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I'll show you some more than just a one and done.
Five nine to the boards one.
I'll go back to the seats, then they get their heads burned.
I don't get them all.
No world problems, they don't teach you school.
No, you pretty can't drill it.
We're the problem that we got.
Every single thing I know.
She said she might prove, but I'm single though.
I can't, I just want, like, I'm sweating my pants and my feet.
All I need is one, it's the sun.
I don't know my knees as I please.
Screaming my speech and promise one more chance.
Who's gonna really take it from me? I get my hands up to any Chinese to stand up in front of convincing myself
Before I sit on the shelf. It's in my bestie. In Berlin, Germany yesterday
We already sent two teams to Paris stage, but a very different journey awaits today's eight teams
We're back to best of one for games on the menu and these teams are still chasing greatness
Fans are here. I'm here with Jack and Rose.
How's that work? Keep talking to this dude buddy.
This day has...
He's that full star team, just the Swiss team.
Exactly. You said we're back to best of ones. This is the final day of best of ones.
We're going to best of threes, then best of five from here on out.
Hopefully we'll do good today, but two teams are amazing today.
Starting with Gen.G, taking revenge on HL.E. after the unlucky finals they had against them.
Pays. Oh my god. This player. Amazing.
It was definitely pays day the fact that in the finals
He had some unfortunate moments like game one where he Ezreal e4 lost them that game
He paid it back in full yesterday where he went wild incredibly high quality League of Legends
You could see Genji had the same
Overall idea of how the top side of their team comps are gonna work Aurora Nocturne Ari in so many of these games the
The pick for Pays did alternate though and the Twitch surprised everybody in this final
game and my goodness did it pay off.
Yes, it was incredible and I know as much as people really harp on lane swaps, including
myself, this was the benefit of it.
In the actual post series interview, he talked about it a little bit saying, of course
it's a bad lane.
It worked because he lane swapped it out and the coaching staff, they were excited
about it too.
This was payback.
got approved to the LCK community, the Worlds community, that they are the best Korean team.
Excited with the happy ending of this series, let's say, because that was a stressful day for Gen.G coaching staff.
Yeah, of course, he was here.
Yeah.
I gotta say as well...
He's the prodigy we expected him to be, but especially Shining on New York's Xecos.
Absolutely. He was so criticized after they lost that Game 5 to HLE in the LCK finals,
didn't get the 5-peat, but at least they get to be a top seed heading into quarter-finals.
It's not the best revenge, they're gonna need to continue to pay it forward, but they're
gonna have actually a pretty long amount of time off before they play the next stage game.
Yeah, and usually you'll see this level of creativity like the Twitch and the best of
fives when you know, A, of course they know who they're going up against and the best
of three, but like when you get the chance to adapt and when you have more time to
do it, but still it's a nice sneak peek and speaking of a team that was successful,
a surprising success, was LNG.
LNG I mean the fact that they are going to be the other top seed at a Swiss stage was definitely not on many people's bingo cards
Thank You Gen G for so many pick-ups a lot of people put them as the undefeated team
Yes, and they were so few people would have put
LNG as the undefeated team into Swiss and I think scout is the big surprise
It was such a question mark of whether or not it was gonna be him or your gow that was even here
And then he shows up they immediately find success and personally
I thought their drafts have actually stood out to be exceptional as well as scouts play
I feel like the Meta stood them really really well here.
So well, Scout could come in and come off like with the Yone, the Silas pick was exciting.
Galio! Galio was a fun one but that was just DK having zero damage in the composition.
I hated the R.E. and Ziggs. It made it so much easier to play the LPL special historically,
the Galio Camille like that kind of combo. To me, the surprise was Weiwei and Hong. Hong,
this tournament has been such a big surprise. We came into this thinking that those two players would
be the weakest kind of support jungle from the like the LCK and LPL teams but they came out
really good and that's you know that's a thumbs up honestly if you're an LNG fan going into the
best of. Super excited to see them in quarterfinals. They have a lot of time to prep rest and we'll
see them in Paris but that's not the case of all the teams that we're gonna see today because
middle of the pack fighting still to find themselves that I feel for a lot of teams that we're gonna have today
Yeah, absolutely. I mean the middle of the bracket
This is today we get four best of ones and it will be the last four best of ones that we see at worlds because tomorrow
We're gonna have these elimination games and essentially the winners of today move into this pool
And the losers of today move into this pool losers have to win back-to-back best of three
to go out. Winners just have to win one of their next two best of threes to get out.
Who uh advanced Jack? Can you can you point and show us who advanced? Who advanced? Yeah.
Yay! Yeah. Bam! Oh you got hops, never mind. I thought you wouldn't be able to do it.
Okay, good job. Okay you guys feel like we're gonna play uh again here actually we've taken
comments from social media uh interviews and everything and everything that's happened at
well so far and our lovely analysts and myself actually are gonna fill in the blanks. Thank you so much
do I have a mini whiteboard because I'm a mini person. You gave her a small one? It's fine.
Let's roll the first question. Quite accurate. Yeah, so we're guessing. We're guessing we're
gonna have quotes from social media and interviews. We're gonna have to fill in the blank and find
which player this is about. Yeah, either a player or a moment. Exactly. So just fill in the blank.
Two is better than one. That's a tough one.
Two legs is better than one. Two control wards.
Oh, I know this one. I know this one.
What is it? Aren't we a team?
Oh, okay. No, I will give you a hint if you don't have it.
I read it actually.
Okay.
I read every interview.
I'm sure this doesn't help me at all.
No, no, no. I said on social media. It's a player.
I'm sure you didn't go in there.
It's a player.
Oh, really?
All I had was that hint was too late.
Oh, too late?
Too late is better than one.
Yeah.
Oh, man, okay. I had this one this one was after yeah, of course
After they played each other BLG energy on the coaching staff big way too. So there's three ways technically if you want to be specific
But damn now is that was good. What's the next one? All right. Let's roll the second one
I was thinking it was like Nico specific like it was it like I would actually be good. Yeah
All right bad news enemy top laner is fed good news. It's oh god
It's a comment from reddit. Yeah, so this has to be flame this has to be flame
So this is spiky it's up later. He's fed good music. Okay, we should put stuff in our has been immediate under learning
You know, I mean listen, I'm gonna just because they ended up you losing the game even if I don't agree with it
Yeah, yeah, but this is wrong. I have nothing. I'll do wiser. I'm all right
What do you guys have wiser? Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be something mean three six nine
This was from the game they lost to Gen G. I guess
Wait, was it the first 10 minutes of the game versus MDK?
Probably it was.
Maybe.
I don't know.
That's the reddit user, guys.
So flang him on the third.
That's the 369 hater.
Alright, third one here.
My shirt came undone when I jumped.
So hard actually.
Alright, let's see what we got here.
It's not like I like playing smolder, but as a pro gamer, I prioritize winning over having fun.
That's chovy.
Yeah, that's just straight chovy.
No one likes playing smolder, and if they do, then you are at 4.
We're looking in show. We're walking here. My penmanship is quite bad. I already know we're right. We're getting the next question
Yeah, there you go. Well, thanks from Travis Gafford
Honestly also shout out to chovy for admitting that he doesn't like the pic. Yeah
Such a memeable comment for the future. All right next moment this series for bank was like when you go to Walmart
And there's no cheese
This was a hysterics quote. No, you need to say it's like this series for who? Yeah, obviously hysterics
Oh, you need to get serious. I said blank. Yeah. Oh my god. How am I banking? I'm actually blanking on this one
I'm not gonna write it down, but
I actually don't know. I was so focused on the hysterics part for gam
I guess is it again series man plus
Which series was that? I'm so sad
Was that yesterday? Yeah, it looks like it was yesterday.
Yeah, I guess it was the last one.
I mean, they didn't have a good time on the stage.
Last one here.
I'm so sad.
We're not getting these.
But we're really bad, but it's fine.
This is a hard game.
It's a really hard game.
I forgot about the rules of the game,
and I didn't think about the blank.
I'm sorry you couldn't make it to WorldSparks.
I miss you.
Don't worry about your hairline fighting.
No, no, no.
That's an actual comment from ChampionsQ.
We saw this one.
Who said this?
I think it's...
This was the man.
I'm just going to do the myth.
I'll do ShowMaker.
Let's go.
I think it's couch.
Wait, I thought it was ShowMaker.
I put down ShowMaker, too.
I think it's couch.
OK, five, three.
Because there's been some, like, you know,
there's a bromance between the two.
Boom!
There's a bromance between the two.
I love seeing it, too.
All right.
So I leave it.
Are you guys good?
Yeah.
We got a reset for a bit.
And send it over to Fnatic's coach and night
share for the Verizon Game Day interview.
Why are you throwing things all the time?
Oh, you forgot!
Night share, a big match, you're in the one-on-one pool,
but obviously that's when you really want to win versus top esports.
But first, I do want to talk about the performance of Fnatic so far here in the Swiss stage.
I feel like if you look across the games versus D-plus and GAM,
there were positives but also different issues that propped up.
So I'd love to know from you which are the main takeaways
in order what really has to go better for Fnatic today.
Well, honestly, if you look at the first game against DK,
I think the biggest issue for us was that we were kind of scared.
We kind of played like with nameplates on.
So whenever there were like situations where a broom just walks up alone on mid-wave
and then we are like running away, you know?
So then we kind of covered that.
And I feel like we did pretty well going into game
where we were kind of on the other hand of we kind of body language to the enemy team
and they were a bit scared so we were gaining a lot of space and it was easier to play.
Regardless though, the mid-game did get a little tricky as well.
Do you feel like you've been able to iron out these things because versus Top Eastwards,
it could be a case where one fight could change the entire game as something that we've seen
from Western teams, classically, versus Eastern teams?
Well, honestly, as of now, I feel like on the level that we are, we will commit mistakes,
and that's completely normal.
But I agree with you, right, against the best teams and mainly the Asian teams
in the later stage of the game, if you commit one mistake, it can cost you the game.
So we still have to get better at that, and hopefully today we will.
It is of course a rematch for MSI, it was the best of three there,
and you won one game of the best of three, so hey, it's only the best of one.
But is that still relevant, and did you look back at that tape specifically,
or because the situation has changed, you have identified new things that you should focus
to get this one specifically versus TES?
We've honestly not looked back at that series at all.
We kind of look on how the meta and the game is being played now
and what we need to focus on.
And I feel like, honestly, TES is a good matchup again for us.
Okay, I will leave it at that. Good luck.
Thank you.
Yeah, and our first rematch of the day is going to be TES versus Fnatic.
We know it's an important matchup for all European fans, of course, but we saw this one at MSI.
It went quite well for Fnatic, even if they lost, but I just want to see how they evolved since then,
especially in their walls' run so far.
Exactly, because during that time in MSI, it was based off of Humanoid and Razork's level of play.
It was their LeBlanc and their Genjao, they had great moments,
but really it was just about being able to find consistency within the game.
And that was the case for Fnatic, I felt like throughout the split.
is finding consistency and being a better macro team,
finding improvements.
And I think that that has kind of been also the case
for this tournament as well in their game, specifically.
Yeah, I think it's really always very difficult
to try and gauge team strength based off of best of one,
especially because the opponents can vary so wildly
because for Fnatic, I'd say they actually had
a pretty solid showing against D plus,
but it's hard to take too much
from their victory against GAM,
Whereas TES, they beat T1 on day one and then lost to GenG in, I think, what was a pretty close game.
So they definitely had stronger opponents and they're going to be the favorites for me coming into this one.
But this fanatic team is so interesting because they get so dumped on by the community.
But I feel like the potential and the ceiling of this team is so high
because their individual players, when they're playing at their peak, can compete with absolutely anyone.
Absolutely. And in that sense, if I look at Tnarek, I'm a bit worried on the side of the top lane for Oscar.
He hasn't been performing well.
Yeah, specifically there are times where, to be honest, in the game, the level 1 was quite rough.
Like the dive was really tough. Being able to recover from that was really hard.
So that has been the case, that's very true.
But if I just look at the story for this team, NOAA has been exceptional.
I was actually really happy with that Ziggs game because even though the look at the top lane
is very stark and very clearly in favor of 369,
I think the story for Fnatic is just being a better team and setting up Oscar better because you're right
Yeah, they have been a team that hopefully like the fans want the improvement
And I think we're seeing that bit by bit and we know how much it means for them, right?
We know we know the history around them in toppy sports
We know that they need to show up now that you're not gonna get a lot of second chances
What are you doing here? Oh, hi
Secret for getting something really important that it's what is it?
We need to be talking about something in relation to this rivalry and I
Remember
Here it was right here. I was supposed to do it right here. I was supposed to walk here and then
It's gonna work this time
Let me fix it
It starts with you out of here. Please. Oh my god
There's a lot on the line for the teams we have today and they have to show more than what we've seen from them so far and prove
That they have what it takes to push their run further
It's time for day four of the world's 2024 Swiss stage. Are we really kicking shots out?
No way. What are you saying?
You gotta let me fix it. No.
I think after the loss, there's a lot of emotions.
I've learned how to deal with them.
I'm able to draw conclusions that can be helpful for me
without letting the emotions get in the way.
I'm a little worried about my mentality
when I play every game.
And this year,
I'm really worried about my performance.
I'm really worried about my performance.
I'm really worried about my performance.
I learned a lot about the game, and I learned how to do it myself.
I think the current winning streak is only temporary.
Let's see who wins.
I started reading a lot while I was a pro gamer.
I always learned and lived a good life in TekDragon.
I think it's fun and fun to have more competitors.
That's how much I can improve.
I've been playing for 10 years.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And now, we're fighting.
Actually, we're constantly trying to calm ourselves down.
There's not a man that I fear.
There's nobody here that can stop us down.
Now, there are many fans
who hope that you can fight for another year.
I don't think much at the moment.
I want to leave this team first.
I'm thinking about this problem.
I want to get the results that I've never got before.
You know I'm about to lock it.
I'm about to lock it.
I'm looking for the focus like a lock.
We're fighting from the start.
We won't fight here.
Oh, oh, another person can't keep quiet.
The first time I participated in the World Cup, my strength wasn't that strong.
I have a lot of weaknesses, but now I've changed a lot of my weaknesses,
and I have a lot of power.
My strength is also very strong.
I feel like I have confidence to challenge any opponent.
Last year, we were very close to making it to the barters.
And it was very painful.
Granada put up a good fight.
Hoppy the best I've seen them play.
He gave hope to the European fans.
That was optimism.
This year we still have a high chance to make it.
I'm still very confident with my voice that we can go to Paris
and show the world what we are capable of.
We're gonna come into the matches with confidence
and hopefully with learning from all our past matches
we can show you a version of Flycrust that's the best one you can.
Best of ones of Worlds 2024 and already TES and Fanatic taking to the stage.
A rematch, a rivalry that this year did not go the way of Fanatic.
Toppiesports were able to edge out with a 2-1 victory at MSI.
But both teams have changed in many ways. They've evolved.
They've had to adapt as the meta has showcased quite a change
from what we've seen compared to the summer split.
And that's going to be the big question.
Now that they've gotten a good number of games under their belt, one win, one losses for both sides,
what have they learned? What have they been able to adapt? What have they been able to bring into their toolkits to give them an advantage in today's best of one?
And hopefully what they've learned is ban Yone.
And that's of course you are rooting for Fnatic, in which case you're really hoping the TES think Yone's bad,
because it's been what humanoid's used in both games, and it's bailed them out of a lot of very precarious situations, no doubt about that.
You make a good point Betty. While it feels like maybe Gen.G has an overall pretty solid
read to some of their scaling utility, a lot of other reads, especially coming up in the
LPL in terms of what they want to prioritize. So we now get into our first pick and ban
of the day. Reminder winner moves up to the 2-in-1 bracket. Already tough competition
up there. Loser down to 1-in-2, which is a very scary prospect. A lot of terrifying
teams going to be on the lower side of that Swiss bracket. Let's think about some
of the high priors, Aurora, Orianna. Oh, immediately those are going to be
First taken off the board, jungler is where they are on the priority list, all the Ziggs going to be added to the list makes a lot of sense.
Especially directed towards Jakubov, LeBlanc taken away from Humanoid. Top Esports really showing that respect to Humanoid.
Yone though of course still available.
R-Fnatic going to give it over to Vine, taken away from Razork.
Skarner still available, Sejuani we saw from Tian.
To honestly good success in the early game.
The Fnatic still pondering over their final ban. Will it be the Yone? Will they allow it to go through?
I promise you, Cream is gonna lock it in as the Zyra ban. Well, here we go, they passed down the top of eSports.
I think the big thing to keep in mind if you haven't been keeping up with the tournament, yes, Yone is a solo queue chair,
but this is a champion who can do a lot of incredible things, very risk-free.
He can make great engages happen.
He only needs really a single item before it becomes a massive threat,
and while yes, he will fall behind in a lot of lane matchups early on,
we've almost never really seen a situation where Yone hasn't come back to be a relevant threat,
but it seems like Fanatic's saying, hey, we're willing to give you that Yone.
We believe the Smulder is more powerful, or they're just happy to take either side of the matchup.
I mean, it was, I mean, HLE probably gave us the best example of what a Smulder can do into
the Yone matchup, where Yone isolated, can shut down a Smulder in the context of a team
teamfight, when Smolder has a proper team built around him, it becomes very difficult
for Yone to have that same level of teamfight impact, giving you so much late game control
around the neutral objectives, especially Dragon and Pan.
Now 369, we saw his rumble yesterday, and I thought it was, what was it, a day before
yesterday.
Yeah, of course.
Against Genji.
But it was, honestly, it was incredible.
We saw Tien playing through 369, which is something we don't typically see, usually
it's a bot side focus team, but they got him off to a very early lead, but
They couldn't really convert those later game teamfights into successes, but we've seen that
Rumble is still very impactful in the meta, and with Yone being so important in the mid
lane, I love this combination that we're seeing.
The Sejuani plus the Rumble plus the Yone, it's a trifecta with the Sejuani combination
alongside the Yone, Rumble providing that great AP damage later into the game.
If you look back on LNG and their big upside over BLG, a huge portion of that is the
the power of that duo that you're highlighting there is the Yone Rumble.
Jin was a great pairing with it as well.
You can see TES debating if they needed to pick it this early in draft,
but obviously the utility Jin brings to the tables only further amplified
when you have such great dive potential, such long range threat
that both the Rumble and Yone can bring in.
Nanset, Cassante, a safe, more conservative option from the side of Fanatix.
We now look to the AD carry, Bans, Ash, the Kaisa as well.
Wouldn't be surprised to see an Ezreal taken off the board here too.
As Noah's used it, it's a pretty good effect in the past.
surprise to actually see top e-sports banning the kaiser away. I guess when you look at fanatic's composition
they don't have a lot of AP and kaiser can bring some of that extra AP damage. It's something that
we often see in this gg rumble composition. If you do want a little bit more AP, kaiser is the go
too. So perhaps top e-sports is saying you guys are very much lacking in the AP department,
will remove one of those AP AD carries and limit your mixed damage profile. The pool has now
been pinched significantly, likely leading towards the Jhin, and that is what Fanatic
is going to lock in.
Jhin and Smulder are obviously decent, carry potentially work well together, you have a
lot of long range poke with a little snap over from Smulder and the mom to set up
for the Jhin.
Not ideal when you don't have range anywhere else in the draft so far, but you highlighted
very, really no magic damage to speak of, which could leave them vulnerable to some
of the defensive itemization choices, especially for Tien on the Sujuani.
If top go for a round now just look at this engage. I mean
MF says Ronnie rumble your name. That is that is a
I've ever said okay, so you want to scale you want to team fight sure will team fight you let's see how things
And the thing that makes it so terrifying to bring it back to that do what we talked about earlier
Is you can just throw your yoni in or your rumble in see if something hits and then use all your big cool
That's right. That's what makes it scary normally you have these shotgun style compositions
It's pray for the group up throw it all in mouth fight all style
But they have a little bit of flexibility here about taking those angles the rel is you highlighted not now looking for that option
It's tough though at this stage of the draft to really stop yes
I'm getting anything powerful here rel does beat out Alistar in a lot of the early lane phase
Maybe we are in a situation with Cassante already locked in the fanatic really feel like they can
Out pressure and a swap but gin
You know notoriously pretty bad at getting any tower plays down and punishing teams for swapping
What I am a little concerned
with fanatics damage profile.
They have two main damage
threats in contrast to top
eastboard to have a lot of
team fighting power in terms of
their early game.
I expect them to be able to get
pushing the top side of the
map.
They're going to concede some
of that pressure in the mid
lane potentially opening up
humanoid for a few ganks
when you think about sigewani
and your knee as a combo.
But the bot side of the map
I expect a lot of back and
forth a lot of trading.
We'll see who's able to get
that early prior because
But then the question comes back to, are we actually going to see a swap come through?
Is this something that Fnatic actually want to try and put some pressure onto the rumble
early on?
Remember the gym, not that fast when it comes to taking tarot plates, but then Fnatic might
be the ones to initiate that swap to again try and put some pressure on the rumble.
That will be the big thing to track, at least in the level one.
The first few levels of the game is how the lane assignments are going to shake
up.
With Fnatic, I think it's safe to say a narrower composition in terms of what
it can accomplish through the stages of the game.
The simplest terms is that late game scaling, kind of get out of jail free card, but getting
there always tricky against the Yone, even if you put this champion behind, we've seen
it in the hands of Humanoid, in the hands of just about every other midlaner at this
tournament, it will always find those big team fight moments to come back.
I don't know if that'd be the score for TES today.
Well I was looking at the stats last night, Yone has 9 and 2 of Worlds so far.
And bear in mind, one of those losses was caps against HLE, that incredibly close
where he did end up losing to a smaller.
Yone was the only reason, well a lot part of the reason I should say, that that game ended up being as close as it was.
Just all say is, because I don't want to discredit everyone for Blankets Champion.
It's very powerful and the best pro players in the world clearly are leveraging it to its most extreme,
but I think every single game Yone is involved in, around level 13, 1-1.5 items,
there is an insane team fight where Yone kills like 4 people.
Like Clockwork, we'll see if it happens this game too. This will be a different story,
But this is probably one of the most consistent team fighting champions we've seen on the world stage thus far
Certainly safe as well and hopefully some of the fanatic are ready and prepared to deal with because again
This is the first time that human has not been on the pick himself. Smaller has looked strong
But does require a level of discipline around picking your fights that
Hasn't been the most consistent for fanatic this year much better usually when they're
finding those early leads, snowballing them through, but are of course, domestically at least, a very strong team-fighting team, so if anyone can make it work, we'll see.
Hopefully it is Fnatic.
Now when we watched Fnatic partake in the lane swap against Gamm, the dive bot lane really hurt Oscar to put it lightly.
He was very far behind on the north.
With the swap coming through from Fnatic, it'll be them initiating the swap.
369 is going to see the play immediately moves over towards the mid lane, and it becomes the stack in 4th of quickly.
We need to get as many people with level 2 as quickly as possible so that we can be ready to set up for the plays.
Now, as 369 makes his way towards bot, his primary goal, along with the supports being in mid,
again, is to get that level 2 so they can try and catch the wave that's going to be stacking on the bot side of the map.
Oscar doing the same thing on the top side, ready to TP towards the bot lane.
So nothing too crazy. The map is going to be split very much as we expect vision
Gonna spot out TN moving into the bottom side of the map along with
Journey heading up towards the top line. So everything kind of going as expected
It feels like this version of the lane swap
I'd say it's one of the easier iterations compared to many of the variant lane softs that we've seen throughout the years
It comes the TP through are we playing?
Tic-Tac-Toe or is that just a very small bingo board? That's what was not clear to me about that.
Well see now this is a situation where you'd normally see the dives set up,
but I mean given the state of the waves, the waves weren't massively stacked.
There's no four man dive on the bot side of the map.
Oscar's gonna tick over to level three and it looks like Rumble's in a similar position
where I think given the state of the waves they weren't too concerned,
as I say that. Russell gets hovering around.
Three, six, nine, fours two, flaps out, hang, now switch over to the side of thematic.
You talked about it, on the bomb side they opt not to go with the draft.
Maybe this is the reason that Fanatic did offer the lane swap in the first place,
because Sante generally much more comfortable in those dive situations than a rumble ever will be,
at least for the first few levels.
He was able to get that level three.
This wave still isn't massive.
You should expect Yan to try and false the dive from happening.
Here we go.
Put a poke.
It's all about the W. The sooner they get it out, the easier the dive is.
Four stacks still marked up.
Yan not able to get close enough to proc it quite yet.
Permafrost falling away is big for Oscar ignite now ticking Mako trying to take that hour
Agro, excuse me is they do force the flash could survive from Oscar a bit awkward overall from the side of TES clearly trying to weigh out the
W cool down on Cassante to get the Permafrost, but angle and positioning just wasn't quite right
I mean Oscar
Navigated that about as well as he could have right he saved his skills for the right moments
He didn't burn his flash too quickly and the the tower aggro
I mean you can see the difference between the four-man die versus the three-man and then with the support is there to try and out execute and all
This crazy stuff, but ultimately neither side finds a kill
You could say a small advantage game for Oscar particularly in the experience department
369 was denied an extra wave because he was actually zoned away from the tower once he lost his flash
But ultimately both top laners sitting fairly comfortably for the time being and in terms of gold
They don't find themselves with too much of the deficit as now the swaps come back
The good news for Oscars is that the wave will be pushing in towards him, so he'll be able to catch that.
You know, on the bot side of the map, it's Fanatic's wave will be moving towards Jackie Lothernake.
Maybe Oscar can find a bit more advantage on the top side, as he does catch that wave and should be able to hold on to that
experienced league and early level 6 could be crucial in the matchup.
For now, focusing in on the bot lane 2v2 both sides, avoiding those first few levels.
Mako only being level 2 is a bit awkward if Fanatic are able to find the angle for more aggressive trades.
So overall, the pretty quiet early game, lane swaps, outside of those initial dives, usually don't have quite the same opportunity for ganks or activity.
Chip, going very much as we expected. Just a lot of farming.
Usually the CS is not the biggest indicator of how well the lane is going, the stacks are.
I think that Zeca gave us the best demonstration where he was at like 200 stacks in 20 minutes, which is egregiously fast.
That was like, oh no, that's a problem.
You say you agree just because someone on the enemy team did something wrong that the smaller has to have many stacks.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Normally I would say there's something like 170, 180, around 20 minutes. It's usually pretty good.
And then if you're at about like 150, 160, something's probably gone wrong somewhere where you're a little bit behind.
You really cannot feed the baby dragon. Bad idea.
I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Gremlins, but it's a very similar concept.
You have a bad time if you give this man too many stacks.
Hazlark's getting aggressive here.
And this is one of the most frustrating things about the Skarner match if you're not familiar with it.
His hitbox is so big that when he uses that E, even though you saw Tien try to Q to interrupt,
Skarner actually hits first and stops the Sejuani Q in its tracks.
Which is a really annoying but very niche interaction.
You're not going to use the ultimates to push out the wave.
You're on top.
There comes the Skarner.
And then Oscar immediately hitting level 6.
Perfectly time for Fanatic 369 still no flash from the earlier play well punished nice proactive look
So the experience into paying off wonders for Fanatic memory said earlier that one wave that was lost for 369
Put him about a level down if you've been able to catch that top wave
It could have been fine for him
But Razzauk sees the window leverages the strength of Skana to go through the wall
Catching off guard trying to play ring around the Rosie there doesn't see John flashing over the wall a little bit awkward
as Jun does commit his flash over, but Jackie Leve, we'll be able to walk away at the very least.
And, Betty, I think it's important to look back at the playing stage of MSI.
Remember that while TES did beat Fanatic, the one game that Fanatic won,
it was Oscar on Camille having a carry performance that I would argue is probably his best of the year from MSI.
Yeah. And so that's something that I'm wondering if Fanatic can try and replicate.
You know, Casante is not Camille in terms of target access, etc.,
but still a powerful pick. And with a lead like this, you really can make a difference on the map.
I mean, Fnatic, with a composition like this with Smolder, the important thing is restraint, right?
And I think what's really crucial is that any advantages you find in the early game, you don't try and go over the board, over force,
you just leverage them to give you a comfortable weak side and then play towards a strong side.
You constantly look to trade objectives, you look to continue to funnel resources and gold into Humanoid.
And the fact that Oscar has this lead just makes him harder to die in a sudden, right?
It makes it more difficult for top esports to find those opportunities in the year of
the game.
And that's not to say that top esports don't have late game of their own.
Yone split pushing is always going to be lethal.
They're team fighting.
You already look at the Wombo combo that they have.
That's a big thing.
That's a big advantage I think top esports is going to have.
But for the time being, Fnatic, I think taking the right approach, being very calm,
respectful, and just kind of looking to trade on the map where they can.
Definitely makes a lot of sense, Noah setting up the curtain call.
There's a poke on Jackie Love, Razorok on the way, but he will be a little bit late.
Only level 4. Razorok now spotted, maybe they're going to be able to turn this play around.
Immediate ultimate coming in the impale, a bit of work there for the fob.
Not Jackie Love over the wall, huge damage and a massive punish on the Fnatic
who thought they had the angle on the bot lane play.
Bit of a misplay there from Fnatic and Jackie Love comfortably punishes it.
A fantastic MF Ultimate from across the wall is way more damage than Fnatic has prepared for.
They thought that they'd caught Mako out, but crucially, no one misses his W, thinking that Mako is going to get hit into the wall,
but then that's not actually what happens. Razorke actually brings him past the wall, the CC doesn't connect,
and that's two early game objectives now for Top Esports.
That person is a very big fan of Jack you love, and you can understand why.
Sitting on the other side of the wall, pushing R.
The hero we can all get behind. Of course, the early BF sword makes this matchup very difficult because while Noah is fast with those Swifties, he is not winning any trades.
Keep an eye here, see. So the Sun comes through, but then the ultimate from Razzle drags him out a range of the walls so that W doesn't connect from Noah.
Which means that chain CC doesn't follow through, Mako gets the knockup, the combination with the MF ultimate as well means that they absolutely decimate the Fnatic trio.
play there by top, he's supposed to equalize the kills.
Definitely a very strong start, at least a counter punch to give them an edge on the
bottom side of the map to balance out Oscar and his lead, which is just holding it about
that kill worth of gold.
Obviously some early MR will make the match a bunch easier, but to your point earlier,
Fanatic I think, happy to trade even as long as it gets more time and more space
for Humanoid to continue to stack up, looking at the next objectives.
Grub spawn in one minute. Keep in mind TES already got the first drake, already got both the Grub, so in terms of objectives
They're significantly ahead and if they're able to get that 4 Grub buff or even 6, you're just gonna get a lot more difficult
4 Fanatic for now the 369 the 1 in trouble. Again, so many resources used by Fanatic to try and take this Rumble out of the game
Oh, I mean 369 is also just walking through the roof. That was an easy opportunity
opportunity, especially with Tian hovering around the top side of the map.
Bit of a misplay from him.
There's now top esports threatening to dive.
Yone on his way as well.
About for no to do much.
They get the TP out at the very least.
Jackalup very far forward.
Second TP now coming in.
Oscar and then waiting behind.
Jackalup should just be a dead man walking.
Quick kill pick Amiko was already out of there.
Taking their time to make sure they donate it to Noah.
Just in time for second grub spawn.
15 seconds away, Fanatic.
Priority on the objective.
able to get that top push might need to answer mid but should not have to concede
these grubs. I'll say perhaps a bit of an overcoming is Oskar now as an angel.
Unstoppable though, Kassante able to pull through the wall the perfect angle as
well takes his time to line it up. Knock up there from Cream but forced back now
as Razor tries to follow make up potentially gonna be in trouble Q3 comes
in from Oscar so they went good damage with the ulti response going out
shut now following up but Cream is right in the mid, fate sealed for Oscar
Renan as Fnatic forced for at least a moment to back away Q3 ready for
if they do want to re-engage objective, not the name of the game here from Fnatic,
but sadly this entire sequence of play while they did win out in kills, at least a little bit,
they're gonna lose the grubs.
It's a situation once again where we talk about Fnatic over-forcing. They got out,
Oscar was in a good spot, and then they sat there and thought,
wait, we can punish this, we can actually chase for more kills,
and Cream's like, I feel like you guys forgot that I'm playing Yone,
and then immediately turns that around and they give a kill over.
Look at the farm advantage that he now has because humanoid committed the TP up to top. There's now a full level advantage in favor of Creen
And now once he goes back to base
I imagine he's gonna be sitting on enough gold to be able to even buy the blade of the rinking as well
Forcing Oscar back a two-level lead over him. All of this farm is gonna be denied
Top eSports off a single play now gaining a sizable lead
And of course building up on some of their early objective control having six grubs with this Yone and a sideline
Yone is gonna be so tough to answer
makes this really difficult for Fanatic. 369 again. If it first you succeed, just do it again, I guess, is the mantra for Fanatic.
They really just want to focus down 369 since they're only having to play Humanoid stacking up a lot here,
but I don't know if he has to damage these kills. TP now coming in, Cream on the way down. This Yone should be able to do a lot of work.
Humanoid now needs to get the hell out. Razor trying to buy a bit more space, but Humanoid just determined to get this kill.
This is so greedy from Fanatic. Blood in their eyes, blinded by the potential of what could be in the bottom lane,
I'm laying but it all falls apart top e-sports happily pick up two kills and crucially another one goes over to cream
He's able to TP down they turn it into a four versus two and fanatic over
Forcing again. They were so desperate to turn that into something more
They realized the ones they'd gone for the plan to 369
It was already too deep and they thought to themselves if we can get another kill make it a two for two
Then maybe it'll be fine. I think the plan and of itself is okay
You can see they're spotting out Jack you love in the river, but he's still able to rotate down
He doesn't get interrupted Jun is making his way down as quickly as he can
But at this point like he's not even gonna flash in to try and have enough damage
And it just results in two kills nice chain CC 10 gets out with barely that he levels up to
Top e-sports happy after picking those two kills up
Happy to punish there, and I think the thing that we talked about was smaller
It's not happening, Eddie.
You have to be able to lose gracefully.
You have to wait for your time, knowing that when you're a big dragon, you're going to kill everybody.
He didn't have an item completed.
He went in there with a Kindle Jam and a Coffield Warhammer like, I'm going to kill this bore.
That's not enough.
Yesterday we saw D-plus Kia drafting the scaling comp.
And the first thing I thought of was like, this doesn't feel like a comp for D-plus Kia, right?
Because they only know how to fight.
I agree.
And I'm looking at Fanatic and they're like, this doesn't feel like a comp for Fanatic.
Because if we look at humanoid's identity, like farming on a sideline, finding those leads,
that's great for him.
But that's why the yoni work, because you can still make those team fight plays.
As Jackie Luv is going to be forced to flash out, small summoner picked up there by Fanatic,
so good look to catch him overextending.
But Fanatic certainly going to have to show a lot of growth even in the context of
this game.
They can't afford to make any more greedy plays like this, because they're already
falling so far behind 3k lead just about for TES.
Fanatic now trying to get set up on the drake.
I'm not sure that Sol is not an option too early, they have decent control, but Oscar's got a TP, cream level 11, nerf some of that CC, 3-6-9 pushing on this island, so good pickup from Fanatic, knowing they forced out some of Jackie's sums, taking that advantage using it to secure Drake.
I just think cream is so strong, he is such a serious problem for Fanatic right now.
Yone typically tough landing things.
That's a champ. He really doesn't do much.
He doesn't have that much damage. He's very limited as a champion.
He's very reliant on getting items.
So once he gets this item, it's really when he comes online.
And now, he's more than happy to look for fights.
And the damage should show that.
You just go right back.
It's important to understand.
Well, when you go to the store and you buy attack speed,
you just get attack speed.
Yone also gets cooldown reduction on two of his abilities.
Also, if he hits you with enough of those abilities, it's also a knock-up, so...
When you think about the synergistic scaling of this kit...
It's like Yasuo, but you don't have to die ten times to be good, you know?
That no one talks about the Yone power spike. He doesn't have to die at all to be powerful.
Which seems pretty strong.
Anyway, I feel like...
Everyone knows how strong Yone is, so I won't keep hammering on about it.
I will resist. It's my number one favorite thing to complete right now.
But, Cream...
We'll need to find a way to nap get out of this immediate ulti razzler perfect angle to catch him
Impact air chain cc q3 almost gets him
They have to use everything they've got in terms of cool down
But that young a is dead shut down acquired 500 gold over to Oscar Cassante says get over here as they drag him back into the
Lane cream doesn't get an opportunity to flash away and a crucial pick for
fanatic, we talked about how much of a problem Cream is going to be on a side lane. The good
news for fanatic is that Top Esports really weren't able to punish anywhere else on the map,
meaning that Fanatic find themselves a kill and a crucial shutdown. Let's go over to the
Cassante, means that Smolder is just going to continue to farm towards the bot side of the
map, close that experience gap just a little bit, because they now set their sights on the bot lane.
3-6-9, once again the center of attention here. Fanatic like the paparazzi descent,
Easy-peasy pick up the third time this game.
Rumble's been taken out of the board.
TES now trying to respond in the mid lane.
Noah not in a great position.
Looks like they will have to concede the mid lane tier one,
but at least they get a bit of gold from the bot lane kill.
I mean, it is a nice pick,
but I still think it's worth it for top esports.
They get mid and top. That's all out of towers now.
They move into the top side jungle,
and I mean, just look at the vision control that they have right now.
Wards are littered across the top side of this map.
There is this one potential flank ward,
but there's no TPs that can use it.
Feral charges there.
Oscar trying to defend.
Second tower not gonna fall.
Maybe he's gonna fall actually.
There's a lot of grubbies there.
Cream flashing back.
Even around to the side.
Mom called in.
Initial slow is good.
Quick use of the locket there
to mitigate some of that damage.
Jun now into the back side.
No already over the wall.
Perhaps could just go for the curtain call
but Maco now go for the re-engage.
And Jackie Love is there.
Right in the nick of the time.
The equalizer coming down.
It doesn't do a lot but they don't need it.
TES tearing through this fight.
Lock up under Jonas Flaalos, another kill going to the side of Top Esports.
How many times have we got to tell this tale?
Fnatic once again tried to force a play.
Top Esports had control over the top wave.
They were going to concede that top tower after dropping the Herald,
but Fnatic say, hey, I think there's a play here.
They tried to force the fight and Top Esports very smartly immediately punish it.
Humanoid gets engaged on thanks to a nice ultimate from Tian.
And it's at this point where you realize it's too over-forced. Such a nice TP flank going to come in as well.
They're disconnected and look at this engage. Nicely done from Mako. Locks up the two members. The bullet time over the top.
And the 1-Bow combo is there. We talked about it coming into the draft. We're seeing it now in the fight.
If you over-force these fights in the mid-game, especially top e-sports, are more than happily going to take them.
You can see frustration, perhaps resignation on the face of the Fanatic staff there because
look, this is a game where Fanatic are finding some plays, some angles of attacks, some kills.
369 has three deaths, right? Those came from somewhere, but the downside is it's almost every single time
GE has to trading up somewhere else on the map, and then when Fanatic do finally force a group play,
like you said, it's an over force, and it's costing them much, much more.
cream the target here but it's just gonna go all in snap right back when he sees somebody
it's so easy for cream to solo go pretty much anyone he wants now with these items
and he can do it so safely as well thanks to his e humanoid needs this cover on a side lane to be
able to ramp up stack wise humanoid still doing relatively well 118 19 minutes in is definitely
a good pace but you just kind of look at the map state and it's just in tatters for fanatic
It's so difficult really for them to set up on an objective. They don't have their TPs available.
They should just look to concede this dragon. Top Esports have done a great job of, if we think
about the punishes that we've been seeing, every time Fnatic overstepped, Top Esports is there
to punish every single time. And even though Fnatic have been able to find these picks,
Top Esports have been making smart cross maps on the map, and they've just been slowly
methodically been picking a part of these weaknesses from Fnatic and converting it into
to bigger and bigger gold leads.
Now both Jackalov and Cream with basically a 2K lead
between the both of the, well independently,
giving them a full item advantage
over their lane counterparts.
Which is completely massive
as we get closer and closer to Baron,
spawning three seconds away.
If you own A on your team as well as a Rumble,
you can burn through it quite quickly.
No reason for TES to risk cover.
They're ahead in Dragon Sacking.
They've got more sideline pressure
with the six for a buff.
In a situation where you highlight it early on,
Fennec doing okay in terms of trading kills.
The TES were the ones to get the objectives.
Now they're trading off in about every single skirmish, cream!
The owner saw the kill, didn't it?
Jhin wasn't there, I think he would have died.
I mean, he lost his flash.
They forced out the ulti from the human, he needs the health, he's afraid of Mako going
in and just igniting to finish the job.
He just... I mean...
Tells all the time, people sit there and believe that Smulder is a good counterpick
into the Yone and like to a degree it can be, but if the Yone ever gets to
a point where he can just demolish you on a side lane and you're forced to go
and match him, then you have a problem.
I think the crucial thing that teams are kind of forgetting about the HLE draft is that they have the jacks that could be used to answer into the Yonek on the side.
Which meant that you just had more time for the smolder to sit elsewhere away from the Yonek and to safely farm up.
Cream now farming, solo down, leverage.
Alti coming out once again, combo there, Jaki left right where it needs to be and a beautiful equalizer over the top.
Cream now just now is back to safety, team is there to body block and once again baby Yonek walks away.
TES in complete and total control of this game, Fanatic already retreating back into their own bases.
TES just continued to pull further and further ahead.
Why not? They have such a health advantage, Razork is down, the side is gone.
Top Esports just dismantling Fanatic, leveraging the strength of their mid game.
There's nothing on the map that Fanatic can really do.
They're TPing bot to try and get some form of cross map, but with the ban they're going to get a quick recall.
TP ANSA is going to come through from 369 to deny Fnatic any opportunity of getting anything back
You know I 211 stacks kind of what they're praying on but this is not the smolder of old
This has been nerfed you need either more stacks or more items if you really want to to have that same level of impact and I
Mean look at cream. He's almost on a third completed item
You've got armor penetration coming through for Jack you love it in the context of this fight
Fnatic really don't get to fight on their terms whatsoever. It's so easy for TES to just start
kick this off without getting punished.
I mean, Rassov just gets melted.
He's supposed to be the front line, and you're just seeing how much damage
Kree is able to do alone.
A simple pick, converts him to a bound.
Fnagnar find themselves 6k gold down.
And the problem is, yeah, you can always make the argument if they've got the scaling.
However, top esports just have such a powerful team fight call at this point in the game.
And I think one of the big things is, you can always threaten this smolder.
Smolder take over against comps that lack long-ranging gauge, but such Juaniel the rumble of yone. It's easy when top
Esports already have control when they already are gonna have set up first round these objectives to be able to threaten humor and make
Sure, he can't play the game. They don't even need to wait for the objective
Cream just that was just very casual just walked up to razzler. It could took 80% of his health. Yep
Just another day in the office to him cream. Now humanoid solo kill mom's coming in, but that's not enough mom will not save you
What else are we going to say?
Curtains?
Flash.
Nothing to stack Q1.
Surely he's dead.
He's not.
Oh!
Interrupted.
Curtain from Mako.
Mako, the great savior.
Body blocks the ball in for the president.
They know.
Well, it's coming in.
Bullet time there.
From Jackie Love to finish the job.
369 are slaughtering Fnatic in this game.
I mean, Fnatic found picks.
There were nice plays at moments,
but this has just been a stump from Top Esports.
Commanding performance.
looking to put themselves at two and one.
TES finishing it up.
Cool, calm, collected from start to finish,
minotrated even once or twice.
The rest of the game, they have just been dominating.
One more wombo combo to send us out
with a bit of confidence.
Fnatic's base in tatters now, crane with Q.
Gonna get caught out, and they hold the line.
Fnatic still going forward.
Oscar backing off TN wants to finish it here.
Oscar stunned up, and this should just be it.
If they out of the Nexus, it's over.
369 goes in, he goes golden, he has a bit more time with the Seekers.
Jackula being pushed away from the objective, they need to kill the rumble!
But 369 has the last laugh!
They hit him!
But he took their Nexus.
24 minutes is all it took for Top Esports to start off our Swiss day 4.
Commanding performance as fanatic.
They tried to overforce, and a lot of credit needs to be given to Tian.
2-0 and 9. The only kill he was involved in was the solo kill, the cream gun.
Incredible stuff.
We've set it up, let's send it over to AD to break down.
That absolute stop.
If you're gonna break down.
More?
Yeah, no!
Okay.
That was a tough one.
That was rough.
Yeah.
That was rough.
Um...
Yeah.
Jacob's like, hey look.
No, but I mean, you guys were talking about the draft,
the approaches and the power picks
and what can condition Yone here
in the favor of that sport.
I mean, we've seen that core see a lot of play and success.
And I'm talking about Yone, Rumble, Rell.
Yes.
With other things that fly in on top of it.
This is Juani enables the two soul inners extremely well,
and the misfortune can just add to the wombo combo.
It was a very aggressive comp.
My biggest concern going into that game,
and I said it right after the draft,
is that Fnatic's comp was going to be a bit too slow.
They were going to be extremely low damage
before the smolder gets to 225.
The Vettius pointed out in the cast, I would have loved to see like a Jax or a Narr pretty early there for Oscar,
but that's also like trying to change a tire after car crash.
It's not going to fix the whole picture.
The thing is too is that it worked out well at least in the lane swap.
Really early on where Cassante gets the early EXP lead because they couldn't dive him
with the three men that they had, the Sejuani and Jin.
They're like, okay, like it's working out.
They end up getting a kill topside too based off the experience lead that Cassante has so everything's working out until
They had a double TP top lane play that I thought was just not worthwhile
Because rumble has TP pushing bot so you're gonna lose a wave you're gonna lose plates grubs is coming up
You're gonna have to go back bot to catch it and you're gonna lose grubs
So it's like that's a lot expended for one champion where the map is being taken away from you
And it's crazy how easy the hobby sport has managed to accelerate the game I feel
But we're going to talk about this a bit later because we see that Shucks is ready on stage for an interview with Jackie Love.
You just had the counter punch. How much did you feel?
I need to pause for a second because I need to wait for the cue from the world feed so that everybody gets the interview.
TS has been able to accelerate the game.
Yes. I mean that's the thing for me is they ended that game very quickly.
Yes. Here's the end.
Jackie Love, congratulations on a very convincing victory versus Fnatic, where it seemed that whatever Fnatic tried, you had the counter punch.
How much did you feel like you were completely in Fnatic's heads and could predict their next moves?
to win so easily?
I think our team's leadership is very good.
We have achieved what we wanted,
and we have a very good team spirit.
Our team has played very well.
First of all, I would like to give the credit to our jungle and support,
because they made so many crucial shots in this game,
and we managed to grab a lot of crucial resources in this map.
And also, you know, speaking of our draft we got, we think that coming to the very late game, we have a better chance to show our draft the stress.
Also, in some skirmishes, we also performed pretty good.
You did not even need to get to the late game because the game was finished quite quickly.
Now overall, we find ourselves in the meta still where lane swaps are very, very important.
And the meta is being figured out by a lot of teams.
How much impact and influence do you think you have out of the role of ADC in this current lane-swap state?
It's normal development, and then we need to form a team.
So I think, in terms of players, AD's pressure might be relatively low,
but it might be a little bit more in combination with the top lane.
So in this laning swap meta, I would say that for AD carry players,
there will be less pressure, especially in the laning phase,
but in the laning swap meta, I think that you may be focused on the top lane.
For the top lane, maybe they will have more pressure on it,
it and you should have the better synergy with your top lane and the whole team to handle it.
Okay, thank you very much, Hensheng. Congratulations, Jackie Love, and thank you, Christina.
And Top Esports moves on to 2-1.
Team from the LPL BLG is looking to find the same six in the second game that we're gonna have here
It's gonna be BLG versus team one
I don't feel like either team has been living to the expectations around them. Especially for BLG
No, definitely not I thought BLG there were gonna be a lot of people's pick for a 3-0 team coming out of this
And I think BLG and GenG were both some of the favorites in the tournament just to have them at one-on-one
And then get the bad draw the defending world champions is tough for them. It's a tough one
But I think they've had at least
an awakening with the LNG game, so I feel like they're going to be a little bit more prepared,
especially when it comes to the meta, because they got Yone, so that's like a slap in the face, basically.
There is a matchup that we're all looking forward to, so when it comes to these two teams,
it's our featured matchup presented by Mercedes-Benz, and it is Knight vs. Faker.
We are the old kings facing off against the contenders for the crown in today's featured matchup, presented by Mercedes-Benz.
Despite coming back and winning Worlds last year, D1 has not looked like that legendary
team we have come to expect.
Just barely getting into Worlds by the skin of their teeth.
To a glacier prison still connects and Zayas can put down the equalizer carrying a flash.
Hostile takeover hits onto two, she turns one of them.
And pain gaming can only watch from the fountain as T1 rip them apart.
BLG will be one of their biggest challenges to maintaining their throne.
been knocked out of 2023 Worlds by T1 last year. This is an opportunity for BLG to show
they are ready to take that final step towards winning the World Championship.
Press got to get it lower and lower, just trying to 1v1 BIM but not doing a whole hell
of a lot, it's still standing. BLG again just wiped the fight, last desperate
moves with the flash charm coming in from Nite is enough, the ace there for BLG.
BLG may have faltered early, but a win against the defending champions T1 would
prove they are not just here to compete, but to win.
I'm so excited about this matchup because we just think about the accolades of these two players have stocked up from faker side
He's got four world championships two MSI championships ten LCK championships that guy has medals by the way
He's got a lot on his for himself
But for night by the way five LPL championships tied with clear love the go and saw who as well
And a lot of it has been super recently six
finals back to back to back to back in the LPL the LPL has been Knights show so
like for both these players to be going up against each other while also I can't
forget about the fact that he has the MSI championship from last year night so
they both are stacking accolades and now they're going up against each other
they're in each other's way and it's gonna be fun to see these two players
go up against each other. What is it gonna come down to because the
expectation around this matchup is always high but what do we think of the
form of both teams. BLG, for me, they could have won the first game they played against
LNG, came down to silly little micro mistakes actually that came down to fight on their side.
Holy executive here. I put BLG as pretty heavy favorites into this one, especially because
the teams that they played against, the win that T1 had as dominant as it was, was against the
CBLL, whereas we've had BLG just falling to LNG who then advanced as a 3-0 team. And I think
They were a little bit out drafted like we've seen now. I think Yone's 10 and 2 yeah Yone rumble team compositions
I think are swinging a lot of these games that are up against pretty even match teams
Yeah, I mean for BLG when they went up against LNG they had like a 3k goal lead at 11 minutes before they threw it, right?
Yeah, so that happened same could be said for T1 when they went up against top eSports
They had a 3k goal lead before the gin quadra kill incident
So they'll be pretty upset that the matchup that they were looking forward to the biggest one that they like both
Respective teams had they had control at a certain moment until they lost at a key point in team fight
Yeah
I would also just say though these teams are too good at pulling off rumble yone combos with any setup CC
They have whether it's the darkness from the
Nocturne or engage like the rail so I think they're gonna learn that lesson pretty fast and the coordination from all of these
teams is extremely high so I do actually have BLG as a pretty big favorite, draft dependent.
Alright, Sam, Caster's thinking, take it away for this one, I guess the analyst thinks the same,
what do you guys think for this one?
Alright, I think it is fair to take BLG as the favorites, while the history and the aura
will always favor T1. The road to get here certainly favors BLG, but it all comes down
to a single best of one and a best of one. Really anything is possible,
so we'll just have to see how the draft shapes up.
I mean, let's not forget it was only at MSI not that long ago where BLG didn't beat T1 once, but twice.
And people saw T1 at a higher level going into that tournament.
This one right now, T1, they struggled their way into here.
And I feel like it's tough to judge the level of T1 right now, because we saw some promising things where they kind of got out team 4 by Top Esports.
There was, as Miranda said, the unfortunate Quadra kill situation from Jankylove and then against Pain Gaming.
They were extremely dominant.
So, honestly it's really hard to tell what level T1 is at right now.
I think it's a bit of a reset for both teams potentially, right?
We saw obviously LNG mounted pretty impressive.
Come back, we saw T1, I think get caught off guard a little bit by what Aurora could bring to the table in some of those fights.
Certainly both teams probably have a better sense of what they want to prioritize in this meta,
but with T1, tons of leads early on.
It was a simple short for BLG against LNG, and we'll have to see if either team can take that strong early game and leverage it again against their opposition today.
What I will say is that, historically, T1 is a team that don't start worlds off incredibly strong.
They actually have this credible record, where their worst group stage record was 5-1.
They've only ever lost one, and this was true last year as well.
Well, yeah, they lost. They beat TL, they lost Genji, they beat Kar-9, and then to start their...
They award BLG.
Yeah, and then to start their great run where they beat literally every LPL representative.
they beat BLG and you know it had to feel good, it had to feel sweet that MSI had for BLG to get that revenge, but...
And so does a different beast.
And all I'm saying is that on the one hand, totally makes sense to have BLG as the favourites.
On the other hand, T1 has already lost a game.
There's no more losses left.
Yeah, they've already given that one up.
And tell best of 5s.
Yeah, so it's a scary thing because that pedigree really does follow them.
It's it's always mind-blowing when people ask me like why is faker so popular well most people have one more championship
Maybe two two at best. He's got four
But then you zoom out you're like actually most people don't have a word
And it's just it's it's really crazy to realize that like regardless of their form T1 have a way of performing
And so that's why we're excited for this man. Jeff. Many people believe it's too early in the tournament
I totally understand that sentiment
but
The good news is that they're so rude for both of them to be able to make out still just shout out to easy to the mayor on the support staff on the side of BLG
Legendary SKT as year
back in the day
When you team run now supporting BLG
Think they're too far away in years for me to be like he's got all the secrets. You can't imagine that a lot of 2015
Transfers over but you never know now. I was looking back at their best of finds when they met at MSI
There was a lot of focus on Faker back then. It was the Zia Orianna every game.
The idea was to try and pitch his pool and put him on something that he couldn't have the same level of impact on.
Back then as well, Senna was a very high value champion in terms of both sides were actually really looking to contest it.
And I'm curious as to what the priority is going to be in this match because if it hasn't been obvious enough, Yone is clearly important.
My opinion, I think we share this opinion, is it should just be Herman and Red side down.
Yeah, because we were cooking to what I say we were I was throwing rent
I was like Rammus and Lissandra probably to jam is the odd thing you could throw
But I don't think they're gonna do it you walk into a draft meeting with any pro player ever and you say the words Rammus or Lissandra
They're getting fired. So
You know, let's just it's bad
Okay, it's just a little too strong chat the t1 for that one
the Aurora going to follow that one up. Okay, so if you want to just remove in some of the
really powerful champions on the meta, it makes a ton of sense. Orianna obviously also very strong
in the meta and the Nocturne, the thing that's kind of, I think surprised many, we are back for it's
been so far at the tournament, the utilization of his ultimate to set up for these other team
fight tools. The Sejuani removed as well, does leave things up like the Ash, the Skana,
the Vibe, we've only seen way on Vibe so far in this tournament and I would be
surprised we didn't see it him on it again Ari Knights Ari I don't think they
would first pick it though would they I mean probably easier to first pick the
vice you suggested I can't imagine the immediate response would be a blind pick
Ari but with a smolder and Yone off the board as well as Orianna obviously the
mid lane pool and technically Aurora as well the middle pool is pretty
heavily engaged I mean obviously Knights Ari is world-renowned it's one of
his best champions. He has an unbelievable win rate on it and so with the confidence and as you said
with the pool being narrowed down neither saying this is a champion that I want to play makes complete
sense for him. So now with the Viand Naa being taken away on the side of T1, what's the pair
I'm going to be? Oh they're pairing up Skana. A little bit surprising, typically you expect
something like a Jarvan or a Yego, something that's a little bit more damage and setup because
is if an Ari Charm connects, you want to make sure you have good follow-up.
But it looks like the Silas... Oh, Faker! Faker Silas!
Also, Silas with a scarner on the other side of the...
It's not something I've seen yet, and I'm really curious to see how impactful that can be.
But Silas, the champion who's just really come back from the meta, he's been changed repeatedly.
People have talked about him in solo queue for a very long time, but only at this tournament
has he really come back to the forefront of professional play.
Taking away the RIL, obviously very solid.
the tankiness you get from a Jack's ult as well, something to consider, and it's going
to really affect BLG's considerations as we go into the second ban phase in terms of what
they feel comfortable grabbing because let me tell you, Alistar is no longer an option.
It's a really fun skill matchup too because the charm determines everything, right? Charm
can use to rut some of the dashes of the Silas trying to get to you on top of that,
like if the Charm is ever gone, Silas just always wins a trade just because of
the additional healing deal I get on his W. So, super interesting. Right now I would
He doesn't have the best ultimates to steal, and BLG is like, maybe we don't play Alistar.
But we'll see how the rest of the draft pans out.
The Kaisa and the Ziggs are going to be removed from the bot side of BLG.
The Renata are going to be taken away from Karrion and Ashe to follow.
It will be interesting to see, of course, if we do see an early swap here.
With Kalista putting a little bit of pressure on BLG, certainly.
Obviously, Kalista is highly mobile.
A little bit tough for a lot of these champions.
champions locked down top for something like a jacksword scarter to stick to that pic they can't first for out immediately
I was wondering what they even go here. I thought maybe Ezreal
Do you have an interesting choice of course to follow up on the RE Charms? It's easy to land that long range CC
This is good. I like the poppy a lot especially when you think about the dash from Vi
Silas mobility and then just just Kalista poppy is just great. It's a Kalista in general
I don't know how I feel about the gin just because of the dive
But I guess BLG is saying poppy should provide a lot of peel enough to be able to be comfortably so far in the tournament
LPL teams have been a normally high priority on Jen
It seems to be a pick that they're super comfortable with they are good at leveraging that long range of course when you have
Jacks when you have an RE who are willing to dive in the Gen follow-up is something very powerful
Carry a please I would
Please you won't be debated by pig. No, I know I'm saying please. I'm not saying it's real. I'm saying
Please sir
This is a classic combo
Brainstorm theory craft theory crafted scrim for years hasn't seen the international stage as much, but it is
Obviously the combination of the Callista and the Nico a very very powerful Nico can go in get right back out
so much setup CC so much chain CC and
And kind of a return to some of what made Karrie so successful in our previous year,
which was a lot of these really aggressive counter-pick supports.
What I like about this, the cons, is that there's just a lot of comfort across the board.
You've got Finn on Jax, like obviously he's known well for his cameo,
but his Jax is just as terrifying on the top side.
And that's paired along Nights Ari, one of his all-time greatest champions,
an unbelievable win rate on it.
I think this year alone, he's only lost like one game.
Career long, I got 58 games, current Sierra friends of Legends, 86.2% win rate.
I'm not going to do the push math there, but it's very much in favor of the win column.
And in contrast, Sears, one of his best champions throughout his career, has been his Gnar.
And then you contrast that, like, it's hard to say for Faker specifically, because he's played for so long.
Yeah.
He has so many champions, but I always think back to that 2019 Faker.
When he stole the gnar, yeah, and like, destroys the entire region in a moment.
And the Jensen 1v1 matchup you had, like, he's just, yeah, he's a good Silas player.
And it's going to be a fun one.
The solo lane matchups are going to be exciting.
I'm hopeful we'll get standard lanes, but I'm not going to promise anything
as we jump in for our best solo matchup to BLG and T1.
And the team will be eliminated, but obviously both teams hungry for that two-in-one bracket
looking to get out of Swiss as quick as possible.
Don't want to risk a single thing.
Number was last year, T1 beat the LG to make it out,
to qualify for top eight in the bracket stage of Worlds.
So he carries, sneaking his way in, pretending to be owner.
Good of mind games here.
And the second game we see T1 really go for one
of these compositions is very heavily focused
around some of these team fighting ultimates, right?
We saw a similar thing when Faker was playing Niko mid
in their first matchup.
Ultimately didn't quite work out the Aurora
disrupted it, but there's no Aurora this time, people will find it a few more effective
engages.
I've seen the Graspari again, by the way, like we've just been seen.
Wash up, Caria.
Do they know it's Caria?
Otherwise, they might not attract the Flash.
If they do, his lane phase is going to get a little bit tougher against his Poppy.
So the problem with Knight starting E is you do concede a lot of control in the
mid lane.
Yeah.
W gives you just a lot of trading power just because it's a short cooldown, easy
the last hit, helps you control the wave, E long cooldown, single target, doesn't offer a lot.
Now, we talked about the possibility of lane swap, it looks like VLG is going to be the ones to
initiate it, and T1 naturally ready as the split map has begun. Makes a lot of sense in the context
of T1's bot lane, obviously you really do not want to be against Callista Niko for the first
few levels. That's a picture of faker. You throw that up on your phone, we're putting it up
every time, I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a theme to how we promote worlds
And it always involves cut the music faker doesn't matter. We see my piano
He gets it on a throne. He could take your order at a fast food restaurant. We would all love it
What keeps us going? And I think it's part of the reason why we're always giving T1 the benefit of it out here
Of course in the 2v2 lane swap though. I'll see k teams a little bit more experienced
popularized in that league initially as
I'm doing a pretty good job getting a lot of grass procs
Of course you highlight it takes away from some of that burst damage
but does offer a bit of sustain, a bit of additional damage
and does give you that permanent health stacking
for per proc.
I mean, it makes sense to me, well, it doesn't really.
I'm telling you, it's more understandable.
It's an already enthusiast you hate it
because you want to do damage.
Yeah.
It's understandable in the context of melee matchups,
right, because it's very easy to generate the grass procs.
You just keep hitting your opponent.
Gives you a bit of extra sustain.
That pot makes sense.
It's just that in the mid game, I feel like you lose a lot of time.
Kind of like when you can proc electrocute on somebody.
Yeah.
Now, this is the part of the lane swap that we all know and love,
because this is the skill part of the matchup.
Can you pull off the dive?
Bin, level 2, level 3 now is great.
Counter-strike crucial to survive the dive on here as well.
I think the second you see the poppy,
if you don't know what abilities have been taken,
you have to assume steadfast presence is there,
and it really stops any potential to dive.
We're not as respectful as Bin needs to be as well, but definitely the winner of this situation is Ace will be able to catch this last part of the wave, but Bin having access to a nice stacked wave on the bot side is going to be more than happy to pick this one up.
Overall though, nothing too crazy happening either side. Initiation of the swap is now concluded as both laners will now look to return to their respective lanes.
Or it's pretty calm all things considered we talked about in the previous game
But once the initial dives kind of fade away might see the reset to standard lanes at the first few levels have been
Kind of survived now that both bot lanes have been able to get a little bit more experience
But remember in the context of this year BLG have certainly had T1's number last year T1
Well, they had all of the LPL locked down but this year at MSI of course
We saw across two best of fives the LG were able to come out in both of them knocking T1 down to the losers bracket
meeting them there, beating them again to face Gen.G in the finals.
So history right now, at least, favouring DLG as we head into this best of one.
It was the world's last year where they met in the qualification stage.
It would have been in the 2-1 bracket, if I remember correctly.
Where T1 actually got a 2-0 to the surprise of Benny.
And we're able to qualify that for the quarterfinals.
Were they then, in fact, made that miracle run all the way through to the finals?
And coming into this one, again, understandable that BLG are expected to be their heavy favourites.
They're a team that, ever since Wei has joined the roster in summer, they've become very complete and very well rounded.
Their ability to generate early game leads is off the back of they'll leverage their prio, and then Wei is hovering.
And just as I say at the observe, as highlighted for us, they're pushing mid, pushing bot, and they're working now together.
Wei sets his sights on the bot side of the map, doesn't want to get spotted out by that little phantom.
And they're all just kind of coordinating, providing that safety.
You can look for a bit of a gank here, and here it comes!
Wait, coming in.
On could go in as well and try to interrupt some of the escape tools, but they're just
hitting the clone carrier.
They're able to shape-shift her out to safety, crucially the way she went gank, but well
highlighted, buddy.
Good use of the limeprash from BLG2Fish, and you can see, meanwhile, T1 not really
able to make a play of their own anywhere else.
So this is exactly what has made BLG so effective in the early games.
And sometimes we've seen some of the inconsistencies in the early games at times.
one of the things that they will criticize for early on in the summer, but Wei has just
kind of allowed that, to kind of allow these very talented laners to thrive in the way in
which he enables them, and he doesn't tend to showcase a preference. We've seen him play
through top lane as well. Nice Rook, on getting chunked out here in the 2v2, you know T1
are stronger, forcing the flash out from Elk to incredibly clutch from the T1 bottom
lane to just instantly leverage their 2v2 advantage. And this is the thing, we
They can't talk about an individual talent without talking about the T1 members.
This bot lane are typically very aggressive and they find a successful 2 vs 2 to get that summoner spell out from out.
And this is why the lane spell probably came out. You want to avoid this 2v2 at all costs.
They thought the first three levels that they just got level 3 without needing to fight might be a bit easier and it certainly is
but still very much favoring T1 as they're still grabbing these plates.
You've also got pressure on the top side from Zeus as he just continues to push these waves in against bin.
Owner grabbing the crubs in the meantime will only be able to grab two, but T1 across the board getting a lot!
1k gold lead now just off the back of the lanes kind of pertaining to normal.
Really objective advantage in phase of T1 just as you highlighted.
Now BLG set the sights on Faker.
Very nice initial movement.
Obviously Charm does connect.
Faker not going to try to extend the trade at all.
Uncertain where on is.
Good presence of mind, good awareness.
If he commits to anything there, very likely he'll have to burn Flash to escape.
In the end though, some gold has been picked up, so...
Gold lead leveraging to about 600, really balancing out.
Grubbs will feel good on the next spawn though, T1.
They can get 2, we'll be able to grab the 4 Grubb buff with...
Pressure Zeus is putting down right now, we'll make it that much easier for him to take some of these early plates.
I'm using any map just to...
See what potential options weigh once again, since this site's on the both side of the map.
That's a bit of trading there for mech to put pressure down on Faker, but he's sitting pretty with his farm.
I like how Waco consistently plays around the fact that like, oh, his bot lane has push, he's there to leverage.
Maybe they can go for an objective, maybe they can set up for a dive or a kill.
It's going to start off the drake, but I think T1 want to contest this.
They're going to be able to clear out this bot wave pretty quickly.
Level 6 has come through from Gumi-Yushi.
I'm going to run the way down, on with a knockback into the wall, but there's no immediate fall if they just now spot owner.
Knight is going to get the first move, however this could be disastrous. Perfect CC layering.
Owner can't even push the ulti, barely manages to get it all the time.
Faker is stolen away the ultimate. What else can he get with the dashes? Can he chase down Knight?
One more now coming through, and stolen nail now using it.
Wants to chase, way ready to go over the wall. T1's owning him off. Faker goes in again anyway, flies away from the charm.
It's perfect! The pop on the Q2 coming through. Faker gets another dash.
Should be finders gate been coming in. He should go down, Nigh gets the kill and return.
Faker doesn't quite have the mana or the damage to be able to get another, but it ends up being a two for two night with the quicker collapse.
But T1 with their bot lane having more damage to be able to convert the kill, the dragon stays alive and his owner makes his way back out onto that.
He's already pinging the objective.
In great CC, frankly from the side of BLG to recognize they had the opportunity to kill owner, could have been a massive threat in the fight.
in the fight and certainly go to be night vulnerable.
They weren't able to spot him out first.
Fancy back and forth T1 still ahead in gold.
Now T1 first on the objective.
They're spotted.
GLG, a lot of pressure mid.
Currently denying some creeps away from Faker.
So there is a gold price that T1 are paying
to take this objective
after respect on on the flank,
but GLG clearly willing to give it up
and well played to T1
coming ahead of objectives across the board.
While all that was happening,
to get to that in a second, but notice here, it's Ona that's isolated because Knight gets
the rotation first, connects the charm, they have the damage, Ona does what he can to
get what damage down he can, but then the fight becomes split as Wei has to flash away
to avoid the CC from T1's bot lane. Ona's just kind of awkward in this position, left
isolated as the Jin Ultimate doesn't really offer much, while Faker finds himself in
the 2 vs 1, gets that initial pick, gets the reset on the Aria ult as well allowing
him to create some space, and then here he thinks, oh maybe I have the damage
to get the passive off, but the fourth shot from Elk is enough to shut Faker down.
A very close affair. And the thing I wanted to highlight before we went into the replay
was Bin actually moved from top into mid to push that wave underneath the tower, because
Xeus had a bit of a mini freeze. Then though, as the freeze was unbroken, Xeus was forced
to push out that wave top, and Bin could catch all of it. So you look at that CS
discrepancy that had developed in the top lane, but Bin actually fixed it by being
being able to get this big wave in mids, move up to top, then catch that wave as well, and
ultimately kind of equalizing what was a bit of a deficit at the start.
Important to put him in that beneficial position, like it's a little aggressive on the top
side.
But obviously in that previous fight, just a reminder of why our featured match that
was presented by Mercedes-Benz is the mid lane.
Faker and Nite both in a position to make so many plays for their teams, their legends
in any draft, but in the context of this draft, two huge catalysts to find kills,
setup plays on the map and right now BLG using Knight they gain a bit of control
around the grubs however Top Wave needs answering they don't quite know where
Zayas is so they don't feel confident to initially force the objective as T1
showing up in force ready to fight for this. Ideally Zayas wants to catch this
bot wave before he's in a position to TP. Binn is already making the rotation
up though so it's BLG that have purges on the objective. Binn is collapsing
very quickly I'm expecting a big fight. Binn first move is big Zayas does have
TP and he has Mininar stacked, stacked, stacked. Are they willing to commit Zaeus's TP?
Looks like they don't want to, instead they'll just say you know what, we'll
concede the grubs, we'll give Zaeus the first access off of the tower,
Bane was able to catch that wave in mid lane, but ultimately just a lot of
time spent wandering around the map, but ultimately it did pay off for BLG,
but Zaeus getting some good work done on this bot tower.
Definitely, unlikely he'll be able to grab that last plate at least on this
this way of his fake turn owner trying to defend on well placed well positioned
ulti from skarner is about to be traded here it looks like it's T1 are being
caught out by the curtain call lockup coming in from owner but he might just
have to give his life flashing out safety where's the last bullet going to go
one more shot from out will not finish the job quick kill pickup underway
from T1 on the top side the 3v3 it's T1 that come out ahead once more on
nut level six meaning he can't remove one of those T1 members from the
equation BLG don't have the damage that means the T1 find themselves
another kill, Alq with the push, has the fourth shot, looking to get that tower plate, will secure it.
As Reset starts to come through, meanwhile, Gumi-Yushi, sitting in mid, takes the mid wave,
actually rotates down towards bot to try and help secure that tower, they're gonna secure it.
Nice map movement there coming out from the T180 carry.
It's Alq spending a lot of time to push in this wave.
Yeah, Resetting makes a lot of sense.
And a bit frustrating, right? Because you just get that 4-grow buff,
you would love to be able to get some pressure down on top side.
But Faker, the rest of T1 in the area, means the play kind of fizzles.
Elk doesn't have any mana, or any biscuits, so this is a little bit-
It's time, this is crucial, because notice Zaeus, the reason why this is crucial is
Faker still has TP available to him, but notice Zaeus already back out onto the map.
He's been able to go out to base, spend that money, he can now go talk, catch that wave.
Kumiushi continues to push in mid, he can now reset, get his itemization,
and now Jin's recall is delayed, so the rest of BLG are already back out on the map
while Elk needs to commit that reset.
And this means they're in a position to contest vision, to get pressure top, to get pressure mid, and start to set up for that herald.
They do not want to give this away when BLG have hit that 4 grub threshold.
But on hovering, maybe hoping to catch Zayas out if he over commits here.
But Lingmus completed for Knight.
Will make the alt more accessible, but not necessarily the biggest damage spike.
One of them is hovering around the top side for BLG.
Way there to cover once more.
Picklebot has the TP. Not sure how he fares in the 1v1 matchup, but with a completed item, he should be alright.
Way to look to make the dive happen. Owner here as well. Bouncing from Zayas, trying to get away from the scarner, knowing that CC is lethal, and Pale is there, but the knockback is closed!
They push him away, but Zash is still holding on, it's a 3v1, and Zash is happy to take it! The power of Megan are keeping him standing!
Beautiful T1, and now here comes Keria! It looks like Faker, they're uncertain, they're trying to get him in, now they realize it's an eco.
I love your small play, because I'm like, Faker's coming, Faker's coming, it's not Faker, it's Keria!
I'll be honest, design team, I have one request, please for us make it the correct picture.
Because if that was faker, people start dying for sure. Kariya does not have the engage range.
Okay, so ultimately nothing comes off the back of that. BLG, they tried to set up a dive onto Zayas.
I loved the idea. With Knight there right behind them, I felt like that they would have enough damage.
But the arrival of Ona really kind of ruined the play, set up more than enough time for Zayas to get the Mega-Narr
and then he was able to make a Mega play to buy enough time to force BLG to then disengage.
And when you burn those resources, you don't have enough left to take the fight.
As Faker gets aggressive on the bottom side, not sure if they have enough here to make this happen.
Papillon's stolen away. T1, this is both. They already got one objective. They want to go for two.
They forced the Flash out from on.
T1 pulling incredibly far ahead.
that beautiful play on the topside has won them so much.
Binnish just now getting that wave on the topside
and Zayas here for the play and right back to top to defend.
Now Baker TPing as well.
They're nervous. They don't want to risk the dive.
I think maybe a bit over-eager from the side of T1.
But still, they get the Drake, they get the Herald,
they get the kills on topside or the play on topside.
Beautiful stuff.
So T1 walk away with the second dragon of the game.
The bot wave left completely unattended because once the TP had come through top, Faker wanting to be a homie for his top laner matched the TP
and was ready to fight ready to skirmish, had that poppy ultimate stolen away to turn it into a 2 vs 1.
Now though, because those TP's were invested from the mid laners they've said, well, we've got to catch this wave now.
So both of them stay in the top side of the map.
Knight does have a bit of an experience lead, I think largely because Faker has been moving a lot around the map.
Isaiah now makes his way towards bot lane bin with a TP advantage for now but there's not really an objective for them, for BLG I should say, to find any real advantage with.
No, four minutes on both the Baron and the Cloud Drake. T1 obviously two Drake's thus far.
The LG really not able to leverage the Grubbuff they secured earlier on.
Won't matter too much tonight taking over to level 11, but Faker not too far behind.
First items completed. Just about across the board. I imagine Ben has it once he does get the opportunity to recall,
but he has been out on the map for quite some time.
So while T1 do have a meaningful gold lead and two drakes, nothing insurmountable as Faker.
Got to be caught out here.
Hale going in, well-timed well-positioned.
Charm Paul up is there, did you know
that you've given him the chance to steal away Knight's ultimate?
Not sure about the individual cooldown.
Taking his time on this one, does he have the hijacked answer?
Is no Baker going down!
Taken out of the equation, they're great pick from BLG.
Nicely done by Knight's and Wei.
They were waiting for that flash to come through from Faker.
Only then did Knight actually commit the ultimate.
They were cautious of the fact that Faker could heal
at any point, but he's got to get in range.
And it was that that they played around very well.
I'm knockback using the clone to try to walk away here.
Wait a bit more time after shock already propped.
That's one score she popped me now.
Guma there quick to pick up the kill,
but it's Elk who's in trouble.
Zayus coming from behind as well.
Elks got nowhere to go.
One more bullet, not enough to get the kill,
but Ben and Wei are here as backup,
and it might just be curtains for T1.
Guma, the heal coming in.
Keria trying to body block as he came.
But Ben already grabbing another kill.
Keria now needs to get the hell out.
Quick flash, foreshot will not connect.
The BLG, excellent counter punch in mid.
My goodness, BLG are locked in right now.
But the response from Bin leveraging his TP advantage to be able to find that flank and come in from behind.
T1 do find that initial pick, but they get the response kill on Takuma Yoshi.
The kills are equalized, but in terms of gold, T1 still find themselves with a lead.
And there's a reason that Bin Jax is scary.
Yeah, he was put down early on. They might have had a sacrifice and objective to get him to even stay in this game.
But this is a terrifying pick in his hands. We take a look back at this play.
You can see the impact that he has.
So, again, this play starts with the top lane already died.
and we turn our attention on to On who then gets collapsed level 6 doesn't get a chance to use his ultimates
gets chain CC the ultimate comes through from carrier and then they turn their attention on to Elk
it's at this point where they were committed but they don't realize that the TP has already come through
they're trying to set up this tower dive but carrier is very low HP, Gumi usually has to ult him and then
Gumi has to flash because he knows that the counter strike is there from bin meaning that he now has nowhere left to go
Nice collapse coming through from BLG to equalize the kill score
In a difficult situation, I like the patients from T1 initially waiting out the aftershock,
waiting out the celestial opposition to make sure they can burst down on, but over-committing
a bit in terms of resources and BLG starting to tie up the gold lead again, and League
of Legends gold can be a bit misleading.
It's more about the item completions, but you can see Faker still not a second item
completed, similar story for Guma, so in the coming fights, pretty even footing
flashes however on the side of T1 down across the board, really on key members
Other than Zeus and Knight in a position where he can really take over a fight given that he has access to that flash.
Faker maybe gonna try and burn it now.
He does steal the RA ultimate.
Won't be able to get anything so far.
Just get a trade here.
Fizz out the wave.
Get Sv12.
He's about a half a level behind tonight.
Just because of that kill.
That Knight was able to find him on the top side.
Dragon's falling in 40 seconds.
Faker wants to get his reset off.
Knight should be able to push one more wave and then he can either choose to base.
maybe completely Andres or make his way down.
It's actually forcing Faker to stick around
as Zayas finally catches that bot wave,
bin back out onto the map.
Actually already grabbed himself the arm guard.
Something that maybe T1 won't be expecting in the fight.
Recall now tonight, probably second item completion.
Faker and a similar both midlaners with TP.
They do want to fight for this objective.
You can see Elk and Guma showing on midway.
If they want to try and get this one shoved in
so they can have advantage on the objective.
I want one more wave.
That might be enough to get into the Andries, but how much time is it going to cost them?
He secures it.
Faker's going to match for the time being.
He'll use TP bot lane.
Going to be matched here.
Zayas getting lower and lower.
Desperate to get the mega.
Faker gives him a bit more time to stack it up, but it might not be enough in the face of the night.
Flash is available and Charmed Flash quite easily.
Playing this one out a little bit slower.
Jack's ulti stolen for a bit of extra resources, but extra resistances.
Elk waiting off to the side.
Curtain call can come.
Recall now from Zayas.
T1 bullying.
Giving space for their top laner to recall and reset for the fight. He might need to use TP, but he'll be ready to go.
Rage already stacked. They come off isolated.
The problem is, Knight does get the Leandries, but think about how much time he spent getting it.
Because he stayed to that extra wave on top, he wasn't able to get the reset off.
He wasn't able to replenish his HP or his mana.
So once he then commits the TP bot lane to match the play from Faker, who has just gone back to base,
he's now forced to reset, allowing T1 to guarantee themselves numbers advantage,
especially given that Zaeus was just allowed to back and had the TP available.
They wisely concede the dragon.
But I guess you could argue that like a bit of a misplay there from Knights.
You understand the logic, how many won away from an item.
If I get this item I'm going to be really strong, we just have to stall.
But then that play happens on the bot side of the map,
and then it's just his cast gating series of events,
and I want you all to put themselves on the sole point.
It's a difficult position to be in.
Every choice comes with a cost, and I'll tell you that one
is going to cost them the drake, right?
Because Faker's TP does double value.
It ensures they have balling prior and ensures that they get the drake and now T1 are in soul point position
Knight has that second item all to you about to come off cooldown still has the flash
But there's not a lot to fight for right now neither side gonna be quick to start this Baron this top tower doing wonders for
Knight right now
He's having so much freedom to just keep pushing out this wave fake is hesitant to push up especially now that
That fog of war has been created on the top side of that BLG doing a good job of keeping his vision pressure up
The top side of the river fully in their control faker now going to match the wave and T1 have to respond to that pressure
They can see it this mid tower is getting very low four members strong in the mid lane. They should be able to secure this
D1 holding on as best they can
Okay wave group are really just not enough to stop the pressure coming in here from the side of BLG the threat of faker on
Side though, that's mean BLG will back off like we need one more wave been feeling more confident in the 1v1
Zayas has Flash, likely to be forced here. Flash out from Zayas. How long in the
leaf-strikes should he be able to finish the job? Ghost golden! A freeze frame, babies.
He dunks the top laner of T1. Clean solo coming in for Ben. A crucial solo kill
as BLG secured the mid lane tower as well. I mean, Ben, you already saw how well
he was doing in the 1v1 matchup, but the Jax reaching a point where the
Nodges can't deal with him anymore, and he's going to continue to be a
threat in the side lane. And you got to respect the aggressive use of Seeker,
So often just that defensive tool for team fights uses it to get the solo will get him that much closer
If he does want to finish the hourglass to have repeated access to that stasis
So much this game feels like it's going to come down to the team fight
So any edge you can find on a sideline man advantage kills gold to get those out of completions through is going to matter
The problem for T1 now is they can't cross map
PN is able to secure this bot tower completely uncontested and notices T1 is shifting that control to the top side of the map
BLG is there to match, they don't need to cross map or anything, they can actually just sit there and say T1 try and take this tower in front of us, I dare you to, because if you do, Bin is just going to continue to push in, but obviously he needs to get his reset off, does have gold to spend, but BLG now with a much firmer foot in this game, they've finally been able to equalize the gold.
We're going to need to see how well T1 can set up for objectives and find fights.
Ben completing the hourglass is big. Again, another access to Stasis.
We saw in the previous game Aurora disrupted what T1 could do.
It stopped them from leveraging so many of their team fighting strengths.
There's no Aurora this time around, but with BLG getting stronger and stronger,
they absorbed that initial blow you saw in mid lane.
If Alga's left standing, very easy for this lineup to start cleaning up on the counter engage.
I mean, if nothing else, I think it's fed to say that T1
definitely showcasing a stronger performance so far at Worlds than compared to what we saw them in the regional gold.
Yeah, absolutely.
Definitely much more of a return to form, but BLG are locked in after the upset against LNG.
You can see their adaptations that they've made, making sure that they have comfort of their own, and they're finding success with it right now.
Wei has found an angle.
Zayas in trouble once again.
Baker can TP to try and save him, but it doesn't seem like the right call.
Zayas sleeping out, knockback, B and Pale is so crucial now forcing the TP immediately forcing their response.
The man eventually decided BLG while up there to initially break the fight and pale to try to dissuade a little bit more
But now it's gonna be faker in trouble say it's getting lower been finding the initial kill goes golden once again five free
moment curtain call now coming out in the extended fight its BLG
Taking control carry ready to disengage if they need it night finding the angle BLG with a beautiful play
The algae set their sights on the bar and a massive pick up onto both solo laners as BLG is quicker to collapse
They keep their pressure on the midway the teepee comes through from being they set their sights on the bar
Pressure on owner, no pressure on Kuma. Steals enough. Will they be able to stop this play?
Keria cannot overstep. They don't have the damage to win a fight. The most they can
hope for is a steal, but it's so difficult with on. It's so difficult with the pick tools that BLG can bring to bear.
AK getting lower. T1 are here maybe just hoping for exit kills. Respawn from Zayac, he does have a TP, he will use it.
5k getting lower, off on the side is the poppy, on
all T15 second cooldown, looking to lock up Alph, where's the fall open to go, carry trying to just wait,
Guma not back to the wall of the platform, going to try to finish on the first hit, and carry, now he's on the hunt for night, Guma!
The counter strike is there, but it's been versus all of T1 baby, and that is not...
In the 4 versus 5, T1 are able to turn the fight around.
Incredible target selection from Oda to set up for the team to shut down the bot lane way has an angle to steal
Clone will spot him
5k is he willing to give his life it'll put the behind on the soul. He can't afford to die here
Say is now chasing Baron gonna fall carry getting lower
T1 securing the first Baron of the game cementing the lead
soul point as well if BLG cannot take this Drake they're gonna be in dire
straights. But look at the target selection you can see how T1 is kind of
funneled into the blue buff area of BLG's jungle that then gives them avenue
onto Knight and Elk. Knight doesn't have the ultimate available, Guma
smartly flashes in to lock them down alongside Oda and then with the
backline gone it's really all up to Bin to be able to clean up the fight
he does what he can but at this point they're at a numbers disadvantage
And while he does take down Guma, Zayas is able to find a double.
And this was all while Faker wasn't even there.
Excellent teamfight from T1, gets him the Baron, and just like that, they flip the game once more.
And you see frustration in my face, Velcro, and when you're Jhin in that situation, it's so hard to do anything.
You need space to work, you need space in the teamfights.
T1 now setting up for sole point.
BLG happy to keep them here. The longer they keep T1 interested, even if they don't start the objective,
The more of the Baron buff they are burning.
But it looks like it might just be the flip.
Remember, you carry off on the side.
Knockback from on will be big, trying to zone out.
It's the jungler on the picture, they instantly get the objective, can't take the fight.
Vaker now locked up, he's not even going to have the chance to use the poppy ult,
and he's so graciously stole.
Finally, we'll get it back, trying to burn it through, at least on, carry off on the side.
A massive ulti, but now Alka's ready to open up, the curtain's called.
One shot, two, help bar's too high for him to do anything yet.
They have to retreat, they have to get out of the lockup, and the carry is good.
They're trying to take down Guma.
Guma locked up for a repel up at Zaeus, is there a body block out?
Shuff's fast enough to get away, but there's too much!
See, see, now it is night!
Can't he make the difference? Last dash used, way likely to fall here.
The chase down from owner and Zaeus, top and jungle together, salvaging the fight.
Flash forward from Zaeus, they're not done!
They want more!
Oh, trying to body block. Night with the red buff.
How many cooldowns do you got left?
Owner locked up on running, splitting their attention, but he will fall!
The Soul is denied from T1, but it's a massive teamfight win once more.
These teamfights are absolutely crazy. They're an absolute nail-biter.
As we turn our attention once more on with a huge ulti onto the jungle top combo,
Faker then goes in. The chain CC is ruthless, but even then he gets to the poppy ultimate,
he knocks him up, he gets on incredibly low, and BLG are turning their attention onto him.
But on the cross-smap, on the other side of the fight, I should say, Binh gets locked down.
He, just like Faker, doesn't really get an opportunity to impact the fight that much.
Keria gets incredibly low.
Guma gets CC'd, which means that Keria then drops.
Knight sees an angle to shut down Guma-Yushi.
But then again, it's that top jungle combo to clean up the fight.
They're not focused down.
Their consistent damage is enough.
I think Wei even messed up going through the wall at the very end there.
And the frustrating, such a close fight overall.
Almost enough damage to kill Vhager before he can get that poppy ult.
That extra burst, and you can see Naeva.
He's so damn powerful on those extended plays.
But eventually he just runs out of resources.
He only has so many dashes if you're not
going to be able to find the kill.
I mean, he needs his dive buddy to have been there with him.
And Ben was just shut out.
He tried to make the TP flank happen.
But Zeus would not give him the space.
Wow, crazy game.
I really think a lot of credit needs
to be given to Ona this game.
His target selection has been on point in these fights.
2, 1, and 8 scoreline.
He's been involved to 10 of the team's 12 kills.
And you can see how close all of these fights are.
I feel like BLG just had a little bit more
upfront burst damage.
Wei playing teamfights well, locking up Guma for moments,
consistently forcing his cleanse out early.
They have so much CC, but again, the damage
not quite enough.
So much sustain coming in from the Callista now.
Armor as well.
Bona on track to securing the GA.
Oh, he actually just got it.
GA, Faker's now got Cosmic.
It's gonna be impossible to get away from him.
But it's really important to understand the,
Like T1 is the LCK4T and they're that for a reason, right?
For them to get a win here, even though it's just the best of one,
in the context of the World Championship,
when BLG have considered tournament favorites
alongside that of Gen G and HLE,
for them to get a win here would be massive
in terms of upsets.
I mean, to be in the 1-2 bracket
for either of these organizations,
whether it's current expectations
or all-time expectations,
it would have been unthinkable coming into this tournament
sort of a truly disastrous draw for T1, which has not been the case.
And I think so many T1 fans are happy to see this team reignited.
Playing a lot that they're expected to play at, obviously as an organization and for these players,
World Championship is where you often see them turn on.
But normally it's that man in the mid lane who is struggling to have impact in this game.
But tonight continues to flourish on his RE, but the rest of his team is stepping up
to help provide him the space to still be a threat in these fights.
Definitely. And again, I really, across the board T1 doing great in these fights.
Credit to Zayas as well, who died in the solo, excuse me, the solo bar play has been found in solo kill,
but has now rebuilt that gold lead in a decent position.
Now, BLG not out of this game just yet.
At all, no.
Ben now completed his third major item.
Gonna have a lot more damage off the back of that wit's end.
He's gonna be that much more of a threat on the side lane,
but really I feel like this game is gonna come down to the team fights.
Bounds morning in 45 seconds.
The dragon in about a minute.
three items fully completed for Knight. The death count as well is so much damage for this Ari.
Knight's target focus is going to be crucial. A single charm on Togumi Ushi could be the game
changer that BLG need. Luckily for him he has the cleanse. It might not be enough,
given the sheer amount of CC, the potential follow-up from Elk. We saw the bot side play,
where BLG were able to set up fine picks, leverage the range advantage they can have
with the Ori dash and in charms with the Jin curtain call. But in the straight 5v5s,
There's been T1 coming out on top.
Maybe BLG can continue to find those pecs.
You highlighted it.
Knight has to be the center of attention here, with Deathcap completed.
He needs to be doing the damage, needs to be setting up the plays.
It's a big burden to put on a single player in a game, but he has the tools to do so.
Take a second.
Obviously both teams have just been farming for the last few minutes.
For five seconds, the dragon will be alive.
It says that it enters the river first.
Clearing out the control ward.
Hot wave.
Hot.
The mid wave is also being contested right now.
quickly makes his way over on maybe looking for a flank but will be spotted out on the control ward has to be careful
I like what being to and keep the pressure on bot lane
Keep that push in give you a nice angle to potentially create a flank faker now joins the squad
The best presence down initial route on the way is big and pale not anybody way forced to flash out knock back
It's good for my back to the wall as well
But they are now getting involved in the fight. No, this is best present up just in time
It on the backside trying to finish off over but I don't think he's strong enough can go golden G a bird
But where's the rest of the damage? Where's the rest of the follow-up? It does not matter!
T1 are just stronger in the 5v5!
BLG, it looked like they were going to turn and fight a great poppy ultimate counter from on.
But once Ben at TB didn't, he was committed to the fight!
He had to go in.
If you think the knight goes in, but no!
Oner secures it! Cloud sold to T1!
I set on the Baron as well!
I mean, there's no reason not to.
T1 must feel so strong right now.
Ari's just used the ultimate.
Oner, on cooldown, but it's going to be up relatively soon.
and they still have Faker and Teysas ulti ready to go.
And observers beautifully highlighting, they're going in blind.
They'll just now see the health bar.
Faker off on the side looking to lock up out, forcing the flash.
Burnabout flash, forward from Karrion.
The lock up is there, Oaks got no room left to go, they don't quite get tonight.
Knight now versus the World, but there is Faker to finish the job alongside Teysa.
Key one dominating in this mid to late game.
The turn was so fast.
BLG didn't see it coming.
Faker came from one flank to then force the flash out from Elk, but the moment it was gone,
Carrier struck the team fighting from T1 coming online today, and they're now looking to break the base.
T1 at Worlds just continue to impress a team that seems to never disappoint,
once again finding a way to topple the LPL champion. It's not done yet.
BLG have an angle for a fight on has ultimate in 10 seconds
Right in pale. Ben in the midst of three, but is it going to be enough?
He just cannot finish the kills on now getting knocked back to gnor. It's there and T1 will not-
Incredible game with some fantastic team fights
Today will not be the day that T1's record is blemished
One lost to their name and they will not concede another
Incredible
And that's just the best of one.
All right, AD, just we had a great time with it.
What are you about to say about that?
But I have to say that I wish it was a series.
That we don't have more games of this.
I mean, we might if BLG can now make it through the lower
bracket, they're a 1 and 2 team.
T1 at Worlds is just a different piece entirely.
It's not the same as what's in the LCK.
Oh my god.
Even just saying that one more time, just the fact
that BLG are 1 and 2 and are fighting for their lives.
No one would have expected this at all.
And we've talked about what had been going wrong for T1 in the first games that they had in BLG as well,
and I feel like while T1 corrected their mistakes especially in the early game,
BLG keep on making the same mistakes.
Yeah, the early game from T1 was so good.
Even if you're just looking at and focusing on in the swap, specifically Xeus.
Yeah, two plates top lane, shared three plates, but gets both plates, two plates solo bot lane, including first turret gold.
He is rich as hell, based off of the assignments that they gave him.
And there was one time where like, Jax was roaming up for Grubbs early, he was like,
free plates for me, Kalista also pushed mid just to help him out.
So it was like, it was a team focus on getting gold on him.
And look at the acceleration once they did have the lead.
There was that mild moment before there was a really crucial Baron fight that they clutched up.
But I just, Zeus's gnar for me, as well as Guma's Kalista, were such standouts in this game.
Well, let's check out Gruma's Calista actually in the HyperX Reflex replay that we have because Raz, it came down to really, really small timing, turning the whole fight.
Yeah, because BLG is the team that made the winning fight bot side, cross-matched it to Baron, and T1 without Silas, without Faker, says that they can take the fight.
And so they specifically owner, ultied in to try and get out and just track Gumi-Yoshi here.
Because Poffy stuns him but he cleanse flashes instantly to follow up and get the kill on both Jin and Nite.
So like for him to be able to immediately follow up and get those kills, one man down on a winning play from BLG, crazy to see it.
Incredible, and we actually have Gumi-Yoshi on stage for the Verizon post-game interview with Shox and let's hear what he has to say.
And gets another win, and I've got Gumiushi here with me together with Jisun to talk about it.
And I've got to ask Gumiushi last year, the journey of T1 at Worlds was all about beating the LPL,
and now you already took down their first seed. Will we see a similar story this year?
I think our performance is pretty good. We are ready to become the best of the world one more time.
Now when it came to your run also last year, a lot was about dictating the meta, especially from the bot lane.
Do you feel like you have the same possibilities now, and are you ready to surprise some people?
And when you look back at the last year's victory, T1 really kicked off the meta and went home, especially bot lane meta.
Do you think this year has a chance like this? Are there any strategies that will surprise you this year?
This year, I think the bot lane is a bit of a risk-free meta, so our bot lane has a lot of champs, so I think we can prepare a lot of interesting cards that you guys will like.
This year's World's Madness opens up so much space for the bot lane champion pool
and us our bottom deal has a champion ocean so please stay tuned for our
creativity. We will. Now when it comes to T1 as a whole you are coming in as the
fourth seed and I know maybe this season wasn't exactly the way you would
have imagined it. What are the things you feel as a team you should improve on
on top of the things you've already shown that you know very well in
in order to make sure that you make it to the knockout round.
If we keep going like this, we'll be able to reach the logout stage.
He wants to chase, wait ready to go over the wall, T1's turning him off, Faker goes in again anyway, flash with the charm, it's perfect, the pop on the Q2, coming through.
They're feeling more confident in the 1v1, they assess flash, likely to be forced here, flash up and chance, how long in the lead strikes should be able to finish the charm.
Here again in EU I have to say, and congratulations on how Worlds has been going so far.
It was a bit of a mixed bag I guess, but you're in the one-on-one pool, so you have a lot of matches ahead of you possibly.
And I want to ask from your coach's perspective, what do you feel like are the things that went well and that didn't go as well in those two games?
Yeah, so against DK we just
We got a little too excited I think on stage and I
Also think they're a bit of a tougher opponent to like draft the Jens. They have more depth
So they they like, you know picked the silos later on as not something we're used to
I'm like showmaker. He has like an X-factor with Sylas in a good game
But I still thought we have like a pretty good situation early on
But we kind of just I know we kind of just dropped the ball. It was too much happening and we couldn't really keep up
So they were just better. Yeah, okay. We've always commenting that he thought in game
He didn't think the synergy was completely on point or the communication. Is that in line with what you think as well?
Yeah, I mean, it's twofold for me. I think we made some mistakes
we could have helped each other more in the game and communicated more clearly.
So either way, it could have probably fixed our problems if we were a bit more aware or if we
communicated a bit more together. Okay, talk to me about this matchup versus PSG, which is
obviously a revenge matchup. One thing that you absolutely want to win for that side of things,
but PSG really has been ramping up. They look different than they did in the planes.
Can you talk to me about this matchup and how are you going to make sure that it goes
different than the last time? Yeah so it's obviously a super important match for us because we got a
kind of a good draw in the PSG and if you want to make it out we should really win this game.
From where we stand like they're pretty good, they're pretty standard team and
yeah we obviously lost to them at MSI but we're also a lot stronger now so yeah I mean
obviously I'm a little bit nervous about match this is like super important game and you
We have some strategies we're going to use, and just hoping it's going to work, so yeah.
Okay, good luck.
Thank you.
NukeDoc has been great also to hear him back in Europe, and I love that he says that it's a good draw versus PSG,
because looking at the graphic that we have just here, the West has something to settle against PSG.
He may say 7 and 7, but even if you're saying round 1, this is the round that kicked us out.
So this one's a little bit sadder, and then of course this one's more recent.
This one burns more we can probably cover for this one true and they knocked mad down in the bracket
But to me like there's one clear memory
Yeah, that needs to be different for fly quest in this PSG game and it happened a little bit yesterday as well against different team
I want to pull this up right now, and it's when whip one inspired get a little too carried away
Trying to make their own play. So this was an MSI memory. This was the second game as they're getting eliminated
Wipo inspired on Renekton Viego. Just lose their minds chasing this rumble for like 15 seconds.
It leads to a Maple double kill and then Maple ended up being a little bit too fed on the A-Soul.
And then in terms of overforcing, this was their game against DK when Showmaker got fed on the Silas.
They just again really hard forced this dive onto Silas. He makes them dizzy.
And this guy, this is not necessary to flame Wippo.
He always goes for it, right?
But when he's able to play with the right amount of patience
and as he talked about when they won the LCS Championship,
be confident that he's enough
that just playing normally is enough.
That's when I think they're at their best.
Exactly, we've seen it in the LCS
when they're on the same page there.
The best team fighting team can make it happen.
So they're gonna go up against PSG.
This is the revenge tour.
Way back from MSI, they wanna get it done.
And they're gonna have a lot of things to prove, and they wanna go and get that revenge against PSG here.
Let's see what FlyQuest can do.
How's Requesters? Back to you guys.
Thank you so much, Lore.
I feel Big Stakes not just for FlyQuest, but I guess for all of the West, given that it's 7-7, as was so wonderfully highlighted.
PSG are scary.
What?
PSG are scary.
Yeah, it's like LCK, LPL, and then PSG, LEC, and LCS.
PCS is all, maybe needs a bit more time, but this PSG lineup can never be underestimated.
Something obviously the FlyQuest are very keenly aware of.
And we'll have to see what their strategy is, what their approach is.
PSG notoriously more by the book meta team, FlyQuest team that's not afraid to collect some of their chant pools to try and find an advantage.
The crucial thing is, as Nukeduck mentioned in the interview, is that FlyQuest is a different team.
thought they were at MSI and the introduction of Quad has significantly changed the approach
of the team, the flexibility we have in the mid lane as well and ultimately the draft will
always begin with a single question, are you going to ban you on it PSG because we know
you play it.
I lived in a brief existence in that previous game, it was 30 minutes of bliss as that champion
disappeared.
And it's crazy because as we said we love watching the champ, right? Super exciting
champion to watch.
It just kind of invalidates the laning phase sometimes when it's always able
to come. But anyway we're gonna be jumping into the draft. So what will the priorities be? So far on
the red side we've seen Aurora be a consistent ban, wouldn't be surprised to see Aja get that Rumble
ban. We know how confident he is on the champion if it's into that. And what about the Sejuani's
will they raise in priority at all? Well as we enter a champion select powered by Omen and HyperX
Betty you hit the nail on the head. Not gonna give Aja those comfort picks. Obviously PSG
sometimes this is a portion of their gameplay that people criticize they play a lot towards
topside maybe doesn't always make sense but the rumble certainly has been
terrifying hands of our guy who insisted on playing in plans we were initially
skeptical but it has been proven correct he had the right read on the meta
champion looking incredibly powerful overall as the Aurora is also gonna hit
the bench Orianna that's telling taken away the fact that Flyquas ban Aurora on
the blue side because the fact that PSG ban Ori you know it's like we don't
need to have that happen there's the only alongside of it which I'm
I'm imagining as well as continues this is the trend that will continue to see you on red side
But the Aurora should usually be the third down on the red side
But like we're saying we don't want to pick it or we don't play it
Maybe they don't have the flexibility of being able to play it both top and interesting because it's it puts on a difficult position
Where very often we see champions like ash or a sejuani either a jungler an 8 prime ad taken off the board
And they really can't do that instead
We're really seeing triple bands essentially for toppling
They really targeted Aja in this draft, and they want to set up with a success.
Of course, he is going to have to blind pick something.
You imagine Cassante immediately rises in priority as their blind pickable top laner,
but perhaps Renacted, something that he dominated domestically on and was something that in the LCS,
you have to respect or fear suffering on the top side of the map.
Callista going to be the final band directed towards Marsu, who's honestly had a pretty solid tournament so far.
His positioning in the fights has been pretty good.
We'll see if he can maintain that performance today with so many first picks.
Will it be something like the Vi and Spide has showcased a wealth of different champions throughout his career, both in the UNA and in A?
So it looks like, as Renekton is locked, okay, Vans set up to try to ensure that Bobo is in a position where he can safely blind-pick top.
Kind of willing to more or less fall on the sword for the team there, give a bit more time, give a bit more information, as they didn't have another high-priority blind-pick.
What? Will PSG reveal? Because the thing you highlight obviously inspired an incredibly
deep champion pool, but a lot of times it's going to be kind of contingent on what the
enemy is going to pick. See if he has any options to divide it. Feel good? Or if we'll end
up in kind of a more conventional jungle matchup with something like the Cedwani.
Oh, the throwback there.
And Maple is here iconic for a long time in the context of PSG.
Yeah, we have seen minns be very high priority in the draft. We already saw the lock-in from night earlier
We're gonna see it from Maple as well. Okay, so that Vi Ari make jungle combo is a tried and true one
We've seen it for many years just because they both set up each other land a charm
You get the Q connect or whatever usually it's the Vi to initiate
We then allows the Ari to follow up and because of the mobility of the two champions
they just synergize very effectively they do and
And additionally, we saw in the previous game, Ari very good on her own, but when she has that additional fall, it makes it so much easier if you do want to play more for picks in the mid game.
But, it's inspired going to opt for the Ivern, or missing here, you have the Melee Bruiser, one of the two kinds of champions that really loves to have the Ivern now.
The scaling hypercarry is usually the other missing component to make sure the Ivern can be effective.
Typically, I would expect a Syndra, but I don't like Syndra here.
Casio and Stam.
Yes, the other kind of go-to for quads.
And that is a scaling carry. I was expecting something more in the AD department, but certainly can bring a lot to bear.
They wanted AP, right? And you also need something that can kind of work with an Ivern, but at the same time you're playing into a Vi, RE, so you need something relatively safe.
My asthma, great against dashes. Of course, its placement is crucial.
But yeah, it's a champion that Quad is very comfortable on, something that he is well known for domestically,
and I think just provides that scaling like Game Avenue. Very good in the front to back especially.
Definitely, and you're in a situation now where Fly, if you can weather the storm of a combo like Anar, the Ari, and the Vi,
your turn is so good. The Ivern shielding, if you can keep people healthy, Katz, you merely turn, she has so much sustain,
the potential run target's down. Of course, absorbing that initial gauge is always tricky,
tricky. PSG gonna do what they can to take away any more kind of safe back line
options. Ash and Cassie together would make it essentially unplayable for any
melee champion that is finds themselves dashless.
The Heddy-Tarry ban is coming through with the Ash. Those are the two
champions of Moscos plates of all, the Clista and the Ash. So we'll need to
show us something new. Of course, for Betty in the bottom lane, the Kaisa has
been the go-to and it does work very well with what PSG have put together
as far. Excuse me, I was thinking whether a Barras is kind of where my gut is going.
Yeah, but it depends, like, I like Ezreal and Divyari just because you have that extra
bit of mobility. Don't think Ezreal plus Ivan is a great combo.
No, I mean it's a little bit awkward, obviously we saw a little bit of Lothality Barras.
Sire's a good ban, I like Sire a lot. I think Sire would have been actually a great
pick for Flycrest, so I like that ban coming through for PSG. When you have this
as much dive and backline threat, the ability to self-peal the size of what it brings.
I've got a beam Kaisa man for Betty.
Obviously it doesn't leave you with the strongest 2v2 depending on the bond.
Instead, they're going to take away the Recon.
So seeing the potential of more or less the Wombo comp or the picks that PSG can bring to Baron,
saying we don't want to give you any more reliable, kind of instant engage tools.
And this is the other option, right?
When you have a comp that wants picks and dive, you can do the Kaisa,
I'm in or the gen who will stay in arms length away gen has not been a very successful champion in the context of worlds pretty low win
Rate overall, but has had one or two incredibly standout games in the hands of Jackie love of course against T1
That was how they found their first one
Kaisa's gonna be locked in okay
My only concern with kaisa is that I don't think you have like the best dive buddy used to work with right now
I feel like flight quest is drafted a little bit more of a front to back with the kaisa was really good
with the Auri in the back, it's less appealing with the Ivern renecing, although it can still
work of course.
Leona I think is fine, Rael can be a little trickier when there's so much mobility on
the other side to set up that kind of one-bow combo, especially if you do connect the Rael
ultimate and then Auri can just kind of dash out of it, it can be a little bit awkward,
so having a hard CC makes sense, provides a little bit more, especially follow up
one pair up with the Ivern too.
The Rael though on the side of PSG makes a lot of sense, just really facilitating
the dive.
expectations were that the AD carries were going to be swapped in this draft, but either
way, going to go with the Jhin, having a little bit more range on the side of PSG, the pick
potential definitely can follow up pretty effectively, but a lot of PSG draft is going to be revolved
around their mid-jungle duo. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw a swap come out from
FlyQuest to not only get the Renekton out of the Narmatch up, but also to then
help the Kaiser weather the storm at the first few early levels. Ultimately though,
There's some amount of scaling on the side of the fly quest, a lot off the back off of
this Casio, who I think is going to be one of the main damage threats obviously.
The one thing that's really interesting, Baron, sneaks, Ivan, Casio, something you have to
be really cautious about in the mid to late game, just because of how quickly she can
take that objective.
She does need the blue, but once she's got it, that objective is easy pickings.
It's a good call because Kaisa, also two items, right, is going to strut the
objective.
And it's something we don't see a lot in the context of compositions at Worlds,
There are very few champions that give you that Baron Shred capability.
So I haven't seen a lot of the cheeky 20 minute Baron steals, thus far perhaps this game will
be a little bit different as we get ready, Fly vs PSG.
That's a Yumi with a gun.
That was my favorite piece of art I've seen on broadcast so far, well done.
Whoever you are in the audience.
So who wins?
It's Yumi on Jin.
That's the idea.
No, no, no.
with a gun. That's the question I'm wondering. Just saying. I don't want to ask that. We could
fix the balance, balance team. Give her a gun. We might have solved the Yone problem.
That's all I'm saying. Regardless, we're getting the game now. Of course, remember that while
this is 1-1, this is not an elimination game for either team. There's still a lot on
the line in terms of pride. Fly were crushed when they had to leave MSI early as PSG
kind of dismantled them. For those of you at home, while I'm going to wax on
about narrative, remember to log into your Riot account on lollysports.com and watch
world's live turn exclusive worlds emotes icons and capsules get that stuff
get the stuff you're here anyway just get the stuff also you can check in on how
your pickups are doing yeah mine are not good if you're a Hexac enthusiast
you'll be happy if you're a Yone enthusiast in terms of highest presence
you will be happy true I think I picked Nocturne as my highest win rates which
to be honest was going pretty well that wasn't until Yone started winning that
It sounds like a meme, but it has worked out.
Yeah, it's 85% right now.
It's like three in one right now.
So it needs one more game.
And if it wins, then it's the Nocturne.
No one's ever getting Yone again.
So you have a chance.
You just need really good Nocturne to play Nocturne.
Yeah, but I honestly need really bad Yone to play Yone.
That's awesome.
All I'll say is we might have had a few of those moments,
and it might not have.
Regardless, keeping track of how the lane assignments are
shaping up, you've got the duo on the top side
of the map.
So Flycluss will be initiating the lane swap.
Of course with the Ivern in the jungle, a lot of free time, 4 inspired once he finishes that initial clear, the first clear through.
See if he wants to leverage that to go for a dive here.
But Masu...
Not too concerned about how much damage Betty's gonna do to the tower, so they shouldn't drop too much.
Typically we see a split map here, Druncos.
But, Inspired has started on his raid.
And, I think he's relying on the fact that his clear speed will be fast enough that he should be able to secure this.
So, the Lenswap is already in an interesting spot, because normally the split map means that the jungler is in a position to threaten the dive on bot lane.
I mean, Ginger can still be there, but he's not going to have any camps to take, which means that as he's threatening that potential dive,
well, he's going to be losing his whole topside, which means that Bwipo actually feels safe enough to come bot already because the risk of the dive is lower.
and look at the positioning of Inspired, he is only level 2, but he's been able to clear out his bot side camps
and he's in a position to potentially defend in the event of a dive.
Getting a little bit more support to Wipo, obviously yesterday was a bit of a disaster
while Wipo fell behind even really before the lane started, received no support
and I think it did really hurt when you have this TP list Darius
so a bit more support coming from Inspired this time and still can, just move up to the top side
The beauty of the Ivern, of course, just instantly delete those camps and be on even pace with Jhinja,
despite the fact that he spent a bit of time on the bottom side just in case to cover.
Yeah, I mean, that's the beauty of Ivern, right? Light out.
You spend so much time after your full clear, just kind of wandering around anyway.
Committing some time on the bottom side is not that big of a deal.
They're seeing some of the challenges that Ari can run into,
whenever she wants to approach the wave, Casio can just kind of harass her.
Yeah, and there's very little that the Ari can do to trade back.
Meanwhile, Bwipo hitting lvl 4 on the bot side of the map.
Definitely a unique iteration to the lane swap because so far we've seen this solved approach where the people get lvl 2 and then the potential dive and it's like this sequence of events that happens.
But just the introduction of Ivern to the situation really changes things up.
Also one trend we've seen with Kaisa specifically is people are really comfortable leaving Kaisa in the 1v1 versus the majority of top laners in the meta.
Although hold that thought is flip-o caught up in a bit of CC here. No ignite for what he's burning down on flip-o. Excuse me
He's gonna die first blood
I mean he just misplays. I see the idea that he's trying to go for that
He's in cues that the melee minions ease back out again, but he gets Jane CC'd
I wasn't sure if he got stunned first or if the Jin W hit him
But there are three pieces of CC in this lane. There's the rel dismount
There's the rel Q and there's the Jin W and all three of them hit him
Which meant that he was CC'd long enough to allow them to get the kill. He even expends the flash.
The flash I think is ultimately the awkward portion.
Of course, playing pretty aggressive to make sure that he can get the XP.
Again, in the context of a lane swap, if you get minions, if you get money, that's okay.
But as long as you're getting XP, you're generally in a fine state.
Giving more money over to Betty is going to hurt though.
Early Swifties, faster on the rotation, getting the top faster now.
And it looks like it's going to be the match 2v2 here, where Betty arguably stronger in terms of itemization.
Yes, less combat stats but Swifties are so nice for Jin in terms of trading.
Well, I will say is even though
Bwipo dies.
When you look at the actual top lane circumstances,
Archer lost a lot of XP because he was being zoned away by the wave, whereas PSG's bot lane continued to push in,
allowing Bwipo to soak up a lot of XP. On top of that,
the top wave was pushing, meaning that Master and Booster can catch that wave, and Bwipo was able to TP in on the stacked wave bot.
So in terms of XB, like look at how far ahead Buipo is right now, two full levels, Archer is about to take over to level 4,
but Buipo is going to be level 6.
And that's terrifying for the gnar.
Cans continue to harass in mini gnar form.
Once 6 comes through dives get very easy, even without honestly inspired in the area.
Archer going to have to play very conservatively, very respectfully for the next few levels.
This is Betty caught out a bit there, but will side step the void seeker crucially stop that plasma proc
Right now very good pace early on for fly plus the gold is close
You can obviously see that some of the lead the fly plus do have an individual lanes is coming from quad keeping that pressure up
In the mid lane does recall and get a tier so good pace thus far despite the
Kind of questionable early death from whip up
It's the other good news you could argue is that the first blood went over to rel which is pretty much where the gold
It is sitting right now
Inspired with his bot lane
Let's start this objective Casio is underneath the tower for the time being I
Set up with the brush wall. It's a great this fog of war
Good use of the Ivern utility mid lane was in an even state top lane now even but there'll just be a little bit too late to the objective
Response coming in from Junja now, but he's a little bit late on starting the objective here
So fire will have a bit of an advantage in terms of map pressure
I just noticed that Casio actually has half a level on Naples as well, we didn't get to see what happened in the mid-lane matchup
but Quad must have had like a nice trade or done something to force Naples back
so they actually lost the wave and now look he's actually two waves up in terms of CS and
he's half a level so Quad playing the 1v1 very well in the early laning phase.
Kind of as expected for Casio right, notorious for especially level 2 onward.
She hits you with a Q. She's willing to burn through her entire mana pool and if you stick around for that
You're gonna die so maple while he has a really good set up with what he's here when ginger is here
And I still had one be one it is a tricky matchup to play out. Yeah, I mean
Casio is that champion that only Casio players can really play but whoa, whoa, you're going in but he's under the tower
It's a little bit awkward here charm now going in what he immediately gonna fall but night-ticking on maple
It does not do too much twin fang there
Quadthrending enough to stop them from killing a support at the very least Lucio was so close to being underneath the
Tower from that charm if he had been and then the CC had come through from Woody
That likely would have killed it. Two tower shots definitely would have connected it.
Jon away inspired in the area as well. Maple immediately kicked his fight off.
Kennedy to cast the out of the equation. Petrifying. Gaze is clean from Quad.
But it's not enough Maple. Quick to move back in with the dash.
Finds the reset as well. And now boosters and troublesheels coming in.
Dending blows from Junja. Buys enough time to find the second kill.
It's a double kill for Maple, but FlyQuest are able to respond.
And a crazy glance from Junja. Q's in. Connects the ultimate as well.
Well, but Quad was able to find a magnificent ulti, just didn't quite have the damage needed
to turn the kills in his favor.
Overall, a 2 for 2.
Credit to Quad for getting me ulti off, I don't think that is quite as favorable, but you
can see the aggressive look here from Junjo, and this is a team that's played together
for so long, excellently coordinated.
Keep track as well of Buseo, flashes onto Maple, locks him down as much as he can,
but the Q has already come through, so the damage is there, changes the under Quad,
flashes out, gets a nice ulti off, but then Maple has extra charges of his
ultimate to be able to finish that one off. Buccio secures a kill and crucially in this
2v2, Maple got 2, Quad got 0, right? Making the lane matchup that much easier. Merck treads
alongside the lost chapter secured for Maple makes the matchup so much easier.
And this is every single champion except for Kaisa is giving you Merck treads value in
terms of that tenacity right now. This is a fantastic early purchase to have. Getting
that extra gold is going to make this matchup so much easier. On top of the additional
Boots 2 movement speed, Cassiope is going to be lagging behind for the vast majority in terms of that MS overall.
But well played, well punished, ultimately just the distribution of gold that really makes it so favorable as you highlighted it now.
And when it comes to the overall gold, it's within touching distance. It's not that significant.
But the three grubs for FlyQuest does mean we need to keep our eye on this grub spawn.
Where both teams are kind of going to open up onto the map. Where are these laners going to go? How are they going to assign?
Crucially, Wippo still holds pretty much a full level over his lane counterpart.
Junglers are even.
Thanks to the double kill, Maple has been able to close the XP gap, still finds himself
a little bit down and farm, but the ultimate goal is in his favor.
Dragon is still available.
PSG weren't able to find that cross map when the Grubs are dropping.
Now with the Grubs respawning soon, Wippo will have his TP available.
We're cresting the 10-minute mark as well, which is happening right.
Now, which will unleash those TP's and mean that Wipo will be poised and ready to fight
in the event that Grubb start and Aja won't have that same response.
And this is going to be a really tough fight if PSG do want to contest 2nd Grubb's.
But Wip, Farlane already going in with Wipo getting aggressive here, looks like the dragon
might be the play instead.
Aja now backing up, Jirja on the way in, Wipo, baiting where he wants to go.
Masu, ulti ready, can get involved in this fight if he needs to.
Wallop is good, some initial damage, Void Seeker there.
Flash out from Junja, so all it starts to play from the side of FlyQuest, really take control of the bottom side of the map.
I'm kind of surprised to see the FlyQuest bottom lane rotate here with the grub spawning, but they've set their sights on the dragon, it looks like Charm can answer.
Excellent room for Betty, curtain call there now too.
Redemption there, is it enough? Quad now healing up, nice sidestep, blinking health bar nowhere left to go, Petch my gaze, does nothing, good patience from the side of PSG.
I mean they really used their range to perfection right there, nicely done from Maple and Betty.
Claude couldn't hit anyone!
Yeah, this is the problem, right?
It's like Cascio is one of these more close-range mages.
If you can keep her at arm's reach, very hard for her to get involved.
She doesn't have the Noxious Blast. She doesn't have that movement speed.
And opens up the grubs as well for PSG.
Bit disastrous because if you looked at the items fight, Static was completed for Masu.
You had Redemption coming in for a spike. He's forced to use that mid,
and now a lot of the strength that they should have had in this fight no longer there.
Didn't get the dragon either. Didn't really get much bought.
So played for the kill, played for that gold.
gold but luckily for them powerful enough Cryo on their even lanes at top and
mid means that they can just walk in and take this get the 4 grub spike that
could have been much worse credit the fly for getting back out on the map
fast enough to stop the 3 for 3 grub trade yeah because after quad dies fly
no longer felt confident enough to be able to contest the dragon on top of that
there was a huge wave in mid that quad ended up losing off the back of that
extending the gold aid even more in favour of Maple.
And yeah, I mean PSG, the idea was good to start off the Grubs.
The problem is you've just used two ulti's and you made an AD carry.
And on top of that, Gwipo's just TP top lane and Aja doesn't have TP available.
So it's a difficult objective for you to continue to fight for,
which means that Flycrust find themselves with five Grubs,
which is a great place to be in as Gwipo gets himself another blight.
Gonna get two here.
Aja has no support.
So Gwipo, I'm not sure how much information he has,
but isn't going to risk over-committing or taking too bad of a trade.
Of course, when the Coal completes, Aja will get a bit of a golden injection,
will even up this lane to a certain degree.
But...
Now that both teams have their 1-iom spikes, this would have been a time
where PSG maybe could have found a fight on better terms,
but the Grubs, sadly, are already gone.
Drake is still on the table, but we're a minute and a half away from Herald's spot.
It's like PSG are going to start this one off, and FlyQuest are happy to concede it.
Bousio continues to hover around bot lane.
Maybe they can catch Maple off guards.
It's very respectful though.
Pengs are coming down from both sides.
And this is where the Merchant value is insane, right?
Lyanna goes from feeling unstoppable to manageable
when you have that.
So it's all about this miasma.
They can Lair to CC if they can find the setup.
I've announced to them you've got two members
waiting in the brush, ready to make the play happen.
Wippo and Aja trading on the top side.
Wippo still sustaining that lane prior.
It's inspired likely to lose the red buff here.
Collapse coming in.
Don't think you want this fight. They don't really have good information word of the wall show them how many members of PSG are in the area
This you're not gonna stick around they don't want to take the risk waves aren't really in a good spot
They dying here could lose a turret
Supports to cleanse
Jinx jinx for perfect singing of course the cleanses because of Betty the cleanses because he has no idea where the rest of PSG
I mean, it's just it's one of those things where
And solo queue maybe you don't cleanse that right because you're just like
Just do it you won't yeah, and bro you're like bro you're like I'm cleansing not
Either not have cleanse or I can be dead and embarrassed for not having cleansed. Yeah, right? So exactly make sense
Yep, yep, yep. I mean it's just in all honesty. It's a good perspective to have you know
Just burn the flash better to live and not have a flash then to die and have it up as you're already said
Same principle.
So awkward.
Either way, we kind of take stock of the situation.
The gold advantages that PSG find themselves with
are on mid and AD carry.
Betty has been
picking up plates, finds himself a kill.
Maple also securing that double
early on, means that they put themselves
in a very good position.
Mastercard lane economy snapshot is highlighting
for his advantages for flight quests ascending on the top side.
So right now I think PSG is
happier, because the gold is in the right places.
places until as we enter the mid game with these items completed, you have to give that advantage initially over to PSG.
A lot of it is going to come down to that execution. We talked about it.
So many good pick tools on the side of PSG. When you're facing a Casio alongside that Ivern,
5v5s can be really tricky if you don't have the proper setup.
Tower for tower trade. The fly with position on the top side of the map
we're going to be able to grab the Herald as well. So again a situation where fly are able to find the greater trade.
Got the grubs earlier, now grabbing the Herald in a position to start to really blow this gold lead open
We'll see where they want to use the Herald, obviously bot and mid tier one are both still up
But I think against a pit composition just opening a mid lane gives you so much more access to the map
In terms of itemization, it's pretty even across the board
Strybreak either finish with whip off to securing that first tower bloods. He was injected with a lot of gold
Now they can use this Herald to unlock mid. Masu has to showcase respect once again.
Wipo waiting over the wall. Daisy fading away, gives us a little wave goodbye.
Masu has to be very careful though. As long as he's the follow-up, you'll be fine, but he gets caught out.
He's deleted very quickly.
Maple, level 11, really trying to use his power.
Forces the Dominus out from Wipo, doesn't use the ult himself, so...
Again, these small cooldown advantages don't look to be too important initially,
But if they can follow up on them maybe able to build a greater advantage you are seeing I
Would say subtly
One of the problems of flight quest composition being range
Right, we saw it earlier with quad in the mid lane where cause just couldn't hit the aria of the gen
Yeah, and in that situation there buppo he wanted to alt build fury then get a longer stun off
Again, he just wasn't quite in range now
Now, this may not matter depending on the outcome of the Team 5, but it is something to keep track of, like,
R.E. and Jhin, these champions that just get bonus movement speed from things in their kits, as well as things like the Fleet Footwork,
like, it can be really annoying for champions like Renekton, for champions like Kassia, for Kaisa, who really wants to be within range of you, right?
And so, we'll see if it ends up being a problem, but, yeah, again, it's very subtle because, like,
I also have that one kill that we saw in mid.
It's not really resulting in a huge amount of advantages for PSG so far.
But you can also see why this game has been a lot more about moving around the map
than it has been about these big full-long 5v5s.
It's tough for Black West to really press their advantage.
I mean, it's nice to see a Western team recognizing they've got good scaling
and just being patient in the game, not trying to overforce fights.
I don't know, I really love the fact that every game either starts with Western games doing good
and then immediately throwing or finding a way back in the mid game as Bwipo's now in trouble.
Good healing coming in the ignite already there, that means he's likely to fall.
Flashback to safety is clutch.
Masu free, hitting on Woody.
Taking a decent amount of damage for stepping forward.
Daisy's first knockup looking good.
Second knockup coming in.
How many can they hit?
Go Daisy, go.
Not able to get anything else.
Walking away now, so able to get a bit of the chunk there.
So Bwipo ambitiously tries to contest the Scuttle Crab in the mid lane
And you could argue that it was a success, because his team did secure the objective and ended up being a trade of flashes.
But Quad investing the TP ready for a fight.
Drake in three seconds. Manifest. Maple no ult, Jungen no ult.
So if we look at the 5v5 fly, feel good about the trade.
Yes, they're down, Wipo's flashed, but they have all their teamfight tools.
The finalist was in another situation similar to the previous game, where Maple wants the back.
I think he has enough gold to complete his item, but I think it's going to be too late.
Which means that second dragon of the game will go over to FlyQuest
Interrupts gonna come through from Wipo as well
And I mean there's no rush to go back to base at this point given that the objective has already fallen
Bounce all not the best for all not too bad either
Of course genitory is the bad of killing some of these beefier health bars
And when you have the shielding on top from Inspired always gonna feel good to get more out of those shields
See if there's any sort of anyone builds a serpent sphang anymore
We find ourselves in a more measured game than I was expecting.
Yes, sir.
Well, I think it's important to note that, like, when PSG, you know, when they're not forced to play crazy,
they're often a very slow, objective-fight pick kind of team.
That's part of the reason I think that they're so respected and they have sound so much success internationally,
is why they were able to play like BLG, for example, with the five games,
is they can play a really controlled mid-to-late game.
I will say, I feel like I'm, this is projection.
But it feels like that FlyQuest is like very aware of what happens at MSI, based on what I'm watching, you know?
Like again, it's purely speculation, so I don't know what the cons are like, but it does feel like that they're constantly reminding each other,
be mindful, be careful, this jungler could be here, respect this play.
It does feel like they're super respectful of their opposition.
Well, you can't afford to lose this. Certainly do not want to. Nice poke onto Wipo.
Maple did unfortunately charm a minion earlier, Wipo would have sidesteped the charm,
But now he's getting aggressive trying to delete the wave knowing his team is getting something else on the map
You're gonna be immediately interrupted. The PSG find a quick kill topside. Oh the way of getting deleted by Aja is crucial
Now in the mid lane they're already using their Herald but Maple is here to defend
That was a crazy good play for PSG. Armist clutch, Rue coming in for Betty as well
The redemption now coming in, it's Byrd and Troublemaster needs to get out! PSG!
Fantastic play topside. They stopped the counter punch coming in for Fly. Well done
Everything about that was incredible. Busio now goes to the stun.
Quad. Has to be the difference maker. He and Masu. Masu only on a single item.
He's behind. This is so hard for them to play out. Quad locked up. Unstoppable Vi goes in.
Junji going back. Quad wants to get a bit more space. Flash to safety.
Busio going to be the sacrifice. So the rest of the team can escape.
But now Masu's in trouble at night-taking just so they keep the vision.
Just so they can follow where he goes. In trouble now.
Knockback is there. Masu ulting out, but it will not be to safety.
Just delaying the death PSG. What a beautiful sequence. It really was Strakos. I mean
Arsia ults bots to deny the cross map from happening. Pwipo wisely realizes. I'm dead
There's nothing I can do in this situation
He even tried to disengage from the tower knowing that the dive was coming but they cut off his escape route
So he just cuts off the waves that they can't get the tower
However PSG they TP into mid lane here from April and then he connects the char one to inspire catching him off guard
setting up for the pick follow-up from Betty and then the TP flank to come in from Archie
Group and zoned away from the bot tower. But FlyQuest can't play for the bot tower because
now they have to defend for this fight and honestly Buzio he overstays here. I think that
they should have used Buzio sacrificed him to help Quad and Massive get away.
The ultimate doesn't connect with a nice flash from Ginger and then they turn it into a
five versus three where they end up picking up four kills in total. Just a great secret
So they protect their mid, protect their bot, find 4 kills, and FIQ us get nothing.
Incredible. And I think this highlights so well the strengths of PSG, how composed they can be as a team, as a unit overall.
And we go back to the interview Nukeduck had at the start of the day. Hey, some of the comms, some of those moments were a bit too chaotic.
Clearly losing track of the play, losing track of the greater context of the game because PSG initially just managed to stall the play.
But then when 8 maple was able to go forward leveraged the range of the gym coming in from Betty as well
It went from bad to worse so damn fast
PSG is a team that I think many see is an easy draw, you know
Especially for the west of especially given the options available
But they continue to you soak those expectations getting their revenge against MDK now in a very
Comfortable position against five grass the game is definitely not over just yet
with the itemization that they have, the positions that they're in.
I mean, I guess the good news for FlyQuest is when you look at the scoreboards,
you're not that concerned, you see, oh, well, my midlaner's got two items,
your midlaner's got two items.
Jungle is pretty even in terms of itemization, especially Ivern,
gonna primarily build and support it itemization.
AD carries.
Okay, sure, we're down a bit of anti-healing in the correct cloak,
but still, it's not the end of the world,
so FlyQuest shouldn't be all doom and gloom just yet.
Especially given that they still, they've only lost one tower
and they were able to secure that bot one as well.
So the end of the day with dragon spawning in about 20 seconds fly quest could choose to conceive this
Maybe it's even smarter to just play for the mid-tail one instead might be
Whipple I think it's gonna be the player that really needs to find a way to leverage his advantage
He's the top laner with the item completion. He's the one with the individual gold lead
Level 14
If you can get under the backline if you never find Betty you talked about it earlier right the range is so
Difficult may have to come down to a flank
Use of their lane pressure to set a vision for a future play
And now the threat around Baron. So then we talked about earlier, Casio, Kaisa together. They can obliterate the objective if they're given time.
If I have it split, they're gonna lose out on the drake here.
Won't get much in return. Wippo really needs to be close to mid just in case the dive play pops through.
There's also nothing Wippo can do, like that way Vot lane is, he can't go and get it.
So he's just like, I guess I'll just hover around mid lane. Now he's moving up topside.
Casio's done.
No additional follow-up.
Every time someone gets CC'd, he's hitting you with the deadly flash.
Yeah, this is...
I feel like it's a clear indicator when people have played with the GIN comps
and with the same players for a really long time,
because we saw it even earlier today, like little miscommunications from Fanatic
on where exactly the GIN CC needed to go.
But no matter where that champion goes, he always hits that W.
Watering, uh...
Nice spot now in the game.
Okay, we're running into one of the League of Legends' classic, ladies and gentlemen,
which is the team who's winning but not super crazy far ahead versus the team who has better scaling but like there's some context
But the simplification is they're gonna do more sustained damage if we go late
But the more complex version is it's still really hard for them to get in a position to do that damage
Yeah, I mean execution is is kind of what it's gonna come down to and that's
Really been the biggest concern for the Western team so far this world championship
opportunities have been presented to a bunch of different Western teams and they
haven't been able to capitalize on them. So we'll see if they can find those
opportunities in this game. The mid towers are kind of the easy objectives to
look at. I would say one of the areas where PSG could probably be indexing
more is that top tower is an easy one to take. If they over stack, invest their vision,
get the prior and mid, which they're pretty consistent in doing and then
play forwards that top they could probably easily secure it and you can
start to see that happening now. They've been able to push in that top
wave now. They move into the river, they get the mid push and then they
to turn their attention towards the top tower so I think they could have made this play earlier
ultimately though they still get the objective and there's not really much to cross-map on the
side of Flycrash this tower was kind of destined to fall eventually.
Certainly, Donkorn now completely for inspired so a lot of additional healing and shielding
power might be enough to block that initial burst of damage that comes in from the PSG
composition. Masu going for the AP itemization it makes a lot of sense the range disadvantage
you highlighted earlier somewhat mitigated when you have Kaisa who could just unleash that
poke. Let's see, gold differences continue the groan in the favor of PSG. Large portion
off the back of those four kills they're able to find around mid. Betty's sitting on a 400
gold bounty right now. Target the flagless with luck to secure. Yes, you're over stacking
mid but we're looking for a potential flank, not going to over stack it. Look at all these
jing traps though hovering around the mid lane making things a little bit more awkward.
A little bit of disruption, especially when you don't have that much range, can be so frustrating.
Quad finishing Rylai's.
So really, between Inspired and Quad, if they ever get on top of anyone, they will die.
There's no getting away from this composition.
But it is very easy to just keep them at arm's reach.
If they ever get an arm's reach, you're not escaping.
This tower is just being slowly chipped away at.
I mean, PSG, they're not over-complicating the game.
It's nice to see.
I mean, you can see, uh,
bot wave gonna demand a response, but top wave in an even spot,
you can really take your time, you can spend as much time made as you want,
as long as the enemy doesn't send anyone up there,
and PSG taking advantage of that fact to break this tower,
and when you're the person playing the Auri Vi composition,
every bit of space you get is so incredibly valuable.
My question is that, like, what is the moment that FlyQuest is kind of waiting for?
Because, PSG, you know, like, all of their moves have kind of been predictable, right?
Oh, we're gonna play for top tower, and then we're gonna play for mid-town.
A lot of that is biddy is able to guarantee mid-pryo because Masu's largely left isolated in the mid lane, right?
FlyQuest on the meanwhile, they're just kind of farming, they just keep catching waves, they're not really playing for anything,
and you could make the argument, well, it doesn't really make sense to try and force it.
We say as they TP in.
They are forcing it!
Okay, so Maple completes his item, and they sit there and go,
Jhin as well, and they're saying we're strong enough, let's fight!
Starting this one off, Fly, I want to get in the area, Quad has to be careful.
Oh, he cannot be the one to face Jack-Not.
Luckily, the brush vision coming in from Inspire
does allow them to step forward.
They don't get a lot out of fly quests to start that objective.
It costs them the cheapy.
If they can't find the fight here, it's a bit difficult.
Wippo, I'm gonna get a little bit more on the stride breaker.
Nice initial damage, but he gets knocked back into the wall.
Pretty easy, initial kill pick up.
Nice counter against coming in, redemptive Wippo.
Still standing, that's gonna be big.
Fly close, finding the initial angle.
Georgia running out to safety.
Curtain call coming across the back side,
but there's no blinking health bars yet.
Babel trying to make the difference,
but Buccio is there with the CC to lock him down.
Charm does the wrong way, Maple ticking down, poison in his veins, he's going to drop.
Shut down, coming through for Quad, FlyQuest beautifully played.
I was worried about that engage from Bwipo because it felt like that he'd overextended.
He was going to get turned on, but the support from the Ivan at this point in the game,
FlyQuest finally found the confidence to make the play that they needed.
Betsy chipping away at Bwipo.
He doesn't do enough damage to finish that kill.
And again, they obliterate this objective.
Do they turn for Aja?
Rage stacking, 7 seconds on the Mega-Arts, not enough.
Like West getting the objective they were getting bled out across the map a PSG
Overcommit on that Baron and flyer quick to punish. Yeah, it was I understand the idea like we've just gone back to base
We've hit our power spikes
Let's force before fly quest can spend gold of their own, but then it ends up in this situation
This is all concerned me for but if I like that he was the one over forcing at this point
But the amount of utility that he gets in combination with the Starex and the Ivan look at this massive shield
He's able to soak up so much, Quad's ultimate comes through, they take out Woody, they turn their attention on Tojunji as Archer is forced to back away, and Maple just can't really lock a target down.
So he's the one that then gets locked down. And basically, Bupo just acts as a tank. He is the one soaking up all the damage, he's the one drawing all that pressure, and PSG crumble under that pressure.
They can't find the targets that they're looking for, and FlyQuest get the front to backs that they're looking for.
And kind of the success I feel like they had in previous plays,
they can forget how powerful FlyQuest are from a compositional perspective.
The item advantage is not enough to balance out when Cascio is able to get into range so easily.
Wippo really debate, and this is something Inspire talked about in his interview with Travis Defford.
Hey, there are so many teams when we're winning, when we're finding wins domestically,
where we just offer them a little crumb, they come in and we take everything for them,
and that's exactly what happened with Wippo.
It's done coming in, not going to burn anything else.
Baron there and this is where the Ivern gets so frustrating. No real long range siege potential
But a lot of tools to make PSG's life difficult. Yeah
I mean so this is the other problem with Pyrox's comp is
Hitting the towers can be a little bit stressful
But if they keep leveraging the Baron power in power minions, we're both going in again
Sterak's is a very good item and Ivern backing him up means he's gonna live. He should be dead. I
I can't believe that he lived that, but you're really seeing the value of this Ivern, the utility, the redemption, the shielding, they get the tower.
I mean, it's like the perfect combo. Bwipo can be unleashed as he wants, and in Spiral, he'll always be there to protect him.
It's like they baby-proofed the Renekton. It's like they covered him in styrofoam, so he can't hurt himself.
Like, as far as like a mom coming in, like, oh, nope, not there.
Yeah, here's a redemption. Here's a shield.
Let's back that one up.
And to be fair to BuPo, like, some of these plays look very aggressive,
but the reality is, the second he goes in there and he lives,
they have enough space to take that tier two.
So while it's volatile and under certain circumstances,
you'll look at that as crazy.
In the context of this game, it generates enough space for Fly
to actually get some money value out of the Baron.
Flycrust haven't been able to build a huge lead,
a huge lead. But remember that they were at a 3k gold deficit.
So now you have Seekers coming in for Masu, he's got enough AP to empower the Void Seeker
so you kind of weather the storm of what was a pretty commanding lead for PSG in terms of power in the game.
For sure. And the Serpent's Fang gonna offer a lot of value.
I didn't think we'd see it, but there it is! Healing, I mean you feel for Medi though.
He's the carry and he has to buy the shield reduction item and the heal reduction item.
And not having infinity edge does feel bad.
I'll say more reminder is very comparable to Lord Dominix these days because they obviously
nerf the armor pen on it so that heel cut doesn't feel bad.
Serpent's Fang obviously will feel good if you're getting value out of the shielding
cut in any other situation it's going to feel quite bad.
Hail's crucible now finished for Inspite as well.
That is like a mega fed Ivern.
Hey a bubble wrap this renegator man.
He is not going to die.
There's nothing they can do.
Yeah?
They put the baby in Kevlar, buddy.
He is safe.
Yep, yep, yep.
I mean, again, I just think that it enables his aggression
perfectly.
Now, PSG have set their sights on the tier two in bot lane.
They've got a nice push in mid.
They're looking for picks.
They won't find one.
Buzio here to defend for now, but Quad is on his way.
They've got to be careful of a potential dive.
They don't really have the members here.
The cross map coming through from Wippo on the top lane.
It's taking a bit of time.
Yeah, the TP response can happen as well.
There's no real other play to go for here, they get the TP obviously long cooldown before Baron and another Drake will be up.
So TP advantage to the side of Fly, that's kind of what they get from the pressure.
Black West in a pretty damn good spot all things considered, right?
We talked about their comp outscaling, they are now in a strong enough position that they can fight for lane pride,
that they can set up on these objectives and again really that one play bringing them back into this game is Guipo.
Getting a little aggressive here, but he's safe. He has the shields. He's charmed, but he's still alive curtain call coming out
All up for maple not enough. Oh
And this is so far
This is the problem
We've seen with some of these already gym compositions if you don't have the damage to finish that first kill
It feels so hard to follow up any more in the fight
So that was what I was gonna say
I feel like pierce you're running into a bit of a damage problem now
Because it's not just that you have to get through this renekton. It's that you've also got to get through that
repeated support provided by and spy it so with Jane and Ari with this much you
did it like a thing is if you burn your cooldowns on the renecd and you do not
kill him and you overstep even one second it's masu flying in on top of you
it's the war of attrition yeah just like you lose you can't win the war
of attrition so you have you've got to reload like it was cool when he was
ahead when he's even or behind. It feels really bad.
Oh, Masu. Let's...
Okay, it doesn't feel that bad.
Besides that from Masu, that saves his life.
He does have the cleanse, but Lucky doesn't have to use it.
TP now being used mid. That was the advantage they had from earlier.
But Osh is off to the side. They have to keep their eyes on the snort.
Instantly inspired now, zoting him off.
Using Daisy to get him away.
13 seconds on Baron. They can't use their mid prior to go up.
PSG already have setup on the drake.
It looks like Fly feel more confident in the 5v5.
They don't want to give them access into the river.
Daisy going in.
A bit more poke.
and Maple isolated
Leveraging the fog of war gonna get spotted out by the track though good patience for PSG though
They may not be started off all of the vision is just like look they're out of wards
The only thing they get to see oh, we see oh, it's done. What are you out for now?
He ulti again, Bruce. Yo needs to be a little bit more patient. I feel a few times now
That's my dad flash going forward
Stunned up by hitting the charm was perfect
Masu back to my Betty just flashes into his team redemption doing so much work with Betty goes down
Forward secret from Masu. He's ready to take over in this fight. Flash forward. The double redemption.
Lethality for us was not enough at MSI.
But the Kaisa is killing everybody in this game. Masu going for more. Can he get four.
Quadra for Masu. Maple running. They won't give him the Penta. But that's a redemption story if I've ever seen one.
In the War of Attrition, it is fly quest that stands strong.
Kord's HP didn't even see a semblance of damage, and you can see how hard it is for PSG, even in a situation where the start of the fight looks promising.
It's just not enough. Wippo, he's engaged fumbles. It doesn't work out, but the amount that he is able to tank up is crazy.
A nice snipe comes through from Masu onto Betty. He flashes over the wall to secure that kill, and it just becomes a chase down.
FlyQuest, they use their comp to perfection and they basically say we're gonna run at you, if you can't kill us we're gonna kill you.
And I gotta say, credit to FlyQuest, weathered their storm mentally when they were falling behind, when they were making one or two missteps against a team that had embarrassed them on the international stage.
But kept strong, kept playing to their win conditions, and now they've set their sights on Baron. Hexflash with the wall coming for Buzio trying to zone play.
Don't say it's your fitness like this.
Why can my asthma is that gonna be the fall to be burning the objective or split?
It's a bit of a spot focus and quad can flash over the wall
It's awkward, but they will secure the Baron whoop. I'm not too scared well played by flight. Yes
They played that really well
Not only does people go over but the moment he gets CC'd quad even throws down the mass with the flash did come through
I say the flash the Q came through from ginger to be able to create space
But that was enough to help them secure at the back and
Flyquest with another objective could look to try and finally break the base again
The reason why it's been so difficult for them to leverage the advanced that they had earlier, even though they'd already kind of outscaled at that point was just because of the range.
It's very difficult for them to see each other, they kind of rely on the bar, but now that they've got it, they can play through two waves and they can start to chip away at those talents.
And also, just, Wippo is so damn tanky, right? MapleSaw hasn't completed really a major magic penetration item yet, some flat pen.
But obviously Merc Treads as well, really good in the context of playing against his comp, it does mitigate some of the damage he can put out.
And now PSG really holding on.
This position, earlier football step 2 far 4, it was hard for him to survive,
but at this stage he can eat a bunch of cooldowns.
And the rest of the team will be there to punish if PSG over-commit or cannot finish that kill.
I don't like the fact that Flycrust is basically just playing through one out.
I can't even mind they just got a brute force it.
They have the Daisy in another tank here.
They know they win the 5v5.
And this is the other awkward thing too, right?
So there's just not outside of Agile's ulti. There's not really a lot of reliable AoE
I mean you can't really punish them either when they group up and Lelos Meganor is ready to go
Truthfully PSG just don't have enough damage and by that I mean like it's very single target focused
You've got Ari, you've got Jin, and you've got the Vi who all like lock down a target
And then once that target is dead you can convert the rest of the fight
But like you can't even kill that one target. So if you gotta get rid of one
What are you gonna do about the other four and credit to inspired being really willing to pull this jungler out
Right. Ivern is a champion that people kind of love or hate depending on what your champion pool looks like but
Against the Viari if you can weather the storm Ivern's one of the perfect answers, right?
Yeah, it's rough so much the shielding stops the pick potential
It was one of his domestic comforts right now alongside the emu and like he's he's proven
Why teams have chosen to bat it away from him multiple times. What are you over the wall though not spotted?
Squad, we'll see TP now coming in, Wipo joining the squad.
They just want to keep bullying with his 5-man gun.
Wipo going in, Wipo for the stun, trying to lock up Mabel, trying to lock up Eddie, trying to lock up anybody.
And again, the redemption comes in! The shielding comes in this time around.
The Serpent's Fang was there, mitigated some of that value.
Wipo will be forced to run away. They still come in.
Maybe they overstepped their boundaries there.
FlyQuest, their siege is going to be slowed down a lot.
down a lot they did have a nice wave on the bot side of the map that they could
apply to top just continuing to pressure not sure what they can do with that though
they need a wave in mid stalling to play for the way of a minute looks like a
window opportunity where Betty doesn't have all maple doesn't have all junja
no all perhaps I just want to hard force here in mid lane I think we're
coming through thanks to the red buff I mean they're very powerful in the
5v5 can we just dive this tower file was used with the band of us is one
off now so now it goes back to the dragon securing the soul but maybe they can
look for a pick here just happy to poke and again this is a team you can tell
I've seen a lot of like West games really would have gone over that wall is all
I'm gonna say well they've talked about how important this game really is it'll
put them at two and one the opposition in the two one bracket it's not easy
But you know what, it's the watch outmanship. No matchup is going to be easy.
PSG a reminder of that, as you highlighted. A team so many western teams would be happy to draw.
Very quickly reminded of Mad Lions. They are no easy opposition and in the early game certainly did the same to Fly.
I mean, PSG had a composition that with the early lead they needed to snowball faster.
100%
They needed to play faster. We talked about how like their objectives they could have been playing for a little bit earlier.
And unfortunately they just waited a little too long. They tried to force that bound on those three atom power spikes.
and that was the window that FlyQuest needed to turn the game around.
Ultimately FlyQuest did play the patient game, it ended up working out, they didn't over force.
And now they found themselves in this position. Soulpoint, Dragon spawning, two seconds.
PSG, don't really have a lane to play through, they're completely split, it's an easy collapse.
Mosul could have got the first kill on the Junja.
There's no fight here for PSG, Redemption goes down, but we're going to take the additional healing, 500 health.
Mosul now unstopful, takes a bit more time than expected to kill Junja.
He's dead all the same. I mean
This game is
It's taking them a while to end again because of the range it's hard for them to see each bit like yes
You just don't I I think I can say with confidence
Objectively, they don't have enough damage. They do not do enough to kill all the fly quest true
And I think we've learned because we talked about grass versus electrocute earlier that electrocute is not enough
to make maple a one-shot lead game assassin in the context of this game.
I mean if he could land a full combo onto Masu before the mountain soul maybe.
Maybe.
If he can land a full combo onto Masu when he doesn't have cleanse and forgets to push Zanya's or flash, correct.
If he stood there.
And maybe if he doesn't have mountain soul.
That doesn't account for lock it.
Anything that Ivan does at all.
anything literally you can just like at this point his voice line gives shielding
you just go 300 yeah so yeah let's not forget okay one of the I guess you can
say stupidest things right it's like inspires alti can not only block charm
but if you're not even in range you could just inspired all they can tank
the W from R as well yeah that's an unfortunate set of interactions
Yeah, maple and obviously for both these teams right you don't want to fall down to 1-2
But this is the last set of best ones today
So from here on you get the best of three chance this had been in the lower bracket
PSG would have the chance to adapt to change their strategy maybe to play more aggressive early
But at this stage it's really gonna take a miracle for them to come back. I
Mean this is kind of
Daisy's soloing the Baron. Yeah, just give me an aggro for now. I think that fly quest they could just have quad
But, yeah, Moss, you can also just do it with Daisy.
That's what's so fun.
Greatest, greatest rivalries, LCK vs. LPL,
Daisy vs. the Baron.
Specifically Cupcake, Daisy for some reason.
Well, they one shot it.
Yep.
And again, no discredit to PSG there
and a credible team.
But at this point from this position,
just don't want to oversell,
but also don't want to make it feel
like we're underselling PSG.
It's just impot-
The math just does not-
Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at, yeah.
They lose the Excel spreadsheet version of League of Legends as Wippo goes in, some initial damage,
Altee in the back is good, Maple trying to make the difference but the charm does not hit crucially.
Junji now running, Aja has the AOE but he gets one pot Masu!
Doing so much damage.
Ends up being a one for one the trade of top laners, but if the wave comes through,
Maple can't play. You highlighted it, Daisy just blocks all the relevant cooldowns.
Only the orb reception will go through. Charm again, hitting a might.
This man cannot catch a break.
Black quest pushing in. This is a moment where they can overstep. One of the few left to them.
Can they play it out please? Masu just melts these towers. He's gonna keep chipping away with the W.
That Q cooldown is non-existent. Masu going back. Woody doesn't hit and that should do it.
Masu free to do all the damage he wants going god-like in this matchup.
Benny a dead man walking. Jhinja running for the hills. Masu going golden baby.
another quadra to come in as they close this one out in style. FlyQuest moving on to two and one.
A shaky early game for FlyQuest but they don't overforce, they don't overagress,
they wait for their composition to scale up to come online and they're able to dominate.
Masu gonna be the highlight player of course but inspired 1-1-14, 100% Kp on the line.
I mean good stuff and I think I can just hear all of North America collectively breathing
a sigh of relief and at least some of North America's on our desk so we'll find out what
they have to say.
I mean, yeah, I feel so much better now.
You're not a part of the team.
Calm down.
Calm down.
Relax.
The difference that 20 minutes of time makes, because I'd say before they had to come back
fight, I was so nervous.
It felt like they were too hyphy, that they were just making too many mistakes, that
there's going to be another one of those games.
Woo!
Yeah, honestly.
And I was like, look, you have R, E, Vi, Gen.
I was worried for the Castillo, because it never really felt like we're going to have
prior in a fight.
And then it just clicked.
Yeah, it's all about recovery and how the champions are supposed to work together.
And I feel like FlyQuest did a spot on job on this account.
And thanks to the Reliable Cisco Network, they were able to pull off a crucial fight
that saved the game completely.
Oh, my gosh.
They absolutely were.
Like, let's take another look at this one.
This is when they were down in gold, I believe, and the game had gotten sneaky late.
Wiffle is level 16, but I'd said 10 seconds before this, Wiffle was going to flash forward
and die, and that's what everybody thought was going to happen until Sterak's Ivern
redemption come in, and he actually doesn't even get close to dying.
Meanwhile, FlyQuest cleaned the fight.
It's ridiculous, because this is just one of many moments, and I think you said
Haley on what I talked about, basically creating space.
Wiffle created a lot of space.
The one that reminded me, there he is!
Oh my god, that's him.
That is so cursed.
It is so cursed.
And that's the game, actually.
It's Fouffle's Renekton turning into it.
But look at Mausuit.
This was the result of the very long game.
The Casio, I'm still not completely
sold on because especially when we see the damage graph,
it's not like they dove into Casio and he repelled them.
It was Mausuit just doing 50,000 damage in that game.
The freedom to walk up because it was really difficult
for PSG to do anything about it, especially
that bot lane play where I would love to see the specific HP,
but Renekton was like, in the single digit, it looked like?
Yeah.
But there was no shot from PSG side to get a kill.
And so Masu recognized it, that blue side jungle fight
where he hopped in freely and chased them down.
Beautiful to see.
He did an amazing job.
They all did an amazing job.
I feel connected.
And we actually have Masu standing by with Shucks
for the Verizon post-game interview.
Masu, congratulations.
What a hard-fought win.
My first question has to be, how does it feel to finally get revenge for MSI on PSG?
It feels good. I never really had a grudge against PSG or anything, but I did really respect them,
especially like, they're a very good team, so it feels good beating them.
Yeah, they showed that again in this game. I want to say, talk to me about kind of the approach
and the difficulties early on and even to mid in that game and what you had to change
in order to get that turnaround.
Well, the changes between MSI and here or is this game?
No, no, this game, this game.
Well, in the early game, we kind of make too many mistakes.
We gave them a lot of gold, so we were on the back foot quite a bit.
And we were fine because we scaled way harder than them,
so we understood that if we just didn't give them too much gold
or we didn't let them stack drakes or get baron,
that we can outscale them and win eventually.
But, yeah, that was kind of the mindset we had, that's it.
Yeah, I mean it worked out exactly as you had planned it, but of course that comes with the stress of,
okay, now the fights come that we absolutely have to win.
And you're on Kai'Sa and you don't have any kills yet, and I guess in every fight you're like,
okay, is this going to be my moment?
Is that a stressful situation? And did they take two Pentas from you? Or was it only one?
I think I got two Quarters, I'm not sure, but for the fights,
I think the tension, of course, builds up between each item, like, you're getting your items and you know there's gonna be one big fight and you either win or lose, and it might decide the whole game.
So it's definitely a bit nerve-wracking, but you don't really think of that in the game, you just think of your comp, the enemy comp, and how you want to fight, and then you kind of go from there.
Yeah, and you now move on to 2-1. You are in a great position. How do you feel about the steps you're taking now, just for yourself, but also as FlyQuest with the lessons from the entire year,
knowing that a lot of the eyes of NA, all of them actually, are on you to give them some hope.
For sure, I think throughout the year, especially in summer, we grew a lot as a team.
We became a lot closer and we played more coherently together.
But I do think we have a long way to go, and I think we can definitely make it.
So, yeah, I think our team can definitely be pretty good.
Awesome. Final question.
question how many times have you watched the the music video and and your part?
I can't count that many times. I understand. Thank you so much and
congratulations Masu fantastic game out of fly quest as they move on to two and one.
I guess early game didn't go quite as planned, but I think we were a little bit, uh, yeah.
Looks like we were a bit sleepy in the early game, we were not really talking much, so
We just got caught a lot of times and then we're really paying attention to where they are
But then we got some good fights some good momentum
We got some burns anything we could have closed it when caps was fighting me to one against ash Jax
And if I make the show at all, I think I just get a double stun because I should no flash
I think we just win the game there, but I messed it up and then begin to give it longer
And then we couldn't fight anymore. It was too strong. We tried to place do some sideline plays
But yeah, I didn't really work out, but I'm confident that next time we can take it
Yeah, I mean when you look at the game you said you had a bad early game
But the resiliency and the way in which you fought yourself back in the game and you say it yourself
There was a couple of like mechanic
misplays that in the end did us in
You know how much courage does that give you that hey the game plan and the prep and our abilities is actually where it should be
Despite the loss. Yeah, I mean for sure
It could be well out the worst right we could just gotten stumped and then I was like
Oh well, I guess we're just too bad, but it didn't feel like we were too bad. We were still worse, but
At least for myself at least if I feel like if I don't in as much as I did this game
We're always gonna win. So that's nice for me. Okay. I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed for you for the next game
Thank you, Mickey. It's great to have some context around this game
This was the game. And this was the game. It was close
I mean smaller it did 58,000 damage had 600 stacks and had 10 kills
But the fact that this game was actually this close is a testament to how creative G2 actually was in finding place
Yeah, and I mean that's been the most fun thing about G2 so far in this tournament like that both games have had
Double yone games the first one is a yone asshole game
So that's already a fun composition to run with and just being able to find plays and then just abuse caps on side
Has been the thing that I've been enjoying the most especially when they went up against Payne
Pain were just in a tough position because they wanted to play towards Baron or at least
try and contest it, but they ended up being like, well, if we just send one person, Jhanna
is going to be able to deal with them, so we need to send two.
Then that means we're just completely conceding Baron, so it's like they were just in a tough
position in that entire game.
And I'm just wondering what could G2 do better today?
Because they were able to put caps on Ceylin and try and buy time and save the situation,
but the early game didn't cook quite the way they expected to.
So I appreciate the fact that they trust their approach, they trust what they've been working on so far,
but game-wise, and especially setting up the pace in the early stages of the game, I feel like you took into more.
Yeah, yeah, because at least this one was the, that was the PNG game where it felt like nothing could be done.
But in the HALE game it felt like it was a necessity because they were going to lose fights.
I think it's going to be tricky. I do wonder if they have anything cooked for non-meta-picks that maybe Broken Blade could play,
just because this is an updated bracket of what we have.
Weibo has had an extremely difficult road here.
They actually were very close to Gen.G in that first game,
and then they found their way into this game based off their second loss.
But the importance of this is you can see the 2-1 pool and the 1-2 pool already being populated.
Yeah.
You really, really, really, really want to be in that 2-1 pool
because you'll have a second chance, especially now that BLG is already in that 1-2 pool.
But specifically to your point, Laura, as we get to the MasterCard fan prediction,
I do think the laning phase is going to be extremely hard in this game because Waybo, even against GenG, we had an amazing stat.
They were the first team all year to be ahead of GenG, top, mid, and bot at CS at 20, and they still lost the game to GenG.
That was a good match against GenG, but that just shows how well Waybo's laners can play.
So I think G2 will have an advantage if they get out of the early game with an even map state.
Let's get to your game, then.
Castors, over to you for the last game of the day.
Why Bo versus G2?
I like the confidence in G2 Jets.
I wish I wasn't a pessimist.
I could revel there with you.
But obviously going to be a thrilling game no matter what,
especially when you think about the history of these two teams.
And also when you think about the history of the midlaners, right?
Caps and Chow who have been playing against each other since 2017 Worlds.
That one was RNG vs Fnatic.
Now a new era, a very different story.
Seven years.
That's Corey.
That's like when we started casting.
Yeah
The thing is right I think you can make the argument that on paper
G2 could be considered favorites in this matchup
however
Wave are the most unpredictable team on the planet. Yes, they are
Domestically they were a team that should not have made it to the LPL finals and yet yet. They did last year
internationally they were not a team that should have made it to the finals yet they did yeah and
and they had a very good start in their game versus gen g and then they ended up getting outplayed
and then they had a bad start versus tl where they were able to come back and it's like i can't
figure this team out and you know i speak i was speaking a bunch the other day and i was like
am i mean for calling weibo weird he's like no they're really weird it's like
Okay, cool. Glamour on the same page. There are a difficult team to predict, so I don't know what Weibo we're going to get today.
What I do know is that Tarzan is an incredible jungler, and if you give him the tools to carry, he will carry.
So let's see what's on the band table. Weibo targeting out Jyke, similar to what HLE did.
They banned away the brand, they banned away the Zyra. That meant that if G2 wanted to go for the Yone, he would be forced onto the Lillia.
And I think that G2 should branch out, regardless, the Yone is going to be banned away.
So the Aurora is available right now.
You imagine that's going to be the final pick, a ban, I should say, on the side of Weibo,
and then it becomes a question of what does the first big priority become for G2?
Damn good question.
A lot of high-prior picks still available.
Aurora, the one you highlighted first, nothing probably the most important.
But Nidalee, I like that a lot.
We were just talking about Tarzan, I think this is one of his best champions.
There is a difference. You'll notice Tarzan's early game impact when he's on a carry versus when he's not.
That's not to say that he's bad when he's off carries.
Oh, sure.
But you really feel it in the early game when he's on something like an Nidalee.
Also, just LPL Nidalees can be terrifying, right?
And the sheer amount of CC and setup champs that are present in the meta right now,
now that AD carries are mostly gone from mid lane,
means she's kind of better than ever in a lot of situations.
Callista priority for G2. That explains the Poppy ban right from the start.
Ash removed as well. You choose to come in with a clear game plan, but they don't want to play towards the ball side of the map.
Do they also want to try something like an ego, potentially?
Obviously a champion, or do they want to just set up counter pick for Miki X, I guess is the broader question, regardless of what it is.
You already talked about the LPL's priority around Jin.
I don't like it. I think in the right circumstances, Jin can be one of the best AD carries in the game, but it's so much more about the other stuff you put around him.
I don't think he is the safe kind of early pick that most teams are using in this.
I was about to say the rumble. I think this is one of the things that he needs to be the best in the matter
Yeah, when you pair that up with the rumble, we haven't seen it from breath so far at this tournament
But they are gonna lock it in for him. I think that it's such a great flexible pick
And I think the many teams have been finding success with it in particular around the team fights
And this is a yarn is still up by the way, and this is something that shout who's already played
This is something that was banned against g2 for most of them. I saw if I remember correctly
Thing is now if you're g2 g2, we don't want to play Orianna into this
Immobile carries against gin rumble feels terrible. So now we have galeo remember this is entirely a flex
We top galeo was kind of the big rumored
Priority pick we've seen it a little bit hasn't so it's not great. Yeah. Yeah
We didn't look too great there. We also saw it mid in the hands of scout yesterday in our series between L&G
Okay, so still some room for interpretation in terms of where this is actually going to go
But definitely can mitigate some of the upfront damage of the rumble paired with all support anymore
Okay, nice. So right now really great engage tools
Some good tools to mitigate any potential dive threat as well. Galeo taunt is so good or has been so good historically against any kind of dive threat
Yeah, I mean I wasn't convinced by the um galeo top
We'll see if things are different this time round.
Assuming that it is for Broke and Blade, he was in Europe the big innovator for new top
lane picks.
He was the early adopter of the Rek'Sai top.
He grabbed the Zac top as well.
He's always been so on to try new stuff on the top side of the map.
And we'll see if he does bring out this guy.
There's Leona coming out for Chris.
I think this is definitely one of his preferred champions when you look across his career.
Leona also just has great setup and already Wave will have this fantastic siege composition.
It's a bit old school, but like Rumble ultimate into Jin ultimate, it's just, it's an easy
way to force you off a tower, right? And if you throw in a Malkai as well, perhaps the
you know, easy Merc trade setup there, but it just provides so much utility and zone
control around these neutral objectives.
One, I think this is the kind of, the context that's important for both these
picks. We've rumbled Nerf now, it's powerful early on, obviously Alta's still
really good but I think it's these two champions together that kind of amplifies
both their power so much and if you're playing something as short-range as
Kalista you really need to be able to pull the trigger and engage aggressively
but if you make a mistake against a duo like Rumble and Jhin, the game is falling apart very quickly.
Now, let's see if the Skarner taking away. Obviously Tarzan thus far has been
more about supporting Kressa, he hasn't been on carry junglers. I imagine with
so much damage in top lane we will see the same be true.
Zidjwani another kind of long range option that eventually you can just keep G2 at arms length.
But Wabo's thinking about it bands right now, I think, yeah there's the buy, but I thought G2 may consider the buy.
Now they have to raise questions around do they want to get rid of the decision.
Wani, what jungler are they even considering right now?
Jungle pool is getting pinched a decent amount.
With Callista Galio you really want some damage coming out of top in jungle.
Valeo can do a decent amount, but usually opting for defensive items early.
Something like a Viego... maybe?
I mean, Viego big Comfort pick for Yike?
Obviously feels good when you can.
I mean, you can see the G2.
I think G2 is thinking about the Vi Band themselves, but once Weibo decided to do it, they've
removed one of the Comfort picks for Jahu and Midlane.
You imagine Midlane is going to be safe for last, so we should see a jungler come
through now.
is a possibility. Maybe even the Ivern. Perhaps it's a little bit too much in the air. We talked
about the Marca earlier. There's going to be the lock-in. You are now kind of looking at
maybe an AD mid laner. If they go for AP, it's a lot of magic damage on the side of
Weibo. It's a Galio that's not ideal. But like, I guess it's going to be a Tristana.
I think it has to be a Galio top at this point. This would be bored. That would
It will be interesting, drawing some inspiration from the VCS, perhaps.
This is the champion that can be disrupted, Orianna has taken the option here.
So likely we need AD in the jungle pool, and this is quite a combo in terms of disrupting the long range threat that we will approach the table.
Now we've been seeing at the World Championship teams utilize Nocturne's ultimate very effectively to create surprise engages
so that champions can find good flanks, even in warded up areas.
And when you pair that with a rel and a galio,
you can see how powerful the engaged tools really are.
Meanwhile, so for those that don't understand,
G2 have this great kind of wombo combo set up with the teamfight.
The Orianna Nocturne is a very lethal combo
that has easy access onto the backline.
Meanwhile, Weibo, they have similar teamfighting strengths.
We already talked about the zone control, the rumble and jinn together provide,
but when you throw in a Maokai to boot,
like around objectives it becomes very difficult to approach or even start one just because of how much space
Waybo can occupy. Tristana and Jin are going to be offering a lot of consistent DPS in the later game fights
and even after the nerfs I think that Tristana is still a fine champion.
But yeah, there's a lot of damage on the side of Waybo, that's for sure.
We'll see if G2 can weather the storm and how this early game is going to play out because
we've had mixed performances from Waybo, one really good early game, one not so good one against Team Liquid
Whereas for G2, the criticism around their early game all, well, pretty much all year,
as they focused on improving the mid game, which we see, they find good fights, they play them out well,
but their early game is still at a point of discussion.
And it can be very difficult to come back against a composition like Wavos, when they have an advantage,
when they can leverage that and get set up first. The sheer range.
You could have knocked back and turned down the lights, it doesn't always mean that you'll stop the kills from coming through.
There are a lot of G2 fans in the house.
Wave-o fans as well.
Love to see it.
I'm kind of just starting to feel the tension build.
I wonder if this is how Jatt and Raz fell in our previous game.
Because as you said, Wave-o can be a bit of an unknown
quantity, but frankly, I really like what they put together
in terms of the draft.
Janna champion that I think in the right circumstances
can really take over games.
Really be such a fantastic powerhouse of a pick.
We saw it in the Jackie Love game
when he could get all those static ship procs.
And Wave-o have the recipe here
make that happen again. But I also think the reason why this matchup is tense for EU fans specifically is that
as the first seed from the LEC, as someone who internationally is expected to make it far against
the fourth seed from the LPL, on paper this should be a favorite matchup for G2. If they
want to stick by the convictions that they are able to contest the world championship,
right? Like this is a matchup that they should be winning, which is why I think there's a
a lot on the line for the side of G2. For Weibo, of course, a roster where the expectations
have been very low. From the outside in, it's difficult to gauge how strong is Weibo is,
and the fact that they've continued to surprise. Last year's World Championship, this year in
terms of their LPL playoff run, they're a team that's just able to find that magic,
and I think a lot of it comes off the back of Tarzan's consistency in terms of his
other game impact, and then Light. This man is incredibly consistent in terms of
damage output, his laning phase, and G2 are putting a lot of emphasis in the other game
on their bot lane 2 vs 2.
Definitely are.
I want to draw attention briefly to the mid lane, just because there is so much history
here.
And of course, favouring Xiaohu, it's important that a lot of these games happened in the
Fnatic era when LEC as a whole, or EULCS at the time, weren't able to compete when
Xiaohu was really dominating with RNG across the board.
It was Perks really who had the better record against Xiaohu.
Now we'll have to see if this is a new chapter for this particular rivalry.
As you said, bot lane early at least, big center of attention, so I'm mickey.
Nice exchange there, ignite for ignite overall.
Those ADC's relatively healthy, level 2 going to be coming through soon.
Jeffle gets a nice trade onto caps there.
Orianna does have the ability to consistently hit her opponent thanks to her Clockwork
Windup passive. But Tristana is still Tristana. So as long as she keeps hitting you in the
face, she's going to do a lot of damage. On the top side of the map, we can see the
Galio getting a bit of push in the 1v1 matchup. Broken blades, Grunt for the aftershock, providing
him with an extra bit of resistance. There's that magic shield from his W. Not going to
be at a very high level early on. He's going to help him get some very nice trades.
Really a good trade. Nice!
And Blade just finds it. So this is what the Galio does in the matchup.
You get the early push, you get the level advantage, finds a solo kill on to breathe.
Broken Blade, holding on to the Monica, a best top laner in Europe.
And this is so crucial.
Because it's not just about the laning phase, but Rumble has so much impact on what this composition of Webo can do.
Putting him down early, delaying a level 6, getting a lead for this Galio.
It's big for the side of G2 Esports. A misstep from Breed. Obviously a bit of an unconventional matchup
We don't see it that much outside of solo queue. I mean who would expect that to just stand out?
I just always love the E backwards.
Because obviously you can hit it on the wind-up if you go backwards.
But also there was this change when Gallio got this like mini rework
where the passage just comes up a lot more often now.
And I think that Breed just wasn't kind of expecting that to come out so quickly
because the damage from Broken Blade really caught him out of the way. There's no flash ended up being birded.
But, and uh, yeah, small, small lead, no, no treads.
Have magic resistance already being pulled by Broke.
Definitely, the early itemization
get a favor in the lot.
Han Solo forced to cleanse here as Tarzan's on the way in.
He even overstepped.
Might be some bad information where the enemy jungler was,
but an easy and fast kill pick up on the side of Wave Boat.
Tarzan taking the kill.
Maybe not ideal, but didn't want to wait for light to reload.
A crucial mistake from Han's is he overstays for the wave,
making sure that it gets underneath the tower,
Mickey thinks that he's safe to allow him to push that in, but Tarzan's in a position to collapse,
doing a full clear from his topside towards bot, and just like that, Weibo equalized the kill score.
Good opportunity recognition from the side of Weibo and for G2, reminds me of yesterday, right?
Brogoli was refined in the top lane 1v1 for the early game, and G2's bot lane was winning initially,
but they overstayed a little bit, and it cost them.
Or the reason why that early game was so rough against Honwalife.
It's been a match however much more even than yesterday's was.
Crucially, both of Han's summoners are now gone.
Light expended his flash as well, but still has the cleanse available.
So while the top side of the map is going favorably for G2, the bot side of the map, small advantage gains for Weibo.
I will say that slowing Broken Blade down is a tall task for Weibo.
They have exclusively magic damage on jungle top.
Broken Blade's nationally going to build magic resist, Holo Radiance likely to be the first item.
I mean, Burktreads gets a lot of health.
Burktreads, hollow radiance, you're gonna have wave clear, and I...
He might... I don't know if he can win the 2v1, but he can certainly live for quite a long time.
Sure.
Naturally, Galio doesn't have a huge amount of...
Damage, if you're not building for it, especially.
No.
Yeah, we kinda take stock of the map.
I wonder if we'll see some resets come through soon.
The Grubs are gonna be up in 30 seconds.
TP's committed for both solo laners.
At the same time.
No rotation just yet from Hansama.
Keep in mind Brokeably could have probably walked back to top. You can see the waves in a position where
didn't necessarily need to immediately TP but wants to have that prior.
Wants to be able to open up probes as a potential option.
One of these very least reset the wave.
Now the TP from Shavu.
Early itemization just some marks to make it through the laning phase.
Again pretty high value.
Now it can be first on the grubs but Wabo.
We're playing around the bottom side instead.
Have a lot of really good scaling tools, so setting themselves up for a potential drake when condition does make sense.
Conceiving groups early is always a bit of a risk.
Likely means they will have to contest a second spawn, but for now just the trade of objectives.
Why is they done by Waybo? I think they recognize they're trying to fight on the top side probably isn't the smartest choice for them.
Instead they'll just play around the fact that there's a way of pushing on the bot side of the map.
easy trade of objectives. The rumble can just drop the ulti into the top
player which attack the operator is going to do. You can see that skill on
cooldown. Catch that top wave, go back to base. Not much the broken blade can do
about it. Meanwhile G2's bot lane has to play on the weak side. They'll catch the
wave being pushed in. And ultimately just a trade of objectives. So relatively
slow early game. Impressive stuff from broken blades and a nice punish from
Waybo to catch out Han's summer. Summoner's slowly coming off cooldown.
We're kind of setting our sights on the next grub spawn in about three and a half minutes as
Nocturne now ticking over to six, Tarzan looking to do the same in the near future.
Should be a big fight. We'll see who can get favorable setup. Both supports also racing to get level six as quickly as they can.
Obviously last year when Harold spawned at eight minutes so much that the discussion was that that arms race for support level six this year.
Can't contest it on first grubs, but second grubs should be able to have it reliably and honestly just a very very tense game.
And this is interesting because I think we expected kind of today to be this all-out bloodbath
But a lot of our games have been very reserved for both teams
Except game one
Game one not reserved game one needed to be reserved
But it was not it was not
Caps like a verb of a trade on the job who?
crisp that to cover similar
position for Mickey
I think both supports are a little outside of XP range, making it clear out that ward.
Other emphasis on top side control here, waves crashing in.
I guess just looking to set up some control wards for future plays, future objectives.
Keep eyes on Yike, obviously, post level 6.
I don't know why I can't always just be such a powerful tool to punish side laners,
to punish anyone for overstepping on waves.
In position, but can be spotted out by Crest.
Both supports should aim to try and get that level 6 ASAP.
And the next grub spawn is in 2 minutes time.
Yyk continues to power farm through his jungle towers, and a little bit behind on the clear as you kind of expect.
Yyk hasn't really looked for any ganks as of yet.
He does have some setup on the bot side of the map, but with all their summoners available, it may be a little bit tricky.
I think his first use of the ultimate is largely going to come off the back of CAPS trying to find that 1-Bow combo.
We're really gearing up for a big fist fight around the next objective.
All of these summoner spells coming back up, neither side.
Well for too many aggressive moves you can see G2 kind of forced to retreat here not having an early support itemization
Not having any wards and inventory does mean they don't have tri brush control and it's
Looming threat of Tarzan appearing in their lane from the side of G2 is just always there without that information
He's gonna come through for Mickey who is now fine level six Chris. He's still short on that experience
Merc trade is now secured for Mickey along with the control wards, Tima picked up as
well, perhaps the Phager missed which one came first, but Strybreaker on its way for
Yike regardless. Here are the Grubs now, 55 seconds, we've been talking a lot about
them because I'm curious to see whether or not you imagine that G2 is going to have
a priority on them and the question is, is Wave going to look to try and fight
given that there's still a mimic discrepancy between the dragon and the Grubs, when
instead of they concede it, perhaps look for some pressure on the left side of the map.
Miki, trying to create some pressure.
I think maybe hoping to contest Xiao at least a little bit on his mid push here
to ensure that they do have first access to the grubs.
When we talk about this G2 composition, it's not that they necessarily have the strongest side laners in the world,
but whenever you build a composition with Nocturne, your side lanes just naturally get that much better,
and you can really leverage this grub buff.
So Miki, notice that the bot lane of Weibo has made their way up, so it looks like they're eager to contest.
test. HanSama, he's going to be aligned towards there now, cleared out our waves.
He's prioritized first item completion, he has no boots. He just rushed that Lutens, wanting
to be more powerful for the fight. Nice spike to have for sure.
Downside to double AD carry as you have no item spikes.
Remember Broken Blade doesn't actually have to rotate down if he doesn't want to,
you can just keep the rumble pushed and then has the ultimate available. Let's
see how G2 can utilize the knock turn ultimators.
Now try to find space. Remember the amount of zone control they have, though?
Malkai Ultimate, Rumble Ultimate, GnLT.
Have these situations where G2 just take the fourth group and walk away.
They're looking for more.
Right now, Wave-O Gaming are just window shopping. They don't have an angle into the objective.
Rumble's too far away. That's why.
Let me get the fourth group up.
Yeah, completely right. Wave-O have just sat and watched.
And this is the problem, is they're waiting for that window of opportunity to leverage their composition.
But G2 just don't really give them the angle, and they don't feel confident to just force and start the fight.
So they show up to watch another team, get a six scrub buff.
Now G2 have said we're quite happy to concede the next dragon, you can have it because now
we've got six scrubs and Callista can be left alone in top lane.
Breathe will have the ultimate available to clear out this wave.
I think the idea from G2 is to maybe funnel some plates into Han Summer, but I don't
think this plan is going to pay off just because of the Rumble ulti.
Difficult.
Broken Blade, obviously when you're playing out on a side lane.
I've smart play from G2, but again here's the rambolity that we were just talking about.
I think it's important to stress G2 playing incredibly well around the second grub spawn.
Caps sacrificing himself in terms of boots, which would have helped the lane a lot.
To prioritize that first major item completion to make sure they were stronger.
It does require them to concede the drake.
But now they're about to knock down the first tower they gave.
They're really committed for this and I think it's a good gold injection.
They're sharing it across to have a little surprise that they would give some of that gold to Mickey.
But that's first tower.
That's a lot of gold.
This is a very big gold lead.
Wave will are setting themselves up for a cloud soul kind of wind condition or a way to force a 5v5.
But G2 are very rapidly accumulating a pretty significant lead.
Notice that they've put Jahu into Broken Blade with the idea being you've built all this magic resistance and we have an AD mid laner.
That means that our Tristanica should do damage to you.
And then Broken Blade has said, okay, I'm happy to play this matchup.
But that does mean that your rumble is now at risk of being dived.
And so, what could Breed do there? He threw the ultimate down, the idea was good, but then the next wave's won.
He zoned away from the wave. Look, he's cautious to even approach this, because as you highlighted earlier,
Nocturne, side lanes, scary, real scary, because if you overstep, the ability to collapse is very quick.
Right now, the good news is, it's only ranked one of ultimate, and mid lane tower is still standing.
When that one falls, it's so easy for G2 to get access to Weibo's jungle.
But this is a situation where G2 are leveraging the power of their composition, the six grubs,
but now Wavo want to punish Caps for overseeing, but here comes the Galio to try to disrupt the play,
and Micky ready to turn as well. G2 should just be content to retreat.
Malka Ultimate hitting two.
Porsche out on the Caps, trying to get him out of the exchange.
G2, do they want this fight?
They already absorbed the engage that Gawa came for in the bottom lane.
No! They're not going to take the 5v5, they just go right back to the tower knowing
Wavo doesn't have a way to play around. Caps can recall and TP right back to mid.
Nests to be careful about that TP though. The risk of a dive is still very real.
Malka ulti used, but Breed's ulti is going to be up available soon.
Light and Crisp also used their engages.
Smart TV for tier 2.
The plates are still up for a brief moment so they don't really have a way to threaten the entire tower.
I mean, the criticism coming in was, can G2 play the early game well?
I can say with confidence they're playing the early game well.
They're leveraging the strength of the early grubs that they set up for cleanly.
They're playing around the fact that Hanson is as strong as he is,
and they secure top tower, funnel that gold into Hanson and the Ike,
then rotate toward bot, leverage the push they have to unlock that tower as well,
And on top of that, Caps should have been caught, doesn't burn the flash, TP's back to mid, keeps the tower alive,
and now they can have Hans and Mickey commit with Caps sussaging onto this final out of tower.
And Xiaohu's still fighting to complete that first item.
Which means that it's very likely that Weibo cannot contest this Herald.
Which means that G2 are very likely to break mid, but they don't even need the Herald.
They have so much pressure, they see Xiaohu bottom lane, they know he has no TP, they know Breathe has no TP.
So they're gonna at least get a massive chunk here, they're gonna stick around.
committing to this tower and they will secure it. Three towers, back to back to back, 15 minutes in
and the best they can get is a cross-map on the bot side, Jahu trying to unlock this tower,
but the Herald available as well. That top wave in an awkward spot, someone has to go and catch it.
Calibur of early game, we have not seen from G2 in a while.
They are just playing the map so much better than the Laborways.
You have to go back to the first T1 series at MSI to find something like this.
I mean, for international viewers, like, Dregs and I have cast G2 all year long.
You guys don't understand.
They just lose and then come back because their macro is good.
They just die randomly early game and then they come back.
They're really good at coming back.
Yeah, their summer was not great.
Their summer was not great at all.
And like the biggest question coming into this championship was can they clear up
their early game.
seeing them have an early game like this is a surprise, but a welcome one.
And I mean, Mickey talked about it.
I think his quote was, if I just don't end, we would have won the game.
I mean, that could be one of many interviews, but, you know,
talked a lot about the team ramping up and feeling like the HLE game was
winnable despite a rough early game and not giving the team confidence
and that they're building towards that final form.
But of course, players are always going to say, you know what I mean?
They're always going to be like, yeah, we got it.
We're one step away to see it come to fruition impressive stuff thus far when we look at Waybo on the opposite side
However, Leandres is completed cracking is completed
You've got a shiv there are tools now to fight on at least more even footing with G2 as long as they don't finish those second item spikes
You have a reasonable angle to contest them and don't forget Waybo found themselves behind against team liquid
Team liquid made a couple fumbles and then we were able to fight their way back team speaking of
Mickey in trouble now, the light's turned off, Chris is dead.
G2 quick to turn and now they're gonna try to lock down Xiaohu, isolate him out of the fight.
Broke of light stepping on taunt is there, fear there on Xiaohu, nice use of spells to stop the knockback coming in.
They're trying to turn back with a rumble, light still standing for now, Captain's gonna be the one in trouble.
Breathe in light, turning the fight for a moment, but Yaik able to take down Xiaohu.
Broke of light trying to get involved as well, but Mickey's getting lower and lower.
Yaik needs to try and clean up.
Weibo happy with the fight thus far, one more shot, will it be enough?
Light still standing, Hatsama can't get involved, he needs to finish off this Gallio.
Broke of it can he make the difference a messy scrappy fight, but the curtains are called
She tuned to be quick the footwork needs to be good one side step
Taken out maybe thought broke a bite was gonna body block
But that is huge for Waybo and it's the team fighting capability of Waybo that comes through
Crisp's initiation is a little bit disconnected from the rest of the team
But the overchase from G2 ends up it being punished
You'll notice here as Mickey tries to get vision the collapse comes in but Chris immediately gets collapsed on thanks to all these
that come through from G2. Then they try to force the fight, but the fight on two fronts,
while Yike is turning his attention on Dashao, who with Miki it is the systems. Look at this
rumble ultima onto Caps and Hans as we turn our attention back to live. Just a bit of split attention there.
Needed to finish off Dashao, so we couldn't get back into the fight, but Miki not being there means they lost so much of that CC.
G2 though still priority axis on the objective, they've already cleared out tier one mid.
So they will grab this drake, they will slow.
Soul option from the side of Weibo.
For now G2 still hold the lead, but it's a reminder of how good Weibo can be in those fights of G2, Falter for even a moment.
The fight was disconnected and Weibo immediately took advantage of that.
They realized, hang on, they've split their resources too far and we can punish this.
A really nice ulti came through from Preve.
Light's positioning was fantastic.
302 the scoreline now for him.
for him. He's still behind a little bit in terms of gold, but he is a full level up over
Han Summer. We talked about him coming into this game, how he's been a consistent, reliable
carry for Weibo. He's looking to do the same thing here, to bring Weibo back into this
game.
Two, have to play carefully. Obviously, we've seen Gen games where he's not able to
do a whole ton. A lot of people are skeptical about how good the Static Ship can be.
If you're able to find those resets and fights, it can do so much work. Scrappy
back and forth by g2 trying to assert their dominance on the top side of the map both supports covering for their mid laner jungler is not that far behind
yike looking for an alt angle
His broken blade actually takes the mid wave hansama moving up towards top
I'm sure the game plan is here for g2 is they over stack on the top side of the map
Which is crucial because breathe can now push as far as he wants to
I mean all the waves are being caught right now
Nice push in from Breeze, Broken Blade's gonna head towards bot.
Looks like nothing too dramatic is gonna come off the back of that.
Maybe we're 40 seconds away from Baron.
She too...
Can't really threaten at this stage, or the Kalista obviously very strong in helping you secure the objective.
Either side gets it, honestly. It's pretty difficult...
...the opposition to slow that push without engaging completely.
Two items now finished for Light.
Imagine that he's gonna start building the beat damage items next.
Ah, someone really wants to finish this next item.
Slow A's off it, though.
Finds himself still a full level behind, out of light.
Good discipline from Weibo, waiting to see more members on the map before Chris steps too far forward.
Once he sees him on the wave, he knows he can walk in, has the team to back him up.
Patience, I overall, as neither team really sees any of these objectives to play for.
Weibo, we'll have to unlock more of these out of towers.
Difficult, I can't really find as many opportunities on the map.
G2 though, conversely, unless they start sieging onto a tier 2, there's not much that they can really do.
Herald's actually going to be dropped, going to send that towards the bot lane as Caps is there.
That's that escape route as he has used a few times throughout the year.
Chau who, chipping away at that tower, broken blade, TP up going to be soon.
Well G2, happy to put Caps on the Orianna, obviously they're going to have the same sideline threat.
They were used to in their previous game with the Yone.
So we'll need to be a bit more conservative on when they push out and fight for these tier 2s.
I'm going tier 1 dropping down, and Weibo really starting to even out the gold.
Again, item completion is the big thing, and we're generally slightly ahead of the curve.
Shotgun finishes his second item as well.
We're on pretty good footing to start coming out on top in these 5v5s.
You can see Tarzan giving up some of his farm to help Funnel Jauh, who will spot any vision thanks to the scuttle crab.
Pretty to be found though. Broken Blade, the Riftmaker second, something we often see on Galleous, to give them a bit of consistent damage.
Grouping once again from G2 in the mid lane.
Fun's now finishing off the Rageblade, so absolutely the only one that hasn't been able to complete his item ahead of the Dragon,
find about a minute 20, he should still have time and has the TP available, but they're prioritizing getting gold into Hansama.
They set their sights on the mids, tier 2.
I'm not going to overstay their welcome. I think Javu has to be close to his item, he's waiting in base.
Dragon in a minute, 10 seconds.
Waiting, waiting.
Timer counting down, Rokoblare is.
I have to push the side wave out.
Don't worry.
Now completed for Javu.
Such a big spike for Tristana too.
And the BF sword picked up for Light as well.
So I mean, Wabo is getting into a good spot here, ready for the next fight.
The Rumble relatively weaker to broken blade but ultimately still has the Leandry so that
that red carpet is going to dish out some serious damage.
Sometimes when you have fall off like a gen ultimate all that really matters is a little
bit of damage from the Rumble on the slow it provides to ensure you can just isolate
those targets.
It's hard for caps to play this out.
He's really the most immobile champion on this team.
Luckily has the Galleol to protect him but if they're using it too defensively
it's going to cost them in some of the fights.
I mean it's a tense affair. You can tell that a lot of this game is going to come down for the ensuing fights.
G2 turning their attention away.
Tarzan on the side.
Initial ulti going wide.
Night side sent from G2.
Deadly Flourish also there.
TP from Breathe.
Ah that was a quick response.
Wabo would really poise to fight there.
They used Crisp Salty.
Now the dragon becomes a much easier objective to take without one of the engaged tools available.
Breathe forced to catch the bot wave once again.
again top waves not in a bad spot for g2 either we're able behind on the play
they can maybe try to rush baron but this would be incredibly greedy they're
going to start realizing they don't really have any recourse to stop g2 from
taking the drake but it's too ambitious because g2 can just leave the
Callista to take it alone she's more than happy to solo this objective
especially with the rend and that means that the Orianna can be in a
position to zone the enemy away g2 brist have to stay composed here
Going in onto Yike. Caps isolated, Tarzan now trying to follow up, Nocturne turns the lights off, and they're managing to burn through G2.
Mickey trying to make his web safe, Yike already retreating.
Weibo, they needed that fight, they find it, and now they can turn to the Baron.
Great target selection from Weibo. They find an angle behind Caps, not giving him an opportunity to flash away.
They're not even going to try and steal away the Baron. Objective secured. G2 trying to get what else they can on the map.
It is going to take a bit of time though. They'll at least knock down a tier 2, they'll keep the gold close.
Light stepping far forward, you don't have perfect information they can't afford to approach.
Well played by Wave-O. They knew they lost the dragon. They really had to find that pick
or they would have lost out big time on the map. Just a great collapse all in all.
You'll see the chain CC that comes down onto caps and there's so little they can do that.
Angle from Tarzan on the left. Krith looks like that he's overstaying. He connects onto
Yite but this just gives him the ability to get on top of caps and look at that chain CC.
Roots into connect from the chin. They followed up with a pick onto Mickey who doesn't
and bottle flashing away realizing there's little that he can do to get away and that converts into a baron for Waybo
Because of the two towers secured by G2
I believe they actually still hold on to the gold lead for now
But this is going to be much easier with two out of towers still available. There's a lot of standing gold
I say that one time to drop the top lane standing all available for way but to grab at least in the mid lane
Horn even thinks up again 80 carry third item spikes gonna feel very good for Waybo
for g2 you're in a situation where they really set that play up better around the drake but
wevo really recognized that window of opportunity to force g2 to come up to them to threaten the
baron and then we're able to find that engage yike maybe a little bit late on the paranoia you
could say didn't really have too much effect on the fight and now we're in a much more even
game state with wevo that's 40 seconds they control the map i mean this is the thing it's
It's a lot harder for G2 to let go.
Engage on a brief.
They get the Seekers out of Wable.
Are they in a position to follow up?
Alti from Mickey not going to connect,
but they get Flats on a brief.
Meanwhile, Shahu in the sidelines.
Someone's eventually going to need to respond.
G2 seems like they want to force the fight.
Your eyes on Yite.
I hope to stay here.
Tarzan sticking around.
Shahu now trying to get involved.
Where's the Alti going to go?
They need to isolate and carry.
They need to get Yite on top of a key target.
Brief, and it was got nothing left.
They want to finish him off.
Good equalizer, but Broken Blade is there to fall off.
The rumble out of the equation.
A reset now coming in.
Two both 80 carries taken on the board for a brief moment.
Going golden in the meantime.
Chris buying a bit more space.
Hunts not much time to fall, but Xiaohu and Light are still alive.
Light still standing.
One pull with the first static reset.
Light ready to take over a four shot.
There's Xiaohu trying to get out.
It's a close battle.
It's a back and forth.
Light can he get it done?
He's getting lower and lower.
He needs to reload.
He's got four shots.
There's three opponents.
If he can find the kill, the bath might work in his favor.
The spear coming in.
Caps finishes it with a wind up.
Xiaohu pushes the world now.
Jasper taking the rocket ship.
that he's going to get one, but he will go down.
It's a close fight, but G2 taking it.
Ace for G2 off the back of Broken Blade's heroics.
He finds a crucial two-man knockup into Taunt,
setting up the whole fight.
You'll notice here at the start,
G2 turned their attention onto Breathe,
isolated as Mickey becomes the target.
Xiaohu's not in a good position to follow up
and the nearsight from the knock to the ultimate
is a hard one to follow.
The galley ultimate coming through
and then Hansel ulti,
and a missed flash torn into knock-up.
It's the two crucial carries.
It buys enough time for G2 to reposition.
Xiaohu and Light's forced to retreat,
and then the fight gets split up.
Broke and Blade and Caps turn their attention to the top side.
Light almost single-handedly turns the fight around
if it weren't for the tower,
but then he's forced to retreat
as Caps regroups with the team.
Xiaohu with the TP tries to turn the play around,
but then Light takes too much damage,
but Leandris finishes him off,
And while Xiaohu almost cleans up the fight, it's too much damage, and it's G2 that walk away with an ace.
Incredible fight from both sides.
The light was one auto away from killing three members of G2.
All it had taken is one more static proc, and he would have been able to clean up the rest.
Incredibly close fight.
They have to be careful of the Jhin in the future. He's only getting stronger.
You see 4k damage. Hansama able to auto-attack so consistently, manages to outmatch him.
But this is a game of inches centimeters. It's it's so damn close. I mean that regardless like broken blade is the MVP of this game
This man is a low-kill top incredible performance
Waybo haven't really found a reliable way to deal with him yet
It's so difficult though with the nocturn ultimate and the galeo can come and you just can't see it coming
It's so difficult to navigate your way through those fights waybo kind of need to be the ones to initiate
And crucially, Light is flashless. He's so vulnerable to that combo in the next fight. Breathe, flash this as well.
Hasn't got enough money to complete his on-design. There we go.
But it's Broke of Blade who's potentially been caught out. Initial taunt looks good.
He's going to try to ult to his teammates. Porsed back.
Goes gold on the rest of the team now on the way. Yike does have ultimate.
Do they want to go for this one or do they want to accept the loss? Beautiful pick from the side of Weibo.
I mean, they do a good job of keeping Jahu on a side lane.
Typically a strength to you associate with caps on the Orianna, he just can't do what Jahu's been doing this game.
He's been getting so many resources, he got that tier 2 tower on the top lane as well.
He has a two level advantage over caps and he has three fully completed items.
They know that he's the one carry that can shut down Brokenblade and are able to catch him off on a side lane.
Big for the Baron setup. A minute now.
Top lane pushing in, we'll demand a response. Mid lane slightly in favor of G2.
I mean, Jahu is really the big... I say Jahu is the problem.
What?
Mine's also a problem.
Yeah.
I mean, this isn't going to be an easy road.
G2 won the last fight, but you can see how Jahu still has the tools to make this game
complicated.
In a way in which G2 often leveraged the side lane to convert games in their favor,
Jahu can do the same thing in this game.
Level 16 being ticked over for many members on both sides.
I mean, just John has also got a lot of range to reset potential here, but it
looks like G2 want to try and find a fight, want to try and find a pick of their
spot out Tarzan. How many resources can they afford to burn to kill this jungle? It looks
like they're willing to spend all of them. It's Tarzan about to fall and tries to flash
to the safety but the Rand is there. Broke the blade again onto the side, he fights the
Jhin. I isolated but Breathe is there to protect him to keep him standing. G2 want
to keep going. They know they can take the Baron. Eight seconds. Jungler dead. They
should just be able to grab it but Weibo not dropping anybody else, refusing to
fall. They don't have the rumble ult on which is such a valuable tool like it's
sent back to base. They have a little bit of vision thanks to the Scuttle Crab.
Tarzan's death is likely going to cost the Baron. How are they going to steal this one away with the
rend available too? They're going to try their best to fight their way back in.
Rainbow approaching. Light standing back eight seconds till the curtain call. It should be G2's
Baron. They recognize they have no access, no way to get in. G2, great pick on the Tarzan,
recognizing that window of opportunity to take a jungler out. I like the idea there from Yike as
well. Groups up with Broken Blade immediately turn their attention onto Light, trusting
three other members of the team to clean up the pick on the Tarzan.
It means that they almost got light as well.
He's only forced to burn the cleanse though, just like that Baren secured for G2.
They need to reset though, shouldn't overstay their welcome.
And you're seeing how difficult this composition is for Wayboat to navigate.
Functionally, if they're the ones to initiate, the layering of their
ultimates can be massive, especially onto a low mobility carry like this Oriana.
They can really limit the movement of Akaisa as well.
Unfortunately, they haven't really been given many opportunities to set that one up.
Outside of the pick that they're able to find on caps, a lot of the fights have been set on G2's terms.
There was a situation in the bot lane where G2 overcommitted and overforced with the fight
in which Weibo could turn things around.
But whenever it's G2 to initiate with an ultimate, Weibo just...
It's so difficult for them to fight their way back.
And with G2 having the Baron empowering their push, allowing them to set up this vision first.
The opportunity for Weibo to start those long-ranging gauges just really isn't there right now.
Minute 45, look at Tristana once again on the baron.
Shahu sees that he has an angle. Hard for anyone really to match and broke away the threat.
Ulti there, Tarzan trying to kick things off.
Breathe an ultimate as well.
A lot of resources burned to try and stop the push here, but there's another Baron wave coming in.
They're going to have to concede this inhibitor.
Ulti?
They have to be ready to go straight for the 5v5 if they don't want to lose this.
But I think they should just give it up like going to look at mid lane as well broken by keeping the push up ready with his ultimate to join
The fray at any moment she took it careful though walking through that choke is such a risky proposition Tarzan not having all those big wave
Oh, I think conceiving their ultimate ability just a little bit too early now
I'm gonna have to give more nice ulti coming in for breathe no immediate follow-up on some a quick to cleanse here flashes on all the
carries
Plans down for Hans the six grubs doing so much work as well
You two continuing to push forward Tarzan once again isolated from the rest of the team
Broken blade going in, taunted up by Chris. Nice stun to stop from pushing forward.
Broken blade getting lower and lower. Dash through. A decent angle. Curtain call there.
Xiaohu hoping to find the resets. Halti coming out from the ice to try to get some more space for his team.
Xiaohu now looking to follow. Sterak's gauge big there. Xiaohu has to be careful though.
It's a greedy move. It's gonna cost him birth down. He thought he had the angle,
but she too playing with discipline just back off. He was looking for a moment of resets.
Get that first skill reset comes through, maybe you can clean up the fight.
But unfortunately it doesn't come to fruition. A lot of flashes were burnt on the side of G2,
but they get two inhibitors. The dragon spawns in 50 seconds, but maybe they don't care about it.
With not much time left on the baron, maybe they're sending their sights on the top lane.
Breef does now have this onus, but he has no flash, Xiaohu has no flash and that is massive for G2.
Makes it so much easier for them to play out this fight. Xiaohu, you can understand why he went for it.
went for the rocket jump resets, the static resets,
the ability for Jin to back him up from range.
Montage potential was there,
but the team was not in position,
and it only puts them further behind.
One inhibitor left.
G2 can't afford to take risks in their position.
Set up to close this one out clean.
And Jahu's still dead.
If nothing else, they'll set up
for this lost inhibitor tower.
The Grub's onto again doing work.
Tarzan trying to be off on the flank,
has the ulti available, they're gonna go.
Chris Balti, the last chance. Redemption there, Crispin to the back line, Tarzan off on the side, Yag doing what he can to body block. Good move for G2 to get away from the alt.
He broke a blade decent alti, but they've already lost Mickey. G2, do they want to keep going forward? Reset's now coming in, light foreshot.
Not doing a lot, Xiaohu up to the side, no flash, but might not need it. Re-again, now coming in! Beautiful combo on the orc!
And they clean the fight, a 3v3 now. No way, but they might not need it, Xiaohu. Rocket jumping out, G2.
Look at the base. Look at the base. It's falling apart for Weibo.
It's a three, oh it's a two for two. Sorry, it's three members.
Romain alive, but Caps has the TP available to him.
He's gonna TP back to top lane.
They want to close it.
36 seconds on light, 28 on Crisp.
Breathe, no ultimate.
Xiaohu has his.
It would require a miracle.
G2 continuing to push.
They've got supers. They've got so much in their favor.
The three man core standing strong.
For Xiaohu, breathing towards end.
Wanchu made the difference.
Xiaohu going in. Hussama backing away.
Probably with an excellent two-man tonk.
Kat's there to follow up and now Breathe is going to be in trouble. Knockback from Chow who was clutched, buying a bit more space, but Broken Blade just does not take damage.
Tarzan in trouble now, but the rune kick procs. Broken Blade single handedly zoning, but G2 need to get the hell out.
They bought enough time, Light is about to respawn. G2 could be in trouble. Yes, they found the kill, and Charlotte comes alive.
Kat's turns it back, but Crisp is now on the hunt. Light has the ulti, Curtain's open.
Honsama gets out though crucially, the base is fine, broken blade still standing.
Bree the blinking health bar, Honsama has the damage, the TP coming in.
Caps is here, Paranoia is here, G2 one-handed if I slid the AD carry away.
Do they just want to focus the Nexus Caps trying to get a bit more space?
Light still standing, four-ball at top top, applying a back, Bree getting so much damage down,
He's light out. G2 will end the game. Chris down. Light running. G2 will take a close affair with
crazy clutch fights. That final combo being pulled off by Ike and Caps. Hans Summer doesn't hesitate
to flash in and follow up on the damaged out. G2 needed to make a statement of this
This will a championship and they will take down the LPL fold seed.
An incredibly close game.
We've set it up.
The boys take their battle and send it back to the analyst desk.
Perfectly close, but not close enough.
I loved it.
What a good day.
Yeah, it's a good day.
Everybody wins.
Except for the four teams that lost, but...
But everybody wins.
Everyone has.
I mean, think about it. We got the T1 upset.
Because everyone loves seeing Faker and T1 go as deep as possible.
FlyQuest won, NA happy, G2 wins, EU happy.
Yeah. I feel like that's the perfect...
That's a thumbs up.
And it's the reassuring win I feel that G2 has been successful.
Yeah.
Especially because it's Wable.
It got close, of course, just to make it entertaining.
Oh.
And they guaranteed an entertaining win.
And the team fights I felt like were really fun to watch.
Wable put up a fight, of course, the faired area.
Guess who wants to be on the winner's couch now?
Yeah, I'm sorry.
That was just waiting for this.
You're waiting.
It's fine.
I'm sorry, Intra, to be here.
No, that's a good clapback, actually.
But yes, the Baron fight made it a little dicey.
But it seemed like they were just caught off by the Galio.
The Galio damage when Justyna was jumping in
and then got hit by the Q.
Also the solo kill that went through.
And so why not just talk about it?
I feel like we should.
Player of the game just goes straight to broken blade.
Absolutely.
And it's funny because we heard about the Galio
into a Rumble matchup at MSI.
We did not see that at all.
And when we think Rumble is not a champion anymore,
it comes here.
I love this solo kill.
This proves, I feel like we're going to see Galio
a bit more into this matchup.
Yeah, absolutely.
WQE, he did the backwards E to get the surprise damage
on Rumble.
And then he was just a force throughout the rest
of the game, making it extremely difficult for Weibo
to actually commit to any fights.
Yeah, I mean, for a while throughout the day,
We were wondering who's going to be the opo player of the game and make sense that after this game
Seeing the solo kill seeing how he was dictating a lot of the fights the all T to guarantee the safety for nocturne
Cuz he was not just eating himself in for the Orianna ball
It was just a full-on committal. So I was like how effective was the Maokai going to be not effective enough
for me
This is a good win because of the way that you two won. Yeah, it wasn't some like
like, throw early game a bunch, other, like, even the way G2 beat Weibo last year, where
they got, they threw Baron, there was a Dragon Soul, it was a crazy game. They actually had
to me a lot of control for most of this game.
And Cleaner, early game, we'll talk about this a bit later, but Shox is standing by
on chat with Jaik for the Verizon post-game interview.
At the studio erupts for Jaik and for G2, our Nocturne in this game. Jaik,
A fantastic victory, but what I can only imagine from your side must have been a nerve-wracking one
because of that mid-game, because of the picks that they were able to get.
So talk to me about kind of the shotcalling and the planning and the difficulty in driving it home.
Yeah, so I think we picked a very good, we had a very good comp this game.
I think we had like Nocturne Orianna, Rael Gallio, we had like a really big one more combo
and we were trying to do it a lot this game, but they were really respecting it.
So it was very hard for us to just find opportunities and that was like what made it hard for us.
But I think we got a lot. We got all of the objectives after the two dragons they got,
and then it was just kind of easy because they didn't really contest anything.
Yeah, I wasn't actually sure what was going on because your early game was so clean.
You weren't overstepping. You were going for the macro.
Talk to me about that kind of specific working point going into this game.
Yeah, I mean, I always want to make sure that we have a good early game plan,
and I think this game was pretty good. I think we wanted to play for the Grubbs.
We got a lot, we got a lot of towers as well.
They got dragons, but I think that's fine.
I think it's a fine trade, and I think we just got so ahead.
And then it was just easy for us to play,
and I think we just made some mistakes after, but that's happens.
Yeah, it happens indeed.
It was such an important victory to move on to 2-1.
I was speaking to your father yesterday, who's of course here,
to support you as he has been with the rest of your family.
And it was before your first game, and I asked them,
Are you okay? Are you nervous? And he said, I'm not nervous, but my son's a little nervous.
So tell me about kind of coming into this tournament, the very close game versus HLE,
and having to keep your own cool also specifically in this game.
Yeah, the HLE game was a very crazy game. I think we could have won that game. It was very close.
And I think we were in a very hard state, but I think we were very creative.
I think Kev's was like very smart in the sideline, also BV. I think they made really
a really good place. We did some mistakes, some TPs that just failed, and I think we could have won that.
So it's a bit sad, but I'm still happy with how we played. I think we performed well and we could have won that in a different day.
Okay, so now you're moving on to the best ofs to qualify, hopefully for Europe. So how does the road ahead look?
I know that last year was a huge, of course, heartbreak for you when you did get to this point as well.
So yeah, talk to the G2 faithful about the work that has been done and the work that lies ahead.
Yeah, I mean we're 2-1 now and last time in Worlds everyone remembers what happened when we were 2-1 so
I think we just want to
I don't think we're gonna have a lot of like expectations
I think we just cannot play what we do we're gonna play our game and whoever we play against
I think we're gonna do our best to beat them and I think we're gonna win and then we're gonna qualify to Paris
Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. Congratulations and G2 with a victory to close out the day
Thank you so much, Shox. Welcome to Cool Down and welcome, Caps! Congrats!
Thank you, thank you.
The Shox was just talking about it with Jaik 2 and 1. Now, is it panic intensifies or is it the comfort zone you guys were looking for?
Yeah, we were definitely just ready for the Shlikers draw.
Oh my God.
Oh my goodness, no.
How similar does this year feel to last year? Is it a completely different experience?
I mean definitely I feel it feels a bit different, I think last year we were going in 2-0 and it felt like it felt like very messy game
so I guess that's kind of similar to this year, but I think that's it's just happening a bit all over the place, especially with the swaps and stuff
But I do think that we have a bit more strategies prepared this time and compared to last year
We are a lot more confident in like the very like later parts of the game
I think even if we fall a bit behind or if we don't get the super snowball
We can still close out the games and tell me about the mentality because I feel like when G2 is on an international stage
You guys are cooking the Gallio is one thing the yes, so you know, there's another right same thing happened
In MSI like what happens like for you guys
What's the mentality going into it an international event that makes it so different?
I mean we definitely have like a bit of a longer
Like time on the patch and we have like a longer bootcamp compared to I think most patches
So we get to really experience and figure out like okay, what is our points gonna pick and what kind of things can we prepare for those
That's what when you think about
This game compared to the h&e game
What have you guys been working on because I run into Romain I run into all of you backstage after the h&e game
Everyone felt happy in the sense that you you like what you've been able to showcase against them
But I do feel like you would have been able to close it out
but you were maybe unsure about either of your guys' estimates or maybe the approach of the meta.
What did you guys readjust for this one?
I mean, definitely a lot of the HLE also came from like, we were falling behind quite a far behind early game
and then we managed to claw our ways back and I think then we weren't really sure what we were doing.
We definitely had a few pivotal moments like with the Baron we kind of just wasted it,
we didn't really get anything done and I think we had a few like TP's that got cancelled
and it's like maybe if we if I get the tp off or be biggest tp off or we cancel the tp
We can just like close out the game, right?
So we were just not clutch enough in like the moments, but we will do next time
I love the the approach that you have this year and what you guys have been working on especially shocks was mentioning it on stage the
I don't want to say trauma but disappointment of last year with wealth coming back in Europe
Especially when you think of what happened in Korea, how do you manage?
Expectations but also maybe stress around not having the same history repeating itself
Yeah, I mean, definitely I think hard with this switch stage, I think even more so than
like the previous group system, because it's like, you don't know who you're getting, so
you can't really like rely on preparation as much as you could maybe in the past group
stage.
And then it's just like, it's the best of ones, of course.
Now we're luckily moving into the best of threes, but it definitely feels like even
this game, you know, very, very scary for sure.
We have the bracket.
Take a look.
So you can see all the teams in 2-1, which is you guys, you're going to want
FlyQuest.
How does that grouping feel? Because I think this win for you guys, I think, is really impressive since it is the win against the LCK team.
You're also experienced of having a 3-0 best-of-five against an Eastern team at MSI.
Like, how high is your confidence that you can just, no matter who you get in the next one, draw them and beat them?
I mean, we're definitely feeling confident going into the match.
I mean, we're also feeling confident in going up against Hanawa Life.
And sadly, we didn't manage to make that work.
And that's the trick, you can't play them again this time.
So there's actually only four different teams
that you'd be able to play against.
Which one would you want to play the most?
I mean, T1 would be fun, right?
Yeah.
We've already played them so many times this year already.
And I mean, they were bootcamping actually.
Yeah.
Like office as well for a few days.
So it would be fun to play against them for sure.
I think at the end of the day, obviously, I think
FlyQuest would probably be on the weaker side or Damwon.
I think would be like the teams.
Can you not do what you guys did last year saying
that LCS is going to be the easiest because I don't know if that's true.
I mean, I am.
I think both FlyQuest would want you to be too.
FlyQuest, fair enough.
Exactly.
And also like you've talked about it just a little bit, but what are your
personal goals and expectations?
Cause I guess you're talking about, we're talking about worlds a little bit,
but also you guys in MSI had a top four finish.
You guys actually smashed expectations a little bit, right?
And it feels like if there was a little bit more that you guys could have
done, you could have beaten T1 and good and father.
So what are your personal goals, like team goals and yourself?
Yeah, I mean, I think definitely we want to win worlds, right?
I think that's why we're here.
And that's also why the draw is like, sure,
some things might be easier or harder or whatnot.
But if we want to actually win worlds,
we will need to be able to beat anyone.
And I think the first step is this best of three switch.
In a way, they are less pressure than the later best of fives
because even if we lose the next one,
we still have one more chance.
And also, yeah.
So I wouldn't mind the strongest opponent we could get,
because it's good experience, it's good practice.
I think we learned so much from playing against Hanover Life.
And even this game, I think, if we can play this way cleaner than we did, so...
Yeah, I like that attitude, because even LNG Scout interview was like,
I actually kind of wish we would have knocked on 3-0 because we wanted more practice.
And it's fine if you don't want to answer this, but I'm actually curious from your perspective,
like, what the biggest strength of G2 is against the Eastern teams?
Because I think in the past years, there was always this thought of like,
Oh, it might be close early game, but then once the game actually starts, the LPL or
LCK is going to dominate, but I feel like you guys are almost reversed.
I feel like once it gets to the mid game, you're extending your gold leads against everybody
you play against because your macro is so good, but I'm just curious what your assessment
is because that's my read.
Yeah, I mean, definitely always hard to compare against other regions because there's different
teams and stuff like that.
I think definitely we have a lot of innovation and drafts, I think even these games.
The Galio.
or the Yasuo and all these kind of picks coming up can definitely be clutched for us.
I definitely think something we were practicing a lot was like the later parts of the game
just because you know when we found success in the past years with like past G2, past
Fnatic it was a lot of the later parts of the game.
We were struggling quite hard in the early game and it was kind of funny that last
year was like the opposite where we were doing very well early but in every mid-late
game we just started throwing.
So now I hope we can reach the point where we're not like 10k down but we're
also like contesting them and doing well in the later parts.
They don't want to make it easy for yourself.
And also just like I feel like this world has been a little bit different than the others because you can see a stark difference in people's meta reads
This late in the tournament it feels like some of the conversations been like the Korean LPL teams coming in late and
Because they had their own scrim bubble. Have you felt that? Have you felt like there's just been they're still in adjusting on
People's reads on the meta and patch right now. I mean definitely
I think there was a huge patch right to to change things up and especially from us going from like the
1415 with like basically only 80 carries right yeah, and I think everyone has like a bit of their own picks going on
I think we're seeing a lot more 80 carries like with the smaller the Tristana
I actually only play against any care so far
I think a lot more 80 carries from the LPLCK teams than we maybe did in the EUNA bubbles
Yeah, so definitely have to figure out like the balance of like when they can still be strong and when there might be
alternative options. It's crazy because the expectation coming into this
world is what Yone is going to say but all the AD mids are going to disappear
because things are going to be switching in the jungle. For you everything is
still viable in a way but you have more picks I guess. I mean it's hard to say
what is like like more or less viable right? I think it's probably just
still not like figured out that well. There's definitely still a lot of ways
to optimize and I think at least for us we can say we haven't like gotten
to experience all the different picks and the different situations and I think
once we go later in the tournament I'm sure there's gonna be like some quite
clear priorities. What is more annoying for you? Smolder being that dominant or
Jone being that dominant? I don't mind either I think it's like this
strong mid picks and sadly I didn't get to play Smolder yet maybe it's more
fun to play though. We have the joey quote saying just like I don't enjoy
playing Smolder. I think Jone you can definitely do some cool things.
So that's very fun. Whenever you pull that off, that's for sure the peak fun, right?
Whenever you do something crazy.
But at the same time, smolder.
If you go late game and you're just the raid boss,
you just want an A1 and that is also very, very fun.
And you know everyone in the team is like,
oh, we have to kill the smolder and that can be quite enjoyable.
So I think those two teams are actually both very, very enjoyable.
But probably I would give it to you all.
Alright, we respect that.
I don't want to take too much of your time, Cass.
You had a really long week.
Quick take on tomorrow's games.
MDK vs. GEM, Pain Gaming vs. Team Liquid? Who makes it out?
I mean, I would have to go with Mad, right? I think otherwise it would be a bit sad.
I think they definitely still have some things to show. I think...
I don't know if I watched every part of their game, but I feel like they didn't
really go with so many crazy things compared to in Europe.
They played super scaling against PSG and just...
Yeah, so it didn't really feel like Mad necessarily, and I think if they
want to have success, they probably need to use some of things and actually
brought them here right so I'm hoping they'll pull it out we'll see.
And TL?
I mean I think TL will probably win as well.
Probably!
There you go!
Who take it?
I don't know.
I think they were looking very strong against us in scrims.
Yeah.
That's a curse almost.
Oh I don't like hearing that stuff.
They were kind of like the kings of the swaps for sure.
But it seems like, yeah I don't know the swaps haven't been too successful I would
say so far in tournaments.
We'll take that.
So now that's the rest is the story for tomorrow of course caps. Thank you so much. Congrats again on the feeling wave
Oh, Jax Ross been a pleasure as usual. Oh, yeah, and for you guys as well
I hope you're enjoying the show. I hope you're enjoying the games will be back for more tomorrow
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T1's on him, off-hanger goes in again, and he flies right through the charm!
It's perfect!
To block, on the Q2, coming through!
They're feeling more confident than the 1v1.
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Ghost Galvan!
Ignore!
It's there!
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He's gonna die for his blood!
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