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10-05-2024 · 5h 20m
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Swiss stage you see random Germany and today two teams will already book their
tickets out of here to Paris our fans have been here every 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 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
I mean, it's not, you know, the pinstripes, all 90s, 20s.
This is how you find out that there's only two real best friends.
Yes, two wins, one win. Okay.
I'm shaking right now.
You know, I'm proud of some of the HLE G2 game. Some of it.
I think if we clip out just the right moments and 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.
Just hit the right place.
You don't have to convince anyone about how strong the LCK is.
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 won all of their games yesterday as well. Exactly I mean the LCK has been doing incredibly
well and it felt like you know over the last couple 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. You know, 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 2-0 matches. Sure. LNG, doing it again. LNG 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,
a 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 won a side.
Gen.G 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,
it's 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.
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.
OK.
Let's go.
You know, I'm nervous.
I'm really bad at games.
Well, also, you never know.
You never know what it's about.
Yeah, we don't know what the game is going to be.
It's kind of hard to know where we're going to end up here.
Is it going to be how many different ways
were we embarrassed yesterday?
Are they going to remind us about how it's dominant at the LCKR some more?
Let's do a quiz about childhood trauma. Yeah.
First guess the champion from the Swiss meta.
Okay. What do we got? Oh, do I have to play in all the rules?
No, this is it. 10 picks.
87.5% presents. Okay. 80% win rate.
I think it's doing it. It's got to be you know, it shouldn't say it out loud.
We're playing versus each other. Are we playing versus each other?
We're not being collaborators here. Yeah. Yeah.
You know what any you we should be better. It should be only right. We need to be bending together
I promise a second. He said that any other champion left my brain
I have no option, but just copying what is no other champion in the game. Yone is absolutely dominating
I'm gonna are you being hoodwinked? I don't think so. If you miss let us here presents at 80% win rate the champion
Good job Isaac one for the team. Let's go in
Notice how we're the team now we weren't the team earlier when we're picking out our outfit
But when you want to give us free answers
All right next is I believe a player related to that champion
717 it's Scout. I remember this game. You remember that I'm pretty sure it's why do you keep saying it out loud?
People have been talking about scouts hair and look at this outline, okay?
So I remember the outline last year I was a different outline knew who the outline was so I guess that player
It wasn't that player. Wait, Scout.
I'm just letting Isaac carry it.
I'm just stealing everything from Isaac.
I'm pretty sure it was Scout.
Paul does from wrong.
Hey, Scout vs PLG.
Outline.
No, because last year, I remember,
I guessed off of our Darshan outline,
and it was an Outline,
not Darshan, it was a Dokla outline,
and it wasn't him.
Oh, it's in my champions again?
Oh my gosh.
Presence win rate 62.5 win rate 83
Dan't wait so wait it's something that has a really
Damage over gold okay, so he has 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
I have a guess so if I'm not supposed to say I'm not gonna tell you guys this time
Well, I would think just because damage damage for gold seems like quite a bit, but I don't know
What'd you do? I went ash?
Oh, it's rumble. Wait, I thought rumble had higher presence.
What's crazy to me is that I knew it was something that was doing well.
So it had to be like LPL, LCK type teams that are picking it.
And this is looking good.
All I'm saying is I'm surprised that rumble isn't higher presence in picks and bands.
Which player the outline is not relevant.
Okay. And really good early game.
High damage, high damage.
share. Wait, I think I know this. I think I know this because I read Hoopa comments.
Oh, really? I think. Are we revealing? Are we ready? I'm ready. Reveal!
Ah. We both learned Zika. We both learned Zika. I read 369 because there was a comment.
Um, oh no. Yeah! See, the key is you have to look back to when he whiffed that
Alti versus TL to know his damage wasn't going to be that high. Mr. Remedy,
Do you know what the Hooper comment was? It was like, he went 4 and 0 and they were like,
aw, maybe next time you should go 6 and 0 and you might actually influence the game.
It was, woof, it was brutal.
So those are your...
Six picks, 50-50, 9.8 CS per minute.
Six picks.
Maybe this is our beloved four.
I'm running it back.
I'm also running it back.
Ha ha ha ha.
Shoot.
Alright.
I'm revealing it.
I'm shooting.
Stop, I'm running it back.
Alright, hold on. I'm just gonna...
go for a redo. Wait is this including play-ins or is this? Oh my internet is so bad. Is this
the stage? Oh it does. Damn it. That's a trist. Smalls. I'll guess 80 carries. I mean it had
to be something like that because the CS is obviously too high. Well that win rate is
just completely padded by the LCK. No. For the rest of us. There's the answer. Is
Yes, that's very confident. So I'm copying 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
Trauma response
I'm getting hard carried by a sale this entire day
Me I have more correct than you
You're also getting hard carried.
We both get carried by a sail with the first three questions.
Check the tape.
Meanwhile, we're going to check in with Chronicler
for a primer on the LCK teams today.
Really excited to talk about my LCK teams.
Very excited to join all of you soon in person.
But for now, that's a bit of a throwback
to when I was in Desk Chamber in 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 Damwon 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, they play
in the LCK a little bit but it's still a really big deal especially with them 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
anyone else on the team. So I can't wait to see whether or not they're gonna
be able to actually do it here today. So secondly, we got to talk about the
else gave 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 were never really able to
surge ahead. We're never able to actually take them down with the matter most and I think that the
way that the finals went for that team is a really, really big deal and the fact that they
rematch 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 going to 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 been a really big
problem for them right especially when we get to knockouts and then flip side for JNG even after the Amasai win
Chovy himself said it. It's not enough if you don't win Worlds
So I think that this matchup both from an LCG perspective and for this deeper run at Worlds is a really big deal
I can't wait to see wins. I think this is really hard to call and I hope you guys are all gonna enjoy it as well
Thank you so much chronicler is on his way, of course. Thank you for previewing that rematch of the LCK
I miss him to summer finals
But first we have deep plus Kia versus LNG which is also a rematch a rematch from the
2021 world finals between scout and showmaker not LNG versus deep 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. Well, 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
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've 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 in a team fight create a massive advantage with the other hand
They can give it right back to you with a bad Baron 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't 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 chronic
They're told me young player syndrome that sometimes it goes a little bit to me, but if
that all works out and the jungle mid is showing some cohesion and synergy then you know with
aiming and the bot lane as well, they have a great base to work off.
They certainly do and I think of all the LCK refs, 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
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 of ones.
You know, you got to just peek in that best of one, of course.
Um, but I think similarly for me, even when you watch them in the LPL, right,
you have games where they're, they're macro solid, they're early games
of solid, 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 got to say both early games that we've seen from LNG,
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 into 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 forward.
Well, and 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.
KIA said we have two vs three today and our first two tickets will be punched to the quarterfinals.
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 he's in a higher level than the other mid laners.
I think that's the result.
Among the mid laners, I'll try my best to become the best.
I've seen a lot of Japanese players and learned a lot.
I think he's a professional player with a lot of skills.
He's also a player who knows a lot about the game and plays a lot.
I think he's a great player.
When I first started playing, I thought he was a dreamer.
I was so happy to be able to play with a player like him.
I've always been on the team called D-plus since I debuted as a pro player.
I think it's an honor to be able to continue to play in this team's uniform and participate in the game.
I was eliminated in the 2-3 loss in last year's Worlds.
KT! They take down D-plus! They will take a bow. It's time for them to go home.
I know how grateful it is to win this three-win game.
It was a very valuable experience for me.
D.R.H.A.C.T. are your world champions!
I had a lot of good experiences last year, and I went down a lot last year, so I was more confident.
I think I wanted to experience that kind of stage again.
I wanted to show you that I want to prove myself again this year, so I made a big promise.
It's been two years, and it's been a lot of time now.
I think I have a lot of time to grow.
And I have the confidence to show more through this competition.
I'm sorry that I couldn't make it to the finals.
But I couldn't even think about showing a great performance.
I feel responsible that I have to do more than the best performance in the world.
I don't have any friends in the world,
and I think I can change.
Last year, I only had 8 players,
and many people who trusted me were disappointed.
When I came back,
I just took back my things.
First of all,
we knew each other,
but we knew each other very well.
We were very close friends.
So we believed that we could win any match.
I believe in myself and my team, so I will destroy them.
I will see you in Paris.
We are here to win because we are here to win.
ourselves a bit super excited for this one flowers and I got off the plane less
than 24 hours 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 2024 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 LNG I feel like
Starting out 2-0 with one of the wins being against BLG.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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.
And I think that's why so many people were scared
when they saw the scare wasn't potential.
You've got to be coming because this guy has
been the lifeblood of the team.
But you've got two confidants and cylinders with the rumble alongside him.
It looks absolutely fantastic, but you're up against no sledge.
Showmaker has definitely hit his stride in this meta.
The silence 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
given the world's 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
tendliness coming through from D-plus KIA though. Saw them have a great start to
that early game yesterday but against FlyQuest but kind of got a little rocky.
I like watching Rocky personally so I mean we got three minutes from him.
I'm down, I'm down for some DK randomness, I'm down for some action here to break out.
I actually did love like you're talking about the Silas pull out there from him.
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 and
not sure what to expect coming to 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 the same.
You know what?
Not going to 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 for LNG 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
so still playing kind of a foot in the past when it looks to the meta
where a showmaker has just gone head first into the Blanc 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 support it because even the fact that you're
putting this party back on towards like the Rumble and the Yone
you're still looking at things like the Ash, the Orianna, these big picks are going to be very strong
especially with a Nocturne van.
I think our deepest key are saying, hey, look, we don't actually want to look as a plenjlory first pick,
but want to remove a Nocturne Orianna combo from LNG in 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 like just tournament-wide power picks.
The Skarner has been such a big, you know, frontline for jungle right now.
Really, really popular. Definitely expect that to be some early priority and really continue throughout the tournament.
Alright, so alongside that Rumble, Yone and Nocturne banned out by D-plus Kia, you can look over at LMG,
you can see the Jax and the NAR 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 not surprised to see a deep plus key I picked that one up very very quickly for themselves
But it does open up showmaker now to have a plethora of different champions
You can play mid lane because you can go for that ad mid with the zig select
All right
So we're gonna grab the early blind Renekton very very good blind champion here
And then Skarner actually pairs really well with zigz2
So maybe you actually want to take that away earlier in the draft since Skarner can like group people up for zigz ulti
We've seen that used.
Why is very, very good that just that backline, hey, point and click, lock you down, but Weiwei's
going to take that one away into the night, so maybe the Scraner is now the answer on the
opposite side.
Okay, let's see how they want to go ahead and approach this one.
Seeing some frontline, seeing some dive threat on the side of LNG, TK.
Thinking about a couple of options here in the jungle.
There's our favorite Scorpion Hovered for a second.
We'll see if they do want to make sure and lock that one in.
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 Maokai 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 you for the moments. We want to at least have some sort of dive potential set
up with this fight, so having that Maokai won't deny that is always great because teams have
to play into, 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 tobacco in there. Yeah.
All right, so the Smulder 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 talked about,
it's either a, you know, like a Leblanc or an Ari, you know, it's these AP kill-oriented
mid lanes and with the hover over the log right now, you know, possible favor there for a scout.
But again, there are multiple options that you can still run with the Vi.
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 is a mega pick for Gala himself,
but also with the dive that they're already showing.
And this was a pick that Gala brought out a lot in the LPL was one of the proponents that still brought it out into the Ezreal and a lot of these picks so
Not surprised to see them 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 ziggs trying to burst them out
And I think trying to get rid of trying to find something that can support that like a Nautilus could work out really well here for
Yeah, anytime guys is not gonna have to face like super super aggressive bot lanes
It's gonna 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
We also mentioned
Such a deadly pairing on this patch especially with the Vi
Yeah, the mind games not gonna 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 top lane staple matchup that appears all the time everywhere
Rakan also gonna 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.
But LNG are not asleep at the wheel. There's plenty of other good options for engage and dive here in the support role.
And rel is one of those. Yeah, very strong.
But also just waiting to see exactly where Smotr is gonna go because there's still some windows where you can send a top lane for a king.
And if you want to, I don't think it's great into the connecting,
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 boy set up as well,
there is some windows to just burst out of smoker
or a zig 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 rail
because of how easy it is to use the head
but knock 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 wanna go ahead
and round this draft out with now.
Still need to see this one last pick from DK.
What's it gonna be?
I've run 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 like the AP bombs coming over
the top of your head to kind of support
your movement forward too.
The Silas felt locked in for scouting the opposite side.
And 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 dire situations, you still got Bob,
you still got a Zeke's Bob.
These are great ultimates for Sylas to steal.
Oh yeah, 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.
Yep, Scout 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.
Yeah, especially when you look at LNG yesterday
against BLG, they were scrapping for every boy group.
They're scrapped for everything they 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
to try and snowball.
So this is going to be a factor.
While we've seen 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 their ticket to Paris
in the quarterfinals.
And holy moly, we may not get a lane swap.
Thank the Lord.
Woo-hoo!
He said take with the P.
That's a dub already.
Yes.
Ha ha ha ha.
All right, 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,
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 try brush there
Well crash down
Well, I'm just
Get a lot more than that really
Come on, and aiming still. Just trying to get back away from this one.
Galen Hung still continuing to push forward, dropping the ignite, forcing aiming,
the flash back away to the safety of the Tier 1 turret.
Now, aiming 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 him out 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.
one, take away that flash, take away any big possibilities there.
Now, like, Gal and Hung are gonna have a really, really nice free time, even though their jungler
is pathing away from them, both junglers are pathing towards the topside, towards that
really volatile matchup that we're all looking forwards to, the Olaf or Nektun on the topside.
So, you gotta expect the junglers will definitely intervene very early up there.
Meanwhile, of course that Sylas getting pushed in early by ShowMaker, so nothing
to see there.
You will of course also be keeping track of Showmaker stacks on this, you know.
As you have to.
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.
This is the surprising thing to me, if you were to tell me that these two players were
coming into the day's matchup, I thought these two champions would be flipped.
I didn't.
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
the Tristanas and 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 Kingen here.
Flash is in for the ruthless predator.
And Weiwei is there.
Volbranker, playmaker, first blood over to Zika.
I love that.
Anytime you see those volatile melee matchups
in 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 all off 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 DK had already spotted it with that Warden Raptors where Weiwei was. I think they just thought oh
He's going for a full clear. Yeah, I can crash this wave and get back
But yeah, Weiwei kind of catching them off guard getting that early kill gonna help them must be 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 that's a lot like solo queue where you can't rely so much 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
going to have the crossway way of course going all the way to the bottom to get
the bottom scuttle 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 hung in
Gala 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
just matchups that you would expect them to be coming up from.
Yeah, I just want to see how the timing here is going to go for Weiwei,
because you're down on this bottom side,
you could have needs to go for Dragon's Hong, should he?
And you dropped the reset, yeah, nice here from Oha.
The Sieg's...
Oh, he wanted the healers to ignite to cancel the reset,
but it wasn't fast enough, they got him during that last quarter second,
so aiming still manages to get his recall,
and now that's 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 trying to get an early reset, move up towards Void Groves.
But now the name is 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 Void Groves
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 solid,
you're kind of like trading your health,
trying to keep up enough CS, and 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, Mid lane, pushed him in, chunked him out.
We should be able to grab this dragon.
He 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 gonna go down so lucid.
Can finish picking this one up, no problem should be.
Well, at least starting to get a little bit of advantage for himself, though,
because he's moved into DK's topside, stealing away the gromp.
I imagine could move over to where he's involved,
so just immediately move back over towards the point
which is what he's going to do with Sanna
is actually getting that push now that Scout has come back into lane
and Zika doing a good job of controlling Kingen.
So it is going to be a trade, but even just the camps
are to tick off on paper, way way.
Ooh, wow, Scout going in, looking for a little bit more
on Lucid, but takes him down to 250, 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 contests on these Void Grubs.
No, nice early use of the ultimate, get a big chunk onto the Malkai,
make sure that DK are not going to have an option because, you know,
they did have a really, really 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 Duel lane,
but already because of that play, LNG secure their Grubs.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
It's unusual to swap Amy to Mohamov now because, yes, you can try and get some turret plate damage, or at least try and up dead in the matchup, but, oh, Zika actually can knock back a bit, but this wave should still be picked up by Zika, and he's going to be relatively okay.
You can even see the rotation coming through from Hong and Weiwei just to make sure he's going to be fine on this, but you're just leaving Gala now to get free time.
All right, LNG is bringing in some backup. Fallbreaker getting charged. Flash and Gage 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 missing gauge coming up from Moham
knocks him back into the river, the big bomb coming in from the Ziggs
aiming needs one more shot and Lucid's gonna get the kill credit
DK 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 aiming 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 Maokai ultimate,
and aiming for his Mohan, keeping them at arm's length
and 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,
Shomricker's 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 pub.
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 and to deny
some of that CS away from Gala and put him behind as well.
All right, 12.7 to 13.6,000 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 ultimate from Weiwei immediately onto our showmaker,
you can burst him out or start to burn some summoner spells.
So getting those summoner spells out before a big dragon or a void growth fight are going to be really crucial.
And when Scout has, again, just been such a strong focal point for this team,
trying to get those resources onto him
is always voted well for energy.
Yeah, and then of course, Dala, they're looking at trying
to scale this Kaisa.
He has the call, really trying to make sure
that he will be able to cash in,
get to his couple-odd and break points.
So 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 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 is a pick that has been banned a ton so far at Worlds 2024
in the main stage.
Second highest ban 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 target advance.
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.
And of course 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 Sigg is about to drop.
He stays alive for an extra second, but it is not long enough.
But now the Malkai Alti 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 spot of grubs.
We're going to send everybody up to go for the tower dive
first.
But now the Chase, the immediate counterattack coming out
from Ellen.
She with a buy Alti into the follow up from Scout.
They take down Mohawk, but a teleport arrives.
And Kingen is ready to tear through with a rampage.
He chases, hung, down, but hung gets back up on the wall,
as moves that asked him to try 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 top side,
where they claimed one of the second set of grubs,
but there's still two to go,
and nobody from DK to contest.
And 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 mr. Cow way way
Stuck in the pit and he ain't getting out. It's the final grub plus a kill
I'm gonna lose the one that's in DK because I was looking at Lan and G going
Oh, this is such a sick timing window the reset came through from King and we have the numbers advanced for the TP
can come in let's take the fight 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 showmaker popped Mohan's ult there he was able to force it out
with his malchite ult and then Weiwei says I'll follow up showmate or excuse
be scouts had gotten the the early oak down on mohan and so then wayway 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 away 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 grabs
the first down in the bottom lane immediately responded by DK though up
They're in the topside 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 tower
You can threaten on topside you're in position to fight for rift arrow
But aiming I think kind of has to open me at our top here because he still needs to try match gala
But can't really threaten that bot lane turrets and still be being
Position for this upcoming rift tower because his TP isn't available
So DK kind of a step behind when it comes towards how they want to operate in 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 is on this is again. I just want to see more scrappy like this is such a fun
Compositions on both sides to see exactly you can try and come away with this
But LNG, bit late in the resets, Weiwei now starting to come out of base.
Mizike get to set up nicely in river,
the push in mid is fairly simple with aiming opening up there.
Okay.
Let's 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, no, 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 buildup and then got that
massive heal from both hitting the champion and all those creeps at the same time. Now
Now gets a push in on bot, could even look for a quick reset now that he hits 11, and
teleport back in as his best to come off cooldown.
Oh, where's Kadoft?
Okay, oh wait, Gala, very low on HP, down to 150, having to try to get away from this
with a killer instinct, last bouncing bomb, ain't gonna hit him.
The AD carry from LNG, staying alive as Mohamed has already used the ultimate, the
Upbreakable Will no longer available, counterattack coming out from LNG now as Mohamed has
to try to get away.
Another stolen Malkai Alti! They go in and LNG finds themselves another kill!
They get everybody right on back out and the scrap continues!
Sick vile bit there from away with Moe and I'm trying 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 Riptile 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's gonna die.
And guess what?
We're gonna 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 rage blade.
The static shift obviously helps out a lot
for holding mid lane
when you're trying to deal with so much zig push
it sometimes can 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 rage blade is done,
Then you get to see Gala 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 ripter up 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 and 1,000 gold, 2 and 1,500 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 aiming 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 made a very calculated game on how they want to open up and making things a little difficult for LNG, despite the goalie that they have.
And aiming himself, you know, has been so good for DK, both on, you know, the traditional carries that you expect from him, the, you know, like the Zarian 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, is going to be Rift Herald picked up and Kingen, oh yeah, Kingen trying
to get himself away.
Zika's 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 is just that
Walls it go all day now now we got some more problems for Mohamad for DK as
Scout is ready to jump in after up 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 abscond of
But void seeker from all the way in mid lane
And Gal 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 TK as like, I got this.
It's funny, 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.
OK, 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.
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 decidedly 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, scouts. Oh, hold on now.
CP 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 mid laner.
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
in very little vision.
And now we're going to go up, Charles.
But we're doing it again.
TP blank.
We're doing it again.
This time, it's the Crocodile.
Moham 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 Arrow from the Tier 2
turret at the same time.
So you don't actually get the Tier 2 Terror off
to 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 Kingen on a side lane
and trying to use Showmaker with Amy
to threaten the tier two tower
has kind of netted this opportunity for LNG
to continue to push in sides
with the stronger 1-3-1 setup.
Showmaker on the smolder,
currently sitting at 167 stacks.
That's honestly, gentlemen, not a lot
for this point in the game.
You're still gonna need a couple more minutes
to hit that 225 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 Amy didn't let a trouble flash for the ruthless 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.
Beautifully gains coming out from hung as LNG follows up,
and a boy 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 point
that they needed to make things happen.
And a great engage off the back from hung as well,
Because this is a guy who has been criticized quite a lot on LNG 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 him with the 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 the second one that you're kind of highlighting.
And is that re-engage even under tower.
He goes straight for it.
Hungs they'll 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 see like the Alice rules with stolen again
I was like we can take this for days. We're gonna be flying going underneath this terror so DK now
For very firmly on the back foot with very little control
More than likely gonna have this top terror being the main focus for LNG to push out and then start to set up a ton of vision
In the enemy jungle you already see it existing on the bottom side of your screen or bottom side of the map
But I think this is where LNG this one three one. It's gonna be such a threat for DK
We're at worlds we get to see some gala kaisa
Three item power spike with a full dive team right in front of them
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 will 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 e-sports the the BLG from the LPL and then 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 B.L.G.
So realistically, I think B.R.L. and G 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 Renekton 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 zero one and five for way way been critical for setting up a
Lot of these plays as LNG going to take out that tier two turret back in the mid lane
93 kill advantage five to three turret advantage eight thousand gold ahead. They still got Baron for another 15 seconds
They're gonna use it to try to force the plate under the tier two turret top, but DK holds the line for now
Yeah, and the renec then that you mentioned with the over
2,000 gold lead by the way against that kind of thing 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 renecdent pressure is going to be relentless while the rest of the team
yeah there's not a whole lot left to lose it here in the topside jungle as
long as they have the tier 2 it ain't gonna matter now but hold on gala and
way we're gonna keep pushing the issue further forward over the wall the
Scoundup duck doesn't catch anybody else and scouting Hong got to try to get back away
Zika showing up for the reinforcements but Kingin already takes Hong out of the picture
Zika fighting 1v3 on the front line, 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 some go back, but I let G 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 to 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 cuz of the ziggs and the harassment
from the smolder.
You know, DK, the smolder is something we should touch on
as far as any of these comeback hopes,
even though the comeback is going to be difficult.
Showmaker continued stacking up in 241,
so pretty close, pretty nice there for him,
as well as the double item power spikes 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 the smolder, though,
look at like Jovi 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 Shoemaker
grouped with the 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 heard as a result so this motor hasn't really
come online as quickly as you'd like to and LNG are getting to play
through that fact I'm really bullied with the gold lead that they have.
Yeah, the control that LNG have now over this game
won 27 and a 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 top side of the with Baron,
Being 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 light sounds.
Oh, hang on, no.
Yeah, never mind.
Fight's starting off.
Weiwei jumping to the back immediately, going after aiming.
That's a flashback over the wall, trying to stay safe as Weiwei's gonna get bursted
down by Malf of the Sarex, even alive for an extra second.
Showmaker rubbing a kill on that one as King is scrapping and fighting back against LNG.
Zika has to try to get away, stay alive on the Sarex and his own as Gala's gonna be
He's taking down a 138-3 and he's going to continue retreating back to his own jungle.
L, N, 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 Alec, throw Altea away, and now he's jumping it up to Volusus.
Kill the jungler, kill the Baron.
It's that easy.
Mohawk trying to get back away now as well, and Zika wants to go in for a pinch of attack.
But Gala with a beautiful shot takes out the enemy support.
Jungle with support on DK down!
A, still the driver's seat!
DK got a little too hyped on their comeback potential there.
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 Moham,
because I want to watch Azir 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.
Scala can't step forward because there's so many things that are just being tossed his direction and that's a 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 mailable 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 off the back of this end
and Gunzeu, Kev's gone, and it's another team fight victory for LNG.
Two voids stickers in a row from Gal, 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 stabilize 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 wanna 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 Stout is
with his stolen Alistar ultimate.
Now when below half, he's gonna have even more
that damage resistance, even more threat. It's so scary for DK at this point, with the top
side 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 out this game.
Against Shoemaker, 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.
Skysolid with a deathcap too. I'm very scared of that thing.
Okay, let's see. Is DK also scared of an LNG?
Looking to force down the Baron.
Weiwei loses his... Was that the Starex?
No, 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.
Deg, did 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 death cap here.
That's going to mean that, oh, we're
so scared of this rapid fire or smolder or not.
Actually, our poke is insane, too,
with the geyser 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 else on the map that's not
under your towers.
but we also have some poke options ourselves here.
And LNG is just totally in control
of the whole enemy jungle now.
It is dark in there.
If you are playing from the DK side,
Scout's just going to shoot off that Malkai ulti 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 under 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
Yeah, all you're looking for is LNG's to try to land his poke as Gala, see if he can try and force him in off
Now you do have the banche he's failed to beat Framie which makes it a bit tough
But trying to die could be a bit scary because showmaker has that Zika's arm card
But Kingen feeling rough 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 the very start of scouts deals away the unbreakable will he's so tanky there 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
And Gala jumps in with a killer instinct.
He wanted to go after Shoemaker, 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 Hung, but it ain't gonna matter.
Scout steals away another Malkai, Alti.
LNG with two inhibitors down on the enemy squad.
Kept him in a push forward.
Mohawk barely stays alive.
Weiwei getting himself back out of the fight.
He's trying to stay alive, but it ain't gonna work out.
It's two down on the side of LNG.
But Zika, Scout, and Gala are still pushing.
The minions are finally gonna get cleared away,
DK's looking for a little bit of extra punish, but they ain't gonna fight him in 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 big thought that he could do some serious damage
But LNG routed 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 gonna be pretty easy for them
to set up a dangerous situation for DK.
But here is that defensive attack.
You're going over.
Weiwei had another good Vi 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 line.
Cause is Death you're not scary to face check a vise artist, redacted?
Not even a little.
Yeah, no 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 a brush 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 cause 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 Weiwei and Gala DPSing the elder just by themselves as a two-man unit.
As Hong's gonna run interference, looking to keep everybody else away with the crash 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 seal their fate.
Scout goes with a rampage. One goes back, but it will not matter.
Ace for one. Game one. It's going the way of Elle in G.
They'll push down that last Nexus turret. They'll make a statement 18-8.
And Elle in G is up 1-0 in the first promo series to the quarterfinals.
Scouts, Deathless, Gala, Deathless, LNG on top, 0-1.
In their favor, taking the game number one.
DK 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 right on them was,
it was just nuts and all.
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, Showmaker even with the Medjai,
or Scout even with the Medjai is 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 the drawboard for Showmaker.
I don't think the Smota 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?
Smota is great for scaling, like you're talking about.
You know, you gotta get into those stack points though.
You gotta 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 gonna be back for game number two here shortly.
But first, we're hitting the break. Catch you back here real quick.
I think I'm very confused about the game, so I think I've been thinking a lot about what to do.
This is my first time, and if I get a good result, I think I can 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 have a lot of confidence.
I want to say thank you for always cheering for me.
I will try to become a better player in the future.
I hope you continue to cheer for me.
Thank you always.
It's the first time I've been playing for the first time in a row, and I'm very happy with the result.
For the team in the World Championship, it's a new version of the game.
We play almost every team.
We just want to see who grows faster.
Our design is good.
We're all very strong.
For the team in the LPL, we're not very willing to fight.
We're more willing to fight for the team in the World Championship.
I will be very happy when I win them, and I will also increase my confidence.
I think that our players are all very strong in terms of their individuality.
But in terms of the team, there are more versions of understanding that need to be strengthened.
I think 3-0 will take a long break, and the opponent will play less, and the chance to play more will be less.
So I don't think it's going to be a good thing.
We will become stronger when we face the next game.
We will have more confidence in the finals.
from another region than from the LPL as well and while we saw how it worked out for them.
It worked out pretty well. But it also worked out pretty well against the LPL.
It certainly did. I mean this is a game that was so interesting because it's, when you look at it on paper,
this is not at all the preparation and strategy expected 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 80 Champions, how it doesn't fit his play style,
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 80 champion that has seen success and I get it Genji did it
But it doesn't line up at all with how DK have found success in the past and not only that
He's 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.
It has like chocolate filling.
No, it's like he's having cake all day.
You don't understand.
It's like he wants cake.
The cake is now available and he's like, no guys, I'll stick to salad.
It's like, bro, the cake is there.
No, smolder is definitely a cake.
No, it's salad.
Nobody likes smolder.
But it smells like this.
Smolder is a necessity.
Smolder is not joy.
goes oh yeah I'm gonna sit there and do less game. Mother is protein. Then in the
storyline there was a very important sequence in this game that really I
think broke the game for Diplosky. 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 this is what really kind of
broken up in the game. Moheim 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
to pause here. Highlight aiming. He saw Gallo walking over the ward. He consides 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 Gallo'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, bad gets worse. And 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 are bailing 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 I gotta make up for it and
then drinkers like oh well I make a mistake so I gotta make up for it and then there's like
running in there. I don't make a mistake so I don't know. You're right. I wish we could say the
same about DK because it was frustrating because the entire early game they were disciplined. They
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 comms and scaling comms
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've got y'all down right up here, 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 still the rumble
Oh, they're next in this was being taken away from Zika this time around saying hey look
We don't want King and doff to try and deal with that and go back towards the Ola of course
It's still I think the 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. Yeah, 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 control on us because you you are fighting this on BlueSug.
It should be a pick that you're happy to just first pick.
Like we've seen Cops go for, we've seen other teams go for, it's just that showmaker doesn't want to go for it.
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 ban it yourself on blue, you're just announcing we
don't play it. We don't want it. It's not it's not the name of the game, but that will
be banned out alongside the Banectin and the rumble that you guys talked about. Jax,
Narr and Aurora banned out by LNG. First pick of this draft is the Vi. Remember that
Wei Wei picked that one up by for LNG in the previous game. So DK going to snatch
it away.
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 a 20 threat here is is great a 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 hasn't been something that he's been able to find the greatest successes on since he's coming to LG
They've kind of moved away from split push into hey
We want you more on the renecdence of the Kazantas and these kind of things
But this is giving a lot of trust as Zika saying we know you can beat Kingen go back to your comfort
and let's slam that on.
Well, also, we're talking about how it's blind.
It was fast slam for being first pig 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, Narr, Rumble, Renekton, 4 out of 6
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 to 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 hovering 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 set fast presence
So I'm a little concerned, especially since you can just pop that poppy down 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 and with a plan and their plan is we're gonna dive and we're gonna dive you a bunch
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 sideline picks allowing them to get you know
Opportunities for Gala to just jump on in with that guy sir looks to be very similar
I think this why if you're DK you have to start looking towards things like Orianna the long these things that can
facilitate a Camille that is diving in at the backline
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
and how much do you think 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 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 a Camille.
Poppy has a yeet button.
Ziggs has a very small one, so 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 going to also ban out like a rel or something here?
I mean, it could be a similar situation since LNG have red side.
They have full counterpick for Scout here.
So they could hide the Silas again,
and if you let the rel through,
then they pick the rel for LNG,
and then you pick,
if you're trying to counter with Alistar again,
then guess what, you get hit with a Silas again for Scout.
So it's the decision here,
and it looks like they will let it through.
So they let the rel through,
then the possibility of the Alistar answer
and 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 flying the crash tank.
It's interrupted by the stand fast presence.
And then you just end up taking something different for King.
And so I think you set up options here.
This will be one that I didn't expect, though, to come through.
Hmm.
Let's see.
We won't go until we see the timer run all the way out.
OK, Raoul locked in.
Now, I am a big believer in fool me once, shame on you,
fool me twice.
That's my fault now.
All right, if they pick the Alistar again
and leave this Silas 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.
The anime over here.
This is something that we've seen a little bit,
but I think, yeah, just going back towards that Ari,
something that can kind of set up for alongside this vibe.
Dive is going to be perfect.
And it does open up again, though,
for Scout to go back towards the Silas,
if he really wants to.
Silas was 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 Scout.
Alright, not gonna 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 gonna be a lock?
That would be a super fun matchup, I always love Camille versus Fiora.
Wait until it's actually locked before we get excited.
You always got away.
That one is ever anything is not Kasante is hovered.
It's so fun though because of the riposte and because of Camille wall jump and they're
trying to like put a little bit to the side so you can still proc but then not
get hit with the stun but we don't even get to go into it because it would just
be another Kasate. Alright so what's the fun part about Kasate? Come here, come on.
Come here. Come here. Come here wins really. Come here should be advantage so you know
traditionally I think the Kasate is like a little bit rough into the
Camille here as far as really good scaling for the Camille on side lanes
and really good setup with a Gallio here. That counterpick still used very
effectively. Gallio mid by the way has been on a recent tear with the full damage build. For solo queue
it has been massive. The ranked three guy in Korean solo queue really got a bunch of people playing
Gallio mid was really manning it with the storm surge. We'll see what build scout goes for
here because Gallio of course did get the extra health ratio so you still you know can go the
more defensive routes but solo queues had some really nice full damage Gallio's going on and
And I like the look man Camille Callio such a classic combo hex tech ultimatum into the hero's entrance
Especially when you look at both carries on the enemy team. That's a ziggs. That's an arry. That's magic damage
Plus a little bit more magic damage
Callio is gonna fly in there and protect Camille and it is gonna hurt whoever was locked up in the way
Yeah, the ziggs little knockback doesn't work anymore
more you know. Because even if you get the Camille out they're still like Gallio coming down too.
So this is suddenly becoming a far more potent composition and it still does rely heavily on
the Kaiser damage and also then having this Camille get ahead so that she can one-shot someone in
the back line 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 Bice. 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 quarter finals 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
Zika has kind of been going towards these renaissance casantes
But I always had these big carry picks the rumble has looked great from he's even got that counter pick rise in his back pocket of times as well
So and their scouts
The Tristanis 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 utility being shown in 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 King are gonna face-check right into 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 your 3v3 at level one sick
I got to try to get away from them on a little bit faster and then way way both down to half HP
third and tofu strike Max the Sejuani on back but nobody's really that close to
death grip that you can see the big wrap they're going over to Wadeway but he
didn't get the entire camp aiming there with a one CS but even getting some
there is like a bit of a steal away you know whatever we have the lane swaps and
and DK trying to go for for that invade to push him off so that they
would have the full topside map for lucid but successfully taken away a
a little bit there by LNG, just trying to be a nuisance here in mid lane, but does not
get tackled back close enough to mature it there for the range to shoot.
I'm curious to see what happens there with the supports though, because we have seen
some changes where for like the life and stuff, you would try and match on the bottom side,
you'd have King and then TP in 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
by Hong, so it looks like LNG just trying to dissuade Kingen from being able to TP down
and pick up this big wave.
Mm-hmm.
Looks like they're just going to continue clearing through that enemy jungle here, as
Amy and Kingen have the wave about to crash into the turret.
Here's your TP coming in.
Weiwei, 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.
It was for King and to get the experience and make the work.
He's level three.
Now the engagement.
Yeah, Moab jumping in there after Weiwei.
He is going to get stunned up.
Boi's secret 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 gone a little bit aggressive, tried to get in there onto aiming and actually
chunked aiming zigz out a little bit.
Meanwhile, the rest of the red side takeaway here for LMG 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 aiming.
You can see where Lucid 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 aiming at the moment and keeping himself
and checking the lane is gonna work out perfectly for me.
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 galeo more vulnerable.
Yeah, LNG know that, yeah, they could come
for our second Raptors, but it doesn't matter
if you know, nice little bit of damage
they're 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 six 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 opponent with a hook shot
for the extra distance, but it does not matter
for his blood of an aiming on the Ziggs.
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 way the 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 Kingen 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 six 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.
Don 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 hook shot of Zika, who does not
have his own ulti.
The Camille's still only level five,
so that's not going to be a return kill.
And now with the map state that it's in, Lucidip in a move up towards this topside, he's going to get the Boi Groups.
You push for Aiming on towards this top tower as well.
This should fall, so despite it being that top tower, it actually looks like first turret is going to go the way it decayed.
This is a much better early game for the LCK representative.
Yeah, Aiming up here on the Ziggs, 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 going to 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 Kassadeh chasing after Hung.
But 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 HP for the support and jungler of LNG.
So they got to be a little bit careful here, even though they have a massive number's 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 out of the wall.
The ball breaker ain't gonna work.
DK just throwing their man into a blender.
Is that Dragon Pit, the Marbruda Triangle?
Like, they're all getting lost in there.
What in the heck are they doing, flowers?
That's two freaks.
I'm so confused.
I was like, oh, this is really cool. Kagan's getting some nice damage down.
They're just making it awkward for them and like, oh, I'm gonna have to reset so then you can play it from 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.
But this is 2v4.
Like, this is not where you want to try and take this fight.
And sure they get the damage on Hongbun.
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 Cassante 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, now 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, you know, LNG are able to get their dive game plan going,
we now have our level 6's for both the Galio as well as the Camille, so our possibilities of the traps,
That kind of go to combo that you look for is going to be operational
Man, that was not what DK needed. They were three grubs ahead
I mean, 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 grub spawns in 60 seconds
And I would say your game plan of the Fed Ziggs like is still going really nicely already rotated him 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 towers 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 set up for me and then fights is perfect as well
Because lucid the immediate follow up with that ultimate
That's why we often saw this expert for things like nonless 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 Dala, potentially even just take Zeke, Zeke 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 Zeke's as well, so it
gets another purchase and looking at the the six stack of grubs would be
very nice for them. Another 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
teleport 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 Cassante 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 a dive when you can find it. Beautifully done
from DK, but a nice interruption as LNG. You want to 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 think Lucid still staying alive for now, still
trying to get himself back away. One more punch from Scout's gonna get it down as Han
gets slammed back into the wall there for the poppy, but a DP's coming in. There's your
glacial present. There's a double killback from the Scout. There's Zika making his way
into the fight as Kingen goes on stuffin' with his reinforcement, but the fight's already
finally done! LNG fightin' back after Galagath though. 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. Lucent's gets caught on every member of
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.
Evening 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 Shellmaker with some damage as he teleports in.
I was going to say the tank Galeo doesn't really hit as hard as you kind of hoped for.
No.
It's kind of like, ah, you take none of my health, but I also take none of yours, so good day sir.
We'll back away, but they will back away towards this dragon which is working out well for them.
Trying to see if you can just put some pressure on towards Moham, but he cannot defend this 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
Grubs didn't all get 6-0ed the first two drakes went one and one this time around
It's all grubs over to DK both drakes over to LNG
The soul this time is more valuable as well being a mountain soul particularly against a zigz
Who's going to be spamming out that poke having the 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 group both right, so you'd be so careful here as LNG about how you set up because the
second Ziggs goes on to a turn, the turn'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
way when hung play towards them. As long as they can keep that and you can continue to clear 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 turret 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 on the mohawk.
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 him,
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, as Kingen is once again in a bad spot.
He has to flash to turn to escape,
but it's Scow back over the wall.
LNG doing a beautiful job as the fist of Scout fights the forehead of aiming!
And that one is gonna 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 see the steadfast presence go down, which means that Zika's just waiting for the funnel 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's just highlighted the split up here.
Gala staying away from the wall, so Keegan can't really get him into position, Weiwei getting that knockup.
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-Ware from that alongside flashing over the wall to finish off.
aiming beautiful still 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 allow 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
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 and 1 half thousand 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 Kaiza.
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 to the Kraken Slayer this time,
working towards that Rageblade here yet again,
but once he gets online, when you've got this Galio
and this Camille working with you,
chug it, chug it, chug it, chug it, chug it, chug it.
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 when he needs to go in
with the 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 again getting
outplayed 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 Haming just
trying to lease Gala off the map and then you can deal with Zika by himself
which is the amount of CC you have because the build that Scout's going
he has the Holo Radiance 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 ults
coming over or Lucid and showmaker you know dashing in to make use of that
pick but it really does count come down to you that by 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 scared on the Galio right so even trying to get
that moment may cost you your lives but maybe a sacrifice 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 Arrow back in
mid lane as a distraction that needs to be answered by DK here at the same time.
Showmakers 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 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.
If you remember last night when his Vi goes really deep,
is onto the Ash there with the ultimate,
gets gotta take it up for a ride all the way into enemy team.
You know, they still win the game and everything,
but yeah, 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 at a map state.
They didn't know 1-3-1 are these kind of split push scenarios.
So I'm going to keep my eyes on how they
start to play this one out.
At least getting these early rejects,
they haven't played relatively well on scale kind of hovering
to create a little of that pressure.
But you still need to see these turrets really start to fall.
And in watching LNG with a lot of the 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 play that is going to say that traditionally LNG fell back onto when they had
these pitbull shoestitches overloading these lanes with Scout and Zika and then using Zika as a
tight 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 that 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-offing 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 have used a couple of times.
It just hops over the wall where they will try and just overload one side lane
where they have these tp 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 a bit 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
changed the direction of the game because all of the setup work that LNG had done is still pretty much true
They still have their deep boards 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 died
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 Ellen she ends up getting forced off or even if they decide to fight for it
And they lose by a small margin that could be a big difference maker
I think this is where we will see Ellen G just go for terror takes though
They're having an awful time breaking these turrets because aiming just sits in mid peers at the waves all day and
Showmakers been doing a very similar job matching wherever Zika's 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
Drake 15 seconds away. A little bit of vision from both sides here in the Botside River.
Aiming just continuing to force these waves down. So easy to do it with the Ziggs.
Vision in the pit from LNG though with this Drake about to spawn in less than five 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. Zika's going to 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 keeps trying to reset. I'm not sure if he's close to that item completion, so
may want to try and get that in just so we can come in with the TP, but LNG
giving up a lot of space here to DK. I think the fight on top lane is actually
really important too to be able to see where that goes since it's actually two
items for Zika, slight advantage here over Kingen 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 over the pit. They're gonna pour some DPS into the objective. DK still
gotta 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 in there, but instead the counterattack coming up from LNG. The Drake
is gonna be secure that is Mountain Soul over to the LPL squad as now they're
gonna take the full fight, but they gotta be careful. Zika here on the
front line gonna be taking low and barely spot. Thanks to Sterak's gauge. Now
the Wobbo combo. The damage back over onto King. It's gonna be good. LNG still
Jason, but Weiwei is at death's door.
aiming takes him down, and Hong is gonna be stopped.
LNG's still scrambling to fight.
A double kill back up at aiming.
Make it a trickle for the six.
Scout about to fall, and the Void Seeker won't get one back.
It's soul of an LNG.
It's fight for DK.
They just saved the game?
It was also an amazing ultimate from Kingen.
He has actually able to Kassante ult
away from the Camille-Galio combo,
And now they can go for the Baron response!
Gala, no, 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, we 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 Baron.
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 going to work.
I really want to 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 out 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 Kingen goes in to get the knockback and they get so much damage out of this thing.
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. Engaged from Lucid, going in tries to find a slam of the wayway.
The Sedgewani, not anywhere tanking enough to survive this and DK with momentum
barreling down the bottom lane.
This house is looking in this top side so they immediately go for the pick.
They get us and the resetting them from kicking 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, but 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 Ziggs War Machine is absolutely pumping damage into these structures.
Five turrets to two favoring DK.
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 2000 gold lead, but we also have gold
leads for Lucid, for Showmaker, you know, big, big capabilities here and Showmaker
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 Zovas on you starting to be completed for both aiming and showmaker just nullifies so much
What of LNG want to do? We know the combo well you Zika goes in scout ult try and pick someone off
But when there remain targets or just have to go and vulnerable for the entire duration of that and makes things
significantly easier to defend so LNG I think their window of opportunity is
starting to close in this game unless they get creative which looks like they
might be on to our showmaker now fingers for LNG as well the difference
between this game and the last game look at Gala last time around he was
going with the very heavy AP build right we saw the death cap we saw the
magic penetration we saw Nashor's tooth 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 side and if DK continues building
Their lead, the dive gets tougher and tougher.
Moham, very, very low, but he still stays alive,
critically Kingen, trying to also continue to retreat.
LNG keeps the chase alive.
Scout doing a great job locking up the enemy Kassate.
Zika's already killed off Moham,
but meanwhile, back in the jungle,
it's Gala under pressure.
Huge damage coming in!
Gala is saved!
It lives up high, but the hero's entrance
plus the shielding!
The Kaisa stands tall.
The locket from Weiwei barely keeps Gala alive.
That last one she comes in from Lucid and it just means it's a pick LNG
So the TP from showmaker on towards mid lane and saw their chance to bite back against DK
What a game what a series man. This is awesome world
Kobe we flew out at the right time
This is good.
This is good, seriously.
This game like they're making a lot of team feeler.
Yeah, they're off the plane just in time.
Feeling good, feeling good.
That's kind of why I want to see 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 a mountain soul
is so big in these all-in fights, where they just
get the full commitment.
They can make use of this full shield,
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.
It's just, of course, Scout Galeo
not going to have his ready.
Well, we had a very early dragon soul this game,
the earliest possible one you could get 4 and 0.
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 scuttle crab 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 into the immediate stun on King and the Cassante 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 Skadook can't come in behind them with a big taunt.
Zika trying to wrap around completely out of vision.
Lucid trying to mark him and spot him 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 quite yet.
Aiming forced into the spaces here immediately, but a massive engage coming out from the hog.
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 still barely alive here at about 25% HP.
Back into the drake 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 hung, again still looking for an angle.
There's your talk coming out from Scout.
Stick him back over the wall and Lucid is down.
The charm on Gala will finish him off.
But Shoemaker dies to Scout here as well, aiming and Moham trying to get themselves back away.
As Weiwei will be left alone here with the Elder Dragon, Hong's still chasing, and Elder Execute would be almost immediate here on the bohoff.
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.
Wei Wei's still coming back around from the side, the elder dragon, 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 LMG gonna delay the ace, 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.
The LNG play at this fight so incredibly well, picking off Lucid, immediately turning on to our showmaker Zika,
buying so much space on the topside, alongside Hong, and the eventual turnaround to pick off the members of DK.
And that fight is only the second wraparound 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 Hung in the last one.
It's just a great guess, though, maybe.
Goes down there to the big zigz bomb.
Alright, back to live.
LNG going after Baron.
And there is no contest on that one.
Alright, 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 unisee zooka pushing in that top side
The wave was controlled by a showmaker on the bottom end
But a potential play from LNG is always on the cards. They've got the reset
I think he's looking for a TP back in on to play having finished off a GA their nose
Yeah, and now we're gonna come back in immediately on the top side tours
Yeah, keep your eyes on aiming the whole game is a bill's 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.
Gratial 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 in the tier 2 back over in mid.
Tier 3 turret in top, still just barely standing as the push, the onslaught from LNG continues.
And you just, that top tower is gone, the next minion wave, Zika just walks up, hits it, hookshots away, and it's gone with the golden caboose, and DK trying heavily to pressure onto the wave stays.
What the hell?
G, 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 gonna bring him out of the ultimatum, but he still has to retreat because of the damage, boring in as Moham leads the charge.
Wait, wait, he's still gonna keep this engaging.
Zika very low, no teleport to rejoin the fight.
He's gonna have to reset.
The charm from Showmaker was clutched there
because it drew Zika in behind.
Cassante so King can actually ult through him
and gets the edge and away from LNG.
So nice job there by Showmaker,
but still DK, they hold on.
If you've still got at least two more waves
you can play off here 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 that team fight 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,
trying 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 0-6 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
We would be the first one to fall on DK side as LNG maintain their fight before 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 those seeing if maybe DK gets a little bit too greedy on the chase, but it will not happen
I'm in it a half until the other dragon though, so we may just have to rinse and repeat
The fact that DK held on to that top terror though is crucial because no super minions away from that side of the map is going to work
It's a great put King and I'm sorry Zyka realizing that once the move up towards this top side
I think for pressure there so that then he can encourage more members of DK to try and defend away from the outer 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 and 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 yeah 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 LNG would leave Zika on top side because he
doesn't have enough gold to buy another item they just continued a
pressure there but now drawing him down on to this bottom side it will mean
that he has a good flank opportunity for this potential Aaron will drake
especially with the waves he's now pushed down and there's little vision
there so showmaker now moving in behind the pit I imagine will be
showmaker trying to mark Zika as he moves in here big items to look for
Guardian angels on both Zika and Gala. They both have that second life, but you've got the double stasis 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
Showmakers forced into the state says 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 surely though, right?
Heroes intro take quite good upon the way that it's looking for sick on to the back line aiming trying to get away
They need to lock them up beat them down way way finds the kill on aiming and DK is looking like a growl
LNG
Barreling down mid lane. Game 2 was closer. DK was stronger, but L and G still are better.
Kingen jumps in 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.
Ziggas is too rich, man.
Over on 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 draft last week.
For everyone here, LNG, it's simply just better.
Yeah, I mean, the matchup between D plus Kia
and their own drafts was really historic.
Yeah.
It's so frustrating.
The drafts came in on top,
but 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-fights.
Yeah.
So many good fights where if there was just,
a sliver of physical damage just a problem of physical damage
one crump please they managed to stop a Camille with a 6k individual gold lead
like 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 smaller now don't you yeah
I do bring it back definitely tabled wow super interesting game overall the
Galeo came out as well. I want to reference Raz and his tweet, but someone asked like, what about Galeo? Like, what's going on?
And he said, well, it kind of symbolizes what happened for LNG, because Scout, he couldn't come, then everyone banded together for him, then he made it, and he landed in glorious fashion up here.
Well, it can't trust, baby, right there, just in time.
Just in time, just in time.
Build them more and win the game.
Yeah, I mean, at the end you could see it there, right?
Yeah.
D-plus tried their hardest, but they could not kill him or anyone else.
anyone else. Yeah, absolutely.
And the upper player series is going to 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 Sheep Esports from Armand with Carla as well where he talks
about, like Kaisa is his favorite champion, right, is his signature pick, so he's happy
to play it.
Well, he'll try some 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 can see them fumble a little bit when the range advantage and the kind of the appeal
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.
She is the first team advancing to quarterfinals, and I have Weiwei and Christina 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?
I'm pretty happy about that.
Yeah, 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.
Oh, really? Did you think you were going to dominate them that convincingly?
Two at all was really crushing.
Did you predict that you would defeat them with a 2-0 performance today?
So when I saw the draw show, I felt like we're going to go back to the city.
All right, convincing victory here, and I love the confidence.
I want to follow up on an interview that Gala did with Arnonuk from Sheep eSports,
saying that it is really important that U5 are here competing together
and how happy you are playing together.
Can you tell me more about the relationship
you have with your teammates?
Before that, Gala mentioned during an external interview that she is very happy that the five of you can join the global finals together.
So, Weiwei, how do you feel about the five of you being able to compete together and how do you feel about the cooperation between the two teams?
It feels great to be able to compete with the five of us together.
And the five of us are getting better and better at understanding each other.
I feel like I was very happy to be able to get way five players here participating in the
Worlds 2024, and also I think we have a better team synergy and also the understanding to
the game.
Absolutely.
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?
When you came to the final, you didn't expect so much from LNG.
Wei Wei, what do you think of your performance with the team?
Do you have anything to prove on the stage of the final?
I don't feel that I'm being watched. I feel that I'm doing well.
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?
Wei Wei, you are the champion of last year's World Championship.
Now, you are the first LNG to enter the eighth stage.
What is your determination for this championship?
I hope it's better than last year.
I hope I can have the better results than the last year's Worlds.
A lot of expectations here on your side.
Wei Wei, 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.
Honwara, his sports versus Genji.
Almost like we bristled the flash forward by the knee
because I couldn't get an overexcited in fights
and I might flash forward for like a long touch, but...
I'm going to play with my teammates in the back,
and I'm going to play with my teammates in the back.
I'm going to play with my teammates in the back,
and I'm going to play with my teammates in the back.
Later on, that is going to be Gen.G versus A-Chile.
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.
So, Lehen's kind of in the middle,
and the Canyon is going to be up on the Top side
over by himself, while TES are going to look
to collapse on Canyon.
They're going to be looking for a 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
on the Jackie Luv.
They're able to catch the Jhin here.
The follow-up is there from LeHens.
They get him incredibly low,
even with this ult from TN actually peeling out Chovy.
You can see Jackie Luv 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 his Q once 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 gonna 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, has the Q3 ready.
And again, watch where Paze is staying.
He's always ready to re-engage on the flight.
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 gonna use to the maximum here.
Instead of flashing back offensively,
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
to 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 team fight 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 gonna 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.
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 going directly to the quarterfinals.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the LCK,
to Worlds, to 24 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 in LCK.
Everybody except for one man, everybody except for Ox was predicting Gen.G.
was a pretty big upset and you could see even in the way that the fan predictions were going more people today are
Expecting Genji 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 drill 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 Genji to win
I think that says a lot about the dominance that Genji's had in DLC K
but Hanwha stepped 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
of life, the AD mid-strain, Tristana 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
Joby 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.
Pick up the one here potentially for second. Oh, it slipped through the drop that could be 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 pickup for home while here
I feel like it's worlds 2024 boys. If you know nays open, and you don't lock it be one
Yeah, I'm wondering what you're doing should always be first pick jelly immediately
John do that will just make sure we catch up with everything else bands
Nidalee, Ziggs, Skarner, banned out by Hanwha Life,
and then Gen.G taking out the Smulder, 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.
That 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 Nocturne ultimate to cover darkness over.
And I think this works out great for Canyon,
because the shift back from the carry AP junglers into the Sejuani Maokai 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 Pino's blocking 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 narrow that topside that could be a pushy main
You could look to play around but you still need some sort of control on that bottom side to threaten this knock turn at the early stage
And the insta lock here
From jovi bringing out the Ari here again another like double AP solo laner is coming through
But we definitely expect them to also have some very strong AB 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, Vipers 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 come when it gets the level
6 just pops off as Gen.G. A ton of early skirmishing power, so trying to alleviate a lot of that early pressure
seems to be the game plan for Hama. On the opposite side, I'm curious if it's gonna be a Gen.Ban.
Just get rid of something that kind of plays out of the main team fight and makes it a little bit more difficult for
your dived function on Gen.G's side, but other than that
I don't need, yeah, there's the Gen. Because I don't really know what other
self-reliant marksman, apart from Viper who has brought out Desire, but do you really want to go for Desire in this meta?
It's a bit hard to say.
Yeah, I mean if you're facing a lot of the dives, you know kind always is nice there
I like what HLE have got for with spanning out some of the lane dominant
Champions here with the with the Calista of course pays amazing Calista showed it again versus way ball already this tournament
Had his 28 bomb at MSI
That also had the Henson's blitz cranking it by the way, you know the 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 too. You know you're looking at this kingdom and you
do want some more CC in it. The Varus does offer that as well as a pretty strong
lane phase. But it does feel weird because Varus kind of gets left on his
lonesome with the way the rest of this composition wants to play and against
the diving Nara, the dive from the Ione, Paze is going to be very vulnerable
and heavily flashed her light it feels like in these fights if Genji ever want to try and
address so I like that Hanwha essentially just doubling down now on this potential saying
hey look we're just going to continue in with the kaisa for this dive and just put a ton
of pressure on to pays in this game.
Always love seeing a kaisa man especially after the last series we got to see some pretty
fun kaisa.
We're going to see some pretty fun kaisa 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 probably the best engaged support in the world right
now. This guy's absolutely insane on the rel, the rakan, some of these picks I really
start to stand out from, but I do like the rel specifically in this because not only does
it have great engage, it can also work very well with the peel that you need.
Thanks to that magnetic storm for Nocturne as he dives in, things like the arry as
Well, just being able to keep them off of your backline.
But I like just the all-round hitter here for Hamlet.
It comes off great.
Yeah, I mean, it's a very interesting dichotomy that we have.
Because they have really hard engage here on HLE.
The final pick for LeHens is 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.
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 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 facecheck is going to come back to light you against
what Hanwha drafted here.
So I need to see early control for Pays and the Hens on that bottom side, great
mid jungle control.
Canyon playing heavily for Choby 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 effect in this game, then everyone's just going to blame 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, you know, 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 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. How many protagonists you're putting in the block and you're saying hey show me what
you've got and that's kind of where this like Yoda edgy guy just gets to show his stuff right? He
wants to be close and personal with you so you're kind of just setting it up so curious now to
see Taijinji want to try and make this happen. I don't think they want 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
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 up that our featured matchup
presented by Mercedes-Benz.
This game is right there in the mid lane
between Zeke and Chovy.
These guys that have had some serious blows back
and forth before, even though the all-time record
doesn't really favor Zeke.
I was looking at some stats before the series today.
Zeke'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 not about the quantity.
It's about the quality.
Is it kind of Chad, no?
You two are some really, really big ones.
And of course, we do have the lane swap that HLE
have 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, you know,
mid laners here for soaking level 2, 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 like from his top side. They only saw Doran, so thought it was going to be standard lane.
So Gen.G 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 play
But I think it's a good call from all wall 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 Gen G side
It's kind of interesting to me because a lot of it was in the previous iterations
We're talking about the support actually soaking the full level two from the mid lane
But because he went over to Canyon and kind of messes around with Canyon while can is doing jungle
You still have the light on the level one on the rail and so the defense is going to 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 Hanma would still be all right here one after a turret shot there onto keen as Doran transforms back into Mininar
But that was the nice adaptation here Doran wait until he's better mega now then TP spot
So the potential dive on a mini now is way more difficult to light now gets into the bottom lane hits level 2
I know that completely despades 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 nerf. Yeah
And it's kind of delight was like okay fine
You know I don't get my level 2 for it, but then Kenyon also wasn't level 3 for it
So then you didn't have the extra threat there and they kind of domino effect
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 Gen G 80 carry
Yeah fake the reset so traditionally you'd see delight now reset go top and match this because of this potential plan Viper
Viper trying to get away from it there with a supercharger came down to 250 HP
But LeHans 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 cost pays off guard because you would assume he's gonna go back and match that top side 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 man move back up towards the top side
They're okay to still soak the wave is played as vibrio. Just be a little late on the recess
Look who's scared paces
Over into that bush for a long a while. He's hanging out
He knows that there could 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 1 here, but the light is to the side.
And as Paze 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 Dagger, you mentioned it in Champion Select, but as the game goes later on,
that is going to be a very critical flash, and Paze is going to have a very difficult time staying safe with all of this engage in his face.
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 Paze 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 Paze and LeHens can play up pushing this wave
potentially reset and look for the void groups that are spawned in 20 seconds.
Both there is also an argument to just say, hey, we're going to try and farm it out,
just play it safe, because we don't, with the level advantage for Doran who's about to take over the six,
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 into as this, and for Hanwha, they would rather just keep
Viper in that bottom side, because in a 3v3 with both Solonair entertaining 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 taken those and there's no contest from the other side, remember
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get your stuff, get some prizes, the same way the peanut is securing those grubs right now
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, I'll 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 will 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 Nocturne to be able to get access to his ultimate for the counter.
Could immediately go far here. I think that's why he hasn't reset because look at Paze still no flash available
This could be the point of contest with the ultimate hits
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 the Sejuani
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 Paze you saw
Chovy also potentially going towards the bottom lane but ended up going back into mid here instead still very close gold 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 you know the relationships between all of these players on these two teams
Not only was finals a banger, but of course peanut himself and delight and door and all X Gen G members and
You know trying to pay the visit on bottom lane, but respect given and control ward really paid off there
So they got to see the same right?
There's so many interactions between all these players and they know each other so well
Not only just from playing in finals, but you know several teams together
So I think it's it's always good memories. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, 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.
As we still have no kills on the board, eight and a half minutes in, both teams
have been fine with this very quiet early game.
I mean, people were even calling Hanwha Life like Genji Orange, you know, and kind of meaning that 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 Zeca especially due to their recent play.
Let's see about this one though. Paze!
Oh, Delight doing a big engage there on Paze. Genji's 80, Kari ain't getting away from that one.
That one, no bail out, bails you out of that much damage.
It's first blood of the viper.
And that has been the difference.
Really big target on Pays back.
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 it kind of already suspected straight from Champ select.
And hey, dagged up back at Champ select.
You said Delight's probably best engaged support
in the world right now
And he immediately goes in through both summoner spells of 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 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.
He just looks so sick on and you got to see there how mechanically strong he is on these picks and setting up now for Viper with that 1-0 kill
He's got static shift. He's going to be such a menace now and 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 locket early first purchase for him the second grubs
He's gonna head right back over there too. They have their duo lane finishing up with the minion wave and now that they have a nice
little item advantage
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 these ultimate open available
Which is why Genji are trying to play out this time you may know to attack move down from home all life
Though I don't know if I can get off them though because that was also various ultimate used for the little chunk of damage. Yeah
Alright, second Void Grub is about half HP.
Mina's gonna step forward, try to take that one.
Meanwhile, down at the bottom of my door, I'm trying to get away from Keen.
He's down to 100 HP while 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, Keen here, the Aurora pick that we were highlighting,
Yeah, also going to be able to get some extra pressure pushes in this should be a turret plate
Very very closely getting one Doran's gonna say no turn plate for you. I'm gonna take all your minion wave
Even with that juicy tiny sliver of health away
King can't get it quite yet. Yeah, why did they get the potential sooner underneath the tower?
It doesn't manage to hit nicely done by King to escape
But it doesn't mean Doran will just reset move back up to Doris top side because it's dragon
He's now at the big port of call, 10 seconds until that one's available.
Zeke has good control over the mid lane, but hasn't gotten 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 really in position
quite yet, but should be fine to contest the wave anyway.
Alright, 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 that 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've no real set-up in any of your lanes, apart from Chovy, and Zeck has been doing fine with P to put in pressure on towards sides,
And now, at the Dragon Piss, he's got his experiment with the Hex Play done.
So I think we see his first ulti here.
Okay, it's alive with the Hex Flash over the wall.
Peanuts, Glacial Prison onto the hands, but it ain't gonna be a whole lot now.
The lights go off, Paranoia goes in.
Genji with a kill on Peanut, and this is exactly what they need.
And Zekka tries to use Fate Seal over the wall, but it's an arrow through his heart.
The Samurai falls to the archer.
Genji take Drake plus two, and they ain't done yet.
Kane 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 Zeka 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.
All right, looks like top bottom tower gets teleported on.
This is going to be so low though, can they?
Yeah, Zeca immediately arrives, but now the turret is dead.
Zeca 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.
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 gotta be careful with those.
Yeah, I mean, they still, Gen.G, yeah, they get the advantage in the teamfight,
Get the extra kill here. They get the bottom tower more gold there and top side
They're still gonna 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 defense is strong and the fact now that you're back out on the map first is crucial for
That's just about to spot and we're gonna get a glimpse at our master card lane economy snapshot
But you can see a lot of the gold is actually on the hens right now, but it is still Genji
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 their macro and
even though it looks a little ropey at the start, they're starting to get control.
And the thing is Genji is so calm, even though Canyon was a little bit behind, he
funneled all of his money to make sure he could get his experimental hex play done
in advance of the dragon and so he gets there, still has this full item, they immediately ult
onto peanut, plus Paze able to take peanut down and secure their second dragon so dragon
stacking game plan 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
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.
He even has a chance to try to move up and do anything about it but now Delight
needs to be a little bit concerned. Kane 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 door and it goes for this pressure. The bot side turns. No TP
for Kane or for Jovi. 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 really 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 thousand gold very very
close. Chovy retreating away as Hanwha sends more more troops to back up
Zekka makes sure he can force down this Tier 1 turret, gets some more gold in his pockets,
unleash the Yone that is on that critical first item power spike.
And Kobe talked about Genji funneling Canyon for that first item, it feels like Neohomar
just going to funnel Zekka, they know how strong with two items in his back pockets
this Yone can be and a massive threat in fights and especially when it comes to
a side lane threat as well, he can threaten Keen, he can threaten Chovy so as long
as these terrors continue to fall, Zekka can carry this game.
And you can also threaten Paze.
So we'll see if the target on Paze back still continues
as we transition towards the team fights.
And Genji, of course, they also have
so many pick options with this comp.
It's so nice.
Once Nocturne gets ranked two 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,
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 going to be hovering bottom or top side?
And they really want to 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 Yoni and a Naur,
Paranoia also stops your ability to see the ward and teleport to the ward.
So you've got to beat the air in the objective fight sooner as now the Herald
driven into the tier one turret there by Canyon. Doran has to flash back away but
Pina's ready for the counterattack here 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 live 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 to his body with a soul on bound. Gen G with
the one for nothing with the enemy tier one turret nearly killed they're gonna 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 dark 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 with a great engage from Deli's but Hama TP top side
they would get the tier two but a third dragon for Gen.G won'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 team fight, immediately just move on to the next step.
Even though Hanwha like, okay, fine. You know, that was a good flash and disengage from Lahans. 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
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 oftentimes what we're seeing is
Hamal wants to try and threaten onto objective.
You can look at how Keen has already pushed in
that topside, so creating a point of contention
on the map.
Choby 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, his grace,
the wave is gone before Zeke even gets there
and Chobhi's now drifted to somewhere else
and you're just constantly playing catch up
with Hanwha 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 Chobhi'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 ATLEE 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.
Well, Chovy then roams mid to get the mid terror.
And also respect from Paze,
Because this man is playing incredibly safe on the midway.
He knows how valuable his flash and cleanser for these fights.
He's not even stepping up to finish off the terror there.
He's like, no, the minions would do the work.
As long as I stay safe, this game we can win it out as Gen.G,
just playing at the map stays.
Yeah, 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 if someone, you know,
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 team fights.
Like Viper has just been insane.
So we'll see what HLE can do on the next one.
They have a lot of confidence in their setup.
Wait a second, they're gonna have to...
Yeah, Genji's going after the Baron
because they saw Hanwha try to make a play on Shobhi
down there in the bottom lane.
So now they're just gonna try to force the Baron instead.
Shobhi teleporting up to join the remaining four players
on Genji.
The paranoia is there to stop an appropriate followup.
The Baron is secured by Genji,
but now they gotta try to get everybody else away.
Caning with the flashback over the wall.
Hanwha can't do anything.
Gengi 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 tower,
Gengi knew they could take it.
You have a blade of the Roon King, Gwinsu's Varus,
who will rip through the percentage health of that 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 on the Baron
or how heavily can we engage.
We don't know where Gengi are.
Beautifully done from Gen.G.
Shovey sees that Senjuani coming after him on that little far-seers trinket.
He says, alright, let's go for it.
And everybody else starts up the play.
Shovey 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 Zeka 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 the 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.
Oh my gosh!
As last delight goes in for a massive 4-man engage.
Gigi melts before your eyes.
Do not doubt delight or you will find yourself
A triple kill for Fyper and Hanwha, just buried Genji!
Nice macro, kids! How's this wamo combo taste?
That was huge! Delight into Zekka, able to destroy them in HLE.
That also denies the Dragon Soul.
That was beautiful because Peanut panics.
He throws everything out and just like,
please, we love it, God, get people off me.
but the TP still comes through from Zeka, and the delight we call this, this engage into Zeka 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 an ultimate able to melt me.
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 clutch in 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 my god
It was like a needy. It was like you know the blindfold comes and you're like, okay play this one out
What are you gonna do?
It was just beautiful layering to you know stun into the full crash down ultimate Zeka is immediately following up and now
Yeah, Canyon, he'll try to 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 5v4 for the next 30 seconds.
Hanwha trying to show wasn't a flash in the pan, and so I'm interested in all the doubters.
I think Al's 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
Unfortunate they grew up up that one time and now Hanwha just get to use the strength of their engage their tanky front line
They're 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 force plays
Go play it in 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 sudden the Kaisa's shot up to 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 set up and another Viper just bought an arm guard
And normally I would call that a half an item that is the most broken active
That 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 out playing 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, Ari, 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, immediate jump! The pick on Shovey!
You just see Viper fly across the screen, and then the Infernal Pinatas fly out of Shovey.
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 GenG.
Not only is that mid lane pick going to mean that the enemy squad gets Baron,
Shovey's only going to respawn right before the Infernal Drake spawns again,
and Hanwha is going to continue having control over the entire riff.
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 hit him on.
He was like, okay, Chovy'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 Genji they want another attempt at this soul
Okay, show he 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 an eight mega-nar but he ain't gonna find the angle here
Just yet Zeca resetting with a soul on bound. Keen's the first to drop. Vipers going godlike.
Genji's scrambling to fight back, but Zeca's too strong. Vipers too strong.
Genji's running towards the wrong base and Doran's gonna hit him with the wallop.
Couple more auto attacks get to done. Shogi's about to drop again.
Calling a trink. 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 deaf 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.
I don't think 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.
Delay points.
You know, we can honor enemies now as well.
I'm pretty sure all the other Gen G members are like,
you know what, Delight?
That's also an honor.
Great job, fair enough.
Delight's engaged, 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.
Two LCK mid lane giants
in today's feature matchup presented by Mercedes-Benz.
This is a rematch of the LCK finals,
And although Genji and Chovy managed an impressive domestic showing in the LCK,
they lost it when it crucially mattered for Tsangwa life.
Ubinai is going to connect a knockup onto Pina and he flashes out Oats back in.
The impalance needs him but the unit is already struck.
Chovy is still going to go history.
It is on Chovy's shoulders to show that not only is Genji the better team,
but that he is the better midlaner.
Genji are in so many different angles, so many different movements,
They're hitting him from all sides.
It's a sandwich, but I think the tea is.
It's a raw-
And Gen G with a 10 out of 10 team fight.
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 junicekwa the magic to turn it around on a diamond
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
Cuz 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 jillowy lineup can be yes, and every second counts and thanks to reliable Cisco network
Goodlite finds the crispest 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 and gauge.
Zeca is there with a follow-up.
Gen.G 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 have a lot of pretty advantageous lane situations,
a pretty solid lane swap for HLE.
And while Gen.G 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
or to create such great fashion.
It's frustrating to see someone 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?
But he is the lane guy.
Chovy's already incredible.
We're in lane. 30 wins, 5 wins.
Maybe this is the sixth or seventh spot.
30 and 37 incredible the only other game where we had this kind of discrepancy was faker up against gene Kato like this is
Unprecedented to midlaners of top of top little cow or top level players
Yeah, it's it's crazy and as I got 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 it tech
technically yes right but Genji is doing Genji things despite not being as you
know dominant in the lanes after they want all the dragons about to be on
sole point they get the Baron 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. I was kind of
white knighting Doran a little bit
because I feel like he gets an
unfair amount of hate because he
has these like you know kind of
falling 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 3,000 gold lead.
And when you look 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 supposed to be very careful of getting engaged on and then an Ari and
the Roar who don't really have enough consistency gets 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 like 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 to 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 I want to say puzzled in a positive a what do you say surprised in a good way about the choices that they
Decided to make ultimately it didn't work out and I got a toss
We have a really cool.
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.
It might be time.
That's my only thing.
Maybe.
It's time to say one.
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
Number two, here in 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 Rell's solo queue play rate is about to go up tonight.
Let's see how this second one plays out.
That could be you at home!
Save the game!
You up now!
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 on a life's turn on being on Red side to ban it.
And I think that they very well know, of course, the power of the champ.
I don't think they want to give it over to First Pick to Gen.G.
So I would assume that they're not going to give that in 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. 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. I 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
And they're like definitely still willing to first pick it here on the blue side or at the layer very least hover it
We'll see about the final lock. They got it. They got it
All right, so it's Aurora first for the side of Gen. G Jax smolder
Malchi banned out by their side Hanwha gonna go ahead take out that young a 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
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
Kaniy. Like this is a real champion then. Yes you say.
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
AEP like kill oriented matchup with Vi. The RA of course is very popular and they're going to go AEP topside first as Rumble has
has just been spam-picked even after the nerfs.
Seems like nobody cares.
On the other side, they actually instantly take away
that awry possibility and pair it again themselves
with the Nocturne.
This could set up for Zeca to go for Silas.
It's always worked relatively well in Forzeari,
and it's going for Zealot.
I mean, it is.
That is a world champion of 2022, Zeca, to you there.
It's an honor on the list.
Yeah, on the Akali.
Oh man, this is beautiful.
back at Worlds and back on Akali here after a Yone game.
Beautiful stuff, very, very excited for this second match.
And with HLE already having advantage in this series,
like, I'm feeling so much pressure for Gen.G now.
And we're not even done with the draft for game two.
Yeah.
And the interesting thing here for me
is although the sides are swapped,
Gen.G's 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, on Hanwha Life, everything's
a little bit different here. Yeah I do like the Renata ban though because I was kind of clutching
a lot of games where it was going to be hey we can dissuade you from that big dive which you
can already see how much 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 but 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 banned away,
Ezreal banned away. Remember that Ezreal was also banned last time.
Kind of vibing actually.
My jet lag brain didn't start dancing.
I respect that.
Live your best life. We got some good games.
We got some chill beats. We might as well.
Relax.
That's what you want to spend your weekend, you know?
All right, what else we got?
Kaisa.
Yeah, Viper's been scary.
All right, we take out the Kaisa possibilities with the dive,
Of course, even with just the 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 possibilities here actually for HLE for some kind of drawn out team fights.
And also then the counter pick for Delight which is going to work out for Tospey as well.
You just saw how good he was in the rail but he'll get to answer for whatever LeHens wants to go for.
With the Callisto 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 knockups having Alistair
and that repeat sending to the fates call just gives so much bounce house potential to Genji.
And since we're already on the last pick, we know that there's no place for Silas to fit into the enemy comp, if you do per se.
Also, because we're so late in the draft, I also really like the late Gen picks.
You know, Gen 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, you know, the Gen is going to be able to do plenty of damage.
And there is a lot of squishy member, a lot of squishy members on the side of Gen G.
of Gen.G. That being said, they do at least lock in Leona here to have their real linchpin
on their side to bring together the full engage. And they have so much possibilities again
on Gen.G. We mentioned their pick potential last time. It gets even bigger here.
And I always like Leona into Gen 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 solo
player and just, all right, curtain's up. 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 grading gauge on Pina with the Vi.
You've got two very much dive carry potentials coming through from the Cali with just her
ult but also the threat of the rumble ultimate on towards a 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 of the bat screen 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. Okay, those are my favorite ones 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 teamfight 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 could get another lane swap, because it did definitely help in the
early stages for Hanwha and just being able to avoid a lot of these terrible 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 quarter finals,
if they can repeat the success that LNG just
had with the 2-0.
Gen. G, invading enemy jungle here
gonna force peanut back.
So the hens and keen step far forward into the chicken brush.
Looks like Hanuman 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 H.O. Lee.
But H.O. Lee, oh, quite gets it.
OK, does find the ward.
On World Patch 2, the wards still
give a little bit of experience.
So, nice little boost there for Zeca plus the bottom lane.
And the ward left behind on the red buff here by Gen G
will sus 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 it was a beautiful, you know, way, way,
deviation from normal play to go up there,
play off of the Renekton stun and get it,
but it 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 top side
to maybe burn a Flash Wukin and help that 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, 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. You're in a game of modern League
of Legends as once again our reminder Mercedes featured matchup the mid lane chauvin versus
Zeca 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 sorry to take you to the
past the gameflowers but that featured matchup does have roots in you know
semi-finals of Worlds and is that gonna take 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 gonna be a little bit difficult getting
pushed in a bunch and Ari also going to Grasspear stacking that up.
Ooh, Doran with the Flash, but Keen immediately flashing back away as Pino was going top looking for the angle.
Yeah, and that's what I was kind of expecting to wait for Pino 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 Keenbuzz.
Just Flash for Flash, burning that topside, and you still got Pino, 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, he looked and go,
Oh well it was like Akali's and Silas's in the meta and that's why Zeke really popped off
But 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 has come in as an all-rounder now as just a very very
competent and strong mid laner that you always have to fear
Hens backing up a little bit here is 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 a very standard 4-5, 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, it's a possible hover there, so they get pushed in, they
They don't want to do anything crazy right now
to draw any extra attention.
And it kind of keeps that semi-timer on enemy jungle
so that you know where he's going to go in the future.
But he ends with the engage on Viper,
forcing out the cleanse, dropping a knight on him as well.
Viper can walk off without needing to use the flash,
but he is pretty hurt now.
And the aggro of Gen.G here in this bottom lane,
the power of Kalista with any sort of an 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 Tartex, but to like calls,
just got to step away.
Yep, that's fine.
Meanwhile, the mid-lane matchup that we were just looking at,
And I like how the analyst has touched on how good Zek is,
especially in the early stages of the Melee versus Range matchups.
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 six 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 they'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 jungler used 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 pace has just gone for the reset themselves. So they're just gonna match a second goes aggressive on towards Chote
Yeah, using that smoke screen to continue pushing forward with the hands in the light both join again
Now Zeck 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 colleague 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 peanuts just got to give it up as Gen G walks their troops in and six yours the subject
That is so massive for Gen G and big credit to LeHens for positioning and timing and being there to to be able to get Zeca'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
you know 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 I actually 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 Hens was 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
to set up so many of these early engagers and get Gen.G into that strong point, but might need to double check himself.
Okay, LeHens trying to get back away from this one, shattering strike, not connecting there.
LeHens doing a good job staying just slightly above the hitbox. Burns 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.
As far as 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
getting to the point where they feel like they're better suited to find some 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 and almost on every single lane with those advantages
So just take it slow play for push play for void grubbs
Reset come back out and 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.
It is on Hanwha to try and find ways to disrupt that, and that has to be on Pino's.
He has this Vi, he has the level 6 available, the ultimate available.
Look for a play on towards Paze, try and burn some of these early summoner spells,
and maybe then that gives you that window to take the advantages out of Gen.G's hands.
And that's something that we were already talking about in game number one,
is Pino 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 items like as well being the melee champion being the assassin
Very important to not fall behind.
I really want to highlight all the vision work that Gen.G do.
So such a good setup here for the second pack of grubs where we know there's gonna 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 to try and fight
you on it and they'll go for some turret plate money bottom it's still Jin though
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 as Gen G and then you can just start to look
for hey dragon look at a minute's time okay let's well steal away some
Comptes can you but then reset back out of the map threat to potential terror in mid
And you're always playing in the backfoot here's how well because of the three pushing lanes
Yeah, especially because later into the game this the extra grub up with the void might there spotting is really gonna help out the
Double AP splitting with a threat of the nocturne 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 the
bit deeper of the ward there through jungle. Lhens 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. Helmholt 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
It's going to be the arrow that points the direction that they want to go.
You do have already opening up a mid for Viper, but it's peanut on bottom side.
It looks like Hanwha, Hanwha already in a position to go for anything.
Even Keen resetting as well to deny them any sort of dive potential, of course.
Yeah, just Hanwha not really in a position to do anything.
It's an easy second drake for Gen G. Five grubs to one, two drakes to zero.
A very, very modest gold lead, but still everything in the first 12 and a half
minute to 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 Zeka'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 Zeka thought it was enough to stay safe but it wasn't now
a flashback of the wall from peanut while Doran can't find the kill on
Shovey Hanwha thought they might have seen a counter punch there, but Gen G gets away from it great job from the hands to lock down
Zeke in the shroud peanut steps forward
Oh, hold on now between worlds peanut could be in a little bit of trouble
But Vipers coming down to look to help them door with the flames bitter, 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 curtains are called keen
Snipe down again, a double killback of the Viper, Zaka shows up, the cavalry has arrived
and GenG overstays their welcome.
GenG got duped, they thought they were the ones with the advantage trying to push through,
seen if they get just as smidgen more of those kills in their favor,
but it's actually Humwai, whoever turned it around with some grace shots raining down from Viper.
Yeah, I mean GenG win the first fight and come out so ahead and they even are like,
We've got another follow-up pick, but they have to call it just after that, you know.
LeHens 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.
Zeca still getting some money though at the end of that and Zeca 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 try to burst the mouse
And he just gets the shield off his passive and the Sundersky's croc
Which makes it really difficult to take them down and just buys that a little bit of extra time
But this is still a Gen G favorite map and the mascot lane economy snapshot showing that Viper with that static shift
Very far ahead of Paze, but how much can this gen do against the onslaught of Gen G?
All right, here comes the Rift Herald
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
Right into the turret. The last little bit of damage. You'll get it done.
Then Xenith played back under Zac. Had to try to get himself away.
Canyon covering his retreat there with a paranoia.
Nicely done from Gen G to get a 2 for 1 deal on that Herald Summit.
LaHens is such a Chad. Holy!
Five head driving through enemy jungle to get the backdoor 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, there are 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 home up back further and further on the map then drift up towards this top side take the top tower
And then just continues to keep them pushed back third dragon though now 45 seconds will
Eliviate some pressure where homework and maybe find success of a fight with the hens
He's fine. He's John. He's Leona. It's alright.
He's a very lonely Leona, though, so a little lonely Leona.
Well, luckily he's got some buddies now. He can get back to the safety of Chovy right next to him.
Hanwha gonna take the opportunity. Just get this mid lane shoved up.
Oh, unlucky for Jen. Deadly Flourish missed. She's gonna buy a sliver.
Oh, while 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.
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
uses Flash offensively and that bot side played, collect the extra kill, his Flash is going
to come off cooldown just a couple seconds after dragon so it's going to be ready. The
deadly flourish there on Canyon forces him to use paranoia defensively as now HLE
has all five players here in the bot side 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 gonna secure the drake
and Genji are saying, fine, take it. They want to go and trade the tier two turret back
in the mid lane at the same time, but it ain't gonna 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! It's not perfect enough! Zeke 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 for mid-turt but the overextension from Zeke 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 arch 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 Callistic ult came in, it just even kind
of acted as bait there as they were 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.
3 to 3, 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
unfair as with Bork and Gensu.
Kalista with lethality items versus and a Jhin,
just being Jhin, 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
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 Chovy a little bit as he gets that lane pushed
in, but he's always pressuring both bot and mid, which is opening up then for the pressure
on mid to alleviate in towards Keen on topside and continuously just moving across all these
three lanes, making it nearly impossible for Hanwha to really contest 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. Or even if you don't for the next three
minutes you still get so much control for it 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 that 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
with the AP junglers with the AD mids.
Back in the arrow, 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 you're 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.
Even if you get a kill.
Remember, Rell 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 these side lanes pushing to be able 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 pig here. Even as the lights trying right now to clear as much as you 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, the 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, new Shadow Flame kind of almost there for Zekka, but I'm
I'm not entirely sure how much Goldy 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 League comes down to, right?
It's like, okay, you can be X amount of Gold ahead, but if it doesn't result in a meaningful
item difference, then the fight's still gonna more or less just come down to who's
got the execution.
Secondfully completed item four key, you've got the Cosmic Drive, you've got the
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 got to make sure you don't get caught out.
Don't get put in a spot where you can just get exploded.
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 removing in, but the light is able to do it.
Even finally, gets the ward onto the Baron.
I mean for the majority of the year Gen.G 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 understatement of how they can get those advantages even looking at Paze build
He's gone for the Statholony Callista, 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 to where is these team fights
So I think that's why Gen.G 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 Leona, the Rael, the Vi, but there's a lot of very, very
viable kill targets, both teams, so let's look at this setup here once again.
Always spot Delight, Lehen's chases him out.
Zeca, setting up for maybe a pincer attack here. Delight's going to be stunned up with a Mary.
Start of the fight, he tries to get away, but he's sent into the very center of the graveyard.
Ganeon grabbing the first kill, there is now he has to disengage. Hanwha live,
have already lost their clutch factor.
They have no way to try to approach this fight now.
Yeah, actually so, so smart.
The Lens just runs straight at the light.
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 Genji to even get themselves
to a sole point pretty quickly into the game
considering they gave up one of the Inferno Dragons
and they're not even done.
Ooh, Doran with the flash over the wall to try to escape.
But as soon as that summoner spell is down, Aurora's going between worlds.
And Doran is trying to get all the way back to safety.
Peanut down to 100 HP, Paze jumps forward with a beautiful shot from the pierce to take him down.
Doran didn't realize he was backing an award and 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, Keen picks him off and they say, well, sets up for the pick.
And it's actually they turn on Topinos to actually finish off the jungler from home or from home instead
Genji looking good here in the second game now on soul point in four minutes an
Infernal soul 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 nocturnalty 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 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. Toby is back on the Ari and Toby has
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, so that means Flourish only hits the hens, not really that big of a deal.
He's not now jumping in for a little bit more.
Pays could get caught out.
Pop of the cleanse, trying to get away to the last cone.
Pays still alive for now.
They're trying to dive into him.
They finally get the shot down,
but now Saka's got to be careful,
equalize it, comes down to the top,
Toby trying to escape.
Saka sure can flip, but 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.
And Saka 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,
has a 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 him.
The TP comes in from the Akali on the bottom side,
and Pina tries to get the connection here into the hands,
doesn't quite hit, then goes forward on towards Paze,
but Zeka goes over the wall, misses his E,
his shuriken flip, so it doesn't mean
you get back onto 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 to 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 gonna be able to do it quick enough.
And then Gen G punished so quickly.
nice response from them. 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 it to your two.
to try to hide on the bush there at the back because each of you is checking
this with all of the 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 Homwa thin across the map once more I'm a dragon in 50 seconds
you've already got the control you need is Gen G to pick up that soul for
yourself. Homwa desperately needs something maybe that infinity edge for
Viper is enough but they need so much to work in their favor 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 popping 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 Paze gets the kill.
Now he's going to be careful, because Bnet and Zekka are ready to take him down.
Viper getting away on the top of the fight at the same time, but Genji is just cutting through everybody.
Keen gets back away across the veil.
The shutdown on Viper and Gen G get it done.
Gen G are out for blood, they're out for vengeance,
they killed the light first every single time now.
Wait, Leona, is Leona, he's taking it up, it's fine.
Doran wants to get out.
Oh wow, Doran going crazy there looking for Joby.
All right, that's, he knows the game is flipping 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, nocturne lights out, Leona ult, stuns up the rel, they
go immediately onto it. Just lehens is like fine, you beat us last game, really nicely
played, but we are going to take you out.
It's also just keen on the backline, he puts so much threat on to Viper because everyone
is diving forward, but he just locks Viper up, Viper flashes up the wall, he follows
over, Doran is late to going back towards him, and you can see he never gets opened
up with a curtain call. That's how that genus post-operate in this composition.
goes forward he stays way back in the safety and just fires from afar but it's keen putting
that pressure just rupting the home log game plan.
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 they were, yeah since Gen G was on blue side this time around and it looks
It's like this Baron here should be burned down, 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 Doran 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 going to 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 for 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 this, almost everyone apart
from Piper on Hamwa that it's impossible to fight back. You're full on and behind
on jungle and mid. They're playing with so much confidence, Canyon and Chobe, knowing
that they are basically untouchable for a lot of this, unless the light has some
miracle play so for the moment I'm what desperate to make something happen but I
just think they're running at a time gene just putting in the work on the tier
three turret all alone all by himself all uninterrupted that tier three
turret's already gone canyons over the wall ready with a paranoia gen G 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 frustrating has this got to be as Hanwha, like this slow, slow methodical pace from
Gen G where it's at death by a thousand cuts and now those cuts continue to rain down as
you'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.
Doron getting dove by Lahens, a little bit more damage to get it done and finally
the burn seals the deal Chen Ji they might have lost the hens they might have
lost Canyon but they get 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 their march towards the Nexus still get the tower get the extra
kills too. And here it is. They actually got him both with the weirding, caught Viper
in a two, and so Canyon went into the back of it to put the extra pressure onto Viper,
and then it gets a little dicey as far as keeping him in, and Lahans try to follow. And
because Lahans is able to have the ignite there, and actually finishes off the extra
kill onto Doran, they are still able to move forward with it.
This coach's expressions are just fantastic.
It's really great.
I kind of forget about the game as soon as he pops up because he's like,
Ooh, what's going to happen?
As soon as he's on the screen, you're like, anticipating,
Oh, what's going to 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% 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 Pina going front of the light
because Pina is Vi 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 Pina really has to step in front of the light.
I feel like to be the first layer of it
because fight after fight after fight,
Gen G are just taking out the rail before,
rail gets to have any sort of effect.
And so even though your chances are very low
and you're so far behind, you're out itemized,
I think you have to try and like immune the go
from Gen G to try and get your own opening.
Sure, but guys, we have a problem.
What?
What?
It's at the loss.
That's it.
So what you're telling me is to go for the one that doesn't have un-immunity, kill the
hens and just fingers crossed?
No, this is the best.
Alright, rocket redemption, Leona.
That's the target.
Okay.
That's the difficulty.
Well, it is total control over the enemy jungle here for Gen G. They will steal
the enemy blue buff as well. They'll sit down all this vision. The elder's gonna
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 Jovey and Genji yeah I mean
the poke is so problematic that it looks like Doran's actually gonna 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 coming after Viper but he
ain't gonna find the kill he wants kill he needs keen with a rampage on
on peanut as Genchi are way too strong.
Free for nothing, the Viper makes it four,
Zaka tries to escape and Genchi with a clean fight
here at the very end.
They do not need an altar.
They don't even need Zaka.
They just want him to send a message.
Canyon gets back away and there it is.
LaHen's ends HLE and Chovy's pushing the minion wave
and wave into the base.
What a game for LeHens 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.
Gen G ties us up.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's go into a third game.
You always knew you would have 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 all right game number three coming yours way
here real soon but right now we got a toss to a break real quick first don't
go anywhere can you set it to a cause if you watch the finals you know that
actually Ellie won the first one and then Gen G won two in a row well if they
do that it's over a little bit of a salty run back but you know when it's
Genji we don't call it a salty one but we call it absolute genius and I for one
I'm just happy that our LEC faithful who come 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
No, it's I think that
The question but they put them in a position where HLE had to ban the yone. Yeah
So I'm wondering if showbiz were played a checkmate, but I think the second that they saw that band
I'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 Jenji 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 the game
They already have a pretty decent goal leave
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 world as well isolating a lot of these key
targets keyness 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
turn around teamfight 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 were playing
Yone you do not have to commit yourself to these plays that you
fish for a kill. You can E in use that alts 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 can actually put himself at risk
of getting CC'd, of getting locked down, of getting burst down, and the other main difference is that
Yone has so much follow-up CC, so when Rell goes in for a really big engage, Rumble drops the
equalizer over the top, and Yone has that follow-up CC. You have the knock-up of your Q3,
you have another little CC and knocked 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
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 knock turn composition,
You're not really playing League of Legends for the rest of the game.
It's difficult. I was holding out for that here a moment, but, uh, yes.
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 mortgages, not the house,
not the family, and all their bullshit.
For these 10 seconds, LaHenz is free.
He's living his best life.
LaHenz doesn't have friends.
He's got family.
And the thing is, it's just, I've been told,
shout out to Chronicle,
he's like, LaHenz is not allowed to drive.
He does not have a license.
On the team, they're like, no.
Anyone else could take it, not you, so.
LaHenz is his own man.
But today, he clicks that Herald, he's in there.
We thought it was gonna be, you know, the mid lane matchup.
We thought that's where we're gonna be focused,
but no, it's a coming of age story for the heads.
As 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 it up.
That's true.
You know what?
After a play like that,
He deserves a little misinformation in his favor.
Let's start the misinformation game 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.
Wow.
I believe, you know, bold.
OK, he actually 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
while 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 Gen G to at least change up
a little bit in terms of the fans.
Okay, it's interesting to me because the situation
is so different than it was for the LCK finals, right?
Cause 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 Silas 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 Kaisar
Vandaway clearly has 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 the perfect circumstances, are insane in this meta,
but otherwise, given the Aries and everything else running around, can feel really, really
useless.
like gin and kaisa 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 four melee style comps
So I do think it kind of limits your options a little bit as far as the ad's if you want to go down that route
But I definitely am second. You only need to get banned
My question is will are a 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 threw a bit of a wrench in the gears, but also HLE is just
playing way better. Yeah it's interesting now because if we're looking at a Gen.G 2-1 you can
go like oh that first game was only that gone 5 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 casters gut check. Who's taking it? You say Genji. I'm still on Genji. I was on HLE
for the game one, but Genji have just been more consistent across both games. Despite the explosive
moments from Yone, despite one or two engages, Genji 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 land 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
2 and 1 or if HLE is going to repeat their victory from the summer finals back over to my favorite.
Oh, shucks.
Oh.
Well, my very much everybody.
It's going to be bad.
It's going to be bad.
It's the Yone Band actually.
Yeah.
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 how,
like, 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 be back on the right side 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 of that bot lane
is Brady put Viper into life in 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 to Hamlet want to try and facilitate here?
Alright, well we've got the Skarner and Nidalee Bandaway targeting the jungle here, Malkai,
there's no jungle band for you.
The Yone and Jax band out by Genji and then the Ziggs removed from the pool by HLE.
So let's see what they want to go with first tier with that Aurora like you're talking
about, still open.
I think it gets slammed here, steal it away.
Cause if you don't, you know Genji are going right back to it.
Yeah.
Oh.
Okay, never mind, they're going for the smolder instead.
I gotta believe it's going to be a Keen Aurora again then.
And then you're kind of looking at Jungle too.
Here, since Jungle has actually taken a lot of the bands as well for Canyon.
Yeah, it feels like the Nocturne again.
This seems to be the combo that they want to work with,
which is throw that Neuror, ult, and then just jump on whoever's stuck in it, plus.
And now what do you try and respond here with?
Is it going to be this Ishwani just being a gone 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.
Deft, 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 they 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 at that range in the matchup,
but it doesn't mean 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.
Now 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 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 Narn to the Aurora and it's fine.
But the rest of your team are the ones that pay the price later because of the team fighting effect of the champion.
And so, it's a lot unlike Viper to deal with that, and Zeke to deal with that, and with him being on the smolder now,
that's going to be such a heavy target, but Gen.G, they came into this one with a very 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 them 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 see yeah
I think so as well and especially since we're gonna get Jinban coming through here. Aren't you gonna be the case?
Okay, so I thought they go for the Jinban to try to alleviate that from Viper as a another kind of threat or setup
And I think you end up in a spot where you can go for the same kind of his the
Megan are level two 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 Hamwah, whereas King 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 already the AP solo laners combined with that threat
of the nocturne 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 and all right that's what they're gonna
go ahead and lock in first but some priority on that Leona. Now HLE like
they could I mean I guess they could deviate a little but they already
have to smolder from mid too so honestly it's probably just gonna be straight forward teamfight 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 to send smolders to the bottom side of the map and that's why they meant for the support
pick up first and then if not then you could slam someone like an MF and play for Witte Leone
and play this hyper-aggressively in the bottom side so it kind of forces the smoldering
towards the mid lane and now it's the barris lock in to try and counteract it but
That's a lot of dive again for this Barus, and we kind of saw Paze struggle with it in the game number one.
At least for Renata, along side 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 Azai or Recon or something
for them, because then you have this option for actually dealing with the dive, but since it was Redside Gen G, they kept their pick hidden here for the end, and we're going to have the Twitch range coming in.
We get to the tournament, we 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 to seem even scarier.
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. The fact that you've got the invisibility off the Twitch
and then this long-range engage coming through from the doctor, plus even an ARRI, the 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, sorry, mid lane in that mid game with the AD carry matchup, and even in the lane phase
as well. So I think you have a bit of an answer here for Hama 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.
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 six on the Nocturne is then play after play for them. Okay, so I'm looking it up
Pays has a lifetime professional total of
One twitch game. Yeah, but it was 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 already there!
Paige just creeping around!
Alright, that'll be fun.
I thought he'd open up, but
they didn't want to give away too much.
Now, Paige 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 hail of blades
on this barris, looks like it will be
poke-barris that we're going to get as well, so...
Cool down on his Q should be up. They could go again.
I don't know if you...
heavily want to go on this though. I think it is just to try and spot a potential lane
swap again maybe but I don't think you want to hyper-aggress here. I think it's
actually, sorry Gen.G we're 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 Twitch 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 Raptor 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 80 carries.
I do think though that the introduction of Smotr into the mix here is kind of put a bit
of a time mark towards Gen.G, like yes Twitch has great scaling, but I do think this Smotr
just pops off so well in the later portion of the game, especially with the lock up
in the front line, the humble halves that Gen.G 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 Gen.G were playing so slow so metodically 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 here I think I'm just gonna fully invest. I'm going all here.
Twitch with the range late game just feels so oh wait a second. Yeah Lahens
walking down here underneath the tier one turret but the teleport will arrive
Keen level 2 here on the Amora, 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. Peen on it,
Lees 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 homo. This is such a squishy team
from Gen.G, even on the rotation down. Yes, you've got Lehens there, but this Aurora offers
nothing, and now already a phenomenal start for the Hanwha Squad.
My real big question after this is what is Peanut going to 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 aggro. 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 Szechuanian cleared his own red side first
and then went for the dive immediately.
Canyon got to cross over
and Canyon's going to have a very nice lead
on jungle here and especially with a knock turn.
That can cause again your whole team
to have to pay that price.
So while you do get the dive off
the first kill was without response getting the second kill plus it 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 Anwa Viper coming in serrated Dirk already completed gives 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 hard in on towards a fight as maybe the hens actually looking for one bus
I think you're in an okay position to just continue to farmers pays with that lack of a engage support
nice little bit of a
Combo damage there between the light and fight first piercing arrow that serrated dirt 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 just 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 vs. Zeca back in the mid lane.
Zeca is hitting that first break point on the stacking already so far.
Pretty easy to hit that 125, giving you the AOE on the Qs 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 brake pads.
With the experience lead for Canyon,
we're looking already at the void grub,
so he can go crugs over here towards it.
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 it's thinking with Void Grub,
he's kind of in 6 as well.
Yeah, which way LaHens wants to go.
So I think LeHens is doing a good job of kind of hovering here.
He could go to either.
And Canyon jumping on these void grubs,
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, LeHens 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 off.
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
Just be more impactful than gold a lot of the time. I mean when you think about it at champion leveling up
It's what three to four hundred gold in stats
Just having the extra level boom you're making up for that difference in gold as long as that champions involved in the scrap
I feel like especially for
Junglers to and junglers like nocturne that can then affect the rest of the map
So we'll see what he does with his first ultimate
uh, Mr. Kan, in clearing down his bottom side, so...
I think he wants to go bot lane here.
Yeah.
Level 1 Paranoia, not the longest range, but it's long enough,
Zenith 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,
Peanut shows up, but it's too little, it's too late,
it's too good for Gen.G, who tie up the game, two to two.
Dude, when your jungler is ahead,
Oh, it feels good.
Canyons there first.
Canyons able to close the distance with his ultimate.
And even though Peanut arrives late,
that's just level five such wanting.
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 in snowball
the early stages.
But here's another look at the start.
A great engage from the hands of the flash.
Seen his blade, catches it, Viper, and sets him up.
gets the stun as well and Viper could have tried to use the cleanse there but instead believed in the handshake
coming through and then I think you just couldn't quite get away after that second stun came through from lands and as you say I mean
Level five so it's why 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 brought a toy story, you know where they're all running off the back of the van and they're just holding
I'm coming too! Alright, well Canyon continues to leverage his jungle advantage into a dragon as well for Gen.G.
But the story, all three games of objectives for Gen.G and dragons especially for them.
Alright Gen.G, 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 experienced 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.
The Chovy 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 Ruin 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 mental pressure on you,
Yeah. Everybody worried about the picks.
I feel like there's so many champions we say that about.
Yeah. Once you get Blader Rune King, you're good, dude.
Just get in there.
It's a good first item. Yeah.
This seems like a pretty solid item.
Okay, that 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 gonna be the first to commit here
to this river.
Kani 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 Kani is already dead.
A nice hostile takeover fired back in,
but Viper now dies as Paze takes him out.
LeHens drops to Doran,
and Pina has to flash back over the wall.
Shopee 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 telepark 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 plane.
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 how 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 Rune 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 Torrent's Chobhina 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 you 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.
I'm changing 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 gonna play it out.
Because Rift Herald's a big one.
Everybody always loves fighting over the Herald,
but that Drake is gonna be spawning just 10 seconds prior.
Do you bother committing for the Drake
if you know your opponents are gonna just
exert the Herald?
That's what I wanna see.
I do.
I'm taking that Drake every day of the week that is mine I'm gonna keep stacking because then you think like a true joke
You think about what what it's gonna do for you in a little bit of the long term not the immediate future like okay fine
You know if I herald is gonna 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 Ari
Aurora for all of this pick potential Leon even oh
So anywhere on the map, it's going to be somebody from Gen.G jumping out.
Canyon is old.
Oh, no.
Yeah, Canyon.
Canyon's got a good brush.
Yeah, Meganar.
Meganar saves in there.
You just cast the wall up, 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 Gen.G, again with control of the mid lane, going to push that wave up, rotate
to 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 five to three 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 Gen G
as well with the gold dead.
even and Zeca 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 the scaling twitch.
Yeah certainly is I mean you know going with the Sojin for the super cooldown reduction
so you just try and stack stack stack stack stack there as well HLE again we mentioned
it last time but when when they are down on the map they're usually going to just
Instantly not trying to waste time and go for their counter play on the other side and I find we'll take our consolation prize
We'll get that top tower. We'll get a 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, you know
It actually might be delight being at the center of it again
in a sense that you kind of saw at the growth by where it's a
Kite backwards into some counter engage and we're not an 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 invisibility 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
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
could already see Canyon was sitting down towards that bottom side with
team but now we have all been up on mid with this riff Charles. Everyone in Gen G is coming
across even Paze. Ooh, Glacial Prison not going to find a whole lot. You can see they
threw it out. They wanted to see if they could catch Paze by surprise there because 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 Herald really well defended by Gen G
as well so now you get to go back out onto a repushing side we're trying to play for these
pigs trying to make things very awkward for homo on the map and with two and a half minutes until
dragon there's plenty of moments to get pushed 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
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 Genji, 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.
Anzeca 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 breakpoint,
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 frontline
That still has some artillery behind it that could force Genji into an uncomfortable fight
But Genji have done such a good job this series of continuously stacking traits to deny those opportunities for how much they like
Scale or find ways to help open up on the map and trade up in favor of getting second this gold
And again with this is an inferno soul Gen. G have high roles to all hell with the souls
They managed to get this day
But it does mean that you have to fight them and you have to come at them and for Gen G
I think you're pretty happy with that because look at this motor the second item not even completed
We shouldn't have it on recess
But it's also a bill 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 the free fire in these 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.
They're likely like for Peanut to be with the rest of the squad here though.
Yeah, there we go. Get yourself a tankier member on the front line.
And here we go.
Haz 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 Mega NAR.
This is not a good state for HLE to try to go in for a fight.
They wanted to try to grab my hands.
There's the handshake with mom over the top.
And Zeca gets the first kill.
They're trying to go between worlds.
Cane 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 Joby though.
As Peanuts and Zeca try to get away on triple for Joby.
And Peanuts the last man standing.
Joby cleans them up.
A quadra kill for the Gen G mid!
Keen is putting the fish in the barrel for Paze and Chovy to knock them down!
Gen G wanted one fight, and I'm like, God, did they get us?
They certainly did. They get the dragon and they get the smolder, so both dragons' flowers,
everything taken care of, including two turrets afterwards, it's insane how much they get off this.
Like, Paze, I want to highlight around the top, Flanks on the Twitch.
So even though LeHens is down, as you say, Aurora Ultimate groups them up,
and Paze opens up from the top side out of vision of the enemy team,
Nocturne, all that goes off, and Jovey just going free and rampant here on the R.E.
Chases them all down, gets the last little bit of the kill here for the Quadra on his R.E.
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 Homwa coaches, just having this moment where
you can fight back when it was supposed to be yours and Homwa came out and
snuck it away from you. Gen G, you have a lot to prove here against them today.
Yeah, I like what they've shown. They've committed to this core of knock
turn, turning out vision, you know, Canyon being a real strong point
person for the double AP carries that they lock in over and over and over again
and I really like the execution as well as chubby 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 chubby 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 survive the
glacial prison page is firing into everybody but he's finally caught
Zaka kills him, Shen Xi 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 two, keen down, Pei's down.
On my life, not going to go out without a fight.
This rune and 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.
Paze is there, he is waiting, he wants to open up, he sees all these abilities used,
he's like, there's no sense, one, he ultimate, and move.
Keen comes in, but Doran says, not on my watch.
And they instantly shut them both down.
And like I was 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 Doran, 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 with him,
striking distance in this game that, just like the first two,
Gen.G has been in charge of so far.
So a 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
my invested there but nocturne ult on him yeah canyon has found his target here with second 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 gen g
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 out onto the map
because otherwise Gen.G just get to pull the trigger
once more, eight seconds into the Canyon's here.
Zeke not out on the map, even Doran's resetting.
He just went mega too, so needed to clear it the way,
but it means that coming into this,
how am I gonna have 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 Prison.
Loses about half HP, but not close enough to death
to force him all the way back.
to buy 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.
Yep, LeHens wanted to go in there with a Xenath Blade
but he ain't gonna find the angle.
Doran ready to transform.
Narbar charged.
Gets charmed though.
Snot bubble hits LeHens.
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.
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 hens.
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, into pinos.
Delight also being able to buy space.
It means you can play for these backline threats
but the virus poke, the, a mom ultimate across the top,
it makes it difficult for GenD 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 gonna do.
You're going to lose out, you know,
win percentages very quickly with every skill shot
that's gonna 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, many to follow up,
as the NAR can't transform in time.
Flashing away with a Starex gauge 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.
Hama protecting Doran there was crucial,
because that would have been Genji turning over to Barron.
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, Genji already got it down to about half,
Doran here on the front line, Baron at 6k HP, HR lead piling in, LeHens tries to get away,
Doran's still at about half HP now as Peanut has to fully escape Arctic Assault backwards,
Baron still aggro'd at 3000, Doran still trying to transform, he needs to go into
and mega Narbina's behind the wall into the pit,
but the Baron's gonna be secured by Canyon.
Now HLE, trapped between a wall and an enemy team.
Canyon gets the kill on Doran,
and Chovy goes over looking for a little bit more.
They wanna kill the Smulder, and Zeca pops.
They all drop, and it looks like the hopes
are done, dead, and gone for HLE.
Gen G 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.
Lentz 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 RE.
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 that had been
received by the rest of Gen.G members, they pull it off.
The flash from Canyon was so sick as well, cause that's not what I'm talking about.
I like that!
Sorry, actually!
Please tell me I'm seeing this correctly.
If you didn't come out on top.
But yes, Gen.G. outplaying in the moment, and now we're barring up a 4,000 Rebel Baron Paraplay
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
Even though he's got 325 stacks, Pays' twitch, 6, 1, and 5.
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 Pays 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 Pays that has really been stepping up
on this switch to find those clutch moments.
And Hamwa, you can tell they just
used to playing against that potential invisible press, just lurking in the darkness.
Pays a rat all along, able to jump out, make a clutch pick.
He's one of us. All right, Ken, they close it though here. Genji, 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
of 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 and there's a
spamming nail after nail after nail. That's gonna be a twitch coming in seven.
and
DIY twitch
Another one bites the dust and another objective here. So who will next
Who will the next one picked? It looks right now like Doran's gonna 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.
And 50 seconds on the respawn clock.
Pays just creeping through the mid lane here,
invisible marking that ward that he just saw placed down.
Rune and Syracuse 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 elders not gonna 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 there pays is hitting everybody. He flashes he cleanses
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
Chen Ji 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 damn long time
And they're showing that they're looking to keep that rolling in
in Worlds as they punch their ticket to the quarterfinals.
The Golden Road might have been paused,
but Genji wanna make sure Humbla know
that they still deserve to be on top
when it comes to the World Stage.
Incredible showing from Genji,
getting some revenge against H.L.E.
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.
Not Dagda.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
Okay, okay, okay.
He's paying up.
He's paying up.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
You're 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 crucial, crucial team fight
that we're gonna take a look at immediately, right?
And they show exactly what they wanted to do
with their comp.
And the twitch is something that pays 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 cannon 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, Paz is just a lot of praise because coming out of that final, Paz 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.
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 so good yeah one or two hiccups here there but mostly really
fantastic use of the vision denial nocturne brought fantastic use of the
aurora controlling space exactly and pays pretty much always where he needed to
be yeah pixel perfect in those team fights something that we said maybe a
chili can get the upper hand if they are at the driving wheel ways I
you say? If they're driving. If they're driving. But they could.
Drake, you brought it up as well, right? That in a best of five that we saw last, it was
HLD dropping the first one, won Gen.G, winning the two there after. So, unfortunately, the
end of the rules for HLD. They were countered by the best of three. 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 re-jinxed on, like, winning game one and then immediately
collapse. I hope that this is not shaking the mental at all for the two.
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 that 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 really is not out yet but it's Genji
that's in the quarterfinals and Pays is standing by with Lauren the Verizon
post game interview and G Sun and welcome back to the stage as Genji
advance to quarterfinals and I have Pays with me to talk about this
This week, we have NG zone, of course.
Thank you so much for joining me, Faze.
First thing first, Twitch.
We haven't seen this champion since 2020.
Tell me about you picking it, especially without an enchanter by your side.
I thought it wasn't important, so I had a sub.
So I was looking for a value champ,
but I think it's important to win a teamfight these days, so I decided to switch.
finals, still a close series, but what was the difference maker this time around?
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 were to win again,
but through this series, the help coach has become a huge star.
He cried and reacted so well while watching the game.
So, we all sympathized with him.
Do you have anything to say to the coaches?
I'm happy to see that coach Hekpo is always playing with us.
We're very happy to see that he's playing with us.
Thank you for accepting our invitation.
I'd like to thank coach Hekpo for his support.
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 help her.
It must not be easy, but 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?
If you guys can keep your expectations high, we will also make sure to meet those expectations.
So thank you for your attention and support.
And last year, unfortunately, we had to stop our world's journey at quarterfinals back then.
But we will do our best.
We will do our best.
We will do our best.
We will do our best.
We will do our best.
We will do our best.
We will do our best.
We will do our best.
our world's journey at quarterfinals but this year we're aiming for something even
much greater so please keep supporting us. Looking for a 2GNG 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 this side of the stage we'll be right back for another interview tomorrow.
Yes many more interviews that was wonderful sometimes Pais I know that Lor sometimes says
that he has some interviews where he's 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?
How could you not? Again, the Twitchers really want to celebrate the Twitch. He's had a lot of
good games so far this tournament. Gen.G is a whole lot on a roll, and Pae's 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 the
quarterfinals as well. Yeah, and, Azale, you actually noticed something in the team
and the nocturne tell us what you noticed. So it's one of the cool things when
you are playing with Validia Varus you can go edge of night and so edge of night
actually does block the nocturne vision that gets played. So this is from the
second 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 gonna watch it back actually from the Varus's point of view. So when
nocturne also see he loses his spell shield but he keeps the vision. So
from this position then Viper needs to be the one that actually takes over
of the shot calling in the team fights
and basically drives the car.
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 give all the directions.
So in this spot, he can still see the Leona.
He hits the Altea, 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
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
80 carry that we have at world 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 now it's
making me wonder because I was like okay Varis is that really the best
option here but you can do a you can do the cost of the game before it's there
are some options into it but it is of course we saw it's not like a fail safe
forever right and it was incredibly a twitch aurora chauvin are still very lethal
still he pentacles you know he's killing you that's nice I do love it
because this was a great best of three to watch I'm just gonna say there was
some really cool pics there's the nocturne for Canyon three times in a
the last one where it all
worked out was so cool to see
for Honwell 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
quarterfinal and L LNG
rather. Oh, LNG breathe
shocks did definitely make it
to the quarterfinals as
well. And since we didn't
have that much time before
because we moved on to the
second series, I think
we're going to have a
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 BLG as being kind of the 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 3-0.
Exactly. I mean, they're able to get through and not only that, but they took down the
flag bearer and now they're the ones carrying it. They're the ones waving that LPL flag as
as they go through the quarterfinals, 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 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 Worlds' favorite coming into Worlds, but it's rarely the 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 yes 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 yeah i need one three to go feed us hope
please we need it so badly you know what the good thing is the silver lining here g2 already
played a chilly they don't have to come 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 fun. It's no fun at all.
And after we're done with last year with enemy there are no easy draws.
In the 1 and 2 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 great here, there's so many...
Look at that sunshine!
I don't like being between the two of you.
This is not this is not too much stress speaking of walking on sunshine
You thought we were done with the best the ones you think again incorrect tomorrow
We have try of them. This is of course our one and one pool
TS versus fanatic 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 way, but versus versus
G2 what are you thinking?
I'm really excited for for the LCS match just because this is the rematch from MSI PSG knocked FlyQuest out of MSI
That was very embarrassing for them
You know they were the first team to ever in any international event from a get knocked out in play ins and that I think was you know
Something that really kind of hurt the pride of FlyQuest a lot of the young players there also did not play to their expectations
You know so they really want to be able to get some revenge here
It's a mass 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 planes
They knocked hundred thieves out at world's play-ins if they beat fly quest again, it's just like alright, okay
All right, and also the rematch first MDK did not look hot for it. He's really good
Yeah, this is the first of three was false data. I'm not taking anything away from MDK
But PSG had not the right matter read they you know it didn't feel like it was them
They have leveled up. Maybe they are again that kareem killer who knows what they're going up against flak was first
Well for our European brethren, that's myself. What am I saying? My European brethren? Yeah, that's an addict versus CES
I've seen this couple of times before
At MSI I saw it actually I'm really nervous fact. I need you to come in. Yeah, it's strong mental
Come on, but a strong mental boys. You can do it if you collapse
We know what that looks like don't do that
Let's let's do the thing where we're like do the winning do the winning thing
Yeah, which is an oversimplification, but that's I need something simple and straightforward and maybe you do too
You know we got all it's looks good. Yone looks great more Yone
You do all say the same I said at the beginning of the Swiss stage
You know if you have these lofty aspirations, it's it's put up or shut up. You got to beat Wabble
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 gonna be easy
But this is really the final hour for you also just showing what you fry is a glorious opportunity
To be able to get a win versus an LCK or an LPL team in the 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 in the best of ones while you can please and and the only mess
We haven't touched on is the LGT one which is just shame
It's the best of one
It's a it's a 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 I haven't the either team that's a massive upset and the other side of that coin is that you are gonna be a killer in
Those bottom matches because you're gonna be going down to the B03 one of these teams will be one and two
And then two teams are gonna have to run into them assuming they qualify through in the be a thing about that
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 team
How cool is it that T1 or BLG just get to dream crush their way through the rest of Swiss?
Sorry. Oh, no problem. Yeah, there we are. I mean, it's it's we have obviously the zero and two matches
Those teams already are do or die, but the one-on-one teams, you know, half of those are gonna be dropping down and just yeah again
The LGT one is terrifying. It's gonna be exciting. Yeah, and we get a drop to draw again at the end of Monday
So yeah, that's cool for our best of ones tomorrow next draw will be Monday October 7th
That's after the final series concludes
We're gonna make sure that everything's and it's all best of three is after tomorrow
It's just those are the last four best ones that 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 you, Isaac
That's it for us. We'll be back tomorrow at 2 p.m
CST as we have been that is 8 a.m. Eastern US. Bye. Bye
He's totally unafraid of any sort of counter-attack.
Cogs, down, is also committed to trying to change the spell.
Got knocked back over...