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I can do whatever I want, all day
I don't need to try, so this is all DNA
I'm gonna cry, I'm gonna cry
Even if I do it together, I won't be able to do it together
Look at me, you can't do it together
I don't care, I don't care
I'm gonna be in front of you
I'm gonna be in front of you
I'm gonna be in front of you
I'm a financier
I'm gonna focus on me
If I like it
Let me get it
But you can't be like me
I'm so much
I'm still in this state
I can't say anything about you
I'm standing in front of you
I don't even know
if it's a dream
I can't help it, I don't know what I'm talking about
I don't know if I like it, I'ma get it
I can't help it, I'm so far away
I'm still standing, I'm still standing
I can't run, I can't run
I want it, you're the world I want
I want it, can you come follow me?
I can't help it, I can't help it
And you better get the beat, I got you, get it, fuck it, you are
And you just get in the wild, and I got something to do
Don't I like it?
I'm not as good as you get to be
Somebody like me
I can't imagine if you knew
I can't do whatever everything I want all day
I don't need to try, this is all DNA
I'm always you, I'm always you
Even if I do it together, I can't do anything
Look at me, I can't even open my eyes
I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do
I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do
I'm a, I'm a, I'm a financier
I'm gonna focus on me
If I like it, I'm a-getting
Oh you can't be with me
I'm a-getting
I'm still a-getting
I'm a-getting
I'm a-getting
I'm a-getting
I'm a-getting
I'm a-getting
I know nothing about you, I'm not the one
I'm a fake, I'm just a fake, I'm different from you
You're the only one I can show you, that's it
The more I go, the more special it gets
Now, come in, yeah, focus on me
You're the only one I can show you, I'm the only one
You're the only one I can show you, I'm the only one
Yeah, it's a little funny, so make it
If I like it, I'm the guy here
Oh, you can't like me, I'm so much
I'm still here, I'm still here
I'm running, I'm running, I'm running
I'm a feeling in my mind
No matter what you say to me
I know my power
I can't do it, I'm at the top of the world
Follow me, I like it
I can't take my eyes off of you
Take a deep breath and breathe
Hit the bass drum, make me feel good
One, two, three, we're going to fight
Yeah, we're going to take the world full of flow
When the beat goes, we can't do anything
Hey, hey, hey, look at my lady
Let's not waste our time
That's my, it's gonna be great
Wow, I'm so dizzy, I'm so tired
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
Hit the pace, from a game to a mood
One, two, three, four, we're going to fight
Tonight, we're going to take
I can't turn back, my friend
We got no time for hesitation
That now, take that, no fuel
Still like living in the magic
Yeah, I'm a kid who dances like a kid
Yeah, I like the champagne
Let us keep up the care
I guess I watch it, gonna dance
I'm gonna get some time
I can't change anything
I'm only in your mood
I'm a figure-struck
To the left, to the right
I'm gonna shake these guys up
To the left, to the right
I'm gonna shout out to you
I'm gonna wave
I'm gonna lose you
I
I'm dizzy, I'm lost in the night
Until I'm full of expectations
I'm so tired of the new world
I'm so tired of the new world
I'm so tired of the new world
I'm so tired of the new world
I'm so tired of the new world
Hit the bass drummer, this is the right mood
One, two, three, we're gonna fight
Tonight we're gonna take it
We can't turn it around, we're friends
We got no time for hesitation
Then now take that black feel
Feel like living in the magic
Okay, if you're the talk of the town, I'm gonna give you a kick off.
Good times to make your vibe get down.
That tree with that big tiger sound.
I don't know what you're doing, but I'm going to get a little better
It's the fire that's right, it's just you know how
I'm just too busy to get to the bottom of my heart
Ah, I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
I don't know what you're doing, but I'm gonna get you
I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you
Hit the bass drum again, this is the right mood
One, two, three, four, it's gonna be a great day
Tonight, it's the night, one, two, three
I can't let you go, I'm your friend
You know we got no time for hesitating
That mountain, take that bus, feel, feel like, living in the mattress
I'm a street girl who dances and dances, let me put it in champagne, let us fuck it
I guess don't watch it, gonna go swim to the gas tank
I can't get enough of the water, I can't get enough of the water
It's your own movement, the volume of the water that's floating on the floor
To the left, to the right
I'm a little bit better than the others
To the left, to the right
I feel good
One, two, three, fight, make a comeback
Girl, off-low, busy world
When the beat goes, what's the attitude?
Hey, hey, hey, look at my lay back
It's not the end of our time
That's not gonna be great
I'm talking about the life I live in
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
It's time to watch it
It's a noisy society
The building is empty, the building is empty
I hope you close it and close it
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I'm here at the desk with three overjoyed LCS colleagues here. You need probably
It's okay
No, join us you're all welcome to all of branches here just take it join lion everybody's welcome
It's true led by a European anyway like you'll feel right at home
but what happened yesterday I mean inspired destroy G2 yeah yeah and
really wanted to he really wanted to destroy I mean the trash talking
afterwards was you could tell they had been brewing for a while okay well let's
take a look just how personally took everything
I think it's pretty obvious that I think sending you to home feels way better
Honestly, I wasn't surprised by anything. I expected them to kind of do nothing in the games and they were doing nothing.
So it was pretty easy.
For me, it wasn't a debate for a long time. I think I'm the best since a few years already.
But there was a lot of people thinking there is a competition.
So yeah, I'm happy that I showed today that the competition is far away.
Hello!
Yo, wait with me, guys! Hello! Why so quiet?
Actually, I run into the photographer, one of the photographers of the event, and they
said, what's going on?
Inspired today.
He keeps doing the such like he wants me to take a picture of it, but it's like the
wide shot.
He's not even in it, but he keeps doing it.
What is up?
So explain it to me.
What is up with that?
It's so personal.
He talked about wanting to play with Caps.
G2 didn't want him, and now he wants to end G2.
That's just what it is.
But he holds these tweets.
He kept that for years.
He had that.
He had another one when G2 trash talked him after being eliminated from Worlds, that
He then retweeted again.
So he was holding these grudges in the chamber
from a year ago.
I mean, he should know what, that was very personal one.
They photoshopped a DM of Inspired saying,
can I join you, do you need a jungler?
And so he had it ready to go.
I mean, I will say, by the way, yes,
but like waving and stuff is a little extra for Inspired.
But the interview was completely normal.
He literally gives that interview all the time at NA.
He trashed up exactly like that.
I guess some people are like,
when he's asked the question,
or do you like it more that you knocked out G2
or that you made NA winners like knocking out G2?
And I'm like, where are your priorities?
I mean, in the right place, I guess.
I'm OK with it knocking out G2, because we will still
take the region third place.
We're going to actually.
Top three and maybe more.
Yeah, exactly.
Maybe more.
And maybe more, would you say that the stars are aligning?
Chocks, what are you doing?
No, what are you doing right now?
We know you're a cursed magma.
All the graphic are the stars are
What is this?
You're trying to stand out an easy route or something. No, where's the HLE stars aligning graphic?
They didn't even have to play fury. They lost to the same team. They beat the same teams
The stars are like it's just that they've beaten all these great opponents. Sure
Okay, okay, that was very Canadian of you. I love it. Anyway, you can talk all the shit you want basically
We own it. We own it. That's how it is.
We six-ohed. You're gonna find Europe for that, actually.
Yeah.
And they can say that. You can't say that.
By the way, Lion beat them so hard, they kicked their coach. Can you believe that?
This is crazy.
It's such weird wording. They said he's gonna be benched and that they will make an official announcement when he leaves.
Yeah.
It feels very sudden, like they have fired him or he quit.
But we don't actually know for sure.
This is actually insane news.
Yeah.
This was, and I was thinking like, OK,
is this something they were planning before and then just
decided to announce after?
Outfall?
Or is it?
So short after?
Yeah, it sets such a short reaction.
Because they put in there, we are going to make a video when
it's final that he is released.
That makes it sound like we did not want to leave.
And it also doesn't seem like it was prepped or they already would have made a video or something
I think it's the timing that makes it suspect, right? That's the thing
Two days after beating G1, one day after beating T'Long
We're too strong as North American defeated T'Long to handle
How did this happen to Jocla before?
I feel like he energy eliminated someone or maybe
I feel like he has eliminated the coaches
The next year did they play with Sunday, I feel like, or something like that
Don't get kicked, we talk about it later
In any case, not today, in the near future.
Tomorrow we also have an absolutely amazing, amazing show match.
Oh, this is cool.
The league classic show match.
Yes, everyone who's been watching for 15 years is going to have the best time.
I can't believe we're going to have a Doublelift and Weisschau bot lane.
These two helped literally pioneer what AD Carry is today, and they're going to be
playing in the bot lane together. Weishaw taking the support role after his time returning
to the AD carry role in the old man cup over in China.
I want to take bets now. Do you think Captain Jack can still do a Captain Jack? The cleanse,
the mechanics still there, is the timing still there?
Ooh, I think you can.
Can Captain Jack still do a Captain Jack?
I'll raise you on, can Yellow Star still do the Yellow Star?
No! Stop!
Oh my God!
Yeah, I did too. I did too.
Hey, it's not just old players that are back here
getting some talent out of the basement.
Wow!
Check this out!
You guys look like yours!
All right, what years were each of these photos?
Mine would have been 2011, Kobe.
Yeah, yours is not even from a show.
Yours is from player days.
Kobe, are you being held hostage in this picture?
What is going on?
That's 2013, yes, we just lose a game or something. What happened?
Shox is 2013 surely. I think I think Freak is like that's gonna be like 2010
Yeah, that's what he's doing this
He's about to do this that's the oldest
Yeah, I was gonna he's wearing his
Jacket that's the fish yo's favorite picture of himself. Yeah
Oh my gosh, I can't, this is gonna be so fun tomorrow.
It's gonna be so cool.
Oh, I can't wait.
But hey, not too late because we have an amazing match ahead of us today.
Let's take a look at the bracket because we're all euphoric, no pun intended,
about Lyon making it yesterday.
But for HLE, Jack, there is so much pressure.
So let me explain here.
Remember what happened at first end?
Korea wasn't in the finals.
Remember what happened earlier when T1 lost to G2?
HLE is the sole representative of Korea who don't want to be locked out of back-to-back international finals and crucially
The top two the two regions that get to the grand finals get an extra world's
So HLE loses do they not only not win they cost the LCK their fourth world slot
So that would mean if T1 finishes fourth and HLE has lost this game. They don't get to go to worlds anymore
3RX finished fourth. They don't get to go to Worlds. You know who would get to go to Worlds? If you retroactively go back, see that baby.
So let's go Lion. Let's go.
If we win, half our whole league is gone.
Half of our league! Let's go!
Come on!
I shouldn't use that word!
That's crazy. I can't imagine half of that would be out there.
It's a party.
We'll see.
Anyway, about this matchup, when we talk about the pressure,
there's also, of course, a lot of pressure on the man in the middle.
He did not necessarily have the best performance against BLG.
Emily, talk to me about Zeca.
Yeah, so we're going to do the first Draw My Life of this year,
talking about Zeca and how important of a member he is in.
Draw My LCK and LPL Life, Zeca.
Kim Zeca Konwoof began his pro career as a midlaner for KT Academy in 2019.
While on Vici Gaming, Koma kind of plucked him from KT Academy, and then BLG in the 2022
and 2021 seasons respectively, Zeka and his teams unfortunately did not finish higher
than sixth place.
Early on in his career during this time, Zeka was really criticized for his performances
and limited champion pool of melee champions specifically like Akali, Yone, and Silas.
Returning to the LCK in 2022, you guys all know what happened.
unexpectedly qualified for Worlds and then upset T1 in the finals to win a
world championship. Zeca has been given the nicknames of Super Soldier by the
Korean fan community and Game 5 Devil due to his propensity to always win the
fifth game in the best of five. So if it goes to fifth games Zeca has a high
chance of winning it. He's also been known for hitting the gym and his workout
teams actually started in 2022 on DRX with his teammate and friend Kingen. That's why
you see the little muscle HLE emote there. While he initially was criticized for only
being able to play melee carries, Zeca is now one of the best mid-leaders in the world
with a very well-rounded champion pool and it's made such a huge difference from his
time on DRX to now how reliable he has become.
One of the craziest arcs in League of Legends pro-player, I have to say.
I like to, there was an interview and they asked him, like, are you trying to intimidate
people physically when you're on stage?
He was like, it's nothing to do with that, it's just about hell.
He wants to intimidate people in the game.
True.
And Emily now, if he loses, he would stop the future Zeka from winning Worlds, because
he won as a fourth seed from the LCK, so he could cost his region that opportunity to
recreate himself.
Either way, that's not a very probable outcome.
Whoa!
We are dog.
But also for people who don't know, Emily does all the drawing for that, which is always incredible.
It's one of my favorite parts of drawing.
Spreadsheet and drawing, still only a Guild Wars World Championship.
Why are you trying to pair us against each other?
That's a good game.
That's a very good game.
But hey, we gotta talk about the Elfin in the room, because that guy did not play well
versus G.L.G.
Absolutely, because he's so core for HLE's success.
They love to play a really powerful mid-top side of the game with lots of support roams,
B.L.G. kind of beat them at that game to knock them down here into the lower final.
He was laying against the best current player in the world in night,
but that still could be a confidence hit as we move forward in this MSI.
Yeah. And the big difference to me was shown and on working together in tandem.
As you see these highlights, they're always at at least one of them,
if not both of them is always at the scene of the crime, right?
And this was the huge difference maker in addition to the fact
that Zeca was going up against Knight directly.
Yeah, I literally think On had a perfect Shen game.
That was actually perfect support play.
He defended every enemy jungle invade.
He constantly was going with Shun on these offensive plays,
and he layered his CC perfectly with his teammates.
On is actually in crazy form right now.
It was beautiful.
This isn't a BLG segment though, Colby.
So what is HLE?
Is it not?
No.
Yeah, HLE, they really do kind of have to catch up to that.
I mean, their jungle and support synergy,
they do need to level it up.
So they continue with that style that they did
find their winning ways with.
All the LCK, you know, casters and analysts
are always talking about, all right,
HLE looks so much better when everybody was on board
with Kenavi and all of their plays
were looking smooth with those invades.
So once that plan, you know, actually is in accordance,
then it looks a lot cleaner.
It's true.
It also has big implications for the match today
because we've characterized Lyon as a bit of a slower
team sits back then, then strikes right at their prey when HLE has been more aggressive
from that early game.
We know how inspired likes to run the game.
He likes to take high percentage fights and he likes to decrease the variance and it's
worked incredibly well when they are confident.
He's also said if his lanes are on fire, he's going to try and flip the game and just that
statement means you have a pretty low chance of winning.
So we'll see how that ends up playing out in this series Emily.
Yeah, Lyon's willingness to seed objectives definitely comes from Inspired, but yesterday the thing that was most impressive is how he adjusted his gameplay due to draft and his lane state got involved a lot earlier, especially in games 2 and 3, and also increased their Drake stacking in game 1 really early.
Yeah, the critical thing that we always bring up for Inspired, everybody's talking about his shot calling, but he lays out such a clear plan not only for the entire game, how they're supposed to find their wincon,
But then also individual fights and what people should be looking out for, which makes it easier for everyone to play.
I do wonder how their adrenaline is gonna recover from yesterday.
Just because when Dokla's talking about like, inspired was basically more locked in than ever.
Yeah.
Yesterday to be like, yeah, he can't be like, oh, job's done now that I got revenge on G2.
We don't want that happening.
They've got two more series to play, right?
They literally have to turn around in 24 hours.
And when you have such a massive high moment, it's really difficult to like,
come down from that moment and then re-elevate so gotta watch to see like what his energy level is.
I see it from the other side. I see that the momentum can be continued after today personally.
I'll be the co-fer for you guys. But let's talk about maybe some of the laners that it'll have to help or not because turns out
my top father has a top father. So is Dokla. Wow. What a shellacking.
Yesterday he dealt a broken blade. Dokla was magnificent and it's not like oh we're going to pick him when he matchups and play around him.
around him. It was actually the opposite in a lot of cases. And then here you see he still
had such big impact in these fights and playing to what the team needed to accomplish while
not giving up too much on the sidelines. And then when it did play to him, this after a
really good TP bait that he had by the way, with the end of the the Megan are and inspired
is there and coordinated. And then he gets solo kills and every time, you know, he's
He's performing so well in this series.
He truly is getting bigger and bigger on stage.
Everyone says he's a bright lights merchants
where we're cranking up the lights to maximum now.
Yeah, he, like the way they played around his Narbar
usage in particular in that game was so, so stellar.
And he said to himself, he's like, look,
teams keep passing on me.
I'm still here and I'm doing great.
It's crazy how many off seasons we go
and Douglas is not even on a team.
It's actually so frustrating.
Like oh, I guess we'll pick him up and he performs for the people that don't know
He literally did not have a team going into this year until
Zemudo's visa for Lyon was denied and then even after being on Lyon
Literally this split they signed another top laner. Yep to say Doka. You better start improving or we're gonna kick you
Yeah, meanwhile. He's won an energy. He's gone worlds quarter finals. He's on this team was a hundred things last year
He shows up when it matters and he's an adept vlogger. Let's take a look at today's entry
Annyeonghaseyo. Yogi dokoimnida. The toxicity is exactly how I thought it'd be yesterday.
And honestly, the most toxic person was the person who sings my lest. So that's funny.
Anyways, good win for NA. I still don't know what a kilometer is, but what I do know is that when I was walking last night from the arena,
from a restaurant. I saw like nine ten like ten banners of Zeus on the street and they're not even
like fauna life banners they're just Zeus banners like looks like they've been made by cans and
they're just on the street lights so um yeah it's uh yeah anyways let's have a good series today
and make that impossible seem possible.
Dokes out.
We got you Dokes.
I mean he's got real fans right here.
We got the banners.
Big Dokes.
I'll go put him up outside.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Right after this.
Make some copies.
You saw that drawing by the way, buddy.
You saw that yourself, Kobe.
I definitely did.
It definitely was not Emily who drew this.
Print those, put them up in Los Angeles
when it comes home as an MSI champion.
Right.
Kobe, we'll see.
Uli beats Zaves.
I mean these are the domestic cats though.
Yeah, yeah, this is gonna be a tough one.
They have met before as Joklah himself
talked about yesterday.
He went 0-4-1.
It was not a good time for this.
Ancient history, Emily.
They're big jokes in the top lane.
Ancient history.
And yesterday when he was on desk,
he basically did say like,
look, their solo laners are so, so strong.
We just need to survive until the mid game.
Like he was very cognizant of how ridiculous
this HLE topside is with Zaeus, Kanavi, and Zeca.
Yeah, he's very respectful and he's realistic
and he knows what his job is, okay?
He's not gonna try and ego battle 1v1 Zaeus
and fight him to the death.
No?
No, maybe if he has inspired right behind him
and it's perfect timing.
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Does anybody try and paint again?
Yeah.
But I like the self-awareness, you know?
This team is not all ego.
They're a lot of banter,
but they also have very realistic expectations.
Exactly, he said the ego's just the one next to me
No one else here, not that bad.
Hey, but if we look at it kind of player for player value, Emily, Zayas, right?
One of the most hyped top laners in the world in every facet of the game.
Maybe didn't able, wasn't able to show exactly what he wanted versus BLG,
but he has something to rectify here.
Yeah, and I mean, this is when we talk about the strength of Asia League.
It is this top side.
Dayus is so, so good.
He has such a broad champion pool.
He's so reliably, consistently great, especially in lane,
Which I think is why Doku is looking at him being like I just have to survive because he just
Any mistake he will punish you for immediately. Yeah multi-time world champion
probably
A jace that line is
Yeah, just gonna hamper them and draft as well
I feel like line straps been really well
But it's just when you're up against that caliber of player your options get really limited
They get limited, but as you said, a lot of humility from the side of Lyon.
That's why Berserker said, I'm just as good as Gulmach.
So, okay, this is so cute, man.
I mean, Berserker, he started his career on T1 Academy.
Yep. Let's bring up the pictures because the memories are going to hit you so hard.
Look at that. Yeah. And Delight is there too, right?
HLE support at that time, I believe he was called Crescent.
And then he, yeah, he played with owner and Delight.
And there's Berserker into light again.
Basically what happened is Guma kind of stepped up
as T1 starting AD Carry during this kind of 10 man roster shuffle,
ended up winning that spot.
Meanwhile, Berserker came over to NA and became C9 starting AD Carry.
And I feel like Berserker has always had so much potential
and has delivered on that potential
when he's been playing in North America.
But I feel like when he's gone up against top AD carries in the world,
he has lost confidence in himself.
and I feel like his confidence is such a core part of what makes him great,
which is what makes it even more interesting that I feel like he actually has confidence today against Guma,
which gives me more hope than previous Preserver.
Absolutely very happy that he thinks he's as good as Guma.
Yes, and of course I wanted to ask him specifically about his history with Guma,
and I did so in the Verizon Game Day interview.
A win is a win and a very, very confidence win, I think, for Lyon.
Now you're going up against HLE, and there is, of course, history there with you and Guma.
Ayushi, from T1, can you tell me what it is like going into this important matchup versus Guma and versus HLE?
I mean, yeah, I mean, there are some stories. Especially in 2021 when I was in T1 academy and then he was like T1
And then T1 was like not...
Didn't play well at the time and I was also like didn't play well
And then like and we met though like in the restaurant T1 restaurant and then we were just talking about
Life is so hard and then like it's just that kind of thing and then now I'm just like facing him in like MSI
Like top three. So yeah, I mean I'm really happy about that and then
And yeah, I mean, I always like lost for him, especially when I met him in the international league, so yeah, I mean, I hope I can revenge.
Look at them now.
I know.
I love this idea of them.
Life is hard, Emily.
Life is hard, but we go on.
Well, look at us now!
Yeah!
The huge arena and they get to play against each other.
They're an enemy territory, I gotta say.
Yeah!
I see a lot of intelligence.
Loads.
Yeah, but are they actually...
Yeah.
Even versus G2.
already do so at least they're a little used to being in enemy territory they're
used to it but hey do we actually think we're going to see who my chamber
zerkified in the bot lane well that's the thing I feel like if line is going
to win berserker and isles are gonna have to get meaningful push in the bot
lane because what's happened a lot for HLE is delight just leaves yeah Guma is
able to hold his own in 1v2's and allows them to play through the top side so
So, when they do that, I think
Lion needs to be ready to really push the pressure ball in.
Yeah, I think the way that both of these teams play
through their AD carries is so, so different.
Berserker is so often a win condition for Lion,
and that's where I'm really looking.
Like, Iles, obviously, his step up from his previous performance
at this tournament was massive yesterday,
especially the Barg game.
I'm also looking at Delight because he,
their road, they both did their time on lower teams.
But looking at these champion pools,
you see the only shared mage between Berserker and Guma
is that Ziggs.
And then I did love the Tristana response
and the Shen response from Berserker Isles.
But the way they play is so different
because HLE really relies on the fact
that Guma is just so, so solid.
And you can leave him on his own.
Like Delight doesn't have to be with him.
And he will make plays along with Kanavi
on the top side of the map.
And the only team that we've seen here
who's been able to shut that down
was Shunan On and BLG.
Yeah, and it was by leaving with him.
It wasn't by punishing them in the bot lane.
So what I feel like Lying needs to do
isn't necessarily something that any team has been able to do.
I feel like it's a sleeping dragon though in the bot lane.
For Guma, you just know when he has to step up.
They always have it in their back pocket
and it scares me a little.
Yeah, I would have been a little bit more confident
Rezuka was like, I'm as good as Viper or Paze,
because Viper was kind of silent on Guma,
even in all the games that they played too,
so we'll see if he can actually get to that level.
Yes, definitely.
So we talked a lot about Inspired already,
and I just think we have to take a little bit more time
to talk about the jungle matchup,
and Laura caught up with Kanavi
in our Horizon Game Bay interview.
Kanavi, thank you so much for joining me ahead of your game.
What do you think of Lyon, the way they made it so far,
and what makes the team stand out maybe?
Lion is the number one seed from their own region
so their landing phase is really solid
and their teamwork with their junglers on point.
Anything more you can tell me about Inspired
because in the West he is regarded as one of the best junglers
if not the best jungler that we have,
what do you think about him as a player
and what makes him strong for his team?
I'm pretty sure Inspired doesn't matter
which team he's in every year,
He always finds huge success.
I think it's because he has great mechanics and also great leadership.
When it comes to facing off against a team like Lyon,
who is going to be a mismatch with you guys being much stronger,
is there anything that you feel like you have to be careful about?
Do you think they're going to maybe surprise you more with champions or with plays on the map?
The fact that Lyon made all the way up here means that it's not a mismatch.
You know, they are also a very strong team.
So I don't want to let our guards down
and we will focus on kind of shutting down their key picks.
Thank you so much for the interview.
Thank you.
Very measured response.
Yeah, it's like, I mean, what,
I think this was recorded actually before the G2 match.
So perhaps he would have been,
he would have used more expletives if he watched that match,
but still giving the credit where credit's due.
But hey, look at these stats at just MSI.
Now remember both these teams have lost to BOG both these teams have beaten TSW and both these teams have beaten G2
So they played identical
Composition inspired us through games with fury as well. So he's played even more number one
But inspires played exceptionally well at this world championship and does have the respect of all international world championship. Yeah
Yeah. Yeah. It's MSI. It's okay.
And I'm looking at...
It's going to feel like a world shot.
I'm looking at Kanavi because he is...
He can be such an engine, again, for this HLE topside.
One of the biggest things that this team really got together
during the road to MSI was them being able to play
around how aggressive Kanavi can be,
especially early and in tandem with Delight roaming on the map.
And I think that's going to be so so difficult for lion to match if they are just constantly pushing the pace
That's the fear. Yeah, the only team that's been able to do it is BLG
That's why this is such an exciting matchup and everybody is looking at the jungle
You know Kenobi going straight against inspired who's leading this team and trying to always craft the plan
I'm not just trying specifically for the enemy jungle
So, you know, he always is looking for that way to kind of nullify the biggest piece the biggest component that has the most
volatility to it for the opponents so I'm excited to see what sort of plan he
comes up with. Yeah, Kobe's always excited when the jungle matchup is in the front of the center.
Yeah, you're just like I'm excited. I don't think there's an answer coming. If there is one inspired
I think he's gonna find it. The difference is I never doubted them and I'm not gonna start now.
Okay, nice call back. Let's see what the fans at home think in our MasterCard fan prediction
of the day. Let's see if Lyon can garner a little bit more support in the online sphere.
or whoa!
What?
Let's go!
Yeah!
I mean, honestly, I knew we were going to lose, but that is really high.
Let's go!
I thought this was going to be 90-10.
Also, the fan prediction rate has plummeted over the past few decades.
Fismal, it's still over 50%.
It's about to go to even lower, everybody.
They didn't predict Lion to win.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Also, zero perfect pick-ups.
They can't predict to save their lives.
They're just like us.
True.
Most of my predictions have been wrong.
Well, maybe today as well.
Let's get into those predictions then.
I'll kick us off.
I don't want to jinx anything.
That's only why I picked HLE to win, three and one.
So I'm on your side, really, Emily?
I think HLE's topside is going to be way more difficult.
You're shaking my mic away.
I was trying to put my hands up.
You hate when I say so much, Gaby.
Don't touch her.
Yeah.
I think.
It's just going to be so difficult to deal with this topside.
It's going to be really difficult to deal with.
Kanavi, I think Delight is going to be out roaming Isles
on the map, which is a huge mismatch for me.
How can Light do it for me?
You're 3-2, so you're going to give a little wishwash.
I'll give you the 3-0 pitch.
OK.
This is crazy.
Every series that NA has played at MSI has been a 3-0.
So giving anything but a 3-0 or a 0-3,
everyone is, I'm the only one who has the possibility
of being right.
We're sweeping or getting swept.
That's how it's gonna work. The pressure is on HLE because Korean fans are very clear that the pressure is on HLE.
They cannot lose, and if they do, LCK loses a Worlds C. I think that's going to matter.
But then also, if people want to call Lions Run fraudulent, HLE's run is more fraudulent.
They beat the same teams, they lost to the same teams, their losses to BLG were worse, and they didn't even play one additional team.
So, it's a long shot. Listen, Lyon is not supposed to be here, but inspired is unlike any player I've ever seen from the West,
with how he's such a foreraiser and the plans he makes in the game.
And I've never seen him have more confidence in his teammates than he has in this particular Lyon team.
Yes, you're totally right. The stars are lining foreline.
No! Stop cursing!
Perhaps the Lions can rise up and roar as loudly as they did yesterday to make the Serena into a library.
All the pressure is on HLE. Can they do it for the LCK? Let's get into this.
And there are only three teams left.
The last round of the finals is left.
Someone has to leave.
The last four seconds are left.
In this season, two veterans are waiting for another uniform.
I think I will be the first to advance to the next team.
I think it will be a very important victory to think about the relationship between the two teams.
I think it's great, winning three world championships and then going for a new challenge is very exciting.
I know it's from experience, just living in winning team with a lot of pressure in you and a lot of expectations.
And I do think that he stood up to that pressure.
I think Umayoshi is a very smart player that really knows his job and when it comes to
In the clutch situations, he always finds a way to be a slow.
And there's an incidentally barge, that's the pick-off!
On to Omni by so much time!
The crates have been called, now is the bullet's fly!
Lion is clean, effortless guy. First blood to Lion.
It's been seven years since LCS was at this stage of the tournament.
I think everyone is looking at us from the underdog mindset, but I think we're going to use it to our advantage, play with no fear, and hopefully we can give it back to our NA fans.
Inspired dancing on the graves of Europe.
But I think we're gonna use it as an advantage, play with no fear,
and hopefully we can give even back to our NA fans.
Inspired dancing on the graves of Europe!
Don't wave at me, guys! Hello! Watch the quiesce!
We're going to prove that LCK is the best league in the whole region.
And HLLE column alive! Finally here in Zedron!
The best players in LCS and the best players in SK have put their best efforts into the final.
I've been ganking a lot recently, so you will never expect me in the bot lane. See you there.
I'm going to show you my support for the LEC, the 1st generation of SK.
A new fate is approaching.
And who will be able to face that moment?
Call your shot.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the penultimate day of competition here at MSI 2026.
BLG is waiting in the finals tomorrow, but today Korea's number one seed, HLE, takes
on North America's number one seed, Lyon, for the right to meet them tomorrow on the
Rift and fight for the MSI title. Uncapped flowers joined by Azale and
Dagda here for this best of five to see who really deserves to take that stage
tomorrow. And both these teams absolutely destroyed my home region so we get to see
which 3-0 is actually gonna be better here today. I am very excited, honestly like
one line has shown of this tournament has been incredibly impressive. I knew
level of being able to find success in the early stage of the game take over from that position
And I think they need to just not here today against how well I teach for I mean
I think they have to do everything at its highest level that have their capabilities
You know lion has to play their very best series to have a real shot here against HLE
Let's be honest. It's David versus the lion here
But lion have shown that they can at least go toe-to-toe we saw them against BLG who obviously is already waiting in the finals
and yes they did get swept but in all three games they were a teamfighter two away from potentially taking those games
and that is what I'm hoping they can do get themselves in with a shot and then hopefully execute in some of the teamfights.
I feel like it certainly favors HLE here the LCK historically the strongest region at international competition.
People will bring up of course that the LPL is the region who traditionally wins the most specifically at MSI
MSI and of course BLG is already waiting for today's winner.
But for North America making it to this stage,
you even heard in the opener today,
inspired himself talking about how it's been seven years
since North America got this far.
Getting here was not supposed to happen.
And now as we get into champs of light,
presented by HyperX here for the first time today,
we'll see if Lyon can find another miracle
or if HLE will prove their might.
HLE really want to try and get that rematch against BLG in the finals.
A ton of world champions on their side, but not an MSI to speak of.
Still waiting to add that to their trophy cabinets,
but it starts with trying to take down line here today.
And I think that's kind of the beauty of HLE,
is that they are trying to establish their own legacy,
separate themselves from these other teams, other rosters,
other players that they have played with in the past.
And this team is absolutely looking terrifying,
And they are gonna have their eyes set on the finals. They are gonna be
Expected to crush Lyon and I wonder if that does add a little bit more pressure, right?
We think back to HLE's last series against BLG which was rough
They won the single game otherwise BLG very dominant especially in those first two games
But you think previously in the tournament HLE absolutely
Smashed both Secret Whales and G2 in Swift 3-0. I do like the prep that we have from home
coming in towards draft though because already getting rid of Saints Dorianna
and the Akali two champions he's been great on but the least him from inspired
as well has been one of the most impressive picks for me coming into it so
yeah that is fair. I know they've been thinking pretty hard about it because he's
been impeccable on this champion and I think trying to remove some of those
tools where he can be active in the early stage is gonna be great. Yeah I
completely agree I mean his leasing has been absolutely inspired if you want to say so.
Okay, all right, we're not even making the past champ select for you
Gotta get warmed up, you know that he's into it
Casio gonna be banned now
Which does allow them to take the rise and Zeta it'll be interesting to see where he wants
Oh played the anivia once we're getting an early key on it though
That is pretty surprising here for inspired obviously is something that can you know dash under that cataclysm
That is gonna be able to have a lot of threat but drafting it so early
You do not know if there are vulnerable carries over on the other side for you to attack
Well, one thing that I immediately think of yes
You can dash out of the cataclysm
But you can also supremely display your talent back into it and potentially turn the ulti back against HLE
It also means that for a lot of the picks that you want to try and take into the rise
Those are vulnerable to the kiyama as well. So maybe that's basically what they're thinking here
But already we're seeing what was going to be the goomayushi delight special this ziggs and Camille in the bottom side
to like wants to get out on the mop early. Yeah, it's gonna be very interesting to see how I respond now
Do you actually match any of the rules here? It looks like they're gonna go double solo lanes
And then of course HLE could be targeting the bot lane picks it potentially this is really nice
What is gonna be poppy this is a potential flex. It could be top or support
I do like this kind of new shift towards you're looking to actually counter the Camille instead of looking towards countering the actual
that you can see.
People are thinking, OK, well, we're just going to draft
poke, and we're going to poke back and forth with the zigs,
and then they get engaged on it.
And some of these teams now, we've seen things like Taliyah
Leona going into the Camille, which
makes it so hard to make plays.
And I think that Poppy is that same premise.
It's making it very difficult for the Camille
to ever go in aggressively.
And so I am kind of feeling like it's likely
to be played by Isles unless we see something
blinded by Zayas.
That is a good matchup.
Yeah, no, I agree.
We see basically this trend of supports
that are valuable at level three,
and having that steadfast presence so good
when you have to move around the map
and you move back to that bot lane
around the eight minute mark to get that catch up XP
and then you get access to the level six
and Poppy is a menacing team fight against people
like Jarvan because he goes in, half your team goes out.
You're gonna be happy if that is lying.
And you could also stop Ziggs from being able to escape
with the Satchel if you're positioned correctly
with the steadpass presence.
So Poppy having value against all three choices
already locked in here for HLE will provide a lot of value.
The NAR and the Annie banned out by Lyon here in the second phase
while Ezreal is the target fan here for HLE.
Something I really think about too is having talked to Inspired,
he said this in interviews as well,
when he is playing against players he thinks he's better than,
he doesn't want to take risks, he wants to play really steady.
When he's playing against someone like HLE,
that he says, okay, you are the better team,
we need to get spicy, we need to have surprise picks,
we need to have aggressive moves, we need to take risks,
because if you play stable of a game,
You are kind of just playing into their hands.
So that is what I'm thinking of with this flex poppy,
with this Camille, rather the Keanu coming in early.
And the final band of the draft here for game one
is the Vayne, that target ban towards Dokuah,
getting rid of one of those ranged top laner counter picks.
It's very different to play against.
It creates a pattern, but if you're not ready for it,
you can be caught off guard.
We remember the performance on Vayne earlier in the tournament
from Broken Blade on that Vayne that really kind of showcased
that so HLE doesn't want to deal with it.
Instead, we're going to see the Zindra locked in for Zeca.
I wonder if it is just going to be something along the lines
of a Scion or a Cassante.
That's kind of what I was thinking of when
I did see this game, Dan.
Of course, it can be good into the renec-tion as well.
This is the winless Scion, though, 0-9 so far at the tournament.
I'm going to be so curious to see where
Dokla decides to go.
Does he just want to go tank for tank, play the poppy?
Or does he want to go something a little bit more spicy,
play for that 1v1?
I kind of like the tank because honestly, there's not much in the way of AD damage on the opposite side.
Sure, you've got the Jarvan, but realistically, you can match with something that, I mean, even if there's a hand,
you can go towards like a death stance. I think you get a, I'm sorry, not a death stance.
If you can go towards that early match resist, I think you're in an okay spot,
but you're just going to go for the Ambassador looking to see if he can carry from that top lane.
Yeah, going to be going towards the Ambassador, and there is quite a bit of setup.
So there are some interesting combinations.
You talked about the interaction, obviously, with the Supreme Display of Talent into the Cataclysm.
There is also the possibilities of the poppy stunning people in the cataclysm as well.
There's possibilities of you then get any of that CC.
The Ambesa ult comes over the top.
You have setups both from the poppy as well as the Keanu.
You have setups from a Jin Rue from a Ryze W.
There are a lot of ways to try to set up that Ambesa.
If you can get in on the back line, attack the Ziggs, attack the Syndra, that is the goal.
They're going to have to be creative with their angles because you cannot fight through the Sion with a comp like this.
But Lyon has had good setup, has had good prep, so I'm excited to see how they want to play it.
Alright, I'm going to go ahead and ask you gentlemen, then with all 10 champions locked in, Rob, I'm going to go to you first.
Which draft do you prefer here?
I like what Lyon have to be honest. I think you've got a good setup for Doklan, that topside, which is going to be a key to success for Lyon.
And then you've got great 1-3-1, which enables you then for those objective setups, getting down vision, getting control to make sure you have those flank angles.
And if you're able to attack HLE before they can set up,
I think that's your biggest win here for Lyon.
I mean, it's really interesting because I think with name plates off,
I like what HLE have, but knowing that you are the underdogs' Lyon,
I want variants, I want something that is a little bit more spicy.
Even though I see Lyon's comp as harder to execute,
I like what they have drafted given the circumstances,
given that you are going up against the number one team from the LCK.
Yeah, HLE, certainly nothing to scoff at.
You guys already mentioned earlier how there's plenty of World Championship accomplishments here on this roster with these names still looking for that MSI title.
This is HLE's first MSI as an organization and being able to make it to finals there, you know that's what they're hungry for.
Yeah, especially for guys like you, five MSIs in a row, not able to pick up a single title.
And he's been doing pretty good on, you know, the other event that we have in the year, Worlds is-
The arms are full with all those World Strokes music.
It is full of them.
But well, we'll have to see if we can carry on the Ziggs.
But it is definitely something that both himself and Zayasr are hunting for coming into this.
It's also worth mentioning, it is not just a single TP advantage, it is double TP advantage.
Because Ryze, of course, plays Ghost these days, but it's also TP Ziggs down there in the bot lane.
And Iles is not playing aftershock, he's not playing Aile of Blades, anything too crazy.
It's going to be spellbook. So spellbook obviously has a lot of value later on,
but if you do have an early all-in, you're really getting nothing from that down in that 2v2.
So they're gonna have to play pretty well here against Camille who has so much early game power with the ignited hill of blades
And this is kind of what we got to see from HLE against G2 was if you can get to light out and work in the Cannabi
We need to cover some of that early aggression
That was one of the ways that HLE were able to get such an advantageous game one
And I think this is something we'll continue to see here
Especially when you look towards Cannabi on the Jarvan so good at those counterganks against the Qiyana
We just saw Isles, he actually started W, level 1 there.
So, he was expecting the Hookshot start from Delight, so he actually starts with that step-fast presence,
and is able to reject that Hookshot as he's going in, so, just really looking to keep Rizzurka safe.
Again, it is more about countering the support than it is about that Ziggs, and look at Isles, there's a roam coming mid here, and the Camille will be spotted.
Okay, not any play about to happen here just yet, as Rizzurka does take the opportunity seeing the enemy support on the roam,
to put some pressure on Takuma Yuushin.
You can see on the left side of your screen here,
the journey so far at MSI,
both of these teams starting off with a free zero against
Yuria and Team Secret respectively,
as Iles again stops that hook shot.
This is actually huge though,
because he uses that fast presence and Jarvan is coming.
So he won't have that now as Kanabi's coming in.
Kanabi ready to make the play here on the bottom side.
Iles trying to get enough distance,
but he does get caught by the EQ combo.
Tries to tackle Kanabi away, but no!
First blood of Takuma Yuushin.
Berserker tries to get something back with a deadly flourish, but you called it a zeal, a big mistake, and now Jalice tries to get onto Berserker, good ward to spot out though.
Yep, lands the stun there from the hook shot, bouncing bomb, gonna throw in some extra damage, Berserker pops the barrier to keep himself alive, but now down to 100 HP and missing a summoner spell, he's heading home.
I mean that was just really, really well played there by HLE Delight, obviously setting it up, 10 seconds in advance for Kanavi, climbing out that gank perfectly.
They know he's moving down. They forced us that fast presence and then as a result
There's not really much of an opportunity from Isles
I think his only way out might have been flashing the flag drag
But I think he saw it as the flash doesn't get me any more distance than just tackling the Jarvan afterwards
So I feel like it's probably correct just hold on and we remember the first game that the light played Camille in this tournament
What was it 3-1 and 3 by six or seven minutes into the game?
His performance on this champion can be so
suffocating for the enemy team if he gets ahead if he plays the way that he
wants to and setting up plays like this for Kenavi is exactly what HLE fans
want to see. Exactly and the gold went right where you'd want it right Guma is
able to get that gold the only thing that a vert disaster is berserker
living but they're gonna try to get bought and see if they can punish Guma
who's pretty far up this could work. Okay I also put himself in position here in
the tribe Raj. Guma you she gonna step forward flash stun in the wall coming out
for miles Guma you she with a flash away but he is blocked there with a safe fast
They need one more hit, come out from Inspired! They get it!
The turret will not get anything in return, but now up here on the topside, the light makes his roll.
The hookshot guarantees that Dokla has to flash away, but Lyon's top laner stays alive.
Still, you end up with that kill on the bottom side, and the early kill for Inspired is massive for the Kiana.
At TP now, going back to the bottom side, Goomayushi, have to use that just to try and get back to this lane.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's a pretty critical kill there. Get some gold for Inspired.
for inspired. And even more important, I feel like was the fact that Dokla lives because
if Dokla loses that wave, Zaeus gets a kill and Zaeus takes a plate right after, then
all of a sudden the sign is a brick wall that you cannot contest. So critical plays on both
sides of the map here for Lyon. We know that HLE are going to be beast in the 5v5. We know
that too. We even have a chance in the 5v5. You've got to stay close or maybe even have
a lead by the time you get there. And we think back to the last series of HLE played up against
BLG and at least for the first three games it was so go the skirmishes so go the game
Which ever side got ahead in these small scuffles early on was able to snowball it into a victory game number four had a bit
More trading back and forth a game that was closer for a longer period of time
But if you're lying you cannot let HLE always be deciding what's gonna happen because they will push the game forward
And they'll do it fast and that's why the early kill for good me
He's a little unfortunate for line because it does keep the tear to the Zeke's to enable him to push significantly more
Which opens up to light to move more even now that early dragon going across the HLE
This has become such a strong stacking combo in this meta get to dragons roam around the map
Maybe for go a couple of them so he can look for plates and gold elsewhere
It is about trying to snowball through this definitely isn't it's also interesting
Obviously syndrome becoming pretty meta in this tournament
But it is only the fourth time in Zeke's entire career that he's actually played the pick
So not a pick that he has shown a lot obviously when he won his first world championship
He was known as the melee guy and he has become so much more well-rounded in the year since then which is
Incredibly impressive to me to be able to just advance and advance and advance in your career
Well now we've got another play coming up here in the top side as Doka tries to use public execution to get away
But no
Decimating smash for the follow-up from Kanavi and now Eiles and Sage trying to get something back
but they found themselves trapped in a cataclysm.
HLE still got 3v2.
Decimating Smash, finds another.
Iles is killed out by Delight's Ignite.
And HLE are burning bright in the top lane.
Oh, trying to get one more inspired!
Inspired goes into the dive on Kanavi.
He wants to get something,
but he has to trade his own life to do it.
And HLE come out on top in the play.
I think inspired once he knew that he was spotted,
that Jig was up, hide and seek was not going to go well for him.
So trades won for one.
But that's what Lyon expected.
they thought that they would have the numbers advantage on the top side with
Saint not prepared for Delight and Canavi to already be in position. And
honestly it came down to a couple little things there. Doku is able to actually
use that public execution to taxi out of the play a little bit here. It could look
so differently because you can see on the map the HLE members are going to be
first here and then watch this all from Doku. He's trying to use that as a taxi
over onto the Jarvan, but the side step from Canavi is so critical because not
only is Canavi avoiding the damage in the stun, it means he didn't actually
close the gap in, but we gotta go back to live potentially.
It looks like St. Will be okay.
Now they are able to run down and kill Isles,
and then we do know Inspired eventually got one back,
but yeah, that alt missing such a big deal.
Yeah, even at the Canada there in the back line as well,
Inspired didn't come in initially,
was trying to stay off that pink ward that was there
to try and surprise them,
but already knew the play had gone sideways
before he could really join in anyway.
You can see the frustration on Doko's face.
He knows that is a pretty big moment.
And the one thing working for Inspired in that 1v1
is it was a positive trade as far as the Summoners.
Kanavi did flash and still died in that moment.
So the gold's still very close,
but Dokla's top lane matchup getting that much harder
as Zayas walks away with a kill and assist.
Yup, Zayas feeling good with that scion,
just farming up, getting tanky as this game goes forward.
And the thing is, Lyon's composition
has an assassin jungler as well as Jin as the AD carry.
If Zayas gets ahead, if he can get these tank items
and become that big meatball,
It's going to be so difficult for Lyon to punch through him as HLE have started up the grubs.
First grub going to be secured here by Kenavi.
As Lyon arrives on the scene, HLE will walk away.
Yeah, Kenavi didn't have the flash, so little bit nervous to stick around as Kiana's ultimates
was just about to come back off Kuran.
So Lyon able to bully them off the creeps should be able to pick up two of the void grubs
and just try to position themselves further on this topside to enable Berserker to catch the wave.
One thing I will say, Sion obviously is a brick wall, but they do have some ways to deal with it.
particularly Isles and his ult. If you can actually knock someone like the sign out, if he's going for a Q-Channel,
you knock him out of the fight, all of a sudden, all of the targets are pretty juicy over on the HLE side,
but they're going to have to be very clever about how they approach about the angles that they find,
because of course, I agree, it's not a winning proposition to try to fight through Zayas.
It's also why I love the rise with the Qiyana as well, because even a realm warp
to get the Qiyana into the backline, into positions that they're not expecting, can be so crucial,
And that's also to do with the point and click CC,
the rise can offer for some of these early plays.
Although 10 minutes turning into the game now,
we're going to be looking more at these objectives as a minute
until that next dragon.
I think Lyne would love to try and at least keep
out HLE from stacking these.
Exactly, HLE's first dragon, remember,
was taken just about five and a half minutes into the game.
Very, very early to get the stacking started.
If they can continue keeping that pressure on,
then Lyne are going to be the one sledding
to try to find an answer before they're
under the pressure of surrendering the soul
over to HLE. First items are coming online for both of our junglers here as the Sundar
Sky and Baltic Cyclosword are purchased for Kenobi and inspired, respectively, so similar
power spikes for both junglers with 40 seconds left to the Dragon spawns.
I will say while the gold is close, there's a lot of crystals building up on these towers,
so if someone wins a teamfight, especially if HLE wins a teamfight with the Ziggs, you
walk up, you knock the crystal off, you have the passive, you could all of a sudden execute
that tower and get this massive injection of gold, which could make things incredibly
hard for Lyon so I do think if they fight this next dragon it is gonna be
critical for Lyon. Alright dragon down to below 15 seconds you can see Kanabi
hanging out around the mid lane here does use the sweeper to clear out the
vision from Saint on the bottom side river here towards mid lane recall from
inspired going back to base purchases a serrated dirt for some extra assassin
capability but with the Lyon jungler all the way back home HLE has total control
over the bot side. Yeah I don't think HLE know this though and that's why they're
been a little a bit hesitant to start this up, although I think from line's
perspective, trying to get into this position now into river is going to be
tough, but you don't really have a true tank. It's kind of just I'lls who has to
face check this. Exactly, and with SIGs and Syndra firing off bombs, scatter the
weeks, it's very very difficult to potentially make your way forward.
Saint Trotto approach here on the left side, inspired over the wall, goes in for
Supreme display of talent, but it's fired a skilled first. Gohiyoshi with a mega
inferno bomb, I'll trap inside the cataclysm. HLE has lost their support, but
They've killed the enemy support in the jungler as well the dragon goes over the lion
So at least they'll take the objective
But they lose out to the one and kill saintees stepping up again managing to get the dragon in the middle of all of that
Four line so even with those kills going over it's still a very small goal need for HLE
But objective secured exactly I think because they got that dragon and really does bail them out and even getting a plate
Off the back of that there for saintees means the gold actually got closer
Even though they did go down a kill we can see this one more time
Inspired is just looking for the steal trying to go for the angle over and as soon as the light does show here
He goes in and looks to 100 is zero and watch the gin W coming through trying to burst them down
Saint is getting in there and they are able to burst down inspired as the Megan for no bomb lands
But then that spell flux through everything the Q bounces and that's what actually secured it
Yeah, insane stuff there at the managing to get that and I think this for line
It's massive like you actually get to keep that goal lead but in touching distance
You're stopping that dragon stock it gives you a lot more opportunities to start moving around the map
And I think we're starting to see from inspired like that kind of risky game play that he talked about
It's like he was saying when I'm playing against these top teams
I need to take some more risks
He's full cent it there
But it was his combo despite him dying that set up that win
No, and I completely agree. I mean this is something that I whoa
So, Dokla goes in for the public execution, wants the solo kill on the Zekka, but the light is ready to try to stop him!
Dokla's all the way underneath the turret and he grabs the kill!
Hacks Zekka ultimatum! Keeps him underneath the turret for so long that the light gets won in trade! It's a one for one in the topside!
Really well done there by Dokla. New Zekka had no ultimate, but it's a trade of flashes.
He gets the kill and he gets the ulti off of the light there and hadn't the light not been there.
It would have been a free kill, so Dokla gets that Eclipse, goes in aggressively, takes down Zekka,
And second is going to be very vulnerable now with inspired having flash and Isle's flash will be up before his two and two minutes into the
Riftarons
That's the next big objective right if you can start taking some of these turrets like and keep HLE on their side
You don't get some of the skating that the Ziggs would love. Isle's marching to just to make it out of us
Yeah, but still I think you're in a decent spot now is lying
But the only thing is that 1.2k gold lead is all on Guma you she not bought me
That Ziggs is still quite large that Ludens Echo still a problem when you come to this next fight
Exactly, and that is only going to be exacerbated if HLE takes control of the topside river first when it comes to this rift herald that we're talking about.
Huffing to approach a rift herald that is protected by Guma-Yushi, and the zone control that Ziggs provides is a very tall task for Lyon as Dokla,
trapped underneath the tier one turret up here, it's a four man play, coming out from HLE, and it's way too easy.
Kanavi takes the kill, Dokla goes down, and Guma-Yushi is going to put in work on the turret,
Bringing it potentially low enough for a satchel charge here soon
I wonder if there is an angle though for Lyon to try to play this now with no mega inferno bomb with no Hextech ultimatum
With no cataclysm available those are some pretty big ults and
Where's not really any backup here until inspired can wrap around behind but Knav is there to cover so I don't think this is gonna be much
Of a play. Yeah, I was literally on an island there was not gonna have any sort of support there
So he ends up just kind of forcing Gumi Uchi back still though
This is what HLE have been so devastating they're doing when they have this six is constantly shifting
Gumiuchi around the map looking for these quick plays to take down turret plates only a single plate name standing on that turn in the top side
And Gumiuchi just gonna roll mid to pick up the wave and we're talking about how close they were keeping it
Well, all of a sudden it is a 2k gold lead here for HLE just like that
And that is before our first tower was claimed and that top lane tower is looking quite vulnerable
So, Alliance have got to try to hang on to this and launch that bleeding a little bit because if Guma who's already so
Accelerated is able to get up there and satchel that tower
It's gonna be a massive lead for him and you can see that lead right there in your coin base gold grind just about
1,300 more than what Mizzurker has on the gin. Gumi-Yushi very powerful
Needlessly Lord Rod in inventory and you can look at the top side river look at the vision placed down by both sides
You've got the control wards in the area for HLE side. They got their eyes on this
But can I be in Delighter down to this bottom side?
Maybe giving up space on this rip, Carol, to see if they can make a play towards Doklai again before that flash comes up.
And Keanna, for Inspired, has only just reset. So you're not exactly in the position to rush it, although Line giving good respect to us.
HLE not able to find that play bot side.
The reset from Inspired does provide him with the purchase of the edge of night.
So the extra ability to block a spell may come in critical here.
Now Zeca trying to protect himself underneath the tier 1 tournament, Iles wanted to approach and just barely survive
Scatter the weak into the unleashed power from Zeca takes the enemy support down to 10% HP as HLE calls in the cavalry and
Looks for a counter punch. Goomi Ushi gonna throw a bomb won't get a whole lot out of it realm warp
He's trying to get sainth away, but Iles is already down. Megan, Fernobov yet again, but one is gonna be traded back by Lion
Delight him up the tier 2. Sainth's gonna make the kill and Lion have a 2 for one so far
Zayas and Dokla both arrive into the fight as Dokla continues looking potentially from an opportunity here the ripped
Herald down to half HP and Lyon have control over the objective and that is massive
Isles with such an aggressive play
I don't think HLE were expecting that because Isles was on 10 20% HP gets the flash stun into the Kiana ult
The Gino opens up St. Derives that was beautiful from Lyon and getting that Herald means at least for now
HLE cannot claim that free first tower which we're trying to slow them down for on the side of line
Yeah, I would HLE. I was like oh you're a psycho. You may usually have old you're on free HP
But he's full senses managing to perfectly synergize and inspired and I love the way line are playing this like hey
We will trade one but we will get to and it's kind of been the story of how they're trying to go for this just far
And it's working out relatively well for the lion are going to secure the first turret in the top lane by focusing on that
because they know that HLE want to go for the third drake now making it that much more critical that Lyon and St.
specifically stole away the second one otherwise this would already be a soul point situation.
I mean this is big. They were down over 2,000 gold three minutes ago and they have now brought it to a very slight lead on the side of Lyon
and they didn't even use the Herald to get it. Now they're trying to set up for Zeca here again
but unbeknownst to Dokla there are a lot of other HLE members in the area.
Hey, Lion also floating their jungler and support nearby, Kenabe and Delight spotted out now.
As Zeka pushes forward towards the tier one turret, Ile's nice using the set-fast presence.
As now, they want to go in after Kenabe! The damage comes through and Kenabe dies, but he trades his life for its fire.
Both junglers already in the picture as Goomayushi's going to get caught!
The public execution lives up to its name! And Goomayushi falls in front of Lion, two for one!
Gohiyoshi didn't have his camera pointed behind him, a liner taking snapshots at this one.
Incredible stuff. Lines, patience from Dokla seals the deal.
Yeah, that was crazy from Dokla. He was up in that top lane for such a long time, waiting and waiting and waiting until they were spotted in the enemy jungle.
And it's his patience that really did set up. He is way up there in the top lane looking for this wraparound.
And again, Isles is the one setting up, stunned with that step-by-step presence into Inspire's ult, into the wallbang, into the root from the Zerker.
The CC is very deadly, and then Dokla here catching him with the ult.
But it's again this thought of, hey, one will die so the others may live and thrive off the back of it, right?
You're getting this combo between the Poppy and the Keanna who are giving their life, but then it's the follow-up afterwards that's going so well.
One lion dies for the good of the pack.
Excuse me, sir. It's called a pride of Lions let them have their pride in the way you can see the smallest beaming on your face
They know it's pride right now
Okay, I mean for a North American team to be able to answer the map movements and the team fight cohesion of Korea's number one seed
Is a rare occasion right HLE is a team that has not lost to anybody at this tournament except for BLG again
They swept Team Secret Wales and G2 in phenomenal fashion and Lyon know they've got to be ready to answer
Everything these guys are coming at him with and finding that pick on Gumi Ushi is exactly what they need
You say it's a rare occasion, but I'm thinking about to fly question Gen G pushing them to five games
They've nearly been able to take them down
Like you are no stranger in the LCS from pushing these teams to the limits and TL had had some good series against T1 before that
But they haven't been able to get across the line, right?
And that is inspired goal. He has talked about that.
He wants to be able to...
Well, you named the team, though. Yeah.
Exactly. He wants to be able to get across the line
at least once against one of these top LCK and LPL teams.
They haven't had the opportunity so far this tournament
because the expected opponent top got knocked out by Seagra Wales,
who they then knocked out. Then the expected opponent, T1,
got knocked out by G2, who they then knocked out.
Yeah. And you can see right there, the man's own words.
I want to win against an LCK or LPL team.
I told myself I would focus on just one game
and do my best to win the next game.
This one right now rests on a knife's edge.
It is a small gold lead for HLE.
They are up the single drake.
So they do have the advantage,
but the way that the Teamfight plays out
is going to be so much more important.
I think it's the two-item spikes
that are the scariest right now for HLE.
Like Zeca having two,
Gumi-Yushi hitting on towards that as well.
Even looking at that topside,
like Zayas is quite large
and kind of becoming in charge of this game as well.
So I'm wondering now when we get to this next fight,
Can we have Lion with an earlier reset for Inspire?
So he gets to the fight first, finds the creative angles,
because I think it's pivotal to the success of Lion here.
I really agree.
And I also think this next 10 minutes,
the game is going to be decided one way or the other,
because I think when Syndra and Ziggs both have Zonias,
it gets really, really hard for Lion.
So now there is that opportunity.
If you can get it on Aguma, you can maybe one shot him.
If you can get it on Azek, you can maybe one shot him.
When they have Zonias, when they have all these luxury items
and GA's, it gets so much harder, I think, and the same, I don't think, is really as
true for Lion and the items that they're going to be graphing.
Yeah, especially when you're playing in this AP carry role, like, you get so much access
to gold, getting those luxury defensive items comes so fast as well, so, Gunmeyushi can
already see sitting on the needy-seed arch rod, he can pop off for the Seekers' Armguard,
and then see if he has to pop it. If not, great, we go straight for the Rabadons. You
There's so many options here for Gumi Ushin, the Bilpat, but there's the Herald used.
I wouldn't say it's optimal, but definitely was made to time out.
Yeah, they just kind of had to use it, unfortunately, not the most effective Shelly as it'll walk
down mid lane.
HLE would love to just pop this before it can ever make its way all the way to the tournament,
and it looks like that's exactly what we're going to get.
Herald down below 2,000 HP, no charge into that one.
It's a nice job from HLE not giving Lyon the opportunity to use the Herald the way they
He wants, get to the weak, flies out.
Steadfast presents, fly back to the delight.
Supreme display of talent takes him low.
But HLE's support stays alive for now.
Lyon almost got the pick, but close doesn't count.
HLE regroups, Delight's gonna take a recall.
Burst coming in from Guma, you see inspired,
nearly killed off by the Mega Inferno Bomb,
has to flash away.
Kenavi looking to re-enter.
Zeca also chunked the low half.
Bullets being traded back and forth,
but nobody falls, curtain call opens.
Zeca trying to get himself away.
Zercher needs to dial in, but no, all four missed!
Yeah, and that's going to be an HLE.
Will grab this drag, and they focused on to Inspire.
They forced his flash defensively.
Hiles has been so quick on the reaction,
they tried to burst down to light,
but they didn't quite have the damage.
It didn't seem as though St. Orver,
Zercher could really get involved,
so it was just the two hitting,
and they weren't able to burst him down.
He gets away, then second gets away at low HP.
Inspired has to go back to base,
and it is HLE now on sole point here.
The gold is close, but you give them Hextech's soul, and the combat power is not close.
I think Lyon's reading that was that everything from HLE was about to come over that wall.
So he got inspired with the ultimate, I was trying to keep people in check, but they don't
commit with the lice, so they have to back away, and he had that flash to escape in that
last engagement as well, so HLE, their patience paying off there, because they avoided a lot
of that follow up from Lyon.
Okay, so important to note, right now, Inspired has his Guardian Angel on Qiyana, St is two
two stacks away from fully stacked on the rod of ages.
So one big power spike already online,
another one now 60 seconds out for Saint.
We talked about how important these zonias
are gonna be for the two mages on HLE.
This is the response I feel like from line.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, obviously the row it's taking over is big,
but really it's the fact that it gets you to 16.
You get that rank three of that spell flux,
the bouncing damage, it's so high.
And when you get that actualizer that he's gonna be
building towards next, that plus level 16,
That is a massive power point for them.
Rezurker likely working in towards his infinity edge next.
That'll be another big one.
Guma at this point in the game, I'm thinking he's probably
just going straight towards Roa.
Delight tries to go in for the dive.
Rezurker gets himself away for now,
but there's your mega Inferno bomb, and Guma,
you she torches him.
Now Zayas has to try to get out of the way of the tournament
as Isles uses the keeper's verdict to knock away HLE.
As the remaining players try to escape,
Isles still here on the front line,
but he and Dopa have to try to fall back.
Navigos further forward as Dokla tries to stand and fight.
Inspired and safe, can't provide enough damage,
and the dust settles as a one-for-one.
Zayac's health bar is just too tanky to get through.
You end up with a pick onto Berserker,
and the Terror now going down for HLE
with a quick collapse on the mid lane.
A very close fight here.
The goals remaining quite even.
It looked a bit crazy, this initial dive here,
but they had seen Dokla on bot side,
and I guess they see the Poppy on the side as well.
they see inspired on that ward so they have a lot of vision and they realize you can't respond fast enough even though
They kill off the light that zigzall is just so much damage
And I thought here don't am I trying old says while he's underneath the tower
He didn't have that tea at the flash but it said they waited until Isle's end of getting that knock away
But it means this is just a kind of back
Like you just don't have enough damage in the tank to get through this health bar
Especially with your it's early spirit visage picked up by Zeus like Saint just doesn't have us and you saw there too
Not a whole lot of value out of inspired supreme display of talent kind of just flew into the tier one turret
Wanted to make sure that they were at least able to get the kill on delight, but he was already dead
So lion getting one for one, but losing the turret at the end means HLE
Still comes out on top in that one and the rabbit on death cap now completed for Gumiuchi
Means that this two thousand gold lead on the ziggs will be disastrous for lion if they get caught in the aoe
I mean, that's 2k getting dropped right on your head every time the light throws down the alti
There's no real escape for Berserker even though Isle's I think did the intelligent build rush towards a lock
It might even be going Knights Fowl second
He's gonna do everything he can to help keep Berserker alive
But that zig's all is gonna be 60 70% of your HP it feels like at this point if he gets a sweet spot
Which is why it works. Hello with the Camille the lock down into us makes it so easy to just shoot
Shoot the fish in the barrel and at this point. I think HLE they've enough control over the map to try and keep that pressure up
You've got Isle too. I say Delight is leaning down towards his bottom side and also Kenavi potentially looking for Saints in the top half
And if you're lying now, this is a one-fight game
I don't think you can give up Hextech's soul and expect a win from this position
It is a goal lead really that means nothing at this point of the game
It is only 1k obviously the individual lead for Guma is big, but we still have Saint now on three items
We have inspired on three and a half. This is the fight they must win
They have to deny the soul if they want to have a chance to continue where HLE really just needs this one fight
And they could probably secure the abyssirker it must be close to this affinity edge
He's been sitting on both these items for so long
I feel like one more way if you should be able to pick it up
Which is where doklah nicely leaving that midway form
But it does mean that you've got to get a quick reset as this gin to try and finish off that third item
Yeah, I I wonder if he is it's hard to know because he's down a full 2k, right?
And is Guma on just those three items with the tier on top?
Yeah, maybe he's not.
So I don't think he's going to get there before the next dragon spawns.
And there's no real vision here for Lyon.
HLE with a great setup and are going to look to punish anyone from Lyon who steps the foot wrong.
And this is what I'm talking about.
Trying to arrive second to the objective against Ziggs and Syndra is so difficult for Lyon.
HLE knows it.
They're grouped up here in the mid lane.
It seems caught.
Hextech ultimate will seal his fate.
and the mega inferno bomb burns his bones.
HLE, find a critical pick right before Dragon's Soul.
Blink and you miss it, the river was dark
and they just lit up Saint immediately upon entry.
HLE, it's just gone, they've got us, the soul is theirs.
It's a beautiful play there, Delight setting it up,
Hookshot Flash catches Saint and Saint gets destroyed there.
As we see the Dragon's Soul claimed
and our MasterCard priceless moment of the game.
HLE now with a stranglehold on this one.
It is just so fast, so decisive here from HLE.
They have that one ward,
and Satan does not know he's on vision.
Instantly they go in.
Even with the flash, you cannot escape the Camille ult.
There's no way out for Satan.
You can see the look of dejection there.
It was also such a hard re-entry for line
because you want to be coming in from multiple angles.
Inspired is trying to see if you can play around vision
on the bottom side.
same when you look towards no clay it just leaves you so isolated for these
picks and that is the moment where this Camille support shines when she can just
narrow down one target and blow them up with the rest of the team. Delight on
Camille is the truth man you've got the actualizer done for Saints Rise you've
got the Infinity Edge done for Berserkers Gin but for a game where we've been
talking about this whole time it's never really been more than 2,000 gold lead
so okay that's not much to write home about but the Hextech soul the slowing
Chain lightning that you get from the frock on this thing is going to be so obnoxious for lion to try to deal with and I feel like
HLE feels like they had to have just won the game with that pick in the objective very likely
I mean the only hope for lion is is one-shotting one of these carries because they are going full damage here
None of them working towards that don't use at all so far
And so that is your hope that is your prayer
But the difficulty has been HLE have never given them angles lion have never been able to get vision around these objectives
So they're always walking in blind and when you're walking in blind as this comp that has to surprise your opponent
It's just not gonna happen. You're not gonna find that angle at HLE. I've been turning off the lights
Yeah, I'll discovered by Kenobi here with a jungle HLE bringing in some backup Kenobi has to try to disengage as Guma
Just throws I'lls right under the minefield with the satchel. That's an enemy support down
for quite a while now 25 seconds on the clock as HLE starts up the Baron.
Lion is nearby, Dokla has his teleport available, the remaining Lion players in
mid lane. Do they want to try to challenge for this? Inspired wrapping
around behind the enemy Red Buff as Zaka and Gumiushi try to keep everybody else
on Lion zoned away. Delight trying to mark Inspired make sure he can't jump into
the pit and look to steal the Baron. Delight with a hook shot, Inspired stunned up.
Gumiushi's very low, stays alive for now, side step deadly flourished. Inspired to kill on the light!
Look at how HLE is going to try to run, the teleport arrives from Isle, he's in the middle of everybody, he flashes away here with the set fast presence, tackling right back into HLE.
Damage of the wall from Guma Hoshi, Isle is already down, yet again by Gensernobom, forces resurrection, out of inspired, Doku dies, let's say as follows.
The zombies are going to reanimate, as Berserker is going to try to deal with Kennavi, and Zeka.
Kennavi is going to lose this grotesque angel, and say as his dead body pulverizes, inspired.
tries to get away. Zekka, Guma, Kenavi all still alive. St. The only man standing here
with a lie inside. As he continues to try to mount his escape, Gumi-Yushi re-arrives.
Kenavi looking to lead the charge. St. Hit with a knock-up combo. A-Chile! Get the 8!
It was so close until it wasn't Yutaka for a moment there. Liant might have been able
to pull it off, but Guma survives on low HP. Berserker tries to go for the hold, slashing
into the wall and it just fell flat on its face here.
The start is great for Lyon.
They had pushed out Guma who's playing on the side
at solo HP.
The spellbook TP arrived from Isles,
knocks them back in, and you think just maybe
there is that chance here, but Guma is dealing damage
over the wall the entire time.
And then Berserker feels like he finds an angle
and looks to flash over the wall onto Zeca.
Thought he could one auto Zeca,
but Zeca instantly flash responds back over the wall
as soon as Berserker dies, that is that.
I feel like he could have played it slower.
Yeah, I mean, even the TP from Lars was great,
but ends up getting the dash onto the...
Or doesn't have to get the dash onto Zeke,
which just means that Zeke is able to play it back.
Dokla doesn't end up with a public execution onto him.
Tiny, tiny things going wrong for Lyne,
and what showed that there's still life in them,
but it may have just been stuffed out.
And you could see in the damage recap there,
the big difference between the bottom lane carries
As Doklan and Delight get into a bit of a scrap isle,
Zarbati down below half HP, Delight should die.
Hextech ultimatum isn't gonna do a whole lot.
As Zeya survives in now with the teleport,
immediately rejected with the Keepers verdict.
Kanavi goes in for the match, there's three men again,
trolling up with the scout of the week!
But Zorka at least gets the kill.
Kanavi is down, Dokla's in the middle of two.
Zekka takes him out alongside Zeyas.
The double kill for the Syndra, it's a two for two trade,
but Lyon's health bars are critically low.
Gumiushi and Zeyas continue their push.
They could go for this bot lane tier 2, still make it worth for HLE.
Lyon trying to see if they can find any moment to get a pick,
but just being turned around thanks to TP from Zazz.
It absolutely is, and every time you think Lyon might have a chance,
you have to look and realize Zeca is still alive, Guma is still alive.
They are ridiculously strong at this point.
18 stacks on the mages, and now the double seekers comes in,
and those might be the items to close the door here.
You're lying, hanging on much better than I thought they would have been able to after the Hextech Soul was taken.
They're trying to find these picks, they're trying to find these plays, but it is so difficult to get in on a Zekka and Guma.
Guma is the story of this game, man. These mega inferno bombs on top of Delight's Hextech ultimatums, Iles gets away right there.
Guma, you see up three and a half thousand gold individually right now. I set it at the end of the fight on the top side.
Everybody else's damage meters were comparable on both sides and he doubled the output of Berserker's Jhin.
Goomayushi has been the X factor in this game and now you've got this mega fed Ziggs as you're pushing the enemy base
and these satchels will obliterate turrets.
Yeah, I really think this has been one of the strongest versions of HLE we've seen, but the Ziggs for Goomayushi's so safe, he's been so potent on us.
I'm delighting it with the real, but I'm stuck in behind here.
We'll see if they can actually finish it. Aintalei don't know yet.
This is a wild gambit coming out from Lyon as Kenobi has him roast.
Sagan inspires looking to put the damage here onto the objective.
Megan for an album over the top of the objective.
Bobby is going to be claimed out or secured down from Lyon.
Sagan trying to get himself away.
Toku is down and he finds the first kill.
Gumi is caught inside this dead death presence.
But he flashes over the wall.
He's going to be taken out from execution coming out from Toku.
Lyon on the hunt looking for a little bit more.
But Saka goes into the unleash power.
Kenobi is taken low.
Swim back into the wall by Isles and they will execute him with a dragon's roar.
Seyes and Zaka getting away for now and Lyon find the only angle to keep themselves in this game.
It's a stroke of genius there from Inspired and Sate sneaking away the elder here.
Look at this, they use the gates to get out on the map and then they go around here off a vision.
Sate just pushes out the wave and they have no idea that they walked into the elder.
They rush it down until he gets here in time, but Inspire wins this fight.
Yeah, so insane. They give up the mid lane Terran saying,
no, this is the best way for us to turn this game back around.
Inspired, guess this might,
Saint with the round war found,
Doka being a hero going all in on the back line of HLE.
What a play from Lyon.
And now Lyon is looking to do even more.
They've still got the elder for a minute and 15 seconds.
They want to try to use this power to catch back up,
to have a chance against HLE.
But Guma-Yushi's wave clear alongside Zeca
is so difficult to get through.
Now, Isle's going to be in some danger here yet again.
Just fine.
They're not going to over commit any tools on the HLE side
to pick the enemy support.
And you can see Lyon wanted to try
to pose for a potential tower dive there.
But as soon as you hear the sign, oh, they got a backup.
This guy is still an absolute brick wall.
Zeus has been so difficult to deal with.
Guma has been dealing the damage and Zaeus has been making the space on the scion.
Jhin is now on four items though he's getting towards that later game stage and if he can
get those last couple items you can actually start to threaten tanks on the Jhin in the
late game.
Ryze also building up some flat pan here working in towards that void staff but Lyon still
it's the slimmest of margins if they want to try to win this one.
But it's also this stage like there's so much damage in the Lyon comp that if you do miss
step like you can't just be burst out like even with those onions you may
just not have a chance to try and pick our use them and even now another
seekers on towards berserker as well just keep getting rid of these tools
where you can find those pigs for each other and I actually think it's so
smart because zigzalt is a one-shot syndrome alt is a one-shot can I be
locking you in you might just get burst down a G is not going to do anything for
you no seekers might in these situations so this is a game where berserker is
saying, you know what? Yeah, I'm not going to get a lot out of
Seekers, but it might be a one fight game. This might be the
component that could do the most for me.
And you've seen where inspired is basically just sit. He's
constantly just picking off these threats to see if he can
move into positions to catch people as they set up on the
midway, just doing anything he can to try and figure out where
HLE are and those squishy members. Again, they can be
burst out of moments notice.
Alright, HLE controlling the top side river as the Baron
spawns yet again. Scuttlecrab vision secured by Zekka. Level 20 on Zaeus'
scion. Total Plasm harness already completed. This is going to come down
to one big explosive fight but HLE certainly still has the edge. They
absolutely do and both St. Emperor's Urgr are missing their flash. Guma does not
have his neither does the light but neither of the critical carries here
online having their flash makes these flights so tough. Guardian Angel up for
both junglers. Stasis available for both midlaners as well as both bottom lane carries.
Serpent Spang fully completed for Dokla to try to cut through some of the shielding that's on so many of the HLE champions.
Lyon are going to have to execute perfectly if they want a chance, but Berserker has already lost half his HP.
As Inspired is going to be your target up here on the top side. Kanabi goes in after him.
Inspired fighting inside the Cataclysm, getting away for now.
Zayas charges in. Iles is about to die. Goobah here, she's already found the first kill and Inspired is locked up.
He's knocked out of his guardian angel, and Lyon are trying to run.
Berserker's bullets do nothing in the face of HLE.
Zeca is dominating, and Lyon is crushed.
HLE pushing for the throat.
HLE saw their targets.
It was inspired when he showed us upway, and the rest of Lyon are falling,
as HLE want to take it.
Berserker is nothing but a golden trophy for the LCK number one seed all five players stand tall
They will march to the nexus
They will bulldoze the nexus turrets and after a 39 minute battle HLE take game one
What a back-and-forth game one, but really what a performance from Guma desk. What do you think? I?
Think I just saw Lions heartbreak in
In 4K, unfortunately, they fought their way back into this one,
but HLE did not waver and brought it home nonetheless.
That elder, though, oh my goodness,
bringing the excitement into a game that is basically lost.
It's like Inspire says, OK, if the game is cooked,
now it's time to get creative and flip,
and we got to cook something up ourselves.
Definitely coping, but it's going to lose game one.
I don't mind losing like this, because I personally
didn't love the draft, didn't love the start of the game,
But I loved how much Lyon made HLE work for it.
And we can see here how kind of close some of these fights
actually were.
I got to say, I was a little bit bamboozled
by the decision-making from HLE here.
I really think this should have been a home run from Lyon.
What goes wrong in this fight?
Well, this.
I mean, this.
OK.
I was like, it's coming.
It's coming.
Yeah, Berserker Flash over the wall kind of ends up deciding it.
For me, it started with, like you mentioned the draft chat,
and it started with the early game,
and every second counts,
and thanks to the Reliable System Network,
Kanabi was on the map so, so early in this,
and this is what I was talking about.
With this Jarvan 4 pick, he sees the angle on bot
immediately, goes down, gets first blood for his bot lane.
This sets up, I talked about how dangerous
this zig-zigs picture. In the hands of Guma Yuchi, I also really love this play on top
side. Delight had immediate Rome timer on level 4 before this to actually blow Doku's
flash prior to this play. And if you want to beat HLE, even though it did get really,
really shaky in some of those mid to late game teamfights, you need to stop Kanavi from
getting his lanes ahead. Because Guma just took over this game on zig.
he did it was kind of unstoppable and this is one of the nice things about fearless draft because
when i saw this i did think h3 was going to win i thought they had an immaculate draft plan so they
still managed to get the zig spot but more importantly the scion people have been hating on scion
because it was zero nine at world that doesn't mean it's a bad champion that means it wasn't
getting picked by the good teams or on the right slots but right here when i think about like
what Dokla's goal was, and it's like, I need to hold on against Zeus.
If you hold on against Sion, he becomes an absolute monster.
So just the fact that Lyon, I feel like, picked things that needed to accelerate the game,
and then HLE's the ones that picked things for a later game,
ended up favoring HLE. It was like a nice pivot in the draft that I think really favored them.
Well, I really liked the Camille on top of the Jarvan,
because Emily, if you're starting out and we have priority for Kenavi versus Inspired,
Jarvan is one of the most proactive and early game junglers where you have a lot of options
And if you have a Camille with you you can create so many things
So the first game towards bottom side and then the second one on top side where you have the Camille going up there early
Too, you know, you have to have a lot of options early on to get them going and then we get to this despite that
Still the goal is pretty close for a very long
Close but is that is that what we're gonna walk away with here? Like how do they make it not close?
I hope that the fact that they made this game so hard gives them confidence to pick more scaling
Because I think they all into the early game, so they didn't get blown out. They said, okay
We didn't get blown out now. Let's play our game
They can play as rule because ziggs is gone. They can go back to work off them here. Oh inspired. He's reviewing already
He doesn't hold his words back, so he'll be he'll be firing up his team into game two
Let's see what we get if lion can fight back after this
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the truth about time!
When I was a player,
if I was to like make a misplay,
maybe it's my mouse,
maybe it's my armrest,
something feels wrong.
If you were at home, you wouldn't do that.
The infinite precision armrest is part of the
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Red Bull gives you wings.
Hey, what's up, Paul?
Think I figured it out, Andre?
I figured it out.
A way to go back.
Back where?
It's not where.
It's when. It's all right here.
I mean, figure out when. When is it, you know?
Let me ask you this, Andre.
What is lead to you?
Is it season one?
Is it season four?
Could it been season two when we started having
with Jungle Path-ing?
Could it be when we had Heart of Gold?
It was a shell.
Why was it named Heart of Gold?
It could be anything that we want.
I get it, Paul, but I really don't think.
Two shens in the game?
Is it season, is it OG beta when there was 40 champions?
Look at Lux.
Look at the way she used to look.
It could be any of these things, Andre.
I mean, what kind of like, fight old gripes again?
Pretty good.
But if we went back to that time,
it could be any of those times.
Be a lot of fun.
What would you call this thing if we did it though?
Classics.
No, we're done with that.
All right, okay, old league.
Who's that even for?
Your favorite league.
Okay, I think I got it.
League.
Classic.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026.
There are only two best of fives remaining before we crown our MSI champion, PLG awaits
in the finals tomorrow and we are now one game into our best of five between Lion and HLE
to see who gets to face them. Lion managed to keep it close for a long time in this first game
but HLE's superior cohesion and team fighting brought them the win. And it's not mounting your
screen right there that was able to do it. These ziggs working wonders for Goomayushi. It just
fits so well into his playstyle right? Like hey I'm fine to just be left on my own. I'll clear the
the waves and I'll just be an absolute menace when we get to those teamfights and honestly
he was taking towers, he was taking kills, he was taking everything from Lyon it felt
like in that first game.
And he was the gold lead, right?
You know he was the advantage and he was making it work so you can call him Weekside
King, you can call him whatever you want but he was the one beating Lyon's butts in those
teamfights.
You know one shotting people with the ult playing really well moving around the map.
But Lyon definitely came in with some good prep.
They have a clear idea that they are gonna go aggressive, they are gonna go a bit spicy
I like the poppy as that answer to the Camille and we'll see what they have for us in the second game
All right second time in the champ select presented by HyperX as we do have the Varus the vein and the Bard banned out by HLE
Lion responding by banning out the Jace the Vi and the NAR. Yeah, I like the respect given to all of us
Not far to yesterday was clean and I think it's something where he can be active on the map
Or you knocked her both up
So the team's gonna have to decide which do you want because very
very unlikely that HLE would want to give over both of those two Lyons. So you can have
to make that call. Do we prefer Nocturne? I think most teams do like Nocturne because
of the pairings with champions like Aurora that are really prevalent in the meta.
Also very good at attacking the Orianna in the side lane when they're going for that
setup. So I think that's why we see the Nocturne first and gives that opportunity then. Try
and play for these one three ones and have that back up. That it'll shadow in the pocket
to help you out.
And now I'm kind of thinking about things like potential of, you know, like Wukong Nocturne and Wukong plus Orianna,
you know, things that are kind of like team fight explosive.
Rumble open as well.
Or more line.
You could look towards that.
It might just be Karma Ezreal, which would, you know, surely there's no way we're not going to pick Ori, though.
Wow.
There is.
Ezreal and Lee Sin locked in instead.
Oh, you know what they're doing is they want to play Kali into it.
Yeah.
I think St. wants the melee matchup.
He's saying, you play the Orianna, I dare you, I'm going to pick a melee match up into it, and they're going to try to just bet it on that, I mean, which obviously is a high risk, no one gives over Nocturne plus Ori.
But they're already picking champions that are like, we're no longer there when you do the Shockwave, right? Like, Lee Sin dashes out, the Ezreal has that arcane shift, like, trying to time that combo, looking kind of difficult with the champions that I see on the screen.
So it does feel like that's going to be the call here from Lyon, gets Hector to pick he's comfortable with, and trying to avoid that combo to begin with.
You know, I mostly really respect it because this is obviously pretty risky. This is considered the best
Mid jungle duo on the patch, but by giving it you can have a pre-prep draft for it
You can know exactly what the game plan is how you want to play around it
And you can look to really punished in that way
And that's what you talked about in game one right inspired himself saying but I'm up against a team that I think is better than us
We have to play risky
We have to take these gambles and they're doing it here in the draft third pick for HLE will be the misfortune. I
Feel like it's probably a callee, but there is a possibility of going a different angle to his Silas has been great
His Yone is good. I would be surprised if it is just kind of like standard control mage
I think it is going to be a melee champion. I think they're gonna look aggressive
Unless they want to prioritize support, but I just can't see it. There's the callee
Yeah, I prefer the Akali over the Silas because I'm not over the PTSD from yesterday
So, the Akali feels a little bit better to me in this position.
It works very well with kind of like, Lee Sin wanted to jump in on top of Targus,
the Akali there to help assassinate, very threatening in the side lane as well.
I think it's a good option.
Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, this is what they were setting up for,
you know, as I mentioned when they let that worry through.
And now the question is, you know, what do you ban?
I'm kind of thinking it supports Targaday for both sides, potentially here.
You know, do you want to ban away something like a Nautilus or a Rel?
It's actually denying, you know, that combo with EMF.
Obviously, HLE, I don't think, is going to want to give over things like Karma and Niko.
Those would be the two obvious ones for me.
So it feels like you are trying to deny the best support pairings.
Well, I've seen HLE take the NF.
They're still very happy to have to like go for this heavy roaming style as well.
Basically saying, look, we've got the ultimate on the NF to use as wave clear.
We can leave Guru, she's down in that bot lane and still keep to like act up on the map.
So I am curious if they are still looking, which is the Nautilus band away,
or if they still see one of these like funky early map presence supports coming through.
Yeah, I mean it's true. Obviously Bard can have some anti-standard energy,
but Bard can also sometimes set it up where you throw down that Bard, you shockwave off it.
That's obviously a good end-out though. So it'd be curious to see where he wants to go.
Rail Nautilus, those are two I expected.
You're three for three.
Nico is the last band that I'm expecting. We'll see if we can get the 4-4.
That is kind of the aggressive pairing alongside Ezreal if you want to play for the lane.
And Nico is also something that allows you to actually play for the 2v2.
So they are kind of daring them a little bit on the Niko, which is interesting and makes me wonder if the light is thinking about a different angle and going more towards
You know, maybe a disengagement part
I like this call from miles though because actually just answering for the Niko right as the Niko tries to go for the ultimate
You just headbutter out which is going for the pop blossom and there's little that you can do also still very strong when it comes towards those
Roams that set up in the team fight as well. So already kind of lying trying to snooker it. So hey jellypiths
Yeah, it is kind of cool, right? You know that they're thinking a couple steps ahead here delight
Obviously is excellent on the Alistar. So like you say if they go the Nico that he could get Alistar
So they take the Alistar so he goes for con and we do have a Nivia top here
But the Mexican was banned out. That was the matchup that Dope that really did like to play yesterday
You know looked rough in the early lane, but I was talking to Dope. I was asking about that was a compositional
He said no, I do actually like that one-to-one. I think that's what I wanted to go for there
Gragas would be cool. Gragas is something that is very hard to punish in almost any lane, and I'm looking at MF
I'm looking at Orianna
I'm looking at champions that are potentially very easy for Gragas to get in on and there is a ton of go buttons here
Alistar, Gragas, Lee Sin, Akali, Ezreal all over the top
You are diving in on that back line and looking to blow them up
But if you are not perfect with that dive you have four melee champions stacked up for a concharm for a shockwave
with for Glacial Storm for all of this damage coming through from each L.E.
There is a lot of interruption though from this Braggas as well. Like if you're trying
to go for this Orianna combo, a cask to try and knock her back or interrupt that in that
hold, copy the game plan here from Lyon as well. So I really like this last thing coming
through from Dokla. But again, it feels like H.L.E. got a lot of comfort in game number
two. They do, but I mean, I think this is Lyon's
plan right there saying we need to prepare counter picks we need to prepare
things that are going to be advantageous and we can craft a very clear game
right I think they knew they were giving over Camille's eggs that's why they
went early poppy that's why they went Keanna things that they thought could
attack those champions and here they give over Nocturne Orianna they are not
surprised that Nocturne Orianna is getting picked up they set up for the
Akali they get the Lee Sin they look for these aggressive picks here again that
they feel are going to give them an edge in preparation.
And I think Lyon's preparation has been stellar.
The question is, can you execute on a high enough level
to beat the best LCK team here at the tournament?
It's a very difficult task to do.
Lyon, they hung with them there for so long in the first game,
but HLE ultimately proving triumphant through their team
fighting.
Now in this game, the Orianna-Knight turn combo,
you already said it, Ezale.
This duo is so strong together.
and Lyon has got to be prepared to try to deal with it.
I do like the cask against three utterly immobile targets.
It means it's harder for them to make sure
that Dokla can't get the right angle on them
for the knockbacks, for the knock ins, whatever he wants to do.
But let's see what we're going to get
as the minions are about to collide.
One of the things we see very often with an Octurne,
though, is this ability to invade early and try and get in your face.
So with that already having your push in mid for Zeke,
a push on top, it should make things a little bit easier for Knavi.
If you want to try and look for these camps on the top side when they respawn a little bit more questionable
Trying to invade on towards that bottom side
We would have to see exactly what can have these game plan is
Insane as good as he is on melee champions
You are going up against Seca and you are playing that melee into range
So you've got to survive it is going to be an onslaught in the early levels
It's how many of these spells can you avoid?
How good can you play in these trades to be able to you know, minimize the damage
that you're taking to Oom, Zeka, and get to a point where you can actually farm.
And you talked about it in the last game, Isaac, but Zeka, back when he kind of first exploded onto everybody's radar
in the BRX squad in 2022 that ended up having that World Championship anime storyline run,
this guy was known for his melee champions.
Now on HLE, it feels like he's really been given the room to develop as a traditional control mage type of player
because he's got such an aggressive jungler and Kenobi that can give him that extra assistance.
I feel like if you're saying you've got to be cognizant of that. Yeah
Well, the other guy that I was keep my eyes on from the last game was Guma Yushi because this guy was absolutely insane
Taking out Berserker who they used to be on T1 together
It was Berserker who was training underneath Guma Yushi and Guma Yushi kind of showing him what for with this Ziggs
Now in a much more traditional AD carry matchup
Berserker would love to try and show Guma Yushi what he's worth
But already push on the bottom side and a decent goal lead opening up there absolutely is I mean Guma great on the MF
And it's gonna be difficult in the early lane Alistar is just useless in the air
It's kind of just the the pay price you're gonna pay to play with this champ is a very weak early couple levels
Resurker it's just been so important for the success of Lyon
We think about them being competitive against BLG you think about the big leaders sauna
You think about the sipper getting to a spot where maybe you carry the game
You think about Berserker is Caitlyn against G2 you think about all of the contributions he has had
You need Berserker to have a good series
To even stand a chance because his team fighting has been stellar and they really do need that threat
And for Gumi you see it's his first international tournament away from T1 right joining Zeus on this roster
This is a guy that wants to show up again
He's been to five MSIs in a row has not been able to put that trophy into the case yet
He would love to add that but you have to try not only take down line here today
But try and take down BLG tomorrow once again
You can see that even the level one he wanted to potentially go for those Raptors
But of course inspired to take it and now can I be had not yet base?
So it is that double roomy crystal five or inspired
I mean there's not really a shot to challenge him there since can I be hadn't spent his goal
Dokla was having a pretty tough time in that top lane and he had to take an early base
NtB back because they have been holding the wave on him
So he's just trying to get that wave in trying to get it crashed
And it'll be interesting to see where he goes because he's going storm readers
I'm assuming that he's at least gonna go some AP, but I'm curious to see you know
Is it just AP in the tank? Is it like kind of hybrid, you know, what angle does he want to go for?
Yeah, one of the big changes we saw to Gragas a while ago was the fact that his he has been buffed on the passive
Which is making him so good into some of these like range matchups from that
Which is why okay, don't let getting a nice trade in the top side takes two terror shots for the under way out
Which is yeah, unfortunate. Yeah, I think it's time to maybe church try to go back to base
So he's gonna start to push this in you obviously wanted to egg him and then you know if you can get the egg early
You can threaten him with ganks. You can use that pressure to bring up your jungler
Maybe make something happen
You know you mentioned those buffs obviously another one that was really really important was the flat damage reduction on the W
That really did kind of push it back into the meta
And also that flat damage reduction does scale with AP. So if you do go full at AP when you have that W active
Of course, you have to put additional points in it to really get much from it
You can become relatively tanky and so people kind of have different opinions on it
Oh delight getting caught out for a quick little trade down here in the bottom side berserker and Isles
Still pretty far behind in terms of farm but inspired is looking maybe for an angle here in the mid lane towards the back up
Saint close to six, but not quite there needs another minion inspired moving forward.
Saint has found the opportunity to go in here for the ulti who sonic wave misses.
So the lion play fizzles line just back away.
Zeka pushing the mouse.
It was looking a little dicey, but fancy feet on second doesn't even have to bring the flash.
And it's kind of be now who on vision is going to be taking this dragon in response.
Yeah, look like inspired with spotted on vision as well.
Yeah, observers were trying to show us there, but I couldn't react so much.
I'm not sure if that was an observer bug or if he was actually spotted the play not as clean as they would have like, you know, they were trying on the initial trade that St was going for to get his six and go for the all in with that gang.
But now St does have to be a little bit careful here at second has shockwave and has the power to send a St package.
Navi also working on taking this first. Drake, it's ever so slightly slower than
game number one. Remember, HLE started stacking Drake's in that first one, five
and a half minutes into the game. Just about six minutes in here in game two.
Inspired by Tate level six though, maybe looking at a repeat gank in mid. There is
that ward there spot him out, so... Oh! Stand about to get solo killed if he's not
careful though. Nearly taken down there as the airy flies out. Saints still hanging
on with about a hundred HP. Zeca's at a mana though and inspired, making a move
towards the mid laner not going to get the chance to do it though because
Kenavi is still hanging around paranoia is ready to go and delight is also here
Isles roaming towards mid lane too so plenty of backup for both mid laners
and that's why I expected inspired to actually just shift to mid because
Saint was so low trying given that moment to catch the wave but when towards
the crab has to pull to meet and now it's actually the rotate to Kenavi to get
that crop top so it's got a little bit messed up though because I think it
inspires idea was with Isles there they were gonna push out and Saint wasn't
base but Saints based as inspired hit the wave so now the wave actually stacked
against their mid laner is pushing away from them.
Meanwhile bottom side, Gumiushi exhausted by Berserker, Guma using the barrier of his own so
both non-flash summoner spells used by the bottom laners here but look at the
farm gentlemen it's still three full waves of a lead for Gumiushi.
Yeah it looks like the true shopperage from Berserker clipped on towards Gumiushi
so happy to try and go for the all-in goes as you say Flair is like Gumiushi
still picking up a lot of the CS, has a nice gold lead.
Guma, that's perfect, like an early BFsort is amazing for the MF.
Absolutely, and MF has really strong early laning,
but it kind of gets worse once he gets the BT,
because once Guma has that BT,
you're shrugging off all of the poke there from Ezreal,
which is why people love this matchup,
why they think it is MF-favored.
Once you get that BT, you move the MF mid,
and now Ezreal is never going to be able to trade.
And if you do, you're just losing those trades, so you're going to be permanently getting pushed in,
which can make things very, very difficult.
We already have that rotation for the Void Grubbs, though.
Even Isle's using his TP just to get up here to the topside.
But I do think if Lankan slowed down the pace here, look at the TP tower for Dokla.
It's nearly there, so Lankan may be able to look for something a bit more,
especially with Isle's now on this topside.
If Zercher crashes this wave, then you move with the units trying to vision,
but HLE are trying to beat them to the punch and start this immediately.
Alright, Grubbs have already begun. Here for Kenavi, he will smite down the first one.
Lyon shows up, inspired, flies in, wants to grab this Grubb here, should have no difficulty doing it.
That one is secured, one for one so far. Iles trying to keep Kenavi away, wants to try to get the stun here.
Paranoia right back towards him. There's no unbreakable will here.
Fiala star the Shockwave's not going to find anybody here. Just get full of time up the wall.
Coming up from KumaYushi. Hanwha Life are looking for some kills.
They haven't quite found them but Isles is trapped behind enemy lines
The only thing left to choose is who gets first blood and it's the man with the gun and his hand first blood of the Guma
You see line try to play it slow
You end up looking at the Alistar doesn't end up using that auto attack into the spell shield of the nocturne
But it means that he's been so much time chasing after the nocturne HLE
Come on mass end up fighting them off and there's little that line can do
You can see Doklaut just trying to hold on in this matchup and unlike last game the lanes are not going well for Lyon
We're already at a 2,000 gold lead with only that one kill being added on
It is just that pure matchup gif that lane gif here as I was decided to go in on the Kanabi
But inspired is not really in position to help visitors not really into position to help
Zeka has first move from mid and this just makes it so hard for the real estate to have the damage for
Even though a nice flash from the shot plate, but Gumi-Yushi's in a great position there with the ultimate end of lasting down ours,
Hellfire and HLE are able to back away from the play after getting the kill.
And they got the one group that they wanted just to stop that three group stack.
Alright, 2,000 gold lead. You already set it as ill. These lanes are bleeding from the lion side.
Gumi-Yushi's dominant over Berserker. We've already been talking about Zeyas.
Xeas up about four waves worth of farm over Doku's Gragas that it just has not been a
successful answer into the Senivia so far.
And you can see the gold leads at the bottom of your screen and it only gets harder for
Lion to try and interrupt these.
Inspired would love to get active into these lanes but against the Nocturne that becomes
so incredibly difficult he can constantly show up to match you on those side lane plays
and when you already have sizable gold leads for the individual laners that can only balloon
if it goes wrong.
Yeah, and that's the pressure now on the line.
You've drafted for all this playmaking,
and you have got to be able to make that play.
You are down already over 2,000 gold here,
pretty early on in this game.
When you choose your moment, it must work.
If it does not, the gold is going to snowball too far out
of control, and I think it's going to be an easy HLE win
in this second game, because all lanes are losing right now.
But if you're HLE, that's what you need to do,
is Dokla has to flash away.
Yeah, Dokla in some trouble now.
Alzea is just continuing to march forward, going after the big man.
The flash being down, now put the target on Dokela's back.
But this is the kind of pressure you want to see from HLE.
They wanted a decisive 3-0 so they can go in towards BLG tomorrow and say,
that one series we had, a complete fluke.
We still have enough in the tank to take that fight to you.
And it looks like right now, that fight seems to be over the dragon.
Alright, inspired and lying, are going to be the side to start it up first.
But Kanavi's hanging out over the back side of the wall.
Deca also has the Shockwave ready to go, so keep your eyes out for the combo.
Dokla with a nice knock on Zayas, back into the turret.
Meanwhile, the T-Flight down here at the bottom side of the river at the same time.
The Paranoia is already going to be used.
Lion's going to be careful here, focusing down on towards the junglers instead of Kanabi.
He's going to die to Berserker.
The first kill goes over to Lion as Berserker gets a double kill.
HLE's on the run as Delight and Koumeyushi try to escape Iles on the chase here.
Find the out of attack for the stun, meanwhile up in the top side, Zayas looking to find the dive.
And the Dokla nearly kills him off here with a glacial storm.
Dokla stays alive!
Xeas is back back in the egg and Lyon triumphs in the dragon fight while Dokla survives in the top lane.
That is a massive team fight. Win there for Lyon. They get the dragon, they get two kills.
Dokla survives and Xeas on the top. So even though they can't finish off Gooma or Delight,
they pull themselves back into the game. That was critical. You get stomped in that fight.
I think it's pretty much lights out. So a massive fight there for Lyon, winning out on both sides.
And being able to hang on keep themselves within striking distance. Yeah
I know it was a little nervous there because I saw Sanko in and was like oh oh he's
Managed to get himself CC but you can see here doesn't actually matter the arcade shift away is perfect
This is where you end up with the exhaust coming in on towards the entire league doesn't like at the burst
But cannot he has gone down inspired in the pit is doing so much work inspired was doing so much work and berserkers positioning
And this one was great
They couldn't get any threat onto him whatsoever.
Lyon had great target selection.
They focused down the knock turn,
knocked him out of the fight,
and then even though they can't get those extra kills,
it's eyes on the dragon.
And for Berserker, critically, that fight was huge.
We've been talking about him falling behind
this entire laning phase,
getting both of those kills in the exchange,
puts him on a Trinity Force power spike,
makes this Ezreal relevant yet again.
Ile jumps in after the light,
but he cannot get enough trample stacks
to get the follow-up auto attacks done.
Inspired, hanging around right behind him, wants to really steal away the big cruck here.
Inspired, and the rest of Lyon now, they found Kanavi inside the jungle, he pops the paranoia,
trying to keep himself alive, Kanavi down to one hit, he tries to get away over the wall,
but Sankt is ready to assassinate him, and Lyon finds a kill.
Yeah, Kanavi tries to use Sankt to ult out, but all he accomplishes is giving the Akali a free kill there,
donates it right where Lyon would want it.
Zeca pushing on this top side but still Lyden keeping it close. A couple kills in the lead
Which is the only thing that is doing that because it has been HLE stopping these lanes.
But Lyden know what side the bread is buttered on. They end up dropping that wave in mid
So KumaYushi does get a place
But they know that they need to try and play for this 1-3-1 around Saint.
They immediately invade onto the bottom side. They get the pick on the Kanavi.
They're opening up the ability for Saint to now with the tempo lead
They go off the dragon fight get control of those side lanes and if line are able to keep up this pace
This is where you can start to turn the tights
And we'll see how they're gonna able to execute here because you know
Dockla he is going AP and we'll see if he continues going you know full on AP because AP Gragas is
An all-or-nothing champ you either are the hero or you are the zero you body slam flash one shot
They're carrying knock them into your team. You look like a god
You go in that cast whips or knocks them to safety or they flash the combo you just die and accomplish nothing at all
The nice thing is we can look over a cage or to see if he's giving us the boss thumbs up for the Gragas builder
No, it's good. Let's see how that one's going. So at least you got an expert in here
We keep double check with the other thing I gotta say is it's only the second Gragas game of Dota's entire career
He's been playing for a very long time
And I'm not even playing back when it was that tier top Gragas meta tank meta before that had been nerfed
So we'll see how clean is he going to be on it?
Alright, Rift Herald has begun.
HLE starting up this next main objective.
They still have a 500 gold lead as a team.
But Lyon is here ready to challenge.
Yet again, HLE already have it down to below half HP.
Isle's here on the side, wants to try to control the light.
Knocks Zekka back over the wall.
As HLE try to turn onto Dopele instead.
Putting a lot of damage here into the Gragas.
The Rift Herald is going to be secured by Lyon and St. Niles.
He has to try to get back away.
Stain jumping in, wants to go grab a kill.
He gets one on the Zayas.
Now I'll get the two-man knockup.
Bullet time on the wall.
Takes him out.
Kenobi's trying to get away as his fire goes into the big kick.
But he doesn't find a kill.
The searcher wants to follow.
Gabyushin falls.
Stain to the middle of everybody.
Lion smells blood.
And it's HLE left bleeding.
Three for three.
HLE bodies are littered across Summoner's rift.
As Lion finds the perfect play, the ward is huge for St.
Because the TP's him into the middle of everyone!
Yeah, Saint is going to be able to TP in.
Its eyes on the objective to start things off.
Velklut goes in aggressively onto Xeas
and Kanabi tries to turn on him.
Kanabi was already pretty low.
The disengage cast bought some time.
As you can see, Saint and Isles and Berserker getting in.
And it's again another fight where Berserker is free.
At the end of the day, it is a bloody one.
And it is even on both sides,
but it is the objective claimed by Lyon.
And that is what is giving them the edge.
Very close margins here to trying to get even more
as the light was able to limp away
and Zac is able to get away
and Spider looking frustrated with how that fight ended.
Just couldn't quite get the kick over the wall
that he was looking for, the flash and little sideways.
And it means that that terror that was stacking for them
doesn't quite stand when it comes to the kills,
but either way, I think line looking good four to six,
it's still even and you can see the damage
that St. turned out of that fight.
The teleport into the midst was perfect,
but look at the top side, HLE looking for the flames
and Lion respond on boss.
Yep, Lion wanna make the move here in the bottom lane.
Zayas trying to get himself out of that when he has the egg,
but it's not gonna matter.
Isles just absorbs the last turret shot,
makes sure his allies take no damage.
The kill goes over to Lion
and they're gonna get the turret on top of it.
Yes, HLE is pushing here in the top lane,
but bottom side the turret's already been claimed
and the hero is summoned up
to try to make a move towards the tier two.
Now Gumiuchi trying to push the tier one turret here in mid.
Doka wanted to clear out the wave, trying to get away for now, but the fear is already
brought and HLE have found a target of their own.
They collapsed and find the kill on the Doka.
Meanwhile, here in the bottom lane, that Tier 2 is under pressure from the Herald and
Lion's going to secure that as well.
Doka trying to go for a big play there.
He held the wave and then ulted Guma into the tower, hoping the tower could take out
Guma.
But Guma was able to finish off that turret, so the play goes bad.
Zeca here pushing on that top side.
It is a couple towers going the way of Lion, but there's plates going over to Zeca.
a turret going mid lane to Guma. So at the end of the day, we are dead even in gold back-to-back
games that we are looking like it is going to teamfights. It's going to be a Hextech soul game
again, but both teams only have the one dragon until right now. Lyon could be able to take that
lead. And Lyon are definitely putting a lot of resources in towards Saints. Like even they could
have moved to protect Oak on the plane, but they said, no, we want to use that Rift Howl charge.
We want to go for the tier two. We want to get some of that gold in towards this three zero three
and I think it's a solid choice like there's not really people who can contest Saints on a side lane right now.
They're absolutely aren't in that side lane and the reality is inspired has so much faith in Saint as a player.
A lot of their struggles early on in split one in Lock-In were around Saint and they tried to adjust.
Alright, Doku under pressure yet again. Four man play coming out from HLE.
And Guma, you see peppers and full of holes. Another kill over to Miss Fortune. That's four.
That's four and as you say that's the downside of this full AP Gragas doesn't have the sustain ability to try and manage some of these plays line
We're not in position to cover and now it's doklah falling once again
Yeah, doklah definitely falling behind in this spot
But at least he will have the playmaking ability you have the chance to try to make that body slam flash play happen
But you know back to that earlier point
St
You know was really struggling to gel with this team and there was a lot of changes that line and made to try to enable
to put him in a position where he felt confident that he would be the one to carry the game,
to not defer to others, to do what is best for him because they believe in his ability to carry
in team fights, to step up mechanically, and that is one of the big changes that put him ahead.
Stank going in, looks for that solo kill after Zeca, and he finds it with a perfect execution.
Zeca flashes, but it will not matter. Stank gets away from the turret, uses his teleport to escape,
but Zayas wanted to get the revenge kill, but Stank's out of there.
and it's plays like that that give them the faith here.
He's 10 stacks on the Darkseal, just finished the Shadowflame,
got a TP off that, got the Flash and ult off that from Zeka
and makes it look easy.
Notice how he held that Shuriken flip
until after the Shockwave was used
because Zeka was trying to use that to interrupt the damage
on that E coming back through.
He waits after the Shockwave, finishes him off beautifully
and TP's out to safety.
And now you have no Flash on this Orianna
for a dragon soul point fight in three minutes time.
And that's where I think Glyne can start to look for it,
especially inspired if you can find that kick.
Suddenly that Orianna, very vulnerable,
but we get to watch it again as St. finds the all in.
And this is what you're talking about.
So Zeke is expecting the reactivation of the E.
He goes for the shockwave to try to interrupt that damage.
St. waits it out, follows on that flash, gets the kill,
sees the TP coming in, and TP's out to safety.
And it's fired now, he's behind him.
Yup, the light's gonna get tagged by Sonic Wave.
The President is strike ready to follow, but inspired is not in the right spot.
He gets himself away to safety for now, but HLE is on the hot pair.
We know they're coming out from Kenobi once going after Mazarca.
But Kenobi's gonna be first to die.
Inspires to the line, but Kuma finally finishes him.
Zeca picked up to the left side, but barely gets away for now until the R2 comes in.
Three over to the LLHLE, and Isles wants more.
Zayas tries to get away with a point-blank flash, Ross.
The crystallized cannot stop states.
HLE are crumbling and lying.
Take four for one.
Make it five because they're going for Baron here.
It is just the light alive as Inspire could get nothing
in that fight, but the cast from Dokla finds Gooma.
They take him out and now they have to pull off that Baron.
They decide it is a Brits too far.
The knight had smite.
He changed with the Unseal spellbook.
So not having that summoner spell available,
they decide to back away, but still lying.
Huge plays.
Look at your carries, 6 and 0 on Saint and Berserker, that is insane!
I mean, Inspire has been doing so much carrying throughout this tournament, and now, this is a pretty big misstep from Inspire here.
He goes in, and he goes for a kickflash just to try to disengage, ward hops out, but it's a carry's turn to take over.
Look at this cast, knocking in Gooma as he steps forward, Gooma goes up, and this to me is what really changes the fight right here.
That cast, into the body slam, Berserker takes him out.
It was also the fact inspired State of Lloyd for so long,
the shield coming through the heal,
sorry, the heal coming off of the Alistar,
then the Sundered Sky proc,
means that then Guma-Yushi goes overextend,
which gives that option to Doko.
Absolutely, I mean, he lived as long as he could
and inspired having a little bit of a laugh,
not the cleanest of Lee Sin kicks, I will say,
but look at the difference between the damage
coming out of these carries from Wyatt.
Good Lord, man!
5,000 a piece on Sane and Berserker,
that's how you earn your six and zero.
And what a difference as far as vision control,
as far as map control compared to last game, right?
Last game it felt like, yeah, Lion are close in gold.
The dragon spawns, you look at the map,
they can't even go close.
This time, they're the ones leading in the dragons.
It is a Hextech solo available,
and we can see in our Coinbase gold grind,
it is a pretty significant lead here for Saint.
He has the seekers for this fight,
which will be very big,
and look at him trying to find an angle in behind HLE.
Yeah, that 1.8 goalie to immediately invest it into safety.
Because if he can get access to the backliners, so little available.
Remember, Orianna still no flash.
OK, fighting for the next Drake.
It's number four, two to one, favoring Lyons so far in the dragon count.
Saints still hanging out on the back side of the pit.
HLE stepping forward as a five-man unit.
Oakland inspired, keeping themselves safe.
The dragon aggro, but very low DPS on the objective.
Trouch up garage, tag Zeca.
Saints still waiting, hiding in the fog, looking for his opportunity to go in.
Keep your eyes on Dopela.
If they want to try to make a move, he goes to the Flash.
He knocks him to life.
The Reconnaught's about to die, but he gets away for now.
He with a shield.
The Protoblastic Knight bites, just burn him down.
Sankos of the wall goes Godlike.
Delight's already gone.
Lyon, they get the single kill on the support,
but it's enough to earn them control of the bottom side river
and claim sole point.
A very quick reaction there from Zayas.
Gets himself out of safety.
He was fast with that reactive Flash,
but because they caught the light,
because Sanko finishes him off, they get uncontested.
third dragon here, Sank gets another kill and he is starting to run away with this one.
Nice mechanics from Sankton the fight as well, throws down that W and Shuriken flips away
over the wall to get the kill, then use the Shuriken flip back too, so very nicely done
on the Akali.
But line now, this is like, they are in such a strong position, three dragons, the gold
leaves, map control, the ability to push in a 131, it's tough for HLE to come back here.
It is, but they have been in these positions before against BLG and they couldn't get it
across the finish line. They need to stay cool, calm, and collected in these moments.
They need to show that they can actually kill the Nexus. We can see this one more time.
It is about Dopla here. He looks for the body sent flash. Look how fast this reacts.
It gets away, but the cast does catch the light. And here's where you're talking about the scene.
Yeah, Saints ends up putting down the W there. Sherkin flips over the wall, gets the Hextech
gun by a kill, and then Anegi hops back over before HLE can really respond. So, nicely done
by Saints at the back end.
It's always funny to see something like a gunblade actually get the last one since it's normally doing so little damage.
It just facilitates the gunblade.
It's actually doing the name.
Yeah, it's doing the name.
It's more gun than blade in that one.
But Lyon, with their 2000 Goldie, with Soulpoint, they're definitely in a good position,
but you cannot underestimate HLE.
The team fighting on this squad, remember, it was this baron area team fighting game number one that really locked things in for HLE.
and Lyon now have to respect them as HLE moves into the Lyon Red Jungle.
And these choke points are so dangerous for them,
but Lyon just won a left-sane push in that bottom side of the map.
But if you end up falling prey to a shockwave into that anemdfold,
that's where it could be lights out for Lyon.
Instantly, you know, and that is the power that HLE has.
You could be 5K up if Delight gets a charm on multiple people.
They get shockwaves and the bullet time comes over top.
You're leading me. You're all dead.
You're instantly dead.
And that is why Lyon have got to stay locked in,
and have got a show that they can actually shut the door
on a team like HLE with the advantage they have.
And Zeke has gone for a very greedy build.
Traditionally what we've seen against the Khalis
is the lack of that rod of ages.
So you have the health to survive
in a side lane against the Akali.
He's gone full damage.
He wants to make sure you can have that big burst
in the fight, only the Seekers as a defense.
Exactly, it does have that Seekers now,
which will be critical.
We'll see if he can find that perfect activation.
As Zeke is pushing out bot, trying to get a tempo there.
I am wanting to push in and try to knock down this turret,
but Guma is just constantly clearing out the waves.
Seeker is available for both solo lane mages
on the HLE side, as well as for Saint,
who does have 10 stacks on his now Medjai Soul Stealer,
really trying to snowball forward,
find more success in these fights.
Inspired in Isles, both hanging around.
If HLE wants to go after Saint,
they are going to find Lion ready to respond.
Dockla clearing waves over in the bottom side right now,
does have the teleport ready to respond.
Dockla is down two and a half levels,
compared to Zayas, level 15, Gragas versus the level 17, Anivia.
This could be a big difference maker in these upcoming fights.
If Dokla doesn't land a huge value cast,
like he did on Gumiushi in this previous top river fight,
the Gragas will not be able to do anything
near what Anivia can.
Absolutely true.
I mean, Gragas is one round of spells,
and that's his value.
That's basically all he's going to be bringing.
Kanabi knocked out into the air there,
as immediately now coming right back in here with the paranoia,
but now it's inspired!
Fightin' to kick her to Gubyushi!
Lyon looks for the damage!
Massive three-man knock-up comin' out with a ball
and a rise from Isles!
The Zorker goes God-like and Gubyushi goes down!
Kenobi with a flash over the wall!
The cast counts out!
Kenobi under pressure from Inspired here
to get his the tier one, two, and falls!
Stain, continuing to dive forward!
Kenobi is on the run, both bottom laders,
as well as the top leader of HLE!
Are nothing but corpses!
Lyon three for nothin'!
Lyon get a turret!
Lyon, goin' to Baron!
Inspired stepping up massively there the kick flash on the Guma is a game changer
The Nocturne lives but has no health has no flash has to go back to base
It is 50 seconds until soul
They're gonna get Baron and they're gonna head straight there to try to seal the deal
Saints
Seekers arm guard was clutch as well
Kenavi immediately tries to jump on with that Shockwave combo, but they weren't able to make it happen.
We're seeing it at the start of the fight here.
So as Kenavi tries to turn, jumps onto Sainz, the Shockwave, the Stasis, the turnaround from his bard with the kick.
It all picture perfect from Lying.
Wardhawk, kick flash, Guma gets caught, Ingo Sainz, and Sainz is just dancing around in this fight, playing it beautifully.
The cast from Dokla knocking back to Navi they can go in that tower has no health
So it's not safety there. Look at this from st. Dodge is the knockup from delight
But we are back to live Dokla get spotted. Yep. Dokla's gonna be found by delight
It is lion with a four and a half thousand gold lead
It's lion who will claim the soul if they take this next dragon a jelly
They know they have to stop this say got enough gold after killing a tower. He has a full zone
Okay, Guardian Angel also available on Inspired.
Seekers Armguard also purchased for Berserker.
So both Lyon carries, very easy to protect themselves from the paranoia-shockwave combo.
St. Clearing out the ward off to the side over here, as Lyon still continue just waiting for HLE to try to approach them.
Sonic Wave on a Kennavi. Inspired, not gonna follow that one here with a resonating strike.
Instead, gonna turn attention back over to the Drake, the light over the wall.
Sonic Wave collides with the Recon.
The dragon, still at about half-hate speed,
Drew Sheparage slimes Seyus.
St. goes in, remember there's no way.
He already lost it in the previous fight.
Seyus is about to die right here,
and Dopela takes them out.
Revenge, the laning phase, as Lyon killing the enemy top laner.
Now just want to guarantee they take the soul.
Zeca wants to see if there's a cheeky steal,
but he's going to be zoned away by Dopela and Eiffel.
Then Lyon, claim the Hextech soul.
Lyon give him no chance at the 50-50.
It is picture perfect play here.
They hold their lines.
They attack Zeus in the side, they catch him, they burst him down, and now it's a full-core press. They're going!
Alright, Kenavi wants to full-send it again. They're trying to make a move here in the bottom side with the baron, Noya play, but same state alive here in the smoke.
Zeca keeping himself in the stasis for now. Goal quick goes after Gumiuchi with the true shuffle. Roger with the top. Kenavi is already dead.
Sonic Wayne runs in, he strikes Gumiuchi on the run. Inspired, changes after Zeca. He needs a couple more hits and he's got him.
Lyon just aced them! Lyon are in the base and Lyon tears a throat out of HLE in Game 2!
Lyon are gonna do it! We've got a tight series here against the number one team from the LCK!
Seyes responds but there's nothing the Anivia can do alone.
Lyon were down 2,000 gold in lane but they bring it back and tie it up.
How long life got their comforts, but they don't look comfortable
Yes, what the hell was that?
You know who look comfortable there Saint building medgis going deathless that entire time berserker on Ezreal deathless the entire game
I was so nervous about this draft because they had to literally survive the
laning phase until this fight.
Just hold on!
This draft was engineered to get St.
on this Akali.
They seeded the Nocturne Orianna, and they made it.
They did what Dokla said they'd be able to do.
And all year long, we've been praising lion team fighting.
And people have been trying to take the knees out of it
by saying, oh, they only do it against North American teams,
but they just did it against HLE.
And that wasn't even one inspired one.
That wasn't even the perfect kick, but they still pick up the extra kills because they commit to the call
They commit to the play look at that. They're putting the pressure on the LCK number one seed
They're feeling the tension also shout out to big dogs that Baron fight his Gragas my goodness
He had to play into the enemy again. They use anivia. He's
Why didn't it bite you know what I was saying the grog is the win lane the grog is ultimate onto
Gumo and Gumo overtakes is inspired it's what I don't believe they still pick it
I mean I watch this one in our HyperX reflex replay which is another game
breaking fight because the goal here is just pretty much even lines even behind
and watch inspired just hide in the fog of war during nocturnal get try on fields
get his W shield. And now, while the team cleans up. Look at this, Guma overtakes, boom,
Doklai hits him with the big cast as well. Wow, St. is on Zeca. Boom, he kills Zeca as well.
It is hype. It is hype going for it. Can I ask you a question? Is HLE over focusing?
On inspired, they seem to lose their heads trying to kill him in this fight. I think he was very
elusive on Lee Sin, and he knew he was out of position. I think that was actually the right
And he's like, oh, I got away with one there.
But I want to go back to Emily's draft point,
because for the series in game one,
I was disappointed when they picked the Piana,
because to me, that signaled that they didn't feel like they
could play what they were comfortable with and outscale
in teamfighting.
And then they ended up in a situation here
with better teamfighting, but three losing lanes.
And if you lose that game, which was in danger,
that was in play.
There were 2,000 gold down from laning phase alone.
If you lose that game, the series is over.
they're going home, but when they clutch up from a deficit with three losing lanes against HLE, the early game powerhouse
that will imbue them with confidence.
Yeah, and that's why that Drake fight was so so important and then in this draft again, the idea is okay
We are going to have losing lanes. We believe in ourselves to be able to survive because we have
Berzerker on Ezreal and Saint on Akali. This is something along with the Silas
He's just been destroying people with his stat line in this game was absolutely absurd and those early like those mid game fights
It's 10 0 and 7 almost 30% of the team's damage
That's a little low be just because of berserker Ezreal and two solo kills that solo kill on Zeka on top side was safe
Yeah, the men's ice he did it you built the men's ice
Slaps him with it. But let me ask you the side of HLE then, because to me, right, obviously I'm not as emotionally invested as some other people here.
You're an important foil for us here. Yes, I do think like the draft in the skirmishes, I know you want to go for the Nocturne Orianna, but Lyon figured it out very fast, what they had to do against it.
and I am puzzled at some of the decision-making of how to posture around objectives,
when to go for certain fights that are obviously disadvantageous for HLE at that point in the game.
This is not to take anything away from line, right? But I do feel like there's two sides to every story.
So if I'm HLE, I'm actually not necessarily looking at draft as a problem,
because I think they had winning lanes, right?
They had the Nocturne Orianna, they weren't able to get off that sick knock-waves combo that you want.
So I don't even think, I think it's like they should have pushed the pace a lot faster,
but then it was execution and especially teamfight setup around objectives, and that's what I'd look at.
The thing is, one of Lyon's favorite strategies is give some of these high-prow low mobility carries to the enemy team
team because Saint loves playing these types of champions with higher mobility, they can
put the pressure on the Orianna, the Anivia and the Miss Fortune later in the game.
They can find those flanks, find those plays and big dokes discussing it.
Yeah, I think they're thinking about top lane matches because AOC is the key in the series.
But to answer your question, Shox, who were we highlighting from HLE for why they're in
the lower bracket?
We're saying Zeka didn't play great against Nett.
I don't feel like he's playing great in the series.
He was okay on Syndra.
That was a bad Orianna Nocturne game.
Combo's actually landed and then the other one was delight who did okay in game one similar
With the Camille and did not find good engages on the recon
So that's a trend that is consistent across their last two series. That's a worrying trend some mayhabs would say
Promising trench lion that fight back and put a chilly behind. Let's see who gets to match point first. Whoo. I'm glad we got one
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to MSI 2026.
It's the penultimate match to see
who gets to play against BLG for the championship tomorrow.
HLE took game one.
And in game number two, they were slamming the lanes.
But Lyon fought their way back all the way to the enemy nexus
and tied us up one to one.
I was just blown away by Guiyushi's signature,
because that looked cool as hell.
I feel like his signature just smogged everyone.
That was actually crazy, but I gotta say, man,
Lion are blowing me away.
I love their prep.
It's only the second time that Nocturne or Iana
has been let through the entire tournament.
And a lot of people are gonna think
that's an absolute death sentence.
If you let that through and you lose,
you are getting roasted for it.
Oh yeah, I would you give the number one jungle mid combo,
but it has allowed them to know exactly
what their opponents are gonna pick.
When you leave that up,
they know they're gonna be playing in Kali,
Lee Sin, and to it, they know how they wanna play the fights,
how they want to play the lanes, when they're going to be strong.
And they have talked through all of this very clearly,
so so much credit I think is deserved by the coaching staff throughout this entire event.
I feel like Lyon's prep has been incredible.
Yeah, you could tell the same happened with like letting through the Ziggs Camille,
trying to see if you have an answer to that.
Didn't quite go in favor of them, but still Lyon very well thought through on the way they want to
approach things. And I've seen what the game plan is coming into this draft now.
And the only time that Dr. Corey on it even got through was not main stage.
It was TL versus KC, so it hasn't been a single time on the main stage here, and we are so deep into this tournament, so many games having been played, and that is just incredible from Lyon.
Alright, let's go ahead and get into it. HLE, as the losers of the previous game, have selected first pick here in this next game, so we're going to see Jace and Gnar banned out by Lyon, targeting that top lane, targeting Zayas, meanwhile HLE banning out the Varus, the Vayne, and the Nautilus.
Well, the Vi get banned is my next question because very strong, especially for a player like Nabi, he's been exceptional on the pick, so could be something like a Vi, are you trying to land us through here?
You know what, I honestly wouldn't be shocked if they leave it up and they try to take a page out of Griffin's book because he and NA had been leaving it up and going Shen as an answer into it, even at times if the comp is low, going Nass as an answer into it.
I think we might be about to see inspired learn a thing from one of the new guys and I think that's what they're trying to set up
They're trying to set up a bait if HLE don't take it though
Inspired also does love playing the Vi and state is wildly comfortable on the Ari
So I'm gonna be so interested to see you know is HLE nervous to grab it
They take us so here we have to see what the plan is gonna be because you get Shen
Yeah, I do like the the response because I think Shen as you say very strong into it
You just ult the target that's been ulted by the Vi, makes it very difficult to try and follow up, but
I have to see because Lyon, like as you say, their prep has been exceptional this series.
And you saw when Vi was locked in, 9 and 2 so far at this tournament, very, very powerful over an 80% win rate.
So you can't just pick something normal, you've got to have some sort of answer pre-planned.
And first and foremost, Lyon is going to go with the Lucian 7 and 1 here at MSI, has also been a very powerful pick.
And Lucian Melio obviously really good as a bot lane, just in general, but also specifically into this,
especially if you are expecting something like an Ari, you can cleanse the charm coming through with the Breath of Life.
Cog Lulu could go pretty hard though, I think that is not an easy 2v2 to deal with, but I'm not sure if they'd be willing to just slam it down right here right now.
I mean, we have seen HLE players domestically, they actually had the Shen for themselves in that combo as well.
Oh!
Then Hila!
That was not what I had on the cards.
OK, no picks, no bans, no presence at this tournament up until this point.
Santa very strong, a lot of sudden either if you want to try and go for it, but it's not traditionally.
Haha, OK, dropped it disappeared. Maybe they were cooking a little too hard.
You know, the pots build a little bit. We got to re-come up with it.
Yeah, the Neela shocked me because I just, I feel like it is not an easy pick to play into Luzard video as well.
If you get disengaged on your dash in, that could be really, really tough.
If you're going in with the ult and you get knocked back by the ult to make a fire kick, that can be really tough.
But these are always these weird situations. We've had this a couple times in a tournament where it's like,
if it is an accidental pick and the other team has not yet done their pick, then it can sometimes be okay on that remake,
but it depends on why it happened. So we will update you as soon as we get any additional information about what exactly is going on.
Right. The rules are generally always, if it was some kind of a tech technical issue or whatever, the player couldn't make the choice they wanted.
Okay, we remake for that if the player just didn't lock in in time any sort of use your error you got to play it out
Yeah, I am curious though if they do end up going for like say it is remade and they don't want this
Neela like the Lucian Kog'maw because traditionally what I've seen is like Lucian Kog'maw with like Sinta or like some of these kind of
on his
junglers because you want to try and have that Lulu to support them something that works very well in the early stages
But also something that can clear quickly to help support the Lulu Kog'maw in the matchup
I feel like you kind of need that little shove from the jungle to really get the Lulu Kog'maw with that early control
and with the volley locked in, I don't know if that really gives you what you want.
Alright, I've been updated by our production. Excuse me, it was a client error.
Nilo was not the correct champion that was supposed to be locked in.
So the draft is going to be remade exactly as it was with the bands and the first couple of picks
up until the Nilo lock and then HLE will be allowed to make the choice that they did want instead.
Maybe Niko, as she starts with Ed, you know?
It could be something completely different too, right?
So I don't actually know how the phonetics even work on that so I'm not even going to
guess what it could be.
You've been here for several weeks if you're not aware of it.
I mean, Dokla's doing pretty well with the Kree.
It's true actually, yeah.
She's got me beat.
Dokla might have it figured out, but we certainly do not.
We stay in our lane.
Yeah, I grew up in a cornfield.
I do not know how to speak Korean.
I got a Jinho Jim Tio and that survived me through this.
Hey, you've got me beat, brother, all right, let's go ahead and get back into it.
So yeah, Cogmaw Lulu, the hyper scaling bottom lane duo to answer the Lucian Melio.
This is going to be really, really interesting.
Do you go for a denial pick here?
Is it something like the Shen?
Am I completely off, off the line on my read and they just go something more standard?
There are a lot of different options.
I think not having any dive threat versus Cog Lulu is really scary, which does kind of
dissuade something like the Shen, I think.
So they might just go for a different angle, try to get some heart engage from top, from
jungle and it is going to be saying, you know, playing comfort here on the victor, they can
ban out some of the pairings like the RE in that second phase. And I assume that they would want
to part engage here because you either do that or you try to just like kite out the Cog W and you
try to, you know, play around those windows of power, but that's not always easy. Yeah, I mean,
we've been talking a lot about the Shen, but again, Zace has played the Shen with the Cog
Lulu domestically. So you could end up having that Shen actually taken away. If you didn't end up
playing the Shen, though into things like this Ion, which was more kind of the answer,
and the Sion Ion now no longer available. And not really, I think a tank for Doklu in the top lane,
maybe that's not gonna be the case. Yeah, I don't think Doklu will be going towards it,
and it's obviously already been played, but I just think the Shen becomes less likely as an
answering pick because of the Koglulu, but I'm interested to see, you know, what their read on
it is, because they might have a completely different read of like, no, we don't actually dive,
we just kill Vi when she dies, and that is what Shen does really succeed at. So,
You know, if that is your reed, we kite back, we just outrange the Cog and Lulu to run away from them and kill whoever runs them.
Which is kind of what I like to make to Rite that's own control because Cogma has to try and run through that gravity field to make sure that he can actually auto-attack you.
So, I do like the way Liner already considering kind of how you can control his own Cog completely.
Completely agree, and I mean the lasers can be difficult to deal with.
It's going to be Ari and Casio, so two of those pairings that you might expect alongside that by taking away.
Trundle obviously can be pretty annoying for Vi. It's kind of a similar thought process of you're not trying to go for the others
You're trying to actually go for the Trundle and you can pillar out the cog and just kill the Vi when she ults it.
Yeah, Trundle is so good at stat checking these junglers who have their engage as a big part of their power budget
When you think of something like a Xin Zhao when you think of something like a Vi
So that band makes sense. Kasante gonna be the final band here for this draft.
Well, last time a Korean team played Coglu internationally was actually Worlds 2017 semis Wolf and Bang
playing it against RNG. This was the infamous Baker Gallio series where he was everywhere.
That was the first year I was a professional caster. It's been that long ago.
I haven't started.
All right, so you and I are both taking a long step back in time, lying and are going
to go with the scarner here for the jungle pick.
So this is a little bit of calm and a little bit of calm beat. Potentially you can get
it off the cog, but you also can just peel the Vi when the Vi dives and actually kill
that way so I do like this as an answer especially okay it's gonna be Yone so
they're just throwing down the gauntlet. Zeca famed for his melee picks and what
does Doklaid do into this is it just gonna be an Orn answer or a Gallio
answer I feel like that could kind of fit what they're building here because it
is against this rumble which can be a very tough matchup. So we saw Zeca play
the Yone in the series against BLG that was in game number one that was also the
game where there were two deaths before anybody even went to lane so it kind of
just was lost from the very onset of things.
This will be probably more of a showing of what he can do,
but Gokla is going to lock in the Gwen here
for the top lane against Rumble.
Yeah, so Rumble did get nerfed several times ago
that makes him a little bit weaker to those AP matchups.
So opting into the Gwen to say,
hey, we've got that late game scaling,
coming through to Gwen, strong sideline presence,
which has worked for a long time thus far in the series.
And just see if you can immediately jump on
towards this Kog'Maw in the backline
using that W, the hallowed mist.
So the cock might just kind of hit you when you take him down.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, it can be very strong.
Obviously, you're going to outscale the rumble in those sidelines
and the one who wants.
But here's the question.
Game one, you're playing against a tank.
The lane is pretty chill.
Game two went very bad for Dokla in this Dragus versus Nivea
match.
If he was really on the back foot,
he had some great utility that he brought to a team fight.
If you fall behind on Gwen, you don't have utility.
You bring damage, and you bring only damage.
So he has got to now believe in his skills
in the 1v1 against Zayas in a carry versus carry matchup
because he can't fall thousands of gold behind
and expect to still be useful.
And again, it goes back to what you mentioned
in game number one, the quote from Inspired,
you've got to take risks.
You can't just play safe against HLE
when you know you're the underdog,
when you know what caliber of team you're up against.
Sometimes you've got to roll the dice
and Doku is saying that he can step up
and answer the challenge.
I'm trying to see if they're going to be weighted dice here
because I think Inspire should be trying to play it
and towards his bottom side.
That's your breach to the late game.
Get this Victor online.
Get Tockelin to a position where he can be strong,
even up to his feet.
He's actually the master for Tockelin.
He wants to have it in his bus.
And look at Zayas.
Zayas is actually playing Storm Raider's search.
So he's going to be playing Storm Raider's search
on the rumble, not the typical rune,
but he is saying the way that I die, oh, level one.
All right, not a whole lot that we got from the level one.
But that's actually pretty big
because I don't know if they're going to get a chance to base, right?
And now you got a little bit of a chunk.
You lose about 100 health there.
So inspire with a nice little angle and we'll be back to that red buff in time to start.
But again, you know, Storm Raider Surge is tech to deal with the all-in that's coming out from Doka.
When you hit six, these slows from the needlework come out,
and it can be very difficult to escape.
And so this is the tech that allows you to answer that.
I believe with the bomb-pating down on Gumi-Yushi as well,
the Gisba-Zurka and I was a little bit of a window here.
When the dash comes back up, there you go to try and look for these trades.
A media barrier there, so Gumi Yuji can still contest his level 1 push.
Yeah, the barrier coming out very, very quickly.
And a good shield from Delight as well to help stave off some of that damage.
But for Zercher and Isle, it's just constantly going to be trying to force these trades.
Because Gumi outside of his W window is very weak,
but during it, he is very, very strong.
And that is why you see them trying to push so hard.
Zec is kind of getting slammed in these trades right now. He's got to be careful.
And that's why you can also see the pathing coming through from his Barbarys moving topside
because you do have level 2 hit, good training there.
Coming back from line honestly as they use the heal to keep themselves topped up
but this is where this can't get painful if you're the Lucian Milio.
Constantly getting pushed in, you never really have the ability to push back out
because Lulu can use the Q but here we go.
Yup, down in the bottom lane it's Berserker bringing Gumiuchi down to 100 HP.
Ios continued to go for Berserker!
He gets first blood in the 2v2.
Isles flashing away from the Cogmaw body so that he does not get traded back, but Lion's bot lane duo comes to life
How about this for lane dominance? You get the 2v2 and the flash off Guma
You take them down and Sate is looking incredible in this mid lane
They had a ward on both sides of the jungle provide
They know exactly where he is and that's the extended punish from that level one the bone plating went down
So in the initial trade Guma you she has to burn the barrier and then line
No, they have more in the tank when it comes to the summoner spells immediately going in the cozy campfire giving the heal
The range and you still got the barrier to make sure this trade is all in favor of line
And it's just beautiful there notice the backs up from berserker. He's getting low
Isles is still dealing the damage with the auto attacks. He's soaking up that damage from the cog maw and
Canavi gonna get in here try to get that early ward down
So far, and you can see this is the all-time head-to-head
LCK versus LCS has not looked too good for us, let's be honest,
but we have had these glimmers of hope in the more recent years.
You think about that five-game series between FlyQuest and GenG.
You think about TL challenging T1 a number of times.
You think about that belief that we've had in some of these series,
and that is what Lyon is trying to recapture.
Sainton, a great job of freezing the wave here,
referred to as Terror, hasn't gone for the reset, Zeke already tipped in, but now the
play under Terror, Satan needs to flash.
Yeah, Kenavi over the wall coming in with an all breaker, there's the Q flash to try
to get the kill, one more hit from Zeke, he's going to get it done, and the HLE mid-jungle
2-0 accomplishes the mission.
Now inspired, Eastall's impact over the wall, but he can't collide with Zeke, so HLE, get
a one for nothing.
Sane was trying so hard to freeze that, had the teleport to come back into lane, just
wanted to thin the wave a bit, but hey, Chalee, find the timing window.
Cannabi sneaking around to the far side and getting the dive.
That's actually huge. He cancels that guy's base there, and he has no TP.
Yeah, up now up here on the top side, Dokla versus Zaeus.
You can see the speed of that Storm Raider surge there for the rumble,
but now inspired, making his way towards the bottom lane.
The wave is crashing to the turret already.
The Zerker and Iles, once again looking to make the moves.
Gumiushi is taking low. Iles absorbing the turret. Gumiushi killed again.
It won't be a two for nothing.
It will not be a trade back from HLE.
Inspired survives and Guma's dead again. They're continuing to punish on this bottom side line
We're counterpicked, but line are stomping in the you she in delights
It is just beautiful to see here from berserker and Isle's playing out so well
Doka doing great in the 1v1 on the topside and inspired
Getting involved here early Guma his barrier came back up, but it just did not matter
They juggle it to her well Isles picked up the early aggro and that was enough to buy them the time
even through Barrier and Shields to kill him off.
And I'm glad you mentioned the Barrier, because the first death,
Gumi-Yushi lost his Flash anyway.
Now he loses his Barrier anyway, and you can see here,
Berserker won his first game against Gumi-Yushi just last game,
and now he's off to a nearly 1,000 gold lead.
I have always felt a little bit that Berserker, when he goes international,
has a little bit of a mental block against these LCK teams,
because his time in the LCK, he was on bottom teams,
he was mostly losing, he was seeing firsthand
just how good they are and I wonder if getting that win against someone like
Guma who he respects so much could really allow him to play a little bit more
free a little bit more confidently believe in himself in these matchups
that little bit more. I mean there's definitely a lot of belief in that
bottom lane right now. Berserker is absolutely showing up. Two kills now in
the Lucian, the early sheen to a slingshot like you're gonna be very much
able to continue this pressure on the bottom side and that opens up things
Is that the Dragon Ball?
Yeah, but now it's a full Zen coming out!
The Fate Seal does just that!
HLE solo laners rotate over.
They'll take the crab, and they'll take Inspired's life.
And the fight was decided by this smite.
Kenavi wins this smite.
That gives him six, and that allows him to full send it
there onto Inspire.
Nicely done there from HLE, Kenavi, coming out on top there
in that smite battle, earns him an extra kill.
And an extra comp as well.
might even earn him Dokla, who has stepped away, but Kanavi just gonna hop out of that one, still HLE
making some moves on the top side.
Yeah, they didn't want to try to make any sort of a play towards Dokla there, Equalizer is not available,
the Viult is not available, the exhaust and the needlework both there for Dokla, so they just back it off.
Yeah, exactly, and we're seeing the value of this Vi, Kanavi, making him pay thus far for giving that over,
that is one of these picks, again, it is down to preparation, they didn't forget about the Vi, just like the Nocturne Orianna there saying,
We are giving you this power, but our response is going to be powerful because we know exactly what you're going to be going for.
But so far, Kanavi, great gank in mid lane, gets a kill for Zeke.
That fight up on the top side, winning this fight, gets a kill for Zeus.
And the double Z's up on the top side are getting a big lead.
And this is Kanavi's tempo. When he joined HLE, the whole story was HLE trying to pick up the pace to keep up with Kanavi.
You're seeing it now on this topside, the play in mid, then finding that smite on the
Scuttle Crab to pick up the kill as well.
And if this buy can start to punish some of the fact that you still have that flash gone
in mid lane, you don't have a flash redone on the topside, there's always these windows
for HLE to pick up more.
And this is how HLE wants to play.
They want to play around their solo lanes.
They want Kenavi focusing on getting those double Z's like you're talking about ahead.
We mentioned back in game number one, KumaYushi's used to being weak-sided.
able to just farm up, he can be targeted and count on the rest of the team to get the work done if he's being focused.
One thing I will say though, Coglu obviously has a lot of power in the late game, but generally speaking, I like Lions comp late game way more.
I mean, I do think their ability to disengage some of these engages is incredibly powerful, and obviously they're looking for Saints.
Yeah, Saint could be in some danger here, Vault Breaker finds a target, Saint uses the power siphon to get himself away in time, still loses about one-third HP.
Yeah, but it's a chunk because
Inspired here is over on the grubs
And does grab that first grub
Has his ulti available, Kanavi is back too
Okay, one for one on grub so far
Third grub still alive, Kanavi should be able to secure this one easy
So HLE is coming out on top
Kanavi is at two full levels over inspired now
After the kills, after the stolen camps inspired
Rarely gets this far behind
And that's why I'm surprised that Lyne didn't try and take that fight
They had the push on top, already Victor chips across the mid
I honestly expected them to just try and force end with the position they had on the map,
but inspired a little bit where he is. He backs away in a Kenavi once more.
Yup, that's the level 8 versus level 6 advantage Kenavi knows. Inspired cannot deal with him,
and now, season desist! Yet again, wild growth with Gov'l-Ushin coming up right behind him.
Delight takes the kill, and HLE finds their third.
Punch in the face, knocked up by the wall, growth, and then turned into a little butterfly.
Inspired did not have a fun time in that one, ask all and can now be this boy is taking over.
Yeah, it's gonna get really hard because he's losing camps again off the back of that. Inspired
is always so precise with his plays, always so efficient with his plays and now down so much
farm. The gold is less the problem than the experience because he's maintained that two
full level lead. And though I do really like line scaling, if the skarner does not say relevant,
You are just food for this cop and I think can Abbie's been in a great job of basically tracking what inspires up to and then punishing further right
Yeah, make the plan, but you get a camp you try and take the fight on the top side of the scuttle steal away the gromp
Then go for the re-invade on the ground have the support there
And it's this constant ticker that can Abbie goes for because in the past we had like Yankees was talking about trying to play against can Abbie
If you took a scryer's bloom at the wrong time can Abbie would track you for the next three minutes
This has always been where this jungler has shined and again we're starting to see it here in this game
I mean when he is at his best. He is so hard to stop the plays come fast and furious
He's always trying to push that limit as you're saying
Attracting you perfectly forcing plays creating advantage after advantage after advantage and it's fire right now
It's just kind of in recovery mode. It is a very late first dragon
So not worried about an early soul or anything like that and top lane has been fine so far for Dopla
which I think Lion will be very happy about.
Yeah, this dragon way, way later compared to the first two games.
This is honestly around the time the second Drake has spawned and been fought for in the previous two.
So slower on that one, but HLE does own the first Drake.
They do own the 2-1 here in the Void Grub.
So neutral objectives going the way of the team that has the Accelerated Jungler.
The two first items completed by Berserker and Kenavi though.
So it really does become a fight between those two if we get to this next objective.
But can I be realizing hang on I don't have that cease and desist
I don't want anything to do with this bottom lane right now
I'm just gonna try and clear out make sure I was there to cover any sort of play that happened
We just try and keep this golden flux going in my face
Hold on exhaust use here in the top side. Doku's got the needlework
The equalizer has already been used on the wave meanwhile bottom lane inspired potentially looking for a play down here top side
And Doku is going to be Baron Loseus with the solo kill, cuts him down.
Meanwhile, bottom side Berserker needs a little bit more damage to try to kill Gumi.
Usually the turret is going to turn right back over onto Inspired.
Breath of Life will not save him, but Berserker has already got the double kill.
It's a 2 for 2 across the map.
Inspired is all in on this bot lane, is giving up his top camps to make sure that Berserker
can go 4 and 0, but it's HLE that are winning elsewhere.
Yeah, and they're winning elsewhere big time.
Inspired now three full levels down. Yes, Berserker is strong, but Zaeus gets a solo kill on that top side and
Dokla, you know tries to fight it out, feels that the exhaust might actually make the difference here,
but with that shroud down Zaeus was happy to take the fight. Even with that early exhaust,
he just kites it out. He has this with these and you can see this needlework not really getting too much value and then Zaeus keeps
his heat at just the right
Let's call it. Flashes in finishes him off. Beautiful solo. Yeah, the needlework dodge twice in that fight was huge and then on the dive.
Yumeyushi flashes away, but it's straight into the face of a clothing and it's good dot using of the terror aggro. It is inspired. It goes down.
But the fact that you get two kills onto berserker and some turrets plates has to be the silver lining here for line. It really is.
And I mean, it's it's kind of all eggs in the berserker basket because the gold is close, but don't look going to get pressured again.
Yep, it's Kanavi looking to work together with Zayas and find yet another kill here in the top lane.
HLE's game plan, focus these solo lanes, get him ahead.
Doka survives for now, but Kanavi re-enters and Kanavi takes another one. HLE, a thousand gold ahead.
Yeah, Doka had both Berserker and us who were moving up, but thought maybe he could play it safe with the dash,
cause them off, and I mean he just falls on his own.
Yeah, I feel like Dokla had outplayed it, he had survived, and then he was trying to reset that skip and slash by getting those melees down and ends up just dying and giving one over, and that's costly if you're going to look for Zeca.
Yup, Zeca's about to endure a four-man play. He wants to try to turn it around a little bit here. Solo and down is already in used. Fate's Field doesn't get him a whole lot.
Zeca, taken out. However, HLE's not done. Berserker's under pressure. Kanabi trying to kill him off. Berserker firing back.
Kenavi gets the kill, everyone to inspire, and the Wild Growth is going to keep A.J.L.E. going.
Ryan, all utterly routed, and A.J.L.E.
Barry Four, Dokla, will at least get one back.
Look at Miyoshi over in mid lane as he skips and slashes away from the bomb.
He'll survive. It's a 4-for-2 trade. A.J.L.E.
2,000 gold lead.
Ryan had to have thought they had Kenavi there,
but the sundered sky healing was insane.
He just bounces back and forth between targets heel after heel after heel the fight starts out pretty well
There's a TP coming in behind, but they just rush down Zeka, but look at how tanky can obvious
He is 2,000 gold ahead. They sent him into the wall. They ult him up
Look at the survival here though
He gets the passive shield one problem is under the sky another problem is under the sky the wild growth and
Even as strong as berserker is you can't get the kill online
We're just trying to make that play quick and fast get on out
But Saint didn't have the manner to follow up on the rest of the fight
but don't the least able to get something back in the midline because he's Zekka
Happy that his team was able to bail him out of that one
Continue to try to pull their way back into this
I mean you still have a super strong AD carry, but Zeus is now massively ahead
Canavi has maintained this enormous
Jungle lead as well and that was the problem in that fight as well
Canavi having so much damage just mainly basically soloed out Berserker before anyone could really help him out
And that's a major issue with these upcoming fights and inspired having no damage, right?
You know if he had had any damage, he could have actually maybe finished him off there
Canavi was down about 5-10% before he started getting that healing coming in but inspired is still down almost a full three
Levels here as Canavi's gonna hit 12. Yeah inspired has his heart steel and he has a couple of very basic low tier items
Meanwhile, Sundar Sky and Cleaver both completed for Kanavi, Gumi-Yoshi about to die to the calling.
Barrier keeps him alive, Berserker loses a lot of health to the heated up turret.
Not really worth it in the end, Berserker took so much damage from the turret that he has to back away anyway.
And now you've got that push on the bottom lane from Zedka, so immediately HLE gonna move over towards the dragon and pick that one up.
And a very least inspired obviously from behind, you have your CC, but we talked about it with Doko,
but he did get that kill onto Guma, which is something for him,
but, you know, before that solo kill, he was holding even.
Then he gets solo killed, then he gets go, now he's down 2k,
and Glenn does not have that utility.
Now, though, may be a moment to fight for Lyme,
because you just hit two items on Berserker on this reset,
you have Rift air looking available.
Ping's already going down from HLE,
they want to try and move into position,
but you only have the members of Lyme
coming back out of the map now inspired,
starting to move into this bottom side,
where there is not a single compact cipher.
I think the terrifying part, though,
is when you are kind of one threat right now.
I mean, Sainte is relevant. Uh-oh.
Over the wall goes Canavi and Dohkla.
Once again, Masis and Desist.
Zayas unstoppable.
Canavi is anywhere and everywhere at the same time,
and he is dominating this third game.
And look at Zeke reading the play.
He knows every time they go top, they dive him bot.
Zeke just walks mid.
He's going to farm up the Wolves and say,
I know what you were looking for, I'm not gonna show up for it, I won't give a kill back this time.
But, you know, you need that second threat for Lyon, because otherwise it's gonna be Yone'ol, it's gonna be Viol, it's gonna be E.K.Lizer, all on your head, every fight as Berserker, and someone else has to punish.
Berserker now gonna be your target, Polymorph tries to get away, but the main shield, again, will do its duty!
Guma Yu, she takes the kill to add insult to injury, and now, the one point of strength for Lyon is cut down.
HLE over 4,000 gold ahead as they rammed the Rift Herald straight down mid.
The instructional video for Azale's commentary just comes through immediately afterwards.
Like, there was nothing that Berserker could do on that one.
Now the Rift Herald going to the bot lane, 4,000 gold, about to skyrocket for HLE.
I mean, this is just a topside masterclass here.
Kanavi and Zeiss really running away with the game.
Lyon will continue to fight, continue to look for plays,
and we'll see if they can find something on Zayas,
but this is a risky dive if they want to go for it.
All right, Doku's wave going to be cleared out by the equalizer.
St. shows up, inspired, trying to get in here and make the play.
Zayas shoved away out of the turret, inspired, barely survives.
Lyon get their mark before Kenavi can show up with Delight
to try to get one back.
I wasn't sure if Delight was going to get there in time,
but I don't think they really care.
You got Zekka onto the tier two in the bottom lane,
putting in work. It feels like line. They're still trying to make these plays happen, but they just don't have the map to do so.
Yeah, it's very very difficult. I mean when your jungler falls this far behind, it's gonna be tough and Knavi looking for more.
Yep, once again that season desist is going to find a valuable target. The solo laners online are being hunted.
Knavi is having such an impressive game here. This is exactly the way he wants to play.
This is exactly how HLE has become such a powerful team in the LCK and they are doing it again.
Here in this third game against Lyon and while berserker is still strong quietly his gold lead has been eroded away at you know
Guma down 1k that is relevant
But then you look over and you see a 2.4k gold lead a two level lead in the jungle
You see an entire level lead in 1.3k in the advantage of the seis and you realize that 1k for berserker might not be enough
Canavi versus inspired here with a blue buff inspired going through the wall
wants Canavi to have the flash away from the Vi to answer the flash from
Inspire to chase him over the wall. Canavi stays alive and still deathless this
game. It's a valuable effort from Inspire but couldn't quite make it work.
We're trying to use the timing window as Zeko is pushing in this topside to make
something happen but Lion haven't recessed. Zeko is getting so much gold
on these side lanes for free. Yeah I mean Lion obviously feel like the pace of the
game is not working in their favor so they have made the call that we have
got to send on plays. We cannot play the game out normal. We cannot just match sidelines and expect
to win. So Inspired is just going to keep sending it. He does this NNA. It is very rare that he gets
behind, but as far as going to test it, sometimes he does and he has these games where he's going
to end up with seven, eight, nine deaths. It feels like because he believes the best way to win in a
position like this is just ascended. So that's what he's going to keep doing. He will not bleed
out slowly. If he feels like they are at a disadvantage, he's going to keep trying to make
a move happen, but it's so difficult against a team like HLE when they have a lead built up like this.
4,000 gold, everybody's feeling super strong. Gumiuchi now with a second fully completed item.
He's on the same number of completions as Berserker, so again, they have one point of strength for Lyon.
Doesn't feel particularly strong with 30 seconds left to go until the third Drake spawns.
Yeah, we'll see exactly what he's going to be able to get done.
Lion trying to fight. It is going to be yet another Hextech Soul. Three games in a row here that it is going to be that Hextech Soul up and available and this time it is definitely favoring HLE as they are the ones with the two dragons to zero lead.
And Lion not really looking like they are prepped to even fight this one whatsoever so I think Lion are going to have to give it probably.
And you can see powerful defensive itemization for the HLE solo laners as well, immortal shield bow for Zeca.
Inspire gonna be the target here for Kanavi, tries to use the impale to turn things around and buy himself a little time.
Inspire below half HP, Doku gonna be your target, tries to use the hallowed mist, but Doku is already down and Kanavi is on a rampage.
HLE, they find the pick and earn the drake.
It's a faint from HLE. They go for the scarner, but they hit in the kidneys on a Stokela who ends up falling as a result
Dragon number three for the LCK.
It's just one of a thousand great plays from Kanabi this game inspired
Sent the impale in on the Kanabi, but there was no one around to follow up on the damage
So Kanabi was still at full health and
We see him just full send it on to Dokela as soon as he shows up and they're gonna move themselves to the sole point
They have nearly a 5000 gold lead.
They are looking so damn strong.
Inspired, maybe thinking that his team was closer than they were in this moment.
I mean, Kanabi goes in and he tries to CC him up, but it's just,
no one's in range follow-up on the impale.
Yeah, inspired just a little bit too far forward.
Maybe worried that Kanabi was going to ult him immediately,
but instead, Doka tries to move into help,
and the end of just turning it onto the top laner and finishing him off.
Zeku has been hiding in this bush for a while, and how do you go for the terror?
once, maybe a kill, but it's just gonna channel the bucket. Yeah, we'll end the bucket away for me.
4.9,000 Goldly, three Drake's to nothing, three turrets to one. Everything belongs to HLE
right now, as Guma Yushi steps forward, and this Cogmaw is really starting to hurt up here in the
top lane. Zeka also winning out in the trade against Doklai, even despite the turrets interference.
For Lyon, it's got to be some kind of a miracle. We think back to game one, we think to the clever
steal on the Elder Drake that looked like it may have given them a chance when the game was otherwise over.
Anything shy of that, and I feel like HLE's got this one locked down.
And I just don't think they have the same kind of playmaking. I mean, Iles has been so critical in the last two games, his playmaking.
It's really just inspired. That can try to grab someone, but he's so far behind.
He has just been paid for, and HLE want to force the issue. They're trying to get at least a TP from Doku.
Exactly. Doku down at the bottom lane. Teleports ready. But Kanavi and Zeca can take down this Baron so easily with just the two of them.
Teleport coming in now from Dokla. HLE, they got what they came for. Summoner's spell is down.
St. Steps forward towards the Baron, but it's already lost its patience and regenerated far too much HP.
Berserker stepped up here in the mid lane. Inspire goes over the wall, finds the slam onto Kanavi,
but where's the follow-up damage? There's nothing from Lyon. Kanavi's just fine with the wild growth.
He gets back over the wall. That's Impale plus the Arcane Storm used by Lyon. Only wild growth from HLE.
As now, Inspire looking to find the catch here on the second and the mid lane, Iosgraft's a kill.
They managed to take out the enemy mid laner.
Kumiuchi's about to die next.
Seiya's in the middle of everybody exhausted.
They try to get Kanavi out, he barely stays alive.
No deaths on the lion side.
I said they needed a miracle,
and that teamfight may have turned water to wine.
What a fight there from Lyon out of nowhere from so far behind.
They're going to go for the Baron, but Przegor has no HP.
I don't even know if he can do this,
and Kenavi is still in the area, has smite.
Okay, Milio, very good at keeping his allies topped off.
You've got the cozy campfire, you've got the warm hogs.
Sane's gonna try to make sure
that Kenavi can't get anywhere near this one.
Sane goes over the wall, Kenavi trying to get out now,
stuck inside the gravity field,
turns it right back around with a ball,
Breaker looking at Sane, season desist.
Kenavi staying alive, Sane out playing him,
and with the ultra mega-fighter kick,
IELTS guarantees the enemy jungler falls.
Let's take a look.
You can see in the fight in here that as they hit a force in Canavia, if they jump on top of them,
you get the opa. Canavia has to escape over the top of us because of the gravity field coming through from Saint.
And that's where Zeke thinks he finds his moment.
He lifts and it sets up line for the re-engage.
Exactly. Zeke goes forward here, but he's already a little bit low.
And look at that sidestep from Inspire. Slams him into the wall, and they just have enough damage to take him down.
Guba has overstepped. Dogla catches him, and then Zayas flashes in, tries to take out Berserker.
But the exhaust is there, the breath of life is there.
And then, Berserker going too far forward, has to use both of Summoners, barely survives.
A big misstep from Berserker, but it's still a brilliant fight.
They're looking for Guma!
We're right back on the line, but Guma, you, she's dead!
Inspired, looking to make it a two-man play as the light tries to get out.
They use the umbrella, they found Zeca.
He wants to get away with the bait, he's on his block.
Zeca making enough distance for now.
They are in the middle of everybody, but Berserker kills them off.
They're inside meat grinder!
They tell E!
They are aced!
You can win the game for 90% of the time!
But Lyon, find the clutch!
They find the clutch and they should be able to end it right here right now!
They got the wave!
They're pushing straight into the enemy base.
Look at your win chance!
Look at the gold gap!
Look at Lyon in the base of HLE!
They push towards the next endurance.
Gumiuchi is back alive, Delight in 10,
Lion Health bars, Compromised.
First Nexus turret, taken low, taken out.
Three seconds on Delight.
Gumiuchi stepping forward, the game's not over yet.
Lion's health was too low to hit.
Lion don't think they can do it.
They will just back away,
but the TPs are coming in the resets.
Tanks, that barn buff, are gonna get them out of there.
Lion, what a 7,000 goal play on the Red Bull Barn Powerplay.
But it's Sol, it's Sol that's on the table now and HLE are rushing for it here, Lyon are strong now, but they spent a lot on that fight, they thought they could end it.
Yep, Lyon's going in, they want to try to challenge here for the Sol. This could decide the entire game. HLE already onto the objective.
Lyon stepping forward, but they're doing it slowly. Don't go over the wall. Inspires on top of the drinkers, the calling forces go away, the Cogmox are already almost down.
They go to make the play, season consists coming out from Konami, but he won't find a kill here just yet.
Berserker is shut down, HLE finding a couple of kills, Gumiushi staying alive and fighting with Bull of the Zayas.
HLE still to take the drag, it is secured by Lyon, Zaka still fighting here in 1v3, the main character.
But Saint executes him, Gumiushi, the only man left alive.
And Saint who took the dragon, he does it again!
Wait, you're scaring me.
They want to keep going. They think it's just KumaYushi.
They were considering going for the end there.
But when I was on social LHP, they decided to back away.
But holy moly, what is this game, boys?
It is insanity. It is LCS going toe to toe
with one of the best teams in the world.
And it is Dopla creating so much space to begin this fight,
pushing back Kanavi.
But it is HLE standing strong.
They find Berzerker. Look at his hands on the flight.
was marked by Al's got knocked back, but then in they go, they get in, back onto the solution, they burst them down.
And it's Saint who dies the back line, Saint who manages to get the stasis, and when it all comes crashing down for HLE,
it is Saint standing over them saying, I don't forgive you HLE, and they are here to play!
And it is Guma living with one spell of health, or they would have won the game there, they would have been able to go down,
But again, are they gonna catch one of the recall they spotted him, but Zeyas is there
Both of these last fights the Zerkers Culling has found the heart of Guma Yushi the Kogma under so much pressure
From these Lucian ultimates and it's making it hard for him to participate
And it's also the build from the Lucian going for the Black Cleaver giving him that little bit of extra survivability
That was crucial on the play in mid because the cozy campfire kept him topped up
He survived for so long in that dragon fight and now Berserker finishing off the infinity edge for items for this Lucian
He is so strong. He is so powerful and inspired was down three levels
He's down less than one level now got so much experience from the Baron from these fights
Dokla is relevant as far as gold goes as well
He almost has his completed zonius and lion we got to see can they get it across the finish line here HLE
so deadly in these fights. They've got a GA. They've got the Zonias on Zeus, and they've
got the Infinity Edge on Zeca.
Alright, battling the enemy red side jungle as Lyon tries to push forward. Inspired here
in the front line, but Kennavi secures the red buff. Vaultbreaker channeled to make sure
that he can get right back out. One and a half thousand gold lead for Saints. Zonias hour
glass ready to go. Ten stacks on the Medjais. Seekers armguard for Dokla. Protoplasm harness
for Inspired.
It is the best slowing down the pace here for Lyon.
Byron in 40 seconds. Keep the waves pushed in. Keep HLE on their side of the mouth.
Don't let them look for more as Kanavi.
Yeah Kanavi jumps in after inspired but he goes for the ball breaker.
Immediately Kanavi backing right back away.
Inspired's impaled, does pose a little bit of a threat but nobody is close enough to provide the damage.
But now the calling comes out.
To me!
Say it's on the run!
Lyon, looking for their angle here to try to end the game.
Doku's made his way in.
The Nexus turrets both standing at about 130 HP.
HLE still trying to escape.
Equalizer under the minion wave.
They're on the towers!
The Zercher putting damage under the towers.
Kenavi still trying to enter into the fight.
The Zercher attacking turrets.
Kenavi here in the front line.
Doku goes golden.
Say it's just the same.
Kenavi is down.
Kenavi is gone.
The Nexus is gone.
Lyon are on match point.
Lions are pulling off the miracle!
They are on match point against the LCK's number one in Dajon!
Closer than they've been in, I don't know how many years to doing the impossible shades of the FlyQuest almost upset being channeled, they are out playing HLLE at every turn!
That is the closest they've been, they were up 2-1 in that series in 2024.
Yeah, we are we are we are close to a historical series, but nobody takes anything everybody
Okay, oh my we're losing that game they outplay
It is literally not you know, it's not like oh, we're out copying or anything
They outplay it is the juke the pivotal moment. Yone goes in
Zack does yone goes in on inspired and he sidesteps him slams it into the wall
They get to come back in that fight so much gold and then they consecutively win the fight to the game
We thought it was over. We had a whole segment about how it was unstoppable
Yeah, and this was pass out. It was just such okay. I'll take over so you guys can take a breather
This was just such a massive team fight win from lion using the strength of
Berserker who did get significantly far ahead, but it was kind of to the detriment of
inspired right and the fact that they were able to have so much space for him
was so so important and then this fight st. Just ends up absolutely having to
beast this I mean this is where you would expect a possible joke because they
had just overstayed in the base trying to end couldn't do it had to do this
desperation plate and berserker died but sage just seems calm I feel like he's
He's in such a flow state, he's laughing and he's cackling on camera.
He's so clutch in all these fights.
Yeah, as someone looking kind of from the outside in, right, a chelis don't seem secure in there.
We can go to the chelis.
Chelis, just push to the tower.
It's because of Lyon.
The tier is just cons at the end.
Just down them, don't try to kill.
Yeah, I'm ending, okay?
Don't try to kill, don't try to kill.
Hit the tower, hit the tower.
Don't try to kill, don't try to kill, take it slow.
Don't focus on ending, just play.
Are you guys focusing on ending?
Everyone at, everyone at, everyone at, everyone at, everyone at, you guys!
Woo!
This is so adorable!
Let me remind you, you know with all this, oh, Saints smiling and they're joking in this
high pressure situation in the biggest stage that they have played on together, this is
the team.
When Lion was formed, everyone said, they're gonna crash out, they're too toxic, they're
all gonna just break apart and rage at each other.
This is the team that is laughing while they're taking down the number one seed of the LCK.
So I I mean okay sec third time ever and he's got a two-game wins within a best of five fly versus Gen.G
And then that's really a freaking yeah in 2018. Yeah, this is historic
Well, so here's the thing that we got away with I feel like in the four or five bands of this draft
We banned Ari Cascio and gave over
Yone rumble to bear with five
I thought that was going to be the thing that was the top post in the thread that was that I can't believe we gave them this
This is when the series turned and the fact that we won that game when they're on those contracts and can office
4,000 gold ahead. I cannot believe it and here's where I want to really highlight berserker, right?
Because we've talked about you had highlighted jet where you weren't necessarily super confident
Because berserker until this point wasn't able to play with name plates off and the fact that he was so confident in
those team in those interviews prior to this series about going up
against his kind of, not necessarily team-based,
but former organization mates in Kuma-Yushi.
And then to have this kind of performance
where he does end up putting the team on his back,
it's his strength in so many of these fights
that is really, really crucial.
That's such a turning point for Berzerker
specifically as a player.
100% they gave Lyon one area to play off of.
while inspired is three levels down to Kanavi,
with Kanavi constantly making plays
on the top side of the map
and then counter jungling him as well
because Berserker and Isle had good laning
and because they punished and killed Guma-Yushi,
Lines still had an area to bridge them over.
Oh my God.
And by time, until that crazy fight.
And that fight was in mid lane.
That's the one where they dodge Zeka
and they're able to get the counter,
they're able to get the turnaround
and they're able to scale.
5,000 gold down and you made a point during last game shocks
Well, you're saying maybe we're not seeing the other side of it is HLE messing up
I feel like both of these teams are actually quite nervous
I think the inspired smite on scuttle crab when they were going both for level six is a very
Uncharacteristic play for him if it's a losing fight if he's gonna lose Mike usually he backs away
But it's I think a little uncharacteristic
How fed they let Guma get how they couldn't close the game with a 5,000 gold lead and they lose a fight right in the mid lane
So absolutely. It's always gotta be feeling it right now
It's it's completely unacceptable for them to lose this and lose their world's fourth seed
That's in the back of their minds and we've talked about HLE's mental composure sometimes failing in positions like this
I'm gonna say I think this is the best chance you've ever had to beat that else
I really think so. Look at everything. Look at the momentum of Lyon beating G2 so handily yesterday
They weren't even in the conversation now. They push HLE after a 5,000 gold lead. How did they bring it home?
Well, yeah, and I was gonna say from the HLE side
I think this is massive right because like you said we've seen this team
Kind of have struggles when the pressure is on when they get reverse swept and then can't close it out to qualify for tournaments
Obviously some of the pieces have changed, but this is huge they should be feeling so confident have better team fight scaling is my one rule
Don't let us I could get to game five. Let's just end it in four
Callback, please lie and then in four. We'll see if HLE fights back and brings us the silver scrapes
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It's a miracle! They are on match point against the LCK's number one in Daejeon!
Oh my god, Lyon is up 2-1 against HLE and I found some fans, Rollswapped G2 fans for the day.
Yes, after yesterday, they have our support today. It's been amazing watching them.
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Oh my god!
Does it feel better losing to Lyon, knowing what they're doing to HLN right now?
Oh, what they're doing is amazing right now.
It definitely makes it feel better.
Oh yeah.
Do you think they can do it?
Two and one right now.
They want two in a row.
They can do it.
Oh yeah, they can do it.
Who do you believe in?
And Lyon, I believe, oh my gosh, I inspire him every time I see his plays.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
He dropped the bomb in the interview.
He drops the bomb in all the celebrations and yeah,
in the end he's doing it.
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Love seeing the Lion fans show up in the audience,
but even more, I love seeing Lion show up for North America,
show up here in Daejeon versus the best team from Korea.
And now it's Lion who only need one more game
to take the series.
But coming into the series to even get one game was looked at
as something that would be incredibly hard.
We saw what this team did to G2, what HLE did to them.
So they have to stay on point.
You cannot let your foot off the gas against HLE.
You misstep and they can easily win two in a row.
And now the question is how deep does that prep go?
They seem to be exceptional from line, these three games.
game one, it didn't quite work out for close fire, it has been doing them some serious
favors. And as we get into this, the immediate Yorick ban, this season he chased for Dokla.
Yeah, I was thinking about that, but I think there's also a possibility of going in towards
the gnar even. They definitely will not give over Jace to Zayas, you can guarantee that.
So the question is, you know, are they okay taking the Jace blind? How comfortable will
Doka a feel on it. I feel like he held up pretty well in the 1v1 in the Gwen
versus Rumble, but then Kanavi was just kind of taken over. Also in the team
secret Wales game I was incredibly impressed with Doka on the chase as well.
Had that big free man crash down onto people that really turned the game in
their favor so well executed on the chase but I have to see that is going to be
the plan is actually slowing down with the draft here. Yeah it's very interesting.
I mean they might have been taken a little bit off guard by the York and then
they kind of have to decide, you know, how do we want to play this out?
Because, of course, Lyon does have first pick, so they would be the ones
who would be able to grab the Jays if they want.
HLE have to think, okay, if we can't play Yorick and we can't play Sion,
two of the kind of common answers, what are we comfortable playing into the Jays?
Are we okay giving it over?
All right, we've got the Yorick, the Bane and the Bard, banned out by Lyon,
Cassiopeia and Trundle, banned away by HLE.
And now that we're on to game four,
It's always these last two games in the best of five that really start to feel the pressure of fearless
This is where the pools finally start to get tight. Yeah, absolutely
I mean Olaf is something we have seen as an answer. So I think that is an option
So each only have to just discuss it. Are they okay just playing whatever into it? Okay, they're gonna pick Jace for sure
There's there's no way I feel like he gives a is the Jace. I think they just have too much respect for him on that champ
I would be shocked if they do
do, then maybe they go the Olaf, but I just think that matchup, the front looked easy,
and Zayas is such a beast on it, this makes a lot of sense.
And now, does Zayas go for the Olaf that we've seen a couple of times here, or does
he not want to kind of bet his tournament life on a pick like that?
And I feel like there's so much history here, you think back throughout what's like 15 years
of Pro League of Legends now, NAJs being a meme for so long, going up against Zayas,
one of the best Korean top laners, Kyrid, and he's the one who will now go up against
that NHA, and we'll see if Dope will compile it, but HLE, instead, they are going to prioritize
some serious lane power for bottom. Last game, remember Berserkman and Iles were 2v2
killing them at level 2. This time around, Caitlyn Karma has some presence.
But it's also not the style that we've seen from HLE, right? Like the whole talking point
coming into this tournament was, Delight now unengaged. Delight actually being able to roam.
having that impact him he's not bad by any means on the enchanters but falling
back to what they had in the regular season it's not what I expected coming
into this game for is it gonna be Camille Mel here are they willing to bet
on that there's been a lot of criticism of already Camille of course or pike or
something like that they could go towards blitz would be pretty crazy I
think it is a melt bot for berserker which I want to see if he's ever played
it in his career it's a pike so they are bringing it out there has been so many
questions about Isle's ability to play on a pick like this. The Camille game
against TSW was much better but his pipe game was a bit of a disaster you know
was not looking comfortable on it whatsoever and you have a very hard to
execute first three you're playing Jace you're playing Pike and you're playing
it against some of the best players in the entire world. To be fair to us though
the first Camille game not so hot second Camille game significantly better.
Pike number two could be a lot better this time around as well especially with
lanes, the player like this, Jace, that's what he is.
The first male game in Pazerker's career
could be the one that clenches him,
the greatest performance of his career,
if they are able to take down HLE.
But the pressure is on, and the question is,
how comfortable are you on these champs,
given that we haven't seen a single-stage game of it
from him, and the only pike game we've seen from Isles
went very, very poorly.
To be fair, though, I've been impressed with Pazerker
when he's on the zig, so definitely feels
comfortable on the majors and especially if they can't open up this ability to move around because I think it's fired
Definitely would have liked to help in hand in the last one when Kenabe was in medium as jungle and with an inferior on the opposite side here
I feel like that's gonna be the game plan again for HLE
I mean it's gonna be so interesting because I agree he's been great on the Ziggs
One of the things about the Ziggs is you have the inherent safety of this actual right? Mel does not have that
I think the theory can be a problem for a champion like Mel
There's not that much that's a reflect that's gonna really save you in a lot of these situations
And it is Cassante. I wonder if they'll ban out the Olaf as well. Are they even concerned about it?
The other thing I'm even more surprised by Lissandra ban from HLE, not a champion that has been very relevant in a while
But they will also ban out St. Silas. Interesting. So clearly
Lissandra to me says you want to go play maybe right? I think about Leblanc. Yeah, but then Silas, I don't feel like is that terrifying
for the LeBlanc, so that's why I'm a little bit confused by it.
There's also not really any good ults to steal yet at all on the HLE side.
Maybe it's like a protection ban for something that they're going to go later on and they know that hey,
like if we go hex, then you would want to take the Silas,
but those two bans feel like they're going in different directions.
It may be the Twisted Phase and something that are also looking out at the mid lanes that are like,
you try and go for the TP, you decide your content, you look to you, that kind of spell,
but still feels a little odd, but no, just going for a bit more stock standard.
All right, Aurora locked in one and seven so far here at this MSI for this champion has not seen a whole lot of success so far.
But remember, this is also still a flex pick.
And also remember the sign was zero and nine. They won with that, right?
You know, it does not indicate that they are going to be getting a free ride here by any means.
Zeka is a beast on this champ.
I do like the Wukong. I think it is a powerful team fight champion into this.
into this and he makes a lot of sense as well gives you some engage is a pretty good matchup into the Aurora
The only other thing in question is maybe a pantheon because the idea of hey
We've got early access to the map level three level four work with this bike to try and make plays exactly
But we'll have to see and yeah, it looks like that might be the call here to try and match the nefiri presence as well
Yeah, I mean I like both the pantheon and the wukong. I'd be pretty happy either way
The big question everyone's mind is going to be what will say us bet their series on here to me
I'm still thinking about that robot. There is angles for things like my mouth fight and you can go really kind of more out of left
Field things that are the more like solo queue answers in towards the Jays
There's a reliant some of these more aggressive picks and sometimes people like to bring out but
Just like so much engaged though on HLE side
You know what decent poke here
So I think maybe that could be it like try and go for some of the house
But they think why would you save it right? That's the thing that I that's making it hard. It could actually be a roar of top
I think it's a roar of top. I called the flex
Yeah, so I think it is going to be a roar top. I think it's going to be swaying men
So they are moving things around
I think swaying is a tough pick to answer but it could also be you know both I mean right now
Zeus is the one who is in control of this either way
There is you know pretty short-range champion in the any there's two of these kind of playmaking champions like the pantheon and the pipe
And you're gonna have to try to be fighting through this swaying who's gonna be buffed up by the karma
Kind of similar style to like almost those bruisers plus the chairs
I haven't seen the swap come through yet, but I think he's just gonna play it off
Yeah, so I I think I would have prepared in the mid lane though
But the the never move sure if you can connect with it does not mean the Jays comes in range
But Jays never really wants to be up close and personal with the swing anyway
So I think you should be able to try dodge away
I mean, I think the one thing I will say is that if you ever are fishing with the never move in a matchup like this as
Swain then he goes hammer form and you get sling right
Yeah, you know you have to kind of whittle away at it
I am seeing it more than ever move as a response to a to a hammer form Q if he's jumping forward you throw out the E
Maybe pull him back. You can drop the defensive W. So he's jumping into that
You know getting those souls is both really big in the lane because you're getting the heel
But it's also really big for actually stacking HP for swing later on
If you're not able to get any access towards souls if they just kind of don't interact with you
You're a lot less tanky in the two fights later on
But just not a tonic consistent damage on the side of lion which I think is where the idea of the swing is coming from
Exactly just drain tank through it unless you get instagip you're going to survive for a very long time
Here we go Hanwha life eSports their life on the line here in this game
Win and you go to silver scrims lose and your MSI journey ends just short of the finals
And that would be an absolute shock here.
MSI in Korea, T1 shockingly knocked out by G2.
If both of their teams were knocked out,
it would be a repeat of first hand
where we saw G2 taking out both those LCK teams.
But to lose both of your seeds in best of fives
to Western teams, back-to-back tournaments
would be unheard of.
Especially when you look at, again,
the mental world champions that are on this team,
they want to try and add that MSI into the mix.
We're even talking about Zeya and Gumi Ushi fighting
with Viper to be the first players to have all the trophies, those three across the year
in their trophy cabinets, to now step out at this stage. Honestly, unspeakable when we
started coming into this tournament.
Doku, great side step there from Zaeus, and he has actually hit three Qs in a row now
on Doku, and Doku's going to be in trouble. He's out of potions, and Zaeus is going for
level two. Doku's going to have to base, I think. That is a bit of a disaster for Doku.
Shot Blast gets sidestepped and he's not able to sidestep any of those little laser hands going out there from Zayas
And he goes W to even delay the base so being very annoying and now trying to make sure he gets his way then
But I think Doku with the push now coming in is just gonna get some of that XP
Yep
Doku leveling up to two so he'll get a little bit of extra stats for that get a little bit of extra health
Does not want to miss out on this wave solar snare the lives of the good me you see in the bone skewers ready to follow it
Iles goes into the sun forcing the flash of the HLE 80 carry and that's cleanse gone as well
That's he'll gone as well. That is a lot of tools and now Guma you want to play pushing when you are playing Caitlyn karma
You've got no sums here inspired to visit later on
It's gonna be so much harder for them to actually push and imagine he gets caught here
Nope, not quite not quite you can see this is the third time the LCS has ever taken two games off of the LCK
previously hold on let's see if the light can make the move on the saint Rome
does get the flash out of the lion mid laner and that's gonna make st. Very
vulnerable so July using that small window that he had is gonna use you
have to reset to move towards mid only level two so didn't have access to the
tether but it does burn that summoner spell so we've got many lanes but these
junglers will be looking at now yeah and doklah thankfully for him this shoved in
that way of expecting the base we pick up enough was able to you know get back
here to lane he's gonna be looking to push it in reset one more time though and
does have the support behind him yeah but that first purchase for Dokla does
not feel good refillable potion being the only thing you can add to inventory so
yes the support roam from Isle's going to be critical for getting this wave
crashed exactly that's all he's looking to do is just reset that wave one more
time with a better buy here is inspired looking for the reinvade they do have the
push and they have pike on this side of the map yep Isle's is making his way
over, inspired, does steal away the big chicken. As Isles will find Kanavi about to face check
into him into the brush here. St. Trading with Zeka in mid lane at the same time. They
want to make the move onto Kanavi. He goes up the wall, he stays alive. Isles still chasing,
but there's no more damage ready to go. Inspired use his flash there. Kanavi used his own. Flash
for flash, Kanavi's forced out of the jungle, and now Zayas hanging on up here in the top lane.
Dokla is very low on mana, but inspired, he has all of the charges there in his passive.
Dokla's gonna just try to use the two disguise, get this wave shoved up as fast as possible.
Allow Lyon to try to make the play here. Meanwhile, then to the bottom lane, Solar Snare coming out from Berserker trying to keep himself safe, reflects the headshot.
Does take a chunk of damage, but up here in the top lane now, and Seiya's gonna be your target.
They jump in for the Pantheon stun, they get the damage. Seiya's just down, Kanavi wanted to come in and try to help his top laner.
But instead, Kanavi gets one back! Beautifully done! As Call of the Pack gets him away! Lyon! Lyon gets a trade back again!
It's a double kill for Kenavi. Iles flashes in to get the jungler, trades his own life for it, and it's 2 for 2 in the top side.
It's 2 for 2, but Zeiss end up losing a ton of minions to that tower. Ends up falling down when it comes towards the gold.
It's trying to shove in that top end as quickly as possible to make...actually, it's just going to hold the wave to make sure that you can try and snowball that back a little bit.
But it is a win, honestly, for Dokla.
It's a big win for Dokla there. He gets the kill. Kenavi does get a couple kills, but also credit to Berserker staying safe in that bot lane.
He was in 1v2 that entire time, the Karma never moved, and Berserker is staying dead even.
And this is the reason why we've seen this kind of transition to the Major's bot lane.
They're incredibly good at being able to solo clear their waves,
and then you're able to get the solo XP as well.
So you end up having a little bit of advantage there, but hang on Oz, vision for Zayas.
Yep, Ile's trying to make a play before Zayas has the demonic ascension ready to go.
They drop the ignite, and Zayas is killed a second time.
Kanavi wants to get one back in the dark and Dagriff will do just that!
Kanavi with a return kill on the doklah and the game stays tied 3-3.
Kanavi again back-to-back games putting on a clinic here it feels like 800 gold lead for him
but credit to Iles who has been playing well they're looking for a dive.
Yup Delight trying to facilitate Kanavi getting yet another kill Iles tries to get away gets a good
stun Delight's gonna die to the turret yes Iles will fall but again it's one for one
8 kills on the board, 6 minutes into the game.
I apologize for doubting you, because he's playing a great game so far, it feels like on the pike.
But the guard dog for the birdhouse is kinda taking over right now.
4-1 for Kenavi, he is huge on this to theory.
We saw him get a lead in the last game, but this pick has way more damage in the tank
and can assassinate so many of the key members of the line.
It really can, but at the same time it is a very fragile pick.
You're not going to see Konavi in the middle of the entire team tanking up all the CC that he did in the last time.
And you look at point and click CC from Inspired.
Tiber's point and click CC from Sankt and so much burst, so he has got to be perfect with his call of the pack.
If he can immune those key spells, he can take over.
But one misstep, one stun, could be lights out.
Alright, let's check in on the rest of the map since never mind, okay, we don't have time.
Demonic Ascension coming out from Seya.
Delight makes his roam up here into the topside looking to help Dokla out, but inspired has arrived here for the ulti
Seias and Delight getting themselves away that is heal and flash from Delight
No sonar spells used by the lion side the small slow was enough to keep inspired out of range of Seias
But Isle's still fishing up here in the theory on the way as well
I think line just want to make sure that Dokla can get the reset safely and he will do just that
Yeah, exactly and Isles you know has that gold lead it is actually pretty significant for a pike when you get this early gold
The amount of damage you can put out matters a lot in these early fights bursting people low enough in
Combination with the ante. It's all about the resets all about that first kill four line
They want to get someone low get the pike all take him out quick and try to snowball the fight
And also with those kills he's been able to keep up an experience the light has been much more situated
get towards that bot side of the get-go, but now I was accelerated as well,
can get towards that level 6, which adds so much depth to that.
Plus, that ignite is so good against Zeus.
Like, trying to keep him from healing up is going to be crucial,
and if he goes low health, that's where that depth from below becomes so valuable.
Both supports hanging out up here yet again as Kenavi is first up into the topside.
Dokla to the skies, trying to get himself away, but Kenavi, he's got the damage!
And he keeps himself alive with Call of the Pack, HLE, coming out on top.
Dokla hitting back pretty hard there.
Would have had him if it wasn't for Delight being in the back pocket,
but Kanabi another kill here.
Five now to his name.
Oh, Ios goes into the bone skewer.
Interrupts Kanabi's recall,
but it's not like he can threaten anything lethal here.
And look at Botlay, no one answering that right now.
Xehas had that push.
The bone skewer, though, does give inspired time on the void grove.
So all three, it looks like he'll be going across.
There's a little bit of damage there towards Ios.
But now, as you say, Dokla matching bot wave.
So line kind of getting the map back, but it is that small gold lead mostly off the back of Canaver here for HLE.
And that is all three grubs for Lyon as you called out, you know, the interrupt on that a recall from Canavi allows inspired time to get that inspired obviously very far behind as he was last game.
But still he's within touching distance of experience, though he is very far down in gold.
So much more relevant than he was in the last one here in Isles now level five as he gets that level six, it is going to be critical.
So what they're doing at the moment is line shifting Berserker down
because he has the level advantage over Dokla to try and interact with the Dragon.
They saw Goomir using the topside, so Dokla knowing he'll be okay to catch this wave.
But too many shamanigans is going to try and do so, but HLE not feeling confident to start up this objective.
Just getting the vision down and waiting to see if they can find a pick, maybe on Berserker and a side link.
Yeah, we'll see if they can do that. They do have a ton of vision around that Dragon though.
You can see the entire area littered with HLE wards.
So they will have full info on anything they're trying to do as Isles and St. are here and matched by Kanabi.
Alright, 5-4 for HLE with control over the Spotside River.
It's another slow dragon game, but very understandably so with how much attention has been in the top lane.
HLE should try and start this now though. Xeus has matched open the top side.
He has that teleport to try and join in if they need to.
And you can see Kanabi already comfortable to try and make that play.
the Saints trying to get some poke on to Zeke in the mid lane.
But here's the see if they do push Zeke back.
Does St. just walk up towards this topside?
It's a big wave and you've got the Pantheon to cover as well.
Yep, that might be the play, but it looks like inspired
and St. both going to go for a recall instead.
They know that Zeus is underneath his turret.
Diving Swain even with a numbers advantage
can be very, very difficult.
It's super dangerous.
Meanwhile, back in bottom lane,
Berserker just reflects the Interflame back towards Delight.
Bone skewer from Isles.
That flash was not what he was hoping for.
No, it's a bit of a swing and a miss there.
Tried to go for the big play.
Delight was missing his flash.
That's why he sends it.
Because if he catches Delight there, Delight is dead to rights.
You get stunned up.
You get rooted up.
You get burst down, but they're looking for Jace.
Speaking of dead to rights, Dockla trying to get away again.
Side step's vision of Empire.
But Kanavi lands the first darkened dagger.
Dockla with the side step there with a second.
Never move, finds no target.
Dockla jumps back in, and it forces the demonic ascension
from Zaeus.
From Zaeus, excuse me.
Chris Cross and my top laners here as Big Dokes gets the outplay inspired down here in the bottom lane yet again
Trying to find some sort of a move delight in Gumi-Yushi staying away for now
Isles eats a massive amount of pain there from Gumi-Yushi to Katelyn
Warding away. There's attempted play from Lyon. So both side laners gonna breathe a breath of relief there
Dokla not having to burn the flash is crucial because he managed to keep himself safe from the side lane
And also the turn right on to Isles means that HLE's bot lane will live to fight another day
Yeah, they absolutely well that was that was so critical from Guma being able to trap up Isles get him low
Being able to force out that Aegis assault early from inspired. Otherwise, I thought they were gonna get dove and doko
Also getting the alt off of Zeus quite big as well
You know that was a bit of a miss that he thought he was in with a chance there
But stepped into tower range and does have to use that alt as a result has his Rylai's now completed
So it was just rushing towards that.
That is a big one. It makes it so much harder to actually kite out the ult from Swain,
which keeps that thing chugging along.
And one thing that I also think is very important here, inspired with his Sundered Sky, now done.
We talked about how accelerated Kanabi is as the owner of all five kills on HLE,
but it's one fully completed item to one in the jungle.
As they just get spotted going into that bush, you can see the pinks from Zaeus.
The invisibility not quite getting them into that hurt bush, so immediately Zaeus backs away
And then May set a page at Lee to try and look for a plane.
Now they know where the support is.
Yup, Sane's going to be your target.
Zeke goes in between worlds.
Kanavi thinks about it, but he doesn't want to dive towards Sane,
who has the tippers ready to go.
Exactly. And if you dive to that side, that's where Inspired was.
And they knew that because Kanavi was coming from the bottom side of the map.
So they're not sure how close he is.
Miles stepping forward here.
See Zeke does not want to try to do anything crazy.
Sane is still very hard.
Inspired jumps into the ulti, going in after Kanavi,
tries to take the enemy jungler low, the root from the light, but he flashes over the wall.
Now Zeke is trying to make some sort of a play.
Kanavi barely survives. Zeke gives him the same X marks the spot where Zeke is buried in the mid lane.
Lion get a one for nothing. They're looking for a little bit more,
but they will not find it. Just the single kill play from Lion.
Yeah, very narrowly avoided the death onto Kanavi, which was big.
The shield came in from Karma to absorb that ultimate coming through there from Berserker.
Bulkla has the eyes on it.
Both of them slow on the shock blast, but...
It is very nice of Lyle to take the training weights off of Lyle's dough in the pike
because he has been insane in this game.
Catching on the edge of that depth from below as well.
Setting up for that other kill.
Keeping this game within touching distance.
Like 800 gold, but how much action we've had is absolutely insane.
I mean, I've just been blown away by Lyle's this whole series.
The poppy game was incredible.
His engages have been so stellar throughout the series across, you know, a bunch of different styles of picks.
He is right place, right time. His Muleo, it didn't feel like he said a foot wrong.
He's been really playing brilliantly.
And I think he's feeling himself like the fact that we have Isle's Pike versus Delight's Karma
is the exact opposite of what I would have expected coming into this game for.
And I think it has been a major turning point four line in this game.
And I mean, what are they called?
Once again, same's going to be the target, but he gets away in time.
I mean, one of the coolest things, people have talked a lot about Dohkla, he is an amazing story and should be talked about a lot,
but Iles also kind of goes under the radar as this player who was honestly stuck on bottom teams for such a long time,
and there's so many players who come through the league, you spend a couple splits on a bottom team, you can never really shine as a result,
and then you're bounced out of the league, he gets a shot online, and people were doubting, people were saying,
why didn't they get Iles with these two MVP's and Preserker inspired, he's made the most of this opportunity.
Dockla, using the ghost blade now to get some distance between himself and the approaching HLE collapse inspired in Dockla both backing away from what would have been a 3 vs 2.
Important to note, 10 seconds until the Rift Herald, 15 seconds until the next Drake spawns.
So we will have that interesting situation where neutral objectives are available at both sides of the map at the same time.
And it does feel like we're kind of getting that cross map right.
Oils is doing a good job of getting deep vision on this top end.
I don't really feel like HLE are in a position to contest this.
especially as you can see Kanabi realizing that he's going to go take the dragon for himself.
I imagine Inspired will start to shift over towards that other objective in just a couple of moments.
I mean this is just kind of the lion classic, right? They love playing the sidelines, they love prioritizing gold,
they have done it all year long in NA.
They're very willing to give up a couple dragons and try to build a gold lead elsewhere.
And they see that as a very worthy objective.
I will say Mounsoul goes crazy in this game for both teams.
There is so much up front burst on both compositions when you're thinking about Aurora to Fury,
you're thinking about Pyke, you're thinking about Annie and Pantheon to Jace,
it is going to be so devastating for either side if they can claim Soul.
We're not actually getting the response on the objective from Lyne.
There is a ward for HLE on the Rift heralds, and there is Pings going down,
so despite the vision Lyne wanted to reset before they really looked for this objective,
Zekka in Trouble Boat.
Yup, immediately pulled.
Oh, Flash! For the dive as Isles makes the kill.
But now, he and Sane are ready for the Peloport to arrive.
HLE trying to find a counterplay as Inspired meets Kanavi in the dry brush.
Zeyas in the middle of three trying to tank with a demonic ascension.
But instead, he finds himself dead alongside his ally.
Both solo laners on HLE eliminated as Lyon finds a 2000 gold lead.
They're not done yet.
Isles, Sainton, Dokla still hanging around.
Cannabi with 1.38 feet, bone skewer, misses. Iles won't get anything more, but a 3,000 gold lead for Lyon.
Gumiushi taken down to 3.08 feet there from the Golden Eclipse. Berserker still trying to get away, breaks the tether.
There's your ace in the hole. Berserker just takes the damage, fine for now.
Second coming in, looks to get the kill. Solar snare to lock him up, flash of the wall.
Berserker invades the counterattack.
Huge plays across the map and they grabbed the Herald off the back of that and the man from down under Isles is
burying HLE in this game 5-2-2. This is an unreal performance
especially after that previous series his E flash there was picture-perfect
At the last moment that he could have actually gotten the redirection. He finds it beautifully
Yeah, he's hanging those pictures up in Zayas's head like he has made himself very comfortable in there because he has just been existing
Continuously in this topside trying to make sure you can find these plays you can see Zekka here on this doesn't know that Oz is there
And it's just perfect exactly he lands the bones here
From the brush last time you pointed out he had been spotted look at this
He goes to the side E flash redirect tippers ignite alt and the reset is so critical because it means they have the damage to burst through this
We can see the nefuri on the side was being pushed back by inspired. He matched the play he played on vision
Can't he face-checked him got pushed back easily and they get another kill and remember every pike alt
That is additional gold. That is not one kill
That is double gold that you are getting with that coin and you can see it respectfully in both the solo laners
1.4k gold 1.7k for a saint on this Annie
He is going to blow someone up in these fights.
And it's starting to feel like the pressure is really on HLE.
This is a team that was expected to have an easy win.
This is a team that was expected to be in the finals against BLG
to be going back for that rematch.
This is a team that is playing at home with the expectations
of their region on their shoulders.
Both of these teams, their only series loss in this tournament so far
is to the team waiting in finals.
They've both only lost to BLG.
And man, what a performance from Lyon
here in the game number four.
As Inspired's in the enemy jungle,
wants to jump in after Kanavi.
Dives away there with a call of the pack.
Lyon, steal away the red buff.
Side step in the vision of the Empire.
Delight, here with a tether.
As Doku wants to try to turn it around.
Kanavi wants to get away.
Doku's very low.
Say yes with a massive demonic ascension.
Lyon is forced back, but a nice never move.
Sane has the flash out.
Lyon in serious danger.
Seconds on the flag.
And it's a shut down over the days.
Canavigate another.
And HLE just killed three.
Line tried to push the advantage.
And HLE tripped them up as they go for it.
An over extension in the topside
leads to a three for nothing for HLE.
And Zayas is coming up huge here.
Lyon trying to push in, trying to pressure.
They sidestep that vision of Empires.
They are able to get out,
but watch as they go back in here.
The ult gets popped, Kenobi flashes back, and then the critical moment here,
Sane arrives, dies without using anything.
He onto the trap, no tippers, no W, no Q, literally no spell pressed there.
If he had dropped the tippers even getting trapped up,
I feel like there's enough damage coming out that they have a shot in the fight.
But Sane arrives, they not use a single button and they get punished massively.
Because all of that burst was used just before Sane arrived.
They tried to kill Kenavi, they tried to kill everyone else, but that meant there was nothing left when Xeus popped out of demonic ascension.
He was a raid boss in the front line, and it holds the line for HLE here.
Next dragon about to spawn, HLE already owned the first two, and the lead that Lyon spent 20 minutes building has now evaporated.
The game is at an even state, and it comes down to execution.
Canavi jumps back up to the wall with eviscerate as Lyon step forward to clear out some of the vision to try to prevent HLE from securing sole point.
Lyon, in this position though is very hard to scoot out. Good vision control, multiple angles of attack.
If you don't know where Oz is, that setup could be brutal, so HLE...
Looks like maybe...oh hang on, they're going to try and run to the Xercher, but doklah's going top lane.
Yeah, they're wondering if they're not actually going to be able to fight.
They still could, does have his TP, so he could join if they want to go for it,
but they've seeded control and now there's a trap line and there's no rebuttal on Berserker.
This could be tough.
Yep, walking into a Caitlyn team that has first move on an objective is incredibly difficult,
so Lyon's going to say no.
Instead, they summon up the Rift Herald here in mid, they get the charge into the turret,
but they won't fully kill the structure.
HLE, sole point now for a Mountain Soul in this game that you already said it earlier, Azale,
would be a massive power spike.
I mean, we talked, Emily talked about it on the desk yesterday.
Lines seeding control of objectives to get more gold, to get into a better position.
But this is risky.
Inspire said they like to play risky against these teams,
but how far are you willing to push the envelope?
Because that mountain soul could change everything here.
Lyon has showed us they are willing to push it all the way to the edge.
They are willing to go all in and bet the game on one fight here.
And they have the faith that they can get it done.
That top lane fight by the Red Buff cost them massively.
They were going to be in such a good spot for this search dragon.
But they didn't like their odds.
Missing Kreeka, kid of critical flashes there.
And I feel like that is, is the biggest reason that they decided to back off.
They're going up against the man.
He used to be known as the King of Thieves though.
Kenavi was incredible when it came towards this nice back when he was in the LPL.
And now, 6-1 and 2 on this Nefiri.
He called for a carry in this game.
And he's done it before in the past.
When he was down game 5 against T1,
he wanted the Belved.
He wanted to be the carry.
This time around, elimination once more
on the line at internationals.
Canavi needs to be the carry for HLE.
OK, once again, the Bonescure looking for a target.
Not going to find anything valuable.
All the little Nefiri dogs get blasted,
But the big dog still doing just fine lion with a one and a half thousand Goldie
But HLE with free Drake's worth of bonus stats that doesn't mean anything and critically
2000 gold here the lead for Kenobi. He's very very soon gonna have that death dance
You can see he's building towards and in your coin base gold grind
Isles has at least been doing a good job on the lion side getting ahead and making plays
Yes, they're gonna go though down here in the bottom side say is is your target sink inspired and Isles working together to take down the swing
Meanwhile, up here in the top lane,
Doku's gonna get dove into 1v2, and he dies as well.
Both top laners, the targets for the enemy hit squad.
Nice pick on either side.
You can feel how tense it is in that line.
Wanna move in towards this mid lane.
Yeah, off the wave getting cleared away,
but not fast enough, inspired.
Stepping forward to tank the turret.
One more auto attack, gets it done,
and Lyon are up to a 2,500 gold.
So you're still gonna get the advantage here for Lyon.
They get the mid-terror, they will get the bot-terror,
and at least a little bit of gold back in their favor.
And you can see how much burst this Annie, Pantheon, combo has.
Like, Swain incredibly strong at the moment,
but they're still able to get through that health bar.
They absolutely are, and Swain, though,
is going to be building towards Azonia's third, I would bet, right?
And that is where things get really, really difficult, right?
Where you have to then be able to kill him before he pops that.
Azonia's he's going to keep healing during it,
and you have to decide, do we have the damage to do it
or do you have to ignore the swing? If you ignore the swing and he does too much damage to you,
that can go really bad. So it's a hard decision to make, but Lyon have just been walking this line.
It feels like all game long. Berserker has not really been involved in anything in this one,
but is pretty strong here alongside Guma.
But I do think you have the range to play with online, right? Like look for the poke with the
Jace with the mail. Just don't really give that opportunity for HLE to find the all-in. And if
And if they do, it's interesting. You can try and backpedal away from Xeas.
I think that's where they can try and play out these fights.
Yeah, I would completely agree, and it's going to come down to execution.
I feel like at this dragon, you must be there first.
It is very difficult to enter in to a Jason and Melveter setup,
but likewise, it is very difficult to walk in when you don't see Aurora,
and there's a trap line. You don't know where they are.
You could lose the game.
And let me bring you gentlemen back to game number one.
remember it was a Guma-Yushi diff and here in this game other than Kenavi
he's the other player on HLE who has an individual lead. He's got his hex
optics, he's got his infinity edge and now his junglers are going to make a play on
Dopa Kenavi. It's stunned up, he's taken very low and they end up killing him here with Isle's execution.
Say it's in the middle of everybody here with demonic ascension. He's staying alive, he's taking so much.
Say he's going to be killed one for one straight up or all so far. Guma-Yushi going
after Dopa and he's about to kill. Inspired, takes the life with them.
but it's the Devil Killback from the ZECA.
HLE are killing everybody!
The Zercher tries to flash away, but he falls!
HLE with a critical team fight.
30 seconds before the soul.
Canavi over extends, but Zayas has his back.
HLE find the fight that they want.
Dokla stepping forward.
Canavi jumps onto him and it's the immediate invulnerability into the stun that baseline in
but Zaze has never moved onto Sainz, onto Isles, pulls them into the death grip and it's that
just machine turning through that lets HLE bring it back.
Exactly, I mean they get that first kill on Canavi but you've spent all your cooldowns
and now they're back here on the Dragon.
Inspired does have his ult, will he try to send it?
But Zercher is not even alive right now.
HLE putting the work in on the Drake.
They're gonna burn it down before Lyon's able to do anything.
I'll just kill the very start.
Inspired all 10, but it's into his own demise.
Charlie, the Mountain Soul is claimed.
Lyon is routed, and HLE are on the hunt.
Inspired will die next.
He wants to take Zeca with him,
but he loses his Guardian Angel for free instead.
HLE, at the time when they had to clutch up most,
They do just that.
They earn the Dragon Soul.
They kill off three, and HLE are feeling good.
It was supposed to be an uphill battle,
but HLE says there's still more magic to climb.
They will not give up in game four.
Lyon will have to push them the distance.
HLE, get the Soul.
They're going to get the Bear,
and they have taken full control of this game.
Lyon decided it was worth sending it to try to deny the soul there.
They weren't able to do it.
Mal Bezerker under pressure from Zeke here in this bottom lane.
Yeah, solar snare hits.
Radian Bally isn't gonna do it.
Zeke for the 1v1.
Zeke continuing to find plays, continuing to rub salt
in the wound of Lyon as the soul went over.
And the setup here was all there for HLE.
He had the extra members.
Isle's trying to look for an angle
in this MasterCard crisis moment of the game.
Can't find anything.
He dies in a hurry.
Dokla knows.
He's got to try to send it on to Kuma, who had no flash.
He felt that was maybe the only way in.
But he doesn't have anywhere close to the damage.
Inspire can do nothing.
St. Emperor Zerker can do nothing.
And it feels like this one is definitely
slipping away from Lyon.
Zayas took the Swain.
Kanagi continued to play towards the bird in the top
and there's very little that Lyon can now do to get Zayas down.
And it all goes back to that fight at the HLE Red Buff.
Up until then, Lyon was running the show.
But against a team like HLE, against the LCK's number one seed,
if you make one misstep, they are going to punish.
Dockla trying to push into the HLE base right now, but it's HLE with the Baron
It's HLE with that extra pushing power for the next minute and a half that are just bulldozing through the base of Lyon
They've already made their way on to the next is turrets. Gumi Ushi setting down some traps
Lyon looking for the moment to possibly defend Zayas taking the recall to go back and defend against Dockla's push
HLE are not done yet. They've already claimed the bottom inhibitor now
They're looking to go even further saying he's the ace in the hole as well as the between worlds
HLE have already taken next to start at number one now
They're trying to get themselves out Ios's world
But he is not that inspired for us to die the circle here in the front line. He dies down HLE
Will not go quietly into the night. They will find their win. They will take us to silver
straight
Inspired versus the LCK
Could it end up in game five any other way?
an insane performance from HLE as the desk is gonna break it down.
HLE say not today if you want to get past us you're gonna have to do it in game five
and Zeca is waiting.
And Zeus was also incredibly clutching that game on the Swain.
The Swain pick became so hard to deal with.
The pressure is on both sides. We were saying this before the game.
Lion can play free when no one expects them to win
But when you're to one up you try and exercise all your demons right the NA pike the NHAs the Annie with inspired
I actually love the slots they picked those champions in but HLE was just better in this game for they were executing for so long though Emily
Yeah, I mean the big thing to me is again Kanavi got so many kills off of this top side
Yeah, and then that essentially even though I think HLE were also still very shaky in some of these team fight setups
There was a run-up play where lion actually got two tier one turrets to one against them
So they're playing the map better
But this acted as a huge bridge for the swing to just take over and it was a really nice
Swain pick like I don't think I agree with that
It was a good draft from from lion, but this swing absolutely took over
But I liked lion's game plan of how to deal with it Ios constantly up there on the bike
They attacked it so heavily in the early game, constantly going there to try and keep it down.
But they could not. It's not just this one either. That was a double never move.
They also had the other one on the bottom side jungle.
And even leading up to this, the W as well, the eyeball just delaying their exit caused this collapse.
It's so hard to deal with because everybody else, solo health, and he becomes this immovable object
that was able to run them down hitting multi-person snares.
Yeah, and you saw shades of what make HLE so formidable here, right?
I still don't think they're playing anywhere near at their best.
But again, Kanavi being able to get so many kills early,
really spreading that pressure, and then, you know,
the Swain just absolutely taking over everything.
The Swain, but it was the combination of everything a little bit, right?
Kanavi was super fed.
Zayus was getting there, was able to do what he needed to do. Zeka in that jungle fight earlier, the Caitlyn.
Like, it was a lot, Jon.
It was a lot, and I think HLE was able to pull themselves through the slot they needed to pull themselves through.
This would clearly be, if they're weak mentally, a way to just fall away and get eliminated and lose the world slot.
But I- Guma, smiling and giving that little fist bump after the big fight, you know that that's really when they locked in.
Absolutely so. We're gonna head over to a break, but when we come back,
We're gonna set it all up all of the stories going into game five
The fact that inspired is on the recipe of something he has chased for so so long
We'll be right back after silver scrapes
Another Silver Scrapes here in the Dejan Convention Center as we head into the most
important game of Lions lives and I want to set it up by calling back to to
unfinished business for FlyQuest inspired and Gen.G. This is the player that we've
been hyping up coming into today that's even in this series made the crucial
decisions that has helped them win games and this is exactly what he's been
waiting for. They went to game 5 against Gen.G in 2024 Worlds, they went to game 5
against BLG in 2025, MSI.
And they lost pretty badly in those Game 5s.
I think one thing I'm worried about with Inspired
is his energy expenditure throughout the series,
because he's so locked in, and he
has to do so much shot calling.
But I also feel like they've learned lessons.
You see those camps, man?
This is different.
He trusts this team more than I feel
like he's trusted those past teams.
So if he's going to do it, I'm more confident he can do it
now than I was in those last two instances.
Yeah, I feel like that every time we've
gone to look at the camps, they look
like they have the energy still, I think it just comes down to focus and execution, you
know, they have had really good game plans. It comes down to best of five. And the last
game of Fearless is where it all comes out. Inspired loves, yeah, playing Fearless. He
loves the champion select game. So you really have to lie and wait, see what they cook,
especially mid lane. But having the Ari and the Silas are primo picks for both of them.
What are some kind of choices that have to be made here? Lay it out for me.
Ari and the Silas are pretty well picked.
Well, you have a tool for it.
It's what I meant.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, if we pull up the pitch right now,
I think the HLE would have in game five.
Because we've seen so many fringe picks already, a lot is up.
Like, I see Zeyou's NAR, Jax.
I see the Ari, Casio, Taliyah, Laplonk, Silas.
There's a slew of power picks still up in game five.
Yeah, the Silas is one I'm going to have my eye on,
mainly because we have two really big Silas players.
Like I know obviously Zekka is known for that pick before he really expanded his champion pool and became a more well rounded player.
But St. has absolutely destroyed people on the side list as well, so you know either of them are going to pick it in a really good angle.
But there's honestly a lot like that's very normal that's been left up for this game 5.
The Bard and the Shen for supports with roaming being so critical.
Isles constantly in the top lane in the last game.
It's all about can you leave your AD carries by themselves make the plays for those solo lanes and the solo lanes of lion we're competing
They're doing more than the beatings absolutely so Emily talk to me a little bit about this Zeka game five
Yeah, how afraid this line have to be so he was basically known as or it still is known as the game five devil
basically for his propensity to win game fives in really critical
situations, which is kind of at odds with what we've talked about with this HLE roster,
where they have been a little bit mentally shaky after unexpectedly losing, so.
You got some examples, maybe like a world final or something that he's been able to
do it well in.
Yeah, maybe.
What's happened?
Yeah, maybe that's the most famous one of 2022.
I mean, but I think it's so pertinent, right?
Because it is, in the story that we've been telling of Zeke, you did draw my life, right?
high point that inflection point in his career never really able to get there
again and now it's on his shoulders and HLE shoulders to get them a birth in the
MSI final to possibly get them another trophy. Yeah and he had a solid game last
time but we really haven't seen him pop off we really haven't seen outside the
gigantic swain that kind of really big topside pop off this last game I think
was the closest we got to it so if I'm HLE I'm looking at being like okay we did
do this last game we can do it again even when the pressure is on even when all of Korea needs us
to lock in to earn more world seeds for our region and that is very real did you hear this crowd
when 8th only one of that comeback beat bite it was deafening in here the entire place is packed
and they were all shouting ah maybe some of them remember a few days ago there are other lk lckc
He ended up being knocked out. They're holding their breath Jack, but
Spitty hit a story for Lyon. That that's that longing from Inspire to make good on his promise to get this win
And his chance that he has now with this team. He already knocked out G2
Which was personal but a great career accomplishment would be to win this best of five
Against the best current team in the LCK. He's done it with so many different teammates
But he trusts these teammates more than he has in the past st. Berzerker have been popping off
Dokla has been the clutch's player hell even in he ousers pike. He had some
So if
Inspired can do this for himself and for North America
It would be to me the greatest accomplishment internationally in the history of the LCS
And I know team liquid made it to the finals that was the best of five went against IG
But the gauntlet they would run through G2 who was the number two ranked team in the world by the power rankings
Into lck one seed and who knows what would happen after I believe it would be number one
It would be absolutely monumental. It would be in the making since
2018 for the LCS to get that win over the LCK, but this is what you have to go through
This is the gauntlet you have to run if you want to get that win HLE is standing tall
bringing them into game five. All of the fans behind them, but Lyon, they can do it.
They can do the thing that LCS has been waiting for for so, so long. Captain, it's
so close, you can almost taste it. Taste it. You can see it, you can hear it, you can
feel it. Here in the arena, you hear the music, you see the lights, you feel the
energy from all the fans as after hours of back and forth between these teams, we
We now find ourself at the only place that it can truly be decided, Game 5, to determine
who gets the honor to play for the championship tomorrow and who will tragically fall short.
One game to decide it all.
Elimination match here, two number one seeds.
Lyon trying to do what the LCS has not been able to do in so, so long.
They will bet their fates on second pick here.
Blue side with an over 70% win rate so far at the tournament and they have selected second pick, which means HLE will get first pick and they have chosen blue.
And now this is where you find out exactly what you're made of. Is it nervousness or is it excitement? Is it vice or is it flight?
The LCS stands poised to make history, but they need to do it against the number one seed from the LCK against that record you just set as ill.
Okay, we've got Vayne, Varys, and Bard banned out by HLE. We've got Casio, Xeraphine, and Nard banned out by Lyon, and it's a first pick Kalista for Gumiuchi.
And the answers are not that easy here, because a lot of these kind of strong laners, survivable laners, you think, okay, you sit back, you farm it out, but a lot of that stuff is all gone, right?
There are hypercaries that Berserker is known for, that he's made his career on.
You can go you know, you can go picks like this.
But are you willing to risk going into the Gumi-Yushi Callista?
Oh, they take the Renata.
And they're going to take the Renata.
I think that means they are going to go hypercarry.
I think that they are going to go for that more defensive side.
They take this away.
But of course, you can still go some of the aggressive pairings here.
Nautilus is still up and available and on events.
You can go Callista Nautilus, you can go Callista Blitz.
You can go a lot of these aggressive pairings.
And we will see, it's going to be a foul.
Pender Zerker withstands the onslaught in that bot lane.
I'm curious what he'll decide to play,
but we are going to see the Shen locked in before an AD carry here.
It's a two-way flex. It can be jungle, it can be top,
so we'll find out where they want to send it.
Xin Zhao is up and available, and so he didn't decide to go for that.
I think it's also just trying to give that protection to the bottom lane, right?
Once again, to that level six, if that all in goes through,
But this was the mid laner that I have my eyes on.
The R are you going to be over here for Azzeca?
One of the last remaining top tier picks it feels like in that mid lane.
And something that opens up a lot of playmaking for Canavi.
I really wonder would they go towards something like the Sivir here.
You know, they did bring out in that BLG series.
Sivir wasn't a good spot and Sivir is a champion
that can sometimes withstand the difficult matchups simply through wave clear, right?
If you're not actually dying early, you get to a point where you're just one shot in the waves.
It can be difficult and it is the play that I called out.
They do not decide to go for the Nautilus.
Blitz, Alt though, is crazy to steal a Sylas.
There's a fat AP ratio.
It's an AWE silencer.
It's great against a lot of these champs.
And the Arial also powerful to steal.
Plus you've got Renata to keep you alive.
Shen to keep you alive.
There is so much here that Sane could work off of.
And after his performance yesterday,
this could be his moment to shine again.
I mean, I love the Sylas here,
But still you are so nervous if you are the lion bot lane
Yeah, great if we get to 5v5's on uneven keel and you have berserk on hybrid carry
You're feeling good, but this is blitz callista and we are a game 5 peerless with 280 carry bands
8 already out of the pool from from earlier including the AP carries and I think it's gonna be tough
You know they can look towards things like for sauna and try to buffer the hooks
I think that could be an angle you can look towards silver as I said
but I'm expecting that'll be banned because Spell Shield very powerful against Blitz.
Yeah, Zaheel is the other thing in my head for the level 6.
He could try and get away with the Feather Storm, but yeah, you're lacking.
Wearing so much of a pre-6, right?
And so I wouldn't expect Zaheel, but yeah, it's the options are not easy, right?
As I said, this guy was famous for his Zeri, for his, you know, picks along those lines.
That is how he became known as all about the Hypercarrier.
The Sivir I expect to be banned is going to be banned, and they're going to ban out the Trumbull.
and probably the Zin here as well I would expect.
Maybe Korky is another way to go for it with the Valkyrie.
It's kind of fun and out of meta at this page though.
It's tough.
I mean, I kind of am feeling the Trist.
A Trist early game is very weak.
You would have to be basically saying, it's survival.
We just try to hang on.
And we get to a point where we can survive.
Because the nice thing about the Trist
is you can buffer the hook, right?
And that is really, really key.
There are not a place behind you.
You try to buffer the hook.
Wukong going to be banned out instead.
So you're expecting Kanavi could go to Xen, but Kanavi's been so stellar on these playmakers.
When you think about the Vi, what do you think about Winifiry?
One thing about Xen though, Silas loves his ultimate.
That's another thing that you have to be careful of.
Those defensive ultimates, Alistar obviously not available because that's already been eliminated through Fearless.
But Xen's ulti allows Saints so much power in the teamfight.
Olaf gonna be the final ban instead here from HLE.
The thing is though, Kanavi's champion pool is absolutely insane.
Like, I've seen this man play, Kha'zix, I cast him play, Shaco in the LPL, like, this man goes into the depths that you don't expect him to, so, there's gonna be so much that he's able to bring to the table.
I feel like if you're going, if you're going this, I don't believe it. I believe this more, but I am really, really worried about how the early levels are gonna go.
You don't have the rocket jump, you don't have the same theme as Bell Shield if Silver wasn't been, you don't have a lot of those tools.
I don't think so. My understanding is that the Silas ult stealing Shyamalan is crazy good, so I would see surprise if he went that way, but
I'm not as familiar with the interaction.
No, it's a tuna damage. Like you can one shot three people in the same fashion.
And you get the fear as well.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
This would make more sense.
Tanabi Nidalee in game five.
The Renekton is still up. Renekton Nidalee. That's what it is. It's a game five Renekton Nidalee.
They're gonna go for it because never neck then is still up and available wasn't banned and was not picked
And that is the throwback
Okay, I
Would be out okay. Wow. No, it's not it's the eight rocks instead for Zayas in the final game
I'm shocked. I think he thinks it's the shen top exactly
I was gonna say is way better into Shen, but I think this is gonna be a shen jungle now
I think they're going to give the counter pick to Dokla.
The Shen jungles tosto against the midlier, your clear speed is just not that good.
I think, yeah, you kind of, like, yes, you will have the matchup to try to play around,
but I think the Nidalee can just take your jungles so quickly, especially if you go low on that first clear.
Yeah, I mean, it's a good point, but you're balancing a lot of different things now, right?
Yeah.
So now you are betting your game five on what I believe to be a hard losing bot lane,
a hard losing top lane, and an early, pretty hard losing mid lane.
So you're kind of drafting three losing lanes here and saying if we can hang on
We should wait because you're looking at books in Italy
It was the champions that don't get that much guaranteed value
There's not even great setup and Ari. Nidalee is a horrendous 2v2 combo. Yeah, so if they can hang on
You could win this game in the 5v5
But a lot of questions to be answered before you get there
It is so hard to play Shannon to H rocks. It is so hard. I feel like to play this Zaya
into this Callista Blitz.
And up against Blitzcrank, a champion that warps the game around himself in a bit of a way, right?
Blitz utterly useless if you can't hit pulls, but the threat of that pull is such a different type of threat compared to almost everything else in the game.
Even hooks, like Pyke or like Nautilus, doesn't bring you near as far as what Blitzcrank can do.
And if Lyon aren't respecting it, we know Delight is a playmaker.
Especially with the way that he likes to roam around the map and affect the topside,
Blitzcrank early roams can be nightmarish.
Once more, NA has pushed the LCK to a game five.
Once more, Inspired was trying to find the success on the Zinzow to keep the NA train rolling.
The Dejon doubters have been there, but this would be a story for the history books
I mean it would it would be a run where you have now beat four number one seats at MSI as an a they took down
Furia they took down TSW they took down G2 if you in here you have knocked out four of the other five
Number one seats from the tournament the only one remaining would be the one waiting in the finals in BLG
It would be unequivocally the greatest performance we have ever seen from an NA team.
But it's a lot easier said than done. You're talking about HLE, you're talking about the
number one seed of the LCK, you're talking about players who individually have so many
accomplishments. People talk about playing with the name plates off, the name plates
are still there. Nice pull coming out from the light onto Isles nice and early, but Gumi
Ushi has also already taken some trade damage.
Exactly in the level one there a little bit top four blitz and they just play in the wave
They get the shove they utilize that range support advantage here
So even though the hook comes down it's not that much threat
But saying he's gonna have to hold on as well a master of these
Melee matchups here is tasting a horrible trade
Yeah, don't the hits the taunt brings the eight rocks down to 200 HP and look at the path in from inspired
Three camp into this top side could look for the potential play or just an invade off the back of this
I mean, Dokla could kill him solo.
Taunt Flash kills, I think, at this HP.
It is close though.
Zayas did pop his pot and has healed up.
Dokla, I don't think going to want to send it on a Taunt Flash,
but we are seeing an early base from Inspired.
So he's going to go for that early base here
and try to be there likely to cover bot.
Yep, exactly.
It's the plan where you clear one side of your jungle,
you make your first purchase.
Usually, you see Longsword being the choice on that one.
Instead, going to go for the Ruby Crystal.
Dokla goes in, finds the taunt.
Yeah, again, Zeyas trying to get away there, but Dokla brings him down to 100 HP.
This Shen matchup going well for Lyon here early on.
I mean, this is brilliantly played from Dokla, but the easiest part of the matchup is the early levels.
It really does get difficult as you get more points in that queue for Zeyas,
and as the cooldowns become shorter and shorter, those windows of opportunity are very hard for Shen.
And if you ever get knocked out of your taunt, it is a disaster.
If you get hit by a sweet spot as you're taunting in, you are trapped there,
You're chased down by the infernal chains and that is where it can become so so tough
But Doka laning brilliantly to start things off and he has a better bias and advantage
Get that refillable plus that ruby crystal and holds on to the TP crucially as well
So very big start for the line top laner
Already we're seeing kind of movement here from Saint just to make sure that the school of crowd went to inspired
But can I be happy to handshake that on the top end is giving berserker a bit of time to push in on the bot side as well
get his own reset so a slower pace early game favor and line those far yeah
that absolutely is the question is how much do you have to give and how much
can you give to be able to have a good chance in the team fights right line
have to be able to make that judgment if the lanes just continue as as is this
is fantastic for them but HLE are gonna look for plays you've got Italy you've
got Blitz and St. Respecting yep St. does not want to get caught off guard by
Canavi here also worth pointing out I want to shout out the exhaust on Berserker
I feel like against Calista where so much of her damage comes from that big blast from the end of properly timed exhausts can turn a fight
I agree completely
I mean he used it very effectively in his Ezreal games and not even just the Calista, but it's great on Canavi
It's great on Seis. It's great on Zeca. Oh
Nice pull from Delight. It doesn't turn into a whole lot
But he still gets a good chunk of damage there on Berserker as Gumi Ushi hits him at the pierce at the very end
You're not the end of the road for berserk or kind of knew that Kuma Uchi wasn't that far away.
So it doesn't burn anything to make that play extended or defended.
So just manages to step away. And I think this is where, again, if Kuma Uchi liked it, some poke,
not the end of the road. You've got the pots, you can heal it up. It's more a case of,
if Kanabi ends up down in that pot side and you get a good hook, that's immediately into the spear.
And that can be the devastating play.
Or if you're overextended, you get too far up in that lane, and then all of a sudden you get hooked
You get chased down, the spears are stacked, and Kanavi is going to be on his way down
towards his bot side.
That vision plant was hit by Delight, so they don't know.
He can actually hook over the wall potentially here.
Miles, maybe sussing it out, but if he gets too close, he could just be dead.
Yep, they're waiting for the minions to pass.
Delight's still waiting there.
Fires off the hook, and he grabs himself!
Miles!
HLE!
They don't find the kill!
Ile stays alive with the heal and the flash, and he'll be able to walk it off.
Now back in the mid lane, Saint trying to get something under Zeca, but he's level 5 against level 6.
He ignites, prevents the Kingslayer from doing a lot of healing.
Saint's out of health, not a man.
Saint just trying to style on him a little bit as Delight rotates back over.
Saint's feeling it, but he's got to be careful.
Saint knew he needed to go for the All-In with the Ignite down, it would have been
lights out if he ended up trying to step away, but gets to heal, gets to trade, and gets to go back.
And I mean, surviving there for Saint is so massive, that is Zeca's ult and flashdown.
Yeah, but now for Zerker, forced to flash as Delight uses his own to threaten a grab.
For Zerker staying safe, but down to 200 HP without that Summoner Spell is dicey.
I mean, St. Down informed big time now, so now these Goldies starting to open up a bit here.
Inspired wants to go for the early Dragon, knowing that it is going to be a reset for Delight
and that Zeca has no ignite, no ult, but instead deciding to pull off it here once again.
And, Azale, you talked about how all these lanes early on
are going to be losing matchups for the side of Lyon,
HLE up to a few hundred gold of an early laning advantage.
The biggest difference here in mid lane, 60 to 44
in terms of farm count as Zeca has been controlling this head-to-head.
Obviously, as the game goes forward,
Saint is going to look to be the X-Factor in the teamfights.
Yeah, exactly. And Saint is going to be getting stronger and stronger here.
Gooma and Delight looking.
Yeah, Delight goes right on and just walks up and knocks Beserker up into the air.
But if he could by handshake it off a mile, the Shen Ulti stand united.
But Beserker is first blooded by Delight.
Doppler couldn't complete the Ulti because he's interrupted by Zeyas.
H-L-E coming out on top.
The interruption from Zeyas turns everything.
It looked like Lion might have been able to find the play,
But it's the mistime on the ulti, denies the revive, denies the follow-up.
It's... Ooh, nearly awk at the aisles as well.
Yeah, HLE, that is so big for them now.
You get that kill.
Fortunately for Lion, the gold did go to Delight, but it's a 1.4K golding gear already.
Yeah.
Miu is gonna be hard to withstand this onslaught, and they just played this out very well.
He goes out into the alcove, headflash over, gets straight in onto Berserker,
And you go to live and this is what the Shen vs. Hrox match usually looks like.
You are stuck under your tower and Goom is able to flash out with no health.
But you can see just barely the bailout doesn't come through.
And I think it was a little mistimed.
You had that Shen ultimate come through at the same time as the bailouts.
So not quite able to make it happen.
It was a good flash away from Goomayushi to turn the tides.
Yeah, it's hard to know in those situations, you know, in that panic moment.
Did he use it too early?
Was he worried about that Ren coming through a little bit quicker
and maybe getting that kill and now Doku up.
This is where it gets so tough.
You get stuck under your tower
and you get the Melee's for free,
but every time you try to farm arrangement
in this matchup, you are just fishing a barrel.
He's just throwing queues on the range mains
over and over and over and slowly, but surely
Atrox just builds a bigger and bigger lead.
It really is one of my least favorite 10 matchups.
I know you play a lot of shang.
They are trying to move them out of the matchup though
and rotate Zaya up into this top end.
Actually, just gonna HLE, gonna not swap into it either.
Kind of moving everyone up to fight for these Void Grubs.
Yep, you can see though, you've still got Gumi Yoshi on the bottom side of the rift.
Yoko also taking up his position down there, but he's got no stand united, he's got no teleport,
so he won't be able to join for any sort of a fight, so HLE will continue to own the Grubs.
There's the charm hook. Beautiful charm, and the follow up with the Grubs.
Taka looking to make the play here on safely steals the RELT back for the first time in a long time.
Because it's Ryder, they get the kill, and Saint stays alive!
Lyon sends up a prayer, and Saint will answer, and now Guma fighting Dokla!
Yeah, Dokla going in after this Kalista needs a little bit more damage, but he cannot find it.
Gumi is already using the rend down to 150 HP, but he stays alive as Delight rejoins his carry.
Great trade for Dokla though, because it means he gets to push in this wave.
You've got the reset for the Kalista, and actually movement from Lyon towards his topside.
Delight just trying to stop this way from crashing Delight going to be trying to be as annoying as possible
Doko wants a plate and I think he will be able to get it
And so we get that plate and it don't look and get towards that Titanic
That starts to mitigate a lot of the difficulties in these matches because your wave here becomes so powerful at that point
You see here though with Saints just underneath the terror
I think they have it with the charm with the knock-up
But immediately, Sane steals the old double dashes, and Zeca overextending when inspired there to support the mid laner.
And watch inspired in that moment, he has the presence of mind, he preps the Q3 knockup on the birds, over the wall, flashes in and immediately knocks up Zeca.
Sane survives, they get that kill and that is just so critical because you're already down 1.5k, you're trying to hold on. That is the objective here for Lyon.
And Zeca has been such a playmaker for his teams in Game 5s, 9 and 2 in Game 5s.
We've seen him win world championships from this position, but Sainten inspired able to stop him in his tracks there.
Alright, Delight still potentially looking for angles down here in the bottom side.
Canavi is going to join up with his bottom lane duo, but inspired is also in the area.
Keep your eyes on Delight here.
This is a dangerous moment for Lion. Look at the top side of the map.
Three completed items for HLE, none until just now.
Four inspired, they are at their weakest right now.
And Zayas is looking strong, given this 1v1,
continuing to find multiple good trades against Doku.
Kannafi with his Lich Bane can chew through this dragon so easily,
and HLE, again, it's not a fast first drake,
but it's an HLE first drake.
But a slow first drake is all that Lion wants.
It's fired here to cover the play.
They want to cover everything from HLE.
will be Kanabi backing away.
But as long as you keep this pace,
I think you're kind of happy as line shirts of 1.7 K Gold lead.
But most of that is tough playing and not too advantageous right now.
Zerker utilizing his opportunity to step forward,
trying to treat aggressively a little bit into the light,
but the Blitzcrank isn't too bothered by it.
Yeah, I mean, look at all the vision from HLE
across the river on both sides of the map.
They have all the wards right now.
It is full-core press for HLE.
Yeah, delight. Now going to get jumped on by inspired.
Who isn't going to full-standing in here just yet, but teleport coming in from HLE, nice pull from Delight.
He's hitting so many of these as Gumiuchi tries to save with support.
Seiya's just over here right, but Doku's ready to follow here with a stay in United.
Stain also making his way down into the bottom lane.
Gumiuchi barely survives, Stain picks him out.
But Lai is in danger. They've already lost, inspired. They've already lost Ile.
Seiya's in the front line of the RAID boss here with the Aatrox. Q3 won't find the target, he heals over the massive.
Zayas still staying alive for now.
Triple kill back from Asaka.
H-L-E making the plays.
St. Bradley hanging on.
Dope is still alive for now.
But Zayas refuses to die.
HLE still looking for a little bit more.
And Dopela surely has no way out here.
Lyon staring down the barrel of an nearly impossible scenario.
Blitzcrank hook fails.
They're still trying to look.
But this sequence means an over 3,000 gold lead for HLE.
This top lane god does not bleed.
Zaeus stays alive with Sundert Sky, with the Omni-Vamp and line cannot defy him.
And it's by the slimmest of margins here, so many big plays from the HLE members.
As the initial fight looks like it's going to be pretty good.
Inspired gets hooked in and says, okay, we just got to send it on to Goomayushi.
go straight in with the stand united they get the taunt flash from Dokla here on to Guma and they try to burst him down
But then in comes Zayas the bailout onto inspire does basically nothing and now watch this hook in the later end of the fight
Zayas is getting fairly low berserker flashes back and this hook on to Saint
I think could be game winning because Saint was just about to kill Zayas
But with the hook from delight not only does Zayas live Saint dies
and that might be the backbreaker right there.
The predict by Zayas on the flush as well keeps him in range for the Sunder Sky Proc
that lets the lice keep him safe. HLE, the slimmest of margins,
but those margins are growing. A 4,000 gold lead inspired running as Saint may be left here.
here. Delight with a 90% win rate on Blitzcrank in his career and you can see
why here in this game landing so many hooks over and over and over. It's such a
Heaven or Hell champion. You hit the hook, you're the MVP, you miss it, you're a
cannon minion and Delight is making so many plays. Your coin base gold grind
showing another problem here for the lion side as Zayas is just such a monster
Here when they say trucks. Yeah, it's gonna be so hard for lion now
Feels like it's that 1% chance. You're hoping for a saint might just get dough. They're looking he clears out the waves
They as backs away inspired jumps in after Kenobi blue smite flash away from Kenobi
Oh, and Saint just barely misses hitting him with the abduct Kenobi stays safe. I cannot believe that didn't connect
Just tiny
Pixels away from maybe finding that kill on to the HLE jungler, but it still means pressure mid
They're getting plates for Guma Yushi. They're keeping the pressure bot lane and liner scrambling to keep pace
Lion trying to defend this tier one turret here in mid Kenavi
He's rescued by the mcales from delight this blitzcrank is making such a different time and time and time again
Again, Kenalvi, once more, just fine.
The delight is just playing an absolutely brilliant game
with the pressure on an elimination series here.
There was two match points they had to contend with.
They barely got by the last one,
thanks to a big fight in that topside
where they were able to take over.
And this time, they were building
that incremental goal lead.
And again, it is one big fight that feels like
It may have got them across the line.
HLE have hit their strides, push in side lanes,
control for Zayas and Zeka.
The ability to collapse around Fumayushi.
This is where HLE have stood tall in the LCKs.
The most threatening LCK representative,
Ripcaro taking the eye left.
And now, Inspire just getting caught out.
Could be in some danger.
San United trying to keep him alive a little bit longer.
Hostile takeover, finding a little bit of value here.
It's getting obvious the first to die.
KS in the middle of every body, making some space in firecrackers, and Zeca, and the HLE solo laders making the difference again!
Zeca finally falls, but he's gonna take St. with him, and Ryushin still hopping around, and Delight barely got away.
St. coming back in to get something, but Dokka will not kill Delight, and only St. and I are still Sam.
St. can't do anything to 1v3, and Ryushin executes them where he's staying.
Delight again over the wall. This time it's Dokla pulled into the tower when he thought he had Guma.
But these solo laders from A-Telly are just too damn good.
You can throw every summoner spell on Zayas, but that man is never exhausted.
As he flies into the midst of line, he absolutely tears them asunder.
Second, Charms inspired, Zayas dives on to Berserker, the healing is absurd from this A-Trucks.
There is no taking down this HLE top laner.
They just don't have the damage, he keeps getting the resets and the bailout from Isles there went on to St.
You have to think it was meant for Berserker.
Maybe that could have bought them a little time, if that expires and the hook doesn't land on Dota.
Maybe, just maybe there's a way.
But every fight is pushing it further and further out of reach. It's a 7,000
gold lead. The largest of the series for HLE, it feels like by far.
Lyon coming in trying to see if there's anything they can do but no, instead it's
just another beautiful pull from Delight. Zacharrage, St. Dice, the Baylight does nothing.
HLE pushed to the limit. Here it is Lyon.
But with the flood of missing finals on the line, they refuse 8,500 gold lead, HLE 11 kill.
When the chips are down, that's where champions are made, and HLE have them out the wazoo.
They are playing out of their minds to lice these hooks.
This Blitzcrank is defining this series.
It's breaking the back of an entire region here.
This Blitzcrank is doing everything for HLE.
And Zaeus, with not a kill to his name, is 1.5K ahead.
He's a brick wall in the top lane.
They've got no healing debuffs for him in the fights.
They're just so far behind.
They're grasping at straws, trying to find a way in.
But it's going to take a series of miracles for them
to even have a chance.
They have BrambleVest on Dough Club.
but BrambleVest is passive healing reduction.
You have to hit him.
There's no reason for Zayas to ever be doing that
in these big fights.
Sure, he can hit him with Qs,
but there's no reason to ever hit an auto attack,
so you just can't stop the regeneration.
And it's gonna be harder to kill the Squishies as well.
Gumi Ushi picking up that Wardens mail.
He is gonna be fairly tanky as line.
Continue the pressure, but HLE will keep evading.
I mean, Lyon are just gonna keep full sending it.
They know that you're 10K down.
You cannot play the game.
Normally they're trying to overload one side of the map.
They're hoping that HLE gets sloppy,
that they can get kill after kill after kill.
But here comes HLE.
Yep, Delight finds another beautiful ball,
inspired about to die.
The stand united tries to keep him alive.
But no, Delight with the execution.
Say it survives.
Wing spread wide.
And Lyon would be buried in the enemy jungle.
Three already dead as Stain and Doka have to try to escape.
Uchi Delight and Zeka chasing after saying no matter how good his Silas is
there's no way out. Tokla trapping through Terrence is the only man left
standing on Lyon and HLE get five for nothing. There's no coming back for Lyon.
Twenty minutes on the clock and 11,000 gold lead, immediate turn to Baron. HLE
He wants the rematch with Billy, Billy Gaming.
And I think they're about to get it here.
20 minutes in, as you said, Baron.
11,000 gold lead and Lyon can find no purchase in this game.
They bet it all on their ability to withstand the onslaught
that would be the early game here against HLE.
But HLE, in those critical fights, just played better.
You have to feel for inspired this man has pushed the LCK
But Zaka he's so far ahead he just instantly deletes the lion 80 carry
I get to see the replay here inspired on the war actually not even on a ward
There it is doesn't decide that he's the back away thinks he's got the support alive thinks he's got that channeled
but every one from HLE shows up he falls only to watch the rest of the team go
with them. I was trying as he best he can trying to keep Berserker alive.
Lyon are full sending it and they know they would rather go out fighting but
they have to see the writing on the wall they have to know that this one is one
fight commanding HLE pushing they're trying to get gold on the map. The
The Riding is on the turrets now as Berserker is forced to ult immediately, Delight forcing
out that critical defensive ultimate from the enemy AD carry.
As the bottom lane inhibitor is destroyed 21 minutes into the game, HLE now putting pressure
on the mid lane, second inhibitor about to fall, Delight looking for another pull, instead
just gets the knockup on the Dopa as HLE dog piles in.
Stokeless first to die, but he will not die alone.
Inspire joins him as Lion panic and run back to the mountain.
H-L-E will rise to the occasion.
They will chase down the last kill of the fight.
Zayas will not even fall.
North American dreams are dashed as H-On.
Lion are vanquished.
HL are victorious.
And they are in their place in the final.
A rematch is waiting for HLE.
The LPL Giants will take on the LCK first seed
and show Deijon what they're worth.
HLE going to look to end that golden road early for BLG,
the winners of first in.
The team that took them down in the upper bracket.
It is revenge in the guards here for HLE.
they're looking to knock him down a peg.
It wouldn't be the first time some of these players
have done just that.
They would love to do it again in front of a home crowd.
But on the opposite side, four line,
it is heartbreak for this team.
I don't think anyone can doubt the room they've had here
in Korea, one of the most impressive performances
against an LCK first team I've ever seen.
Absolutely.
People question, were they lucky?
Did they deserve to be here?
And they prove without a question,
without a shadow of a doubt that they belong on this stage
against teams like that.
And that's enough for us for now.
Let's toss things back over to the analyst desk
to wrap up the series.
The wait for the LCS remains in taking down
that all important LCK team inspired, tried again and again,
Lion and everyone they truly truly fought like lions at this MSI championship
It is just that one hurdle right what it is. It's almost impossible to describe
How difficult it is to win those game fives in these situations it is and I think this game five was actually very
Similar to game two in this series
It was one of those games where lion was picking something that just needed to hold on and win one early skirmish
To be able to have a chance and when the blitz hooks kept
Wow being or the ones I a feather couldn't get through or the one hit onto Guma you she when the channel came through didn't kill
It fell apart pretty fast. Yeah, and I gotta commend HLE for their approach in this game 5 Emily
Delights hooks early really set up this way. Yeah, so he's has a 90% win rate on blitz cream
He's now well he did going into this game. He's now ten and one he was nine and one
Oh, so it's more now and the hook. Yeah, it's over 90% the hook on the backside of this fight
Yeah, it's so huge and this was the backbreaker because I fully agree with you Jack game to
There right there
It's it was so important that each a lead also end up winning that fight
But the fact that it went it was like by the slimmest of margins
Mm-hmm towards HLE they then were able to snowball and take over and Kobe you did it to me this morning
But you know what it was really fun the journey the excitement yes the roller coaster that we were on the peaks that we felt
I mean, still worth the trough.
Is it?
It's worth it. It's worth it.
Like, it's good. It's good. Overall, good.
Now, bad. Like, we were up 2-1.
We were gonna do it. We were gonna be in finals.
So, half of our league was gonna be...
Half of our league was gonna be at Worlds.
We were gonna meme it for months.
It was gonna be so funny.
Right now, it's just the end of the day. BDU again.
You've done that before.
Sure. But now you're taking that away from us
because it's no longer like a cool thing.
It is a cool thing. I'm taking nothing away from that. You stomped them into that. It happens.
No, it's great. It's great. It's just right now.
It's all about right now. It just feels bad. Of course.
Yeah, it feels bad. It feels awful.
Who feels great, though, is...
Zeus. He's our oppo player of the series.
I think if we get there before the interview, maybe we can take a look.
I don't know if we are.
Yeah, I mean, Zeus was completely unstoppable.
Yeah, yeah.
We can get to that either before or after.
Aatrox is that kill your team like I've seen it many times guys. Yeah, his rumble was also
Absolutely insane
His swaying that swaying pick had such a key
Part in that draft and ended up taking over in front lining for so many other fights
Yeah
I think the biggest thing that he had here is he kept finding picks that if he got ahead would take over the game
Yeah, so he was able to carry them across the finish line and the whole time you could tell you know
We're terrified of Zaeus.
We're banning Jace, banning Jace until we play it.
So it's fearlessly banned out.
And then we finally open up a little bit of ban space.
And he's like, the swain, a movable.
And then the Ajax become a killer movable.
And he is an absolute beast.
You know, Doka, as we said at the top of the show,
had a lot of respect for him.
He was talking about, all right, I'm just going to have to hold on.
On stage right now, we have Gumi Nishi for the Horizon close game interview.
MSI 20-26, the lost hurdle before the final.
In the matchup between HANA Life Esports and Lyon, HANA Life come out on top with 3-2-2 victory.
We are joined by HANA Life Esports Kuma Yushi. Please give it up for him everyone.
How does it feel to make it to the MSI final?
How was the match today? The game was really intense. The Lion almost swallowed us.
I'm so relieved and happy that we won today and made it to the finals.
Lion came into today with a lot of momentum after sweeping G2-0 yesterday.
And today's series was definitely not as easy as some might have expected.
What was it like battling the Lions of N.A.?
They were really strong. They were performance, their gameplay, their macro play was so one point.
What was the most important thing in the series today?
Some of the games, our team fight was not as clean as we should have played, so we really wanted to kind of pull up a cleaner team fight, and as we headed to the game 5, we wanted to keep our mental fortitude strong.
Going all the way to game 5 must have been really exhausting. How are you feeling right now?
Now, I've got a bit, but we have a match to play tomorrow as well.
We're veterans, so we're used to it.
We're going to play tomorrow.
It must be quite tired and hungry at this point.
So to celebrate your grand final convocation,
we prepared a Dagen specialty for you.
The Daejeon's famous pastry strikes a burrow with sweet potato filling in it.
Please take a bite of it.
Hope this recreates your legendary cross-up moments, but Daejeon version.
How does it taste?
Extremely good, but in Daejeon accent.
Thank you very much, Kuma Yushi.
And tomorrow, you will face BLG with the MSI trophy on the line.
This is your chance to get your revenge for the loss, loss. Are you confident?
We have never lost confidence against BLG.
We were never not confident up against BLG and we will make sure that we will be the champion of the MSI.
What is your prediction for two more scorelines up against BLG then?
I wish I could say that scoreline, but I want to be a little more humble.
So 3-1 HANA Life.
HANA Life will win 3-1 against BLG.
Will they win the game?
Let's send them a warm welcome.
Let's give it up for the time being.
You see.
And before we go to close out the interview.
Anything you would like to say to all the fans out there.
Great Korea. Here at Daejeon.
Daejeon. I will make sure that Honolive Sports will win the trophy tomorrow.
And that's what I see from Honolive Sports. Thank you very much.
Let's go! Are we going to keep feeding him stuff on stage?
Bring him some liquid. You could tell he wanted the 8-4, but he ate it sequentially right there.
He was also so hungry. I mean, the 5-game series will take it out of you.
Look at this, a slow-mo.
Why are we doing this to him?
It's crazy. For me it's still croissant number one.
Page on pastry number two.
I think for now. And then at Worlds maybe hot dog number three.
Who knows?
Depends how tasty it is to be honest.
Maybe it's just electrical.
What's our NA version going to be?
It's a hot dog. It's pretty good at thankful.
It's just like a giant hot dog.
Extra big.
Texas toast.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We'll workshop it.
We'll workshop it.
Yeah, but HLLE, we can talk a bit about the graphic tomorrow.
We do have an interview with DOKLA that's coming really really soon. So is there anything my NA reps want to say about kind of
How it ended? I mean, I'm super proud. Yeah, super proud of what they showed, you know, like they were talking about the casters
You know, they prove the people who are doubting them and telling them that they didn't deserve to be here that they were lucky that
They had an easy route completely wrong. I mean up to one
Finish MSI in third place with this modern MSI format
It's harder than it has ever been to be top three or top four.
They 3.0 G2 the LCS in total basically swept everyone that isn't an LPL or an LCK team.
So very proud and happy of how the LCS in general stood up.
And I really hope that we can take that energy back home and have a really awesome summer split.
I feel the same about my region.
I don't want to like hampering it in right, but I feel kind of the same.
I feel for the West overall, if we look at both what Lyon was able to do, you know,
and G2 until they met Lyon, like this is making me really hopeful for worlds for like the results that we could see.
It seems like all the building blocks are there now, right?
I mean, I think the big thing for Lyon, and I'm glad that Guma called it out because I thought their macro was on point.
Their draft and preparation was really, really good.
And the most surprising thing to me was that they were able to match HLE pound for pound in so many of these team fights.
like their team fight setups were very thoughtful in a lot of cases and that is such a huge
win I think for North America as a whole. It feels like there have been times where
our teams have had better macro play or they've just been really good at like lane swapping
for example right and helping dictate the pace of the meta that way but haven't been able to stand
up in team fights. So if there's one thing that I think Lyon can take because like this last game
was so, so close in terms of that bot lane teamfight essentially decided it.
The fact that they were able to stand up to a team like HLE,
who can push the pace as we saw from this last game,
super, super well and teamfight super well,
I think that is actually a really big takeaway for me
as someone who has seen North American teams falter on that line previously.
Yeah, I mean, we had so many years at the beginning
where we didn't have the hands to ever compete.
Yeah, true.
It felt futile to even try, even try, and you don't take the best of five, you know, off of
Elseget or LPL.
But so many moments in this series, Lyon decided to fight them, they decided to test them on
these moments, and they outplayed in some of them, and a lot of them.
Not in the last one, not in the very critical one.
Not all of them, a lot.
And a lot of them, so props to HLE.
Yes.
And I think we're going to hear from Lyon themselves now because I believe Bora heads.
Doklaat backstage in the Verizon post game.
Doklaat, thank you so much for joining me after this series.
It happened so fast in that last game, but how do you reflect on this series overall?
What are we looking at here?
Well, it was a good series. We put together a good fight.
I think Game 4 is kind of where my mind immediately goes to since we were in a winning position.
And I had an advantageous matchup and I wasn't diligent enough in terms of thinking about
my level one and I wasn't able to gain a massive advantage in a matchup I thought I could.
So I just kind of feel bad about game four because I was in a position to carry that
game.
It makes sense that you're going to be self critical about your own performance but honestly
massive series from you guys against HLE today and I want to talk about the improvements
from Lyon throughout the entirety of the tournament.
How you guys started against Furia
into challenging the first seed of the LCK here today?
How do you reflect on everything that you've
been able to achieve with the team
and how far you've come, even personally?
Yeah, I mean, I think this is for sure the most competitive
and it's looked in a while.
So I'm happy about that.
But you know, it just sucks we came up short,
but still, you know, lots to take home with it.
And still, we can improve on this.
And you know, it's not all too bad, you know?
push like one of the best teams in the world to game five, so we can be part of that.
It's the best hopes that we had for NA in ages and I even want to say the West,
like I can't even be mad at you guys for like the joy that you put on today.
Yeah.
And what happens against you two?
Defeating three first seed, almost defeating the fourth one here.
I remember the interview we had at the end of first dance
and how hard it was for you and how far you guys have come as a team.
You said that you're going to take a lot of learnings looking back to NA.
Can you tell me more about this and how much you guys have been progressing as a team?
I mean, yeah, definitely first send helps us, you know, get a taste of international competition and kind of what we need to do to, you know, compete in moments like this.
Fortunately, we came up short, but I mean, we're going to learn from this as well and hopefully, you know, we make it to Worlds and we can improve more and then overcome this game five hurdle.
So, yeah.
It's going to be a pretty back schedule for you guys, actually.
Yeah, actually, we don't really have much of a break, but I don't mind that.
Honestly, being busy is better than not being busy in my team, so...
You said you're winning!
So, yeah, and then you guys are going for a tournament, so I'm really, really excited for the rest of the year for Lyon
and seeing you guys on the rift as well.
Is there anything that you want to tell the Western fans?
As a farewell here, so proud of you and what do you think about it?
We literally gave you hope and took it away at the very last possible moment, so yeah, we apologize about that.
I'm just a bit disappointed in myself about the game four performance.
I mean, it's hard, you know, this is an extremely talented player, and I still need to level
up a bit more to kind of pick out those advantages where I should be.
But I'm happy with how I played, you know, there's always more to improve on, but I thought
we'd put my good fight in.
Just shout out to my teammates, they played extremely well, and the fact that we had a
chance in this area is just, just to show how good they are.
So, yeah, just everyone involved, coaching staff, manager, everyone.
So just shout out to everyone.
Thank you so much for the banger games for the memories and everything and see you for the next vlogs.
Yeah.
Thank you, Dokla, and thank you, Lion, for making us dream, honestly, something that we don't get to do often.
Also, cool that everybody was cheering for your answers there in the backstage interview.
Maybe the other interview was going to say something. I don't know.
I was cheering, but it's just all I love him as a personality in the LCS big dogs
Like it's incredible and also just to root he's on because I know he's thinking about that game for I
Think we understand that right, but if you look at the improvement that he's made
Overall Emily it's been just crazy to see yeah
I think in the moment. He's obviously gonna be looking back and being like oh if I don't leave, but I mean he keeps proving
time and time again, specifically to North American organizations, by the way, that he
deserves a spot. And not only deserves a spot, but I'd say more often than not, he performs
really well under pressure internationally. Like I remember even when 100 thieves were
flamendoring a bit, he overall had some really strong individual performances in those games.
So I think, stop sleeping on Docla. I know he's disappointed now, but I think he actually
had a really a performance he can be super proud of. Yeah. And this line team is very new. Just put
together this year, you know, cobbling together these pieces and trying to work out how they're
even going to operate in these games. Yep. They've had very quick improvements as a team. So excited
to see, you know, it continue to go up and to the right for this team. And if they can continue to
improve. Absolutely. So looking forward to their development time. I'm really sad we're not gonna
to see it tomorrow. I'm not gonna lie. I would have loved to see that Best of Fire, but it
will be HLE that goes up against VHT.
The fans will be a lot louder for HLE.
Probably, probably, who knows. But before the grand final tomorrow, we also have League
Classic. We have a show match tomorrow that you can tune in for. And yeah, see all these
legends of the Rift take on each other once again, Jot.
What a throwback. I mean, some of these guys were playing in 2010. Some of them are still
Challenger I don't know how balanced it's end gonna be lane by lane, but I can't wait to just see old league with the old players
It's gonna be such a nostalgia trip. Yeah, I'm kind of eyeing team Baron as my personal favorite
Maybe it's the double lift way shout bias. So up until they lose the game
We're gonna have to make a list of references that people people are not
I can't wait. Finally. I wonder how many people say that scar reference without knowing he said it. True a lot. Probably talking about his own team.
So good. So many memories and we'll share them all with you tomorrow, meaning we will be starting the festivities a little bit earlier.
a little bit earlier, 8 AM CEST and 11 PM PST
as we're gonna travel back in time
for our league classic show match.
And that is all before, of course,
the grand final of MSI 2026 BLG versus Hanwha Life Esports.
Thank you so much for sharing the ups and the downs
and all the emotions with us today.
And we'll see you right back here tomorrow
for some nostalgia and then hopefully
five banger games, good night.
Welcome to the penultimate day of competition here at MSI Korea's number one seed HLE takes
on North America's number one seed Lyon.
Here comes HLE.
Here off to Lyon finds another beautiful ball inspired about to die the Stan United tries
to keep him alive but no delight for the execution say it's a rise.
And Lyon will be buried in the enemy jungle, three of them dead as Zayn and Dokla have to try to escape.
Gumiuchi, Delayon and Zeka chasing after Zayn, no matter how good his stylus is, there's no way out.
Dokla, trust that he do turns as the only man left standing on Lyon, and HLE gets five from nothing.
H-L-E will rise to the occasion.
They will chase down the last kill of the fight.
Steyers will not even fall.
North America's streams are dashed to Dijon.
Lyon are vanquished.
Angelia are victorious.
And they earn their place in the finals.