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I like who they may like
No more getting up
I like why
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Yeah, this is our life
Friday, hey, Louis
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The voice of the voice that's not in your ears
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Tonight we're gonna take
I can't turn back, my friend
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Hello everybody and welcome back to MSI for another day of the bracket stage.
We're excited we have great matches on our hands today once again
and I'll be hosting the first series with Emily Outs and Freikos.
You know, we witnessed some historic League of Legends yesterday.
Yeah!
I'll say, records were broken.
A lot of new records.
Something's don't change also, but we're talking to touch on this later. The first things first team secret wells
Amazing performance yesterday against top e-sports
Historic for the region Emily. Yeah, it was massive like
To see them come out especially with people saying, you know
LCP is really struggling with the breakup of CFO and only that for it to be a Vietnamese team
you guys remember, VCS actually only merged with what was the PCS last year. And it was
just great to see Team Secret Wales who said last year they were so disappointed they weren't
able to show themselves at Worlds, they weren't able to show themselves at First Stand to
show up and beat top esports. Warhorse going crazy. Used to coach in the LPL, so used to
coach some of the players on top esports.
And especially considering going into yesterday, they hadn't been a single game-win for the region.
So there was the worry that if they got 3-0ed, they would leave the tournament and the region would have a single game-win.
But what a big performance that came through clutch them.
Absolutely, and especially with so much inexperience from this lineup, especially on the MSI stage, they all got their chance to shine.
We will see them in the next round, and it is exciting. Something a bit less exciting.
Yeah, you know, I'm gonna ask you your thoughts.
I'm looking at the top, see that little 3-0
against which team is that?
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Is that Gamers 2?
Look, oh.
Gamers 2, oh my god!
Honestly, honestly, honestly, I wish, I wish.
Because like, look, coming into this tournament
after first stand, double 3-0s against LCK.
People said HLE was built different,
but I didn't understand that it was
coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.
Yes, Gen G, the coughing baby in this circumstance.
The old man in the wheelchair,
playing a no tempo game. We got completely slaughtered. And you want to know what the
worst part is, Ox? You want to know what the worst part is? The one consolation prize
we should have had is we reverse-sweeped an LPL team. Oh, but lo and behold, it's the
only team on the face of the planet that measures success, not in wins, but in the disappointment
of their fans. So to both of you, I'd say pretty successful tournament for top.
Wow.
Wow.
That was mean.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I'm still sad.
I feel deeply wrong.
Do you want to hand me one of those?
I'll take this one.
Yeah, okay.
You know what?
I'm going to follow up on this.
I actually want to, I want to have some reactions on like how our favorites in the tournament
have been doing.
Thank you, Draco's people for all European fans here.
I think it was completely deserved.
The top esports, they're not.
Yeah, they're out.
They're not doing anymore.
They're out.
They're going.
I'm talking about the top teams, Ox.
That's...
Not top as a team.
Top ASA team, top teams, but yeah, you got that Amumu crying, I think that's because...
Yeah, I got mixed up because their names top, but they're not on top.
Alright, well, with G2's demise, it means that HLE is doing quite well.
We had high expectations for them, so, yay!
Let all the pain go, we'll move on. HLE absolutely slaughtered G2, and look, I want to highlight Zeka.
I think we can pick a highlight role for any individual player on this lineup.
And Zeka to me stood out so much, you guys highlighted it wonderfully on the desk.
The Lulule while feeling like an Alistar ult, feeling like a gnar ult, this man making the most of a lot of ulties that didn't seem like they would be that good.
Solo playmaking here, and the fact that he didn't just do this on the silo.
So I think we know him to be incredible on, but the control mages that have been more recently added to his champion pool,
it's just a reminder of how dominant this player can be, especially when the pressure is on.
This is a man who turned it on in that marital run, and he is once again reaching those heights here at MSI, and they're slaughtering the competition.
And I was gonna say, it just adds so many facets to their draft, right, with Zeca having improved his champion pool so much,
not just recently, but like over the past year, like few years, and I think it was proven yesterday when he locked in LeBlanc,
me and Oxer just like, uh, don't know about this, and then they had a stellar performance on it.
You know, I'm so confident in him at a best of five now that goes all the distance, but he hasn't need to show that yet.
He can do pretty quick.
What about T1?
Raining world champions back to back to back with the addition of Space, of course.
had a bit of a tricky first close series against BLG, the game one was great, but drafts ox once again, but we were used to this sometimes with Timon.
It was close, but the standard for this team is so high, and I think they let themselves down in some of their approaches to the game, because we've seen them so bot lane centric, playing through Paze, playing through Carrier, trying to get them ahead.
I don't know where they're playing through with this job like all the like top lane matchup
You're playing as a head into bins Jack's not gonna make a time
We saw what happened mid faker struggling into night and then bot lane pays had like 20 souls at 20 minutes
If I could bring out the bell cause and it just felt like there was no pressure from the lanes
Which means owner just cannot do anything and we've seen times before
Where T1 have had some drafts that haven't helped them out
They've had to reevaluate
But I just didn't see what the plan was with this one
They've got here by playing through the bot lane by their laners have value in team fight. There was no value here
There was nothing
Get it away
Wow, right Emily. Yeah, well if T1 wasn't doing well, can I mean to be a cheaper finger?
Even if it was like five games. I feel like they got a lot of answers very
Uncharacteristic gilding also in the way they want sometimes. How do we feel about them in most wise?
Inward wise, what is the...
Temperature check on them.
They're feeling pretty good.
Yay, happy vibing.
We were really focused. We don't have any positive either.
Yeah, I was going to say, we still have one positive.
We have one positive.
That was Europe.
That one, I mean, this one's kind of neutral. It's just sharp.
Yeah.
This one should be good.
Yeah.
This is crying at how long you've waited for BLG to be pulling out series against T1.
You know, finally, yes.
Okay.
They've returned to BLG dominance.
Stuff is worse than BLG.
Okay, what made them good?
I believe in it.
I mean, I really want to highlight kindred specifically in their final draft because it's a pick that shun can play. You can pull it out at any time. He's 42 and 18 now on it. 70% career wise, most of those games did come with his time on IG young back in the day.
day. However, I loved how BLG set up for this, right? So here, he already is at three marks.
And that's because they did this invade on bot side. The bot lane is now swapped to top
side. It's going to be really important for the Kindred as she's moving up here. So as
we play this through, a few really important things are going to happen here. First of
ball, the BLG bot lane is going to hit level six. And that's going to be huge later on.
Because as Shun is spotted on a ward at Raptors, he is then going to go contest the red. Face
checks here. And owner thinks he has the kill. So he's going to flash over, immediate kindred
ult pop. I just love how they prepped for this, right? Like I said, the bot lane had
swapped top. Both of these two have ults. So on's on-core is actually going to extend
through Shun when owner moves over here and Viper's arrow is going to hit. It's perfectly set up.
This gets him that all important fourth mark that essentially turns Kindred into like a really
formidable champion on the map. Also first blood because they've been playing just really well
around their lanes up to this point and I just love how BLG set it up around this very signature pick
for Shun. Yeah, I think overall when you look at how good they were, the team setup as well as
was really stood out to me because you can look at shonen isolation and say wow
that's a fantastic game but without the support of the team kindred doesn't look
like this people don't talk you aren't getting marks like this it is a team-wide
effort and when they can come together around him on a comfort pick a niche
pick that we often don't see in a game five pretty confidence inspiring for
BLG especially as they go up against in the future maybe a t1 rematch maybe up
against HLE have to see right how the rest of the tournament fold pretty
likely against HLE they're gonna have to take on the Lions first like come on
No, but I'm looking at this jungle match up here, especially because if I if I'm looking at someone to make things happen in the early game
I am looking at inspired now. Do not get fooled by those stats
They may look similar but the trajectory for both of these junglers to get there very different
Yeah, and I think inspired has been such a leader for this team
He's been the engine this hasn't necessarily been the role for shown even though had a phenomenal series yesterday
But I feel like so much of the success is gonna come from inspired
who's often been very good at adapting to what the enemy jungler is doing, finding angles,
and I think given how Bealty was playing, especially in the Kindred game,
he's gonna need to be on top form today.
I completely agree.
And I think there's a lot of pressure on him, and I think the thing that is difficult for this lineup
is that oftentimes we talk about Inspired as the point man,
but we don't talk about him as the sole provider for the team, right?
And he wasn't. It was him in Guma.
I would love to say more names than that, right?
Berserker, excuse me.
I get it mixed up sometimes, because they're both so good.
They used to be both anti-1s.
Fair enough. A bit of an up-see there.
But, luckily, I feel like the Lion Soul laner now.
I guess that's just how it happens.
But that's the struggle for this team is
I think they can. There's a world where they can get a game.
But not at the level of performance that we saw from them previously.
The Furious series is not enough.
We need to see best performance, and then we need to see
some new picks, some creativity, and then they might be able to get it across the world.
Do you remember when Big Dokes solo killed Bin at Worlds?
And it definitely wasn't because Bin muddled on the tower directly.
Oh my god, that's not a play!
Being vs Bollywood build, the rematch, we're gonna see that in a bit, but before that I wanna get a vibe check on Lyon
and I caught up with Inspired ahead of their game in the Verizon post-game pre-game interview.
Game day?
Let's just...
Inspired? Thank you for joining me ahead of today's game.
First things first, scrim check. How are you guys doing?
Not the worst.
Not the worst?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, any... what were the learnings from previous series?
I know that you were pretty frustrated when we've talked about it, so I think it's in everything else.
Just stay calm during the game and let's try to stick to what we've been working for us in the past.
I think we're overthinking a lot of our decisions because of the practice roles and stuff like that.
I think we'll try our best to just stay calm and hopefully what we are good at will work.
How do you stay calm against BLG?
I think just turn the nameplates off and just play.
Yeah, is it that easy because I often hear players say just don't do the nameplate stuff, but obviously I feel like you're able to do it,
but how do you make sure that your teammates are going to lead in that mindset as well?
I mean, I'll try my best to tell them to think like that, but sometimes once you see how enemies play,
even though the nameplates are off, you can kind of tell that they're really good, just by the decisions they're making and how well they're playing on the line.
Like, they're not crossing the line of in-thing, but they're also pressuring really hard.
So yeah, I mean we'll see how how is their form looking today? They look pretty good against you one
But who knows what makes it hard playing against BLG because for me
They're this like fast-paced team always keeping up the tempo and it's pretty hard to follow up and keep up with them in that sense
As I said, it's hard to recognize when they are making the mistake and when they're actually making a good play because
The line is very thin and they are playing very aggressively that if you try to punish them on a timer that they are not over playing
I think it will backfire really hard, but you also can't let them be in your face all the time
because then they will just take way too much that they should.
So, yeah, I think we have to find a good timing and pull the trigger on a good timing.
Hopefully, first of all, we need to survive landing phases and then go into the fights and hopefully we find that opening.
Surfing that fine line. Pretty tough against an opponent like this.
Tell me more about Shun because you have a pretty good take on all the high-skilled junglers
I'm just wondering, what do you think about him? Obviously he's great, but what makes him great?
Ah, I mean, just in your face, all the time, I think they're just very good as a team of using the jungler.
The jungler is always there where he needs to be, wherever matchup they're playing towards,
and it also doesn't feel like they make too many mistakes when the jungler is not around,
they're just waiting for a good opportunity and playing well off of each other.
So, I think it's, in some sense, it's kind of easy to predict where he's going to be,
because he's always there where the action is, but there's not nothing you can do about it,
even though you know he's somewhere, but they're all playing well together, it's like
what do you even do to counter that. So, I don't know, I think we'll try to play our best.
Okay, stay in his head and then wait and see. Thank you so much, I'm sorry, best of luck today.
Thank you.
Just a fantastic interview with Inspire. I want to go back to the second to last answer.
The laners need to survive because we need to look at the numbers here, and I'm not trying to drag
Lion when I bring this up. It's just if we want to see this team play at their best
They really need to step up because that oh you showed that beautiful
Illustrator
Why did that work because the laners backed up the jungler if this man is left on an island if he has no support
It's not gonna be the 1v1 shouldn't verse inspired that we kind of want to see it's gonna stop before we even get there
Yeah, and I mean they seem to have trouble against Fudio, right?
And we talked about this BLG team as a tournament favorite and we're like you need to find a way to deal with their solo laners
This is a much tougher test than Ferdia.
You know what? Upsets can happen sometimes.
Let's see what they can do.
But I want to know what the fans think here in our MasterCard.
A fan prediction.
Is there any hope on the side of the fans?
Exactly.
You know what? Better than I thought.
Yeah.
30 different 100%.
Shout out to you, Lion fans.
Yeah.
Is it hoping? Is it coping?
We'll see.
I mean, BLG still won.
Yeah, I just thought it was going to be more of a battle.
It's going to take a massive improvement though from the FURIA series.
Here for Lyon to do something BLG, looking spectacular so far in the first series.
So between them and T1, it is our first matchup of the day.
Let's see what happens as we hit the stage.
Okay, little guy. It's going to be okay, I promise.
Aww.
The team that had a lot of expectations was defeated by BLG and lost the game.
champion Top laner Doran and his challenge is the army.
I think we were able to feel our weakness while losing to BNC.
I think it will be helpful to prepare for a more detailed game from now on.
I think the MSI is about to start.
I want to show you a better side of me in the next game.
I just ins it under the tower!
He's gonna get knocked down and solo killed by Gigo!
I think the key to being the R is kind of lure him into the bad place that he wants to do.
Just let him play the game to just make himself do instead.
So I think that's one way to break T1's connection.
He has just started his career at the LCK.
He has returned to Korea as a two-time liners.
He's good at the战争.
I studied a lot when I was young, and I learned a lot.
I think I can beat him now with my biker.
But the teacher's teaching is not over yet.
The two players who will walk the other way will now face each other in the hometown.
BLG have just bought too much breaks through this early game.
This is your time, this is your home, this is your fight, fight with your power.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026.
It's time for another day of double-bestified
International League of Legends competition.
Later today, an elimination match between
FURIA and T1, but before we get there,
it's time for BLG and Lyon to face off.
Both won their opening matches,
and now it's time to see who is going
to emerge triumphant here.
I know a lot of people are predicting BLG
in this one, a powerful team, an international competitor that's always making those deep
runs of field life, and Lyon are gonna have a hell of a battle in front of them.
I'm Captain Flowers joined by Daga for this best of five as the teams take the stage.
Both teams coming off the back of hard fought series, despite Lyon getting 3-0, game one
and game two, they definitely had to work for that victory.
And BLG just coming off the back of that T1 victory.
They are going to be making sure they want to stamp their dominance here at MSI 26.
Absolutely. It's what the analysts were talking about at the top of the day.
If Lyon want to stand a chance, they're really going to have to show us a more refined form.
They're going to have to show us them at their best compared to what we saw in those opening period games
where things were real scary for a long time.
But we did get to see a little bit of that adaptation coming through from Lyon, right?
It's like, we got to see the Lee Sin coming through for his hard-raised, way more active in the early stages
wanting to try and play for this, like, covering topside for Dokla.
And I think that's where we'll see a similar story coming in today of
It's hard trying to be more active to match him in the early phase.
All right, let's see what we get. I am excited to see what the drafts look like.
In particular, I want to see what Lyon can do
to match the power of the BLG solo lane specifically.
Finn and Knight in that series against T1. You're talking about going up against
the team, the organization that has the most world championships by
a country mile and BLG taking into five games, so much history between those two teams.
BLG emerged triumphant after five and so much of it was because of Finn and Knight.
Yeah and I think that's where I might curiosity in the draft kind of stands because
we saw Iles not look very pumped around the table. So you know putting bands into where
is that as line because that then opens up more for Finn and Knight in those solo lanes.
So that could definitely unleash the power of what has been the biggest strength of BLG
over the course of their domestic split, but we'll have to see exactly what the game plan is because
Yeah, it is a tall task before a line going up against one of the tournament favorites. All right, let's do it
We're in the draft for the first time here VLG chose the blue side
Lion chose second pick so they want to make sure that they're getting that final counter pick here
I respect that sort of approach looking particularly. I'm hoping for a counter pick in one of the solo lanes
Let's see how it shakes out jungle focus from BLG nocturne and by their first two bands here in this one
While lion are going to get rid of the poppy while also removing that
Minnesting mage bot laner in the ziggs. Yeah, it feels like to me BLG are basically saying look we want to try and remove
Moments for inspired to be active in the early game. They're rid of the nocturne
I'll be testing here as well based on his performance the other day
But we'll have to see where is on the other side. Yeah line still trying to
Focus a little bit more on getting rid of the ziggs getting rid of those and AP carries in the bot lane
But we know the Viper kind of has a few in the back pocket now for bringing us about cause the other day
Exactly the Orianna here going to be the final ban in phase one from BLG
wanting to keep that one away from Saints and
Saint and Dopa, I think both had a bit of a struggle of a series up against Furia
These guys have had some high highs. They've had some low lows domestically back in North America
And I feel like all the North American fans watching now really want to see them play at their best play at that higher level
Because anything less will simply not be acceptable against night. Yeah
Yeah, well night might get his hands on the rise here with Cassiopeia on the Oriaban
Maybe they're trying to bait it though and if you still left open if you want to try and take that for same
But why is it kind of be strong at the moment?
But looks like being just kind of go towards the Jace here and traditionally we've seen that Jace more focused when we have like
The Ziggs in the pot lane you can go for this poke style, but when Ezreal still up and available
Maybe BLG want to try and go back towards that style they're playing game one versus team one
And I feel like though for BLG this is also such an extra threat because this is a team that has so many options in draft
Right they have deep champion pools. They have flexible champion pools
The Jace can still go to either one of the solo reigns. It's scary stuff
Yeah, we've seen it domestically where they're happy to put that chase towards night as well
But it's even just a flexible play style as well like we traditionally look to the mice
You know unlock on play for solo lanes last day they got shown on the carry and we're like wait
We're just gonna play for this came trip right it feels like everyone on the scene and step up to carry
But there's that Lee seen about here talking about so line feels like coming in with this part already
All right, we're going to be proactive in the early stage
We're gonna have a part trying to interact to the map as it's the Cassante that's locked in at the top
Okay, so we've got Lee, playmaking early on. You mentioned how the Vi and the Nocturne,
those are bans from BLG to try to slow down inspired early, but Lee Sin obviously capable of making tons of plays.
Cassante to try to answer potentially. I'm expecting into that Jace, expecting it to go towards Bin.
Just be able to survive the lane, endure that onslaught that can be so oppressive for so many matches.
Yeah, I fully agree. It looks like with the Ryze taken though, I'm curious about the answer for Saint Isgol to be.
Like do you end up going back for something like that in India or do you try and go for something a little bit different?
Because we haven't seen abroad any huge amount. He does have two games on this one
And he knows he's seen things like the Galio has an option here
Which could support something like the Lee same in that mid lane where the taunt with the setup that you have
But on the Camille was left open and he is gonna be very happy to get his hands on that one
This pick has been so strong so far in this tournament a couple of exceptions to that though
I was one of them his Camille definitely didn't feel up to par with the other Camille performances
We've seen in the tournament so that one
Gonna go over to on the response from lion is the Shen and I like us
I mean if you just can't hit people as the Camille
I guess two thumbs up and looks like that's the game plan and that was the curiosity for me coming into this was
What's the answer if the Camille has let through well seems all the husband practicing that Shen to make sure you've got the spirits
Refuge you've got access to that ultimate level six as well to try and cover if he's not it to keep pace with on which
Honestly, very few supports in the world are able to do so already like I love this right up coming with a game
Still have a be carries yet to pick
So we'll see the Ezreal banned out on the lion side here in the second half the draft Syndra going to be banned away by
IPLG you're keeping that away from same but you're also critically keeping it open for night later on in the series
Since you already have the Jason device
You know that that solo laner is already locked in for night no matter how they want to allocate that and nice
Indra is so well known. You're like, I don't want you to take that away from
Let's go ahead and leave that open for future games Skarner banned out my life
So still putting a little bit of focus towards the juggle there for sure
I think that makes sense, right? And basically what you have is a composition online that wants to get up close to personal
And you have what I imagine is going to be hope coming through from BLG to work alongside this J
So getting rid of champions that once you dive in we get a lot of value in this sort of situation
So here's to see what the the rest of the game plans are going to be for Sean, but
that line
There you go, there you go, that's gonna be the last one.
They get their time on that one, but yeah,
removing the annies to double mid lane bans from BLG here
in the second half of the draft.
An expecting Lion to...
I'm actually curious what they're gonna do here,
because they already know what the third lane matchups are.
You wanted to go for last kick in the draft as the Lion side.
Yeah, the biggest problem is, like, the answers for Rai's kind of low damage
for a large portion of the game, like,
I was gonna say the Gallio and kind of the Indian the early stages so instead they're just gonna go for the
Hopefully put off some of the retreat angles for BLG, but we were talking about that long-range poke
Well the male left open and this has become just such a staple combo at MSI
This champion has lost one game so far
I believe she is currently at a six of seven win rate in this tournament
We'll see here as soon as it's I'm expecting it to be locked in on the BLG side. Yes six wins
One loss, this champ is so powerful on this patch, and seeing that locked in with that Camille combo like you're talking about, this is scary stuff coming from BLG.
Yeah, just the question of yet, I was going to say what the jungle is, you want something that can be aggressive and linked up with this Camille in the early stages, so Zinz out of the Jarvan, also a good answer here, especially when you already know that Taliyah relatively mobile.
The only thing is that Unraveled Earth can cause you so many issues on trying to fight the engage tool, so you'll have to see what the, if he is locking in, it is.
Okay, there you go like decent poke with the melon the Jays try and play from range and then once you do get up close
And personal you can get value from the rise from this Camila's well being able to lock people up
So PLG gonna be wanting to get very aggressive in the early stages that once again player and their solo lanes like me expect
Yeah, that that range power man. You already said it but with melon Jays together
That can create such a dire dance around objectives if lion isn't ready and the final pick of a draft here for lion
and will be the Tristana for Berserker.
Okay, so they're gonna fly fire with fire
in that bottom lane, basically saying look,
hell has range, but if we just jump on her head,
there's not much she can really do.
So immediately, we're gonna have some attention
down towards this bottom side.
Again, we talked about line,
how this game plan coming in,
you get the leasing early in the draft,
gives you the opportunity to try and play aggressive,
you go for that, weak side for Dopebler,
and it's all gonna be about trying to get Berserker ahead
in this bottom lane.
And I was reading some reflections from Dopla
after their series against Furia.
And even he was saying, yeah, we weren't playing
Supercoordinated, we weren't playing our best.
If we keep playing like this, we're
going to have a fast ticket home,
even though they won that first series against Furia.
So as someone from North America,
I'm glad to see that Lyon is also
perceiving that first series as, yeah, it was a win.
But it wasn't a win that you're going
and you're writing home about how you're so proud of it.
It's one that they got it.
But we know there's a lot to improve on.
And I hope that they have improved since that matchup
against Viria because BLG, you mentioned it
at the start of the draft, one of the tournament favorites.
Many people predicting either them or HLE
to be the team to be here at this competition.
And considering BLG already took down T1 in that best of five,
they have proved that they are certainly not
to be underestimated.
And I'm curious now to see how this fault night is
going to go, because you did a bunch of first timers
coming in with both the Mal as the first time for Viper
and I was first timing that chance.
So, there's some questions on both sides,
but I see who can try and get the better of each as BLG.
And Meiji starts to step forward
when he spotted where Inspire is.
Global power rankings up there at the top.
BLG ranked at number one, Lion ranked at number 16.
So, bit of a gap between those metrics.
BLG with Knight and Ben in particular.
I know I've been talking about these guys,
but man, I can't stop talking about these guys.
These are two of the best solo laners in the world.
A lot of people currently ranking Knight as the best midlaner, the best individual performing player in pro in the world right now.
Yeah, I mean it's hard not to when he's coming in with an average of nearly seven kills from the domestic region to MSI.
Like this guy's been absolutely insane.
So I think that's where a huge amount of the focus has been and even he had some set of performances up against T1 as well.
Where he's able to get that early lead.
So the left C is, ooh, Isles.
Oh, that was an early flashback from Viper Isles trying to get aggro at level one here in the 2v2.
Yes, he gets the Summoner Spell out of Viper also on Spending the Ignite,
but it does cost Isles his Heal too,
and he now also losing a big chunk of HP for the Attempt to play.
Immediately though, the Larm Bell should be ringing for Inspired.
Like, this now becomes a focus for you.
Trying to get on towards Viper, abuse the fact that that Flash is down.
You see Berserker in line, they only have the Level 2 already stepping up.
Especially when you can see they just spotted the Jarvan on the Raptors.
He'll be moving towards that top end and should open up that space for you.
Alright, Xurca and Iles. Okay, staying safe enough for now.
The solo snare forces the taunt defensively out of Iles,
so Viper and On take the opportunity to step forward now,
knowing there's not the engage opportunity there present for the lion support.
As Inspired is here in the topside river, jumps over the wall of the rub pit
and might just make a stop up here in the topside, looking for Bin.
Doklaff finds the knock-up there, the third in Topo's strike,
but he misses the pathmaker for the follow-up CC.
Inspired's made his way into the fight now.
Ben trying to figure some sort of a move out here.
And Fire needs a little bit more damage, though.
Ben getting away for now, but no, sir.
First blood of the Inspire.
That's what I'm talking about for Inspire.
Getting active in the early stage, but the Endure of Dawn.
Now down to the bottom lane.
Yeah, we got some trouble here for Iles.
150 HP left on also.
Very low. Iles dies first, on dies second.
He tries to flash to get away from it, but it ain't gonna work.
Viper down to 200 HP, as was Zorker is still firing.
Another solar snare lands,
And it's a double kill back from the Viper!
He guns Berserker down!
BLG's bot lane just undo some of the work inspired did.
Two kills to Viper in the early stages,
and you've seen what this mel can do in an early lead.
And at the start, it looks reasonably good.
You get to level three, you interrupt the dash from on,
but Viper focuses the way, gets his own level three for the bot lane.
And then as you work forward, it's a late exhaust on towards Viper,
He was just waiting for cooldowns now to come back up and it's as berserker steps forwards
There's just enough damage in the kit to take him down
Yeah, Viper having that burst right there at the end getting the cooldown back for the radiant volley berserker
He's already trapped in solar snare nowhere to go
Inspired now trying to secure his own blue buff, but BLG has other plans an invade coming out from shun and on
These two pieces of the BLG chessboard that so often are roaming together making plays
facilitating the carries to get fed, to get to the point where they can just slam
their opponents with that skill that we've seen them demonstrate so many times.
They won't be able to steal the blue buff away this time so Lyon can at least
keep their resources to themselves for now. And that's why it's so terrifying
seeing Viper get these early kills because the game plan is unlock on get
them on the map and try and play towards these solo lanes. Well with those two
kills it'll become significantly more difficult to not just have Viper push
you off of waves, clear out every sort of wave that's stacking on that bottom
Yeah, and now you have to figure out a new plan and even shun
Getting into that bottom lane to cover for a potential gank on the bottom side like as he was threatening that blue buff
Like you can see bill jeep want to try and protect the sanctity of this bottom lane now
Yeah, when the bottom lane mage gets fed it means two things it means one
You're also going to be hold on Iles goes back into the taunt as now lion is gonna full send it here the 2v2 on very low
The explosive charge about to detonate
Busterker jumps in and he's already found the first kill!
Viper under pressure! Busterker! Bloodthirsty!
And he shuts down Viper! It's up to nothing in the bottom lane for Lyon!
It's a tree and one Tristana line!
Take a bit of a beating on the first bell, but they didn't hear no bell!
Immediately going back in and getting their two kills for themselves!
Massive turnaround!
And you can see how it started like, oh! Saw that he had it at the setup with Viper.
Ios does a good job of body blockies, and immediately preserves jumps on to the knowing all the cooldowns are gone.
Viper can't do anything to block it, and they get the turn around.
Okay, back to live though, Knight making a play up here into the topside, Doko under pressure, Ios coming in looking to save his top laner,
but he can't quite do it, Ios with the taunt underneath the turret, Shun trying to flash away for the turret,
he's HEATED UP!
Lion making a one for one, and Saint and Inspired have arrived.
BLG still plenty of health on the remaining three players here.
It doesn't look like Lyon will be able to force anything else,
but a great roam from Iles to make that an even trade.
You say maybe nothing else, just interrupting the back on on there.
Iles still trying to interrupt here as well.
So, as you say, you get the assist onto Dokler,
which keeps him in touching distance of being
when it comes towards that goal, when it comes towards the experience,
you're able to set him up and you get the turnaround kill as well.
So, nicely done by Lyon.
This is what we wanted to see,
because think about what the talking points for Lyon were coming out of LLCS.
It was this is a slow pace. They're glacial. They're not really going to play near these ages
But we're eight kills in six minutes. Yeah, this is a very fast pace
Specifically for lion like you're talking about berserker also being three and one now on this Tristana
We talked about how yeah if mel's fed
She's just going to be able to clear waves it frees up shun and on to go elsewhere to play around night and bin
But if berserker is this massive point of pressure that can just force take turrets and create problems
Well, now BLG just might have some of those problems of their own to have to solve
Still no focus on neutral objectives here early, but I can kind of understand that
I feel like if you're lying you're trying to make plays catch these guys off guard make the game really scrappy
And if you're BLG, this is a team that also likes to play for gold instead of focusing on those early objectives
Yeah, and I think as well they've also managed to do this while keeping us out on the map
Right I say in lane to get experience
So he's about to take over to level five.
Once the Shen ult comes on line at level six,
that ability to try and play for that goal
that you're talking about becomes significantly more
difficult, but it's fired here.
Trying to help out Dokla.
Yeah, Dokla trying to get a setup here onto Bin,
inspired still waiting over the wall.
You can ward hop over the wall and then try to get a dragon's
rage angle onto Bin, but it would have required setup
from Dokla, which is what he was looking for,
but couldn't quite find.
You mentioned the stand united,
but there's also Saints Weaver's wall.
There is a lot of cross map play potential here
for the lion side after Isles hits that level six that you're talking about.
And I feel like if Lion wants to win this one, that's something that they're
going to have to use to catch BLG up guard.
Yeah, especially if BLG go for play, if you can bring the numbers advantage there.
Especially as you talk with the mobility of not only the weaver as well,
but the leason as well, very quick to get to some of these fights.
So we'll have to see what the plan is.
Because three members of BLG on this top side and Dokla trying to step away.
Yeah, Ben jumps in immediately to the skies, but Dokla tries to turn it around
here a little bit. Shun has already showed up, inspired nearby. Hook shot over the wall, coming in from on.
Dokla tries to go all out, but it ain't gonna work.
Inspired, staying alive for now. Dragon's rage back through three.
Lands another sonic wave, resonating strike to follow it up.
The Zerker is here. Shun continues retreating on, trying to get enough space here for himself.
Has the explosive charge on his head, but disengages in time. It's a plus one for BLG.
Inline tried to get that reset and move up towards that topside with the swap, but of course,
That little bit too late, BLG,
mind you to make that play happen and get away as well.
Just mean it will be the Void Grubbs going across to inspired,
but BLG happy as you say to get that gold.
I feel like if you're Lyon,
you're at least happy to deny the Void Grubbs to BLG
since they're playing with a rise and a chase.
Two champions that love to kind of just move
in this 1-3-1 type of style
with Mel spamming Radiant Bollies on waves
to just clear that out in wherever Lyon might be focusing.
So keeping the Grubbs away,
should hopefully slow down some of that turret
taking potential with the split pushing strategy.
Lyon still up by a little bit of gold,
and honestly, especially comparing this
to the performance that we saw
in those first couple of games against Furia,
I feel like Lyon seemed much more cohesive,
much more coherent in this opening game.
Push more cognizant as well of what BLG
are trying to achieve, right?
Like they are going for the lane spot,
they're just a little bit too late, right?
And it's constantly thinking of where it shouldn't gonna be,
how can we try and cover for some of these invades?
This is where it does get a little dicey,
Isle's on his own here.
Yeah, he's about to face check.
Nope, drops the warden instead.
Good move there from Isles.
Does not get caught unaware by the Camille
and Jarvan camping in the brush.
They still do have the control ward there
in the banana brush,
so they will maintain vision over this area,
secure the Scuttle Crab in the bottom side
for themselves as well on BLG.
It might even be more,
because with Berserker now starting to steadily
open up that lead to 800 gold,
he has that Hex Optics completed.
First item on the map,
that gives you that moment to push in on this bottom side,
maybe look for Dragon as well.
Now, Lee Sin has moved towards this top side,
as far as it comes responding there, so maybe another minute before they get there, but
I expect that's where Lioner going to try and put that next point to pressure.
They've got to be able to protect this Tristana.
Hexoptic's already done.
Combine that with how, as long as he's farming, as long as he's leveling up, you're continuing
to get the range through the passive, the Trist could become the hyper carry that they
need.
And during the regular season in North America, myself and a lot of other people saw Berserker
as far and away the best AD carry in the region.
This is a guy that you can trust him to have his hands in the right place.
The team just has to make sure that they are protecting him, that they are getting him
there.
Ios on the defensive that Spirits Refuge, like you've been seeing in some of those early
bottom lane 2v2s, the Shen will need to be locked in to make sure that BLG can't take
Berserker out before the fight starts.
But I mean, look at the amount of vision that they have invested to do just that, right?
Like when you look at it on the map, you have this ward here, just about anything that's
coming in to River.
You've got both wards across here to set it up.
You've got a pink up top.
You've got another one here.
Lion have basically got all their bases covered to make sure that they can spot it exactly where BLG are trying to interact on the map.
And that lets you kind of set up for, let's move the Taliyah into position with the Reaver as well.
Let's get ready with that Shen ultimates and make it difficult for you to play it.
Even Aspire is sitting in the spotlight, they want to make a play on Voidbird if he steps up.
See if they get the opportunity. Ile's clearing out some vision as On can't quite stop him.
Important to note, you mentioned it earlier, Ile's level 6 down with the stand united.
On, still only about 25% of the way to his own level 6 on the Camille, so no Hextech ultimatum available on that one.
And inspired by Zercher, as soon as they place that control ward, they are going to see that the plan is exposed, shunned here in the mid lane.
Nope, not going to get the chance to make a move on St. He backs up in time.
Yeah, and that's kind of what everyone has been doing online, just stepping away, making sure you're not giving that moment.
Like every time that wave is cleared out on bot side, Zercher has been stepping back towards this tower.
It is making it difficult for BLG to try and make these plays.
So, I think for BLG, that's where their new frustration point is.
Like, how can we try and get that push to move Knight across,
to try and have, as you can see here,
Viper and On step up into this position.
But again, like, those first items have started to come through across the board,
but BLG just feel like they have that moment on the map.
And Line, not going to contest.
Tristana has swapped up towards the topside.
They're looking for turret plates for her instead.
Exactly. It's a late first drake.
It's not like you're going to be playing around some 22-minute potential dragon soul,
even if they stack everything up.
So first strike does go over to BLG no contest as you say Lyon trying to overload the topside here as the response
Don't we're gonna step forward with that third and topo strike prime
It means that Ben has to walk all the way back and celebrate shot glass also
Walked by the Cassante who does have his ice-borne gauntlet fully completed gives berserkers and firing time on the tier one turret
Meanwhile in bottom lane it is on and viper getting the wave shoved up themselves
Viper will of course get a little bit of time with these turret plates
There is a difference though in Mel taking turrets, Chris taking turrets, it's not quite an even battle.
And you can see Dokla and Berserker putting in the work up here, and that is first turret, 12 minutes and 45 seconds of the game for Lion.
And again, I think this is what you want to try and be doing as Lion, right? Like, moving people around the map, making sure you're able to use the advantage.
But hold on, Saints has been caught in the mid lane.
Yeah, St. Cotton the Hextech also made it, but now his team should have back him up, but Tile's been fired with the beautiful Dragon's Rage!
Knight, take a knee!
St. stands tall here in the mid lane.
Liner, omnipresent this game, turning that play in the mid lane around, making sure they have to get the kill.
On just fine aisles though, and I'm not entirely sure that on is a loan here, shouldn't come up across.
Aus realizes this, just want to try and get some vision down.
Yeah, luckily, even though both of these supports are more like battle supports and something like a Lulu,
it's still a Tunneler versus a Kindle Gem.
There's not a whole lot of lethality here in the itemization.
Let's take another look at this attempted play, though, from BLG.
Yeah, again, you see Inspire kind of just hovering in this mid lane.
Isles was there. They knew that the Shen was around,
but the Flash, on predictorous, Knight was not ready for that one,
gets caught by the taunt, and it's the kick back from Inspire,
the Sepsis, beautifully there.
Line, coaching staff, got to be happy with that one,
being able to foil BLG's attempts, get one back on their own,
getting some money into Saints to Leia.
You can see he's got about 300 stacks toward devolving the archangels
into the Seraph's embrace. First item on that one, wanting to make sure that he has the shield to be able to survive
some of the dives, some of the plays from this Jarvan, from this Camille.
I think we're gonna be looking at a dive on this bottom side now. Tristana moving down, inspired their Sheno's available.
Okay, Dopecliffe finds the third in Tofo's Strike, but again the Pathmaker, not quite where he wants.
It goes to the all-out, but a nice flash away from Finn. Dopecliffe very low, has to flash back away.
Dopecliffe stays alive thanks to Stand United.
The Lions spent four men to do it, but they get the play they're looking for.
On now, trying to keep Sane from being able to reconnect with his mid lane tower.
Sane wasn't trying to clear the wave and stoplight for getting some of these plates,
but might be a bit dangerous for Shun waiting in the wings.
Just picked the periods.
Yep, he sidesteps the Solar Snare.
If the Solar Snare would have hit him, then you have Shun over the wall,
you have On ready to back it up, he's dead for sure.
But avoiding that one means he can clear the wave out.
Meanwhile, Knight is going to find the opportunity to shove waves,
to grab plates up here in the top lane as Dokla finally comes to answer them.
But Berserker has already taken the second tower in bottom lane.
It's the Void group Tristana you were talking about like, oh, how about that?
Blinken, you'll miss it.
Shun on and there back up in Viper.
Just absolutely smashing aisles as he walks a little bit too close to that brush.
And the timing is beautiful for BLG.
The Rift Herald has just spawned.
And now this is going to be their opportunity to grab that objective,
try to equalize some of these Turret counts.
who inspired one of the kick for the setup, but then transforming there, just getting the movespeed to keep himself out of danger's way.
But Dokla kind of needs to do the same as BLG. They have control on that top side and they want this tower.
Yeah, Nights gonna take that third plate immediately.
All I'm trying to continue to supply the pressure here. Dokla hits him with a third in Topo Strike.
Hextech ultimatum to try to stay alive, but oh, I'm...
He's dizzy up there against Dokla, who manages to grab himself a kill on the BLG support.
Look, big dokes doing wonders when it comes towards those dives
where people try to get past this tier one turret on the top side.
Amazing stuff, getting the kill, shutting down the play,
opening up line now to make some moves towards the mid lane.
There's some silliness coming in on BLG's side here.
It's a cardinal sin in League of Legends, man,
disrespecting Cassante underneath the turret.
This champ has so many tools to make plays around turrets.
You've got to give him the respect he deserves.
Meanwhile, down here in the bottom lane,
Bin is going to mine some money here from plate number four takes that one out
There was some nice turret crust for the bonus damage
But saint will show up in time to prevent bin from taking the entire turn
But there's more members of BLG here night has already started to move down which show and the vision has the spot of them
Oh, I else could be in a little bit of trouble here does manage to disengage before Viper can show up
Provide the necessary damage alongside on's lockdown with the rip tarot is summoned
Honestly, it's not even gonna need to get the charge here onto this tier one
We'll see if they try to pilot it somewhere else try to still get some value out of this
Or maybe it just ends up being a scary Shelly that forces lying away so you can force the turret down yourself
Yeah, basically BLG trying to use that timing window that it would have taken the top lane wave to hit the tier 2 tower to
Over or say overload that bottom lane and get the tower for themselves as you say not the best rooftop play in the world
But they do actually get their moment and we'll get the the go down a little bit back in their favorite
It was three Turplates that were taken by Dokla on the top side, and that was the dragon fight that Lioner interested in.
Exactly. That first Drake already went to BLG five minutes ago. Now the second one has fallen. Dokla already committing the empowered teleport to make sure they shows up here, did have the large shield to force BLG back.
So this is just Lion. The same way that BLG secured Drake number one without any contest, Lion's going to do the same thing here on Drake number two.
Lion got the top lane tier one turret from their opponents now BLG is gonna do the same thing as the weavers wall is reflected by rebuttal
That's it equilibrium triangle. We're looking at. Yeah, I'm a geometry down
Some sort of math over here. There's some sign coast sign tangent going on
But nobody ends up dying to anything the game
Practically dead even in terms of gold right now dagger. This is a very close game one
Yeah, I think the the main focus is kind of where that gold is though, right?
because you can see a 1k gold lead for Berserker on that bottom lane.
And this Tristana very much accelerates.
Yeah, it's an acute angle of least anyway.
I know it's been a while since I did the L, you know, trigonometry geometry stuff.
Always funny to see stuff like that get reflected by Mel.
But on stepping.
OK, he steps up, but Iles goes ahead, completes the recall.
You're talking about Berserker having that largest individual gold lead in the game.
He's got the infinity edge.
He's also got the zeal in inventory for Zerker's Greaves completed,
obviously in the little boot slot thanks to the quest.
And you can see here on your coin base, Goldgrind, Bin versus Dokla,
the contest up there in the top side.
It is a slight advantage for Dokla going up against one of the best top laners in the world.
And I think that speaks volumes to the way Lydith played around this top lane, right?
Like, Dokla did a good job individually to try and nullify the matchup,
but we still inspired up there early to make sure that they could take out Bin,
not let him get this early Gold lead.
And it is Reedy kind of shut down what BLG wanted to do, but...
Oh!
That's exactly what BLG wanted to do!
They make their move, it's a 1-2 punch from On and Shun to set it up, and Viper knocks it down.
The fed Tristana eats dirt, and BLG are looking to snowball it into more.
It's a four-man death ball down mid lane.
Isles goes in, finds the taunt flash, right back onto On.
They need more damage, though, as he flies back in.
Sane's already killed him.
and make it a one for one. It's not an even trade because it's the fed trist for the support Camille,
but it at least stops what BLG is trying to do.
And top lane tier two pressure for BLG as well, so they're getting quite a lot off the back of this.
Two plates for Bane, starting to get him a little bit of gold lead as well.
And this is what I was saying, like for BLG, they want to try and play through sides
and then quickly overload one portion of the map with nice, with these plays,
especially when you've got that Hextech ult to make them.
And unfortunately for Berserker, it took that one step too far forward in BLG punish.
And we're going to hit a pretty big power spike here for Knight specifically very very soon
He has two stacks left to go on his lot of ages until that procs
And he just completed his seraphs embrace with an already fully stacked tier
So this is going to be a very very strong rise and back in North America
Lion is a team that even if they would fall behind early you already mentioned how they play very slow
That's true. Even if they fall behind early they would find ways to out team fight their opponents
There is however a difference between out team fighting your opponents in North America and out team fighting BLG
And that will be the challenge for Lyon to overcome. It's also out playing on on the map on a champion like this
This is where his comfort is like he was always known for plays like the Rakan is barred
It's probably the best part in the LPL right now
But when he's on the Camille, it's trying to find these little moments fun picks
He's so good at cheating the plays on the map like well getting in getting vision before you even expect
are being in a position that you don't aren't ready for and this is where when you have
compositions like this where being can get pushing aside where knight seems to get control of the
sideline with this two items. Spike now on gets the play for everywhere on the map. Also critical
item in Viper's inventory the Seekers Armguard ready to go. Knight just hit 10 stacks on his
rod of ages so he gets the free level that's going to put him almost an entire level ahead
of Saint right now. I also like the Serpent Spang second item here on Inspire. There are
a lot of shields on the enemy team to work through, so trying to cut down on some of
that could be the difference between getting one of these kills and missing out. Next Dragon
going to spawn here in about 60 seconds. You can already see both sides. Lots of pings
here, Daggett and the bottom side river.
Yeah, it's mostly by trying to fight for vision. You're getting some more slightly past river
for BLG, but that defensive pink line ward you're seeing on your screen right now helping
to clear that out and not actually giving too much information across so the
bottom side river is a bit dark for BLG but they feel comfortable stepping up to
take this mid lane tower. Yeah that tier one is not long for this world they
will take it down destroyed by Viper there and it's now BLG taking the lead
in turrets for the first time this game. Lion did take the first one back up
there with the tier one. BLG has been doing a good job keeping pace with them
but this is now finally the time where they leapfrog over and take the lead. 22
minutes into the game also means if we have a big teamfight and something goes
real crisscross Baron is on the table yeah well we're gonna have a big teamfight
as you say dragon just about to spawn and this is kind of the value of wiper in
this sort of situation the wave player on the mail she can do it solo whereas for
berserker he needs that support because we just saw if on is able to make the
play what happens but here's the game top yep it's BLG again looking to make the
first move docla goes all out tried to put some pain back into bin but there's
so much damage night takes him down so the push would just continue on the top
side for BLG, Viper able to keep the control over mid because you can see
inspired is taking the dragon while all this is going on. Even the push for
Saint on the bottom lane needs to be answered for BIM, but there's that
fire in start you were talking about Flairos. And this is the thing because the
dragons were so slow in this game. First Drake not being taken until 12 minutes.
It's not like grabbing second dragon feels like you're really winning the game,
but BLG is going after the Baron. Lion still has Saint all the way down to the
tier two in the bottom lane. They're not even gonna try to contest this.
Yeah, they didn't even try.
Sane started walking up and the call was like,
no, not even going to try.
We don't have our full team here with Dokla dead.
We don't have a frontline to try and face check this instead.
We're just going to look for turrets on that bottom lane.
And I think that is kind of like the big difference
that we've seen this year with the barn is that like teams
haven't just been able to get like a one and done on the barn.
It's kind of more of a slow grind where you will get a couple
of terrors, but maybe not completely blow up in the game.
And I think that's what line are banking on here.
Yep, Baron certainly doesn't have the power that he used to.
It's not the, okay, they got it.
We have to hold on for dear life to just keep the base intact.
But we'll see how much BLG can accomplish with their Red Bull Baron power play.
They've got that for the next two and a half minutes.
Unfortunately for them, that's not going to overlap with the Drake Timer.
Anything that kind of guarantees them control over the Rift once that spawns.
Lion though, still only a two to one Drake count.
So not anything to worry about.
Yeah, I think the biggest problem for Lion is going to be trying to hold on to these other Terrors.
because what we've constantly seen is that it's impossible for a Berserker to
re-step up and come in onto these waves is maybe a play towards us in the bottom
side plus. Yeah essentially what we're seeing is like Mel just solo being able
to push in on this mid wave whereas Berserker always needs to have kind of
oils in position with him or the Taliyah or like inspired basically to help him
push out this mid wave which means you're constantly getting the shove
that's letting on move around, that's letting vision to be cleared out that
just means that line are always petrified of where this gank squad from
BLG is, and it may be Saints who may be about to feel it next.
Now the Saints trying to clear out these Baron empowered waves,
but far easier said than done,
Shun and On both hovering in the jungle of Lyon.
Because they know they have been in the mid lane,
they want to be able to join either one of these points of pressure.
Isles will step forward to guarantee that Viper and Knight
have to take just a step back.
Saints size McShove will not collide with On
as Berserker and Dohkla.
Dohkla kind of being assigned with bodyguard duty here
to make sure they can't just dive after Berserker
while he clears these waves.
But there is also some nice vision in behind BLG there.
So the tension for Dokla, let's look for some sort of TP play
if they do overextend.
Like you can even see it backing off the edge of there.
Oh, I'll put the con flash.
They immediately go in.
They found Viper.
That is a massive pick.
Can Lyon get anything else off the back of it?
You know they're looking.
They're hunting.
They want more.
Weaver's wall flies in.
St. Hopps off.
They're going after Bin.
Inspired on the chase.
Not going to fire the Sonic Wave here just yet.
Bin forced to flash to escape the Lee Sin.
Dokla also still looking for an angle through.
Inspired.
Another Sonic Wave flies out.
but he's not going to land that one.
They fire the stand united hoping that the Sonic Wave
would have hit so that as soon as Inspire jumps in,
Isles arrives right on top of them.
But since there wasn't quite the distance they needed,
they do not get that play.
Still nice pick on the Viper coming out from line.
On wants more here though as he lines step away.
Yeah, on looking for the opportunity
to maybe get a counter play.
Saint is down to one third health and no mana.
Dokla's juggling on around though, goes all out.
And on is all gone.
Dokla picking up another one.
BLG trying to get something back,
hatch-lion unaware on the retreat,
and they may have just done it here,
going after Saint, down to 300 HP,
flashes away, safeguard from Inspire to keep Saint safe.
It doesn't end up committing with that cataclysm,
so Shun just steps away,
and it's Saint who lives to fight another day,
but BLG now on this mid-wave,
again lying, collapsing in behind.
BLG might need this round war.
Okla looking, but remember, there's no all-out.
Harder to make a play here with that Kastante.
This is a really close game. What 26 and a half minutes into the game.
We don't even have a 1000 goal difference between the teams.
Yeah, it's incredibly close.
And I think you can kind of feel that pressure, especially with the way BLG
tried to extend that fight, right?
Looking for these quick picks, trying to catch you on these timers that
lying weren't aware of.
But I mean, you heard in the interview, inspired was like,
this is the thing that we need to be most aware of.
And they managed to turn it back, get that kill on towards on, keep themselves safe.
The biggest problem for them, though,
Knight just completed an actualizer.
This Ryze, now very, very strong.
And on the other side though,
I will respond with Berserker has completed,
he was kind of building two items at the same time.
He started building with the zeal,
you remember after the Infinity Edge,
but then he switched over to complete Bloodthirster first,
and then now he's completed his Navori Flicker Blades after.
So four fully completed items on the Tristana,
really scary stuff.
The problem is we're so late in the game,
he kind of needs that last Whisperer still, right?
So even though he's gone for the Bloodthirster,
because he's like, well, I'm getting jumped on
and I'm getting this Hextech Ultimatum, which is making my life miserable.
It means that he's not going to be able to do shit as much damage as he would want to in this sort of situation.
So, a lot to see in these upcoming fights what he can do, but that's why he kind of wants to blow Thirster.
Exactly. That's why you buy BT. You take one of those, the shield he's half of it, you heal up the rest.
St. coming in here, goes to the seismic shove, over the Weaver's Wall, forces the Flash out of Knight.
Yeah, I believe Osus spotted him on that ward there as he starts to try and make his way around Dragon.
Line though, honestly in a front-to-back like this, I think they're in a good spot.
Would love to try and close that distance relatively quickly, but no weavers while might make that tough.
Alright, Dragon's already been started.
Shun in the pit, inspired.
A little bit injured, but still healthy enough to try to contest this one here for the 50-50.
Sonic Wave has already landed, resonating strike about to come through.
It's going to be secured by Inspired.
Neither side fully committing for a fight here just yet.
On maybe looking for an angle here with a hookshot, jumps over the wall, but does not engage.
Lion continuing to just disengage this one.
already got the objective. They're on sole point now with an infernal riff.
Nice job by Lyon to secure that because I was a bit nervous about their engage.
They didn't have that flash and awes. They had no weavers ball, which meant they were
heavily reliant on some magic happening from Inspired. They're trying to start that fight
off in their favor. But instead, they get the dragon, they get away and set themselves
up on sole point.
Scary, scary stuff. 2000 gold lead individually for Berserker. Infernal soul, so annoying.
Yes, you don't have the same poke power as a Jace and a Mel, but Taliyah can still poke long range Tristana as you're almost level 18
You can get some long shots there too
This infernal soul could be very scary for BLG if they don't have a plan for a minute from now
Super interesting to see Vipers build that went for the bloodletters curse
So basically once in a little bit more of a bruiser stat line
But it comes towards the all-in potential that lion do have and while also providing some of that magic
Shred as well for night. Yeah. Yeah, it's just that a like traditionally you'd see you know
more of your, uh, your business tasks and that kind of stuff. So, I'm sorry, Boyd Thoffs. So, definitely, uh, an interesting build to see.
Well, let's see where we go from here. Again, four minutes until that Dragon Soul for Lyon will spawn
Baron back on the map, and there really wasn't a whole lot of effect, a whole great efficacy
for BLG with that first Baron that they secured. It's kind of exactly what you were talking about.
It's just not the same type of super buff that it used to be.
So now there is still a mountain of crust on this tier one turret in the mid lane for BLG
Lyon have not been able to hit this thing in a very very long time that turret score remains three to two as
It was ten minutes ago when I mentioned BLG taking the turret leads
So neither side has really been able to push forward make a lot more momentum happen for themselves
But I feel like we're kind of approaching this critical mass daga. This game has been so close for so long
We're gonna get one big team fight that really just goes one way or the other and that's gonna decide game one
Yeah, I think the big focus here as Barron spawns is that Knight still doesn't have that flash available
Whereas basically every other summoner spell is open available
So definitely going to be a a bloodbath when we get into this
It's just the case of canline get on towards Knight easily
And so interestingly enough because you already pointed out the lack of armor penetration the lack of the last whisper item for berserker
Still not going for it. Pose for the Hex Drinker instead, recognizing the large damage threats of both the Rise and the Mel.
I'm not gonna lie though, if you end up getting engaged going by a Camille and an actualizer Rise,
I don't know if it's actually gonna be enough to help you, but Zercher already popped the Flash,
trying to get himself away as Big Dope's gonna get bursted, very, very low.
Executed by the gold and a cliff. Lyon's trying to get away for now as Zercher's in a little bit of danger.
Does taunt Option as now the route down onto Inspired.
He's in a little bit of danger here by for firing back Inspired.
Looks for a little bit more, but he's gonna be knocked out of the Guardian Angel now the dive right back on the same
I was insane it's a danger pin for the kill of the I.O.B. B.L.G.
They're so damn good
Lion are
Eviscerated fight for nothing. It was so close until it wasn't
5 for 0
B.L.G. Just said line packing in game number one
What did I say, Dagda? I said this game has been so close for so long.
It's gonna come down to one big fight.
And for BLG, it won't get any more extreme than a five for nothing
that will end this game right here, right now.
BLG, 32 minutes in, takes game one.
It was slow, slow pace in this game with both teams trading back and forth, but at the end
of the day, BLG, as you say, they find that fight just to set up, and where did Dokka go?
He's the tank and just got eviscerated in the middle of us.
He disappeared right in front of our very eyes.
Let's toss things back over to the analyst to break it down for us.
I was so ready to talk about how smart giving that Baron was because I was like this is such a classic lion thing.
They know they can make a play elsewhere, but no, it comes down to this teamfight how BLG just immediately
Collapsed pick off Doku
and then they're able to
Yeah, I'm just mad
Stasis as well baiting and spying because the thing is don't go dying obviously isn't good
But one death isn't gonna make a break the game
But then they try and turn it around trying salvage it BLG see blood in the water
And it just feels so frustrating because I feel like 90% of the game
They were doing great, and then there's just one mistake before you get against a team like BLG that damaged
Did some stuff as he does, but yeah, that's the thing it comes down to
Small details small team fights here, and that's what inspired was saying, but I do want to give them credit though
Lion hot things going for so long. I want to look at that bot lane maybe Draco since yeah, this is what happened there because it came down
I'm such an absolute fanboy. I've got two clips here. We can run to these two all-in bot lane 2v2s back to back and the significance of the
Interactions, I'm gonna gloss over because there's a couple key things that I want to highlight
But let's just get right into the first clip here watching back if you're in anything
You've seen this one before already, but we've seen Shen versus Camille Shen good to Camille top lane good to Camille support
Big reason is the interrupt there and in a sustained fight
Tristana one of the few ad carries who really has enough damage to kind of finish this fight out solo now
We're gonna stop here unfortunate air from berserkers about to happen in a few seconds. Sorry spoiler alert. He has flash
He's not gonna flash here a little bit frustrating
But for me the second that I saw this I thought this was going to be the end of the landing phase
You had a good fight, but ultimately Viper's getting more out of this. He completely outplays you here
But this next fight is the big one that matters the thing I have to highlight here
This is the thing that I'm like. Oh my god. Yes berserker
I want every 80 carry in the world for the rest of the tournament to look at this
This Mal is 7-1, because you keep picking Caitlyn, buying Berserker's Greaves so you
can dodge one skill shot and losing the lane anyway.
This man comes in crucially, bam, pickaxe, pickaxe, up against Hextech, instead of useless
boots that do no damage that you dodge one skill shot just to lose the lane anyway.
And this man, despite being down, they go for the re-engage.
They know they have the favorable 2v2, and he fights it out.
So as we play, again, you can highlight the nuances of the 1v1, but if you know the matchup,
you know it already.
Don't worry about that. What I want to show is the confidence of Berserker, the recognition
of his own strength, and a decision to reinforce the value when it's already winning 2v2 because
this right here, this performance in lane, is no longer just about Lyon or this series.
For the rest of the tournament, I think Tristana is on the map as the premier AD carry option
into the Mel because the biggest problem with AD carries is they don't exist till 4 items.
I don't give a damn till maybe 3. Mel is at 1. At 1 item she is relevant and she kicks
but all through the rest of the game.
But finally, finally, thanks to Lyon and Berserker,
this feels like an answer to a champion
that just seemed unstoppable.
And you know, I feel like part of it is with Mages,
you know, about that poke, that wave control,
whittling them down.
Cristana, you can see a convent that just jumped in.
I saw Cody said tweet about this and saying,
this is the mage, kind of, we've seen it so many times
in mid lane, seen it in bot lane as well,
and just saying, you know, they may throw poke at you.
You can just jump in mid to get on them
if you have the engage backup.
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, no, I was just gonna say like I loved their prep. I love that this looks like a completely different
Yeah, then the team that went against Fudia
This is more of what I was expecting to see from them initially because they also just not only with the creative picks and finding
Answers to things that we've already seen in this tournament thus far
But just the patience with which they played out the early to mid game and recognizing when they could see the objectives
and when they could take objectives or make a play was a lot more of what I expected from them in the
furtious series where they looked completely
Uncoordinated and I feel like it doesn't just come down to patience. It's picking the right fights
Yeah, keeping up with the tempo and that's something that inspired was saying and especially what makes it hard when playing against a team like BLG is being
Smart about everything you're gonna do and being proactive while doing it
I did not expect that from Lyon coming in today.
I think as well, you cannot get to motivated by this.
It's best to five, you have to play.
It's gonna feel frustrating, but you have to go,
look, we did a lot of good in this game.
Our approach was right, we made a mistake, that is fine.
Think of the positive and take that in a game too,
because we've seen teams really crumble
after they lose a game where they really should have won.
They felt like they were in a winning position.
I think Lyon has to take the good away from this
and not let it shatter them.
I agree, and we've already seen much more
than I expected.
Solo lanes have cleaned up, they brought in some innovation
to help them combat BLG and the decision-making has been better.
This was supposed to be a blowout, it's not a blowout.
It might still be a 3-0, but it's a very different kind of series
now that we've seen this level of performance from line.
BLG says game one, but I wouldn't feel defeated if I was lying here.
We see hoax on the side of North America,
so let's see if they can bounce back and bring the same kind of fire.
Bring that lion again on the rift.
We'll see the difference here.
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Oh, nice.
Nice.
It's BLG again.
Looking to make the first move.
Dokela goes all out, tries to put some pain back into bin, but there's so much damage.
Knight takes him down.
It's fire.
He's in a little bit of danger here.
By profiring back it's fire.
Looks for a little bit more but he's going to be knocked out of the Guardian Angel.
The other side.
It's all good.
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
I'm coming.
He's in a little bit of danger here by perspiring back inspired looks for a little bit more
But he's gonna be knocked out of the Guardian Angel now the dive right back on this saying I wasn't saying it's a danger
Been given a kill of the Isles BLG their show damn good
Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to MSI
2026 here in our best of five between Lion and
and BLG. BLG obviously heavy favorites coming into this series, but game number one was so close
for so long. Just about a little over 30 minutes of gameplay where the teams were neck and neck,
barely a thousand gold apart from one another, but when push came to shove, it was BLG pushing,
shoving. And then we're going to see what the response is going to be from line as we get into
champ select pair presented by HyperX, and this is going to be an absolute doozy. Like you've already
got your answer to the male was this Tristan. So now do you have more in the tank? Because
we know that like you've got the Velkoz, putting through for Viper, we have some of these other
picks that he can try and play, but the Tristan is one and done. So now I want to see what the
response from Lion is, is as we get into game two. Well luckily, Mel is also one and done. The
champion that is now up to eight games played, seven games won. She's pretty strong. Yeah, but
But you've said that like Ziggs and Velikar's got a like, you know, definitely not male in disguise.
Yeah.
That's actually what that Velikar skin is, you know.
Just pretending to be male.
Well, now let's go ahead and hop in here and see what our bands look like.
It's Varys, Vi, and Akali, banned out by BLG.
Lion, going to focus that bottom lane here early, getting rid of the Bard, and getting rid of Viper's Ezreal.
Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense.
I mean, obviously Viper insanely good on that Ezreal, and the Bard has been, as I said,
on is the best part in the LPL right now. He's been opsie in Santa Ana champion
fits his style down to the ground and like you have to roam around play for
those solo lanes and especially when he's able to like cheese his his vision
control thanks to the journey he's not he's just a menace but the Orianna was
left over available was actually bombed by BLG last game but they get their hands
on it this time. Exactly, we've been furred down in that first phase in game number one.
Now this time around they're gonna leave it open guaranteed that night gets to
have that one, Noct turned the last band of the first half here for Lyon, so what
do they want to go with? How do they want to play this? Because honestly, the
game number one performance from Lyon was 95% good. It fell apart in the last
team fight and as soon as that fight was over, BLG pushed and they won the game.
But up until then, that game was so close and I want to see Lyon continue to keep
up with BLG. And I think it relied on two things. One, inspired me to get
in the early stages on the map
like getting that played towards
getting the top line helping out
Dockler on that big side and
making sure that matchup was
stable. And secondly, I think
Oz had a great performance on the
chair as there's Mr. Jim Chip,
as I think him being able to play
around on this early map covering
at one of the plays that on had,
that was the other part of the
price. So if you can find that
early pressure for inspired and
Oz once more, I think that's where
a lion can maybe push BLG back
into the game.
All right, well Lyons first two picks. They're gonna copy a control mage here in the mid lane pick up the victor for saint
And then locking in the skarner for inspired
This was also a champion that was banned in game number one albeit in the second half if I'm remembering correctly
But inspired I'll get to pilot that one here. It's all about the angles for the East Halls impact
It's all about getting creative
Tunneling through the walls finding the gangster might otherwise not be expected, but on BLG's end they're gonna say all right
in time for the, yeah exactly we've got the, well that was retcon now, but we've got the,
the old school arch nemesis battle of the seraphine versus the skarner, seraphine ash of course has
been such a power duo, it feels like all split long, they can be so oppressive, ash sets up
seraphine so well, and also if you're saying that one of the reasons why Lyon was able to keep up
with ELG was inspired being able to be where he needed to be at different points, follow the
the movements of shunning on.
And that's just so good at tracking the enemy jump.
Yeah, definitely, and I think that's
where it's going to be hard coming into the rest of this,
because you already could have banned away in your own right
some of the answers that you could have gone for here online.
Like traditionally, we see like Caitlyn Bard
as an answer in towards this in the bottom lane,
but with the Bard taken away, and now maybe things
like the Caitlyn banned towards Miserker as well,
with the lack of focus on the AD carries.
I think this bot lane pool is going to be very pinched
and difficult for Lion to answer.
Meanwhile, on the Lion side, they're
going to go ahead and ban out that Renekton.
They want to remove one of those safe evergreen top laner
options that Bin can just slam trying to play into.
Also, Eurydice, you want Nona, you want no Renekton,
you want nothing that's going to beat her in the Eurydice
ages, like let her come alive without later force.
Exactly.
Renekton versus Ambassador traditionally.
Not a very fun matchup for Ambassador in the lane.
So Nautilus is going to be banned out by BLG.
This is one of those types of picks.
Into Ash, Seraphine, the people would take kind of just
the all-in full send it.
Okay, they're gonna be oppressive if they're able to maintain their structure in the lane and their range
So just try to just try to all in and just sort of burst them down not gonna allow that to happen
And lion are also going to ban out the vein
Interesting so
Yeah, because you already have the best a lot team because at this stage
Not a huge amount of like engage for line like as you say skarner can if he's able to run a people
But you're running into seraphine. You're running into orianna. You're running to hash. It's not the best time
Yeah, so I'd expect you to try and focus on a bit more of those engaged tools
But I imagine we're gonna see like a rail ban or something on those lines here
They've even the Alistar in the bottom line just to try and remove more of that trunk to actually evolution
But I think line have to focus on having a bit more because I'm best since the nerfs just not
Really that engage to that you're hoping to be anymore. I'm saying when you come towards the scanner
Well, we've got the ziggs picked up for lion
So my BLG was focusing on
Let's bring out the things that can all in our Ash therapy.
Lyon is instead going to say, no, no, no, no.
If you want to play ranged ability spam,
we will play ranged ability spam.
And that's the way it's going to be.
Ziggs locked in for Berserker down here.
We'll see how well he can pilot that one.
And as over on BLG's side, still need
to see that top laner.
What's it going to be?
Top lane and jungle, please.
The gnar locked in for Ben.
Yeah, they're going to be happy with this match up,
being able to try to use that range in the early stages,
and then having the opportunity to try
meet the way if her best ever goes for the all-in.
Very very nice as Sean going for the nephiri as well.
Stacey saying, hey look, we have strong lanes
that we can try and play around because you do have like Victor
just out range the Orianna in the early stages.
Manzigs, depending on the pairing here,
might be able to answer for some of this push
from the Ash in the Seraphine post-level three.
So I'm curious to see just how much this nephiri
can get to the nephiri stages.
I also like having something like Nar
when you have Seraphine because nephiri dives,
which usually dives the very back line.
Gnar dives in, and he kind of mega gnar's everyone.
And Seraphine's going to send the encore
straight through that.
But the answer from Lyon is Pike for Isles.
OK, remember, Pike's death from below
does kill you through shield.
So if Seraphine is trying to shield people,
if Morihan is trying to shield people,
you can still find the execution.
But this is not a champion that's
one of those pro-play staples.
It is one that we've seen a couple of times here so far
at MSI with mixed results.
I also don't see this in us play history.
Like, I think this is, yeah, this is the first time
that he's gonna be bringing the pike to the main stage.
I was slamming against BLG at MSI.
And look, I wasn't convinced
by the Camille performance the other day,
so I'm really hoping that this pike is gonna do much better.
Well, to be fair, I was also unconvinced
by the Camille performance the other day,
but I think the entire series overall against Furia
on that first game day for Lyon was very messy, right?
There's a lot of those that they would want back.
And I think that although they did lose game one here
in this series, again, for 95% of the game,
it did feel like they had a plan.
It felt like everybody was on the same page.
It felt like they had a way that they were planning
on playing this game out.
So I'm hoping that Isles' pike is the same thing
compared to the performance that we saw
on the Camille the other day.
I'm also hoping that Zercher's ziggs is the same.
Because honestly, massively impressed by Zercher
on the ziggs.
I think he was really good, the satchel charges were great, the zone control, and that ultimate usage was fantastic, so if Oz is able to kind of get out on the map and interact in the same way he did on the Shain, I think you do have a decent fallback run in the late game with some of this long range damage for Saints to preserve.
Alright, let's see how level 1 starts to shake out for us here.
This BLG here, I wonder slightly into the enemy jungle a little bit, but I was going to see him come and go ahead, back away on this one.
Checking summoner spells and everything, all seems to be pretty normal.
Important to note though, since berserkers on the ziggs taking the teleport in the bottom lane, that is going to give them more options for rotating around the map as the game goes on.
Viper of course just running the Ghost double mobility summoner spells on that Ash very powerful.
We've also got the lethal tempo for being in the top side, so definitely trying to see
if you can get a couple of those auto attacks to set himself up for success in that top
lane and really punish Doklam when it comes towards that early laning phase.
Sean, just clearing out, is going, yeah, down towards this bottom side, so it'll just be
a full clear, it looks like, for both junglers, but it is kind of separated now, but inspired,
going to end up on this bottom side, and with this pike here, maybe that's a window for
opportunity.
Yeah, because if you're playing pike, he's not going to have nearly the same pressure
on the wave that something like ash and seraphine is going to have. So you should be pushed in
by Viper and on early on before Berserker can insta-clear the wave. And I think that's why it's
a little unfortunate that you did see nice Viper and on moving down to the bottom side because
it meant that Lion had to give up position on the first lane. And you can see on the left side
of your screen here as we split to the tri lane camera, the experience gap. Lion versus BLG,
international appearances. BLG has so many more international games. The jungle is very comparable
between Shun and Inspired. Inspired actually slightly taking the edge there, but every
other role massively favoring BLG in terms of international games played. And I think
that that's something that's very important when you look at last game specifically, because
it was so close, 95% of the way. But then when it came down to the do or die moment,
it's BLG making it happen. That's the team that has so much experience in these high
pressure moments, so much experience in the whole game rides on this. And that's why they
they were able to execute and get that clean 5-0.
Yeah, but it's sometimes the moments that you have
with those shortened games that really stand out, right?
Like, Folly would've been able to kill
then as he went underneath the tower of Rek'Sai,
where it's FlyQuest, it was inspired,
who are pushing them the distance
in that game, Fly vs. Gen G.
Like, these are moments where NA has stood up
and been accounted for and nearly, you know,
taken down Goliaths in the Lolli Esports space.
But once again, they have to see if they can try
and do it against BLG as I was starting to move
towards this mid lane already, night low,
but I don't think there's much more follow-up
you can go for here.
Yeah, I think the main move for Isles
is probably just to guarantee that BLG is trying
to punish Sainth as he gets the wave crashed in.
Lyon wants to make sure that there's no actual punish there.
Shun is gonna come around from the side though, Sainth.
You okay, brother?
First darkened dagger already hits.
Shun continuing the chase, Sainth on the run.
Inspired, trying to kill off his wolf to get down here.
Sainth escapes, but he has to flash to do it now.
to show it up, slams him into the wall here with Eastall's impact.
Shun's still trying to get away here on the Deferi, he does not have the Flash.
It's for Blood of the On who rotates first, and it's BLG picking up two kills.
Shun stays alive, and BLG are on the board.
The heal and the shield from On, just enough to keep Shun topped up so he doesn't go down.
BLG react fast, and you see it here, like, Saint, I think there's a good job here of waiting so long for this Flash.
so then you can actually get both your jungle and support here to help out.
They go on towards Shun, but just look how much comes out from on here.
The flash forward gives the heal, then the shield.
There's no real damage left, as Aldous has already gone through most of his rotation,
inspired in the same boat, and then Nite, just the Kram on top there.
Yeah, on with the absolutely clutch roam, to not only get the first blood for himself,
finish off that kill that almost got away with Sane, but then saving his own D.A.
Ben's going in, Pioto, that gets a solo kill in the top lane.
Lethal, Tempo, Nar, put the emphasis on the Lethal.
Dokla's out of there.
This is a disaster early game for Lyon.
BLG said, all right, you had your fun game.
It's all serious business now, and they are taking no prisoners.
And not Dokla's Tempo in the topside as I was.
We'll just spot out Chun back in the way.
But you've already got on a position to try and cover.
Massively coming through on that topside,
You'll see in the replay just minding to clip on my magic. Oh, actually don't go in for the heavy trades
Oh, I thought he had more in the tank
But being so much damage thanks to that lethal tempo the flash forward sets him up beautifully
That was just a blunder from don't look he goes in too far
He puts himself in a spot where mini NAR feels empowered to jump on his head and say no man
You're done that was too much well done there from been to punish docla and you know docla's gonna want that one back
Douglas level 6 though has been does jump forward once again, so Ben still needs to finish out these creeps
But yeah, that's a that's a met super unfortunate because now been going to be in a position where he can start to
Leverage this early lane as we're still waiting here. Douglas fishing for
He's just gonna back away bus. Yeah, the
The advantage that you get with this now has been able to push forward look for turret plates
Trying to get even more out of this especially with the early tabbies. You're so strong into this
and just perfectly comfortable here with those shoes like you're talking about.
Looking across the map, Berserker does have a goal lead for himself down there in the bottom lane.
Of course, that on had to rotate over, make sure that he contributed to that big scrap that was in the bottom side river.
Gives Berserker the opportunity to probably just shove Viper in with the power of that digs early on.
But I think BLG will be perfectly happy making that trade, having on leave the bottom lane there for a little bit.
Inspired, trying to maintain control over the top side river here.
Remember that in game number one the dragon stacking was very slow neither team really prioritized that objective
The first one is alive and since it's a mountain that generally gets prioritized less here as well because it takes longer to secure
Because it's so tanky so I'm expecting probably a similar story here in this game
Although you can't see a ping in the dragon pit right now red ping coming out from lion
It's just don't sure as to where
should it's because should it's good done a little bit of an unusual path in
where you can see his wolves are still up but his gromp is gone so inspired in
trying to keep track of where he was because he just hit that vision cone
thinks that oh shun has actually cleared from top into bot lane but we haven't
spotted him anywhere so he must be on dragon because he didn't contest the
craft for level six but instead should you can see kind of leaving some of
these camps a little bit hilters filter over the place because he still hits six
but they've now lost track of line as to where shun is camps are worth money
But they are also worth confusing your opponent.
What is more valuable? Money or confusion?
That's the name of the game.
As Bin goes in for the Megadar on Dokla,
immediately reverts to mini form,
continues chasing him once to get that last hit there
for the hyper proc.
This is the boomerang though,
and Dokla's very thankful for that
because his health bar is already pretty compromised here.
Does still have the public execution.
If Bin goes too far, fires it off,
but no, Bin just walks to the side,
so easy there, avoiding that potential engage.
inspired waiting around nearby so now his pressure is also not gonna get much
downtown arrow coming in from Viper shuns there, Knights there, St. is out of there
as the kill goes over tonight. BLG just playing so well the arrow from Viper
connecting on towards St. and shouldn't in a position to try and cover both sides
of the equation if inspired went top he was there but was happy to take a
midlaner for his troubles. And now with the resources spent you don't have the
You don't have the Meganar. You don't have Shun's ulti.
You're going to see BLG back away from the grubs.
Inspire is going to try to secure those for now.
As Knight goes ahead, takes his recall.
We'll see if he wants to walk back to lane or try to teleport.
Maybe make a play to try to contest here at these grubs.
On is in the area, but so is Isle. Shun hanging around nearby here too.
Inspire tries to go for the East Hall's impact.
He uses Impale to force out the flash from on.
It's still inspired, and Isle's with control over the grump.
grump it. Yeah, I was trying to be annoying there and as far as like I'm calling your bluff. You do not have any
foot in mind you, but uh, maybe get anyone to trade there. Also Viper, while this was all going on,
might as well take some turf fights in the bottom lane as well. So BLG, at least trading for the, uh, the early
grubs. Still though, I think Lyme, especially when you've got people like Dokla, who in the later portion of the
game want to get quick access to turrets, can get a lot of value from this Void. It's still a scary early game. Nine
minutes in we're just about a 2000 gold lead because it plays like this I mean
we're getting beautiful cinematics here as the arrow for a saves incredible
show them ready to follow for the ultimate as well and I like same time no
chance he has no flash he has no way to get away from this and be able to just
bullying the line middle-hander yeah once you're in a mobile control mage hit
with a max range arrow you're pretty done for as Isles coming down in here to the
bottom lane trying to make the play on the Viper nice side step away from the
Flash is onto the other side of the satchel and evades the bouncing bomb.
He's got his juke boots on and Viper walks away from it.
Might have opened up line to try and go for this dragon though.
Viper has to look for the reset. There's the shockwave.
Yeah, Knight going in after Saint here, continuing.
Just put damage into that health bar here with the clockwork.
Wind up, one more hit with a got him.
Saint stays alive from drinking the potion as on is about to die down here in the bottom lane.
Berserker takes him out as inspired arrives.
Viper down to 200 HP, but Shun is hanging around in case Lyon goes too far.
You can see St. completes his recall there as the arrow fires out, collides into Berserker.
Shun shows up, but he's not going to fully commit for this.
He does have the Hound's pursuit, but since Lyon is still nearby and he used all the packs for the extra speed and the extra distance,
Shun does not want to over commit.
Still though, Lyon gets the plate, they get the kill, they get the dragon.
So, in theory, as I can see Shun is kind of hovering around.
does know that this is going down.
TP from right in towards the mid lane,
but no shockwave.
I think it's a bit of a lackluster attempt here from BLG.
Yep, inspired.
Well, Shun is over the wall,
wants to try to contest him for this one.
The impale connects though.
Isle's trying to come in and out,
but no, Shun just steals it away!
He walks in, he's trapped into Scorpion's sting,
but it doesn't even matter as soon as it expires,
he spits it down,
and it's Lyon who end up looking foolish.
Yeah, because it looked like Lyon had basically made the call of,
the call of hey we don't want to deal more damage to dragon like keep it healthy
we just try to kill his guard but not sure if it was just the AoE from Berserker
or what it was but the dragon going low enough big win for Shun as he managed to
get this deal. Yep and both of our junglers do have their first fully
completed items now Hextech, Protobelt for inspired, very cheap item, very powerful
as Isles does find a nice pull on to on here in the mid lane, gravity feels gonna
stun him off but a nice shockwave coming in from Knight to turn things right back
around. Saint is down and Knight is on a killing spree. The golden left hand slams
his fist into Lyon's jaw and BLG are running his second game. Knight showing
why he picks up Darkseal early every game. Four stacks, four kills, and
bodies are hitting the floor in front of the BLG mid laner. Beautifully played
from BLG on buying enough time for Knight to get over there, save his support,
Get the two counter kills. We're gonna go all the way back here in the rewind see shun steal the drink
Yeah, because there's obviously a lot of burn both from skarner and the nefiri here
But oh, it's actually it's a damage from on. It just sets us super low
Yeah, oh, let's just be the at the bleed damage. We see coming through from from shun that ends up getting it low enough, but on
Basically saying he meant to do this as he ends up getting caught the charm is good the shockwave even better
And at this stage you've already used so much and Isle's just barely short of that level six as well
Means he doesn't have the execute damage
But not able to finish him off in the end
You can see some frustration on the face of Saint
Knows that they're getting the play like that turned around to two for not that it's a 3k goal
But look at the experience and Isle like he's been so close to that level six a couple of the kills that have nearly gone
way of line would have tipped him over the edge and really kind of changed some of these early plays
but unfortunately needs to start picking up some of this experience so he can actually
be more impactful on some of these players. He needs the ulti. The ulti is the difference there,
probably between making that work and what we saw just happen. It's now one and a half thousand
gold lead, four night largest individual gold lead on the map. 3k is a bigger gold lead in this
game at 13 minutes than we had the entirety of game one until the game ending fight. This is BLG
the dominating the early game here in game number two.
St. Gets away for now does evade that last hit.
But the TP behind.
TP coming in.
Lyon trying to make some kind of a play.
Mega Inferno bomb not a whole lot of value there.
As now we're going to see BLG maybe try to turn it around.
But no, nice shutdown going over to St.
As he now has to escape.
Ben arrives here with a TP trying to get something back.
It's BLG here with a 4v5 as Inspired Grants 2 for the impale.
Lots of damage to the BLG.
Inspired by the tide.
But BLG is collapsing.
Shut up and try to flash away, but go for somebody, kill it up.
Ben's the last man standing.
Lyon just got 4 for 1, a massive play.
Save what the hell?
What?
St. Takes a turn, shot it to 4 for 2.
It's still Faber's Lyon.
Still a massive turnaround for Lyon.
A 2,000 gold swing back for the LCS representative,
but it's just a good call.
BLG don't see the movement from Lyon
to try and get in behind them here. It's the immediate TP with a single creep on half HP
before it dies. Dokla gets that teleport in and then it's all hands on deck. It's Dokla
who tries to go for on it, but he actually just immediately goes for right. Knows that
flash was burned to kill Oz earlier on and everyone moving away here, same with a good
flash away from being, but watch this. Inspired with that setup, the tumble through, the depth
from loading so much work here online,
get a ton of gold back, and then he put the tape.
And then he put the tape.
Don't watch this part.
Don't watch this part.
Oops.
Yeah.
But everything up until that part was really good.
Everything up until that part was really good.
Side line.
You gotta move, you gotta make.
And it inspired that protoplasm harness
that I was talking about earlier.
That was actually really big
in making it so he lived long enough for that impale
to keep everybody in place
and allow them to find their counterattack.
Mega damage coming out there from Verzerker
in that fight too, 3400 inspired on Skarner.
You can see here a three and zero record with a 40 KDA.
Yeah, not bad.
He's pretty good on the champ.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I take that KDA.
Yeah, it's not bad, it's not bad.
It would show up in big golden sparkly letters on OPGG.
And I think it's showing well here as well, right?
Like the fact that you end up with that massive impale that sets up for the play like it's bar looks comfortable
And what it started off is that 3k goady that you were talking about down to 1k
Significantly closer now it is like very shared across the board with berserkers kind of holding on to that main lead
That's also what we saw a lot in the last game, right where it was kind of berserker on the Tristana versus the world
And that was enough to keep them within arm 3
Want to try to test yep lion trying to move up challenge BLG here at the rip
Terald, Mega Inferno bomb, plans damage only onto Awn.
As the Herald is secured by Inspired, Awn gonna be careful.
No, he's caught in the gravity field.
Awn is about to die here to the Arcane Storm.
St. Grabs the first kill.
Ile's gonna make it a second here with a nice one.
It's said he has punished.
It's a one for one trade support for support.
Battle Herald is already engaged.
Shun goes to the wall with a massive shockwave!
Shun kills two!
Blyon!
They lost track of Knight and Shun.
And now Knight's trying to get away here with 108p.
Viper's got him slowed, slowed, slowed.
Protoplasm Hornus ain't gonna do it this time.
Has inspired, is about to fall,
and Lion overplay their hand.
BLG swift to punish with the shun night combo.
The pack separated and BLG saw the weakness.
They jump onto the remaining members of Lion,
has been whipped on the meganar, but here's the support.
Okay, right back into Mininar.
The timing is nice here.
Uses the hop to get it with Dokla.
But now Dokler could be in a little bit of danger.
Isle's still trying to find the kill here.
Bin's 1v2-ing!
They gotta bring in a third man!
Lyon, they do manage to get their kill,
but that was so sketchy.
It may still be, as here comes Shun.
Yeah, Shun wants to try to clean up whatever's left down here.
Isle's and Dokler getting themselves away,
but now the Zerker ex-Ziggs that you were talking about,
the point of power for Lyon shut down with kill credit over to Viper.
I shown that no good deed goes unpunished.
Berserker TPs down doesn't get the assist ends up dying at the back of it as well line
Wanted again. They found them some moments, but BLG answering back that gold lead growing this terror in the bot lane
Gonna fall and I should be able to catch that wave in the top lane that's ain't to teleport it to
Man, oh man. What a crazy sequence. I'm sure once we get the replay
We're gonna have to go all the way back to the top side river
Because it really was it looked like lion might have had a chance to maybe chase and punish something
But as soon as they separated you just send in the dog bomb the ball strapped to shun as soon as he collides with the target
The shockwave makes it happen. Oh arrow flying on the top side st
Side steps at night stay alive for now. He tried to flash behind the impale, but the aoe goes to the side
It still catches it and lion have the first kill here in the fight night down
Dope was also arrived here with a teleport public execution three seconds away from being available
In with an R bar charged, hits Meganar on that one, clears out the wave, Lyon finding a nice pick and getting everybody out.
Lyon's starting to move across towards this mid lane as well so you can see On and Shun trying to move here to protect Viper on the mid lane tower as it goes in.
And Spire tries to tunnel through the wall but Shun's still okay for now. However, a lot of pressure is still coming in.
BLG bring Viper into the fight, Shun tries to get a bit more damage but no, he's gonna be shut down by State.
Now, Viper dies too, Lyon's finding even more as on tries to get away, but no!
The power siphon ripped out his soul and Lyon just about tied the game off.
Once again, Lyon find the picks they need to get the go back into their favor.
Insane play across the board. In particular, when you look at how they set up the control, the zone control in that fight,
Saints getting so much value from that gravity well.
We'll see it here as we start to come in,
because Shun on his camp,
Inspire thinks, hang on, we know Bin is just here,
Top Wave and Meganar, he can't come in.
So Inspire immediately starts to set up,
Topper moves through here, but his Viper showed up.
See this gravity well?
It means that Viper can't actually follow up
on a lot of this.
He gets stunned, and then immediately,
Topper's able to follow up.
As Shun try and goes through the re-engage,
Lyon brings so well around the choke points in this area.
Lyon not willing to lay down and die.
BLG have had such an explosive early game here,
but I'm so impressed with Lyon's ability
to hang in there and find those angles.
This is what they would do domestically in North America.
I talked about it a bit in game number one.
Even when they're behind, it's their shot calling
that brings them these opportunities for fights
to get back into the game.
And now they're overloading the top side.
Saints still just trying to clear the waves in mid.
Everybody else hanging around top.
The turret has already been destroyed
up there in the top lane.
And in a bit of a split map situation going on right now
is inspiring to care at that top side.
You've got the same for Shownie wants to take some of this
kind of bot lane, but now on the movie here,
trying to get in on towards this mid lane.
Now BLG wants to put pressure on the turret,
though at least pick out that third plate.
Isles coming around from the side means BLG does want to back up,
not over commit on anything.
Inspired, punchy shim, not a whole lot more to do here
as both sides, again, playing cautiously.
BLG, they could afford to play a little crazy,
a little scrappy earlier.
They were up 3,000 gold, 12 minutes into the game.
Now it's dead, even at 21 minutes,
BLG are going to have to make sure
they're giving Lyon the respect they're doing.
The impale's already there, the mega inferno bomb on.
He doesn't get hit by death from below.
Isle scruzely misses the ulti,
and now Lyon's gonna turn around,
but Inspire's already been killed.
The Baron's on the map.
Lyon tries to make the play,
but a slight miscalculation.
They don't get the kill,
and instead now it's BLG moving over to Baron.
X marks the spot where Lyon thought they had us, but instead it's BLG who were able to step away, find themselves in front of the baron.
So much is still available, including the arrow in a couple of seconds.
Alright, on his very low HP. Keep that one in mind, but he's got a lot of shields, a lot of healing.
Lyon trying to stop this, berserker over the wall with the AoE damage. Arrow's not gonna find a target here. Bouncing bomb, still looking.
Public execution again, gonna be a thing again for 3 man Megadar.
Tosses three of them back, but don't preserve and he killed Viper.
St. Falls now, shown barely staying alive, but he is executed by the Baron and the Zerker.
It's two dead on the BLG side, two dead on the Lion side.
A bloodbath in the river is an equal trade.
You'll take that as Lion. Denying the Baron as maybe more here.
Oh, beautiful bone stewar in the East of impact.
Lion find another one. Nicely done there to ultimately give themselves the advantage
and they get Knights teleport at the end of it or he would have been dead to rights too.
But look at the timer as well, now you've got the opportunity with a dragon in 50 seconds
to move bot lane, push out waves, set up vision and it's this start here where
Finn trying so hard to try and play open to this position, I was dodging away
but in fact as Finn goes in, he actually exposes his backline because he goes forward
but Dokla is like great, I've been pushed on to the backline with Saint,
immediately burst out Flipper, you don't have to help Bar to try and continue forward
So it is end up being in that two for two.
It's been almost helping line getting that reposition.
We've got ourselves another close one here, Dad.
It was looking like the classic close first game,
and then the second one ends up being a blowout here at the start.
But no, the Coinbase gold grind showing you that it's actually
Saint up 300 gold overnight over the LPL's best mid laner.
As Lyon now, they don't want to allow BLG's sole point.
That could complicate things here in the future.
So they've got to try to find some sort of an angle
as this Drake is about to spawn.
Doku teleporting in, has the empowered shield ready to go,
but the Drake is already begun by BLG.
They've got it down to half-HP.
Bid is about to die.
It's over the wall.
Stay safe for now.
Stays alive.
Inspired jumping in the pit, but no.
It's Shun getting the credit.
Doku's going to be taken low by Bid.
Meanwhile, over here with the junglers,
both on the front line, both down to about half-HP.
Doku's already being killed by Bid.
Inspired here with the impale.
Finds a kill on the Viper, put a nice shockwave
to the back from Knight to make sure his fire falls too.
Everybody online trying to scatter, but no.
It's BLG, coming up big in another fight.
It's a 4 for 2, and Shun's not done.
Isles is forced all the way home as BLG make their way
to Sol Point and head towards the Bear and Pit.
Again, Lyme trying to force their way in.
It's a nice job to turn on towards Bin,
but keep your eyes on how Knight plays this fight.
Ends up incredibly slow on the old usage,
which actually catches right now, but here, on flashing forward,
you expect the Shockwave, that's why Saint goes for that Zonius,
but now waits patiently, and as they try to jump in here,
that's where the Shockwave connects.
Now you've got the damage from Sean,
and it's the follow-up of them being just barely clipping onto Berserker there
that really seals the deal for BLG.
And then winning out in that top laner battle at the very start of the fight,
two eliminating Doka, making sure it's a five before guaranteed victory.
They're for BLG. Now they've got Soulpoint. Now they've got the Baron. Now they've got to get out of town.
Because Lyon's trying to find some sort of a punish, but BLG have already evacuated the area.
Iles trying to look for some sort of a chance here to bone skewer.
Shun jumps back in. Inspired on the front line, but he's got to be careful.
Taking a lot of damage there from Viper and Van Abel. All inspired!
He's too far forward. BLG have already found their first kill.
Makes for Zarker number two. Sank's about to be three.
should fall, but BLG will avenge him in style. Ile's the only man left again. Knight with
a flash forward, he wants the full ace and by God he's gonna get it. 25 to 17, 5,000
gold lead. That's BLG. The Scorpion couldn't find a rock to hide under BLG with the dog
delivery system. May have just brought themselves a game to win off the back of that play. This
is if nothing else going to explode the gold lead
as it rises now to above 7,000.
Here's another look at Lyon trying to find an angle.
And the base is saying, look, BLG hasn't reset.
Maybe we have a moment, but it's fired, separated,
and on and by Pardoon, it could have worked
to keep the rest of Lyon out of the play.
Inspired is overextended, on steps up again
to try and set up alongside this arrow.
And it's shown flashing forward,
the dog delivery system catching saint as well.
Sure, shouldn't go down, but it's BLG happy to take that trade.
Exactly.
You send the dog all the way in.
Yes, he's got to go up to dog heaven, but that's okay.
He'll look down on the rest of the team
with a big old smile, because BLG are 7,000 gold up.
You can see the frustration on Dokela's face.
Knight on Orianna here in 2026,
this entire year undefeated on the champion, 8-0.
Another 40 KDA, Daghda,
And he's got 24 pages in his book.
He is writing a death note full of lion names
and he's not quite done.
The pen's still got plenty of ink in it.
And it looks like we've still got another 45 seconds
of this Red Bull Baron power play
that's already plus 5,000 gold in Chanted Crystal Arrow.
Not gonna find a target there
as Shun goes in with a house pursuit.
He just wants to kill Isle.
He's bleeding him down with the dark and daggers.
He gets the kill.
Shun's a one for one trade on that one.
just a full send out of the BLG jungler.
Meanwhile, inspired behind BLG,
setting up for maybe a flank angle,
Saint is still in the top lane,
pushing the tier two of BLG, and he has no teleport.
There's no way for the Vector to get here quickly.
So BLG is just ransacking the base.
Mid lane inhibitor already down.
Bot lane inhibitor turned about to fall next.
Facy hoping that Saint can get back in time
and inspire, can then come in behind them,
won't get spotted in the wave.
Here you go, Saint has reset, I'm bought items.
Okay, Inspired is here, on Viper and Ben, trying to get out safe.
Ben forcing Inspired back to create space for on and Viper,
who are now regrouping behind their top laner.
Viper fires the volley forward, slowing down Doppler.
They've got the enemy Ambesa down to half HP.
Nice sidestep of the boulder, their front Inspired,
but Ben goes into the Mega Knar, only onto the enemy tank.
ELG continuing their retreat now,
as everybody from Lyon has showed up.
Isle jumps in, straight to his own demise.
Inspired now, trying to continue his retreat
has on flashes away from the Arcane Storm.
Ben already had to trigger his Starax,
so he's low, but he's continually getting healed up.
And he's on and Shog has now rejoined the fray,
the darkened daggers fly, and Lyon's about to die.
Shog and the rest of BLG continually charge forward.
Sane has to try to get himself away,
but the Flash won't save him.
Inspired dies next, and nobody's left standing on Lyon.
and BLG gonna march it in BLG find their moment with some big swings in the team
fights thanks to nice on the Orianna on his line watching their nexus crumble
Knight will remain undefeated on that Orianna here in 2026 BLG will move to
a match point with an 11,000 gold lead,
taking out Lyon in game two.
You cannot give Nike Orianna an expect to come out
looking clean, but it's BLG who have definitely had
some tough times against Lyon here,
but they're still looking good
and I wanna hear the analysts' desk break that down.
I have conflicting opinions about this game
because it started horribly.
Then it got good and then it went back to normal.
And yeah, that is what Bobo went back to said.
I think for a game where you gave Knight Orianna
absolutely a legal decision, by the way,
it should never be allowed.
Very questionable.
That wasn't too bad.
That was kind of like the best you could hope for.
There are windows.
There are windows.
I think obviously the positive for Lyon
is they made it competitive as they did game one,
but they're still two out of the series.
That's the tough thing about this.
It's weird because, look,
I'm from Northern America, but I'm not an NA pundit.
I feel weirdly proud of Lyon.
I don't know if that's reflected by my North American peers.
Maybe it's getting too close now where it's like, okay, guys,
you can clearly win a game.
Please just get it over the line.
But I'm still just impressed with a lot of the good things that are going on.
But there's obviously still a decent amount of room for criticism.
Yeah, I was going to say, I think the frustration for me,
especially someone who watches both,
has watched all the games of both these teams,
is how Lions still are able to get some of these setups
and play patiently enough around their composition
and then still manage to fumble it.
Sometimes even in the teamfights where, you know, you kind of do expect that to happen a lot tougher opponent than their opponents in North America.
I do want to go over, however, kind of a quintessential BLG play that combines the Viper, Ash, and the Knight Orianna.
So every second counts, and thanks to the reliable Cisco network, BLG are going to make a really great play on this attempted gank by Ile.
So the first thing that's going to happen you want to pay attention to the ash
She's gonna be firing an arrow and also firing a hawk shot this way
That's going to end up spotting out aisles on this room
So as night faints towards the top side they actually see him there
Iles thinks he's gonna be able to go in for this and then the ash arrow is gonna go through night rotates back
Lands the shock wave again
This is why you really just especially with this composition do not want to give this champion tonight
Not only because of the undefeatedness but also just because of again the way that BLG combines stuff like the ash Orianna
Using the vision using the air of the cross mapping with the arrow and then also night rotating back down landing the shockwave
This is just a play that we've seen from them and we've seen how
the game. It's just how
coordinated they can be even
if they're not even in the
same place, and it comes down
to what inspired were sending
me ahead of this series. The
fact that BLG is always going
to be in your face ready to
fight back and especially the
fact that you have to be
ready for the jungle. Mid lane
duo. Soon and night. Running
the show every time when it
comes to reengaging and
finding those opportunities.
Yeah, I mean, look, we could
have made this entire post
game segment just an endless
role of shock wave dog wave
But we're going to belay that for a little bit to talk about this play specifically, because Ox, I know you had some beef.
Yeah, so Dockler goes for this initial play onto Binh, chunks him out, but doesn't commit the ult, he gets run down and killed.
And even though this was initially good for Lyon, they had them trapped in the pit with a Victor with a Ziggy, this feels fantastic.
Binh gets to walk back into the fight and they put so much pressure online.
And I think Dockler, if he just committed the ult when Binh was jumping over the wall while he's locked in that animation,
Taking him out of the fight, all four of the members of BLG were trapped in the dragon pit.
I think it was much more playable and there was an angle for them there.
Ultimately though, wasn't enough against these guys.
And I like what you highlight there.
There's a moment where Ben is locked in that jump animation,
where it is a free-all for Dokla.
He doesn't feel like he can pull the trigger.
And sadly, I think he had an overall solid performance.
It was a nice kind of comeback,
but the story that has been the case for the entire series thus far is like,
Ryan good, but still so many little individual mistakes.
And it is getting frustrating.
But, again, when you look at Shun and Nite on the opposite side,
even without the little individual mistakes,
you're still playing against a goliath mid-jungle duo.
I think what's frustrating is it feels like you have to be flawless against his team to beat them,
and you see exactly why.
You were talking about the dog wave, it just felt like every single time there was an opportunity
for them to push it, push the game ahead, BLG take it, if you make that little misstep,
Every independent member of BLG has the opportunity to take over and carry, even on in the Seraphine was getting phenomenal ults this game.
Yeah, and with compositions like these, again, they're just so comfortable executing these, they're communicating very, very well around fights.
And I think that is kind of a bit of a level up we've seen for this BLG team.
They are a bit more well-coached than, you know, for example, last year's BLG, right?
where and it does come down to when they lock in a composition like this with so many answers provided that they are all
communicating on the same page the quick
ability to be able to coordinate is so massive
Yeah, I'm good. I think the final fight this whole game
Yeah, this feels a little rude to I also run this one
I have the best pike game
But this is kind of just yet another reminder of how good VRG are in these team fight circumstances playing on the edge there
that Victor all could have done a lot more work, but even before we got into this replay,
been really respectful of what Inspire could do, really outpacing him, make sure he doesn't
get caught by the ult. So even when Lion managed to mount a bit of a defense here, they're
just too far behind in the fight overall, and for once this entire series, the dog
wave doesn't connect, but the fight's already won.
Listen, when you know it wasn't going to get easy for them, and I feel like from the first
series they played into this one, still massive improvements from Lion, is it going to be
enough for them to take a game? I don't know, but I applaud the resilience so far, BLG
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coming in from knight to turn things right back around saint is down and knight is on
I will have to flash.
Hook into here.
No no no, no no, no, no, no.
Flash, flash, flash.
Flash, flash.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
The darkened daggers fly, and Lyon's about to die.
Shorn and the rest of BLG continually charge forward.
St. has to try to get himself away with the flash,
won't save him, inspire, dies next.
Lyon fans, fear not.
We've got one of the best LCS fans in the world with Miss ChimChim.
What do you think so far?
So far, I think they've put up a really good fight.
We've just got to be able to finish it.
That's all we got to do.
We're fighting.
We have a war cry.
Do you have some words for the LCS fans who are...
I don't know if they're staying up or if they're still up to watch, but...
We need all the energy we can get, guys.
Please, dear, send your little spirit fingers.
But America's got this.
Just a little more, Lyon. Let's go.
We got this.
Awesome, thank you.
I love the energy there from Miss Jim Jim.
Welcome back everybody to MSI 2026.
We are now two games in to our best of five
between BLG and Lyon.
And despite the fact that both games
have been a close battle, despite the fact
that I have been impressed by Lyon being able to keep things
really neck and neck with a contender like BLG,
they haven't managed to get it across the finish line.
It's BLG triumphant in the moments that matter most and it's BLG now on match point
We were just talking in the break like this seems to be the speciality of BLG
Just every single member can step up when it counts and all you need is one of them to make that difference
Whereas on line side, still gonna wait for that magic moment to happen
I think it's fired as it has had a great series thus far by keeping control in the early stage
His team fighting has been spectacular
But he needs to really try and find that special soup or that special sauce here
Coming into this to see if you can break the back with BLG.
Alright, let's see how our draft is going to look.
BLG banning out the Varus and the Rumble.
Meanwhile, over on the other side, it's Vayne, TF, and Poppy banned out by Lyon.
Interest, okay.
So very much top lane focus, so maybe saying once again, hey look,
we're just going to try and take something, a tank top side like the side for Dokla.
not give anything in the early stages across the big
mid-time trying to answer with, especially with the Rumble,
bound by mid-tier as well.
Now I imagine would be the focus here.
All right, what do we got?
OK, Dea Kali, going to be kept away from St.
As let's see what we end up getting here.
Lyon wanting first pick this time.
They have taken last pick in both of the previous matches.
This time around, they want to have their choice.
And I think it like they have done well with this,
But when you're two games deep and it hasn't quite worked out look
Let's try something a little bit different right see if it's gonna work at the knock turn for inspired
Definitely something that can be a playmaker here
And this would explain why the bands in this first phase are also different because remember the knock turn has been banned out in both
Of the previous games now that they have the first pitch they want to prioritize it for themselves
Obviously, you don't have the knock wave combo with the Oriana since that's now removed and fearless
So we'll see what they want to combo with it
but also Viper gets his Ezreal.
This has been banned out so far in the first couple of games as well.
And by the way, so has On's bar.
So if they can manage, yep, never mind.
They're going to manage to lock it right there.
Ezreal bar for the bottom lane of BLG.
That's some scary stuff.
That is definitely a comfort pick for BLG in that bottom lane.
The push is there for them.
On, on the roams.
The temper fades as well.
Country and slow down some of this pick potential
from line with this Nocturne.
We'll have to see how they pan this one out, as we're still waiting, I imagine.
The response to bot lane would be the Nautilus.
Frank grabbed that one early for Iles to ensure he's got that good matchup.
Yep, remember the Nautilus was banned out by BLG as responses to the potential
Ashe and Seraphine bottom lane that they were running in the previous game.
Not going to be banned out this time.
So we have some strong engage options, particularly single target engage options
for the Lion Squad, Nautilus ulti plus Docturne ulti.
you can put somebody in a world of hurt with those,
but what else do they want to pair with it?
Yeah, especially like looking at Knight in the mid lane,
I imagine you want some sort of affinity here
based on what you're seeing.
Now with the Cassiopeia on the other side though,
mobility maybe at a premium,
when you look towards that mid lane pool,
as they're anectin' it needs to be taken here for being,
knowing that they're gonna be able to even find a way
more champions and make Totkler
comfortable on that top lane to eat too.
But honestly, with the NAR, the TF, the Vayne, the Rumble gone,
there's very few picks, including the MS, that are left to go into that top lane virus, gone as well.
Get four of the most standard top lane champions in Jace, NAR, Cassante, and Vesta,
all already off the table, just too fearless, is going to do a lot.
So I want to see how much DLG wants to pinch this top lane pool in the second half,
if they even pair right now.
They don't. It's going to get the misfortune panned out.
They don't want that being paired with the Nautilus for the powerful all-in potential you hit a dredge line
You immediately drop the depth charge bullet time over the top
They're trapped in a lot of that
Kai said probably the next one to go as well on BLG side good into the Ezreal plus adding to dive potential that you already have on
The lion side would make things very difficult for the likes of nice and vipers. I imagine thought it'd be the call
There's a Leblanc down though. Okay caps didn't look so good in this matchup
And then we piloted Star Zekker, show him how it was done yesterday, so it makes sense that the LeBronkis are respected.
We'll keep that one out of the way. Also worth noting that there is the potential to have the Cassiopeia flex to bottom lane.
We have seen that before in this tournament, so I'm just going to put the little asterisk on that.
You do expect to see it mid, but it could possibly be a swap. We'll see if BLG wants to respect that.
If they want to just keep focusing towards the bottom lane instead here with the banster.
They are going to look towards the topside, get rid of that moondo that could be just
a giant meatball, but it's kind of hard for Manec to appropriately punish enough to stop
him from becoming the bastard wall of hell.
But honestly, I think that may be the answer.
It's just put a bigger meatball in towards Doca, right?
Like look towards the Ornn, look towards the Saan, just say, cool, we've got engage, we've
got decent setup, and you're going to just lose gracefully.
And I think Doca has been doing a good job of kind of doing just that.
Like he hasn't gotten a huge amount of attention towards that topside of the map, but it has
open up inspired to really start trying to find some bubbles in this game.
Okay, final band of the draft. It's the Wukong being kept away from Shun.
Vi is still up and available. The standard stuff. I mean honestly when you're
looking at BLG's composition that's been drafted so far, it's not really
feeling like you're very far into Fearless at all. Like these are all very
popular picks locked in up until this point. They will go ahead and pick up
the buy for Shun and that means they're going to be saving their last pick in the draft.
This first game in this series where they've had last pick for counter pick for Knight.
Once they know for sure the Cassiopeia is going mid.
I prefer the Sivir option here if they want to go for it or the Zyad.
This Melchio is going to do a lot of work.
Shun unfortunately like you open up with a curtain call, tip or fake monks are on the
head and you're like well I guess I'm sitting here for the next couple of seconds to see
if Cassiopeia is going to open.
So yeah I prefer the Sivir in this case even just in the matchup you get decent wave clear
and I'm going to follow up relatively well.
The fact that you can buy so much space with this on the hunt,
as you go back to things like Casio, being that from this Renekton bike,
you can get a lot of value with the fights.
I always like on the hunt more when you have champions that do not have mobility built in the kit,
because the less mobility you have, inherently the more valuable move speed is.
So yeah, Casio Pia duo really nice on that one,
and okay, we're not going to go with a Meteor Meatball,
we are going to go with Zahen in the top lane for Doku.
Yeah, Shani Zinza will be going to the top lane and I don't think this is the best of match-up so far, there's a head
I think you can't struggle because
You do get online a lot later and can kind of outplay some of the dog potential here on BLG
But I think there's going to be some early focus here towards Dokla to help in that last pick of the draft for BLG
is the famous knight, Ari, paired with the Vi in the jungle, one of Ari's best friends
in all of League of Legends. This is a scary mid-jungle combo, and these guys are clearly
on the same wavelength. You remember the play in the previous game in the Topside River,
where Lyon lose track of how far they're splitting, and it's shun and knight immediately counter-punching
for two kills. This Vi-Ari combo is a recipe for success.
You can also nullify a lot of that Nocturne presence in a teamfight as well, because now
you jump in as Nocturne, Ezreal dashes away, Ari dashes away, and then it's like well I'm on
Renekton boy I guess, maybe the bird, I don't know if this is the key target right so I think
this is where inspired he's going to have his work cut out. Will still be good when it comes
towards the presence Nocturne can have on side lane pressure and push which is a lot of what
Knight and Bane will want to do is we get him to the mid game, right keep that in check, have the
Nocturne play towards sides but it's still not going to be wonderful when he gets towards
I think that's where he might show.
Yeah, we talked about back in game number one,
how BLG is a team that feels very comfortable playing in 1-3-1.
They know that their solo laners are incredibly skilled.
They trust them to handle those individual assignments.
Maybe not turn is how you try to counter that.
Maybe that's what gets it done,
because Lyon has been close so far in this series.
They've given BLG a fight, but it's BLG both times so far.
Try on fifth.
It's also very strong in these early levels.
levels if you want to look for the potential dueling, especially as you look towards Vi on her
camps. If Inspired is able to get in the face of Shun, I think that should give him that advantage.
And already, I think that's the game plan here from Lyon, right? Inspired will be spotted thanks to
that ward, but they want to split the map. Shun, immediately bucking us to the other side of the
jungle will also be spotted. Yeah, he wants to make sure that he is not going to end up chickenless,
so he will steal away that camp from Lyon as his is the only way of course Inspired is the first
to the camp so he will have first move towards the lanes does tag night with a
dustbringer but now it's inspired and saying coming to collapse on shun who's
still trying to clear out these last chickens does hit his level to saint is
going to steal away one of the tiny ones shun's still trying to make his escape
here as inspired and saying both collapsing inspired wanting to get in the
way of the ball breaker but he can't do it shun nicely done to escape okay so
one camp for one camp and we kind of go back to even Steven so not too bad on
either side but you can kind of see already line this I imagine is going to
be the continued game plan because inspire can now clear through his top
side and actually with the push on bottom lane potentially look for another
invade with Isles having a support so let's see how BLG try and respond at
least night having pushed in the mid lane for the moment because he should have
some support. Back down here in bottom lane the 2v2 continues with priority over
the lane currently possessed by Bezurka and Isles you talked about it during the
draft, how Sivir is going to have that extra wave control, that extra shove
potential up against something like the Ezreal, which could open up opportunities
for Iles to roam. I think that Iles' game on pike in game number two was not
what Lyon would have wanted, so hopefully we'll have more success here on the Nautilus
as Knight is forced to flash over the Red Buff wall to safety, as just what I'm
saying, Lyon's support unlocked to make the rotation. This is what I was talking about, right?
Because you end up with this trade for a shouldn't where he goes into trying to
They now have full information on where Shona is going to be.
So it's almost like a fake coming through from and Saint and Isles where they're like,
we're going to look for that potential invade.
And that has to respect because he inspired might be there with the parking that they saw.
So now line still in the position.
Honestly, with the inspired having the quicker clear where they could push this out and maybe look for something.
And but they should definitely be able to secure this bot lane crowd for themselves.
Alright, Ben's got Douglas shoved in just like you were talking about the early lane.
not going to be the most pleasant experience there for Zahen up against Renekton.
Of course this champion is very powerful scaling later on with the ability to fill the blood well up,
have that resurrection in the big fights, but Renekton traditionally that dominant laner that will make that scaling difficult.
I was again just kind of looking for any opportunity to interfere with BLG.
He's got inspired right behind him. He's going to see that Ward that got placed down over the wall by on,
tries to put a hit into that one, but will not be able to exterminate in time.
Shannon on trying to secure their buff here as wait. Let's see if we okay the teleport coming out now
As it'll just be Viper making his way back down into the bottom lane
Puzzle McBinding on inspired lion really really wanting to control this jungle this second chicken camps spawn
For BLG they bring four men to do it and they will get it done
Yes, so the red buff I believe entrance part as well off the back of that
So they got two camps in the midst of it and this is really well played by line
This is the value you can get from this nocturne and why it's banned away so consistent thing
So they spotters shun moving into the enemy jungle they cover that play they then go right
The only thing shun can do is we back into topside and clear boss, but inspired has the faster clear
So it's a clear to bottom side get into competes and now gets the raptor respawn
So shun basically is nothing to do now for the next few minutes because he's no camps on the map
It's a real bad feeling as a jungler to just be stuck in that. Well, I'm not really sure where we're supposed to go
But you do see the gray hourglass up in that topside there around the grub
So he is pathing towards where that first camp is going to respond still very even game stay here
No kills super early, but the biggest gold advantage is inspired in the jungle
But actually a very similar gold advantage up there in the topside for bins renekton who has just controlled the lane against
Hence, Dokla.
Even up to the early Bramble Vest is not what you really want for this to end either.
He wants you picking up those brewers or items, but Dokla massively struggling and this is
what we're talking about, right?
Like the early presence from this renektion is so strong as Saints.
Oh!
Saint Flash is 41 to get the solo killed on the night the Poison will not be a...
It is!
It is!
The first blood goes over to Saint, thanks to the Poison from Noxious Blast plus the
Deathfire Touch.
Saint just solo killed Night's Ari.
Huge play from Saint in the mid lane.
I thought this was going to be one of the most one-sided matchups
that we had on the Rift today,
but Saint with the Cassiopeia getting the kill onto the Ari.
That was huge coming out from Saint,
but now he has no flash to try to get away.
He hangs around too long,
Shun ends up taking the kill.
As On goes on a magical journey through the wall, inspired.
That is such a rough one
because the paranoia cooldown is so long early
When you don't get anything out of that ultimate,
you're really not happy with it.
Still though, could actually look for a little bit more.
The dragon is here.
Wasn't sure as all kinds of the reset,
if they wanted to try and invade on Torshun,
but only the two of them, it will be the dragon.
Still though, the funny thing is,
Inspire uses the ultimate.
I think he actually has the ultimate back up
before Shun hits level six again.
Yeah, Shun a full level behind inspired
just because of the massive camp,
The disparity of four or five camps inspired has over the BLG jungler, so dragon secured.
This is by far the earliest dragon of the series so far, not even six and a half minutes
into the game, and that one is already locked in for Lyon as Isles and on both still hanging
around this mid lane, Saint, no flash, Knights flash, also still on cooldown.
Bin versus Dokla, Bin's just going to pop the Dominus to continue to maintain Dominus
here in this top lane.
70 to 44 in the farm count you already mentioned it, but doklah also having to spend that first big chunk of gold on an item
He doesn't really want and here's how saint got to kill on night
Yeah night ends up stepping up has the queue already connected so there's a lot of damage and just not respecting it
Also, I didn't quite see where the charm went so you shot it just missed it
Did he say it's that's that's that's that's that yeah, yeah night fired off st
Managed to sidestep it predicted it well and then a follow-up is right there. He chases him down
And I've had no flash to try and get away from it. So I see done by Saint there and
Unfortunate for Saint in the follow-up after because he has unlocked the ultimate
But didn't have enough mana to actually use that to keep the rest of BLG away
So it did end up dying but you can still see he pushed in that wave still has the lead for himself in that mid lane
I think this now kind of opens up line a little bit more to try and fish for a place
But it also was pretty critical from the BLG side that the counter kill on the Saint went to Shun
because Shun being so far behind an experience, being so far behind just in terms of his camps this game,
he needed that kill to stay relevant and you can see that even though he's down 20 farm right now,
he's up a whopping 30 gold, but at least that's a state of parity with Inspire.
Yeah, I do want to highlight though just how much vision went onto that top side of the map there for BLG,
because he got on, he just took his way in and one, two, three, four warrants to spot out
If inspired so much as blinks in that topside jungle.
So you can already tell BLG hyper focused on trying to keep track of inspired, but have they lost them?
Yeah, I've inspired somebody down here on the bottom side of the map.
Vipers trying to get away. Plenty of damage, but not quite enough just yet.
Vipers staying alive for now. You gotta be kidding me!
BLG keep their AD carry alive. Inspired still on the hunt. Vipers still on the run.
As now they've turned their attention over on instead.
Oh, it's a disaster!
They're going into the fight. Vipers takes a kill though as he brings Inspired down with them.
BLG, playing this beautifully, they turn this multi-man dive from Lyon on its head.
They get kills on Isles and inspired both.
Viper survived so long.
Lyon fumbled it so badly on the play, Viper's arcane shift got away from the hook from Isles
and honestly kept him alive for so long in the fight, we'll catch it on the replay.
Because as this comes through, inspired stats that might tank up the terror as he goes underneath.
I don't mind this, but watch the arcane shift here.
Isles tries to go under, but misses the arcane shift
and started.
So the hook goes into the wall.
That's not the lock that you need.
Berserker ends up tanking the tower afterwards.
He's not tanking enough to set this up.
So they have to entirely back away.
And Viper gets so much poke damage as he runs away here.
He does end up falling at the end to Berserker.
But they tried to turn on towards the support afterwards.
Like, that was just messy, messy still from line.
and they are punished.
One and a half thousand gold lead now for BLG.
His on goes on a magical journey through the wall.
Look at a lot up, Saints.
Good use of the miasma there to slow him down.
Saint gets away, not a whole lot of damage there.
True shot barrage to add insult to injury
to this top lane deficit that Docla is currently experiencing.
At least he's finally building towards the items
he actually wants now, but over on the other side.
Bin has even gone for a call.
He recognizes this lane is no threat.
There is nothing that's going to stop him
from behaving however he wants in this lane.
So he's just going to go ahead and accelerate his own economy with that one already got it down to 44 stacks berserker
His own call down to 24 and he's the lone gold lead on the lion side. So cashing that
But hey, the minions are walking up watch watch
24 24
Alright cool, so he's the lone gold lead on the lion side once that call caches in
Berserker has had large individual leads in both games so far, for himself,
but they still haven't been able to deliver.
And Berserker is going to have to put up strong individual performance
if Lyon wants to get one of these games across the finish line and prevent the clean sweep.
The thing is, the Lyon have phenomenal skating when it comes to this composition, right?
Like, same, Berserker, Dokla, all going to be amazing when they get towards, you know, the three plus items.
Their biggest problem is trying to keep things in check for the moment.
And I think they have done an okay job, but like being as massive and it's shown and night are actually able to sync up now
I think it becomes a little bit more dangerous 10 seconds on dragon as well
Which is why we're seeing lion active in this area and inspired
Looking at a potential move to bot lane before
Respecting us as they see multi members of lion in the area importantly on also still level five
He's just a little bit more experienced a couple more minions to hit that level six and unlock the tempered fate
as BLG are going to step forward here, Lyon was inspired and Berserker both on the objective,
Knight and Schoen making their rotation over as the TP is about to arrive. It's been and as soon
as they see the frog they've got to back away, Lyon wants nothing to do with this guy.
Especially because they had that top lane quest completed, so had the TP
shield coming in as well, but Doka I think would be very happy for a moment of respite up here,
try and get some gold as well because he has been struggling to get much up here.
Yeah, for Dokely, you're happy enough with that. You're saying, look guys,
it's a chemtech drink. We don't really care that much about it.
Dokely gets a chance to breathe here for a moment, but that breath might be cut short.
Nope, Ben's not going to go in for anything crazy. Just instead wants to tend the wave,
steer that one out and get back to business as usual up here in this top lane as night.
We'll see if he can just get this wave shoved up down here in bottom side.
St. trying to do the same over in mid as on is running around the top part of the map once again
They're so close though. They're going for the trade doesn't quite get over the wall to follow as don't was able to hop over
But yeah, you can definitely tell that this is now going to be the focus for BOG as they separate into this 131
Then is huge that's trying use that advantage with two plates already taken off the top lane to try and force a play towards him
Yeah, we've got first items getting completed across
Honestly, the whole scoreboard, even the lock of the iron salari, completed four on on the
bar for the extra shielding in the middle of these big fights.
So Dokla, however, still, unfortunately, just a phage and a longsword.
And it's also still with the vision control for onto the topside.
He's been doing a really good job of finding these moments to get vision for a game, but
oh, there's your wombo combo.
Shun and Knight going in after Saints.
He tried to use the petrifying gaze, but Knight predicts it.
He makes sure he doesn't get caught in the hard CC and BLG.
the 1-2 punch with a mid-jungle combo.
Asshun and Knight, excellent on this combo when you're seeing there just why.
The Vi still ground to the bottom side, Saint wasn't expecting this and it's the immediate
jump and you call it in the five flowers.
Knight sidesteps, predicts the ultimus, had on waiting in the wings if anything went
to Rai and it's a smile for the BLG midlaner.
They're going to be happy about that when over a 2,000 gold lead now, Inspire shows
up to make sure they can't do any more damage to the turret as on goes ahead and
takes his retreat. We've got the ripter out here spawning in about a minute, but like you said,
this whole time on has been maintaining so much vision control over the topside jungle of Lion.
He knows that Bin is always going to be pushing. He knows that top lane belongs to BLG, so you've
got to protect this area. You've got to place deep boards because it's not turned, and now those are
going to pay a secondary dividend in setting up for the Herald. Because Bin is about to take a second
complete now, just in that minutes of time that we saw that play on bottom side.
I'm now finding Dokla with the Core Popped.
Yep, Dokla's in some danger, already stunned up there with the ruthless predator.
He has to use the Grim Deliverance defensively, trying to get himself away as his fire goes
into the dive here, yet again looking for the move onto Viper, plenty of damage coming
out.
It was Knight, excuse me, as the kill comes through, Saint making sure they land that
one.
And it's Saint's Revenge down here in the bottom lane, Knight gets knocked over.
Gokla even using the teleport to come down here and join up for it.
But that means the top lane tier two is completely undefended.
It's a good call from line though,
because they knew that Knight didn't have that ultimate available.
It was only the flash inspired able to follow.
So they get some sort of trade back
because I think that play was dead in the top lane anyway,
which shun there.
Then it just popped call.
He got three plates, first terror gold.
And that gold lead just ballooned from an 800 gold lead
30 seconds ago to a 1.8K lead for a beam.
He is massive on the map, so Lyon needed to find something else for him.
Yep, Shen already starting up this Herald, he's got Ben walking towards him back from the base.
Any fight that Ben is involved in, Lyon either has to have just a supremely superior angle,
or they cannot do anything about it whatsoever.
It's a 2,000 gold lead across the team, it's a 1.7K lead for Ben.
It's just he is the difference in this game right now.
The difference is lying both mid and bot lane actually having a little bit of a leave for themselves again
Does both well for them. They are the late game insurance here
But unfortunately for line a late game is looking off too far away because you're just getting so much pressure on the map
With Viper happy to sit on mid wave on moving around shun finding ways to
Solidify a lead like he can play
So well around being and nice in these side lanes and that's what we're talking about
It's far kind of needing to be there to cover the side lanes for when that play happens
But they've just been so desynced in the jungle clears. It's been difficult to do
Four to three kills are close, but gold is not 30 seconds till the next Drake spawns
It's one and one on those counts again a more accelerated Drake game than what we've seen in the previous two in this series
And it's BLG moving in shenan on the playmaking duo
Setting things up so that BLG will have their opportunity for the trigger pull when they see it
You can see what inspired has to try and do right now, right?
He's just sitting down on this bottom lane trying to make sure they can cover in behind his top laner
So then if a play happens, they can actually be there
But it means that you know, he can't get to his top side
You're getting been isolated again in this won't be one where he's actually just stealing way Krug's there as well
So it is just making it difficult for the follow-up. Actually, maybe didn't make the drugs and spawn but still like you can see
Just how difficult it is for a line to cover the map inspired going in after been though trying to make the play on the BLG top
top laner who pops the Dominus nice and early.
They want to try to get Saint Petrifying gays,
but Ben had already turned around in time.
He's chasing after Inspired.
Who's hunting whom here in this play
as Ben has to continue his retreat.
Now the Berserker has showed up
and Inspired working together with his team,
setting the kill off for Berserker.
Down in the bottom lane, Dope was gonna die here too.
It's a requiem for top laners, 17 minutes into the game
as they both fall to multi-man plays from the other team.
Stain going to push for Tier 1 turret top. Meanwhile, Knight is going to take the Tier 1 turret bot.
Still been worth a little more in that trade, but unfortunately for LINE, they're not going to be able to get the Terror off the back of it.
So, would have loved a little bit more, but it is BLG who are extended that goal lead.
The TP as Oz is moving bot lane.
And honestly, kind of a bit of a puff.
There was no backup behind him. Stain could have technically TP'd in, but still, you get the Teleport out from Knight.
Yep, Knight losing that summer spell, we feel good for him there.
BLG also securing the Drake during that top laner-interred exchange.
As now Inspired finds himself in a whole world, a herd,
Piper's going to join on and Shun.
And that's an easy pick on the Lion jungler.
It's going to reward them with the enemy Red Buff as well.
BLG starting to pick up the pace again.
Just moving around Shun, finding plays and it's...
We're kind of just getting this like counter-punch constantly, right?
But Lion trying to play on the opposite side of the map to BLG.
But BLG are just picking up that little more every time.
This time it's inspired to get the way pushed up.
Dohkla trying to reconnect with the lane.
Yep, but he's caught in the temperate fate.
Not a whole lot of damage to follow this up with though.
Knight is nearby, but he's not close just yet.
You saw in your coin-based gold grind nearly 2,000 gold lead
for Ben over Dohkla at this point.
So really just the story of this game thus far
as Isle shows up to try to help big doves.
Hold on to the tier two turret up here in the top lane.
19 minutes on the clock means just about one more minute to go
until Barron will be around again BLG we remember back to the first game they got
the first pair and it didn't lead to a whole lot so Lyon kind of just still
trying to get gold wherever they can find it trying to make sure that they
don't allow BLG to balloon this lead run away any further so they continue
working towards that scaling that you were talking about this if we get to a
point of the game where it's still only a 3,000 gold difference at 40 minutes in
and you've got the Lyon team composition you're gonna be feeling pretty
And that's why we're seeing BLG trying to kick it up a notch right looking for the invades
They now have that riff taro which I imagine they're going to try and throw down a mid soon
Once you get that push on bot lane for bin and then take mid tower start to get the deep board start to limit access to the map for a line
Because at the moment I think like line happy enough if you can get towards you free items from berserk
Which isn't that far away in this position?
No, and
And that's so I think this is where kind of having shown and nice claps onto mid lane shows you they really want to put that threat down
All right parents about to spawn dragon still two minutes away ripped herald summoned up in mid lane by BLG
Lion just trying to dogpile and kill it off before it charges
And they get it done nicely done from lion
Yeah, and good call from line because we just said look you need to see BLG push out that bot lane with bin before they try
make this play so you draw members of Lyon away but BLG nearly trying to skip steps and Lyon
collapses to stop the dive. I may catch a little more here. Short cuts can end up costing you
sometimes and Lyon end up making BLG pay for a Herald that looked like it should have been a
sure thing but just couldn't quite complete the charge. Now that Bin's got the bottom way of
shoved up, Doku's down there ready to try to answer that one as Saint takes his recall,
is not interrupted on that one with the true shop barrage. Saint had a very big power spike now
for himself 10 stacks on the rod of ages fully evolved seraph's embrace level 15
here on this Cassiopeia night still in level 13 on the Ari so thanks to the
rod of ages boost more than a full level ahead for Saint and that's what I mean
like I think once you start to get these third items completed I think you're in
a good spot like especially for Berserker the motor reminder that we're
doing a lot of work against people like being in these engagements so I think
it's a good show and as long as you can play this front to back not give
should have had access to say Berserker or Sankin these fights. I think you've got a
good chance even if you want to like give up this next dragon like you've seen it
before where I'm sure they get to sell a point put. I think line from their next
position should be in a good spot. Well Berserker has just completed three
items so maybe they're feeling spicy. You have three items for Berserker. You've
also got the experimental hex plate plus stridebreaker combo for Nocturne that is
just that core build that always feels so strong in this champion.
Dokla is still working towards his second fully completed item, but that's just going to be the story of the Zahan.
It's going to take time to catch up.
You will be behind the Banectin, speaking of which, Bin, with his spear of Shoujin, creates a massive teamfight problem if he is there.
So Lyon will have to make sure they are respecting him.
If BLG wants to fight for this drake, 10 seconds on the clock until it spawns.
You can see Lyon down in the area first.
They do have Saint getting the wave shoved up.
He'll slither his way up in the river now as Knight is just taking the chance to work on a Tier 2 up here in the top side, not really afraid of Dokla.
He'll land a charm, a little bit of extra damage follow-up, but Dokla with the T-amack can at least clear the waves out swiftly enough.
So it's actually BLG who are giving up this dragon, looking for more gold instead, see Shun in this topside jungle, so not really going to be looking for any sort of steal.
Maybe look for a play in the mid-terror as it is just Isle who's sticking around, but with the wave gone, maybe just the Tier 2 is all the BLG gets here.
Yeah night with those three void grubs should be able to take this one down one more auto attack and then it bleeds away
Yes, sir 4,000 gold lead now for BLG
Lion ties it up to Drake's to two lots of defensive wards look at the lion vision
There's not really anything even in the river
The entire map is owned by BLG up until you start to get towards those buffs of lion
That's where their defensive vision is trying to make sure they don't allow BLG to get those pigs
those pills. But the thing is, right, like BLG I think may be a mistake giving up that dragon.
Like you're the one who wants to try and force fights right now because I think you had like
Spear Shogun just about to be completed for Viper. We also had, as you say, like some of those big
item spikes for Shun and Bin. And what it means now you're, you're giving 10 minutes to Lyon
before they really have to fight for something. And unless you can hard force Barons and some
pick plays around there, I think Lyon pretty happy to play the pace of this game. So even if you
you do lose a Baron. I mean you may be lose like the mid-terror and one of the tier 2s,
so Lion I think you just play this slow and don't give too much, but that may not be the
call here as they move to the top lane.
Oh, Sun's gonna face-check the brush and as soon as he does, he's got the entire squad
waiting for him. Shut down over to St. Money in the Cassiopeia's pocket. Level 16 acquired.
Enemy jungler dead. Lion starting up the Baron themselves.
They still have been trying to TP in,
wasn't hit that level 16 off the way,
but just hit it there as he TP's in.
Yep, he's got it.
True shot barrage flies through,
inspired down to 20% HP to bear in his down to half.
Viper getting away from the Miasma for now.
Knight with a lot of damage onto Isles.
Inspired, still very low.
Isles trying to get the flash block up,
has been versus Doku on the other side of the map,
also Rages on, on keeping himself alive here
with a tamper fate, but now he's gonna be in trouble.
Isles right on top of him,
flash over the wall coming out from on.
That Doku barely gets away on the other side of the map
here with the same timeline in retreat.
BLG's stopping him here at the objective as Bin forces Dokla away as well.
The 3v5 and it's BLG who actually managed to get away with it.
No one goes down, flashes bone across the board, but they stopped the Baron and Bin never got a chance to actually TP in
because Dokla tried to chase him down, which then forced both the flashes from the top laners.
So it's a pick and that's it.
Wow. Okay. Well, BLG doing a good job responding under pressure, yet again,
Lyon finding that pick onto Shun, just having that death brush camped up here in the topside try bush.
It was scary, but hey, BLG, now they've got everybody back on the map. Still 3000 gold lead.
Oh, Doku, this might not be a very nice place to be. Shun and Ben over the wall going right in after
Big Dokes. He does not have the flash. He does not have his determination meter filled. He does not
have a chance. 0-2-0 now on the Zahin. Dead for the next 45 seconds. Yeah, Doku,
Unfortunately getting caught there should less BLG push out this ball waving
Maybe look for the tier two in the bottom lane and suddenly this lone terror this tier one in the mid lane may be looking
Significantly less defensible. I shouldn't sign a move forward. He got inspired making sure to cover for any sort of play
But you still have to try and cover something on this bottom lane or bin will just get that terror
Viper level 15 on the Ezreal getting close to taking over the level 16 himself as inspired jumps in after bin
He's got help on the way, but Ben's trying to turn this one around real quick slice and dice back over the wall as berserker
Now I'm gonna get altered by shun
But a nice spell shield from berserker make sure that it's not gonna save Ben's life
Shun has to flash over the wall to complete the vault breaker so he doesn't get body blocked
Lion doing a good job there. It got a little scary
It did cost the flash from inspired to stay alive, but they get the pick on Ben
By first trying to stick around though. There's the ultimus. Yeah, that's charged coming in
The asthma right on top of the Ezreal, tempered fates not going to do it because Isles ends up pulling Viper right on back as Viper is down to 10% HP on trying to get away now himself.
St trap for the ball there with the Cosmic Binding and Sean shows up in the flank. St staying alive here thanks to the Stasis.
Mystic shot isn't going to collide with him. Stays with enough health to take another shot or two.
Very, very scrappy engagement here in the mid lane leads to no deaths.
no deaths.
Line really wanted a bit more off the back of that but couldn't quite find this.
So mainline terror goes down, they get the pick on bottom lane for line, BLG a 4000 Goldly
now for themselves with Rabadon's death cap now completed, a spear shogun finally done
for Viper as well with 30 seconds on dragon.
Line trying to take space back on the map, Zonya is coming through for saint as he just
burnt that seeker's anger.
Exactly, you'd love to see that type of timing, you get value out of your seeker's, immediately
You've got the next one ready to go.
BLG gonna go ahead and start up the Baron now
with just Viper and Shun.
Meanwhile, Inspire making the play over here in the mid lane.
Slash of the wall comes out from Knight,
keeping himself safe and alive for now,
but on can't say the same.
Tempered Fate was not back off a cooldown,
lying with a full send.
The five man die here in the mid lane
to take out the enemy support,
take out the enemy tier one turret.
Meanwhile, BLG, they secure the Baron
with the Viper and Shun, two man play.
Shusha Faraj gonna get fired towards the dragon pit,
but Inspired and Saint are already on the objective.
It's going to be Lion first to soul point
as Ben takes the Tier 2 Turret in the bottom lane.
Viper applies pressure to the Tier 3 Turret up here
from the top side, getting value out of the Baron immediately.
But basically saying, yeah, we don't care about those dragons.
So two dragons in a row, they disappear,
but it's Toka who has to use that Grim Deliverance
to get over the wall, the TP nailing behind from Lion.
Yup, Inspired, face checking the brush here with a spell.
She has Inspired taking it out immediately,
but Shum's gonna die right beside him
to have charge on the night.
Twin Fangs landing, and that's both of them sinking into Knight's throat.
Saint finds another kill, meanwhile Viper's still in the enemy base.
Gonna go ahead and take his empowered recall, get out of town,
because Lyon are finding these picks, but it is still BLG who managed to stay ahead in gold.
It's not like this whole sequence of plays ended up slingshotting Lyon back closer to parody,
because BLG got so much money from the Baron, from the turret push up there in the top lane.
They took the inhibitor as well.
Now the Zerker has to try to deal with Ben,
but the ruthless Predator finds the stun.
The Zerker still running, has to flash to escape the Crock.
And now with that turk down on the topside
and the inhibitor down, you've got that point of pressure
with the super creeps into the top lane.
Saint was put out there on his there,
but that now opens up BLG.
They just use their champions in two lanes versus three
and create more points of pressure.
So for line, it's two picks, the gold leads stay similar,
but I don't think their position is any stronger.
Guardian Angel completed on Shun, that's going to be a big tool in an upcoming team fight.
Nights Vowel done for on powerful support itemization there.
Meanwhile, we already mentioned that Hourglass that you were talking about for St. Infinity Edge.
That's the one for Preserker.
Portal reminder, we've got 100% crit chance Infinity Edge, Sivir on the lion side.
Sivir just needs uptime.
If she can find us, that's where she'll be able to take over a fight.
But BLG haven't been giving her that time.
They've been playing through multiple lanes.
They've been playing for the maps they play to take down these terrors.
And again, I think that's what we're going to see BLG do now.
Lyon trying to clear out this wave in mid,
used the last regs of this Red Bull Baron Powerplay,
and Shun sitting in behind them,
but there's double super creeps in that top wave.
So Lyon have to respond as the wave crashes in mid lane.
All right, how are they going to do these lane assignments?
How do they handle it?
Red Bull Baron Powerplay still acted for another 30 seconds.
As Lyon moves to the pen, Ben, pushing the bottom side,
wants to try to crash that wave into the Tier 3 turret.
Viper still firing with these mystic shots,
just trying to get any sort of harass that he can.
Nice double binding!
St. Force into stasis immediately on over the wall,
creating pressure, tempered faking to be sidestepped
by everybody on the Lyon team.
They stay alive for now,
but it was a big chunk out of St.'s health bar
that's causing Lyon to have to retreat.
The Baron enchanted Cannon minion,
doing plenty of damage to the Tier 2 turret
here in the mid lane, they will lose the Tier 2.
BLG's gold lead up to just about 5,000 here as the Baron expires.
The Baron, as you say, is now gone, so this siege not going to be quite as strong anymore.
So BLG will go back, spend their money, and see what else they can now find.
But two minutes now until that dragon.
I don't think there's much more that BLG can read to get unless they find a pick.
But this is where line, like, this is your silver line.
You count on to most of your base.
BLG haven't cracked the game open, and you have an potential ocean soul available.
Your main carries are fully online.
Saint and Berserker hit like a truck.
Like you saw how much damage Saint did to NICE
when that depth charge landed.
So if you can get those fights in your favor,
this could be you pushing us to game number four.
But I feel like for a lot of NA fans watching right now,
the flashbacks to game one are palpable.
Berserker set up to potentially carry in a big team fight,
but the lines collapse.
He doesn't feel the damage.
They end up losing,
and it loses them the entire game.
This time around, he has a chance at redemption.
He's got that 100% crit, he's got that infinity edge,
he's got the armor penetration.
If Berserker's positioning, like you said earlier,
leads him to be able to free fire,
he can cut through BLG, but he's got Bin and Knight
and Shun to deal with.
But it's been Berserker, you guys have been telling me,
is the man that Lion had been able to rely on
in these fights, the man who stepped up for them,
time and again as these series trudged on
for them in playoffs, and now,
on an international stage has to show that he can do it once more going up against his Korean
AD carry himself in the bottom lane with Viper having the home crown of Daejeon behind him
for he grew up in this city. Now it's time for Berserker to try and push Lion forward once more.
30 seconds on the clock until what'll be the ocean soul for Lion spawns. If they don't want to try
to fight for it, ELG can get it and then it'll just be three to three. We'll have to get a soul
after that. But I'm curious what lion is going to do here because yes you feel like you've
scaled you've got these powerful endgame champions and we're at the endgame state.
Back at 20 minutes I said if you get to 40 minutes into the game and you're 3000 gold apart
you're going to feel pretty comfortable. It's getting closer and closer my friend but it is
control over the map still in BLG's hands as the Drake is about to spawn. So they sent Saint to the
top lane. They want to try and get that tower. Get him his Void Staff and then call it a day.
It looks like the reset coming through that dragon is gone though. Creeps I assume. Yeah,
we'll kill the tower. So it looks like it's that's the call flowers. So I cook. We don't need to take
this right now. If we lost this, maybe that's a potential bar and immediately afterwards. So
get these items completed. There's five items for Saint. And if you can get that deck,
Sounds for Dokla as well, level 18.
Yeah, you are having these moments here.
Dokla, with the Death's Dance, I feel like the Zahin
will be relevant in the team fight, right?
From a game that Dokla has not been able to find me
putting in thus far.
Over on the other side though, Knight,
with the Death Cap fully completed on his Ari,
this is very scary as well.
Viper also with four fully completed items working
on his next, trying to head towards that Guardian Angel.
This is another one of those games that I feel like it's just going to come down to one big fight.
Because although it's not dead, even like game number one, the scaling that we've been talking about for Lion
makes it feel like it could go either way.
I mean, if you get a big team fight, win for Lion, you can definitely end the game.
Like, you've so much damage on towards these turrets, you can rip through the structures.
But Lion are playing this very patiently.
Like, you can see they spotted on, but wait a second, they're going after Shun, inspired.
pulls the trigger on the paranoia as Bindin has to flash away from a potential follow-up dredge line from Isles.
Lyon see the chance to maybe make the pick. Instead, they're just gonna get the flash from Bin's Renekton.
That's a big summoner spell, though. That removes so much of Renekton's threatening an upcoming teamfight.
Two big ultimates for Lyon were used on the hunt and that paranoia.
So Lyon, not feeling as confident to just step up into this one.
BLG using NICE with that mobility to facecheck the bar to make sure Lyon haven't turned over towards us.
You can still see like both teams know that this game is standing on a knife's edge.
One false move could make everything crumble down around you.
And I was about to say Lyon haven't played a patient.
They spotted it on the river.
They don't go for the immediate all in because they know that BLG probably have numerous members there.
Lyon are taking it slow. They spotted it on bot lane. Now they're taking position.
Critically, Guardian Angel now purchased four Viper, so that's double GA's on the BLG side.
Shun and Viper, both with that ability to resurrect triple GA, excuse me, as Bin has also purchased his.
Guardian Angel now also available for berserker, it's four GA's in the map.
It's Lyon starting up the Baron.
Doklan inspired, both down to about half HP.
Doklan goes over the wall, trying to interfere with Shun.
Who goes in, tries to get something back, wants to be able to find some sort of a steal.
The Baron down to 2500, Bin's down into the pit.
Two list Doklan's going to be forced into the Resurrection, inspired, secures the Baron,
but BLG is still fighting.
Shun goes back over the wall.
Lyon has surrounded Bin!
They knock him into the resurrection tonight, he's killed off first.
The GAs are popping all over the place as being close back to life,
but now Inspire is going to be in some danger, he's cut down with a slice of dice,
but it costs bins life.
Inspire has lost his own life alongside Dokla, but they've killed three on BLG.
It's only Viper and Shun's still alive.
Shun losing his own Guardian Angel in that fight.
God bless, Attacked Eye, I have no idea whose Guardian Angel was popping, when, where, and why,
but there were so many GAs there in the fight.
All you need to know is that if Shun doesn't have one and that's the TP,
they want to try and find Shun in his own jungle.
Sane trying to cut him off here, the twin sangs do so much damage.
Shun wants to try to sidestep it, the ball breaker over the wall,
but Sane's ready here with a flash.
A little bit more damage does it. Sane goes with the rampage.
Sane finds the pick, but unfortunately, four line.
These waves are in the worst possible position.
But with the Baron, they may be able to change it as
immediately Doko goes over the wall to interrupt to any sort of Shun entrance.
Shun has to flash in, but they turn and burn up the buy as soon as she's in the GA, there's no smite available.
But the position here for BLG is so difficult.
Biper doing what he can over the wall to get the damage that he can.
NICE has to retreat because you got that immediate ult from Isle to keep him out of the fight.
With the Baron going over and these resurrections, he syncs its line, who can then turn on towards Bin.
Shun gets over the wall, NICE tries to go in to help out his counterpart in the solo lane.
But there's just not enough in the tank, and this was the damage we talked about.
This was the late game, that was promised,
and it's lying to go three for two with Baron in the fight.
And Berserker is all smiles, so let's go ahead and take stock.
No Guardian Angel on bin, no Guardian Angel on shun.
Guardian Angel still up on both, 80 carries,
no Guardian Angel on inspired.
Okay, Death's Dance completed now for Dokla as well.
Berserker 12-4 on Sivir in his career, 10.1 KDA,
knows how to pilot this champion,
And now, Hasmar Kiriel-Simitar alongside that GA.
He is true.
Season 16, 80 carry, full build, seven items.
Yeah, man wants to go 12-0-4 on the scoreboard,
instead for this one.
As he steps up with the rest of his team,
Doklan needs to TP in, his line do control,
and dictates where BLG can enter in towards this river.
Dragon, 10 seconds away,
lying in a great spot for the front to back.
Viper trying to TP to bot lane,
just a reposition behind his team.
It's an ocean soul fight.
It's 3-3 on the drakes.
3 on the drakes, this one must be the soul for one of the two squads here.
Lyon with aggro on the drake right now, but they're not trying to do a lot of DPS here just yet.
Shusha Farage flies blue, Paranoia already going to be popped here as Doku's in the middle of a pit,
trying to find an angle here.
Shun can be your first target, he tries to get away through the wall here, the wall breaker,
Tipper fade down on the drake, trying to buy in a little bit more time as Doku's about to die,
and Knight finds the kill.
Lyon's still looking to fight for the objective, they take the soul.
The BLG's still looking to take the fight, Inspire has already fallen,
been getting himself away just barely.
And yet again, it is BLG finding the fight, the ace for nothing!
Billy Billy Gaming will take this push!
BLG's team fight is insane!
It's five for nothing when it all seemed in favor of line, and they would just rush through the base.
When it comes down to it, when all the chips are on the table,
when it all comes down to one final fight, it's BLG again, and again,
and now for a third time again, proving their superiority.
They will clean sweep Lyon 3-0.
In what an absurd fashion.
It looked like Lyon had turned the corner.
They found the Baron, they found the FICE, but somehow, Shun sneaks away and it's BLG who finds the key members in the FICE.
What a fight from Lion, but what a show of team fighting from BLG, Analyst Desk, take it away!
Oh man, it's just a story of small details.
Game after game after game for Lyon, it's BLG taking the 3-0.
Expectedly so, I want to say, but what a fight.
What a statement from Lyon, especially after the first series they played earlier this week.
I love the resilience here.
I know no one is going to go back and look at this series.
They're just going to see the score line, be like, oh, this was a 3-0, especially in this game.
after they got that late Baron. I was like, okay, it's Berserker time. Like, he knows this Sivir. We've got this.
We did not have it. We lost it.
Okay, what happened? What happened? Because we get the soul, but then what?
Yeah, so I think a lot of effort was spent on trying to stall out the soul.
Dohkla ends up getting picked off here by Knight, doesn't get a chance to do anything else.
And then here, Berserker ends up getting caught out, goes to the GA, and the response after he resurrects,
He doesn't give him a chance to anything. That Bardstone just ends his life.
Also, Bin finally kind of has the teamfight that I think BLG really, really wanted out of him, where he's just absolutely unkillable.
We kept looking at the score lines at one point. He was 3k up, despite the fact that I think he was 1, 2, and 0.
And then Doku was 0, 2, and 1. He was absolutely monstrous in lane.
And in that fight, he was just unkillable.
And that's the thing, and that's why I appreciate from Lyon is the fact that with this Renekton has been, you want to be looking for those flanks
And I do appreciate the fact that Lyon didn't let BLG get in their face
This is the thing that they identified the most coming into this series
But at the end of the day, when you have to defend either the soul or track the Renekton and the fact that BLG is going to collapse onto you
You cannot be everywhere at once
frustrating part and the most impressive part for me is we had a fight where the Bard ulti was a
little early, where they weren't quite able to get value from. We had a fight where Doku was kind
of able to keep Bin out of the fight. The next fight, instant adaptation for BLG. Bin is exactly
where it needs to be. The Bard play is even better than it was in the previous fight and there's no
quarter. There's no chance for any kind of response and that's like five minutes of gameplay. The
Sivir is as scary as she could possibly be. You give the enemy team soul. The BLG are so clutched,
so consistent at recognizing what went wrong in the previous fight and adapting in the follow-up fight that
It just sometimes feels like it's impossible to beat this team
It just feels like they're a level above and despite the fact the game for competitive within them still wasn't an exit take for line
I think that the positive is that they're still in the tournament
Yeah, they can get a reflect in this and make adjustments
But BLG just looks so scary because even when you think you have an edge you have an advantage you have a way to challenge
They still win the game. Yeah, and we saw this from them in the LPL as well, right?
the game. So, you know, it's
a really tough loss for Lion, I
think, but. In fairness, based
on the furdiest series of
matches, I think they're in
game adaptations and again,
they're just their coordination.
They're always talking through
how they want to approach these
fights, even when their map
movements and macro might not
might be a little bit shaky as
In fairness based on the furdius series. I had I did not expect them to look this good also level up
Yeah, and the furious series two out of five players were playing League of Legends
We're up to four out of five like if they can get I was on the same page as the rest of the team
Sorry, bro, but it was a bad day for you
Like this is a team that can actually contest those were games of League of Legends. Yeah, remember we saw a slaughter yesterday
That was not
Layered off the series here guys, we have to honour Shun once again.
It's hard, right? Because I feel like every team member from BLG took turns into carrying this game,
but at the end of the day it's the jungle difference again.
Yeah, I think so much commended this tournament was focused on the solo lanes,
but Shun has just been ever present, linking up with On, finding the big plays and being this consistent threat.
And also, playing on the limit so often, I feel like it's help bar to sometimes Joyo's in these fights,
but he's still trying to look at the angle to get on top of Zerke or stay and shut them down.
Yeah, and I think like it's also almost again because this was a really big team win for BLG in my opinion
I feel like every player took turns stepping up and then had a little bit of snap boos, but I mean shun is
Such an engine for this team and honestly his coordination and his ability to find plays in the sideline
Especially that one we just saw was really good. What I think is exciting is that is in the next round
We're gonna see BLG versus Honolife. We're gonna see Viper against his former team
Defending his team here at his hometown in Dejon, but the better news is that LCS is not out
We will see Lyon again and Shox is standing by with the club backstage for the Verizon. So let's get into it
Vs BLG but just not enough and it seemed like you guys often had the right idea
You definitely had the fight in you. So where do you think you left it on the riff today?
Um, well, we left it off all our work today, but unfortunately, I wasn't enough
It feels really hard to process like game one
We just lost after one team fight game two if I like we were in a winning position as well
But we just got out executed in the team fight in game three
It was gonna be hard because I was getting kind of stomped in land. So that one
maybe we had a chance but it was very slim at least from my point of view, but um,
It's nice that we're like close enough to like, you know a team fight determines
these games but you know we're right there I think just need to settle in calm
down I think and then we should be okay for a rematch. Yeah I see you like going
through all the moments in your head because you're right it often came down
to like singular decisions it is also fair to say though that seems like BLG
this is what they thrive at right so is that a specific working point for you
know going through the lower bracket maybe facing these these big darker
Well, we know today was going to be hard, win or lose, but this is a good experience I think,
and just take that, just really settle in. I think the theme of this series, at least, is like
we get overexcited and we commit too much in the fight, or we're not prepared to fight when
they are. And I think that's typically a benefit of strength of ours, at least in NA, so just
get back to that. And then I think they could go either way. I mean, if we get out team pop and,
you know, well played, but we just need to get ourselves a fighting chance for sure.
Yeah, we do see sometimes videos coming out of the line camp that you guys are very honest with each other
You really tell it the way it is
So how in your experience have you bounced back from things like this knowing that team secret Wales is up next and then I said some
Of these huge huge teams possibly
Yeah, so I mean next one is team ticket Wales. I mean they got a pretty good upset against these sports
So it's gonna be you know, difficult opponent to prep for but should be slightly easier than the other. I'm sure
So knows really. I mean, yeah, you don't know but every you know
We'll take our chances, so just prepare for that series and then try to fix our mistakes here today
And I think we'll have a good shot. Okay. I'm looking forward to your video for today. Yeah on socials
Yeah, you got something special for us. Um, let's see. I mean, maybe I just recap the games and okay get my point of view on it
Yeah, right check out the locals socials for sure
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I'm here with Furious Tatu, ahead of an Epic Clash vs T1.
Now Tatu, you are in the lower bracket, so it's a very important match, but how does
the team and you feel overall about playing the World Champs?
I mean, we felt that the last game against Lyons, everyone was super nervous, they didn't
We had a lot of expectations, a lot of match against Lyon.
So in the game, every time something goes wrong, we're super mad at each other.
Everyone was feeling so nervous.
So that's not how we did it.
In the last Masai, in the entire tournament in Brazil, we enjoyed a lot playing the game together.
We were in that like, we joke a lot in the game.
So we're going to just like face the matchup as Mario in the face and like enjoy in the moments
Because that's the way that you play better
We know that you like this one is a super strong team and we need to play like a nine or ten to win
But you're looking for that nine and looking for that ten. So
We're gonna enjoy a lot. Yeah
What is it like for you as a competitor to play a team of the stature of T1, right?
Because I feel like on the one hand it's a dream matchup
But on the other hand, it's the hardest thing ever.
Yeah, exactly.
I kind of go both ways.
For me, it's a dream to play against Faker.
Like Nabil 5 and MSI.
It's amazing.
So if I win against him, we'll be like, woof.
Like a plea.
Yeah, exactly.
So I'm really, really excited.
Okay.
Obrigada, boa sorte.
Exactly, much obrigado.
Oh, so lovely talking to Tatsu.
good vibes. Yeah, I love it. But I like that he says, hey, we need the nine or attend today.
Oh, when would be incredible playing the best fives and honor? And it is like it is a tall
task for these guys. But there's a lot we saw in that series, despite the fact that it was an
03 that kind of gives hope for this team as we look ahead. Yeah. And I also like what he told
you about just being able to play loose and be a lot more vibes based, right? Because he's like,
you know, we started getting angry with each other. That's not usually what happens. That's
So we want to have a better performance by playing freer.
Yes, I think one thing that really showed in that match versus Lyon was that they have some of the right ideas,
but then when it comes to the Barons, the most important moments in the game, they looked a little disheveled.
There was a comment from Toots saying there that,
yeah, well, in the scrims, we never get to those times, Auk.
So, yeah, honestly, how are you supposed to practice it?
I think it's so difficult as well, going up against T1, not being practiced in the area,
because they're a team where you can win early, you can win mid-game,
But it'll come down to those big moments around those mutual objectives.
We call it T1 baron for a reason.
And if you miss step there, the game is theirs.
Yeah, and late game has always been the hardest part of League of Legends to practice
because people also quit depp-epskim.
So whether you're screaming internationally against the LPL, domestically, whatever,
it is a really tricky nut to crack.
And you're already behind in terms of the arm race of late game preparation.
I guess a team like T1, who all five players know exactly where they need to be,
but I'm optimistic that as they've had more time to scrim,
as they've had more time to see what everyone else is doing,
that they are going to be able to level up a bit today.
Emily, what have we learned about this match versus BLG from T1?
Because T1 came out of the play-in stage,
everything going great, right?
How do you view them now?
I mean, I think they should still
be considered one of the favorites at this tournament,
especially for all of the stuff we said
Furious could have trouble with, like the late game team
fights, like the Baron.
I think a few draft adjustments for them would go a long way.
I'm sure they already know this as well.
But yeah, I think for this particular matchup,
just make sure you're getting on the same page,
write your expected favorites,
play stuff you're familiar with.
I think they should be coming into this
with more than enough confidence.
What I've always found really impressive with T1
is the ability,
because things haven't always been through sailing,
they'll go away and go,
okay, this wasn't working, this was wrong,
our draft approach wasn't really correct,
and they'll adjust.
We've often seen that favor them at Worlds,
and they often ramp up over the course of the tournament,
So, you know, even though they had a great run of plans, they lost against BLG, and expectation is they will learn from that, take away from it, and next time they face them, they'll have leveled up.
Yeah, absolutely. I think we all kind of expect that of them, because this is the lower bracket, but it almost feels like, for them, it's just business as usual, because they're going to come back.
They haven't really played a Brazilian team that often, only one other time, and so it is really also about pride for the Brazilian side, and I don't want to devaluate to them, because I want to give them a fighting chance.
We're going to have to see a lot from them.
We absolutely are.
And look, for T1, the perfect situation
is you've refined your bread and butter.
You don't have to show anything new.
And no matter what you draft, it's all
going to be smooth sailing.
But as we've seen across the entirety of this tournament,
you cannot underestimate a team, no matter what their region says,
no matter what their nameplates say,
you can drop games to anybody here.
It's been a very close bracket stage,
even at some of these 3-0s.
And so I think, yeah, right on the line for the side of FURIA,
because you might be able to do it.
And I'm interested to see how the jungle match goes,
Because this year so far we've seen owner struggle a little bit, especially what his lanes have been in a weak spot.
But Tatu has been the engine for this team, even in that loss that they had, he was trying to make plays happen and get them into a favorable position.
All eyes on the jungle and some on the cast because for the first time at MSI 2026, we've got Jatt, he's with Medic.
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Hey, thanks for the welcome, Shox. I am so excited to be out of my hotel room.
Yes, I am I I got the plane and I died faster than K-Cork it like it was insane instantly out of the tournament
But luckily for me it is also double elimination. So I have recovered the one time. Hopefully I don't get sick again
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It's great to be here for T1 versus Fury and it's likely to be a banger of a series because although
I think a lot of people will come for your ear out going into this best of five
There's still a lot we haven't seen from this team in my estimation
There really is the expectations for this team were the highest
expectations have been for a Brazilian team since I don't even know how long the Brazilian fans would be better at telling me that
But it's as long as I can remember and then
With how they then got swept by lion
There was a lot of immediate communities low back and then as their lower bracket opponent
They face the back-to-back-to-back defending world champion who has already 3-0 team like with twice 3-0 KC once
But to five games against PLG. It's kind of hard to be in this situation. So we'll see how they respond
But this is what MSI is all about. I worlds
I think sometimes you get a slightly easier route through, you know, you're playing this best of threes
is not quite as challenging. MSI is the do or die tournament. It is the, you either show up or you
shut up and you go home. And for Furia today is the day to show up. T1 are not infallible. And Furia
did manage to gain some leads versus Lyon in the early games. In the first couple of games in that
series, it was just their mid game to really let them down. And that is a worry when you play up
against T1. Absolutely. And I do believe a lot of what Furia said for the reasons that their mid
the game seemed so strange against Lyon.
A lot of it was just getting a little bit too excited,
pressuring themselves a little bit too much
because the expectations were so high.
So in a weird way, I'm gonna see how good
their mental game is, because on one hand,
when you walk out on stage against a team one in Korea,
the aura is incredible and a lot of teams just wilter away,
but on the other hand, you're such remarkable underdogs,
sometimes you can use that to take the pressure off yourself.
Yeah, Fury obviously undercats rather than underdogs
with the panther as their logo,
But I agree with the sentiment there, Jax, as Oriano's picks first here for T1.
They get rid of Vi, Poppy, and Akali, and Fiora removed Bard, Nocturne, and Zeke.
Some targeted bans towards the T1 players there, as Casio is the lock in response for the CBLOL representatives.
And then immediately Lee Sin locked in as well for Tatu.
It's his second, he only played Lee Sin twice in the entire spring split,
but it's also just an incredibly powerful meta pick.
And the Casio, even though we did see them flexed into the bot lane,
I think it's a good matchup into the Oriana, so I'm pretty sure it's gonna statement. I agree with you
And I think getting the early getting tattoo something he has agency on is so important for this team
They talked about it on the desk. He is the engine. He's the weird house. He is the conductor whatever other
Superlatives you want to use to describe him
He is the guy that makes this team tip and he needs to be the player in the early game that really stops
He wants from exploding out of the gates T1 alongside the Orianna are going to lock in a J. Santa Camille
And this Camille support for I'd say the top teams of the tournament just seems like such a
Powerful card and draft like we were talking a little bit about this earlier today
With in terms of made bot lanes, which I think Furia should definitely ban Mel
And then we'll see what pays ends up trying to pair with this Camille
I don't know it just feels like such a weapon for them because it's so hard for supports to just pick up Camille
But it's so lethal in the hands of a player like Harry and Kerry has shown us over the years
He is very good at picking up a new style of support very quickly
But I think about the ash even a Callista support for a while right and I support something that he was known for and now obviously
Moving into playing things like the sham or like the Camille
They can have that more impact around the map you say they should get rid of some of those majors in the bot side
Fury have already removed the six, but they'll put them a theory on the bench alongside that
T1 are likely looking and making sure that this Jason the topside has a couple of easier matchups
Doesn't have scared they are we go because like we go as well
Although he used to play a little bit more aggressively has been more of a tank player for this period line of recent
Definitely, and it's pretty interesting to me
If they end up letting Mel through agreed, but that would also mean that they have something prepared
Which would then make me kind of confident that they're playing into it because at least they would have thought it
It's such an obvious angle for one of their bands.
I mean, I think Tristano is the obvious pick that we've already seen being used earlier today by Berserker.
I love the idea of, okay, you can play from range, but we're going to close that gap immediately.
The rel is there for the follow-up, or even the initial engage as well.
And Robustle isn't doing a huge amount of work for Mel in that matchup.
If you're on top of Mel, she is incredibly squishy and very easy to kill.
The problem is when she can stand at range and stop your initiation.
I mean, Pace has just looked so absolutely unstoppable on it.
But instead, they throw two bans towards owner's champion pool.
So another thing that I think one of the reasons
that these teams have been playing made
to bot lanes so early and fearless
is I think the things you want to put with it
are rather specific.
Since you're going, generally speaking,
WAP for your mid-bot carries need a lot of AD damage
from your other positions.
That's why it's almost always played with Jason in an ideal situation.
They already have the J.C.
The other thing they need is a high damage 80 jungler,
which maybe they think they're denying a bit with the Wukong and the nefiri bands.
But to me, they, like, Zin is still open.
So I don't know, they're clearly letting it through.
And Tristana is probably the pick that they're going to play into now.
If I had to guess, and that's even a pace goes for it now that it's like,
it's almost too obvious that they would pick it, that they might go a different
direction. I mean, Syndra kind of does what Tristana wants to do in the bot lane,
also has the scan of the week which can interrupt the rocket jump forward from the twist and so I
wouldn't be surprised as you say if T1 just flex a little bit say okay we still want a mage bot but
Syndra fulfills that role very well we will see it locked in that will be going down two pays in
the bot lane the most unlikely and alongside that age funnel so another physical damage not the highest
output but you can still do quite a lot of work and especially in the Sion but specifically it's
because of the Sion the Sion would actually be a very big problem in this game because generally
made bot lanes have low sustained damage but now they have to subjugate to remove a significant portion
of scion's tankiness. So I do like what T1 has done here and I actually, I mean I don't really think
that they might just flex the casio bot. Yeah they're flexing the casio bot once again.
Which is just, I get it, they like the casio bot, they have a little bit of 80 damage,
Guigo is probably going to go against scion once again. I think they're trying to play some mind
game here for sure against T1. I don't really think that Ryze is a good matchup into the Orianna.
It can play well in side lanes if it gets ahead, but Faker should be able to get pushing that lane
early. But at least Curia is very confident with their draft strategy. Once again, they had a good
show on the Casio bot lane in game two against Lyon and they really come up with a plan.
I think IU actually ended up 10 and 2 in that game, even though they did lose it, had some really
really good position. On that
Casio. The problem is. You
haven't really upset the
apple car against one of all
your trusting your own style,
which I think is a good idea,
but we're not seeing anything
from those counterpicks that I
look at and say, Oh, they've
actually really got a winning
bottle. Oh, they've really got
a winning mid. And when
you're giving fake his
Ariana, you're always going to
be a little bit concerned. It
is the first time we've seen
as I can tell, but obviously you expect him as a bot lane mage player to be able to play
at the center plate.
Yeah, with the way that he's been able to play, Ziggs and Mel, I would imagine he'd
be very proficient on the center.
It is going to be the most vulnerable of the three mages.
Never mind, never mind.
Oh no, I'm making a fake now.
Sorry, Jack.
Sorry.
It's going to be the most vulnerable of the three mages, but I have confidence he'll
to be able to do it just because it is made skill that's already been displayed.
I totally agree with you.
For Furia, you want to get out of the gates swinging here.
Otherwise, the teeth of that pantheon will very quickly be taken out of your attack.
Have a look at where the junglers are starting.
Looks like it's going to be topside for both.
Vision placed down.
Tartu able to clear it out with that passive from the Lee Sin.
Furia will just have that ward around their Razorbeak
to make sure a delayed invade can't come down from Ona.
Yeah, definitely not. We'll see if Tatu can get anything going early game here,
because as we mentioned before, Furia very dependent on their mid jungle
to see if they can get things rolling.
This is very much the style of team composition that they would have played
throughout their split into CBLOL to qualify here for MSI.
Shoujo, how do you aftershock the carry on?
It's running the hail of blades on the Camille for that extra damage.
the adaptive defences on the Camille.
Very strong when you are trading in like this.
So having a mage bot does even have that damage a little bit.
So sometimes you get a physical damage shield
and actually wanted the magic damage shield.
But I don't expect to see
Karrion and Jojo actually spending a huge amount of time
down towards this bottom lane in the early game.
It looks like Tartu is going to do a three-camp reset,
get himself a longsword.
Karrion goes in, hits two in the air and pays.
He took a noxious blast because of that,
can't go any further forward.
JoJo is going to get two off a minion dine just out of range of the camera.
And in the end, it's a good engage from Keria, but it doesn't gain them too much.
If you're just crazy, this is like such a classic
mage matchup that you would see mid lane, Cinder vs. Casio, and they're just in the bottom lane now.
And with these Camille lanes, they kind of lane until level
two or three, and then they're just gone.
So, I think what we just saw on the bot lane, until a jungler goes bot,
You know, we'll be the last actual a true waning that we see. I see also a
Chasm of experience
between these players faker with
333 international games that's only having 13 it's to be expected T1 so often have been a dominant force and for furia
MSI last year was their first international as a
Organization
We'll see if they can do better than a 0-6 here, which I think is where everyone expects them to sit after they're lost to Lyon
Dude, 333 international games is such an unfathomably large number
Yeah, you can play one every day for a year taking a month worth of holiday
If you see a massive engage down towards the bottom side, Jorja having to flash away the pillar not catching out on the wrong side
But with a flash chop over, we'll get it, takes a tower shot that was tied to Lux, but the trade will get a 1-for-1
Caria trying to retreat and Noxious Blast catches him out as IU low on Madakant land between fangs
But Tatu follows up for the double. Huge play there for Furia and a very aggressive invade there by T1
So the thing with Syndra if you're comparing it to Cassiopeia
The cool downs are just very long. So once they got that first kill
They had nothing left and Tatu could just continue to chase and pick up our kills
great sonic wave from tattoo to find that connection be in the right place at
the right time now has the lead and we talked about how he needed to be the
catalyst for this team him off to a 200 gold lead almost 300 gold lead is it
going to be massive for fury up Jojo and carry and now out on the map looking to
see if mid lane perhaps is their next point of contest between these two
teams I expect to see resets from tattoo he's gonna go back and get himself a
pickaxe and another longsword to just the phage coming out from oner yeah so
oner will be set back a little bit and here comes Karya just swooping into the
bot lane you have to flash back Karya! Prusilism protocol into a dark space enough
I think are you just assumed he was safe with the flash double flash from the T1
bot lane to secure that kill really slim margins there as he was just getting that
that wave shoved in before retreating, had his teleport up as well.
We're going to see this original play one more time.
And JoJo being level 2 carries very confident taking this and then they chain it, but now
Paz is completely out of spells.
So owner flashes and takes it down from the turret, essentially sacrificing his own life,
and we're going to come out to another fight.
Don't even hit here by Tatsu in the flash, in from Guigo enough to get Tatsu on a killing
spree on this Lee Sin.
an O now being top-beam but you know everywhere on the map by them one all time on this pick
Just insane start for Tatu, but I think more crucially getting Doran dead
Wow, he has no TP is gonna set up
We go for a lot of success on the Sion if this lane stays even and Jace isn't able to stack up those
incremental advantages then the Sion could become rather unstoppable
the game for the shadow. It's
going to time out on him.
Carrier deciding the hookshot
wall dive did not need to hit.
Oh, it didn't. If he did go for
it, he'd be a lot of it too deep
into the fight. Really all eyes
on Tati for this early game for
Fury. Even between the two teams
in terms of gold, blaming leads
have been built for pays
predominantly on the T one side
about 300 gold ahead because of
up to it's now though with the realm walk can start to move around the map the risk of pays and carry using those double flashes
But means they are a little bit more susceptible to a long-range gang from the rise owner coming around the side here
Just might have to burn a flash of his own is chocolate is gonna pull him back a good pillar
That's tries to flash the wall manages to escape it even with carrier coming in the tactical sweep does not clear up to
little plays like that seem
somewhat inconsequential in the moment, but the fact that he was able to stay alive
very important in terms of not falling behind the pace of the game too much against the Soliano Faker,
already accumulating small advantage in that lane, if two sort of died there
and the kill would have gone over to Faker, it might have put the lane out of reach,
but flashless Casio under the turret, Karrie is going to look to be annoying at the very least.
Just keep him around if you can.
Jojo has just recalled, opened up through mid as well though, so it's going to be about 10 seconds before he can come here.
Tartu about five seconds ahead of his support and started up the Drake.
Carrier spotted out with a noxious blast.
Winfang starting to put their venom into the back of that Camille support,
who jumps away in my asthma grounding,
not properly down in time, but it's not no flash.
And no plays to go, nowhere to call home,
as Carrier feels the sting of the Twin Fangs.
This is another one of those games for T1, I feel like.
Every time, I'm going to generalize a little bit here,
Betty or Betty, Betty is wow.
I know we both miss him, man, but come on.
Yeah, he's not going to watch this series.
No, he's just, I hate him.
So owner going for down the top.
Such a huge amount of work.
We go tries with the design.
Smash gets knocked out of it.
Great play by T1.
Perfectly executed die with the dragon going over.
It was pretty easy for only to set up that play.
You'd like to see likely we go to just give the turret away.
They're not getting pushed off raptor by Kerry as well.
That's the thing, you're trying to cross map against T1, but they're so knowledgeable about all the possible plays you can make
that Karius is always going to be there to at least make it difficult for you.
And timing wise, it's really bad for Tartu because his Krugs were up and his Red Buff were up
which is why JoJo is now trying to come across to make sure that Ono can't take all of that topside jungle.
Tartu was hoping he could sneak in and steal a couple of camps because you know Ono after getting the kill in top is going to be doing the same.
Thankfully, JoJo able to save that red buff for his jungler, but lane lead's now being
garnered for T1 across the map.
But I think the point I was making before is, JoJo's actually looking to maybe contest
this as a level 4 rel because Tatu is on a cliff, so Tatu would love to fight.
Tatu goes in, JoJo here as well, TP from Grigo as well as Keria, looks great, the shot
brave can land on 2 though, and you just can't give Faker this Orianna, the shot brave pulls
He throws them back and Paze secures the second Grigo now in for a world of hurt.
He's in the belly of the beast and he can't find a way out.
A double for Paze as T1 assert their dominance on the rim.
Man, that is rough for Tatu. He had his power spike so he really wanted to go in for a fight there
but they were just outnumbered at the time.
Guigo wasn't even there with a scion yet.
Everyone on T1 was sitting and waiting to burst out the Lee Sin.
And before I could even make the point
that the game is close against T1 until it's not,
the game is no longer close.
Look at the way they lock up both JoJo and Tattoo
with the shockwave.
And just like that, T1 have five people there
before the fight starts.
It's a numbers fight.
You have three, they have five immediately.
And then Guigo comes in late.
The Ryze isn't able to join either, effectively, as Grigo is looking for Doran up towards this top lane.
Doran trying to trade back. He has got Ono waiting in the wings, and there's the Subjugate.
Grigo... He has to flash over the pillar in the end.
Every time Furious seems to find an inch, T1 take a mile.
T1's kind of off to the races right now. I see Paze down bot lane with three kills on the Syndra.
Talk about the mage bot infestation. We crossed out a lot of them by this point.
You can tell a lot of these casters were around in 2018 when these were common mage bots
You can even add Orianna there. You never know we could add a Garen in there. That was an old
It was my favorite bot lane mage the Garen Yumi days. That was 2019. That's post mage bot infestation
There's the bruiser with a Yumi infestation. It's true. We also haven't seen Swain bot yet, which is a we did see that a little bit
I think that was 2019 so we bought so we bought would be interesting. We're just getting started unfortunate
I think part of the thing with the mage bot is you need someone that after level 3 is just safe
You don't need to get into any further portion of the game as we see a bit of an invade down towards this bottom try
Glitch but T1 able to safely protect pays and carry up. Yeah, I think that's the thing that makes the mage bot
So fitting for competitive right now. Well, there's a couple things
It's the fact that they can be self-sufficient because they're insane wave clear
It's the fact that they do then have kill threat when they come bot because of the burst relying kits
But then also like the two out of power spike just comes so fast with the protobelt and the increase in card from the roll quest
That even if you're going even you're gonna have windows where you're stronger than the other way
Yeah, you also scale incredibly well seven items is a lot of items to be able to pick up in a game of League of Legends
Even for a mage, yeah even for a mage. Gold is good. Yeah, gold is always good used to be when you talked about mages
It was all oh they scale off levels most effectively
But obviously an extra item in your inventory is never anything to be sniffed that as T1 have garnered about a
a 2.6 gold lead, which means they are starting to pick up some of those extra items in their inventory.
Doran actually going for the Serpent Spang first here on the Jace.
Not something we too commonly see, but it does make sense into the sign, into the lead, into the Vizal.
We're going to have those shields as Keria dashes away from Tartu.
Once again, can't find purchase on that Camille.
Kayz has to flash away from the Notch's blast.
Tartu goes in with a dragon's-wave kick.
Notch's Keria back who flashes.
The wall ties him. He's trying to flash.
Chase, owner of that Strat-Protector support, but he can't do it.
And now, owners on the wrong side of the wall, the most fans are sinking in.
RU takes it two for naught in favour of Furia.
Furia's got hands, but you can see they know how dire the game state actually is.
Even after picking those two kills up, the very passionate Furia is still a little bit subdued.
So nice play there. Outplayed them for sure, but if you look at the map state, it's still very much in T1's favour.
Yeah, still a thousand code leads for Doran on the top side, which is not where you want to be.
If you're here, that chase poke is going to do a lot of work later on.
It's something we haven't talked too significantly about as of yet,
is the amount of poke actually that T1 have with the Syndra, with the Jace.
You can, from quite long range, do a lot of damage around these objectives.
Yeah, watching this one more time, you can just see Keria gets caught a little bit in the river.
Tatu gets behind him, kicks him back straight into the rail stun and the rise realm warp.
So, not many places for Keria to run and then very timely war jump from Tatu,
which prevents owner from getting the extra health from the kill.
Tatsu, 4-1 now on this leasing is going, trying to flash in front.
Hey!
That is thought unstoppable on thought for a reason, my dude!
Can't get in front of that one in time.
And Tatsu will start up the Drake knowing the enemy jungler is on the top side.
Tatsu, such a decorated player from the CBLO.
Twice champion, twice finals MVP, has won the Rookie of the Year as well.
Yeah.
I mean, he is really the hope of this region for now and for the foreseeable future
because he's already this good and he's still 20 years old.
That rookie of the year was last year in the LTA cell
before they renamed back to the CB law.
And even in situations like this
where the team isn't doing amazingly,
he's probably not even that happy about this game
because he died on that big Eclipse power spike,
but he's having a great game
against one of the best teams in the world.
So really impressive.
I think that's the thing with Fiora.
Like, you do see these really impressive moments.
Hands-wise, they are up there.
Not quite at the level of the best,
But they can definitely hold their own it's just a mid game macro that can often struggle and when you're against a team
The caliber of T1 is another dragon that comes in but a great buffer from carrier with that hookshot wall dive
When you when you're against the caliber of T1 like you do just start to see this slow drain of resources
Like fake was a thousand gold up with three assists
But he's got 30 more farm top lane is a thousand three hundred gold ahead because he's got 20 more 24 more CS and
and a couple of kills, and the plates, and it just becomes so hard for you to find ways back into the game.
Your chances move from 50% to 40%, to 30%, to 10%, to 5%, and you're looking for desperation plays rather than something that you can pre-meditate.
For sure, and everything has to be defensive right now, so T1's completely pushed them out of their own jungle,
and they're kind of corralled under this turret. T1's threatening a dive.
If they get a stun or have the right angle, they would go for it.
Shockwave was just used on Toots there, takes them down to about half HP,
but doesn't find as much of an advantage as T1 wanted.
Furia will all back away,
none of them with effective health bars as Doran is able to take that top lane T1.
First tower of the game going over to T1.
For Furia, at least they've got two dragons,
but it feels like we've transitioned from the point of the game where T1 play for gold
into the point of the game where they're willing to take a fight at any neutral objective you want to take a fighter.
For sure. Once they have the right items, they're really confident they're going to be able to fight.
I feel like three minutes from now,
Since they're also already taking control of the jungle and they're moving J spot lane to get even more pressure
They're just gonna continue to stack these small advantages
You can see in the Coinbase Gold going just how far ahead they're going to be able to get
700 gold from those kills, but a lot more from the minions and from those tower plates now with that first turret complete
Rift tower is on the map and I feel like where T1 wants to form the next battle lines as JoJo goes forward
Crashes down does get a good two-man stun Dragon's Rage kick lands a double knock up
And there's no one here to follow up really for Furia tattoo jumps back in pillar comes out on something also
Onto the back line to the rest of furious just can't get into the fight
Guigo is it done for so deep in fury I have to retreat as T1 take two more
Another bunch of turret gold will go over to Doran after the fight as well
clearing that mid turret and then the Rift Herald. All the advantage is going
in the favor of T1 after a really nice fight. The little things that T1 does
in teamfights is always so on point. I really do think teamfighting is amongst
all the other things they're good at. The true strength of T1's game.
I agree, we'll have another look at it. It's JoJo just getting a little bit
caught out there. The willingness of Kerrio and Oner just to immediately go
into the engage as well. Absolutely. Once JoJo's down it's probably time to
retreat, but then Tattoo does get a good amount of damage down and then honestly
there's a decent angle out of Faker here they get the stun and watch Doran though
he just steps right in front of him catches that Lee Sin Q guarantees that
Faker had no chance of dying and they could very easily finish off the side
and even if even if that's not great hits Faker I think he's dead before he lands
or after taking down Faker there's too much gold on the rest of that pays at
two items Faker almost there owner has his Triforce complete and Doran's only
six stacks away from a manamune becoming a more man up now with the rift held and 90 seconds on the next
Drake you kind of plan out how t1 wants to play these next few moments get the waves pushed in use
rift held for pressure around the Drake you don't even have to do that because you're so far ahead
but you can just use the rift held as a five man push through a lane as well I think at this point
you're kind of wondering how much t1 wants to flex or not sure because I think there's a very high
they win this game, whether or not they flex. I'm like, no one T1.
Do you think this is an element you kind of wanted to put on a show, so?
I agree with you. I think game two is T1's flex game.
It's true.
It tends to be where they're like, okay, guys, time for the, you know, the pikes.
Time for a little bit of this fun.
They're doing Cinder, though, in game one. First Cinder of the tournament for Paley's.
It's true. T1 flex very often, let's be honest.
Thank you.
As they are currently flexing a 5,000 gold lead over the CBLL representatives and Fury are very much on the back foot.
on the back foot. They do scale, DeFuria. You've got two items on a Cassio, you've got a Ryze who is building up towards that Seraph's embrace, but in terms of physical damage, we have none.
Clips for the least, kind of all you've got. I mean, I saw TL1 against KC with the comp, kind of similar to this. Like, to me, if you're running a mage bot lane, I don't think it works well with tank top.
I think you need to play, just a more finicky composition, like the thing that T1 has here,
where you have that Jace to really pump physical damage in the top lane.
I think you can also AD mid if you're going to tank top, right?
If you grab a Yone or you bring out the Tristana mid or something, then I think that's a possibility.
But then you only have two damage sources, or two big damage sources as opposed to the three that you do really like.
Here, you're not going to contest the dragon, which means we don't have to see that refill of play for the pressure in any of the lanes.
T1 will just secure it there, first dragon of the game.
A long way before we see the Sol and I doubt we'll get to that point of the game if we continue on this trajectory.
Yeah, I think it would be a massive accomplishment by Furia if they make T1 get the Sol to be.
Agreed.
So, I mean, at this stage of the game, if you're Furia, all you're really trying to do is make the game hard.
Because if we flipped the nameplates, we would not be confident that Furia would be able to close out this game.
We're very confident because it's T1, but like, we've seen time and time again at this MSI that 5,000 gold bead is not a guarantee.
to win with the way bounties have been this season.
You can see Pays an additional 481 gold.
That's like an 800 gold kill.
I'm actually a little surprised that objective bounties
on arm.
That's probably because the value the system gives to Drake's
and the fact that Furia has two Drake's on me.
But one good fight, a good pick with a number of advantage,
could bring them back in this game.
So Furia needs to remain vigilant and look
for their opportunities.
They'll be searching for them.
And they have the tools at their disposal
to do a good leasing kick into a Magnus Storm.
You've got Petrifying Gaze there.
You have flank possibilities with the Realm Warp as well.
There are still ways for Furia to get back into the game. They are becoming increasingly rarer, I would say, and T1, as you say,
a team that have shown us consistently at
international level that they can close out from this sort of position. At least against, I mean, even against all levels of teams.
To be honest, there's a reason for three times back to back world champions.
They have the greatest shotcaller in the history of League of Legends in Faker, the greatest support in the history of League of Legends, who's on an engaged champion.
They have the tools.
They do. They do have the tools.
What would you say?
It's very true.
They're not looking for a venture for a hammer, right?
They're like, oh man, I have to find a socket venture ready to go for this situation, you
know?
So the realm war comes in from Tuts and carrying a faker force in the way, but if that has
been channeled, as we see a good hit back onto Doran, decimating smash not going to connect
with the knock of at least an owner, is coming in from the side and now with the pill up,
Doran able to walk away.
Pays, charging in the hammer, gets rid of the decimating smash.
Tudor down to half HP, Guigo the same as he flashes away.
The Unish power won't be enough to kill him off.
Tuts still looking for more as Oner almost eats an oval.
OT1, forced to be slightly more on the back foot
than they expected with Doran getting caught out first,
but can still step forward as Furia have back to waist light.
Yeah, three ultimates used on both sides,
flashes of both top laners and nobody dies.
Anytime you can trade 50-50 like that
as a team that's down 6,000 gold, you're going to take it.
So I like the look that they got onto Doran there.
Unfortunate for Furia that they couldn't quite get enough
damage to punch him up.
It's a bit of a struggle for them to find that damage.
Still only the Eclipse completed on Tato after he had that form
and one start has yet been able to really impact the map
any more.
Isn't that crazy?
It was like the first.
He was the first one in the game to get his legendary item.
They're not called legendary items anymore, are they?
Are they still called legendary items?
It was mythic.
Yeah, oh, it was mythic.
You're right.
Yeah, maybe they're still legendary items.
Oh, I want to just steal the way red, by the way.
Anyway, sorry.
That was pedantic for me, rather.
I might be led. It must be led to easy. It was the first to complete tonight. Yeah. Yeah. A major right major, which I think is term
If I'm wrong, I'm gonna get ripped apart here
I hope Chad is spamming the correct name for this as they're going for carry actually. Yeah, but carry a side steps good enough
Just do a walk away from this
Not much for fury to play around as the chocolate goes down a fake. I try to chase out to it's good
and kick back on to pays and with the fans coming in pays will fall tired of trying to survive the carrier and
I want to take him out a one-for-one exchange
We go does use this teleport to join the fights a little bit too late
That was the biggest shutdown in the entire game though
So they do get a large chunk of gold over themselves and the map is just gonna reset after that one
We didn't mention cinder's lower mobility here, but punish it a little bit right there. You are right there
Let's do some items. Yes, but it's also a very uncommon thing for casters to say especially
That's why I was confused. Yeah, you just call him like big purchases to the first major item. Yeah, okay
You see it's so great play Sonic Sonic way of listening right back
That's the kick on the page and then there's not much plays can do in that situation that with the my asthma already down
Yeah, really nice alley-oop right there into the Casio
You can still see that they need a bigger play than that as he ended up trading his life back and you know, he's got a second
And legendary item completed right now in the center sky.
He'd love to have that before 22 minutes with the pace that he was on concerning.
Paze has three already with the Crypt Bloom completed.
Yeah, one of the benefits that Paze gets is the fact that there are always minions in
his way.
Whereas for Tatoo, there are rarely camps in his jungle at the moment.
They've been stolen away a lot by Ono and by the rest of T1.
He's done a good job keeping up with Ono, but Ono on the trundle actually doesn't need
that third, fourth item as much.
as the Lee Sin would like it.
It's JoJo just find a little bit of a flank here.
And he's going to spot him out with the Oracle's alteration.
Shadowing strike looking for the stun.
JoJo beginning to walk away, but Guigo and Tato are here.
Decimating smash, dodged by Oner.
Sonic wave from Tato.
This is just for the disengage.
Goes back in, looks for the safeguard kick,
but it's pulled out with the shock wave.
IU from the side, looking for the round walk as well.
As Oner maybe has got a little bit too deep.
Rune puts in on Oner. Decimating smash there for the follow-up.
Oner locked up in the midst of Oner,
but he just walks out, his pastor has no teeth.
Owner able to walk out with a well timed subjugate.
And they're just buying time,
during this entire time, is pushing bot lane
and lining his wallet with even more gold.
I thought he was done for, I thought he was dead,
but the subjugate, the spirit massage, so much healing.
Right before this fight, I was looking to see
if anyone on the side of Fury had any type
healing reduction because if the trundle with the spirit visage is able to
ult the scion he's nearly unkillable and that was actually what happened it was
four maybe five members of furia wailing on him and they still couldn't kill
him through the healing from that side that scion subjugate he had so that
really hurts furia because it's a good look to try and get that kill but they
just didn't have the tools to take down the trundle for activity 10 out of 10
10. DPS, not enough out of 10. It wasn't 0-10, there wasn't DPS there.
Damages per second, especially pre-mitigation damage per second was really high.
Really high. Sadly, mitigation exists as the ceiling for owner.
Perfueria, I like it. You've got to try and make the plays. We've talked about the vanishing
opportunities for them to get back into this game and they saw the window, they jumped through it.
They landed safely, but without the prize that they were looking for as carrier, go to the flash,
to the T-1.
The T-1 will just back away for their prize in the Baron.
It's 25 minutes in.
A little bit late for them to start this.
It is.
They're thinking about T-1 Baron.
This is probably the lowest Baron damage I've seen from a T-1 comp like this century.
It's actually incredibly slow, which is one of the reasons they're just looking for pick-after-pick
right here.
Cinder, Orianna, Trundle, Jace.
slow Baron killer so they're just going to take that kill on the rise, redeploy on the
map and continue to stack those small gold advantages.
Importantly didn't kill the enemy jungler either and so the sonic wave resonating strike
into a smite is a lot of damage.
But has that ever stopped a T1 Baron before?
Like who they might steal it?
Like owner doesn't care.
He doesn't see enemy junglers.
That is very true.
I will say, I think there was an expectation around T1 barons a couple of years ago that
they were a little bit more flippy than they are now.
I think they've worked really hard on their barons and I think they were a lot more controlled
and so when they take them which is why we see as you very well mentioned they're not just going to force it there like
We have low DPS the junglers up. We're not going to go for it
I think as a team their balance that ups tend to be pretty good and with a 9000 gold lead you
Have the luxury of making a few mistakes you can be a little bit lax but they're still going through the numbers
They're still doing their due diligence here. Yeah, I mean
They're the best team around there. Oh shock they want to talk to there's the pillar he has to flash
He interrupts him out of his safeguard with the trundle pillar.
Really awesome and now there's vision.
There's vision.
There's the Baron again.
OK.
Tartu is still around.
Now they spot the vision.
OK.
Onas going to continue clubbing that Baron as quickly as he can.
12,000 on it.
Tartu low.
About 800 HP for him to play with here.
Don't want to try to keep Jojo from poking his nose into the pit.
Tartu is coming from the topside flank where his grigo is coming from the bottom side.
a possibility here, but Grigo has been turned on. Subjugate coming out from over here. Grigo's just going to back away. They know that Sion not as tanky as they want. Good stop.
Overall from Furia, and now Doran, he's on the wrong side of dodge. The charge comes in from Grigo. Doran has to flash.
Another summoner burnt by Furia.
Really nice delay there by Furia. Specifically, Trundle being able to eat the Subjugate and not die with the amount of CC the T1 has is pretty impressive.
Not burn summoners either. He just walked out. He needs a flash
There's a well done all around still a 9000 gold E41. They are so massively in the lead
I'm doing away a lot of confidence for a team that's down 9000 gold. You know, maybe there's a little bit of like
Maybe T1 won't get a sweep this time. Okay
They're gonna probably get another sweep but it's still T1 so
It's always a good time. It is it is
And for Fury as well, I think they are showing us some of those signs that it's like coming into this tournament
They were bigged up in the way they were right they know when to find these picks
They know when to back away from a play they understand
Hey, we can take this fight a little bit slower because as soon as the subject gets used
We do need to get out and we'll position in a way that allows us to get our tank out
They do still make mistakes obviously they make quite a few this game, but they
Don't go out down without a fight. They really don't they're they're making they're doing what they need to do
they're making this game hard for T1 and hoping that they can catch T1 in a mistake, but this could be the Furia mistake.
Tartu the 1-core Dragon's Rage kick out.
Nicely done.
Yeah, no shotgun, no hexagill to make them left.
Shadowing straight from JoJo Hill.
Look, just to dash out with the crash down if he needs that shield.
That's two ultimates down for one.
Yeah, doesn't panic in that situation.
Knows he has to kick the Camille away so that he can escape.
Does that. They're getting pushed in the bottom lane as well with TP up.
So they're keeping what they need to keep on this map.
That's some paid damage though.
Three items on RU on the Cassio.
We'll heal up through those twin fangs as well
if he's allowed time to use them in a fight,
but often snakes are one-bite wonders,
and I wonder if RU might be the same if T1
decides that he should be deceased.
Yeah, a lot of small individual gold advantages across the board.
There's the big one up top with the orange, 3.3000.
Faker only up about 700, so the rise, if he can get to that actualizer, might have a little bit of power in the teamfights, and it's interesting that they're the ones teleporting into the barrier.
Well, Faker has no TP, and he showed on the pot wave, so I think Fury would say, hey, we'll take a 4v5 if we have to.
They have great baron damage.
They do.
Jojo looking for the flank. Vision control for Fury. Faker's already on his way towards that mid lane tier two, so he's almost there.
Turing strike on to Ouna, good exhalibated shock bust.
Doran hits Tartar and I think because of that fury we'll realize
that a sneaky Baron plate might not be on at least for the moment.
Yeah, probably best if they didn't even start it.
Didn't need to to necessarily draw T1 in a little bit but T1 doesn't over commit anywhere
and now T1 has priority on the mid-wave so Doran's gonna probably grab that crystalline overgrowth.
I don't know if you can see
that, but it's a little bit
fearful of Grigo.
Doran doesn't have flash. Perhaps
was wondering, you know, and
supple on slot into a safeguard
Dragon's rage would put him in
the back of the enemy team where
you want to be. Drake is up. It
will be T one's third. Ocean
Soul on the horizon now.
See pain number two seed is
time. Jojo steps forward. He'll
come down. But look at the
least power enough to dismount the rel you can see cinder also fully ascended right now those
hundred and twenty stacks so full power on pays it's probably going deathcap next to make that
even more lethal third dragon completed for t1 and you know we did mention when they were on zero
dragons that it would actually be impressive if you're is able to make it to 10 I do understand
that that seems like crazy cope, which it is, but it's it's what we've got left.
Like, there's a chance, and I'm a little early on this story, but I'm kind of excited about it.
If T1, since they have immediately gone to the lower bracket and does what many would expect them to do,
they will have beaten, and currently all in 3-0, Team Liquid twice, KC once, they would then beat Furia,
They then play G2, and then if they win that, they play the winner of Team Secret Royals versus Lyon,
which if NA does this proud would be Lyon, as I had to flash away.
But that would essentially mean they would get to beat the number one and two seeds from NA,
and the number one seed from the CBLOL in the same turn.
It's not good.
It's not good for us. Very good for T1.
And their fans also, but also onto Doran, who does have his flash back and will utilize it to get away.
Sonicwave does hit Norman as he walks away, but Tartu not in range to follow up on it
So as well, are you having to flash earlier? Are you in your middle of your very depressing story to listen to, isn't he?
T1 is the greatest team of all time. There's no shame in this. They really are.
Oner steps forward, Flash Shockwave from Oner, the Magnet Storm catches him up now, Tatsu tries to dodge away and will manage to survive to fight another day.
All of Fury get out of the Flash Shockwave combination.
Wow, nobody dies, but it does not stop this T1 push with the grubs. Everyone on Cure has to run back to base, so T1 is able to completely break open the base.
Getting that inhibited down, it's huge for them, gives them that mid lane fire always and allows them now to look towards that baron.
If that is their key objective, TP coming behind, Guigo.
A sub-loss of available Tatsu, fourth of the dash away with the save guard.
Jojo being kept at bay by Paze, and Guigo's in the middle of four right now.
Needs the rest of his team really to be able to catch up.
Kariot dies in with a hectic ult, and made him.
Guigo down to half HP, Turt's getting forced away by the enemy support,
and Otis there to help out his bot lane.
Faker kills Guigo, and in the end, it was try and try again for Furia,
but T1 were having none of it.
The team fight spacing there, 4-T1 was very nice as Kay's
just easily escapes the clutches of JoJo.
If they had a little bit more damage, it would be enough.
This carrier does fall.
Faker's going to TP, and it's all on Tartu and IU
to try and defend.
But I think that hope has long since passed.
The 12,000 gold lead.
T1 don't even need the Baron to close it out.
Tartu comes out, hits the Sonic Wave onto Faker.
IU gets deloped against the pillar,
a good double dodge of the petrifying gaze.
Still some damage coming out from IU,
but I'm very happy to tank it up.
T1 looking for the kills on the fountain.
They'll take Tatoo and for dessert,
they'll take the Nexus.
1-0, T1.
Not very surprising that T1's able to take down Game 1.
A little surprising, I think,
that Furia was able to make it so difficult for them,
but analysts, what do you think?
Well, I think I saw a little bit of T1 playing with their food,
Perhaps a little bit because the goal played was big and I know the fury put up a little bit of a fight
But yes sovereign right like what what can you say? I think tattoo tried really hard
It's a great place and I was good to see but it felt like team-wide
T1 had control for pretty much all the game. It was it was
Food I think also just you know being careful dot your eyes crossing your cheese taking that time could it have been faster
maybe but maybe they just really felt like they didn't want to risk anything.
It's MSI after all. But I want to talk about the mages in the bot lane. I want to show
a hands who loves them. Wait who loves them? Oh wow. I'm not sure because you know we played
HLE and whatever but so tell me why do you love it and tell me when it works when it
doesn't work using examples from this game. So I'll say I remember when this happened in 2018
Yeah, and I loved it
Some of my favorite AD carry players actually saw me and I'm a freak of freaks
I loved him because he played like rise and all this other stuff
But so many carries are like no, I don't want to play mages bot
But I think they're really really strong and I also think especially with
Itemization with how frequently we see ad pretty much perma in the jungle
It's so so strong right now
I think my concern for this game both teams had majors part
But I think it was very different because on the side of T1 you have the ad carry
Sort of not ad carry like a marksman, but a carry threat who does ad damage to the top side
You also have great setup with Camille
The lane matchup is good because you kind of keep the cash up here Bay with a sin restaurant
On the other side though
You have a tank in the top line the only ad is that Lee sin both rise and cash appear
Don't build their magic pencil fourth item you're into a trundle who built spirit visit early
that drains the sion stats. It felt so hard to cut through owner as a result. And also both your
mages are sort of shorter range and are dealing with trundle killer with the syndrome with the
shockwave. It felt even if this game was even, fear would be on the back button team fights.
And obviously it wasn't even. Yeah, I think mages are incredibly strong right now to your point.
I don't think you get to under like undermine the fundamental rules of drafting. You still need
some split damage, but on average, they're stronger on one item, much more important point in the game.
and 80 carries, yeah, they're all outclassed.
Most of them have to wait till four items.
And in that in-between time, they're doing absolutely nothing.
So quite frankly, while not all of the mages I'm excited about,
even the cast you're all a little skeptical about,
the Seraphia didn't look good.
The Ziggs, the Mel, the Syndra, even the Vel'Koz,
we saw from Viper all look like fantastic options.
I also think it's easier to slot in defense fighters for mages.
And 80 carry, you want your 4-core crit.
With a mage, you can grab a Zonya's third item if you really need it.
Yeah, I have a one small stat.
That's nothing to do with Magespot, but it does have to do with a mage.
Faker's Orianna, second most played.
He's played it 122 times, with 89 and 33 on it, 73% win rate going into this game.
So he's now 90 and 33 on it.
Wow, I added up every single most played champion of all of...
Fruitya, it's at 187.
That's one champion!
The most played champion that even comes close is JoJo, because he's been playing for longer, 55 on the Recon.
But that's just how many games this man has on this champion. You do not give him this champion!
You already knew it was one-sided, but don't add the numbers in that one.
That's ruthless! That's ruthless!
They're like, we want to see him at his best, because then if we beat him, we've beaten him at his best, right?
That's how it works, yeah.
At least just feel it.
Don't give me that.
So if I take a value, it's now gone for the series.
They're playing the long call.
That is very true.
One thing on the mage is bot lane.
Yes, a lot of people are gonna ask why don't we see them more and this is a great opportunity to remind the world the reason
We don't see more interesting things in bot lane is because 80 carries are pound for pound the biggest cry babies on the face of the planet
Yes, just 2018
Legendary EU 80 carry reckless when it was time to play majors to be rise to the challenge
Yes, right off of the playing roster and right back onto the bench literally benched himself and pays
This is why I love pays has been so proactive in playing majors in solo queue
Even if we didn't see them on stage 80 carries need to shut up and play what's good, right?
It has gift raptors a win for you, and you're saying no because then it go well here comes the airplane before they did it
And I started by playing LeBlanc balling with my friend Leo now
I also don't think people should play LeBlanc balling, but I respect that you were you were innovative
2 shoes OP and one of my close friends was a Leon main shout out to Morgan if she's listening. Um, Morgan
Tattoo, I did appreciate we saw those first clips here
I did appreciate the fact that he was trying right he was trying to get IU ahead
I did like some of their early moves around the bot lane, but yeah, this was just look at that Jace
I know some of it is just coming from consistently sustained damage and teeth bites, but
Yeah, we've seen a lot of times. I mean in the LCK where Sion goes up against a Jace just whether it's a storm
It's more useful in teamfights or can just outscale or sometimes even solo kill the Jace
But I think T1 did a good job picking the trundle to make sounds like we go to life uncomfortable
And also getting during to the point where you can just fire these shock blasts out on repeat and do so much damage
And when it comes to drafting it was one of the points that we were a little worried not worried really
But we saw some tendencies in the BLG series that didn't land that well. So this was a good much better trundle angle
Yeah, kind of the picture perfect. They lock sign on you get trundle
I will say I think no matter what happens in this series no matter how good the drafts look from T1
We're gonna come back to this question next time they play one of the favorites at this turn
This does not absolve the sins. This does not leave those question marks answered
But it is good that we did see some much more stable drafting from them. So when they play G2, yeah, yes
Yes, of course.
Yes.
Yeah, sure.
Whatever.
Anyways, yeah.
For T1 versus Furia, there we see the selection for match two as well, for game two as well.
Any adaptations you can see from the Furia side, Emily?
I mean, it's tough, right?
It's just really, really tough.
I was going to say one interesting thing is how, if teams want to look at it, T1 do
are one of the few teams that actually prioritized blue side, and because of those barons, right,
gives you that kind of bearing control. So I'm not surprised to see that they picked blue side. And I
sometimes I see teams, if they think they're in deficit, go for a counter pick.
So maybe Fudia just want to get first pick instead of finding something to counter what T1 has.
Sounds logical to me. Let's see if the Panther can roar a little louder when we come back.
Tartu goes in, Chandra here as well, TP from Grigo as well as Keria, looks great, the shot
break from Ladle too though, and you just can't give Faker this Orianna.
The shot break pulls them back and pays, secures the second Grigo now in for a world
of hurt.
Tartu goes in, but Dragon's just kicked, Knot's Keria back who flashes, the wall, Tartu
trying to flash a chase, owner that's track protection support but he can't do it.
And now owner's on the wrong side of the wall and those fans are sinking in, up HP, Terse
getting forced away by the enemies of board and owners there to help out his bot lane.
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Welcome back to MSI 2026, where even Tartu's Lee Sin was not able to garner enough of a lead versus T1 to Tinkertown gain one of the series.
T1 currently 1-0 up, and being a, I guess, debut on the BOG dominant so far here at MSI.
And the good news for the traditionalist 80 carries, and probably for Dracos as well, is that
four mages were actually played in that first game, so that's four champions
that can't go bot lane in this game to a few.
And how many mages are there on the roster of League of Legends?
45.
Yeah, probably a few. I think we could go through all the fearless with everyone playing a mage,
and we'd probably get back to the top of it.
as Vi and Poppy once again banned away by T1. Fury are going to remove the Nocturne, the Nautilus and the Pyke.
Doesn't mean Bard is on the table alongside Ziggs if T1 wants to go in that direction.
It will be Fury's first pick though, as they had right off first selection.
Kevin and T1 decided to take Blue side after that.
The Pyke ban is looking to just slightly disrupt the Mel Pyke if that's something that T1 was going to play later.
and because they were first picked, they now get to permanently ban Bard from Kariah this series, so
can never be mad at that strategy against you.
True, and JoJo has 100% women on it in spring, so it's not something that he's just picking to get it away from Kariah.
He has his Bard card.
Yeah, I will say Kariah probably has the most experience of everyone in the world being good at Bard,
as a skin for it for a reason, looks like T1 just gonna lock in a safe stable early jungler Jarvan so good at being out on the math early doors
does want a little bit more CC alongside and maybe a bit of dive, can be a bit of a struggle if you're EQ, ulting and then everyone else is on three screens away on a different lane
true. Yeah, I'm curious to see the strategy that T1 takes for draft for the rest of this
series because on one hand, you do just want to practice optimally drafting and trying
to pick the right matches. But on the other hand, you do want to, you know, T1 has to
show so many cards as a result of going through the play-in, losing in the upper bracket of
the first round at the bracket stage, and now going through the lower bracket. In fact,
fact, if they are to win this MSI, it'll mean they play nine best of fives, which would be more
best of fives than anyone's ever played an international tournament ever. And it would also
be the most games that anyone has had to play to ever win an MSI. Current record brick would be
RNG back in 2021. We had double group stages, just insanity. And T1 would still play more games in
them. But my point being is they want to vary draft as much as possible to remain unpredictable
later in the series, despite playing nearly every day.
I guess the other argument is,
do exactly the same draft every game
for the first best of three,
and then you have your pocket pick left after that, right?
You're just showing the same thing over and over again.
But teams, obviously, will try and stop you
from showing the things you've already shown
because they know that you're good at those,
and you are beating everyone 3-0 apart.
From BLG, people tend to get a whiff
of what your priorities are.
Super standard so far, though, for T1
with Jarvan Rumble already locked in,
and a pretty early Atrox flex here, but good chance it does go to Guigo up in the top lane here.
Yeah, Guigo can play it. We have seen it a couple of times from Tartu as well.
In fact, more recently we've seen it from Tartu than we have seen it from Guigo.
We have.
So still the option of putting it into the jungle. I think the flexibility of it, obviously,
right now, very beneficial for Furia.
I mean, I guess if Tartu wants to take the ball though, Atrox would be a champ that he'd be able to get on.
Exactly. But you do like CC. You've only got the barge so far, full crowd control.
I mean, you have infernal chains on ATROX. To be honest, it's not true, CC.
A lot further reflection, I do think it's going to be a jungler.
I don't feel like you'd want to play that into throwing Rumble.
To throwing Rumble.
She could look for something like Galeo top onto the Rumble.
You could also go on. Gigo has brought that out.
Yeah.
You could go really aggressive and try and play the ambassador,
which is something Gigo has played quite a lot of this split.
But for now, we'll move into our second phase of bands after Faker that has locked in the Annie most likely for himself for Kali and Lucian
Taken off the board
Do you're likely to try and stop Paze from getting his hands on anything that can absolutely dominate this as you avoid bottoming?
Yeah, I don't know man. This chance like music is also a vibe. That was
beat that was just going during the second pen phase
This is that this outfield is to draft against T1 even in game 2 of
of a best-of-five reminder that the loser of this series is eliminated from MSI.
I saw a rather clever yet mean-spirited comment that T1 is making sure to give Fury a the playing experience
as they did to the NA and EU teams all throughout playing.
They do to a lot of teams, even further into tournaments.
But yes, it's not been the easiest of experiences to face up against T1 unless you are from the LPL or the LCK.
as Jin, the second ban from Fiora.
Katelyn are going to get locked in.
Katelyn, at least, obviously, tried a true combination.
We also looked at things like the Luxe.
Yeah, I'm thinking Katelyn Luxe here for Pace Carrier.
Have a little bit of fun with it if they'd like to.
And now we're going to get to see if they go with the Ornn in the top lane.
I think it makes the most sense with T1 already being locked in.
It also puts we go right where he has been for most of the split, kind of weak side top
unless you put it in the jungle.
There it is.
Carrier, 100% win rate on this Lux, this split, a real surprise is that the Caitlyn, there's
also 100% win rate for T1, 7 games on it for Paze, it's just deadly, it's just a deadly
bot side, it's a deadly top side, this Rumble is going to be able to crimp money as well.
If he goes for the first strike into an orn, you just walk up to him, you play him spin, and it's like, ah ha!
Usually burning money is a bad thing, but in this case, beneficial.
And the owner really has the rule of the roost.
You can go to any lane and there's health control for him.
And alongside that, you have great burst, especially from bot side and from mid.
And the owner, he has a lot of options to stay.
Yeah, they're not particularly easy to gank champions, but he has a lot of assistance from his laners to help the ganks happen.
Yeah, I will say he's probably going to more likely play around the pressure of the bottom
So I really want to look early on
where the rewards fall and if you're is able to
prevent
Like a very early trick dive or getting pushed off truck because I do not think that the Ezreal Bard can really
You know stand against the Caitlyn Lux. How do you out push that early?
You have so much that you have to struggle with loosened singularity
You have the Pildo of a peacemaker. Just the wave clear. You have the range advantage as well.
And then you're always under threat of a light binding. Like if you get caught with a light binding,
it's an immediate snap trap underneath you. It's probably a snap trap just behind you as well.
Yeah. So as you try and walk away, you're going to get caught in that. You put down a magical journey
as the barb. Well, there's a cupcake at the front of it. So if you're going to take a magical journey
back to the fountain quicker, then you would have attended bot lane. Definitely the key focus in our
eyes at least good vision placed though towards the razor beaks spots out owner on that side of the
the map looks like he is going to clear it from top to bot.
So it's trading with Faker, stunned up by the disintegration.
In the end they will both walk away from this one, slightly less healthy than they were as they walked into lane.
Not sure if Faker got a glimpse of the Atrox early on there, has not spent his ward so he's able to hold that.
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I feel like I have a little bit of a problem with minor-gazem.
I think the transition from, say, Magic to Gathering,
while other card games has happened,
as we see T1's history so far at this MSI.
Yeah, Road of MSI for T1.
Their Road 2 nearly let them beat Halee,
but ended up putting them here as a second seed,
which meant they got to beat Team Liquid and KC in play-in just for fun,
and then lost first round of the knockouts,
barely to BOG, which now puts them here in Fury,
But this also means since they are now in the lower bracket
they have to win a flurry of best of fives
that they want to win their first MSI since 2017.
If they are to win this entire tournament,
they will need to win eight total best of fives.
Ooh.
Electricity can't hurt you after you walk away from it.
Luckily, no deathfire touch.
No burn on the Annie, which is not
in keeping with her thematics, I guess.
But I'm able to take down.
So it's forced to wait as he will have to teleport back to the lane, but the jungler is on their final camps on their first jungle players.
The Lucent Singularity clips are you, and you can see the push already coming out from that Caitlyn lock spot lane.
And we talked about push as possible dives, we talked about the pressure that Caitlyn locks can put on,
but it also just means you get camps a lot easier as the jungler.
This Scuttlecrab, I doubt there will be a contest from Fury, in fact the recalls already happened from Tars.
Yeah, but I will say, I think Furia is actually completely okay with how this early game played out.
It wasn't one of those three or four camp from Jarvan into invading Gromp and Blue,
because the potential actually would have been there.
Atroc started topside, Pathbots side, they could have tried to force some stuff in the jungle early,
but instead they just kind of both full cleared away.
Although, I mean, that's really going to mess up the tempo of owner.
He's still yet to base or buy.
The other option is it means the owner just ganks you
It could but I'm not going to do it. He's gonna reset
I think it's smart might lose his gromp for it
It was well played by tattoo waiting for the recall or from Jojo side waiting for the recall almost to its finish
But the gromp not quite up yet means that Tatsu will just get the vision in and then go back
Towards his crugs to go for his second clip. Yeah, I can't really risk it based on where the rumble orn is
I think he actually could have finished it in time
But then he'd be worried about getting chased down.
So Tattoo makes the conservative player on a truck.
He knows he has the full-fair, knows his camp's rough.
He's just going to continue to cycle.
It's also the opposite for Tatsu, right?
His wave is pushed up in topside.
His wave is pushed up in mid.
The reaction speed, 41, is so much more rapid
than Furia can develop for him.
So he would prefer just to be like, OK,
you can have all of your camps.
I'll have all of my camps.
That's fine by me.
As Tuts once again, is below half HP in the mid lane.
Baker playing this Annie very aggressively,
not wanting to have any ability to roam and bail out any of the side lanes that are getting permanently pushed in so
Even though the score is still 0-0 and the game hasn't broken T1 is pressuring very heavily in lanes
Yeah, you can see that from the gold leads
250 in the mid lane 360 in the bot lane and even another hundred and forty for carrier
So it's a collective 500 gold lead for that bot side of the map
I want to out on it Jojo here as well because my blinding doesn't connect as Tartu
I really doubt he's gonna start this probably just looking for a little bit of vision, but he might just start it up straight away
He's pontificating. He's taking a moment to think about it now. He dashes the wall. Okay
See if you can try and make something happen bot lane so difficult to do anything against the Kate and Lux
Unless they step too far forward
And with Tuts coming down as well, I think Karrion and Paze have enough information that they
Realize there's a possibility they're gonna get ganked equalizer down as well from Doran who did go for the deathfire touch
Instead of the first strike on this rumble. Yeah, it still has his
Red potion from his masteries as well
So anytime you try to all in him he's gonna have a very powerful punch
So T1 playing with a lot of respect, but also a lot of efficiency, right?
I don't need to make anything crazy happen because they are organically winning all of their match-ups
Pretty substantially six minutes in and if you take this Drake if fury a take a fight
You you believe you can win it because you have pushed in the lanes
You have been able to go under these smaller bastards and then in a minute 50 you go to grubs
You're already have pushed all the lanes if you have grubs on top of that
It's just going to accelerate that push forward
It looks like t1 hand backs away from the dragon as Jojo comes in with a magical journey
Cosmic Binding doesn't hit onto Carrier, Joe forced to walk away.
And I'm able to find any connection there on the bar.
Not using the Carrier skin either.
We've seen a lot of players into Carrier when they play the bar,
use that T1 skin.
I can respect it. It's a good skin.
Hopefully you, I mean, you're not going to throw Carrier off
with his game by reminding him that he's...
Yeah, but I wonder if you bolster him by reminding him he has a skin.
But he can look at it and be like, yes, that day when I won that skin,
Until we have data that using the skin doesn't just result in a T1 win or not using the skin
doesn't just result in a T1 win, I don't think we're going to make any conclusions.
He's just winning too much.
There's a statistician out there that can compare all of the bars against carrier
win percentage with the carrier, same without the carrier skin,
and then we can draw some insubstantial conclusions off that.
You know
Lies damn lies and statistics. I believe that is the quote as I took sketch a little bit of vision around the infernal
Drake and T1 just continue the pressure that they have across the map
You go here for slow by dawn
It's gone for the Swifties first to make sure you can get the chase sort of a peacemaker will stop the base from Jojo and
Carrier is out on at the map with that a the whisper maker
It was not as white on a diet recently
Yeah, he's got fancy feet on the Ari there.
Second timbers of the game for Faker.
He used it previously before owner had started the Drake.
That's actually probably one of the reasons
owner did pull off that Drake because Ari was in fog
and in theory could have done something
and two one doesn't need to take any risk right now
with how quickly pays in carrier
a getting plates down in the bot lane.
So the more they can just hold the game in this state,
the more sure their victory is going to be.
Just integrate onto Twix.
Jojo looking for the chase, but, of course,
we'll find there's not going to be too much more.
The Tibbers does die, but look at the both sides.
Like Carrier and Oner teaming up to steal away this blue buff.
True shot for Raj Wolkham out.
Oner there with the smite.
Jojo, it's just short of being hit by a flag and drag
combination, but still objectives going over 2-T1.
Not playing through the grubs, though.
Instead, just playing for the towers and those tower plates.
I mean, it's tattoo, it's actually started up close and so.
Yeah, it's, uh, there's got to be, we need to make a term for taking grubs
when your team has absolutely no chance of hitting a turret.
Sure.
Like, there's, there's got to be a name for that, like, are they...
Uh, Ripley's believe it or not.
It's like, there's no benefit to taking the grubs, but people do it anyway.
It's true. It's more to deny the other team from getting the grubs.
Final spike on the RU.
It's going to splash away from the Calyx and the owner now needs to flag and drag
With a teepee behind him, Fury out with the World Ender,
Tartu looking to clip owner's wings and will do so.
T1 making an aggressive move, and Fury
are very willing to pounce.
OK, I mean, Andy's got the grumps.
So he's got experience for himself for that level seven
versus level six collapse.
But they should be able to get the drake as well.
It will be a little tricky.
All you is in base, so carrier pagers
are going to think about fighting this.
Try to step forward, flashes away from the spirit rush.
And the charm Jojo forcing carry away, but Tati was able to take that Drake uses the blast cone
Now fake it without flash in the mid lane. It'd be susceptible to a gank that spit rush obviously a much shorter cooldown
Tom does connect no more follow-up for furia
We're gonna replay of that to see
How
Furia was able to get such a nice angle onto owner
It didn't really feel like there's any way the team one could have retaliated to that play
I mean, I feel it was owner went in with the cataclysm because they final sparked onto are you yeah owner cataclysms in are you flash as the wall
Just didn't have any damage to finish this dude. He's too deep. Yeah, and he's trying to keep you know the rush of blood from his head
But instead he went under well, they're sure to get the turret true, but we may
Not go on a jinx it. This may be another game to tea. It could be
Very much could be final spark onto are you?
We'll call that one the penultimate spark because it didn't actually end up killing him off
But it was close enough to a final one as owner standing in the wings means that this tower is pretty much forfeit for fury
It's he was still doing what they want to do a minor blip as owner
Looks to make JoJo a bit of a minor blip on the chart of this game as well a small increase in golf
And instead he just backs away
Forge God, boom, here you go. We'll get the knock up for the drittle as well
But with the frame-spitter coming out he has to pass away. Don't just die to the tower
I think he had vision on Tatu coming around the corner and knew there was no way out for him.
So he just makes sure to not give over any additional assist gold?
Technically saves money, really, if you think about it, Dorn Math.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ooh, I don't know, it's a lifeline coming out immediately.
Snapchat there as well.
Tatu, still the ace in the hole will get vision.
I thought perhaps he would have escaped, but the ace in the hole from Pays chases him.
It's doing, it's doing math like guy math where you go into a golf shop. It's like, yeah, but my driver is quite old
Yeah, it's this is all it's just a perversion of math. It's like well, I needed to die
Otherwise they'd get more gold. Oh, we call it bounce math. Yeah, that's me
Yeah, because you can get gold from the towers and such as well then for fake carrier flash is it?
Why is the soap with that's on his way across gold lead for tattoo once again?
But he's the only one with one alongside Diego, but I mean an all-in being too under gold up isn't too substantial
The advantage for T1 though, a little bit more sizable.
1.7 thousand the lead for Paze, who already has exoptics.
And Keria already has his Shurelias.
Currently, the number for the gold difference of T1
is the same as the number of the gold difference for Paze.
Which is considering the champion and the player that Paze is, not good for Furious.
No, it's also in his name.
He always gets Pazed.
He's going to dodge the decide of JoJo here.
He'll ask him to be used as a 4v2.
Final spark!
Clips his heels, and now Tatsu needs to deal with Oda.
Tatsu trying to go in with the Spirit Rush.
Will get one and manages to get away with the second charge.
Wild Ender out from Tatsu.
Running away from his teammates, though.
As perhaps he can dash across the wall in time.
Darking Glaive, the Q3.
Does he have the unbore dashy managers?
Just in time.
Okay, could have actually been a lot worse for Furia there.
It did feel like Faker might have missed his stun on his tippers again.
We'll have to see it one more time.
Thought for sure he'd be able to secure the kill on the Auri,
but that 18-hour goalie does grow
to a 21-hundred goalie for Pays
as he continues to pelt
Grigo under the turret.
That hailstone is just constantly on the
rocky exterior of the Orn,
who went for the Canik Rookern first.
So it doesn't have a huge amount of armour
to be dealing with this Caitlyn.
And because they've already got the Bot lane tower,
having Caitlyn up and top makes sense.
There's a Rift held up in a minute.
at 40 likely to move pays into mid lane because the next objective you want to play around is that dragon Jojo goes for engage
Knowing Keria has no flash true
So they're really trying to lock him down can't get the angle for the stunning pays
Just is doing a lot more dams and they'd expect so far no way to dodge perfectly angled
Lux ultimate right there up against the wall
And then they actually end up watch how low they get him. I'm trying to pay attention to faker quick
I think it was perfectly flashed there by the Ari, so couldn't get the Tiddler's stone.
And then Gigo comes in and just has to walk away immediately afterwards.
Still that 2000 gold lead, still all of it sitting in the pockets of Paze.
It's Jojo with a good match for Jenny, manages to get himself away.
Paze, 13-1 on this cape, undefeated in spring, 7-0.
Almost a thousand DPM damage per minute.
That is very high.
Usually you see those numbers sitting around the 500 to 700 range even for good 80 carries
But it also shows how much T1 play around this Caitlyn and how much they facilitate him to get so far ahead in the game
As the call of the Portugal is invested
No fire here with a light finding as you say no flash and there's the follow up true shot barrage
Straight through carry his heart dies through the second time this game nicely played there by fury keeping this game close
They also do have the one Drake
if only Pays wasn't
connected via mouse and keyboard to this game they'd have a much higher chance of winning but I mean because they've killed Jaria
They're gonna get their second Drake here and the goldly between are you and pays the shrink?
It's down to only 1.3 K. It's just forced out by tippers and cove
Chase Baker flashes the incinerate not quite wide enough to connect on that RV
Oh does burn the ultimate though. We'll get some free time on this chair. You can see pays I
I thought he's just gonna run up there to collect more plates, but he's gonna hold this mid prior now
They've camped the they've camped the Caitlyn in the mid lane to try and get permanent mid push
I do I'm glazing pays a lot of it. I mean, it's very good
This is a great start to the game for period like a 1000 gold deficit with an orn composition and two drinks is a very good game
Safe to be TP behind as well
Just wide on the tempered paper to desire the charm flashed by pays and this is what fury I have been doing really well
As you say they constantly find ways to burn those summoners to get pics to look for the engage and his tattoo for a little bit more
Can't land the second part of the darkened blade with the cataclysm coming out. Oh, no might be done for Chuchapuraj almost
They've all so low Furia can taste it, but they just can't quite get it down
I mean just a great look though overall from Furia getting Paz's flash pushing him out of the fight
And then also making everyone on T1 reset
giving them time to push out there under the move top like they're setting up the
map in a good state to continue to make these plays and now with no flash on
page they might be able to get on the next attempt. There is flashes back up but
no flashes on Faker or Oner either. No cataclysm too so it's going to be able to
get some plates for himself on the top side and that is predominantly where the
lead is for Fury. You can see time to a thousand go ahead. Gigo as well 400.
Rift there, it has spawned. Doran has teleport currently in the bot side. Gigo has
He has his as well TP in from the on started to put those masterworked items, at least into his own inventory at level 13 can't put them into others.
A run out from Doran, she's not going to invest the summoner spell TP to get hit very rapidly, but still will be here in time.
We'll see who decides to pull the trigger on this fight because it was like when owner has gone in the fights have been turned fairly well by Shuria.
find the right angle, this orange, like at this stage in the game,
Wigo is really difficult to move off of space, because the Rumble and he can't really threaten him with burst
and I don't feel like the Caitlyn has that level of damage yet.
Yeah, no armor penetration on the Caitlyn either as Shurelius comes out,
faked it with the chase, I can shift away from my E4000 on the Herald down to 2 equalizer in the backline.
The final spot there for the follow-up is Oda, who manages to secure the Herald and now Furia are running for the hills.
Ego having to flash the wall as T1 are able to force the CBLOL off that turret immediately.
Put the Rift-O down, look for the charge in. Still, we've got a drake up in two minutes
and Furious still have ways back into this game.
Probably breaking this mid-turt right now though, which is just going to be so good for T1.
Such a clutch smite there by owner, taking it and not falling.
So he's just going to continue to try and accelerate.
That Goldy was around 2,000 for him, went down about 1,300 back to 2,000 again.
Watching this one more time, really nice equalizer into Final Spark combo,
which makes Curia not want to do a full engage here
because their carries and jungle are already too low.
So it was really all about if you could land the smite, they don't.
And it turns into a big one, waiting for 2-1.
That's one of those tough ones where, like, you know, looking at Q3,
You're looking at Dragon Strike
Smite for the Jarvan, right?
Both of them do a relatively equivalent amount of damages.
As we see, Carrier's record on this Lux.
17 wins on it.
Not only undefeated this split,
and then the coin-based goldgrinder as well
as Carter and Joda trying to grind out some kills.
Very even between the two junglers.
The 700 gold lead for Tar-2 is Carrier.
Just step forward, caught out with the Cosmic Binding
just on the edge of the wall and Carrier.
Flash, the Shurelius gets himself out called to the forward.
out goal of the forward cut, doesn't find it smart, the tree shot arrives as well, steps
to the side, nicely done from Carrier to survive with his life, but still seeing some signs
of life from Furia too.
Yeah, it's all the defense that T1 has to play here, Carrier really on the back foot,
which means he's not then looking to pressure the mid lane with the Lux forcing flashes of
his own, so he's really having to play on the back foot as Tatu is looking top lane
on the faker.
What was on his way across, as you say?
Tuts going in with the Spirit Rush.
Tibbers doesn't connect.
Spirit Rush away from it, Tuts.
The charm, the Flash away.
TP coming in as T1 tried to defend.
Their enigmatic mid laner, equalizer, down Flash.
Well, game spirit were not enough at the final spot again.
Won't quite take him.
It's the upgraded Chamois.
Oh!
A fast side of the race, Shunna.
Binds the ace and the R.E. in the hole.
A cataclysm down from Ono as JoJo tries to get out with the Mikaels.
The heel not enough, Jojo goes down a double in the end for Paze.
From mid to top, back to mid, T1.
Fine fights across the rift.
What a beautiful sequence there by T1.
And if that's not just indicative of how things are just set up on a silver platter
for Paze with the way this team often plays.
Faker up top lane, Burns Flash, Alt, Doran Burns Flash, Alt, Kariah Burns, Alt.
What does Paze do? Press R. 300 gold.
Congratulations. You also pressed his farsight alteration. True. It could have been Doran's farsight. There's two of them.
Let's see where Pace begins to move because at the start Faker has to burn this flash period and then begin to realize they don't want to take an extended play.
Yeah, and I mean it is definitely a part of a longer play. Like the fact that they have mid lane push already, like Pace can move up here because they've been able to push the lane early.
And then he obviously just pops down his true pressure presses are a
Really insane play would have been Jojo flashing in front of pays to catch the bullet and dying himself
But it would have been a look through it would have been really cool, man
And it would have denied a little bit of gold down mr. Ari from pays who's about to complete his infinity edge
And sometimes things just go that way like toots you have the channeled laces gives you that magic damage shield
You survive through the final spark and you think you're out but the positioning as you say from pays enough for now
We're three and a half thousand Goldly 41
2.2 of that sitting on their
AD carry
Next objective up is the Baron if you want want to play around it. They're already trying to garner control towards this top side
They did also manage to get a drake
So there's a long time until we see a possible solve for fury are they being delayed at least by five minutes
What are the chances Paze gets a pentakill in this game?
I feel like it's kind of lining up that way with how accelerated he is.
He is the pentapince as well. I think he's at 15 so far.
Throughout his career, if I remember the numbers correctly,
it's the fall of the Forge God praying and he just...
The gods to try and find their mark, but all of this with the fancy feet just dodges to the side.
He survived the scrap shield in the end.
You will fall but Doran delays and delays and delays and delays and delays and now owner and pays
Want to make this play instead now pays backs away the rest of fury are on their way across and
Annie pushing in the top lane means T1 is still getting something out of the time spent box
Sometimes league just not fair you you can dodge so many point-blank skill shots
Still die and still have your team not be able to get a meaningful cross-match the timing just wasn't quite there for T1
They have shifted everyone over after this, but I mean
This is it's the strangest door in highlight because he literally dies and T1 gets nothing
But like just look at this man. He completely
Dodges the Q
gets charm
sidesteps the orenhorn
Completely dodges the EQ dash from we go and then this charm comes up again
Is able to just sidestep that too?
I mean, you see it, and you just, you think he's getting out, the problem is, it's pretty
hard to get away from that combination of, with the trap line, trap line down as you
say, Lucent finding, light binding coming out as well with the Lucent security on to
IU, looks like you want to pull off it for a second as Pace begins to chip away at those
health bars, they pull off even further, just goes in, there's the charm, dodges away with
the Spirit Rush 2. Tempest fate goes between the uprights, but Gigo goes forward, Pays backing away.
And now with the equaliser dying, the battle lines have been drawn.
Oner jumps over them, the call to the foreshort coming out as well as Gigo is so low.
Oner down to half HP, a magical journey out for Gigo gets him to safety, but the re-engagement Onem is enough
on the turrets, Tartu having a dash across the wall as well, but Pays a flash and forward.
As he wants more blood for the Blood God in the NT1, we'll just take two.
They'll take the Baron alongside it, which they started up to start the fight.
JoJo might look for something special across the world,
but are you being kept at bay by Paze and carry a magical journey into the light binding?
As Paze hits the Pildover, Peace-Maker and Peace-Fist be made,
an ace in the hole blocked by are you?
A piece at what cost for Furia?
As T1 take the Baron, take a 5,000 gold lead.
Beautiful control by T1 right here.
They're doing this fight because Pays computed his infinity edge and they're gonna win an extended fight with lethal tempo Caitlyn
It gets a little bit scary right here when they're able to land the knockup
But we can see the macaels comes through immediately for carrier. He can just reposition
Pays his Caitlyn and that gives owner the ability to just go for the re-engaging at this point
All the engaged has been spent Pays is still at three quarters health
And he can kind of just walk up and hit whoever he wants
everyone gets caught in the pit. T1 is able to be engaged. Just a really beautiful fight for T1.
I don't see much more that Furia could do to make that a positive situation.
So a really good idea for T1 to start that there.
Yeah, I think the only way Furia can really win out there is by being 5,000 gold further into this game.
If their damage sticks a little bit more, if Ego is a little tankier, perhaps it's enough.
And now T1 with this Red Bull Baron power play are pushing up through the bottom lane.
Oner, want to make sure that Furia don't have two lanes to play through,
because Toots is currently playing through two of them.
Cos we're finding his ecadaclism, so with a flying and drag,
he should be able to get to his defensive line.
Tempered bang out, Toots coming across as well.
T1, so few little skirmishes, the charm doesn't connect.
Teleport out as well as Toots, dashes across the wall.
But Tartu is done for, Dormin stepping forward onto IU.
Won't be able to take the kill, but the final spark, the final breath that are you, Breeze.
As Fury up, they thought they found Oner, but the rest of T1 are just always there to respond.
They definitely got to try something, but Oner was just able to buy so much time.
And against T1, every second counts.
So Paze also went for a little bit of extra gold.
We'll see if he can get out of this one.
I'm pretty sure he's going to.
He's gonna walk away.
There's the Britop, a little bit of a slow, but the Cosmic Binding already used to stop the rest of T1 getting here as quickly as they could.
Light Binding light with pains and damages.
Absolutely absurd. Three items complete with the Phantom Dancer Hex Optics in the IE.
Now come back away, they've broken the inhibitor line. It's a 7K lead at 26 minutes.
And although it hasn't been rapid, it has felt like T1 have been in control for most of this game.
They really have and it's been all about the bottom lane. I mean you can see a 7,700 gold lead now for t1
But that is almost all concentrated
On this Caitlyn working towards his last whisper now
Potentially sole point for furia if they can kill this fast enough
But owner would be able to just fly in with his cataclysm
Pays the man watch
Caps going down, as you say, pays the man to watch in the back.
On the equalizer on that front line, forcing Gigo away.
Good smite from Tartu will secure it.
Charmed onto Ono, but already Gigo is just burned to a crisp.
Jojo takes the kill, but T1 now can step up as four.
They'll chase the bot lane of Furia down towards their usual home,
and they will make it into a tomb.
Jojo is able to escape.
IU does not do the same, and ace in the hole for Jojo.
no stand to save him as T1 clean up the fight.
I mean, Paze gets the two auto attacks on a JoJo, says,
I'm going to put you away, deal with you later.
Walks up the lane, finishes off the Ezreal,
alts the bar in the back, picks up both kills for himself,
and they might just walk it in.
And although Furia has shown signs of life at this series,
you've got to do more than that to take a game off the champs.
T1 just ripping through the base of Furia,
Tutsun Tatsu back up for what would be a final stand, but so far their final
stand perhaps not needed as of yet a keeper behind. Here he goes. Here we go.
What can you pull? What magic you've got? What rabbit coming out of that hat? At the
moment, Diego just running away more rabbit-like than the rest. Quarter the
Forge got coming in. Now look, Vicaria, Faker and Pays. They land the knock-up and
Molten Shield on to Pays. But Diego is just by himself, man. Jojo trying to
Chase up with the 10-foot fake Gigo, now having to retreat, the equalizer on the back line as well, forcing Fury away,
and even with the charm landing onto Ona, BAKER has had enough of this game!
Flash tippers onto JoJo, he'll flash away, Paze goes legendary, add one more through his name,
as Toots, IU and Tatsu can do nothing while T1 push through bot side.
That would have been the pentacle angle, but Doran took the kill on the bar.
So now I feel like they're just going to use the supermaning wave and try and end the game.
Fiora flashing forward with that loose and singularity.
Pace tanking the tower, because why not?
You might as well.
The second nexus tower should be pretty done for.
Raised to the ground by T1.
As although Fiora raised the hopes of the CBLO
for a little while, T1 put them back into the ground.
A 10K lead in 29 minutes.
T1 will take us to match point.
Pace is shut down at the end to end his perfect score line.
But that's just a formality. It didn't look fair.
Pace's Caitlyn Lux just doesn't look fair.
Analyst desk. How do you deal with that?
I don't think you do, Jack.
It's really, really difficult.
Let's dive straight into it, right?
We've got some All-Stars here with Keria on this Lux.
Pace on this Caitlyn.
Just so oppressive.
And we kind of saw it coming when Lux was locked in, right, Ox?
Yeah. I mean, we've seen different players
to T1 with the major spot, the Engage
support, but this has been the classic
during the regular season by playing hard,
strong 2v2s, playing Kate Lux,
and even before Paze was on the roster,
this was a classic for them.
And I think Lux is a champion that is hard to execute
on in pro play, very skill-strapped
line, but also so squishy and vulnerable,
and yet Karrion just did not seem
stop-stoppable in this game.
Yeah, and the funny thing is, the one game
Karrion lost on Lux
when it was paired with Katelyn is to his
for it. Balling partner face.
So that's what you need.
Here we just need Paze on that side.
Yes.
It's so yeah.
Start the bidding.
Get it over there.
Get it into the CP law.
That's absolutely what they need.
And the craziest part is, I feel like Paze should have
had like nine deaths this game.
Yeah.
He was so clean on dodging so many key skills
around, so many crucial skills across the entire game.
I thought he was dead at least 50 times.
And the same thing maybe for Kariah in our HyperX,
Reflex, Replay, Dodging, everything
that was strong at him to escape.
And I think it must have been a very
frustrated game for Furia to play yet.
And this wasn't even the only time he saw Ferdia
try to make one of these trap plays,
but he's gonna dodge the Ornult.
He's gonna dodge the Ezreal.
He's like, not today.
And it's the fact that he walks up to the brush
and starts walking back immediately,
like aware of the risk and escaping that much HP.
It must be so frustrating for Furia,
constantly not able to kill this Lux guy on this game.
Yeah, it just feels bad like I've been in that game and like solo queue and it just feels awful
And I will say ox sometimes in the lck broadcast you guys like to bring up the t1 circus and sometimes I'm annoyed
I'm like we are wiping away perfectly legitimate criticisms for t1 right now with this t1 circus talk
This was the t1 circus. I will take nothing from this game. They were so dominant. Was it goofy?
Were they having a little bit of fun with it? Maybe making some unnecessary plays unnecessary risks taking their time? Yeah, but
They've earned that right
This is like an opening act right? We've seen much more craziness from T1.
Hi, I've worded about you guys. We got the contortionist, the lion tamer a little bit.
But we're not under the crazy stuff here.
I need you to name the exact part of the circus.
I think the high ropes.
High ropes, high ropes, high ropes, high ropes.
Truffies, Truffies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we've learned that no one here can name every circus.
We are going to visit a circus before our next show.
I think my second knowledge is limited. I don't know. I'm not. That's why I don't know those knows it very very well
But to move on there were there was something that I noticed that was off the rift that could be an intimidation
Factor and I want to pull up this image of owner during the pick and ban and the bling
He was wearing can we CSI MSI enhanced please because is that a panther or is it not enhanced please one more time?
is it
or is it?
Is it a tiger or a panther?
Alright, alright, alright, we've confirmed not a bling-based intimidation tactic, just
regular bling, this is a normal mogging from owner to the opposition, not a team-specific
mogging.
This is also the classic going to look with the jacket on his shoulders and the necklace
there, so, you know, not specifically, normal aura, not targeted aura.
Thank you, Detective Shaw.
No problem.
Apparently you wear it a lot, is what you said, right?
Or in this few times.
In this instant, yeah, well, then for Furia.
The good thing is Tatsu got a picture with Faker.
That is good.
Look, ultimately, it's playing out kind of as we expected.
That's a great picture.
That's a fantastic picture.
Whether or not you get a game, that might be difficult,
but a picture with Faker, you can hold on to that forever.
True.
Very true.
Look, I think Furia has still a lot to be proud of.
I still think, regardless of what happens in the series,
the best team I've ever seen come out of the CB wall, but this tournament is brutal.
It is incredibly hard.
I think if we had seen another series against Lyon, I would have loved to see them against
team like Q2.
There's a lot of teams you can go up against where I think you're actually going to be
able to pull off that dub, but I think a solid performance, some good moments against T1
is still a good look for them in this tournament.
How can we dare to dream them for some better showings?
Because they were quick on the draw in the early games, in both these games.
They actually did have the one up a little bit, but versus T1, it's just one of the
those teams where it's extremely hard to keep that going.
I think one of the problems is that so often when you're playing these
really strong teams, an approach is being to kind of drag them into the mud,
make it messy at T1.
That's down to the middle of an hour first.
Let's go.
You're just getting to the mud.
Because I want to highlight that game.
It looks so one sided.
The only person on the side of T1 with a significant Goldie just pays.
It's a 4K Goldie.
Every other role, it's like 500, 600 Gold difference.
And even when Pace wasn't involved in the fight, T1 were still winning.
They're just that much better individually. They're that much more coordinated. The footwork was cleaner dodging the skill shots
So it's hard to kind of craft or theory craft the path to success
There's just a big gap between these two teams and I just don't think today is the day
Yeah, we gotta stay honest, but we still got some time. Uh, Doran. All right. Also a classic moment
I was gonna say here's one window in right? Yeah, for just selecting last pick. Maybe they have something
Absolutely insane that somehow they're well-practiced on that T1 hasn't seen
I don't see it happening, but if you're talking about okay, where they can they find footing where can they find a window that is one window
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It's really trying to convince the people at home that somehow T1 lost the next game
That's the best angle I have because at this point laughing through the pain or the joy if you're a T1 fan
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Yeah. Four days of double best of fives of what we're just finishing experiencing.
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Then the final four days will all only be one best of fives, because there's this massive lower bracket that needs to play out,
as well as the upper bracket pot, so it's going to be a nice finish to this MSI.
Yeah, and it kind of, everything calms down a little bit as well, right?
It gets more exciting because we get near the end of the tournament,
but it gets best double best of five days.
We've been, if you're European, I think we're starting at 10am European time,
which is quite nice for them.
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Don't have to have that five AM start.
It'll be five hours later than MSI has been starting for double best of five days
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Exactly, exactly.
So let's get into round three of this best of five.
The fury up, you've got to find an extra gear,
some secret pocket pick that no one ever expected, and a few more thousand gold per minute.
If you are going to be able to take down T1, who have been dominant in these first two games,
Furia selected second pick, T1 chose to be on the news side.
So we're going to get the Poppy Band away and the Sivir removed by T1,
and then Aziggs and the Nocturne taken away by Furia.
See if they can find the perfect NASA sample for tattoo
it's
Pickin hope for furia if they're trying to take down T1 that last game was just a
It was just destruction by Pays and carried even if Baker was not able to land that many stunts even if
Dying to a couple of ganks didn't matter Pays was just inevitable that
Yeah, that's not the T1 didn't make their saves.
It's just they got Paze into a position where
Furia needed five people to kill him and he was never on their screen.
He was always so far away.
Mella is the final ban from Furia and Bessa the final ban from T1.
They will have first pick. Where are they going to go?
Yeah, all business.
T1 wants to get through to the next stage of MSI.
They want to dispatch Furia by a very standard first pick,
Especially with the 480 junglers that are already gone, can't even have a solid counter-kick.
Although I will say, depending on, there is one NA jungler that would just slam Shen when he sees Vi jungle.
I really actually love that counter-kick.
I do like Shen and survived.
They're trying to really up-fast them somehow.
And Senna I also love, with the current NA bot that have already been denied.
question videos pays
Hicked up the bell cause in the two days since he's lost to it in the Senate
I'll cause matchup
Possibly, but you can also even look towards, you know, you could go at several fiend port lane
You could go if you go close to another if you just want to be aggressive
I mean if you if you want to play wave play into wave player
We are falling further down the list of way clothing majors, but
Pays and carry could just be aggressive. I gotta say though
Vi bell cause sounds like a pretty nasty combo
It does like the R reaches so far from the bell cause
should we just do only line
of the game. So T1 just very quickly locking in their second pick as well with
Vatilia for Faker, which always been a great Faker kick and a small bust before a turn of things.
A lot of the ratings are coming back.
I wonder if you are deciding to go to mid lane as the obvious pick, but do you want to just play something like the Victor into it?
You don't really, you're always going to be caught out by the vine, very strong in these situations.
Great shitness!
That is the Nassus.
The dogs have been let out by Furia, something we've seen from Tatoo.
Once this split, you already talked about it,
but 100% when they're on it.
Yeah, pre-chance luck, they're like, what could they do?
What hasn't T1 experienced?
All the other, us little regions have experienced this.
Griffin over in North America, Sku-Mond over in the LEC,
This was the qualifying pick for Tatu in Game 4 of their CB Law Finals, not an incredible angle.
I do feel like it's a little bit forced, so as Griffin hasn't revealed the main reasons he has this pick,
we've got a logic, you know, like, Asus is good if you need to come into him,
but also if you don't necessarily have enough damage to kill him,
and there's already a lot of damage in this T1 comp and a lot of ability to kite back,
So I think it's pretty good into the vibe the other two picks. I feel like you just kind of want to put an asses
I also think NASA's really shines with its lower CC because he can just continue to run it
He doesn't just get some busy walking towards you and it's a bit like just kite the garen idea
You just cut the NASA's don't let me get close enough for a cycling strike, but we keeping a track on those stacks for
Tatsu on the NASA's the other thing is it's really good with stuff like Senate and Seraphine
things that can just channel through the masses to empower him more as he's trying to walk at you so they have good conditions
with their own team comp
Thank you Niko taking away by Furia trying to deny a little bit of that CC T1 looking
But they banned via Kali they can continue to ban mid laners so that Faker has an easier matchup in mid
I will say this virus we have seen it from Doran, but we haven't seen it from Pays in spring not that he can't play it obviously
very experienced virus player, but
that he's going to be able to
get the ball. Most of the time,
at least the two times that you
want to play the in spring. It
has gone into dormant hands.
You can really see how tattoo
already is such a big part of
this team. His pick is already
locked in, but he's the main
player that I see talking
during the draft here for
furious. So there's still in it
still trying to make magic
happen despite being down to
It's a shot, give it to Leo.
It's solid, give it a listen to dodge your way with that weeding, not get caught out with the size,
but shove is really nice, you can buffer it, so you dash back on it, and then...
If you see A-Vai running towards your backline, you know you go across the valley, you try and jump onto their backline,
and you get some damage down.
Alternatively, flex pin, send an ass to spot, Tatru saving the jump with the five.
That's why he's still talking.
He's like, we haven't picked my jungler yet.
I mean, it's very possible.
I'm going to say it's not probable.
I see.
As we do see the Callisto Renato locked in for the bot side.
We talked about the aggression.
That's tough.
Into the center.
I don't think you want to play NASA's support
into Callisto Renato, dude.
No, I don't think you do.
It would be NASA's care reaction.
Ah, a Senna support, OK.
Senna Seraphine, though, just really sit back,
have even more stuff to shoot through the NASA's.
There we go. It's classic scaling lane. There's a lot of scaling on Furiel. The way that you beat Nasus, as I've heard, is you invade it.
I don't see how they stop him from being invaded. The Seneseraphene against the Cliffs are not it. It does look far.
Topside too. Baris can get pressure onto them. I even mid, early game, I think gets pushed into the Aurora before you get that few points into your Q as the Aurora.
So we'll see that mid lane as 4-T1, get rid of those camps for the Nasus, make sure that
he can't get his Scythe-Nake Strike set up, and if you are denying him those, that is
a huge amount of his damage going.
Do have to be aware of the wither, a massive Sloan at rank 5 and a tax feed Sloan, doubly
bad on the Callista.
It's an accept, I mean, Paz is playing Callista because he wants to play Callista.
I think that's as complex as this is going to be.
They're up to zero in the series.
They're going for their fourth 3-0 of MSI,
going back to the planes.
And I think they're going to do it now,
although I get this theory of draft, five stars,
for how are you going to go out?
Are you going to go out with casual, normal meta drafts?
You're going to go out swinging.
Yeah, go out on our terms.
Go out on their terms.
As you say, four top tier NASAS games in spring.
Griffin three times, Stumond once.
A CBLO not included in these statistics.
Because it's...
Someone's got to talk to Binge on the games of legends.
Because there is a fifth, obviously, with Tartu having played it in their finals.
It's the second time we've ever seen NASAS jungle, ever internationally.
Last time was season three Worlds.
MSK Kai group lost to Samsung Ozone.
Dandy was playing
Meteos would have played it later in the tournament if they just would have banned Kasadin. Oh, really?
Yeah, he would have made it through that best of three-quarter final and he would have continued onwards
Unfortunately, he did not
Sometimes sad times
I can barely remember. It's not a good deal
He just looking for a little bit of far experience up towards the top side realize
This is on the wrong side of this match of exhaust as well for Doran
So if you go ever does get on top of him
It is a hard for the nah to continue to trade through that lighted quiver
What side is where my eyes?
Predominantly will be I think is a carry on pays on this Callister Minata
We'll be looking to harass down IU and Jojo as much as possible
Yeah, you can see tattoo art already pathing away from his bottom lane
So starting on his blue side
It's gonna mean I own Jojo just need to make sure they don't take that much poke here
Otherwise, they'll be pretty vulnerable to a 3v2 dive that Tatu wouldn't be able to cover
And in that last game that we fifth the most DPM ever in an international
And you know he was really close to passing T1 pays for second as well
Which is pretty nice that he has two spots on the top five leaderboard
I do remember that sneaky game by the way for those NA fans that happened to be watching live
That was just an insane game Caitlyn
into Mystic's Cogmaw, quarter-finals worlds 2017, he ends up getting Crit five times in
a row by a 50% Crit Cogmaw, dies in the last two and felt he leaves again. Go to five games,
don't make it to semis, not a big deal, barely remember it once again. But shout out to Sneaky,
right Claw?
Shout out to Sneaky. Still sitting on top of the leaderboards, which is, it's a feat in
and of itself because we now have six full item AD carries with the boots alongside it,
So you would assume DPM would rise, although the later you get into a game, DPM does fall
and there are better stunts.
That puts some damage into Faker who does have to burn a flash in response.
There's not as many 60 minute games anymore.
So it kind of bounces up the DPM.
But there is also the later you get into the game, the more damage you have inherently,
but the less you actually see your opponents.
Because you often only saw them at a neutral objective as we have a bit of a flank here
onto RU and JoJo.
They're on their own.
Now, Oner on the way, stepping forward, carrying with the tank handshake, has the bailout, still will put it on himself, trying to come back.
Won't come back in time first, but over to Furia, they'll get a ton of damage onto Oner as well, but IU did fall.
JoJo doesn't have enough in the tank to take down that Vi.
Advantage, Furia, that's exactly the play that they knew they were going to have to outplay when the Nasus paths away from them.
You need to make sure the tattoo can get its stacks in the jungle, so they're always going to have to win in this 2v1 dive.
They're going to lose the wave which hurts, but I mean watching this right here, just so much damage goes down onto Keria,
not really able to get to the bell, run off before he died there.
So he dies to the tower shot during the bailout, I believe.
Yeah.
Um, so they couldn't quite get the kill in time.
also interesting that place had a
couple of extra spears into IU maybe
the rend was a little bit early
quite see for the moment pay still
has that gold lead the center just
trying to stack up get towards that
status you have a blank now from
carrier as pay steps forward and shake
again carrier does get the double route
almost gets hit with beat drop but
it's able to walk away from it
after on this side of the map is going
to turn his attention back to his gromp
has 84 stacks on that side pinning
strike as Gigo walks out of Doran's range. Not going to help him that much though. Just
going to have to go back to base, teleport back. Losing NCS pretty substantially in both
top and bot lane, that is to be expected really with their current setup. Nassus cannot help
you early unless the other laner really runs it down or takes a really crazy trade and
stays in aggressive spot. Yeah, loyalty broken for the slow handshake goes
to the right. He's right. Are
you trying to trade back on to
him? Another beat drop. Quite
landing at here for Joe Jones.
You see, I thought it was just
passing up towards the topside
owner with his assistant heading
gold midlane around literally
even took said a good job of
burning fake this flash early
doors. But again, you don't
have the jungler to punish that,
which is part of the issue.
Touch actually has to be a little
bit more safe in that lane and
Baker does because there's the
pressure of I coming in from the
puts an auto-attack in alongside the damage from a Paze.
Faker on his way across.
I feel a Weavers wall and a dive is about to materialize.
Yeah, they're thinking about it, but I mean,
Toots is behind them waiting for the countergank,
and Nasus is kind of waiting to counter.
There's a Weavers wall, good double beat drop, handshake onto R.
Ucaria goes into the bailout, but they don't get him back in time,
so I, who makes it a one for one so far,
Toots coming in from the side as well, goes between Worlds,
and Faker is on the wrong side of that tower.
Curia get 2 for 1 on the bottom side.
Plus 12 at the end there for Tatsu on to Faker
and some hitting them with the cane to get the kill.
And that's the second dive in a row
that hasn't been quite that clean, 41.
But the cleanest part about it is the fact
that Pace still picked up both these kills.
So he's going to be a little bit off to the races
on the Callista here,
but you can see Curia is ready for this one.
Tatsu doesn't go too far away
so that when Faker moves in, they can just flash on him,
and when the dive does end, T1 is not
able to go for redug nice Aurora over the top
and smacks him down to make it a two for one in favor of Furia.
Tato also getting the Scuttle Crab on the respawn
down towards this bottom side.
135 stacks now on that.
Nasus Drake going to be begun by Ona and by T1.
They do still have the push in that bot lane,
because Paze has got those two kills,
already has the Berserker Greaves,
which is a massive onklist.
So important you get those early because the movement speed enhances your attack speed alongside the attack speed that you're getting from the berserker grief
So you're just attacking and dancing a lot quicker
Yeah, the the unfortunate thing for all this in furious the fact that tennis CS is getting double-dried
Carrier though, just still have flash here, fates cool
Just in time called out to the bottom lane and managed to survive at about a hundred HP
I couldn't quite catch when Paze hit 6, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the wave as he got it right before he was able to save Keria, otherwise he wouldn't have let it get quite so close.
But comes in clutch there with the save, and looks like they're actually shifting around this Callister or not, a temporary, they're deploying out mid lane right now.
It's pretty cool. Grubbs up in 30 seconds, might just be able to play around that front.
Keria is still only just ticked over to level 5, so you're not going to have a hostile takeover available for the fight,
but it might just be an attempt to deny on Tatoo on these Razor Beaks as well.
If T1 can get the timer on them, it allows them subsequent invades.
We're trying to take his red buff as well, yeah.
I mean, Senna's trapped under the turret, really, denying this game, so trying to deny the rest of the map here is what T1's doing.
It's like going out, owner should have the slight get-tip between worlds.
We go, Gigo, though, with the gnar, knocks back Carrier.
Carrier still has that, flash the door and he shall have flashed away from owner.
Dies in the midst of Furia. T1 still have a 4v4 here.
The center's still down, in the bottom lane, but a good wall up onto Doran.
The ban out on him as well, but there's no one low enough to put Doran to be brought back to life.
Pay's gonna fall to a beat drop.
And now the chase perhaps continues as Toots flashes the wall and sends Carrier to the afterlife.
T1 overextend dramatically, and Furia are very happy to bounce.
And this is a 4v5 for Furia!
Senna's pushing bottom lane by herself, and they're looking for more!
Faker forced away as well.
As you say, Furia now with a 500 gold, no plate, unfortunately.
But are you on the Senna, but we'll have another look at this.
T1 hard forced this play.
They are really going for it right now.
Karrie just takes so much damage off the jump before Faker is even really able to join this fight.
So now with Karrie out of the fight, Shirt sent off still able to support by coming over the top.
And then Doran, brother, this is a 1v4 that he's walking into here.
Veil out unable to save him.
And they just, it is so hard to cut through and ult the Nasus who's next to a Seraphine
and has the Senna shields from over the top.
200 sacks now for that Nassus, usually we want, you know, average of 240, about the 10-min mark,
he's close to that. You can go for another clear, there's only his wolves available to him, though,
has that protoplasm harness completed. The other stacker in the game is the Senna, and unfortunately
for IU hasn't really had anyone to stack on in the lane, 20 at the moment, or 19.
Yeah, we're not going to pay attention to Senna for a while, you know, it's a supporting character
in this game. The main character is the Nassus at the 207, with the protoplasm harness. I mean,
I mean, often times, the Nasus needs to complete this protoplasm harness before he can enter the game.
The fact that he's already one kill, three assists, not behind the Vi in gold, but ahead of him in items and pacing the game.
Gervry looking to clear out a little bit of vision for Tungta, if he wants to come down here.
Gold lead still for Dormin on the top side, even though stepped a little bit too greedily around that red buff play.
It pays to Lekay ahead as well on his way towards that first item.
There's to be a static ship the direction that he is going
So you go again a supporting character in this game. You feel on the nice job is to be there and slam some people into a wall
perhaps land a
Subsequent wallet. Yeah, this is a this is a mid-jumble game. Yeah, tootson and
Nassus right here tattoos. Nassus though is to me the main character this guy continues to get going
throw the wither down onto the Calista and just go. Like there's a lot of CC to slow them down
but he's just gonna keep walking at you with the heals from the Seneseric and they're gonna be coming in from behind.
Tatu, he is.
He's got the wall carrier there. No flash here but they do have the fates pull though. Use it early.
Manages to land the handshake onto the backline. Don't he shadow on Digo? Not enough.
Tatu flashes over the whole time so he still gets the Scythian Strike.
There he comes!
Here he comes!
He's dropping around him!
T1 are dropping like flies!
Pays!
Pays only has cleanse.
No flash for him as they turn their attention over to JoJo.
Pays able to dance out of the back and cleanses away the wither and now with a round.
The Nasus has been fouled.
T1 turn around the topside fight.
Wow, that was looking so good for Furia until it wasn't Pays dancing around the Nasus at
the back end of that fight.
As long as he doesn't get withered, he's able to just kite him perfectly.
They get the shot down there and reestablish the goalie for themselves.
It was so close though.
Dude, I thought the Nassus was going to run through him.
So did I. So did I.
I heard it in your voice.
I could hear it.
You were ready.
It just fell right.
Baja boys blasts down on the top side.
You need to create these interesting situations.
Like if you can just get Nassus in the middle of the opponent,
he's usually going to win.
And that's what he finds with his blast cone on the carrier and
Especially after this like if you full send it into a nazis and don't kill the nazis again
He usually carries the fight, but it's just watch pace right flashes back and
Then Tatu can just never reach it
Even if Tatu's able to sidestep the ball breaker from owner
He's just never reaching the way pace is able to keep space and that's what we talked about in draft
of Nassus better when the enemy team does not have too much CC.
Because you want to walk at your opponents,
and now, yes, the claims is down for Paze,
the flash is down, and that's an opportunity for Fury
to try and make a play, and they're going to try and do that
around this drake right now.
Are you stepping forward?
Yes, this is the less your opposition up a carrier.
Tartu has that side, and Strike has the smite.
Faker goes in with the Weaver's War between worlds,
goes one, owner dies forward with the Bobbreaker,
and still manages to find the smite,
and then flashes out.
the rest of T1, just the distraction is torn, will charge up the boat, tanks the tower, misses the shot!
Here you go, able to extricate himself on the top lane.
Still a big one for T1 getting the drake at the tail end of that teamfight, keeping pressure up around the map.
And I need to speak collectively, I see America's right now, like T1...
No, wait, you can't do that. LTA's in the dirt, LTA's in the dirt.
You're the LCS now. You guys made a big deal about it.
It's North and South America.
I'm putting CP Law on our level, despite us 3-0ing though.
Wow, okay. Now you can say whatever you want.
Because we can all unite that not only is T1 better at than us with macro and team fighting,
owner also owns all our junglers with smite.
That's true.
We just can't get a smite off of him.
Like the game should be, the game's in a good spot, Jose couldn't do it,
And sparrows lose his vice to everyone. Tattoo can't do it.
It's just not fair. Like at least miss your smites.
I mean, I feel like...
If he did that...
He wouldn't be owner.
You know?
I know.
There's a degree of practice and...
Full thought.
But why can't missing smites be part of the service?
Like just include it as one of the attractions.
That's how it is. Yeah, that makes sense.
That makes sense. You got the first wheel over here.
You got all this fun stuff.
The problem is if you practice at the circus long enough,
is with all those reaction games. It's true. This might be on point. 320 stacks for the
Nassus, the 15-minute mark, about 30 short of the average right now, but still in a solid position.
IU's sitting only at 33 and 1,000 goldly, 41. Again, predominantly sitting on pays, but alongside
that owner and dormant have garnered themselves advantages. Jojo, unfortunately, for Puria,
has three of their kills, so he is 1,000 gold ahead himself. As we see the battle between
between Ono and Tatsu, both sitting at 2-1-4 for that extra gold coming out for Ono.
A lot of damage being put out by the Nasses, but this is really...
You're channeling everything through him, they have to send a Seraphine, he needs to walk in front of them
and just try to move up here, but there's a lot of CC and burst that he's got.
Irrespectful of what you're fighting here.
Ono just holding onto that for a break of dawn on the topside, though.
Isolated by Toots, not just the way in the chain of corruption, seasoned assist from Ono,
but now he's in the middle of the enemy team as Toots is getting chased out by Doar and Bibi Dashins.
And with the dawning shadow, even the bailout can't save you!
The economics of that fight entirely in furious favor.
Absolutely, and part of it is because Faker wasn't there.
Faker split pushing his bot turret, trying to break the first brick of the game on the side of T1.
But if you don't have the whole squad there, Nassus will be able to run through you.
The Riftale picked up, let's have another look at this.
Ono does get the smite, you've got the rend as well, so it's a little bit easier of a combination to make.
Yeah, and you can see Paisen carry down to the bottom side, not really able to get a safe entry here.
And then if you go in on the Vi and the whole team isn't behind you, you're going to die very quickly against the Nascence.
Doran did a lot of work on the outside of the fight, but just couldn't quite get past the Aurora.
Yeah, and that 1v1, it got very close, very quickly. Faker, as you say, continues to push out the bot side.
Now it's tepid up towards top, as they blackfire Torch first on this Taliyah.
Hasn't really been involved in the game as much as his opposite man, you can see.
It's actually sitting at 4-0-3 right now, 7 of the 11 kills he's been there for.
There's Faker, 0-1-1, ooooh, ego short of the null, short of the wall.
Okay Faker, yeah okay Faker, okay you just, every now and again Faker has to remind us.
That's what happened there.
really tanky this game on the Taliyah.
He's weirdly had like a pretty quiet series.
The Orianna game, low kill participation,
the Annie game was missing some stunts.
Hasn't mattered, right?
This has really been the pay's show so far
with that Caitlyn game and could end up
being on this Calista as well.
I will say it could matter in this game.
We're 1,000 gold applaud at 17 minutes.
Yes, there's two drakes to nil, but there's two grubs
So they have been able to get a little bit of an early neutral
I think the problem isn't something you actually brought up all the way back in game one is T1's teamfighting
Tends to be top-notch. Yeah, it is rare that you see them totally misplay a teamfight skirmishers on the other hand
They do misplay from time to time. Yeah, and I also got to say I think from gold deficits T1 is the greatest teamfighting team
In the world maybe that I've ever seen like they just find such remarkable angles and the game is
is never over until you kill their nexus.
It's just incredible to watch.
So no matter how far ahead you get,
no matter how good your team composition looks,
they'll find angles that you've never seen other teams find.
We're looking at some angles right now,
as the channel goes down with that handshake.
Tatsu takes a chunk, TP coming in from this as well.
This is a third Drake fight for both of these teams.
And as a fury, we'll gain control around the dragon pit
for now, but there's a control ward in the back of the pit,
and you can see Oner coming in from the bottom side as well.
I think the corruption available, good damage from the weeding from Tart's fate's core users, while the Weaver's wall will split the area in two.
But a great between worlds as they dive forward beyond core, though doing a huge amount of work as I use Able to heal up Keria, Tartu trying to open up Onona, but with Doran there, Tartu can't stay close enough.
Ego comes alive and finds a kill.
And now it's all on Tartu and took the flash away.
It's not going to be enough to save to you, one door with a turning around, the gnar, the wallop, Faker here from the side, Dreaded Bolly on the left, Rekka, the drake is on Furia's side and Faker with the flash, gets out alive and now perhaps decides to come back in and look through a stealer, Dreaded Bolly perhaps across the wall, I think it's not going to be enough, he went for the sides, McShub, he couldn't quite get it, third drake to Furia and what a close fight it was.
Smite just comes off cooldown at the end to give Tatu even more stacks.
423 after that fight Brazil doing everything in their power to stay here in Korea at MSI.
If they lose this game, they would be eliminated.
These fights are crazy with how T1 tried to force their engage here.
here. The Taliyah Ultimate flies in and I need to see again because it looked like
owner just full sends it on the other side of the Taliyah Ultimate. So like on
one side you have Pays trying to deal with everything. It's a 2v3 but owner
flies into the other side. I actually feel like a T1 fully commits to the left side.
They just line up. They probably just win the fight because of where that
Baker Ultimate came through but then at the end here it did look like Doran was
He's gonna dance on him right there, completely owning the Aurora, but he go hits,
Megan R gets extended to the wall, and a smack, plus the sidestep at the end by Tommy's masses.
And Drake, one more order from the Dragon would have been enough, so close for Furia.
Still only 1,600 gold between the two teams.
1.7k lead for Pays, but Trutz on this Aurora, 5-1-5 as the tower goes down to the mid lane,
And I use a little bit too deep, owner dives in on the background though with the between worlds.
Toots is doing a lot of work, Baker has no flash from that last fight.
And here comes the Kane, Tadu takes him.
Thornham Payne's answer with one in response.
In the end, the two for two.
As we see Midlaner's down on either sides.
What? How did...
How did T1 get two there? It looks so disastrous from the start
when Karria just got blown up and now this...
This is a T1 there.
This is a T1 moment right now. No vision. No wards for JoJo importantly. He only has the oracles.
He can't put a ward over the wall because that dreamcatcher has none for him. T1.
Backed away to taking a moment.
Jury has done their homework. They know what a T1 Baron is. They know specifically as well
what Callista Vi can do to a Baron. Watch this one more time. They start because they're able
to one-shot the Senate as the turret dies though. And then really it's just
Tatu on Nasus is still looking pretty unstoppable.
Dolan has so much damage though. This is the thing.
Dolan basically one-shots Tuts who basically one-shots Faker.
Tatu comes across to help clean them up.
Still working on Dusk and Dawn as well once he completes that.
It's going to be pretty tricky.
A lot of people misconceive Nasus as this late-game hyperscaler.
He's really a mid-game hyperscaler.
I agree you get enough 80 carry damage multiplication, especially since they have two different sources
You can only wither the one he will die
It's a little bit behind the curve in terms of where we've seen the average for sacks at this moment 20 minutes 535
Is usually where you want to be so you can see some two minutes short of that
And that's predominantly because owner and T1 have been constantly
invading his jungle and stealing away these camps and when the fight's more
bloody as well you don't have as much time just to get the resets going and
get the cycle through your jungle minions. Furious setting up towards this top side
looking for a bit of an invade there's a scottokrab coming up in less than 10
seconds time as Faker with the Weaver's wall. Manages to find a way out of the fight.
Sato now, is it scottokrab? Is it baron? Doran has TP, he's in the bot side so it's
He's just gonna answer, but he also has a TP of his own.
Pays steps forward, fates cool, they'll dive onto IU again.
The charm through the encore still finds onto Pays,
took TP in, tattoo is low,
and that ultimate about to expire.
Fury of the Sands, well, Fury for Fury,
and it seems as T1 closing on the fight,
and Pays continues to dance on the craze of his enemies.
That handshake, that handshake over the wall from Keria as Gigo tried to finish off Paze.
Paze is just dancing on them with this Calliston now.
8, 2, and 6. Desperation time for Furia.
It's looking great and you can find that fan already down to 7k.
Paze not even there.
Makes the possibility of the steal a little bit easier, but I don't think they're going to be able to find it.
You waited until it was much lower than 1.4k to land the smite 800 I saw on it,
T1 that will secure their first ban of the game at 23 minutes.
He doesn't miss and look at the killer instinct here from T1 as Paze just flies up the right side
as they're also able to peel tattoo. It's just so difficult for him to ever touch Callista.
Like if we could somehow check like NASA's damage versus NASA's damage to Paze,
It's like 15,000 and then like six because maybe he hit him with one part of his E
at this point as well look at the
Yeah, check over the wall from Kariya makes it so no one can actually get to pays as
Then he shreds the Baron afterwards and has QSS just in case you do manage to get in range to whether it's ready
Got as well. So it's a wither in place in the team fight. He is still getting out of there
Drake secure for T1, and Weaver's walking out from Faker as he looks to separate
Furia from his tier two in the bottom side, but Furia will be able to step
forward and try and fight around it. He's not being clean from T1. Furia have
made them fight for every step in this game. Absolutely. I mean T1 knew exactly
what they wanted to do this game. They wanted to consistently dive bot lane. The
dives were a little messy, but crucially, Pays kept getting the kills. And with
Pays now having this massive item gap in the game. He's really pushing the pressure.
He's so accelerated and you can see Senna sitting at 57 stacks.
Yeah.
He's so far behind where he wants to be in terms of say to the game is
that Stryce is set forward, is caught by the chain of corruption, and that's a flash away.
Between worlds he goes, does survive. Oncorm and Bale have exchanged on either side,
but Pays begins to set forward. Lackslam against the wall, Pays is down!
Pays is down! A good flash out from Oda that he's still taken!
And it has not been clean, and Furia are here to clean up.
Faker flashes the wall, but you've got four members of Furia
hoping that you fall. Don't make it short.
Furia with an ace!
And there goes every Baron buff that T1 was holding.
Not to mention the gold lead is now only at 1,000.
Still always difficult, but for the time being,
the objective boundaries also haven't fallen off yet,
So Curious gotta get out on the map and kill some of those turrets watching this one more time. He just goes
Unbelievable like he flies over the wall and just not being able to secure that kill
He then realizes the nazis is straight behind him and a Megan are would be waiting for him if he flashes over the side of
The wall so he kind of realizes that there's nowhere to go and the shutdown ends up going over to
Hattu's Nasis picks up another 12 stacks off of Doran on the way out, and then they finish off.
Just resilience.
Continuing. The resilience of this Brazilian team, I do want to commend because it is
it is just unfair to have to play against T1 in the lower bracket this early on into the series.
You can definitely criticize them and the fans have for losing to Lyon. That was supposed to be their equal.
They got 3-0 despite being in some good game states, but they are absolutely not letting T1 walk over them
So they they're doing everything they can to fight to their last breath here against T1 they pull out a
Gambit here they kind of they are gambling that the centissera fiend won't get steamrolled that much and will be able to
Scale into being this super enchanter team and they've kind of gotten there the nazis is strong
to get you out. Meanwhile, T1 are
going to push through that
mid lane as a tier two there
for them should be able to
skip before anyone from
Fury. I can really find their
marks in that lane. In fact,
deciding against it didn't want
us overstepped. Said they'll go
towards the top side and look
for this tier two. Stips and
Jojo on the defense and they'll
play around the way but they
Joe on the defense, and they're playing out of the way, pretty sharpish.
So it's already has three items complete, 7-2-7 on this Aurora.
Obviously, a lot of our focus has been on tattoo,
but Toots has had an absolute blind over the game.
Absolutely, he's landing big AOEs in all the fights that they win,
but the eyes are going to continue to be drawn to Paze.
I mean, he did keep his flash that last fight,
and if T1 has a more controlled setup for this soul fight,
it'll probably be game deciding.
Like, Nassus won't really be able to run down T1 if T1 has Cloudsoul.
And we can look at the Coinbase goal grind here, 1700 more just kill goal than the Senate.
That's not even counting the 1500 goal that he has from minions.
He is just out farming and out pacing in these teamfights.
Oh no, collapsed on Faker, overextended.
They'll leave Ohna, Faker's going to try and TP away because Gigo does not have Mega on
its way, has no CC.
the topside in touch. It's going to try and react to clear out that way before it gets towards the tier two. Drake up in 45 seconds would be sold.
Cloud for T1. Furia still only nursing a single dragon so far this game.
Waves are in a decent spot right now in terms of getting set up for this Drake for Furia. Nara would want to mark Dorn from going in.
in and it's really just about not getting sectioned off by one of fakers to the ultimates.
One problem is they just have no lockdown for this holistic.
Yeah.
It's not known as being this like late game champion, but pay is close to the three and
a half thousand goal lead.
And you might be different story.
Also with the protection the rest of the team provides him, right?
He can dance around you because he knows Kariah has the bailout, has the handshake, has the
whole style takeover.
Oner has the ball break at the cease and desist.
They can allow space for him to work in.
They don't have incredible backline access.
You have an on-court that can be cleansed.
You can be QSS the way. You have a gnar jumping in.
You have an Aurora going in between worlds, which can be good,
but it's usually not enough to one-shot the AD carry,
especially the possibility of a bailout.
Drake begun.
You're going to pull it down towards the bottom side,
stacking up his gnar bar on it, beat drop from Jojo.
Doesn't connect onto Kareya, who's trying to sidestep,
and there's the face call being used.
The Weaver's wall for a separation.
Both Raker and Cecian assist across the wall here by Ona, and T1 have done a great job of making sure Furia can't all group up, and here come the dogs!
Tatu on the chase, onto Dolan, a ban out on him, won't bring him back, there's no one low enough for him to get the assist on.
Paze now stepping forward.
The guy from Gigo! Paze with a cleanse with a second!
Ona there as well with the Guardian Angel on his shoulders will help keep Paze alive so close to 1 for 1.
One for one but T1's very low. I was wondering if they're going to start that cloud drake
But they're not going to with the TP coming back in. They're gonna try and jump on them though
But it's tuts. He has flashed the sides with shove. Doesn't connect the flash away weeding
Flash away with the vault breaker. Furia will claim their prize
The drake is theirs
They live to fight at least one more drake. It's even very tense. It's even it is
We are 13 minutes in and Furia are holding at the world champions
They must and
Surely they outscale like the Senna has three items now hex optics
The seraphine scaling is insane
Rosenheart completed by talk to against double 80 carries 700 stacks pays did just complete yet another item and
I think the biggest thing that matters. I can list out all the champions. I can list out all the items
it's the nameplates. It's the fact that T1 has owner Faker Caria, back-to-back-to-back
world champions and the most clutched team in League of Legends history. Let's see
what they can do around this pair. Faker, guess the seismic shove, there's the system
the system immediately as well. It's just trying to get out of his dad before he can
dash away with that ultimate. And with another seismic shove the red secured for
T1, it's only the mid laner down. T1, previously in this game, who'd been tentative around starting the baron
because the enemy jungler was up, or in this series at least, but Tatu doesn't have any easy access
into this pit, no Blascoe for him. That's so much of Fury's damage, so T1's just going to keep sitting on
this baron until Fury has to walk into them. There's a Blascoe there for him now, it looks like Fury
though, have given it up, they'll say, okay, you can have the baron. You just give away the game
if you walk into them there. There's no way that they can do it intelligently. And if you give over the
Nassau's kill, they probably push in a 5v4 or 5v3 and take way too much of your base. The play here
for Furia is just to withstand this Baron. We all know by this point that Baron gives much less
than it did last year if by no means ends the game. So at this point, keep collecting your stacks,
prioritize to me the Senegal, because if he finishes Infinity Edge, that's when it doesn't
really matter that he's been behind pays this entire game. That's when the
Senate can start to meeting people. So Furia, I think smartly after suffering
that death, decided to get the Baron oil. Agreed, agreed. The gold lead in
consequential, like 2,000, I cost five players. It's 400 each. It's an extra longsword as
owner. Now step up, Tartu looking to try and control his own jungle, goes in with
the Oracles, and we'll just clear out some of this vision, no camps famed to find.
to the left of the line, steps
forward once again. Not yet
level 16 is about a minion away
from it as a beat drop from
Joe Joe doesn't find his mark T
one will take the tier two on
the top side. The Weavers will
just fortune at the pure year
that they got on the right side
of that because whoever been in
the jungle side would have been
caught out there. You now need
to pass down towards this mid
lane to make sure that this
turret doesn't fall either. The
remember face call can always pull carrier out of a tricky situation. Doran continues to push in top
the wave in mid now coming forward with t1 tattoo getting pulled back and forth tp out from Doran
he thought he was cut off right there might have been by the nazis somewhat crucially pays did
burn the qss on that last nazis withers still has the cleanse and qss will be back soon
carrier not going for the mcayles i think two cc cleansing abilities is enough which makes sense
Yeah, I think Bandol pipes in the locket alongside the
Morello strong and because he burnt the QSS he now upgrades to a mercurial which means he gets that QSS cool down back
refreshed it
Cheeky little bugger page. Mercurial man, isn't he? Yes. I see
You got a lot of those
Just words just be honest just words
Let's put in the right order here. You're trying to find a fight put in the right order to find them
a win in this best of five. They've pushed T1 and T1 on the other side have been messy.
How many games have we seen already to set aside what we think? Ah, T1, they might lose
this one before they clutch up and win it. TP lay down bot lane.
T2 is going to push the front door.
They're going to shallow there for the shield as well though. Turn on the owner.
Green and charm immediately. Mercurialed away by Paze.
Furia will lose their inhibitor.
Ego almost had the flank position.
Toots does.
He spotted the gnar back onto Faker.
Now, Ego's behind enemy lines of good hostile takeover.
As Faker's able to survive, Tato exhausted,
shoved back with the side mix shove.
And just like that, T1 flipped the switch.
They flipped the story from what can Furia do
to will T1 allow it.
A handshake is all Furia will get out of this MSI
as T1 are done, 3-0 on the day, not as clean as they'd like but still they remain victorious.
Still counts, 3-0 yet again for T1 so despite their loss in the upper bracket to BOG 3-2,
this is now the fourth sweep that T1 has accomplished so far at MSI 2026 as they move on
in that lower bracket.
And for Furia, I think there were some good signs.
There were some good signs.
I think, unfortunately for them, a couple of difficult matchups.
As you say, Lyon probably the one they went into thinking they had a better chance of winning.
Against T1 though, they pushed them.
They really did in this game three.
They did, but the thing that remains true throughout this entire MSI is that
that Paysen Carrier are absolutely fierce and they're still performing as the best bot lane
in the world. They are the strength that T1 pivots around in all of these close games.
It's Fury, I think about looking forward to seeing them back at Worlds. They can make it. We're
going to hand it over to the analyst that's the breakdown and that series and today and then lead
us into a day off. Thank you very, very much. Yes, for Furia. Of course, they would have
expected a lot more from their foray into MSI. But as said, we'll see them hopefully
again later on. We'll be able to talk a little bit more about their performance here and perhaps
get an interview as well. But first, let's button up the best of five from T1's perspective
back to sweeping. Well, something I will say, because you talked about last game in a bit
Circus that was like that was maybe just some some juggling maybe some flaming objects
Maybe some sharp objects. Nothing too crazy. This was aerial aquabatics
Really high up and then below them. There's panthers. There's flames. It's chaos and throwing knives at them. They're catching them and somehow
They could they made out of it. Well the scratch they made it through so this this is full blown circus
And maybe this is too far, but I do feel a little bit bad for fury
Maybe they don't feel the same, but you saw it in their faces, it did feel like T1 weren't taking it super seriously at multiple points.
Incredibly, they can come back with only Paze having a gold bead on their team, and they can play those fights super well, but this one, maybe because of the length of the game, maybe because we'd already seen two one-sided matchups,
felt a bit rough, hearts out to Furia. You want to be in these games where you feel like you can bring this series back, but a lot of this game did feel like T1, taking a lot of risks that,
Correct me if I'm wrong, I just don't think we would have seen them take at any other point this year.
Probably not, you also saw the cameras from Furia, right?
Even when they did win some of those skirmishes, which they did a few times, they just didn't look very happy on the cameras.
I will say for the side of T1 probably, Emily, in any situation against any team, they're able to come back anyway, right?
And I feel like for them, there's always a level of comfort when, as you say, they may only have one gold unit on pace,
But often that's just enough anyway. So I'll say if there was anything I'd want to glean out of this series because we kind of talked about it
But I believe it was you Draco's who said like I'm not sure I think the same criticisms that people were
Like casting at T1 after the BLG series are going to be exactly the same
Considering the especially considering this last game. However, I do think T1 as a whole
I do love when they play these super strong bot lanes with Pays and Karya
And if they are somehow able to bend the meta to
Their will as opposed to what we're seeing out of HLE when we're seeing out of BLG you saw shades of that
I did like one of the things we brought up for T1 in the BLG series
Counterpicked bot lane we saw that going on a few times, which I also liked especially with the Kate Lux
So yeah, if there's anything to glean that would be my my one thing
I just think pays so crazy you can't steal a pick list in spots where it seems illogical and just with insane hands on the sticks makes it
Indeed, but we're gonna in a second head over to the Verizon post game interview on stage
I don't know if it's ready or ready or if I was a little bit early. They're selling up, but we're gonna hear from owner
That's amazing. Oh nice. Okay. I talked to him about going up against the NASA
Yeah, and about going up against G2 next right? Yeah, we'll be asked
I feel very I feel deeply nervous at all times since that HLA series, but we'll have to see it sounds like it's
Here we go for the rise of postgame interview on stage
2026 practice stage a lower bracket Brown one back to
T1 takes a 3-0 victory over Furiya and make it to the next round
We are joined by T1 Stumpler's owner.
Congratulations! Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you.
Owner, today's match was incredibly important.
How does it feel to take a clean 3-0?
Yeah, from now on, we have to win every single match ahead of us,
and I'm really glad that we got a clean 3-0.
The last series against BLG was a tough one.
What was the biggest takeaway from that loss?
There were a lot of mistakes in game wise and also our drafting could have been a lot better
So we had a lot of conversations around those issues and I'm pretty sure that we can come back with a stronger performance
In game three your opponent brought out the jungle Nasus
It's a pick that got a lot of it a patient after appearing in other regions. What was it like facing it yourself?
It was even trickier than I expected.
So definitely not an easy champion to play against.
But we have so many fans here in the Paeson Arena supporting you and T1 to keep the MSI
journey going.
What would you like to tell them?
Honestly.
We were underperforming a lot recently and I know some of the fans are disappointed in us,
but you know, T1 gets even stronger when we have no lives left.
So we will make sure that we can work hard to take the win and show a strong performance.
Everyone, please give it up for one more time for the owner.
And one more time, congratulations.
Yeah, I think you're not even worth asking about the next matchup actually.
It's just, G2, it's cool.
I think this is an us thing.
Yeah, I think so too.
If I was us, then I'd probably...
It's just, we have guests, okay?
We can't just dive into our trauma here.
What you mean?
Let's take a look at the next one.
I was glad that the owner said we had in-game mistakes and draft, Aux.
I'm not sure if you were also happy to hear that too, right?
I do think there are things that they can take away even from this series where he was like
Yeah, jungle masses a little bit more difficult than I thought it would be
I feel like a lot of people do feel that way until they actually face the jungle
Masses in competitive play, but hopefully again like he said this is a t1 team who either has been able to bend the meta to their
Will forcibly or just improve and adjust as time goes on
And so now they take on GQ got this bracket. So this would be the past for them, right?
They are up against G2 then they're up against the winner of Lyon TSW, which would be I
mean
True
good. Yeah. And then they would go up against the laser of HLE BLG. Yeah. So that is I am
looking forward to that matchup so, so much because I feel like I'm drawing. I have this
on. Simulated but I think these are two teams pre tournament. We came in being like these
two look so, so good in this meta with the way they play. They're willing this is to
the way they play through their strong soul laners. I'm so hype for the HLE BLG matchup.
I agree. And these are two teams who play a very similar style of League of Legends,
which makes it so thrilling, whoever actually is going to come out on top. But it also continues
with T1 especially coming in through the lower bracket. If they can just clean sweep their
way up, they're the one team that bucks the trend. And we saw Paze, again, the only person
consistently with the gold lead. This feels like the big thing that's going to highlight
or we're going to highlight in that lower bracket matchup, depending on who wins and
it's interesting talking about kind of how the tournament is going to progress.
Hocking back to our earlier discussion about mages, right?
Is our D's future matches going to be decided by who is most proficient on dual-wielding the styles?
On making sure that they can have the oppressive bot lanes where you have traditional marksmen,
but also the AP carries. That seems like it's going to be one of the deciding factors
on top of being able to draft consistently in Fearless to make sure that you have all your
bases covered in that regard. I think Fearless really adds to it because sometimes when we've had
you know Metas where it's been like Major's Bot, it's been just the Major's Bot but because of
Fearless you burn through that pool pretty quickly unless you've prepared things like the Vel'Koz that
can come out you will have to go back to those traditional AD carries or if you start with the
AD carries you go in a different direction so I think having that ability to play such a wide
of picks or different picks on
the situation calls on it is a
massive advantage. And as we
talked about in our major
discussion, it also depends on
the overall draft, right?
Because there's so much more to
keep track of in Fearless as
well. And you really have to pay
attention to what your whole
composition is, especially with
HLE and BLG having such strong
solo laners as well, which is
another standout in adding the
Major's Bot into the mix. Yeah,
is really complicated, right? Like clearly range supports were supposed to fall back a bit. We saw a
lot of nerfs, but still you're seeing pretty high presence in a lot of situations. The lube of
the Seraphine bot is more complicated than it's ever been. And we have two, three even top teams
where solo laners getting good picks is really, really important. And let's be real, teams did
have some mishaps of unfortunate situations with drafts even before Phyllis. There were a lot of
big, oh yeah, thanks Matthew. But we saw things come out. I remember with T1, a sit and Jin,
new me combo that wasn't very convincing but I think Phelous has added to the complexity even
though it's been around for a while now teams have started to adapt it still does become challenging
as you get deeper in the series as we've seen from our best of eyes. Yeah I love to read on that
that it's about the breadth of everything because you have the mages and the traditional matchups
and how can you combine it it's so interesting I really love following that storyline or that
aspect of MSI but that will mean that we will save farewell to Furia and Laura's currently
backstage with Tatoo in a Verizon post-game interview.
Thank you so much for joining me after this series.
It must be pretty hard to end this way, especially because of how close this last game was, so
tell me about the preparation against T1, how the series went, that last game, that Nassius as well, well done.
Yeah, thank you. For me, the ending the Maasai in this way is like pretty rough at all because
to drop it a lot of almost one game against Lyon, so we get 0-3 there, we lose this game
that was almost impossible on my way, so in the tournament 0-6 for me it's unbelievable.
Just wondering now to learn something about this and get ready to go see, maybe there
we can do something better.
Yeah, because you're not going to have a lot of time to bounce back, what are your immediate
take away especially after doing neck and neck to the toe like this is again the
world champion that's that's not an easy thing to do yeah it's not easy but the
games was like if you do something different like we could win I think we
just throw away all the good options that we had in game so team one is
amazing team they are like super players that have faker that have kz they are like amazing but
i think if we are like better we could like get some games at least this game tree like is one of
the easiest one what was the inspiration behind the nazis where did you go for this tension oh we
we already used it in brazil a lot of times as a civil law final the last game i played it was
I think it's a good champion and we really know how to play around it.
We kind of trolled a lot in this game on how to play around Nazus.
But it's fine, it's fine, I think.
It's okay.
As close as it came, I feel like there's a lot of positive takeaways,
because, again, playing against something like this, making them sweat the way you did,
I really applaud all the fire you had and I hope there's going to be a lot of great
tickets for you, especially going into EWC.
Is there anything that you want to tell your fans and people who enjoyed watching you?
Just thank you all for the support.
I don't promise like pretty tough, pretty rough to end in this way.
So just thank you all guys.
I hope that we can do better for you and the WC in the next International tournaments.
We will do better.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, Lore, as well as we see them about one less time at MSI.
I see him being in two minds, right, just like we were watching a game,
because he knows that it was such a weird one, that third one,
and he knows that at the same time they had specific instances in all those three games,
or if they made certain other decisions, perhaps it would have gone a little different.
But it is T1 at the end of the day.
And you can sense the frustrations, they didn't get that Nexus kill.
But I feel like if you just look at the score, it doesn't tell the full story because they really challenged a lot of these games.
Like Game 3 in particular, they came in with a smart draft and they made T1 fight for it.
And I think maybe if they played different teams, they would have come away with a better result ultimately.
But I think it's, as they said, a time to take away from this, to grow up and look forward to see what they can do next time around.
Shout out to him for doing a loser. It's always a hard thing to do
But I'm so glad that he did gets to talk about that, you know
And we can hear he doesn't have all the immediate answers right now
I think it's perfectly reasonable
You're feeling a little shell stock for the second series in a row
You find these winnable games and we've highlighted it right for better or for worse
History will remember the three O's more often give you the context of what could have been a one game of what could have been an incredibly
Close series, but I also like the mentality talked about look
bouncing back, looking ahead towards the next tournament,
looking ahead, even if he doesn't have those answers now,
I'm sure he's going to be able to look back
at this tournament with his team
and find a ton of ways for the team to level up
and only get stronger.
Again, I still feel like this is one of the strongest
representatives in the history of the CB law,
and I can't wait to see what they look like at Worlds.
I have no doubt they're going to qualify.
They're going to be demons in the Swift stage.
Well, yeah, we have the Panther here too.
There's some broadcast secrets for you.
Um, do you see what I'm actually...
I ain't leaking our front pan!
We don't need it anymore. Do you see what's up with this?
It was spray painted.
It was spray painted.
We didn't buy a mangy panther. We spray painted a very normal panther.
We're not trying to see...
That's Charm. That's character.
Yeah, that's true.
We'll keep them around for sure.
We have a break date tomorrow.
And then after that we have TSW vs. Lion and T1 vs. T2.
So TSW vs. Lion.
versus Lyon, quick analysis, please.
I think Lyon are getting better and better.
I do think Team Secret Wales is the biggest surprise for me
in the context of this tournament,
but I feel like Lyon overall,
despite so many individual mistakes,
always seem to have a competitive late game,
and that is the thing against the team where you're close,
or maybe even some people still underestimating
Team Secret Wales, I think really makes
a massive difference.
Yeah, for me, for Lyon, what I wanna see is them
not get discouraged by today, right?
Because I think that is the trickiest thing.
They were in winning positions in all three of those games.
They did not come away with a single Nexus kill.
And so now you have to regroup and continue to try to have faith and trust in each other
because they did have good prep.
They did have good game plans and drafts, and they even knew exactly how they wanted
to execute it.
It's just the minute parts of the execution wasn't there.
So I want to make sure they don't get in their own heads and that going into this matchup
against Team Secret Wells, who we know are such a, can be such a strong, especially
mid-game teamfighting team one little thing I didn't want copy paste that for G2
I know we're talking about a second copy paste don't mental collapse yeah copy paste what Emily said she said it very well
I couldn't have done better so copy paste no mental collapse G2 if that's all I ask guys a good start
I do also think that T1 obviously coming into this is favorites bar an easier stylistic matchup than HLE
For G2, so I think you don't have to deal with as is the top lane. I think Jordan's laning has been weaker
I think that if you can be creative with the draft I feel like T1's draft free is still a little bit messy today
And just not having that overwhelming solo lane presence. I think we'll make it a more comfortable series for G2
They're still coming in as underdogs
I agree with you
I also think like on some on the mages right is that going to be something we're going to see more and better of then
and we'll be, no, Perks is there too.
And they last both teams.
And Perks was there too?
Both teams are just gonna be like,
we don't wanna play Mages bot.
You think?
I don't think that's true.
I think Kuma's for sure gonna play Mel's Ziggs.
Maybe he doesn't play past that,
but I'm sorry, that Seraphine looked rough
when he played that the other day.
They were missing the combos,
the timing on the Alties wasn't good.
I'm gonna just gloss over the Mages.
That doesn't give me optimism.
I would be happy to be wrong,
but he's not gonna get the Mages pass anytime soon.
I feel like T1 are going to want to go for like a hard cutie to them.
It's going to be fun though.
Well, usually it's a banger.
It'll be a banger, usually.
Thank you so much for joining me on the desk today.
It was a lot of fun.
I have to say, as always, we'll take a little break.
And so will you.
If you're at home and you watch football, Belgium versus the USA tomorrow at 1 a.m.
If you're in Europe at 10 a.m.
If you're here with us, but if you want to watch for your lunches, we'll be back on
back on Wednesday at 5am CEST 8pm PDT for Lion vs. Team Secret
Wales followed by G2 vs. T1. We'll see you then.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026. It's time for
another day of double best of five international League of
Legends competition. Firing back inspired looks for a little bit
but he's gonna be knocked out of the Guardian Angel.
Now the dive right back on this St. Isles and Sane and some danger been driven to kill him to Isles.
BLG! They're so damn good!
Over here with the Jumblers both in the front line, both down to about half HP.
Doke was already been killed by Bane, inspired here with the Impale.
Finds the kill on the Viper, put a nice shockwave coming back from Knight to make sure Inspired falls too.
Everybody on Lyon trying to scatter, but no.
Shun's gonna be your first target.
He tries to get away through the wall here with a wall breaker.
Tifford's faked down on the drake.
Trying to buy a little bit more time as Goku's about to die.
And Knight finds the kill.
Lyon's still looking to fight for the objective.
They take the soul.
But BLG's still looking to take the fight.
Inspire has already fallen, been getting himself away just barely.
And yet again, it is BLG proving their superiority.
They will clean sweep Lyon.
We go down to half HP.
Toots getting forced away by the enemy support.
known as there to help out his bot lane. Good smite from Tartu will secure his charm onto
Oner but already Gigo is just burned to a crisp and they will make it into a tomb. Jojo
are able to escape. IU does not do the same. An ace in the hole for Jojo is not going to
be enough. And to safety, one door and they're turning it around. The gnar, the wallop. Faker
from the side, Dreaded Bolly not enough, Faker, the Drake is on furious side!
He spotted the gnar back onto Faker, but now Geigo's behind enemy lines are gonna
also take over, as Faker's able to survive, Tartar exhaustive, shoved back with the seismic
shove, and just like that T1 flipped the switch, 3-0 on the day, not as clean as they'd like,
but still they remain victorious.