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We didn't know how to run
I can't reach you now
We don't sleep through the night
Then you'll take you all for a ride
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Then we just shut up and drive
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Can we something to make
And leave it all behind
Let me hide
I just feel my feeling lies
Yeah, it cuts through
Baby, we're high right now
Yeah, this is our life
I ain't losing it
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Sighted, I have to mind
License, we're quite LAX
They're actually in back in July
They come to you once
I don't go back, no reason
No, no, my boy, I'll kill you
Stick a metal to the old life's blur
I'll speak it through time
And it doesn't matter where we go
I don't think that's right, you always run down
Don't look, cause you're not a child, you need to
Don't leave me, I'm not a child, you need to
Oh baby, can't you see
What a guy, what a monster, cry
What a guy, what a guy
We're the same, no one, yeah
What a guy, what a guy
We are the underdog, we are the underdog
I'm gonna let you go, you're gonna let me go
You're gonna let me go, you're gonna let me go
It's enough
One guy, one guy
One guy, one guy
We're the men I know, no one's here
One guy, one guy
One guy, one all-star
One guy, one night
We remember
No one can
One guy, one night
I
I can't believe it.
I don't know why my eyes don't feel funny.
I don't know why my eyes don't feel funny.
My eyes don't like to keep performing.
You can't help me, you can't help me.
You can't help me, you can't help me.
KILLER LAND KILLER LAND
We're so proud
Any girl I can't believe I'm up to this
I'm the new world
I'm the new world
I'm the new world
I'm the new world
I'm the new world
I'm the new world
Hit the bass drum again
This is the right mood
One, two, three,
I'm fighting this is a comeback
Tonight, I want to take you
I can't turn back, my friend
You know we got no time for hesitation
It's time now
Take that breath, feel
Feel like living in the mantra
I'm the one who's going to dance
I'm the one who's going to dance
I'm the one who's going to dance
Get off, get off, get off
I
I
You're my love, my love
Even if I try to be fake, I can't be fake
Look under me, I can't open my eyes
I ask you without thinking
I'm not a big fan of you
I'm trying to focus on me
Yes I like that
I'm a get it
But you can't be like me
I'm so much more
I think that I'm still here
I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it
I'm standing in front of you, right now
I know it's not a dream, because I'm shining
I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry, I'm different from you
I give up, you hold my hand, I don't want to be here
I'm going to make a mistake, I'm going to make a mistake
Now, come to the sea, yeah, open your eyes on me
My mind, yeah
You're the one that I want to do
I know my power
I can't go on, at the top of the world
Follow me, follow me, let me go
If you're not me, what kind of need?
I'm gonna lose all my life, I'm gonna fly
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
It's gonna like that, I'm gonna get it
Oh, you can't not like me
I don't know why
I can't believe I'm in the middle of a game
I can't even count the time
Hey, hey, hey, look at my life, babe
I won't let my time go to waste, yeah
That's not gonna be great, yeah
I don't want to live my life, please talk to me
This time to watch the new show
I don't want to miss it, I don't want it
I'm sick of this society
I'm sick of this society
I'm sick of this society
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Tonight we're gonna take it back, we can't turn back, yeah, my friend
You know, we got no time for hashtags
Then now take that backfuse, feel like living in the man's trap
I'm dancing to the rhythm, yeah, let me put in a champagne
Let us get fucked, yeah
I guess I'm watchin', gonna dance, I'm doggone, yeah
I can't change my life, I can't change it, it's your own movement
The volume of my endless goals
To the left, to the right
Just follow me a little bit more
To the left, to the right
Your voice, your side, your world
Why are you looking at me?
I'm looking for you, my light
Don't mind, that's why
Just follow me
I'm just a little bit more late
Until I'm 100
I don't want to lose you
I'm just a little bit more late
I'm just a little bit more late
I'm just a little bit more late
I'm just a little bit more late
I want all of them
I don't need any effort
So this is all a DNA
You're mine, right?
I'm yours, right now
Even if we're the same, we'll never be the same
Look at me, you can't see me
I'm just staring at you with no eyes
I'm just a light, I'm drunk
Always focus on me
It's so like it, let me get it
But you can't not make me
It's far away, I'm still looking at you
Sometimes I can't run, sometimes I can't
I'm standing in front of you, right now
I know it's not a dream, because I'm crazy
I'm a big fan of you, I'm different from you
I give up, you're too small, I'm here
It's going to be a special day
Now come and take me
Let's all meet
Look at me, you're the only one in my eyes
I only ask for your hair
You're the only one in my heart
You're the only one in my heart
If I like you, I look at it
Oh, you feel like me, I'm so much
I'm still looking at you
I can't follow you, I can't follow you
I'm gonna kill it in my mind
Yeah, in my mind, yeah
Stop giving me a head start
I know my power
I can't go on, I'm at the top of the world
Follow me, follow me, I'm on my way
I can't do anything, I can't do anything
I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry
The best from the people in my mind
I'm the one, two, three, four, seven, eight
You're it off, go off, and the world is at stake
When the beat goes, the attitude will stop
Hey, hey, hey, look at my light, babe
I won't let the fire burn
That's my girl, I'll be crazy, yeah
She's a comfortable girl, she lives a comfortable life
It is kung fu, wax, I'm a sailor, I'm a sailor
I want to be a sailor, I'm a sailor
I'm a sailor, I'm a sailor, I'm a sailor
You see, I'm not so like you, don't like me
Hit the bass drum again, this is right
One, two, three, four, fight, come back
Tonight, one, two, three, you can't turn back, my friend
You know, we got no time for hashtags
Then now, take that black belt
I'm still like 11, the mad track
I'm a jack-of-all-the-mill, yelling
I'm a champagne, let us get funky
I did so much, I'm gonna do some juke-juke
You can't run, you can't stay alive You can't let that happen, sorry, sorry
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meant season invitational bracket stage today we're gonna conclude our first
round of the upper bracket then we'll know who's locked into the next round in
the winner bracket and who fights each other down low as we see furia who we
take you to the stage today to fight lion my name is shocks joined by the most
well researched analyst ever Emily by a disgruntled TES fan who should actually
be European fan and by the latest winner of the minion singing competition
Okay
Hello ready it's the 4th of July kind of yeah
Well, look, it's also not not time zone happy Canada. Yeah
Amazing well, it's kind of out then that we have lion versus furia today
Let's take a look at the bracket before we do though the match of today. Oh, so let me have a little commentary
about what transpired yesterday. Why HLE's playing G2?
So, I actually had an appointment around when Game 3 started.
So I stopped watching the series when Top East was with 2-0 up,
and then I came out of the appointment.
So it's your fault!
And initially, I didn't actually-
It's your fault!
You did that to them! You did that to them!
I initially didn't actually check, because I'm like, oh, well, it's over, right?
And then I got it up and I'm like, why is it still going?
Why are we in Game 5?
Now that you went through it, what was worse? Getting your wisdom teeth removed
or seeing the TES through that lead.
You know, just take hold of my teeth out on it.
Okay. I wasn't saying that.
That's the better thing.
That's the better target, actually.
As set, continuing the upper bracket today,
so let's take a look at that scheduled Lion vs. Furia.
Up first, followed by BLG vs. Two.
What a day, Emily.
I'm so excited for both of these matches.
We have the, I don't even know, the LTA Grudge Rage.
I know that we definitely want to face Lion,
and then BLG T1 is like always.
a banger these two teams have met each other internationally so many times i'm so excited for
today it's going to be a long day i think it will be nine ten games give me every game possible
yes except like honestly more games to stop furia i want that personally i was like razz do you want
would you rather a lion 3o or would you rather ten games day like let's give them some hope we've had
too many three hours already in this tournament i feel like we need to look it out of the air
You seem a bit condescending to us.
I hope that doesn't come back to you.
Okay, we should.
Okay, we'll see.
Anyway, so, the Daejeon Convention Center also had a ton of activities, so we sent out one
of us, one of our most capable reporters to check out the action over there.
Annyeonghaseyo, I am here at the official fan fest for MSI 2026, so we're going to check
out all the activations.
But behind me, you can see Arthur Lovettimo, as well as the official mascot of Daejeon.
Don't they look a little bit similar?
So we've got stands for all of the themes.
We've got top esports there and BLG.
We've also got an LCK zone.
There's some little trivia where you can win some prizes.
Rift fun stand, of course.
I already found someone super special.
Miss ChimChim, hello, how are you?
Good to see you.
Good to see you as well.
Great work, by the way, with someone who's so far.
The clips live on my TikTok, I love it.
But so, yeah, how excited are you for MSI?
MSI so excited. I mean this alone and we're just outside. We're not even in the venue right now blowing my mind
Okay, any expectations for lion here and how they might do at MSI? We're winning MSI
Yeah, I'll check in with you in a few days. All right
I'm not gonna lie. It's spooky in here
and here we have the wall where everybody can write down their messages so
let's take a look if we can find out some secrets or some greetings perhaps so we
got a lot of HLE when some people really went all out if any European or any fans
or international fans are here in Beijing this wall needs some love okay we
We need some, let's go G2, let's go Lyon, let's go Furia, come on.
Luckily, I found the Lyon there right at the very end, so let's...
Did you do that?
Yes, I'm very talented like that.
Okay, well done.
So, let's talk a little bit about the last hope for the LCS.
Who wants to kick us off, Raz?
I'll do it, because Lyon is not only one, of course, the spring split championship,
are repeating champions from lock-in.
They've had an incredible year thus far.
And I feel like the disappointment that they had for first stand,
they're definitely here to kind of come back stronger than that.
And I feel like the biggest winner of all of the split has been Saint.
Saint's been actually blowing my mind alongside.
I'm inspired.
Yeah, and I think the other thing I really want to point out
is Lyon have just such a deep history throughout their time
in Latin America as an organization,
and then coming to North America as part of the short-lived
lived LTA experiment and I'm staying up but as as lion gaming like I remember
watching this team in IWCQ qualifiers with Audi they're always such a really
fun team to watch they're dominating their region they then became a movie
star rainbow seven and then are now lying just lying just lying I may say
and if we're talking current lion that I think inspired has been the main
character in this roster and previous roster it feels like he's such a
a big force in the NA region and it's been winning so many titles. He's a shop holder
for the team, he's also the person setting up a lot of these plays for them and dictating
the team's macro and you can see from these accolades, he's been doing very well for
some. It's crazy how the first thing is the most important one obviously, right? LEC rookie
of the season. You know, Baycair did not win that one. No, he didn't. He doesn't have
that one. That's my NA friends here. Can you tell me a little bit about what it is that
makes him so special what it is that every single team he gets into he's
almost like a champion maker what is so special about inspired for me it's
really how he reads the map and specifically how he reads his opponents
the thing that's super interesting about him is that we've seen him go through
an entire split playing one way right he's gonna farm and then he's gonna show
up to team fights they might see the bunch of objectives that's happened when
he's on EG when he's on fly quest but then he always tailors the style so
Whatever jungler he's going up against especially in playoffs and really really turns it on then
I think he's so smart at reading the map and reading his jungle opponent
Incredibly vocal a lot of the times is hearing how he plays out a team fight always telling his team reminding them to play out
Fight slowly if they're trying to poke us always reminding them that if there's somebody that's playing flank from the opposition
He's gonna be there to weed that out
So like he is incredibly vocal within the game and famously very vocal outside of the game
Tell me a little bit about him.
People have always wondered how critical is he and how is he going to do on this team that has so many egos and have so many voices.
Well, if he's telling someone to shut up, they're telling him to shut up too.
And like, here he comes from both him, Sane, and also Berserker just cracking up the entire time as the interactions are happening.
It is an incredibly fun team that other teams in the LCS are like, anytime a Lyon's Voicecom comes out on YouTube, they're all ready to watch it.
I love how you just have Dope for the top lane. Just chilling.
I mean, he's he's he's the position he's alone again. Yeah, yeah, there we go. Doka videos
I'll take every day. They're always bangers. I'm gonna ask him a really interesting question because he was going at interviewers
last time. So yeah, everybody's everybody always goes at it.
You're trying to be an interviewer for a day.
Anyway, speaking about being energized and letting your voice be heard, let's talk about
the drummer for Furia in Tatu.
I mean, he's just electric.
He always is.
I feel like the best moments are like in the game-ending team fight because then you'll
see in the picture blown up.
He's the one dancing at the end.
He is the most excited, most energetic.
It's always fun to be able to see him enjoy the game purely.
Yeah.
I mean, you say at the end, I love when he taunts his opponents, they, the game, like after a fight, he's just screaming at them.
It's amazing, yeah, jumping out of the gym.
I think, I mean, the best thing to me about Tadju as well is he is willing to try anything out in the jungle.
I know Raz, you are a big fan of the jungle gnar until it didn't work.
the team. Yeah, it's a
team. Yeah, it's a team. Oh,
but he kind of own that in the
community, right? And we've
seen him slam the NASA's as
well. He played the wreck size.
So he is truly incredibly
creative and absolutely the
engine around which the rest
of this crew to your team
runs. I think looking at the
matchup into inspired, it's
clear that both of these two
are the best off their region
when it comes to jungle, both
of them such big forces, big
that jungle macho. Yeah, because if there's one thing that
Tatsui doesn't lack its confidence, like he's always
willing to find angles. There are times if he knows where the
ward is, he's going to flash with a wall, I just trying to see
if he can get something going through mid. And whereas
inspired, I think this is the one split where people have been
putting question marks and inspired during the regular
season. Some people point out like certain series, like the
Digimtas series, but then it goes into playoffs and it just
doesn't matter anymore. And so when it's a stage like this,
this is when he's most engaged, most focused, so that can be a
really difficult kind of like match up for him to play out.
Absolutely, I think line should still be the favorite here,
But there's just so much behind this matchup right you talked already about the LTA situation the fact that for Brazil
They've been a region that is has been so self-sufficient and so energetic
Bringing in so much domestic fandom and also bringing that to the fandom for the international tournaments
And they have a chip on their shoulder
They want to prove that that was a mistake that they deserve to be their own region and that they can beat the best
Because they have not they've made it clear very much throughout the entirety of the LTA
It's like hey, why are we losing our region and then when they got it back is like what the hell
What is LCS have three seats and we don't and then they beat us throughout the entirety of like
America's tough and everything so like they have been very vocal any time
There's been a naysayer anytime else. He has to think of a given priority over them
And this roster has been together for so long. It's like they're all really close. They're close friends
And I think especially because they missed first and that was really unexpected to them
So this is kind of a I remember talking to Gigo when he was on our analyst
Wow, and he was really adamant where he was like we wanted to come here because we wanted to prove ourselves
And this is that same pretty a team against all of the LCS
Cubs
You guys can't see if a rat is slowly backing away from the deck. Can we get a fact check?
There's the correct schools, there was zero games in this series, zero games in the second series, zero in the fifth.
Is that what happened? Can you explain it?
It might be correct. It might be accurate.
You can't get any further away from this.
What's worse is that people put that all on C9, that's what was there too.
But then we should have proven ourselves because when it came to first stand we still took down the first seat of Brazil.
It was a loud...
That's seriously pretty close.
Yeah.
It was five games.
But it was a fit in victory.
So the problem is what are you going to take like a face value, right?
Because it wasn't Lyon in the America's Cup.
Yeah.
Of course, Cloud9 respectively and Sentinels.
Yeah.
Then it was loud at first stand.
So we can't really tell because Curia is a different team.
I guess the question is how much better is Lyon than Sentinels and Cloud9?
Much better.
I'll say how much better.
I think we've seen enough games of C9 to see what's going on.
But I will say, it's been very proven and very loud from the Brazilian region, how strong
Fiora is and how much the entire region has leveled up.
Like clearly throughout the entire history of the CBLOL, this has been the golden point.
And so this is a series they're all watching and looking forward to, to prove the point
that they have been making that they're better than North America.
And for a lot of the fans, the expectation was Fiora was going to attend first and it
was a big disappointment when they didn't make it there and then obviously not being able to win out of a lion
This is that chance to kind of have that redemption. Yeah, I'm sure what they can do the international stage
Yeah, and I think the big thing to me going into it is this could actually be a tough a slightly tough matchup for
Ferdia because I feel like they obviously are gonna play through top to you
they're gonna play through mid jungle a lot and like we already covered before inspired is the type of jungler to really
evolve and kind of can test whatever style his jungle opponent brings out so it should
be a really interesting matchup like between these two teams for the grudge match and the
pride but also between these two junglers.
And also both teams are incredibly creative when it came into the draft.
I mean like you see the lock in tournament all of the creativity that comes in from from
line and like oh we'll play bears, we'll play Vayne top lane, we'll play Aurelia but then
you look at Furia and they're an incredibly creative team not just in towards them but
also are you willing to pick up like melee AP carries and like Yasuo so the
draft is so important because we talked about new picks going in the main stage
these two teams will show new picks. Absolutely let's see what our fans thought
in a MasterCard fan prediction of the date between Lion and Curia. Fans please.
Maybe you'll win the vote at least. Okay thank you. But it's like Brazil versus
like America and then every South American country outside of Brazil.
Maybe a little bit of Europe there with the inspired love, you know, post good, good, wrong about that.
He left us, we don't care.
I don't know about that.
Here's quote, unquote, any goat.
Gather no one.
He wanted to go crazy though on social media, so I thought that had a little bit more here,
more of a thing.
I thought that it would go a bit harder.
I appreciate you, and I interact a lot with the Brazilian fans.
I remember when you were posting some stuff, previously.
I had to fight back against the certain pictures coming my way.
Oh no!
Alright, we're not going to talk about that.
I've got my own. Are you scared?
A little bit. My whole self esteem,
my whole self worth right on this
best of five year. Yes,
I don't have that T.
I just beat him up yesterday.
What about you? But it doesn't
matter. OK, thanks so much.
Fury is up versus lion in this
upper bracket matchup.
It's a grudge match for sure.
Let's get into it.
The MSI stage is full of hope for each region.
The rival relationship that comes to mind in the American league.
This time, it is held on the world's largest national team.
The defeat may mean the end of the tournament.
We won the America's Cup against NA.
Now to play it again.
Play it in the tournament.
Play it in the series.
Easy.
So basically, it was like FURIA against an A,
but it didn't drop a single match.
I know quite a lot of FURIA.
Derby's players definitely the Gangler tattoo.
I think he's the diving force in the team.
I'm looking forward to play against him.
I think it'll be really fun.
FURIA is not as easy as the ACS.
The history of Brazil, of Cigarol,
and of the Saig is not being so good.
But I think we're evolving as a league.
When we're playing in March, we're really dangerous.
The T1 vs. BLG, the long-term relationship, in the 2024 World Finals, T1 won against BLG.
Now, BLG has become a champion in international competitions.
I think BLG will be a strong team.
to MSI 2026, Azale here, TornFight,
Dagda, we're both filling in.
I know!
We've got a couple men down,
but we're gonna bring you a banger,
America's match up here that I think
is really gonna showcase the talents of CPL
to the world.
I think people are sleeping on how much
this region has been improving.
Yeah, I'm very, very excited to see how this goes,
because obviously the little bit of the elephant
in the room was the 801, the America's Cup 4,
40 curia, but they didn't face off against Lime,
And I think, as you say, both these teams showcase a huge amount.
And even the clash of styles seems like it's going to be super interesting coming into today.
Yeah, and I think a lot of the questions on the line of LCS fans is how is a member of the team going to perform on the MSI Maze stage.
We've got a pretty preferential draw because, to be honest, there are some sharks in the water here.
I stopped, yeah.
Buriut is a strong team, but they are a beatable team.
They're a team that Lion is pretty familiar with here.
You know, we have had an inter-regional play.
We had the America scups, there's a lot of paint for them to watch to prepare.
And the question is also, you know, what is Lion going to be bringing into the tournament?
Because traditionally they are a bit of a slower team, they like to play the map, they
like to focus on team fights, they were heavily reliant on that enchanter style.
Are they going to try to, you know, move over to that more aggressive style?
Yeah, that's why I'm big here, Austin, especially for us.
I've seen the Camille support come through, does he end up off the end towards that stall?
Or do we see them continue with that glacially slow pace when they want to play for those
late game objective team fights because on the upside period, we know they want to get
active early. We know that they want to try and play around Tutsuna mid lane and I'm very
excited to see Tatu and Inspired fly it off to see what they can achieve in this series.
Yeah, it's going to be so exciting. Tatu, young player out of Brazil, you know, got
a lot of attention immediately when he came in as a rookie. Very quickly got himself into
a conversation for one of the best junglers in the Cv wall. Now it has moved far beyond
Pretty much everyone will tell you he is the best jungler and now it's a conversation of is there anyone else who can be considered the best player in the
League? You know there's a lot of CB wall fans that will tell you Tatu has proven that he is not just the best jungler in the CB wall, he's the best jungler in the
America. They feel like he is the best jungler in the West even. They really want Tatu to be able to come to the international stage and
showcase his talents and going up against Inspire here is a great opportunity for a first step at that.
Yeah, especially if you can get control in the early stages because we have seen a bit of a shift in the play-self from Fiora
When they were like to ask international's past
Less so about ego getting those tenor picks he wants to go more towards those easy
Tanks in the top lane play for the weak side make sure that he's just able to keep himself safe
And then the team can focus more on playing through that mid lane trying to unlock Jojo to work with tattoo in the early stages
Yeah, exactly. I mean if you're thinking back to America's Cup, you know, they did dominate at America's Cup obviously
against number two and number three from the LCS.
A lot of that was about the early action from tattoo,
but there's a reason that they were in America's gut,
and that was because they didn't make the first stand.
They were the third seed.
And a lot of the kind of reasoning that they came to
was that they were too unstable,
that, you know, Gigo playing on these counterpicks
was making it so they had too many different lanes
to play towards, there was too many different factors
going on in these games.
So instead, as you've said,
Gigo has become much more of that weak side player.
He does play carries, like he plays the M best up,
He's playing a lot of tanks, a lot of standard stuff, and that has allowed Tatu to have more consistent early game plans.
He works really well with JoJo, he works really well with Toots, and it's about having that consistency to allow Tatu to be the X Factor,
to allow him to have enough stability to do what he wants to do on the map, because this guy is a beast.
And when you think about America's Cup, you think about Tatu running over us early, so we're looking for stability.
Huge amount of that then relies on people like Inspired and Sane too, have been a lot of the focus point, right?
Four line, seeing if you can try and get control through that strong mid-chungle.
Especially if Sane can get some of these strong counterpicks for himself, like the Khalis and the Silas, that he is favourite.
I think that's where you can try and find those good moments against you.
Yeah, I completely agree. I mean, Sane has had a pretty big blow-up.
When you think about Lyon's early performance in Lock-In, you know, split one, they came in.
They were looking like one of the worst teams in the league, you know, early on in Lock-In.
They did not work immediately for this team.
And a lot of that criticism was being levied towards St.
Because he was the one always getting caught out, always, you know,
messing up right in that 10 ultimate fight or that final fight.
And as they got into playoffs, everything started clicking.
And then here in split two, he has just looked better and better and better.
Quid was kind of the de facto number one mid laner.
Everyone's assuming he's the best mid laner in the league.
Even when Quid was popping off in the lower grapple, like, damn, Quid is back in form.
Mid lane is for sure going to go the way of TL.
Sane was kind of clapping him up. So Sane is just legitimately now an elite level mid laner, and he has been performing so well.
I think that was the thing that stood out to me the most when I was watching the playoffs of LCS.
Just how consistently Sane was able to find, like, Yon in the finals, when he was on the Italian,
being able to really turn the tides of some of those fights.
And even here's the ability for this team as a whole to kind of find sneaky ways to set up for objectives,
bait in bushes, find these huge flanks and try and play for those moments where they know they can pop off.
Because this is an incredibly slow-paced team and it feels like the only time they want to fight you is when they know they're going to beat you.
Yep, it is absolutely true. They are very controlled.
And we'll see if Fury wants to master that control if they want to create a little bit of chaos here.
You know, then it's traditionally the CB Law style, but they have been evolving far beyond that.
You know, gone are the days where there's no macro from the top.
CBL teams, gone are the days where it is just going to be that coin flip early fight.
They can beat you on the map.
They can beat you in these early skirmishes.
So this is definitely a team to be respected.
Chickenslect will be starting up here pretty shortly.
Excited for that to get kicked off the debut of both of these top teams from their region here.
Number one of CBL versus number one here from the LCS.
Kicking off game one of hopefully a full five.
Well, already we're seeing that Camille's a more band away from Isle, so maybe something
going through in the screens and it's giving a little bit of info across, but either way,
the respect given towards Vigo as well with the Cassante, but Orianna often available,
the Varus often available, V had been two of the main focuses coming into these drafts.
Also going to be really interesting, we obviously touched on Isle without, he was going to be
playing, but even more so for Jojo. Jojo played almost no engaged supports throughout this
split, obviously he had for his career, but when you look at his most played, it's just
pretty much all in shaders across the board with a couple of games in there of that karma
And I think that's why we saw the Seraphine the bar being banned out and is gonna be a first pick karma here
So looking for that lean on. Yeah, even when there was the
Engage meta support our sport metaphor the regions it was still going towards those in chapter support
So definitely something that's just a little bit of a shadows over the team though
But yeah, I still think that that is going to be the focus for a fury coming into this as the Jason
each they're gonna be taken for I imagine Doku in that top lane trying to get some pushing control against Guigo
Who does tend to go towards those more time-oriented things?
Yeah, so they're gonna take away the Ezreal take the Jace and move already toward the poke-off
You can already see what is shaping up here
The Jace definitely can go both mid and top and we are absolutely expecting it to be played there by Doku
So it can pilot it if they feel like it's a good flex they'll do it
But we're expecting to be up there in the top lane
It does make sense because you're expecting Guigo to play that more defensive style they banned out the Cassante
They know he's probably gonna go in best of more tanks and now denying that Ezreal they can look to try to play poke themselves
Maybe something like the Nico I think I could see here on a three if they want to play that friendly dominant style
Yep, definitely try to get control there
And I think also something that works well with if you've got multiple options to pull having something that then is
Enabled when teams try to jump in on top of you like an eco works incredibly well
I think we even saw T1 piloting something like the Cassiopeia in the mid lane to kind of facilitate that as well
Also, you have both for different styles, but as we talked about tank 4, we go in the top lane
I'm now curious what tattoo and tweets want to try and take this this week jungle though
Because I imagine jungle bands gonna be leverage for a tattoo. They just try and get him a little bit more
And we have Karate in the draft right so both the people
Of course there is possibilities
it's going to be a good thing as well as a good fight against them.
Who shrungle to me always says I want to play Xin Zhao,
you know that is kind of one of those
those things that I want to say.
Just soak up your socks.
Yeah, so, but I do agree.
I think the Xin Zhao has been something that's incredibly strong,
honestly for both sides,
but definitely more towards Hattu,
it's his most played champion.
And when you've got this kind of karma,
Jin can't try and look for pushing that bottom side,
the karma and the Xin Zhao just sink so well together.
We're looking for a base,
we're trying to play around the map in early skirmishes,
that we already talked about that's kind of the style of the theory has gone to so I imagine that's going to be the case and
then still I mean the Orianna open available that could work for Toots, but he's also been more interested in having some of these like
growing styles like the TF, the Ryze, the Galio have kind of been his focus.
It is absolutely true and I think that my inner kind of saying like I dare you because Akali is up, you know
and those melee champions can be a real specialty for Saint. That is his most played, his three most played all melee champions
you know throughout the split, the only, the Akali, the Silas, he will play the control mages. He's good at those as well
But I think that line are comfortable and the question is you know real
They can take me away one of those when they say the control mages here
as they are gonna have to
find him some stuff
Looks like it's gonna be the Jarvan, yeah, immediately locked in. I was thinking either Wukong or Jarvan essentially like having someone
That's very charming. Teamfights can play then engage too to follow up along so the Niko is gonna be Grayson
and trying to enable that long-ranging gauge
to follow up after Bulk's done bus.
And still, I think you've got options here as Tatu
as you want to start moving on.
Yeah, and Tatu is someone who absolutely will cook.
He's played Gnar Jungle, he has played the Nasus Jungle,
he plays Zahen, he plays Skarner, he plays Olaf,
he puts all kinds of stuff, so, you know,
he's not going to be limited whatsoever.
We just kind of have to see how standard
you want to be here.
This is probably going to be in Orianna, I feel like,
within a very coming three, but instead,
no, it is going to be in the Rai.
So I was thinking that they might have thought that they could have won the game more,
but were potentially nervous about some of the answers that they could have.
Yeah, I wasn't even sure if they wanted to go towards the Ari,
just trying to have something with a bit of mobility against the J4 and the mid lane,
because you do the options there to try and set up for some of these plays,
and Saints are going to be happy to get the Orianna on this last pick,
because it's such a strong mid laner still despite the nerfs,
and look at the combo you have, like the T-Fighter line is disgusting.
It absolutely is, you're looking at a lot of low mobility champions,
The champions, the karma, the gin, the rise.
It isn't set to be the Syndra, so playing more for that 1v1 matchup.
Syndra definitely something that is rising in priority here at MSI.
We've seen it come out a couple times.
Capsu's got a penta on it.
We've seen it banned out a couple times.
So it's something that is getting a little bit more popular.
Definitely a lot of ability to fish for poke here from the lion side.
If you think about fishing a scatter of the week, shot glass, Ezreal queues.
Whereas on the side of Fiora, I really think they want that more committed fight.
Yeah, I think you've got a lot of space buying tools with the Zinger and the Niko also an incredibly strong mid jungle for line to try and play around like we talked about the lack of mobility for the rise so maybe you can look for some plays early around that mid lane.
And as you say for Furia, I think it is about trying to get up close and personal, but even when you get up close and personal, I'm a little nervous for Furia.
So this to me says they need to get the ball rolling early, especially around tattoo and see if he can then start finding these picks around the back.
Yes, definitely a lot of threats on the lion side.
It's going to be exciting to see how this game goes.
Something I'm always watching out for with Taukdu is what is the level 1 game plan.
If he feels like he can get an edge somewhere, he is not afraid to invade.
He's not afraid to do one camp and to meet your opponent on their camp.
He will go for aggressive play so they will track their entire early game around these setups.
Sometimes he will see his soul inwards are going to be sacrificing their ways,
sacrificing their lanes to actually play with Taukdu.
He really is the engine of the team and I think that is something that can be said of both of these two rosters
Yeah, I think this is where again like having stuff like the karma
Trying helps him with you in the early stages gonna be very nice
But we'll have to see as they start the teeter in towards game number one of what I expect to be an absolute
Banger of a series between the America's teams
Go like I said, they're ready to scrap here already at level one
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Does not have his mantra remember he had already used that so I ain't gonna take this very aggressive trade
They get the barrier out the mantra was spent in the level one trade mid
Which I think prompted aisles and births are gonna say you do not get to walk back here for free
Yeah, even investing the exhaust to just make sure they could get the favorable side of the trades
So now both fire and heal gone makes a little bit more difficult for fury to kind of hope for that control on this bottom
Side of the map and already berserker starting to push in effectively and I think berserker has been such a key part of
Lion as well. He's looked exceptional on the Israel
So if you can get him into a decent spot, he's more than capable of carrying the game
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Yeah, I think Dokla's going to have a decent time on this top lane on the J's to be honest.
Push out ready there, and you've got the junglers both junglers passing towards this top side.
So I expect Inspire to try and cover for him at least a little bit in the early stages,
and that was kind of what we saw that early invade to get the vision,
to make sure that Dokla can get that early control, but at the get go, I mean line,
This is kind of what you want, right? Like, push across all three lanes.
You're not really giving a huge amount to the tattoo, but he may take it anyway,
as he's hopped over the wall, now looking to circle him behind the bot lane of line.
Yeah, he is going to be back behind the Lions.
Bot lane now is revealed.
Berserker is going to have to try to get out of here.
Isles might be the actual target.
They are going to be looking for Isles.
The heel is going to be popped early.
The root going to be sidestep.
Isles will be okay.
It costs them the heel, but it does bail out the fury of bot lane a little bit.
On the other side of the map though, look where he's inspired is, immediately going in,
he was spotted by a ward though as he crossed through the river,
so they pinged out that he wasn't gonna be on that blue buff.
Doesn't look like anyone on Fury is in a position to respond though,
because Toots is low and he's gonna flash in onto Sait,
the ghost popped immediately, Sait is gonna get solo killed!
It's first blood there for Toots as he flashes in,
and takes down Sait as soon as that scatter was on cooldown.
The trade looks so good from Sait from the get-go,
but Toots waiting for those cooldowns to come in.
The flash forward and the auto attack to secure it.
A massive win for the CBLAR in the middle lane.
That is really big, because like you said,
it did feel like St. really was ahead.
But as soon as he used that scatter,
Twisted, this is my opportunity.
You don't have any way to get away here.
Even if you match the flash, I have the ghost,
chases him down, takes him out,
and we can see Tatu going to be spotted on this ward.
Doesn't necessarily know that he is on vision here.
Inspired, of course, aware that he is around,
and he is quite ahead in the jungle right now
after having stolen away some of those camps.
JoJo has moved up towards this mid lane as well though,
just to try and help out Toots a little bit.
So St. Toots overextends,
an opportunity to maybe fish for something here.
It looks like the reset is just gonna come through.
So we're kind of back to even sleeping,
because I wasn't about to praise the early game for a line,
because you can see here, Toots ends up so low
on the mid lane.
St. Toots tries to step up for the trade,
doesn't get the scout of the week,
the immediate ghost, Toots melt blood in the water
and knew that he had us.
Yeah, that was really well played.
I mean, if the scanner hits,
probably has him, but not only did the scatter miss, he flashed the W. So then there's no
spells left. So just really well read there by Tootson. St. You know, just didn't think
that he would be looking for that aggressive position here. You can see this is that matchup
between these two. And I think this is where the most volatile, our volatility is going to be.
Like I think if you're tied to, and even we saw Jojo roaming up, I think the focus is from
the area, see if you can punish the flashless injure in the mid lane. It's not difficult enough
because you do have that scout of the week to try and buy space, but I would definitely be
investing a lot of words around this mid lane. Has Tattoo already here? Does he step up?
He might just do so, but he doesn't have flash orco, so it would kind of require an overextension
from St and Tattoo is spending a lot of time here. Well, Inspired is farming away. They do feel
like they're pretty dedicated to trying to make this work, but St's basing him well.
And that's the thing, with the mid lane, a little unfortunate for Lyme, but the bot lane trade, it was healed and had already been invested on the opposite side to escape.
You don't blow too much. And then it was inspired who got the real big benefit by invading on that top side, being able to continue as clear.
And that's what's really opened up the gold lead there. Plus it keeps Dopla safe and you just highlighted. It's kind of like for Lyme, good elsewhere, despite the mid lane going to have been arrived.
Yeah, now it's going to be a fight in mid lane. This time the Scatter does connect to it, trying to kite it back. Inspired looking like he wants to finish him off.
St. goes forward, picks up the aggro on the tower.
Mike is killed by the minions, very close.
Will survive though, and is inspired.
Does clean up that...
Wait a sec!
Oh boy!
Oh my god!
St. was dancing with the devil there.
That was very, very close to going down.
But successful gank in the mid lane.
Kill going across to inspired.
And again, that was kind of the focus he said.
Like this mid jungle can be so strong for line
if they can try and play this,
especially while Toots has no flash.
Exactly.
St. had it all calculated.
I have one question for you. Did he have more than one HP?
He did.
He might have even had two, you know?
Exactly. He had more than he needed.
He had space to work with, Rob.
Don't worry about it.
I'm glad you have the confidence there,
because my heart was in my chest.
I was out there for a second, so...
Oh, yeah, baby.
Some of those descriptions, you just got to believe, you know?
And Inspire takes his first base of the game
after six minutes.
So, just got a big buy there.
super efficient. Tatu spent a lot of time trying to look for these plays and this
has kind of inspired MMO. He is going to be Mr. Efficiency. He will look for
ganks if it does fit his pathing. He's not going to go out of his way if he
doesn't need to though and as a result he's 700 gold ahead and starting to drag.
It's the levels that are for me. Like Tatu only just hit level five after
clearing out his top camp there. It's already level six. Getting dragging.
Gonna be able to go back in towards his own jungle and as you say like this is
This is the version of line that I think is the scariest, where Inspired is getting to pick up the dragon, getting to play through his own jungle, and Muffiria, they want to get active on this top side.
Well, I don't know about this though. A couple of tower shots going on to Gigo. Dokla has cleared out the wave. There's four members here at top. We'll see if Dokla can get out.
You can see members moving out to try to help him. Dokla is going to be in some trouble though. It does get rooted up and he is going to get knocked down there by Tatu.
Berserker is here to try to defend, but it is much too late.
I am losing another kill here.
Unfortunately there for Lyne.
Not quite able to make up, but still inspired here.
Trying to see if he can make something.
Hop and Berserker stepping up, but I think
yeah, with too many members off the area here,
they're just going to step away.
So nicely done.
You're able to get something on the board there for themselves.
Yep, good play.
They move up toward that topside.
Again, look where inspired is.
He is stealing away camps on the bot side.
You send for top.
He says, all right, I'll take your bot camps.
And Berserker and Isles just playing up towards this top side,
trying to fight for this pixel brush ward,
as JoJo takes the bad end of that trade,
and will lose his ward as a result.
So with the groups in just a few moments,
I'm curious how both sides want to try and play this.
Like, Berserker now going to be able to get pushed in that top side.
And you do have Oz in the area as well.
If you're going to start this up immediately,
but I want to contest.
We'll see, Furia are first to the scene.
Presurker needs to get down here if they want to contest.
St. Now moving over with Inspire, as well as IEALS,
trying to take positioning.
And it is just going to be one grubbin' out there for Furia.
So they're happy that they got what they came for.
Lyon going to be able to clean up two more,
as Dokila's just down on that bot side pushing.
And has that Ocean Dragon, early Ocean Dragon,
always going to feel really nice.
Now the Realm Warp going to be coming in.
Gigo trying to set it up here for Toots.
The knockup is good, and Dokila is gone.
Another easy kill there as Fury are playing the map well.
And starting to pick up the pace, and if Fury are able to do this,
this is where they should be able to, again,
kind of stop some of the side lane control
that can come through from Tokler,
get into a position where they can't contest
these later dragons, and a huge amount of this
has kind of come from Toots getting control
of that mid lane early, like, despite the early gank,
he's still been able to get push and move into these side lanes.
Has been doing a good job, got the solo kill early,
round wharps down towards that bot side.
This one talking about Fury are playing the map well.
They start the grub, they draw a line up, they take their one grub, they back off, and then they use that tempo.
Well, they know Lyon is all sitting for those last two, they go bot, they kill off Doku again.
And I think that's been kind of the most impressive globe for this team.
Like when they were brought together, it was like, hey, these are all kind of mechanical gods.
They are insanely good when it comes to hands, but it was kind of think hard to brought them together and say,
hey, we're going to teach you how to play the game, how to work in the macro.
And that's been where they've grown the most over the last year, and you're starting to see the results in their line.
Again need to try and find these ways to slow down the pace of the game, but there is decent vision down for fury here
You can see a ton of wards over by the lion's crooks in towards the lion's jungle as well
Just spotting out where inspired is and what his path it is going to be exactly inspired now
It does have his under sky so finishing that first item here on the map
And we'll be looking to play around that power
Definitely someone to really try to utilize those item completions to their maximum
That is a couple of plates available here if they can actually walk up and get an auto down
They should be able to be probably on this next wave and you can see St
Even cheating down towards that bot side trying to get some vision down to protect their pushing bottom
Look at the trade that's happening though immediately two stars to move top is you get inspired caught on that ward
So maybe looking for a play towards no club, but he's reading this backing away
He does not want to get caught there so much movement and lines there to adapt to this faster pace from fury
Yeah, they absolutely are, and it's a good call.
He just was definitely looking. Didn't have the run-morph quite yet,
so would have required Dokla over Xtend.
He played respectfully, and now Tatu backed up here with no one from line on that side of the map.
Dokla may just have to back off and give up some farm, give up some plates,
which he'll survive, but it means he's falling behind this 1v1,
because Gigo after the kill on Bonsai took some plates there,
and now he's going to be able to knock down that crystalline overgrowth,
but inspired looking for IU.
We'll see if he can find him.
going to decide to turn around onto JoJo, but there's just nothing there as they
can't really close the gap. The curtain is going to get called here.
Zayu trying to throw some damage back on Isles. He'll will be used. Isles should be fine,
and they're just kind of denying a little bit of CS. They take down a
couple plates, push the bot lane back, and keep the Goldy. Yeah, so Berserk are kind of coming
out the best out of that situation for them to avoid. Some of the loss. I was like
getting some of the creeps away from Isle. We go looking for someone in top lane.
Yeah, that was a bit ambitious. I mean maybe if Dokla did get hit by the ults he could have made a play there
But at the end of the day, it's just kind of the ulti for nothing. I was even gonna say under tower
I did have what I said there and just trying ramp up that slam. So definitely
ambitious is the work for it
But still I like that we're getting so much pressure like we already know the rivalry that exists between CBLAL and LCS
And how much would mean for both sides to take each other down as we hop into a quick pause
And I keep testing the waters, realizing it's not going to happen.
But it is a very even game here thus far.
A couple of grubs of peace.
That early ocean dragon obviously going the way of Lyon.
And Berserker inspired with a gold lead.
So we do have pretty much a dead even game, I would say at this point.
And it's kind of what you expect from Lyon games.
If you don't just collapse in the lane phase, Lyon generally plays slow.
They look for their setups and they try to get ready for his objectives.
Yeah, and I think this is where for Lions, like, you're pretty happy. At the end of the day, you've already got that first dragon, you've been able to contest a lot of other objectives, and I think when the, as the team comes to roll out, like, I like the fact that you've got this, like, Niko Jarvan, the poke that you have, and you've been able to keep pace at a relatively good level, and you have a short range with the sun, the rise, the, the, and the theory as well.
So from that perspective, I think you've got answers to a lot of what you brought to the table.
So I still think like, you're in need to kind of keep this rapid pace,
so they can hope to find success, get some kills on towards 2T,
and hope he can be a side lane threat that can help him.
Yeah, absolutely. And I think it's always going to be a hard game for IU.
You can try to play way far back, but you know, they do kind of require the damage from the Jhin.
And the question to me is, you know, if Tuts gets strong enough,
you know, if he does get those 3-4 items that has Azonia, has Archangel,
As for all his stack, as Karma Shields, even if you catch him with your combo, can you kill him, right?
Exactly.
That kind of that difficulty is, we all know Zonia's answer is the Unleashed Power from Cinder so incredibly well.
So, you know, if he can become that kind of brick wall and just move in with the rest of his team here,
then all of a sudden, even if you get that combo online, Zion maybe doesn't want to play.
Yeah, and I think a lot of it is going to be on three goes Engages as well.
The Zion kind of needs to make sure he's able to close that distance because if you're trying to take space into a lot of these fights,
are into these objectives. It is going to be relatively difficult, but out of him there and also kind of finding that quick fight
because the more poke that lands, the more difficult it's going to get, especially as we are already highlighting.
Like for me, line, their setup around objectives is incredibly impressive.
Like, they clearly understand how their composition wants to operate, and when a poke pump like this, they will find it.
They will look to find poke around the main tank, and that becomes a little dangerous for a fury in that regard.
Absolutely does, and it sounds like on stage we are ready to get back into it.
So hopefully we'll be a quick pause and we will be getting things under way here relatively quickly
And I'll give you guys info as soon as I get anything more, but it looks like it is all okay
We are back into game and things will resume for now at this very very easy state
Second dragon is up and inspired is down in that area with a lion trying to get pushed in mid
Looking for that setup around dragon here and their base timings are pretty good
so they're just trying to play in the face here of Furia and take a little bit something more.
You have to be a little careful because you can see the Toots was considering roaming across there
where they would have had that numbers advantage but they all came back towards this bottom side
and he said we go pushing top with no TP whereas Doktor does so
I think for Furia they kind of just need to give up on this dragon
with the numbers advantage that the line potentially could have.
Yeah especially because he used that ulti, that's not an ulti for that attempted dive
so it would be hard for him to join even that way so it does look like as you say
that Furion will just have to give us up. They're getting pushed on bot side. We'll have to be careful after this dragon goes down, that they don't get collapsed on, and we're just kind of waiting to find out, you know, what sort of soul will be available. Infernal, I would say, is probably the best four-line, given that they're playing pretty poke heavy, and it can't be Hextech, so we'll see what they roll.
Yeah, the poke in Infernal Camel is not entirely fair at the time, but you do see it come in.
Still, I'm liking the way the Fury are playing this, so they immediately pushed out Bot with Tooth,
and now looking for a little bit of a later cross-map, as you have all of us up here trying to cover for Dota,
but that's a lot of members of Fury in this top lane.
Yeah, they are overloading the top side of the map. Their entire team is up here at this point,
all five members coming from Fury. You can see St. quickly running out from base.
Lyon realized this is what is going on, so they are going to back off for now,
but they would like to defend the tower if they can.
Gecko taking a lot of damage. The Unleashed Power from Syndra just used to soften him up,
and now the Ezreal ult comes across the map, and Furia have been answered by this four thus far.
No one is there to stop Rzurka, so Lyon answered the play with one less man and get the push in mid.
Yeah, you got ad play for two, but I think a lot more going across the Rzurka there,
and the way of being lost too, so Lyon going to be relatively happy with the way that they defended that one.
But again, like I love how active this early game is like you've got so much
It's like a chess game but in back and forth with teams trying to cover on either side
And I think a huge amount of that has come down to some really clever visual controls that we've seen from both sides like line had that
More than the second bush there on that top lane to make sure they can spot out as fury
We're trying to make that play. We've got some deep boards that is enabling furious to try and look for answers as well
And everyone is just on this push-pull constant
back and forth, has rushed to Serpent's Fang, obviously good against Sion, good against the Archangel's shield, good against the Karma's shield, so pretty valuable here, and I think once you get ganked a couple times, you kind of realize you're not going to be winning the 1v1 that much anyway, so I think it makes sense to go fit more for that utility instead of rushing something that is more for that 1v1 Sion land.
Yeah, we started to see it more and more and I do think the value for it. It's just absolutely insane
but wait 20 seconds now until this rift heralds bombs and
An option here for line. They do have good push. They still have that TP for dopla who
Forced the flash away from we go not the start that you want to hear
No, and there's the scatter and besides that by tooks you go definitely taking over in that 1v1
Has his first completed item on any spare has the steel caps and he is kind of just turning into a brick wall here for
who was not in hammer form so put a knock back to actually interrupt that
decimating smash and as a result felt he had to flash or risk getting taken down
inspired in the area here Lyon wanting to play for this Herald and do have a
pretty good setup for it but Furia do have four members and they have the TP
available on the side as well the joint they're going on to St. immediately
nice immune of the flag and drag coming through so it's gonna pop the dose chasing
after inspired who is getting chucked very low and they're not gonna get a kill
But that might have earned them the Herald here as it looks like we're seeing multiple members from lion
Just going back for a base Geego gonna flash in here. Dokla's gonna try to get out a dodge
We'll see if you can outplay it looking for the side steps running back and forth trying to get some space here
The knockback is still not there. Dokla can't avoid the decimating smash and he's gonna get knocked down
It's solo killed by Geego as on the other side of the map here. He has starting up this Herald will claim it
Lions trying to see if they can actually keep them around here and maybe get an extended fight off the back of it
But they can't get anything so fury win that about both sides very insane win the fact you get that kill for we go
And you're able to force back line
Don't think they're gonna follow up too heavy on Jojo here. Hope you run though
Jojo is the target gets hit by the flag and drag inspired doesn't have a lot of backup
But he's gonna throw the ulti down on the tattoo just hops right out of there
No problem nice buffer on the flag and drag here as the deadly flourish did come through on him inspired
But won't get much of anything lion try to put on some pressure
Aren't able to really capitalize on it whatsoever the game remained very close
So with the only real advantage being those two dragons on lion side inspired didn't really have to follow up there
But I think he was just hoping to burn some summoner spells before that next dragon spawns in a minute's time
So JoJo now not having to heal or that flash could be a potential target
But Fury haven't been doing a good job of answering on these objective setups.
Like in that position, they end up forcing their way in towards River.
Lyon don't have their poke in the position that they want to, or the ability to just all in.
So, you end up finding that moment with a quick all in from Tattoo to push them back,
and now that's what in the space they want for.
Jojo to start to step in towards River, start to get some vision control
for this dragon that's a big spot.
And they're kind of doing the Lyon Classic against Lyon,
where, you know, Inspired was famous for his teams just giving up dragons,
playing cross map, they don't have the right setup, and Furia has kind of been the one doing that,
trying to play for gold, trying to play for these sideline kills when they can't actually contest
the dragons. Has not gotten them massively, but you can see Lyon collapsing here potentially onto
Toots as we are watching Jayce down a couple levels briefly, checking on the coin-based Gold
Grind here, Gigo with a pretty significant advantage, up 1400 in the 1v1, and he's going to be going
for a bit of an offensive build here as he's not going to be staying full tank, maybe just
feels like hey I'm tanky enough you have to fight through me and if I go a little bit
more aggressive I can actually punish players that are trying to walk past.
Yes, actually because Jason Ezra is not exactly the biggest tank killers but we've already
got a bit of a scrap here for Tattoo.
Yeah, Tattoo is going to have to use the immunity very early on on the scatter.
Gigo trying to create some space moving forward here as they reclaim space here in that river.
Dokla coming in from the side, Gigo is going to get sectioned off.
They're looking for a Poxy ulti, but cancels it very quickly.
He wants to stay around for the fight. Iles on the side.
He's taking a ton of damage from IU and Iles is going to have to go back to base.
You think, it sneaks in the shot. Jin takes him down.
Atatu flashing it on the safe and he's taken out by the curtain goal.
Beautifully played there from the Jin. Inspired falls as well.
Berzerker is in trouble trying to take down IU.
He uses the exhaust, shifts to the side, does get a kill.
Dokla fighting against Gigo here, trying to survive.
Zerker has fallen and it is only Dokla alive as Furyat will wipe Lyon from the map here,
taking him down.
The question is, can they even get the dragon?
I think the answer is no, so I feel like we're just going to be setting up for round two,
but that's Jinn'l, Rob.
That was insane!
The fact he managed to sneak past two of those shots to finish off members of Lyon was beautiful,
but I loved the way Guigo played this, using the shield off the teleport to buy so much
space for Puria, get control, and then even as Inspired looks for the engage, using the
ult to cancel the CC from Inspired so he can reposition and not be focused down, we just
see it here, really well orchestrated, and that buys the space for Puria to step forward,
you get that reposition from Tattoo as well as he wraps around on towards the bottom side,
and the shots from Ai-Rain down perfectly, Puria played this fight exceptionally well.
I mean that was great, taught to, you know, built so much space there for IU who almost
is able to win out on this 1v1.
It was really well played by Berserker though, gets the exhaust down, shifts to the side,
is able to avoid JoJo who's trying to block those mystic shots but you can see a little
bit of frustration there on the face of Berserker.
So misplacing that teamfight for sure, you would have wanted someone to block both those
Jhin shots that got kills.
Maybe those Lion players could have actually survived and looked to try to turn around
but we're setting up here once again and it is going to be Furia claiming the Dragon
is this time line just playing for sides.
I thought line might have actually taken the fight
because they burned so many flashes on 30 side in the last fight
that suddenly inspired has a lot more target.
Same for same for this kind of the week,
but instead just opting to go towards outside
and try and get some standing goals.
I hope that they can live to find another day.
It was kind of the gold lead for IU now.
You know, that is completely eliminated
the lead that Berserker did have.
Doku got some gold back and inspired still staying ahead.
Still quite a close game,
But it is now a significant goal lead that has been opened up from Furia as they have just been winning most of the scraps
It is 9 to 3 in kills still that one dragon lead here for Lions
So is anyone's game as that's battling here against Okla is just going to realm warp out to safety
Didn't feel confident that he could win the 1v1 and just decides to back off
Yeah, I think those we cherish the way the rest of line were so just going to step away from that one
But again, I think Furia in a position where they can start to just push outside lanes
You've got two to think who's gonna back and finish off the second item here as well
So in a relatively good spot and it's line there
We're trying to see if they can get some deep vision on towards this top side look for a play towards this low health turret mid
But you've got so much wave clear between Jojo and IU that is gonna be a difficult one to try and take easily
Absolutely is st. Now picking up that rocket belt. So prioritizing a little bit mobility
He has been the target it feels like in a lot of these straps
I'll do always going straight for him as inspired going in taught to in trouble
good pump call to back the root is there the gin alt is popped inspired has got
to run but Kenny survived he's shot out of the air it's duck on here for IU as
they want even more Isles is going back in save over the side hits the scatter
but the karma shields just say no and another deadly flourish is gonna connect
IU is on fire this man can't miss. Oh it's a pause as well absolutely insane
made Furia take a massive fight and it was a little unfortunate because we'll have to
see what happens with the pause, but as Inspired tried to hit the blast cone, he auto-attacked
one of the dogs from the Nefiri so couldn't get out and meant that he was stuck there
and Furia able to pick off him with the re-engage to finish off Iles, it just hasn't gone the
way line in any of these fights goes far.
It absolutely has not and the Jhin is really on fire.
single deadly flourish it feels like he can't mess with the alt normally people
are such gin haters but then you see a game like this is like I'm a gin
wow I mean you just don't miss it you just hit all your shots yeah it looks
pretty powerful yeah who needs the fourth shot if you just hit one two and
three you know the fourth shot is just the celebration yeah
after you win the team fight. We'll have to see what happens though but still this is
a this is incredible stuff from Fury and again we kind of talked about this
Clash just has and it definitely feels like the faster pace of fury is now starting to take over where the air finding picks it
The funny enough it was line who opted in to present a bait on the top side thinking that they would be stronger with some of the push
Control they had but even though they nerdy burst out tattoo inspired just getting picked off at the start of that really put a dent into the
Work for it. It really did and I mean aisles has been taking so much damage before he's even able to go in for the age
So even though he gets a pop awesome in on multiple members
There's the mantra shields coming through there is you know a ton of
protection there from that karma and they're able to absorb a lot of the
damage I mean the scatter hit over the wall but it's just lion does not really
know to connect to the same target all at the same time and this is the kind of
playstyle that generally lion excels in you know they they're really so good at
those setups but has been curia winning out and we can see League
officials are investigating a potential hardware issue with curia we'll update
with more information as soon as we know.
It did look like Tatu was talking to the rest,
so maybe some sort of an issue there.
As soon as we know more, we will let you guys know
exactly what the tech cause is for them.
I mean, I'm hoping for Furious, they say,
that it's an easy one to kind of continue with
because it has been so good for them thus far.
And especially the fact that we're going to talk about
wanting to see Tatu get off to this early start
under the Furious, so he can be much more of a threat.
I think that's been fantastic.
The way he's even played fights as well,
that dragon fight was incredible too, like I really think that Fyria have a good understanding
of what they want to achieve. Plus we go solo kill and don't kill the side lane, what happened
to big dokes like this isn't it?
This is a medium sized dokes.
That means against side, everyone's far compared to them you know.
Alright well we are going to be getting players back into game so whatever the issue was it
appears to have been fixed and we are going to be starting things up and they're going
to be right in onto the Baron as Fury with a big team fight over by the Baron
it's close 20 minutes and that is gonna give them a stranglehold on this game.
Dragon's not gonna mean much if anything is built we're gonna try to get some
gold back on the other side of the map but buying with this comp when you fall
behind just don't have enough damage actually get those initial kills and it
feels like this game is quickly slipping out of their grasp. It's also so hard to
try and retake space with this composition as well like you're heavily
reliant on inspired but we just saw he's not ready to tank you enough to try and
supplies for this, but seeing the replaying here, to keep it rise up as far as he tries
to hit the blast cone, because he ends up hitting one of the dogs from the theory here
instead, so it doesn't get the blast cone immediately, but that's how you get the shot,
and then it's the follow up as well with Grigo coming in. Ios tries to set up for a play
with Sane, but there just isn't enough damage, the shield is there, Sane can't get into position,
and I mean you call it an I, you just do us not, miss in this game.
I mean he is hitting absolutely everything, it was a great setup, you know, Rune Prison
and Debbie Flourish, they burst him down.
And Inspire just wasn't expecting that collapse so quickly.
And then even though Iles got in onto IU,
safe all out of the scatter, but he wasn't in range for the ult.
So it doesn't actually really matter whatsoever.
It is now a 3.5k gold lead here for Furia.
I ain't going to have to try to find the big play.
They're looking now.
Iles goes in onto IU.
Iles in trouble.
It's a great Micaels from Jojo, but it is not enough.
Don't go full fall.
In comes Inspire.
They're looking for more.
Call of the pack going to get popped here
as Toots is going to arrive with the round war.
Preserker goes straight on him, he has the exhaust,
he wants the fight, the scatter is going to land.
Toots is in a lot of trouble here,
but the shield's coming in from JoJo.
He's going to have to flash out, but here's inspired,
and Lion are on the hunt, the flash is forced.
Toots and JoJo barely survive,
but they get some kills and they get some much needed summoners
off of Furia here, as Lion get their first kill
in a long time.
They get the mid lane terror as well, but because Guigo wasn't there, he gets the push from the bottom side
and manages to take the tier 2 terror for himself.
This dead stand Sion starting to get a little bit of gold into him as well.
So, yes, Lyon did get the kills, they do burn some summoner spells,
but I think it's how do they now with those summoner spells down on Fury yet,
try to bounce back in this fight for Dragon in a minute's time.
Yeah, that's the real question. I mean, Iles will have his flash desynced from some of those players.
But once his flash is up, if you can make it quick play, maybe he can get something there.
Obviously will be available for this dragon though and the death stance as you called out very interesting tech
I've never really seen that you know people are gonna go aggressive. They're gonna go towards Titanic
They're gonna go towards bloodmail. You know these types of HP based
Offensive items, but it is a pretty low EPS comp here and he go just feels like this is the place
So we'll see if it does work out for him as lion getting siege on losing towers left right and center
it feels like is berserker trying to clear out these baron minions, but
difficult job for in Israel. I don't think there's much push you can get here
for a line. I'm with that dragon now just a couple of seconds time it looks like
we're getting line just saying not not interested we're gonna go for the
sidelines instead try and push out trying probably establish some vision in
this topside jungle and steal away some of those camps that are back to respawn.
It's pretty terrifying now as IU has the infinity edge completed this guy has the
Biggest goal lead in the game by quite a lot and has been really playing well in these 5e5s
And now that Jin damage can get ramped up massively with that infinity edge
Lurker, no reasonally strong, you know, same within striking distance up to it
Don't really just try to play sidelines as well as he can to continue getting gold
I know they just need to keep themselves at least within striking distance so that if you find a good fight
You have a chance. Yeah, and I think it is kind of going for these plays
We just saw we're lying like try and push inside the agent flaps up to mid lane
And if you can try and find those picks and find those quick plays
That's where I think you can start to buy back the space that you need to find these bigger fights
But at the moment fury doing a good job of kind of advancing as a line across the map not giving those moments
Where I like to find those quick things
Of course, it's gonna be down a level thanks to that row up there for it's it's who has a little bit of experience on top
Once Saint is level 16, that is going to be nice, and once he's got all his abilities upgraded, that is really helpful as well.
So I think they're trying to play for Saint, having three items, having 16, play around that potential high burst that he can look for as Berserker completes the LVR.
Third item is really starting to come in across the map.
I do think though this Regal is just such a monster at this stage. Three items completed. I think he won't be one basically, one that ends up in a sidelined against him.
So it is going to be difficult for Lion to try and keep this side and check.
And it's actually, it's kind of shut down some of that side lane pressure that you'd
expected Jace to really hop up against the side of this stage.
Where he can just continue to shove in these waves and create another point of pressure for Curie.
Yeah, it's absolutely true.
Is Gigo just ults out on the map there.
It's the temple wall getting things moving.
St. Spots 6 on the side.
But Jojo is there to cover.
It feels like every time they're doing a good job playing the map here.
You can see they move up.
They create this line of vision for troops to feel safe.
They have multiple pink wards on the stop side.
They have that one deep ward.
And Lion are trying to combat this as best as they can,
but that is another difficulty for Dopa,
who's been tasked with pushing out these side waves,
is where is their vision?
It's all in their side of the map.
Well, I think it's like, you do see Fury,
or just advancing literally as a line,
like forgetting this where it's just like,
okay, cool, we're gonna set ourselves up with here.
Nobody break that line.
Okay, we've got our vision trolled in there.
Slowly move up a little bit more and make sure that you're able to look for place exactly
It's really smart. You know just step one step two. They're playing it by the book
This is what I talk about when I feel like people are underestimating period. They're coming in they're looking at safety
Walls are all right. Well, that's a free win. It is not true. It is not true
whatsoever this team can play the map they can play the fights
They are a team to be respected and they are showcasing that here as I
Can have his fourth item by the time we get to this next fight you have to think and this guy is gonna be a beast
People talk about Jin being low consistent damage, but when you get to full build, you hurt so much AD that all of a sudden one 4 shot and someone just kind of dies.
And also, who's tanking that? Like on the opposite side, you don't really have anyone who's going to sit there and be like,
I can take all this damage from the Jin or even from Toots as well.
At least working up towards that actualizer won't have this towards this next fight, but still in a very good spot as he looks towards scaling.
So I do think for a line, they need to find these windows to punish Feria, but Feria just not giving it to them.
Yeah, they absolutely are not.
St. Has reached 16, has the components for the death cap, but does not have the death cap, and Feria are on the baron here.
Tatu and Jojo just trying to zone them away.
This has been spotted out by Lyon. We'll see if Feria want to commit to it.
It's down to a bit below half HP as Feria trying to turn. The curtains get called.
St. immediately flashes over as Geeko's alting into the back line, chasing after Verzerker and Isles.
Isles is caught and Isles is dead.
Can't get anything off.
The Scatter gonna land there onto Kigo,
but he gets shielded up.
The deadly first this time will not arrive.
The run-war comes in, Inspired's looking for him,
but Inspired's gonna get knocked up.
He's in trouble, as seen on the side, gets killed by Tattoo.
Inspired has to run, and Lyon's gotta get out of there.
Jojo flashing back, pops the heel.
It's two for zero, though, for Furia,
as they'll go right back to the Baron.
Another beautifully played fight.
Lyon are the prey here for Furia,
They are happy to catch some of them the immediate turnoff from baron the round warp aims to seal the deal for the TP from doklah
I don't know if you can do particularly much here is dudes gonna find them
It's gonna try to delay taunt you over the wall though to it's there as well the exhaust can be used by berserker
It's just in some trouble inspired a ride the Baron is still alive
But now furious in trouble have they gone too far?
I'll catch his Jojo and this could be bad for fury of a thanks leave
They've taken down berserker and jokes so we'll just be a prevention of that bear and take but not one for lion themselves
They're pings onto the bear onto the dragon though. It's prevention with a flair
I mean the money the bunch of us should get so many kills after that
I know you get position the dragon is huge from the turnaround
This is the initial engage where we go immediately pose the trigger
You already have the curtain call all gets caught out and then again like fear reform around this foot line of we go as
As everyone from line starts to move in, the realm warp comes through and the dash away from both members to make sure that they're not going to get caught by the knockup from Inspired.
These are able to finish off some of these members, but this re-engage.
I thought it was going to be done in dust it is, on live, tattooed just able to escape, but yet the end of going over the wall to try and finish off Topa, the max health shield doing a lot of work to keep her alive for a long time until Inspired gets there, the rest of the team shows up and there's good damage there.
I mean, Isle does find that big ulti.
I have been playing an incredible game, but Flash too far,
it does get punished for it, and Tattoo looking to try to set up
for this 50-50 smite.
Inspired wants to push him out.
Deigo is in the pit.
It's going to be taken there by Tattoo.
Gets another smite, and now inspires in trouble.
The Round Warp's coming in.
There's the big cataclysm.
It's Berserker gets pushed back.
St. is running for the hills.
They do take down Tattoo.
One man advantage for now,
but Berserker can't rejoin the fight,
fight and that means the lion don't have the DPS to go for more no health bars
online but they managed to escape away it's only tattoo falls but does steal
away that dragon so keeping that dragon in favor of fury and now but this is so
close every fight feels like it's misty kuffs and haymakers the whole time it
is crazy say it's got to be on that deathcap soon there is the completion
now coming through berserker trying to get towards his fourth item as I was
working on a fifth. It's close as far as the gold is concerned. This 50-50 could mean a lot because
it put them on sole point. Yeah, I mean you see the steel coming through here. The curtain call
opens up to trying to force the rest of line away, behind the space, but the steel there for
Tattoo is massive and it's the follow-up like that. I thought it was going to go well because it's
far and end up so low here, but the rest of fury it just cannot follow up. Tattoo tries to escape
but ends up getting chased down thanks to a nice hit from Inspired and the rest of line are able
to back away without falling as well.
And Isle stuck a really nice route through onto Tattoo
right before he got into the call of the pack.
So I think he thought he'd be able to hit the call of the pack,
jump away, create that safety,
but he was rooted up there by Isles as Lion looking for more.
Tattoo jumps away from the engage,
but in comes Gigo with the teleport.
Will Lion commit to the fight for now?
They're going to back off, but the sign says no,
you cannot do that.
And it is inspired being caught.
Lion dragged back through.
Toots on the side could be in trouble.
It's a big ulti from Isles.
It's Toots standing, it's Toots fighting,
And it's Toots waiting for now!
Into the GA, goes inspired!
Berserker on the side, trying to take down Gigo,
but Gigo is so damn tanky!
Finally though, the Baron gets aggroed,
it's gonna be the sixth man and help out Lyon.
IU calls the curtains, looking for Isles.
Isles will fall, Berserker takes the four shot,
almost just dies from full,
with a fist in the back of the head there from Syon.
It's another bloody fight here, two for two,
at the end of the day.
What is happening, Azale?
These fights look like they're kicking off so well for either side as we get line when they could engage on towards the rise.
But, dude, there's so much damage thanks to that actualizer, and even here, as this fight comes through, as far as it's a good job tanking up Wigo,
flying to space he needs, flagging Drag away.
But I thought this rise was dead, but the tattoo able to just get in there, finish off inspired,
and that actualizer damage, doing so much work to smash the stay alive, Wigo gets focused down afterwards.
And it's this concept in and out that it's hard as playing that is just buying space
mind you to go away in a little health park that keeps these fights in check
But it is bedlam every time I mean it is crazy and like there's no one to block the chin shots
Oh Iles was pretty heavy on on health so two shots and then just died to the
Knocked down, but you kind of have to sacrifice your life in that position here
Berserker has completed the show, Jim, though, so getting a lot stronger is how you now on that five items here and
Actualizer, you know amping up your shields as well. So you had the archangels shield
He had all of the shields coming through from JoJo so much protection
Meant that puts just took too long to kill and this is the time of the game that I was talking about in draft
When Ryze gets Sonya's next good luck being able to burst this guy down
He's gonna be playing in your face
Tatu can be able to to immune that Syndra all there obviously withfall the pack you've got Zonius to immune it
It's very difficult to get to IU so it is not easy, but Lyon are fishing here
We go on the bottom side though looks to engage on Dokla with that ultimus
See if you can get the 1v1 once again. I mean he's winning that 1v1 heavily now
They're gonna try to TP in and back up Dokla. Dokla is gonna get that assistance here
We'll see if they can actually make the play happen as they do arrive
but Aiyu is here as well. Aiyu flashes in and deletes Saint.
And now the curtain's getting called. Good sidesteps here from Dokla,
but I don't think it's gonna be enough. He has slowed down on the other side of the map.
Furious starting up the Baron will be pushed back,
but it's 5 vs 3 on the map, and when is the last time you saw the Jhin assassinating the Syndra
as inspired as good as Ryazla flashes in, gets a 1k shutdown.
The healing is huge. That just might buy them some time to stay alive,
But Lion is just looking to go bot lane and play for the map because they cannot stop this Baron whatsoever.
The bow play for Fury in the bottom side with IU showing up,
managing to get the kill, sets up for the Baron,
and it feels like Lion has scrambled a little bit to try and cover for us.
They absolutely are, but one big thing, inspired getting down there, kills IU and IU guys last.
So IU is not going to be up for this dragon spawn, so maybe we can see Lion go and just sort of rush down that dragon.
And I think that is going to be the idea.
Rush down the dragon, deny the soul, bring yourself a soul point,
and then try to delay.
But Iles down on the map, Iles is going to get caught.
He's trying to get a vision.
And Iles might just give away a freebie, and he does.
That is devastating for Lyon, because now that kill on IU
means nothing.
And they're going to lose soul as well.
And it's about to seize.
Ile got the shot down on IU as well.
He needs to get the head shrinker,
which means he's able to play a little bit further up
in these fights.
He's trying to look for the steal.
Gets knocked out of the flag and dragged,
trying to pull back, Berserker is here, Cade is here, Dope is here, they're gonna try to punish Gigo, but he is so tanky, inspired, goes forward, looking for Tatsu.
Eyes on the dragon now, it's gonna come down to the smite, fight, can Tatsu get it once again?
He's going for it and he gets it! It's the soul! But it's a kill on the other side, Tuts trying to make a big play here.
Inspired, blocking the shot, Berserker shifts forward, Tuts goes into the zone, he is, but he's taken down!
IU knocked up, fight, inspired, inspired, Berserker fighting! And on the other side, Cade is running for his life against this, Sion!
He's got to get out of there. Gigo was the target at the start of the fight, and he is just never going to die.
Berserker shifting away. They're trying to whittle him down. Iles is back now.
Tatsu needs to get over there and help him out.
Sage is low, but he goes into Sage's aisles with the pop blossom.
It gets immune by the call, and back. Berserker shifts away, trying to survive.
They're going to get the kill, and still, Gigo cannot take down Sage.
Gigo running for his life now, trying to go for the recall. It will not be allowed.
Lion standing, Lion fighting, and Lion finally, finally going to take down this raid boss you have to think, but Geeko-
How's he alive?
Uses to die. This man better drop some good loot. Lion get the delayed ace and hold on in this game.
Oh my god, these fights are absurd! Berserker played out of his mind at the end of this one, but we have to go back to the stars.
It's Tattoo who ends up once again getting this fight because at the start of this,
it's no members of Fury are really in position to follow up.
You're waiting on their eyes and they're trying to come through and as they do,
that's where they start to win this out versus Lyon.
But it's Ben Bezerker who plays this perfectly from this point on, chasing down on towards
all you would inspire. And as he ends up fighting against Guigo, look at the minor details here.
Ends up repositioning away from that auto. And then as Guigo starts to try and run on him again,
He repositions once more at the perfect moment.
He kited that so perfectly to help close it out.
It's brilliant play there from Berserker
in the Mastercard priceless moment of the game
and now Lyon, full-core press here.
They're out on the map trying to deal some damage.
They knock down the mid-tier two,
looking for the top tier two, which is very, very low.
This game is soul in the favor of Furia,
but it is dead even in gold.
And there are so many squishy members,
so much damage that soul is not a guarantee.
No, not at all, like this is crazy.
And line, now with the positions they have
and the tempo advantage they have,
can actually start to set up for vision,
can try and play their style of fishing for picks,
fishing for that poke,
and make inferior herds to try and take back space on the map.
You see how dark it is right now on that bottom side.
Aiyu has reached his full seven item build here.
Zerker is strong, but they're going to look for Aiyu.
And Aiyu has no flash, he's caught out in the mid lane,
and Aiyu is down.
And that is a big time pick for Lyon. No hesitation. They immediately sprint towards mid and Ryze has got to get back to base.
Can Lyon actually do it? They will at least try and crack the base here as they push in.
The wave player from two has to be enough, but the tower is not sticking around for long.
The tower is going fast, but Inspired is tanking it up, and Inspired could be in some trouble.
Gigo getting a targeted. Iles goes forward, and he gets a touch, and touch is just gone!
Control, ult, delete, says Sage as he knocks down the Rives, who has been an authority to his side.
All game long.
You see, though, three members strong here from Furyah trying to hold on.
That is a tanky side, has inspired moving in, gets the knockup onto JoJo.
It's eyes on the tower.
We do see him coming back in the GA.
Doklazovar is on the teleport. They don't have a wave.
I don't know if they can finish.
Did Lyon go too far?
They're so damn tanky on the side of Furyah.
They're trying to make it happen, but the Jin is almost back,
taught to his low, but he goes into the call of the pack,
and Lion have got a run for it.
The Jin is back up, and the question is, now can they get away?
It looks like the answer is yes, but what an insane game.
Lion thought they had an angle to end,
but they could not get through the brick wall that is the scion.
Grigo TPing onto the terror to get that max health shield
was crucial to being able to survive and inspired.
Folly might have been able to buy him some space going in, but couldn't quite do it.
But that was 50 seconds until Baron!
You'd get a reset, but maybe not Dokla, who's forced to flash away.
Flash follow there from Gigo. Dokla stayed around, and Dokla may have just cost Lyon big time.
Stayed for a red buff, and the cost is his life, and potentially the Baron as well.
That is such a mistake, and he doesn't even have a completed item off the back of it.
That's heartbreaking for Lyon, they just done so much work to get themselves into a strong position.
Now in a 4v5, they need to try and find a way to fight this Baron, but Token was so much of that damage.
I think they're just going to have to give. I don't think you can risk the game in a 4v5.
You've got to give the Baron and look to try to play towards the Elder, unless you can maybe get a pick before.
But it's so risky, and what a bad death for the 10th one of the game there from Dokla.
It's barred, it's going bot lane. Looks like Lyon are going to give it up.
So, very so, because what we saw a lot from Lyon in the finals was,
hey, you know, push that wave bot, especially for Inspired,
and then hiding the enemy jungle, trying to look for these big flanks for Dragon.
Maybe they can call here once again for Lyon, because they need some magic,
and they hope to beat out on this Elder Dragon.
We have now crossed 41-16, which means it is now the longest game of MSI 2026,
passing G2 versus TES in that one.
Lyon over early by this Elder.
This is where the game will be decided,
almost guaranteed one way or the other.
The elder going to be incredibly difficult to deal with.
Don't flip back on the map.
Remember, he will have no flash.
Neither will Gigo, inspired also missing his flash and GA.
So more resources available for Fury.
Yeah, especially with his onions completed for Tiz.
That was kind of the big crossing point you were talking about as ill.
And now Fury is stepping up as a unit, retaking the space line,
trying to see if they can get the hotel.
You can see Grigo.
He's more than happy to just tank that one up at this stage.
Absolutely is there's the monster shields coming out to jumping over the scatter does not connect in on to him
So it's oh my god
Lane and berserker just loses half his health there
To a fourth shot coming through from IU and now they're gonna pull the elder berserker trying to feel up a little bit on the side
Inspired their shipboard from berserker. This game is on a knife set
It will all be decided here. Don't look looking for that poke
But hasn't really able to find much of anything
Inspired for Zercher and Sink over by the pit.
You can see Isles is wrapping around the back of the dragon.
Looking for a potential angle.
If the curtain is going to get called here,
Inspired taking up one.
Inspired taking up two.
How many more shots can he take though?
If you hit that four shot, you're going to be going low.
And he is in fact down to half health.
For Zercher shifting forward, just trying to get as much focus as he can.
Kiko's going to go for it.
Kiko goes in, but it gets blocked by the clone.
Inspired, knocked up, puts in Tatsu on the side.
This dragon is low.
It's been put in 20 minutes of Sink.
And the fight breaks out and there is all the hills with the pop blossom that might just seal the pituites on the side trying to make something happen.
Rezerker shifts in but the Real Warp saves him.
Lyon are on the hunt and Fury are on for the hills. Inspired.
Miss Smite after Smite is taught to his winning out but the one that matters most is the one he takes.
Lyon looking for JoJo good sides that will stay alive but this time it's a 2v5.
They held with three. Can they hold with two?
Not looking like they're going to be able to as Isle's going forward, lands the route,
Dopla jumps in, Tuts is going to stand, Tuts is going to fight, he's going to get a free kill.
A good start to it. Potential defense here on the line as Tuts moving forward, looking for inspired.
But their eyes are just on the towers. The towers are gone, the Nexus is exposed,
Berzerker shifts in and seals the deal with a kill.
Berzerker goes on a rampage and a wild game was, came down to a smite.
that neither jungler took.
St. claims the elder, and that's what makes the difference.
What a way to kick off the series.
As St. Todd is definitely waiting for the mid-laner of Lion back in NA,
but we're gonna kick it over to the endless death,
because what the hell was that?
The Americas.
I said I didn't hear no bell.
Oh my God.
What an absolutely insane...
Woohoo! My mic isn't even in a lot. You probably don't hear it.
Oh my god. Can we just get a camera and a microphone in the lying room right now?
Both Berserker and Inspire are like,
Guys, can we lock in please?
Yes!
At the end?
Yes!
He walked in after him!
Yeah, at the end he walked in.
He had a rough game, but he got the help. That's all about it.
That's all about it.
Yeah, that's all about it.
Yeah.
Let's go back to the Spinal mic because this is just insane out of...
It's what? A sin...
Yeah, a syndra.
Yeah, they try and combo the 4th trough from the gym with the smite, but there's just a bit too much health,
Cinder gets it, and from there, Furia just try and scatter, they know, they cannot win the 5v5,
5, and even though they managed to get 2 out, it's just not enough.
Crazy stuff. Yeah, look at that gold graph, that's like a gold graph from the LPL.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, classic one.
Yeah, tell me then how they mounted this comeback, right? Because Furia, early map moves, good.
T'Gigo in the top lane doing good, don't like it and caught out a few times, getting a few Barrens even, Furia!
So much of those teamfights were Berserker really playing on a nice edge, and really playing slow,
because they needed to work with the poke that they had both off of Jace and Ezreal.
And even though some Shock class weren't landing, I felt like Berserker played so incredibly well in his micro in those fights.
I feel like honestly, all of these fights that Waco had heavily in favour of Furia even in the game,
It's like, wow, great engage, great start.
And then a couple of kills would come back to Lyla.
I feel like I just kept them in the game constantly.
A lot of the time it was like inspired, or it was bizarre,
because just finding exit kills that kept the,
even though the graph looked very spiky,
then he got to like 4,000 build ahead.
It wasn't a crazy lead.
I will say, I have seen this from Furia a few times.
Sometimes they don't push their lead kind of as efficiently as they should
because they did get caught out a couple of times.
The game plan was easy, right?
Our sign is super buff.
Let's put them in front and let's make it happen.
But they got figured out by Lyon.
They got to push him away.
They got to their targets.
Yeah, and we've seen this from Lyon domestically as well,
where other teams have either played the map better early
or they've seen it a lot of objectives,
and they've come back through some insane team fighting.
The MF team fight from the finals really comes to mind.
And I think, for me, it begins with Inspire, right?
because his early game was really good.
He wasn't involved with his lanes,
but he trapped Tatu so well and got this massive farm lead.
So when it did come to some very high pressure situations
for him in these fights,
he was able to perform super well
because he had such a good start.
Yeah, I think a lot of people would have missed it
because it was happening during the solo kill mid,
but like he got a really good invade.
And so by the time dragon,
the first dragon was actually being started up.
We had like a two level league on towards the Fury.
But then one thing you have to give credit towards
in Fury was that they cross-mapped so well this game.
They recognized we're not taking this dragon.
It's not gonna happen.
We're dropping it.
We're going straight towards the Jace lane
and Jace was doing well in the first five minutes,
was trying to like freeze lane,
realized wait a minute, I'm surrounded.
Yeah, so it was NA Jace to five for sure.
Yeah, it was.
Now it's only one game, it's gone.
Yeah, it's gone.
We never have to see it again.
Aw, cause you wanted to take a look
at the 18 minute dragon fight again.
Yeah, this fight, I feel like we go played so well.
This is really when they managed to blow the game open,
and it was just the space that the sand
was able to create in the situation.
But then the general comes out,
and there's just low health members
of Lions scrambling to get away.
This is kind of also what I was talking about
with those exit kills,
because this fight started so well,
and then we see that a theory goes on, a doko dies.
We then see Berserk able to get this kill onto IU,
and what started so well in the 5v5?
A little bit treated back, and a little bit of an overstep.
Yeah, and I think that is the thing.
It's like at the beginning of the game,
you could tell that Fridia were playing the map really well,
like you said, Raz, they were cross-mapping,
they were overloading sides.
They were forcing this Jace to be in side lanes
where he could get caught,
or where he couldn't contest the scion.
But then, in their beginning of Teamfight setups,
they're like, okay, we've played this come four,
we know what to do,
and then as the fight devolves into chaos,
they then seemed a lot shakier,
it really looked like they were getting pulled apart in terms of what they're targeting was.
Yeah, it's true. And looking at Lyon, you talked about this before. We didn't mention it in the
countdown, but you said the bot lane should be really, really good, right? We didn't really see
it play out in the 2v2 because of the state of the game, but seeing Berserker and the way,
as you say, he played on a nice edge to keep that advantage. And for me, played a huge,
huge part in why Lyon won this game. Yeah, absolutely. I think I was expecting them to do
a little bit more chibi-chibi, but obviously they're going into your Jace or a gin karma rather
And I don't think I'll pad his best performance. They get caught out a lot
Especially in that fight that we just reviewed and that was there were some pretty big mistakes from him in this game
However, Berserker, there was a reason why he was unanimously the number 180 carry in the LCS
Like that there was no one who did not think okay
He is head and shoulders above the rest and I think unfortunately IU was really fair did a lot of damage on the gym
Was a big presence but a couple of those later instances getting caught out in the mid lane
Flash being banned by inspired and then being targeted in team fights
He had a lot of the resources
He just wasn't able to clutch it out in the later moments of the game
Yeah, and even going back to I'll specifically because he had such a good split and to see this kind of performance is quite poor
I think just thinking about your angles a little bit more especially if you're playing engage
Like I think that replay that we showed a little earlier on everybody had seen him
Like he was so it was like there was no surprise factor from the Niko and then he walked in front of like four people
So like being a little bit more creative, especially if you're trying to take space. I think that's more important
Okay, I asked you before, are you scared?
After the game starts, I'm gonna die!
I'm gonna die!
What do you think now?
You're looking a little rough.
Yeah, I'm still keeping the burn, but...
Okay, well, it was an unbelievable game.
I personally hope we have four more of those, but I'm sure you guys don't agree.
We'll be right back with Geed 2, between Furia and Lion.
You'll need to look for me.
Okay.
I feel better, I know.
Yeah.
Nice, good.
Oh, how did he get this?
Now the realm warp is going to be coming in.
Ego trying to set it up here for Toots.
The knockup is good, and Doklat is gone.
He's taking a ton of damage from IU,
and Iles is going to have to go back to base, you think?
Sneaks in the shot.
Jin takes him down, and Tatsu flashing it on to save,
but he's taken out by the curtain goal.
Beautifully played there from the Jin, inspired falls as well.
Kill it!
Back to the back, turn around!
Keep walking where I can't be strong!
Do we still much work and get you?
That's just going to ease them!
When I was a player,
if I was to make a misplay,
maybe it's my mouse,
maybe it's my armrest,
something feels wrong.
If you were at home, you wouldn't do that.
The Infinite Position Armrest
is part of the largest you collect on stage standard initiative,
aimed to bring your home or training room settings
to the tournament stage.
I think the other players will make the setting more natural.
The most natural way to play is to have a more aggressive play.
Red Bull gives you wings.
back to MSI 2026 as we just came off of an absolutely insane game between Lion and Fury.
My heart rate still hasn't reset. That game was absurd. So much back and forth. Every fight felt
like it was coming down to the wire and I'm expecting the exact same as we get in towards our HyperX
and dropped my brain completely part of it.
That's okay. It happens to the best of us.
And the worst of us.
And to me.
Well, it's still the best of us.
But Lion vs. Fury is going to be a fun one.
Lion, I will say, from the LCS, PSQB,
I do think they played some of the late game fights really well,
but some of them they made it a lot harder than I expected for themselves
because I think some of their setups weren't as good,
But I also agree we were talking about the software where it's like here. Yeah, it's kind of making it difficult for them
They were taking space really well thought to was you know really being aggressive and I just wasn't missing anything
Just it was absolutely incredible to see anything you can already see that that focus is going through this draft
So I'll try to get put off is something that the TF kind of the focal band there for me
This is something that we've seen a lot from tuts four times one of his tide for most played
I mean over the course of the domestic split. This is clearly we do not want this man popping off like you did for last game
Yeah, it's so interesting right because the triple Ben towards him you know generally people are gonna say okay
Well, Tatoo is the real star, but if you don't feel like in Van Tatoo out
Maybe they feel like they can get more of an advantage and Camille gonna come down here
Which in this tournament has always meant that it is going to support and that was kind of a big question
We had is you know is Isles gonna play that style and if he does how will we look yeah?
Yeah, because one of the big things that we were talking about over breakfast was, you know,
Ailis tends to be more about, hey, I want to play for the lane, I'm not going to roam
a huge amount, I'm going to try hard focused winning in the 2v2.
This isn't the case though, this is the champion that you want to get out of the map already.
Work with your jungler a lot as well, which has been more inspired focusing on his own
tier and his camps and getting that golden experience lead through there.
So a very deeper look, it would feel like R'Lion opted in towards the meta here.
Yeah, it's going to be exciting to see how they perform, and if it is one of those expected
such as Ziggs or Mal, that's kind of what you're looking for generally when you see them come out.
There's of course a possibility that they're just like,
No, we're just gonna play top, because you're gonna play a tank or something weird,
but there is the Ziggs, and we're definitely expecting this to be down in the bot lane for Berserker as well as Iles.
And I will say, I'm probably more nervous for Berserker playing a Ziggs than I am for Iles playing Camille.
Berserker has always been the AD carry's AD carry.
This guy wants to play Hyper Carries and he has 0-4 on Ziggs all-time, which is not surprising at all.
I think he can definitely perform on these other champs.
We just haven't seen it for a while and when you think of Preserker you think of Xeria, you think of Unara, you think of Felius, you think of playing game AD Carries that can team-fight.
Even his Ezreal was brilliant, but this is just such a different style, so I wonder how it's going to look and... yeah.
And KC, show us what happens when the AD carry, AD carry picks up the Ziggs, so I'm about to see him as a Zerker.
Solo killed someone.
He did.
That is true.
That is true.
What was his team doing?
I'm very curious to see how this one finds out.
I do think the blue thing for the Ziggs is a lot of setup,
right?
Like, the Wukong, Benemton, off-key,
we all get to meal with that X-Tec ultimate.
I'm like, people's most easier, upper-circuit,
and I'm the one who's most better.
No, I completely agree.
I mean, it's just so interesting because I feel
like a lot of people, when they think of Ziggs, traditionally,
they think, if you're standing 500 yards away,
you're just way clearer.
But six can actually win a lot of two.
He's very, very heavily.
If you're using your satchel, well, you know,
some dashes, you know, using your satchel
to stop a crash down from a rail,
and then all of a sudden Camille Hookshot's on her,
she doesn't really have any recourse.
But if you are just playing in super far back,
you're generally not gonna get that much value.
So we'll see how he does perform on it.
But traditionally not a guy who really plays
outside that standard meta throughout his career.
On the opposite side, though,
very strong composition being dictated here by theory.
the buying Cassiopeia already a fairly strong theory.
We saw already a lot of dive starts to form here
for a line with both the Camille and the Wukong.
So the Cassiopeia is going to get a lot of value there.
So I am curious now, how do we try and follow this up?
Because in the first couple of fights that we saw on game one,
it was Furia having the better setup
and the better control and the better vision.
So do Lyon now try and rectify that?
Or can Furia cover their angles
and really enable to on this Cassiopeia?
That's going to be a big question in Casio.
It's one of those champions that can be really difficult to deal with.
It's a very similar style champion, I feel like, to Ryze,
where you kind of hit that certain point, they're so tanky.
You can't ignore the champion, but sometimes it's hard to burst them down,
and it's kind of that, that like, push and pull of exactly how you want to play it out.
The double mid lane bin here, trying to protect that Casio.
Three mid lane bins were thrown towards us, and he is going for the Casio,
which is obviously a strong meta pick, so I'm curious to see where C will go.
We did see Cap spring out, you know long we sometimes see aggressive options
Sometimes people will play still like Yone and champions along those lines and try to just snap back
As the asthma comes out, but you can also just go standard and say all right
Well, I'm just gonna play Victor and just laser you from far away kind of just match that scale
Yeah, I do wonder cuz like obviously with the stage in the bottom line
It does open up some AD mid laners like the only three you want to good
WAD coming through from the jungle and mid lane always a little bit
Look what the Aurora for that top lane.
Don't worry, she's so close.
Yeah, so, you know, kind of something a bit unexpected.
I will say here from Vigo, didn't play it at all in the split.
And so they're considering just going in towards the Galio.
I do think Galio is obviously very strong with the Camille.
It's a great combo.
Can be quite powerful.
I do think they might need a little bit more consistent damage from the Ocla.
So I'm kind of wondering that might also be the read from Furia.
they're saying like you have to play some sort of 80 champion that's gonna bring some
efficiency damage and Aurora is gonna be good into whatever you pick so maybe that's the
thought process. But I like Nars an option because I generally feel like if Nars does
not get bullied early unless Cassiopeia is happening. It could be. We'll see if they're
really cooking. They could also just be trolling us with the hover. Yeah I'm curious as to
how you feel. So it looks like they will flex the Cassiopeia to the bottom lane and towards
the Zeigs. So already Fury it makes it up and maybe Raz has made you a festation. They're
Coming a little bit more true here.
Yeah, that is wild.
I mean, so this is first ever Camille for Isles.
I'm going to check IU all time so he's ever played Casio.
Not to be surprised if he is not.
It still feels a little bit difficult for the Casio
to try and play this match up, though,
because the Ziggs does have the range on you.
The Sochre character, trying to lie face.
So definitely cooking, but I'm curious if they might have
burnt themselves a little bit of this.
Yeah, I was trying to figure it out, too,
because generally I feel like Casio,
you're really good at the changes that are relying on the dash
to arrange. It makes sense against Camille, but Ziggs can also poke you from far away.
He's got the push where Cassio could really struggle against champions that out ranger,
so it's interesting. It's very interesting. And the push is the main one that sticks out
of my mind. It just then goes, okay Camille, I'm going elsewhere. I don't have to deal
with your management in the bottom lane. I can just look towards elsewhere. So again,
I think that's kind of going to be the focus here. But also then comes back to that conversation
out deeper placed out for all of us. How does he then look on finding these roam timers?
I think like I was over the course of this year has really got kind of grown as a player
He's kind of been on the lower tier team now picking up this first championship
This would then open up another chapter in that hook for him
Which I think is an incredibly interesting story. It is such an interesting story because like you said, you know
Alice has been around for a very very long time, but he has been on
perennially teams that finish at the bottomless game games, you know and and people
It's difficult to judge how good as an individual if you're on a team that always loses, right?
It's really hard to see, especially if you're not in the games,
you're not in the scrims and in the colms.
And Isle's got a really good chance to join a pretty star-studded roster.
Both Preserker and Inspired have been MVPs,
seeing it was obviously a really high prospect.
And to see him get this chance and really make the most of it,
I think it's such a cool story,
because it's not often that players very late in their career
do get a chance to kind of change the trajectory of their career.
Yeah, it's incredibly interesting to see.
And again, I'm hoping that now we can see him kind of open up that next page on the field as already
I think a John for his JoJo does get picked back but
Think you have like a huge amount of consistent damage guarantee hit that level to look so that decent trade back from period
Yeah, not bad at all I'll
Little bit worse for where off the back of that you can see Doka feeling like he's gonna be on the back of this trade
Interesting tech. He is going lethal tempo
So I have seen more lethal tempo in R, but generally into Sion and Ornn and you know some of these types of champions
maybe he feels that
In the teamfights, he's gonna be getting ignored and you're gonna be going for berserker
You're gonna be going for backline and and he's gonna need that consistent damage as Isles goes in does utilize that passive shield
But takes quite a bit of damage on the back end of that trade still berserker first to level 2
Lion have the push as expected
And Isles can start to try to move around the map here and threaten a little bit
Hey, you can already see the vision troll is down to spotted Oz
There's one there and banana brush even though by Raptors and
Since just playing towards that top side of the map making sure that he's gonna be fine
So I think it's gonna be a difficult play here for us to really find anything
For sure. Nice side steps like you go a couple times in a row is this is inspired time in North America
He has been a player that is really taking over in this region came in a saint
Looking for more. I think he's out of damage, so we can go back to talking about.
Inspired, but he has joined now three different rosters, from EG to FlyQuest, to Lyon, who had not won in the league.
It's not like you're coming in, you're joining Team Liquid, who's won a bunch of championships, and then you keep winning.
He's coming in, and he's joining Orcs, who had never won in the league, and then making them the winner.
And that is why, you know, I kind of started to pose a question.
When we were going into finals, how far does he have to go to become the NA?
Go potentially, as Iles is actually only level two here, and he's stuck in the miasma,
And it's looking like he is just dead for free step out of lane to try to threaten the roam down in the experience
Gets caught there on the engage into miasma and gives over an easy one to IU. That's a rough look
That is a trophy completely just caught out and I like this was kind of the big conversation
What was it to me? I look like Braille's and not looking comfortable from the get go immediately kill the one
Kela already going over towards IU and this is the first time we've seen IU pick up the Cassiopeia
But if you are already off to a run like this with an early tier, this is perfect
Absolutely is inspired looking to try to double scuttle here
But JoJo is first there and the scuttle is gonna be grabbed by inspired so he does pull it off for Zerger now moving up
There's a lot of people converging in this area as berserker now in a pretty awkward spot to be honest
And Isles is gonna have to run for it still level 2
getting pushed back by IU has not been able to pick up any experience in line
is kind of getting pincered right now Jojo could look for Isles he has no hook
shot for Zercher fighting on the side against IU as Income St. there's battles
on either side St. getting pushed back by Toots inspired gonna have to clone away
good dodge there now hook shots in stuns hot to crash down though on the Isles
pass the run for it's still level two mind you burning and it's the flash in
from Toots to finish him off. Iles is looking like an easy kill so far in this second game.
Inspired goes back in, working on JoJo, IU incredibly low on that bot side. The flash
has been forced from Berserker. IU still has his. Berserker will push him back, but won't
be able to get that kill.
Lyon just over-committed to try and defend their jungle. Fury just did a significantly
better position. They'd already pushed off Berserker. They were able to wrap in towards
So that Raptor come on oils end up giving his life for it.
And as you say, he's still level two.
So you're already getting back into lane,
and it's a disaster for the Camille.
Really, really tough, right?
You know, you give up an easy kill,
but you shouldn't have given when you had push on bot side.
Then Jojo is roaming, so you feel like, hey, I'm the Camille.
I'm going to be roaming too.
I've got a match.
As Gigo went a little bit of trouble here,
does use the Draycound snap to absorb
that proc of the hyper there from Doughla.
So it is missing his flash here.
Both top laners trying to push for level six will be docla getting that level six here faster
I think but you actually get to off the minion that dies there now docla's got to be careful
does get up to level six here and
Probably will just be looking for a reset as Isle's now level three gonna be looking for a toots potentially does push him back there
He just pops away to safety knowing he has no flash
I'm gonna say it's a brave move as well because there isn't really the vision spot out where a tattoo was and I think if you'd come
into that, that's why more than half of them come over the wall and ruin that play.
So I do think kind of line needs to take it a little bit slower, try and spot it
where tattoo is, get the vision to figure out a game plan before fully committing to this.
That can be tough for sure. Early game, not really going the way that they were hoping,
but same kind of be said at times in the last game, and I weren't able to fight back.
It's stabilized, so we'll see if Iles can do that. The two early kills, obviously both on him.
Everything else pretty even when you're looking across the board
It's just IU really with that first blood goal that is kind of separating those two bot laners and St
Thankfully has a CS advantage that is keeping him pretty close to this
Trying to get in behind this Erker here
They're waiting for him to step up because that wave is pushing away from them
But now the Knail showing on me to getting the push they're gonna move down towards Botsat
Public execution used there just to escape is Doughla's a lethal tempo stacked and Ego's got a lead
So, Dokla doesn't spend his ult, gets the ult off of Gigo there, and a really nice trade post-Peliport,
which is always an important time here in these 1v1s.
If you can get a good chunk, force them to take a tough face.
You can sometimes get a couple of plates there and really build an advantage as Tatsu, again, looking for the invade here.
He's level 6, inspired, gets this might, gets a level 6 of his own.
St. is around as that ultimate available to join, but JoJo had first move now being matched by Isles.
Both supports level three.
Back to the sweep, going to miss here.
Tatu charging up that ball breaker to science.
You know what?
It's not worth fighting here.
Jojo has spent so much time with the tribe,
trying to see if he can get that flag up at his record
that he hasn't really got any of the levels himself.
Actually sitting behind Isle when it comes
towards the experience, but stepping forward.
Yeah, stepping forward and Isle's
going to be another kill there.
As Tatu spends the ulti, does knock him down,
has to pull off the dragon to do it.
Dragon will reset, but it is the third kill of the game for Viria, and the third death there for Isles, as he was scrapping with JoJo, but not respecting the fact that Tattoo could still be in the area.
Yeah, I just don't know what the game plan was for Isles, like, your dribbler had already pulled off, you're level 3, you know the Tattoo 6, and then some just gave it across the kill, so Tattoo, gonna pick up a bit of gold off the back of that for free, and again continue to march around the map.
I think at this stage, you kind of need Inspire to link up with Oz a little bit on these plays,
but still the Camille level 3 kind of makes her so vulnerable now whenever she tries to make these plays.
Yeah, I mean, you're looking over at a level 7 Aurora, at a level 6, thought to a level 8 Gigo.
The level 3 Camille is not feeling very threatening.
Yeah, not the deadliest.
It's great that the bot lane players can soak up that experience, but at the same time,
you do need to get some levels eventually.
Both of these supports though are still sitting at that same point, and Oz is still having experience,
So even though he's dying, it's honestly not worth a lot of kill gold, so it's not the end of the world.
Jojo here was expecting a dive and looking to match, but Tatu going to jump into the pit on this red buff.
Sweeper does spot Isles and save the area as Inspire will claim all three of these grubs,
which is quite nice when you have potential pushing side with the NAR, and also this Diggs who wants to hit towers.
And now, Fury, have to try and cover for this top. Jojo's going to be able to get there, but again only level three.
Please be careful.
Nar in the wall, great buffer, but in comes the six.
Also, well played. Dive here is going to be set up by Isle.
Dokla jumps forward, grabs a second and in comes Sate.
The satchel knocking him back into the ult there from Sate.
And Tatsu flashes forward looking for Dokla.
Will be able to get Isle's and Berserker in the area.
Aiu has arrived.
Looks like the fighting may dissipate.
Inspired, beating with the clone there.
Tatsu thought he was running into a clone,
but he was running into inspired as Tatsu is back on the Krugs.
It means that the Aurora has to flash out to safety here.
Lyon went out on that play, nicely done.
Especially getting the TP from IU,
because IU had pushed in on that bottom side.
I could have looked for plates, and maybe that
could have been the advantage that Fury
learned to gain off the back of that foot.
By investing in it, he comes up, sure he gets involved
with the play, but it means that Lyon still
come out with that kill advantage.
Perzukar performing pretty well there, good alternate.
And I really like the satchel interrupting
Tatu knocking it back into that gale wall.
Yeah, we'll get to see it here. So here you go.
You can already see multiple members of Fury trying to get into position.
Use the ult to try and interrupt on the CC, but there's so much damage that comes through.
JoJo basically taking out his Dopa flashes in to secure this kill.
This is what you're talking about, right?
The satchel to knock the live back in, so the satchel ends up getting caught.
He goes down, and there's just Dopa who ends up falling into the play, so honestly, for life,
I think you're going to be very happy with the way that one panned him.
Absolutely are. As I said, got the TP, got more summoners,
And did get the additional gold only two plates remaining on that top lane tower first gold first power gold
Excuse me is up and available. You have three grubs. You have a six
So if they can get access to that tower it could go down in a hurry
This has got to be respectful knowing that he has no flash and no ultimate is pretty vulnerable
Also ton of patient on this topside for line face is funny now wherever tattoo is going to go
And as you say you've already positioned the Zeke's in that topside to try and get the tier one
So Tattoo, as soon as he is not spotted on these boards on the top side,
I think that's where the focus is going to come from line, but you can already see JoJo spotted out doesn't get the interrupt.
So we'll main Berserk Grass to take a couple of steps back.
Yeah, Berserkers will back up, but he is aware of the fact that JoJo was coming in, so he threw that pink ward down,
and obviously was spotted on the recall as well.
So both supports matching each other on the top side, now DoeCluck trying to get some damage down here on the IU,
But not liking what happens when he goes for a trade there you rush skill caps and now you're landing against a Casio
It's not a very comfortable position to be in but I was now moving down there looking for potential setup
But tattoo is in the area as well and Doka's already low
This likely is gonna go bad here or lying if they commit to play
That's the storm
It's the stun does scoop them into the wall flashes back but in comes tattoo and tattoo should surely finish the dog
the teleport gonna be in here to answer that's on the side chunking out aisles and aisles is gonna have to just run for the
Hills they do get the TP from Gigo which really wasn't needed because now you're giving up mid lane and top lane
That's gonna be first power gold for lion. So even though fury got the kill
Really not worth it kind of over committing there with that teleport
Yeah, especially because you'd already forced berserker away from the top side use the ultimate scared the way but it lost some of that CS in
to the tower, so you would have lost for Zercher, Goat, and then get the kill on bot,
and then you would have been able to keep that pressure, but now you lose the top tower,
you got the plates in mid, and suddenly, even though you got that return kill, it's not quite as valuable as you would have liked.
Absolutely is not. A couple of ultimates spent, the teleport spent, but Gigo clearly thought it was about to go down.
And you know what? You can respect him for having his homies back.
I mean, after the last game, you kind of expected to go down all the time, but, I mean, don't play.
I guess this done here, but just doesn't have enough damage in the tank these days got both his jungler support coming
But it just wasn't expecting tattoo to be able to get there the auto attack as well from inspired means the tattoos
Have to get the kill before the cyclone comes through but now we're back on towards the mid lane
It's just dragon about to spawn
And tattoo doesn't have his ult available neither does IU so I think line trying to see if they can find that timing window
But they're down a few oaks themselves. We'll see I was just trying to soak experience to get six
He's very close to it. So we will get it on this wave JoJo a full level away from six
I do does have that Ryalise which is gonna be super nice against all of these melee champions all these short-range champions
When our goes mega four or five are male as against an early Ryalise here on IU
Inspired waiting for the Cyclone Iles does get six
So they will have that ultimate advantage pretty big that JoJo is down that level because now you can look for the
Gallywalt the zigzall everything to follow up and Iles even if he just is kind of that one-way trip
It's gonna be a good trip and I do think that's kind of the mistake that you see from Jojo when Oz was falling down and going
Zero three wasn't so good experience. We're trying to see if he can make plays or he's hide off the map
But he's and now he is down so line with Oz and position you Geego starting to move down though
Yeah, Geego is moving. He has no TP. Don't look does have his teleport
But we'll see if he's actually gonna use it. My all is gonna be jumped on
Inspired should be able to just clone to safety
So another move that is gonna be a bit of wasted time there is Geego again thought there was gonna be a fight
But just kind of getting overeager and let's dokel push in the wave top
He's probably gonna take away the crux. You're bleeding gold and don't click on Meganar
So I think fury were like oh, maybe this is our chance
We can actually try to find the play but instead makes the party dragon goes down you get those resets
And again line just part of these small little time of it does the same great right up to toots
Yeah, I'm gonna try to look to be able to run him down here
Don't think he has the damage to kill but does push it back and he has rusty abyssal mask
which I know a lot of people don't love it when it's solo AP, but this is a team with Ziggs as well
So I think it is quite valuable in a situation like this
Especially when there's both a Casio and Aurora you're getting value on both sides
But I also get so much value from the Ziggs in general, right? Like he's pushing at the Casio up your mid lane
Starting three turrets there. That's actual charge will very quickly take the turn and now because you've got the trend to touch
You're very quickly taking the spotlight tower and Dokla
Maybe set up for a dive here, but he's about to go mega so here you can't really do much
Yeah, with just two members and him under the tower in mega. It would be wildly risky
I think maybe if you have three or four you can overwhelm them
But they did not have that imposition and this game feeling like fear is getting run around the map a little bit
I felt like they were playing the map really really well last game
But it feels as though they fell behind on one or two plays and now they're feeling pressure to kind of make up for that
And then so they're always trying to show up for the next play and lion is saying great
You go there. I'm gonna keep hitting minions. I'm gonna keep going for towers
But it is also kind of these individual moments very like saying just get that trade on towards to it
So it's the then sense of for the bot lane trade this six past the opa matchup despite the early kill
Hasn't quite gone as they would have liked with the Zercher could constantly been able to push in and get into positions on the top
Side to get that there as well. I know we're committed to the return
Yeah, they're going for the Herald is already gone
But can they get the fight? Geeko is the one being focused down. Isle is gonna get burst out though
the first kill goes the other way. In comes the Galio Ultimate knocking up multiple members.
Dokla about to mega out as Lyon wants to get more. It's 1 for 0 though for Furia and the
Herald as Lyon show up too late and getting nada.
Yeah way too late. They tried to get in but the turnaround play and without you in a good
position that was a perfect fight for Furia and almost reminiscent of game one with some
of these objective setups.
Absolutely was. They got the Flash off Kigo and Tatsu so that is your
Very small reward, but Tatu does survive, gets the Herald before the fight even starts
and then is able to grab the Herald and get out, so that could lead to the first tower
of the game there for Furia, which would be nice for them.
You really want to keep Ziggs in an uncomfortable position, so if you could take away that mid lane tower,
it could be nice, but they are looking potentially here for Akigo.
No one from Furia in the area going to go for Akigo does get stunned up by the hookshot
and looks like he will be getting ran down, has no flash, has no ult,
And it's just a one-way ticket back home.
Nice job by Line to find there.
I was just roaming down to the bottom side,
realizing that he goes to the ground a bit too long after the objective.
And it does mean now, Line gets some control on the spotside river,
get the vision down.
May need to start to ship people up towards the stop side though,
because you can see bow tattoo on toots.
Try to see if they can take down that low-heeled tower.
Don't have a way for you yet to do so.
That's an interesting view.
You actually rushed the endless hunger there.
So, pretty typical built,
Sink is going to be able to hold on to this tower tattoo. Of course, we want to drop the Herald. They can get the kill
And I'm not gonna elect to do that just yet
We'd love to save it for that mid lane tower
But the mid lane tower does still have all five plates and six
It's kind of just posted up chill and farm it and I think ox is gonna be pretty happy with the ziggs build because there's no
No defensive items just yet. Yeah, it's a big believer that you need to stand in the right place and then buy the items to do the damage
Well, I think it was Urkher in the right place and obviously summer line, right?
Like, I think this team works incredibly well with the Ziggs wave clearing mid.
You have two strong side lanes, actually with that lethal tempo on the narrow,
and just try and play through that strength, and you've got a 1k gold lead on Dokla,
but this fire's caught.
Yeah, they're going in on his fire, they're going to try to burst him down.
The Cyclone, Katera Gage is very good as JoJo tries to flash away.
The fire will fall, Isle's in trouble, he's dead now too.
Dokla has Mega, but he's probably going to have to run.
Here comes the Gallio ultimate does arrive but connects on no one for Zercher fighting as best as he can.
But Gigo's gonna take Donklu who flashes out very late.
This fight is a disaster for Lyon. St. flashes out but he can't get away either.
The Rylai's is doing so much work as Fyria chase down for kill after kill after kill.
Fyria find that pocket of vision and make the play work.
the pick on to Inspired right as we were saying.
Liner in a good spot to set up for this 1-3-1,
but they play just in this small little spot.
They have the Cassiopeia that comes around and is fired,
gets caught, gets jumped on,
and it's the double TP immediately from Curia that sets up for this play.
As you've got this Gatio that's still trying to run down from the topside,
doesn't have to teleport,
only now gets arranged for the ultimate,
but this fight is done and dusted at this stage.
I mean, the thing that really hurts for Lion
is not only did so many of them flash,
But three of them flash in a row as they were dying when they're really really low
So now you don't have that for the initial set up again as we got to go back to live because it is fury over on this dragon
Will if I'd be breaking out it looks like lion are in the area
But it's not and you know what we can't fight this instead
It is just gonna be another kill on the aisles. He takes his step of the game
That's been a tough one for aisles on his Camille debut
Sometimes trying to adapt to the meta doesn't go your way, and I think we're seeing a little bit for us in this one.
I haven't quite been able to find that success. Again, I think Lion had their moment there, but the Fury are finding the pick,
and then starting to get some dragons, you're getting two items on towards this Cassiopeia.
And even Ego, picking up a double kill in the last fight, has kind of flipped the script on some of that side lane matchup as well,
Accelerating in towards some good items. I think for Fioria, much more comfortable now to continue to play towards these agendas.
Completely agree. I mean, Lyon was in a pretty darn good spot prior to that fight, but losing the fight, losing the dragon, losing the summoners, and then losing another free kill from Isles off the back of it was definitely a bit tough before there were chances in this game.
Still, all that being said, it's just the one dragon lead and we're basically dead even in the gold.
The real concern is just you know wheel isles ever be able to get that value given that he's so far behind
And he is so squishy of course you can't always look for a hook shot in an ultimate
Maybe that's just all you need with the fact that you have the ziggs you have the galley
You have all these extra tools on your team
It's just a survivability is the biggest problem
I think because if you die the X that gold to made them disappears and you've got a three kill Cassiopeia
That's got so many levels on you in the opposite side
It's the same when you look towards to it like it does become a little bit difficult
And I think it has to be as you say that like quick one to punch up the immediate kind of ultimate
The immediate ultimate is Erika in the hopes that you can make it happen. There needs to be a pick
I think in fights, Oz is just
I was going to say it's hard to run a bit of a trouble, but if Oz is kind of in the middle of a team fight
I just don't think he survives before he goes down.
Time to see how good a Pete the Neil is. We're gonna need his own.
Thank you, Scott.
I was like how expensive is G.A. these days?
St. maybe in some trouble here in the side lane remember he has no flash
It's been like he's gonna get chased down four members up here on the top side
Inspired was moving up to see if you could cover but then they realized there's way too many and now it is potentially
Baron start here for fury if they want to risk it would be pretty tough though with berserker still very strong
So instead they decide you know what let's just play for some other more minor objectives
to see if we can steal away some camps and inspired as cleared out that side of the map.
So not really going to be able to get much more than just the power top and the kill.
Still though, they are still keeping a lot of their side lanes in check, right?
Like obviously top terrible.
You end up moving, you go down to cover that hot push from lowcliff.
That mid lane tower still stands, which is probably the most shocking point for me for
line.
Like I expected that to be the focal point, especially with the 6, we're going to have
to take it so quickly.
But they just haven't been able to establish themselves successfully in the side lanes
to now move that pressure to the mid lane and if we're two minutes out now from this
next Cloud Dragon, you're starting to get those second item completions coming through
for the mid laner as well for Furia.
This is going to be a very tough scrap and there's not really much pressure on the map
that Lion can create right now.
Yeah, it's going to be a tough one for sure.
So much comes down to the engage, right?
You've opted into this very squishy, very fragile Camille.
Rell on the other side, a lot easier to play.
You kind of just go in, and it's just a lot easier to survive,
and it's still going to have that similar value.
I feel like if Lyon don't get that first punch,
get that first kill right off the bat,
it's going to be tough for the win of Lyon.
And I think that's why I love the Observers showing here,
just how dark the map is for Lyon,
because it does become very tough when you're getting pushed first.
Yeah, seeing, you know, lose half his health there,
shouldn't be able to walk this one out, I think,
but instead they're going to go across the veil,
they're popping all of the ultimates,
they're knocking him down, inspired, looking for the counter-engage,
and everyone shows up.
Eiko is there, Preserker is trying to get involved here, but this fight is all Furia all the time.
Back-to-back kills and no one on Furia really threatened besides Tatsu.
So surely now they will be starting up the Baron.
They're gonna pull it.
They don't have their jungler just yet, but he is sprinting back out from base.
Ziggs has no ults.
Neither does the Wukong.
I'm not sure they can really even approach, but they're gonna try to see if they can look for a steal here.
I'll get some vision on it.
Tatu is now back and it's fire going to find that out with a fist to the face.
Toots getting choked down here by Berserker.
Isle splashes in, drops the ultimatum, but I don't know if they have the damage.
Did you get a shutdown?
And now it's going to be a bit of madness here as Furia has to run the telebore coming back.
And Furia thought it was their moment.
Tatu still trying to see if he can claim this bear and staying around.
Looking for the smite fight, he's into the pit, but it's going to be claimed by Inspired.
and Tatu is gonna pay the iron price for the attempt at the steal.
Todd takes a step too far forward and immediately lying, punished.
This could have been their moment, but instead it's the purple aura surrounding the NA representative.
As here, great pick on towards St. and you can see how much damage there had to come through.
Here he played slow, the wafer touched to get his cool hands back up and that combo had to come through,
but it's the Wampal combo that's a bit more wamp-wamp here, for a line, as they're not
able to really find the success with Preserker's ultimus, and Fury get the pick, but it's afterwards
as they step up into the space that it ends up causing them issues.
Tuts here, immediately jumped down by Isles, Fury tried to turn, but there's so much damage
from Preserker when he's able to sit and just whack you away with these bombs.
I mean, people think you picked Camille for the early game for the roaming.
You pick it for the 24-minute baron fight.
That's really where powersplikes in my experience, it's an easy mistake to make though, you know.
Well, and then Tatsu goes in, it tries to steal it away, but that's costly for Furia.
You know, they had a really good play and just weren't quite able to pull it off.
I think if Tatsu doesn't get caught there, if he just plays it a little bit further back, Tatsu is back
and they could probably just focus the Baron and then just try to run.
To be fair though, I also want to give a shout out to the Zercher because this digs has been really, really good.
The Ultimates didn't really land, because they didn't have the setup alongside Allos there, but either way, like, the Statue of Charges have been great, his zone with the E has been fantastic, and you can see the total damage there, he is doing work in this game.
Yep, him and Toots on the other side, you get shut down in that fight, but 5-1-5, very strong still here on the Aurora, and Berserker obviously has been great throughout most of this game.
does have the Seekers and he could sit on that maybe go towards the death gap if he doesn't need it
And if you do obviously you upgrade that into the Zonias because now he's very difficult to burst down obviously
He was always so squishy, but if vial's if everyone sends it
Well, that's what the Seekers is for trying to stay safe in that way
They're gonna send it again on the Saints ain't very far up and Saint has no chance
No ability to respond to that one from Lyon either
there's anything getting picked off.
Fury is just constantly punishing this Gallio
who's positioning too confidently.
Yeah, especially as line had just gone for the reset.
We saw Tokla going for the recall and bot lane,
and Fury using that timing window to get the pick on mid.
And as you say, these small little missteps
that are going back and forth on either side
that are giving the teams a window back into this game.
It does feel like a little bit of that kind of first match.
Nervous, he was inspired, going to find JoJo.
Will get hit by the shattering strike,
but Iles and Tokla are moving in.
Berserker's coming up as well. They want to keep them involved. They're going to try to turn though.
They're trying to burst down Dokla before he can get to Mega. The ultimatum comes back. Great satchel for Berserker.
Knocks Tattoo back to his base. It's a double for Inspired and Lyon want more.
They are hunting through the bushes. They spot Toots. Good sidestep there for Miles. The hookshot connects.
He goes between worlds. He's trying to run for the hails, but he's on the wrong side of the map.
Dokla's about to Mega out. Won't be able to burst him down just yet. The Starex gonna get popped.
He's kiting, he is threatening here, hook shot back up and now they get the kill.
Three go the way of Lyon and it's starting to feel like maybe they're getting control.
Gleiner collapsing faster in these plays, Berserker able to get far more value by moving up through that mid lane.
And this was one of the big things we talked about, that push between the Ziggs and the Cassiopeia.
It is enabling Lyon to make it to these side lanes quicker.
And it's exactly what turned that play in favor of Lyon.
Well done there by Lyon, they knew that Tatu Figo had spent their cooldown skill off same earlier and now we checking on the coinbase gold grind.
Berserker only has four games of zigzags in his career, had yet to get a win, but it's really really well farming well, playing in the fights well, positioning well.
I'm impressed by Berserker, this is something that I wasn't sure how he was going to perform and he's building that confidence for him.
this is fantastic game for the Ziggs and especially as you say like I think
Ken opens up a lot more in that bottom side of the map even as you start to
draft towards the later portion of the tournament which is fantastic and Camille
not to come to be there alongside it I will say but I also has been much better
as we've got into more as a later portion of the game some of these
engages so I do think I want to just see that link up between Iles and Berserker
on the ulti combo. This is one of the main reasons why you do take it, but they've been
a bit desynced. Sure, because of a bit of the chaos that Fury have been throwing in their
direction, but now Lyme, this is where you have that same level of control. Got your
side lanes in a good spot. You can start to try and push out, try and play for those collapses
on towards the mid lane. Play for that push out towards these objectives that are spotted
just over a minute.
You can see double seekers there for St. Ember Zurker. Now Ember Zurker is level 16 and he's
He's got himself a nice hat.
And that means the ultimate is terrifying.
Because if you connect on really anyone on the other side,
not like I was Sonia, not like Tutsa Sonia,
all of these guys are very vulnerable.
If you get locked into Camille Alt, Galeo Alt,
Sig's Alt, you're dead.
Also the Imperial mandate for Saint,
coming with the changes to Imperial mandate.
Insane on the Galeo.
Pull down on any of your CC abilities.
Very strong for a champion that has a lot of CC builds
into the kit, but here's the setup.
Curia already trying to establish themselves
And it's that top two Gigo combo we want to look at.
And Isle's going to be looking here.
Gigo forced a flash.
IU on the side, trying to defend his top laner.
Will do so successfully.
Isle is put relatively low.
Gigo held onto the ult, but loses the flash.
We'll see if Isle wants to go for a reset,
or if they just want to fight with the HP they have now.
So it's trying to chunk him out.
Tatsu on the side was looking to threaten,
as Doko is going to have to build back up that NAR bar.
You can see Gigo just went back to base as the teleport
and the ultimate available.
Niles is going to be caught on the side, interrupted on the hookshot, and he is just food for Fyria.
Tries to flank, but gets spotted and punished, and that is a big time kill.
Dokila moving back over, has no NAR bar whatsoever to speak of.
It will just be the third dragon for out of this eye, but Inspired wants to fight for it.
He is going in behind.
Twitch is going to spend the ult on Dokila.
Dokila needs time to base potentially and go back, but Inspired wants to fight right now.
Here they go, the Ziggs will come through.
Berserker goes on a rampage as Sink drops from the sky, but Inspire drops from the map.
He's taken out. This should be the dragon going to Tatu.
He's going to be able to claim it and move themselves to Soulpoint.
JoJo with an insane interrupt on Inspire's engage just clipped him with the ultimate
that then set up for IU to burst him down with that petrifying gaze.
That 1-2 combo may have just saved that fight for Furia.
Insanely close stuff though really really close and Kyle's been there and actually set up for the fight
Yeah, completely different look, but you wanted to go on the flank. I'm not sure where he thought they even were now walking across vision as well
This was way too far from Oz and need you to first out
We'll watch as his wife starts to kick off because it's part of see looking to see if you can get that flight opportunity
You're getting some decent
I mean, it's a great catch. The whole team got involved. He got hit by the public execution by the petrifying gaze by the rel ultimate. Everything hit on him inspired. It definitely felt like you really wanted that flying ball to hit.
team got involved. He got hit by the public execution, by the petrifying gaze, by the
rally ultimate. Everything hit on him. Inspired it. It definitely felt like he really wanted
that fight. But I mean, Doku was chunk low. He had TP. They could have tried to slow
played it and just kind of go for something else, but felt they were still on angle to
win there, even with Doku low, even with Isle's dead. You have to respect the vision that he
had there. It just didn't quite work out because Furia were equal to the task, denied him from
even gain that cyclone off as you're calling. It makes it very tough to try and
play out these fights and again we're kind of seeing like line wanted line up
this bombo combo but it just hasn't been able to come to fruition just yet.
It's been more about these sideline picks and plays that they've found that
success through and it kind of looks like that's what they're gonna fall back
towards here as well. Setting up this vision on the bottom side, I was also in
position as they look towards Tuts. I mean two of the key parts of the combo
we're gonna see them going up to Tuts and he's just dead and he just completed
It is deathgap, Aiyu coming over here to try to back him up, but I don't know that there's an angle to even go for anything back off of this.
Well, I mean it does at least twice as fast, they still gonna look towards that mid lane terror.
I think that as they do in this sort of position against the Cassiopeia, they'll be happy to take pop shots with the bombs at the Cassiopeia,
but line, not as you say, in a position to really step up here, don't want to commit, they're just gonna go over towards the barn instead.
Yep, they gotta start the bear in here, we'll see if they're gonna be able to pull this off.
So it will have TP when he is up, but it is still going to be 25 seconds.
Not the fastest Baron though for Lyon at all.
Doka is tanking it for the team, but he's taking quite a bit of damage.
He mega's out now, and I think they're realizing, you know what?
This just isn't realistic. We're going to work.
Yeah, it looks like a bit of a mixed call, because as far it was on the bottom side of the map,
wasn't able to reconnect to the team because Furia cut him off the mid lane.
And then with the mega, they're already burned by Doka.
I don't think you really have the ability to turn on the fight either.
So they have to back away. So it's a pick, but nothing more.
Exactly, and it is still Furia down a couple thousand gold, but on the other side of that they are the ones on soul point
They have wards in this area, so I don't think they're gonna be able to really sneak anything
And even if line are in a pretty good spot. Hey, you lose one slight on the next dragon
That's soul going the way of Furia, which is a very powerful soul this game
I feel like on both sides of all these melee champions all of this in the last game
That's true.
Uh-oh.
Iles.
Seen this one before as Geeko is hunting for him.
Doko's trying to get involved, but down comes Tatu.
Iles kiting it out.
Lyon has the first move.
The TP gonna be coming in, and nice side step there for Iles,
but is the Ho-Chop back up.
He's gonna go back in.
Doko now trying to buy time, build that Narbar.
Rzarkar, St.
Inspired everyone coming in to reinforce.
Doko about to make it out, but they're gonna try to just one-shot him,
but he gets into the mega.
He stuns into the wall.
The Ziggs all lands, and the damage is coming through from Lyon.
from Lyon, inspired to the backline, trying to survive,
but he can't play, do it.
It's IU crushing them.
It's Berserker, the only one who can deal damage
from this spot, flashback, gets multiband top,
they burst down, just, but IU is rocking this fight.
It's a double four, Berserker,
St. goes back in with his dying breath,
but Berserker is out of mana,
and Lyon cannot get more.
It is a bloodbath in the bot lane,
but we're seeing Casio shine in these extended fights.
The AP carries are trying to do so much work as JoJo, he steps up, but does he go down?
No!
Well, Tato is coming in behind him, and they have got to be careful from this spot.
They're delaying the base because the dragon is spawning here in 30, so pretty critical
buying of time there, but JoJo's still going to go back to base.
IU still going to go back to base as well.
But IU getting so much gold in that last fight, has the teleports get back out, and it's that
consistent damage off the cast of the open that makes the difference, because everyone
jumps on towards Dokla here, but that's perfect for line with that combo that we talked about.
The Zerker getting a ton of damage off of the ultimate.
Its fire goes into the backline to try and buy the space, but IU's damage is absurd right now.
And even here, Saint thinks maybe we can buy that little base here as he flashes back in
and it does get a kill, but it's the Zerker trying to run out of mana, whereas IU is firing
on all cylinders, hop shots everywhere his line, now in front of this dragon TP in.
And it looks like JoJo might be lost.
Yeah, IU is really low as well.
IU just got chunked out there by Berserker.
And IU's trying to go back to base.
The question is, does he have the teleport
to rejoin once again?
Complets the recall here.
Dokla charging up that Narbar.
And IU does have the TP.
It's going to be spotted here.
Toots looking for a potential flank here.
As you're trying to set up, they do not see Toots whatsoever.
And he can watch out for Berserker if he gets in.
But Tatsu goes early.
Tatsu gets Taden.
Berserker into the station.
He's trying to stay alive and focus in the backline.
IU trying to cut it out.
Here comes Kiko! He wants berserker but he can't find him just yet!
In comes Sank with the hero's entrance. They're trying to chase for IU.
They want JoJo. They want so much more.
But the question is, can they actually lock him down and knock him down?
JoJo's gonna fall. IU gets hunted up. Here comes Inspire but he's stuck in the miasma.
He's got a kite. Sank will be able to seal the deal.
They get the kills. They get the dragon. They control the map.
And Lyon show up big in the late game.
Law and laser focus on the tattoo on the play
prevent that 1-2 punch with the mid laner.
And just like that, they want to start marching down this bottom lane.
The death timer's not that high for tattooing,
so this is just, I feel like, going to be the take on the inhibitor and the reset.
Yeah, we'll see how much they want to go for.
They're positioning to try to end the game.
And they feel that there is an angle.
Tattoo's up in five, Twitz is up in seven, but Przercar is low with Nozonia.
The first tower gets one shot, but Przercar has to be careful.
Tattoo, just gonna flash through the team, look to one-shot Merzurker, but he can't do it!
Toots misses everything! He goes in for Merzurker, and he pays the price as Merzurker blows him away!
Lyon though have no wave, and they won't be able to close it just yet. They can go mid and look for more.
Gigo has that public executioner but available, and there are very low health bars here. JoJo, the flash ultimate could be enough, but...
Sokla needs to be so careful. They don't want to get across more barns up if they go down here
Yeah, he's got a run boom ranks slow, but he gets connected on look at Isle's coming in from behind and the hero's entrance
IU here to the zone is up by some time. Sokla goes mega, sends him to the wall and IU has fallen and with that maybe the hope's of theory
Geeko takes that couple to the grave with him though as JoJo is on the run
Berserker has returned, and Berserker is big man on campus.
A full six item zakes meets this game is over.
Lyon battling back and forth with Fyria taking us to that point.
This series is insane.
So back and forth, both teams throwing everything they have,
but by some miracle line, they're sitting 2 and 0 against Fyria.
Berserker with an incredible Ziggs performance.
I was doubting, but I have been converted. Desk, what do you think?
Oh, I think that for Furia, they'll be kicking themselves over.
Oh my god, they went for all the kills, but in the most important of moments,
they couldn't make it happen, and Lyon gets a match point first.
All of Brazil has to feel infuriated.
Infuriated?
Yes. I'm walking away.
Two games in a row where they have massive advantages, incredible game states where you just have to have one good team fight on the objective setups, and every objective setup it's just been completely fumbled.
Yeah, I will say though as we pulled up the draft, I heard a lot of haters for the first pick Cassiopeia. We saw why, it didn't win, it didn't win, but you guys hated it anyways.
Well, my biggest thing was like I love the creativity from IU because IU is willing to always find some angle that will make it so it's like
Oh, every pick is a flex pick, but I was like ooh
But you picked Casio into what is like a pretty strong range of composition, right?
So I thought the Ziggs would actually be able to thrive later on and you would be outskilled
You don't really have any way to also be able to siege
So I was like that's gonna be tough and surely we don't dive into that
But then of course you get the early solo kill in lane, the 2v2 kill. Yes, absolutely
Let's take a look at some things that line did very well including that early top dive
They they didn't want to get caught out again and let a net top laner and their team be put behind
And that's where it really started. I feel like they made the correct map moves
They made the correct decisions even though fury picked up a lot of kills
Yeah, and I think this allowed them to get really advantage in terms of turrets that allowed them to get the gold lead is
Decisive died that although we see fury trying to turn it around something we praised in game one was the cross maps
And this was an example where Fury didn't go for the cross map, and didn't really get enough out of trying to counter the play for it to be justified.
Yeah, and I think there were a lot of points in time specifically in the early game when
Gigo decided to TP bot as Mbessa. They actually gave up so much for that, ended up seeding
tier 1 turret to the Ziggs. As soon as he leaves Ziggs alone with the turret, it's never a bad idea.
Also, they didn't then didn't have TP advantage for the next straight. That TP was actually really really costly early
But guess what? It all came down to TP by itself anyway
And one of those are HyperX Reflex replay where around the baron the taunt that seals the deal for Lion and again
Furia they have a relatively good position on the objective but Lion just plays it out so much better
Yeah, and I think in this situation when you have a mobile jungler trying to go over the pit wall
It's always a little bit of chaos, but I think they managed to control the situation
They force fury fury away and that goal is now knowing they can't contest with his full HP berserker being a big threat
Trying to set up to get over the wall the tone is there ready
Soon as tattoo goes in taunted can't get any of his own damage under the baron to sink up with a smite in
Spide picks up the cleanup is there and you look at the kills color stuff at the top even after that
It was still 14 to 6 but the baron was what really gave them control of the game again
But even just before that angle, that was Fiora having, honestly, the Baron themselves.
Like, that was a position where they had already taken two members from Lion's side.
And I think they were in positions where, when they lost all of their go angles,
when their ulti's were all gone and the objective was right in front of them,
they either had to make the choice to base or commit to it,
but have JoJo on a different angle to make them come into them.
But multiple times, it felt like they just fell flat in those situations.
I feel like that's what I've seen over two games now for Fiora,
and it makes me a little sad because I see that there's more in this team
that they could have gotten more out of those two games time and time again.
It seems like Emily around the objective, they lose their head a little bit.
They don't use their engage in the correct time.
They get lost in the timings.
They get chalked out.
They don't, I think, don't see the full picture as much where lion does.
I think they see the beginning of the picture, but not necessarily the end.
If that makes sense.
Like when the team fight starts to get really messy,
because initially their setups can even be really good.
But then like, okay, are they protecting IU on this Cassio?
There were a few fights where he did survive a lot longer than I thought he would and he had a really good performance like again
I also did not believe because I was like picking this into the ziggs
Very very risky even when he did get that early kill because Ios did not look comfortable on the Camille whatsoever
Um, I thought it's like they see the beginning and the setup
But not necessarily how to get to the end. Yeah
I think that's the thing is are you is playing so well a lot of great ults to peel away the Wukong and a lot of melee champions
Do the side that you're gonna feel really good about pin the cast your feet into but it's ziggs who got so
Monster-fed none of that rockabell nonsense as well
Full stack medgize. Yeah, do an insane damage. It is a cast you appear
You always on the threat you just get the old throne on you and suddenly you can't teamfight anymore or a bouncing bomb
Clips you and suddenly you can't teamfight anymore and you could never really advance on the zigzag either
which makes it so hard, so painful, and why we've seen him in the past having the Ziggs mid lane as a counter to the Cassio Pier.
And we've also seen him, the LCS berserker, be able to find really messy games from his teammates and still carry hard out.
So like this is a great example of one of those situations.
Yeah, as we were watching, Ox was like, oh man, I hope he doesn't build Rockabelle. I'm like, don't worry.
He won't let you down. He wants to do damage, right?
Like he even sat on the Seekers to make sure that he was then locking in hat, built them his eyes as well.
He knew his role and again, he was so instrumental in poking out specifically for that Baron,
where Saint was able to land the taunt, using his range really really well.
That's some damage. That's some damage.
He also have the assistance from the Gallio with the Abyssal Mask and the Imperial Mandate.
It just felt like they're setting him up to dunk again and again.
And you take a step back, it was like, how was this match point?
Because I feel like Toats has been playing better, Geeko has been playing better,
like even JoJo has been playing better, the 2v2 in the bot side of the map,
that they've been getting good kills.
So that's how frustrating and how weird the series feels,
that ultimately the team that is a lot more well orchestrated
is the team that's clawing their way back into this game constantly.
In terms of getting the kills for sure, but in terms of the objective set-offs,
and really pushing the game forward from the macro perspective,
for Fira it's lacking and that's exactly what they're going to have to work on in this next game
or it'll be over for them in the upper side of the bracket game three coming up right after this.
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point, but I gotta say the series score does not tell the whole tale. Yeah,
sometimes the journey is more interesting than the destination because
oh my god these games have been absolute bangers. So back and forth, teams
talk everything they have, but it has at the end of the day been lying to be able to
get across that finish line and take down the next. Yeah, they have been showing up
in those biggest moments. Preserve coming off a great game on the
stakes was really really fun to see. But I feel like Lions still have some
cleaning up to do you know when you are looking forward you're realizing all
right you're gonna have to play you know win or lose the winner and loser for
this are gonna play the winner and loser from BLT21 that's scary you know
whether you're the winner or the loser that's very very scary so you know
there's always gonna be regardless how series go that introspection you have
to look and say okay well what can we improve what are we doing wrong and I do
feel like Lion are kind of showing maybe some nerves or maybe just some slot to
whatever you want to call it, you know a lot of pick offs, you know from either side it felt like you know
Saint getting picked off a lot before the fights
Isles getting picked off a lot from before the fights and we saw the same thing kind of happen in Furia too
I mean do you think that is kind of the
It feels like they're trying to shift the identity towards what we're seeing in this faster gameplay
to adapt to that, but haven't quite got the notes and bolts in the right places yet
So we have to see if that is the same plan coming into the screen now or if they do end up going back towards
what has made their style for the best at the slow pace, keep pause and lane,
try and keep control of the early stages and if you're you can kind of blow that
plant out of the water. Yep and it's being difficult you know when as you say when
you're trying to adapt to different styles, different metas and also when you
go international and you play against the top LPL and LCK teams it can be
really hard and strength right and that can sometimes make people doubt the way
that they're playing or change their styles, what's the prior we losing do we need to go
to different champions, do we need different play styles, do we need to you know
completely rethink how we're playing the game and I feel like sometimes when people are
shifting a lot of things, they can lose sight of the basics where they're normally
really good and I feel like that's happened in the line at times in this series where
when I think of the line and I think of them as being a team fight team, their setups
are always really good and at times they've been pretty sloppy here where they get caught,
you know, pushing out of way too deep right before the dragon or they're not having vision
or thinking about the flank and those are some of the basics that I would not expect
them to really be messing up so maybe, you know, getting a little bit too focused on
focused on on the more complex things and losing sight of some of the basics.
When we going towards that Lucian Milio in the bottom lane against the the
bars, which we assume was going down towards Berserker, was still a very
strong matchup and 66.7 right over the course of three games that we've seen
from Io and Jojo on this. So definitely something they are comfortable with and
expect to see them probably heavily around this in the middle.
And it's something that actually hasn't lost a single game so far.
I had a miscarriage, which I think has won.
But of course, you know, there's a team here.
The reserve are definitely very comfortable on the barrisse as well.
And I do think I'm much more preferring a lot of the on-hit barrisse that we're seeing these days
instead of the locality.
The locality, obviously, has been improved so much.
On-hit has been nerfed a little bit, but it still feels a bit more viable.
That being said, it is going to be pretty tough.
I feel like the players are going to be really open to off-limb on-hit.
So I wonder if they might just kind of decide, you know what,
know what it's gonna sacrifice a little bit of the late being power and strike
it depends a lot on like how much time is on the opposite side because sometimes
it just feels like the audience just doesn't get a chance to auto-tuck against
some of the enemy comps but okay Lee Sin for instance for not what I was to be
honest like inspired I look more towards like the Zin Zes the Nocturne the
Wukong's Lee Sin hasn't even been played this bit no he hasn't at all but it is
something this plate you know a fair bit in his career does have 31 games on
And I will say, it's not what I associate with most of them, but what I do associate with Inspire is the meta.
And if he thinks that it is in the meta, he's going to play it, he's going to play it well.
So, you know, he definitely has had some really good games in his career on the leasing,
and it's going to be things out as the answer.
But yeah, it's definitely not what he's been playing in recent years,
but also recent years, Leason hasn't been in the meta, you know,
and he's the only person playing with Jose, and that's just because he's kind of built a diff on it.
Yeah, very good at this.
Exactly, but as we see it getting, you know, more and more priority, he is going to be looking forward to it.
So the Zinza on the upside kind of keep you with that, hey, we've got a chance to report Zinza out good, kind of combo-up.
Especially as we talk about like Lucian Milio, very proactive with our bottom lane, can try and dash him to the bar.
So if you can get control there, opening up for Tatsuya to try and play aggressive.
In to your target, he's going to be facing the speed saver.
He's going to be so close.
That's how it works, right?
Now, when you focus on the board, you're supposed to find it.
The other thing I will say is, we haven't seen in a while,
but don't pull against an arranged topic builder.
This guy could play the various topics,
feels like it's a good matchup.
They could actually just swap that up towards top
and be like, just kidding, we're actually picking Troupe.
You know, Caitlyn, we're gonna play heavy
for the 2v2 against the Lucian.
So, I'll be curious to see where they do go.
It is something that Lyon used very, very effectively
against Team Liquid.
Way back in block in when Morgan was really on fire
in his laning, Lyon kind of made the judgment call that,
hey, the only way the Liquid win
is if Morgan goes crazy in lane.
So we're just going to pick Vayne, we're going to pick Ferris, we're going to pick all these types of champs and just kind of lock you down in that long view.
A lot of focus for the last champion for a year though, taking away the Alistair, but August has already gone, Nether and Kan as well.
Turn the slim down to Gota, I'm going to suppose I was the biggest support step.
I have an okay time against Emilio, so I'm curious to see what the game plan is this time.
Things like Giel and that aren't always great against Emilio because of that kickback and then the ultimate to deny your own species.
It is very true. Yeah, and we've already seen a couple of these in D8 Champs.
It does like to go towards, you know, like Braille, Mbito, or Algonazuel.
And so, it's gonna be interesting to see where they go.
I honestly wouldn't be super shocked if they just did enchanter, plus carry bot lane,
and then the Varus goes top.
But doing Varus top line is pretty spooky, so I'm not sure exactly where they're gonna go.
But yeah, that was right. It is gonna be Varus top.
So I think it's gonna be Cogmaw bot, and they just go Cogmaw and Enchanter.
So this this doesn't shock me because it's lion because this is the kind of thing that they would do
Yeah, but I do think it's something that could catch their point off guard and the answer is going to be Olaf here
So it's gonna be Olaf top
Into this ferris and that is pretty spooky
I will say because if you could copy the accuracy could absolutely get run down
I would expect with these rush and that kind of style from from doble where you have to deal with the slows
given that it is in down and a lot.
But I will say that when that was put in top of the last thing,
because there's a lot of those, some of the tanky builds,
you know, maybe he can get to a spot where he can kind of just win out in that 1v1 anyway,
because various can kind of just outstatt a lot of top laners.
Yeah, and I think this is kind of relying on, right?
You get that push to the top side, you get the push to the mid,
and I've seen at least from some of the matchups over in the LPL
That this hot model you kind of performed the Lucian Millio with a little bit of jungle help in the early stages
So I do think that's where the focus will be and trying to get this early push for the hot model
You want to try to control that bottom side because if this comp starts to fall behind from line
That's where it gets me because there's a lot of people that are jumping on you from a lot of different directions
And you have a listen
Don't worry at least you can kick the Olaf. Oh, no
Or the wild cry. Oh, yeah, it's gonna be pretty tough
So there are some some scary champs on the other side for sure
But as you say Coglulu if you haven't seen this, you know recently a lot of people think of Coglulu is super licking
But Coglulu is actually a really powerful game
Yeah, but they have specific windows power right during the W activation for the Cogma
You can walk forward and take really powerful trades can be pretty nasty
And I will say the licking damage here from line is incredibly strong
You are playing double AD carry plus Victor with a Lulu and yeah
You can't kick away the Olaf but you can kick away other people and you are gonna win out as far as the DPS is concerned in a long fight
I like this angle from Furia. They're always gonna go for level once
I am most surprised to see to its opt in towards the Silas because
In at least in the LEC
We've seen this matchup a couple of times and it has not gone well for the Silas in any way shape or form like
Like, the Victor gets to poke you out, you end up bot lane towards like, I've seen people,
some people even just ignore taking W, you just put more points into Q, it's like Joe
Joe Pune, and just absolutely destroy the sides every time they step up.
I really wonder if they thought they had pinned Lyon into picking some sort of bot lane,
that was going to give him good ults, because I feel like there's no good ults from this
deal, right?
Victor ult is fine, Lee Sin ult is fine, if you can get like a weird kick flash angle,
But in general, there's not a lot of great ults.
There's none of those S tier ultimates that you're really looking for.
So I do wonder if they're like,
ah, okay, we've locked him down.
He's going to have to play this, this or this.
And I would like to see all of those.
Which is not something the Alistar might kind of surprise me,
because you think, ah, that's perfect.
You go to the Alistar, we get the Unbreakable Will,
but even that regard, I don't want to get that one across.
So I do think the early stages might be too much.
Guigo hit level two.
Yeah, hit level two, and Dokla might be force of flash,
but does hang onto it.
It's just going to take an early recall here.
And this is Berserker on Ziggs before today.
In four combined games, he lost them all, got one kill.
Today, 11 kills in the performance.
Look at the damage he doubled in.
Double, more than double.
He was smurfing.
Dokula doesn't have his flash.
Might have to use it.
Getting very low here.
It's getting Gigo low as well.
They're both playing double combat sums, and look at inspired.
He's running straight up towards top.
He did three camps, base for a longsword.
He is looking to kill off this Olaf, and the bait is there.
Flash away from Gigo, but not before he gets slowed up.
Now Dokla, likely to be able to get the push in here, does have flash advantage, which is going to make it tougher for Gigo to try to stop him from getting that wave in.
Given that Dokla could always flash an axe, it probably would be the difference baker in a 1v1.
A much needed gank on that topside as well from the start, like really starting to turn around because I think Dokla got lucky with the timing on his home platey.
Might have been in a lot worse trouble if Gigo hadn't cancelled the auto and didn't have that.
So they're getting control, first go to problem on the top side.
Should go the way of tattoo, go, Oz.
Miles in a lot of trouble, great polymorph keeps him safe just barely.
Heavy trading down here on this bottom side, his summoner advantage for Furia as IU still has his barrier.
Preserve for Miles have both used theirs.
And the wave is actually horrendous for Douglas.
He couldn't get it in, only had ACS on his base here.
And Guigo was able to actually freeze the wave.
I kind of expected the entire way to help them push in, but they were potentially nervous about the 2v2.
Tatsu had been clearing up towards that side, and now Gigo is going to have a really nice advantage.
She is up about three quarters of a level. There will be some CS for him to pick up,
but if Dokla does on this timing, he's actually cooked in the one we won.
So Dokla has to be patient and let this push.
It's inspired to try and help him push in, make sure that he's able to step up.
But even as you said, the 2v2, I don't know if you mean it.
But the 2v2 is not going to be what he finds here.
Unfortunately, Tatsu completed the base. There's Dokla flashing away,
And Geego thought he had Tatu based early, inspired, shows up again.
Knowing the importance of this top lane, inspired is saying,
you think I'm just going to power farm in this game? No, sir.
That is exactly what I was about to say. Inspired everywhere, but it's ain't.
Oh, Tutsut's stuff didn't hit the way you want it to.
Yeah, the absconded duck, not able to find him.
Tatu moving over. Inspired is getting up there as well.
Tutsu can help potentially on this invade.
Tatu has the red buff, they are at the same level right now, exact same amount of camps taken.
But Tatu's just running straight for bot, I mean they know this, for sure they know this, and the wave is coming towards it, so it's not really that big of a deal, and at the end of the day, Tatu does kind of just lose some time,
and Dokla really bailed out by the fact that he got that first blood, because he has no CS.
Yeah, he would have been in a disastrous spot. Tatu though, just get into on top of what I'm saying.
Look at Double Crop, but I am getting a good trade here.
Yeah, getting a good start to that trade.
Berserker does pop the barrier.
Well timed on the polymorph there for miles,
but Aiu and Jojo, they win in these short trades,
and that's what they're looking for.
You do dash in, you prop the BTA,
you get some good damage out there.
But Berserker, every time that W is back up,
is looking to get some damage down.
They are getting whittled down in that 2v2 though.
Aiu and Jojo playing it well so far.
Yeah, and I think that's the difference I created.
The fact you are getting that push and control there,
It gives you a lot more for it's touch, towards, once again.
It's just tough, I mean, touch goes in, you go for the Episcount of Duck, but St. just
self-doubused and if you stay in it, you're stunned.
If you run away, you're getting hit as you run away, so it can be difficult.
The touch is in the area, inspired here again as he knows they're closing on those level
six timings.
Episcount of Duck going to connect this time and he has the stolen Altie St.
Holding onto the flash, the last tick won't get him.
Oh my god, I cannot believe he walked back in.
I thought he was about to step back in and die inspired now trying to farm here four six as Isle is going to be just holding on
Saint I mean this is greedy as greedy gets he wants to stay around and get a little bit more gold
So I have to assume he needed a minute or two more to get a good item completion
It's hard did steal away that camp though because they spun a tattoo on the word that was in the brush
So now finds him
Find him toss who just jumps right in don't leave a pop goes there to flash it on a tokla
Focus in a world of trouble. They're trying to focus down top to the first kill will go the way of lion
But Gigo is six inspired has to run you know the ward hop over but he finds toots and gets taken out
Two-to-two dead evening goal nice move there from toots
Who won out in that one-by-one and that's what made the difference and then we see here in the replay
It's not too immediately go right. Doklai has to be the focus
I should just jump on him with that third auto attack to get the knock up the wind becomes lightning
There's a lot of that who does go down, but Grigo, Grigo kicking over to six having touched there for support
Absolutely huge on the plane as he says plus a lot of trouble for Zercher
Zercher in a lot of trouble there the polymorph and the heal has to be used
Zercher though farming well, so if they can stay alive they are scaling and
IU and Jojo every time we look down here
They're winning the trades, but this is a dangerous moment right now is berserker has no barrier and the wave is pushing away from them
IU positioning aggressively. Both junglers moving down so close to level six as well could immediately open up with the
Colleen and I think that's what line realized and look for the reset and said I was good flight step there
As saying to invest in vision on this bottom side as well
Just a banana brush to want to make sure they could spot out exactly where tattoos going and what his plan is and both junglers
Just ticked over to six there taught to off of that scuttle and inspired does grab it off the Krugs
And Tatu is going to be starting up this dragon here,
saying he's going to be able to sign safety if he's gone to duck
and maybe get a good trade here, which could give him angle to move in.
He gets stunned up there, inspired, coming in.
Nice kick to disengage.
Tatu secures the dragon, and so it's just kind of plays bodyguard,
keeps him away there.
It was pretty well played.
Has the TP to get back to lane as well, so not the end of the world,
should be able to pick up the majority of the CS and even help out Tatu,
who, as far as his run invade on here for the Raptors.
Inspired he is moving in knows that he has smite advantage
But also knows that it could be difficult because both top laners are moving down towards the CP back
Doka gonna have to be pretty careful here. So instead they might just start up the grubs top two still has no smite
Of course, I might not know that but they do know he at least use one charge over on that dragon
Doka has no flash though, and I think that's what he goes iron up knows that he can just flash on top of
Alongside tattoo so Doka has to play very far back in this one the same teleports back to mid
at least give Tatu time for one here.
Yeah, looks like he's going to be able to grab that no problem.
Joka's staying around, trying to see if you can make him at least use a smite charge by threatening with the arrow.
Of course, Tatu is not concerned about it.
Rezurka and Isle's pushing in here.
It is farm advantages and mid and bot there for Lyon,
but it looks like it is going to be all three grubs going the way of Furia.
And it's like, you know what, it's not risk, let's not risk it here.
You do have the Swifties on the Varus, but still it's tough to just walk into an Olaf in a position like that.
especially when he already has the early steel caps. If Saint is not there, you probably just don't have the damage.
It's very, very scary. So I think it's the right call, but they are going for an evade on towards the Krugs.
It's part of, I already slowed them away on that last timer.
So just going to try and look for the red buff here instead. Tattoo, should be able to come across the second though.
Yeah, but no smite for Tattoo, so Inspire should be able to grab this no problem.
And it isn't East Might to secure it, and Oakley can head back up towards top to try to grab this wave.
Gigo will be able to grab a plate for himself. So yeah, you lost the red buff
But local awesome minions and you grab the plate and it's gonna be scary Gigo
We're assuming is gonna go into where it's try breaker and just be looking to run down these 80 carries
I think it's part of finding goods opportunities to get back in towards our CS and experience because oh hang on
See if it was gonna flash. I feel like that was way too early. Yeah from Gigo and
Kind of just use the alt for a trade that he could have gotten even without it
I mean, he has Swifty Boots and he's right beside his tower.
I just don't think you're killing him.
I mean, Doklaid didn't even pop the Chain's Corruption, right?
So now you just don't have that.
And immediately, I see a Lee Sin B lining towards that top lane.
It's like, oh, goodie, goodie.
Yeah, I mean, if you get hit by the Chain's Corruption
into the Lee Sin all, you're probably just dead.
So a pretty big misstep there from Geeko.
But he seems to know it.
He's playing far back and I'm not sure that they'd
want to go for a dive.
Furious sending their bot lane up towards top here.
And are going to be looking for the swap.
inspired will be spotted and it's just no way you go for a dive.
Yeah, he doesn't have alt, but he's still very healthy and has the W shield.
Yeah, had the Sundar Sky competed, so was trying to use that timing window, but
don't like she costs.
Don't look at the pop of the ghost, Kigo does as well.
IU and JoJo are revealed, so you can see Isles moving up towards that top side.
They do have the extra man on this side of the map for now,
St. just constantly whittling away onto Toots.
You can see that Berserker is basing two maps,
So Berserker is going to be heading out on the map, heading up towards top.
So they're sending the Varys down towards top.
Wave is going to bounce a push to them because they didn't get that push in from Berserker.
So Lyon playing the map well, I feel like Lyon in this game are saying to themselves,
we don't need to do anything.
It's you guys that need to do something because, yeah, Olaf is scary.
But at the same time, you get to three items and Olaf isn't ahead.
You walk into Victor, Varys and Cogmaw.
And you're probably just dying.
So, you know, it's not necessarily a guarantee by any means, even though you're CC immune, you're not damaged by any means.
Yeah, and there is going to be that, and leaps and bounds.
Even the execute from the leasing, they'll be doing work as you get towards that lower health.
So, you do have to be a little careful as it's barred again playing around in Toclay here.
I'm not going to be able to find this.
But as you say, like I do think that Lioner playing well on like Heather rotating around the map,
Heather keeping check.
And again, I wanted to highlight it's barred because I think it's amazing,
The maze have been good. Finding time is still away.
Like the red ball found before that it was the crooks
and then covering for that top lane play as well.
Like you kind of touched on already.
Hang on, Sinked.
That should be fine.
Yeah, we'll just be a trade back and forth there.
But you were saying like Inspired has been for so long
been the I will farm.
I'm like just going to calculate the best, most efficient way
to get through the jungle.
But in this game, he's been shadowing incredibly well.
He's been covering for Doklai.
He's been still finding those moments to steal away camps.
And I think it speaks volumes to him as a jungler and what he's capable of.
Yeah, absolutely. And this is something we talked about earlier as well, where
inspired to me, he plays whatever he believes is the highest percentage chance to win the game.
So if he's playing a champion that scales well and he thinks that, you know,
it's just going to be a defensive game, then that's what he's going to do.
If he feels the way to win the game is to farm zero camps and chain gank,
that's what he's going to do. If he feels like you're behind and they can do nothing but fight,
he's going to flash on your head. And that's something that I really do respect,
his ability to kind of just identify what he believes to be the wincon and stick to it no matter what so
We'll see ego does have the ulti has no ghost
So we'll see if he wants to look for any sort of crazy play here
Doka a little bit nervous does have inspired behind him was just backing up knowing tattoo could be there
Fury are gonna be likely grabbing their second dragon here on get tested which is nice
But it's not the end of the world
It is also a weird lane assignment from fury it because you've got range versus melee mid and top
So you're kind of getting don't clear to farm for relative be free
You're not really pushing much advantage for I in the mid and it just means plates are being taken by berserker in the top lane
So I do think they need to swap this up a little bit because they can see Grigor not having the best of times
No, not at all, but berserker does take a couple of power shots there
So it's put a little bit low Gigo obviously wants to go back to base remember
He's playing ghost flash as is don't bless so they will get the TV but only from the world class and it's not gonna be
You know with that big shield coming in and it is a longer cooldown, right?
So you do have to keep that in mind.
So Gigo might not decide to just use it now.
He does have the ulti.
He is under tower, so I think he's
going to be feeling comfortable to stay under here.
Tatu just running straight on in.
They're going to try to force a fight it looks like.
But the heal is popped there just for a bit of move speed.
And Al's and Berserker sidestep, when it becomes lightning,
and they are chilling.
I even started to rumble as well.
But I think Gigo, not entirely sure where they are,
but they'll get him, but.
Yeah, don't look.
That change's eruption was stolen away,
and it's going to be thrown on to him by Toots trying to run away.
Now as St.
He's going to come in with the TP.
St.
Will push him back, but I don't think there's an angle for a kill.
So we'll just be a reset and maybe a little bit of farm loss mid,
but not a big deal.
Looks like St.
Had already killed the wave.
Inspired just going to shove this one.
It says, thank you very much.
I will take that.
Such a nice job.
There was he and they'll take it away.
Yeah, you're good.
You're good.
Yeah.
And that's one of the counting for you just in case you're going to miss that one.
But still, yeah, I think, like, again, this is kind of a showing line, moving around the map, though.
Like, you TP down to the bottom lane, but you get to clear it out.
Now you just set the virus mid, and, like, constantly rotating with these Rage champions,
means that you never really end up in a particularly bad matchup,
where it is more on period to guarantee that they are getting, like, Jokler vs. Gigo,
and these kind of matchups, which they haven't quite been able to find just yet.
A cool tempo, obviously, available for Preserker, and there's the Arden sensor,
he has the Rageblade, so if he has time to actually stand in fire,
he is going to be doing a huge amount of damage.
Generally, I feel like Kog'Maw,
you don't always need to go full damage builds.
You can kind of get a couple damage items and then just go tanky.
And I think especially that is true against a team like this.
When you look at Olaf's in and Silas,
they are going to be flashing on your head and trying to take you down.
So going that more defensive build, I think, makes a lot of sense here.
As Furia trying to leverage their ability on his objectives is...
We didn't even see why Kigo popped that,
but he didn't do a point of damage to Boko during his ult,
and now Lion might want to try to take the fight here.
The Herald though already has been claimed and I feel like
Lion design discretion is the better part of Valor
So it's looking for a fight here on the Saint flashes out of that stun and Saint might be forced to use his own flash
He is gonna have to the trade of ulti the trade of flashes and now it's a battle on the top side as taunts
Who pops the pressing guard and we'll have to just run away
Berserker loses his flash though as the Saint so
Lion could be in trouble at this next dragon fight which would mean fury if they just take it
That's sole point for them.
Yeah, you can see Lyon wants to try and contest, but it was very hard for Doki to try and move it to position
as Gigo is going to be able to constantly contest him and take his space.
Look at the spacing there from Berserker with the W active.
He is not to be messed with, takes a couple of plates and deals a lot of damage there.
And as if you don't have the cooldowns to threaten him,
really all he needs is that one basic ability to be up and he gets puffed up by aisles and he can definitely threaten you.
Especially with the way that Gigo's in play, I'm not as convinced about his timings on these ultimates.
He caught it just before the start of that fight as well.
If you're not getting value from that ultimate, there is no real threat on towards Berserker.
Like, he can definitely play back. You've got like, Polymorph or Tuts, or Tattoo as he's starting to go in.
Like, a lot of that kill the Coslop relies on this Olaf, and if Gigo now is going to be put further behind here,
that's not ideal for Furia.
Gigo does have the ulti back, well, so...
Inspired at the exact timing. He's gonna pop it, but fire just warthogs back out
You're not gonna kill him in a position like that. So back to back all snow value
Exactly, and that's the value for don't the right because now he's got significantly more safe
He doesn't have to change the corruption for next to a bit
But still it's gonna be fury and I try to respond to the tier one taken on the top side
They should be able to get this on bot lane, but if they don't push on mid as well
There's a lot of movement here from line. Yeah, I mean that is that is tough line are just choking them out
The kills are even the gold is very much in lion's favor though up over
2000 gold now at this point after they took that first power on top side
Dockla grabbing that gold for himself
Finally the stridebreaker has been completed there by Gigo, but I worry for Furia
It feels like a lot is gonna come down this next fight
And I just wonder do lions take their game on this next fight because if you show up to the fight
Your carries die and you give soul point. That's pretty bad
But also giving soul point for free is kind of scary too, but you don't have flash on st
Orbs or Kerr, especially a mountain dragon as well like a mountain soul is so valuable for fury
But yeah, I think it's a hard call at this stage if you had to the second auto from made for berserker
I think it'd be all hands on deck, but still just a little bit away makes this tough
And maybe they'll just try to delay it right those have a stay around pushing waves threaten towers
Corsair, of course, did go for the steel cap, so took the defensive option there.
And Lyon, our first to the scene, you can see Tuts moving up from bot lane, trying to get behind him.
Tatsu is just going to go in immediately on the same, but Pops, the Crested Guard, he's getting nothing done.
He's getting a kickback on the team, and Tatsu has sold his team down the river, went in way too early on that one.
Well, there's your answer, Azale, Lyon, able to get the pick and now get that dragon.
Without too much of a fight,
Fury over-extending towards that river and punishment.
Toots wants to see if he can get more. Has that kick?
Let's put it on the ward.
Perzurker, no flash.
Toots does not have one either, though.
Great sign, except for Miles, and that's going to mean
nothing to do in for Fury.
Because I'm not sure what Tatsu saw.
He just jumped on stage immediately, but
your Lucian is mid, your Silas is still walking from bot.
The Olaf's not even there.
That was a risky move.
Maybe he didn't think it's right.
was there we'd have to see it from his vision kind of understand why he thought
that was a good play to go for but once he jumped in his part says thank you
very much kicks him back into the team for a kill free dragon and that kind of
solves that problem right because now you're getting towards your second
item as berserker just competed there on the recess you're now in a much
stronger position like it now becomes difficult for Buria to try and find these
key moments yeah I think this was your time like Lucian quite strong at the
moment Toots was gonna have a decent performance and even having like a
Bottle Herald to access the backline would have been the perfect scenario, so as long now you're able to back it up
I think you're hopping that was long. Absolutely. Yeah, their flashes are going to be back up before they have to fight
Novori is now done for Berserker, which we talk about those windows of power when you do have the W ready
Well now it's kind of always right as long as you're hitting you're gonna have a W with that Novori pretty much
And you can see the rocket held done for a saint which again
I think some defensive itemization makes a lot of sense there when there are so many melee champions here and
And kiting out, you know, just even dodging one axe from an Ola, can make the differences.
IU goes forward, but he does not like the straight. IU is just getting roasted by Verzerker.
Inspired on the side, has to use a kick for the disengage.
Toots comes in, double TV coming in here from Lyon. They want to fight.
IU is out of this already. Tatsu is going in. In comes Gigo from the topside.
Gohan Verzerker is in trouble. Verzerker still has no flash, but they have a backup AD carry.
Dokla is here to play a safe. Picks up the double. Lyon win the fight here.
I was pushed out, but Fiora pushed for the fight regardless, knowing there was no flash on Berserker.
They do punish him, but Baron is up and Varus is more than enough.
Fiora thought they had their moment, but they just couldn't do it.
Lyne still with so much damage in the tank, first through the health bars of Fiora.
And that Baron is going to do so much work for Lyne.
Although, Harold, yeah, Shetty's just going to say hi mid lane. She's all good.
She's chilling. I mean, it's not the fastest Baron in the world
because it is a top lane burst, it's not on hit, but they do knock it down
and they're going to be able to defend the mid lane tower as well.
They get the charge in, but it's starting to feel like Furious Time in this game
is running out. You're playing against a team that has
so much damage, so much consistent damage, in fact,
as they try to jump on Inspire.
Yeah. I mean, immediate kick away.
That is, it's the leasing is not the person that you want to be trying to jump on in these
sorts of situations because he has that mobility.
I theory it's against the friend.
I think to a point with job of pointing berserker on this big wave, but you just have so much
left of the tank after it, saying to the good position, don't get happy to follow up.
And I was, doesn't really matter who he's putting that speed up on to, whether it's
the cog or the virus.
You're getting value.
Like I said, back up 80 carry.
You can't trust them to position well.
That's why you bring two.
to be pushing to its back,
who is not having any fun in this
matchup now will see if you can
try to turn around stolen all T
big chunk of burst onto Saint Saint
trying to kite this one out,
but inspired is coming in behind
him. Oh no flash away there from
saying nicely done is going to buy
the time here to finish it off.
It's a rampage for Saint touch
throughout the chain, but end of
connected onto a minion by
accident and is upset himself back
But it's now lying in that topside getting a bit more. It's a gold lead in action
You can bribe Indians when you got the five-k gold lead
Slide him a fiber
Take that I'm just gonna duck for me buddy. Yeah, what a homie. Yeah, I'm from Fiverr as well, James
In this economy, I know yeah
Crazy stuff inspired looking to try to wrap around here on a tattoo
Doesn't have a nice sidestep there on the sonic wave. You can see
He's just going to go in, they're just going to try to send it, St. though, not really in
trouble and Tatu is, I am going to have to flash away, the Sonic Wave connects and that
means he is dead as is Jojo, Gigo arrives, but where are you going to go?
It's a 1v4, he pops the ulti, he runs straight in and he finds his way back to the grave,
Toots going in, it's a triple already for Doku, the CC is there, the safeguard is there,
he's alive!
Another kill and Doku refuses to fall, Quadra for the Verus and Shirley Lyon, Doku is
just won the game. Big Dokes has just enough left to keep himself alive.
Lyon are absolutely destroying Fiora in this game three.
They are crushing him and the Nexus won't fall just yet but it is now an 11,000 gold
lead here for Lyon. As Tatu just feels like we just have to force.
Yeah, you kind of have to. You're trying to get a position but it's fired,
Popping over the wall completely removes the Lucian from play and with the damage that is coming out from
Dokla and saying there is nowhere left to run and you can see here the problem we were talking about Olaf not immune to damage
Immediately falls
Just tries to make it work
But the heel from Isles the shield from the Lee Sin and a happy quadra for the top later
Yeah, that is tough
I mean the Lulu peels shields the safeguard everything needed there and does keep him alive
Same thing you get jumped on already, but same is level 16. Flash forward from Tatu. They are gonna full send it.
They know they need to get something done.
Berserker is here on the side. The Gressengarg are gonna buy a little bit of time.
Berserker has that lethal tempo stat. Kigo gonna look for him, but overcomes Isles, overcomes Inspired.
And Kigo has no chance. He is down, but they shut down St. on the other side.
Now they're gonna try to run for it. Shade Deception does connect.
It's gonna be stolen back by Toots. Inspired in the backline to three-man Wild Growth.
Kato on the berserk, but he can't win that fight.
Inspired once more, and he's going to get it.
A quadra for Dopebler, now a quadra for Inspired,
as he plents his flag on the corpses of Furia,
and they march on the base.
Line, continue to walk forward.
They continue to click heads,
and they are falling everywhere for Furia.
They look so confident in this position.
When Inspired have the backup of the Lulu,
gets the quadra kill it looks so beautiful. It's a beautiful wild growth there nice combo from
Isles and Inspire jumped in the middle of team three-man wild growth it's a bounce house for
Furia still they will have at least one more fight but 15,000 gold the Seekers now done there for
a saint another item completed for Berserker just means they're that much harder to take down
Seekers as well on Doka the options are few and far between for Furia and determinists for berserker
It just means he's gonna be that much tank here as well that much more difficult to take down when you were already struggling to deal with the Cogba
It only gets worse from here Furia to give them their credit have been trying
Desperately to find these moments to find these windows to punish line
But it has always come back to bite them and it looks like line may just be in a position to get one back
for that America's goal.
Lyon with their best game in the series by far.
This one very controlled, really playing,
kind of that style that you expect from Lyon.
Play the map, play towards that win condition.
Isles caught out here, will get shut down.
Inspired, not gonna go in for it though.
They will play slow.
And there's nothing on the map
for fueling the game here.
That's the problem.
You'd want to full send it.
Any chance here, even a 5% or is probably better
than you're gonna get.
But there's just nothing for them to go for.
And now, Berserker moving down.
They're going to try to look for Geego, who is very far up.
No flash, no ghost.
Don't think he has much of a chance to get out of this one.
And now he gets the bad news.
As theirs inspired, there's Berserker.
Pops the ult.
He tries to run for it.
He acts by a little bit of time, but Inspire
just packs his in on top of him.
That ultimate has expired as his time alive.
Inspired dominating in this one, 6, 1, and 9.
His eye is just trying to clear the waves and buy some time.
Tuts is pushing for an objective bounding top,
but Lyon are looking to seal the deal.
Inspires us as that kick available.
So one sonic wave, they lead the death of IU.
You have to be very careful as the Fury 80 carry the line.
Happy to take these structures in the face of Fury.
Absolutely are.
Tuts to be back to base.
There's the kick flash on IU,
but it's not gonna get much of anything at all.
IU was able to dash back out to safety.
Perzukar though pushing up, toss to hit low.
Tuts goes in and Tuts could be in some trouble
trying to retreat back there.
It's gonna be cleansed by the breath of life
from JoJo, Toots running.
He needs to hold on.
He can do it for now.
The piercing arrow doesn't finish him.
Seito gets another man low.
Aiu and Toots are bleeding out in the fountain.
Furia's base is dying.
They've got to go now if it's ever going to happen.
The Zonias will buy a little bit of time,
but Toots is going to fall as soon as he comes out.
Kiko pulls the trigger.
Goes for Berserker, is knocked out of the sky.
Back to the grave, and they can only watch
as the Nexus will surely fall.
It's fishin' a barrel, lyin' that insult to injury.
Revenge for America's Cup is oh, so sweet.
It's a 3-0 sweep for Lyon.
First two games of this series were close, were hard fought,
where Lyon were pushed to their limits.
But Game 3 was just a sound off of a victory triumph
for the North American representatives.
The best for last, they're from Lyon.
Their best performance by far in this final game,
Pelik inspired, was everywhere he needed to be
to cover his lanes, to buy them the time to scale.
And scale, they did.
They performed well in the fights.
St. and Berserk was some really impressive games,
and the flexibility and the draft,
I think showcased there from Lyon as well.
I'm really impressed, I'm still from Lyon,
and looks like back to our regularly scheduled three rows,
it seems like an MSI after our five game series yesterday.
Honestly, for Furia, like, it played incredibly well in those first two games, looked so close.
I absolutely agree, Furia. Definitely can hold their head high and they will have another chance.
But it's going to be some tights in the lower bracket.
A.D., how are you feeling?
Well, it's Lyon that roars the loudest and gets that 3-0 home.
Not sovereignly, I'm just going to say that in Game 3 they showed their real strength.
But rest, we have to wait for it and I'm happy that we got it.
Thank goodness, self esteem protected.
That's how it works.
It was still in there.
Oh my god.
That, I love that draft.
It was an incredibly well done draft.
I thought Inspire did a great job
of being able to protect the top side
because that was an incredibly volatile matchup.
Big Dotes was protected and he actually served through.
So that was a great game.
Yeah, that was a lot more vintage lion.
That was more of what I expected to see.
I don't think they were playing very well today.
In particular, I thought Iles and St. both had moments,
especially in the first two games.
However, this draft and this game,
seeding the early objectives, locking and scaling,
having inspired on something where he can make players
like him getting Doka ahead early was super important
and made a huge difference in setting up Doka
to take over fights later.
And he can't help but be a bit heartbroken for Fury.
The fact they put up such an effort in game one and two,
we're unable to get a single game in this series.
They fought this really hard and it being a 3-0
is a tough look for them.
It definitely should have been a game four or a game five.
Like, for how well they were playing in the first two games
and then just fumbling in most crucial moments,
that's what's gonna suck the most.
Yeah, Bloody's International ever, 121 kills.
I will say, for Viria, they have clear things to work on.
I am sad for them that the opponents,
that way they will be encountering,
being, of course, the loser of D1, BLG,
I'm going to be able to exploit what they've seen here quite easily.
They have a lot of work to do.
They do.
It's kind of unfortunate, too, because there were a lot of good points within this team.
Recognizing the timers in which they couldn't take an objective,
ended up going cross-mapping.
The problem was, especially in game three, they got locked into some really bad lanes.
And then, for instance, Gigo being put in a 1v2,
actually having to have his support, like, SAP experience from him so he can keep alive.
I think trying to recognize in the midgame where to put your assignments
going to really help this team up and also a little bit of the drafting because the draft
was really good to Lyon in this game.
It was so for Lyon that I mean some teams need to get warmed up a little bit before
they show this through level.
I mean T1 went through the playing stage to show that they hang.
No?
I think T1 or BLG whoever comes out of the next game is going to be really difficult
for this team especially with what we saw in those first two games.
It's actually crazy that they're facing off against each other in the first round because
these two teams are literally just like top three of this event in my mind between BLG and T1.
Yeah, I think T1 are just such a scary team to face at any international any best of five because
they're clutch-factor. If you see how in all of these games that came down to those messier late
game moments they just rarely can be beat when it comes to those scenarios, setups for late game
objectives, souls when that's a deciding factor they just somehow managed to find it. So it's a
face him to position of being, but being in the upper bracket gives you that extra safety then.
Means that even if you are facing BLG or T1, you will get a second chance against it,
and hopefully it will be easier. Whereas, Superior, they couldn't get a game today.
It's going to be a struggle to improve on that result against BLG or T1, and that will be the
last chance. And for Lyon, of course, going up against the winner of BLG versus T1, there are no
easy matches here at MSI so tell me then Raz and Emily what you know the third
game is really good but what would they have to improve Lyon to have a chance
between against those individual matchups individual performances I think
Saint really leveled up in the victor game but the first two games were quite
poor from him and we got to see what happened in the playing finals between
Quinn and Baker and I thought Quinn really did well in that specific
situation Saint was a better performer in the LCS we just need to see him lock
I think if you're going up against PLG, their soul links will rip you apart.
Even if your performance is way better than what we saw today,
if you see a performance of that level against PLG, it will just be a swift 3-0.
Yes, we'll see, indeed. I hear that we are waiting for an interview, I believe,
with Inspired when he makes his way back there.
And I'm actually looking forward to that because Inspired is always very, very honest.
And I think that he will have a couple of things to say about this stuff.
I don't think he's happy about this one.
I think he came down to a lot of really clutch moments, specifically from him and Berserker
in some of these teamfights and yeah, he is very critical of his own team, he came from
here and he was the same there.
And so I think he is probably definitely disappointed.
Yeah, it's interesting to see also when you look at the cams in between the matches, you
see him and the coaching staff the rest is like off I don't know having snacks or
whatever but they're they're locking in it's almost like they want him to be that
next that next arm of the coaching staff in the game to micro manage
everything to make it all work he's always gonna be really opinionated on
what they could have done I mean there are multiple times when we're in the LCS
studio and right after a game he's literally just have going off about like
we could have done this this this better like this is how we get better in the
draft but yeah speaking of we got him I believe Laura standing by with inspired
for the Verizon post-game interview.
Insired, thank you for joining me after this one.
3-0? Maybe not the 3-0 you wanted though,
so is it going to be one of those, a win is a win,
or how do you reflect on that series?
Definitely a win is a win.
Okay, what do you think happened?
Because the first two games were looked really hard,
much harder than what it should have been,
even though Fioria should not be underestimated, of course.
Game three, walking apart, so how did you guys evolve?
I don't know, I think game one and two
One and two just made a lot of mistakes in the early game.
I was a bit surprised at what we were doing.
Okay.
Yeah.
The game three I think was a bit simpler.
I think the enemy just didn't have that much playmaking.
Yeah.
They were calm in game three.
So I think it was just not possible for us to make that mistake.
I felt like in game one they swapped at like seven minutes and now Jace was losing lane
to Sion, he just got off.
And then when we came to the third teamfight that we should have won, I felt like it just
played really bad.
the game before it became chaos. Game 2, I don't know. Game 2 was, I think our
Camille was doing some funny stuff sometimes. And then we came to one
teamfight in the river and we thought, I mean, I thought Gallio is a bit closer than
he was. He was a bit too far away, so we lost the teamfight and the game became
fiesta as well. I don't know. I think maybe we're just not ready.
Yeah, learning can move on. It's the first time we see you guys on stage, the warm-up
series, as we say. We saw a lot of backstage cameras of you leading the team, giving a
lot of feedback, a lot of advice to your teammates. Can you tell me more about the content of
what you were saying then?
I don't think I was giving much feedback or something. I think just play a bit smarter
than we did, because I think it was just very chaotic how we were playing game one and two.
I think it seemed to be a bit more calm. I think it comes probably from the whole experience
of being at the tournament and like playing as all the Asian teams in the way they play.
Like if you lose a lot of the games as we probably have been doing in scrims, like losing
most of our scrims to Asian teams, like I think most of the teams do, then I feel like
you kind of start questioning a lot of decisions.
I see.
So I think you have to be confident in whatever you're doing because if you start overthinking
stuff I think you can make very silly mistakes that you would normally not do.
Losing scrims but still learning?
You feel?
How would you describe your experience so far?
Yeah, let's hope.
I hope so.
I hope so.
We'll take it this way.
Which is going to come in handy in the first round?
Because there's not going to be any freebies in the next match.
BLG or T1.
Which one do you think is going to be and why?
It's going to be the series right after this.
So what do you think is going to come down to?
I think T1 is more warm and they also have crowd advantage.
So I think T1 will win.
Okay.
But I don't know.
BLG is also a very strong team.
It's hard to say.
I think T1 will win though.
What matchup are you looking at the most?
I don't know.
Doesn't matter which one it is.
Doesn't matter? Okay, but what matchup in this series, lane-wise, which one do you think is going to make the next difference?
PLG, if they want to win, BIN has to make the biggest difference, obviously.
I think the PLG overall as a team, their mid and top laners are probably better, like laners, but I think Faker is just a really good playmaker.
So if the game goes even to 15 minutes, I really don't see how PLG wins.
But PLG is really good at early game and just playing off of each other so I can see them playing very aggressively early game and try to snowball the game.
I think T1 is probably the scatters team if the game is even and you go to 15 minutes.
We saw that against TL. We'll see what happens and we'll see you guys in the next round. Thank you so much.
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know them. It is team one taking on BLG on what could be a finals match. Something that we're used
to seeing on the international stage. Love when these two teams clash and I'm really excited about
this one. I don't know how the hell we got this in the first round. Yeah I know. But it's going to be
an incredibly dangerous one for anyone that ends up losing this one. Then you're going to have to
hear you. I'm sorry. Yeah and it's amazing because they've actually developed a rivalry right now,
right? Like these two organizations, there are some similar players on both sides and they've been
constantly meeting each other over the past almost three years now. Yeah. And they made it spicy
from the get-go. Been being back to his trash talk self, done with the PR version of what he was in
2025, directly dunking on Doran said that he played poorly in the plain stage. Yeah. Let me some
That's some trash talk man.
That's been back at it.
I mean, it's funny because when the team was in some losing ways,
he was like, all right, I'm not going to talk that much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now he's like, OK, he's back to it.
And so we even got to hear from Doran responding to it.
Yeah, let's hear it.
You know what I love even more than Bintrash talking is the fact that Doran is answering him
and then you know him like we're not really used to hearing
in this way.
He's only just so gentle.
He's not there for vibes.
But he's like, hey, you're going to trash talk me.
I'll give it back.
And I will say this was literally just after the series
that he like decimated Morgan Top like under Jace
performance.
Like he looked incredibly good in that moment.
But of course the rest of the plans was a little tougher.
And this is exactly what I was talking about with these
two orgs meeting each other so consistently over the past
three years, right?
started with that kind of BLG come up where I fully expected T1 to absolutely thrash that
2023 team at MSI they didn't and then they've consistently been meeting each other with T1
Definitely having the edge in more recent matches. Yeah, I'm getting that will win
Which was the big one the finals which BLG were in a winning position and T1 caught it back
by the way I just looked behind me it's a packed house
the crowd is so good it's always packed when it comes to T1 being here they're
gonna have the crowd behind them they're playing at home yeah I don't know if you
know this the T1 pretty popular in Korea
you don't say you know I'm so surprised the fact that we're doing a walkout for
the first round of event like we know what this kind of occasion actually is
Absolutely.
And looking back at the graphic when we were talking about the back and forth these two
organizations have had, it's interesting because earlier on in 2023, well, BLG was doing quite
well in MSI, but they're not making it happen during the world performance itself.
But then after some time, especially in 2025, actually T1's taking MSIs too, so it's starting
to go way more in the direction of T1.
Taking MSI, and we know what happens usually when T1 takes on the LPL in general, it is
odd that they really like.
I do wonder how this one is going to come together,
though given the way T1 has been playing,
especially in the early game,
that is something that we want to see them improve upon,
because VLG, they're never going to be as forgiving
as the time they've played off against.
And I'm just really excited to see the sports go ahead today,
because I think these two T1s have different styles,
but what Auto-Carrier can do is so instrumental
to enabling those styles,
and both players have had phenomenal years so far.
I do think that T1 has a lot to work on.
I think their drafts work right,
Even though there were 3-0-3-0-3-0 within the plant,
that was not convincing for me.
What mean while BLG are the reigning first-stand champions
this year, they won the first international event.
They dominated throughout the LPL.
Sure, a little shaky when they went up against Team WE.
But I think going into this event itself, they are locked in.
And for me, you already spoke about different play styles,
Ox, it's about the solo laners of BLG
versus the bot lane of T1.
because T1 loves to play through not only carry out being a menace,
but having such a strong 2v2 bot lane where, I'd say BLG been playing a lot more similarly to how HLE has played
this past LCK split, focusing a lot more on these two dominant soul-lingers of Bin and Knight,
who's been having a career split.
And I think my big concern is that Darned Faker in similar positions where the laning is a bit weaker,
It's just not quite at the top level, but the value in team fights is the same.
How do they hold out the latency?
It's hard to know where to look at when it comes to this matchup,
but we know we're in for a banger.
The draft is on. Castors, take it away.
Thank you so much, analysts, Desk,
because we are ready for a perennial match between T1 and BLG.
The LPL slayers versus the Hope of China
in a repeat of Worlds finals just a couple of years ago.
Let's hope for five. Let's get into draft for game one. Yeah medic last time you and I cast these two teams playing against each other
Was an absolute banger of a finals. We're gonna have to call it bettiest. I know I know you're watching
He's not dedicated he doesn't care about us. All right, let's get into the draft though
So target fans already from BLG owners nocturne definitely deserving of that respect and of course both
Both Karrion and On have been incredible with the Camille supports.
So the respect there between these two excellent supports as well.
Yeah, no surprises that we see the Orianna band away from Knight.
Band in 50% of his games in the LPL.
The majority of the time then picked away from him.
He has not lost on this pick in the four games he's played at all this split.
We'll see with the Bard getting taken away from Karrion, another player who is synonymous with that champion.
And it's surprising to see that one of those matches.
Yeah, with Midland only having Orianna out right now,
one of the main power picks,
the Casio is still available, the Ryze is still available,
and see what direction we go with,
because Midland especially is gonna be a focus here,
of course, with Knight coming in with such incredible stats.
There you go, another target respect ban,
even though Syndra got buffed on this patch,
it's also a legacy type champion.
Definitely have to be fearful there.
Yeah, one of those champions he made his name on,
Let's see what the first pick of this HyperX Champ select is.
As BLG might focus towards those solo lanes, get something good for Ben, get something good for Knight,
get something that you can carry through the topside on, because in our estimations, at least, and I think most people's estimations,
T1's priority will be getting a bot lane that can get ahead.
Yeah, this matchup does look like a lot of solo lane power versus bot lane power.
And they're going to start out with that solo lane power lock in the Jace for Ben,
And that's also part of the power of the Nocturne ban.
It really does allow you to play more through side lanes.
Banning out this Nocturne is definitely critical
if that is going to be your avenue to success.
And so it does help out with a blind Jace pick like that.
Meanwhile, we mentioned the Cassiopeia still floating around,
being up and available,
and Faker's going to grab that one immediately.
Yeah, alongside it, owners of ViGa are locked in.
His second most played across the course of the spring.
only lost one game on it through at the last few months.
So no surprises that T1 want a powerful mid-jungle,
especially giving owner something that has agency through the game
and can team up with multiple portions of the map.
BLG here, likely to look towards...
Ooh, I was gonna say their jungler,
but instead they're going for the mage that we most often see in the bot lane.
Yeah.
Could be bot, could even be mid too.
Knight is undefeated still on Ziggs.
That's true.
9-0 record on it.
So flexible, not if they lock into Andy though.
Then it would definitely be going to Viper.
And let's see if they do it because he has also
been excellent on Andy.
It's crazy the flexibility and the directions
that they could go.
They're going to keep it a little hidden here,
keep it a flex, pick six, and go with the value of the poppy,
just seeing the vibe.
It's interesting that you do it with just the vibe.
But vibe does imply that you want this dog
cop with someone else to follow 100, things
like the McComb, the Kayser, then fitting to that wheelhouse.
And Bobby can work really well into that.
Now, the choice for D1, do they want to get going,
you know, like York counterpicked to the Jace or something
like that?
Or would they rather hit?
Well, OK.
He answered your question, Kobe.
They would immediately like to do that instead of going
with a more tanky route, which is kind of the other option
that you have.
And York does play more into the side pressure.
Also allows you to survive through that lane
with some of the innate sustain you
have off your last right.
Moving into the second band phase,
we see a likely top laner, AD carry, and jungler
picks the BLG whereas on the other side,
it's most likely again mid laner, top laner, and jungler.
We have seen the Casio flex already once today.
Unlikely to see it flexed again,
I'll say if you're picking an AP mage,
but usually we see things like the mel
and the ziggs instead.
Yeah, and D1, they don't want any more synergy
with the ziggs bomb, jargon off the table
as well as the Camille already from the earlier band.
Things that are just going to make it too easy for that damage to land.
But BLG already showing some pretty good range, good poke damage with both AD poke from Jace and AP from the Ziggs.
So T1 are going to have to worry about some of this range and find their ways for their hard engage.
Having the Vi and the Portland Click, definitely a good start for them.
And the issue is, is when the enemy team has range, you want to close that gap.
But that Poppy pick really negates a lot of ways for you to close that gap.
Inspired pick from BLG getting into this second phase as you were taken away by BLG not wanting to give a little bit of range
Over to T1 either. I'm gonna let them match it just quite yet
And take away some of the more flexible bottom lanes
You mentioned it T1 like they have played so much towards basic area
They have really been able to carry
Let's see what the final band here towards
with BLG and possibly Shen, even though the poppy also is flexible.
We're held in suspense for a couple of minutes, because the champs jump down off our screens.
With the amount of tissues being picked up, is that a water spillage? It's a possibility.
I don't want to pontificate on it too much right now, but always an option.
As much as we talk about the way these two teams want to play and the fact we expect BLG to play through their solo laners
to play through their bot lane. That's not to negate the power of the other players in those roles
on these teams. T1 do still have Onu and Faker who so often step up on the international stage.
They have Doran who, although he's laying in Gambula but weak, his team fight often is what
allows T1 to get wins. You think of his Jace against TL where he was able to find those picks and
actually got them. Don't maybe think of his Jace, man. Oh, his Jace just collected up so hard with
Team Liquid!
Everyone of both teams can, can!
I think is the point I'm trying to get to here.
So, as much as we have expectations going in, these teams will also have similar expectations,
and thus we'll be trying to thwart their opposition's playstyle.
Yeah, and it's really interesting too.
We're putting Doran towards the York, you know, towards the split-push champion,
to see how T1 would like to operate.
Meanwhile, everyone is trying to stay focused during the pause here,
While we figure out what is going on first
Luckily, you know, they haven't locked all champions in so it's not a swap. It's not a swap issue
That is the proof that we're sure it's not a swap issue
We'll just continue to build the tension here for this epic matchup that I mean it is crazy
We're having this so early on into the tournament. I don't know keep saying that since the format
We had T1 in play-ins and as far as the reason that we're getting this so early on but it does feel like we're just getting
treated really early on in the tournament.
This is a possible finals, right?
Often these guys meet in like lower round four
or the upper finals or even the grand finals
other than we haven't seen that before.
For T1 as well, a really important MSI in my eyes.
It's been seven, eight, nine years
since they last won a title.
Nine years for T1 and yes, they have won
back to back to back worlds title since then,
but still for a team this decorated,
MSI over the last almost decade
been sitting off that mantle piece and I'm pretty sure these guys want to prove that they deserve
that trophy as well. That's why they brought in Paze. Drop another 28 bomb Callista game.
Get him some another MSI trophy. We'll see though, as we are still waiting for an update here
on the occurrence for the VLG side. Again, if we're going over the draft, VLG did have pretty
good poke damage locked in already. I have really high value of force on the
bin. Jace early picked there and then being a little parent super early on
with the zigs of magic damage does seem like they have you know some good
directions to go in some good range for themselves. CFT1 can support Doran in
his York versus Jace matchup because there's been extra cash talk on that
top lane matchup. They'll be starting it out and Doran giving a little clap back talking about he
needs to teach them a lesson. We'll see if they can't hear in Dajon. It's always a possibility for
DLG. It's the first time we've seen them on the stage here in Dajon. They dominated the LPL.
Expectations were looking at the form of Knight who I think currently is the best player in the
the world on current form that they would just sweep through their playoffs ended up
losing to Team WE which no one expected at all but since then they have come from strength
to strength to strength even beating WE on their way back to a 3-0 versus top e-sports
and we are going to work our way back into draft.
So I got an update so everything up until the Karma ban is going to be repeated and
and the karma band is one change.
That is our branch in the timeline
that we are taking here in this draft.
So my expectations obviously are J4 and an Ezreal band,
and then we'll see where we go from that.
As the Jarvan, Ezreal for BLG would be the next band
if I had josted it down correctly.
I didn't even see the karma band, I'll be honest.
Maybe I was looking away from the screen as it happened.
Okay, so the Ezreal I saw was a karma instead.
That is my mistake.
Yeah, that must have been the input right.
Okay, so Ezreal is switched to the Karma.
I mean, it's kind of similar,
because usually they're paired,
but Karma can also go with so many other things
to be strong lanes do.
So that is the pivot here.
Take away Karma for the bottom lane.
So I mean, there's still so many options.
I mean, technically, there still has been
a decent priority on Varus,
and Eko is available in the bottom lane as well.
Lots of good combinations.
Tranduul can get taken away by T1.
The pillar can stop some of the engage
I'm here from guy with a...
...fault great kill.
I'm a little surprised because you don't really have a true tank on your team,
so if it's subjugate, it doesn't get as much value.
You already know you're jungler, so you're not looking for something that can sin,
that can be decent out by the Trumble.
Yeah, and sometimes the pillar is just so good at setting up poke teams.
So maybe it's just like the assist for pillar into Jason, Ziggs, poke,
makes it really hard to dodge those as well.
And again, BLG have been leaning into the extra range advantage here,
poke out this Cassiopeia comp, but when you've got a Vi and a Nautilus medic, now you have both of the main go buttons that even exist in League of Legends, so good point and click here from T1, which I put a stop to BLG's poke and get those engages going.
So what's a BLG need if they're going to try and avoid some of this engage?
They've already got the Poppy, that works well.
Could look for something like a Wukong just to cycle and disengage from some of these fights.
Because they've got now their team entirely locked apart from that jungler.
But theory of the current hover for BLG?
Now, the theory is interesting because it's good in multiple ways versus the Vi.
Obviously, you can go Icargatable, and you can die ultimates.
But it looks like they're actually going to keep the poppy as jungle instead and watch something different here for Awn to be a playmaker on the team.
Lominations with the Ziggs. Okay, we go with the Shen again. Awn gets very active with the Shen.
Mid lane has to be aware of these top flashes and the possible ganks.
VLG definitely love getting active early with on, with Shen, pairing up, and wreaking havoc across the map, especially up into those solo lanes and really getting Ben at night into good positions.
Jim, the final lock for T1, they're trying to find a little bit of poke for themselves at the start of fights, catch someone out with the deadly Flourishle with the curtain call just for the slows, and love the Shen pick road.
So often we see it talked about just disengaged for the buy, buy ult in,
stand united spirits refuge, good luck buy all your damage comes from auto attacks.
But as you say, on is so proactive on the map that it also bridges you into a later portion of the game
where your poke is going to have more of an effect.
Plus I can do a lot to help out the sidelines later on if Doran is trying to split push with this york.
So true.
And of course you have another answer here.
And we do got, I do have a lot of faith in Dim's, you know, Jace, even into a counter-fix, so we'll see how it does play out early on.
After a couple of delays in Champion Select, the main course is already a smorgasbord of glory and honor between these two teams as T1 and BOG will battle us out on the rim.
The question is, which team will be able to land that first punch? Which team will be able to get back off the mat?
We've seen a reverse sweep already in this MSI, all I know is I want it to go to 5.
Oh, I hope so. What an epic matchup we have here.
In the recent years, it has been the way of T1, but now we're at MSI.
MSI is BLG's turf in this matchup. Last year they did lose 3-0, but in 2024 they won.
in 2024 they won again and in 2023 they also won so of the four series they
played before today at MSI it has been heavily
bog favored as we make our way on to Sonoma's left
both the supports going up towards the topside to kick things off towards
placed in the bush but it's going to be much to do about nothing as neither of
the top lane is a caught out. Yeah vision for these brush in top lane so
critical when you don't want to go with that poke pattern and drop minion aggro and we've
seen the support level ones up the top lane have infected so many of those matchups so heavily.
Veneta is the new set coming out from Rift Bound. You can grab your Jace, your Mel cards and I'm
sure a bunch of other cards as well. There are pre-rift events starting before July 31st,
but July 31st is the official release date. Make sure you get to your pre-rips in your Nexus Knights.
You can grab a bunch of cool cards. And then, Queen of Medic because he'll help you build your deck.
He is in there on riff bad and addicted to it
We've got to say
You see trading happening in the bot lane carrier trying to step up to get that level to a couple of minions for them
There we are Paze gets it first carry a missed one as of his joint towards the top lane and vibrant on
Respect the fact that yeah, you can't really fight into a fourth shot level to gin
Yeah, definitely not it with both junglers passing away to gonna be isolated at the matchup down there
Picker does lane is Sasha's blast. He's running fairly low on mana
I mean, something all great mid laner, Steven Faker does, especially his trade is helping his man at early game
just to try and get that enemy low. Give them that little bit of trepidation about stepping off, especially against something like a Vi where the Q flash is such a deadly combination.
And since they do have the ward, team coffee right now too, gonna have full confidence in going for these trades.
That's a step forward.
Siphon power.
Sintantel auto attack, as you can see across the years.
These did start off the LG favor,
but then it worlds over and over again.
It is T1 that finds the upper hand.
Yeah, epic matchups.
All of them between these two organizations.
Permanent in here and now at the top.
Just an aftershock exchange between the two supports there.
As Karrion and Paze do have the early push-pipe,
obviously on the Ziggs can get pushed later on,
but before you have your lost chapter,
it becomes a little bit harder to actually find that damage
because you're just gonna run out of mana.
Crowd getting excited there with the satchel charge,
but there were still millions of lives, so...
Power is...
I think the crowd's gonna get excited about a lot of things.
Oh yeah, and I would be.
It is packed in here.
Literally every seat is filled.
In this arena, would expect no less,
especially here in Korea.
Let's see about some early roams though.
We've got the junglers resetting after their first clear,
So you have a little bit of time and we talked about shinnon kind of linking up looks like shinn
Gonna head back out for the bottom scuttle crab just to even back scuttle crab count up
And on we'll get his recall as well. That's what you like to see for a river shinn boots medic
Oh, he's to be everywhere man all over the map carry it
Opening up through mid at the moment the goat supports in his own words
Also, I think yeah, a lot of other people's words to I mean, yes
100% I think we all agree with him and a guy that is usually relatively humble has earned the
Right to give himself that title as a lot of other people have as you say
I think the battle at the moment in my mind is between him and night for who is actually the best player in the world and both of them have
Performed incredibly well for their teams over the last couple of months faker stepping forward misses the not so fast
He doesn't get the poison does level up
The hook's gonna come out of carrier is on tries to join the frame the mid lane, but can't find any source of connection
Yeah, I like it there. Keeping to the separate battles. Mid vs mid support vs support.
It's honorable, you know?
Yeah, Kratos, like, hey, get back here. We're just gonna watch this.
Alright, Doran trying to get the extra CS here in front of Tower. Been doing what he needs to do here on the Jason, getting that first turret plate.
Keeping his pressure up early on. Trying to make the most of it here before Doran gets his ultimate.
Gets his wife onto the summoner's rip. Faker though.
Oh, Faker has to flash. The torn flash too much of a deterrent. Faker realizes if he was caught by that ninja, he would be dead.
Yeah, you have to respect it. So good play there from on. Just goes in, gets the flash. Very efficient stuff here.
And the control ward up behind Red Buff is actually going to get found pretty early. Shin's going to go find that one. Poppy walks over it.
He actually had to backtrack because he was really looking to gank topside. But he gets that control ward.
both supports trying to help them in liners on these waves. Faker of course has the flash,
so he needs the extra safety of owner and Kariah to finish out the push and get him the reset.
I guess it should be on the back way pretty easily as a couple of pings come out towards where the junglers are likely to be.
The Cogs respawning, T1 note that Shun is going up towards that top side, and
BLG also aware the owner will be going towards his gomb and clearing down towards bot.
You can really see in any sort of dragon play, but we do see both the supports have abandoned the bottom lane.
You do get slightly less golden experience from your world atlas when you're not in bot lane as a support
It's about 25% but it's nothing too substantial
I actually think support is the least punished role for not being in their lane for those role quests
Yeah, and we've seen it this tournament start to become fairly prevalent support spending a lot of time around me
They're they're not much for the quests
You get it anyway. You order a few minions. They die. It's fine
that speaking of a quest been on a quest to garner himself quite a sizeable advantage in the top lane already
600 gold ahead you might see a battle over the scuffle crab crab quest is
Those inch and answers might guess little six off it has that keepers verdict
Dredge line still manages to knock back one
He's able to walk Raker against him, and Faker see things!
A solo kill in the 1v2!
I mean, there's not going to be any rebuttal.
I mean, there's no flash used here by On.
Nicely done from Faker.
My asthma against the wall and just burns him down.
Yes, BLG did get the crab.
They got the crab quest, but they lose the first blood in their efforts.
And it's one of the weaknesses of these.
Engaged the port says you are really squishy early game especially into something like a Casio that can just spam and spam and spam those twin fangs
It looks like on is just trying to connect to which shouldn't been there's these steps forward
Faker's having none of it and it looks like he has his heel and you know ready right now
But Baker yeah good my asthma against the wall pops the open slow and with the poison and with the twin fang
I think the audience here though, I think a whale of a time as T1 get a 400 gold lead.
The majority of that sitting on faker in the mid lane who's having to balance out the lead
that Ben has acquired towards top.
On is an interesting story too because last year big conversation was around,
Oh, everyone loves making the on or off jokes, but this year he was very very good
It was on all the time especially with first stand look really nice with him
So we'll see as this series does continue and this year has been
Very reliable, but carry us back out and into the jungle really early helping our owner again
He leashes the red buff brings it back into the bush for owner
Patient's dropping quickly on it though. Yeah, on's on the way across has the flash the taunt
owner and carrier will settle for the grubs instead of the enemy red buff so
so we'll still get an advantage 41 in terms of neutral objective but Viper
has been lacked alone in the bot lane for quite a while while this has been
happening and because of that being able to get a couple of plates about a 300
gold advantage. Yeah it's the demolitionists all going according to plan
there and it's even more important as on now getting poised again it is even more
important to deny ziksteams the grubs because they did buff up the extra damage from the
the grubs buff that you get from it so team one gonna go for that topside play and BLG will
answer with the dragon pig accordingly. It's been easy enough objective trade one we see really
often at the moment I wonder with this Yorick how much damage Doran can do to those standing towers
is the grubs to help you out a lot on the person that's kind of his job at least for the early
portions of this game is just push push push try and get as many of those
places as possible. Wow we have a focus on top side Vi has ultimate owners
heading up to the top side so they very well could go for a dive. Karius not
sick set for Nautilus but it doesn't matter they've got the Vi all. Feels a
little dangerous especially with the spirits refuge available. Vin is
squishy sure as is on but you have to actually get the damage to stick and
you've got auto attackers up here rather than a mage,
something like the CACCO that can actually do the damage
while that sprinter refuges down.
Definitely would be very dangerous.
So, oner says, nevermind, I'm out to my re-clear,
back to bottom side, from Krugs up,
we'll end up on that side of the map again,
but I'll fairly calm in the early stages
aside from that first blood.
13's happy enough just to farm up,
even gold at 10 minutes as well.
ExoJet takes still about four minutes away with the X-Tec Drake being the main one that is about to spawn,
but I'm starting to see the builds towards those first items.
Faker going for the double stacking with the Rotter Ages and the tier already in his inventory,
almost halfway stacked as well on the tier.
Got that very early on in the lane.
On the other side, Knight, I mean, he's struggled a little bit in this lane to have as much impact as he'd like,
but he is on something like a victor, which will scale up incredibly well as the game goes on.
is being able to build up those stats.
I just had an incredible performance across this split.
Yeah, let's take a look at some of those stats for this year,
by the way, Medics, making up incredible stats for night,
for BLG, ES just done everything in the LPL this split.
Absolutely crazy stats he's been putting up,
and definitely has huge performances.
So a lot of people anticipating a lot of his mid-matchups
here because that was the conversation. People are like, okay, but a lot of the really good
midlaners are in the LCK. So they want to see, you know, what night is going to do in
this particular form versus some different competition as well, because he has proved
that he is by far the best midlaner in the LPL and absolutely dominated and his Victor
is something that he's proved that on as well. He's played it five times and one on it five
score lines like 10-0-10 against JDG, played it against Tottenham Sports as well with 3-1-9 is Carrier.
Pulled out a little bit by On.
That's huge. This Shen Ultimate, the first support Shen Ultimate, and it just gets Carrier's Flash.
They can be engaged there. Steph Westpresent coming out from Jonas. The TP is used by BLG.
They want the fight. Ono towards it. Flash on the door and as well. Ono with a cease-and-desist.
He's trying to get to the wall and he just can't get out.
Knight claims the first to kill at the tournament for BLG.
Yeah, he teleports up to the topside,
on goes for the taunt and flash, and he gets one.
They taunt him up, they get the extra money.
Now with the Ziggs on topside too,
Ziggs is gonna be able to take a lot of turrets plates
on topside for them.
So even though Paze does get the hit bottom,
BLG with the answer play up there,
trying to answer the return from T1.
They're going to get first tower bonus.
But a couple more minions die to the turret.
Bin stays around.
And BLG will accelerate a 1.6K gold lead now.
Pays unable to take all of this tower.
Will take a couple of plays off it,
but now maybe he's overextended as there's
a flank coming down.
I was baited a little bit by the observers
with the vision dash, and instead just
it goes towards the Scuttle Crab.
So interesting because BLG, you know, the initial play,
I thought it was a good escape from Keria from T1
But they made the call to try and turn back around and the BLG are like fine
We'll just send everybody and we'll get Viper up there too now
We'll see what they can do with their gold lead since the next dragon is fairly close
And they should be able to set up nicely for it on his actually getting the vision early
Dormin needs to get away from bin for some thought possession bin flashes over and doesn't have to fear the tower
going with the flash away but Binder.
Let's find an auto attacks.
Thank you, I'm finding more than this.
Put the goals on him, six sit-downs to card,
and Coles has been locked up against the wall.
Danny Dore without pace then.
Dore said I need to teach Bins some lessons.
And he hits him with the shovel,
a little bit of a help from his boy, Paze.
Nice W here on the gym from the mid lane.
Pays was able to set him up and allow Dorian to clap back.
And you don't blame Ben for that aggression either.
He is winning that 1v1 decisively,
but the expectation that Pays is there when Drake is only up
in six seconds, surprising to say the least,
but Ben overextends and Dorian now with three drops
with a maiden.
Get paid, as you say, on force away
by the 20 fans of faker.
A Cobra, not an adder in this game.
Is that Cassio? Noxious blast lands on Shun as well.
Faker's just forced them both out. That's the jungler in support.
Down to about half HP each.
Faker farming some damage per minute stats here on all these melee's.
That was his intent as well. Nothing to do with pushing them away from the drake.
He's like, nah man, my DPS, I gotta get it higher.
Man, I mean, every time you see him on screen, he's poisoned and he's running for his life.
I mean, Faker has absolutely destroyed On's game and On is a level down.
On Karrion now too, it is really, really hurting Dragon stacking for BLG, not even going to be an issue as T1 immediately gained control.
Yeah, often we see that fight around the third drake when BLG have got the first two, T1 have played towards the topside, got the grubs, got some tower plates, got some extra gold in their pockets here.
We see even now at that first drake.
Yeah, I mean, Shen without Flash is really not threatening at all.
It's Faker with the confidence, moves back up.
Again, pulling him back to fountain means he's going to remain level 6 for quite a while.
Faker first lands onto Orniston, and she's away from it.
I think part of it as well is like T1 aren't over-investing in some of this chip damage.
As Knight comes in, there's the standing item, and onto Dorban, a 2v1 is not one he can win.
Knight claims his second.
All the kills of BLG currently sitting on his shoulders.
Yeah, Nidus used to have the money.
He's going to get paid again here.
So this is a good ult from on, gets down there.
And look at that.
Sling shots him up in the experience.
Being able to get the assist on this kill
against the level 11 top laner.
Really nice for him as well.
So good for Nite, good for on as well.
And they just give up the top side Herald there.
I think it's definitely well worth it for BLG.
They need night to be very strong and he is going to be about 500 gold ahead
been with about a thousand gold lead in the top side. We'll have another look at it.
Dovan thinks he can trade at this point realizes he definitely can't as the
Sandy 90 comes in and then after that's not much he can do. And this is one of
the reasons we're pointing out the Shen in champion select is for these sideline
plays you know night and on talking really early hey I'm just gonna move up
on him let's get the early off they're gonna go invest resources towards that
Rift Herald, so let's make that time count on the map, and they certainly do that.
Still pretty much in the balance this game, a thousand lead for BLG as they ask the door in once again.
The slam doesn't land them against the wall, but the keeper's verdict locks him up, and with the gravity well down there is no escape.
Last right for a bit of healing, might be able to escape in the end.
Knight takes the kill, and it tries to get out, but the system is just a little dredged, and it's time for Paze the Pipe!
He addressed the wall, over to his life, pays, takes down Shen.
As T1 get a kill in advantage.
Aventures, assemble.
You can only go after Doran so many times before the rest of T1
are going to collapse.
Faker, though, look out on the minimap.
The Shen is walking pretty far.
Faker's got his entire recall, though.
And he is going to be able to get out of there.
But, I mean, T1, they are able to get more for it.
That is the teleport for Knight as well.
He tried to make the play really quickly.
but they were unable to make the play quick enough.
Maybe if Doran had been a little bit closer to the wall
and they had actually gotten the full poppy stun
into the wall for the extra little bit of damage,
maybe that little split second of extra time
might have been enough for Knight to be able
to teleport out there, but just barely didn't get it.
Yeah, so as you see there, as the replay started,
Doran still got to walk back a little bit.
And so while they're still able to kill him,
on the minimap, you see the rest of T1 heading down here
And Knight's teleport he was trying to get out of there does get interrupted as well as hooking into the extra kill, the pay-pays.
T1 with a good collapse towards the bottom side. BLG weren't able to get much on the top side of the map while that was happening.
They do still have about a thousand gold lead, but once again it's Faker in the side lane picking up this tower gold.
only 200 behind Knight, and he's still two kills behind, and now has the Seraphs, and the Rod of Ages at seven stacks.
It feels like next fight could be incredibly decisive in this game, because of how close it is.
If one team wins it, like, three, four kills, it really then begins to blow up in their favor.
Yep, the rewards get very, very big in a minute and a half, because Baron arriving at 20 minutes, and we're fighting already.
Carrier going in for the hook, on there with the tall headfighting gaze coming out as well as Carrier tries to escape,
Shen slams against the wall with that heroic charge, and now the teeth taken out of the attack from T1, as Carrier is sent to the grave.
Carrier down early, well before the Baron though, so the reward there, not quite yet, but nice little bit of gold here into BLG to set them up for the next fight.
27 seconds on that dragon, and you have to think they're going to look for another Shen-Stan United play.
actually cancel this recall though so he's gonna try and you know stay out
here on the map at the mid wave instead of going back and looking for a standing
added play so we'll see about that setup for that dragon
Doran will continue to split push teleport available for him. Basically no
vision at the dragon right now for either team there's a single T1 ward that I
can see on the minimap he's trying to get the mid prior so we can work across
towards it two item throw on night and on viper horizon focus and Ludens
Blackfire torch and the rocket belt on the other side pays also has to as this
faker but Rod of Age is still only at eight stacks it doesn't have that extra
level BLG game controller the river right now and they invested the Chantel
board to do it they really thought T1 we're gonna gonna rush down here so
they were trying to catch up to the play they used the stand united so the
shield there won't be available for this and there yeah I mean you run in there
you get some vision but they're gonna still lose the objective
Norman pushing up looking for the tower. There's the Drake 2 T1 is only the second of the game for either team
So not too impactful yet
The Riftel finds his way around and the second presence is going to get the knockdown on to Karrion mega inferno
Bomb as well owner with a good season decision
He's gonna try and get across the wall of T1 all hail the retriever Karrion has other ideas
He goes all guns blazing forward but can't find a CC chain for the rest of T1 to react
Oh, yeah, he makes the call to go back in, but he just immediately goes down, B.O.G. on the attack again.
Mock about forward from Knight, just looking for poke on to Paze here.
He's gonna have too much more wants in low, so that B.O.G. can try and open up the mid lane by taking down this Tier 1.
Yeah, this is huge.
Definitely scary here. Again, they have so much range, so much poke with the J's and the Ziggs available.
The Faker!
Just a catch on the side from Faker, should knock some back with the Keepers verdict.
The current is...
Oh, no!
And Pays gains the bullet!
What is the hit-right Zedito right there?
That's the jungle at dead as well, Kobe.
T1 at 20 minutes.
Yeah, I mean, did that look like they were lined up,
but he gets it right by the shed.
Aum does not block it.
And T1 onto the baron, only 21 minutes into the game.
There's no jungler for BLG.
BLG are TPing in here.
It's going to be Viper and Knight,
but that Baron's really having to 3K
on her with the smite.
Negative, that one comes down,
but on her lands the smite.
Oh, look at her flat position, a 4B5.
But BLG and they can't find more out of it.
T1 all able to retreat together.
Maker puts him on his asmode down
just to stop Knight in his tracks.
They're still looking for more.
Hoping for offset, resets hit.
Out of T1.
BLG will just claim the blue.
That was so sweet, he meant it.
It was crazy, VLG were on a power play seeding.
Thought they were just going to use the advantage of their Ziggs and their Jace at the tower.
I mean, it all starts with this though, we're going back to the origins, and you're driving
Harold versus Poppy.
So look at Shen right now.
Shen is like, okay, where are you going to come out, he blocks him, he's able to get
the Interva, and they get a decent amount of damage done.
Keria does use his Flash to escape initially, but then they make the call.
He would make the call to go back in, and Keria does die anyway.
So I thought that with the extra advantage of the seed she with the Ziggs and the Jace,
We're gonna find something. It's just faker this snake around the fog of war and then here
It looks like they're really trying to keep it stable
So even had eski, but then he starts moving again a little bit just
Elevation there yeah elevation dip
And pays finds the exact millimeter that you need it. I actually blame
I actually should more than on on that one if you walked up a little bit crooked instead of just continuing to watch straight
the other angle out. But I mean the ramifications of that were huge. Yeah, that is a
Baron 2-2-1. A Red Bull Baron power play for the next 90 seconds. They haven't been able to get too much off it as of yet.
Only 600 goals there advantage, but they can still manage to push in these lanes.
You have a good split pushing, Doran. He has a thousand goals behind, but he's got his
tri-force complaint. He's doing everything he needs to do without
making a miss. Onakota a little bit here by Shun. He tries to step into this jungle.
The first presence holding him in place, but only still able to walk away and T1 as a three-man squad can step forward
So I'm trying to get a little bit of vision
But there's nothing really for him to garner as now because of this bin has to step back T1 will take a tier 2 in the
Topside meanwhile in the mid lane of his faker who has jumped on pedi-fying gaze is dodged by a knight but faker with a flash
Knight flashes over, he's gonna get hooked for it. Joachim Storms doing a lot of work with Gerd and course coming out as well
Oh I'm trying to block the shots this time. Knight doesn't fall
and T1 lose their mid laner, lose their talisman and lose any chance to push
further with this Baron buff. I mean that is critical but yeah putting a stop
to the pushing here. BLG I mean on just gets his revenge on Faker finally. He
does have flash this time so he's able to get his top flash onto Faker in the
mid lane. They get their kill and they put a stop to the pushing. It does not
completely swing the game or anything but I mean this one incredibly close
still. It really is. 800 gold between the two teams of 24 minutes. Two Drake's to one.
Balan about to expire. T1 unable to break through the inhibitor line, which is really what you
want to see from that first Balan, or at least all of the tier twos, because of the movement of BLG,
because of the decisiveness of BLG, which is something they're so often praised for.
T1 are only able to find a single tier two out of the push.
Now though, you're going to have the team fight with Knight having no flash and Baker having no
flash both these mid laners had to be very very careful with their positioning and on the side of T1 they have two point and click
Very easy target abilities here with the Dallas with the buy.
Paiso!
Step up, I can storm immediately
Master just walk away, but that's half his health. Nine seconds on the chem tech Drake T1 can give this
It's only the second of the game for BLG and I think T1 should just back away
Hell, he does heal up a ton though, it's Shen looks to be engaged towards the bomb site, good keepers verdict,
owner down, jungler down, and Doran on the wrong side of dodge.
BLG begins to collapse onto him and there's no escape.
They're eating a grave that he has dug as BLG find two unable to dash away from Paze.
T1 still eyeing up a fight, but now it looks like they've decided mid lane their priority instead.
Yeah, BLG were more cohesive there, grouped together, ready for the play at the tri-brush.
While T1 were split, they had Doran on bottom, Wave still and Baker in mid-wave, so...
PACE!
Another good play for BLG!
Oh, the tournter's a ladder because of that PACE, they were the walkway.
They still have cleanse, Dredge on going in, depth charge onto the backline as well,
On takes a big chunk out of PACE, but now he's got no bullets left on his gun,
and Chun looks to chase him down.
Rock about forward from right, won't be enough, PACE!
Only two left in the magazine, won't be able to defend against three of BLG.
Reloads takes a second, looks to see if his team will back him up.
And in the end the minion wave doesn't die quickly enough for the satchel charge not to do its work
Another good group in there from BOG having everybody stick around in mid lane
Pays and carrier trying to get that mid wave and they are punished again BOG
They grow their gold lead so quickly medic in addition to the extra dragon
You see in the coinbase gold drain Knights getting all of that extra gold from the couple of extra kills
It's really the difference between these two midlaners. Baker has done a really good job
Being in the sidelines getting extra gold from the CS
But here I thought Paze was just done for on goes in for the taunt and is just a millimeter wide
But then Keria also again he goes in here when BLG have four people coming over to the area
I mean they didn't know because my bro's walking down lane and they had should moving up through jungle
But hooking back in and then flashing out again. This this Nautilus very well
could be another kill target.
Definitely vulnerable to going down.
You can see even on the sidelines here,
Doran having to play very cautiously now.
And the damage from BOG is just gonna get insane.
You've got Muramana transformation for Bin.
Viper is three item powers by himself
and the actual little half item of bladed jewel
for magic penetration.
So huge poke damage is available
that we were worried about from BOG now.
with multiple members on their three-item spikes.
I mean, I haven't seen Faker have the chance
to really sink in multiple twin fangs in the fight either.
Paze does have some damage on his side.
A three-item gin is nothing to be snipped at,
especially the fourth shot,
but the Spirit's Refuge negates all of that.
Faker is the one that you're looking to,
to actually have that consistent DPS throughout the fight.
And T1 really, it feels like they haven't picked a fight
on their terms recently either.
And he did just get his actualizer for the Cassiopeia,
so yeah, you're looking for a miasma.
That goes in, slammed against the wall by Aspen down as well as Faker and Ono to try and dash forward
knock-up onto Arn and Schoen but look at the health bars, it is not T1 who are winning
Ono dives onto the back line and dies forward, Doran tries to jump in, a meat shield is all he can be
and a satchel charge will be his epitaph as Doran pulls to Viper, carry a chase out by
Schoen towards the topside, slammed into the wall and slammed into the grey BLG
Find three and T1 have no purchase on this game.
And then the Flourish rule and the one to one is Faker.
Finds the miasma to answer with one of their own.
Can Faker and Paze create something here?
2v4 at the Baron.
The curtains open.
What do we see?
Fourth shot loaded in the chamber.
Ben disenfranchised.
B.O.G. 5,000 on the Baron.
No stick on it for now.
The central charge is trying to keep Faker at bay.
3K now for the Baron.
As soon as he's just looking for that smite, he should be able to secure it. We'll get it.
Now in the back of the pit, Sevastopes and Slams. The Slams, the Cleans away from Paze,
means that he'll escape. BOG wants to live with this Baron to fight another dead.
Paze for Paze! That's how the BANDS!
Nuggets to trade back onto him in the Alchemist, and he'll find one.
Thinking he's still gonna wait for mid as well.
Knight low on mana, Peds by Gaze will find him, and Knight is going at all!
T1 somehow, from somewhere, from the depths of nothing!
Turn around the fights!
BLT get the Baron, but T1 destroyed the evidence!
They kill everyone wearing the buff!
Just incredible.
A match for the ages in the first round of MSI 2026.
At this point, I thought T1 were doomed.
Yeah, I mean, it starts out and BLT are going to get so much damage into odor.
He gets annihilated there by Bin and Knight,
And then they're moving forward with the Chaos Storm ticking.
Doran uses the blast cone to go over, but you call it again.
He gets knocked up here by Viper's satchel charge back into the team,
and so he gets killed very quickly too.
And then you're in a situation where you are 2v4 at the Baron pace.
This catches up where he already sniped out one member,
and they're going to be able to take down two more.
He keeps his fourth shot.
He knows Faker can handle the other kill.
I'm going to go kill Viper.
He emotes as he flashes over with the kill,
And since they already have owner back on the map,
they know they're going to be able to get the wrap around
Fraker though.
He takes the opportunity to get the angle with his ulti
and allow owner to finish up the shutdown.
Sometimes he won't do something that is just magical.
Right?
It's just wizardry.
It's witchcraft.
And then BLG do something equally as magical,
and they take it back.
I mean, we're back into it.
2-2 on dragons.
Only 1,300 gold separates us,
and BLG have positioned on this dragon. They want to get to sole point.
That is a long way away.
The early fighters coming out won't land.
I think BLG will just back away before the fight.
The mid lane pushed though for T1.
They can try and take that tier two down.
Get a little bit of gold back in there.
Fog is basically at this point.
The gold is even.
A thousand here, a thousand there.
Nothing too substantial.
Verdon Barrier finished for Faker.
Guardian Angel on own action.
Doesn't have that extra life in the next fight yet.
This is why we're so excited for this matchup.
Two heavyweights going at it here.
A slugfest at MSI.
Alright, now.
Viper has been keyed. I mean, he only got that one death after the Baron in the previous one.
But he has an armguard now and has the fully completed Void Staff for the full magic penetration.
So the burst damage available from BLG's side here is getting very, very scary.
scary but again with the point and click and with the engage here from T1
they have a lot of options to create havoc and they have the extra guardian angel on owner now so he can full-send it
Yeah, he and Kerry are the two that you're looking to to start the fights for T1
And then you're looking at the rest of them to navigate all of the poke that's coming out from BLG
Because that's how fights are gonna go if BLG are first on an objective
They'll be able to poke and poke and poke and poke before T1 get in which is why Kerry and owner are going so quickly
for that initiation for that fight even if it looks like it might not be the best position to fight in.
I was finding it funny when nobody wants to kill you the last day on the control ward.
They're like, you take the control ward. No, I've got stuff to do. You take it.
Now, finally, Karen goes back. They've just finished out that control ward.
As T1 are able to push all three lanes back in for themselves.
Faker on the top side. Doren playing it fairly cautiously down there on the other side.
just going to retreat before BLG have a chance to catch him.
Next fight, I'm going to say two minutes, Kobe.
I think both teams want that moment to breathe.
Really? Is anything in particular indicating the two-minute mark?
Obviously, because the baron's coming up, man.
I'm just saying, I'm not going to fight before that point, you know?
I'm saying no one's going to go and try and steal away a red buff
and then get caught out and die.
Shouldn't just take away the Mega Blascoe in there.
their owner not spotted, but you know G likely just to try and get that push in the bot lane and then back away
Then still with a size will lead in the bot side, but three items complete on Doran
And a little bit of extra magic resist means that he is not unkillable
But shouldn't be easily taken down in a 1v2 and I definitely agree with you know
Every always looking towards the fair and spot the funny thing is when you can try and fish around
And blow someone's flash like that is that is just feels so good when you have a couple minutes
you know, heading towards Van and with some high damage, you know,
first cooldowns, it definitely is possible, but nobody really giving that opportunity to their opponents at the moment.
So pretty much everybody except for owner is going to have their flash coming in and owner's cooldown on his flash is not even that long anyway.
So should be able to get that one in time as well.
It's actually up in 30 seconds. So will we be up before that Baron?
on to the Rift for BLG. Obviously don't want to give up a down, but you do have
Sol to fight for in a couple of minutes time as well as T1 are just looking at
Sol point. Owner trying to play towards the bottom side here, seeing it being
overstepped, but what to do about nothing as no one goes too far forward.
Doran though staying around soon on the chase, where he works, slam him into the
wall. Mega Inferno one coming down as well. There's Doran's flash, the blast cone.
He will get out, uses it. That's a big summons down for T1 in exchange, but
three ultimates on BLG I gotta tell you I would have I would struggle hitting that
last call Doran so much on top of it and they're spending everything to keep
him from hitting it I mean they use everything here with the stand united
the victor ultimate the ziggs ultimate the poppy ultimates I mean Jace
transforms to so you sure we got five ultimates you're right that one but I
mean they missed everything and Doran he's able to clutch out the escape on
the blast gun. He has to use his flash though, so we did say cooldowns for flashes. Now at the
Baron though, the arrival. And the poke damage is here from BLG. Can they get it to land?
That's the thing, a lot of their poke damage doesn't need their ultimates to be effective. So if T1
is starting the battle, and it's like shooting fish in the battle. You just bounce in bomb,
you can chuck the accelerated truck boss over there, you can chuck out a few chaos rays, and
because of that T1 have to back away, which is why BLG were okay with the fact they used all of
all of their ultimates to get just a flash out of door.
Yeah, and all the other ultimates besides Shen and San United
are fairly short this age in the game.
So it's definitely fine there.
Just won't be having the Shen ulti
for another attempt at a pick.
So let's see.
As they're gonna be able to teleport right back out
for this dragon, T1, no, we've gotta deny this soul.
And they're gonna get Doran in place
with the extra large shield here now.
Choices, Choices, Coby.
If you're BLG, you have the option of just going to the baron.
It's not sole for T1. You can just give it up.
Or you can try and take the fight and do something BLG love to do.
They'll step forward, looking for a little bit of poke.
Second on the objective, they do land the shot pass on to Faker.
The Drake, though, could easily be a being gunned by Ono while all of this is happening.
And in fact, that is the state of affairs, as the Drake is already down to 2k.
Keepers verdict doesn't land.
Kerrio tries to dive onto the back line,
making him throw the bomb, keeps Paze and Ono out of the fight.
Perio is going to fall.
Distracted BLG with it.
He will sacrifice his life.
Balon now the next objective.
Big wave in the top lane as well.
Pins by BLG.
That's the inhibitor tower down just to the minions.
BLG will turn their attention towards the Balon,
but there's always a possibility of a TP behind.
Faker actually TPing to the top side by sprinting.
Oh, and he's so fast on that casio.
With the home guards coming out and the extra movement.
Faker getting the ball.
If Faker has the flank, Bin's gonna face-check Mega Blast going for Faker, straight in the face of Bin and just rejoins with his team.
Oh my goodness! I mean, look at the minions in top lane that finished off the tower.
Those things were threatening the inhibitor, and Faker wraps all the way around.
Super Blast guns instead, does not want that heat.
Keria was still respawning, and now the top hooker BLG behind!
Shouldn't get a call-out, though. Look at the damage come out from base, before shot Bin does have the flank.
because Faker is caught out by Knight towards the topside of the fight.
Arken stormed down by the Faker-Sarrichield,
in up to keep him alive.
Oh, and happy to flash away from the Sim Mega.
Inferno, Barma's carry, a rejoint the fight on the topside.
Faker falls away, curtains open.
Knight keeps going at bay, but it looks like all of T1
have managed to extricate themselves
to a very sticky situation.
I can't believe it.
I mean, we're fighting on three fronts here.
Knight and Faker on the right side.
Shun getting beat down by the Raptors,
and the telephone from Ben in the back,
And yet nobody goes down.
The flashes will be expended here,
and we still have eyes on this Baron.
The vision setup is so critical here.
When you have Pocon versus so much point and click,
hard and gauge, you need to have that safe approach angle.
What is this game, dude?
There's a T1 versus BLG.
This is a pinnacle of League of Legends.
Truly is, two of the tournament favorites.
Butting heads in round one.
matchup we could see again at this tournament but for now a best of five
between them and a match against a lion later in the week on the weekend don't
really know what day it is I'll be honest it's a work day or not a work day
that's how it works at these internationals night the medgizer six
taxed shouldn't try to step forward they kept my gaze doesn't find the face of
and because of that doesn't get the stun.
A big order meant to be down, but already only 42nd before it is back up for T1.
Well Pace flashed towards the satchel onto Pace, tries to get him back and they go in front of him,
not going to find him as well.
They'll look for Kevin as well as Bin steps up,
deadly flourish lands the Blue Curtains open, and who is going home?
Arnold is taking out the Guardian Angel onto Ono as he dives onto the back line.
My asthma down again onto Sun, but the Hero charge finds Ono in the dark procession, locked in the cage.
Shun another gadget, Glavish Gorman finds the kill, both junglers down as BLG and T1 continue to land haymakers.
Paze's given me a heart attack, baiting there. He's trying to bait with his summoner spells and his positioning.
And it ends up as a one for one with both junglers' medic, which means you get to breathe for a bit because no smites for any Baron fights here.
So everybody's gonna take a breather and reset.
But Paze is flirting with it and yeah, so On takes it, he flashes in to go for the engage, Paze answers with his cleanse, with his flash, hits the W on Bin to keep the fight going, then On takes it for him and he gets crazy as the taunt pulls him over.
That's the Guardian Angel down, should still be able to knock him against the wall for it. And in the end, it is a pretty big win to be able to get the Guardian Angel cooldown off of owner.
So while it is jungler for jungler, it's the item cooldowns that are the longest in the game at this point.
On dashing across the wall, T1 just calling the bluff with BLG. They're gonna start the ban and immediately Faker will melt through this alongside Paze.
They're burning it, they're burning it!
As you say, shouldn't not there yet and BLG a little slow to the play of the mega-inferno, there's gonna be a lot of damage, but there's the ban on the radio, it's T1.
BLG will look to the fight afterwards, can they find anything?
Can they find a crack in the armour of T1 who are grouped up?
Faker starting his record, Deli Qash doesn't land, the Maiden doing a bit of work.
Airplow verdict doesn't land, not to anyone as shaman, Knight caught out,
seasoned assist on tonight, he's isolated.
But hold on, not with his team towards the topside.
Oh, and then Banner, got on a fake approach, the double-factor, right from the top.
And the target of Clones of Biaoqi, the door-run, is slamming the door in their face.
Knight taking E, with a T1.
I can't feel my T1 burn the Baron and they turn for the fight!
Clean ace for the world champions!
They're going to be able to run straight to the base, but it gets already open in the top lane.
They've got the Baron buffed and the base doesn't stand a chance.
In every single fight you see T1, they step forward, Karia and Ona go in,
And you think they're in the belly of the beast, but T1 have claws!
They rip their way out, and in what is only game one of this best of five,
T1 will claim God's blood!
And that's just game one, everybody!
If you had fun with that, we've got more where that came from.
I'm sure the analysts have quite a few things to look at.
I'm so mad at you.
What a game one.
What a game one.
We're going to have to assess the break it down.
We have the glass.
We have the glass.
League of Legends here in this game one, guys.
The crowd is absolutely electric.
I only hope that you all at home can experience that as well.
What a game one.
Oh my god, this is exactly what I wanted.
From these two teams, whenever they meet, it's such a banger
that these teamfights were absolutely insane from both sides.
I thought you could spend so much time just going over any of those teamfights,
breaking down every little bit, every moment, everyone playing out of their minds.
This is only game one of this best of five.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Like, I feel like I have to catch my breath, but it's so fun.
Like, this was, this has been one of the match-ups as soon as I knew these two teams
were coming to this event that I really wanted to see.
What are we looking at here? Because there's been so much back and forth. What surprised me the most was that 25 minutes, everything was dead even.
They have gone one way or another and it came to very small details. The first play that I wanted to get here is T1 with the science of re-engaging.
Knowing what clutch timing is going to bring them tempo.
That's Snipe and I think Paze and Faker will just have a phenomenal play. Snipe enough shun to get the first Baron.
This is a later baron that is
Left to clean up and this flash show the wolf of pays and then fakers petrifying gaze that's coming up
Look how low his health is but plays around the vision
Stuns night and sets it up for owner to clean up the place and it started with a fumble
Display the way they can bounce back on their feet every time time and time again. That is purity one
Yeah, and I mean this is where the circus originally started, right?
was always at Baron with T one well before this year. So even those things bomb lands. Yeah, as soon as the BLG can test when they wrap around here.
I'm waiting for it. It's coming. Yeah.
Basically as soon as that Poppy ult mists and then they immediately get on tonight. I was like, okay, it's over. Yeah.
It's over. Yeah, this game is over and the way that they set up for pay is to have so much room with the gin in these fights
Was so so stellar like I loved it
Even though Kerry I had some like if he re-engaged moments with the Nautilus
His targeting in so many of these Baron fights was insane and they made so much room for pay is
Like look at that damage coming out of the gin
I think also I want to give credit to Faker because his laning in recent years hasn't always been a strong point. I think this year it's been better. But going up against Knight that was a big question. How did the lane go? And he actually had a solid laning phase against Knight was the one to get first blood. And also Casio appears actually in playoffs, the LPL went two and 10 they kind of dropped off into the priority.
Was the one to get first blood and also Casio peers actually in playoffs in the LPL with two and ten
They kind of dropped off into the priority they can make it the case maybe you guys should have kept practicing this
Uh-huh, and what I thought was really interesting is the fact
We had our eyes on that T1 early game the fact that they wouldn't be allowed this fumble that we have seen time and time from them
And I feel like BLG fell into the trap of trying to shut down Doran a bit too much
Yeah every second counts and we know that thanks to the reliable system at T1 punish BLG scallops onto Doran
It is carry a once again with a beautiful cancel on night
Yeah, this is so important because carry is gonna come in and be able to cancel
Not yet night's TP with owner and then immediately the hook goes out on
What is that, Gretzlare?
What is that?
Nautilus just isn't fair.
And then again, it's Pais who's there
to clean up the kills, right?
So it's not even just that they were able to respond
to this BLG collapse,
but it's also who is getting the kills.
And this further sets up Pais
to be able to absolutely pop off
in those later Baron fights that we already showed.
And obviously these big clutch moments, T1 had the edge.
The game was still so close,
They're really fearsome opponent, Knight on the victor, a major threat, the Ziggs from Viper, he's a player who tried his careers being comfortable on mages and shown off there.
Yeah, I mean Knight was 15 of 15 in terms of kill participation, like he had 100% kill participation in this game, which is still insane, but yeah, like as far as like as we were expecting as we set up, the T1 bot lane really really showed up in this game one.
They showed up, T1, cleaned up their early games.
What have we learned from BLG?
I think that, you know, committing to darn
makes sense, getting bit ahead, but there's a limit to it.
You have to make sure the counterpunch is in there.
They need to be clean on objective setups.
Yeah.
That's something they've struggled with domestically.
That's something that's coming out again here.
When you go over those barrens,
T1 will always challenge, always punish if they see an angle,
and they paid for it multiple times in that game.
Yeah, I think a lot of the neutral objective setups
for team fights with 5v5s, I was like,
Okay, this might be where BLG will struggle. Whereas the earlier skirmishes, that's where I thought they'd excel and that's another nod to
T1 and really like even though very early on they got the faker flash, right?
Like it was set up to make the play onto him. That second scuttle contest where I believe faker gets that kill onto on, set him up
really well to do so much damage here. So even in those early skirmishes, it still seemed like they're kind of getting dragged into
T1's pace and what T1 wanted to do, but I know I'm just so excited. This is great. It's just game. I love this
Give me five of this. Yeah, four games of this. She opens up the score here against BLG. Let's see what happens next
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And you're playing on a show tonight,
Clawed out with season assist on tonight, he's isolated.
But hold on, not with his team towards the topside.
Alden Banner down on the fake, a bind to double-clutch,
a wake and turn, but the target's not closed.
of BLG, and Jordan is slamming the door in their face.
Knight taking E with a 10-1.
Welcome back to MSI 2026, where we
are ready to see if BLG can get back up off the canvas,
or if T1 will continue to land knockout blows.
I mean, this is so fun.
I feel like the interview that Lord did with Inspired
but he was talking about this matchup.
And he was like, well, maybe if BLG can get the advantage
in the first 15 minutes, then maybe they can win.
But if they don't, I feel like T1 are just
so clutched around these late game scenarios.
Like that very well could be the way that this game is going.
But it's so early.
This is the first game in this full best of five
that we are going to be treated here.
So the adjustments for BLG now to come in in this one,
You have to say, Paze is a freaking monster, man.
He is just incredible for right now.
And it's coming in when he's playing like this,
you're gonna have to come up with a solution
specifically to take him out.
And on a pick, we so often see
not have the effect teams wanted to.
At Jin, so often it's like, well,
he kind of hit some fourth shots,
but he didn't really have the damage
to work his way through the LG.
They're here, A's, and kick is played seven times.
This split absolutely popped up.
BLG with right to first election,
elected to be on the blue side.
T1 picks first pick.
So we see two bands coming out from there already.
It's Annie and the Vein.
Yeah, respect to that, Annie.
One of my nights most played
and it had some crazy stats on it as well.
So focusing down on some of the BLG,
like hard engage comps and AOE.
I mean any ban also kind of reduces the Wukong priority a little bit since those are paired so heavily and that is such a good combo itself
Jungle so very much wide open though, of course
Since they might lift the poppy in the opener
So a lot of different options for you there
Look for things like the chinchar with a knockdown for owner both probably the best in the world on those two picks
We have been knocked and banned away by T1 themselves actually as BLG look for their final
What are they going to put on the bench here against T1?
Yeah, I mean, knockdown just warps so many matchups.
I mean, it makes you not want to take as many super winning side lane matchups,
just because if the enemy can have knockdown, greatly reduces a lot of the path to win through those side lanes.
But the Narban has well coming out against Doran here.
I mean, it does open up.
Maybe they're going to have to go with some safe line.
the rise definitely in party with Casio already being used so we were talking
about that in the break we were like well are you gonna look for things like
the tier into the rise or are we just gonna see rise Camille walk a lot straight
away by T1 they want to put Carrier on something that can carry in no surprise
that is exactly what they are doing with first pick yeah I mean especially with
Shen already off the board you know Shen support is used into Camille as well
And so not gonna be able to have that option people have talked a lot about solo queue jack support getting played as an answer
But oh wait wait and see and actually ends up happening
There's no you pick barred into Camille Camille wait you actually do it
Wow, oh barred into the Camille usually Camille is the answer to bar
I'm gonna lock them up so easily with the ulti so let's see it's I was like, you know what it's fine
We'll just go Ezreal Bard here and still get my room time. What the buff does give you is a temporary fall on top of a hexagon
Automated right the hexagon man comes down. It's like temporary pause let us reset
Let's make sure whoever has been caught out in that hexagon made him we can then back up we can then facilitate and support
We've seen the Camille be so successful against it though. So this is really throwing down the gauntlet
And you're staring down carrier to treat the pilot of that Camille
So, all right, if you also lock in an owner of these in here, I just feel like these are
some bigger champions.
4T1.
But that's always the case.
It's very rare you put T1 on champions they're not comfortable on.
Similarly for BLG, right?
It's very rare you can find something the Viper hasn't played a billion times and isn't
super comfortable on.
It's as real this split has been his most played and he has won seven of the nine games
he's played on it.
So, yes, yes.
This is really strong from T1, but there's no way in hell BLG haven't gone into this
saying they're going to pick Camille.
How do we answer that?
Yeah.
And I mean, really it's about the style for BLG too, because they want to leave Viper
on something by himself, you know, something self-sufficient down in the bot side.
And he knows he's going to probably be playing into, you know, like a mell or something like
that on the bot side to go with the Camille.
So he wants to Ezreal for the range and for the safety and still allow, for BLG you have
to allow on to get onto the map to play with Shun and play to your solo lanes and so yeah
unless VoG were like alright we're going to do a Caitlyn lane or something like that
and they're probably going to have to play to the other side of the map but I guess it's
a Renekton as well here.
I mean the Renekton also is always I really favor especially early on and didn't the pilot
of the Renekton for the 1v1 and he did get ahead of Doron in the lane phase but late
on board had much more impact when it came to team fight spins poke damage really didn't have the
Effect that he wanted. I also love this mail back from BLG. It's saying hey
If you want this cameo to go everywhere, you don't get a safe ad cap
You don't get someone that can just do a zig or do a mail or do an azerial and farm from range
You're gonna have to have someone that is a little bit more up close and personal
And what if they've got some more technology, you know, I I mean the zig and and the mail are the most common
maybe just to get played with the Camille, but you know these guys are
cookies. There is a possibility always right that we used to see a lot of
syndrome. We were so sweating with time. I've also been spying on a lot of the
MSI pros solo queues and some have been playing Xerath. Personally I'm not a fan
of that, but you know they are far better at executing so let's see. Let's see what
the cook will be. Regardless we are gonna have to look towards the mid lane again
And with the with the Lissandra band you also have to do the Ari band because the Lissandra has been faker
You're playing it very frequently into Ari and you cannot let
Night get an unanswered Ari if I think you're very well aware, but he told me
You know they've been out here answered the Ari that is extremely well known for it. So
They answered that there and cover this
Like I like this one so far at least
I see some kind of grass in the field in the jungle. Three games on a hundred percent win rate. How are T1 going to answer that?
They're playing around with some more cook there. Do you remember those days?
I remember Gal and Yuni. They could crack that out if they really wanted to, but the least in mid cameo jungle would get instead.
But now we'll see the Galio. I'm going to pace late for another moment.
I mean, Galeo, Camille, and Bessa.
Holy app-holy, those are some good old combos.
And even Ezreal does not get away from those.
It feels kaiser.
If you want someone who can follow up, it feels kaiser.
Obviously, you can play someone that steps a little bit further back.
But there we are.
Paze will go onto his kaiser.
The Galeo for Faker, something that he not only has a leek skin for,
but also a fifth-pound card for.
Ah, nice sell-out.
The double sell-out.
Rarely seen, I love it.
Sometimes I like, you know, stuff that I'm passionate about.
I'm just talking about it here.
We'll see where BOG decide to answer all this galley.
And maybe at the current hover, right?
Sony has a chance to bring it out.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, seven, eight.
Counter-engage.
Really, really good.
If you have all these people diving in onto you,
honestly, I think they should continue to lock it.
There we go.
Knights swaying here locked in.
And it's a really good spot for a swing, too.
So many short-range champions on T1 side
that are all going to be diving in.
The critical part is living through the burst and then being able to have a sustained fight.
But if you can do that, especially if they can get Knight into a good position early on,
get him stacking up the extra HP off of his passive,
you just need some roms from on and shun together, which is exactly what they are known for.
As long as you get the Swain through a stable setup here,
could excel in all this short-range T1 champions.
I'm having a quick look over the top regions for this spring.
Swain has only been played once in the mid lane, as far as I can tell.
APA, it is American innovation here.
For now, obviously we've seen Swain mid all the years across.
I love it.
APA played it and managed to pick up a win on it.
We have seen Swain mid so many times across the years,
but I totally agree with you.
That ability to absorb the initial punch,
then turn on the Demonic Ascension is like,
Good luck moving away from me, especially when you get the Rylai's. Everyone's slow in that AOE.
This could be huge for my SPLG on the ropes.
Looking to even out this series of 1 on 1, T1 in front of their home crowd in their home country.
They are looking for that match point. Game 1 was a banger.
I can't wait to see what game 2 delivers.
And as far as buying that time and living the initial play, the barred ultimate is going to be key.
You mentioned this. We're trying to deal with the combination of the guaranteed Camille Alt and Gallea Alt, so we'll see if BLG can even it up in this series.
Or if T1 are going to continue where they're meant to last, that crowd is going crazy.
that's a good one. Yeah.
early vision towards the
Razor beat camp. That is where
owner looks like he is going to
start gets five gold from
painting out the ward and they
would placed by. Faker towards
the razor beats all the show
means that he will be spotted
as well. So both junglers on
vision. On taking the wise route
towards the bottom lane. There
was an ambush waiting for him
in tri-bush and now carry and
So with the Ezreal early here, we'll see how many Qs Viper will be able to thread through,
how much damage they can poke down onto the Kaisa Camille early on, if they can gain their
lane priority, if they can get that push.
Because Shun here with the Raptor start was seen with the ward from T1, so they're going
to have the information opposite starts for the jungles, and the owner will be ending
up towards the bottom side to try to play off of that Camille setup.
Yeah, likely just a three-camping to a longsword back.
It's the Cosmic Binding Steelhead,
something to carry on who did go in with a level two.
Okay, on. I see you.
Doesn't land the shot.
Now, the last swing we saw at MSI, by the way, Koby, last year,
Honkyu put it out versus T1,
played into Faker's Galio and won,
according to what I have on the graph in front of me,
but it does say Faker Galio win,
so Faker's Galio could have won.
I don't remember the exact series.
I'm sure producers will inform me as to whether Faker won.
I'm just reading off in front of a screen, let's be honest.
There's our pace, takes a mystic shot there.
I don't think we expected to land.
We're already down to half.
Okay, Hunky did win that one.
Hunky did win.
So, Swain in the last 365 days at MSI in the mid lane against T1, specifically Fakers Galleo 100% win rate.
We'll see if we can live up to that.
The specific, the very specific angle.
Let's see, Faker, going for the recall here, and as the luxury, walk up and get some chunks
on the turret, but we'll see later on, bottom lane is what I'm really interested in, you
know, to see about the income, especially because Viper has opted to go with the exhaust
Ezreal, since we were talking about, and champs like, okay, not even an Ezreal can live this
amount of time, right?
Well, he also kind of felt that way and went for the exhaust carrier though, on his first
with the Camille support scouted by the wards with of course Camille and Bard
you always have to assume each team has basically two junglers as the supports
are in fog of war almost as often.
Ben here staying around even though he knew Carrier was in the area soon
coming across as well. Carrier will hookshot wall dive in, call him Pat out
from Shun double darking baggers takes Carrier down to about three quarters and Shun
and we'll be able to get the vision control in that bus.
And Paz, you know, you kind of pay the price.
The minions are pushing back towards you,
so no reason for him to move up towards the Ezreal bar,
but it's going to mean the pushback from BLG.
And should play that well.
You know, it's keep track.
Keria knew, even though he kind of messed around
with the possibility of chasing Ben,
he's like, I just saw Shen here.
We make a play.
It has to be very, very fast.
And he did not want to overstay, so he
You can get back to bottom lane in time for the wave crash.
That is important, especially with Paze being such short range on the Kaisa.
After you've used your Kathy and Rain in your Void Seeker,
you don't really have any tools to clear out that wave.
It's not something like a Caitlyn that can just poke and prod with the extra range.
Bin here, a little bit overextended, his owner is looking for a gank.
Doran down to 400 HP though, Bin continues to trade onto him.
Bin not quite yet level 6, something has halved the level to go
as he flashes away from the Tempest Crypt, tries to turn back onto Doran,
slice and dice, but flash away from the T1 top.
And now, Oner and Doran can just pin some movement
here onto bin now.
No escape for the croc.
First blood T1.
It's a team game, Maddox.
Doran again, playing with his teammates
in order to get the better of bin.
Luremin, they get the kill.
First blood into Lee Sin is also very nice
for the early stages of the game.
Oner, on this champion, can be an absolute terror.
He's got his flash ready, and Keria's back onto the map as well, so we'll see about their link-up.
They do have some division by Raptors and the tri-bush by Bottom Lane to work with,
but Honor's got a couple camps he needs to take care of first.
Nice low, and then we move from ninth in the mid lane, just the catch, Fakerzy Justice punches away.
CC out of that swing, can be pretty difficult to deal with later on in the game.
Keria and on, fighting over Vision once again, both of them have so many tools in that toolkit
to escape and to get themselves out of a predicament
that you don't really worry too much
unless you see that health bar start to blink.
And even then, even then,
they're both very good at escaping
from tricky situations.
All right, here comes owner,
finish this camps up, come over for the dragon.
They have good damage on it.
Faker has his ulti, so even though Faker's
on a reset right now, once Galio gets back out to range,
basically they're tier two towers, he's in all range,
He could join the fight and T1 could burn.
Actually a really nice time of call there from T1.
The topside scuttle was just coming up
and Shuren went across for it.
The magical journey comes in.
Good double cosmic binding pace.
Needs to back up his teammates.
The hero's entrance coming out from Faker.
But with a demonic ascension, Knight begins to go big.
Faker will be able to adjust his punches
his way out BLG, get one out of the fight,
but do lose the dragon.
Good punish from on there.
On the barge, slips right back in.
double cosmic binding, locking them up, and you trade your Swain ult for your Galio ult
as he's landing, popping it really early here just to make sure there's no turn back around
for T1, but B.O.G. successfully evening up the kills.
Then with a slice and dice in the Domino's storm, let's have the public execution.
When that Domino's begins to expire, the possibility of going for the play is on as ignited and
flashes away.
He's having to block for Keria. Vision of Empire doesn't find it's mark.
But still looking for a little bit more damage here, but even with the magical journey into the quarter of a pack,
the movement speed Keria flashes, tries to dash back, but Shanna with a perfect flash knew exactly what was in Keria's mind.
Beautiful from Shun. He pops his W for the extra damage as he's going to go in.
He wants the big damage for his ultimate, and then Carrier thinking,
okay, he doesn't have his own target ability, I'll just turn it back around on him.
But then Shun also follows that line of logic and flashes Medic.
Very nicely done.
You love it. You're always predicting the next step of your opponent
and trying to play off of what they know you have available.
And Shun is often overlooked as part of this team, but his early game,
his ability to understand when he can make a play
and when he's sacrificing too much in his own jungle is so, so top tier.
As we see here, it was Karrion and Paze who tried to play on the front foot,
and as soon as they get the poke onto Karrion,
Arn moves across the magical journey for Shun, and the dogs have been truly let out.
Yeah, so he's going to get the extra damage and Karrion knows.
Alright, he doesn't have his untarget ability, all just punishing.
But, nice little game of chess here, and Shun's able to get it.
I also know if that was me, I'd be immediately ulting Paze,
off the road to me. Oh, that was a mistake. Diving underneath the tower. Darken Dagg is coming out from Shunforces, carry her away.
Oner looking for at least one of these Grubs if you can find it. Faker coming down from the mid lane. Oner will get one.
And that's enough for T1 for now. No back away. Goes two to BLG. No one's gonna have those mites to bolster their attack on the towers.
All right, so two Grubs to one.
That's the extra dragon as well for T1, but
But the extra gold lead here, very, very slight, and we're going to have to see as the supports,
the roaming has become more and more impactful, Shaker's just going to slip back out, but
it's going to become more and more impactful, obviously, as they're getting closer and closer
to their level sixes, and we really have to see if they can pull off that combo play.
I'm doing constantly trading, the Dominus is getting a little bit of extra damage down
for Bin. Cold and meat, slice and dice, looks forward. Doesn't have the Ruthless Pettus
of back-hopping time to stop Dorwin from fully retreating.
Carrier. Over and around too, but Bin knows. Oh, he's out of work.
Doesn't even... I mean, you've got to be public as a casual.
Run and shot, yeah.
Mexico Automation not available for Carrier. They'll jump onto Bin. Ruthless Pettus, slice
and dice and he manages to escape to the safety of his tower.
Yeah, very good cue there. Nice heel from Bin.
Off of it, and it's still going to be costly though.
He's low health, wants to stick around for the cannon wave.
Cary going to wrap around to try and punish, but look, they know this is coming.
Swayne also running over.
Kenbis, four members of T1 on the top side of the map right now.
It's the next wave they're playing for.
Cary, in fact, dives in before it, and with a killer instinct, Paze will take the kill.
Cary, a dice.
Dolan almost goes down as the vision of Empire.
Secures that gold for Nitru shopper.
Garage not gonna hit, as the Pays will just get the push out on the lane, meanwhile Viper is getting a push of his own towards bot side.
Yeah, interesting, Knight is able to snipe the kill, it's actually good, he's got a Doran's Ring, he has extra stack here for the Doran.
Dark Seal.
Dark Seal, excuse me. He also has a Doran's Ring.
He does, yeah, I just didn't want people tweeting you saying Doran's Ring doesn't get stacks, apart from Doran's World Rings.
Whoa.
Karrie here, he wants to make the play really quick as the rotation over is coming, so Karrie says fine, I'll sacrifice myself, I'm going to go in, yes I'm going to dive, but we're going to get this kill guaranteed.
And, as well, picking up some turret play money here, so it is going fairly well with both in the theory and the slain in good positions for BLG.
These are two of the critical champions here for this team comp to be able to operate, you know, Knight is going to get fairly tanky and be fairly difficult as far as the big combo.
His AOE is going to be really annoying and once you get like a Rylai's 2 it can be really hard for T1 to get out of a play afterwards if they are unsuccessful in the initial start.
T1 is one punch so important as you say, the Rylai's first item here.
here. They're trying to put Finn in the trash and they're doing it over and over again.
Keria goes in, Finn with a big cold of meek. TP out from Nite seems to be enough for T1
as Finn looks for a bit more engage. On has the Temp of Fate, Faker comes across to try
and help out. There's two, three on top. Shun was able to take a tower. There's the Temp of
Fate, lands on two. On looking for Cosmic, Binding gets it just in time. It cleans away from
Bases and up and the safeguard out from Onah. True shot for Raj. Flash away from public
and the execution from Vipers.
Oh!
That's right, the target!
That ends it with a flash of putiation.
The Haring's pursuit onto Dormin should be enough to secure the one-for-one.
Meanwhile on the topside, T1 are able to extract themselves from what could have been a losing fight.
I mean, yeah, BLG3D4 on the topside, able to push them back.
They're going to have topside push, and because they got the kill answer on bottomside,
they get to push bottom too, so BLG pushing both sides of the map after that one
Didn't like the initial play from Doran though to take down Viper. He answers the flash there goes in
But Shun was wrapping around and so he's able to answer and push the wave
And there's only one turret plate left on that tower on bottom side. That could be first tower bonus
So BLG kind of winning on two sides of the map the the 3d4 on the top side also kind of going in their favor
Really does change the outlook on the on this game. Let's take another look
So this is the the more exciting part of it the bottom side of the map and look at the mini map right now
That's where the dog is at the very beginning. Vipers trying to start this one out
He's like all right my jungler is coming. He flashes to the side with the adorances. You're not getting away, buddy
Really nice play and then there's no escape from the dogs at this point
And you have to say hey like my bring up like play a little bit more respectfully your jungler is on the way
He wanted to keep doing really interested, but sometimes you keep them too interested
I mean, yes, you can.
Oh, that's too killable for me right now.
The bait is too tasty, the lobster too buttery,
the steak too juicy.
And Storen manages to get a solo kill.
Keria, they've got a dodge to the side of the Tempify
on using the T1 skin, and Keria just reminded
of what organization he works for as it splashes
on the ground in front of him.
Both the supports yet to complete those world atlases.
Last game we saw them about the 14 minute mark.
that's how much roaming they
are doing that support. That's
not yet there, but it's kind of
reminiscent of game one the LG
finding a good few skirmishes in
the early game getting a small
lead here. Miniscule really
about 100 gold or so. But across
the history of T one versus the
LPL. It hasn't been as even you
can say is T one 79 to 38 all
time against the LPL. You think
back to Drake was his famous
I can't remember who the line was, C1 versus the LPL and they liked those odds with the end of it.
But yeah, incredible stuff from T1. They are the Chinese killers in international tournaments.
LPL fans, you know, they refer to Baker as the tallest mountain, the longest river, always putting a stop to their hopes and dreams.
Well, not always, but frequently. Not 100% of the time.
often than not. I think a 66% win rate or they have a bounce is pretty substantial.
Regardless, I think what you're super worried about in this game is Paze.
If you're looking at T1 right now, Paze was a pretty tall mountain in the previous game as Karrie goes in.
That's a good mention, on to on able to magical journey across Verona looking for the chase flash away by the Bard.
A six shot from Viper is hitting, but the never move does not and because of that BLG we'll just back away from the plate.
Ultimate from Carrier, not too much more burn.
I think it did use TP to the top side, but he really wanted to be up here anyway to push out the wave.
It's a fight over the Rift Tower for now.
And the 700 gold between the two teams, and you can see first items basically complete on everyone.
Apart from Carrier, who is a little short of that Sunded Sky.
Yeah.
And Doran doing pretty well for himself.
He actually wants to chase Bin because we saw the minimap, you know, Paz is moving down.
And again, this Kaisa can can follow so many plays and if he gets paid any more, it's going to become really, really dangerous.
The Kaisa with cleanse flash in this setup has a lot of room to operate owner fighting around him in mid lane as well.
But they just need to keep, you know, Paze's income steady here.
And he definitely is going to be a good look for their win con with the form that he is in right now has been outstanding.
on rubbing around again.
T1 playing like they know what Ornn is going to try and get down here to make sure the fin is safe.
Keria showing on the wave, trying to hold it.
On comes through, you can see Ornn jumps on him, chunks out a little bit, and then if he oversteps,
Paze can kill him while he lies in wait in the jungle.
On there, of course, because the 10 for Faker do so much work towards the tower,
diving stop, a kill from happening.
Keria tries to get away, being flashed in with the Dominez.
Keria flashes the wall just in time, 100 health.
Enough to keep him alive for now.
TrueShop Garage also not going to clean up the kill, does not find him, he's able to walk away.
Camille Flash for the Renekton Flash, we'll see if that becomes a problem at the next dragon fight here.
Garia still has yet to complete the Sundered Sky for the Camille, so he does not have his first item in Powers Fights.
Meanwhile on, of course, building the much cheaper, Lockett of the Iron Solari is going to have some good team fight effectiveness for the shielding fort.
teammates with his item. And we'll see about the the next couple of stages. I do like that
Pays and Keria are also both kind of shouting out the LPL with their IG duo skins on bottom side.
Jackie Love, Kaisa skin for Pays. I mean it is also the best one, but they're going to focus
down the dragon now too. Looks like PLG make the gulp. Yeah we don't want to fight into it so
they're going to look to just keep pushing mid lane. The on ultimate also going into the dirt again.
If you're looking for a hip, when you are looking for it from such long range, it can be easy when people have already been locked up for you.
And partly, of course, the tempofade there for when T1 do an issue.
When they go in for the fight, then you can stop time for a second, sit right there and have on tell you how you're about to lose the teamfight.
And as Eona comes across to try and take the crux, she's to get a couple of them.
Very even game once again, coming up towards the 18-0 mark.
We've got two minutes on the baron in game one that was a vital point of concern and consternation for these two teams
Lots of fights happen around it as you expect
Always in the way that you would expect
Yeah, I was a lot more excited about the swing mid earlier
You know in champ select and in the early stages of the game. I think it's later and later
I kind of have less faith that it's gonna be super impactful even though it is like good a we counter engage
I'm getting more and more terrified of the pop-up of the T1-Wampo combo, so we'll see.
Interesting.
Yeah, we'll...
Well, no, because I think I have the opposite idea about the Swain.
I feel like later on in the game he gets thank you and it's harder to burst him down,
and so the Swain excites me more the game goes on, the more even it is.
Swain becomes stronger as night with the demon flat.
He's gonna jump onto joining flashes away, tries to dive onto on with a public execution,
on a rampage now on this nefiri well that's just a good timer for bog look
they're losing nothing on the map they sent three members they invest three
members they already had mid lane pushed and they've got been pushing out
bottom side so really good window here from bog successful kill onto doran and
losing nothing in pain and shim is now what takes like the sword and black
lever on this nefiri if he's able to avoid the initial bit of the fight with
that call of the pack. He can
really get some work done on
some of the squishier members
of T1. Looking at Paze, I'm
looking at Carrier as key
targets for that Wolfpack.
That up in 40 seconds, a small
gold lead for PLG. As we're
starting to see those second
items come in, Paze once again
after having a great game one
is ahead. 800 gold, his lead,
Ginsu's and Kraken Slayer
complete.
He's the big carry here. Let's
see on rageblade spike is quite nice, but I mean, Flipper has also got his
rainforest and Muramana to transform soon, very, very shortly, so we'll see if
you know he's able to land the mystic shots, able to land the poke, they're the
ones this with the range, just like last time, they've got extra range, they want
to land some poke, and T1 have all of the engage, all these buttons that we're
waiting for them to combine together with their oldies.
The way we both speak about it, there's so much anticipation, but we've been anticipating for 20 minutes.
We haven't seen the Wombo combo yet, and so we're just getting to that position.
We wonder whether T1 will find the engage that they really want.
Faker goes in with the Justice Punch, magical German to get him away, but Ben now isolates it from his team.
Even with the TP in, the Slice and Dice won't get him out.
On the hexagoda made, and Knight double-hit the move!
A demonic ascension, and Knight, the demon of T1's nightmares!
to dive in with the Hound's pursuit, Night Flash is carrying her down a three-man route!
Nevermore! Nevermore!
As Night gets the Nevermove and you hear the roar of the crowd.
Well, after a triple, I'm definitely more scared of Night!
Told you. Told you.
He's able to get the Herald on bottom side too, they delete the tower in BLG,
blowing open the bottom lane.
That's a play from a knight, lands the two man never move, lands the three man never move,
and T1 just cannot answer.
I mean he's fully stacked, aren't sealed now, let's take another look at it.
So, BIM is the target of force, on and should, are able to magical journey away, so T1 have
their own time at the beginning of the fight.
But here it is, you mentioned it, you called out the double route and pull in, and he's
to be able to get such a big burst of AOE,
Keria is basically dead, so they know they can just follow forward,
and they go for the blast, and he gets another triple pull!
On the safe belt, coming in as well as Paze,
straight with Bob against the drop down,
but now Knight is just too strong for Paze.
Death's hand reaches out, and takes Paze at two at the afterlife.
Golden left hand of the LPL finds another,
and they're also going to take the towers afterwards.
Bill G destroying the map after all of these team fight victories.
And look at the explosion of gold for BLG.
A thousand gold ahead only two minutes ago.
Now 4K in the lead, 2,000 of that sitting on night's shoulders
who went from just having a Rylai's to now having a Leandris
and a Seekers and a fully stacked Darkseal.
All right, let's take a look at how it started
because we caught up with this a little late.
Kay's here, sees the shot onto Viper.
Yeah, I mean, Viper wanted to use the exhaust, but the Pays already had to cleanse a nice ultimate from Pays.
I mean, this is often too, why people in the past a lot pick the Kaisa into Ezreal for this.
Viper got Secusion Temp of Fate coming down to try and save Bin, but it's only on Bin on this portion of the map right now,
and Bin has turned into Shuzak, Drog is done!
A hex to go to Maedam says on, die or don't!
And then they can use-
On goes down, as you say, now the Baron falls to you on!
Yeah, they can use his own magical journey to get to the bear and even quicker carry a looks for shun
How'd you get into this fight?
You have no flash on the swaying night will need to walk straight through the gaping water to you on the torch on shun
Flashes away fake it in with the justice plan to boundary setting here as I try to get back your way night begins step forward
And pays in the middle of the meat grinder night finds one the second to bleed from shun
night the king of the LPL and they're gonna be okay they can't get to the
teleport in time but they stop the Baron they get their extra kills and he
again like never move never miss also for night just absurd PLG on the side of
the bandamigia the owner still in the vicinity though his smite's this
tournament have been sublime I mean if he steals this might be gonna take away
On there as well, true shot rush comes out, vision from on,
cockpit binding lands to stun, Baron down to 5k,
owner more interested in keeping himself alive
than taking the Baron now as Viper dashes in once again,
and that's another over to BLG.
They'll secure the Baron carrier with two towers there
to protect him in the top lane.
The BLG decide they don't want to go any further.
Beautiful snowball here from BLG,
answering these plays from T1,
because again, it was T1 making a side pick.
They picked on Bin, they went for Bin, they killed Bin, and yet on that Baron start,
BOG punished them so heavily that they're the ones with the reward.
A BOG Baron and a BOG Dragon to boot.
Let's see how much they can do with this Baron.
In game 1, T1, we're unable to break through those tier 3s here.
We see T1, four members invested on the top side are looking to catch out Bin.
Yeah, and you know, they're going to be able to kill Bin,
and they're going to take the tower for themselves.
All looks great, right?
You get your interaction with your cameo pick and your bar trap him up with the ulti and then go to start the Baron
There's only three members alive of BLG. What's the worst that could happen, right?
Well, Shunin Viper poking here and let's watch as Night approaches because Keria's getting chumped down
Shunin's getting a fairly low here and they try and turn on him
He uses the untarget ability to splash and then look at Paze as he gets hit and Night pulls him in again
Takes down the Kaisa takes down the heart of the T1 comp
and giving hope to BLG, to the LPL, he's leading them once again 6-0-5 on their swain.
And now for T1, they look to their only goal lead, Goren.
An aisle of triumph in a sea of defeat in terms of those gold advantages.
Knight is 3K ahead, T1 exchanging their top lane inhib for a mid lane tier 1 and a bot lane tier 2.
The problem is, BLG can continue to push forward.
BING could try and stop the backs.
TrueShotBros came out from Viper to try and catch Paze
before he could finish that recall,
but they do manage to do so.
A very short magical journey,
but BLG used it to get over the wall.
Ono could look through a kickflash,
and it doesn't go through it.
Really just trying to spot out BLG
as they wander back through this T1 jungle.
And Doran's still bottom lane.
Okay, now he's jettling his recall,
But they're just going to see this tower for sure.
Waiting for Doran to finish up the recall.
He's coming back.
Are they going to choose their moment?
Faker in the jungle, on the outside,
but he's being marked by Bin.
No easy entry here for Faker.
Let's have the Flash, has the Torque,
has the Heroes Entrance.
Flash is across the board, almost available.
Keria without his.
Keria, an owner, trying to bait out spells for BLG.
You see them dashing in and out, trying
to just get a flinch from anyone on BLG.
They would love, of course, to get swayed to pop his ult
and then be able to kite it back out,
but Knight is not flinching.
He's not hitting that button.
But there's Faker now under attack.
Flash, of course, we've learned he doesn't land onto Faker.
Just gets it slow from the auto attack.
You should watch going to go in as well as
owner of the new target.
Stay guard to Faker.
The talk comes out.
Jim Dodgers did dragon trade for the kickback
with a tempered Faye.
Locked in a T1 to Faker, taken out by BLG.
All right, BLG, own the entire map.
There's no objectives up at the moment,
but they've got Top and Hibbert are down,
Super Minions applying the pressure already.
Huge gold lead, feeling so comfortable.
And we already had the Knight Classic upgrade
into Medjai, Soul Stealer at 14 stacks here.
Now with the Armguard as well, he is just so safe.
You hit your level 16, you are going to wreak havoc
into this short-range T1 comp.
Two minutes on the next rake would only be sole point for either of the teams,
but two on the ban, I have to feel that's the key target for BLG,
a 7000 gold lead for them at this 27-minute mark.
The leads they managed to garner in the mid-game accelerated away from T1,
and now this one punch nowhere near as strong as it needs to be
to work its way through the defenses that BLG have established.
I will say, Kaisa does a lot of punches though.
She does.
She does.
See?
Especially if you can build up your rage blade,
definitely cannot ever get too calm for someone.
The universal tournament, the match of the journey
comes in from R and BLG, TPing 19.
Faker tries to escape, but the good cards
are binding the hounds pursuing one carrier.
Shun takes them out as well.
BLG decides it.
On the top side of the map, they have super minions
on their way.
Doran having to recall from the bot lane to try and join up with the only two remaining members of his team.
Bin is pushing through mid, BLG distracting Alti being in. Bin looking for the end with the rest of BLG.
Sub 30 minutes, they're trying to take out T1 and even out the score. Doran goes in, stunned up, locked up.
Demonic ascension from Nite underneath the Nexus towers and the Demon Fire will be another public execution.
Only the execution of T1.
BLG evens us up as we've got a series on our hands.
Oh, Knight ascends all right.
Him and Shun both popping off in this game.
And BLG are back, baby.
They even it up one to one here in Dazhon.
And in decisive manner as well, Kirby.
It was not the back and forth we saw in Game 1.
It was punch after punch after punch.
Gold lead after gold lead after gold lead. Never move after never move after never move.
And other people that don't move ever are the analyst desk. Guys take it away.
We're stone golems.
I'm like trying to stay still but the games are too high.
It's a very different look though compared to game one here and if we can open things I think we want to look at the draft here.
Absolutely.
It's been very diverse so far but yet players keep on improving and innovating here.
I want to get swain here. What do you guys think? Yeah, this swain pick is so so good
Yeah stops so much of what T1's comp wants to do, which is literally just go in and attack you right and swain
Absolutely stops that another few interesting things here were T1's priority of the Camille
Over the Bard when both were open
And that can be a really tough matchup for the Bard
I think on had a really good game here as well
And I think T1 picked a composition that is cohesive and a lot of picks that are favorites for them, right?
The Lee Sin, the Ambesa and the Gallio.
But I just don't think they expected Knight to bring out this Swain that had so much value.
When you're diving in, the AoE damage, the healing, Ezreal not the easiest target.
But Nekton also, his Dominus does a ton of AoE damage.
I think BLG had the tools and particularly Knight just stood up for the team to take them to the end of this game.
his sixth swing of his career and like yeah, especially if you see a draft like this quadruple melee and a kaisa
It's gonna be hard for you to play the game getting Rylai's that early any fight that he entered. It was just over even
God even that later
Fight that Baron but you're like, okay. Yeah, they got something
He's walked all the way from Bob. He was a raid boss night. Yeah, this never move was in
insane and then the on stun that's coming on the back side of this he wins
oh he dashes in with the save guard as well it's so good and so many these
fights T1 was playing okay swain is all disengaged disengaged kite out get away
you're so fake you try to do that all the time and might just says no and you
mentioned it Raz pick after picks even if T1 could find solution on isolated
targets at the end of the day you get that swain coming yes you know you know
that yeah this is gonna be coming for you that was the thing
every time look at the map at the moment I think T1 is so good at being able to
pull the trigger immediately recognizing no TP from swain so it's like okay we
got a immediate pick topside let's go straight for Baron we don't have go
We used everything topside income swing.
And you know that the play stops here.
For the longest time, Faker's been called the Unkillable Demon King.
That was an Unkillable Demon King in the game as well.
Knight was in great form.
85% kill participation.
Again, after his 100% in the loss, in game one, deathless in this game.
this game. Just a really great
pick in draft that he then
played out so well in these
fights. This is the creativity
that we wanted to see in this
series. This is kind of I was
hoping after the first series
that we wouldn't get another
3.0 plans that we would stop
that. Thankfully that has not
happened here. I feel like the
series is already delivering
seen the highlight moments for the different players. The blow for blow. Last game it was
Faker and Paze really stepped up this one. Knight just puts the team on his back instead.
Got you. We're good.
And that's the thing. We know that every game we're going to be looking at different matches,
different players who can shine for both teams. So far I feel like it's BRG that have been
really good in adapting onto what T1 was drafting. I just want to see if they can keep on doing
this throughout the series and what T1 is going to throw at them next.
I agree. I think so far in the first two games we have seen Karrion move towards the
the topside and impact the matchup between Bin and, of course, like Doran.
And I feel like this game, recognizing what has been happening and really been putting
him down in the prior, Bin keep a lot better in pushing back against that pressure, and
his team did a lot better of a job in being able to also lean towards that.
I wonder if that's going to also move into game three.
So far, BLG gotten a little bit better, but after this, you have to believe that T1 has
an answer.
Looking at what T1 might be thinking of right now, the game was pretty on-sided, honestly.
the swan sealed the deal here for Bielgius.
So maybe rethinking the way they approached the draft
and priority picks here for T1.
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing with it being a fail-less.
You know, the barge, he takes away,
the Camille's been taken away.
So many picks just being rattled through very quickly.
And the thing with that previous game, as I said,
a lot of comfort picks for T1 now out the window.
So we expected this to be a long series, not a 3-0.
It's already going to be at least four games.
The fail-less picks are going to come into play
and be really impactful.
Yeah, and I think there are some bright spots
obviously for T1 like until night raid boss night showed up right overloading that side really taking advantage of gaps in the map that BLG has left.
I think that's still something that edge that they do have over BLG and then it's whether BLG can get those early skirmishes in and kind of set up something where you can have just this gigantic swing contesting.
Agreed. I will say with all of those engage picks out for Kariah.
Hmm. I mean you still have pays as your 80 carry. Why not just play the kitten and chanter?
Like your thought process bring back carry you
There we go
Very yes, you meet
Like very she's fun. Yeah, I was playing very
and play both series as well.
All we know is that we have one and one right now.
The series is open and both teams came here to play and ready.
Let's see what happens in game three.
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We finally just landed to Faker, just gets us to slow from the auto attack.
True shot, we're just going to go in as well as owner of the new target.
Safe guard to Faker.
The taunt comes out, chin dodges it.
Dragon's raised for the kickback with a tempered fade.
Locked in a T1 tomb!
Faker!
And we are back for what is now a best of three
between BLG and T1 to see who gets through to the upper bracket
and who goes to the losers back in double elimination.
We still have so much more league to play
We're only in the second day of the main stage here at MSI 2026
But what a day it is shaping up to be what a series that is shaping up to be Kobe
Yeah, I'm happy neither of these teams have to get eliminated we get to two more and more of both of them
So how the series is going right now?
I have to say even though night stole the show in the previous game because we love this swing pick so much really good swing angle
But Shun is playing really, really well himself.
On the nefiri, he had the early play on bottom side.
Baiting out Keria, got that early kill.
Constantly putting up the pressure on the back line while staying safe himself too.
And when Shun is also playing really well, this team is terrifying.
So we're tied up one to one going into the next game.
And PLG also accomplished something else in the previous game.
Now, Bard is also fearlessly banned.
not only did they win, but they also don't have to worry about Karius Bard.
So, let's see about the draft as we move forward. A lot of these bands staying very similar.
Again, still the knock turn, still the vain bands remaining consistent.
Also seeing T1 with the right to first election elect BlueSide,
which is something we're seeing a lot more across the course of MSI.
BLG did it in the last game. BlueSide does have a higher win rate at MSI 2026.
2026 they're gonna get rid of the Orianna in the NAR on the side of BLG
It is Nocturne and Vayne alongside Shinshao so probably owners two best two junglers taken out
So still the Jarvan and the Pantheon
Floating around for the AD jungle options
Still there are some good ones if you want to go teamfight the Wukong and we mentioned my Wukong any combinations
can be very very powerful as well, there's a good gauge to fight a hot-temp set.
They're so quiet if you're angles for both these teams, they had to use very prevalently before.
There's Rubble Band as well for the top lane, so a little bit of extra focus from T1.
The BLG just looked for the Ryze here, it's available, we've seen some Taliyah answers
but Cassio's already out and maybe there's also a possible answer that Faker has played nine times this split.
Yeah, I mean right now Ryze is in a really really strong position
But as you say that's really a lot of people have been using
Intuit and you could combo with a pantheon jungle
Point click is so good and the double globals are also very powerful
It's another underfugi champion for tonight this right like he has a ton of them obviously here's all he
there as well. But his rise is 100 someone right across four games with a 1388. He just
don't die. His stats by the way. I feel like we can read almost any stats for night for
this split. That's gotta be insane. Alright there's the Wukong we were looking at. Let's
see if they actually do pair it with Annie or if they wanted to do the Taliyah answer.
where they go for now. With the rumble and the narban there's the hand. Okay. Lock in their top
site. It's a hand going over to Doran. And now BLG likely to look towards their jungle to make sure
they get through. Pitched. Bings Jax. A signature pick that ISA European have nightmares about.
Oh yeah. Across the years. We have seen and I'll just put it out here right now.
some support Jax making its way onto the Rift.
The expectation of what this is is top.
Yeah, especially like that's a specific counter pick
if you're playing into another support
that is auto-attacked base or something.
And since Camille's already fearlessly banned,
this bad boy is going into Finn's hands for sure.
And the Keanu with the jungle monster modifier buffs
that she got like is already hard to outsmite Keanu.
But she could be very fun in the teamfights
with her combo as well as being really annoying to try
have smite battles against so the auto-locking here in person as well.
T1, I'm gonna look towards mid, Annie Bukong you've already talked about it.
The fire and wind combination with the Tibbers and the Cyclone.
Such good points and clicks, EC.
We just need Earth and...
I can't remember the last one.
We have the Avatar.
We have the Full Avatar.
Great movie.
Great movie.
Also, I feel like you could come up with a fire name with a Cyclone that's on fire with
any combination.
But we should go over why the reason for other newer viewers, why this combo is so frequent
is because not only are they different damage types, but having a knockup rather than having
too easy of a merc tread angle is always really nice.
So Annie of course relies a lot on the stuns and the big AoE stuns and then Wukong can
give you your AoE knockup.
Quite nice that Zahen also has a little single target knockup for himself and he has a little
pullback with the displacement.
So we'll see.
Into Binz, Jax, it is obviously a legendary champion, player combination even though this
split he's only played it the one time.
And let's look at the bottom lane manage.
So often now we've been slamming out the bottom lanes to deal with all the topside power that they have seen.
And a lot of these, you know, supports have been about roaming and affecting the rest of the map.
And so there's the Serafine Band, the Analysts wanted to see it, but T1 force have been it themselves.
They don't want to hand over a bottom lane with too much more CC, because they're already looking at some very high damage on BOG's side.
They are the Keanu alongside the Jackson and I was going to put out a huge amount of DPS.
Last band for BLG, couldn't look towards something like the Caitlyn, instead they'll go for the Lulu to get a bit of hyper carries, 4-T1.
You know I'm a Lulu, obviously the first one that jumps to mine when you see that Lulu down the way, and Zerri.
But Paze has been styling on us with Zerri. I experienced it a little bit.
I won't say first hand, but I was pretty close here to the stage.
Oh, Paze was running over us with that one, and the Senna, even with the nerfs, everybody's still been on the Senna Train, so, see if we get a little bit of Senna action here.
Of course, the Nautilus was already played, so you don't get that classic combination, but, you know, Kariya is definitely one to play pretty much anything with it.
I mean, I always like how funny it is when you play like the Sion with it or something, you feel like the Shout combo, but I don't think that's super likely.
We'll see what angle it is time to go in.
Velkoz.
What in the- let's go!
Okay, so-
We are still cooking.
Okay, Ali, let's go!
We wanted more.
We wanted more mages, bottom lane.
I meant we saw some of them, some of these pro players practicing the zerith bottom lane
but Velkoz bottom lane, super long range damage.
Let's see if they can cook the Senna early on before the Senna can get extra range from
the souls in lane here.
Viper.
Oh my goodness.
Viper was always a player too that had such a wide and diverse champion pool.
Played for so long, back in the previous round as we're going to have ages, and now with a Vel'Koz, baby.
Okay, Leona point and click, that is pretty good, the Solar Flare is very good answer to Vel'Koz, all T.
You have a lot of CC from the side of T1, and then you have a lot of damage, and CC alongside it from the side of BLG.
The T1 skill is a little bit easier to execute, point to click stun with the Annie, point to click stun with the Leona,
the Wukong there with the Cyclone follow up, but on the side of BLG, you're looking at, can you get the camp strike onto the back line?
Can you hit the supreme display of talent? Can Ryze get in range to get a groomed prison down?
Can the Alistar find a good flank for his head but pulverized? This is gonna be a bloody affair.
You have the freedom. As soon as one team gets the ball rolling, they should be able to rest up,
control away from their opponents. Question is who can get that lead in the early game?
Yeah, I mean there is so much damage flying around here.
Oh, it is going to be explosive and we have tied this series up as well. It's what one the threat of a 3-0 today
Well, there was one now
No more thread I guess
I'm having a quick look. I don't know if you had a mosey to see what bell cause bot lanes
We've seen in the past. Well for pro play there haven't been any yet
ever for this split does make sense okay I'm looking at it I can see five all
time in the top regions I'll see if I can get the maximum stuff and have a
mosey of that because it has been a long long time and I did think when we got
into that motion of the draft maybe it was something I can melt but instead the
Velcos with that plasma fission the extra range if you're looking at the top
for read. Oh yes the spaghetti. Oh it's also it's like squid ink spaghetti with the trauma.
True true true. I do like that. This by the way this is an all-timer skin. This thing is is actually
so hilarious. I'm actually okay that it is sometimes hard to distinguish from actual
health cards. But we're having a look at this level one they're wrapping around they're going to
find on early. On a core down carrier looking for the shield of David Sturm will get it on
has to pop the heel to run away does have that answer it's public soon. Waiting around the corner
of the pace with the ghost and now it's gonna be a 3v2 in favor of the BLG.
But Shun is having none of it. He just wants to farm his camps.
Another shield of playbreak on to...on.
Forces him down to half health and T1 waiting out on the early trace.
Such good movement from the T1 bottom lane there.
Paze, no hesitation. He pops the ghost. He positions very aggressively.
He walks up. He keeps dodging abilities and the T1 bottom lane got a big, big health chunk advantage.
However, Shun, after the blue buff, he's going to go walk over the T1 ward on Raptors.
You can see it on the minimap right now.
He's moving in and Faker wants to protect those Raptors.
He's going to harass Shun while he's on them, gets this done,
and the electrocute proc for a little bit of extra damage.
As Onah went in and stole away the red and the Razor Beaks as well,
so he is going to have a camp advantage overall while all of this was happening.
Shun likely to path into his top side and be like,
What's left for me there?
Are my Razor Beaks up the answers?
No.
And after realizing that, could look for the invade,
but smartly, Ono is now
pathing over towards that blue side, realizing
that soon's a major option.
Counter-Strike onto Doran though.
We'll get the knockup back onto Bin, who hits.
Level three in Doran has to orient Rush.
To get himself out of there,
Shen is on this blue buff.
Does have the smite, Aster's Ono.
Ono's gonna have a level of answers.
He takes away his wolves.
Oh, not quite.
can quite get the level 2.
Smyke fight between the two of them.
Shen takes it.
Bake is on his way across.
No motion shield for the extra movement.
Speed means that Shen will be able to walk away wounded,
but evening out of those camps.
Nicely done.
Again, it's pretty hard to outsmart Kiana.
I mean, level 2, though, even, definitely possible there.
So good job by him.
He pulls it back, gets that one.
Faker taking some extra damage under tower.
I always like watching Ben play Jax matchups, by the way.
He plays so aggressively early on.
And very freely, he will do this recall here.
So he was able to harass Doran so heavily push him under tower and get the bush for himself the early recall into a call pick up
Flash from Knight!
Poor Faker's reaction flash just in time. The room prison did connect gets the route
Knight now Faker staying around gets the level up. It's an extra hundred health for him
Shouldn't looking for the invade down towards the red side. Oner looking towards the mid lane trying to bail out Faker
Molden shield the overload enough and Knight can now walk towards his jungler just steps away. Oner roots it still
the monkey enough with his staff to take a one-for-one.
So first blood, extra money still goes over to Knight,
even though the assist also has extra money
on the side of T1 and owner getting the actual kill credit.
So you're just moving resources
in a little bit different spots for each team.
Faker moves up, he puts on the shield to try and survive this,
but Knight had a really good Q there
as the stun was landing on him.
So his Q got out and does get the first blood kill
on to Faker as the play is taking effect.
And then of course, it also required an extra flash.
Hunter uses flash to close the distance there.
So Knight doing a very good job for himself
as Faker was trying to move up and create the play.
And he still doesn't have flash on Faker's side either.
So Shun on award, can Faker waste more of his time?
It's probably too dangerous to, oh, we hear from him.
I also want to walk.
Shun has the audacity to put that damage down
as Knight gets electrocuted.
but thankfully not standing in any water or anything
so that electrocute won't do a huge amount of damage.
It's fine.
It's got his rubber shoes on.
Gotta be careful with those like Pokemon synergy.
Exactly.
All right, well, top side,
Bin is going for another recall
and Doran invested his teleport already.
So Bin now gonna get his teleport back out.
And again, he went back for the early call.
So it's looking quite nice for Bin up in the top lane
on the Jax.
He looks like he risked out of Viper.
He needs to stack up that passive as much as he can.
He doesn't quite land the plasma fissions,
so he won't have as much damage as he wants.
Hons around mid.
The Unsealed Spellbook currently sitting on Flash and Heal.
Owner's gonna face-check it on...
In that battle, the monkey beats out the cow.
On stays around, because Shun is in the area.
Flash in, looking for Faker.
Molden Shield Heal for the movement speed.
Knight here with Level 6.
Shun coming in from the side as well.
while the Faker has no way out.
Knight secures his second.
A BLG classic, shinin' on, link up,
they play around knight, they go mid lane,
they punish the flashless Faker.
They get the kill, huge four BLG knight
in a very good position again.
After a monster game on that swain,
now his rise gets a turret plate,
gets another kill for himself.
And they also have this Velkoz in the bottom lane
that we haven't had the camera on a lot, but in the meadow our supports have to go
mid a lot, um, and there's a lot of a lone time down there in the bottom line. It is
quite good for the Velcos to get that push and Viper was working away at that first
turret plate. It's very closely going down. As you said, has a huge amount of range compared
to the center early game at least as well before you get towards those 100, 200 stack
marks. So because of that, it pays has to play so safely so far back that Viper can
just continue to step up. Tipper's using the mid lane just a little bit of push here
on tonight's exactly range and AOE the two key factors here for really good
isolated laning so you can get the push and then once you have the push you
also get to harass them and poke them under tower so really really good I
pick an isolation the problem would come of course if you know you get a leona
engaging on you and you get ganked and stuff like that but as of right now it
is looking quite nice for them he does get to the early level six and that
That problem is the same for a lot of majors. If you pick Mel, and then Leona solar flares him as well, he's just as precarious as a situation, right?
So I like the Velkos, leaves Mel open for later on in the draft. We'll see what BLG can do with it in this game.
They're going to have a 1.6k gold lead. Most of that sitting on Knight in the middle and he's 700 gold ahead himself.
Organic disintegration ray on to Paze. He tries to step back. That's not quite propped.
The second time from Viper, great combo as you say and how pays.
Down at 300 HP under this tower.
Yep.
Get this up again, so they've got bot lane priority and that means, guess what?
Mid lane, you have to respect it.
Jungle, you have to respect it because on is here, on is free time.
Carrier trying to match.
Nice.
Not quite able to get connected there from the tectonic disruption with the knockup.
Voyager would have done quite a lot of work, but...
Even with the prio that I expected BLG to look towards something like a dragon
They went for a little bit of vision but carrier marked on well, which meant he wasn't able to find a good Frank
so good job from T1 to
Negate some of the pressure points that BLG had in that moment. Yeah, they're holding on.
BLG doing good job increasing their lead
But as you say T1 defending a precarious position that some more things could have been lost
They still get there on you know jungle
for the most part, and on bottom side, Pace avoids death, and he also avoids having to use a summoner spell to dodge some of those Velka's spells.
So he critically does have both of those available, and you're looking at BLG. How can they progress in snowball?
A lot of this is been having very good matchup for himself with his Jax playing it really nicely into Doran with his early call and his huge CS lead and constant pressure there.
Still, despite that, they only get the one grub for BLG, and the owner is going to be able to move in there with Keria.
They push him out, and then get the other two for T1.
Tonight was moved down towards the bottom lane as they tried to play around the grubs.
You want an extra man advantage in mid lane, so you have Viper across there.
Faker's going to be able to match into Viper though.
He just needs to dodge away from those plasma fissions, and we'll see the swap coming back as Viper goes down into the bottom lane.
And it plays really nicely into BLG's plan for this game.
Their side laners are going to be very powerful.
Rize and Jax, and with Knight getting those early kills,
getting that Q out and getting the first blood kill onto Faker
was very, very critical, and then these repeat plays
where he gets on and Shun ganking for him
and playing around mid are critical.
And now it's the punish.
Faker has no flash.
He'll always have a stun.
He can use tippers to try and push out the wave.
But does Shun come back?
Does On come back?
Or can Knight just 1v1?
with the rune prison, he has a lot of damage already on here for the push out
to make sure that Faker has to stay around because they're doing the dragon as well.
You want to make sure that Faker can't just, you know, go TP back in with an extra item.
He needs to be occupied, which allows Shun the free time, knowing there's no threat from mid lane.
Okay, so mid stage of the game approaching fairly quickly, almost at the 10 minute mark as BLG
had a very strong and smooth lane phase for themselves.
Couple of fun early kills, but then again getting this presence here goes in for the trade on the Doran
We've been a pretty good spot for himself as well, and they're keeping a lot of deep vision through jungle
So you just saw owner there the wukong going for his red buff guess what they've got that deep ward in the jungle
They see the the whereabouts of T1 support and jungle carry just passed over the raptor ward
That BLG have as well
So they can keep track of those playmakers and that allows bin to constantly continue to go for these trades in the top lane
Uninhibited meanwhile knight himself is just nursing this thousand gold lead and constantly threatening. Hey, I could realm warp over to you as well
This is so often how Boji win they just get pressure in their two solo lanes
Viper is able to neutralize bot in whatever manner that means and because of the pressure
They just slowly eat the game away from you
Sometimes they don't push the tempo as much as they could, but often they are very good at just incremental.
Two, two minions per wave you miss and I get, you're slowly building up that extra gold.
An extra plate here or there for T1, sometimes their laning phases can look like this as well.
Can struggle as the solo player comes into the mid lane, but this is what they're so good at doing,
is making plays and finding picks and pays, picks it up from the bot lane.
CC combo. I want to see the death recap.
How many seconds was Knight CC there? Barely got to move at all.
Faker starts it out. Nice play from him. And the answer from Karria.
He is within range. He invests his flash, his ultimate.
They follow up the CC. They get the kill, but now he's under attack.
Look at the minimap here. Shrooms going for it.
Looking for the damage. You have to fake a supreme display.
Talon doesn't get the CC, but on is there to close it out
as Faker falls to the Alistar.
Inland is just a playground for jungle and support for both teams.
It's jungle and support difference, always medic.
Constantly there. Constantly there.
D1, Gank it first, they get the kill, but then,
BLG, Gank it right back.
There's a risk for Doron as well. He's underneath this tower.
Cultivation of wall, that passive.
Now we're near stacked up for him.
You can see Keria moving out on the map as well to try and track where on has been.
On.
Did get spotted on vision, shouldn't have saved his window.
Supreme display of talent for the Qiyana.
is only that just out of vision right now.
TP in, BLG look for the engage.
A big reward, pumped on the Alistair,
couldn't deliver, it's coming out from Doran,
it tries to dash away.
Over here for the brave,
and look at the damage coming out from that Velkas.
Shun takes one, and BLG just able to walk out
with a single kill.
Interesting, yeah, they do have Viper,
Telport all the way up here.
If you're looking at the center though,
it's going for a recall, four pays.
So, static ship, he didn't have a static ship previously,
so he's like, all right, it's gonna take way too long
for me to try and continue push off bottom side. So I'm just gonna get that my static
shift first here and we're just gonna have to accept the death of Doran. I was expecting
a lot more out of that play. I'll be honest, I thought owner coming in would be able to
change it, but then you have to look at that ultimate timer. Didn't have the cyclone if
he does a very different state of affairs under that top lane tier one. I mean, it's
been rough for Doran here. Ben now finishes Trinity Force, so he has paid off. His call
has been popped as Lane has been ganked and he is looking dangerous level 11
for bin with his trinity force power spike it was already looking pretty tough
there for Doran but after getting ganked and now no ult no flash no teleport on
here I mean it's looking pretty tough for all of T1 let's be honest there's not
mince our words and 88 gold lead is the only bit of blue I see amongst the sea
of red down towards that bottom side a thousand gold lead for bin a thousand
even on has almost five hundred and fifty gold ahead of Carrier.
He's got his locket complete.
The item spikes are going to be so much quicker for BLG.
And here's another look at it. BLG, they're going to just run over this play.
Full overload, five members teleport over, roam here from nine.
On can easily start it out.
Alistar can just tank for days so they have plenty of damage and they can follow Doran.
Yeah, he uses ult for one side, uses the flash, but you're not getting away from five members.
and the Vel'Koz all.
It wasn't actually Viper's damage in the end.
It was about take Cyclosword from Srin.
They got that big burst bit of damage.
And in the end, BLG as you say, just overman them,
outnumber them in the top lane.
And with these comps, if T1 are to find salvation,
it has to come in the form of teamfights.
BLG are set up with such good side-lanning opportunities.
Again, I have to stress this, but here we go.
BLG Viper walks in the first bot lane of Vel'Koz.
And a major event, as you could see there.
But yeah, I think it does have to come
in the form of Teamfights 14-1,
if they're gonna be able to come back in this game,
in this particular series,
because BLG's side-lanning is just gonna be so strong.
It's a real struggle.
So far, 14-1 in the last couple of games.
Shouldn't get to start up the Drake, 15 minutes in,
a little bit slow on a second Drake.
And in fact, he's just running away from it.
will come across and as the patients wears out the dragon will run back to the pit but now with the TP in it looks at the
LG happy to
restart it
It'll be their second of the game and team one just waiting to find a way that they can use this one vote combo
It feels difficult for them overall Kobe's actually find a way to make their composition come online
Yeah, I mean Bay's also only has 22 stacks here on Senna because guess what the melee supports are mostly roaming
They're not there and it's very difficult to stack off of Vel'Koz in your lane when Vel'Koz is constantly pushing you in
So also going to be pretty far off of the the stacking there
But here we go do POG actually want to bring bin because as of right now
He's staying bottom lane and he they just want the jacks to get the first turret on bottom side
Even though T1 are able to get this ripped herald if POG are able to get first turret bonus for bin
that's quite nice. And none of
the towers that low at all. In
fact, T one have only got one
plate anywhere on the map so
far in takes the first tower
extends his gold lead to almost
two K. And he's going to be on
that second item. Pretty
sharpish. T one fight that they
perhaps wanted around it.
materialized. They are still
trying to scale up double
Triforce complete for door and
owner. But with night stepping
forward, a lot of ages stacked
might struggle to defend this. No one really on this side of the map for BLG though, means that Dormin is a little safer.
He steps back, the Rune Prison overload, and Dormin down a half HP.
Yeah, so, sidelines. I know I'm like, I keep bringing it up, but...
It's what we thought would happen, right?
Coming into this series, the expectation was as Knight flashes in with the Rune Prison, gets pulled back with a dreadful turn,
tries to get out with the round walk, and Nite just hits it under the tower.
Shurned with the screen display of talent, will stop Ono, but with the clone and the flash and the cycle and Shun with the good oracity across the wall,
manages to escape on with the knockback onto Karrie as Nite just whistles behind his back.
Ono sees Doran getting the solo, and he's like, I'm getting real hyphy with it himself too,
even though Keanu has the extra jump and is able to escape.
But yeah, Knight tries to make the play under tower here, wants to go for the flash play onto Doran,
who reacts very quickly, gets the counter kill for himself.
Despite that, I still maintain, I think it is going to be rough in this island.
However, that does give you that hope for T1. See what they can create with it.
Because Doran getting some money back is very big, Keria under attack for now, but should be fine.
Does have to use the solar flare though.
I wanted to make sure that Viper couldn't get close enough to take tonic disruption and get that knock up into the follow-up.
Focuss has a ton of damage when he gets his passive propped properly.
ELG still 3.6k ahead and as you say, it's still going to be difficult in the side lanes.
When your hope is, hey, maybe Night Flashes under my tower and tries to kill me when he doesn't need to, that's not the biggest hope in all.
Let's see, that's a tiny pinprick at the end of a long dark tunnel.
T1 though, do you still have these engage tools? They still have great burst on their side
They still have a lot of CC on their side
It just feels like the game is slowly slipping out of their fingers
Yeah, and I think we might have to see and throw down the gauntlet at the next team fight
So here it is
So Knight he gets the flux on him and then he wants to go for the play Q flash into the tower
And he gets W'd in into the instant knockup from Doran and they slap him down
They also for good measure sent an ultimate
Just a fine reaction, I think, because he didn't need to do it, is the other thing.
He was already winning out that lane pretty handily.
For BLG, that happens sometimes.
Get a little bit overeager, take fights that perhaps aren't on exactly the terms that they want.
And it does slow down the game a little bit as well, because now Knight doesn't have flash.
And so his side lane threat, a little bit more difficult to actually execute.
Deathfire touch ticking.
Gotta get used to it.
Okay, let's see though. So even in the world where BOG get their first push on these side lanes,
we're still looking at how can T1 create an angle to get their engage for their ZangPi, for their possible comeback here.
They do have a problem here as far as vision approaching Dragon because BOG as we just saw,
thank you observers, I've done a very good job setting up all of the roads leading to this Dragon,
and shouldn't even lying in wait to see if anyone want to challenge Bin, but nobody wants to challenge Bin.
Anyway, they don't have anyone who could take this 1v1 even if it's just a 1v1
So no one gonna step up there. Go ahead. It's going to do yeah play patient at his tower
He knows have a look at the coin base gold grind between bin and door and
2000 on the dock pretty much and a lot of that coming from those towers an extra K
Going in at four bin two items complete for him as well with a triforce and he's sundered Scott
Yeah, buddy is one thing and then when you have the actual weapons in your inventory
That's another thing too, so very dangerous there and here comes the dragon
Riftel is going to be put down by T1 in the mid-lane
Looks like it is just for that singular charge for a little bit of extra gold in their pockets
You say gold doesn't do damage, but it buys you things big sticks that can do it and
The Drake should be pretty easily secured by BLG
You can see T1 not even contesting it faker
Relegated to a side lane to try and pick up any gold that he can off the map
will be able to take down that tier one in the top side.
Yep, they're just building towards their big moments.
Either dragon soul fight or some Baron shenanigans, perhaps.
Maybe a little circus around the Baron.
I mean, that's a tier one special, isn't it?
Doran now needs to get out all the eight rush, look for gold.
Looking for an escape, but Knight and Bin are just too big.
Grim deliverance gets in with the Dorning Shadow, gets the cultivation of war.
That passing just in time, pre-resurrected.
resurrected, the dawning shadow from Pays saves his top laner's life.
So they're out with the heist.
The center ult buys enough time, allows Doran to fully stack his passive so he can get the
revive, but then also, Knight and Binh can escape very quickly with the realm warp, so
they go for the big play, then they escape, couple ultimates traded from both sides, but
not too big of an investment.
Just look at the clay picks, wings in the side lane if they could, as you say, no flash
is further than anything, so it doesn't matter too much.
They want to do a little DPS check, see if we can make the play quick enough.
And they couldn't.
Why they could?
But then Paze is like, excuse me sir, I would prefer it if you don't kill Doran.
I like him better alive.
Yeah, exactly.
Alright, well Doran's finally got to his second item now, after being kept alive and being
able to farm the rest of that wave.
has his second as well with the
Rylai's complete. As is Ona,
Sundersky now coming in.
Two items across the board actually
for T1, matching at least in terms
of completed items where BLGR.
So this is one of those opportunities
that T1 could look for, but BLGR,
the first to strike, his carry up,
is forced to use his locket and his heel.
Okay, a little bit drawn out
in that support comeback there,
as you say, some fairly, fairly short
cooldowns. Yeah.
Meanwhile, T1 getting the push back
on both the sidelines.
Faker does get access to top lane, he's going to be able to push us for it as Knight looks for a realm, he's Knight coming in, Knight's coming down.
There goes him as the Zenith player doesn't hit, as the Zenith player misses as well, the Cyclone comes out from Ona, that's too automous, burnt.
By T1, did have to use the Flash Stitcher to get away, counter strike, not calling out, not counted either by the dreaded return.
iPhone disintegration, Ray is living up to his name, eponymous you could say as Faker taking down to a third HP.
And Faker just teleported there, and then he just immediately gets zapped for 70% of his HP.
Now he's going to have to go back to base. T1 down some decent cooldowns this time around.
Good little faint there from BLG.
Making T1 use a couple of small, more small tools, but those little things do add up when you're fighting this T.
Yeah.
BLG very good. Even little cooldowns, they could definitely punish you for those.
In terms of big cooldowns in that fight, though, it was Shun's Flash, it was the only massive one, yes, Solar Flare is down, Teleport 2 as you say, Faker towards the mid lane.
Nights TP not down, and we do have a TP advantage for BLG because Viper is running it on the bell cos.
You see how much BLG are investing around this topside, they know the baron of possibility for T1 to creep this way down, lands the stun, Kerry is going to have to flash the wall.
and does manage to extricate himself.
That was a little greedy, it felt, from T1.
Only Carrier and Oner in the vicinity,
spotted on a ward as well.
Carrier will have to reset his recall position to get out.
Second time T1, trying to invade to get access
for vision around Raptors and leading over to Baron.
And BLG's still there,
ever vigilant in their defense of their jungle.
Now at the tower.
It's the clone. I don't know, it puts a bit of damage down on to on.
It's a devastating blow, not too much on that Alistair right now.
Still about the same gold lead as it was five minutes ago. 3.7K here for BLG.
And although they have managed a couple of moments up in the tempo and that bot lane tower sits to only two plates,
Bin hasn't really been able to force Doran too low recently and now with Karrie coming across,
It's going to be Bin who's in for a world of hurt, coming your backs away.
Bin does the same.
It's like it's just going to be vision for the T1 support.
Yeah, a couple of times this series,
Dorn has been able to take down Bin with the help of some of his teammates,
so threatening it again, but Bin respects it and backs off this time.
Merk treads for both of them on both sides.
Lots of CC on both sides, of course, so
definite value there as we approach the dragon.
Yeah, 30 seconds on this drake.
to be able to secure that neutral at all. On puts a little bit of vision across the wall and the LG actually slightly split here night does have the realm up to join up with the rest of his squad, but T1 are looking for him instead.
But T1 are looking for him instead. They'll take the tower as the price of forcing Knight back.
Shun going down towards the bottom side.
BLG looking for a long, long flank.
Langbint pushing the bot side.
Knight coming in from the mid lane as well as T1 will start up the dragon.
Yeah, BLG. They've got both lanes pushing, as you say, and T1 have the pressure.
They're going to start DPSing this dragon, get it low.
Shun could look for a steal. They're going to teleport in.
TP from Bint. Shun trying to get across the wall.
will manage to do so. Knight now has that flank position, carrier stepping forward.
On to, on to stun on tonight. Bin tries to jump onto the back line and the Drake is secured.
It's sold for BLG. Me, one in the middle of the fight, Grimdel, everyone's coming out from Doron.
The Doron in the shadow, they start not as much his friend, doesn't give him a massive shield.
T1 forced back in the size of the wallets for BLG,
will just force T1 out of the fight.
A soul in the MasterCurt priceless moment and a kill on Doron.
And BLG are calm in this critical moment.
Shun able to secure it, the Dragon Soul acquired, and the extra gold.
You have to feel like this is now going to be an easy setup for Baron itself.
And then they can use that to actually push on the towers and end the game.
T1, they have Knight by himself towards the top side of the fight.
They land the CC and they just can't burst him down.
He's too tanky, now has the Rocket Belt alongside that lot of Aegis and the Seraphs.
and yes, he did have to use his flash, but the LG probably don't care too much.
Ding, ding, let's go again.
Round two this time at the Baron buff.
Team one, this is so often their playground, but fighting them down is difficult.
To find a way into the fight, the Mega Blast going for Ono, as you say.
No cyclone, no ultimates.
Tibbers up in two seconds time, bin keeps Ono with bait.
Faker trying to step forward, has the flash, has the Tibbers.
Does he have a way into Greenville's later talent with the Baron going over to BLG?
Ono already dead.
Faker trying to step forward, but even with Tibbers by his side,
all he gets is a hug, good night.
Is his screen fades to grey,
and the rest of T1 will join him in the death chamber.
Root on to Paze, Knight still chasing.
Doran with a good pullback, will slow option,
and Paze may be able to walk away.
BLG still on the chase, on goes on to Doran,
Knight will follow, suit as the room prism.
The disintegration ray burns through T1's hopes,
only Paze left alive.
And this game of the series has been all BLG.
Pressure from the very beginning.
And they're not even done.
Pays the price as Schoen finds another.
And as you said, after game two, it is not only Knight and Bin
who are stepping up.
Schoen is having an incredible series.
It will be the inhibitor in the mid lane.
28 minutes in, the respawns coming out
means the BLG cannot close this one out yet.
Yep, shouldn't able to get the last two, secure them with that Qiyana, so much damage, and BLG from the very beginning, I mean, having so much control.
Night, still getting that first blood into mid lane while getting the repeat ganks.
Let's get some with this Baron though, because they're looking at the steal, Oder gets in, he's going so many objectives, he gets CC'd up so he can't combo with anything.
some nicely done by BLG there, shouldn't be able to secure it, and then they clean up the team fight.
But if we also look back at how we got here, the BLG solo lanes, this is the big question everyone is like,
how and who is going to answer BLG solo lanes? And in game number three, there wasn't an answer.
No one has been able to stand up to that challenge and BLG. Although it was a slower early game,
they eat out lead, scrim deliverance being used by Dormin in the picture in pictures,
is the life on disintegration
way comes out. You know,
G up to four store it away.
Another order mid down for T1.
Inhibited down in the mid lane
for the next three and a half
minutes. This rebel bound how
play may just be a game ending
push feel G with three towards
the top side, so I'm going
towards mid and night pushing
through that mid lane T1.
It feels like you've got to pull
the trigger at some point. You
It is becoming less and less likely that T1 finding the gauge that really really satisfies them
For BLG they can just do this you've got 30 more seconds
You've got another wave of the baron push perhaps T1 can hold off from losing another inhibitor to towel perhaps not Kobe
Perhaps not BLG closing in with their Baron buff the seeds continues
Belcos poke, but nobody's actually getting there to hit the towers just a buffed-up cannon minion that's doing most of the work for
BLG. Supers in mid lane are getting cleaned up by T1.
They're dealing with those fairly effectively and holding their own. Basically T1 are looking for the miracle of the Elder Dragon.
Welp, on behind enemy lines.
The cow is here, and he knocks back door, and good deliverance comes out. Hits onto a turned-only shadow there as well.
The LG needs to use the stopwatch for bin supreme percent. I'm not gonna land the stun and T1 will see these kills in their mind's eye
But the LG disengaged it. Well, they decide okay being gauged was not as good as we wanted
Let's just walk away. We have the wallets to play with we have this 11k advantage
We have order up in a minute. We do not need to force the issue
Yeah, a lot of stuff missing here and
and everyone's gonna call it off after that defense.
And so, again, I think we are just looking at this elder dragon.
It's only one minute now, so for sure the approach is gonna be difficult for T1,
but thankfully with the Chemtech Rift, you know, you do get these empowered scryers' blooms
that can help you out with a lot of vision.
And so they're popping those, trying to get an avenue in order to possibly get a flip or steal
or something around this super powerful end-game objective.
that can possibly be the dream in retaking games.
But you have to say, BOG here with the Chemtech Soul,
with the extra item advantage.
They're just looking massive.
I mean, Knight is level 18 with actualizer rise.
This guy is going to put out massive amounts of damage.
And Ben has his Zonia's on his jacks as we saw him use.
So he can jump in with his flash.
He can make initiation plays and.
You just have to look at item disparity as well.
Knights at four, bakers at two and a half.
As we see a fight over the red buff, on goes in,
and look for the damage of the carrier.
Bin tries to jump in with a counter strike,
but the carrier has the flash to escape the clutches of BLG.
Elder is up, carrier now without two summoners,
still has the solar flare, but BLG is saying,
okay, we can wait it out.
Continue to push in, we don't have to force this Elder.
We can let you overstep into your own jungle,
we have total control of it.
as the empowered scryer is blue, used towards the mid lane,
Doran shadow used for vision.
And Ben continues to push in the bot side.
He does need to be a tiny bit cautious.
He is the only one down here.
Meanwhile in the mid lane, the waves are pushing in,
and Ben has TP, triple TP's, remember,
for BLG, Knight's currently on cooldown.
And look at the supers,
the supers are gonna be on your Nexus tower,
so BLG are playing with them, they're trying to keep him here.
And the strike from Ben, Doran counters it by walking away,
and he's the one to answer, that's Faker in the base,
Pays trying to push out the bot side, Shun.
He's out the far side alteration.
No tools really available for T1 to check it easily anymore.
And there's the second far side alteration.
Now no tools, unless they have a third, which is possible.
The Velkoz poke is really annoying too, you know.
Perhaps the Viper, even though the spotlight was on the subtle lanes, he...
Oh, Dolman slowed. Counter-strike in.
Supreme display, Tannock from deliverance.
Well used, Dolman with a good knock-up.
Han's going to distract the rest of T1 towards the side though.
Solar flare lands on tonight.
The realmwalk's not going to get them out and there's a cyclone on the back line.
Pays trying to come in.
and forced away but owners already dead and I'm afraid BLG have just bought too
much grace through this early game 12k buys you a lot of mistakes and this
time they will not make more. Faker and Pace brought back to the base and Bin
wants a little bit more piece of this action. Flash is forward has to stop
watch still. The Kentec Drake help him as he's on low HP only pays and Faker left
to defend but it looks like BLG will come up trumps in this game so long T1
have been the perennial boogieman of the LPL today BLG try to prove that wrong
faker down the Nexus towers next as Paze once again the last man standing for
T1 and BLG bear him no mind as they go to match point. Game one was close T1
to take it. Game two, BLG had a great counter pick. Game number three, BLG just had three
pushing lanes, and they never stopped. They had pressure the whole game, nicely done.
Cool, calm, and collected. Controlled here in game number three, and that is intimidating
now because we go to match point next. That is quintessential BLG. That is exactly how
they want to play through night through bin. We're going to hand it over to the Analyze
in just a moment's time, and now we're gonna do it.
That count to the moment.
This one was close and said it wasn't, honestly.
It took a bit of time.
It's weird because you see games from BLG where they just like absolutely take over and they just push you completely.
This was a game where they were deceptively controlling everything through shun and on, so it was very classic in that way.
I think also the Belcos that came out in this situation.
Yeah, really classic, you know. Just as big as you see it all the time.
But Viper's been known way back in the day when we've seen more Mages bot in what we
coined the awesome dude meta rather than KD.
We saw him willing to play a lot of varied picks, and he's kind of demonstrating that
width to his champion pool, and it worked so well.
It shut pays down, didn't really get to play the game, it was trapped in a tower, and his
soul count was so astronomically low, the center just could never do anything.
Yeah, and just take no luck at the BLG champion pool that's available.
Emily, what's the first thing that comes to your mind?
I mean, there's just still so much available for...
In my opinion, like, you see the bot lane choices,
now we know that Viper is returning to his, like, true form of playing Vladimir and Teemo.
He can pull out anything, even if you don't see it on here.
Like, the Ash is something we've talked about.
Him being having such control over the map with Hawkshot as well as playing that super well.
The other thing I want to point out though is On, because On can also be an absolute demon in terms of his chance picks, and there's still so much available to him.
I think what's interesting is with this Deacon Phyllis, there's a lot of those big common picks you see, but the seeds are still available.
Like, you look at the 80 carries, Ezreal's gone, and then Caitlyn, Corky, Sivir, Varus, Ashe, Zyra all open, and even though some of those are less played right now, like the Corky, it just means there's a very different feeling.
typical late-fielder, where you're like,
oh, all the 80 carries are gone, what now?
Now, all the 80 carries, most of them, at least,
are open and available.
Yeah, and it just, whenever it comes to,
especially since we're not even close to game fives,
and you're seeing, like, bell calls as a pick lane,
you're like, actually, I don't really care
about my typical 80 carries,
I just want to see what's available.
I want to get a counter pick,
because if we're starting to take a step back
and see it all of these picks,
I'm just going to go straight into it.
I remember at the beginning of the play-ins,
I was thinking that it was going to be a major infestation.
Yeah, but that's what we kept hearing about this in scrims, all the whispers that I had from this is that most of the teams bot lane are playing mages, so I was wondering when we would see them.
What other kind of champions do you think we can see there when it comes to mages if we start seeing donkos like this?
It changes your perspective on what is even blind pickable like when we saw the center
You're like okay a safe blind pickable like control mage with Orly's
80 carry with the 80 carries that are still available
They thought they could deal with it and then the bell cause came out of absolutely no work
And we already comfortable with seeing the ziggs and mel and the Cassiopeia was just played earlier today
It changes how you view bot lane and how you viewed your draft in general
I don't know a lot of picks we've seen in the past for things like cinder come to mind
something that they just get above has a decent amount of wave clear.
I think that's the thing is that specifically in this match it was about the wave clear
offered, but still many of those other picks like the Ziggs and the Mel have done that as well.
You say Syndra, I think about the fact that we also have a lot of flex picks and in that sense
I want to talk about Nights again, running the show in the early game, he rules that mid lane.
He is just so instinct-based and just recognizing how low the Annie was,
was willing to flash forward and then Faker steps up mostly because he recognizes that
the Wukong is in the area and thinks that he can get the stun off.
He's charging his stun and maybe get the stun off and bait for a kill himself.
But he's able, Knight is able to still get the Q off even through the stun so that was
unfortunate for Faker but Knight was able to get the flash off Annie and then so they
continued to punish that lane.
Yeah, I was going to say then they revisit it, right?
we had both on and carry a kind of looking over this mid lane here on is getting the knockup onto
Baker like you said he's already flashless it was just a really good punish and this is what I
like to see from shun and on working as a jungle support duo when we talk about how strong BLG's
early game is it's through the two of them working together to do things like punish this flash set
night ahead then oh it's rising the side lane oh and we also have a jacks in the side lane
um and this gives them this is a little bit more of a country it's about as controlled as you'll see
blg play yeah that's what you were expecting because you were saying this is quintessential blg
that's what you expect from them yeah i mean maybe a little bit more craziness like maybe quintess
that's what isn't crazy enough for you okay and i think of like the on camille game from finals
where I'm just like, if you guys want to see the heart and soul of this team, just watch game one from the finals.
But like, this was a more controlled look from them with the same kind of
PowerPoints of the jungle support duo working together.
Yeah, and it feels like they knew that with that control
they were gonna be able to steamroll through the rest of the game because Razzy were the ones saying this when we were watching.
If they get that soul, Bin is gonna be unstoppable.
Yes, I thought it was a perfect soul for them and also the composition was incredibly good.
I think having the range advantage that you get with having Vel'Koz, but also you can't really play through sides if you're Annie going up against like what?
A jacks and a rise. It felt like they couldn't even take a fight and this was a pretty tough soul.
The harder one would maybe be like what mountain to them to try and engage on.
I mean Bin TP's in with a big shield and you have four ultra attack based champions.
He's a jacks, got a Counter Strike and they have one burst mage. They're never cutting through that health bar.
The DPS isn't there, they get the Kentex soul again, and it just means the Tenacity, the
Damage Reduction, they've just felt like this looming threat, and he wasn't necessarily
the main character in this game, he just was such a problem.
Yeah, I thought the blind ZaheN was not a good call, because then immediately you have to
deal with the Jax, and then I didn't expect the blind, of course, AD carry pick to go
through as well from the Senna, because then I didn't think the Punish was going to be
necessarily as strong as it was from the Vel'Koz. I thought it was an incredible pick. I think they
scaled it really well and they didn't have options to play through sides, so it was tough really for
T1 to find an answer, especially when they were behind early. Similar to the previous game though,
where it was Deswayne who was the answer to T1's draft here. I feel like again BLG in full control
of what they wanted to do. They know exactly their win conditions and they make T1's left impossible
in the end. So back against the wall here for the world champions, what do we want to see from them?
What are they missing?
Wind conditions.
We each chose a wind condition.
All right.
Brass, do you want to go first?
I think yours is the first one.
Yes.
I'll go with the counter pick bot lane,
because throughout the tournament so far,
Hayes has had the counter pick rate the highest of all 80 carries so far,
91% in this, because he is really the engine of this team.
And I don't want him seeing, especially after a game like that,
basically always being a step behind.
And I think if you give them the tools to go,
T1 will find a win.
And then I think we've seen not necessarily in this game, I think, but in the first two games that I still would say that T1's mid to late, like, neutral objective set ups and map set ups is better.
So again, pick something and be able to play around that with that in mind, because I know, like, we have the T1 circus, it's chaotic, but it relies on having such good set ups.
And I think for me, I was looking at the solo lanes and it was contain the solo lane leadout because you know with faker and DARREN, they are both players who have tremendous value in the team fights and the leading stages of the game.
They're laning though, they struggle there a little bit into night and bin and I feel like you don't have to win lane, but in a matchup like this, bin just built up a natural lead over the course of it, had an advantage, night was getting solo kills on the faker.
That can't be happening, and I think it's really important that your solo lane is stable
so you can play through and set a pace to be that carry.
I think NICE been doing a great job in finding angles to help out being onside,
so that's something that's been nice, and maybe we'll see that in the further games.
Whatever the solution is, they have to bring it now.
BLG on match point here in this series, and we've heard it from us.
I want to know what the fans think as Shockla standing by with them during the win moment.
Let's check it out.
Here we go!
Come on.
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!
There aren't much points!
Get out of the way!
Let's go!
It's been doing well!
Word down!
Word down number one!
Word down number one!
Oh my god are you with him?
I have him here.
What are you naming?
What are your names?
I'm Lukas.
My name is Tsu.
Nice to meet you.
Are you also a BLG fan?
Yes, I'm also a BLG fan.
BLG.
How is it to be a BLG fan here in this house?
It's all T-WAT fans.
It is difficult.
But the fans are so amazing.
And BLG is too.
I'm BLG.
My BLG will win.
Yes.
I'm not gonna let you go
I'm not gonna let you go
Look at me, I can't open my eyes
I'm not gonna let you go
I'm not gonna let you go
Always look at me
If I like it, I'm the king
You can't like me
I'm still a baby
I'm still a baby
I'm still a baby
I can't even look at you
I can't even look at you
I'm standing in front of you
Look at me
I don't even know
how long it's been
I know
I'm going crazy
I keep feeling
I'm different from you
I give up, I can't do it
I can't go
I'm going to be special
Look at the sea now
Welcome back to MSI 2026 where we are dropping HOTs into draft for game 4 between BOG and T1.
And BOG currently are 2-1 up in the series. MSI for them, often the time they beat T1.
T1 tend to beat them in Worlds, but MSI so far in series is 3-1 BOG favorite.
Certainly are, and we are going to have to wait a little bit to get into that champion select.
So now is a good time to bring up, then that BOG are also, my friends, on the Golden Road as they say,
Because they've been playing first stand and so, PLG, they're looking like they're starting this tournament on a pretty good footing.
If they can keep it going, that has never been done, the Golden Road, that is the end of the year, win every single tournament of the year.
I think it's one with the addition of first stand, a lot of people were still thinking it couldn't be done.
It was too hard to win domestic championship first-hand, domestic championship MSI, domestic championship Worlds, right?
It's just too much, too much to do in the year.
But the OG, as you say, have made the first three steps along that six-step road.
It's not a very long road, we'll be honest.
It is time-wise, chronologically long, but in terms of how many steps we've got to it, you know.
And the question is, can they continue their dominance in this series against T1 who have used the Elk Gela stepping stones in the past to reach greater heights?
Yeah, that is the question because their drafts have been pretty good, their gameplay has been excellent as well.
And we're looking at Fearless getting deeper and deeper now.
In the last couple of games, Key Factor has been VLG taking advantage of the range of the champions that T1 has chosen.
The really good late swing kick into the short range comp
again too, and then this previous one, they got really good matchups everywhere.
And we're able to keep the pressure.
And with each of their lanes having pressure,
made a really nice stand for Schiff to be able to play out.
He landed some very good spiked combinations on the base, on the Baron.
And BLD were able to make it look very calm.
and smooth there in the most recent one.
It was an interesting game because it felt like
BLG were at the finish line and T1 were still tying their shoes.
Right? T1's composition never really came online.
We never really saw a big one, but Combo, which BLG
constantly were ahead of T1 and what they wanted to do.
So especially from Jungle Pop when, you know, I've had some teens
and some solo queue, not naming any names, but where all of my lanes
are getting pushed in and losing and you're just like,
you never do get to take that first step.
Like you kind of have to, like you were saying during the game,
like you have to choose a moment and you're like overload aside
or make a quick play, make a big engage.
You know, use some vision events to your benefit,
but, and they try to get a little scrappy around mid lane.
You know, they did do that game towards mid lane, full CC combo,
but immediately BLG also doing the same.
And so, Bid was in a really good state,
Knight was in a really good state.
And even though we didn't focus on it a lot during the game,
Viper with his Vel'Koz pick, you're constantly pushing in Asenna.
Asenna's also not getting that many stacks off of you.
And so he's doing his job very effectively.
And he also saw the game focus up a very high.
He's got a lot of poke damage done, burning through a lot of resources.
So now we're looking at what can T1 actually do to change the course of this series.
as now in this match, it is match points and BLG with the advantage.
We still don't have any extra information though as...
We can see the BLG coaching staff talking to the referee, so I'm going to assume there is...
You can't see that.
Something that has been brought up by the BLG coaching staff that either I'm happy with or, you know,
it can't be a swap. We know that for sure.
That's the extra info we get right now.
The hard-hitting journalism.
It's not a swap, guys.
You know what? They're talking.
I'd be something to do with that, because someone's favorite skin wasn't open to their account.
Ah, those are the big things.
Wait, can we not use the T1 World Skin? The most recent ones yet?
I mean, that would be so... Honestly, that would be unfair if you used the...
The new skin. If you had time to use the Polyglot, right?
Yeah.
I mean, those things are dangerous, though.
I don't know if you prefer... A lot of people I saw really liked the Dorn one.
My first physical damage is the horn, owner one, wearing his jacket on his shoulders like that, it's with iconic...
I think Kerio, Kerio, I'm a support man, so whenever I see a cute support skin I'm pretty happy with those.
I was thinking Kerio is just an incredible player, so a degree of respect in using that skin.
So we continue to wait for everything on stage to be resolved before we get on into the draft.
If your team won, Koby, what are you changing?
What are you doing? How are you making the game easier for yourself?
I mean, we definitely need to get some lanes to play off.
At least, you need at least one point lane to play off of, good pushing matchup.
Maybe a bit of extra range and not fully rely on we have to be the ones doing the stamping games.
But yeah, start with some good lane matchups to be able to play off of.
Jungle Pop, I want owner to be able to have some leverage to utilize to be able to go for...
create his own game plan.
I think those would be good steps in the right direction for T1 overall.
Also, I mean, Paze is kind of the wind client.
Ignostic of draft.
Paze, I feel like, is the main carry for this team now, and so pick some stuff that's going
direct to your team towards that area you know towards bottom you know set up maybe not like
you know a problem per se with the champion individually but it does it's like it's not
something that's going to take off early and especially with them nerfing the soul stacking
you know probably a very different direction from that yeah it does feel like t1 have bought into the
okay our bot lane will just like farm and scale a bit the kaiser a little bit away from that but
But even then, Carrier wasn't in bot lane at all.
Like, we were playing from mid, playing through mid, looking towards grubs and dragons, rather
than going towards pays and being like, okay, pays, carry us.
You know, we will put all of the eggs into your basket and we'll give you something that
can really carry the game.
Even with the center, like, matching attempted push rather than again going for something
that can really carry the game.
You say that, and then your mid laner is like, uh, excuse me, their support is here, 24-7,
hello, I need your help.
How about this how about D1 draft a jungle matchup to split jungle vertical and so you are able to get your bottom lane full
confidence that you go for the invade you take away their wrappers you split the map so that you're jungling on bottom half and
you just try and dive try and fully just blow blow that ball away.
We are waiting for updates entirely on what is going on right now, because our League officials are translating an issue on stage to both teams, which obviously takes a little bit of time.
We'll keep you updated as soon as we can, and when we know what the issue is as well, we'll tell you that if we can tell you that, and if it's something super secret then we're not going to make stuff up.
And we're gonna make a code now, actually I am,
I'm gonna, we're gonna make a code,
I'm not gonna, well, maybe.
I'll leave that open to interpretation
so that if Riot gets mad at me and calls me on it,
then I'll say, oh, you know, I'm not making stuff up.
No stuff, but we can make a code right now
to the viewers so that we can give them
secret information, pass it along.
The only problem is that everybody's listening right now.
Yeah, I mean, I said, I'm going to be very
I teach you what there is for us.
I'll be honest, I don't know what is happening.
Obviously, we talk a big deal about the series
because it could be a final.
T1 versus BLG is a final we've seen in a world
that both great teams, top three in terms of favorites
for the tournament alongside HLE, most people's estimations.
But it is only round one.
We have double elimination here.
The winner of this will go on to play Lyon,
and the loser of this will go on to play Fury.
So it is not an easy mode for either Lion or Furia.
I'm going to start watching that.
Oh, I thought you were going to say for T1 or BLG.
I mean, and I had a hundred percent agree, Medic.
We both watched it.
The game play earlier today was a 3-0 win for us.
That is a code, by the way.
We just in case you want to win.
He trips.
BLG on the blue side.
T1 on the red.
T1 will have first pick.
The GOG will be set on a blue side, and that's where they've selected.
They're going to be able to go in on it.
And we're going to have Varus and Vayne taken away by T1.
OK, so they're really taking a lot of the range matchups out of top lane.
The Varus, of course, also the flex pick that can be played up there, too.
Are you just trying to give Doran something that he can survive?
I mean, that would play into my idea about split jungle.
Yeah, so, yeah, give Doran something he can survive on, try and do a jungle invade to split jungle for vertical
and go from there.
And still have things like the scion available through this Doran's second most played, also things like obviously Cassante, if you want to just play tanks.
And we have the Nocturne taken awake by T1.
Last time we saw a Shinshao as well, removed by BLG.
So I'm sure Oner would be very happy to get his hands on that, there's the rumble.
So where are T1 going?
Obviously you don't have to first pick your top laner, there's a lot of options available
for you.
You can go down that tank route, Sion, Ornn, Sion take your options.
Also since we're getting deeper and deeper, I really want to see either of these mid laners
walking Akali.
I always wait until super and later in Fearless, but I think Akali is very strong right now,
so once you start to get some of the mid lane champions out of there, I don't want to go
I'm always down for that, but let's see what they decide to mix up.
First priority here, Jarvan is still on the table, so Jarvan locked in first for owner.
I mean, now BLG are looking at what kind of carries can we get that have decent mobility
that Cataclysm won't find too much value against.
And a lot of the ones with mobility actually have been taken off the table.
We've already seen things like the Ezreal taking away in terms of safety carries as well.
Ah, here we go.
Is it Caitlyn Lux?
Is it time to play through bottom lane?
BLG say, all right, we're going to beat you to the punch.
You know what?
We're going to throw our Caitlyn lane here for Viper.
And when BLG do this, they do throw resources to bottom lane.
So Caitlyn Elise is my favorite iteration of it, but you can do Caitlyn plus so many
things for Dive.
Katelyn, uh, Lux, Katelyn, wait a second, are we actually gonna lock in a Shrindilin?
That also would be pretty fun, um, but nope, definitely gonna need a good front line for
them as well.
And technically-
It's a flex, it's a flex, we've seen on Danyalki, uh, the Skarner support once already, will
he do it again?
Unlikely, I think, I think Skarner just works well in terms of getting towards the bot lane
and Avalyn dives as well, very good at diving.
Skarner especially with that it shows impact and the impale T1 going to answer
I mean Mel yeah, this I mean it has been there their answer into these
Mel plus what though is it gonna be like pike carrier? They do like Mel pike
Good close a lot of burst damage threat
You could look seven theme as well. I mean both are less than Camille are off the table
Yeah, it depends if you want to engage from your support, like hard CC, like I have to say.
Or if you want to go for something that's, uh, play on the back line.
Pike, very strong obviously, in Carrier's hands.
In everyone else's hands, not as powerful.
Carrier can just dominate a game on this pick.
He won Pike, okay.
Mel Pike, it's definitely a very, very good at it.
Some of the combos with Katelyn, okay, get some mouseovers, some hoverovers.
It's going to be the Recon into the pike.
I mean, it's fine. There's my favorite. There we go. Right back.
The first thing that we mentioned, the Elise Katelyn, the classic.
They can get the, try and get the dives off. At least so good.
Repel for dropping tower aggro.
I mean the spider wings pretty nice against pike as well when you're trying to walk away
Walk some bone skewers
You can get those devastating combinations if you can hit your cocoon into trap combination
Gaitlyn
Pikes just dead at that point right?
Do not have the health bar to survive through that especially as piked and then you have scarlet there for the follow-up as well
Scarner locks someone in place cocoon on top of it or you cocoon and scarner comes in. There's so much CC in so much
continuous CC already out from BLG. Twisted Fate will get taken away. Oh yeah. If our Bali
is going to be a war zone, then it's not fair for him later to have a Twisted Fate.
Especially when BLG wouldn't have an easy way to answer it. You can't get the rise from
a realm warp. Oh, Silas is up though. You can do some Silas angle, but they just aren't
advantageous if they didn't. And I don't get via Kali though. I was going to say you could
Carly into the TF, because when he destinies you shuriken him and then fly with him across the map, but I think our
Pontification on how do you deal with TF if your thing is a BLG?
It doesn't really need to go any further as Carly now taken away by T1. We're gonna continue to see mid lane bans.
It's the question. It's the BLG.
After those top lane bans, you get to see a top lane unlocked in.
The virus in the vein getting taken away so a lot of options for being Olaf removed by BLG
Let's see for mid lane. I mean he still has is like
Anivia floating around to Leia floating around
Fakers with Sondra as an answer
We'll see
The Auri is still up too.
True.
We were spanned in the last game.
Night Auri.
So we see the Silas from T1.
BLG here.
Oh, Night Auri looking even better then.
Silas down too.
It's who you blind, right?
Do you blind, or do you blind top?
I think mid maybe slightly safer.
There's also the possibility this Nell is flexing down too.
Yeah, it could flex it, actually.
That would be annoying.
Yeah.
Night down too.
Yeah, Aurora side of it.
Yeah.
Alright, even better, and that puts pressure on bottom lane too, Aurora very very good at roaming.
What notes best champion? He does struggle the most, he's only won one game of the four that he's played.
I think both the midlaners in this best of five do struggle without Aurora, time to time.
Now where will T1 go? Does Faker just want to play the RE into it, or is he going to cook a little?
Because he definitely could.
If Sanke first...
Okay, so that gives him more...
some front line and some actual structure.
Is he actually just going to go more burst with like a
Ari Lassandra type of champion,
or do we need something more consistent?
Into the Aurora, it's...
You don't have a lot of options,
because Aurora can be a painful laner.
So you can't get too creative.
Yeah, it's also a way to look at the consistency.
Like, Azir, but that's really fallen off.
Yeah, Azir's the R.
Yep.
R, he makes sense.
And now we'll see Bin's answer to Kasante.
Still has...
Ah, Gwyn.
Oh, okay.
Now, I...
So, Sleek and Avis still look you.
He's been, you know, thrown a couple of extra games with Gwyn in there.
Ooh.
These are similar ideas here.
Mordekaiser...
Yeah, it's gonna be Gwyn.
It has to be, right?
to me right? I mean this is what he's been playing more in solo queue for his solo queue account so
Gwynn did get those nice little buffs back up to try and get her back into meta they wanted her
more back in MSI meta and now we finally do get her in MSI. So the solo lanes being on the Gwynn will
eventually run over a Kasante and an Ari really when you think about it. For the Aurora again she
She gets ahead, Ari does have the ability to spirit rush away, but it's tricky to escape
the between worlds.
I gotta say, unless the T1 bottom lane does some stuff on bottom, prettier, like some
spicy stuff, they get some kills.
I like the overall look from the comp from BLG.
T1 though, they've got a lot of playmaking here, a lot of playmaking, and owner on Jarvan
has options.
You can go mid, you can go bottom.
I think definitely to go talk like what we're talking about before, just don't go top.
Just go bottom, you know, I mean, Doran, yeah, he's playing beside me in the Gwen, but like, try.
He can join up with you later on.
If you can get like a, you know, some pressure from mid and actually stop night from taking over and stop, you know, the centerpiece of this VOG team,
and then you can try and transfer that down to the bottom lane.
And that could be a pathway to keep the series going or BLG could just take this one
They have looked very very good in their wins. They have looked so dumb
Even the first game that was quite close. Yeah, and it was a T1 magic
We were talking about it in the game
T1 so often just find that way to get back in that small window of opportunity and perhaps that's Terry's point
He is so special on this champion. There's a reason he's got a world skin and I'll say this best of five
I think Karrion has been pretty muted overall, I think he's been pretty quiet, hasn't had
the best of series, now looking to see if perhaps he can skewer on as that spider steps forward.
Don't skewer in, the pallet from on the maternal to Paze immediately, flash across the wall
from Viper, Paze just can't escape, it's all gone pear shaped for T1 in the bot lane at
level 1.
On is so ready for that, do you see that zero hesitation, he is so ready for that immediately
into spider form is a repel right on top of you get the ignited now you get to
cocoon on the area repels up I mean you have two skills a level one as the
Elise right you have the repel and you have the cocoon there's a reason I
said this is my favorite iteration with the Caitlyn Elise oh my goodness this
combo is crazy and BLG I mean they were always even doing this even with Elkin
on and continuing with the success night as well good fit oh my goodness good
trade under Faker. Incredible trade there from Knight as we see Bin dashing away from
going on the top side and that is devastating for T1. 700 gold down at two minutes into
the game with fans who set coming out on the 31st of July. You can grab yourself that Ari
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Last game, all the BLG lanes were pushing and winning, and this game we're proving it's
in, and all the BLG lanes are pushing and winning.
So the story looks very similar.
The knight has overtaken Gala as well for international kills, he's at $580 to Gala's
$563 on his way to try and chase down Bin and Oner, but he's been being on the same
It's gonna be hard for him because then bin will be like, hey man, I really need this kill because I have to stay ahead of you on the leaderboard and
Knight like, please sir
Yeah, I need my Darkseal Saxon
That's the battle that I'm sure is happening in the middle of VLV right now
Sure, I'm sure, I'm sure
Meanwhile bin focused on tower plate money. Give me that money trying to work through the first one here
Gets it very very close
Won't quite take over
Expect to see a focus fortune towards getting those grubs early on especially if they want this Gwen to continue to push in yeah
I mean that's that matchup. I mean it is brutal then is just
Going to decimate him up there already with massive CS lead working for turret plate money bottom side to
Ghost would have died doesn't find the CC chain on has to flash away with owner on the way across
the last triple snap trap from Viper, his owner eats one, carrier eats the other, but
there's a summoner down for the Elise, as we see Doran resetting, has himself a helm,
he made himself, and now TP's back in, refillable, oh no, it gets a no magic mantis, so a little
bit alongside that refillable at least.
There you go, okay, the defensive starter kit, there you go, yeah, I mean the pain is
going to continue up there. The pain is continuing everywhere man. Yeah, I mean it's possible
to even out things. Yeah, Bollin's chill, Bollin's chill. They could definitely clap
back and they had owner pat down there and then they left a bunch of business. You see
all these wards here around the bottom lane too, you know, they very well know they're
going to need to make something happen. Mid lane is getting pushed in as well, but they
a lot better in CS. Hasn't dropped too many here. So Knight only has a small lead over him.
Compared to the rest. Only about 50 gold. And it's still only four and a half minutes in, right?
The explosiveness of the level. Here he is going mid though.
Pike a little bit of a room timer. I think he was seen by that ward.
So Knight could waste a little bit of his time.
to go in with that, uh,
find him on the turd. Looks like the reset is just going to finish up.
And that's just doing his razor beats for now.
The pace walks into the lane unaided by any support for now.
As, uh, Arn is just waiting in that bush to see if Paze does overstep.
If there's only on there, the rebuttal is a very good tool for Paze to avoid the cocoon and the CC.
Turn it around.
Of course, there's a little bit more CC there, then it becomes harder to get your rebuttal down in time.
time has been as hit level six has that needlework and begins to snip snip his way through dormant
does have been tow throws but look at the damage from the thousand cuts been with the needlework
and dormant right it's just sold up in the top lane great flash from Ben dormant over stays
door ran it down level six to level five Ben chooses his moment goes in with the needlework
bot lane i was going to say too you know owner was hovering around bottom lane to try and make
counter play here but no move opened up and so it's just been domination the
story of this game and the owner's not on his way up there
he's not bailing you out he's still bottom he was hovering last time for the
whole play and then does the grompin comes on back the question is can T1
get another advantage over here there's the cocoon with the repel and that's
some great damage from Pace as T1 are able to lock up that at least. It's the
issue with that initial bit of CC doesn't hit and you repel up. Oh great flash as
well with the Phantom undertone that goes water died. The flash E2 got there was right from
owner. A moment ago I asked can T1 find enough in bot? They give us a resounding
answer. Exactly what the doctor ordered. Exactly what we asked for for the
bottom lane, they make it happen. They force on really early there to go for the
rappel and they know exactly where he's going to land. Only one extra option there.
They get the early kill and they carry us. Flashes in.
Gets level six out of it as well. Yeah.
Owner and carrier though, they both don't have their flashes from the bottom lane
played where they were just able to get those kills. And so could get a little
bit dangerous. She's going to know, hey, let's go counter jungle him and let's
take another look at it so they start out here looking at on against the wall
here on the Elise with the Rapado on the cocoon then he just goes over to the
middle of the lane they're able to answer this one and it carries like all
right waiting waiting waiting cooldowns are ready where's his angle there he goes
in flashes to make sure the stun hits can pull him back and then even though
You know Viper's able to... wait a second?
Oh, Cataclysm in for Mona, goes for the dive as well with that amount of token carrier pays on a killing screen.
Meanwhile, Ona falling low gets taken out by the weirding.
Knight needs to run, T-Wana on the chase.
He's trying to get over to Bin, but I don't know, Carri and Doran trying to close the door here.
Bin wants to get those minions into the tower to allow Knight an area to walk out.
It's level 6 as well. It's a dangerous four-carrier.
Knight tries to go between worlds across the veil.
Dash is away. There's the reeling as well for the damage.
And Knight can just, as you say, flash out the back.
Pays, flashing forward though. Rock it, bounce!
Unfortunately for him, the eclipse not enough,
not golden enough for him to secure that kill,
while Faker uses the spear rush in the mid lane.
That's Viper and on-pushing.
Bot lane abandoned by both these teams
as Grubbs the target for BLG.
Yeah, everybody wrong shot for the action here.
The long chase on night does not even afford the extra kill.
2T1, Paze trying to answer there.
Had his protobelt done.
Almost was able to get enough damage, but not quite.
And Enns, Rico gets interrupted.
That's going to be interesting for bot lane,
because it's going to push in afterwards.
So it started out with the red button invade.
We saw as Shun and Enn already took away the Raptors,
but Keria and Paze got to reset and come for the fight.
So, here we go. The initial play again was on to on, forcing the repel early and then they go for the follow-up play to burst him down.
Now, Zun missing the flashist style's impact as well, means that he's nowhere near the fight. He's a mile away.
And because of that, he wanted to turn it around. Look at that bot lane as well. A thousand gold leaper pays off that he died at level 1 before minions had even crashed in the wave.
back to the fountain, meanwhile on the bot side, On and Viper now need to decide, do you stick or do you run away?
Do you stay or do you live to fight another day as good damage from the spiderling,
had a collision onto the backline, Viper able to walk away from the flag and drag combo with a TP coming in,
Solis now only finds one phase, down to about half HP, good repusel, On ignites it,
and Knight just here to save him, Golden Eclipse not enough, even with the ignite ticking.
On to On, they didn't have those overwhelm stacks.
They get the teleport and look at mid lane.
Faker's able to push that in.
Faker's going to have a roam timer.
He could try and answer somewhere else.
Top lane's recalling already though, so not going to afford much
except for that turret flight pressure.
And the teleport cooldown from night here.
I mean, T1 played nicely.
They know BLG have two teleports available to them,
and they don't overcommit to the tower dive.
As soon as they see the single teleport, immediately they back off.
They land their combination on to on,
and they dry it out. So Dragon advantage 41. It's really just this bin giga gold lead up there.
Yeah. But there's a massive gold lead for Pays and the Coinbase gold growing down towards that bottom lane as well.
A thousand gold ahead. As you say, you can really see the schism between the two teams.
It's like, how far ahead can bin get and how far ahead can Pays get?
And we'll see when the two meet, which one of them is the stronger, which one of the teams is able to play around them better.
Grubbs looks like the third one is going to be taken by Shun.
It's the Albert detection. Just short there from Faker.
And even with Knight having Knight kill and assists from earlier, Baker got so much alone time to push in those minion waves and get those tower plates.
He's actually ahead and going to himself on this.
this Ari. Tim, owner and Karrie looking for the constant invades to get the
division to set up their next play. Meanwhile, I mean, anytime the camera's
topside, it's gonna be more pain for Doran. He's doing what you have to do,
though. You just giga-stack your magic resist. Try and get to your
Kinnick Rooker as quickly as you possibly can, so you can play in tonight
and into bin and try and use that replenishing shield over and over. Karrie,
He looks for it on the fight back down from below.
Caviar finds him.
Shares the love, shares the gold around.
And Paze predicts it there.
Really nice with the snare.
So they instantly delete Viper.
Caitlyn down, flash gone from him as well.
And guess what?
Who's got the bigger gold lead now?
Paze is able to add a bunch of extra gold on top of it.
They delete the bottom lane again.
These teams have drawn the line in the sand.
It is top lane for BOG, and it is bot lane, bot lane, bot lane for T1.
As BOG tried to match that bot lane pressure in the early game, but weren't able to do it,
this Caitlyn at least is when they play for bot.
77% win rate on the Caitlyn.
They know how to play through Viper, even if he's not the key focus of this team most of the time.
But here, T1 have just stymied that.
They've suffocated this Caitlyn out of the game, and now Faker,
into the chase on tonight with the Spirit Rush,
Charm doesn't connect, a bone skewer!
Just whistles behind Knights.
Meanwhile, topside, Doran's getting zoned off.
Yeah, thank you observers.
Tower's gonna go down in favor of Bin.
That is first tower bonus for him.
He's late now.
Flag and drag in from Ona,
Cataclysm down, on goes into the sky,
shouldn't be the goodish, doesn't back to Octavia.
It's still gonna get rooted up,
and now that Stara has no place to go,
Pays with a double, T1 have come to life again four.
The critical difference.
T1 choose the battlefield.
They choose it around Pays.
Do not fight around Doran.
Just abandoned top lane.
He's got his Gannick Rookern.
And he's gonna run.
And he's gonna be okay.
Meanwhile, continue to fight around Pays.
Continue to choose the battlefield.
That is to your advantage.
They get the kill onto the Elise immediately
And then they can follow it up with the other...
Well, is Scorpion not interacted?
I don't know, it's technical difference.
It's got a lot of legs.
So they killed the other one too.
Doctor Notbiology Stamming.
Anyway, close enough as the Scorpion has definitely lost its sting
and this spider's venom, not doing any damage at all to T1.
A 3,000 gold lead per pace.
I will say still.
Bin is matching as much as he can through the topside.
We'll have another look at this play in mid.
Okay, so they go mid, around Paze,
and it's actually, you know,
on trying to go for a play on to Paze, again,
and they immediately punish him,
wait around for him to come down,
and then on the side of your screen, Kariah and Faker,
they can just lock up this scarner.
Double kill, four Paze, as you say, though.
Bin, off screen, still getting richer and richer and richer.
How much can you do when the fight really begins?
Actually, Gwen's do a whole lot.
With that going on targetable deal, that is annoying.
Hello, Miss can do quite a bit, but I wonder if he is going to be stymied on his way.
Because if I can get quite close to you before they use the bone skewer,
a jargon, he paniclids them on top of you and then you haven't got your skipping slash and not skipping nor your slash.
It's always so hard because you kind of have to like play an in... wait a second, how long are they going to go for this?
Carriers on the way.
As is Paze.
Then, I only have to play to see if I can have another TP in from T1 there.
Perhaps in on the top side and Bin might be done.
Good flash with the flash and Topos brings him back and they bury him in the lane where he had such dominance.
Okay, well they choose the battlefield and now it's a round of bid to and they bring four members T1 they overload the topside
Now they're going to transfer pressure towards mid, Paze can he hit it?
flash away from the inhale cataclysm came in as well the soulless layer the snare did not connect
that we did see on flashing out of its clutches without available for t1 night just hasn't really
been involved in the game as much as you'd like so far pushing through that bot side trying to get
some go back for himself t1 gray the strength the the playmaking the playmaking they move around the
the map, forcing these plays, getting that kill onto Bin to try and keep him in check.
He's not quite at his two items yet because he upgraded his boots and he gets all of them
again!
Bin locked up, and where can you go?
X marks the spot.
T1, they changed the battlefield to top lane.
They said Bin is the only one ahead.
make it not so much longer as Dormin comes in and
you let me hear that away maybe took the grump didn't quite see you can see the
swing in T1's favor and now a 2.5k gold lead and they are doing such a good
job as as you've said a couple of times picking where they want making their own
terms of engagement and saying hey you don't just get to rule the map we're
gonna find places where we can outnumber you and then we're gonna
about class. Yeah. Doran, the
humble top laner. He's like,
fine, I play Cassante. I was
stacked a bunch of magic
resistance. I will be weak
side and eventually I'll get a
turret play myself. And he's
chopping down on that gold
lead because bin keeps getting
targeted, taking off the map.
And Doran, he's going to get a
little bit in response.
And he's just you don't need to
be gold rich as a Cassante.
Your items use one tanks.
I use my couple of tank items. You don't need four or five. Obviously, it helps, but you just want to be a tank later on in the game.
Oner looking for Knight now, who does spot him out with the Oracles. Thanks Drake, still two and a half minutes away.
The first two have gone to T1, as Oner gets the smite on the crux. Forced Shun to only accept those little ones.
Shun has two items though. Very cheap ones. Protoplasm harness and rebounder pipes.
I mean, yeah, Jugglers love stealing away some support items. Those things are made so cheap in under attack again
Dash away
Think I'm holding that second spirit rush or jumping for bin had a miss dodges the charm locked against the wall though
And this is without Pays even here the Fed carry for T1 is not needed
To take down the Fed carry for BLG and I mean, yeah, they don't even have a tower up there anymore
Yes, BLG do technically get the push mid, but
I don't want to talk.
That's it, goes for the dive in from Kerri.
His pace is already killed off on Ishtar's impact.
We'll get the knock back.
They look for the venom over to it.
We can't quite land it, but there's the solar snare
and Shun allergic to the sunlight.
He goes down and clips as Kerri finds another.
Biker trying to walk away, but a flag and a drag
will pull him six feet under.
T1 are dominating the OG.
And game number four, it is T1 setting the pace, and BLG can't keep up.
Pin was out there in no man's land.
They didn't have pressure on the other side of the map.
They didn't even have a tower left up there anymore.
And so T1 targeted him again, again, and again.
They put him in the dirt, and then they rotated over to get the rest of BLG.
And now it's T1's turn to snowball.
Vedic, we've got another epic best of five on our hands here.
If D1 can actually finish this one out they will push us to a silver scrapes here another silver scrapes
Two in two days.
An MSI.
I love it.
It would be epic.
They still have some work to do, but they're all set up to do it.
Carrier with the burn skewer.
Runs away with the ghost water dive, but he has been so on point finding he's also getting this vision in.
That's not spotted out by on as a control ward down towards below the red buff
Next rake up in 10 seconds time so point for T1 BLG scrambling try to find a way back into this game
Almost two items on bin the Nash's tooth not quite there yet
Viper still sitting only on the hex optics fitting for Caitlyn of course that sniper rifle, but
Really needs more because you look at pays and pays almost has a hat and
And Faker already has his first new to see large rod if he's going towards that rabbit on B.O.G. cannot contest
It will be so quick for T1 a cloud soul
Alongside it and we carry on this fight. I would be very scared of them picking up that soul
World finals 2024 we were treated to all five
And here T1 with three dragons and a 5k gold lead. They look like
They are steps away from trying to treat us again
BLG though
What you do if you're BLG how would you find a way back there?
Well, they're gonna need to force a team fight here
They can't allow T1 to keep picking them apart across the map
Problem is that's easier said than done when T1 already have the vision control and they've got roaming around pike there with Karrie
And then owner and faker constantly popping out from the jungle death cap also just completed for pays
So he's got massive three out of power spike damage. He's coming from the base right now
The lead for T1 right now is just basically at the breaking point one more thing and it's just going to be
Overwhelming that's a hell hell to comes down from owner as they look for the chance
It wasn't one of sight being ashes to the side of the phone
I'm scared of it, still that charge is gonna come in.
Bin going for it, come on to him.
Shun looking for the H-1, back to the Pays, he's walking about the way.
Oner trying to take the pin, dies towards the bottom side, to the death from below,
and now Pays with the cataclysm there, can just rain down solar damage from this mel.
It is easy enough for T1.
Pays a legendary, an ace in the hole, blocked by Baker.
Oner looking to try and turn off on, but in the end the mid lane pushes all the T1 lead.
It looks like it is going to be the clap back to you on with that one. They just blow it out of the water
8,000 the gold lead should be a Baron as well. I mean Pais just has so much damage on the mail
That was a fight on two fronts as owner of Pais were able to win the topside
They got me the CP to come in sharp issues
We're both falling low to the Baron carrier pushing mid
Well the Baron begun by his team, but T1 at 22 minutes gonna have an 8,000 almost even a half thousand
Gouldley when this Baron falls at the BLG, I mean, it feels impossible to get back in
this game. You are thinking about game five. You're thinking about what happened at Worlds
in 2024.
So look at this. You've got Karrion Faker on the bottom side and they're trying to deal
with bin. They finish up the kill there and then topside, even with owner getting suppressed,
they have so much to do with the pace. They just burst down shown and Doran's able to
to get the ulti on tonight, keep them up to the other side,
and they get the exit kill plus the flash.
I think that's got to clean it up.
No flash on the Aurora either.
T1's snowball is getting out of control.
It really is, and you have to give credit to that bot lane.
Pays 9, 1, and 2 on the smell.
Keria 208 on this pike.
It has been by their powers combined
this game has gone so pear shaped for BLG. Looks like an engage onto owner. There's the
weirding, there's the ace in the hole, there's the impale, and there's the kill. A shutdown
going over tonight. Every comeback starts with a shutdown I feel like. That is a good one.
Directly in tonight. Alright, the Aurora with the double bus. With the extra gold. He hasn't
gone back to spend it yet, of course. And T1 still have such a massive gold lead, but
Top off from BLG, they want to make a pledge.
And goes in a great bone skewer from Keria to push him out of the wall.
Knight coming in with the waiting on Paze as well, who tries to lock it belt away.
Meanwhile, Zorn's trading with Bin Paze, getting chased down.
A golden eclectic, making a one for one.
Keria with the bandim undertow, will go in and now take out Bin.
Now a 3v3, faker with the spirit rush.
Paul, looking for a little bit more of his on and Viper are on the retreat.
Charm doesn't connect and they turn it around.
Now Viper doesn't have a huge amount of damage in his backpack,
but he can still chip away at T1's outbars.
The stun from Keria with a flash and he'll manage to catch out on.
Viper now needs to step up for BLG,
but in the end, just a one-for-one between the supports.
Oh, my goodness.
BLG, they want to take advantage of the moment
where they have the extra champion on the ref.
They teleport for the play, flanking on both sides here.
Double teleport and they have eyes on page.
They need to get that shut down.
Knight starts it out.
Look at my damage, Pace is able to get it. He hits this there, into the Q, boom.
That's what's going to take with the R.
And even though they do get their shutdown onto Pace, he gets the counter kill.
Shutdown money actually went into Scarner.
Ah, that is not ideal for BLG.
Then Baker wanted to keep an interesting air. He doesn't hit that actual charm.
Very close to shouldn't, but
uses extra charge to go back in that period. Tries to get real fancy here.
Use the ultimates into the flash to get the pull into the charm.
Yeah, they do get the support trades, but Kira spent a lot in order to set that up. No flash for him now
It's looking to see if you can catch out Viper on that Kailin and now he's doing the same in the mid lane
He's goes for the burn skewer T1 and has killed the soul for themselves. He's an owner able to do that just as a duo
The reset was stopped for Viper who has gone Lord Dominic's regards second item
Which is not something we too commonly see on the Kailin still an item advantage across the board T1
Apart from Dormin, he's even with Ben.
I mean, Viper is so far down, yeah, he's trying to scavenging.
Yeah, looking for some money anywhere.
And T1, here comes the rest.
They're keeping Ben split pushing though at the moment,
so Ben still forming a way down there.
The Gwen was brought fully back under control
as we have seen this before.
Wait a second, OK, not going to go for the plunge edge, but...
Look at the movement speed on Keria, getting that soul, the price of the moment of the game.
4-T1, Keria can just be everywhere, the rest of the team as well, obviously.
Incredibly fast, but Keria is the one that you have to keep your eyes on.
That Unberglaive denying vision. Dorn now resetting to answer, Bintz pushing the topside.
They're barring up in two minutes time.
With T1, it feels like their siege is not quite there.
It's much more of a pick comp, they need people to step out a little bit further so they can catch them.
and then they can push in with the numbers advantage
whereas if they're just sieging 5v5
can't quite take down these inhibitor towers.
Yeah.
They have a lot of map to work with though.
Keria here with the Umbral Glaive
constantly taking away the BLG vision.
And so, you have a lot of area to make those picks with.
That is the benefit.
And Cloud Soul move speed is very nice
getting into position for those picks.
Now, you're probably going to have to wait for the next Baron to come up
but already you see they're going to clean out the entire jungle here leading over to the Baron T1R
and then they're going to look to set that up.
BLG, the critical part is, do you want to swap over to more skryers trinkets to have more blue trinkets to use
to make your way over to contest the Baron fight?
Because currently they only have Vipers and it's pretty difficult to walk into this T1 team.
I mean they just have so much to see so many pick tools that you've gone over
But the vision checking gonna be difficult either way night two levels down on Doran
Even been two level downs on two levels down on Doran. They've been so shut out of the game T1 done a great job
I'm making sure that bin could not accelerate that 2000 gold lead that he had and
thank you with the charm here on to show just
Showing him that he can more than anything else looking for that little bit of extra damage as you say the pushing from T1
just set up for this Baron. No vision at all for BLG outside of basically their base apart
from a single ward that shows them that T1's grump is up, which I don't think is the most
pertinent piece of information for them right now. They haven't had the opportunity to step
outside the three walls of protection. Two walls, I guess, of their base and T1 on spawn
will look towards the Baron.
Yeah, here it is, and they've got Viper's blue trinket.
That is their tool to check.
Shun's gonna try and face check, but even that is a little dangerous.
They're trying to take down the controller.
He does get one of them.
Dorian comes over to lend to his help as well.
Doesn't have to look onto our new flashes.
Gets the cocoon immediately onto Paze,
but the follow-up just quite isn't quite there, Greg.
Oh, Hale! Paze is down!
BLG find life from nothing!
They find blood from a stone as Paze goes down,
And now T1 all hail the retreat the cocoon again on to Keria build over a peacemaker there for the follower
But Baron now in BLG's eyes. What an incredible play from on and should they find the pressure on the pays and now BLG
They're trying to make more cocoon wired from on goes it with a repel they get in with a charm with the damage on to certain
Takes another half Keria lowers well owner at a third
BLG it could be the one moment you really have an advanced in this game another charm from Faker lands on tonight
who jumps away across the bale tries to hide in the darkness of his jungle with T1
able to stop BLG's Baron advance and because of that can turn their attention
straight towards it. And Paze is about to get up. Yeah Doran's just making sure
that he's got the resets. Paze is about to get up and he has teleport so he's
gonna teleport over to the Baron. That's gonna be T1's now. It took so much from
BLG, a great flash cocoon from on to fine pace, but when you are this far behind, you
have to capitalize and T1 will not let you do that. You do not win this game unless they
are all dead. T1 show exactly what they can do. Obviously, in this situation, so advantageous
to them, but there was a moment there, a brief glimmer of doubt that you heard around the
arena that BOG maybe had fought back. BOG they did their best nice pick from them
on the key player however. Hello Miss Charm goes wide, just to give the
slash comes out from Ben. Doran with a good pathmaker though will lock him up.
Elder Drake in a minute's time. Baron remains on T1 for the next two and a half.
I know he keeps stressing that it's a team game medic but Doran now passing the
Gwyn after the early stages.
It was 2K behind it.
It's in CS and gold.
Doran has been able to abide his time.
And he is the tank that T1 need now.
T1 with the Baron buff and the dragon soul looking for more.
They invade again.
It's 35 seconds to the elder dragon.
Again, it's a similar game plan.
Elder dragon comes.
set up around it, look for a pick, on goes up with the repel, comes back down in a relatively
safe spot, 7000 gold, the lead T1, flashes up across the board as well, only owner lacks his
on also without the luxury of that summoner's function, two for BLG, Drake up in 10 seconds
time, Binnish pushed through top, it's faker to answer, without TP importantly, still half the
the cooldown on that, BLG do have a window if they've tracked that time and they could
look to 4 to 4v5. Carrier in base as well would be 5v3 right now, TP by bin towards the
bottom lane. Faker working his way down from the top side. The red buff, the first target,
Kikun comes out. Good rebuttal. Good rebuttal from Paze stops the possibility of an engage
from BLG.
Yeah, that poked image on at least. That sticks. That is going to be painful for On for this
dragon fight he's wrapping around faker pushing mid though T1 applying that
pressure mid while the rest of them wrap around pay it carry up finds the
bone skewer on tonight owner puts the standard down no vision at the moment
for T1 in the middle of the pit but they're just gonna step forward and
got get vision themselves. Faker on vision BLG trying to step forward but
Onu and Doran are just too tanky. Faker with the spirit rush can go across the wall
good double impale, but that's on the tanks, the cataclysm going in. Oh no, it's falling
right down already though, his pace finds it. T1 eating number nine in the river.
You will take this series out of their cold dead hands. T1 take us to five.
What an epic series here, they're going to even it up. It will be two to two. T1 at the elder dragon.
Dragon they take the team fight and they're gonna push for the Nexus
BLG fought valiantly, but in the NT ones early game the pressure they enacted through the bot lane
Was enough to keep a BLG at bay
When these two teams meet we are all they always guaranteed a bang up and this time is no
Different bring on silver scrapes. Oh my goodness. What a deciding game
We're gonna have a head of us
This game five deep into fearless all of the pressure on
Baker just takes another sip. All right, he's being handle this. I hope you know it's not ready to set up this one
Yeah, and especially because we set up the wind conditions
We've talked about what we want to see from both of these team and especially for T1 to pull that team fight
By the way, this crowd is absolutely electric here. It is so good being in day John
But I'm happy with what they brought on the table here
Raz we've talked about empowering the bot lane and it happens. They were empowered. All right. They got the counter pick
It was a flex pick mel this has all the makings of a world finals a simple trade turns into an erupting crowd
But I love the controlled nature of T1 here. They recognize they have an amazing lead
He initially had Ari just push out mid and then find an incredible angle
They didn't have to touch elder it had to be all BLG and they just encroach them
Yeah, I've seen so many teams that comes down the elder flip gets secured that the size that they just didn't let it
Be a flip. Yeah, I said we're strong with the fights. We're not going to give them a chance
There's 7,000 HP when the fight started just nowhere near it's my range
Yeah, same with the Baron too right before that they get the pick on Mel finally feels you're like maybe we can do something
No, they actually end up losing Baron for it because she one is able to delay the back
Yeah, and right guys. We've been talking about pays on 80 carries
We were talking about pays on Zerry pays on mages and on Mel this guy is popping off
It's crazy that it started with him having an early death in the level one
Yeah, it set the tone for me thinking that it was just going to be a 3-1. It did not happen
He completely controlled this one alongside Karrion. Karrion must be talked about his pike is just a demon
This set up in the layering of CC once he goes out the reeds on some of these routes some pays a phenomenal
The team is in sync the balling jungle do so well unit and pays a show in time and time again
And you get him ahead of this male, he'll absolutely pop off.
These have been the two big players of both these teams.
Two-two, and Paze and Knight have both been massive factors.
They can get to this point.
Yeah, and going into game five, these are also the two players
that I'm absolutely looking for to be like,
okay, who is going to step up on either of these teams?
I think even in their losses, both of these players have had
really, really good performances.
Yeah, I mean, just it started for Paze.
It started with the incredible Gen-Game.
It made people think, you know what?
Maybe we should be playing more.
If his ults are hitting that shot.
It's fun to play, OK?
Yeah, and now it looks effective to play.
And then you see his malgame.
And honestly, it looked like an incredible angle there,
knowing that you're dealing with Annalise and Caitlin.
It's just, it felt like the moment a cocoon came through,
not only is it being reflected back on you,
but also you are just dying on that angle.
So there's so much available.
There's a lot to talk about.
We have to get into this.
Yeah, and I mean, this, looking at this,
the big other thing in this game was at one point,
you're like, okay, T1 are focusing bot lane,
but being this still this massive force in the top lane,
I also thought T1 did a really good job
of catching him out on side lanes
or setting up for collapses on that top side
to make sure that he couldn't make a difference
in the mid game.
And with him getting into the lead,
I was thinking back to that 2022 MSI,
but it was been on RNG.
They picked Gwen three times, won those three games and got the MSI title against T1, but this is not 2022, it's not the same Gwen and it's not the same T1, they shut him down completely in this game.
We always know that when it comes to these two teams, they're gonna go the distance here.
We're going to a game five between BLG and T1.
Before we toss it to Greg guys, I wanna know, where's your allegiance? Where do you think it's gonna go?
I'm putting the damn hat on. I have to believe BLG will do it. I must.
Shit, I got you!
Here we go!
I want to see draft.
You want to see draft?
No, I'm ironically. No, go!
I want to see draft!
Get out of here, Russ.
It's been one hell of a series so far and she won't bring it back.
Game 5, Silver Scripps, you know it. Let's get it.
Oh no!
Clips!
As Keria finds another!
Mike Picerno walks away with a flag and a drag!
Will pull him in!
Six feet under!
Good cause the wall is good, double in pale.
That's on the tanks, the cataclysm going in.
Oh no!
Almost falling right down already though as Kay's finds it!
T1 eating number nine!
In the river!
Think T1's gonna do it!
I stuck a spot here in between all of the T1 fans. I got two here next to me.
Are you happy? Yes! Yes, I'm happy!
Where have you traveled from or do you live here? From Czech Republic.
Czech Republic? Germany! Oh, amazing! And you've been T1 fans for how long?
I've played this game since season 2 so I've known them for a very long time.
Amazing!
What's your favorite player?
Keria!
Why?
Go to the courts!
Amazing!
Player!
Swicky!
I don't know.
Best thing ever.
What do you expect for game 5?
There's always a hope and I expect them to win.
Thank you so much. Good luck.
and trusting them more than I am. I'm excited for game five. I don't even know what to expect here.
I think something we've seen time and time again from this T1 core of Faker,
owner and carrier is that there is no level of pressure that will shake them. They've gone to
the point where they've seen it all, they've seen all the world finals, ever side finals,
and it means that even when they go down in the series, even when they match point to the other
side, they still just play with such confidence and conviction. And we've seen that so many times
just get them out of sticky situations.
And just the images on stage before that game.
Like, Baker meditating, the vibes are out,
anything they do in game turns into an erupting crowd
because you're here in Daejeon, Korea.
Of course you're the crowd favorites.
So, I mean, and then also when you go into the draft,
we were just talking about it.
Everything is open in the bot lane.
There's so much stuff available to both of these teams
and that's why it's really interesting to already see
BLG has chosen first pick, which means T1 will have counterpick if they do want to save it for something like
carrier support pick, which typically have been picked much earlier in the draft in the recent meta.
So yeah, that's going to be a really interesting to see, especially with this being set up as kind of like solo laners on BLG
versus the bot lane of T1. We kind of saw that play out early in the last game, but then Mel just took over.
It's funny to see the difference between those two teams because on one side you see them right now
T1 laser focus, Faker meditating on the other side
It's only smile and vibes on the side of VHG
So I'm assuming that they have more in the tank
I mean Emily always thought Carl's shooting the vibes guy
He's always bringing it
And like even just thinking about what could be even first pick
I feel like this entire series has been around playing to the aggressive picks that Bin has had
And I think 2-1 did a great job of being like, well, we have full mid-push, we are not letting you try and like look for another pick towards
Like for instance, it was Gwen versus the Cassante and trying to find a kill there. Now, Sion's available
I imagine that that's gonna be first pick. I think it's an incredible pick
Generally going later in the series and it makes your comp so well and also you have a shield like Doron Toppa
You want to pick it away for him. Yeah, and he's been they're all been doing phenomenal here
It's the first time we see this team clashing in 2026.
We're used to this matchup in the later stages of international tournaments.
Right now, they're all fresh here at MSI in their very first series.
So let's see what they can come up with.
I can't wait.
Game Fight Fearless is truly a safari combined with a zoo combined with chaos.
You never know what you're going to get.
I've got it.
Safari is very close to a zoo already.
It's just a-
I mean, it's still very close to a normal draft.
It's just with slightly different animals.
Ah, I like it.
I like it.
Well, as far as those characters do go,
I saw them pass it over a few champions already
and we'll see.
The analysis was touching on quite a few things
still being opened.
A lot of very powerful tools still available.
We've already had a lot of surprises
a lot of cool things the Velka's bottom picked up here in our series the swain
counter pick from Knights and now in game 5 do they have anything better?
BLG had first pick from my first election they will lock that in Yone found by T1 to kick us off
Lushen and knocked them taking away the Shanshan still one that automatically rises to the front of my mind when I think of
I'm very not going to be surprised if you see that man away by BLG.
Barus and Vayne though, so far have made their way through the draft.
No Orianas, no surprise.
It's fake on Oriana, and it's night on Oriana.
No one, well we all want to see it,
but no one from either of these teams wants to give the other that much of an impart.
My Akali dream is still alive though, and I really have been hoping for this Akali.
Akali Silas is available.
That was one of my favorite metas of all time for mid lane.
Let's see though if they whittle it down to Vayne now, does not make it through.
So Varus jumps up, Shun Shao jumps up.
So if the Zin gets picked early then you can do stuff into it still like a Kha'Zix or a Trundle picket stuff too.
So you have to be a little bit careful.
Yeah, I should definitely could pull out the Cossacks for sure
And in game five that type of stuff is exactly direction that we see a lot
So the Varus the other priority pick and finds his way to the top two
Yo, gee first pick rumble seen it back a couple of times is just getting it locked in straight away
For bin bin in Lane has been
absolutely dominant. There is no other word for it. He has been so good in the 1v1.
However, Doran has got a couple of friends. We've seen Paige got towards the topside to help out,
we've seen Keria got towards the topside to help out, we've seen Onagut towards the topside to help out.
I consider myself a friend of Doran too, so, you know, I buy his ironed care for on his care.
He's got me over here. Oh, wow, they're coming up even earlier than we talked about,
But they're gonna slam that one first and like I said, you know
It also kind of like dissuades you a little bit because it is good into doing this in so
Could make you not want to go that now on the side of BLG
I'm also wondering if T1 wants to go towards something like the scion and it's just a takeaway
It's a hey, we want to play a top lane tank side into rumble
You do just get burnt, but you shouldn't die too easily right you couldn't even farm up in that land
You but you shoot from the sole furnace on does a similar thing and gives you a bit more long-ranging gauge
but instead it is going to be a NAR locked in for Doren on topside.
And that has been heavy on the ban list as well, so finally getting through here in the end.
Ah, there's our pantheon. The points and click we're looking for in the global as well.
Also shouldn't most play across the course of spring, so wouldn't be surprised at all if that is locked in for BLG.
You can use the pillar to interrupt the shield bash that jumped forward.
So that's the PLG taking a moment so you think about exactly where they want to go.
Ooh, Ash Seraphine here versus Pays and Carrier.
A lot of stuff is down already though, so they're thinking, okay, well, with the Caitlyn
bar down, with the Elise down, with the Pyke, with the Camille, with all this stuff down.
What about, okay, Ezreal's gone, I was going to say Karma plus something else to do the
heavy poke lift, but Ezreal's already out there as well.
It is okay, I'm a little busy.
I mean, you could go hyperscale,
you could like,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
a pace carrier like the,
the Lulu Zerry that we've been talking about.
The other option is you go really aggressive,
Callister and Arta,
but then you have to win early,
otherwise the Ash Seraphine is just gonna root you up
and slow you down too much.
And honestly, both of those options,
Paze has been able to pilot extremely effectively.
Taliyah finally makes her way out as well.
Okay, Faker gonna grab that one first.
Another great roaming mid laner.
He's all over the map.
Knight still has a ton of options in his toolkit.
We are falling lower down, but you look to things like the LeBlanc,
which will struggle a little bit to the Taliyah.
Now you still have the Twisted Fate as well.
You want to go that route, and Nibia still has made its way through.
There's a Shinshao ban, which does make sense, even though the Trundle is good into it.
Shinshao's Seraphine is just such a strong combination.
Yeah, makes your team fight insane.
Do they need to protect the Taliyah at all?
I guess not, really?
Not that much left?
I like the Zeriban, but we've seen Zeriyumi specifically into Ash Seraphine,
because the idea is to just flash the Enchanted Crystal Arrow,
just don't get hit by it, and then run at it,
and you can just run them down with the Flash right then and they'll burst fire.
Also, it's crazy.
The thing is, you could say that so often.
Oh, it's Pace.
Maybe you shouldn't give him jigsaw.
Yeah, but Lizzeri, Lizzeri, it's really his pace.
Most pentakills of any play up internationally at 15,
I believe.
And a lot of those coming on at this series.
Japan, the end of the final ban from T1.
BLG, do you shore up your bot lane a little bit?
Would you look towards pinching?
I mean, support is the other option.
You can ban out one of those, trying to get carry on something.
I was going to say he's less comfortable with, but he's pretty comfortable with the majority of the 170 or champions available to him.
And the idea whatever it's going to be is still going to be the same.
Ash and Serafine, while they did take over the meta, they are vulnerable to high pressure mobility champions.
And you want to try and put some kill pressure and burn through their flashes and attack them.
So, you ban away the Zerry, but Unara still up and available to do the Unara-Lulu combination.
We haven't seen the Lulu in my head, we have.
Unara-Lulu makes sense.
Lulu is going to be the first of the two selected.
Does give you other options.
For the family, Jinx or something?
Jinx. I mean, hypercarry me. I like Unara. I agree with you. I'm just saying.
It's because I still would prefer him to have to jump, that's why I like the Unar more.
Yeah, but they've done this for a reason that you already know enemies.
I guess the one argument is the Seraphine could be flexed to mid.
And then you can have Ash, Loone, bot lane, Seraphine mid and just pick an AD jungle.
Nice Syndra.
Nice Syndra, it's locked in.
As you say, across his career, this is the third most played with an 80% win rate.
Yeah, it's same.
Ooh, Reset City here?
Is it Shuntan?
Talk about player champions!
Shuntan is out!
It's Kindred in a game five!
Eponymous with Shuntan is this Kindred.
It's often seen as just a facilitator.
He can take over a game as we've already seen in this series.
With the Keanu, with the Neferi, and that is the Unalala locked in for T1.
He's gonna try and dance around this trundle.
It's been a little bit careful there with the Taliyah rocks and with the Lulu in the game
Until you get your extra marks for your extra range
You definitely have to be very careful
But this is an oldie. What a goodie here from shown signature champion
Let's see it and he does have set up in mid lane and bottom lane both with CC with skill shots to hit
champions
They definitely can't take advantage of
Oh my goodness game five all coming down to this and it smiles around. Oh, I mean
He's got double elevation as well, but it obviously you're having fun
You know you have another shot another bite at the cherry if you miss on this one
But what a series that has been today to be
What a best of five we've had two in a row the second series of each day seems to just be a man right now
Now, T1 and BLG ready to battle it out on the lift once more.
Historically, MSI has been BLG's territory, 3-1 so far in series, but in this one T1 have
beaten back a struck in game 4 in dominant fashion.
And now, as we go into game 5, it is the swell of the crowd support behind them that boys
them up.
I don't want to point out to, I don't know if where they actually could even get a camera shot, but there not only is every seat filled in here, but there are people lining the walls.
There's like 50 to 100 people in there.
There's not even extra seats in here. There's just people all lining the walls for game five, team one, VOG, Shunthorstock, Last Pick, Kindred Jungle coming in.
They've got Shun, Kindred, Nightcindra, signature champions.
Alright, let's see about the jungle clears.
It is going to be an early invade.
The Kindred, always very tricky early on.
And Shun, I assume, did the Q over the back of the Dragon Pit wall.
No, he won't do Tribush.
Or he could even just walk in through here.
And so he's going to be able to steal away this red buff.
And you can see immediate ping,
his owner looking for the invade on the Razorbeaks as well.
We'll get the red is going to be an exchange should spot it on the razor piece as well as owner is
So again, we were talking about the vertical jungle split the jungle for your bot lane matchup here your ash
Seraphine you have very painful lane as faker goes fairly aggressive with his positioning in tonight
But trying to split this bottom lane to make sure you have jungle priority
And you have range priority the harassment from ash Seraphine
they rose to power with the synergy between the slow into the guaranteed snare from the
Seraphine in, shouldn't splitting the jungle here going to apply the extra pressure. They're
slowly building the way of pushing in. Congratulations Swyfe very quickly Koby, congratulations
to Doran, passing Perkz, the 21st and most wins. Yeah, G2 coach Perkz, right?
Yeah, positional coach I believe, T1 in game 5, Zad MSI don't have a winning record, 5
7 at Worlds 8 and 2. We've said a few times T110 to level up when it comes towards that
Worlds Championship but 4 BLG at MSI, they have that winning record in Best of Fies but
at Worlds, well at least one of those losses has been the 2 T1.
I love this strat from BLG, you know, Paze, Paze has been the guy. Paze is him, okay,
at this tournament so far and they're like, you know what, we're gonna split the map,
We're going to try and get as much poke damage on you under tower.
We're going to try and limit the income of this Unar fairly early on.
So viper and on getting that push, getting that CS lead, trying to work away at tower,
play money, Scuttlecrab actually the first mark does spawn towards Shun as well.
Nice for him so should be able to pick this one instantly.
Mark number one in the bag.
Looking for the big four of course.
Yeah, 4 gets you that initial breakpoint with the extra range, and then every 3 after that, I believe is the next breakpoint, so you want to be stacking up as quickly as possible.
For later on into the game you go, the harder it is to get them as they start to spawn on big objectives in your enemy's jungle.
It's a lot trickier for you to find them, so we'll expect to see BLG actually playing around Shun to make sure that he can get some of these invades.
At the moment, relatively even between the two teams,
Carl the Finnish bought for Pace.
He's just trying to survive through this lane
and get towards that later game portion.
Faker is also stacking up his tears of critical points, too,
because respawn of both Raptors.
And Shun has actually come into contest enemy Raptors first
to push owner.
We'll be able to push him out.
Control board down, though, and owner with the first of the main.
Looking to chase Faker, stunned up.
Scandal of the week, flash away from Shun.
Yeah, I mean it's huge. Mid lane determines the Raptor camp and Flash used by Shun, but he's returning for round two.
Yeah, he wants to get that smite. This is a mark. If you can get to that four, it's massive for the Kindred.
Ono tries to go back in with the Chomp. Hawkshot used as well to give vision in the bush.
Barley is joining the party.
Ono and Vibru here. We said they'd play around it. Ono looking for it. Seisman Shove's going to get the knockback.
The dash in the stun. Shun gets it in the end as T1.
unable to stop the Kindred from getting her second mark. Mark acquired. All right,
bottom lane pulled all the way over here too, not trying to make their way right
back. I mean that's a very quick two marks. Kindred typically in solo queue you
can stack your marks a lot quicker than you can in professional play. One of the
big differences of the champion because there are far less frequent scrambles
of fights and random kills and stuff where you get to be able to mark stuff, but getting
an early two for sure in here this time around and Midland as well, Paley's power!
Knight almost takes out Faker, he has to flash away and now has to walk the long way home.
No TP for Faker either, will be a while before he's back in this lane, he's gonna lose most
of this cannon wave, although with Oner coming across it looks like Faker has found the bravery
to walk back forward in the lane.
Yeah, the power there of Night Syndra definitely felt.
Fager does at least take over to level 6 off of this.
Now he's continuing the push though.
He's a little unmanaged, gonna go for the reset afterwards if Faker can just catch.
Importantly, Knight using his mana to get the push there means that Faker knows he's not under any threat if Knight stays around.
Knight also knows that which is why he has gone by and back to that fountain.
So though it's another game gold leads all the way down here for BLG remember they got pushing lanes again
Nice little split on the jungle to and getting the early marks for jungle for kindred for
Sure in here as another good early starts for BLG of course T1
They turn that right around in game number four the previous one that we just saw
With a lot of good play out of especially pays and carry you but this time around they're not on those playmaking champions
The male and the pike are built for it.
You know Nolulu, not so much.
Going to have to look a lot more towards farm.
I think generally T1 feel like they have to look a little bit more towards farm.
Tilia has a side mix job, Doran has the gnar.
But mostly it's like, hey, let's wait for teamfights and then let's look for some good teamfights.
They have strong fun to back.
Subjugate will help them with that, although there's no true tank on the side of BRG.
is going to start up this great pace underneath this tower
caught out by the volley and almost dies to the beat drop.
Doesn't manage to live through it.
All right, should finish up on that dragon too
with their priority in both mid lane and bottom lane.
And during that time of the dragon where you know
they're taking it, owner slinking around
trying to make something happen,
but they invested two control wards over here
to try and get control on access from their jungle over towards mid lane.
It's not going to amount to much at all in BLG's early game plan, going swimmingly here.
Nice early leads for them across the board and the objectives as well.
Yeah, then a prime position in this game.
If that wasn't gold ahead, spread across the lanes as well.
Knight, obviously, with that advance,
building up the splinters almost at 40, which gives you the double dark spit,
to keep one stack in reserve
and then it actually accelerates
the speed at which you can get more.
As our Arn and Viper now move
towards the topside, 15 seconds
on the grubs, BLG really
just looking to take everything off the map
in this early game.
Seems like there's an invade though, because
owner is here, with ult, jumps
onto shim.
Dance of arrows, the impound, the
pillar not stopping it, we'll see the
just by coming out of the road as the on-call as BLG one more out of the fight.
Shun takes it, takes this fourth mark, owner a little greedy, flashing into the
crud pits. Oh very greedy. This is after the lane swap and you know you've got
Viper and on up there. I mean dying up around the crugs kind of reminiscent of
against HLE but he didn't hesitate. He flashed over to follow Shun and Shun's
got teammates has his ultimate as well. You've got the lambs respite in that situation. owner
perhaps thinking if i flash chomp immediately shin won't have the time to use that kindred
ultimate but shin is so experienced on this pick as paze and carrier alongside owner come across
to try and contest the grubs one taken secured by on it looks like blg will give up the ghost of
the rest of them yeah i mean owner gets back up and is able to make it back out in time to grab
the other two but I mean that just pushed the gold lead to 2k for BLG plus no flash and I believe
shouldn't have had him marked. Yeah he got his fourth mark from it as far as I saw.
That is crazy in a pro game four marks at nine minutes. That is absurdly fast. We'll have another
look back at it. You said the red contest, it's a good start for Ono right. You go in, you get the
Chombia frozen to main for the attack speed. Pilla doesn't enjoy the dance of ours but at this point
It just goes sideways.
Yeah, wanted to follow over, but on really nice shot there.
Bounce the ultimate, off Shun's head, able to connect.
Oh, new as soon as he had gone over there too, it's like,
oh, whoops.
I think it's a bit too far.
I got to get out of here.
I was trying to run away afterwards,
tried to flash out immediately, but not quick enough.
On is there, on connects.
And it means Shun on his kindred.
Not only is he well set up with Marks,
But he's super well set up with gold too.
650 gold ahead, the only lead for T1, Doran,
who has not often had that luxury throughout this series
in the lane doing a good job of being a little bit stifled.
Bin is running the death by a touch instead of something
like the first strike to print money on this rumble.
But Doran, with that range advantage,
continues to just chip away at this rumble.
And get that second hyper charge.
At the moment, even though Doran is winning out on the 1v1 top, it feels like the rest
of the map really belongs to BLG.
Chana-Kris Varo doesn't find anyone, it's fake, it was too far forward in the lane for
that to connect.
Meanwhile, this is set up for success for Shun here, I mean, he's got Enchanters at
back him up, plenty of CC, you have Hawkshot, the dream for Kindred.
Kindred with an early lead against the trundle.
I mean, especially with the added vision control and pushing lanes,
really such a beautiful setup for him in this game to control.
Let's see, though. T1 creativity. What can they pull out in this game?
But it's also where do you find that creativity?
You talked about it earlier, the agency in terms of individual plays,
in terms of those highlight moments that we often see from Keria, from Oner.
It's just not there. You're a trundle and a lulu and yes in the teamfights
You should be pretty strong, but in terms of finding a good bone skewer or catching someone out in the enemy jungle
It's so much trickier. Yeah, 100% agree
It's gonna be very difficult because you've got a kindred with accelerated money
So 24 is already done even though he stopped off for an early no magic mantle
Trinity force is already done for sure and and he's got pushing lanes to play with and enchanters
and they're just going to keep on jungle invading.
Yeah, and that's all they need to do.
Keep getting Shun as far ahead as possible.
They use the force of will to drag the red buff away.
That's five.
Oh, no.
Yeah, unable to get close enough to take it.
Scuttlecrab the next target, a force Shun.
The next drake is also available to BLG.
They want to keep this tempo up, and it makes sense.
Continue pushing your advantage where you can't.
Looks like Shun just playing around the tri-brush there.
Going to wait for the wave to be caught by Viper
on and then turn his attention across towards that ocean dragon.
I mean, I guess you can say it again has to come down to some team fights,
14-1 to come up with some really big plays.
Yeah.
Hey, if you theoretically, you know, Doran and NAR,
you can try and like push people off of a Kindred Ultimate or something like that.
Kindred is, it's a very high pressure champion,
But if you can CC chain with like Lulu and gnar or something you're trying to I'm sure you're trying to get up dream scenarios here
But you can like you know push them off of ultimate or CC chain them or something like that to try and pull this lead back
But otherwise shinsling a very good job increasing this gold lead taking away cancer Baker on attack
On to Baker unleash power from night
Makes Baker take a knee
Dude hats off to on okay another really good ultimate on his mid-timer here
support able to make a big difference gets another kill this one for a night
and level 11 with 74 splinters is pretty good for him too yeah he's in such an
accelerated position as well as you say to fate 2000 goal now the lead for PLG
and if you're looking at it from T1's perspective, it's becoming less expected and more miraculous
in terms of a turnaround. You are looking for things outside the norm to say the least.
And even if you find a wombo combo, and even if you find a good teamfight, you then still
have to deal with the lamb's respite. You can see in this coin-based gold grind that
Shun is 1,200 gold ahead. And a lot of that is just from the fact that he's been able
to get, you know, the extra kill, the extra minions.
He's farming quicker, bull TCS up in the junglers.
Now he steps forward in the mid lane
with the triple, so he's already complete.
Canary and Paze will be able to clear out of the wave.
It's just beautiful because Kindred
can actually lend a lot of help in sieges.
Not all junglers can.
And so he's cleared all these camps,
can just come over to help support the Ash
and the Seraphine here,
and they just continue to lay on the damage
while they're sieging, while they're keeping this pressure up.
Yeah, G. Able to keep that control, and it's gonna grab a spot right into their arms.
Easy enough for Shun to take that two-level lead for Shun now over Ono, and it's almost a true two-levels as well.
Ono only about a third of the way, two of that level, 10. Equalizer down from Bim with a TP behind.
Fake Yark. Knight will join first. Seismic Shot doesn't connect. The scout of the week will go.
although shouldn't looking for the beat drop
alongside on towards the bottom side,
but in the end T1 will be able to walk out.
Invested was an equalizer and an Enchanted Crystal Arrow
alongside the Transcend one self that's unanimous ultimate.
But with T1 on the back foot,
BLG will happily take a consolation prize of the Rift held.
Doran's gonna take a look, but yeah,
they are indeed going to take that prize.
going to go home with the accelerated recall immediately with it to
BLG doing exactly what they need to progress this game. Nice snowball so far.
T1, no. Pay's going to try and push back out. Maybe he really wants that turret plate.
Ooh, okay. He's not going to agree for it.
Doesn't want to knock the crystals off as owner's taking away the blue buff.
So if they collapse into the jungle and oh, flash away from Knight.
Scan of the seismic shop I think was coming out under his feet.
So didn't want to get caught on that unravelled earth
With the force of will to claim the blue buff a thousand gold lead for Doran in the top lane by the way
But a 1.4 K and a 1.1 K for knight and shooting their respective roles means the gold still sits very handily
2000 ahead for BLG next straight up in a minute 10
It'll be the third for BLG if they can take it and I wonder if T1 are ready to fight yet
Still no first item on Faker.
Paze has a Kraken Slayer. You've got Mikhail's.
Is that enough?
I mean, honestly, not too bad of a time.
When you're talking about Doran, I think that is a good point.
He's got his Flash too, so...
Definitely could be a large difference maker in that teamfight.
Seen so many turned by a huge gnar ultimate.
And while BLG have done a very good job in the early stages here
to get their lead, and especially Shun, it's just...
cemented his lead with the experience difference you're talking about still we
are looking for a critical fight Jason DeVyp who has to flash over the pillar
it's slow initially night looking for Faker scandal the week finds its mark
so no further follow-up there from night who is at 84 splinters on his way
towards getting that extra execution on the ultimate shunned down towards the
River now is going to be able to play out some vision with BLG. Faker, Seraph's complete.
Yeah, I think before BLG get their second items, T1 might need to do something.
You can see the range from Tune as well as we have the beat drop onto Oner,
and Charnakriss Lyra hits on to carry on the backline, the on-core coming out as well with BLG.
They hold their horses, they rein them in, they say not yet, we don't have to go
for the full-core press instead. Take a moment, take a second, and reset. Let Bin join us,
We force them away that low HP BLG now trying to make a play on two fronts as Knights and Viper played through the drake
And the push in it means that T1 can't get into contests
Yeah, so much damage there from BLG even though they don't get a kill they push them off and they secure their dragon soul points
They've already made the bridge now
It's it's gonna be very rough for T1 the clock on the very early Mountain Soul in this game and
And BLG are just going to continue to increase this jungle lead, Kindred constantly will just continue to counter jungle at Trendal.
I think the only shining light for T1 is that the gold lead isn't exploding. It is expanding, but not at a cataclysmic rate.
2000 to 2000, 3000. It's advantages, but sometimes BLG don't push those advantages as quickly as they could.
They often do, but when they fail, it's because, at least in my eyes, they don't totally suffocate their opponents out of the game.
Instead, they're willing to wait the four minutes, say, OK, we'll play for the mountain drake, maybe we'll find a pick here or there.
The question is, will that be the case here? Is that the way T1 maybe get back into the game?
Because BLG so far, when they've been in this position in this series, have not given up the game.
on again has been way to second night does hit the stun here on to Baker and
they need to try to trade back Doran's on his way across with Baker losing out
on the one where you want unleash power Saras the shield and now they get dashes
away from the dark sphere they go with the size
take a bow nice because Baker is king here and you must genuflect in front of
He uses the flash, he gets the shutdown, and the crowd erupts to teleport down here from
bid to clean up the minion wave though.
They're trying to remain calm and deal with the aftermath of this.
Knight really thought he had him.
He goes for the stun, hits it onto Faker, and he's like, okay, I can close it.
It's Faker moved up from that Q, and he dodged the other Q too.
Only thing that hit there is the ultimate, the point and click.
The Faker's able to finish him off, nicely done, gets the shutdown. No flash now on the Taliyah.
And let's see, T1, is that the beginning?
Oh, and he's turning back onto on, gashing forward into right, with her, that's the on-call cleansed away.
Karrie caught out with her, there was a shun steps forward, Viper able to take the kill.
A little bit over Riga from the T1 bot side and BLG, very willing to punish.
Yeah, BLG, they pick up right where they left off.
Teleport in from Nade, they use their arrow to immediately drop it.
Ripple ain't gonna get blown open.
And this is the acceleration the BLG can to bring.
That charge was stopped by the pillar.
They're still gonna get the damage on the turret
and should be a tier two for BLG.
Once again, they extend that gold lead to about 2.5k.
They visit Baron available, looks like they're playing for Doran instead.
Rift house gonna charge through, Doran needs to get the hell out of dodge
because BLG have five players on their way to kill off this gnar.
Alright, Doran does have flash. Can he escape?
High note, out. Knight goes in with the rocket belt, tries to get the slow onto Doran, manages to do so.
Flash away, B drop, only finds one on his power, doesn't get the sun, the equaliser goes right and Doran gets himself out, but the Baron was actually begun.
By Vibran run on and now because they do not kill off the Nard, Doran, that last glimmer of hope.
Oh ho ho, manages to survive and now T1 take the mid lane tower, take plates off the bot lane tower and you can hear
the crowd come alive because some of that T1 magic seems to be happening.
I mean, BLG, they split their focus trying to get Doran and starting the Baron,
hitting a little bit, as you say, and T1 will make them pay for it.
Doran does escape. The flash, the dodge, and then the hop.
Him living allows for a little bit of counterplay there,
little bit of money off the turrets on the other side of the map for T1,
and we're only a minute and 10 seconds away from the critical dragon fight.
The Mountain Soul will arrive imminently and you're looking at the two item power spikes coming in.
It's pretty much across the board here.
Owner doesn't quite have enough for his spirit visage,
but everybody else for T1 has been able to complete theirs.
Where are we in terms of summoners as well?
On no flash, that's the only flash lacking for BLG.
on the other side. Doran, owner currently no flash, Faker no flash, Paze no flash, Carrier no flash.
It is a hard fight for T1 if they want to find purchase in it because they don't have that
summoner luxury. The question is, do you give up soul and take the Baron? I mean they're positioning
to get the vision control of it at the very least right now. Ara wants a Faker. He knows that's
warded now. Haven't seen those arrows finding their mark as much as they'd like. No bulls-eyes yet
for BLG is the bot lane tower falls to the slower. They're gonna threaten it for sure. They're gonna
start hitting. T1 on the baron. BLG they must know. You see no one on the map. We're on T1
it's 22 minutes. Obviously they're going for the baron. There's a whole shutout as well.
Burn, burn, burn! Bicker builds a wall! BLEAVER's wall. BLG trying to climb over it. 5,000 on the
baron. The equalizer down the knockup as well as Oden falls lower. Scatter the week! On call!
DO YOU WANT MORE?
BLG WANT IT!
AND STIRNED SECURITY IS IT!
A SCAT OF THE WEEK INTO AN UNCLE COMBO!
SILENCE IS THE CROWD IN DAY ON!
Where else but at the Baron pit?
BLG are able to get around the wall,
they get into the pit,
IN TIME!
They take down owner,
they take down the Baron!
And now, they're gonna finish up with the base,
they don't even bother with the Dragon Soul,
they're gonna push first!
to be the final push of the
game, but just as T1 had started
to come back alive, BLG immediately
put them into a sisterly. They will
be an inhibitor tower in the middle.
And the Baron remains this Rebel
Baron power play will continue for
the next two minutes. This is soul
as well and soul crushing for T1.
So much was lost over that sequence.
They got kind of close within range
range of damage on the Baron, so they decided, you know what, with this wall from Baker,
let's try and burn it, but be able to still be able to get there in time.
Did that hit Baker?
It does.
They knew the recall position.
It's not going to do anything, it just stops the recall.
You can see that.
It looked very cool.
It did look very cool, but we didn't need to look at the arrow, look at the arrow.
You know?
Uh, yeah.
I'm on my inner crepo for a moment.
D1, licking their wounds after that, I mean, that's the type of play that just snowballs into too much to handle.
Baron and Dragon Soul and Gold League just exploding.
Now BLG can take so much off the map and feels like with that play, they are moments away.
You can see Shun as well at seven marks, so accelerated in this game.
Doran trying to push through the bot side, he still has a thousand Gold League, but look at the rest of the map.
the map, it's a K at least in every role. T1 trying to push through mid, seeing if they
can find some pressure points on the map to play through but VLG, unwilling to give it
to Weaver's wall in from Faker, saves the tower for now but those kind of minions are
going to do enough work to take it down. Faker now isolated from the rest of T1 who will
just walk back towards mid. VLG can continue to push, have another wave on its way in about
20 seconds and the battle will remain for it. Faker clawed out the volley for a little
a bit of a slow, and Rambler at the risk of getting a son with a seismic shove enough
to keep BLG at bay. TP behind by Doran. He's just gone mega. BLG must realize that something
is up. They'll spot Doran on vision now, and I don't think he's going to go for the engage.
BLG backed away enough. This is an inhibiting, inhibited saving TP more than anything else.
Here comes the onslaught, VLG closing in with the Baron buff, VIN will push up mid, 4-1.
Playing it safe, staying at range, waiting for the next wave here to buff up.
It's a cannon.
It's the last 10 seconds of the Baron buff.
Eleanor goes in with the Impale, on Core, lands on to Ona, Sucki gate comes out, Doron looking
to build up that mech, and Albarba will be equalizing, he might die before he can even
go into his mega form.
A dance of arrows, and a dance of death out from Shun.
Because T1 are relegated to defending only the Nexus tower has been pushed again.
They have no top laner, can T1 do it?
Can they find a way to get back in this game?
Because right now BLG aren't giving them an inch and they need a mile.
BLG here.
I thought it was T1's home turf here in Day On, but BLG are claiming a small strip of
soil on that stage.
MSI is where they belong.
This is their home ground.
T1 cannot stop their advances.
The lambsdress might out from Trimps, just keeps him alive.
T1 trying to get through it, but Paze is down,
Ode is down, T1 is down, and BLG will claim the victory.
In a full five games, BLG will take it.
Shuns Kendred, he controls the game, splits the jungle,
Plays off the bottom lane, stacks the mark so quickly, and with that control, BLG can finish this series.
Dude, that wasn't even an elimination game. We're gonna head over to the Alice Desk to break that one down, take it away.
Absolute cinema!
Absolute cinema!
Between distance, BLG taking it, oh my god, the way they did it, the drop, the execution, they didn't let it go.
This is why I told you I need to see draft drafts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know what I wanted to call out is Kendrick is such a shun classic.
It's always such a treat to watch him bring it out.
He had so much support, especially with the ash surfing in this draft.
He's forward. He's now 42 and 18 on it at about a 70% win rate.
So it's it's just like this is something he played back on
and EDG Young, our IG Young brother.
Yeah.
And now to see him bring it out in this game,
Pipe was amazing.
Oh, what if he did the same damage as Carrie on the Lulu?
He was probably like, shut up in this game.
I mean, Raz, you said it.
This Trondold is going to have a miserable life,
and he tries to invade.
Flashes on the other side of the wall.
But is that Kim Dredd with the tempo
and the rest of the team following up?
I'm like, no.
Sorry, Honor, not this time.
It's the Sun Classic.
when he was re-added to the team this year.
This is what he is known for.
It's when you get deep into a draft
and you might see a Shin Nidalee or a Kindred.
You never know when it's coming.
You don't even know if it's gonna be a good pick.
No, it's not always good in every draft.
This one, it made the series.
And so it's nice to see BLG, a complete team now.
I also feel like Shun is one of the players
that got the least sort of mention.
A lot of focus on the solo lane
to the complaint through on has been enabling that roaming up and I just feel like Shun has been
quietly doing his job within this game five completely defined it but so many stacks so quickly
and you know I've seen games in pro and particularly not getting as many kills where
you're sitting at two for ages but he's very quickly which is getting those numbers up and
just dominating the match up. Listen we all got there a moment but at the end of the day if you
have to pick one performance that means the difference of the player of the series it has to
to be nice. Sure, the Swain was great, but it's just one moment
among a lot during the series that he made the difference with
stream.
Yeah, I mean, what a great moment though.
The Swain pick was really, really inspired in this draft. But
yeah, night, we talked about him coming in how he has been the
best performing mid in the world, how he's having just an
absolutely insane career split. And even in their losses, I
It felt like he was still looking really good.
He's an absolute force to be reckoned with, and as you said, the stream was sick.
Listen, we want to hear from the winners, and we have standing by on stage.
I think it is Viper, with Hitchi, and Fanny in the Verizon post-game interview.
Is that ready?
In like a minute.
You know what?
Let's keep on chatting.
Yeah, let's keep talking.
Let's keep on chatting.
Because Metic said that it's not even an elimination game, but it feels like it.
Yeah, yeah.
It feels like a finals.
And you know, usually you see these teams ramping up, not being at their max, I'm like, how far can it go?
Yes!
It feels like the game is just difficult.
I want this for every series.
I am going to say one thing.
Coming off that series, T1 are going to be out for blood, and we know that they're going to be facing down.
You know what?
Whether it was T1 or BLG, there's no easy route in this lower bracket.
There's no easy route for Lyon either, to be honest.
Yeah.
They're going to suffer, no matter what happens.
That is true, but I will say my respects to Furia that's going to have to deal with a T1 in the lower bracket.
And green T1 at home.
Sorry guys.
But the fact that this feels like a sneak peek to this MSI finals, I know HL East still out there.
He feels like the top three teams that are going at it, anything can happen.
But it shows you what we could see, what is possible in a series with Fearless, with all these players.
Like, when I saw the Velkas, I was like, okay, let's just throw the draft guard out of the window.
Anything can happen at this point, people can first time pick at any point.
I mean this is why you want the MSI format with all the best of fives, why you want Phyllis,
this is what people had always hoped it could be.
And I feel like some teams haven't been that experimental, but these teams are bringing
out all the stops and BLG in particular, the Sway and the Velkas, this was craziness.
Yeah, what?
Go ahead.
Can I say that this is...
No.
Okay, whatever.
Wow!
Yeah!
You can do it!
You can do it!
You can do it!
You can do it!
Team Chukyu is ready on stage. Lesson is approaching here, G.N.F.A.N.Y.
With On for the right and Boseum interview.
LSI 2021 Blackest stage, the 4th game, the left between BLG and T1.
And BLG will be able to get the victory after a 3-2 scoreline.
And now, I'd like On to joining us in the interview. Congratulations!
It was a very hot game.
For the win, we won 3-2.
What is the meaning of today's victory?
So I would, all the words, pay attention to this matchup.
And after the game, you won this very important match with the 3-2.
So what's the meaning for this victory?
VLG 3-2 has affected T1.
What do you think of this victory?
Because we have entered the tournament on the way to the gold,
and after we won the match,
we are getting better and better.
That means we are just one step closer to our golden road
and also after beating a strong team and means like we can just do better and better in the future.
I think it's more meaningful to win a strong team like this.
I think I felt confident today, winning against a strong team called T1.
BLG has picked various picks, such as Swain, Velkoz, and Kingdread.
What preparation process did you have for T1?
And I believe that the game will get more confidence.
And also through the whole series, we have seen like Swain, Vick, Forest, Kindred.
There are so many different picks, so tell us more about the preparation in facing off against T1.
Because they have already played 3-0 BO5, we have to use this 3-0 BO5 to observe the opponent's tactics and the players' choices.
I think they have done a very good job in the game.
This time, we discussed the game yesterday.
So because T1 have already played in three best of threes in the playing stage, so we kind of observe them and study a lot about their strategy and champion choices.
And also, they can really did a very good job in all the breaching and also for the turns. So we discussed a lot around the end pit as well.
I also this MSI is held in Vipers' cream-tombed kitchen, so maybe if he gave you some recommendations
about the maybe the delicious food?
Because around the arena, they've got the song symptom, the very famous breath, the victory, and we have tried it.
And we have known, like, before this, you have learned a lot of Korean to just share a bit more.
And this doesn't become a famous stage, oh yeah.
And after today's victory, I have qualified for the next round and the LBRG looks so strong.
So, tell us more about the expectation towards upcoming games.
No matter who's going to be our opponent, we're going to travel us to get the victory against them.
And in the future, we're going to expect you have the better performance as well.
And congratulations once again, and now back to our desk.
Thank you so much Wendy for this amazing translation and honestly I can I applaud the confidence on this side of
on I'm not surprised a single bit though he doesn't even know who he's facing up against
like you know what whoever it is we're ready.
Yes you might until you face bad boiles he's got you buddy he's got you.
Not the Camille Camille.
He was saying back in today and he's got you next time.
It's not gonna be pretty.
I mean, you know what, it makes sense.
Like, BLG learned from T1 playing in the playing stage.
Of course, Lyon today didn't wanna reveal anything.
Of course.
Exactly, okay, right, that's what we're saying.
Exactly, it's the classic LPL sandbag.
Anyway, I just got to hear that one.
Friends!
I got to hear that one.
Why are you doing this to me?
Bring it back.
But I will say, something I wanted to say earlier,
which is we always talk about the T1 Barons.
Yeah.
almost got it in that last game with how bad it was going.
BLG, the moment I, it was in fog completely,
but then you saw the minimap, ping, ping, ping.
BLG knew with how many times they had faced you one,
that was the only angle they found that.
And it was, it was a great story book ending
to this specific series that might happen again,
this tournament.
And you know, I got a fact for you guys.
So we've had double elimination in MSI since 2023.
It was GDG who won the first one,
then Gen G two times in a row.
and has always been from the upper bracket.
So even though T1 is going to be in the lower bracket,
they'll have to make history
if they want to win the lower bracket.
Never been done before.
And they'll have to-
Are you saying they have no chance?
No, I'm saying-
I'm saying they have no chance just to make history.
Yeah, I was going to say,
if anyone's going to break history, it'd be T1.
I'm also saying they have no chance guys.
I would personally debate them on Twitter.com.
Those guys get my dumb out.
What do you think about the bracket and where you can go up at the end of these things?
Oh my god, why's the screw?
Yeah, I was going to say, I think both Brigitte and Lyon are going to have a tough time.
G2 also could have a very tough time.
I think it's okay, right?
Because if Lyon lose, they go down, they face the winner of Team Secret Wales at Top East,
top-east, but potentially winnable, and then they go through the round three, which will
like the- oh, oh no.
Hey, hey, hey, we got a good shot here in lower bracket.
Way of myself underselling us.
It's the damn fourth of July, we haven't shot straight.
You already made your point that there hasn't been a lower bracket winner and we're still
in the upper bracket, so I feel like statistically, it's in our favor a little bit, you know.
Alright!
Alright.
When it comes to tomorrow's schedule, we're going to be back with the teams that we had yesterday.
So as we said, it's going to be Homo Life Esports versus G2 Esports in the second series of the day.
And we will open up with Team Secret Wells versus Top Esports.
And I'm going to turn my attention to the resident Top Esports fans.
Well, we'll be here tomorrow.
Because it's you guys. We're going to be here tomorrow.
So I want to ask you, are we on the fraud watch again for Top Esports?
Not in this match specifically, but in general.
TTC Wales, I think, are a matchup that, in theory, top esports should have enough of a goal between them that they comfortably win.
And as I say these words, I'm immediately thinking, I would be such a top esport team.
Surely they don't lose.
I wonder if they would lose. Have they lost to a Vietnamese team before? Has there been a carcass ultimates?
Something to tick off the bucket list, I think.
I'm starting to remember something happening one time ago.
I can see the ending.
Alright, you know what?
Enough tormenting you guys.
Second series of the day, we say 2-3 sports on life.
Bring it on.
Come on, what do you have?
Hit me!
What do you have?
Oh, they're going to hit you on it.
So there's Zaeus, Kanavi, Azeka, Kumiyuchi, and then also the light.
also the light we one bite out of go out of canyon one bite out of tm okay you
think I'm scared of Kanafi okay
guys thank you so much it's been a pleasure with you guys today and I hope
you enjoyed the show as well we'll be back tomorrow that's all for us here 5
am CST put the alarms on 8 p.m. PDT for team Secret Wells versus TES have a
Have a good afternoon, good morning, good night, and be kind to each other, see you tomorrow, bye bye!
Geno with the wall maybe.
Geno flash.
Geno flash.
Everyone shows up.
Ego is there.
Preserver is trying to get involved here.
But this fight is all fury all the time.
No, no, no, no.
Bye guys.
Bye.
Ura behind me.
Okay.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
Camping on me.
Ura, Ura.
Yep.
Give me Penta, give me Penta, give me Penta.
Penta, Penta.
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, try to get Penta.
The Nexus will surely fall.
Revenge for America's Cup is oh so sweet! It's a 3-0 sweep for Lyon!
It started with that kind of BLG come up and then they've consistently been meeting each other with T1, definitely having the edge.
Seasting the assist on tonight, he's isolated, but O'Nan, not with his team towards the topside, on and bin and down and Faker finds the double flash away from Cernar!
But the curtains are closed on BLG!
T1 the taunt on shun flashes away faker in with the justice plan to the boundary setting here as entry strike at faker away
Knight beginning to step forward and pays in the middle of the meat grinder
Does he have a way in supreme display of talent with the Baron going over to PLG?
Oner already dead faker trying to step forward but even with tippers by his side
All he gets is a hug good night, but that's on the tanks the cataclysm going in
Oner almost falling Knight down already though as Paze finds it
T1 eating number life
As well as owner Fulslow is scout of the week on call.
Do you want more?
BLG won it and soon secures it.
T1 trying to get through it but Paze is down.
Owners down.
T1 is down and BLG will claim the victory.
I
I don't need this sweet DNA
I want it, get it
I want it, get it
Even if we're together, we'll never end
Look at me
I can't see you
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't see it
I don't want you for me
Yes, I like it
I'll make it
You get me