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You can't run, you can't run
You're the one who's got it all
You're the one who's got it all
You are the one who's got it all
You're the one who's got it all
You're the one who's got it all
Hit the bass drum again, this is the right mood
One, two, three, we're fighting, we're back
Tonight we're gonna take you
We can't turn back, we're friends
You know we got no time for hashtags
We got no tech, no refills
Feel like we're having the magic
We're the one who's got it all
We're the one who's got it all
Let off the fuck yeah
I'm not gonna stop
I'm not gonna stop
I'm not gonna stop
I'm not gonna stop
I'm not gonna stop
I'm not a stupid TV
Somebody like me
I don't know what you're thinking about
But there's no way you can't understand
I'm not going to lie, you don't even know
I can't do whatever everything I want all day
I can't see you, I'm so weak, I'm like a DNA
I can't see you, I'm like a DNA
Even if I do it together, I can't stop
I'm a robot, I can't control myself
I'm a robot, I can't control myself
You're shining like the sun
Always focus on me
I guess I like it
Let me get it
Why you can't not like me
I don't know what's going on
I'm still looking at you
I can't understand what you're doing
I'm standing in front of you
Right now
I don't have to worry
You know it too, I'm crazy
I keep feeling it, I'm different from you
I give up, you're the only one
I can't go this far, I'm special
Now come to the sea, yeah, but it's on me
Look at me, I'm the only one who can't do it
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
I'm not being much, yeah
I'm telling you, so be it
It's already got it
I'm beginning
Oh, you can't like me
I'm still not sure
What I'm still looking at
I'm still waiting
For you
I'm feeling in my mind
Feeling in my mind, yeah
You're the molecule
I know my power
I can't see it
It's the top of the world
I'm a white king
Even if I try to be cool, I won't be cool
Look at me, you're the best
You're the most beautiful girl in the world
You're the most beautiful girl in the world
Always focus on me
If I like it, come and get it
But you can't like me
I'm not sure if you know
I'm still going to this body
I can't do anything
I want to run
Look at me right in front of you
You know I don't have to hide
I'm cold, I'm fit, I'm just cold here
I'm different from you
I can't give up, I can't do it anymore
I can't leave you here
I'll do it for you
Now, look at the sea, yeah
But let's run me
I'm looking for you, I'm looking for you
I'm looking for you, I'm looking for you
I'm the fantasy, yeah
I'm looking for you, so me
Just feel like that, I'm looking at it
Well you can't not like me, I'm so far away
I'm still looking at you
I'm looking for you, so me
I'm a villain in my mind
I don't care what you say
I know my power
I can't look at the top of the world
Follow me, follow me, follow me
No one can do anything to me
I don't know, don't know, don't know
You're not mine
You're not mine
I'm like that, I'm the guardian
Oh, you can't lie like me
I'm so far away
I'm still looking at this body
I'll take you to the sea
I want you, I want you
I want you, I want you
I want you, I want you
I want you, I want you
I can't reach you
I can't reach you
I can't reach you
I
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Get high, go out, go out
Shut up and drive, get rid of shut up and drive
I'm zoning out to fuck your daughters on the moody phone
You can just hold on to me
Can you stand stand and maybe leave it all behind
Let me out
I'm trying to dance in front of your mind
It's real bad
I keep falling down
When we looked west side, sorry baby
I had my license, take my L.A.S
To I.C.M, back in July
It's up to you, Sam, I don't go back, no reason
Na na na boy up here, this is a matter to the unliked blur
I'm stupid through time, and it doesn't matter where we go
It doesn't matter where we go
I'm an excursion, flying on its own
I'm a little bit crazy, but I keep on going
We're in the front, we're dancing on the floor
We're gonna die, we're gonna die
Oh, baby, can't you see?
What the guy, what the guy?
What the guy, what the guy?
We never know what we're gonna
What the guy, what the guy?
We're gonna die, we're gonna die
Come to my mind
Trapped in a hole, yes it's a hole, but I'm not alone
No one else can hide, no one else can hide
Yes you know
I'm a guy, one of a kind
I'm a guy, one of a kind
We're in a limbo, no one can hurt
I'm a guy, one of a kind
I'm a guy, one of a kind
Oh, God, what a night
We're in that nightmare
No one can
Oh, God, what a night
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Red Bull gives you wings.
Times like this are where star players shine.
And new legends step up where legacies of builds and dreams
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He can't go to the dark.
He can't run, step out of the way.
He can't expect to live before he can turn away.
Because it will, you have to be strong.
Do we still have much work to do?
Do we still have much work to do?
I just want to ace it!
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Oh my God, what a night
Who do you mean, my love?
No one's getting up
Oh my God, what a night
Can't you see my being in lies?
Yeah, it cuts through
Baby, I'm halfway now
Yeah, this is our life
But it ain't the way it looked
Where's the sign?
It's not a sign, it's not a sign
License, we're quite elated
Just ask me and I'm back in June
I think we need to believe in our team and believe in ourselves to do what we have to do at this moment.
And the hope of our team is that we will have a responsibility.
we will have a responsibility.
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You and I again
On the time way
Get the bass from me
With my feelings
One, two, three
Fight and come back
Get off the flow
Throw the world
In the bed
You can't even count
Come back
Hey, hey, hey
Look at my life, hey
Let's not waste our time
That's not gonna be great
That's not gonna be great
That's not gonna be great
That's not gonna be great
That's not gonna be great
It's time for what's in the cellar
Don't you budge, a lot of people have died
Just go
Building if you rock it, body dance
Slow it a little, take it out
We look like that boy
Hey, dance to what you gonna dance to
Welcome everybody to the 2026
season in a season in
the facial bracket stage. I am
indeed here in a beautiful day.
John. I am so happy to finally
join the action even though we
already lost one of our European
teams, but let's not talk about
Yeah, that's okay. G2 are here to save the day.
Hopefully.
One team region and all that.
Yeah, I'll take it.
Oh, no.
Don't start that discussion.
Zero team re-anyways.
Let's take a look at the bracket for today.
As said, we are in a whole new ball game.
We are out of the planes, meaning T1 is still here.
And BLG and G2, for being the finalist of first stand,
get to play. Let me check.
T1, respectively, I'm TES.
What do you think about the bracket?
I think it's going to be some really exciting games.
It's fun.
I think at the end of the day, there
are going to be easier and harder matches.
That's just kind of based on the seating.
But BLGT1 is going to be a banger.
I think Lion Fury is going to be a lot more competitive
than people are expecting.
And I think that G2 TES should be a lot of fun.
So three out of the four, I really
think are going to be competitive and very, very exciting.
Yeah, and when I think about MSI format, generally speaking,
just the double round drop in bet, or at least
the upper bracket, lower bracket, Vesta 5.
It's my favorite format.
It's what I love to see the most, especially when you have Fearless.
It's what I kind of crave.
So, I mean, I love World's Format to give us a good chance,
Brandom R and Hugh Chance, to like get into the actual,
into the knockout stage, but for MSI, it's incredible.
Yeah, MSI is one of my absolute favorite tournaments just because of that, right?
There is a little room for error, but still, you always have to play best of five.
So you know that the best team out of the two is going to come out on top.
And I think that's awesome to watch.
So, since I joined and I always bring the hot takes,
Let's do a couple of hot takes, but not just like that.
We have very spicy kimchi.
Uh-oh.
So we're going to have spicy kimchi hot take.
None of us have tried this, and when we asked how on it
was, they're like, I don't know, it's pretty hot.
He didn't want to tell us.
They didn't tell us.
What the hell is going on?
So it's hard to know if we're about to die live on air,
or if it's going to be mildly spicy.
Oh, actually, Raz, you're up on the table first.
OK, well, take your kimchi and give us your take.
Let's go for it.
I mean, I'll just start riping the get-go and say that I
think that.
You got to take your kimchi first, buddy.
I got to eat it first.
You gotta eat it man, you gotta give us the take!
Oh my god.
And it has been better than European for years.
You guys have been a one team region for some time.
Fucks!
That has been, oh my god.
That's wild, that's just factual.
That's a hot take.
That's just a very hot take.
Can I ask what is your measurement?
Is it like, is it an A beating EU or is it like getting to international finals?
We look at the MSI records of 9 and 1 over the last three years.
You mean versus EU specifically, right?
I've told you this before, Raz, but this is your problem.
You only look towards EU.
That's why you never go above and beat an LPL, that's the case.
That's all we care about, that's all we care about.
I told you before.
I told you before.
We be here, we fly home and refuse to elaborate.
I like that take.
That's what it is.
We beat K-Corp, we beat Minatic.
I like the take, but it's mild.
We beat Mad Lions.
Even the European boys that were better.
There it is.
It's getting a little bit sad.
I mean, what can I say? KC just got absolutely lost.
I actually need help. Good luck.
This is actually much hotter than I thought it would be.
You're not crying, so...
But it goes down your throat.
Oh, it's hot. Yeah.
It's hot.
It goes down very slowly.
And we'll see how hot you think this take is.
Ben should be able to talk his trash.
If you were watching play-ins...
Oh, that's the wrong one.
We changed it. We changed it.
We changed it. We changed it.
Ben should be able to talk his trash.
Yeah.
Because if you're sitting at home and you're actually watching Dora in play,
Dora got solo killed three times by Morgan.
He was getting his butt beat by Kana.
People are getting so mad at Ben for actually getting some spice or giving some personality. It makes it more fun
I'm so excited to actually see the top lane and see what that matchup is an additional one
Fury it could definitely take a serious this team is actually really good
They're being criminally underrated people are disrespecting the CB law and the CB law is here to play. Yeah, personally
I'm disrespecting C9 and sentinels. I don't I don't think they are in comparison a line or anything like that
than the greatest teams of all time,
Fury is just that much greater.
I gotta say, through your first take though,
I agree, like, come on, people were acting like
he insulted his whole family or anything like that.
That was a normal take.
He made fun of the game play.
What are we becoming?
It's a game play.
It's crazy.
Oh, so scary, bro.
Any other community, and we got some good stuff,
some good smack talk, but anytime you hear anything,
even mild in this community, in League of Legends.
I love it.
I mean, it has maybe genuinely way more
excited for the actual laning phase
Between those guys, Doran has a guy that's known for his team-fighting.
It's not about the lane.
Let Ben talk his trash, and let Doran talk his trash if they beat their butts.
That's the fun of sports. That's the fun of competition. Get in there, Shucks!
Take a bite. Take a bite. You can do it!
You can do it!
Shucks! Shucks! Shucks! Shucks! Shucks! Shucks! Shucks!
Good luck beating the prompter.
My hot take. My hot take. But it's not that hot now.
What?
No, I can't just patting myself on the back. It's not that hot.
It is D2 will shape the meta at MSI.
Oh, it is hot. Is it hot?
It's very, for me, it's hot.
They're innovators. They're innovators.
I'm saying it's mild. I think it's a good take.
Okay.
I just don't think it's a spicy take
because I do agree that G2 has actually
shaped the meta many times before.
You know, Cap's bringing out his inhibitor.
We actually hear from LCK and LPL players
that they watch G2, that they watch Cap,
so they do take that stuff into mind.
He's one of the only Western players ever
that the LPL and LCK players actually pay attention to
to shape their picks.
So I'm saying it's not that hot, but I think it's a good take.
Actually, you know what? I'll give you free spicy because some people are gonna discreet. They're gonna be like, thick or whatever.
Yeah, and they're gonna be like...
They've had interviews saying that they watch gaps.
And we've seen it. Like, H.A. Lee took some of their drafts.
Like, it happened. There you go.
Cool. That wasn't that spicy, actually. I will admit something.
It's building.
Yeah, I scratched some of the red off.
Oh, that's cheating. See, I might have had a lot of the chili on top. It's building on me.
Don't eat that, Brad. I actually could...
Anyway, some, uh, hostage.
How do you know that I may have used the bread?
Brother, you're blowing your nose on the bread.
The bread is for us to eat!
It's killing me!
Alright, I'm into that. Give me a slice of bread.
No, I'm kidding!
I didn't blow my nose on this one.
The other bread?
The other bread, the one that's on the ground.
You're a clean-ex-bread?
Okay, alright.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Anyways, let's continue then.
I'm gonna keep eating this, maybe.
I don't know.
Let's talk about the teams that we have on the docket
for our first match, Team Secret Whales versus HLE.
So, this team's Secret Whales, incredibly successful in their own region, right?
But what kind of scenario do we have here?
Can they really make something happen, or do they see us go ask?
What are we thinking?
Oh, hell no.
I mean, like, even VA when he saw the draw was like, why are we facing the hardest teams
again and again?
It keeps happening, but I do think that once again, when you talk about an LCP representative,
they're a big mission, a small fun.
Like, the entire team, First Team All-Pro, his own particular one, like, not only First
Team All-Pro, Split MVP, he won finals MVP, he was like, he is just literally, literally
performing incredibly well but the competition is the question here.
I mean they had that their perfect run this team was dominant in the league.
I will say his though, I think this guy is legit.
I think this guy can hang with the best at an international level.
He is incredibly incredibly exciting and they do have the bloodiest
play style of any of the MSI participants.
Really high combined kills a minute.
My big question though has been D-Ray because when I've watched him domestically,
when I've talked to the domestic experts and when I've watched him
internationally it is two different players.
A lot of the domestic experts feel that, you know, he is just kind of like crumbling a bit under the pressure
that he's not playing like he normally does. This guy was an MVP candidate, this split.
He needs to bring that level of play to the international stage, or you just have no chance because when he has gone international,
he has not been able to perform, and we know the level of international midlaners is insane.
It's a big reason why G2 has always been able to beat because they have caps.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, even taking a look at it, you're completely correct in the fact that in domestic play as well,
the fact that he's not performing well in lane.
But the main point towards D.Ray and what makes him special is that he is a playmaker, and a lot of the success,
like even looking at the stat, talking about the whole split, yes, it's a little, it's like fourth amongst the Regents in the year, and the teams here.
But in terms of playoffs, they constantly look for fights. We talk about Hunt and his champion pool frequently,
but he is willing to drop Waves topside, move towards a team bot side, and then look for a fight, drop a few waves, maybe TP top later on.
So it's like, this team is completely all in on their early skirmishing strategy.
So it seems like the big question is, you know, if D-Ray is such a catalyst for those moves, like, he has to have a good game, right?
Some semblance of a good game. Do you feel like everything would fall apart if he doesn't have a good laning phase, if he doesn't have a good start?
100% I think so. I think the problem is, a lot of times you say HISTO is an incredible player, but if you can't get through his entire first clear,
and all three of his lanes are losing, then you're gonna get warded out, you're raptors, you're gonna get consistently punished,
supports are moving frequently with their junglers, you need to have good laning phases here.
We've seen how good these teams are at teamfighting. Look at T1. They're down 6k, winning teamfights against TL.
You cannot start the game down gold. I am a little bit. You can't start the game down thousands of gold and expect to win a teamfight.
It's true. Let's talk about their opponents then in HLE and we have a familiar face over there. We were able to talk to him.
What was your first impression of the game?
At first, I was a bit shocked by the results,
but this time, I won the first place in the regular season,
and I'm very happy that I'm here as MSL 1C2.
I played MSL in Korea in the year 2022,
and I've played Worlds in Korea before.
Every time, the fans were cheering for us, so we're hoping that they'll send us more support this time as well.
And you're going through split one, you're like, okay guys, we brought Kanavi over from China, every lane can carry, but they didn't work out well, they couldn't even get out of groups.
Yeah, I mean, split one, they technically finished 10th, it's kind of fake news because of the format, but this team was not really on the same page with Kanavi.
After first stand, you know, we saw the G2 wiping out the LCK teams, we saw the LPL winning, and a lot of the LCK teams were saying, okay, we need to go back to the drawing board, we're not playing League the right way, we need to be faster, we need to be more aggressive.
Kanavi brought that in split one and just looked like they weren't on the same page with his team.
Coming into split two, they are of one mind. They are going to fight, they're going to move fast,
they're going to be aggressive, and I feel like now seeing Kanavi backed up by his teammates,
everyone on the same page, he is on fire. Yeah, I mean, when you see Kanavi on teams like TES, JDG,
a lot of it has been play around his style of play, and I think they've done that completely.
But also, I think that he's been giving too, because you have a team of Zeka, Zayas, like you can,
you are going to be pretty psychopathic and I think that they've been able to find that balance as well.
It's true. Do you feel like for HLE they have kind of everything going for them
near the the latter end of their season there and the LCK? I feel like, you know, their sole
lins can be incredibly strong but the meta also really played in their favor. Kanavi is incredible
and he could also play the things that he likes. Zeca had a breakout split but because we're not
always used to him being at the forefront but also because he had all the picks he wanted.
Do you feel like the MSI patch might maybe throw a wrench in the works?
I think it could work pretty well for them, honestly.
I think that their topside is quite flexible.
People used to talk about Zengas,
it's just the melee guy.
But he can really play everything at this point.
Zaeus can play everything at this point.
It's a very different team than T1 though,
because T1 is so bot lane focused.
And Guma plays weak side for this team.
They focus more on top.
But the jungle, I think, is going to decide so much
between Kanavi and his toe.
His toe really is the star to me of their team.
And he has got to get going early.
He's got to be able to create some sort of action,
some sort of advantage over Kanavi.
it feels like if they're really gonna have a chance.
Yeah, I do agree with that, and I do think that from the side of...
Honestly, from Team Secret Whale's side,
the lesson that they learned from first stand was pretty much that.
Like, they do want to play a lot more together,
and they do need to actually strengthen their laning phase.
If I look from the side of HLE,
I think Guma plays a pretty important role.
A lot of my takeaways from the LCK was like,
wow, mate bot lanes are incredibly strong.
And we saw it a little bit throughout T1's play,
but we're gonna be seeing a lot of it from Gumi-Yushi,
because of the flexibility that he showcases.
His team fighting is incredibly good.
So I do think it is a meta in which you play
through your solo lanes really well,
and you have a late game fighting team fight AD carry,
or a mage bot lane that Guma provides
to be able to supplement that.
Well, I think that's kind of what we're going to find out,
right?
Because there are teams that are on different ends of spectrum.
T1 is very much on the other end of the spectrum.
We have to see what style looks better in this meta.
Coming in, this might not be their biggest challenge,
but it's going to be interesting to see what kind of picks
they want to go towards and what kind of style
they're going to bring out.
might start spelling out what we can expect of HLE here because everyone is expecting to them to be
a finalist probably. I mean it's T1, HLE, MBLG, 3O, the teams gunning for that position as favorites
with the disadvantage that T1 has already gone through the playing stage which is usually their
issue right but I really don't see where HLE is going to have any any problems in this matchup.
I do think it's going to be another discipline test because Pisto is going to try and find an
angle early on his first clear. If he goes for like a three-camp gank topside or something to that nature to get pun ahead,
you have to be aware of that. Zayas is somebody who's going to always press forward for a skirmish.
So I think they're going to try and play to something and try and mess up the game a little bit early in terms of tempo for HLE.
HLE needs to recognize that because if puns not showing up in lane,
it's probably because he's walking to the bot side of the map.
And this is where I also want to see how good is the prep from Secret Wills.
Because when I think about TL, they lost all their games to C1, but they were competitive in those games.
I think largely because they came with unexpected picks. We saw Yasuo mid. We saw Yasuo top. We saw the Olaf jungle
We saw all these different picks their preparation
I think was excellent and to even have a chance you have to have beautiful prep against the top levels you might this
It's true
MSI such a great tournament in that way because teams usually do have a little bit more time to come up with everything team
Secret Wales could also scrim a couple of teams from other regions that could help them in that regard
But still it's going to be a very tall order for team Secret Wales and for HLE
They want to show that they should be a team to be reckoned with and in the conversations for maybe winning MSI
2026 let's kick off the bracket stage
The
mid-season invocational
someone
to get to the top
someone
to be crushed
last year
after the concert
I asked Gen.G
the loss was
long left
there were many lessons
there were changes
My goal is only one thing.
I'm the first MSI in Korea.
I brought the champion seat I had chosen.
MSI Daejeon
The first international champion in 2016 was BLG and LPL.
Because we got the first international champion in this tournament,
we are going to bring more motivation and win more.
Our goal is to win the gold.
Our last international tournament showcased a lot of hope for our region.
Back to back! Three zero victories over the LCK!
What does it take this time to lift a trophy?
We have to rely on the lessons we learned from first time.
The lessons we learned from the last five minutes of the game we played together.
And this is the one we'll take it.
We didn't come all this way for nothing, we're not going to miss our shit, we will make our
at the beginning of the year I was teamless and by chance I was able to join
flying now we're looking to make our mark here at MSI what's your win rate at MSI
I've never lost at MSI never lost never lost but have you ever been to MSI
first time
Just stand up. This is the end.
How do you feel about returning to the game?
I feel like I'm back.
What about you? I think our process is very interesting.
And remember,
NSI was a match for the Bolle LPL.
To get to the top,
hundreds of dreams have to be set in place.
Good luck.
Good luck.
It's time to win.
Call your shot.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026.
The play-ins have officially concluded,
and it's time for the teams to now take to the main stage
in their search for glory and victory here
in League of Legends International Competition.
My name is Captain Flowers.
I am joined by Dada here for this first best of five
in main stage competition between Hanwha Live Esports
and Team Secret Wail.
And I'm so excited to get into the main stage today.
The teams look prepped, they look ready,
and I'm hoping that we finally get something
that isn't a 3-0 series.
For the love of God, give me something that's not a 3-0 series.
Everything in Play-Ins was so decided.
Everything in Play-Ins was a clean sweep,
but now that we've made it to the main stage,
I'm sure that everyone out there is hungry
for some closer, bloodier competition.
Yeah, I'm so ready.
I'm also curious to see how kind of the draft start
to mix up a little bit as well,
Because we've got a lot of like the Majors pot lane, the Camille support with high priority,
like even the shift that we got from the regular season seemed to be there.
So now I'm curious if that still stands coming into the main stage,
or if we start to see these teams bring their own flares to the competition.
And that's always what I want to see.
When you come into international competition,
generally there's going to be at least some meta shakeup.
And even if there's not a direct shakeup thanks to changes to the game itself,
you're still going into a world where all these different regional metas are colliding.
And to me, that's always so exciting to see which one's actually the best, what prevails,
or do all of them fall to the wayside in the favor of something brand new?
Yeah, I do still expect to see a lot of unusual picks in that top lane for guys like Pwn.
I don't know.
I know he loads his counterpicks, and even like they, it was bringing out things like
the Skyrim to support over the course of regular season.
So if there is a team that's willing to shake that up, I think it's Team Secret Wales here today.
And I feel like you're going to have to shake things up.
If you just try to play what you expect to be standard meta league of legends,
against Korea's number one seed, you're likely to be in for a bit of a bad time.
Yeah, that tends to not end particularly well unless you're some of our super, super top teams,
but I'm excited to see what Team Secret Rebels can do here today.
A lot of this, I think, is going to be focused on, you know, how much control can Team Secret Rebels get in the early stages,
because they are a team that likes to play very aggressive, especially with his team.
Going up against a team like Homonline Vsports, where Kanabi kind of dictates the pace of the whole game,
It's a difficult, difficult task.
I mean, in League of Legends, we always talk about how the jungler has so much control.
Jungle is the role that always gets claimed the most, because jungle is the role that has the most different decisions to make at any given time.
And I feel like for both of these teams specifically, they want to play fast, they want to play scary, and the junglers are the engine that drives that action.
But let's waste no more time yapping about it.
It's time to get into champ select powered by HyperX here for the first time at the MSI 2026 main stage.
We've got HLE choosing the blue side here and they're going to go ahead ban out the Orianna, the Vi here in their first two bans.
Other side, it's the Poppy Bandaway alongside that Camille support that you talked about that has skyrocketed in priority.
Yeah, still, the mage is going to be open. You can try and look for a few of those funky pigs,
but definitely Camille is repairing so well alongside them,
setting up things like the Ziggs being incredibly active
in the early stages, and especially coming into MSI,
the fact that we're getting more of those engaged supports
is gonna be delightful for Delight,
as he is someone who was fine in the majors,
but definitely a key engaged support player over the years.
I mean Delight has been one of my favorite engaged support
players to watch over the years,
like you've been talking about,
like some of this guy's plays,
you remember some of the historic moments
things like the rail getting the massive alien gauges. I would love to see him on picks like
that here in this one, but we'll have to wait and see how it goes down. We do have the rumble
and the Nautilus banned out here as our last bands of the first half of the draft and team secret
whales is going to open things up with a Lee Sin for his toe. If I see Lee Sin in the game, Jagda,
I have a rule. If I see Lee Sin in the game and at level seven, he is zero zero and zero,
You should have picked a different champ.
This champion makes things happen.
It's skill expressive. It gets it done.
But over on the other side, HLE is going to respond
with some long range power.
It's Jace and Zig both locked in.
Yeah, which is less than ideal for a Lee Sin
when you want to try to play a close up personal.
And if you can close the gap, fantastic.
But I think Histo's going to have his work cut out from him.
At least adding the rise could end up giving you some control
over that mid-jungle.
But trying to add a little bit of poke for themselves,
going back towards the Ezreal.
Not the end of the world.
and also something that can try and play away from some of these big bombs in the bottom line.
All right, so we've got that Ezreal locked in. What's going to go there alongside it?
It's still a little bit of time to think here for Secret Whales, the rise that is going to be the pick here.
Yeah, I'm curious what the answer is going to be for Zach here because we have seen the
Nidia as an answer and that's not a thing. Don't look at that one.
Yeah, anybody out there watching, you're not actually allowed to pick him in this competition.
You can hover him because it's fun, but yeah, okay. All right, all right,
somewhere out there for you to have but yeah I do think like the Cassiopeia and
the Nivir are the two answers so they're gonna go back towards the the
Cassiopeia which does make sense you've got a lot of the kind of poke champions
and having something that plays well when you have that all and engage to buy
that space it's gonna be very very nice and some of the ZECA has looked decent on.
Yep ZECA on the Cassiopeia a player that for a long time was under scrutiny for
like a limited champion pool you remember back in when he won his world
title with PRX it was during this meta that ended up being perfect for him at
The side-wrestling at Holly being mid lane, but he has really opened up that pool more recently,
playing with Kanabi aggressively in this jungle to open him up to be more comfortable on things like
control mages, so Casio vs Ryze there in the mid lane. I like the zigs for Gumiushi as well since
he often ends up weak-sided. You just sit there, you throw bombs, you clear the wave, it's just like,
okay, I'm not engaging with you, you don't engage with me. Plays will happen somewhere else in the map.
And he's had some nice outplays in those positions as well, where they tried to dive over to the
tower on this pick, so I'm excited to see what he can't achieve. I was curious what the jungle pick
was going to be for Kanabi though. You can already see Team Seeker Wells targeting him
with that Trundle that goes well into the Lee Sin in the early stages. And again, I think you want
something that can kind of scrap against the Lee Sin early, but at least provide some sort of zone
control to set up for these long range hitters. Yeah, and banning away the Trundle from your
opponent. Anytime you have a jungle champion like a Lee Sin or a Xin Zhao who has power budget
invested in gap closing and diving, Trundle is going to stat check them. It's just the way the
the game works. So getting rid of that, I always respect it. Bard banned away, interesting
from HLE. This is a very popular pick for both supports. So HLE is saying that's fine,
Goliath doesn't need it here in this game. We'll just let it pass.
I think it's also good against a lot of these long range champions, right? Like Jayce doesn't
really have the mobility, so Bard can hit them with the tempered face, makes that cap
closing a little bit easier. Looks like it might be the skarner though. Curious if it
is going to be the jungle or if it'll actually end up going into a support role because you
haven't seen it from Deli, but Bea has actually been playing in that support role, but yeah,
who's gonna be taking this? I'm gonna have to wait and see exactly where that one's gonna
land. Okay, Skarner locked in is a flex pick, like you say, so we'll see if they can get
any value out of that. But over on Secret Wales side, I'm still gonna need to see their
support. I'm still gonna need to see the other solo laner here. They know they're behind
with Jason Casio-Pio, obviously expecting the Ryze to go mid. But what's the support
gonna be here with this every it's too long range poke champions as your bottom lane carries. Yeah, I think you need some sort of engage
So looks like it might be the rail here for me and he's gonna just lock that in
And I think honestly one might just have to kind of tank it here a little bit and go towards something like the horn
I think you need the engage although he looks like again like one has been a player that has likes these
Counterpicks where he can't find like answers into the chase put yeah
I think you just need a tank here that can engage to close the gap
But he's going for the sign basically take a look at the team and you can see on the stats the popped up when it was locked in
Granted these are only the stats for play-ins so far here at MSI but 0-3 the big man up in the top lane has not been having a great
Time thus far. We'll see if maybe secret whales and pun can turn that one around
But now it's time for the grand reveal. Is it support scarner? Is it jungle scarner? Which scarner will we see today?
Oh, we've got the share
Yeah, for a jelly. So this is something that we've seen in LCK and a little bit of an LPL as an answer into the sound basically like hey
We're gonna just farm it out. Neither was gonna kill each other
But it makes it very difficult for you to try and play around the bottom lane often times
You've seen it more with like hug mom Lulu though as that like overall protection, but maybe we're not gonna maybe this
Just the Shen in that support role. So basically give him a little bit more towards as a
Yeah, Shen in the support. Well, I mean August have already got the Jason the Cassiopeia locked in most likely for your solo lanes
I still feel like because jungle Shen can be played there is still the question of the Shen go jungle
He's jungle has been seen as well. Yeah, I wasn't sure about so much flex potential between these three
So we'll wait for the the bar to run down guarantee that we know exactly what is going on here
And it does look like as that bar approaches the end
It is the scarter in the jungle. It is the Shen in the support role here for the life
Yeah, so I still think you're gonna be having decent time basically you're gonna be able to stop some of these extra auto attacks coming through
And the ability to roam around the Shen is very strong, especially if he's pressed over to that level 6.
It's just going to make it very difficult for team Seeker Wells to punish Zayas on the chase in the top lane.
Because anytime you try and play up there, oh well, there's a Shen that's backing him up.
So I think a lot of this game is going to revolve around setting Zayas up for success, which has kind of been a little bit of the HLE.
Yeah, I'd love to see it. They like to play around that. I already mentioned back in earlier on in the draft,
the draft, Gumi-Yushi being on the Ziggs, it's a great pick because you kind of just
be beside that bottom lane. You play around elsewhere, having delight on
something like the Shen means, okay, at any point he can be laning with the Ziggs
and then he just takes off somewhere else to help across the map. But let's go
ahead and get into it. Onto the riff for game number one of main stage MSI 2026.
Global power rankings there at the top, powered by AWS. HLE coming in at number
five, Team Secret Wales number 16. So a good difference at least by those
the two spots. Yeah, it is
definitely not the battle for
team secret. Well, especially
as we have seen them on the main
stage before is very taken some
heavy trades because this was
going to be my focus of this
matchup. You know, Zeca on the
counter pick in the mid lane
and dearly we've seen him at
internationals, but he hasn't
quite been able to find the same
success that he has domestically
on the international stage. And
I'm hoping this time around after
those few appearances, he's been
able to figure out how we can
play against some of the top
mid laners in the world. Yeah,
Yeah, you think about Team Secret Whales and where we've seen them before and it's one of those things that has been a bit of a tough journey
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rarest cards but talking about secret whales this is a team remember everybody
kind of got inspired and hyped up around the LCP last year when we got to see
the flying oysters come out and kind of just shock everybody showing that hey
this region when their players are really locked in they can compete and
then obviously you know losing a couple of those players as they as through the
exodus of the region it makes things a little bit more difficult but now secret
whales they qualified the world last year and they ended up placing they
They weren't eliminated first in 15th or 16th, but they did get eliminated in that 12th through 14th place.
Obviously not what they were looking for.
Then they qualified a first stand earlier this year, and they go out first in that 7th and 8th place.
So, four secret whales. It's really not been the international outcomes they've wanted so far.
Domestically though, they've been insane as...
Oh, dear.
Oh, DeRay.
DeRay moved to light with a taunt flash right on top of DeRay.
The flash away, but it won't be enough.
First blood over to Zecko.
very early roam for Delight manages to find that flash taunt in the mid lane and sets up on the person we're saying
We wanted to see have a bit of an easier time, but there is no time for him here
No, that is rough man. Let's take another look at it as Delight just goes in
Yeah, I mean Tom flash perfectly executed
And I think you can kind of see the pings coming through from team seeker Wales
Question mark and where he was but just didn't expect him to be there that early a level 2 shed in the mid lane
It's not something you see regularly and now both of these mid laners with no mobility built into the kid
Both of them running the deathfire touch because remember again. This is we're in a world where there is no more
There's no more phase right, so it's very easy now to make repeat trips for either side over the mid lane
Yeah, and you can see already like this pings onto the Raptors
I think can Abbey just wants to try and steal the camp away
But this is where it does get very difficult for D-Ray because can Abbey can come through with more angles this camp though
It's gonna be the first fight that we have between the two junglers.
Alright, let's see who comes out on top.
HLE picks up another one.
Canavi makes his way into the mid lane instead.
Slowing down D-Ray!
It's disaster in the mid lane for Secret Wales!
As HLE picks up another one.
Canavi collecting the money on this one.
Oh, that's heartbreaking.
D-Ray wanted to try and help out HLE,
but ends up having to give his life.
Because this is what we're saying.
HLE just turned and burned onto D-Ray.
Because he has nothing left but HLE is trying to see if he can make the magic happen.
against this. Yeah, they got to get something back. They got to slow down this HLE war machine here a little bit is still coming in
Zayas using to disguise defensively to get a little bit of extra distance flashes away from the decimating smash
They'll at least get the summoner spell up here, but it also cost the flash from puns
So really not a huge win for secret whales. Yeah, just
Just trying to get something back as you were saying and at least if you can burn that for this
Maybe especially as pun starts to hit level six you get that opportunity to try and chase down the chase boat
We'll have to see how that one starts to pan out because already HLE two kills in this early stages
And Delight is now topside to make sure that Zayac can crash this wave alongside Kanavi
Like it is difficult to crack HLE and we talked a little bit about it in draft
But the whole idea of the previous criticisms of Zeka being a player with like a limited champion pool
Now that he's on HLE playing with Kanavi as his jungler who is very aggressive
it unlocks him to be able to more comfortably play these traditional mages in lane and
and 1-0 and 1-1 start with a 900 individual gold lead before 5 minutes.
You can't ask for much better if you have an early game.
Yeah, he's going to be very happy with this as Delight,
he's curbing Shinnin's VA here.
You've bowed junglers on this side of the map,
but more interest in the ward than anything else.
And this is kind of what we expect for HLE, right?
You talked about it coming through from draft.
The Ziggs in the bottom lane opens up for Delight to start to move.
Delight will be slow in getting to that level 6 though,
because he's been so active in the years and stages on the map,
But I think the results are happy enough for the HLE scores.
Yeah, getting the first blood on your midlaner
two minutes into the game.
Sure, I'll take my slow, Shen, level six, and great for that.
Back down here in bottom lane, though, the farm between the carries
is pretty much dead even.
So Eddie, making sure that he's keeping up with Gumi-Yushi there.
And that's very important considering, you know,
mid lane is already kind of a hemorrhage in terms of gold.
Jungle and top also both slightly ahead for HLE.
But this is kind of what you expect.
If you're going in the round one of an international tournament, you're playing against the Korean
first seed, they're going to be a really tough opponent.
Yeah, and I think it's only going to continue because his toe is now clearing out his Raptor
Camp, but you can see the Scoto crab is bottom this topside.
Canavi already has push mid, so should be able to take this a little.
Both junglers have smite, so curious to see if there will be a contest here.
Okay, see here, his toe is just backing away for now.
Canavi very close to level six.
His toe the same.
The fight over this crab is going to determine who has ulti and with Kanavi landing the smite,
that means Skarner within pale is something that Histo has to respect.
Immediately backs up as Kanavi cleans a little bit more space, places that ward down on the
try brush just to try to help keep Zayas a little bit more safe.
Yeah, Histo isn't entirely sure though where Kanavi is right now.
I was going to say he would look to try and play off of Zayas in this topside, but he's
playing very safe.
You can see he actually put a ward into his own jungle there, just on the top.
It's a big circle, hang on, the small one, just there,
onto his own topside, a bit afraid that Kanavi with the push
and made a push on top might invade on towards the red bull.
But because he's unsure, doesn't actually commit
for the topside play, they even move,
they open to that top end as well to try and help out.
But Zayac is able to crash the wave, play it safe,
and he's impunished on the overextension
when he doesn't have the flash.
All right, to Light and BA both,
still not level six, of course,
gonna be a little while before we get there.
BA does take over to level five first, however,
Zeca and D-Ray over here in mid lane, just about have the flashes off of cooldown.
Particularly when we're in international competition watching the top level teams.
I always try to pay extra close attention to those last 20 seconds or so of a summoner spell cooldown.
Because teams are so good at tracking it, they're so good at trying to make a play right at the very edge.
But it looks like we are not going to see that here this time as the summoner spell cooldowns are back and available.
But Daxa, it's just about 8 minutes on the clock.
The Grubbs are about to spawn and it's over a 2,000 Goldy for HLE.
Yeah, it's also, Histo's about to hit level 7 and your famous 0-0-0 is still on the clock there for him.
Yeah.
It's unfortunate because, honestly Team Seeker Wells, like, domestically have been incredible.
Like, 10-0, the only series they've lost all year long has been to DCG.
Like, they have been more than dominant in the LCP,
but unfortunately haven't quite been able to get success yet as the light's toppling.
Yeah, Delight making another move towards a solo lane.
This time it's Pawn who's in trouble.
Zayas just needs a little bit more damage to take him down.
One last auto attack, seals the deal, and HLE making a 3-0 game.
Yeah, Pawn and Lee should be able to collect the wave,
which is a little bit of a silver lining,
but already you can see HLE very much want to pick up the pace of this game.
And Delight has been everywhere,
and this is kind of what we were talking about coming in,
is Delight now having access to...
Engage is a weird one, maybe, for Shen, but like...
We'll still call it a gauge, sure.
Have these playmaking champions more than the Enchanters are perfect for them
and already getting active on the map.
Like, I think this is my...
my favorite part of watching the way Meta's developed for MSI.
Like, seeing all these roaming timers from the supports
and, like, really playing on the edge of where they can be on the map
has been so sick to see.
Ooh, Eddie down to 300 HP.
Gumi-Yushi flashing forward aggressively on the zigs, forcing a return flash.
Now Kanabi could be in a little bit of danger.
Flash is away from decimating Smash,
But Team Secret Wales is making a four-man play after the scarner, petrifying Gaze to try to get one back from Zeca, but it's not enough.
Canavi falls, and Team Secret Wales finally make their way onto the board.
There's what your Razz was talking about on the desk though, you know, giving up those lanes at the topside for fun,
moving down to cover on the play. They do get a kill, but it does go to the support,
and you're also losing some of those waves in the top lane. So, while it's nice and fortunate for Team Secret Wales,
they don't fully come out of that unscathed.
Yeah, they get the money from the kill, but Turra plays being mind-top, being mind-bottom, it's a problem.
Team Secret Wales at least also did get themselves the first drake of the game,
but this two and a half thousand gold lead is the scariest thing in the scoreboard right now, my friend.
Yeah, as you can see here, so Gaea just finding that roam timer to move towards mid,
but Kanabi very tanky at this stage, so they move fun down in the hopes that he can help out.
But Kanabi, oh hang on, says...
He's back to live, Gaea's under pressure, Delight makes his way into the fight, trying to protect his top laner,
as now both of them tried to get out, focus on Dezeus here in the Jays, but Kanavi has a run.
Histo has already got the first kill as Dezeus dies.
Now Kanavi's got to be a little bit careful.
There's not a lot of damage here on the HLE side, so they won't be able to get anything back.
Nice moves from Team Secret Wales.
Very nice move by Team Secret Wales, managing to move that play from mid into the topside
and catching out to Dezeus who has stepped forward and just got his flashback.
So thought he was going to be safe, especially having to light hit that level 6,
but there's just more members of Team Secret Wales there.
I was talking about making plays right before the cool down timer of the flash returns sometimes it's the
Insidious overconfidence of getting the cool down back
That's what team secret whales just did the gold lead obviously still far in favor of HLE
The team secret whales not gonna go down without a fight his toe up to a 500 gold lead
Individually here and this guy is really the engine. I mentioned it earlier about him how he works in this game
the air to Levi is the question right you think back to part of the biggest
demonstrations from the LCP historically you know like the PCS the LMS and
their international performances you think of Levi you think of the Gigabyte
Marines you think it is crazy aggressive style and that's exactly kind of what
you need to see from his toe if they're gonna have a chance against a team like
HLE. Yeah still HLE chasing team Secret Weasel down into those bottom sides.
Secret Weasel kind of just yeah need to back away here but with the reset coming
through on Eddie. I think they're just going to look for the turt plates are a
little bit of a push in this bottom side because he hates me like trying to get
aggressive get vision down onto his toe to spot out exactly where this Lee
Sins movie and right there you can see Gumi Uchi this is his first international
series without Kariya faker or owner that roster that was together for so very
long that core lineup now broken up it's Gumi Uchi's turn to prove his strength
outside of that Goliath that was assembled.
Yes, there was a little bit of comfort there, I would say,
it's in the top lane, right?
But it does feel weird to not have them as a group,
especially in an international competition,
and especially for Guma Yushi.
Like, this is his fifth time in a row at MSI.
Like, it's got to feel different with a different jersey on.
But you'll have to see if you can maybe find that first win
for himself at this tournament.
Down here in the bottom lane, Eddie under pressure,
yet again from Guma Yushi, who continues chasing him down
here in the 1v1.
Kuma, he doesn't care about being weak-sided.
He's still stronger than the other weak-sided carries, so he's gonna play aggressively.
Kanavi invading the enemy Red Buff here at the same time, trying to scare his toe away.
Delight right behind Kanavi. His toe goes in, secures his own Red, and gets up the wall as VA is waiting.
But now Kanavi coming in, trying to get something back.
Punn comes in here, but he's not gonna get a whole lot, but he's unstoppable onslaught.
Just makes his way towards the turret, that's all he wants. He just needs to clear away the wave.
Meanwhile, down here on the bottom side, Kuma, Yushi, about to use the Satchel Charge, blow up that first turret,
But they're gonna make a play. On the other side, it's D-Ray, moving down to the bottom lane.
But a TP also about to arrive from HLE.
Kuma-Yushi! Just that D-Ray down!
In a 1v2, he didn't even need Zeka's help.
He sends the Ryze back to the fountain and tells Ezreal, you're next!
Kuma-Yushi, man!
That Ludens Echo damage is doing work!
D-Ray, I'm so sorry.
He moves down to the bottom side, thinks he's helping out, only giving more gold across.
And with the terror going down as well in that bottom side,
Xeus getting plates in the top side.
Look at the gold lead that's opening up across all the carries on HLE right now.
This is scary, man. You mentioned earlier the question posed to Secret Whales and specifically to D-Rays.
You've been at international stages a couple of times.
You are domestically dominant, but international performances have not been where he wants them to be.
And this first game, unfortunately for Team Secret Whales, is going the exact same way.
D-Ray targeted two times, very early on, gets off to a bad start.
Then when he finally goes to make the play to try to get a punish and get back into the game,
instead, he gets exploded by Gumiushi's dig.
Oh!
As Zeka goes over the wall,
Sonic Wave connects, but I am telling you, right now, his toe, you do not want to press that cue again.
I don't think Histo wants to be where he is right now.
Trying to be a secret agent to see if he can sneak as rare to this one, but Gumiushi spotted him.
Yeah.
Gumiushi just hunting them down, immediate dragon's rage into the Sonic Wave.
Gumiushi bouncing back away,
As the San United is ready to protect the carry, TP's coming in.
Mega Inferno bomb collides onto his, till he's down to 200 HP.
Everybody trying to block the shock blast.
Zayas wants the angle, seeing if maybe he can find it.
Oh, that was close.
Yeah, it just ends up being a leash in the end,
but that was a risky one.
As Kanavi, knowing that his toe was run for the hills,
is going to be able to secure this dragon.
Well, as you hear, like, this play,
like, D-Ray thought he's helping out,
because he's relatively healthy,
But the lead on levels for Kuma-Yushi and Deerai not really having the support of any
Immediately, Kuma's able to turn that one around
Yeah, normally you don't expect as the mid laner going into the bottom lane to beat enemy bot lane carry will outlevel you
Yeah, that's just the speed of things right now. Also just item difference, right? Like look at the items for Deerai
He's kind of holding on with a few components in a prayer
That was not anything compared to Luden's Echo damage that Kuma-Yushi has like these Ziggs on this items spike
It's so insanely strong and of course you dare. I had to be the one to prove us. Yeah
D Ray strike catalyst and swift March plus a tier. This is a this is a very budget build
We will politely call it. Yeah, D Ray's got a lot of catching up to do to try to be relevant in this game
But 15 minutes in a 5,000 gold lead
HLE has already built something that now relies on one of their own blunders for team secret whales to come back
And they're just not gonna give them a moment, right?
They've dropped bot way to like cool. Look you can get some turpates. We're gonna push on mid
They call full vision control on this top side and look for more
Yeah, punn tries to jump in there and scare them away loses half of his HP for his efforts
Zekka tried to go for the petrifying gaze, but doesn't land a stun
So punn stays alive for the pressure continues to be HLE solo laners can all be supporting them here on the side
Some of the rip tarot
Hops right on in
Kaboom knocks down the tier 2 turret. I don't think they're stopping
I think it's a full face push at 16 minutes into the game.
The Herald collides into the tier three turret.
Team Secret Wales trying to defend.
The true shot for Raj flies through, but it will not matter.
Punn caught up immediately with the taunt into the e-stall impact.
Punn is already down.
The inhibitor falls 16 minutes and 27 seconds into the first game.
And HLE is marching on the Nexus.
That is not what I expected to be saying at 16 and a half minutes into this game.
But they will back away.
Now, traditionally, you're not supposed to take the inhibitor at this time, because there's
no baron and you can't use the super creeps effectively.
I don't know if that's an issue this game, because you have a massively accelerated poke
comp that can siege anywhere, any time on the map, and kind of ruin Team Seeker Wednesday.
This one might be a quick one for us.
Gumi-Yushi just bought his Shadowflame.
We now have two fully completed items on both the Ziggs and the Cassiopeia.
Zeca is about to evolve his Archangel staff into the Sarasen Brace in one more spell cast, right?
Just hit a random minion with Twin Fang. Okay, that thing's fully completed.
Top lane, Zea's already has his second item done now with the Serpent's Fang.
I...
I'm not seeing the way back into the game for Team Secret Whales barring just a massive error from HLE,
and they're not playing like they're gonna commit one of those.
Yeah.
I mean, this is clinical, right?
And I do think this is why teams are look- people are looking at HLE as one of the top teams
Coming into this tournament, like, it's this sort of precision.
It's, we got a small lead and now we're ruining Plun's day again.
Yeah, Pawn is always barely hanging on to life.
Meanwhile, Kanabi and Zea is just putting the pressure on two points at once.
These are the plays that you normally see when a team has Baron.
Baron will not be on the rift for another two minutes,
as HLE just continues mounting the pressure.
Delight bouncing back and forth between the two sides.
Still only level seven on the shen, doesn't matter.
He got level 6, he has the R button, that's all he needs.
Yeah, I mean, he got the locket off with all the assists as well, so...
The shields on shields, mid lane tower, can they save it here?
Ooh, Delight trying to make the taunt there, but will not be able to connect on that one.
A team secret Wales doos engages and finds the punish.
TSW looking for a little bit more now.
Decimating smash over the wall, not gonna get a whole lot.
Eddie down to 20% HP, mega inferno bomb!
It might just burn him away, but no, not quite enough damage.
Histo about to die with the impale mistis.
Zekka goes forward, his toe still running.
Zekka needs one more noxious blast from the Twin Fang.
Last one hits him.
Zekka makes it a one-for-one trade overall,
as Delight is back alive now.
Zay is still looking for a little bit more.
D-Ray, run!
Okay, for a second, I thought that might have been another rise death.
Eddie Nottine might be the only reason
that Team Seeker was able to hold on to this game,
because I think if it was only three people here,
HLE would have taken that big wave in top lane
and looked to try and finish off some of these Nexus turrets.
But either way, HLE...
Like, it's 40 seconds until Dragon and Baron, and like, I just don't care.
I think they just siege the base.
Like, how do you pick everything else?
Because look at the damage from Gooma here, because there's a nice pick onto the light.
Gooma Yushi then TP's in, as me against this.
But the bombs from Gooma Yushi onto Eddy are insane.
Like, the man just help art disappears, and then the only fact that you don't have any burn in the kit for this right now
is the reason that Ezra is still standing.
Yep, he hit him with one landmine, the Luton's proc, and then one bouncing bomb, and that was 70% of his HP.
Like, it's very difficult to play the game from that angle at that point.
And here's a stat we've got for you. Fastest game at MSI so far in the play-in stage, 23 minutes and 37 seconds.
That was T1 versus Team Liquid. It is very possible for this game to beat that record, because I feel like if HLE just wants to rush Baron and then rush the enemy base, that's probably game.
Yeah, I would like that statistic to stand though, because at least we've got something over in A this tournament in a new month.
G2 has yet to play.
That is fair, that is fair.
Maybe they'll give you all something impressive. It's delight.
A boys, the shattering strike gets himself away for now.
Rest of HLE not quite in position to back him up as you can see Kanavi and Zeca.
Working together to just burn down this drake.
I do not see a world where this goes to be a Dragon's soul game.
I just don't think it'll go long enough, but HLE are making sure to just play the game right.
Take what you need to take, secure all the objectives,
and now you can see them starting to head up towards this top side of the map,
towards this Red Buff quadrant of Team Secret Wales.
Zeca the only one apart from the rest of the team is pushing down the bottom lane.
Teleport coming in now. Zeca ready to join the rest of the team.
Kanavi goes in with an each tall impact.
D-Ray is going to be your target here. Kanavi continues to chase.
Mega Inferno Bob goes through, flash forward from Kanabi, but he does get stopped from decimating Smash.
No way out for BA. That's one pick over to HLE.
And another one sent on the run as D-Ray barely survives.
And you can see now HLE, it's a conga line towards Barrett.
Yeah, gonna be happy to pick up the big purple worm, and I think that might just seal the deal here.
But only two inhibitor turrets left remaining.
HLE just caught out of control. Goom on his own though.
Pistol maybe?
Okay, takes the satchel charge, gets himself away, stand united preemptively, just making sure that he stays safe.
D-Ray is now caught on the wrong side of the riff.
Seyes should just be able to catch him up here with a nice accelerated shock blast as soon as the cooldown is ready to go.
Chase continues.
A little bit more. D-Ray is actually-
Honestly?
Okay, D-Ray-
That worked!
Okay.
Well, he got away and you pulled him off baron.
He- I- About that got away part.
I don't quite think-
Okay
He evades the rock the upheaval does not connect every time he evades one man
The next man steps up to catch him. It was a valiant effort from D Ray
But after they send the third guy, it's it's pretty old. He got deep on his first one in the roguelike
But unfortunately, you know, you have to go down eventually
You can get through the first two phases, that's pretty good
Yeah
Eight and a half thousand gold lead for HLE every single individual role ahead with top lane ahead
Almost three thousand gold bottom lane ahead almost three thousand gold mid lane ahead two thousand gold
It's just it you're seeing why HLE is
One of the teams that many people have predicted as a tournament favorite. Yeah, and I think this is I
Think it's
Oh, no. All right. Goodbye BA. He tried to get out, but Delight's CC plus Deus is damaged way too much.
His toe escapes most of the way, but I mean man, just the edge of the Mega Inferno bomb still hurts and look at Gumiuchi's inventory.
Dagda, two needlessly large rods. He's this close to having a hat and once he does,
it's just gonna be whoever gets hit by the ultimate loses half their health.
Yeah, it's a party hat on this one. They're gonna feel very very comfortable from...
I think it's incredibly impressive to see how this team has come together because obviously it was a little ropey at the start of this split.
There was a whole 10th place to meet, but I do think like this team looks exceptional.
Now, they have their identity, Kanabi looks absolutely insane.
Kanabi usually being able to bring out a ton of these majors, which really fits the meta and also opens up the light then start playing around.
I think it's really put them into a super interesting spot, especially going up against a team like BLG.
The play is somewhat similar style.
I like, it's just gonna be such a sick tournament to watch these two
and a couple like teams like T1,
the top esports and G2 and the Adiana all battling out.
And I just love how fast HLE likes to play as well.
As you can see, I think we've got our final Hail Mary coming out here
from Team Secret Wales, VA approaching on the flank.
But as soon as they try to make a move,
his toe nearly dies the very start, but Zayas' pop, one gets the kill.
Nice move from Team Secret Wales, they managed to get one,
But now they got to make sure they don't lose too much on the exit.
Zeke is still moving forward. Mid lane inhibitor about to fall.
Yes, Deus is down, but HLE will still successfully use the Baron
to break into the base and crush the mid lane inhibitor.
Yeah, I mean, fair play to Team Secret Wales already making HLE work for these last couple of minutes.
And it's just unfortunate that there is a pre-tasked go-nane on Goomirushi.
There's that Ramanan's deathcap you were talking about.
It's just there's not enough in the tank.
So even when you guess some of these good engages,
It's the follow-up that you have to be careful about to push back.
And you can see Zaeus with the Voltaic Cyclops, so in inventory now, he's three fully completed items.
Zekka bought his Armguard a long time ago.
He has not been under enough pressure to ever have to use it.
So now he's just building other stuff.
Yeah, he's like, you know what?
As long as I have this, I'm fine.
As Kenavi, he stills in attack to the wall.
Gets the slow one to BA, and nice use of the Impale.
The buffer through the defensive CC makes it easy for HLE to pick up another one.
That is BA dead for 25 seconds.
That is the main engage tool of Team Secret Wales.
And HLE still have their Red Bull Baron power play
for the next minute and 15 seconds.
They're going to use it to bust through
the last remaining Tier 3 turret.
This inhibitor is going to be open.
The top lane inhibitor is open.
The mid lane inhibitor is already wreckage.
And HLE have a 5v4 for the next five seconds.
BA is going to be alive to try to defend the Nexus turrets.
But Team Secret Wales,
they're staring down the barrel at the end of the game
right now, Delight goes in, tries to find his toe, isn't gonna get a his toe, evading
that for now, first Nexus turret already down, HLE continuing to push, still have the baron
for another 45, Pum tries to jump in, not gonna find the angle he's looking for, Kanavi
on the chase, two shot barrage goes through, only hits Kanavi, that's not good enough,
secret whale still scrambling, second Nexus turret gonna be your target now, they wanna
defend it, the goobah you she wants to end it, Pum has the flash out, barely staying alive,
a very confident performance from HLE in game number one. Insane. I don't really
you know how you're supposed to kind of come back to that if one is but let's
pass it over to the AD to break that one down. Thank you so much I'm also not
exactly sure how we're gonna talk about that one it almost looked like at some
point that they were playing with their food they could do an objective or they
could chase you all the way over your mouth. I mean like how's that gonna
drop us with that responsibility? It's true, it's true, it's true. That was
extremely I'm sorry they were on fire in the game and they needed a fire
thing we're sure and it started in the draft actually really liked some of the creativity in the drafts
We talked about hey, what are they gonna be bringing to turn it?
What is the meta gonna be? Yeah, and it was cool to actually see Shenn support scarner we haven't seen out of these at MSI
I think their comp actually made a lot of sense through they're not just throwing out some random picks here
You're putting sign in the matchup. We have to build armor
You're bringing in Casio and zig so we're gonna need to pick for it through them in the team fights that are gonna be bad
I think damage and then you have this shen that can play towards the sidelines really really effectively with the scarner also
So I thought it was a really intelligent draft and they made it look so easy.
He absolutely did. Let's take a look. Oh, now the draft sheet.
But yeah, like I wanted to actually support the point.
But like when you see the first pick, Lee Sin locked in, you're like,
that is his toes pick. Like that's exactly what you want to see from him.
And then immediately it's like, well, how does he find a way in?
Like the petrifying gaze, the miasma, the shenalti.
He doesn't buddy.
I just felt like the entirety of edge of Lee's composition really countered both.
what Ryze wanted to be able to get done, and also what Lee Sin wanted to do.
So like as playmakers, you can't really find a way into the fight.
You can't play through side necessarily unless D-Ray was able to get off early.
And that just didn't happen.
Let's talk a little bit about a poor man in the middle that we said before,
been to internationals before, couldn't really play up to his level
despite having a good level domestically.
What did A-Chile do to him early?
They bullied him!
Beakable thing, yes!
Beakable thing.
I mean, he was already getting kind of getting clapped in the 1v1 straight from level one.
Zeca was trading so heavily on him and then Delight hits level 2 and he's just not expecting a roam this early
And honestly, I wasn't expecting Delight to commit this hard
But it fully makes sense taunt flash that guarantees the noxious blast is gonna hit
So you have the additional movespeed he heals for the movespeed onto Zeca
They chase him down they kill him and then Kanavi rinse and repeat coming on in they know there is no flash
No way out D-Ray was getting absolutely bullied. He was down. Yeah 40 50 CS early in this game
Yes
Such a great job conditioning him to lean towards the box out of the bush like this
Ladyface from level one conditioning him to get his butt beat
Yeah, like a 30 CS deficit nearly a 2k deficit by the like 20 minute mark
He just couldn't play the game. You know what he's probably happy to gang them
He's like this is going so badly these trades. Please get me so that at least looks
I swear
Did you call the Rome timer?
I didn't hear it
Who called the next one?
Because the light went top as well
The light was really actually very active
I mean, Guma has been playing a weak side style
With the light we know
Yes, he can play the Enchanter
He can play everything, but when this guy is on
Gate Champs, he is just kind of different
And he is making the roams look really strong
Yeah, that's one of my questions for HLE
Going deeper into this tournament
They have that self-sufficient style for Gooma in the bot lane, so the light can do things
like that, but that maybe that won't work if you go up against different types of teams.
In this one though, it definitely worked, and I feel like it's going to be repeated.
16-30 in hip.
It was the 5th fastest all-time in international, so 4 in hip take, so that is quite fast.
It didn't hang on for a while after this, but the funny thing is we talked about Gooma
as weak side, but it just felt like every side was strong side for HLE this game.
Because he was winning the 1v1 against the Ezreal and then they're like, ah, we'll just bring down the Ryze, and we'll 2v1 him.
And he solo kills the Ryze in a 1v2 and made it look ridiculously easy, so D-Ray can't lane mid.
He's like, ah, I'll just go bot. Can't lane there either, buddy.
Yeah, it sucks. I guess maybe we're talking a little bit too negatively on the side of Team Secret Wales.
What was the positive? What? What was the positive?
Well, HLE pulled off the ganks. The light was roaming.
True.
I like that. And I do think from Delight to see him find those angles really early on, I think just the thought process of a level 2 shangang mid.
That he was really confident in what was he was being heard from like what was going on mid lane from Zeke.
And also knowing that the wave was pushing in, he was like, okay, like, Ziggs should be completely fine to find this one window if it doesn't materialize, then that's completely fine.
bot lane. Same thing when he was roaming and finding plays with Kanabi. I was like wait a minute,
okay seems like Sion is pressing up. I'm gonna look up there. So I think Delight showcased
something that was really good. Just finding the flow within the game and seeing an angle and he
found a lot. Yeah, absolutely did. I mean we never got to really get to teamfights. No,
exactly. The game was decided before them and this is a meta that is almost always decided by
those 5v5s but you've got to give yourself a chance to get there. We need to see TSW
Hold on in those lanes. It is going to be so hard against team like HLE because they are ridiculously strong across the board.
They are. It's saying something when you can't even get to those 5v5s, right?
So it's going to have to be a new game plan for Team Secret Wales when we come back.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI.
Hi, 2026. It's day one of main stage competition here after a one day break with the conclusion
of the play-ins. This first series hits the first seed from Korea Hanma Life Esports against
the first seed of the LCP in Team Secret Wales. And Dagger, let me tell you, game number one
for anybody who might just be joining us now was not even remotely close.
I'm going to put it out there. I don't think Hanma or Jett liked.
No.
I might get passed on pretty darn quickly. Yeah, because they came out the door swinging
It was absolutely said literally from the get-go like we didn't even make it to four minutes before there was kills in the middle
Yeah, the Korea to Korea jet lag is just not yeah, but it used to be. No, you would think we'll think yeah
Well if nothing else team Secret Wales know that they have to change something in the game plan here for this one because last game
I feel like the game was over at level two delight making the roam to mid lane super early
Getting Decker just so far ahead of D-Ray, D-Ray never got back into the game.
Right, that rise was irrelevant from level 2.
So they've got to find a way to try to deal with this a little bit better.
And let's go ahead and hop into our second chance select here.
Secret whales have elected to take second pick for their choice.
So HLE has opted to choose the blue side.
And I do think that's the trying to counter pick for a point in that top lane.
Like, that is kind of in the bread and butter.
Like, he's been known for bringing things like the Bolly Bear and the Olabs.
and all these kind of weird vacuum wonderful picks up there and
I'm hoping we do get to see a little bit of that because that was what was their bread and butter domestically
But the problem is I'm not seeing the Camille van, which I don't know if Team Secret Wells are going to go for
After the impact that's a life hat in the early game. I don't know if I want to give that one across
Yeah, that's a pretty scary proposition
Our fans here in the first half do end up being Ferris poppy Nautilus banned out by HLE
Over on the other side Team Secret Wales getting rid of Rumble, Gnar and Orianna and hey
You called it man. The cameo locked in for HLE in the line. Yeah, very very strong
And you can still go towards like the mages in the bottom lane
We haven't seen boomer used to bring out the male but already having used the ziggs
I imagine he's still gonna be more than happy to go towards that male and bring out some of these picks
But either way team Seeker well is gonna have to find some way to shut down this early aggression for HLE
Jarvan a decent start. Very strongly hits that level three. Yep
We've got the Jarvan in there
Remember that his toe played the least in the previous game was not able to find
He would like to but all right alongside the Jarvan we get at least locked in. I mean fire with fire here
I'm excited because like at least Caitlyn definitely something you could try and answer for for the Caitlyn
We're named to avoid some of the long-ranging gauges from the Camille also set up for that kind of combo if the Camille ever over extends
We'll have to see his cannavi go back towards the Kiara. He is
Insanely good on this thing. He is
Very good on it. You can see right there, 0-3 in the play-ins, so our teams trying to qualify for main stage did not have the success with it.
They would have liked, but now there's the Mel that you were talking about. Gumi-Yushi showing us his zigs in game number one had a great performance on that one.
Now ready to lock in the Mel next to the Camille during game number two.
Yeah, the Kiana isn't something we've seen from Kanabi in the LCK, or at least this year in the LCK, but was very well known for an indie LPL.
very, very strong on the pick and was able to get a ton of control and fits into what
was his like playmaking style. It was kind of this and the Belvedre where he kind of
has two picks that he'd have in the back pocket he would bring out. But there on the
upside, Team Secret Wales, not going towards the table as they'd be expected. Instead going
towards the lead, still like that follow-up on the cocoon, the ability to play from long
range against Keanna, Camille and Belvedre, probably a good call to stay away from that.
Yeah, but I'm curious if he'll be able to do it because Jin doesn't have that range that you were talking about with the Caitlyn, right?
He does have the normal range of an AD carry. Yes, you're deadly, Glowish, and your curtain calls can go a long way.
But, critically, he also doesn't have Caitlyn's net. The only thing he can do is run, and when Kiana and Camille are going after you,
Eddie's gonna have to have very, very careful positioning, or a lot of protection to stay safe when he's diving.
And a surprise we didn't get the Cleveland because Eddie has played these two games, two wins, 15 KDA on the champions, so definitely something that's in his wheelhouse, but instead, of course, it's Gin.
Now we're getting the top lane bands going over towards AS, but Cassante, I'm surprised, because I expect AS more to go towards like these, the carry top laners from this position, like, so already kind of opting more towards the tanks is a surprise to me.
All right, Kassante, Renekton, Kennan all banned away, it is the top lane hunting grounds here in the second half of the draft as Jacks will be the final ban here for HLE.
It says to me that actually our leaning towards an investor pick with Renekton and Jacks gone into Kassante is definitely something you could try and go towards.
I've only seen it once from Zaeus over the course of the LCK, but we've seen a lot towards what we're able to do on it over the course of this tournament close far and domestically.
What I've seen is I imagine this is just going to be your mid lane pick here again, like Team Secret was the way to drop these often times, and you need that kind of pick flow.
Alright, Aurora locked in for Secret Wales. Remember this is a champion that can flex between mid or top, so still making it kind of harder for HLE to make their two choices here, make it easier to try to get that counter pick like you were talking about in one of the solo lanes.
So let's see HLE where are we going to go with these picks the Akali I mentioned it earlier in game number one
You remember this is one of those iconic ZECA champions back with his World 2022 game with TRX
But it said they're gonna go ahead and lock the M besta for Ziggs
Yeah
That's kind of what we're expecting with the draft team going the way it was but in their next to the Jax
They are ready to try and set up for the QIANA as well
also a loss of mobility on the members of HLE right now.
Like it is going to be very difficult for
Team Secret Wales if this game tries to qualify.
Try and keep things in check, but
Punn, I suspect stays Mollybear,
will be very good at this position that he is going to go towards us.
All right, Punn slams down the top lane Mollybear against Zaeus's Ambesa.
But I'm right there with you, the mobility on HLE here in this game.
The only champion on this team that is not hyper mobile,
is the Mel, who can also snare you at point-flag range
and then use the reflector as soon as you try to make a move on Duma-Yushi.
So very, very difficult, I think, for Team Secret Wales to find those angles.
They're going to have to be coordinated. They're going to have to be ferocious.
We know that as a team that domestically can play that way,
particularly through his toe like we were talking earlier,
but in game number one, it was Delight and it was Konami,
making moves early that Team Secret Wales couldn't answer.
And I think Team Secret Wells became aware of how active Delight was being in the early stage of the game.
They did a decent job afterwards of actually getting involved in some of those early skirmishes, right?
Like, getting the kill onto Kanavi, trying to play for some of those picks in the top lane.
So, I think if Bay can try and get out early to match some of these roles from Delight,
maybe Team Secret Wells can try and control or slow down the pace of the early game for HLV.
The thing that I worry about though, is if both of our supports are roaming,
That leaves Mel versus Jin down the bottom lane, and I feel like Kumi Yushi on the Mel.
Radiant Vali is gonna trade pretty heavily into a Jin who only can attack fast enough to shoot him with one bullet.
Yeah, also kind of short range of the attack as well, which is like, obviously got the deadly first in the ult,
which is where that long range comes from, but his auto attack range does not match Mel.
So I think that's really where it is gonna be a little bit of a difficulty and reflected four shots.
Yeah, that's not gonna feel very good.
And it's, you can tell from his big dramatic animation that he's gonna do it.
It's pretty easy to time the rebuttal.
If I can do it, I'm pretty sure Gumi you can do it.
Yeah, he's pretty good at the video game.
Yeah, he's pretty skilled at this game.
All right, let's go ahead and get into it.
Team Secret Whales really want to bounce back after a tough game one against HLE.
But you know, that's so far easier said than done against a team of this caliber.
Yeah, I'm curious to see what Histo wants to do in the early game.
because usually what we see from junglers, and we've seen it from Kanabin in the past when they're playing Kiana,
you free camp, reset, and it looks like he's actually going to do this as well,
pick up Longsword and then go through your top side of jungle.
So there is a window here where he's though, if he knows that this is going to be the case,
could end up going for some sort of play towards that top side of the map,
and try and set up already early for a pun to try and win out here against this,
like blow Summoner's spell, try and play off the Bolliebear early,
but it doesn't look like that's going to be the case.
Instead, it looks like he's just going to try and clear down towards the bottom side of the map
as we get some tutorials for Mel.
Yep, we got Mel showing up in that next Rift Bound set, Vindetta, that arrives on July 31st with New Champs.
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So, whether you want to collect or play, go ahead and check it out. Plenty of New Champs,
including the popular ones that we're seeing in the meta game right now.
So, checking in on mid lane.
Remember, this was where the disaster started in game number one. Nice buffer there.
through the cocoon delight making sure that the hook shot gets him away from imminent danger but still gets tagged with a deadly flourish
Light does land the hextech sweep
There's a little bit of even trading down here in the bottom line
I like the fact that ba and eddie are playing aggressively early on like this and you can see here on the left side of the map
It's the experience gap. This is for the next series
But there is one that we also have for hle
That is just uh, these this is a team that is very experienced
There's a lot of international appearances for all these players and it's something that for Team Secret Wales
You've got to really step up to try to meet that because
International stages are a totally different monster from domestic competition and going up against somebody who's really experienced with that
Someone who's comfortable with that when you're brand new that is a mental challenge in its own
Yeah, I don't think that's where a lot of that focus is gonna be here for and
Team Secret Wales is just trying to see if you can try and beat someone because you've got like
Kumiuchi, this is his fifth MSI in a row. Hasn't been able to put that trophy in the MSI trophy specifically in this trophy case
Then you look across says Kanavi coming over from the LPL now joining the LCK has kind of been the hey
I really want to try and find success on HLE and like bring some of the learning from the LPL to the LCK
And that's kind of what we've seen is this team now adjusting to Kanavi and his aggressive play pattern
And it's been a massive success for them. And I think this is where as you can see the international appearances there
There we go.
But it really is kind of the focal point of just how much experience there is on this team.
Well, we've already crossed the three-minute mark and there's no deaths on Team Secret Whales.
So a cleaner early game from them, they're not getting caught off guard by any early roams from Delight,
especially on a champion like Camille.
You said at the start of the draft that we even saw it locked.
This is a type of champion that can really enable that sort of playstyle.
And I think they've been doing a decent job because with the range now on the Elise you can't continue to push but Kanavi spotted on this bottom side
So keep thinking well is gonna have to disappear quickly. Yeah, it's a I feel like it's a bit of a slow move there from BA
Solar snare flies out BA trying to get away from this one
Kanavi finds a lot of damage
But BA staying alive and even has the confidence to hold his flash
Yeah, can I be not actually taking the water room there so you can actually get the lanko buzz
OH PUN! He goes in for the solo kill again. Zayas gets him low down to 100 HP. Zayas though again cool and collected
Does not spin the flash does not blow a summoner spell
But this is the power of the volleyball in the 1v1 and the power of pun right like this was a guy that they
Wanted to give so many of these counter picks to and because in the past he's much more about those tanks playing in the top side
But he has really found his niche domestically in the LCP by having these crazy counter picks by being able to pull you in late
and then moving that pressure around the map.
But now, Zayas low, Histo here.
Okay, no level six for the volleyball here just yet.
As Delight has made his way up with a hookshot, Flash!
And it's first blood over to Delight.
It does end up getting traded one for one here.
Histo trying to get away from Delight now.
Zeca and BA both making their way up.
Histo still looking for a way out.
There's no Flash here with a jar, but Zeca's ready to go with the follow.
Leads a little bit more damage. One more auto attack in the air.
Gets it done. BA on the run.
Teleport coming in now from TNC for Wales and Konami's also rejoining the fight finds another kill in the VA and now the teleport is
Simply a funeral for pun. He deep-bees right back into the top side and immediately has to run back
Just about him to get away from the rock down from Konami put this mark on it
It's not done yet. Delight jumps in pun goes down and now D-Ray also delivers himself into the waiting mall
They shall leave the light falls there at least so D-Ray gets one
but Zeca and Kanavi continue their chase.
The Aurora is out of mana,
and the extended bloodbath in the top
side of the map is a five for two.
What the hell just happened?
This game just blew up out of nowhere
and it's HLE with the numbers advantage
that are able to make the play stick in the top lane.
Five to two and near 2,000 gold lead
and a ton of that going to delight in the bottom lane.
The fight was so long that pun died twice.
Let's watch it again.
Yeah, because you get the roam from Delight to cover the top side play.
And it works so well.
Point of view, just burned the flash, no way to escape.
So he tries to set up here.
Zay is flashing away, thinking he can get away from his toe, but ends up going down.
Bay is level three.
He tries his best to keep Zekka out of this engagement, but...
The charm missed it from Zekka.
Honestly, kind of end up baiting Team Secret Wales into a little bit more here.
Bay tries to keep himself here.
Steven can keep his toe alive.
He ends up clicking around, thinking the TP will help.
not expecting Kanavi to be topside here, and at this stage you're like calling off, like calling a day Team Secret Wales,
but we did remove the doubt that had a Zekka.
Yep, Zekka does not have the Spirit Rush, and that's a good punish from Team Secret Wales.
You know Flash, no Spirit Rush, using the last one to Team Secret Wales, at least get something back in that mid lane.
But yeah, I'm not surprised. Sometimes we have to jump out of a replay, and I'm surprised the action starts that soon.
That replay was like two minutes long, because of how long the fight was.
So I'm not surprised that we had more action before it concluded, but yeah, that that top lane battle was just so bloody, but again, going five for two favoring HLE considering how long of a fight that was really good result for them.
Yeah, at least four pun. Zayas wasn't really off, right? He ended up missing out on the public execution towards the end of that fight as well, and Zayas...
Yeah, pun putting on the pressure here with the ulti to turn the turret off takes a bite at Isaiah's pun with no flash anymore
But he could still try to catch up to him here with a cue say is getting away with the mobility on that in Bethesda
Staying alive at about 100 HP pun is winning all of the trades
But in doing so he's putting himself in a dangerous position and now once again
It's delight setting up for the public execution
It don't matter about the 1v1 is a 5v5 game and delight loves making these wrong
Delight is 3-1-3. This Camille is probably going to get the first item in the game.
It is absolutely insane. That's Kanabi Nel in the bottom lane trying to help cover for Guma Yushi because Delight is now killing it.
Delight's looking for another one. Iri gets away across the veil at least for now.
But yeah, I feel like you're kind of a prophet a bit here. Talking about Delight picking the Camille at the very start of the draft.
He locks it in. He's got 100% kill participation. He's roaming all over the map.
Again, they can trust Guma Yushi to just sit bottom, take care of himself, clear waves, survive, play that weak side.
Meanwhile, Top has just turned into rivers of blood here as everyone constantly plays around this Bollie Bear and Vesta matchup.
And it's like this HLE and BLG are the two teams I'm most excited to see this style of.
Because I think like they play this incredibly well, like getting your support out of the map, interacting in the rest of the game,
and just blowing the game open in your favor. Like you can see, Delight's just ignoring Bob.
He's like, I'm going to play mid, I'm possibly going to go top here again because he's going to cover for the drug take from Kanavi.
But also, like, Hon has just the bet to get his flashback hook, so there is that small Tommy window you were talking about in the last game to try and punish the Wallebear one score.
Alright, Hon backing away now as you do have both Kanavi and Delight up in the area. Kanavi clearing out the grubs right now has already secured the first one.
Delight's just here to make sure that no shenanigans happen while the jungler is occupied, while his top laner is pushing out.
There's your hookshot. Does not find the stun, but it won't matter.
He's already got the Hextech ult to mate him.
Pun getting away for now. He ignite is on him, but he survives with about 208 feet.
The light's still looking for a little bit more. BA shows up.
He's trying to cover here for his top laner. BA is also low.
Zayas flashing away, still burning down from the ignite.
Both top laners barely hanging on.
Still, might just look for a little bit more afterwards, but with his tail open in the area,
Canadi's gonna back away as he's spun on the ward.
because the lice definitely has enough damage once he gets his combo back up to finish off one of these low health bars
But be a pain that perfectly she was to belgating that repel off before the ultimate from Kanavi connected was crucial to surviving there
And I feel like we're kind of seeing deja vu. Yeah, it wasn't as active very very early
But after the top lane happened, we've still got a violent early game
We've still got D-Ray making a play down here on the bottom side looking for Gumi Ushi
Who does get away for now curtain call has opened up though. Gumi-yushi stepping to the side as the teleports about to arrive
Guma putting the damage into the E-rave a public execution. This is will not matter again
HLE come out on top. This is the trust in Gumi-yushi that I was talking about. He evades the pressure
He absorbs the threat the rest of the team comes and gets the punnit. It's just not fair flowers. No
99% of players die in that position, but Gumiushi, Raijin, has stepped away from so many of the deadly
versus, the extra damage that was coming through, and buying enough time for the support to follow up.
Hey, Chile, you're just covering every bit. This is scary, scary stuff. Pons at least going to grab
a couple of plates up here on this top lane turret, but now Gumiushi has rotated up here,
and it's just, it's so difficult for Volibear to do anything to Mel. You just send the Solar Sphere
Adam and walk away. Yeah, he's gonna get the cool down back with his Q afterwards. We're already all the way completely distant from it.
What's it gonna matter? So 3000 gold lead for HLE 11 minutes into the game. This is feeling very very similar.
Yeah, another time to take over this top side gonna see if they can find team secret Vals in the jungle.
They do push mid. Oh, Delight jumps in, but a nice evade from BA there. Now the counterattack from team secret Wales.
the punish on the Knavi finally the aggression from delight and Knavi is
met with an appropriate response from Team Secret Wales they'll grab their
fourth kill. Yeah, bit too much there from HLE like you know that the bot lane
is going to be resetting to match Kumayushi in this topside I just not
expecting there to be multiple people in the position in the jungle so Team
Secret Wales do a good job of capitalizing but it does buy them a
little bit of space and time here you just get some vision down try and get
these waves back in favor because I imagine in 38 seconds they're gonna get
that dragon take the Tempt from Haley. Remember that last game Team Secret
Wales didn't get on the board for a much longer duration. Ooh nice solar snare
they're locking up pun. That interrupts the teleport. Yeah that's a huge summoner
spell loss. Goomayushi making that one happen again. Now we've got to once more
look across the map though. Zeyas versus his toes. Since pun couldn't get up here
and regroup in time, since he couldn't use his teleport.
That means his toe has to be the one defending against the
Embessa, and now BA has all to use the repel.
Now it's Delight and Kenavi.
They want their revenge.
If they couldn't find it in the topside jungle,
they're gonna find it in the bottomside jungle.
And now Punn, oh no, now he's under pressure here too.
Delight just makes sure they can't walk away.
The recall, continuing to be Chin.
Oh, Kenavi gonna step forward, cancel that one out.
Meanwhile, topside, Zayas going up against D-Ray here,
who gets away for now, bottomside of the map.
also going to get drove in the 3v1, he guys immediately derail getting away alongside his throw up here underneath the tier 1 turret.
Weirding tag Zeca, but he still gets away over the wall. No kills in the top side,
but mission accomplished down the bottom lane, and that's going to be the first turret to go along with it.
Team Seeker Veo's are up to keep themselves alive in the top side. At least the silver lining was there was a shut down 4-pun,
but losing the wave, losing that tower is going to be horrible for
Team Seeker Veo's. And again, we're just seeing they they're trying to keep pace,
But there's so many angles of attack from HLE. You just can't cover all sides
And now Kenavi grabs that dragon exactly like you were talking about
4,000 gold lead and change two dragons to nothing three grubs to nothing 13 and a half minutes into the game
HLE is just on a whole nother level than Team Secret Wales
Even trying to look at like the gold leads between the individual players
There's just not pretty much wiggle room like you've had team Tinker well is dropping waves to try and make plays or try and cover plays from HLE
But either HLE are succeeding in the play and getting the lead anyway or they end up just backing away
And you've lost regardless because you've dropped waves to try and match them
So I think in this position it kind of does now continuously fall back towards being his though to try and find
Moments where you can catch out players like you know usually when he doesn't have flash or try and find these plays elsewhere
But your timing windows are just disappearing more and more.
And you talk about trying to find plays onto Gumi-Yushi when he doesn't have flash.
But they've already tried to make plays on Gumi-Yushi.
Here's his stats.
LCK rounds 1 and 2 plus road to MSI.
KDA at 4.4.
Not the highest on that one.
His stats among MSI bottom laners, they might not look the most impressive on paper.
But again, we saw this guy's experience internationally.
We know his accomplishments in the past.
He's got the intangibles, he's got the clutch factor to go along with stats that can be very impressive.
Yeah, I think the thing that's always impressed me with KumaYushi is how he does so much with so little.
Like, he still always has that massive impact in the game, despite the fact that he will be left completely on his own.
But in this case, he's kind of left on his own and succeeding regardless.
Like, he's the highest individual goalie, and apart from his support.
Apart from his own support, yeah.
It's a strange problem to have, but it's a welcome one.
Meanwhile, bottom side, Zeyas vs. Punn.
That 1v1 with a volleybearer can be deceptively difficult with all the healing
that he can get from the W with the shielding that he gets from his E.
Punn is just capable of doing so much.
Meanwhile, a teleport coming in to try to reinforce him here.
Dire wants to maybe make a move onto Zeyas,
see if they can find the Ambassador.
Public execution, looking to buffer through it.
Zeyas turns back around. Punn staying alive with the frenzy.
But it's Delight Knees ready to fight!
Delight once again turning it around here in the top laner battle
Just when pun thinks he has the chance. No, I just wanted to double check
There isn't like delights ready not teleport because this man is all over the map. It's absolutely insane
He's there in the nick of time
Exactly when HLE need them. I'm now immediately HLE gonna take this mid-lane town delights map movements have been impressive
Now a teleport coming back down into the bottom lane as Zayas rejoins.
HISTO 40's ready to replay the favor. BA getting away with repel for now as HISTO and D-Ray both have to run.
Delight looking for a little bit more. Jumps right back in here with a hook shot.
Zayas just ready to clean these guys up and he needs a little bit more damage.
Delight is down to 100 HP and HISTO shuts him down.
Now Punn has rejoined.
You've got this Supreme Display of Talent, but it doesn't do much damage.
HISTO finally popped by Konami, has to bring it back away now.
Zayas jumping in after BA yet again, but the repel keeps him alive. Konami falls to Punn.
Goomayushi's made his way into the fight, point flank, solar snare, finds another kill.
BA still running, somehow staying alive here on the Elite.
Punn tries to take Zayas with him and he finds the shutdown, Punn staying alive from the Bolliebear.
As the curtain call shots come in from downtown, Team Secret Wails finding themselves a couple of kills here in the trade problem, Daga.
The other side of the map has some issues. Goomayushi finally falls, Punn picks up the kill on that one.
Keep going
Because that guy is teleporting into the fight now that guy finding a little bit of damage
But it does get locked up here rush trying to get enough damage you with over deception and yet again out of left field
It's delight but that guy is locked up and pun goes on a rampage the light needs a little bit more damage
But fun heals up. He needs another heal the friendship
He finds it puns in raid boss mode
He stuns delight out of the hookshot, but now can all these back in the fight
Pun finally has to walk away. Good God man every fight lasts two and a half minutes.
What the hell just what happened in the bottom side? Hey Jalee on the conveyor belt
Did you send any more and more people in to the pier?
Maybe that was a 1.1k goal lead. Pun got so much off the back of that. That was that was bonkers.
That yeah, okay that replays also probably not gonna go in an uninterrupted. I'm just saying that was
That was a lot of League of Legends all at once.
There was a lot of things happening.
The tier 2 went down in top lane, I guess, for a second.
That was something.
But HLE, they opted in towards repeated player deficit fight after fight.
It was everything fun.
A little bit of fun gaming here.
We got fun gaming versus pun gaming, because it's all about this volleyball.
Everybody just has to everyone else on team secret whales are the ads pun is the raid boss
Yeah, the ads have to support the boss if they want to try to defeat the absolute monster that is HLE right now
Delight jumping in after D Ray immediately applies Hextech ultimatum
Trying to get the kill but BA shows up and the counterattack is there team secret whales get the kill on delight
That is big to start this one off curtain call opens up and now they're gonna get slowed down for a shot
comes through, finds Kanabi and puns gets another one! Team Secret Whales have
already found two kills and puns not done! Gonna be usually gonna be the next
target. Puns on an aftereum, but a nice use of Charmin, a slow pun, still
continuing forward, finds the stun in a goomba. The damage back isn't gonna be
enough as Team Secret Whales get a three for nothing. HLE is playing fast and
loose and Team Secret Whales are finding the angles for the counter attack.
Seeker Wales are happy to punish on this one.
Delight goes way too deep, and immediately Team Seeker Wales come alive.
They're going to get the dragon, they've got some kills.
HLE trying to find something back by taking this mid-lane tower,
but Eddie needs to be careful re-entering here.
Delight was on the hunt.
This is some very happy gaming from HLE.
Let's take another look here.
As Delight just says, alright, I see somebody, I'm jumping.
Yeah, but forgot to see where the rest of the team was,
because he was so deep on this one, but you've only got to come through the
repelled game perfect from there, the theory of the sidestep and at this
stage like one has already been keeping many members of HLE engaged on the
top end and he just jumped in on top of them. He's already got so many tanky
staffs he's happy to terror dive and it's a yeah you can see that.
Happy to get a little bit more off of that. And there's your damage from the
last fight it's pun topping the charts at 3700 the bear is there man there's a
reason a lot about oh hang on we're not done yet cannot be in the light going in
this time and his toe is dead before anybody arrives teleports from both
teams are here and he's gonna target of Zayas pun creating a little bit of space
preventing the rest of HLE from joining in the volleyball has about 4,000 HD at
this point it's very difficult to get through him say it's nearly connected
with public execution now as a block down.
Yeah, Zayas having a bit of a problem here.
Fun does get caught by Solar Stair.
Down to half HP on the Bolly Bears,
HLE continues pushing into the enemy jungle,
trying to rip more and more control of the rift away.
So, as you say, HLE is just holding on
towards that topside vision, not giving this.
Of course, Team Seeker Wails.
And they find a good deer, this is a little risky.
Yeah.
Oh tried to jump over the wall there did not quite find his way over, but luckily that does not cost anything
Kenavi, oh no, maybe it will cost him something now.
He does not have between worlds ready to go, he just pops, he's gone, D-Ray's dead, BA's about to join him
has a 2 for nothing here, so far Kenavi down to 200 HP, Histo wants to get something back as the curtain call opens up
the shots firing through, pun jumps in, goes godlike, finding the kill on Kenavi
Now Delight is going to be the next target but he hooks shots over the wall.
Seiya's coming in. The shutdown on Pawn is going to be big as he tries to escape.
Has a little bit more distance. Yu-Gi-Ni ulti to get out.
Trenzy with a massive heal. Seiya's now overextended.
Histo and Pawn from the kill!
This bear is the key to victory for Team Secret Whale.
Histo jumps in, going after Delight.
Deadly flourished looking for Nui-Yushi.
But Delight kills Histo!
The jungler can't fight the support because Delight is so far ahead.
Hunts still chasing after Goma, but he can't quite find it.
Hunts still gets charmed as he tries desperately to carry this game.
It is Pun V4 and he's almost making it work.
But unfortunately just not enough in the tank as HLE heard him step away
because Dere gets destroyed here, blowing up immediately.
The follow-up onto her is big, and I thought this was it. I thought they were done.
But his hope goes on towards Kanabi, with a flash away, not having to make it work.
can Addy try to go back to save some fun immediately there to follow up and the
healing from this bear with the unending despair and them all is absurd as he
heals his way up in this one the ultimate bear there's the just a jump and HLE
have to run but yeah you can see as they try to jump on towards pump he is more
than happy as soon as they close the gap to keep it coming he's so strong on this
Bolly Bear and I mean I it's HLE's if HLE's problem that they made for
themselves by giving him this opportunity having these long scrappy
fights of Bolly Bear loves spirit visage alongside that unending despair with
that fimple winner like you were talking about it shields and heals forever but
this is why some of the analysts were talking about pulling in this Bolly Bear
like this has been such a strong pick for him domestically he has only brought
it at once but he is a beast on this page well HLE have found Team Secret
trying to sneak up there in a way they will not allow that to happen puns
gonna eat a lot of damage here the very start of the fight but it turns it right
back around puns legendary and Zayas is caught the curtain call has opened up a
second here in the back line delight right beside him and Eddie is gonna get
picked off you got to protect your chin the rest of the team gets blinded
chasing and Eddie gets caught unaware now D Ray has to try to escape going
across the veil turns around between worlds delight escapes for now
weirdings not gonna find the target delight looking for the hook shot but
And his toe gets away with the combo.
Hey, Charlie, imagine you get Eddie, get the kill back.
His team secret well is actually nice turnaround
on towards Zayas, but we're still seeing the same problem,
right, where they try to set up for a pick,
try to set up for a play, but hey, Charlie,
they're playing at the map better.
They push in top, open up for a second upon that flank,
and it's just this constant rotation on the map
that's catching them out.
They try to get put.
This bear is way too tanky.
And as Zayas is part of the response,
It does not have that same luxury.
You can already see, like, this is the collapse from Zephyr,
who had pushed that top wave, getting moving in.
And it's Team Secret West, who are constantly
trying to make these pick plays happen,
but they're losing control of the side lanes.
And it's HLE, who are then finding these collapse angles
afterwards.
HLE are going to grab their third drake of the game,
however, that puts them on sole point
with an infernal sole riff.
That is very scary.
Maybe that's the difference between being
able to kill Punn or not.
But that volleyball tunneler in inventory
That means the next item is going to be something of the bruiser persuasion.
Every sundered sky at the same time.
Yeah, more carry potential there for the top laner as Team Secret Wales will again begin
the Baron.
HLE, they know this is happening.
They're ready to respond.
Fun trying to clear out some of the vision.
Keep your eyes on the light.
This Camille has been starting so many of the fights.
Kenavi on the back side of the pit as his toe goes over there into the tribrush.
They do not want to over commit to the Baron.
On here with a solar scenario yet again followed up by the charm on it half HB
Supreme display of talent only tags his so not a lot of value there out of Kanabi's ultimate and both sides seem to just choose to disengage
Looks like HLE want to try and interrupt these resets though because they could pushing in mid could potentially take that inhibitor turrets
So they're foreseeing the long way back for Team Seeker Wales, which gives them time here on the mid lane
All right, that wave is pushing HLE just seeing the opportunity
But they don't want to over commit to anything reset coming in from Eddie and his toe now as the rest of the whales have all that he completed
There's Zach. I just tried to steal away resources from the enemy jungle
Same thing for Zayas here as they collect a couple of camps get themselves out of town go back home make those purchases
This game has become you this game doesn't feel like it's an 8,000 gold lead for HLE
Because they keep taking fights that favor the way that Bolly Bear plays the game Bolly Bear loves long
messy fights where you can get multiple heals, multiple shields, give yourself so
much effective HP and that's what all the fights have been. It's also a team comp
that wants to dive but also it's kind of tricky too because you're running into
the Elise, you've got the cocoon, you've got Darius, got some decent setup in the
in-between worlds three position, Inseriety's playing back so it does make
it a little tough because by default the composition favors jumping into the
I'll leave it.
Right?
Alright, Team Secret Rails, there's nothing else.
They do have a three-minute timer because that's when the Dragon Soul will spawn for
HLE, and they will have to take that fight.
You don't want to get the Infernal Soul to a team that's already 8,000 gold ahead.
So for HLE, I want to see, do you try to make some crazy, aggressive move or do you just
force them to answer you down at the Dragon?
Kanavi, almost level 16 on the Qiyana.
His coach is barely level 14 on the Jarvan.
Also, if Team Secret Wales do find a good fight, there's a ton of standing gold for the Mesdelys.
No delights, some of the deadly flourish.
Pan follows it up with a stun of his own, but no, nothing more from Team Secret Wales.
Ooh, D-Ray messes up the between worlds, casts it on a whole lot of nothing,
and now HLE, they've killed the Raid Boss and everybody else is in their sights.
D-Ray and BA both fall right after.
Right when it looked like Team Secret Wales continued to find fights and hold the line.
It's pun getting picked into the follow-up kills on the midlaner in support of Team Secret Wales.
And now it's just a five-man death ball down the mid lane.
And the blades came crashing down as Team Secret Wales were trying to juggle a potential pick-on to the light.
And then the first ball, and I think that's his.
His toe catches everybody in cataclysm, and it does not matter at all.
all he will at least get the kill on delight thanks to the turret damage but
now it's Eddie versus everybody as the first Nexus turret dies second one's
about to fall BA and Pawn will respawn HLE onto the Nexus itself now though
Pawn charging forward trying to take them out before the Nexus falls but it
ain't gonna happen HLE go to match point
they got a little funny in the mid game but HLE still able to bring it together
in the end. Better map play, better control in the face, and that last pick just sealing
the deal for Team Secret Wales. A little bit of happy gaming, a little bit of a lollibair
raid boss. Hamas, how we feeling? I feel like if puns are live, they're going to fight.
Yeah. If they have a chance. If puns dead, they're all dead. I feel like, man, if I'm
pun, I'm just like, where is my team? Is it a punsy nine? I'm so one-by-nine the whole
game. It was punishing the other team. One time mid lane the game instantly ends.
He literally is running up, stomps in the cameo, and then D-Ray is like three seconds later,
alright I'm coming in, please, please I'm begging any follow-up. It's tough, it was tough. Signs of
life though and that's not about them being bloody liking to fight, I definitely saw that in action
but it was HLE. Again, that comes out with the win.
Let's break down a couple of things that they pulled out here, right?
And we talked a lot about, like, if the meta is in their favor,
they usually do well. What are we thinking here?
Well, I mean, I think it's been a really cool series
to see some new champions coming out.
We've had four champs come out for the first time so far at MSI.
Skarner, Shen, Elise, and Volibear.
So both teams bringing out some new action.
But I gotta say, with Delight is playing like this,
he is so unmarked.
So with the meta shifting away from Enchanters,
yes, he's good at Enchanters too, I know.
Seraphine, Nami, like Karma, Milio, he's playing a lot of something else he can't.
You can't have that level of impact and you cannot convince me otherwise.
And like Delight playing engage champs is just such a beautiful thing to watch.
It's such a delight.
Yeah, it was right there.
It was right there.
I mean, and thanks to the reliable syskin network every second count,
Delight is just always there.
Game one was a story about him really working off of winning lanes.
This time around, he's like, oh, that ball of air is really stomping you.
It looks like that's a dive timer that his toe is getting there in the nick of time comes in there in turns the play
And he does it a lot. He did it again bots out of the map when he recognized it was a 1v2
He's there for him. Well, it didn't even mix up the script. It was an E flash from Shen now. It's an E flash
Okay, so now we can play Gragas another E flash
Yeah, of course. You gotta find another champion. They took the Elise away from him, so you can't do that with a Flashy on that champ.
Super, super fun to watch, I gotta say, right? You can move around the map, getting those advantages everywhere, saving a lot of his teammates in the nick of time. They must have felt really, really secure.
Yeah, because like, what can Team Secret Wells do? They're often times, if you're gay, you have to match it. That's why he picked the Elise. That's why he was also trying to find angles on mid lane as well.
because Guma usually is going to be fine, he's going to be honestly like eating up waves and if he's going to get dove
then he recognized what to do in those situations and so Delight has just been a terror on the map.
Yeah, and just not bot lane. Look at the bot lane proximity. He spent 27% of his time.
It's like a quarter of his game is bot lane. He's like Guma, you got three waves buddy. Yeah, and then I'll see you got
35 minutes for team fights. I lied to you. It was the second wave. I'm gone.
9k plus a 14 in game 2. They were just everywhere. It's interesting, right? Because like you'd say, oh, well,
Team Secret Wales, why don't you make sure that they have to pay attention bot?
Why don't you make sure that they have to play that lane? But it just doesn't seem like it's realistic. Yeah, this scenario
What do you think it's been tough?
I mean the reality is to be able to actually draw him bot lane
You kind of have to be winning the 2v2 that's human position where he's trapped under the tower
or where you're threatening a dive,
but if they're winning the 2v2, they have the push
and they're gonna take the earlier base
and Delight is gone, right?
And then as VA, you kinda have to master the roam
because you're already behind on a tempo.
So it kinda requires step one of winning 2v2
and you look over and it's going Delight, you're like,
oh!
Yeah!
And what's good about them is that they had that timer
a little bit earlier that his though could've maybe
like sacked a camp to go top lane on the earlier wave
and make that dive happen,
but it was just a wave too late for Delight to be there.
So what's going to be frustrating
is that the communication from the side of HLE
is just on point.
And if you have a player like HISTOR in this game, Punn,
who's going mad?
They need more punts.
We need more punts.
We need five punts.
We need another pun in the mid lane.
What other bear champions can he bring out?
I'm all out of bear champs.
Those are looking good.
Maybe we could use specifically the tippers to be handy.
Can we undo Fearless specifically for this one champion?
I'm asking them right now, guys, anybody?
I think we're going to need a role change.
Oh, look at his damage.
I know.
He was going crazy.
I mean, he played really, really well.
He was everywhere.
It was a relatively low DPS team, high burst, low DPS.
So we saw when he wasn't getting burst down,
they had that one fight that was over by their blue buff,
where he survives.
And then all of a sudden, he's kind of just healing through
everything that they did.
So I think it was a smart pick, both for the 1v1,
but also compositionally, worked really, really well.
And I think had his team not been so far behind
on the rest of the map, it was a great team.
It is one of those games where you're like, he could have actually carried.
Yeah, that's true. But the light was everywhere.
It was. I'm a little bit worried about HLE though.
And sometimes when they know that they are very ahead of their opponents
or much better than their opponents, they're willing to opt into some fights.
And we saw that here already.
Yeah, we did.
So I feel like you can't completely disrespect them.
I think if there's just a few more adjustments or we see Team Secret Wells
play to side a little bit more aggressively, because that one play mid
where there wasn't really an objective to play for,
I think that could have been it where they can play on side instead.
I mean there was a lot of talk after first stand, LCK ramping up their speed, combined kills in a minute, about 1 at first stand here, we got 1.3, we got 1.4, they're pumping up the kills, they want to get chaotic and it has been so far.
It hasn't so far, HLE, sovereign so far, they can make it a 3-0 after this, or we'll team secret, we'll just fight back.
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the game. It's going to be
a great test of five. It's
Hanwha life. Esports going up
against Team Secret Wales. Game
one was an HLE stomp. Game
number two. If you look only at
the scoreboard, it's also a
stomp because they're ahead 8
thousand gold the entire time,
but there was a little bit of
happy gaming involved. Yeah,
definitely was. And, uh, yeah,
I'm. It feels like the three
old curse. Maybe is not quite
left. Just guess as Team
Secret Wales really need to
This pun had a phenomenal game on that pick, but unfortunately just couldn't quite turn it around in the game.
Yeah, pun had a great performance. Again, I think that a lot of that was also HLE's doing.
They had a very large gold advantage for a very long time. They started really just limit testing, seeing kind of what they could get away with.
And then Team Secret Wales did do a good job of punishing that. It created these long, messy, extended fights.
I can't remember the last game I had with two different fights that went over 90 seconds each, but that was one of them and
It was just chaotic and it allowed that volley bear to flourish, but it still wasn't enough
Yeah, it usually it's remarkable when a flight goes long enough that someone gets to rejoin the fight and die again
That felt like the standard
So we'll have to see if we are gonna get a bit more bedlam as we kick it over in towards draft in just a couple of moments
or whether it's going to be smooth sailing for honestly either of these sides because I would love to see team Seeker Wales being able to get at least one punch back against HLE.
But that's going to be a lot, a lot harder than just saying, yeah, guys, let's play better this time. HLE has been playing monstrously.
Delight in particular has been a highlight player for me, even that last game, which didn't have the explosive like level two, level three plays of game number one.
Once we finally did get that first big, I'm gonna call it a team fight even though it was more of just like a
Cacophony of what is going on up around the top lane tier one turret that led to a five for two trade as seven kill
Exchange between the teams it was delight roaming up to prevent it from just being a successful 2v1 guy that can say is I feel
Like this guy has such good awareness of where he needs to be on the map where everyone else wants to be on the map
And his play has been great so far.
So even though he got a little happy in the mid game,
they've made a couple of choices on where to dive.
Let's see how we do for now, though.
Here in our third game, as we do have the Veris, the Nautilus,
and the Akali banned out by HLE over on the Secret Whale side.
It's Rumble and Nard taken out at first.
Again, just trying to get rid of some of those top laners
that can kind of be picked into anything
because they want to set Pond up for success.
Yeah, and the Orianna to follow.
This is kind of in the staple bond.
I think it will kind of still continue to stay in that bond
phase is still very strong kick, but it's better to say that
doesn't need the bar open for Delight. So heavy Roman supports
have been going well for him. He has to continue that streak.
Yeah, and when you look back at the regular season for both of
these teams for spring, Bard was either the most played or tied
for the most played for both supports. So locking that one in
for Delight is going to feel very, very good. If he can roam
well on stuff that's not barred, imagine what he can do on the
The separation though going to happen here it looks like is Katelyn gonna be taken away from Gumi-Yushi
Making sure you can't get that combo with the bar, but I am curious what they are going to pair with
Looks like it may be the karma immediately
I wasn't sure if he would try and find something they more of an engage heavy stop
But it looks like they just want to try and have a hard push through the bot lane and see if they can
Through that keep the lights locked up exactly. It's lane dominance
It's pressure towards Gumiishi who has played double mages in these first two games.
He has been left alone very often.
He's been able to absorb pressure to clear waves.
So if you have something like Caitlyn Carmen that just says no.
If you're 1v2, you are suffering.
Maybe that's the recipe for success.
But HLE, they're going to lock in some powerful damage here.
Tempered fate into a bullet time as soon as it ends
can be a very nasty combination,
especially if there's additional follow-up CC for once that tempered fate does expire.
there as the Nocturne is the jungler for K'noth.
It's also something that we've seen from HLE quite a bit.
For Gumi, usually you really close Mike through his fortune.
Again, because you get strong laning in the early stages,
but also the bullet time can be used defensively for Wave Clear
when he ends up isolated by himself.
So definitely something that HLE have a ton of practice with.
And now that you're getting that bird and Nocturne and the ability
to start turning off the lights and looking for picks,
it looks like HLE definitely feeling like they want to opt into the same strategy
you've seen in game one and game two.
And Team Secret Wales, they're going to go ahead
and lock themselves into Renekton
before the second half of the bands come through.
So it's not a full wait and try to get
pun counter pick strategy here in game three
like we saw in game two.
Yeah, I'm curious what the answer is going to be though,
because I imagine you can kind of get rid of like,
like Cassante, Jackson, the bands here against Zayas.
So Zayas, at least we'll have an idea
of what he wants to try and bring out,
but yeah, actually I suppose, yeah,
they, these kind of range shop planners,
still a menace against Renekton.
These 2026 has kind of been the emergence of solo queues top lane terrors into pro play with the range top laners stuff like
anybody who's ever played pop lane into vain knows that this is not
funny because like we started to see us and towards the end of last year until we got those lane swaps coming through and then teams were like
Opting in towards like the scion and the tanks and these sorts of things
And now, they've been let loose.
It's all about the lane, baby.
And lane is very happy with that one.
Well, Xin Zhao is going to be the ban here from HLE
in the second half.
They're saying, all right, we've got our jungler.
You don't have yours.
Easy spot to target.
Again, the junglers being so critical to both of these teams
in terms of getting them rolling, making plays, finding success.
If you can enable Kanabi and shut down his toe,
you're going to have a good time.
Kasante, you already mentioned that as one of those potential bans
against the Connecton.
And there it is.
It's still options though.
There's like range, there's still a lot of range carries.
Like if you can see Zeus bringing out things like the Tristana, the Anivia, the Kennen, like he is a ton of options.
So I don't think he'll be short on things he wants to do, especially if you're talking about like at the end of the temperate you have in the bullet time.
Why not add a, you know, a Kennen ultimate into that mix as well.
There's well against the Renekton, but what we'll have to see is.
So, going to go for the Nefiri is one of his most played champions.
He's a two-tied-for-third most played champions coming in from the regular season.
Definitely something he'll be looking to get aggressive on here at Stages.
So, here's my problem back. I'm seeing four champions.
I'm not seeing a mid laner, which is traditionally like a control mage type.
And I'm seeing virtually no engage, right?
The Nefiri can dive into the back line, but that's not CC.
The job is to just pop a carry. Renekton, you can stun one guy,
but the engaged tools are limited on the secret whale side and Mundo locked in.
Yeah, I do think it'll be the Galeo potentially for Dira in the mid lane.
Okay.
See that like Galeo, Nefiri, Convo?
But uh, optioning immediately, I think second reading this to the victor.
Long range, makes it a little bit more difficult for the Galeo to try and survive
or even trade effect me in that mid lane.
But the Mundo coming into the top lane, kind of sick to see to be honest.
There's uh, I don't think you can go towards that.
There's a Mundo, and that's a lot of A.D.
Yeah, a full A.D. comp against Dr. Mundo feels like a little bit of just falling on your own sword in the draft for no reason.
So instead, they will leave that Yone off to the side, and Hue will be the answer.
So it's Control Mage versus Control Mage in the mid lane, but again, I have to go back to what I was just saying.
Where is the engage on Team Secret Wales?
This composition feels like if they're ahead and you're like at the objectives first you have the range you have the zone control of things like way with things like the Caitlyn traps that it's difficult for your opponents to check into you but we're talking about a head-to-head here the HLE has had
4,000 gold advantages at 10 or 11 minutes in both games so far so building a composition
It feels like it only works when it plays from ahead. I don't I'm just gonna say I'm pressing X
I am doubting from what I am seeing from Team Secret Wales here in the draft. I like HLE's draft much better
Yeah, I think it very much depends on like using this carman to speed up the comp try and use that range effectively
like the cadence of the play could hope from very very far away, but if you
You never fall prey to the temperate faith from Delight or you're behind.
That composition becomes very difficult to try and play through.
And I think that's basically what HLE are banking on here.
You've got the Mundo that can try and run you over.
You've got the Nocturne that can guarantee engage.
The long-range temperate faith on the play makes it easy to catch him.
There's multiple angles for those picks from HLE to come through.
And I have been informed by our producers that this is Zaeus' first Mundo in professional play ever.
we get the comms to see if he was the same as owner? How do I play my character? We're
here at MSI, second biggest event of the year. What is my character?
It is pretty good, because like, you go back to like 2014, and there used to be that like
Mundo, Shyvana, Renekton, Top Lane, Trio that was going around. They got like, yeah, they
broken by Trundle at one stage and like it kind of gives me that vibes but I
don't know I I don't know if Mundo can survive as easily against the Renekton as
he did back then you know. Well the one nice thing though for Zaeus is whenever I
see somebody playing you know a pure tank something like a Mundo when you're
laning against an AD top laner and the enemy jungler is also AD your itemization
just feels so comfortable because Hui is not a mobile champion we're not looking
something like a Taliyah or a Ryze that can also very easily roam up towards the top side.
So, okay, I'm going to go play with Steelcaps and some armor, and that's pretty much it.
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Let's say it's his first Mundo.
Like in Nice Financery there was.
Yeah with the Mundo, like maybe he's just getting prepped for Lee Classic, you know?
Yeah!
I love those old days.
I do think though the build we'll probably see, because we see him off a lot of the times,
is more so the like, hey, we're gonna go for the, the early...
What kind of thing is the name of it?
The Bonk? The Stax?
The Heartsteel?
The Heartsteel!
The Bonk with the Stax!
You remember the noise.
Everyone remembers the noise.
If you play A-Ram, that's the only noise that exists in the game.
But yeah, I think it'll be that.
And then the War Mox is basically the game plan.
And once you hit those two items,
you kind of just release a lot of the carries.
So if he ever closes the gap, Dira and Eddie just die.
Yeah, it's not going to be a great time.
Plus, now that we're in this season 2026
with the new starter items, and you can just, you're saying,
OK, I trust myself to not die early to Renekton.
I'm Mundo.
You just go with the Doran's helm for the better scaling and it's going to be even more of a problem.
I don't know if I trust D-Ray not to die early though, Zeke very much getting the best of him here.
Oh boy.
It has not been pretty thus far, there's the slow.
He escapes the gravity field stun, but yeah, D-Ray just barely holding on and honestly,
between games at international events like this, I always like to check the live discussions on social media, see what people are saying.
You're brave, Mike.
Yeah, I know, sometimes you see some stuff in there that you're just a little perplexed by,
But what I saw here was a lot of D-Ray criticism.
People watching are saying, yeah, D-Ray,
he's not meeting the mark.
He's not standing the test up against a world-class midlaner
like Zeca, and it's become a big weakness,
a big problem here for Team Secret Wales
as D-Ray continues to fall behind,
while also being targeted.
Sometimes he'll just fall behind slowly.
Other times, HLE's gonna focus him down
like in game number one,
but now we might have a fight here in the topside river,
Kanavi versus Histo.
Kanabi comes out on top of the 1v1, but again, it's a 5v5 game.
Since Pawn is willing to walk away from the wave for a little bit
to come back up his jungler, that means Team Secret will just grab.
Yeah, I mean, they even brought up EA as well.
They really wanted to make sure that they still was going to end up
getting one of these go-to-crabs, because that was kind of what HLE
were looking to secure for themselves.
But it doesn't cost them too much in the end, as Dere again walks in towards Zekka.
Yeah, he does find a pretty solid trade on him here.
So Dere taking that opportunity to move forward,
play a little bit aggressively in the victor.
Xeus, oh, that turret shot on Punn could be a problem.
Xeus with a flash away evades the call to meek,
ward down in the brush.
Xeus with another infected bone saw,
not gonna hit the target there.
I guess it's more of an infected briefcase.
But he walks back, Punn.
All right, that could have been dicey either way.
The flash from Xeus having to be spent.
Oh!
First game, Mundo, first blood, Mundo.
Xeus on the board, four minutes and 20 seconds in the game.
Definitely not a first time Mundo for Zeyas though.
Using the creep, if you kill it with the E, it shoots through
and ends up getting more damage off.
And that briefcase, very well played by Zeyas.
Even the flash away from the call of the week,
to know how the full heal was perfect.
Yeah, that was awesome from Zeyas.
And exactly what you're saying,
normally you want to play it with the minions
in between you and the opponent
to not get hit by the briefcases,
but the minion gets kicked,
the briefcase follows it right behind.
You've got two projectiles back to back, bam.
Punn is dead, and Zaeus is off to a good start.
Now Canavi and Delight looking for a 3v2 here in the mid lane.
Dustbringer connects on the BA, flash with the binding.
That was a little audacious from Delight.
There wasn't really anything to bind him to there,
as his toe shows up, immediately pops the W
just for the extra damage, for the extra dogs.
Backs away.
Yeah, ambitious, definitely, from HLEs.
They try to make that play happen,
but either way, Team Tigger Wales,
I actually think it back away,
But we're going to get a replay of this topside play.
So, Zayas misses on the briefcase, which is in the end of the world.
But remember, he's just flashed away from the call to meet, the imperative call to meet,
which would have keep Punn a lot more.
But we'll see it here, basically waiting for that minion to go low,
gets the kick through, gets the briefcase after, and Punn falls.
Miss Fortune might be the champ in the game with the double guns,
but you can see the frustration right there, because it was that one-two shot,
both of them just in rapid sequence, one after the other.
And that's the kind of moves you want to see, especially since in game number two, Zaeus did not have a very impressive game.
Right? Pon was the Ray boss. Zaeus kept kind of trying to do the same thing, creating space, diving in, creating threat, but it didn't work out.
But now here in game number three, Zaeus is the first one to step up for each other.
Oh, and he's doing it again. Alright, level seven versus level seven. No ulti spent from either side. Histo is nearby.
They still did just hit level 6 though off that Scolocrat, could have been a little late to try and get towards it.
So you can see everything in HLE kind of cools down on that top side once they know the dog is near.
And they're just going to back away. And this is oftentimes what we see the nefiri as an answer into the Nocturne.
Nocturne does beat nefiri in the early stages, but it's about having access to that ultimus and being able to match some of the plays
from the Nocturne whenever he goes for these dives, or even having more pressure on the map than the Nocturne.
Right. It's not like Hound's pursuit will have the same range as Paranoia,
but it's still a much longer range opportunity than most other alternatives.
Plus, it's just fun to play a big, silly hot.
For HLE, they're off to probably their slowest start yet in this series.
But right as I say it, the light shows up. Here comes Kanavi.
The fear is about to find the mark.
Punn stays alive, though, and HLE, despite sending three men,
despite committing two ultimates will not get the kill and now Gumiushi this is
what I was talking about back in draft you want to put the pressure on this
guy when he's alone here the 1v2 topside pawn under pressure here yet again
Zeyas finds the kill that's a 2-0 Mundo as Gumiushi barely holds on to the
bottom lane he will survive but he must abandon his position at the turret and
that should give some much needed money to Eddie and BA.
Zeya is having a great time in this topside thanks to help of his teammates
she just didn't get that briefcase but he still wants us he's gonna try and dive in
on top of them and Zayas, he just falls immediately.
Zero response possible there.
Yup, he gets the burst down.
Zayas had already used the maximum dosage earlier
in the fight, the heart shocker, heart zapper,
whatever the name of the W is, the lightning thing.
Can't heal him up in time.
It's not like he had enough health to really play with.
So Zayas falls there, his toe doing a good job,
getting his team on the board.
Still, I think for HLE, like, you're getting kind of
good push on the map, right, Saka?
very much in control over the mid lane. Zace has still got that lead in the top side.
And the Dragon now open available. I think that's where we start to see HLE trying to
make some sort of plays happen. And although I'm looking at a little bit of an overextended
Caitlyn at the bottom side, I wasn't sure if Knave wanted to try and make something happen,
but without the ult, you're not going to be able to get too much happen.
This is by far the best early game from Team Secret Wales in the series, right? Yeah, they're
500 gold behind but their opponents have not taken any
Neutral objectives the groves the dragon is still standing you've got gold advantages in jungle and bot lane carry both
Zekka and D-Ray continue to trade blows
But it's also the game where HLE have taken scaling topside of that right like it's Victor Amundo
So they're kind of like yeah
We're happy to kind of handshake the early game and not end up in too bad of a position and even here's those that
coefficient for more
D-Ray, about 200 HP, once that shield wears away, does get to the level up, and that level up was pretty important, because otherwise, Zeca probably could have just found a flash power siphon and got the kill.
Meanwhile, up here in the top lane, get again! It's Focus on Topan, and Guma Yushi with the bullet time, guns him down.
Yeah, the man had one good game, and HLE are like, no, no, no, no, this is not happening again.
Yeah, we're gonna make sure Pundas not get to have fun this time around and get on top get the void grubbs
And now they're pushing in on towards this top lane as well to get some place for Gumiuchi
Yeah, team secret was they just need to find ways to to get active and start to play around this the theory or look for trades in the
Math but you can see his those on this top side only now gonna be able to make it back down and
This pops maximum dosage keep himself healthy in the bottom lane
Yep, and he knows that he has his passive ready and he just uses it to step on the canvas step on the trap
Kick the canister back up and it's an easy way to try to disarm some of these Caitlyn traps
It would be a much bigger headache for a lot of other champions
Still 500 gold lead is all that can be said for HLE though. So like you're saying it will be slower
They do want to scale but team secret whales
I think are going to have an opportunity in this game that they haven't had in the previous games
Oh man, did I just curse it? I think I might have just cursed it.
Eddie, targeted now by Delilah. No, D-Ray shows up in time.
It's Kabyoshi in danger! And D-Ray gets the kill.
Okay, I didn't curse it. Team Secret Wales are going to have an opportunity
in this game that they have it in the first two
to play from a relatively even game state in the mid-game.
Especially Eddie, actually, who's going to have a decent lead for himself
as they take this tower. Didn't quite get the kill,
but the CS lead, the plays, like, you now have a Caitlyn that's in a decent spot.
Yes, Deeray is going to fall behind here off this play because he ends up abandoning that way of mid and also loses a bit more as his toe, yeah, just to be able to back away.
But still, in the grand scheme of things, Team Secret has now have a win condition to play for.
Exactly, and that's something that has not been the case so far in this year.
I mean, you could say technically that there was a win condition in game number two because of the way that the fights were so sloppy and pun kept having these highlight real moments.
But any time you look at the scoreboard the goal deed was still eight and a half thousand, right?
It's still one of those things that it's like a fake
But meanwhile Kenavi and Delight got to be careful. They're trying to invade yet again and Kenavi gets caught his toe with the kill and
Team secret whales are up to a one thousand gold. They're not done
This is the biggest lead they've had so far in the series
Go over you she's trying to get away as the hounds pursuit arrived the dark and daggers follow
Delight is nearby to try to protect his carry, but he cannot do it now
BAs arrive and Delight might be the next to fall.
D-Rays ready to follow it up and it's just trained death.
One, two, three, Team Secret Wales.
Line them up and knock them down.
Hold on a second, Team Secret Wales.
Getting some life in them in this series.
The kills in the bottom lane to have any cover in mid
and now getting some of those kills on Twitter.
D-Rays well means that the goal that he'd lost
up in a bot lane has now been retributed a little bit
this play, still pun, struggling in the topside, but a big win across the board for Team Secret Wales.
Yeah, and this is what we were talking about at the top of the day, right? Both of these teams
with these aggressive junglers that really are the engines for making plays happen and getting
things done. This has been his toes best early performance by a long shot. 3-0 and 1 hero in
the fury, 4 out of 5 kill participation. He's on an assassin jungler and he's fed. This feels great.
And it's kind of the first game where he's had a chance to really have an impact, right?
It feels like the games have already gone sideways before he can really get involved with them,
thanks to the light roaming in game number one and game number two.
So as this game has been a little bit more settled and the lanes haven't just exploded from the get-go,
finally Team Seeker Wells starting to get a bit of control.
We'll have to see if they can keep it up though.
And they still have a dragon to their name and minute 20 until the next one.
You're starting to get those first-outing completions, which is big for them.
But it is going to be a test then around some of these objective setups,
how they continue to operate.
I mean, I'm from North America. I've seen this time and time again.
You get ahead of a Korean team, you disrespect how good they are at macro,
and the lead falls apart in the mid-game or the late game.
I mean, you and I both experienced this pain in play-ins
as our original representatives had massive leads against T1,
fumbled those leads, ultimately ended up losing the game,
and that's the trick against playing against these top Korean teams
compared to anyone else.
You've got to stay sharp.
You've got to have the right positioning around the map and have that macro knowledge or these individual leads are not gonna mean what they should
But it looks like Team Secret Wales. They know where they want to be right now
Gumi Ushi is the target his toe keeping Kenobi away and Guma is just picked off his toe jumping in Africa
Navi now even though he takes a turret shot. He's still relatively unafraid here
So look at the top side. So here. Hey, that's some damage
Spiraling despair on the light goes on the magical journey stays alive
And actually might just keep D. Ray in this body needs to because all he really wanted to do was stop multiple members from HLE
showing up in the top end so we can chair it this way. There's no cross-map available for HLE, especially when Kanabi was spotted on that bottom side.
So nicely done again. Get the kill onto Gumi-Yushi and get some more gold into your team.
And you can see right now the dragon has spawned and his toe is already walking towards it.
He is taking the objective within five seconds of it being available to take.
Now Kanavi is around and you can see here right now on the left side of the screen as the coin-based gold grind shows us
That it is overall 1,000 gold lead for his toe a lot of it coming from that farming as now pun and his toe trying to deal
With HLE ready to challenge them here with the dragon BA as the tether there on to the light
We use she using the bloodthirster shield to block the ace in the hole
But now Kanavi is diving in here the paranoia say is right behind him
He's still getting away for now Kanavi under pressure pun in the middle of everybody
but he has to try to get away.
Bullet time, forces flash back out of the renektum.
Histo on the run, slowed down by delight.
Cosmic binding, no attachment into the wall.
Histo staying alive for now.
He with a karma shield.
No deaths either side,
but the health bars favor HLE.
They will win themselves control over the Botside River
and the Dragon Pit.
And it's a good read from HLE.
Team Secret Wales had invested three out of their five
ultimates in that Botside play,
so they didn't have anything available
to try and fight the Dragon.
HLE readers, they managed to bully off Team Secret Wales.
Zez, just gonna step up.
Team Secret Wales just wanna try and let Dragon
go for the Rift Herald on the top side,
at least to get something here.
Exactly, you just take the trade.
You're like, all right, we would've liked
to have the 2-0 in the Rift Herald.
Since we can't get it, get whatever we're allowed to take,
and that is the Rift Herald.
Pond trying to defend the tier one turret down here
in the bottom side, as Delight and Zeca shove the wave up,
trying to get a little bit more money out of these plates.
It is still about that 2,000 gold lead
it has been for the past couple of minutes for Team Seeker Wales. So they haven't lost the lead,
but they haven't built it any further either. Pretty even game-stake.
I think though with the rev-tarade there is an ability to make some plays that could
blow up with the game a little bit further. Like you've got low mid turd, you've got a low topside
turd as well. And with the resets about to come through, I think this could be the timer for
Team Seeker Wales to crack open the mid-lane turret. And with that down, it becomes significantly
more difficult for you to then protect that top lane, especially if you push mid and need to do
you rotate up there as Team Seeker Wails.
All right, Histo just drives it straight on in.
No fancy drifting occurring.
We've seen some mistakes with that.
In the past, not going to run any of that risk,
as Eddie with the extra range on the Caitlyn
will shoot down that Tier 1 turret in mid,
brings this up to a 2-0 turret advantage
for Team Seeker Wails.
And with the advantage that Eddie has,
it's much easier for him to keep control over mid wave,
enable them, BH starts from top,
same with Histo as well.
And if Zeca is actually the one defending this top lane turret,
I'm a little bit more scared for HLE.
It's much easier to take down Zeca on a dive
than it is someone like Zayas.
All right, speaking of dives,
Punn is the name of the game yet again.
HLE trying to make their move.
They're bringing in a TP as well.
They turn it back over towards BA
who wanted to try to save his top laner,
but instead will just dive up for him.
Now it's a 4v1 against Punn,
and he's gonna go out too.
Zayas takes the kill on the Mundo,
brings this game back up to a five, six difference.
And that means it's only a 1,000 goal deficit here for HLE
as they make the move in the top lane.
I respect what VA wanted to do, trying to help pun,
but HLE just send more minutes to 4B2.
It goes exactly how you think.
And they beat them to the punch.
He just talked about how Team Secret Wells
want to try and push mid into top.
But Pisto, he can't, oh, he's okay.
Yeah, he's fine.
Just jumps back over the wall there
with the eviscerate and now Kanavi in delight.
recognized. Hey, that was kind of our one cheesy attempt. They get away for now.
Zeke has to continue his own retreat does not want to be caught by the dog.
But this is kind of what we talked about is like the fallback plan that we saw in
game two from HLE, which is just we're better in the map. Even though we've
started to see Team Seeker Wells get control, well, it's actually with HLE
who were able to beat them to the punch and top lane. Now they're shifting
Zayac in towards mid to guarantee push here, let the reset come through for
Ushi and then once more start to dive in towards getting vision in the Team Secret
Belgium. Zeyus with that warmogs completed first alongside his bramble vest
just for the general, you know, trading power against Renekton with the Grievous
Wounds and he's got the two belts in inventory Dacca so we're going towards
that massive ball of health that you were talking about. This is going to be a
very difficult frontline to try to get through. Luckily his toe can dive past
him but he's they're going to additional damage besides just for the
theory to find these valuable targets yeah the problem is I think you all have
to turn his one onto dealing with Zeus in these fights because once he finishes
off this item Dirae and Eddie are not safe and he will just run them down and
you're looking at like the ease of lockdown on Team Seeker Wales not
fantastic for dealing with him on them yeah I do like though Eddie going for the
full mortal reminder as his second item not normally what you would see on the
but recognizes the threat of the Mundo, recognizes that it has to be answered.
Teleports coming in from both teams.
Punn arrives with the empowered teleport mega shield.
As nobody's really gonna do a whole lot considering both sides saw the other
commit an extra man or two to this situation.
They don't want to deal with it, but tragedy for the team's secret Wales fans
in the audience.
The gold lead has been passed on to HLE.
They have now retaken things from that 2000 gold deficit.
almost up to a 1,000 goal lead to their own, just about a 3K swing the other way.
So at least we're getting to see what Team Secret Wells are capable of,
because they've definitely been struggling in the early game against just the onslaught of
Canaveral and DeLyse towards this top half of the map. So we're getting,
this is what Team Secret Wells were doing in Mexico, like blowing up the game with his,
so having BA work with them, like looking at finding these control through the early stages.
Unfortunately, it's just that little bit of a step up when you're talking about the
the LCK first seed when it comes towards my play,
and they haven't been able to keep pace in that regard.
It's such a tough draw for your first opponent in the tournament.
Yeah, it's not.
To be LCK number one, Team Secret Wales
trying to break that streak of 3-0s.
Remember, it was six best of fives in play-ins for 18 total games,
all 3-0 outcomes.
And HLE are one game away from making this 7-3-0s in a row
as the TPs are coming in.
It's Zayas looking for the pincer attack.
It's here, one turret still standing in mid.
It's critical here, but they're not even gonna focus on that.
The Blast Cone, it knocks Histo back towards everybody else.
D-Ray's on a killing spree though.
As Kenavi ended up isolated, he's the first to fall.
Traded away for D-Ray now and a one for one.
Nice binding there.
Bullet time committed on the pun.
That's a two for one trade going HLE's way
as the dragon is available.
That Blast Cone was wild.
Everybody got sent flying every which way.
And that Cosmic Binding was divine as well from Delight, just barely able to clip on to the Renekton.
And that should be now, Dragon going over and just a short notice.
Well, jungler though, means there's no smite, so a little hesitant but his still still on the map.
But it should just be taken as soon as they come back out.
The confidence though, from HLE, understanding Zayas is massive at this point.
So he's happy to just TP into the backline and try and set up for the play alongside Kamavi.
And Zayas is a couple minions away from level 15 on the Mundo.
Remember that the third level of maximum dosage is a massive power spike for this champion level 16
Mundo is just such a raid boss pun is barely level 13
So I think that a little give them give them a little bit more time and say this is just going to be utterly
Unanswerable. Yeah, it's when the aloe's tick tock filter comes over the screen
Immediately it just starts going push. Yeah, this is this is the moment
We're still a little bit away from this, but it feels a bit inevitable that we're going to get that from Zayac here.
You can see the TP kind of gives up the ghost here, a little bit of Team Secret while trying to back away as they spot the Zayac's there.
But the temper fate doesn't really connect, but the Blasco sends people every which way.
His though still have to get out over the top side, but it's Deere who has to play him with his life as they have to flash over to wallfish man.
And look at the connection this from Delight. Very getting that through, really well played by the Bard.
And then the follow-up damage there from Gumi-Yushi's misfortune now up here
on the top side, Kanabe diving in yet again, D raised already down. Histo trying to get
himself out with a call to pack, drop some of that aggro. Gumi-Yushi's made his way into
the fight. Bullets being traded between the 80 carries. Kanabe jumps into the wall trying
to get himself for safety. Histo does get the kill with a bleed on the darkened daggers,
rediving into the back line, but no, he cannot finish Zeka. And that means that Histo ends
up giving his own life for it. It's a two for one favoring HLE and Dagda they're now
up three thousand gold. Yeah it gets a little funky. Team Team Seeker Bells managed to get
one back but still this is a HLE playing so well just pushing waves looking for picks
getting him to the face of Team Seeker Bells and it's this like small brick by brick take
the jungle take a little bit more gold here and there and you can see it's not just one
It's the incremental increases on the go-kart.
The wind probability there, right by 8 of US.
Two and a half thousand gold in HLE.
One dragon to one, so at least it's not like they're stacking towards an imminent soul
that their opponents are going to feel immediately pressured to try to deal with.
But it's nearly a 2K lead individually for Zeyas.
Over a 1,000 lead for Zeca now. The name of the game is Solo Laners for HLE.
Yeah, but if you remember in game one, like, they didn't have inhibitor turrets at this time of the game.
like the game was early over at this point. So yeah, I mean massive massive turn around for team Secret Wales
Definitely have to keep far more control
And I'm see like HLE have been a little sloppy at times in this game
They've definitely been having a bit of fun with us. We'll have to see though as they
Now start to push in their sidelines
It feels like kind of a switch is being flipped a little bit here for HLE and the first three item power spike in the game
Is there for Zekka the shadow flame now done. He's got shadow flame, Luden Zekko and Chovy Belt
There's nothing that anybody can feel safe if this guy's coming at you with his full burst ready to go like
Even pun is the tankiest member on team secret whales, right?
There's no true tank on this team thank you thing you've got as a renecdum
But even he has to respect the damage from this victor on Zeka who is halfway to level 16
Now we got the dive up here for the top side yet again and once more they just look at D Ray see D Ray kill D Ray
That's the name of the game for Kenavi as his toe wants to try to return the favor on to Guma. You she goes forward
He'd be a viscerate bullet time trying to fight back Guma falls
His toe finds a very important pick there in the mid lane
Yeah, can I be says anything you can do or his this has anything you can do can I be I can do as well
It needs to jump on towards Guma. You she a little closer than expected with the bullet time doing some good damage on towards the dog
But still kind of just puts us back where sure you get the pick for a team secret Wales
But you're losing waves on the top side. You've got some more turrets for HLE
So it's again just a little bit more gold back in HLE's favor. And the big difference again
I'm looking at the levels on these solo laners. D-Ray is just now level 14. Punn just now level 15
Zaeus is a full level ahead of Punn. Zecca is almost two full levels ahead of D-Ray. This victor that's already fed that I was talking about
Now with another needlessly large rod and inventory is about to- okay
He hits his level 16 power spike before I finish the sentence
So now it's double level 16 solo laners with a little over a minute on the clock until the next dragon spawns
This is scary for team secret where?
They set up though not quite here for a team secret as you can see they're quite
Worried about trying to push in towards river and especially they don't know where Zayas is
Little bit of trading between junglers here
Teleport about to arrive delight did use the tempered fate to no great effect
I was playing a couple of swings and misses with them, but once they are sincere, you can see Team Secret Wells just have to back away.
And it's more about fighting over the control for this dragon as he points it out in 35 seconds.
And Team Secret Wells just aren't allowed to enter river.
If they can't, like, walking into this comp dark that HLE has, is not going to be a fun time.
Alright, Sayah is trying to contest for Gromp control. HLE are going to secure themselves that enchanted Scuttle Crab.
as, yeah, the control over the dragon area just means that this is problematic for Team Secret Wales.
But you can see the pings coming out from HLE on the Baron pit.
They're saying, look, if there's any players that Wales try to make here,
it's going to be looking to sneak that away.
Teleport coming in, though, from Team Secret Wales.
HLE are going to see PON off to the side here.
They don't want to over commit onto the Renekton.
But that was the thing, that shield, that 10-second shield
was kind of needed from PON to enter into this.
Hell, PON spotted.
Yeah, PON with the Dominus trying to charge up some fury.
He jumps in the middle of everybody, but Pawn is already gone.
It's a 5v4, as now Kanavi's ready to pop the paranoia.
Zeya's chasing after the remaining players here on Team Secret Wales,
and he tries to get away, but Kanavi jumps on top of him here with the ulti.
Zeca's already unstoppable, D-Ray will fall right behind him.
Pisto jumps in the middle of everyone, tries to get a kill here with a hound pursuit,
but it's a magical journey, as HLE will chase down the enemy jungler
and get themselves a triple kill to Zaka and a four for nothing trade.
You just don't have the front line on Team Seeker Wales to enter into these positions,
pun reset to pick up his second item, but it doesn't mean he's actually able to get through here.
With that TP, they basically needed to use that max health shield to force the play,
but the change from 30 seconds to 10 seconds means that it's disappeared on pun.
He immediately gets turned and focused by HLE,
and Team Seeker Wales are now so out of position, HLE Nois.
It's a light, uses the temperate to force the flash,
which means there's no escape for the Caitlyn as Kanavi goes in,
and HLE just chased down everyone on this.
And I love the use of that temperate to force the flash
while Nocturne is in torpedo mode.
It means that there's no way that the Caitlyn can wait
until Nocturne collides and then flash away after.
Just a nice one-two punch there.
HLE are going to earn themselves
their Red Bull Baron power play from that.
They will earn themselves a 7,500 gold lead.
The dragon's still on the map because it doesn't matter.
That became a low priority after they had the opportunity to go for that fight.
And you can start to see, like, looking at the items, it's kind of like the day
Rabbiton's deathcap just completed for Zeke.
Zeke is monstrous in that top side.
And like Umiyushi, it's kind of been kept pace with by Eddy.
And the Eddie is starting to kind of turn the corner here is Caitlyn where you can't get some good damage off
But it's just your frontline isn't surviving long enough to let you get that time
I mean you've got a karma support and then your frontline is an assassin dog and
Pun on a bruiser who's 3000 go behind. Yeah
It's not a very big wall to have to climb over for HLE and they're not too worried about the wall of enemy inhibitor
turrets either. HLE going for what could be the end of the game here. Nice tip for
fate, catches out Eddie. Kanafi's ready to follow it up. Potential pressure on
Noguchi, but no he's already killed Panoff. Kanafi getting away here with a
flash of say this is underneath the turret and he does not care. Everybody on
Team Secret Wales will find themselves toward Asunder. A double kill for Zeka and
HLE will end this game in one foul swoop. They march on to the Nexus and they
They will find another clean sweep here at MSI 2026.
They will defeat Team Secret Wales 3-0.
Team Secret Wales got a couple of punches in,
but the knock-and-blow from HLE 3-0.
They will take down the LCP for a seed.
And HLE, they're a scary crew.
There's a reason.
I said it earlier.
I'll say it again.
There's a reason a lot of people have this team as their pick to be favorites to win
the entire thing.
We saw them have a couple of happy moments in the second game.
We saw Team Secret Wales catch them off guard a little bit early on in the third, but when
they're locked in, when they're playing their game, they are so scary to deal with.
The lights motion around the map, the way the whole team plays together and enables
one another is something scary to deal with.
Yeah, well, that's enough for most.
They're going to toss it over to the Duncey analyst test.
We're breaking down. I'm not breaking down this game
Wow, what a debut from HLE man thinking I mean nobody really had them losing this best of five
But they absolutely crushed it. Oh my I just keep going
It's just biving out.
Exactly the music as he's just destroying Midland.
I know your first series at home in front of a great crowd.
Definitely a really fun series of 4HLE.
They look great.
They brought out some new stuff, so it's really kind of cool.
I would also say Four Seeker Wales, obviously,
you drew the worst opponent you could get in the first round.
But at least Game 2 and Game 3 gave us some hope.
I think Game 3, at least especially, wasn't just one person.
It was more of a team effort that kind of got them in there made a little bit more competitive. Hey, true
Hey, 15 minutes. I see a dip
Yeah, well teacher Wales you said it they took a blow for all of us right by playing HLE in this first one
We'll be remembered. Yes. Thank you. Yeah
We could have drawn them
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
Yeah, we could have bought them if we don't.
You're up a player of the series and this one is the light.
I mean, it was just fantastic seeing him smurf all over the map on every different champion,
not giving them a chance.
That's the thing.
I really love watching how he basically impacts the entire map.
When he has the Shen, you look through that level 2 gank mid.
Now, as a support, you're like, I have to call that timer?
That's something I have to think about and then multiple times in game two saving his top laner.
I mean, it's just so annoying for someone like one. You're an incredibly difficult
matchup because you are playing against Zeus. You're not even just thinking about the champions.
Just thinking about the player that you're going up against and you're like, I can do it. I could get a kill.
Yeah, and then all of a sudden here comes the light. His roam timers were so good. All three games
He's impacting all three lanes. He is everywhere. He is.
Thank you so much for being on the desk with me for this first one. We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back
We will see the on-stage interview I presume for production is that correct?
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It was nice, we had a lot of time to play a lot of solo queue.
And the lore streams we also had one day off where we saw a little bit of Seoul
Hongdae
That was nice
Yeah, I also enjoyed a lot
We sat like I think almost two weeks in the on facility
It's super nice
Like everything there the food the building like you can really focus on the game
And yeah, I enjoyed a lot and I'm hoping that
but now since we changed city, it's going to feel as good, so I'm looking forward.
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Yeah, I mean a lot of emotions, Topic Sports, we have to take our revenge because they did kick us out.
That is the most recent event we have had against them. That was like very shocking.
Because they took the revenge on us and now we want to take it back. So obviously we have to win right?
Yeah, we have to win, yeah.
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to the stage. Welcome back to
MSI 2026 for second series of
the day to new teams enter the
stage as G2 Esports is going to
take on TES rematch of the
world's quarterfinals last year.
I'm going to ignore you two
right now because I feel like
you have some TES support.
I'm very excited for today because honestly, like I think whenever I see like G2 versus
any of the LPL teams, it always kind of is a battle for my heart, but G2, I think I've
really stepped up over the course of this bit. I'm excited to see them now take on top
these sports going back to the international stage should be an absolute backer. Have you
considered Rob that distance makes the heart grow fond of?
I know you will, Jacko.
But the thing is though, you know, if I go back to Europe, they're not going to be happy with me.
No, I got my eyes on you for this one.
And I got my eyes on G2 as well.
I feel like it's the first time we have expectations for G2 when you think about the run they had at Worlds,
the fact that they made it out of Sweet Stage for the first time.
First and finals is what I'm looking at here.
For once, we have hope.
We have expectations on the side of G2 and it makes me as excited as I am.
and it makes me as excited as it makes me worried.
That is true.
Once you set that expectation of taking out some of the world's
best, especially 3.0 and Gen.G at first stand,
everyone looked at the finals like it could happen.
Like this is the moment for G2.
And I think that is the biggest, I would say,
scare to the teams like Top Esports that
lost to them a long time ago.
It's like, oh, this actually is a really tough opponent
that we're going up against.
Absolutely.
And it's a bit of a different opponent
than you might be thinking of because Top Esports is
back with a revamp roster, multiple players changing out. And it's been kind of a bit
of a crazy year with Zwei Yan coming in. You know, 369 is a guy that everyone knows, right?
And to be able to actually come in and have Feng Yuwei coming in as well, I feel like these
were very big shoes to fill.
Yeah, with the experience that like 369 had on the team, just seeing Zwei Yan who had
experience, yes, a little bit, just like he was in his rookie split when he was in big
this gaming, but then being a rookie on the international stage along with Feng Yuwei.
a lot to be able to deal with, but if you have the types of like Tian and Jacky love
world championship winners, that could actually ease your concerns.
And that's the thing you can't see in their gameplay, like Tian in particular kind of stepping
up to be the shock collar, oftentimes kind of dictating where Feng Wei will be on the
map, and you still have 369 who in interviews have said, hey look, I'm behind the scenes
with Zoyan, I'm trying to build this guy into the player that I know we can be, which I
think is incredible to see.
Where do we judge the expectation on this side of TS, because when you think about them
on the international stage, it doesn't always go well.
Are we going to fall for it again?
Or is it going to be finally time for Redemption
for TPC Tubby Sports when you see the roster they have?
I feel like they're actually looking pretty damn good.
I mean, I know that has been said before.
I do think we're not going to see them just completely crash
and burn.
I expect that they are going to have a good performance.
But I will say that my expectations for them
are that they are a tier below T1, HLE, and BLG.
So to me, them meeting expectations
is not winning the entire tournament.
I think that would be a step above of where I expect them.
But I think they should have a really good competitive series
against G2. I would be shocked if they were to get 3-0 either way. I think that they're
going to perform.
I do agree with that. I think this is a completely different TES that you saw from last year.
Yes, that was the TES that like took down G2 and then went to the second round at Worlds.
But I really do want to see how Zoyan does on this stage because the carry picks that
he plays domestically is something that you want to see him like be able to play. I think
this team has a lot of carry threats on this squad. But if you go to international tournament
you go up against some of the best talents in the world and freeze up there, then it changes the conversation.
I mean same for Feng Wei as well, right? Like I think we end up seeing him. Some plays he looked fantastic on the Nautilus,
but oftentimes it was trying to work with Jacky Love. Unlike the Lulu, where these kind of picks up.
I think I'd be curious to see how this rookie then performs on international stage, works well in playoffs and in finals.
We'll have to see what the last bit is.
And it's even more exciting considering the fact that G2's bot lane really stepped up.
I'm thinking about LeBrog here, what he's been able to showcase with Han Solo throughout the entire spring split.
Bb tweeted also that he's excited to take on this new rookie on the top lane and show what he's made of.
So, given the fact that G2 had their share of heartbreaks, especially against LPL over the years,
that is a matchup that we're to be really excited about, and there's a revenge here that we've mentioned already from Worlds.
Exactly, Memento talking about it, they knocked them out last year at Worlds, but it's not just against Top.
It has been, you know, heartbreak against the LPL a number of times, and you think about, you know, G2...
PLG, no!
It's just the tall croons getting there.
You think about first hand where it was like,
oh my god, they got past the LCK.
The LCK had been the region that had been looking the best
in the world for a long time, honestly.
And you think, all right, well, surely this is the time.
G2 is back.
And then you're going to get destroyed in the final.
We're shoving all the guys into the track.
Yeah, we think about world finals as well.
We think about it's always the LPL it feels like
that is there to kind of halt the train in its tracks.
And I'm curious to see,
because I do think, especially with the style of play that top eSports have,
where they play hyper-aggressive, where they are able to play through that jungle,
this is where I think that it's going to be pressure on towards Guimonde
to see how he can perform, because I think this matchup for me, looking at these two,
is going to be the focus here today, is how can Guimonde go against the pressure
from Bong Yui and Tian who like to go for a base, like to go for these aggressive styles.
Yeah, and that's always been the case when you're going up against the LPL,
is just that a lot of these players are going to trust their instincts in their individual plays
while you're looking up at the setup,
I think Chana is great at that setup,
but if you give him the least impact,
he is going to kick your head.
I mean, I think he's the best player on their team right now.
I feel like he's performing incredibly well.
But I think something that is interesting,
and I want to see how this kind of shakes out
throughout the rest of the event,
is that after first hand, Everett is like,
all right, LPL is playing the right style of League of Legends.
The LCK teams are playing faster.
You know, all the teams that are at the top of the world
are trying to play more chaotic.
Lion has said that, G2 has said that,
KC has said that, TL has said that,
like all teams from our regions,
everyone is trying to play that style.
So I do wonder, are you going to then be more prepared against a team like TES, you know, because you've had more practice, everyone's trying to emulate them, everyone is shifting their style away from like the control of the LCK to more of the chaos and the fast-paced movement of the LPL.
I do think though, there is like a little bit of a difference between the way BLG plays top esports. For BLG, it's like, hey, we're going to unlock on and we're going to play around like the solo lanes.
When I look at top esports more, we want to play 4TN, like you want to look for a mate.
Especially like if you look at game 1 versus WE, TN on the Lee Sin,
he just took over three quadrants for like almost the entire game.
Like if you give this man a leave, he will take a country mile.
So for Q-mon, it is about dictating the pace of it, keeping him in check,
and making sure Q-mon can play his game.
And that's what I'm really worried about here, because I think about Q-mon versus
Shun in the first 10 finals, and the fact that he didn't find any answers against that jungler.
Now we know that Tien can be a current field, but when he's on the right side of the current,
this man is devil in the jungle.
And I just want to see how much Q-mon stepped up since first stand.
Absolutely.
I mean, I think Q-mon has been pretty stellar, though.
While he did maybe fall short in the finals, he got to play Canyon,
and no one was really thinking that he was going to be able to do it there.
And he looked brilliant.
So I do think first stand was without a doubt his best event.
And he is going to be going up against some ridiculously good jungle competition
throughout the entire tournament.
So it's going to be interesting to see not only how he's playing,
but also support jungle you know you talk about top and playing through jungle and that is so much about what it is right
It's linking up with your support moving around the map. We saw how active the light was last game
You're kind of expecting that sort of play. I feel like
We said what we think yeah, I don't even know where my heart lies honestly, obviously
You can have a back of you
I'll take it out.
I don't know if I'm coping or I'm hoping, but I do want to know what the fans think here in the Mastercards front prediction
because they said that G2 is going to win with 73% of the votes.
You can, of course, if you do submit your votes at LOLE Sports on X.
What about the WayBo votes?
Where is the WayBo votes?
That's true. The vote has been rigged.
It's been rigged.
And the fans are not doing so hot. Only 50% right.
than right. All right. Come on, Twitch chat, get it together.
We are better from you. Disappointed in you guys.
What do you guys think?
I think it's going to be really close.
I think it's going to be a fun series.
I'm honestly on the side of G2.
I feel like they can win this to me right now.
Coming into the tournament, like I said, I do have top slightly below
the other Asian teams in this event and other LPL and LCK teams.
And I feel like G2 is in really good form.
And I feel like this is a great opportunity for them to make a splash
in the tournament. I think the the it's going to be a case of what form do we see from G2 like
handsome LeBron are they having the same coverage as they did domestically if that's the case and
you've got Schumann who's bringing out these funky picks like the masses and willing to play his
stuff I think G2 have us but it is never easy going up against top eSports. Yep and I have top
eSports winning this one. I just think that so many people are putting down the idea of Zwayon
even though Zwayon is actually just been incredibly talented. He's really formal. And I think that
It's been a little bit shaky from broken blades side domestically. So I do think it's gonna be a top gap
We haven't seen Jackie love and sometimes because of his health issues. He's back
So I think that what we've been seeing from the bottom side of the map from him and from you
I has just been domination. I want to see them thrive
Yeah, and I think especially for Jackie look he's been sick even more consistent than what we've seen from on the past
So again, like you're kind of giving tips and tops across the board
Oh, we know it's gonna be a banger at least we hope we only had oh threes so far
to get a competitive series for this one it is time for G2 esports versus TES
casters what do you think? I think that I really like three of those predictions
shout out to everybody not in braz not cuz he's wrong just cuz I think EU needs
this one at this point already it's so early in the tournament this is the
problem we come out of first stand it's like the entire region is good we see
what KC pulled against TO we're like never mind one team region still and now
We really need that one team. You should just be thinking. Oh, and they is good not you as bad
Just compliment your friends, you know, it's it's our fault really
Honestly, though, I think it is our duty Daniel to put a stop to the three ohs, please right now
We're gonna put a shoulder just please, you know, shout at the players whatever we need to do
Yeah, the tarot cards out again, whatever, you know, the
Astrological signs Isaac had last time around whatever it takes and I think this is a series where
It would be in pretty crazy for it to be a three zero. I'm really I'm really hoping that this one goes to distance and that it is close because the
rivalry between these two
Organizations does go pretty hard. You know if you're counting the individual actual games. Yeah, twenty twenty four g two three
Oh them but just last year
TES got the three one and then they won the additional game in the group stage
So it's four to four in right internationals for individual games
So maybe TES is feeling like it's a 3-0 back, but let's not let's not count on it as we get ready to meet the teams of course
Top eSports hitting the stage first now
If you're not familiar with top eSports the pedigree that's kind of ahead of them that everyone looks at is
International struggle, but I want you to let go of that for a second
We've got a lot of new faces on stage today
And we need to see what this version of top eSports can bring to the table what they can do to upset the apple cart
To change the story of top eSports history
on the opposite side. G2 Esports. Leaders of a one team for each. I was really sad about
those here. I'm letting it go. We're moving on. G2 Esports, of course, has been an incredible
performance at Perstand. As always domestically, you might see some pickups here or there,
They lifted the trophy in the end and are now looking to continue a pretty potent international run
Of course, they did fall short the last time they played against an LPL team
And they did fall short the last time they played against hot e-sports, but hoping that today will be a different story
Okay, here we go deep breath. I mean, honestly, there's so many good matchups
In this series as well. Everybody's gonna be looking at jungle
especially with Scumond really being the point man now for G2 rising up to that level.
I like how they do focus around him as a captain and
hit. LeBron has been playing so well with him now too.
It just looks really, really good, a lot better for G2,
especially those early game plans.
But going against CS with TN, literally not even playing in Split 1,
not even being on a team, and then coming in in Split 2,
And especially the first half of that split, just performing so incredibly well,
Jungle matchup will be incredibly high, and TES do rely on TN's form very heavily too,
so that is going to determine a lot.
And then you have to give credit to TES for an incredible run, right?
This is the least amount of games played together, or they need roster on the international stage.
These guys just hit the spot stack together at the start of the split,
and so the fact that they were able to rise up, triumph over a surging WE domestically
to ensure that they work in a secure second seed after falling to BLG is quite an impressive
feat, but a lot of questions are going to be answered in this first pick and ban.
What are the priorities going to be?
Mages in the bot lane?
A lot of meta questions on our mind as well as what the compositions are going to look
like as we go to pick some bans.
Bard already banned away, Camille banned away.
Two premier support options.
I know we both feel like the Camille is super oppressive, but seeing the rest of the bans
rounded out as well.
Yeah, I mean, so do all the players because Camille's most playing he does support of
the whole tournament so far, too.
And I feel like she's going to get a lot of bans.
In the hands of very good support players,
like we just saw, can be devastating everywhere
across the map.
But with a lot of that focus in Jungle as well,
and double banning here with the Vi and Jarvan bans from G2
targeting the end, it does leave open the Varus there
for Jackie Love from the bottom side.
And people have still really liked the Varus,
even with all the nerves.
I feel like the balancing has tried to nerf Varus like 600 times.
They're always trying to thread this needle like where we're like,
we swear there are multiple viable builds and always there's one that's a little bit more powerful.
This time they've both been kind of nerfed a little bit adjusted,
but we'll see what the angle is here for Jackie Love or Swayon.
I mean, you can still take the Varus top,
although that was one of the big hits that took down the early attack speed.
Yeah, definitely could be a flex there, but they walk into the rumble as well.
So rumble opens up a lot of things rumble yone comps are kind of my favorite
Combination, but let's see where G toad decided to go with this one early on with their
Double band of the vi and the Jarvan does put a little bit more emphasis on jungle pool for the AB carry jungles
But they're trying to show ash seraphine already
This is something that is not new in the meta at all that this was like
Everybody across the world has just been spamming the Ash Seraphine and Rumble Compositions.
Lots of CC, really, really good team-fighting, so let's see what T.S. want to go into it.
Nautilus is always a good pick. If you think that your opponents are going to complement that Ash with the Seraphine,
you try and look for some kill pressure towards those low mobility bot lane carries.
And if this is what G2 went around out their first set of picks with, the Seraphine,
it's for you as a most played champion.
So locking in the Nautilus here, you have to assume that he feels pretty comfortable
Navigating the early match with the early pressure that that duo can put down and can really bring it back later with these reliable engages and Vesta picked up two.
I really want to see how good it's way on feet because this is one of the picks where he has been so lane dominant.
Now there are a lot of explosive games and there are some games where he falls short, but this is a game where he really can't style and a great pivot.
See, everyone just expects you to always pair Ash with the Seraphine to bring it in, but I love this pivot.
You see the Unbesa locked in,
Braum not only is going to be good
into the melee matchup here
versus Nautilus for bot lane,
but it does make playing those other melee carries
much more difficult in the teamfights.
I do like this pivot from G2,
bring that Braum out,
give you a lot as far as your frontline,
as far as your teamfighting does go here
to make you a lot more tanky and rounded out.
Very, very true, an immense amount of utility
coming from the bottom lane.
Ash, of course, so solid at getting active on the map
or active in lane early
and using the Hawkshaw for additional information, but it's not the roaming support for LeBron.
It's not one of these picks that's going to get out of bot lane. Maybe a little bit more
focus is going to be paid to that 2v2 in the bottom side wall. As we enter the second
band phase, both sides targeting the jungle pool, trying to limit some of the potential
options for powerful parrys, not turning pantheon. Both hit an event.
And if Braum is roaming around, Zin loves Braum. So if you could get a Zin with this
Braum, and especially if you're banning Shrundle, Zin looks really freaking good here for G2.
Zin Braum roaming around would be crazy, I don't know if TES what they really want to influence here.
If they went this in then like Lee Sin is still up for TN.
Sometimes really tricky against the Ash and the Braum though to reliably get that out.
So they want to bend it up too, they're like you know what, alright Zin would be kind of crazy there with the Braum.
So we're going to bend it out as well, especially since you bend out the Trandall.
I do like that response from TES, also reading it.
Are we gonna go for jungle here on four feels like it would make the most sense
But maybe they really do you highlighted at skumont on such a rise domestically and internationally
Maybe they want to give him full information before he walks in his
It's an oldie but a goodie for you don't see convinced
Okay, okay
Okay, no, no, I'm keeping some back in. I'm back in
You know, I just we're like this guy captain playmaker gonna do something now. Hi. Okay. Yeah those things don't don't always
Let the Olaf he was already playing Olaf and Olaf got more damage to jungle monsters on the patch as well
So we'll clear even faster and as far as you know pairing up with the braum
Olaf would also greatly benefit from that extra CC
You can try and jump to them as well, help them in his endeavors in diving towards the enemy team.
And if your bottom lane is a Freljord bottom lane, they bring lots of CC for you.
So, all right, let's see if that Olaf does get to eat up the Varus, because again, okay, well, TSI,
they still gonna go another low mobility carry here if they go with the Casio,
which everybody has super highly prioritized, very strong on the patch.
But Olaf is another champion that Olaf can just run straight at and
And you can make pop your ultimate.
You don't even really have to do the back step shenanigans
that everybody else has to do.
But we'll see if they can actually pull it off.
Cassio here.
Maybe just feeling like the last remaining strong blind
to the mid lane match, but it's the Blanc response coming in
from Cass.
And this is the champion that, again, for the bars
in the back line, especially from the fury,
if she burns the intangible or a targetable effect
a little bit too quickly can do a lot of work in the mid game.
Definitely can.
I mean, LeBlanc.
So you are playing into a Nautilus, so you have to be a little bit respectful when, you know, later on in the game, you're trying to go for some of your poke plays.
But, I mean, it does mean your mid jungle is also pretty scary in skirmishes, because LeBlanc can set up Olaf for ganks very, very well with distortion, with the chain.
So not only can Stumon play off his bottom lane, but he can also play off his mid lane match up there, you know, play around caps for sure.
So, for TES here, alright, honestly, I...
I do like what G2 brought with a lot of the answers,
you know, the pivot into the braum,
and then bringing the carry there for Scumond and throwing
down the LeBlanc.
However, TES, they have very high priority
meta champions at their disposal, especially these Solains,
with the Casio, with the Ambesa.
That they do.
Eyes on the Zinodal players.
See how they adjust coming into the international stage.
And if the answers that G2 have cooked up,
if the adaptations they've made to shut down
some of these picks, things like the LeBlanc,
the priority on the Braum over maybe something like the Serafine,
does pay off for them.
You get ready to load into game one of this best of five series.
Now it is double elimination, but for both of these lineups,
hovering just outside the perceived top three
of the tournament, winning here, suddenly puts you back
in that conversation of trophy contender.
A loss here, on the other hand, kind of immediately excludes you.
Yeah, I mean, it's so early in the main stage
where just day one of the main stage,
And yet already, like you're saying,
you are playing one of the teams
that's basically been power ranks right next to you
at this tournament.
And so it feels like there's a lot of weight
behind this matchup here.
And let's see how it does go early on.
Does get the Noxious Blast to hit this time around here
for Cream, so that's quite nice for him.
It's another Noxious Blast to hit here,
so good little trades already here.
Third one, Drake.
I'm so you've seen a lot of every single one. That's some good trading and I think it's important when you look at the history of these two teams playing
It's other cream
Improving individually is a big part of why TES were able to triumph last year because remember he was kind of the 80 mids guy
Implemented majors a lot last year and we finally saw that come to fruition in that series first G2
Especially and now he really is a jack of all trades
But a guy who's honestly pretty much just locked in on playing meta picks supposed to the first on as in yo
Yeah, I mean honestly, I actually love players that are like smaller champion fools and play a very specific style more, but it is beneficial.
You know, Kream is assimilated into playing all the control mages and all the meta stuff now.
You know, he's probably in this, you know, in this best of five, there's a decent chance that he still pulls out the Akali or the young air or something.
I'd love to see it.
to see it. Yeah, he is fully assimilated into all the primary picks. Another player who is no
stranger to the pick that they're picking up, at the very least, is Jack, you love 83 and 30.
Most played champion. So might be nerfed for the meta, but it's looking pretty good thus far.
As we see a quick initial trade already getting the flash out of Han Sama, a nice look for TDS.
And Dracos, this is with the TDS having their jungle pathing bottom lane. So that's a very good
trade of summoner spells there. Nothing left on Hansama now. No cleanse, no flash. They
go for another hook, but will be blocked up there by LeBrov. But again, the nefiri is
pathing down to the bottom side.
Hansama in trouble. Getting too low here. The braum needs a bit of time early on, right?
The concussive blows on breakable does a bit of work. But got a respect in nefiri for now
though, Tien. Still focused on just keeping up in terms of jungle clear.
Oh, cap's going to be able to pull away a little bit here. As Grim's going back for
purchase, we'll teleport right back out to lane, and he's going to teleport closer to the crab to ensure
Tien's guaranteed gets this. His bot lane head push, teleport from his mid lane right back out to,
but it does mean Caps, look at all, a lot of minions are dying there in mid lane, straight into
you know the front of this turret now, so Cream's going to arrive now, but Caps should be able to
pick up a few more CS and continue to increase that CS lead a little bit. And one thing we're
We're gonna have to keep our eyes on is if if bottom lane remains so heavily in favor of TES in terms of push priority
Because we both know how important that can be for the jungle matchup. Hold that thought
Come on moving in material chains missing cream
Clean movement to deny this going back in for a bit of extra poke
Even it going you mind can you raise over the wall?
Caps going for a little bit of a longer trade now
Now he's going to dash back, but he's grounded a solo kill.
Caps didn't need to go back in.
Maybe wanted to save the wave and Cream grabbing first blood.
I mean, Cream is 1v2, both of them.
He's made Skumon run all the way for the hills, too.
Thank you, and Tien are on the way.
And you saw the mini-map, them walking up,
following the path of Skumon before.
Why?
Cream had so much confidence.
She's like, OK, fine.
Tien.
They get it.
All right.
One of the things that's so irritating about the nefuri
She just can get out of so many counter-jumble scenarios. There's no real opportunity for G2 to punish.
The little dog children are gonna block stills for you. You got plenty of mobility.
Huppies? Maybe?
Dog children! Dog children! Dog children! Yes, the dog children. Fair enough. Fair enough.
So many friends I have pet today. They're like, no, my dog is my child.
That is actually it.
But here, look at the minimap. Kep's over to the other side and he goes straight back
And cream is already positioned cream was already positioning like yeah, you're gonna try and go back to your tower
No, sir. I'm just gonna lay down the masma right here. And so caps can't flash
Really well done by cream. He he fought off the Olaf and then he
able to go
aggressively position towards caps his power topside broken blade drop the equalizer public execution does connect on a skew mon
So you I'm just out of there
G2 not able to get more out of that play. Do get the flash but it's traded one for one.
Still able to walk back in the lane and pick up the wave.
Kobe, it's looking a little rough here. That's the first big play.
The second big play it feels like G2 have gone for in both times.
They haven't been able to convert it into a greater advantage.
Yeah, I mean, it's one of those priority meta champions we're highlighting here for Green.
for green and him playing so well on it.
He was very competent, his movement,
all leading up to that play too, dodging a lot of skill shots.
So good play from him starting out is definitely,
definitely does bode well for TS,
but it's still very early in the game,
a lot left to be played.
So is just going to mean that the Casio is on good footing
and you're going to be able to play around a very consistent
and reliable AP kind of machine gun source of good DPS.
And sometimes that can be very problematic for an Olaf.
If you get behind the race for how much offensive pressure
you can put out versus how much offensive pressure
the people you're trying to run down can put out,
if they can just burn you down while you're trying to run in,
it completely changes the look of the champion.
So we'll keep track of that,
but definitely not gonna fully divert the course
of this game just quite yet.
No, definitely not.
Of course, Jackie Lovo is off to go for a lethality bear.
So we'll try to poke, maybe hoping to get a bit
with the control of mid lane later when he does rotate up.
And it's going to be annoying for the side of G2 to deal with.
It might force that all in commitment a little bit
sooner than they'd like.
But we're just getting poked down the cream.
This is such a nice spot to be in as the Casio.
You have the catalyst.
You're stacking the tier.
You're so tanky.
You're so hard to force out of this lane.
And look at this.
Continue a play from Tian and Fengui around mid lane.
Constantly, whenever you get your support reset, immediately.
Go mid.
Link up with jungle again.
If you constantly back up green, and he can do this.
It's a good call, and it caps.
Just lucky you were not a minute later in the game,
and that's a level six non-alister.
It would have been a dead Leblanc.
100% agree.
And if you constantly have vision around you
with these control lords and clearing out the G2 vision,
it allows the Casio to just stand and fight her grasp.
Leblanc's gonna try and intimidate you, right?
Ah, scary, distortion ingame is going for a trade.
But if you can stand and fight your ground,
and he's hitting all of his noxious blasts,
then you can get really good trades,
and your miasma is so good at punishing the block
when she's trying to exit.
As long as you have the security,
and look at that, they put double control wards.
This is the vision that we're talking about.
Around mid lane to make sure
Cream can continue to play so aggressively.
Yeah, he even gets the one up around Raptors as well.
So this cast yo can definitely stand and fight
whenever the block even tries to trade.
and Kream really building so much of its initial advantage
himself when Cap's kind of overstepped on that first trade.
But the good news for TES is all that investment
around mid lane hasn't come at the cost of losing
somewhere else on the map.
Bot lane is still trading relatively even.
It's a pushback and forth in terms of prior.
A similar story top side.
So it's not like G2 has their own really strong lane
to play around to balance out what is Kream very steadily
ramping up this gold lead in mid.
Yeah, so in that case, when you don't,
then you say you go for trades.
They're like, OK, you guys go on top side for grubs.
Let's go bottom side for the dragon here.
Katz is gonna get one of those controllers around mid-down.
That's gonna be very beneficial for his continued trades.
And they're gonna take the dragon.
It is gonna mean Tien helps with the top side.
They interrupt the recall here.
Broken Blade does cancel his for now.
Does Swayon also check the brush?
Yes, sir.
He knows.
Obviously, you've got decent information
awardless buffer for the wall
as Q-Mond was starting the dragon.
So you feel pretty confident
The Brokeblade is on the weak side and he's not going to have any support.
Yeah, he has no teleport either, so that extra minion wave, you know, those two interrupted recalls
mean more minions dying to the tower up there as bot side.
Not able to get anything else on Sama stepping forward.
Jacky Love just continuing to poke and...
Sumaan is in the area, might be going for the 3v3, nice ulti from Leblanc to look for the disengaged.
Fumiyue now caught out, should just get cut down.
Alti still going, connecting on to Jackie Luv!
Skumon grabbing the double.
That is an overreach from TES4.
Sure, man.
They had just seen, you know, G2 trying to make their play
and they're cutting back.
And then Fungiway tries to force so heavily,
again, into the Frail Yord bottom lane.
They can punish with so much CC.
Nice turn from G2, and they get not one,
but two kills into Skumon's Olaf,
which they want to carry this comp.
Oh, he's still here. So he walks right back around really good old there from LeBron go locks them up
They immediately use the passive sun as well to make sure that one hits and then they nail Jackie and Jackie
Doesn't have doesn't use a splash though
Doesn't use flash doesn't have cleanse while he has the TP to be more active on the map
That is the price when the play starts to turn bad
There's really no way to escape and it's the strength of the brawl you highlighted in draft right if you pick a bad fighter
It starts to go wrong that can cusp blows that braum passive just makes it feel impossible to escape on top of the fact that you
Have an ash slowing you down. Yeah, especially with the level six there for LeBrov really nice for him
Boom hits the alt while he's getting hooked in then they immediately get the follow-up son
That just looked so easy there to turn from G2
And let's see I mean that's a slingshot skewbots all of a sudden you're feeling a little worried there
He got so accelerated, he one shot, he insta-bought his Hextech right after that experimental Hextech plate, and that is the go-button.
Now you are supremely turbo as soon as you pop your ultimate. So we'll see what the Olaf can do from here.
Definitely an excellent position to be in. We've talked about it before, but the Olaf, when he's ahead of the curve, can ignore so much of the frontline, walk past, get right on top of players like Jackie Love or Cream.
Love or cream course cream has a nice little lead of his own
But this is a good position for g2 getting one of the most volatile matters
They have or members they have active on the map is an exhaust an arrow a flash from Jackie love holding at the previous play
Does trade his all team for all team on top of the flash and exhaust from the brap in the Summoner's skull book
See people can change you know you learn from the breeze right?
Another one I'll flash this one
So he does live for now.
Skumann's still staying in the bottom area.
It's the end deciding he's going to go on the top side and sit up there,
but doesn't, not able to accomplish very much.
And now that the Varus has no flash,
okay, now, Dan, double daggers connecting,
Altee there, additional AD, just zoning, broken blade away.
Broken blade without the flash.
Pretty devastating, especially as Wayon has his Altee up and available.
So once again, forced away.
Again, denied another wave.
Look at that top lane CS difference just starting to become astronomical. Yeah, very true
Rumble gonna be fairly far behind we saw earlier as way on and TN interrupted two recalls from broken blade
He lost extra CS because of that
Trying to get back and now no flash on him
However, if you are looking at the other side of the map not only did they get Jackie's flash
Look at those wards. They also were able to leave behind
behind, three wards through the red quadrant of TES's jungle.
And that is going to help G2 in setting up
for the next consecutive dragons here.
One minute on that next dragon, they
can have a very clear game plan of trying
to stack these dragons with their Ash Brahm on bottom side
and Ski Mon being in a very comfortable position in the game.
They can look to focus away from Broken Blade and just say,
I'm sorry, buddy.
Your pain will probably continue.
We're going to stack dragons.
Just hold on.
Just survive.
We could maybe rumble some waves there you go old some waves and
It's called the equalizer because it helps you get the CS back not because it you know
Not doing anything else right now, and that's just gonna be okay
Well, we'll see if you know is way on ends up teleporting to the dragon fight and ends up being a determining factor there
Then it could be fairly problematic
But we'll see how this next one actually does go down because it's only 18 seconds and a lot of teams to dragon number
Two is not where they really draw their line in the sand.
So there's not a super amount of pressure on TES.
Dragon number three is usually where
you really do hard focus it.
Since Tien's already seen on a ward walking topside.
Apps trying to clear this wave was sent topside
because he has access to the teleport.
But is it going to cost him his life
from the execution flash away from Arrow going
a little bit wide?
That's the big one!
That's the clone!
He gets tricky, but it just doesn't matter.
they cover their bases, TES, with a flawless dive.
Yeah, it's 25 more gold over there, buddy.
Like, you're both.
They do get them both and make the dive on topside.
CS make the call.
Yeah, second dragon.
We don't care about that one either.
We're going to get more and more and more and more gold
on Dwayon and Bessa here.
He is technically not a rookie because he did play,
you know, like nine games for IG in tier one.
However, he hasn't played international games
at right internationals and is so young.
I've been incredibly impressed with his potential.
He really does play to carry games,
to be a wing condition.
And with 369 stepping down and stepping away,
it really was big shoes to fill.
And so they bring a lot of focus and a lot of faith in him
on the international stage.
This is something that people were
citing when they're looking at this brand of TES,
bringing two very young players with both him
and Feng Yuan onto the international stage.
He is the one with the large gold lead. Of course, Cream did really well for himself early on too.
But when we look at the coin-based gold grind, we can see the tower plates very heavily in the way on Fiverr,
as well as the kills, making up that 1,000 gold difference, a little bit extra there in terms of CS as well.
So, sitting pretty comfortable in this game, punishing G2 for trying to get a little bit creative on their lane assignments
with lack of access to that TP from Broken Blade, but G2 is still trying to show a bit of force here
They push out the mid lane commits Q mon to the area remember he is kind of the one big strong point for the team
That's broken blade using the equalizer as predicted
Just to keep waves
Get cleared out
Meanwhile
You do oh, yeah a little dangerous there. They do pull the riff out, but decided to back off as it is soft contested
And remember the teleport is still available for his way on next up from Jackie board from LeBron looking to lock up Jackie love
Really not gonna mess that she ends debating if you can follow up
Good hold on this flash, this time around from Jackie,
and I saw a dodge from him.
He does have the Ghostblade,
does have the Boots of Swiftness,
so he becomes pretty hard to hit once you get
all that extra movespeed for the Varus,
and it allows you to save your Summoner spells for key fights.
Again, usually it's Dragon number three,
where the team that opted for topside play and opted for gold
is going to come to break your Dragon stacking,
and that's what we kind of expect from TES.
CES. Oh, they're wrapping around.
They grab the Herald, lock up on the caps.
Nothing he can do to dodge this one.
Follow-up hook is there.
Creamy Nolta lay down to Myasma just in time.
Caps walking out.
All D-Base.
Don't take a dash pass to the last Twin Fang.
We'll drop him down where he stands.
Q-Mon forced to respond, and G2 and shambles.
So nicely done here.
Fanguay, point and click on the Leblanc with the ulti.
Follow it up with the CC combo right into the Myasma again.
from Cream and he fires off the ulti with the AOE even though you're going into Leblanc Passive
at the clone. Enough damage to finish it off. Just really nicely layered there and TS has just
picked apart this Leblanc pick. The end of the draft there, Dracoz, that they tried to go with
and and Cream. I mean he almost has as much of a gold lead individually as Dwayne does. So
So, Cassiel is going to be a turbo carry to play around for TES, and this bodes very
well for their Dragon number 3 fight.
Definitely does.
SoloLance really taking over here, well set up both by FungiWay and Tian, and so many
of those key moments early plays, that topside game, making sure the broken blade or caps
even when he did show his face in the topside, could not play the game, could not sit comfortably,
and it's absolutely paying off 2,500 gold lead across the team.
100% agree like they've really been in the right place at the right time each of these tn and fungy way
Roams the first one around mid even though they didn't get to hit caps
Yeah, because they're there it cut off the other area for escape for cats and allowed cream to do what he did now
Caps is oh caps locked up public execution. I think I cut down the solo bow. Oh
Okay, Drake. I'm starting to feel sorry for you now caps is just getting obliterated
It's a it's not even a like now you see me now you don't type of mage. It's like you never even saw
There's no one showing up. This is a lead in our magic show. This is not a very popular magician
04 zero arrow going wide
Skeumann waiting around but it feels like G2 are grasping at straws a bit just trying to do what they can with this
Ash arrow to force some kind of play
Keep in mind, Swayon is still in the top lane, still pushing threatening plates.
G2 trying to force the band advantage, but Cream just walks forward.
G1 forced to retreat. Nice stand behind me to the minion from LeBron to get away.
LeBron salty.
I mean, that Herald is just going to take out mid. They get the dragon.
This is just straight objectives by the book, Dracos.
You're going to be able to get your mid lane priority, get your dragon, put a stop to their stacking.
3 and a half thousand gold lead for TES, extremely fed solo lane carries now G2 trying to make
something happen though!
Get something, hoping to catch out green, all people from Lebov catching up on the way
who's immediately going to hook out, paired with the equalizer but not really getting
much.
Yeah, I mean they get one flash off the casio, Vanguier also had to flash I guess so that's
two, two plus the heal.
So you do get a little bit as far as summoner spells with the teleport also but you-
Level 15. Might be able to 2v1.
Six seconds, as long as Alt is available.
The last coming kill though.
Started. Don't think he can 3v1.
Getting burned down. Alt is gonna turn back.
Big damage coming in.
LeBron with the locket, flash away.
Back into enemy tower.
Will still get the one for one.
Yeah, Zwayla barely gets it there.
Does get the support kill for himself at the very least.
Three members invested from G2 to the bottom lane,
but Jackie's pushing mid.
Brokenblade will at least finish up the rest of this tower.
Does he get caught though trying to escape?
There's a control ward in the second brush,
and he's teleporting.
Yeah, he's out.
Manages to get away.
G2 at least getting something.
A bit of gold back here is LeBron.
This best to survive, very close to making it away.
Han's on a matchup against Jackie Love.
A bit frustrating for him is that the Boris poke
is just so hard to manage, so hard to deal with.
And you can see the solo laner is just wildly far behind.
two level discrepancy between cream and caps in here.
So we're on maybe overconfident, but you can see why.
Yeah, and it was just LeBrov waiting there up on the Fogga
War on that little corner of the wall.
So that's where I could not see.
Nice ult from Cheyenne, though, to the other side.
And then since LeBrov had put up his unbreakable
to the other direction, he had barely gotten enough
on the other side.
And Gigi's like, ah, OK, well, he did get one counterkill,
but at least we got our shutdown.
We got a kill on the Ambesa.
So that was necessary walking in here.
Jack, you love marks by the equalizer, but that's it.
There's no immediate follow-up.
Yeah, with his boots of swiftness and again,
a ghost blade active, he is able to walk it out.
He does.
Let's see about this though.
They actually are just getting mid priority for this.
So I mean, yeah, you've got a little bit of damage done,
but that is a whole tower gone in mid lane.
And G2, Dizzy, remember coming into the series,
these teams across almost every single tier list
were adjacent, but in this game it has really been TES' step just about every, or ahead
of step, just about every single minute of the game.
And to me, it is a lot about how TES, they did not flinch.
They read G2's creativeness and they're like, okay, fine.
You want to get, you know, fancy and pick LeBlanc, then we're going to have TN in Fengyue
be roaming towards around mid, keep the vision around mid, cream very confident play, have
been able to dodge a lot and outplay a lot in the early stages, and having him be such
like an anchor for this TS team and then being very confident in their play
playing into this you know G2 setup that they've got here has has really
rewarded them but let's see about this time around because G2 over chipping
they're cutting down on that gold lead okay so they've cut down a couple areas
and now being able to split push cap should finish off the top tower they've
got controllers here leading up to the Baron vision control does look good for
them. That it does. Jack you love trying to land a bit of poke here yes fight to
regains in control around the pit, poked but generally unfazed pretty confident
with his team's positioning around this objective. Caps may be spotted on vision
as well. Root does land, he's keep on ready to go over the wall. He's already burning
his defensive cooldowns but just a bit of poke and unfortunately Caps gets poked more.
And all this time again more split pushing, Bangaloway, more and more. This
ambessa is actually just gonna one of you nine I feel like. I mean yeah it's
pretty easy to get that feeling when you see this giant gold on the champion.
And ever since this champion was released,
I think it only makes highlight reels of like one very shining.
And the unfortunate reality is I had the absolute
well, displeasure of rewatching TES Smash G2 last year.
And let me tell you, the nameplate was different in the top lane.
It was 369, but I've seen this game before Kobe LPL,
And Bessa trampling over the LEC first seed now the difference I think is Schumann can be this late game insurance
Right, we've seen it from Doran when he plays this picked off lane if you get to three items if the enemy team mispositions once
That's really all it takes for Olaf to just tear through the enemy lineup
But thus far TS have been so diligent on always trading even or more consistently trading up getting that extra tower
Having a Bessa on a side lane
So it's hard to see a path where
TES are gonna make that mistake are gonna fumble a bit and give away first humon to play a fight and Jackie
Has spell shield on top of all this movespeed that we keep on highlighting for him here for the Varus too
And if you're you're full sending over there wait a second, they're gonna teleport in we're gonna start this pretty early
55
Arrow connects in the brush TES done a vision but the common enough to tell them
They have to be careful
Okay
How big of a factor will this Braum be in the team fight? How much can LeBrov lock up?
Good question stepping very far forward keeping our eyes on Svayon
Most fed member of the team alongside cream
Public execution crucial objective getting lower and lower LeBrov locked up all the combos good
Jackie well down in trouble with Schumann's reputation who back like a media ball coming from half
They are a little bit dizzy cause it's a three members of G2
but Manage is divided an initial way out.
Skimaut let it perform too long.
LeBron going forward, multiple members locked up.
Broke of Blade wants revenge for the laning phase,
but Swayon refuses to fall.
The dragon drops in favor of TES,
but the fight goes to G2.
Oh, it's so close here too in the aftermath.
Two for one on kills,
and we did kind of see the clash between the Olaf dive
and the DPS of the Casio.
Here it is, they start out on the bomb really early.
Rumble Ultimate plus Ash Arrow plus Brom Ultimate all on Jackie Love and the Olaf immediately runs to perform.
So him and Caps do burst it and then Scuban also uses his Flash,
but then as Tien comes to help at the extra DPS and you see that Casio Pia Ultimate
stunning Caps as LeBron tries to come in to again help out with the dive from Olaf.
Cream saw him out of the corner of his eye. He hits the Casio ult.
He stops the Leblanc damage and they had enough themselves to take down the Olaf so
G2 do get plus one on kills
But as you said a mountain dragon another mountain dragon here for T.S. acquired
So holding on to that gold lead. I think that fight could have been a lot worse for G2
Looked like to me Funguay did ult
Stumand on accident when he and caps were stacked on top of each other or it might have been's way on
Finishing off the Leblanc before he would inevitably be able to go back in and get a bit more damage down
It's not easy for G2 to find these fights to find these angles.
They found one, but unfortunately because they don't win the 50-50, they can't really guarantee
that TES are forced to show up to the next race, to give them a fight on their terms.
Let alone survive the next three minutes here is TES with this Casio can obliterate Baron
if they're ever left unattended and play on still with the TP available,
can just keep pushing bot lane if they want to go for the attempt.
And Zhuei on 17 now, and in the side lanes, will constantly be having this pressure versus
Broken Blade, however, still gonna see the split push top from Caps and gonna allow them
the extra side wave there, little bit of vision from him around the Baron from the top side
to allow an area to approach for G2.
That is incredibly important because face checking towards the Nautilus is fairly difficult.
They need the brav in order to do that, in order to retake the vision.
And here he comes, nice little position there.
Scumon waits for the extra safety so the brav has someone to jump to when they're trying
to check that vision.
And a hawk shot, such a nice tool, a nice little utility to have, especially if a brav
has to be careful of walking face first in as you highlight it.
But again, just credit this way on.
We've been singing this praise since all the games, but remind me, this is first international
stage game.
This is first big tournament, right?
And I think that ultimately having this kind of performance in your first game is literally
the best thing you could possibly hope for.
A dream debut, I think it's safe to say.
Well, we'll see about that if he can carry the next teamfight.
Because everybody's going to be looking at you.
True.
Hey, you're super fed, Mbessa.
Can you actually carry a teamfight for us?
He does have the sideline priority, and that is still looking good.
Extra money here.
Two turrets, plates knocked off.
Big chunks at a room by a tall bar.
He had flipped shield enough to stop any follow-up.
He's just going to go for the dive.
Skeumann's on the way,
but he might be a little bit too late.
Leon, nice back step.
Dashing out.
TP away, knowing that they have no safe CC,
but so close to going down.
Okay. So he takes his teleport for the flash of
broken blade by going in for that play.
Now, his team also, they were pushing up mid instead,
didn't really get to
retake the vision around Baron.
I was thinking maybe they would go take care of those control
wards that G2 did leave behind.
But I think he might have made that call on his own.
That didn't feel like a more concerted TES wide open.
But you respected.
I mean, if he was on his lonesome,
Brocamblay didn't have flash.
Probably would have been able to find the kill.
Losing the TP is a bit rough, though.
It doesn't mean he can just push for free on a side lane.
As Brocamblay does have a TP, we'll
be able to join the fight that much easier.
and best dance there's a lot for the Olaf survivability.
As LeBrov takes a little bit of chip damage,
but teleport arrival.
TP in, but now it's gonna be broken play
dropping down in the meantime.
Cap's trying to step forward and poke,
but broken play just isolated, no flash.
His TP just not doing anything in that exchange.
Yeah, that was the TP arrival I was looking at
and that TP sucked.
He had a welcoming party.
Welcome him to fountain again.
Now they're gonna be able to push on bot side.
I mean, that opens up the map completely, Dracoast.
And so much of what we wanted to set up,
talking about the next Drake fight,
just falls through based on the side lane discrepancy here.
Again, the initial play,
burning the flash and exchange for TP,
the second play,
getting a TP for free on top of the kill,
now a tower to follow.
So G2 realistically can do nothing to stop this Drake.
They're not even gonna be able to get in range
to try for a 50-50.
I kinda wanna even like do a replay of this step,
like pan the camera over to see,
You know, what the, what the, wait a second, what the choice was there because that just
cost them so much.
Dragon number three, the whole bottom side rest of the tower, it really does make the
map a lot more difficult to play.
If you're holding on to what little baron control they can, you're completely right.
Osama still just trying to push midway back to an even state.
So he might be giving him some raptors just to help him get closer to that infinity edge.
It is also props to TS because they were diligent in keeping up their vision through this blue
quadrum of the jungle.
They had kept this jungle warded for several minutes straight, being able to play off of,
push hard on that long lane down there, keep the vision under their control, and they're
rewarded in the end.
Attention to detail, really paying off.
Now we've got some dangerous moments here for G2, but they're going to look to get a
a little aggressive. Just poking, threatening, want to force their way
and flash from the bra to meet it. Exhaust coming in, but Jackie with a casual side step
is capsized to commit as well. Arrow connects under Jackie. Look, Tien waiting in the backside
with bra, already down. Swayon is even a rod to the fight.
Stupor wants to make a difference. He'll get through Jackie, but I don't know if it's
enough to keep him alive. In the midst of four, he will finally fall. G2 desperate.
The Alfi from Tien is there. Han Solo with no where left to run. TES poised to take the
Baron. Oh, swinging a miss from G2. Wait, are you
into the wall oh he just reads him sees the snap back comes and picks him off my god
the way on able to find the magician once again takes down caps as tes take down the baron
incredibly dominant performance from tes it feels like they've had g2's number from minute one the
top lane advantages the mid lane advantages tian and fungiway absolutely everywhere on the map the
The only person suffering anyone on this line up is Jackie Love and when he sees how far
ahead his team is, I don't think he minds.
It is so impressive from this team.
We talked about it earlier, but three, six, nine stepping backs ran coming in with big
shoes to fill and he has been aggressive all the way.
LeBrov, he's messing around in the wrong side of town.
That's not your jungle anymore, buddy.
Already coming out.
Side steps.
One of the double daggers, but it's way on there to finish the kill.
And that's pretty devastating.
37 seconds on the Braum.
Only gonna make that Red Bull Baron power play that much more devastating, but it starts wrong for G2 and it does not get better.
The Braum went for the swing in the midst, but then they still had to go for the play anyway, so you can scoop on to that. It's fine.
I'm gonna make the best of a bad situation. He goes in, he still is able to delete Jackie Love, but the rest of Tia seem to just turn all their damage on him.
Best CC of course, ending in death.
And then here caps tries to get a little something back for the play to pick on the Nautilus
And yeah, he could dodge the Nautilus hook, but he's not dodging its way on its way on nose
You're popping right back over that wall nice job from him. He knows where that distortion came from
He knows where you're forced to go back to and at this point g2 force back to their base is TES
Breaking open mid lane cream at the end for now uncontested g2 on the ropes here in game one
One, put an arrow, forces a flash from Cream, will at least allow them to defend their mid lane inhibitor for now, LeBron continuing to step up, knows that some risks are needed if they're going to come back in this one.
Caps really playing with fire here, TN does a lot of damage with three items.
Yeah, a lot of these TS members are looking very scary, so G2, what can they do?
At these moments, you kind of just have to full send one lane, choose one lane and just
go.
I mean, Zvint doesn't have a Guardian Angel, but...
Alti, hoping that they can proc the GA, with the rest of TS now trying to cover.
Alti down on the caps, they spot him, recalling onto the distortion, a media ball, not enough
of a crit, my asthma laid down.
Laydown, Swayon still alive, still on a rampage, still tear through all of G2 as Cap tries desperately to hold the line
But it is not enough in the face of DES
10,000 gold in the lead
16 kills to 8, Cap can dance, dip, duck, dive, dodge all he wants
But he's dead just as the rest of his team is
DES first blood in this series against G2
Whoo, taking care of the business here.
TES and Zwayon, welcome to the international stage here.
Ooh, alright, tournament in the first game, looking good.
Looking unstoppable.
G2 sent back to the drawing board.
That's enough for us, though.
Let's see what the analyst desk is thinking in a moment,
because I feel like they're going to be talking about that top lane.
They're going to be talking about a rookie
who just embarrassed our entire region.
Am I right, analyst desk?
is that what we're talking about maybe maybe a little top lane right there's
no shame in losing to a player is gonna say yeah embarrassing it's not
embarrassing at all no he's just the goat he is
so yeah it was just gonna be a big test to see how he was gonna be doing it
international state he passing grade in fact he excelled yeah and I got a gold
star yeah three gold stars no I'm revoking baby's license on rumble
That's what I know!
We're the glass half full, she's glass half empty over here.
Completely empty.
The glass has holes in it.
What's frustrating is that it started well because the way we set up that match is the fact that Kimon has to perform in the jungle, especially against TN.
He grabs the Olaf, which is something that's going to give him agency in the jungle.
He focuses on bot lane, grabs the advantage for his bot lane, and so far I was like, okay, good, that's what you want to see.
to see especially if we're going for the counter matchup with the braum and just expecting that Fendi was gonna find that angle
I love that skumand was waiting around try and seeing that angle goes immediately that ash alt by the way
My eyes that hip-hop doesn't hit but does they follow up? That's two kills early. Yeah
I mean that was really really well done by skumand and it kind of turned into this this tale of two stories
Right you have skumand on one side who got really accelerated and then you have the solo laners on the other side
Yeah, but we're kind of feeding on caps caps was really struggling to find purchase in this game
It started early on in the 1v2 where he gets he gets taken out by cream
They try to look for it for this play on him and cream just side steps
The access is able to get back pushes out skumond and then caps just continues fighting and cream does not bait on the clone
whatsoever holds them he has mentally snaps back and he can't get out of there and then
and Zwayan gets involved as well, Raz.
Yeah, he does.
And it's just insane for them to be able to recognize
what was happening boss out of the map.
It's like, okay, if we're going to be trading a dragon,
we're going to be going straight top side.
And so I love the fact that they gave Zwayan the resources.
And if you look at the composition, Leblanc, Ash,
Brom, that's an easy Merc Treads.
And that's a double AP from Leblanc and Rumble,
the Leblanc that is behind.
So then you can just go Hex Trinker into straight death
stance, and he was untouchable this game.
And this was just beautiful to watch.
I mean, it was really well played by Zwayon.
He was great in the side lanes.
I will say, if you watch this and you saw like the 20 desks
from Cap's role, you're like, he must have been 5,000 gold
behind.
He was actually on even items at some
of these important flights.
It just did not go their way.
But Zwayon, part of the reason I predicted G2
is because I wasn't sure how he was going
to perform in his international debut.
But OK, if you're going to play like that.
Yeah, Defin, Rick, you're showing what he's made of.
What I thought was interesting on the set of G2
is that regardless of the solo lanes,
I felt like they were not falling behind on tempo,
and then it progressively got worse
to the point where there's a fight
that I want us to show you, Azel,
the fact that it comes to this baron,
the fact that even if Skuman goes in,
Caps then doesn't manage to find the flanks
that he wants to come,
and in the end, G2 cannot do anything.
Yeah, G2 weren't really coordinated,
so we're gonna watch this fight,
and we kinda started up paused,
and so we'll roll into it for a little bit,
and then once Skuman starts scrapping
on the side with Tiana want to pause and I think that's way on didn't really good job here. So if we pause just shortly after they start fighting on the side we can kind of pause right here. So it's way on the bottom of your screen. He's actually going to be scrapping with
skumon those two are actually fighting on the side and this is kind of stopping the follow-up here because what you two wanted to do they
Want to go with the brawl they want to drop the equalizer kind of across here
And then the idea is skumon is going to come in by the side
But I really was impressed by the fact that fun you a and way on are both kind of marking skumon and not making easy for him
To get in he doesn't want to all to actually be you know stuck onto them
So we can unpause here and eyes on to the back line here the equalizer
are kind of whiffs on everything. If you're looking at the equalizer came through here,
Skumond was scrapping on the side. He does finally go in and is able to take down Jackie
Love who was missing that flash, but Tien is pushing them back on one side, Zoey Anna's
marking on the other side. And even though they lose Jackie, it really costs them everything,
including their fed members to do it. And this just felt like a fight where G2 had multiple
ideas about how they actually wanted to execute. You know, you see LeBrawb and you see Broken
They're kind of of one mind and Schumann wasn't really ready for the fight
Caps wasn't really ready for the fight and honestly the Bromble and the equalizer weren't well placed either
Yeah, but at that point they felt like okay. We're so committed. We got to go. We got to go
We got to go and TES just kind of danced around them and throughout this game, too
They were threatening a mountain so I felt like in your replay the angle that we were seeing from Tien
Just threatening the back line while all of that was happening was another aspect
I felt like Tien had a great game, like being able to focus on what was, I think, on the
major objectives, the LeBlanc was down, we're stacking up dragons, and that's like a mountain
soul being threatened up against a LeBlanc-based team.
And I just thought it was a really smart pick into the Olaf in particular, right?
Because you have this champion that has so much mobility that can hop over the walls
that you can't really invade and force them to fight you in the way that Olaf really
wants to just get someone who asks to stay in there and fight them.
You can knock him down to a Northern CC, and they had a lot of evasive champions with the
Mbessa, with the Nefiri, so he really had to get for everyone on the back line, and that
was kind of his only option, is going for Varus.
I'm wondering what Perks is reviewing with G2 right now.
Outside of Cap's early plays maybe, as a former G2 mid laner, but what would you review here?
For me, I would just think about the cross maps, because LeBlanc didn't have to die top
side under turret when you're going for a dragon for me, because that was what was really
starting to snowball the game.
You can look at individual in this place, but something that is very consistent is like,
okay, if we are as a team committing to the bot side of the map, we cannot be losing something
as grievance as a top side of the map.
Yeah, and I think you know, you talk about Sidelane, someone's got to be behind Caps,
cover him there, and then execution of the 5v5, you need to be of one mind on the same
page, calm it down a little, it's their first game at MSI, maybe you got a little bit over
here.
Grab the Snags, G2, you're going to need them, did they just start it and it's TES
opening up the score here in the second best of five?
Let's see what happens next.
Look at this, look at this.
We win now?
Not to be stopped.
Not to be stopped.
Nice. Nice guys, huge.
Does my flash.
I like hands.
You gotta be black.
I'm moving.
I'm moving, I'm moving.
I'm blocking.
I'm blocking the gas.
No, no, no.
Nice, good job.
I think this one's over there, okay?
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Welcome back to MSI 2026 where TES and G2 are facing off Top Esports drawing first blood looking fantastic in that game one and now we
Yeah, like second blood and third blood and third blood and fourth blood. There was a lot of blood. It was a lot of unspeakable things but as our job is to speak about it so
The sake of G2 will hope in game 2 that there's a little more parity in the matchup.
Of course, we're getting ready for champ select.
I do think there are things that we can point out in draft, right?
The blind rumble, you can understand why they'd go for it paired with the ash, but...
Get broken blade of counter pick, man.
I don't want to see him on a regular champ.
Give him something that's, you know, some weird counter pick.
If there's a way we can give everyone counter picks, I'd feel much more on that.
But that's generally not how draft works.
Well, how about you take away Cap's counter pick and you give it a broken blade?
as the LeBlanc was not it.
Harsh but fair.
That's my, that's my executive decision.
I hated him because he spoke the truth.
No more for you, Cap.
That was a proper play start.
That return, you guys were taking interns.
So the part that Camille remained banned,
rise this time, taken away.
Karma interestingly, so.
Ooh, Jackie Love, Ezreal.
Adriel Karma, Bolling would make a lot of sense.
So even with the Karma banned out,
they were hovering it too just for safety.
And I feel like I have liked that trend, where a lot of AD carries will pick something safe bottom lane.
Yeah, the mages or Ezreal or something, and then you can get a roam support too.
But just one shotting a Jarvan really early on before you see carries with safety.
Now makes me think they're hovering Ezreal like, hey, we're going to pick Jarvan and then are you going to take something with a jump to get out of cataclysm?
Because usually when you first pick Jarvan, enemy team picks carries with jumps.
And Yunara Lulu is a very common answer into the early Jarvan here too.
Interesting, Yunara fell kind of off completely in priority domestically for us in EU.
It's both past but rising back up here, still one of Monsamma's most played and obviously the Lulu alongside it is a powerhouse duo.
Has a bit of mobility, tied of course to the ultimate however, but I'm looking at Tien in this game.
He was good last time around and now has even more tools to impact early on.
He is a very good Jarvan. So
Definitely definitely have cause for concern first champion to go along with your Jarvan that looks pretty good
Creams Aurora following shortly here. They're not deviating much at all from priority picks
From their priority books here for TES and it looks very good again under one
So no reason no nothing necessary for them to do so
Interesting slamming the Nara would make you choose. I like when teams do this
You know when when they're on that side, okay, they're not actually going to go through with it
We can you would you would slam both solo lanes and then you say oh your opponents can only counter one of them
So now you two are like, ah well
We can only counter one before the next rounds of bands come in so you have to choose are you going to pick the gnar
Which they were hovering it's I feel like he has to keep on hovering the like
teasing they keep on daring you with the hovers before they lock what they you know because now obviously it's
renecced but
Not so much there. Well, let's see. You get to choose. Do you want the nar or do you want to caps his answer into the Aurora?
And they go for caps again
This time with the Ari doubling down of course Ari
I think a champion that even if you fall behind a bit more has some more reliable
Utilities some more reliable playmaking here need to see what the rest of the map looks like for G2 eSports bot lane
Kind of tells the story of scaling of later game teamfights
Whereas TES very clear story as to what their comp wants to do. They're gonna push their ultimate second to dive onto you
kill you and now G2 trying to take away some of the strong potential bot lane answers would be very nice
Tron Sama and the brav to take control early on with us a pick that scales better the obvious ideal
So take away the Caitlyn but Poppy also gonna get taken out of the pool for skewmont
I think a really great choice when you already see so many dashes
The poppy value right now is quite high yes, yes it is so that's definitely a good defensive band then the question is do
this way on even care is he just like
Broken blade people every once I don't care
It's my renecdent because you know you could do a gnar you could do a vein into it after what we just saw
I don't think people have confidence in broken blade vein into it. So maybe he just goes tank into it
Cassante or scion or Gragas or something like that to like do a nullifying pick on the top side
That would probably make people more comfortable because they have a you know our Lulu and you're gonna need somebody to help face check for
vision Lulu cannot do that herself so it's gonna have to be a broken blade pick or a
scum on pick so maybe they're just gonna say you know what it's all good broken place just
gonna pick a tank and they opt to ban the jungle instead.
Baiting, hovering this nocturne which makes me a bit nervous you mentioned it already
who's face checking who's leading the charge well if they do that like broken blades gotta
do the you know exactly one of those things I was talking about there too yeah okay so
They like the Cassante and then now it does come back around to Jackie
So into Yanarra one of the earliest counterpicks that emerged that actually really liked was the aphelios
Because of the green gun
Contesting level one as well and being good scaling, but they can just go the range. Just go the poke as real
Here as well
Interesting. They're going to get some more guaranteed engage too with the Niko, so Niko, Jarvan and Aurora, pretty good opportunities for Flanks, pretty good trifecta of engage here.
And a bit of flexibility for Fummyway if he wants to play more for the bot lane 2v2 or maybe leave Jaki Love, has a really nice champion to have if you want to be roaming, if you want to be more active on the map.
But there's the Zen, you talked about seeing it last time.
We have to wait till game two.
But four tools for Skumon to impact the map early on,
more CC, a little bit more setup,
and definitely some stuff that can help mitigate
that long range Ezreal damage as we go later into this matchup.
Yeah, and it's a jungle champion that loves playing with Lulu.
So also greatly benefits from the Lulu pick here
with the Lulu and Arlene.
Very nice for Zen to also be a pretty good recipients
some of those buffs and we'll see. I thought in the previous game, yeah, I think Scumon was probably the best player because even with how far they were getting behind in some of the scenarios, he was still able to get to priority targets, kill off the Varus and sometimes one other, sometimes not.
But we'll see this time around if G2 can clean up those solo lanes straight goes because I think that is priority number one.
That is the big question and of course if they are able to get through the early laning phase if we see less volatility
I think fans instantly that faith gonna start to come back right, but we see the same thing repeat a
Lot of that optimism for this team for this lineup for the success that they had at first stand the expected success that they could have
This tournament starts to dwindle starts to fall away
It is only their first series on this stage
But when you're playing against a TES lineup that it seems like might have been pretty underestimated based on their immediate
Explosive performance on stage
I definitely wanted to see a bit more here.
Get ready now to load into game two.
I mean, G2 we're talking about, they want revenge for getting eliminated from Worlds last year,
but I mean, now you need to get revenge for game one of even this year when we just played.
So, let's see the turnaround.
They're making a little bit of an incursion here,
and it's going to be mirrored wards for both sides on Raptors.
So, pretty standard jungle vision for each.
There it is.
And that jungle vision is going to allow them to surmise the normal kind of paths here.
And it is going to be opposite starts again, and it is going to be TES again, pathing towards bottom side.
Actually, Jarvan is leashing the blue buff. Look, he looks like he's going to go for an invade.
Because he's leashing the blue buff to the other side of the river right now.
So Tien is going to go for early invade here on Jarvan. I do like this.
Cream already up a pot in terms of trades overall on mid lane too.
Mike go for the gank mid lane.
Hanson will force the barrier to back off.
Jack you love getting extra attack speed.
Alright so he does he had a little bit of look there towards you.
Alright does steal away the Raptors and they can't 100% say oh yeah it's been long enough right now that we for sure.
So trading continues pretty heavily down here.
here. They can't say 100% since the Jarvan did technically do. That's about the time
that you would expect from a full three clear, even though he only did two camps. They can
press tab, they can look at it and see two camps down instead of three camps and they're
going to say something a little bit fishy here, but it's going to be fishy on both sides
because Zin is coming down too. So they saw him on the ward on Raptors, now SKU is coming
behind.
But no defensive, other defensive sums available on the way fake Jackie real Jackie
Gonna be okay the problem a lot of them say they're zoning them out of the lane
No TP this time around for Jackie love but the wave not pushed forward so should still be able to make it back pretty quickly
For sure checking in on the international assist leaderboard. You can see caps one away from passing Ming
credit the kind of his tenure as a player but obviously getting achievements
like this in a series where you've lost the game if you're not also winning the
games it doesn't always feel fantastic as a clean charm Q flash through flash
back from cream you decide gonna get anything else flash for flash trade
TN on the way in though calves now in trouble the broth might be a little bit
too late the extra shielding coming in picks helping as much as she possibly
can as a charm takes TN under tower as TN maybe set the fall LeBron
They're the finishers of the Top Dragon Strike, doesn't get the kill, but the standard does!
First blood, crucially, to G2.
Oh, Cap's one of those double buffs. He wanted that first blood, buddy.
He really, really did. He does get it, but the counter kill.
Tien, with his dying breath, he gets out his Q, and then he gets out his E,
and it's enough. LeBron had a good roam there to make that even possible for G2.
Still, Cap's does get the kill credits, does get that bonus gold, so...
Gonna be a much better start for him in the mid lane individually.
He's passing on Hawthorne and Trevly, step forward to too many autos!
The blooming burst, the Q doing so much damage!
Just on the outside, he walks up there a little bit too much,
presents to us here into the big minion wave as well.
Nice punish from Fungiwei and Jackie.
And that is gonna be TES retaking that gold lead even after that first blood.
Tien's back for the second spawn of the Raptor camps.
He does have the respawn timer perfectly for it, so comes back,
Yoinks those away and that can have detrimental effects on the mid-lane matchup to when you're constantly taking away enemy Raptors
Topside though for play Q3 back pathmaker. Good setup takes way on back under tower. Keep in mind. Tian is on the way
Q-mon debating if he can follow
Wisely backs off. Don't forget information on Tian, but he will spot him now
Maybe a little bit too late however a flag and drag come on able to dash back to the minion wave and hold on
And then look at that too. You saw the mini map. Another roam from the block. Every time
he resets, he's coming out mid lane. Did he use the standard to cancel the recall? Are
you going to dive, Broken Blade? Ski-Mon sprinting back to top lane. All of his camps are in
the bottom lane. Even if he shows up, this is devastating. Broken Blade? Yeah, because
it's not like they're going to be able to get a kill here or anything. It's just to
to ensure that Broken Blade lives.
So while Skumon does kind of defend his boy there,
and make sure he doesn't go down or anything,
as he said, he's gonna have a long walk
before he gets any income.
When we talk about this team,
I usually think of Tiana and Jackyla,
just because of the history they have together.
But Tiana's way on are an incredibly terrifying duo.
The way he's playing on the pressure
that's way on already had in that top lane 1v1,
really making it that much harder for Broken Blade
or Skumon to get active on the map.
And we talked about the Impressible International
debuts of Zhueyuan and Fengyue, as Zhueyuan pops out,
pushes Broke and Blade back.
He wanted to take advantage of the six to five
level discrepancy there.
It's also fairly impressive for Tien this year,
because split number one, as we said,
he wasn't even playing for a team.
And then coming in here on TES and being able to have
such a good showing from him, so wait a second,
skumon, though, it's gonna meet up with him as well.
not going to actually have a confrontation this time around,
but bottom side now again going to be the focus and Tien.
Yeah, he coming in here in split two,
especially in the beginning of the split,
really, really good performances from him
and see how well they can continue it here.
LeBrov, I'm afraid to walk forward
once you see some of Fungiwei's cooldowns fade away.
As long as the root is in the ball,
that's going to be all out coming in from broken weight
in the top lane.
Caps now chasing as well as way on immediately flashes,
Respects the potential for the charm to come out on caps, but that's caps is all teedown as well as broken blades
Okay with that room what can cream do oh caps
Fine returning to lane here
There was looking like he was gonna take kind of the inside route maybe try and push him off
Does get at least a very good trade for himself nice unanswered trade there from cream gets his whole electrically talking everything
Charmed just for the cannon and a small leave for TES as bot lane just continues to scrap here.
Cole is going to give Han Sama, at least keep him close in terms of overall gold
as Jackie did go back and opt for the tier, but at least the pressure for now in favor of G2.
Haven't been able to convert it into a Drake.
Skiimon doing what he can to say even an XP as he is just a little bit behind TN who's about to take over to level 6.
And when he does, it's going to make things a lot harder for the side of G2.
If he's aware of the flash timing on caps, then he knows it's easy set up with that cataclysm.
Yeah, definitely a little bit scary with how much Tien has been around here.
Dragi knows he's gone to a flash.
He's been tracking the ultimate, which means caps has nowhere left to go.
Weirding to finish at TES again.
Lethal in the early game.
Tien constantly around that mid lane.
You're feeling it, Draco.
Tien makes it happen under the tower.
They get the kill on the caps.
With the fanatic J4, it's just insult to injury.
Look at that flash timer. It's got a couple more seconds on it too.
That thing's going to come up just after when you need it.
And it's just good diligence from whoever times the summoners and the Auri ultimate, right?
To be aware that there's this incredibly small window of opportunity
to essentially make a guaranteed play around mid lane.
Game with flash, with ulti up.
Continue to make plays of his own as fake Jackie Love,
we're trying to get fun of you,
where I've been tripped up like five times
by him being Jackie Love this game,
is playing on a blood blade once again, going toe to toe.
It's way on just using this ulti to keep the pressure up.
All right, Cheat 2 gonna try and get some objectives
for themselves though.
About a thousand gold here in the early stages,
is this gonna be a trade as Ten goes for the grubs
on top side, but Skimon will finish up
that dragon number one.
Similar to last game, and they've got a lot of vision preemptively placed by LeBrov through the red quadrant
So they're gonna go take a little bit more, but the rest of TS are coming to
snap the door shut
They know they're just waiting in the brush
Red buff is the name of the game G2
Hoping to do this fast enough to get out without a fight
That's far. They're able to do so
Would have been in a
Pretty difficult position given all the AOE of ultimate today level but good that they're able to get that get something back
Is dance already moving up to the scuttle crab charm buffered out by cream will play for the 1v1 trade
I wonder if they want to fight this the 2v2 the mid jungle 2v2 has been so fun
They close let's see about this one. Yeah does indeed at least want to poke around cream had to finish up the rest of his mingin wave
So his doing partner was not there for the initial scrap, but here we go for part number two
Two for the fist fight, dragon strike. Spears missing left and right.
I think for a bit more damage, but both sides backing away.
It does feel a little bit personal sometimes.
Always. I mean, Junkles always personal.
Oh!
Thought Skumann was going over the wall.
Skumann still with double bumps. Has already marked the revs.
Look at the mid lane. Creams will be first two.
That's going to be big. Mid round of modeling. 1v1 fight breaking out.
Wasgog's already used. Skumann flashing away from the cataclysm.
Damage is pretty crucial. It's on some of the back steps.
Not able to Q through LeBron importantly on Sama alting flash back from LeBron flanking help bars on both members of G2
Help picks you up coming in. Jacky low drops. Thank you. He is next to kills for the G2 bottom lane
Well, they saw the teleport behind them. So they knew they had to run into it now topside broken blade no mana
No hope of an escape
EQ flag and drag combo cream coming in to try to pick up the kill credit
Initial skills dodged out broke a blade is buying as much space as he can try not to give him too much time with the
Tower is cream gonna grab the kill in the end
Okay, while TS again they get a kill on the broken blade this game
And they do benefit there
I think that was still very beneficial for G2 to use that teleport for caps bottom side
So then Jackie and Vanguette walk themselves into those extra kills and getting something for Han Sama there
latest
LeBron wandering up secret skew mound following
No, just just harassing
Alright, minion's dying to tower there as well though, so a little bit of extra value lost there.
But Hansama getting some kills for G2, that is a blessing, okay? That is a huge blessing in this game.
They need this Unara to be strong in order to have a good win condition for themselves.
Bluff up Hansama getting those kills. We'll see if that does give them an avenue to even up this series.
Because again broken blade just kind of focused down and punished again by TES
There's another look at the beginning fungulate had the good initiation and they use everything
And initially TES. Yeah, we're winning that they're winning this it looks good for them
They go in for the class place for follow
But as soon as they know the teleport was coming down behind them fighting's way on his way on just too strong
No, the HEPINTS LAPROM AGAIN
This man is always exactly where he needs to be it's not enough to get the kill back on the way
but it's enough to keep on some alive for a brief moment
I guess the minion wave
Nicely done from him. You're saying it LeBrav here the ambulance around the rift for G2
All T
ProfanBlade will be dead again
They only got one ambulance on the team and there's a lot of people in need
Call another ambulance and wait a second
Okay, don't want to think they want the rematch though. I think that they would like to back away
I think Brokeblade needs his own ambulance on speed dial for this series.
Dedicated ambulance seems fair.
And again, we mentioned before we wanted to see the soul laners on the side of G2 step up.
That might be the key to victory.
Instead it is the bottom lane.
It is Hansama and especially LeBron.
He can clutch on this shield and getting his way on would be massive.
Nice wild growth to end up the slice and dice.
And it means a clean kill onto the top laner of TES.
Okay.
I mean, let's...
Skumont does take, I thought that we were gonna give another one to HanSama, Skumont takes it.
I mean, Zin also, it is gonna be good beneficial to have Zin in a strong position too, as we said.
Lulu can also help out in a lot of fights buffing up Zin too, but let's see here, trying to fight back in G2.
It's still that TES are taking more across the map on the other side.
It's a very similar story to Game 1.
Game 1, it was Skumont on the Olaf who was getting things back this time around in G2's bottom lane,
It's the same core story of TES always trading up, getting a tower while you're getting scraps,
one or two kills, so it's good to keep it close, but not good enough to get G2 in an
advantageous position.
Yeah, TES had been really good, just leveraging even more on this bottom side and constantly
keeping the keyboards for themselves so they can make the repeat play.
Tower does go down.
First tower bonus is very meaningful still too.
Now, cream their target, I mean,
and B-
Aurora is very hard to make plays on,
especially with Flash.
Rock about Flash between worlds.
Yeah.
Dragon though, they're looking for the setup here.
Team on the top lane.
Looking played.
Going all outs, way on.
Popping the Dominus,
ulti for ulti, best part.
Q3 ready to go, hoping to get the pullback
under tower, packmaker on stop.
Will good damage back from broken play.
Gotta find the solo Bolo with the Q Flash.
in a bit of respect back after that game ones way on overconfident as TN moves in and manages
to steal it. Double knock up coming in from Fungiway. Cream looking for a little bit of
the chase. Alti's still there, ready to go between worlds. This hot stop has that blanket
health bar. Will finally fall. Caps. Three stacks on the Alti. Hoping to outplay, hoping
to dance around them. Broken blade first to the fight. Vibrav living for far too long
but the charm goes wide. TES on the retreat. Back into the mid lane. Caps health bar blinking.
G2 gonna be forced to back away, but the Drake going to the side of TES.
Just as G2 get a little of hope with Broken Blade's Heroics under his tower,
it gets cut down. TN steals the dragon and they also take the extra kills on the other side of the map.
Just reversing the story this time around. It's Broken Blade who gets the, you know, advantage in the kill up there.
Range went on into the tower with his Q3 and then a nice W afterwards to from broken blade as he expects the stun
Here we go right into it and the tower shot enough to finish it
And well played does use the flash but they started to get it
But here in this play the steel so massive for the side of TES
Yeah, let's take a look at the burst damage eq is in boom joints it away from skew bonds
and then and I mean he had upgraded smite so upgraded smite gift right there and
then the ensuing fight after able to take the jungler down first after
yonking it is quite good for TS2 because even though the extra person gums
broke a blade here with a large shield to teleport from Cassanta having won his
individual matchup up there they weren't able to chase down any extra and the
fights aren't done yet cast waiting options like going over the wall looking
to lock up Fungiway might have thought it was way on but will slow down the play
at the very least. Dominus now popped. Rift Tarot picked up, stolen by Skumon, but no one can grab the eye.
G2 on the retreat, is Jacky Love starting to stack up the rising spell force. The attack speed increasing.
In the midst of the entire fight, it's the ulti once again coming in for Cream. G2 trying to hold on, but TES taking over.
Cream on a rampage. Jacky Love finding one. Mr. Chase continues. From your way, cosplaying. Cream stepping up.
G2 zoned away from their own tower. The ulti popped for Han Sama. Not enough to shift things away, as TES now set to take the top lane.
Tier 1 as well.
Oh, what a beautiful fight there from TES,
that re-engaged from Cream.
Huge damage to set them up,
and Tian goes right through with the Cataclysm.
They're gonna be able to get a tower
on top of the Teamfight victory.
Caps hoping maybe someone overstays,
just focusing on clearing out this way,
but now a 3,000 goal difference.
Tian is way on, ready to punish Caps.
The flag and drag might connect with the Charm there.
It's a little bit difficult.
Hansama, it was a thousand gold lead when the coal propped.
Now only down to 500, is Jackula picking up so many assists, getting more involved.
Cap's desperate to be the difference maker, you can see, trying to force that 1v1 kill.
But G2, once again steadily falling behind.
Wayon might be a little bit less clean than he was in the previous game,
but it's still done such a good job building up that individual advantage.
Alright, teleport up to the topside too.
He's going to teleport right up there as Cap finishes his wave.
And uh-oh. Caps doesn't have much left. No flash, no teleport, no ult.
Jackie Love on the other hand might have stepped a bit too far forward in mid lane. Caps getting tricky.
Swayon, duped. Move mid speed. Oh no, the minions are there. He's gonna double dash. Charm going wide. Devastating. Caps.
Pray for the W. Cool down and stay at the flash. 40 at least gets to flash. A few more seconds on the charm.
Ruthless Predator there. Down goes Caps. Almost had the escape. Swayon not falling for it.
It's Hansama LeBrav. Again, the story of G2. Someone is falling and someone else is desperate to just recoup that loss.
Look how much pressure Hansama and LeBrav had in this mid lane though. You mentioned it as they forced Jackie LeBrav out.
Now they're going to force Ping Wai out. And that means gold.
Yeah, you don't kill those players, but you get tower plates. That money is critical here for the Unara Lulu.
Hansama, can they be the carries? LeBrav has been, oh, he's now dangerous for him though.
LeBron has been quite good in the right place, a lot of times at the right time there for him saving caps sometimes, saving Han Sama sometimes.
And they are going to need that later. Tien continues to take away jungle camps.
And you can see TES aren't lacking any damage. 50% of Han Sama's health bar disappears on a single skill connecting Root into the Q.
Jackie Love, the mystic shot.
We mentioned it in game one, the pressure on a player when they're so far ahead, then it was way on, on the Ambassador.
This time around it's Hans-Hammann, not because he's so far ahead, but because he is the single member on the team with an advantage over their opposition.
Getting that second item, there's a lot of pressure on him and LeBron to carry out these fights because the rest of the map just don't really have the goal to do it.
And that second item, the Fiend Hunter Bullets, that's huge burst damage, so you can make very quick plays with the Unar there.
He's got flash, he's level 11 with his two item power spike that is primed for Heroics, for the possibilities. However...
Sneaking in, the weirding will connect. You know, with the two-fold hex. Hansama had missed that there.
Ian was ready to follow up.
Yeah, you have to respect the burst damage. Speaking of burst damage from Cream, six stacks on his dark seal here with the Aurora, so you really do have to respect it.
You also, if you're on Sama, you have to have one of your teammates marking Fengyue.
Somebody has got to mark this Niko.
If that Niko gets a flash proto build play onto on Sama, I think that just crushes the fight for G2.
They really need to have a priority, warding your flanks.
Somebody get eyeballs on that Niko and keep her out of the fight.
Hopefully the Cassante would be able to do it.
They are teasing us, hinting at maybe where Fungiwei could be.
They're visible from behind and knock him as they're outside of the top of the falls.
It's not fair, crucially.
Hossama freedom on low for B-Move, but TN just jumps right on his head.
His cream goes between worlds, knocking down G2.
The only fed member not enough when TES lays a ring on that target.
G2 obliterated.
He's way on to Game 1 and Fungiwei, Game 2 here.
They're styling on the international stage.
We say, you need to mark this Miko.
You need to, and look at that, right in the back line.
He does get to the Unara and the Ari Dracos.
Not only do they delete the Ari, they quickly delete
Hansama afterwards.
And they just annihilate G2 in this team fight.
It's over almost before it even starts.
It's just devastating.
You can see frustration on the face of G2.
They know what happens.
They didn't mark the flanker.
They understand exactly when and wrong, but it's not going to change things now.
The Red Bull Baron Power Play already 900 gold in the favor of TES,
a 6,000 gold advantage, empowering them.
More items included across the board, but Twayon?
I mean, hey!
Hey!
Go low, go low!
Well, take that!
That is not been happening for us.
I do appreciate that Twayon has given us his entire LPL story in two games, though,
because he says who he is as a player.
He is always aggressive.
He is always flashy.
But as you know, from playing with players who are like that,
Watching them on streams. It is a double-edged sword. He can make a montage, but he can also make some mistakes
Also, if you're given one back at this stage, well
Caps could get an objective bounty on top side
I don't think skumon here wants to like full-send us to do anything on the dragon
But objective bounties are what right built into the game for comebacks. Okay for this explicit
Just for EU and our hopes.
I mean, you can see how important the objective bounty is
because it was 900 positive on the Red Bull Baron power play.
Now it's negative almost 700.
And a lot of that is the tower plus the additional value from that bounty.
Yeah. Okay, so.
Take a deep breath here. You've got a mid-dice on the map.
Cream has upgraded 10 stacks, so you deserve the upgrade there, Cream.
I mean, Cream has just been playing so good.
If you combine game number one and game number two here,
Number two here. This man is out of control. Yeah, you really can't ask for a lot more from him
He has been superb and so you deserve to upgrade. Meta is completed for him
He's a terror on the map because the burst damage from this champion
Is going to be problematic for literally everyone on G2 and they've controlled the jungle as well
Keeping that vision control through the bottom sides. Well, I want another piece of caps. Let me get a rematch
Fight me again while you won this time.
The rest of the team, you deal with the game.
You deal with that. You got Baron.
I took down Broken Blade. I want the next one.
Ignore the fact that he got solo killed by Broken Blade.
But TN, the other big threat here, you saw it on the Coinbase gold grind
so far ahead individually.
And for G2, the unfortunate reality is the combination of the Jarvan
and the Aurora is just too much for any single member to survive reliably.
TP coming into mid lane.
Cream has arrived, extra need to see the large rod. On top of the 10 stacks in the book,
Man is on the hunt for more pages.
They have more books, more gold, and more experience.
Yeah. On PSI.
They are stronger and wiser. There is not a lot of edge left there.
The brain and the brawn.
The brain and the brawn.
And as we saw, Hansama's damage, two items was solid earlier,
but as the enemy team is starting to crest towards three he really needs at least the third item
Four or five autos hitting TN and only taking about 15-20% of the HP is not what you want to see if you're a g2 fan
Yeah, it's really it's really difficult because you're also outranged with the Ezreal poke so
TTS here have a lot of it advantageous here. How many of these blue blesses TN taken away?
I guess not this one at the very least
I think he's got at least two or three so far this game skewmon though
So, is gonna be able to save that one even though Tien comes in for another cheeky steal calling for Jackie loves Ezreal ult to it the same time.
And I gotta say Tien with the lead is terrifying. This man walks into your jungle like he's got five people behind him all of the time, even if he's on his own.
And you can see G2 are respecting it because they don't have the vision and they don't have the gold to commit a ton of resources on trying to kill the Jarvan.
And Tien's just reading it so well and always just walking right up in their faces.
All those narratives of underperforming on international stages like follow Jackie Love and Tien to a degree
But like both of those players won the world championships fairly early on in their careers
And that's why the reason it's so devastating is because the ceiling is so high
Yeah, big Tien domestic Tien is a terrifying player world champion a terrifying player right now today and right now today
Today, G2 we're praying for the curse of top eSports to be alive and well in this particular matchup.
But it absolutely is not.
TES dominating G2 thus far.
A bit of a fight with Skullcrabble.
Rob has to be careful.
On UI G2, top prio there, midway relatively even.
Willing to concede if some resources in the bottom lane is broken blade.
At least going to take away the blast cone.
But it's a very similar situation to game one.
We once again have Swayon pushing, mostly uncontested on a side lane, while G2 try to use a man advantage to get some control somewhere else on the map.
Yeah, he's got this two level lead, even though, yeah, you know, Sap captures able to get the kill on him.
Still, the extra experience, very, very powerful lead for him. Jackie loved as well.
It's a little bit less than the full two levels, but still very powerful there for the Ezreal to be on three item power spike.
This is very, very juicy, so Jackie has a lot of freedom to work with here on this champion.
And again, the annoyance and the range of the poke from him is pretty problematic for G2
in trying to set up and trying to retake vision.
Their jungle is always dark, so they're always taking little bits of chip damage from CS
before the fight even starts, and then...
That's efficient for the charm.
Does not connect to G2.
Just a bit of trade, just a bit of a scrap in the midline.
Jack you love not afraid to just
Shift forward drop a couple more cues you highlight it so well right it's pretty hard for they're gonna top of Jack you love
And he's in this advantage position where the world doesn't rest on his shoulders
If he survives if they burn a bunch of alties his team has more than enough damage
So he gets to play a little bit more aggressive and with a little bit more safety knowing G2 has to focus his frontliners first
Okay, so broken blade wanted to force a play onto
Okay, nice teleport out nothing can interrupt him
Nice. Yeah, the whole team was coming over, so Broke of Blade used his flash and
and Zwen does respect the flash and respect the rotation of all those G2 members.
The other cost of that, of all your team rotating, is you're losing priority
towards mid lane and towards the dragon. Yeah, you weren't fighting that dragon
any day of the week anyway, but nice escape.
Doesn't matter that he used the barrier, he lives.
Better safe than sorry? Most certainly. Usually?
I mean we've seen you there's occasionally some hitboxes that connect on you and you're like oh, uh-huh
I didn't there's a little extra on the side of that. Oh
Meanwhile on the other side you have Jackie who's like always like now let it out sis
I'm not using spells which again when you're here to the 217 Ezreal who's uh
Was focused so heavily early on and might have you know made one or two mistakes. You're still feeling pretty good. I
Mean that deathcap is pretty close for cream and he's about to get level 16 to all here we go engage
He's in the ultimate, but just running back into the enemy team, LeBron's already forced to ulti on his own way, but FUCK YOU WAY AGAIN!
Run into the Honsama! Immediate Mikhail's flashback from Honsama, hoping to live a little bit longer.
Broken Blade trying to create as much space as possible, but Cream goes between worlds, goes invisible, and looks to hunt Honsama down!
Cream and Tien together, tearing down G2.
Broken Blade and Caps on the retreat, all out about to fade away. The damage will fade.
Hoping to hold the line a little bit longer. Tien taking his time, broken blade unstoppable with the Pathmaker.
An extra shield from the footwork as Cream and Cap's looking for the 1v1.
Charm going wide as devastated. Cream trying to get past the URB deception.
Cap's chunked out, knocked out, and ace for TES.
Oh man, Cream does so much damage. And this fight actually gets so scrappy how G2 are able to actually get kills at the beginning.
the beginning. Just come on, flashes over to LeBron to get the Lulu ultimate, to get
the knockup there. Then you have that countergates from Tian. But once broken blade and caps
actually get there, they do get some very quick kills, deleting the Ezreal, taking down
Jackie. Then Tian and Cream, they can still use the flash from Tian to make sure they're
going to finish off that Yunari and get the kill.
Stumon, jump in face first, Tian. Funguai. They're waiting. No play is going to happen.
That was a crazy sequence of play and once again to lay on one four and five did so much work
He started that play and he's the person who forced the initial cool downs out of Han Sama
How much AP does cream have right now with his 22 stacks my drives in his death cap?
I mean
There's a more the burst damage instant same TN is also of course
Has all the authority to go in with the guardian angel and the extra extra life
so he's like I can force to fight for your buddy. I'll get the setup and
and you delete the kills.
And this is the nightmare point for Aurora
because the ulti alone will do so much damage
that even if he whiffs one or two abilities,
he's still done his job in a fight
and he hasn't been whiffing really
any of the key abilities in these fights.
So for G2, again, it feels like the same story as game one.
Outclass in some individual matchup,
forcing plays left and right,
they're determined to force this Baron,
but Swayon is coming in behind them,
Han's on the cataclysm, immediate ulti gonna be popped,
holding on for Geolife as Cream manages to escape,
but again, the pop blossom, the rookies on this TES lineup
are dismantling G2 Esports.
Is that going to be the fight
where they run through the base now?
Rest of the team is going mid.
Tien's fishing around to stop some recalls.
They can't quite get the interrupt though.
Caps is going to run the long way.
Will this be enough defense?
Is this broken blade and Caps to try and defend
against the onslaught of TES?
I think it's probably just going to be inhibitor.
Towers here because the death timers are actually fairly short this early on still
But it's 30 minutes and it's a 9k difference
It's soul point for TES a minute and 30 seconds till they have Chemtech
Chemtech with the Jarvan and the Renekton who are diving in it's not the ideal soul
But they're gonna get a lot of value out of it and now Baron
No one that can test eight seconds on skewmont no long-range tools for a hope of a miracle steal
It'll be another Baron for top eSports
All right, so they start out they're actually going to cap some broken blade are going to force cream out of this fight
Caps goes with the flash drum on the cream into broken big lock up on the left side of the fight
What on the right side of the fight?
Treycos very good came in got the triple
With the old again as TES were in the brawl already
So they were heavily already winning that right side of the fight as
The double solo laners of G2 they were trying to go for cream and take down that Aurora cut down on his
Medjai stacks, but guess what? All they got was his flash. They didn't actually convert the kill onto him
So they didn't take down any of the pages and the rest of the squad dying over on the other side
That is a complete book. That is a novel on how to dismantle G2 esports
Tiana continuing to run forward between worlds pop, venue a going over the wall, another three man!
This man is making a montage!
TES
Glittering G2 again. It was not a fluke. It's starting to feel unquestionable
TES
Dominance from start to finish thank you. I show it in the way back to the fountain there very quickly with his Niko and
TES with an emphatic victory in game number two here
Drake us is it our fault. I thought we were the chosen ones this ended three zeros. I don't know
I don't know who's fault it is, but I can tell you right now that Swayod is determined to keep the 3Os going.
Funnily, he's determined.
And those are the players that was least scared of coming into the day, Kobe, when I saw how these teams matched up.
But they're proving why they were able to climb to the top of the LPL.
Why they were able to take down a surging WE to stop that miracle run.
Let's send it back over to the analyst desk to hopefully be happy and optimistic for TES.
and we'll all be sad about G2 a little bit later.
Oh! Oh!
You're putting up the boat already?
Wait a minute, I'm grabbing this then.
You know what? Listen!
That's a mild take.
That's a mild take at this point.
That's hot dude!
That's your boat.
Yeah!
Positive thinking.
We have two rookies at MSI here on the side of G2.
Yes!
And they're shining!
We had top lane during game one.
support make the whole game unplayable on the side of G2.
We wanted to see, it was gonna be a litmus test to see how the international rookie
Shirtzwayan has had a split with I.G.A. underneath them.
But to be on a stage like this is completely different.
But it doesn't even seem like it's phasing either of them.
I felt like this was the game for Fengyuei to look back on.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, and be proud.
Those ults man, every single fight, it's just like,
he presses ults and four members of G2 appear.
I was like, okay, wait a minute, maybe the Yanara, oh never mind, the Yanara got fun.
He got everyone.
Yeah, every single person.
Yeah, okay, we know it's gonna go.
And it's sad because once again, if you look at the early game and the laning plays, especially on the side of G2, it was looking good.
You're talking about this Yanara.
I want to talk about LeBron because we had high hopes for him, given how he improved alongside Hansama, and things were looking pretty good.
Yeah, this was kind of what this game was turning into.
It was a game of bot lane from G2 getting ahead versus top side, top eSports really getting
ahead through their Renekton and also Creme.
Yeah, I mean this was just such a great play from LeBrov because they use this gank from
Schumann, that gives some tempo to LeBrov.
LeBrov shows up just in time to see if Caps gets Caps the first blood.
Yes, Caps doesn't get taken down by the flag from the grave there, but then this is really,
really cool.
TES is just playing so well around Timber, so Bb looks to set him up.
Caps had already spent his flash earlier.
Now they know, alright, cap's just used ult, so what is TES going to do?
They immediately are going to go in and punish your feet.
You can dive an Auri like that, well you can if Auri has no ult, no flash and you've timed
everything perfectly.
TES was vicious in punishing these windows.
Yeah, especially Tien.
Tien has been fearless this entire game, the early game strategy blew into invade on Raptors
and even though that mid lane gank didn't turn out well, he was just repeatedly hitting
the jungle.
needed to like fight and like stand firm. But the problem was then in comes cream. So
it's turning into a 2v1 situation. And it did feel like early on this was going
to be a game where it was TES soul laners versus G2's bot lane. And our HyperX reflex
replay is going to be the Hans double kill. I want to break down this this play because
I think there's a lot of little things here that were pretty interesting. So first off,
it's Feng Yuwei is going to be looking obviously has level six. He is going to be looking for
this initial engage. As he goes in, knows Jackie loves spends his last Q here, actually
on this cannon instead of on Hans as they're going in for the engage. Goes in, catches
him, Q is on cooldown, so you can see that Jackie has used E's forward, hits the W, hits
the ult, both of them are caught. And now, from this position, you're thinking, alright,
this is a one fight. Look at the health bars. Full health, full health. Hans is just about
dead and you're thinking well this is for sure TES that are going to win this fight but now we have
to watch LeBrov. LeBrov throws down the wild growth throws down the shield and watch how he's
moving to block cues immediately. He wants to stay between Jackie and Han's block as much as he
possibly can so he's moving in it's going to be able to even when Jackie shifts over, Jackie has
him low, pops a berry, he's saying I'm going to shift forward I'm going to get past you and land
this cue. He'll popped just barely gets in front. Get down Mr. President saves him with the block
on the Q, then continues to stay in between him, takes another hit of the Q from Fungiwei,
then flashes out from that last mystic shot there from Jackie, buying the time for the
TP to come in, and the clean up to be there. They have to get both these skills on. I felt
the brawlp was playing a beautiful game. Didn't really matter because there was another support
in the game, but still credit where credit is due. He was great in that 2v2.
It gave us hope. It gave us hope that it would turn into a non 3-0.
I mean we still have another game but just being able to see Lebron and Hansama perform on this level
Reminds us of first stand the problem is that they were getting snowballed on
When did it go wrong though? Because we talked about this Fangir impossible to track in those teamfights
He was running the show for TES and made G2's life impossible
I do feel like with a composition like this when you play from behind though
It's really hard for G2 to find any opportunities in those fights
You asked what went wrong. Fangui took the last 2v2 personally.
Like, being able to find that angle was insane.
And he was sitting there for quite a long time.
He knew the setup was going to be important, so he sat in that bush and waited.
This skirmish was incredibly important.
Double TP coming in from G2, but if you get an engage like this,
you don't have to wait for them to come in from the flank.
That was another incredible play.
And so while the conversation this series has been about Zoyan,
We get to see what has made Feng Yuan also a really strong addition to this team.
I mean, the whole team is playing really, really well.
But Feng Yuan in this one, he is clearly the highlight because it felt like every 5v5, not even just these two, the game clincher was again a whole team in mid lane.
He was taking down everyone, but Tien is everywhere.
He's tracking SQM on, and as you pointed out, Lore, D2 drafted a comp that basically has no engage.
It's charm or nothing, and so when you get behind it is very, very difficult.
And so Tiana's moving around the map, always tracking where Skiwonde is, not allowing them to get really a take-enough guard.
And yeah, Sueyom got taken down a couple times in the sideline, but was very respectable with most of those cross-map plays that G2 were looking for.
And it just feels like G2 need more from their stars.
We have not yet seen caps really show up in this series, went with a little block with the Ari, felt wasn't really getting much done.
And I feel like if they're going to come back, you need some caps magic.
When things go down, rely on caps! At least that's what saves you up in the 5G2 with no back against the wall here as TS.
Take us to much point. Let's see what happens next.
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Welcome back to MSI 2026 here in beautiful day job South Korea, of course,
Fiery U fan, what a rough way to start the day.
I'm not going to lie because top eSports are currently trouncing G2.
It is two to zero. Top eSports on match point and G2 have one more shot.
Bring us a little bit deeper into the series to break the trend of infinite three zeroes.
But optimism fading amongst the G2 faithful, I think.
They told us Dejon was the city of science, but really, Dejon is the city of three zeros.
It's what it feels like because our first two games, K goes, we're fairly one side of this.
They're putting in the direction of another.
It could also be the city of science. You don't have to pick one thing.
You can be the city of one thing.
You won't be allowed to pick one thing.
Well, so far it is the city of three-ohs.
Choose a light stick to it.
Yeah, I've seen a lot more three-ohs than I've seen science at least in this series.
There's a
Brass did go to a planetarium earlier. So Brass has seen some a lot more of the science here
Yeah, well he's seen more threos. He did science for one day. He's done threos every single day
He's been on broadcast because we all have so we'll see if g2 can buck the trend could take us deeper in this series again
Game one and game two in terms of how they played out overall were incredibly similar solo lane struggles
single player with a lead not able to convert into more as g2
rapidly kind of fell behind in terms of that movement in place. So G2 is gonna
need to embrace the science, I think. The dark technology at this point. The
pics, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a dinger. That's a champion related to science and
legal. I don't know what position we're gonna do with this. Well, we really, let's
cook something up here. Does Mundo count as real science or fake science? Oh, that's
That's real science, yeah.
That's real science, move it.
We saw Zagus play it, we've seen Schumann play it.
He's like toxic science.
Yeah.
All right, well, they're giving them
a little bit of a breather right now
before we go into game number three, I think, so.
Which they might need.
They might need.
Collect yourselves.
So here's, as someone who's watched a lot of G2,
as an EU rep, the thing I'm looking out for,
more proactive options for bot lane.
That's not to take away from LeBron.
His Lulu performance was incredible.
But you want him in more places.
I want them in more places, with more CC, preferably.
I think the burden of execution has been very heavily
on the side of G2, and they clearly
have not been able to deliver, have not
been able to find those angles.
So let's simplify.
Draft your own version of the wombo combo.
Get your own version of the Jarvin Aurora pairing.
There's a lot of options left to do it with, but of course,
need to see what the adjustments have been coming
into this draft.
If some of the bands are going to change,
maybe a Camille could make it through,
but hard to imagine that being the case.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to whoa. We are jumping in real quick. Okay. Let's catch up
This science here has not taken place quite yet. So it actually banned some of the science
Right, we get the lock in for the blind
Scion on the side of T. Yeah, so broken play does get counterpicked
That is a that is a place to start that you know, they were looking for for the side of g2
What can he he does play clad into it sometimes?
I like that. I like that. That's his counterpick.
I'm gonna get picked up. We'll see if it's locked eight seconds left.
So Kled confirmed alongside Recon a lot of active playmaking tools.
And of course, anytime you're against the scion with a counter pick,
there's pressure on you to make a big enough advantage that you can outvalue
that scion as we move later into the game.
And Broke of Blade has struggled to rise to the challenge thus far.
But I think this is his best option to really show what he's got.
And personally, I do find it annoying to play Kled into Wookong because you can leave a clone
to kind of stop your parade short a little bit. Sometimes, and he can be the one to kind of
divert that, but is definitely a good matchup in design. It's something a broken blade does
frequently. And you got what you wanted, Dracos. You wanted LeBrov on a playmaking champion,
Rakan here for himself. The Monkey Paw did curl though, because I'm not exactly thrilled to see
this Aya into the Wukong. She goes up but Wukong just keeps spinning and then she comes down and
Wukong is still spinning. But it is obviously a very powerful 2v2 duo and the 2v2 has been doing
well in isolation. Now they can support it with some fans of their own taking the Lucian away,
taking the Renata, kind of soft removing Kalista from the pool by taking the Renata as well.
Yeah and I like the ban from TES as well because even though you're getting countered in lane by
the Kled you do not want jungle to bring a trundle not only does he take your
resistances with his ultimate obviously but the pillar is very very difficult
force on to deal with block his ult as well so good jungle fans here from TES
they're kind of making you punishing you for giving broken blade that counter
pick and grabbing that one first then you opted to drop your jungle force so
here we go back to normal now we're looking at it okay double down on that
counter pick get some synergies there or not flashing I wonder if they're gonna
pick it up pick it up second time stop doing this I like that I really don't
like right after the e-nurse like that the nerf really did hurt her a lot so do
like up in for something different here for G2 instead okay they're they're
working through it so let's skim on definitely always has been quite a
a good scarner that he has is this and it's going to accelerate your engage into the team
to with clad recon and scarner could be a very good look there science a good body blocker
though and as we said we calm not too shabby himself but we'll see if they can pull it
off mostly I'm worried for G2 about the cream versus caps matchup with the rise priority
being slammed from cream so hey the aphelios actually does come out but it
didn't as I recon instead so we're gonna see that early green grunt priority on
the bottom side and here we go sinra did get buffs on the patch I still prefer
the rise sinra can you know fall victim to wukong especially once wukong is the
level six again mid lane gets a little dicey also if bot lane gets roam time
and Thresh gets the room towards mid-two.
That can be very problematic
because Ryus can help set you up there too.
The only kind of drawback there,
lots of people like to gank Syndra a lot.
That they do.
Obviously, a powerhouse champion
in terms of individual laning,
but that is her big vulnerability.
Scatter the week is such a long cooldown.
Pretty easy to regank or to play around it.
Now, top esports have a fantastic front-to-back composition.
Thread on the sideline with Cream as well,
And Jacky Love obviously bearing the brunt of being that late game scaling carry has a threat to the Lanter to protect him
Only way of busting out fresh on an international stage and it was game three
First top eSports where G2 were the ones to pull out the Thresh last year. It was a disaster
But this is a champion the little broad knows incredibly well
No doubt super comfortable in the matchup. So we'll see if he and Han Sama can once again
Find an edge in the 2v2
lead this G2 lineup for their first victory in the series.
Of course, for TES, the plan very clear.
They found advantage in both of their initial games.
See if they can do it one more time and continue the trend of 2026 MSI clean sweeps.
All right. Every game in isolation.
Just look at the game in front of you.
Let's see what the early spread here doesn't look like anything too crazy
That is an electrocute Rekon
Did I miss something while I was gone for three months is that normal now we're gonna look for that burst
Show it to me. Let me know what we all want to see the burst damage
Bob
No guardian it's hard might have been nice to have the guardian there, but we'll see we'll keep an eye on the electrocute
It's broken blade. It was hoping to find...
I'm going to be silent, but Swayon, hiding in the darkness, just hoping to get XP.
I think scrapping with the Kled at level one is a bit of a nightmare.
So it takes his time to wander in. Yeah, he waits for the Kled to go
up to the wave first out of them. I want to get back up there to see how it turned out.
Okay. He's able to get all the Meleis first way on.
So nice for him. Still got all three Meleis and
with the Kled have a little priority over the lane for the early stages,
but I do want to point out the ward that Broken Blade placed down here.
So they see the actual exact timer on that jungle start.
And then they also had a defensive ward from Schumann there as well.
And so really covering to make sure they have full information on the jungle,
pathing away from the side matchup so the Broken Blade can get the most out of his counter pick here.
When they're best to set them up to success,
stop cams from doing any kind of cheeky early play,
especially nice when you're trying to protect that syndrome in the mid lane.
You can see Caps does a relatively good job of trading even here.
He gets a lot of free poke,
but cream just much better wave clear at this point,
is able to force that mid wave in.
Of course, reminder as we get into this,
coming into the series,
it was easy to underestimate TES because they're a team that,
while they've always had high placements,
They've often fallen short of where they've wanted to end up
and where they've been expected to end up.
And that has been the number one thing
that people think about when they think about this lineup.
Even if they took down G2 last year,
they still fell short in the semi-finals at Worlds.
But it does feel the air of optimism
surrounding this version of TES, a new TES,
with two new rookies is definitely there
based on this series.
But Balain, play back.
Naka from LeBrav is Jackie Love,
Just spinning through, about to cycle guns,
but just continues to harass with the extra range.
Lantern is well there to back him up.
Swaps over to the Graviton, so can find CC,
but of course no one is in the area,
just that 2v2 exchange.
Okay, yeah, it's going quite well there.
They get priority on the lane,
they force the back from the Thresh,
on someone LeBrov now,
gonna be able to crash this one,
and since they've got their jungle,
who passed down here,
they know they have full confidence.
See if they get some turret play by 2 and dive maybe?
Did that jack you love lock up?
Burn him, yeah, grab a ton of adds,
well they're about to get locked under the tower.
Fungi away, the flash away!
Ooh, so that dive ends up with four for three
in summoner spells, but, wait,
they need to be able to finish their recall as a spot.
So they do have the CS lead for now,
but their recalls are really delayed.
Trouble instantly just finds the kill,
soul furnace explosion, taking him down.
This Q-mon may be just hoping to get a kill back,
but it's just going to take some chip damage.
A free grass proc as well.
That is devastating on the top side.
Yeah, we were looking so heavily at the bottom side
after the pushback after that dive attempt.
And we didn't see the setup for that gank.
And she ends up able to get in there.
It is first blood for the scion in the counter.
And he's going to teleport right back to that top lane.
And then this time, they're the ones.
Look at the control, the extra wards here
on both the Krugs as well as the Raptors
to see the Starner trapping away again this time,
but Brookblade jumps right on him
after the teleport came through from Dwayon.
Still such a good situation for the Kled.
Not too much armor quite yet, no boots to play on in trouble.
Brookblade demounted, but doesn't have to give up anything else
and the flash coming out of Dwayon
means he's incredibly vulnerable to a follow-up gank.
If Skumont has time to go topside.
And Brookblade get very good trade there,
Violent after the teleport comes in pushing up against it here, too
way on
He's gonna be able to stick around at least
The stairs away, but he has no teleport and no old like he probably wants us like look at the experience before he could get old
I mean one more way, but it's so dangerous flash in play set up there
Grab it to move up the Inferno, but Tian arrives just in time
Hansama out of sums out of hope in the bot lane 2v2 as Jackie Love grabs the kill.
That Tien is everywhere he needs to be, Draco. Successful gank on top side.
Successful wrap around on the bottom side as well. Tien is doing it live.
Zwen as well, able to get back there. The cannon wave soaking a lot of hits.
Flinking away blocks to allow his AD carry to get the reset, the recall after acquiring that kill money
for Jackie Love and even though he doesn't have his mobility summoner spells,
he's got his upgraded boots here with the full berserkers.
Trying to maneuver around any potential engaged. The broth could hope to find,
but this is the TN that top. This is the reason there are so many disappointed top
eSports fans is because this is the ceiling they talk about. This is the player they talk
about domestically, the man who can take over the map like this so early on.
And it's not what we call who usually everyone's looking at. Well,
you don't have to worry too much till he's six, right?
Yeah, he did all that before he was six at all. He's just now six scuttle crab is getting and the real victim here
And goes down
Oh my goodness the title vision for it
Scoot G2 still got the scuttle crab anyway also in trouble now
Jack you left really good guns for a fight
But only a level five of belly is not a lot of items another member of TES falls and that time
I think we could say was a caster curse that
No, I mean, for that thing, welcome to MSI. Top E sports. OK, OK. As you're saying in
10's praises, cap. She wants to sell crab, but they're not done. You know, cream is at
the turrets. So she is like, All right. I must stick around. Let me get that thing.
But he, he doesn't even get it. He tries to go all the way so deep under the tower to
I can't even get it, Jacobs.
He won up Lava.
That is for sure.
You know what?
It's no longer Lava.
It's TN.
It's TN's Crappers now.
It's TN's Crappers now.
No one.
TN will go to your house.
He will knock on your door.
That is.
Give me that Scuttle Crab back.
Batman will go get his own crab
and bring it to a random restaurant.
What the heck?
Hold that thought.
We're about to talk about international experience.
It's never going to talk about this escape from Bloken Blade.
but reminder, this G2 lineup goes to every international.
Yeah.
The TES team doesn't have that same luxury.
And now with two rookies, the experience gap is massive,
but it has not affected the performance as TES
outside of whatever we just witnessed
in the bed playing TN Scrappers.
They've just been one step ahead.
Well, actually, I got on Stephen,
how many times we got to see that thing again?
That was hilarious.
Usually a lot of junglers have trauma, OK?
Syndra is so annoying, but by going camps away, right?
How many times in your life has Syndra
like, you ain't the way I can't be?
And he takes away their jungle, and you'd
have to be like, ah, fine.
But he hadn't had enough.
He hadn't had enough.
And he didn't even get it.
You know what he did to show him?
He ran in and died.
Yeah, that'll teach him.
Stop stealing my crab.
Caps all donate you 300 gold.
But we hope that that lesson has been learned.
I mean, a lot of this season has been about trying to get jungle priority in.
Anyways, Spectre...
Despite that, Tien's still with a small lead.
Dust set behind is clear a little bit.
You can see the XP advantage slightly in favor of Skumondo.
The other imaginative shift is the grubbies are getting picked up.
Feng Yuwei shadowing nicely.
No one here to protect this tower.
Bibi on the way.
But Jack is very likely to just grab a quick plate here.
I mean as hilarious as it was too, this is a completely different story than all the other games because caps on top of the first blood with the CS lead
Very very nice in mid lane. So this Sandra the syndrome burst damage is going to be very real this game
We'll see how well to because you know, he's stacking up splinters very effectively. Yeah topside though
should be fine with
LeBrov matching for support for support up here and allowing broken blade a
little bit of extra safety in their 2v2 after the
Lane Swaperoni, and I think it's a good caught on the center damage expectations are that cream and Jackie lover really going to be the
The stars of this particular show in terms of damage output so with cream already falling behind
Pressure on to Jackie as the broad
It's just for a bit of play there hook from Fungiway not quite going to connect on the key target lock up
Brings way on under tower flashing alting away
Still seems like he might die. Nope immediate TP out this. Yeah, no one can say this man does not have style
Wait on out
All into teleport and he got the casters of the wave on the top lane
Jacky Love continuing to lay down a bit of damage.
Broke and Blake de-mounted.
LeBrov gonna find the knockup.
That's gonna be a big charm coming in.
Broke and Blake about to remount.
Jacky Love, I don't think he was ready for this one.
Turning back.
Purple Guns wants to root the Lender Tower.
Another de-mount for Broke and Blake.
Gonna take him a bit more time this time around.
But LeBrov goes back in.
The fist fight's not done yet.
And will finally fade away.
But both sides would have bet everything on that 2v2.
That is a lot of summoner spells for Jacky Love.
Fengyue using the heal.
And Jacky, double summoners here.
uses the flash, uses the ghost. So while Broken Blade and LeBrov don't actually get the kill,
this Avelios is for sure a kill target, prime kill target now for G2.
Lane Assignment coming out, it's way on once again. Send it to the top lane. Broken Blade will
see him shortly. Can't imagine they'll pivot away from this particular lane assignment,
but we check in on the state of the game for the first time in the series. G2 with a gold
lead. 1.2k as caps. Using an extra range to lay down some hurt on the cream in the mid lane,
And it's a minute until Hextech Drake, second of the game.
You, where we see a big fight break out.
Jackie, terrible guns, but should be able to cycle through
pretty quickly for the coming fight.
Caps can't stop the recall.
I mean, it's a little, Rob gets his ult back.
I mean, there's possible plays down here all over the place
with flash advantages.
See what they can actually do.
TN, they'll entre force.
Well, Caps gonna get knocked up by the Cyclone.
TN still running forward.
Realm Warp on the way in.
Stume on trying to show up.
Caps flashback to safety.
He flashed over the raging skarner to find the kill.
Scumon now desperate to get something on a TN.
Cream respects it and will back away.
Looks like the one for one overall mid lane for jungle.
Okay, talk about summoner spells.
Everything getting used here.
Cream uses both. TN uses his as well.
Caps in the end does go down.
But G2, now if you look at the pace of the game,
if they can take advantage on these flash timers
for the next five minutes,
they have a lot of areas to try and make plays off of.
Let's see, as far as the kill credit as well going over there, TN did get that one with his Trinity Force spike, really wanted it.
Stubborn makes another pass towards mid, as you see, and Teleport is being used mid too, so I don't know how long he could keep Creme interested inside.
Topside just trading heavily. See what they do about the dragon.
Looks like they might concede as you can see TN moving up, and you see a lot of blue pings focused on the topside of the map.
Maybe thinking that is their counter play angle.
Not wanting to contest the Drake,
but Cream getting more and more gold,
closer to those key items.
It's starting to just shred through those midwaves,
especially with the upgraded boots.
Really just makes it that much harder for Taps
to find lethal damage.
PN's sneaking his way in.
Broke him like D-Mount, the instant CC combo.
No chance for him to get the remount, TN.
Grabbing another.
But they're as old as time.
T.S., they give up the dragon on bottom side.
Drake goes one of the first two.
This one down as well, but they go top side,
and uses that timer.
Okay Max, Fungiway double marks onto LeBron, crucially also away, but cream now the one in trouble.
Running out to safety, caps whittling down that HP bar, bone plating.
Keeps him alive for a second, but now the kill over to LeBron, looking for the re-engage in the bottom lane.
LeBron finds the initial knock-up, Han's down with the feathers flying.
Fungiway still taking his sweet time though, and it's just gonna be a kill on the bottom lane.
Two quick kills for G2.
G2 do punish both of those critical flashes that were down.
down, Jackie they make the dive on bottom side, they get him, they make the gank towards mid lane and take down cream as well.
Caps is over a thousand gold ahead this time and a haunts ahead as well.
A massive shift in the momentum of this series. It's not a game win yet, but G2 finally set up for success here.
Having the tools, finding the angles, especially around the mid lane, broken blade suffering, but the rest of the map doing damn well.
Yeah, the return gank here. Stunned from Syndra into the E from Skumon, wrapped around, cream's not getting away from this one.
And he may be a little bit angry about the early kill that the Syndra got as well.
But bot side was another story as well.
LeBrov barely lived by the way that last tower shot doesn't even finish him off.
He has been so good for G2.
Makes the dive happen in time, uses the flash advantage, uses the ult that we are looking
for.
And you can see, Cap's on the Syndra, 35-16.
Oftentimes, the champion that is kind of briefly in the meta
and then falls away, nerfed or buffed out,
but comfortable with this, the most recent set of buffs,
come bringing it back in and having
an excellent performance thus far.
And again, if you're Jacky Love, you're sweating a bit.
The lock of the Iron Salari from Fungiway
is not going to be enough to keep you standing in these fights.
Dragon set up, though.
Eyes on Tina.
Cap spotted out, isolated, taken down
the 1,000 Goldy from G2 just disappears in an instant, but now they're hoping to take
out TN, guaranteeing the next drake. They will get one back and return. Knock upon the broken
blade. LeBrov caught out. The Rakan vulnerable. The DAS doesn't get him over the wall. The
decimating smash to follow down goes LeBrov.
I mean, this is altering a timer. They make the decision here while Cream is top. So everybody
sees Cream top. So they want to make a fast play initially, Jacoes. And TN is like, okay,
We've got such good position native Schumann route there flashed over from Hansama looking for the lockup all deeper
Jack you love her a bit extra healing onslaught December MQ allows him to speed away, but Hansama
blinking health bar
Rel warp there from cream no flash available for the rise was just a few seconds away from the ghost coming back off cooldown
It's gonna be forced to back off, but TES now with control of the mid lane
I mean how it was so crazy that it turned out this way because TES they're making this play while they're split pushing with rise
And yet they can pull off the place so quickly that they get the extra kill down there
Wow having the extra person playing the other lane. So huge benefits. They're chopping down on the gold lead
TES they make the call they make the quick plays. They do not hesitate
And really you yeah, I'm losing some of those shut down some of that money
See if it hurts there's like 2000 gold shifted back to get things a little bit closer to TES's favor and crucially
just the leading caps for the fight can really even start.
It's a vulnerability we highlighted as Broke of Ate.
Forced to flash away, from his way on.
Don't think he'll continue for the dive here,
but can at least interrupt the full charge
on the decimating smash.
It's a tricky game.
G2 have a really substantial edge,
but GES just so good at capitalizing on these quick plays.
And as you said, making multiple plays simultaneously
across the map.
Yeah, quite interesting on the setup for the last one.
with the Sion and the Wukong having good position.
But now on the Herald, Caps is gonna run straight towards them.
They pop the eye early.
VP coming in from behind, they know Caps is vulnerable.
He at least has the flash.
Herald now picked up.
It's way on waiting, hoping to deny them an escape.
Creen gonna be rooted up by Han-Sama.
Han-Sama vulnerable here.
Flash forward from Bang U-A.
We're gonna guarantee a bit more of the feathers fly,
but Han-Sama already getting spinned on,
and it's a shutdown to Creen.
And this time, it is G2.
They've got broken blades splitting bottom side,
and TS punished them.
They get the Herald.
They get the kill under the AD carry as well, Dracos.
Now they can take even more because they
have control of the map.
Hoping maybe to stop a recall here won't be able to do it.
Catching this way, but you highlighted control of the map
20 seconds before Cloud responds.
Maybe they'd like a couple of resets,
but with mid priority in their favor,
they're not too concerned.
LeBron can kick things off.
Now he can creep back into the wall,
hook on a little bit wide.
Cream should fall here, but the flash, the unleash power,
not powerful enough.
But forward from cap, he's determined.
LeBron's going to get it done.
the electric, he'll recall finding a way to check the love of the flicking out for
running for his life is human now on a killing spree caps set to finish off
fun you way knocks him down ahead of the third Drake of the game but TN in the
back line escaping holding on to life may be open for a 50-50 G2 they keep the
hope alive they keep the play going so long they don't allow you to reset
cream down Jackie look down fanguay down and that should be dragon number three
Schumann there
G2
Finally finding that fight fully in their favor no cross map nothing else
Going against them and it is Schumann and LeBron. They do not want to let this play die
They don't want to let DS reset hold up. I was dead. Oh
And put a brief moment that brief moment relation where it feels like G2 get away with everything they get out Scott free
They don't concede anything else instantaneously.
There is another play by TES around the mid lane.
Tien, fearless, still has the clone,
determined to get another camp,
but it won't go like the double track did.
This man is dancing, he's dodging everything.
Dark spheres gleaming, Quills.
Jackie loves set up in the mid lane.
It's Jumon now going to punish.
Much less effective tools for Jackie Love to escape.
A quick kill to come in for G2 as Caps gets it.
The pace of this game is incredible.
I love the kill after the kill,
We're keeping the the kills going on top side. We're splitting again for TES
Well broken blade and G2 are gonna take down mid tower
That they are
Almost a thousand a gold piece for the G2 solo laners empowered in this game most certainly
LeBrov is continuing to be a nuisance and it feels like both sides support
Another one gonna make plays that you as the downside of the thrash
You're so damn vulnerable the weak scattered charm knocked up knocked down LeBrov takes the kill
Who are you interrupting that recall for you have no teammates around anywhere
You're just trying to be annoying trying to interrupt broken blades recall after G2 had just taken that deterrent
They had priority and G2 now are taking over want to just keep pressing for more TN locked up cream nice route
He interrupts
Tower down
Of course Harold's still there the pressure point may potentially for TES
G2, keeping the tempo high, pressuring here on TES and making them falter.
Now we only have just over three minutes, three minutes and 18 seconds on that dragon
soul arrival, Draco's G2, with the extra one last time around, now they set themselves
up for a very big engage.
They do out. It's the cloud Kobe for the Recon for the head. Another potential pick bang you way. That's the Q connecting on the caps.
Caps can take a decent chunk of damage, but they can't afford to follow up. Step forward unleash power, but no, the lock it in the lantern. Keep phone you a standing.
Okay, they wanted to execute not going to be able to get it this time around, but still retaking vision around the dragon even ahead of time is pretty critical because there's so much engaged as
you're talking about with the Rickon,
Kled, Skarner combination from G2.
Yes, have to be very careful in their setup.
They use the Rift, Harold, towards
mid to get mid priority first and teleport on it as well.
Get everyone here.
Break open mid.
G2 immediately going to retreat.
Harold, mount up is there.
Swayon looking for another crash, a knockup.
Bit more pokes.
Swayon very far forward.
They're going to take a big chunk,
hoping to eat a couple of cooldowns.
Lantern there, back steps, excellent ward to interrupt the Lantern, forcing the ult down,
but now Claude is charging in response, LeBron, instantly on top, and G2 just descend on TES!
Charging into their backline, giving him no hope of response.
Cream though, wants to make a difference, continues to step up.
The discrepancy between both teams doesn't matter to him, he knows Baron on the table for G2,
he wants to do something. The defense is good from G2 at the secondary tower,
and it should turn into Baron unless TES can pull something magical out of their hat right now.
TN has a flash.
The ulti, the warrior trickster.
Hoping to sneak his way into this one.
Round warp to bait G2. 8k getting lower. G2 debating. Can they finish it?
Instead they turn their sights to Creen, but they can't find the knockup into the wall.
TN finds his way into the backline, forces the flash back from Monsama.
Creen's gonna go down without finding anything else in return.
And now it's TN, set running.
But with G2, all of their health bars blinking and Jackie look on the way.
They can't keep going.
Bungieway knows that he has to keep the fight happening
because Jackie Love is coming in ready to try
and make the difference.
Ulti across the team.
G2 holding on.
They back away, but no Baron will fall.
Oh, my goodness, on the edge of a knife there.
TES, they do stop the Baron.
It cost them Cream's life.
G2 get a good turn with the CC combination,
stun him, and are able to pick up the extra kill.
But TES, they do stop the Baron.
TNF uses flash and Pinko gets there with the lantern as well to get him to safety.
Look at this. The stun and the combination on the cream is really nice because
Scuba takes him away from the lantern, so Cream can't get back to it.
Tien does put pressure on the Hansama. The ult into flash is what TS are able to get out of this.
Those cooldowns, which maybe there's an angle later on, but they do, at the very least,
with TS, stop that Baron.
20 seconds until the dragon fights already breaking out.
TN in the midst of the team, they know he has no flash.
If they take the stronger down, soul will be theirs.
TN now going to fall, just made his match,
not enough to save them.
Caps up on the flank with broken play.
Jackie Love cannot even play the game.
Nowhere for the Aphelios to go.
Caps taking down another.
T2 just obliterating TES in the fight.
G2 come alive on the MSI stage here.
They're gonna be able to take the ace,
and they're going to be able to take the Baron.
The 2K difference in the Coinbase gold grind.
Cap's now unstoppable.
6-2-8.
16 stacks in the book.
He saw Cream do it.
He's happy to respond.
The initial fight down here with Scumon and LeBrop
going against Tien, trying to fight him,
cut him off from the rest of the team.
He saw LeBrop there, really budding his time.
I like that positioning.
He waits until he pops his ult to bring him back
to the rest of the squad.
Nice run from him.
Then they get the extra kidnapped Wiskumon, and Broken Blade from the other side
got to pull off the full pincer attack.
G2 will collect every single kill, plus the Baron, and I assume
we'll be able to return for the Dragon Soul as well.
Now that they've got all that money from the full five kills, plus the Baron.
This is gonna have to be the fight. TES wanna turn it.
If they wanna keep the trend of 3-0s across the board.
Another slide.
Another climb.
Hope.
Gonna go wide.
Cream.
Getting knocked back into the wall.
Feathers flying.
Good ulti coming in from the Ophelios.
Caps looking for the disengaged.
LeBrav locks up just about everybody on TES.
Locked down there.
Caps still standing.
Reigning damage down on the TES.
They finally de-mount Broke of Blade, but it's a quadra for Caps.
They're gonna look to give him the penta.
G2 well and truly unleashed on the international stage.
Caps!
Pentakill!
Caps!
Caps!
Caps!
Caps!
Caps!
Caps!
Caps!
Caps!
G2, they're fighting back.
No 3-0s today.
It was grim, but in game 3, G2 bring it back.
They find the angles in the fights.
They punish top e-sports, but we're not done yet, Kobe.
It's not even over.
25 stacks on the Magi's G2, one another round.
I've been alerted that it's Captain's 9th ever,
pen to kill, collecting another one.
Syndra got buffed on the path, straight goes,
and he's immediately in there.
And I'm going to say that Syndra looks good,
but also the setup with Broken Blade,
alting in, giving him all that movement speed.
The only way he can follow these long range engages is that,
where you already see Flash forced out of Jackie Love,
Love not gonna have it for the fight TN risking a lot for the 5050 g2 though discipline pull off the objective
2.6k help they should just burn through him
Well played by g2 not giving an angle for the steel
Yeah, you can't do the normal. Oh jump over chain steel and then lantern out if the skarner is there
So trap them up and that should wrap it up for g2
10,000 gold and a cloud soul
Here they come to finish the job.
Only two and a half items for Jackie Love.
Not the late game threat that he wanted to be.
Hasn't had the space for the time.
G2 composed in these fights.
Much better tools to turn things in their favor this time around.
To allow them to press that lead.
The analyst has said it had to be caps and it certainly has been 3.7k.
Had it was opposing numbers.
G2 once again looked at just obliterate TES in their own base.
So I don't know, kicking things off pretty nicely,
It doesn't matter because the backline is already falling.
Cream living far too long, but the supers
are streaming into the base of top e-sports.
And there's just no way they can hold.
Knockup flashback by Tian to get away from the entrance.
But G2 know it's done.
They've shifted things back.
They've brought things back for the first time at MSI 2026.
It will not be a 3-0.
G2 will not go quietly to the lower bracket.
Man, caps with a pen to kill.
Will Provinc's Skuman with insane games
be engages from them?
Constantly getting their picks,
constantly getting their setups.
I believe Skuman did not die the entire game.
And Analysts, how you feeling?
We broke the curse, no more 3-0s.
That was for you guys.
Get him!
I was planning to get what I should have.
Game four.
Game four, game four, game four.
Give us five!
And they come with the fire that we wanted from them the last time that Caps got a pen to kill internationally.
He was in 20-18, then they hear that they actually won MSI, so foreshadowing, maybe early to say, but what I know is that we are going to game 4.
And guys, we said we want to see more agency in drafts.
We want to see Caps do the magic that we know he's capable of, completely delivered here.
Absolutely. I mean, BBU got him on one of his special picks, even though they were putting him down very heavily early in the teamfights.
His positioning was brilliant. His use of the ultimates to follow on some of the lanterns, to follow on some of the dashes was incredible.
Skiumont was setting him up, LeBrawl was setting him up, Cap's was going crazy.
It was beautiful to see G2 come to life.
Brazner was sitting on the couch and were like, what if MSI is just 20 sweeps in a row?
I'm checking right now.
What time it is in Berlin? It looks like it's about 10 a.m.
So he gaps woke up with
That's all he's just still on the EU times of the guy's what made the difference here compared to the other games
I think a little problem made a huge difference bro. Holy when the European audience constantly say
Rakan and his best champion he plays differently on that champ. You're damn right
He does it felt like in the laning phase every time Fanguo was able to get a great hook
It was a lost straight. He was looking at his hands like how am I losing these straights still?
Just being able to find those angles and later on in that those games being able to just like take those crazy fights
That was beautiful to see. I mean look at the vibes from the G2 boys backstage
I mean different backstage shots compared to earlier. I love it
Having a lot of fun and I just feel like it's night and day watching last game
We talked about the lack of agency R is the only engaged tool. Yeah, now we have clad we have skarner
We have for con we have all of these tools you can fish with scatter like scatter alone was basically as good as they're engaged last
Last game so now they had so many tools
They're able to really pick fights and I feel like g2 with agency is very different because it felt like for the first time in this series
Even though they were taking some punches. They were landing so many more of their own
They were taking fights on their own terms
They were the ones who are being able to find these angles to start fights
And I just feel like you can't do that without a comp like this and it was really cool to see a hundred percent
I thought that G2 was extremely focused and recognizing that a lot of what was going to be bailing out top eSports was the lantern.
And so, every time a lantern was pushed out, Schumann immediately either swept them away from the lantern or a control ward was placed immediately on top of it.
If you were to go through rather than the entire game, maybe you fall on like one or two useful lanterns, but often times, you're not allowed to take it.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, you mentioned those and then there was the ones where one or two of the ones actually worked.
And it was this one right here. Look at the timing for BB as he goes back, you know follows in the control ward
Yeah, lantern then as as way on alts away
He follows with the alt gets him just kind of a delivery system made on the Jackie love who it felt like no matter where Jackie
Love was standing
G2 were on top of them in every single fight. He could not breathe
He couldn't get an inch of space and he felt like there was like a
of rejuvenation within G2, the moment Top Eastwards were going for a top lane dive, but
the 2v2 dive that they had bot lane and a play that SQmon was making through mid, G2
was extremely active from the mid game throughout to the late.
And it all started with a bit of a funky play around this cuddle crab.
Yeah.
A lot of fun here also on this side of TS, but I do appreciate the fact that G2 was able
to pick up from this, and I feel like that's what set them up in the rest of the game in
the early game.
As North American analysts, we know a scuttle fight well. We see it
Consistently to our willing to lose the game for a scuttle
We're sending everyone doesn't matter where that scuttle is even if you're picking up that bad boy towards our turret
We're willing to tower dive for that scuttle. Yeah, you're gonna be falling that scuttle in this was madness from time
It gets thrown and it gets
Scoops it into the tower skew one then pushes it all the way back you're easy to the tower
I still think I can get this. I still think I want the fight of the Scuttle.
No, please!
The Scuttle may be in your fountain, but I have decided my gentle path will be going to it.
That was insane, because not only does it turn into a kill on towards him, but every one of his teammates that follow him.
What kind of gravitational pull does the Scuttle Crab have?
The sexy man, it's like a tractor beam. Once it's locked on, there's no escape rest.
And it's the two sides of the TN coin that I was talking about earlier, but honestly, we take it, oh, you even have the plushie.
Yeah, we do.
That's amazing. That's amazing. Toss it to TN. Maybe he needs it.
Alright, me, once he gets on stage, maybe I got that football toss within me.
Got Tom Brady over here.
How much hope does that give for G2 though here?
Because one game is a game, they had everything they needed here.
Can they make it happen again?
We've seen LeBrov being stellar throughout the entire of the series.
He only managed to have that more impact here during this game.
So what else do they need to do to keep on going like this?
I mean, I think you want to go towards more engage comps.
You want to go towards more aggression.
I think that, to me, was the biggest difference between this and the last game.
I thought that LeBron played brilliantly as well, but you're playing Lulu.
It's a very different style, right?
I think that G2, that's going to give them some confidence,
going to give them some energy and I want to see them continue to draft toward that.
The problem is it is fearless and there are only so many champs,
so it can get more difficult, but I do believe in their ability to come back.
I would trust G2 there, as the pool is thinner, honestly, but how flexible can TES be in that scenario, Raz?
I feel like there can be. There's still quite a few picks that we haven't seen thus far, like Jace's, like those type of Jace type of poke compositions I think they're quite good at.
I will say though, from... if we were looking at the early portions of the game, I still thought that Top Esports were doing a great job at being able to limit the Kled.
Like, constantly looking up topside and recognizing the windows in which Kled is most dangerous, and then like being able to attack that.
I still think they're playing well in those moments,
but then realizing in a lot of those fights,
it is so hard to push back against a lot of these dive comp
with just the threat.
So it is gonna be, I think, heavily about the draft.
Do you guys wanna review your predictions,
or do you wanna review?
I like where I'm at right now.
I had a 3-1 for top esports.
I was about to change it to 3-0, but I have heard.
That's a first.
I usually just, yeah, so I'm happy where I'm at.
No, I mean, I had G2 taking a 3-2.
I did think, after watching the first two games,
They're like, well, I don't know.
But G2 has given me some renewed hope that it could be five-game banger,
that it could be that really, really close series.
They've shown that they can scrap with them.
And it's just a question of, can TES make the adjustments?
Yeah.
And can G2 keep on going with the fire that they brought at last here
at MSI, saving us from the endless 3-0s that we had so far?
You are heading into game four as G2 makes this to the A-series.
Let's see if they can bring us to five after this.
I don't like it, okay?
Oh, what can I do?
Just get a lantern.
It's briefing.
Nice, nice, nice.
They're not moving.
They're not moving.
Okay, okay.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
They're too far.
They're too far.
They're too far.
They're too far.
They're too far.
Do you have the TP?
He has TP. He has TP.
He is going up. He is going up.
He has TP, I can get it.
It's okay.
It's okay.
He has TP up there.
He has TP down here.
I think I can get it.
That's right folks, it's a game for unprecedented historic moment in this MSI tournament the
the first of its kind. And for G2 fans they're feeling pretty optimistic after that one, but
TES, I'm, if I had to make the G2 argument right now, I'd say you're praying that the
TES rookie's mental class is after one. I don't think it's going to happen.
What about the TES veterans like Tien coming into your tower?
That's, uh, look, I wasn't going to bring that up because I was hoping we could just
sneak another one of those in. Yeah, little casual 400 gold.
Who else can move crabs? You need to build comps around moving crabs.
Just Alistair pump the crab back.
Unfortunately, Sion was already used to, so he gained Sion to do the Sion shot.
Blitzcrank, just gonna keep it going.
There you go.
See, Coby, that's the kind of creative thinking I think G2 need in this particular pick-man phase.
Dangle the crabs and put them in our own towers.
I do think as we head into this next pick-man though that I'm a little bit nervous
for what TES are going to bring as an EU pundit,
just because we've seen that, when Swayon has, you know,
those more carry-oriented picks, when he's not on the sign,
he was dominant two games consecutively,
which makes me feel like Game 4 should be no different
if they are able to set him up.
With an advantageous matchup,
as we underpicks and ban is powered by HyperX,
but a little bit of a different look.
G2 now on the blue side, and TES choosing second pick,
so really wanting to have that counter pick, have that option.
Blue side first pick, though,
does have a pretty astronomical win rate,
I think they'll put me at 58% or so.
So maybe G2 can use this to full effect,
or maybe the counter effect will prove more valuable.
Yeah, I feel like that's pretty similar to old blue side too,
all the way when it was still paired at the beginning,
like first pick and good camera angles.
Akali, very, very good man,
especially as you're getting deeper and deeper
into Fearless, even though Cream has assimilated
to play all the regular priority mages and everything,
is a colleague is so nasty.
That being said, he could, you know,
Yonan stuff like that too,
as we get deeper into the tier list,
also extremely dangerous.
So from him, things like the stylus and stuff
become more and more pickable as we get deeper.
So, oh, the Jace though, with a York Van Ha,
Jace's priority, interesting.
Dwayne on is very good.
Okay, so they are going to ban it themselves, so York ban gets the chase ban, and let's see what direction we should go here.
Is it going to be still towards mid lane? Because you can do like some, there's like good combination, you know, jungle mid, like a Vi-Talia combination maybe?
I think Divy of course was banned in the previous but banned after she didn't get picked up in the first three
So I'm not surprised to see her you know in her fourth game prioritized so early on to ES see with responses
But I do really like the having options for simple straightforward execution advice certainly is one of those to ES
Nocturne not as powerful without the the Orianna combo
But can still really be a massive threat and definitely also signals usually very heavily you want to play some side lanes
So some solo lanes that are going to benefit for very strong solo lane matchups
With just like the setup of the teams. I think that is a good strategy
the TS could go for or
You can just use not turn cover darkness and just get better engages
and go super
Hard engaged with it. So definitely a very versatile champion and been highly prioritized for a very good reason
All right, Dacky loves Jin, definitely classic here, and can follow up on whatever long range stuff you pair with a Nocturne.
Yeah, essentially confirming that what we're going to be seeing from TES is leveraging their later picks for strong sidelaners and some sort of what it comes to team fights at the very least, dive composition.
You have a Nocturne, you have Jin for the range support, missing a bit of CC, missing some divers to go alongside this Nocturne.
I know we kind of always hate seeing Nocturne as solo dive, where they want someone else who's going to jump into that backline with him and G2.
Now, how do they want to respond?
Xayah, of course, one of the best anti-dive options,
but no longer available because G2 leveraged it in game three.
So, where do they want to put that focus now?
Lucian Muleo on the game, perhaps?
All right, yeah, this is, it's going to be a short-range dive cough.
You know, you've got Lucian and Vi here looking for the all-ins.
Very powerful bottom lane too, but Karma's still available.
Well, Jim Carmo, okay.
And I'll be honest though,
I'm a little bit nervous.
Lucian historically for the West,
not often not as dominant,
but full faith in on someone, LeBron.
They've been doing incredibly well
in the 2v2s thus far.
They see the gym, they immediately wanna lock this in.
But again, we are in a situation
where LeBron's best game thus far in series
was Lulu ranged,
and then the other game was the last one on Rakan.
The game they won though was when he had a game,
when he had those angles
to really force fights on his own terms.
He doesn't have that with the Milio.
Yeah, definitely not with the Milio.
Much more looking for just buffing up Lucian,
make sure Lucian always has his passive.
He's ready with the cleanse as well for the team.
But I mean, a Nocturne doesn't just have to go to attack
for solo lanes.
Nocturne can ult down there for bottom lane too.
Chromagen, lots of poke damage down there.
So we'll see how they rounded out.
Mid lane, definitely.
The Taliyah that we mentioned, since they dropped it,
You're just gonna get banned out for sure.
Such a good combination with the plain click,
so good focus there.
You know, I was gonna meet other potential bearings,
TES holding solos as long as they possibly can.
What about Annie?
I feel like Annie engaged with both of these one teams,
you know, having really good options here.
It is also Cream's most played.
I feel like Annie's decent angle,
even could get taken away from the other side too.
Because we need to go super hard in games. It's just so nice.
And he's going to get banned.
Yeah, good call-out.
Also can be such an effective neutralizing pick in the mid lane.
Final ban here.
They ban the Vayne because they don't want you around to counter.
So that signals to me that Broke the Blade just wants to play a tank and live in peace.
Maybe an orange on the top side, yeah, or an orange.
Just trying to take away the picks that can punish them the most.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Silas, Akali, and Yone are like the super classic, really dangerous.
Way another long range component.
We're missing that dive buddy for Nocturne, but now we have two champions who have really
just got artillery.
Yeah, the artillery.
We have lots of artillery.
I think a little bit more reliable CC would be good here, but of course, Dream excellent
on the play.
Has been, even since last year, one of the champions that I think he really excelled on,
even as he was a player not known for his mages.
Okay.
Caps, caps, caps.
He did LeBlanc and Syndra this series so far.
Into the play, is it just like a Victor game or something like that?
You need to go real standard or is he going to cook a little bit?
Picture good against what could have been a dive comp,
but with so little dive locked in.
It's a bait.
It's a bait instead.
All right, talk about side lanes.
OK, so Twisted Fate one side, knock her on the other side.
Battle of the Globals.
And they int to go with the Tristana here for Cream.
OK.
Wait.
No, no, no.
Or swapping.
No, no, no, no.
Do the math.
Do the math.
There's already a mid laner, Kobe.
Do the math.
That's a top lane Tristana.
Top lane Tristana.
all the way up to counter and NAR.
Okay, Zwayar, we know he cooks.
We've seen the least in top lanes.
We saw Gwen when no one was playing it.
This is not one that I have experience in.
Tristana counter and some NAR, okay.
All right, we're gonna get jungle pressure up here.
I mean, this is playing into a twisted fate too though.
You can, you have the extra safety as well.
If they try and use their gobbles up towards you,
You do have, you can try and buffer away from Vi.
Altean to the NAR alt or whenever he goes mega
is really effective at stopping any potential follow up
because G2 have really nice single target CC
but their only big AOE team fighting tool
really is that NAR and mega form.
I like the look here.
Again, Phaethon's way on here from the side of Top Esports
really has paid off both times they've given him
solid lane matchups.
This time around, willing to let Green blind pick
to ensure he could have his pick of Top lane counters
And Tristana, not the one that we were expecting,
but I imagine the same is true for G2 Esports.
And all of the Tristana top games
have been into Nars for the counter pick on Nars.
So let's see how well he can pilot it.
A spicy way to move things in.
A dramatic shift, and I will say,
There's an incredible lack of CCC on the side of TES,
but at the same time, if this composition gets ahead,
it's going to be so difficult for G2 to play out.
Certainly is.
I mean, like you said, they already
were showing lots of faith in him in game number one.
He's going to look for the early contest.
He's up his bone plating.
Broke of Blade, they're both taking lethal tempo,
But of course, Broken Blade, less attack speed here,
which means there's just no way for him to win that level one.
Yeah, Joyon, with Q with lethal tempo,
that is just insane level one,
and he has at bone plating Qs though.
Five seconds.
Broken Blade's gonna get zoned off this wave here in three,
two, one, yep, all right.
Drive fire back up and available.
Instantaneously stacking lethal tempo makes this level one.
You know, in bot lane, you don't see this,
but in top lane, when it's just the 1v1,
you have more range.
Prehistoric Yordle versus Yordle with gun.
Pretty clear who wins and just I mean this the level one was just so brutal
Q plus lethal plus foam plating. Bye. Bye. Yep. And now this is just way on town on top side
Gonna continue to extend that lead. Jack you love force shot is there level to cozy campfire and powering on Sama nice side step
On the deadly flourish
Jack you love using the barrier to keep the trade going immediate recall coming in from Fungi way
Okay.
If you love playing on the edge there a bit, but able to get the push forward.
Unfortunately, G2 happy to just recall back LeBrov, leave Han-Sama in the 1v1.
Okay.
Plus one on summoner spells for bot lane for G2 here, and Jackie forced the CS just with
W here from afar trying to stay safe because LeBrov is staying in Fog of War in the brush.
Dash forward, Kosi came fire there.
Forward shot doesn't finish off LeBrov.
Flashing Han-Sama to turn the finish in.
Nice flashback from LeBrov.
Jackie locked down from your way must not have skewed the she are skilled the shield. He couldn't save Jackie loves life
Yeah, Jackie really wanted to stick around at it. It does not fully respect LeBrov in the brush
I saw my moves up. They know they have to kill
Nicely done from him Jackie tried to go for the four-shot combination on the LeBrov, but he wasn't quite low enough
Here's another look LeBrov cancelled his recall goes up
Just as he goes for that cannon minion time to strike. Yep
Nicely done there. And Hossama knows you could get the chase out now though, LeBrov.
Comeyway, flash in, little bit of extra shielding coming in from the warm hugs, but
Comeyway does manage to get the kill, and it looks like they will be able to crash this wave, at least denying some CS back in return, trying to even the gold out.
Yeah, we come out of the replay after they had just gotten their first blood, and we see,
Oh, LeBrov, that's such a good job. You know, he waits for Jackie to use his
Fleet Footwork auto on minion, you know, wait for the perfect timing, then moves up, and then on the reset though,
He's stuck around, and Fingiwei is able to get a kill back on him.
And you're just happy that it's not the Jhin getting the kill, I think, at the very least.
Definitely true. Jungle pressure up by the Tristana counter pick lane.
Broken Blade trying to figure out a way to hop over, but Tien doesn't give him the angle to hop.
Flash is in to keep the fear, Tether going doesn't quite finish it.
Broken Blade now in trouble. Skumon in the way up.
It's way on getting lower and lower. Skumon moving in.
Q flash, perhaps, is probably out of range.
I said just walking up.
LeBrov ready to back them up, but imagine the play just fizzles here.
I mean LeBrov's coming around too. Okay, he's going for the reset now, nevermind. Recalling,
they're calling it off too. Man, that was, that was nicely played by Broken Blade, does
go for the escape. Cancels the recall there, which he end up putting the ward down.
Hanselma is completely zoned off his tower as well. You just cannot be leaving Aleutian
alone against the Jin Karma, jailed under his tower. It's going to be a hefty cost to
to try and bail Broken Blade out.
Very hefty.
I mean, especially with the ward from Tien alerting
LeBrov's presence in that trybush
and getting another cancel on the recall,
delaying him even further.
Yeah, lots of minions missed here by Han-Sami.
You can see it impacting Lucian there.
Almost, you know, cutting that gold lead in half, basically,
discounting the extra kill.
Of course, in the course of this series,
we have seen caps pass Ming in terms
of international assist.
I mean, while on the top lane, double bounce going over the wall.
Time bomb still ticking. Brokeblade wants to go Mega for the extra bit of health.
Lay on.
I don't know if Brokeblade knows the word. Is he here?
I don't think he did.
When the Mega... okay.
He's so close to Mega though.
Skim on the way up.
Can you beat him in?
Can you beat him in?
Wom is gonna be big.
Locks him down.
Q through! Down goes way up. That's the counter pick.
G2 pay attention to the top side once again, and this time, come away with a much bigger prize.
He's playing on the edge of that broken blade this time.
Bates him in, sets up the kill here for Skumon.
Nicely done by broken blade.
I mean, without a series started,
you know, this guy might need an apology form
because he escaped the gank initially
from the counterpicture Stonna
and then sets up his jungler for a kill
really nicely done in this game for BV.
That it is.
Credit to the team as well.
Bailed him out.
It was looking pretty dire.
LeBrov, you know, they end up conceding about half of the advantage that Han Sama had built for himself or that they had built in that 2v2,
but TES still feel comfortably in control on the bottom side of the map.
Know that they're gonna have first-pile, at least on the Scuttle Crab, if not the Drake as well.
Nice burst trade.
800 gold in favor of G2 thus far.
Fun way getting that ball and kill really the only thing that's making it any worse, but not the most substantial gold lead yet
Is this one six in any big complications?
Spiraling despair is there cream looking for the separate ball put flash out from caps understanding just how much damage would come through
If he wasn't able to get away
Well creamed is a very good job
He gets all this damage out down onto caps so that even though Schumann's kind of passing through right after Schumann got six
That's there's no gank there because caps already out of the fight big big damage from cream nicely done
Of course caps is going to be vulnerable in the mid lane as well has some in her spell books
So you can get a little bit creative here but without flash against a nocturne hard to guarantee you'll be able to land that gold card
Really the the biggest sign of good news is the plated steel cap pickup for broken blade and his advantage
Forcing way on to pick up a plated steel cap as well. You saw for brief moment
He got a recurve bow realized he wasn't as far ahead as he wanted to be instantly just picked up his own plate of steel caps
Meanwhile now we're gonna look at dragon on bottom half of the map bot lane push in for Jackie love and Fenway
So should be kind of a reverse story for this series where now it's early golden 4g 2
but early dragons will be taken in compensation for the side of TES and
Nocturne is level 6 as well fun way gonna stick around again
I'll let you, the shielding there from LeBrav though, the warm hunts making sure the hunts
are on a good recall, on the way, good damage, is he willing to take a tower shot?
The answer for now is no, LeBrav.
Launcher up now.
LeBrav.
You can say he's baiting, but there's no one there to back him up, so I think maybe
just one back and forth.
And the minions are down to the tower right now too, so they're sending Lucian like it's
The top lane, gold card ready to go.
It's way on hoping to find a way out of this one.
No ulti available, no flash.
Will just jump into the tower, gold card there.
Caps knocks him out of the sky.
Trebs a kill for himself.
Yeah, I mean, he picks the counter pick
into a team that was already showing twisted fate.
Caps goes top side.
Meanwhile, yeah, the minions are dying
on bottom side of the map, but G2 to send everybody up
through for this gloves.
They've got five people here.
Completely ignoring the bottom lane.
Jack-Ul-Lup-T and level six ready to go.
So the spiraling despair also up for Cream.
Half-help, he did use it now onto Han-Sama.
Decent jump to kick things off.
Curtain call coming out.
LeBron has the body block a bit,
but can't afford to block too much.
Knockback Severing Bolt!
Clean from Cream.
The artillery in this comp, Tracos.
Really hitting home, broken blade.
Now gonna have to give up position.
And they snipe the extra kill.
Three grubs though, 4G2.
So they do get their grubs, but losing out their supports, the Hui damage, and the Jin snipe damage, really pressuring and getting summoner spells as well as a kill.
Yeah, getting the flash, the heal, and the kill, really just makes it so nice, and now Fungi Wei.
Able to support, it's Wei on in the top lane.
Nice thing for the Karma in this game, 280 carries, you can fall around if you want to.
Both buying playteds seal caps, it's a playteds seal caps kind of game.
doesn't make sense. Caps is the only magic damage, and TF magic damage.
It's not the poster child of damage output. Let's just put it that way.
Yeah, and he's going for Rod of Ages as well, so...
All right, let's take a look at this damage. So, Cream lands so much on the Han Sama that it's going
to force LeBron to do a lot of blocking form. Good dash there from initially from Han Sama,
so he lives. But then, couple of the Jin hit bullets hit. LeBron flashed the rain, the root
Everything still hits!
He's already marked and the projectile was mid-air.
If he had flashed a tenth of a second, maybe even sooner than that, he would have been fine.
But it's just that tiny difference that ensures the route connects when the Severing Bolt lands.
Tiniest margin of error as we have a full engage in the top lane,
but we're going to quick pan away as it's not going to pan out.
NAR utilized by Brocumblay doesn't connect.
Tian, Bungieway.
Covering nearby.
Alt T there gold card ready to go
But it doesn't work that was like
Don't hide and seek and jump scary like puts the blue trinket out of it
He's like all right fine
I'm gonna immediately hold on you and whenever you're getting close to a tower again with CNN caps
Still nervous so he backs off this time old down though for TN
I mean that was very nicely done by caps blue trinket susses amount now knock turn ultimate down
This is very early on so you're not there an ultimate cool down quite substantial and
Caps avoids it with
Very minimal effort just the trinket ward used
Well played good patience as well tries to get the timing with the wild cards and the gold card
But doesn't work, but doesn't need to because Q-mon is also there to cover
Experimental X-play coming in for Tian, but unfortunately after the alt has been used so is it gonna help with this initial cool down?
I
Probably has Q want to cover I mean G2
Look at this they're bringing five people to the top side of the map so TS are in defense
But they're numbered caps on the way in gold card goes in under TN locked down on the wall
But great spell show from TN make sure that they can make their way out Q getting stacked up cream flashing away nice pullback
But all the spells going a bit wide because there's not a lot of a damage follow up is there firing a spare to the
Demons off there on this Q mob a cream drop he falls all of G2 was arrived to the top side
Jackie Love cannot show up, so the man advantage for G2 just pays off.
Tien running for the hills, gold card once again in the spell shield there,
but there's too many spells coming. Not enough time for that cooldown to come back.
Hoping to get a kill back into Scumon, but he's got the blast shield,
he's got the hugs, and he's got the kill.
Yeah, TS, they don't account for all five. It's a full overload played from G2.
They said full five members, so when TS are trying to like,
oh, hey, we're gonna counter this with a teleport and trap you,
you they fight between towers down an extra person keeping Jackie love on the bottom side is the
only kind of compensation that he has got so Jackie did get to keep pushing but that is there was
unnecessary from TS after they had escaped they had escaped the big play but they're not fully
respecting the full five members coming over and because I see the Lucian so far so far down in
lane and they call for the teleport on Cream. I mean, way ahead immediately flash out and it's
a bad spot between the towers. Really good job by G2 to focus Cream after that. This way that had
been so difficult to deal with from long range doing so much artillery damage. Now it's teleporting
in the middle of your face into your lane. No flash. Get the kill for G2. That is a huge momentum
between there, Traco. It's completely massive. I agree and Cream had been such a nightmare in
in the mid lane, right? This control mage, you can just effortlessly delete waves,
stop you from being able to do anything in mid, well, when he TP's in top,
suddenly you have that angle. Downside for G2, again, you said,
kind of switching the script from what we saw in the first few games.
They are the team with the gold lead, but they're losing Drake after Drake to the side of TES.
The third, probably going to force a fight as TES turned into Bully down this tower.
Jackie will have locked up, but they don't quite have enough damage to finish the kill yet.
Cap's on the way and flashes to the wall from broken lane.
Body blocking the spiraling to spare, but he will drop.
Curtain call coming out alongside the Nocturne all the all of G2 and fast retreat as they body block for LeBron ensuring the curtain call
Can't finish him TES a nice little play to knock down bot lane. It's the exact opposite
TES trying to a full five-person overall play on the other side of their map while they've got the split-pushing 80 carry for G2
But G2 they don't fight it. They escape they extract their members
Defensively and they allow the losing to continue to split push
Broken Blade goes down, they drop the one kill only, and so it remains at a 2,000 gold lead,
two dragons for TES, TES also get the tower. I mean it's been a long time, it's kind of awkward
because you saw Tien still hitting the tower, this thing's taking a while while Broken Blade was
trying to fight his way in. So it's just gonna be this, Banguite does force the flash, so another
cooldown used there, Zwayon, he jumps in to try and help with killing the tower, Broken Blade over
the other side of that wall and then the rest of the team they evacuate and they
let Han Sama keep pushing on the top side. And that means Han Sama is holding
on to that gold lead balancing out what Jackula was able to free farm in the
bottom lane taking down some plates. Two and a half items there, sorry one and a
half items there for Han Sama. Similar story for Jackie Love. G2 see if they
can set up another play potentially around mid lane. 16 seconds until that
Harold will spawn next big objective on the map for both sides broken blade already starting to wander his way up from the bottom lane
Does have TP has been matched up against cream who actually doesn't have a TP
So G2 should have a man in bandage here, and it looks like TES may just conceive the objective
Yeah, I think that's the right play and just try and go bottom or something nocturne here. You see nocturne hovering through river
Broken blade though. It's gonna have enough information G2 have wards all over the place
So he plays it appropriately, and they kind of have to do this from TSI, because the Huey has no flash, so
side lanes are kind of difficult to deal with, so they're covering for the Huey to allow Cream to push out, get the extra money,
and G2 will pick up the hero.
And again, this goes back to the start of the game, the crucial play for G2, winning the ball in 2v2, finding that kill, and bailing broken blade out.
Because Cream is not the strong side laner this Nocturne wants to be playing for.
If he was playing for a mega fed Tristana, this game would be a lot, lot easier for TES at this stage of the game.
But instead, it's way on, just about even with Broke of Blade, 200 gold difference, but it doesn't mean too much.
It doesn't stop Broke of Blade from sitting and laying the way it did at level one.
Alright, got Tristana up on top side, going for the recall.
He's got to get a purchase in. First item for Zwayon will be big.
And they buy time for him. He canceled his recall. I need a little bit more money. He's still farming up there.
They're going to have priority to clear out all your vision.
They see Tristana going for another wave.
Means G2 going for the play.
TV to the bottom side.
Instant paranoia coming out.
Capsus backs off.
Good patience.
Happy with the trade of cooldowns.
They also get Swayon's TP as well.
TGS fully believe that G2 were going
to commit for the bot lane dive.
I don't think he's around his bot yet, though.
I think he teleports straight from the top side.
So I don't think he has his completed item.
And G2, they used the Twisted Fate.
They're kind of running TES across the map here.
Nice rotation back for them.
TN, ultra mega fire kick, just pushes him back.
G2 chipping away at those cooldowns.
Might need recalls of their own, though.
One minute until the objective, so they still have time.
If they stick around too much longer,
though, it's going to get awkward.
Pull back.
Bit split, though.
One shot finally connecting, but only one of four thus far.
Good dodgeball skills.
That is, especially with the flow coming in from Cream.
I'm going to grab a plate, I'm going to jump out, but bot lane is just going to recall 40 seconds on the drake, so G2, I don't think I'm going to have time to set up perfect vision, but with caps already splitting on the top side, it's like a TES won't die there.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, those are pretty big macro wins for G2, because since Rael is running the flash exhaust, that teleport cooldown from the top lane quest is really long, so then getting that out and then making that rotation back for the extra turret plate,
It was quite nice from them kind of running TS across the map. So TES there they're losing little pieces here
incrementally to G2 in the setup for this dragon number three
And G2 positioned pretty well here with Han Sama on two item power spike and skumond on two item power spike
Yes determined to fight for this third Drake Han Sama has a second item completed though much more powerful than Jack you love in the context of this fight
They're bringing in a GP of their own
Bot lane left unattended, so TES bleeding a bit of gold just to be here as Broken Blade
goes in, gets an instantaneous flash!
G2!
Holy, that is value.
His Mega-Dom is just expiring.
Now we're going to go back in, still wanting to kick the fight off.
Gold card ready from Cass, but there's not really a clear target.
Instant flash back from TES, gives them a bit of space.
Flash over the wall from Broken Blade, keeps him standing.
It's way on looking for an angle in.
Jackie left the curtain call not available, spiraling to spare.
a big cool down for TES, but I don't think they have enough left in the tank to finish
this one out. On some a shift a little bit. Lack of vision from TES determined to fight
through the bottom lane.
Can they get the engage onto cream? Cream does not have flash now after that last play.
G2 gonna force TES through here.
TN maybe looking for the 50-50. TES just gonna concede here. Broken blade mounted up ready
to charge into the Herald and he's got his driving license. Not enough to kill the turret,
Please make sure to get value out of the Herald and that's disrupting the Drake stacking from Top East for G2 have TS on the ropes
Man TS are antsy their comp is so fragile and no flash on Jackie or cream now. We're trying to get back to their tower
Jackie love
Flash out from LeBron
On top of this the tower, but we'll just retreat another tower the bottom lane already chunked out on some incredibly low
but dodges away from the gas and grasping off from Kream.
And I gotta say, you brought it up earlier, right?
We saw TES make a very similar play in the bottom lane
to what G2 did, but they overcommitted.
G2 instead of this entire game have been
kind of fake starting these plays,
and TES are always believing it,
always forced to respond using a TP
to ensure that they show up flashing away from a gnar
instantaneously, because if they get caught,
they know the fight is over,
and G2 playing with this information so well.
They're not overcommitting ever,
and they're getting so many cooldowns for free.
And now, but you're looking at a game where no flash, Jin, and Wei,
and you have to tend to some side lanes versus caps that has the lich pane completed, burst damage here, four twisted bait.
I mean, you do have a knock-turn on your team to try and cover, but Han's like...
I thought he was going to finish the tower if I cost him his life.
Watch out. Alti coming in from TN, Han's trying to sad step, oh, it's an absolute disaster! The million falls!
TES
Two kills gift wrap donated g2 giving him a bit back for the scuttle crab. We saw in the previous game
Oh, what is it with this power? It's terrible
He's got two guns point one at the tower point one a Jackie love
I mean it does make the game more interesting
It does make it a lot more interesting
Does not finish barely click on that the tower had like what 30 70
37 HP left on it, and Tian punishes that 4, capitalizes on it.
Yeah, whoops, how bad.
That's the reaction you get when you're ahead in the game though.
When you're 2K up, that's the whoops, not the oh god I'm from the entire game.
You see the vision though, right?
You said it.
He's like, oh, I'm going to kill this tower instantly and then turn on Jackie.
He's on his John Wick moment, dash in, roll across the floor, shoot the tower, it goes
down, pop, pop, onto Jackie, but no, you didn't kill the tower and it did a thousand damage
to you.
Towers are tanky!
Towers are tanky!
What do you mean they're tanky with literally no minions there? That's crazy!
So a bit of an up-seat but one that gets things a bit closer but doesn't cost too much quite yet.
Broken Blade with a double bounce, jumping off the gromp means you'll be able to walk away for now.
Instantaneous ulti coming in from Caps.
Locked down there on his way on, doesn't get the buffer but knocks back the north.
Caps not a ton of damage but more than enough to finish off the Tristana.
This is the concern for TES. We talked about it when you fall behind against this TF.
It's so difficult to get space on the map.
Yeah, good punish from Caps. This Tristana counterpick is not finding value.
Tries to chase too far. They punish it immediately.
And now he gets the tower!
We thought it was G2 versus TES, the rivalry, but it is Honsama versus that Tier 1 tower.
14 vs. Scuttlecrab. These are the side stories we didn't expect to be talking about.
It's the real deep lore that gets you into this matchup.
Two members popping out of the brush there, but it looks like Cap's...
Now we're treating MiniNard there.
They can long chase this. Jackie moving from mid.
It's the ulti coming in, Nocturne going face-first into the value. He's now taking down.
Taking down, Q-Mod going to be in trouble, forced to run away, flashing for Bungie Way, getting the slow down.
We're going to find the follow up route, excellent route coming in from Jackie Love to ensure the two kills.
A shutdown over to the Jhin, and now he's the one with the lead.
That's what this comp has in spades. Extremely long range, the artillery, so you can rotate even from like half a map away.
Get there with the extra pressure, knock turn ultimate, Jhin W follow up, two more kills for TES to keep it interesting.
Let me take a look now at the coin-based gold grind.
You can see Hansama, Jackie Love, neck and neck
find their golds from so many different sources
as Roland Blay trying to usher Tian out of his jungle.
Hit him with a little scooch.
Hansama coming in, Tian.
Will maybe just to make it out of the back of the blast cone.
If that angle was just a little bit different,
he probably would have died for it.
Brother got the red buff, though.
Hell yeah, that's worth it.
That just goes to show, yeah, my death
at the tower for Scodalcrap.
Don't care about that.
I'm getting in there. It looks a little dangerous to you. Don't care. Give me that buff.
That's nice to have too, because you don't want to be giving it to Caps or Hansama.
They're once Q-Monday picking it up. And again, so often these high-level games are about the littlest advantage.
Who can get a flash cooldown before a fight starts? Who can get an ulti cooldown before a fight starts?
So, no reason Red Buff can't enter that picture.
I love it. Never lose your edge.
Alright, now though. Speaking of edge, teleporting mid. Dragon is up. Nocturne Ultimate ready to rip.
Rapid fire cannon in for Caps.
He is a fast boy. Jack-o-lup has to be careful.
Scumont up on the side, finds Cream, immediate knock-turn ulti coming out.
Exchange for the Klohling. The objective getting lower and lower though.
G2 gonna have to run face first into TES.
The 50-50! Cream, the one who takes the drake!
Spryling despair into Scumont. Not a lot of follow-up damage.
Knockback into Broken Blade. Right as he's about to go mega.
Curtain called to give TES a little bit more space and G2 retreating into TES' own jungle.
Can they trap them though? Who's running from who?
Flash up, follow-up for Broken Blade. Managed to catch up TN, but it's not the target that he wanted.
Excellent reaction from TES, broken blade down.
Jack looking for the chase.
Curtain call already down, foreshot, rare in to go.
G2 don't get the drake.
They lose one in the exchange.
TES fighting back very well.
What a standoff.
And it is so scary because you have
to be the initiator versus this team that is all damage.
Trying to get in there, they barely
cannot squeeze it through.
Flash used on NAR.
He goes down.
OK, so back to the beginning, though.
DS to turn burn down the dragon during the ultimate it gets very close and you'll see cream put another snare
But it went on to caps so caps could not go from the other side
Scoob on does not get the dragon and they're able to chase them off
But here's the choice do you decide to just go mid push mid for mid prior or chase DS and broken play
He really sees this angle wants to get the flash now ultimate, but he cannot get the big roof
He escaped there flash from the Octurne. They're able to jump out from the other side
He wanted more than that that he did and again the early lane so hard
Managed to make it out relatively unscathed, but he knows that the gold lead has been getting closer and closer and TES
Now it's sole point the next fumble the next mistake is gonna have dire consequences for either side
side.
Only using the rocket jump will have the flash.
Cream and Tian could be vulnerable in these coming minutes as could Fungi Wei.
Caps has a flash.
The exhaust rapid fire cannon is going to be very easy for G2 to find a pick ahead of
the next objective.
Yeah, same could be said for both sides.
Pick for pick.
Long range, nocturne ultimate, twisted fade ultimate, vi ultimate.
Tending to the side lanes is very dangerous, of course.
So, Cream, another cool-down rotation where he does not have his flash.
He used it so early at the beginning of the last one, had to.
But it does mean G2 have an easier time pushing out these side lanes.
Now that they're showing bottom with the twisted fate, Cream can feel confident.
He moves up to get the topside going for himself.
We go for the recall, the reset.
Can either of these junglers, I don't think there's any world where they're gonna get enough money for guardian angel, because they're still just sitting on
Tiny component here, no BF sword, so
Looks like it's gonna be a fair fight, everybody only one life for the next dragon
Two minutes are on the clock there though
So if you, if you put a flash or something now in one of these like
Just attempts to like push a sideways or something
Then you are going to pay for it very heavily when that dragon does come around with a big fight
And with two minutes left on the cocktail dragon responds you can use an ulti to get a flash and still have that cool down up for that big fight
Jack you love excellent position in terms of experience on top of three items infinity edge completed
He does a lot of damage, but will he get an angle to fight to yes doing such a good job of playing maximum range here
nice coming in
Gold card on the Fungi way. He does have Micaels. They maybe hope to find him on that one.
Borgoboy determined to finish the tower. Caps immediately going to alter to the top lane.
Look at the punish. He's way in. Running for his life. Nice damage coming in for Caps.
Boomerang there as well. He's just got no way left to run. That's top laner down,
but it's going to cost G2. Mid lane tower. G2 on the top side. Don't know if they have to keep
pushing to get more, but it's risky. Tien moving up. Has access to the Paranoia. They will just back away.
Super smart move there from G2. They ring him around a rosy here. Now can they actually circle again?
I mean they stayed here for another play and they find 10.
10. Off to the side. Fear there. Jackie live looking to back him up. Gold card connects on the knock turn.
Jungler down. Crucial for G2. Can't overconfident to try to retake his own jungle.
Man the games from G2. Caps kind of slinking off to the side. Olds up to the top. They go for the kill there.
They got the big then they stick around now with no jungler and no top laner
Big damage but on some is already half HP curtain call opening up 5k g2
Can they afford to just focus down the objective half the respective gym for shot Jackie look continuing to walk up
Baron will fall in favor of g2
But how many can make it alive caps waiting over the wall finds a gold card on the cream Q flash forward coming in from
Scumon on some is still alive, but isn't in position to fire back g2 happy to have five barons up
We'll back away still standing
So everybody going for the reset
I want to see if there were anybody sticking around to go for some of these snipes here, but G2 they get it
Paid off from that last couple of minutes really nicely done there using the twisted fatal
Attack the side wrap around kill the jungler and now with the Baron buff
They can finally move over for this dragon deny the soul once again is priority number one and yes
If you look at the minimap, they're sending karma topside too, so that was a trailing play for them.
They fully give up on this dragon, so they're just going to try and get cross map gold.
Didn't want to risk it all on that solo, it would be nice to stop G2 from being able to fully leverage the Baron.
The risk simply too high.
Cream clutch on these snares.
TES just going to do their best to weather the storm again.
You have a control mage in the form of the way if G2 can't find a dive angle.
I expect it just to be some tier 2s falling.
Ranger the Coling, Ranger the Gold card though, maybe they can't break open the base of TES.
Caps is ready for a Messiah moment too, he's got an Armguard.
And exhaust, spellbooked over to exhaust at the moment.
Bring it.
Well, they're just gonna continue their split push though, I mean...
Crayon does finish up that top tower.
All team to the mid lane though, catching out SQmon, looking for an angle to Q away.
Ooh, does manage to escape, denies the play, and now Bot lane is going to be vulnerable if G2 want to push for more.
Instead, they're going to try to punish TES, Caps already moving over, hoping to catch out Jacky Love,
who all on his lonesome doesn't have access to phone you as Mikaels.
Now they can actually wrap around up, they're peaking the goal for Caps.
Look at the mini map, G2 forcing down the towers way on into the mid lane.
Caps going golden, no chance for a Messiah play, just gets a little space for the team.
It's Austin to Jackie Love running for dear life as his team breaks open the base of TES
Caps four inhibitor they get the shut down kill and the money goes to cream
TES trying to get scrappy around the rest of the map. They make the play wrap around mid
They get they break the arm guard and they get the kill
But super minions will be flooding into the base now.
Thankfully for TES, it's still three and a half minutes
before these big buffs though, so.
Honestly, not that bad for them.
Still definitely very playable.
That it is.
Especially as you see G2 pushing in the top wave.
As long as they can protect someone on the catching that one,
they should be fine as bot wave will be perma pushing.
You highlighted it. If there's an objective up,
that inhibitor being down would be a nightmare,
but you're only going to have a minute and 30 seconds.
G2 immediately killed Baron and spawn of those empowered supers, so should be fine.
Now however, poking and prodding around the bottom side, I think both teams very aware that Seoul is the big focal point.
It would be Seoul point for G2, actual Cloudsoul for the side of TES.
Making lives a lot easier in those fights.
Although it's kind of bad on Jin.
I'm gonna go with that. Kind of terrible on Jin.
Just post up Sniper, put the gun back down, if I was running, I would be really fast.
Tristana is about to collect a massive wave on topside, and Joao needs that money for
an infinity edge for the Tristana.
If they could get to the infinity edge in the next couple of minutes, that would be
huge for them, trying to funnel that money into them.
and then you have the double 80 carries having an extra threat you highlighted, it should be so massive.
Again, so many single target tools for the side of G2, they can pick off one member, but there are three carries on the enemy team.
Should be pretty comfortable. Broken Blade though, happy with those defensive items.
The fact that he gets to build plated steel caps and the ramp that wins against two crit champions on the enemy team
is a dream come true for item efficiency.
Yep.
And everybody's gonna have summoner spells available except for Penguin Way.
For the big objectives.
Arrival of both of them is going to be synced up very closely here
So the advantage that TES have you make them think you play the vision games around the Baron and
Make G2 split resources because they have to deny you this dragon soul
But they also cannot afford to give up a Baron
Can you make them pay for it with your long range and punish with the double objectives available?
It'll be a little bit harder the broken arm guard enough time is passed now the cast may be able to turn into a full Zonja
So can once again go from Messiah player get a little bit more time in a team fight make the picks from Tian a little bit less lethal
GA also there for skew mod and Tian so getting a lot of second lives at this point
It's like it's coming down to potentially one final fight here around this soul
G2 I like that they take priority first fully sweep all visit coverage away from the Baron
Get, leave some behind in the pathway that leads up to it.
Really make this safe for yourself so that TES are not able to play that game
between the two objectives.
They push up, they're also going to have caps here where Twisted Fate Ultimate,
Twisted Fate the ultimate reveal for those plays.
Well, that perfect information is G2.
Fighting over mid-Pryo, fighting over bot-Pryo, knowing that the supers should make it easy.
letting TES get an angle to just move through mid or move through bot as
Skumon poking a bit. Gold card coming out for Caps. Lockup is there. Down goes the
Nocturne. Second life coming in. Nocturne coming in from behind. Rage starting to
stack. TN needs to live if he wants to help his team get this one. Caps goes in with a gold card to
turn to take him down. Willing to trade his own life, but TN still survives. Rook coming in,
will catch Caps on the way out. Flash in, going in. Skumon wants to leave the members.
Broken blade! Harry snots back into the wall! But the Voluntary just isn't there.
Play on wants to make it out managed to take one in return Q coming through interrupt is there
It's an absolute bloodbath dragon be damn G2 might just go for the game
Forget Messiah. Holy moly caps every engage. He makes it happen in G2
They're inside the base cream desperate to recall
Be able to stop him caps can he finish it? He's got the lich pain. He's shredding through the towers
Recall there broken blade
They can't close it. Yeah, they don't know if they can't go for the end, but they're gonna get two inhibitors off it. Oh
That was incredible
The follow-up there after the re-engaged to get the extra kills
They continue to take apart the TS base piece by piece and yet TS still live still fighting in this game
Here's another look at it. This was this was honestly kind of crazy
So starts out really good focus they burst down on some is able to follow up the damage to they get the
guardian angel and then did it so low that
catch is like I'm gonna go follow for this and use my zonias then the rest of
the team needs to follow but because nocturne ultimate like they take a little
while then the team gets there caps lives as they get there they get the
kills but then so much damage in the counter here just before he goes down
way on wasn't able to get that last one really just the slim as a margin so you
You can see Jackie Love hurts. One auto taking out about half of his HP is now even another fight breaking out.
Tien gonna use Destiny coming out as well. Cole and getting a bit of chip damage down on the cream.
TES now forced to back away. Trading cool down for cool down.
All Tien on the Jackie Love. They know he's vulnerable. Redemption down across the top.
Tumon getting a bit extra healing, but he's forced to retreat.
TES have absorbed the initial engage and are now looking to turn with the curtain call.
Second shot landing. Third. Fourth. Waiting. Not gonna find a target.
Oh, this game is insane! Gold card immediately!
Using Mikhail's there from putting away. He's fine.
They're gonna have to back off. Okay, Baron here on the table. Super Medians are...
are off the table for bottom side and yet
mid lane, they still have to deal with this.
Ten.
We've seen how willing he is to fight for these red buffs.
Moving into the contest, Q-Mars, so damn fast.
On the cloud rift, especially with that additional movement speed, Broken Blade recalled the knight, or at least slowed down.
Super's in the mid lane though, mean G2 should always be able to get first on this objective.
Infinity Edge done here, first way on.
He had gotten that other kill at the very end of the tail end of that last fight.
And then, the rest of this money here, now up to three items for the Tristana.
He's still a full item behind Broken Blade, but now, so much more of a threat when they get into these little scraps.
G2 still with the substantial gold lead, and yet, Dragon, Sol, pretty far away!
There they are, three and a half minutes, three to three, the next one.
One of these teams will be grabbing the Sol.
You can see Jackie Love, though, picking up a QSS of his own, so it'll be double cleanses in the next fight
to make sure that he doesn't get picked off.
TES, early in the game, we were critical, right? They didn't quite have the discipline they needed to back off,
But in these later fights, they've been so good at not over-committing on a single cooldown,
forcing G2 to burn a little bit more.
Yeah, and Cream's way is doing so much damage.
You know, the only reason G2 could end in the last one,
his spiraling despair actually popped and killed Scumon at the very end,
so there was only caps in the base.
If that was caps and Scumon, you know, maybe they actually could, but they're going for a pick on him!
Alti there, caps isolated, but managed to alt out just in time.
Alt for Alt.
It's coming from Sculan.
Locks up Bungie Way.
Extra healing coming in from the Montreux W.
Root.
Severing.
Oh my gosh, Severing Bolt.
The good news is the shielding, the healing, it's enough.
But this is the artillery we mentioned before.
Have to be careful.
Here G2 on over committing.
Thank goodness.
So much damage in this game.
It's so incredible to watch.
And the Guardian Angels, the cooldowns
are coming up very shortly.
So we're going to have those junglers with the extra lives on the front line to force it again
Baron started up by G2
They can look for the turn here broken blade has a good build on his NAR bar right now
It's very close to Megan are he can pop it
Wants to get TN out of this wall of good back to play TN three cam to Baron getting lower and lower skew Mond
Managing to secure it technically caps the one to get the kill
but it's G2's Baron in the end, and that's all that matters.
Great force by G2.
Takeover vision coverage.
Leave your Meganar the wall here, not allowing TSN.
They have lots of damage.
They have lots of range.
They don't have anyone who's a great face checker.
G2, they gain the Baron.
Again, another setup here for Dragon Soul.
One minute, 18 seconds on the clock.
And they will still be empowered by the Baron
this Red Bull Baron power play. Imagine it'll just be used to get access to this Drake. G2,
4v4, huh? Sama stepping up, Cole, and doing a lot of damage to TN.
A minute ahead of the dragon, so everybody can just go reset after this.
Caps? Oh. Checking away that out for TP. They want the kill. They want the kill.
Sway on, dash back in on the caps. Exhaust immediately traded for exhaust. Knockback
is there reset on the jump of caps, TPing right back in, he's not done yet!
How good is this guy, caps into previous game, caps here on Twisted Fate making some critical plays for G2 to gain map priority.
They find the pick and now they're coming for the base!
Might not even need the soul. Two inhibitors exposed, broken blade and they'll make it a third.
TES on the ropes, they were 2-0 up and now it's G2 who may just be pushing us to Silver Scrapes.
Oh, they're closing in, Trinkos.
TES running out of time to force a fight.
Rapid fire, Otto is going to break a tower here in a second.
Nocturnal immediately comes up.
Cream walked up on the backside, but still has enough HP
to throw another round of cooldowns.
Maybe he need to go back to Bound-A-Bot,
Ops, not to LeBrov.
Getting lower and lower, TN in trouble.
Broke of play leaping into the enemy fountain,
looking for the knockback, and they managed to do it.
G2, take us to a game five.
G2 vs TES!
Tied up!
Here it is, Sean!
Just incredible stuff.
Momentous bounce back in that game three.
Let's send it over to the analyst.
Let's talk about everything we just saw unfold.
Game five, baby!
Let's go!
G2, do it in the end, guys!
If you think about two hours ago,
it looked completely cooked for Europe.
and they turn it around, they manage to find the solution here against CS, and they take us to Gen 5!
I cannot believe the difference between Game 1 and Game 2 G2, to now a Game 5 G2 that looks fully online!
Go buttons! Go buttons, man! That is really what it feels like it is all about here.
Scumon, like the Vi, capped was everywhere, splitting the map on the TF, and Broken Blight
in this fight is finding some go buttons of his own, flashing in, getting the gnar against
the wall. This was such a crazy game though, because it felt like G2 was dominating the
pace for such a long time from the mid game into the late game, but TS was holding on,
holding on, holding on, holding on, and you just didn't know which way it was going to
go until the very end.
You know, I saw that draft and I was like, they're not listening to us because we've been talking about go-buttons and especially enabling LeBrav when I saw that Meteor for LeBrav was like,
no, they're not speaking as much as I think they are, but in the end it's a team effort and you called it Isaac a couple hours ago.
Caps stepping up, finding solutions with G2 and he did once again with this tweet test.
I think experienced triumphs when it comes to these moments because I think when you're playing this hard heavy towards top lane,
Zwayan locks in a counter pick going Tristana versus the NAR.
And we see Caps be like, OK, I'm going to lock in the twisted
fate and play the damn map.
Every time he sees an angle on Zwayan,
he goes and locks it in.
Yeah.
The constant literally zeroing in on him on the side lane,
I think is what won them this game.
Yeah, no, I completely agree, right?
And it is really, really tough.
You're in this super high pressure situation.
And Caps played this out beautifully, by the way.
hits a gold guard, chunks him low, waits for the TP,
bends away on Neitz, knows, okay,
only way I can go is back in, but Caps waits, waits, waits
till after the reset, holds the activation of the ult,
goes in, finishes him off, gets the solo kill
on the side lane that really ended up winning the game.
And this is Caps in wins.
Caps in the first two games was invisible
on the Leblanc, on Diary.
The last two games, it has been Caps magic.
There is a reason that every time Europe is doing well,
this guy is at the forefront,
Whether it was on Fnatic back in the day, or whether it has been with G2 for all these years.
Yeah, from Krabs to Katz, in the end he still got it, and it's funny because you have the veteran on one side,
and you have the super rookie on the other on the side of TS, so we are showing what he's made of here on his first step on MSI.
And I don't think you should step away from these carry options, you should just learn in these situations,
because this is the first time you're on a big stage like this internationally,
And I felt like within this game, once you fall behind on an extra stone, a counter pick like this, it is so hard.
Now, impossible to claw back into this game.
And TDS gave me some hope.
They gave me opportunities where I'm like, are you really going to come back in moments like these?
And I think Tien was able to find moments and angles on size to kind of find a pick or two, but it just wasn't enough.
Yeah, I mean, we saw the first game was by far the most impressive, you know, from Zoyan.
He was looking amazing on this Ambesa.
But he has got to really rise to the occasion here. We've seen these brilliant games from him, but I feel like
For a player, you know first international series here going into a game five the pressure is gonna be ramped up that much more
So we need him locked in we need him playing at his best
Because I feel like it's even scarier in a situation like this having had a game where you just had counterpick
And it didn't go the way you wanted, you know, if that's gonna play on or not
completely agree just imagine top-sized losing bot lane has some aspiring
on the whole momentum's on the side of G2 ladies and gentlemen MSI is on five
games is what we're gonna get today five games between G2 and TS can G2
overcome what happened at walls against TS or is the LPL second seed gonna take
it in the end turn up silver scrapes will be back
I
It's time for the very first game by the here in the game between G2 Esports and TES.
Things didn't look like this if you looked at the beginning of the series but G2 made
it here in the end and what is the most surprising thing for me is that they have the whole support
of the crowd here.
Yeah, I mean the crowd
G2's just getting stronger and stronger every part of the series
They have the momentum and yet it is crazy, you know, we're in Korea, but you're here
Let's go G2 and you're hearing all kinds of of cheers for them the reactions when they're getting a kill
Yeah, our wilds who definitely they have the home crowd advantage. It feels like here in Dejon
And it's an early series in the competition, but it's the moment that makes or breaks a team here in in a game 5
I mean the fact that you have the crowd cheering for you the momentum after coming back after two difficult games on the side of G2
Versus a lineup on TS that is playing for the very first time together on the international stage
And it is only the first round
But let's be honest he wouldn't be able to you're playing each other one of those teams give me the loser bracket
You do not want to lose this bracket one of the best teams in the world down there
So you would like to win this game five? Let's talk about what they have left for their champions here
We got to go think about fearless a little bit because it is game five. It's fearless
This is where things can get pretty crazy. TES have gone for last pick G2 going blue side
I do think last pick makes a lot of sense
Especially in a game five fearless because you have no idea what they're gonna be bringing out
so maybe they really want to be able to kind of see what you do.
And so for me, the most obvious one has been the pick that's been played by Zoyan the most,
and I don't even think it's going to be something afforded to him. It's going to be that Jace.
And the least in from Tian, I think, is one of his best picks, but obviously like Tian is not
going to go towards the least in or the Pantheon for globals. Either of those picks, I think,
can really send it home for them. Yeah, I mean, I'm still thinking about like,
Caleb being up, about Ziggs being up, Bard being up, Jace being in the least in. There are
a lot of these actual power picks up that have been getting banned or kind of ignored quite a lot.
Yes. So we'll be interested to see what the ban strategy is going to be. Our team is going to
just try to leave a bunch of OP's up and trade them. Are they going to be going a different
angle? I would love to look at G2's as well if we do have it. Yeah. And for me, I think of G2,
I think of the LEC finals that they played against Kessie. And I'm looking at SQmon here.
And one of the last picks we see on the jungle row because SQmon, he had that dog in him when
when he played at that finals, playing the Nazars, a champion that no one saw coming,
I'm looking to see if you want to give a bit of space to Skimon in a situation like this,
because you know that he's going to make the best of it.
I think so. I think for me, it's always going to be about comfort.
If you're on a stage like this, especially if you're Zleion and Zed, like Bangyoi,
like wanting to be as comfortable as Papala, there's more going.
I can't believe it.
This is Jutus Comfort Zone.
Yeah.
Like in fight.
Yeah.
I mean, they are crazy.
When I think of Wild Picks, PB is someone that I love to watch.
He's one of my favorite players for that reason,
because he's always down to cook.
And I mean, your question, do you give that faith to Schumann?
Do you give him the space to cook?
I think absolutely.
He is that rising star in Europe.
He was part of the back-to-back 3-0s over the LCK teams.
You've got to give the faith that this player can pull it off.
If any of your players see that angle, you've got to go for it, I feel like.
You have to trust.
I agree, which makes it all the more important
the top of these sports chose last pick,
so they don't give him the opportunity to counter pick
and hopefully his way on,
is it gonna be able to get a counter pick himself?
Well, and the other thing that becomes really powerful
in games like this is, okay, if they're gonna go
for last pick, they wanna know where everything's going.
Yes.
Flex picks can deny that.
If you can draft for something that has the ability
to actually flex even after you've gone for all five
and you're not sure exactly where they're going,
counter picks become much harder as,
and G2 is the team crazy enough to do it.
That's true, that's true. I looked at the top of Eastport side and there's a Leaston both in the jungle and top lane.
Most of the time I see a top lane Leaston, I want to puke.
So I'm not asking for that one.
Final thoughts here, guys. Champion, of course, is going to be really important, especially in that fearless draft format.
But what is it going to come down to between these two teams?
I think it comes down to momentum. I had G2, a 3-2 prediction at the beginning of the day.
I'm believing in them to get it done. Caps has been on fire.
We've seen him do it so many times before and they have one back-to-back games
I feel like the pressure is gonna be getting to top when people ask me if momentum exists most of the time
I say hell no and then I see moments like these and I'm like you know what you have a damn good point
G2 is finding answers. They're confident in them and they're gonna repeat them
I feel like it's gonna be top eSports that needs to fight back in some way can by let
Better late than never on this side of G2. They found the answers so far against. Yes. Can they do it again?
We're heading to get five testers over to you
Tied to see the draft the counterpaste etc and this champion select presented by HyperX
Kobe
Game five feel is is the the one I think true game of feel is this is where we get deep into the weird champion pools
Already, we're seeing your band threatening if you don't ban the Jace we might slam it down
Jace I feel like is
I'm gonna get through okay taste not through okay, but Yone Silas these types of things gain a lot of weight
Especially when you're talking about cream
Let's see what we decide to go with early on here
So much has been taken out of the champion pool and they go with caps. I assume still flex big
No cats is freaking good at anivia. So he is
Okay, so flex big and then
Oh, Mel Botlane.
Keeping my Camille is also up, and the Camille
Mel Botlane parent has been disgusting.
You're right.
Camille is through.
That is disgusting.
All right.
Mel, the premier Botlane mage.
Rass added himself in Blanz earlier,
expected that Botlane mage infestation has not been the case.
We've seen some Mel games.
We've seen some Ziggs games, but that's about it.
Instead, Pantheon are going to be the pick up here.
Semi-global pressure, a really powerful early game jungler.
Remember, Tien was key in both of Top Esports wins in Game 1 and Game 2.
He was active so early on, and this is a champion that can do that.
Ziggs, here we go.
We've been waiting, waiting for Ziggs to show up.
So good at letting your support roam.
You mentioned the possible Camille floating around, and that is what is looming.
They wanted to get the Pantheon first, though.
I definitely agree with that, because unless G2 are going to, like, steal away Mel and
You fail Camille then you can pick it up afterwards on the next round of picks
Okay, we got here few mods
Copy BX on into the pantheon dashes
They're gonna opt for it now also good into a potential Camille if that's what top these sports want to go for
We're going to get the silver late game scale in powerhouse also great alongside
Melee picks something like the old off, but of course we did see that
earlier in the series to see what they want to do to make the most of this
additional movement speed we're talking about that's the scary one creams
yone a terrifying pick are they gonna lock it in with the ziggs I assume they
are I mean you already secured your AP's damage from bot lane so opens this
wide open for Korean there we go he gets to lock it in the yone here and it's a
good matchup into Enivia. People like to pick it into Enivia both mid and even in the rare
cases when it gets played in topside sometimes. So bot lanes both going to be focused a lot
on farm. I like the Ziggs Pantheon too just as a combination. Even if the Pantheon is jungle,
which is where I'm assuming that it's going, even though technically you could also rotate it to
support if you want to do. But even coming from jungle, it helps to have the point click
stuns to set up zigz bombs and to keep people there for really the dream yone alts
helps to have a little bit of extra setup but very big wombo gubble potential
with those three champions that tes are wielding yeah we have also good sideline threat with the
pantheon on top of that pairing with the yone on the opposite side for g2 we're highlighting it look
the little eight game teamfights very easy for a sivir anivia composition they want you to waste
a cooldown and then punish you fight a fight as they back up back away but the trundle going to be
band away, maybe setting up for a topside tank. It didn't look great. We're swaying
on in the in the scion game, but maybe they feel like they have a better angle this time
around. Yeah, let's see where we go for a trucks as well. Hitting the band. So they're
trying to whittle down on his options. We've seen enough LPL, a trucks and specifically
trauma band. That's a trauma band. It's specific this way on. Yeah, probably. But also, again,
Watching back the series from Morals this morning,
there was an Atrox moment.
There's always an Atrox moment.
So one way to guarantee there is it, is to ban it away.
Mundo also taken off the board of potential top lane
or jungle pick.
Yeah, and G2, I mean, they're looking at,
like you said, a very good like front to back team fight
set up for themselves here.
So, as long as they try and keep it controlled,
it is gonna have a good option.
The Mundo ban interesting too.
Okay, Leona, so they don't want,
Yeah, they don't want anything else to be able to set up already the combo game as a TS or so, right?
Do you like that one?
There's a lot of tension in these last couple things.
Yeah, I guess they're covering two...
Like, you could easily flex poppy support, so the Mundo bin is also kind of doubling as top lane and it flexed around a lot.
The Schumann was always such a great Mundo, but...
Malkai does pair well. More wombo with your combo as we're just looking for big AOEs to keep you in place.
And it also brings a little bit more magic damage to help offset.
Get you a lot of space too to move in.
We'll see where the Malkai goes.
I mean, I'm assuming that it is the Malkai support, but it could be the Pantheon support, like we said earlier at the beginning, to flex it down there.
Okay, that's a top lane in Ikea.
I think
Okay, G2 as the analyst has predicted as anyone who's watched you two for another year is predicted there are some flex picks happening
Yeah, it might be Mel in the mid lane. I think it is Mel in the young a really good
What are we are we at?
They want to follow the anivia the brothers they want they want to follow the anivia if the anivia is going to top like we
Said then you keep your own a match up into it
Might be easier, match some of the split game scaling power. A lot of magic damage though,
because remember Yone isn't pure physical. Okay, instead we're just stacking up on tanks.
They say never mind, Cream, how many tanks do you want?
Yes.
I mean, it's just more wample with the combo, right? We'll take a gauge.
You get a big old train with your Falkiol and your Yoneol and your Ziggsolt.
Okay.
These should be the lanes right here. No more swapping.
Their theory about how to handle the mel is if we put enough big ultimates that she can rebuttal back at us
She only gets one rebuttal and we have a lot of alties. This I love fearless game 5 so much that you highlighted
It so well TES the most wombo with the combo here. They got the number four
They're looking to put it together full meal right there opposite side for G2
They need to weather the storm they need to use this poppy they need to deny these angles for TES's setup. Oh
Oh man, here we go. Game 5. I mean, it was like we've been starved of games here at MSI so far with all these 3-0s.
And now we get a juicy Silver Scrapes final decider between TES and G2 here. Incredible.
Because the all-time game score between these two teams at Riot International's coming into today was started at 4-4.
Now it's just six and six, this is the decider of deciders.
It was who will end the day with seven.
Who will get us to the six-seven back score?
Ah, there you, there you saw the ankle!
I cringed a little bit, but you know what, I think it's funny.
I still love dabbing, I have no shame in it.
We're getting ready for game five.
Time to see if the Wombo combo from the side of TES will work out,
out or if G2 will be able to break it open, blind some angles in these early lanes.
Anivia versus Ornn in the top lane, Mel mid versus the Yone of Cream.
The Cream is a huge opportunity to carry.
This is one of the picks that I at least know him best for.
One of the things that you've seen him really take over games.
On top of that, he's going to need a lot of time, right, and that's going to be a struggle
for G2 because the Ziggs is just so good at taking over this spotlight.
Yeah, and it really remains to be seen because I think that G2 should have pushing top and
pushing mid to work with here so we'll see how much jungles to kind of upset some
of these matchups because with the double AP solo lanes 4g2 and isolation
those are great you know you get tons of poke damage over and over and over
try and get priority try and you know play with skumon but skumon on the poppy
here you have some extra synergies and if you can build walls in the top lane
You can that's the the Agis Nox Luna or G combo you can smash people
Huh into those top lane walls try and go to broken blade or you could go really try and
Inhibit the income of the yone as much as possible
And I do think it is important that they don't let TES get an early lead because Han Sama needs so much time
And as you've highlighted so much their damage is magic damage that an orange on a single MI item is a pretty
Difficult front line to get through early on.
Murk treads, insane value this game.
So the itemization choices for top-east puts are easy.
Up until Honsama really can make his mark on a teamfight.
Technical applause.
The anticipation for those matches has gone through the roof.
It's too great.
It's too great.
We need to add more anticipation.
More.
Add more.
More is the solution.
The technology also knows.
It's shut down.
It's too stressed.
The technology too stressed.
too high. It is enough for bracket match to the loser will not be eliminated but
again we talked about it there are three favorites for the tournament none of
these guys are in but these are both the teams hovering right outside the top of
the table expectation these are the believers these are the believer yes
the we could do it the dark horse of possibilities of the tournament the
Let's prove everyone else wrong. They're close
Draco's is so stressy is taking his shoes off as we pace around circles. I got suspenders on I got no
I'll make sure not to step on your toes. Thank you. Thank you. I look like a hobbit
It is or if I need a really high volume call from you. Yeah, just BAM
I've got my emergency
Draco's pop really getting into the spirit of call your shots
I just got a little spank out of time.
I killed him.
And as good of a time as we're having.
You're either through for the players, I'm saying,
because their coaches probably give them their little speech.
They're like, all right, guys, we can do this.
And then you sit.
I mean, and you got to soak in it for a minute.
You can't just, you know, jump right into the game.
It's a tough spot to be in.
Yeah, and it's already an incredibly stressful situation.
But then you add onto it, you know, especially on the side of TES,
two players international debut today and
Going through the roller coaster of we looked so good and smashed in one games number one and number two
But then you can't help but like feel the momentum just completely
Taking away from you as G2 starting to build up that reverse sweet
Possibility they win the next two and take away the momentum in the series now
Now you have to pause again, calm down, focus on what you're going to execute on within
this final game.
And I think that, look, the rookie's already impressed in those first two games, but the
last two games have been rough.
And I think for Splayown specifically, who shined the most, right, individually just
doing so much work, struggling there, kind of his story is so heavily affected by what
this Game 5 looks like.
If he finishes this series, Game 5, after losing two games consecutively, what an incredible story for Rookie of the International stage.
It almost takes that story out of contention completely for the rest of the tournament.
You're just never going to doubt this guy and these big clutch Game 5 moments and these moments where really everything is on the line.
But at the same time, you know, the rookie man of pop esports is waiting, is lingering, the oops they fooled you again.
The fans and haters waiting to descend on this team in this lineup and those sins of the past aren't the sins of the rookies.
aren't these new players they weren't there for those moments but if you drop this game by you don't perform in this game five people are
Gonna put you right into that category
instantaneously
Until easy key here for the fifth and final game
Focusing up
We are investigating currently and we'll take you as soon as we know
In the meantime
We need to get into some more voices.
We're not going to go to the analyst desk.
We're just going to bring them here.
Raz, ring ring.
The nanophone, Raz, hello.
He's trying to answer.
I think are you here?
We're going to have to turn you guys up too because you might be talking and I can't hear you.
Hold on. We're handling our own technical difficulties simultaneously.
Yeah. We decided to create our own issues here.
here we figured we'd come say hello dude it's an actual banger we were joking
coming in here like all right it's on us we're gonna put a stop to these three
ohs I cast and then we do oh honestly not how do you guys are here just nice
little couch we guys are doing such a great job we could be like the
background singers yeah I want a raft as I gotta turn right up I can't even hear
Whatever the last word is just repeated.
Oh, I got you on that one.
Greg is like, they stole the dragon.
I'm just like, dragon!
Dragon!
Dragon!
Dragon!
We got you.
So, Razz, how was the science museum that you went to today?
Oh, it was fantastic.
I went to the planetarium the first time I've been since elementary school.
What did we learn?
Absolutely nothing.
They spoke in Korean.
We learned that you can't speak Korean.
That was a very good lesson.
Sometimes I forget.
speak Korean. Sometimes I forget honestly that he doesn't have the ability. I mean he speaks pretty
good Mandarin. Yeah we got yeah also all the LPL fans who are upset if we're mispronouncing a name.
We're doing our best to follow the pronunciation guy but it takes some adjusting his way on.
He's keeping us honest. That's true. I mean I'm just excited for game five is
The series was crazy.
Razz and I were sitting on the couch during game three,
at the start of game three after game two,
was like, okay, it's another pretty one sided one.
We're like, is this just,
is there gonna be a single game four in this tournament?
Like what's going on?
And then there's, they're coming back in game three,
game four I feel like they look even better.
They played the map so well.
It is really, really exciting to see G2
being able to bounce back.
And that's one of the things
that's always kind of impressing about Caps
and about this organization
And even this new roster with them,
is their ability to kind of stay calm under pressure
and not just crumble in the moment, right?
Because I think a lot of teams,
after this first two games, would have been hooked.
Very true.
I like the adaptation, of course.
Just turns out, I really prefer when G2 were picking up CC.
I liked how good the brav was in the Lulu,
but I don't like when they've got
but they won when you played Milio.
Yeah, what's up with the Milio?
Milio was good, the Milio was good.
He's got a kick, that's insane.
Brav is the man.
Ultra mega fire kick.
The World Cup kick, nice.
Hey, they don't have fair enough points.
When we look at the two pumps, right?
Like, I am a little nervous as an EU pundit for T2.
Because I feel like what TES want to do
is so simple and straightforward.
And I often feel like that is the thing that makes game five
so much easier.
When the tension is high, sometimes T1 is best.
But there's a lot of strength in what T2 have drafted as well.
Being able to go towards Inuvia and have it.
Even though they did the flexing and put the orange top
against the Inuvia, it's like, you're
still not going to win that lane.
You just might not get bullied as hard, right?
So I still think having for I was going to be really big.
Cyan and Skumon to me have been such engines for their team.
And so getting winning lanes can be a big part.
Yeah, and of course, we have an update now
from our league officials.
They're checking to see if TES swaps champions
after the 22nd cutoff.
They're not allowed to swap after 20 seconds.
After investigating, they've determined
the swap came after the agreed time.
And the draft will be rebade with the order of Ornn, Malkai,
Yone, Ziggs, and Pantheon.
that is what we saw on stream.
So they tried to swap the Yone top at the very end, maybe?
Or maybe the middle side.
Oh, no, in the orange table.
Yeah, I think that would have had to be it.
Yeah, because the last thing I saw was Ornn top.
Yeah.
That's what we saw, I believe, but we saw is the draft
that is going to be confirmed.
I was like, that's not the point.
Ornn mid for game five?
Is that crazy?
Yeah, because I think they were trying to follow the Yone
to the Anivia.
Yeah, because that seems like a really difficult draft
for TES, you have to play the Ornn into the Anivia.
That seems like hell.
So like, I'm a little concerned about that.
This is crazy.
Okay, I mean, I feel like Ornn,
it's just the same as you're playing against Rumble
or any of these champions.
You're just rushing Canyon's record, and then you're AFK
because it's double AP Solanes and a poppy.
I don't really think Ornn's gonna be that worried.
To me, you're just hunting for whatever master
you think is better for Yoni.
So if you think Mal is harder,
then maybe you want to move around, but.
I think that's...
Interestingly, it's actually the Yone,
or sorry, excuse me, the Malkai and the Panteon.
They were coming.
Okay, yeah, a little bit more early
And it makes it a little bit more punishing right because wall panty on can be super impressive early on I think for fiat
has been so active early mouth guy is
You know not the most dominant jungler and early fights. It's also very different if you're expecting okay
Our 2-2 is gonna be this we're gonna be playing you know mouth guys eggs and now it does get changed
It's gonna change those dynamics of the matchup
Maybe they were trying to play a bit more defensively, you know, use Bramble Smash to like stop rel, crash downs and things like that.
I'm not really sure. It's kind of interesting, but it does throw a wrinkle in you.
Hope that if they're going to be forced to play, you know, the rules, because they swap too late, that they can just kind of get past that, accept it and play their rescue.
I will say, if you take a step back, they've lost two games in a row. The momentum is clearly not on their side.
This is just that one little thing. They've wanted to be able to make that swap. They can't do that anymore.
Especially if you have two new players at the international stage in Fengyue and of course you're looking towards Zoyan, it's tough.
It's tough. You have to be able to dig yourself out of this.
Because that's what we had assumed it was Phantheon was going to be the jungle, and Maka was going to be the support. Interesting.
If they cannot though.
Especially with how big sidelines have been, you think about the last couple of games, it really has been a focus on sidelines.
Especially the last games, so maybe Tim wanted to be able to affect those sidelines a little bit more.
Obviously, Pantheon is still all to the sidelines, where you have way less gold, way less money,
you're not going to be that same level of power.
See, I like what you brought up, Brad.
Who knows if this is the straw that breaks the camels back.
Again, it's already so much pressure.
The rookies really had excellent showings in those first two games,
and even in some moments in game series in game four,
but it's a test of mental fortitude, no doubt, as we're getting ready to load into the game.
At the very least, I will say, it's not as though it's like a zig jungle,
jungle and you know what I mean, like for the first timing.
I'm not saying they wouldn't be frustrated.
Of course, I'm sure they would.
That would be a difficult situation to deal with.
But at the very least, these are two champions
that play in these roles.
Yes.
Tian has played many, many games of Malkai jungle.
And Fungi, you're assuming has played quite a few games
of Pantheon support.
It's super popular in Seoul with you.
So you're hoping that at least it's not
going to have them too frassed.
Definitely the case.
Counting down the finals.
Just the medium amount of frass.
I'm gonna give you a little razzle
Gentlemen before you leave
This is a production to sit down
My friends are gonna stay here
Final prediction boys
I'm sitting in my same prediction
3-2 is what I had at the start of the day
This was the straw that broke my back
I'm flip flopping man
like you can't swap it for the 22nd mark like they have had so many difficult
points within this series and this is happening too I'm sorry I'm gone all
right gentlemen thank you helping us fill the time hearts out to TES
hopefully they can recover despite a difficult situation as we load into the
final game of the series here
Okay, good now that they're gone. We can
Don't you make me the bad guy. The second they're gone, you're like, thanks. Yeah. Great. All right. I see you, Kobe. I see you, bro.
Don't be doing it like that. Wait a second. We've got LeBron on topside.
Wait on. It's getting jumped out here. Stunned. They're walking him down. They get the flash at level one.
There's a lot of straws on this camel's back, Kobe. Something's going to break soon. I mean, this is good. You pull the wave also.
trying to group up the minions so they're going to focus and push away from Juan.
Oh, this is painful.
Ornn already has a hard time.
Broke away doing a good job staying away.
Yeah, just trading autos. Ornn based that's much higher, though.
The range of minions we're on him, though.
All right, bot lane.
We also have to keep our eye on Pantheon, a much more explosive early game support
often in terms of individual damage, opting for Conqueror, not something like the Halo Blade.
So we'll need to see how comfortable fun you a is but the difference with the lock-ins the way they are is that maybe
Fungi way can find more to be two fights. Okay, so this is gonna be my real question caps pick the mail seeing the yone
So I see how much harassment and punishment
He can deliver there
stun
While we have unsurprisingly pushing in the favor of TS. It's a good call out Kobe
Already a small goal. He does he crashes that way then unsurprising
Of course, Mel and Riftbound. Next up, Vendetta coming on the 31st. It's gonna be a sick one.
Akali is also in it. Medius is very excited. Shout out, Medius. Anyway, game five.
Broke the blade. Continuing to dominate topside. Midway pushing in their favor. This is...
It doesn't look like much, but this is a frustrating start for TES to be sure.
Yeah. So, way on, though. I mean...
Yeah, he's got his room. He's got his refillable from the teleport. And should be fine, but
reminder, we've only had 56 game fives in international history and five total reverse
weeks. The last one in 2023, BDS versus PSG. So anytime we see a potential, or they're
not, they don't happen a lot. It's again, the mental fortitude, so to come back in those
Scenarios nice interrupt
Jaffy love fun U.A.
Impolded access to the Pantheon certainly a lot of power there
nice dodges
Now we also have junglers with some freedom for first clears are done
Malkai can Malkai loop around here behind the mail looks like it's a skim on game top
I have flash forward not quite able to wallbang with more than enough damage
Hopefully to finish up the orange for G2 esports unstoppable first blood to trade it back
Nice for Zwayon. Meanwhile, in the bottom lane, LeBrov looking to chase down Jackie Love. W giving a bit more damage, shattering, striking, and another kill coming through. Blood everywhere!
And in the bottom side, LeBrov is able to pick up that kill. Two for G2, they've got the early gold lead.
Incredible start for this team overalls way on though happy to get some money back getting that early mr
Makes this lane a little bit easier to survive
But unfortunately looks like broken plate is frozen or is trying to freeze so it's like is it getting that much easier anytime soon
So caps had to burn his flash off of the gang mid but can invest it is in order to do that too
So while there are a lot of opportunities with all this action and everybody blowing their flashes
Fanguay is the one back on the riff first.
Caps.
Backing off LeBrog finally here.
Fanguay going in.
Shattering strike a bit more damage.
Aegis and Salta block the follow up.
But Fanguay's getting lower and lower.
Ski-Maw now on the way.
And that is one dead Pantheon Q to get it through.
Cream now on the way out.
Fanguay.
Overestimated.
Well, he had no flash.
And so I'm pretty sure he just was like,
I cannot dodge the snare that's going to come from Caps.
So I have to go back in and try and fight our way out.
But because, yeah, everybody had used their flashes
and all the skirmishes so early on,
the Pantheon walking up was a vulnerable target
and they're able to turn on them G2 snowballing here
insanely quickly in game number five.
Five minutes, almost a 1.5 get goal lead,
truly the biggest lead we've had in this entire series so far.
Tien moving to the top side, but matched by Skumond.
Health advantage to the duo of TES,
but the push in favor of G2.
Level 6 now coming through as well as Jacky Love once again caught out here.
Minefield, not quite enough damage yet, but on some again a lot done here.
Cap's nice initial route. Level 6 there for Cream, but
solo bound about to fade, so it'll just be a positive trade in terms of HP.
Three winning lanes for G2 in game number five.
Scumond on the clear, right back down, top to bottom again.
Jackie Leve trying to clear out the minions on the bottom side, but the punishment that
they have received here early on, definitely dangerous.
Cream though, on the Yone, always, always dangerous, and he has access to his ultimate,
so have to worry about the whereabouts of Maokai as well.
Once Tien gets his level six, that's a lot of lockdown.
Of course, you have to be wary of the metal rebuttal and play around the timer, but they're coming early.
The Brogd, it's plus a TN.
He doesn't really have the damage to force a kill. They're nice rebuttal on the Q3.
ulti coming across the wall, immediate combo coming through.
The Forge God has been called, but the kill is not done yet.
Beautiful sidestep on the spear from Feng Yuwei.
Can he get out now? Fuck.
Strike, lock down.
No flash, still. Skiumont can't quite get the angle to knock him into the wall.
Both sides back away, but that's so many resources, so many ulties burned on caps just to knock at the kill.
Yeah, Mid lane is the battlefield. Even Zwayon walking all the way down using his Orn ultimate.
But caps doesn't get hit by the spear, does not fall.
Skiumont in the front of the way. Nice advance coming in from Tian dodging out on the ulti from Skiumont.
Ulti from Jackie, love a bit wide, but the additional movement speed is just sending Skiumont into TES's jungle.
As long as Scumon is able to get away from Cream, he does not want to give this kill to Cream.
Alright, he goes into Jack, he'll have- Ooh, the bomb misses.
If he goes under any tower at this point, it'll be Feng Yuan who gets the kill.
Cream on the way in too. I don't think he's gonna get his choice.
Will be donated over to Cream.
As you said, worst possible person to pick up that kill for G2.
Alright.
A little bit of hope back there for TS, but they're still in the hole pretty deep here.
And the early stages.
Pretty good CS leads all across the board with these good matchups for G2.
Top lane, you know, the punishment simulator here, 57 to 37.
See, I'm just doing what I can to hold on.
It did make a bit of an impact in the mid lane, unfortunately not enough to get that kill.
I mean, the impact of that level one from LeBrov, so, so heavy in this game as we, again,
Mid and jungle and support are always around mid, you know, constantly on every timer.
Huge trade for Taps.
The rebuttal again just makes it so hard for Cream.
Long cooldown, but so is the soul unbound.
And in the bot lane, the 1v1, Jack will be expected to spike harder on that first item,
but Han Sama just free farming through this entire laning phase means
you're going to feel very comfortable in the later stages.
Yep, Han Sama making good use of his spell shield down there, constantly looking for a push on the wave.
Meanwhile, everybody's sending all these resources towards mid lane.
And they're going to continue to be rewarded. Start up.
The grub's there.
Four, Skiumon. He should be uncontested.
It's a nice early game for G2, building such a big lead so quickly.
Plenty of way. Hasn't really had a chance to pick up XP,
so delays that level six and the ability to threaten on-side lanes.
There it goes. Didn't they add quests into the game to avoid a lot of this stuff?
I feel like the support quests are going to be pretty delayed in this one.
It seems like neither support is particularly interested in all the additional benefits of that quest.
I don't need a quest.
We're going to need to get the Reto Police in there. Warning. Lane Swap detected. Please return to your lane.
Mid lane.
So goes Mid lane, so goes the game though a lot of the times, especially when Yone is on the rift.
So let's take a look. Will they be able to actually set up for this drake?
Mid lane did get pushed there for Jackie, TS with them moving back down.
They've got the ward in tri-bush already.
Both Malkai and Poppy have very big damage to monsters on their Qs, and should be fine for Tien Solo.
Nice to have it. Again, we talked about the amount of team fighting ultimates that can come out of this TES lineup if they can force.
If they're able to stack two drakes, get a third, get a soul point, force G2 to fight into them.
It's a lot easier to see their angle of comeback into the game where they're down 2K.
And Azale brought it up here, right? This first item, Canik Rooker unexpected from Zwayon.
This makes the laning phase a lot, lot easier, at least in terms of surviving and not losing more than, well, he already has in terms of play in CS.
I mean, he got a level 1 to buy the enemy support, had to blow his flash, all that stuff happened, but teleport's back out here.
It's high stuff.
Wasn't able to complete his item, but refill the potion. Lots of sustain there for him.
Meanwhile, the battleground, the eternal battleground of Mid lane, the fight over vision, Dracos.
All these warts around.
I'm sorry, sending no supports.
Deeper and deeper into enemy territory is Feng Yuwei, ready to cover in mid lane.
A little bit of lifesteal coming in for Cream on top of, you know, an important keystone here.
It's just meaning that he can relatively survive a lot of the harass that Caps is putting out.
Jekyll forced to ult the way, but at least slows the push from the side of G2.
They're ganking top too, Malkai, alright.
Slowed down, twisted advance, and they come through. Flashback from Broken Blade.
Wall to lock up Tian, forcing a flash out from him as well.
Good response from the G2 top laner.
Alti, nice sight from Caps flashing the Solars there. Not gonna be enough for but a little bit too late.
Cream on the chase to grab the kill. A nearly flawless dive from TES, even into the middle.
Yeah, good flashes there. Invested from them. They get the kill. They got Caps's flash as well down.
And TES fighting back in this one now with the Ornult.
Horn horn blown broken blade mark. That's the additional auto coming in
Pongiway blocked by the wall getting chip lower and lower egg about to come out from broken blade
Comet spear
At least gets the cool down, but I don't think we're gonna see a read that quite yet
Yeah, won't be the broken egg this time around just gets the
refill get back up
TN going for the Q back
Demon pretty powerful has this under sky flashing looking for the wall knock down TN instantly deleted Pongiway likely next
no flash available, so you're on debating if you can even support him here.
That's the Glacial Storm, Broken Blade, grabbing another kill.
And Skumon goes beast mode on him with the flash, gets him into the wall, double here,
kill for each, and they get to continue pushing as well afterwards.
Huge turn from Skumon.
He gets in there, stops their recalls, he gets right on top of TN.
E flash, flash E to redirect so he can get into the wall.
Engage now coming into the mid lane,
LeBron with the crash down, pre-running for his life.
Solar snare from Kaps.
Desperate to finish this kill.
The Eclipse to drop him down.
The 2v2 with the sportsman here goes the way of G2
because LeBron is there early.
Shattering strike.
Agnes is all falling away.
You can see Skumon already taking the Raptors,
looking to chip away at the resources of TES.
TES doing a good job of finding kills,
finding some angles for hope.
Here we go again.
They just continues to grow.
Fungiway's got nowhere to go.
He can't jump anywhere.
Knockback is there.
The Sol are snare and Caps gets another.
Skumont and LeBrov, the terror of mid lane here.
They find consecutive ganks.
They get both the mid laner and the support in the end.
And Dracos, this game five is a blowout.
It absolutely is. Kuman terrifying.
Merc treads and a sundered sky against a bunch of magic damage-based tanks.
Are you kidding me? This man is going to be unkillable.
Cream the only one who could possibly hope to take this Poppy down.
Nice rotation here. Get the Sivir in the mid lane.
Just delete minion waves.
Jackie Love matched up once again against Han-sama.
Has that first spike, the Ludens.
Sivir one of the few champions who can start to match the way clear of ziggs
You want going in on the fun way?
Full control choke out around the dragon don't want to give TES the opportunity to stack
We're doing good damage here, but no C could be forced to snap back at a moment. So
Don't want to overstay
You three ready to go but caps is already there waiting he was just forced to all this tentatively
But they've already body blocked it
It's an absolute disaster, the ulti from Jacky Lobb across the top.
Is it gonna be enough? Tien trying to buy space with the rest of the team.
Ekis is all getting spun away in extra second and they manage to hold on.
But the Eclipse is ready. Down goes to support of TES.
Jacky Lobb finally here, blinking health bars across the board.
Cream debating if he can get involved. Once again, instantaneous snapback to deny the crash down.
TP in from Zuyon. The horn has been blown. Horn is on the way in.
Cream looking to finish off LeBrov. G2 taking a bit too much.
Cream down on the chase. The mount up is there. Tien grabbing another kill.
Jack you will fall as well the one for one cream starting to chase crash jump from LeBrov
But cream getting faster and faster as the duration takes one more auto hoping to close up on the sidestep
On the mortal steel enough to keep LeBrov standing. Oh, he barely lives and during the time where T.S.
Invests everything five players through the bottom side of the map
Broken blade does finish the top tower continues pushing but T.S.
Fighting back into this one getting some valuable kills for themselves and another dragon take a look back at the play
It starts pretty disastrously for Cream, but he's able to make it out in the end.
Yeah, so he ults over here to the other side, but they lock him up.
Zigzo from the top does give a big amount of peel from this Malkai ultimate,
and then they're able to section them off.
They get their kill. They're shut down onto the poppy.
Meanwhile, from the other side there, Jackie and Cream can return to the fight afterwards with Tien,
skirting the edges just barely.
Rift-Herald summons here.
Not sure where, it doesn't matter. Meanwhile, this fight in the bottom lane, Cap's now trying to retreat.
Twyon on the way in, rebuttal, keeping Cap standing for the next second. He wants one more auto.
Cap's his brittle, but he's not broken.
Tzuyon again, just denied any angle. Denied any kill. Hunts some of them, though, now the one who has to start running, but TES thinks better of it.
Oh, the terrain from his Q was not fully built there. He charges in, he can't get the kill, can't get the knockup on the Cap's.
Twyon goes down.
And it's just getting harder and harder for TES.
They're fighting as much as they can, desperate, to find an angle back into this game.
The broken blade has finally arrived, no longer contained to just the top side of the map.
Chipping away at those health bars, keeping those waves pushed in.
Brawl playing far forward, but he can pick anyone he wants to support on the map
and know that they have more than enough damage to finish those kills.
Alright, Dan's still on that bottom side.
Jumont out of nowhere flanking Jack you love down he goes, but now it's pantheon active on the bottom side
Fungiway trying to get it done with cream
It's gonna be a kill donated over to him the egg taken away
Cream grabbing this one LeBron debating if he needs to run or if the backup that's on the way will be there soon enough
The answer is they are he'll coming in under LeBron additional movements to Jumont on the chase flash solar snare caps
The damage to finish off the TES support cream now in trouble Q3 back to the enemy team flash out to safety holding on for dear life
But G2 just keep winning the exchange.
It's bloody and they get the tower afterwards as well.
A couple of kills though still picked up on the exit from TES.
They're scrambling.
They're trying to keep themselves afloat here
with a couple of extra kills, a little bit more gold.
And every last drop of gold into green
gives you a little bit of pause,
a little bit of worry from the side of G2.
I mean, despite the disastrous gold difference,
3-1 and 2 is cream scoreline.
He has been clean in these fights saving the flashes for as long as possible living in a lot of situations that seemed
Yeah, just highly highly improbable, but now caps has two items so as fancy as the footwork has been
It's still just gonna be so hard for him to survive you can see a bit of MR coming in
Heck Stringer will help but it's a tall task to live through everything G2 have at this point
And Hans has just been farming up a storm there on that
silver
Very nice gold lead for himself
CS, CS, CS, CS, the server game play and in mid lane they've got the extra tower so much more safety for G2
with a TES losing all of their outers it is difficult now it's fighting to keep control of your jungle camps
fighting to keep your income equal for the rest of the game really just hold on for dear light we'll secure the blue buff
you mentioned it but Hansama just hoovering up CS across the map he's the late game insurance policy
on a game where G2 are already so far ahead.
So it almost feels like TES on a clock
when they're already playing from such a massive deficit.
You can see in the point-based gold grind, unsurprising to see broken play
with absolutely massive numbers, 850 from play.
It's another 850, 870 from kills.
That number is only going to continue to grow.
All right. Cream going topside, and it's a Pantheon trail,
but Pantheon doesn't have ult yet.
So just walking with him here, going your way,
Trying to do the escort again without the safety of any of their towers. It's hard
To remain on parody gold wise and information wise
Thanks, it's all forced there from fun. You a stops any potential dive and cream. Have you just grab a plate?
And I will say despite not being ready for this particular jungle support pairing Jim's done a very good job
Finding ways into this game now also with the official mask gonna make sure that Jackie love and even a bit of creams damage
It's going to be amplified as well.
Still focused on the next dragon fight.
Forty-five seconds into the future here.
Trying to get some vision with those saplings here.
Forty-end.
But G2, they have such a solid setup.
Two item power spikes on both Skuman, broken blade, and cast.
Well, it's on the dangerously close to the infinity edge as well.
Cream, Teleport is going to come off cooldown in a couple of seconds, but they really want as much
fun on him as possible anyway. The rest of the team is going to evacuate, so going to bide their time.
TES not going to contest for sole point, but quick ulti forced out there, Cream reconized and he was done for.
No minions to stack the Q on. So we'll be able to retreat, but it does just mean that this third Drake of the game,
Hextech will be conceded now there's potential for some portal plays here later in the game always excited to watch
But it just means that this soul is even more important for both sides to yes
Maybe they're a little glimmer a little sliver of hope as a way to come back into this game
Okay
You too
Feeling so good right now a lot of safety on the map
game plan going according here with Han Sama constantly good income just keep
track of Baron here watch for some of these trick plays from TES they have
Tien over on the top side they can lob the Jackie love ultimate as well to add
the extra burst damage if they need and Pantheon ult is ready cream continuing
to farm well though actually ahead of caps in terms of individual gold you
called it up before but I think this is the person that we have our eyes on to
be the difference maker for TES.
The rookies did so good in game one and game two
and in game five.
It's not Jackie Lover, TN, often the players
that people think of when they think of top esports,
but Cream, the man who, from that 2024 series where
they were swept, I think has improved the most out
of everyone on this lineup.
Now on a comfortable champion, hoping
he can be the one to turn the tide in TES's favor.
And someone's got his infinity edge now, though.
Man, that is juicy.
Yeah, it's a big tide.
It's a hard tide to turn, Kobe.
It's not impossible, but it's going to take a lot.
Because, yeah, that sipper is not
stopping for any of the farming items.
She's going straight to the TPS items.
Especially because Hans is probably
going to get full value out of his bounces here,
with TES being such a clumped team here.
They've got four melees.
Alfie on the hot summer.
Immediate TP.
Cream coming over the wall.
Going to ult across in the hot summer.
Hot summer just barely took Cream ready to snap back.
They can't quite finish him, but he's got no avenue back
to the fight.
Rebuttal on to the Uorn Ultimate as G2 stands tall as 5.
Kreef dashing in, W Shield is massive, but Kaps manages to burn him down.
Zwayon on the way out, all the in.
Retreat now coming in from Fungiway, LeBravla looking for a re-engage.
Kaps still standing, SolarSnair holding, connecting on to 1.
A bit more damage coming in as Homsama is still alive.
G2 holding the line, Kaps ready to go over the wall if necessary.
Poking a bit more with the SolarSnair, but the passive is there for Broken Blade.
Zwayon wanted to find the kill, but he cannot get the job done.
Both sides left bloodied.
Both sides brawling, a bit more damage coming in for the Baron.
Cap's a solar snare.
Jackie Love hoping to finish it.
Swing on, damn tanky.
Broken blades come back after the ag-doll.
Looking to lock up Jackie Love,
which managed to take down the brav,
turning his attention instead to Skumon.
Cap's trying to hold on.
Double AP carry, so finally knocked down the Ornn.
Skumon ready now to take out Jackie Love.
G2 in the extended fight,
making sure nobody on TES is left standing.
G2 with four kills.
Barron got one!
Oh my goodness, that was such a scramble!
Nobody had touched on some in so long though that the Baron just executed him.
I don't think anyone on TS actually got that credit.
I was so lost I didn't even realize he died.
You said Baron and I was like, I'm just going to trust you and keep gapping.
Yeah, let's wait for the very beginning.
They're looking at Hans the entire time.
Malkai ultimate, he does spell shield it and then flashes away from Cream's ultimate.
The critical moment is when Cream tries to go back in for Hansama right here,
but he can't finish off the extra kill. Hans walks away with,
well, it's like 20 health or something there.
Wait. Best five done, done.
Tien is dead, caught out in his own jungle G2.
Making a fast play to punish.
They didn't even have vision set up.
They must have just spotted him and ran him down with the silver ultimate.
Two and a half nine-ups now, 14 pages and caps his book.
They're running the Rift, Draco's G2 are running Summoner's Rift here.
in the critical game five, so close to a reverse sweep in TES.
They need magic now.
Trying to contest the Baron.
Cream, two, three in.
Big damage being traded back.
We'll finally snap away, but he's already lost 50% of his HP.
I just don't think that there's anything they could do.
Jungler down, TES here.
Just a spectate.
Just to watch the Baron fall, his hope just continues
to dwindle for Top Eastports.
G2, 7,500 gold ahead.
The Red Bull Baron power play.
poised to break open the base of TES.
After such a tense series, game number five here
has just been a landslide in favor of G2, straight from level one,
with LeBron going topside.
It's not over yet though, with the Baron,
but still work for G2 to do.
Ex-gate, LeBron, leaping pace first into TN,
WANG trying to escort the tanks out,
but Skumon just doesn't care.
Caps, nice rocket belt backwards.
backwards. Skumon using the ulti to knock away the remaining members of TES. Cream still
here for the melee range. It's just so hard for him to do anything. Skumon now on a rampage.
Ulti in from Jackie Love. Just shielded by Han Sama. No hope of securing this dragon. Maybe
of even defending this tier two. TES once again sent packing. Yep, G2. Continue the steamroll.
They've got Baron. Continue the siege. 4-1 split push for them. Skumon on mid, but nothing Jackie
he can do about it. Even the
silver bounces are just chunking
him down as he tries to stay far away
and clear the wave.
Take their time.
Get dragon on the way out.
Not concerned whatsoever. Slow, steady
siege. Schumann solo pushing
in the mid lane.
Poppy is just too damn tanky.
So far ahead has stopped with the
randwords on the way. Even creams damage
so heavily mitigated. But a TP in.
Potentially the last desperate
A desperate stand at Top Eastport, Q3 ready to go for Cream.
He's hoping to make the difference.
Altea Cross, but Han Solo with the Spell Shield denies him access.
Siver untouched.
The carries, untouched.
G2 continue to dominate.
The G2 Blender grinds him up.
They get the kill and they're looking to take down the base.
A brav chasing in, base broken open, an inhibitor exposed.
Tian on the flank.
Cream up.
base I guess. Altie across.
Rebuttal there TP in TES what are you playing for a bit more time for cream in the mid lane it seems but what will it cost you.
The news is only an ultimate.
They get the TP out of broken blade as well as Q-mon set up now to take second Drake of the game for G2.
The nine sole point once again from the side of TES who really cannot afford to leave their own base.
Yeah, MG2 with such a massive gold lead here and especially Hans in such a strong position
They should be able to win this teamfight. I mean cap to 20 stacks on his medjais there with the mail from mid
So it is looking very good for the European hope
Game number five Draco say show the stats at the very beginning. We've only had five previous
Reverse sweeps completed at internationals this will be the sixth in the history of our sport
It's crazy because there's so many series that are so close
It feels like they've been reverse sweeps but so often it's teams trading blows
It's so rare for a team to be so clearly outclassed in two games
And then be able to turn it on its head and bring it back and it's credit to the tenacity of g2
That they were not dissuaded by those first two games despite how incredibly one-sided they were yeah have to have
endurance to be able to
Pulled off in the final one and
now
They're just gonna run straight through to the base. Skiwanda. Can he finds?
Yep. Skiwanda looking for a solo kill here. Just continuing to fist fight Jackie Love. Jackie Love really has nowhere to go
Take a miracle for him to escape. Skiwanda just taking his sweet time
Will knock down Jackie Love. All T-Dale perhaps. One final team fight. Skiwanda is in there.
Fungiway manages to get to the back line. Hanselma running for his life is creamed.
Manages to put broken blade in the egg, what's going on?
It's just getting shredded, just getting dunked down.
Han Sama still living a perfectly timed spell shield.
Cream holding onto Ho, hoping he can make the difference.
There's so much healing.
Q3 ready to go.
A tower being destroyed in the meantime.
Q-flash through the block, let's complete the awry.
That's gonna cost him his life.
The snapback should finish it.
Cream grabbing the kill.
Bung away.
Caught by the wall.
Nowhere to go.
Pantheon dropping down.
A scrappy exchange.
Three for two, but it's in favor of G2 Esport.
TES, they're still fighting.
Even with this massive gold lead in G2's favor, they're scrambling.
They're trying as hard as they can to keep themselves afloat in this series.
But the G2 onslaught continues and takes its toll.
Here's the attempt at the counter play on topside.
Malkai ult with the Pantheon ult to get to the back line and they pincer Caps.
Caps flash is actually closer to the tower to try and gain range to get the burst damage,
But he still goes down and then they're turning their eyes towards on Selma
But here's where it really turns when they try to make a little bit too much of the chase
So the broth does miss do his last key thing that he talked about and then figure a choice to follow to but he gets walled off
So he also goes down and that bought enough time for scumot to arrive
After he had gotten his kill on the bottom side to Jackie. Love you walked all the way up to the fight
And it's such a similar story to game three with G2
were able to find their first one with the power of that Kled.
But now it's Hansama with his ult on the hunt.
The second anyone mispositions, the movement speed zero
just allows all of G2 to appear.
GES's face is creamed.
G2 have still clearly identified this is the guy
they need to shut down.
Three items, i.e. 100% crit chance.
He can shred through casts and Hansama alike,
but he needs the space to do it.
Stumond, LeBrov, even Broken Blade,
kind of on defense duty to stop that from happening.
I mean, here we go again.
Altitude TN.
Wall there.
Skumon, that's a knockout to TN.
Dodging out on some of the follow-up damage.
Now trying to retreat back into his base.
Groot, knockout coming in from Skumon.
They're trying to trip through the pop.
He fell a brab now off on the side.
Caps and broke the blade.
Free-fying over the wall.
Kreev gets to the back line.
Knock him under three!
On summer down!
He waits patiently.
He finds the angle, but still.
TES lose two.
One carry out of the picture.
Accredited to TES, they are holding the line in the face.
the line in the face of absolute oblivion doing their best. They get the shut down.
Hansama is there, but G2 are still going to be able to get the Baron. Like you said,
they've got the other carries and TS they have to clean up their base. They put as
tiniest of dents in the gold lead. But G2 with the power of another Baron buff will get right back
to the siege. Oh yeah. Get a hammer, knock that deck out. Red Bull Baron power play. Is this the
final nail in the coffin? Neither side, close to the soul. Hard to imagine a world where we will
make it that far into this game. 31 minutes, 8000 gold lead, double the kills on the side of G2.
25 to 12. Still TES, an admiral job to hold the line, but the leaves just keep compounding it
and with his Baron backing up G2, it feels like these are the final moments.
They are handing out the Ornn upgrades.
Jackie has his, Cream has his.
Those are the critical ones, TN even as well, so...
Cream spotted, all of G2 descending, forcing the ult.
Good awareness from Cream. Anything other than an ulti in that situation,
likely would have meant his death.
But now no ultimate for the dream comeback teamfight.
Ready to forge, but it looks like he doesn't have the space to forge another upgrade.
Another item, G2, barreling into the base of TES.
Jack, you love able to lay down a bit of poke here, but another inhibitor will fall.
Bottle lane with an exposed inhibitor.
Mid lane perhaps soon to fall as Krim goes toe to toe with Skiumont.
Humon, cheapy into the mid lane from Bloc and play.
Reset, bought another item, now ready to resume the Siege.
And here they come, G2 knocking at the gates,
looking to complete the reverse sweep.
Slow, steady, Siege, control, G2 not risking anything
in these final moments.
Tien praying for a flank, a spell shield
to stop a bit of poke.
Bob getting a bit lower, but it's such a small advantage.
Cream waiting a bit longer.
Horn, horn coming out, looking for the knockback.
Caps about to be one-shot.
A beautiful look from the side of TES.
Knocked by the Han, Sama.
Shaki left moving in.
It might be a disaster for G2, but Skuman, broken blade.
Hans, they remain standing, knocked back into the wall.
Sway on running, fungi away in the area.
They can't finish off that Inavia that poppy.
TES again though.
to hold the line they're still living in this series despite all odds it's crazy
TS they delete another G2 carry this time caps they take him down they cut down
the pages of his bedside and they want more this way on hoping to find broken
blade TN on the way in as well denying the portal to escape now their eyes are
set on stew mon broken play trying to buy as much space as he can with the
glacial storm stew mind getting chipped away cream on the chase will be forced
to snap back to, hauls on the way in.
Half health for Cream.
TES still pushing for a little bit more.
Cream with a knockup, flashback towards another bob.
Has been CC'd and now broke a blade,
falling up to damage to Cream.
Let's turn extra second.
Has the fruit right there to heal him up.
Everything coming together to keep TES standing,
to keep TES alive.
Don't put to the base!
But a TP from Caps might just end it here.
G2 hurting TES back.
Jack, you love deleting the wave.
It's not quite enough.
Caps happy to just split their attention.
He doesn't want to risk anything else.
TN might want to go for the 50-50, but the health bar is so low.
They're just going to back off at soul point for G2.
TES doing what they can to hold on to their base,
but we're still going.
Oh, TES fighting tooth and nail here to stay in this game.
They do defend their base.
They lose to Dragon, but it's only number three.
Not the soul quite yet.
They buy themselves a little bit more time.
I can't believe TES have held on this long.
There's almost 10,000 gold.
They've been steadily whittling away.
Hextech's soul feels like it should be the final nail
in the coffin, but so did the Baron.
So did so many of the fights before.
A lot of shutdowns available.
Jackie Love getting stronger.
You can see the burst damage really adds up
if you can find that CC target.
But Hans and Caps both have more than enough damage
to single-handedly carry these team fights.
the long-range nuke that then the quickness was which they deleted caps last time and the zig's ultimate from Jackie
Now he's got four items with that death got completed
Can't he has to bend again because here comes you to finish the job from above immediate flash out from Jackie love
That's one major cool down burn all Dean out from broken blade whittling away at the or they don't quite find the knockback into the law
That's we on down and G2 continuing to push forward
Super's in every single lane, Shirley G2, this is the final fight, they have the man advantage they were looking for, Wall connects with Jacky Lovie doesn't make it back over and that might just be it!
Wall bang comes in from Schumann, looking to deny access, we're floating away but it does not connect, it's an engage on the caps, ignite taking the pantheon support, trying to take down the enemy midlaner,
He's going in, but he completely whiffs.
He can not connect to the Osama and caps.
It's waiting.
G2 have done it for the sixth time in the history of
International League of Legends.
We are witnessing a reverse sweep as G2 take down
Top Esports.
They have done it. Reverse sweep by G2 here in Dajon. This entire tournament we've had
3-0 after 3-0 after 3-0 and we finally got the full five analysts taken away.
They do it! They do it in the end! Oh my god, G2, I love you guys when you play like this.
They had us in the first half, man, but the second end of the series was absolutely phenomenal from them.
I mean, it was crazy, and we're rewarded for our patience.
3-0 after 3-0 after 3-0 after 3-0.
When was it going to end?
We were treated to a five-game banger between G2 and Top.
5 game banger, 2nd best of 5 river sweeping the history of MSI, Raz.
You didn't flip flop it, I respect that from you because...
Oh no, I did!
And you did!
When I was on the gas, I was like, oh they can't even swap before 20 seconds, I'm flipping.
Respect gone, but still, how do you get?
There's only a couple guarantees in life.
Death taxes and Raz flip flopping in the best of five.
That is pure tenacity from G2 to be put in that position. Those first two games looked bad
And the fact that they were able to bring it back and have the mentality to do that
That speaks a lot to the players that they have. I mean it was crazy and G2 has a whole step up in this final game
I was honestly shocked at top resilience in this last game because it looked like this was so over early in the game
I thought G2 was gonna close this one out super fast. I gotta say I love how they were attacking so well
Because we saw him have a pretty tough game in the counter pick the previous game. Yeah, and then this game level one
He's getting cheese by LeBrov in the bush. He's losing all of his health in a counter matchup
Yeah, then he's getting ganked and taken out then they're returning to the top G2 playmakers were just on fire
He'd be gone way ahead and Hans is kind of just chill and farm in the rest of the game
He's that lake game insurance while everyone else is just fighting everywhere. Yeah, sit back and boomerang actually
That's what you want to be doing as an AD carry and we were wondering which team would come up with the most spice here in this last game
I do like the Anivia from Broken Blade here. The Anivia was incredible
Yeah, like it really was I felt like throughout this series
Broken Blade was only getting better and better and the pick with Anivia going into the Ornn was a master class
Not only did you get that cheese going? Pop it off
But also being able to drag to the wave and make it more and more painful for Zlyane
I mean, there are so many moments it felt like in this game where I
Watches I am because he's chasing someone down was like 5% HP
Yeah, I'm just thinking back to all the moments earlier that went bad
He's in this tough matchup against she's on one he gets ganked
He's taken out of the sidelines and he just kept missing out on kill after kill after kill where you're you can't help
But think man if I just had a little bit more gold, maybe I kill that guy
Maybe this fight is different. Maybe it looks different
but it just doesn't matter because G2 are the ones
who come up big game after game after game
down the stretch here and take it back.
And that is exactly the way you wanna start the tournament
when you're on the set of GZSports
because at the beginning of the day,
we said that for once we have hopes as European fans.
They reignited that hope with the performances
that they had at first stand.
And I know that's Kimon said it's not because
we performed well last time
that we're gonna be able to do it,
but I feel like it's the way you wanna start
the tournament for them.
And I'm just wondering how well they're gonna be able
to progress and take it even further and higher because other teams are not always going to
give them the chance to bounce back later in the series.
So I appreciate the recovery.
Thank you for the contents, G2.
Next time, maybe do it a bit faster.
I'm a little bit of a contentant.
I actually do think that they showcase, if you do get to five games, they will beat you
in draft.
Yeah.
Like they're an incredibly smart team, incredibly flexible team.
And the fact that we went to game five and it felt like they were the team that I thought
their draft was amazing.
And I thought that no matter where the Yone went,
or it would not have benefited Top Esports.
Top Esports are going to have to go back and think about,
yes, how this game or a series fell away from them.
But when they do start losing champions,
where do they end up going to?
Yeah, and it's kind of interesting to me,
because I feel like this was a good first test for G2.
I do think this was the most, I don't know, approachable,
kind of best of five team from the LPL or the LCK.
All the other teams have a lot more experience.
It feels like all the other teams have kind of been more
in those big moments.
Not the top doesn't have those players,
but they also have some of the players
who don't have that experience.
And I feel like that did really help G2 out today.
When you look at BV, when you look at LeBrov,
and their counterparts, I felt like they really
were able to get the best of them down the stretch.
So that's not something you're going
to have the luxury of when you're going up against a T1,
or an HLE, or even a BLG.
So it is going to get just more difficult from here.
So G2 are going to have to keep ramping up.
Absolutely.
And I do want to know how they feel
and what are the first reactions here on this first victory at MSI as we have Skumond selling back with Shox in the Verizon post-game interview.
Two, one. I'm here with Skumond after he reversed, swept, top esports. That is insane. I don't even know where to begin.
Let me begin by the end of the last game because you guys were far ahead, you almost had it in the bag, but it was tricky.
Tell me about the focus.
Yeah, I mean definitely first of all, I'm really happy with the reverse whip. We cannot take revenge for Fnatic back in the days, right?
Yeah!
We actually got it for the last game. I think we made it a bit more stressful than it should have been.
I think, yeah, we really had this game and if we just played properly, we would have won, like, pre-earlier.
But, you know, like, game 5 is just always really stressful, but I mean, I'm just really happy with the reverse whip overall today.
I think we played it. I mean, the first game we were like a bit shaky, I'm not gonna lie.
Yeah?
But I'm really happy with how we won the match.
Yeah, tell me a little bit about how the series progressed.
because you guys, yeah, he did look shaky. Game 1 even. Game 2, you didn't really find your footing right against TN.
Tell me a little bit what you wanted to change, what you talked about as a team, and what actually materialized.
I mean, definitely, I think we've just liked a lot of decisive death, whether it's like in our communication and how we played.
I mean, I guess usually when we don't play for like two or three weeks, we're always shaky, so that's why I was kind of fine with losing in a way.
I knew we could come back, but yeah, I think we were just pretty indecisive on what we wanted to do.
And we felt like we were giving a bit too much and giving them a bit of respect.
And we just realized that if we just play our game and we actually just play on our timings,
we will actually be able to get something out of it.
Yeah, you felt the momentum shifting. Also going into game 5, they weren't able to
swap their champions in time. Tell me a little bit about that situation.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, it was pretty weird. I mean, we were kind of aware that they could actually
flex the mocha in Pentium. And yeah, I mean, we were just wondering where it's going to go,
So we can actually change our like as well
But I mean it also shows that they were also like a bit indecisive on like what they wanted to do
Which is a positive thing for us and we just mentioned it as well
So that's why we're like also even more confident on that one because it's probably something that they didn't really practice a lot
In general, it's been a little bit harder for G2 to face LPL competition, right?
Really good job versus LCK specifically over at first stand
So what do you think it is that you worked on specifically or that works specifically today that you were able to do that?
Yeah, I mean as I mentioned before like you really need to be decisive against those LPL teams
I think they play like really really fast and I'm not gonna lie. It was always one of our weaknesses
Recently, so just being able to actually match the tempo and being able to just not get stomp in like five minutes
You can play like play them up, but that's kind of what happened the first two games
Which make the games like really hard to play. So yeah, I mean besides that I actually think that actually has a similar
So it's gonna be definitely like a big challenge. So yeah, I'm looking forward for the next one.
Okay, do you realize how historic this is? This almost never happens.
I think the last time this happened at MSI is like 2017.
Is that some of the things that you start feeling when you're mounting the comeback, I should say, right?
I mean, yes and no, in a way, because I feel like all of the players and the staff included are really like in the moment
and really doing our best to just make sure like the plan makes sense.
and obviously right now we want so we can enjoy and yeah we can realize like the big like work
that we have done today but yeah I think like we still need to like work a bit harder if you
want to compete against the best teams but that's another topic that's for the future.
It's only the first hurdle final question I thought you had Mbappe written on your water bottle
today how much did it help? I mean a lot honestly it was Romain who wrote it for me which reminds me
that everything is possible and actually as kind of like the 2020 World Cup final right you are
your iBird to actually low-key, but I mean they want they lost in them but still being able to just come back from this
other situation so yeah
I love it. You are our MVP for sure. Thank you, thank you, congratulations. Thank you very much. Back to you
Amazing! They did it and we have Monster support LeBrov joining us. Congratulations! Welcome to our games. Thank you
Congratulations first things first. How do you feel? What are your questions?
How did you feel when you took down the last Nexus, especially after the big comeback?
I felt good. First of all, I'm very exhausted, yeah, it was an intense series, but to be honest, I was still a believer when we were losing the second game.
I felt like we were just playing really bad, and I definitely felt we could win, and I'm glad we managed to reverse-trip again on my high pressure game, so yeah, I'm just excited for the future.
Talk to me about Game 5, because I felt like you're at level 1 actually had such a big impact on the top lane, so that, and then also curious on, obviously they couldn't end up swapping the Pantheon and the Malfi, did that change how you guys kind of perceived the 2v2 in your early game prep?
I mean, not really, to be honest, I think we had really nice jumps, I feel like the poppy pick was clutched in our game, and I feel like the fact that they were like really swapping and they didn't know which guy to play support, it gave me a lot of confidence that they actually are feeling a bit like nervous and shaky.
Yeah, I mean I knew, I knew this game we, like only Jhonkan basically hated the game and yeah.
And then what about the level one?
Oh, level one was a banger indeed, yeah.
It gave me some Korean solo queue vibes and yeah, I'm happy we managed to like, do that well.
Tell me about when you felt the turning point in the series was, because to me it felt like that Rakan game,
where you were finding so many insane angles. Where did you find that?
For sure, yeah, I think the game 3 gave us a little momentum.
And yeah, as I said, I was always a believer and I'm confident that my team also kept trying really hard and we went up with good drafts as well, I think it was a really nice draft.
It's really interesting because you say that you kept on believing, honestly, looking at those first two games, I didn't believe that much.
I'm happy that you did, but what made you confident in the fact that knowing that you're not playing well is one thing, but knowing that you're going to be able to turn it around,
to turn it around especially with your backs against the wall is something completely different.
So tell me about that shift actually and what made you confident that you were going to be able
to shift that gameplay? I mean I think since we have done it in the past I just wanted to focus
game by game to be honest like looking back at our games I think we were like pretty disgusting
like playing individually and we just have to like step up our game and just yeah focus on the present
and yeah we did it's own. Isma helping you on this? Isma is the guy behind this in helping them
getting ready mentally so a lot of...
He's like one of the 90s so...
Alright.
Keeping us all like from the present, yeah.
Focused, locked in.
Talk to me a bit about, you know, kind of like your preferences and the mindset between playing an engagement tour or playing, you know, playing Milio, playing Lulu,
because in the Lulu game I felt like, wow, LeBros playing really well, you're right place right time, you keep saving people, turning around plays,
but then you get a recon and you have so much more individual agency to be the one to pull the trigger to start the fight, same thing in the RL game.
the role game so do you have a preference in that or do you find it frustrating at all like when
you're playing in chanters and you like you see an angle but you can't do it yourself um yeah i mean
i think first of all the meta is very like versatile right now a lot of people are playing like
camille and stuff like this i mean to be honest i don't really want i think i'm good on both styles
uh and yeah sometimes it can feel frustrating you're playing you're in thunder and then camille's
roaming all over the map and killing you like solo lanes and you're like uh and ziggs is just
We're clearing both. Yeah, that can feel sad, but I'm glad that I managed to have good games on both styles, yeah.
What was the message that you guys came out from in either game 2 to game 3?
Because like mentioning the coaching staff or even from the player side and not feeling satisfied with your first two games.
What was the message that you felt kind of turned it around?
I mean, as I said, I was pretty confident. I didn't feel like the players were playing good, but I didn't feel like they were playing that insane.
because more on us, honestly, playing bad or slashtraping, you know?
And as long as we just fix ourselves, I think we could win, you know?
And yeah, I mean, I wouldn't play perfect, but I think we step it up game by game, so that's really nice.
So thinking about the next series moving forward, I feel like the more the series goes, the better G2 is,
because again, you got those champions, you got those draft priorities, it's something, it's your comfort zone, basically.
The longer the series goes, but I don't feel like every team is going to give you those chances to come back.
So when it comes to polishing your gameplay and improving as the series is going to go, what do you want to improve about?
Everything.
Everything. Okay. Macro, vision, making, and stuff. The whole thing.
Well, so why don't we take a look at the bracket? Maybe give us any predictions on what other teams might be advancing as you guys have now moved on to the next round.
are going to be playing against HLE in the Golf on that series, obviously going to be
a never-tell-one.
I think yeah, I think it will be harder than it is today.
I think HLE is a very strong team and they have very strong strengths, but I'm confident
if we step up and have a good run, I think we can beat them.
I think it's interesting because something we've been talking about with G2 is the fact
that the stocks were really low for the past few years, even the international experiences
that you guys had, and then first then happened, you guys made finals, you guys reignited the
hopefully you're up again. Is that something that you keep in mind, the fact that maybe there's more
expectations on G2 than LST's side right now this time? Yeah I mean I think it's normal for
people to have more expectations now since we made the first and finals right but in the end of the
day like you shouldn't really focus on expectations right you should just focus on yourself and play
your game and if you play well you'll always have a chance of winning right and yeah. Blocking that
That noise, a little bit.
Is there a player you want to shout out for today's games?
Because it felt like, especially in game 4 and 5,
Kaps was going crazy.
But is there a player in your mind that maybe deserves a lot of love?
I mean, honestly, everyone, I think.
But I think Schumann played really channeling game 5.
I think Kaps played really well in game 3.
Yeah.
I had the pentakill, right?
Like, I think Bibi and Hans and Milok all stood up.
True.
So hard to say, but I guess I give two casts because he did a pentakill.
All right.
Well, I see you guys because you let him get the last one.
Exactly!
We're in doubt, trust Gavs.
We're going to have more games tomorrow, Lion vs. Furia, BLG vs. T1.
What's your prediction for those games?
I think both will actually get a bit close.
I think Furia is actually a decent game.
And yeah, I would say probably Lion would win.
And for BLG T1, honestly, I think it's hard to predict.
T1 like they did a single game in like in the play-ins yeah, but the BLZ I think they're on a very good form
It was a scream them and they seem very strong. So I think this game could go five games. All right
Confidence should be exciting. You should be exciting rast your confidence. I'm just glad that he didn't say that furious gonna win
People are underestimating CB law. Yes, there is actually a lot better than people are expecting
It's going to be a banger day and yeah, thanks for the great series.
Rest well, we'll see you next time, you advance to the next round and that's all for this year.
For now, thank you for joining us, of course.
The rough will be back tomorrow at 5 a.m. CEST and 8 p.m. PST for Lyon vs. Feria.
Thank you all so much for watching, wherever you are around the world, be kind to each other and we'll see you tomorrow. Bye bye!
Bye!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026.
And it's time for the teams to now take to the main stage.
They may not survive the bouncing bombs,
just terrorizing the health bars here as HLE dominates game one.
They will find another clean sweep here at MSI 2026.
They will defeat Team Secret Wales 3-0.
Dive dodge all he wants, but he's dead just as the rest of his team is.
D.E.S. first blood in this series.
D.E.S. with an emphatic victory in game number two here.
It will not be a 3-0.
G2 will not go quietly to the lower bracket.
How can they manage to do it?
G2, take us to a game five.
Just push a bit left.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shrink some blood.
Yeah, we'll make it.
We need some room.
I'll make it.
Look at X.
Okay, W.
Oh, W.
Flash, flash.
I'm filling you.
He's at the Nexus.
Sorry, I'm going to heal.
Hold on.
I'm going to heal.
Hold on.
I'm going to heal.
He's down.
He's down.
He's down.
He's down.
He's at the Nexus.
We go in or what?
You stopped the 3-0.
No more 3-0.
Guys, I'm top.
I'm top.
Damn it, give up.