love Muzuki.
Oh, Yuvi on Wu Yang as well?
Yeah, I like Muzuki on
I thought like most maps.
I just feel like the chain is so strong.
It's so good.
It's just so good.
It's so short.
It's so short.
He does that when he buffed a hero like four times, or how many times they buffed him.
He does that to be pretty good and...
Yeah.
Ultimate, I don't hate this either.
Wu Yang again, he is just the goat, uh, so many flexiborts, so...
I'm not gonna argue with him for this way, but it looks like it's gonna be Astro on the Orisa.
This makes more sense.
It's gonna be Orisa vs. Orisa.
But, Ryan, finally, we've got the Shion back again versus Sugarfree on the net.
Yeah.
Ryan looking to off angle, Sugarfree going to be much more anchoring around that front line.
We can actually see sugar friend UV in charge of clearing out Ryan's position so lethal can focus on burning at astra and turning his attention
Already PDK and Brian Wow two very quick kills space station game. You didn't know what hit him there
I don't think Ryan knows what hit him when a fork sugar free and Admiral just run directly at the shield
I think she's more accustomed to running people over with the motorbike than being flattened by a battlecattle's advancement
The space station losing out on the first cat
People actually going to Miragealtec
It is just disgusting the right click. Okay, sure bikes done. I don't know if you could tell
I'm happy to see you can pick this one up, it's gonna be
Two versus one, Sugarfree is able to actually win the duel overall.
But, Caffe being able to kick-pot both of the Spacestation's backline and Hawke on the tank,
secured that flip.
Sugarfree still standing though, means the Spacestation will just wall off Caffe,
but they may unpoint and Paul seems to be able to close it.
Yep, and now Sugarfree can sit in the block, pot the ult,
hard to actually spot goals, and you're going right, right to hop on the bike
for two flat tires, then they're getting run over by Hawke.
PDK, however, with the double.
It's overclocked, doing a lot of work here for cafe.
They just need to be able to hold on.
PDK almost kind of ending into the back line.
As Shipper 3 tries to chase him down,
Orbital Race is too strong.
Basically, again, you have a lot of tools left to time,
finish this fight out.
Even that Orbital Race and Skuck isn't enough.
Shipper 3's still holding on to this point.
Aster needs to be taken care of, though.
There's got to be a spin and a spear to kind of stay alive.
It's like a blast actually to clear the rest of cafe off of the point as this is she get flit
Shivertraiser space station wanting to show up that players take this next fight
Not in a position to try to contest lethal keeps Ryan occupied and space station likely going to be having
Swap back to the orisa after going down
No, come on hold. Just one point my tank player says after jumping in five times he's doing
this and dying.
I'm at your cafe, do you think they're floating the discussion of do we leave walk alone
so you start from Dimpust?
The answer to that question is no. That guy is almost dead. Oh my, okay they won the
hold. There's a bounty on this guy's head or something. Geez, that was a whole lot
of damage. Luckily though, ultra fighter and admiral go to the back line, ends up saving him.
Sugar free almost gets one tapped by Rhymes right click. Right hold this point down,
it's got the three available to him as well as yeah, Horde. Kind of a non-factor now in the fights.
It's got a punch onto the... Oh, didn't want to finish those off. All good. Yep, there it is.
Eventually ends up killing the Mizuki. As soon as she ends up winning the fights and a quick flip,
his cafe only gets for 22%. Lethal killed three in that fight by the way, one of which was a motorbike
kill so PDK has had enough capacity time both to put a stop to tracer but also to try to hinder up
some of this mobility from lufo had a little bit extra range against the she on but you did lose
that fight now you have to walk into a set up tracer and she'll have a whole lot of space and
flank potential oh that's the titleblast oh we're so back in the titleblast meta with the tracer
I like doing that one getting a free kill
Nothing
Come on
Poor Cleveland alone
the whole team is fed up oh when they catch the flashbang
if you go low you're all
hawk not looking like the doomfist in your rank games that's of course certain
wow that was a trivial point for ssg
yes please do not use this
as a way of justifying playing doomfist in your ranked matches
it's too late they've already loaded up and they're in a separate row right now trying to play doomfist
I mean, he's still alive, so the doing walk continues. As Asher takes lethal damage, which
is a very good start to the fight for Kafei. Also means that Grape does not feel inclined
to have to save Sanctu to try to absorb some of the damage from Story off of the Shion.
Well, the pick really, realistically didn't mean too much. You can see a little positioning,
but the point hasn't really been capped yet, so we'll see if they can kind of regain position.
and hop on the bike dashed away and there's the spree from lethal already with two kills media strike
It's nothing a lot of the time here so who's not too afraid to throw that one away
but unfortunately for cafe they didn't even deploy in the sanctuary and they didn't even have point
so suppose station end up capping the zero percent for cafe and now they get to the percent
yeah it's a weird situation for shion all into missoukiyoh because like missoukiyoh absorbs it
But Shion can move.
So you can go in and out of the sanctuary and still hit people.
So, Cafe not really having a full defense against her,
at least as fortified as they would like.
They do have a lot of ultimates for this fight,
but you also have to worry about UV just ulting sugar-free,
and them having to try to run full speed at Cafe's ult.
Oh, here we go again.
And that's how the blasts...
Oh, what a change from Grape!
Actually, lock sugar-free in place.
We can't get the knockdown and that is how you deal with a new fist and Terra search straight to the dome and then PDK following up
All right. Wow cafe. They brought all the answers to the quiz that space station you gave them
That's how they shoot cap. Yeah, baby
What's the answer next fight to sugar phase pulse bomb combined with admiral's right?
Please don't be able to shoot up after as well be able to have this
Caffe will be able to buy time though, if you decay with a bad eye, Space Station can't really play into that unless folks are able to get a good javelin for a cancel.
Oh, Leithan's gonna go, Leithan's gonna go!
Oh, he's got the spray, but good lead from P.E.K! Enter behind the flashbang, roll straight in, and Ryla also gets a double!
Score's okay with the murder, but I could well onto U.V. style of voice.
SSG, they catch, by the way. 976% Caffe by Flip.
There's a chance for a touch, uh, Shukri is alive.
Oh, hold like so late.
Yeah, also, Grape's could potentially just like chain sugar-free.
Yeah, no one's able to get the touch.
Oh, if he hit that like, like, it's so scary for the Tracer.
I feel like Tracer's life gets scarier and scarier every...
Although she probably is at the highest.
If we're talking, like, the highest level of all time,
the best someone's ever played the game,
Tracer technically would be like the best hero in the game,
But it does get scary and scary every single time a DPS or like a support is released where they're like, okay, I can change the tracer
I could one shot the tracer with them with the right click from
She on right? Yeah, this fight will be scared at the space station. If I have a lot of
of ultimates available, UV with a tidal blast could come in to play massively to set up sugar-free
and more aggressive, but every hop to space terrors will come to play sanctuary.
This tidal blast there doesn't get knocked out on Astro, but now PDK trying to high noon
to make sure that they can heal all the way back up. In fact, he helped out through his
entire duration. Ryland's a big right-click kill. Spear, narrowly dodge, sugar-free on
the tracer looking in the back on this solo. PDK has one shot with a flashbang, a long
range one helps great to cure the kill that's cool super sugar-free half that
pulse on to character from pork rollers and best spray station still think it's
winnable and they get PDK. Yeah PDK down and pull on the wall park right now but
can't quite get past Ashrow who's burned all of his cooldowns. Ryan's still alive too
I mean if you don't kill him this Chion the fight's not over as the bike is not quite.
The bike going this long as well is actually a light scuff to put closer and
They have their over the way for this next fight space station a little bit behind
But do you have a point percent to be able to play with a full cafe close up onto the full 100?
So I'm not going to wait to have you match. I mean if you're cafe, you're just so worried about what sugar free pops up
Over to Ray
The lost fight here for SSG they cannot get into this one at all
You've only seen her left alive, two after PDK and it's with Admiral.
There is going to be a flip for SSG.
Scarf actually ends up going down.
Ultra Violet might just be the best ever to do it.
Swear, gets out alive, but Ampix is going to kill onto Scarf.
I mean, hey, absurd behavior from the Wu Yang.
Even Ryan overstepping there a little bit.
SSG with a nice flip.
At 99, no, Café still have a chance on this point.
Yeah, but that was one cited ray fight for Café.
Admiral has his now.
People have the spray.
The cafe could have a good entrance with lines ultimate, but UV can just use that tidal blast, put it onto sugar-free potenti even put it onto lethal, and that would be a killer combo.
Oh, the damage is just so good.
Orbital Ray and Tidalbars, this is a heavy investment coming in for SSG.
They find like late picks though, it's 75% and there's Svagger and Astro, I mean it's
over.
If they can't, it's done, Astro ends up going down, there's three ults for cafe but you've
got no tank.
Like, good luck, have fun.
I mean, Ryan even tries to let
you just free as well. SSG. The
very end of that fight. Picture
perfect micro and macro, you
should say, as SSG take home the
series to three to one. There's
a very close finisher could have
been cafe setting store map five
ssg. Come in with some some
power plays here from sugar
free. And leave it as well. Like
And UV as well, like we can't understate how much that will be on this.
I was able to do living, setting up like a fork and lethal to get three kills in the second to last fight.
Then you're able to just like get the kills on players from the sort of cafe who were about to hit ultimates to have uncontested within that last fight.
You get the really late kill onto Sniper, which means that Astro Bravo, which means that there's no chance for cafe to regroup or full push.
And at that point, it's just done.
Hello from cafe though. It's going to be said that's nasty from the team.
This cannot be understated. They are 0-3, unfortunately, so playoff hope is pretty dashed at this point, but they're taking SSG this close.
even if the SSG kind of mixing things up a bit, especially on the DPS half of things.
Um, not too bad. Some, some good spots, but at the very least SSG, next to what it's like
now, Oxy. So honestly, playoffs guaranteed, the playoffs are always guaranteed. Like this
team is going to make.
I mean, before we fully move away from discussing that map, I would just like to point out UV
on Wu Yang, 11k damage. Almost did the same amount of damage as Lifu on Xiong, so.
That's Yuvi taking triple orb and directing everybody, every single chance he gets. I mean,
it is crazy. He's so good. He's said that every flex support, but when it was like Wu Yang
meta with the Tracers, he was head and shoulders like above the rest. There was like a tag gap
between everybody and then ultraviolet was on top. So not too much of a shock. And I like
different looks we saw from
SSG today. Obviously, the
men is not going to be
completely figured out. We're
not going to only play like
I don't know, then get a she on
like, uh, Mauga like what you
me a were playing earlier
today. Still things to figure
out, but space station flexing
their muscles a little bit
here with the three one in
the series and showing us a
lot of different looks. And
yeah, who knows what they'll
play and playoffs. That's all
like. And I think that's like
really important, right?
Because they had the most
their first match up against Dallas so you were able to
thankfully play that out on the last patch which meant that you had
no reason to hold anything back now you know that there's going to be a lot of
people trying to like look at you and I think one of the things that a lot of
the teams from the NA and EMA side will have taken away from Japan
is not just like what comps were strongest but also the reason why it was
strong to not give away your strongest compositions
because that's sort of what Crazy Raccoon and Zeta were really good at, right? They overcame
everybody because everyone went into it thinking, it's Bastion Cat! That's the only composition
we're going to see. Player, banner, that's really the only comp that is top of the meta. And I think
a lot of people got caught out by the Mizuki, which had obviously been held back and not fully
revealed until it was shown in official format when you had so little time to be able to work out
how to play against it. So I think that was actually a really good lesson for these teams to learn
the game, but it's not
really a good idea. It's
not really a good idea. It's
been very early on when they
can still play into some of
those pick up mattress. Space
station on top to a no plus
five. You love to see a team
liquid just behind them with a
plus four differential map. If
that is we got a small interview
now with none other than Mr
Christopher. How is it going,
my man? I was a fun game
today. We'll say I'm not sure
How are you guys feeling in the meta so far?
Yeah, okay. I mean, I think we've had a pretty good week of scrims and obviously a good start to the season.
So I think it's clearly like a different team than the one that we were last stage and stuff, but that's intentional.
So yeah.
I think I have to just like ask you straight away, what's your opinion on Xi'an?
Because like obviously as a coach when something new comes out, especially if it's new character, you're thinking like is it going to be something that we can incorporate into compositions is she stronger than what was already there.
So where do you feel she falls in terms of hierarchy for DPS?
It's pretty good, I think. It's quite a techy hero, so my feeling is that once people learn,
I think there's always like the saying, or it's what people say, when a hero comes out and on
day one in scrims it's playable, that means it's broken, you know, like if it already finds a way,
and I think that that was the case here, feels it's probably slightly map specific, like that last
map, it's really, really good. But I suspect when they played it on like Ilios, for example, I know
I'm not sure if it's going to be
a good KD, but maybe it's not
great there, but I'm fairly
sure human is no hot fix that
you're going to see like it's
going to get close to 100%
picked by a nice aspect.
Yeah, it definitely feels that
way at the moment. Obviously
Korea, they're big enough. The
she on right now. Um you said
obviously big changes coming
through from the land. You guys
just you didn't perform. It kind
been within the team, like how how you guys kind of changing things up obviously
lands just around the corner at this point.
So you felt we changed just about every single thing in terms of like our process, our mindset, our comps and I think maybe the obvious one and the most
note as well as I think a mindset we had in stage one was okay we are a like a
D-Valucio carry team or a brawl team and this is meta and we're just gonna play
this whereas I think what we're trying to do this season is just with everything pick what's right
and don't be afraid to swap like always go for that comfort advantage as opposed to like
there was too many times I think last season we were losing to Dallas but then we're like oh no
our comps met us like we should be winning and it's like well actually it can be met up but if
it's not working it's not working you know and I think that maybe at times it looks extreme in terms
of the heroes that we're picking. But I do genuinely believe if you look at like the
really elite teams in the world, maybe my mistrusted minds, you see a massive variety
in terms of the heroes. I think the swaps are really important and really common. So
I think we really want to become similar in that elk, you know.
Going back then to last week, you had a really like early matchup versus Dallas Field, which
I think a lot of people were expecting to be far closer than it actually turned out to be.
As a coach, can you sort of give us your thoughts on why you think there was such a divide
between the two teams? Was it sort of going back to what you just said there,
in terms of the things that you changed coming out of Japan that influenced that?
I think everything that we've changed so far has had like a shockingly quick positive
effect, like our swim results have genuinely never been better than they have been this week.
I think for Dallas, I watched some of the interviews and I think they expected us to still be a Lucio
Kiritiva team. So I think in their head they banned and they picked around it and then they say
we're young life weaver and they're like okay like okay it's it we're playing against a different team
now. I suspect when we play them in playoffs it'll be closer but my feeling is that we genuinely are
that. Yeah, that's what I
believe. I think that's what
we're talking about already.
Better team than we were. Yeah,
makes it a look. I always I
heard their Christians that
Dallas fell off and you guys
were on top. That's uh, yeah,
that's what I glean from that.
Thank you very much, Chris.
Obviously you guys are two Oh
now. I have just around the
corner. So good luck in the
rest of your games and yeah,
hopefully see you there. Thank
you. See you. Perfect. That was
I think that's a close one off
of the potential that we've
seen from the next. But I still
feel like it will go SSG play. I
think I could see one of taking
maps, especially off of how they
looked earlier. But this is the
true task, right? How far can
But I still feel like it will go SSG's way. I think I could see one of taking maps, especially off of how they looked earlier.
But this is the true task, right? How far can Lunex go?
Except that this is a team that can make playoffs, but they still have a few weaknesses that can be exposed.
And with how stepped up and improved SSG have been, I think they're a team that will very quickly expose those weaknesses.
that's going to be a good
game. That's going to be a
good game. Have a and disguise
and then Dallas versus T L. That
one is going to be a heater here
for North America. So you make
sure you join us tomorrow and
obviously. Watch the EMEA games
that are just before that as
well. Got a lot of action
coming your way. EMEA man two
map fives today as well. Like
it's going to be a couple of
map fives that imagine for the
rest of the rest of the weekend
the game. So, um, I'm
expecting expectations. Obviously
Chris to have some nice words
for the character as well. Do
you think the hero is going to
be this home of pick home of
bad. Hi, hero. Yeah. Like to
put it simply. Yes, the perks
that she has like she's scary
at the start. When she gets
those perks execution being
able to do way more damage if
someone is below health and
also the major one faces of
rapid reload after getting one kill through a Kitsune rush, she is just like boom boom
boom. It's the most satisfying thing to listen to because it's just constant sound effects
but it is terrifying to play against. I also thought that was a bit weird.
Yeah, I was gonna say. The other side, also much.
Like, we've had Tracer on the meta for so long, it feels like a lot of teams know what
the go-to is to shut Tracer down but she also feels some of the space and jobs that Tracer
that's what we're doing. We're
doing a lot of things that you
can do. Not so much about like
the objective contesting and
being able to push cart, but
very much contesting back line
and taking space and she's new.
So teams are going to have to
work out how exactly to deal
with club because very
different dealing with the
tracer.
We'll have to wait and find
out if she comes more. I'm a
band pick and 100% with rate
like Christopher was not
I'm sure you'll be able to
get some rest today. I wish
Ash as well. She feels a
better soon. Obviously she's
not joining us for the close
out desk, but me and moxie
will be back tomorrow to cast
some more of what action. So
I'm sure we'll see you there.
Make sure you get some rest.
you
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