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I want light
Who do you mean to me?
No one
Gator
I want the light
I want the white
Changes in my being and lies
Yeah, it cuts through
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Yeah, this is our life
I ain't losing you
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Sorry, I need you to help me
My license
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The coaching
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For the utilize of blur and figure through time
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What I'm scared of
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No one together
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Like this
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One, two, three, four, this is the right mood
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That you will turn like a fool
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Yeah, this is our life
Friday and Louis
Be in love, West Side
Saturday, Friday night
License, K-Quick, L-A-X
Then I'll see you in the back in July
The gum team sounds like they'll go back
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I'm so sorry
I
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Only your own body, you know how
Until I get it
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Hit the bass, drum, again
This is the right mood
One, two, three, four, this is a comeback
Tonight, one more time, one more time
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I
I'm just kidding. I'm kidding.
Yeah, but we are. Nice start.
We are. Of course, this is our
last double best of five day at
MSI, meaning it is elimination
day on the line for this whole
thing as we take a look at the
bracket. And I have to say after
we got all those sweeps in the
plane stage, I was a little bit
afraid it's got slightly better
drakes. Yeah, look, we finally
got some five game series. Maybe
you know, for you fans, we would
Maybe, you know, for EU fans, we would have wanted a fourth or fifth game in some of those series.
Maybe, maybe, but overall, a crazy, crazy tournament thus far.
A lot of unexpected results.
All right. I want to hear your takes from the bracket stage. What was your main takeaway, Emily?
All right. We talked about this going into the tournament, and I think it's absolutely held true.
You need to have a strong jungle support duo. It is very, very important.
If you look at the top teams, more specifically, HLE and BLG in the way that they set the map
with Shun and On working together, and Kanabi and Delight, also T1, obviously, with Oner
and Keria, who's the best performing support in the world, I think that it's so important
to be able to set the map with this duo, especially if you are playing around your
solo laners like HLE and BLG.
Why is it more important here than usual?
Because it's always very important.
It is always very important.
I think it's really important that they communicate around team fight setups, especially with supports taking slightly less ranged supports and more engaged, right?
So you have sometimes two Engagers and you really need them to communicate because every one of these team fights from these top teams is happening so quickly.
I think it's such a great point too, just because there's flexibility there between ranged and melee sports, but I'm kind of in the same vein as you, but a little different.
Because you included T1, I'm not including T1 in my take.
My take is that HLE and BLG are uncontestable as top dogs
I don't think anyone can take them down not just because of strong jungle support
But I think the rate at which they're playing the game the pace they play the game at how comfortable they are adapting on the fly
Just means that even T1. I don't think it could take a better
But they were so close to taking down BLG how can you say that?
Look at that last game!
Owners feeding they're throwing in Baron that was a diabolical series the drafts are questionable and they're clutch
I will give you their clutch but on paper. I will never favor them against
Anyone can close the gap. It's them. Yeah, that's the only team
I actually think out of anyone else that could close because they want three world championships in a row
Maybe also because they they have had the power like work the meta to their yeah
British shields
My take I'm a little interested in your guys to take on this because I know in play in NA was better than you
In lieu of another NA versus EU matchup, which I mean we could get that we could get if lion wins
And G2 wins we're gonna get another one, but if we don't get that and only one team shows up
I think it's safe to say that that team did better than MSI. No
Lion makes it through and G2 does not lion. I mean
I mean the biggest we do have was against yes, and if we beat the team to beat yes, then it's kind of like yeah
So this is a wrap rasp before
This is the reason you don't do better against LPL and LCK, because you are so zoned into it.
How can we technically be better than you if we just get one round further?
And that's exactly the reason!
It's not our fault we didn't get to play TES!
That's true!
Right?
I'm glad you said something, because I was about to come in and do the exact same thing,
like, technicality!
Like, I see you picked a very good cherry, Chad.
It might be the most correct cherry.
Are we going to get Rachvated the whole day by Chad?
Yes.
I'm just vibing just find a point. I I think you're right and I hate the oh nice
Because the sad thing is as much as there's so much about top e-sports and that's taking them down that feels good
If it was any other LPL team, I would feel better about riding on that high, but I don't when I don't and I think that's right
I hate it
He was beating top e-sports every single scrim as well
I can't say what I heard
LionG2 vs T1 later will get to dive in to all of that.
But let's start by talking about Team Secret Wales.
And how historic, Jax, their performance was,
the fact that they were able to be PLPL in a best of five.
I mean, this is the thing.
I do not want to discount what Team Secret Wales has
done so far.
Oh, but you would discount G2 beatings, Jax?
Yeah, for sure.
That's just how I'm rolling.
There's only ever happened twice
that NA vs Vietnam in a best of five.
The most memorable one was actually 2017 MSI Play.
And I remember that series vividly because Giga by Marines was up to zero against TSM.
And TSM actually had to have the reverse sweep.
And it was so rare that we even get Vietnam versus VLPL, they were able to take them down,
which was incredible.
Yeah.
And overall, I think incredible performance against the LPL.
You see the history there against the LCS, but it feels like the winds are changing, right?
It feels like we might be able to look back at some of those series and go, that was a
different era.
a new Vietnamese team that is ready to take down the NA number one seed.
Exactly so. And what is it about them? I think we need to talk about pun.
We absolutely do.
It's becoming a superstar in front of our eyes and I want to give a shout out to Ryda on Reddit
because they summarized the story right. He got caught up in everything that happened in VCS
and was actually set to be, he couldn't play anymore let's say.
He was absolved from everything. He hadn't done anything wrong.
He joined a team then in the second week. He came back. He actually wasn't the starter for this team.
He is the starter now in 2026. They went all in six at first stand.
And now he's here drawing all the attention to him with his fantastic performances.
I just think that's a crazy story.
Well, and they play so well around his picks, right?
So I want to look at a team fight that was from the game where they saved that fifth pick for the set specifically.
Specifically because if you look at this map, okay, what's going on here?
We know that TES are doing drinks, but we don't really know what's happening
However, I want to call out how they set this up again set has pushed in this wave
He's already backing and he's gonna prepare to TT from base the Silas has Durae has already taken down tier one here
He's pushed this wave all the way in and then we have the bot lane and jungler approaching from here
So it's going to almost pin Top Esports in a position that's primed for this quick snap
engage from the set.
So as we play this out, we see both TPs coming in.
The setup for this is going to be pun, immediately going in onto Zhuoion, right?
Pause it here.
Dirae is going to get a really good steal from Feng Yue, have an encore that locks up
Jackie Love.
Meanwhile, I want people to watch Eddie and B.A. throughout this fight
because they remain almost untouched throughout this entire thing.
As we play this out, again, there's the charm right onto Jackie,
so he kind of has to back off and Pun immediately goes onto him.
Eddie and B.A. the entire time are completely safe.
His toe gets onto Cream.
I just thought this was such a great engage
and their setup for it was so thoughtful.
This is, even when they were losing games,
kind of mid game team fights were exactly their strength that we were talking about. Yeah, and I mean
in the past we used to say that Vietnam of course they haven't aggressive play style right, but I feel
like it that doesn't really for me say everything about how Team Chick-whales have been playing. I
think that's a bit reductive even to to what they've been bringing to the Rift thanks to what pun
can bring thanks to the way they're approaching these games. Look I like the one punch man I like
focusing on him but it is such a big team game and the thing that you have at it so well Emily is
They're reading the play. They have no vision, but they have just enough setup, just enough setup to make that play possible.
It's not a coin flip. It's a clean read on an opposing team that was the favorite coming into the series.
And just across the board, it feels like compared to initial tournament expectations,
this team has really leveled up in individual positions as well as overall map play.
Yeah, and I think the player who's improved the most from his previous performance was D-Ri.
That guy was like 0-7 in all the other losses they had, and he was a level up going into that fight.
So that's a big difference if you're going to have strong side of the team in the near future.
But moving on to Lyon.
Yes, yes.
I know you're chopping.
You're just like, when do I get to talk about my team?
They did lose all three games to BLG.
Yes.
And I am very tired of saying we got swept,
but it was close because that seems to happen too much.
Devil's advocate, at least you could say it was close.
Let's remember your clock at Silver Lyon.
That's my only point here.
But why is it close?
OK.
Berserker and Inspired, I think, have been the consistent players
for Lyon.
Berserker as a player as well.
really had a down year when he was in the LCK,
came back to North America and started performing
at a high level, and him and Iles have really evolved
as a 2v2, where they're really good at generating
2v2 kills on their own, and they did this
against Viper and on.
I really did like Berserker's Tristana.
He got very fed in this game.
It gave them one of their windows
that made it feel like it was gonna be winnable.
33 minutes in this game, they were up in gold,
enough to Drake's to one.
So I do think Berserker and Inspired have been
the stable parts of this team.
Yeah, they're absolutely beating hard of the team, but sometimes the sole players that feel like they're the ones carrying the entire load for this line line up because you highlighted it so well, right?
The dominance in the lane, the consistency, even when they're not flexing new counter picks or playing against top ball lanes, they're always, always performing.
But it's the other three members that we're worried about because it's Byrd, you see the numbers.
You see, inspired is good, but the other three members we've seen ups, we've seen downs, we've seen solo deaths, we've seen fumbles and fights.
We've seen the absolute worst fight game I have ever seen in my entire life from Isle's. It was diabolical, but then we saw the Shen game.
So you know they can do well, but why why my NA friends is it's so inconsistent?
Yeah, I mean it's sad to see out of aisles because he had kind of steadily improved and I know he's his own
Parshis critic, but I do want to call out a little fun banter we had between these two ad carries, right?
So both uh tsw eddy and
Lion Berserker had some words for each other and I want everyone to give a listen to that
So I saw that was Eddy? Yeah, Eddy interviewed that. Just waiting for the call. I'm like coming
to defend you or something but I don't even know like who you are so yeah I mean just try your best bro
ouch to quote Becky Palmer I don't know who that man is my favorite is the whole like I don't know Eddie Eddie
I can't tell whether he's like being serious or not but yeah unintentional or unintentional flawless
comedic timing but the question is what is the joke gonna be because depending on how this series
go this is gonna age incredibly well or incredibly incredibly poorly I know everyone's already ripped
the clip to get it ready. Yeah, something happens. The anyway, you see things that'll
set you up to get flamed later. Yes. Yeah. Better than saying nothing. I like your true
prediction because I feel like we'll have a couple of things to say about them. If we
can pull them up, I'll start. No, we mad at me. I did three two for TSW. Listen, I, you
got to kind of believe in all the setup that I did about pun. It would be disingenuous
for me to then say that they were going to lose. Do I think this is a clear win? Obviously
Not it's a three and two, but I do think it has the capability to become very very contested
I think at sometimes Lyon, you know, maybe the morale drops a little bit after a game loss
Oh, no, I feel like you should have if you're gonna go against Lyon you should have gone more against
So listen, we're saying that inspired and berserker are the steady members of this team
St. Is the biggest wild card like I check back with me after game one
And you'll know if st. Is faker today or st. Is palafox like it's what it's a wide rain
I didn't rehearse this I needed to figure it he's
Okay, let it go. We don't even talk about palafox. We don't
My prediction in before you two rage bait each other where I just think lion are better on the map
That's it like that. That is why I have it so close because I do think team secret whales as I already pointed out can definitely contest them
Especially in mid game t-fights. However, I do think lion is slightly better on the map and that is why I'm giving them edge
Yeah, and I know I go fight you have a thrill
I have a thrill and the thing that I will say is that I'm sorry to team secret whales because I think that their win over top
Esports is historic
But I'm willing to concede credit take away the credit from G2 for diversity
but also take it away from Team Secret Wheels.
Because I don't think that that was a top level performance
from TES.
I actually think if they can beat Lyon today,
it means much more to me in terms of actual game play
quality.
But Lyon, as you've highlighted, good on the map.
And the fact that against BLG, the games went so long
and were so close in so many instances
is just something that I haven't even seen from G2 yet
this time.
Yeah.
I want to see the approach that Lyon takes.
Yeah.
Because when you see Ile's pike, they're trying to, or Ile's
Camille, they're trying to play the fast style
that the top teams are playing.
But I feel like if Lyon's going to have the highest chance of winning this series, it's by slowing the game down.
It's what they did to every team in the LCS. They slow it down, they take the right fights, they wait until the item power spikes.
Because Lyon did have the best team fight setups and the best team fighting by far of any team in the LCS.
You see that from Berserker and Inspired and their mechanics within the team fights.
So that's why I am predicting Lyon. But I have to say, it is not a sure thing. I need to make that very clear.
Your opinion is definitely better built up with the examples from LCS.
I just saw Team Secret Wales beat TES and I got, you know, I'm fine.
Look, it's fair. And I think that if you look at how do they win this series, Top lane is a big one.
Doku has been inconsistent, while generally I have faith that he can bring it back.
If Punn starts to take over the map, you don't get to play that slow game. You don't get to take that step back.
You don't. What an important day here at MSI. We're going to say goodbye to two more teams
Teams are in the first one where they'll be team Secret Wales continuing the miracle run or rely on sweep them and get a W for the LCS
Now the way in the lower bracket, it means the pressure is fully on, a single mistake can snowball a series like this and we don't find the way to reset, we'll be out of the tournament.
I think it's natural for a weaker team to be eliminated, so I think it's a goal to do my best in the upcoming game.
I didn't know that the two teams would be eliminated at the end of the battle at this point in the MSI.
I think the advantage of Hex is that he's been watching the game all the time, and he's showing a lot of influence and play,
but in particular, he's doing well in the top and bottom.
I'm the international stage!
In many ways, Faker has kept the same kind of playstyle.
When I think of back to, even through 19, we were playing as same heroes.
Also, the one looking for the hero plays, the big out plays, and he will always have some form for play.
It's just important that we manage to shred that one down.
Yeah, okay, Faker. Okay, you just... Every now and again, Faker has to remind us.
Faker, with me again, how will we have an epic battle?
The game is becoming more and more old, and it's becoming a fun game this year.
Seven years ago, Inspired debuted in 2019 at LEC Summer Split.
Inspired won seven times in LEC and LEC, and three times in MVP.
I didn't really think about the trophies that I got before I won anything.
I still thought that I'm really good and I'm better than the players I'm facing.
I know my skill level.
I know how good a player I am.
And at that time, Histo was 11 years old.
When I was in the team, I watched LREC and SCF a lot.
Especially when I watched the games from all over the world, especially in Spain.
Histo has improved a lot over the course of time, compared to the pros.
And now, his efforts have come to an end.
For the first time in history of BSDC,
has beaten the LPL the best of five.
It is the secret whales that do it.
I think he's just aggressive.
He plays the game, he's not scared.
If you give him an opening, he will take it.
I just need to play smart and play well if I want to beat him.
He's my son.
He came in late in the game.
He's tough.
I can show you what experience can bring.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026.
The first phase of the bracket stage is over and now, today, we eliminate two more teams
as phase two begins.
Later on today, G2 and T1 will square off, but first it's the number one seed from NA,
Lyon going up against the number one seed from the LCP in Team Secret Wales, and only
one gets to continue their MSI run after this best of five.
I'm Captain Flowers joined by Kobe, and I am hoping for an exciting one here.
I love the lower bracket flowers.
Elimination matches have more excitement, more tension,
more nervousness, bigger plays, big stakes.
Excited to see them put everything out on that line
right now.
The pressure is on for both teams.
Win and you make it into the top four here at MSI.
Lose and you go home thinking nothing
of what could have been, what should have been,
What might have been, and now we get to see what it comes down to, both of these teams,
we heard in the opening, the junglers looking at the game, looking at each other, how they're going to have to play,
head to head and be able to respond to the moves, because both of them are so important for these teams.
Yeah, the junglers definitely are such big components, obviously inspired.
A lot has been talked about, his shot calling, as well as his individual performance with this team.
And throughout the year, we have gotten so many comms
and listenings of that inaction.
And the team really growing together
and finding that synergy.
Meanwhile, here's the youngest player at the tournament
and a star for this team.
He creates so much action, especially early on.
We'll see what he can get done here.
Four team secret wells.
I thought that, especially in their upset over TES,
They did a much better job of executing some things that they did a lot better regionally
You know the synergy between his toe and deer a was really on display
So deer a was able to get a lot more kills and skirmishes, you know move around the map especially his rise game
But of course the big story and the one who stole this
Flowers we're gonna look at top lane counterpicks
Punn in the top lane, going up against Big Dokes from Lyon.
Dokela domestically in North America has been a player who's been one of our more creative top laners as well.
But Punn has just showcased his ability to not care what the meta says,
not care what everybody else is picking and lock in his own secret sauce here so far with MSI.
Already respect for Lyon for that rise that we were just talking about,
talking about, that D-Rate had a much better game on, got a lot of kills in these skirmishes
and was able to play sides on the map. Definitely good ban here. Here's my theory though, on
the top lane and the top lane counter picks. Okay, what do you got? Because Punn does use
a lot of very powerful counter picks. However, in North America, Doko played a lot against
Wippo who used some very similar counter picks, not all, but some of them, and inspired as
well obviously playing with Wipo and always is thinking about those matchup.
So the hope and the theory for Lyon is that they don't get super caught off guard
here and they are able to handle it. Them themselves as you mentioned with
Dokla they also try to index a lot into counter picks themselves. We'll have to
see if that hyperbolic Wipo time chamber ends up paying dividends for Dokla.
The bands are already done here in the first half with Ryze, Poppy and Vibe
banned out by Lyon, Team Secret Wales removing the Cassiopeia, the Rumble and
and the Ziggs as it is lying in with first pick, keeping this first draft.
All right, so much up and available.
Priority for bottom lane, actually, with both Karma and Ezreal available,
the heavy poke lane, not easy to answer.
This is a good blind, leaves you, you know, very, very defensive, especially,
like when jargon, all those types of things are still up really early on and fearless.
Your AD carry has a lot of options.
Yep, response immediately coming out from Team Secret Wales though.
They want to lock in the-
Pike nerfs were announced by the way!
Everybody's cheating!
Solo Q!
Solo Q, he's getting some nerfs already.
Well, we do have the Nautilus locked in for that point and click to lock down the Ezreal,
even if he does try to arcane shift away.
Meanwhile, his toe going to pick up the Lee Sin nice and early
for that flashy playmaking potential, that ability to take over the game early on.
Yeah, I'll get a little nervous already.
Lee Sin, okay, I wonder if they go like Lee Sin, Ari, or Lee Sin, you know, some type of good killmage for D-Ray,
so they can try and play on that synergy and play through some skirmishes.
Interesting, they decide to go with the Alistar here into the Nautilus, having seen the Nautilus lock in for PA pretty early on here in response to Ezreal,
so they want, you know, the better melee matchup here instead of going for the Karma poke lane.
They want Isles on some primary engage, and something that's going to be able to survive some of these scraps.
We saw Isles on some more Fragile champions, and he was not surviving.
No, he was definitely on the Fragile side in that one.
So him having that tankiness from the Unbreakable Will gonna help a lot.
Meanwhile, in the jungle, we're going to see Trundle locked in here for Inspire.
Oh.
Trundle so strong as a duelist against champs like Lee Sin, but anytime you see Alistar locked in, Silas rises in priority.
So much most people consider Alistar Silas is best ultimate to steal in the game
So if they lock that one in on secret rails, I wouldn't be surprised
Well, we still have a little bit of time left on the clock before they make their final selection
And yes, sir, it's gonna be Silas locked in for the way it is. Oh, I was looking at you know mid lane champs for deer
They're gonna pair well with Lee sin. Well Lee sin Silas definitely could look for kill angles flowers both of them with so much mobility
ability. So, Saint is definitely going to have his work cut out for him in the mid lane.
I will say though, Saint's lane phase has been really good. You know, even being able
to solo kill Knight, just ignore the fact that his recall got interrupted and then, you know,
they ended up making him stay for the wave and killed him after. But he's got a solo
kill and has been, you know, his mechanics has definitely been on point. So, see what
they put the trust in him on. Akali is still available. So, they banned the LeBlanc, but
You could go for the Akali matchup into the Silas.
And not just the Unbreakable Will on Alistar for the Silas to steal away.
Trundle's Subjugate, remember, has an AP ratio on it.
You will be deceptively tanky and do a lot more damage than the target might think,
with that stolen away too.
So a couple of really solid options here for D-Raid to steal away.
LeBlanc banned out.
What's going to be the response here from Lyon, the Yorick.
Okay, it's time to play the pun game.
Yeah, pun game.
Okay, I mean, you could throw some bans at him,
But the champion pool goes very, very deep.
York Band, though, makes you immediately
kind of think of like Jace and stuff
like that for Dope on the top side.
I know people after his previous Jace performance,
maybe not super excited by that.
But we'll see what direction they end up going.
York Band here just taking away some side lane options.
And there's the Jace.
OK, so even with a little bit lackluster performance
Previously they're not going to hold that against big dokes and they're going to respect it and go for the pan
I like it. All right, remember because lion opted for first pick
It does mean that secret whales will be able to save puns pick for the very last choice of the entire draft
I do not expect them to save red five for an 80 carry
That's way
There's like, you know 0.01% chance now that's actually zero
Yeah, okay, we'll just turn it straight into a big old donut there as NAR is the last van here in the second half
So three out of four of those bands focused on the top lane with that LeBlanc being the one outlier
Let's see what secret whales wants to lock in beside their Nautilus
They know they're up against Ezreal and Alistar
They were hovering this Kaisa for a while earlier and okay, they're gonna lock that in for it
Yeah, they've got the dive comp set up here Nautilus Kaisa that classic and very good into Ezreal
I mean we've seen it so many times throughout the history of League late game Kaisa
You can dive onto the Israel look for the the dual in the late game
You have so much mobility there to be able to answer plus just fitting the count perfectly as they already have mega dive as
You're expecting silence to have the Alistar all that plus
Nautilus getting in here. I have to say the draft in the opener flowers
I feel like have been really good responses from team seeker whales
I am fairly nervous here for Lyon. We've got the trundle to try and like melt Nautilus
Thus far and then maybe answer whatever
Punn is gonna go into the top lane, but I doubt that Punn is gonna pick a tank
Well earlier on in North America this year
We actually posed the question and got the answer from the stats team Nautilus is the dyingest champion in pro play
In terms of deaths per game this champion has the most and it's not really close or total deaths
I believe it was so we'll see how well they can respond to that but Taliyah will be the final pick of this first draft here for
Lyon Saint will pile up that. All right, it's gonna be a pun classic
My old one trick the volleyball. Oh, he deluxe it baby
Okay, so the thing with volleyball is that volleyball gets a lot of value from shields and heels
So trying to it isn't as good against volleyball even in when volleyball goes full tank
Yeah, it's not like you know a completely devastating or something
So we'll see because a lot of survivability can be through that, you know, effective health through the healers and shields instead
Especially going with the fimble lifter build which we have been seeing from fun
But man, he just looked like an absolute juggernaut
Making me think maybe I should bring them back out
The jungle so let's get into it deep-sicker whales honestly flowers
I gotta say in the in the first game here. I thought they have a lot of options
Lion though, they do have some protection, you know, the Taliyah rocks as well as Ezreal being very mobile
Maybe they can keep their carries safe. Maybe. Maybe, but I think that team secret whales
They want long scrappy messy fights when you have Silas being able to use the Kingslayer to constantly heal himself
When you have pun like you said, you're constantly getting shields
You're constantly getting heals the longer the fight goes the messier it is the better off the solo laners on team secret whales are
going to be. So for Lyon, if they want to win this one, I'm looking for clean picks.
I'm looking for fast disengages. And for the whales, I'm looking for the exact opposite.
All right. Game number one elimination. Your life at MSI is on the line.
I'm ready for this man. I'm so excited. Game number one, we're out onto the rift. Let's
see if we get anything exciting, anything out of the ordinary. Speaking of out of the
The ordinary immediately one thing I'm noticing is Berserker taking exhaust on the Ezreal.
Most often we see Ezreal's go for the teleport, but this time around he wants to make sure
that whoever's diving on him can't one-shot him.
Yeah, it's probably for those duels versus Kaisa later, and then as you mentioned, everybody
else is going to be diving towards him too, so you could possibly throw that on a Silas
as well, or even Lee Sin as far as see how fed his toe gets, but yeah, definitely going
to have multiple good options to be able to use that exhaust on with a lot of this dive
from TSW and DeRay does get his first trade there with the chains going through.
Okay, DeRay also one of the players on Team Secret Wales that has come under the most
criticism from fans watching the team.
He's the one that I think everybody's looking to really step up and improve his performance
is the most.
You talked about Saint having a good series when they played against BLG able to find
things like the solo kill on tonight,
even though Lyon did get swept in that series,
it was a much better look than what we saw from them
in their win against Fyria,
which were really messy types of games.
And I feel like Saint is also a player
that can have high highs and low lows.
So I feel like middling is a really volatile
head to head here in this one.
And you can see right now on the left side of your screen,
this is NA versus Vietnam, all time, head to head.
Significantly favoring North America,
but some of the most critical matches,
first ever match between regions,
It was Dignitas losing that one in the best of one at Worlds 2012, then an MSI 2017, TSM had to come back in a full best of five against Gam.
And then last time at Worlds 23, Gam knocked Team Liquid out of the Swiss stage.
So punches traded back and forth between the two regions over a very long history.
Yeah, and his toe is also a good nocturne.
So we'll keep that Vietnamese nocturne in mind.
All those old matches just reminded me of so many key moments, but we'll keep track in this long series.
Starting out fun doing a good job with the volleyball into his matchup up there versus Big Dokes to get the push,
but bottom side, Isles and Berserker getting a little push of their own and some harassment under tower.
Meanwhile, both junglers are going to end up down on this side, so we'll see how Inspite is able to use that.
and his though probably just, you know, cross over.
Actually, they've got Silas moving in.
So, his though and Deere are going to be able to get that bottom side scuttle crab
because of the mid lane priority as St. Natalports back.
So, it's probably just recall and go for the cross map up top side.
Exactly. You could see that's what inspired his thinking.
As soon as he finished the crug, he didn't even bother moving towards that bottom side river.
He immediately channels his recall, thinking they're going to be going for the bot side crab.
Instead of contesting it, he finds the faster purchase.
He makes his way into the topside, makes sure it's a one-for-one crab trade,
and since both junglers started top clearing towards bottom,
he'll be right there when his ground respawns.
Meanwhile, BA's gotten a recall off, so BK there, BA with the Nautilus did,
uh, you know, get his recall off as they were getting harassed pretty heavily.
Um, and so he comes back with a Ruby Crystal, but the lane control and,
uh, build up there for Persecutor and Iles,
is gonna afford them some extra safety as they push in,
and they wait for Inspired's second re-clear back down to that bottom side.
Both genders are starting up on the top side, could be a while before they get here, the Exhaust used a lot of damage there.
And Eddie as he goes, gets stunned out, pops a barrier here with the last second, and he's got a lot of attack!
First blood of the Berserker, 2v2!
Let's see the beginning of that! I want to see the beginning of it because they...
We're going to have another one, Flowers.
Yep, hold on. Saints now in some danger, trying to flash away nice and early, but the abduct has already found the target.
Saints still trying to escape, but there's no way home! Histo! Ties the game up, 1-1.
And there's that synergy between his toe and DeRay, we were talking about, the setup from
a Silas.
It's so easy, flowers, they jump on him in lane, Saint tries to flash early, but his
toe saves everything and they can easily fall.
Here's the beginning of the 2v2 on bottom side though.
So Beard comes back, BA comes back, he does have the extra ruby pistol, but they see the
perfect angle onto Eddie there, Alex just goes in with the full combo and they drop the
exhaust, it's enough, Berserker stacks up his lethal tempo and they have enough damage
to finish him through the barrier. Nice slow from the exhaust. Kept him in, you know, range
for outside. They let him get off the auto for the sun, too, by the way. And there you
go. Even though same thing, I'm going to get the flip back. The extra mobility with Lee Sin
and Silas nicely done. So it didn't cost D-Ray his flash in the mid lane because it did cost
same, but it also was his toe using his flash to follow. Pon low HP up here in the top side.
Doku looking for a little bit more damage, but Pon critically hitting level six right when he
needed it make sure that he's not under any lethal threat. The last thing I want
to point out about that previous 2v2, Iles didn't use flash. He was able to
catch up to Eddie for the trample stun with just the heel move speed increase
so there's still playmaker potential in the bottom lane. Yeah definitely options
there. Meanwhile Dokes is gonna have ultimate advantage. You know, yes pun
pushing is gonna be able to hit his ult and be able to not die up there but now
Dokes will have the ult advantage for the all-in for Renekton versus Volleybear
And he definitely could be in a position to try and punish. We'll see though
After the next recall what is going to be able to go back to lane with and it is going to be junglers back to that top side of
The map for their next reclears as well
So they could get into the mix and those junglers are very close to level six
This though just needs the crab but inspired bottom lane is here so they can secure it for him
And it should look at a play towards dragon to his though still sticking around
but Spire's got that grab guaranteed so he gets his old.
Yup, level six available on the trundle.
Meanwhile, down here in the bottom lane,
the same story so far continues being told
as Berserker and Isles have control over the push.
It's Eddie and BA having to respect them
as more waves crash into the turret.
First plate already taken now by Berserker,
who's up to about a 900 individual gold lead.
Yeah, Berserker, let's see what they can do with that.
The first blood, so nice for them with the extra bonus.
Getting really good recalls, has a sheen, has his tier stacking up.
And they've got a lot of control.
I mean, if you can keep pushing on bottom side,
Berserker will be very safe by himself until, you know,
buy some time for Alistar to get some roams off.
I mean, they could protect St. a little bit in the mid lane
while he's waiting for his Flash to come back up.
Because while you don't have Flash and the enemy Lee Sin has Ultimate,
and like he said, Deeray still has his Flash on Silas.
Yeah.
There's a lot of playmaking for Team Secret Wells.
So, St. for the next little while, he knows he has to play fairly cautiously in the mid lane,
respected while he does not have his own flash.
Alright, Punn heading back up towards his own lane here, and he's got his toe right behind him.
They know they have the control ward and the pixel brush.
Doecliffe could walk right in.
His toe waiting, hits him with the sonic wave, resonating strike ready to follow up.
Doecliffe takes a chunk of damage, but not under any immediate threat,
doesn't pop the dominance, doesn't use the flash, he's fine.
I thought they were actually going to go for a bigger play because Silas was roaming up flowers as well.
You can see on the mini map there, D-Ray had taken a moment to roam from mid lane.
But Doku was playing it fairly safe. You know, he saw Pun moving a little bit towards him, so he had an inkling of idea.
It could be in the brush and it's just going to be a little bit of damage exchange.
They don't fully commit to the roam up to the top side, and Dragon is still on the map, so...
with them showing their lease in for a little bit.
Ooh, flash out from Isles there.
I like what Team Secret Wales is doing,
looking for these opportunities to maybe find a pick
and they get a free flash out of the enemy support.
Okay, so as far as going to cross map,
he's going for Grubbs up here.
Does not want to far hope.
Ooh, okay, now hold on.
Dokla's already popped the Dominus.
Trying to trade aggressively into Pun,
who hits him right back with a Stormbringer.
And Pun takes a big old bite out of Dokla there,
winning out on the trade,
flashing forward for the stun.
And Dokla solo killed up here on the top side.
Now inspired and sane, looking to get something back.
Punn hanging on for now.
He should fall here, about to get another heal,
but no, St. takes him down.
Dokla thought he was baiting for his team,
but he underestimated Punn on the Molly Bear.
He ought to have a little bit more respect for the bear,
the timing difference there.
Yeah, even though Punn goes down,
still got his kill before doing so,
and the trade is complete.
Dragon for the Grubs on the other side of the map.
Taliyah Wall also kind of used here, so here we go, ult for ult, as Pun's ult does come back off cooldown
before Dokla had an opportunity to try and, you know, win that window.
But he has to flash the E damage he knows, but even with flashing the E damage from Dokla,
still enough with the W mark already on him, Pun could finish it with just that base damage there.
So nicely done from Pun to get the kill.
However, the assisted kill for the side of Lion was a little bit more gold,
because you get that extra 50% for your team.
And moving up, they did put the money
into Saints' pockets here, the Taliyah.
So we'll see if that is going to be meaningful for him.
Fortunately, he didn't have his dark seal at the time,
so didn't have the stack.
And I always wish you could get the extra little bit
of bonus out of that one,
but we also did have the even neutral objective trade,
Kim Tec Drake going over to Team Secret Wales
since his toe saw the enemy team up
on the top side of the map, inspired after the play,
immediately goes and picks up all three grubs for Lyon.
And honestly, the gold difference this game
is pretty much just the bottom lane.
Which now, hold on, Eddie and BA might be able to catch up,
as Dokla once again could get punished here,
down to 108B, Killer Instance coming in from Eddie,
and Team Secret Wales punished Dokla,
who's once again off to a rough start.
Dokla trying to slice early,
and BA just predicts it nicely done from the Nautilus there.
To lock up a kill for your Kaisa flowers is critical for this comp.
We were just about to touch on, you know, Berserker being able to nurse his lead,
but that cuts it down a decent amount, getting Kaisa into a very good spot
and critically denying a lot of extra minions to Dokla.
So he's going to drop a lot of minions into the dirt at that tower
and the Kaisa are going to be funded here a little bit extra.
And, you know, looking back at the previous two series that Lion has played,
Dokla has had a bit of a struggle and it's because of some plays like this just not fully respecting his opponents
Yeah, I mean it isn't a bit bad spot for him, but still
It was eventually going to push towards him anyway and not respecting the Nautilus Rome really nice hook here from BA
Expecting it and they know that he has no flash because they just use their traded their flashes in that top lane scrimmars that we saw
So nicely done there from TSW
Oh, and now they're looking to run it back again Eddie on Kaisa in 2026 undefeated with a 10 KDA
Might go a little bit higher here
Doku's trying to clear out the wave so that least he can try to seek the protection of the turret
But no sir, there's no way home meanwhile up here with the top lane
They're looking to do the same thing to pun on the lion side but Zercher grabs the kill
So both top laner is gonna be the punching bags for the other team
Yeah, and both AD carries being able to get these kills as well as real is that the train force bike here for berserker
So is quite nice and they are going to be able to use the extra damage
They'll get first tower bonus in addition to trading the kills here for lion. So again trading up still
For lion even though don't click is just been in a world of pain
berserker is going to benefit again and they're going to increase that lead further and this is something that we saw a lot in the series
versus BLG. The Tristana game, it was Berserker who was very far ahead
individually, right? The third game. It's also Berserker very far ahead
individually. He's able to build these leads for himself, but he's got to be
able to step up and carry once he's got the resources. Yeah, and he's gonna have
to, you know, find Kaisa with the exhaust, I think. You know, the on-hit Kaisa here,
getting a lot of money on the other side too, is gonna be a question mark. So we'll
We'll see about the next move as the tower unanswered on bottom side, does leave line
with some more options for their setup for this dragon.
It's a minute and ten ahead of time and Isles is trying to get that first line of vision
to set up for it to see the enemy approach and they can push out.
Line definitely are going to be in a decent spot here for this streak because they have
their Trinity forces for both him and Inspired and they should be able to set up.
Let's see about TSW though.
They're so good at their snap engages and Taliyah has been hovering for a roam on bottom side
at the moment.
More of a cover play though as they decide to swap the lanes.
Iles is going towards the top side right now.
He also just completed his lock at the iron cellar.
You can see BA now completing that purchase for himself.
So both the supports remaining at parity here.
You can see at the top part of the screen right now, quests completed for everybody
except the supports and Docla.
a little bit behind for the crocodile here on the lion side as the dragon is
about 15 seconds away from spawning and team secret whales are trying to clear
out the mid lane. His toe first in the bottom side river. I don't know with
Berserker not having his exhaust cool down it's fairly short left on the cool
down. Oh his toe trying to go in and maybe find an angle here on the aisles
but aisles immediately responds with the pulverize and the headbutt back away.
Yeah I think they just keep doke with top lane I mean he's not moving at all so
Yeah, without a couple more seconds on the exhaust cool down and doflin up being in a good spot
Just give this one up lion. They never want to fight anything that they feel like is
remotely
Disadvantages to them as far as a fight especially for an early dragon. So I'm gonna give up number two here
Just allows don't go to push out one more lane topside and we could see if any of those minions on topside
I end up you know going into the turret if there was a cannon up there, but
but the dragon given up and it is a cannon,
so it's actually only a couple of melee
is going to go down there.
So allow us to get those black cleaver flowers
and Lyon going to look to fight dragon number three.
I mean, generally this is the big one,
the turning point that most of the teams were in,
even when they're investing in cross map plays early on
and are looking for the extra gold
and giving up the first two dragons.
Number three is the turning point.
Yep, and Lyon, you already said it, domestically, this is a team that is fine playing very slowly.
They do not want to take a fight if they feel like they don't really have a shot
until they kind of have that pressure on them where they have to.
Dokla's still working towards that quest.
Isle's still working towards the quest while Team Secret Wales already has all five locked in.
The Rift Herald is going to be started now by the Wales, and they have everybody up here.
Dokla's on the bottom side of the map just trying to catch up further in terms of gold.
And it looks like once more, Kobe, the call from Lyon is going to be okay.
Surrender the objective, play for gold, take waves, play in side lanes instead.
And that's the cause. Berserker also going to continue using the extra pushing power of the Grubbs to take some plays here in mid.
Yeah, I mean the value there is actually good for Lyon. They got a lot of turret plate money.
They got some off of mid as well as bottom. I think that was three at least.
And so that's kind of the value of when Rift Herald does hit a turret as well, so fairly close there.
Of course, the extra value of Rift Herald is also with Combat Rift Herald, the favorite Rift Herald.
So we'll see if the Rift Herald does get used in Dragon fight number three,
because the value of a Combat Rift Herald can just have so many crazy plays with being able to save somebody,
or being able to use it as an initiation tool.
The Battle Uber.
They're driving straight into the thick of an ice.
You call the Uber and you get a tank.
You might know.
D-Ray's trying to get away.
Stopped by the pillar has to flash away to survive and that means that lion cannot continue overloading this topside tier 2 turret
Using the void grubs to force this one down true shopper roge fired into the mid lane to clear out the wave try to prevent
Team secret whales from getting anything in return
But here's that herald summoned up just going to be used to take the tier 1 turret
Recognizing they can't allow lion to get these structures for free
They're actually coming to trap to look at the the room down from lion
They're gonna see if anyone from TSW was gonna stick around for the end of the turret, but good call from TSW
They don't tunnel vision. They're not gonna stick around most of the value of taking turrets now
I still see so many people yet to adapt to the fact that a lot of the gold is in the turret plates already
Yeah, you don't have to stick around for the very end of a turret as much as you used to do
Before this season and so they don't allow themselves to get caught in a bad position there
Any sort of breed because everything is for this next dragon and that's why I like the play from line
Even though they gave up two lanes to be able to make that overload play on top side send everybody up to one lane
They got a flash out of the Silas flowers and the Silas could be terrifying as BA. Yeah, BA exhausted now
I was trying to catch up gets the stun but BA is already buffered through it's coming in here with the weavers
Well, here's to the beautiful dragon's rage hit three
But it's not enough just yet
Yeah, he's about to die and PA's already been killed.
Punn into the middle of everybody.
But it's four from Lyon, looking to burn him down.
Punn will fall, his toe's gonna follow.
Lyon just murdered three for one.
And Isles might be looking for a little bit more.
D-Ray gets away with the absconded docks,
but Lyon won the fight.
Lyon, no hesitation, they just,
they see this Nautilus flowers.
As you said, the most dying champion of all time
in professional League of Legends.
They see him and they don't hesitate.
They even use an exhaust on him.
They don't want to save it for the fight.
They need to pick the value of starting that fight
when TSW are not ready for it.
And you could tell TSW trying to react.
They were desynced.
Histo jumps out as Punn jumps in,
and Liana rewarded for not hesitating,
jumping on this opportunity,
because Income St. he gets to flip back.
They force it into Histo.
He jumps out, look at Punn.
He's gonna jump in.
So now Histo's kinda watching from the other side
as his bottom lane there just gets absolutely wrecked.
Eddie got knocked up with a double knockup there
for Miles as well, and Doku is there in time.
So the preparation flowers, a lot of the time,
it's the best laid plan, the preparation going into it,
looking for the play before the actual objective
is even on the map, well before it's even on the map,
and Lyon heavily rewarded for that.
You will say, okay, now there's no exhaust
for this team fight, but look at the flashes.
all on the side of TSW. They're all down.
But it is now a three and a half thousand gold lead for Lyon.
Although this could be a big problem if Iles gets caught and killed here,
trying to turn something around with enough time, the unbreakable will keeps him alive.
Lyon's coming in, same as over to your eyes.
Histo looking to go into the back line, trying to suppress your under the circle,
wants to take him out.
Histo goes over the ball, but inspired to end the follow-up.
Joker looking to hold everybody off. He dies.
BA barely survives. Now Sane's going to fly back over the ball,
trying to stay alive himself.
They're ready to follow with a killer instinct.
It's a double killback from Addy!
Team Secret Wales are bloodthirsty.
Addy's still fighting inspired falls.
Liz Urquham and Isles are on the run
and Team Secret Wales, three for one.
And they fight their way out of it, Flouris!
No flashes, don't care!
They just see Isles and they do the same thing.
They jump on the lion's support.
Full set from TSW's gonna get them to Dragon Soul Point.
Oh my goodness.
So Isles there is trying to do the vision setup.
Look at the rest of the team from Lyon.
This time they were the ones that were too far away.
TSW pumping all four members into Isles,
even with the Alistar Ultimate.
Hisself's like, you know what, I'm full sending.
Look at the other side of the fight, though.
As they're trying to kite back and kill his, though,
Doku gets murdered and then St. was still there
positioning against the wall, and here comes the full send.
Even with Eddie dive bombing in and getting shoved
after his ulti, they're not able to take him down,
inspired by himself, not enough damage there
as the rest of LAM had already been pushed out.
Every time on Dragon, it's just not even a full second.
It's like half of a second lead time
on starting these fights out
with four members pumping damage
while the rest of the enemy team
is still coming over to the objective or to the ward.
It's just a story of two supports
a little bit ahead of their teams.
And the second time around, the rewards are much bigger
because TSLB got the Drake.
Yep, that's the big difference.
Both times it's a three for one both times it starts with the support
But the prize goes to team secret whales and now with sole point that is a demand of lion
Every single dragon going forward. They have to be able to answer. Yeah, because you know gold is one thing
but Dragon's soul is much much more than 2000 gold and
TSW set up very nicely
I mean they've got the rageblade already had on Kaisa lots of you know 200 power spikes coming through on the table
And so now they're we're all just gonna be looking for this dragon soul fight flowers. Oh, yeah, it is so close
Yeah, you've got your 2,000 gold leap for lion
But the three drakes on team secret whales are gonna give you enough stats to make that feel even if not slightly favored
Towards team secret whales. So this is just gonna come down to execution. It's gonna come down to coordination
It's gonna come down to who plans it better to who can get the drop on the other side because these last two fights have
showed me both teams are capable of doing just that you can see here in your coin base gold grind
Yeah, it's a 200 gold lead for docla, but on on that bolly bear you've got to keep track of him
You've got to manage him because if you let him have those long extended fights, especially with thimble winter and unending despair
That's not what you want to have to deal with it's more shields and more heels
Yeah, and if we go back to champion select and we were talking about how worried we are about this silas with a possible
Alistar ultimate to steal, which he did steal in the previous one.
Now they're actually just gonna start up Baron.
Doku is recalling right now. He does have teleport, but they're so late.
It's at 6k and dropping very quickly.
Saint rides the Weavers' Wall in. BA and Punn.
What? What? It's all the way by Saint!
He steals Baron and Punn, has to try to get away defensively.
BA's gonna be killed at the very start.
Lyon looking for more now.
BA down, Punn low. His toe low.
How in the hell did Saint take that away?
Hey, rocks.
St. is able to steal it.
Are you kidding me?
This game is madness.
How does he actually thread the ballie and get this baron?
I got to see that again, flowers.
Maybe it was a seismic shove or something.
But he rides the wall.
He gets in there.
I was like, well, there's no way Inspired gets there in time.
But it didn't matter because St. did.
He rides it in.
What's he going to be able to?
even Nautilus is, they're all keeping him out.
Yeah, and he puts down the E combo there.
From Sane, it's enough to get it.
This game is actually a madness, Flowers.
Yeah, this is craziness,
and Punn even barely surviving there.
And you can see, Sane's gotta be happy with that one.
Holy.
Okay, so now we've got less than 90 seconds
until the Drake spawns,
and we've got about two minutes here
on the Red Bull Baron Power Play
which already over plus 2,000 gold.
So Lyon have the tools in their kit,
have the buffs on their champions
to run the Rift all the way until that dragon spawns.
For Team Secret Wales, I feel like what you're looking for,
try to find a pick on somebody,
make it a five before game.
That's how you can get back out onto the map.
Otherwise, Lyon just have so much control right now.
Yeah, and it's only 54 seconds ahead of the Drake.
So the key thing here is pushing bottom
as well as mid lane full vision coverage
leading up to the Dragon Soul fight,
so that you can have a better chance of responding
to the dive from TSW.
This very dive heavy composition
that they've drafted for themselves,
they're gonna have to be face-tracking,
and it's so much better for Lyon
when you're running Trundle Alistar Taliyah.
These champions are so much better
at kind of receiving fights
than they are at starting out the fights themselves.
So the change of approach in this battlefield is going to be critical and TSW, they look like they're not even going to take that risky approach.
We'll just go cross map, we'll just play up here and Lyon actually doing a similar thing and defending it.
Yep, Lyon trying to protect that topside turret and you say Lyon's comp is better at playing when someone has to engage into them, I fully agree.
And even more so, when Saint now has his Seeker's Armguard, if they try to make a move on this hero to Lea in this game,
tied with Inspire there for their highest individual gold lead right now, nearly a 4,000 team gold lead for Lyon,
and they will take that drake, like you said, no contest, it's no Infernal Soul at 25 minutes here for Team Seeker of Wales.
Punn should be able to get this tier one turban in the topside. Finally, the D-Ray, forced to run again from the pillar,
He's so up to finish his Wolves!
But it may have been a fatal mistake.
He has to flash over the wall to stay alive.
Ooh, Douglas wanted to flash combo here with Saints,
so he flashes for the stun,
but they didn't quite have the full distance there necessary
for the seismic shove immediately after the stun.
And so he does have time to flash out.
His toe will live this one.
Flash for flash, top laner for the jungler.
Honestly, both of those flashes pretty critical
for these two champions to perform in the teamfights, right?
Lee Sin and Renekton both need those flashes later on as the game approaches the late game
state to make big impacts in the teamfights. So with both those down on the same timer,
we'll see how much the teams want to fight. Baron not on the map for another two and a half
minutes. Dragon's still four minutes away, so there's nothing demanding attention from either
side just yet. Yeah, and Dokla, I mean you kind of have backup as Renekton. You can try and play
Peel since the enemy team is so heavy dive, but his though, Flash with Lee Sin, that is the biggest
playmaking tool available to you as well so I still think even though it is a
close trade and we're gonna see an attempt on the side lane yeah inspired
Isles insane come in his toes your target yet again tries to get away to the
unraveled earth his toe finally falls st. Throws another rock as one tries to
make his way into the fight now with the sky splitter jumps on the same but
there's that secret zone that I was talking about D-Ray with the stolen
a bringable will stay alive here in the middle for now st finally dies but team
Secret Wales is on the run, B.A. is going to be your next target, best of the gauge, coming out for miles!
Three-man knock-off, and Inspired isn't done!
He chases after Eddie, and takes a big old bite from the Secret Wales, A.B. Carey.
D-Ray barely gets away, but Eddie's going to be buried under the infernal shard that explodes from his corpse.
Lyon has found their way into the enemy base, with a 4-D1 push.
D-Ray stands alone, and he has to try to make a miracle defense here.
He steals the win with a trundle ulti, but the first Nexus turret has already been killed.
Dope but charges forward. He wants the ruthless predator and he's found it.
D-Ray stayed alive with a king slayer, and Lyon will still continue trying to force down these Nexus turrets.
His toe is respawned, but he is the only one. BA now back alive. Lyon's very low on the health bar.
Isle jumps in to the headbutt pulverized combo here under his toes.
Same editor, we joined the fight now with the teleports. Everybody on Team Secret Wales trying to respawn.
And they're going, they're going out of success.
Lyon, take game one.
Whoa, well done, flowers.
The marathon end call there for Lyon's first victory.
What a performance.
Lyon showing us how it's done here in the first one.
Desk, break it all down for us.
They're not letting NA down today.
Also kept the flowers.
Wow, you had to go for a long time on that final.
He hasn't seen one!
It's crazy!
Amazing to listen to and I'm assuming amazing to watch from my LCS representatives here on the desk
with standing even that that that male game fight that just overall a sovereign win for Lyon.
I mean a very familiar looking game for Lyon.
They give a lot of drakes in the LCS and there's a lot of games where it's pretty even and they win the majority of those games.
Now, the fact that this is the LCS representative at international event made me very nervous,
but it's good that they seem to not be affected by that pressure. That's a couple of wins they've had
now in games like this against Furia and now against the Whales.
Yeah, they did.
Yeah, and I mean, it did get scary for that one midgame teamfight, right? Because that is where I
was like, okay, this is Whales' strength, and it's something that Lyre are going to have to watch out for,
going forward, not getting caught up in that kind of stuff and continuing to play the map,
and use that pressure instead.
But luckily, because Lyon won,
we can go to right before that teamfight.
Right! True!
And pretend that that teamfight never happened.
And every second counts thanks to the reliable Cisco Network,
St. Walls of CSW, and Secures the Triple.
Look, when we look at this play,
when we talk about kind of the synergy and the execution here,
this is why you don't have to be nervous around these third rakes.
Because if we bring the clip up now,
you can see the setup is there for Lyon.
One, two, they'll give it away for free.
This third one they know that they have to fight for so again keep your eyes on BA.
I want you to watch how this initially looks like it might be just a quick pick
but as we roll out the clip you can see some panning
and it starts to play. Nice. So as BA comes around the corner Iles is kicking this off
exhausts going to be used here but after the flash comes out there's a momentary back off.
They're not sure if this is the fight that they want but then crucially they notice the angle
here if you look in the bottom corner of your screen. You can see the Taliyah coming up they
They have the Weaver's Wall, they see the potential choke point, and they know that even if this just turns into a single kill,
it is enough to set them up favorably for the following fight. And the good news for them is, it is not just a single kill.
So as we play out the rest of the fight, keep your eyes on the incredible combo here.
Histo does his best to stop this from happening, but because the Unraveled Earth is already down,
the counter punch for Team Secret Wales just really isn't effective.
Losing a member right off the bat just means that as strong as their team is, as good as it could have been,
If Silas was here earlier, he was not.
So that small window of opportunity, very well capitalized on, punished,
and it really set up Lyon for success.
And I think moments like that are also why Lyon is so okay giving away drinks.
Because if there's a fight that they think they could lose,
they generally don't want to take it.
And pretty much all you need to do to know if Lyon wants to have the fight
is count the champions that are in the frame.
If they have a numbers advantage, they want it.
If they don't have a numbers advantage, they usually do not want that fight.
Yeah, as someone who isn't as familiar with Lyon, of course, I knew that they sometimes like to take it slow and make sure they get the gold up before fighting for those objectives before they're ready, but I was a little scared.
I was like, what if they get wiped? But the thing is, they kind of did, and they still were upping gold. They still had control.
So I think that's a very, very good sign. And then of course, there was a Baron.
Yeah.
I mean, wouldn't it stop you around the bush? This is why they won the game.
Yeah.
It was...smoothly fluid.
So this is why they won the game in 29 minutes.
Yeah, I think they would have gotten to 40 minutes if this didn't happen.
I mean, the Junker isn't even there.
St. just flies in on Taliyah.
I thought for a second maybe he put the rocks down, which interrupted his toes' cure.
But no!
His toe...no!
His touches doesn't smite it properly.
He leaves it at 400 health, and St. is able to get the free combo.
He had the biggest grin on his face after this steal.
because this to me was actually the game turning play that would have been Baron to DSW plus three Drake's to zero
Yeah, yeah, that sets up for the fourth Drake and while the goal difference they probably could have survived Baron
We've said it a million times not as strong as it used to be that soul would have made this game
So much more difficult that Silas Alistar that so many people were probably tunneling on in the draft would have been a lot bigger
Problem if they had game had gone longer
But instead we can look at this beautiful graph where you can see berserker just free fires in every team fight
They get the Baron and they close it out looking like nothing was ever wrong
Yeah, and it started really well early for berserker, right?
Like Iles looks so much more comfortable on this Alistar had a much better performance than we've seen from him recently
And berserker is just playing so so well right now
I love that their 2v2
Kills down on bot side and it was actually really huge for a lot of these map trades where berserker or doka
that would just be getting plates by pressuring turrets
while they were seeding objectives like Harold or Drake.
I do want to honk him back to something that was said
in the pre-show about Saint, how he was going to show up.
Absolutely, so we knew that in Spartan Preserver
are the reliable members of Lyon,
and you never really know what you're going to get
from the rest of them.
And Saint, I think, has the biggest hearings,
because on any day, I said in the pre-show,
he's either Faker or Palafox.
I think that's disrespect for Palafox.
He did, after all, sweep G2,
kind of kicked them out of worlds a couple years ago.
So we picked a more appropriate representative.
It's like a, it's like a faker to K-droll.
And I feel like he was slightly more faker than K-droll this game.
He's not faker at the moment, but I still want to take this level in this series against Team Secret.
Yeah, like a game winning scale, he had the little clutch factor in there.
So it's definitely pushing him a little bit forward.
All right.
And I will say the best green flag for Lyon, concerning for future series, good for this series is,
they died in the early game.
Don't look a little messy in the early game, but it just didn't matter.
They were clutching the fight to the count.
And there's all the matters we can ignore all of the little messy bits in the early game because it really all came together in the end.
Also, since it's Fearless, Eddie's Kaisa is gone. This is for his first defeat on it in this entire year, I believe.
And then also, Poon's Volibear is gone.
Don't worry, Poon has a lot more. Don't you worry about Poon.
Don't you worry. We'll be right back with the game too.
Times like this are where star players shine and new legends step up.
The legacies of built and dreams are either realized or ripped apart.
He shall not die.
He cannot stand the break up who has been created.
To turn the back to the world.
He can't even live with the happy soul.
Do he so much work and energy?
He is just going to hasten.
When I was a player, if I was to make a misplay, maybe it's my mouse, maybe it's my armrest, something feels wrong.
If you were at home, you wouldn't do that.
The Infinite Precision Armrest is part of the largest you collect on stage standard initiative.
Aim to bring your home or training settings to the tournament stage.
I think other players will set up the stage more naturally.
When you are at ease, the stronger the play comes out naturally.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026 here on the first day of stage two of the brackets
It's a double elimination day and in our first best of five
It's lion who took the first game after some spicy plays. He has some spicy plays. All right
the
Objective, you know steals smites are a huge topic
I mean because on this stage one of the biggest factors is the amplified pressure on teams, you know and
Especially young teams we said it at the beginning of game number one
But his though as a youngest player at this tournament
He's only 18 years old and so you know, I've been there too. I do a lot of early smites
You know panic smiting all the time. I've had a couple of those myself
It's the most okay
He's not the youngest person at the tournament though because we just saw a baby in the audience
Okay, the baby is younger than his toes.
His toes in the top three, for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
Shout out to the baby in the audience.
I'm sure a big fan.
Regardless though, I mean, the pressure is the biggest thing.
And so, and that's the biggest pressure moment for junglers.
It's always like smiting Barons and smiting Elders or smiting Dragon Souls.
Exactly. It's one of the both exciting and nerve-wracking things about the role
Is that so much pressure is on you in one of these small moments?
It's just like one click and a piece of timing there.
You have to stay calm in these situations.
Saint isn't Saint wasn't even really like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm going to steal this or whatever.
He just you just throw out your abilities and if you get it, you get it.
You know, so we'll look at game number two though here,
how you can reset on this big stage with all of this pressure
as the fans are coming very quickly.
I do like following up this one now with the Akali ban as well to take this away from the team sequel is from DRA
It is one of the most banned champions against him
Okay, we've got the rise the Akali and the vibe banned out by lion
We've got the Casio the rumble and the nocturne banned out by team secret whales once again here in this game
Team secret whales has opted for last pick. They want that final counter pick. I'm guessing it's going to be for pun
Oh, I would probably say that that's their best shot obviously the volley bear had some some scary moments in game number one
But it was not enough to secure his team secret whales the win so with first pick
Let's see what lion wants to go for again, you know, it's only game to a fearless
Yeah, there's some of the stuff off the table, but there's still so many power picks left and Veris is gonna be the choice here for lion
Remember this is a flex pick even though top lane Veris has been nerfed. It is still something that Dope that has played many times
Yeah, definitely very much a flex but alive and well despite the many attempts at killing it from the balance team
The rumors of Varys whose demise have been greatly exaggerated. Yes. All right
So some hovers there but was like, oh, yeah. Well, guess what? I have last pick
So let me leave a look at this, you know, York here that I could possibly
We'll see as they get later and they are gonna save it for him
But the Zen super early on I like this because Trundle is already out and Lee Sin is already out due to Fearless
So it's definitely a very good pick. I mean it's what is you know, that's apaca
He could go with the Cosics or something like that, but I don't think they need to get that spicy
This early on especially since they did win the first game
So we'll take a look and they just go for focus on the wave strategy
Silver into Varus is a classic here your spell shield always easily very effective as well as
at the wave pushing and farming.
Exactly, if Barris wants to do a snap piercing arrow, sure,
but if he wants to charge it for the good damage,
it's very easy to block with the spell shield.
So now, Lyon, how do they want to respond here?
Do they want to prioritize that jungler
seeing it already locked in?
Four team secret whales,
there's two out of those six first bands
used in the jungle pool already.
They want to go ahead and secure the victor for Saint,
first and foremost.
So, I will say, you know, they're like,
all right, we already, you know,
see that you're not going to steal Jarvan
I think as you guys in so I'm happy to pick more low mobility carries. Yeah, but
What about pun? What about top lane top lane? Definitely
Plain plays a lot of champs that can can punish low mobility carries later on
Unintended but he does play a lot of things that in teamfights will be looking directly
Whether it's a top lane, you know various or you know bot lane at the at the back line there
So we'll see if they can't punish it because they do have on the hunt from Siver to allow some more dive from themselves
So TSW very well could go for more of that, but they expected the Orianna because they left it up here
Yeah, they actually
Weren't even keeping track. We weren't even keeping track of the Orianna still being up
But they wanted the victor anyways and they took it first and the preemptively took the dragon assuming
TSW are gonna go with the Orianna which has been such a highly prized champion
And generally when Orianna gets picked, if you don't already have your mid laner, you see things like a Kali picked into it.
Things that can provide that sideline pressure since Orianna is typically vulnerable there later on in the game.
But up against Victor, it's just control mage versus control mage.
But I will say, this is two utterly immobile carries on the side of Team Secret Wales up against Cataclysm.
Definitely some playmaking potential there for Inspire.
Yeah, definitely agree.
And he has been quite good on the Jarvan previously.
Inspired Jarvan is not just about punishing low mobility carries. He has done a lot of invading
And gets very creative when he has this champion. He changes the way he plays
Pretty significantly and the team puts a lot of effort especially into level ones getting information on the enemy jungle
So they can you know steal away camps or go for invades and punish
Especially towards bottom line. So we'll see about the early stages the the ash respect here
to doclas top lane Varus, you know, possibilities, and Lyon keeping that one a flex pick is paid,
as is the answer with the earlier aforementioned Hover onto the York that they were already kind of
trying to get in their heads and dare maybe like, yeah, I could do this kind of pick.
Yeah, we've got that Jace banned away too. Just like in game number one, as soon as the
Whales see Lyon ban out York, they ban out the Jace in response. One more ban to go here
four-line before we get into the second half of the draft. I'm still very curious where this
Varus is going to end up. Obviously, we're going to learn that here very soon. The Olaf band away,
so again, it's a double band towards Pond. Yeah, and Olaf is very, very scary for a lot of those
matchups, so definitely well worth the respect. Let's see what they do decide to round it out with.
So I'm gonna go for some engage for BA. We've talked a lot about his support scarner
But we had yet to see it here at MSI, you know, he did use it very heavily in playoffs
Here you go something they can punish those normal ability carries flowers the Bard still up and available
Good pairing and it's always good into the Victor and the Verus try and get their flashes
And you saw right there when it was locked in 8 and 3 so far at the event has been a very powerful pick
throughout the MSI thus far and now what is the response here for the Lions side
The Camille being hovered this one
I think is gonna cause a little a little bit of a scare for NA fans Iles
Camille performance has not been impressive so far in the tournament
But lion is going to lock it in say all right
We've got faith that Iles can can make the plays on this. You know what?
I'm gonna default to trust again. All right. Okay
His pike game was also really, really scary.
Like I feel like just the fact that Kariah exists,
and Kariah is just like making all the supports
play these things that have very high skill ceilings
and can be difficult to pull off.
But you know what, they're confident in him,
so they're gonna put the trust back in him
to go on the Camille.
And Camille, Jarvan, and Nar,
that is plenty of stuff to try and pressure Orianna and Sivir.
So, you know, it does make sense
as long as they can actually execute on the champions.
And of course, remember White Camille,
one of the biggest times that it came out
was always into the bard.
It's very good into the bard.
You can ult him, you can trap,
cannot get away with those magical journeys.
And we'll see if he is able to execute with it.
Topside, you mentioned that Jax earlier on previously,
but Bunk is going to bring out that Jax into the gnar here.
So top lane carry alive and well.
We'll see about these roaming supports
and which one will in the end have the bigger impact.
I feel like Iles had a good game run on his Alistar.
Yeah, 2v2 kill in the bottom lane early on.
The big three man knockup at the end of the game
to guarantee they were able to push for the win
right then and there.
But Iles is Camille again.
This is one that has not proven itself yet.
This is Iles being given the trust by his team
to show that he's got what it takes.
And despite the fact that it's pretty easy to hit hook shots,
Hextech ultimatum is obviously a targeted ultimate.
It's more about your timing.
It's about your decision making.
This champion is not tanky.
You're not Alistar.
You don't get a I can't die button.
If you go in at even slightly the wrong time,
it's very easy for the enemy team to punish.
So Isle has to make his decisions very wisely.
Certainly does.
The team though, as I said,
they've got a lot of engage at their disposal.
So at the very least, it won't be going in alone, you know?
Oh sir, he's got big dokes and inspired as well as other forms of engage
To either lead or follow so we'll see can the Bard also use some good to bar defensive ultimates
Yes, another possible answer here from BA and
Team Seeker Wells looking to bounce back after the previous one
Of course big turning point of course was saying just being able to grab the Baron
right out from under his toe with the early smite and so sometimes that does
stick in your head especially if it happens multiple times at a tournament
as a jungler you always just got to you know clear your thoughts try and take
some deep breaths before smites and hold steady you also again you know both
the carries on the side of Team Secret Wales being immobile except for the
flashes means that you have a chance to make the what's a good term we'll call
the fuse box, the cataclysm, plus the arcane storm from the victor to lock them up and find a ton of damage there if lion can get that combo synced up correctly.
Down here in the bottom lane, BA and adi trying to use the fact that they got double range to zone berserker and isles away early berserker will sidestep away from the cosmic binding there fires back with a piercing arrow both junglers.
Remembering game number one they started topside path their way towards bot this time around we're going to have them both starting on the respective red side jungles so they'll end up on opposite sides of the rift.
Yeah, and it's a good point too, because in champs like we talked about how
Inspire does, you know, do some interesting things sometimes with Jarvan,
you know, going for those early invades or splitting the map.
But the double defensive wards, they're really early on from TSW.
I think that's good read here just to make sure that you can try and keep
that track of the points of entry for a Jarvan as a trading does get very
heavy down here and he is coming.
So this is it's going to be kind of a classic, the three camp and then look
for the setup.
Jarvan can go over this wall and if the observers are giving us any indication he might be wrapping around here
I love this game. Yes, so he wraps all the way around that ward that is in the river
So he's doing it again the zirca and I'll stepping forward there
But it is the flash with a hookshot and he tried to get himself away as inspired as made his way into the bottom lane
He gets the assist thanks to the attack speed from the flag
But he didn't even have to touch them and that's why we call it out especially with the Jarvan flower so
creative so mobile over the back of the pit around through the enemy jungle and
even with TSW trying to cut off the vision from both areas of entry into
the river the oldest and most classic they don't have one that can see you
going through the dragon pit and inspired does still make it happen
converts with the jargon early king okay so after the recall to it didn't take
him very much time so very quick recall from him too. Is it going to lose much
time? Isles on his reset with the Camille going to come out make sure they
guarantee protection on the topside scuttle crab in case there was any
alteration of the jungle path from his toe to go over there but there was not
so that one will also be secured for them. Currently though his toe with his
full clear finished. Yep same trying to get away from the gank here in the
mid lane. His toe with a third talent strike does collide with same over the
The wall goes Isles, but it's too little, it's too late.
Saint trying to save his flash a little bit too long,
still gets knocked up and he falls.
Also, I gotta be honest,
I don't like the placement of his gravity field here
as it's fire is gonna fight his toe for a while.
Yeah, his toe down to 300 HP,
Isles has showed up to the fight,
but since BA and DeRay are both here,
Lion is not gonna chase this any further.
Yeah, it's a little rough on the placement
of the gravity field,
because it's kind of easy versus Zen,
and you can usually like, you know,
try and force this into at least flash or something,
but Hista ends up not even having to invest his Flash to follow Saint there,
and Saint does go down, does burn his Flash.
So we mentioned, can be some inconsistency sometime from him
and not able to outplay as the big gank comes through,
and in the end, Hista, he just got to do normal clear on his jungle path before,
as fun getting a little low,
but he got to do a very normal clear and then still get a very efficient gank.
So while Inspired did get off the early three camp and, you know, alternate path down to bottom side,
and Sparks gonna be dealing with some awkward respawns on his jungle camps because of that.
You know, the topside ones are gonna be desynced a little bit with the extra time spent for the gank.
Meanwhile, Histo has a very clean re-clear on his next clear,
because he just did full clear into gank through mid,
and they got the kill on the gank through mid very efficiently,
so he can just do another smooth one, and he's actually passing through mid again, as you see on the minimap.
Yup, and his purchase also feels a lot better.
Has the tunnel there?
As St. tries to get away, drops the gravity field,
does get the stun this time around.
It's going to keep him alive, but he's down to 200 HP.
He's already used his teleport.
There's a massive wave about to crash into the turret,
and you can see inspired already heading towards that mid lane,
trying to make sure that his mid laner does not end up
having to lose the entire wave here.
As BA is going to be taking very low,
but he gets away with a magical journey through the wall.
His toe showing up here in the bottom lane.
And it means that Lyon loses out again.
Team Secret Wales 2-1.
And B.A. he lives.
Only one more auto would have taken him down.
But he draws them in for the gank.
And he is those there.
Another successful gank from Team Secret Wales.
He really has the shockwave available now,
but not going to try to do anything cheeky or sneaky
here against St.
Just going to go ahead, back up away from that one.
As Team Secret Wales finding a couple of good moves here
early on, St. stepping very far forward.
I'm not really sure what this was, but Team Secret Wales is happy to receive the gift.
Iles comes in with a hook shot, at least gets the flashback out of E-Ray,
but it's still a 1-0 in favor of the Secret Wales as Inspire is now looking from an angle here on DeHisto.
Berserkers coming up behind them, but DeHisto is already safe and in the clear.
Yeah, man, they are just running this Victor down.
Flash coming out from Pun there with the counter strike.
It's the stun on a docliffe, forces the flash out of the gnar.
Okay, Flash is traded. Steel Cap's rush from Punn is good for the matchup, but the Victor, I mean, Saint, yeah, they're gonna keep on sending at him.
Deer I did use is Ultimate for that one, so the Shockwave also used, so Ultimate's traded for the mid lane, but you have to worry about roam timers as well.
Topside, Isles is up there at the moment on the Camille, but I wonder if he'll actually be able to punish this Jax who does not have Flash, and Punn goes for an offensive trade at the perfect time for Isles!
Yup, the counter strike was already used, and now Punn is in serious danger.
Berserker in the same position down here on the bottom side,
tries to sidestep the boomerang play, but Eddie coming in with the flash
to get the return on that Q4, the kill, it's a one-for-one across the map.
The bloodbath continues, Flowers.
Bottom side, Berserker not able to stay safe while his support is on a roam.
Timer, nice punish there from Eddie, uses both summoner spells,
and they're able to get it. Look at all those minions dying as,
Yeah, inspired to kind of chase through and they'll be here to kind of pick up these minions, but his camps are topside
Remember they're desync then now you know picking up the minion waves got to walk all the way back over to the other side for the
Camson preserker goes down. He loses out on those ones
So that means the silver is gonna be right back even on farm and with the extra money from the kill pulls ahead
The zirker also playing the lethality varus this style has
Fallen more out of favor after the more recent nurse to the champion
You have seen more of the lethal tempo, like traditional on hit attack speed style of Varus lately,
but Berserker going to go for those heavy lethality hits considering the enemy team is pretty squishy overall.
Yeah, and they've got it. Jackson is in with a really hard to get value out of attacks again.
Yeah, pretty tough.
Counter strike, it's in all 10s.
As you also say, you know, definitely all pretty good targets for burst combos.
So definitely agree with the call there, but we'll see, because Grubbs are up and
Both junglers into the area here.
Okay.
Let's see what we get out of it.
As Inspired is working on the first grub,
but Team Secret Wales is already sending multiple whales here,
and it's no longer a secret.
As Dokla has showed up, but he's already lost the Mega Gnar,
they get the nice tempered fate there on Inspired,
who has to try to escape,
but no, the Cosmic Finding has already locked him here,
but into the wall, Inspired drops the Cataclysm to try to make it a 1 for 1.
Meanwhile, Isles and Sanko and that Pakeebray,
he tries to survive there with a shockwave,
but still gets caught with the last take off.
Oh, Docla!
Docla's stealing away the last grub to make it a two for one favoring Lyon.
So, it's two fights here and they want to continue.
We're not done yet.
Docla, half a NAR bar charge, trying to kite away from his toe.
BA still here, Isle still here, goes into the hookshot,
point blank under the bar, but he gets away through the magical journey.
Docla, 80% of the way charged towards Mega NAR.
His toe fires off the wind, becomes lightning,
just trying to provide an escape route for his teammates.
And that was a valuable delay there from Lyon.
The Minoway was pushed up on top side.
And so they're trying to keep them there in the little skirmish,
even though they didn't have St. Whittham.
So they were committing.
They're trying to delay them with just two players
while St. Gets a push out on mid lane.
Much better for their timing as Dokla.
Dokla goes in.
He hits the Meganar Wallop-Boldertas combo,
brings Punn down to 100 HP,
forces the Altea out of the Jax.
Even though the start of that turns out with them catching inspired,
Look at what happens on the other side of this fight.
D-Ray does not have Flash, and so Isle goes in here while Inspired is basically dead on that side
with three people around him from the barred ultimate catching and breaking up his EQ combo.
But Inspired with his dying breath, he cataclysms, and he keeps them all there and delays them
so they can't join the other side of the fight, and then Dokla steals the other grub anyway.
Dokla making the grubs a two out of three for Lyon.
This game very close, very bloody 8 kills in 10 minutes here as we just take over to that mark on the clock.
Dokla, 2 out of 3 components now purchased for the Trinity Force slightly ahead of Pawn, but it is the only individual gold lead here for Lyon.
I'm not going to count those bottom leads as really anything because they're not even 10 gold apiece, so bottom lane is pretty much dead even.
But it is the advantage for his toe in the jungle. Iles coming up here into the topside.
The pun is full HP. There's not really a whole lot you can make happen here.
Kind of just guarding to see if Team Secret Wales tries anything.
Iles is going to see pun.
Face check him here into the brush.
There's a little bit of damage onto the jacks as Iles fires a max range hookshot.
Looking to get away. His toe shows up now.
Got BA right behind him.
Dokla is still saying very far forward here in the lane.
Pun jumps in.
Dokla hits the wall. A folder toss.
There it is. One, two through the wall. They go.
Now Iles going to be under some pressure here.
Tries to flash away and escape.
But no, Pun jumps in.
Nice leap strike for the kill.
But it's a two man Megan on the wall.
And Sokla wants to get one back and Punn is already down.
Berserker showed up looking to put the damage into his toe.
Double kill of the Berserker and the Ferris is fed.
And they sent all five members from Lyon.
Berserker using the teleport up to the top side
is going to leave the bottom tower open to turret plates.
But it doesn't matter because he's going to also hit turret
plates on the top side after getting the kills.
You can see on the minimap they had the early Rome call
from Saints heading up there.
And they're able to make the big difference.
does want to miss the cannon as he goes for the harassment and pushes the
silver away from it but dragon is on the table so they try and get back to the
other side of the map very quickly that call you have to believe it was very
early in the comms from lying because you could see them sending the four
members up quite early on with the call trying to bait in a little bit and then
they have the teleport as well from berserker the extra person across the
map now they're resetting for the dragon back down to this side inspired
coming out of base but berserker sticking mid for a little bit wanted to get
mid-proud now he's coming for poke. Alright Team Secret Wales have started up
the first trick of the game 12 minutes in very late for this first objective.
Lyon trying to challenge still dragging down to 2500 HP, chains of corruption, big
whiff there. EA getting through the magical journey in time now Berserker
down a very powerful teamfight tool inspired by Berserker trying to see if
they can steal this away but his toe is still right there. Berserker trying to
time his arrow alongside inspired who jumps in with a combo. It's gonna be slain
by his dough beautifully done okay his dough gets one back flowers you know
everyone flaming him for the early smites before but he actually combos
better off of berserkers arrow than inspired it doesn't matter which team
you're on everybody's just looking at the arrow just watch that guy even yeah
even if you're telling your friend all right I'm gonna shoot my arrow at this
HB or whatever, HISTO is able to steal this one away, so the stair down goes their favor
this time around.
Nice, we played there from the jungler on the side of Team Secret Wales, and you can
see here in your coin-based gold grind, it is a close battle so far between the junglers,
even in their score lines, 0-1-3 versus 1-1-3, HISTO coming out slightly ahead, but in their
inventories they even have the same amount of pet snackies left.
They're both about to get the final evolution of the smite as now Dokla again with the Megan are plus wall of combo into the turret
He wasn't able to follow it up with boulder toss because the counter strike threatened to potentially stun him
That could have been a nightmare scenario. So he backs away
Dokla still commanding about a 600 gold lead here in the top lane 1v1
Yeah, Dokla and berserker with their gold leads here, especially in the mid game
Trying they need to try and get some value here with some poke. Meanwhile saints side lane here
pretty easy move up so all the side lanes push for Lyon they're gonna have
some extra luxury on their resets as minions dying on both sides turret
plate money for both sides big Dokes been doing a lot better this time around
big Dokes had a pretty good spike to with Trinity Force here with his
defensive early items in the steel caps and his Doran's helm too so feeling
very good. Dokela gonna have a nice power spike advantage over the Jax who
does not have a fully completed Trinity Force should allow them some good setup on the sides.
Rift Herald, of course, also should be their priority since they do have a really good
mismatch up there at the moment.
Yep.
That's what I'm thinking about.
Rift Herald is always something T1 to fight over and with Dokla jumping in, Megan R, there's
your wallop, he goes to the crotch and he's one more hand, Dokla, flashes in to get it.
That's the solo kill on Pond.
Trinity Force dips right there, Flowers.
Look at the inventory and then you just fight man on his spike.
Dokla forces it and pun huge, huge deficit now with the extra kill.
That one is going to be painful because another round of minions dying into the turrets.
Let's see too.
Oh, jump over the wall from his toe there where the wind becomes lightning tries to engage
on the saint.
Shunston for about one third.
Tempura fate to buy a little bit of time through the arcane storm.
His toe still staying alive for now.
Crescent sweep doing a lot, but no! Inspired executes him. TP coming in now.
Dokla's already arrived for the fight and puns with it to join now too. Eddie under pressure.
Exhaust goes down onto Dokla, but now it's pun who's under pressure. Lion managed to find
themselves the single kill and now they're trying to get out of town and it looks like they will
get everyone away safely. Dokla transforms into Mega Gnar, but not a whole lot of targets left to
use that power on. Yeah, really good for Lion. Look at that. They get mid-prior off this. They
away grump and blue buff off this. And it was chaining off of Dokla's solo kill
because Bun still had a few seconds left on his death timer. Dokla got to join
first and the full confidence online. They finish up with a skirmish through
the river. These timing windows, Lyon are doing a very good job methodically
making the choices off of these little advantages and they use them to
increase really nice gold rewards after those plays. And Dokla's now level 13
flowers to the currently 10 of pun and this is another look at him just
forcing it again it's everybody is the tell us all this time you get your
Trinity force item spike you try and force it on the enemy top laner and
don't go flashes back in to finish the kill take a look at live though okay so
pun has now ticked up to 11 so it's a straight up full two level lead for big
dokes and in game number one remember Saint had the biggest individual lead on
on the team. In this game it's been more of a struggle for him. We saw a couple of early
laning mistakes that ended up costing him a lot. He's the only one without a lead right
now on the team. But even if Saints having a less impressive game, now Doakla's stepping
up. We're in game number one. He was the one who underestimated Pons volleyball a little
bit, but now he's got over a 1,000 gold lead for himself. So Lyon, Lyon doing a good job
making sure that even when one man struggles, another man steps up to carry the slack as
Lion wants to challenge here for the Rift Ariel. Team Secret Wales already has it down to about 5000 HP.
A teleports coming in now. They immediately want D-Ray ready to join up for this and Lion's not going to take the fight.
Instead, they're going to leave Doka Bottom Lane, split pushing.
Yeah, I mean, that's all I wanted out of it is to try and get a summoner spell cooldown because there was no world where they were bringing
Doka over as Saint does some decent damage, chasing them off and defending the top side.
But he got a lot of work done, flowers. I mean, Doka's all the way up to the secondary tower and
Preserker was able to flex over towards mid, so the dragon priority should just be guaranteed for them.
They've got push and bot in both mid and Lion now.
They're actually attacking top with the Camille trying to punish Orianna, but good respect paid from D-Ray as he backs up.
And Dokla is two full levels ahead. He's about to tick level 14.
Oh, no.
Isle's about to tick over into the spirit world.
As he's too far forward, and Team Secret Wales get themselves a nice punish on the enemy support.
Yeah, I was got lost on the timings there the timing window for lion was you know
Ten seconds before that they were trying to precious Orianna, but then everybody else backs off
You know it inspires back into the jungle don't play there
You know back to the base and so that's just not a strong timer for lion to move up on and I'll get punished
Oh, yep, they're going in after berserker now they hit the tempered fate, but there's no follow-up from anybody else
The ripter is already gonna be some in mid
Charge towards this Tier 1 turret here, does knock the crust off of it, gets a ton of damage,
but it will not be able to fully secure the fourth plate.
The dragon is still alive, but it is still also a 4,000 gold lead for Lyon as a team,
and Dokla is back in pushing position here in the bottom lane.
Yeah, let's see here because they're still pinging deep into jungle.
This is all over jungle camps. They don't care about the dragon right now.
Inspired, stepping up. Wants to steal the red buff away from his toe.
Isles and VA also hanging around the junglers here, and his toe will secure the red.
He does have backup nearby. Eddie and V-Ray both capable of closing in,
but St. wants to try to clear out his top lane tier one turret.
It's Arcane Storm and Gravity Field both used by St. trying to outplay it,
but no! V-Ray with the 1v1 punishes St. again.
Nice flash from V-Ray. He knows I can finish this.
Saints cool down is not back up yet. He can't flash away and that's gonna change the map right now three members from TSW
You want to go for the tower in exchange for dragon?
Tell before defense here. This is gonna be very dangerous for members of TSW here to welcome don't don't put teleports in right
Is he about to refer into minninar so he gets the ultimate off?
But now he's back in his vulnerable form. He looks for a little bit more if he gets one kill
Goal! Goal!
Take the line!
Punn's trying to hunt him down,
but he can't quite do it in Isles of Rods,
to guarantee that Big Dokes will not fall.
The defense is successful.
Punn is down to 300 HP.
He's still trying to run,
but Berserker and Inspire are both on the way.
Inspire's coming up behind him.
He wants to get the gank.
He goes into the ulti,
but the Cataclysm only finds BA
who has to flash away from the piercing arrow.
Eddie already popped on the hunt.
Just trying to haul his way up here.
Team Secret Wales might've got the dragon in the meantime.
Or no, it was Lion who got the Dragon and he took it.
Excuse me, Team Secret Wales got the first one
as the Baron finally spawns
and the game remains action-packed.
Yeah, Lion got the Dragon and he,
the doklok bought so much time there.
Megan Dokes, he sees the angle to defend
and even with the extra teleport from pun
on TSW to try and further strengthen their dive,
he still gets the outplay.
Big and bigger and biggest Dokes is coming through Flowers.
He looks at this Orianna, gets a combo, and even with the Mikaels from BA,
and D-Ray trying to go out to the other side,
Doko says, hey, you walking right past me?
I'm gonna finish you off and then still survive,
and then I was able to keep the chase going.
You look at the Minimap, they're on the way up through the river already.
The Varus and the Jarvan were making their way.
And if the replay is honest right there, it looks like Iles actually had Hextech ultimatum.
If he would have cast that on Pun, potentially could have been an extra kill there too,
but not the way it ended up going.
Still a 4,000 gold lead here for Lyon
and 3,000 of it is on Dokla.
Any fight Dokla is in, Lyon has the advantage.
But if Team Seeker Wales can find a way to fight
where he is not, they still have a really good shot
at making something happen.
Meanwhile, St. has not been at this game
and so they're keeping him in the split push on sideline
where everybody is hovering through the jungle
and they have full vision.
Just get fed buddy.
The Lion have full vision through this jungle. Everybody watching defending here and they allow the victor to get up to the turret plate, hit it a little bit, get another minion wave and they've got the vision over the Baron as well.
So they're still trying to keep Saints income at a very stable rate here despite the deaths and despite TSW, you know, punishing him a lot when his flash is not available.
And meanwhile, the bottom split push has gotten up to the tower, so now it's safe for Saint to go collect that wave as well, as Punn gets it there.
And he does have his teleport for Saint here, so he arrives in time for the cannon, no problem.
Now Punn's still trying to get away. Iles has shown up to see if there's an additional move to be made.
The Arcane Storm is used. Iles going in, slows him down to the Hextech Suite, there's the ultimatum, and Punn gets BLASTED by the power siphon.
Talk about more money into Saint. Now, BA wants it set up on Iles?
Yeah, no one is there.
He was only on the Camillo.
Now, BA is going to be interrupted as he tries to escape.
OK, that was not what BA wanted.
That was like crazy support ego or something.
What the hell?
His silver was in mid-late, like, was catching waves.
What the heck?
I mean, Bartek's going to want that back.
They also nerfed Bart's damage.
So even in some strange world, like, pre-nerf,
I still don't think that was good.
But also with the nerf, that damage.
Yeah.
Well, I don't take that.
Yep, I think you'd take that seven days of the week,
my friend, five and a half thousand gold lead for Lyon,
as once again, it's the bottom lane
being pressured by Lyon's solo laners.
Saint has that push now, and you can see
Saint getting that kill there on Dupont.
He now also is at parity with D-Ray.
Even though it hasn't been Saint's best game,
he's still staying relevant in the overall game state.
He's got his Blackfire torch,
he's got his Chovy belt,
He's now got his Seekers armguard.
He's feeling good for the next team fight.
Okay.
Well, a line overall, I think, as well,
sharing that feeling with this gold lead
actually manifesting in some meaningful spikes.
With the Spell Shield here being picked up
by Berserker as well, the poke damage
should be very easy for him to move up aggressively
and land at these objectives.
So Linerka has some very good advantages for themselves
as far as the range.
You know, you have lasers from Victor, who as you mentioned, safety of Proto Bell and Flash and an armguard from Saints.
Should be a lot easier for him to play out this fight now, even if they do focus him.
So they have, you know, lasers as well as poke damage from Berserker to set themselves up.
And it should be fairly difficult for TSW to approach. They're looking for a flank right now, though, into the mid lane.
I'm inspired as shown his face, though, so Punn cannot quite get that angle he was looking for on Berserker instead.
loses over half of his HP and immediately has to disengage with a leap strike.
Meanwhile, Tokla is still positioned in the bottom lane.
He took the Tier 2 and then backed off out of vision,
but now he reappears, seeing that Punn got chunked out over in mid.
Yeah, because Big Dope's got such a good lead in the side lane,
and TSW don't have a side lane advantage this game, it's so difficult.
Oh, and he gets dove!
Cataclysm immediately comes in from Inspire,
and as the chains of corruption fly out,
Eddie has to flash away just to stay alive.
Punn escaping down here in the bottom lane as well.
B.A. is nearby might try to wait until a damage dealer is nearby to get a potential punish on the doclah
But it's so hard to do. Yeah, I mean this other again
It's really hard to operate since they don't have a side lane
Oh, it's fire in Isle and Saint going in here after D Ray arcane storm forces the flash out tempered
Oh, no, he's locked up his own middle of the gravity field there D Ray stay alive though
Mikael's crucible gets D Ray out of danger B.A. saved the day this time
D-Ray is out and line pick up the Drake on the other side of the map.
Do they want more?
Alright, Belclan inspired, trying to steal away the gromp,
his toe with the smite to just clutch onto any resources that Team Secret Wales still can
as we take another look at this almost kill here from the topside.
Yeah, D-Ray, I mean it's a good play from both supports.
Isles, hovering in the brush, they had the vision control there already,
They go for the play, and as they ignite, last tick was going to kill him.
Holy moly, that could not have been closer.
But it lands, and then he gets here with a magical journey into Mikael's combination.
So B-Ray saves the day, and D-Ray, well, I think, is a teammate there.
Meanwhile, I still feel like Lion hold all the cards, because they've got side lane dominance.
They have poke advantage, range advantage for team fight standoffs around the objectives.
They have vision coverage to make those approaches even more difficult for TSW.
So, TSW, I feel like they just, you got a full send on one side, you know.
Pick an area, just overload that side with multiple members.
Maybe if you have to drop waves to do it, okay, whatever.
You're going to have to drop waves to do it.
But you're going to have to create something special here.
Even without the pressure of the Dragon Soul being very early on in this game,
which maybe gives TSW more time to work with.
Isle's caught, though.
Nice different fate.
Isle could be in a little bit of danger here,
here but instead he gets himself away.
Now Televart coming in.
Everybody on TSW is here.
Lyon's still looking.
So maybe 5-7, changing corruption, finds a target
on DePon.
Histo wants to dive towards safe.
He stays alive here with the Seekers' arm guard.
Pun wants to get away over the wall.
Has to flash to do it.
Histo trapped inside the cataclysm
but no damage from Lyon to follow it up.
PA gets away with 200 HP.
Everybody alive on both sides,
but it's Lyon with much better health bars.
Yeah, and they're gonna make the call to do it.
They're gonna pull Baron here.
So start leashing with St. Hammingis teleport back.
Let's see about the contest.
Is this where TSW pull out the miracle?
D-Ray, he'll try to get out.
Isles goes in, give it a heck of a tech ultimatum.
Yet again, D-Ray very low.
Don't quick grab the kill.
Now Punn's the next target.
Again, looking for a way out.
Leap strike back to his own teammate.
Nice cosmic binding to buy a little bit of time.
Punn goes on a magical journey
and Lyon does not want to continue the chase.
So just a one kill play for Lyon.
But again, Punn so gravely injured
We cannot participate in another fight.
There's no Siviralti.
There's no Zinalti.
There's no Baralti.
But there is Baron on the map and Lyon has it in their sights.
Yeah, and Lyon have plenty of very threatening CC to turn off of the Baron.
So, Iles is going to stand watch here as is Dokla, and the Baron should be secured quite
easily for them.
Let's see about...
Okay, so they actually sent St. all the way down to take care of the minion wave.
They have absolutely zero pressure on their Baron.
They can push out mid, rotate down towards bottom too.
Do they want that?
Look at Isle just coming through.
They have head skates.
So he's laying on the scuttle crab.
St. trying to keep them here while the rest of them.
OK, temperate has locked up both his toe and St.
Isle's coming in here with a hookshot.
Does stun up his toe.
There's the laser to find the first kill.
Now inspired chasing after Bonn.
Nice change of corruption to lock up the Jax
with a piercing arrow over the wall.
The circle is on a rampage.
Deray's gonna die next, double kill for Berserker,
and Lyon will grab the Baron and transition
to the other side of the Rift to take out three.
Very good stuff.
Baron and Powell, Rico, Isle's got back,
he's both hex gates to be able to join,
and Lyon are already inside the base flowers.
This one, under 30 minutes here,
they're already taking down the inhibitor.
They have the Baron, Buff Saints is going top side
to push the top side as well,
where the rest of Lyon are gonna keep up the siege.
Yeah, VA and Eddie are the only two alive
for another 10 seconds and VA is already down.
Inspired gets out of the Turret Agro in time
before he dies.
Dokela just keeping Eddie away.
You're gonna have his co-respond now
as Inspired takes his recall.
Dokela with the two-man Megan are back into the Nexus Isles
ready to follow up Piercing Arrow, gets the kill.
But Zorka going Godlike.
Lyon going all the way and Lyon are on match point.
And this one was in dominating fashion.
Doka on the top side and Nargis got out of control.
Nice set up there from Lions in game number two.
They're already putting the threat of elimination to TSW.
Analyst, what do you got for us?
Well, well, well, they get some match points first.
What performance by Lions so far.
We see a little victory.
That's already a jazz dancing stress.
I've been for a while.
Yeah, I don't understand what's happening with this team.
Like they're so just normal.
Like I'm so used to seeing a team come to an international
event and lose all their strengths as soon as there's
like a stressful game.
It's the opposite.
They look exactly as comfortable as they would be when
they're winning LCS playoffs.
Yeah.
And I think the big thing is they're doing it in the way
we saw them do it.
in the LCS right like the big thing for me here was that brift herald where they just seed brift herald soft can test
Give up two tier choose like lion gets two tier choose off that
They're just so good
They've been so good in these first two games of funneling gold into their carries through just playing the map better
Let's talk about big dough
What a gnar performance drake off wow
No, it's just kidding.
Stop, don't let...
Barba, Palafax, where are we pulling from today?
This is crazy.
Dokla was so fantastic on this gnar,
and I would say it made so many of these plays where he's just trading for something here or there,
finally amounts to this solo kill.
But across the board, this is the level of dominance.
It's fantastic.
It feels like Castle got re-signed for 30 minutes,
and like, boom, here we are.
Just absolute domination.
Right back on schedule.
Absolute Dokla dominance.
dominance. We were talking about it. I have no idea how
Orianna got tower aggro, but who cares? It was good for
Dokla and added to the mod. I was watching Zin stepped out
and then the old burn from the Blackfire Torch reacquired the
Orianna to get the kill. He would have had the defense
anyway and they would have still been up in temple the entire
time. So, to Emily's point, like even if they're not winning
fights in a big way, they always know what to do with the
temple that they create from their place. And I did predict
TSW to win here, but and I do have to say, um, sometimes
their decision making has been puzzling, to say the least, right?
I think Bia on this barred feeling pressure to make the moves and making them continuously,
but by that inviting suboptimal fights for their team over and over and over, which all
made I think that Lion had a really, really comfortable time.
Yeah, and we've talked about how strong TSW can be in the early to mid game, especially
mid game with their setups.
I want to go over a mid game fight from Lion that I thought was really, really good in terms
of how they're playing around Dokla's gnar. So as we pick it up here, I want people to
pay attention to the actual gnar bar. It's a little bit difficult to see. However, as
we play through, because basically they think their TSW think they're going to have an angle
with a magical journey after Isle's got caught out in this brush. However, I love the way
that they play around D. O. K. L. I. N. R. Bar rage usage, right? So he's going to, as
we play through the clip, he is going to end up hitting Megan R. here and just stalling
so much time. Like, Punn goes in, they take magical journey in, pause here. We have two
TPs coming in, but look at how far away the Orianna TP is compared to Berserker. And then
Again, keep your eyes on it ticks literally five seconds.
The last usage as we play through.
Doka creates so much time in this fight for everyone
to get here.
Berserker, TP's in, picks up the double kill here.
Absolutely huge, especially after they were already just
funneling turret gold into him.
Yeah, and it's just the slimmest of margins,
because it was already a good situation.
You highlighted it.
The team play of line means that was always
going to be a good play.
The TP from Berserker means it was always a good play.
Put that like 10 amount of rage left on the bar,
the five second cooldown, it's picture perfect.
And Quentin seems to go,
they calculated that ulti cooldown,
and they thought we had five seconds,
we're killing this guy before he ults.
But that just tiny bit that they were off,
made all the difference.
Practically constantly heading gold.
Dokuha leading the game in damage as top lane Nars.
So for all those people being like,
if only Inspired had a top laner,
he has top blood, he has a top laner.
And it's with a lethality force on the team.
There we go.
It's a cheat code for printing damage numbers.
It's like fake DPM and he's still outmatched.
Berserker, who got all the kills in that fight?
Yeah, Berserker.
I mean, that's the one you called out
at the beginning of the day, right now?
Yeah, Berserker's been steady, continues to be steady.
The thing that makes me more comfortable
than I usually would be with the LCS
at international events is when little things have
been going wrong in all these early games.
St. Died to the first gank, both games.
Berserker died to a gank.
This game, after Inspired, had already
They messed up his early jungle path and you got him ahead, but they just continued to play through whatever they can.
This was the game where Doku was actually the only organically winning lane, and lo and behold, all their plays centered around the top lane.
So they're just playing really without stress and intelligently.
Yeah, let's take the two sides of the coin here. Let's start with the reverse sweep. How does that happen in game?
I think if we look at the setup around mid lane, Emily, you were talking about this in the game and I think it's so valid.
You had a good game the rest of them around him really struggled, but they initially set him up for success
And I think this is a guy who if he keeps getting these powerful tools like the Orianna
Which it was surprising that it got left through from draft clearly has
Elevated that performance that we were kind of missing internationally in the last few events and can especially against a saint
Who's sometimes a little over aggressive
Yeah, be the one to make the difference in these fights and in this next game
I think they need to get it
They need to be a little more careful in which fights they start and I think they need to stop the bleeding right you cannot be
Getting certain objectives but letting line get all the other gold on the map consistently. It's a recipe for this disaster
But who's gonna take the lion side? How did they bring this home in a 3-0? They continue to play what got them here?
I mean, I was actually worried that they were going to continue to like game one
We got to play pike mail guys like that's what that's what T1 is doing. We're gonna be playing to what next so
No, that's not what they're doing. They're saying okay inspired's gonna play his scaling pick Saints gonna be on a control
Let's make sure berserk who doesn't fall behind the game
Doku's gonna be hit or miss but he's gonna do his own thing and we're just gonna play our game
So they just need to continue to play exactly what they've been doing. We got miss hit. So we're up for miss
So say it to me saint
Whatever he gives you a game one is what he gives you for the series. Okay, so he's been good enough. All right
I was talking about Doku, but it's all good. Let's see if let's see if line can bring this home in a three and zero
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Took a middle for the analyzed blur
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And it doesn't matter where we go
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I've been in space for you for this world
I've been chasing the stars and I've been through it all
Look at me, I'm the best you can go
I've already got your say
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You're the one who's trying, the one who's trying
We're never, no one together
You're the one who's trying, the one who's trying
Maybe we're the one who's trying to get to the bottom
So I know why this is so much better
No one can ever want to see that
Okay guys, it is 2 and 0 right now.
Lion is leading a warm game away from qualifying and I found some Lion Korean fans.
Hello, what's your name?
What is your name?
My name is Lion.
Alright, what's your name?
My name is Im So-hee.
Lion has been playing really really well so far.
Lion, did you do a great job today?
Yes, I did a great job today.
You're doing really good. I mean, I'm actually here for tier 1, but I'm also cheering for it right now.
Who are you cheering for? Who is the best player?
I'm cheering for Berserker. Berserker is such a good player.
I guess I'll cheer for Saints right now.
Can you show me your sign? Yeah, Berserker fans here. Do you think they can 3-0?
Oh, possibly, yes.
All right, one, two, three, lion fighting.
One, two, three, lion fighting.
Let's go.
Thank you.
Thank you, Lord.
Great to see some lion fans here in the house,
and they are fighting indeed a dominant performance in game two.
Brings them to match point here.
Two and zero versus team secret whales.
The number one seed of the LCP now has to reverse sweep,
or they are out of MSI.
And I have to say, the strategy of counter pick for pun
has lost its magic flowers.
That Jax was invisible.
Dopla ran the match up, ran the sideline,
and Lyon now already at match point.
I mean, TSW is just getting ran.
Danger of getting run straight out of MSI now.
Yep, Bollywood, Ben made a movie out of top lane
in that last one.
Doppler was popping off so let's go ahead and see how the draft changes up here in game number three in this
Dewardy situation for team secret whales that Yorick it's been a
Second half staple band for lion. It's a first half band now
I'm guessing they're thinking maybe team secret whales is just gonna opt to take that early try to play this quick-pushing game
They don't want to deal with it one way or the other so they ban it out alongside the vibe
that has been banned this whole series.
Cassiopeia and Ryze also gonna remain banned.
Olaf banned out again.
So two out of three of these first stage
bans for Lyon are targeted, Pond.
All right, let's see how many more stable,
you know, blinds Docklick can have though.
Cause Renekton and NAR are two of the most common,
most stable, you know, blind picks for Top,
well, not in all situations, but we'll see,
we'll see how much more risky stuff does.
Yeah, Pond still can do like, you know,
if Docklick tries to pick a tank though,
blind, then Punn will go Gwen or something, which has been very, very scary from him.
So, let's see, he could still have some more danger in the tank.
Interesting too that they banned the Mel and leave both Nocturne and the Jace up.
You mentioned that previously when Lion had been banning in second phase, the Jorik, then
the Jace was also always the response, but they're leaving the Jace up here without the
your answer possibilities. Nocturne though I definitely agree with first pitching that picking
that Nocturne not only is it key for a lot of lion wins in their thoughts but also denying it to his
toe. Okay so the Nocturne locked in this has been banned throughout the series up until now.
Over on the team secret rail side they are going to slam 80 carry and support back to back here
in their first two picks. At least support tells me you are looking to get ahead early you are
looking to snowball because if you fall behind, bro this champion is useless.
Uh-oh. I hope we don't see another pike to follow this, but you know, Ziggs pike
could be it again like that. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see that would make us
very squishy and very risky and it requires hitting all of your spells
all of the time. But there's the chase that we were talking about does get
locked in without the cover band being laid out and with the protection of the
already gone, and the Olaf already gone. They're gonna go with it. Princess Fyne, I will take the tank.
Matchup, side into it, even with the Nerf Sion.
That Nerf Sion, though, for anybody who might have turned away when he got locked in, the numbers are 0 and 8 so far here at MSI.
This champ, formerly the greatest meatball in League of Legends, has been squished into an itty-bitty little smash burger now.
He is not doing anything and Punn is now going to have to change that trajectory to keep TSW in the tournament.
Okay, I think the leverage TSW have right now is bottom lane though, so let's see what they can build around Caitlyn Elise.
Caitlyn Elise, you would love to be able to, especially like split the map with your jungle and be able to invade a level 1 invading, you know, type of split map, go for dives on it.
Katelyn Elise is so good at diving champions
because the obvious repel from the Elise
and since they have Sion on top side,
you know they don't want to play up towards there.
So just send everything towards the bottom half of the map.
Interesting that for Midlane,
the Akali has been again here on the side of Lion.
I do think it's also one of Saints' very strong champions.
So we'll see, I think that puts more focus
towards Aurora, Akali, Annie,
these types of Midlane champions,
A lot of these playmaker mid lane champions are up and available.
Well, no longer a colleague.
Lyon decide they do not want to deal with that one, specifically banned that one away.
And Team Secret Wales are going to take Syndra off the board alongside that Shen.
So one more ban here before we get into our second half of the picks.
Does Lyon want to continue targeting that mid lane pool?
There's not really any flex potential on the Team Secret Wales side.
Elise has not been a jungler for many, many moons.
Cylon, I mean, I guess you could say
you might flex Cylon to mid,
but most people don't want to do that.
TF's gonna be the base.
This did great, okay.
Yeah, that plays into our strat
that we were talking about,
where you said everything bot lane.
So they do take out one of those things,
but D.Ray can play a lot of roaming stuff to bottom lane.
That guy's saying all the Aurora,
the R.E. and the Annie.
All definitely D.Ray champions,
where he can be a playmaker
and roam to the bottom side, to the Caitlyn at least,
and he can make plays with a Nefiri.
All those ones also match up really well
as a mid-jungle combo with Nefiri.
So, Sank gets his first pick, though,
and his Ari is a very comfortable champion for him,
so he might take that side,
and then like the Aurora answer or something from D-Ray.
But let's see about it, gonna have to be the blind.
Okay, that's the blind Ari for Sank.
Have some impressive moves in game number one.
Game number two, he had a couple of blunders early,
but like I said, in the middle of that game,
he stayed relevant, he kept his farm high,
the team played around just having him
just keep farming those minions in the side lane,
and he did contribute the damage that he needed to
as the game went on.
Ari, obviously more of a playmaker.
Oh, thank God, you're good.
It is, okay.
You are really, for those of you guys who can't see Kobe,
he was a little worried there,
thinking about what they're gonna lock in,
but Isles will lock the round as the final pick.
Yo, I was with my boy, and he had been playing really well.
You know, all through playoffs,
and all through this whole split,
has been so good for him this year.
The ascendance of I was in North America,
but he had been having a bit of a rough tournament,
and Pike is really difficult to play well.
So I'm much happier seeing the rail,
a lot easier to execute,
and it's also a very good combo with the Ziggs
for a kill combo on the bottom side,
but you mentioned it,
the answer of the Vex coming here for D-Ray,
you know, he has shown this as well,
both regionally as well as I believe I remember him playing it internationally.
I can't remember it was last year or if it was this year at first hand,
but I think you had it again internationally as well as regionally for his Vex.
And so in the area, of course, you know,
you do have the possibilities of the fear and your dashes,
dashes counter here for the Vex.
It can follow up on some deep plays and we'll see about the combination with
than the theory here if they are able to get some of those bursty plays on a single target
because lots of squishy members on the side of Lyon.
My experience though, especially in international plays, that Vex, when it rarely does come
out and comes out into champions with dashes, it still seems to have a problem operating
itself with its lack of safety as Vex, she doesn't have any dashes of her own, even though
You do have pretty good combos. Well your ultimate of course. Yeah, you're not only close in. Yeah, yeah
That was safe you out anyway. Well, yeah, the safety of the Vexa is what I feel like usually gets preyed apart later
That's why you do have some pretty good offensive synergies that you can you can use
Yeah, it does often
You know get picked on a bit
So the big thing that I'm looking at here for team secret whales is a lack of reliable engage
You have scion that can try to get the big ulti in there
But that gives you a huge warning sign, right?
And then everybody else, yes, you have Dive from Vex
and Nefiri, but there's no big,
there's not the equivalent of a rel.
So I feel like for Team Secret Wales,
you really want to play from ahead with this assassin mid,
with this assassin jungler,
with this lack of the engaged potential,
because if the game is even, or if you're behind,
I feel like it's gonna be harder
to try to work your way back into the game.
I also already mentioned how Elise support
can fall off really hard if this champion starts
to fall behind the pace of the game.
So the pressure is on, Team Secret Wales,
to have a solid early game.
Nice W start from Saint pops his W moves up into the skill shot ahead of the skill shot so he can get his trade there get his
electrocute to proc.
And avoided the early vex attempt at a trade meanwhile bottom side flowers the Caitlyn at least doing what Caitlyn at least gonna do.
Yes, sir with their brush control getting their poke in there you know pressure early and of course that is to me a really big part of this
Comp here for TSW, throwing that down early on.
I do like it, gives them a really good area to play off of
and see if they can use it, leverage this
to get themselves back into the series.
The combinations are very powerful from this setup
and especially since they have full vision
of inspired pathing away from them on a nocturne.
They know that they are now free to push in
and harass under tower.
All right, Saints got the mid lane pushed up here as well
and you can see with our junglers, once again,
It's like game two, starting off on their own respective red quadrants.
So they will be pathing towards opposite sides of the rift here early on.
And with the nefiri pathing towards the bottom side,
Wade is inspired just going to run it back.
Is he going to do the same thing that he did in game number two?
Keep your eyes on Isles.
He wants to look for the opportunity to go in after BA.
That's not exactly the way they wanted it to work.
Fear tether is there.
Satchel forces the repel out of the Elise.
BA lands right back down.
This went a lot better for the Wiles than game number two.
Yeah, that's what I say. Really good respect from Eddie and Bea, even with the Caitlyn Elise here.
And they actually wasted a decent amount of inspired time this time around.
You know, they're kind of hovering there in no man's land, about in the middle.
And in the end, yes, you do have to burn your flash of the Caitlyn for the flash of Iles on the rail.
But I still think, you know, wasting some of this Nocturne time and the Nocturne is going to be, again,
DeSaint bought sidecamps from topsidecamps and we'll see how smoothly inspired can recover his experience on this nocturne
And it gives his toe on the theory who's a champion that can invade very nicely a
Pretty early clear route, you know, he's just got a full clear bottom side skull crab again last time around
He went through mid lane and got a successful game, but this time we'll see what he can do with it
All right, Dokla with control over the top lane as you would expect in the early J's vs. Sion.
Punn's job is to not fall behind in farm. As long as he's doing that, he's doing just fine.
His toe down here in the bottom lane, looking for maybe a play onto Isles and Berserker.
This 2v2 won't be that for long. BA locked up, but it's Isles who's in the most trouble.
First blood for his toe as he jumps on in and turns Isles into Kibbles and Bitz.
The dog is on the board.
I have to say this okay really well played from the draft with the Kailah the least and then playing it very nicely in the
Opener here and just waiting for his toe super easy full clear for him down to
The tower dive when you have both the theory and Elise flowers
You have very easy ways of avoiding all tower damage and they even did it themselves
Almost almost fully completed the 2v2 kilo Niles before his though got there and it hits. I was like well
Thank you very much for my time spent walking down here. I can do an auto and finish this off and
Now it's going to be nefiri with the extra kill with the gold lead and
Very easy re-clear again. So let's see what happens mid
Okay, BA shows up Isles is also here D-Ray gets a nice little chunk of damage onto Saint
But since both supports are nearby they can't try to make anything further out of it
Also, you always like getting fed when you're the jungler, but especially when you're an assassin jungler,
getting that first blood really feels so nice for his toe, who's already got the Brutalizer,
compared to just a Ruby Crystal for Inspired.
Yeah, and so Inspired, again, you see him on the memento, because of the Decent camps,
he just clears the bottom ones, go for the recall again for another purchase and try and get back out there.
And here's where his toe can pull back ahead.
And he's actually using his time. Look, he wants to punish on this big wave.
The wave that's crashing into tower, Histo heads down, he doesn't finish his clear, drops his gromp to make it happen.
Yup, there's the flash cocoon coming in from BA, it's buffered by Iles.
As he and Berserker have to try to continue, they've escaped the flash, still available here.
BA gonna take some damage, Berserker staying alive for now, uses the satchel, tries to flash away.
Histo underneath the cover, he's stuck down! Iles with the deny!
As Lyon turned the play around, and they're looking for a little bit more.
Eddie and BA on the run, the spider is out of mana.
Iles still, but he has no flash, he won't chase this any further.
Nicely done Iles the hero protecting his carry all of that early momentum the
little things adding up for TSW is all gone flowers instantly he's still dropped
his grump so guess what inspires gonna be able to yank that perfect for inspired
good countergank read from the lion jungler inspired walks his way down and
And, uh, I mean, that completely turns everything.
Berserker held onto his Satchett charge for a while.
He stuck there doing the return damage as they were cutting back through the lane.
And then, as you say, I was able to land the last second peel in the fear he wanted to finish off the kill.
And then W back out, um, up the tower aggro, but couldn't get the last little bit of damage. Goes down.
Nicely done, nicely done.
And this is one of the things that you always look out for for teams that are so dominant in their region.
Team Secret Wales really just ran the LCP in Spring Split.
They were qualified before they even hit the playoffs here for MSI.
And that's what always is the question for fans of these regions.
Is, can you hang with other top competitors from around the world?
Maybe in the LCP, the enemy jungler won't read you like that.
But here at MSI, Inspired knew what to do.
Yeah, and maybe TES?
TES and TN won't.
Maybe they didn't know because they already like they already made history here, right?
So I think that they should, you know, remain proud even if they end up getting three out
here by Lyon, TSW being able to take that historic Vesta five versus an LPL team for
themselves.
Huge one of the most iconic plays of the tournament being out to mind control TN to
to run under the tower for crab.
Also one of the most hilarious moments.
So definitely still already getting some very good
accomplishments, of course, being a very young roster too,
as we've gone over some of the ages,
especially his toe himself, only 18 years old.
And we'll see as far as this game too,
because that definitely doesn't completely make
the entire game lying here.
Still have a lot of work to do.
Exactly, it's still a very close game.
We're only a couple hundred gold apart.
A big part of that lead is, of course, the top lane.
Dokla up a couple of waves over Punn,
which again is what you want to see from the Jays.
Sion's job is survival.
He's supposed to try to keep things as close as possible.
So the bigger the lead Dokla can build,
the better off Lyon is going to feel
about the way the top lane worked out.
As you can see now, we've flip-flopped things.
It's Eddie and VA up here on the top side,
answering Dokla as the Grubbs are started,
but none of those ugly little dudes
are going to die here just yet.
Inspired by Berserker, turning back into the pit now.
He is to also around as the first grub is smited down
by the Secret Whales jungler.
The second one should be controlled here
by Inspired and Dokla.
And now with Inspired, should still have the smite.
E-Ray goes over the wall.
They're looking to make some sort of a play,
but no, the charm into the crash down.
Out of the wall goes the enemy mid laner,
but Lyon haunts him down.
E-Ray's first to die, inspired by the flash,
back of the wall to safety.
Plum makes his way into the fight and Inspired has died.
Isles with the flash, trying to stay alive, Lyon falling back as one marches forward.
Doklaz separated for the rest of the team, but the estimating smash will not tag him.
It's a one for one, but Team Secret Wales has control over the river.
BA nearly completely out of mana.
Isles at 180 speed, Doklaz jumps in.
His dough's already down!
They're gonna find a second and he dies next!
And BA falls too!
Doklaz traded in return as one wants to kill Isles and he'll get that one.
It is a bloodbath!
The river is littered with corpses, and one grub still stands.
And humongous doke swings his hammer and gets the Scuttle Crab
and the re-engage to pop all these low health members of TSW
around the Scuttle Crab.
Okay, let's take a look at the beginning.
We'll rewind time as Deerik goes in, tries to get his combo,
but then the Vex is going to have to flash out
because Al's is right there.
He flashes the Ziggs damage,
but Isles is able to follow through with the rest of the engage.
Inspired to finish them off, but Inspired had to use his Nocturne Ultimate to go follow the
Vex over the wall there, and then Inspired also couldn't get back out. So, Inspired going down in the
one-for-one trade, but yeah, Dukes is eyeballing it this whole time, the Skull of Crab here,
and look at these members right around it. They go for the pop, the burst damage from him and St.
and Berserker, the coordination on the turn there from Lyon. They do get the extra kills, but
Isles also goes down. So, Dokla and Isles also both going down there in that re-engage, and then
the teleport also being used to get back out from D-rake, since he had respawned. The fight just
goes so long in these ones flowers. Even the recaps are incredibly long. And as we get back to live,
you can see a little bit of a nervous flash there from Berserker. BA had missed the cocoon,
but Berserker is still flashing away, so at least they get some value there from BA in the bottom lane with the cocoon, no flash on the zigz.
But it is still that one grub left alive up here in the topside river. We'll see who decides to care about that one.
Lion with still shy of a 1000 gold lead overall after that massive battle in the river.
Exalti, not enough distance to find Dokla, so D-Ray gets nothing out of the roam.
Yeah, that one very short towards the room over to the long lane and
Okla here will be fine. So Vex attempt at a roam does nothing now returning to lane Isle's hovering behind
But there's a couple more seconds on plans ultimate
I think they're trying to see if there's any sort of bigger commitment here Isle's trying and now he goes over reveals himself
Yep, he steps on top of the ward. Once the shattering strike crashed down though, and there's that ultimate that you were talking about.
Critical, the pun has that one as his toe and inspired. Gonna find one another here in the brush. Inspired, dropping the ulti.
He gets the fear through the call of the pack, and inspired! Just solos down his toe!
Now pun's got no ultimate to try to get away, and inspired's got a double kill.
Inspired, look at the timing on his spells. From the very beginning, I hope that we get to see this again.
again because he is expecting this yeah he is expecting every single thing he
does not hesitate these are not reactions from him these are predictions
and so he immediately goes for the full commitment in onto his toe pops the
ultimate early and then uses to follow there as his toe tries to escape just
really nicely done there from inspired gets the kill and bottom side got to get
a full push for himself as well for berserker so berserker just continues to
add on the money and again it's going very very well very early on in this
game for Lyon captain flowers yes sir nearly a 2000 gold lead we still haven't
fought for the first Drake last time I said this is a slow first objective down
here in the bottom half of the map at 12 minutes now we're 30 seconds past that
and still it has not begun but you can see a lot of vision being placed in this
bottom side river you can see a lot of players from both sides heading towards
the area as BA will go ahead and pull the drake out of the pit but doesn't want to stick
around any longer. Iles critically has level 6 on this rail. Even if BA had level 6, remember
it's just not as impactful on Elise as it is on champions with standard ultimates. So
very much Team Secret Wales is going to have to show respect towards Lyon and their engage
potential. It's what I was talking about back at the end of the draft, how the engage is
a bit lacking for Team Secret Wales unless Punn can find a massive, unstoppable onslaught.
But right now, Punn is trapped in the top lane against Dokla.
He has no teleport, and Dokla is continually putting the pressure onto the turret.
Keeping that pressure up, get that turret played money.
Farm as much as he can.
We do have a Nocturne ultimate ready to rip as well.
So it looks like Iles is by himself, but he's not really by himself.
Because Nocturne can ultimate, and St. can roam in as well.
Okay, Iles jumping in, looking to make the play here on that enemy.
DOCLA! With the accelerated shock blast over the wall, finishes the job.
BA losing half HP, drops his ignite onto IELTS, but doesn't get a whole lot of value out of it.
Lyon already got what they came for.
Backing away now, DOCLA has the one single minion.
Okay, there's a couple more lagging behind it right now.
He's going to get this wave pushed up, put the damage onto the turret, and even with only one grub,
Lyon will be able to secure first term of the game for themselves,
and they're not even being pressured elsewhere on the map.
Look at the other lanes, Kobe, they're completely barren
from Team Secret Wales players.
Lyon up over 3,000 gold now.
And remember, whoever wins this game gets into top four
at MSI 2026.
The last time North America made top four
at an international event was MSI 2022, four years ago.
And Lyon are now 3,000 gold ahead on match point
of doing just that.
Actually it would be huge.
Semi-finals on the horizon.
And honestly, it looks very close, flowers.
That horizon is getting closer and closer and closer
with the gold lead.
Of course, the dragon is picked up by TSW.
And they do get the compensation on the other side of the map.
But Doklaa continuing to push.
He gets hit by the ulti plus the full charge decimating smash.
Pun slams him with the entire combo, as Dokla has his teleport interrupted!
Pun with a nice move, now put in the pressure onto Big Dokes,
flashes over the ball to chase him, Dokla forced a flashing response,
and he chases in, he wants the kill onto Dokla,
he doesn't have the vision here, just gets the ace in the hole!
Mega Inferno ball comes in!
But it's Eddie, getting the shutdown!
Oh, I think Inspired was just out of range, too.
Nocturne, you can see, was so close, and just as Nocturne ultimately expires, yeah.
They couldn't get close enough, because they did have a ward in that try brush as well for vision.
But just not able to pull off the timing for the answer.
Don't go like, yeah, with a little bit of an oopsy up there, stumbles, and gives the money back to TSW.
Let's see if TSW can cook with that.
Exactly. Critically recovering that gold lead down from what was like three and a half thousand back to just a little bit over 2K.
Big move there from Team Secret Wales, but inspired in the meantime has taken the Rift here.
We'll see what value Lyon can get out of that one as our supports just continue trading back and forth here
It's Iles the only one on the map without his support quest completed
He's been doing a lot of roaming which of course slows that down a little bit
But now going to have his recall interrupted. There's the ignite again, BA
He chunks him out by half, but using a summoner spell just for a half HP chunk doesn't feel great
All right, I mean the money also did go into the Eddie so yeah very actually
You know good concentrated kill that he's able to get there
After first to chase down
Not normally what I feel like you see generally hex optics going to be the go-to play for 80 carries
But this will make Eddie very deadly towards squishy targets. Yeah, and basically everybody
Squishy on the enemy team
We've got a big overload on top side full five members of TSW up on the top side of the map
And they're just losing the tower on the bottom half. So if they are unsuccessful in
It's a big commitment. They're sticking around here, but
information over I was whereabouts and
Looks like it is just gonna be a sacrifice from them. Yeah, it's a swing and a miss flowers, you know, they're
They're feeling the pressure and they're hoping they're able to get something but in the end. It's very costly
Yeah, not quite there and it just means that instead it's their tier one turret falling in the bottom lane as same
was just pushing up without being answered. And remember when Ziggs is on the team, turrets
are not what they normally are. The satchel makes it so easy to just knock these structures
over. So Berserker is going to secure the tier one over in mid and Lion is back up to
a 3,000 gold lead. And the map control is also so big with a comp that's this style
for Lion. I mean, it's always nice to get all the gold and first tower bonus and get
your lead here but also when you have this much damage and a nocturne and
auri that are all looking to make you know these vision plays it is a big
advantage for line to have this open of a map in order to make plays as if they
get hope damage to land now you have to be a little bit careful in getting your
vision through the TSW jungle here because your gold lead is not that big
that you have control yet interrupted recall nicely done there from Team Secret
Wales as Isles has to defensively crash down gets himself back away forced to
use the summoner heal there but again Team Secret Wales doesn't actually get
the kill yeah and you do have to worry you know if you're trying to attack a
side lane as Team Secret Wales Nocturne Ultimate is always there and as we saw
last time when inspired pops the ultimate even if he's not in range you
You know, the Vision Denial makes you second guess a little bit.
It can make it hard to fall upon the kills.
And when he is in range...
Yep, here's that Vision Denial that you're talking about.
The whole map goes dark, and all you see coming after you
is a knock turn and a mega inferno bomb.
D-Ray just blasted off the Rift.
And he just cruise on through.
Yoink the Krug as well as he walks up and smites it away from his dough.
They can take out some of this vision as well.
TSW trying to get back to their towers trying to defend what little territory they have left is
After that knocked her ultimate line just take over their jungle and you can see it's a thousand gold lead in both solo lanes for lion
It's a 2,000 gold lead in the jungle
Really the one who might have a chance to carry here for team secret whales is Eddie on the Caitlyn
He's trying to farm what he can in mid lane, but they've already knocked down the tier 2 turret
Sink goes in tries to find an angle there onto that Caitlyn won't quite get it
But the Herald nearly takes three plates off the tier three turn like flank flank from side here
Okay, pun trying to cut off the escape route inspires gonna get locked up you have the very start decimating smash flash away coming out from
The knock turn as D-Ray jumps in the back line and inspires gonna be shut down his token in for a second
The circle goes over the wall for the flash in from pun team secret whales are gonna find to shut down for the scion
That is exactly what TSW needs
TSW, they choose their moment.
Punn gets in there with the flank.
One of those wards, unswept.
Punn comes around from the backside.
They get their kills, inspired down.
No jungle for the Drake.
So TSW, they go for the reset.
I don't think they're going to be able to, like,
rush the dragon, but they will have
a decent opportunity to set up.
Thank you for the picture and picture.
As I take another look at it, it's a flank from Punn.
He wraps around, he used the ultimate on, inspired.
He actually walks out for fear that they're doing it.
He actually walks out for fear that they're doing so inspired has to flash and uses spell shield so early that the fault there
They dive from the nefiri and vex combination that we've been looking for does find its kill
They get not only the kill in the enemy jungle but also the shutdown on the berserker
And that is some much needed money for TSW and they did end up getting that dragon
So they continued the dragon stacking here and getting some money back in some much needed places
And even though this gold lead is 4,000 we should really evaluate things based on the items instead and you're seeing
Equal fully completed items in lots of positions right two in the jungle two in the mid lane two in the carry ball two in the top
Side team secret whales are matching lion in terms of the actual power that they have in their
Inventories and that means that there's still chances for the whales to continue to find those comeback plays
And while the side lanes may be a little bit dangerous for them
They also are not afraid of just full sending five people to his high lane, you know
They have been overloading and they have good combinations to chase people down
With the vex nefiri combo playing off of an Elise cocoon that could be deadly, but they turn it
Yep immediately inspired goes in he attaches the fear to the his toe and the mega inferno bomb goes nuclear
His toe is out of there 35 seconds on the death timer
Meanwhile, Berserker doing what Ziggs does, plants a satchel on the turret, takes that one out there in the top side.
Dekla jumping back in after pun here in the mid lane, has that serpent spang, the shield on the scion, that soul furnace.
Not effective as it should be, but a nice counter punch coming in from team Seeker Wale.
They punish Isles as he tries to move into a cover position and make it a one-for-one trade overall.
over all. Yeah that I mean they try and pick the sign while the Caitlyn is
rotating over from mid lane and now TSW they're the ones on the push. Bit of a
miss up there and communication maybe I also could not keep track of the
rotation over from the Caitlyn as they're kind of hovering right behind
that fairly tanky sign gets locked up and truck combination does take a bounce
at TSW they do answer a kill in the rotation even though the full combo was
there to punish his dough and kill off the nefiri from Lyon, they get another little
kill back.
Of course, he also lost the top tower, Ziggs is able to delete those very quickly in the
push afterwards.
So Lyon still progressed the game for themselves.
Just if there is a comeback from TSW, you will be kicking yourselves for every little
bit of money that is given back.
Exactly.
You look back at the tape, you look back and say, that's where we gave him a free one.
That's where we shouldn't have slipped, but it is still a 5,000 gold lead for Lyon.
Still a two-drake-to-nothing lead for Team Secret Whale, still two-and-a-half minutes
until that next one spawns.
Nocturnalty gets popped, but Inspired's not going to choose to go in.
Really, the only thing that was in range was the Scion, and look, Kobe, I'm not a pro player.
I've never been a pro player, but I think that full sending on to Scion is generally
not the strategy for winning a teamfight, so Lyon think the better of it.
especially his toe up on this other side that was kind of jumping around by the raptor pit. They
call it off and you know he's got his X plate as well for inspired so yeah it's a nocturne ultimate
but it's ranked two and you have X plate so you have a decent amount of ultimate ability haste there
to work with. It's a lot of minions getting eaten up by the turret here in the top lane.
Saints gonna walk on over and pick up some free money off of those as 90 seconds until the next
Drake but when you look at the map there's no vision in that bottom side
river so the team's not thinking about that one right now instead more
attention being paid to this topside as you're seeing so many pings from both
teams in the area trying to suss out one another's position and see if there's
an angle for a play I'll try the defensive crash down the pun interrupts
it with the decimating smash it is pretty funny to see a level 7 support
here for Iles versus the level 15 Saion Iles certainly not worried about his own
experience in this one. I mean even if you're looking at his counterpart, the
Elise, the enemy support is at a full two levels but he'll still be yeah and of
course when you are that low level in the game, Iles is gonna get some good
catch-up experience as long as he stays alive to soak it. As long as you're not dead,
it'll come through. But yeah once he's going in, if it's a full 5v5, it's
probably gonna be a one-way trip when you're that squishy, he doesn't at least
have the locket that he'll be able to pop. You can see the 360 stacks
on the tier in Berserkers inventory.
Also the double needlessly large Rod
just going straight for the hat
instead of a Seraph's Embrace
wants to make sure he's getting that maximum damage
here on the Ziggs.
As you do have Voltaic Cyclosort
completed now for Dokla as well.
That full item advantage there over Pun
as we make our way towards the dragon.
It's 15 seconds on the timer.
Shattering strike to immediately pop Pun shield.
The satchel doesn't knock him directly back into Lion
But Punn still loses about 80% of his HP.
Yeah, that's a lot of extra damage.
I can allow Lyon to push mid there.
Actually, face checking.
Ooh, very dangerous here by the try brush.
Nobody punished that all though.
They do have, pop their scryers
and teleport back down here from side, full HP.
Full HP and full teleport shield.
Punn is at maximum power here.
Remember if Team Secret Wales gets this,
they are going to go to sole point here
with the Drake stacking.
Nice trap line being established by Eddie.
It makes it very difficult for Lyon to try to fight this objective.
For the whales, no, there's still 5,000 gold behind, so they've got to be careful.
Even if they have a good battlefield drawn up for themselves,
Pon here, just trying to zone everybody else away.
The DPS for the Drake is very slow.
Team Secret whales don't want to get ahead of themselves with this.
Decimating smash hits only Isles.
Lyon stepping up now, seeing the Drake down below half HP.
Inspired, going to go ahead, pop the paranoia,
Pon trying to charge into the back line,
but the Eternal Drake is already secured by Inspired.
Team Secret whales, their battle lines completely shatter, they lose the objective, and Punn is left to pay the price.
And look, even pro teams go split directions during a Nocturne Ultimate.
Punn in, team, rest of the team out, Fizzle poking around to see if they can do anything.
But they lock up the scion, they get the extra kill on top of the dragon from Lyon.
It's so hard because Lyon, they have so much poke damage, and they have the Nocturne Ultimate.
And they're able to utilize these tools very effectively on that setup as well.
Inspired continues to get more and more money.
And guess what? With the Abyssal Mascar as well,
gonna shred for both St. and Preserker's follow-up on his dive in.
I really like that atomization from Inspired.
You can see here in your Coinbase gold grind,
that's an over 2,000 gold lead for the Nocturne,
over the Nefiri, 4-2-4 versus 1-5-3.
free inspired has had his toes number in this third game.
And Berserker's about to get it there.
OK, that's got done.
Yeah, he's got a hat.
Yeah, so that's red for the big zig bomb.
The big zigs is going to be painful.
All right.
See about the push on the sidelines.
So again, lying here in spite of always
does a very good job while they're pushing both sidelines.
Keep his position in fog of war so that TSW
have to kind of second guess their moves
and trying to get those sidelines pushing,
and then once again, you see they get the full priority.
These minions do put the extra pressure as well
as provide the extra vision behind enemy lines for Lyon.
So it always makes it so comfortable.
We've got plenty of vision through the jungle with your wards
and then push up the extra minion lines there.
Dope was even going to go as far as to hit the tower
since they have position towards Baron
and the Scuttlecrab vision there is as well.
So Lyon had everything in place.
Yeah, here comes one though,
on some long spot, looking for inspired,
but it's immediately blocked by the Spell Shield.
Shattering Strike interrupts a decimating smash.
BA repelling away from the Mega Inferno Bomb.
Punn still trying to stay alive,
absorbing some shots from both of the mages here.
Meanwhile, Doku takes the turret,
then at the bottom lane at the same time.
With the tier two gone, the pressure stays on.
St. jumps in, fires off the orbit deception.
BA jumps below half HP.
Doku coming around from the side.
This Jace has his last whisper now too.
He does so much damage and he eats a shock blast.
Lion continue moving forward.
They aren't gonna find any kills,
but they force team secret whales all the way back.
Iles with the shattering strike on to his toe,
but Iles is the one who comes out worse for wear in the trade
and lying back away.
And he also goes to there.
Douglas could kind of walking up like,
hey, I'm going to hammer form you
after I just shot blasted you.
Yeah.
But he knows that the full team's behind him.
So he doesn't commit on to Eddie,
and they actually get the ghost out of the game
into maybe a little bit, tiny bit of something extra.
Not the biggest of cooldowns,
but still a little bit of something.
And they split push, split push,
He pulled you across the map flowers,
Dockla finished up with the tower
and was able to head over too.
So, Lyon playing that split push game quite well,
continuing to draw TSW back and forth.
Yeah, Dockla just eliminates most of the wave right there
with the shot blast.
And like I say, that last whisper
is going to make life so much more frustrating for Pan.
The Serpent's Fang already cutting his shields down.
Now he's got to deal with his armor
also being less relevant.
Dockla is making sure that this Jace remains a problem.
So Relta's grudge now completed for the additional utility with the slows for the team fights.
It is a scary situation. What do you even do here as Team Secret Wales?
Well, they're trying to send bot right now. They've got everybody getting here early.
Maybe they can cook something up. He ain't a brush.
Yeah. Oh, he fires off the cocoon and finds no value there. As Inspired does not get caught out.
So then Doakla just grabs the red buff for himself.
Team Secret Wales setting up around this bottom side river.
River, the dragon still on
alive for another 60 seconds
and the whales are forced to back away as Lyon moves in and TSW.
They cannot wait around and get poked.
You can't wait around against this team and get poked and lose
health bars before you fully commit.
Yes, it's hard because you're so far down in gold that the
Nocturne and the Jace are going to be very threatening,
but you have to just split second, make the decision.
Go for it and you could see inspired just hit level 16 Max
range paranoia. I will say it's also you don't need to lose games over dragons. When the dragons are
two in your favor, they're nowhere near a soul. Oh, Doka, they try to full send after the chase,
but he just walks into the safety of the jungle and Punn can't turn the car at enough of an angle
to still find and engage on him. This is what I was saying all the way back in the HyperX
Champ select. There's no real true engage tools here on the side of Team Secret Wales,
And so it's so hard to find these opportunities.
Yeah, at least so they're not quick enough, right?
And then, as you say, is a target that also they all have flashes
because it's been so calm for Lionside,
so they all have flashes too.
So, OK.
Iles could be in some danger here.
Defensive crash down.
Get some away from the fury of the dog.
But yeah, they're looking for those full send opportunities.
They're trying, swinging a miss, but they look for a side lane.
They send multiple people and try and get their pick.
but since Stokela didn't have to burn anything meaningful
to get away from it, let's pick up the next dragon too.
Again, it's definitely not worth losing the entire match,
the entire series over another dragon,
when you already got the first two on the side of TSW,
so you hope for a better look at it and engage,
you hope for a better opportunity
than walking in blind into Frog of War.
Maybe you full send it more towards a Baron
or an actual dragon's soul.
And there's your comparison
between the past couple of games.
You can see this one's really close
to like the exact same trajectory as game number one,
which already ended multiple minutes ago.
Game number two, of course, having a bigger spike
has now immediately, they try to go in with D-Ray,
but he dies as he tries.
And the rest of the team from Secret Wales
at least gets inspired and trade.
The Orbit deception will not find BA on the return,
but Lyon is still looking for more.
Punn is chunk low.
Stake goes in with the beautiful Tronetti!
Mega Inferno bomb will burn the remains of Team Secret Wales!
St. with the massive catch on the Caitlyn!
Yo, St. that was beautiful follow-up.
They are not letting Team Secret Wales out of that fight.
Lyon are going to go straight through the front door
and they will kick that thing in.
Lyon making their way through the inhibitor.
It's still 15 seconds before D-Ray is back alive.
B.A. and Hisco trying to defend here with a 2v4.
But the Nexus turrets are all ready, falling.
B.A. with a repel trying to escape.
Hisco already below half HP.
Lyon have made their way on the Nexus.
Lyon will clean sweet Team Secret whales.
And for the first time in four years,
North America makes top four internationally.
3-0 taking out team secret whales back to back to back very controlled for a lot of this game.
I like it you know with the high damage top with Nocturne pushing on the side lanes pulling them back and forth.
Take a bow top four here beautifully done from Lyon.
And let's talk about it, this Lyon team, this year, Flowers, made big moves in the LCS.
Their aims were to win. They signed Inspired, picking him up previous MVP as a captain for the team.
Really big pulls, bringing Perzurker back to North America. Two former MVPs trying to construct such a strong roster looking for this type of success.
And now being able to make top four is huge.
Speaking of success though, Team Circa Wales making history already against the LPL, winning
the best of five.
They still are for the region.
Taking out TES.
It may be a sweep today, but the Wales definitely had their moment earlier in this tournament
defeating top esports like you're talking about.
They can go back with those visible improvements that they've made internationally.
They can have those new goals to strive for as they hope to return again later on in the
year at Worlds.
But for them, their run here at MSI is over, Lyon moving on.
You can see here, 33 minutes of game time.
It was almost a 10,000 gold lead by the end and that is Lyon winning with a clean 3-0.
We're going to hear from Dokla on the analyst desk, but that's after the break.
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We have angle with Ralsin.
Good, good. Press low.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
That's it.
That's it.
That's it.
He has root DMW up, but keep chasing slowly.
No, no, no, no!
Kill the kill!
Go, go, go, go!
Wow.
Kill the Sion, we can add you to kill Sion.
You can add him, I think, guys.
Yeah, if you kill Sion, you can add him.
Lion will clean sweet team secret whales,
and for the first time in four years,
North America makes top four internationally!
it would be next for the second series of the day we're gonna have g2 versus
team on hitting the stage and Jessica will be with the first things first you
know him some celebrations in order big dogs promise dude we got to see it the
NAR game was incredible and the best part is we came up here you need remember
you played that NAR game you're so lost in the moment you didn't even think back
to game to yeah I mean I actually forgot I mean typically that's kind of how it
happens like remember the emotional state I was in which game was which yeah you
guys didn't seem very stressed that series it seemed like you guys were kind
of playing your game game one was a little stressful since the way we wanted
to see by I didn't actually join up on that I was like in the front when we're
trying to wish you just focus Lee so that was the stressful moment of the
game for me but after that it was kind of chill like we had the advantage going
forward in most of these games isn't it crazy that you're guaranteed top four at
MSI right now flowers said that during the any call and I was like wait a minute
Yeah, we are top four. Yeah, and then I talked to my owner. I'm like, hey, can we get business if we get like, you know
Do well
I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go talk to him now and see you know if he holds up his end of the bargain
You're trying to get some public pressure a little hashtag business for doclah. That's how you do it
They don't reduce the top four prize money just because you didn't beat like
Doesn't matter how you made it what matters is the fact that you were here and the progression for me on the side
from the first series you played into how you dominated some Secret Wells today?
Is Crim's going better or is it just Nerv's coming down?
I think a bit of both.
Crim's are still hard against the top teams, but Nerv's for sure, I think we settled in on stage.
I think the first series against Furia, we were just warming up, I guess.
Definitely settling in for sure, and then I think we looked a lot more comfortable in this game.
Damn, dude.
Yeah, those stats 16.7 CSD at 14 and not bad. You're like
Yeah, I mean I had some good matchups, so thank you coaches. Yeah, there you go
And you think about the preparation coming in today? No, I mean this guy does play he played all off of a barrier
We were prepared for that and I kind of got bodied on the volleyball matchup
I thought I could win it. I think I just went a little too deep
But um, I think we were prepared in terms of what they were gonna pick
I mean, the Vex kind of threw us off, but they didn't really do too much, so.
But other than that, I think we were prepared for everything that we're going to play.
Yeah.
Maybe it looked easy overall.
Yeah, I mean, every series we played, it's been a 3-0.
One with the other.
Yeah, one with the other.
You know, let's try not to have that happen, maybe a 3-1.
I think it's every LCS series too, because TL swept KC and ECG.
Oh yeah, I did do that.
I think I double-swept by T1.
I think that's how we'll remember it as the 3-0 MSI, yeah.
We'll see the next series, it's going to be a 3-0 as well.
I hope not or maybe our way. I don't know. You're waiting for the opponents now. Yeah
Well swimming T1 and swimming G2
Okay, T1 is much harder and one thing I will say they play like really chaotic and they are willing to be chaotic and just
Just fight all the time and I feel like they actually train for that because the screams look like that
It is just like pure chaos. Yeah, and they thrive in that so
Hopefully it's something similar happens on stage. It was very entertaining to watch
This something I want to ask you I mean you saying that you scrimmed this G2 and this and this G1 and that they're very different
How was that in 2023 because I kept hearing in 23 that that G2 was like actually on the level of these teams
You feel like that's not the case for this MSI compared to the 2023 G2 that you know, I managed to be yeah memory wise
I mean that felt like they were just as strong or I mean
I was just saying in terms of toppling but I thought BB was really good at the time and it was hard for me to
really do anything so that's the way I remembered it but this time it's um I
think he has his good picks but sometimes those picks are they they cook
too much yeah rolling back a little bit you know so hopefully they settle down
still play their identity but you know with some yeah we're all a little
nervous there's a potential
It's a double-edged sword!
On paper, you're like, the Warwick might have worked, but then you look at the nameplate on the side and you're like,
well, at least it's not Bin or Zayas.
That's my strongest argument for top lane.
It could be Bin Zayas or Keen.
That's the thing. When you think about G2 vs. D1, it has become one of the iconic matchups in LoL eSports.
Everybody expects this one. The thing is, we haven't actually won against them since 2019.
It's been that long. We came close at MSI in Chengdu, but every time it's not a rivalry man, they beat our ass every time.
That's really true. And if there's one thing that I've gotten comfortable doing as an EU representative, it's just bringing up 2019 over and over again.
But to buck the trend, yeah, it's a little bit dire. It's a little bit concerning.
One game, MSI Rumble Stage Day 1, 2022. I remember it fondly.
That's a box, really?
The graphic did.
Oh, yes.
World semi-finals, not memorable.
But the MSI Rumble stage, yes.
That's where we really stake our claim.
Everything I bring up every time I talk about G2
is the number of, just the raw number of series
that they've been able to win against either
LCK or LPL.
It's 10 in their organization's history.
I mean, the rest of NA and EU have only ever had two each.
So it's really insane what they've
been able to accomplish, even if they haven't been
able to do it for a while.
Yeah, and if we look back to 2024,
the most recent time they had that really really close series. It was at the back of a lot of creative picture BB
I think he was the best sack in the meta at the time if you remember Lane swath crazy
It was the rex I was the poppy support for Mickey at the time and what did T1 do when they had the rematch?
They banned those three champions and G2 fell the pieces
So I do think that some of that creativity that you mentioned even if it is a double-seged sword is it's gonna be really big today
And you know it hurts even more when even faker who's always the humble king commends on this same cabs your 2019 matches are
Did he actually say this or was it right? Telling him like, hey man, can you say something really spicy?
Well, he accepted it, you know, so like, he steps by those words.
Did someone else write the words is a good question. Was it a North American producer and did they want to twist the knife on us in the fact that we always just bring up this one simple year?
I don't believe that you have said that willingly.
One thing that we want to look at though is that in this iteration of G2 that I still don't know what to make of
They have been struggling when it comes to bot lane champions and we know that T1's drafts have been a bit iffy
But when it comes to those mages on the bot lane, I'm not too sure that Honsama vs. Space is
It's gonna be a good story for G2 especially because Space now also picked up the J's bot lane, the Echo bot lane
It's wild out there
I think the big thing for me that I want your perspective on doklah is how important is it to be playing majors right now because I know Hans
Isn't comfortable on it. You saw the Seraphine was a little messy
I don't believe he should have the ziggs in the mall at the minimum
But I don't really believe it how important is it for your AD carry actually to be able to play these champions
I mean, I think it's very important because given the support champs that can also impact other lanes
If you have a mage you can just want me to the ball line and you're not gonna die
So your support can impact other lanes and really impact the map and carry likes to play like that. So having
being able to play majors and play them well like pace 10 is very important I
think draft will be a very big deal in terms of are is G2 gonna ban the majors
out to try get a normal bot lane matchup or are they gonna try to match we don't
know but I will say T1 they are cooking a lot more than they're starting
I can't say it obviously but if it goes all the way
The Michelin Star Heel they had was enough though. I don't need to know that there's a seven course
I know there's more a bit of over-cooking on this out of this you want kitchen
But still I want to find some hope on the side of the fans. Maybe Mastercard fan prediction. What do they think?
Are European fans?
If we get 20% I will be impressed. I'll take it
I'll take the 20%
I do like this house. What do you guys have though?
What do you think I mean, uh, I'm a T1 fan, so I'm gonna go T1, but I
Rest my kids. You don't want that. You rest here. That's all it takes. All right from scrims
I want to beat I want to if we beat T1, you know, that's that'd be really right
Who would you rather beat G2 or T1? Yeah, that's my mindset. Yeah, you'd rather be T1
All right, yeah, I probably have to explain myself and what I will say is 2024
I'm a side lower bracket. We were in a similar place after G2 beat TES so very very similar place
I believe in a 3-0. I'm running it back because look the top side of T1 is good, but it's not
HLE it is
Survivable is pace carry the best bot lane on the face of the planet. Do they have a big edge and pick bin?
Yes, absolutely, but there's a chance for G2 to do this pretty close to what the fans predicted
I'd say 30 40 percent that they can do this
But I will say if they don't win the first game
I think it's full mental class. Maybe the shortest like we're gonna be setting records for shortest history
But you're still great with 3-0, though.
Yeah, it's going to happen.
If it's going to happen, it's 35% chance,
it is going to be some crazy counter-pick blowout.
It's going to be unprecedented.
If you win 3 without winning 1.
It's true.
And it's just a normal series?
No, no, no.
We're toast.
A series with crazy picks where someone on T1
underperforms.
We can win that.
OK, I know we don't have that much time left,
but I'm with Dolkliff for the T1, 3-1.
And honestly, this is being very generous.
T1 has 6-0 TL.
They've 3-0ed Furia, they've basically swept literally everyone who's not BLG.
So this is saying that G2 is actually like the best team in the West.
Thanks guys, I appreciate it.
Yeah, congratulations.
I'd like to make a 3-0.
I'd like to amend my choices here, 3-0, 2-1.
As long as there's delusion, there's hope, and that's what we need on the side of Europe right now,
as G2 is facing off against T1 in an elimination series.
Let's see what they have.
And here we go ready for what is hopefully another historic matchup between these two
teams.
We're going back over 10 years at this point as G2 make their way onto the stage.
I expect the cheers though as they'll 4-T1 make me slightly grander than for their European
compatriots.
It's a little hard to know, you know, G2 or a day job.
That could be their home city, you know.
I don't think it is.
I don't think it is either.
Yeah, the crowd's slightly more excited for T1
as they make their way to the stage.
It's been a long run for T1.
If they are to make it to the finals,
they'll have played on, I believe, nine of the 13 days
that MSI has been running.
And I think one of the scary things is T1 has a reputation
of getting better and better and better
throughout the tournament.
They are famous for their in-tournament, in-series
adaptation for being able to recognize what is going wrong, what is going right, to be able to make those pivots mid tournament.
That is some of the hallmarks of T1 success. It's one of the reasons that they have won so many times internationally.
They don't always come in and look like the best team from day one, but most of the time, by the end of the tournament, they're looking like the best team.
Yeah, the evolution across the tournament is always something to be admired for G2.
It has been a difficult road, turbulent to get here, a reverse sweep versus top e-sports.
I think Boyd a lot of EU fans with quite a bit of hope and their top e-sports kind of
did not do well after that point and then HLE were an unstoppable war against a very
movable objective of G2.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's one of those things where everyone is trying to understand, you
know, what do we take away from this series, right?
So you beat top, you're like, okay, great, we beat the LPL, we're really good.
This is perfect, this is gonna where people thought we should be.
But then Top loses to Secret Whales and Secret Whales get blown out by Lyon and you start
thinking, okay, well what are the transitive properties mean here, right?
But what I will say is while I've seen so many Europeans in the pits of despair after
the HLE series, and admittedly the HLE series was a stopper, it was not nearly as close as
I was expecting, I have seen you here before and I have seen G2 come back and change the
hearts and minds the very next day, right?
This is also a team, yes.
It is not the team with the same pedigree as T1 could guess what, literally no one else
in the world has that.
But G2 has made people believe in them so many times because they can come out and have these
incredible performances like at first hand, back to back 3-0's over the LCK.
They're able to really adapt well themselves and to showcase these incredible moments,
especially Cap, who is the guy in the West who way more than anyone else has been able
to make that match happen.
very much agree and that adaptation for both these teams starts in the draft in this
champions like powered by HyperX. We'll see if those majors come to the fore for
pay. He's been playing a little bit of Echo in solo queue as well. I think we are
only at the very superficial level only above the ice of that iceberg as to how
many majors can actually play it in bot. I mean we were talking about this and it
is interesting because when you see so many mid laners getting played in
another lane it's very similar to how when AD carries have moved around the
map you start just taking tips from those lanes you're saying all right well
Sincer's gonna go bot what's good against Sincer mid well echo if this is
gonna go bot well what's good down there okay if people are playing Casio
kind of not just play Nibbying to Casio bot too and there is that evolution and
that is something that I think a lot of European fans are particularly worried
about because Hanson is not known for the Mage box and I do think while T1's
topside they're they're soul laners in particular they're not known for their
dominance in laning phase they're known for their incredible teamfighting and
and faker for his playmaking, for always finding the angle, always finding that chance to win the game.
Pays and Karrie are just different than any other bot laners in the world today.
These guys are absolute freaks on their champs. They are just unstoppable.
And so a big question for me is, can Han-Sama and LeBrov play well enough to give G2 a chance?
Because I think that that is such a hard thing to do.
Pays and Karrie can snowball lanes like no one else in the world.
I think that is the main focal point for G2.
The rest of their team should be able to survive.
Caps, if he is on form, I think can take down Faker on current form.
We'll see what SQ1 can do as well. He's had a bit of a quiet end of sight.
But T1 on the other hand, you want to shore up that topside.
Doran a little bit weak in lane at times.
Faker great in team fights, but not as powerful through the laning phase as perhaps he could be.
Let's get into the draft though. Poppy, Nautilus and Carly found a way by T1.
Orianna, Vi, and Jace taken away by G2.
way by G2. T1 are going to log in owner's knockdown, which he has a 78% win rate on over
nine games in spring, and on the other side we'll see Jace and Ezreal secured for G2. Jace
off, sorry Jarvan, not Jace. Jarvan obviously very good into those majors, but because they
don't tend to have dashes, so you can just try and punish them.
It's best to just not look at the stats for a lot of these champions. I mean, T1 is a
team that has a 74% win rate in spring, right? And so most of your champs have a pretty good
It's kind of like when you're going to draft against them these players like well you can't give them that he's got 80% win rate
Well you can't give them that he's got a 95% win rate
You're gonna have to play well to win that is just the name of the game and T1 obviously looking towards a mage bot here already
The Camille came out and you knew it was gonna be one of those mage pairings. Keria is
Incredible at playing these aggressive champions. He is a mechanical god and that is one of the things that really makes them so scary
is that when you're looking at Ziggs, Ziggs is no longer what people used to think about with this champion where,
oh, you just sit back and you farm and you play with Qs, well, Paze is using the satchels beautifully aggressively,
they're chaining that to set up hookshots, they're looking for all-ins, they're looking for pressure,
and it is going to be the Leona, which has not been something we've seen much of at all,
in quite a lot, in fact, only one game throughout all of MSI has been played on it.
And it was a loss, though.
It was a loss, so it's going to be interesting to see how that does work out, you know,
is the strategy to kind of more focus on Kerry himself, try to punish when he goes in for those
headshots. Obviously you can block it, they only can be very very tanky with that W up, so maybe
it's kind of that sort of angle, and I'll be curious to see how they look. Can also punish
champions that are a little bit further back. Things like the Zeke's, if their flash is burnt,
satchel charge before a solar flare lands on you is that is very quick reactions, if you're
able to get out of that. So we'll see if G2 decides to try and punish Paze in this bottom
Yeah, no, I completely agree. I'm thinking about it more through the support matchup
You know thinking about how people love to play Leona into Nautilus for an example because if the Nautilus goes in you kind of
Just go on the Nautilus and you are tankier than a lot of these champions lock down could be very difficult to deal with so
It was kind of thinking about it through that angle
But of course as you say Leona does have backline access as well
Syndra one of these champions that has really been rising in priority here at MSI has six plays so far and has been looking good at
including a pentacle game for Paps
which was pretty incredible in the Top Esports series.
If I'm putting my EU bias fanboy hat on, the last time Caps got a Panic to the MSI, they won the whole thing.
So I'm just putting it out there. I'm putting it into the ether.
Yep.
Maybe it's not going to happen this time with HLE and BMG staring down you even if you managed to get to T1.
But it is...
It could happen.
It's always a possibility.
As we see the ambassador in the NAR taken away by G2, trying to show up things.
We'll broken blade on the top side.
We'll see where T1 decides to go with their final banner.
Okay, very interesting. So Rumble is going to take it away and I know people are very much of two minds
there's such different opinions on Broken Blade and
Should he be playing crazy counterpicks? Should he just be playing standard? I personally like it
I am kind of of the belief and I know inspired us talk about this a lot
You know someone who has gone toe-to-toe from from NA with some of these teams
Not not been able to take them down, but had some good series
You know he believes that when you are playing against these top LCK and LPL teams
You kind of need what they call the funny picks right you need to be able to surprise them get things that they're less comfortable
That is something that I think is a strength of broken blade
Of course then if you bring out a niche pick and you look bad on it people are really going to be very quick to criticize you
But I do think it is a strength for them and this in India can be a flex
It can be both mid and top so that is always nice for G2
They now get to see exactly what the lane matchups are going to be it is a double shurima soul laners here
And it's going to be vain as the answer so they maintain the ability to flex the anivia
and of course now with that being coming out that is going to be hunting this croc here and
and looking for that 1v1 counterpick.
So I do like that a lot, but I will say,
I've been playing a lot of top lane.
When you are going for these ranged top laners,
you need to play aggressive, you need to play in their face,
and then I see a knock turn on the other side,
and I get very worried about how that is going to look.
I see a Camille on the other side,
and I worry about how do you outplay the Camille
in some of these situations.
So I do think it's going to require Schumann
to adjust his play style.
I feel like Schumann is really, really good
when he is playing on his tempo,
when he's being very efficient.
But I feel like this is a kind of game where you're going to see those moments where you need to drop camps and you need to be there
Protecting be me because if you're going to invest into a vein top
He needs to be able to play aggressive
You can't just have him sitting back and trading farm against the renekton
He needs to be in his face which requires the jungler behind it
I also expect the supports likely to go up to what's topside for level one. We've already seen the back up junglers
The back up junglers yes
We've already seen the Bob doing it early doors in a couple of their games wouldn't be surprised actually if Keria
just decides to try and match that pressure a little bit to see if the
problem of the steps because you're not taking your shoulder day your eclipse
level one you're likely taking your zenith plate or your shoulder daybreak if
you want the shorter cool down if you want to get close and then you are a
little bit squishy on the Leona so we'll see what happens on the top side of
that early on as we get into this best of five between the best of the LEC and
the second best of the LCK but from the best in the world to you one let's make
Back to back to back defending world champions. So technically at the moment they are the second
seed from the LCK. That's how I would put it. Second seed, you know. And there we are.
LeBrov moves up towards the topside early on. Yep. It is really important even just playing
for the wards because even if you don't think there's going to be like a full on cheese
gank or something like that, being able to actually get the ward in that mid brush is
so important in these melee versus range matches because otherwise all that happens is this
This rain champion pops out, hits you back into the brush, drops him into Nekro, over
and over and over and over.
So that is why he is up there.
I think he is expecting that Keria or someone would be up there dropping a ward.
And of course, Leona has the ability, especially if you do see that ward going down, you just
level Q, you can instantly kill the ward by yourself.
And that can shift these matchups, but T1 elected not to actually get up there and place
a ward.
So it is just going to be a ward in that far back brush for Doran.
And BP will know that and will be able to play around it, but still can use that mid
brush to do just as I was saying, drop that medium air, girl.
Yeah, dash out, gather those extra auto attacks in with the tumble.
The last time we saw a Vayne top from an EU team here at MSI, it was Kana, and he tumbled
directly into a NAR wallop.
So I'm hoping for better fortunes for broken blade today.
He is 3-0 on this Vayne across the course of his career, Katz and Faker trading in the
mid lane, flash, frost, into the frostbite.
We'll take Faker down to about half, and it's double deathfire grasp in the mid lane,
so that damage will tick over a little bit more.
It is also worth noting that it is going to be exhaust on the Vayne, it is not going to be ghost, it is not going to be cleanse that you sometimes do see against Renekton as well, so it is depending upon that exhaust.
In the early level all-ins against lethal tempo with exhaust, you can never get baited into a trade or it will go bad, but we got to talk about the history between these two teams dating all the way back to 2016.
You can see it started out very T1 favored, but...
Semi play forward should just walk away using that after shots. Thank you for a little bit of damage
but as you say moving on to 2019 when it was the golden era the golden golden era for G2 and then since then has not
Gone their way in fact
They've only won a single best of 1 against T1 in the last seven years
Excluding Red Bull League of its own red G2 did win last time so I'm taking that you to obviously the better team right now
But they did go five games in 2024
And I think to me that that means a lot, you know that shows that they can actually get close
It can be competitive earlier level three from T1. You've got to be careful here
Sweep in from Carrier Zenith Blake doesn't connect in the hookshot wall dive there from Carrier use defensively and
Steps forward with tactical sweep for the slow versus protocol and then knew he could get out of the fight
Yeah, you can see Hans going for the door and tell him so very defensive owner does have the HP advantage
I mean skim on spotted owner, and we do have a pause
I think it's probably on the G2 side, just based on the player cam, Schumann was looking over.
We'll let you know as soon as we find anything out.
But a little bit surprised, Schumann actually just kind of walked out seeing owner there,
because owner is full health and that is going to mean he's going to get pushed back almost immediately.
He can flag and drag out, he shouldn't die or anything weird,
but generally when you know you can't win the 1v1 and you don't have necessarily that backup from your lanes,
you'll just go the other side of the map.
map. My other thought was, and we're not going to
intensificate too much about why a pause is happening,
but Cache was TPing right back into lane, so maybe there was
an error with the shop, if you auto board or something,
sometimes that can happen. We'll find out what it is and
then we'll tell you as soon as we know. So, the update is
that it was a G2 pause, it was Hanson having issue with the
comms on stage, so they're going to be, you know, adjusting
his levels, fixing up whatever it is, and maybe he just couldn't
hear his teammates as well as he wanted to, and hopefully that
will be able to get fixed pretty quickly. This is actually
DPU magic, by the way. Okay. Have you heard of the fanatic pause hack? I have. Yes. G2 have adopted it fanatic
Haven't made this international. I don't know if you want to be bringing fanatic stuff into a festive. What different skills
Can we adopt from other teams in our region? You know, we'll take
KC losing 0-3, right? So they've already adopted that. Okay. Now they're taking the fanatic pause hack and
Incorporating that into their skill set. This is what G2 do so well in you. Yeah, they just grab different bits and we can do this
I feel like D2 are doing pretty well against Fnatic for the last, well, ever since Caps was...
Because they keep stealing their Straps, dude!
I thought it was more about stealing the players.
No, I mean that...
More about getting Caps.
That happened a long time ago.
Oh, well.
But yes, that is probably...
That was a quality steal.
That was a very good steal.
That was a high value steal.
You're stealing home with that one, aren't you?
Yeah.
It's definitely gone well for G2.
Caps has been their main man for a while.
For T1, you continue to see them go from success to success.
But MSI has actually been a bit of a thorn in their side.
in their side. I will say at 2017, the last time they won, they have won twice. A little
Hoonie magic back in those days. And again, T1 showing us, you can adopt EU magic.
Exactly as they were on the same page. T1 often level up across the course of the entire year,
and then when you get to Worlds, never count them out. You always know that T1 are going to show up
at Worlds, but MSI has been a bit of a struggle for them over the last few years, and we'll see if
that changes. They did lose to BOG. So this is, as you said, at the start of the day,
an elimination match between these two games.
Yeah, and I will give the caveat that a bit of a struggle for their standards, right?
They went five games against Gen.G in the finals, and so it's, you know, me personally, being from the LCS,
I would be happy to take on those struggles, you know?
I only got to the finals, I got to game five.
Thank you. If you want the weight off your shoulders, we'll take that.
Back of BS. We'll happily lose in the finals.
You've got a couple of times, in fact, at COG and...
Appley.
Well, happily win at the finals again, if we can.
But for now, we're going to get back on into game as it seems like the comms issue has
been solved.
Skumund is being forced away by the dust-bringer out of Oner, lower health he had, making it
a bit tricky for him to really take this fight.
You can see Broken Blade thinking about moving from the topside.
Faker with the push in mid, though now Skumund will just...
I mean, he keeps stepping back.
It feels a little greedy to continue to look for this play, especially with Karrion moving
Now on the map with the Exhaust on topside, Doran slices, nices, but is still taken out by BD.
Yeah, Doran got way too far forward there and Skiumond has LeBron behind him, so that's why he was trying to delay for it.
He was trying to keep them messing around here because they had the move from LeBron, carries there as well.
But Doran with the overstep and that is what I'm saying. When you were playing against Vayne, early game, lethal tempo plus exhaust,
no matter how good the trade looks, it's almost impossible to win the all-in.
And obviously he was moving up there because Bebe had the first move into the river,
was looking to actually support at that Scuttle Crab.
Doran thought he had an ability to actually push out that wave,
but well played there by Broken Blade, Flash Follow,
finishes him off with the Silver Bolt, proc'ing that with the Condemn.
And that was nicely done and not the start that you want if you are Doran,
because this matchup is very difficult.
Anyway, and it just looks like a bit of a greedy base.
He thought he had the reset here and Bebe says,
you know what, you can't actually take it from this position.
And Doran, I think, hesitated a bit on, like, can I fight? Can I run?
Took that split second to survive.
And look at this, Scumon trying to move up and actually get something here.
the fear. Caps can't move from mid lane again because Faker is holding him pinned beneath
that tower. This was really nice from Carrier. After taking the top side Scuddlecrab, he
actually passed into the G2 jungle towards the Razorbeaks to stop LeBrov from stepping
forward. And then as the bot side Scuddlecrab was taken by Oner, he stepped in towards the
Razorbeaks as well to try and contest those. And look at this, Skumon trying to move up
and actually get something here. Faker has been pushed back, he's out of mana, so now
Cats can move into assist because Skuman got double-scuttled.
Oh no, on the one side of that crystallized,
they still have Flash.
Kerriot on his way, Faker stayed around.
The Razor Beaks almost secure,
Dats 200 has caps right to trade in,
Kerriot across the wall,
we'll get 1-0 to the topside,
as well as Dats is already down to Faker,
LeBronk too late.
Skuman has to flash across the wall,
Oh, they're flashing for the chase!
And G2 are just too damn greedy!
T1 promised them for their hubris.
It's a horror from G2 here, as Keria has the first move.
And yeah, Faker is low on mana, but still able to actually contribute.
And you can't win that 1v1 realistically as Jarvan into the Nocturne.
So as long as they kept Caps busy, it was always going to be tough.
And then Skue went flashing up.
I just don't see a way in which he was going to get out,
because he was kind of just flashing straight into Doran anyway.
And it's a good couple of kills there for T1 after VB did open the scoring.
Baker comes around here, realizes he's going to be able to back him up.
And this fell shield coming in, nearly in the fear on the top side.
And Caps had no egg, which I think he must have lost off-screen.
We didn't actually see that.
So Karrie comes in, able to easily get that kill.
And then Skumon flashes over the wall, Doran is there, realizes,
you know what, I don't want to give it to him.
I don't want to give over an additional assist.
But Skumon looking pretty frustrated already.
Yeah, he's lost both scouts, perhaps he think he lost his Razorbeaks
and he's lost the Razorbeaks fight.
And then he's lost his life.
LeBrov too late to join, Pedgefang aids, does not hit onto Caps, as a bird just flaps his way over that snake.
It is, I mean, I think Faker, you know, he's not known for the laning phase, but I do think in general, oh!
Carry up, look at Caps, flashes, doesn't get the hookshot, wall dive. Faker there with a miasma, LeBrov forced to walk away, paranoia, paranoia!
Everyone's out to get, your Caps and Stroud of Darkness comes down onto Oner, underneath the tower, he takes a couple of shots, Caps with a great crystallized wall lock, Oner against the wall,
Sheer of David with the stun, Flash Frost for the follow!
And Oda is frozen in the enemy jungle while Broken Blade tries to trade with Doran towards this topside.
Final Hour has been used, dashes away from the Dominus and won't go through any much further trading.
Behind the tower, behind the Alcove though, he gets sliced up by Doran. No escape for the Vayne.
God, that is tough. That was your one winning lane right there.
And now he gets solo killed by Doran.
Brokeblade had not spent his money for quite a long time.
And Doran comes back with Steelcaps and says,
you have a base.
You're sitting on a lot of gold.
After the death, BB combined his two daggers
into the upgraded Greaves, bought the Rubycursal,
and the longsword.
So he was sitting on about 1,000 gold this early on,
which is also the totality of combat power that Doran had.
Roblin's doing a little bit of owner here.
The reaction from Karrie is fast.
Racket as he tries to get across here in time.
The true shot garage will take out the T1 jungle up and this is what G2 can do well
When they get LeBrov and Schumann on the same page they can look for these picks look for these plays T1
No, still with a 400 gold lead most of these drew owner and faker
Yeah credit though to LeBrov
He has been good on the map moving around really well and caps
You know we really it's hard about it because we didn't raise that 1v1
But a good job by him LeBrov covers him and he gets this well-timed flash over the wall
It's kind of disjoint this carry looks to the E flash and a rare misstep a bit short change there
from Karrion not able to quite close the distance.
They say, Cap is so low, I can just go in and finish him off.
But the exhaust midair from LeBrov comes through
and reduces the damage of the ultimate as it lands.
That allows Cap to survive.
He flashes over the wall and they're able to finish him off
with the auto attacks and then this is tough.
When you don't have a ward for that further up brush,
notice how Doran plays on the edge here.
He's basically just holding on to that line,
not allowing him to walk in.
He had his ward this whole time,
Waits for the cooldown to come back off by basically just holding the edge of that brush
because you can't win that fight in melee range with Thaumannus up.
So he pushes him back, waits for the cooldowns, goes over the wall with the ward and kills him.
Really well played there by Doran and a pretty big mistake from BB fighting without having bought yet.
Yeah, not actually using any of that gold leaders.
The Flash Zenith Blade goes in, Paranoia on the back line, that's going to be the egg out of cast.
But the Finko and Gabby manages to escape.
Still wins really killed off Faker, TP's from either side of the space, joins the battle as does Han Summer.
Onu in the midst of the mall caught out in the cataclysm and now lost in the cage by G2!
Frozen Blade trading with Pace towards the bottom side, he condemns him back as he condemned him to death.
The good satchel allows Pace to extricate himself, but G2 still win out on the fires!
Hunts summer forces, the flash of true shot flash that's not connecting. Pace went up, not to the side.
But that was still great for G2 there. Looks like a 3 for 1, I believe at the end of the day.
for G2. We can watch this one more time. T1 are trying to look for a play set up here
onto caps, you know, they're trying to get pushed through mid, but you can see LeBrov
have moved into the river. Baker used that ult early and then Flash in to try to finish off
caps. Wasn't able to do it, so he was missing really all of his resources. And that is what prompts
LeBrov to go in. Baker walks up, you know, no petrifying gaze, no Flash, income skewmon,
income BB, immediate Flash forward there from LeBrov, great target selection,
and watch his BB just kind of
fights through Kariah, ignoring
him to take him down, then
kiting back here on the side,
flashes out from that bouncing bomb
that Paze throws over, and even
with Doran getting into the middle
of everyone, he flash follows, but
the egg is back up and that is all
he gets for his life. So great job
there absorbing the pressure from
Faker in the mid lane and then LeBron
to punish LeBron, I think is playing
an excellent game. That's really good
I think for a lot of G2 players, it was not says he clearly got stomped. We need to bounce back in this early game has been showing that they can this fight in that first 15 minutes of the game.
Karrion is looking up towards this topside as Doran tries to get on top with Broken Blade. Final hour to try and get away.
Broken Blade looking for the Silver Box. Karrion going forward. BB dashes away, uses the invisibility.
Well, Sumaan flag-drag. Cap's here too. BB, you just can't find him! You just can't find that Broken Blade!
And with it, he'll slice you up a double for Cap's.
Beautifully played there the TP immediately from cap skew on coming in to back him up uses the flash and broken blade by so much time
He had no summoners, but he uses the final hour
Notice how he's not auto attacking during the tumble queues allowing the envis that stay full
Duration there and again carry it just short on a critical hook shot the same thing happened mid this time
He guessed right the way that broken blade was gonna go
He did go for the hook shot up, but couldn't quite get in range
Rogenblade bought enough time there for caps to arrive and that is a 2000 gold lead here now for G2.
It started quite well for T1, but these last couple skirmishes going heavily the way of the LEC and we can watch it one more time.
You can look on the minimap, both Keria and Skumann immediately are coming up here and they're waiting to try to combo the Renekton stun into the hookshot.
the hook shop and look at this it couldn't quite get in range BB is in
viz let's it go full-time Kerry I guess is slightly wrong knew he went up but
went a bit to the side expecting a juke bought the time four caps to arrive
skewmon flashes in gets the flag and drag knock up and once Doran goes down
there's no damage from Kerry to make anything happen and G2 getting into a
very comfortable position now gold leads across the map here early Roa
finished up there by caps and G2 feeling like they're cruising. But we have seen T1 in this sort of position before.
Their team fighting is what puts them head and shoulders above other teams. They have fought back from much, much wider gold gaps than this.
I think it was 6K in the TL series that they managed to battle back from. Yeah, I mean, you haven't won until their Nexus is exploded, right?
Like, that is the reality. These are playmakers. Exhaust on Dormin, no flash for him. Slice his first flag and drag down for the follow-up.
follow-up, and Dormin just doesn't get a chance to move.
Broken blade with a second of the game.
Yeah, really well played, just goes in.
They commit a lot of resources there,
but they make sure of the feeling that on there.
Oh, God of darkness, Cataclysm.
He has to flash out of that.
The follow-up from the above was there.
How's the solo flare as he's gone to level six?
Carrier is down towards his bottom side,
looking for caps, but caps is just recalling.
Yeah, I mean, this is just really well played.
I mean, Nivia tough to dive with the passive,
clears out waves, has the wall.
Ezreal also very tough to attack,
in a really shifty character, so they can send their resources constantly up here to help out BB.
And it's tough for T1 to punish elsewhere on the map, and also they're not really winning the 2v2s and the 3v3s right now either.
So it does become a pretty difficult problem to solve here for T1.
I mean, we see LeBraw just walk up, uses the exhaust immediately for the slow on the door end,
get the CC, owner knows he can't fight, they know that Kerry is not there, and he can't make a cross man play, so it's just fantastic from G2.
vision from Carrier towards the red buff and towards the Razor Beaks of G2's jungle.
Next objective though, still a minute 20 way and we'll be on the top side of the map with
that with held spawning.
G2 were able to take the three grubs as T1 took the drake.
So we have that exchange of neutrals that G2 did manage to get a little bit more gold
in their pockets as they were giving up that dragon.
Paranoia onto Hansana, no way out for him.
Great combination there from T1.
They are going to be able to take him down, but that was not an easy kill.
That is flash all from carrier. That's all from pays. That's nocturnal
So that is quite a lot of resources spent to kill them
They are gonna get some plates off the back of this though as they're gonna go to work on that tower
So nicely done there by T1. They know they cannot allow the G2 carries to just safely farm
You need to have some sort of pressure on them
Thankfully for G2 though Hans does go down, but doesn't even use his flash
Yeah, I think as soon as he's in the hexagode to make it all you're doing is flashing over to the other side of the wall
You're dead anyway. There's a massive bomb about to land on your head as Doran's forced back a little bit by broken blade
Those old moments though already half the way off their cooldown should be up about 15 20 seconds after he with held has spawned
Apart from the next automation which will take a little bit longer his owner trades with LeBrov
LeBrov puts up the eclipse also has the proto plasm harness complete
So if he does dive on towards that backline has a little bit of extra healing the rest of T1 on their way across in G2
for a moment. We'll have to fight a 2v4, Solar Flare lands the double sun, no way out, really full of broth.
He's gonna have to flash the wall.
Brogan Ray try to trade with Doran, but a flash with his Predator into the better round.
Gaze doesn't quite get the CC.
BB looking the right way to avoid Matusas Gaze.
Yeah, there's a trade of flashes between the top laners there.
They get the flash off of the broth as well though.
As this time T1 bringing extra member, but look at caps in the bot lane.
That is the cost here.
So T1, no, we need to get more because we are losing plates down here in this bot side.
We are losing minions down here on the spot side, so they are pushing for this neutral.
Going to be able to grab the Herald here, I think, uncontested.
But no one goes down, trade of sums, caps gets gold, so for now, G2 is still pretty happy about the play.
Yeah, it's still about a 2,000 gold leaf for them as the Flash Frost comes out from caps,
chips away at Doran with the Glacial Storm alongside it.
LeBov is looking around that blue buff area, but Doran will be pretty hard to dive, even with his Dominus down.
I will say Broken Blade needs to be pretty careful for these next couple of minutes.
You know that Nocturne ult is now going to be back up after their earlier play.
You know you have no flash, and it will be difficult to find an owl play there.
And T1 know it. They're sending three members top. Even if they can't kill him,
they want to zone him off this turret. But G2 have moved way faster on this bot lane.
They're going to be able to get the first tower for sure.
So BB just needs to evacuate. Just get out of there, accept it.
As soon as you see carry on the ward, you're out of there. There's no point saying around.
You could try to outplay, but you'd purely be trying to outplay.
After your Vane spotting moment.
It would be in vain, as you'd say, yes.
Broken Blade steps back as owner did start his recall.
Will be spotted walking away on the ward that G2 had.
There, caps in as well, using his teleport.
There's a drake.
Mega Inferno Bomb comes down.
T1 might want to fight.
There's caps, it's just TP'd away,
and Broken Blade doesn't have his TP up
because of that G2 begin to back away.
Carry in, looking for the Paranoid.
The great Hex they automated him to stop the flag and drag out means that it has to be a flash invested from the G2 jungler.
Camps has moved down from top to try and make this a 4v5.
I think LeBrov cc'd up Onr though so he couldn't actually get in range to ult in on to Skuwon because Onr activated the ult,
but he never was anywhere to be found so I have to assume that he was just out of range,
was trying to use the Hex tech ult to make him get there and I see LeBrov had used his ultimate so my assumption is he stopped him from actually getting in range,
Even though owner is level 10. He's not 11 doesn't have the additional range on that ulti yet
So we'd love to see that replay, but I'm assuming it was
And yeah, the broad just runs straight up blocked by James locks him down not quite in range
Otherwise skumann would be dead. Not only does that save a kill that means you get a dragon here in a situation
Where you otherwise wouldn't have looking like a chase down here for a second carry on his way as you say
There's the Drake 2g2 second of the game
and won a piece so far that goldly not extending for G2 so far T1 have done a good job of kind of
curbing any enthusiasm that G2 had as T1 take a tower on the topside Faker gets himself a very
slight gold leaf 32 ahead that leads still for broken blade and for Scumond on the side of G2.
Yeah still feeling pretty comfortable here it's going to be about the team bites though they had
opened up to I want to say around maximum 2.5 to 1 AK lead for G2 but T1 closing that gap now
Down to 800 which really means it's it's nothing it's about the execution in the 5v5s, which is where T1
Really earn their reputation. This team is just so good has so many playmakers
Faker and Doran people can be critical of their laning
But you cannot be critical of the team fighting of the ability to find the right angle to find the right moment and these top
LCK and LPL teams have shown time and time again this event that they are so
fast at pulling the trigger when you make a mistake. Sometimes you don't even
know that you have made it yet and they already know they won the fight.
That's so good at that. Also really good at getting the vision control whenever
they do have a point of pressure. They get a lot of wards down towards that
bottom side which allows Doran to push up but also stops broken blade from
catching the wave any further up and it means that LeBrov then has to spend his
time around that red clearing out vision putting down a control ward of his own
and now G2 will try and push forward and get a bit of control towards this topside.
Caps with a slight gold lead in the coin-based gold, right?
Dominus comes out, there's a paranoia on his way as well as owners looking for this.
They need to spot the bay, it might just be the Dominus and nothing more.
Broken blade wisely not stepping up, you can see Skuemond on his way across.
Dominus about to expire and BV waited it out well.
Solar flare on Faker, Zenith played there for the follow-up, great pedifying gaze.
Clips, Caps, Wings for a second, but with the true shot, we're all coming down, and the exhaust there as well.
Faker's gonna have to work some magic to get out of this one.
The rest of T1 are on the offensive, though. Faker will fall, but that worked us for T2.
The dive in with the Hexag Automated, and as Caps has turned into drumsticks, LeBruv,
no protoplasm harness can save you from Paze as the chase continues for T1,
and LeBruv falls to the bouncing bomb.
And G2 fall prey to the faker global taunt.
Calls him up to that top lane, buys enough time with his flash,
and with the Petrifying Gaze catching caps in this moment.
And the Avengers flood in.
Everyone from T1 does arrive up on that topside
to help faker punish G2 for that play.
Still though, it is a lot spent by T1 to get up there,
and G2 do get a kill of their own.
But it's just all about the delay.
You look at the minimap here,
you realize everyone is coming very quickly.
Look at the time that they are responding.
Immediately, you see Cary moving up.
Immediately, you see Paze moving up.
Immediately, you see TP's coming through from Doran.
Double teleport.
Everyone running.
They are there to protect Faker,
and he narrowly gets taken down.
If he was able to avoid just a tiny bit more damage,
Caps had been egged there,
so LeBrov was really out of damage,
and if he looked for another second,
it would have been a 2 for 0.
Yep, great reactions overall from T1, had that deep vision as well with that ward further up in the lane,
meaning the double TP from Pays and Durban was easy to execute.
The setup around the Baron right now, no surprises as it's 21 minutes into the game,
and T1 do like their quick Barons when they can find them.
Yeah, we haven't talked much about Hans, because the game hasn't really been about bot lane,
but he has picked up three kills, right? You know, he got some with TrueShop Rage,
he's been kind of lightly involved in some of these skirmishes.
Mostly him and Paze have just been kind of farming,
but Hans is at quite a strong point in the game,
working towards his third item alongside Paze,
and he is gonna be really important, I feel,
like in these fights.
Ezreal on three items is absolutely a beast,
and they are gonna need multiple threats here
to be able to deal with T1,
because they can dive and one-shot someone.
The rest of the members of G2 have to then step up.
If they one-shot Bb or Caps,
you gotta go big if you're those other carries.
D.B. running up from the bottom side. Faker looks towards top lane to see if he can push out there.
There's a couple of things from T1 on wards that G2 had placed in the top lane bushes.
Possible flank positions for a Tp. Drake up in 30 seconds, and it looks like T1 have exuaded stage left
as they look down towards that dragon instead of the Baron.
The other thing I really like for G2 in this game is that they're playing double exhaust,
and it's not even spellbook exhaust as D.B.
Broke and Blake dodging away from Karrion, who tries to find him with the flash.
The blast cone there for him will use it after that to go to mid and pull back
straight into the waiting arms of Paze, who gets his third of the game.
Karrion looks for the Ho-Chop flash, does not find it, but it doesn't matter because he finds him with the ultimated him.
Solar flag down onto Faker, that is played there for the follow-up.
Pediflying Gaze will buy him a couple of seconds, but with the flash force coming in,
Faker is no longer on the rip.
Palinoya used a response, it's only over here, but he's enough, it seems,
The chase away from Cap Sennler, Broadway carry on his way, a flash from the shooter, Dave Wraith for the Frostbite!
Burned him down. G2 able to take A2 for one on the topside.
Meanwhile, Dormin and Pace stayed bot to get the tier two.
Man, this is a crazy game. So much action here, almost.
A kill a minute. Well, it is a kill a minute now at this point, pretty much.
And as that 21 kills in 23 minutes here, but Dormin is literally hitting the base towers.
And no one was funding yet here from G2, so they have to back it up and look to play for that.
Dragon is on the map here as well and that ultimate from Paze actually pretty important because it's gonna hurt the tempo even more
So from G2 who did overstay a bit on this top side
Whereas the soul laners from T1 have already faced. They're coming out
Doesn't look like they want to rush in towards dragon though instead just playing to get vision around this Baron
So it's not gonna amount to too much
TP coming out from caps because of a one point from a thousand gold lead
I mean, in the vicinity, looking to see perhaps if there's a way for him to take down this bird.
He is Seekers, so that's going to make it that much more difficult.
And what I was going to touch on before is, normally the only time you see double exhaust is if there's spell books, right?
They actually are just straight up playing double exhaust, and exhaust scales insanely well as far as a summoner.
So when you're looking at these late game teamfights, a properly timed exhaust on a Nocturne, on a Castile, on a Ziggs, on a Renekton
can be game-changing and is so much more valuable than a heal or a barrier
laid on into the game. So is something really working in the favor of G2 if they
can use this exhaust to great effect?
Definitely a great T1, they'll be looking to catch people out, get that dive in with
the Paranoia Hexic Automation combo. BB trade, well I'm not trading with Doran,
it's trading pushing the lane up bit by bit and Staker just clears out the mid lane.
true shopperage comes across g2 looking for a little bit control around this
drake that they will start t1 you stick to your twist looks like they've
decided they're not sticking around they'll go up towards the topside that
give the drake over to g2 if the second dragon of the game so no stress there for
t1 they didn't feel like they had the proper setup so instead they do just
back off but gonna be really interested to see what that defensive items that
Hans does go for we have been seeing more these days usually only as like a
fifth, sixth item, but 80 carries, go seekers. And honestly, this is a game for Hans, where
I wouldn't mind seeing him, him, the Jiko Zonius as like a fifth item instead of a GA. I feel
like GA doesn't always get that much value, but if you just get Nocturne ulted with Ziggs
ult coming in or Hextech ult made him with Ziggs ult coming in and you just immune that,
you're giving them so few good targets because you could have, you know, Zonius already being
worked towards on caps. Broken Blade is going to be going for a much more tanky build on
the Vayne top.
Carrier going for caps. He does have egg, but in the Hextech ult, I made him in the
There's the Seekers, the Scott Watchman cast with the Crystallized down, he will get scrambled.
The question is will the Egg Fool as well? Super Mega Death, Inferno bombing up with Faker and the Twin Fangs and now T1.
Continue their advance, G2 on the retreat through the run jungle, Talon looking for the flank, he's got Swords aside, get the Lugus, but it's stunned.
Rob's gonna fall to T1, his owner takes that kill, I'm summer stepping in, but he's on my ass for now, you don't step to Faker!
Flashes in and gets punished by the goat there goes forward excuse me shifts in could not flash out because of the miasma
Gives away another kill there and we'll see does T1 start the bear and looks like they want to and with the Casio
It is going to be going down in a hurry here. Skiwant is around has ult has no flash
But Paze is going to be there to try to bodyguard. It's up to him and BB
BV. G2 V4 draw in with a spacer flashed across the wall.
Scum on Catechus and doesn't come down in time as with the final hour, maybe the final
breath save the broken blade who gets the enemy jungle over this not going to be enough.
T1 know they have the time to take the Baron as G2 lose another two and lose the big purple
worm. That one really hurts as this fight gave such big rewards over to T1. No hesitation
As they move in here with multiple members, you can see that four members topside, they were hunting for caps.
And as soon as they see him for a split second, instantly, Karrion goes in.
He just caught a hint that he was there.
But G2 was on a reset timer. Look at all the rest of their members.
They're just now joining the fight.
As caps can't really do anything at all in this one, G2 has to go into a full retreat.
They do one shot Karrion as he goes in, but Doran then steps over the wall.
The brav goes down and that was the reaction to the mistake we didn't get to see in the replay
But hawn shifted forward faker had the miasma and then you cannot flash out
You cannot outplay it you get taken down and with hawns going down that really did result in the bear
And if he had stayed alive maybe with a three-man contest you can actually stop them
You have a little bit of poke there as well with the vein and the the Jarvan you don't have enough
You have to really facecheck into them as now is a
three thousand gold lead forty one. They have this rebel pattern power play for the next two minutes alongside it. A hat for pays alongside the void staff, the shadow flame and the luden that go like the hex echo to made him into a mega inferno bomb is going to hurt as they look for
caps again the flash from carrier and here's the combo solar flash stop watch pays brings down the bomb the cast flash out. It's in time better find gaze doesn't understand the crystallize to try and divide the fight.
coming across the side as the broad does fall low, healing up, not enough from the brothers left and skewered
gets across and dives on Faker, the cataclysm down, skewered heels with the sun in the sky
and Broke of Blade tries to dive on the back line and T1 have stepped a little bit too far
and G2 are punishing, Thorin will fall, A3 for once, so far in the Exchanges on Summer
once more out of it, you'd think he'd be a little bit more apprehensive of Arcane shifting forward
We went last time but this time no my asthma to meet him. Yeah, this time faker goes a little bit too deep trying to finish off
LeBrov really wanted to get that kill on to Leona is able to take him down
But then G2 realized all right if we actually kill faker here
That's the highest consistent DPS threat that is there so the initial fight goes in but look at how much time this
Stasis buys he's able to flash out of the zigzall and then here's faker going very deep on the side
He sees LeBron is low to get the satchel he goes in, but he's tanking the tower during this and the flash frost there from caps
Catches him he gets locked in by Schumann that by space for broken blade and carry tries to go with the hook shot on the
BB he can't get him we're back to live
Oh, no, no, look at the more as Kamiya dashes in true shocker rush
Whistles behind owner does use the paranoia defensively
It was a three for two on the top side Schumann did die just on the end of it
that's actually from Pays, Drake up in 18 seconds here with Zale.
And you can see how threatening Broken Blade is in these moments, right?
They realize you can't just run away from the final hour.
He'll chase you down that spot, so Kerry goes in to give his life,
Doran goes in to give his life, to try to buy space for those carries.
LeBron here on the side looking to threaten though, G2 have a pretty good angle.
No, no, at all on T1 right now.
Huns has his, in fact, the only flash that's available in the entire game,
As G2 get control of the midway, if T1 is you safe,
I think towards topside, Paze showing on the top lane
without teleport, means that T1 have given up this drake
and Paze will try and take the tower.
We'll be able to do it quickly with the short,
through the fuse and the satchel.
Yeah, we didn't really get to see when we came out of the replay,
you know, how owner was taking that damage.
Looked like maybe they were trying to defend mid
and he got chunked out, but he lost half of his health.
And again, G2 has the better setup for the dragon.
T1 do have the gold lead, they're playing them out well.
they have maintained this advantage for a little bit,
but G2 now are on sole point
and that will more than erase the Goldly
if they are able to claim it.
Do you want to have no more cards to give?
They can't just say, you know what?
You have this dragon for free, we're gonna trade.
They will be punished next time.
So we're gonna have to see how the setup will be
because you can look at the setup currently around this one.
Look at all the vision here from G2.
All of these wards in the area,
they even had a deep ward over on that other side.
And that is what prompted T1 to say, you know what?
We actually can't get in.
We're just going to have to give this one up.
I think the question is as well.
We have a Drac- a Baron before that Drake, as well.
And T1 around a Baron is something always to be feared.
It is.
But I really think that Baron is fake news in this season.
I think it is so much weaker than in the past.
Even games sometimes where you take two, three, four
Barons, it feels like it's not actually getting it done.
If you have extremely powerful side leaners,
I think Baron is really becoming pretty valuable,
but I just don't think Baron has that same level of power.
So to me, it's like, even if T1 gets a Baron
and you get soul, you are so heavily advantaged
unless you make a critical error
and you get picked off during the Baron.
Because if you all die during the Baron,
obviously the game is just over.
And here's a pick, perhaps, as the paranoia goes in.
Broken Blade with the final hour,
still going to get fed and doing to help Paze comes in,
just to make sure that the LEC top laner is taken out.
T1, find a pick.
Yeah, and the critical thing here is the timing, right?
Because 50 seconds on broken blades.
That time are 50 seconds on the baron.
So they may try to instantly start it,
but maybe it's hard to see his teleport cooldown.
I think it might be up that timing response.
It's going to be close on that roll class TP.
We'll see.
It is difficult to see on this overlay, especially
when it's in the grayscale.
Yeah, but we'll see.
It'll be close.
Yeah, it definitely will.
T1 are pushing through mid and bot
while they have a player advantage.
you to try to find them.
It's from owner will spell shield the soul of flat.
And here in Faker alongside Pays,
they were to take down the mid tower
and the gold lead extends to about three and a half K.
And I mean, some critical items coming through
honestly on both sides, obviously caps,
working towards that death gap desperately wants to get it
before the next major fight.
Faker has completed his four items,
getting very tanky, very powerful.
It's had the actualizer for a bit and Pays,
as we know already had that death gap,
already had all the flat pen,
but now has the Seekers arm guard on top.
So, I'm lucky at him's.
That was nice of Scumond.
The Oracle's automation gives him the silhouette and then steps back because of it.
Faker uses the Ped-fying Gates, should be back before the next big fight.
Yeah, but that is well played unless G2 want to force now because the Baron is up, right?
So, if they want to say, you don't get to wait, we're actually just going to start this.
Of course, there is risk with that and it looks like G2 more want to play for vision here.
They want to make sure that T1 don't have any Baron shenanigans going on.
But LeBrov is in a little bit of a spooky spot here, but has the team around him.
Right and wise, we have Azanya is complete on pace. He has five full items. A Guardian Angel for owner as well, Vital, the actualizer and the Crypt Bloom for Cassia.
On the other side, an endless hunger for Hunts Summer, and then the Rabadon's Deathcap actually for Caps just finished up.
An endless hunger to me is where Ezreal kind of reaches late game, right, where you get so much ability haste from this.
You essentially have no cooldowns on your Q. You hit a Q, the Q is back up.
And if you're on point with that, you really can start to tear through these fights.
And Broken Blade really, going in with the Stormraiser, obviously, has the Hexblade,
so he's going to have a ton of moves between Final Hour, between Stormraiser proc,
and it's going to be pretty difficult to lock down, but of course, if you make a misstep on Vayne,
you're so reliant on the Enviz, on the mobility.
If you get stunned, you can get one shot. He has no QSS, there is no Mikhail's on the Brav,
so he's got to be so careful about how he positions.
It really does. You can see G2 realizing that their side waves are not in a good spot.
They have to back away. There was a moment where I thought T1 might just rush it for the in-hit tower,
but Kaps is back here in time. 55 seconds on the Infernal.
Sol possible for G2. There's the Ravidans that we talked about for Kaps.
And on its way, another item for Broken Blade.
We're at that point where it does just feel like it's execution more than anything.
absolutely. Yeah, I think I think we're fully at that point. 2k. Yeah, 2k is nice if it results in a completed item. You can see some of those big items, obviously, we've talked about the couple zonis that are in the game. The GA is there for owner. These are the things that matter. But if it does not result in an incompletion, the 2k goal, that just means absolutely nothing at this point in the game. And the question is who is going to execute better in these moments? A lot of squishy targets on both sides. But I do think for T1 it gets harder and harder and harder to find that perfect target. If you full send on caps, you have zonis, you have to get that perfect target.
If you full send on caps, he has zone using full center broken blade and he gets into the final hour and as it is that could be tough
to go and looking for a flank
We'll feel the pain of the storm from caps all of that doesn't land the slower because of that
G2 will not fight any further
Infernal Drake begun by T1 you feel G2 are just saying okay. We'll play for Baron
We'll pull you over here infernal soul infernal Drake stopped by T1 as you to start up the Baron and this is it
Do or die in this game, one of this best of 5, T1 begin to collapse, the battle lines drawn between two teams as Carrier dives in, the mega-inferno above just kills Broken Blade!
Exactly where he stands and now it's all on Sturemon and Hunts Summer alongside LeBron to get this one through, but it's a double already for Paze while Dorvan distracts and delays G2 from getting any closer to the damage dealers.
There's balance secured carrier hit by a flash frost die dives to the side of caps with the rest of t1 here for the chase
Caps is doomed a bouncing bomb and flashed across but there's no tower here to save him carrier could go back in
The caps with the storm will slow him down try and take him out
He touches to the side of the malignance and manages to walk out of the fight a little bit of caps magic there to stay alive
And skew one limps out of there with about five percent HP as well
So they still have a chance. They're actually pinging on to the dragon here T1's trying to reset
T1 already did so and they're gonna TP in on the flag here
Mega Inferno bomb already back up the flag will spot pays on summer across the wall trying to take it down true shop
Raj clicks on to pay's for Kate on the dragon mega in front of all
Oh, once again!
T1 just pulled the rabbit out of an axe.
It used to be Guma and now it pays the T180 carries and stealing objectives.
Oh my god, that was a big one. That is the denial of soul.
And that is a tough one to be fair. Yes, somebody has been buffed in this season,
but that is a zigz on full items, combining the alt with the Q.
So I want to see that one back in slow-mo because that is not an easy spite
That is not a gimme at this stage in the game
It was a moment
I think he's dropped below a thousand but it was purely for a moment the timing from pays pretty impeccable as now G2
After rebuild their ranks behind their inhibitor towers T1 have the Baron for the next one minute 20
A lot of EU fans are praying that as those wise words come true Baron is not the game-ender anymore
It's not as strong as it used to be,
which is definitely the case.
The cat allies from camps unable to catch on around.
I mean, honestly, I think it's very hard for T1 to end
without a team fight outside of the base.
I think if you push up and you try to dive
to close the game, you're probably gonna die.
We can watch this one more time.
Let's see how low it gets there.
Trying to rush it down before owner can get there.
1,737.
Yeah, you have that moment.
Yeah, it was a split second and that slowed down
and it was a split second.
The ult did 1,300 damage and the Q landed at the same time.
That is just beautifully played there by Paze and what can you do?
I mean, it's frustrating for sure, but that is not one.
There are outplays and there are misplays.
This is just a great play for Paze.
This is not some horrible misplay that Scumont should get flack for.
It's an error. It's not an unforced error.
I think I agree with you there.
As now, G2 trying to step out of their base broken blade
with pushing out the topside.
Hans Summer on his way across here.
Nothing really to fight over apart from, you know,
You know a couple of jungle objectives and a bit of vision control and that's exactly what both these teams are doing
Rocking horns button heads where they can the G2
You now have the fiend hunter bolts completed on broken blade, which is a fitting item
I have to say on the vein it is and you have the sorilders for Han summer
So he is almost caught up with Paze who only has an illusory large rod over him even though he's 3000 gold a head
Yeah, and Hans is meant to call that he doesn't need to go for an event of item nice side step there by LeBron
avoids petrifying gays. You know, I talked about the potential attack of 5th, 6th items.
Sometimes in a situation like this, people will go zone use just to limit additional targets.
Sometimes people will go GA. Sometimes they go BT. Sometimes they go QSS. It really is kind of dealer's choice here.
Well, Hansa said, you know what? I am not the one dying. I will play safe.
I will punish you when you go on my other members who he believes are more vulnerable.
And we'll see if he can position correctly to do that, right? Because if he never gets caught, this is absolutely a better build.
Don't go defense go full offense and shred to you one when they engage on BB or caps
But as we saw at that Baron it's if you missed that at all you were insta-dead right and broken blade
He is tankier than Hans, but he gets hooked up flashed and he's dead before the stun ends basically
So you have to make sure you are playing pixel perfect against Kariah
I love even getting the Knights bow
I think to help out Han summer in these fights the extra healing he'll get off that if Han summer is untouched will be
absolutely monumental. Absolutely huge. And so now we see, again, both teams
warily stepping out into the map. I think the T1 obviously have control, but even
then we saw them going all the way back to their tier 1s when G2 was stepping
forward. We have a minute 30 on Infernal. The third for T1 would be Soul for G2.
A minute 32 on the Baron. As G2 do something we've seen them do quite a few
times before, which is allowing caps to step out with the rest of the team shadowing from
both teams. They're both going five top. And if one team gets the jump on the other, it
could be pretty huge, but they're both very well aware. And then the pressure in a game
like this playing in an elimination series and game scenario, 40 minutes in, you want
to be the hero, but you do not want to be the person who missteps a little bit too far
and cost your team a game because you know to take down an opponent as tough as really either of these teams you got to be on point you can't give away games for free.
Importantly for T1 they have a little bit of vision behind G2, a war towards the red weapon actually a war in the lane behind where caps is walked into G2 they've passed that with their sweeping
they're now trying to get their own deeper vision but it's not that deep at all what they have in terms of TPs or Doran's got his
True Shot Barrage takes the Spell Shield off of Paze, but LeBrov takes half his health for the pleasure of stepping forward.
Yeah, Paze is now on full six items there, that Banshee's veil obviously, doing some work.
Locking that True Shot Barrage actually really important in a situation like this, where they have to fight for this dragon.
But LeBrov getting chunked out is pretty tough. G2 though has played for mid-prior, you can see BB has full push.
Carrier was spotted.
Carrier was spotted on the flank.
As the Rift Scuttle crab, the first target, Stumond gets it.
T1 forced back Doran and broken by trading in at the mid lane, Karrie looking for the flank, Crystalize doesn't find him.
The drake at 7k, T1 trying to find the poke, Q-shopperage goes through, Faker takes a third of his health, BB the first to move here, but Doran TP's behind her, that Wardry previously mentioned.
Ananoia out, the Smite 90 HP taken by Ona, and now the Fyper has the T1 as Baranoia goes in.
Mega in front of him doesn't collect anyone as LeBrop is taken out first.
Ona with the GA, Cap's trying to walk away, flashes the wall, dormant condensed to death.
Brooklyn trying to get out with a final hour, the flag is dragging in, it's on summer kills.
Ona, Faker falling low as he is carrying MNG2, still a half-four alive.
And they want to make sure T1 don't walk out of this without another scratch, without another scourge.
Faker almost down, flying a drag out!
From Schumann, the TP back here from Broken Blade, as he wants to chase out Faker and Paze.
They're gonna try to get out of there, but G2 don't want to let them base here.
This is not gonna be an easy way to get out, BB.
Eee, a final hour, gets onto Paze, locks him against the wall and takes him down.
Faker will escape, Faker will survive in G2.
Only will get the Baron out of it, the Drake secured by T1.
And some big outplays on the side of G2.
Caps, which is dancing back and forth in his own ultimate.
And Doran tried to get in range, actually, stun him.
And he just gets slowed so massively
that he couldn't actually close the gap.
Then Doran tried to flash in and gets space completely.
T1, the start of this is great.
You can see they're going to TB on the backside.
They turn out the lights, make it very difficult.
On the contest, it went down to 90.
But then watch up here.
Look at Caps.
Instead of running, he kites back into his ult, so the slow lands on Doran, and then Doran flashes, Han shifts away, BV contends him, he can do nothing then.
Next up, Faker. BV had the sidestep on the ultimate there, he avoids it.
Both the soul inners from T1 accomplished nothing with their flash forward, and Pace was not able to hit the skill shots in this one.
G2 were just sliding around that fight, dodging so many skill shots. One or two more bombs hit,
And everyone on G2 could have been dead, but it just felt like Paze could not hit anything.
G2 played it out really well.
It's game one as well.
It's game one of the longest...
Lock-in, buddy!
This is the longest game in MSI so far.
His own is caught, jumps in with the power of Noir onto Skumond.
And he does have Faker as backup, but that's the ultimate down.
And that was an ultimate not used offensively, that was used defensively.
He's ulting away from the other G2 members towards Skumond to get out.
It pays just working to wave clear here G2 on soul point as our T1 of this baron doing some work
And there's the seekers for haunt that we talked about so long ago
I really do think it's smart especially with no flash being available here for haunts makes it so much harder
I find gaze on to the pop look at the pull the CC can't land
It just gets the slow G2 pushing in mid-door and gonna be answered by Han summon a couple of pink skin out on him
Immediately as it's like who why is the ad carry down here because broken play could continue to push in on the bottom side and haunts
STP so that's why he's answering right now
There's no TP on broken blade so haunt answers with his teleport so they can't get the extra man
Doran is trying to sneak in behind him
But G2 are pushing with this Baron goes in with a slice with the dice gets a ruthless predator looking for the stun
That's how much it's absolutely
Evacuates him turned into shoes is the crock as G2 finally solo kill on the top side
I mean haunt me that looks so easy. I never even saw this done come out
I'm not sure what's gonna happen. Yeah, I'm not sure what happened there with Doran
Something something definitely strange going on there, but now they're gonna TP in it's 45 seconds here on Doran
They've already lost two in hives and T1 need to hold on only 30 seconds left on that Baron buff of them
Maybe they can wave there, but G2 want to end game one right here right now
T1 everyone on the defense the Nexus tower is the first target for G2 as the mass that goes down and caps chase his owner out
has that X first, next is Tower Fallen. G2 looking to raise at the base of T1 and
raise the flag for EU as the dive comes in, but the dive comes in! But T1, G2
defeats T1 in game one, they take them out in the team fights.
Beautifully done here from G2, even Broken Blade had a Seekers at the end.
And there's just no target slam for T1 to go for.
Three Zonias being built towards there.
Two exhausts as well.
Great answer to the dive comp.
AD, how about that for a game one?
Oh my god!
Oh yeah, sorry, pretty hot fun these are.
Sorry for your innocent everybody watching at home.
But guys, I thought we were cooked
and we find the solution right in the end.
After they take the drink, we take the fight, did he?
And Fret not, you're still on track for 3-1, but we'll be right back at that later,
because right now we've got that one BB cooked appropriately.
It wasn't raw, it wasn't well done, nice, medium rare vain pick, with a few mistakes for flavor, but...
It's okay, what matters is the fact that we take this one, and I want to take a look at that last fight,
the one where we lose the Drake in our HyperX Reflex replay, but it doesn't matter in the end,
because they managed to turn that fight, did he?
And they take it, and that's what gives us the win.
And I think it's really by the thinnest margins here.
We are losing, Drakes.
We're losing 50-50s, but the patience,
the fact that they're able to peel back,
deny so much of the damage, watch the footwork from Caps,
just barely getting away from that chip damage.
It is the tiniest margin that we make it work.
Broke of Blade not being stunned by Faker.
The littlest, tiniest decisions in that fight,
really the only thing that saved us
from what was an incredibly dominant performance from T1.
I feel like that cap sidestep is everything because honestly the one fight where they were able to get on caps and then turn on the first Baron was where T1 were able to take a fight, but it got to the point where if this Enivia is here, it creates so much space for broken blade on the vein for Hans on this Ezreal.
It comes down to this double ADs behind just constant, consistent, and nivia damage.
And that was the huge difference maker to me. It was basically, can they get on caps?
And they couldn't get on caps?
BB, my man, with the redemption game, I'm scared. You know what?
We always say that BB on carries lately. It's not what you want to see, but look at this.
It's torn out!
Can we win rate on Vayne? My guy is undefeated on that champion, and he proved it once again.
Everything feels good.
It feels great.
It feels great and I would love to live in this moment forever, if possible.
Unfortunately, it's not the best one, it is the best of five.
So maybe, Jett, it's time that we talk about Paze.
Because I don't think we've solved the Paze puzzle.
You have not.
I don't think we have.
What's funny is when he completed his seventh item,
I turned to him and said, well, the good news is he can't get stronger.
It was actually good news.
It was good news.
But he was a problem.
Paze is a problem.
I mean, I'm very happy for both of you and you you're so you needed them to get one
So the fact that she won was 6-0 against TL 3-0 against KC
This is the first game that T1 has lost this MSI to anyone not named BLG
So when we're saying like they can't keep getting away with that they finally couldn't get away with it because they were I mean
We know how loose and fast they're trying to play every single game
That is how they play against BLG as well to be fair, but G2 was able to punish them, I gotta give it to him.
But I feel like during BLG series we pointed out the fact that T1 didn't have optimal drafts against them.
I do feel like it got better here. What do you feel on the improvements for T1 in that department?
I don't think it was a draft issue. I think it really did come down to really slim mechanical margins, as Emily was highlighting.
A side step here or there. I think Doran had a rough game, kind of as you expected in the vein.
He had a lot of good moments where, you know, he's able to get the flash, a great play for him.
But yeah
You already said Emily and I'll you said again
It's like the triple carry threat making sure that it's a weird strategy
But just ensuring that the hill combo of the Camille and Nocturne
Couldn't just remove you from a team fight entirely
Yeah, but he didn't win
Surfer played this earlier
40% of his Q-step.
What does that say?
It says we still have to be really scary.
That's like, I predicted 3-0.
This is already a fantastic start.
I'm already, I don't want to say I'm happy.
There's more work to be done.
It's alive, it's alive.
You should be very happy.
You should take this moment.
Celebrate.
I mean, the reaction we had coming here for me
is justified simply by the fact that
when you look at the Hon-Wai-Nai series
and how horrendous it was for Europe and for G2,
I'll take this improvement any day.
And I was worried that after that game,
Because as close it was that if they had lost it would be mental collapse
I don't think it needs to be because that first game was so close
But the fact that they win builds that confidence themselves. I love to see it
I am still nervous again the big the big the elephant in the room that we've already talked about
We have to keep addressing is paze because yeah, he can miss skill shots on six
The little miss auto attacks the Dodgers don't exist unless you're pissing jacks
And so the Calista everything else the mages are already in there coming
But there's more things coming. He's a scary scary man the look on Schumann's face when the
Infernal soul was denied by a pay's RQ
Made me think that they were going to get swept so to win a game like that is so
Mentally powerful because it it tells you that even when you get tilted you're able to persevere against T1
I think that could
Speak volumes for them throughout the rest of your series
It's so important that you're saying this, Chad, because for me, this mental aspect is
what matters for G2, is what matters for SQmon.
And as long as you have SQmon in a good mental state, winning a game like this, when they
were down, when they were kept on losing drinks, for me that sets them up perfectly for the
rest of this series.
I completely agree.
I think there were good looks in the early game from G2.
There were some big fumbles, but they recovered very well, and that is the thing that matters
most.
We talk about this breakneck pace of game that the best teams in the world are playing.
If you lose your footing and you can't recover, you're done immediately.
That's one, that's one for G2 here against T1 in Deijon.
We need two more, we'll see what happens.
Let's hand it over to Brey and get ready for game two.
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They've had enough of this.
They have had enough of this.
Two or three, two, let's make it close.
In fact, we could just say they'll lose 3-0.
What was that?
I don't think so.
No.
We're looking for some good games here.
We are looking for fights.
Yeah, exactly.
We're in Korea that would just be rude.
Can't do that to your hosts.
Exactly.
What are you doing?
They invite you over for dinner.
They flip the table.
G2 even practiced in the T1 headquarters.
Exactly.
It makes it even more rude.
but G2 not going to be too concerned about that.
Really competitive, game number one.
I did like the way that they played it out.
I think that T1 obviously had a strong comp,
but I do think as it got later and later on to the game,
it's more and more difficult for their comp
to actually function.
We could see that it was tough for them
to actually close the gap and get in on the back line,
to double exhaust meant a lot for G2.
And by the end of the game,
they had two Zonis and a Seekers on their carries
and there's just no good targets left for T1.
So really nice game one here from G2,
very back and forth let's see if they can keep going. We move into the second set of
picks and bands that we've had as we see the Jason the Orianna already taken away
by G2. Last time they followed that up with a Vi. Sivir added to the bands from
T1 alongside the Nautilus and Akali they banned in game one. They also banned the
Poppy in game one so that's another switch that we've had but it's the same old story from G2.
Yeah we'll see if G2 continue to try to cook here in the top lane.
Maybe the Vayne I think really did pay off pretty big time.
Maybe died a couple times here and there, but he was such a threat in these fights, right?
And I do think having these multiple threats against the comp that is so adept at just one-shotting one person really was critical.
They had good spacing in the teamfights, you know, spreading out, not allowing T1 to ever catch their carries grouped up.
Faker going to get his iconic rise though, which is going to allow T1 to play more towards the side lanes than I think we saw last game,
Where it really was kind of dominated by G2 obviously with Broken Blade, you know having the backup being able to play through the sides on the vein
And it is going to be a bar here for LeBrav. I mean, it's it's terrifying to get barred over to Keria
And also Keria's answer to Bart has been Camille, which is already played
So those are two pretty big points in G2's favor for grabbing this bar. I do love looking at fake. Is that some time at the time?
Can you guess how many bias games he has all the time?
17 million 101. I was close to the 15th of all the games he's ever played. He's
competitive. So one in every 15 games he's brought out this rise. It will be
matched by the Syndra G2. We usually look towards the Anivia or the Cassiola's
answers. You can also look to Slia, but Cap's had a great Syndra performance just
a couple of days ago. Yeah, and it's very interesting, right? Because we are
seeing some of these traditional counters already were taken away in the
first game, right? You know, Camille, the traditional carry answer to that hard and
He brings out the bike and as you said to Nivia and Cassio,
Trish on this is to rise, but those are both playing game one.
So we see the Syndra.
So we kind of see that evolution.
What else is in the bag for these players?
And there are very few players I do trust on the pike.
Keria is absolutely one of them.
Gonna be paired up with that Mel.
So back to the mages for back to back games.
But G2 did get a win, hey, with Hans playing ADK,
with him playing that Ezreal, even though it was against that Ziggs,
which has been so incredibly strong,
It feels like throughout MSI. Oh, yeah, the ziggs can be so powerful the metal as well incredibly strong
Especially in Pays his hands. It does make me wonder whether the syndrome would ever be flexed down to the bottom lane for Han summer
He isn't a big major player. He doesn't usually bring it out, but there's always that possibility
I have a question for you
I don't know if you've seen this interaction because I haven't actually seen it myself
If you rebuttal the syndrome all does it get all of the or so does it count them as individual spells? Oh?
Because that's actually pretty big right, you know, I'm not actually sure how that
I know with Silo's if you see that you get three orbs, I don't know exactly what Mel, but we'll see yeah
Because that'll be an interesting interaction right because not only do you take less damage that way
But if you reflect every orb of the ultimate if that counts as that you know that one spell
We are full of reflecting that it's also super dangerous to use your all. Oh, yeah, so we'll be interesting to see how that works out
rebuttal is a
very tough spell to play around and a lot of playmaking here for G2 we have both
the Bard as well as the Pantheon they can attack sidelines so heavily so some
great answers to Faker who's going to be split pushing you have to assume later
on in the rise and we're seeing team one here
building a respect that it could be a Yone top that it could be a Syndra bot
they're taking away you know some of these lanes here they're not taking it as a
given that the Syndra is going to be mid or that the Yone couldn't go top
I think it's smart overall to assume flexibility from both sides of this draw.
There's the poppy taken away by G2, and we'll see why T1 decide to go with their final ban.
As they already have their bot lane shored up, Carrier the only player to win on pike here at this MSI.
Pike's getting a 2-3 Carrier, obviously with both those wins, and there is NaR removed by T1.
Very interesting, so yeah, definitely respecting the chance of flex here.
It is the Ambesa fan as well as that Poppy from G2.
Poppy obviously is such a good denial pick.
And you look at G2, they've been drafting for it.
They're clearly looking for a lot of playmaking.
They're looking for these snappy engages.
Poppy is something that can answer those incredibly well.
So I think it is an intelligent fan.
And T1, I think, just trying to set up some stability
up on that top side.
Lucian Bard is pretty interesting.
I mean, Lucian, we are seeing quite a bit of these days.
But Lucian is almost in like, Mili-O-Jail, right?
for a long time, it was Lucian Nami, now it,
and then it went to Lucian Brahman for a little bit,
and then Milio, and now we are kind of seeing
the next evolution here.
Of course, you're not gonna have quite as powerful 2v2,
you don't have that Milio passive interaction,
which is so much of the early game power from the Lucian,
but Lucian still can be a real threat
and does have some pretty good mobility,
some ways to actually deal with some of these problems.
Interesting to see a Narban into Yorick,
that seems bizarre to me,
because Yorick is usually picked in Star.
Yeah, you can chase him down with the morning mist and your calls just continue to chase him and then he can't really control
His mega now as well
So we'll see
I just I said that one's a bit of a headshot. Yeah. Yeah, I totally agree with you as I will see T1 round out their company jungle here
Nefiri is the left for owner. Okay some aggression teams up really well with the male if she can land her serving
What they're brilliant and then have the golden eclipse coming down at the same time as the house pursuit is there for the follow-up you do so
Oh, this is the hardest counter for Yoik Top, man.
I hated playing into this when I was doing my Yoik Top challenge.
OK, so I will say, I don't agree.
Yeah, I know you don't.
We are entirely on opposite sides of the coin here.
So OK, so I think that Joe is a good matchup in New York,
but there are ways to play around it
if you're an experienced Yoik player.
You literally just do not summon your ult
and you make him hold his feast.
Because the interaction that makes this so advantageous
is ranked one of the Maiden can be basically one shot by the feast and you get a feast stack, right?
But a lot of times in pro, people are not comfortable with your players, they don't play it a lot, so they just auto summon it.
You can play the lane without your ult and then as soon as he feasts, then you can summon your ult and then you have that cooldown duration to actually play with it, pre-6.
Once you're level 11 and above, the matchup does really start to swing more towards your arc because Drogath can no longer one shot it.
So I want to see if Doran actually knows the interactions.
If you just hit six and you summon your maiden insta and you let him have a free stack every time it's up
Then that is not going to go very well for you
But you can win in the 1v1 without your alt
You can just fight and if he ever uses alt then out comes the maiden and now you have that kind of little bit of breathing room
So I do think it is a good pick into into york
I think that is a great denial pick into some of these squishy
Engage shames if you're piker to fury and you go in and you get silenced before call the pack
You can just get one shot. I think that is is really kind of what I'm looking at. I see it as an answer not as a count
I understand that and I think perhaps that shows you the difference between the top lane skill levels. I am
Enlil's in top lane. Master in support, but not good in top lane. You are
Usually master boss. That's nice in all the roles. The streamer steps forward and is met by owner and Doran.
Camp's coming in looking to land a dark spear. It doesn't quite connect. As Han Solo has gone for the Doran's helm first on the Lucian
As you said, it's not as good as the Lucian Milio because Lucian's passive was updated for heals and shields
You'd still be able to get the extra damage from the light slinger
You can still get it with the caretaker shrine
Yeah, and with some immobilization if you land a cosmic binding you are still gonna get that extra damage
Yep, of course Milio passive also working in there though, and that's kind of so strong
So I'm gonna be really interested to see how this top lane goes. I don't think it was a great game one from Doran
Did kind of struggle in the team fights some of that is compositional of course, you know g2
very shifty characters. You've got Anivia and Vayne and Ezreal not easy to get in on these champions,
easy to get kited out as that reneced it. But I'm curious to see how familiar is he with this
matchup. Is he just going to insta summon the ult and give those three stacks to Broken Blade,
or is he going to hold the ult and force Broken Blade if he wants to get stacks to use one on
a minion, or hold it for that summoning of the Maiden, because that can make things really,
really interesting in this 1v1. And also, how Broken Blade is going to be able to use that
that feral scream in the 5v5s.
It's just so big.
It is such a good denial tool against claymapers.
You get silenced on pike or on the fury.
You might just be dead before the silence ends.
Yeah, definitely.
That is so difficult to escape from those situations,
especially if you're starting to dash in,
and then you get silenced.
You go forward.
It's all above with a good cosmic binding.
T1 support matchup here with a T1 bar versus the T1 pike,
which I'm sure Carrier is happy to see.
T1 skins.
Yeah, quite a few.
Quite a few around.
as a owner jumps across the wall here,
doesn't know that Schumann is on his razor beaks,
puts a ward down, Schumann has been well-trapped
by T1 in this early game,
mostly because of that razor beaked ward,
in the case that he's on the top side,
then when he comes around,
see if he can just jump in and get a little bit more vision.
I think owner there unwilling to take the fight
because of the movement of LeBron from the bottom side,
Faker forced to use both of his summoners,
as Katz does use the flash in mid.
Yeah, trades that flash back as LeBron came in.
And I think Faker had a false sense of security
because of that move up,
This is the shared champion pool and the individual champions for each player.
Broken Blade has a lot of wild ones up there, obviously the TF, the Oslo, the Malphite, the Warwick, the Yone.
A lot of different picks than Dorian who is much more of the kind of standard meta player that you would expect out of a top LCK team.
And I do like that Broken Blade has these different styles of champions in his toolkit and Karya.
Carrier recently passed fake fake on top all time
In the assist internationally and now he's the first ever to reach 2000
That is incredible. Caps also passes Canyon for fifth most assists ever internationally with 1,298
As I'm sure he'll be looking to pick up a few more in this game, but Carrier
I mean the guy is just the goat support right if they could didn't exist
I think you'd start to have conversations as the weather is just the greatest right?
I think there's a little pesky though. He is he's always around like even here
Just trying to hold the wave LeBrov comes across to make sure that he can't do that easily
They can we'll be back out on his way
Guess the CC a magical journey out of LeBrov will manage it to extricate himself from that situation
Yep, he is a okay that last auto from LeBrov made me a little bit nervous at first
I thought his auto was going to carry it, but it was of course on the tower
So you're not pulling Jared Eggard you are not in danger of going down but caps already with a 300 gold lead
of course some of that you would expect to even out. You know, that's why Kerry was trying to actually hold that wave
but wasn't fully able to kind of keep it off the tower.
So LeBrov getting it in means that caps will maintain a pretty large lead here.
There's three minions, four faker to get so he can get to 32, but then there's gonna be five or six available for caps.
So he is about two waves ahead already.
The trade of summoner is obviously pretty big and I think that will draw a lot of attention here mid.
that. Yeah. Carrier is always
looking to see if he can be
drawn towards that mid lane,
perhaps catch out the fact that
we don't have those flashes
and skewer LeBrov side steps
it, whether aware or unaware.
He still does not get hit by
that spirit out of carrier.
Last time we saw Joe get top
was BB. By the way, he played
against the whippers York back
in MSI last year. He did lose
that game. Um so hopefully
for G2. No, it did not. But this one has already gone a lot better. And I have to say they got
one game. Exactly. And I mean, compared to the HLA series, right, where people, I think,
were feeling pretty nervous, like, oh, God, is this our form? Like, is this our level? Are we
just going to show up and get blasted? And we have the longest game of MSI in Game 1,
very back and forth. G2 comes out on top. Flash. Flash forward from Terrier into the
bone skewer. And Owen is here for the chase. He won't even be needed. He lands the darkened daggers
and does take the kill.
It is always a master class.
It feels like for Kariah.
And here's the interaction.
Doran is not a knower.
So he's going to use the ult and give over a freebie on the stack.
And that is why you don't want to use it.
And if it's confusing, why you're saying, well, just what
do you mean, don't use your ult?
Well, Cho'Gath needs to get stacks, right,
to be stronger later on in the game.
So if you actually hold your ult summon,
he can't just sit there and never use his ult to get stacks,
or he's going to be put way behind the pace of the game.
So that forces the Cho'Gath to say, all right, well,
am I going to hold it in KC7s of Maiden,
or am I going to use it on a minion
and start getting this moving?
And then as soon as you use it on a minion,
you have that couple minutes or a minute or whatever it is.
I can't remember the rank one cooldown,
where you can actually play with the Maiden and get prior.
About 80 seconds.
There you go.
Rank one on that piece without any ability haste.
There's a rune skewer from Keria.
Whistle's behind a little of Robb's ear.
Doesn't quite find its connection.
But good kill overall from T1, gets
owner ahead on this nefarious.
You can see Faker also moving, thinking
about a realm warp towards this top lane.
Kaps is gonna catch him out.
Spots the fact that there is a rise waiting in that bush,
and T1 have a very slight lead, predominantly,
because of that first blood.
Absolutely, yes.
And Oner was the one who grabbed that first blood.
Luckily, they kind of wanted to give it to Keria,
but Oner wanted an assist
and didn't end up getting the kill
with one of his dogs, I do believe, finishing that off.
And still, not like you're gonna be sad about
Nefuri getting an early first blood,
this champion really is feast or famine. You go in, you are looking to put so much pressure on
the backline, you want to be able to push back caps, push back haunts, and draw a lot of pressure,
right? Which is where that call to pack becomes so important and where that interaction that I've
been talking about with the feral scream, with that silence becomes so tough. Because if you try to
really ride that line and you get silence before you can get that call to pack immunity off,
then you may just die without ever being able to use it. And if you use it too early, well,
You can get CC'd up after and potentially die.
Yeah, that's a huge problem if you are caught out.
And there's so much damage as well for G2,
and points and clicks CC, which I think is very important when you are looking to try and
try to outplay.
It's much harder to outplay, man.
I missed the days when Taric stazzled.
It's just our point of the enemy.
Okay, your turn.
That's kind of a skill shot.
I loved it.
And the bottom lane pays slightly behind Hans-Sammur.
His book of late is put into a little bit of a cage,
but it should be fine to walk his way out.
But really the supports haven't been down here,
and pays so consistently when he is playing these mages, manages to get these leads.
Looks like T1 are setting up around the drake as there's the bone skewer.
Solisnare not connecting, HanSama dashing forward as they look for the realm wall behind magical journey out.
G2 will manage to extract themselves.
Yep, gonna be AOK here. This is Paze on mages 3 and 0 ML, one of the ones in Drey's first loss on mage.
Last game on the Ziggs was taken down there by G2.
as Faker did use that realm warp early and T1 we're hoping to get a pick into the dragon because they did not get the pick and
Faker has to go back and made or he's gonna give up all these plates and minions is I you know
We actually can't spend the time to clean the dragon now
So they are forced back by that just a little press our full flash forward as there was a flash away from door
And the broken ways here for chase caps across the wall with the scatter the week as well won't allow the undertaker out
It's Helen Assel and G2 are winning.
Nicely played there by G2, looking for a play up towards that top side.
Doran tries to use the cage and the flash to escape, but Schumann is there to get him.
Really the only thing I think Doran maybe could have done is you try to put the cage right,
kind of like where it fully blocks off thinking it could mess up happening.
And there's some weird tricks you can do with that, but pretty hard to escape to remembers.
TP in from Broken Blade as T1 trying to secure at least one of these grubs.
Don't have the smite on owner but will manage to take it so it will be a one for two grub exchange
Just broken blade after teleporting looks like he is just gonna go top plays and carry have been swapped up to that lane
And some is gonna be left to his own devices against the Yorick down in at that bottom side
Yeah, you can see Doran has his ult back up and just trying to get to level 11 where that
Maiden cannot just get one shot there. Well, it's not true one shot
But close to one shot by the fees close enough that it doesn't really matter as that phone skewer
I think between the minions which I think does show just how good carrier is at the pick the managing to weave it through that
Broken blade didn't step too far forward currently at three stacks on the Cho'Gath
10 stacks is where you get the really increase like every time you alt and
Feast something you get increased range on your ultimate as well and 10 stacks
It's the maximum increase range it can be which can help in fights like Cho'Gath doesn't have a gap
That closer, that little bit of extra range can really help you.
Yeah, it is tough at times, for sure.
And you get six of those stacks just straight up from the minions.
And then, of course, you can get it on epic monsters, dragons,
parents, heralds, things like this, as well as champions,
if you do get that last hit.
So I'm going to be trying to stack that up as best as possible.
Again, already up to four stacks.
So I love when Chogath players are just pressing the button.
Like you shouldn't just sit there and wait and wait and wait for this
like potential all in that might come.
You need to get stacks.
It is so much of your power later on you're not only increasing the range
But also of course based on the health that you're gaining
It is increasing the damage of the all which is making it more likely to get those subsequent stacks
And they are sending three top here again potentially looking to try to punish Doran who is missing his flash
And he knows it so he will be able to back off but that is gonna cost them some plates
That is gonna cost them some minions so in sipping to bot lane tower
Yeah, they're gonna put the maiden down and immediately try and race this two grubs to one
That sort of race will go in G2's favor, but T1 already had the way pushed in.
They'll take the Drake as well as G2 invested a lot on towards that top side.
Yeah, they absolutely did. York, of course, fantastic at killing off these towers,
but Gaps and Broke of Blade still racing for this, so let's see who's gonna win it.
I think it is gonna be T1, but it's gonna be close.
I mean, G2 got back on the tower faster, so it looks like they might actually win.
Machine last rights can do quite a bit of work.
There is the maid and helping as well, of course.
It's going to be incredibly close between these two as the first tower of the game is coming comes across
It will be T1. They'll get it with the last race G2 just two seconds too late
Yeah, that's all it counts
They're able to get it you can see owner wasn't 100% confident that they were gonna get it to be too
So he's like all right
I'll get down there try to give a little bit of assistance
They do get that first tower gold which is pretty nice and just about all the difference in the gold
of these two teams. You'd see broken blade already with that heart steel completed.
Gonna be looking to try to scrap a bit, start getting some stacks.
Jogaf so powerful with that additional HP.
Faker has to use the ghost here. Temp of fate comes out and with the ghost you can very quickly
sidestep that, then steps back forward.
It is cool seeing the T1 logo from the bar just like splash on the ground beside the goat,
the T1 legend himself.
I mean figure has what I think it's something like 910 skins that
That's awful in this best the shield but as well hunts on a dashing forward pace able to get the rebuttal off carry
It's gonna have to dash across this wall to escape his owner looks to hold that culling uses the dogs to do so
And they're gonna try to keep BB away from this topside
Dorm was trying to get up there and get some access to that tower
So we did get the one fee stuff that made him but even without door and you know just kind of delaying the summoning
It hasn't really mattered because they haven't really been leaning that much against each other and door and closing in
here on level 11. So we'll see if you can one-shot that one more time. Before Doran, it does get that level up, where the maiden later in the game starts getting pretty tanky.
It becomes difficult to actually knock it down as it scales up with those ranks in the alt as well as with your stats.
Yeah, especially if you play well around it as well, but you can manipulate how much it steps forward, how much it steps back as LeBrov and Caps look for Faker on this bottom side.
Unleashed power on to Faker, takes him down to a third carry on the flank.
The LeBrogh will land a stun onto Ona, stopping T1's idea of taking this fight.
G2 investing four players around here for now as Caps perhaps will just look for the crystalline overgrowth.
As Faker wisely walks away from the dark sphere in the force of work.
Especially the crystalline over-go.
Yeah, he was going for there.
Oh, they jump onto Caps.
He's carrying a death from below as Caps is taken out.
LeBrov trying to chase out this pike. Hans-Sommer on his way through the magical journey.
Karrie up, needs some fancy feet to get away, and Hans-Sommer comes in to secure the kill.
A lot of gold to Hans-Sommer there.
Ski-Mond and owner, butt heads in the river, and both of them able to escape the flash from Ski-Mond enough to keep him alive.
The Statue will show a solo kill for Karrie, but of course, caps was very low.
Ski-Mond just to the side of the steering brilliance,
And with the temperate fake pays, Rebutz and LeBron, the solo snap out as well as Faker is looking for more.
He has the flash and skew on, now in range, the ages of salt, no movement speed for him. Faker takes it.
Hans Summer now needs to get the hell out of dodge, but T1 are collapsing perfectly. The flash cross the wall.
Where's Carrier? Pike can smell blood in the water. A bone skewer goes to Nadia, but it didn't need to hit.
Faker takes the kill.
Yeah, Faker looks so good on these sort of champions.
We can get out on the map, we can roam, we can really play.
Just so proactive, right?
You know, just getting busy on the map.
You're moving around with T1 to look for Caps.
Phantom undertow, carry it down to Caps.
His owner tries to trade back in.
LeBrov going the long way around, looking for the caretaker's blessing
and it will be enough, the magical journey.
Owner still dashing and dodging.
Damn it, we'll get him!
With the plea, but Caps gets the shutdown and response.
He's got to be more broken blade trying to survive on the top side of his face brings down the golden eclipse
But it's not enough even with the ghouls chasing him out broken blade will heal up trying and succeeding
To survive on that top side is LeBrov and skumon now hunting. He gets the slow
Faker gets the movement speed up and we'll just walk away. I don't think
Skumon and LeBrov would have had enough damage to take that faker easily
Especially since he's still holding on to that flash
doesn't have the role of ages completely as of yet, but probably has enough in his inventory
to finish that one up and you can see he's now backing away. Next fight, likely around
this riff held, although we could be looking at a second drake play.
There's the role coming in, Faker also working quickly towards that archangels, they're going
to see him be backed, they don't want to give up this Herald. The owner is so strong right
now, he already has the cycle of sword, he's closing in on a second item and when he gets
that he is going to be so threatening, especially for Caps, who's going to be very reliant upon his team to keep this guy off of him.
Obviously, you can side step as much as you want, but that's only going to do so much.
Shoot to a T-thing. First blade in here. Oh, great dodge.
With the call of the pack, his broken blade tries to step forward on the faker who will just walk away.
Doran there next target, shield bolt in from Schumann. Doran flashes into the back of the heaven fist.
The rest of T1 now trying to collapse on Caps on the broad, but Doran is just nom nom nom by broken blade.
G2, rest control of the hairball pit out of T1's hands.
It looks like T1 have given up the ghost on it.
Yeah, that was really well played there by G2.
They just kind of came in and they split up T1.
They push back, faker as well as Doran on one side.
And Doran got stunned up there.
And once he got stunned up, he was so low,
he didn't feel he had time to actually get over to the wall
and flash to safety over the wall.
So instead, he had to flash into the pit.
But T1 couldn't force their way through on the other side,
but they will look for a play of their own.
Going for this second dragon here, we'll find out if that early work on the dragons is going to be rewarded by a powerful soul.
G2 who definitely hoping it will not be, but it is Ocean, which definitely not the one that T1 are hoping for, they're a relatively squishy team.
Ocean not going to do much for champions like Nefuri and Mel and Pyke, but any soul is a valuable soul.
use for the stun with the realm wall follow-up caps.
You can unleash whatever power you want,
but Faker and Keria combine to take him out.
Just like watching a pike tips and tricks,
like he's showing you all the combos here,
just beautifully done.
What he is doing there is E
and then ulting on behind you,
which teleports you to them, making the E undodgeable.
Then you're stunned, the bone skewer is already coming out.
That's undodgeable too.
It's just so clean, so precise from Keria on this champion.
gets them another kill and does start to push Faker ahead.
BB trying to get some gold back on the other side of the map
and he's the big advantage for the team.
He has got to be the guy who's creating space for those carries,
getting into the mix, but you don't want to overextend
because this champion is so slow, so low on mobility.
Grand Staffel onto Faker, T1 running up through the river
but Faker's running in the wrong direction and has no realm loop to get out of this one.
They might try and just give it over to Kaps.
SKU on orders, one more time, Gaps is here, the shutdown does go to SKU,
meanwhile Culling Hughes into the robot of Broken Blade trying to trade onto Paze,
Han Solo dashes in and Keria is devoured!
The tempo, they're not quite in time to save him!
From the bleed is G2, find three across the map!
I mean, look at the turnaround there on the feral scream from BB.
It looks like it might be going bad for G2, but he lands a silence across to two members,
and they just burst them down with the feast and the feral scream and all the damage coming through.
And pretty much just got a double kill there and now broken blade up to eight stacks already
1500 gold ahead
Individually and he is not going to be an easy champion to take down. Yes
T1 will have a lot of damage as you get later on into the game
But this is going to be a tough champion to deal with who also has a lot of kill threat on your squishy champs at the same time
I think as well
We haven't talked about it
But you get bigger the more you feast and the fact that you can stand there and block the bone skewer coming out from
carrier as well. You are just bigger and bigger as the game goes on and that's the hearts who's
going to help out with that as well. And as a skumon forces carrier away the maiden.
Unfortunately, we're going to see, I thought Doron was going to become a widow,
widower in fact, but the maiden does survive.
The maiden does survive and T1 playing towards that topside. G2, a lot of members down here,
but the dragon is not up. Someone's got to go.
That's a few minutes away.
Yeah, it seemed pretty early to be playing so heavily down on that bot side, but they do get
Caps back up to collect this wave, so no big deal.
Faker pushes it in and does start to try to steal away from some of these camps.
But you can see both teams being pretty active here.
Caps looking to steal that away with the scatter, but Onur is covering him.
And Skumann is stealing away the gromp on the other side.
So Tiffertat across the map here as both teams staying active
and trying to find a window to punish their opponents.
The push comes in from T1 and with the grub damage, the tower will fall.
Faker walks in to make sure of it does as the mid tier one taken for T1 their third of the game only two for G2 right now
Gold basically even but again you have to look at where it sits
But Faker is 800 gold ahead of caps right now to one complete lot of ages four stacks on it
You saw what was the oof or I eat just got bought I eat did just get bought for the second item
So that is a bursty pill big ooh that is that is an oof because if you get silenced as
as Keria or Oner, I didn't even interrupt you there.
I thought you would just keep going.
No, no, no, no.
It was such an emphatic oo.
I was like, oh, I've missed something really important.
And I'm glad we stopped so that you could highlight
the fact that Infinity Edge has been bought.
It's pretty cool.
It's oo-worthy, in my opinion.
And we'll see.
I mean, because he doesn't have to go in
towards like Navory or anything like that.
This is heavy AD.
This is a ton of upfront damage, upfront burst.
And it is a scary, scary, scary game to be Keria,
to be Doran even pays. I mean you're so reliant on rebuttal. If you get feral scream flashed
by broken blade in your silence, well you don't have that. You might just be dead instantaneously.
So it's going to be about the execution here as you can see G2 dropping Herald mid, trying
to pressure. Faker still pushing bot for now. Does have the realm warp. Maiden pulled back
with the force of will. Taken out with the charge from the Herald and even with the Dark
Deception. Skiu is still able to get away. Look at Faker coming up. He's going to have
But look at Doran, he has nothing left, another charge here.
It's Caps riding the Herald towards the tower there, the place for the butthole out, Baker still waiting to see if he can come across with a temporary hitting and Pays with no escape.
BB on a rampage, this Cho'Gath is unstoppable as the owners force to eviscerate away as G2 eviscerates T1.
Yeah, T1 getting punished so heavily there. I think Doran really didn't realize the amount of health on that tower and now G2 are just going to go to Baron
Because he thought he could defend there, but the tower was one shot by the Herald and now this is problems for T1
They're just gonna decide to give it but T1
It was that even just a minute ago and now it is gonna be an over 2.5k gold lead here for G2
As Doran dies for free and then the rest of T1 kind of caught off guard and it felt like overstate their welcome
Paze goes down as well
Importantly for T1 they will get an ocean drake there on sole point now as Doran has stepped forward and a grand star fall into a shield
But oh Doran you just got back out on the map
Scumander with his second and for T1
Things are falling apart. They are especially for Doran and maybe pays
Let's throw a bottle down. They haven't only spout from Capsbally held onto it bone skewer out
G2 will settle with
Four plates out of that tower has broken play the target for Faker and owner of a beauty might just win this in the 1v2
Feroz scream dodged away from TP behind as caps looks to join the play and
T1's desperation has turned into G2's dessert caps comes across
Oh now from the unleash power around more about than fake at the scream
Not quite in time to keep him around as he had to me a bud scene or something
He's going to be able to get out of there, but still that is not much of a win to have one person survive when you were going for a 2v1 play on the other side of the map.
After you just lost Baron, after you just lost your mid lane tier 1, almost your mid lane tier 2, and Broken Blade is just comically tanky at this point.
this point. You want behind pays.
That's a flash away from the
Tempafate team coming in from broken
blade as T1 are very much on the back foot.
They've been hit by a jab and a
haymaker. Can they get back off the
camp? Because right now it's looking
like G2 with this baron push are
going to go to about five and a half
care ahead. The red revamp
power play still 90 seconds remaining
on it here is Zale. The gold exploding.
You never want to count T1 out but
this game is starting to look very,
very grim for them. Doren has been completely useless on this Yorick, really put down and not able to do anything in these teamfights.
And they just can't get past the Chokath. I mean look at him. He's just standing in their face,
tanking all the damage while tower after tower dies. Doren's still pushing top,
and we can see it in the coinbase goldgrime. Massive lead for Brokenblade.
Owner's trying to threaten something, but
he want to at least clear out that wave and buy some time for Doren to get some towers.
Good damage from the spell flux out of the rise.
He was bouncing onto Hanselma onto caps and Broken Blade can't block that.
And a big spike for Faker is going to be coming.
He's got 8 stacks on the row, he's almost 15, he's going to slingshot to 16.
Actualize as soon as well, hopefully for him.
And that would be very, very important, but you can see three items done for Hans,
three items done for Caps, Broken Blade miles ahead of where this Yorick is.
They have the damage to follow it up and they have the playmaking tools,
they have the ability to engage,
and they have the ability to deny a lot of what T1's carries want to do.
This fed Jogath just creates so many issues because you can't ignore him or he'll kill you if you just walk into melee range.
If you spend the whole fight kiting, well, Caps and Hans and Skiwander are going to kill other people on your team,
so it just becomes so tough for T1 and that is why we are seeing these hit-and-run tactics.
That's why they're going to the side lanes trying to find some way we need to get a pick before we go to a 5v5.
I'm looking for a pick with the bone skewer, but Hans-Sammert wisely backs away from it.
For T1, they do have that small sliver of hope.
In two minutes, Ocean Soul.
If they can win a fight around that, get the Soul, they start to get back into the game.
I don't think it's a game-winning fight, but it's very much a first step on the ladder
towards success.
It's something that could help to equalize, for sure, right?
As we touched on earlier, I don't think it's the best Soul for their comp, but any Soul
has a lot of value, period.
The difficulty is, 50-50 should not go in your favor against level 3 feasts, that is
really really hard, and the 5e5s have just looked tough for them, so they need to find
a way to get in to claim vision, but when you're looking at the mini-map right now, this is
just nothing, the furthest upwards where T1 are back here, like that's kind of what they
got, right?
They have no vision outside of their base on the dragon side of the map, so instead they
They might just use the pressure of that soul to say,
we're going to make a play elsewhere.
We'll send maybe two, three top, try to overload,
force for an inhib, force for a response,
where maybe we can punish you because I just
don't know how they're going to actually get over
to that dragon realistically.
Very much agree.
That would be hard for them as the bot steps forward.
Bronskiw is just short of flipping him.
Ona does manage to take away the grump.
G2 will push up through the topside.
Valin also up in about 90 seconds time.
Well, you can see Skoum on moving bot.
They're actually pinging assist down towards that Yorick.
They're gonna go with haunts and skew
and try to pick off Doran.
Doran wisely backs away.
I have seen Yorick's outplay.
I will say a two item Yorick into a two and a half item
Pantheon and a three item Lucian would be tricky.
It's a tough outplay.
It would be tricky.
I think that puts you more in the realm of misplay
that you're hoping for.
But it can happen for sure.
I mean, if you ignore the ghouls,
if you ignore the maiden, they put out a lot of damage.
New York does have those abilities to make some magic happen in a side lane, but has been tough and you can see T1 still not getting over there.
So I think the call is just to give up the dragon and the question is how does G2 manage this?
Do they send multiple members to defend the side lanes?
They just send one and try to solo it out and it looks like for now it is just broken blade basing for top
but now they're going to try to look with more potentially. He was definitely nervous that more members were coming.
Oh no, it's coming across here to see perhaps if he can find a steal.
Call of the pack will jump him out of any CC possibilities,
but in the end G2 do get the ocean.
The gold lead after the baron push was 5k.
Now down to 4.2, T1 doing a good job of finding all the gold they can on the map
before what is likely to be a big fight in 30 seconds.
Yeah, the question just becomes,
does the game actually get better for you as you go further on?
I kind of feel like it does not,
but that does not mean that T1 can't find an outplay
because of course everything goes out the window when Pays, you know, and carry a one-shot haunt or one-shot caps, right?
But, you know, if G2 do get good vision down, do have Broken Blade being that kind of first line of defense that they have to get past,
I think it is so tough for these playmakers on T1 to just walk through the cho-back.
I've got a stepping forward here.
Darken Dagg is almost connect Faker with the damage. Didn't pop the actual eyes and now does have it completed.
Yep, and he has 16 as we talked about, so he's almost 17 now at this point.
So, Faker, definitely, you give them an angle under your carries.
He could take them down, but Skiwan just completed the GA,
and Feast, great for securing objectives.
So, if G2 wants, it's not a 50-50.
They could go over here, secure vision,
try to force T1 to come to them,
and look for a smite plus Feast combo to secure it,
and that is exactly what they're trying to do.
They want Doran to TP at the very least.
Doran's still pushing through the bot side right now,
whether they pull back into the bar and pit.
Harria, the air-ground star floor towards the backline
as they go for owner. Temp at bait, hitting off to 2 as well. G2 looking for the fight instead.
The knockup from Broken Blade means the Paze has no place to go. Doran does TP, but too late to save anyone.
Another knockup, another Doran death. This G2 front 2 around the Baron.
The Yorick has just been digging his own grave this game time and time again as G2 making it look easy.
and LeBron has been catching everyone with these alts.
The two-man ult on Paze and Faker, post-Paze Flash,
means that it is just lights out for T1 in that fight.
Owner trying to find a way in, but this is not a 50-50.
I just don't see it happening.
I mean, Broke of Blade is the one marking him,
so if owner could get past BV towards the baminate
would have been, but G2 do secure their second of the game.
Yep, and Faker, down towards that bot side,
was briefly the only one with the gold.
He was up two gold on caps before he took that wave.
But look at the advantage now for G2.
The soul has been stopped.
The second Baron has been taken.
And it is big leads on much more consistent champions
on the side of G2.
It's much easier to play out the fight
to get value on a Bard, on a Pantheon compared
to the under level and very poor Karrion and owner.
Karrion is level 10.
Cho'Gath is level 18.
mid lane is level 17, you know, Karrie is three levels down on the brawl, so
in the best of times, it's hard to play piking the late game in times like this.
And the Kaling finds the Undertaker!
Jorak down three, down G2 pushing through mid.
G2 are about to bring us the match point here.
Karrion's trying to cut the wave, but they still have the Baron Cannon.
G2 just have to defend it and push in for the win.
BB is absolutely massive.
The Hounds pursuit does nothing against G2.
It is one away from Glory, one away from their first specified win against T1 in seven years.
G2 are on the cusp of victory.
And this one looks so one-sided.
Last game, very back and forth.
This one was all G2 all the time.
They're on match point.
one more one more is all we need here against you on it started wrong honestly this game
but they quickly ramped it up you can smile and she too because it's more than a lot of
us expected coming here today oh my god I feel so smart broken blade broken blade
What was your prediction?
It was 3-0.
Oh, wow.
You might have heard that.
It was insane.
It was completely, absolutely ludicrous.
But if anyone can make me look like a genius for saying something completely unhinged,
it is G2D Sports.
You want to double down right now on the 3-0?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You lost.
You're that culprit that's doing this.
They blind-picked Jorik, bro.
They're dizzy.
They don't know what's happening.
Think about it.
After a game like this, after this draft from T1, after this 1, 2, 3 on the red side,
three on the red side I was like we might be cooked turns out maybe was
cooking even more a hundred percent like look I was nervous
Mel pike yeah there's 82 players that can to be a game on the face of this
planet with those two champions it is pace in Kariah but the counterpick
worked so fantastically and in general it just felt like g2 once they got the
ball rolling unlike the previous game where they couldn't really push a lead
We're able to just deny T1 any avenue of coming back into the game
Yeah, and it's all thanks to this man, right because the this is who they've been saving these counter picks for and
You know the the warwick might not have worked out
I liked it more than I think a lot of people did but I like the fact that G2
Have been stable enough like mental mental stability. We talked about that going in to still be like no
BB has so many answers for what they can do topside. We are still going to rely on his picks.
I'm sure, we couldn't hear the cast because we hear the Korean cast, but I'm sure Azale was super happy about the ChoGaF too,
but he was always calling for that as a specific Yorick's counter.
And that's the thing, when you think about BB, historically, counter picks is what he's known for.
Lately though, hasn't been working so well, so I'm really, really happy to see that he's cooking again,
He's got that confidence and now he's in this position in draft again where he can make those champions work against T1.
I mean
That show got pick was just so mega because it's not just the year it's the fact that it's into
double AP with no tank shred whatsoever like a lot
So so many of these major bot lanes to me are predicated around
Reliable 80 damage or tank shred because you need to solve the problems that you
Give yourself when you remove the 80 carry position T1 did none of that in the show got completely blocked at all
Yeah, and I think it's super interesting if you just snapshot the first three I and name plates off
I would have been like that's a T1 draft
Mm-hmm, but one thing I really like that G2 also did is instead of being like oh we have to walk in our ad carry now
They picked the pantheon for skumon which he's 15 and five on he has a 75% win rate
They get his eighth most played and they were like this is what we want out of this comp
This is the start of our comp and we can fill in later with that BB counter pick
I thought that was like a small thing. I really like that them as well. I like it a ton
I think ultimately just feels like T1 we're not ready for the Cho'Gath. You can see they ban double options
They're really trying to set themselves up for success for comfort here, but the Cho is clearly caught them totally off guard
I think it's a hard thing to ask for as we go deeper in the series to keep having these mega pigs
Right these pigs that feel like they single-handedly counter an entire draft
Yeah
But setting G2 up where they just need to win one in the next three like I'd love if they win the first one
So I can look like a genius, but I'll take one in three, you know
They have so much time and the deeper we go the more and more value these BB French picks really have and again
You can see how good the execution was once they took control of this game
And how little room there was for T1 to really make any kind of counterplay all these are mobile champions against the Cho'Gath
Easy pickings. Yeah, I really liked how they just rolled down mid here with the Herald
I think another underrated thing is we talked about how strong Paz is how good he has been on this Mel pick
how good Kariya has been on this pipe pick.
Kariya pulled off some insanely sick plays.
I know you are losing your mind about Draco's,
but the way that G2 also, A, just stayed steady.
B, used their topside pressure really, really well
to take over the topside of the map was so important,
because it's not like they focused necessarily on shutting Pays and Kariya down.
They just leveraged the pressure they had really well.
Well, yeah, this is basically the plot of the first episode of attack on Titan
Just murdering a lot of people a lot of people it was super dominant
I like that we're getting the sizzle roll in the final moments and is excited. I am for BB and G2
I'm still a fan of international League of Legends and for T1 to be in this position
Incredibly weird feeling. I mean so they played almost every day
They played so many bestifiers here
They swept the majority of the teams that they played this is going to be going into their 20th game so far this MSI
And I did have to check
T1 have three reverse sweeps in their history. All right
That's I think that's a play how many of them are against KT
Hate to say it because I didn't state it clearly sure but I kind of was afraid this would happen
I was afraid the G2 was gonna be I'm a hater like you can give it to me. Yeah
I think I'm talking to the only team that can do this
But I was afraid they'd be able to do this to T1 because we've been seeing how many game twos was T1 down like two or three thousand gold
And then they they come back because oh, they're always amazing a team fighting
But G2 is the team that could punish that because G2 just has better drafts like yeah
This was such a good draft that they could play out
So T1 couldn't get away with their crap of just like running around doing whatever they want
And now T1 has to play like an elite team if they want to come back.
And that's the thing, the comeback after this horrendous HLE series, the comeback in Game 1, in a game where everything was completely lost, showing insane preparation here in Game 2.
Didi, you were coping! For me, we were following you, you hope I'm right now.
Apparently we're geniuses, we're just the smartest people that ever lived, your prediction wasn't there, but I'm sure you would have been 3-0, no doubt having my back.
What I will say is, if T1 want to come back in the series,
like, you talked about the drafts especially,
and one person who has been completely sold out
by the drafts thus far is Doran.
Now, individually, Doran has had a rough tournament
in my eyes, but I don't want to just completely
throw him under the bus, because again,
that top lane matchup is not playable,
but you're in a situation where, again, this is the struggle.
We saw G2 completely collapse against HLE
because it did not matter what they picked.
1v1 top was always winning in HLE's favor.
That is not the story between BV and Broke of Blade.
Doran needs support in the draft and when the drafts are already shaky having a player who needs a bit more setup is
Really gonna make it tough for T1
Final thoughts here on this matchup. We've talked about Doran. We've talked about the T1 drafts
No, you can this is what I want you cuz what can you tell me listen tell me your hater wisdom
Listen Pays is the best ad carry at this tournament. Yeah, he's good to play one
So he has no Ziggs, no Mel, T1 currently is done with that stuff.
They're throwing Keria and Paze into lane dominant, bot lane stuff and they're going
to play through that.
So Hans and the Brov beat that, they're going on to the next round to lose to Lion.
They can do that themselves.
So what?
That's the ending.
The next round to lose to Lion?
I mean that, we'll see what happens and they has had to use number lately.
Either way, that's not the point right now.
This is T1, possibly having their worst finish ever at MSI.
They would be outside the top four for the first time in their history.
And they need to lock in, they have to win 3-0, which by the way, hasn't been a problem for them up until this point.
All of their series have been 3-0, except for BOT.
And they got the crowd behind them, but can they show more here at MSI?
They're back against the world for the 10-1 world champion.
Here we have G2 taking us to much points in this elimination series.
Can they close it out? Let's find out after the break.
No way, no.
AWP, watch out, watch out.
Nice.
Come on guys, come on.
I'll take care of you.
I'm going to take care of you.
Yeah, I'll take care of you.
Good job, good job.
AWP, middle.
Yeah yeah yeah.
I'm going to middle.
I'm going to middle.
I'll be watching you.
I'm watching you.
I'm watching you.
I'm watching you.
I'm watching you.
I'll flash to you.
Flash to you.
One away from Glory.
One away from their first specified win.
Against T1!
Oh my god!
Oh my god, they're on match point?
I didn't understand, sorry!
They're on match point?
Yes, yes!
Let's go!
One more game, we got it, let's go!
Okay, what's your name?
Yannick, I'm Aaron.
Weren't you, you were on the other broadcast too, right? Or weren't you?
Yeah, so you've been telling everyone how good G2 is?
Absolutely, yes!
I'm starting to win, I'm telling you.
So what is so good about how they're playing today?
I think just go complain, taking these pics.
They don't know what to do about it.
That's the team synergy at all.
Yeah.
How happy are you?
But it's not over yet, yeah?
Yes, yes.
I'm keeping my excitement in contained.
Yeah, yeah.
Me too.
We're doing an interview.
This is not a monologue, just so you know.
Let's go G2!
Let's go!
I mean, I don't think it's ever backfired in the past, it's fine.
I mean, surely there's no way that T1 can come back from a position like this.
Congratulations, T2.
But let's talk a little bit about that, because I think both you and I agree that T1's drafting
has been on the poorer side today.
Yeah.
Sure, I mean, I think that it's two sides of the same coin.
I think G2 has had really good solutions and really good drafts.
And I think they've been clever about how they've done it.
And they've played well enough to actually capitalize on it, right?
You know, game one, I think, having tons of threats versus a comp that is so
adept at killing one person is actually really, really smart.
If you play a two or one third comp, one of your carries is instantly one shot.
It's very, very tough.
But if you have Vayne in Israel and you have Nivea, so many tools,
the double exhaust was really smart tech.
But Chogath, I don't even think the lane matchup really mattered, but I think Chogath just denies the ability for Nefuri and Pyke to really do a lot in these fights, especially when he is that accelerated.
They didn't actually have the consistent damage to even deal with him, so I think that was really, really good.
And I also think we talked about this too, LeBrov, I feel like, has been insane.
To me, LeBrov has been the player of this series thus far.
Yes, I think BV is going to get a lot of attention because of the cool picks, but LeBrov was everywhere he needed to be in Game 1 on the Leota.
And game two, how does every single winning fight start for G2? A part-all!
He was catching them at least one carry, sometimes two carries to start off the fights.
I feel like LeBrov has been brilliant today, and it is really cool to see how well he is playing.
You know, you play a signature champ of Carriers against Carrier, and it's so easy for there to be egg in your face, right?
For him, for it's like, oh, why would you play that against him? He knows it so well, right?
But he did incredible and I just feel like g2 are out drafting them out playing them
And I feel like Doran is having a horrible series. I agree
I think Doran is really struggling and that's what made me talk to a little bit about on the on the analyst desk
But thing his teepees especially in the yore game being very out of place
He tried to put down the dark possession and didn't actually get it in front of the riffle
So it still managed to charge into the tower which means he died
Which meant he died which meant the rest of his team died pretty much
So overall I all credit to g2 for how they're playing but there have been some some glaring errors
And that is kind of your hope if you're a T1 fan, is that these players, as they have many times before, can turn it around, right?
I think that really is mostly Doran that I'm kind of looking at as playing, I think, pretty far below where you would expect him to play.
Game 1, obviously, a very, very tough game. You're playing into the vein of Renekton.
But some of the team fights, I think you really struggle to get value, you know, hesitating to flash early and then flashing late and couldn't catch them.
You know some of these moments. It's like you have to capitalize on those moments when you're lane countered
And you don't really get to play that much in the 1v1 and then the your game
It just wasn't even really about the lane the lane wasn't really a problem
They kind of just were falling pieces once like the main 10 died one time and it just felt like every time
ETP it was to a location where he was instantly gonna die and at the start of every fight
He was getting caught out and stunned against the wall and if he flashed
He was already cooked after a flash and it just felt like he couldn't get any value in that game
And that is you know again two sides of the same coin
It's it's g2 being in the right position to capitalize punishing mistakes really really really well
But it is also Dorian making someone force the errors and t1 need to clean it up if they won't have a chance
I mean, I did not think we would be talking about t1 having to reverse straight to win this series
Very true
I did think coming in this series if g2 were able to play to a level that people were expecting them
pre-tournament that they would have chances because I look back at the T1-TL series and I think coming to this tournament
I thought G2 were significantly better team fighters than TL and TL got T1 to a point where
They're a team fight away from winning the game and then lost every team fight right T1 were able to capitalize
But G2 are able to
Get themselves to that point and then go toe-to-toe on the team fights
And that is what is really really impressive and that is where you know these individual players stepping up and having those great moments
It's just meaning so much. Yeah, I entirely agree with you as a less
We do have a short pause on stage one of the T1 players monitors has gone black
So they're just making sure that's rectified. It should be hopefully fixed in a couple moments
We're asked for an additional minute about 30 seconds ago
So we'll see exactly what happens there for T1 like people often talk about the T1 circus
This hasn't felt like that as much as it hasn't felt like oh, we're making happy mistakes
It's felt like we're making actual mistakes and G2 are punishing us very well.
For G2, it is that evolution.
That's step up. I think BB has had a really good day today.
Those counter picks have worked incredibly well for him.
I was one of the counter pick downters, especially into Doran.
I felt like you can just go toe-to-toe against Doran on conventional matchups.
Yeah, and I mean, maybe he can, right?
But he's getting thrown his value in the team fights.
Agreed.
Because sometimes it's a compositional counter, like, again,
I don't see the Cho'Gath as like, ah, you're, you're a Camp-Reed, he's not going to be a little CS.
But what it did actually against the other champions, you know, had a good lane,
hit short, and then against these other champions that they drafted, it really shut down their playmaking.
I think we saw a much more hesitant owner in Teria because of the Feral Scream, because he knows.
Exactly, you, you're going to try to run through the Cho'Gath that could, you know,
silence you and kill you with feasts in that silence.
You're going to try to flash into the backline and hope you don't get some Feral Scream and just die.
So I love those kind of compositional picks and that's why I feel like
The praise has to be as loud as the criticism right and some people get on BB for his picks when they go bad
But I think he has been a huge part of
G2 being too up on the back to back to back world champions
So he needs to get his flowers for that as well
Entirely through the Uazaleas that G2 are still one game away from claiming their first best of five win
against T1 since Worlds 2019, a long long time ago. Obviously as a as an EU
caster I have to talk about 2019. It was an incredible year for the region, the
contract. Yeah, G2 making it to MSI, making it two Worlds finals. They did fall
of that final hurdle, being denied that Golden Road, but it has been a long time
since we've been able to get back to that point. I think that have been years
where it looked like G2 a challenge. I would say this year at first dance. Yeah,
That's true. That is true. Against Gen G and BFX, G2 have started to challenge. The question is here, is T1, they're not on A-Chile, but winning this series is that first step along the lines of perhaps a matchup against BLG or against A-Chile.
So, I mean, it is interesting, right? Everyone's going to have their own opinions. I think, especially because T1 is down two games, people are maybe going to do a little bit of revisionist history.
To me, coming in, I can only talk to my own personal opinion.
If I give you my tier list from pre-tournament,
it would have been T1 on the same tier as BLG and HLE
as tournament winners.
I think those were the three favorites to win.
I wouldn't have had T1 as the favorite out of that,
but I would have had them on the same tier
where I wouldn't have been surprised.
I wouldn't even blink if you're like,
I'm from the future, T1, 1 MSI.
Yeah, OK, that's fine.
When you got to the tier below that,
I would have been a bit more surprised,
but I think a G2 would have been in there,
a top would have been in there.
And that would have kind of been my next tier, where it's like, I can see it, but it would be a bit of a surprise.
I get that entirely. I think I very much agree with you that HLE would be top of mind, then BLGT1 on the secondary tier,
and then after that you're falling down to the, how did TL and G2 get to the MSI final sort of level, right?
So this would be a massive win for G2 if they can lock it in.
They're going to ban away the Vi to kick things off.
T1 once again selecting first selection with their right to first selection and G2 deciding
that they want to be on the blue side. They have the Vi and the Jace removed by G2. Same
as usual they'll be battling the Orianna as well. Samafine a new ban here from T1.
Yeah Serafine is going to be banned away as they feel like hey okay we've lost now, we've
lost Ziggs, we've lost some of these kind of top tier champions and also you know what
make Seraphine a lot better as the fact that pollution is going to be.
Because the crucial answer these days is the melee illusion to the Ash Seraphine.
So if you're not going to be willing to actually grab that for yourself immediately, you're
not necessarily going to be willing to give it away.
And we'll see where T1 wants to take us because they're the ones with the pressure now and
G2 has had the creative answers.
It feels like they have been better prepped for the draft than pressure is on T1 at home.
Let's see what happens. Yeah, it's a massive deficit for them
We've only ever seen six reverse sweeps in the history of international League of Legends
One of them was this tournament G2 taking down top B sports
But before that I think it was back in 2023 where BDS reverse with PSG
At worlds I want to say play ends so it's been a while
It is not a very common effect as the Lee Sin is going to be locked in for owner
Well, owner is an incredible Lee Sin here.
It's going to be there as the answer.
And I wonder if Scumon would go towards the Skarner.
That has been something that a lot of pros do really like.
Because of the CC, the ability to actually answer those in.
And it feels like an obvious answer.
I mean, Lee Sin takes the Sonic Wave in.
You hit E'shaw's impact.
You scoop him out of the air.
You throw him in the wall.
You ult him up.
It is very tough.
It is, again, about this denial of plays,
more so than the offensive plays themselves.
But Skarner, of course, can look for those offensive plays as well, and T1 had spent their ban on Poppy,
which is another one of those kind of defensive answers in a similar boat to Skarner in my mind.
So I like the pick here already.
We have seen an early Sylas here from T1.
Chain of production and Impale are very good ultimates to take away. We'll be locked in.
They are. They're definitely not bad, but I don't think it's on that top tier.
It's not on Alistar level.
Exactly. One of the things that I don't love about the early Sylas is,
Silas is I mean Silas is just a strong champion if you get ahead you can just come all the game
group if you don't have those S tier alts. But I will say when you early pick Silas you ensure
the other team is not picking Alistar and Malphite and like anything that's crazy right? And so yeah
Chains of Corruptions is a good pick tool but you it's not the same level as some of the other
alts that are you know sometimes available so I'm curious if they're seeing it sometimes as a denial
as well right? I feel like hey we don't want to play against this maybe you can't pick against
I mean, it's a good. It's a
good, good, good, good
displacement is the BB in the
top lane on his Yasuo often
picks this into the now seen as
a counter pick. In fact, that
MSI back in. When was the two
three was that 24? I can't
2024. I remember this pick. I
remember him flashing doing the
keyblade combo to catch out the
catch out than are in the top
line. I mean it's a real
advantage of a broken blade and
I have to feel like if I'm in
Doran seat he knows he's not having
the kind of series that he wanted.
And again now you're getting
counterpicked here. You're in a
matchup where if you make a mistake
you could die right. It's not just going to be
a five CS advantage. If you are making mistakes
you can cost your team the game because
this also could snowball.
I am curious though are we going to see
things you know banned out
that are going to be enablers for the Yasuo because we don't have great enablers for the Yasuo yet.
Are they worried about a potential like Yasuo? Are they worried about more champions like Nautilus?
Are they worried about the engaged tools there from LeBrov that could be kind of up and available?
Like a Rakan or something? To me, if I'm T1, I'm thinking about,
how do we make it difficult for him in the 5v5?
They are worried about that, normally they're going to take that away.
I wouldn't be surprised by Rell as well. One of LeBrov's actually favorite champions when he was on BDS.
He played it. I want to say about 80% of the games and he could play it as that was before fearless times
We'll see what the second band is dark ages. Yeah, man. Imagine if we had feel us here
So, yeah, we'll play Cassante and not into each other over and over again as the karma is taken out of
Possible picks for it. He won their final band. We expect it to go towards the support pool
To try and remove some of Rob's agency whether it's well
Yeah, whatever. I feel like it's dealer's choice. It's which one are you most worried about and they are also going to be considering
Like okay, what two of these who are we considering and which support would both help fiasco and be most annoying with the verus
So T1 obviously gonna be considering a lot of things, but my expectation is you just get another
C1 decide to go Lulu. I mean does help that Yasuo. We've actually seen
LeBron flash wild growth with a yes with broken place Yasuo just out of range of getting the last breath and
And in 2-1-C, you're thinking about, oh my god, G2 has been so annoying with these denial jokes, the scarner, now we have the chogap.
If you're thinking about, okay, we want to be playmakers, we want to get in there with Yasuo and Sylas and Nar and look for big plays,
well, Polymorph is pretty darn annoying when you are looking for those types of angles.
We're not going to see the boots blind. I just don't believe it.
I don't either.
But it would be fun if we did see it, but I just don't believe it.
Yeah, Aurora makes much more sense.
Caps has a absolutely top tier Aurora in their mind.
Saw it at first stand specifically against Gen G.
And now we'll see what he can do with it in this game.
Leaving.
Wow, leaving support for last on G2.
So we're going to look towards their AD carry
and their top laner.
It's again, it's going to be a difficult pick for them
because, oh, not top laner, sorry, support.
It's going to be a difficult pick for them
because you do have that counter for G2.
Feels like it's probably going to be the answer here.
Yeah. And then the question is, you know, what would be the option for LeBrov?
A couple of cool stats.
The last and only time T1 was ever three out at an international was Worlds
2017 finals.
The oh so famous Malzahar series with Faker, you know,
in tears on stage after that, that is an iconic moment.
And G2 has never been reverse swept. So there is kind of these two things,
you know, working here. Unstoppable, force and moveable. Exactly.
G2, you know, has not been reverse swept.
But T1 never really gets three-ohed, so those are two sides.
I mean, so here's the thing.
T1 could win this game and then G2 win,
and we still fulfilled the T1 never gets to the...
Put the middle.
Yeah, but we still fulfilled the T1 side of that bargain
as we see the Renata locked in finally for G2.
Renata seems like a really good pick here.
I'm not gonna lie.
When you are looking over and you are seeing Silas, Lee Sin,
I mean, he's million team fight. Let's be honest. He's going to be mega and then as well as the Rickon
You're looking at three and a half four melee champions and you have hostile takeover
You have bail out if they look for a full-on one shot if they full send it on someone kick them in try to delete them
Hostile takeover the bail out really good tools for denial has been the theme these last couple games to me
Double exhausting game one showgath of the sounds for the playmakers in game two in game three. We come in Renata
It's all about denial. It feels like on the side of G2 even the wind wall really gonna cause problems here
so I like that kind of I
Don't know whatever you want to call the theme of the drafts for G2 has been really really intelligent
And I think they've correctly identified that a team whose success is based on team fighting is very often based on their
Plaming right and especially so with T1
You can look at both of the LCK as well as here when they come back, when they went in team fight,
it is an explosive engage from Baker or Carrier or Dorian Dragas or someone, right?
And so G2 is just saying, we're going to draft everything that stops them.
Yeah, make sure that you can't actually get onto our back line, make sure that you can't actually find these Sonic Wave resonating strikes from Ono.
So if you want steps forward, we'll be looking for a ward around those Razor Beats.
Place a zip to make sure that you can track where Ono is in the early game.
and there's a counter ward coming out from Faker towards the enemy razors.
But if Jungle is going to start on the top side of the map,
wouldn't be surprised if we see Ono do the three camp into reset into Longsword
and then go back down to bot.
We often see that on the Lee Sin since the brother in Han's Summer tried to step up.
And I will say something we haven't talked a ton about is the bot lane 2v2,
and I feel like that is a huge victory for G2, right?
Because one of our biggest questions coming in is,
are you good enough to hold up in the 2v2 against Pays and Keria,
who have the ability to make so many of the world's best players look silly, right?
And it just hasn't even been a conversation point, because it has not been about the 2v2.
Speaking of, Pay is getting chased out here.
Auto-Program doesn't get him, but they do manage to take a couple of autos out of him.
There was a heal used on the side of G2 when Karrie hits the gleaming quill,
so that will heal Pay's back up.
He's only gone through one of his potions so far.
Yeah, you're really going to dodge the recon queues.
Yeah.
It's very similar to Soraka, where when you hit a Q,
not only is it a positive trade parts of damage, but it's a third of a potion every time you just hit two in a row
So it's plus 100 health there for pays which means he gets to hold on to his potion
No problem owner very early up towards top side though. They feel like they need to get broken blade involves
Think a door and not being level three makes it pretty tough though. We talked about the possibility very three camp into longsword
He's actually staying around a little bit longer here
as broken blade goes in what doesn't connect owner here with that level three broken blade looking for the mortal steel has to
Try and dash away, but still even with the wallet falling short broken blade has no way out
Maybe did about as well as he can given the circumstances in the door
And I was able to avoid some of the skill shots coming in from Doran avoided the boulder toss
You didn't just dash into the ball up that was pre-pressed there by Doran, but at least since auto attacking you
You're going to get down to that spot.
Skumon going to get back what he can on the other side,
so he does steal away one of those camps.
But it is going to be an early pickaxe buy here for owner.
So he's going to be big man on campus.
And T1 trying to put Doran into a more comfortable spot.
Baker versus Caps though, one of the most iconic matchups
in international history.
These guys have battled so many times.
And there are the accolades.
Domestic title 17 for Caps, just absurd.
and then proceed to trade that made him want another. Yes, he's like, Oh, I've got my Carl. It's not going to be enough survive through with the Yasso can continually jump onto you and then dash away wind wall also doing really well into the boomerang because
flashing away from carrier there was going to get caught up in that grand entrance. I'll play by carry up. They call it won't get the route. It is always a weird spot when you have 600 gold, which I'm assuming that's what he based with because
Cole refillable, right?
Oh, Pace.
Skiumon in with Ishtel's impact.
They'll catch up Hale's handshake back as well, but Pace
able to survive burns the barrier and the flash!
But Hans Summer burns it down and flashes away
from the gleaming quill.
All Summoners lost for T1's bot.
That's a big time gank there from Skiumon.
And great follow up from Hans and LeBron.
Pace thought with the barrier.
He didn't have to early flash.
And he was made to regret it big time
He allowed the e-stall's impact to get him and gets punished there big time
He broke a blade doing a solid first you want here chasing him out of his jungle
Caps won't be able to kill him
But because Faker can't move and because Doran doesn't want to move from top as you say broken blade
Comes across and saves the grump. I mean that's the dream as a jungler
You get to make a gank on the other side the payment is supposed to be your camps
Yeah, but your top laner says no you don't get that either. Let's watch this one more time
You know pace easily could have reacted to this with a flash, but its calculation is I bear we have heel you can't kill me
So they use the heel early, but look at the redirection of the angle there and it looks like a handshake connected as well
I do believe
You know so was able to get that follow-up and then haunts Q flash in that was taken down
And then the reactive flash even though the bailout was quick the bailout doesn't matter if you die because you're not
They are pumped up to say the least they're on the G2 side
he's in the back of the
right. Yeah. Leads across the
bottom of the map caps as well
with the 300 gold lead. Doran
is ahead of broken blade and
owner does have an advantage
over Scumond getting towards
that level six as well, just
short of five right now is
broken blade looks for a trade
onto Doran once again. We
haven't seen too many rush
strikes in this series, often
actually seeing the grubs
taken around the same time. It's
that's a good all I think. Oh
He interrupted, and he could go for Q flash.
Broke and she flashes in.
A last breath for Doran, begins to dash away,
but he has no flash left.
The steal tempest needs to connect.
And Broke and Blade with a full blade
is able to get a solo Bolo.
Top gap.
Doran gets solo killed there.
Big misplay as he tried to use the hop.
Thank you for going in.
Onto Caps.
Caps will use his own between worlds
to cause a Venn diagram of escaping to happen.
So Doran tried to hop out and got interrupted by the Q.
He didn't actually wait for it to come out.
So he got interrupted there.
Then he just kind of panicked on nervous,
had to flash early, and then no flash, no jump.
And BB is massively ahead.
600 gold up after you got a three-camp gank from your jungler.
That is a disaster class from Doran.
And G2 up 1K early.
Faker here as well.
Jump again as they look for LeBruv on LeBruv.
will fall, Stuman trying to contest with only his support, the blind corner there for the roof.
Stuman needs the HL's impact to get away and will manage to survive.
Caps was unable to move from mid, was actually recalling when that started because he was still low HP.
They do get them off the dragon though, so that is going to mean the early ocean dragon that is so effective
T1 not able to actually get, so G2 do go over there, cost them a death, but they stopped the dragon.
So not the worst, not the best.
BB on these counterpicks showing up big once again here.
You know, putting that pressure on Adoran,
and Adoran just not rising to the occasion thus far,
you know, felt that pressure early flashed,
early jumped, then had neither and gets caught by BB
who still had his flash available.
And that is just such a big time play here.
And it's all about this earlier one.
So E flash, he has no flash and he has no jump
because he used both on that previous attempt.
He had either one, he walks out and he's chilling, but he has nothing and Broken Blade makes it look easy, hits everything, finds the all in, and that is what you want from your players in these big time moments.
That's what you want from Broken Blade as well. If you're a G2 fan, this guy has been, he's been on the struggle bus as early, has not been dominant in the lane as much as you'd want him to be.
to see. There's been questions
as to whether his performance is
as up higher caliber enough to be
on G2 and now after the HLE
loss that was so disappointing
for all of you to show up like
this to have three games where
he's been dominant as we see
the handshake coming back
Grand entrance there as well
feather storm on summer has a
bailout on him. Chain of
corruption down on some will
come back to life with a barrier
But the auto can't get him in because he's not able to see him great play from the T1 bot lane to get out of that alive
Yeah, T1 bot lane they needed some momentum
They needed some life in this series here and they show a big time when they need it most
Hansen's flash come up after he died. I was in that tight
I really want to see that back and maybe
He's just distracting camps as owner was doing the drake and pal use and sidestep by caps good side step there big couple kills though 41
4-T1 and broken blade getting a nice little chunk there doesn't want to fully commit because Doran was about to make it out
You look for the all-ins after the mega here. It is one more time pays and haunts both level six
Gets the pull through really nice start and then in comes the handshake
They don't have it for the disengage as soon as that is used on to pays
Karius says you can't stop me now goes in immediately
I love how pays plays the wall there the whole time because it's all about getting the damage down and then flashing out before
before he can get the reset on the bailout.
So he gets all of his damage down,
hugs the wall the whole time,
chicken flash over,
then we see there from LeBrov.
He tried to follow and kill him off,
but he lost vision as he went into that brush.
Even with the ward, it was a little bit too late,
and now Payes is very close to having his first item.
Chase onto Carrier,
and Pell to pull him back.
Onus on the way across him,
with a battle chance to change coach from Will-Land,
but Ona is here now,
and T1 will try and turn the play around.
Payes so light,
Flash from Stumon gets him.
A grand entrance at the Han Summer,
with a turn around, a turn around, a turn into a hostile takeover by G2, they'll find two on the bottom side.
Yeah, they lose out on the 2v2, but they bring the extra man this time, Skiumon making the difference, gets down there, haunts LeBrav and Skiumon getting a couple kills and Broken Blade might look for an all-in.
back, broken blade, can he land?
Doesn't go for the sweeping blade in the end.
Still in forced away, again, does have the TP.
And the question now for G2 is,
how do you accelerate this Yasuo?
Like he is winning in the 1v1,
but do you want to get him out on the map?
Do you want to play around that next rake
in three minutes time?
They have got three grubs,
so all the time that BB has alone in that top lane
is advantageous to him.
Yeah, it absolutely is.
And I think it's going to be up to BB
when he thinks he can no longer punish.
Ferri tries to go clear for some vision.
He had a ward over the wall, but not on that side.
Skumann was not spotted on this change of crushing was huge.
And look at the confidence from Han's Zama.
He does not delay.
Flashes in with the Q. Once again,
they get that final auto.
Skumann flashes to follow as well.
If you slow play it,
I thought there was an angle for owner
to turn this around on them,
but instead they just go immediately.
And now G2 overloading topside.
Four members top, Doran 10 not play.
brought out by the Steal Tempest, last birth coming out from Broken Blade as well as he forces Doran away.
Two plates still remain, almost one on this top lane tower.
11 minutes in, G2 with four members strong, Onegory forward, great handshake from LeBrop.
He'll tank the tower instead. Doran has the mega, quickness from the side,
chain of corruption coming out from Hanson, but he's caught with the wall, a bit of size in back from Sturmon.
Into the double, in bail! G2 always have their teammates backfaker, forced down towards the bottom side.
Sturmon looking for the chase, Sturmon jumps the wall, but counts his ear, and he sends Doran into the afterlife.
T1 tried to defend, G2 turned it on its head.
Schumann trying to burst him down, can he finish up Faker, he has a team slayer.
He gets a 1 for 1, and Kamiya does not do the same.
Kaps secures that kill to round it out.
The other story though is that Paze was pushing Balein the whole time,
getting solo gold on that plate.
G2 do get the first tower though, they finish it off critically.
At the end of the day, they had five members talk, T1 only had four.
G2 have a 2,000 gold lead here on match point.
The pressure is on pays with his early kills isn't even up gold anymore
Weirding out only with an alternator there for camps does have four stacks on the dark seal
But now the G2 the 0-3 lost against HLE a distant memory
I think a lot of EU fans myself included were like, oh
Scimmy 0-3 0-3 and now
Against the three-time back-to-back world champions T1 look battered and bruised
They are finding things and well last time we saw the big gold lead for G2 T1
We're able to eat their way back into the game
But it can be a struggle carrier on this Rakan has had a great game so far
And he'll continue to look for these picks. He really has but I just feel like again
I like G2's tools more, right?
You know when you think about how the fights are likely to go you have
Nargling mega and when he is mega T1 are four melee champions against LeBrov here
who is going to have the hostile takeover against Skumon who has the impale, all this AOE CC,
all the damage taken come in from caps, and Paze, you're relying on him to get so much of the damage done,
but Windwall makes that very, very difficult as well.
So you are relying on one of these picture perfect engages that we know that
owner and Doran and Keria and Faker are capable of delivering,
but they haven't really been able to find them so far in this series.
G2 has just had great answers throughout.
The only player on T1 with a lead does have the essence Reaver complete to the static shift for Hans Summer, Drake up in 3 seconds time.
Caps caught out by the wall of Doran, just looking to take him low. Caps doesn't have TP, Doran does.
So if Caps wants to make it a 4v4 around this Drake, he needs to chase Doran out as they look for the engage on Broken Blade.
The quickness lands the charm, good win will, but VB can't survive through them. T1, but a great pick around the Drake.
because of that G2 unlikely to take the fight. A handshake. Okay, good deal. You can have that one.
You took our top laner. Yeah, they're going to look to try to get a couple plates here.
Scumon LeBron, not looking for a fight. Just looking to keep them away from these minions
here mid as Pays and Karrion try to make their way back over to defend this power.
And that wasn't bit of a risky position that Broken Blade was in. He did have the flash.
He had the windwalls, so he felt he was going to be in a decent spot to find that angle coming
behind them, punished T1 as they went for that dragon, but there's a lot of mobility on this
T1 roster. The ability to chase down with the quickness, with all the dashes on Faker and owner
are showing, you know, why you have to still pay that respect.
Caps gets his recall off just before Doran checks the bush. Broken Blade trying to defend his
tier one on the bottom side, but we talk about the dashes, and Broken Blade might need to find a
way out of this one. Last bet used by Faker, the sweeping blade from Broken Blade. He doesn't have
the shield and Paze will take his life. They do the Yasuo combo to the Yasuo they
got the Lee Sin to set it up for that stolen last breath. Caps, LeBrov and
Skiuman all coming in. The figure is still behind them they don't know. They flash in, they look for the engage. The hostile takeover lands but only unto
Bakeham and Oda. Paze not on to attacking his teammates. In the end T1 able to defend for now. Paze with a good
blade caller. TP behind Skiuman now on the back foot. Ishtar's impact
Interrupted, the weirding from Caps doesn't find his mark and Dorvins here to join the party.
Scream on with the Impala and he lands it onto one and Faker very happily will be pulled into his grasp.
T1 with great reactions on the bot lane fight.
It's been about Pays and Carrier for so much of this year for T1 and when they need them most they are stepping up absolutely.
owner and faker being active but pays now on to it of 700 gold lead here in broken blade
Got caught one time one mistake on the flank lost his flash lost his life
And that prompted T1 to go right back at him because without that flash
It is so difficult to escape from those situations and now
Doran could be able to get back in this off that tower
He's up 300 gold pays with a nice lead in this game
Going back ever so slightly in T1's favor that have the dragons
They have a tiny gold lead and we'll see what they can do with it. I mean the 2k deficit that T1 way in has
Disappointed it's gone now T1 with the advantage with the two Drake's held started by broken blade
But not really a true contest out of G2
Caps trying to farm up in the side
They wanted a small gold leads that G2 have it's on his shoulders, but it's only 160
As T1 have fought back valiantly in this game
G2 trying to contest around the hell. Faker goes in the impale, just short of the stinger there.
Yeah, not quite going to clip him in. Yeah, Cap's isn't up a ton of gold, but he is very strong and he is going for a really high damage build here.
He's going Sork boots and we're assuming that could be even a Shadowflame second. You know, he's looking for burst.
And there are some squishy members over on the T1 side. If he can catch Paze, Paze is that strong member.
strong member. Yes, you have this aisle. Yes, you have tools, but sometimes Aurora just needs one combo when you are gone, or at least you're put to a load the air out of the fight. You can see G2 just trying to force this.
T1 looking for the contest. Faker hasn't hijacked an ultimate as of yet. Sonic Wave hits onto SQMON. Smite comes out. G2 get the help.
T1 unable to find purchase in a way they wanted to start that fight off, and G2 don't really need to force it.
Yeah T1 we're trying to delay because the hijack is just back up right now
So I think they were hoping okay, we used the impale early
Maybe we can get them nervous about the fight pull them back steal and all then use that as a tool
Because as much as I have talked about fossil takeover a soul and also takeover is also very very dangerous
Yes, you have windwall. Yes, you have tools to maybe answer that
But they have to be there. It has to be available
So T1 was trying to keep them around that is a lot of crystals on that turret
So, Pays gonna grab some more gold for himself as he just keeps on farming,
hoovering up all this gold around the map, and he has just been a monster in the teamfights.
SKU looking for Faker. Has to flash, has to rock about, which does impact, comes in, Faker dashes away,
uses the flash, uses the rock, but Brokeblade's there for the chase, and with the impale, there's no escape for Faker.
BB with a third of the game.
Nicely done there by Brokeblade. SKU wanted Brokeblade, get up towards topside, kill off Faker, get his flash,
They don't have any flashes of their own to spend and they don't even need them.
Little surprised that Faker actually even went for the flash from that position.
Given that when you looked at the map, no one was right there.
Often when you see Faker spending the Summoners in those spots,
it is to buy time for someone who's sprinting up the river.
They didn't have that in position.
And we can check in on the Coinbase gold grind.
This is the big advantage right now.
4-T1, it is gold on Paze on the Zaya.
A champion that can be so dangerous in the team fight.
But again, G2 has a lot of tools to answer, the wind wall, the potential dive, the flank from the Aurora.
The hostile takeover he has to be careful of. There's a lot of things that Paes needs to play around.
You only have one feather storm, and that one has to be used perfectly.
The rest of it on that Mikhail's that Keria has picked up.
The quickness to distract the enemy team as well, the NAR as well.
There's a lot of tools in T1's collective toolkit to keep Paes safe, but...
G2 have a lot of tools in theirs to try and dive on that Zaya.
the mid lane here by Caps, Broken Blade, waiting in the darkness towards the top side. He's
pushed that wave into Doran, but he doesn't want to show too easily. Doran's just gone
mega-narth. The Drake down to 5,000. It's T1 who is sitting on it right now. Broken Blade
trying to chase Doran through that topside jungle. Caps goes in across the veil. Carrier,
just sure to get him clicked by that handshake. Double TP's come out as Doran is matched with
Broken Blade. Inferno's Drake secured for G2, which has an impact coming for the follow-up.
There's the feather storm, Pays charged into by the Riptile, but a great charm on the back by Kerri, finds all four of them.
Pays takes out Schumann, between Wilds we go, and to the afterlife go T1.
Unsummon on the chase, Dorran trying to escape, but I think the G2 have got him.
Broken Blade slices him in twain, as T1 only Faker and Kerri remain.
The battle herald did so much work for G2 in that fight.
They go in they got the early feather storm off of Paze and that chains of corruption from Honsama chain to four members
I believe from T1 they were getting runed up one after another after another
Everyone from G2 piled in caps
Immediately flashed onto Paze and we can watch this one more time
They sum up the Herald and they decide okay the threat of the Herald isn't a full top laner
They're keeping it you can see both coming in the back of the fight and then after they secure it the instant Herald from caps
Caps is going to charge in towards that back line and Paze uses the early on the hostile takeover
But then lands on the Herald and now watch caps as soon as he pops out of the Herald on this side
He's gonna it's the flash on the pace he goes in on onto him pushing him back the chains of corruption came through and
Just immediately rooted up so many members their cap survived that final auto gets out and is able to to knock him down
down and just so well played
there by G2, just putting that
pressure on the backline. It's
not simple coming out. Dragons
rage has to be used for the
disengaged. Faker was chasing
caps in the picture in picture
and in the end, Faker and owner
will be allowed to retreat out of
the lane if he was because there's
an impala and there's a flash
between what is also available
for camps carrier looking to see
perhaps if broken blade steps up
a little bit too far. Scumon
finds him. Faker found and locks
against the wall and Faker in
this bot lane is destined to fall.
is destined to fall.
Caps secures it.
A killing spree for the Aurora.
Mid lane pushed in.
It looks like bot lane's gonna be two.
Doran allowed by Broken Blade
to take this top lane tower
because Keria was nearby.
And just like that,
we're back above where the gold lead was before.
It is now 2.3K here, 2.4K briefly for G2
and they're pushing in on this next tower,
looking to extend that gold lead even further.
Caps getting so fed right now.
T1 still have all those options.
We talked about them advance.
We talked about how good their team fighting is.
And although they have not shown it to their epitome in this series,
you know they can turn it on like that.
T1, such a resilient team, such an experienced team.
All it takes is a single blink.
You take your eyes off him.
And T1 look for players like this.
Faker behind Broken Blade looks to recall Outdoorans on his way.
Faker spots him with the scryers.
Boom, a two level advantage at the moment for Broken Blade.
But it's going to be a four man advantage for T1 when the rest of their team are reacts windwall down carrier here a grand entrance and a
Swift exit for broken blade the last breath the last he breathes T1 with great reactions
Yeah, great reactions now. They're gonna force the Baron guarantee this is a T1 classic get a pick go to the Baron
Force the issue here, but Baker has no ultimate up to steal anything and he is low
So T1 say okay G2 responded too quick. We got to get out of here
And this moment's like that to make T1. They are so good at finding those little avenues back into a game after they begin to fall behind.
Smart of them to back off, I have to say. I think a chain of corruption, hostile takeover between Worlds combo there would have been pretty deadly as Oner is showing here on a ward.
I think he's trying to maybe look for a side lane play, but he hasn't always been spotted. The bot lane from T1 is in that top lane brush.
I still believe so they have three members up there, but all of G2 are coming. They're outnumbered. They don't know.
They don't know.
who might turn their attention towards the Baron Dolan, halfway to Mega.
Has no wind wall, hostile takeover!
Hostile takeover, only clips the brav,
and Dolan even with the Nard against the wall, still gets blocked up,
Faker dives in on Summer, and a third HP slammed into the wall by the infestals.
Impact and the impact of Stuman's thinker has felt again,
as they can now want 10 HP chased out of the jungle.
He's gonna try and dodge away, carry us on his way across as well.
But here is the Scorpion King as Skuemon binds it.
Nicely done by G2 again.
T1, making the best of a bad situation.
They were outnumbered.
That ward from G2 spotted owner going up there.
But G2 was not aware.
Oh, no, they were aware that even Karrie was up there.
So they pinged out both.
And they knew that this is a possibility.
So that's why they overloaded this side of the map.
But I wasn't sure if they had spotted Karrie or not.
But we've got to go back to life.
I have no clue was there as the TB comes in and T1 are calling for the Baron owner actually at the inferno right now
I might just be dormant looking to get a little bit of vision
G2 are the ones around the Baron right now inferno Drake has been begun by owner would be their third of the game put them on
Soulpoint so pace did spend his flash in that so it has to be some sort of E flash that did catch him off guard
We'll see if G2 can punish Paze, missing that summoner. It means that T1 will go to sole point.
So we'll see this one more time. Cap just goes in to stealth.
It's got to be E flash to the side. Yep, just caught him with the E flash, brilliant play.
Impale happening on the screen as Faker uses the hijacked Impale as well.
Karrion trying to get the quickness towards the back line as the offside deck ever catches onto Faker and Dorne on the back.
Paze has Featherstorm available as Karrion tries to step forward.
Don't jump, but the offside got kicking back.
The Ornn says out Dorne with the Paze gets the kill.
Cap's C being in the T1.
A turning it around!
Once again, their Magic Reign Supreme!
As T1 win out the fight!
Pays getting that pick, triggers everything here for T1.
He gets the pick, they force the issue, and the trade of them pales there between Faker.
And as Karrie is behind Caps, are they gonna look for the turn?
They are. Here comes Faker.
Ground entrance comes out, but across the veil goes Caps with Robin Brooken.
They try to trade towards the topside. Pays getting chased out by BB,
But he can't get the steel tempers down in time pays
Gonna get taken out by Faker as well between worlds we go
Into the grave goes LeBrov caps able to survive but look at the turn from T1 Baron buff for the next three minutes
Caps recalling
Caviar and Faker do not want to let him get away
They'll chase him down and in the end have to dash out they do delay the recalls those that means they're gonna get mid lane tower
They're pushing in multiple lanes. We're in shoving up top as T1
really starting to battle back here they needed some big performances they've
only been swept once in international history back in 2017 that is a long time
ago and they're trying to stave off that defeat here
could be in trouble quickness out of carrier scheme I'm trying to get out
go for on summer instead the dragon's range kick those saves him on summer
kids across the wall by owner and now with a double in power above there with
Take over as well. Now pull them back underneath the tower.
Take the tower shot. Still gets the kill.
No, he doesn't. In fact, he went in with a resonating strike.
And now, SKU-1 is a little bit too deep.
Because he is going to get taken out by T1.
The claps continues. Hunts up and chased out by Gallia.
Needs to be even quick. Needs the auto attacks.
Look at them. Look at our forces.
Round, broken blade.
Sand in by the NAR. T1.
It looked disastrous, but still they get a 4 for 1.
And that is what makes T1 such a special team, a mistake from one player, but the others are there to cover, there to make up for it.
T1 pile in, only 3-0 once at internationals, and it looks like they are on the brink of guaranteeing that will not happen today, but G2 not out of this just yet.
passes back the threat of the hold on with the between worlds is too great for T1 to stay around
They'll take the in hip tower and the in hip the recoil comes out from pays and carrier a
4,000 gold lead now for T1. We'll have another look at this
There's Han summer should have died. He absolutely should have and this is just kind of a miscalculation here
But he had the damage to film with the dragon's rage
but saves him and in comes the problem. This is where you're thinking this is a disaster here for T1
But the problem is no TP on caps and caps is pushing top lane
Everyone from TP is from T1 is piling in had captainable to join and if he was TPing in behind him in his home
It's a completely different story
But even with that mistake it does not matter because all of T1 comes in they support the play they pile in they
They wipe them off the map here and T1 making up for that misstep from owner
It's a rare one from him on Lee Sin and they have the full core press now
What a game is a 1A game
T1 and with 10 seconds left on their barren power play. We'll just back away
They have massive lead for pace 2.2k ahead only well
It's four items to four and a half really between the 280 carries, but we'll see those resets coming out
We'll see if we get more in those inventories and the amount of damage that he's going to do with this build
This is a full offensive build here. He's got his IE his LDR
He's a hundred percent crit and he has the QSS on top plus a macaels from Keria and carry went bandel pipes
So he is kind of playing that that pseudo enchanter role
Okay steps in battle dance away infernal Jacob in 50 seconds time will be sold to T1
Scumon with the smite impale used by faker. He pulls back the scanner and Paze begins to open up
and Pages reps through Schumann, the hot-sword taker of the side as well.
LeBron can't escape T1 as a five-man squad, just chasing them down between worlds we go.
The quickness on the back line is Ono with the kick, this time delivers Hans Summer into the waiting arms of his team.
No sweep today, no three and 0.
T1 with the resilience, with the experience, will not be denied a series.
T1 battling back here, showing some life in game three.
And Faker smiling as they march on the nexus.
This one was a huge one, and we have got ourselves a series.
We're gonna have to open the analysis to break that one down.
Okay, T1 keeping it interesting in the end here.
This will not be a clean sweep, Jack. You have thoughts?
I mean...
Medics been amazing. He said no sweep today. I feel like there's a way there is still a sweep today
Their aura is incredible like even the plays that don't work seem and Sam Pays
They're still making some mistakes like there's a dragon fight that I don't think they should have fought when Pays wasn't on his items yet
But it is that that's it. Yeah, they've just they close the game so quickly
I could not get this done in time. This to me. Oh my god. Let's get a minute to draw
However, we thought this was over even like 15 minutes into this game. We thought you two was sweeping. We did what did it take them?
Pays yeah back on 80 carries and you said it you cannot miss other attacks on 80 carries
So it pays and carry it together especially were fantastic in so many
There we go. This is actually, yeah, what, okay.
So I was wondering what that was because that starts off this entire watershed of events.
T1 are so quick to punish that mistake.
And without caps, this is how they just end up having a numbers advantage in this fight.
Despite the fact that at this point in the game, G2 really looked like they had things in hand.
Then when Caps does come back, he has to back off.
They kind of try to do this contest,
but it really doesn't work as he wanted
to still taking the Baron.
And this was such a massive swing.
I really want to be able to see that solo kill again,
because that is the breaking point of play.
Yeah, that's game.
It was so back and forth, and that's
what allowed them to get the upper hand.
And it was also so surprising to everybody.
I mean, Caps pays.
It was during a replay.
Holy 1350 damage per minute Emily. Yeah, I mean this is like we were asking like okay
What can T1 do right return to standard bot lanes?
This was an amazing game from Paze. They started early too when they were doing yeah, we have the solo kill again
I just I need to figure out how this happens
So it's just caps caps goes for the kill and pays instantly flashes in his face murders him
Oh my god, so this was caps really feeling the moment, but getting it turned around by pace. That's crazy. Did Pace dodge?
Yeah, that's that was such a big moment in this
Maybe in this game for sure, but potentially in the series definitely in the context series
It really felt like G2 had been finding so many favorable fights in a series where they're already 2-0 up
But again, I just carry a carry a carry a carry a how many times?
Did HanSama win a team fight? Just in the next fight to get picked off, to get picked off, to get picked off again, broken blade, getting picked off, Kisso consistently.
Rakan almost always involved in those plays. 40,000 damage on this side. No doubt when it comes to winning teamfights, Paz was at the heart of it.
But Keria on this Rakan, feels like he just dismantled G2 in the most important fight.
That's what we said at the beginning of the day, it's going to come from bot lane and whenever you won't find solutions here at MSI, it came from bot lane every time.
How do we want to readjust expectations from this series after the third game?
I feel like...Trico, she's all...
All fully silent here right now.
Alright, we're going to have a little bit of copium. I still think you two are doing fine, that's not copium.
But what I will say, my cope is, Bernada is off the board, so Callista Bernada is not available.
is not available and as we go deeper and deeper into this best of five, I think
Keria gets scarier, which is really concerning, but I think Doran gets
significantly less threatening and we've already won that lane match up three
times consecutively. So it feels like the story of this game is going to be a
story of game four and game five. Can T1 keep this level of consistency up or
will G2 find a niche counter or actually be able to get over the finish line
before Keria and Paze just find a way to win these fights? I also think if Doran
starts beating Broken Blade, the series is over. Because Broken Blade has been pulling
out insane performances. The Cho'Gath game was insane, the solo kill on Yasuo was super
hype, but they weren't able to pull in the win. And it's not a shock if G2 wins. We need
to be very clear about this. There are currently 8 and 4 against the LCK this year in international
S1. They're actually a very good team, but T1 is a behemoth.
We can maybe do it, but it's never over as long as T1 is standing. The T1 Circus though,
Let's start it down a notch on this one and let's see if G2 can fight back however before we head into this break.
I'll talk about Summer Split a bit because it is just around the corner and you guys in the LCS are going to head to Atlanta on October 3rd. Excited?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm friends with Atlanta too, so I hope I'll be able to visit my friends.
Yeah, you guys have announced yours already, but I feel like Draco's here to do an announcement on that when it comes to the LEC finals.
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Welcome back to MSI 2026 where T1 have fought back and now only 1-2 behind G2 in what has
been an epic best of 5 so far and hopefully we'll go on for two more games.
It has.
I mean, game one was 43 minutes, 44 minutes, whatever it was, absolutely back and forth,
incredibly close G2 outplay.
Game two is where you start to get worried if you're a T1 fan because G2 slammed them
And that game was not close.
Game three, again, much more back and forth.
There was periods where he really
felt like G2 was going to win it.
There was periods where Pays got ahead and you think,
OK, surely this is what's going to be.
But it was a very competitive game, very exciting stuff.
And we were just talking about a big question for me
is how much does G2 have in the bag as far as toppling books?
Because I think their picks in all three games have been great.
I think that the Vayne, the Chogath, and they also
have all been effective.
Yeah, they lost the Oslo game, but I still
I don't think he made it a great job, especially in that 1v1, has really made things difficult for Doran.
So, I really wonder if he can continue to do that. We know we've seen his work into Ibessa, maybe they can try to let that up and try to bait them into that.
We know he loves Clutton the Scion, maybe they can try to force that matchup. He has a lot of different stuff still in the bag, which is honestly what makes G2 my favorite team to watch in Europe.
Like when I just want to watch European League for fun, I'm always watching G2 over any other team because...
You never know what you're going to get.
favorite players for that reason.
I kind of agree with you. G2 sticking to exactly the same bands that they have this entire series,
whereas T1 have moved away an Akali band and have added in a Nautilus band.
Yeah, very interesting. So G2 had the right of first selection this time.
They chose Blue Side.
And T1 chose a first pick.
And I think that that is pretty smart when you're thinking about the way that G2 wants to draft.
I think in all three games G2 has been very responsive, both in draft and in game. They'd like to take, you know, the playmakers and let D1 have those and then take the denial pick.
So we are looking at Caitlyn, very scary pick. You're thinking of pairing such as, you know, Caitlyn on Lees, Caitlyn Lux.
There's a lot of different angles you can go with that.
I will say like Paz is undefeated on his Caitlyn and Keria is undefeated on his Lux and they've played them respectively eight and five games.
So I would not be surprised at all if we see a Caitlyn Lux coming out here from the T1 bottom lane.
Ashe is the lock behind Summer to try and answer it. Seraphine off the table, because T1 removed that.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see exactly what G2 wants. And Ashe Karma, definitely a very strong laning duo.
Karma, if it is into that Lux, obviously has less playmaking.
You don't have the same CC in the same way. Obviously, you do have the tether, but it's not the same.
And it's so much about dodging skill shots and being able to poke down the pale in Lux
because if Lux hits one binding, sometimes that's really all it needs because that guarantees the pulse over pacemaker into another trap,
into a 90 caliber net which gives you double headshots, all your skill shots hit and sometimes you just get 100 to 0.
Especially when Paze gets ahead. We saw it against Team Secret Wales as well.
Pays was three-quarter helping people with headshots.
It was pretty devastating for the LCP number one seed now for G2.
They know what they're playing into.
It is that Caitlyn Lux.
They picked some push for themselves.
Where will T1 go with their final pick here?
Will it again be something safe for Doran on the top side?
And I really wonder how G2 wants to problem solve this.
Obviously, you have a poke heavy lane.
You have two really, really strong laners.
But I also think generally speaking,
when you're playing against Caitlyn,
you want to be able to punish those good ganks.
So will they go towards something that is either a really strong early ganker or be something that allows caps to get down there?
You know like you're gonna go towards a Taliyah or a TF or something that can really get active on the map and allow him to put that
Pressure on them because I don't think you want to allow them to get into that comfort zone where this team is just
Chilling on these champions that they are a hundred percent win rate on so far this split
it's going to be a step back to the pre MSI meta. It feels like karma you get an enchanter
and you grab the bruises and very, very first hand when you're looking at it. And since
I obviously could take away from owner as well, probably the best in the world on his
day. We're going to have to take one and then we move into our second phase of bands. There's
the Akali taking away this time by G2. We have mid and tops on either side left to pick
very interesting stuff. I mean, there's tons of picks obviously still left up and available
I'm trying to think about, you know, why they could be worried about this potential Akali.
Obviously, a lot of people do like to do Azir, but Azir has been still a lot prior where I don't think we're going to see that.
In general, there are still a lot of strong control mages up and available.
Annie is something that has really kind of fallen off the radar for most teams throughout this event,
but you know, G2 does have the Ash Arrow front-gauge, but I still feel like they want something else.
And I think that you don't want Broken Blade just playing like, born to get it for you.
So in my mind I'm trying to think about like does the ante here make sense for caps
Or is he gonna go for like a galeo or something because I just feel like a playmaker makes sense
Ari Ari is available if you want to throw a playmaker warwick taken away by T1
It's like the Annie and the Akali bands out from F2. Yeah, definitely an ambassador look here
When G2 know that and they haven't got rigged of the ambassador
So they're accepting that top lane matchup and the other kind of standard counter pick into the ambassador or answering pick
Whatever you'll call it, Renekton is already in play, so Renekton is gone, Warwick is gone,
and this is kind of where you start to wonder, okay, what else does BV have for these kind of
more standard meta picks? What can he cook to really make things difficult? Because you are
absolutely expecting, Wukong goes in, Cyclone comes out, public execution over the top, you could
pick it away, but then you have to be comfortable blinding the Ambesa and being less on something
crazy where we're kind of expecting that from BV. So we'll be Victor in the mid-length. I have
not seen BB play and Bessar. He's played it once this split, so it's in spring. It's not really a
champion, I think it's anonymous. But it's still going to be a counter pick for the top side for G2.
T1 now needs to lock in their mid and their top laners. As you say, still a slew of options.
You could even take the RE yourself, if you just want some push in the mid lane,
and the ability to follow up on the Wukong. Olaf would be very interesting. Olaf locked.
OK, so it's... wait, Olaf blind.
Olaf top blind, because I mean,
Vayne is gone, I guess, Varus is gone.
Yeah, but you still can just kind of like...
You could just pick Sion here or something.
You just kind of not care.
I mean, yeah, if you take it all in, you're going to die,
but you can just park the wave outside your tower and just farm.
Um, Kled would be super spicy.
He's going for it. Oh my god.
OK, we're betting the game on top lane.
This is... this is full top lane.
This is the polar opposite of the scion pick where you're just looking to farm and looking to make it difficult for him
Kled traditionally in this matchup
I have seen going night and it becomes like an all-out slug fest because normally Olaf wants to go goes flash
If Kled goes for a night
You know you can deny a lot of the healing coming through obviously with the conqueror and you need to have that kill threat
I should be able to burst him down and it is scary
I mean broken blade you want to look in every Kled matchup for heavy trading and early dismounts where you can then
and then remount and kind of get the addition of that extra health bar.
It's kind of similar to how some players play with Anivia, right?
If you're using that passive, you have to be scrapping, you have to be fighting.
But at the same time, a well-timed gank as you dismount can be lights out for Kled.
You can just get burst down before you can actually remount.
And so much of it is around the timing of your W passive.
When that comes up as you dismount, it's so much easier to get that remount off.
BB is probably the pro player I trust most in the world on this pic
It has been a classic of his for a long time, but traditionally into the scion. I haven't really seen much
It's something he does do touch time if we continue the creativity from the G2 atop lane
The T1 may need a reverse we need only the seventh ever in history and G2
is it seventh year lucky? 2019 the last time they topped T1 in the best of five all those years ago
and since then it has been the crowning jewel on the top of the G2 experience the G2 history really
that year searching for ways back to it this year already have taken down three LPL or LCK teams
invest the fives to add a fourth this early in the year would be incredible.
Especially people people are always quick to say ah well first thing to just
first stand and this is just this and well top there a choker. T1 at MSI this
matters right you know this is T1 at MSI in Korea this is a big deal and G2 have
one match point and we'll see how this balling goes this is getting scrappy.
coming out of the drop looking for the empowered
Manchured inner flame as Hun Summer is the one on the losing side of this trade
Terrier begins to step further forward flash away from the losing Singularity
Hun Summer with the ghost and pays with the barrier means there's more battle
summoners on the side of T1 and they use that extra effective HP
Well look at skewan he's gonna go for a level 2 gank you never see this in pro
anymore the timing is spotted though
onward and immediately will back away. Gives them a nice little thumbs up. Will turn his
attention back towards the red. Both bot lanes get their level 2s. Broken Blade trading with
Doran dismounted from Skull. And you can see the reason that G2 want to focus this bot lane
if they can. Pays having an exemplary performance so far here at MSI. Probably it's not level
3. He doesn't have the W. Doran is just going to chase down Broken Blade. Kled has no way to
and a rebound, broken blade, needs a map of the Doran.
Chops him down with the actual faker,
almost falls in the mid lane.
The pot.
That's by a touch not enough to get through the pot.
The pot keeps him alive and broken blade there.
If you're wondering why he's hitting the minions,
he's trying to get three.
He didn't go for Q and then hold your W.
That's what a lot of club players will do.
Instead, he went QE for the more aggressive trade,
tried to depend on the fact that he would be able
to push quickly for level three,
And then Dorian realizes you don't have W bro, you can't remount fast enough so he is all
in on him.
Well Broken Blade is desperately trying to get level 3 here.
If he gets level 3, he gets the fast W, he gets the quick remount but it came in way
too late and here it is, EQ in, if you time that well, it hick infirms the bear trap on
a rope, you get the dismount and now is where you're vulnerable.
He really needs to go for that level 3.
But Dorian realizes you don't have the time.
I'm just gonna go for the fight right now pops the goes chasing down broken blade flashes back to get level three
But it just doesn't matter a bigger Mike's a look your gaps
And caps is best in the West but faker is the best ever and show them why
Laning not what you talk about when you talk about faker these days, but g2 in trouble owners behind us on a gank
We'll see the Lucent single nice coming down this is now trapped as well and pays and carry. I can just do V2 it
That's classic jungler move I've got a nimble strike this one
This guy's it's it's for the team exactly
And so they are able to take them down, but things get a bit out of control 14-1 already
You two really gonna be on the back foot here is another binding. You can just see the CC chain
You can't escape it!
Pays the Korean Sniper, claims his burst of the game and T1.
Four minutes in, a 4-0 up, and have a 1.6k gold lead as Doran continues to chase Brokenblade away.
Is it going to go for another under two?
He wants Brokenblade to auto a minion to get the W on cooldown.
So that is why Brokenblade is only last hitting with Q right now.
He's trying to hold the W cooldown because he knows if he gets dismounted from a disadvantage without W ready, he is dead.
he is dead he will not remount he will get killed so he is accepting that he's
just gonna miss CS again he's that stupid again he has to snap around the
snapchats and then flashes pays flashes
sends him to meet his maker faker able to escape as well in the mid lane
alright g2 need to take a breath calm it down slow it down a bit here I feel like
nerves are getting to them well dragon will come from door and he thinks he
just take this. The Olaf broke out the rope to one blow dive. Denies the minions at least.
Denies the minions. The wave is going to push away from Broken Blade, so it's still a worth
wild dive. Would have been much worse if Doran obviously survives from that spot, but Olaf
getting this far ahead is so problematic. Jitsu's comp is very reliant on CC, on kiting, on keeping
that guy away from the backline. If he gets super fed, that Ashe is going to have a nightmare time
in the team fights and pays the 800 gold out. Everyone on T1 is up gold, including Faker,
who is up the least, but had that solo kill in his melee versus range matchup.
Up to almost dying. Faker just comes back into the lane and then solo kills, Kaps,
who now has to recall 6-1 in favor of T1. And you can see Viper the other day had a conversation
about T1. He said, I don't think it's meaningful to judge them on their recent matches.
They're always a team that comes back stronger overnight.
And on the same day as we are seeing in this series, and sometimes in the same lane as we are seeing from Faker,
T1 is a team that is famed for their in-series and internment adjustments.
They are not a team to lose the same way three times, right? You know, you just never see it happen.
BB does have that early TMS, but it is going to be very vulnerable to ganks, and it's going to be scary up there.
Looking for the focus result. They're trying to turn it back onto Keria, but using that shield very effectively, HanSama takes a headshot and loses out on the trade pretty substantially.
Yeah, the scariest part about Lux and Katelyn is not the trading. It's the fact that you are playing a bullet helm basically where you get hit by one thing and you can just die.
You can see those. Skumon is snuck into the bot lane brush, and Skumon is going to be looking for a lane gank here.
So we'll see if they can actually set it up before LeBrov can get...
Looking for mid first, he's going to jump in, JusticePunch comes out, there's the taunt from the shield of Gerand, but Faker might just be done for, as Broken Blade takes him.
Meanwhile, Skiuman's still waiting to see if Carrier oversteps, which he does, has to flash away, light binding doesn't connect, Q3 for the knockup and Carrier, no way out for him, G2 by 2 across the map.
Whoa, that was close though for LeBrov. He almost got tagged by that 90 caliber net and then he would have been dead to the headshot
Following that up very very close, but great plays here from G2. Take a moment make a game plan
Broken Blade realizes alright my 1v1 might be over. I'm gonna look for a play elsewhere
Go help out caps get him back to a more comfortable spot grabs the kill for himself
And then you know uses that all very effectively
was able to pick up a win there.
And has been kind of known for his late game team
fighting on this pick, right?
You know, for his ability, not necessarily
to always dominate in the 1v1, but to be able to come into that 5v5,
find the right angle as he did in some of those games.
And Doran accelerated here.
Again, will be problematic for Victor, for Ash,
for Karma, these champions that are relying on slows and CCs
and stuns to be able to keep you away.
You're going to have Wukong flashing on your head
with a galeo all coming over the top with loose and singularity
with all of these tools as G2 looking to try to pressure Bob, but this is a risky dive.
You can see where Faker is as well, just hovering and looking for that hero's entrance, broken blade,
stepping forward, Faker comes in, there's the Galio, well, the Ragnarok chasing down the brook,
and there's no escape for Karda. In fact, the order still came out of the Intergrath, and Faker would take it in the end.
I wonder if Dorm is just waiting for his mid lane, and it's come and pick up that gulp.
It seemed like he was, because he completely stopped chasing for him there, he didn't want to overextend,
He's just clearing out the wave maybe trying to prevent a redive knowing faker could actually finish that off
Faker does pick up the kill said it was gonna be risky dive
It definitely was they sent four members, but they are looking for potential angle at a redive
They can use clad remount to try to go for this faker has flash
As the justice punches well the wave on its way in brooklet plate goes in for the dive
There's jump onto faker good torn the V-man comes out Stumond needs to flash away, but he doesn't have that summer
Faker finds one in a 1v3 dive.
You come for the king, you best not miss.
Faker makes a pay in the 1v3 as Payes is getting paid on the other side of the map.
He's getting all of these plates, solo gold by the way, and he's about to get that first tower gold here too.
And they have three grubs for the Caitlyn that is hugely accelerated.
Pawn's going to get spotted there. You can see LeBron trying to wrap it around behind him.
Doran has no ult right now, but Pawn's without the enchanted crystal arrow.
really much of a look for a
play. There's no threat even
without doing having that
Ragnarok. He does have the
flash about to come back off
cooldown and the grubs taken
for T one the drake taken for
T one kills across the map
taken for T one pays is 1000
gold ahead. This is perfect so
far for T one and this early
game has been a shambles really
for G two. I mean, it went bad
and it went bad very, very
early. You know, if you lose
all three lanes and you're
very, very tough. So we've seen G2. They are mentally a very strong team. We need to see them stay stable now as full-core press here.
The dive about to materialize. Flash away from the line, binding. Durant has that Ragnarok back up on Summer and LeBrov, not having their flashes.
It feels like they're going to have to start to back away. Broken Blade does have a bit of free time on the top lane tower to get some gold back in his pockets.
But you can see what T1 do when they have this healing as they go in with the Ragnarok.
I don't know if SKYWON looked with the damage from the ace in the hole coming out as well.
SKYWON does still have that Crescent Guard, but as I was saying, T1, when they have this Caitlyn Lux, they play entirely through pace.
Yep, and Faker was cheating down towards Botside.
VP is trying to get some gold, but Kary's being so annoying, his Lightbinding forced two flashes.
Now they have to TP Caps down here just to try to hold onto the tower.
I'm not able to dash away with the decoy.
SnapCap onto Caps, Lightbinding doesn't connect and Caps steps forward with a bit of a Hextech Grave, but in the end T1,
Happy enough to take that summoner out. Broken Blade still hasn't taken this tower and Faker's gonna get himself a plate in the
Midlane with those grubs. Doing a little bit of extra damage for him. Caps now.
Just a step away from Karrie who flashlight bindings with caps. Steps forward from it. Loosen Singularity not connecting either.
Karrie are burning that summoner for no real avail.
Karrie has been going for a lot of predictions in this series.
I will say none of them working out as G2
It feels like aren't panicking when they see the flash.
You know, he is expecting IQ flash.
You flash into it.
That's what he's looking for in a play like that.
But Caps holds his nerves, is able to judge
that it's not going to hit, doesn't use anything.
And as a result, Kariot is minus that summoner
and will be a little bit more vulnerable here.
Has rushed in the Cales, which I really, really like
against a comp like this.
It's in shadow crystal arrow or nothing, kind of.
I mean, you can send the Kled in as you're engaged,
but it's very, very tough for Kled
when there is someone, anyone on the other team to be able to block it.
Owners clone can block the all coming in.
Fager getting shielded up and just channeling taunt can block it.
That can be difficult.
So you are really looking for picks with Han Sama
and Kari just uses that early goal he got to buy a super fast Mikael's
and kind of say, well, you're going to have to look for something else.
Small round by T1 as they'll take their second drake of the game.
You can see in the coinbase goal growing.
Broken Blade has been able to get himself a little bit of a lead,
But predominantly because Dormin has just been put in bad situations for a while.
The gold lead on broken blade over Dormin has to be compared
with the gold lead between Hansen and Summer and Pays.
And it's almost a 1.8K lead now for the Caitlyn over that ash.
Keria has no flash, but I don't think G2 really wants to make too much of a proactive play.
Pays waits in the wings to see if someone's going to step forward for a headshot.
Arrow comes down towards the bottom.
I think it just walks away after taking the tower.
Yeah, you can see he'd be very comfortable on this pick.
As we said, 16-5 throughout his career
has been something that he is really, really well known for.
And has kept those picks coming.
But you touched on it in draft.
And there is a reason why this is a feared pick.
14-1 in his career on the Caitlyn,
averaging over 1,000 DPM.
It's incredibly impressive.
That is insane.
It's not something you often see.
Usually it's about 600 to 700 for an ADC, even if they're doing well.
Yeah, but on this pick, Paze continues to impress,
and T1 continues to press forward.
There's the final spark, losing fingerality.
LeBruv able to walk away from the snap trap before it opens.
It's gaping more.
Paze not quite close enough to put it down underneath him in time.
Exactly. Couldn't quite get there in time.
And I think a volley maybe even came out from Hans,
try to slow him down a little bit.
Obviously Paze not wanting to just like flash to try to get the trap.
And as a result, it is not a kill,
but it is continued pressure here.
They already took out top.
They already took out bot.
Now two plates remaining there in that mid lane.
Harold's coming up in a minute
and you have to think T1 is going to want to continue
playing towards that.
They get ruled at the roost, don't they?
They can do whatever objective they want,
or whatever pace they want.
And at some point, G2 are going to have to try
and call that and say, okay,
we're having one item apiece right now.
Was that enough?
Next objective, as you say in a minute, is that held?
One thing I would like to see from G2
is if they can get push, I mean this is what kind of depends on, but utilizing the Kled ult to pick someone off in a side lane, right?
Kled ult plus his in-zow lane gank is really really powerful
You know, you don't have to have some tricky angle when you just run really fast with that Kled ult
So maybe Skumon can hover them and they can try to get a pick there
Valken made a chase down by Doran, uses the Ragnarok, uses the Ghost of LeBrov, tries to flash away
But Doran can just chase them, Skumon with a Crescent Guard trying to get away from the side, Doran gets the kill
And Skuman has to pop his ultimate to escape the clutches of T1 and of Ona.
Nicely done there by Doran, has his first completed item on that stride breaker spike.
And the Rob even with the flash, I think he tried to kind of play for the Juke,
where he's trying to pretend that he's flashing into the pit,
but did not trick Doran, and Doran is able to run him down and kill him,
but we'll see if they catch Doran now.
Skuman to Doran, pulled back by the bear trap on a rope,
here, Thorn will die, burn both of the summoners and his ultimate to get that kill on the karma.
Mid lane tower, they're going over to T1 as another bear trap, almost catches him, meanwhile
in the mid lane, Han Solo, he's just rooted for days! The man is basically a plug with how long
those roots are, and skumon with no ult, with no flash, with no way out! A great tour in for Faker,
as T1 are flattening G2!
Pays almost went down to that tower shop but does survive a deja coming to life supporting the home heroes here as T1
Wipe in G2 out. Bb did look for a pretty good play there
You know he committed the TP the flashing night
They killed off Doran who had used that ghost who had used that all T and it's that initial collapse that makes them think
Hey, we're in a pretty good spot here. Doran, you know did flash early to try to escape
but in comes everyone from G2 then they try to reclaim space here around that
mid lane but owners in the spot and you see it that binding catches on the
haunt he's CC'd 100 to 0 great flash from Paze away from the wing becomes
lightning avoid that another binding land that is another kill and now a taunt
and another CC chain lands back to back to back kills there 41 it is Paze an
entire item ahead. 2.8 thousand gold. His advantage to the fandom dancer complete and
a pickaxe alongside those hexoptics. 4,000 the entire lead for T1 as Doran continues
just to push in a side lane. For G2, it is such a struggle to get back into this game
because even when you find a good pick, even when you find someone in a side lane, Doran
actually pulled back. He's going to have to use the raglan rock trying to dismount broken
Broke and Blade won't be able to do it.
Big ultimate down from Doran.
Broke and Blade doesn't have the charge, but can go in.
Jow Sting, one of those violent tendencies as well, dismounted.
There's the bare trap, LeBrop here, but Doran heals up.
Broke and Blade and LeBrop will take a kill,
but now the TP in from Faker and carry it on his way.
Counter TP used, remount.
Carry is going to try and protect Faker
as he extracts himself from the enemy jungle.
Great kill for BB again.
You know, finding ways to be useful year after
what was such a tough start.
And that was actually pretty clever from Doran.
He waited till the Q had expired, then went for the TP out.
But broken blade, the split second his ult came back up,
he used the ult, had just enough time there.
One second later that ult comes up, I think Doran is gone.
But he bumps him with the ult, interrupts that face.
And now Doran has no ult, has no TP.
G2 are on this dragon here,
and could be slowing T1's march towards a possible soul.
There you are, looking for that light binding.
LeBron trying to keep on her bay.
Light binding, hits onto the skumond.
Faker's trying to get the tour towards the topside as the Crescent guy comes out from skew on Broken Blade going into the middle as well.
A cyclone on the back is Hans Summer.
Has a tempestuous time escaping!
LeBron, but gonna get chased out, charged on by the Rift.
Broken Blade forced away as well.
The Drake did go 2G2, importantly for them to delay the solo, but with another light binding!
Just clipping the heels of Broken Blade, unable to find that connection.
Carrier, losing singularity for the slow Ragnarok in Broken Blade.
dismounted Doran going deeper who won't find enough and Ace in the hole,
skewer's gonna have to block it, the final is far not enough,
Cap takes down Doran, Baker goes in with a remount on Skarl, courageous from G2,
as they somehow bite back in the both sides.
That looks like it's gonna be...
Oh, it's a pace!
Cap's with the Slice and Power to put them in, it's a great...
Good Mikhail's out of carrier, but skewer's on the chase,
space, shot down by SKU, and Kamiya with no hope, no teammates, and no life left to live.
G2 just pulled a comeback out of nowhere in that fight. It looks like they were completely screwed.
After Faker just drove through the whole team with the Rift arrow, I thought he was going to get the
crash under the wall, that G2 was going to get taunted up, and that they were going to get
aced, and the game was essentially going to be over. But not only do they escape, not only
do they take the dragon, they get the kills off the back of this as well, so they rush for this,
instead of the owner going for the dragon, he goes for the fight feeling like they have the
angle to just win here, and then in comes Faker from the side, Hans ties, wasting his flash,
and you think it is just all over, but Faker actually missing the wall there, couldn't crash it
out, so he gets stuck in the hair for so much longer, and he was supposed to be the flank.
T1 chased them down, but it is a bit of an overreach in goes Dorian pops y'all pops the ghost
But not enough to finish them off and then that bit of damage on the BB makes bigger thing
I can go for this Q flash misses only tags up with a tiny bit of damage
Instant remount from BB pulled out of the sky by the bear trap on a rope and then haunts
respawns and gets his revenge
Ash sends a regards takes down the pace with that ultimate is
G2 gets so many kills and T1 felt that they were rolling through this team, felt that they were rolling through this game.
But now it is much more within striking distance. It's really only pays now. That's the only lead that matters.
He is still 2.6k ahead, importantly. Ormuz has that infinity edge complete.
And T1, until that moment had played incredibly effectively around him, they just need to reset and do that again as the ace in the hole hits onto LeBrov.
Rob, trying to chisel out, goes between the uprights.
No score for Han Summer there.
Not an easy game by any means, from this point, 4G2.
But before that fight, this game was looking over it.
And now they have that glimmer of hope.
I am just so impressed by Broken Blade.
I feel like Kled from behind is so hard to play.
To go from getting solo killed in this matchup,
to being up 850 gold, to being active on the map,
to being able to find these angles,
these ways to create chaos, these ways to get remounts,
to get your opponent to overcommit and then survive
is so critical for his team.
And it is not easy to do on this champion,
but caps with a slight gold lead,
broken blade and skew mom with those slight gold leads.
It is all gonna be about Paze.
Can you take him down?
Can you enable him if you are T1?
You can see he's working quickly towards that IE.
And once Katelyn hits that infinity edge,
and especially once Katelyn hits that fourth item,
100% crit, she's gonna be a terror.
Faker with the mandate alongside his rocket belt, two items apiece on the junglers and a slight lead for broken blade in terms of itemization.
This has finished his Black Cleaver with the Titanic Hydra. Faker the one to deal with him right now is Humon, comes in from the side as well.
They'll jump onto Faker, the dismount comes out, the Q3 broken blade! Where was Faker? He disappeared!
Look at the build. He's got merc treads an imperial mandate and a rocket belt
That is no protection against a Zin Zhao and a Kled and they knew it
They just go straight in for him burst them down under the tower
This is not the calio of old that is full tank. This is a
Very squishy build that does have a lot of value because mandate is reducing the cooldown of your taunt of your alt of your e
It's a triple
Power but you want it needs to get to that mega blast cone just in time
you can feel the Cyclone about to be cast from Ona.
And Faker getting punished there.
Ski-Mon survives, so it's another good play for G2.
The gold lead is gone. It's 300 gold.
And because Ski-Mon got that last dragon,
it's not as though you're facing down soul point either.
This is a game that G2 can win.
We'll see if they're going to be able to make it happen at this next dragon,
or if they even want to try at this next dragon,
because IE is done, and that is such a scary point in the game,
the lead and pays is that. The
maximum power he can get from
his lead right now. 2.6 care
head infinity edge there for
him. I think that's the big
thing. The gold leaders is
negligible between the two
teams. But if Pays isn't a
fight and broken blade isn't
it's massive and it's broken
blades in a fight and Pays isn't
it's also a massive advantage
for G two is the snap traps
are down. The Drake has been
the rest of the squad. Chagraslau, instant, Mikaels! Oh, wha! That was gorgeous from Keria.
The T1 are still a little bit on the back, but it's Faker yet to join with his team now.
Connects through mid. Light binding down, Paze puts another snap trap lined out.
Hungry for someone to eat one of those cupcakes. Faker being kept at bay by Brokenblade in the
mid lane. The arrow is still a long way from coming back off his cooldown. The Drake down to
4000, Dormon getting chased out towards the top side. The Stumon goes in,
Owner with the Cyclone here, his entrance is one onto Han's armor,
who flashes to walk in with the Ragnarok,
Gorman just makes him fall and now a second Cyclone,
and SKU-Bong goes down, a two for one to buff T1,
and they will get the drake out of it.
Yeah, it's a split fight, it's a split fight,
now T1, one more.
Broken Blade flashing for Paze,
the Bear Trap doesn't connect in time,
Kamiya falls away,
Caps flashes away from Fakerball with Oner on the chase,
it should be enough, LeBruh flashes,
trying to get Paze rooted up,
Broken Blade and the Chaos won't be enough to remount in Paze,
Makes him pay the piper! And with an ace in the hole,
Caps almost falls the final spark!
Not living up to his name as Caps continues to run away.
There's another Blastcone for him to take,
and he should be able to survive with LeBrov on his way across.
Faker chasing LeBrov, Pays trying to flank onto him as well,
as Caps does manage to extract himself, but Pays is on the flank,
and LeBrov has used that Blastcone.
Caps puts down an arcane ray, Siphon power for the moves,
Tp behind by Doran, caps is the universal taunt for T1, it seems with Bannon available,
T1 are trying to delay those resets, but in goes Paze and down goes Paze, he overstepped
G2 strike back.
Yeah, G2 are bailed out there by the fact that Paze goes down, Paze was trying to get
behind caps because they've been chasing him across the entire map.
You had it dead on the money, I think that they were trying to make sure they could get
this the late kill so that they could actually go for the Baron, but here is where things
go wrong.
Fully commits the pace but look at the other side Doran has gotten into the back line the battle lines are destroyed
4g2 so fast so when skumont full sends it
He knew that there was no mccael's available because that had been forced out earlier by hawns
But when he goes in broken blades not with them the rest of team is not with them and hawns is dying on the other side
And then pays despite LeBrov going in here landing that route
Broke of bleaches does not have the damage to deal with the Caitlyn
They do eventually get that chase down, but they are bailed out by the fact that they kill off pays
It means no Baron, but it is soul point for T1 and a very strong soul for some of these
You know bruiser style champions like the old law who likes to play these fights on the edge of death
You'll love the extra
Healing that is getting out of it is G2 still within a thousand gold T1 still in control of the game importantly
There they three and a half by some ad carry hun summer still only has components of his third
Pays is a massively ahead but if he gets caught like that again, the game could quite quickly swing out of T1's grasp.
It really can. I mean, he is a massive advantage. He is the problem. That is absolutely true.
But if he gets caught, if he dies at the start of the fight, that is most of their power, right?
You know, Faker and Oner aren't that strong. Doran isn't that strong.
strong so you know G2 it's a hard task to do but if they are able to get that
angle if BB and skumon get in on top of them if they can take him out then you
do have that shot but Paze, oh the charge, the charge for Slower uses the clone
well there broken bait trying to get in with the bear trap on the rope will be
able to get in there he gets dismounted immediately Skull very cowardly this
Sima Dona comes back in with a category five for skumon, dives forward Paze
with Tails the taunt on skumon means he can't get me deeper and older goes back
the heroes entrance comes down but it's cancelled as Faker can't join the fray
Skiwmund manages to get out a wrap through a forward a tour of this all on
caps but how deep are you? Broke the blade rematch! Pays steps in and Pays now untouched
another turn Broke the blade dismounted Skiwmund back alive but the guardian angel
will not save him.
He's gonna cut him in the middle of a 17th pentakill.
For the Prince.
You go for a T1, but Pace is untouched and Pace gets the pentakill there.
An incredible fight from him, stays alive at low health,
is able to make them pay.
As look at this clone from Oner,
Owner able to block both the Enchanted Crystal Arrow and the Kled Alts by so much space and then his pace moves forward here.
Skumon looks for the re-engage, the Cyclone comes out, Skumon gets that Q3, nods up in on the pace, but T1 keeps the space for him because Faker is there, because Owner is there.
They buy the time, then Doran says, you have spent too many cooldowns.
The binding lands on Caps over the wall, he full sends it, Paze wins the duel against Honsama on the side,
drops the chap on the GA, burst down Broken Blade, takes out Skiuman, chases him down,
and on match point at MSI in the lower bracket in an elimination series, the Penta Kill Prince does it again!
What a show, 12,000 damage from Paze.
And now, soul up in 15 seconds.
Doren has a flank as Faker forced to retreat with the justice punch.
Stimuln trying to step forward again.
The snap traps it down, broke a blade.
Trying to find Doren around the red buff.
He'll look to the flank himself.
Has the charge.
Can try and get in.
Flash just coming back up for Paze.
Doren clears out the vision.
It's going to be top there going on Faker.
only on to Faker. G2 still looking, look at Broken Blade, he's snuck behind the door and as well
they're perhaps caught out. Four members of G2 trying to chase him but he uses the ghost
and gets himself out. Broken Blade still here. Justice punch forward by Faker. Paze begins to
step off the final spot, the Crescent Guard of Faker's down and now BB charges round but the
wrong way round. So many go round for G2 as they look to try and steal this away. Paze flashes out,
Scumon down, Oda takes and casts, takes half his health from the caliber that Paze has found and broke and play.
No! Gets in with the bad trap, LeBros survives through Oda!
Carry us down! T1 are down!
G2 will chase them away, no ending sight yet, but again, G2 have found the 5% play they needed.
But Doran has other ideas who chased the public after too.
G2 will kill it up in the end, but Doran evens it out.
Doran stops it from being that much worse,
but how about Siumon in these fights,
finding Paze time and time again,
and has no fear going in on these plays, on to Paze.
They know he's the man they have to take out.
Faker goes so deep here, he can't use his ultimate at all
because he's the one that in first just gets deleted.
It's a big over extension from Faker,
but then eyes on Paze,
Windy comes lightning, does connect on him.
Skiu-mon full sends it.
Yes, he does get taken down.
But then it stays that forward.
Look at this from Broken Blade.
How confident is that?
E flash Q.
Catches, pays.
If any of that misses, he looks like the fool.
He dies, but he catches him.
He takes him out.
Doran here, though, in the 2v4.
Broken Blade was on the dragon.
They thought they could cut him out.
They thought they could do it without him.
But Doran flashes in, gets a couple kills there.
So smart from going to turn around in that moment as well because that is the moment he has at that point
It's a squishy Victor a squishy karma and a squishy ash
But you want to chase down 31 minutes in pays with his 16th penta leading the board by four
And G2 take the gold lead ever so slightly they stave off the soul
This game on a knife edge here T1 will be eliminated from MSI if they lose this if T1 win
we will go to a pivotal game five year.
Faker needs gold for the Zonjas.
Right now he's stuck on this broken seekers.
That's why he's pushing sides.
And Kled is heading down there
and Kled could take him out if he gets caught.
Faker is very weak right now.
Pazer shadowing him, but currently on the gromp.
Could add in his damage with an ace in the hole.
Pazer's looking, no flash on that.
Katelyn for now.
In fact, in terms of summoners,
not many available on either side.
Not a single flash.
1413 for G2 with Schumann caps and Hans holding onto theirs. A thousand gold lead for G2, but negligible. Really, the pocket change right now is it's a balanced setup. Faker, passing out through mid.
Broke of play is going to push in bot. Here's the thing. For G2, the question is, do you force now knowing those flashes are missing, knowing that you have some of an advantage?
Are you willing to start a Baron and try to force them to come to you because you have flash from scheme on flash from caps flash from
Hans and you know that Pays is vulnerable. He is the entire lead for T1
He is four thousand gold ahead
Broken blade almost four thousand gold ahead himself. It's gonna chase onto Dormin right here
But Dormin tries to trade back onto him
It's an argument bondage for the quite right now and you can see it paying off in the health bars
Dormin forced away the charge in as well by broken play
He's a little bit short on it.
Is he joustful with him?
Misses the bear trap, and undertow will slow him down
with a TP, coming in by Faker.
Scumod here to defend his top laner.
Faker, is he going to go in with a justice punch note?
Backs away.
He'll be very confident of running forward there,
but I think he's got to be very careful.
Faker is really behind where this cut is right now.
And if Pace is not there, you cannot fight as T1.
And it does cost the ultimate there from Doran,
but it's a trade of alts, and it's more time bought.
T1 really do not want to fight without the flash from Paze.
And Skumont has the GA now.
That is a very big purchase.
Hans, we've talked so much about Paze and rightfully so,
but Hans is also strong at this point.
He's down entire BT, but he has the damage items.
He has some power behind him.
And we'll see if he can make it work,
because Skumont has just been finding Paze every single time.
If he finds that win becomes lightning,
he goes for it instantly, knocks up Paze,
puts the pressure on him, and the Crescent Guard
can buy that time.
G2 now starting to bear.
They're trying to get Faker across here.
He only has the heroes.
And just no flashes.
Brookerblade keeps Ona at bay on the top side door
and looking for an engage.
Pays still no flashes.
G2 rattled through the Baron right now.
It's down to 2k.
The smite comes out.
The final spark does not find its mark.
G2 get the Baron and Chadecorsal is going to help carry up
him immediately because of the waste.
He's got one.
Dash in forward with Wimper.
He's lighting in the adatious charge,
but he's not going to fly too much more.
Faker gets his Justice Punch blocked by Brookerblade.
A bear trap on a rope, but with the rest of T1 coming across
to defend.
Faker will survive.
in the NG to get the objective that they wanted out of it.
They get the Baron and they're going to have the Baron for this next dragon,
which is the big win.
T1 don't fully commit to it.
They know they're still missing those summoners.
Fighting without flash in a situation like that for Pace could be suicide.
So T1 decide to just hold on here.
Couple seconds until Pace has that flash back here.
Doran trying to get as strong as he can.
Everyone trying to finish as many items as they possibly can for what could be
serious decider if G2 wins it. 15 seconds now and T1 first to the objective.
Teeping in early, they caught one.
Schumann has to use the Crescent Guard early, that's massive.
T1 now can set up for this Drake soul for them.
G2 might step forward, might try and take the play.
Broken Blade level 19, two ahead of Doran. Has that charge.
Schumann gashes on to Faker. The taunt comes out, the justice punch away as
as well as G2 wanted to take this fray,
wanted to take this battle,
where the series could be decided for T1.
They need another game after this for G2.
For the first time in seven years,
they're on the cusp of taking down a T1 in a VESA 5.
Oner in the smite, goes to SKU.
Oner low to Guardian Angel, though still available
to bring him back into Charlotte,
Crystal Lauer coming out of his broken blade.
Does need the charge to get away.
Oner so low and G2 continue to advance,
continue to step forward.
There's the charge away.
G2 now maybe reset T1 back away through the bottom lane caps reset
He's not got TP G2 just trying to keep T1 around a taunt just wide of connecting onto skewmon's
Shoes as G2 continued to step forward they have confidence in this skewmon almost gets sniped out by a headshot
Dashes away with the jousting and once again fake his taunt can't find its mark and look at caps mid lane
He wouldn't have got to get back. I've got a reset this fight has just been going forever
And I got to say broken blade was the difference maker absolutely in that last one
He was threatening it like hold up
Broken blade having to retreat sides back on the owner me once Q-mond once again just taking out BB killed off owner caps
It's just up towards the topside is still an adventager's fight for T1 as the Lucent singularity doesn't find its mark in Faker
It's falling low violent tendencies the clad somehow finds another
The Lucent singularity will get the slow door in there with a chase move the undertow
Just not connect and broken blade is leading them on a merry chase as he remounts us to Skarl
door and stepping forward
BB with a pocket pistol
anything Paze can do, BB can do better. He brings out both battles and takes down two.
Paze knocking him down there chasing after him. By so much time though, was broken blade
as caps is able to push in. LeBrov faces the full power there of Paze.
Keria going to be chasing here. They want to try to look for caps. They won't be able to find him.
and LeBrov took a headshot from that brush and pays,
making Caitlyn look like an assassin, carry up.
He spotted him.
He spots LeBrov, final spot, Mikhail's away.
He tried to crystal out, it does not find his mark.
Cap's able to get out of dodge.
He's gonna stay around in some sticky situations
and what a game, what a series this is, Azale.
So many 3-0s.
I think a lot of people came into today
expecting another for T1, but G2 have been unrelenting.
Now you see him now you don't it's a bullet to the face LeBron is sent back to base
But G2 trying to fight out haunt early flash
But Doran just says no and again it's rogues from broken blade honestly throughout this series and especially throughout this game
Dies in the 1v1. He is thousands and thousands of gold ahead
He is threatening in fights
He is delaying and delaying and putting on pressure and buying time and keeping them alive in a situation
Where you wouldn't think he'd be able to make it happen
I mean, BB fans 3 in that fight, and now he's found Oner who has to use the Cyclone to try and get away,
but there's a hurricane warning as Hurricane BB's on his way to the chase.
Oner has the hero's dangerous coming in, skewed on a Brokeblade, now he needs to get the hell out
with the inside of Kistelhound, the Crescent Guard for the knockback, Pace tried to step in,
the mist of that circle, but he can't get close enough.
Brokeblade gets up to Pace, who now has to guard in Angel, and Brokeblade is rooted up, dismounted,
as he runs away from Doran, and can't take the kill.
G2 have found two more, no major objective up for a minute.
for a minute.
Pace is going back but Pace has no flash this is so risky if he gets caught they could end
the game right here.
The body hits him.
Oh the wind become lightning.
Wind behind his Achilles heel G2 have fought back to within a 4k ahead for them a monumental
series it's been 7 years since G2 took down T1 in a better fight for T1.
They are fighting to not lose this 3-1.
They have never missed the top four
of an international tournament that they have been to.
And this is a legacy game for Broken Blade.
He is showing us everything in this game.
You cannot ask for more from a Kled.
His timings are perfect.
He's falling over the wall with the E.
He's using the R for the interrupt on the dash.
He's chasing down and reconnecting
with the bear trap on the rope,
pulling an owner, taking him out.
And then the team is just closing ranks here around there,
carries, not allowing Paze to get in and threaten.
And Paze again is playing without flash for the Baron,
for the Dragon, RT1 willing to bet their tournament lives
on a fight.
Your right spotted lifeline is going to hit him.
Wimpy comes out, does a cross and go up and up.
BaxQ1 needs to get to that mega blast cone.
Meanwhile on the bot side, Faker getting chased out by BB,
who's just battling through him,
using the charge to interrupt the hero's entrance
the hero makes an exit as BB finds a solo. Brokenblade gets the solo there. Faker saw
the Q on cooldown but he forgot about the ult. He interrupts him with the ult and takes
him out. The Zonius was not used and now T1, they are going to be scrambling here. There's
no flash on pace. Your mid laner is dead. You can't get to bot. You're going to lose
soul and G2 off the back of an incredible game from Brokenblade may have dealt lethal
They have to get across the finish line, but they are so far ahead now.
They will get sold. They will get there and T1 will try to fight another day.
It's a 6.3k gold lead for Broken Blade individually. It's a 3.6k gold lead for Caps.
Yes, Paze is strong, but he's been capped on items for a while and he's the only one.
The MasterCard priceless moment of the game. G2 fighting valiantly back into it. A Kem Soul and a Baron now for them.
And for T1, you are grasping at not even straws, you're grasping at the end of straws. You're grasping at the concept of straws right now because when G2 steps up, when Broken Blade steps up, it feels like you just cannot match him.
I mean Doran is just so far behind, I mean the only positive you can talk about is the same one for Hans
where Paze has no more room to grow. Broken Blade has no more room to grow.
You're catching up at least if you're Doran.
Exactly, but the problem is there's never gonna be an answer for the damage that's coming out of Caps.
Caps has not been the story of this game, but he's 4k up as well. He is a death gap. He's on six items.
This Victor could solo win you a fight and we haven't even really been talking about him because it's been this battle between Broken Blade and Paze.
Pays with 13 kills, broken blade with 15 kills.
In an MSI lower bracket series, you might be able to eliminate T1 here.
They're on the push, they have soul, they have Baron, can they do it?
T1 set up the trap line, Pays steps forward, he is still deadly.
That was one headshot on Kaps, lost 70% of his health to Pays.
And that's the problem is he hasn't built an offensive item, there's no soniers there,
it is all damage all the time whenever he can find it.
the team. This is a real
moment. Scumand on the wolves.
Caps having to reset does have
the TP Baron remains on them
for the next 95 seconds. T1
with good defense TP coming
out from caps. And I do believe
this is a slight problem for G
to the siege is not the easiest
into a Gallio into a Katelyn
into a Lux. You don't have a
huge amount of range. If you
charge in and take the fight,
you have to be brave to do that
Can you do it against the back-to-back-to-back world champions as T1 are trying to shut that door.
A Ragnarok forward though, jump up to cap, so final spot.
Cap tries to get away, will use the Flash, the inhibitor tower in the middle and will fall.
The Ragnarok falls off, meanwhile on the bottom side,
Hunts Summer and the Brava pushing forward for a second inhibitor tower of this baron play.
T1 went for the play, Ghost Ragnarok forward from Doron, but they couldn't find purchase onto caps.
And that's double inhib now there for G2.
T1 do push caps back, do get his Flash,
But now they're trying to wait it out.
They're trying to get the Ghosty all back for Doran
to see if they can punish caps to find that angle.
But the map is so dark for T1.
They cannot leave the base right now.
One has gotten another item completed.
Faker still desperately trying to get his fourth
in a game where everyone else is capping out.
The Gallio very far behind.
Skumon even pretty significantly ahead here.
T1, they have the damage with Paze
to get it done in the right fight, but G2 have so many threats, and there's only one target that matters.
They've got to go for Paze, unless Doran and the owner can get into the backline, create some heroics.
If you take out Paze, you've won the series.
How long was game?
We started this series with the longest game of MSI so far.
I believe we're going to beat that record as they are here in game four.
the T1 you're looking for the small the small dregs of hope the 5% play how do
you find an engage is it owner blanking across the base of these very
currently is well I hope shots gonna spot that out do you try and plans a
broken blade he's outplagia he's too strong right now on this clad you go
for caps you did but you couldn't quite lock him down and that's partly the
problem as well apart from a light binding or a cyclone or a taunt you
You don't have a huge amount of ways to CC someone.
It's absolutely true.
And G2 are trying to take advantage of that
by pushing all three lanes.
They're not that afraid of the potential engage here from T1.
So they are pushing in all sides here.
T1 trying to hold on.
It's going to be this next wave that G2
need to play on if they want to try to go for the triple
in Hib.
This wave coming in here.
T1 trying to close ranks around topside.
They're going to spend the Lux out.
They're trying to just clear it out
and make sure that they do not get triple in Hib.
But more supers coming in here.
And if they go, it is win or go home for T1.
They have got to be picture perfect with their engage.
Tower in the top lane toppled.
G2 pushing in.
Carrier looking for the light binding.
Goes wide upon Summer.
T1 now relegated to defending.
Only their nexus tower is in that top lane in here.
Broken blade trying to distract as the Shurelius is used.
Carrier steps forward.
But again, between the uprights on the two initiation tools,
owner falls back.
Charlie Cristiano hits only onto Keria, Pays trying to get the damage down as well.
Doesn't use the Mikael's importantly, that's a tool that they will keep for the ending push.
Triple in here, down two and a half minutes before the in-hits are back up.
And Alkinson comes down on Fakalus with a flank G2, just gonna push through mid though.
The Alkinson gets the Guardian Angel as G2, trying to catch up to Dolman, Pays still hits, trying to fend.
Broken Blade going in as well with the Ragnarok coming out, the charge away from Kled.
Caps is down, skew on here, trying to answer with one of his own as he jumps on the faker.
LeBron headshot, the ace in the hole is going to have people up by Hans Summer,
and like, by the way, he's done, and K's flash is forward.
Hans Summer falls away, the faker's here.
T1 are not done with you.
T1 are not done with this series.
They're not done with this MSI as they wipe away G2.
But the question is, can you actually push your triple in hip?
There's supers everywhere, double supers coming through every lane.
So what they're going to go for here is they're going to try to go for the elder.
But, Sku-Mond is still alive.
If he could steal that, that would be huge.
And even if they get it, I don't know if it gets them a win here.
Broken Blade is teeping back and he's going to look for a potential fight.
He has Flash.
Paze has no Flash.
Nord is carrier.
No McKayles either.
Paze has the Seraphim on his shoulders.
That Guardian Angel and that will be the elder.
Drake. G2 decide they do not want to take this battle. They'll find another one in this
war. We have seen battle after battle after battle. Is it just a Baron rush from G2?
I think it is. There's no way for T1 to actually get out there and defend. Look where Broken
Blade is. They know he's on that side of the map. If they committed over to the Baron,
then G2 could just send Broken Blade to end the game here. T1 trying to hold on. They've
got away vision all caps is there owners looking as well this is not a quick
pattern it's only scum on doing it right now his own steps forward spotted
up at the fast side ovation broken blade see if you can get in the pace is still
there to defend alongside fake your recall coming out from pace and the
resets coming out from T1 it will be a ban through out of exchange in the end
which favors the Baron because you can just wait out the elder the Baron has
taken second here and I don't think you want to kind of get a fight right now
owner knows there's no point in me trying to steal this because even if he gets in
the pit and he steals it he will die for it and that could be game-ending your
Their base is completely in shambles, so T1 are trying to batten down the hatches, trying
to hold on, wait for these in hip respawns, but they're going to be having to play with
the fear of a backdoor in the back of their minds for the rest of the game.
That being said, Hans, he's surely going to have them mercurial soon.
Doran's working towards his last item.
Faker's damage is becoming relevant.
We are in the true endgame, 50 minutes is approaching, and people will be so online.
Paze has swapped out his items.
He has a Hurricane and a Mercurial now.
Sold the GA.
Exactly.
Sold the GA because it's uncooled, and I believe, or maybe not even, but swapping out has no
GA will be very risky.
If they get in, they could take him out.
Hansa's full build has that Mercurial complete.
So is Doran.
Both Paze and Broke of Blade have the most kills ever on their respective champions at
an international event.
Wow.
No surprises there.
had 59 kills in a 48 minute game.
And it is heartbreaking that someone
has to lose this game.
We've had miraculous performances
from Broken Blade and Paze.
It feels like they were keeping the dream of a win alive
for their teams with Doran.
Down 6K or not, he's full build.
It no longer matters.
And there's the mercurial for Han.
So down 5K or not, who cares?
The only disadvantage for Han right now
is that he has a GA and it's on cooldown.
That's really the only difference.
Faker just got his death cap.
So Faker even now does damage.
In a fight like this, these games are so rare.
Yes, there is the sole edge, but the burst is so high
that it won't necessarily matter.
These games are so rare in League,
but when everyone is at true six items,
you can get one shot with one step too far forward.
Especially when you have a Caitlyn.
She has a headshot lined up and she walks up the broth
and the broth doesn't shield.
He's dead.
That is a huge amount of damage as caps tries to step forward the inhibitors respawn for T1 in bot and mid
The top lane one still 43 seconds away as the elder has expired
Which is why G2 feel that they can step further forward towards T1 broken blades gonna walk over that trap line takes one
Cap slowed with the under tote
T1's flashes still not quite back up dormant has one but pay still doesn't have his nor his faker
G2 stepping forward no flash and hunts summer skew ones
It's about to come off cooldown.
Caps just lost half his health.
It looked like an ult snuck in there from Paze.
No one blocked it.
No TP as well for Caps.
He's relying on his teammates, relying on that Inspire shoot.
Slowed up by the Loosen Singularity.
Broken Blade building up a huge minion wave here.
Quad supers.
Once again.
And now T1 all hail the defense.
Can you pull it out of the hat?
Can you find something magical?
You've done it so many times before with the arcane song
coming out.
Paze is forced to walk away.
They've been hit on the topside about to fall to Broken Blade as T1.
They need to heal, they need to get back up.
The wave's not quite here yet for G2, but the Nexus has started to fall.
Cyclone! The Cyclone!
Go in!
Cassinates Cat as Norman gets on the back on Norman Fultz.
Broken Blade just looking for the Nexus.
Broken Blade's gonna charge around and Skewer wants their two, but G2,
after seven years, after seven years,
manage to topple T1.
Kings have fallen.
T1 loses to G2 in the lower bracket at MSI.
It's a stolen Nexus that finishes it,
and it is a career-defining game from Broken Blade.
You could not ask for more from that man in the top lane.
pocket picks incredible performances
Steals the Nexus from under T1 as caps died to the engage
broken blade
refused to lose
I'm speechless
What a game what a series you said it's so well as and it feels like
Unfortunate that anyone has to lose like Pacey kills caps in two shots in that fight
and then you have a cyclone here with an entrance of T1 for the whole part out.
But in the end there can only be one victor and unfortunately for T1 it was not them today.
MSI continues to be a tournament at which they struggle. This is the first time we've ever
seen them knocked out before the top four of an international but it has been a long time
since we've seen them play a title here too. We're going to hand it over to the analyst desk to
to break down whatever they can of that series.
What a day.
We'll see you all tomorrow.
It's a great day for Europe.
They do it in the end.
It is the first time that T1 drops
from an international competition.
Before talk four, we hadn't seen G2 win against T1 since 2019,
guys.
They made history today.
What a series.
Take your victory lap.
I did not doubt them
And let me tell you if they want to kick me out of this library for being too loud then do it
I don't care if they're not fan favorites. They were the better team
Oh
Back-to-back world champions that couldn't win back-to-back games. There will be no reverse sweep
There will be no sweep of any kind, but let me tell you we're getting you verse NA
G2 take it
Amazing. I mean, Broken Blade was insane. He had 15 kills against T1.
By the way, the last player to have 15 kills in an international game was in Season 2.
It was Mac Noon. So, Broken Blade has the MSI record now for individual kills by a top laner, and he knocked T1 out of MSI.
And this game heavily relied on him actually being able to do damage and get into the backline.
because it was looking really really dire for g2 early on with how many early kills t1 were getting especially
onto this Caitlyn and it was basically there was a point where bb is like 6k ahead and paze is like 6k ahead
he saved this game and he also played amazingly the entire series did he top father top fathering on the top lane
with 4 games straight and clutching it with clad here
fix the blade. It's been broken. This is the final form of the blade. He finally got
his ribbon alt IRL. This is an incredible leap in performance in all of the ways that
you could imagine this series coming together as slim as the margins were. No one was saying
more broken blade counterpicks were the answer. More broken blade solo top performance is
where the answer and yet every single game he found a way to make that massive impact.
And that's why I really want to give credit not just to this G2 team for them, their mentality,
But the G2 coaching staff, because after such a demoralizing loss like they had against HLE,
you could be like, okay, we need to go change up our strategy, we need to do X, Y, Z to be able to beat T1.
No, they stuck to their strategy. Again, they relied on Broken Blade to have these performances,
and he showed the expletive deleted up today.
Shout out to the coaching staff for finding solutions geared today against T1,
But honestly, shout out to the players because so many times you could have seen them collapse in-game.
I was thinking about the last game, thinking that if they don't win this one, it's completely cool.
They kept it steady. They kept their mental straight. I'm looking at all five of them right now and honestly, massive props.
And you saw it on their faces and some of those plays and some of those moments, like the frustration on the face of Scumon.
I legitimately think that no matter what the draft looked like, if we won Game 5, I would not have predicted G2 to win.
They looked done, they looked frustrated, they brought it back at that point.
When the comeback, if they had lost, I think it was series over.
They won it when they absolutely had to and looked damn good.
And by the way, they're now 9 and 4 against the LCK, 1 and 2 seeds this year.
So like, yeah, they did lose 3 games to HLE, but everybody lost hope for one series.
There's 3 and 1 in series against the LCK this year.
It's EU versus LCK and they are back showing it here today against T1,
against the reigning world champions.
the wall advance to the next round. I did not give them any credit after what happened against HLE, but
the way they managed to come back today, that's the G2 that I love, man.
Yeah, and look, I think credit to them for resetting after a tough loss. It's often easy to understand
or look at a loss like that, say it's over, but even when you want to wipe that loss away,
you're looking at the previous highs, which were still lower than what we expected from T1. It was
still a tight margin. It was not enough to come back to your normal level. They had to go a step
Beyond broken blade was kind of this poster child for that but overall what a massive step up when it mattered most from G2
I mean cap shakes house faker once again
The last time faker was this port MSI was because caps beat him then as well
This is the worst finish ever
Pays had the second most damage per minute in a game all time in that game Wow
Lost because broken blade had 15 kills on death dance client and now carry as Lux has lost to two people
Okay, thank you so much. This is crazy.
We have broken Blades of Father on stage.
Let's hear it from him after this massive win for G2 and Europe.
G2 won 3-1 against T1.
G2 won 3-1 against T1, and they made it to the next round.
Let's meet G2's Brooklyn Blade.
Congratulations! Congratulations!
Thank you very much.
G2 caught T1 in the 5th place in 7 years.
I'm sure you're very happy.
Let's hear your thoughts.
It was an elimination match. It was a fricking T1, but allowed G2 to take the win today.
I think we had a good prep. I think we, obviously I played a lot of good counterfeits, I would like to say.
Which was very nice in my opinion in this series. I also think we were very crisp and honest with like how the pace of the game is going.
T1 was playing very fast, but we knew other than the third game where we lost, I think we controlled the map really well.
First of all, I think our preparation was very good.
Especially, the counter picks that I prepared were very effective.
Also, the tempo and the operation part were very sharp and well taken.
Except for the 3-chats that I brought with me,
we thought a lot about how we would operate the map and how we would keep the map.
And I think that the game itself is well-explanated.
You told us about the counter picks.
Speaking of counter picks, strategies, pocket picks, you pulled up Vayne, Cho'Gath, Yasuo,
Kled, only you could do that and you were cooking today.
Do you think those strategies and picks that you prepared were effective on the top lane
matchup?
I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously a lot of people know my clit nowadays and the vain is something I've been working on for a long time now and
The show that was a bit more spontaneous
I thought it was really good against their terms and it used to be a counter pick
So I was like and I know what pressure and the asshole as well. Yeah, I mean, I'm sad it didn't work that game
But yeah, I think my counter picks were very effective today. And I also think it was a good reason of our owner
First of all, many people already know about Kled, and Vayne has been practicing for a really long time, and she has been trying to take him out for a long time.
And in the case of Cho'Gath, she was actually a bit aggressive, but it was a really good counter-pick.
Actually, it hasn't been long since she practiced, but it was an aggressive pick, but I knew she would play some way, and she was a well-known counter-pick, so I took her out.
In the case of Nareu, Yasuo was trying to fight against him, but it wasn't that effective and he couldn't win, but Yasuo was also in a good position.
From the beginning of this tournament, G2 received a lot of expectations.
Also, G2 personally said that he wanted to achieve something in this tournament.
At this point, let's see how close G2's goal has become.
that this MSI you wish it could be a tournament where you can finally achieve something. At this point
how closer do you feel at the goal right now? We're getting closer so I'm feeling very content
with it but we didn't finish the job yet and we obviously want to bring another trophy for all
Europe in MSI and we are working every day to make this happen and I hope you guys follow our journey.
It's getting closer little by little.
So I'm a little satisfied, but this is not the end.
I'll do my best until the end to keep a really good game.
I want to take the MSI trophy again in Europe.
I hope the fans will be with me on that journey.
And the upcoming matchup is LEC vs LCS.
It's a match with a defeat that has the pride of North America and Europe.
Let's see if you have anything you want to say to Lyon as G2 Broken Blade.
Like an Eastern team. I think we are at the level of an Eastern team, so I wish them good luck.
We have this lovely Jason for the Verizon post game interview, but just not done here on the desk as we have CAFs with us rather, joining us man, for help.
Thank you, thank you.
Any first reactions after this amazing series from you?
No, I'm super, super happy just that we finally managed to bounce back as well after a very tough series against HOD this time around.
It still was looking a bit shaky, but we got out in the end.
What was the environment like, what was the conversation like when you went back after that HLA series?
Because clearly what was said, whatever was practiced, worked really, really well.
And I think people are dying to know what was the focus when you got out of a series that was really so unsighted.
I mean, I think definitely like resilience, I think honestly game one wasn't even like the worst game.
I think we fought back in many occasions, but I think after that we were just a bit out of it.
And I think we didn't really keep seeing the angles that we would usually go for.
I think we just lost a little bit of, I don't know, just like being able to see what we should be doing on the map.
We were a bit lost, honestly.
So I think just making sure that even if we do a lot of wrong plays, I'll say even today, we still just keep trying, keep it going, go for the next play, you know?
2-1 are a very different team than HLE.
So looking at this matchup, a lot of people, myself included, were thinking,
okay, this might be a little bit of an easier matchup for you, just based on stylistic play.
Would you agree with that? And what kind of did you see in T1 that you felt like you could really take opportunity for?
I mean for sure I think HLD is like very strong in especially the early game and I think they just put us in some very very tough spots very early.
And I think today we were still finding ourselves in some tough spots but not quite as extreme deficits.
And I think when we got a bit more time to scale up and make some good plans we actually found some success.
Tell us about that last game, because it looked so hard to get there, playing around the elder, going for that Nashor, that took me through the last minutes, the last seconds caps to get this one in the end.
I mean, yeah, this this game was just like very much back and forth as well
Like we start over like a nine top middle, but yeah, I was like, okay guys, maybe it's tough
But then we slowly like a quarter way back, you know fight after fight
And when we finally started getting like Baron we started getting the in hips, but I realized take it slow take it slow
We had our moments to walk up. We had our moments where we had to respect like the headshot for paid as well
On the trap at the end I was like, oh no guys this might this might not be so great
But but the BB found the insane and then it's that all right
I have a very important question for you. At the hotel yesterday, I ran into Dylan in the elevator and he was like we're about to scrim lion.
So how did those scrims go? Because obviously both of you guys came out today and had really strong performances and now you're going to be facing each other.
Yeah, I mean I would say that I'm not sure about the exact score but there was a lot of remakes. I think a lot of early games fighting and it's like if we died a few times we'd remakes.
I'm expecting to be very bloody nice. Okay. I like that like channeling the aggression the constant
For you I like when you look at
Why as a team I think the front-run of the most people talk about our players like inspired and berserker
Do you have any strong feelings about going up against Inspired?
He's kind of become, I think, one of the front-runners of the poster kiles for NA as a whole.
Do you have any special feelings on that matchup and going kind of against him?
I know it's not a direct role, but I'm curious if you give any special thoughts to going up against him.
I'm for sure, yeah. I mean, I think we obviously went up against FlyQuest a lot with Inspired as well,
and I think now going up against Lion with Inspired is definitely very exciting,
because we're doing it like year after year after year.
I remember in the past we were playing a lot against Team Liquid,
but now with Lion coming in, it feels like the Dragon meme,
But it's like, C1, DLG, and then there's Lyon, don't it?
So that's how it goes.
All right, I love that.
If you lose that, you're going to get roasted to the end of time.
I want to be clear.
I respect you.
I respect you.
I respect you, Rasmus.
This is, there is no world where I would have predicted
this particular lower bracket outcome.
Wow, you're saying this, but you get it?
I did predict 3-0 for G2.
I did predict 3-0 for you guys.
To be fair, I thought if you lost a single game, the series was cooked.
I thought the mental might be in dire straits after that HLA series, but I'm like,
if you're going to do it, you'll be better topside, bot side will survive, and you'll do it really fast.
Yeah.
We've talked about the fact that it's been since 2019, since you won against T1.
Actually, back when... There were SKT back then, actually.
The one that T1, but yeah, Potato, Potato.
How good does that feel for you, especially because I don't know if you saw the trailer coming in this morning.
Faker was saying yeah, I think those caps victory against me really belong in the past
He hasn't been able to touch those in the ages. This is ancient history. So how does this one feel personally taking him down today?
I mean, it feels very good. I think honestly just our performance has been improving ever so slightly like I think the
Last few years just a little bit better and better and I think now we're really starting to win like multiple series against help
Yes, okay, we definitely still have a long way to go. We want to be the best team in the world
But that's what we're aiming for.
Which felt more satisfying?
3-0 against Gen.G?
Or 3-1 against T1 today?
That's a hard one.
I think probably 3-0 against Gen.G.
Okay.
Just because they had like two losses at that point during the entire split.
But this one feels very good as well.
Alright.
Any words that you want to share about NA, about facing them?
Do you have a message for them?
I feel like I've already said enough about NA.
Alright.
Make the meme.
Make the meme for him.
You heard the words.
against we will do better because we just really need to work on the resilience like even game one like we
was it was it was a close series i like the host game i would say and if we can keep it up for the
rest i'm sure we could turn it around i do think they're favored against BLG um but honestly BLG
also have been looking very strong this entire year so who would you rather face in the lower bracket
after you obviously beat lion um trio i think i would rather face BLG probably i think uh i mean
i didn't know that we have to beat both of them and with actually sending us to low bracket i think
meeting them in the final and that's a really good narrative.
I'm excited about the EU versus NL, but we'll see that in another day, because that's all for us here for now.
Kaps, thank you so much for joining us and also for all the work today with G2.
Congratulations on defeating T1 here in Korea. Three days remain here in MSI, so join us tomorrow for the upper final HLE versus BLG.
It's going to be 10am CST, 1am PDT, and then on Friday, Lion vs G2 Resport, EU vs NA is back in the lower bracket in round 3.
Thank you all so much for watching.
Can be kind to each other and have a good night.
Let's go!
The first phase of the bracket stage is over, and now, today, we eliminate two more teams as phase two begins.
It's me, it's me, it's me, it's me.
I hit.
I'm, should have been okay.
We have Vengo with Ralsen.
Looks good, press load.
You go go go. Go, go, go, go, go, go.
That's it.
That's it.
That's it.
Neal has ulti and WR.
But keep chasing slowly.
No, no, no, no.
Keep going.
No, no, no, no.
Wow.
Keep the style, we can end this.
We can end this.
We can end it.
We can end this.
Yeah, if we kill style, we can end it.
We can end it.
LION will clean sweet team secret whales!
And for the first time in four!
years North America makes top four internationally
Manage to Table T1!