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I don't want to do this, I don't want to close this
You're the one, right?
I'm the one, you're the one
Even if we do this together, we'll never end
Look at me
I can't see you
Look at me, look at me
You're the light in my eyes
Always looking at me
It's all like that
I'm the one
You can't make me
I don't know what it was
I'm holding your body
I can't even follow you
Look at the time in front of me
You know that I'm not thinking
Because I'm crazy
In front of me, there's a girl
I'm different from you
You're the one over there
I'm going this far
Don't make me special
Now come to the sea, oh let's call me
Look at me, I'm so jealous of you
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
I'm like a flower, I'm like a flower
Hold me, hold me, I'm like a flower
Let me tell you, you can like me
It's too late, I'm still looking at you
I can't follow you, I can't follow you
I'm feeling in my mind
You are the one I want
I know my power
I can't help it, I'm at the top of the world
Come and follow me to the end
I can't do anything
I don't know what you're doing
But I'm fine
I don't get it like that
I'm not getting it
No, you can't act like me
I don't know what I'm doing
I'm still looking at you
I'm not even looking at you
I can't take it anymore
I want it
I want it
I want it
I can't take it anymore
I can't take it anymore
I'm not getting it anymore
I can't take it anymore
We're going to be five or so.
Who's trying to make you want to get down?
Get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get
We're going down in the night
We don't know where the woman is
I'm scared and I should run
I'm gonna speak to the man
Then he'll take you on for a ride
Get high, get wild
Shut up and drive
Then we just shut up and drive
On the bus to fuck it
That is only moody fun
We can talk for the night
Can you something to me
And leave it all behind
Behind
Yeah, it cuts through
Baby, I'm having down
Yeah, this is my life
I am blue, yellow, white, side
Sorry to keep the eyes in my eyes
Stands, quick, wide, LA, edge
To ask me in, back in July
To go few times, I don't go back
No rewind
Now, now, now, boy, I'll give it to the middle
To the analyze blur, I'll speed it through time
And it doesn't matter where we go
It doesn't matter where we go
I don't need space to fly to find this world
Don't touch me like I've never done
I'm like a piece of paper that's in a hole
I'm like a piece of paper
Nobody gets your shade
What do I do?
What am I supposed to do?
What do I do?
What am I supposed to do?
What am I supposed to do?
What am I supposed to do?
What do I do?
What am I supposed to do?
I'm a guy, but I'm a star
I'm a guy, but I'm a star
We're in my mind, no one can know
I'm a guy, but I'm a star
I
You're coming out of the house, you're coming out of the house.
I
I can do whatever, everything I want all day
I don't need to be afraid, so this is all my DNA
I want it, I have to do it for you
Even if I do it, I can't do it
Look at me, I can't even close my eyes
I don't know, I don't know, bye bye
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You can lie like me, I'm so much
I'm still looking at your body
Even if you look at me, you can't escape
I'm a villain in my mind
What do you want from me?
I know my power
I can't help it, it's the top of the world
Follow me to the world, follow me
No one is as happy as I am
I'm a blue moon, moon, moon
Like you're not mine
Oh, oh, oh, oh
It's a like it, I'm the cannon
Oh, you can like me
I don't know much about it
I can't see my body
I can't even look at the moon
I can't even look at the moon
I want it, I bet the world are mine
I want it, I can just come by
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goodbye to one team at the end of today's first series it's gonna be TES
taking on Team Secret Wells in the lower side of the bracket they're happy
waving we'll see what happens at the end of that series I'm low I'll be your
host for this first one with these beautiful people how you guys doing?
I am like surviving, surviving, yeah that's the spirit, I'm done with it, I already heard it, it's fine, I'm good Obi-Wan, I think he's fine
What a beautiful series we had, oh my gosh
You know what, we had the bad and the ugly of League of Legends with the first series we had and then yeah T1, BLG, love it
I just love when we have these inter-regional rivalries, these two orgs have met so many times with some pieces changing, some of the cores staying the same, it's always a banger.
Yesterday's series was so much fun to watch.
It was a really interesting one as well, because game one was super back and forth, but then the rest of the games kind of went the way you'd expect them to after the early game.
And that stylistic mismatch between the two teams actually made it really exciting.
And we've had a lot of 3-0's in the tournament so far, but that one I think everyone was going into like this is gonna be a 5-gamer and it delivered.
Yeah, it delivered. Yeah, we've been lucky. With the second series we had it usually during the main stage so far.
Let's see if it continues today. As again, we'll be hitting the lower part of the bracket with the first series.
We have Team Secret Wells taking on TS, followed by Hamla Life Esports versus G2. How do we feel about today's schedule?
I mean, I'm excited for the second one. That's probably going to be a vanger, right?
I mean, uh, you know, I feel like I have a lot to lose in both series, you know,
due to that team who took down two LCK teams, a fair stand, and then top esports. At this
point, I really think they could lose to any team. And Team Secret Wales, hunching to the
first win for the region even just in game so yeah a little a little maybe
worried yeah apprehensive love that word you know what well let's brighten
it up the mood before diving into today's series it's been a wild first
two days of the look at so far and fans all over the world have been reacting
and taking notes on what we've seen at NSI so let's check it out absolute
cinema as we said was the second series we had yesterday. 777 days since BLG beats T1.
I mean that's actually correct but it just it doesn't feel like it's been that long.
They've been going blow for blow but it was 2024 MSI the last time despite the fact they've obviously
got a five games in the world final since then but it's T1 who took that series.
Yeah some big losses recently for BLG in that matchup. For BLG though MSI is their hunting ground
A lot of the time against T1, they're now 4-in-1 against them all time at MSI.
You know what? We had this matchup. I kind of hope we're going to see it again later on in the tournament.
It always delivers. Second reaction we had, and it comes from a player itself, actually.
Big Dope!
We are ready for the OG slash T1 after that performance.
I'm not going to comment on that one inspired during the interview. We had a thing that says enough.
I mean, I love Ducla so much.
He has a really good attitude, I think.
And also, this is kind of a little bit of an owning up of like,
I don't feel like I had the best performance today.
And you know what?
We're going to move on.
You have to grow.
You have to grow.
Yeah, they're learning a lot in streams.
That's what they said.
And sometimes it's nice to be honest about your performance.
Next one we have comes from traditional sports.
Actually, M. I'm going to let you take this one.
Okay, so if you are from Boston, Massachusetts, all I don't know how many of you who are watching
this right now, you remember where you were if you were alive during this reverse sweep
of the New York Yankees arrival. This pretty much earned David or cheese like the keys
to Boston for forever with his extra innings like home run in game four. I'm like shaking
remembering it. It was like honestly just, that had never happened in baseball. I believe
it has not happened again. That kind of reverse sweep has only happened in major North American
sports four times and it's all been in hockey NHL. So yeah, one of them was against my Bruins.
Thanks Philadelphia. But yeah.
And thanks to Hopi Sports. Thank you for the 6th ever international reverse sweep.
It's really a great time, I appreciate it.
And it came from the jungle, you know what?
I'm gonna thank Tien for this one,
and I'm gonna thank the Scuttle Crab Incident,
which is our last reaction here.
You know what?
I feel like the junglers can't help it,
are we still memento reacting to this,
and it feels like sometimes they just have to go
for that gold.
Yeah, we've seen junglers inting for Scuttle Crab
for a long time, Blaba obviously the most famous
Scuttle Crab int, it used to be a little bit more important.
I'll say Tian was already level 6 before you went for that ScuttleCard.
Yes, you're denying it away from G2, but really the int that changed the series.
Yeah.
I feel I'm from Tian, so...
You know what?
I can't blame him.
I get it.
I really understand.
You like throwing for ScuttleCard to you?
Yeah.
Whoa!
It's all too scary, don't you?
All the guys!
We were entrusted with ease.
So it's a force of will.
I'm cats on my team.
But it only adds up to a very long list of painful moments for ToppySports fans that
I want to go through actually, you know what? Let's say the pain we have to
Don't mess with Katie. Yeah, actually what is wrong with you?
Katie and a lot of people are trying to figure that out honestly
All right, so we prepped a scale for you guys. Are you in pain? It goes from zero very happy no pain into nine ten
Hurts as much as possible. We're gonna go through the most painful moments of top. It's sports history
Yeah, I'm actually I'm gonna need zero to four at all. Yeah, I don't think so
I'm gonna hold on to the very happy no pain because I feel like yeah as a European
Yeah, it goes our way first one. We have well, there you go. That's what I'm talking about
G2 hockey sports not the one we said she two days ago. Yeah, what do we think about this?
How painful was this I'm giving this a 7a. Yeah, this was a
Rough one MSI and Chengdu. Yeah losing in front of your home crowd hurts
It was also like going into this. This was the start of my personal dilemma talking about T-Sports
Top of T-Sports like in the LPL versus international, right? Because I was like this team is so smart
They're really smart about lane swaps. I promise the meta shifted. No more lane swaps
They looked shaky even before this series and it was a big gut punch to see them as well
Not the first not the last but it was a trio and yeah, that uh, that's strong
All right, opening big here in the memory. Second one we have is gonna be another exit this time around at Worlds
2022
No, I know I've relived this. I've gone through this clip so many times
What have been done differently? What could have gone differently?
I was so excited for this world because I was casting the LP all the time
We had such a sick playoffs, JG and Top Esports got a five games two times
We had that 90k damage Jackie loves every game which was insane
I was so excited to see them play the top teams in Best of Fives at Worlds, and they never even made it!
They never had a chance! They didn't even get a chance to get through the Ode!
I was so... I was so upset.
But you have to have some joy for Giga by Marine. A huge win for them. On the international stage, it's an LPL representative.
Yeah. Great moment for them.
Next one we have, last year. Let's roll back to January 2025, not January, March 2025.
First 10. First 10 was rough. First 10 was really rough, you guys.
I remember because I was dishing with you, Dan, you had hopes and then you fell for it again.
So this one specifically, I'd say like the tournament as a whole was a 7-8.
But this series is more of a 5-6 because the fact that they even made it to semis was kind of crazy
And I did not expect them to beat H. Lee. They lost to you. Yes, it's still here
It's still you know five six. It's still here even more, but it's not you know
I had no misconceptions about what was gonna happen. We were on that dust together. It was a sad time
I I agree with the seven eight for the tournament
But for that series for all the reasons you already said it hurt a lot less
So I was just like get these guys out of here like there are
You know what? Yeah, like it's over. We've seen enough. We've seen enough. We haven't seen enough from the series two days ago
and this one I'm gonna hold this one last time. How do we rate the reverse? Actually
what's worse getting 3-0 or getting reverse? They've been 3-0 too many times.
Yeah, okay. I mean so this still hurts a lot obviously it just happened the other
day. I think the reason why it's only a 7-8 not 9-10 it's not an elimination
match right they still play today and in the first two series the two
international rookies right? Swayon had a really great game one. Fungiwe had some
amazing moments in those first two games. So yeah. That's the thing it's like yes
we saw some good from them but that also made the reverse sweep just hit.
It did. I remember it being mentioned I think it was like the sixth ever
reverse sweep. Yeah. Wow. Well making records. Yeah. You think I'd go for a zero
but I'm actually gonna go for a one two as well. There's a little bit of pain there
because of those international rookies, right? Like Shryan and Fengui played so well in games 1-2,
and I especially love seeing good support players and new players on the international stage.
And we have a lot of rookies in this series as well, which is why I'm super excited to see
Top East sports play up against Team Secret Wales. Oh, sorry, MSI debutant rather than MSI rookies.
It's going to be a really interesting one to watch because of how much new blood there is to
to this MSI stage.
Yeah, one of them we can look at here
is Pond maybe on the side of Team Secret Wells.
Oh, I thought you were going to say
Troll's player.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just war.
Hey, he and I are basically the same.
Yeah.
But I could be playing on that as well.
But he had a great series against HL,
even if they were the three of us.
Yeah, and the Volibear is something
that he is super well known for in the LCP, right?
And it's something that it was one of the lone bright spots,
in my opinion, in a series that we knew going into it
was going to be really, really tough.
The region has taken a bit of a dip
after the breaking up of that CFO roster
that did so well last year.
And so that was kind of a bright spot of him
on one of his signature picks
that they were able to play around for a little bit.
I think it also highlighted something
that Team Secret Wells do really well,
which is how they set up their mid-game teamfights.
A lot of the time you'll see teams pick, you know,
RE Vi and say, okay, we go for the initial initiation,
everyone just do your stuff
and we'll try and win a chaotic fight.
Team Secret Wells don't do that as much.
They'll plan out the first three to five seconds of a fight
and be very coordinated.
And then after that point, it's an,
okay, let's see if we can win these multiple skirmishes.
I think if, like, Histo and Dere can be on the same page
as Panna a little bit more today,
they're actually gonna have a lot more pressure
against Top Esports.
I still don't think it's in their favor,
but I'd like to see more of what we saw
from Team Secret Wells and the LCP.
Do you feel like they couldn't manage to do it, though,
because they did against HLE,
but TES plays very differently.
It's a lot of different players. Do you feel like as a top eSports connoisseur?
I mean...
That they can give them an avenue into making things happen.
I generally trust top eSports to have the capability to lose to any team.
So I think it's possible. We don't know which top eSports is going to show up.
Yeah, we don't know what top eSports is going to show up.
Okay.
And the thing is you may think they had a good showdown against G2.
I'm just hoping they can stabilize and not collapse after that loss because that wouldn't be the first second third fourth bit
Even sick time. Listen one constant for toppy sports during their last series against G3 was cream
I'm looking at that midline. I'm looking at the fact that throughout those five games
I feel like he's been the most consistent player for the team. So I saw midline today
Yeah, I feel like people still think of cream as the player
He was at that 24 25 for MSI series that we thought earlier
However, he's evolved so much and become such a better player in his role.
He's been a huge part of what him and Tien have been able to do early on the map for
Top Esports domestically.
And I'm mad that Top Esports lost when he was having such a good Hui game because Hui
is such a signature pick for him.
We've seen him have so many good games.
I even thought he had a good game here on the Hui and it's so lost.
Yeah.
So much of his time on top of your thoughts and I feel like I have a much more complete champion pool be a much bigger threat
And there has been those big games that copy sports have lost despite him putting his best step in
But I'm just thinking that the chan cream combo can be such a big threat if you don't if you're not able to keep this mid laner down
Yeah, especially with the struggles that you're having lane already
I do a not the best lane I get in mid game
But if cream plays to the caliber that we see from him
I actually think having a really good split in the LPL as well overshadowed by night because everyone is a
shadow by night but cream is still performing incredibly well generally not
just at this tournament I worry for Team Secret Wales that they are just going
to be a few thousand gold behind as soon as they get out of the lanes.
What do we think about predictions for this matchup because I feel like we're
all leaning towards top eSports even though I know you guys are going to be very
pessimistic towards the team it's normal it's expected.
So I am a 3-1 Andy for this mainly because I use the predictions as a gauge of
like how I feel about these two teams going up against each other, I feel like it should
be a 3-0 and if I didn't distrust Top East for it so much, I would have gone 3-0, but
because of the collapse they had against G2, it's really, really hard for me to imagine
them just coming in and stomping.
Yeah, I'm hoping honestly that Team Squirrels can get a game because it would be the first
for their region at this tournament, but I think Top East should be favorite, hopefully.
You guys have said enough negative things around me.
I don't trust Top Esports to win.
I think their floor is higher than Team Secret Wales' ceiling, but I still think it's going
to be super close.
You know what?
Teams can happen.
Upsets can happen.
What happened between some secrets?
We got fungaming versus pungaming because it's all about this following game.
Pung it's another one! Pung, not done!
I think the game is the same as the last game.
The game will be the same as the last game.
Like the last game in the game.
Gia is the new Top laner who replaced the 3-6-9 in the LPL.
When I decided to be the top laner in the LPL,
I decided to do everything I could.
Last year, Pung and Jaehyun played a different playstyle.
Now, these two are back on the global stage.
Although you have a lot of experience, I think it's a good thing that we stay here.
Caravius Q Wond, another rematch for the four of you.
Teleport coming in now from team C for Wales and Kazami also rejoins the fight, fighting for the kill on the VA.
I won against SKT-1 when I was in the first year of the year, and I think I'll be able to win against MSI this time.
Last time, I couldn't forget about the pain of meeting SKT-1.
It's going to be really important because I want to take my revenge.
I expect this matchup to be pretty bloody.
All teams still going, connecting on to Jackie Luv!
Stubborn grabbing the double!
LCK 1-1 seed and LCK 1-1 seed.
LCK is the first stand's revenge.
LCK is aiming for the victory of the world.
I expect him to really be active on the early game side.
game side and for me I would do the same.
Once again like we did in play-ins. It is I Atlas. I'm joined by a sale
We are here ready to see who is going to keep themselves alive here at MSI. This is gonna be a really exciting game
I think
DSW was the other kind of drew the short straw. Yeah, they did in the first round had a really tough opponent
Top obviously wanting to prove that they are not the same top from previous international tournaments though
Where they have been criticized for not being able to live up to expectations their first two games against g2
were brilliant. I was gonna say like I think you know if they realized it's
best of five they're gonna be absolutely fine. Yeah someone told them it's best of three.
Yeah and they nailed the best of three. They crushed the best of three. It was beautiful.
Unfortunately three or four games were fine. And they didn't necessarily look as good. But
there is G2 magic right that also has to be taken into account. We'll have to see
where the team secret players gonna have a little bit of that themselves. Absolutely and I mean to me
coming into the tournament I had G2 on top on a very similar tier, very similar level.
So losing a five game series against them I think there's absolutely no shame that G2
is really the only Western team that is beating the LPL or the LCK because we did get swept
by them quite recently.
So quite pleased that G2 would just put the best team in the league in the world so that's
why we'd be happy.
I saw some stats. I think that it's something like all time for LEC and LCS. G2 has, by themselves,
has won something like 7 out of 12 of the total best of five wins against CLPL and the LCK.
So, I mean, they are the hope of the LEC. They are the hope of the West, period, if you want to take
down those big teams. They're top loss of them, but no shame in that. Of course, their army
disappointed the way in which they lost because of that reverse sweep. They would have thought
that they had it all locked up. And it is interesting because you now have got to wonder
how much pressure is on some of these young guys' shoulders.
People having necessarily been here from the ways way on,
who I think were stellar for them in the LPL,
and even stellar for them at times in the actual series.
You wonder, will that carry over into this series?
Will they be nervous?
Because we did see Zwayon getting picked on a fair bit,
you know, in those later games where G2 was really trying to attack him.
We saw him with the Shepan counter pick that didn't really work out.
And when you talk about bright spots for TSW,
A lot of people are going to be thinking about puns all the bears, right?
Yeah, I was wondering whether we're going to get Bolly Bear Bands in this series.
That's what I'm interested in, seeing whether we are going to get a lot of respect, put on puns name,
because he did look pretty good in this series.
It didn't have a lot of things that looked good in them.
But here we are in Champions League presented by HyperX,
and we are ready to get into some bans ourselves.
No Bolly Bears just yet, just a snake and an Ezreal and a Poppy here.
We'll see what he's going to eventuate though because these are kind of weird bands Poppy and Ezreal being taken away immediately
Means that a few of the meta options are going to slink through. Yeah, absolutely is the case
Is though that's a very deep champion pool, but Poppy not really something that he has been playing much of so it's interesting to see that
Actually coming out. I do think it is gonna be a champ that is rising in priority though
It feels like every time poppy comes out. It looks ridiculously effective. It is so strong in the meta
There's so many dash champs so many playmaking champions that can be shut down within with supports moving away from enchanters and more towards engage
Are getting even additional value there getting value against a lot of the meta junglers and top laners so
Keepers verdict also is such a
To get a team fight in your favor right you see someone with good setup
You just knock a few of them away and you're having a much better time
The Orianna though is gonna be taken away and there is the rumble ban
And I don't know whether there's been enough homework done as far as first pick rise is concerned
But the job and taking it away from history feels like a pretty good move here. Yeah, absolutely does
Getting TN on a playmaker to me. He is the star of this team. I think he is the best performing player when I look to the LPL
I feel like he really was in some of his best form that I've seen him in in a long time
He has really been smurfing it
So it is going to be a big challenge here for his toe is kind of the engine of the secret Wales really is their star
But I think the question on everyone's mind is really how is the early game? We're gonna hold up for TSW
We heard the desk talking about it. D Ray has received a lot of criticism for his play internationally
Emotional play, you know, he's one of their top candidates for MVP. He's looking incredibly good
He's such a playmaker
But when you go international, there is kind of a bar right and that is something that you know
Our teams are struggling with for years to and really everyone in the west except gas has kind of struggled with you have to be this tall to
Ride right you have to be able to be a fake or a cream or a rookie or a
Thing I feel like cream had a bit of that in the past as well right where as soon as he went internationally things were a little bit more
Problematic and so maybe he can learn something from cream here today
The right on the rise this time around though as we can see the Jace locked in as well as the ziggs expecting the ziggs to go
towards Jackie, but obviously it's a bit of a flex. And his dope onto the Lee Sin here
for some earlier playmaking. And I like that. And his dope, certainly a man that can make
this one work. But we're going to have to see a lot from them early on in this game.
Alright, some more bands to come on through here looking at some bot lane champs for TES.
They want to take those away. On the other side, I think we want to try and save the
top lane. The Shen going to be taking away first though, and that could be the other
support all talk so that feels like it's doing double duty. Yeah, absolutely
could. You know, we haven't seen more shin support these days, obviously. We
actually got brought out in the series against the Seer whales. The light was
playing it. Yep. You know, a number of supports are at least practicing it so
cute if they haven't brought it out on stage just yet. But TES obviously
compositionally shaping up to be a poke style composition. You have zigs, you
have this chase and you are gonna be looking to just kind of soften them up
Then hard engage with the Jarvan.
You can see on the other side is much more about the hard engage.
And that's why TES is banning out things like the Kaiza.
Kaiza and Nautilus, such class of pairing that we saw all the time back when Kaiza was really, really popular.
Obviously has fallen out of the meta somewhat, but is still a popular pick.
And Camille Pairing is going to get banned for six.
Which is going to lead to me wondering, are we going to get something along the lines of the rail?
Or are you going to get the more spicy stuff, like even a pike?
Or how crazy are they going to get?
Yeah, I think Camille and Pike seem to be the two that are picked interchangeably in these lanes,
but often the Pike is more popular with the Melt, but we'll see whether it is going to be something they take into the Ziggs at the same time.
I think you could also just very happily pick a Leona here and be okay with it.
Yeah, exactly. Anything with a bit of engage.
Last man going to be that Sivner to be taken away from Eddie, so they're not going to have that later game scaling.
I don't think he's going to be too worried about it, though.
And we'll see. I feel like they're going to play Jin.
I think so too, I was going to say, because you know, there's kind of a couple of different options for AD carries.
If your team is playing card engage, you can dive alongside them, which is the Kaisa.
You can kind of enable them to go in and just ricochet through, which is the Sifer obviously.
Jig is another one of those options.
Senna is also something that does really fit the build.
It's a good pairing with Nautilus, who have that ultimate over the top shielding people,
allowing them to go in with that dive.
Also gives you some pretty good sustain against a poke heavy comp here, like the Ziggs,
as well as that Jace, and it's gonna be well in your own day,
snap down here for Fungiwei and Cream.
Yeah, the Cream unit come in here.
This is pretty exciting in game number one, as well as PON!
He thinks it might be a volleyball day.
This would be just signature picks all over the place
if the volleyball is going to be locked in here,
but maybe it's just playing with our hearts.
No luck being in consideration,
still feeling fairly northern as we get a Viking instead of a Polo Bear.
And that will be the lock in here towards the top side of the map.
And this Olaf really could get out of control, especially when Senna is supporting him later on into the game.
Yeah, I definitely agree. I mean Olaf can be a problem.
And you're going to be able to ignore most of the CC, but something that you can't ignore is the cataclysm, right?
So I do worry a little bit about that potential interaction if you do get stuck in,
and then Dan just kind of like drags out and people hit you. You can't just run through walls still.
Yeah.
Which is one of the problems that Olaf sometimes can still have.
Now that being said, pretty powerful dive here.
The ability to play side lanes is obviously there for D-Ray on the rise.
You know, Eddie can help to support that with Senna ult.
You can look for plays.
But I think at the end of the day, the real question that's going to tell us,
can TSW swing with TESK is the early?
Because if you get blown out in the lanes,
but compositions don't really matter,
you know, the strategy doesn't really matter,
you have to be able to stay within striking distance to even have a chance.
because the LPL and the LCK teams are so good at team fighting.
If you fall down early, you just complete spirit.
Yeah, it does feel a little bit like it's a two-step game for TSW.
Not only do they need to keep themselves up in the laning phase,
but they also need to be able to turn on a dime,
because otherwise they will get poked out of every single situation.
And so they have to be incredibly decisive
and make sure that they can stand toe-to-toe against top esports,
which is going to be a difficult ask here,
especially with their backs against the wall.
Let's get on to the rift here for game number one
And see who is gonna keep themselves alive in the tournament ignite Jace
Way a little bit spicy here. He's saying yeah, you want to go to six you want to play slow look for an all-in on me
What if I just threaten the all-in on you pre six, you know
That is something that is very very scary obviously post level six
Olaf pops ghost if he hits if he actually hits on the axes then there's not a lot Jace can do
Jace is going Storm Raider Surge though as an answer and I would not be surprised at all if Zwayon does go early 50s
Well there you saw the Jace and coming out in riff bounce upcoming set vendetta and the full release comes out on July 31st
So you can be like a Zwayon. All right DRA versus cream here in this mid lane
This should be DRA with a fair bit of control in the earlier stages
But we know cream pretty good at navigating the matchup and should be able to get to that level six relatively comfortably
And BA not gonna quite find the dredge line there as we get the crash down from Fengui and Jackie luck taking a bunch of damage here
I need trying to throw some of these piercing darkens is down
But this is the problem especially if you do miss bouncing bombs
That's just not gonna be a whole lot of damage here in this lane as BA
Okay, we are walking towards Jackie seeing what they can get done instead changing their mind moving over towards Fengui now
And it looks like control for the lane here on
on TSW's side.
I like it. I mean, I think using the heal early,
they obviously took some pretty aggressive trading at level one,
use the heal early,
try to force your advantage in that 2v2
because Jackie Love is playing TP,
so you cannot allow them to get the push.
If Jackie gets the push as TP zigs,
he's going to have the wave at your tower,
he's going to base TP back full mana,
and you're going to be lane locked or you're going to be losing plays.
So TSW knows they need to fight for the push
because they are down that teleport.
Let's see how this one is going to go as Eddie.
Good sidesteps so far.
And this is kind of the question that everyone's buying.
Can the whales perform like the oysters?
Because the oysters, they showed up
and they were really surprising people.
CFO, BTS at first hand.
They were going toe-to-toe with the very best teams
in the world, taking them down
or pushing them to the limits here.
And they really did shock the world,
but this team was clearly the best team in their league.
And then it all kind of got broken up,
something out to the LPL, you know, everything.
There's a lot of names there that you can recognize that aren't necessarily in the LCT anymore.
Yeah, and that's kind of the question now on everyone's mind because TSW came in,
they were able to kind of take over that spot as the clear number one team.
But does that mean they can replicate the success of CFO?
Well, that's hard no, but that remains to be seen because obviously HLE is a ridiculously hard opponent.
Top, I think, should be more manageable, but still really good.
Trying to get the sidestep here, but Eddie gonna get satcheled back.
Jackie Love has him in his sights.
One more auto will do it as TN makes his way down.
Barry at last second, but first blood.
Still gonna go over to Jackie.
They do get a flash out of TN, but that is the best they can hope for.
Really well-played there by Fungiway and Jackie.
I don't even know if they need a TN, to be honest.
But he shows up, helps out, does get that assist then.
Alright, pun. Let's see whether he can make this one work.
He's on fire for now.
Gets himself the shield of the solo, Bolo!
The pun in the top lane!
That is huge because that is an ignite, Jace.
I'm shocked, Zwayam never tried to flash an axe there in that 1v1.
Now he was thinking that he was going to get the hammer form knockback
back up in time to be able to knock him away and then use the flash after
and some sort of ability to outplay, but he buffed the ignite, got him low,
tried to wait out the shield, but then just never flashed.
And generally, any all in against an Olaf, you've got to flash an axe.
Like, that is objective number one.
Yeah, that's what you have to do.
Maybe he was just thinking that if I flash he flashes and I die anyway, even if the axe is missed, but but then you're not slow
Right, so we gotta watch one more time first axe connects. He has the one ignite
He's trying to wait out the W. W gets used goes in a melee form did not flash the axe and then realizes
Oh god, I made a mistake. Yeah when he went back into melee form
He's point blank so that second axe you would have to predictively flash it
You know, you're not gonna be able to react to that the first one he could have flashed but
You know, he was full health. So I just kind of think he misread and misplayed
When he went melee form, I'm wondering if he kind of forgot about the Olock W and his calculations.
That's what I was thinking as well. Sort of what it looked like there.
Shweon is going to get at least the shove back in.
Jace will still have a fair bit of control in this lane.
As we can see a few CS in the lead, but Pawn in a great position now.
And Krim and Dira, yeah, still just fighting this one out.
Dira actually doing a great job in lane so far though.
And it's exciting to see him get ahead because remember, this game against HLE,
My man was 1v9 on the Volibear up there.
Oh yeah!
He was actually winning them fights with everyone in his team, like thousands of gold behind.
It made absolutely no sense that the gold lead was as large as it was when you saw him in team fights.
Because they could not kill him.
TS were going to be unperturbed by what's happening on the top side of the map though,
as they move over towards this dragon and look to lock down the first one.
Yeah, it looks like they will be able to do that, but TSW are moving over.
Oh my, another anchor pier has been fantastic with these.
It is going to be TN locking down the drake, but Jackie is in a lot of trouble, he is going to hold onto the flash and still go down.
That is another kill as well as Tirae is able to lock down the rail, and TSW off to a great start, 3-1 so far in kills, and starting to build a gold lead.
That is huge. Jackie intelligently does not use his flash because Tirae was waiting over the wall for him, so he would have just donated it to Arise instead.
TSW realized, alright, maybe we're too late for the dragon, but Tien is still hitting the dragon and the fight has already broken out here.
His toe is on top of Jackie, this is what I'm talking about. If you flash over the wall there, D-Ray is waiting,
so you'll just give the kill to the Ryze, so Jackie just accepts his death, has to hold on, and
BA was behind him, the Senna was coming in as well.
This is just really well played early game by TSW, so we asked the question, can they hold up in the early game?
Yeah. So far, check check.
Both of the steps have kind of been done as well because you saw they were laser focused in that last fight
It wasn't like let's steal a trait. Hisso was nowhere near the dragon didn't care about it at all
They knew their targets and they pulled the trigger
I think a lot of it based on BA who is just landing anchor after anchor on this Nautilus
Looking fantastic so far. Hisso looking to steal away a red buff. This could be dangerous though as fangwei is moving down
And is going to catch wind of it does just move himself out of the way is now cream being aggressive
that put in prison and that's going to stop that one for now.
Yeah, Funky always spent quite a bit of time up in that top lane brush.
He was trying to help out Zwayon, who has fallen behind.
They were hoping that Pumb would look for another all in.
And then the rel was just kind of sitting behind him in that brush.
Then obviously, Histo got spotted on that control ward.
So then he's going to go over there and try to help him out.
Pada's got to get back to the lane.
He's kind of just trying to decide what to do.
He's just going to run it, Zwayon.
Dira is going to move his way up towards that top side to flash out.
The ignite was ticking, but it's not going to work.
Nisto is gonna lock down the kill. He brought his friends this time. No solos for Pun, but he's pretty happy to get another kill for his team.
Get by with a little help from my friends.
Exactly. The Beatles said it and it needs to be respected. Absolutely.
Yep, absolutely. And in this case, you know, we saw Zoyan trying to actually, you know, bait him on
on that play with Fungiway behind him. And then in this case Pun is able to actually bait Zoyan.
So he goes in. Pun was taking so much free damage.
down to half health before he even popped his ult and went for it, but he knew he had four members
in the area as they were able to survive, barely lives, and now he's still scrapping.
Yeah, Tion taking a bit of damage here, but Fongwei is going to make his way in before the A gets here.
There's the kickback, no cataclysm, safe guard immediately up, there's the knock-up,
Nigger in front of him, not quite enough, but Cream is there to lock up the kill. Still it's a one-for-one.
Both jungle is down, and Cream is on the wrong side of the map, and Dirae's got a prison with his name
on it. There's an undertow to connect. I don't know why there's a viking here, but he is and
Punn is going to look to grab the kill. Dior is going to take it away and this is turning into a
real snowball despite the fact that Trion is up here towards the topside getting some damage on
this turret. Yeah, that is huge because this is D-Ray now in a great position. His lane, he has
really been his weakness internationally and now he's kind of gotten past that. He has a one kick
old leaf. His door is taking this fight and he's thinking it so aggressively because he knows
that he's gonna have to send ultimate, he knows that BA is coming, he knows that Punn is coming.
They were ready for an aggressive fight here. Punn says, I'm gonna drop waves, I will be here for the fight.
Cream does get in and get a kill, but D-Ray's behind him, Punn is here, BA is here, there's no real way for him out.
So his objective has just became buying time for Jayce to get plates.
Alright, well we have three men on the Grubbs for now, looks like his there's not gonna be able to do anything about it.
Especially with, yeah, it's a five man. There's a Jayce and a uni on the planks, and so they'll say, yep, you guys can have that.
And they will just get waves shoved out. You can see Punn is able to get that one shoved forward
And there is a center in the bottom lane as well. So TSW is doing good homework here as a response
Yeah, I mean this one seemed a little bit of an overcomerment as well
I wonder if TES are like well you're gonna send Punn for just a random scrap on bot side surely you send five here
So we need everyone. Yes, maybe they were baited by the extra crazy that was happening earlier
They're like well, I guess we just need to group for everything
Otherwise, we're just going to be giving away picks because now as a result they do drop a waiver to bot
They lose a place to Eddie they push in mid and lost the minions there
So TSW yeah, they do lose the grubs and it is really good
Comfort to play with Grubbs obviously you have six as well as Jace for pushing lanes
But still TSW play the map well and they're up 2k at 10 minutes
It's just not something I thought I would be telling you none
This is precisely what they need as well for a composition like this
And this is the other thing that we have to talk about if they ever get a snowball rolling
Making it work later on is actually pretty comfortable with a champion like Olaf as long as he can get out of the way of these
Cataclysms, there's a hammer boot back as Shwayon is at least able to weight out the Ragnarok
And we'll be able to at least get some control here
But pun is real frightening still without his first item completed that is gonna make things even worse
Yeah, and he did trade his ultimate out there
but he got the ignite from his way on and he didn't use any of his summoners.
So next time he has the ghost back up,
next time he has the ultimate back up,
he could look for that window before the ignite comes back up
and it's way on using the Storm Reader surge very well there.
Punn should be okay because he does spot these guys coming in,
but he's going to have to evacuate and at least give up a plate or two.
Yeah, he's just leaving.
Tien is going to come on over and make this cataclysm work.
Similar to what does happen.
It's never mind.
He's going to give a good old thumbs up and back the heck out of there.
So no flag and drag ulti or anything like that from Tien was a little bit worried that everyone's gonna show up
And I feel like the secret whales are in the heads of top e-sports right now
They are and because they went for that chase Tien clearly thought he was gonna be able to get in range for the cataclysm
He thought he had the angle touch up to him
So when I was not hitting the tower during that whole time
So yes, you are still gonna deny a couple minions, but it's a cannon wave
So punn won't lose as much it is just that one additional plate that ends up going down
D-Ray already has completed his Roa, his tier is stacking up.
Things are looking really, really good for TSW, and like you said, their composition is not complicated.
You're going to go in, you're going to press Nautilus R on one of the carries,
Olaf presses R, runs in, Santa Alta over the top, like, they know how to play this, right?
You don't have to get too fancy, whereas TS, it's going to be about can we land enough poke
to engage ourselves, or can we land enough poke to at least make TSW just back off and not take the fight?
Yeah, and there are certainly options for the TS composition, and I think as the game goes later as well, they will have a lot of damage, their damage profile is very nice.
But right now it's not necessarily working for them.
And TS will be on a great spot.
Yeah, precisely. It's just hard.
Okay, BA gonna move up towards the topside, he's distracted by a control ward.
He'll be smacking that one with his anchor, but it looks like Jackie Love will just push this wave out, and then Punn just clears this one up himself.
Having a look at where the next objective is going to be, probably around this Herald in two and a half minutes,
an option for TSW to break open the map here a little bit more as well, because I think that that will really help them out.
I agree completely, and Herald is just always scary against the Ziggs team because they have three grubs.
If you take Herald, you get a charge, and then you basically can just satchel and execute that thing.
So it almost guarantees you will just get the full turret,
which I think is going to raise the priority for both teams.
TESW are going to want to stop that.
TES are going to really want to secure that
to be able to get themselves first tower gold,
which is still up and available.
Because as much action as there has been,
no towers have yet fallen.
It's just champions that we want to be killing here in this game.
And I've kind of been enjoying it.
So far, only eight in the 13 minutes we've had.
So maybe we could have that action accelerate,
but that's probably not what TES want to happen.
They want to slow this one down get money under Jackie who doesn't least have that first item spike
Someone that has worked with ox for quite some time. I do know that first item loot ins is big strong
Okay cream taking some damage. It's his toe over the wall does have beer there as well
Flash ulti could have actually been an option there
But are not going for it and he's actually gonna go back looking for Fonglo there as cream over this side
That's a nice sonic wave. It's going to connect his to just kind of bait and switch him a little bit
Having some fun with it. It's definitely having some fun as far as the vibes that we're detecting here
It is certainly looking in TSW's favor. Yeah, the vibe is looking good
That was a subtle thing but fun. You may I think have the read that they could be going for cream
So when cream was gonna snap back his though wanted to actually land a sonic wave on him
But funny it was standing in between him and where that would be to block any chance of that
We can see in the Coinbase Goldgrind, D-Ray opening up a big lead here, 1.3k ahead.
This was not the Goldgrind I was expecting to see.
Well, I was, but I was expecting to see it on the other side.
A little flip.
Yeah, because Cream has been having a great year, just not having a great game.
He is put in prison, but able to win out on this trade quite nicely.
And once he gets towards item number one, obviously, I mean, it's not all doom and gloom.
He is the One that wants to hit one item and then start going ballistic,
He's staring down the barrel of a 1.3k gold advantage and it's a rise. He will not stop doing more damages
Yeah, this champion is gonna become very resilient and when Ryze gets a 3-4 items it becomes tough
I think 4ts scott take him down
Well, the A is dealing with three people, but he is able to flash away really nicely kick back his gorgeous onto
Fungway, they are gonna be able to take him down first to end in with the cataclysm
Everyone getting out, but it's the Olaf that just dives into everyone.
Mega and Burnabong will help put him down, but not before DeRay has taken out the Jace.
They get rid of Jackie Love as well. There's the damage missing, and TSW can do no wrong today.
They are looking incredible here. 10-3, a 3k gold lead.
They'll take the Herald as well, as TES kind of inexplicably hard-force on what felt like the nonless.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, look at the flash as well.
I mean, there is vision in that brush, but it was still a gorgeous flash angle.
Yeah, look at this kick here from his to Ward Hop's back.
It's a two man kick and then the TP from Swayon.
He didn't know where else to teleport, but that spot was so difficult.
He's forced to instantly flash the CC by BA and Dirae,
but then he goes over the wall directly into the Olaf.
Nice side step on Cream's ult and they just get rolled in the fight.
And look at them, they are pumped up about a TSW here to play today.
Yeah, they are. Coaching star, though, not counting any chickens.
I didn't see any counting there.
And in fact, everyone is still feeling very measured.
Yes, don't worry, plenty of counting at my house, even if you can't talk yet.
We're just practicing.
Three thousand gold, the lead, though, still going to be the situation here
for TSW as they look for the first Ocean Drake off the game.
Going to get them to double dragon here as VA.
Man, his Nautilus really has just been so impressive so far today.
I mean, I'm just gonna highlight the jungler's item.
Oh.
And you can do with that what you will, because...
They didn't color in the axe correctly.
That looks like a small rock.
It does look like a small rock.
Is that a typo?
A red square in his pocket.
That's tough.
That's 20 rupees.
Deeray, he's got his second item as well, so...
I'm gonna repeat that.
We got this, we got this, and then we got...
He doesn't even have a rock.
Hey, we talk about this all the time, though. The one-item spike of the Yone, the Blade of the Roan King.
Exactly.
Just don't look on the other side of the screen, where Ryze hits one of the most famous two-item spikes already without getting his Seraph's dead.
There is the cataclysm into this midlaner. Is Eddie already going to be flashing out of the way?
Fungiway is a bit too far forward, though booted back and taken down.
BA though is just going to try and take a Shelly exit, but she was on no health, so that's not going to work.
creative supports probably favours TES giving the game stay.
But when you realize that Olaf is top hitting your tower,
that was a 5v4.
Then I'm going to say it goes the other way
because they killed the mid lane tower.
He's taking a play to deny CS.
Shelly was there on sequence.
Shelly was there.
Yeah.
Who'll give you a solid half?
So that's a 5 versus a 4 and a half.
Yeah, a 4 and a half.
Shelly was doing her best.
But yeah, with pun in the top lane.
Of course, Shelly.
I didn't mean to slander you.
You know what?
She does get gets headaches bumping into turrets. So I can understand
Rayon realizing that he just cannot be in the top lane
The fear of that guy is just too much is yeah, a bit of a test of the one item spike compared to two items bike
I think I know where the good money's at and be a down towards this bottom side getting some vision in
Spots out the fact that fangwei is able to get that ward in there. There's my first dire of the day
But that will continue I assume is that is a great anchor once again toning shadow not quite doing too much
But does give out some shields scream is able to get himself out of there
Does have to use his flash though. So things looking a little dire for TES. Oh, there we go
That's what I meant to say. I was sounded like it was a noun, but no, that's not it's not what I was saying
Do you also his tears fully stacked his arching is ready and he said eight sacks of the raw
So before 20 minutes, he's gonna have everything fully online already be working
And then towards his third item.
Oh, another anchor to collect TN.
And man, they are suffocating them.
Like, TSW are everywhere.
They're not a secret, you know?
The whales are just there.
And they're really big.
Yeah, team very much their whales.
As Histo, he's very much there as well.
He's going to find Jackie Love as there
is the resonating strike kick.
Not sure about that play, though,
as he just lands the Q and that is going to do it.
And he knows that he wanted to kind of follow him
over that wall.
That one was more secret. He was around the corner.
Yeah, he's like, wait, where did he go?
Oh, man. Still a nice little kill there.
And that just shows the state of the game, right?
Like, he finds Jackie. He messes up a little bit.
Still kills him.
There's still not enough of a response from TES
if his toe is in their jungle.
Yeah, it's looking tough.
I mean, Jackie is very strong.
He is the biggest gold lead on his team.
It does have a full damage build here.
He has sword boots. He's got shadow flames. He's got a lot of flat flat pen plus the Ludens as well
He decides to not flash in that play, which I think I can respect, you know
Maybe just doesn't feel like it's actually worth it in that moment
You know, maybe his though just gonna ward off after you and kill you anyway
So hold on to that. But the question is to me
Can you actually stop this soul stack because ocean soul is problematic if you were a poke-up?
This would be even more problematic is if no vision in the area here
There is there is no even attempt as they do have cream on the bottom side of the map
Finally they get some vision as Tien's making his way over an interruption attempt here from BA
He can hold Tien in position for quite some time that's his toe. He should be out of lock this one up
There is the kickback
By Jackie love of all people and Tien now gets back over
It is going to be a freebie given there
But still can T.S. find more that is the question anchor into the back finders be a try to make something happen
Histo is being targeted by Cream, but that is going to be the pick-off, and TSW are going to continue their onslaught.
They do take the run-walk over, they do not want to let any of these Barons get away, but it looks like Free are going to get out,
and man, Jackie just keeps the game alive.
That was heartbreaking, because it looks like such a beautiful play from TSW.
They throw the nod-assault onto Tien, Histo hops out, kicks him away, flashes back in the pit,
And surely you think he has the secure here because they're just burning it down
It looked like this was just brilliantly set up
So there's the Nautilus all over on the TN kicks him away. He's at 1,300. Oh the early spite
He's way early spite and he panicked. Oh, no, that is what he was trying to do the combination of cool buttons
And not realizing the even have a bear though. Yeah, he's smoke and he's voted to 580
So that was not even close once he had kicked away TN
You just need to go back in the pit let it get low finish it off
But didn't need to press the button. I think that a little bit over excited heartbreaking. That's a panic moment for sure
Still it would have been a very sexy play if it had it worked and the state of the game is still TSW in a lot of control
They are gonna take sole point here
It is only an ocean that
Still should be able to get them a whole lot of power
Especially against all this poke that is gonna be coming out of TS later on in this game
TS not too worried about Drake so they are just looking to clear out these inner turrets
And they will be able to do so Jackie with the satchel will be able to execute it
And there is still an outer in mid which is kind of crazy given the fact that they've taken two turrets in the top lane
There's an outer in bottom lane as well
But evening things out so far
And TS sort of feeling like they are getting back into the groove
Yeah, I mean that that Baron steal was game-saving. Yeah, absolutely game-saving
GSW are still in a good spot. They're still up a couple thousand gold, but their lead is way smaller than it would have been
They are on oceans all point which I do think ocean soul is gonna be difficult for a TES to deal with when you're pretty reliant on poke for this
Comp you're not likely to win. I like a lot of 100s of fight. Olaf with the ocean soul feels pretty ridiculous as well
Yeah, for sure. And I mean, you're Senna Senna. Yeah, plus the additional sustain from the ocean soul
Lee Sin is very fed so Lee Sin is not easy to kill off. So they are gonna get good value from it for sure
Well, let's see what more they can get here at the same time as they start clearing out some control vision
There is a chase in the bottom lane doing a whole lot of work towards these turrets
I have to go back and think about the three grubs they collected earlier
It is really going to help them try and claw back some gold. I
Do not love the the skipping actualizer here for rise. I just feel like
No rise item. Oh, no, I've been watching too many chubby videos, you know
just loves a dash cannon and look you understand it extra mobility for the
rise does make some sense but actualizer is so strong and what does he now build
an arm guard as well like you have to get these on yes or fourth then where's
your deathcap so yeah okay I'm not a fan no I think so works out yeah hopefully
you can sell it later and by the boy itself or something like that but I
think actualizer should be coming in hopefully soon he wants to keep up the
damage you also are pretty tanky right the extra health on the dash cannon is
pretty good especially when you have the Sarah shield and all that sort of stuff
still just don't make you feel very good I'm sure like we shouldn't really talk
about it because we know that ox is going to talk about it for about 15
minutes after this game so we'll just leave it to him that's not on the ziggs
he's not gonna talk about it buddy he will he just doesn't like dash cannons
being built on absolutely everything and look Jackie might build it third and
and then we'll be in for a world of hurt.
It's okay. 1.7, so it is TES using that Baron to get themselves a little bit further back into this game.
Two minutes on said Baron to respawn, but two and a half on the Ocean Soul.
I actually think this is a beautiful moment for Team Secret Wales to play around this Soul
and not really care about claiming it themselves.
Just guarantee yourself a Baron, pull TES around the map,
and stop them from being able to get that setup that this composition really can play around.
Yeah, we'll see, I mean, I think if they can...
Or just kill Tien.
They're gonna kick him back, and now...
Oh no! The Viking can't get out of the cataclysm!
It's okay, because the blind monk can, still able to flag and drag his way to safety.
But they get his flash, so it's really good still, Tien.
He's got no flash for the next objective.
I agree, I mean, I think you can pressure Baron if you don't feel like you can get a setup at the dragon.
But I feel like Baron is kind of fake, honestly, in this season.
So I still would prefer that they play towards Seoul as long as they can get that set up first
And it's gonna be hard for TES to walk in now with Tien having no flash if they show up late
The chances of him getting into steal are pretty low. So what about Jackie book?
That's pretty high. Yeah based on our one attempt. He's won for once one out of one hundred percent
That's been stolen by Jackie love so far today, which I think is a very very large number for an 80 carry
Who is currently playing a mage?
Well, we'll see how it can happen again. Maybe Lightning can indeed strike twice.
Jeffy's on three items, has his void staff now as well.
And that's not a dash cannon, so we've avoided even more.
Which is absolutely fantastic. That is huge damage potential.
You're exactly right. From the Ziggs.
Alright, are they ready for a teamfight though? That is the big one,
because we haven't had too many of them over the last little while.
Top Esports really have tried to slow this game down,
as history wants to speed it back up again looking for an angle towards
Cheyanna's Jackie Love with a little bit of a fade away
and the Olaf unable to find an angle here as green teleports in
does rebind the soul and it looks like Team Secret Wales not going to be able to
find their angle they're going to try and get themselves back out of here.
That was a very preemptive Olaf ult. You know generally you want to be pressing
that when Nautilus is pressing R so you have someone guarantee that you're
catching up to the hitting because they just kited that out so easily
And now pun without that all for the big potential soul fight is a really big deal
So now TSW are gonna just start up the Baron here
They're gonna try to try to draw top over to them, but they think better of that as well
Yeah, half the cooldown on the Ragnarok. It is coming up very quickly
We'll see whether they can wait that out before they actually do start a fight be a taking so much damage
This is all we were scared about from the very beginning just after the draft
This is what this top eSports composition is capable of right if you are indecisive
They will just poke you down and you won't be able to do anything even if you do find an angle
Well, they're back to the bear and they're saying nope cream
You cannot go solo that dragon BA has base. He's coming back out and Eddie can keep them pretty healthy
So they're buying time. Well Ragnarok's up in a couple seconds here
So they could actually look for a fight when BA gets back
Yeah
Well is looking for an angle right now is down to 50% is pawn
But he does have that Ragnarok like you were talking about bongo
They're looking for a bit of an angle, but BA gets in that first
There's a knock-off. They take out the J. Snorting Cheddar to keep the team alive.
It's the end. Cataclysm on top of the center, but it's not going to do anything.
He's just going to kill everyone around him. It's a double for DeRan.
Jacky Love goes down for the triple. Can they give him the quadra? That's the question.
Punn says no, and he's just going to collect it. They'll take a Baron though, and Team Secret Wails.
4k Goldly. They look like they're about to win game one.
That's five for one at the Baron. They're going to get Baron,
Ensole and an ace.
Let us start to this series for TSW.
And that fight, let's be honest,
it wasn't even really close.
The initial engage was great.
BA, no hesitation, gets back.
They're straight onto the JC.
It's just one shot.
Then look at Eddie.
Fungiwei says, let's send it onto Eddie.
But it's just TN.
And then way back there, there's no damage.
No one is going to be able to actually knock him down.
And on the other side,
his toe and D-Ray are so fed.
They're wiping through the rest of TES.
Fungiwei can't do nothing.
TSW, they get it all.
Yeah, they get the soul as well,
as you can see, picture in picture.
And I swear, like Eddie's positioning in that fight
as well, absolutely gorgeous.
So much of Top Esports' composition is front-loaded
as BM might be in a little bit of trouble,
but he's a pretty tanky Nautilus.
There's the root and down will go TN.
No options, kickback is gorgeous on the Fungiwei.
It's a setup for the anchor.
Does Histo and Bea man, this is a gank squad that are working so beautifully.
Cream, oh dear, he is gonna have to go back to that blind monk and Histo will find him, another anchor comes in!
TSW were just styling on them, Jackie will be able to get a kill back though as Bea a little bit overly aggressive,
but there is pun, flashing on forward, picks up the kill and TSW, I think they just want to focus on game number two and send this one into the books.
So it looks like they do they have that wave made here.
Swayon's got to try to clear out the wave as much as he possibly can because Jackie and Cream are dead for a very long time.
This next wave is coming up though.
I don't know. I don't think they have time to finish. I think it will just be be in heaven and a base.
Yeah, it should be.
They will have a lot of their health bars back though with this ocean salt that has been picked up.
But maybe not in time for Fengui to start some sort of defense engage.
just be some under under toes being thrown back in. Yeah, there'd be a lot of money to spend.
We've got a 4000 gold advantage for Deere. His toe is exactly the same number. That's an 8010 rise.
My god. Let's have a look at this Mastercard priceless moment of the game as it's just a bit of a
victory lap here for TSW. Yeah, TSW again, it is top engaging on VA, Oceansoul aftershock, locket.
You know, he has so much durability at this point.
And then Kreen tries to go in and take out D-Ray,
but he has the Seekers' Armguard.
His toe is waiting for him as he snaps back,
and then BA just full sends it.
He gets taken down.
Wow indeed.
Wow indeed, indeed.
As D-Ray is indeed legendary, 9-0-10,
as Jackie's lying on the floor.
Sometimes we had this issue yesterday,
but the replays are difficult.
The video game is just accelerating here.
But mainly beyond TES.
I mean, it's quadrupled the kills here for Team Secret Wales.
They're close to a 10,000 gold lead.
It's fun.
He's going to turn cream, unbinding his soul
into an attempt for a bit of a ghost engage.
But he's just running around the enemy base,
just having a great time.
And the inhibitors are already down in the mid lane.
They're going to do the same thing for this topside one.
And top esports, one last opportunity for a defense.
But man, it's going to be so hard.
11,000 gold in the hole.
And there's a full Zonya's done for Dire here.
There are three items on the center. She's starting to scale up.
And by starting, I think she's basically at the end,
because this game does not have very much left in it,
and last-top esports can perform a miracle.
Jackie behind his Nexus trying to use that for protection,
but that means he's Nexus Territor in so much trouble.
And they're just waiting, letting these minions do the work.
As first Nexus Territor does go down,
the unbound soul is going to be able to keep Cream alive,
but he still takes so much damage here.
Dire just going to be dashing back.
And there is the Magnus Storm, they try and get on top of the Ryze Mega in front of him.
Not doing nearly enough as the Droning Shadow comes on through.
And Fongiway is just going to die as an afterthought.
Chweon is going to have to get out of there, but it's Shaki that's moaned down.
Histo finds his mark and it's the team Secret Wales that take game number one over top Esports.
And man, maybe we had this team underestimated.
Maybe Hummerlight Esports are just completely ballistic.
And it seems Secret Whales should have been in the favorites here.
29 kills by Secret Whales alone in 32 minutes of one final fight for BA, completely stuffed
to a gate, booked TN out of his flag and drag, that was domination.
Ox, how you feeling buddy?
That is a very good question actually.
Before, you know what, we're going to take the scale back that we had in pre-show from
It doesn't hurt, into it hurts a lot, so vibe check from my two...
I'm not feeling great!
You're not feeling great.
No.
You're not feeling, it hurts even more.
Why even more?
Because you had expectations.
I think it's great!
Yeah, very happy.
It's first win for Team Secret Wells, guys!
First win!
Yeah, for the LCT here.
Yeah, yeah!
Yeah, and I mean, this is really massive for them, especially, like I said, with CFO, breaking up,
and then being such a formidable team being able to contest LPL and LCK teams,
and it started early on in this game with this kind of skirmishing that we know TSW is capable of.
Well, really, it started with this, with Shwayon at a bit of a rough game, dying to Olaf on topside.
Even running the ignite to try and get the edge in the 1v1, mitigate some of that sustain, didn't work.
then this setup, it was an over-posed dragon, they didn't have the prior mid, and Jackie
Love just gets left in the middle of all these Team Secret Wales members, and that is not
a one-time instance. That happened a lot during this game.
Yeah, we saw it quite a few times where Team Secret Wales were at an objective or at a
fight quicker than Top Esports thought they would be there. Top Esports thought, oh, we
can sneak away this river, we can sneak away this dragon, but Team Secret Wales were so
quick to react, and this is when we were praising their mid-game play and their mid-game skirmishing.
This is exactly what Team Seeker Wales do well.
Yeah, and I want to call up the Rift Herald fight, right?
Yeah.
Because I thought that was a great collapse from them.
You already have the Olaf kind of fainting on the bot,
going into Fog, into the brush, TPing, then into the fight.
And again, like we already said up,
this is another play where TSW were able to collapse much
quicker than I think Top Esports expected.
And importantly, if you look at this,
it is so premeditated from Team Seeker Wales.
You can see BA stepping out saying, hey, I'm here.
Come get me.
There's a ward behind for the TP immediately.
And then you have the flank coming in.
Like, top e-sports, they took a hookline and sinker.
Honestly, this game felt very much
like they weren't doing their due diligence.
And Team Secret Wells punished that incredibly well.
And it's not about, yeah, go ahead.
I'll just say, I think if you don't pull off the good engages,
Olaf, Lee Sin, just diving on your back line,
it felt like the center was just never really under threat.
You're playing the mobile pick into Zeke's Jarvan,
who was very rarely sort of pulled off.
And if you guys are talking about BA, and I feel like he's been on top of his game here with Nautilus,
even in the later stages of the game, we're going to look at one specific replay because, as every second counts,
thanks to the reliable SysConnetworks, he finds the perfect engage with Nautilus,
which leads to the Baron in the end, and I'm always worried when it comes to games like this because I'm like,
are they going to be able to bring it home? And they work clutch on every timing.
Yeah, and BA was so good in this game, right?
Like, this isn't the first big hook or big Nautilus ult
that he was able to land in a lot of the teamfights,
but here, getting that catch onto Shuei on
before Feng Yue could wrap around the topside on the rail,
because, again, we talked about how slow top-ease-forced setups
were in this game.
This is another example of them just finding a play
and then immediately being able to collapse on top-ease-forced.
And Nautilus is such a volatile pick,
especially into so much, so much damage, we've seen even recently Karrion having a bit of a top game on that.
And you have to go in with confidence, that play was such a decisive one.
He dies in the aftermath and it's like my job's done, you guys take it away.
And you see Team Secret Wells being able to innovate here, especially with what they've brought in the draft.
They had the early game guaranteed, they had the late game caution in the likes of Senna and Ryze as well.
And he's still on listen. I don't think that we're used to seeing him.
Yeah, we haven't seen that a lot from him. He hasn't been around for over two years, and Lee Sin hasn't really met her during that time, so he's only got seven games on the pick, but it is something that he is known for in the region at least, and he's very good at it, especially when he gets these more skirmish heavy mid games, because then he can team up with D-Ray so well.
well. And this is how domestically we saw them performing really well right. It was
his show taking the role of really really pushing the team forward going for
those big game team fight setups like you already mentioned medic and him and
Dirae working together in this game something that we were really worried
about from their homo life e-sports match and they performed so well together
as a duo especially with Dirae doing so well only. Yeah he was having a great
They're leaning face up against Scream and I think having the confidence to bring out
Lisa and Ryze, we're so reliant on the other person, D-Ray just really dominating and
having to pump in so much damage as well.
I think that was maybe the concern when you're going up against Scream and Tien and they
really were ahead in that 2v2.
And that's the thing, we see confidence from this duo, we see the right priorities when
it gets to draft.
The way to execute the picks in game, what have we learned so far?
Top Esports are struggling.
I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be honest with you.
Team Zyker was and played this really well, but you look at the drafts and coming out of drafts,
I was saying, I like Top Esports drafts. They have good ways to punish D-Ray in the early game.
He still shouldn't be able to get too far ahead through that mid game as well.
And then you saw them just be really uncoordinated and the skipping steps,
not doing their due diligence around that, drake around that red buff.
I wonder if it is, I don't want to say they're collapsing,
but we have seen this from Top Esports as an organization before,
or if not from all five of these players.
I think also we saw Real of Deep Cups gaming really struggle in the play-ins
and then obviously Team Secret Wales lost a fair series, but it was against H.E.T.C.E. Lee
and I think everyone was looking at the LCP and thinking,
I guess they're just not a threat, but I think proving that they have to be respected
and they will take games and maybe a series of you if they are not.
Here are the Wales, here in Game 1, they opened up the score against Toppiesports
in our Elimination series, they brought the fire in Game 1,
let's see if they can do it again.
That just dives into everyone!
Mega in front of him, will help put him down, but not before Dyr-Dyray has taken out the Jace!
They get rid of Jackie Love as well, there's the damage missing!
This one up there is the kickback ball!
Back into the solid by Jackie Love of all people!
NtN now gets back over!
It is going to be a freebie given there, but still, can TES find more?
That is the question. Anger into the backline is Fiat trying to make something happen.
Histo is being targeted by cream, so that is going to be the pick-off.
The legacies of built and dreams either realize or wits a part
When I was a player
If I was to like 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 ukulele on-stage standard initiative
aimed to bring your home or training room settings to the tournament stage.
I think other players will be able to set up more easily.
The most comfortable thing is that the more powerful play comes out naturally.
I
Let go gives you wings
moving into this second game and Top Esports looks like G2 may have done a number on them in this one.
Yeah, a little bit of mental damage perhaps.
Yes.
His way onto me, he was blowing me away in the LPL with how consistent he was, how he was able to go toe to toe with,
and sometimes just actually smack the very best top laners in the league.
So a little bit surprising to see the way in which he was solo killed.
solo kill we know that pun had even some great games against you know in his previous series against HLE
You know his volleyball game obviously standing out, but sway on the way in which he's dying
He's looking uncomfortable and I feel like T. Yes
You could see some panic moments where we were just talking about this
But where you know when when pun made that roam down towards that fight in the jungle
Yeah, and they weren't ready for it and it felt like after that
They were so afraid of the fact that anyone could be anywhere be anywhere that then they over compensated
And they said five members to Herald without answering any of the three waves and when you go for a play like that
You're just losing gold and so it was very strange to see the team with the extra teleport on the zigz
Kind of getting ran around the map a little bit
Yeah, exactly and I mean they were missing a teleport from the top side of the map
But that was because a Jace picked ignite so that he could win lane and then got solo kill. Yeah. Yeah, it's just
unacceptable basically and we'll see where the top esports can get back on
the horses. It was a really good start to the series against G2 right but
okay hear me out maybe this is all part of the strategy because they were like
playing well at the start that doesn't win. Playing well at the end that is what
is able to get the win. So let's see whether that is going to work as fun
just trying to put some fear into them with a volleyball hover but instead it's
going to be the bar blocked away for BA most likely there it is will they be
pairing it with a Caitlyn to start this one off as instead looks like we're
looking for a D-Ray pick to get off the ground and that is going to be picked
into the Vi. Vi and Aurora together pretty powerful so taking that one away
from Cream does make some sense but Vi, Ari, I mean there are a lot of things
that Top E sports can play around now. Yeah they're absolutely are and I'm just
always a little bit nervous when you are last pick and you are blinding your
solos right that just always feels like that is the big advantage of course
Aurora is a power pick like you said cream is really really good on it it's
most played so it can make sense but cream can play a lot of stuff and cream
gets kind of the run of the show now so it is gonna be rumble r8 by you know
three really kind of high-private champions these days for these players
and the question is what will we see or pun or will they shift something around
We used to see a lot of Gallio and Ornn as kind of like rumble answers.
You can obviously go aggressive counters.
You could even move the Aurora up towards the topside and put it against the rumble if you want,
because that is something that is also another one of those answers.
So I'm going to be curious, because now that it is rumble,
it does open up the possibilities of a flex a lot more.
And then if you grab the inferior, you could even do like Gallio,
immediately against the R.
There's so many options here, so I'm kind of curious where TSW wants to take us.
Yeah, you can actually just pick Galio and then still everyone's confused about where things are going to be going.
Getting a little ahead of ourselves though as we are into the next round of ban,
Mr. Kaisa going to be taken away. You are ahead of the game.
That's probably what makes the world champ difference.
As Jhin also going to be removed, very happy about that ban.
I too do not want to see Jhin.
And we'll have one more to come on through. A lot of AD carries being taken away now.
Maybe we'll have a look at some of the mages towards the bottom side of the map,
But I don't think that that is where top e-sports want to go and it is just going to be the Camille taken off the board
Now I'm wanting to go up against that Camille combo down the bot lane
So Caitlin as well as you into the best pairings with the barred will be taken away
Can play with you kind of anything with barred but honestly I would say you probably read the most common arcade gin
And as well yeah, we are banned right so a lot of common pairings are gone
It's not that Bard can't work with anything else, but it's not necessarily as dominant as it is with those particular champions.
We'll see what they are going to lock in, because they're going to have to make a decision now.
As misfortune, that's a decent option.
I was thinking about what could work in the early laning phase to help augment the power of this electric Q-Bard,
and then Emma can certainly do that.
It can. The only thing is they have no actual lock-down, right?
Like, you could Bard off and then start ulting over the top,
But they need someone to hold them in place, which kind of brings my mind back to the Galio again.
You know, do we want to actually bring out a Galio?
Galio on.
The Fury goes in, or that could work.
You know, I was kind of thinking of the potential of the Fury diving in, Aurora flanking.
Galio also over the top, MF ult with that.
But it is going to be Nara Lulu, so scaling options here to 40, yes.
Definitely not the strongest laners these days, these two champions.
But if you can get through the early phases, you can absolutely take over in a 5v5.
and they clearly are looking at TN and creepy their playmakers.
You went by Ari.
Yep.
Jackie Love is the late game insurance here.
All right, Tom, thinking about what he wants to do,
it looks like the Nara is going to be the final consideration.
Not necessarily helping, but this is what we were talking about before.
I like it way more.
I mean, this is what a lot of people think of like the primary matchup into the rumble,
but also really helps the composition like you're asking for.
Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense.
Now you have that primary engage.
Obviously, what you are going to be looking for
is Guard Alt, Horn, Horn.
That goes in.
Aurora comes in on the flank.
The Fury dives in.
MF Alt's over the top.
You're looking for this kind of grouping of ultimates
to try to burst someone down.
That being said, RE, pretty evasive.
Jackie Loeb, you can go RE and just kind of like pop, pop out.
With your Alted E, you have that dash.
So nothing easy as far as.
I think all in off as well is going
to be such a problem for fun.
Like you come in blowing the horn and then you're turned into a little critter.
You can't actually send the rim back and things can be problematic from there.
There are certainly things that are team secret whales need to play around.
But think back to where we were in game number one.
As we were loading onto the rift, we were saying like it was a two step plan.
Things are going to be difficult.
They have to make sure that they do this, that and the other.
And as it turned out, they just played better all game.
So maybe that's just what they're going to do this time around as well.
But I do think there's a little bit less simplicity in this draft out of the sequel Wales
And whether that is going to be a hindrance or a help we'll have to find out yeah
I would completely agree and it's not a comfort
I would really want to play MF against because there's not the easiest kind of like point-foot lock down like a
Nautilus and a rel to Gary and you're also gonna go out and then you're also
Standing still to alt against Ari Vai and a rumble so those are pretty scary
Equizer gets dropped under your head, you get piloted, you get charmed, anything along those lines is going to be really, really difficult.
So a lot of those tools are going to have to be used, and we're going to have to see Eddie be very careful about how he actually enters the fight,
because if he goes into early, uses the ult too early, it's going to be really easy to shut him down, at the very least, make him cancel that ult.
And we'll have to see how Punn's going to be able to play as well, because he's definitely going to be on a little bit more of that weak side on this, on towards the top side of the map.
We've said that this is a champion picked into rumble quite often that it doesn't get
You know super easy very quickly. You do need to grab that first item before you're really comfortable
At least the specters Cal that's kind of when it feels much much better
But this still should be top e-sports with so much control of the top side of the map
Which is where they want to play through the absolute and what when I think about it it is
Wait a second some action here as cosmic binding will connect on to Jackie love
There are some heels being thrown down and that's already a barrier here for Jackie as well
And that is why they're able to win out on this trade quite nicely Eddie taking a big chunk towards the end
Yeah, not not the best trade there from BA and Eddie and they're losing the push as well
So they are gonna get shoved in here, but orange to me is not a counter to rumble
It is an answer to rumble. It's only to withstand the damage
But Eddie not being able to withstand the damage thus far is already used both potions. They're very low and the heal has been used
Yes, he has barrier, but still a pretty tough start to that 2v2 where Lulu, Yunara
traditionally are quite weak in the early levels and if you don't allow them to get that full lethal tempo stack, get the Q stacks,
get those extended trades, it could be tough.
And I feel like Eddie and BA kind of opted into trades that were too long where really you just want like double tap and cosmic
binding and then just kind of back up and just try to, you know, poke and shift.
More action here, D.A. has to flash to get out of the way here.
Fongwei is going very aggressive as the tower.
Not exactly very friendly here, Glittleance is going to miss,
as Eddie's still feeling like he has an angle.
I mean, double up and a love tap, probably together.
Could just kill either of these bottom laners,
but he could also just face plant,
and with level three now coming through for Jackie Love,
a bit of extra health back for him and Fongwei,
it is just going to be the wave cleared.
And Eddie now at least able to stick around and pick up this farm.
Yeah, that is huge that he was able to survive there.
You're just holding on to that 2v2.
We got to see on the left history of the region here.
TSW trying to continue moving forward with that history,
obviously.
CFO were really at the point where everyone considered them
a massive threat internationally.
And TSW, at least with game one, showing us
that maybe they need to be in those kind of conversations
here as well.
If they can take down TES, that would be a pretty big upset
based on pre-term and expectations,
and really does kind of catapult them
into a very different conversation.
Yeah, and now that the LCP is sort of encapsulating so many,
it kind of makes you realize
that there is always the deadly team from this region, right?
You can even put like gigabyte Marines
into that list from all that time ago,
even though it is Vietnamese,
like the Flash Wolves, a huge one,
Not to mention, you know, our world champs from season two is D.R.
Oh my goodness, that is a lot of damage to be taken down.
But yeah, I think that right now we're in the Team Secret Wales era of the LCP.
You could be an aquatic creature to do well in the LCP.
Yeah, seems to help.
You could be an oyster or a whale.
Yeah, or a wolf.
Wolves is notably very aquatic.
They do like to go for a dip, you know?
It's been pretty hot lately.
And a lot of them are in the snow and the snow is made out of water. It is so there you go
It might have felt like a stretch, but really if you think about it, it's not. Yeah
Jackie and Fong are playing this one very very well
And I was actually a little worried about their pivot towards the you know, Lulu because we've seen it not necessarily have that much lane dominance more recently
But maybe I just hadn't seen it with this particular duo
Playing it out as well as they are. It's not necessarily translating into CS leads though just yet
Yeah, and that's why it was still critical that PA actually survived, right?
Because they very nearly got a kill on him, and if you do get that kill,
things can start to get a little bit tough, a little bit ugly.
And the dropping of their AD carry picks in the second round,
they've potentially hurt TSW quite a bit, because all of the common pairings were banned, right?
Ezreal, Jin, Caitlyn, all were banned by TES.
Two out of three of those were in the second round, so there was a cost to them saying,
no, no, no, we want some of these other picks a little bit more high priority.
They went into fury on three and as a result they have a bit of a weaker lane duo
Oh, dear a little bit of trouble here though as cream looks for the charm gets it
But does manage to buffer the ulti get some stuff out of the way no matter to speak of the cream
Trading ultimates here in this mid lane. Dira is just going to go back. Yeah, this is honestly really well done by TSW
So far TS every to be looked they are out trading but then you look this yes, everything's even right
So they are hanging on and you know, gonna be feeling pretty good about that TES is playing a very fragile comp
You know, they have a lot of threats. They have a lot of damage
But a champion like orange champion like Bard you get the good setup on any five of these five and you can watch out
Right, you know, so there is that ability to to kind of have that easier team fight
So we'll see if I can get it. Look at this dear. I actually having an incredible day
So far, game number one working out very nicely on the rise.
Yeah, really impressive too, because he has been someone who has been getting a lot of criticism.
You know, when I think of him and his international performances, it has mostly been struggles, right?
He's really been having a tough time in laning phases against some of these top mid laners in the world.
And though he has had really good regional performances, he hasn't been able to translate that.
And that was kind of a lot of the discussion last time we saw him internationally was he's just not showing up.
You know cut from this level and in game one at the very least got some early kills in those skirmishes
And was able to translate that into a win which is much easier said than done against these top teams
Certainly is
Difficulties continuing here towards the bottom side of the map as well as Fungiway just sort of by himself
Arrassing them both off this minion wave Jacky
Love just able to very comfortably stack that Q get this wave shoved in so the Yanarra on track becoming a deadly threat
Maybe not as early as the misfortune. We'll see how Eddie is gonna be able to leverage that as this game goes on
Scream nice over deception after the charm. We'll do a favor to damage here
but
All right way on just trying to burn down puns that that spectre's coward we were talking about has come in and
Fun should be able to just weather the storm and other nice snipe there with the charm and get some electric you from to boot
Yeah, pun is is gonna be I think really he's not in danger of dying anymore at all
and it is double AP soul laner so he's at the point where he's gonna get to his
Keenigwerker and very likely before he dies I'm sure at that point you kind of
just don't care about what rumble is doing and it's not as those way on went
you know first strike it was farming gold off him or anything like that he did
go for more of that combat power but they're gonna see if they can find cream
here potentially yeah doing trying to find what he can do is one way he's
moving up the eight and he find the angle flashes and finds the air and his
Kisto is also just going to make BA feel a little bit better about himself as he misses two of his skill shots as well, so they are just going to back away.
Yeah, they are going to back away. Looks a little bit silly, but a lot of times in those situations, pros are kind of predicting a flash or hoping that it's like,
I'm going to go in and if I throw it at you, you'll just flash it. I mean, he wants to flash Q and...
He hit it perfectly on both of them.
If it was right in the uprights.
Yeah, just right down the middle. That's six points in Australia.
It's only three points in American football.
Oh, is it really?
We'll go with Australia.
Yeah, we got the better points for him.
He's got six.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
We can also just run around and kick the ball whenever
we want and pass to each other.
And there's basically no rules in our football.
OK, here's the thing.
Can he actually get one of these?
It looks like the answer is yes, as they are going
to throw the ram over towards TN.
But now they don't have that ulti for the retreat.
Will that matter?
Looks like the answer is going to be no for now.
Yeah, pretty calm early game here.
No kills thus far.
After TSW, almost by themselves had a kill a minute.
It was 29 kills in 32 minutes, I believe,
by the end of the game.
This one is killless here at 9.
I think both teams are going to be a little bit less gun,
or a little bit more gun shy, excuse me.
After a game like that, maybe feeling like, OK, let's
make sure we choose the right fight on the side of TES.
And for TSW, I feel like they're just saying, you know what?
Let's chill.
Let's farm.
We have for our moments.
We found them last game, and no need to rush.
Yeah, and they've been the proactive team so far this
series, right?
And now they're with the composition that does kind of want to take things slow,
get towards ornaments and things like this,
and make those teamfights work out with their extra durability.
And because of that, the team that's been much slower is not necessarily going
to be the one pushing the envelope.
TSW just have had control of the tempo so far this series.
Yeah, they really have. And I mean, Cream, like we said,
he's getting the advantages in that 1v1 and now it's starting to actually show
itself in a gold lead. He has about 300 gold.
But I will say, Tian and Cream have both been on level 6 for a while.
I want to see them link up.
They are the bridge to the late game for Jackie Love and Feng Yuan.
You want to see them looking for plays.
Go in with the Vi ultimate, sets up that guaranteed RE charm, trying to burst people down
because these are two champions that are brought about that upfront damage
and you need to have the gold to kind of back that up.
We'll make it rain. Having to come down here as the good balance is going to go wide.
It's always going a little aggressive here. Has his Aurora in pocket as well
They look for an angle, no dragon for another minute though.
So I need to worry about that one.
And can Krim find his way in?
That's going to be the question.
Remember, this is an aphiric, can go untargetable,
so it can't be a little bit annoying,
because that is going to be Tian gets the Wild Growth there
as well, and they just blow up his toe immediately.
Tian gets himself out.
The magical journey is taken for the retreat,
and that is first blood with no response over to top Esports.
A way better start here in game two.
So much better.
That is actually the slowest first blood so far this MSI but cream have been building up an advantage in that 1v1
Now gets the first blood on top and now is about 800 gold up on his counterpart
He's got those components for his first item. So he's gonna be facing getting that he has the push as well
So he's gonna get another plate on top
So he's gonna have a 1k lead in that 1v1 and we can see how it happened
He's still wanting to be the one that was starting this off aggressively, but don't you a move over cream was there
there they had the in the meantime.
Turn is very dead.
He is and he lost his flash.
So that sucks for him.
Yeah, it was a bit of replay to go through.
We do hate to interrupt you there Isaac, but sometimes
video game just kind of takes over as we got to teleport
towards his bottom side. Looks like there's not going to be
too much of a dive angle as the Drake is what Tien has
on his mind looking to try and pick up doubles as cloud
into Kentek means that the likelihood of some pretty
pretty fun dragons could come on through for the soul.
Let's see what is going to be locked in as cream
just throws in all the deception says I'm helping.
And we're going to see how it all started here,
picture in picture, as it is going to be an ocean soul again.
A little bit of a shame.
Oh, not a great flash.
Really bad flash.
And that was an easy kill.
I mean, they just kind of barred,
tunneled through the wall, walked up,
didn't really have to do too much.
Flashed in a straight line and it's way on.
Little bit of a tough time to feel it so far this tournament.
He had such a great start in his game one on the best against G2.
He was just smurfing on them.
But it feels like he is a very confidence-based player
so far at this event.
And he's looked very different in wins than in losses.
You look at his stats here.
In wins, up 22 CS on average at 14.
And then the losses, he's kind of getting blown out.
So it has really been very swingy games for him.
We need to see him get that consistency.
And I think as he gets more games on stage,
He gets more games in an international environment.
You will get more used to it and be able to kind of calm down a little bit more.
But he is someone that TES has really countered on because they lost 3-6-9.
You know, he was replaced by his way on and he's the one who's coming in and taking his spot in that starting lineup.
And he has been performing so well.
And that's a big reason why they are here.
So they need to perform just like he did in the LPL.
Exactly. And I mean, it's a similar story.
And on the other end of it, right, in comparison to Dere,
who we were talking about that before,
he hasn't been able to perform on the international stage,
has now managed to turn that one around.
We'll see whether this is going to be the game
that Arshwayan can do the same thing
as Pan wants to make his way towards this outer turret.
That's a great cosmic finding.
I'm not sure about the tempered fate, though.
I am sure about it.
Ah, you're sure?
It was very not good.
Ah, very not good.
Yes.
OK, well, Pan is going to try and find a ram.
We'll be able to throw it into the minion wave, because he knows that he's dead, I guess.
And Tian's going to make his way back down, but that is not even going to get him an assist.
That should be a turret going down, as top esports are able to just overload the bottom lane and grab even more.
And this is now top esports with tempo control, and they are pushing it very quickly now.
Yeah, they're kind of getting everything controlled at this point, as Eddie could be in trouble too.
Cream has no ult, so he's not going to go for the long-range engage there on the Vi,
because Cream wouldn't be able to actually close the gap.
I mean, that all for BA would be great
if you were not a Lissarelle.
But when you're barred, you just zone you as the enemy
Ari in the middle of the bullet time.
So that was not it.
All right, Tien.
There is the cease and desist.
Tries to get on top of his though there.
Is D-Ray trying to get himself out of the way.
Goodman angle, though, is now Tien
taking a lot of damage.
Cream now inside the Thunderdome and does have to flash.
That Spirit Rush not up and available.
Flungeray does make his way up.
but that is no wild growth necessary
as this turret is holding on by the skin of its teeth.
I feel like the lane is having to have been really weird
this game as well for TSW.
As soon as Ornn completed the Kavik Rooker,
they immediately put him against the Kraken Slayer, Unara.
Yeah, that's an odd move.
And so, you know, being against anyone else
would be a lot better.
I get that you wanna have MF mid,
but then it feels like you would wanna have Aurora
maybe leaning against Jackie Love.
Maybe they don't feel like he can hold on in that position,
but it has put him in kind of a more difficult spot.
You know, and he is just kind of collecting these waves.
Maybe the idea is D-Ray can play more with the team
and make plays elsewhere,
but it is giving Jackie love a very, very easy time.
He's collecting turrets plates, he's collecting gold.
He hasn't really been involved in much of anything,
but he's approaching a thousand gold lead now himself.
And it is the biggest gold lead in the game.
So that is gonna be a problem here
because TES do have that late game insurance
from their bot lane and have full control now in the mid game.
It's starting to feel like barring some sort of big play,
big team fight for TSW,
this one is going more and more towards top.
That's exactly what they're gonna have to look for here.
And I feel like it is now about Team Secret Wales
being able to manufacture their way
towards a winning game state,
because as this game moves forward naturally,
coffee sports should just get further and further ahead
with their natural advantages that they have,
especially in side lanes.
But seeing that right now as our Cream is at least going into the Canik Rooker,
and so that feels a little bit better for Pun.
But with the Rift Herald now at about 50% top esports,
wanted to try and fight this one as BA,
trying to deal with Jack, he'll have a knock-quite being able to do so,
as Shweion gonna have to flash it out of the way.
Tearay's over the wall though, and they look to try and get rid of this Rumble.
He should be going down, but a few buttons do need to land.
The Wild Groot to keep him alive as Jacky could be in trouble fighting against Eddie now,
But Jackie just destroys the barred and Eddie needs to run for the hills now finally puns made his way in as the
Ran gets a knock up
But I don't think top e sports really care about it team secret whales with just not enough health bar to speak of outside of
Pun who has a lot. Yeah, I mean they force the flash off Jackie so early got the flash of sway on really early
and it looked like they were to get a quick kill on his way on but
His doing dear it couldn't finish him off
You know a lot of those skills started as you said then the wild gate growth came through
And Eddie kind of just walked into Jackie look in that brush, which is not a fight. He's gonna win
So here is
After the flash had already been forced onto Jackie
We see BA getting pushed back his tone D-Ray go in to get the flash up sway on which ended up working really well
Flying some time. They just don't quite have the damage to finish
He walks in towards the wall the wild growth flies a lot more time
Look at how much damage you got on the D-Ray before he died as a result and then Eddie feeling like okay
My Bart is here. We can actually face-track into Jackie. We can win this fight, but he absolutely could not even with the ult
If they wanted to commit to that I feel like Plum needed to be there way earlier
But he was clearly worried about getting his TP interrupted
So yeah, it's like he needs to be there when Eddie is gonna press R, right?
You know you need to kind of layer those abilities because he's the only CC
All right, there is going to be the punch and Dirae can have to get himself out of it
That is going to be the last hit Jackie look able to take out the Aurora
sometimes you just set up a fanatic rush.
Yeah, it worked out very well for them, and now TS4K up.
They also have been collecting dragons very quickly.
They are already on Soulpoint, three dragons to zero here,
looking for that Ocean Soul, which isn't the best for them this game,
but a Soul is a Soul, and it feels like that probably will be lights out for TSW
if they give it over. But TSW just haven't really been able to find any purchase
in this game whatsoever. The early lanes, they were kind of hanging on,
on, but they started losing a couple fights and the map really has fallen apart very quickly.
Alright, it's a decent little avoidance there of the CC from Punn, but
I can't really bellow his breath away. All of the damage, as there goes the Rookern.
Two seconds on the call of the Forgeguard. 4,000 gold, the lead. Let's have a look
at the Coinbase gold grind here as, yeah, Jackie Love just getting further and further ahead,
now moving to 1.8k. And as a Unara, I mean, we're not even at 20 minutes into the game yet,
and already he is so incredibly strong.
They do get the ulti out of him, so that is something
in trade for that tempered fate.
And Team Secret Wales still looking for an angle,
but Eddie is so close to dead.
Jackie just diving forward!
The bullet time is going to be out of help.
Take him down as they trade 80 carries.
Maybe this will work for Team Secret Wales.
There's now Cream trying to dash around this fight.
Great charm on a history,
who flashes back into the equalizer.
Dunn-Tally's sure about that one,
but he doesn't fall down just yet.
Pund now trying to be that frontline,
Trying to tank it up as Yuri doing a lot of damage.
Great polymorph to deny any sort of escape from this on.
And they're going to look for the turret as well.
Top E-sports, much better form here in game two.
Absolutely are.
And that's kind of classic.
Jack you love their pints and angle goes in, makes it work.
As they force out, that turns in oneself.
He pops the ulti, uses the commis that hops out of the bar at all.
And they think, OK, great, you got his ult.
And then you walked up to him with the ult still available.
And he's like, OK, I'll just fight you.
So goes into the middle of the entire team is already active
And he just walks up to try to auto the tower in his face
And he says no you do not he trades one for one
But it's in a two before and everyone from TES shows up. They have many more additional threats
They have much higher consistent damage with this comp it feels like and they just kind of piled in sway on TN and cream
More than enough damage get the job done
On LB8, taking some damage here from Jackiulah as he sets up the magical journey.
For a bit of an angle here as the rest of Team Secret Wales look like they're ready for a fight once again.
And I like that, I respect it, you know, because it feels like this game is falling away from them.
That is not going to stop them from trying to make moves as the temperate once again going to be avoided by Jackiulah.
But this time around, I imagine Team Secret Wales are not going to try and fight him with it available.
Jacki says he wants none of that though, as he is just going to chase them down.
It's throw down to 50% as a result.
It looks like Jackie's going to have to say goodbye to the ultimate.
It's going to be back up again pretty soon though.
Yeah, and that's a fine trade if that's what you're going to use the bar at all for.
But it is kind of what I was talking about in draft.
When you look at the two carries, Unara and Ari, it's tough.
It's really, really tough to actually get an alt that is going to land on them.
And the bar didn't really get much done in the laning phase.
Hasn't really been able to get out on the map and do too much.
So hasn't been super effective.
His throw, the only one with a gold lead, it is just, it's nothing.
870 gold and Jackie up 2k rushing towards that IE when that is completed
This guy is gonna be a terror. He already has the pocket Lulu has had that ardent sense of her quite a long time
Tian has got the armor pen with the black cleaver done now. So Jackie is gonna be a menace and I
Don't know. I just don't know if they have the tools to actually get through everyone and kill them off
Yeah, this is what I'm a bit worried about as well
Especially when the Bard was kind of the first pick, like this was their most value from the draft that they got, hasn't found very much of it at all so far here in this game.
And Bae had such an incredible performance on the Nautilus. Now Top Esports able to do basically whatever they want.
And we've got 45 seconds until the Ocean Soul does come in.
See whether Top Esports are going to be locking that one down or whether this time Team Secret Wales can actually find themselves a teamfight.
I think all eyes are going to be on pond and what he can make happen with this goat
Yeah, look at you and how far back he is. He is trying to get a wraparound angle here coming through the enemy jungle and
We can see secret whales are aware of it. They're just going to retreat down into their jungle
They're trying to hunt for it. Yeah, and make sure no one is behind them and no it is but D Ray has been chunked out a decent bit already
And now you have lost control of that river, which is going to make it so tough
I feel like for them to get back in and D-Ray is looking for a recall TP.
Yeah, Histo actually coming around towards his bottom side as well as Harpoon going to connect.
Team Secret Wales just trying to get themselves into a position where they can even contest this.
As there is a punch back on the punny, takes so much damage.
Equalizer is going to need to be walked here by the on, gets the heal though.
And the equalizer hasn't really done too much tempered fate.
Once again goes wide. Can they find more with the ram? As it gets the double knock up,
There is the bullet time that it has to be immediately stopped and down goes 0 before the fight
It really even had a chance to break out an immediate teleport will get the rumble in there the walking barbecue to take down
The hot dog is though falls first and the rest will follow suit
It's a clean ace for top esports. They can take a soul
They can take a Baron they can take an exes if they want and they can take a game too
It's starting to feel like here great bounce back game from TES up a K and a soul
They completely destroy them in that team fight use the equalizer early chunk them low
Even with that bullet time being combo with the call of force got it just didn't matter because cream was on the side to
Instantly force the cancel land the charm and I love the combat TP there from this way on
using the deep ward that they had earlier to chase them down, knock them out.
And you can see in your Mastercard, priceless moment of the game.
Ocean Soul collected, and TSW wiped from the map.
So let's watch it one more time. It's really all about how they play the side.
So Cream is going to be looking for this angle.
As Ornn is trying to go in, they're looking for the bullet time over the wall.
But watch Cream, the whole time is waiting on the side, goes right in, lands the charm on to Eddy.
And once that gets cancelled, D-Ray's going in, but he just gets polymorph knocked up dead.
Yep, absolutely obliterated. The Baron is still often available, as Tien's taking a fair bit of damage here,
but it's just up Esports pushing them away from the Baron pit.
Make sure that one stays as dark as possible.
This is Team Secret Wales though, so it looks like they are still rearing for a fight.
And we'll see whether they can do better this time, because, I mean, I think the last fight really epitomized it.
You explained it. It's so hard for this composition to even work.
Yeah. And so it's going to possibly be a bridge too far.
Jackie underneath the turret might be an option, as Eddie down to almost dead
before anything's even really happened.
And now Fong away is that a heat Jackie alive.
More of these minions to be going down as they're pushing wave after wave
into these inner turrets. And every time they slink into the fog of war,
Team Secret Wales do need to try and look for them.
They still at least have one blue trinket available here from Eddie to try and scout that Baron that is terrifying
Jackie almost killed Eddie under the tower didn't even use all to do that
How long to that and they have ocean soul one of the really nice things about ocean soul is you can just perm a start
Baron over and over and over they come in you force some cooldowns
They run away you just started again because you're gonna be sitting on full health Jackie treated a lot of his HP
But he has ocean soul so he's right back to full off of that next wave and he is looking for more. Oh my goodness
Okay, he at least does have a blood thirst, so when his health does go down low if he's got a wave to hit
Then he will get a feather that health back. The problem is it keeps going from a hundred to zero
In a lot of these fights and the blood thirst it doesn't help as much with that
It's a 10,000 gold lead though and almost 26 minutes into this game
This is obliteration this time and it looks like top esports have woken up after that game one humbling that they
had for themselves
And this is more what we were expecting in this series.
Yeah.
I think they came into this game.
They got super comfortable champions to play.
They are so used to this style, and they are showing us why.
It is so difficult to play against them on these playmakers.
Tian, his fight, his nasty cream is so comfortable on the RE.
Jackie, obviously famous as being one of the best team fighters of all time.
And so it really did feel like they got comfort across the board,
and they are utilizing it.
Alright, the Ram's going to come up through there looking for Jacky.
Now get him as the bullet time is headed with it as well.
He'll dash himself out of the way.
The equalizer fantastic in a corridor at the same time as Jackie turns it around.
Pwn's gonna be the first to go down and everyone else is almost dead just from incidental damage.
Exactly, and the Ornn is still far forward and you're wondering where's the rest of TSW?
Well, they're all running from Cream because Cream was again wrapping behind the Ornn and threatening the carries.
Cream is never caught with Jackie even though Jackie had used to all have used a flash have used some big tools there
Cream was threatening the backline making it difficult for TSW to really continue that fight to continue moving forward as a result
They kill the orn they chunk them out
They take the Baron and they are on the March here to try to even this series up. Yep already this rebel Baron power play will be
expanding this in a turret is going to be taken first and
Top e-sports now is so much pushing power
going to be absolutely deadly for the TSW base.
They're going to try and do their best to clear out these waves.
They do have some wave clear on this squad,
but I just don't know whether it's going to be enough.
That's a good jump.
Onto pun.
Dirae looking for a bit of an angle there,
as he does half the health bar off the rumble.
But this ocean soul, man, it is doing so much work
here at the top of eSports.
And I love how much they're actually intentionally
utilizing it.
They're forcing trades constantly
and getting value.
Oh, Tempest fate is going to be able to catch Jackie,
but he doesn't seem too worried about it.
Dyrick counting to half health once again.
Eddie going to get tagged.
Equalizer, great position.
The last hit with the charm from Cream was pretty clean,
and they'll be able to take the inhibitor in this mid lane.
Is this just the end, though?
That's the question as well.
Going to get himself a shield as they look to make their way in.
Down goes Dyrick to start this one out.
The ram is there, but it's not really doing too much.
And that is going to be the first Nexus turret falling down.
Top eSports get the knockup on the pun, he'll be taking out some revenge for what he did in the top lane in Game 1
as the Nexus is even in this series and we've got a best of three to follow this.
A couple of one-sided games to kick off this series, one going the way of TSW, this one was all top though,
they dominated from very early on. We got a tie, Tess, who's going to take it?
it. I'm still not quite sure who's gonna take it. All I know is that it's a much better
face from Toppiesports here in Game 2 than I see that you're holding the scales. How
are we feeling now? Very happy. Yeah. Pretty good. This was a clean game controlled. And
you know, there's a couple of moments where Jackela was gonna be hypey, but that's what
we know for this felt much more like the team would hope to see. Not always expect, but
definitely hope. Yeah, and I think for looking at what Top Esports is able to do
domestically, this was a much better representation of that with how patient
they were playing, with how they were playing for objectives, with their
responses to what Team Secret Wells did want to do on the map. So much better
game out of them, a lot more respect shown. Yeah, I think all of the skipping
of steps that we saw in game 1 didn't happen, right? And Top Esports, it seemed
very deliberately come in saying we're gonna slow the game down and we're gonna
make sure that we're in a position to actually mechanically outplay our opponents in a lot of places, right?
They put teams that go well in tricky situations and forced them to make errors in fights.
They made it easier for themselves as well, and it started from the draft.
I feel like knowing when to press buttons, but also way more win conditions maybe than they had in Game 1.
Yeah, I feel like a composition like this where you have the R-E-Vi, you have the Rumble to go over the top,
and then you have Jacula on the Inara.
Bungway played really well with Lulu as well backing him up, but then on the other side, the casters were alluded to it.
This setup was a bit trickier with this TSW composition.
You know, you have the Ornel obviously as a full-dringage, but I feel like the MF just never really defined a good position at ult,
because the Ornel isn't enough when you're playing into an Auri and Nara who are so slippery.
Just knocking them up once, they land on the ground, instantly dash away. We never really saw Eddy get that value in hopeful.
Eddy got one really good off that game, but BH decided to go with the super jargon coach.
Anti-syllagy.
Yeah, that was a little bit rough to see.
But yeah, I mean, I agree. I just think this MF didn't have as many tools as she would have liked
to be able to get those clean ults off and especially into this composition.
I want to take a look at the 22 minutes bot lane replay actually because I feel like it shows pretty well
Well, what seems to be what Wells wanted to do and the fact that, as you said, and many this misfortune
Couldn't find any space to do any bullet time
They she she tried to engage multiple times
But at the end of the day you feel like TS has way more tools to fight back whenever they try to set something up
Yeah, and a few things go wrong. Obviously Bartle doesn't hit D. Ray actually takes a really long time getting in
But as soon as the bullet time goes off TN is just immediately on to D Ray
takes him out, and then it's just all clean up, especially with the TP coming in on the back line from Shui on there.
And at this point, they're already so far ahead as well, but this does show the difficulties in terms of setting up for the MF.
So as soon as that ult goes off, TES are immediately able to separate the fight enough that it doesn't matter.
Yeah, that snap responds onto D.R.A. as soon as they saw him to stop the follow-up, the Aurora,
just really showed a decisiveness from top esports that we haven't seen for a few games now.
Yeah, I think one of the major issues for Team Secret Wales was the agency and like this composition, it probably works if you can get a couple of thousand dollars ahead in the early game, right?
Because you know, if you're jumping on the back line, you know, it doesn't have the safety that she usually would.
But at this point, you're so far behind that the damage just isn't there for you.
So you need that CC, you need that layering.
Overall, great performance from Team Secret, Top E sports.
I don't want to take anything away from them.
Yeah.
But for Team Secret Wales, I want to sit BA on something that has a little bit more agency overall.
Yeah, I mean, so often we see when Ynara was really filming the meta,
it used to be like revived, you know, all this into that,
and when you're unable to check Jaki'Love on this pick,
he is just going to take over the game.
And he did. And it's the kind of shimkin, as we said,
that's going to be hard to stop that Ynara.
For me, she was the most problem.
At the second, you have an AD carry who can just go forward and forward,
and no one can stop it.
That's usually an issue, especially when you have a play like Jaki'Love,
when you're doing it.
Yeah, I was going to say forward and forward,
you're exactly what Jaki'Love likes to do, right?
We did see that one quintessential Jackie love moment from him where he was trying to get on to edit Eddie
And they immediately just he got his one for one
That one for one, but especially with the Lulu and the rest of this composition
It's just really easy for them to even set up targets for him to play far forward
I actually do want to call out fun you a because it's always weird to say oh man
Yeah, they're really good Lulu game and everyone looks at you and they're like, what are you talking about?
I have two support players right here.
You're being brainwashed by whatever LCS talent is telling you that you can't have a good Lulu game.
Lulu is tricky to play at the top level. Good polymorphs, good health picks, it's getting the wild ghost.
The wild ghost on Rumble in the top side that saves him as they try and go for the fight.
Like this is a really, really good game from Feng Yuei and just saying, oh it's Lulu, you just put a shield on someone, you get KP, like that is not true here.
Look, we're talking about Lulu, not Yumi, so...
True!
You can't!
You can't get hyped about Lulu.
Normal crash out here.
Yeah, it's a great game.
Justice for support.
Yeah, one-in-one here so far.
In the series, similar question to the one we had after the first game.
Where do we see this series go so far?
Because Team Secret Girls got the ball running in Game 1,
they couldn't do anything here in Game 2,
do we feel like TES is finally back on track?
I mean, I think it's interesting because TESW selects second pick.
Which I'm thinking, okay, maybe now it's time for the pun volibear or some sort of counter pick that they have up their sleeve
That does have more early game agency. I can see to be supposed to taking it from here
I think they're just gonna play slow and it will be a tree one. All right
Then that's
I don't want to kiss it. I don't want to kiss it. You don't want to kiss it. I don't want to make any strong commitments
I see I predicted team sequel to get two games. So I'm happy to curse it
We're down to superstitions here on the desk. It's never a good sign, but what is a good sign is that we have a series as TES comes back here in game 2. Let's see what happens next.
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It is time to get into game number three. It's a fresh slate. Now
Everyone is evened out top e-sports with a pretty crushing victory in game number two
Though it felt like Team Secret Wales never really had a chance to breathe and I don't know whether that's the same as
What we could say about game number one, right?
I felt like Team Secret Wales needed to play well the whole game
Yeah, first top e-sports got the setup and then just kind of the dominoes fell from there
Yeah, for the first few minutes of playing everything was kind of even it was kind of chill and then
We did have the latest first blood.
Exactly. Tom got a killer too and then all of a sudden these little incremental lane leads that were building kind of blew up and they're like,
Oh, he's 1K, he's 1K, he's 1K up and then, yeah, never really felt close after that.
It's like Grimbot 1 successful roam and then, oh, it's you're too far behind.
Yeah, exactly. And, uh, D-Ray, I think they need him to have those kind of performances like he did in the first game, right?
He's got to be able to stay relevant, he's got to be able to stay in there.
I also just didn't like their draft to be honest. I feel like the over prioritization of the Bard really kind of fit them
Because if you're gonna bar it I feel like you need to go for a strong waning pairing
But then they let Caitlin and Jin and Ezreal all fall through
You know all get banned out and then the MF just never got any value. Yeah
Well, we'll see what they can do here as we already have a whole bunch of bands coming through thick and fast the Akali the Camille and
and that Poppy both then all banned away.
And there's the Baras Casio and the Orianna.
First pick, Lukas from Top Esports.
As we did have the choice of second pick,
Team Secret Wales as well, which is quite interesting.
We'll see what they're going to get off the back of it.
If I'm CSW's coach as well, I feel like Zwayon
has looked the most uncomfortable any player.
And I feel like Punn has been the X factor in their games.
Yeah.
I would not be putting him on a tank, right?
I would be giving this guy some Pryo, give him some counterpicks, see if he can get his way on, looking uncomfortable, you know, even against HLE when he's playing the volley, he looked fantastic, his Olaf game, he solo killed him, was a really big part of their win in that game as well, so to me, I feel like I want to see resources given towards fun, I want to see him getting spicy with the counterpicks, he can play all kinds of stuff.
So while the Ornn obviously makes sense into the rumble, I just feel like you don't want to play standard against this team, you want to cook.
And already Team Secret Wales actually with a really strong core right as far as the jungle and bottom lane are concerns in with Karma
It's very very powerful with the chances just in general is very strong
But on the other side the Ash Seraphine has been quite strong themselves
And there's so much chain CC already here from top esports. There really is and my only
Feeling that I'm a little bit nervous about with TSW for their first three is they have no engage, right?
You do have the poke, you do have a good 2v2, but TS have a pretty good 2v2 as well, and you have Rookon go-button, you have Ash Eros, you have Encore, you have a lot of tools to actually start the fights, and so I'm curious to see where TSW is going to take us, the Annie Gang banned out.
That is something that Cream is obviously very, very comfortable on, one of his most played and would be an additional engaged tool, but I was kind of thinking that even D-Ray might go towards something along those lines,
because they are gonna need either to just like fully commit to poke and play sidelines
You go for a counter pick for pun and play TF or something like that or you need some more engaged tools and the volley
I respect him and ban that thing out. He was just a beast on it, and he solo killed you in game one. So
Don't put sway on an uncomfortable matchup. Yep. I actually think protecting the top lane is going to be a huge deal
The problem is if you have to ban volley bear when you're protecting the top lane matchup
You're gonna run out of bands very very quickly
So we'll see what is going to happen.
The Ambeza is going to be the trade advance
since we have one to mid, one to top,
trying to make sure that they can get into a spot
that they're happy with.
It makes a lot of sense because that's the matchup
that he picked the volley into.
So he's saying, okay, you're trying to protect Zwayon
so we can play an Ambeza.
It was also Zwayon's best game of the entire tournament
by a lot, was his game one.
Ambeza against G2 looked really dominant on that.
So it makes sense just as something to take away
And he's giving a Shen ban, very interesting.
So, worried about a potential Shen coming out here for Punn.
That makes me think they're going to play Sion,
because that's the matchup that a lot of pro players in the meta
really do like Shen into.
Shen is pretty good into tanks in general.
You can once you especially get towards your Titanic,
you have a really good wave here,
and you're able to interrupt, you know,
the charge Q of the Sion with taunts pretty easily.
So, kind of curious about that.
If they are going to just go towards that Sion.
There are a lot of very cool ultimates.
Deeray is going to be on the siloes.
Exactly right.
They've got engage from a whole bunch of different angles,
be it a cyclone, a round call, or a jack, Chris, or a roo.
Or now he can also just drive in if the sign is going
to be locked in.
Exactly what you were saying.
Just wanting to lock this one away
for just a pretty comfortable blind pick in that top lane.
And let's we have a better time here,
try and recoup after some difficult laning matchup
so far.
Yeah, and there's obviously, there's tons of different things you can actually play into the scion, but
most of the other picks are gonna be things you've seen a thousand times.
Interesting that scion is zero and six so far at MSI. I doesn't want to get into those stats work, correct?
Yeah.
That popped up. But I would love to see Pun Cook, you know, give him freedom, go crazy.
I would, I would super respect it. You know, this guy plays Ergot, this guy plays Jax, this guy plays all kinds of stuff.
So, you know, if he wants to cook on something, that would be a lot of fun to see.
You know, it could even go, you know, Gwen does make sense, that is something that we did see actually from Bin yesterday and he was able to build a really big advantage in that.
Oh, it's set in set!
Alright, um, that was not what I was expecting.
That's a good cook.
Yeah, and that's gonna be a whole lot of fun towards the topside. Man, imagine slamming a scion into his team.
A 5,000 lead to a scion.
That is, that's a lot of value.
value. It is and it is also a miserable champion to play against as any tank in the game. There's
legit no tanks to have fun into set. You walk up, you charge your Q, he gets a free E, stuns you.
True damage on the W, takes the trades aggressively. Tanks generally are not equipped to burst down the
set either, so he gets so much out of that true grip passive. And you can never use your unstoppable
onslaught to engage like at any point because then he just grabs you and slams
you into all your buddies and then you have no way of getting back into the
fight afterwards. I think this is an absolute master stroke from Team Secret
Wales and in comparison to their last draft which even from the outset were
like how are you supposed to win with this? Yeah that was definitely a bit of an
advantage. This is my first time. It's not a very good move and this time around
things looking way, way better.
I love Pond.
Oh, it's so good seeing this guy just do whatever the heck he wants
and make it work.
The Volibear, even though they didn't win that series,
looked absolutely terrifying.
And now on the set.
It's actually, it's kind of crazy.
So the last set that we saw was Wippo in 2025 MSI.
So he also went for a similar cook.
But I swear at the last time, I saw it was like life playing it in support.
it in support. But it's certainly a pick that has been hidden.
And he did bring it out once, this split, one with it in this exact matchup. They won
the game in 22 minutes. Oh! So that's pretty quick.
Yeah, I would put that on the fast side. All right. The lumberjack. Gonna try and do
what he can here. It's Tien with the Akuma skin, which is one of my favorites. And this
This is Kramer on the way once again.
I feel like the set really did kind of distract us
from what Emily was talking about earlier on in the day,
which was Kramer not being able to pick up the victory
on the way, but also having a good performance on it
just in general and having looked pretty good
on this champion so far this season.
So we'll see whether this can be the victory
that he gets to pick up his pun.
The haymaker to start this one off
and it's just gonna be punching.
Interesting, the W start is not something
that I would have expected.
Most sets do just start either an E or Q in my experience and kind of just run at you
and take those level one trades.
But of course if you can build up the true grit, your sporsing fights, and you can see
that's exactly what he's doing, you can see that true grit is just being built up, trying
to push him back and look for those aggressive trades.
And just get value out of that passive.
You get low, you regen up, you're expecting a sign, cannot burst you down.
This skin confuses me by the way, Isaac.
Which one?
The set skin.
I just, he looks too much like Udyr.
That's true.
He's like wandering around like, where is the Phoenix stance?
I was so confused I interrupted you, I apologize, but I felt like it needed to be stepped on
the screen.
When you said it, now I'm not going to be able to unsee it.
Like why is this guy not using his Phoenix stance?
Yeah, why isn't he doing the Flash Bear Slap?
He quit for a minute or two minutes?
Yeah.
What are you doing, buddy?
Wait, he seems to punch them and then he gets his mana back.
That's looking really good.
Tiger stance.
They've done too many updates to these champions, man.
Keep up.
Rudio looks really weird.
They've even called him SIT now.
OK, enough of that.
Let's have a look at how these lanes are going.
Cream having a good time in the melee matchup,
as you would expect.
Just wanting to hold the Silas at bay.
And Shweon, at least for now, is doing all right.
Yep.
And in these kind of matchups, especially melee versus melee,
you want to be able to harass, you want to be able to trade.
So he wants to fully reset the wave, but Zwayon is just not allowing him to.
He's standing in between the tower and the range minions,
not allowing those range minions to actually bounce,
so the wave is not really coming back to pun in the way that he wants.
Now, this is the way you play these bad matchups.
You need to keep the wave stuck there,
because if the wave is in a neutral state,
Sen can, Sen can literally walk past the minions and you can't even walk up.
It gets really, really ugly.
So it's so much about your wave management in a matchup like this,
and Zwayon showing, he understands that.
He's just never gonna let those range means crash. He's gonna stand here over and over. Yep
And I think the facebreaker is gonna be necessary in interrupting a lot of these cues and fun
We just saw a demonstration of that just now
One of the reasons why this matchup can be so so devastating
But like you were saying wave management certainly working out so far which way on even if he is falling further and further behind as far as farm
He's not likely to die
Team Secret Wales with the shove here towards this bottom side
the Ezra of Karma doing what it says on the tin, which is win lane, and that is going to be that.
Still, Jack and Fengwei doing a decent job here. Mystic shot needed to land from Eddy, to allow them to
win out on that matchup as Daya finds the chain, slinks him between the minions actually. The
cream has the answer, and that's the way it generally does with his a-billion buttons.
Yeah, the fear is just so difficult to deal with. You know, when you're going for a Bisconduct as
long as you actually hold it until he's trying to duck in, you can just throw out that fear and
land it. Heymaker trying to time that with that big Q charge up.
Sueyon is oob, but obviously still has this pot. Sueyon has a couple of cookies, so he's
not at risk of dying or anything, but Seth is looking like he's just going to take a
base from this spot and really struggling to get this wave out into the middle, so isn't
going to try to reset it, knows he wouldn't be able to get it fully pushed in. And I'm
assuming that he grouped the minions before he based in the side brush, which would mean
that it would be pushing towards him, and maybe he can start to abuse this sign a little
bit more because the longer it goes without you actually dying as a sign, the more comfortable
you get.
Once you have enough points in your Q and your W, you're kind of just one-charting waves
and chilling and you just refuse to ever fight him.
And then Set can have a hard job in a team fight making things happen.
Well, the A is going to be able to get a little bit of a snare on the Fengui, but that's all
that's really going to come from that one.
TN made his way down towards the bottom side, but not really much doing there.
Drake has been taken by TN early every single game so far this series and it's now waiting for Dere to move over
He does get wind of where the monkey is
This though he's just going back
Not really too bothered about where the Drake is at at the moment. Yeah, both junglers just kind of power farming it up
So it will also it does come on through here as fun with a bunch of that grit built up
There's the haymaker and
The flash to get out of the way of it very nicely done there from Shweon
I feel like punt might have him if he flashed for it, but not feeling comfortable to risk it.
Yeah, runs towards getting the proc and the plate, and we'll just back away.
Holding onto the flash advantage, yeah, like you were saying, I think it's interesting that he holds onto it himself,
and I think understanding that the more they just keep the wave like this, the more he just wins.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, a lot of set players in a position like that will W flash,
because if they can redirect and get that true damage down, he might have actually had the kill.
to kill. Of course there is risk associated with that. You can be ganked. You know, Sion
is still going to get the wave and zombie form and if you misjudge it and you miss the
true damage, you're definitely not killing him and then you're just wasting your summoner.
But Punn does hold on and now the question is going to be can he find another opportunity
where he can set up a look for a kill or just try to really extend his sleep.
Wow. Toby's sports now just pushing here towards the bottom side. It feels like top lane is
all about the whales right now, but elsewhere, things are just fine for top e-sports.
They have a composition that certainly does scale fight nicely as we get further into this game as well.
Especially if Shweon is going to keep himself alive as, yeah, mirrored as far as the leads are concerned.
Yeah, so, I mean, it's nice that Punn has this advantage, but Cream is building just as big of an advantage in mid lane.
So it's not, it doesn't, doesn't feel like it's enough just yet. Of course, there's always the X factor of a set.
Oh, yeah, looking for the angle here as the B drop is not quite going to work out.
That true shot brush doing so much work.
Jackalop gets the heel back on Eddie in trouble.
Try skin to the brush he does so, has the barrier, but he doesn't have his life.
First blood over to Jackie and he's looking for another one.
The arrow will connect the volley to finish off the calmer and they turn around this bottom lane beautifully.
Yeah, that was really well done there by T. As if you're going to shift in there as Eddie,
You cannot miss a skill because you go in you are gonna get ran down by this ash and he finds out
He shifts in and Jackie's just gonna fully commit to it. You can flash away, but you're still slow
So he just flashes to follow
Chases after him gets the level up gets a second kill and just like that Jackie out to a significant advantage and
TES up a thousand goals here
And it's way on it's just parked that way permanently outside this tower
It is really feeling like they fell off the tightrope just a little bit here as you were mentioning it earlier on
It was the advantage towards the topside for pun and Jackie
Fungiway are gonna move their way up here and the ensemble on sorts gonna get flash puns gonna see what he can do as far as
Escaping he avoids everything
All right, there's the fancy feet and he just wanders his way out Jackie thinking about diving the turret
I don't think he wants to do so
Man, that's a cool guy starting to look at explosions, starting to move that from Pawn.
That was really well done by Pawn, survives, but still at the end of the day, it's going to be the sign now going back to Bot.
Set has to walk out towards top now, and he's going to be in a 1v2 where he can't really do anything,
and he has no flash, so he can't threaten it all in whatsoever.
So TES, they're bot lane winning, relieves the pressure, and this is where I'm talking about.
Watch Eddy, so they go for the tether, they set it up, but the barrier is there and then everything whiffs as he shifts forward.
Like you have got to look for 100-0 there or it's just not going to work because you have no consistent damage after you go in.
Clearly their whole idea was, I commit to the tether, everything hits there after, then we get the kill, but if you don't get him low enough,
if you miss a single skill shot, you're out of damage and Ashe is never going to run out of damage. She's going to chase you down.
Yeah, and I also think you don't have to do that, right?
Just chunk. Yeah, and also just get to two items and then make something happen
as there's a suplex as they look for Jackie and they find him on a couple of punches and down goes the app
So immediate revenge and he's like thanks brother
And they are able to get this set rolling. Well done there
His dough gets set up for success by that ultimate. Yeah on
Slams Jackie in and they're able to punish the missing flash even without fun having his flash
I didn't think Jackie would give him an angle, but he finds it anyway
All right
Well, see whether they can translate that into more as at least there is a crash here
So upon going to have that wave moving back towards him eventually still holding on to that 20 CS advantage
But now
830 gold going to be his lead very close to item number one as well
And that is where the set is really going to start get becoming devastating
Dirae, level 9 now hasn't really hijacked anything of note just yet.
There's even the spiraling despair can do a lot of work if stolen away from this way
as well, so looking forward to seeing what Dirae can actually do this game or whether
he's going to be able to get an improved performance from what we saw in game number
two.
Yeah, I mean the cycle is okay, I feel like Ash Arrow and Encore are probably the best
ones to deal with for sure.
This way, you know, way a lot of the damage is when you hit multiple spells and then you
proc the passive, but since you're not actually able to seal multiple spells, you can throw
the Spiling of Spare, which is some good AOE damage, but definitely looking in towards
that Encore, I think, especially.
Yeah, the Encore went dead with a set as well, because the way, like, the ultimate works,
like, it's very linear, so you can predict where it is, get the extension, and I think
there are some combos that Team Secret Warriors can play around as this game goes on with
the Silas and the set being sort of those bash brothers because this is a very melee composition, right?
It's a melee composition in Eddy and
We'll see whether they can actually make it work because there are a lot of champions that are very happy to play into low range
Namely ash and so it can be very hard to play if they start falling behind also cream on this way, right?
Like this is kind of his bread and butter right hold them in position and just wail your damage down
Yep, and we'll see if they're gonna be able to do that
I mean, it's it's really again so much about positioning about the initial start of the fight because if you just sort of walk straight to cream
He's gonna hit you at the fear you're gonna get ash or you're gonna get cyclone. You know, there's gonna be so many tools
But they have to make really sure that
Swayhan does not line up to give set a good alt because that can just be
Completely fight-winning if you don't set on to this way and this ash it is gonna be devastating
But at the same time if you're just trying to kind of walk for is a very binary composition here from TSW
It's three melee guys getting sped up by a karma
But you have to get through all of these disengaged tools that are gonna be really tough
I think for TSW to deal with if they're just running straight at them. Yeah, I think there's there's more steps to the team fight process here
For a team secret whales, but I trust them after that game number one certainly showed that they are here to play and
I think that pun is in a great position to make stuff happen
And yes, Cream and Jackie have decent advantages right now, but it hasn't actually spelt a
gold lead with the advantage that this set has put together for himself.
And Shroyon, still doing a great job, like still sitting at 0-0-0, right?
It was Jackie that fell down for us that topside, so the scion is just fine, and he just needs
to be a brick wall as this game continues.
Yep, I mean, he's absolutely doing his job.
He got counterpicked, he managed to wave really, really well, so it didn't become a huge problem.
Yeah, you're going to go down farm.
That's just how the matchup works.
He never allowed setters constantly reset the wave and get it to neutral
You know really abuse his power early where sign cannot compete at all
And now sign is at the point of the game where he has one completed item
You're not just gonna get one shot you can continually clear out those waves and as long as you're not letting set farm plates
He's gonna one shot every wave and just kind of keep this lead right where it is
So pun now has the difficult choice. Okay. I can't extend my lead in the 1v1
Do I start roaming like that might not be that effective?
Do I just kind of accept it and keep farming and hope we can outplay in the teamfight?
It just becomes a little bit more complicated.
Yeah, it feels a little difficult as Tian's making his way over towards VA, but I couldn't be able to get an angle here.
As the first Cloud Drake is upon us, we'll be finding out what the soul is after this.
Double Dragon on the table, 4TSW, but it looks like Top East, 4TSW with control.
Finally going down very low though as Eddie finds him with that true shot barrage.
As in those hits though!
Finds a beautiful Crescent Guard to break up.
The fighter now, Cream, is completely offside.
Has to flash it out of the way,
but the Ash Arrow is going to fly through.
Pierre's the one to tank that one up,
but there is a suplex and they take down Tien.
Should be that double dragon going on over as Dere is fighting Cream once again.
So much spiraling to spare,
but it's top eSports that are the saddest in the end.
Absolutely are here.
Eddie, though, could be in some trouble.
Has the shift, gets over the wall.
They're going to go mid, so they win the fight here.
They get the dragon, and they have mid-Pryo.
Not to mention it's Kentex soul with a set in the game.
That sounds ridiculous.
And the karma.
Yeah, Histo looking for an angle towards Rion as well as Eddie.
Arke shifts forward, gets over that wall.
It's going to be Histo that locks down the kill under the scion.
This game has just fallen apart in an instant for top e-sports.
That was brilliantly played, and so much of it
was actually the damage that Eddie got down onto Fengui
before anything happened.
He hit that true sharp barrage.
Look at the health here.
So this angle, right over the wall, they don't see him.
Feng Wei gets chunked down and Histo says,
guess what, you don't get to walk out for free.
W flash over the wall, instant crescent guard.
Sure, Feng Wei gets off the encore,
but it's only hitting Histo who had already
gotten his damage down.
Cream can never enter.
Look at the mini-match.
Look where Cream is.
This super fed way, he's over here.
He can't even join up with the rest of the squad.
And he's just walking at him, man.
Exactly, just walks him down, steals the ulti,
and is able to win that fight.
And we got to go back to live where Feng Wei's in trouble
once again. Oh, here's so
Pongaway is going to be taken out here.
But TN might be soon to follow.
Shweon is actually going to be turned on.
History just wants to hit things, man.
His spear is angry and Team Secret Wales.
Now looking for an angle towards this
Rift Herald and I think they will be
able to get it with a support now down.
Best they can hope for on the side of top
Esports is a four versus five.
And I don't think they're taking that
because even when it was even,
it did not look very good.
as Eddie picks up this wave in mid lane and speaking of things not looking very good,
I mean you're about to hit the two-item spike for the Ezreal.
Let's have a look at this top lane in our Coinbase gold grind,
and also in the game itself, as we were talking about how he was holding the wave so nicely, blah blah blah,
but now it's a 1.2K lead.
Yep, every time he has gone for those actual fights, he has been the one cashing out.
So I am not able to really get anything from that fight.
By the time he arrived, he was already kind of cooked,
and the setup was just way better for TSW, and that's something that...
Top generally in the LPL are really good at I feel like is their objective setups and cream was completely split off
So I am you know wasn't there with them at all and they just kind of got torn apart very quickly
And punn was able to find a good all on to TN just finish them off
They're holding on to this mid wave and they're right back into a similar position that they were in game number one where they're the
One sticking the pace their top side has this huge advantage his though and one one fight
Yeah, Histo is just always going in man. Tien is going to be able to use that warrior trickster to get himself out of the way
But I love watching Histo playing from ahead. He is a completely different player. This guy only moving forward only
Going in and putting that extra pressure down
However, it is going to be top e-sports grouping up taking down the out of turret in the mid lane
That gold lead is dissipating ever so slowly
Team Secret Wales wanting to try and get this game accelerated top e-sports doing a decent job slowing it down
Yeah, they are he raised pushing on the bot side to try to get something back
I felt like the Creston garden that last fight was pretty free and thin from his though
It wasn't really a committed fight yet. So once he had that down they kind of realized, you know what TES
We can just push up we can force this turret out and he tried his best to clear out the wave
But couldn't quite do it and fun knows he has no vision on this side of the map
We haven't seen some of the top members. So it has been kind of in this awkward spot where he's just watching minions die
Not comfortable to walk up and actually
Try to reset this wave against way on until he sees Jackie love showing up mid until he's gonna see cream down on bot side
So now finally he can go back to trying to push this one in
They're gonna get spotted with the Hawks shot, but he has a wave there as fun
Just collect some plates.
The game maker just gonna fly on forward
and this set is pretty comfortable right now,
but the gold, the CS advantage
has not moved, right?
I think that Zhuan has just been very, very good
in the lane, even if the teamfights haven't been working out.
Now, the Sion should be able to continue doing his job.
Double Swifties to both of these top laners as well.
I really do like Swiftie gamers.
As the knockup is going to come on through here
from the Sion, Han doesn't look too worried about it.
Although is worried about potentially having some friends move up here and wants to play
respectfully.
35 seconds on the next dragon and that is sole point available for Team Secret Wales
to see whether they can actually get a setup for it.
I'm going to be really interested to see where Punn goes from here, you know, if he
goes steric, some more defensive option, or if he goes for Overlord's Bloodmail.
Because if he goes that route, you really can get the W Flash with a full bar of true
grit and you can pretty much one-shot someone.
It is ridiculous how much true damage that deals if you get that in on the backline.
I'm trying to remember where we saw it last in Korea.
I think it might have been Chovy that played it.
It is terrifying.
There's a mid lane option in like Casper Cup or something.
No, he wasn't playing in Casper Cup, so it wasn't there.
But it might have been First Stand.
Sorry, it might have been the LCK Cup or something like that.
One of the cups.
It was one of the cups.
It was awesome.
Some video games that were played of the League of Legends
persuasion prior to this game.
Look at the array.
All right.
Looking for the angle.
Can he find the right hijack?
That's the question.
The three-play scouts get in.
Lance on the three.
Hasira gets the choice, finds the encore, but the cyclone is looking good here at Tattie.
Well, go Jackie, he's gonna get taken out.
The faces are being broken, and now Shelly gets involved.
His though, gets into the back line, knocks up Creamy, gets over the wall.
Though it's Punn, pulls him and gets the shield and tries to walk away.
They're gonna keep him alive.
This set is absurd, as Eddie is gonna be able to finish him up in the end.
Even Punn walking over to say, look, you didn't kill me.
That's the ace for Team Secret Wales.
Holy look at Plungo.
He is just taking matters into his own hands.
And it's going to be a 20 minute baron off the back of this.
Dunks the scion into the whole team.
And just like I was talking about,
gets that full bar of his passive, W Flash,
on to Jackie, left to lead Siash, wins the fight,
survives the damage from Zwei on and Fungiwei,
gets them the Baron.
They have a stranglehold on this game in this fight. It is all about the set pun goes in no investigation
Look at this angle right in and then gets that stun on multiple members
Jackie has to flash out and watch the W flash
Bull bar W flash through the image
It's a punch to the face sends him back to base and then from here
You think surely he is dead, but he snaps in the support kills off fun. You a has the haymaker back
Absorbs just enough damage there to survive from the scion
What a team fight that was picture perfect from fun. This guy is
Just amazing
Fun picking whatever he wants and making it work. He's still getting run down there was the arrow is going to connect
He has to use the Crescent Guard, but it's pretty effective as any goes again
And Karin goes down and Pipe lives on 10 health or something.
Dyer able to get himself out of the way.
Or Diary, if I'm going to say it correctly,
is Shweon trying to escape.
Does so.
And this Inatar, it's not going to be falling just yet.
But I mean, it just feels like we're
getting a show from Team Secret Wales here in game three.
As the on-core, I don't even know where the top eSports
want to see it again.
Yeah, not bad angle.
Not going to be able to find it.
As again, Punn just finds the perfect angle and he has gone overlords bloodmail and it is complete.
So if you're enjoying the set already, get ready for the show because this makes the damage so ridiculous.
As you get lower, you get more AD, you get AD based on your HP, every item you're building is stacking health,
and you get a comical amount of damage on the W Flash with this build.
We're expecting steric. You're basically just anything that is health and ad. That's what you want to build
I think the last time I saw this come in. It was immediately followed by a warm-ups
I don't know whether that is going to be the choice
Here from fun this time as I haven't kept up on my set builds. I'm not gonna lie
You know steric some people go titanic some people go warm-up some go dead man's there's lots of options
I'm sure some people would go perto belt as well
Because everyone loves that I at least got help on it. There we go. It's okay. Jackie
Let's see what the Deere can find himself an angle here. It looks like he's not even going to look for it as a least top
Esports have sort of hunkered down. They are down 6,000 gold. They are hunkering as best they can though they've
Pitched them into turrets. Yes.
Losing all the jungle. At least there are no villages in the villages
If that makes any sense at all. The arrow is gonna go a wide TN with the cycle and gets on top of Histo as Deere
D-Rate trying to do what he can to keep his jungler alive, but Histo is going to be going down.
Eddie now finds himself in an awkward spot, but a lot of damage onto this Seraphine.
Man, Ponyway has been magnetizing these mystic shots.
It's really causing some issues, but it's a really nice pick to come through from top eastwards.
Well done. You know, they were kind of hungering down, as you said, but they were losing their jungle as a result of that.
But this time they chased down Histo, they punished him for it.
Punn just barely did not have TP for that fight, so they have been tracking the TP timer.
I think they realized Set is down on bot.
He's not going to be able to respond to this, will force the play, because Histo is just
getting so far ahead of TNT.
He's two full levels up.
You can't expect to win if you can't defend your jungle at least on one side.
You need to be getting gold from somewhere.
TES know it, so they are able to punish the Zin Zao there.
Punnish, I get it.
There you go.
As we did see the damage graph, and Punn has been doing a lot more damage than anyone on
top esports at this point in time and almost as much as an Ezreal.
He's 16 now too, so rank-free ulti is even more terrifying.
Yeah, so we are going to see some pretty explosive fights.
Let's see whether top esports can fight around it though, right? Because I feel
like they've kind of walked into the set value a couple of times so far,
and whether they can play around it at all is going to be a big question, but
they're going to have to if they want to get back into this game.
5,000 gold is not a meager amount of the lead that Team Sick of Wales have.
They're going to look for sole point, they will be out of collected here.
At least off eSports got the last trick, so it's not sole.
And they're able to get out of turret back for their trouble.
Yeah, they were trying to get objective bounties.
The objective bounties actually just fell off before they took the power.
Now the objective bounties are coming back again because TSW got the dragon.
And the dragons waited very heavily in the objective bounty calculations.
But CSW maintaining that 5,000 gold lead and they are looking to get in towards that soul and you said it
Chemtech soul with a set kind of idea
Yeah, this is a champion that wants to get low health with the overlords bloodmail get maximum value there utilize the passive
Sustain at low health and you have karma as well, you know for the additional shielding on everyone
I mean if they manage to get if they get the chemtech soul, I think his though should also build bloodmail
You know what? I'm down. You may as well. Why not? You know, just treat yourself. Treat yourself. Capitalize. You deserve it.
He also is, you know, ahead by over a thousand gold. Maybe he has the luxury funds to make it work.
But yeah, obviously, fun is going to be the entire story of the rest of this game.
And we'll see whether top eSports have an answer for him. Right now,
he was just hanging out towards the bottom side of the map.
And so maybe the answer is fight while he's not there and try to stop him from doing a teleport.
And Shreyon can at least do that, might sacrifice his life for it if he does try to interrupt, but still
There's an option the Inotard is just one
Overgrowth proc away from falling down. I
Feel like if I am a TES coach right now
I'm looking through all of pun solo queue accounts all of his matches free
And I'm prepping five bands for this man. I'm saying no you must play meta
Yeah, we're gonna see like it's gonna be volley bear Shen
We are like all of these ridiculous champions
Then he's gonna come out with NASA. Yeah, no, it's do it to you anyway. He's gonna first pick renecd
He's gonna play the most boring champion and probably still do a great job
It's always the difficulty because most of the time these players can just go back to playing the meta stuff and it's met for a reason
That's right. Team cigarette was just trying to keep top e-sports away from this baron pit
And if the map is dark, like these flank angles from set and from Silas are just so devastating,
especially if it gives you a good hijack angle.
And wanting to get that on-core is going to be a big deal, but also enchanted Chrysler, Cyclone,
level 16 for the Silas as well, so the hijack is on such a low cooldown
that he can cycle through maybe a couple of these ults in an upcoming teamfight.
and it's okay for them to start it up, but they don't need to overcommit because they can just play for soul.
They don't take anything too risky, but trying to get some chunk down on Suey on.
He still is Sion, even though he's behind and not going to be that easy to punch through.
So, TSW, just taking on, continue playing the way you are playing.
You have swept through, you've got to be able to do that.
You've got to be able to do that.
You've got to be able to do that.
So, TSW, just taking on, continue playing the way you are playing.
You have swept out vision, you just need to play for soul,
but Histo feels like he really wants to force this.
It just takes a long time for them to kill,
and this is the riskiest part of the game here.
If you're going to try to do a Baron, TS can definitely punish you.
Well, they're walking towards them now.
Q is not going to quite find the angle here,
as we can see, Eddie's Mystic shots are actually doing a lot of work.
He's gone surreal as his third item as well,
so he can actually do a decent amount through the science.
The end though is going to be the first one to go down.
It's the decoy that they're looking for.
But Terry finds the chains.
Treyon going to have to flash away
but the three-tellant strike catches him,
even over the wall.
His face is broken and down he goes.
Punn is indeed unstoppable here in this game
and that should mean the Baron going over to Team Secret Wales.
Yeah, now it is not a flip.
It is not risky.
You killed the jungler.
You killed the top laner.
And they're going to be able to take this
and have perfect timing to set up for the solo as well as D-Ray.
Gonna be able to take the InnoTaric Dream, able to get himself out of the way.
But man, this Baron is going to be pretty devastating.
It is already 6.5k Gold lead, moving that one up to a 7.3k.
As we'll have to keep our eye on the Rebel Baron power play
and see how much that is going to improve.
So we see this one yet again.
And D-Ray, on the flank, he has been positioned so well in these fights.
He just came over the wall.
TN was trying to get in there, get some vision.
I think he had to be a bit more patient,
wait for a Hawkshot, wait for Zwayon to move first.
It wasn't a very secret monkey.
Exactly.
He felt like they were going to be on the Baron already.
Then he needed to get up there and D-Ray catches him
with the sweeper over the wall, finds him,
and Zwayon, when he flashes over the wall,
he quickly realized, wait, I can't actually
follow my teammates out because if I do,
I'm giving set an ult onto my team.
So he kind of had to just accept his death,
and Punn just held onto that.
Punn has flash, Punn has ult, and Punn
has hysterics and they're trying to walk through him.
All right, facebreaker is going to miss.
It's now at the end.
Thinks that's his opportunity to go in.
Oh my Lord, that was just the clone, but still.
Hey, make it doing a whole lot of work here
as we can see on stopable onslaught.
Looking for Deere, he flashes himself out of it.
That's maybe an overextension here.
Is now Histo and Eddie looking for the movement on the side.
I like it.
You've got Pan flashing out of the way actually
with the Asher.
Not wanting to tank that one up.
This is Chemtek's solo.
And the Asher has been picked up here by Dere as well. He throws it out immediately.
There is the showstopper from Pony. Finds a facebreaker.
It is going to be Tien falling down first. Histo getting into that frontline.
The down goes to Monkey. Finally, Trisha Brosh, over everyone from Eddy.
It is lights out for Cream, and the rest are going to follow.
Suchuan is a zombie, and Eddy will be able to kill the Seraphine once again.
And it's a triple for the Ezreal, that's an ace for Team Seekra Wales.
And it's clean to Booth returning the favour from Game 2.
What a play here from TSW, they're about to take us to match point.
Match point, we haven't had a four game series so far here at MSI.
If they manage to follow up this one, it will be our first.
We'll see whether they can to keep the LCP in the tournament.
Absolutely insanity there. They try to force their way in, but pun is too big, too strong.
And this secret whales team are looking way better than people expected.
Oh my goodness. I'm getting acronyms all messed up in my brain because I was not prepared
for this team to be this good. It was a secret.
Oh, absolutely incredible. Let's throw it over to the desk to take us through that game.
I was gonna say not that was quicker than I expected
yeah it's not a secret well anymore it's not a secret anymore
well the comeback the match point I love that you're the only one with the correct prediction so far
so far honestly I hope it's not correct prediction yeah I think team secret
well to play so well today I'm really impressed by them generally this is what
we saw from them domestically like yeah I think it's really one would be deserved on current form
They came prepared, and that's what I love for them.
Yeah, and even obviously someone who likes talking sports,
it means so much for the region as well, right?
And especially for this team,
because I remember when we first saw them,
they were so disappointed
at what their initial international performance was.
They were so disappointed then
with their first stand performance as well.
You know, they were like,
we know we are better than this,
despite the fact that, yes,
everyone was looking at CFO last year.
So for them to come out and have such a strong performance,
especially in these mid-game team fights, is huge.
And I think people often underrate the impact
that international experience has.
LCP has been sending a lot of new teams consistently.
Like this time, we got Real of Deep Cross Gaming
who struggled, but Team Squales,
they've clearly taken away their previous experiences
and built on that for this tournament.
And we were talking about the resources that they have
and how much preparation
how much could they improve game after the game and when they locked that set, we knew that they
were here to fight and that's what we're going to see in our HyperX Reflex replay because
the impact that he had in this fight, he had all game but especially for this one I felt like it
was the game breaking moment here, 15 secret falls. 100% and with how the comps interact,
top esports really want to play through their backline, being protected, being safe,
They have these two long range carries with the Ash and the...
...Wayne.
Wayne, and we see this great angle here, where D.R.I.S. found this beautiful flank around the side.
He's avoided that ward of the dragon pit, and Pon TP's in here.
The two big things is that Jackalov still doesn't have his flash, and it's coming up pretty soon,
and Pon has that shield you get from teleporting, so they want to start the fight as soon as possible.
As we play it on, we see there is no hesitation from Team Secret Wales.
We get the stepper from the scion, the ult comes in and look at the damage based on the scion's HP, it chunks Jacula of out.
But then as we play it out, Jacula gets hit by this, then gets stunned, then we get the stolen on-core.
He finally gets to walk away, W flash to take him out, one of those carries dead and then immediately,
Histo uses the Herald to get onto Cream.
Even though he flashes over the wall, Eddy is there to clean up and I just think the target selection was phenomenal.
team secret Wales. And this is what we kept talking about with how well team secret Wales plan out the first five to 10 seconds of a fight. This is exactly what they do domestically because you could easily say, let's just
Let's just fight around the Drake will settle and we'll see what happens, but they've already planned the D-Race coming on the flank
He's gonna steal the encore after that you're gonna have the karma inspiring people so they can run for it
They put the riffle down so they can chase with that as well. It's not just the initial punch
They're planning the haymakers and the jabs after that and this was all set up and draft right we talked about okay
What do TSW need in this game 3 to kind of come back after a really strong game out of TES and it was
this pick from fun. He has many of them. We already mentioned the
volleyball which was banned for five, but he's now a six and
three on it. Um and has slightly higher than 62.5% one rate,
which is what he had going into it, right? So I love how they
have all of these picks for him and they just know like we even
saw this in the HLE series with the volleyball. They know how to
his picks, Charles said that you've got to believe in Pona, believe that's his
fansite name or it comes from his specific fans domestically, but amazing set
performance and just such a clear direction from the team of how they
wanted to approach these fights. And I want to follow up on what we said at the
beginning of the day, the fact that we have so many rookies on the MSI stage in
this match and it's gonna come down to who can absorb the pressure the best
and so far when you think about the top lane matchup, Pan has it. He's drinking the pressure in the top lane.
Consider the same thing on the other side.
Yeah, Sryan has had a bad series overall in my estimation.
He managed to survive this 1v1 lane okay, but Pan just had so much more impact when he came to teamfights
that Sion wasn't able to do much and even across the other games in the series, the Jace he got a lead
but he was getting caught out, BA's hook on him was really the deciding factor of that Baron fight in game one.
So I'd like to see Srian stepping up to the level we know he can play at because we've seen him already at this MSI against G2
having incredible performance on that and better. It just feels like today he hasn't quite got locked in.
And I think my concern as we get deeper in the series is that Panos and Showni can bring out pick after pick after pick.
A lot of confidence. I think top esports in this series against G2 really struggled in terms of endurance as they got deeper.
I feel like they struggle to work out what to pick to put their players in a comfortable position, particularly those rookies.
And that's the thing, getting deeper in those games, if you want to see them go the distance, they're gonna have to win the next one.
What do you feel like they did wrong in the G2 series, when it comes to draft and how they approach things that is gonna at least help them get into that game fight here?
I feel like they kind of ran out of picks that were comfortable for the top laner, and I think as well, when it comes to the composition, if you look at the previous game,
That was super easy to execute and a very straightforward comp here, the draft they just had.
It's like you're playing around these are mobile carries in the back line.
You have to keep them safe from consistently.
And we saw even in the zigz game at the start of the day,
I feel like this team isn't really operating a while.
There's a disconnect between the front line and back line.
You often see scenarios where Jackie Love is out of position and exposed.
And sometimes that's down to him.
Sometimes that's down to the team.
I think honestly, if they play a composition that's more, we just go forward.
but you see target, kill target,
that probably have an easier time.
I feel like it's the same question for Team Secret Wells
because up until today, they hadn't won a single game.
At MSI, they managed to grab two now.
Do they have what it takes?
I think on today's forum, I have to say they do.
They've looked like the better team
in two of the three games.
Top East was looked really good in the game they won,
but Top East was not denying the skirmish opportunities
in the mid game.
They have to deny to beat Team Secret Wells.
They did a well in game two,
But I feel like that disconnect that Orcs has been talking about is costing them a lot in the mid game.
And Team Secret Wells are good enough to punish you if you give them those mid game fights.
I didn't wake up for a banger today, but turns out that's what we're gonna get here at MSI in the first series.
Again, elimination is on the line here, and it's Team Secret Wells taking us to match points against TES.
Let's see what happens next.
Jack, that's the question. The suplex gets in lands on the three!
And Sierra gets the choice, finds the Encore!
But the Cyclone is looking good here, and the Bojackie is going to get taken out.
The Faces are being broken, and now Shelly gets involved, here's though!
Gets into the backline, knocks up, and he gets over the wall,
though it's fun, pulls them in, gets the shield, and tries to wall-wipe!
He may be going to keep them alive!
This set is absurd!
The first one to go down, it's the Decoy that they're looking for,
but Sierra finds the chains!
Trayn gonna have to flash away but the three-tile strike catches him, even over the wall, his face is broken and down he goes!
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for what could be the final game in this series. But if I've any learnt anything about this MSI,
that is we get either five or three. There is no in between. It is an odd tournament.
It is at this point in time. And it's odd because we also had set just to completely dominate the game.
And that is kind of cool. Look at this. Theoretically, those three champions could be in the top lane.
They could. But I think they've made a classic error of not banning all pun champions.
Yeah, we need more pun bands as has clearly been demonstrated across this
series. It had actually been fully banished and allowed me. I would have just
I would have respected talking both more. I would have been kind of down for it.
Yeah, I will give credit though to Zwayon. He in the 1v1
did completely fine. He's in a camera matchup. He held the wave in the right spot. He kept the farm
pretty even. They actually struggled with the set in the T-Fights, which is not where I expected
it to be their issue. It was not about that 1v1
in top lane, Zoyan did absolutely fine. Couldn't really find much of an impact himself, but I wonder
how spicy does Pun get? Do we get something like the, you know, the veins? Does he cost out of
vein into this? I am super down for him to cook. There are so many counterfeits to Nile. Yeah.
Why would... Maybe TF I hate, but it is out there and people play it. They do, and it has been
winning as well, which is somewhat problematic because I'm kind of like you. I feel like the champ
When under a microscope looks like it just kind of does nothing. Yeah
See if it's just cosplaying as an 80 carry
Yeah, just play just on it's own actually that one could be an option as well
Yeah
Not gonna be played that one has been bad way to take a little ease. This is kind of fun
This is a lame that has found some value
As there is a Mel picked up, could be for Jack, could be for Cream.
Well, Camille action, see if we get the pairing.
Because Camille did get banned second round last time.
We also saw this was the exact matchup that was picked into Pays and Carrier, right?
And then the Coons started being turned around and it was problematic.
But he was, Carrier was piked and it's always really hard because you can watch what Carrier does.
And when you watch what carry it does on I don't know like Alice or something
I could probably do that, but then we watch what carry it does on Camille and
Pike you can't even really convince yourself that you could do it
So it's gonna be hard to convince your team to let you do it
Yeah, we um we used to have rules where you just don't play solo queue after carrier has like a gameplay especially
Which support? Yeah, Callista support. Yeah, anything. He was playing Garrus support towards the end of the
Oh, that's a Mundo.
Could be some more top.
Yeah, we don't quite know where it's going.
I will say it might be the matchup into the NAR.
Yeah, it's not the best into the NAR.
I'm not going to lie.
I mean, I think it's fine.
I played this matchup a bunch of times
because it was on a huge Mundo kick.
But I mean, NAR does percentage HP damage,
and you can just go with Diesel Tempo,
and it's pretty hard to actually win the extended trades.
If you want to play heavy for Sidelanes and scaling, that's fine.
You can do that on Mundo, and you can actually rush War Mods
and then take over our Sidelanes.
But I expect to be more likely in the jungle.
We will see if that is the case, but that's kind of my feeling,
because I don't actually think it's a great matchup in Xenar
because of the %HBDF from Hyper.
They also kind of snap lost it after seeing the Qiyana as well,
and I imagine that matchup would work out quite well for the Mundo
as she does like to build the good old Lodality that doesn't work into the big, big, big boys.
As there is the Vayne ban, as it looks like top esports
are also feeling like that Mundo is heading towards the forest.
I wonder if they ban Trist as well because Zwei An actually played the Tristan and Nara lost
But I wonder if they're still nervous about that potential counter pick obviously they do know it's out there, right?
They played it did not work out for them in that game, but it doesn't mean that it can't work out
It is always I think very very swingy
Rather you didn't go cameo you and Keanu on three. Yeah, I think that the cameo now
Would they have banned Keanu in any world that is my question. I would say no
So the only the only logic I have in situations like this is that they want to see more of the draft
See more of the drop
If you play our support there you go and it could still be nah jungle and Keanu support
They are scared. Yeah, this is and
It's oh my so that's fair
Yes, all right, so they found a way their own coach and then a whole bunch of theoretical top laners
That's the yasuo and this is what Morgan pulled into the now do it to upon oh
They're not okay. I was cool. This is definitely more of a classic. This is one that you taught me a lot about yeah
At first and at the beginning of the year. I am a lot of enthusiasts
I'm not playing things that walk down the sideline and hit me. Yeah, he's that's what he's gonna try and do
So he's going to try to do, he's going to try to hit E and the other guy's going to try to not get hit by E.
Oh, beautiful. And hit Q while he's avoiding the E.
As Jackie is thinking about taking away the pike for Fungalight,
and this is sort of the only one that's left out of the classic mel pairings that we have seen before,
but we'll see how that one is going to go. The Syndra is going to be in consideration, at least for now,
for Cream, which we'll be confirming that Jackie will be playing the mel in the bottom lane.
I'm pretty sure I heard that he's never played this champion before competitive. I will double-check that for you. Let's find out
As have the power of it is written down over there. We just trust the stats team. Well, that's fair. Well
Let's see how he is gonna go on it as we are still hovering this to quite some time as the syndrome will be locked in in the end
He has played syndrome though. Oh
So I wonder if there's any chance of them flexing. I think it's probably unlikely. I think it is probably not a lot
Hey, maybe if there's some situation where you know the matchup is going to be better for cream mid because cream is blinding
Right, you know, so they're kind of waiting to see so maybe there's an angle for it to get flexed around
But he has played a Syndra in his career a handful of times
Victor Syndra matchup isn't one I'd necessarily feel the need to dodge
That being said should be able to get Victor through the lane quite nicely
Honestly, even if cream will have somatic pressure.
I will say, if TSW can just farm and scale and take this late, I think it is going to
be so hard to deal with the Mundo.
Yeah.
NAR does have percentage HP damage, like that is nice, but it's more battle with Scyling
than.
You can't as a NAR just be hitting Mundo the entire G-Bite and generally expect to win.
It is pretty unlikely.
And when I'm looking at Mel and Syndra, when I have a Spirit Visage and just, you know,
like a Bedmans or whatever, like Heartsteal is just some sort of armor to not get one
shop by some of these other people. It's so much burst and it's so much telegraph burst.
So you're going to get crazy value out of the heart zapper. You're going to be able to just
tank up and create so much space. And I kind of really like what TSW have. But that being said,
when we look at the game that they lost, it was kind of one of these slow play comps again.
And they got completely ran over. So that is kind of what I'm nervous about. I feel like
They really excel when they're the ones who are drafted tools for themselves to skirmish, to fight, to take scraps whenever they see them.
And when we saw them try to play that slow style with the Orn Top and, you know, kind of less engaged tools,
they just let Top get into the comfort zone and take every fight they wanted.
Yeah, I think it is, like, another one of these more slow drops, but I think that there is still more agency for fun than there was in that Orn Game, right?
So the Yorick will be a one man army, like literally, but also like if he can get an advantage in this game
It's gonna be really problematic if top e-sports to deal with him in a side lane with the composition that they put together
There is not a whole lot of frontline either
So this composition is gonna take a lot of finesse to make sure that they have all of their ducks in a row lining up
All of these ultimates if it does work if it is indeed a supreme display of talent here from top e-sports
everyone on Secret Whales will just die, even if they do have big tanky boys,
because there is just so much layering of damage that can be thrown down if
these CC ultimates do manage to land. It's very true and it's also going to be
one of these comps, you know, for CSW, where sure you have Cocoon Flash or
something like that, but generally speaking for Secret Whales, it's, am I at
the objective first like that is really the important part because you look over
at their engage tools and beyond the least flash cocoon which is not
impressive in a 5v5 you really have nothing right so you kind of have to be
there first set up the trap line make them walk through victor laser victor
w katlyn traps and all of these tools to really make it tough to get in well
any might just be dying though as we can see here
Funcley burning a fast blood over to the Elise!
Eddie survives as well, and man,
Jackie just needed to hit him like one more time!
That was so incredibly close there,
Funcley flashes out, but does die to the Ignite,
and Eddie survives.
Heartbreaking start here,
and what could be their final game at MSI?
Oh man, devastating, and it's,
I mean, I've kind of been caught up in this series,
and just how impressive.
Never mind, I'm going to be caught up in this fight here as well as Dirae gets the shield from the Cube,
but Tien is just going to skip on over and grab the clean pick up on the Victor and Keanu getting accelerated early.
That's exactly what you want to see.
Yeah, it really is, and that is a very, very nice 4TN was set up entirely by Cream.
Dirae was kind of getting blasted in that 1v1 was incredibly low already,
and Tien just does a little drive-by and takes that kill for free.
Dirae knew it as well. He didn't flash, he didn't use anything, just like,
Yeah, of course, I'm dead from this position.
So some good news there for TES,
and we'll help you to recover a little bit of the feelings
that you're gonna be having about how that started.
And this is LPL versus APAC.
You can see LCP, eight and four.
It is going, of course, in the favor of the LPL
in all time.
LMS, PCS, VCS is 57 to 11.
If TSW do win the series,
this would be the first time in Vietnamese team histories
that they've ever won a best of five against the LPL
at an official Riot event,
which would be really, really momentous for the region,
for the players, especially after this year
where CFO leave and everyone, kind of myself included,
to be honest, we're writing their ability
to challenge a team like this off.
Yeah, we kind of thought like the heyday was moving on,
right, that we weren't going to be able to see these teams
that were able to try and stand up against
a lot of the top regions, but right now,
Team Secret Wales, after what was a devastating series
against Homolife Esports, are looking great.
However, Hun does get missed by the Wallop,
still just trying to fight this one out.
The Gully Wall working out beautifully,
down to the Mininarr, and he doesn't hit the Boomerang!
There's the Q!
And it's Punna locks up the kill with the help of his toe.
Oh, that is such a tilt here,
because Wei-On was leaning so well in that 1v1.
He had a solo kill for sure,
but his toe is there, and inzo to injury.
Uh-oh, VA actually taking a lot of damage here.
It's Wondling!
Woo-hoo!
Okay.
No ignite this time.
VA had it available.
Just didn't manage to press it.
That was very, very close, isn't it?
Hard to blame VA, because he had to repel away so quickly,
because he got pulled into tower range there,
but had a minion, thankfully, for him to repel back to.
But yeah, Zwayon thought he was going
to be able to finish pun with his hyper proc,
so he flashed in to go for it.
Doesn't get the kill and dies.
You're already super frustrated that his though
was there at that moment.
Then you spend the flash, and you don't get the kill, and it goes to Yorick.
And Yorick didn't have to flash!
Yep.
Oh man, so it gets even worse.
Here towards the bottom side there, you can see that Jackie is doing just fine in this matchup.
Caitlyn obviously pretty good at last hitting, but is otherwise just going to be pretty even at this point in time.
We saw, I mean, in the BLG vs T1 series, when it was a very similar matchup to this,
Uh, it was a similar start and then a very difficult end as the cocoon is going to connect
He actually looking for the ankle here, finds the ignite this time, just meets the auto and down goes the pipe
Hungle is not having a good time
When's the last time you saw support solo kill on another support in a 2v2?
Not a point of damage needed for Mehdi
I don't remember the last time, um, maybe, maybe it's now
At least we all get a new experience here
Top Esports fans not gonna be happy about the one that we're having is his toes looking for TN here at the same time
Does get put down relatively low
But not gonna go any further forward and Amanda back towards farming things very even as far as the jungle is concerned as well
I'm still doing great in that one view and force the flash out of pun
But pun had that flash from the previous fight
So he was able to survive and now you get level six
That's when things get a little bit more difficult for you a trying to make a move up towards top
They need to help out this way on they need to make sure that he can be into a good spot
This kind of matchup. It's all about the side lanes with BA is here to cover and BA is a lot stronger
He's got the Hextech alternator
He got both of the kills only don't want your support to get kills
But support Elise can one shot people if you get too far ahead
Yeah, and is going to become useless later on into the game as well
And so this will prolong the value of the Elise
really nicely done and moving
up there, reading the room very
nicely, meaning that this pike
won't be able to make his way
back into this game. Brief
cases being thrown around as
well. Cream taking a bit of
damage there as D-Ray still at
full health in the mid lane.
The gold lead, Team Secret
Wales moving to about 500 at
this point in time. I don't
think Top Esports are
necessarily too worried right
now. I think that their
composition in the mid game is
where it's really going to start
getting devastating, but we are
getting closer and closer to
closer to that point. As there is the bone skewer going to be able to find a stun. Gravity
well goes down. The Unleashed power comes through but it's not quite enough damage and
D.R.A. just kind of walks it off. Yeah, he's just kind of chilling. I mean, had that early
Null Magic Mantle and seems like that is going to be enough. Bungieway, it was a good attempt
to flash, you know, did set up the play but they just simply don't have enough damage
to do it. Tien, they're looking topside. Yeah, see whether he can actually find the angle
here. Does find a stun out as the Srinx player talent doesn't quite work. It's a mini-null
But the mated is just killing him!
The ghouls come on through!
But he is going to have to pull away.
This time it's Tian that's in trouble though,
goes into stealth thanks to the grass.
But this york does not care about your ganks,
Toppy Squat.
I think Pun actually would have kept going and killed him,
except he stopped Fungiway running over a ward in the river
up towards the topside.
Otherwise he could have kept going.
They didn't feel like we're living in an alternate timeline
where Faker started playing top lane.
And his name is Pun.
This man is going crazy in this series, Atlas.
He's bringing out pick after pick after pick.
Get him off a tank, put him on anything else.
That's the recipe to success.
Yep.
And what about a tanky damage dealer,
which is what he's found a lot of success on so far in this series.
We aren't going to fit that bill as, oh, dear.
Yeah. And also, if the Yorick starts snowballing,
this is a very early time to start it.
Yeah.
I'm a little bit worried about how this game
is going to continue as they're going to need to, yeah, yeah, this is not what Toppingsports
fans want to be looking out for.
Yeah, producers, you can tell something personal against Ox, running a graphic at a time like
this.
Yeah, as well.
And you got Raz as well.
I mean, he's waiting for his flight, but it was waiting to see the result of this series
as well and tried to anti-Castor Cursor.
Not looking like it's working just yet, however, I may have helped him out here with a little
bit of a curse in the other direction. Let's see whether that does actually make an impact.
It's Cocoon, gorgeous here from BA, who is back to his game one ways, playing exceptionally
well on this Elise.
Yeah, really good job there. Does spin the Ignite, chunks out from the way, but he gets
the honey fruit, so he is going to be okay. You see, big scrap around that dragon though.
Yeah, his throw looked perfect in an angle here, throwing briefcases around. The peacemaker
doing so much work at Cien trying to get himself out. He's so low, but his though, walks it up in the end.
They do manage to get the kill on Tobieto as Fongai, ah, yeah, you're really dead. Just gonna get smacked around and destroyed a double for the Mundo.
That is not a good news story. Um, in the meantime, Punn is killing the boycrubs.
You just told them, yeah, York is actually really good at taking objectives because of the maiden damage.
Yeah. You can just walk over, you can do grubs by yourself.
He did and that is actually so smart. He does not have to wait for the jungler to come up there
He's not complaining get you a top laner like punn. Exactly. It takes all three. I think everyone wants a top laner like punn
Anyone who's been watching him inside my goodness
What an incredible performance so fun as well with the champions
He's picked up briefed case connects onto cream has to flash the cocoon
Up in the sky goes beer. He's got the skriars bloom because of course he does
He's dancing on him at this point, and he sets up the previous play with the cocoon flash on to Tien,
and then Tien and Kree both had the flash there, by the way, and they get nothing at all because he has the rappel already set up.
They take three grubs on topside with the York who's already ahead.
They get the dragon and work on C's way on Dive.
Yep, the E comes on through. He flashes, the Gully Walls, and he didn't even need it.
Just presses Q once again. He's only gonna bage, Isaac.
Yeah, I just don't know what's way on the scene because it was not what I was seeing
There was no world in which he wins this 1v1
We're back to the cocoon flash BA setting it up on the TN and then is goes his though
Look at the damage from BA by the way gets him down to almost no HP
His though goes in picks up the kill chases down fun. You a gets another you touch them if a moondo getting accelerated
So problematic I talked about it in draft
they are just such a low damage comp and you can see the frustration there yeah
they know this game is starting to slip away from them and and Zwayon going for
that 1v1 there's just there's just no world in which he wins from that spot
you're jumping into all the goals the maiden and there was minions there it
just felt to me like you're always gonna die and maybe he thought he could kind of
like outplay and get into mega and then win from there but I just thought that
it there was just no way out maybe he thought that it was kind of doomed but I
I didn't really see that as an angle either.
I think he's left.
It's a little bit of a worry.
Three and a half minutes on the dragon here
as the ace in the hole comes on through.
EA is down to 50%.
They're Jack-E-Love still doing some damage
with his Kertabelt now put together.
And he is getting closed in on it.
He's still moving on in.
Tien is going to show himself.
And that should mean the retreat of team Sacred Wales.
Great.
Bonescure is going to connect.
The ignite comes on through.
But they're not committing to this play.
The comment comes down, not exactly in range of the ultimate either.
He still throws it out, but Eddy will live.
Yeah, barely doesn't have enough damage to actually finish him off there.
You know, maybe one more spell.
Another auto or two, he would have been low enough to get executed.
Feng Yuai, obviously getting body guarded out here by his toe.
He knows he's not going to allow the pike in for an execute onto Eddy,
and Eddy is just heading up towards that topside now.
Punn is going to be on his triforce very soon,
And that is where there's going to be pretty bad news for anyone
laning against him.
Yeah, that's what I was just thinking about.
I mean, two items for the arc is where he really starts
to turn basically any matchup.
But if you're accelerated like this,
I don't know who's going to be able to stand against him
when that first item is complete.
Rowdyfield comes down.
Kramer's still doing fine, right?
Like, they still have three gold leads on the map right now.
The problem is, Punn is so incredibly big,
And this composition is very happy to go as late as you like.
Exactly. That's kind of my concern is,
how are you going to realistically deal with these really tanky
members in the front line of Histo and Punn?
You know, when they're on multiple items,
you just so much burst and so little consistent DPS from the side of TES, so...
Feels hard.
Oh, God.
Um...
Well, Shraion is looking for more.
You can't take the ghouls like this. It's like...
Yeah, Crane was rotating down, that's why he was going in, but he was about to just die
Um, before the Cinder even arrived, Spongeway is just gazed, he's just dead
Um, Tien might be following suit here, these briefcases are really hurting
I'm still now done for his to, and Jacky Love kind of wishing that he has rebuttal on the same cooldown as, uh, as the cleaver toss
Uh-oh, Tien is around, but can they stay alive? That's the question
Yeah, Dash Cannon comes forward, doesn't quite find the snare though onto Eddy.
And his toe is just going to do that wonder at the maneuver.
They do have the rebuttal available for one of them.
And that is going to at least allow Jackie to live this way.
Yeah, Jackie plays it well, but it does cost him his flash, right?
So he says, sure, that's fine.
You flash, I use my ult, I'm AOK with that.
And Punn in the meanwhile did base and got his Triforce, right?
And we already saw how difficult it was looking for his way on in the side lane.
Now it is going to be nearly impossible.
So T.S. trying to overload that side of the map.
We'll see if they actually catch him here, but Pun spots him now.
Yep, Fungiway's down here now as well.
Uh, but yeah, just Gully Wall thrown up.
Uh, and that is going to be that.
Pierre gonna be moving in here as well.
I know that it's not called Gully Wall, by the way.
No, it is.
It's, it's the official name.
I, I want it to be.
His dark procession just doesn't really, it doesn't tell the story.
Dark procession doesn't tell you what it is.
No, and a Gully Wall is precisely what it is.
I feel like unless you're playing one of the skins where it's a cat wall
Summoning the ghouls being called almost like dark precession that would kind of be fine. Make it a passive. Yeah. Yeah
I'm with you. Maybe we could talk to i want to go to wall team golly wall. I love that team
That's that's one of my favorites. I thought I was the only member
That was all right
The coinbase gold grind let's see who we're going to be comparing as it's pun versus frion and oh man
We've said it already, but york being this far ahead this early
It's just a real rough story takes down the turret here towards the top side as well that is first her blood that
Goldleaf is only extending
Stop e-sports on this straight for now, but his toe in the area
Yeah, and Eddie moving on in as well and TN. He just can't really tank this up either
It's doing a lot of damage as the bone skewer does go wide
It's going to get cocooned himself and is snared up there as well great chance. He see they take out the Elise the Prince
play talent on the only D-rape, but it should be out of work out here as the
arcade storm comes in, the ace in the hole to lock down the Keanu though and his
toe is not dying today! Just wonders out of the way and they are gonna look for
the dragon as well. Yeah they're gonna go right back to it, BA just respawned, he's
running out there but blind meets the pal. Yeah nice burn to you there. Flash over down he goes!
No stun to come on through, the Gully wall comes on all over but Kareem gonna
to try and throw out the force of will.
They take down the raid boss, but Eddie is looking
for some revenge, creeps flashing out of the way.
This defines the briefcase and fun rate, yeah,
you're not getting out of that one.
Eddie is still looking for cream.
One more auto, there it is.
And they finish it off.
It's 12 to six here at 16 minutes.
That is a delayed ace here with TAS.
One game from going home a very early exit
would be the result if they lose this game.
And they just lost the dragon.
They just got wiped off the map.
And that was with a fight that started incredibly well.
With D-Ray getting wiped out by Tien,
with BA getting just one shot by Jackie Love
with a reflected cocoon.
I think it was into the solar stair.
He just got deleted.
So a lot of things went well for TDS.
And they still got Aston lost the dragon
because let's watch this one more time.
So it's BA on the side.
This is where you're looking.
Cocoon gets reflected in the solar stair.
He's one shot and you're thinking, okay, well, that's not great.
And then Boogatien coming in on the D-Ray.
D-Ray tries to flash it out, but dies anyway, but on the other side.
Well, in the meantime, we've just got D-Ray walking out of the way of the death room below.
Still, he's going to die, and then he's going to get the pick on to this victor.
Top Esports just trying to find anything back into this game,
and getting picks like that in side lanes could be an avenue,
especially if he's also going to die.
And Team Secret Wales, time to fumble a little.
Yeah, they are getting picked off in this side lane.
CES are grouping up.
They're the ones with the engaged tools.
They're the ones with the playmaking
and they have to keep utilizing it.
And that was about a 2000 Goldie
that just got deleted pretty much during a replay.
So that was about how quickly that did go away.
You can see York is still on top side
and is pushing.
BA and his toe want to keep enabling fun.
When you're playing York, you want to be inside lanes.
You want to be pressuring towers.
That is really where you are at your best.
You can succeed in a team fight,
especially when you're this fed,
but it's a lot easier in the 1v1s, the 1v2s, you really can shine.
And Pun needs to shine now, because he is 2.2k ahead,
but you look at mid and bot, Cream is miles ahead of D-Ray now,
Jack-E-Love is miles ahead of Eddy, and they are going to be powerful.
Yeah, they are mostly burst and not a lot of consistent DPS,
but they've got burst and spades.
And Histo is going to be building a Spirit Visage next.
Not only is it like the best Mundo item you can buy,
but also for the two threats on top,
Esports feels pretty fantastic to be able to put that together.
I wouldn't be surprised if Pungos for
some early magic resist in his build as well,
as probably do on Sterak's and
Sgt. which is going to be completed now.
This is like your core two items that you need,
but you've got some flexibility from here.
Shweon does not have as much flexibility as the death rate
comes down and he is just extremely dead.
I mean, that is so much of damage is the least.
It's actually crazy because the execute on the spider form queue. My god
It is so much damage especially with the damage and from the support item. Yeah
I was damaged and from support item has the rocket about already finished be a
Doing good job with his lead that he got from that to be too
But TES trying to hang on
There's a lot of these sidelines though. Yeah, there are a lot of pings out towards the center towards bottom lane charge
Yeah, that is Shelly now moving towards the mid lane where they have three people already there
So that is just going to be executed Shelly getting a whole lot of value
And they're gonna send all of these Void mites towards towards the Inatarat as well
And so in on the top side of the map is also likely to fall down
But Dira is going to be out at least get here
To deal with these minions, but I think this is still going to fall. Yeah, I think it definitely will
I mean this school graph is becoming a bit of a roller coaster. We went from 2k up for TSW to
You know 500 800 gold up for TS back to 1k up for TSW all within the span of a couple minutes
Yeah, a bit of a hop on there at the moment
Yeah, both teams playing the map here very heavily Eddie is now on two items here collector into strong razor interesting
So really wanting that move speed was already playing ghost
I think it makes sense when you're looking at how skill shot based the opponents are you want to dodge
You want to dodge a solar snare and scatter and all these tools
But of course, you know, it doesn't mean your eye is going to be getting pushed back quite a lot
You don't building yeah, he was yeah, right next right so fourth item IE
I guess you don't really need a lot doms as much in this game. Yeah, so it's not as much of an issue
But Caitlin probably still wanting for items to really be valuable as fun possibly in trouble here
It's getting a lot of damage the unleash power comes in and that is going to be enough to execute this Yorick
took four people to do so as the rest of Team Secret Wales are trying to push up the mid lane,
but they only able to get anything back really for this play as top eSports wrestle back some control.
We have to remember they are playing for silver scrapes, right?
We get a game five if they're able to win this game
and it was looking a little bit like Team Secret Wales had them exactly where they wanted them.
Now things are moving back in the favor of the LPL squad.
And the thing you always have to remember about York is the cooldown on the Maiden doesn't
start until the Maiden dies.
So even when he rezzes, he's not going to have Maiden for this fight here, but there's
also no ult on Tien.
There's also no ult on Cream.
They don't want to give them soul point here early.
They have the vision.
Tien is going to move on over.
He just steals it.
All right.
Just Q smite.
And that is that.
And that is actually really big here.
When you're looking at Mundo with Cloud Soul, this is a terror.
And even York getting the movespeed in the side lanes, obviously, Eddie is putting huge
emphasis on additional movespeed with the Surmrazer, with the Ghost.
So clearly movespeed is going to be important and that was a huge smite now for TES that
ties them so much more time.
If they were on sole point here already, they'd be forced to fight to the next dragon regardless
of if it's a good setup.
Now they have the option to play side lanes to threaten Barrens to look for picks to do
whatever they want and I'm kind of guessing that they are just still waiting for this
pick.
The map is very, very dark, and I haven't quite seen the Baron.
I think we know that the Baron isn't started at the moment,
but keeping things dark, Team Secret Wales need to find out what's going on.
His though should be able to walk in there.
Mundo does indeed go where he pleases,
as they find a lot of damage onto Cream.
Fungiwe is going to be able to get himself out of there,
but now doesn't have the cooldowns,
as Jacky Love forced a flash out of the way.
And look at his though, it's just a brick wall wandering at them
with that ulti running, and Top Esports can do nothing if the Mundo is all buffed up like this.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's some key flashes down now.
Both your AP carries lost their flash in this skirmish.
He still does have to be careful not to overextend,
because Mundo without ult is barely a champion.
Yeah.
Mundo with ult is absolutely insane, but especially when he gets to 16,
he is down a full level to where his opponent is, but,
you know, once you're getting 16, it is so powerful
because you're getting an additional 5% healing effects
per enemy that is nearby.
So when you run into the middle of the team,
you pop ults, all of a sudden you're just Thanos.
You really cannot die.
And Kharzapar is so easy to use against teams like this.
So they're just gonna try to force it.
They're gonna start the Baron here.
They know there's no flash on Jackie or Cream,
but Mundo has no ults, so they have to play a little careful.
Yeah, I'd be a little bit worried about Tian as well.
He just walked over and stole your dragon.
This could be a difficult time as well,
They do have vision over the wall team secret Wales just wanted to go for a reset where they can as the maiden is the one tanking this up
I want pun to move her away from it. I think either I think you maybe did he just connect it double-tastic
Either that or it's bugged in but they're not pausing so I'm never mind. He is gonna back it away
That looks super bugged then. I'm not gonna lie because the fact that it walked back to him. I
Will say the maiden AI leaves something to be desired at times
Yeah, you do have to play really weird in some matchups where you know the main will just refuse to back away
You have to literally face to heal it
So I didn't end up dying and they did get a TP off Jackie. Oh that reaction time was gorgeous
But Eddie still gonna be out of dash forward Jackie will be trading the kill back
The BA is at least able to take him out. But once you're gonna connect onto the spider as well the ignite down
Longingway needs to be very careful when facing off against this Elise because he just doesn't have very much health and never kind of will
I want to see that replay from Jackie Lowe's POV because those reaction times are inhuman
Yeah, I'm so glad we had the vision toggle because it really showed how much time he had to press for a bottle
And it was none. Fanny still did it
So not really getting the map on that one, but it does make it happen in the 1v2
They do finish him off. Of course Eddie maybe could have could have flashed on thing
But I think it was reasonable for him to think that they had him in that moment
But very quick reactions from Jackie keeps himself
In a decent trade at the very least, you know is able to go one for one from that spot. Yep, and his toe
Still down quite a lot of experience, but is pretty wealthy
You can see that TN is farming really well and getting good first strike value because the 504 Mundo is down 700
golden down at the level.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Sisto is going to unfortunately briefcase himself,
kind of threw it and forgot that it was handcuffed to him,
you know, and it just swanked back around.
That's a Mudo classic, yeah.
It's like a boomerang, you know?
Yeah, I think that's what businessmen deal with,
you know, the way to work every day.
Oh, no, I tried to throw it in briefcase at the bystander,
and I accidentally hit myself in the face with it.
I will say this Mudo skin has to be one of the best skins
in the entire game.
I think so.
And it's been around for so long.
Corporate Montt.
And even after the remake, it's still amazing.
Look at the swag. Well, and and when you get the home guards, you're in the little car.
Oh, yeah, the little car is absolutely.
You're living life. You know, you absolutely are.
And it's all right.
Dan can have his shield broken, but should be out of slink
way into the fog of war and get that one back up again pretty quickly.
But I'm a clock Atlas. It is your voice.
I'm trying. OK.
Hmm. Oh, OK.
We're ready. You're ready. You're locked in.
Yeah, I think that's how you get it ready.
Kastajun to something similar to before his series and that guy's pretty good at his job.
That's alright.
Drake is now down.
Team Secret Wales are actually giving away a lot of ground.
You can see looking for this Mini-Nar as the
Morning Mist will connect.
And these pools are getting a little bit upset, but the Drake is being pulled out.
His toe is moving over here. Let's see whether he can win this smite fight.
As this could even out the Drake's for top esports.
Now we have a fight on the opposite side, Plun is going to get pulled back and executed.
They're going to try and burst this one down. They do manage to claim the dragon,
but they have to sacrifice their Yorick to do it.
Yeah, Plun taking a very aggressive angle. He knew that's way on,
because he had seen him with an R-bar fully charged inbought.
You have to expect that he's on that side.
He thought he was tanking up, that he could just walk right through,
but he did not go steric. He win chose the second.
Now he's trying to get a bit more armor, but honestly,
because they get the dragon, that is totally worth it.
Yeah.
You die.
They take minutes or at mid as well.
It's actually quite a good trade.
Yeah, it's really, really good.
He's falling behind in experience
because he has been grouping quite a lot,
where Zwayon has been just constantly playing these sidelines.
We've seen him do this a number of times.
I think back to his J steam earlier in the tournament,
where he downfalled down.
But was able to kind of just stay in the sides,
get gold back.
And Pun becoming a little bit less relevant in that 1v1,
but still in good spot.
How quickly can they kill this Munder?
That's the question. Can they kill him at all? He's just running after Tien.
Hanyue is going to stop him in his tracks, but it's a flash briefcase from his
store trying to turn this one around the cocoon. Doesn't quite land, but now
Jack is in an awkward spot. He has to flash. Eddie now moves over.
Supreme display of talent is not named right. Shuei-an is hopping over the wall
to try and get to safety. Yeah, he immediately tipis in, flashes out there.
That is three critical flashes down for TES, but it is a couple flashes spent
here on the side of TSW, Mundo Flash as well as BA.
And that was a very, very close fight.
His toe liked his odds in that 1v3
and he was really correct.
Oh yeah.
Turned that one around, just chases him down
and with his whole team piling in,
TS knew they had to get out of there.
And now you've got the infinity edge done for Eddie as well.
That rapid fire cannon should be coming in pretty shortly.
These fights are actually going to change.
The way they're going to look is going to be different
because it's going to be around Eddie
just hitting whatever's in front of him.
And it's not really going to take very long
for him to kill whoever's there.
Oh, he's got the IE, so it's skipping the rapid fire.
Yeah, I thought that was an odd one.
But he's going to be doing a fair bit of damage.
Yeah, he definitely will be doing a ton of damage.
A lot of people love rapid fire.
It is very popular.
Obviously, it's lower DPS than the IE for sure.
But the question is, you know, how safely can you approach
a Syndra and a Mal to get those battles off?
But I think, you know, from his QoV, he's just like,
yeah, I'll just hit Narl, hit anyone and I'll be the one doing the damage.
His though starting this up, but gonna have to pull off very quickly.
Yeah. And I definitely want his though to keep farming.
You scale well, you want to get 16.
He is kind of maintaining that full level deficit here
against the Qiana, who is just power farming.
Level 16 going to be a big deal.
You can land these ultimates in the upcoming fights.
But you were talking about it.
Cloudsoul is going to be the next one on the docket.
And that is in two minutes time.
I want to see what the Mundo does when he can go where he pleases very, very quickly.
Yeah, and Cloud Soul is going to be so problematic.
It is incredibly powerful for Mundo because, as we know, Mundo in the late game,
it's not just that he's tanky, he hurts.
He does some real damage.
So you are in danger of just getting rammed down by a Cloud Soul Mundo at level 16.
You can easily chase down a Cinder or a Mel if they're in the wrong spot.
And sometimes even if they're on the right spot. Yeah, exactly
And it felt like he was getting ganged and then turning that into you're in the wrong spot as it turns out
Mundo is precisely where he needs to be at every moment. Maybe Mundo is actually a wizard not a doctor
But we'll have to go into that one a little bit later as that is a nice bone skier on to palm the Gully wall is up
We try and play defense the scatter the week barely misses and the maiden gets herself out of the way
Ponyway needs to be so careful. This health bar on the pike just not really existing at this stage of the game
Can be a real issue for getting value out of this champion at this stage
I mean you three picture perfect on the engage right?
That's why so many players are afraid of playing Camille and pike yeah
Because you have to play in a carrier-esque way to be able to get really good value, right?
You know you're looking for an E flash across multiple members and if you go for something like that and you fail it
that's your way out and you just get one shot.
So you've got to be so on point with your engage.
You can't hesitate when the moment is there
or you will do nothing.
And if you go in and you don't execute properly,
you are just gonna die.
So definitely a tough champion to be played
this late in the game.
But the same is true of the Elise, right?
You know, you are both so squishy, your high damage.
And that is that type of rope that they have to walk here
and we'll see if Fungiwei or BA can manage it better.
Yeah, and it's about which team has the vision control right being able to have control of brushes is going to be very important as the Baron
He's getting pinged out
Pretty hecticly here by Team Secret Wales is his so looking for a bit of an angle is he just gonna flash on them the answers?
No, because round's going to find him hyper procs starting to do some work towards the Monday
Who is just a big health bar the speaking big help us they're over towards the biggest one on the riff right now and that is the bar and
And it is just gonna get taken. It's in trade for the Drake, but that is dragon number two.
And yeah, you don't want to give up Cloud Solve. You also really don't want to give up Baron.
Yeah, we'll see how much they can actually get done with this Baron.
This is one of these things that I think in previous years would always be so beneficial for the team with the Baron.
Yeah.
Unless convinced in this season that it matters as much, I just think Baron feels a lot weaker.
Teams have been struggling to get as much done with the Baron.
And there is a double mage team on the other side and majors are very good at clearing out the baron minions
So we have to see all right
Was this worth it based on the next couple minutes because right now you lost dragon if you feel like you didn't have a chance to
Get sold and obviously it was your only choice, but we'll see yeah
Golly wall is gonna trap jacular for now his flash is available
But he's not going to invest that into just getting out of the way of our wall
It's way on just looking for a bit of revenge and he's just chasing down this Yorick
Hulliwell does come in, but he's got the crush to get out of the way, and that is actually Jackie picking up the kill credit
that so much of that work was done by this 0-4 NAR.
Yeah, that is. Leafville Tempo stacked up three items, has the Whits End, chases him down and takes him out, and, you know,
Punn is a 700 Goldie, but at this point in the game, it doesn't really mean anything, you know,
he was very far ahead very early, but I felt like he kind of overgrouped a bit,
and, you know, was spending a lot of time with the team, ended up falling behind in the experience,
are not really meaningfully adding gold either at this point, so it does get caught out in that
side lane and that's a lot of the Baron power already gone now. You've got that one kill on
your split pusher means, I don't think they're getting anything with this Baron really,
and it's going to be a 72 gold Baron power play here right now, so.
Rebel is showing us here that the Baron isn't exactly giving that much value.
I think if it's a scenario where they have no control of the dragon pit
and they didn't think they'd be able to get in at all,
then taking it is absolutely what you have to do.
But I think I'm on your team as far as wanting to prioritize these dragons,
get that cloud soul, and also open up the door for a potential play around an elder,
which could be difficult for top esports to play into.
This is a really tough game here,
because when you're getting this late in the game,
You really are kind of signing yourself up on both sides for one fight, right?
And you get one shot at it.
If you're going 35-40 minutes into the game, you get one fight.
People have so much damage at this point in the game that you miss that once you're instantly dead.
The respawn timers hit 50-60 seconds and the game just ends.
And so it is going to be all up to this one moment, it feels like.
You can see double deathcap is done for TES.
They are going to instantly kill someone if they miss position.
But the same can be true on the other side.
You go too far forward, you might just get chased down.
Oh, Pawn could be in trouble, but his team managed to cancel the back as Tien
making so much, the ghouls chasing him down there as well.
But Top Esports not going to lose anyone, but also not able to get that pick in that moment either.
As BA.
Well, team is coming.
Yeah, they really do want to kill Shweyan.
That's going to get stopped, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
Oh, just barely going to miss.
And by miss, I mean, he just barely gets up before it was definitely going to hit him.
Oh, man.
That was crazy.
That was a stressful moment.
that I thought that's way on was about you know a second away half a second away from actually dying there and when you die and
We lose your TP. He was full control of the map and that could be an inhibitor down at this point in the game
So that was some risky business, but he does get out. Yep
That's the felt like it could have been the first step towards the train station
But instead I'm going to be keeping this one extraordinarily close 1.3k is basically nothing at 35 and a half minutes into the game
The only thing that we're really looking for is this stack of dragons the team's secret whales have put together
Even that will be evened out in a minute and a half if coffee spots can get themselves the next one
It is absolutely true
We haven't touched in on a while, but Mundo obviously has crested to level 17
So has that rank three ultimate for a while at this point Tien is capped out. He's level 18
He is ridiculously strong
But he did lose his flash and won't have it for the self-coming fight which makes the play making that much harder
They might just sort of go on them. Here comes one with TP.
This angle is so weird as well. Hisse just wanders into them.
Punn, like you were saying, going to be out of shot off that exit as well.
And Jackie love trying to find the angle. The solo stare doesn't land, but the Kukundas down goes Jackie!
And now, Kan Fungiway do anything to stop this onslaught. The answer is so far, not really.
But at least they can run towards the team's Secret Wales base.
The ulti now going to run out here from his, so he's looking forward.
Wait, I was trying to go for the game.
Yeah, they're trying to look for it, okay, Cream.
Now at two-thirds health, they're just trying to stop the back side, I guess.
As this inhibitor turret should be falling, there it is, and him should be going down as well.
Team Secret Wales, two just want to kill Cream before anything else happens.
They will be able to do that.
But without an inhibitor turret towards the top side of the map,
it's going to mean that they haven't necessarily found a lead just yet.
No, not at all. TN though might find any.
Oh dear, finds Eddie, but only flashes out of the way, it's not going to be enough to be able to keep him alive as his though should be able to kill Tiamat, he has to flash to follow him and this briefcase needs to land, he misses it.
Can't quite get him and that ends up being so big for TES because now Eddie died at the worst moment, that means they are down a man here for this dragon, it's 25 seconds to freeze back though.
Yep, Fungiway is gonna go down to 50% health there as well.
Doesn't manage to light the Mundo on fire,
but Mundo doesn't seem to be too worried about it.
The regroup is here though,
and it looks like Team Secret Wales
are gonna give up this dragon and the maiden,
although she does survive with 30 health, never mind.
The D-Ray wasn't there, so they're in a 3v4,
and they know that Kube is gonna be up before Eddy,
so they basically have to do it.
That is such a huge pick, big time play by Tien,
who has really been doing a lot of the heavy lifting
in this game.
and very slim margins here. Jackie used the rebuttal on a briefcase and that BA, no hesitation,
cocoon flash gets him with the very edge of it. Even though Jackie did react with the
rocket pelt, thought he would have the range, did not. He goes down, but that whole time,
Zwayon, who had no teleport, was just pushing topside. He was looking to just go for the base
and we're going to be looking to fight here once more. Remember, no flash on BA, no flash on Eddie.
All of us should accept that one from Fungiwei, are up for TES pretty soon,
because Tian is going to have his back in maybe 15 seconds.
Shuiyan is just stacking up that Naba once again.
The Baron on the table, going into the next port of call here,
is Dere going to be getting out of the way of Tian.
The arcane storm now is his though, it's just in amongst four people,
as he kind of likes.
Now, Megan are going to be coming through for Shuiyan as well,
but Eddie, now just peppering him with bullets, Tian in so much trouble.
Side-step great from Dere as well as now the crush gets out the gnar is going to be used offensively and his though
He's obviously there throwing these briefcases around the guardian angel is going to be up for TM
But it should be taken down pretty quickly and TSW just chasing them all the way down the riff
Jackie the first to die yet again and this time team secret whale should be out of find the angle
Hista almost dies to that Unleashed power, but if he doesn't that health bar comes back basically immediately
Yeah, they're gonna be able to heal it back up
They're rushing over to the Baron that chase just lasted forever, but it was just the one kill
It's just Jackie so they still are not dealing game-ending damage. They can take the Baron again
We saw how ineffective it was last time though TES as they can dragon after dragon after dragon
staving off this CloudTool that feels like it would be a game-ender.
Yeah.
Because look at these fights.
Think about that CloudTool for this chase down.
Think about that CloudTool for the sheath that's in the block.
Any of the chase is down because his sort of having more movement speed,
I feel just means that they all die.
I agree.
And there's the flash out of D-Ray,
but Tian is able to kite it back and Feng with barely surviving.
Tian surviving as well.
His though does such a good job of keeping them interested.
Even after the ult expires,
He never overcommits because if he just goes straight into the middle of him, he will die.
Oh, back to another fight here. It felt like we came out of the replay a little early.
Yeah, I was trying to get ready.
I think it might have been a big fight.
Flight just yet. It's the first about going to be used from VA to get himself out of the way of that banana brush control that has been picked up here by TES.
Next dragon, two and a half minutes.
But another Rebel Baron power play that's looking a little paltry for now.
Yeah, minus 50 gold.
So what I'm talking about, the Baron just doesn't really do that much, honestly, in this day and age.
We'll see Tien, though. He's looking for an angle.
Remember, D-Ray has no flash, and Eddie's still missing his for another 20-30 seconds.
So CSW, you know they have to be quite careful during this timeframe.
And Swayon has become pretty accelerated, and he has his Randuans.
Eddie's trying to work in towards an LDR, and we talked about how earlier,
if there was not really any armor, it didn't really need it.
At this point in the game, he does kind of need to grab that, and is working in towards it.
Oh, Punn. Now taking down to half health as Cream does a lot of damage, although Splinter's stacked up 120 on that one.
And he mentioned already, Voidstop, Rabbitons, that both of these mages have.
It's very scary. Great Cocoon is going to connect here. Do they have the damage?
So that's the question as they get here up into the sky, and it's absolutely a yes as Eddie gets that headshot.
The trail goes in, and there is the stun. Punn makes his way forward, Jackie the next target.
Supreme display of talent, Mundo just laughs that off as TN is going to get put down to that GA.
Surely, in a few moments, T-Race going to do it.
Jackie tries to get the ulti, and now Top Esports.
I think this is their final moments at MSI for 20-26.
A team no stranger to disappoint, but the team, Secret Wales, what an incredible performance.
Managing to come back after a tough loss against Hummelife Esports.
our first four game series here at MSI and it's them moving forward.
For the first time in history of Vietnamese team has beaten the LPL in a best of five.
It is the secret whales that do it. It didn't even take them the full five.
As Eddie, right when his flash comes back up, is able to survive the engage, outplay the fight
And the entire team runs them down, they are elated and rightfully so. What a performance!
What an incredible showing here from Team Secret Wales. Analysts, what did you make of the series?
Banger, after banger, after banger. They did it! It's the very first A back win and it's the Secret Wales
Breaking it here at MSI in this first elimination series and of course, we will talk about Toppy Sports a bit later, but first things first guys,
I want to celebrate how big it is, what it means for the region, the way they did it because coming into today, they were the underdogs in this matchup.
They came in convincingly after we had seen pretty much nothing from them before today.
with how the plans have gone for the LCP and with how things have started.
There was a concern, we might not see a single game win from this region.
The teams you put Wales showing so much growth from their debut internationally last year
and demonstrating a decisive 3-1 win here.
Yeah, and I mean, you see it down there, first ever APAC, best of five win versus LPL.
This is kind of crazy because this is also including all of the previous...
But they are a Vietnamese team coming in when the region's merged last year.
And I think the best thing about Secret Whales being able to qualify across multiple tournaments
is that you do see the growth from them, right?
And so when we were going into this, we were like, okay, the region was, you know, has been a little bit rough
rough because of CFO breaking up, but they were also a team who learned so much from going through
a bunch of different international tournaments as a unit. And specifically for someone like,
like for me, BA is some support that I noticed like years ago that goes on Evos Esports.
For him to then come up, Pauli Elise, he's six and two on it going into this matchup. This pushes
him to about an 80% win rate on a career, which is just like, I mean, it's crazy. Like
it's so rewarding. Even for me, it was rooting for top these fours. It's so rewarding to
see this win for this secret wealth team. Yeah, I'm beyond excited for the LCP for
APAC like nine times in a row. An Asia Pacific team has played up against the LPL in a best
of five and lost and today for Flash Wolves to do it after last year, we saw CFOs starting
to make those steps starting to challenge and then for them to be guttipped and then to see DCG
fail in the planes and now for Flash Wolves to come up like this is an incredible Cinderella story
for the Flash Wolves, for Histo, for every, oh for us, sorry, for everyone on this team as well
right all of them MSI debutants to come here and to be able to take down the LPL number two seed
is just amazing you're talking about it's so
up a player of this year's today yeah
deserved yeah
it's different series
it's a massive dessert
i thought we started off at least in game was completely dominating take it
over the parent here it was phenomenal
but if i like every single game they won the series was having a super strong
performance
rounding out
with that mundo and the passage of player on the top of the map where you
should slowly so that land in the cleaver's never overstepping too much
to the point that they could focus him down.
The pressure he put onto top eSports was phenomenal.
Yeah, and I know everyone's going to look at Poon, right?
And we also kind of were flirting with the idea
of giving it to him because I think the team plays so well
around his picks.
But here today, we saw from his show
how this team works domestically, right?
And how well they perform with his direction coming out
from the jungle.
This is the run and play that was just kind of insane.
started way earlier too, but his ability just to face that stuff is so good. But I think
that's your point is so important there, Emily. Like, Histo is the linchpin around it. Everyone
else revolves around him. We saw D-Ray in game one have a great rise performance with
Histo there to carry. We saw a great set performance, but Histo was there again. We saw BA have
a great Norris performance, but it's Histo that they're all playing around. And that's
what I think really makes Team Secret well such a great team, especially when you consider
This guy is 18 and has been playing professionally for two years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
On the other side of things.
Ah! I'm so mad, okay?
I'm not even sad at this point.
I'm mad because it feels kind of personal.
I kind of love this fact that you came in ready and you had this.
Yeah.
Just in case it goes wrong.
This is from the last time we were on a TES desk.
Yep. Yeah, and you know I've saved this moment.
You know what? Let's hear it from the winners from now as we're going to head to the stage called the Verizon Pose Game interview with Pan.
Team Secret Wales made the top e-sports of LPL in the second half of the season with 3-1.
Let's meet the winner of Team Secret Wales, Poon.
Please give him a big round of applause. Everyone, let's give it up for Pan!
Congratulations, please tell us how you feel right now.
Congratulations on the win. How do you feel right now?
After the win, I feel a little bit sad.
At first, we didn't think we would win with the number of three.
I feel quite happy.
I feel on top of the world right now, we never expected to win top e-sports in a 3-1 like this.
They say they have the whole world in their hands.
But they didn't expect that they'd be able to beat the top e-sports in 3-1.
They say they're very, very happy.
In fact, they're very excited about the match-up
as much as they've been so desperate to win the international match-up.
Especially today's player, Poon, was really amazing.
Are you satisfied with today's match-up?
Well, Team Secret Wales was really desperate for a game win
on an international stage, but you guys pulled up a series of victory today.
I bet it's going to mean a lot for you guys.
Well, I think your performance was on top as well. Are you satisfied with your plays today?
ever since the first stand until this MSI and with DCG's loss we have been very hungry for a win right now and we were so desperate for a win now that we have got one it feels so much relieved
And when you have your own unique champion pool, last time, although it was not able to close out the game, but your volleyball was really impressive today, Olafs, that you're having your own unique champion pool, what kind of playstyle would you like to display during the end of the year?
MSI this year.
I don't know how to deal with it.
I practice those things and I feel quite positive in the practice.
I will bring it to the field and I will be able to play.
these champions a lot lately and as long as my coach give it a go then I'll be allowed to play it.
What is your mindset heading on to the rest of the MSI?
I will try to get at least one more win so that we can get to top 4 and bring glory back to the LCP region.
LCP region and two of the Vietnamese.
After winning the game,
we want to give back the glory of our LCP region and Vietnam.
Thank you very much for playing and thank you very much for the translation.
That's it for today. Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, they have definitely made their region proud.
But the question is, can Europe be proud again of G2 today?
We have a very special guest to join us for G2 versus HLE.
Hello, dude, welcome.
Hello, good to see you guys here.
And maybe this guy is not happy about me being here.
He's already staring you down.
What region do you work in?
I support G2.
I'm not going to answer your question,
but I'm here to support Baridgen.
Sorry, what region are you from?
What do you work in?
Why did you support an LPL team?
Don't play those games.
Yeah, I'm not gonna play with you.
But we did.
We offered him a HB jersey, and he was like,
nah, I'm good, I'm okay.
But we did.
I can see that your allegiances haven't changed.
Well, I mean, I think I'm still in my heart.
I'm with Europe, you know?
Even though Bane came born in Korea,
Wadeed borns in Europe.
So that's why I'm here to support my region,
my G2M esports.
Absolutely.
Oh my gosh, I can't access speed.
So let's get into it then.
Yeah, does G2 have the secret formula to beat the LCK?
That's the question that's been keeping the Korean fans up ever since first stand,
but they're going up against a mammoth of a home crowd favorite in HLE.
Where do we want to start? There's this quote Emily from Hansama,
really wanting to beat Gooma. Usually, of course, experience playing versus him when he was still on
T1 and not really having the job finished. Yeah, and this is again what happens when you just have
the same players going to international events. He's played against Gooma before, really wants
to face them again and beat him this time. I think it's interesting because G2 do typically
play around their bot lane a little bit more than HLE, but it's because Guma is so reliable
on that weak side that they can then play more towards top and mid and jungle.
And speaking of the bot lane, something I really wanted to bring up as well, and maybe
with Did you can shine a light on this, LeBrov and his glow up. He had a fantastic series
versus TEF and overall he's really been making strides.
Yeah, I think the reason why HLLE looks really strong is because of Delight being proactive on the map,
but we have Lavrov, so I think he can really just match the fight on the support matchup.
I mean, Lavrov James with Engage from the downtown!
Look at him, he's dunking!
I think the big step up for G2, this situation that G2 lost has been that airing,
the problems human working together as a unit,
and I think that's really developed so much in the recent years.
It's true, and that's maybe a focal point,
because we know that they've played against some of these players before.
They played against TES as well last year, so Skumont got the honor of playing versus Kanavi.
And I think, Emily, that's one of the matchups we'll be looking at, to really see if there is market improvement coming out of the G2 jungler.
Yeah, absolutely, because the last time they faced Kanavi definitely got the better of Skumont.
It was just that game, too, where Skumont brought out the Mundo, and then they were able to play around bot lane pressure,
transfer it up to topside. But in all of the other games, as you can see,
Kenavi really set the pace really hard, not only in the early game, but in these fights.
And even though it's not Top East World Test Time for Kenavi,
it's still a team that is very much driven by him and HLE.
He's been the driving force, there are some struggles.
At the start of the year, when he was super aggressive, the team wasn't on the same page,
but now everyone is in lockstep with him and following his charge.
I mean my biggest concern for G2 and HLE today is that I think it really turns out
the draft is the most important thing right now. I think you can see it from the last series as well
even though TS was favorite, I think TSW had such a great theme in terms of the matchup and I think
it's really important to have a favorite matchup in the jungle especially when
Skulmon is one of the jungler who wants to play aggressive on the enemy jungle as well.
Yes, now of course we mentioned first then and we have to mention it again,
ox there it was a fantastic result 32 but I'm gonna be completely honest with you
I am a realistic and okay realize that this is a completely different ball game
HLE are very very strong but there is of course that belt right has it been
keeping you awake? A little bit I think HLE are also very vibe-based team you know
we've had swings of form last year in particular after they lost to the road
to MSI and didn't make it last year they went on a slump for a while and I don't
I think it would take much for G2K to come in with a smart approach as they did at first
and if they have a draft strategy and plan and they just throw Haterly off their game,
that's what I'm concerned about.
Because I think if both teams play their best, Haterly are so hard to beat.
Yeah, that's where I really agree with what it is in terms of it's so draft dependent
as well and how much prep each of these teams have done against each other, especially when
it comes to how well jungle support are working together.
because we mentioned LeBrov, Delight with engaged supports coming back into the meta
has been absolutely massive for HLE, kind of running through the back half of the road to MFD.
Yes, let's take a look at the MasterCard fan predictions of the day and see who edge it out,
of course, for Europe, let's see who's been up to vote in time
and if the LCK fans are standing firmly by HLE.
It's very, very close, perhaps that does also reflect a little bit our expectations
or are hoping him going into this match,
but I want to hear everyone's predictions.
We're going to take a look.
Emily, you want to kick us off?
Yeah, so Europe is going to be bad.
Maybe that's a three.
Doesn't matter.
Three-one HLE.
I do think, for me, it is about jungle support,
how well they work together.
I think HLE play, especially around their top side,
so, so well.
Guma is so reliable in that weak side position.
And I've loved the way that they have continued to blow up.
I think the current meta is great for them.
I feel like they were already the strongest team in the LCK
and we saw a meta shift that favored them more.
Playing through the solo lanes, Guma as that weak side king.
I think that they have this, but G2 can't be disrespected.
Still expecting to get a game.
What did? It's you and me.
Yeah, I mean, in this kind of short-term international tournament,
I think it's the patient is the key for the team.
And I think G2 didn't really figure out what's good in the tier list,
But I trust in them. They already did such a great series against the TES and now it's against SKT, which is our favorite matchup.
You already see it in the first leg as well, by the way, so I think I'm pretty confident in my team.
I'm gonna say the same. I mean, listen, who would I be if I didn't have any hope as long as there is delusion?
There is hope. I gotta believe in them. Talk to me through a couple of key matchups. We talked about the jungle already.
What is Mith gonna look like?
I think Zeke has been in great form. Perhaps we know what he can do on an international stage.
But Zeke has been riding so hard with Knavi.
Those two have been such a strong duo together this year.
And really the defining features of this roster.
We need winning matchup on the mid lane.
Especially when Cavs can push the mid lane and move first on the side waves.
That's where G2 is going to win easily.
So I think you should stop Zeke from the mid lane.
That's the key whenever you're playing in the stage lane.
Absolutely do, but who would we be if we didn't believe in our mid lane goat?
It's time to get into G2 vs. HLE!
Absolutely of the fire at the end of that death, the confidence in caps, the angles at which G2 could dominate, and as long as we don't look at the
Transitive property at all, there's a lot of optimism to go around.
Yeah, Draco's, we just had a big upset there with Team Secret Wales taking out top esports and G2
They were able to reverse sweet top eSports, but HLE got that 3-0 over team secret whales
And so you're gonna want to ignore those transitive properties
when you look at this matchup and talk about some of the things that the desk did touch on
I like that they bring up, you know the style of HLE and the pace that they set
I don't know because among all tier one teams in split 2
then the second highest combined kills per minute average in their games and
And they set a very quick pace based off of Kanavi, of course.
And as Ox was talking about, the rest of the team on board with Kanavi's style of play now,
and they look so good doing it, you have Guma on the bot side playing these self-sufficient carries
and allowing so much aggressive map movement.
And I will say, as an EU pundit, I much would have preferred G2 could have played split 1 HLE.
Lost in the sauce, not sure how to implement HLE.
HLE, who has figured out how to implement Kenabe, who has adapted to his playstyle, is a terrifying thing to deal with.
And on the side of G2, look, they clutched it out. They found the reverse sweep.
It is a fantastic look, but those first two games were reminded of how one-sided Topside of the map was,
how one-sided some of those 1v1s between Broken Blade and Sveyan were.
Now, going up against Zeyas, this is a tough nut to crack. Surviving Topside is going to be a tricky problem.
Top lane is definitely a large jump in difficulty here in opponents for Broke of Blade.
That is Vorscher facing Zaeus up there.
And we'll see about the pick ban.
Of course, banning his Jace is mandatory versus Zaeus.
I will say though, it's kind of interesting you are talking about,
oh, if they could have played him in Split 1,
G2 actually did quite well against LCK teams in Split 1.
At first stand...
You're right, you're right.
First stand, you know, taking down Gen. G as well as BFX very convincingly as well.
So the angle for the hope is there, Draco.
100% the seed for optimism has been so in reverse sweep yesterday.
Now coming into today, how well can you perform against HLE right off the back?
Canabi on the vine.
General wheelhouse for Canabi.
We do see an occasional spicy pick, but he's pretty bread and butter
on the skirmishing junglers that are meta staples, meta standards.
It's the way he plays them and how aggressive he is with his picks that often makes the big difference for this HLE lineup as G2, they're debating, maybe we just see the Serafine Ashe here, something on the bot side that might force HLE to play a little bit more around the bot side as well, which in turn would free up some of the top lane pressure.
Delight of course, we know we can play the ranged champions, but when this guy gets to play engage, when he is freed from that bot lane 2v2, he is a menace on the map.
I can kind of already connect the dots here.
When you're showing Vi early on,
you're showing that you are gonna go for dive.
And Zin is really good into Vi
because you can force fights early.
And Zin is also really good at Ash Therapy.
So yeah, they're immediately jumping
through complete that combination.
They don't have that lock to Ash immediately.
So they're gonna go for the Zin part of it instead.
Regardless, the Zin into Vi always,
you get to have a lot of say
about how the early game goes.
So if you're looking at Schumann versus Kanavi,
guys, they were highlighting from previous worlds.
You want him to be in the one where early on, on this end,
he is going to have a lot of authority.
But as he said, when you're talking about Guma
lanes on bottom side, get him a mage and get the light
that Camille, that he absolutely terrorized Team Secret
of Wales with, OK.
And draft number one, HLE playing perfectly
into that comfort zone.
Guma, we expect there to be not so much 2v2 focus.
We expect it to be roaming to the top side,
letting Guma be that stable source of damage
in the bottom lane.
Can't still play for the 2v2, but they don't have to.
They're dropping the ash all the way, Draco,
so that they don't even need that pairing.
They're going to go for the rise instead.
They value that even more.
Interesting.
Obviously, that's capsule success you heard with D talk
about on the desk, where I give him a strong angle
of mid lane, rise in a vacuum, a strong champion,
but now it can be backed up by two additional bans
to ensure that Zeka isn't feeling super comfortable
in that mid lane 1v1.
That's why we're seeing the cast here taken away.
It is very interesting because like Seraphine can, you know,
we seem to get paired with like Ezreal and stuff like that as well,
but usually when the ash is taken away,
and they can try and come back some of that poke damage.
Let's see though.
Cass and Anivia is another, you know, good answer into Ryza is very common.
Anivia to Lea.
These are the sorts of things that are kind of floating around.
So those are the other kind of protection bands that you're looking at.
And the reason they do drop the ash of course like you're highlighting is you get two protection bands for your rise priority
And with Zeka having a lot of success on the rise
It is also nice to get it out early on in Fearless
So let's see which they decide to follow it up with here
I mean I I do like banning it in Nivea so that they don't take it
And then you also can have a Nivea later on for G2 because they're quite good for them
But they really want to take down some of the Zayus possibilities of landing a rumble equalizer on top of Camille, Ziggs, Vi, and Gage.
Yes, that does sound like a combo you would like to break.
It does sound like a combo.
Coby, can I ask a question?
Sure.
Why did they ban Rel with Seraphine locked in?
Are we cooking?
Is this a bot lane carry Seraphine?
Is there?
This feels like it's telling us either, oops, we accidentally banned a support and or...
Yeah, they could.
There might be some cooking happening in this script.
You you can flex rise to top lane for sure and then you could theoretically put the Seraphine mid
That's what I would assume. I'm just I'm just putting out there. I don't expect it to fit in the answer
But I'm just wondering
What was that rail band for perhaps a little bit of flexibility for the Seraphine guys?
You can't even say oh, maybe they were trying to bring back jungle rail because they have to do it all the way
All right, I think that yeah
I think the most likely is the possibility of the flex with fries and then moving Seraphine up there
And so it does look like
That is going to be the case, Dracos.
That is their read.
They saw it coming there for HLE.
And I think we can say, almost with 100% confidence at this point,
that these two teams have scrimmed each other, because that is some information you would not know.
No, no, no, no. Or it's just Seraphine AP carry bottom.
And you keep her bottom.
You know, I like that too.
Yeah, you keep the Seraphine bottom with the kill lane.
And Rell is a really good partner, but so is Narlas.
So I think, actually, I'm going to go with the Seraphine bottom into the zigs.
That's my final answer.
options I like that I like that you've walked up until we see some weird
mid-match up or something if they really wanted to dump extra flex but that
little bit of flexibility anticipated by HLE okay well the Gotland you can hear
this young going crazy and it's because the Gotland has been thrown down I'm
sorry say us coming out with the ambassador of blind picking it Zeka
bringing the broken blade warwick and if you're feeling good right now it's
because you forgot MSI last year because the last time we saw the international stage it was a disaster up against CB law
But here today I have no doubt that it's been leveled up this pocket pick even more comfortable coming in for BB
And you have to hope so because this is going to be a volatile volatile map
Yeah, warwick all warwick matches are very volatile because he wants to fight you get very low get fight you to the death
And follow you with the hold on the queue and that's a very mobile
but Warwick can't follow you with the Q and then you have your E for really good CC setup.
With a Warwick and a Zin, you can have priority in that 2v2 early on. You win that 2v2.
So let's see what G2 can do around their solo lanes, especially early. By taking up the Zin,
you have priority here before this buy does get to level 6. And with these solo lanes,
you definitely have a lot to cook with. And I like that you bring up the early game,
because when you look at HLE's composition,
if this team comp gets a lead with the Vi,
and Bessa, the Yone, the Ziggs who could just drop bombs from afar,
it is going to be so difficult for G2 to fight from a deficit.
So tracking those early lanes, seeing how they deal with HLE,
on what looks to be an incredibly comfortable comp,
it's going to be crucial to go into game one of this series.
HLE, we highlighted it, 3-0.
Looking dominant coming into this one.
when G2 made the miracle happen with reverse sweep,
but HLE, another caliber of opponent.
Okay, Jacob, this is gonna be exciting no matter what.
I mean, we have Camille and Nautilus
getting a lot of roam time here
and working with their junglers.
Level one though, caps.
Connecting on the Zeca.
Nice initial trade to like it.
It starts to trade back a bit.
Adaptive shield.
Stopping any follow up, but just a fight for vision.
Trunks on both midlaners,
but generally the Yone has to trade his health more
in the lane against Ryze's Manna, so that might be beneficial for G2's side, even though
the health bars were pretty similar because that is the resource that you're kind of expending
in this matchup, so nice little early start for them, even though they do clear out the
ward and both junglers are going to start on bottom half.
Welcome to the wall from the brav, nice little lockup on Naguma, so I'm following up there
as well as the light does his best to trade back with the Halo Blades, but you saw a little
bit of the kill potential set up even at level one right every single cool down
rotation not a list hook and the immediate follow-up damage from Han
sama the supports definitely are a highlight to from their previous series
LeBrov was on fire in the late stages versus TES delight obviously had a
massive massive cameo game an entire series and they continue to land these
hooks and get these trades nice combos from Hans and LeBrov they've got the
push on the minion wave so they guarantee their priority and they get a
lot of harassment down while they're doing it. Question will be how much of those minions
can gooma clean up while they're getting harassed at the tower. And the other question is,
is Vi going to do a three camp gank bottom? Still low but has the Q perhaps. Barrier?
That's not good. Broken blade. Vi is perfectly outspacing the Q here. Flash exchanged for the
barrier here. Interesting on the cooldowns because barrier is shorter cooldown but that is the
the lifeline for the rolling bot lane route and get the immediate exhausted
confusion. They don't quite have the follow-up damage. For now, they get to
side. You see on the side of your screen, this is why there's some optimism,
because not only are they forcing flashes, but this year, 6-0 against the LCK.
That's all at first stand. Seraphine AP carries looking like a really good answer.
I'm good. I'm starting to think that some of that first stand optimism is coming through,
but this is the other side of the coin, Kobe, is that they're not playing against
your mama's LCK team. They're playing against HLE and HLE. Well, they know how to scrap.
Woo hoo hoo, broken blade and Zayu scrapping for sure up here, playing around that E-cooldown
on the Warwick dashing in, dashing right back out.
And I just got, as an EU fan, I appreciate the Warwick, I'm not a fan of watching a champion
at 150 health.
This is a little too stressful.
It's a little too stressful.
What about if your jungler comes to join the party, Zayus has no flash remember, he traded
it for the barrier on an earlier exchange, looking for him, Kanabi around, it does get
The light also on the way up at LeBrav is here too.
Level 3 to level 2.
Q goes wide from Kanavi.
That's a nice start for the side of G2.
Broke away moving into trying to call off a low health target.
It's going to mean all that extra attack speed.
Fear down.
Delight down to level means he can't do a damn thing.
He gets taken out as well.
Two quick kills on the top side for G2.
What did we say, Drake Ghost?
It is guaranteed from champ select.
Warwick and Zimzah are going to have priority
in that early 2v2 on the bottom side.
And the formula doesn't change when it's a 3v3
with a brav and a light boat there.
Also helps that Skiwmon dodges the initial cue
from Kanavi to start out the entire play.
Dodging an ability in these 3BC skirmishes that early,
changes everything, and then Warwick loves that scrap
right into the middle, gets the fear on them,
and G2 are on the board.
How about those?
Ooh, Skiwmon's still following, you're right.
The aggressive early game favorite G2 so far.
Kanavi wants to turn it back a bit.
Q flashed in, flashed back from cap, lock up is there, the Exit's a force, he's out of time to proc it!
Plinking, help bar, cap's running 22 HP! He's still alive, it's Q-Mas here for the turn!
But it's not to be 4 numbers of H-Rolling in the midline, it's going back for G2.
Flash out to safety, LeBrov hoping Prank for a hook into the tower.
Licking an extra moment, Paseus with a Sunderic slam to get one in return.
And even Paseus is here, it's a party in the mid lane, Dracos!
And now he can teleport back to the wave on the top side.
He's all not even gonna lose a minion gets it for the okay didn't get quite get down off on the melee, but that's it
And I gotta say it's a lead not afraid to step on the gas for people showing up in mid lane
I mean we knew we had to show that combined kills graphic really early on in the game
Because it remains true and G2 playing right into that pace of the game
But you know comes off of rafters here skumon thinks they have the term because caps has escaped the canavi his blast
That shit was backed up, so he got back in, he was fine there, knocking them over, and
Zayus can close the distance here on the Ambesa, really nicely playing to barely pick up the
extra kill there for the side of HLE.
And then, as highlighted, he teleported back to lane and the action will continue.
Now we have Delight on a wrong timer going up through a lane gank towards that top side
of the map.
Now that Zayus is level 6.
Level 6, healing reduction as well, it's going to make it that much harder.
Warwick, of course, the damage reduction to fear.
And take a little bit of burst out of the equation,
but it's still so hard to survive that dive.
Luckily, they're just happy to push the wave in for now.
Instead, it might be mid that's targeting.
Yeah.
Delight was just covering for a possible timer from Scubon.
So, therefore, I counter-gank opportunity
as the big wave was pushing.
And then, we'll just pass down and look at mid instead.
It's being hit by LeBron, though, waiting in the wings here.
Both supports in the fucking war, playing off their control wards.
Goes in.
Solon, Bound brings Zeca right back,
but now Kanabi on the way in as well.
2-3 ready to go for Zeca.
As is the ultimate. Flash forward.
Cap's not able to sidestep in time.
Trying to run for his life. LeBron a nice body block.
Realmwork to hope to take him out.
Cap's!
Boudini on the escape.
After the initial CC is gone,
he knows he's free to just use the ulti.
Cap's has had several near-death experiences this game,
but remains pristine.
0-0-0 and keeping the CS lead as well
with all the action. HL lead though.
They will transfer that pressure into the dragon and get the push on the mid tower at the very least
It's going to be tour plate money for Zeca under the light
They could trap scum on Zeca's coming on the way over six there for Kenobi
Oh, oh, scum on it. I'll get ready for this fight easy ball up now for Zeca HLE first on the move scum on not
That was a big question mark for me was why are you walking in there when you don't have the mid lane priority?
They must have assumed that Zekka had finished the recall.
They thought Zekka was going to finish the recall after pushing up that up to the tower.
And so he could walk up to get a look at Dragon, but Zekka, he hadn't finished.
He can't sit. He walks over and they grab another one.
And after the initial start looked so good for the side of G2, HLE had evened out, now even pulled ahead a bit in gold on top of having that first Dragon.
And Dylan Falco talked about, you know, the pace that HLE set and talking about when they, the difference between them playing versus like quote-unquote normal LCK teams and playing versus like LPL style and talking about how G2 is really looking and examining very heavy, how they can keep up with teams that do set very quick cases.
And so this game, I think, you know, they laid the blueprint and they put it into action and yet
Still is going to be heavily contested as both supports on that same room timer
Yeah, Gumiushi now assigned to the top side of the map
It's gonna make things a little bit harder for broken blade a lot more potential to get burst out here as Gumi's damage
Just continues to grow
See broken blades still working with bits and pieces of itemization and Han Sama in the 1v1
One has range most certainly, but I get nervous to second any other member of HLE shows up in the bottom lane
He wanted that cannon. Oh, he didn't even get the cannon haunts tried to get that cannon with this snipe
He doesn't get it and he ends up having to flash flash gone pings out second with the fate sealed
But nowhere to stack up the queue
So not gonna opt to contest all three grubs picked up by g2 big if their side lane are strong
This is gonna be a massive benefit. Yeah, and work is the a monster in these early skirmishes
Especially with his barrier back up really have to respect because once you get into that scrap
It's very difficult to get away from him the the hold on the queue here
We go not be here to Jaws of the beast coming out a bit of damage mitigation for that ignite does so much work
Altie coming in from Guyu she was barrier there for broken blade to block now
It's the light and trouble exhausted on some looking to be can follow up with the altie goes completely to ride
as the re-engage is there from Kanavi, season assist.
No more cheese in the top lane.
HLE ready this time around.
HLE live here.
They bring the teleport.
They outplay the ultimates.
Nice spacing from them to win the skirmish on the top side again.
And it's just so difficult when you follow and that ignite is on you.
Broken Blade just cannot enter the fight
and the second Han Sama does not connect that ulti.
That's just all of the damage gone.
It's not the support Seraphine, landing those abilities is really everything in those short fights.
Yeah, they definitely could see this one coming. Nice positioning all around. Broken Blade.
Again, Zaze has done a very good job to kite out the range on the E from Broken Blade.
He makes him use it, dashes right back out, and Ambassador just gets more and more scary as the game goes on.
on especially since he was able to grab that kill from mid lane kind of accelerating his build
allowing him to buy wait a second maybe setting up a trap here the brav dropping the vision down
to light chips in the night passing by as kanabi continues to clear saying slightly ahead of skeum
on the boat junglers with the sunders guy completed however as much as i'd like to be optimistic about
warwick's ability to come back at low hp and it's certainly very powerful it is a little unnerving
that he's constantly below 50%.
You have that's why very few people play this champion top.
You have to get comfortable in that low health.
You have to be comfortable in the excitement,
in the nervousness, Draco.
It takes a while, you know?
It's not a natural state for humans.
All right, yeah.
I'm not comfortable.
I'll say I'm glad Broken Blade seems to be.
It's now he's got a crack and slayer.
You have to be OK with death.
Yeah.
Well, no death thus far.
Although LeBrov just standing on top of the blast cone here, trying to take Kanabi out, but a quick ball breaker away.
I love it. Drop all the words over it and then, never mind, they just walk it out and block off it anyway.
He's still fine. He still has, you know.
Q.
As at this point, there was a brief, there was a glimmer of G2 early game looking dominant here, but HLE just responded much better, although now Delight the one in trouble.
Well, more crew looks like delight will just be sacrificed.
You can see Zeka immediately pulling off that play.
Recognize there's no way for Delight to escape.
So you just can see the kill onto the support.
Honestly, best possible place to put that money too,
right into caps.
The rise here has so much potential in this game
with the roaming power as...
Koby, stop, stop, stop.
Your caster...
I mean, you...
Your caster...
I know I did the one to TN, but come on.
You had a really powerful...
Hey, HLE don't need it.
And I agree with you.
But that trade was why you have to get a little bit scared
when one, Zepka is playing the Yone.
And two, when Yone is ever ahead by any margin.
We're going to put our powers to the test.
I mean, we've had quite a few full five game series.
HLE though, they're going to keep on stacking in.
It's looking very good.
Aside from the very first skirmish on top side,
They have been able to thrive in this pace, so both Dragons and the Gold lead also resulting in more jungle camps being stolen away here.
Kanavi continues to lead the charge into the G2 jungle.
Yeah, 100% kill participation, 2-1 and 2 on the buy.
Kanavi looking like a demon, had the one Fumble on the topside play right, the Vault Breaker going wide.
Did not miss a beat though, did not suddenly play back, did not play any less aggressive, immediately just continued looking for those places.
LeBron supporting Grook and Blade to get some more gold in his back pocket.
Caps here as well, maybe hoping they can bait a play.
Four members of G2 overloading the top side of the map.
Yeah, I mean, they're just gonna send.
That's the ulti going for Zeus.
LeBron now looking for a locker for the meantime, taking out Delight.
Zeus waiting on the tower.
Alti in, perfectly timed charm of the fate shield to get away.
Good reaction from Zeka to Buffer.
Alti from Gumiushi connecting just on the French.
And there's too much damage! HLE!
Solo laner's doing a lot of work, but Zayas maybe overeager, broken blade with a blinking health bar.
Supposedly that's his comfort zone, but HotSama, I don't think so though.
Yeah, it's not a Serafine comfort zone.
The flash Q, all D&N on the HotSama.
Kanabi now looking for a bit more follow-up. Zeka needs to stack for the Q3.
A few more seconds before he's forced to snap back on the solo on Bound, and HLE in the extended fight, still able to find an edge.
They find that edge, and they use it to cut down G2.
More kills, more gold into the pockets of HLE.
You see that huge combination as well.
From Guma as he joined, giant burst damage.
Xehas Warly wanted to finish that kill.
He barely was not able to get in range to finish off the Warwick.
But the double ultimate from the Ambassador and the Warwick
at the very same time there, it caused Brooklyn Blade
to go all the way through and they still killed the light.
But with the nicely timed immunity there from Zekka,
We are actually able to buy time for the Ziggs to get there, large AOE used, and Broken Blade does flash out, but as you know, at the end of that story, there's more people on the way.
Look at Kanavi running up the river.
He uses his flash to get in range as well for the extra kill.
There's more fighting.
As there should be.
As there should be.
As there should be.
But you have to feel for Broken Blade. He's itemized a bit of armor, no other defensive stats, and you can see just stepping in to that minefield.
Just the edge of Guma's ulti takes out about 60% of his HP, and that's one and a half items on the Ziggs.
It's only getting scarier the further we go in, but Brokeblade still hoping to force the 1v1.
Needs to get Zayas lower. That's the ulti. Infinite to rest now coming in, and they extend to play.
Warwick can do a lot of work, but Zayas might win the 1v1 point for him to get there!
Kumi Ushitip is in just to say nice job, but as they set their sights, perhaps, onto the tier one tower.
Well, you already know the fans are going to be calling to put the Warwick back on the shelf for another year.
But I like it. It's exciting every time we see it.
For the wrong reasons, Gobi. It's exciting for the wrong reasons.
Zeca also taking topside. And again, HLE, one tiny display.
One look of hope around that botside 2v2.
Otherwise, they've been trading up in each and every skirmish.
Now a 3,000 gold lead. Now a Herald empowering them as well.
As Zeca just continues to take his time in the top lane,
knowing no one can stop him from taking his tower out.
Yeah, it definitely gets super scary like the so the solo lanes for HLE getting extra money is always going to be worrisome
But then you also remember hey Guma on this ziggs is destroying
Everything he sees and he can just delete towers as well for HLE
So Guma is gonna have that infinite wave clear is gonna have that priority in mid lane
And he can just lob bombs over to either of his solo laners that decide
Hey, we're gonna get into another scrap now. Not only does Zaze and Zeka have the mechanics to win 1v1s
But then they can also have so many other things from their teams to assist in those and as we take a look at the coin-based gold grind
You can see that as good as it started in the lane. Goombas just been hoovering up money breaking plates
Getting just I mean, he's just he's just a rich boy and it's perfect as you highlighted your individual soul leaders already have these small leads for themselves
already outplaying the 1v1 but when you can add an extra I don't know 600 damage on top of what was already a slightly favorable trade
It just doesn't feel like there's a counter play for G2 plus. He's also a very wise boy. You see the experience difference
True and the Seraphine. Draco's money does not buy you happiness
But I guess it'll buy you more bombs
And then he also has the life experience
Oh, Hansama. By the time you take over to level 12, you'll understand. Maybe you'll be able to make the difference.
But not quite yet. Yeah, Guma getting a lot more freedom than you would expect from his zigs.
He's wandering very far forward, but G2 just have such a hard time to kind of force to respond to these sideways
that they can't immediately punish him. Not confident in where the light is, just makes it really hard for them to pull the trigger.
Yeah, and we knew from the beginning this is gonna be a bloody and scrappy game with g2 trying to play into this plan
They're gonna go for the fight any STP Harold Summon just in case they wanted to escape route
That's all he going in from the light nice knockback from skewmont to break the hextech ultimatum
G2 though the drake is up and they can't approach important to highlight
They could try to walk into the pit
But there's already a Harold charging and to walk through that little choke point into Guma into hle
would be a death sentence. It certainly does. It certainly would be a G2. Do not
want to accept that sentence just quite yet. So they will buy their time and
look for a better opportunity. They want this dream combination. You know, they
have the team fighting of the Nautilus and the Serafine and hopefully for their
case, you know, you with the Rileys done that can help out with the CC. They
really want to be able to control the melee carries that are on HLE. The problem
is they're just going to come from all different angles, you know, and the guaranteed engages from Delight and Kenavi
Yeah, are going to be really difficult to deal with so the setup is there
Wait, they're on the attack. Delight
Locked up hookshot wall dive not connecting
able to find a bit more damage here is the response from rumors to take half those health bars immediate TP coming in from Zekka
But he's exhausted ball CC now go to Kenavi rise to the fight
They're just rolling into G2 and it is not working out two quick kills picked up by G2
But HLE continued to approach see warwick is excited. He snipes him warwick ultimate
They are straight into the back by Zach already dead
Can I be looking to clean up broken by five scooper you see on the side you take him down
But top jungle from HLE is tearing through the fight
Come on blinking how far broke a blade a little bit extra sustained coming in the eternal hunger stacking them up
but a little bit more boot reverse from Zayas.
She just finished the job.
He's too far behind to pull ahead in the 2v1.
Zayas able to clean up.
He makes the big play after big play, after big play.
Zayas on a fed.
And Bessa, Draco's nightmares for everyone.
All right, let's take a look at it, though,
because G2, they make the call.
Look at broken blade up in the top left.
He snipes the Camille while they're making
a simultaneous play mid, trying to get Guma.
And barely, the Seraphine Ultimate did not connect.
off of the combination with LeBron, regardless G2 with the proactive approach.
Meanwhile, topside 1v1. We're not going to finish the replay today, Kobe.
That's not allowed.
It's what's weird is this is below HLT's average CK Damage.
This is a slow game for them, and it feels like they're just fighting all the time.
G2 trying to get what vision they can around the pit.
Nice flask cone interrupt there on the ball breaker.
And we've seen in the last few fights, these combos with the Seraphine have not worked out.
And you're still able to finish Guma in that fight later on with Broken Blade, but definitely
a little bit rough when that Ziggs gets to live and go through another two or three cool-down
rotations.
It doesn't feel like that is a recipe for a winning fight.
You could regale me with stories of how any individual member on HLE right now is terrifying
you and I would accept that story.
Yeah.
I'm scared of all of them.
is one four and three and I'm terrified of delight is it looks like
days might want to be a little bit terrified of G2 we get a lot of done
there but it it might cost a bear and bear and bear and I mean it's just gone
they accepted this play D2 make the call we're gonna make an overload we're gonna
try and get a kill on this day as they do get that they shut down Zeus it is at
the cost of the Baron though and we were talking behind the scenes about Baron
has a lot less value these days.
I still think that that probably is not the best trades.
So if you think you're already just not
going to get any good trades anyway,
and your bar for trades is like, eh,
I'm going to lose out on whatever trade I make,
then you're like, you know what?
Maybe Isaiah's in a tower is sounding better than just kind
of losing somewhere else anyway.
And so I think that is the call.
They're like, you know what?
We're not going to be capable of fighting evenly,
so we're going to have to take a losing trade on the other side
and then weather the storm of the Baron.
The only problem is that you already have a timeline set for you.
It's one minute on Mountain Soul, Dracos.
That is incredibly powerful for all-ins.
These teams that are looking for all-ins,
you have that big extra shield here.
Also, there's a Ziggs on the enemy team.
I think we all just saw that man, Satchel,
charge that turret just to oblivion it's really hard to weather the storm
against the Ziggs plus dive composition so g2 again you can understand why they
feel like they have to go for that trade but weathering the storm surviving
against what feels like an inevitable mountain soul and a Baron empowered Ziggs
is a tall task. All you can do is get there first and hope you get there first
you try and use vision advantage to outplay in a team fight maybe then you
can get some good positioning maybe you can get a nice Seraphine ulti and they
They did try and get their vision first, but they have to give up the space as HLE move in with power.
Going a bit awry.
Open to catch up Kanavi.
Honsam, of course, can immediately fall off to keep that CC train going.
You in for a broken blade. Hoping to pick off the light.
Gumi-Yushi, I sling off to the side.
Going to get the lead before the fight even starts.
Now Kanavi wants to turn it back. The cops is already moving first.
Zayas finally arriving. As the Zeca. Eyes on the fade seal.
The combo of ultimate to the Zeca immediately going to get exhausted.
G2, 4 members strong.
More members strong, barreling towards Zayas, looking to deny the soul.
They do it! Zayas now running for his life and he can't run at all!
Uphrooted, Delight can't re-enter the fight, the only option left for HLE is to have Zekka push mid.
It's scrappy, it's messy, but it's G2 who take the exchange.
They have to fight their way out, that's the only option for G2, so they send it on mid lane!
They go for the bottom lane of HLE, broken blade, simultaneously engages on-delight.
Wow, look at LeBrov with the flash, with the honk, with the ulti, 100% to zero.
It's James over the wall, and then G2 finish up the teamfight here.
HLE to try and pull it back.
They make you second guess, they're like, is this really going to blend all of us up?
Not this time around.
Not this time. The fear, the root, the instantaneous CC.
G2 with the man advantage, finding yet another kill on Tezeus and now that trade deal from
earlier looking a hell of a lot better Kobe for the side of G2. The gold difference shrinks
to 2,000. The biggest thorn on their side is going to be the inevitable dragon contest
required and of course the fact that Zeka is really really really scary. Also look at
how much gold they got off of that. You know you slingshot in this game now with lots of
of shutdowns and extra kills.
So, now did you accomplish the number one priority,
which is of course, the nine dragon soul,
but also getting yourselves into fighting shape now,
that you also have the team fight power of this Serafine,
that could be the difference in some of these scraps.
Getting kills really, really helps even out
some of the experience disadvantages as well.
It's gonna be big in the fights to come,
especially if they can keep being the ones
to pull the trigger. You see how good the dive is from HLE, but if they fall behind in
the fight, they don't get to choose their priority targets. They don't get to stack
everything perfectly. And most importantly, when Guma's out of the equation, so much of
the follow-up damage just isn't there.
Yeah. Everybody thinks they have a plan till they get punched in the face, so you gotta
punch first. And, you know, LeBrav and Broken Blade have been the ones punching first.
Yeah, that's- that is the moral of the story. If you think they might fight, you just hit
them. Hit them right in the face, hit them fast. Well, that's the life plan. Unfortunately,
It doesn't look like he's gonna get the stun, Zekka.
Immediate lock up from LeBron, denying him on the side.
Zekka.
QSS out.
G2, quick pick onto the light, really punishing these haphazard
moves from the Camille.
I mean, I want five of these, straight coasts.
This is my kind of league.
Let's fight, fight, fight.
Let's get through one, Kobe.
Let's not get away.
One and a tie.
They're gonna go for a dive here, baby.
Look at this.
Circling around both sides.
Rob on the side, hoping to lock up.
Kuma, Wings become lightning, does connect,
but the satchel charge is still up and available to Rob, zoning them away.
Does get called out by Zayas. Excellent ulti on the public execution.
Support is down on both sides. There's three seconds.
Until the light is back up and active on the map.
Kanavi debating, can he force the ulti?
Caps goes golden with his audience by the second.
Instantaneous ball up is there and the encore not enough for Han Sama.
Instead, it's an encore for HLE.
They want more kills, more violence, more action.
This time they're the ones punching first.
And luckily for G2, they've got enough distance
that they're going to be able to walk this one off.
The problem is G2 punched the wall.
If you hit a turret with your fist, that's going to hurt.
They said they were going to go for the dive.
Didn't say it was going to be good.
And HLE punished them.
The damage there.
Guma chases them off, and Zayus doesn't
let them escape from under the tower.
Zayus, again, on the San Bessa, has just
been able to clutch over and over.
Broken blade.
Quick.
Going to retreat there from the tier two.
A little bit confident in these just to even walk up.
But of course, there's no vision in the G2 topside jungle, so he wasn't sure if it was going to be a single member pushing for the entire team.
We found out quickly it is the entire lineup of HLE on the topside of the map.
Two seconds to the Baron, a minute and twenty to that crucial soul point for HLE where G2 will be forced to contest.
We really got to look at getting there first again.
So, they wrap around from two sides, but with the Ziggs disengage from Caps and Scuban,
They have to run back out and that leaves LeBrov alone under the tower so Zeiss can follow him with his ultimate
easily able to snipe the Nautilus and then
Caps even though he can kind of immune of the bi-ultimate with the Zonjas
They're still waiting around so he's still gonna die as soon as he comes right back out of it
See almost got out there
Did go to punch first again you had it punch the wall there was a stud in the wall
Now there's a zeiss in the jungle however
There's not really a lot of skumon could do flash in from the broad gets the flash out from Guma
G2 not certain if they want to keep playing for the Zeka zoning in the way with the main sealed all these traded
Zeka skumon re-engage instantaneous on go hoping to burn through the invest help or broken play with the fear in the back
Landis not the instantaneous follow but Guma still gets the ulti down cannot be versus cap
1v1 gets a second of relief, but Zeka is already here flash away from captain simply not
But skumon warwick beside him broken play still living for two damn long the magic damage
This wolf is tearing through, baby!
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
That is a European warwick right there, broken blade!
He's gonna take it to him!
He is the last one standing along with LeBron.
I mean, the dragon is still up though.
Drake goes to the dragon.
Solar's available in Kenobi.
The only smite on the map though is gonna get the vision control.
Yeah, I'm I'm still I
Got a howl, but I'm not certain 8 to 6
1v1 broken blade starts taking people out
But if you've got a love broken blade man people this looks dire people flame him when the thing when the pigs don't work out
He always though will return to these off meta
Counterpicks when he likes to look of it when they want to do a full scrap game. So let's take a look
Look, Scumont was both able to sidestep and then use his ultimate on this day's ultimate,
but they also sent the Seraphine over the top there too.
Broken Blade though, he takes out Gumo, which is key in the backline.
This is so much damage, and then he can thrive in the rest of the fight, even though Zeka's
able to jump over and finish off Scumont, Warwick just has to auto.
Right there from Rodrigo, round warp into the back line, instantaneous fifth fight.
On for a positive tire team, caps getting lower, Delight's lost to the side.
Crucially, Goomba is down. G2 holding on, but Kanabian's ass stayed strong.
This time around, it is not going their way. HLE, happy to turn this one.
Hansama running, but surely there is no way out.
The buy, the cameo, the ambassador, not even needed.
G2 sent packing, a freeze frame, but it does not mean a damn thing, it's an ace for HLE.
That's what it looks like when HLE get their AOE off, huge value on that damage, giant amount of burst then.
They're able to clean it up afterwards. That is finally going to be the end of the Dragon Soul story,
and it's going to go over to the first seed from the LCK.
That mountain soul empowering them making those bit of tanky stats that much stronger the additional shielding that much harder to burst through burst down especially for Guma
So also now the Zanya is ready just to stop any more of those backline dive attempts HLE
Poisoner victory lap to Baron and the base of G2 Esports
There's another window to fight G2 now at a massive deficit. Can they find a miracle once again?
Alright, let's take a look at this because it happens so quickly with the Realm Warf.
They go in and immediately they go for the full combo.
Get the giant Ziggs damage on top of Delight's ultimate here, trapping them in, and the value
is just so big that the scrap from Kanabi and Zedas here at the end wins out, even with
a Seraphine ulti that went over the top, Dracus.
And I think there's just so much AoE damage.
We talked about it before.
walking into that choke point. It's nice if Gooma's already dead, but G2 a little over
eager. It also looked like the fear from Brokeblade wasn't quite perfectly timed as they pop out,
so an immediate satchel charge really stops him from kind of getting the start to the
fight that he was looking for.
Yeah, and Dona underestimate Ambessa's AOE damage either. Brokeblade though, the lone
gold lead, individual gold lead on the side of G2, another Realm War play here attempted,
And is respected by the teleport from Zayus, even though nobody is going to get caught.
Everybody is on pins and needles here with the speed of the engages.
You have to react instantly.
Baron gonna get started up.
HLE are gonna force G2 to walk into their vision control.
G2 ignoring bot lane.
If they lose this fight, Guma TP spot and the game is over.
It's all on this.
8K, objective getting lower.
Stumon ready to go over the wall, but they cannot walk through the minefield to force
50% HP on so many members, and there's not even a fight breaking out yet.
Zecco over the wall, locking up Skumann.
Seiya's to follow! Down goes the jungler.
Turn back, go! On to the light, hoping to get something else.
Gumiuchi is dead. G2 fighting an enemy territory, and HLE, multi-man lockup.
Honsama counts, and they make the difference with the divers!
A two! Damn, strong!
Seiya's, once again, gets the double. Zecco to finish it.
HLE closing it out with confidence.
They knew they had the upper hand, they forced the bear, and they forced G2 to walk to them.
And now HLE are gonna walk into their base.
HLE...
A confident victory laugh.
G2 got scrappy, they found some fights, they brought it back.
But HLE so consistently performing better, making the most of their divers
and punishing the mistakes of G2 e-sports in this first game.
The Warwick started rough, it got really good,
But it wasn't enough with HLE itemizing the healing reduction,
never giving him a chance to make the impact he was looking for.
G2 sent back to the drawing board as HLE draw first blood in this Best of Five series.
But first, they got to play with their food today.
I respect it.
G2 trying to play into that HLE basin.
Trying to keep top for a little while, but HLE remain undefeated here
at MSI. Analysts, take it away.
Shall we say not today we will defend LCK's honor regardless of what you throw our way,
but what a first game. Incredible drafts. I mean, wow.
Yeah. Oh, I got it.
I will say I was standing backstage when the Warwick block came in and I was not too enthused.
No.
We've seen this work from Broken Blade before and it can be a bit of a struggle, but he did
actually have a really good performance on it overall. Hanwei life would just better.
They're draft enabled them to do so much good stuff, especially with their ability to push
out lanes and then be moving to a fight before it starts. So often we'd see G2 initiate and
then Hanwei life would have the numbers advantage quicker than G2 expected.
Interesting you say that because we have a really good fight to show that. And it's important to
know how comfortable these players are with this composition, right? So as soon as he,
uh, sorry, Zeca is going to be able to come in and land this faith seal, draw G2 back.
They already know that Guma is coming up for the extra damage, and they also know that
Kenavi is on the way, right? So with Guma able to fire from the back line and BD so low health,
Kanabi is able to chase up here, and it's just, it's such a great, like, drawing of them in,
also just relying on Zeka on one of his signature picks on the Yone to be able to clean up the rest of this fight,
and then they were able to take over that top half of the map and get this man into a great position.
He had a stalwart performance in AUX when it comes to HLE and the way they deal with these things,
with maybe weird team comps, or situations that they need to figure out on the fly for team fights.
Are they usually good at that?
They're usually pretty good at that. I think you can see that from Zaeus' play in lane, even though Warwick's not a top laner he's played against at all.
In the LCK, it was something that he was respecting even when we still broke and played LoH B, he knows the passive is there.
And when it came to teamfights, his performance was just what we come to expect.
Completing this big main character threat they had to deal with, Zechra as well in the Yone.
Just pulling off some crazy stuff that we've kind of come to see from him many times before.
And we were scared when the Yone got locked in, let's be honest with you.
It's Hanoi Life. I was scared when every champion was up there.
There was nothing in that draft where I was like,
Oh, that guy's actually bad at that pick. Hanoi Life.
Just why they seem like they have such a good champion pool generally,
and then their understanding of their limits.
Like, Gumi-Yushi's Ziggs, I think, is overlooked to a degree.
I know you're the Ziggs connoisseur.
But the fact that Gumi-Yushi so often is put on a slightly setback role on this team,
because the other four are so aggressive in how they want to play,
his ability to farm up in that lane,
You saw him coming into fights, half an item, a full item ahead of Hanzama just because he had been farming so well and getting those plays in the bot side.
Yeah, and I think so often we saw fights starting where G2 were trying to hunt down Kumushi on their sakes and just the satchel you saved to create that space and allowing him to get his full combo off was so good from him.
It absolutely was, and that quote for Hanzama, I really want to play him again. You look in Seraphine, like stealing Vitality's homework.
But how do we look at this as as a as we know it is a best of five, right? What is your feeling here?
I wouldn't
They sell out G2 because they did a reverse sweep a few days ago and this doesn't really face them
But what do you think about throwing a draft like this in the mix in the first game?
Well, I think it can catch them up
God obviously wasn't successful, but it was still competitive
It still kept it close and a lot of the picks that actually used up and now one available, right?
I think it's going to be really interesting to see the evolution continuing from the bot lane, because I feel like both of these teams are incredibly creative, they're willing to play things that, like, I don't even know what's going on in scrims, but I've heard some absolutely demonic things.
feel like both of these teams are incredibly creative.
They're willing to play things that, like,
I don't even know what's going on in scrims,
but I've heard some absolutely demonic things
we saw from yesterday's series,
how you can pull out these mages in the bot lane,
even though the Seraphine did not work here.
I think the thought process is really interesting,
and I know one of the things I will always credit G2 for
is being able to adapt mid-series.
I think they're incredibly intelligent,
and I think they have players who are willing to play
slightly off meta stuff that they are comfortable with.
Well, we also saw that when the Seraphine was picked and the Ash wasn't,
they actually didn't ban the Ash.
They banned Rel.
Seems like this has been a more prominent thing,
and they were kind of ready for it.
Yes.
I will say Hans Summer on what APCs is not always where I want him to be.
He's serviceable on them, but I'd much prefer to see him on an AD carry.
I think that's where he really shines.
Is that a problem in this meta?
I think in this meta it is a little bit of a problem.
I trust Hans Summer to learn it.
I think he is a very good bot lane player,
But when I see him really shine, it is on things that can carry from that physical damage perspective.
Yeah, I agree.
But, Ox, you can rest easy. You're not getting 3-0 today!
Woohoo!
It's the first LCK win versus the LEC.
In months!
In months!
Oh, I see one beat, KC.
Oh yeah, the hand. I forgot about that.
Here's G2 Nexus that the LCK has taken.
And this year.
This year, yeah.
It's true. Obviously, a little bit of a G2 perspective from us here on the desk,
but Emily, how does HLE win game 2?
I mean, I think they're super comfortable, right?
I think even though we talked about how some of their power picks are off the table, they,
like, when you say, okay, I don't necessarily want to see Han Samon, they just bought, I
think that's perfect for someone like Gooma, and I think they then lock in really strong
picks for their solo laners.
It's interesting to see that G2 are continuing to pick counter pick.
Again, we saw this in the third series, maybe they have something else, a little bit of
a surprise in pocket, but I think HLE are very comfortable right now. Yeah, the question
is do they have to throw that out? Could they play him in a normal setup and win? Do they
believe in that? I don't know. The second game will tell. Let's see if G2 fights back
or if HLE gets to match point first.
I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming!
Go go go go go go go!
Can I go, can I go?
I'm going to go go go go go go!
I'm going to- I- I- I'm- We're in this, guys.
I'm- We're in this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm- I'm going to get them again.
Flash away from Caps and simply not-
Oh!
Enough!
But Scumon, Warwick, Beside him.
Broken Blade still living for two!
Damn!
Long, the magic damage.
God, this wolf is tearing through, baby!
Woo-hoo!
This is your home, man. This is your fight.
and NA actually play in the correct lengths. The final event of the year is not to be missed.
Esports Nation Scup 2026. See you in Riyadh.
Let's go!
Red Bull gives you wings!
Welcome back to MSI 2026 and beautiful Daejeon, South Korea.
I'm Drake.
I was joined by Kobe for this game two and game one.
Oh my gosh, a banger.
There was a warwick.
There was a lot of violence, destruction.
Wake up everybody.
Wake up everybody.
It's been a long day.
Late night for NA, early morning for EU, but I have no doubt that the EU fans watching intently to see if G2 can bounce back, right?
Because a lot of what the desk is talking about, like, you've got rid of a lot of picks, and the pick economy G2 have come out on top.
In the game economy, they are very behind, however, so if they manage to pull this game too out, I think there's a lot of optimism that's...
...could start to bloom for the side of G2 Esports.
sports. Yeah, for a game one of the best of five, you know, with fearless structure,
I do like it, you know, opting into it and trying to use the warwick to fully scrap
in this world that's just going to be constant fighting with melees. But they couldn't quite,
you know, pull it off. Guma had a two level lead in the Ziggs versus Seraphine individual
over the entire time, basically. Wiser and richer. And yeah, he was wiser and richer
And pretty much all stages of the game,
except for the first couple of seconds
when we were watching the trades.
And Goddard, novelist Serpene hit like three hooks
into cues in a row, and it was looking good then.
But after that, definitely Guma just kind of took off.
And so let's get into game number two
to see if HLE will continue in that same direction.
Rumble is banned, but they're picking the Jarvan at first
here anyway.
And let's see what sort of carries you two want to go with.
So of course now you're always trying to play around the cataclysm and get some mobility for yourself.
And it's a little bit tough because often times when you want to focus down a single player, maybe someone like Kanavi,
you know, you ban out comfort picks, etc. But for Kanavi, comfort picks is the meta.
So there's no point in chipping away. It's kind of inevitable that he is going to have this early game impact
with the J4 locked in. It's going to be the Lee Sin picked up by G2.
I mean, another good early matchup here. Like, Lee Sin mobility is good into Jarvan because you can dodge his EQ
And you know that's your most of this kid right there. So that's all the damage if you dodge that early
And you win the fight it's a similar line of thinking as going with the
Zin into the Vi and then trying to do like the pre six fight where we saw they actually did win the first little fight there at
Level four up on the top side of the map
Now here with the mobility of Lee sin
For skew bonds, you know the team is putting faith in his Lee sin again
Give him in a shot.
Now with the Unara as well, again, you need that mobility
that jumps to get out of the cataclysm.
So threatening the Unara Lulu already.
HLE.
Okay, we're going to go with the Lucian Milio into the Unara Lulu.
Instantly, no hesitation there.
And this is a quick adaptation for HLE, right?
When you look at the kind of generic way we expect HLE to play the game,
it is not a combo like this.
We expect a lot more topside focus.
And that could still happen.
happen, but really this duo is set up to dominate in the 2v2 after those first few levels and it's going to put a lot of pressure on the G2 bot lane.
It is, it's just such a powerful duo because you can close the distance and Milial can get so much uptime on Lucian's passive, it is insane.
So he gets the heals and the shields and Lula can only provide some of those trades with the shields on the timers where Unari gets her Q stacked.
That's when it's vital, but Lucian gets to choose so many other different timings to work with that it gets pretty scary
Especially if teams have started doing this where they send their mid laner with the Lucian Milio down lane level one
So you can try and get you know vision priority and then you can go for your
Bureau bursty trade right at the beginning and don't allow the unar to stack up her Q
Then they can get it can get problematic
So we'll see if there's any like level one that goes along with it or not, or if they just try and play it themselves.
But speaking of mid laners, and you've got Zeca the world champion of the Akali Silas meta.
I think Akali right now is super super good by the way.
And it hasn't been like super highly prioritized quite yet, but we're only game two in a series in your playing versus Zeca, so they don't want to, they don't want to get deleted by that.
No, they'll certainly do not.
Now, the ante can be banned, so both sides pretty comfortable focusing mid lane here.
Of course, the support response from G2 was the Lulu for LeBrog.
Had a stellar game, not a game that G2 won, but a really incredible individual performance on the pick.
But again, as you highlighted, sometimes it's going to be a tall task to whether the storm of Gumiuchi and Delight here is a little debate.
Coming in from the side of G2 and Victor actually going to be what's taken off the board.
Now, Zeca as a player, of course, kind of known for a long time for those iconic picks.
The melee is plus in this year plus a party has branched out over the years
So giving him that respect not wanting to do from that scaling control major option is interesting enough a trucks
It's going to be the final fan
Very interesting indeed is that beans a is wants to play like a tank up there that doesn't want to have to play into a trucks
Doesn't want to get like drain tanks, you know scions type of stuff. We'll see
Because it's gonna just be the camps
Cindra again. You did have a pentakill on it and then afterwards you had the quote where
he was like you know last time I got a pentakill at MSI. We won that MSI! Still a few series
away. It's notably harder. It's a lot harder to win MSI now as a side note. You get way
more credit though for calling your shot early. That is true. I like that. Okay so Nivea the
lock in here so still a control option. The additional wall can make it tricky for a lot
of champions, but mostly for Syndra and the Luu. We already talked about both of the other
damage threats to Unara and the Leason having dashes to play around the J4. The same is
true of the Nivir Wall.
Yeah, it does sound kind of scary for Syndra, but Scatter of the Week is quite good versus
Jarvan even though you're like, alright, Cataclysm is very scary. And you can't go unstoppable
during the Cataclysm. So, alright, we are going to get the Salus and just give that
bird up to Zayas. Zayas was one of the very early adopters of the top lane Anivia, by the way,
and Broken Blade gonna pick his Yasuo into it, so nobody flinching at Aldrei goes,
it's his insta-locks here in the response. I wouldn't mind a flinch. This is a very ball
of competition once again, but he's got respect. We did it as well. We did the Yasuo into the
to the Anivia in the mid-lane, and so the theory is kind of the same in top lane, just
a longer lane to try and take advantage of, and since both of them have junglers that
can get up there pretty early, you know, it is going to force these junglers to choose.
Are we going to go towards top lane Volatile matchup, or are we going to try and mess around
with dealing with Lucian Milio early on, or are we going to let that Lucian Milio just
go to town?
It feels like both top and bottom both sides have potential to be volatile potentially decided by the mid lane 2 baby mid lane 2
We got Silas spatch up. It's an explosive explosive game
We're getting ready for near G2 down a game. We're coming in coming in confident. You see the Oslo counter pick
Not really shaking not stepping back out of that Warwick in game one still confident trying to set broke plate up for as much success
It's possible again
It makes sense because you know when you play against HLE there will be attention topside
So really wanting to make sure that he has the tools he needs to come out
And this is what I've always loved about broken play
People will throw tons of flame at him buckets of flame when one of these picks doesn't work out
But he never shies away from it. He will always return to his counter picks
He will index very heavily into them when the team puts their face behind him
And let's see if it will pay off here honestly. I didn't think the world was a problem at all in the last one
There it turned out great. Okay. There were some moments where it didn't work in the 1v1
but
There might there were some concerning moments to Kobe, but there was some broken blades spent his time in NA
So he's my boy. Okay. No, I'm not trying to sell a bro. Like that's my boy
and I respect
Right now Kobe our boy. Yeah, it's going up against hands which always makes me a bit nervous
But let's talk a little bit about the bottom lane right you already saw the level one that you mentioned a quick roam down from Zekka
Making sure that Guma and delight could move in get a bit more control
Over the lane didn't result in them fully being able to stop haunts from stacking up the queue the cultivation of spirit is
Zekka a nice side step from Capsule. He's this trade is very favorite for the syndrome
Yeah, I like you touch on it
They've got the sweepers start on the bottom side for LeBron too for that division for the the brush priority
And so you know they use it both both
Wait a second. Oh, second missing again. Dark sphere. Not enough to get the kill down, but
this is a perfect start to the lane for Caps. Both sides burning both pots. Zeca likely
going to be forced to burn the TP, but Caps hoping to spot out the recall scatter.
Scots is recall. Zeca dodges it, but they forced him to stop, forced him to move there. And
yeah, I mean, they were able to snipe the world champion Zeca O'Golly, but he got onto a
Silas and Kepsa is fine. I'm gonna bull you out of lane very early
The one thing I'd like to just notice is just partly why I'm nervous not about top lane
But also about bottom lane is Guma in game one you highlighted it the first level look like g2 all the way the stats
Really tell a story of Guma all the way
So the fact that now he has an even more dominant champion in the Lucian is a bit concerning
Especially when you think of the total history between these two guys, right? It has often just been the Guma you she showed yeah, I mean
Guma and Hans here. Hans said he wanted to get that revenge for all these times. Guma has taken him down.
Happy to get his chance at least, so he's got his chance. And honestly, they're doing quite good.
And then you know our Lulu at the moment, but Guma's going to start to flex his muscles a little bit here.
Ultramagafire kick does go a little wide though.
Usually we don't get to say that, but I love that ability named specific.
No, he's named specific. Ultra Mega Firecannon.
This is an unnecessary mouthful, yeah.
This is a lot of stuff. Ooh, look at this!
Circle around.
Kanabi's got the information advantage.
He saw him walk into the brush.
Say, it's still his egg.
Is he counting recall timer?
Nope, he's already gone.
I love the observer! I love the observer!
I love the observer!
Sometimes you just like, they're surely setting us up for a play.
Sometimes they're just teasing us.
as we looked away from bot lane for 20 seconds.
And the health traits have gone horribly awry.
So you can see Skumon now moving down.
It looks like to cover bot because Han's on the desperately
needs to recall.
OK.
Has the barrier.
He's got the inside route.
Skumon will be here first.
He'll be usually walking, moving towards Kenavi.
Skumon going with the wall.
Instantaneous pause mark on the Guma.
But he has the barrier up.
Skumon trying to find the angle.
Flash away from Kenavi.
He's here first.
HLE excellent cover from their jungler to stop scheme off from being able to find a kill
Oh, he's trying to predict they're trying to match here and now they they chase them all off the Boston standard
They're about to drop a flag on him
Not gonna do enough damage though luckily. I mean, it's it's so devastating
I mean these minions going into the dirt the tower plate the grump as well
Well, is he in a bucket of water or something?
Is he blowing bubbles?
He is.
We've confirmed.
He's just blowing bubbles.
That's it.
I mean, he's meditating.
That's some sports.
Have you seen all those morning routines?
Maybe it's ice water.
And he's trying to.
He's got to rub the banana peels on his face.
He's getting the adrenaline.
Wake up at 4 AM.
I hope he didn't wake up at 4 AM.
That would be a terrible decision for the schedule.
But you never know.
He's on that grind, that guy, as you couldn't understand.
And LeBron, he didn't have an excellent game one, to be honest.
The Nautilus was doing a lot of work.
I would say in a lot of moments, really outclassing the light.
It wasn't enough to win the game, but I'm a fan, though,
of the ice water, bass, and the cold temperature,
and get that adrenaline.
Spike him for game number two, let's see.
They did not go down.
They did not die, but they did lose a lot of minions.
Oh, broken blade.
Level disadvantage.
Spinning through the wave.
Now is the level six of his own, but isn't that the Q?
All good.
Say it's still fine, Haz cannot be waiting around, Broken Blade has to be careful not to step too far up as On's down a level.
Or at least half a level here, and again that is because of the earlier trade denying that additional wave.
Now you can just keep on going in for these trades with the Lucian Milia, like the buffs, you can just get the extra damage here for Lucian's combo.
Hard to deal with it.
Also just Cawfield's back versus Cold Dagger's.
Yeah, yeah, it's tough to max this nice falling more foot. Oh
Once again, we've ever roam here. Is that just gonna get behind skew money?
No, I can see the least in kick
You want to recognize is the danger and decides it is time to back up
We must have pretty far forward. I'll have a flashback a sidestep the second now on the land of scond
I'm just gonna get him with the chain last and first blood to the side of HLE
Kanaabe's here too. No, you're right. They're not done yet pushing this wave and taking their sweet time
Letting G2 stew in it. The flag, the drag, the knock-up coming in from the stolen, wild growth.
Canabi not even going to fall. A flawless dive from HLE.
Looks like Hans is not going to get his revenge just quite yet.
Wait, Canabi's going to wrap around. He's level 6.
They could get Cap's flash here if he's not careful.
Alright, they're going to back off. Let them hold onto that one for now.
They actually sent Haunts down mid lane here, as Caps is rotated over to pick up the minion wave.
Because we're going a bit wide there for Broken Blade, hoping to find the knock-up.
Recognizing he has time, isolated in the top lane 1v1, most of the time he must be with Xeas, is nasty with it.
Side-stepping multiple queues there in that sequence.
Yeah, and we were discussing, you know, which of these Voltaugh lanes are they going to go try and tend to?
Are they going to let the Lucian Millio go to town in their lane by themselves or play up to the Broken Blade's counter-pick here?
The decision was towards the bottom side, and Guma has been the beneficiary. Two kills, definitely very substantial.
He's going to get to level six very soon too, so you can get your calling poke, and everybody's going down there.
It's not just Kanavi. Zeca also with the roam over this time around.
You can see Kanavi on the minimap, but they did all the work for him. Zeca's able to go in, pick up the kill on the haunts,
then they go for the repeat play. And look at the minimap too. Cap's trying to come over, but he's just going to be so far away.
Cinder cannot move like Silas can here and so they have a much easier route to bottom side. Yeah
Frustration there and is there anything in League of Legends more frustrating than a level six Silas when you still don't have access to your
alt using your alt to make a successful dive. It's
Rage inducing now you too, of course
We can calm down whether the storm as you highlighted on the top side despite the counter pick say it's so comfortable
just so good individually that Broken Blade hasn't been able to get that greater edge in the matchup.
So, hasn't needed that attention, but now Kanaba you can see in the river.
Looking to test Kuma on a bit with the kick around. It's easy setup for the last breath.
He has to be careful not to over commit.
Hans of the broth, man advantage, calling on Hans from Kuma is big.
Getting a bit more damage down. Kuma with the barrier, flashing away. Kuma overconfident.
has to use both of his subs but gets one in return from Hans but that's a 2v1
and now Zeca's moving in behind them grubs her down Zeca can steal you Nara
oh no he has to draw oh no
yeah not out playing that one doesn't matter if Syndra casted or Silas casted
the out play our button is not happening LeBron running for his life
wants to dodge this chain and cannot.
The shield there, but we're rocking it.
Fall two, Zeca is a monster bet.
Scatter the lead from Cap Scumon to follow.
The Obscans take Zeca out of range at the Sonic Wave.
So there's no, there's no counter play on the top side.
Each of them are making another play at the same time.
Is it even more dominant than the previous game?
Yeah, I mean they just, they got numbers advanced
because Guma there took the 2v1 to the very edge there.
edge there. He fights the 2v1 to the very edge, buying the time for Zekka to get there.
Teleports down, closes the trap onto Hansen, taking him down again. Let's see, can they
do much here towards the mid lane? Because Caps has been farming during this time, but
you know, Zekka's roams have been filled bottom lane, but Caps does have the CS lead to speak
because of it.
Oh, my drag.
Quick flash back there. The Golden Egg is slow connects, but it might not matter too
too much, but now the Cataclysm lineup is there, Instantaneous,
Pymoth, that's wild, but the Cataclysm try and turn it.
Zekka hoping to find an angle for the kick,
only manages to disengage from Skumon, is LeBrov.
Keeps walking up, HLE losing one.
This is Gooford G2, they turn the battlefield
to mid lane here and Skumon coming over
is the extra person they needed.
I mean, they still have Broken Blade here.
He was waiting for more action,
but it's actually gonna take him awhile now
to get back to the top wave as Nibbius pushing in.
This is gonna get there, so he's gonna have to use
teleport. I wonder if that top wave is a cannon wave. How much this is going to get up there?
But we'll see afterwards. They get the flash, and the Kavi's like, all right, well if it's
2v2 we can handle this because the light is on the way, but Skuman was also coming over,
and Skuman with the flash gets inside there for the kick as well.
Top lane broken blade, moving up. Zayas would push the wave all the way in.
Risky call from Zayas. Last breath to come through, but Kavi already on the lay.
Oh, the wall to push it back!
Say this is just too damn clean.
Broke of like going to try and dash his way through, but the ult is there!
Turn to ice, it's just domination in the top lane 1v1.
Yes, sir. Zayas, as we said, one of the super early adopters years ago
with the amivia top and very comfortable there, kiting and buying time for Konami to join again.
They do get the kill on the broken blade, who just teleported Top Draco, so it's even worse.
than a regular gank. No teleport for him to get back out afterwards since. They are gonna
take their consolation prize because you saw Kanabi topside so immediately go for the bot
side counter of the dragon but they're gonna contest it on them. Kanabi is here. Guma walking
up that's the polymorph. Here's some light on the brawls. The consolation prize looks
like it might be going to HLE and they seem pretty well consoled already Kobe. They keep
All of the prizes are theirs.
They sold you to what are they getting back?
Kobe, your friend just, you know,
one-handed poker and you're like,
I'm going to come console you really.
Yeah, really tough time.
I don't think money being wildly far ahead as it were to pay
advantage for HL and so frustrating for G2 broken play
continuing to go all in on this as he doesn't really have
another option caps now coming up gets on the other side
of the wall last breath there.
But unfortunately not on the other side of the wall where
He needs to be reset into the egg G2 should crap this kill the second now moving in no way
The anivia manages to live broken blade dashing through the shutdown going to cast fight in the bottom lane all the underhands
I'm on the wild but gives them an extra second Guma overstepping shut down from skew one extra healing now coming in
That's the sundered sky delight the turn back want to get it on this Q mom
Down he goes G2 an excellent fight in the bottom lane on this kind of moving here
I mean even though he got shut down so much early on pushed off of waves
LaVabh gonna check here to interrupt the recall from Delay, but even with all of the early hindrance that Hansama had to face
able to get some back there get a kill and make his kraken slayer at the very least
And an overstat from Guma it feels like
actually underestimating
That's big get something also is going to be empowered by the Lulu
You can see the ardent sensor there for that additional echoes of Helia also very good item coming in for Delay
But in the extended fights LeBrov really amping up that 80 carry damage output is here HLE
Yeah, so they start out
They use so much on LeBrov who flashes over that skumon gets a good angle nice kick from the light
He did interrupt the early arrival of skumon, but they still pull it out here LeBrov uses the old onto Han sama
They're able to dash forward
During the cataclysm skumon still can't get out so he goes down
But they do get an extra one there and Hans getting money is critical to catch back up into this game
So they can have some threat behind their you Nara Lulu for later
That was incredibly close. It looks like Hans's dash just barely took him out of the cataclysm damage
Allowing him to find that kill is now
2v2 no longer in bot lane instead in mid
Just do my nearby. I mean not too far off either and in respect of solo lanes
broken blade recalling we'll see what he goes for on the early items wits and
often the the go-to against magic damage especially when you're forced to or when
you go berserkers grieve it's a nice early spike but now not having mercs is
always a tough discussion with the Osmo just because of how good berserkers are
often just worth giving up that tenacity but does mean you're forced into
sometimes that ideal ideal you like the wind and dodge everything man don't get
It's a big circle, my guy.
They're going to storm, big circle.
Also, LeBrov probably going to get the kills of this game.
We'll see.
They got a run running in.
Kuma on the shielding enough.
Relatively healthy.
Award denying a bit of the vision in there.
Flag and drag, flash out from Monsama.
Polymorph now kicked back onto Kanabi.
He's going to flash out as well.
Kuma marked up by the Sonic wave.
to come over the wall. Crucially, it's not a duck does not connect, but it might not matter. Wild Ghost stolen away. Still by Kanabi.
As a double kill comes through for Guma. G2, we're not ready for this fight. The knock-up doesn't land on the cast with a red buff.
Just keeping him in range. Lower and lower goes Kanabi, the dark sphere to finish the kill.
Solo laners with G2 and the 2v3, hoping to make the difference. Flash out from broken blade, though.
Leaves his mid laner to die. There's no other choice. He cannot save him.
They give the double buffs and the kill to Zeca here on the side list.
They can keep on pushing as well, both mid and bottom.
Zayus doing work that entire time as Broken Blade used his teleport to go cut off that
play and try and get caps and avenue to escape, but even with that unable to do so, flash
down from him as well.
Zayus cancelling recall after recall after recall, knowing that no one on G2 is in a good
position to threaten him here and now having his entire team back him up.
Is he basically just solo kills Hans?
That was brutal right there, say yes.
My goodness, keeps the pressure up on the tower, sits Hans down again.
And Gula says, I'll take over from here.
That's just so hard when you're G2.
You lost the imbesa, the meta stuff.
Now you're losing to the more niche stuff in game two.
The top lane matchup just seems like a puzzle that G2 have not had an answer for yet.
And the problem that was once broken blade is very quickly turning into everybody's problem as G2 the gold lead
Still okay, because now we see last breath in the bottom lane that could go in for the 1v1
I'm scondiduck will give him access for the last breath, but Zayas is here once again to save the day
Tracude ill going
Anivia is a mobile champion in this man's hands LeBrov also forced to flash out
out. This is kind of good. This guy deserves to win Worlds, I think. I like to. You know,
he's calling down the lightning, even when he's playing the Frost character, he's got
the electrocute. He's got that synergy. Drive this Herald right on in. He's got every element
ready to go.
Kanabi, Zekka, oh, okay.
The one we love versus Caps.
And that, I think, is at least one of the straws
currently breaking this particular camel's back.
Caps, the sole member of the team with that individual goal,
they've announced 4-0-4 score line for Zekka.
The avenues of tack, the angles of opportunity for G2,
just disappearing.
Just so you know, they buffed Silas on this batch.
Yeah, extra healing.
And there it is, there's some of that extra healing.
Yeah, this is nice.
He's able to run caps all the way down.
Now escaping after the arrival.
Let's take a look.
Okay, so HLE, back on track with the dragons,
but really it's all about the kills of the gold leaf.
I mean, they've taken so many towers.
It's really easy to get consecutive picks here
against G2.
Cintra does not belong in side lanes.
You are low mobility, fragile mage.
You are going to have a very big issue as we just saw,
you know, trying to survive up there.
And Zeke is going to go straight back.
Look at the minimap though.
You know, G2 now are going to hovering that tide.
Every time you're trying to pick up a side lane wave, OK.
We'll hover this, Syndra.
But HLE can do that too.
And that Coinbase gold grind is showing us
that despite a 40 CFs discrepancy kills,
we can more than make up for the differences.
LeBron is simply stepped too far forward.
I don't really burn much of anything to make that happen.
The cap's now in no man's land, a decent scatter.
Skumon manages to kick Gumi Ushi out of the equation,
but now the cap's in enemy territory.
And May once again, just be sacrificed.
Kanavi puts him in the Thunderdome.
The extra healing, and the cap just doesn't do enough damage
to finish the kill.
Breath of life there, and a polling to close,
as once again, kills just being donated to Kuma.
Nice from Delight there.
Keeps Kanavi up while they finish up their business
in the top lane.
And honestly, HLE don't look like they're dropping a game
any time soon at this tournament without their playing
broke blade in a brush though.
What can they do?
Q auto, another Q dash through.
If he gets the knockup, he can probably finish the kill.
Flash away from Guma, given that respect.
But Zekker's just solo-killing LeBron.
Right now, broke blade is dead.
Oh gosh, yep, last breath, aptly named.
That's the last breath he's going to get.
It's HLE obliterating G2.
There's not a lot else to say.
16 to 5 it's a 7000 gold lead we're 20 minutes in
Say it's just give him a crop, please mercy
No catches next
Hey, he already got a pet to kill on the champ
This is going a slightly less good this time around. Yeah, and look I'm so slightly
I'm not here to start hitting with the cope the cope at this point is you go game three
You believe in G2 to go back to the drawing board. Maybe try a different approach. Hey, but I replay for you to relive that
Yeah, thank you
Zekka here on Silas. It just feels so good to see him back on this champ takes down LeBron there
He was able to hit both chains for the first round and then the second round to
LeBron not able to dodge anything there and you saw the whole thing the first time around they're so good
Yeah, and I knew it when I watched the LCK VODs, but it feels different when they're playing against your representative
I will say and hits a lot harder is that just doesn't stop
Oh, he takes the us won't he's doing better with it broken blades dad LeBrav running
Skewmont also has to get the hell out of there second turns back
It's gotta be there desperate to finish off second
I have so many members surely they can kill this mid laner but kumas off to the side
They're being herded knots back into their own jungle of HLE
We need to make a montage on the first seed of the LEC.
CS didn't even arrive yet.
Finally, the bird is here.
But it's another double kill to Zeca.
HLE looking to get some revenge for Gen G and BFX at first stand.
And they're going to get it, Dracoast.
They are getting it all right.
That's 20 pages in Zeca's book.
And yeah, this one feeling like a short story.
Elsie K. put that first stand personally.
That they did.
I don't know, personally I like the more
would be a Tuxedon, HLE terrifying.
Skiumann Prang on a 50-50, he's dead.
Mike get a kill, but he cannot steal this
because they have to discipline the back away
and there's Zekka once more.
Now legendary, insane dominance coming out for HLE.
G2, this is their final stand, 1.7 K.
Objective will fall.
Han-sama off to the side.
4v5, G2 continue to walk up.
Scuttlecrap plopped on top of Zeka's head.
Broke of play charging the Q.
E's through, manages to find the last breath.
Polymorph onto Zeka, they're getting a bit of space here.
Han-sama still standing.
Alts looking to transcend.
Zeka looking to stop it and it's tracked.
The follow-up is there! Hits him with the Dragon's Lade!
He's adopting!
They finally kill the midlaner!
But it looks like it's costing him the game.
in the game. Holy moly they take down the 12 killed Silas. That is gonna be your biggest
trophy of the game, Jaco says. HLE, they can do whatever they want. That they can. 10,000
goal lead of 20 minutes is an incredible, incredible number. And you look back, do you
two know that there are no good fights? So they gotta make what we do with what they
they can. Oh my goodness, Zeca in form and a Colleen Silas are both strong right now.
Make a look at it. He kicks Hans into the pit and then he's going to go for the flash
over land the change on the cap, but caps on coming. So he at least gets a scatter the
week into ultimate frustration on the face of the broad. It hurts to go down like this,
right? We're having fun with it because there's not a lot left to be said, but this is still
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey!
They knew we're there.
They pulled up a reverse sweep.
Not too long ago.
In fact, and game one and game two versus
Top were diabolical.
Top has now exited the tournament already,
but what do we say about the transit of property?
No, let's not.
Let's not go into the middle.
It's not applied.
It's not over till it's over.
I didn't hear no bell.
They may have tried to ring it, it's unclear,
but HLE are not letting them get close
goes to that particular bell.
But again, you have a game three.
You have a chance to bounce back.
The mental fortitude going to be
necessary from the side of G2 Esports.
It's going to look the ball up on Kanabi.
Good chunk to kick things off.
The wild growth stolen.
And once again, just fantastic setup.
Kanabi still living.
Broken blade knocked up.
That's the EQ flash to ensure they have the lock up there.
Breath of life.
No one is dropping down.
Caps' own base is no longer safe.
I mean, that was, that was like arch, that was beautiful engage.
That's face, that's face.
That's versus Egg.
He's gonna, yeah, he's gonna lose before the timer pulls.
You can't do it.
You can't, the Egg can't kill the Egg.
The Egg won.
Zayac is just beating around the corner.
He knows.
HLE, even more dominant than game one.
Give no hope, give no corner to the side of G2.
They move onto match point.
They're looking to clean sweep this series
and remain undefeated at MSI.
All right, Analystess, tell us how G2 are going to pull off this reverse sweep.
Need enough, give them the trophy. HLE is just too good. I don't know, Kobe. I don't know,
Ox, do you want a gloat for a second? Yes, yes I will. They look phenomenal and I am joined by my...
I mean it hurts a little more but you know this is all scripted we all know how can
like deal with this kind of situation but the thing is actually is looking to
so much stronger than expected and I think the issue is they have so many
like comfort picks like Zeko and Xanas once again. Yes you say not expected I
would argue to say that we did expect them to be very very strong you said it a
a lot of comfort picks across the board,
but Emily, it didn't start off well.
Talk to me about that bot dive.
Yeah, so this features Zeka on his signature pick up stylus.
I love this setup from playing around
the pushing pressure of this Lucian Milio, right?
So they get LeBrov and Hans really low.
Zeka is gonna be able to wrap around here.
Even though Skuman is here,
he has to go back to turret
because his bot lane is still just so low.
They're really patient about clearing out the wave
and then Zeka just one tap.
Kanavi is already heading over
and what's about to happen is just a beautiful flag
and drag into a stolen wild growth
that knocks up both Skumon and Labrov.
They both go down.
This sets up Zeka in such a great position
to just take over the game.
And when the stylus came in,
I was thinking there's that many amazing ult
to steal was so used to see him like Alastor all bit of takeaway but he got so much value out of
this wild growth throughout the game just getting consistent multi-man knockups on it. It felt pretty
smooth. I mean the issue started even before you know they couldn't really lane against the Lucia
Milho. That's the issue when the different two meta kind of crashes you know because I think in
LCK you normally don't pick you're not blind just like that because you kind of afraid to play against
Lucia Milho so I think that was the main issue for G2B all in here. I love that analysis I also
also heard you talking about how they were kind of forced to pick a skirmishing jungler?
Yeah, I think Skiyumon is one of the junglers who just wants to pick something like Solid
more than Lee Sin because I think he didn't really prioritize the Lee Sin pick this year
in general.
You know, he just picks over like Strundle or something like more stable.
But I think this time around he had to pick Lee Sin because he had to match the power of
the skirmishers in the mid jungle.
But I think the issue, again, the bot lane was not able to lane properly and that's
That's why he kind of pulled over to the bot lane more than he expected.
Let's talk a little bit more about that bot lane and about Guma, right?
Ox, we know the tale, we've heard it many, many times about, he's a great weak side
player in Guma.
Usually he can put on all these different hats to make it work and you see it again in
this composition.
Yeah, I think when you see a team that has Zeke and Zess as solo laners in Gumi, she
is a bot lane.
We've seen time and time again put Guma on the weak side and play to the solo lanes.
This game shows they are not one dimensional.
They can put the carry plans on for Guma and play through him.
They put so much resources into bot.
We saw Zayac, the top lane, playing, and Nibir stalling out.
And Gumiishi absolutely delivered on the solution.
How easy playing Rixxide, by the way.
Not in this one!
Look at the damage!
Look at the damage!
It's insane.
We can just play through Kumayoshi.
You can just play without Kumayoshi.
That's the player that you can just deal with it.
Everyone is scary.
Well, and also how it combines, right?
Because we saw in that earlier play,
Zeka getting ahead off of the pressure that Guma and Delight were able to get with Illusion
Milio.
And then again, it just set up Zeka to completely take over the game as we see in some of these
later fights.
Guma kind of trying to soften them up and then Zeka is going to be heading up from Botside
to get on, even though the Kanabi ult doesn't land and initially looks like, okay, maybe
Hans can do something. No, Zeka is already, already here to get into the fight. Once again,
being able to Kanaabe this time, getting the wild growth knockup. The synergy, like you already
talked about, Ox, between the stolen Lulu ult and this Jarvan was amazing. Yeah, it was so good to
see and how decisive they were because Broken Blade started TP. I think G-Trail, like, hey,
if they go in, we can turn this. Before they even got a chance, before the Yasuo even arrived,
They were already losing the fight.
Yeah, the Cinder on the other hand, some anti-syndragy.
That did not work out very well.
Now, a question I want to post to you guys is,
we've seen now two times from G2 that they're daring to pick a composition
that actually, kind of, in the first one was very inventive,
trying to throw HLE off kilter,
and this one that Brokeblade still goes and locks in the Yasuo
because he wants to fight pound for pound.
Overall, what do you think of the approach we did?
I mean, I feel like you just need to have a better match on the bot side.
I think whenever G2 has bot priority the game gets much easier. So I think I mean the issue in game 1 and game 2 was really similar
I think you had you kind of tried to deal with the bot lanes, but you couldn't you know
So I think you have to find a way I think to me even though broken blades throwing these less common matchups as is
It feels like he doesn't miss a beat
There's a tough matchup in game 1 he held up strong game 2 never really gave him away in and the 1v1
And I feel like you could pick anything and he's just gonna be able to hold on
match it or even come out ahead. It's true there was a quote from Hansama to Rift.gg
about like well sometimes when we don't get going we need a bit of agency in
that bot lane and I feel like again that is showing here. I want to get a little
bit of a posture check on Schumann because one of the things that was
invigorating about the reverse sweep versus top eSports was the mentality was
there but he's getting lower so I wonder if after game three it's not really gonna
to work out but listen hey I saw my country's team Belgium be all and two
down in minute 85 in the World Cup I saw G2 with their backs against the wall
versus D I don't have it in me what did you have to do it I mean I think in TS
series it was literally the same you know I was not expecting the comeback as
well because the game one and game two looked a little hard but in this kind of
scenario it's literally the same you know just forget about the game one and
game two just reset your mindset their comfort is gone so just think about what
you can play better on your hands here.
Well, that's the thing, is that years ago,
a lot of people had criticisms of Zeke.
Even when it started last year, he struggled,
and he was like, well, he's going to MLE champions,
maybe a control major too.
This year, his pool has been so much wider.
Things like Victor Casiopea had great games with him.
He's brought out the classics already.
He still has so much ready left in the pool.
He absolutely does.
It is a big ask that we demand of UG2
to not have us be embarrassed today.
But on the other hand, is it really that one?
HLE is playing the championship form. Let's see if they close the door and get the win in this next one, please.
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Scuttlecrab flopped off the second's head.
Broke a blade charging the Q.
E's through. Vantage is defying the last breath.
Pauli Moore fun to second they're getting a bit of space here on Thomas still standing alts looking to transcend
Second looking to stop it in the track. No, the ball was there
It's him with the dragon
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Ah, 20-26, we're gearing up for a game three.
Trihama Life Esports and G2 Esports.
And thus far, it has been hanwa all the way.
Uh-huh, but you know what they say about game threes?
They're just a stepping stone to game number four, Jacob.
That's true.
And you know what I've always thought to myself?
I thought that Scuttlecrab looks delicious.
Don't you think, Kanabi?
Hey, Kanabi, play Wukong.
Go for a Scuttlecrab.
I think that would be a great call, analytically.
Last time, when G2 needed you most, you invoked a dark magic and you caught...
There has never been a better jungler than Kenavi.
You caused the hit to dive into the pit.
It starts with Kenavi.
Wow.
Can you get Kenavi to act like Tien?
I don't think there is a cast or curse in this world strong enough.
But I could be wrong.
We'll have to find out, G2.
We're going to need to see a massive step up and level of performance across the board.
They have been good moments, but there have been few and far between where it has been enough to outmatch HLE
And now as we see Bard locked in for Delight, we'll see how G2 responds.
Yeah, and Bard is by Bard, Delight is the most played champion, uh, this is looking good for them.
Ezreal, Karma though, are locked in preemptively, we're kind of expecting like a Caitlyn Bard combination to come out here for HLE
But we'll see if they want to throw any wrinkles. We I have been pleasantly surprised with a lot of the
You know flexibility that we have seen
But there's no reason for them to flex anything else. It's the good old true Caitlyn barred
You get your stasis into trap combinations or your cosmic bind. Oh my goodness
Oh gosh your meta here and Casio is still up so they can slam a Casio and do it
I mean they are facing the Ezreal Carpapok, so maybe they don't want to do it early
They just hover first instead and they're not gonna jump on that one in fact it go with an aphiri instead so
and the theory is such an annoying jungler especially when your lanes already set it to be strong and
That just the freedom she has to walk in and walk out of your jungle with the power that call the pack that
Intangibility is infuriating well
I was gonna say even if you try and use your dark magic of making the jungler tower dive for a scuttle craft
The fear is the best tower diving jungler there is she just is going she just gets to be unthinkable anyway
She just picks up the kids and walks out. That's five head here from Kodami. Good. He's avoided the dark magic
I've been taken into account Kobe. It feels awesome
able to dodge you
Okay, so Wukong here, obviously a fantastic team fighting pick, the armor as well from
that stone skin passive, getting double value from the Caitlyn as well as the nefiri, but
it might need a bit of time.
And one thing we heard the Desk talk about was wanting that individual agency, especially
for the G2 bottom line, something Hans had brought up before, this 2v2, not a ton of
agency in terms of CC playmaking, but if they play it clean enough, if they play it well
enough, it is certainly powerful.
Yeah, I mean, you have to hit your poke damage with Ezreal Karma.
That is literally the whole script.
You have to hit your poke and then things will go well.
I like this ban though.
Again, whenever we see the Wukong, we are always talking about
are you going to let through the any combination for the guaranteed engage?
Nature League, playing by the book here.
Nice ban from them. Take that away.
Don't get the playmaking.
Two caps, two G2 that they want.
Meanwhile, similar bans here for G2.
Second round, the Akali and the Victor both off the table again.
Yep.
I really just suspect Vance to Zeca.
Akali kind of the old school comfort hit.
Victor the modern, more refined Zeca, the broader champion pool.
What is the final game going to be here from HLE?
That tricky thing.
Of course, Glaspik is going to go to G2 on the red side here.
So Cam counterpicked the top one and then won.
Casio is making it so deep here.
So they really are trying to use like some,
They somebody's got a good Casio answer counter here prepped
Well, and we can feel pretty confident again if we kind of reverse engineer that first game pick ban phase where we saw the
Well band that these two teams have screamed against each other. Let's see what it is
So this is what I've been waiting for. You know, they're hovering there
They're giving you a little taunting and now the casio does get locked in. So what is it Zeka? I mean you do have
You know barred already at Caitlin barred from your bottom lane already is like kind of good because you have some range and you have the
But what is the actual Zekka pick going to be?
Delay us a little bit longer.
It looks like the standard rumble here.
Line rumble, obviously pairs nicely with the long range of the barn.
Nice to have that A where we slow to keep teamfights off from the equalizer.
They really do need some more CC, I feel like, here for HLE to bring it all together.
Oh, there it is.
So we're going to do this again.
were very critical when caps did this. People were very, very critical. It did not look good.
Because Grim hit all of his Noxious Blast and they also critically were roaming mid with
Jungle and support right behind him. So we're going to get that Twisted Fate top answer again
into the rumble. People also have been critical with this does not work out. And the on hit
Twisted Fate does not work out.
That could be a magnet for Flame as well.
But I have to say, the LeBlanc, if you can play it
with pressure here, and again, jungle and support
determine so much of mid lane matchups nowadays
that we're going to have to incorporate it.
It's not just the 1v1, it is the 3v3 mid.
That it is.
G2 can weather the storm in the early game,
which is easier said than done.
Maybe the gold card of LeBlanc in later points,
But you can see what happens if HL you get ahead,
the poke from the Stoblok,
then the fear is all up.
And again, it's so much about how you can play around it.
Because the LeBlanc needs more to be able to play off
of her threat.
If you're going in and you have your support hovering
behind you as the Casio, it gives you the confidence
you can stand your ground.
You hit your Noxious Flash, you Twin-Fing,
you punish them on the way out, you throw your My Asthma,
and so she can't escape.
But if you're a block has the early visitors on her side,
you can set up the game.
So go in, you land the chain,
you make sure you're gonna get the setup
for the people ganking for you as well.
You try and turn this match up, try and leverage it.
It is dangerous, it is volatile, so let's see.
And here we go.
This is what we were talking about in the previous game.
Send your mid-laner down bottom
to try and get the priority here,
and it remains true.
With the feeling of bottoming, you need this too.
So, second does come down for that level one.
They sweep, they use that as bait.
Delight gonna wrap around here, it comes.
Has all this extra movement speed,
as well as the level one, the passive on top of the Q.
Whisk the Q, nice sidestep from LeBrov.
Han Solo winning the trade with Guma as well.
So LeBrov down in HP overall,
but with the lethal tempo fully stacked,
she too, do a fantastic job of getting value there,
and now it's caps.
This is a bit bold.
Yo, LeBrov has moves, man.
That was gonna be scary.
I was wondering too, if Zeca was gonna early flash,
He didn't want to use his similar spell for bottom lane.
Oh, it's off going down though.
As good as that initial trade was, Han's taking a big chunk there.
But yeah, because Zekka does not want to use his flash, the early flash with his chain.
And then L'Brahme is able to sidestep there on the light, so it does not get the Cosmo
finding into the wall.
They do escape, and honestly, they were fine afterwards, so Zekka having to walk back to
lane now and another Naxxus flash does land from Katz.
Good start for him.
Some poke landing here in the bottom lane but some of these mystic shots also going
wide means to light and Kuma having a decent time matching here.
Okay, on the level 2 spike, trading very heavily again.
Dude, Voli- Volatility is bottom lane and-
Volatility is the top lane is the only lane where I think no one will die.
I think every other lane, I don't even know if a jungler needs to get involved.
Now that you've said that, Mr. Voli-
No, no, no, no!
No, I- I can't see what you're doing.
That's because when it's good for my region, not when it's good for HLE, they don't need any more help.
Hey, look at me. BB could be the one getting the kill.
That's true. Wait, bottom line.
We have both junglers.
Skuman going in on the Kanavi.
Washas done on the Han Sama.
Kuma potentially in trouble. Call the pack already burned by Kanavi.
He's forced to back away.
And good read from Skuman there.
Honestly, he matches it for the three camp clear, matches it on bottom side.
And to their benefit again, G2 holding strong in the beginning stages despite HLE trying to do the mid laner through bot level 1, trying to do the three camp game.
Good reads, good responses so far from G2.
Stable early game thus far, it is two minutes in, but we're a little traumatized from the last two games, we're just kind of ready for anyone to go down at any moment.
Sometimes you get beat so hard in the previous game, it sticks with you a little.
Does continues it carries over
Normally we're gonna talk about it positively like we're at coming off a game where you're so fed you go in the next game
You overestimate but not the case this time around a ski months box out Kenobi once again tracked
Well, can I be dropping his own blue buff it looks like come fight for the crab here?
Gonna give the presence because his midlaner's gotta go pick up that wave
He knows that gun needs to get back to the minions
So can I be we'll go back to his jungle give up the crap to ski months
And Zeko went for the Dark Seal, so he's double rings here for the Leblanc.
He wants to get that kill.
Again, you've got to play off the pressure here with Leblanc, and you're going to need
jungler or support as well to go do it, and then your rewards will be even bigger now.
Start to stack up your Dark Seal.
Can they actually get some presence on bottom lane in order to unlock the light?
And we get a bit of a push here, stun connects.
Boomer not quite close enough to drop an immediate trap, not sure if he has a charge either.
The bot lane has relatively evened out after the initial scramble there.
G2 with a small gold lead.
Not even getting closer, closer.
Oh crap.
Should be his for the taking.
His mid laner now has the push.
Oh!
Trading very heavily down there though.
here. They want to stop his way from going in. His Hansama shifts forward. Flash. Not ideal,
but that's a blink and help on Delight. The ball just isn't there. West-Cumon moving down,
has a flash of his own. Fakes that he's going to go another clone. Stepping on the trap from the
braw. Not going to cost him. Call the pack, might though. Kanavi goes in. Looking to land both the
daggers. First blow to the side of HLE. The stun landed because he uses the clone. Delight.
He's gonna lock them up, stop call, but now Tansama flash forward from Kuma, doesn't quite
have the range.
That's such a mess for G2, so close to finding those kills, but it's Kanavi, full confidence,
who finishes it off.
Yeah, the tasty cupcake in the brush, Strakos, is too much for LeBrov.
He walks in, they chase too far, and Kanavi says, not on my watch.
Yes, in the top lane, battling Broken Blade, Broken Blade holding onto a gold lead.
He's just counterfeiting a bit of money up there, but now it's Zeka first on the roam.
Bot lane who were able to get that push out, then I some CS away from Han's Sama, and while
G2 had those small gold leads, didn't mean much, and now it's HLE who are really starting
to take control on a lot of these lanes.
Well, how Kanabi did it too.
He goes point blank on him as that could have been a little bit of a long explosive, because
we did have a support room timer, and LeBron was here.
He's kind of hoping that Zeca was going to over-connect to that, but...
Caps. Getting a bit of support.
Montreux shield there.
He had used the miasma on the previous one, so didn't have it here for the chase down, but...
Now the light is here as well, keeping the numbers.
Dropping off a couple health packs as well, which only makes the mid lane match up that much harder.
Miasma this time around means that Zeca can't fully commit, but as you've highlighted, Zeca's really aware of that miasma cooldown.
I'm not fully committing until he can kind of get that cool down out.
Still though, if you don't have the extra pressure,
like Caps is doing well in CS,
he's earned his CS lead here on the Casio,
and he's constantly trading, constantly pushing out.
Yeah, he hasn't gotten like the dream scenario like
Cream did when he played the opposite side of the matchup
with his jungle and support there and actually getting the kill.
But still, with the early CS lead for the Casio,
and the vision is key around that mid lane.
You know, constantly threatening the room between this Zostah
and Kuma.
Still, the magical journey just instantly takes him out.
G2 hungry for blood, trying to get
to generate a bigger advantage here.
Multiple times now, HLE's bottom lane
has had those blinking health bars.
But G2 just haven't been able to finish that kill,
as there's an obvious showing some presence.
And every time it feels like a call.
This fight starting as Zeka goes back in to trade on caps.
Oh my gosh.
So much damage, has access to the mimic, making those trades that much easier.
You're always wondering how long his cap's going to hold his ultimate.
It's not mind game.
Going in for the trade, turning your back.
Ulting the top lane coming in for Kenavi though.
Drops the tower, aggro flash out coming in from Zayas.
Easy kill pickup for HLE.
Kenavi, Kenavi man.
And we just come back to a dead Casio.
There's rocks on the ground there.
That was a solo bow.
I believe was it it there?
Kobe we're gonna have to get a replay.
We got it.
We have to take a look back at mid.
He was getting low.
Drake us and we're talking about how are you going to hold the ultimate?
He tries to flash away.
Zekka does flash as well.
And then he has plenty of time to turn his back for that ulti
because the ignite is on and caps is burning down and she too.
I felt stable for the first six minutes.
But now that kill in the bottom lane for Kanaabe full confidence
to flash into LeBron's face. No room to dodge that crucial Q.
Now he's ahead of the clock. Now he's able to dive top lane.
Drop tower aggro. Just like you said, the nightmare champion
to be playing against such a good diver
in the form of this nefarious cap.
Trying to hold on in the 1v1,
but Zeca feeling that much more confident
to go for those easy trades.
Yeah, Kanavi is just king and man, play after play.
Meanwhile, cap's getting solo killed on the opposite side
of the matchup this time around
is also going to add just extra insult onto that one.
Sekka's able to get it.
Kanavi is getting invaded by the support room, of course.
They do have a Twisted Fate top as well.
Well played.
Stepping up, gold card, all the pack used just
to stop the stunt going in.
How many turpliffs you losing for this?
Because that Caitlyn is wailing on the tower.
And we've been here before.
We've seen it, I think, in the first game of this series,
in the first two games of the Top Esports series.
G2 clearly making moves on the map.
but because they're at such a deficit,
it's just costing them more than they're gaining.
Certainly is.
Broken Blade also suffering in CS with his counter pick
into the rumble.
Ultimate popped.
Go to bottom lane.
Broken Blade used it to go try and collect that wave.
Catch up in those numbers, but look at that.
Guma sticks around on bottom side
with the Twisted Fate arrival.
Caitlyn lying in wait.
And they're pinging assist pings down there too.
They've got Bard.
Oh, here come the boys.
They know no flash kill exhaust.
Look at that.
Bottom lane.
Bottom lane.
The Voltaic Cyclosword.
They're going to get to kill the Guma,
but Kanabi's there just in case.
G2 running out of space to play in their individual lanes.
Broken Blade 0-2.
Once again, the dive, top lane, into the immediate follow-up
punish.
He had to burn some to survive or hope to survive.
But when he goes down anyway, just
makes the follow-up dive that much easier.
Now the tower taking out the equation. Kanabi, you remember, incredibly fed.
He's stunned, but it might not matter. Double-dark and daggers about to come out.
A little bit more healing, but no. G2 with the tower empowering them,
or at least able to grab that shutdown, crucially going to caps.
He's able to complete now the Rod of Ages.
I mean, that was a lot sent, and even while they turned off the tower,
Kanabi uses the W for the extra damage.
He goes in and capsits him with Yolti, at least for G2.
You get yourself a counter-kill there.
And I think that's the most of a curse I'm going to get this game, Kobe.
We were just praising him, he goes in for an aggressive dive,
and they'll manage to make the most of it.
Two one and two, the score.
Or Kanami, cap's getting the kill back, is nice, but broken blade.
You know, five seconds.
All you got once you locked that gold card in,
and then immediate engage comes in from Zekka.
One more auto, just eats the stun burn.
It takes broken blade's life.
Zekka is on one, man.
He's solo killed both of your solo laners now.
Does.
And Broken Blade is kind of homeless at the moment.
That he is.
Broken Blade couldn't handle the way we got an actual fight on our screen.
Actually, Kanabi is still very squishy despite having a Voltaic Cyclone sword.
Kuma flashed in the medium Cyclone, good reaction coming out from Kanabi.
Kuma just can't get anything.
Instead of turning back on a Gulishi, one more stack on the Cyclone,
spinning as fast as he can towards that Caitlyn.
But the barrier is there and down there, going to Okanabe!
He smells weakness, and he's quick to punish.
Getting the kill on Hans is well, and the Prof is just not enough to turn.
He's running for his life using that extra bit of movement speed,
and they see, on top of that, they see Broke of Blade top lane,
so they know they can just keep going forward,
taking whatever they want from G2.
Yep, and HLE blocked the Q damage as well,
so the Flash forward is Fue-Tile from G2.
HLE are just cleaning up this series, 5,000 gold the lead now.
It's insane.
As we were saying, Broken Blade got run out of top lane,
then died bottom lane, then died mid lane.
Now back to top lane.
Well, he's already in a deficit versus...
Oh, he is.
And they want to keep this world tour going.
Wherever he goes, they're going to kill him.
They know how vulnerable this TF is.
He's so far behind.
Gold Card is his only defensive tool.
The second it's gone, they pounce.
With the rest of G2 this time, at least here to cover.
Hey, that's the Flash.
And now for the next five minutes, he's once again vulnerable.
Zekka just keeps walking in.
Waits to see him lock a card.
Well, he went forced to recall. Remember, Guma has a 2,000 individual gold lead,
a completed item, and an extra BF sword on top of those two.
Zayas wants an Ezreal kill. Look at him. He's going down for the Ezreal kill. Bot lane.
Zayas going for the 1v1. Looking to burn down Han Sama.
Electro-Altric's hitting. Overheat coming in. Han Sama forced to flash away.
It's a split fight, though. Zanz quick to finish on Somsama as we turn our attention to the top side.
Delight finds the disengage. Brokeblade finally gets here. Kanavi, not sure if he has the call on the pack.
Taking his time on the double daggers and Brokeblade just gets deleted.
Oh, the end of the double daggers! Gold card! Kanavi gets three, so he'll hit the shield for the ults again.
Scubond hoping to get one back. He'll look at the dark daggers and say, finally, take down Kanavi!
But it looks like it's costing him everything because Gouba's the fed one, and he's reigning hell down on the caps!
Triple kill for Guma Yushi!
Look at that, the golf clap.
Yep, well done.
Clean it up boys.
They are also pushing top,
they are also pushing bottom.
HLE own Summoner's Rift.
That's what they do, it starts well.
They get the initial call, the pack cool down.
But they're just, they're too far behind.
This play just fizzles in front of them.
Yeah, the light peels out
and then even when Brooklyn Blade arrives,
look at these traps in the brush,
he goes back in.
That is a head shot!
All right!
And Konami goes in to finish the job.
LeBron then also the recipient of a head shot.
And Guma is able to gun him down.
Caption Welley does get the magical journey
to help for this one too.
Delight sets him up.
One more auto.
Get the extra.
There is Fed.
There is monster Fed.
And there is whatever the hell you want to call
Goomayusi on Caitlyn right now.
Well, it doesn't have his Infinity Edge completed yet.
But, Hansama doesn't have anything completed yet.
Yes, yes.
He's got the Ikea special here, just parts.
Oh, there we go, I got it.
He got the instructions, put it together, 24 stun.
That's kind of like having three items,
if you think about it.
You wanna put some big silver lining on those clouds
is Midland Tower gonna fall on Hansama.
It does do damage.
You can see the Mystic shots are connecting,
but finishing a kill is just a different story.
And current to HLE, right?
Ooh, hold on, top, the light caught out.
They're gonna try to one shot this far.
Lock him is there, my asthma is well,
nice shot, gotta get things off,
but can Avi instantly turn back?
Looking to pick up Osama as well, call the pack.
Not gonna be necessary,
a viss rate to get him over the wall.
Side step on the true shot,
Mirage is gonna use she's just one-by-one in the Wukong.
Sector goes in to kill him.
G2 just dropped no space, they're getting danced around.
Find one square inch of Summoner's Rift that is safe for G2.
I can't.
Balance.
For the love of God, G2, hold on for two minutes, please.
The meme cannot get worse than it was that one year.
Yeah, I mean, we're already 15 minutes.
We have to make it a minute and 20 seconds, and then everything is fine.
16-47, you're telling me?
Don't say it out loud, Kobe. Don't wish that.
Don't put that G2 on me, man.
So I will say, I feel it is so much harder to end games with turt plates, though.
The towers are really hard to, like, one-shot now.
It's true. I think you're probably okay.
It's fine.
The balance team has you.
Has you, Brad.
The balance team cannot nerf Zayus,
as much as they have Nerf Rumble.
Go in, gold card.
Zayus overheating him, Rotoblade's face.
Might still be able to grab a kill.
Just barely surviving. Nice pick for G2.
What will it cost him on the other side of the map?
HLE descending on mid lane.
Canavi, ulti not there yet.
He's got a Rift Herald in his back pocket.
More than happy to use it to break down that gameplay
in tier two.
Flash out from LeBron.
Skumann retreating.
Shoe shot barrage hits the camp,
but tower finally going to fall.
And Broke of Blade still hasn't had a chance to recall.
And production brings up the gold graph
to show you how this huge kill on Dezei
has cut the gold lead down to 9,000.
You also notice from that that this is the most dominant game
I think in the series thus far, which I didn't think was possible after how dominant game 2 was but
Here we are HLE. There is a reason they are amongst the tournament favorites
And while optimism for G2 was there to be the team that could contest that could fight their way in the top 4 today
Is clearly not their day. It's the upper bracket. They're not eliminated if they lose here
But definitely gonna be sent back to the drawing board and we'll need to find a massive level up or a new strategy
to support them in the next series.
They're playing Comfort, they're playing Old Greatest Hits,
they're playing whatever they want,
and they're looking just as good no matter what the options have been.
Hey, look at that first five minutes though.
Aha!
Yeah, why don't we run the graphic then, production?
Give me a little, oh my gosh, she's almost there.
Han-sama, this is the nightmare of LeBlanc.
She gets ahead, she breaks your mid tower,
and suddenly she is a poke mage,
and if she doesn't W back, she's an assassin,
and that's really the only distinction.
Yeah, the thing is they actually do have a point you click gold card, but yeah, it's not easy to time, right?
So technically it's point and click but first you have to pick the card, you know, you got to lock it in
I go through some steps and also the one holding it is
Very poor and not able to purchase a rapid-fire cannon that he is
He's trying to find a home in the top lane, but when Zeus is done farming the the Krugs
Just getting every little advantage you can. He may...
I should have never played foot. He's just gonna opt to recall. No need to overextend.
HLE with this kind of advantage. You don't really need to force. Just...
Oh, but you can because it's fun.
But you can because it's fun and they might because that's a 7 stack badge on second.
It's fun.
Hey!
Brother of the light! Not enough to save LeBron!
However, he will still die and now the resets are coming in.
They're coming in, Naka from the Cyclone, and the clone is nice from Skumon, but it might not matter!
Red Carpet laid down for Brogan Blade, looking to send him back to the mound, and caps to knock at the snake body in front of that bullet in time.
Open to take down Kanabi, but stepping in to three members of HLE who flash on him.
Instead, Mikhail is to stop the CC from coming through. HanSama now retreating, and they're just getting run down.
G2 zoned away, forced back.
That's before Kuma even started auto-attack. You can see a third of HanSama's HP just disappears in the blink of an eye.
Again, though those towers they make them sturdy now. Okay, so it takes quite a lot of games nowadays
You're gonna make it to 20 minutes, buddy
Is that a blessing or a curse? Oh, that's the question 13 stacks now for that guy. I think he wants to pull wants to max out here
Can I be
Going targetable
Waiting he's just out ranging. He gets the live he auto the squires bloom while he was running
That was terrible, but given how hard of a day it has been, I'm not going to die on that hill.
You know what? He gets that one.
Oh, shit.
So, it's times like these where you say, hey, let's set a goal on killing a single individual.
Ideally, you know, you'd love to kill Gumi to get the giant Vali. Well, never mind, we're under attack.
passes the individual for HLE, lock up his area, he's about to fall,
the Brav getting lower and lower, Broglie is fighting here, but it's a red card.
He's hoping we can play football rules, he's even kicked off the wrist, but he absolutely cannot,
live exhausted, Kanabi!
The Brav just barely able to step up and tank that one,
but Kaila Damage continues to get higher and higher.
Yeah, the Guba autos on broken plate were brutal there.
I'm just saying we swap the football rules. He hit you with the red card. Please leave the rip
We're swapping now. Please. Please leave. We've swapped the reps. Please tell him. Hey, okay, my victory though
Every comeback starts with a single step Kobe and it could be the red buff steel or secure
It was on your side. It was technically supposed to be this
And guys I like let's be clear here. I'm an EU rep. I love this G2 team, but that you just can't dance around this
There is no storyline. There is nothing we can say sweet
They will make this any less one-sided nice engage coming up for HLE
They have a stop juke coming out. No, they just already killed it. It wasn't stopped
That's my bad. I like it. Yeah, this is just the camera pad down
Yeah, I was like, oh, he got the stop tube.
No, he's already dead.
Oh my gosh, for me too.
So how far, I mean, OK, you already
talked about HLE and BLG are the big two tournament
favorites.
HLE, they have just, they're currently
still undefeated at the tournament,
and they have just steamrolled over this tournament thus far.
Of course, we'll definitely have to wait and see
how it progresses, but Baron's going to go down as is.
So the trap's about to go down.
Jane CC, Rakel's there.
Cap's running.
Zekka chasing. Distortion in.
A little bit more damage as Cap does what he can to fire back.
Gold V continues to grow.
Red Bull Baron power play.
Already big and only going to get bigger. 13,000 gold advantage.
Also remember, this is not an elimination series.
So I do want to go back to earlier in the tournament
because there was discussion online
line when Team Liquid got smashed by T1 and Team Liquid released a video during the game
where Spawn was talking to his team after Game 2 and he was trying to keep their mental
stable and their trust in their teammates.
Sometimes Wester teams are going to get smashed by an LCK team, especially as good as this
And it is important for the length of a tournament to continue to trust your team and not let it break you
Okay, this is not an elimination series
You still have tournament left to play although you probably don't have much of this series left to play
Probably not all day on the Hansama starting to walk away ace the whole body block by skew mon brother. What does both parts this time?
Yellow open to take him out of this particular play. Oh the coin base gold grind. Yes. Thank you
We'll have a superb review, which after my base obviously much love to our sponsors, but poorly time
We know we're gonna just completely absolutely boom must stop
Cap size of the all team Q flash it goes into light
Q mods gonna spin amongst three people, but he's just serving himself up on a silver platter
Jax got the gold
HLE continuing their dominance not gonna risk anything on this closeout
They want to stay in this game this can obviously survive that true shot barrage
There's insult, there's injury, and there's the addition of whatever the heck this is.
Rocketblade is also going in.
Oh, save, man.
Oh, too good.
They roast him up.
Are they gonna go for more?
Okay, got one.
That guy's still living.
Close back, shut down on a little block!
That's the one kill!
Another huge kill for G2 to cut the lead down to 14,000!
That's my region!
That's my region!
That's my region!
Um, anyway.
Kobe, I want to go back to your point, because I think it is a valid one, and I don't want to make too light of this, but there's not, you know, I also don't want to treat this as the most serious thing, because G2, they're pretty done, though.
I think we've seen them before, teams when they lose a series, the tournament is over for them.
They might play more games, but you're never going to see that team in that peak form again.
Some people will argue that that's what happened to top esports, and I hope for the sake of G2, that this is not the end of their turn.
This is not the end of them playing at their best level.
Even if we don't get to see that best level here,
because obviously they're down 14,000 gold.
The tower's taken out of the equation.
HLE caused a blinding up.
There's on a rampage.
HAPT hoping to get another kill.
Are you sheep running?
Welcome back with a gold card.
Can we get one more kill?
Oh, my god!
My god!
HLE on his piecemaker.
In the first series, it's not a piecemaker.
Okay, that's a killmaker right there.
That is a surface to air missile.
Strap to Gugmusion's hands.
He has taken people out.
Okay, hot time against one back.
A little bit of panacea for the pain that HLE has caused.
HLE remain undefeated when to see if it'll be BLG or Lyon
facing them at the top of the table.
Who will be the first to take a single game off of HLE?
Nuts. G2. Not today.
Not today. Arts out to them again. Hoping for that recovery there. Not out of this tournament yet.
But there was a gap this series. It was a massive gap between the teams.
And HLE reminding us how incredibly dominant they can be.
Let's send it over to the analysts next now to talk a little bit more about that series.
As we see HLE take a bow and they've absolutely deserved it sixth and oh so far.
You speak of a gap. I speak of a Mariana trench.
It was absolutely huge.
I think this was one of the biggest reality checks I've seen for a team in a very, very long time.
HLE had to defend LCK's honor with it.
They had to beat G2 and they did it in style.
Yeah, even though I'm such a big 3-0 predictor, I couldn't really predict G2 to win 3-0 today.
And it turns out HLE having a 3-0 against G2, again, I think we didn't have a clear plan by ourselves.
and that means a lot, even though we kind of knew that HLE is in a better form.
I kind of wanted to see from G2 having their theme, having their team color,
but this time around, it was normal.
Yes, we'll get a little bit more time to talk about the G2 side of things in a bit,
but Aux first, let's sing the phrases of HLE.
Where would you like to start?
I will look a second, because he had a phenomenal game on the LeBlanc.
This is a pick we have not seen for a pretty long time,
And he was just taking over, playing into the Casio pair of Caps, having great success there.
And, binding multiple solo kills in the game, this angle onto Caps following to keep the chains on him with the flash.
This is actually the first time that Zeca has played LeBlanc in almost two years since LCK 2024 summer.
And it shows the evolution of this player, a player who struggled last year in Fearless,
But now it's just able to bring out picks doesn't play for a couple years have incredible success on it
And it just shows how well rounded his champion pool now is what it makes HL
He more well-rounded team to write because we have talked about how okay
this is how they typically play and part of that typical play style around their solo lanes is due to the fact that he
Expanded his champion pool so much and
Also, they don't necessarily have to play that way as we saw they did rotate towards more stronger pushing bot lanes at times
then used Zeca's mid pressure to gank for bot to get their bot lane ahead.
And I thought it's just such a great use of the strength of these players
and a really good nod to how Zeca has just continued to improve himself over time.
Yeah, great adaptation. It seems like from HLE going from strength to strength really.
Yeah, I mean, this is the player Zeca can only just pull off
because I think it's all about the high risk.
You know, you normally don't take the ignited lock
or you normally don't pick the Silas into Syndra because you kind of want to just play something
like Taliyah to get the priority, but I think Zeca is the player who wants to take the risk
when there is something that you have to deal with it. How you do it? I work for LCK, so I know
that usually it's just scary, but well actually I would check that you have a message from Ethan.
Yeah, he was so much better than I expected, you know, I think the way how they trapped her around,
like we kind of expected Guma to just peel back and pick something like losing lane,
but he picked up the Lucian and he showed who is the goat.
Yeah, the goat! There he goes, we call him the goat, we have it on tape!
I had to.
Yes, I love what you said about Zeca also, and I think Zeca as a player story for me,
It's one of the most insane stories in all of lowly sports.
Unfortunately for him, there's all these midlaners with these crazy stories.
But, you know, out of nowhere, really puts up a great performance at Worlds 2022, right?
He wins that world championship.
He's kind of MIA for a while.
He comes back, he has his moments, but never really those highs.
Now, Ox, what can you say about this trajectory that he's currently on?
I mean, using great form, the team is so good at playing around him.
And I think considering when he had that great run of will,
he was so much around the meta of the time, being great for him, great for DRX, picks
like the Akali and the Silas, and now he feels so much more complete as a player, and you
can see the growth that he's gone through, and the team is able to rely on him constantly.
We've seen sort of the players from that DRX roster. The bot lane is obviously both currently
not playing the top side, Top and Jungle having some struggles recently, but Zeke is the one
still prominently at the forefront of the LCK.
Yeah, and I remember back in the LPL, he was really struggling as well with his champion pool,
found his footing when he returned to the LCK, won that world, and then continued to evolve.
It just makes, it continues to make this team so dangerous, right?
Because we talked about the fact that they, you know, kind of had to adjust this adjustment period with Canavi
his aggressiveness into going through road to MSI, improving even more with the mage bot
and also the engaged supports coming out for Delight.
So I just think it adds so many, there are just so many facets to what this team can
do in draft and how they can play.
Yes, with that we are ready to join the interview on stage and have been on stage with Kanavi
for the Horizon Post Game interview which is them.
This is the third round of the 3-0 victory.
Let's have a look at the interview with Kanabi.
Congratulations!
Thank you.
Today, we won the 3-0 victory with a perfect performance.
How do you feel about winning the first game?
I'm happy that we won the 3-0 victory.
That's great.
I think the last three games that we were able to take the back of the three heroes were amazing.
And the last first, I think you took a look at the 6-0 score.
How did you prepare for that?
So I'm not sure there were a lot of things to be wary of,
but it just goes on in your preparation.
He took one of the great points in the first try this year.
So we were pretty much there.
Oh, you're saying that's what you're saying.
Great.
G2's surprise pick came out today.
But one of the players seemed to know how to deal with it.
Did you expect that?
In the case of Seraphine, I think I used to play well with other teams.
We were lucky enough to meet them during the practice match.
So I think it was a good match.
I think there was a good practice match.
And in MSI, it was Karabi, who wanted to take down the scrimmage of G2's jungler, Scrimmage.
How did you feel about today's match against him?
First of all, the liners were so good today.
I think it was a bit of a fight against the jungler.
Honestly, today was all about the laners.
They were doing amazing jobs.
It was not really much of a jungle matchup.
I was looking forward to scrimmage's pocket picks, but we were not able to see it today.
So it was a little bit of a bummer.
Now you will be facing the winner of Lion vs BLG. Yesterday, 5% he would come with Hana like this sports.
Did you think things would go the way Viper wants?
Based on the performance so far, I do think that BLG would make it, but Lion is also a very strong team, so it's really hard to predict.
And one more win, HANA Life is first will be heading to the finals, but it's your mindset
going into the upcoming match.
So we are keeping a 3-0 win streak currently, I hope you can pick another 3-0 victory up
in the next match.
Thank you very much, Konami, and please give it up one more time for Konami.
Thank you everyone. Thank you very much.
Let's see if it's 3-0s across the board into that grand final.
Did we lost G-sun there for a second?
We heard something about Warwick and about Seraphine?
Yeah, so Kanabi mentioned about he already practiced against Seraphine as well,
because some teams are also playing the bot lane Seraphine,
and luckily he said he had time to play against Warwick as well,
so I think some teams are also cooking,
But yeah, I'm gonna spot the Kanabi there once again, because I feel like in the beginning of the split,
they were struggling to find out the being on the same page as Jungle Support, but right now Kanabi and Delight are just waiting for each other and looking for the right moment to go in.
And I think even though it hurts, it's kind of amazing to see how they kind of play around on the same page.
Yes, I mean, we all have our allegiances, but when you see League of Legends, that is that good.
You can't help but take a bow and like really enjoy it, right Emily. It's really fascinating to see how as with excess from the beginning of the year till now, which evolution we're seeing out of HLE.
Yeah, it's been great because it's basically Kanabi taking what made him so successful in LPL for so long, bringing it to this team. I still remember my favorite moment was still the Atrox jungle where he's just diving.
He's just diving into the base, that was not successful by the way.
But now that the team is all on the same page, again, they just have so many facets in draft,
so many ways that they can play, despite the fact that I do think they have a default style.
And you mentioned jungle support, I actually think that's something that all of the remaining teams have in common
or have to look at, right? Especially the favorite teams, we're talking about favorites coming in.
Jungle support working together to control the map is so, so important right now.
I think as well, we saw Peanut and Delight together across multiple teams,
played together for a long time, and losing Peanut for HLE was obviously a pretty heavy blow,
took time to adjust, but I feel like we've gotten to the point where they are so in sync together,
not just the jungler's support, but the team as a whole.
Yeah, they got lemons, they made lemonade. They absolutely did.
Let's take a look at the updated bracket, because that does mean that HLE will be playing
the winner of BLG and Lyon, which obviously will be Emily.
What do you mean?
I think BLG are winning this, guys, sorry, let's see, but sorry, N.A.
Yeah, but I think when we look at that possible future matchup, right now, I'm kind of wanting
to say that HLE will beat whoever it is they face there and make it to the final with it.
What do you think?
Oh, well, I mean, I think, again, every single team has different meta, like kind of tier
list, so I really want to see, like, how they think when they're playing against the LPL team,
But also, I mean, even Emily said BLJ is gonna win, but don't forget the Lyon. You know what happened today
Yeah, I mean look if if Lyon actually pulled off I will be amazed. I'll be very happy
Yeah
Based on their current performance that I've seen at this tournament. It is a very steep hill to climb
Also, if you look in the lower bracket now teams from Wales obviously have that phenomenal performance earlier today
So that matchup, Lying against BLG, obviously you think BLG is favourite, but if you fall in the lower bracket, there's a threat waiting there.
Yes, there's no easy matches, that's what MSI is all about, but since G2 is not yet out, we do want to hear from the side of G2 as well.
And Laura is standing by with Perks in the Verizon Postgame interview to talk about today's loss.
Perks, thank you for joining me after this game.
First off, congratulations on the official announcement.
Now that you're actually part of the team, first time that I interviewed you as a coach actually, so
What happens from backstage from listening to the boys from watching this series was pretty rough to watch
But I expect that it was even worse for you. Oh, I mean was a pretty depressing watch. I'm not gonna lie
game one was
Think we kind of lost control game one after the game starts so well in the first three minutes
We should be able to push the lead, one key goal lead in three minutes.
We should be able to push it to 5 key goal lead and to win the game.
But we went out on the same page and we just did two plays.
We did like three plays in a row, we did like two different things.
And we didn't really include our jungler into those plays as well.
So the game is just normal out of control.
And thanks to Bibi's Warwick actually, shout out to Bibi's Warwick.
We made a lot of combo plays and the game was closed.
And the game was... we were fighting, we were fighting, but I'm afraid we just today mentally collapsed for the rest of the games.
Okay.
Which is a sad reality and something we have to accept.
Yeah, what is your read on this? Because what really impressed me last time is the fact that even when you were down O and 2 against TS,
you guys managed to bounce back in game 3 and this is when things started happening for the team.
So how do you explain the shift today and the fact that you weren't able to reciprocate that?
I think it's also today against HummerLife. We were just challenging a lot more on lanes.
I think individually HummerLife is just a stronger team than Tess.
And after the game one, after the collapse that we had in game one and not being like really on the same page as the team,
we did not come back mentally strong enough for the game two, even though in game two,
we were like even stayed in game in like 15 minutes, but then the game just collapsed and we were like tanking it down next five minutes.
But to be fair our lanes were hard in that game, our lanes were hard in game three as well.
So, I think it was a bit of a mix of harder opponents because against this it was like
we could play the games out, you know, every game was like fine.
We did lose two games in a row but it was never like we were completely out of control.
This was just very hard to play.
To be honest, the game two and game three were just very hard to play.
So we'll have to revisit our prep and our approach for the opponents that we have to
make sure that we have a stronger showing.
It's not the last one. You're gonna have another chance to fight and come back.
Potentially against T1 if you look at the potential opponents. So what are you,
as a coaching staff, gonna tell the team and your players to make sure that
you bounce back mentally? What do you review after a game like this? What is
the first thing you're gonna tell them after this interview? Well, I'm gonna make
sure that we understand that we are the underdogs of this tournament. We're not
supposed to win that. We're not supposed to win that. We can't win, but it's like
You're not like the favorites of the tournament. I think that's a very big thing to take into consideration because you should play with less pressure
You should play with more ease when you're in this kind of mindset
Especially when you're facing T1 who is a six-time world champions, right? They should be the favorites going to this match
I think we have a decent
We're on a sadistic matchup into them
and I believe that
That series is gonna be very
Very very fiery. All right. That's a word. Yeah, that's the word. That's the word looking forward to this one coach
Thank you so much, it's a pleasure to see you in the next round.
From Perkz, and if there's anyone who will be able to rally them,
I remember a year with him that he was in the World Championship,
and he got to a semi-final.
He beat an LPL team in the best of five, do you remember that?
Yeah, I still remember when I played against RNG, yes.
Yeah, that was great experience.
So, can you see that that's what he wants the channel probably?
I guess, you know, I think Perkz always has been having such a great mindset coming into this kind of pressure
And I think I do believe that he can help the team out even though today's series was completely out of control in ourselves
But yeah, again, it's not the end and I think we have to revaluate
The peaks that we talked about and I think we can for sure bounce back
That's what he said. It sounded like a word on the same page didn't include our jungler made our lanes
They were really difficult and the match-ups were difficult the games weren't good and yeah
It was a pocket pick from us, but it was not
More I guess
Everyone's been cooking and screams I do like like I love your insight and I also love what he said in that interview towards the end
Where he's like, I think you can take strength from being an underdog, right?
If there are lower expectations, you can play a lot more freely and for each other
And I do think if you have the right mentality as a team you can actually gain strength from that
I think it was just pull her and talk about the mentality of teams and the pressure as well
So I think it's so easy when you're watching from here from home. You just think oh, why do they make that play?
Why did they do this instead?
But in the moment when you have limited information and you're playing as such a strong team
It's easy to pull into those traps obviously the hope is that they can reset and show that best in the lower bracket
Yeah, it would be such a shame if they went to TES route
Which is what we saw earlier today and and collapsed
But let's take a look at the schedule to see what we've got going on tomorrow
Lion will be taking on BLG of course and T1 will be taking on Furia this could go one or two ways Emily
Yeah, sure. I am here all day
People can hear my predictions then, but I think this is going to be a really tough battle for both Lion and Fudia against two of the tournament favorites here.
There's just no other way to say it.
If they don't stop them, HLE is the only tournament favorite.
I'm just saying about the wildlife tomorrow.
Yeah!
I mean, yeah, the lions is a favorite.
Yeah.
Always had a heart for nature.
It needs some protection for them, I think.
We'll see. We'll see. With that final notes, thank you for joining us today on The Voice.
It was great and I think even though it was a tough loss from us, I feel like it's still going. MSI is such a great tournament
and tomorrow we have even banger series so I think it's going to be a great day again as well.
Some would say the best tournament. I love that you still say we, I feel you guys.
That's it for us. We'll be back tomorrow at 5am CEST and 8PM PDT for T1 vs. Curia and BLG vs. Lion. Bye-bye.
Thanks everyone.
Ladies and gentlemen, MSI 2026, and we are here ready to see who is going to keep themselves alive here at MSI.
Fia gets in there first. There's the knock-up. They take out the J. Stawning Chatter to keep the team alive is the end.
Cataclysm on top of the center, but it's not going to do anything. He's just going to kill everyone around him.
It's a double! The Deer and Jacky Love goes down for the triple!
Can they give him the Quadra? That's the question!
Punn says...
Immediate teleport!
We'll get the Rumble in there, the Walking Barbecue to take down the Hot Dog!
His though falls first, and the rest will follow suit!
The Faces are being broken, and now Shelly gets involved!
His though gets into the backline, knocks up Creamy, gets over the wall, though it's Punn!
Pools them in, gets the Shield!
And tries to walk it off the Hamey! Gonna keep him alive!
This set is absurd!
Trying to get cocooned himself and his snared up there is what?
Great chain CC!
They take out the Elise, the Princeplay talent, onto only D-Ray, but it should be out of work out here!
What an incredible performance!
Managing to come back after a tough loss against Hummel IP sports, our first four game series here at MSI!
Blast away from captain, simply not enough, but SQ-Bond, Warwick beside him, Broken Blade still living for two!
Damn! Long the magic damage! God, this wolf is tearing through, baby!
Woo!
Manages to find the last breath. Polymorph onto Zekka. They're getting a bit of space here.
HanSama still standing. Alts looking to transcend. Zekka looking to stop it and extract.
So the follow-up is there! Hits him with the Dragon's Rage. He's absconding! He's abducting!
This completely absolutely boom must stop. Cap's side step, the ulti. Q flash in goes in from Delight.
Schumann's gonna spin amongst three people, but he's just serving himself up on a silver platter.
HLE remain undefeated, waiting to see if it'll be BLG or Lyon facing them.