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From the to the transform and try to hit me with that Louis Steven's
I'm about to get my goals and stick to the script and sick of what's been written and so this isn't it
I can't let this empty safe up if I swim or play some repeat
All I need is one is the sun and I'm on my knees as I plead screaming my speech and promise
One more chance, look who's gonna really take it from me, I get my hands up
Do any Chinese to stand up in front of convincing myself
But before I sit on the shelf it's in my destiny the best of me to reach my thing left
That gets me buttoned in the years
As if this ain't for her
Go on overseas and over borders
Thing I know
She said she might boom but I'm single though
I can't help just want like a friend or though
Not an anti-social but let's mingle though
Today you see Brandenburgersk and today
Two teams will already book their tickets out of here
Three single day to look at
To gaze upon this beautiful trophy
And to gaze upon us because there is in fact
A window
They can see whatever we do at all times
So we can see them as well
So I hope everyone has a great time us, you know, we could be dressed to analyze or to sell you some
Wonky stocks. I couldn't help but notice that I got left out of the group chat, you know, you guys
This is how you find out that there's only two real best friends. Yes to wins
I'm proud of some of the HLE G2 game
Some of it. Yeah, I think if we clip out just the right moments
send them back to the people with no other contact.
We could really convince people that TL and G2 won those games.
We could.
We could.
We did the right place.
You don't have to convince anyone about how strong the LCK is.
They, in fact, have three teams in the top four
of this part of the Swiss stage.
And they have many chances of us to qualify to the next round.
And that's quite interesting because the other, last year
rather, the other year, last year, it was quite different.
We'll take a look at it in just a second.
But they want all of their games yesterday as well.
Exactly.
I mean, the LCK has been doing incredibly well.
And it's felt like over the last couple of years,
it's often been about the quality of individual LCK teams
and the quantity of LPL teams that they're
having to take down to actually win.
This time around, we have three of the top four teams,
thus far, being from the LCK.
The big tournament favorite from the big three
that everyone was expecting to be here,
BLG has already been knocked down.
They're not in that 2-0 match.
And when you compare that back to last year,
it was only Gen G from the LCK
that made it into those two zero matches.
True, Alenji, doing it again.
Alenji doing it again is so impressive to me.
I think the fact that there's not really much of a spread,
that it is 3LCK, testament to how dominant the region is,
and also just a reminder of how difficult it is
to stay at the top, right?
Like JDG obviously making it out when they had 1M side,
Genji now doing the same this year.
Like that, Tenacity, the fact that they're continuously
able to put those performances up,
even after a shaky playoff finals,
is just a reminder why this region,
not just a single team, is so dominant.
It's also cool because if you were to take kind of the top four bracket at the end of
the tournament last year, we had LPL and T1 and now we have the three LCK teams and LNG
and the LPL team.
It's cool.
We'll see if that trend continues.
At least one LCK team is, of course, going to be qualifying into the quarterfinals
today.
And now I see that production has prepared a game for us.
Okay.
Let's go.
You know, I'm nervous.
I'm really bad at games.
You never know, you know, the game is going to be kind of hard to know where
we're gonna end up here. Is it gonna be how many different ways were we
embarrassed yesterday? Are they gonna remind us about how it dominated the
LPL? Let's do a quiz about childhood trauma.
Guess the champion from the Swiss meta. Okay, what do we got?
Oh, do I have to play in all the roles? No, this is it.
10 picks, 87.5% presents, okay.
80% win rate.
I think it's Yone.
It must be Yone.
No, it shouldn't say it out loud.
We're playing versus each other, but hey.
Are we playing versus each other?
We're not being collaborative here.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what, any of you, we should be yone, right?
We need to be banding together here.
I promise the second you said that,
any other champion left my brain and I have no option,
but just copying what you put down.
Yeah, yeah, there is no other champion in the game.
Yone is absolutely dominating at Worlds.
Are we being hoodwinked?
I don't think so.
If you miss less,
Presidents at 80% win rate the champion
Isaac one for the team
Notice how we're the team now we weren't the team earlier when we're picking out our outfits. Yeah, when you want to give us free answers
All right next a player related to that champion seven one seven seven one seven it's Scout
I remember this game. You remember that I'm pretty sure it's why you keep saying it out loud
People have been talking about scouts hair and look at the salt line
Okay, so I remember guessing off the outlines last year and they used a different outline
I knew who the outline was so I guess that player
Just letting Isaac carry us
everything from
I'm pretty sure it was Scout. I apologize for wrong
Because last year I remember I guess off of our darshawn outline and it was an out there
So not darshawn. It was a doklah outline and it wasn't him
Oh, my champions again. Oh my god presence to win right 62.5
Winrate 83 damn wait, so wait, it's something that has a really damage over old okay
So there's a really high win rate, but not that many picks over gold seems like it that's pretty high
So it's got to be a carry position
I have a guess
So if I'm not supposed to say I'm not gonna tell you guys this time carry position
Well, I would think just because damage damage per gold seems like quite a bit, but I don't actually know
What'd you do? I went ash. I went jinn.
Oh it's rumble! Wait I thought rumble had higher presence than rumble.
What's crazy to me is that I knew it was something that was doing well so it had to be like LPLLCK type teams that are picking it.
And uh, this is looking good.
All I'm saying is I'm surprised that rumble isn't higher presence in picks and bans.
They can definitely pick it for option. Don't worry about it.
The outline is not relevant, okay? And I think it's really good.
early game high damage high damage share I think I know I know I know I read
Huffa comments oh really I think are we revealing ready I'm ready reveal ah we
both let's take it we got one six nine because there was a comment oh no I see
the key is look back when he with all T versus TL to know his damage wasn't
to be that high. I miss remember do you know what the Hooper comment was? It was like he
went four and zero and they were like oh maybe next time you should go six and zero and
you might actually influence the game. It was brutal. Okay. Six picks, fifty-fifty,
nine point eight CS per minute, six picks. Maybe this is our beloved four. I'm running
it back. I'm also running it back. I'm revealing. I'm running it back. All right, I'm
I'm just gonna go for a redo. Wait, is this including plans or is this? Oh my Henry so bad
This is the stage. Oh it does. Damn it. I said Trist. Small victory. We all get 80 carries.
Well, I mean it had to be something like that because it's CS. 9.8. Yes, yes, obviously too high.
Well that win rate is just completely padded by the LCK. No, for the rest of us.
The other regions are just letting it down. Here's the answer.
Is it? Yes. That's very confident, so I'm copying.
I'm gonna it's trauma. I'm just gonna list the other guy who had a really good game on the pick, right? Yeah
I hope I didn't beat you, but
Joey did have a good game on it. One of us will be right. Hey, I was just
Trauma response. Okay, let's go. I'm getting hard. I'm getting hard carried by Zail this entire day
I have more correct than you
You're also getting hard carried. We both getting carried by Zail with the first two questions
Check the tape, meanwhile, we're going to check in with Chronicler for a primer on the LCK teams today.
I'm really excited to talk about the LCK teams. Very excited to join all of you soon in person,
but for now, this is a bit of a throwback to when I was in Desk Chamber 2021.
So I'm always really excited to talk about the LCK teams, but DK for me in particular is a team
that I feel really strongly about. I think their Challenger teams is one of the best teams,
and I've been a really big fan of back then Domwon, ever since they ascended to the LCK.
DK in particular is I think the one LCK team for which even making quarters will be a really big
deal. Obviously there is Lucid and Moham, two players who are playing their first worlds,
first internationals, and Moham has been around a little bit longer for Lucid to play in the
LCK a little bit, but it's still a really big deal, especially with him coming in this late
into the split. Lucid individually is the players I'm most excited about. I think he's incredible and
I can't wait to see him perform here today against the opponent, the caliber of LNG. But for Showmaker,
after not making it out of Swiss last year, I think he really wants this more so than maybe
unknown else on the team. So I can't wait to see whether or not they're going to be able to
actually do it here today. So secondly, we got to talk about the LCK finals rematch.
Gen.G vs. Hama Life is a series which, in the entirety of summer playoffs, in my opinion, actually really delivered.
Even though the first series was a free one, that Gen.G was able to win, I think, pretty decisively.
There were still a lot of indicators of what would happen a week later.
And for Hama Life in particular, it's really important to note that this team was close to Gen.G for the entirety of the year,
who are never really able to surge ahead.
They were never able to actually take him down with the metamos,
and I think that the way that the finals went for that team
is a really, really big deal,
and the fact that they're really much here
to get the best possible way of making it into the knockout stage,
and the guarantee that you won't be facing in the other 3-0 team
is a really, really big deal.
And Genji and Honwa Life are in so many ways intertwined, right?
If you look at the players on the teams,
so many of these players have played with one another,
we've had the jokes about Gen.G Orange versus regular Gen.G and
that is something that makes it so cool every time these two teams face. The stakes this time are higher than ever.
I think for both these two teams, just making quarterfinals is not gonna be enough.
Basically everyone on these two teams has been able to get to that point before.
It's about where do you go after that, right?
It's about can you actually make the deep run that on one hand for Doran and Peen and in particular has
has been a really big problem for them right especially when we get to knockouts and then
flip side for GNG even after the RMSI win, Chovy himself said it, it's not enough if
you don't win Worlds.
So I think that this matchup both from an LCK perspective and for this deeper run at Worlds
is a really really big deal.
I can't wait to see who wins.
I think this is really hard to call and I hope you guys are all going to enjoy it
as well.
Thank you so much, Chronicler is on his way of course.
for previewing that rematch of the LCK. I miss them too. Some are finals, but first we have D plus
Kia versus LNG, which is also a rematch, a rematch from the 2021 World Finals between Scout and
Showmaker, not LNG versus D plus Kia. It was versus EDG, but you catch my drift. Yeah, this was
such a big series for both these players. Obviously, Scout and EDG winning in the end,
incredible five game series, nine different picks showing up in the mid lane across those
five games. It was so much about those mid laners as well. And I think really an interesting
time in the career of showmaker where he had a year that was full of so many moments where
he was close but not quite able to pull it across the finish line not able to replicate
that same success. And so for both of these players there's a lot of nostalgia. There's
a lot of weight behind a series like this. But I think it just again emphasizes how
important having a world class mid laner is to have international success. We've
seen so many teams so many dynasties they are built around these mid laners enabling
them over the years and when you get one you don't want to let them go but to
talk about DK a little bit this team obviously you know showmaker definitely a
big centerpiece there but they have been a lot more up and down this year this
is not necessarily you know the DK of old where they're really huge tournament
favorites they are incredible when they are on it when they are playing at
their best they are absolutely you know near or at the top of the world as
far as those levels of performance but they're not always coordinating they're
not always on the same page and as much as on one hand they can
Dominate you and a team fight create a massive advantage with the other hand they can give it right back to you with a bad bearing
Call over the mistime to gauge. Yeah, we've seen that even in the microcosm of these best the ones that they've played
Drake us for me though
They can have the makings of a possible dark horse at this tournament the draw is aiding them just a little some would say but with
The meta being a bit more in favor of showmaker with lucid who has a little bit of a as chronicler
It told me young player syndrome that sometimes it goes a little bit
But if that all works out and the jungle mid is showing some cohesion and synergy then you know with aiming in the bot lane as well
They have a great base to work off. They certainly do and I think of all the LCK reps
DK feel like the most explosive team in a positive way and in a negative way
But you often see mid jungle snowballing games best way
I think they have to win games the other backup option aiming can't always be this powerhouse as they go later
So they do have a lot to work with they do their up versus LNG LNG who took down BLG just yesterday
Not a lot of people would have said that of course best the ones
Hey, you know, you got to just peek in that best the one of course
But I think similarly for me even when you watch them in the LPL, right?
You have games where they're their macro assault their early games assault everything goes their way it looks good
And then you have games where it doesn't work out and they lose their head
And I gotta say both early games that we've seen from elegy thus far they have fallen a bit behind
But in both games, they've also found excellent comeback opportunities here
There are a lot more dominant fights following this one from Scout
But this is the one where I feel like they really cemented their advantage brought themselves back to the game partially the power of yone
Yes, to be certain but finding these advantages
Punishing BLG the number one seed for overstepping is something you need to be able to do if you want to go for it
I think that's kind of the beauty of worlds though
Is you have the strongest champions in the hands of the absolute best players in the entire world and you get to see
What is the real limit of what you can get done on these champions?
It is super interesting to see I said we have two best of threes today and our first two tickets will be punched to the quarter finals
Will it be Scout again getting the upper hand over ShowMaker or will D plus Kia be the team that even though they haven't been believed in coming out of the LCK and also not amongst my analysts, I think.
Will they be the ones to punch the very first ticket to Paris? Let's find out as the Swiss stage continues here at Worlds 2024.
I think the mid laners are at a higher level than the other mid laners.
I think the results are coming out.
I will do my best to become the best mid laner in the world.
I played well.
I've seen a lot of Japanese players and learned a lot from them.
I think he's a player with a very good sense of expression.
He's a player who teaches a lot of people in-game.
I think he's good at it.
When I first started playing, I thought he was a dreamer.
I was so happy to be able to play with such a good player.
I've always been in the team called DPLUS3 since I debuted as a pro.
I think it's an honor to be able to continue to participate in the game by wearing this team's uniform.
Last year, I was eliminated from the 2-3 loss last year.
I know how desperate and important it is to win the 3rd place.
It was a very valuable experience for me.
Last year, I had a great experience, and I went down a lot last year, so I think I was more interested in that.
I think I wanted to experience that kind of stage again.
I wanted to show that I want to do it well this year and prove it again.
It's been two years, and it's been a long time since I've had a chance to grow.
I'm confident that I can show more through this tournament.
I'm sad that I couldn't make it to the finals.
I couldn't even think about showing a great performance in the World Championship.
I feel responsible for the good performance in the world.
I don't have any friends in the world, and I think I can change.
Last year, I was forced to do it.
I let many people trust me.
I came back to get what I wanted.
First of all, we know that we are very proud of ourselves.
We have a team, so we are really happy to be able to win this game.
We are really, really happy to be able to win this game.
I believe in myself and my team, so I will break them down.
We will see each other in the next game.
We are really happy to be able to win this game.
I want a way to welcome you boys to Worlds 2024 with some absolute bangers to learn ourselves a bit
Super excited for this one flowers, and I got off the plane less than 24 hours. Oh, we are ready for some action. I
Cannot wait man. This is going to be such a fun one. It's two zero head to head day here at Worlds
This is your chance to show everybody that you are a menace to be reckoned with and be
one of those first tickets punched into the quarterfinals.
And especially for LG, I feel like starting out 2-0 with one of the wins being against BLG.
That is so big for them.
Scout being able to even be here and play with the team was already huge.
But him on the Yone really embracing the meta and being such a big part with him and Zika
combining for so much of the comeback win that they got there.
I think that's why so many people were scared when they saw that scout wasn't potentially
going to be coming because this guy has been the lifeblood of the team and when you got
to take a fire in all those cylinders with the rumble alongside him.
It looks absolutely fantastic but Europe against no sledge, showmaker has definitely
hit his stride in this meta.
The side of the team yesterday was sick.
So I am excited now to see these two Titans go up against each other.
I mean, the mid lane matchup, showmaker versus scout.
This one is guaranteed banger territory with how these guys have been performing,
how these guys have been playing, not just here at Worlds so far.
Remember, each of these two teams has only played a couple of games so far here on the Worlds main stage,
but now that we're into the series part of Swiss,
I'm really looking forward to seeing not just the individual performances game to game,
but the way they adapt between them.
Yeah, I do want to see a little bit more cleanliness coming through from D plus kid though saw them have a great start to that early game yesterday
But against like West but kind of a little rocky
I'm down I'm down for some DK a randomness. I'm down for some action here to break out
I actually did love like you're talking about the the silas pull out there for men
being able to use that, you know, steal away some key ultimates,
absolutely massive performance from him because, honestly,
people were looking back at this year from showmaker ends,
and were not sure what to expect going into this tournament,
you know, not quite as confident,
so very happy to see the good start there.
All right, so immediately starting off the draft,
funny enough, there is only one player out of these 10
who's played the same champion in both of his games so far.
It is Zika on the rumble, and immediately D-plus is saying,
And you know what, not gonna happen, taking that one off the table first, alongside the
Yone who has been terrorizing mid lane at this tournament and Aurora continues to remain
a top band.
And we talked about that combo, 4LNG was so big in their game versus BLG, so much damage
at that dragon fight to be able to get them right back into it.
Yeah, I still think though there is kind of a difference in approach to the mid laners
here because Scout is still going back towards things like the Tristana and the Yone since
they're still playing kind of a foot in the past when it looks to the meta, where
Showmakers just got head first into LeBlanc and the Silas so I think it'd be interesting to see how the mid lane is approached here
And how the pieces around that supported because and even the fact that you're putting this party ban on towards like the rumble
And the only you're still looking at things like the ash the Orianna these big picks are gonna be very strong
Especially with a nocturne van. I think dammit our D plus gear saying hey look
We don't actually want to look at a potential Ori first pick
We want to remove a nocturne Orianna combo from LNG on the next rotation. Yeah
Wow, they're really going off the recent plays there from LNG,
right down that ban list.
All three of them keys that they use versus BLG.
Like you're saying, though, too, I'm also
looking at some tournament-wide power picks.
The Skarner has been such a big frontline for Jungle
right now.
Really, really popular.
Definitely expect that to be some early priority
and really continue throughout the tournament.
All right, so alongside that Rumble, Yone, and Nocturne
banned out by D plus Kia, you can look over at LNG.
You can see the Jax and the Gnar banned out there as Ziggs makes it through.
This has been a priority ban so far in Worlds and now it's picked by DK.
I was going to say both these guys are great Ziggs players as well.
Gala known as the best Ziggs in the LPL.
So I was going to say you don't probably want to let that slip through.
So I was surprised to see T-plus-Key.
I think that went up very, very quickly for themselves.
But it does open up Showmaker now to have a plethora of different champions he can play.
Mid lane, because you can go for that AD mid with the Ziggs locked in.
All right, so we're gonna grab the early blind Renekton very very good blind champion here
And then Skarner actually pales really well with digs too
So maybe you actually want to take that away earlier in the draft since Skarner can like group people up for zigzolty
We've seen that used. Vyce is very very good
That's just that backline. Hey point and click lock you down
But wait, wait, it's gonna take that one away tonight. So maybe the Skarner is now the answer on the opposite side
Okay
Let's see how they want to go ahead and approach this one seeing some front line seeing some dive threat on the side of
LNG DK thinking about a couple of options here in the jungle
There's our there's our favorite scorpion hovered for a second
We'll see if they do want to make sure and lock that one in has been pretty high presence so far throughout the tournament not
Overwhelming but according to the numbers I got in front of me right now is tied for second highest presence there at five
picks thus far so the thing that beats it out though right there the Malkai also at five picks
but with the higher win rate they'll lock that in on DK. I also just think it's a strong pick into
what LNG are going to show him for the moments. We want to at least have some sort of dive potential
set up with this buy so having that Malkai won't deny that is always great because teams have
to play into you but it also works very well into Renekton and just keeping him in check
in a lot of these fights while setting up for a very potent long range composition and
Those are two ultimates that could definitely just rope to backclaw in there.
Yeah.
All right, so the smolder continues here at Worlds, even with those nerfs, still has been performing,
still has been showing up.
And when you have the Vi that you talk about, it's either like a Leblanc or an Auri,
you know, it's these AP kill-oriented midlanes and with the hover over the Leblanc right now,
you know, possible favor there for Scout.
But again there are multiple options that you can still run with the buy lots of mid lane AP champions come
Combined with that really successfully
So they actually drop the mid lane pick in favor of the full on dive. You get gala's
Kaisa so that that is a mega pick for
himself, but also with the dive that they're already showing and this was a pink the color brought out a lot in the LPL was one
Of the proponents are still brought it into the Ezreal and a lot of these picks
So not surprised to see him go back towards it.
And I think it's the right call.
It's still something that can do very well on the dive.
But also just if you land that void missile,
immediately jumping on towards the Zeke,
trying to burst them out.
And I think trying to find something that can support that,
like a Nautilus could work out really well here for all.
Yeah, anytime Kaisa is not going
to have to face super, super aggressive bot lanes,
it's going to be really nice to be
able to get to that mid game high kill potential.
And there we go.
Some of the champs we were talking about,
even though they were trying to distract maybe
with the hover on the block.
Sorry that we also mentioned such a deadly pairing on this patch, especially with the Vi.
Yeah, the mind game's not going to work out there as you can see the Cassante and Poppy
banned out by LNG here in the second half.
So no Cassante versus Renekton, Pop lane, staple matchup that appears all the time
everywhere.
Recon also going to be banned away here.
They're trying to respect further investment into that full on dive comp.
Seeing the three options already locked in on LNG, they'll get rid of it.
LNG are not asleep at the wheel.
There's plenty of other good options for engage
and dive here in the support role.
And rail is one of those.
Yeah, very strong, but also just waiting
to see exactly where Smotre's going to go.
Because there's still some windows where you can send
a top lane for a king in if you want to.
I don't think it's great into the renekton,
but at least you get to see that maybe there's
an opportunity to bring out something like an Orianna
instead of going for the Leblanc.
Because with the options that you have with the rail
engage and then that buy setup as well,
there is some windows to just burst out of Smotre
or a Zeke's in this later portion of the game
with that Orianna combo.
All right, the Alistar locked in.
This is a pretty standard response, I think, to Rell,
because of how easy it is to use the headbutt.
Knocked the champion away when she tries
to go for the crash down.
It limits her engage options, makes
her have to play around different angles.
We'll see what they want to go ahead and round this draft
out with now.
Still need to see this one last pick from DK.
What's it going to be?
Hovering a couple of different things.
Back and forth, back and forth.
The Olaf locked in.
Oh, baby.
I love it.
Whenever you see lots of CC to be able to ignore, it looks like a good Olaf angle,
and you've got the AP bombs coming over the top of your head to support your movement forward too.
The Silas though locked in for scouting the opposite side.
You look at, oh well I got the Alistar, which is just a great ultimate for the Silas to take.
Even the invulnerability now coming through from CC on the Olaf can work out perfectly.
And in the direst situations, you still got a Ziggs bomb, these are great ultimates for Silas to steal.
Oh, Alistar Ultimate is historically the best ulti for Sylas to take.
Whenever Alistar is overwhelming in the meta with his presence,
Sylas becomes an answer because of how powerful he is with the Unbreakable Will.
I love seeing how fast they are ready to slam this pick in,
because they're also slamming it in against Showmaker,
who is the only Sylas so far played in the tournament.
Yeah, Scott says, if you can do it, I can do it too.
Really juicy ults to steal as both of you have already talked about.
that just further complement the theme that they already had going with the entire draft
being Mega Dive. Now you add the Silas multiple options to steal. A Maokai Ultimate to set
up your Crazy Dive would be beautiful as well. It's just like, oh my goodness, this one will
be an action-packed game to start out.
Especially when you look at LNG, yesterday against BLG, they were scrapping for every
void group. They were scrapping for everything that could get their hands on. So when
You've got a composition that is for me ladies
You kind of want to get involved very early in these fights try to snow boss
So this is gonna be a better well in C to these teams so far they look like they like to scrap backstage before this game
I was telling you guys I want to see this series be a bar fight on Summoner's Rift and based on the compositions
We're seeing here after the first draft
I'm hoping for nothing else right now as we're into game one in this first series to determine the first team
to punch there, take it to Paris and the quarterfinals.
And holy moly, we may not get a lane swap.
Thank the Lord.
Woo-hoo!
That's a tub already!
Alright, we're already winning boys.
We are all ready winning.
As we're taking a look at what everybody's doing here at the start, pretty standard stuff.
Yeah, and honestly, I mean the reason why it's such a dub for me in this game
to not have a lane swap is like, we're going to get some really brawly lanes.
lanes especially as a jungler you love to see volatile lanes because you get
options for where to go influence Olaf versus Renekton on top side will be very
volatile they're threatening some very fun level one stuff here both Silas and
rail possibilities of jumping over the wall but they do not go for it ward
in the tri brush there well crash down hung just get a lot more than that
Really? Come on and aiming still just trying to get back away from this one
Galan hung still continuing to push forward dropping ignite forcing aiming a flash back away to the safety of the tier one turret
And he still has his teleport
So he should be able to kind of catch these waves and TP back into lane
But he does want to wait until the Elise kind of works up towards something like a tier to get that reset
So trying to force in at early to deny that quick reset is working out
Well for LNG if they can try and get him out
Yeah, it's really big here for LNG to take advantage of the Alistar Ziggs lane at level 1.
Take away that flash, take away any big possibilities there.
Now like, Gal and Hung are going to have a really, really nice free time, even though
their jungler is pathing away from them.
Both junglers are pathing towards the top side, towards that really volatile matchup
that we're all looking forward to, the Olaf or Nectin on the top side.
So you got to expect the junglers will definitely intervene very early up there.
while of course that Silas getting pushed in early by ShowMaker so nothing to see there.
We will of course also be keeping track of ShowMaker's stats on this.
As you have to.
As you have to, especially because it's a melee matchup and so you should be getting a
lot of stacks very early on this Mulder.
But this is going to be surprising to me.
If you were to tell me that these two players were coming into the base matchup, I thought
these two trap things would be flipped.
I thought ShowMaker would want to avoid the AD carries because it wasn't really
his wheelhouse for the entirety of Summer whereas for Scout he was bringing out
Tristana is a looking good on things like the Lucian so I'm kind of surprised to see showmaker be the one that's bringing out this motor
But the LCK has had great showings on this motor pick
So not surprised to see it brought out fully. All right, Kobe
You said you were expecting junglers here in the top side for the volatile matchup Zika jumping forward
Trying to lock up King and here flashes in for the roofless predator and way way is there ball breaker playmaker
For his blood over to Zika
I love that any time you see those volatile melee matchups
and the Olaf pushing in early, of course so.
Zika with the flash punishes so nicely there,
way, way able to get the ball breaker
across such a good setup.
And dropping your top two camps there,
you know, he doesn't have to fully finish off.
It's really important for junglers
to recognize wave state and because of the matchup
and it's just an Olaf with ghost.
So it should be an easy stun setup.
It's just nice to see like the versatility here to be able to react to the current wave state and really nice punish
Especially because at DK and already spotted it with that Warden Raptor is where Weiwei was
I think they just thought oh, he's going for full clear. Yeah, I can crash this wave and get back good
And Weiwei kind of catching them off guard getting that early kill going to have a massively physical
Yeah, everybody always highlights like efficiency for junglers and like oh you need to full clear
You need to full clear, but that is there's a lot like solo queue where you can't rely so much on your on your teammates
And in this case really really good
Diversion there, so we'll see about the other side of the map as well
As you're gonna have the cross way way of course going all the way to the bottom to get the bottom scottle crab as well
Before fully recalling yeah, and you can see DK ready to crash this wave here into the bottom lane tier one turret
Honggala should just be able to farm this up. No big problem, LNG still just enjoying the gold advantage from the first blood
But not really anything more so there's no huge lane advantages popping up anywhere for any of the just
matchups that you would expect them to be coming up from. Yeah, I just want to see how the
the timing here is going to go for Weiwei because
you're down on this bottom side, you could immediately go for Dragon's Hong should he enter up the reset here? Nice here from Oham.
The six, oh, he won it!
He was the ignite to cancel the reset, but it wasn't fast enough.
It got him during the last quarter second, so aiming still manages to get his recall,
and now that summoner down for Hong.
And I think that was where they could have tried to look for some sort of pressure on towards push at the wave,
maybe try and get an early reset, move up towards Voidgrobes,
but now that aiming's back in the lane, he's going to be able to keep up this pressure.
Gala's just a reset down, so trying to move up towards an early Voidgrobes is going to be really tough for LNG now.
Other thing I'm looking at that's kind of tough for LNG scout has already used his teleport and so
Always you know on top of this you're kind of like trading your health trying to keep up enough Cs
I'm trying to stay in lane, but so much pressure from showmaker here
Just spitting out fireball after fireball
They do force scout back and that is going to turn into hey, there's no teleport on scout
I've got the advantage here in mid lane pushed him in chunk them out
We should be able to grab this dragon
They crashed down there on the Moham, but he's not a whole lot more worried about it than just that.
He can walk that away as the rest of his team is continuing to just pick this Drake up.
Bottom lane's job is to make sure that the enemy bottom lane doesn't rotate over, try to cause any trouble,
and that's not going to go down so Lucid can finish picking this one up, no problem should be.
Well, at least starting to get a little bit of an advantage for himself, though, because he's moved into DK's top side,
stealing away the Gromp. I imagine he could move over towards the Wolves or just immediately move back over towards the Void,
which is what he's going to do with Sada's actually getting that push now that Sked is
coming back into lane and Zika doing a good job of controlling Kingen, so it is going
to be a trade, but even just the comps are going to tick off on favorite wayway.
Ooh, wow, Scout going in!
Looking for a little bit more on Lucid, but takes him down to 250, he has to back,
back away.
Yeah, and that's a really good, honestly, scouting play for him where he's not
really looking for the kill there.
He's looking to make sure that there is no possible contest on these Void Drubs.
Yup.
No.
get a big chunk onto the Malachi. Make sure that DK are not going to have an option because
you know they did have a really early timing on the first dragon so there was possibilities
here especially with you know Mohan reset here and they are swapping up to the topside
for DK with their duo lane but already because of that play LNG secure their grubs.
Yeah that's just going to say it's unusual to swap Amy to Mohan with Nell because
yes you can try and get some turret plate damage or at least try and opt out of the macho
Oh, Zika actually cannot back a bit, but this wave should still be picked up by Zika, he's gonna be relatively okay.
You can even see the rotation coming through from Hong and Wei Wei just to make sure he's gonna be fine on this, but here's leaving Dolla now to get free time.
Alright, LNG's bringing in some backup. Fallbreaker getting charged. Flash engage comes out from Hong and they're immediately just trying to chop down that tree.
Lucid gets away with 200 HP as Zika tries to keep everybody else locked up with a disengaged coming up from Moham, knocks him back into the river, the big bomb coming in from the Ziggs.
Amin needs one more shot and Lucid's gonna get the kill credit. TK won nothing in the scrap.
LNG tossed everything into the tree, but they couldn't chop it down. You didn't have the damage to follow through and Zika just gets mowed down by Amin and Moham in the mix.
Yeah, that was really good peel turn around Lucid does not panic as they jump on him immediately able to disengage and throw out his Malchi ultimate
and aiming for small on keeping them at arms length allowing them to take down the extra kill for them.
This one already spicy boys, but very glad that is evened up as well.
The only thing we're still a little bit worried about here showmakers been stacking up quite nicely on that smolder.
So we will check back in on the mid lane.
We'll see if Scout is able to pull off any really big plays on any steal away ults.
Also, I'm not sure what happened in the bot side.
Gala ended up losing out of about 10 CS there as well.
It was even going into a ball.
It wasn't quite able to finish it out.
So the king didn't burn ghost or anything, but it was watching topside.
So a nice job at least by king into Jani.
Some of the CS away from Gala and put him behind as well.
All right.
12.7 to 13.6 thousand gold.
1k up for an LNG squad that also owns the first three Void Grubs.
Two minutes until that second set spawns,
and honestly the second Drake only being slightly mistimed with that
means we could have something in him as didn't go down,
but most likely probably just a handshake trade on the objectives.
Yeah, I think this is where we're probably going to see a little bit more interaction
between Weiwei and Scout, because even if you can just get that open from Weiwei
immediately on towards Shoman, if you can burst him out
or start to burn some summoner spells, so getting those summoner spells out
before a big dragon or a boy-girl fight are going to be really crucial and when
Cerda has again just been such a strong focal point for this team trying to get
those resources on to him is always voted well for LNG. Yeah and then of course
Gala they're looking at trying to scale this Kaisa he has the call really
trying to make sure that he will be able to catch in get to this couple
out in break points that's where your dive comp really really excels is
once you're able to bring the Kaisa over to a lot of those skirmishes
until then like you're saying you're going to see some of those way way scout
combos see if they can get some you know skirmishes some engages pick people off as
they're rotating between objectives and we really get to live in that melee brawl
world. Just about to hit 10 minutes on the clock here is Gala and Hong head
back down into this bottom lane you can see their opponents are up slightly in
terms of the gold it is a plus 20 farm lead for aiming on the Ziggs this
This is a pick that has been banned a ton so far at Worlds 2024 in the main stage, second
highest band rate overall.
The fact that it went through this one, a little bit surprising, but when we look back
at the draft, a big reason for that is a lot of targeted dance.
We talked about how DK was aiming at all the stuff that LNG used to beat BLG.
So when those specific strategies come out, the more general OP's get through.
So I'm very curious to see what aiming can accomplish with this pick as we go
forward.
aiming you know has been very consistent for them as we see a four-person move
towards top all right we got the big play the dive coming in from DK and Zika's
about to drop he stays alive for an extra second but it is not long enough but
now the Malkai ulti coming out stolen away by scout but it will not matter as
everybody on DK exits stage left and they fully commit to this they're like
you know second spawn of grubs we're gonna send everybody up to go for the
tower dive first but now the chase the immediate counter attack coming out
from LNG with a Vi ulti into the follow up from Scout.
They take down Mohawk, but a teleport arrives,
and Kingen is ready to tear through on a rampage.
He chases, hung down, but hung gets back over the wall,
as Loopsen has to turn to escape back into the mid lane.
It's a three man chase from LNG.
They won't get a kill, but the enemy jungler now,
so critically low on HP.
And LNG are heading back up into this topside river.
They claimed one of the second set of grubs,
but there's still two to go,
and nobody from DK to contest.
Even though DK quote-unquote successfully get their dive this is so massive for LNG
They got so much money onto Gala Gala had just been farming on the bottom side
And they're still able to get their chase down counter kill. They're still able to get their grubs
Can they finish the last one? Oh no, they will not stolen away. How now?
It's the final grub plus a kill is the limit
It's incredible from DK because I was looking at LNG going oh, this is such a sick timing window
The reset came through from King and we have the numbers advanced before the TP can come in
Let's take the foist, but then they're like patting each other on the back
And suddenly DK come back. Yeah, it was so big and look at the mini map as this play starts
Gala's on bottom farming. He's doing damage to the tower
So that will be consistent for this entire time
And LNG as they get their chase out here key that Shoemaker popped Mohan's ult there
He was able to force it out with his mouth. I owe and then way way says I'll follow up
Show me or excuse me scouts had gotten the the early old down on Mohan
And so then way way followed up they got that one and because you saw the smite used on that grub
He's not gonna have his next smite charge available for the final grub as you know stolen way by the cow
Really fun action so far. All right as we get back to live turrets are collapsing in bottom and top lane
both as LNG grabbed the first down to the bottom lane immediately responded by DK though up there in
the top side using the power of the ziggs and the satchel to make sure that they can force that one
down as well as you can see the second drake also get taken. This is an awkward spot now for DK though
because you can rotate gala up and still have a taro you can threaten on top side you're in position
to fight for rift taro but aiming I think kind of has to open mid or top here because he still
needs to try match gala but can't really threaten that bot lane turrets and still be
being positioned for this upcoming Rift Herald because his TP isn't available so DK kind of a step
behind when it comes towards how they want to operate on the map right now. Man we are 15 seconds
away from Rift Herald spawning with what 500 gold separating the teams a couple of good moves early
on from both sides Drake's tied at one to one the early game from the first game of this BO3
has delivered so far. Massive son this is again I just want to see more scrappy like this is
This is such a fun composition on both sides to see exactly how you can try and come away with this.
But LNG bit late in the resets, Weiwei now starting to come out of base.
Mizike gets to set up nicely in river and the push in mid is fairly simple with A-Mean opening up there.
See if we get a whole lot of trading back and forth here with just some of the poke tools being used.
Gala firing off the void seeker but bouncing bombs not going to connect in response.
Mastercard late economy snapshot showing you that yes it's a bit of a gold lead for Kingen
But all of the other gold leads going the opposite direction down here in the bottom lane though 1v1
Between our ulting top laners Zika trying to wait for those cooldowns to come back
He doesn't want to stand there and fight the Olaf auto attack V
Auto attack Zika looking to chase him down now a little bit more is all he needs
Ron King and Ron Zika with the solo kill Zika played that so well
He jumped into the minions got the last auto attack for his fury build up and then got that massive heal from both
both hitting the champion and all those creeps at the same time.
Now gets the push in on bot, could even look for a quick reset now that he hits 11,
and teleport back in as it's meant to come off cooldown.
Oh, where's Gadoff?
Okay, oh wait, Gala! Very low on HP, down to 150,
having to try to get away from this with the killer instinct.
Last bouncing bomb, ain't gonna hit him.
The AD carry from LNG, staying alive as Moham has already used the ultimate.
The untrackable will no longer available, counterattack him and out from LNG.
Now as Moham has to try to get away.
Another stolen Malkai ulti! They go in and LNG finds themselves another kill!
They get everybody right on back out and the scrap continues!
SIG vile to mid there from away where as Moham tried to headbutt him away they get their kill again!
Cow down! LNG punish that dive attempt!
And LNG just caught DK off completely, scout TP'd from that top side of the Rift Herald pit,
down to where DK's Raptors are to come in and find Mohamov kilter.
So, LNG doing some really fancy stuff here and getting that kill back,
but I thought it was God who was going to die.
And guess what? We're going to see a lot more of Gala on our screen pretty soon.
He has been farming up a storm, and it's very close to the rageblade.
The static shift obviously helps a lot for holding mid lane,
when you're trying to deal with so much ziggs push,
it's sometimes going to be really hard,
but static shift does a lot and then really nice ultimate
and some jukes from him to keep himself alive.
But once the Rageblade is done, then you get to seek all of going way more offensive with it.
And LNG, they have so many tools to start up these fights.
Well, how about this, Kobe? We got the Rift Herald still alive on the map.
And in a minute and a half, we also have another Drake spawning.
So I think there'll be plenty of reasons for that Rageblade Kaisa to get himself involved
in a little bit of PvP. LNG now up 2,500 gold, 2,500 minutes after we were saying
that it's less than 500, separating the two squads.
However, that's going to be assisted here a little bit for the other side as DK manages to grab yet another turret
Thanks to the zig satchel here in the mid lane.
As long as Amy can keep up this threat on Gala as well, DK just owned the mid lane which makes it very easy to start to drift across these objectives
So at the moment DK playing a very calculated game on how they want to open up and making things a little difficult for LNG despite the goatee that they have
And Amy himself has been so good for DK
Both on, you know, the traditional carries that you expect from him, the, you know, like the Zerian stuff, but him really incorporating the Ziggs so heavily in regional finals, and now being able to steal it away and pull it out here, could be the big difference maker.
That big AOE on the item spikes here might be amazing. Regardless though, it's going to be Rift Herald picked up, and Kingen, ooh yeah, Kingen trying to get himself away, Ziggs going to stop the back.
Kingen knows that the only way this works out okay is if he takes somebody with him, he cannot escape there, he tries to put the damage in, but it is not enough. LNG pick up another.
This counter pick is not working out at all for LNG, or for DK there by the way, for Kingen.
I mean, just think of the beginning of the game, the setup on the gank, then he also got the solo kill, then his team arrives here, it has just been...
Wall Zika all day now now we got some more problems for Moham and for DK as
Scout is ready to jump in after I'm stolen Alistar ulti means he's totally unafraid of any sort of a counterattack
Now just also continuing to try to chase this Scout got knocked back over the wall
He misses the absconded
But void seeker from all the way in mid lane
Kyle is the one getting the paycheck
And Scout is way more brave than I am, because I always look as like Weiwei's on bot side, there's no way they're ever going to go in, and Scout just bops himself into the middle of three members of DK, and is like, I got this, it's fine, but it worked out, so great call in the bluff.
I mean, that's the power though of Alistar on the enemy team, as soon as you see Alistar, you just take his ultimate, okay I'm trending here for the next eight seconds.
Sure, I'm not going to die, 1v3, I think they're going to need two more if they want to try to kill him.
Yeah, now I'm Alistar with damage.
Yeah, now it's scary.
All right, nice stuff from LNG here so far in game number one.
We've got another Drake secured for them.
We've got 50 seconds until Baron rears his head on the map.
Yes, it is an LNG lead, but I'm not exactly expecting
a 20 minute Baron attempt or anything of the like,
unless we get another big explosive fight beforehand
that really decided the goes one way.
Yeah, much more looking for LNG to try and set up
their vision so they can get a really good dive fight.
That is not having to go under towers.
You know, it's a pretty good defense available mid lane here for DK.
Their mid lane tower is still very healthy.
They still have their flash on showmaker flash on aiming.
And those are the two that you're really looking at those critical summoner spells
on DK that if those get blown early, it's kind of step one.
And then step two for LNG, just the full send on their dive.
So showmaker and aiming right now have been doing very well.
Even though they're in the gold deficit, it's mostly in...
Oh, scout.
Oh, hold on now.
TP coming in for LNG.
Scout might be a little bit too far forward.
Seals away the Malkai ulti, which means he doesn't have the tankiness from the Alistar that he would like to have.
Scout jumping back into the baron pit, flashing back over the wall, barely staying alive.
Mom roars in!
Scout steps to the left.
He lives. He walks away for now.
But that was audacious from the LNG midlaner.
Yeah, I did not expect that one to be going the way it scared.
I thought he was going to fall there way too deep and very little vision.
And then he got back up, but we're doing it again.
TP blank, we're doing it again.
This time, it's the Crocodile, Mohawk,
trying to get away from Hong off to the side.
Zika does not want to just jump in there with two-thirds HP.
Gala's also removing the Rift Throw from the Tier 2 Turbid at the same time.
So you don't actually get the Tier 2 Terror off the charge because of that play.
Everyone backs away to respect Zika.
So it kind of works out weirdly for LNG in that one.
But the other one is DK and M&A need to move down to this bottom side
because this 1-4 setup that they've been using,
with King and on a side lane and trying to use Shoemaker with Amy
to threaten the tier two tower,
has kind of netted this opportunity for LNG
to continuously push insides with the stronger 1-3-1 setup.
Shoemaker on the smolder, currently sitting at 167 stacks.
That's honestly, gentlemen, not a lot for this point in the game.
You're still going to need a couple more minutes to hit that 2-25 sweet spot.
as now LNG might have themselves another opportunity out of play.
They will not be able to catch up that enemy Alistar,
but aiming's in a lot of trouble.
Flash for the rootless predator and Gala's on a killing spree.
TP arrives too late from DK to do anything about it.
With the enemy zigs down, with his flash blown,
it's problems for DK.
Beautiful engage coming out from hung as LNG follows up
and a moe in secret finds the heart of Moham.
DK just collapsed and LNG
Hit him right in the ribcage!
And that's going to be a Baron as well on top.
The cherry on top of those two plays for LNG.
They're going to blow this game wide open with Baron buff
and the five grubs.
They should actually be able to take a ton of towers.
I mean, I just think I just heard the words fatality
off the back of that one.
LNG, that was really the punch that they
needed to make things happen.
And a great engage off the back from Bung as well,
because this is a value that has been criticized quite a lot
for just not having the best of moments but when this guy has his high highs he
is such a strong support and you get to see it with Engage off the back here.
And this one you see hitting the void seeker gala immediately right in there
and Zika again another big play from him. Beeman will get this first kill but
then it's really second one that you're kind of highlighting and is that
re-engage even under tower he goes straight for it. Bungzai will get the
lock up and there's no real threat that's gonna force them off because
Olaf is top lane pushing out so LNG are like whoa you are stepping up even even under your tower is a little bit too close
Too far forward man
Yeah, you can even see like the Alistar was stolen again
I was like we can take this for days we're gonna be flying going underneath this tower so DK now
For very firmly on the back foot with very little Detroit more than likely gonna have this top terror be the main focus for
LNG to push out and then start to set up a ton of vision in the enemy jungle
You've already seen existing on the bottom side of your screen, or bottom side of the map, but I think this is where ILNG, this 1-3-1, it's going to be such a threat for DK.
Ah, we're at Worlds, we get to see some Hagala, Kaisa is already sniping, three item power spike with a full dive team right in front of him.
This one looks like, unless DK pull out some crazy magic, it is going to be very, very difficult for them to pull game number one back at least.
Thankfully, we are into the best of portion of Swiss stage though, so definitely we'll have some more opportunities for DK.
But also, I think it's kind of just setting up a very strong point for LNG to say, hang on, no, we are a force to be reckoned with that world.
Because I think a lot of people coming in, we're talking about, hey, you know, there is the top esports, the BLG from the LPL,
there's that drop down to LNG, but they've been looking absolutely spectacular
both in this game so far and also in the game yesterday against BOG so
realistically I think our LNG have come in and said no you have to look at us
now at this world's caliber and say we are a real contender for those top
spots. I mean when you're playing like this you just demand respect right? Like
we're talking about three players who are all still deathless nearly 25
minutes into the game. We're talking about a Banectin that you guys
already touched on it. Yeah we've got an Olaf counterpick that countered nothing. So there's not
really a whole lot going on here and even in the jungle 0-1 and 5 for Weiwei been critical for setting
up a lot of these plays as LNG going to take out that tier 2 turret back in the mid lane 9-3 kill
advantage 5-3 turret advantage 8000 gold ahead they've still got Baron for another 15 seconds
they're gonna use it to try to force the play onto the tier 2 turret top but DK holds the
the line for now. Yeah and the renektin that you mentioned with the over 2,000
gold lead by the way against that kind of detail is hitting inhibitor tower
right now so being unanswered the zig bomb tries to push him off the minions
were still empowered by the Baron though so they didn't all die down there either
and the renektin pressure is going to be relentless while the rest of the team
yeah there's not a whole lot left to lose in here in the topside jungle as
long as they have the tier 2 it ain't gonna matter now but hold on gala and
and Weiwei are gonna keep pushing the issue further forward.
Over the wall, the abscond of duck doesn't catch anybody else
and Scout and Hong are gonna try to get back away.
Zika's showing up for the reinforcements
but Kingin' already takes Hong out of the picture.
Zika signing 1v3 on the frontline
but he has to disengage back into the jungle now,
here to the rest of the team.
LNG, they are smelling blood in the water
but DK wants to stay the hell out of the pool.
DK retreated to the castle.
They drew up the drawbridge and were like,
no, you don't get in here.
So LNG, this Quad Melee composition
couldn't get over the wall and they're just getting free hit the entire time so DK get to hold on for the moment
They get Zungo back, but LNG still continue to rock
Yeah, they hold on for the moment
So we'll see how long that continues because they absolutely
Deleted it lucid here and then yeah
They go a little bit deep and give one back
But still are gonna be able to return to their same pressure can't get over that wall
They take a lot of damage on the way out because of the zigs and the harassment from the smolder
You know DK the smolder is something we should touch on as far as you know these comeback hopes even though the comeback is going to be difficult
showmaker continued stacking up and 241 so
You know pretty pretty close pretty nice there for him as well as the double item power spike starting to come in
It's really when you finally get your rapid fire though, and you get the extra range
that those hopes will really start to bloom.
I do think we've seen a difference in the way DK
approached this motor though when we look at like Chovy
or someone else who picked it up because it has very much
been a case of hey we are sending you to a side lane,
you are picking up every stack that you possibly can.
Whereas oftentimes you've actually seen Showmaker
grouped with a team like this,
he doesn't go off to a side lane.
And I think a lot of that has been trying to hard force
onto a mid lane play, but it does mean that the stacks
have been hurt as a result.
So this motor hasn't really come online
as quickly as you'd like to.
And LNG now are getting to play through that fact
and really bully with the go-to that they have.
Yeah, the control that LNG have now over this game
won 27 and 1 half minutes in cannot be understated.
Baron spawns in about 45 seconds.
And then another 45 after that, you've
got what will be the soul drake for LNG also going to spawn.
Yes, it's a Kimsoul.
That's usually not the one that you would want.
But it is just extra power built in.
It is more to just push you over the line,
get you to that Nexus, and get you to the next game.
LNG focused on the topside River though with Baron beating that objective spawning sooner as Lucid and Moham gotta be careful man
They are so far behind one misstep one face check that you shouldn't have checked is instant lights out
Oh, hang on. No, yeah, never mind fight starting off
Wait wait jumping to the back immediately going after aiming lots of flashback of the ball trying to stay safe
This way way is gonna get bursted down by mom for the steroids
Even alive for a second showmaker gonna kill on that one as King is scrapping and fighting back against LNG
Sika has to try to get away, stay alive on the Syriza zone as Gala is going to be taken down at 1.30 p.m.
He's going to continue retreating back to his own jungle. L and G have lost a man and killed no one on DK.
DK standing strong, starting up the Baron, but L and G is still here. Scout looking for the opportunity to go back in.
He steals the Alistar onto your way and now he's jumping on top of Lucent. Kill the jungler. Kill the Baron.
It's that easy.
Mohawk trying to get back away now as well as Zika wants to go in for a pit from a pat,
but Gala with a beautiful shot takes out the enemy support.
Jungle in support on DK down.
LNG, still in the driver's seat.
DK got a little too hyped on their comeback potential there,
and they're like, showmaker hit 250.
Oh, we can go, we can go, we got some kills,
but way too much to go over towards Baron,
and then Scout able to use the stolen Alistar Ultimate
and another snipe from Gala.
But this was such a sick turnaround for Mohan, because I want to watch as he engage comes through here,
flashing in to interrupt Hong, making sure that Hong can't get that big crash down,
then sets up for DK to play in this choke point.
Gala can't step forward because there's so many things that are just being tossed in his direction,
and that's that slow fight them playing through King and on this ulti and Olaf to tear through LNG,
but right as you called it, Kobe, it's Scout going, hang on a second, there's a cow still here,
and I have ultimate available, so he just immediately goes,
Thank you very much. I'll take that lucid your first to fall and even watching Zika again putting pressure on towards aiming
Means that he doesn't really have a position to try and follow up despite how low scout goes on the back of this end
Guns out cows gone
It's another team fight victory for LNG two point seekers in a row from Gallo right on to the Alistar
That Alistar was actually more of a help to LNG
Stolen ultimate and then kill him off with a couple of snipes there really nicely done from LNG to kind of
stabilized. What was possibly the first step in a big DK comeback. So I think DK though they're
still looking at that defense. It is very difficult when you're facing a team like this that has
so much dive potential. As you can see, a really good toggle of vision here by the observers,
but you're gonna have to expose yourself if you want to keep them off of this Baron. And so
they slowly move up trying to use the Maokai sapling temporary vision for themselves.
Well, the Baron might not have got claimed, but with the Dragon Soul now in the possession of LNG,
their combat power is that much more intense.
We're already talking about how powerful Scout is with this stolen Alistar ultimate.
Now, when below half he's going to have even more of that damage resistance, even more threat.
It's so scary for DK at this point, with the topside River being totally controlled by LNG,
sitting on the control wards, waiting for their opportunity to go in.
Scout immediately stealing away the Maokai ulti.
But I do think DK have read the situation well.
LNG need Baron to close at this game.
Against Shoemake or against Aiming,
these waves are never getting close to a Terror that you can actually take,
especially with four melee members and a Kaisa.
That Terror does not get tickled.
So, this is why LNG are starting it up.
They need this objective.
Kaisa with a Deathcap 2, off Bear is scared of that thing.
Okay, let's see.
Is DK also scared of an LNG?
Look at the force down the Bear and Weiwei loses his...
Was that the Starec to go there?
Never mind, that was his allied shield.
Okay, I was worried there for a second.
We're doing good here for LNG as they are now up just shy of 10,000 gold that got the Baron secured.
Degi, you already pointed it out. This thing is imperative for ending the game, so these next two minutes and 40 seconds from LNG need to get some work done.
I think they should be able to do that too. We mentioned the deathcap here, that's going to mean that, oh, we're so scared of this rapid fire smolder or not.
Actually, our poke is insane too with the Kaisa poke that can come out.
So it really transforms from like oh full dive comp LNG to just hey
We have a lot of options to punish you if you go anywhere
You know out else on the map that's not under your towers, but we also have some poke options ourselves here
Man LNG is just totally in control the whole enemy jungle now
It is dark in there if you are playing from the DK side
Scouts just gonna shoot off that mouth coyote that was stolen earlier use it to help get this wave shoved up
They still want to pressure so many different points at once.
You can see Zika up in the top lane looking to take care of the last couple of hits onto that tier two.
They couldn't grab earlier.
So now that one's out of the picture.
They'll try to pressure three different lanes at once.
Scout using his TP to rejoin back for the rest of the team as Kingen versus Zika.
The 1v1 on the top side with the remaining four players of either team fight over the tier three turret back in the mid lane.
Zika continuing to try to shove as LNG's wave is cleared out back in mid.
All you're looking for is LNGs to try to land this poke as Gala.
See if you can try and force him an off and you do have the back, she's available, big framey which makes it big tough, but
trying to dive could be a bit scary, could showmaker has that Zika's arm card, but
King and, they're in Rolf now after a great combo from Zika.
Yeah, King and not loving this situation as the tier 3 turret's gonna be killed in both top and mid lane at the same time.
Zika pops the Dominus, looks to rotate over to the greater fight, they're gonna lock up Moham here for the very start of Scouts, deals with the unbreakable will.
He's so tanky, they're on the front line.
Mega Inferno Bomb doesn't do a thing.
Mid lane inhibitor down, top lane inhibitor exposed.
LNG still doing just fine as DK scrambled to try to defend.
And then teleporting right back in.
Gala jumps in with a killer instict.
He wanted to go out for showmaker,
but he ain't gonna find him.
He stays alive with the extra bit of time from the stasis.
Kingen's on the front trying to hold these guys off,
pushing a couple of hits into hunger.
And it ain't gonna matter.
Scout steals away another.
Malkai, ulti.
LNG with two inhibitors down in the enemy squad.
Can't take any of their push forward, Moa barely stays alive,
Wait wait, getting himself back out of the fight, he's trying to stay alive but it ain't gonna work out,
It's too bad for the side of LNG, but Zika, Scout, and Gala are still pushing.
The minions are finally gonna get cleared away and DK's looking for a little bit of extra punish,
But they ain't gonna find anything here just yet, the game goes on.
That last auto attack from the cannon minion though, gets one of the nexus turrets.
Scout, is he finished yet though, still hovering around, considering since he has that zigzolt that he could do some serious damage,
but LNG rouse it, they are pushed back, but every single time they come knocking at this castle,
more and more these structures are falling. And more and more LNG convincing us of their dominance
in game number one. They still have the dragon soul, they've got two inhibitors down so it should
be an easy repeat here. With the extra pressure of two inhibitors down, that elder dragon that's
about to spawn as we will go back to live shortly is going to be pretty easy for them
to set up a dangerous situation for DK, but here is that defense that you're going over.
Weiwei had another good by ultimate there, even as they were trying to disengage him
to make sure they could get that kill, but they still get the chase off.
DK, defend for now, and so we'll go back to live and see about the setup for that
elder dragon that's going to spawn.
They have to deal with double lines of super minions, plus the big gold deficit, plus no vision leading up to that area of the map.
So, only 13 seconds on the clock, LNG should be able to set up like a death trap here, leading over to the big objective,
and DK gonna have to pull out some magic again if they want to stay in this one.
Because it's definitely not scary to face check a body, solid, it's productive.
Not even a little.
Yeah, not even a little.
Yeah, it's fine. Easy. Easy as you like, you know?
It's such a scary place to be man because when the elder is up, you know if you give it away you instantly lose
But if you face check up rush on the way there you also instantly lose
DK trying to take the long way around wrap up from the bottom lane
They shoot mom out just because they think what if LNG is already on the objective?
They weren't but now the smolder ulti no longer being available for the upcoming fight puts DK again another
Disadvantage Zika still hanging around and waiting it's way way and gala DPS thing the elder just by themselves as a two-man unit
That's Humb's gonna run interference, looking to keep everybody else away with a crack down to the Magnus Storm.
Zika's waiting to follow it up, they got the elder, and they're looking to tear through DK!
The remaining four players trying to get out, but it ain't gonna matter.
Scout's got an unbreakable will, and LNG's got unbreakable lines!
Moham will be the next to die as a double kill for Gala, will steal their fate!
Scout goes on a rampage, one goes back, but it will not matter!
Ace for one!
Game 1 is going the way of Hell in G.
They'll push down that last Nexus turret.
They'll make a statement 18 to 8.
And L and G is up 1-0 in the first promo series
to the quarterfinals.
Scouts, deathless, Gala, deathless.
L and G on top 0-1 in their favor,
taking the game number one.
DK's speechless. That was an incredible performance from LNG.
The fact that they were able to control so much of it, even when DK tried to put threat on them was...
It was just next to nothing.
Beautifully, beautifully done by LNG in this first best of three that we're getting to see here in the Swiss stage.
They are fighting man. They are ferocious. This team is so fun to watch.
Certainly is. I mean, Shomeka even with the Medjai, or Scout even with the Medjai's there,
guys there keeping that one alive keeping it stacked up very exciting game
number one yeah I think especially when you're looking at like I think we need
to go back to draw more for showmaker I don't think this motor was this but I'm
very excited to see what they come back with when they go towards their style
yeah I would love to see showmaker on something that can make some more
plays right small is great for scaling like you're talking about you know
you gotta get into those stack points though you got to make sure you're
giving him too many resources he can't just walk up to the fight and
abandon farming since it's the whole point of the character and LNG did a
Great job playing around it. We're going to be back for game number two here shortly.
But first, we're hitting the break. Catch you back here. Rip win.
I think I've been thinking a lot about becoming a pro player for the first time in my life.
This is my first time in my life, and if I get a good result, I think I'll be able to gain a lot of confidence in my future career.
I think I'll be able to do better in the future, and I think I'll be able to gain a lot of confidence in my future career.
I want to say thank you for always cheering for me.
I'm going to be a better player in the future, so I hope you continue to cheer for me.
I'm not sure if I can get to the top 3, but I can get to the top 3 before that moment.
The opponent is very determined to win the match.
We are all safe.
Listen to your brain.
I know.
I'm the top laner of LNG.
I'm very happy to win the LCK.
For the World Championship team,
we are all new.
We are almost the same in any team.
The most important thing is to see who grows faster, our design is better.
We are very strong in our own way.
Because of our team, we are not willing to give up.
We are more willing to give up the team of YSG.
I will make them happy and I will increase my mood.
I don't think you're not the team that usually goes for this boss.
Bro, block by on. Here we go.
The engage, but it's on as he jumps in the backline, but isolated his tongue at the bottom.
I think that in terms of individual aspects, our players are all very strong.
But in terms of the team, there are more versions of understanding that need to be strengthened.
I think that 3-0 might be resting for a long time.
And the opponent will also be very few.
The chance of being trained will be very few.
So I don't think it's going to be a good thing.
we will be stronger in the next game, and we will have more confidence in the finals.
with the preparation, the strategy I expected DK to bring in.
And while some parts of it worked out really well for them,
when Push came to shove, it fell apart pretty damn quick.
What did you not like?
Showmakers spent the entire year complaining
about playing AD Champions, how it doesn't fit
his playstyle, how it's not what he wanted to do.
And then he comes out on stage in his first best of three,
and he plays kind of the only ranged AD champion
that has seen success.
And I get it, Gen.G did it, but it doesn't line up
at all with how DK have found success in the past.
And not only that, I've read and watched
Five interviews at least where showmakers said,
I don't want to play this, I don't like it.
I adjusted late because I didn't want to play it
because I was hoping that it would get patched out
and here we are and he's playing it anyway.
It's like you're going on a diet
and you're saying I'm not eating any more cakes, okay?
And then all of a sudden there's a cake there
and it is so perfect.
No, no, no, no, no.
And it has like chocolate.
No, it's like he's having cake the way.
You don't understand.
It's like he had, he wants cake.
Cake is now available and he's like, no guys,
I'll stick to salad.
It's like, bro, the cake is there.
No, Smulder is definitely a cake.
No, it's salad.
Nobody likes Smulder.
Smulder is a necessity.
Smulder is not joy.
No one goes, oh, yeah, I'm going to sit there and do less
damage than everyone in the game.
Smulder is protein.
We've got to abandon this storyline.
There was a very important sequence in this game,
but really, I think, broke the game for Diplos Kiev.
Whether or not Smulder was a salad or cake,
they were in a pretty good position to win this game.
So we can start rolling this clip.
And I just want to highlight,
this is what really kind of broke up in the game.
Moham actually hits the vision plant.
He had full vision on what was going on over here.
He sees the Vi.
He reacts very late on the retreat.
Kingen comes in to try to bail him out.
And then again, if we could pause here,
Highlight aiming.
He saw Gala walking over the ward.
He decides to come in and actually start harassing him,
trying to keep him away from this play.
So it's all coming off of this initial play
that Moham saw with full vision.
Aiming knows that Gala's here.
We roll this out.
Moham loses his flash, loses his ult.
Aiming was not aware of the fact
that Zika was coming in from below him.
he gets killed, then that gets worse as showmaker here uses his E to actually chase in towards
the brush knowing that all five are there.
Like this to me was crazy.
It's a comedy of errors here from DK, where unfortunately they lost their minds a little
bit and everyone comes in and is trying to bail out your opponents and bail out your
teammates from that mistake that they made.
And this is something that is kind of one of those bad habits where you over commit
to a play.
You're like, oh, shock to me, Snake.
So I got to make up for it.
like, oh well, I made a mistake so I gotta make up for it and then they're just like running in there.
I don't make mistakes so I don't know.
You're right, you're right. You're probably fair for it.
Which we could say the same about DK because it was frustrating because the entire early game,
they were disciplined, they used their pressure, they set up vision before they made plays
and then it all just came crumbling down.
Hey, we had a whole point still about kind of meta reads and melee comps and versus
and scaling comps and range and whatnot so since we couldn't say it, you could just
guess what we wanted to say back to the casters. You guys should guess casters.
Don't worry Shox we got y'all down right over here.
From your brain to our brain to all y'all's brain up there at home
we got the brain game going on and we got another game going on right now
and that game is game number two here between DK and LNG.
LNG came out swinging in this first one man.
I love the Silas pick into the Alistar.
I did not love the way the Olaf turned out on the other side.
I did not love the smolder for Showmaker.
felt like we wanted to see him on something
with a little bit more personal agency.
So I'm curious how the draft is going to adapt now
in our second game.
Yeah, I mean, we're seeing little adaptation
these coming into these first few bands,
with Silver, the Rumble.
Well, they're next to it, as well as being taken away
from Zika this time around, saying, hey, look,
we don't want King and Daphne to try and deal with that
and go back towards the Ola.
But still, I think the change needs
to come through how DK approached the early game,
because it felt like they just didn't have any sort of push
or ability to skirmish, which is where LNG started
to take over.
I mean now they're in a spot where they're double banning Zika on the topside here having to drop a lot of their draft
Priority into that and then still you have to cover Yone
That has just been way way too massive here. So no surprises
It also says the showmaker isn't comfortable because you you are finding this on lose luck
Yeah, it should be a pick that you're happy to just first pick like we see cops go for we see another team to go for
It's just a showmaker doesn't want to go
I mean, we were literally talking about this behind the scenes before the game started today about how Yone feels like it should be a
Parma band phase one red side in this tournament
And if you don't do that or if you banning yourself on blue, you're just announcing. We don't play it
We don't want it. It's not that it's not the name of the game
But that will be banned out alongside the connect and in the rumble that you guys talked about jacks
Nara and Rora being out by LNG first pick of this draft is the vibe
Remember that way way pick that one up bite for LNG in the previous game
So VK gonna snatch it away and so all ready to me that seems like it's going to shut
Showmaker up for one of those AP you know threats that people want to see from him
Rather than the AD carry so really high priority there kind of translates into a better pick for showmaker
I think as well. So we'll see what the response is here from LNG very quick
interesting if you go for a Camille blind and so early like Zika is just so
confident I mean this this tournament already is having an explosive start but
locking in Camille plus this adwani threat here is is great great pick
potential this was the pick that Zika made his name on when he initially joined
IG for his first year in the LPL he was a monster threat on the sidelines
now this has been something that he's been able to find the greatest successes
on since he's come into allergy they've kind of moved away from split
push into, hey, we want you more on the renektas and the casantes and these kind of things,
but this is giving a lot of trust as they're saying, we know you can be king and go back
to your comfort and let's land that home.
Well, also, we're talking about how it's blind and it was fast slam for being first
pick of the draft.
But when you look at the bands, it feels kind of like blind with an asterisk on it
because you know Jax, Nar, Rumble, Renekton, four out of six of these first bands being
used on the top lane does eliminate a lot of things that you otherwise might expect
to potentially be there, but it's Ziggs and Poppy locked in for DK, expecting to see aiming
back on that Ziggs here again as Weiwei is playing the Sejuani this time. Remember that
in the game number one draft, it was the Kaisa locked in as the last pick for the first half
for LNG and for Gala, and they're having it here again.
You are playing as the hands of this Poppy a little bit though with the Kaisa lock-in
because that's now three dashing champions that are all potentially stopped by this
a sad fast presence. So I'm a little concerned, especially since you can just pop that Poppy
down to the bot lane for Moham and you should be relatively fine. Still could give it to
King in if you want to, but yeah, I think in this position, this Poppy value is just
starting to go to an all-time high.
Yeah, LNG came in today with a plan and their plan is we're going to dive and we're
going to dive you a bunch. And they slam a bunch of it here again, you know, with
the mobility of Camille and with the ultimate of Camille, allowing them to get side
lane picks, allowing them to get, you know, opportunities for Gala to just jump on in with
back hysa. Looks to be very similar.
I think this is why if you're DK, you have to start looking towards things like Orianna,
the LeBlanc, these things that can facilitate a Camille that is diving in onto the back
line or try and keep multiple of these carries safe. Because if not, I think you're in
a pretty dire situation with the amount of access that you have for aiming them.
How much DK is you're going to keep them safe in the last game?
So the one thing that I always look at when somebody has Camille picked up is
is that you can't get away from Camille's ulti,
but you can get Camille away from her own ulti.
That's the escape, a yeet button.
That's what you can use to deal with the Camille.
Poppy has a yeet button.
Ziggs has a very small one.
It can kind of work if she's at the edge.
But there are a couple of options there
with something like that.
The smolder banned away by LNG,
so they want to make sure they don't have to play
against that eternal stacking here.
Again, even though they beat it in the first game,
they're also going to ban out the Tristana
and the Nautilus banned out by DK.
So are they gonna also ban out like a rail or something here?
I mean, it could be a similar situation.
Since LNG have red side, they have full counter pick
for Scout here.
So they could hide the Sylas again,
and if you let the rail through,
then they pick the rail for LNG.
And then you pick, if you're trying to counter
with Alistar again, then guess what?
You get hit with a Sylas again for Scout.
So it's the decision here,
and it looks like they will let it through.
So they'll let the rail through,
then the possibility of the Alistar answer
the kind of the chain of events there is available.
I do think you just swap Poppy to bot side though and you say hey we're gonna play Poppy
into this rel, she's still fine, the crash tank gets interrupted by the steadfast presence
and then you just end up taking something different from King and so I think you still
have options here.
This would be one that I didn't expect though to come through.
We won't go until we see the timer run all the way out.
Okay, rel locked in now.
I am a big believer in fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.
my fault now all right if they pick the Alistar again and leave this Sylas option open I am
fully laying the fault of that at DK we know how powerful that combo was last game we got
to see scout play like an absolute madman.
I mean over here this is something that we have seen a little bit but I think yeah just
going back towards an Ari something that can kind of set up for alongside this by dive
it's going to be perfect and it does open up again though for Skeletor to go back
towards the Silas. If he really wants to, Silas is traditionally what we saw as an answer into
the Ari and then even the Orianna too. So I think you've still got multiple answers here for scouts.
Yeah. All right. Not going to feed him another Alistar, most likely. Just put the poppy bottom
and let's see what do we got into the Camille here. Is it going to be a lock? That would be a
super fun matchup. I always love Camille versus Fiora. Wait until it's actually locked before
You always got away.
You always got away.
Now, would this ever anything is not Cassante's hover?
It's so fun, though, because of the riposte
and because of Camille wall jump,
and they're trying to put a little bit to the side
so you can still prop, but then not
get hit with the stun.
But we don't even get to go into it
because it would just be another Cassante.
All right, so what's the fun part about Cassante?
Camille, come on.
I mean, Camille wins, really.
I mean, Camille should be advantage.
So, you know, traditionally, I think the Cassante is like a little bit rough into the Camille here as far as really good scaling for the Camille inside lanes and really good setup with a Galio here that counterpicks still used very effectively.
Galio mid, by the way, has been on a recent tear with the full damage build. For solo queue, it has been massive.
The rank 3 guy in Korean solo queue really got a bunch of people playing.
Galio mid was really mating it with the storm surge.
We'll see what build scout goes for here because Galio of course did get the extra health ratio
so you still, you know, can go the more defensive routes but solo queue has had some really nice full damage Galio's going on and I like the look.
Man, Camille, Kalio, such a classic combo.
Hextech ultimatum into the hero's entrance,
especially when you look at both carries on the enemy team.
That's a Ziggs, that's an Ori, that's magic damage,
plus a little bit more magic damage.
Kalio's gonna fly in there and protect Camille,
and it is gonna hurt whoever is locked up in the way.
If the Ziggs and the knockback doesn't work anymore,
you know, it won't work.
Yeah, it's fine to deal with this,
because even if you get the Camille out,
there's still a Kalio coming down too,
So this has suddenly become a far more potent composition and it still does rely heavily though on the kaisa damage
And also then having this can be a get-ahead so that she can one-shot someone in the backline
Because otherwise the ability to have this long-range damage and the disengage options that you do have with the poppy could come back to twice
lng
All righty boys. Let's do it game number two DK wins this one
We get to play one more here in this series, but if LNG takes it they are going straight to Paris from here
They will find themselves locked in for the quarterfinals at Worlds 2024
They are putting themselves in an incredible position to really really be a threat
Really be one of those squads that everybody else is kind of like hey
We don't really want to draw these guys anymore when you head into quarters
Yeah, especially with the versatility that they're showing right like yes
is kind of been going towards these renaissance casantes, but has always had these big carry picks the rumble has looked great from
He's even got that counter pick rise in his back pocket at times as well. So and there's chaos
the Tristana's the Lucians the Galeos the Silas is it just feels like you never know what LNG you're gonna bring out and I think for a
Team that definitely was talked about is having these
Specific picks that they kind of relied on to have these big performances like scouts Lucian like the One I think it's great to see that
First attendee being shown to the world stage
Let's see what we get here as DK is doing a little bit of a late invade in the enemy jungle
Sweeping out a bit of vision long and can you're gonna face-check right to this brush and they both lose bone plating and not a whole lot more
Yeah, they're trying to do the little bit of delay and go in okay
We are getting a scrap here 3v3 at level one sick
I gotta try to get away from them and a little bit faster and then way way both down to half HP third and tofu strike
That's the Sejuani on back, but nobody's really that close to death.
Great that you can see the big raptor going over to Weiwei,
but he didn't get the entire camp aiming there with a 1 CS.
But even getting some there is like a bit of a steal away, you know,
whenever we have the lane swaps and DK trying to go for that invade to push him off
so that they would have the full topside map for Lucid,
but successfully taken away a little bit there by LNG.
Hong just trying to be a nuisance here in mid lane but does not get tackled back close enough to deter it there for the range to shoot.
I'm curious to see what happens now with the supports though because we have seen some changes where for like the light and stuff you would try and match on the bottom side.
You'd have King and then TP to join them and try and play down for this bottom side.
But it looks like both teams are actually more trying to do just that but getting caught up by Hong.
So it looks like LNG just trying to dissuade King in from being able to TP down and pick up this big wave.
Mm-hmm
This is just gonna continue clearing through that enemy jungle here as Amy and King and have the wave about to crash into the turret
Here's your TP coming in way way Hong Zika gala
Everybody's here on LNG moham wanting to show up and try to reinforce
He will not be able to close the distance in time
But he is close enough that no dive is going to happen LNG backs it away
And that's the thing Moham did his job there all you need to boost for King it to get the experience and make the work
He's level three nothing page though. Yeah, Moham jumping in there after way way
He is gonna get stunned up voidseeker fired out, but King and wisely intercepting that one making sure that it doesn't collide with the poppy
Nice little chunk there easy defense DK are able to keep King in full
Experience over here and Zika of course teleporting up to the top side to grab the top side
Experience in the 1v1 that now looking at the minimap
He's actually going a little bit aggressive tried to get in there onto aiming and actually chunked aiming ziggs out a little bit
Meanwhile, the rest of the red side takeaway here for LNG goes according to plan, even with a bit of chunk of damage onto Weiwei, didn't really have to divert their plan at all.
So you could still have to be careful, though he's getting good damage on towards Amy, you can see where Lusit is on the map, because he easily tried to get in behind him, but it's in just above half HP, he should be fine.
But at least getting a good answer on towards Amy at the moment and keeping himself in check in the lane is going to work out perfectly for him.
And they've got the timer on the respawn of these Raptors. Raptors number two here, so they know.
Ooh, Lucid going after Scout, forcing the flash out of him. Summoner spell for Summoner spell there.
The DK's happy to take it, make that Galio more vulnerable.
Yeah, LG know that. Yeah, they could come for our second Raptors, but it doesn't matter if you know.
Nice little bit of damage there, gonna force Scout's flash. Pretty big here for Lucid.
They of course invest their own flash, but trying to get pressure onto the Galio is really big.
Whenever you're running Vi plus Ari, you want to have the level 6 kill potential really be there.
And with now scout on the Galio with no flash, he will certainly be a viable target.
As Zika right now is the target.
Yep, knockback with the satchel charge.
Zika trying to get away there, jumps towards his opponents with a hookshot for the extra distance.
But it does not matter for his blood, I'm not even gonna zing.
So I think Zika was expecting Lucid to try and go for the Q.
I was hoping to flash over, but instead he only ends up flashing into the waiting arms of Lucid and sets up for that kill.
It's so hard versus Poppy, Engles too, because he's like, I don't want to get too close to the wall.
But then if you flash that angle, then you're getting banged into the tower and they still got the stun, setting it up for aiming for Ziggs to get fed.
Now the opposite dive.
Yeah, they want to get this dive onto King and if they can, doing a good job defending himself for now.
Turret shots flying out, but Scouts made his way down to the fight now to 4v1.
Kingen still level 5, nowhere close to being able to go all out, but he knocks him back, doing a beautiful job so far.
Kingen, one man army from DK, he finally falls.
LNG barely stumbling out of it.
Yeah, he got a couple of them low, but he still goes down and Shoemaker could not clean up,
Even with the two low health members, due to the tower, he could not clean up any extra kills.
And he just there hit level 6 as well. That would have been such a big difference if it was slightly faster.
But unfortunately for DK, LNG, even though they had a tough time doing it, they got it done.
Gala flashes back over the wall.
Showmaker with a spirit rush to try to chase him down.
He's all out of charges now, though.
The orb flies out.
Showmaker doing a good job flashing away from the hookshot of Zika,
who does not have his own ulti. The Camille's still only level 5, so that's not going to be a return kill.
I'm now with the map state that it's in. Lucid able to move up towards this topside.
He's going to get the void groups. You push for aiming on towards this top tower as well.
This should fall. So despite it being the top tower, it actually looks like first turret
is going to go the way of DK. This is a much better early game for the LCK representative.
Yeah, aiming up here on the zigs, just destroying this tower. And he was also the one
to get the last hit onto the kill for the first blood that they got on Zika.
So it's gonna be a very, very dangerous Ziggs very early on into this game.
Yeah, there you go. Turn it down.
Ziggs doing what Ziggs does and Kingen now goes all out here with a Cassante chasing after Hung.
And he can just join up with the rest of his team up here in this bottom side river.
Weiwei still working on the Drake. They're level 4, they're half HB for the support and jungler of LNG.
So they got to be a little bit careful here even though they have a massive numbers advantage.
They catch King and he went way too close.
What in the hell are we doing, King?
And that was not the right choice.
LNG getting a punish, and now the fight might just continue.
Lucid wants to try to get away back over the wall.
The ball breaker ain't gonna work.
DK just throwing their man into a blender.
Is that Dragon Pit the Mabruda Triangle?
They're all getting lost in there.
What in the heck are they doing, flowers?
That's so freaking cool!
I'm so confused.
I was like, oh, this is really cool.
Kegan's getting some nice damage down.
They're just making it awkward for them.
And like, oh, I'm going to have to reset.
So then you can play it on the map.
And then he just kind of keeps going.
And I'm looking at the mini map.
I'm like, Vy's not there.
Poppy's not there.
This is 2v4.
Like, this is not where you want to try and take this.
But I'm sure they get the damage on Hong,
but this is such an overextension.
Yeah, you can tell.
The call is trying to lay them.
Hey, we're on the way.
We want to try and punish them.
We want to catch them.
But then, not only does our Kasante die,
but then Lucid dies for a control ward inside the Dragon Pit.
The Dragon Pit where the Dragon had already been taken,
nonetheless, so two free ones there.
I mean, I'm very happy to get that extra money
because DK had been building such a good advantage
in this early game.
Their Ziggs game plan was going full steam ahead.
He already got his Ludens so much money
with the isolated tower gold, plus the first blood money.
It had been going so incredibly well for DK.
And you might look back at those couple of kills
that you gave away really early on into the game
and really, really regret those.
We'll see, though, if LNG are able to get their dive
game plan going.
We now have our level sixes for both the Galio
as well as the Camille.
So our possibilities of the traps,
that kind of goaded combo that you look for
is going to be operational.
Man, that was not what DK needed.
They were three grubs ahead.
I mean, totally, they still are three grubs ahead.
It just doesn't feel as good after the blunder there
in the Drake pit.
Nine and a half minutes into the game.
Second set of grubs spawns in 60 seconds.
And I would say your game plan of the Fed Ziggs
is still going really nicely.
Already rotated into mid lane here,
can easily destroy these minion waves,
keep up the early push, allow you then to set up your play
as the Rip Failed is about to spawn.
Push mid wave, get everybody over there.
Top tower's already dead.
They already pushed out top wave.
So you even though things like this happen,
you have to get right back into focusing on the next step.
And I think the fact that you've got this setup for him,
and then fights is perfect as well,
because Lucid, the immediate follow up with that ultimate,
that's why we often saw this experience
with things like Noddler support,
because it just gives them the fire at will
on this specific spot and you will murder someone.
So I think for DK, the likes have been able to lock down
Gala, potentially even just take Zeke,
Zika out of a fight, makes these upcoming scraps
significantly easier.
So how do you need to pull off some kind of magic
to make these next few fights go in their favor?
Yeah, and they should be able to set up nicely
for that second pack of grubs that we're looking towards.
They get the recall off for Ziggs as well.
So gets another purchase and looking at the,
the sick stack of grubs would be very nice for them.
You know, their bottom tower here is very close to going down and three members of LNG are coming to try and make sure of that.
Yep, we got another telepark coming in to try to turn this into a very one-sided fight.
It's another bad experience for King and around the bottom lane, 0-3 and 0 on Kasate in this game.
I think that's a great call from LNG because they're like, fine, you can have the next pack of grubs off of your push on top side, off of your push in mid lane,
but we're gonna know that you're taking those grubs
and make a play on the other side of the map.
I think it's always one of the most critical skills
in League of Legends that really separates the top teams.
Hold on now, another one of those skills
is up time when you can find it.
Beautifully done from DK, but a nice interruption
as Ellen, she wanna get that counter attack now
on Lucid who tries to escape off to the right,
but it's not gonna do a whole lot.
You would have to thank Lucid.
Still staying alive for now.
Still trying to get himself back away.
One more punch from Scout, he's gonna get it down as Hung gets slammed back into the wall there with a poppy, but a DP's coming in.
There's your glacial present, there's a double killback from Scout, there's Zika making his way into the fight as Kingen goes unstoppable with his reinforcement for the fights already finally done!
LNG fighting back after Galaga, no!
It looks so good for DK, that was the combo that we were just talking about where you can annihilate Gala, but just end up going that little bit too far forward.
Lucid gets caught and every member of LNG comes out of the woodwork to try and turn that one around.
I was about to say, before that happened, one of the most critical skills of being a good team
is knowing when to just let something go and take something else instead.
But LNG was not willing to let Gala go on a bench and they hit right back.
Even with the scrappiness of this game, even with the chaos that does bloom out of this game,
you still have the one constant and that is the Ziggs taking towers.
Yes, sir aiming got right back to duty aiming is the one staying focused here for DK as usual
You know he is going to be the real consistent damage for them as it gets later
Scout immediately greeting showmaker with some damages he teleports in I was gonna say the the tank
Gallio doesn't really hit as hard as you kind of hope for
It's kind of like oh you take no at my elf, but I also take none of yours
So good day sir will back away
but they went back away towards this dragon, which is working out well for them.
Yep, Zigg can try to see if he can just put some pressure on towards Moham,
but he cannot defend his top tower by himself, but the wave isn't quite in position.
So last game where we had more of an even spread of the neutral objectives,
Grubbs didn't all get 6-0, the first two Drake's went 1-1.
This time around it's all Grubbs over to DK, both Drake's over to LNG.
The soul this time is more valuable as well, being a mountain soul,
particularly against a Ziggs who's going to be spamming out that poke,
Look, how many extra shield to just resist
some of that consistent long range damage
could go a long way.
So I'll be very interested in tracking and noticing
how DK is going to respond to the future dragon attempts that
come out from LNG, especially considering
how effective Ziggs can be at those neutral standoffs.
Yeah, I mean, on the flip side, though,
you still have a Ziggs with six grub buff, right?
So you have to be so careful here as LNG
about how you set up, because the second Ziggs
goes onto a turd.
That turd's gone.
And I think at the moment, they're
doing a decent job of moving scout into positions
where he is kind of being the defensive side laner,
where you have Ziggs being the offensive side laner
and having people like Weiwen hung play towards them.
As long as they can keep that
and you can continue to carry these waves,
they should be fine,
but one misstep and DK can rip so much gold off the map.
Yeah, especially because so much of their gold
is from plates and turrets themselves.
That the Ziggs has been able to get for DK.
So we'll see about the setup now
as everybody heading over towards top river.
So I feel like we might get a nice little scrap here.
Yes, sir. Rift Herald has spawned LNG, the five-man play going in.
They find the Glacial Prison, but it's only under Moham.
How much do they want to commit to this?
Looks like the whole kitchen sink should be a one for one, though.
Hung barely getting away.
Showmaker finally going to finish it, but Lucid's going to drop next.
3v4, aiming is still alive.
Kingen trying to cut off Zika.
Hero's entrance, looking to back up that top.
Later, it was Kingen who's once again in a bad spot.
He has to flash to try to escape, but it's scouted back over the wall.
LNG doing a beautiful job at the fist of Scout
finds the forehead of aiming.
And that one is going to be a clean fight for LNG.
The Galio punches are very satisfying.
Oh, yeah.
That was actually a beautiful kind of dissection
of the fight from LNG.
They cut off both members here.
As you see, Galio ultimate used up to the top side
and then jumping right back over the wall.
Yeah.
And it was just a great setup because you
You see this left fast presence go down which means that Zika is just waiting for the follow-up there threatening Lucid so Lucid can't go in.
Once Lucid does, the immediate ult from the Camille means that he can't really threaten out towards the backline.
And then Kobe is he just highlighted, just split up here. Gala staying away from the wall so King can't really get him into position.
Weiwei getting that knock-up. You've got Scout who's peeled now for Showmaker and happy to take the brunt of that damage thanks to having that hollow radiance and the M-War from that alongside flashing over the wall to finish off.
They mean beautiful stuff from LNG.
Yeah, I love it.
You know, Scout, he protects the top side with his ultimate,
then he flashes over to get the taunt and combo
on the big threat of DK, and finally
allowed them to take down aiming.
And like, Scout has just been so good for this team.
You can see why they really wanted him here.
White Gala himself even spent his own personal money
along with some of his old teammates
to really help Scout get here.
And he's paying them back in gameplay.
He's paying them back in gameplay and we're paying them back in gold as well.
We were talking about aiming being the win condition, aiming being up 1,500 gold.
Look at the bottom of your screen right now.
That blue number says 136.
The lead for the Ziggs has evaporated compared to Gala, who on this Kaisa.
We saw it in game number one.
This dude can tear through the enemy team.
The build, not the same as what we saw in the previous game,
going for the Kraken Slayer this time, working towards that rageblade here yet again.
but once he gets online, when you've got this galeo
and this Camille working with you, chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga.
That's the dive train and it's leaving the station.
But this is the champion Gala made his name on.
This is the pick that he was associated with for so long.
The ability to have these big playmaking moments,
understand exactly what he needs to go in with a killer instinct,
and even pick numerous pentakills on the champion.
So it's kind of been comfort for him
over the course of this series.
And he's getting to show back why he's so feared,
both domestically and internationally for his Kaisa play.
Okay, so let me ask you guys, this game early on,
started off way better for DK than the first game did,
and then just fumble on the ball over and over and over,
we can get now played by LNG.
How do they stabilize this
and try to take it themselves to a game three?
I do think a huge amount of it has to be a combo
between Lucid and Amy, just trying to lease Gala
off the map, and then you can deal with Zika by himself
with just the amount of CC you have,
because the build that Scout's going,
He has the HoloRadiance already, he is tanky, but the damage behind that profile isn't quite there yet.
So as long as you can deal with one threat in Gala, it becomes significantly easier to deal with the other threat, which is Zika.
Yeah, I completely agree with you. It's either like Lucid and Aiming ult's coming over, or Lucid and Showmaker dashing in to make use of that pick.
But it really does count, come down to that Vi ultimate being your biggest tool in actually forcing some picks in your favor.
And you really need to leverage those very early on so that LNG don't get to set up their combo.
But the problem is you've got scoundrel in the Galio, right?
So even trying to get that moment may cost you your lives,
but maybe a sacrificed DK have to be willing to make his third dragon started.
DK, a lot of respect here.
LNG with total control over the bottom side river.
And one of the reasons why they have it is because they dropped the Rift Herald back in mid lane
as a distraction that needs to be answered by DK here at the same time.
Showmaker's gonna step up, but the Mountain Drake is already secured by Weiwei here on the Sejuani.
LNG now at Soulpoint 3, Drake's to nothing.
And when you're running a team like this, that is, based on picking people off and all in sending that dive,
it is really, really, really beneficial to be able to have the threat of Dragon Soul to draw the enemy team out into the open areas of the map,
and then you jump on them with all of your engage.
And I want to go back to what you guys were talking about as your answers to the last question.
How does DK win? How do they stabilize?
The common denominator in those answers was Lucid needs to find a good ulty on a value target.
And we're talking about a guy who's a rookie. We're talking about a guy who when we heard back
from the desk at the top of the day, he has some of those moments where he goes in too hard
or he has like, you know, that young player like lack of experience type of decision making
that can show up in some of these high pressure situations. So the way I'm looking at it from
from here. The pressure is on for this young jungler from DK to show that he's got what
it takes to find those angles and find a moment that might be able to still save him in this
series.
Remember last night when his Vi goes really deep into the ash there with the ult, it
gets kind of taken up for a ride all the way into enemy team. You know they still win
the game and everything, but those are the ones where you go a little bit more far
than you kind of bargained for. But it's critical to also like pull this play off
in transition, you know, so that LNG don't get to use their full combination of a team.
And right now, LNG are actually splitting them across.
They're going to be able to have bot side push with Zika.
His flash and his teleport are both ready on the Camille.
So he gets bot lane push first while the rest of the team is able to transition
down from mid lane to secure jungle.
Trying to go into Moham, not going to be able to get him.
But LNG is a team that has struggled when it comes towards actually playing
out of maps they didn't know 1 3 1 are these split push scenarios so I'm gonna
keep my eyes on how they start to play this one out at least getting these
earlier checks they haven't played relatively well on scale kind of hovering
to create a little pressure but you still need to see these turrets really
start to fall and in watching LNG with a lot of LPL teams I feel like LNG is
very good and methodical when they've got these nice leads and they've got
everything that they need set up they're the ones with their nice
gold lead already they already have control over this entire bot side
jungle leading up to Dragon. It's important that you get those words out early so it makes
it easier as the Dragon gets closer and closer to set up the next ones and they're even teleporting
down there.
But this is the player that is going to say that traditionally LNG fell back onto when
they had these flip pushes which is overloading these lanes with Scout and Zika and then
using Zika as a tech TP back to try and play off elsewhere. But DK have read this.
Yeah, Showmaker and Lucid both around here. Mega Infernal Bomb used to just clear
the wave, Scouts Justice Punch gets interrupted so then he has to flash to try to escape with
a nice charm from Showmaker to lock him up and LNG is going to get punished immediately.
The bi-out to stop the hero's exit, beautifully done there to ruin the game plan of their opponents.
DK showing that they're still paying attention here in the bottom lane.
Great read from DK.
This is kind of a set play that LNG has used a couple of times as it just hops over
the wall where they will try and just overload one side lane where they have these
see the advantages to make some sort of magic happen and you've always got Scout
who can use his ultimate to get back alongside Zika with the TP but DK were
aware of this they already had Lucid moving into position as that wave was
about to crash and it's a great turnaround for DK. It's a huge moment our
eyeballs were just all on Lucid and him being able to use Vi ultimate to lock
somebody down and they have showmaker there and they they make the play so
very nicely done for them nice little punish but it doesn't completely
change the direction of the game because all of the set-up work that LNG had done is still pretty much true
They still have their deep wards in the jungle leading up towards the dragon
So they can still set up nicely here as it's now only one minute away
And this is gonna be a very early soul fight
The big thing that I'm looking at here is scout not only dive
But he did lose both summoner spells the TP committing to be there as well as the flash trying to escape
So neither one of those tools will be available for this upcoming soul fight
and if LNG ends up getting forced off, or even if they decide to fight forward and they lose by a small margin,
that could be a big difference maker.
I think this is where we will see LNG just go for terror takes though.
They're having an awful time breaking these turrets because Aemian just sits in mid,
clears out the waves all day, and showmakers have been doing a very similar job,
matching wherever Zyphus is trying to put pressure on the map.
So in this situation, I wouldn't be surprised to see them look for the reset,
lean in towards this top lane, and just try and take turrets over anything else right now.
Drake 15 seconds away. A little bit of vision from both sides here in the bot side river.
Aiming just continuing to force these waves down. So easy to do it with the Ziggs.
Vision in the pit from Alan Jida with this Drake about to spawn in less than 5 seconds now.
Mohan and Hung fighting back and forth for the vision control in the brushes around the area.
Both teams know how important that control is going to be as DK brings everybody down.
And both Zika and Kingen do have their teleports ready.
ready, Zika's gonna be able to push the wave first there on top side as Dragon gets leashed out.
Good job taking control of that little curved bush in the river by the way.
This one they're fighting over right now. Weiwei clears it out again himself.
That one is so critical for these fights around Dragon. So retaken vision control now by LNG in this bush.
He even keeps trying to reset and I'm sure if he's close to that light of completion
so may want to try and get that in just so he can come in with the TP
but LNG giving up a lot of space here to DK.
I think the fight on top land is actually really important to to be able to see where that goes since it's actually two items for
Zika slight advantage here over King and who hasn't been able to complete and
He's trying to make it work. He does get his teleport off. So LNG they want this soul. They're gonna send everybody
Zika here first LNG with control of the pit
They're gonna pour some DPS into the objective
DK still got to be careful about their approach
But they're gonna be a little bit too little too late mega inferno bomb over the top as they want to try to
get their jungle over in there but instead the counterattack coming out from LNG the
drake is gonna be secured that is Mountain Soul over to the LPL squad as now
they're gonna take the full fight but they gotta be careful second here in the
front line gonna be taking low and barely spot thanks to Sterak's gauge now
the wobble combo the damage back over on the king it's gonna be good LNG still
chasing but Weiwei is at death's door Aemon takes him down and Hong is gonna
be stopped LNG still scrambling to fight a double kill back over to aiming
Make it a triple for the Ziggs!
Scout about to fall!
And the Void Seeker won't get one back!
It's Soul of an LNG!
It's Fight for DK!
In the game, it was also an amazing ultimate from Kingen.
He was actually able to Kassante ult away from the Camille-Galio combo,
and now they can go for the Baron response!
Galah low won't be able to get into this.
DK, yes they gave so, but they might be able to get Baron and take so much more on the map.
And again, this is such a crucial component to LNG.
Actually, they have to take these towers
because of these double AP mages that are just
buffering through these waves.
I want to see the fight again.
Gala here, though, is going to try and fight them off the bar.
And they're still rushing it down.
It's only 3,000 health.
2,000 health.
1,000 health secured by Lucid and DK.
LNG, they wanted to try to get something back.
They even used Scout's TP.
That is now back-to-back TP's from Scout
that have been completely ineffective.
Hong wants to try to stop some backs,
maybe desync them, but it's not even gonna work.
I really wanna see this fight again,
because I believe Kingen,
Cassante ults Camille out of his own ultimate
so that nobody was locked into the Galio combo.
We'll take another look,
because it starts out so nicely for LNG.
They force them off the dragon,
they take the dragon,
then they Camille Galio ults here,
and then it is Kingen takes him out
so that Lucid's able to escape as well
and nobody gets caught in the combination.
The re-engage then, sacrificing his life there as Keen goes in to get the knockback
and they get so much damage out of this league, chunking away with Solo,
and he can flash forward, and he also gets the knock on the hung
to make sure he can get that double kill. Alright, back to live.
Engage from Lucid, going in, tries to find a slam on the Weiwei,
the Senjuani, not anywhere tanking up to survive this, and DK
with momentum barreling down the bottom lane.
They saw Zooka in this topside, so they immediately go for the pick.
They get us, and they resend in from King and to defend this top turret as well.
DK getting a lot of value out of this barren buff and outplaying on the map right now.
This is such an exciting one. Oh my goodness, the comeback possibilities here for DK!
So much gold injected into this team off of that fight.
DK coming back from the precipice of another really bad game state,
And they are now over 4,000 gold ahead.
The Zig's War machine is absolutely pumping damage
into these structures.
Five turrets to two favoring DK.
Dragons are not necessary.
They've got everything else in their control right now.
DK is always so fun to watch.
So much damage coming out here from aiming him.
Still remaining consistent for this team.
Now, you know, he's even over the 2,000 gold lead,
but we also have gold leads for Lucid, for Shoemaker, you know, big, big capabilities here.
And Shoemaker also picking up his arm guard, so big possible plays out of this.
Ari, he's got a two-level lead over Scouts Galio to boot.
Really want to see this pushed to a final and deciding game.
But LNG, of course, are going to be able to still wield the power of the soul that they got.
But I think that Zobozania is starting to be completed for both Aemon and Shoemaker.
just nullifies so much what LNG want to do. We know the combo well. Zika goes in, scout
ult, try and pick someone off, but when their main targets are just going vulnerable for
the entire duration of that, it makes things significantly easier to defend. So LNG, I think
their window of opportunity, they're starting to close in this game unless they get creative,
which looks like they might be on torch only for now.
Thing is for LNG as well, the difference between this game and the last game, look
Look at Gala, last time around he was going with the very heavy AP build, right?
We saw the deathcap, we saw the magic penetration, we saw Nashor's truth, all these things.
This time around it's much more of a fighting, shooting, DPS dive build.
If you're not diving, you're not really doing anything on LNG's side.
And if DK continues building their lead, the dog gets tougher and tougher.
Moham, very, very low, but he still stays alive, critically kingen, trying to also
continue the retreat.
LNG keeps the chase alive, Scout doing a great job, locking up the enemy Cassante.
Sick as somebody killed off Mohamad, meanwhile back in the jungle it's Gala under pressure!
Huge damage coming in! Gala is saved!
Lose up half of the hero's entrance, plus the shielding!
The Kaisa stands tall!
The locket from Weiwei barely keeps Gala alive as that last punch comes in from Lucid
and it just means it's a pick.
LNG saw the TP from Shoemaker on towards mid lane
and saw their chance to bite back against DK.
What a game. What a series man. This is awesome. What a world. This entire event has been sick so far.
Kobe, we flew out at the right time. This is a good series. You're making that lots of feeling.
You got off the plane just in time. Feeling good. Feeling good.
That's kind of why I want to see another one, another game of this, but LNG of course don't want that.
They want the express route into the next stage of Worlds here.
They want to be able to finish out this game and of course the power of the Mountain Soul
is so big in these all in fights where they just get the full commitment, they can make
use of this full shields and they have had lightning quick engages here.
So we'll take a look at the combinations.
You have to of course always keep checking back in on the flashes and most of them
have their flashes back and available.
just of course scout Galio not gonna have his ready.
Well we had a very early dragon soul this game,
the earliest possible one you can get four and zero
but that also means early, early elders.
This buff so often ends the game
and right now bottom river control belongs to DK.
LNG just trying to get their waves pushed up,
trying to be careful on their approach here.
They still have the scuttlecraft vision
in the bot side river but everything else is DK's.
Looks like side lane push acquired here by Zika.
Level 16, now 17 on the Camille as the rest of the team comes to Hover.
That's Ziggs, so huge here for DK.
Zika jumps in for the immediate stun on Kingen.
But Kasante can't really be good target, it can't be the focus for LNG if they want to have a good fight here as DK groups up and exits back towards mid.
Yeah, they're trying to make sure that Skyok can't come in behind them with a big taunt.
Zika trying to wrap around completely out of vision.
Nuzi trying to mark him, it's bottom out, we'll just see him here now.
Okay, they've got eyes on Zika, but now the fight's gonna start off!
Lucid wanted to go in, but it ain't gonna work out here.
Quiet yet aiming forced into the spaces here immediately,
but a massive engage coming up from Hong.
He locks everybody up, but where's the follow-up?
Kingen's gonna die, Gala takes him out.
DK trying to get themselves away.
Zika's still barely alive here at about 25% HP,
back into the drink pit.
Lucid over the wall, still thinking about maybe
trying to fight for it.
Moham at 1.3 HP aiming.
He needs to recall, reset, rejoin the fight here
with a teleport.
The dragon at 6,000 as Hong, against to looking for an angle.
There's your talk of an alpha scout.
Stick up back up the wall and loosen his down.
The charm on Gala will finish him off.
But Shoemaker dies to scout here as well.
Aiming in Mohawk, trying to get themselves back away.
As Weiwei will be left alone here with the elder dragon.
Hong still chasing.
An elder execute would be almost immediate here on the Mohawk.
He's about to take the damage.
The winds of war are blowing.
and they will burn down the house of DK.
Aiming the last man standing,
he's kiting them all the way through the jungle.
They gotta be careful about this one.
The Ziggs is so damn hard to kill,
but they've got so many more men.
Weiwei's still coming back around from the side.
The Elder Jag and Sejuani trying to cut him off.
Aiming with a beautiful mega inferno bomb
to take out the enemy support,
but he pays with it, with his life,
And LNG gonna delay the eggs plus Elder.
It's Amy versus the world against the dragon dup LNG,
but he just can't do it and he can't get it done here either.
LNG play at this fight so incredibly well,
picking off Lucid, immediately turning on
for a showmaker, Zika, buying so much space
on the top side alongside Hong
and the eventual turnaround to pick off the members
of DK.
And that fight is only the second wrap around
after they had already got the first kill.
And the first fight, they actually,
even though they see the Camille coming,
there's nothing you can do about it.
The Camille ult breaks the Vi ultimate
and they still got their engage.
Great follow up from the last one.
It was just a great guess.
Goes down there to the big zig bomb.
All right, back to live.
LNG going after Baron.
And there is no contest on that one.
All right, LNG have elder for another 60 seconds.
Baron for three minutes. They want to try to force a fight if they can while the super buffs are active
Think they just get to set up their waves head
They want the NRC Zooka pushing in that top side the wave was controlled by a showmaker in the bottom end
But a potential play from LNG is always on the cards. Zooka gonna reset
I think he's looking for a TP back in on to play having finished off a GA there
No, I know gonna come back in and reach the on foot topside turret
Yeah, keep your eyes on aiming the whole game is the mills already in
Camille's on the tower! Camille's deleting the tower!
He needed one more hit. I don't think he's gonna find it.
Hookshot to escape in time.
Racial prison over the wall to block any sort of a chase
that DK would have wanted to execute on, as Gala,
now with a space created by Zika in the top lane,
can secure the kill on the Tier 2 back over in mid.
Tier 3 Turret in top, still just barely standing
as the push, the onslaught from LNG, continues.
I used the- that top tower is gone.
The next minion wave, Zika just walks up, hits it,
Shots away and is gone with the golden taboos and DK trying heavily to pressure onto the
wave stays.
They're there.
Zika's still your target but he's staying alive for now.
The TP coming in.
Zika with the Hextech ultimatum trying to take out the Cassante.
All out's not going to bring him out of the ultimatum but he still has to retreat
because of the damage pouring in.
As Moham leads the charge, Weiwei's still going to keep disengaging.
Zika very low.
No teleport to rejoin the fight.
He's going to have to reset.
Charmed from Shoemaker was clutched there because it drew Zika in behind
Cassante so King could actually ult through him and get to the edge and away from LNG. So nice job there by Shoemaker, but still
DK they hold on if you still got at least two more waves you can play off here as DK or as LNG
But the base still stands for the moment. Yeah, LNG of course, they're so short range
It is hard for them to take down the final defenses of the inhibitor tower
So they really do have to rely on their split push even with the Baron buff
Camille almost finishes off that tower though. So the topside tower extremely low
Extremely close to going down. Of course this that teamfight damage does tell the story that we already know
From the side of DK where aiming was pumping out damage trying to do as much as they can
But LNG of course still with their dragon soul with all the extra gold that they've now gotten to
Try to come and finish off the other side of the map. Oh moham finds himself in a bad spot
He's down Zika seeing the angle to block his escape now a 5v4 for LNG
Glacial prison on the King and yet again the 0 and 6
Cassante has had such a struggle here in the second game as LNG their Baron is about to expire
They want to try to get all the value that they can rotating back over to the mid lane now as the wave is also about to crash
Mega Inferno bomb with very little value mid lane inhibitor will be the first one to fall on DK side as LNG
Maintain their 5v4 advantage for the next 10 seconds. There's nothing more to claim here in the base
They're going to retreat for now still hanging around though seeing it
Maybe DK gets a little bit too greedy on the chase, but it will not happen a minute and a half until Elder Dragon though
So we may just have to rinse and repeat
Held on to that top terror though is crucial because no super minions away from that side of the map
It's going to work here, Craig, but King and Conner, I'm sorry, Zyka realizing that wants to move up towards this topside
I think for pressure there so that then he can encourage more members of DK to try and defend away from the elder dragon
It's just really good movements from LNG
To be able to take over jungle make it so dangerous get their pick off then rotate from bottom lane up towards mid
Another bunch of chunks like it just seems so hard at this point for DK to retake control
with another elder coming up and your mid inhibitor down once again it is going
to be that very dangerous situation where you're going into an LNG vision
control territory where they also have the big gold advantage that they've
retaken in this game and they again just have so many tools to force the
fight on you when you come to face check similar to their full dive in
the previous game it is on LNG now to just finish this one out with one
more big fight. I thought LMG would leave Zyka on top side because he doesn't have enough
gold to buy another item and they just continue to put pressure there but now drawing him down
onto this bottom side it will mean that he has a good flank opportunity for this potential
air will drake especially with the way he's now pushed down and there's little vision
there so Shoemaker now moving in behind the pit I imagine he'll be Shoemaker trying
to mark Zyka as he moves in here. Big items to look for Guardian Angels on both Zyka
and Gala they both have that second life but you've got the double stasis for
for the carries on DK at the same time.
Zika still at a pincer angle here,
not on top of the ward,
as the Drake started up aggroed a little bit here by LNG,
but no real DPS put into it from either side.
DK still attempting to approach here on this river angle,
but now you got a TP coming in
as Zika just bought his death stance.
It is full build, Camille,
going into the second elder Drake fight of the game.
Gala taking the poke though, from aiming
as Shoemaker's forced into the stages.
He's got to try to get himself back away.
Zic came to the back line, but he's already isolated.
He's gonna be knocked down shortly though, right?
Hero's intro take quite good of a find,
the way that it's looking for.
Zic onto the back line.
Aiming trying to get away,
they need to lock him up, beat him down!
Weiwei finds the kill on aiming,
and DK is looking like a graveyard right now!
L and G barreling down mid lane.
Game two was closer.
DK was stronger, but L and G still on the back line.
Oh, Kingen jumps into the middle of everybody,
but it ain't gonna do a damn thing.
Showmaker gets shown just who's the better team here.
And L and G are the first team going to quarterfinals
in Worlds 2024.
Zika says too rich, man.
Over a 6,000 gold lead individually,
the full-built Camille with the Guardian Angel
to go in and just force the last fight.
What a showing from LNG.
Let's toss it back over to the analysts.
Thank you so much.
It's LNG that booked their tickets
to the quarter final in dominating fashion
after D plus Kia did get something done,
even though we absolutely hated their drop last week,
for everyone here.
LNG, simply just better.
Yeah, I mean, the matchup between D plus Kia
and their own drafts was really historic here.
It's so frustrating.
The drafts came out on top.
The D plus Kia did play the best game they could.
They tried their hardest.
And I would have loved to just sit here and talk
only about the draft.
But the part that kind of adds insult to injury
is that DK had so many really well-earned fights.
Yeah.
So many good fights where if there was just,
I don't know, just a sliver of physical damage.
Just a crumb of physical damage.
Just one crumb, so please.
They managed to stop a Camille with a 6k individual gold
lead.
from doing anything in a team fight for like 10 seconds.
If you have any damage at all, you win that fight.
You miss Showmaker on Smoller now, don't you?
I do.
Oh, oh.
The turn to the table.
Bring it back.
Turns up definitely tabled.
Wow.
Super interesting game overall.
The Galio came out as well.
I want to reference Raz and his suite.
But someone was asked, like, what about Galio?
Like, what's going on?
And he said, well, it kind of symbolizes
what happened for LNG because Scout, he couldn't come,
and everyone banded together for him,
then he made it and he landed in glorious fashion.
Well, it can't be, baby, right there just in time.
Just so far.
I was, I mean, at the end, you could see it there, right?
D-plus tried their hardest,
but they could not kill him or anyone else.
Yeah, absolutely.
And the upper player series is gonna be Gala.
He was smurfing in this game, you know, yes,
it was the team in front of him creating so much space
because they are so incredibly tanky,
but Gala really was playing out of the team fights.
Well, I do think, you know, in the second game, he could have maybe made his life a little bit easier for himself
if he did a similar build to what he did in the first game where he went more heavy AP and had that additional range.
I do think that caused some of the troubles because I did feel like on the other side
we were seeing DK do a good job zoning Gala out of some of these fights, but overall he played incredibly well.
There's an awesome interview on Chief Esports from Aramon with Gala as well where he talks about Kaisa as his favorite champion, right?
is a signature pick, so he's happy to play it.
Oh, yo, guys, man.
Absolutely, and while he's talking about how he's really
hungry for international success,
because that MSI title was, of course, two years ago already.
And they're a cohesive unit, and I
think some of these fights really showed it for LNG.
They absolutely did, right?
I think overall, their confidence was good.
You could see them fumble a little bit when the range
advantage and the kind of the peel tools were there,
but overall, fantastic game.
Indeed.
And Weiwei is standing by with Lore in the Verizon Post
Game interview for LNG's victory.
G is the first team advancing to quarterfinals, and I have Weiwei
interested now with me for this interview.
Congratulations on making it to quarterfinals, Weiwei.
I want to talk about a video that Diplos Kia published yesterday
on their social media, laughing and being really, really happy
that they drew you.
How did you react to that if you saw the video?
They have published their reaction to LNG.
Have you seen the video?
What do you think?
I've seen their videos.
I'm happy to see them.
Actually, I saw the video they published.
I saw they were so happy to be able to draw against us.
But we had the same feeling.
really what did you think did you think you were gonna dominate them that
convincingly to at all was really crushing that
yesterday I saw that when it appeared have you predicted that you can use
the performance of two players very safely defeat them
just feel like it's just the first time I feel like I'm going to go to
other places so when I saw the draw show I felt like we're going to go to
them back to the city. All right, it's convincing victory here and I love the confidence. I want
to follow up on an interview that Gala did with Armand Luc from Sheep Esports saying that it is
really important that you five are here competing together and how happy you are playing together.
Can you tell me more about the relationship you have with your teammates?
How do you think of the five of you fighting together this time?
How do you think of the cooperation between the five of you?
It feels great to be able to play the game with the five of us.
Our five of us have a better understanding of the game.
and really performing well so far at Worlds, which is, which goes against the expectations that people had for you and LNG way-way.
So did you feel like you have something to prove coming at Worlds this year?
I feel pretty good that we are underestimated by the others.
Alright, because coming back at Worlds as the runner-up for Worlds finals last year,
you're the first team to make it to quarterfinals. What is your resolution for these Worlds?
What is your determination for this finals?
I hope I can have the better results than the last year's Worlds.
of expectations here on your side.
Weiwei, thank you so much for the interview.
Thank you.
Christina, thank you so much for the translation as well.
That's all for us here on this side of the stage.
We'll be right back for the LCK Summer Finals rematch,
Hanwari sports versus Genji.
The most likely person to flash forward would probably be me
because I could get overexcited in fights
and I might flash forward for like a month's flashback.
I'm very excited.
I appreciate it.
In regard to the stingy way of the enemy, put it in the sun while there's something
that, you know, it's terrible.
Gives you wings.
I just feel so good.
Gen G versus A.Gilly.
I wanted to highlight some of Gen G's out of this world teamfighting against Top.
So let's just talk right about it here.
You can see the positioning.
Chovy's going to be down on one side.
We're going to have King and Pays as well as Lehen.
It's kind of in the middle and the Canyon is going to be up on the Topside over
by himself.
Well, TES are going to look to collapse on Canyon.
They're going to be looking for a fight over there.
fight over there. Notice Chovy here is already prepping his Q3 on the wolves and as TES goes
back over towards Canyon he's going to pop his ultimate and then Genji is going to look
for a pick here onto Jacky Luff. They're able to catch the Jhin here, the follow up is
there from Lahens. They get him incredibly low even with this ult from TN actually
peeling out Chovy. You can see Jacky Luff is just barely going to survive as the
bearer comes out. Chovy can't quite finish him off and now this is going to put
Paze in a bit of an awkward position because Paze has to go in the back line with
the killer instinct to actually kill him. So now if we pause and we stop down here for a second,
you can look at the spot that they're in. Chovy has actually snapped back. You can see
him on the mini map. He's back over by the wolves right now, charging up these Q1s more.
Paze, yes, they could try to fully commit onto him if they were top. You can see the
equalizer was dropped to try to zone him off, but Paze could just flash out to the
left side of that pit. So instead, they're going to look to try to finish off Canyon,
who is low health. Again, he'll use all of his resources there. He W's in. He
flashes out. And now Chovy has kited these wolves back in toward the mid lane,
the Q3 ready and again watch where Paze is staying. He's always ready to re-engage on the fight. TSC
the claps coming in. There's a perfect re-engage from Chovy. Paze comes in over the top. They shut
down cream and now again talking about resources. Your health bar, your summoners, your ultimates
are all resources that Dengie are going to use to the maximum here. Instead of flashing back
defensively we can roll the clip. Paze flashes forward into them knowing he has the cleanse
for the shattering strike, knowing he has a full health bar and he can spend that to get
the kills, Chovy collapses, they flash forward, they get every single kill. Look at the health
bars on this Gen.G team, by the way. They're all very low. They have all spent their Summoners,
they've all spent their Ultimates. It is incredible to see how well they can coordinate
and how well they can really navigate the Razor's Edge in a teamfight like this. And
it really shows you the gap between the very best in the world and everyone else.
So let's now see how the fans voted in our MasterCard fan predictions here. We're
to bring that up and it does look like Gen G may have the edge. It looks like it of course for
people who are not in the loop but I'm sure everyone knows by now this is a rematch of the LCK
summer finals where everyone did think that Gen G was going to continue on their golden road
after winning in spring and after winning MSI but it wasn't the case it was HLE and I dare
say it was also because HLE in part team fought better in that series even though
usually Gen. G is much better at that point. I think that Game 5 especially,
Zeca obviously was the MVP for that series and you can see why he absorbed so
much pressure on the Yoni. He made so many big plays as a reason why he stood
out and a reason why we're so laser focused on this mid lane matchup. Absolutely
and that mid lane matchup yeah is going to determine a lot. Zeca doesn't get
the upper hand of Chovy a lot but when he does it's in the most important
moments and this one is one of those because one of these two teams is
is going directly to the quarterfinals.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the LCK,
to Worlds of 2024!
As up next, we have a matchup
that everybody can get excited for, man.
This is a rematch of the LCK Summer Finals.
This is Gen.G going up against HLE.
This was a match that right before it happened,
you could see the prediction graphic over there at LCK.
Everybody except for one man everybody except for ox was predicting Gen G
It was a pretty big upset and you could see even in the way that the fan predictions were going more people today
Are expecting Gen G to take it, but you can't sleep on Hanwha man
These guys are tough, but that's why I think so many people even after the finals
DLC K casters K droll a lot of like that
Tomlin was just saying hey look
Even if we were to replay this series I would still go in expecting Gen G to win
And I think that says a lot about the dominance that Gen. G's had in the LCK, but Hanwha set
up massively.
They were no pushovers whatsoever, and I expect Ain't Other a banger of a series that goes
the distance with both these teams just playing off my news differences to find these
big wins.
Yeah, I feel like I really deserve so much credit, you know, for their success in
that series.
And they were already, you know, jumping off of like the AB mid-strand.
You know that Tristana, Zekas was playing it and got some really, really big wins, including
a solo kill, which was quite nice, but you know, the Corki is out of the meta now, and
Joey was spamming the Corki, so I think that that is going to be the main thing that
changes in the draft here, because all the other champions that they were playing in
finals are still being spammed here at Worlds, and it's just going to be a deviation.
Drop the Corki and move on to the next iteration.
But pick up the Yone here potentially for second, the fact that he slipped through the drop.
That could be, from my eyes, the difference maker here for Zach.
He's been incredible on that pick, has fit directly into his wheelhouse, and I think
it would be such a massive pick up for Hamla here.
I feel like it's Worlds 2024, boys.
If Yone's open and you don't lock it, be one.
I'm wondering what you're doing.
Should always be first pick.
You can gently immediately jump on the chance to do that.
We'll just make sure we catch up with everything else.
Nidalee, Zig, Skarner, banned out by Hanwha Life,
and then Gen.G taking out the smolders, the Jax, the Malkai.
So Aurora had actually creeped up to be the most banned champion,
even with all the nerfs that were received heading into Worlds here.
This champ is still so, so powerful in picking off, especially AD carries,
and the ultimate has been used so successfully.
Now you're going to combo it actually with a knock-turn ultimate
to cover darkness over.
And I think this part's great for Canyon,
because the shift back from the carry AP junglers into the Sejuani Malkai
felt like he could not struggle, but like, couldn't have the as insane of an impact
as he would have traditionally on the carry picks.
So going back towards that carry style now on the Nocturne
kind of unlocks him to be that mega threat on the map
and it'll be on Peanut rocking the Sejuani here
to try and control and dictate the pace of that.
We have seen teams go for these early invades on towards the Nocturne.
With the Nara on that topside, that could be a pushy lane you could look to play around,
But you still need some sort of control on that bottom side to look to threaten this knock turn to the early stage and the insta lock here
From chovy bringing out the Ari here again another like double AP solo laners coming through
But we definitely expect them to also have some very strong AD threats as we jump down to the bottom lanes as well for both
Of these teams so take out a couple of those options
Yep, Viper's Ezreal is the first one to hit the band phase. Yeah, they'll take that one off the table very evasive very slippery
Very difficult to deal with sometimes you don't have enough lock up to deal with them
However, Sejuani and Yone plenty of lock up on that one plenty of CC plenty of engaged potential
Let's see what we want to ban out here on the Hanwha side get rid of the Callista
Get rid of some of that early power available through the marksman role
Yeah, I think that's really what they're trying to hit because this comp when it gets to level six just pops off as Genji a
a ton of early skirmish in Paris, so trying to alleviate a lot of that early pressure seems to be the game plan for Homo.
On the opposite side, I'm curious if it's going to be a Jhin ban, just getting rid of something that kind of plays out of the main team plays
and makes it a little bit more difficult for your dived function on Gen G's side, but other than that, I don't know, yeah, there's a Jhin.
Because I don't really know what other self-reliant marksmen, apart from Viper, has brought out to Zyah.
But do you really want to go for the Zyah in this meta? It's a bit hard to say.
Yeah, I mean if you're facing a lot of the dive you know kind of always is nice
there I like what HLE have gone for with banning out some of the lane dominant
champions here with the with the Kalista of course pays amazing Kalista
showed it again versus Waybaugh already this tournament had his 28 bomb at MSI
that he was able to drop that also had LaHenson's Blitzcrank in it by the way
You know that one of the super flavorful picks that they have up their sleeves.
Let's see what they go for here.
Okay, now this does bring some more structure to, you know,
you're looking at a scheme bomb and you do want some more CC in it.
The Varys does offer that as well as a pretty strong lane phase.
But it does feel weird because Varys kind of gets left on his lonesome
with the way the rest of this composition wants to play.
And against the diving Nard, the dive from the Yone.
Pays is going to be very vulnerable and heavily flash-reliant. It feels like in these fights if Genji ever want to try and aggress so I
Like this on why I said she's just doubling down now on this potential saying hey look
We're just going to continue in with the kaiser for this dive and just put a ton of pressure on to pays in this game
Always love seeing a kaiser man, especially after last year's we got to see some pretty fun kaiser
Here in this one as well
But we do need to see what they are going to round out this composition with here for delight in the support role
Delight on engage. I am not surprised to see that whatsoever
The rel is the name of the game here for him. Yeah, he's the probably the best engage support in the world right now
This guy's absolutely insane on the realm or a con some of these picks I really start to stand out from but I do like
The rel specifically in this because not only does a half-graded gauge
It can also work very well with the peel that you need tanks that magnetic storm for
Nocturne as he dives in, things like the Auri as well, just being able to keep them off of your backline.
But I'd like just an all-round hitter here for Honwad, it comes off great.
Yeah, I mean it's a very interesting dichotomy that we have because, you know, they have really hard engage here on HLE.
The final pick for LeHens is kind of counter-engage with Renata, trying to get your ulti off to buy some space.
If you can create darkness with Nocturne and avoid damage, then Gen.G can pull this off.
But again, Gen.G are going with a way squishier comp, you know, it's so much more health just baseline going to be built on the side of HLE and they're so much more straightforward with their, with their dive, with their full send, but Gen.G, this is a team where you do have faith in them to be able to pull off these squishier ones.
This has to be an early macro masterpiece from Gen.G, otherwise the lack of someone to face
check is going to come back to bite you against what Hanwha drafted here.
So I need to see early control for Pays and the Hens on that bottom side, great mid-junk
control with Canyon playing heavily for Joby, trying to play off that charm into fear,
getting the picks this way, and ensuring that King can bully through his range advantage
in that topside.
Otherwise, I feel like this just falls apart so quickly.
And I think there's going to be a lot of discussion about the draft I know after this game because if you have a result where the Aurora does not find a lot of, you know, effect in this game, then everyone's just going to flame you for giving over the Yone.
Like they gave over the Yone first pick, and yeah, they got to trade back and grab the Aurora for themselves, which I think is a very strong champion and has been very useful and has been highly banned in this tournament.
But if you're unable to put the extra pressure onto Viper with it
and make good use, then everyone's just going to go back to,
well, look at Yone's stats this tournament.
Hello.
He's barely lost any games.
He's absolutely crushing it.
And you're giving it over to Zeca, who loves this champion,
already used it to beat you.
So there's a lot of talk.
I can already see this.
I'm a protagonist.
You're putting in the block and you're saying,
hey, show me what you've got.
And that's kind of where this Yone edgy guy just
gets to show his stuff, right?
wants to be close to personal with you. So you're kind of just setting it up. So curious
now to see how Genji want to try and make this happen. I don't think they're going to opt
in towards a lane swap, but it looks like they're just trying to deny a potential lane swap.
But I didn't catch their fight or was spotted as they moved through.
All right. As we're waiting on minions to spawn, we do want to bring out that our
featured matchup presented by Mercedes-Benz. This game is right there in the mid lane
between Zeka and Jovey. These guys that have had some serious blows back and forth
before, even though the all time record doesn't really favor Zekka.
I was looking at some stats before the series today.
Zekka's all time series record against Chovy is two and 16.
Two important ones though.
Yeah, the two ones that he won were World Semi Finals 2022
and then LCK Summer Finals, just this split.
Two big ones for Zekka to say, hey, it's it's not about the
quantity, it's about the quality.
is kind of Chad, no?
We two and some really, really big ones.
And of course we do have the lane swap
that HLE started out.
So that means our supports are going to come mid.
Actually, we have keen coming mid.
So it's not going to be the support plus mid laners here
for soaking level two, at least for the side of Gen.G.
And Delight's just going to pass on through
and try and peel some of the jungle attempts here
from Canyon since they did have the ward.
Yeah, I don't think Gen.G spotted stuff.
They only saw Doran, so thought it was going to be standard lane, so Genji had kind of gone for this in finals where they went for the lane swap and they played for basically what Delight is doing now, which is playing down towards that bottom side, having your top laner TP into the play.
But I think it's a good call from Hamal because Keen in a lane swap just not going to do that great, especially on a potential dive, so they kind of have to adjust now on Genji's side.
And it's kind of interesting to me because a lot of it was in the previous iterations you're talking about
The support actually soaking the full level 2 from the mid lane
But because he went over to Canyon and kind of messes around with Canyon while Canyon's doing jungle
You still have to light on the level 1 on the rail
And so the defense is gonna be a little bit more difficult
Okay, Doran eating a little damage here, but because the light shows up in time to keep him protected
I would think that Hama would still be alright here
One extra turret shot there onto Keen as Doran transforms back into Mini-Nar.
But that was a nice adaptation here. Doran waited until he's about to hit Mega-Nar, then TP's bought.
So the potential dive on a Mini-Nar is way more difficult.
Delight now gets into the bottom lane, hits level 2, and now that completely dissuades the dive.
So not only do you have Doran who's gotten into a great start here, he gets that whole wave,
and you can see that XP advantage already for the Nar.
Yeah, and it was kind of Delight was like, okay, fine.
You know, I don't get my level 2 for it, but then Canyon also was at level 3 for it,
and then you didn't have the extra threat there and they kind of domino effects.
So nicely done here out of the lane swap.
And it should be just continuing on
with those sides of the map kind of splits and finishing their clears off.
Pays forced to flash away there from the crash down of delight
as he did find the wraparound attempt there on the Gen G 80 carry.
It faked the reset.
So traditionally you'd see delight now reset go top and match this
because of this potential plan Viper.
Now Viper trying to get away from it there with a supercharger keying down to 250 HP
But LeHens throws out the handshake forces the cleanse from Viper
Yeah, but that's where you want that support to be there
So that's why it cop pays off guard because you would assume he's gonna go back and match that topside play because now
There's no one on the top end of the map to try and catch the the potential for this pushing but with
Peanut now move back towards the topside. They're okay to still soak the wave is wave is Viper
It'll just be a little late on the recess
You can scare Pazes in the bottom lane.
Yeah, he's even over in the bush for a long, a while.
He's hanging out with it.
He knows that there could definitely be some overloading happening on the map in a lane swap type of game.
Mid lane, Chovy, getting this wave shoved out, wanted to crash it into the tier one here, but the light is the side.
And as Pazes just reset and went back down bottom side, now they have vision of it.
So they also reset and they're going to send Viper back down there into the lane.
We'll see if that flash actually ends up getting punished because daddy you mentioned in champion select
But as the game goes later on that is going to be a very critical flash
And pays is going to have a very difficult time staying safe with all of this engage in his face
But even now after swapping the lanes back and sending Viper right back down here
That is going to be an area of possible attack for HLE try and punish pays on his
Flash cool down here while his lane
is a little bit more vulnerable. I'm curious to see how Canyon tries to play this though because
Delight's still level 2 means that it's very difficult to actually play aggressive on this
bottom side while that flashes down. So Pays and LaHens can play up, push in this wave,
potentially reset and look for the Void Grubbs that are spawned in 20 seconds. But there is also
an argument to just say hey we're gonna try and farm it out, just to play it safe because
we don't, with the level advantage for Doran who's about to take over to 6, having access to
those ultimates is actually far more valuable so I think there's a lot of
factors for Gen G to try and look in towards this and for Hanwha they would
rather just keep vibing up on the side because in a 3v3 with both
Solonade are hitting level six they're in a great spot. Yeah and Peanut with his
level lead over Canyon because of the early antics there goes right over the
grubs to start those up on spawn. Yep and while he's taking those and
there's no contest from the other side remember a reminder you can log into
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And it looks like Canyon is going on to the other side of the rift to take that Drake
It's the common handshake you take grubs all take Drake one neutral objective for either side
This does mean that you are going to get a very early level 6 peanut and peanut is as you know an
Amazing tank frontline player an amazing Sejuani player so him with the early ultimate for Sejuani
I think we'll be very dangerous for Gen. G. We'll see how he is actually able to leverage that as
Canyon is going to have to play a little bit of catch up here on our turn to be able to get access to his ultimate for the counter
Could immediately go bought here
I think that's why he hasn't reset because look at pay still no flash available
This could be the point of contest with the ultimate hiss
I mean when I was watching this series yesterday between Hanwha and G2
It felt like such a peanut gap in the early game constantly making the plays here on this edge
We'll see if he can repeat it up against Gen. G is hanging around down here,
but no opportunity to really do a whole lot against LeHens and Pays.
You saw Chovy also potentially going towards the bottom lane,
but ended up going back into mid here.
Instead, still very close goal between the two squads.
Nobody really pulling away with a lead thanks to extra wave management or extra rotations
they were managing to find against their opponents.
Catch them off guard a little bit.
Always fun to see and go over to the relationships between all of these players on these two teams.
Not only was Finals a banger, but of course Pino himself and Delight and Dora and all
X Gen G members and trying to pay the visit on bottom lane, but respect given and control
ward really paid off there, so they got to see us.
Even the over high and the high.
There's so many interactions between all these players and they know each other
are so well, not only just from playing in finals, but being on several teams together.
So I think it's always so sick.
The Griffin memories.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's why I think it's really interesting.
Whenever you see teams like this go up, it just means there's so many layers upon
layers of mind games and trickery and everything that's going into this that always gets
so fascinating to watch.
The Korean onion of teams and players constantly unfolding from layer to layer, showing us
deeper and deeper connections between these guys.
Because we still have no kills on the board, 8 and a half minutes in.
Both teams have been fine with this very quiet early game.
Yeah.
I mean, people were even calling Ahanwai Life like Genji Orange, you know, and kind of
beating on it.
But really, adding the two extra world champions really does change the way that a team plays.
And everyone's so hype on Viper and Zeka especially due to their recent play.
Let's see about this one, Mel Paze.
Oh, Delight doing a big engage there on Paze.
Genji's AD carry ain't gettin' away from that one.
No bail out, bails you out of that much damage.
It's first blood over the Viper.
And that has been the difference.
Really big target on Paysback.
He's dead and now no summoner spells again.
So the timer continues here.
Now you have to really play around.
No flash, no cleanse again.
It is just gonna be a rough game from him.
As we kinda already suspected,
straight from Champ select.
And hey, dagged up back at Champ select.
You said the light's probably best engaged.
He's important in the world right now and he immediately goes in through both summoner spells off Paze, sets it up, knows where he's going to go through the cleanse and the flash, makes it easy to get that kill.
Yeah, I mean you get to see him on so many different champions because when he started it was definitely Rakan is his pick and he will show up on it but he's really evolved as a player now to things like the rail, the Alistar and having a ton of these extra engaged supports.
engage supports. He just looks so sick on it. You got to see there how mechanically
strong he is on these picks and setting up an M for Viper with that 1-0 kill. He's
got static shift. He's going to be such a menace now in just controlling this
matchup against Paze. And Pina is just so crafty, so intelligent, goes right over
there. They get the kill, they get the double summoner spells, and he
immediately, you know, invests everything into the shield here. For the
Lockett, early first purchase for him. Second Grubbs, he's gonna head right
back over there too. They have their dual lane finishing up with the minion wave and
now that they have a nice little item advantage, uh oh, peanut himself. He kind of brushes
off some of the damage though. You do need to try and buy time here because peanut doesn't
have his ultimate open available, which is why Genji are trying to play off this timing
window to attack. Move down from Hanwha Life though. I don't know if I can get
all of them though because that was also Varus' ultimate used for the little chunk
of damage. Yeah. Alright, second Void Grubb is about half HP. Peanut's gonna
Step forward, try to take that one. Meanwhile, down to the bottom line, Doran trying to get away from Keeney's down to 100 HP where the grubs are fought for, for secured by Hanwha Life, meaning they will get the Void Might Spawns.
Exactly. All of it is just depending on at least getting one grub out of the first pack, and then you still have the threat for the second pack of grubs.
Meanwhile, Keene here, the Aurora pick that we were highlighting, also going to be able to get some extra pressure, pushes in, this should be a turret plate, very, very close to getting one.
Doran's gonna say no turn play for you. I'm gonna take away your minion wave. You're gonna look that juicy tiny sliver of health away
King can't get it quite yet. Yeah
I wanted to get the potential stun underneath the terror doesn't manage to hit nicely done by King to escape
But it doesn't mean Doran will just reset move back up to the Roars the topside because it's dragon
It's now the big port of call 10 seconds until that one's available
Zeka's good control over the mid lane, but hasn't gone for that reset quite yet
So I think Gen. G should be able to get control with Chovy in mid lane then start to roam down towards his objective
But on the upside pays not bringing a position quite yet, but should be fine to contest the wave anyway
All right, Doran just continuing to mine some plates off this topside tier 1 turret Canyon still behind in pace in the jungle
Compared to peanut here on the Sejuani and I feel like that's a little bit problematic
Because when you think back to the Gen. G it was dominant like earlier on in the year
You were thinking about Canyon on these AP junglers just power clearing outpacing setting this insane tempo where even if you can outplay
Gen G they just still have more money because they farm better and it's just not the case here anymore
But he hasn't really had an opportunity to get into any of these lanes because where do you try and focus you?
No real set up in any of your lanes apart from chovy and sec has been doing fine with peanut putting pressure on towards sides
And now at the dragon piss
Yeah, he's got his experimental hex plate done. So I think we see his first ulti here
Okay, to light with a Hex flash over the wall. Peanuts.
Glacial prison under the hands, but it ain't gonna be a whole lot now.
The lights go off. Paranoia goes in.
Gen G with a kill on Peanut, and this is exactly what they need at Zaka.
Tries to use Fate's Shield of the Wall, but it's an arrow through his heart.
The Samurai falls to the archer.
Gen G take Drake plus two, and they ain't done yet.
Keen still scrapping here back and forth as Doran and Delight are both forced back.
That was a huge moment for the Gen.G squad.
Chovy spear rushed over the wall into the way of the Fate Seal so Zekka couldn't get over.
Despite him flashing away, really good stuff from the Gen.G midlaner.
And a great fight for Gen.G as well.
Alright, looks like top bottom tower gets teleported on.
This is gonna be so low though, can they?
Yeah, Zekka immediately arrives, but now the turret is dead.
Zaka goes in 1v3 trying to get the kill on LaHens, but there's not enough damage even with the Yonei even with the strongest
Champ in mid lane right now
It's not quite there as the tier 1 turret falls peanut now stepping into the river though normally
I wouldn't even bother talking about peanut doing that but after last game
We saw some crazy stuff in the bottom side river, so I got to be careful with those. Yeah
I mean they they still Gen G. Yeah, they get the the advantage in the teamfight get the extra kill here
They get the bottom tower more gold there and topside they're still going to be able to protect so they teleport immediately back out with Chovy
They kind of rotate their solo laners here as keen recalls Chovy goes to replace him on the minion wave
And they keep their defenses strong and the fact now that you're back out on the map first is crucial for
Retail that's just about to spawn and we're going to get a glimpse at our master card lane economy snapshot
You can see a lot of the gold is actually on the hens right now
But it is still
Are getting like good advantages on the map side and this is what we're talking about coming through from draft is
Genji needing to outplay on the map and outplay with our macro and even though it looks a little ropey to start
They're starting to get control now and the thing is Genji so calm even though Canyon was a little bit behind
He'd funneled all of his money to make sure he could get his experimental hex plate done in
Advance of the dragon and so he gets there still has his full item. They immediately ult onto peanut
him plus Pays able to take Pina down and secure their second dragon so dragon stacking game plans still
on course here for Gen G
plus the extra little bit of gold that they did in advantage as well and
Because he's got all that extra ultimate ability haste with the experimental hex plate his little nocturne ultimate is ready again
So they go over to next objective and we'll be able to burn this one down. No problem
That is gone for Hanwha. Even has a chance to try to move up and do anything about it, but now Delight needs to be a little bit concerned.
Keen is going between worlds, but it's not enough. Delight can still just walk away from it.
But the fact he gets to walk away opens up Dorin to go for this pressure. The bot side turns. No TP for Keen or for Chovy.
So it should be some damage down, but he did start to roam up towards that mid lane.
So I don't think you'll actually be able to get a ton of chunk and actually even the wave not ready in the position.
So it doesn't get any work done off the back of this.
Just about 16 minutes into the game,
still only three kills on the board.
Pretty low violence game here in our first one of this best
of three.
26,000 to 26.5,000 gold.
Very, very close.
Chovy retreating away as Hanwha sends more, more troops
to back up Zeca.
Make sure he can force down this tier one turret,
get some more gold in his pockets,
unleash the Yone that is on that critical first item
power spike. And Kobe talked about Gen. G funneling Canyon for that first item. It feels
like now Hallmark is just going to funnel Zeke. They know how strong with two items
in his back pocket this Yone can be on a massive threat in fights. And especially when it comes
towards sideline threat as well, he can threaten Keen. He can threaten Chovy. So as long as
these terrorists continue to fall, Zeke can carry this game. And he can also threaten Paze.
So we'll see if the target on Paze back still continues as we transition towards the team
fights. Genji of course, they also have so many pick options with this comp. It's so nice.
Once Nocturne gets ranked 2 in the ultimate, you have a lot of ability to cover so many
side lane plays. And when you have solo laners that are this mobile with double AP mobile
summoners, solo laners here with the RE plus the Aurora, then you have a lot of options
that make it harder for HLE in some of those. They always have to kind of check
Is Canyon could be hovering bottom or top side?
And they really wanna have structured battle lines
so they can get their combos.
And the other thing that I always think about
when I'm looking at Nocturne in a game,
especially when you're up against two champions
that like to play sidelines,
that like to split push like a Yone and a Naur,
Paranoia also stops your ability to see the ward
and teleport to the ward.
So you've gotta be there to the objective fight sooner
as now the Herald driven into the tier one
through it there by Canyon.
Doran has to flashback away,
but Pena's ready for the counterattack
with the Glacier Prison, but a nice follow up comes in from Delight.
Over the top goes the Hostile Takeover.
It's already death for the support of Hanwha Life Esports.
And Gen G are swift to deliver it.
Shovey jumps forward with another one of those spirit rushes,
as Zeca is forced to snap back through his body with a sole on bound.
Gen G with the one for nothing,
with the enemy tier one turret nearly killed.
They're going to go down to the drake.
Meanwhile, Doran taking the opportunity using the TP
to go into the top lane and look to dismantle the tier two turret.
The director is crucial there and actually recovering the retreat from Gen.G.
Zekka was still pushing top and had to teleport into the play, so he wasn't there as that fight kicked off.
Wasn't there to follow up on a great engage from Deli's, but Hamla, TP topside, they would get the tier two,
but a third dragon for Gen.G wouldn't stop away from an infernal soul.
It's so cool to watch how both of these teams, regardless of the different outcomes of the T-fight, immediately just move on to the next step.
Even though Hanwha are like, okay, fine. You know, that was a good flash and disengage from LeHands.
You guys got the kill there.
We are going to immediately transition to our next objective.
We know you're going to be able to get Dragon number three,
but even though we lost,
we're going to still try and get something out of it
and try and salvage some sort of consolation prize.
But that was a really nice disengage.
You know, you mentioned the Nocturne ultimate,
but also LeHens, after he flashes,
after the stun wears off,
he's able to get his Renata ult off too,
and they're able to get their little counter.
I do think though, Gen.G,
are not even like a step ahead,
kind of two steps ahead in a lot of these plays though,
because often times when we're seeing as Hamma want to try and threaten onto objective.
You can look at now, Keen has already pushed in that topside,
so creating a point of contention on the map.
Chovy was doing the same, just as we're starting to set up for Dragon,
and it feels like Genji are always quicker off the mark
to get towards these lanes, creating pressure for Hanwha,
and right now, Hanwha are kind of struggling to keep up.
So even though we're seeing Zeke in a 1v1 is Grace,
the wave is gone before Zeke even gets there,
and Chovy's now drifted to somewhere else,
and you're just constantly putting catch up with Humla right now.
And always when you're looking at who's getting side lanes here, look where Canyon is.
It's so efficient for Nocturne when he has the extra range from his ultimate,
finishes up his gromp while Toby's finishing up the mid-wave,
they're covering their side that they still have their split pressure on,
even though Hanwha can have members there.
They're so confident with Auri ultimate, plus summoner spells,
plus Nocturne even hovering around.
Like, you just have all of the options kind of covered off,
and you take away the possible moves that Italy want to make even before they make them.
And that's the thing again is where we just see that play of Nocturne covering bot to get
Chovy into position, but Chovy then runs mid to get the mid terror. And also respect from Paze
because this man is playing incredibly safe on the mid wave. He knows how valuable his flash and
cleanser are for these fights. He's not even stepping up to finish off the terror there.
He's like, no, the minions will do the work as long as I stay safe. This game we
we can win it out as Gen G just playing at the top stage.
So I'm so looking forward to this next big team fight
because HLE like we said,
they've constantly done things to grab money
on the map back even after,
okay you lose a little bit here in one of the fights
or someone does get picked off,
they still have kept enough gold
that they can definitely still fight the next big one
and that's really what's gonna break it.
Like they even have a couple extra 100 gold here
in inventory, and it's in a lot of the right places too.
With one of the kills going over to Viper,
that Kaisa is another Kaisa that you have a ton of faith in,
in these teamfights.
Like Viper has just been insane,
so we'll see what HLE can do on the next one.
You have a lot of confidence in there.
Set up, wait a second, they're gonna have to...
Yeah, Genji's going after the Baron
because they saw Hanwha tried to make a play
on Shobi down there in the bottom lane,
so now they're just gonna try to force the Baron instead.
Choby teleporting up to join the remaining four players on Gen.G.
The paranoia is there to stop an appropriate follow-up.
The Baron is secured by Gen.G.
But now they got to try to get everybody else away.
Canaan with the flashback over the wall.
Hanwha can't do anything.
Gen.G with the 400 IQ Baron rush immediately
recognizing the opportunity and jumping on it.
At the second they saw all those members down on bot side
to look for the terror, Gen.G knew they could take it.
You have a blade of the Rune King, Gwinsu's Varus who will rip through the percentage health of the Baron buff,
and it's a perfect call even using the Darkness again as a retreat tool,
because you just don't know what's the health of the Baron or how heavily can we engage.
We don't know where Gen.G are.
Beautifully done from Gen.G.
Chovy sees that Sejuani coming after him on that little Farseers trinket.
He says, all right, let's go for it, and everybody else starts up the play.
Chovy even teleporting to join the rest of Gen.G before going back to the base to heal up the 40% chunk that he took from Zeca in the bottom lane.
They knew to full send it. They get everybody out safely. Beautifully done from Gen.G now, with 45 seconds left on the clock, until what will be their dragon soul spawns.
They've got Baron and control over the Rift.
Yeah, and you were just talking about how them being one step ahead of HLE on these moves is impactful. Like, that was a very big step.
They know what your next move is going to be.
They try and punish it and are able to actually fully finish off the Baron
and then still rotate down to the other side of map.
20 seconds on this very early Dragon Soul.
Gen G have been so clean with it,
but critical breaking point is about to approach again.
HLE have at least kept up enough gold.
Oh, it's keen jumping in there immediately with the between worlds.
If they pick the enemy jungler, no way to contest that dragon soul.
Oh my gosh!
Let's let Delight go to death for a massive 4-man engage!
Genji melts before your eyes!
Do not doubt just buried Genji!
As macro kids, how's this Wombo combo taste?
That was huge!
Delight into Zaka, able to destroy them at HLE.
That also denies the dragon soul.
That was beautiful, because Peanut panics.
He throws everything out and just like,
please, the love of God, get people off me.
But the TP still comes through from Zeke
and the delight we call this.
This engage into Zeke with the follow up.
The clutch moments for Hanwha have been
where they've shown off this summer
and it's showing off once again on the world stage.
Their Viper's just free firing on the kaisa there.
Side steps that were not ultimate.
That's a perfect meme! Another meme for the tournament baby!
Teamfight damage man, over 4,000 from Zeca, nearly the same for Viper on his Kaisa and
now Hanwha Life after it looked like they were about to lose the Dragon Soul, lose
their control over the game. Delight, delight, delight on the rail. Absolutely clutching
that moment. Engage king. One more can you say. Absolutely beautiful. And I always also
love and give like extra bonus credit when you pull off an engage in those scenarios
where you already just lost a member. But you know if we just layer our abilities here
we're going to catch multiple and delete multiple enemy members so even though we're down
peanut which is supposed to be like the first line of the team comp. It doesn't
matter. It was even like a reaction test because the darkness comes off and he's
like oh god it was like a meegee it was like you know you can pull off the blind
full comes and you're like okay play this one out what are you gonna do. It was
just beautiful layering to you know stunned into the full crash down
ultimate. Zeca is immediately following up and now yeah Canyon you'll try to
They use paranoia defensively, but it's too late.
Viper's already unstoppable.
Gen G's seen if they might be able to get something back.
A handshake on delight is definitely not enough.
As Hanwha Life esports now with a 5B4 for the next 30 seconds.
Hanwha trying to show wasn't a flash in the pan.
It's all incidental of the doubters.
I think Aux probably grinning from ear to ear
as he looks again,
because this has been a great performance from Hanwha,
but we did call this when we saw the drop from Gen G.
They needed to be clinical.
They needed to not make mistakes.
And unfortunately, they grouped up that one time
Now Hanwha just get to use the strength of their engage their tanky front line their great DPS in this Yone and Kaisa
To blitz through what is a very squishy team from Gen. G
Yeah, now they're just a very rich hammer that is going to just force plays
Goated hammer just gonna force plays everywhere because they already gave you a taste of the engage
And now they've just got so much extra money on the carries
You know we're talking about Viper and he's just free firing and just eating up extra gold now all the shut and the Kaisa's shot up
The three items and things just even get more bad for Gen G
Just really all kind of falls apart now since they are so squishy squishy as a team comp and you just said three
But right after you said another just bought an armguard and normally I would call that a half an item
That is the most broken active
Legends that it might as well be a full item until that thing breaks as far as I'm concerned
Yeah, this dude can now fly in and not give a damn what they shoot back at yeah, especially with Kaisa
You love to see the 80 carries that are just jumping in danger
Outplaying it at every turn
Let's see can Gen G do something surprising here though
They've got a lot of like surprise tools we mentioned earlier the pick potential of Aurora nocturne
you know things that you want to try and like cobble together, but it's so hard now because your map has just been taken over
And there's not a lot of areas for you to set those plays up
HLE you can see them very cohesively moving as a team
To try and take over vision and not allow Gen.G to get their pick now to try and get back into the game. Oh
Oh, immediate, jump the pick on Chovy!
You just see Viper fly across the screen and then the Infernal Pinatas fly out of Chovy.
Beautiful pick coming out from Hanwha.
Baron is on the map.
The enemy jungler dead for 40 seconds.
Here's the problem if you're Gen.G.
Not only is that mid lane pick going to mean that the enemy squad gets Baron, Chovy's
only going to respawn right before the Infernal Drake spawns again and Hanwha's going to
continue having control over the entire Rift.
And I want to give a shout out to Pina
because he's been playing absolutely insane this game.
The picks have been on point.
He's dictated the pace of the early game,
denying Canyon so many of the angles
he would like to attack,
and he's just been so good at playing with delight
to set up these plays.
Plus, you see the super deep wards.
The deep ward in mid lane is what Pina saw him on.
He was like, okay, Jovey's mid.
Pina can get into position,
flash over the wall to make sure
they can find their pick,
even on a champion as slippery as Ari,
they instantly deleted him.
But now, Gen.G, they want another attempt at this soul.
Okay, Joby responded in time to be able to make his TP in.
As now, another TP is about to show up for Hanwha.
Doran has rejoined everybody else.
Paranoia cast a charm onto the light,
but he's the only one between worlds
has already been used.
Doran here in the front line jumps in from the negative.
No, but he ain't gonna find the angle here just yet.
Zeca resetting with a soul on bound.
He is the first to drop.
Vipers go in godlike, Gen.G is scrambling to fight back, but Settka's too strong, Vipers too strong, Gen.G's running towards the wrong base and Doran's going to hit him with the wallop, couple more auto attacks get it done, Chovy's about to drop again, calling a drake, calling an ace, calling a fight for Hanwha.
Call me the LCK champions! Hanwha showing why they won, why they threatened Gen.G, and why they want to join LNG in the quarter-final stage.
We got 15 second death timers still ticking down for the Gen.G team, as HLE are on to the Nexus turrets.
They will crumble before them and Hanwha Live Esports take the first game in the LCK Finals rematch.
Finals ain't no fluke, okay? That's just game number one, but Hanwha really just retook control.
And of course, player of the game, we don't give those out, but I'm going to give one out now.
You know, we can honor enemies now as well.
I'm pretty sure all of the other Gen G members are like, you know what,
the light, that's also an honor. Great job. Fair enough.
Delights engage, got it done.
And everybody else just kept it rolling all the way to the enemy nexus.
Game number one is done. We're tossing to a break,
but we'll be back with more worlds 2024 real soon. Don't you go anywhere.
Who else became mid lane giants?
And today's feature matchup presented by Mercedes Benz.
This is a rematch of the LCK finals and although Gen.G and Chovy managed an impressive domestic
showing in the LCK, they lost it when it crucially mattered for his Hanwha life.
It is on Chovy's shoulders to show that not only is Gen.G the better team but that he
is the better midlaner in so many different angles,
so many different movements,
they're hitting him from all sides.
Genji with the 10 out of 10 teamfights.
2022 world champion, Zeca,
is looking to prove the doubters wrong
and show that finals was not a fluke
and that the LCK was only a stepping stone
for Hanwha Life before taking Worlds.
Perfectly summarized even though that went,
was recorded before the series,
but it is true.
Zeca wanting to show-
Kobe the prophet.
I think it is so interesting because all right this was only one game in the best of and we saw five of them in the
LCK finals, but when you look at Gen G and it happened again in this game best macro in the world bar none
But HLE just have it the certain gymnastic walk the magic to turn it around on a dime
And I think that the light engage shows that once again, and it's gonna give Gen G a headache
I mean what I could we just get to the clip
I just this is a situation where this tells you the story of the entire game in a single play in a single moment of how clutch
It's a joey lineup can be yes, and every second counts and thanks to reliable Cisco network the light finds the
Crispus engage you're gonna see all day. I mean, this is honestly really well done here by HLE
It's Genji who actually gets the initial pick
But as they're chasing the loose track of the fact that they're stacking up way too much the light finds the
Perfect turnaround engage.
Zaka is there with a follow up.
Genji is absolutely destroyed.
They're routed in this fight.
And I think overall this fight obviously represents a massive turnaround,
but it's important to note that this game overall is really back and forth.
At the beginning of the game, you had a lot of pretty advantageous lane situations,
a pretty solid lane swap for HLE.
And while Genji did a fantastic job of leveraging the composition they built with the Sorora and Nocturne
to find picks or to shut down some of the playmaking,
making or to create such great that show.
It's true, this is the one right there behind me.
I want to go back to Lane because for the entire year,
for this Gen. G roster, they have been lane phase monsters.
But this tournament, that has not been the case,
and this mid lane matchup is perfectly indicative of that.
This is the first time, one of the first times,
we've seen a Yone versus a ranged champion
come out ahead in CS.
And against Chovy.
And against Chovy.
And Chovy is Ari.
Chovy is Ari.
Incredible win rate.
30 wins, 5 wins.
This is the 6th or 7th spot.
30 and 7 incredible the only other game where we have this kind of discrepancy was faker up against
jinkato like this is unprecedented for two midlaners of top of top little cow or top level players
yeah it's crazy and as zeka just again proving like you might have forgotten about me because
i forgot about myself for most of the year but i can do this and i want to jump on something
that you said about this game was back and forth and i want to push back a little bit
because technically yes right but Genji is doing Genji things despite now being as you know dominant
in the lanes if they want all the dragons about to be on soul point they get the bear and they know
the moves they're making they know how to accelerate their gold and I don't think there's many teams
in the entire world there's probably only two maybe three that can do what HLE just did versus Genji
I mean I absolutely agree I have to give a lot of credit to Doran as well like I was kind of
White Nightingale in a little bit, because I feel like he gets an unfair amount of hate
because he has these like, you know, kind of fall on your face type moments at times
where he has a bad game. It's a really bad game, but he is such a good top laner. He's
very consistent overall. And in this game, he created like a nearly 3000 gold lead.
And when he looked down to the final team fights to me, he was such a different speaker.
He's creating so much space for the team. And he was so hard for them to actually
burst down when you're looking at, you know, a very, very careful getting engaged
on and then in Ari and in the Roar who don't really have enough consistent dps to threaten him,
he was pretty much like just a brick wall. Honestly, it was pretty heroic performances
across the board, depending on what fight you looked at. I will say to the HLE fans out there
and the Gen G fans both, it's one game in the finals. Gen G got the next two. This ain't a best
to five. It's a best of three. Jobs not done. HLE need to keep this momentum going. They
can't afford to fall. They're notorious for winning a game one and then collapsing
if they lose a game too.
They felt like they broke that curse in the finals.
They felt like they broke that curse in the lower bracket of the LCK playoffs.
But they can't fall back on that here.
No, they can't.
Gen.G is selected to go to the blue side.
We were quite, I want to say impressed, but also puzzled in a positive way, what did
you say?
Surprised in a good way about the choices that they decided to make.
Ultimately, it didn't work out and I got it tossed.
Do you have a really...
All I'm going to say is I speak for the collective analysis, how I have mine
when I say maybe there's no counter to Yone and it's time to ban him.
That might be time. That's my only thing. Maybe.
The time was the day one. The time was yesterday.
A little bit. A little bit.
I've been thinking it's time to ban Yone since when I saw Yone's champion spotlight, man.
Welcome back to Worlds 2024, everybody, and champion select powered by Omen and HyperX
for game number two. Here are our LCK finals rematch between Gen.G and HLE.
Now, the previous game was looking real good for Gen.G for quite a while,
and then Delight showed everybody in the world why REL's solo queue playrate is about to go up tonight.
Let's see how this second one plays out.
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We're in the whole game for your team as support, yeah.
Honestly, I don't even think we're going to get to test.
Oh, will Gen.G ban Yone now?
Because they're on Blue side.
And now it's Hanwa Life's turn on being on Red side
to ban it and I think that they very well know of course the power of this champ I don't think they
want to give it over to first pick to gen g so I would assume that they are not going to give that
and trade for really anything yeah I'm trying to figure out what the first pick would be in that
situation though because like Yone taking away probably going to get something like the
Sejuani ban probably coming through here Aurora still up to Aurora yeah I to be fair though
though I haven't really been overly like confident on the Aurora pick I think it's
like it probably looks really good in scrims where you get to catch someone and
pop off but I feel like in organized teamfights it hasn't had quite the same
impact so I'm curious to see if it is just okay gonna be it again but I'm still
waiting to be blown away by this pick yeah I mean if they were willing to
not ban Yone on red side and then pick up the Aurora then they're like
definitely still willing to first pick it here on the blue side or at
very least hover it we'll see about the final lock-in they got it they got it all
right so it's Aurora first for the side of Gen.G, Jax, Smolder, Malkai, banned out
by their side Hanwha gonna go ahead take out that young and like we were
talking about alongside the Nidalee and the Ziggs you know Kobe coming from
coming from North America where Nidalee is just nothing but a bait
pick all the time I have to remember when we get to these international
competitions that oh yeah you really do have to ban this away from Kaney
Like this is a real champion now.
Yes, he's saying they do.
And it is actually going to leave open another Vi
combination here.
So again, similarly to the previous ones that we saw,
it's like you go for an AP kill-oriented matchup with Vi.
The Ori, of course, is very popular.
And they're going to go AP topside first,
as Rumble has just been spam-picked even after the nerf.
Seems like nobody cares.
On the other side, they actually instantly
take away that Auri possibility and pair it again themselves with the Nocturne.
This could set up for Zeca to go for Silas.
He's always worked relatively well in for his Diary and
well, it's there.
He's going towards the other pick.
That is a world champion of 2022, Zeca, to you there.
Put some honor on that.
Yeah, on the Akali.
Oh man, this is beautiful.
Back at Worlds and back on Akali here.
a Yone game, beautiful stuff, very very excited for this second match and with Atoly already
having advantage in this series, like I'm feeling so much pressure for Gen G now and we're
even done with the draft for game two.
Yeah, and the interesting thing here for me is although the sides are swapped, Gen
G is running it back from game one, right?
Like you look at the three champions that they picked, we're doing the exact same stuff.
Meanwhile in Hanwha Life, everything's looking a little bit different here.
Yeah, I do like the Renata band though because I was kind of clutching a lot
games where it was going to be, hey, we can dissuade you from that big dive, which you can already see
Hamas setting up for us. So I'm curious if we get the Ezreal and the Kaisa ban now coming through
on towards Viper just to deny that easy follow-up. And then it becomes a case of what do you want to
try and take into that AD carry position when so many of those easy self-reliant champions are
removed from the pool. All right, Renata, Xayah, Xanderwei, Ezreal banned away. Remember
I remember that Ezreal was also banned last time.
Kind of vibing, actually.
My jet lag brain started dancing.
I respect that.
You live your best life.
We got some good games.
We got some chill beats.
We might as well just relax.
Unless you want to spend your weekend, you know?
Alright, what else we got?
Kaisa.
Yeah, Viper's been scary.
Alright, we take out the Kaisa possibilities with the dive.
Of course, even with just the Vi,
You're already scared about any of the setups for that champ and by banning out the Kaisa
You also kind of break up and lower a little bit the rel of priority
And so you're like please delight don't just combo us again
And win the entire fight
Vipers definitely been a gin lover. So we're gonna have some more
More long range more CC as well from this champ a lot of a lot of possibilities here
actually for HLE for some kind of drawn-out teamfights and also then the
counter pick for delight which is gonna work out fantastically as well you just
saw how good he was in the rail but they get to answer for whatever LeHens wants to
go for. With the Calista Hubbard I'm still imagining something like an
Alistair probably for LeHens and maybe just gift the rail across just saying
hey I can answer into so many of these knock-ups having Alistair and that
repeat send-in of the Fates call just gives so much bounce-hounds potential
to Genji. And since we're already on the last pick we know that there's
There's no place for Silas to fit into the enemy comp if you do pick that.
Also because we're still late in the draft, I also really like the late Jin picks.
Jin picks when you already see enemy top and jungle picked.
So you know there's not going to be like super beefy tanks of Skarner and stuff like that
in it.
And so you have faith that the Jin is going to be able to do plenty of damage and there
is a lot of squishy members on the side of Gen G.
That being said, they do at least lock in the Leona here to have their real
linchpin on their side to bring together the full engage and they have so much
possibilities again on GenG. We mentioned their pick potential last time.
It gets even bigger here. And I always like Leona into Jin as well because it's
so easy for if he opens up the curtain call and you're trying to disengage or
anything. You can just throw the solar flare and he just, alright, curtain's done.
Spotlight's way too bright. Need to move on. Well, there is the route that we were expecting once again for Delight.
Yeah, and I do think it works out perfectly here.
You just have follow-up, great engage on Pino with the Vi.
You've got two very much dive carry potentials coming through
from the Cali with just her old foot also.
That's threat of the rumble old foot on towards the backline
with that follow-up.
So it's very easy for Hamlet to operate
in this sort of composition.
And again, Gen G, they kind of need
to get out to the bat swinging.
Because yes, you've got a Leona who can face-check this,
but it's a very similar composition
to what we saw in the last game.
So does that mean, let me ask you this gentleman.
We'll just be direct about it.
Did Hanwha win draft?
I mean, I don't think it's that big of a difference.
I think this one is going to be gameplay for sure.
OK, those are my favorite ones, to be honest.
Because honestly, there is so much pressure on the side of Gen.G
with the lanes that they have drafted here.
And remember, back to the first game,
like it was just because Hanwha were
able to get the big team fight and full combo on them,
Gen.G had been able to maneuver objectives
really favorably for themselves.
And so, yeah, honestly, I had no problem with a lot of the re-picks here for Gen.G.
I'm just curious if we do get another lane swap, because it did definitely help in the early stages for Hanwha and just been able to avoid a lot of these type of matchups,
because at the moment you're still looking at three pushing lanes for Gen.G, which is always a terrifying prospect to give across to this team.
Oh, yeah. All right. Let's see if Gen.G can take us to a third game.
Remember the original LCK finals, the summer finals that we had just a few weeks ago did go the distance all the way to game number five.
We'll see if Gen. G can take us all the way to the third game here in this one or if Hanwha is going to be our second team heading to Paris for the quarterfinals.
If they can repeat the success that LNG just had with the 2-0, Gen. G, invading enemy jungle here going to force Peanut back as Lahans and Keen step far forward into the chicken brush.
Looks like on my life. Not super interested in this. Yeah, nice full jungle takeover there for Gen G to be able to suss out any
Early spread play here from HLE, but H. Oh
Quite gets it. Okay does find the ward
On world patch 2 the ward still give a little bit of experience. So nice little boost there
for Zekka plus the bottom lane and
And the ward left behind on the red buff here by Gen G will suss out that it is going to be bot side start for Peanut and
Vi also kind of like Nocturne is almost always gonna go for the full clears unless
Like our first series of the day you have a specific matchup that has CC in it that is going to bring you there
And our it was a beautiful, you know way way
a deviation from normal play to go up there, play off of the Renekton stun and get it,
but should just be full clears for both junglers to opposite sides.
The only argument I have against it is if Peanut wants to try and get in towards that
topside to maybe burn a flash for Keen and help out Doran, but I mean you can see at
the bottom of your screen how very dominant Gen.G has been in this matchup domestically,
so Hamlan looking to really upset the apple card once again here on the world stage.
Yeah, I mean, Hanwha put a stop to the early talk of Gen.G talking about their Golden Road, even, you know, a really big combo breaker here
that Hanwha were able to pull off in finals, and they're not stopping. They want to do it at Worlds as well, with already being a game up.
Gentlemen, we're talking about past right now. I am just so much loving the present because there is no lane swap.
That is always a blessing here in a game of modern League of Legends as
Once again our reminder Mercedes featured matchup the mid lane
Chovy versus Zeka the Ari last time around the Yone Reign supreme as he has done in most matchups so far in worlds
This time around Ari versus Akali and to start to take you to the past again flowers
But that featured matchup does have roots
in, you know, semi-finals of Worlds, and Zeca taking us back here with the Akali as well,
back to when he did get the World Championship for himself.
Of course the early stages against Chovy's Ari are going to be a little bit difficult,
getting pushed in a bunch, and the Ari also going to the Grasspear, stacking that up.
Ooh, Doran with the Flash, McKeen immediately flashing back away as Peanut was going top,
looking for the angle.
And that's what's kind of expecting to wait for Pina to come in.
You try and look for the slow with the harpoon and then maybe you can get a flash from Keen and keep Doran's
because then you've got a bit more kill potential from Doran if you do land an electric harpoon on towards Keen bus.
Just flash for flash burning that top side and you still got Pina and he's just going to look for the reset now.
But I didn't want to go back towards the conversation because I think Zeke 2022 we look and go,
oh well it was like a Kali's and Silas's in the meta and that's why Zeke really popped off.
He has really grown as a player over this last period where he has started added tons more to his champion pool
Like he looks insane on picks like the azir. He looked great in the 80 carry meta
This guy is coming as an all-rounder now as just a very very
Confident and strong mid laner that you always have to fear
And backing up a little bit here's the light found that shattering strike on him, but
HLE pretty much
Undeterred down here in the bottom lane farm fest
So, nice little pings too, you can always see Gen.G tracking enemy jungle.
Of course they know it was bot side clear for Peanut, and it was going to be very standard
for Vive, but it was perfect timing there.
You see the blue ping immediately on Gromp, they know he's going for his re-clear of his
second path.
So, bot lane also knows, hey, you know it's a possible hover there, so there get
pushed in, they don't want to do anything crazy right now to draw any extra attention,
It kind of keeps that semi-timer on enemy jungle so that you know where he's going to go in the future.
He ends with the engage on Viper, forcing out the cleanse, dropping the ignite on him as well.
Viper can walk off without needing to use the flash, but he is pretty hurt now.
The aggro of Gen.G here in this bottom lane, the power of Kalista with any sort of aggressive support is always scary in these early duels.
I think that also sets up, then, for them to start to look for a rotation here.
because you push in bot, you've just seen it there.
They can rotate up towards these early void groups too.
And Keen should be able to push out this wave
and just nicely continue this objective control
that I think Genji really want to get rolling,
especially when you can play heavily through all three lanes.
Void groups become so nice for Tarjaks,
but to like Combs, just got to step away.
Yeah.
It was fine.
Meanwhile, the mid-lane matchup that we were just looking at,
and I like how the analyst has touched on how good Zeke is,
especially in the early stages of the melee versus range matchups.
He did quite nicely with his CS versus Chovy's Ari on the Yone.
And also was trying to keep up pretty well here on the Akali,
a little bit difficult of course, and taking a slight deficit,
but still getting back to lane and into the level 6 point
where Akali finally does have some possibilities of joining some of these fights
where Peanuts actually trying to sneak away one of these grubs real quick.
Yep.
Grabs one without having to use his smite by the way, which is so key for the first grub
pack.
I don't know if he'll actually try and go right back and steal one away, but sometimes
you can kind of wrap around and steal one away, see if enemy junglers use their smite,
but he's not even going to go check.
The job is done.
You just need one, again, out of the first pack to put the threat of four on second
pack.
And I think he's just going to move down over towards this dragon.
Even though you look at the reset coming through from Viper, they know that Paze
has just gone for the reset themselves, so he's going to match his heck.
Okay, goes Gress, one towards Choli.
Yeah, using that smoke screen to continue pushing forward.
But with LaHen's in delight, both joining in.
Now, Zek has got to try to be a little bit more careful.
Perfect execution to get himself back away
to the safety of his own turret.
But a calling now with half HP and no flash
will not feel confident trying to go down
and join this fight for the Drake.
So that means Pina's just got to give it up
as Gen.G walks their troops in
and secures the subjective.
That is so massive for Gen.G.
and big credit to LeHens for positioning and timing
and being there to be able to get Zeka's ult on the Akali
plus the flash means you now don't really
have to worry about any of the early burst damage
and early possibilities of even getting money to snowball
into the RE.
Plus, you chase them off the objective trade there.
They get the extra grub as well as the dragon.
Thanks for the leash, Mr. Peanut,
but they already got mid priority first
and mid priority very, very, very frequently
does translate into those neutral objectives.
So nicely kind of cascaded from mid lane by Gen G here
to once again put themselves into a position
to control the dragon stacking.
And the hands were so impressive yesterday as well
with his ability to be in the right place
at the right time, catching out so many members
of the enemy team, like wrapping around the back
of that bar and pit to set up so many of these early
engages and get Gen G into that strong point.
But might need to double check himself.
LaHens trying to get back away from this one shattering strike not connecting there
LaHens doing a good job stank just slightly above the hit bar from the last game. I
Love a little perfect sidestep there
able to
Avoid as well. So honestly
Very nice stuff here again in the opening session for Gen. G
Bars the objectives are controlled
Canyon again, farming here on the nocturne, trying to get up to his experimental hex plate as quickly as possible,
trying to hit that breakpoint just before the next dragon, and seems to be on pace.
Alright, still pretty calm early game, similar to last time around, the team's just not interested in all the PvP angles instead,
just farming it up, getting to the point where they feel like they're better suited to find some of those bigger fights,
of those bigger fights I would suppose Gen.G with a nice early lead though, about 800 gold
or so.
But that's what we are kind of expecting from Gen.G coming into this fight.
You have three pushing lanes, just let them do their thing and start to get these lane
advantages and you can see the CES numbers are coming through for them in every single
lane with those advantages.
So just take it slow, play for push, play for Void Grubbs, reset, come back out then
use those Void Grubbs to threaten towers, look for your next dragon.
Everything on Gen.G is already laid out as a very easy roadmap to follow.
is on Hanwha to try and find ways to disrupt that, and that has to be on Pinus. He has this
boy, has the level 6 available, or the ultimate available, look for a play on for his pace,
try and burn some of these early summoner spells, and maybe then that gives you that
window to take the advantages out of Genji's hands.
And that's something that we were already talking about in game number one, is Peanut
is definitely the guy who can make those plays happen. He can find those angles,
he can find those engages. It's just can they manage to do it in time to make
sure that Gen.G doesn't build this lead up into something that's too formidable to make
it work out the way they want it to work out, to be able to just have the advantage off
of the angle and the extra timing alone of getting that engage that you need.
Zeca continuing to farm up here in the mid lane.
You really want to see that Akali hit his big first item spike as well, being the
melee champion, being the assassin.
Very important to not fall behind.
And I really want to highlight all the vision work that Gen.G do.
It's such a good setup here for the second pack of grubs where we know there's
going to be emphasis on those grubs. The desync timer there with the dragon. They've got fully
warded up behind and leading to it. Plus they have the mid lane control so it's just like
really nice setup here to again secure a lot of these early objectives for themselves and
they'll easily be able to get to at least four for themselves, probably five since nobody is
heading over for HLE. And HLE once again trying to do the cross map instead. Don't even want
try and fight you on it and they'll go for some turret plate money bottom it's
still jindal and even with the demolish that's going through from delight they
are very slow at taking these terrorists so in the grand scheme of things you're
still happy enough to take this trade is Gen G and then you can just start to
look for hey dragon go for the minute's time okay let's well steal away
some camps and scan you but then reset back out of the map threaten a
potential terror in mid and you're always playing with the back foot
here's how well because of the three pushing lanes yeah especially because
later into the game this the extra grub with the void might there spawning is
really gonna help out the double AP splitting with the threat of the knock
turn covering so they can try and seamlessly transition into that game
plan as well much later into the game let's see about the setup for that
dragon that you mentioned though because that is the area that HLE kept
their vision in and they do have to get deeper of the word there through
jungle. Lehenz though, moving right in, on schedule, ahead of dragon arrival, clears out
the critical brush there that has determined so many dragon teamfights. Trying to set himself
up with a good position to engage.
Hamlet could try and go for some sort of cross mop, but I'm kind of keeping my eyes
on delight because it feels like he's going to be the arrow of the point's direction
that they want to go. You do have already opening up a mid for Viper, plus with
Peanut on bottom side it looks like I'm what I'm ready in a position to go for anything even keep resetting as well to deny them
Any sort of dive potential close?
Yeah, just I'm not ready in a position to do anything. It's an easy second Drake for Gen G
Five grubs to one two Drake's to zero a very very modest gold lead
But still everything in the first 12 and a half minutes of the game is going their way
still with zero kills for either side on the board as Gen.G now with a three-man
push in the bottom lane looking to mine some more plate money away as Zekka's
already in the smoke but with that defensive cooldown used with Solar Flare
finding them it's such an easy first blood for Gen.G. Zekka thought it was
enough to stay safe but it wasn't now a flashback over the wall from Peanut
while Doran can't find the kill on Chovy. Hanwha thought they might have
seen a counter punch there but Gen G gets away from it.
Great job from LeHens to lock down Zeka in the shroud.
Peanut steps forward.
Oh, hold on now.
Between worlds, Peanut could be in a little bit of trouble
but Viper's coming down to look to help him
toward with a Flamesbitter.
But instead, it's just another death.
This time for Peanut, Delight wants to go in.
LeHens finally drops.
Viper gets the kill and the cartons are called.
Keen sniped down again.
A double kill back over to Viper.
Zeka shows up.
The cavalry has arrived! And Genji overstays their welcome!
Genji got duped! They thought they were the ones with the advantage trying to push through,
seeing if they get just a smidgen more of those kills in their favor.
But it's actually homewire, wherever you turn it around, with some grace shots raining down from Viper.
Yeah, I mean, Genji win the first fighting and come out so, so ahead and they even are like,
oh great, we got another follow-up pick, but they have to call it just after that, you know.
Lahens goes in and they actually flash away to avoid it.
Viper getting a double kill off this could be problematic,
but even Zeka, who on the Akali,
died so early on the Tower Dive,
also gets gold at the end of this super long extended.
I love this guy.
I love his reaction so much.
Zeka still getting some money though at the end of that
And Zekka actually had a ring as well.
So a couple extra stacks there on the dark seal.
I think as well, the fact that Pina had Sundersky
completed was huge because they tried to burst the mouse
and he just gets the shield off his passive
and the Sundersky's proc,
which makes it really difficult to take him down.
Just buys that a little bit of extra time,
but this is still a Gen G-favorite map
and the Masked Arlain economy snapshot showing that.
Viper with that static shift, very far ahead,
I'll pays, but how much can this Gen do
against the onslaught of Gen G?
All right, here comes the return.
The Herald alone won't be able to kill the turret,
but a demolished proc plus a charge.
That is the end of the road for the tier one turret here
in mid lane.
First turret taken for the side of Gen.G.
Hanwha had already secured the one in the bottom lane
for themselves.
The Hens drifting, boom, right into the turret.
The last little bit of damage, you'll get it done.
Then Zenith blade back onto Zec.
Had to try to get himself away.
Canyon covering his retreat there with a paranoia.
Nicely done from Chen Qi to get a two-for-one deal on that Herald Summit.
LaHens is such a Chad!
Holy five-head driving through enemy jungle to get the back door on the bot turret there,
takes it, gets out alive.
Extra bonus objective there.
Now that's what you call efficiency.
That's how you drive a ripped Herald, man.
But they first made this change in the game.
We saw so many people wreck the Herald into a wall or drive it a little bit silly.
Everybody's got their license now.
Everybody knows how to drive this thing and LaHens might as well be a professional at it
This guy knows how to maneuver that Herald through enemy territory Genji still though
They're only 500 gold ahead
Despite the fact that they've had the lead for the longest time in the game because of that counterattack that Hanwha had
Underneath the tier one turret earlier. It's still so close
I think the difference though is now Genji have two of those editor is down and they get to just use these
aggressive lanes now to push Hamo back further and further on the map then drift
towards this topside take the top tower and then just continues to keep them
pushed back third dragon though now 45 seconds will alleviate some pressure
where Hamo can maybe find a successful fight with the hens he's fine he's
John he's Leona it's all right very lonely Leona though well luckily he's
got some buddies now you can get back to the safety of chovy right next to
I'm not gonna take the opportunity just get this mid lane shoved up. Oh unlucky for Jen deadly flourish missed
She's gonna buy a sliver, but oh well Thorin farming a bottom lane here now on the rumble as well
Does have his proto belt is level 12. So he has the second level of the ulti
We know that rumble is a mid game team fight monster
And I want to see if HLE can find an angle to really get the most out of that
And Viper himself even though he used his flash offensively and that bot side play to collect the extra kill
So his flash is going to come off cooldown just a couple seconds after Dragon, so it's
going to be ready.
Ooh, the deadly flourish there on Canyon forces him to use paranoia defensively as now HLE
has all five players here in the Botside River.
They know that Gen G took the first two drakes.
They don't want to give them the sole point, not on an infernal map especially.
So now HLE overloading this part of the map means they're going to secure the drake
and Gen G is saying, fine, take it.
They want to go and trade the tier 2 turret back in the mid lane at the same time, but
it ain't going to work out so well as the Hens tries to get away, but he's locked up,
beat down, finally saved by Paze, who uses that Callista ultimate to keep his teammate
around.
Zeka goes in, perfect execution over the wall, he's not perfect enough!
Zeka just barely misses the damage and throws his own life away.
They thought that with the paranoia down, Hanwha would have an advantage.
Gen.G tried to trade from mid-turt, but the overextension from Zeka hoping to get a couple more kills
ends up just gifting one back to Gen.G and sets them up for the top lane terror as well.
And those are the benefits of really quickly moving on to the next objective.
You know, Gen.G are like, alright, fine, we don't have an archer on ultimate,
we're not going to chase you, nor I'm going to mess around with you at dragon.
They immediately went mid lane to push on mid lane, and then as soon as the rest of HLE are rotating over,
they kite backwards, and even with they getting a little dicey,
Lens taking a large amount of damage before the Kalista ult came in.
It just even kind of acted as bait there as they're able to flash over the back of Baron pit,
draw them in, and even come out with an extra kill on top of the top tower that Aurora is able to get.
Three to three, 32.6 to 30.7 in the gold.
Next Drake not going to spawn for a few more minutes.
Baron will be alive in 40, but the game is so close.
I don't really see anybody rushing towards it
We talk about Baron rushes and stuff like the previous game where we had on ferris with Bork and ginsu
Callista with lethality items first and a jinn just being jinn neither one of those going to do the same level of rushing on a
Baron I don't think yeah, I think this is where all you really want is Gen G is to
Use the pressure Nocturne creates in the map you have a push in boss
You can already see Canyon is just kind of babysitting chubby little bit as he gets that lane pushed in
But he's always pressuring both bottom mid which is opening up then for the pressure on me to leave it in towards keen on top
Side and continuously just moving across all these three lanes making an early impossible for how much it really contests you
And at that stage then you get the vision you need in the jungle to then actually pull the trigger with this nocturne
Ultimus aren't even if you don't for the next three minutes
You still get so much control for the likes of that dragon or any other objective on the map
So I think the slow and steady will continue for Gen G here
Gen G with all of those gold leads in every role except for the Marksman role
going back to what I was talking about in game number one when remember when
these guys are so dominant in their league when they are running the show
it's because they're outpacing everybody back in the era of the AP
junglers with the AD mids back in the era it was just turbo farm turbo farm
turbo farm they're really good at setting that pace and making it so hard
for opponents to keep up with them it feels like you're drowning even if
Even in kills and the fights feel pretty close. These guys are constantly just pushing the needle ever so slightly further and further ahead
And again in this game setting themselves up so ahead in the objective area
Now someone just needs to message them. Hey, don't group up in front of the lights
Remember rel is in the game just remember
Don't get jumped on there
And as long as you're able to do that and leverage the tools that you guys are talking about
they should be able to have these incremental advantages with the extra
leverage of threat of Nocturne ultimate on the side lanes pushing to get small
leads here and there to be able to push in and get the positioning that they want.
Again the deeper wards are all theirs they're the ones with the ward behind
raptor pit behind red pit here even as the lights trying right now to clear as
much as he can there are still angles here for Gen G so they can see you
coming ahead of time and really set up their plays. I think even just getting
a second item onto Canyon would be super nice as well. With the minute left on
towards the next objective these second item break points are going to make such
a big difference and especially when you look at, oh well Viper now picking up his
second item, your Shadow Flame kind of almost there for Zeka but I'm not
entirely sure how much Gold he has but this is where these little moments
of small incremental advantages can come back to break the game open for
Gen G.
That's what really the gold lead comes down to, right?
It's like, OK, you can be X amount of gold ahead.
But if it doesn't result in a meaningful item difference,
then the fight's still going to more or less just come down
to who's got the execution.
Secondfully completed item 4 key.
You've got the cosmic drive.
You've got the leandry.
This Aurora can be an absolute menace
if she's just allowed to do the damage in the middle
of the fight.
The range, of course, always being the issue.
You've got to make sure you don't get caught out.
Don't get put in a spot where you can just get exploding.
Alright, they're fighting the good fight trying to clear out some of the extra vision leading up trying to retake their own territory
It's always dangerous and removing in but the light is able to do it even finally gets the ward on to the Baron
I mean for the majority of the year Genji was credited as being the best macro team in the entire world
And they're still just continually setting themselves up for success
And I think it's little understanding of how they can get those advantages even looking at pay's bill
He's gone for this lethality Galista which is all for I get push on mid wave
And I cleared these waves very quickly, but less of a massive threat when it comes towards these team fights
So I think that's why Genji still need to be a little nervous as they enter in towards this very dark dragon area
I mean basically everybody in this game is pretty squishy. We've got some tanky targets
You know the Leonor the rail divide, but there's a lot of very very
Viable kill targets, you know both teams. So let's look at this setup here once again
always spot Delight, LeHendz chases him out, Zeka setting up for maybe a
pincer attack here Delight's gonna be stunned up in the very start of the
fight he tries to get away but he sends into the fear he's sent into the graveyard
Canyon grabbing the first kill there is now he has to disengage Hanwha Life have
already lost their clutch factor they have no way to try to approach this
fight now yeah actually so so smart that LeHendz runs straight at Delight
they push him out of the brush immediate knock turn ultimate they
immediately jump on him and take away all that possibility of the setup.
Beautiful stuff here from Gen.G to even get themselves to a sole point pretty
quickly into the game considering they gave up one of the Infernal Dragons and
they're not even done. Oh Doran with the flash over the wall to try to escape but
as soon as that summoner spell is down Aurora is going between worlds and
Doran is trying to get all the way back to safety. Pina down to a hundred
HP pays jumps forward with a beautiful shot from the pierce to take him down
Doran didn't realize he was backing on a ward
It didn't want to blow that summoner spell early because flash is the only way he can get out of that Aurora ult
And as soon as he does King picks him off and they say well sets up for the pick and it's actually they turn on to
Penos to actually finish off the jungler from home or from mom Wednesday
Genji looking good here in the second game, now on sole point in four minutes.
An infernal sole threat on this team could be absolutely harrowing for HLE,
but they're having such a difficult time getting close.
Genji getting so much value out of this Nocturne ulti like you're talking about.
Every single time there's one of those big moments,
and these guys are so good at team fighting, both teams,
teams that just that little bit of extra pause that you have to have because it's so dark.
I feel like it's making such a difference in HLE not being able to respond to Gen G.
And we've got some, you know, pretty big gold leads now really layering up here on Gen G.
Mid and jungle looking quite nice here.
Chovy is back on the Auri and Chovy has some extra damage to work with you.
The picks are definitely going to be hard for HLE to avoid, and really if you're looking
at the comeback play, it's going to have to be another huge team fight at one of the objectives
to get themselves back into this game if they are going to do so, and they don't have a
lot of time to do that with.
Alright, that is flourish, only hits the hands, not really that big of a deal.
Can you not now jump in and for a little bit more, Paze could get caught out, pop
in the cleanse, trying to get away to the last cone, Paze still alive for now.
They're trying to dive into him, they finally get the shut down but now Zeka's gotta be careful
equalized.
It comes down over the top, Toby trying to escape.
Zeka sure he can flip, ain't gonna find the target, Shelby gets away between Worlds coming
down here for Gen G.
Double comeback over to Canyon.
It's too dead on Gen G.
It's too dead on HLE.
Or the moments.
And Zeka is trying to get away, Canyon with the flash in for the fear and Keen won't
let him get out.
The weirding just puts him into the dirt as that TP puts Gen G right back in
a spot for more objectives, more gold and more of a lead against Hanwha. Hanwha committed
so much to try and make that fight happen, but Gen. G more than happy to take it back
against them. The TP comes in from the Akali on the bottom side and Pina tries to get
the connection here until Han doesn't quite hit, then goes forward on towards Paze,
but Zeke goes over the wall, misses his E, his Shuriken flip, so it doesn't
mean to get back on to Paze. Has to use the perfect execution to get back into
the fight and then just doesn't have a huge amount of damage to try and finish this off.
The equalizer does a lot of work, but Keen is able to focus down the life. Viper is playing
catch up this whole fight trying to see if he can get into position.
But with Canyon and Keen there, he just can't really get the damage off he wants to.
Yeah. I mean, the whole plan there was get the ultimate onto Paze and immediately delete
him. But as you say, when you break that combo, if you don't hit the E,
not going to be able to do it quick enough. And then Gen G punished so quickly. Nice response
They even got an objective in addition to chasing down the extra kill.
Genji, 4,000 gold ahead, 90 seconds until the next Drake spawns.
And it just feels like the opportunity for HLE to come back into this game is disappearing minute by minute.
LeHens, unafraid to walk up and set that ward down.
As you can see HLE again forced back trying to defend the tier two.
Delight trying to hide on the bush there at the back, because each of you is checking this with all of his spells, but it doesn't quite hit, but eventually they get the word down Delight has to back away.
But it's keen, pushing in this topside, spreading Homwok, staying across the map once more, and with Dragon in 50 seconds, you've already got the control you need as Gen.G to pick up that soul for yourself.
Homwok desperately needs something, maybe that Infinity Edge for Viper is enough, but they need so much to work in their favour in this next place.
Well, let me remind you of a game state just an hour ago, where Gen.G was poised to essentially lock the game in for themselves.
They had a great pick, they were heading towards the soul, and then delight changed the entire momentum of the game.
I feel like if you're Gen.G right now, that's got to be in your mind, and they know they need this approach to be clean, with 15 seconds left on the timer before that soul spawns.
It's funny because I know that play is going to be referenced all tournament long now.
Here we go.
You better believe it.
But Canyon poppin' the paranoia, solar flare lands.
They found a lot of damage under the light.
It's hard to find a counter attack like that and Paige gets the kill.
Now he's going to be careful because P-9 and Zekka are ready to take him down.
Viper getting away on the top of the fight at the same time but Gen.G is just cutting
through everybody.
Keen gets back away across the veil.
The shutdown on Viper and Gen.G get it done.
Genji are out for blood. They're out for vengeance. They killed the light first every single time now wait lens is
Leonis. Thank you enough. It's fine
Doran wants to get out Doran going crazy there looking for Chofi
All right, that's he knows the game. It's slipping away. And so he wants the miracle play
You know he wants to be able to try and do something crazy to bring it back
But again Gen G not turn lights out Leona old stuns up the rail they go immediately onto it
Just left hand just like fine to like you beat us last game really nicely played
But we are gonna take you out. It's also just keen on the back line
He put so much threatened on to Viper because everyone is diving forward
But he just locks Viper up Viper flashes up the wall
He follows over Jordan is late to going back towards them. You see he never gets open up with a curtain call
That's how that Jett is supposed to operate in this composition. Everyone goes forward.
He stays way back in the safety and just fires from afar, but it's keen putting that pressure disrupting the home log game.
Yeah, we're seeing a lot of value out of the Aurora pick. Plus this time around Gen.G in order to enact this game plan did not give away
the Yone. So the Yone card is also not in the game.
Very important card. Since Gen.G was on blue side this time around and it looks like this Baron here should be burned out.
on HLE, time is really running out for them,
so you know their desperation meter
is just like through the roof now.
You kind of already saw it with the Dorian play,
but you know, there's like any sort of play
that even looks half good, we should just go for it.
I mean, half is better than the chance
that you're gonna have just sitting
and giving everything over to Gen G at this point,
as King can immediately just walk back away
as soon as he sees HLE trying to defend these brushes,
defend this vision. Elder won't spawn through another four and a half minutes, but for the
next two and a half, it's Baron in possession for Gen.G.
Yeah, and I think the problem is you're just so far behind as almost everyone apart from
Piper on Hamwa, that it's impossible to fly back. You're in full item behind on Jungle
and Mid. They're playing with so much confidence, Canyon and Jovey, knowing that they are basically
untouchable for a lot of this unless the light has some miracle play. So for the
moment, Hamwa desperate to make something happen, but I just think they're running
at a time.
King just putting in the work on the tier 3 turret all alone all by himself all uninterrupted.
That tier 3 turret is already gone.
Canyons over the wall ready with a paranoia.
Genji just waiting, biting the time they know they don't have to force anything.
The game favors them so heavily at this point.
HLE still just scrambling trying to defend.
How frustrated has this got to be as Hamwa like this slow, slow methodical pace
from Gen.G, where it's a death by a thousand cuts and now those cuts continue to rain down
as they're underneath the tower.
There it goes, the dive is ready to go in, Delight tries to make the miracle happen,
but Gen.G are not believers here today.
Doran getting dove by LeHens, a little bit more damage we get it done and finally the
burn seals the deal.
Gen.G, they might have lost LeHens, they might have lost Canyon, but they get the
the tier two turret, they get plus one on the kills in the fight.
Again, even with the tower there, they'll go straight through the front line, gets a little
dicey as they dive really deep and the tower is still standing for the beginning of that
fight, but in the end still further progressing, they're marched towards the Nexus, still
get the tower, get the extra kills too, and here it is, they actually got them
both with the weirding, caught Viper in it too, and so Canyon went into the back
of it to try and put the extra pressure onto Viper, and then it gets a little
I see as far as keeping him in and lehens tried to follow and because lehens is able to have the ignite there
And actually finishes off the extra kill on the door and they are still able to move forward with it
It's coach's expressions. You just put it. It's really great. I
Kind of forget about the game as soon as he pops up. Oh, what's gonna happen?
Anticipating oh what's gonna be this time whether they're winning or losing whatever's happening
All right, we've got 10 seconds left on our Red Bull Baron power play here.
It's plus 3500 for Gen.G, which is a really solid game for that objective.
And now it's sub two minutes until the Elder Spawns.
I feel like if you're HLE, this is it.
It's a Hail Mary play at Elder Dragon.
It's the one thing that could bring you back into a spot where you could win the fight
if you steal it away or something.
Other than that, this one's pretty much zipped up for Gen.G.
I mean, we all expect Gen.G to finish out this game and to win.
But if you are on comms on the side of HLE, I would try and proffer the idea of peanut
go in front of Delight, because peanut is fine and you can use your ultimate to actually
still get the engage and go immune. Even if they go on you, you can try and immune some of their
CC. But peanut really has to step in front of Delight. I feel like to be the first layer of it
because fight after fight after fight. Genji are just taking out the rail before
Rilke has had any sort of effect and so even though your chances are very low and you're so far behind you're how itemized
I think you have to try and like immune to the go from Gen G to try and get your own opening sure, but guys
We have a problem
Is to go for the one that doesn't have an immunity kill the ends of just fingers crossed
Okay, well it is total control over the enemy jungle here for Gen.G it will steal the enemy
blue buff as well. They'll sit down all this vision, the elder is going to spawn in 30 seconds.
You can see the recall for the Rabadon's death cap from Keen who now teleports back
to join up with the rest of the team. Nearly full build Aurora, nearly full build
on the Ari. Keen jumping away there from the deadly flourish. HLE trying to make their approach.
Delight's got to be careful. He does not want to eat a bunch of damage before he makes his way in
for the hard engage. Another deadly flourish flies out. Doesn't get a whole lot. Doran getting
chunked by the damage potential of Chovy and Genji. Yeah, I mean the poke is so problematic that
it looks like Doran's actually going to recall for his teleport back now. He gets a vision
ward on him so he does cancel it well oh the hands immediately with a flash
engage going after Viper but he ain't gonna find the kill he wants kill he
needs keen with a rampage on peanut and Genji are way too strong free for nothing
the Viper makes it four Zaka tries to escape and Genji with a clean fight here
with the very end they do not need an altar they don't even need Zaka they
They just want him to send a message, Canyon gets back away, and there it is, LaHen's HLE!
And Chovy's pushing the minion wave into the base.
What a game for LaHen's to this one.
Gen G, the steamroller, going to even this one up and take game number two.
All that's left is the structures falling down.
I'm so glad our LCK finals rematch is not just going to be a clean sweep.
Shen-Chi ties us up.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's going to a third game.
You always knew it had to go the distance with these two teams.
Finals was the very same, and now we get to showcase exactly what these two teams are capable of.
Alright, game number three, coming y'all's way here real soon.
But right now we got a toss to a break real quick first don't go anywhere
Goss if you watch the finals, you know that HLE won the first one and then Gen G won two in a row
Well, if they do that here, yes
It's over
A little bit of a salty run back
But you know when it's Gen G we don't call it a salty run that we call it absolute genius and I for one
I'm just happy that our LEC faithful who comes to the studio every week get to see a quality
Best of three play out in all its glory.
Does it make it less salty if you win?
No. No? Yes.
I think that the questions, but they put them in a position where HLE had to ban the Yone.
So I'm wondering if Shobi would have played it. Checkmate.
But I think the second that they saw that ban they were like,
alright, we'll give it to you.
We feel like that might have been the problem.
So we'll just go one more time without that particular card in the equation.
Yeah, we have a couple of replays to get through.
First up, I want to get to the one where Genji really took control with a very clean teamfight.
I think a lot of that was reminiscent of the game before that, but here they also really shut the door.
Yeah, and you can just see the confidence on their engages. At this point in the game, they already have a pretty decent goal lead,
but there's so many fights just like this where they're getting so much space out of using the knock turn off, out of these proactive
engages coming in, the overall alt as well, isolating a lot of these key targets.
Keen is in a lot of these fights single-handedly zoning people away with like the threat of the ultimate not even the ultimate itself
As long as he has that cool down
It's so difficult for HLE to play these fights out
I mean it just looks so miserable
You know for viper on the other side trying to play the gin in these situations because they were always the one getting engaged on
Someone's always playing the fight in his face
As they all you were noticing during the game, right?
We saw last game where we had this turnaround theme fight by HLE
but also the utilization of Yone specifically which we've seen in many other games as well
and you kind of wanted to talk about the difference between
Yone and Akali or the class of champions in that same situation.
Yeah, exactly. I mean it's like you can try to replace Akali with you know,
you know, try to play Yone with Akali or Yasuo or Asilis or something else like that
but the biggest difference is that when you're playing Yone you do not have to commit yourself to these plays to actually fish for a kill.
You can E in use that all forward.
You can be chasing someone so far to actually be looking for a kill like this.
But in a situation like this instead of him being able to snap back
He goes over the wall
He's gonna actually put himself at risk of getting CC to gain lockdown of getting first down and the other main difference
Is that you only have so much follow-up CC
So when well goes in for a really big engage rumble drops the equalizer over the top and you only has that follow-up CC
You have the knockup of your Q3 of another little CC and knocks together with your ulti as well
That is holding them in that damage. So it's the safety. It's the follow-up CC
And I think that is really what is setting this champion apart from all the others in the same class
And when you look at the champions that are so popular right now, the Jhin, the Rumble, I think Kaisa as well.
These are champions who benefit so much from Yone.
And if you swap that out for literally any other mid laner, it diminishes their effectiveness so much.
Whether it's the follow-up CC, the damage, the CC to set up for Jhin, there was no poke in this game.
Like, you always want something to hit long range with Jhin so that your W, that snare, feels like an actual real tool.
And I feel so bad for Viper because once you fall behind against the Aurora Nocturne composition, you're not really playing League of Legends for the rest of the game.
It's difficult. I was holding out for that hero moment, but uh, yeah, so you're saying Zaka is a one-trick Yoni?
Question mark? He's got some more tricks. He's got more tricks. That's just the best trick. It might be everybody's best trick.
It's a good trick. I know, I'm purposely underselling him because I know he has something in the tank still,
but we also want to take a look at our HyperX reflex replay where LeHens drives the Rift Herald all the way home.
And it's really important to understand LeHens. He lives his life a quarter mile at a time, you know?
Nothing else matters not his mortgage not the house not the family and all their bullshit for these 10 seconds
LeHens is free. He's living his best life. Well, hence doesn't have friends. He's got family
And the thing is it's just I've been told shout out to chronicler. He's like lands is not allowed to drive
He does not have a license on the team. They're like no anyone else could take it not use
He's in there.
We thought it was going to be, you know, the mid lane matchup.
We thought that's where we're going to be focused.
But no, it's a coming of age story for LeHens.
He's finally allowed to drive.
He reaches out.
He finds freedom.
I mean, allegedly behind the scenes, he's driving a lot as well, right?
We always hear these epic tales of him being a mastermind, right?
When it comes to in-game decision-making and strategy.
We always say that everyone always gives the caveat we hear this.
I'm sure it's true because, or it's just the misinformation camping.
We can just make sure that we're all right.
We can just make it up, it's true.
You know what, after a play like that, he deserves a little misinformation in his favor.
Let's go, let's start the misinformation campaign right now.
Let's lock it in.
Let's take a look at the side selection, I don't know if it's in yet.
Is it true that he also lanes for Joby?
You know, I've heard he does everything at the same time.
That's crazy.
Well, I believe, you know, okay, HLE selects blue, that's probably the safest bet of all time.
Well, now we're in a position where we finally get to see if Genji will ban the Yone.
I think it would be the right choice at the very least,
But it does mean potentially leaving open something like the Aurora
Don't know if it fits in terms of what how our life are really looking to do
Certainly HLE are in a much better position being on blue side this time around
There is pressure on Genji to at least change up a little bit in terms of the band
Okay, it's interesting to me because the situation is so different than it was for the LCK finals, right?
Because we still had Tristana was still in the mix
We saw the Unicorki match up as well like all the time
So I'm hoping it goes deep and we see like an exploration of that pool
but we might as well just end up with Phyllis as well.
Who knows?
Are there any lanes that we haven't been mentioning
that actually could break this in favor of A-Chile
now that they're on the blue side?
I mean, I think you do have to give credit to Viper
because both the Ezreal and the Kaiser are banned away.
Clearly, there's a lot of respect being paid to him.
If they can take him off of one of these champions
that really has the potential to solo carry the game,
put him on something that has to facilitate someone else,
then A-Chile are really put in a position
where they have to have an ironclad draft
because Jhin and Ashe are champions
who in perfect circumstances are insane in this meta,
But otherwise, given the Aries and everything else running around,
it can feel really, really useless.
Well, and I just feel like Jin and Kaista are the two that you almost most commonly
are always going to be pairing with these heavy dive comps.
So we've been seeing so much of these like 4 melee style comps.
So I do think it kind of limits your options a little bit as far as the ADs
if you want to go down that route.
But I definitely have a second meowing to get banned.
My question is, will RA be taken away or banned by HLE on blue side?
And what would then the shift become in mid lane?
Because I think Chovy has been impressive,
but less impressive than he has been regionally especially as far as the
laning is concerned. HLE winning out in some of these lanes actually performing
really well in those 1v1s is something that I wasn't expecting. I was expecting
Gen.G to take this series pretty cleanly to be honest. I think Yone can throw a
bit of a wrench in the gears but also HLE is just playing way better. Yeah it's
interesting now because if we if we're looking at a Gen.G 2-1 you can
go like oh that first game was only that one fight by Delight and the
Yone whatever but I do think you have to give HLE a little bit more
credit than that. We're very close to heading out to the caster's gut check. Who's taking it? You say Gen. G?
I'm still on Gen. G. I was on HLE for the game one, but Gen. G had just been more consistent
across both games. Despite the explosive moments from Yone, despite one or two engages,
Gen. G in general have just been in a better position and have been playing the map just
that little bit better around early objectives. And it's really a family. And they've got family.
And Lanz is allowed to drive now. That's big. That's very big. It totally is. We're going
to see if he's going to drive this straight into that two and one, or if HLE is going to
to repeat their victory from the Summer Finals back over to my favorite.
Well, thank you very much, everybody.
My favorite band is the Yone Band, actually.
Yeah, well, that's my favorite.
Absolute perfection in the band phase,
but it is time for game number three of this series.
The winner goes on.
They secure their spot in quarterfinals.
Obviously, the losers are still going to have plenty of chance,
And they then become the grim reaper for everyone else at 2-1,
I feel like, because both of these teams
have looked so scary so far.
Yeah, I mean, I like that the analysts
also touched on the percentage of the game
that you see Gen.G in control, even though they
lost the first game, was still far above HLE, right?
Because it was all off of that big comeback fight
and then being able to snowball that
and turn it into a victory.
But Gen G, that leads to this feeling of them having control in the series overall.
And we all expect them to being back on Redside now to make the small adjustment of actually banning out the Yone.
And it seems like the way that it is going now, they should have the momentum.
They should have the upper hand, but HLE have been able to upset them before.
And now it's time to do it once again. There's the Yone.
I'm also curious what happens with things like the Callista because we've seen it now a couple of times just having so much control over that bot lane
is pretty put Viper into like awkward spots from the get-go.
So do you try and get rid of some of that early aggression or even take it for Viper early himself so that then he can have a bit more control?
But there's just so many question marks because even down to things like the Aurora more than likely still going to be open.
Is that something that Honwalt want to try and facilitate here?
All right. Well, we've got the Skarner and Nidalee band away targeting the jungle here.
there's no jungle band for you the yone and jacks banned out by genji and in the
ziggs removed from the pool by hle so let's see what they want to go with
first here with that aurora like you're talking about still open I think it gets
slammed here steal it away because if you don't you know genji are going right
back to it yeah yeah oh okay never mind they're going for the smolder instead I
gotta believe it's gonna be a keen aurora again then and then you're
You're kind of looking at jungle too here since jungle has actually taken a lot of a lot of the bands as well for
Can you if it's like the nocturne again
This seems to be the combo that they want to work with which is throw that near oral
And then just jump on whoever stuck in it plus and now what do you try and respond here with please?
It's going to be this is whanee. Just being a going back to basics
I mean
I really liked the nocturne for Canyon in the previous game right like I thought that that was huge the way that they
Were able to get those advantages with it offensively and defensively, but there you go
You're right on the money, they're going back to basics, they're going back to Sejuani for Pina.
Yeah, and it looks like the now are going to be the answer.
And I think this was a good shot.
You could have some control of the lane and being able to contest out that range in the matchup,
but it also meant we got into teamfights for game number one.
You could have that big engage to follow up with Pina or even threaten when Aurora went for these big plays.
So now it's just, is it a Callista slam or do we get something different from Gen G to try and set pays up for success?
Yeah, a lot of times we get a course.
A lot of times you'll talk to a solo laner and they'll be like yeah, you know, I'm fine
I can pick this into the matchup
You know I can pick the nar to the Aurora and it's fine
But the rest of your team is the are the ones that pay the price later because of the team fighting in fact of the champion
And so as you know, it's a lot unlike Viper to deal with that and
second to deal with that and with him being on the smolder now
Definitely is going to be such a heavy target
But Gen G they came into this one with a very cute clear game plan and they are not
deviating now what I'm really curious about for this game and we'll learn a
little bit more about potentially the answer to this question based on the last
couple of picks last game we were talking about how Gen G had all these
dominant lanes right they were ahead in every lane in terms of farm but yet we
saw no lane swap I feel like if you're looking at that Aurora again if
you're looking at a potential problem where you could be behind in multiple
lanes I'm expecting to see it I don't want to see it but I'm expecting to
Yeah, I think so as well, especially since we're probably gonna get Jinban coming through here.
Alright, she's gonna be the Kaisa, okay, so I thought they'd go for the Jinban to try and alleviate that from Viper as another kind of threat or setup.
I think you end up in a spot where you can go for the same plan of piss the Meganar level 2 as Doran, then TP down and still have your effects where you get to control us
and come out with an early lead like we saw in game number one for Hamwa,
where as Keen just end up getting a little bit pushed out of the lane in that initial play.
All right, Ash Kalista, Ezreal Kaisa, four bands, four marksmen in the second half of the draft.
Let's see what Paze wants to go with here.
Already have the Aurora and Ari, the AP solo laners combined with that threat of the knock turn for the engage and the incredible utility of the paranoia.
Expecting our supports to go for big heavy engage just like we've been seeing so far throughout the series as well.
as well, and all right, that's what they're gonna go ahead
and walk in first, put some priority on that Leona.
Now, they tell you like they could,
I mean, I guess they could give it a little,
but they already have the smolder for mid too,
so honestly, it's probably just gonna be
straightforward team fight from them.
I think that's why we didn't get the AD carry lock in,
because if it was Gina, I think it'd be comfortable
sending smolders to the bottom side of the map,
and that's why they went for the support pick up first,
and then if NOS, well then you could slam
something like an MF and play for with the Leona,
this hyper-aggressive lane on the bottom side, so it kind of forces this motor in towards the mid-lane,
and now it's the Varus lock game to try and get interacted, but that's a lot of dive again for
this Varus, and we kind of saw Pais struggle with it in the game number one, but at least
a Renata paired alongside it gives at least a little bit of that pushback.
Right, you're talking about a lot of dive, Renata, one of the greatest anti-dive champions
you can have with the bailout to save the dive target, hostile takeover, we already know
how effective that is. Even the handshake just does wonders at being able to stop that
forward motion from the enemy divers. Yeah I guess the other option I was kind of
considering would be like a Ziya Rakan or something for them because then you
have this Ziya option for actually dealing with the dive but since it was
Red Site Gen G they kept their pick hidden here for the end and we're gonna
have the twitch range coming in. First you get to the tournament, you get the
sneaky twitch plays in addition to the map control that Gen G have been
able to set themselves up with and the coverage of a nocturne does seem just
seem even scarier. Yeah that's what I was gonna say the fact that you've got the
invisibility of the Twitch and then this long-range engage coming through
from the nocturne plus even an arry potential for the invisibility from the
Aurora. This is a horrible game to try and play against this comp from Gen G but
I will say it gives less control to Gen G when it comes to the mid lane and
also then I'm sorry mid lane in that mid game with the AD carry matchup and
and even in the lane phase as well.
So I think you have a bit of an answer here for Hanwha
to play through that bottom side and scale into that late game,
whereas they just couldn't get any sort of wiggle room
in that last game number two.
And I gotta say, after seeing the drafts here,
I am favoring the Gen G side.
Not only do I like the late Twitch here
to be able to pull off the sneak plays and the roam
plays, but with the nerf smolder,
I really feel like Joby Ari is going to have an impact and they are going to be able to take control early Canyon as soon as he gets his level 6 on the non-firm it has been play after play for them.
Okay, so I'm looking it up. Paze has a lifetime professional total of one Twitch game.
Yeah, but it is a win.
That is important. 100% win rate twitch is the pick here in this deciding game for who's going to quarterfinals now and who's got to keep fighting as we move forward in the Swiss stage.
Oh, he's hiding back on the blue.
Oh, he's on there.
Pays just creeping around.
Alright, nothing to be found.
I thought he'd open up, but they didn't want to give away too much now. Pays was just kind of wandering away from this one.
But I do think the downside of twitch is that you don't have as much push in the lane when you look at comparative
Especially the halo blades on this virus looks like it will be first and we're gonna get as well
So cool that on his Q should be up. They could go again
Don't know if you how heavily you want to go on this though
I think it is just to try and spot it a potential lane swap again. Maybe but I don't think you want to hyper-aggress here. I
Think it's actually just a genji or going for the lane swap because again
I think your lane phase as twitch just isn't strong at all here
Just go ahead, give it up, trade that off, play for more of the later stages.
Yeah, I mean your scaling is so good with which when you pop your ultimate, your range,
very, very useful against what HLE are showing here.
So definitely agree with it.
Let's see how much they have to give up.
Seems like no one is even going to stick around and try and steal away a camp from the enemy side.
They're disagreeing, fine, lane swap should have even Jungle Star,
both of them just on their quote-unquote own wrapper side of the map with top side there
for Gen.G being their control with the duo and again they have done the normal supports
mid here to get their level 2 top laners with their AD carries.
I do think though that the introduction of Smotr into the mix here has kind of put
a bit of a time mark towards Gen.G like yes Twitch has great scaling but I do think
This motor just pops off so well in the later portion of the game.
And especially with the lock up in the front line, the Hanwha haves that Genji are missing.
You need something to go your way
early to maybe even set a pace and turn into this assassination twitch instead.
Otherwise, I think in that mega late game, I do favor Hanwha in this situation.
And when Genji were playing so slow, so
methodically in the last game, I think they actually need a bit more burst opening in this game.
I don't know. I love Twitch late game.
I think I'm just going to fully invest.
I'm going all in.
Okay, Twitch with a range late game just feels so...
Oh, wait a second.
Yeah, LeHens walking down here underneath the tier one turret, but the teleport will arrive.
Keen level two here on the Aurora, but man, Keen is in some troubling flashes away, tries to use the weirding to keep himself alive.
Delight survives the damage of the turret, and that's already a one-nothing for HLE here in the early game.
They're about to make it two.
Peanut at least dies to the turret, so there's one traded back, but the play goes positive for HLE.
And this is why I was talking about the advantage of the Homwa.
This is such a squishy team from Gen.G, even on the rotation down.
Yes, he's got the hens there, but this Aurora offers nothing,
and now already a phenomenal start for the Homwa squad.
My real big question after this is, what is Peanut gonna do now?
Because he actually goes down here, and since they did do their own side clear first,
Canyon has a bunch of camps to pick up. We're watching the replay now, it's really nicely done on the first dive to juggle the tower.
Agro, it's only here in the second one that they give up number two. LeHend is able to lock up Mr. Peanut under tower,
and since he has ignite late, but I really want to get back to live and see what's done with the jungle camps.
Yeah, this is what I'm expecting, because Sichuanin cleared his own red side first and then went for the dive immediately.
immediately Canyon got to cross over and Canyon's gonna have a very nice lead on
jungle here and especially with a nocturne that can cause again your whole
team to have to pay that price so while you do get the dive off and the first kill
was without response getting the second kill plus they actually gave over some
jungle advantages there Gen.G like it's it's not all bad yeah I think Canyon is
the big benefactor for Gen.G but for Hanwha Viper coming in serrated
Dirk already completed against him a ton of control on this bottom side the only
upside I think for Gen.G in the spot side matches is you're playing against the
Renata she's not exactly a heavy engage champ that can look to just harden on
towards a fight as maybe Lehen's actually looking for one but I think
you're in an okay position to just continue to farm his pace with that
lack of a engage support. Nice little bit of a combo damage there between the
light and Fightverse piercing arrow that serrated Dirk can lead to such
an annoying trading pattern in the lane because it's just so easy for him to come out on top as
Doran is doing a little bit of proxy farming
Keen needs to stay underneath the turret farm up this big wave
Still a nice gold lead for HLE after the dive there in the bottom lane Chovy versus Zekka back in the mid lane Zekka is hitting
That first break point on the stacking already so far pretty easy to hit that 125 giving you the AOE on the Q's to continue
Accelerating the speed of the farming there already has the first tier purchased as well after both midlaners have used that first TP
So wants to make sure that he's getting that stacked up as quickly as possible
Spanning out all those abilities making sure that you're constantly moving as quickly as possible towards those larger break points
With the experience lead for our Canyon
We're looking already at the void grub so he can go Krugs over here towards it and
And since bottom lane, they've actually kept both the light and Viper down there for HLE, it really does seem like, well, even though they're actually getting the push.
Lahens is already halfway up the river, so Lahens is kind of deciding right now.
I think that signal with Void Grub gets kind of in 6 as well.
Yeah, which way Lahens wants to go. So I think Lahens is doing a good job kind of hovering here. He could go to either, and Canyon jumping on these Void Grub, he does have his smite ready, so...
could get his level six immediately.
Yup, and there it is, Canyon level six,
first grub already down, peanut retreating.
I just love what they did there.
You know, the hands hovering in the river,
in the fog of war,
as the wave is slowly pushing into them,
they're not really concerned about it.
Canyon finishes up the Krugs,
goes right over to those grubs,
they finish it often.
That's how you really,
even though the dive bottom did cost them extra gold,
you leverage experience in this game.
And it's experience early on,
Does it just be more impactful than gold a lot of the time?
I mean, when you think about it, a champion leveling up gets, what, 300 to 400 gold in stats?
Just having the extra level, boom, you're making up for that difference in gold
as long as that champion's involved in the scrap.
I feel like especially for junglers too.
And junglers like Nocturne that can then affect the rest of the map.
So we'll see what he does with his first ultimate.
Mr. Canyon clearing down his bottom side, so...
I think he wants to go bot lane here.
Level 1 Paranoia, not the longest range, but it's long enough,
scene of the blade to lead the engage, LeHens starting it off,
as Viper still tries to escape. The cleanse ain't gonna do it,
the bailout ain't gonna do it, the piercing arrow is not enough,
Peanuts shows up but it's too little, it's too late,
it's too good for Gengi who tied up the game, 2-2.
Dude, when your jungler is ahead, oh, it feels good.
Canyon's there first, Canyon's able to close the distance with his ultimate,
And even though Pina arrives late, that's just level 5 says Wani. Great, not really concerned.
And so they get the early jump onto Viper, even with the flash, even with the cleanse,
successful move for Gen G and
Canyon able to really leverage and snowball the early stages, but here's another look at the start.
A great engagement, hence the flash, Zenith blade catches out Viper and sets him up against the Sun as well.
And Viper could have tried to use the cleanse there, but instead believed in the Handshake coming through and then I think
He just couldn't quite get away after that second stun came through from the hands
And as you say, I mean level five search one he's gonna do nothing in this situation
Dude, how sick of a move is Zenith Blade? Still get to go with him with his flash
He got to go his flash distance plus the Zenith Blade distance plus Viper's flash distance
It's like that's not a toy story
You know where they're all running off the back of the van and they're just holding on to it
I'm just following the line wherever.
I'm coming too.
Alright, well Canyon continues to leverage his jungle advantage into a dragon as well for Genji.
But the story all three games of objectives for Genji and dragons especially for them.
Alright, Genji pushing towards top here just continuing to try to grab as much plate money as they can.
Meanwhile, Canyon, he's got the first drake, he's got the first three grubs, he's got the experience lead,
He's got everything Nocturne could ask for here in the early game, having a great showing in this third one of the series.
The gold is back to even as Viper and Delight try to maintain control and push.
Here in this bottom lane, Zac is still doing a good job making sure that you DPS the minions equally farm them all up with the Q, get max stacks and he's already up to 82 of those.
They're chobing now moving down to cover bot lane though. They still want to try and get this rotation for the Grubbs in a minute's time.
You already obviously have Paze up here, but the Hens is moving down.
They are fully convinced how much we're going to go for some sort of dive with Pinot hitting level 6,
but everyone from Gen.G hiding on the map waiting for Pinot to show himself.
Yeah, Paze hiding alright. Deep in that alcove, he's getting ready for some sneaky plays.
We'll see. Once you get the Blade of the Ruined King for the Twitch,
then you really become a menace, making everybody worry about your positioning.
Every moment that you stay hidden, like this comp from Gen.G just puts so much
like mental pressure on you.
Yep.
Uh, everybody worried about the picks.
I feel like there's so many champions we say that about.
Yeah, once you get Blade of the Rune King, you're good, dude.
Just get in there.
Blade of the Rune King.
Yeah, this seems like a pretty solid item.
If it synergizes with your champion,
I feel like that champion's doing pretty good.
Anyway, even gold between the teams now.
15 seconds until the second set of the Void Grub spawns.
Gen.G only needs to take a single Grub
to get the Void Might spawns.
But of course, if you can get all six,
it just feels fantastic.
Pina is the first one up here in that Harold Barron grub,
whatever you want to call it, Pitt.
However, Gen G will be sending more troops real soon
with Pays farming up underneath the tier one,
as you do have lane control up there
for the combo of Delight and Viper.
Down in bottom lane, Chovy versus Doran
really shouldn't turn into a whole lot.
I wouldn't think both of these two
have unleashed teleports ready to go
to join any fight that might break out here
in the top side.
It's a four-man move from HLE.
They're going to be the first to commit here
to this river.
Cany can steal away even a single grub.
That's all they need.
He flies into the middle of everybody,
the solar flare coming down over the top,
but Cany is already dead.
A nice hostile takeover fired back in,
but Viper now dies as Paze takes him out.
LeHens drops to Doran,
and Peanut has to flash back over the wall.
Chopi has finally joined,
and Doran has to try to get away
by the double kill back over the Twitch.
He is hiding no longer,
and Chen Qi,
they'll go two for two with HLE,
but the grubs are still on the menu.
And they're looking good for Gen.G.
It looks so good to set off it from Hanwha.
Delighted, a terrific ultimate across the team.
Bind that space for Viper.
And even with the teleport quicker from Doran,
it nearly went their way.
But Gen.G, they'll play on the flies.
And it's a double kill for the Twitch.
Twitch pays, getting so rich off this play.
And the reason it looks good at the beginning
is because they also started before Pays is even there.
A couple of seconds.
So that means Canyon down already.
And as you say, they were not an ultimate going over the other two, but once Paze does arrive, he just burns the backline.
And he annihilates them as everyone's trying to get away.
He was able to grab that red buff, and then continually double burn them down. That plus the poison.
And now you are in a situation where you have all of the Void Grubs, all six of them.
Plus, you got the early dragon as well.
It is, again, just so much objective control for Gen.G.
Plus, the huge threat of all the money going into the Twitch
who just funded that Blade of the Ruined King we've been dreading.
And for Doran, I could understand where his head was at.
It was like, hey, if I go hyper-aggressive on Tourist Chovy in that bot lane,
he can't TP to the fight. I'm about to go Mini-Nar.
I haven't got that Mega-Nar available for this next fight.
And as he TPed in, he just wasn't as big of a factor
as he traditionally would expect from a NAR.
And those Engages and Gen.G do a really good job.
And as he's saying now, Twitch 3 and 0.
I wanted to see this game blow open early and
I'm doing exactly that by getting this switch so far ahead.
Okay, so the interesting thing I'm looking at here,
nearly synced up timers.
Whenever we have this state in a game of League of Legends,
I'm always so curious as to how the teams are going to play it out.
Because Rift Herald's a big one.
Everybody always loves fighting over the Herald,
but that Drake is going to be spawning just 10 seconds prior.
Do you bother committing for the Drake if you know your opponents are going to
just assert the Herald?
That's what I want to see.
I'm taking that Drake every day of the week, that is mine, I'm going to keep stacking because
then you think about what is going to do for you in a little bit of the long term, not
the immediate future.
Like, okay, fine, you know, if a Herald is going to like get you an outer tower or something,
but the Drake is going to give you the possibility of drawing the opponents out onto the map,
where then you get to use Nocturne, Twitch, Ori, Aurora for all of this pick potential.
even oh look you can't go anywhere on the map it's gonna be somebody from
Genji jumping out you know no yeah can you scan it's a good rush yeah Megan our
Megan our saves in there you just cast the wall of transform immediately on the
spot if that Narbar would have been just even slightly shy of it that is an
easy kill for Canyon but very fortunately for Doran he gets away from it
stays alive to see another day as Genji again with control of the mid lane
Going to push that wave up, rotate into the bot side river,
rotate towards the drake that Kobe's talking about.
You want to use to bait them into these open fights.
First turret dropping at the same time.
You can see the information on the top of your screen
as we just now crest the moment where the turret plates are gone.
It's a 5-3 plate advantage for HLE.
But Gen.G pretty much making up for that difference in golden plates
by grabbing the first turret 30 seconds before HLE can respond
in the top lane with Zekka's smolder.
And now the second Drake goes the way of Genji as well with the gold dead even and Zeka just passed that second break point here 145 only needed 125 for that second transform so still stacking forward and I feel like he's going to need to hit that ASAP to make sure they're staying on pace with this scaling twitch.
Yeah, certainly is. I mean, you know, going with the Sojin for the super cool down reduction so you can just try and stack, stack, stack, stack there as well.
Again, we mentioned last time, but when they are down on the map, they're usually going
to just instantly not try and waste time and go for their counter play on the other side
and they're like, fine, we'll take our consolation prize, we'll get that top tower, we'll keep
ourselves competitive in gold at least, we'll try and build ourselves up so that at least
we can have the hope of our dream comeback fight.
And this time around, it actually might be delight being at the center of it again
in a sense that you kind of saw the growth by where it's a
kite backwards into some counter engage and Renata ultimate
has the possibility of being huge, but it is really hard to
cover all of the angles that this Gen G comp can come at you
from, since they can literally come at you from 360
degrees with their mobility and with the disability champs.
And so as the map opens up and those outer turrets go down,
you really do have to cover 360 degrees with all of your
wards, like warding every flank and trying to clean out
all the Gen.G vision and trying to mark every single champion on the opponent squad, and
so you keep yourself competitive in gold for HLE, and then you try and have that big team
fight for yourselves to blow up in the game again and show they can do it.
And I think a lot of that relies on having the DPS behind Delight's wave, which is
going to be from Zeke in this regard, and he needs to be in the sidelines farming,
so I'm curious now if Gen.G tried to start hitting on towards wherever Zeke is
on the map, just putting him behind. You can already see Canyon was sitting down
towards that bottom side with King, but now with Hamal
opening up on mid with this Rift, Harold.
Everyone in Gen G is coming across, even Paze.
Ooh, Glacial Prison, not gonna find a whole lot.
You can see they threw it out.
They wanted to see if they could catch Paze
by surprise there, cause the mom summoned up too,
but considering it just barely misses,
there's not a whole lot of punish,
and that's two big spells down for HLE,
so don't be expecting them to do a whole lot more
until those cooldowns are back.
And that Harold really well defended by Gen G as well,
So now you get to go back out on to, hey, we're pushing sides,
we're trying to play for these pigs,
trying to make things very awkward for Hamlet on the map.
And with two and a half minutes until the dragon,
there's plenty of moments to get push out,
maybe shift over towards that topside,
or even again, look for these plays on towards the overexposed
smoker who's just down on his bottom side.
Like, even look at where Peanut is on the map.
He, all he wants to do is sit here beside this motor
to guarantee the second can farm
without being under any sort of duress.
And I think there's a lot of pressure on Peanut's shoulder
to be the difference maker in this game.
You know, frontline for HLE,
they have the possibilities to completely disrupt
the Gen.G game plan.
Him and Doran, especially when both of them
have their flashes ready,
have the possibility to set up their team for success.
And you see a lot of their vision
invested on the top half of the map
with all those control wards.
Maybe, you know, there's some sort of
like flank route or something there for them
to get a little bit of jump towards mid,
but currently Gen.G, they just focus
on the other side of the map, again,
always way far ahead of objective spawning.
They go so deep, set up their vision,
try and keep their dragon priority alive,
and keep that threat building.
Okay, so Genji might have dragon priority
in the traditional sense that we think of those words.
Zeca and the rest of HLE's dragon priority
is on these last 30 stacks that they need.
He is getting so close to the 225 break point
and I feel like when they hit that,
That might be when we get to see HLE punch back a little bit.
That might be when we get to start
to see what you were talking about earlier
with this stronger front line that still has some artillery
behind it that could force Gen G into an uncomfortable fight.
But Gen G has done such a good job
this series of continuously stacking
drapes to deny those opportunities for how
many like scale or find ways to help open up on the map
and trade up in favor of getting second this gold.
And again, this is an inferno soul.
Gen G have high roles to all hell with the souls
they managed to get this day.
That does mean that you have to fight them
and you have to come at them for Gen G.
I think you're pretty happy with that
because look at this motor,
the second item not even completed.
We should have it on recess,
but it's also a build that comes on much later
because you haven't gone for that triforce
to try and hit that break point in the mid game.
And Paze also already has the hurricane here,
so the Twitch just gets to melt multiple targets
from a very safe distance with the ultimate
and kind of leverage the nocturne vision even more
because you can just be so far out of reach of opponents
that you end up getting to free fire
in these teamfights.
And we'll see, Gen.G, once again, here they go.
They set up way ahead of time
and see if they can get the advantage.
HLE though, looking to fight back.
They've got the brute force.
They get their mid lane push first
before transitioning into river.
I would definitely like for Peanut
to be with the rest of the squad here though.
There we go. Get yourself a tankier member on the front line.
And here we go.
Paze is still creeping around on the Twitch.
He wants to make sure he can get that chance to open up.
Keen will be the last one to join the rest of Gen.G here in the Botside River.
The NAR separated from the rest of the team.
Doran's about to transform back from MegaNAR.
This is not a good state for HLE to try to go in for a fight.
They wanted to try to grab LaHans.
There's the handshake with Mom over the top and Zeca gets the first kill.
They're trying to go between worlds.
Kane is in the front of everybody and Paze is free firing.
The kills start coming in from both sides.
Make it three for Paze.
Two of them picked up by Chovy though.
As Pee-nut and Zaka try to get away on triple for Chovy.
And Pee-nut's the last man standing.
Chovy cleans them up on Quadra kill for the Gen G mid.
Keen is putting the fish in the barrel for Paze and Chovy to knock them down.
Genji wanted one fight, oh my god, did they get us?
They certainly did. They get the dragon and they get the smolder, so both dragon flowers,
everything taken care of including two turrets afterwards is insane how much they get off
this, but Paze, I want to highlight around the top, flanks on the twitch, so even though
LeHens is down, as you say Aurora ultimate groups him up and Paze opens up from the topside out of vision of the enemy team
Nocturne ultimate goes off and Chovy just going free and rampant here on the RE
Chases them all down gets the last little bit of the kill here for the
quadra on his RE reset after reset
I mean, this has to feel good for Gen.G, the revenge for the finals in the LCK, but heartbreak
coming through from the Hallmark coaches, just having this moment where you can fight back
when it was supposed to be yours and Hallmark came out and snuck it away from you.
Gen.G have a lot to prove here against them today.
Yeah, and I like what they've shown.
They've committed to this core of nocturn turning out vision, you know, Canyon
being a real strong point person for the double AP carries that they walk in over
and over and over again and I really like the execution as well as chovy gets
a little bit frisky with the mid lane here well Viper tried to catch him with
the chains of corruption since that's already down and chovy already had to
use the ulti to escape and he feels fine trying to scrap with the rest of the
cooldowns as Canyon and LaHens have to try to get away now they try to
flash out survived the glacial prison pays is firing into everybody but
He's finally caught, Sanka kills him, Shen Qi has overextended and they are punished for it.
Doran, huge with the gnar there!
He's not going to let that happen again, he goes straight for Pei's, knocks him in, they get to, Keen down,
Pei's down on Wai Wai, not going to go out without fight.
This runan switch though still got the damage done, that could have potentially been Hanwha
turning over towards the Baron, but blinking health bars on Viper on Delight on so many of these Hanwha's members
means that yes, it's some kills, but you don't get the objective afterwards.
And look at the timing window here, because it is very close.
Paz is there, he's waiting, he wants to open up, he sees all these abilities used,
he's like, there's no such one, he ultimate, and boom, Keem comes in,
but Doran says, not on my watch, and they instantly shut them both down.
And like you're saying, a couple more autos, boom, the whole team is just destroyed right there.
So again, the instant turn to immediately go for both of them.
Flash used from Dorian, but that was a very worthwhile flash.
The way that it looked, one auto kills two of them,
and then there's not even enough for the remaining three guys to fight.
It would have been a total wipe.
Absolutely clutched to not let Paze get away with that.
HLE doing everything they can to try to stay within striking distance
in this game that, just like the first two,
Gen.G has been in charge of so far.
So our gold difference, powered by AWS,
seeing the split here and the way the last ones have gone.
this one of course as you guys keep on mentioning that possibility of smolder continuing to stack up
i invested there but nocturne ult on him yeah canyon has found his target here with zekka smolder
mom summoned maybe it would have been enough to save him just from nocturne but not from the
backup to keen will be the one to take the kill as paze also provides additional damage
genji now with a 5v4 for the next 30 seconds mom not going to save you from these bullies
No! They finish the job there, smolder down, stops the stacking for now as well.
Meanwhile, this map just is so hard for HLE to play again, because there is so much of a possibility of these Gen.G. 360 degree flanks coming from anywhere.
You really have to have towers to help defend and control wards to help defend your movements.
So anybody that's out like that on a side lane, that's a very repeatable thing we just saw.
And that's why we keep hyping up this Gen.G map play available with this comp.
I mean, Zeke gets 360 no scope, 30 seconds before he drags down.
He needs the TP back there onto the map because otherwise Gen.G just gets to pull the trigger once more.
Eight seconds until Kanyan's here. Zeke not out on the map.
Even Doran's restating. He just went mega too, so needed to clear it the way,
but it means that coming into this, Homo hap to play time before this Nara can have an impact.
No flash available as well to try and threaten Paze.
Okay, so the rapid-fire cannon being completed for Zeca, I think is really big, allows him to try to poke these guys a little bit before the hard commit comes out for Gen.G.
But it's just, it's so scary, since Paze can always be anywhere, everywhere, all at once, not a good place to have to try to defend against Canyon.
Getting caught initially there by the Glacial Prism, loses about half HP, but not close enough to death to force him all the way back.
Divide time though for Doran to get that Narbar filled up, wants to try and get on towards the backline, pays in a very good spot though between all these members of Gen.G.
Yeah, Lahans wanted to go in there with a Xenith Blade but he ain't gonna find the angle, Doran ready to transform.
Narbar charged, gets charmed though, Snotbubble hits Lahans, there goes Mom, a little bit more damage by doing it, Viper grabs the kill.
The Drake also secured by HLE, beautiful start of the fight so far as Chovy can't get anything else done.
on no charges left in the Spirit Rush. HLE played that wonderfully. The poke is beautiful
from HLE and Viper finds the final snipe there to take down the hands. They get the dragon,
they deny a dragon's soul and they deliver again on this series. And this is why I think
as this game starts to go on it becomes more and more difficult for Gen.G to play. You
don't really have a very tanky front line that can need you to go into a meganar,
to Pinox. Delight also being able to buy space. It means you can play for these
backline threats with the Varus poke, a mom ultimate across the top. It makes it
difficult for Jandy to find these openings for Paze if they're not on the
objective first. And you don't get time to just stand around there at the fight
because we saw how much damage the poke is going to do. You're going to lose
out, you know, wind percentages very quickly with every skill shot that's
going to land on you, every little bit of poke damage. So the decisions have to
be instantaneous to go for.
Zeca approaching 300 stacks here, gets away from the charm.
But Paze has already opened up on Viper.
Now you got to be careful, because Delight is about to die too.
And Doran's caught between worlds.
Chovy and Canyon ready to follow up as the NAR
can't transform in time.
Flash in the way with the Starex cage active.
Throws a boulder right back to him.
Peanuts still looking for maybe an angle as mom comes in,
but Chovy's going to be protected by the shield.
H-L-E lose their AD carry, but nothing more.
Hamla protecting Doran there was crucial because that would have been Gen.G turn up to Barron, may still look for us as the TP comes back in.
Zeka needs to teleport back into this equation to make things more even for Hamla.
The teleport seals the deal, Baron's the target, Gen.G already got it down to about half, Doran here on the front line, Baron at 6k HP, HLE piling in.
LeHens tries to get away, Doran's still at about half HP now as Bnut has to fully escape, Arctic Assault backwards.
still aggro'd at 3000 Doran still trying to transform he needs to go into
Megan our peanuts behind the wall into the pit for the parents gonna be
secured by Canyon now HLE trapped between a wall and an enemy team Canyon gets
the kill on Doran and Shovey goes over looking for a little bit more they want
to kill the smolder and Zeca pops they all drop and it looks like the hopes
are done dad and god for HLE. Chen Qi with a hole. Clutches the smite and then
Chovy clutches the team fight. Here's another look at how low they get poked
again inside this baron pit. LaHens is forced to flash away and you can see it
burning down there so close to execute range. Baron trying to finish him off too
and then Chovy still full HP on the Auri. He moves up and he actually puts
so much pressure on the less of the DPS of Hanwha that Canyon is allowed to
stay in on the Baron smite he secures it and then Chovy goes in with the rest of his charges
to finish it off. What a duo there. Really clutch on the Baron fight even with all the
extra damage I have been received by the rest of Gen.G members they pull it off.
The flash from Canyon was so sick as well because it's my first time playing for the
I like that. Please tell me I'm seeing this correctly. We did come out on top.
But yes, Gen. G, Hell playing in the moment and now we're barring up a 4,000 Rebel Baron
Powerplay and a minute and a half until Seoul, they just get to keep pushing in these waves,
push Hanwha into their own base and then fall back and collect another prize. And
that has to be the nail in the coffin for Hanwha in this series.
I got to respect Hanwha for fighting back,
for making this as close as they have,
but Gen G just showing the level of coordination.
They know they can trust in Canyon
to land those smite secures.
They can put themselves in these spots
where they're unafraid of HLE's challenge.
Even though they've got this level 16 smolder,
even though he's got 325 stacks,
Pays's Twitch, six, one, and five.
Highest kill participation of anyone on the team.
Yes, it's only by one,
but it's still first place.
He's doing great.
And that's the thing, we focus a lot on Kanyan and Chovy in that fight, but it was Pei's who assassinated Viper,
who got him caught out with Kanyan to start off that play that set this whole rigmarole in motion.
And it's Pei's that has really been stepping up on this switch to find those clutch moments.
And Hama, you can tell they just aren't used to playing against that potential invisible Thresh, just lurking in the darkness.
Pei's a rat all along.
Are you able to jump out? Make a clutch kick.
He's one of us.
All right, can they close it though here?
Gen G now with massive lead.
Oh, HLE walks way too close to the brush
and there's no way out for Delight with Renata down.
That's your big anti-engage mechanism.
That's your chance to try to turn it around
if Gen G jump on you and he's out of the picture.
It's an easy infernal soul, no contest.
This goes over to Gen G now
and I feel like Hanwa's chances
have nearly completely disappeared.
Yeah, you're talking about nails in the coffin.
They've got the nail gun now.
They're just spamming nail after nail after nail.
Yeah, that's going to be a twitch coming in soon.
DIY twitch.
Another one bites the dust and another objective here.
So who will next?
Who will the next one pick?
It looks right now like Doran's going to be the next one picked.
Am I allowed to bet?
Is it too late?
I think the betting window is closed on this one.
That is it for Doran.
50 seconds on the respawn clock.
Pays just creeping through the mid lane here,
invisible marking that ward that he just saw placed down.
Grunin and Surikane makes it so easy to farm up the wave
as well.
Pays now with the completed mortal reminder.
Should just shred every single health bar on HLE.
They're pushing that top lane with Chovy right now.
They still don't have a whole lot of super extra power,
I guess, to work with through the Baron.
It's already dissipated.
The elder's not going to spawn for another five minutes,
but they don't really need a mega buff right now.
They're ahead 8,000 gold.
They've got an infernal soul.
That's a mega buff on its own as now.
The Glacial Prison immediately finds Chovy upon teleport,
but the counterattack is their pace.
He's hitting everybody.
He flashes.
He cleanses, and he ends everybody on HL.
exactly like we said pays on the twitch he came into the game with a hundred
percent win rate on it he's gonna leave the game with a hundred percent win rate
on it Gen G is gonna show HLE that the finals are not the rule but they are
the exception this squad has controlled the Korean League of Legends scene for a
a damn long time, and they're showing it.
They're looking to keep that rolling in worlds as they punch their ticket to the quarter finals.
The Golden Road might have been paused, but Genji wanna make sure Homo know that they
still deserve to be on top when it comes to the World Stage.
Incredible showing from Genji, getting some revenge against HLE for the LCK finals.
Desk, what are we thinking?
We're just as excited as you are by the way it is so nice to have you here Captain Flowers Covey of course you as well
But I could just hear
Your old news pal
But my god, what a wonderful microcosm of a game to watch for so many reasons
But I think two of the main reasons were Paze and Chovy in that
that crucial, crucial team fight that we're going to take a look at immediately, right?
And they show exactly what they wanted to do with their comp, and the Twitch is something
that Paze likes a lot, and in this composition, it's beautiful.
I just think it's so insane how well the Nocturne enables the Twitch, because if you can't spot
the Twitch flank, it is so hard to react to it, so it's kind of playing the role
of what we would normally see a Kennen play in this situation.
I think it's so brilliant and so well played from Gen.G.
And while Chovy ultimately gets so many of the kills, Paze is just a lot of praise,
He's coming out of that final.
Paze was the guy who got a lot of criticism.
He's frequently under a lot of scrutiny
on this team surrounded by so many legends.
But this was a fantastic game in a clutch
to bring out the Twitch and a composition
that we haven't seen on stage before.
And you can see they're feeling it.
And it's looked so good.
Yeah, one or two hiccups here or there,
but mostly really fantastic use
of the vision denial Nocturne brought.
Fantastic use of the Aurora controlling space.
Exactly.
And Paze pretty much always where he needed to be.
Yeah, Pixel perfect in those teamfights.
Something that we said maybe Haley
can get the upper hand.
If they are at the driving wheel, wait, is that what you said?
If they're driving.
If they're driving.
If they're driving.
But they couldn't.
Dracoz, you brought it up as well, right?
That in a best of five that we saw last,
it was HLD dropping the first one with Genji,
winning the two thereafter.
So unfortunately, the end of the rules
cannot match for HLD.
They are countered by the best of three.
Now, the way that Zeca talked about, he called it
a jinx.
I hope they don't feel like they're
Winning game one and then immediately collapse like I hope that this is not
shaking the mental
At all for this team because I still feel like they played incredibly well. This is over the course of the year again
I think it's important to highlight the usually Genji are monitoring every lane
That was not the case in the series has not been the case at Worlds. They're still more
It's really is not out yet
But it's Genji that's in the quarterfinals and Pays is sending by with Lauren to Verizon postgame interview
Welcome back to the stage as Genji advanced to quarterfinals
and I have Faze with me.
She talked about this with me and Jisun, of course.
Thank you so much for joining me, Faze.
First and first, Twitch.
We haven't seen this champion since 2020.
Tell me about you picking it,
especially without an enchantment by your side.
First of all, congratulations, Seungmin.
The one thing I want to ask you the most is the Twitch pick.
It's your first time in the world in 20 years.
What is the background that made you appear on Twitch without a utility pot?
Well, I don't think the lane phase is that important in the meta these days, so we had a swap.
So, I was looking for a value champ, and I think it's very important that a teamfight is a key factor in winning the game.
So, I decided to switch to the team.
Also taking revenge on Hanwha Life Esports after what they did to you in finals, still a close series, but what was the difference maker this time around?
You've brought back a strong revenge before the finals, but it was a very close game.
How did you manage to win this game?
We lost the first set, but we didn't give up.
We thought we could win if we focused on the end.
We tried to win the game with the team again.
And we did a good job with the team, and we won the game today.
But you made your coaches really stressed throughout the entire series.
What do you think they're going to tell you when you see them backstage?
How are you guys going to review this?
The players said they were confident that they would win if they did well.
But through this series, the help-up coach has become a great star.
He was watching the game and was crying and reacting really well.
So I was able to empathize with him.
Do you have anything to say to the coaches?
I want to say thank you for being so nice and always like being on the receiving end and also I just want to say thank you to all of my coaches and all of my team members.
I want to say thank you to all of my coaches and all of my team members.
I mean in real life we always just peek on him even though he's our coach because his reactions is chef's kiss.
So I want to say thank you for being so nice and always like being on the receiving end and also I just want to say
Thank you to all of my coaching staff. Shout out to Halper. It must not be easy
You guys
You guys make it to quarterfinals as one of the as one of the favorites
If not the favorites in the tournament phase, how are these expectations around Gen.G waiting on you?
expectations so thank you for your attention and support and last year
unfortunately we had to stop our world's journey at quarter finals but this year
we're aiming for even something even more greater so please keep supporting us
looking for a 2 Gen G in the next stage that's all for us here thank you so much
thank you so much just an amazing job as always and that's all for us here
on the set of the stage we'll be right back for another interview tomorrow
Yes, many more interviews. That was wonderful. Sometimes Pays, I know that
Lor sometimes says that he has some interviews where he's like thinking for
a long time, but I think the adrenaline carried him. Through this one he was
obviously very very happy. I mean how could you not? I just really want to
celebrate the Twitch. He's had a lot of good games so far this tournament. Genji
is a holder on a roll and Pays is certainly a big part of that. And I
mean they got revenge for the LCK finals, right? You know, so you get
to have that. You get to be the first team you know from your region
through to quarter finals as well. Yeah, and Azale, you actually noticed something in the team
fights at the Nocturne. Tell us what you noticed. So it's one of the cool things when you are playing
with Valadier Varys, you can go Edge of Night. And so Edge of Night actually does block the Nocturne
vision that gets taken away. So this is from Zeke's point of view. Look how hard it is to
play this fight. So what needs to happen is like you need someone else to take over the
shot calling. So now we're going to watch it back actually from the Varys' point of view.
So, when Nocturne also sees, he loses his Belchial, but he keeps the vision.
So from this position, then Viper needs to be the one that actually takes over the Jockeling
in the teamfights, and basically drives the Carl.
He needs to tell them, okay, they're coming forward, okay, back up, finish the dragon,
look for a fight, pull back, kite.
He needs to get all the directions.
So, in this spot, he can still see the Leona, he hits the Alte, he gets the kill,
he sets them up for success from this position, and it's one of these small interactions
that you can really get so much from.
if you take the maximum advantage that can be there.
And I think this is a situation where
if HLE had found one or two more fights where, you know,
you saw Dorne be able to leap forward and catch out pays,
like they could have been in a position
to actually win this game.
Of course, in this context, it didn't matter a lot,
but when you're looking at these compositions with Nocturne,
and I expect we'll see more of them
based on the success today,
it's a really important interaction to keep in mind.
And I'll be honest, not every AD carry
that we have at Worlds
is gonna be up to the task of making
these in-the-moment calls.
That's a big burden to put on anyone's shoulder
and a really, really cool thing
that we're gonna be keeping track of.
it's making me wonder because I was like okay Varus is that really the best option here but
you can do a uh you can do calista yeah pay spread the calista the game before so
it's uh there are some options into it but it is of course we saw it's not like a failsafe forever
right and it was incredibly a twitch aurora chobi anari still very lethal still
he pentacles you yeah you'll know he's killing you that's nice i do love it because
this is a great best of three to watch i'm just gonna say there were some really cool picks
There's the Nocturne for Canyon three times in a row and kind of different combination and I think kind of I don't know the
Exodia one in the last one where it all worked out was so cool to see for Honowa life
Of course, they are not out of this tournament. This is only their first loss
So they will move on to the two and one pool to be playing later
So as we close out the day, it's Gen G that makes it to the quarter-final and LNG rather
LNG breathe shocks did definitely make it to the quarter-finals as well
And since we didn't have that much time before because we moved on to the second series
I think that is incredibly impressive
You know that you come out of a region where it's incredibly stacked people have high hopes for the LPL
But you got to say specifically for PLG as being kind of
That flag bearer for the LPL region in terms of the hopes of taking it to worlds
But scout and the team just do it with a three zero exactly
I mean they're able to get through and not only that but they took down the flag bearer now
Now they're the ones carrying it, they're the ones waving that LPL flag as they go through
the quarter-finals.
First team to get there, 3-0 to do it.
You took out BLG, one of the teams that I think a lot of people were saying was going
to win Worlds, even above a lot of the LCK's games, and then they looked very, very good
here against DK as well.
So this team is going to be terrifying in the knockout stage.
They weren't a World's favorite coming into Worlds, but it's rarely the number
one, number one teams that actually win the tournament.
It's always seeming to be some sort of team that is a little bit outside the conversation
and then fits the meta really adapts to it super well and thus far it's kind of looking
like LNG.
My second seed from the LCS.
There you go.
Possible.
Possible.
Now say it for LEC too.
The first seed of the LEC.
Yeah.
Hey the good thing.
We need hope.
We need hope.
Feed us hope.
Please we need it so badly.
You know what the good thing is the silver lining here.
G2 already played HLE.
They don't have to play them again in Swiss and now they also don't have to play Gen G.
So now you can get a really easy draw like BLG.
Yeah, you know.
It's not funny.
It's no problem at all.
And after what happened last year with energy, there are no easy draws.
And then in the War and Two match, it's going to be even better because then you can play the loser of T1 BLG, which is also really easy.
Yeah, it's just...
The draws are all gray here.
Walking on sunshine.
I don't like being between the two of you.
This is not, this is not, this is too much stress.
Speaking of walking on sunshine,
you thought we were done with the best of ones?
You were incorrect.
Tomorrow we have two of them.
This is of course our one and one pool.
TES versus Fnatic kicks it off first.
No, I am not on the desk, you do not have to despair.
BLG versus T1, then PSG versus Fly
and Wayba versus G2.
What are you thinking?
I'm really excited for the LCS match
just because this is the rematch from MSI.
PSG knocked FlyQuest out of MSI.
That was very embarrassing for them.
They were the first team to ever,
in any international event,
from Ede, get knocked out in play-ins.
And that, I think, was something
that really kind of hurt the pride of FlyQuest.
A lot of the young players there
also did not play to their expectations,
so they really want to be able to get some revenge here.
It's a match that they were really hoping
they would get, and they have an opportunity.
But PCS has been slaying LCS.
They knocked us out in MSI play-ins.
They knocked 100 of these out at world's plans.
If they beat FlyQuest again, it's just like, all right, okay.
All right, and also the rematch for MDK
did not look hot for MDK.
So I don't think he's really good.
Yeah, I think the first best of three was false data.
I'm not taking anything away from MDK,
but PSG had not the right meta read.
They, you know, it didn't feel like it was them.
They have leveled up.
Maybe they are again that Korean killer who knows
what they're going up against FlyQuest first.
Well, for our European brethren, that's myself.
What am I saying? My European brethren.
Fnatic versus CES.
I've seen this a couple of times before.
At MSI, I saw it, actually.
I'm really nervous.
Fnatic, I need you to come in strong.
Strong mental.
Come on.
Bitta, strong mental.
Boys, you can do it.
If you collapse, we know what that looks like.
Don't do that.
Let's do the thing where we're like...
Do the winnings.
Do the winnings thing.
Which is an oversimplification,
but I need something simple and straightforward.
And maybe you do too.
You know? We can all.
It's looked good.
looks great. More yone. And J2L say the same. I said at the beginning of the
Swiss stage, you know, if you have these lofty aspirations, it's put up or shut
up. You got to beat Weibo. You got it. That's just it. And if you have any
aspirations, there is no other way but beating them. And I'm not saying it's
going to be easy, but this is really the final hour for you. Also just showing
what you've got. It is a glorious opportunity to be able to get a win
versus an LCK or an LPL team and a best of one. That is a very doable
task and has been throughout the history of Worlds. When we get the best of three, much,
much more difficult. So get the wins and the best of ones while you can please.
And the only match we haven't touched on is BLGT1, which is just insane.
It's a shame it's the best of one.
It's the best of one, and one of these teams is going to be one and two.
And one of those teams, you know, it's like you're either one B03 from getting knocked
out of Worlds. If it happens to either team, that's a massive upset.
And the other side of that coin is that you are going to be
a killer in those bottom matches, because you're going to be going down to the BO3.
One of these teams will be one and two, and then two teams are going to have to run into
them, assuming they qualify through in the BO3s.
I want to think about that.
It's scary down there.
It is scary down there.
I like to live in the present, or things are still possible that I like.
I really liked that idea until I realized mostly it would be our teams in that crack.
Yeah, we're the ones that are like, how cool is it that T1 or BLG just get to
dream crush their way through the rest of Swiss?
Wait, those are my dreams.
Yeah, those are our dreams.
Those are our dreams.
Don't do that to my dreams.
That's your dreams.
There's someone else.
I need those dreams.
Actually, half a bracket graphic would have been nice.
You were trying to explain everything, but I will end up not for you, Zane.
I'm sorry.
Oh, no problem.
Yeah, here we go.
There we are.
I mean, we have obviously the 0-2 matches.
Those teams already are due or die, but the 1-1 teams, you know, half of those
are going to be dropping down.
And just, yeah, again, BLGT-1 is terrifying.
It's going to be exciting.
Yeah.
draw to draw again at the end of Monday so that's cool for best of ones
tomorrow next draw will be Monday October 7th that's after the final series
concludes you're gonna make sure that everything's and it's all best of three
after tomorrow those are the last four best ones then it's all best of three so
losing a single game no longer will feel as bad as bad oh it'll feel bad it
will but as long as you don't lose to consecutively you're really good for a
decent amount of the tournament nope you're still gonna be stressed thank
Thank you Isaac, no problem.
You're welcome.
That's it for us.
We'll be back tomorrow at 2pm CEST as we have been, that is 8am Eastern US, buh-bye.
Bye.
Our PC is totally unafraid of any circumcounter attacks.
Kong, now there's also convention in front of J.S.Galcon.